1011 FARM AND tiARDEX. to Keep itAnNEHg is oood condition. Hurucss ncods (rcqituut grousing or oiling, lint bcforo this is doue it should be blacked. Ciiiumua shoe blacking will ilo fur tbii purpose. Without it tbo leather will got runty. After the blocking mill pulishing tbo oil is np plieit, nutl tlicro is nothing better thnn vasclino for this nio. Tho Limes should bo nil taken npnrt, aud if it ia dry nnd cracked it will bo improved by wishing with warm wator and soop beforo the blacking nnd grcaso ore npplied. Tho leather should bo satu rated with tho oil, nnd then rubbed w.tli n clot'i to remove tho excess thnt w.ll not soak into the leather, Har ness should bu k pt from dust, nnd in n not too dry plucj. Mold it destruc tive?, ai it fi'od on tho lcnthor, nnd tu ju won'.uus it. Xcw York Times. OAPEI IN CHIC KENS. Vrint is c.illod "gpu" iu chickens, ri'i'l even grown fowls, iu duo to tho prepuce of n minute worm in tho windpipe or trncliea of tho fowls ob structing tho air passage, causing tho p3ctilinr gaping or gasping of the chickens for breath, beuco tho name. It c:ia scarcely bo called a discaso iu tho geuernl acceptance of tho word, although it is uow pretty well kuowu that nil diseases of both nnitnnls and I l ints nre the results of nn attack of either vcgctnblo or animal parasites. The gpo worm or parasite, lives and luvods in water nnd moist places gen erally, nnd is picked up by tho chick en!! nnd becomes lodged in the trachea. If n large number get into this organ they prevent breathing and ennso tho d'.fUh of tho chick, otherwise they only proilnco a temporary injury. Tho gapo worm has been very destruc tive to tho peasants in largo game pre serves in France, consequently wo may cnncludo that wild bins are not exempt from this malady. Iu Europe feeding onions, garlic, nnd similar istrong-HCPUted vegetables nre const dared good preventives, nnd ia addi tion medicines are use in the drinking water. Tho French poultrymen re commend putting fifteen grains of cViicylato of soda into every quart of water given the chickens for drink. t t . 1 . 1 A .! 1 vuu ui uiu uesi jireveuwvea nuuru only a few fowls are kept is to change tho yard to new grounds annually, re turning to tho old one after two or threo years. Xew York Sun. TJEWAKE OP FAT COW Bswnro of fat cowsl This nlarm is sounded strictly for tho benefit of eood progressive dairymen. Any ono can succeed in keeping cows poor in flush fiiwply by starving them whilo only a generous feeder can make them too fat. Whilo gonorous feeding iu a necessity with good nnd profitable dairying, yet the condition precedent for profit is that the cow should apply her excess of feed to milk and not to fat making. The first thing, of course, in getting up a good herd is to have large milk ers, and they should be persistent long milkers, and also rich milkers, but such cows will not bo profitable milk ers it they get too fat Such cows waste lots of thoir food in making fat and should be turned over to tbo butcher where they belong. As a rule fat cows will not give rich milk, be cause tho fat of the food goes to tho body instead of the pail. The proof of this.howevcr.must not be taken from the looks of things aloue,but some kind of test like tho Bibcock must bo used. For instanoe there is no more common mistake than to suppose that cows giv ing very yellow milk are extra good butter makers. There is no more common delusion than to think that a yellow color goes with richness in milk. Now, the fact is that yellow milk contains no more,' if as much, butter fat ns white milk. Appear ances aro often deceptive in this liua. Cows with yellow skins nre no better for butter making than those with white skins: common belief to the contrary notwithstanding, I was once principal performer ia some inter esting experiments in this line. . We classified tho Jerseys in a herd, picked out tho yellow skinned milkers. The whites made mora cream. Yellow ckin, and yellow milk generally go to gether. Oaernssys hive more yellow kins thnn Jerseys, but do not give more oream or make to nvioh batter, Biehness is rare or individual char acteristic Home and Farm, FOR FAHUSHS WITH BOSS. - Wbotber or nut a boy can be con tented to remain with his father on the farm, dopeud greatly upon the char acter of the bo, write Ella Back wood ia the American Agriculturist Many boys nre fund of excitement, and the amusement which a city life af fords are more attractive to tkex than what they aro pleased to term the humdrum nnd drudgery of the farm. It is this mistaken idea of what con stitutes a "humdrum" life thnt take so many boys to the city. To some minds it would seem a far more frco and attractive occupation to plow and sow, ride the binder nnd even do tho "chores" thnn to work behind a counter day after dny. It is nearly always to tho farmer's advantage to keep bis boys on tho fnrm. They naturally tnko more interest and will do better work thnu hired help. Hut very few boys aro content to work at homo without a visiblo compensation of some kind. While, ns snid before, much depend.) upon tho kind of boy, much nlao d ponds upon tho kind of father. Iioys will bo boys, and the father who renlizcs this is tho one whoso sons nro content to stay on the fnrm. Many fathers expect too much of their son-, both as to their work nnd their judgment Their failures too often cnll down quick nud sharp reproof. No bright, high-spirited boy will bear being constantly found fault with. If fathers would tuoro often mnko compnuious of their boys it would bo better. If is neither wise nor expedient for tho father who would keep his boys at homo to keep himself npart from them. I know of one instance iu particular where fathers nud sous nre almost insepara ble. In rides to town or on business, sido by side in the field, or with guns and dogs, off for a day's bunt, they nro always together. Tho fathers whom I have known to bo most suc cessful iu keeping their sous on tho firm have early given them something t j particularly ititcrcst them in the farm, a sliaro of the income in somo w.iy, cither of stock, or of mouey, was their own to do with ns they chose. They wero trusted wi'.h tho best team, and learned to take prido in their work, to tho mutual advantage of both. Our most successful farmers financially today nre the ones whoso sons work at homo. It is not to bo much wondered at thnt somo boys do part as soon ns possiblo from their father's roof. Boys will have recrea tions and amusements, and if these nro not provided at home thoy will seek them elsewhere. Somo boys are not to bo kept at homo by any menus, and it is better that these should go. They may be more successful in somo other vocation and should bo given a chance to try. Tho majority, how ever, may become contented and well-to-do farmers with proper encourage ment and financial aid. FARM AND OARDES NOTE. Many trees arc injured by injudi cious priming. There is no fear of over-production of eggs at the rato this country is now importing them. Ojod wool and profltiblo wool cm not readily bo grown on anything but a healthy flock of sheep. In nearly all cases breeding stock in tho full prime of life ami health al ways gives the best and most satisfac tory returns. When the bens are laying regularly more food should be supplied and with more food comes the necossity of more exercise. No matter how good an animal may bast the start it will need good food and constant care in order to enable it to reach its inherited possibilities. It will lesson the expense in the grain ration if you plant and cultivate the ensilage oorn so that it will make ears. Cut it about the time the ear is glazing. It is claimed that corn stalks, but in lengths of about one to ono aud a half inches, will serve as a sufliaieut mulch for strawberry plants. A single layer will bo sufficient to protect the plants if the weather is not too severe. If there are poor spots on the farm improve thorn. Do not let them lay idle. Sow to grass and plow under. The farm on which tho writer was born had ten acres of poor soil Noth ing was done with it until a few year sinco, when it was improved by sow ing orchard grass and turning it un der. It was then sown to wheat and another crop of orchard grass turned under. In this way and by a free ap plication of barnyard manure it was made a good field. The soil was aandy. After potato tops have died down no time should be lost in getting the crop pat of the ground. There it no more growth then, and if the vine are at all diseased, the longer they are left over the potatoes the greater will be the dangtr that the tubers will also be affected. ' Betides, the cost it lest to get out the potatoes early while the toil it dry, than after the fall rain have made it muddy and greatly Increased the difficulties of se curing the potatoei in good condition, M.1EXTIFIC HCIIAPS. Tho onk furnishes food tor 309 species of insects. With the present optical instrument in use 50,000,000 stars aro rendered visible. Labrador ha 000 specie of flower ing plants, fifty-nine ferns, and over 250 species of mosses and lichens. Proscssor Milne, tho earthquake ex pert, says that earthquakes have no connection with magnetic influences. Public nquariums are not generally kept open nt night, strong artificial light being injurious to the fishes' eye. Flnmmariou, the French nstronomer, says that the earth is cooling very rapidly. Europe bus lost five degrees this century. Plants nro affected by various sub stances, just ns animals nro: electric ity will stimulnto them, narcotics will stupefy nud kill them. Oil extracted from the mnizo is one of tho best known illtimitiauts but is not generally manufactured on aojottut of tho oxpeuso of making it The amount of fatty matter or oil in maize is fur greater than iu wheat. Iu tho latter oil camposus about 1 per out in the former from 0 to 8. A bread aud butter tree from the French settlement ou tho Gaboon was receutly sent to a professor at Nancy to analyze The tree yields a fatty substuueo cay-cay, resembling butter, a id a grain containing 80 per cent of futty matter from which very nourish ing bread is made. The tree is an Ir viugia. A test has been recently mado of a now locomotive constructed to uso crudo petroleum ns a fuel. Tho report says that tho engine stenmed very rap idly, aud emitted little or no smoke. The locomotive was built nt tho Bald win Works, in Philadelphia, under the direction of Superintendent Vaucluin, who has had charge of tho construc tion of tho many "livers" thnt havo been turned out there. Tho test run was made between Baltimore and Phil ndelphia. It is proposed to construct a pipe line 330 miles long from one of tho bituminous coal fields to the seaboard, through which is to be pumped a mix ture consisting of seventy-five per cent of finely pulverized coal and twouty five per ceut water. Tho coal dust wil be dried and purified on arrival here, and can then bo used for fuel. Tho steaming properties of conl dust, if it is properly burned, nro known to bo great, and it is claimed that this meth od of transportation will bo not only possible but economical. Japanese Politeness .Not Genuine, In the dnily social intercourse of tho pooplo and especially, of necessity, among the better classes the effects of tho characteristic sentimental tem perament are constantly apparent. Of these effects, some are such as to give an appearance of great delicacy and beauty to tho details of life; but others impross tho moro robust and practical Westorner with a sense of in sincerity and weaknoss. The polite ness of the Japanese is marked by all travellers , it has passed into a prov erb. To those who are willing to take the purely sentimental point of view, many of tho national habits are most delightful But nono are more severe in the feeling of repulsion which ia produced by much that is character istics of polito Japan, than some of tho natives themselves, on return from lifo of several years in foreign lands. "A rough mnuner with a kind heart" wrote one of these nntivos "is far better than a petty artificial polite nets with no hcart-menning Scribuor. Eighth Wonder of the World. Ono of the most remarkable cases of extraordinary musical talent iu a child is that of Betty Jones, the baby accordionist at Assateague Island. Betty is not yet four years old and ex ecutes on the accordeon all of her fa vorite songs with skill and 'delicacy. She discovered her marvelous aptitude for musio herself when but two and one-fourth year old. Fondling her father' aooordion one day she recog nized the different notes of "Jesus, lover of my soul," and iu a very short time learned to play it with ease and accuracy. She hat delighted numer ous visitor to her home by her won derful skill, and it never to happy a when given her instrument and asked to play. According to the writer of the above, if he it any judge, the young lady in question must bo the eight wonder of the world. Peninsu tula, Md., Pre?. England is said to have warned the Porte that it investigation of the out rages in Armonia must be thorough aud satisfactory to the Powers. : 1IAIRDRESS1NG. THE NEWEST ARRANOEMENT9 IN WOMAN'S If AIR. CotJurc Are Parted anil Full Coils Aro Worn liosr On the Keck -Certain Styles Butt Certain Face. TIIE hats have revolutionized bnirdressing. It is a bit comforting to think, bower (t r, that there will not be a total revolution in style, for French lints rarely suit English face, and English bounets are seldom chosen by American. The poke bonnet which has such uglifying or beautifying pos sibilitie originated in France and it is but natural to infer it will appear in New York. Indeed, it has made its advent already, say the New York Telegram. The thing that most concern the woman of to-day in tho fashionable line ia the new arrangement of the hair. The bewitchment in jetty lock and golden cnrls is really not merely nn ngreeable romance of poets. Every woman can practically prove the trans figuring charm of a becoming coiffure aud discover for herself the magical effect of increasing or decreasing her apparent age by different way of dressing her hair. No. 1, in the double column illus tration, shows the coiffure much be praised by man. It seems to be ideally feminine to wear one' tresses arranged with a parting. It is much in vogue now, but the only woman who can afford to dress her hair in this Madonna-like mode is one who has the face of a St. Cecelia or one with regularly modelled features, NO i VAEIOU3 STYLE3 whose lino have all the exquisite toftnesa and tenderness characteristic of happy youthfalness. Unhappily, this ttyle of hair dressing it the most trying of all way. It apparently add year to the actual age. If the face i long, it makes its lengh more conspicuous. It the brow is low, it gives heaviness and teems to detract from the spirituality and intellectual ity of the countenance. No. 2 gives a profile view of a pretty modification of the parted coiffure. The hair is waved from the front, and a few light cnrla grace the forehead The full, low coil is especially adapted for day wear and the present style of millinery. It should be avoided, if not absolutely shunned, by the woman whose nose is inclined to be small and "tip-tilted, like a flower," a some aweetly humane poet pnta it. No. 8 is among the latest styles for evening wear. It is neither high nor low, and gracefully fulfils the require ment of fashion. This arrangement of the hair is especially felicitous for an angular face, which needs the waves and curls and coilt to give it softness and snbdue baid lines. Although the prevailing tendency for hair dressing ia herewith set forth, it behoove every woman to consider her individual needs in arranging her "crown of glory" and to inuividualize the fashion to suit the shape of her bead and the modelling of her faoe. No. is a modification of No. 3. It gives a greater height, retaining a suggestion of the ttyle of last season, and yet not losing the indefinable air of being quite up to date. The tendency of the hour it to wear false hair and flamboyant arrange ment! in the ihape of puffs and skele ton coilt to give the impression of luxuriant tresses. Of course, to be in harmony with the flaring, flaunting sleeves, skirts tnd frill that are the vogue, it ws an artistio necessity to add width, breadth, depth and all di mensions to th head or it would look exceedingly small and out of propor tion. WTD BELTS. Wide belt are among the noveltie to allure feminine who delight in decorative fallals. Some of these girdle are almost at wide and deep at a bodioe. The "Butterfly" belt it among the prettiett of these adorn ments. It ii made in a variety of material. The most elegant com bination ia in aatin ribbon of any color. The "Butterfly," 'which doet duty at a buckle, ia entirely oompoted of pearl and errata! or jet butterfly. NO 2 a it preferred. The enrr of the wintr is especially adaptable and be coming to the blouse front in chiffon. The belt is finished with rosette in wV I DtTTElTFLT BELT OF rHVSTAW AND IT ARIA the back. Everything in nature has been plagiarised not even the cab bage has escaped, for the little orna mental "choux" bow nre modeled after this hnmble vegetable. Fashion seek inspiration everywhere, and the wonder is what next in nature will be counterfeited in the modes of tho Lour. EMBROIDERED CHIFF0S TOR TBlMMIKd. The popularity of diaphanous trim ming fabrics continues and embroid ered chiffon is one of the fancies of the moment. Black chiffon embroid ered in gold, blue, pink, pale-green, indeed all shade .of color, iavi much liked for trimming black dresses. A MO y HO j IN HAir.DBE3.SINa. black satin waist is almost covered with chiffon about a quarter of a yard wide. The ground of this is black, the edge is embroidered in pink, and tiny rosebuds in pink with green leaves are scattered over it Some of these trimmings are close fitting, others are ruffled and set on with just enough fullness to make them graceful. Crimped and plaited chiffon comes by the yard and is very easy to nse, be sides furnishing ingenious women with the opportunity to adjust and arrange in novel and becoming fashion these exquisite garnitures. FRENCH TAILOR-MADE JACKET. The illustration shows a close-fitting jacket bodice in fawn-colored faced cloth, trimmed with pointed lapelt and wrictlets in chestnut brown moire silk. Binding and gauntleta are in plain bengaline. Wavy brown braid tipped with trefoils accentuate! the gorea and the teamt at the back, which A TAJIOB-MADI tACXIT. extend a dating below the waist, the remaining part of th waist 'being moulded to the figure. Large tor toisethell button are used. Cravat tie and upstanding collar tn brown ilk. Black velvet toque and quill. ftxk-uxed txha Simplicity in veils is decidedly passe. Most of the 'new 'one art) trimmed with either lace, ribbon' or-jet torn in plain net have a ruffle of taee about an inch and a halt wide, beaded with row of narrow ribbon, not unlike those used in oar mothers' flirtation d7 Again,' coarse net .veil are .Iin4 with pink chiffon, thereby lending the linta of youth to an otherwise- ordin ary complexion. AT KENESAW MOUNTAIN. FOUR COMBATS General Howard' Aeoount of th Great Engagement. The KPDfsaw mountains sometimes called the Kenesaws, as I suppose oa account of ao apparent cross-break In tbe moRS (firing ap pnroutljr two mountains U the highest eleva tion In Georgia west of the Chattnhoothee. From Its top Hbnrmaa at a Inter dnte com muntrnted with Geo. Corse, 10 tnl'.m north ward nt a crossing of the Etowah. The tnme mountain, rbnimljr nnd attra)tlve, Is pointed out to vlittora from high bulldliitp In Atlanta. It Is (be natural wntnrsheil, ami win id lsr.4 upon Pa sl'lrs mostly covered with tres. 1 com Its crest Johntton nod lilaofTlevM could tf-euur movement, whleh wo bnliornd to be biddi-n, and bare recorded nccoutits coneera lni( tbt-m in wonderful detail. Hid hand some vlllnire of Marietta, koon n to Hheriimn in bis youth,, lyma; eastward li'twi.a tbo mnuittnlu and the river could be pluluiy seen. If not too extensive to deiend.Juhu-t "i c mid not emlly have found a stroma u-llitary poaltloo lor his great army. bffore enterlnu serlousiy up in the bnttle, or rather the actual (lirhtlng of Kenetaw, let us endenror to net before our render tbe relntlve positions of the two reat op olni; hosts, I'nlon and Confederate, prior to the tattle of C'tilp s (or Kolo si Karm, which was fotiKht by Hooker and rV'bofleld at;nlo4t Geo. Hood, the entire Confederate nra.y lind taken substantially Its now Huns thut Is to say, the Confederate rlnlit. which abutted against Drusb Mountain on the north, took In Keneeaw, and passing doirn the southern slope, continued on to the neighborhood of Olley a Creek. It wn virtually a north and south alignment, probably not continuous. xue uem line was convei toirari us. in rlcht was protected somwhnt by tho rough brush Mountain nnd Noonday Creek, Its center had Noses' Creek In front of It, but the strength of this almost Impregnable part was In the natural fortreaa which thut porilou of the Keneanw gave. The lutrenebment. barrlca lea er breast works everywhere, whatever you call tboae Confederate protecting contrivances, were excellent. They had along, the fronting alopes abundant "slasbinitas" that it, trees felled toward ua with limha embracing each other, trimmed or untrimmed, according to whichever condition would be worso for tbe Yankee approach, llatterles were ao placed as to give againat us both direct and cross fires. To my eve Kenesaw there at the middle bend ol Jounjton'a long line was more diffi cult than any portion of Gettyaburv's Ceme tery ltldge, or Little Bound Top, and quite es Im possible to take; especially where the works were thorouebly manned and strongly held, as were the Marye Uighta of Fredericksburg. From extreme to extreme point, that la.from the Conledurate infantry right to tho ac'.ual left In a atralgbt Hue, mtut have been six miles. The reports show that Johnson had Just be fore tbe battle of Kenessw received reinforce ments from tbe Georgia militia under O. W. Smith. Hla numbers at thl territle battle nre not now easily dlsoovered or es'lmated but standing ao much at Johnston did on the defenalve behind tbe prepared work hla losses were hardly ever as great as ours; ao that I think at Keocaaw be had, after O. W. Hmlth't arrival, aa many men as at Beaaca. My judgment la confirmed by tbe earprlsing ly long defenalve line which he occupied. Uood at first bad the right, covering all the wagon approaches and trails from Ackwortb nnd the north and the wagon and raliroada that ran between brush Mountains and the Kenesaws. Lorlng, the Confederate commander who now repluced Polk, for hlj custody and de fense had all the Kenesaw front, including the southern sloping crest and the ground beyond the Marietta . and Canton wigoa road. Hardee's Corps bean there, crossed the next highway (tbe Mariettannd Lost Moun tain road ). aud uradually drew back till bis left was aomewbere between Kolb's Farm and Zlon's church, that part of hla force looking Into the valley of Oiley's Creek. I presume aa I have already Intimated, that the Cm federates did not have contlnuoua Intrench menu all along the front. There was no ne ceaalty for auch abundance; but they did have "more than tbe luual number of lunets and advanced works on apura and command ing hllla"; so writes Gen. Cox. a oood axoorsT, crowned with a few cannon on a convenient knoll, associated with another on a neighbor ing bight of like deacrlptioo, will uaua;iy en able a general to defend much territory against attack. both Hberman and Johnston nnierstood tbla. and were never willing to thrust column between be knolla Into the jaws of such a trap. Confederate Jsriuon, dis tinvulahed cavalry Colonel, using artillery and cavalry, watcned and extended the left of tbe Kenenaw line down by drey's Creek, while the swift-moving Wheler in a aitbllar manner took care of the right and the open country eastward, embracing all that threat ened region north of Marietta. Without, Just bow. In actual detail, bring ing forward our armies into position before, tbe Confederate's Kenesaw line, I will aay, Kt-nerally: Ulair, with bis 8evenlten:b Corp had come up from tbe west. He brought enough men to compensate for bherrtan' previous loaie; ao that, like JobnUon oner man had about tbe tame number as at lte saca. The army of the Tennessee, with our blmr on the left, faced Hooi. A short die tiince beyond, eastward, u Garrard s cav alry, trying to keep bclt the Confederate cavalry of Wheeler. Thomas, with bit three Colon corf s. tone b ed tbe middle bend opposite Lorlng and part of Hardee. Hooker's Corra made Thomas' right: then came, on tbe extreme rlgiH tbe Iwenty-tblrd Corps and Htonemsn's cavalry, under bcboneld. The l uion rlirht, already by the vu'.b of June, reached at fnr south at Oiley's creek. Tho whole Infantry stretch of Sherman's front was at that time fully eight mile. There are four distinct combats which ought to come Into this battle of Kenesaw; for both host were there, vu-a-vi. for the struggle: 1st, the o imbat with Wheeler's cavalry near Crush Mountain: ii, the cavalry combat against Jackson; Sd, the battle of Kolb t larra the Hi ol June; 4th. the determined attack and repulse at different point all along the Kenesaw Uoo during th i7th of Juo. A Queer Plant, Tbe only known variety, species, or genus of plants known to botanical in vestigator in which the flower grow from tbe leaf has Just been described In the Pari Journal de Botanlque. Thl queer plant 1 a native of tropical Af rica, and in it the flower aro born along the midrib- of tbe back of the lenf. The description referred to above Is by Prof. Hua, and la a real treat to all lov ers of the odd and curious In nature. Prison. A suggestion for Improvement la prison construction provide tor ceiij built of iron or steel pipes which inter communicate, so thut water may be. kept under pressure in thm. If any attempt be made. to break into or out of such a cell, the smallest puncture In a pipe will cause a leak ard give in itaAt notice through , tbe reduction of pressures which actuate 'a system ol electric atanr a. .'. i ii. a: