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- J . II? The Sioux County Journal, r VOLUME VIIL IIARUISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 18. NUMBER 17. FASHIONS IN FURS. MOST STYLISH TYPES Or WIN - . . JER WRAPS, tm Um Wmu Who Isn't Covetoaa ; tk rarrUHa Tola Imm It a !- Hghtfnl mac to Vlalt-Oreat Am- sort man I of Cloaks, Jacket and Ca pa. i Ootkaaa Faahlon Ooealp. aw Tark correspondence: ?wy O the woman who 'rAr'jSjI 4 n't covetous the furriers at this season will be a delightful place, a veritable fairy grotto, only In stead of the lining of precious atone that the story hooks tell about rliere la an array of fuzzy wonders, a great proportion of them quite as Impossible of or dinary mortal' , mines of geins In potuteftKlon as the wonder story. A jeer ago the comparison could have been carried still further, for then on vary hand there were rows upon rows of hideous, heads to sorve In the mental picture as the dreadful dragons of the resident bogey man. But the fashion of 'trimming garments with heads Is de parting. It may be wild to have already gone eo far as to have "tnrnod tall" to observers, for where last year rows of fceexta with their gleaming, bead eyes were grouped, this season the fin'sh comes) In quite as free a use of talis. These are In all sizes and all furs, are put on all manner of garments, bo 1ng even applied to hats algrotto-wlse, rat most sttmsh mi a pi rr cas take and many of them are quite as artificial AS last season's hcndx, which Is the same assaying that they are utterly Im possible In nature. A liberal application of these orna ments proves that the garment tints trimmed Is of thin season's make, but the trick is already Uresornely over done In some caHs ami coats, and when a change finally comes from It these talis will stamp the garment they trim as hopelessly last season's. Kven now the garment that Is free f mm such dangling ornament possesses a dis tinct character of ha own that will com mend it. A cape la sliown neit tlie Ini tial that docs Just this from the fact that it suggests the old fiiNlilonri pel erine. This -type of garment in the very shape that was worn forty years ago Is now revived, but it affords no more warmth for our backs thun It did for our grandmothers' and from the stand point of utility Is not worth much praWe. It Is umiiH-stlonsbly styllsti, however, and In the form here shown. Which Includes a cupe thst will protect the back, U Is much Improved. It Is made of salrte and Is lined with Imita tion ermine. Its tabs reach nearly to the botora of Hie dress, and at the top there la a hlgli wired collar. The muff carried Is of sable to match the wrap, TAILS THAT AHC r fRST in F AB!0 ABI.E IKSS. iDd ble may be used to trim the bat, If dedlred, but tta wide-spreading bows nroelalm It of the lateat UlS rur garments mat are Me enongh to be considered Ml 'mm IP rt Jr ' lull A - Just right, six Jackets will be found to one cape or pelerine. The cut of the Jacket la very like that of the more democratic cloth, and there Is small comfort for the owner of a sealskin coat In the style of two years ago. It must be recut and made over to some thing like the Jacket of the next pic ture, and a bill will result that will make a sealskin seem far from an un alloyed Joy. The Jacket of this picture was found In black astrakhan. Its mod erately long basquea were rippled In back. It was double-breasted, and had large revers and full aleevea. Its but tons were handsome black pearl, and a tiny muff that matched the Jacket was carried. The sice of this muff Is a chal lenge to the fashions, which demand muffs of bolster aloe, but as an accom paniment of such a Jacket its newneas MOTIKI. SriTAIII.E FOB CLOTHS ASD FCRS will be advertised, and, Indeed, a muff of moderate slue Is much more likely to suggest the holdover from last year. Where tails revel in triumph Is on collars. A cat-o'-n1ne talis with fur suitable for making wrappings for women's thoat would be a valuable Ntecles Just now, but one animal of that sort wouldn't come much nearer making a faahlonable collar than one swallow does to making a summer. The sort displayed In the third picture Is Just the thing, and Its fellows are sell ing like ho on kes. larky la the woman who finds one among her Christmas gifts, fur -not even a sealskin Jacket of the latest cut Is more assertive of rigut np-U-date-nea titan is this sort of a neck protector. This one Is worn over a cape of mordora velvet that It trim med with a deep collar of cream lace, and Chat Is lined with white satin. The fur collar Is detachable and may be worn wKh any capo or Jacket. Following this In the Illustrations there is a dnlnty fichu enpe of black silk velvet, whose pointed ends hi; .1 at the waist, it Is trimmed with a handsome chinchilla collar and Is lined with white brocade, it is supplied with Invincible hooks and eyes so that It fastens warmly In front. Capes of this generul Mort frequently Illustrate the present liking for combining two STA MIK1 W IT H DAW 11 FASHION 8 "o. h. sorts of furs. Thus a chinchilla collar like this one will top a seal cape, or will be replaced thereon by one of Per slau lamb. Such garments are very elegunt, and In most cases bring the highest of prices. . Ono need not be told that a black silk velvet Jacket of the latest fashiona ble cut can be handsomely trimmed with fur, but the final picture shows one of the prettiest possible ways of doing It. The revers and turned down collar are of ermine, the Jacket having filled back, ripple basque and box front. Its right side laps over and Ts fastened with buffalo horn buttons, a corresponding row coming down the other side. White brocaded satin Is used for lining. Buttons of this shape In buffalo horn are put on seal Jackets this year and there must be button holes In the fur, too, for the cord loops formerly used are of1 (lie gloomily un fashionable past Copyright. 1SWS. The Knling Passion. The sufferer slowly raised his eye lids. "Where tm IT" bo asked. "You were run Into by another bicy clist," amrwered the attendant. litter, when he was about to breath hit last, he tsked In t touching manner: "What was the name of hU niachlner REALRURAL READING WILL BE FOUND IN THIS PARTMENT. DE- Tha Farm an Investment Brlage Better Heturne than Manr Bualneoe Transactions A Serviceable Hoist ing Uevlce Farm Notes. A Holetlng Device. The accompanying Illustration repre sents a simple device which is of great service when butchering. The uprlghtt a and b are 4x4's, or ordinary post tim ber 10 to 12 feet long. They are set Into the ground two or three feet, five feet apart. To the tops of these fasUS e f with bolts or spikes. Place c and I in position, secure the upper ends at e and f, and set the lower ends firmly In HOISTIWO DEVICE. the ground. For b use an old shaft or a piece of hard wood and fasten It to C and d as Indicated In the illustration. Attach one end of the two ropes x and y to b and run them through the pu'. leys attached to the crossplece e f. Fasten these ropes to the hind legs of the animal to bo lifted. If ono rope and a gambrel Is preferred, attach it to the middle of h and run through a pul ley at in. Two ropes are preferable. By this apparatus ono man can llf the heaviest carcass. A wagon Vox bottom side up may bo placed between a and b for a platform. American' Ag riculturist, r Kntrance to a Walk. , Many homes are approached by side walks across the lawn or yard to the side or back door. Where these w alks enter the grounds It Is possible to ar range shrubbery In a way to make the entrance artistically effective. The lb ARTISTIC GATE W A X . chief point to lto borne In mind Is that the gateway should be flanked on either side by shrubliery or small trees. The path should also curve as It enters one's grounds, and If the shrubbery is car ried along a little way on the outer side of the path, the entrance will be hidden entirely from the (rounds a very attractive feature. The Farm as an Investment. Those who complain that the farm doesn't pay would often find that after summing up the situation that the showing la not to bad after all, as com pared with business In the city, says the Massachusetts rioughiiian. Secretary Morton, In his annual reiorf, Illustrates the point by supposing a transfer of $4,000 agriculturally invested In each average farm of 137 acres, with stock, tools, etc., to 1k the choicest Wall street Investment. Hisk that money In rail road first mortgage Isuids. in bank stocks, or In any other alleged wife se curity which may be found n favorite among shylocks, brokers, plutocrats, monopolists, money -power manlpubit ors and multi millionaires, and If If re turns (I per cent. It Is a remarkably profitable Investment In the eyes of capiliillsts. Therefore, $JiO Is the an nual llli-OIIM'. Follow the frtinsfer of the farm mon ey with that of the farm family to ur ban residence. Now, with the same la bor In the city or village, risks the Sec retary, inn they attain by hard work every day in the year, adding their wages to the f'J4 Income, as much of Independence, wholesome living and real comfort as the same amount of money In the land and the same heads and bands working on the soil gener ously and healthfully liestowed upon them, in the sweet quiet of a home, amid flowers, trees, fruits and abun dance, on the farm? The Valns of the Silo. The next thing we had to learn was how to grow what was to be put Into It. We had the corn In drills, using two and one-half bushels of seed to the acre, and getting weakly, sickly stalks that a storm would knock flat, says the Phil adelphia Ledger. This, tt 1 htve said, we tt first cut green, but the second year wt let It get t little more mature, and we found we had done well, at It wat better; Our next lesson was that a half bushel of teed wat better than the flvt timet it much wt had been using, and, with more space between the r)Wi ind hills, It gave us more pro- iraviju-. ok'. waf -r duct. Theu we Improved It still more by letting It get riper Wore cutting. It look many dollars and much experi menting and study to find out all that is known now more than thosu who are now being lx-neflted by the resultt of the expurlouce realize. Anyone with a dairy of ten cows and upwards should have a alio. Nothing can be grown upon an acre of ground that will give as great return at corn for the silo. No other kind of corn fod der has given us anything like the tamo satisfaction as ensilage. It Is a mllk glvlng food, but wheat bran It neces sary to give the balanced ration. Now we cut the corn when the ears begin to glare, cutting all of it, ears, blade and stalk, and putting It in. Another les son we lea rued was that pressure it not necessary. One Way to Save Money. During the winter many conveniences and Decessary farm tools and Imple ments can be made In the home work house, says the Agriculturist. Hay racks, wagon beds, swing gates, water troughs and tanks, sleds, tool racks, stalk rakes, chicken coops, shipping crates and berry boxes are simple in construction. Any bright farmer, with the assistance of a blacksmith, can make all of these and more. The ex pense will be much less than If bought In town or hired made. The tools which every well-regulated farm ought to pos. test will answer. We have In mind a young farmer who does all this kind of work, and he Is prospering In spite of hard times, cheap products, etc. He raises as much grain and stock as bis neighbors who buy everything "ready" made, nnd has much more "ready" cash. Try your hand at It when the weather prevents outside work. Many kitchen things are also easily iniulo. Home-Made Hiuianei. The sausages that come on the fann er's table ought always to be home made. Those which are purchutod In the butcher ghops are almost always mode of meat that Is nearly ready U decay, and the high seasoning they get with spices Is for the purpose of con cealing their unwholesomenefw. A well made sausage Is not at all unwhole some, though It Is uauttlly harder to digest than meat not bo highly spiced. The home-made sausage ought to have not more than one-fourth of Its meat flit. Most boughten sausages contain more fat, than this, tV sausage being iWd Wget rijl QXfaTfieat that would nJi be otherwise salable. Cure In Keeping Apples. There are greater difficulties In mar keting fruit successfully than In mar keting any other farm product. Kven the best keeping apples will waste enough under ordiuary care between fall and spring to more than offset their Increased price at the latter sea son. Most farm cellars are ton warm to store fruit successfully, and If ven tilated to keep them cool, It makes the living rooms above too cold. A cellar built by Itself half above ground and half below Is best for storing fruit. This can be ventilated, and In the very coldest weather a stove can lie heated to prevent danger of the fruit freezing. Feeding Cord In the Kar. The Western Dent corn does not dry out so quickly as the Flint varieties. It has more weight per bushel of ears, especially if the kernels are well filled out. In cold weather or on poor soil the Dent corn will much of It be light and chaffy, especially toward the tip end. The Flint corn Is less likely to be chaffy, but If the season is unfavora ble, more or less of It will not be filled out to the end. Where the pollenlxu tlon Is dellclent the corn will be scat tering on the cob, though the kernels will be larger and better than when they are compressed In an ear where there Is not a missing grain. Keeping Cabbage, Most people bury cabbage for winter use, says Ida Keys, in Hie Agricultur ist, and, if properly done. It Is the very lH-Ht way to keep them. They are. however, not easily got st when the ground Is frown or covered with snow. A part of i he crop limy be satisfactorily kept ns follows: Trim the heads very closely, wrap In newspapers mid pack In barrels. Set In a cool cellar and use ns needed. They will not dry out or decay as when placed In the cellar with out protection. If this process Is fol lowed, a quantity can be taken from the ground at one time. Keeping Hogs In Kiirnvards. We know many farmers who make a practice of wintering their hogs In the barnyard, letting them gather ref use that would otherwise be wasted. It Is a good plan where the other ani mals are stabled and fed. so that the hogs will not annoy them by soiling their feed. If esttle are fed whole grain a few bogs will get much of their living by eating grain voided In an undigestlhle state, in such cases the hogs often get quite as much benefit from grain so fed as do the animals to which It Is given. American Cultlva- t0r' Drive Oood Stock. We have for t long tlmt Judged the fanner by tba horse lit drive This a<nal, mort that all other, Indlcatet the condition of Of farm. Straw at a man with tat, tWtk tpta of spirited animals, tad w wU Mow yvo a tern tt food aitr "J tr?rortats and everrthluf t J traap-row took. ' TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER. E8TINQ ITEMS. Comment and Crlticiems Baaed TJpoa the Happening of the Day His torical and Nawa Mete. Woman's rights seem to have become bloomers and everything else. An unknown man who Jumped Into Niagara Falls the other day left a note behind saying: "Everybody has been very good to me." Which shows that even kindness may be misplaced. The unexpected appearance of two spirit faces in a photograph taken by an honest photographer of Undine, Mo., It somewhat alarming. If the people on the other side are thus to come Into photograph plates anywhere and at any time, the man who passed out with the sitter owing him ten or twenty dol lars may make hlinself visible. With such a prospect there Is no sitter who can "look pleasant." The popular estimate of Hetty Green's fortune ranges from twenty millions to one hundreds of dollars. Almost every thing she has touched has turned into cash, but probably ahe has never made a luckier Investment than when, In 1877, she foreclosed a mortgage for one hundred thousand dollars on some Chi cago real estate. This projierty Is now worth three millions of dollars. Near ly all the current Morles of Mrs. (Ireen's exceeding thrift have some basis of truth, though many are exaggerated. She once said, though, to a lady while passing Dehnonloo's: "Well, I've got my lunch 1n my pocket; where are you going to get yours?" Trof. Max Muller has been trying to ascertain the relative number of the adherents of Christianity, Buddhism and Mohammedanism, but finds the task an impossible one so far as literal accuracy is concerned. The most that can safely be said ts that the Chris tlans and the Buddhists each number something over 400,000,000, and the Mo hammedans alKiut half as many. "But," he observes, "I attach very little value to such statistics, still less to the con clusions drawn from them, as truth Is not settled by majorities"; and he quotes the remark of Frederick Mau rice when told that In his views about eternal punishment he was in a minor ity: "I have often been In a minority In this life, and I hope I shall he' so In the next." The Paris Figaro regrets that Amer ican summer tourists lately are evinc ing a preference for London. The Fi garo estimates the number who went to Europe kist summer at from "0,(KK to 200,000. Of fhese, the Figaro finds that very few stayed for any length of time in Paris, but. that most of them, after a few weeks, went back to London. Since the new hotels have been built In London of late years, Americans find themselves very comfortable there, ami Inasmuch as they can speak the lan guage It Is more agreeable for them than In Paris. The Figaro speaks of this with a tender melancholy, and says t!hat "It Is regrettable." It states that each Amerhmn tourist lsRt year spent, on the average, 5.000 francs, or fl.tsio. If 1(50,000 of them spent only $500, that would make 875,000.000 francs. The l'lgaro thinks that Paris is not getting Its due sliare. Since the creation of the Department of Agriculture, which was designed for the enlightenment of the farmers of the republic, the experts who do the bureau work hove by degrees become classified Into various sections, the purpose of which seems to be to Introduce as many "ologles" on the farm as we are accus tomed to see In the curriculum of high school girls. The report of the Secre tary of Agriculture fairly bristles with them. We find among the list vegeta ble pathology, pomology, entomology, ornithology, mammalogy and agrostol ogy. Such hard names one would think are well calculated to stun an old-fashioned farmer. One of the names, at least, agrostology, would be a puzzler even for the Vassal- girl If the report dil not Inform us that the division Is "devoted to the Investigation of grasses and forage plants anil experi ments In the culture of our native spe cies." There Is nothing like book learn ing for farmers. We ought to expect a great deal from a function of govern ment with such an Imposing name as "agrostology," No human being who has a heart ac cessible to pity and Indignation can read the story lately told of the burial of the victims of a massacre In Arme nia without finding himself overmas tered by both sentiments. Seventy or eighty victims men, women and chil dren, piled promiscuously together were borne to the little cemetery of their co-religionists, through crowds of Jeering and hoofing Turks, and were thrown down at the gate to await the permission for burial. First came a crowd of revllers, who spat upon the corpses, and Intuited the dead, and these were followed by vagabonds who tot upon the bodies and atrtpped them of every vaeuge of clothing. Afte theoe numerout ontragea an a'" 1Wo of the town notified an Arme 8lower to take with him a few ir -otDer tnl A. y were clttped, udlhm and unexpressed, bury the bodies. In order that ha might) go with safety the Government wat compelled to furnish him a strong ea-j cort of Turkish soldiery, and, guarded by these troops, the men were able to dig a huge trench, In which the bodies were piled, and were then covered OW while the lonely priest murmured the prayers of the church. No Tnrka at-, tempted to apologize for the maseacre, nor considered It otherwise thaa the result of a spontaneous and Justifiable outburst of the popular temper. The death of George Augustas Beta removed a unique and brilliant partejV age from the world of literature aa4 Journalism. He was pre-eminently a self-made man, coming up out of pov erty, and eventually becoming a aoaa of the world of extraordinary and va ried accomplish menu. He begaa life In an atmosphere of art, bit mother having been a musician and actress of considerable reputation. Hit earlier tastes Inclined him to the profession of art During his youth be had experi ence as a miniature painter, scene painter, modeler and. designer, etcher, engraver and Illustrator of booka. it may have been in the latter capacity that he was Induced to turn his atten tion to literature. In any event, he soon began fugitive literary work, writ ing special articles for newspapers and magazines, which at last attracted at tention and led to his association with Dickens In the Household Words, af terwards with Thackeray In the Corn hlll Magazine, and subsequently in his editorship of Temple Bar. His succeed also made for him a permanent place as a newspaper correspondent, in which capacity he gained a reputation thot was world-wide, and an acquaintance with all the prominent men of his time. During his career he also found time to write some liooks, but they do not compare in Interest with his corre spondence and short sketches for peri odicals, lie had a knowledge of the world, keenness of observation, an ar tistic temperament, a light touch, and a brilliancy of style which admirably fitted him for work of this kind, and in it few of his contemporaries excelled him. lie began life, as already said. In the direst poverty, but for many years he had commanded bis own price for his work. The result of Great Britaiu's per emptory demand upon the Chinese Government is a signal Illustration of the potency of threats of force when directed against the Oriental empire. The British powers, after waiting for the due consideration of their request for redress of the Chinese outrages, collected their warships within omin ously easy reach of the Chinese ports and announced that, unless their terms were Immediately compiled with, a "demonstration" would be mafle on China's coast. The response to this de mand was almost Immediate. China -consents practically to all the demands of Creat Britain and offers promptly to degrade Viceroy Liu and punish the perpetrators of the outrages. Liu Is one of the adornments of the vicious system of officialism which comprises China's governing power. Like the other potentates who, under the Im perial government, have control of the different provinces of China, he gov erns his district without much tense of accountability to any one. The weak Imperial government Is powerless to maintain anything like official de cency and order in its various tnbor- dinate states, and Liu, It teems, it but one of the worst of these offenders. He stands for a type of Chinese official corruption, and that he It in league with the worst elementt In Chinese so ciety seems to be unquestioned. That the imperial authorities bare been stirred up to take action In hit case and degrade him Is the beet proof of the wholesome effectiveness of the drastic measures taken by Great Britain. So long as there was a chance that Great Britain would consent to parity and bandy words, the Manchn rulers were quite Indifferent whether those respon sible for the outrages were punished or not. It was the sign of an Intention to use physical force, if need be, that called them (o terms. Monastery of La Trappe. The famous monastery of La Trappe, In Northern France, hot made a won derful Innovation in the severe rules of the order. The Trapplsts live under the most, rigid discipline of any monas tic order, and, in fact, are quite dead to the world. But their new abbey church has been consecrated at Sollg ny, and In honor of the occasion the monatcry was thrown open to visitors for ten days, ending last Sunday. Even women were admitted, although for tlx centuries no female foot had ever cross ed the monastery threshold tare on two (K-casions the visit of Ixnla XIV. and his queen and of IOtils Philippe with Queen Marie Amelle. Indeed, La Tntppe. with Its rigid silence, wat scarcely recognizable, for a perfect fair was held outside and a gorgeous dinner was given to the guestt on the consecra tion day. The monks, who never touch meat, were allowed the unheard-of luxury of an egg with their dinner of vegetables. Exchange. et of pulling tJV. ryZ, ilxMufn to froth at the nilMll d wtlL. ,w. or ful roar made a CX. at hl&'Jal. Boone, the lion 'a keeper, wat cWt ky and thot the anlnal hilling aim alcS Instantly. . .1 s t vfiL' . ...
