Japan is about to send a lot of ex
perts to this country to teach the peo
ple how to make tea.
English officials estimate that it will
cost the Government $15,000,000 to
suppress the uprising in India.
Horses may be cheap enough else
where, but on the Klondike trail even
the poorest cuts are worth fifty cents a
pound.
In the period 1882 to 1894 the crim
inal record in the German empire in
creased twenty-two per cent., or
twelve per cent, more than the popu
lation.
If there were more big estates to
settle, observes the Detroit Free
Press, there would probably be more
lawyers. The attorneys in the Davis
case in Minnesota got about $5,000,-
000 before the heirs got anything.
The Germans seem to be losing
their respect for the Emperor. Last
year there was eighty-three per cent,
more imprisonments for lese majeste,
which is the term for the treason of
speaking disrespectfully about roy
alty, than eleven years ago.
Deputy Attorney-General Elkin, of
Pennsylvania, decides that mutual life
insurance companies may issue poli
cies requiring the payment of period
ical premiums of a fixed and definite
sum in lieu of the assessments made
upon the death of members.
The Times of India directs attention
to the influence which the prevalence
of distress has had upon the statistics
of crime in that country. As the
scarcity of food pressed more heavily
during the last two years upon the
agricultural population the number of
offences gradually rose. But it is
noted that the excess of crime was
almost entirely confined to petty offen
ces against property. This indicates
that it was hunger which drove many
Df the offenders to do what, under nor
mal conditions, they would perhaps
have never dreamed of doing. Indeed,
the emaciated condition of the great
number of prisoners was further proof
of this. A noticeable feature of the
returns has been the increase in the
convictions of old offenders, which
leads one jail superintendent to sug
gest that "old offenders appreciate the
advantage of jail life in a year of
scarcity."
John Brisben Walker announces that
E. Benjamin Andrews, who has re
signed as President of Brown Uni
versity, will take charge of the Cosmo
politan University. The method of
the new school so far as worked out is
as follows: A studeut will forward to
the university his name and address
aud the purpose for which education
is sought, and the studies which the
applicant desires to pursue. Each
such statement will goto Dr. Andrews
who will map out the course of study
which ho deems the best possible for
the applicant in the light df the infor
mation conveyed. He will then dis
patch his own diagnosis of the appli
cant's case and prescription therefor
to the most eminent expert on the par
ticular study with whom he is ac
quainted. This expert will revise the
course and the accompanying instruc
lions and return the document to
President Andrews.
Czar Nicholas has been entertain,
ing President Faure of France. Prob
ably never before has the President
of a Republic been received with such
royal pomp. This time, asserts the
Washington Pathfinder, it is the
Russians that ajjpear to have gone
mad with enthusiasm at the idea of a
French alliance. The Russian ladies
have loaded the French officers with
flowers; the French sailors have been
carried on the shoulders of the frenz
ied populace of St. Petersburg, and
fete upon fete lias been given in
honor of the visitors. Coming OD
the heels of the great demonstration
to Emperor William, of Germany,
this ovation to President Faure and
his party is extremely significant.
Politics is at the bottom [of every
iruch function, and the politics of the
present summer's hospitalities at the
court of Russia is that Russia, in the
nnpreme conflict that she must sooner
or later wage with England, wants to
know whom she can depend upon.
Germany and Russia are now sworn
allies; France, though at sword's
points with Germany, is so jealous
of England that she, too, finds it
good politics to follow Russia's lead,
and through Franco it is hoped to
enlist Italy, now, with an in
creasing navy, an ally worth having.
Thus to-day, there is a more complete
European alliance against England
than has existed for a long period.
Such, then, is the true significance of
the flashy ceremonies lately witnessed
the Russian court.
THE CALF PATH.
One day through the pr'meval wood,
A calf walked home, as good calves should;
But made a trial nil bent askew,
A crooked trail, as all calves do.
SincQ then two hundred years have fled,
And, I Infer, the calf is dead.
But still he left behind his trail.
And thereby hangs a mortal tale.
The trail was taken up next day.
By a lone dog that passed that way.
And then a wise bell-weather sheep.
Pursued the trail, o'er vale and steep,
And drew the llock behind him, too,
As good bell-weathers always do.
And from that day, o'er hill and glade,
Through those old woocLs a path was made,
And many men woufcd In and out,
And dodged and turned and bent about,
And uttered words of righteous wrath;
Because 'twas such a crooked path;
But still they follow—do not laugh—
The first migration of that calf.
And throughthis winding woodway stalked
|| WHEN THIEVES FALLOUT. ||
By IUICS SHARP.
HE freight steamer
eif Jtussiau Bear was
m thrashing along
A ffi '3 down the Pacific
3 Ocean with her
* Tr\ blunt prow facing
south, and the cap
tain reckoned ho
was somewhere off the Queen Char
lotte Islands. The Bear was an iron
ship of old-fashioned build and as slow
as they make 'em; any old thing on
the ocean could pass her; yet, pro
tem.,she was a passenger boat and was
bringing down the last of the season's
crop of Klondike miners. She was
reputed to have over $5,000,000 worth
of gold dust and nuggets on board and
her coming was watched for with some
anxiety.
On the morning of the 7tb the cap
tain noticed on the western horizon
what appeared to be a steamer coming
towards him. As craft are scarce on
these waters, except in the sealing
season, the captain watched the
stranger's approach with interest not
unmixed with anxiety, because of the
valuable cargo he had aboard. The
sea was calm for the time of year, and
the steamer seemed to be making for
ncross the hows of the Bear. The cap
tain ordered the flag hoisted, but the
oncoiner showed no auswering colors,
which did not tend to make the cap
tain feel less uneasy. She was a trim
craft, looking like a private yacht,
painted black with two slim, tapering
masts set at a rakish slope in line with
her one funnel. She came swiftly
through the water and turned her
broadside toward the Russian Bear,
when the man at the wheel calculated
that she was as near as was safe, and
her engines slowed down so that the
stranger's speed more nearly accorded
with the slow progress the larger ship
was making. A man on the bridge
came to the edge nearest the Blower
vessel and placing his hands to his
month, shouted:
"Ship ahoy. Is that the Russian
Bear?"
"Who are you?" roared the captain;
"and what do you want?"
"I want an answer to my question;
then I'll tell you what more I want."
After speaking, however, the new
comer did not wait for an answer, but
gave a command to the man at the
wheel, who promptly signaled for the
jngines to stop, whereupon the yacht
dropped to the rear, notwithstanding
the slowness of the old Bear. The
, name was plainly painted on the stern,
md the captain of the yacht having
seen that this was the ship he was
after moved quickly alongside again,
this time with only a couple of hun
dred feet of water between the two
ships. During the slight interval the
crew of the yacht had been busy, and
now a forbidding looking cannon point
-led its ominous muzzle toward the
I Bear.
| "I'm after tho gold, captain," said
the first speaker, nonchalantly, "as
no doubt you are aware. I'm going to
have it quietly or I'm going to sink
your ship. Which is it to be?"
"Whatever gold we have on board,
if we have any, isn't mine. 1 don't
see what good the sinking of the ship
will do you, and it would be very in
convenient to me. Better sheer off
and we'll say no more about it. I
can take a joke as well as the next
man."
For a time it looked as if the strang
er heeded the good advice given him.
The captain of the yacht rang full
Bpeed ahead and the sharp prow cut
the water like a knife. The yacht de
scribed a large circle and seemed to
be showing off its paces, but this, as
I the captain of the Bear remarked, was
unnecessary, for he already knew that
any scow on the Pacific could pass
him. However, it was soon evident
that this was not the intention of the
enemy. Ranging alongside once more,
but this time further away, there was
a cloud of smoke from the cannon, a
sharp report and the crash of render
ing plates. A jagged hole had been
torn in the ship'H side near the bul
warks, which, while it did no harm,
scarcely improved the appearance of
the Bear.
On£e more the yacht swung around
the circle and again ranged alongside
within a distance of a hundred yards.
"Haul down the flag," said the cap
lain of the big Hteamer.
"Well, captain," began tho young
man on the bridge when at speaking
distance, "a practical lesson is worth
Any amount of talk. I merely wished
to convince you that we know how to
handle our guns and that our guns can
penetrate your rotten plates. Besides,
you will have something to show for
your motley when you get to port. I
it wo have no further trouble,
but I'll give you five minutes more if
{ you wish to consult together."
because he wabbled when he walked.
This forest path became a lane;
That bent and turned and turned again.
This crooked lane became a road.
Where many a poor horse, with Ills load,
Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
And traveled some three miles in one.
And thus a century and a half.
They trod the footsteps of that calf.
The years passed on in swiftness lleet,
The road became a village street,
And this, before the men were aware,
A city's crowded thoroughfare.
And soon the central street was this.
Of a renowned metropolis.
And men two centuries and a half,
Trod in the footsteps of that calf;
Each day a hundred thousand rout
Followed tho zigzag calf about.
And o'er his crooked journey went,
The trafllc of a continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
i By one calf near three centuries dead.
The miners hail no desire to be
drowned, neither did they wish to
give up their gold.
4 'Get him aboard, captain," said
their leader, " and we'll have a fight
for it. We are all heeled, and once
we get that villain and part of his
crew on deck here, you keep out of
the way if you like, and we'll handle
him."
"You couldn't run down tliat pirate,
I suppose?" suggested another, more
cautious than the rest.
"No more than I could run down
Queen Charlotte's islands with this
craft," replied the captain dolefully.
"Time!" shouted the man on the
bridge.
"We'll give you the gold," said the
captain, returning to his place.
"All right. And so thnt there will
be no temptation to play us any tricks,
for the amount I understand is demor
alizingly large, I will stay here and
receive your packages. Two of my
men will go aboard you, and two
others will work the ferry between
your craft and mine. Those four men
I can easily spare, and if you kill or
capture them you are welcome to do
so, but in that case I shall undoubted
ly sink the ship. If you will think
over the crisis for a moment you will
see that nothing else is left for me to
do. It is the only safe plan; therefore
I trust there will be no trouble."
There wasn't. The miners saw at once
that there was little use in making a
row, and in a short time the precions
cargo was transferred from the ship to
the yacht. It came in boxes and bags,
in large quantities and in small, and
the mau on the bridge opened every
package so that there was no chance
of fooling him. When the transfer
was complete the young man sang
out:
"I wish you good day, captain, and
a safe voyage. It may strike you as
strange that I do not sink the ship
now and so destroy all evidence
against me. I assure you that I gave
the plan the deepest consideration,
and if, unfortunately, one life had
been lost, you would all have gone to
the bottom, but, as it is, this is only
robbery or piracy, and I believe they
don't hang for that now, so I chance
your evidence against me, for I will
be disembarked long before you can
reach the nearest telegraph office. So,
if I were you, I would plug right along
to San Francisco and not give me the
trouble of calling at Victoria or any of
those intervening ports. Well, so
long,"
The yacht moved away from the
ship at a speed which showed that all
hope of keeping her in sight for long
was hopeless. With sad hearts the
plundered passengers watched her
grow smaller and smaller to the south
of them, while the Bear churned her
leisurely course through the waveless
sea.
At last the lookout shouted:
"The yacht's coming back, sir."
The captain put his glasses to his
eyes and gazed for a long time at the
horizon to the south.
"By jingo, she is," he said, turning
a triHe less ruddy. Then he said to
the mate, "What do you think of it?"
"He's probably changed his mind
and is going to sink us. I thought he
didn't seem to be more than half con
vinced when ho talked of not doing it.
What are we to do?"
"I don't know anything to do,"
said the captain hopelessly, swearing
inwardly that if he escaped he would
have a faster steamer next voyage or
quit the high seas.
Everyone aboard was now watching
the northern bound yacht, and the
same disquieting thought seemed to
run through every mind, even before
one of the passengers gave voice to
his fears. Suddenly the captain cried
out with his glasses still to his eyes:
"So help me! It's not the same
yacht. Look, Joe!"
The mate examined the approach
ing steamer and coincided with the i
captain's view. Soon all doubt was
set at rest. The oncoming boat was
seen to be much larger than the yacht
and apparently much faster, speedy as
the other had seemed in comparison
with the Russian Bear. A big black
bearded giaut with a voice like a fog
horn was in command. He wasted 110
time in talk, but sent a shot towards
the Bear, a shot that skipped along the
water and sank without coming within
dangerous distance. Once more the
Russian Bear lowered her Hag, slowed
down and stopped. The other came
up with her.
"We want what gold you have on
board," roared the man with the whis
kers.
"We haven't any," replied the cap
tain; "we've been—"
"I know better. You have $5,000,-
000 worth of the stuff with you and
I'll have it without any more
I'm not running a moonlight excur
sion with a brass hand on boartL
Surrender, or I'll sink you."
"You're too late. We've been
robbed already."
"Oh, that's too thin. Every jnan
hold up his hands; we're going to lay
alongside and the man that moves gets
shot."
"You're wasting valuable time,"
said the captain, "come round to the
other side and see the shot he put
through us, if you don't believe me.
We don't get such marks .as this on
moonlight excursions, either."
"Here's the shot that came through
the side," corroborated the mate, hold
ing it up in his hands. All on board
cried aloud that this was true, and the
pirate made an emphatic remark re
garding his future destination, which
was as likely as not prophetic.
"Didn't you meet a rakish-looking,
black-hulled yacht about half the size
of your own?"
"Yes, and it seemed to me at the
time she sheered off and showed that
she didn't want to be hailed. But as
we didn't, either, I took no notice.
Thunder! I can overhaul her before
she reaches port. Any idea where she
was making for?"
"No, but as her master c\dvised
not to drop into Victoria, I euspe<i he
intends to run in there himself."
The pirate circled the llussian Bear,
and the captain thereof saw him exam
ining the hole made by the cannon
shot through his glass. Evidently
convinced, he rang full speed ahead,
shouting back to the Bear: "If you've
fooled me, I'll settle with you later."
No one slept on the Russian Bear
that night. She veered toward the
west and a keen lookout was kept till
morning broke. She fancied they heard
cannon firing in the distance, but no
one was sure. Toward evening of the
next day the outlook aloft shouted that
there was something to the southwest
ward, and the Bear's course was laid
in that direction. They came upon
the yacht with one mast standing, on
which flew a signal of distress. The
smokestack and the other mast were
gone, and the yacht lay helpless, with
her prow high and her stern omin
ously low in the water. Men were
pumping with feverish industry.
"Yacht ahoy!" cried the captain of
the Bear. "Where's the other fellow?"
"You ask no questions and you won't
be disappointed with the answers. I
am ready to make a fair bargain with
you, captain, if you are."
"Well, you don't look in condition
to drive a very hard one."
"Oh, I'm in better shape than you
think. We're good for two or three
hours yet. You proposed to call this
a joke and I'm ready to do so now.
We'll put the treasure back on your
old tub and you give us safe passage
to port and no questions asked or
answered when we go ashore. We're
miners from Klondike, we are."
"That's compounding with piracy,"
objected the captain.
"Oh, no, it isn't. Yon said your
self it was a joke. Of course we were
merely going to port to wait till you
came. Anyhow, we're not going back
empty to get into prison, you can
make up your mind on that point. We
stop pumping and down she goes, gold
and all."
The passengers implored the captain
to let bygones be bygones as long as
the gold was recovered. The safety
of the gold was his duty, they said.
"All right," cried the captain. "Yon
put the gold aboard just as you took it
off. Then each man must come on
deck separately and must submit to be
put iu irons. I must iusist on that
for the safety of the ship. I'll let you
free as soon as we are tied up at the
wharf."
Each passenger swore he would not
inform on the pirates, and when all
the gold was once more on the ship,
together with the prisoners, the old
Bear moved slowly on while the yacht
disappeared stern foremost. And be
cause tbe passengers and crew all kept
their oaths, this marine incident never
got into the papers until now.—Detroit
Free Press.
Women In tlie Bank of France.
AB the result of long and careful ex
periment, the Governor of the Bank
of France has now intrusted the work
of detection of forged bank notes and
of debentures with altered numbers
entirely to a special corps of women
clerks. He declares that the keen
sensibility of their finger tips enables
tbem in handling a note to distinguish
the difference, however slight, between
the forged and tbe real article. The
means adopted for bringing to light
the falsified numbers on debentures
are rather more elaborate, and consist
mainly in the distinction of the dif
ference in the symmetry of the figures
and of the ink used, magnifying
glasses being used for tbe former and
chemical preparations for the latter.
Buoy to Locate Sunken Vessels.
A. J. Carson, a commercial traveler
living in Kalamazoo, Mich., has pat
ented a device to prevent foundered
vessels from being completely lost.
His idea is to place a buoy on the deck
of the ship in such a position that when
the vessel sinks the buoy is freed and
stays on the surface. A long steel
rope is connected with the buoy. Tbe
rope passes through a hole in the deck
and is wound around a reel in the hold
of the ship. This reel is mounted on
ball-bearings and the hole through
which the rope passes is similarly
equipped to prevent friction and avoid
the danger of entangling. After the
vessel reaches the bottom the buoy
will serve as a means of locating the
wreck.
Halu-Proof Door.
Rain cannot force itself under tlie
bottom of a door or window frame just
patented which has a flange in the bot
tom of the frame with the front of the
etep lower than the baok, the door be
ing beveled to fit it tightly.
Precious Stones Fade.
The powerful chemical effects of the
sun are felt even by precious stones.
The ruby, sapphire and emerald suffer
less than other colored stones in this
respect, but it has been shown bj ex
periment that a ruby lying in a shop
window for two years became much
lighter in tint than its mate, kept in a
dark place during that period. Gar
nets and topazes are more easily af
fected. Pearls are said to show de
terioration with age, but if they are not
worn constantly they will recuperate
wonderfully during brief vacations
spent in quiet and darkness. The
only species of ill luck which the prac
tical person believes the opal will
bring to its owner is that of loss if the
stone is exposed carelessly to heat.
It is liable to crack, being composed
principally of silicic acid, with a little
water.
Paging Sitters Before a Camera.
"As to the actual work under a
skylight, only a few general hints may
be given, as here each must 'work out
her own salvation,'" writes Frances
Benjamin Johnson in an article,
"What a Woman Can Do With a
Camera," in the Ladies' Home Jour
nal. "Do not attempt to pose people,
or to strain your Ritters into uncom
fortable or awkward positions, in or
der to obtain picturesque effects.
Watch them, and help them into poses
that are natural and graceful. Study
their individuality, striving to keep
the likeness, and yet endeavoring to
show them at their best. Avoid em
phasizing the peculiarities of the face
either by lighting or pose; look for
curves rather than angles or straight
lines, and try to make the interest in
the pioture centre upon what is most
effective in your sitter. The one rule
of lighting is never to have more than
a single source of light. Many por
traits, otherwise good, are rendered
very inartistic by being lighted from
several different directions."
The American Girl In Fiction.
' 'Sometimes the characteristic type of
the American heroine of Action is
vulgar, sometimes cold-hearted, or un
kind, or willful, or indiscreet, but she
is never stupid," writes "Droch" in
the Ladies' Home Journal. "That is
the verdict of contemporary observers
on the American girl. Whatever she
may be or do she always has her wits
about her; she is'smart.' While her
father delights in managing factories,
stock operations, or railroads, she de
lights in managing men. And in
every kind of fiction which she domi
nates the men seem to be uniformly
glad to be managed by her. Often in
fiction she has been lacking in certain
graces—chiefly the supreme grace of
tact. But there are signs that our
novelists have discovered that the
American girl possesses this grace
also, and so it happens that to-day she
trails through Action not only with
fine clothes, and a beautiful face, and
generous deeds, and witty, if imperti
nent remarks —but there is develop
ing around her a gracious manner, an
unconscious simplicity that shows it
self in consideration for the weak
nesses of others—in addition to that
keen knowledge of their foibles which
was always hers. What we have yet
to hope for is that her wealth or her
poverty may bo made less obtrusive
and less a signiflcaut part of her al
ways attractive personality."
The Women of Tennessee.
In the success of the Tennessee Cen
tennial Exposition the energetic wo
men of that State has been a powerful
factor. Their work did not appear upon
the surface until after the gates were
opened and the grounds were thronged
with visitors from everywhere. It was
then noticed that their building was
the most beautiful of all there; that its
interior construction was a model, so
far as exhibiting, seeing, hearing, com
fort and convenience were concerned.
The next point noticed was the excel
lence and value of the articles ex
hibited in its rooms and halls.
Every woman's industry bad there
some product or creation as its expon
ent; every State showed its friendly
offices in Rome object of beauty or of
value. The history of Tennessee was
written in curios, relics, paintings,
manuscripts, miniatures and ancient
documents, and suggestions for the
benefit of the women of the State, for
the education of the children of Ten
nessee and for the amelioration of its
existing conditions were conspicuous
every hare aud there.
| Fiue taste was manifested in the
sequeuce of exhibits and in the ar
rangement of objects. Every precau
tion was taken to make the visitors
feel at home and to supply any particu
lar want.
Officials were always on duty, re
ceiving guests with charming courtesy
and extending to every friend a hos
pitality worthy of the capital of that
heroic commonwealth.
Their work breathed a spirit of
American ambition, energy and pro
gress. It showed that the women of
the Volunteer State were not behind
those in any part of the Union in pa
triotism, public spirit and unflagging
industry.
I When it is remembered that Ten
nessee is not a rich State, nor Nash
ville an opulent city, that the financial
resources of the exposition were not
| over large, and the women depended
I chiefly upon their own exertions to
I make their department of any worth,
1 their success is all the more praise-
worthy and their efforts the more re
markable.
They have done much for the exposi.
tion and for Nashville. They have
done more for the State. They have
helped to make Tennessee popular, to
attract immigrants, enterprise and
capital.
These are the things needed by
every growing community, and what
ever supplies the want is to be com
mended and admired.—New York Mail
and Express.
Goitip.
There are 215 women serving on
school committees in Massachusetts.
There are twenty-five Bulgarian
women studying medicine at the Fac
ulty of Nancy in France.
Out of the enormous number of
women iu Constantinople—the popu
lation is a million—not more than 5000
can read or write.
For the first time in several years
there are no women at Cambridge Uni
versity (England) this year in the first
class in either classics or mathematics.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. lteed, of Chicago,
has been elected a member of the
Royal Asiatic Society of London, this
in honor of her successful work in Hin
doo and Persian literature.
A scientist declares that the fine
complexion of English girls is due to
the fogs which so frequently sweep
over Albion. Dampness seems to per
meate the flesh and keep the skin soft.
Mrs. Alphonse Daudet once told of
an old aunt who slept in the room
next her room, and who every even
ing recounted all the doings of the
day to the portrait of her husband,
dead years before.
The Princess Louise is engaged in
sculptoring the figure of an angel with
out-stretched wings, which is to bo
placed over the altar in the Prince
Henry, of Battenberg Memorial
Chapel at St. Mildred's
Mrs. Harriet Smith Cashing, the
temperance and woman suffrage leader,
who died at her home in Leavenworth,
Kan., on August 12, was the origin
ator of the Woman's Club, and was
well-known in New York.
Elizabeth Marbury, playwright and
adaptor also of Sardou and other
Franch dramatists for the American
stage, has just been decorated by the
French Government with the purple
ribbon that indicates an officer of the
French Academy.
One of the pioneer women doctors in
England, Mrs. Garrett Anderson, at
one of the jubilee congresses spoke of
the earnings of successful women as
running from SIOOO to SSOOO per an
num. The London Woman says the
higher sum is one seldom reached,
however.
France is not usually considered a
centre of feminine advancement, yet a
recent census shows that it has 2150
feminine authors and journalists,while
its female sculptors aud painters
amount to 700. Of the authoresses
1000 are novelists, 200 "lyrical poets"
and 150 educational writers.
It :3 said that Helen Keller is much
interested in matters of dress and that
she is especially particular about the
color of her dress. She has a fondness
for the frou-frou effect of her skirts,
the rustle that betokens silken linings.
In all the minor particulars of the toilet
she is exquisitely fastidious.
In Chicago there is a colored wo
man who practice law with success;
she passed the examinations with great
credit and received her license to prac
tice. Miss Piatt speaks German aud
French with ease, and so secures good
patronage from foreigners; her prac
tice is of the office rather than the
court room.
Fanhlon Notes.
A gray and black feather boa wil
be found among the new trousseaux
French women never wear a glove
too tight, so it lasts longer and wears
better, and encourages them to buy a
good quality as well.
Stockinet and good rubber dress
shields can be washed in warm soap
suds, pulled into shape aud dried by
hanging them in a window.
Odd effects, combining features of a
fancy short-skirted jack-bodice and a
slashed bolero, appear upon the new
est gowns for autumn wear.
The overskirt continues to put in
claims for favor this season, and
models pointed in effect aud quite as
long as the underskirt before they are
drapped appear among approved "fash
ions for the fall and winter.
One or two leaders of fashion, not
noted for ideas of ecouomy, have worn
gowns of one material for the sleeves
and skirt and a second for a blouse,
belt, collar and epaulette. This idea
might bo worked up in making over
silk aud woolen gowns from last sea
son.
The slashed models, giving the
offect of a long square apron front,
reach quite to the bottom of the sec
ond skirt, and on tailor costumes of
cloth, mohair, tweed, cheviot, etc.,
the slashed edges are decorated with
silk ft imps put in various fanciful de
signs.
On French overskirt gowns some
have very long sharp shawl points
trimmed with triple frills, sometimes
wide, sometimes very narrow. On
such go wns the underskirt is trimmed
to match,but the greater portion of the
underskirts are finished with a deep
machme-stitched hem<
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
SliA<l<* For Cow*.
i The fact that with good pasture
' cow is able to eat as much in a few
minutes as she can digest in several
hours is not properly appreciated by
most farmers. If it were they would
at least provide shade trees in their
pasture lot, or better still, have a cool,
J darkened room where, after eating
her fill, the cow can lie and contented
! ly chew her cud secure from the at
tacks of flies. It is the digestion of
food rather than eating it that fills the
milk pail. Yet we have known farmers
who cut down shade trees inthepas
j ture because, as they expressed it, the
cows would lie in the shade all through
! the day, only eating at night and
! morning, when air is cooler and the
1 grass is likely to be moistened with
I dew.
Iloviiiff Turkey*.
A flock of roving turkeys may not
; cost their owner a great deal if his
! neighbors are patient and uncomplain
j ing people, otherwise they may cost
him a lawsuit and damages, or, at
least, a big lot of unueighborly feel
| iug.
On the theory that turkeys can get
! their living and are not great eaters,
; they are too often left wholly to their
| own resources. This neglect leads
I thorn to wander far and wide for food,
! to commit depredations in neighbor-
I gardens and truck patches, to fall
j prey to the wrathful strangor's club
; or dog, or perhaps to change their
homes to that of a farmer who treats
his poultry with greater generosity.
It is good policy even at this season
i to keep faithful watch over the flocks,
to notice where they roam in the day
time and where they stay at night,
and whenever they oome about the
premises to make friends with them
!hy throwing out a little grain. The
i turkey crop will not be ripe until
Thanksgiving, but it will be well to
cultivate it now. —Farm Journal.
Salt Marsh Hay.
Professor Liudsey, of the Massa
chusetts Experiment Station, made
some experiments last winter with salt
marsh hay which has a distinct salt
sea flavor aud smell. Tho salt hay
was fed after milking and precautions
were taken to keep the milk as clean'as
possible aud it was removed to the
dairy room immediately after being
drawn from each cow, aud cooled by
being immersed in ice water.
Samples of the butter were sent to
Boston and Mr. Douglas said in his
i report: "You must have had some new
milch cows to have been able to make
any such butter at this season of the
year."
While it seems to be a fact that cer
tain feed stuffs are liable to impart an
jbjectionable flavor to dairy products,
these experiments serve as an illustra
tion of what can be accomplished by
lsing proper precautions in feeding
Mid goes to show that by far the larg
er part of the bad flavor gets into milk
:>r butter after milking rather than
| during the progress of milk formation.
Setting; KaaplierrleH In the Fnll.
Most of the small fruits, excepting,
perhaps, the strawberry, do as well set
in the fall as in the spring. In lati-
I tudes north of Ohio spring is the safest
' time, though good results have been
I obtained from fall setting in latitudes
much farther north by using plenty of
mulch. Most of my experience has
been with spring setting, but a few
I years ago I failed to get a full stand of
plants and so I tried to fill out the
vacancies that fall; where I set on
well-drained ground so that the plants
would not have wet feet during the
winter I had very good success, but
some of the plantation was on low
ground aud many of the plants were
killed out.
Here is a point which is often a
mystery to many—why some years
their canes kill back worse than
others? If by any agency the growth
of canes are prolonged in tho fall their
chances of ripening or hardening are
lessened. Late cultivation, undue
moisture in the soil, or excessive fer
tility are all agents in this delay, and
so, for good results, we must seek to
obtain conditions of soil which are not
detrimental to the point.
I set my plants four by six feet so
that I can uee the cultivator bpth
ways. This saves a great deal of hand
hoeing and weeding; besides, where
only rowed one way they soon mass
into a continuous row, which will
gradually encroach on the cultivator
until it gets two or three feet wide,
making a mass of bushes in which the
fruit, will be hidden and hard to pick;
besides, weeds and grasses are sure to
find a foothold which will eventually
ruin the plantation.
Another advantage of hill culture is
that the berries are more perfectly
developed and firmer. When the
1 growth of canes are left undisturbed
the whole season, most of the strong
fruit buds are at their top; then when
cut back later it leaves most of the
weak buds for tho next season's fruit.
This is. one of the advantages advocated
by many for piuching back the canes
when only eighteen or twenty inches
high; then laterals will be thrown out,
and on these will form the fruit burs
for the future crop. These laterals are
less easily broken over with their load
of fruit than a single cane.
After raspberries come into bearing
a mulch is of considerable value in
; maturing a crop, especially in a dry
j season. Coarse manure is best, if it
i can be had; it can be placed on in the
fall so that the rains may carry the
j plant food down to the roots, where it
j will be in readiness when needed.
Then when the "dry spell" comes the
coarse refuse will serve to keep the
soil moist and cool, which will be just
what the roots need to mature a crop.
If this mulch is not extended more
than a foot each way from the hill the
soil can be frequently stirred, which
in itself is equal to the manure.—B.
A. Wood, in the Epitomist.