Most Kansas counties pay a bounty
on wolves killed. Yet wolves in that
State have in a year killed only 1150
sheep, according to statistics collected
by a member of the State Board of
Agriculture, while tlia 155,570 dogs
owned there have killed 1291 sheep.
Bussji will have a new labor law
after January 1. The working day is
fixed at a maximum of eleven and a
half hours; for Saturdays and the days
preceding holidays it is ten hours, and '
on Sundays and holidays there is to
be no work. Workmen who are not
Christians will not be compelled to i
work on the days held sacred by their
sects. For night work eight hours
will constitute a day's work.
E!woodS. Eeary, a lawyer of Newark, 1
N. J., will be a model husband if he
keeps the pledge he has taken, pre
dicts the New York Press. He had to
choose between it and a suit for di
vorce. He promises to cease abso
lutely the use of spirituous and malt
liquors of every description; to spend
his evenings in his wife's company at
home or elsewhere, at her pleasure,
and to give to her all the money he 1
earns.
Bicycles are not yet very common
in Spain. The authors of "Sketches i
Awheel in Modern Iberia" were con- !
etantly frightening animals and an
gering their owners; in one case a
murderous assault by a drunken
driver was narrowly averted. The
writers comment on the noisiness of
Spanish towns, the badness of coun
try roads, the beauties of the scenery,
and so forth, Postal afl'airs do not
seem to improve at all. The writers
mailed from Granada seven small ar
ticles to the post in other countries, i
and only one of them reached its des
tination; and this was but a sample of
their experiences.
The New York Herald remarks:
Science is at work on somo difficult
matters, and up to date it has made a
good record a3 a miracle worker. We
are living in an exceptional epoch and
the word impossible will very soon be
expunged from the dictionary. Tesla
tells us that he can telegraph without
wires. He has been at work on the
problem for a long while and has at
last solved it. Wo are on the threshold t
of great changes, and every man who j
didn't die fifty years ago ought to
shake hands with himself. There are
two puzzles which remain. Somebody
must discover the secret of the fish's
tail, which puts our best propeller to 1
Bhame as a sort of stage coach affair,
and then we shall have rapid transit
across the ocean with a vengeance.
Some one else must find the secret of 1
the bird's wing, and then we shall have
air ships for passengers and merchan- ;
dise. When we have made these two ;
discoveries and applied them we shall
look for the millennium,
David 11. Brackett, who recently re
turned to his old home in Portland,
Me., after a residence of many years
in Alaska, claims that he is the man
who found the first nugget of gold in
what is now known all over the world
as the Klondike region. Brackett went
to Alaska in 1877, and for a long time
divided his energies between running
a sawmill at Sitka and buying furs of
the Indians. To carry on the latter
industry he made long trips into the
interior oil foot, and in the course of
them he kept open an attentive but
not very hopeful eye for signs of gold.
"It was while on ono of these journeys
in 1879," he says, "that I found the
nugget. I had crossed the great back
bone of the Alaskan mountain range
and traversed the valley where Circle
City, Fort Cudahy, Dawson City and
Fort Beliance have since been built.
One day I camped on the ledges above
what I am sure is now called Bonanza
Creek. Two of my Indian guides came
in with furs at 10 o'clock that night,
and I traded with them. Then, as it
was still light, I walked down to the
mouth of the creek, and there picked
up a stone which had gold in it. 1
looked around for more, but, not find
ing any, I put the stone in my pouch
and did not think much more aboui
the matter. Later, at Sitka, I showed
the nugget to an old miner, who offered
me $75 for it. I took the money, but
wouldn't tell where I found the gold.
I went up the Yukon in 1881 and tried
to locate my creek again, but failed.
Clarence Berry, of Fresno, Cak, went
up the river in 1890, and, I suppose,
located near Klondike and Bonanza
Creek. He and Frank Pliiseator, but
I have always claimed that I picked
up the first nugget on Bonanza Creek. ■'
Brackett declares that the mountains
on the American side of the line are
the real backbone of the range, and
that all the [creeks and tributaries o'
the Yukon Itiver are full of gold.
There, he thinks, is the real source of
the gold streak that reaches down
through California,
WAITING.
Do the little brown twigs coinplaifc
That they haven't a leaf to wear?
Or the grass when the wind and ruin
Pull at her matted hair?
Do the little brooks struggle and moan
When the lee has frozen their feet?
Or the<fr.9Bs turn gray as a stone
Beeau. of the eold and sleet?
Do the bvds that the leaves left bare
To strive with their wintry fate,
In a moment of deep despair,
Destroy what they cannot create?
Oh. nature is teaching us there
To patiently wait, and wait.
—Boston Transcript.
1 His BROTHER'S
I KEEPER. I
| NV OWB -- o ™. 1
/~~~\ / \ £NHEN a man who is
L®' I J yet young arrives at
\ J the conclusion that
FA uo 0 / life holds nothing
more for him and
ie cau on 'y
vote himself to the
(p Aft ft) good of others, there
is still plenty of keen wretchedness in
store for him. If he gets up after a
bad blow and is actively miserable and
somewhat hateful and resentful, he
can yet he happy. But self-immola
tion is not natural, and anything un
i natural brings its own punishment.
Another person and other people can
j not be the centre of the universe for
very long. There may come a jar that
will put yon out of plumb for a bit,
i but you swing back to your norma!
I position.
The jar that came to Osborne was a
hard one. The girl to whom he was
engaged told him that her parents were
forcing her to marry a certain rich
man. Now parents, in these days, do
not force one to marry anybody; but
Osborne would have believed whatever
the girl had chosen to tell him. He
believed this, and thought she was a
beautiful, suffering martyr, andlhere
was a tragic scene, which she did clev
erly, and a parting. After that Os
j borne lost even ambition, which had
; bean a ruling passion almost above his
love. The girl was mean enough, too,
to keep his misery alive by writing to
i him, now and then, bewailing her
l gilded captivity.
Life, he told himself, was hence
forth a vain thing, only fit to be used
in the serviee of others. It is not
easy to serve others picturesquely in
the army. There are no needy and no
fallen ones—because when they full
they cease to be in the army. So Os
borne bethought him of his brother
Alexander.
Alexander lived on a ranch—as Os
borne had done. At sixteen Osborne
had been the support of a widowed
mother and two children. He had had
jno boyhood in particular. It had all
| been work, making the ranch pay.
Only those who have tr'.ed it know
! what that means. Alexander was not
afflicted after this fashion. He lived
on his new stepfather, and was en
i vious of his brother.
Now when Osborne brought Alex
ander on to San Antonio, the first
evening of his arrival he spoke to him
thus: "There's a first-class school
right in the town, Alex." Silence.
"I want yon to study hard, youngster,
to make up for the time you've lost up
there in the wilderness."
Alex braced his feet against the
porch railing and tipped back his
chair. "It strikes me I've lost more
i fun than about anything else. It ain't
! fair, Herbert. You've been having a
picnic for the last eight years, while
I've been slaving in the fields; and I
don't see it in the light of settling
down right away to digging at books"
I Avauta swing."
If nature is ambitious it cannot be
altered. The ambition may transfer
its object from self to someone else,
but it will not die. Osborne's had
transferred itself to his brother. So
his heart sank. But he hail learned
toleration. "Well, I'll give you three
months. But you must study to make
up for it."
"Three months nothing! What's
the matter with six?"
"A good deal is the matter. You'll
be nearly eighteen in six months, and
you don't know as much as the aver
ago hoy of fourteen. Of course, I'm
not blaming you for that. You
haven't hud a fair chance." Osborne
forgot that, at eighteen, he himself
had passed the competitive examina
tion.
"I guess T haAen't—at that or any
thing else."
Young Osborno had gone barefoot
all his life, and had never had a Avhole
neAV suit of clothes to his back, nor a
dime to cull his own, Osborne gave
him dancing pumps and various seem
ly suits anil a reasonable allowance.
But he thought the alloAvance small.
"Say, Herbert, I can't make out with
that measly ten. Make it fifteen, Avill
you?" he complained.
"No," said Osborne.
Osborne's "no's" were always defin
ite, but Alexander persisted. "Why
not? You've a lot more than you
need."
"I know host about that. Ten dol
lars is enough, and it's all I can give
you. I've your education to puy for,
recollect. You've no expenses out
side of an occasional theatre ticket and
tennis ball—or you shouldn't have."
"You always did catch all the
plums," said Alexander,
i Then the mail orderly gave Osborne
' a letter from the girl. Osborne looked
himself in his work-room, and read it
and believed every Avoril of it. And
1 living—oven for others—seemed a hard
| thing for the next feAV days.
Alexander felt his oats promptly.
1 Ho excelled at baseball, he learned
tenuis and darning by magic, nnd he
! ■ rode well. Osborne had never been
so popular. He had serA-ed the Mam
, mon of Ambition exclusiA-ely until he
had transferred his allegiance to the
i j God of Love. Since then he had been
| b martyr—-and martyrs are more pleas-
ing in cult, and Ambition filled him.
He rejoiced in his brother's beauty,
which was of the Bertie Cecil type, in
his magnificent stature, in his" agility
and his athletics. He mounted him
on the finest horse to he had in that
part of the country—and wore a shab
by uniform himself all Avinter. He
read Avith him for tAvo hours daily, and
AVUS Avell pleased AL lien the boy remem
bered just enough to give his conver
sation a peculiarly brilliant turn. He
argued great things from this when
Alexander should go to school. But
Avheu he Avent to school, Osborne saAV
the truth.
"Alex, the account of you is very
bad. YOV'A-6 barely scratched through
on tAvo things, and you've failed on
mathematics altogether. I've told you
that mathematics is the test at the
Point," Osborne admonished.
"Oh! come, I say; let up, Herbert,
I'm trying to learn this piece." He
picked on Avith beautiful absorption at
the guitar the lieutenant had given
him.
"Put up that thing and listen to
me."
Alexander obeyed, as all men did
Av'nen Osborne Avilled.
"I am going to get you into West
Point at tAveuty. When I say lam
going to do it, you know it is going to
be done. Don't yon? None of it depends
on you except the study. I can't make
you drink, but I'll take you to water
and keep you there until you find it
Avill be easier to drink. Y T ou can go
back to the ranch if you like, hut I'm
not afraid you'll like. I don't AAant to
treat you as a small boy unless you act
the part of one. You can learn, and you
must learn, or the theatres will stop,
ami the hops will stop, aud the guitar
will stop—also the tennis. You have
been cutting time, but hence
forth you will study four hours a day
and I will sit Avith you to help you and
see that it is done."
So four hours out of every twenty
four Osborne put to the use of teach
ing one Avho did not Avish to learn.
Density can be bored through witli
patience. It is the india-rubber of
indifferent cle\-erness that resists.
After some of the struggles Osborne
Avould lie awake for the rest of the
night from sheer nervousness. The
boy slept with unruffled brain. The
lieutenant almost came to forget the
girl. But neA-er quite. A letter
Avould come when Alexander Avas most
inert, and Osborne Avould stare straight
in front of him and grit his teeth, and
Avonder that a man could live Avith
both sides of his nature thwarted and
cut back.
But he had his reAvard. Alexander
Avout into the Academy at twenty. He
Avas the handsomest and most popular
cadet in his class—and he failed in the
first year.
Just hoAV such things are done no
one is ever quite sure; but in Os
borne's case it must have been sheer
force of determination. Alexander
Avas reappointed, and he himself Avas
made instructor at the Point,
i' He stood over the cadet Avith the
stinging lash of his ambition; and
Alexander Avas graduated fifteen. Os
borne unwisely took some credit to
himself.
"Nonsense," said Alexander, "I'd
have done it alone. The first miss
was only had luck; don't think it's
your circns."
"It doesn't make any great differ
ence Avliose cirous it is, so that you
come out all right. I'm only glad
you're getting some ambition."
"Ambition he hanged! It's the one
word in your lexicon. I'm sick of the
sound of it. It is the sin by Avhicli
the angels fell. Look out yon don't
fall, angel brother."
"I'm net likely tofall, but I shouldn't
mind it, if it put you on a mountain
height."
"No heights for mo. I can't breathe
rare air," answered the younger.
Now, in the course of army events
it came to pass that a strange late
made Alexander Osborne second lieu
tenant in the troop of Avhioh his broth
er Avas first lieutenant. And the first
lieutenant continued his ambitions
goading. Alexander Avas independent
at present, anil resisted to some pur
pose. He Avould not spend his nights
in study and his days in Avire-pulling.
The War Department did not reAvard
that sort of tiling, he said; it Avas ac
tion it approved. Wait until his time
of action came—then he would satisfy
his brother.
And the time for action did come.
| But the action Avas disappointing.
They marched 200 miles, and then
marched back again. Alexander com
plained loudly that he had had no oc
casion to display his prowess in battle.
He should have been quite safe in
this,for that evening they would be once
more in Grant. But the Indian host
is not to be reckoned Avith. At sunset
—within ten miles of the post —the
Apaches caught the hatallion in a rav
ine, and kept it there until Avell into
the night.
The moon came up and showed to
the bucks hiding behind the cedars
and scrub-oaks oil the rise, the sol
diers penned in the gully lielow them.
It was merely, for the latter, a ques
tion of holding out and having a ferv
men killed. The danger Avas not great
unless the Apaches should bo rein
forced or the couriers should not reach
tho fort. Bo the men took shelter be
hind bushes and locks, und fired at
the flashes of light in the darkness
above them. The officers Avalkeil about
in the deep skadoAVS, firing, too, and
giving orders.
First Lieutenant Osborne AA'as with
his sergeant and another lieutenant
Avhen he came upon Second Lieutenant
Osborno crouched down hetAveeu tAvo
l-oeks, his arms clasped over his bent
head and his carbine dropped on the
ground beside him.
There was no mistake to be made.
The other lieutenant hesitated, the
sergeant drew back. But Osborne
went up and touched his brother with
kis foot.
"Lieutenant Osborne," he said to i
the junior, "go and report to the of- 1
ficer in command, Captain Clarke. I
shall have preceded you and have re
ported you for cowardice."
He went in search of the captain, j
and made his report, and Second Lieu
tenant Osborne was sent under arrest: j
back to the dismounted horses in the ,
rear. Then the first lieutenant threw
open his blouse and covered his breast j
with a wide, white silk handkerchief
that gleamed even ih the shadow, and
walked out into the full moonlight.
It was a matter of only a moment
before the hidden Apaches saw him
with the white target on his bosom.
And two of them, at least, took aim at
the target and hit it full in the centre
—and First Lieutenant Osborne
pitched forward on the stones.—The
Argonaut.
llemarkalil JUBKIIIIK Feat.
There is always an abundant supply
of stories of the expertnesa of Hindoo
jugglers and acrobats, says the Boston
Transcript. One who moves about
perched upon a single long stick is the
latest novelty. This performer is
mounted on a bamboo pole about fifteen
feet high, the top of which is tied to a
girdle worn around his waist. A small
cushion is fastened a few feet down the
pole, which acts as a leg rest. The
acrobat hops around a large space in
the liveliest way, uttering cheerful
shouts, and accompanied by the tap
ping of a curious drum. He also exe
cutes a sort of dance, and goes through
a little pantomime. It is a marvellous
feat of equilibrium. To walk on a pair
of stilts as high as this would be a per
formance worthy of exhibition on our
variety stage. But to hop around on
one is quite another thing.
The same man can do many other
wonderful things. He appears abso- 1
lately perfect in the art of balancing.
He can balance a very light stick on
his nose and a heavy one on his chin,
and then throw the heavy one into the
air with his head and catch it on the
end of the light. When balancing
these two sticks, end on end, he will
make one revolve in one direction and
the other in the other. He puts one
hand on a fiat circular stone, throws
his feet up into the air, and balances a
stick on each of them. At the same
time he revolves rapidly on the pivot
formed by his arm and the stone.
Monoy Stops u Train.
A few days ago an engineer of a
Boston and train, while run
ning between Winchester and Mont
vale, with an empty engine, discov
ered what looked to be money, whirling
in the suction caused by the locomo
tive drivers, says the Boston Herald.
lie stopped the machine, ran hack a
few feet and picked up a SSO bill.
Near by were two $lO bills. The en
gineer then started for Winchester,
and the engine was rolling along at a
good clip when a large bill book, wide
open, was seen beside the track. The
engine was stopped and the wallet cap
tured. It contained valuable papers
and the name of the owner. The
money and papers were returned to
the proper person with not a cent miss
ing. A few hours later the man whose
property had been restored by the
honest engineer made his appearance
and handed a package up to the knight
of the throttle. It contained a half-pint
of cheap whiskey. Railroad men who
heard of the case are wondering if
poor whisky is the proper reward for
honesty. Some of them claim that
the offering of liquor to an engineer
is an insult that should uot be over
looked.
It seems that the owner of the
money lost it from a passing train,
aud ho had no definite idea as to where
the incident occurred.
The Spider uh u Barometer.
Tlie spider is a good example of tlie
living barometer. Close observation
of the work on its web castle will soon
enable one to forecast the weather.
When a high wind or n heavy rain
threatens, tlie spider may be seen
taking iu sail with great energy—that
is, shortening the rope filaments that j
sustain the web structure. If the '
storm is to be unusually severe or of
long duration, the ropes are straight
ened as well as shortened, the better
to resist the onset of the elements.
Not until pleasant weather is aguiu
close at hand will the ropes be
lengthened as before. On the con
trary, when you sec tho spider run
ning out the slender filaments, it is
certain that calm, fine weather has set
it, whose duration may be measured
by their elongation.
Every twenty-four hours the spider
makes some alteration in its web to
suit the weather. If these changes
are made toward evening, just before
sunset, a tine, clear night may be !
safely counted upon. When the
spider sits quiet and dull in tho middle !
of its web, raiu is uot far off. If it be
active, however, and continues so i
during a shower, then it will be of
brief duration, and sunshine will fol
low.
Nature's llcmarkahlc Device.
The most remarkable of all devices
is that for splicing broken bones. The
moment u bone is broken, a surgical
genius is at ouce despatched from the
brain to the spot. He proceeds to sur- 1
round the broken ends with a ferrule
of cartilage. This is large aud stroug, ,
and takes quite a mouth to complete.
When tho two ends are held firmly and j
immovably in place by the ferrule, this
mysterious surgeon begins to place a
layer of bone between them and solder
them together. j
And when the layer is complete and ,
the hone securely welded, he removes j
the ferrule or callus, just as the scaf
folding is removed from a finished
building. Often a bone does not get
broken for two or three generations, i
and yet this power to form the callus, I
and knowledge of how to do it, is
never lost.—London Answerc.
Moral Courage of Women.
Lady Cook, nee Tennessee Clnllin,
asserts that it is in moral courage that
women shine, although they are not at
all behind in the physical variety.
"Just as the greater strength and
training of man makes him physically
superior," she says, "so the moral
; strength and training of woman makes
him morally her inferior. In loyalty,
truthfulness, chastity, fidelity, pity,
sobriety, honesty and general persever
ance in well-doing she is immeasura
bly above him. This has been no
ticed by great writers in every age,
and it would not be difficult to dis
cover why she i 3 so much man's moral
superior. Mandeville thought it was
because her brain was more accurate
ly balanced. We think, however,
that it is largely owing to a higher
standard of moral conduot having been
constantly demanded from herfromre
motest times."—New York Tribune.
Tlio Ilevived Jersey,
This autumn the revived Jersey
will have a successful inning. These
trim, neat, rather smart, and decidedly
comfortable garments are a boon to
women for many reasons. The former
objectionable features of these Jerseys
are removed by the addition of slight
trimmings both on bodice and sleeves,
and they are thus made no more out
lining to the figure in their style than
many of the closely adjusted dress
waists formed with outlining darts and
curving seams. While fitting the figure
perfectly, they are the easiest garments
imaginable to wear. A finely fitting
waist can be selected in twenty minutes,
with no trouble of standing by the
hour at the dressmaker's, no choos
ing of linings, buttons, trimmings,
etc. The waist lies before you com
plete, and this year there are number
less colors, effects, and styles to choose
from. At a celebrated importing house
in this city are exhibited au entirely
new invoice of the very prettiest and
most graceful Jersey models ever manu
factured. They show the approved
diminutive sleeve-puffs, yoke or vest
effects, strapped seams, braided bolero
fronts, jacket-bodice fronts, double
breasted styles, buttoning from the
left shoulder, box-pleated or Norfolk
backs, etc. The price of these various
garments is not more than one would
pay the dressmaker for making a waist,
and they will be found more than use
ful in the making of autumn costumes
in black or colors for cycling, tennis,
golf, yachting, and traveling likewise,
for they slip very easily under a travel
ing jacket or ulster, and they are far
more comfortable for long journeys
than any sort of boned bodice, and a
degree at least more "dressy" than a
shirt-waist.—New York Post.
A Co-operat I vo Flat.
Self-supporting women have a harder
time to live comfortably and respect
ably than any other class in the com
munity. Four sisters of this city, who
lost both parents and were thrown
upon the world, constitute a good ex
example of what bright minds can do
under the circumstances. Each went
to work, nud, being intelligent and
courteous, got ahead. Getting ahead,
however, with a woman, does not
mean very much. With three of the
, sisters it meant rising from $1 to $7 a
week in their salaries.
With the fourth girl, who was born
lame, it meant building up a little
dressmaking and needlework business,
which paid about the same. Out of
this their board cost $5 a week, and,
what with clothing and the lame sis
ter's medical bills, there was never
anything left at the end of the year.
One of the sisters studied shorthand
i and typewriting in the night time, and
secured a machine (the hardest way iu
the world) by paying for it in copying
matter sent to her in the night time.
Working four and live hours every
night, it took four months before the
machiue was paid for. After she be
came proficient there was a slight im
provement in the family affairs.
She secured a position at $lO per
week, and rose until she was getting
$lB. Upon this they put money aside,
and when, by rigid economy and hard
work on the part of all, they had SIOO
saved, they took a large and handsome
Hut in Brooklyn, near the park, fitted
it upon the installment plan, and se
cured four friends to come aud board
with them. They did not make it a
matter of friendship, but of business.
They offered to give better accom
modations aud fare to their friends for
the same price they were paying, or to
give the same accommodations aud
fare for a dollar less a week. The
friends accepted the latter, aud the
eight girls settled down in their Hat.
The lame one became housekeeper and
dressmaker for the rest, and the type
writer became the treasurer aud man
ager.
, The first year they paid for all the
furniture and also all the expenses.
The second year tliey had a better
time, and put by S2OO. The third
year four of them purchased bicycles,
and even then put a little in the bank
in addition.
The past year was equally success
ful. In the meantime they have ac
| cumulated a little library of 500 vol
j nines, and are altogether as happy a
t family group as can he found in the
Greater New York.—New York Mail
' aud Express.
Gossip.
Women load and unload vessels in
i some of the Japanese ports.
I At an army wedding in England the
bride cut the wedding loaf with hei
father's sword.
A working girls* homo has been es
tablished in Denver, Col., where neat
ly furnished rooms are rented for $2
per month.
Manhattan,Kan.,with three women's
clubs in a population of 3500, is said
to have more culture than any other
town of its size in that State.
Miss Wilcox, of the University of
Melbourne, has received the silver
medal of the Cobden Club, being the
first woman to win the prize.
John J. Ingalls's daughter, Con
stance, ran an electric street car in
Atchison, Ivan., during one evening in
place of the regular motormau.
Miss Belle Quinn, of Aston Mills,
Penn., owns a useful pigeon. Every
morning, after breakfast, the bird flies
to tho postoffice, and carries home the
letters for the Quinn family.
Mrs. Ann Cassidy, of Coalport,
Penn., who is now in her 106 th year,
was he mother of eighteen children,
uiuo of whom are yet living. Among
her children were four pairs of twins.
Miss Sadie Llpman, formerly of
Cincinnati, but now of Philadelphia, is
a trained nurse in one of the large
hospitals there. A deep sorrow fell
upon her life and she left her old home
and recently entered upon her profes-'
sional nurse career. She is a bright,
attractive young Jewess.
Mrs. Warren Neal, of Neal, Mich.,
has recently beou appointed Deputy
Game Warden for Grand Traverse
County. Mrs. Neal has done active
work in promoting tho protection of
game and fish and is described a3 a
bright, plucky,attractive little woman,
full of good sense and energy.
Spanish and French women of the
higher class are usually expert swords
women. They are taught to fence as
carefully and accurately as their
brothers, and there are numerous
schools in tho two countries where
young women are taught not only to
fence, but to handle the broadsword.
Miss Gertrude Dwyer, of San An
tonio, was crowned "Gertrude the
First, Queen of Texas," at the May
festival in San Antonio. She has gone
on a royal visit to President Diaz in
the City of Mexico, and it is said that
her Majesty is to negotiate and obtain
pome valuable commercial privileges
for her native State.
It is claimed that Miss Edith T.
Griswold is the only woman solicitor
of patents in New York City. She has
her own office in a Broadway sky
scraper and has been in her present
profession for twelve years. She is a
graduate of the New York Normal
College, is studying law, and will soon
apply for admission to the bar.
Governor Budd has appointed Mrs.
Phoebe A. Hearst a regent of the Uni
versity of California, vice C. F. Crock
er, deceased. Mrs. Hearst has al
ways taken a deep interest in the uni
versity, and contemplates the erection
of buildings at Berkeley costing some
millions of dollars. Her appointment
has been received with general gratifi
cation by the State.
Mrs. Lewis is the name of the wo
man who discovered some manuscripts
of the Gospel in a Syriac conveut on
Mount Sinai. With her sister, Mrs.
Gibson, she has examined two service
books of Palestinian Syriac of the
twelfth century. These books are
supposed to be written in the dialect
spoken by Christ. The two sisters will
soon publish a text of thoir re
searches.
Shown on Dry Good* Counters.
Light brocaded satin corsets.
Shaded stripes in waist silks.
Long, narrow link sleeve buttons of
gold.
Brown kid shoes for ladies and chil
dren.
Tan'and grayish-blue cloth jackets
for fall.
Gray ostrich feather boas and col
larettes.
Petticoats of plaid and checked taf
feta silk.
Bands and corsage garnitures of jet
and steel.
Narrow panels of mohair or silk braid
for skirts.
Silk petticoats trimmed with ribbon
edged ruttles.
White linen shirt waists for tailor
made gowns.
Knife-plaited silk neck ruffles end
ing in a jabot.
Greenish-gray lizard skin and seal
traveling bags.
Golf hosiery showing wonderful
green and red effects.
Small toques having wings or quills
and a knot of velvet for traveling.
Sets of black mohair braid Vandykes
for basque and skirt of woolen goods-
Bicycle suits of cravenetted serge or
mixed gray and brown covert for hard
wear.
Turnover batiste collars and cuffs
having a deep hem and vine of em
broidery.
Ladies' handkerchiefs having a tiny
vine of embroidery; others with a very
slender initial.
Boys' sailor suits of blue serge or
flannel with black or white braid and
white collar and vest.
There are 48,000 artists in Paris,
rnoro than half of them painters.
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS,
To Drivo Off Files.
Many mixtures of cotton seed oil,
coal oil, etc., have been tried as a
remedy for tho pestiferous flies whioh
harass cows. Perhaps nothing has
proved more successful than fish oil,
to which is added a little carbolic acid.
It is best applied with a broad, flat
paint brush. It is especially objec
tionable to flies, and probably is a
chief constituent of many of the patent
remedies.—Atlanta Journal.
TVlaaty Hay.
Much of the baled hay that comes to
market is musty. Most farmers when
they bale hay think it need not be
very dry, as the bales are small. But
the amount of hay packed in them is
always sufficient to get up a violent
ferment unless the hay is properly
dried befDre it is put into the bale. If
there were more care used in baling
hay the price for it would be much
better than it is, as the hay itself
would be better worth it.
How to Mnke Melon Patch.
I try to select the poorest spot of
ground available. In the fall I plow
a deep trench where I wish to plant
ray melons. Then I collect all tho
weeds and briars which have been cut
on the farm, place them in this trench,
tramp them down as solidly as pos
sible and then plow back the ground
so that it forms a ridge over them.
This I leave until spring. At the
proper time I plant the seeds on this
land without further plowing.—Lewis
Wier, of Indiana, in Agriculturist.
lodged llarley.
It is always best to cut barley while
it is still green, and the grain is iu
the milky stage. But if the straw has
been beaten down by rains, early
cutting is especially necessary. The
chief danger with fallen barley is that
rust will attack the straw, after which,
instead of growing heavier, the grain
will rather decrease in weight. So
soon as grain is cut the danger of rust
attacking it has past, because when its
stalk is severed from the root the
leaves and stalks contract, and close
the pores through which the rust en
ters the plant. But if the weather is
fine, barley that has fallen down will
often fill well and make a good crop.
It is a grain that ripens more quickly
after it comes into head than any
other.
The New Feed Stuff.
The new corn product being talked
about is obtained by griuding corn
stalks. The pith of the stalk is used
for packing between the plates of iron
clad warships. The hard shell of the
stalks, after tho pith is taken out, is
ground into a fine powder. It can be
bagged like oats or bran and will keep
as well as any other ground feed.
Analysis proves that it is richer in
muscle makers than the whole corn
stalk, and experience shows that stock
will eat it up clean. The stations tell
that a balanced ration can be readily
made up by mixing the new feed stuff
with oil meal or cottonseed meal. A
ton of the ground stocks will occupy
little more space than a ton of ensilage.
There is authority for believing that
this new feed stuff will have some ef
fect in reducing the price o! hay.—
Connecticut Farmer.
Destroying Iturdocks.
It is a comparatively easy matter to
kill the burdock, though it may be
hard enough to exterminate it, be
cause it seeds so plentifully und the
seed will remain in the ground for
years until it has a favorable chance
to grow. As the burdock is biennial
it dies out after it lias seeded the
second year, but that is only after it
Las provided thousands and tens of
thousands of seed to perpetuate its
kind. All that is needed to kill the
plant is to take a dull nxe and chop the
root something below the surface, and
then throw on a handful of salt. The
burdock root being soft and moist dis
solves the salt, which quickly rots it
so that further sprouting of a new
top is impossible. No amount of cut
ting will do tho work. The burdock,
like most weeds, is a very persistent
seeder. We have seen it mown down
with the scythe two or three times
during the summer, and yet iu fall
showing several clusters of seed burrs
near the ground, containing enough
seod to start a hundred burdook
plants the very next year. The seed
burrs cling to clothing and to the fur
of animals brushing against it. Hence
the weed is sure to be always widely
distributed.
Blight In l'car Tree*.
This is the season, especially after,'
the very hot weather wo have lately
had, followed by rains, wheu blight is
most likely to attack pear trees. It
appears to be a disease which espe
cially attacks trees heavily manured
and which have an excess of sap. If I
the tree has been manured iu the
spring with stable manure, and has
since been cultivated, it will almost
certainly blight. Manuring with pure
ly mineral fertilizers, without nitro
gen, is, we know from experience, a
help to prevent trees from blighting.
The pear tree to be kept productive
and healthy should not make a large
yearly wood growth. Six to twelve
inches yearly growth of wood, with a
proportionate number of new fruit
buds, will give the tree longer life and
a greater amount of fruit than will
any attempt to force fruit production.
Over-bearing is a fruitful cause of
blight. It comes just at the time
when the pear seeds are forming, and
I when this imperative demand for more
potash robs the sap of that mineral
which is so necessary to keep wood
and foliage in healthful condition.
| Yet pear trees on grassbound land are
i iu the condition next most likely to
Jbe blighted. In their case probably
j the potash in the soil is inert and the
i pear tree roots cannot get it.—Atlanta
I Journal.