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A Reminder of the Sixties.
The bobbing brims of children’s hats
weighted down with a bunch of
flowers in front reminds an elderly
woman of the days of the 60's, when
to the front of similar wide-brimmed
hats was attached a “puller,” or nar-
row ribbon, which was used to pull
«down the brim to secure the effect now
obtained by the weight of flowers.
The Wedding Gown Box.
The wedding gown box is one of the
{atest fads to be adopted by the bride-
to-be. That every bride possessed of
any sentiment wishes to keep her wed-
ding gown in a state of preservation
is a foregone conclusion, and this re-
ceptacle is admirably suited for the
purpose for which it was designed. It
1s made of light wood, enameled white,
and has the bride’s initials in silver
letters on the top. It is lined with
tufted white satin, and the lock is of
silver.
Cabochons For Fall Trimming.
The new cabochens are of very large
size. They are flatter than they have
been, and are often in arabesqued
open work set with cut jet or steel,
or in chaste oxidized silver or dull
gilt. Some of the gilt eabochons are
sold in pairs, the two joined by a dou-
ble festoon of gilt beads. These are
used to trim the under side of hats.
When a feather is placed on or under
the edge of the brim, it will often be
fastened by a large cabochon, says the
Millinery Trade Review.
ment is provided to serve this purpose.
It is a chaste metal spap that clasps
over the edge of the brim, securing
the feather to it. Shoals of osprey or
aigrette are sometimes fastened in this
way by their middle, to the edge of a
plateau. Milliners are also using small
gilt or steel bultons to fasten down
straps of ribbon.
Ostrich Plumes and Feathers.
By what has gone before, the im-
portant place which ostrich feathers
occupy at the present ‘writing will
be realized. It is understood that the
trade is prepared to satisfy a very
large demand for amazons and also for
feathers of medium length and tips.
High class milliners will do a great
deal in shaded and variegated feath-
ers. The arrangement referred to
above, namely the twisting around of
ithe tip of the feather into a pouf, gives
fo massive and rich effect to an ama-
zon, but only the very largest can be
so treated. Plumes of cock’s feathers
in natural colors, as well as dyed in
different bright tints, are likely to be
very much favored, possibly, however,
white more than any, says the Millin-
ery Trade Review. Wings continue in
much request, particularly large, stump
shaped wings and quite small ones,
such as those of blackbirds and para-
keets, and there is a renewed demand
for couteaux, which are mostly asked
for in pairs. They are not very long.
but wide and often dyed in variegated
tints, including checks and plaids.
Some are colored to imitate leaves and
broad grasses. In fashionable shops
{requent mention has been made of
fruits. These will divide favor with
seasonable flowers for the autumn
anonths. It is understood that black
flowers, mounted with green leaves,
will be worn, they already having been-
shown on some hats.
New Methods of Making Bows.
Special interest must be attached
to the different new methods of mak-
ing up bows, rosettes and other ar-
rangements of ribbon or piece mate-
rials, as applicable to early winter
‘hats.
of quilled ribbon wired in the ordinary
way. A piece of the quilled ribbon
may be sewn in a circle round the
centre of the plateau, and the rest of
the ribbon be arranged in a very large
wired bow resting on the back of the
hat, which shelves down in the neck.
The under sides of some hats are
trimmed with narrow Pompadour rib-
bons laid on flat in the form of Louis
XV. bows. Bows made of No. 12 rib-
bon velvet are often placed under the
brim, loops and ends hanging down
Dehind the ear. Fan shaped bows,
with a great many loops, for the backs
of hats, are sometimes made of this
ribbon, sometimes of piece velvet.
* Large bows of four or more large
loops, fastened in the centre by a
buckle, are laid flat on plateau hats,
says the Millinery Trade Review. An-
other arrangement consists of a wide
piece of accordion pleated satin, form-
ing a big flat rosette, the pleats being
smoothed out on either side. Ball ro-
settes about the size of a big orange
are very fashionable. These may be
made of loops of rather wide ribbon
or of a fold of material closely gath-
ered. Wide Pompadour and plaid rib-
bons may be used for the. purpose.
Large flat rosettes or
equally favored, particularly made in
two shades of bright green or golden
velvet, or of chine flowered ribbon
bordered with black ‘satin.
The Women’s Hotels.
The following data are collected in
the interest of the movement in cities
for housing and feeding women work-
ers en masse, It is “girls, girls, girls,”
that appear chiefly as beneficiaries of
the movement, but any self-support-
ing woman should be entitled by right
and not by grace to the advantages
of the collective home or hotel. Re-
ports from ninety of these homes in
forty-six cities are given very fully
in Bulletin 15, 1898, United States
Labor Department.
The first started in New York City
in 1856. Almost none has become en-
A new orna-
Louis XV. bows are now made
cockades are,
tirely self-supperting in the half-cen-
tury of development. This fact will
show in history the small share of
the go nmonweaith allowed the work-
ing "women of the country at this
period. The wages of our working
women in Boston are a little below
those of New York and Chicago, while
the cost of subsistence is much higher, |
Taking data from one of our more
recently established homes, the board-
ing house under Unitarian auspices,
formerly on Berkeley street, we learn
that in its first seven years in a hired
building, with about forty boarders
and few transients, the average cost
per capita for board, laundry and other
incidentals, was $3.30 per week.
(Price of board and lodging $4.) The
cost of raw material of food averaged
$2.15 per week. There was a surplus
of $600 or $700 per annum to go toward
the salary of superintendent and rent.
In Chicago, a woman’s club, grown to
100, self-managed, for some years cov-
ered all costs of their home at $3 per
week per member.
There are thousands of working girls
and women in Boston who cannot pay
even the lowest rate charged by the
present homes in Boston, including
the latest, the Franklin Square House,
$3.50 per week, and must still live in
garrets, or worn-out lodging houses
with “relief” in plain sight. One Im-
portant fact, not strictly apropos to
increase of wages, is from the Maria
Louisa Home for temporary guests,
New York City. In 1896, 561,000 pieces
were laundered at a cost of seven-
eighths of one cent per piece. This
item, if none other, decides for such a
home against the average private
house, with its picayune methods,
where the difficulty of washing a hand-
kerchief makes the thought of clean-
liness a perpetual nightmare.—Boston
Evening Transcript.
Mrs. John W. Mackay was declared
in London to be the richest widow in
the world.
A bronze medallion of Susan B. An-
thony will be presented to Rochester
University this fall. It was Miss An-
thony’s efforts which made co-educa-
tion possible at Rochester, N. Y.
An international exhibition of wom-
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en’s arts and crafts will open in Paris i
soon in the great glass building on the |
banks of the Seine, in which were held
the horticultural shows during the
World's Fair of 1900.
The woman who lives in the suburbs
might pot a lot of ferns from the
woods, and when they are.thriving in
the fall get orders for them. Being so
popular they ought surely to be in de-
mand, and if not, there would be no
loss incurred.
Representative George H. Fall, who
introduced and championed the bill
which recently passed the Massachu-
setts Legislature making mothers
equal guardians of children with fath-
ers, states that two-thirds of the credit
for its passage is due to Mrs. Fall. He
is a lawyer, and after her marriage
Mrs. Fall studied law also.
Mrs. Clara L. Kellogg has raised
modern embroidery to an art. She fur
nishes entire homes in embroidered
textiles, producing harmonious effects
throughout. She travels abroad every
year, studying embroidery and design.
All her designs are original and are
founded upon suggestions received
from old paintings, mosaics, furniture,
anything, in fact.
Chantilly is a revived classic.
Persian effects are still favored.
Embroidered linen discs are smart.
Jeweled velvet bands are very good.
Crystal and jet figure with spangles.
Pongee blossoms
here,
Some passementeries boast five ma-
terials.
in applique are
Lace appliques adorn many parasols
effectively.
Posies of taffeta often adorn Chan-
tilly applique.
Linen applique is used upon dresses
of hop-sacking.
Bulgarian embroidery is the rage on
etamine as well as linen.
Chenille in a color touches point de
Venise most attractively.
Orchid patterns in delicate shades
of chiffon are ideal on silk gauze.
Striped veiling makes very pretty
gowns and requires but little trimming.
Soft shaded Roman stripes are ap-
pearing in some of the wider white
ribbons.
Many ney designs are being pro-
duced in fobs, which have become a
pet feminine fad.
Silk mull waists are very much
tucked this season, the tucks being of
the wide variety
Pongee suits in the natural color are
trimmed with bands of black taffeta,
stitched with white.
Linen gowns in the pretty new
shades of green, blue, pink and gray
are made with Gibson waists stitched
with white.
A yellow pongee gown with yellow
and white embroidery, and a tucked
white silk vest and front of skirt, is
artistic in the extreme.
Silks in black and white and blue
and white checked effects are expected
te be very fashionable in the fall for
gowns and separate waists.
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN INSTRUCTIVE AND ELOQUENT DIS-
COURSE ENTITLED “NOW PETER.” °
The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman's An-
alysis of a Child-Hearted, Wayward,
Generous, Biblical Character — The
Three Denials.
NEw York City.—The following reada-
ble and helpful sermon is by the Rev. Dr.
J. Wilbur Chapman, the best known evan-
gelist in the country and one of the most
popular pulpit orators of New York. It
1s entitled “Now, Peter,” "and was
preached from the text: “Now Peter sat
without in the palace.” Matt xxvi: 69.
This is the master stroke of the great
artist in painting the picture of this child-
hearted, wayward, generous, loving man
whom we know as Peter. It is one of the
shadows in the picture, but the shadows
help us to appreciate the more the light.
It 1s a single sentence, and yet in it we
find the secret of a soul’s downfall, the
cause of the heartache of the Son of God,
and a note of warning for God’s people
everywhere.
Peter was in a dangerous position. First
of all, because he sat in the presence of
the enemy. In the first Psalm the warning
is given that we should not “walk in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the
way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the
scornful,” and this last is the most hurtful
position of all. . Poor Peter was sitting
down. He also is to be pitied because he
sat “without.” There is a- circle within
which every child of God must keep if he
would have both peace and power. If in
imagination we take a compass in our
hand and set one point at the place where
we would have the centre and with the
other point describe the circle, we have the
picture of the Christian life. The centre of
the circle is Christ, and the circle itself is
described by prayer and Bible study and
fellowship Tk the saints. To keep within
this circle is to keep in touch with Christ.
To sit without is to be in danger, and poor
Peter had stepped outside.
‘With all my heart I love to study Peter.
The sermon which has been greatly blessed
to the people throughout the country is the
one which bears the title, “And Peter.”
This one is sent forth that it may be a
companion of it, and carry the name of
“Now Peter.”
The first service that I can find that
Peter ever rendered unto Christ is record-
ed in Luke, fifth chapter, and the third
verse: “And He entered into one of the
ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him
that he would thrust out a little from the
land. And He sat down and taught the
people out of the ship.” I like him for his
service. I have an idea that just the way
he pushed the boat out as the Master was
standing in it made Jesus understand that
there was something in him that would yet
go far toward moving the world. Is it not
true that much of the great work that we
find about us to-day begins in just so hum-
ble a fashion as did the work of Peter?
I like to study him in his writings. Some
parts of the Bible ought always to be read
in the sunlight. The beautiful story of
Ruth, and the letter to the Philippians are
examples of this. Others are for the dark-
ness. Peter’s epistles would thus head the
list. Tt is when we stand on the seashore
at night that we see the phosphorescence
of the waves. It is when we stand in the
darkness and read Peter’s precious words,
that we catch the best vision of the light
which comes down from heaven and rests
upon men.
I like to study him in his preaching, for
it is just the kind that everybody ought to
be able to do. ou may say that it was
simply a suing of texts, that mighty ser-
mon of his at Pentecost, but if you should
say this was all that he said we could re-
ply, as we have said in another place, it is
all that Peter said that the Holy Spirit
thought worth recording.
like him for his sincerity. You can
read him at_a glance. He could not be a
hypocrite. When once he tried no one
would believe him; he generally thought
aloud. hile men = sometimes admired
him, frequently laughed at him, generally
censured him, they always loved him.
I like h'm for his promptness. He was
the first to enter the tomb that he might
see where the Lord lay.
liked him for his courage. He was not
afraid to stand in the very midst of the
enemies of Christ.
I like him for his intensity. It is true
he made mistakes, but the pendulum swun
as far toward uprightness as it did ang
failure.
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My text is to be read in connection with
his denial, and thus we begin the more to
appreciate the story. Christ had given
him warning when He said, “Simon, Satan
hath desired thee that he may sift thee as
wheat,” and again when He said, “This
night you shall be ashamed of Me,” and
“befor= the cock crow thou shalt deny Me
thrice.” He warns us, too.
The oak that goes down in the midst of
the storm does so because through the
long years its heart has been eaten away,
by the worm. The soul of the child of God
is never overthrown suddenly, and if it
goes down it is because it has steadily lost
ground in matters that were too trifling
to cause alarm. If you should fail to-mor-
row you will doubtless find the cause if
you look back on the history of to-day.
The neglected Bible of to-day, the neglect-
ed prayer of to-day, the neglected fellow-
ship of to-day, means the denial of to-mor-
row,
It is not to be forgotten that there were
three denials. When Jesus was taken
into the presence of those who were to con-
demn Him Peter followed and wanted to
go in, too. It is said in John’s Gospel that
another Fiseiple, who was known unto the
high priest, had gone in with Jesus, and
this, of course, must have been John; they
doubtless knew him at the door and he
passed through without question. When
he saw that Peter was not in he went to
the door and secured his admission. I
can just imagine how Peter must have
walked up and down the court, now sitting,
now standing, now trembling for his safe-
ty, for in those days as to-day, “conscience
makes cowards of us all.”
The first denial was at the wicket gate.
To the little girl that admitted him to the
court he said:
“I know Him not.”
He might have taken warning and gone
back if he had but remembered the words
of Christ, for he was just at the edge of
the circle; one side meant peace and the
other side despair.
I doubt not that some one who reads
these words has just passed through the
wicket gate, turning away from a life of
blessedness, and possibly has denied his
Master for the first time. Irom the heart
of the infinite Christ a cry goes out to such
an one:
“Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die?”
The second denial was at the fire, when
he sat with his enemies, and when he said
with an oath:
“I tell you, I know Him not.”
Alas! many of us have gone through the
wicket of denial, and dare to-day sitting
with His enemies. hardly knowing how we
reached the position. To all such the cry
of God comes: “Come out from among
them and be ye separate.” The world has
always been the enemy of the Son of God.
and he who allows himself to be in touch
with it in the least will deny his Master
before he is aware of it.
The third denial was to the relative of
Malchus, whose ear he had cut off in his
supposed defense of his Master. For this
attack upon his fellow man he was doubt-
less amenable to the law, and possibly
might have been tried and condemned if
Jesus had not replaced the ear. The mem-
ory of Malchus aroused all the terror im-
aginable in him, and before he knew it the
third denial was upon him, and with re-
peated oaths and cursings he said:
“T tell you that I know Him not.”
This is the denial that comes because of
some unconfessed sin. Alas for the man
who allows any sin to go without imme-
diate confession. It will spring upon him
some day like a tiger from the jungle, and
will overthrow him before he can have
time to call for help. Sin is always down
grade in its tendencies, and he who denies
Christ at the wicket gate will ere long
deny Him face to face.
il.
This text is also to be used in connection
with the sufferings of Jesus. It may not
be amiss to give a brief account of His
trial.
First of all, He appeared before Annas,
the high priest, an account of which we
read in John xviii: 19 to 22—“The high
priest then asked Jesus of His disciples,
and of His doctrine. Jesus answered him,
I spake openly to the world; I ever taught
in the synagogue and in the temple, whith-
er the Jews always resort, and in secret
have I said nothing. Why askest thou Me?
Ask them which heard Me what I have
said unto them: behold, they know what I
said. And when He had thus spoken one
of the officers which stood by struck Jesus
with the palm of his hand, saying, An-
swerest Thou the high priest so?” :
It was an awful thing for this man with
open hand to strike Him in the face.. To
strike Him, before Whom the angels veiled
their faces; to strike Him before Whom
the archangel sang: ‘“Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty!”
But do you notice that when they struck -
Him He never shuddered? They could not
hurt Him with any such blows as this, but
when we read, “Now Simon Peter stood
without and warmed himself,” this is a
blow which makes the Son of God shudder
and His heart grow sick.
The second part of the trial was His ap-
pearance before Caiaphas. Here, although
false witnesses appeared against Him He
was perfectly silent. “But Jesus held His
peace. And the high priest answered and
said unto Him, I adjure Thee by the living
God that Thou tell us whether Thou be
the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus said
unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I
say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the
Son of Man sitting on the right hand of
power and coming in the clouds of hea-
ven.
“And they did spit in His face,” but He
never saw them. His eyes were blinded to
His insults, but Peter in the presence of
His enemies was a blow at His very heart.
They smote Him until, if He had been only
man He would have staggered in His weak-
ness, but they might as well have struck a
rock like Gibraltar and expected it to fall
as to move Him with their blows, but
when Peter stood in the presence of those
who were against Him, like one of them
himself, it was a terrific blow at the Son
of God.
The third part of the trial was before
the Sanhedrim. He is led out from the
court where He has seen both Annas and
Caiaphas, and passes through an outer
court to another room where the Sanhe-
drim is to meet. As He passes, possibly
near enough to reach out His hand and
touch His disciple, suddenly He hears
Peter say:
“I tell you I know Him not.”
He could forget the spitting of His ene-
mies, the blows of those who hated Him,
and the rods that had fallen upon Him in
the hands of the angry multitude, but He
could not forget Peter.
That which hurts Him the most in these
days is not the sin of the unregenerate—
this He must expect, but the sins of His
own people for whom He suffered and
died, and rose again.
There is an infinite amount of pathos in
the words, “He turned and looked at Pe-
ter.” No word of reproach fell from His
lips, but simply an expression of sorrow
was there to be seen. Does He not look
upon you to-day, and does He not arouse
memories in your life—vows that you have
broken—pledges that you have never kept?
“Jesus, let Thy pitying eye call back the
wandering sheep.
False to Thee like Peter, I would fain
like Peter weep.”
111.
But do not be discouraged. Man's use-,
fulness not infrequently springs from his’
recovery from some sin. Out of Peter's
fall came his first epistle. The best glimpse
that I have of the Saviour’s heart is that
which comes when I think of His personal
dealings with individuals. When I think
of the God of Abraham I think of one who
strengthens His child under trial. The
God of Jacob is my encouragement to be-
lieve that my old nature may be con-
quered, and my name changed from Jacob
to Israel, the prince of God. The God of
Elijah teaches me that prayer must be an-
swered. The Saviour of Thomas encour-
ages me while in doubt; the Saviour of
Paul sustains me in my suffering, but the
Saviour of Peter is the restorer of the pen-
itent.
Peter and Jesus met after the Resurrec-
tion on the shore of the lake. It is most
significant that when he denied Christ it
was in the presence of the fire of ceals in
the court of the enemy. When the Son
of God met him on the shore of this lake
there was a fire of coals Durning there. I
doubt not but that all the story of his de-
nial came rushing upon him. What was
said at that interview we shall not know
until we hear it from Peter’s own lips, but
it is safe to say that all his sins were for-
given, and even the marks of his denial
were taken away.
If you have denied this same Lord in
vour business, in your home, or in society,
He waits to forgive and to forget, and He
“is the same yesterday, to-day and for-
ever.”
Better Than Smashing.
An estimable young married lady of a
Kansas village waited until the small hours
for her husband, and he came not. She
could 10t stand it longer, and, rising, she
dressed herself, armed herself with a re-
volver, and proceeded to a saloon in the
village, where her suspicions that her hus-
band was there were found to be well
founded. The wayward husband had spent
the evening and night until 3 a. m. with
four or five companions in convivial pleas-
ures in the saloon, and when the indignant
wife marched into the place behind a
gleaming revolver barrel there was a star-
tled party of tipplers indeed.. Straight-
way she commanded her husband to leave
the saloon and go home. Then she turned
to a man in the party who had demurred
to leaving the place:
“You have a good wife at home, too,”
she remarked quietly but firmly. “Y
had better go home, and go right now.”
He went.
“Now,” said she, turning to the proprie-
tor, “you blow out your lights and. lock
up this place. Eleven o'clock is late
enough. and if the village authorities can-
not enforce the law, I will,” she said, as
the whole party left the place. The sa-
lconkeeper closed his door, and they
walked away in the night, the woman with
her hand still firmly grasping the handle
of the revolver She had closed a joint
withont smashing it, and the best senti-
ment in her own town applauds her act.—
Journal Press.
Kindness.
Did it ever occur to you that “kindness”
was one of the elements of humility? In-
deed, it is only the humble person that is
in a condition to show kindness to others,
for the opposite of kindness is unkindness,
and there can be no humility where there
is unkindness. - The unkind person is the
one who is always demanding that others
serve him and bend to his wishes, and this
is an accentuated form of arrogance, or
“self-assertion.”” Kindness of heart and
pride of manner never go together.—Pres-
byterian Journal.
Wireless telegraphy is to be used on Ital
ian trains as a means of preventing rail
way accidents.
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'One-Sided Education.
By Dr. George G. Groff, .
FEW weeks ago, in a Pennsylvania college, the professor
of botany requested each student to bring into his class om
the morrow a complete dandelion plant—root, stem, leaves
and flowers. In this class was a young man, a sophomore,
considered above the average as a student in languages and ,
mathematical studies, who lives in one of the Atlantic sea-
board cities, who did not know what plant was meant by
dandelion.
This may be an extreme illustration of how many children are trained
and how little they know of natural objects, but many others of a similar
character could be cited. Few college students from the cities know our
common trees by sight. Comparatively few country boys know the names
of any grasses except timothy and orchard grass. The common mammals
they may know by name, but few know the names of the birds about them.
Under the elective system now in vogue in our colleges a man may
graduate from almost any institution, never having studied for an hour
chemistry, botany, geology, zoology, or any other science which treats of
nature. It is scarcely too much to say that such graduates are not fitted
for: any position as leaders in modern life.
gin Porto Rico a year ago a clergyman who had made a tour of the island
was asked if he had seen the coffee plants. He replied that he had, and
that they were annuals, about the size of tomato plants! And yet this man
went to the island that he might be informed about it and its people. Hig
early education had been defective and he could not observe.
Without some knewledge of chemistry it is impossible for one to read
any good modern book, journal or paper. Our eivilization is built on
chemical knowledge. So, also, because our age is so material, one needs
some knowledge of plants, miherals, rocks and animals. If these subjects
should be pursued by youth in general, how much more important are they
for boys and girls in the country! A present difficulty is that few teachers,
comparatively speaking, know enough of botany, geology or zoology td
give any intelligent instruction in the branches. They have been trained in
language and mathematics, but science has been slighted. If they attempt
any instruction at all, it is from a textbook, and science is not to be learned
from books. Think of reading of a dandelion in a textbook and not know-
ing it by sight.
The Place of the Horse.
By William F. McSparran.
HE good horse will never lose his place in his service to
B mankind. His usefulness as an indispensable agent for
purposes of labor and locomotion will no doubt be still
further modified, and much that the horse is doing to-day
in time to come will be performed more cheaply with some
other power; but as the changes grow toward that end
the horse will more and more move into his impregnable
position as the steadfast and intelligent friend and com-
panion of man.
The cable car, the electric ear, the bicycle, each in its turn, it was pre-
dicted by the enthusiasts, would drive the horse into disuse, and finally
practical extinction, but the horse is still here, better than ever, and those
who love horses show no evidence of that love growing cold.
New, it is asserted that the automobiles, the electric motors and future
developments of these mew methods of migration will surely supplant the
horse. These are mew. The horse is old, and the human heart is not
easily weaned permanently away from its traditions, and the horse will no
more be supplanted by the new rivals than he has been by the earlier
ones, Man’s love for a horse is not transferrable. The man may love any
number of other .things, animate and inanimate, but they will not in any
measure usurp the love he has for a good horse. We may, and do, enjoy
the race between the expensively constructed and skillfully handled auto-
mobiles; we cheer the winner and rejoice that the brain of man has con-
ceived and the craft of his hand constructed such a beautiful machine, but
we miss the supreme thrill of sympathetic enthusiasm that goes out to the
superb performance of the beautiful horses coming down to the judges’
stand. .
The (nachine is a triumph of art and skill and applied mechanics; the
horse is as much or more a triumph of the art and skill and patience and
life labor of the men who stand behind his pedigree, while his performance
on the track and on the road is the intense expression of his individual life
and the aspiration of his intelligence; and the heart and life of man goes
out to him in the great struggle with a sense of brotherhood.
A thousand mechanical motors can be built to do what the best one has
done, hut ten thousand horses may have to be bred and trained and tried
before one can equal the record of the winner; and while the breeding and
all is ‘being done for the horse, the lives of men are being contributed to the
doing, and men’s love for the horse is growing, and no machine will ever
take its place.
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Osier Culture on
Wast.e Lands
By Grey E. Mitchell.
5 N many farms where there is some water front, land other-
wise waste can be profitably used for osier culture. While
willows will grow almost anywhere, they should be planted
for greatest profit in a deep, sandy loam, well drained and
thoroughly prepared. The ground should be level and
moist, but there should be drainage. However, willows
§ will grow in a comparatively dry soil, but the whips will
Fions ; be smaller, though tougher and more durable than when
grown in a rich, moist soil. The growth under moist conditions is naturally
more vigorous. and much more rapid. According to Dr. B. E. Fermow, Pro-
fessor of Forestry at Cornell, the best situation for free and rapid growth
is along the banks of rivers and brooks which pass through a level country
and on the small islands which frequently occur in the midst of streams.
Hollows or swales, the soil of which is composed of rich, soft, earthy par.
ticles, and which can be laid dry, furnish eligible situations for conversion
into osieries; if water can occasionally be diverted onto such lands during
the dry summer months, the situation may be considered as perfect. There
are at present thousands of acres of marshy lands in the country, Mr.
Fermow states, not paying two per cent. per annum, which, if drained at a
small outlay and planted with willows, would yield an immense return,
paying as high as twenty or thirty per cent. prcfit. The willow reaches its
greatest production in the third year, and with proper care and good culti-
vation, it will continue to yield good results for a long run of years.
Willow baskets, hampers, chairs, etec., are a class of articles for which
there is to-day an enormous demand. The manufacture in this country is
increasing rapidly, but not sufficiently to meet this demand. Five cents a
pound for dry willows is the price generally paid. At even a much less
price there is a large profit in growing willows and an occupation is fur
nished for the winter months.
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Demand For One
Cent Letter Postage
By Hon. Geo. W. Smith, Representative From Illinois
T is but a question of time when letter postage will be re-
duced to one cent per ounce, and the reduction will be made
witheut creating any great deficiency in postal revenues.
Since I introduced the bill last December providing
for penny postage I have presented to the House petitions
signed by at least a million business men from every State
and section of the country, all urging its passage. Owing
to the pressure of other measures, involving questions of
party policy, no opportunity was presented for the consid-
eration of the Penny Postage bill. But this much has been accomplished:
The introduction of the measure has directed public attention to the subject,
and has called forth statistics to show that, while a deficiency in the postal
revenues will at first follow the reduction of letter postage, yet within a
year or two the increase in receipts will be more than sufficient to make up
for the loss caused by the inauguration of the cheaper rate.
The United States Government is the mightiest and best Government
in the world, and it can well afford to give its citizens the cheapest postage
in the world. As we are expanding, let us expand the business of the Post-
office Department. One-cent postage would mean an enormous increase in
the number of letters mailed. It would be a boon mot only to the private
citizen, but to the business interests of the country, and especially the big
advertising houses which, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
One-cent letter postage would distribute its benefits all aro £ i
a very little while would more than pay for itself. atovad, 20d i
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