Ureeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TIIB fRIEONE PRINTING COMPANY. Limitsfl OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FIiEELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year 11-S? Six Monthi 75 Four Months p® Two Months 25 | Tht! .lute which the subscription is paid to , is on too address label of each paper, the < change of which to a subsequent date be 6omCM a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper , Is not received. Arrearages must be paid | When subscription is discontinued. M't" r all ?, ny orders, checks, tic,, payable ! to ih Trib an l'rinttnj Company, Limited. Flank Willard, who has written a nit in her of magazine aricles on tramp life, asserts that fully 5000 boys are associated with professional tramps in the hobo life. A Chicago poultry dealer figures that 3,850,000,000 chickens and 13,-J ' 000,000 eggs were produced in the United States last year, the value of i which he places at #200,000,000. As I a bird, in the face of this showing, * how insignificant does the old eagle j appear. The Clyde yachtsmen anticipate v victory for the Irish America's cup t challenger. That, of course, is the ' right spirit for them to display. But J at the same time we are equally con- n vine l the other way about. We aro c satisfied that the better boat will win. 1 But we are confident that ours will do the trick. Major-general Hutton, commanding 1 the militia forces of Cauada, can give her Majesty's standing army points on military discipline and etiquette. The general harbors a conviction that mutual admiration societies are not provocative of increased efficiency in the profession of arms. He has.there fore, issued a general order forbidding all expressions of approbation or cen sure, of whatever sort, by officers or soldiers aimed at their superiors, and forbidding commanding officers to per mit "subscriptions for testimonials in in any shape to superiors on quitting the service or on being removed from their corps." No more complimentary militia banquets, swords, loving cups, addresses or things. Now look out for Canada's militiamen if they ever go to the wars. The future happiness and prosperity of the great republic is based upon the scientific education of the people t milling agricul ure, philosophizes the St. Louis Star. The man who succeeds iu inducing two blades of grass to grow where only one grew be- , fore will be the benefactor. Great farms must give way to smaller ones, and smaller ones to those of stiii lesser area, until the farm, as now . thought of. will not be known -an' acre, a half acre, a fourth of an acre,a lot, a patch ol ground will constitute the extent of the farms of the not very distant future. When that time come , if education, precept and cx- : ainj lc arc properly inculcated the acre will produce more than does now the 160 acres, and the patch will be more prolific than is now any of the small mo lei farms of from 10 to 40 acres. i The mint bureau of the treasury declares that the world's production : of gold for the year 1898 was about $275,000,000. This is #77,000,000 more than the output of 1895. The prediction of the government experts is that it will exceed #800,000,000 in 1900, and that it will grow for at least a century. In 1898 the United States alone produce 1 #65,000,000 worth of gold. Supposing all of this gold to be made into solid blocks,each an exact cubical foot in dimensions, the #65,000,000 worth of yellow metal would furnish 900 such blocks, which, if piled neatly, one on top of another iu a single stack or column a foot square, would be nearly twice as biglt Washington monument. It would be quite a job to pile up these blocks in the manner described, inasmuch as each of the 900 would weigh exactly 222 pounds. USELESS INFORMATION. A single bee collects only about a tablespoonful of honey during a sea son. A blind bat avoids wires and obstruc tions as easily as if it could see per fectly. The best watchmakers' oil comes from the jaw of the shark. About half a pint is found In each fish. The egg of the queen bee is about one-sixteenth of an inch long, and aa large round as a fine cambric needle. The goldfish is a great coward, and a tiny fish with the courage to attack It can frighten it almost to death. | TRAMP BOYS. | Yri Remarkable Phases of Life in Hoboland—Seven Thousand Lads "Snared" and Forced to V'i Lead a Migratory Existence. Sy BY JOSIAH FLYNT. r —_ xpei: T s ao- s | |Au //'[ I B clave tliat there t (//A v//i fit are a h° u t seven ' i V lilf -I ffl 111 ] thousand boys f; 'l( hi the United ti I I" TO States who live, L'iljjel Sr- o/ ,'( from one end k l[| I ((t ot the year to e 1 the qjiier, ex- d v A | clusitely i nt: A, tram P kt'o. It ii • 'ii 1 " * s iwposs'hlo to il 11 'ft Vw ta ' ; o an exact t 'A.'/W A" | cousua of all— a -'til Yz- V they are too g, I migratory—but ii I baso my estimate on over ten years' o acquaintance with American tramp ai life, and on travels with tramps which it have taken me into thirty States. In lc winter, there are easily five hundred a tramp boys iu New York City alone, u Of course, there aro moro than this It number who have to pick up their living in a more or less tramp fashion, tl but I refer to the lads who actually o: belong to the tramp fraternity and are w part and parcel of its manifesto- h tions. They are called "kids" and ci "prushuns" in the hobo's vernacular, n and when they take tramp names, al- in ways have to add the suffix "kid" to n: the name of the town from which g they claim to have come, and by which ' p they are distinguished, but they are ; ti known to the general public merely a as truants and "ineorrigibles." No w one acquainted with the tramp woild, tl however, would mistnko tli3m for tl anything but what they are. Stylish a clothes ami a hath could not change i< their shambling gait, rouuded a shoulders, harsh voices and cx- t aggerated "tough" manner. Even s upon the youngest tho life has had c its effect, and a tramp could easily s single them out in a miscellaneous c collection of boys. Their average age a js about fourteen years, Lint there are 1 801110 nearly eighteen and others not ' yet ten. v They are in tramp life, to use a c homely expression, because the tramp s "needs them in his business." The f trauip, as a class, or the hoboes 1 (hautes beaux), as I prefer to call them, i caruo upon the scene not long after ' tho Civil War, aud many of them soon c discovered that it was mueh easier for 1 a boy to excito sympathy than for a 1 man, and they began to entice young- i c sters into the life. It was immaterial 1 to them where they found the hoys or c who were their parents, so long as they were quick, intelligent aud will- t ing. These are the necessary qualiti- ( cations for a successful "prushun," j 1 and although there aro some boys I i ; much more willing and active than ' 1 others, the great majority of them are 1 i bright aud attractive. Rich aud poor ! 1 alike contribute to their class. A millionaire's son, if a hobo can catch i him near a railway watering tank and | fascinate him with interesting stories, is as liable to conscription as tho ! young hopeful of a poor workingman. The only thing necessary is that the i lad should have a romantic tempera- • meut. If he has gone through a j course of "dime novels" before the ; hobo meets him it makes it all the easier for the latter to firo his imagin- ! ation with uecouuts of wild Western life,but there are youngsters unable to > read that ho has influenced. Iu New York City it is the bey of j tho slums that the hobo is most likely ! to reach. While in the city he spends I most of his time in the congested dis- 1 tricts, they aro tho best places for j him to lind charity, as well as to [hide his vagabondage, and he naturally I i sees a great deal of the local boys. [ If ho is in search of olio to take away i with him on his travels, he prowls ! about the streets, acquainting himself 1 I with tho boys' playgrounds aud gath- | eriug places. Before long ho is sure to find a collection of lads which lie j thinks he can influence, and then lie 1 i ; tries to get tho boy who seems to him ] i j ttie most promising. Watch him at i | his preliminary work. He is seated I ; oil an ash barrel, a crowd of gamins I II gazing up at him with admiring eyes, j ! \\ hen ho tells his stories, each one ' ' thinks that ho is being talked to just ! as much as the rest, and yet, some- j how, little by little, theru is'a favorite i who is getting moro and more than his share of the winks and smiles; soon tho most exciting parts of the stories are gradually devoted to him alone, but in such nil artful way that ho himself fails to notice it at first, j It is not long, however, before he j feels his importance. lie begins to j wink, too, hut just as slyly ns his j charmer, aud his little month curls into a return smile when the others J i aro not looking. "I'm his favorite, 11 am," lie thinks. "He'll take me with j him, he will, nnd show me things." He is what the hobo calls "petrified," wliijh means r.s much as anything else, hypnotized. The stories that he ! has hoard amount to very little in themselves, but the way they ure told, , the happy-go-lucky manner, the subtle partiality, the winning voice aud the sensitiveness of tho hoy's nature to things of wonder, all combine to turn his head. Then his own parents can not control hiin as can this slouching wizard. In the country the favorite gather ing place for boys likely to be at tracted by tramp life as well as for the hoboes .3 the railway watering ' tank. For over twenty years the ho boes have used the railroads as thor oughfares, beating their way on trains and sleeping at night in box-cars. sand bouses aud at camp-fires near the track. Tho watering tank is their "depot," because they oau board freight trains hero while tho trains are taking water. In our provincial towns it is well known to the boys that thero is gen erally a collection of interesting wan derers to he found at the watering tank, aud during the long summer months, when time often drags heav ily on their hands, they like to join the hoboes and listen to their tales of adventure. If one of them appeals to somo member of tho gang who is look ing for a "prushun," the same process of "petrifying" is gone through rs iu the case of city boys, aud it is often possible to get a lad from the country to run iway more quickly than one of the ! metropolitan training, because he is I less suspicious. Once "on tho road," tho life of :hese boys can only be likened to that of slaves. Their duty is to do exactly I ivhat their "jockers," the men who 1 oave enticed them on to "the road," jommand, aud they are expected, if 1 aecessury, to find their "jockers'" ' meals, clothes and even lodging house 1 money. Some become expert beg- 1 gars in a few weeks, aud aro much prized by tho men with whom they travel to the end of their "prushun" apprenticeship, t.nd thero are others who require a yenr and more before they aro successful even in finding , their food. Once trained, however, and if they are carefully exploited, many of them take in as much as go a day, the money going, of course, to their "jockers," and eventually to tho saloon keeper. During the process of getting trained they are kicked, slapped and generally maltreated, anil on occasions they are loaned, traded nud even sold. It avails them very little to run away from a cruel "jocker," for unless they return home, which most of them are ashamed to do, they are sure to be picked up by some one elße before they have gone far. Not all hoboes travel with boys, but tlioro are so many who do that it is useless l'or a runaway "prushun," who remains in the life, to keep free of them. They are bound to run across him somewhere, on a freight train or at some popular "hang-out," aud they either persuade or compel him to take up a "prushun's" burden again. This burden has to bo carried until tho hoy is able to defend himself and come off victorious in a fisticuff with his "jockej-," or until he has reached an age when ho is obviously too old to travel any longer as a "kid." The age limit various in different cases, but it is seldom that ono finds a lioy iu tlio "prushun" class after ho has passed his eighteenth year. Once emancipated, to use the hobo word, the hoy is supposed to go aud look for revenge. Some do this and I some do uot, but all aro told that the revenge when they get it will offset nil j the misery and trouble they have i had to put up with as "pru i shuns." Indeed, this is the i ouo reward held out to them. from the time they get into tramp j life, as boys, until they enter into tho I joys of the emancipated, they are led |to believe that when emancipation j comes they can go and "suare" some i other hoy c; romantic temperament, j and make him slave for them as they j have slaved for others. West of the Mi.: issippi River there is a regular gang of theso "ox-kids," as they are I called, aud the hulk of them are sup i posed to ho looking for revenge. In | ' certain parts of tho country, thanks to 1 tho intelligence of magistrates and 1 court 1 i 11... s, who have learned what | it means whan a hoy is found in the ' company of a hobo, it is very danger ous to attempt any "snaring," or to ! bo arrested with a hoy "in tow," be | cause very severe sentences aro meted out to men who travel with young j sters, and this is one of the reasons j why somo "ex-kids," as well us a j number of ilio hoboes, havo given up j "prushun" companionship. Another | reason is that some find the business heartless and cruel. Thero are so many, however, who favor the custom that tratnn life in the United States is continually being recruited from tho boys of tho country, and every year a number of them take tho places of thoso who have finished their ap i prenticeship. Those who come to New York generally arrive in winter, j the time their "jockers" travel to tho j large cities to get the benefit of lodg ing house shelter and cheap restnnrnut ! living. They also put in an appear i mice in summer for a day or so, but ! at this time of year the bulk of them | are scattered along tho different rail j roads. They are tho most difficult i lads in the world to locate and get hold I of. Excepting during the coldest months, and even then, if they go Houth, they are contiuually on the move, and it is impossible to keep track of them long enough to do them much good. When they have com mitted a cvime and are put in such prisons as the Tombs to await trial, they get the benefit of that very worthy institution, the Tombs School, and come under the good influence of men and women connected with snob re forms, .but only a small number commit crimes sufficiently grave to be lodged in jail, and the reform school seems also to' have but very little ef fect on their natures.' The great ma jority of Amerioan tramps have snent ft part of their boyhood in reforma tories, but they went 011 tramp life again when released. It is exceed ingly hard to reform a boy who has once been in tramp life, and I fear that the most of those who are now "prushuns" are destined to develop , into full fledged tramps. It is pogsi- j ble, however, to prevent n, great many 1 boys from ever becoming "prushuns," or learning much about life among tramps, and my purpose in writing this article is to call attention to the methods which I believe will accom plish this end. I have referred to the fact that some magistrates are ac quainted with the position of the boys in Hoboland, aud punish their se ducers vy severely. It seems to me that this is the best remedy that can bo applied. The boys themselves , liavo been sinned against more than , they have sinned, and punishment for them does not seem fair, and, as has been stated, is in many cases iueffee- i tual. If it were recognized, however, ; throughout the tramp world that every man caught in company with a boy, who was known to be his "prushun," would receive, say, a year in the peni tentiary—such sentences have already been given for this offense—tramp boys would not bo so numerous as they are to-day, and Hoboland would be deprived of one of its main re sources in keeping up its strength/As yet there is 110 uniform legislation iu all the States by which a severe pun ishment can be given tramps who travel with boys, but it is at least possible for magistrates to give tramps the full benefit of the law as it applies to vagrancy, and in some communities this is now so severe that special leg islation is unnecessary to secure the desired ends.—Now York Indepen dent. HIGH PRICE FOR A MADSTONE. Warm Coin petition Over nn Heirloom Credited Willi lloumrknble Cures. For a piece of stone which for a century and a half lias been credited with marvellous properties in healing the bites, scratches and stings of ani mals nearly S7OO was paid at an auc tion held in Loudoun County, Vir ginia. The stone is known as the Loudoun madstone, audits apparently wonder ful cures are numbered by the thou sands. The stone was obtained from the Indians by Ferdinand Fred, a German, who settled in Loudouu County at the foot of Catoctin Moun tains, not fhr from where the battle of Ball's lllnff was fought in the Civil War. There is no lack of faith in the stone among those who have investi gated. Mauy have come thousands of miles to have it applied, whilo on several occasions, it is said, the stone lias been conveyed to a distance by a member of thetamily, and its applica tion proved beneficial, especially in eases of dog cat and rattlesnake wounds. The estate of the Fred family went into court last fall for final settlement, and there was considerable litigation over this stone, which old Fred had especially stipulated in his will should bo kept in the family and its use given free. Judge Niccl finally decided that the stone should bo sold, and it was bought in by an heir for $450. It was auctioned off again and was bought by Dr. Turner, of Hnickersvillo, for $682.50. It is said that thero were several bidders from elsewhere, but the feeling was so strong against al lowing the stone to go out of the county that only heirs of Fred were bidders. Home encyclopedias have a history of this stone, which has long been considered a remarkable one. Hliilh 011 Advcrtiglng. When an advertiser drops out of the papers for three or four months he must renew acquaintanceship with readers who lost sight of and interest in him. It is far better to occupy small space aud keep it tilled with oftou changed matter (the oftener the better) than it is to come out at long intervals | with big display advertisements. ! A writer in Printers' Ink deplores the fact that advertisers are seldom 1 able to get their ads. displayed proper ' ly because of the unwillingness or in ability of proprietors of printing of- ' ticcs to purchase an adequate supply of typo laces. Quantity, not variety, should be aimed at in stocking the advertise ment composing-room. Better a few series and "poster" fonts, than a mul tiplicity of light cases and much pick ing. And, besides, simplicity and di rectness iu display are gaiuod—to say nothing of economy in buying. There is too much striving after the original, the brilliant, the truly novel, iu advertisement writing. The im- 1 pression is too general that it is some- 1 how discreditable to utilize the idea of others. The advertising man who ! makes a scrapbook of good advertise ments clipped from exchanges, or otherwise lays by a fund of material for adaptation, will save wear aud tear on his gray matter, more ex- j peditiously meet every demand, and besides serve his patron to his entire , satisfaction. Too Old to I.lke New Ways. Uncle James Slightham and wife, a 1 good old-fashioned couple living over in Liberty Township, Mo., liavo done their cooking for the past fifty-five years in the old brick fireplace, the same method that was employed by the pioneers in the early part of the century. The other day their children surprised them by sending to the house a magnificent modern steel range, which was put up solidly by the workmen. The old people Btood it two day, then had it removed to the smokehouse and went back to their old fireplace to do their cooking, be cause it was "more convenient and the meals seemed to taste better cooked by it."—Kansas Gity Times. I NEWS AND NOTES f I FOR WOMEN. I l^)ieK3(oio!e(etoiet3(©ieie(eK3e(©ie(si©ioie(dfe The Popular Us© of the lluche. A detailed description of the varied uses of tiny raohes which flourish as a dre3s decoration would more than till this column. Yards and yards of ! this pretty and popular garniture adorn the fashionable toilets and cos tumes of both French aud American designing. These ruches, made of chiffon, tulle, net, silk nnd ribbon of every width and color, are used alike on skirts, bodices, fiohus, sleeve-caps and cuffs, revere, collars nnd vest . fronts. On white or black gowns, or J those in blaok and white mixtures, black and white edging laces are com bined to form very effective ruches, and those of soft black tulle aro used with equally good results ou toilets of pale pink, green or blue Indian silk, veiling, etamine or foulard. They edge the ruffles, outline or decorate the actual overdress, and they garnish and daintily finish the most elaborate gowns of lace or jet-embroidered net. The most satisfactory thing about them is tho fact that they are sold at all the fancy dry-goods houses ready 1 to apply, making them not only of | great aid and value to the high-class modiste, who utilizes them in most artistic and ingenious ways, but also to the amatenr and home dressmaker, to whom they are of great service.— New York Post. The Summer Ilatl. Hats for the summer season are truly "fearfully and wonderfully made," aud many of the early importa tions are built of so many different materials that they look as if they had been constructed from the odds and ends of the family piece box. The large tarban effects seems to be the idol of the hour and they are bnilt of straw, tulle, choux, ribbon bows, feathers, aigrettes and flowers. As yet a simple straw hat with a jiossible decoration of flowers has not appeared. Straws are embroidered with paillettes and appliqued with figures of laee. : The double straws appear again, and they are fouud iu black lined with white, butter-color with cream, laven der with green, red with white and i host of other combinations. Flowers will be more used than feathers for hat ornamentation. Gray tulle is 1 much in favor and toques composed of it are ornamented with jet four-leaf clovers. All shades of purple and lavender will be employed in the con struction of hats. A large turban-like affair of coarse purple straw has a tulle crown, and at the left side is a huge bunch of purple and yellow pan sies. A popular shape is called "Directoire." It sets back ou the head, the sides turned up, making a point over tho face, and the brim be hind is cut to fall down ou the hair. A dainty "Directoire" model of white straw is embroidered with jet paillettes ; aud decorated with violets. Many of the hats have strings of black velvet coming from under the brim iu the back. Another model is of black straw lined with white. Under the rolling sidee are soft pink roses. A dainty hat of white straw, liued with black, has a brim that rolls upon one side to show a chon of black velvet. The brim is trimmed with pansies and vel vet. A distinctly new feature this season is a hat of cloth. A chic crea tion has a brim of black velvet and a soft crown of jetted cloth-of-gold. School Girls Adopt Urea* Reform. Tight lacing nnd everything else iu j the way of personal attire that might bo detrimental to health are to bedis ( carded by tho girl pupils iu tho High School of Newark, N. J. Abandon ing stays nud tight fitting waists, the girls will wear pretty, loose shirt waists. "Dress reform" is now ap parently the motto of the High School. The girls uro enthusiastic over it, aud the teachers aro delighted, for they have argued long anil persistently for it and have made it the subject of lessons and talks in the class rooms, and of private talks to pupils whose health they feared was being injured by tight lacing. The reform has been hastened by the preparations for the physical culture classes .soon to be 1 started. The methods of dressing most pop nl among the school girls have long Avon the teachers cause for worry. Kecently a young woman pupil was asked to return home and arrange her ulothing so that her waist moasuro would be added ,to by several inches. This was deemed necessary for her health and comfort at study. With most of the girls, the trim, neat belt, fashionable and pretty, appears to be an irresistible temptation and to pull in just another notch was the easiest thing in the world for them to do. Arguments in favor of ample breath ing space were made, and everything is now satisfactorily Bettled. The girls are to wear to school a pretty, ; loose shirt waist, part of the gym ! naf-ium costume which has just been ; adopted, and in which the basket ball ' class will appear at practioe. The en tire suit is of black material, and in ; eludes bloomers, which are to be worn ! only in the gymnasium and blaok stockings and slippers. The shirt I waißt is to have red braid trimmings. The suit is pretty and practical, and the girls are muoh pleased with it. The bloomers are very fall and grace ful and not unduly conspionous. The waist, not being a blouse, is proper to be worn in the class rooms. An ad justable collar makes it possible to give the waist a "dressed up" appear ance. Lluen Costume* For 1809. Linen costumes will be worn very much. Some of the heavier qualities of linen are made up in the coat and skirt styles like the piqnes, but there are also the thin Dor linens liko grass cloth, made up very elaborately. These last are made with over-skirt, and hare silk or lawn petticoats; and also iu the drop-skirt stylo, and trimmed with bands of heavy insertion. A smart grass-linen gown, with a pink and white satiu stripe, has the skirt cut in circular shape, and trimmed with three broad bands of heavy guipure lace. The skirt is cut so that it tlares very much below the last band of insertion. The waist, which lit K tightly in the back, is rather loose iu front, and has a square-yoke effect, encircled by a ruffle of the guipure lace. The lace also edges the fronts of the waist, aud falls iu a jabot on either side of a very narrow tucked front of piuk Liberty silk. There is a ribbon belt of piuk silk, and tied in at the wrists are little bows of pink silk showing through the lace ruffles. A very line grass linen with no color is made up over a light green liuing. This is trimmed down the front breadth with rows of lace in sertion. The back is plaiu, rather on the circular-skirt effect, with no ful ness in the back at all, except where it Hares out at the bottom, but the long petticoat is made with a very full ruf lie flounce, and is so wide that it looks full and yet clinging. The wnist is almost tight-fitting, quite tight-fitting at the back and sides, and in front is trimmed with a lace barbe that goes around at the back, comes down the front of the waist, and then is slipped through two bauds of the linen, the ends falling down over the waist on to the skirt. This waist has a vest of green Liberty silk very finely pleated. A dark blue linen, almost like a lawn —it is so light in weight—is a very at tractive gown for traveling or for hard wear. It is trimmed with bands of red and white Russian embroidery; the waist is cut in an Eton jacket u ith long pointed fronts, the fronts one mass of the Russian embroidery, and there is a vest of red crepe cloth. This is a very curious combination, and is made still more curious by a littlo row of gilt buttons down the front of the jacket.—Harper's Bazar. OoflSip. An English woman says that the young Queen of Holland has only re cently had her eara pierced. Queen Marglierita of Italy spenka German fluently, aud generally uses that language when she ineeta Ger man artists. By the will of Elizabeth L. Devine, of Philadelphia, an estate valued at §300,000 is divided among sixteen charitable institutions. The German Empress commands the famous Pasewak Cuirassiers, and sho is not infrequently seen riding at their head as Colonel and saluting the Emperor. A woman's club nt Grand Rapids, Mich., has provided §3OO in order that the poor mothers of the city might receive greatly needed instruc tion in cooking. Mrs. Arohibald Little, an English woman, who lived iu Western China for eleven years, says that there is a growing sentiment against the prac tice of crippling the native women's feet. Miss Marion E. Garmory, of Rock fold, 111., was recently examined for admission to the bar at Ottawa, 111., with eight young men, and carried olf the first honors. Four of the young men failed to pass. Mrs. Annie Bosant greatly values a bloodstone ring which was given to her fay the late Mine. Blavatsky. It is always upon her finger, and it is said that she means to take it with her to the grave when she dies. Mrs. Jano B. Creighton, the founder nnd President of tho White Cross Assooiatou, is one of the lead ing women of Portland, Oregon. Her purpose in organizing the White Cross wns to send nurses to tho Philippines on the same plan as that used by the Red Cross. Mile. Lucillo Faure, daughter of tho late President of the French Re public, intended to take the veil after bor father's death, it is said, but friends dissuaded her, and now she proposes to continue her work as a lay sister of charitable institutions aud in addition will do some literary work. Faalilon Noted. Narrow silk fringes with network headings are used for trimming gowiiH and silk blouses as well. Some of the newest etamines and French bareges are barred with satin aud delicately figured with Louis XIV. designs in natural colorings. Fawn and dull-colored laces gener ally arc one of the desirable dress trimmings. Fawn-oolored laoe on a silk waist worn with a fawn cloth suit is tho smart thing. Silk, light wool fabrics, and hand some silk and wool mixed materials, crinkled, waved, chevroued, barred, chenille dotted und creponed, iu wholly novel markings, are now to be seen. For special occasions this summer there will bo worn handsome coats, shorter jackets, and waists of lace in Venetian, Honiton, Spanish gui pure, real Flemish and Luxeuil pat terns. It is asserted by the importers that the new taffeta soyeaux weaves, manu factured with little or uo dressing, will wear better thau any class of silks put upou the market iu mauy seasons. Au idea iu making up organdies is the use of one color over another; black organdie over pink, or white over heliotrope, and prettier still is 1 the use of a deeper shade of the samo color for the organdie lining. The postillion back, short, narrow coat-tails are to be seen on the new suits, the coats cut up very short at : tho sides aud lengthening agaiu in ; front iu a deep, ronnd scallop or in a i short square front. Some have belts and no basque below the waist. Most ; of the jaokets are short and round up over above ihe hip. roooocrtjoaooooooooooooooog FARM TOPICSI Booosoooaocoooooooooooooao llape For Sheep. We have always had- some doubt about the profitableness of growing rape seed for sheep to feed off during the summer. The rape is a branch of tho mustard family, with small seeds and needs to be put in soil that is made very mellow by cultivation. It grows rapidly and has large leaves for so small a seed. But our experience in feeding down sowed grain with sheep is that they will trample down twice as much as they will eat. We find this to be true even of clover, and it is much more true of any plant that grows in soil easily poached by sheep in a wot time. The sheep's foot is very small. It will sink into cultiva ted soil, especially in a wet time, and it will spoil all tho herbage the hoof touches. Korchmn as Green Feed. Select a good piece of land, not too rich, as it will lodge badly on a very fertile soil. Break as eaxdy as possi ble, preferably sod, and as soon as all danger of frost is over. Prepare thor oughly by harrowing and dragging or rolling, but never rebreak. Then have the seed perfectly clean. I prefer the red top variety of sorghum. For seed iug I use au ordinary eight or nine hoe wheat drill, and stop up all the hoes except the second one from tho outside on each end. Set the drill to sow about one-half bushel of wheat per acre. You may think the crop will be too thin, but if your seed is good, time will prove that it is all right. Com mence on one side and drill back and forth, as in sowing wheat, except thai tho wheel must run about ten inches from the other wheel track, instead of in the last hoe track, as in sow ing wheat. I prefer sowing east and west, as the crop shades the ground ' and keeps it moist. Cultivate the same as corn, keeping down all weeds and grass while it is small. Commence feeding as soon as it is in bloom and feed as long as it lasts. Cut it close to the ground and feed it either as it leaves the field or out into two-inch lengths and feed in that condition. Cut each day ouly what you want to feed that day, and if you take it to the bovu, don't lay it down, but set it up, as otherwise it will heat rapidly. If you cut it shorter than two inches the stalks will get crosswise in tho cow's mouth and make it sore. When there is danger of frost, cut and shock the same as corn, and you can feed it until Christmas. I don't think it a good plan to feed after that time, as the stalks have gen erally begun to sour. I feed it to hogs, horses and cattle, and all get fat. There is nothing bet ter than a field of sorghum to help out pastures iu the fall until you want to put your stock into winter quarters. The seed makes one of the very best , feeds for poultry. I have been rais ing it for a number of years, and I be lieve I can get as much feed froru one acre of sorghum as I can from two acres of; the best corn. Where yon first commence cutting your cane it will sprout np very rapidly, but don't let your cattle get to it, as it has been known to kill them.—J. W. Smith, in the American Agriculturist. Green and Nitrogens The nitrogeu of the soil is the only one of its valuable constituents which is subject to serious loss by natural agencies. Whatever the form iu which nitrogen is applied to the soil, whether in farm-yard manure, iu dried blood, iu ground fish, ground bone, tankage, cottonseed meal, sulphate of ammonia, or nitrate of soda, it sooner or later is so changed by natural agencies as to become soluble and in this form the soil cannot hold it. With heavy raius it is dissolved in the downward sink- . iug water, and with it is carried ulti- * mutely into the streams and rivers und to the ocean. None of the other valuable eloments of plant food are subjeot to this loss by leaching to anywhere near the same extent. This loss of nitrogen can be prevented in a large measure by the growth of green manuring crops. The agencies of nature which convert nitro gen into the soluble form are most active during the later summer months. At the close of summer there is com monly present in all fertile soiU a large quantity of nitrogen in soluble form. If the field be left bare during the autumn, wiutor and early spring this soluble nitrogen will be washed out of the soil. Tho only practical method of preventing this is to cover the field with a growing crop. For this purpose those crops which grow late into the fall will be found best, although oven those which are killed by autumnal frosts will before their death have taken a considerable i share of this soluble nitrogen out of ■ the soil. It will have become a part of the vegetable tissue. Iu such form it is not soluble aud will not be sub jeot to waste until this vegetable tis sue rots, as it will do with tho advance of the warmer weather of the follow ing season. It should be the aim of the farmer to leave his fields bare just as little as possible. Keep the fields covered, keep the soil filled with feed ing rootlets of growing plants. These hungry rootlets will take up nitrogen which would otherwise be lost. It will be locked up in vegetable tissues and safely kept to meet tho demands of the growing crop of the next sea son. Greeu manuring, then, may be made an important means of saving or conserving soil nitrogen.—Prof. W. P. Brown, in Orange Judd Farmer. Two Chickens From One Kgj. A double yolked egg was hatched fay a hen near Crystal Lake, Penn., recently. The farmer was greatly amazed to find two little chicks grown together after the fashion of the Siam ese twins. J
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