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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1904)
Colors of the Moment. As the season advances green and blue separately and again combined my be said to be the colors of the moment. Pongees and raw silks are popular fabrics. A model of dark blue pongee, with a raised stripe run ning through it, has a skirt with very little goring, and it is tucked horizon tally all the way around the hip. hav ing a box plait down the center of the front and back. These tucks are stitched about six or eight inches in depth and then allowed to flare with four deep tucks running vertically round the bottom, each of these tucks headed by half-inch wide row of entre doux. The skirt is cut straight around, and the bodice, which is tucked in half-inch tucks, blouses slightly over the belt. A beautiful ■white Irish lace yoke and the collar complete the neck, and the sleeves are gathered into the yoke quite full and fall to the line of the elbow. Here again is a puff and below is a tight fitted sleeve of Irish crochet. Leather Trimming. A decided novelty in the way of trimming for some of the new nun’s veiling waists are the turn-over collar and cuffs made of soft leather. An example of this is a pale-blue waist trimmed with collar and cuffs of sott tan leather, in shape somewhat similar to the embroidered and lace collar and cuff sets so much in demand during the spring and summer season. Leather trimmings are being used to some extent on the new tailored suits and raincoats, so that this novelty may meet with quite as much of a success as a waist trimming as in the other lines of ready-made garments. Combination Under Garment The advantage that the combined under garment means in a reduction of bulk at the waist and over the hips is a well-recognized one and is ap parent at a glance. The model illus trated appeals to every woman who aims to keep her outlines as nearly perfect as possible and is not in need of fullness over the bust. As shown it is made c! nain sook with a low round neck, but it can be cut with the square outline, or In V shape, or left high as may be pre ferred and all materials in vogue for underwear are appropriate. In the case of the model the trimming is embroidery, but here again a choice Is allowed as washable laces are much liked and frills of the material al30 »re in vogue. The garment is made with front, backs, side backs, under arm gores and back portion of skirt. The front Is fitted by means of double darts, so making the garment absolutely smooth fitting and the necessary full ness at the back is provided by the skirt, which is gathered at its upper edge and joined to the body portion. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 3 yards 36 Inches wide, with 3% yards of wide embroidery, 3 yards of narrow, 2% yards of insertion and 2 yards of beading to trim as illustrated. Lace Waists. Some handsome examples of lace waists in snowball design are to be found, the more elaborate being marked at $25. In these more elabo rate styles of waists the hand-made yoke is a distinguishing feature. The general idea for this yoke is to take medallions of lace and fasten them together by means of hand-wrought stitches of embroidery silk. On the net waists the yoke effect is sometimes supplied by the stitched tailor bands of silk or satin. Net waists are mostly of the figured net, some of the patterns showing a rather large conventional design. Black net waists are particularly well thought of for the coming season. Girl’s Russian Dress. Simple little frocks, with skirts and body portions in one suit little girls admirably well and are eminently fashionable. This one is peculiarly attractive and can be made with the slightly open square neck, as illustrated, or be rendered high by the addition of the shield and stand ing collar, and also allows a choice of the full length dou ble sleeves or the outer ones in half length only. The model is made of royal blue cash mere, with trimming or embroidered banding edged with black, and is both effective and durable, but all the ma terial in vogue for little girls’ dresses are equally appropriate. The dress is made with front and backs and is laid in a box plait at center front and back with outward turning tucks at each side, the closing being made invisibly at the back be neath the box plait. The long sleeves are in bishop style, gathered into straight cuffs, while the outer ones are in half length and in bell shape. The shield is quite separate and, when de sired, is arranged under the dress closing at the center back. The quantity of material required lor the medium size (8 years) is 5% yards 27 inches wide, 5 yards 32 inches wide or 3 yards 44 inches wide, with AM yards of banding to trim as oliustrated. Washing Rugs. Good rugs may be washed repeated ly without harming them. In fact, washing a good rug only makes the colors more mellow. A writer in the Bouse Beautiful tells how to do it successfully: Tack the rug on a bit of bare floor, the back piazza being as good a place as any. Scrub thor oughly with warm ammonia suds, and rinse with many clear waters until all the soap is removed. Let the rug dry on the floor without removing the tacks, then take up and it will not shrink, roll, nor pull out of shape. Misses' Fancy Blouse. Broad shoulders make the latest edict of fashion and are rendered ex ceptionally attractive in this very pretty blouse, which includes the shal low round yoke, which also makes one of the latest and newest features. The model i? made I of tobacco brown ! veiling, with yoke ^ and cuffs of ecru lace and the trim ming band of silk embroidered with little circles and stitched with corticelli silk. It can, however, be re produced in any seasonable material and is quite as | well adapted to the odd waist as to j the frock. The waist and sleeves are ’ both gathered at their upper edges and joined to the band, which closes with the waist at the center front, while the yoke is closed at the left shoulder seam. The collar is one of the new ones, of the turn-over sort, and can be slashed and worn with a tie, as illustrated, or left plain as pre ferred. The waist consists of the fitted lin ing, which is optional; fronts, back, sleeves, yoke and trimming band. When the lining is used the sleeves are faced on indicated lines to form cuffs, but when it is omitted cuffs of the required depth are made separate and joined to the lower edges of the sleeves. The waist is gathered at its lower edge, made to blouse slightly at ! back as well as front, and is closed in- | visibly by means of buttons and loops. ! The quantity of material required j for the medium size is 33£ yards 21 ; inches wide, 3% yards 27 inches wide, ! or 1% yards 44 inches wide, with % : yards of all-over lace for yoke and ! cuffs, and % yards of silk for trim ming band. Handy Oil Dropper. A medicine dropper as an adjunct to the making of mayonnaise was the j inspiration of a housewife not long | ! ago. Everyone who ever tried to i make mayonnaise knows the bother of adding the oil slowly, drop by drop, until the dressing is thick enough. This woman experienced the same dif ficulty and met it with the 5-cent med icine dropper, which adds the oil with machine-like regularity and pre- j cision. The little soft cottoa dish mops make excellent dusters. A faded cotton dress can be made white by boiling in cream of tartar water. A little soap mixed with stove black ing will produce better and more last ing lustre than without. For sponging out bureau drawers or sideboards use tepid water containing a small quantity of thymolin. The wax from dripping candles can be removed from table linen by a generous application of alcohol. Alum, th® size of a hickory nut, dis-( solved in a pint of starch, will bright en the color in muslins, ginghams, and calicoes after washing. Carved furniture which defies the dust cloth can be made as attractive as new by brushing it with a sett hair brush dipped in kerosene. Fashion in Capes. Short circular capes are all the fashion right now. Those most in vogue for early autumn weather are of coarse lace; any lace like Cluny, Bruge or point Venise is in favor. The capes vary in length. Sometimes they fall just to the shoulders, others reach to the bust line, and still others touch the waist. In ecru or dyed to match the color of the gown they will be the most fashionable during the early fall. The smart girl is sure to contrive many novel ways of adding to the charm of her cape. She may fasten it down the front with big, artistic-looking buttons, or it may have the effect of being tied together with many smart-looking little black satin bows. If she wishes to more decidedly change its effect, she will slip satin messaline or velvet ribbons through the meshes of the lace at either side of the front. At the neck the ribbons are tied in rosettes, anu men again a bit further down. Trimmings of White Batiste. It is astonishing to what an extent the idea of trimming taffeta toilettes with flounces, frillings or bouillonnes of white batiste has taken. When they were first started the batiste em ployed was plain and simply edged by a very narrow hem, but though these still exist, many variations on the idef have been introduced. Thus we frequently see Sotted oi even sprigged muslins employed foi the same purpose, and, in the case ol flounces, the same showing quite elab orate embroidered designs is brought into use. It is a pretty fashion, and will cer tainly be continued for evening weai among fall styles. There is in mosl cases a sash of the same description draped in folds around the waist and tied in a knot or bow with very long and broad ends rounded off at their extremities. Painted Belts. Hand-painted belts in differently colored leathers will be an important accessory of the coming season. \ WHILE THE? I Tea I^rews Wide-plaited ruchinfe is very unbe coming to many. With a knockabout coat a woman is ready for anything. Make up your mind to the waist coats; they have come to stay. Gilt braid and buttons still give evi dence that the war is not ended. Dolmans and mantles are the latest importations for winter cloaks. Even scant pouches are doomed; the fittest waist has been accepted. Feather rosettes for stiff hats have rivals in those of taffeta and of ribbon. Green Corn Soup. Grate and scrape the corn from enough ears to make one pint of pulp. Break the cobs in halves, put them in a kettle with enough cold water to cover them; cover the kettle, and boil the ears briskly for half an hour. Then strain this water into another sauce pan and let It boil down to less than a pint. When reduced to the proper quanti ty, add to the corn water the corn pulp and let it simmer five minutes; then season with salt, a little sugar and a dash of pepper. Add one pint of hot cream, one tablespoonful of butter and a heaping tablespoonful of flour dis solved in a little milk. Let the whole just boil up after the flour is in. Put a tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley in a soup tureen, pour in the soup, and serve. WITH A STOLE EFFECT, Fancy waists are always in demand and this one has the merit of being quite novel as well as eminently graceful. As illustrated it is made of white silk, with the yoke and cuffs of cream-colored lace over chiffon and finished with applique, the scarf of white embroidered crepe de Chine fin ished with a narrow ruche and edged with fringe. The waist is full belo tho tucks, and is closed invisibly at the left of .the front on a line with the scarf. To make the waist for a woman of medium size will be re quired 4Vi yards 21, 3% yards 27 or 2 yards*44 inches wide, with % yards oi all-over lace and % yards of silk for scarf. AGmICUMWl. Speltz or Emmer. Up to the present time spring sown speltz has given better returns than the fall sown on the farm of the Okla homa experiment station. There are known varieties, however, that are well able to withstand the winter and are even quite hardy in that respect as well as drouth resistant. In the fall of 1902 one plat was seeded to speltz. The soil was in excellent con dition and the seed germinated mod erately well, but the plants made a very slim growth during the fall and the major portion of the crop was de stroyed by the frosts of winter. Last season two plats containing one acre each were seeded to this crop. The seed was sown October 20 and the plants made a fair growth on both plats up to the winter season. The cool dry weather during the winter months was very severe oi the crop. The plants on one plat went back to such an extent that it was necessary to reseed it in the spring. On the re maining plat the stand was very light. The yields for this season are given in the table below: Grain, bu. Straw, tons Test Treatment, per A. per A. pprbu. Fall sown_6.9 .82 27.2 Spring sown.9.8 .68 24.0 The yield of grain per acre was fig ured on a basis of 30 pounds per bush el. In this test the spring sown speltz gave the largest yield of grain per acre. The quality of the spring sown crop was inferior to the fall sown. Weeds came up very thick in the fall sown speltz and this, of course* in creased the yield of straw per acre on this plat. It should also be noted that very heavy rains occurred at the harvest season and this had a ten dency to decreaso the yield per acre to quite an extent. Experience with this crop on the station farm w'ould lead to the opinion that very little, if any, pasture, can be obtained from speltz during the fall and winter months. It may be possible to obtain, in the near future, hardy varieties that will furnish a fair amount of pasture, but lor the present wheat will give far better satisfaction In this respect. The Hessian fly has given us no trouble whatever in this section. The insect works on wheat, rye and b-rley, and probably will also work on speltz, the latter plant belonging to the same genus as wheat. One authority states that though none of our wheats are exempt from attack, those varieties with large, coarse, strong straw are less liable to injury than weak-strawed, slow-growing varieties. Speltz has a very stiff straw, which Is much in its favor so far as insect attacks are con cerned.—Oklahoma Station. To Keep Up Soil Fertility. Agriculture demands and deserves all the Investigation which is being given to it—it is in need of, and is worthy of, all the investigators whose services are being devoted to this greatest of all our industries: but let us remem* ber that it is only a genius who can draw correct conclusions from incom plete data or insufficient premises; that we are to use all obtainable in formation to guide us, and that we are to work together as a unit for the betterment of American agriculture. The work is greater than any man or any office. Let every man develop and magnify the line of work which he is called upon to perform, but let us neither decry nor ignore nor un derestimate the value of any other good work. And God speed the time when we shall agree on some funda mental principles; and when we shall discover and demonstrate the best and most economic methods for the perma nent maintenance or increase of the productive capacity of our soils, not only by maintaining the most suitable physical conditions of the soil and by effecting the utmost possible control of soil water and by the most econ omic utilization of the virgin fertility already stored in the soil, but also, wherever necessary and profitable, by liberal additions to the soil of valu able plant food,—not by the purchase and use of sodium nitrate, almost cer tainly not, but undoubtedly by the assimilation and utilization of unlim ited quantities of atmospheric nitro gen,—probably not by the use of acid phosphates, containing six per cent of phosphorus and sixty per cent of man ufactured land plaster, usually sup plying, as commonly practiced, less than one-half of the phosphorus actu ally removed by the crops and stimu lating the soil to give up a greater quantity of the stock of plant food it contains, thus leaving It in a still more impoverished condition, but much more likely by returning to the land in pure form the bone meal produced on the farm and by using, together with farm manures and leguminous green fertilizers, large quantities of fine ground rock phosphate direct from the almost inexhaustible natural phos phate deposits in our southern states. —Prof. C. G. Hopkins. Specifications for Farm Drains. The matter of specifications for the construction of tile drains is in my opinion very important, although al most universally neglected, says Pro fessor Marston in a book on drainage investigations. Every engineer ought to prepare and always keep on hand regular printed specifications and forms of agreement between land own er and tile contractor, with blank spaces for filling in particular names and adding special clauses as individ ual pieces of work may demand, and he ought to furnish a copy of such printed forma with each set of plans he prepares. At present there is too often only a general verbal agreement between the land own* and the ditch er. There is no way to enforce good work in all particulars, and too often disputes and dissatisfaction regarding the. agreement and the work arise which could readily have been pre vented had there been written speci fications and agreement. The dairytnan should start with the right kind of a cow if he wishes to build up the right kind of a dairy business, that is. a business that pays. Buying From Local Nurseries. Prof. L. B. Judson, of the Univer sity of Idaho, says: There are several advantages in buying your trees of a local nurseryman. Many large firms get out attractive catalogues in sev eral colors, and employ literary talent to write up their wares in choice lan guage; and though there is often no deception sought in this, yet these at tractions should not blind the fruit grower to the advantages of buying near home. In the first place, the local nurseryman’s trees are grown under the same climatic conditions and very likely in the same kind of soil that you have in your own orchard. The trees have become acclimated, and will suf fer no violent changes when trans planted to your land; the very fact that they have withstood the rigors of the climate and made good growth in the nursery argues equal success for you. Furthermore, it is generally pos sible to visit the local nursery in per son and make the acquaintance of the proprietor, when business can be con ducted on a friendly basis hardly pos sible by letter. It is only human na ture that a man should strive more to please you under these circumstances than as a mere stranger* Being on the ground, too, you can select from the entire stock, instead of having your order filled from the first that comes to hand. Then the trees can be delivered without boxing or baling, which not only means added expense, but more or less maltreatment of the stock. When it is packed, the roots and tops are usually severely pruned, so as to make the bundles more com pact and sightly; and there are always the dangers of drying out and freez ing during transportation. The avoid ance of the long haul must be reck oned one of the chief advantages of buying at home. It is often better to order in the fall, as the stock is then more complete than in the spring, and you can see that the trees are heeled in properly for the winter, instead, perhaps, of being placed in some sort of cold storage. Traveling agents are as a rule less reliable than the home nurserymen, because the latter have invested in a local business and be come more or less of a fixture in the community, and must please their customers if they expect to mike the investment pay. The traveling man is less responsible, for if he fools you and your neighbors once he can pocket the profits and seek “pastures new” for future operations. On large or ders, too, the saving of the middle man’s profit is quite an item. Variations in Seedlings. Fruit trees from seed vary enor mously and the higher the develop ment the greater the variation. The ones that have not been developed at all produce seed that to a consider able extent give trees having some uniformity of shape and fruit. But even then no two are exactly alike. Variation is practically universal. More than this, if a thousand seeds are planted and a thousand trees grown from them, even the fruit on all the trees will differ from every other tree. If any one fruit proves to be exceptionally good, it can be pro pagated only by grafting or budding. It cannot be propagated by planting the seed from its fruit. The work of man through planting of seeds has not been very greatly successful. Mil lions and millions of seeds have been planted and a few good trees and vari eties have been obtained from them; but, for the most part, we have stum bled onto the varieties that have proved to be the most valuable. A good many of the fruits that are to day regarded as standard have been stumbled on by accident and many of them are of unknown origin. Chance has played a large part in the devel opment of cur fruits and berries, but man has selected the best and has propagated them by grafting and bud ding. Without doubt nature has been pro ducing fine varieties for myriads of years, but man was not near to find them and take advantage of the work that nature was doing. Here and there a seedling grew Into a tree bear ing remarkable fruit; but In time the tree died and the seeds of the fruit either never succeeded in producing trees at all or produced only such as were of no more value than the gen eral ancestry. It is not, however, best to ask Na ture to do all the work. Horticultur ists can keep a lookout for the sports that may come from Nature’s work, but man himself may take a hand In the game with some chances of sue cess. In addition to planting seeds and testing the seedlings, man can cross hardy varieties with those of high quality and now and then get a result that will prove valuable. At the present time a good deal of this latter work is being done with the hope of getting varieties that will resist the attack of insects and fungi. Apple growing in this country be gan in Massachusetts soon after its settlement, and the first orchards were located near Boston. About five years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock Reverend Wm. Black stone had an orchard .on the west slope of Beacon Hill. This is the hill on which the state capitol now stands. The San Jose scale has hot the terror for people that it once had. Since the lime-sulphur-salt wash or spray was worked out as a remedy the orchardists have something with which they can keep the scale in check. 8kimmilk for the Fowls. The more sklmmilk the fowls use the better. In spite of all that has been said in favor of this kind of food a good many farmers give all the skimmilk they have to the pigs and let the fowls subsist on grain alone. Often the pigs have more than they can eat, and In such a case a large part of the milk is wasted. Fowls make such good use of milk as a par tial ration that its feeding should not be neglected. I POULTRY Ducks, Comparatively few ducks are raiseG on American farms, and the duck pop ulation of the country holds a very small place in the total of our feath ered farm stock. The business has drifted largely into the hands of spe cialists, even in the localities where ponds and streams on the farms abound. Where ducks are raised on the farms they are kept In small flocks, being chiefly for the home sup ply. Yet there seems to be no good reason why ducks should not be kept in greater numbers than they are. They take naturally to the marshes and ponds and the food they gather would be lost in the event of their not being kept. In summer time our pools and ponds swarm with water in sects, and the ducks find these a fav orite food. Ducks also are great in sect hunters on dry land and help appreciably to reduce the numbers of any pest. Probably the thing that militates most against the duck is the fact that it is not an extensive egg producer like the hen. It lays so few eggs dur ing the year that they hardly more than supply the demand for eggs for setting. Meat must therefore be the only source of revenue to the farmer that raises them. The hen not only promises a good supply of meat to the producer, but in the meantime pays her way with the surplus eggs she lays. It is a settled fact that the duck cannot compete with the hen as an all-around bird. But the duck has one advantage over the hen. It is comparatively free from disease, and many a man, after a disastrous experience with the roup or cholera in his flock of hens, discards them and goes to keeping ducks. In addition, the farmer does not have to fight mites and body lice of hens. This compensates for a good deal and is of importance to the farmer that feels he can spare very little of his time for looking after poultry. For them also it is unneces sary to build a high fence, one two or three feet high, answering every purpose. This applies, of course, to the few varieties that are generally kept on the farm. There are breeds of tame ducks that will do as much flying as a hen. The chief point in favor of the duck is its ability to grow rapidly. It will outstrip a hen in growing, from the first. At ten weeks of age a chicken will weigh perhaps two pounds, while the duck will weign iour or five and is ready for the table. The duck does not care for the rain, and wet weathei does not drive it to cover. It con tinues to hunt its feed in all kinds ol weather, when the land and the streams are not covered with snow and ice. Ponds and streams of water are not absolutely necessary to ducks, but it iHthe general impression that they do better if given water in which to swim. It is claimed, probably right fully, that ducks given water in which to swim produce more fertile eggs than those that are restricted to dry land. Roosts for Turkeys. T. F. McGrew, writing in a bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture, says: Turkeys do best when they can roost in the open. If well fed they will thrive more in the shelter of the trees than in a close confined house. The troubles that arise from allowing them to live in the trees are that they become wild and frequently are stolen. If housed, their quarters should be airy, roomy and perfectly clean. It is not wise to have them roost with other poultry. If found necessary to confine them, all that is needed is a shed or house that A Turkey Roost In Rhode Island. v ill protect them from the elements 5. ad marauders of all kinds, and at t lie same time not be too confining tor them. Place the roosts well up from the floor and keep the interior perfectly clean and free from vermin. In localities where It is not too cold during the winter months, It is better to allow the breeding stock to roost in the open, either in trees or upon j roosts prepared for them by planting posts that project about eight feet above the ground. Upon these place long poles about 2 or 2V4 inches in diameter for roosts. Roosting places of this kind are better sheltered when located on the south side of a barn or building, as In the illustration. In Shipping Fowl*. In shipping fowls consideration must be given to several things, among others to the matter of pure air. When fowls are boxed up tight and packed into cars with other boxes it sometimes happens that fowls are smothered before reaching their des tination. This is not so many time* the case as the injuring of the fowls for future usefulness by close pack ing in a closed car. When fowls that are to be used for breeders are sent long distances with no provision made for air or for feed or water, their experience is such that they arrive at their destination greatly exhausted Those that handle fowls know how long it takes fowls to recover from such an experience. Sometimes the fowls do not seem to recover more than partially, but thereafter easily succumb to the first bad condition they meet Scours are the result of injudicious feeding. They may often be caused directly by a germ, but the germ could not get a suitable medium In which to multiply if the digestive processes went on as they should. CRABS MAIJJD TKUL I5L£ NEW FORM OF CULINARY ART FOR BRIDGET. Exposure That Luckily Came at the End of a Repast That Had Been Pronounced Delicious—How Crusta ceans Were Cleaned. One of the prominent women of Or ange, N. J., gave a crab dinner the other night, to which she Invited a lining room full of guests. The func tion proved highly enjoyable, and not a few remarked to their hostess that they had never seen crabs so deli ciously cooked. Some of her more ntimate neighbors even besought of her to tell them the secret. With a smile which reflected the pride she felt, the hostess was about to whisper the recipe to a haughty looking dame at her elbow, when a low moan from the kitchen alarmed the whole table and brought the con versation to an abrupt stop. The next moment the waitress, who had h en acting queerly for some time, rn-hed back from the kitchen with a bandage in one hand and a bottle of sw. t oil in the other. The hostess was the first to recover her composure, and, catching hold of the bandage, she asked: “Mary, is there anyone hurt?" “It’s the c-c-co-cook, mum," stam mered Mary. “And what is the matter with Bridget?’' “Shure, mum. she burnt herself. * ou-ought tu haf told you afore mum. It wuz in the flxin’ of them crabs, i mum.” The hostess excitedly excused her self and rushed to the kitchen. There | she found the cook, rocking back and forth in a chair, doubled up as with the most intense pain. On seeing her mistress, Bridget showed fright, and attempted to disguise her sufferings by struggling to her feet. “You’re badly hurt, Bridget?” said her employer hurriedly. “What is the matter? Tell me all about it.” “I’s ashamed ter tell yuh. I s fraid yull fire me if you knows what’s hap pened. It wuz the crabs, mum.” “Did you not prepare them accord ing to the cook book I gave you yes terday? That new way, called Toute embroile?” “Sure, I did, mum, but when I chucked ’em in the pan the blarsted critters kicked the grease all over me.” The housewife threw up her hands. “Oh, Bridget!” she screamed, “do you mean to say you didn’t clean them?” j “Shure I did, mum,” was the reply. “I held them under the faucet.”— Xew York Tribune. Permission to ’Stend His Voice. “I’se de Rev. Andrew Jackson and I’se a min’ster ob de Gospel.” was the introduction Chief of Police H. C. Ir win received from an aged, gray haired negro of the old ante-bellum type yesterday morning. The negro really had a reverend look, and Chief Irwin very kindly asked what he could do for him. “I Jes’ want to get de permission ob de orthor'ties to preach de Word on de streets where I can ’stend my voice and bring de chillun home.” The reverend explained that he was of the Primitive Wash-Foot Baptist Church and wanted to make his doc trine more extensively known among the colored people of this poor be nighted city. The old darkey was very much in earnest, and Chief Irwin finally gave his permission for the Rev. Andrew Jackson to “ ’stend his voice” on the streets.—Charlotte Observer. A Newspaper Man. He seldom is handsome or natty. And has none of the charms of the dude. Is oft more abstracted than chatty. And sometimes unbearably rude He courts us, then slights us and grieves us. As much as he possibly can: He kisses us. loves us and leaves us. This perfidious newspaper man. Our mothers won't have him come call ing, He’s no earthly good as a catch; His morals (they sav) are appalling; His finances usually match. He's rollicking, reskless. uncaring; Lives but for the hour, the day; He's dangerous, dubious, daring— Not fit for a husband, they say. Biit somehow we girls are forgiving. Perhaps he but needs 11s the nv»re Because he goes wrong in the living And knows the old world to Its core. So we pass up the dude and the schemer. Who lead in society's van. And cherish the thinker and dreamer Enshrined in the newspaper man —Anonymous. Looking Into the Future. “I guess I might as well quit school, pa,” said the boy. “Why, my son?” “Oh, there ain’t any use going, ev cept to be able to help my little bo) when I grow up, and If they have changed the way of doing thing* since you were a boy so that you can t help me now, it’s likely I'm just wasting my time getting ready to help my little boy.” He got the help he wanted, but It was a good thing he didn't hea. what his father had to say about new Jangled school books after he had gone to bed. _.. Germans Suspend Operations. A traveler who recently made a tour on the coast of north China re ports that the Germans have suspend ed all work on undertakings of a strategic nature in their settlement of Kiao-Chou in the province of Shan tung. He could obtain no explanation of the reasons for this, and there was much speculation at Pekin over it. Change Philistine Currency. Late advice received from the Phil ippines indicates that the change of currency from Mexican and Spanish, which has been “the coin of the realm” since these islands advanced to commercial importance more than a century ago. to that which has been provided by the United States, is be ing rapidly and pacifically attained. Leaves $210,000 to Hospitals. Henry James Cove, who for a great many years was in charge of the house of commons cloakroom, died re cently in London. He left 1210.000. all of which he bequeathed to hospi tals, excepting $500 to the Society for the Prevention cf Cruelty to Animals,