AGRit HINTS niinnar Traitinunt of Vllh. During hot weather the best means of raring tor milk designed for the crenn. Ty is to rim it through a sepa rator a few momenta niter milking. Cool the cream as much as por'lble with the coolest well water available. Put the cream Into eight-gallon cniiB and keep It at na low a temperature as well water will hold It. Deliver when convenient. It the well water la B4 degrees or lerr, tho cream will keep in good condition. CnpMlrlm Hi1l I'll-a. The old-fnthlonrd squash bug la not na easy creature to destroy. It can not be reached by the ordinary pilion sprays, as It takes Ita food by sucking the plant and docs not eat the foliage. Kerosene crmtlulon, soap solution and tobacco decoction have been recom mended and used with some success; but hand-ptcklng la most satisfactory. The bugs can be decoyed under pieces of boarda, aueh as barrel ataves. etc.. If laid on the ground with one end slightly raised, among the vlns. Clus tering under these boards for shelter and protection, the pests can be col lected and destroyed a couple of timea dally, until their numbers are greatly reduced. Advice to Woalnnorii In farming. Beginners In farming, especially thoae with limited capital, should en deavor to produce earlv and late ciopa, no as to have cash coming In all the time, if possible. One of the earen tlals for quick returns is poultry. The hens should lay every day. with good management. Ono or two good rows will also be fomd serviceable, aa milk, butter nnd eggs are cash at all aeasons. Small fruits, such as strawberries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries and blackberries, soon give returns, but grapes and orchard fruit require more time. On a small farm it may not pay to depend upon the cereal crops. Stock, fruit and vegetables give better profits and bring In cash long before the harvest comes for corn. There la nothlpg thnt will give larger and quicker profita In proportion to cap ital Invented than fowls, and as they multiply rapidly the number can be Increased every year. The fowla will also consume much waste mntcrlal that cannot be otherwise utilized. CnltlTAtln Hn Tomntoeft. Producing fine tomatoes is quite an art, and ono that It pays the grower to master if ho expects to make much money out of the crop. Professor Massey says that he formerly enter talnd the opinion, still held by some, lhat heavy applications of nitrogenous manures made the vines too rank and the fruit more crooked; but persistent efforts In Improving the character of the fruit and tho modes of culture have convinced him thnt with a gn"d strain of seed no amount of manuring will make it any more Irregular, while a poor strain will be Irregular In any event, and that a rank growth of vine, Induced by heavy manuring, simply indicates the need of more room for the plant and a heavier crop of big tomatoes, and that heavy manuring on the hill Is tho best way to insure a vigorous growth of vine and a corre sponding vigor and perfection In the fruit I have also learned that small fruits grow from seeds of small fruits, and vice versa; that trimming and train ing the plant to a single stem leada to a smaller production of blossoms, less pollen and a smaller crop; that the largest crops are always on the plants which are allowed to take their full -natural development and grow at their own sweet will on the ground; that healthy tomatoes lying on the ground are no more liable to rot than those trained off It No fruit is more rapidly Improved by careful selection, and none more rapidly deteriorated by carelessness than the tomato. Like Indian corn, the tomato Is beat when the seed is produced in the same lati tude and climate where the crop Is to be grown, and it seldom does its best the first season when taken far north or south of its native locality. The Improvement of the tomato should the therefore be carried on in the locality where the crop is to be raised. Vick's Magazine. Tha GraMhnpper Pnat, Nature has ordained that an endless warfare should prevail among her creatures, to the end that one species should not Increase too fast, and crowd others out of existence. The growth of microscopic plants in certain in sects, causing their death. Is an ex ample of this. Most of there plants belong to a family that the botanists call empusa, from the Greek word meaning "ghost" A striking peculiarity about, the plants Is that they can grow only on certain kinds of Insects and always while the insects are alive. There Is a kind, for example, railed the empusa gryllll, that grows only on the grass hopper. One can find many dead grasshoppers. In the autumn, clinging to fences, tree-trunks or buildings, several feet above the ground. Break open the bodies, and you will And a white substance that veems to have burned up the 11 ring tissues, an turned the Insects into mummies, .which ellng, life-like, long after death. This white substance la the pores of thtf empusa gryllll. Now It Is suggested that one of the iest ways to get rid of the grass- hoppers In the west, where they do so much Injury to the crops. Is to Infect some of them with the empusa gryllll, and thus cause an epidemic among them. Those who have studied the question say that the plan la wholly feasible, for the spores of the plants are blown from the body of the dead Insect In every direction by the wind, and If even ono .... on a live hopper. It la likely to grow, and as surely as It grows, It will kill the hopper. The way the farmers now try to rid themselvea of the pest Is to drag over tne Holds, by hand or by horse power, a broad wooden trough, partly filled with water having petroleum on the surface. Bnck of the trough la stretched a cloth, agalnat which the grasRhoppera fly, falling thence Into the oil. Tills device, however, Is only partially successful, nnd the empusa Infection would supplement it, even If It would not render It wholly nnneces rary. timadelphla Record. Prnarlns; Wool lor MntkM, To get the full value for our wool It must be washed. The difference be tween washed and unwashed wool Is so great that It pays the grower every time to wash it. Good delaine wool will not Bhrlnk one-third, which prices quoted in the market seem to indicate. There are many ways of washing, however, whlc do not prove success ful. I have seen some housed breed ing ewes washed so that the discolor ation which appeared only In patches before the operation was distributed all through the wool, practically In juring Ita quality to a considerable extent By distributing the color all through the wool it was given a dingy appearance which Immediately excited the s-splcions of the buyers. Nevertheless, the careful prepara tion of the wool for market is as es sential today aa any other feature of the business. In the northern wool growing sections cold weather and cold water often make the work late (n the season, and this sometimes Troves quite a disadvantage. Probably what is needed as much aa anything else in every good wool-growing section of the coun try is a co-operating scouring house. This would solve the problem and save to the farmers a considerable part of the profit that now goes to the commission men. It would cost little to send the wool to such a house and have It scoured ready for market. Scoured wool sella so much higher that the profits In some Instances would be Increased from 20 to 60 per cent Such a scouring house could be conducted In almost any good sheep raining diotrtrt on the commission plan. It would pay both tho farmers and the commission men. The two could agree on a fair commission for scouring the wool, and the farmers could easily keep such a house run ning. In fact, it would draw upon a wldo neighborhood, for it would pay tho growers to have their wool scoured at home on a fixed basis, and then ship It to market in this condition. As it Is now, the unacourcd, unwashed wool Is always purchased at such low prices that there Is a very wide margin of profit left for somebody to make be fore !he wool Is finally made up Into cloth. There are too many middle men who must get their pay. By dis posing of a few of these the grower would receive more, and the consumer would actually be charged less for his manufactured product A good scour ing bouse would save washing, which Is sometimes an expensive process, and 'alpo save loss In other ways. A house of this kind located right In the heart cf a wool-growing country could easily calculate upon handling from 10,000.0"0 to 15.000,000 pounds of wool annually. W. E. Edwards In Amer ican Cultivator. Poultry Point. A poultry farm Is a photo of the poultryman. I Low. level roosta are pdeferable to high, sloping ones. Plenty of fresh water placed In the shade Is always in order In the poultry yards. Camphorated balls are recommended for keeping lice from the nests of lay ing and sitting hens. Keep the little chicks busy. If they are taught to hustle for a portion of their food tbey will grow fast and look thrifty. Don't let cats and dogs worry the ben with young chickens. Many of i..e little fellows are permanently In jured by being trampled. As coon as the goslings are about feathered, put them out In n pasture with plenty of grass and water, and lucy will bo no more bother until picking time. A q'iart of corn, or its equivalent, Is etlrr,"tecl as being sufficient for 10 hens one day. But some hens eat less and some more. Besides, It Is hard to .ko the "equivalent." Raw corn meal fchould not be fed to Email chicks. If it must be given, mix it with one-third shorts and bake. Give the fowls plenty of cool, fresh water and keep the drinking vessels under shade. There may not be anything In (.how but there Is a whole lot in looks when it comes to poultry. A neat-looking egg basket is more apt to have good eggs than a dirty one, and the cus tomer wiil have his eye on it, too. - Every conscientious poultry raiser will be careful not to send stale eggs to market If the egg Is doubtful do not sell it, for your neighbor to eat Gather the eggs every day and use cblna neat egg. Leaving- an egg for a nest egg should never be tolerated on any poultry farm. 0000300000000000000 DOOOOO WHil Spain'i K"i9 onies of Age. SCOTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOi TIIH young King of Ppnln, Alfonso XIII., cornea of nge next spring, nnd will have the nominal ruling of his country. He will have good advisors, however, Including bla mother, tho present Queen llegent, Senor Hnirisln, nnd the Duke of Tetunn. Alfonso XIII. will be alxtcen years of ago on May 17. It la believed tlmt the coro nation will be practically n private event, nnd In tho light of present po litical conditions In tho country, It will probably be a wise precaution. Tho political atmosphere has cleared anmcwhat. Things are not so bad all they might be; there Is a surplus, even LATEST POItTItAIT OP though not n largo one, in the treas ury, and tlicrj is uo lack of activity in thu moro important trading circles. . Keuor Sagasta, ono of tho notable figures in the polltlcnl history of tho dny, has a tremendous task before blni. Ho stands for Spanish Liberal ism, aud there Is no one in the country that Is so well versed In its pecullnf conditions. Worn by long servlco to his country, absolutely faithful to it in every sense, of unimpeachable in tegrity, Sagasta has enrued the title of tho Grand Old Man of Spanish Liberalism, and it i a deserved recog nition. Sugustu's cabinet includes Gonernl Wcyler, as Minister of War; Honor Moret, os Minister of the Interior; the Duke of Almodovar del Hto, as Min ister of Foreign Affairs, and tho Dtiko of Vorngun, as Minister of thu Navy. The first and last named gen tlemen are cot know n In tho United States, but It can hardly oe said that they are regarded with favor. The American people remember Weylor through his Cuban administra tion, the story of which, nil things con sidered, does not Improve with the telling. The Duke of Almodovar del Rio is said to be somewhat In sym pathy with tho British; Senor Moret Is perhaps the best known of all the cabinet, and has an excellent record. General YVeyler'a influence was In evidence In connection with the mar .riago of tae Princess of Asturlaa, the Queen's eldest child. The Princess's choice Don Carlos do Bourbon is the second son of the Count Caserta, who, is a pronounced Carllst. The Queen Regent approved of the match because it was based entirely on mutual esteem and love, but Senor Sagasta strongly opposed the marriage, even refusing to be in olflco when It took place. Gen eral Weyler's friendship for tho young man meant so much, uowever, thnt notwithstanding Sagasta's disapproval, which was warmly seconded by both Liberals and Republicans, thu mar riage was consummated. Don Carlo now Prince of thu Asturlus by the royal decree studied In the Artillery School at Segovia, end served in Cuba under Weyler. Harper's Weekly. Cuba's BaWatlon. The pest of yellow fever has been combated with such vigor In Cuba that not a sluglo death has been re ported as resulting from it this year, according to good authority. Reports received by Surgeon-General Wyuian from members of the medical staff scattered all over tho Island of Cuba show thut It is practically free from yellow fever. This is probably the tlrat time this statement could bo made for centuries. The reason that yellow fever has been so successfully over come is bccauKo of the ettldent sani tary methods employed by the United States health officers. Havana itself has been revolutionized as regards its sanitary conditions. Recent experi ments having proved that yellow fever was to a great extent transmitted by mosquitoes bred In the tropical iwauips and the cesspools, drustlc means were employed to kill these In lects. The streets nnd sewers in Ha vana and other cities of the Island were sprinkled with kerosene, with most satisfactory result. Sid to say there it such a tiling at ileit stupidity. 3 COMING FUN FASHIONS. Tails Gator ran Nek PImc Fnt Lined Paletot. The nimble fingers of a fashionable furrier's employes are already busy carrying out tho clever designs from London nnd Paris In mink nnd sable neck pieces. Pablo, you know, la Im ported In tho pelt ahnpe without duty, so It la really anno to buy these flue nntural furs here where one knows and hna ronfldenco In tho furrier. To J ml go by thcao fhio novelties our furry fellows havo taken to growing a groat number of talis. Of yore, when wo complnlned thnt there were too few falls on a neck piece wo were In formed that nnlmnla seldom hnil more than one each. Evidently we're changed all that, for these advance beauties are com posed entirely of tails. In mink tolls these pieces coat from f 50 to $75. Tho one shown In the lllus THE YOUNG SPANISH KINO. tratlon is perhnpa tho most graccfa' nnd fetching. Round the sntln neck bund la n double row of talis, tho to row looped down, tho bottom row looped up, nntll both rows meet A) ench cud of the ruchc-llko nock pleci there are four ends In chenille effect each of these strands being compose of four talis. Among tho variations on this plctur esquo arrangement Is one which hai twenty tails hooped around tho fouti datlon band. The ends arc cither Ilk! tho ono pictured or consist of slmph bunches of tails. Though fur-llued coats now seen synonymous with torture garments nover mind, there uro cold days com Ing. Paletots are to lead in stylo, blacl broadcloth being the favored fabric Tho all-gray Siberian squirrel is thi choice for linings. As to the details, the sleeves wil bell a bit at the wrist, and though tin coat is perfectly loose the scam dowi the middle back will be slightly curved and open about half the way up. Women who are to Indulge In a mid soason as well as a cold-weather pale tot nro choosing black Loulslne, and white Is still tbo favorite lining. Coal la Indian Territory. Somo idea of tbo value of the coal deposits ia Indian Territory can be gained when it is known the average thickness of the vein Is four feet, which will produce 4000 tons an acre. These lands are leased In lots of 000 acres each, which means that 8,500,000 to 4,000,000 tons can be produced by tho8o leasing the land. On this out put the lessees pay a royalty of 8 conts a ton. The output during the last year was 1,000.127, as against 1,400,442 tons the previous year. The Interests of the Chickasaw and Choc taw Indians are protected. Chicago Journal, if A FORB T.OOK AT FUB FASHIONS. NIGHT WORKERS IN NEW YORK. PIsarM That Show tha Nambar of Thata ta Ha VpmarA or 40,000. There are 800,000 persons, men and women, employed In what the law de scribes as gainful occupation work ing tor others for compensation In New York City, says tho Sun. It has heretofore been supposed that about 5 percent of these were employed at night, wnlch would give a total of 40, 000 night workers In the city Recently a table has appeared In tended to show how many night work era there actually are In the four boroughs, and this estimate glvca 3200 poncemen, 3000 rnllroad employes, 3000 bakers, 3000 newspaper em ployes, 2500 engineers and firemen, 2roo actors and mualclnna and 1000 restaurant employes. The total la 20, 000, the balance being made up ot biitcnera, pcdlers, Bteam railroad em ployes, telegraphers, watchmen, eleo triclans and miscellaneous workers. The table, accurate In many respect fans short ot completeness as to the total number of persons employed at night In New York. There are In New York and Brooklyn 2167 Raines law hotels which are open all night, In each of which there is at least one man employed and usually two. This figures up 3500. The table dots not Include the mar ket men, a considerable group of night workers, who number at least 1000, the men who work along shore load ing or unloading boats to the num ber of 1000 additional, and It does not take Into account either those em ployed on or connected with the ferry business of the city, which Is carried on all night. In which there are at least 500, a total of 6000 additional. The number of watchmen Is .esti mated at 400. actually It Is nearer 2000, for there are watrhmen of build ings under construction, watchmen of office buildings, watchmen In care ot material, factory watchmen, private watchmen and ordinary night watch men. There are 250 hotels In New York City and the number of night em ployes of these clerks, porters, eleva tor men, watchmen, hell boys, gas men and cleaners Is 2500, or an aver age of about 10 for each hotel. Another considerable Item of night workers Is made up of the employes of apartment houses, elevator men and janitors, and still another of city em ployes connected with the water sup ply department, which Is going all night, nnd in charge ot public build ings. Qashouses In New York do not shut down at night time, but employ night shifts of men, and the same is true of the foundry business, and there are tho all night drug stores as well as the all night saloons, and the night hawk cabmen, whose chief time of profit Is between midnight and day break. Taking all these classes together, It is probably no exaggeration to say that there are 40,000 night workers In New York, exclusive of physicians and clergymen. RollTar Nrare-d lllm. The life of a photographer is not always a happy one. He has to in vade precincts which are almost sacred In ills efforts to get a snap shot, and sometimes be literally takes his life In his hands when he has to set up his machine in dangerous quarters. A well-known artlBt bad an exciting ex perience the other day when he essayed to make a pnotograph of Boli var, the huge elephant at the Zoo. Getting Inside the cage In which Boli var has been confined for so long, the photographer set up his machine and awaited a favorable moment Bolivar seemed to be disturbed by the presence of the strange apparatus In bis cell, and, suddenly whisking around, managoa to snap the chains by which be is always bound. The frightened photographer made a dash to one side to escape the waving trunk which he saw coming bis way, and in his confusion made a misstep which landed him, camera and all. In a pit in which the waste hay and refuse of the cage are kept Luckily for him the keepers rushed to his 'assistance and dragged him out before the angry ani mal could get at him. His camera was badly damaged, and nearly a week passed before he could muster up suf ficient courage to renew bis attempt Philadelphia Record. Tha Anna if Walo. The king Is said to be favorably disposed to the inclusion ot the arms of Wales in those of the future Princes of Wales. It Is to be hoped that the dragon will not be used as the symbol of this Inclusion, for nothing, heraldi cally, could be more absurd. The dragon does not occur in tho coats of arms of any of the ancient Welsh princes or in those of any of the old Welsh families. It is sometimes spok en of as the emblem of the Tudors; but Owen Tudor, the founder of the Tudor family, was not armigerous; and the red dragon which Henry VII. adopted was not that of the Tudors, but was a compromise between the white bull of York and the red Hon and greyhound of Lancaster. Bis Window, No Harmony. The Builders' Trade Journal says that plate glass, the creation ot com parativelx recent times, Is responsible for many of the enormities which ren der the street architecture of today bo devoid' of grace and harmony. Those, however, who contend that a house window glazed with small panes even those so popular at the beginning of the 19th century, about 12x15 Inches Is much more ploasing in appearance than one glased with one great sheet, are, we think, quite in the right New York City. Simple blouses rvlth deep round collars are among (lie latest designs shown nnd nro very generally becoming. Tho smnrt May ' BLOTJSB WAIST. Wanton design Illustrated Is tucked cross tne rront to yoke depth and In cludes tucked elbow sleeves, which are charming when the stock and Binem are oraiueo, DUt can bo made with full length bishop sleeves when preferred. The tucks at the front give graceful fulness below, and render the waist effective and stylish with Very little additional trlmmlno. Tha original Is made of figured Loulslne iik in snaues ot pink and Is banded GIRL'S ETON rwlth black velvet ribbon, but all plia ble materials suitable for tucking are appropriate. The foundation or fitted lining closes at the centre front On it are arranged the smooth back, the tncked fronts and the deep collar. The elbow sleeves fere peculiar, being tacked In the cen tre and free at top and bottom and form graceful frills at the elbows. When the waist is desired high neck the shield and stock are added and the plain sleeves can be substituted for the fancy ones whenever pre ferred. When made nnllned the gath ers at the waist line ore staid with a band of material, or the fulness Is drawn up by means of tapes Inserted In an applied casing. To cut this waist for a woman ot medium size four and a quarter yards of material twenty-one inches wide, four and a quarter yards twenty-seven Inches wldo, three and three-quarter yards thirty-two inches wide or two yards forty-four inches wide will be re quired when elbow sleeves are used; four and three-quarter yards twenty one or twenty-seven Inches wide, threo and three-quarter yards thirty-two Inches wide or two nnd n rjuarter yards forty-four IncUcs wide with bishop sleeves. Olrl'i Eton Costume, loung girls are never more charm ing and attractive than when wearing some variation of the fashionable Eton. This stylish little costume in cludes all the latest features and can be made simpler or more fanciful as the-trimming la varied and the sleeves are plain or made with puffs. The May Monton original from which the large drawing was made is ot novelty goods In mixed browns with trimmings of banana yellow taffeta and brown .velvet ribbon and full front and sleeve puffs of the banana colored silk, but all dress materials can be used. Serge with a plain aklrt straight bands of black on the Jacket plain sleeves and taffeta full front seems a simple and serviceable school frock. Pretty light colored costumes or simple silks, made as Illustrated, are charming for afternoons at home and various corn- blnntlona might be suggested (of street wenr, Tho front Is simply full, finished? with a nnrrow standing collar and closes at the centre back. The Eton Includes a seamless Iinck with round ed fronts nnd on Algloti collar and novel fanny sleeves, that are arranged) on a plain foundation. The aklrt Is) five-gored with the fulness at the back laid la Inverted pleats. To cut this costume for a girl of ten years of nge five and a half yards of material twenty-one Inches wide, four and a half yards twenty-seven Inches) wide or two .and three-quarters yards forty-four Inches wide will be required vltli one and a half yards thirty-two Inches wide for chemisette and sleevs puffs. Raanty of tha Panama, The beauty of the Panama bat la that when elmply trimmed, as It should be tills yenr, It can be rolled Into a bundle and packed away Into a trunk or bag, and come out as good ns new. Instead of the plain band, oc casionally a Panama Is to be seen with the narrow silk ribbon, but tied In front, or a little at the side, and quill thrust through It Ta Clowns, The smartest tea gowns are fitted quite close by half bodices of heavy, lace; this Idea, with the broad sweep of the pleated skirt, gives a graceful effect M ! FlTO-dorad Shirt. The graduated circular flounce Is S COSTUME. marked favorite for young girls gowns as well as for those of maturer folk; It Is graceful. It provides ample Hart and freedom and It Is exceedingly be coming. The admirable May Manton skirt shown combines It with a five gored upper portion and Is satisfac tory In every way. 'As Illustrated If Is made of castor colored serge with" stitched bands of taffeta, bnt all suit ing and skirt materials are appro priate. The upper portion of the skirt fits with perfect smoothness, the fulness at the back being laid In Inverted pleats, while below the knees it takes the fashionable flare. The flounce can be arranged over the skirt, or if pre ferred the material can be cat away beneath and the flounce seamed to the edge, or again the skirt can be cnt fall length and left plain. To cut this skirt for a miss of four teen years of age six and flve-elgnta yards of material twenty-one or twenty-seven Inches wl!?, ix and one quarter yard '.Ulrcy-two inches wlda or fore aud a half yards forty-font i-ces wide will be required when the PIVX-OOBXS SXIBT. flounce is used; four and three-quarter, yards' twenty-one or twenty-seven inches wide, four and five-eighth yards thirty-two inches wlda or two and, seven-eighth yards forty-four Inches' wide when the skirt Is mads plain.
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