I Talks A bout Th© Rug© Tor Old Finery. Any girl finding a bit of antique em broidery, an old brooch or fob, is new the envy of her acquaintance. The fob Is worn with the chatela'ne waten; -odd brooches are eet as belt clasps and the embroidery figures as a yok Pur hats are not considered in good taste for evening wear. For evening wear a separate blouse of panne in delicate shades is most desirable. A lace tucker, held up by a ribbon velvet threaded through the top Is visible on many gowns. Anything in dress that suggests the historic costumes of the Napoleonic period is in the very height of vogue. Veloutine makes very stylish street gowns trimmed witli fur, and in the pale colors dotted with black it is very much used tor waists. The lower edge of little corset cov ers which reach only to the waist line are edged with lace or to match the trimming of the waist. Hosiery to match the dress is the latest fad, and as if this were not enough it must be inset with littie motifs of lace like the trimming on the costume. Among colors the rage for rod prom ises not to abate, and there have been new shades of khaki brought out In Paris, which are of tints almost cop pery in their redness. Old-fashioned collarettes of Honlton and Duchosse lace are revived again, and the woman who has one or more of these stowed away in her treasure box is to be congratulated. The introduction of gold braid on underskirts is frowned unou by women of good taste. Those who know say that the gold craze has run its course, and will be shortly superseded by sil ver. It is predicted by fashionable dress makers that white cloth frocks and coats will be much worn this winter. Hut cream cloth, fur trimmed, is equal ly pretty and may have a larger vogue. The newest vicunas for traveling and walking costumes are wide diag onals of soft tine wool roughly woven In a single color, such as castor brown, fnun, or Russian blue, or else iu two shades of one color. Many striking effects produced by pressure and weaving are to he ob tained iu panne velvet, although Mad ame la Mode now nsserts this stuff is no longer high style, as it has be come a popular material. A startling example of the craze for fur is an Eton of ermine, with sable collar and rovers. This audacious jacket Is to be worn with a black vel vet tailored gown and black velvet turban, with ermine heads and white tips as trimming. The woman who lias cameo anu various other old-time brooches lu her possession Is iu luck this season, for ihey are iu groat demand for the cen tres of black bows 011 fur and lace collarettes, and the cameo brooches make very pretty belt buckles set iu silver or gold. An extremely smart hat is of twine colored Russian guipure, bordered with black velvet nnd turned up at the side front, with a large gold buckle and a handsome black ostrich plume sweeping over the left side. The crown ha a soft band of black velvet twisted around, with three small gold buckles clasping it at intervals. Do you know the bishop's puff when you see itV It is simply the bouffaut under-sleeve of cream or white chif fon which issues from the sleeve prop er midway between the elbow and the wrist, and is drawn into a tight band there. The bishop's puff is much long er than the space it fills, so it billows over <-n curves and is extremely full above the wrist band, which is often ornamented with a of passemen terie, braiding or velvet ribbon. HORTICVLTVRAL Br Cultivated Orchards the Best. A prominent horticulturist says: "It Is the habit of the uncultivated or chards to overbear at long intervals when all conditions are favorable. Cul tivated orchards, on the other hand, tend to boar more often, but do not have that tendency to overbear." A Way to Protect Koses. Here Is a method of protecting choice roses that may be worth trying. Take six shingles, or break a clapboard into six desired lengths and insert them in tlie ground 1111 equal distance apart around each rose bush. Have them about five inches from the lmse of the plant so the roots will not be injured, and see that they all slant In toward the centre of the plant. Draw up a quantity of soil around the base of the bush, or put oil a thiol: mulch of man ure. Fill in between the bush and the shingles with leaves or other coarse material of like substance being careful not to pack It too thick. When enough is put in, get a:i old tin pan or a wide board and set over the tops of the shingles, placing a stone on this so it won't be blown off. When com pleted, we have a rain-proof protec tion, and one that will admit enough air to keep the bush in good condition through the winter. The device 's within the reach of anyone, and will be found very satisfactory. Tho Use of Mulching. Most strawberry growers put a covering of some kind upon their plants as soon as the ground has froz en, and gardeners use it on kale and spinach, yet not many know that it is •f as much valu on currants, rasp berries and other busi. fruits as on strawberries. Nor do s every one seem to understand just what purpose the mulch is expected to serve. We have seen some fields mulched already, although we doubt if the ground lias been frozen an inch deep. We like to have it well frozen before anything is put on the plants. The freezing does not hurt such plants, out the object is to prevent too early a start in the spring, that plants may not begin to grow, and then be killed down by a freeze or frost, which may destroy tlie buds, or at least weaken them so as to reduce the crop. And the same parties who mulch too early are likely to re move it too early, thereby doing more injury than would be done if they had not mulched at all. It should not be taken off until the plants have made a good growth under it. And many err in putting it on too thickly or using material that will pack too closely, so as to smother tlie plants, which is Worse in its results than no mulching. —American Cultivator. For Early Plants. Build against tlie south side of some building tlio addition shown in the cut, making the sloping portion of green- A HOTBED FOB EARLT VEGETATION. house sash. Cut a door through the side of tlie building for admittance. Build it now for next spring's use. In it you can raise early chicks, or make a hotbed of it for early vegeta bles. Tlio sides may be of matched boarding, lined with heavy building paper. The sides can bo banked with hay to advantage.—New York Tribune. To Control tlio San Joso Scalo. While it may not be possible to ex terminate San .Tose scale, the insect can be controlled to a degree that dam age to our fruit interests will bo re duced to a minimum. In all climates similar to that of the Pacific coast, spraying with a solution of unslaked lime, thirty parts, sulphur, twenty parts, anil salt fifteen parts, lias been found to be very effective. In moister climates, the best spray is made of two pounds of whale oil or fish oil soap dissolved in a gallon of boiling water. Thoroughly coat tho tree with this mixture. I'ear and apple trees are sprayed in tho winter; peach and plum trees iu the spring. This treatment will not Injure any tree. Spraying with kerosene oil is effective, but unless tlie oil is applied with extreme care great injury piny result. Precaution should be taken in spraying young trees, witli pure kerosene oil, that the oil does not sink in tlie soil about the roots. This can lie prevented by making a mound a few inches high, around the trunk. In the application of any spray that lias the strength which kerosene -dl possesses, it is wise to irst test it upon some plants that are not valuable, so that tlie quantity which It is safe to use may tie determined.—The Agricul tural Epitomist. Ten years ago it cost ?"5 per capita to go from Central Russia to Tomsk Iberia; to-day the rate is only $9. SAUSAGES BY THE TON. New York's Supply Great Now and- Still Growing. The sausage is a much-slandered riand. A man who makes sausages told a Suu reporter so, and he ought to know. Moreover, he stoutly in sisted that he ate his own sausages, and his wife backed him up in the statement. Surely one could not ask further proof that tradition and the comic papers have been all wrong. The sausage jokes must be laid away with the ipossy Jests about mothers-in-law and latch keys. "Are all sausages clean and nbove reproach?" asked the reporter, with the degree of sadness appropriate to the passing of an old friend. The packing-house man grinned. "Well, there are others," he said jovially, "but you don't get them in any decent market. Good butchers and grocers buy sausage of good firms and you are safe in buying from them; but don't you let any one persuade yon to buy cheap sausage. Ugh!" Evidently a man in the business knows the awful possibilities that lurk in the fdliug of sausage cases. The amount of fresh sausages con sumed every day in Greater New York would make even a German open his eyes. Every year the demand in creases, and the packing houses and private sausage makers turn out more tons of the dyspepsia breeder. The country sausage is easily first favorite. Why it is called country sausage is oue of the mysteries hidden in the mazes of nomenclature. "Why do they call it country saus age?" asked the reporter. "Because the hogs were raised in the country," responded the packing house man promptly. Probably that isn't the reason, but it Is as good as any other. There was a I time when every farmer made his own j sausages, just as he cured his own I hams, and did without fresh meats; j but that was before the days of re frigerator cars. To-day the farmer I buys most of his provisions from the nearest corner grocery, and the coun try sausage is a city product. It's making isn't so fearful and won derful as one might suppose. One may watch the process unmoved and eat sausages for breakfast the next morn ing without quivering an eyelash. In the first place, a sausage factory smells very good indeed. There's a hint of garlic abroad in the air, but it goes along with sage and spices and doesn't make itself more obnoxious than is absolutely necessary. Then the cooking pork and the bologna boil ing in the huge caldrons offer savory suggestions, and oue looks about for the apple sauce and the pumpkin pie that ought to garnish the odor. Everything in the factory shines in aggressive cleanliness. The floor is spotless, the sausage grinders ayd oth er machinery are dazzling, the work men are immaculate in white clothes and caps. The shoulders of pork and the carefully selected trimmings from the other cuts are put into the great grinders, ground and strained. The | country sausage gets a liberal sprink ling of salt, pepper and sage and a dash of cayenne pepper. Part of it is packed as loose sausage | meat. The rest is stuffed into eare j fully cleaned sheep cases or hog cases and is ready{for market. Nothing could be swifter and cleaner than the whole process, and the onlooker is I bound to regret any qualms he may ! have felt in the earlier days when his taste for sausage struggled for mas tery with his faith in the comic papers. —New York Sun. S l>rending Insect Epidemics. The Agricultural Department has lieen engaged for some time in spread ing epidemics. It is teaching farmers the art of starting plagues among harmful insects, and if bad bugs have doctors among them those doctors are going to be kept busy hereafter. Ever since the discovery of a contagious dis ease that would decimate the chinch bug population entomologists have been working industriously along that line, and contagion can now he spread among several varieties of harmful in sects. A contagious disease similar to leprosy has been discovered in the grasshopper family, and experiments In this State and elsewhere warrant the belief that it can be made most efficacious in freeing the farms of that pest.—Minneapolis Times. A Fortune in This Thought. The success of a dull or average youth and the failure of a brilliant one is a constant surprise in American history. But if the different eases are closely analyzed, we shall find that the explanation lies in the staying power of the seemingly dull boy, the ability to stand firm as a rock under all cir cumstances, to allow nothing to divert him from his purpose, while the bril liant but erratic boy, lacking the rud der of a firm purpose, neutralizes his power and wastes his energy by dissi pating them in several directions,— Success. Atchison's Sword SwaHowers. People who eat witli their knives are now known as sword swallowers. By the way, it is a sad commentary ou tlie slow spread of education when you see people of apparent intelligence who have never hoard that eating with the knife is very bad form, and not as efficient as eating with the fork Should "Go Up." In Germany it is considered neces sary that a child should "go up" be fore it goes down in the world, so it is carried upstairs as soon as born. 11l ease there are no stairs tlie nurse mounts a table or chair with the In fant. The Shiniest Dime. One little girl had five little dimes; She had counted them over a good many times. And again and again she had left her play To plan how to spend them for Christmas Day. For papa and mamma and baby boy And grandpa and grandma would ail enjoy Her iittle gifts as much as a score Of other presents that cost far more. Four of the dimes were dull and old, But one was shining and new, I'm told; And once the little girl said to a friend, "This new one is almost too pretty to spend." At last the Christmas shopping was done; The dimes were spent, yes. every one; And Annette seemed the happiest girl alive As she hurried home with her parcels five. She had a secret for her mother's ear. "I bought a nice present for papa, dear, And for grandpa and grandma and baby, too; But I spent the shitiest dime for you!" —Jessie L. Britton, in St, Nicholas, A Fox in School, When a fox is hard pressed it often loses its head before its brush. Dur ing a run of the Glamorganshire hounds, which had a long, stern chase over moorland and heather to start with, Reynard was at length brought to bay. Crossing a stream, lie cleared the wall of Cowbridge churchyard, headed down street, and finally bolted through a window of the grammar school, the hounds in close pursuit. The pupils, amazed, did not stop to see the end, which came soon; for tlie once wily fox was cornered in the scullery, and paid with his life for his rashness in seeking the shelter of a classroom. Pulling an Elephant's Tooth, Lately, in the Cily of Mexico, a mammoth elephant was successfully relieved of an aching tooth. The tootli was twelve inches long, the diameter at the root being no fewer than four inches. After the swollen gum had been thoroughly soaked with cocaine, a three-quarter-inch auger was used to make a hole through it. To bore through solid ivory is by no means an easy task, and tlie veterinary sur geons had to handle the instruments in turns. Even then the .vork was suspended every pow and again, owing to the an imal getting wrought up. On these occasions further doses of cocaine were injected, and after a couple of hours' hard work a hole was success fully drilled through the tooth. A brief rest was then taken before the most Important part of the work be gan. This consisted in running an iron rod through the hole, the ends of which protruded about four inches on either side. A rope an inch in diameter, which had been soaked in tar, was then tied to oacli end of the bar and twisted about the tooth iu sueli a fashion that It could not slip. The preparations were completed by running part of the rope through a pulley, carrying it out and attaching it to the traces of four ! strong horses. i The dramatic momen. came when | the word svas given to the driver to | whip up his horses. Crack! crack! i went the teamster's whip, and with a j long pull and a strong pull, aceompau , ied liy plenteous bellowing, out came the troublesome tooth, Cincinnati i Enquirer. The Walking-Stick Insect. I Nearly every mail brings to tlie edl j tor of the Nature and Science Depart ment of St. Nicholas several letters and small packages from tlio lioys and girls who want to know the names and most interesting facts of something they have recently discovered. There are also many "want to know" letters not pertaining to identifying speci mens. But even those are not all the In quiries, Frequently the door-bell rings and some neighbor's boy or girl has a "want to know" and a, specimen, "Hare is a specimen for you," says lit tle Jeanuie Wliittaker, as she passes over a liowl covered with a saucer, and adds: "We found it on the out side of our screen-door." Carefully lifting the saucer, I find a live walk ing-stick insect, that reaches up on tlio edge of the bowl and looks out, re minding us of a dog standing with fore paws upon a fence and looking over It is a well-named insect, for surely it looks like a miniature walking-stick that has acquired life and legs. A sereeu-door is an unusual place for it; tlie insect must have been on an ex ploring tour from tlie fields. While young these insects are green, and feed chiefly on grass or tlio leaves of shrubs and small plants. Later they go to the trees, preferring chiefly the oak, anil change their color so tlidy usually no longer look like the green grass and branches of small plants, but like tlio small branches of the trees, a gray or brown. It is very dif ficult to see them, so close is the pro tective resemblance; lint they may tie obtained in early summer by "sweep ing" the grass and weeds with an in sect-net. In late summer or early au tumn, shake a branch of an oak over a sheet or Inverted umbrella. They are so entirely unlike all other insects that they will be recognized at once, even by boys and girls who see them for tlio first time after reading this descrip tion. While not very plentiful usually, a few may bo found in almost any field or forest by a little careful search ing. HOW TO WALK. TOPS Should Not Bo Turned Out —Girl* Should Not lie Taught to "March." On analysis all methods of walking will be found to correspond to three main types. The Jlrst of these is the Hexlon or bent-knee gait, which is used by all uncivilized, sandalled, or moo easined nations, and also by all per sons who are obliged to walk long dis tances in the shortest possible time over uneven ground. This gait has re cently been officially .adopted in some European armies on account of its con venience for prolonged marching. In this mode of walking the body always leans forward to a considerable de gree, the knees are always held slight ly flexed, and the whole sole of the foot comes down to the ground at the same Instant. This oblique position of the body, this elasticity of the bent knee and this perfect play of the arch of the foot make propulsion easier, the expenditure of energy becomes less in consequence, and the endurance of the walker is enhanced in proportion. Yet, this flexion gait is not graceful, and not adapted for women except on long walking tours. The second type of walking Is the straight-leg gait of the soldier on par ade. In this walk the body is held erect, the forward foot is fully ex tended and strikes the ground with the heel first, the ball of the foot com ing down next, the other foot swinging in perfect cadence in front of the first, the heel again striking the ground first, etc. There is no question that this gait, however admirable is inay be from a military point of view, does not conform to the standard of womanly grace. For this reason, and in com pliance with the principle that abhors all jerky motion, I would discourage Hie teaching of marching in girls* schools and colleges. As a rule, the result is very ungraceful, the lines of thumping, shoulder-shrugging girls walking at a swinging cadence to the Stirling strains of martial music being anything but edifying. The third type is the gait of the pe destrian on the well-graded surfaces of our city streets. The great toes should move in parallel lines, pointing directly forward; for while the out ward pointing of the toes is normal in the passive standing attitude, it is not normal when the foot is in action. The walk with toes pointing out has been thoroughly inculcated Into most of us by nursery maids, governesses and dancing masters, and Is the most po tent factor in the causation of flat-fogt The foot should be placed on the ground with the ball of the foot, not \ylth the heel, first, in order to give full play to the arch. The knees should be very slightly bent, just enough to life the foot.—New York MedicaJ Record. An Obataclo to Portrait Painting. "I'm painting a face," said a por trait painter, -while conversing on some of the difficulties of his art. "There is one thing which I have found abso lutely Insurmountable. That is deaf ness. A sitter may be restless, seff-' Cousgious, unable tc assume a natural expression, expressionless—there may be a hundred and one difficulties, hut all of them except deafness you can get around in some way. You can sur prise your subject iuto make him smile, catch him in all sorts of ways unawares, and by putting this ami that together at last get a charac teristic likeness. Doafuess alone Is total. You tell one of your best anec dotes, one which you have used bril liantly time and time again, and your subject looks black and says, 'Beg par don?' You go over to shout the pleas antry into his ear, and by the time you get buck to your place again you've forgotten what fleeting look you wore trying to cateli or else your subject*!; face has returned to its passlveness. Deafness alone is the one tiling which destroys the mutual sympathy of sit ter and painter, and the Imfuedlnte traflsferrence of expression to the can vas, without which a really good por trait is impossible."—New York Sun. A Woman's Itnn k Account, "Do you know, I have begun to save money," said a young woman to her companion on a train on the Erie Rail road the other evening. "My husband Increased my allowance $5 a week, and I am saving every penny of it putting it in a savings bank and get ting interest on it. The; country bank where we live would not allow me any interest, so I take it in to Now York just as soon as Harry gives me the money. I have 920 in bank now." "How much interest do you get?" asked her companion. "Three per cent," was the reply. "That will be sixty cents in a year," continued her companion, "and you have.made four trsps to New York to make your deposit. That is forty cents each time for railroad fare, ten cents for car fare, and possibly fifty cents for lunch, so it costs you 94 to make your deposits." "You talk just like a man," was the depositor's indignant comment. "You don't count the pleasure of walking up to the hank cleric nud laying down your deposit Just like a business man. That is worth a dollar."—New York Commercial Advertiser. Aii Electric Automobile llell, A new electric automobile hell has been devised. The magnet incloses a coll, and the hammer is a steel rod, which has a reciprocating motion through the ax's of the magnet. The latter is inclined at a slight angle, which eavses one end of the rod to strike one peal, the other end on its return striking the opposite hell. As they are differently tuned, the tone produced is harmonious. The hell can be controlled by pushes on the ends of the controlling lever.