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• Mr. Somers Somerset, the new os
Won on the licensing laws, is the son
fiot only of the well known Lady Hen
Vy Somerset, but also of Lord Henry
Somerset, who is still very much alive
although people are apt to forget the
fact Owing to certain scandals of an
unseemly type in which Lord Henry
was implicated, his wife separated
from him, and he found it convenient
.to live abroad—chiefly in Italy. He
may often be seen at the La Scala
opera house at Milan. Those newspa
pers which refer to Mr. Somerset as
the aetual heir tothedukedom of Beau
fort, forget that after Lord Worcester
, and any children that he may have,
comes Lord Henry Somerset, and there
fore the son’s claim ia very remote.—
St, James Gazette.
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The Veins of Lltenry History.
Literary history belongs to the do
main of fact just as much as geography
does, and the ability on the part of a
child to reel off the names of authors
and their dates is just as useless as his
ability to tell the capital of Bolivia or
to draw a map of Afghanistan. A cer
tain amount of literary history is use
ful,—the amount given in Mr. Stop
ford Brooke’s and Prof. Bichardson’s
primers and in Mr. Brander Mathews’
volume on American literature,—but
not a bit more, for as intellectual
' training literary history is not so effi
cient as another study. -^September
Atlantia
t The Western Han't Ideal. - i'
The United States is unique in the
extent, to which the individual has
been given an open field, unchecked by
restraints of an old social order, or of
scientific administration of govern
ment. The self-made man was the
Western man’s ideal, was the kind of
man that all men might become. Out
of his wilderness experience, out of the
freedom of his opportunities, he fash
ioned a formula of social regeneration,
—the freedom of the indvidual to seek
his own. He did not consider that his
conditions were exceptional and tear
porary.—September Atlantia
How to Mend a Silk Waist.
A dressmaker lays down three rules
for mending a silk waist: Use ravel
ings when you can. Sew from the un
der side. £)o not turn over edges, but
darn flat and trust to Careful pressing.
If a bone begins to show through, do
not mend but cut off the bone an inch.
If the silk wears off around the hooks
and eyes, move them along ever so lit
tle. Make a virtue of worn out seams
*y applying black feather stitching;
and remember that a silk waist is good
as long as the upper part of the sleeve
remains. Plastron, choker, lace, cuffs
and careful mending make a new waist
for you.
Admitted Error Too Soon.
It is very hard to go about with a
bullet and an ache in /our head. Still
harder is it when your doctor disbe
lieves the headache. and bultpt and
shuts you up ns a lunatic. This hap
pened to a young Hamburg confec
tioner, and for some years he lived in a
lunatic asylum. Finally he signed a
paper that the headache was a fancy
and the bullet a mere idea, and that
he had got them both out of his head.
'And now have come the remorseless X
trays, which have disclosed the bullet
in the man's skull. Ought he to be
glad or sorry?—London World.
It the Baby Is Cutting Teetn.
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leading serial for the new volume of
St. Nicholas. It is called “Master
Skylark,” and will deal with the
romantic events of the Elizabethan
age. The great dramatist figures as
one of the leading characters, although
the hero and heroine are a boy and
a girl. Another .serial, “The Last
Three Soldiers,” by William H. Shel
ton, has a novel plot It tellB of three
Union soldiers who became veritable
castaways in the Confederacy. Both
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INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How SnecMifal Firni.n OpmU Tills
DtpirlBMl of Uu Form—A Few
Hints os to tbs Coro of Idr* Stock
ond Poultry-.
EERBOHM, of
London, says: Con
tinued small ship
ments to Europe,
and a consequent
further reduction
In the quantity
afloat, have helped
to counterbalance
the usually de
pressing effects of
first supplies of
new wheat, and in a general way it
may be said that the trade le begin
ning to feel the effects of the paucity
of foreign wheat in view, aB manifested
in the quantity afloat for the United
Kingdom, which is now little over
12,000,000 bu, against 24,800,000 bu
last year, and which means that sup
plies of foreign wheat must be mod
erate for some time to come, a fact
which English farmers with their new
wheat in excellent condition will not
be slow to take note of. There are, in
deed, several sufficient reasons why the
■immediate future of wheat should be
regarded with less discouragement than
was the case a month ago. First and
foremost, it is becoming evident from
the various reports received that the
American crop is not likely to be as
large as was expected, and. Indeed, will
fall rather considerably below last
year’s total, a poor spring wheat crop
much more than counterbalancing an
improved wipter wheat crop. In the
second place it is now tolerably clear
that France will not have the abun
dant crop once looked for, enough be
ing known of the threshing results
in the south, southwest, center and. east
of France to warrant the statement
that only an ordinary average crop has
been obtained in these districts. In
the north and northwest, where the
harvest is now drawing to a close, the
results are relatively better, but the
best informed authorities affirm that
the total crop will not exceed and will
probably not equal that of last year,
so that, as we pointed out in our last
review, as the stocks of old wheat have
been practically exhausted in the ab
sence of any important supply of for
eign wheat in the past season, France
will in all probability import consid
erably more foreign wheat in 1896-7
than she has in 1895-6. The Paris Bul
letin des Halles, we may add, deduces
from the recent official crop report that
the total crop this year will be about
118,750,000 hectolitres, against 119,500,
000 hectolitres last year. So far, how
ever, purchases of foreign wheat in
France are difficult, owing to its rela
tively high price; Danubian wheat, for
instance, sells at Dunkirk or Calais at
equal to 33s 6d per 480 lbs, duty paid,
while at Lille new home-grown wheat
<s offered at 31s to 32s per 480 lbs.
Another reason why the trade should
be less despondent is to be found in the
latest official Russian crop report, and
according to which neither the Ghirka
wheat nor the Azlma wheat crop is
likely to be an average, although the
former is regarded as promising bet
ter than the latter. Wheat buyers gen
erally have apparently become so ex
tremely cautious that they need not be
reminded of the fact that early crop
estimates, specially in America and
Russia, are apt to be misleading, but
under the present extraordinary cir
cumstance* in regard to the statisti
cal position, any marked deterioration
in the general crop outlook might find !
them napping.
The Foar-Hondred Pound Cow*
The possibilities of butter production
in matter of yield per cow per season is
one of great Interest, writes F. W.
Moseley in Nebraska Farmer. Other
things being equal, the smaller the
herd the easier great results can be
obtained. Some of the beet results are
shown when but one cow is kept. Yet
no one will deny such results can be
approximated when a greater number
of cows are kept, but in such cases the
cows to start with must be eauallv
good and each must have the same at
tention given to the one cow. “But,”
says some reader, “that would not
pay." If results such as are given be
low could be obtained It would pay.
Mr. John Pritchard, Castleton, Rut
land county, Vt., has a cow with a rec
ord worthy of emulation. In reply to
an inquiry made by the writer last
spring some facts were given and are
quoted as follows:
“Our cow Is six years old. Is three
fourths Jersey, and is of good size. She
calved the 25th of February, went dry
six weeks, had no grain while dry, but
plenty of hay and corn fodder and a
good warm stable. After she calved we
began to feed her and gradually in
creased it to two quarts gluten meal
! and two quarts of middlings in the
morning and the same at evening, with
a peck of cut potatoes per day and a
good ration of hay—all she would eat
! clean. She has made three pounds
! three ounces of butter per day some
weeks and we use all the milk and
cream needed for our family of two and
some visitors. We do not claim to U6e
a great deal, but just all we want. We
raise our cream In a portable creamery
—the Occident. Last year our cow made
378 pounds of butter, and we had a
family of live for over two months—a.
grandchild taking three pints of new
milk every day during that time.”
It will be seen that as the cow had
gone dry six weeks of the year and that
378 pounds of butter were made, the
yield per week (forty-six weeks) was
nearly eight and one-fifth pounds per
week. Had none of the milk or cream
been taken for other uses the butter
produet would have been considerably
greater. That it would have been more
than four hundred (400) pounds for the
year no one can doubt—but call It Just
that and you have a standard worth
working to reach. No one can deny—
even at present low prices of butter—
there is a good profit In keeping a 400'
pound cow.
Beat Height for Ground Water.
F. H. Storer, ln*hla work on "Agri
culture,” speaking of the height to
which ground-water should rise in or
der to do the most good, says:'
“The height of the ground-water may
be ascertained In any special case by
noting that of the surface of a well,
or any open ditch 01 hole In which the
water is standing. But It is to be ob
served that the water in such ditch or
well is usually a little lower than that
of the wafei: in the soil. It must be re
membered /also that the foregoing
statement would rarely be true for a
stiff clay soil. In clay soils the wells
are commonly 'Over-shot Wells/ aS the
term is; that is; they are mere pits to
receive and hold the' surface' water,
w uiuii iiuwB intu mem si me top. me i
proper height s! which ground-water
should Stand In order best to conduce
to the prosperity of the growing plant
is a question of no little complexity.
There are numberless swamp plants
which prefer to have their roots con
stantly Immersed in ground-water.
Rice, also, and the cranberry and rib
bon-grass, and a few other useful
grasses, flourish with their roots ac
tually wet. But as a general rule the
plants of cultivation cannot bear such
an excess of this kind of moisture. It
Is with them much as it is with the
greenhouse plants, there must be a
hole in the bottom of the pot or the
plants will drown. Many plants hav
ing powerful roots do indeed send'some
of them down to ground-water. There'
are Innumerable examples on record,
for that matter, of the choking of
drains by the roots of various kinds of
clover, and of turnips, grape-vines and
the like. It is possible to grow a great
variety of plants in mere water. But
in spite of all this, it' is notorious that
plants flourish best in soils where the
ground-water is several feet from the
surface of the soil. In the cultivation
of moors and bogs in Europe, it Is held
as one essential condition of success
that the grcpind-water must be kept at
least three feet below the surface of
the land in summer, and as muchas
two feet below the surface in winter.
v . Notes on Small Fro It.
For largest yield of perfect berrleB,
two favorable seasons are necessary.
The first to perfect the root, the plant
and the fruit bud. The root is the
foundation on which future success de
pends. The tint of flower and perfec
tion of fruit proceeds from the root Its
best development requires fine, rich
soil, plenty of moisture and frequent
cultivation. With good roots, vigorous
plants and canes may be expected.
Vigorous canes well pruned, free from
weeds and grass and having sufficient
room to grow, will form many strong
vigorous buds for next season’s fruit.
These fruit buds are promises of fu
ture payment and the first season’s
work is not done until they are card-''
fully prepared for their long winter
sleep. The second season is a repeti
tion of the first, as the same care that
matures this year's plant also matures
fruit on last year’s cane. The fruit
grower should then remember that in
preparing the soil, in selecting plants,
in hoeing, cultivating, pruning, thinning
of fruit, protection, and in every little
detail, he is performing an Important
part in the quality and quantity of his
fruit one or two years hence. Neglect
the work but a single week, and like
an ugly thread woven into a beautiful
pattern, it shows imperfection ever af
ter. The eternal now is the time to
grow good fruit. In many parts of the
northwest, strawberries have been al
most a failure because of imperfect root
growth last year. In many cases even
stamlnate varieties were so weak and
pollen so impotent, they could not fer
tilize their own blossoms. Lack of pol
lenlzatlon is the direct cause of failure.
This weakness of root growth extends
to new setting this year, and great
care will be necessary even under favor
able circumstances, to place new beds
In good condition for next year’s fruit*
ing.—M. A. Thayer.
nm«N of Soil Important.
Prof. Milton Whitney, of Johns Hop
kins university, has determined that,
In an ordinary wheat soil, there are at
least 10,000 million soil grains in a
gram (about a pint), and in some of the
finest soils this number has reached
24,000 millions. In coarse or sandy
soils, the particles, by reason of greater
weight, take a closer arrangement;
hence there is less air space. The more
soils are divided up and made fine, like
dust, the more air space, and for same
reason, the more surface in a given
bulk. To illustrate: A cubic foot of
hard granite has only six square! feet
of surface exposed to air or water. If
ground to fineness of a good wheat soil,
then a cubic foot will have over two
acres of surface, and in the finest lime
stone soil of Maryland the exposed sur
face of all the soil grains in a cubic foot
exceed three acres in extent. The
amount of surface is important, as the
water in the soil adheres to these sur
faces, and the roots occupy the spaces
between in search of food. The more
fine spaces there are the more fine root
lets there will be, and the more food
the plant can gather from the soil.
Wet Lands Waste Manure.-r-Wet
lands waste the manure, by not allow
ing ready absorption, the valuable
parts of the manure frequently pass off
in vapor and are carried by the
winds to enrich your neighbor's soil,
who, by underdrainage, reaps the bene
fit of your labor as well ..as his own.
Good feeding should not be governed
by the price of dairy products. Neither
should the enthusiasm of the dairy
men fluctuate with like mUMt. Con
stancy is needed in both cases.
Condolence.
A Detroit man recently bought him
self one of the suits of tow that have
(rained a (Treat deal of popularity for
summer wear. The colored man who
does odd chores around his home looked
at it, turned away and heaved a tre
mendous sigh.
“What's the matter, Augustus? Don’t
you approve of this outtlt?”
“ ”1 aint fer me ter ’apress no 'pinion.
But I wants ter say dat ef wus comes
ter de , wus, I's redy ter stick by de
fam’ly eben it I has ter take leas
wages”
“You seem to think this suit is con
nected with hard timea’’
“Yassin But I didn't ’m&glne dey
wue ez hahd ez all dia Hit doan mek
so much differ'nce ter cullnd folks
W’en I wah livin’ down souf l’sc raised
liul fam'lies ob pikerninnies dat ud tak’
er coffee sack an’ cut hoi’s foh den
arius an' male' it pass fer co’t vest an'
breeches But much ez I’ve hyurd
'bout dese huhd times, I nebber dldn'
spelt ter see er sho nuff white gen’le
man have ter go ’roun in Jute clo's."—
Detroit Free Press.
Iowa farms for sale on crop pay
menta 10 per cent cash, balance hi
crop yearly until paid for. J. MUL
HALL, Waukegan, 111.
, HI* Month Made Trouble.
A few years ago two men were con
victed of horse stealing in a district
court in Montana. They deserved a
sentence of ten years imprisonment,
hut the judge let them off with three.
The worse man of the two, supposing
that the sentence once pronounced was
past revision, addressed the court. “I
just want to say,” he told the judge,
“that when I get out you will be the
first one I will come here to kill.” “Oh,
Well,” said the judge, “in that case I’ll
make it ten yearn Then you won’t
trouble me so soon.” Having said this
, he turned to the other man and said:
“Is there anything you would like to
say?” “Not a blessed word,’’answered
the prisoner. The man who said noth
ing is now out. While his partner is
still behind the bars.
For lung and chest diseases, Piso's Cure
is the best medicine we have used.—Mrs.
J. U Northcott, Windsor, Ont., Canada.
” Remembering Manses, . v
There is a Boston society woman
who cannot remember names, neither
'can her daughter. One day they met a
Mrs. Howe, and afterward the daugh
ter remarked: “Howe invented the
Bewing machine didn’t he? Well, just
think of machines and we will be sure
to get her name.” The two ladies went
to tea a few days afterward, and Mrs.
Howe was there. Up sailed the moth
er with her sweetest smile and ex
claimed: “My dear Mrs. Singer, how
delighted I am to see you again!" Soon
afterward the daughter appeared, and,
with equal charm of manner, said: “My
dear Mrs. Wilcox, how are you?”
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Emerson's Prayer.
In the August issue of the Arena the
editor contributes the following signifi
cant anecdote concerning Whittier and
Emerson: The two were taking a
drive together when they passed a
small, nnpainted house by the road
side. “There,” said Emerson, point
ing out the house, “Hves an old. Cal
vanist, and she prays for me every'day.
I am glad she does. I pray for myself.”
“Does she?” said Whittier. “What
does thee pray for, friend Emerson.”
“Well, when I first open my eyes on
the beautiful world, I thank God that
I am alive and live so near Boston. ”
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In the number of Harper'b Bazar is
sued on October 3d there will be given
the flrstchapter of “FrancesWaldeaux,”
a brilliant serial story from the pen of
Rebecca Harding Davis. The story is
original in treatment, and has for its
motif the absorbing love of a mother
for her only son. It will occupy eight
consecutive numbers of the Bazar and
be finely illustrated. “Autumn Fash
ions for Men” will be fully treated in
the next issue of the Bazar.
Diplomacy.
Mra Hendricks (proudly walking ont
of the sewing room)—“Well, Percy,
how do you like my bloomers?”
Mr. Hendricks—“Oh, they do very
well, but- dear me, how much older
than usual they make you look.”
• On the following day a neat package
intended for the far away heathen, was
forwarded from the Hendricks home—
Cleveland leader.
Gladness Comes
With a better understanding of tlie
transient nature of the many phys
ical ills, which vanish before proper ef
forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts—
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any uctual dis
ease, but simply to a constipated condi
tion of the system, which tne pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, andis
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating the
organs on which it acts. It is therefore
all important, in order to get its bene
ficial effect:, to note when you pur
chase, that you have the genuine arti
cle, which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is meat largely
Used and gives moBt general satisfaction. |
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. "!*“•>• hot spell has been g6$l for me
in one way, said an uptown produce
dealer. “You know there is a popular
belief in the country that cabbage
1 cares will protect one front sunstroke.
That belief has been communicated to
the city, and the idea has cropped out
wonderfully in the past few days. You
know it’s only the green leaves that
are supposed to he protectors, and the
only thing for r 'person to do who
wants one of them id a hurry to put
under his hat ia is to buy a whole head
of cabbage. Truckmen and street
cleaners are my best customers this
week. Yesterday afternoon a half doz
en of the latter eame In here, bought
four heads of cabbage, divided the
green leaves and, writb belmcbt stuffed
with them, went confidently back , to
their broiling work."—New York
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will eontsin an important article by
Brigadier-General A. W. Greeley, U. S.
A., on Nansen’s “Farthest Northt”
Hon. Worthington G Ford will contri
bute a valuable article on Washington’s
farewell address There will be a
double-page picture by the late G Si
Reinhart, entitled “High-tide at Get
tysburg," and the'battie of Lake Erie
will be Commemorated in the “Naval
Battles" aeries by James Barnes, with
an illustration by Carleton. T. Chap
man.
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A ntmble couple fMn afoqbiti
era town arrived late at night mrtr A
seaside tavern. Just as the husbant
was falling asleep, he murmured;
“Listen to the surf, Matilda; it’s glo*
rious; worth the journey. I haven’t
heard it for forty years.” In the monk*
>n; they saw no sea from windows Of
piassa. On inquiry the husband dis
covered that it was a howling alley
that bad lulled him to sleep.—Boston
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