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In Serge and Linen PROMISING STRAWBERRY CROP CUT SHORT BY HEAT KAAND .Early Pickings Camt Soft and Light In Color. Striking an Unreceptlve Market Glutted With Low Crude Southern IKrrlcs. BIAS (If (TTtJ r i' Iff I' .pilrH Mlfc ill I liflp I'il kill i 'f'fi l lUwtVK- llwi i'V, Mir 15 i y "BrM oP SERGE Costume. This costume Is useful and Kmart in navy-blue serge The scams of skirt are wrapped and stitched on the right side; tlx; jacket is semi-lltting, and is trimmed with Mack mohair braid of two widths, and braid-covered buttons; the collar Is faced with silk. The fronts just meet, and are hooked ou the bust, each side bring trimmed with a silk ornament. I'.lack crinoline- hat, trimmed with white roses and green leaves. Materials required: Eight yards 4S Inches wide. 5 yards sateen for skirt lining, 5V yards silk for jacket lining, t yard silk for collar, about 8 yards wide braid. 28 buttons. Linen-Dress The skirt and over-bodice of this dress are in dark brown linen. The skirt is in a very smart shape, with panel effect front and back that is continued from the back Into a deep waistband. The over-bodice is cut tip in deep tabs that are buttoned to the waist band, buttons also form a trimming at back and front. The under-bodice is of white cotton, spotted with brown. The yoke and sleeves are tucked; the high collar and wrist3 ol Kleeves are finished with pleated lace. Hat of brown coarse straw, trimmed with shaded ostrich feathers. Materials required for the skirt and over-bodice: Six yards 42 Inches wide, 13 buttons. FASHION'S DECREE IN GLOVES Models for -All Occasions Are Dis played, and Most of Them Are Attractive. Gloves especially adapted for tennis playing girls are of one button length in white or yellow chamois, a ma terial which will not only withstand boiling but become softer and more flxlble with every laundering. The most practical gloves for golfing are the mousquetalres of colored mocha, which come with quite long wrists. For driving and riding there is nothing quite eo smart as the white leather gloves with black but tons, stitching and gauntlets. Tan, mode, white and black gloves for the street are of fine French glace kid In three and six button lengths and of finely spun silk, with double finger tips and composition clasp fastenings. Young girls' summer party gloves are of white or delicately tinted twist ed silk In elbow lengths. They are seamless, the thumbs hemstitched and some of them are exquisitely em broidered. ELABORATE MILLINERY. Hat of sliver gray chip lined with black satin, a long wreath of delicate silver roses (shaded by a silver gray aigrette mixed with marabou. Glove Mending. To mend gloves properly, never i:se silk, as It cuts the kid. Select Instead cotton the exact shade of the gloves and with a very line needle buttonhole around the rip or tear; then catch together on the wrong side, taking one stitch at a time from one loop of the buttonhole stitch to another. When tho rent Is joined in this way It is scarcely perceptible and wears longer than If sewed through the glove. To Avoid Being Struck by Lightning. Though It is Impossible to avoid the danger of being struck by lightning altogether, these 'ew reconunenda Mons may, with advantage, be borne In mind: Avoid fireplace. Lightning ol'en enters by tho chimney, on account of the h.."ernal coating of soot one of the bodies for which lightning evinces a preference. For the same teason, avoid metals, gildings and mirrors, on account of their quicks!!- SYRIAN WORK MUCH IN FAVOR Popular Type of Embroidery That In Without Rival In Conventional Designs. A type of embroidery that Is spe cially adapted to conventional deslgnt is the Syrian work, that gives an ef feet of overlapping scales. Tho de signs which are stamped for this em broidery are divided Into sections b lines running at regular Interval across the scrolls and other figures. The method of working Is both simple and rapid. The sections ara filled in with a filling cotton and then worked In satin stitch following tho growth of scroll. Three sides of sec tion are then outlined so that the design when finished looks as if ono scale sprung out of the other. This is particularly effective for borders or table covers or sofa pll olws or the centerpieces made of homespun linen used on tables bo tween meals. As the embroidery is done in Turk, ish floss or other heavy, glossy silk suitable for large designs, it workt up quickly, yet has a handsome solid surface. There Is room for Infinite variety of shadings but it Is well to keep the designs if possible in sev eral tones of tho same color. Thus a line of reds makes an attractive coloring or old blue Chinese greens and yellow verging to orange. Engagement Luncheon. A recent engagement luncheon was arranged in this manner: A lovinf cup wns placed in the center of Mu table and was filled with tiny boxi of bonbons. Ferns and roses were ar ranged in the cup. Ribbous were drawn from each gift to the plate and one little box, when opened, held a tiny card with tho engagement an nouneement. Another method is to write the announcement on a placard that has a heart and silver dart ruu through it. This may be placed Ir n conspicuous place on the mantel. Convenient. If you will take a strip of burlap licking or any stout goods, and tack It in the closet you will find it mos' convenient for pinning skirts to. piece a yard and a half long will hi heavy enough to pin a half-dozoi skirts to. Florists' pins are usefu in attaching dresse,s to the strip oi safety pins can be used. Branch as Ornament. A branch of the most ordinary tret in your back yard will ornament th center of your dining room table ir. the absence of flowers and sometime) this easily obtained foliage Is a pleas ant relief from the expensive bios somes which are more offjn seen. ver. The best place Is the middle of the room, unless there should bf a lamp or chandelier hanging from the celling. The less contact with walls or (loot tho better; and the safest place wer It possible to arrange It would bo a hammock, suspended by silken cords in the middle of a large room. In the absence of means of suspension, the next best place Is on substances which are bad conductors-- such ns glass, pitch, or several mattresses. A very promising struwberry crop was cut short by drought and extreme heat following the unusually cool and moist weather of lato May, says Rural New Yorker. Tho early pickings camo soft and light in color, striking an tin receptive market, glutted with low grade southern berries. Fair fruits realized less money than at any slm 'lar tlmo for many years. Quality and prices steadily Improved, however, until the full effects of tho hot wave became apparent in lessened size and Impaired flavor. The average yield per acre of good commercial plantings for the season would probably not reach 3.000 quarts, and the average price of that-class berries cannot be estimated at more than seven cents the quart, thus bringing possible profits to very Moderate figures. The variety Sue- V w w .(r- wy. -.A XAt.if ""ft New Cross Bred Strawberries. eess proved a heavy cropper, perfect ing Its berries better than kinds ma nuring later. Trobably greater revenue is to be credited to this productive ?arly variety than to any of the later jnes. notwithstanding the low prices prevailing at the beginning of the sea son, as it has been the most generally (danted. It is admitted to be too soft for shipment, but is locally liked for ts good size, fine color and satisfactory quality. The plant Is a most thrifty nd healthy grower. The bloom is staminate, furnishing abundant pollen for other sorts as well, and there are ilways plenty of strong runners, mak ing propagation easy and certain. vVilliam Ilelt shows Increasing weak jess In plant, but the berries are as (veil liked as ever, surpassing all other established kinds for table quality. It IU be long planted, but is not likely VINE CUTTER ON CORN PLOW Prevents Clogging of Shovels and Also Breaking Off or Cover lag Up of Plants. To prevent the clogging of the shovels on a corn plow and also the breaking off or covering up of the corn while plowing, bend a piece of A Vine Cutter on Cultivator. old wagon tire, three feet long, ns Indi cated at A and attach It to tho beam of the plow close to the arch. This cutter should be bent out from the beam so as to bo In line with the first, or Insldo shovel. Three holes should be drilled in the bar of the cutter so that It can be adjusted to set deep or shallow as desired. Use of Manure. The Maryland experimental station shows by repeated tests that fresh ma nure spread In winter did not give ns much Increase as the same amount rotted and plowed down in the spring. Turning the manure while rotting wns better than leaving It without being turned. Commercial fertilizers plowed under In the spring invariably gave larger yields than when sowed on the surface just before planting. Home Surroundings. The environments of your home may not be Just what you would like, but there are few farms that cannot be trade beautiful by the right appli cation of labor and skill. Study your case and do the lest you can with the means at your command, and you will see how your homo can bo made attractive. Trees, vines and flowers caa We umil te r.erk wondxrs. to maintain its present local Impor tance. (Hon Mary fell from grace this year, and may have difficulty in regain ing Its previous Btnndlng as an Indis pensable market variety. Vigor and productiveness are Its strong points. It Is a fair shipper, but quality and ap pearance are rarely commendable, though there are even less attractive kinds in genernl cultivation. The main reasou for growing It I that It is normally a great basket filler and a tellable, though not excessive plant niaki r, spacing Its runners about right for matted row culture. The blooms are imperfectly stamlnate, and do pot always take kindly to pollination from othc r sources, thus resulting In many knotty and malformed berries. The results of excessive humidity at the blooming time of Glen Mary were ap- a i K r Av7 Indian Strawberry Below. parent In the green-tipped and unat tractive fruits as they appeared when packed for shipment. Strawberries ol this class must "mako good" every year to retain their popularity. Presl dent finished Its handsome fruits as well as usual, but the weakened plants produced only a light crop. Gandy in heavy soils ripened a profitable crop, notwithstanding the Intense heat pre vailing at the time. While rarely a bountirul yielder, and too sharp In quality for many palates, Gandy re mnlns one of the most satisfactory and dependable late strawberries for the grower who plants in moist, rich soli and nfforda proper cultivation. Intro duced in 1884 as a cross between Glen dale and Jersey Queen, It holds Its own in this locadlty as the firmest, hnndsomest and most generally desira ble of lato varieties. FARMER SHOULD FIGURE COST Only Practical Way of Telling Which Are the Best Paying Crop for the Farm. A Btory is told of a lawyer who was employed by a railroad company on account of his shrewdness to secure the right of way through a certain part of Texas. With most of the farmers tills lawyer had no troubl In securing the right of way thro.jg'i their lands, many of them giving It without any compensation. Hut thers were a few farmers who would gel out n pencil and go to figuring. They figured that the land would be worth as much, or more, to the railroad com pany as it was to them. And those farmers always received a good price fur the land they relinquished for tho right of way. The lawyer remarked that whenever he saw a farmer take out a pencil and go .to figuring that he would have to pay that man fub value of his land, and he called then ' ligurln' farmers." There Is a good substantial moral to this little jtory Kvery farmer ought to be a "flguria fanner." He ought to figure on what It costs him to raise the different crops, and whnt he receives for them It is the only way he can tell whlcfc are the best paying crops for his farm. He should keep a book for thli purpose. It will only require a very small amount of time each day to keep these accounts and It will ho tlin1 most profitably employed. No Eggs for Horses It has been claimed that It Is a good thing to feed eggs to stallions during the breeding season, but a noted New Kngland veterinarian says a well nour ished horse would not bo greatly bene fited by being fed eggs. It Is a fact that eggs are highly nutritious and might be used to advantage If an ani mal lacked vitality. However, the di gestive system of the horse Is not ca pable of digesting animal protelds, and consequently ho would not be able to secure the full benefit of such foods. The Bumble Bee. Tho bumble bee is a friend of the farmer. In sections where cloverseed crops are depended upon tho value of tho bumble beo as an agent In fertiliz ing the clover blooms is fully appre ciated. A knowledge should be bad of the useful as well as the destructive Insects, which would prove that the farmer has quite as many good insect friends as he has destructive ones. 1- 4 v 1 4'-'ifc.. iV, doc rt rcw copprn. ftlVCfi YALLty 'I he old saying, "Famillnilty breeds contempt," does not hold good with Alaska; on tho contrary, It begets a fondness which swells into enthusi asm as one fact after another is dis covered and demonstrated. In somo wsy or other tho country has a draw ing and winning effect upon most per sons who havo lived there, if only for a short period. Some aro attracted by tho beauty and magnificence of tho scenery, and others find rest and re turning vigor In the mildness and even ness of the climate; somo, again, at tracted by the wonders of tho veget able and animal kingdoms, and others, the majority perhaps, delve Into tho richness of the mineral treasuries, writes John 0. nrady, ex-governor of Alaska in Independent. The adven turers into British Columbia, the Yu kon territory and Alaska aro a hardy and buoyant stock. Taoso who have gotten up our phys ical geographies were pumping from dry wells when they camo to treat of the northwest coast of America. Much that was given was erroneous. For In stance, Mount St. Ellas In one edition of the Encyclopedia lirltannlca Is spoken of as a burning volcano. Many well educated people well ulong In mlddlo life becomo Impatient when the deficiency Is revealed to them. It Is well that this is so, for by a reas onable amount of diligence they can make good the loss and have much pleasure In acquiring Information so much at yarlance with preconceived Ideas. The Yukon Is one of tho mighty IK III M J rivers of tho globe. Captains who you particularly wished to call thnli i i , . ,, . i . ......... i . Liiuir nave noa ineir training uu Bienuiouais upon the Mississippi and who now have been a number of years on tho Yukon believe that during the months of navigation as great a volume of wa ter is dlschargod Into Bering sea as into the Gulf of Mexico. Its head waters begin In tho mountains east of Skagway, in HritUh soil, somewhat south of the sixtieth parallel, and flow In a generally northwest direction. Two branches, the Lewes and the Pelly, unite at Selkirk, at which point It takes the name Yukon. On Its northern trend It receives tho volumes of other large tributaries before Daw son is reached, near tho mouth of tho Klondike. Keeping a still northerly course It crosses the boundary line in latitude 141 degrees, 90 miles from Dawson, Holding V.I11 its main direc tion at Clrclo City, It widens Into numorous channels and great flats till a few minutes north of tho arctic cir cle, where it la Joined by the Porcu pine, coming In from the rortheast. Here is bend and takes a generally southwest course, gathering as It goes the Tanana. coming up from the southeast, and farther on the Koyu kok, a mighty meanderer from the north, and at last discharging throng numerous channels over an Immense delta Into Bering sea. It Is nav igable for largo steamboats as far as Dawson, a distance of 1.C00 miles. From that point smaller steamers ply to White Horse, 112 miles by railroad to Shakway. The summit Is but 20 mile from this town and is at an ele vation of 2,700 feet. This river drains a mighty basin. Many good things are stored there in, and it does seem as though the Creator Intended It for tho use of his creatures. Gold has been found on most every stream throughout the length of tho valley where men have made an effort to reach bedrock, even far beyond tho arctic circle on the headwaters of tho Koyukok. The pro duction of this metal, which Influences mankind so powerfully, Nature's mills have been grinding and reducing and sluicing in past ages; That has been separated from the lodes has been gathered and froien securely In her safe deposit raults. Nearly every camp has Its own peculiar gold. There ts a wide difference Is regard to shape, fVftr WRAffOLC, ALASKA size, color and firmness. Dealers nntl miners becomo wonderfully accurate In these matters. Cold production in tho north called for new methods and these were Introduced and Improved yenr by year. Tho possibilities for stock raising and dairy farming aro almost beyond calculation. Sunlight and moisture, sufficient for plant life tiro unfailing. The limits of this article will not al low even a brief discussion of other rich resources furs, copper, lead, sil ver, tin, gypsum, marble, Iron, coal, fish and timber. ' Surely Alaska Is a goodly herltngo, nnd wo now hold In grateful memory William H. Soward, Charles Sumner. N. P. Hanks, yea, Andicv Johnson, be cause what was called "folly" has proved to-bo wisdom. The present pop ulation ts small, possibly 35,000 na tlvei and about tho same number of whites. Tho aborigines nro a good stock, nnd with fair treatment and encouragement will do their full ehnra In labor ami development. They aro doing It to day In tho fisheries, tho log. glng camps and In the mines. We can hardly contemplate) tho history of our ownership of tho vast possession for tho past 41 yeara with prldo. Tho next need Is railway transporta tlon. Tho whole southeast and south ern roast has good harbors, which are nccesslblo at nny season, nnd for tho most parr rates aro reasonable. Hut when one leaves tho coast and (starts Inland tho unit Is no longer tho ton, but tho pound. At tho road houso CO miles In from Valdez tho price or oats and hay for your horse Is 20 cents per pound. Alaska needs railroads, and It cannot develop without them. Trails nnd wagon roads servo their purpose, but how can such mighty resources be developed nnd distributed by such frnil means? Tho world needs butter and beef, coal und copper, and rail, roads are n necessity In dealing with these things In Ala.-ika. ! Resorted to Duplicity. One night I sat at the right of I.onl Randolph Churchill, who was only ona chair removed from the host, and tha conversation between them turned on the difficulties of pi,lj(. Kj)r.aUfll;i "Have you ever been embarrassed by finding that after telllnc Vor n,n. ence there were three points to ut,t..i. attention, nnd after elaborating tho first two you could not remember a iu vi wuai you meant to say on tlu third?" Tho question was asked host. by thu "Yes," Churchill replied; "that hart happened to me more than once, but It never gave mo nny trouble. I found an easy way out. 'Gentlemen.' I havo said to them, 'l told you that there were threo things which I desired to emphasize. I have mentioned two Much more, very much more, could bo said, but I appeal to your lutein genee. Is It necessary for mo to go any further; to waste nny more of your time or my own on a question the answer to which H bo obvloua" Haven't I said enough to convince you as fully as I am convinced myself?' They havo been quite satisfied with this, and whllo they were applauding I have swung into nnother part of tho subject. Gross duplicity, but It has saved me as, sometimes, only duplicity will do."-W. II. KMclng in MeClure's. Using a Vacant Lot. Tho Second church of Springfield O., has a vacant lot in tho centrai part of the city which it is reserving to build on a little later. nt tha trustees determined that It was not right to let the lot lie until It could, bo used for building, and so they pro, vlded that it should bo fitted up 09 n playground for children of tho neigh borhood through the present summer. Flower beds were laid out nnd some lawn sown, but tho most of the lot wns given to swings, slides, and oth. er suitable temptations to childish play. Moreover, observing that there wns no public drinking place in the neighborhood, the trustees provided a coll of water pipe running through n box to be filled with Ice, and thus inv provlsed a public Ice-water fountain. Tho public has shown great apprecia tion of both provisions ou the part ut the trustees. The example may cer tainly bo commended to other churehi is which nro holding vacant property, Grin and Barrett. '11 That lecturer is a tiresome talker. '12 WtIV to "or" Is human, you know. Harvard Lampoon.