Woman Wins in Oklahoma. Miss Kate Bernard is the first wom- an to hold office in the new state of Oklahoma. She lives in Oklahoma City and was nominated for state commissioner of charities and correc- tion on the Democratic ticket in the re- cent primaries. She had no opposi- tion. She made a picturesque cam- paign in spite of her dearth of rivalry and spoke to thousands of voters.— Pittsburg Dispatch. A Cheerful Hint. ‘Among the -presents lately showered upon a Maryland bride was one that was the gift of an elderly lady of the neighborhood with whom both bride and groom were prime favorites. the dear old soul of - cardboard had she never failed Some accumulated a mottoes, which framed and on wi to draw with the greatest occasion arose. years ago Suppiy sh rorked. and freedom as In ch pended by a. cord over the table on wh ents were oupecd, 17 thé niotto: “Fight Mn; { ver. '—Austin Carleton in Hone Compan- fon. The Sexes in. America. Amer is the harmoniously of das Ewig-W domineering male. Woman to man, . but: different from him, as Stendhal would say. Nevertheless the two sexes are ly approaching. The man of today is more feminine than his predecessors; that is, he is more gentle, civilized; while the woman, casting away old- fashioned = incrusting prejudices, is more masculine, i. e.; she is not snly more athletic in her tastes than her grandmother—she is mentally broad- er and firmer in her judgments. (Some day she will be so far ‘‘evolved” that she will be charitable to her own sex.) The franker association of the sexes has proved tonic to the woman, re- fining to the man. These are school- boy truisms, but they will always stand quotation.—James Huncker in Everybody's. ica which be the differ- ences eternal is not inferior yliche and the slow- is Beauty and the Feet. Acording to a writer in the current number of Smith's Magazine, the care of the feet has a great deal more to do with a woman's personal appear- ance than we generally imagine. «Phe feet,” she. writes, “exert a much more important influence upon a woman's appearance than even she is aware. If a woman is awkward, it is, nine times out of ten, because her feet are ill at ease. If she ‘walks badly, it is because her heels are eith- er too high or too low. If she stands ili, if she enters a room uneasily, or if she sits wrong, it more than likely that the fault can be tracked right down to her feet. “There are those who claim that wrinkles come from feet that ache; and it is very likely that they do. The nerves of the feet and of the face are very closely allied, and when the feet begin to be painful, there is very quickly a drawn look around the mouth.” Source of Bird Plumage. It appears that a great deal of plumage is now imported from China, and it might be supposed that the opening up of this new market would help to keep prices at this normal rate. But such does not seem: to the case. So great is the demand that even fancy feathers, for which the farmer and the provide the raw material, are fetching fancy prices. Flowers are more used in the trim- ming of winter models than usual. It might be assumed that this is a way out of the difficulty. Not ‘so. The flowers patronized by the leading mil liners are of the most expensive sort. Not only are the blooms themselves made up of specially woven materials, velvet, satin, thin silks and gauzes, but also the leaves, and the varied coloring applied to them is obtained by hand-dipping or hand-painting with dyes.—The Millinery Trade Re- view, New York. be trapper Deadliest of Guests. Next to the person who never wants to be alone and can’t amuse herself for a moment, the deadliest guest in the world is the unresponsive individ- ual who receives every new plan with a saccharine early-martyr smile that drives you to the verge of distraction with trying to guess whether she is enjoying herself or not. tl is ghastly, and every summer [ seem to have one of that kind. : Then there is the sort, too, who knows evactly what she wants to do, and does not hesitate to propose it. A second cousin of Georg€'s came to us for three weeks last spring. She an- nounced boldly the first day of her stay that there was nothing she real- ly enjoyed like going to the theatre. Well, to go from Summerbrooke, you know, you have to dine at a painful hour, drive four miles to get the train, and then come out on a fearfal local that stops at every barn door. We could have motored if the chauffeur hadn’t been ill, though even motoring isn’t always convenient, and the road into town is none too good. Every morning after breakfast that dreadful young person got the paper and read over the list of plays, and announced what she wanted to see. There really no diverting her—we simply had to take her.—'"The Joys of the Hostess” in Ainslee’s Magazine, “Fluffy Ruffles.” All the gnrls who fondly believe themselves evactly like the original “Fluffy Ruffles” want to know wheth- er the cutaway during the coming win- ter will still be in style. As usual at this season of the year, the reports from Paris are contradictory, but judging by many of the new drawings, there will be numerous winter girls with cutaways that fit like the green covering of corn on the cob. The coat on the figure, the cutaway very abrupt. But a like coat is becoming = neither:to a “Fluffy Ruffles” nor to summer girl who has gained-twent} during va 3, Mrs. very justly recommends not piece, suit, but courages. whole I all the fam 5.she. de- plores the plebeian of irt- waist and skirt.. The ‘warfare against the “shirtwaist is more nunciatory his year. woman of according to the fashion azain have whole every- day wear. ~—DBrooklyn and sheath- 131 3 . like a sheath the pounds Osborn the two- coat that en- below; for the: long dresses like designer BE1C1 de- n than ever t The income, should for small dictators, even Life, dresses Hat. much trimmed hat that “the picture “hat will exist next season. There is no question of ex- pense without a proportionate amount of trimming. The wide brim and the tall crown “must be accomplished” as the phrase goes; there is no intention of exhibiting wide uncovered spaces of brim, and the erown is often so con- cealed by the volume of trimming that its actual shape becomes a matter of secondary importance. One hears of fantastic prices paid for hats nowa- days, not merely by a millionaire’s wife here and there, but all kinds of people. As your buyers will find to their cost; prices are going. up hats and bonnets. This is of course in a great measure attributable to the trimming heaped upcn them and to the increasing scarcity of many sorts of valuable plumage. Not -en- tirely, however; milliners tell you Trimming on French IH is only as 0 | | | | | | | | was | Solas SONDAY SERMON Subject: Children, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, | Hamburg avenue and Weirfield street, on the above theme, the pastor, ‘numerous element Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, tcok as his text Matt. 18:3, “Little chil- dren.” He said: The Bible is a book for the child. I had almost said it is a children’s book. It is written in the language of the child for tle most part and its themes are so treated as almost entirely to be intelligible to youth. Its precepts are for them. Its admonitions to adults are importantly in the interest of childhood. Its counsels are largely to the young. Its history is fascinating when properly delivered to the young. Its stories are fertile for inspiration to the mind and soul of the child. Its invitation is to the child in years and to the childlike in heart alike. The greatest single character with whom the Bible has to deal was and is superlatively interested in the child. For whatever clse Jesus was, He was supremely keen in His appreciation of children, consummately philosophical in His attitude toward them, pre-eminently conscious of their ultimate value. .He loved them better than their parents did. He loves our children more than we can ever love them. For He saw in the child whom He took in His arms more than its mother ha#él capacity to discern. He sees in our children more than we, scientific students after a fashion of children as we are, dream. Jesus saw the soul value of the child, the eternal relationship of the being of the child to the eternal kingdom of Almighty God, far more clearly than any man before His time and far more plainly than we have, with all our wisdom and attainments in an age of surpassing scholarship and investigation, taken the trouble to see. And it is not strange ‘that Jesus should have placed a high estimate upon the child. It is not at all wonderful that-He should have given: special atten- tion to children. : fiat z For the child is the most important nd most promising as the in the human race. He is int ypable. y» is the hopo of the race. He is the field of our largest expectations. reason for the endeavor and activity of the world. No st mate, no man should underestimate, the child, as a factor in human his- tory and in the future of humanity. Ile is worth all our care, worthy of all of our expenditure of effort, time and money, worthy of a far more dis- criminating and assiduous scientific study than he has ever been given. As the result of the ages and the progenitor of the future of humanity the child of to-day is entitled to the best breeding that possibly he can re- ceive. His parentage should be far more the concern of society than it is. For the child has largest relations with the society at large, .and society has a claim upon him which no family tie, no matter how sacred and beau- tiful that tie may be or just, can nullify or deny. So long as children con- stitute an integral and important part of the social system, so long society will be under compulsion, to them as a matter of obligation and to itself as a matter of self-concern, to procure for every child that is born into the world the best birth that can be obtained. That is to say, that it ought to be impossible for a man to be permitted to get drunk by the consent of the State so that in a state of maudlin intoxication he may be able to send a soul into the world. That is to say, that it.ought to be beyond the pale of possibility for any person who is mentally, morally or physically unfitted for the duties of parentage to enter into the contractual relations of wed- lock. The State ought, and is under obligation, to provide for the future. The field of prenatal influence is one which is too largely neglected. most ! And yet, under the guidance of the wisdom of God, and in fidelity to the | And shall we be ashamed of the wonderworking, of for: | that everything is dearer than it was, | when they charge an extra five dol- lars or so for a hat that no valuable plumage adorns. This niay be true in a way, though not to the extent they would make us believe, but some ex- | aggeration is to he expected—The Mil- linery Trade Review, New York. Traveling Without a Chaperon. A great many mothers think noth- | ing of letting their daughters travel across half the continent without an | escort. An article contributed by An- | to the last number will make some of think. The experi- nette Austin Smith's Magazine them sit up and of ences told in it are vouched for as ac- | tual facts, and some of them are start- ling to say the least. In comparing eastern and western men in their treatment of unattended girls, Miss Austin says that the westerner has more cordial generosity, but less deli- cate consideration for a woman's feel- ings. She adds that the real bustling type of westerner is not to be found in the far West, but in Chicago and other towns of the middle West. “Everywhere in the West,” she says, “I noticed the open-hearted generosity | of the western toward women. They were willing to accept them on an equality, to their obvious duty wherever it and good-will ap- men | fulfil | peared; but where the situation called | for conscious unselfishness, or jcate tact, they fell short of the mand. a street car, hut in the middle of they the sidewalk; for del- | de- | They would give up a seat in | ride a bicycle down | would take off their hats in an eleva- | tor, but neglect to remove their cigars | in a crowd. “During my. stay in California, 1 asked the question often and various- ly of farmers, ranchmen, and city peo- | ple, as I had asked it in Texas, wheth- | er it was considered safe for a young | girl to travel alone in the West, and | almost invariably I received the an- | swer: ‘Undoubtedly it is, but it is not | to go unattended. plenty of men for her always customary There are around, and it is easy to furnish her | with an escort. “That ‘plenty of men around’ tomizes the situation in the West. There are four men to one epi- | woman | everywhere, and that partly accounts | for the seeming good treatment she | receives. A woman is more or less | of a novelty in the West, and as such | is regarded with timid curiosity and | some reverence.” She goes escorted | usually, not because it is the proper | thing or the safe thing, but because it is the easy thing, and the natural re- sult of a superfluity of men, “It was in the middle West states, strange to say, that I found most strongly accentuated the characteris- tics which are presumed to be dis- tinctly western. : “It was there, in Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, that I found the pushing woman and tae pushing man—and fate take care of the hindmost! How I ever got out alive from the crush in the Chicago terminal, where I was to change cars on my way back to New York, I hard- ly know,” ‘ ‘shop and the woman of the unclean life. Gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no more wonderiul, as there is no more fruitful or sacred, field for study and research, than the life of humanity in the fashioning. Why should we be so eternally mawkish? God made us! the handicraft of deity? A woman should be ashamed not to know, a father should be ashamed to neglect, the everlasting truth of God that the prenatal life of a child has more influence upon its character and condition, its physical, mental, moral and spiritual capacities, than all the influences of after life combined can ever have. Knowing this we shall be more careful not to curse our children before we send them into the face of the hardships and trials of this earthly pilgrimage, trusting to the influences .of the after life to overbalance and to eradicate those qualities that are, by our own un- wisdom, quite ineradicable. Children: deserve study and they amply repay it. The Government spends good money and much of it to study crops and cows and sewers and trolleys and posts and ships. It spends generous appropriations to make two ears of corn grow where one grew before, to eradicate lice on plants, to destroy the pests that destroy products that are valuable commercially. It teaches the horse breeder how to develop the horse and the farmer how scientifically to fertilize and plant and till and harvest and reap. Multi- tudes of men know more about the fine points of a dog than they do about the points of a child and how to develop them. But with a delightful lack of the sense of proportion and of the propriety of things we give spas- modic, poorly supported scientific examinations into the nature of the child, the best way to breed him, the best way to develop him, the best way to improve him. And so we pack them off to the mines or we pack them with the same mental filling in the schools. We are too busy or too lazy to understand them. The veterinarian for the dog that growls; for the child, the lash. And simply because we do not understand or take the trouble to. It is not badness in us so much as confession of total in- capacity to know just what else to do. No two children are alike. No two of the same parentage are alike. Why, therefore, should we deal with them alike? No man would catalog a dachshund in the same class with a spaniel. Why, then, shall we class our children with nothing save ages to differentiate their scholastic ability? Why group dull boys and bright to- gether simply because they happen to be of an age? Why group boys and girls of diverse tastes in the same category? Why? Because we are either too impotent or lazy to devise a better way. Children should not only be studied, but they should have their rights maintained. Their interests should be guarded. Their prerogatives should be conserved. No man should be permitted to steal their youth, no matter how profitable it may immediately be. It is a bad bargain in the long run to allow it. No man should bes<permitted to give them the taste for drink or to gratify it. It is demoralizing. No man should be permitted to ply a business which will ruin their bodies and destroy their souls. No expediency and no private or political consideration whatsoever should be permitted to intrude itself between them and the fullest possible develop- ment of their faculties. If we cannot have coal without children being damned, then let us go without it. If we cannot have windows without children being damned, then let us go without them. If we cannot have clothes except at the expense of the soul careers of the youth of America, then let us go naked. It were far better that a mill stone should be hung about our necks and that we should be drowned in the depths of the sea than that by any fault or consent of ours God’s little ones should be de- prived of the fulness of life and of life eternal. There is nothing more criminal than the ignorance of their physical beings that so many children have. Many a boy would be kept from the path that tends toward vice, many a girl whose life is wrecked or is being cast upon the rocks of wickedness would be kept from the way that leadeth to perdition, if a little careful, wholesome parental advice had been given upon the sacred operations of our physical beings. It is no wonder that so manyghboys fall into evil ways and that so many girls are doomed to the life that is worse than death when so many fathers and mothers, so many Christian fathers and mothers, are so unnecessarily and so mistakenly, I had almost said so criminally, modest. For I know whereof I speak when 1 say that what a boy or girl fails to learn in a decent and godly manner from a father or mother is gathered in a wholly vicious and ungodly man- ner or in the hard school of unnecessary experience. Children should be instructed and inspired intellectually. The child is entitled to the finest results of the intellectual advances of the ages. It is for us to start the child where we have left off. All that precedes is simply of historic interest. It’is explanatory, it is indicative, it is exem- plary. But it should be only that. The less the retrogression our children make as practical laborers for the advancement of the world, the faster will be the progress of humanity toward the kingdom of Almighty God. But much as our children need to be instructed physically and intel- lectually, still more do they require moral and spiritual guiding. For the social order depends upon a clean manhood and womanhood. The soul life of the world is dependent upon the clarity of the spiritual vision and the spiritual alertness of every human soul. Nothing is more important than that we should inculcate into the minds and souls of our youth a proper conception of the moral and spiritual realities of the universe. We shall be indeed childish if we think they can mature properly in these fields without experienced and expert guidance. The moral training of the formative years of a child's development will persist; the spiritual train- ing that we afford our children in their callowest vouth is the training that will endure. guidance, nothing in later life will be able to overthrow it. The moral and spiritual development and culturing of the child pays eternal divi- dends. It is not sufficient that we shall instruct our children. It is needful that we shall take care that they be not misled or made to stumble. It is idle to instruct, the while we propagate and foster and palliate temptations that attack the very qualities we have been culturing. He is a poor cotton raiser who tests the quality of his cotton and the resistance of the plant with the boll-worm. Not otherwise is he a silly preceptor of the child who tests the moral and spiritual vigor of the child with the factory, the dram- Children are najurally grateful to Almighty God. They may be easiest fitted to His kingdom. They are openminded. They are expectant. Their hearts are tender. Their souls are responsive to the invitations and ministrations of the Spirit. They welcome knowledge. They are without conceit. They are worthy of imitation. Their readiness to be informed, their susceptibility to divine impulses, their simplicity, their inaccessibility to importunate truth are patterns for us.. If we would rest upon the bosom of a loving Lord we must be like them. If we would know God and enjoy Him we must become as a little child. Nothing can eradicate it, and, with proper safeguarding and | Three-fold Value of Tillage. Thorough tillage destroys but accomplishes more. It breaks up the caked surface of the soil thus obliterating the capillarity that brings moisture to the surface and allows it to escape; a dust mulch is es- tablished. Tillage lcosens the and admits a free circulation of air; in this way oxidation is promoted. At the same time roots penetrate the loosened snil more easily.—Geo. P. Williams in The Epitomist. Roots Better Than Alfalfa. An exchange c¢ : advis it rout It re the grow will Le ing Both We Handling Professor the Scparator. of the Kansas st makes: these four specifi i getting cream from tie 1. The speed of t fluence 1 from on the ere speed changes the percent the eream. 2. The fects the cream. 16 milk is the cream will than cold. 3.: The amount is another f temperature mill af- warm if it is actor. his is cially important. For if the milk is uneven- ly fed into the bowl, ‘the thicknsss of the cream is vastly influenced. Value of Hen Manure. I keep 10 to 20 hens and make practice to spread the ashes fro: stoves under the roosts. [I thus pretty thoroughly - mixture of and hen manure and after the den has been spaded or plowed I ap- ply this mixture to the soil not to exceed an inch in thickness. My neighbors say I have the garden spot ‘hereabouts and I do tell them the reason. I placed trench .for Black-eyed Marrowfat last year and the vines grew that they broke over a 4-foot netting, went to the ground and near- ly to the top of the netting again. 1 have used it a good many years and think it the strongest fert there is. unless it be surpassed by hog manure. The ' only danger seems to lie in using it too liberally in whic nase it causes too rank a growth.—A. F.'8., in Michigan Farmer. ashes £ar- best not some i rank wire S50 Sure Cure for Mange. Of the many diseases with dogs are afflicted, none are r:ore dif- ficult to cure than the mange. There are many alleged cures and some of them are very good, but nearly all are slow in their operation and merely suppress the disease for a time and when it breaks out again the condition 5f the animal is worse than it was in the beginning. However, here is a remedy that will cure quickly and thoroughly and the cost is very small Two ounces of muriatic acid and 2 ounces of sulphate of potash; take two one pound baking powder cans, put in each cone pint of water, then put the acid in one and the potash in other. Now wash the perfectly clean with warm water and some good toilet soap and let him dry thorougzh- ly: then get an old ind dog on a box, a convenient height, pour acid and potash together and with a soft rag or go all over him, bathing every spot on him while the mixture is foaming, or as fast as {n four or five days repeat the. same treatment in every jparticu- lar and in four or five days repeat again and you will have a complete cure and a handsome of hair on your dog. This will. cost from cents to $1 all told.—The Epitomist. which dog yESse!, st tle sponge possible. coat o Halter Breaking. Horses are not naturally vicious, and with proper attention in colthood, bad habits would never be found. Th habits can generally be broken by in- telligent management. A very troublesome habit is that of halter-breaking. Once a horse finds he can break the halter, he is ever- lastingly at it. To cure the habit is not nearly so easy to keep the horse from learning However, two tried remedies halter-break- ! ing may be given. + Horses that are inclined to pull and break their hal- ters when fastened In the stalls have often been cured in the following way: Two straps are lightly attached to a rope which passes through a ring fas- tened in the end of the halter strap, and are fastened to his forelegs. The halter strap passes through a ring in the stall. If a horse endeavors to go backward suddenly he finds that the harder he pulls the greater is the ten- dency to draw his forelegs from under him. A few attempts will cure even i the worst halter-puller. Another simple and effective meth- od is worked out by the use of a long i rope. One end of the rope is . fas- tened to the manger. The rope is | then threaded through the lower ring as it for weeds, s0il- the | in the halter, back between the front legs, then over the back and down un- der the belly, between the front legs again and up through the ring to the other end, and then tied to the hal- ter, The halter-breaker will soon find a surprise in store for ‘him when he leans back against the rope, as the ll comes his own back, instead pull on the rope.—Country Gentlemnan. of on Dipping Sheep. New York sheep grower says that his and refers to his: method as follows: For the of a flock of 109 aw es lambs we arrange a trian he always dips. down sheep, dipping their anized top of whic barn from ated ag and, the with the escape doorw floor, the mail than water will do) to one at least they nove up an in- taining a water-tight floor, so drippings from their wool back into the tank. After some minutes they are allowed to go down an ) the field. For the purpose cof drying the lambs’ wool § the fore” part of a warm, pleasant day as soon as convenient after shearing. The whole flock should be dipped, and if recently purchased, with innumerable parasites, a dipping ten days later advisable. If the sheep are properly shorn with a machines, there will but few, if any. ticks on 'n sheep, and the lambs will most of the ticks, but if the dirped and the mother is not puzzies mother’s in- stinct she is liable to disown her lamb. The above will surely destroy ticks and lice and assist in a healthy heavy fleece of But for scab a stronger solution must be used. —Indian Farm. dip for will run into as soon as possible, choose secocnd is soon he harbor the smelling and and wool: Cleaning Out the Agricultural exceptions, in reference to handling of Feed Lot. with but their suggestions the preservation manure, confine to the best methods for small farms under a system of intensive culture, which of course will not an- ply to forms of hundreds of = acres with large numbers of live stock to consume ‘the product of the farm. Jn small farms the manure shed can- not be dispensed with without a heavy loss from waste of the most valuable constituents of the manure and therefore the well-known methods of handling and rotting it can be per- fectly employed. But on the vast farms of the West, where feeding is done almost exclusively outdoors in a feed lot, distributing the manure upon the land as fast as it is made be- comes quite necessary, because in the open feed lot it would soon almost worthless by weather. Under such circumstances it to haul it out on the land, even in winter, than to allow it to be ruined by leaching and evaporation, because if the manure is evenly dis- tributed and made fine in the ess of scattering it, a large portion the volatile substances will be sorbed ‘by the seoil on. which it spread and the liquid will leach into the ground enriching it for the com- ing crop. On west, a few with and them- writers, selves become exposure to the is better proc- of ab- is many of the great farms of the common road scraper is used for cleaning the feed lot, the manure being scraped up in piles and loaded directly into the manure spreader, hauled to the fields and spread at once upon the land. It is usually SO wet and sticky that it would be impos- to scatter it the fields by hand except in lumps where it would remain until disintegrated by expo- sure to the weather, resulting in a loss of nearly all of its fertilizing val- ue. But the manure spreader tears the chunks of wet manure to pieces and scatters them evenly over the ground. No matter how coarse the manure may be, the spreader improves its condition and distributes it evenly with the fine material at a mere fraction of the cost of distributing it by hand. Distribution of manure di- rect from the feed lot to the field where it «is needed is carried on the vear round, whenever there is enough manure in the feed lot or the barn vard and stable to warrant the hitch- ing up of a team to haul it away.— Agricultural Epitomist. sible over His Kick. A traveller putting up at a small hotel out in California brought the porter up to his room with his angry storming. “Want your room What is the matter?” “The room's all right,” fumed the guest, scorchingly. “It's the fleas I object to, that's all.” “Mrs. Hawkins!” shouted the par- ter, in an uninterested sort of a voice, “the gent in No. 7 is satisfied with his rooms, but he wants the fleas changed.”—Harper's Weekly. changed, sir?
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