lii R FARM DEPARTMENT.
In choosing a mutton sheep, either to
feed or breed feeding stock fur there
are some principles that can be laid
down as true and applicable in almost
alloses writes Georcre M-Kerrow in
the American Sheep Breeder. The easy J
feeder must be of the thick fleshed,
block y sort for davlitrttt that shines
. , , i . .
be made iutc meal and the possessor of
ions less rarely makes a first class
1 -'
feeder. The ribs should be well spruii
so as to give a broad, straight bac
from shoulder to hip, upon which good
rupii priced meat can b'j placed wit
judicious feeding.
The tiips should be parried out on
tine with the back to the tail, keepil
a good w idth all the way ami should be
well Idled at the thigh or w aist, while
tile fore leg should be well lilied with
neat above the knee. The shoulders
must be full ana muscular. In short
the carcasses should be plump and full
throughout its whole length
i Constitution and health r condition
are all important and are show n by
bright clar eye one that is not yellow
bloodshot or watery. A sprightly
active step, as thj animal move along.
A short thick neck that tajers grad.
uaiiy from shoulder to head, and is full
of muscles ou top of the shoulders
fck wide, deep chest ahd heart, girth
giving room for large lungs and heart
and rich pink skin. With all these
points well developed and a large
abdomen to give plenty of room for
the consumption and digestion of food
you have a sheep that w ith proper
food fed at regular times and in a
proper manner will yield prolitable
returns to the feeder and give satis
faction to the shipper, butcher and con
sumer, making all better for having
owned him.
f All rams or ewes that have been
ighlv fitted in small yards or sheds
mould not be given the preference for
fceelng as they often are over sheep of
fual quality that only lack the soft,
abby Mesh that is a detriment to its
possessor. Breeding rams should be
Id good muscular condition brought
bout by liberal feeding on muscle
Forming food, such as oass, bran clover
iay and gcod grasses, while they have
k good range where they can have
sufficient exercise.
f The most of American breeders stiil
insist that the fleece is the most im
portant part of the sheep, and generally
icomraence their inquiry for a sire to
place at the head of their tlock with the
question; What will he shear?" And
if this can be answered with a large
number of pounds a sale is made. It is
Well known to experienced feeders tha
the heaviest fleeced sheep generally do
not feed as well as those that are of
lighter fleece. While I would have
-our mutton sheep carry good fleeces of
uicllent quality yet I fear that we are
striving to make the fleece a leading
factor and like the Merino breeders
will wake up some day to find that we
have placed too much stress on wool
and have allowed the const i tut ion, good
feeding quality, prepotency and
the capacity to breed and feed well a
high percentage of choice lambs to de
part from our flocks. Early maturity
La a necessity ana such animals or
breeds as develop into proper form
ijuickly should be sought after The
Houthdown, Shropshire, Oxford Down,
Kret and Leicestershire are breeds
piat lead off in this respect.
Fioflt in Trern,
i There is no question about the profit
to be derived from the tree planting
when the business is properly handled.
In. growth of ash has been known to
give the planter a clear profit of "L0
per acre, on tracts of ten or twenty
acres, from trees only twelve years old.
Could rocky, hilly, or otherwise un
profitable land in the older states to
fee turned to a more prolitable account
than this? White ash is a timber that
is always in demand for a variety of
uses and will always command a good
price. Beside this, the catalpa, the
Asserican sweet chestnut, sugar maple
elm. butternut, hickory, poplar . and
sany others of our native forest trees
are well adapted to timber planting.
Seme of these will in a few years give
Mutual returns in the way of nut crops
that will add hugely to the profits but
for the '.issber outcome alone any of
tbem w?U pay well in the course of
IN me. It must be remembered that
the mot begins to accrue from Hie
very first, for each acre of growing
po-ing tlw.ber will add something to the
va-tic of h'.irrti every year.
Hrma flappteawatal to Oism.
With corn worth 66 cents a bushel.
bran 10 a ton and oil raeal 23 a ton
fan inquirer asks, in the Breeders'
jSasette for the best supplemental
fattening ration for steers having the
iaageof blue grass, white clove and
(Tsaothv ; pasture. Professor W. A ,
peary says in rep'y :
nAt Um prices named bran is the
isw in we usx, ana l should
it liberally In U ratio. Mart with
Cm pounds of bran and live of corn
.fit wfil coat too cents par hundred
Jar day. Aa Um fattening period
win come down in
ptosacd saoald be iacriMid in the
oeKiag down ontbe bran. Home
2 OKI BUlbs fed also toward the.
Jrtf ti portod tfpeeiaJly for the
nof atefctes gjum coat and
( :ixhsl a finished a? jw.iuc.-.
Referring to the practice of somn
western farmers of letting their corn
stand in the shock until dry and there
rutting it into a bin buiit like a silo
but not nearly so strong or expensive
a correspondent asks the superinten
dent of the Wisconsin experimental
station if lie approve this plan, The
reply was as follows:
I do n t think the practice herecei r j?d
should be recommended to our farmers
suomu ie rmmimeiui&a to our
1 ur tine rimu ?i uviiA nt.&fit n.
- ov - it niiciii in 1 a x -
serving dry fodder at this station re
sulted in failure. -We found that the
fodder as so dry that it did not pack
(hsely and so damp that there was
enough moisture to start heating. The
result was that the whole mass became
moldy and unlit for feeding purposes.
With a large silo and heavy weights
perhaps this could have been avoided. I
do not see any material gain in cutting
and shocking com an-.', waiting until it
is thoroughly dry and then putting into
asilo. If 1 waited that long 1 should
not think of putting it into a pit but
should use it as dry fodder instead.
When we were in the habit of cutting
corn much earlier than we do now, 1
recommend wilting the fodder.
Exierienee showed that it was un
wise to recommend wilting because
the term was misunderstood by some
farmers. At best it was dillicult to de
termine just at what time the fodder
should be put into the silo. We are
now prettty well agreed that the corn
should not lie cut until the ears are
glazed but while the plant is yet green
and sappy. The proper stage is in
dicated by the lower haves beginning
to dry and the whole plant taking on a
yellowish-green tinge, indicating ma
turity. When this stage is reached
the corn should he out and put into the
silo without deiav.
While it is true that much less weight
of fodder has to be handled by allowing
the com to cure in the shock, 1 think
the way I have described is superior,
and will make up the difference in the
cost for lafor. Such corn packs close
in the silo and makes a feed entirely
satisf actory to dairy stock.
The Hut. Iiiiij Mscliluc.
The hatching machine must not be
delayed if you expect to use one.
Hatching begins in November, and
may extend into April. The earlier
iow the lietler if high price broilers are
to go on thtt market, as they often
bring "") cents in February and March,
and good paying prieees up to June and
July. The mam point here is to urge
the iniixirlaiice of beginning earlv.
Even if only to experiment with the
machine, it should lie done now, in
order to complete the experiment at the
time when the old hen refuses to sit.
lOI'irm in .Mn's Dress.
A Business woman" writes to pro
test against the agitation of dress re
form for women, upon the ground
that women's dress is in no need of
reformation, anil to propose a
dress reform for men. She wants to
know why men's trousers should not
be cut off at the ankles; she wants to
know if there is comfort in a shiny
shirt front or a stiff collar-the growing
prevalence of flannel, silk, cheviot and
unstarched linen answers nay; she
asks why men should stuff a yard or
two of superfluous cotton cloth into
their troupers instead of wearing shirt
waists as the little shavers do; she
shoots the hat of nun, so to sneak
with a condemnation of its stiffness.
Sensible men. will welcome the
thought of an effort to reform their
dress in tUe direction of comfort and
convenience. Mut our hopes are
damped somewhat by the memory of
the fact that throughout the ages when
women were the architects of men s
shirts, there was never known a shirt
that fitted.
Four counties in Illinois Douglas,
M-mltrie, Coles and Edgar supply a
large proportion of the world's stock of
broom corn namely, about 12,000 tons,
valued at 11,000,0 o.
The. surface roads of New York city
carry more passengers annually than
are carried by the combined steam
railroads of New York state in the same
interval.
A Ft h That Turns to Water.
A curious animal is the medusa.
Writing in 1701, l.eamur says: "It is a
true sea jelly, having little color or con
sistence. If we take one iu our hands
the natural heat is sufficient to dissolve
it into water." A medusa looks more
like a mushroom than anything else,
and is often of a pale blue or rose color,
wliie in some localities it is violet.
The tissue ot a medusa is "so fragile
that when abandoned by the waves on
the beach it melts and disappears, with
out leaving a trace of its ever having
existed." They are found principally
in the arctic seas, and coustiiu e one of
the chief supports of the whale. Lon
don Tit-Bits.
These r Is lliv flrcit Head.
Young women iu Cleveland have
formed a society to get even with the
young men who call upon them fre
quently but never take them to any
pUce where it costs money. When such
a youth visits a nymber of the society
she charges him live cents for entertain
ing trim. Of course, the boys pay It aa
a Joke. The money is put Into a gen
eral fund, and the girls will mm it to
pay their own way to theaters. The
scheme is a good one, and U conaidera-
(My cheaper for the 1ya UumoaeortiM
the girts tbmelva,-j)iGale across.
TALMAtE'S SERMON.
Dr. Tallage' text was taken from
Acts xvii., M: "While I'aul waited!
ou them at Athens his spirit was stirred j
iu him when he saw the city wholly j
given to idolatry."
It seemed as if morning would never
come. We had arrived after dark iu ;
Athens, Greet"1, and the night was
sleepless with expectation and my
v;atch slowly announced to me one and ;
two and three and four o'clock; and;
at the first rav of dawn i calle 1 our
party to lock out of ths window upon
that city to which I'aul said he was a
debtor for Greek architecture, Greek
sculpture, Greek poetry, Greek elo.
quence, Greek prowess and Greek his
tory. That, morning in Alliens we
sauntered forth armed with most gen.
erous and lovely letters from the pres
ident of the United States and his secre
tary of the state, and during all our
stay in that city those letters caused
every door ami every gate and every
temple and every palace to swing
open before us. The mightest
geographical name on eailh today is
America. The signature of an
American president and secretary of
state will take a man where an army
couiu nor. inose names brougltt us
into the presence of a most gracious
and beautiful soverigu the queen of
Greece and her cordiality was mo.e like
that of sister than the occupant of
throne room. No formal bow as when
monarchs are approached but a cordial
shake of the hand and earnest questions
about our personal welfare and our be
loved country far away. But this
morning we pass through where stood
the Agora, the ancient market place
the locality w here philosophers used to
meet their disciples walking while
they talked and where I'aul the
Christian logician flung many a proud
Stoic and got the laugh on many an
impertinent Epicurean. The market
place was the center of social and po
litical life and it was the place where
people went to tell and hear the news.
Booths and bazaars were set up for
merchandise of all kinds except meat
but everything must be sold no lying
about the value ot commodities and the
Agoranorai who ruled the place could
inflict severe punishment upon offen
ders. The different schools of thinkers
had distinct places set apart for con
vocation. The l'latieans must meet
at the cheese market, the Deceliansat
the barber shop, the sellers of perfumes
at the frankiuoense headquarters. The
market place was a space 300 yards
long and it was given up to gossip and
merchandise and lounging and philoso
phizing. All this you need to know n
in orderjto understand the bible when
it says of Paul "Therefore, disputed he
in the market daily witli them that
met him." You see it was the best
place to get an audience, and if a man
feels himself called to preach he wants
people to preach to. But before we
make our chief visits of today we
must take a turnjat the Stadium It
is a little way out but go we must. The
Stadium was the place where the foot
races occured.
1'he Standium is 680 feet long 130
feet wide and held 40,000 spectatois.
There is today the very tunnel through
which the defeated racer departed from
the standium and from the hisses of
the people and there are the stairs up
which the victor went to the top of
the hill to be crowned with the laurel.
In this place cdh tests with wild beasts
sometimes took place and while Had
rian the emperor sat on yonder height,
1,000 beasts were slain in one celebra
tion. We come now to the Acropolis. It
is a rock about two miles in circum
ference at ths base and a thousand
feet in circumfefence at the top and
300 feet high. Ou it has been crowed
more elaborate architecture af.t sculpt
ure than in any other place under the
whole heavens. Originally a fortress
afterward a congregation of temples
and statues and pillars their ruins an
enchantment from which no observer
ever breaks away. Xo wonder that
Aristides thought it the center of all
things Greece, the center of the world;
Attica the center of Greece; Athens
the center Attica and the Acropolis
Uie center of Athens. Earthquakes
have shaken It, Verres plundered it.
Eoid Elgin (he English ambassador at
Constantinople gut permission of the
sultan to remove from the Acropolis
fallen piecs of the building but be took
from the building to England the
finest statues removing them at an
expense of 1800,000. A storm over
threw many of the statues of the A cro-
polis. Morosini the general attempted
to remove from a pediment the sculpt
ured car and horses of Victory but
the clumsy machinery dropped it and
all was lost. The Turks turned the
building into a powder magazine where
the Veuetian guns dropped a fire that
by explosion aent the columns flying in
the air aud falling cracked and splin
tered. But after all that time and
storm and war and inconoclaam have
affected the Acropolis is the monarch
of all ruins and before it bow the
learning the genius the poetry the art
the history of the ages. I sew it as it
waa thousands of years ago.
What I bare so far said in this dis
course wm aeeessary in order that you
B'ay understand the boldness, the de
fiance, tbo holy recklessness, the mag
Miocenes of Pauls speech. The first
ftundsrhott bo launched at the opposite
19Uts Acropsita-tbat aMnwat all1
...Inter w:th HoN ami leini- lie
p:irt nt -God, wh.. ma le t.u world."
.. .. .i.. 'i n,..,t I'roint'.heiis
that Mercurv made it, that
Apoi made it. that J'oseidou m.uie n,
that Eros made it. that I'audrocus made
it. I
it. that it took an
, all the
i,u. U of ll.e Parthenon, yea
fc . .-.:
podii ssesof the Acropolis at mane u
a d 1 -re stands a man w ithoiit any ec-
CiCSi:
,ucal title, neither a iu., w
a reveread, declaring that the
even
wori i was made by the Lord of heaven
and earth, and hence the inference iu.n
m'i iiiennienriid coveriusr of the Acrop-
,.iic m uMariini the iH-onle standing on
the steps of the I'aithenou could hear
it, was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a
blasphemy. Look at the laces of his
auditors- they are turning pale, anu
then red, and then wrathful. There had
been several earthquakes in that region;
but that was the severest shock these
men had ever ft It. The I'ersians had
bombarded the Acropolis f rom Mars
hill, but this Pauline bombardment was
crreuter and more terrific. But surely
surely
K-k ou
the preacher on the pulpit of roc
Man hill will stop now. Ili3 auJieme
can endure no more. Two thunder
bolts are enonirh. No. in the s.'ime
breath he launches the third thunder
b ilt, which to them is more fiery, more
terrible, more demolishing than the
others, as he cries out, "Hath made of
one blood ail nations." Oh, Paul! you
forget you are speaking to the proud
est and most exclusive audience in I lie
world. )o not say -'of one blood." V'ou
cannot mean that. Had 'ocraU-s, and
Plato, aad Demosthenes, and Solon,
and Lycurgus, and Draco, and Sopho
cles, and Knripedes. and .Kschylus, and
Pericles, and 1 hidias, and Miltiades
blood just like the Persians, like the
l-'gyptians, like the common herd of hu
manity:1 "le?. said Paul, ot one
blood, all nations."
Surely that must l the closing para
graph of the sermon. His auditors
must lie let up from the nervous strain.
Paul has smashed the Acropolis and
smashed the national pride of the
Greeks, and what more can he say'
Those Grecian orators, standing ou that
place, always closed their addresses
with something sublime and climacter
ic, a peroration, and Paul is going to
give them a peroration which will
eclipse in pow er and majesty all that he
has yet said. Heretofore he has hnrhd
one thunderbolt at a time; now he will
close by hurling two at once. The
little, old man. under the power of his
speech, has straightened himself up,
and the stoop has gone, out of his should
ers, and he looks about three feet taller
than when he began, and his eyes, w Inch
were quiet, became two flames of fire,
and his face, which was calm in the in
troduction, now, depicts a w hirlwind of
emotion as he ties the two thunderbolts
together with a cord of inconsumable
courage and hurls them at the crowd
now standing or sitting aghast -the two
thunderbolts of resurrection and last
judgment. His closing words were:
Because he hath appointed a day in
whicn he w ill judge the world in right
eousness by that n an whom he hath
ordained; whereof he hath given assur
ance unto all men In that he hath raised
him from the dead."
As in Athens that, evening in jstfj
we climbed down the slippery rocks
... l . n 1. 1 . f t ,
wiiere an una mm occurreil, on our way
buck to our hotel, I stood half way be-'
tween the Acropolis and Mars hill in
the gathering shadows of eventide J i
seemed to hear those two hills in sub
lime and aw fill converse. "1 am c!iief
ly of the past," said the Acropolis. "1
am chiefly of the future," replied Mars
lull. The Acropelis said: "My orators
are dead; my law-givers are dead; my!
a Qraflan1 m m n I . '
poets are dead, my architects are dead;
my sculptors are dead, i am a monu
lueuvui mc ueau past, i snail never
agiaii hear a song sung; 1 will never
again see a column lifted; I will never
again behold a goddess crowned." Mars
hill responded: "I too have had a his
tory. 1 have had on my heights war
riors w ho will never again unsheath the
sword, aud judges who will never again
utter a doom, and orators who will nev
er again make a plea. But ray influence
is to be more in the future than it ever
was in the past."
After a moment's silence by both
hills, the Acropolis moaned out in the
darkness: "Alas! Alas!" and Mars hill
responded: 'ilosannah: Hosamiali!"
j neu me voices ol both hills became
indistinct, and as I passed on and away
in the twilight I seemed to hear only
two Bounds - a fragment of 1'entelicon
marble the architrave of the Acropolis
dropping down on the ruins of a shat
tered idol, and the other sound seemed
to come from the rock ou Mars hill
from which we had his descended. But
we were by this time so far off that the
fragments of sentences were smaller
when dropping from Mars hilt than
were the fragments of fallen marble on
the Acropolis, and 1 could only hear
parts of disconnected sentences warted
on the night air "God who made the
world" "ot one blood all nations"
"appointed a day in which tie willjudirc
the world" "raised him from the dead.''
About tlio Hire of It.
Foreigner-' Why It is that so many
American cities are complaining of
bad water? la not the water supply
under the direction of city officials?
American "Usually."
Fonigner-uAnd are not those
officials elected by the people T
American "Yes."
Foreigner yTI.en it appears to me
yon have rot been 'careful to select
officials wbo art good judges of water."
Jlodrr.. Mirry
The ex'ent to which the body can be ,
mutilated without a fatal result Is be- ;
; ,ond what most people
think. lf.
Aftl.a Urnurf 1i.(l.
couMe, uie renio " uiuiti ........
' is a familiar fact; and, indeed, the sue-
! cessive removal of all the limbs would j
I result in nothing worse than mconveiii
.. .. ... .. Ir.lrfiul ur.
; ence. l,m in uir muk j
, gans nuy be extirpated, i uis is ia in
j tateu oy 'iieir uimmj.
t;neeye may I taken out and the
; sight remain practically unimpaired
one kidney maybe removed, anu ii it
other will make up the Joss by doing
I double work. The case is essentially
(he game when disease has destroyed
: the functional activity of a kidney, and
theref .re a person iu that condition
( ,,M-(t not be witnoui no
In iiKe u aimer, disease may have, ren
dered one lung solid, like liver, and thus
functionally useless, and yet the person
may live in good health to old age
Could the half consumed lnng of the.
consumtive only heal up the wans oi Hi
great ulcer, and the microbes cease to
'extend tlieir ravages, the patient might
with care, enjoy a long, useful audhaj
pylife.
Large portions of the brain may b
removed with no injury to life or m
tellect. Persons have lived for years (
ami lieen well w ith bullets in the brai i.
The liver has Ikpii cut in two by tight
aclng- the pressure an atrophy of the
part below without ending either tin
life or the folly of the lashionable de
votee. A portion of the intestines has l e:
cut out atd the severed ends sewed to
get her, and their normal action and
function have not been in the least in
terfered w ith. And what seems more
amazing, dogs have had their entire
stomachs extirpiiH-d without impairing
digestion.
Pecently a man fifty-seven years old
had a lare portion of his stomach cm
out iu consequence of a tumor. The
piece was nearly a foot square. The
dissevered parts were sewed together,
and the patient ate a dinner ot hash
twelve days after the operation and was
dismissed cured at the rud of three
weeks. Five months later he was pre
sented before the medical soc.ety-the
Itoyal Society of Physicians of Vienna
wholly well, with no trace of the ret urn
of the cancerous disease, and with di
gestion perfectly performed. Youths
Companion.
The Ivory Nut in .South America
The ivory nut is grown in the equato
rial regions in South America. The
principal point of shipment is Colon,
ou the Isthmus of Panama. Like the
banana, the ivory nut is perennial in its
native clime, and may be found in al!
stages froui the bud to the ripened nut
at all seasons of the year. The nuts
grow iu great bunches of about fifty in-
cased in a shell, as are chestnuts In the
burr, though the sh',-11 outwardly resem
bles iu roughness the surface of a pine
apple. The entire cluster of nuts iu
this shell is as big as a man's head.
This shell conies off easily after the
nuts are ripe. At this stage thay fall
from the trees which are 14 or 13 feet
in height aud are packed on the backs
of natives to the points ol shipment.
They are about the color of an un
washed last year's potato and as hard
as an elephant's tusk. New York
Telegram.
Jood Sleepers,
The author of "Bulgaria before the
war" says that the Turks devote to
sleep any spare half hour that may
hapM'ii to be at their disposal. At
'happen to be at
"igl't be says, all his companions would
be in the land of dreams within lei
.,n,,.. ,i.:i 1. 1.. .. l
minutes, while he lay wide awake and
i envious.
He continues:
"It has often struck me with aston
ishment to see the little respect any
one in Turkey pays to shp. AVhen I
have often heard the members of Uie
family get up and after searching about
among his sleeping companions arouse
them all to ask where his tobacco was,
or upon some equally slight excuse.
"A lad of 18 would thus wake up his
father, a man of 60 perhaps two or three
times in the night and yet there would
never be an angry word of remon
strance; and when i have snapped
savagely at some one for walking into
my room ami over my body in the
middle of the night my snanniness has
caused the greatest astonishment.
"Many times I have turned in with
natives in the same room with me and
though I waa generally tired and my
companions not yet I think I may say
I was invariably the last to close my
eyes."
Urawlac Um
Young Lady-Do you think itim
modest for ladies to ride bicycles?"
Bicyclist-' Oh, the riding is all right
enough but-er-1 don't think they
ought to take headers.H-Nw York
Weekly. JW
Justice Not Mercy.
8t I-etr-I presume you know you
cannot enter here."
Bad Man-Vell. Where's th' other
place?"
St l'eter -"The other place U too
good for you. Your punlahment moat
lit your crimes. I shall send yoa back
to earth to be reborn."
Bad Man-"aw ! Haw Haw I That'.
I right. Wbere'm I goto' tor Uror
St. Peter -"Near Hunter's point
Bad man falnU.-.vw Tort Wnfcty.
WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
.-wax w r.en nas oeeii t!nnkiil? abou
if and concludes to do N-ttir r,.r ... a
tie lias done heretofore. -If," ),es
in a recent article in the Strand v
- 1 arine, "1 had to be boru again, aiid
1 ...;1.t ..l.n.... ...... 1 .
, ,,K,.i t uws- mj cr aim my ti:UlpbM
I would shout at the top of rur Toit-
i. make me an American woinar..'
A uonular wall andceiliup W,
now is of daffodil yellow in th ;
canvas panitea with garlands of row
and a ceUng of clear, bright silver. It'
sounds a little like Aladdin's pahr, .
King Midas' castle, but softened nm!,..
...
the electric lijrht the efT t is woa ir nn.
ly rich and not at all dazzling.
The Turkish girl, despite i.pr
vaiicemenfs, must still cover her preth
We, and it is contrary to the sar:
j rules of Nammehran for the Tiirk'ul,
I lover to take his sweet heart to the
( theater without her mamma, lut u,
spito of veils and the rules of dread
Nammehran the love that laughs at all
barriers finds a way to unite true luvers
Ul Turkey as here.
Thu II. o. Hlua In Vvgn
1
The turquoise is still
enjoying i'j rt.
the Princess!
earrings on tl
j Vivai, and the fact that
aj(.s ttorP turquoise
occasion of her garden
party at Marl.
j borough lioiiso last fason w ill by no
, means dimiiMsh the prosperity or the
j pretty blue ston?. It tned to lf cm
. sidered very bad form to wea- colored
juweujr or rien e,iru) oeiore (Miner
time, but everything is being gradually
altered now, and a l the old canons art
passing into oblivion. Fifteen years
ago it would have been considered -cessively
vulgar to wear a string ol
pearls around the neck ou a winter
afternoon in visilnig dress. It apjiesrs
to be considered correct now Uiouku
purists in millinery matters will never
Iks likely to adopt these new modes.
Paris Letter.
I It Sew! t'mA
The old colonial, and the old baronial
and the Plymouth Hock, and the May
llower, and heaven konws what sort of
a chair, is now so much the fad one is
prepared to sen eccentricities of fnrni
ture everwhere. With these peenhar
pieces of furniture there must go pea
liar ways of sitting down. Suppose you
are shown to a chair which looks ex
actly like a big plate w ith three lees un
der if, and are bidden bti waled? What
can you do under the circunisiam-n but
strike as comfortable an attitude a
possible, and trust that you are making
a pretty picture as you pose? It is im
possible to maintain a company, dressed
up demeanor on one of the- peculiar
stools. Just seat yourself -hitch on
ii!y way and be comfortable, and you're
sure to be. doing tho faddish and the
stylish thing.
L'.c rr fcauf-0 DUhrw.
The pretty littln sauce dishes arc no
more, if vou have any consign them
to oblivion and forget their existence.
Now is the day of plates. Kverythinc
is served on them. They may be large,
thev may be small; they may be of cni
glass or of line china; but plates they
must I. For berries small plates of
cut glass are used, while tor cucumbers
or tomatoes the dishes are larger, and
may be either of glass or china. - F.x-
ehange.
A Woman with rim k.
Mrs. Meyer Goldsmith is perhap the
only female fire insurance broker in St
Louis. She is one woman who does not
think that the lords of creation have a
monopoly of the business avenues, and
upon tl elo .s of her (i husband, instead of
sitting supinely down to becomea charge
upon others, she assumed control of his
business affairs, which she is now ably
conducting. She has set an example
which it is doubtful if many women
will have the courage to follow. Her
pluck deserves to result in another ex
emplification of the truth of the adagf,
Where there's a will there's a way.
St. Louis liepublic.
L. It. .Scripter, who died at Horn-
ellville, X. Y. about a year ago, was
the father of thirty -two children, all
born of tlte same mother. There were
eighteen boys and fourteen girls, nine
pairs of twins. Only two boys and two
girls have passed away. All tiro no
grown to man's 'estates and nearly all
were Inirn iu Sleubei. county, where
heir parents resided thirty-six year
A Waraaa Wk CM MimI,
Miss Leale. from Gunernsey, occupies
(be proud position of being the only
lady to share with lite Princess of Wales
the distinction of discharging a real
ride at a real target across bisley com
mon, but, unlike her royal highness
she sighted her own weapon, held it in a
soldierly fashion to her shoulder and
scored 30 points out of a possible X
in competition with trained riflemen.
She is a member of the aaaociation. and
waa taking part In a contoat restricted
to members. Her father is surgeon
major to the Channel Islands militia,
Miaa I.ea is evidently faaaiUar with
the Martini-Henry, which aba bandied
to such purpose. Altbouh only nineteen
years of age, she baa already taken
more than one prize Iu bar native is
land. In ehootiag she occupied a sit
ting position. London Tetafraph.
There is a lament asaooff English
women over the passing of the limy.
Even on state occasions, tboy eompbua
the nobility aad geatry have foretwora