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Show FOR HOME AND WOMEN ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. ported Street Oowna Dainty Hone Bodies The Right Klu.i of Wife She I the Com pM 11 ion of lir Huebaad Oar Cooking h IxkI. 1 he I.ort- Ko L Tying- her D...nnt urelir !nr thin. She ti'l her ravn nnel-'is in. But not aluiie In the silken ermre Did ahe catch her lovely !n;iilti? hn!r. For, tying her lx.nn.-t uri'lt-r her chin. She tied a young mo' hnart within. Thejr were Ftroliinij together up the hill. Where the wind comes blowing merry and chill; And It blew the curls, a frolicsome race, AH over the happy, peach-colored face. Till, scolding anl laughing-, she tied them In. Under her beautiful ilimpled chin. And It blew a coL.r. bright as the bloom Of the pinkest fuchsia' tolng- plume. All over the chf-eks of the prettiest girl That ever Imprisons'! a romping curl. Or. trine: her bonnet under her chin. Tied a young man's heart within. Steeper and steeper erew the hill; Madder, merrier, chillier tlll The western wind blew down, and I layed The wlldet tricks with I'.tl'.t raa.id. Aa. tying her bonnet undr her chin. She tied a young man's heart within. O weatem wind, do you think It was fair To play such tricks with her floating hair? To gladly, gleefully do your best To blow her against the young man's breast. Where he as gladly folded her In. And klsaed her mouth and her dimpled chin? Ah Ellery Van. you little thought An hour ago. when you besought This country lass to walk with you. After the sun had dried the dew. What prllous d.inger you d be in. As she tied her bonnet under her chin. Nora Perry. The night Kind of Wife. Many persons unable to read that most lnterebting book, "The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton," may like to see the rules ehe wrote upon her marriage mar-riage in her diary for her own guidance guid-ance in the new relation rules to whose observance she believed much of her subsequent happiness was due: First Let your husband rind in you companion, friend and adviser and confidante, that he may miss nothing at home. Second I3e a careful nurse when he is ailing, that he may never be in low spirits about his health without with-out a serious cause. Third Make his borne snug. If it be ever so small and poor, there can always be a certain chic about it. Men are always ashamed asham-ed of a poverty-stricken home, and, therefore, prefer the club. Attend much to his creature comforts; allow smoking or anything else, for if you do not somebody else will. Make it yourself cheerful and attractive, and draw relations and intimates about him. and the style of society (literati) that suits him. Fourth Improve and educate yourself in every way, that you may enter into his pursuits and keep pace with the times. Fifth Be prepared at any moment to follow him at an hour's notice and rough it like a man. Sixth Do not try to hide your affections from him, but let him see and feel it in every action. Never refuse re-fuse him anything he asks. Observe a certain amount of reserve and delicacy deli-cacy before him. Keep up the honeymoon honey-moon romance, whether at home or In the desert. At the same time do not make prudish bothers, which only disgust, and are not tr j modesty. Do not make the mistake of neglecting your personal appearance, but try to look and dress well to please his eye. Seventh Perpetually work up his in-t- rc-t with the world, whether forpub-L...ag forpub-L...ag or for appointments. Let him feei v hen he has to go away that he leaves a second self in charge of his affairs at home, so that if sometimes be is obliged to leave you behind he may have nothing of anxiety on his mind. Take an interest in everything that interests him. To be companionable companion-able a woman must learn what interests inter-ests her husband, and, if It is only planting turnips, she must try to understand un-derstand turnips. Philadelphia Times. A Kouui That Is Original The brown earthenware jugs that certain brands of whiskies and cordials cor-dials are put up in have been made Into very effective mantel and sideboard side-board ornaments by a young woman with artistic instincts. The labels have been washed off and the Jugs splashed with yehow oil paint. They tone in with the oak woodwork of the dining room. There is no combination com-bination prettier than blue and yellow, and as the walls are blue there is a dash of this shade in some of the Jugs. At any department store or china shop the flower stoppers can be found. That Is a Dresden china flower on a large cork, which is to be utilized when the cork of a bottle Is drawn. It is very rare that the cork that comes in the bottle can be used after it is pierced with the corkscrew. In the yellow jugs the stoppers are yellow chrysanthemums chrysanthe-mums and blue morning glories. They give to the room that touch of originality origin-ality and individuality that every woman wo-man strives for. The curtains are wnite net appliqued with lace bow knots and are looped back with ribbons, rib-bons, upon which are embroidered in chenille chrysanthemums and morning morn-ing glories. In one corner of the room fc&ngs a gilt canary cage occupied by a sweet voiced bit of yellow fluff. To protect the walla from being splashed when Mr. Canary takes his morning dip the lower part of the cage is draped drap-ed by a gathered curtain of the net, which is drawn under the cage and tied with ribbon that matches that on the curtains. Expedients In the 81ck Room. Where no regular system of ventilation ventila-tion exists the windows may be raised Mveral inches.restlng on a board made to fit the window, thus forcing an Indirect In-direct draft over the top of the sash. An adjoining room may be well ventilated, ven-tilated, and then the doors opened Into the sick room. In warm weather a screen may keep the draft from the bed. and plenty of air be admitted. When a 6ick person- begins to count the pictures on the wall paper, following follow-ing the designs with eye or finger, it will waste the flagging energy as almost al-most nothing else will do, says the Woman's Home Companion. It ia time then to cover the wall with a curtain or cheese cloth, or even a sheet, hanging hang-ing a favorite picture for a central object ob-ject of vision, to be replaced occasionally occasion-ally with a fresh one. Dancer In Hot Water. The hot water relaxes the muscles of the face too much; in fact, it does of the body also, and the person who uses hot water on the face and does cot sponge It off with cold, will find that the years produce a flabbiness which she bewails. The wrinkles will leein around the ears, then they will about the mouth, and finally the wrinkles grow into furrows and the akin becomes soft and flabby and falls Into lines. It is then usual for IMPORTED Made of mastic Venetian cloth over linings of the same shade. The decoration deco-ration is composed of brown mohair braid. Heavy ecru lace and white pie to say, "What a lot of trouble that woman must have had in her life!" What should really be said is, "How careless that woman has been of her complexion." Any woman using proper methods and taking it in time, can keep her face as smooth and lineles and fresh as a young girl3. The Practical House Uonn. Few women realize the comfort that can be gotten out of a practical little house gown. Of course I am not alluding al-luding to the luxurious tea gowns or to the dressy gowns woman dons on her at-home day. The house gown is essentially an every day affair. With just ever 90 little pains it can be made a charming toilet dress, combining a rare amount of chic with a certain dainty picturesqueness, says the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Times. How often a last year's tailor made skirt and a passe silk blouse usurp the place of this pleasing little cashmere house gown. But the makeshift cannot bring the peace of mind that possesses a woman who is becomingly gowned, no matter at what hour the pop caller descends on her. A gown of periwinkle blue cashmere illustrated so well the wonders won-ders that are wrought by a novel trimming trim-ming of velvet. The skirt was made with a double tunic suit in Vandyke points around the bottom and edged with a narrow bias fold of black velvet. vel-vet. It was close fitting over the hips with the flare commencing just half way down. The corsage was a blouse of the cashmere fastening at the left side in a slanting line of Vandyke points. It was covered all over with appliques of black velvet forming discs an inch and a half in diameter. These were ornamented with steel threads, which formed also little dots between the discs. The short basques of the blouses were formed by overlapping Vandyke points of the cashmere bordered bor-dered with a narrow bias fold of black velvet. The velvet bordered also the points on the upper part of the blouse, and those that fell over the tops of the sleeves. The high collar was of black velvet. Dainty Home Bodice. S'.'i'iJrs'Vi. 7 " .3 In gray chiffon, with lace and velvet applique, and purple chiffon rosettes and drapery. Carina for Veil. The beauty and freshness of a veil can be preserved for a long time if it is properly cared for. After wearing it should be smoothed out carefully and rolled between paper or over a rod. A piece of broomstock makes an excellent roller, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. A veil which has become limp can be freshened by dipping it in weak, gum water, and pulling it straight before it dries. OUR COOKING SCHOOL. Sponge Marguerites. Cut a thin sheet of sponge cake into rounds, by means of a small cookie cutter; spread each round with frosting frost-ing made of confectioner's sugar, a few drops of vanila, and hot water to make of the consistency to spread. Then use almonds that have been browned In the oven, for the petals, and put a drop of the frosting In the center. A Xew ruling for Layer Cake. Boll a cup of sugar and one-third cup of water without stirring, until the syrup threads. Pour In a fine stream onto the white of an egg, which has u t . i 7 vs TREET GOWN. cloth. The turban is made of cara-cule, cara-cule, with a huge rosette of pale blue chiffon for decoration. been beaten until foamy, but not stiff; add one-fourth pound figs finely chopped chop-ped and cooked in one-fourth cup of water; then add half a cup of walnuts finely chopped. Beat until cold enough to spread. Coffee Cream. This is a delightful addition to "a little supper" table, and is well worth the trouble it entails: You must boil a calf's head till it comes down to a pint of jelly. This you must clear from the sediment Make a cup of good strong coffee (the berry is better for the purpose than the essence), and clear it with isinglass. Pour It on to the jelly, add a pint of cream, and sweeten to taste; give one boil up, and when slightly cooled off, pour Into a glass mold, and turn out when set. Stewed Ox Tongue. Where an ox tongue Is to be eaten hot, this is the best way in which to cook it: Having washed It, rub it well with coarse salt and a little saltpetre; let it He for three days, and then boll until the skin can easily be removed. Now put It into a saucepan with a pint of good stock and about half a pint of the water in which it was first boiled; season with black and Jamaica pepper, two cloves, a tablespoonful of mushroom ketchup, a tablespoonful of lemon-pickle, or if not, lemon juice, Stir, without boiling, until perfectly tender; take up the tongue, strain and thicken the sauce with flour and but ter, and pour it over serving at once. It Let Him Oat. ine British workman hates to "lose a quarter," but there are occasions when even he is prone to fall. It so happened to a horny-handed son of toil who persisted In turning up late in the mornings, and was duly taken to task by his employer. "Here you are again," said Mr. Boss; "late once more. What's the reason?" ery sorry," replied the man, "but I didn't wake up in time. I overslept myself." "Anyhow," said his master, "you will have to get here earlier." "Why!" ejaculated the man In amazement, "what's the good of me coming when I'm asleep?" Ally Slo-per. Slo-per. She Had to Walkey-Palkey. A carrier on his way to Hinckley overtook a poor Woman carrying a baby. She was very tired, and asked him if he would give her a lift "Yes. missus," said he, "If you won't talk rubbish to the baby." The woman promised not to do so, and got in. They had not proceeded far when the baby began to cry. "Hush, my little ducky-vueky," said the mother, "you're going to Hinckley-Pinckley Hinckley-Pinckley to see your uncley-puncley." "Now you can get out and walkey-palkey," walkey-palkey," said the carrier, Weekly Telegraph. (Economical. An Irishman once went Into a hardware hard-ware store to buy a stove. The cirk showed him some, but the Irishman was not satisfied with any of them. Then, coming to a high-priced stove, the clerk said: "Now, sir, there is a stove that wlJl save one-half of your coal." The Irishman promptly said: "I'll take two." Short Stories. Talent. "Mrs. Bingley is a wonderful WO- man." "In what way?" "When she takes the second prize at a card party she can appear so tickled with what she gets that she always makes the winner of the flrat prize jealous and dissatisfied." Chicago Chica-go Times-Herald. The Savage Bachelor. "The Mohammedan religion," eald the Sweet Young Thing with a purpose pur-pose of starting something, "says every man shall have four wives." "Well," retorted the Savage Bachelor, Bachel-or, "what of it? Did you ever know of a religion from which the iJea of penance pen-ance was absent?" Indianapolis Journal. Jour-nal. President Arthur's Son. Alan Arthur, the son of the deceased president, is rarely seen In New Twt He travels a good deal, but makes his home in Paris. He is a man of wide-culture, wide-culture, an accomplished linguist and a most agreeable gentleman. IN THE ODD CORNER. QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS. Mtnette, the Two-Legged Cs Feline Whose Forefeet Have Never Been Developed De-veloped Pet Which Overthrows Kat-aral Kat-aral History Laws. Desolation. A little grave, secluded and apart. Lies where the sunlight Quivers, full and warm, Beneath a grassy fabric Time has wrought And gently spread above the small, still form. The name and date upon the crumbling cross. Too long the dreary rains have washed away. But, ah, the tiny mound bespeaks a loss It needs no stolid wooden cross to say! Some mother once had crossed the dimpled dim-pled hand. And kissed the wayward locks that fell above Her throbbing heart, the while she proudly proud-ly planned Her baby's future, crowned with joy and love. Oh, stars that gleam above the Quiet dead. Shine softly on this mound alone and drear: Oh, winds across Death's silent numbers sped. Pause gently at the little sleeper here. For all the hopes a most, The dreams that in mother cherished a mother's heart abound. Are buried here among this sleeping host. Beneath the cold, bleak shelter of a mound. Oh, pitying flowers, let your fragrant tears Fall for the tender joys and silent mirth. The boundless love, the thousand hopes and fears. Encompassed in this narrow space of earth ! Ella Bentley, Jr., in the New Orleans Times-Democra t. Minette, the Two-Legged Cat. Among the Manxmen a cat without a tail is nothing unusual. Here in America one can sometimes see a cat with a bob-tailed appearance, due to a too great curiosity concerning some machinery. Cats with lopped ears and yet tuneful voices abound. But this is the tale of a cat of Chicago. This cat has two ears and one tail, but is short of the forefeet. In fact, Minette, Min-ette, as she is called, never possessed more than two feet, having come into the world thus robbed of her true proportions. pro-portions. Minette, is the property of August Sternberg of Lake View. She is not only a great pet, but a very dignified member of the Sternberg family. The proprietor of the place of business and home in North Clark street is quite an antiquarian and curio collector, but he prizes his two-legged two-legged cat over all his other queer things. He is a Swede and has numerous nu-merous implements of war once used by his racemen, but while these have histories and are valued relics the cat is the thing. Minette herself, robbed of half her locomotive powers, is otherwise oth-erwise a perfectly formed feline. Recently Re-cently she surprised the family by giving birth to a litter of kittens, all of whom are perfectly formed and shy no piece of their anatomy as laid down for members of the tribe. They are small, bright-eyed, swift of motion mo-tion and playful as any ordinary kittens kit-tens and seem to have no undue sense of importance because of the distinction distinc-tion of their dam. This distinction is purely anatomical, for Minette is but an ordinary domestic cat, with some hints of original Persian descent. She is very long, has fine, soft $ur, a. thick tail and thin ears. "She is a wonderful won-derful animal," said Mr. Sternberg, stroking the pet. "She disproves completely com-pletely the belief that cats are vicious, irritable and incapable of affection for their owners. Cats are generally supposed sup-posed to be attached solely to locality without reference to the occupants of the house or store. My cat has as much sense as any dog that ever lived. She possesses intellectual powers not to be scoffed at and is attached to us personally. "She is exceptionally cleanly even for a cat. She washes herself a dozen times a day and washes her kittens until they rebel and scamper away from her, as small boys are wont to do at times. She is extremely dignified and marches about on her two legs with the grace of a grand lady. She has the appearance when walking of being conscious of her good looks and to be seeking admiration. ad-miration. She is a general pet, but while always gentle and docile is not inclined to bestow much attention on strangers." Driftwood from Many Seas. From the Chicago Times-Herald. One of the greatest curiosities noted by travelers in Alaska is the wonderful haven of driftwood on the coast between be-tween Yakatag and Kyak Islands, some twelve hundred or fifteen hundred miles northeast from Seattle. The constant con-stant deposit of logs and driftwood in this particular spot, which has been going on for hundreds, perhaps thousands thous-ands of years, is due to the phenomena of the tides, the Pacific gulf stream, the mysterious ocean currents, and the peculiar formation of the shore lines at that point. Logs and timbers are readily identified there as having come from Japan, China, India and other parts of Asia, as well as from California, Califor-nia, Washington and other parts of the American continent. There are fine logs of the camphor tree, the mahogany, mahog-any, the redwood and the pine in this driftage. Some of those from the state of Washington contain the names of the men who felled the trees and the sawmills for which they were destined but never reached. Logs eight feet in diameter are in this novel woodyard, and some entire trees 150 feet long are there, uplifted by the roots, cast Into the sea by some terrible tempest and sent floating round the world. Other persons on the beach descry big trees floating shoreward, with fantastic roots above the waves, like some sea monster. One beach after another has been formed by the floating timbers, and a little distance back from the shore the deposits are so old that the wood in some places is petrified, while a little deeper in the earth it has turned turn-ed into coal. The newer logs are with out bark and as hard as stone, due it is thought, to their long immersion In salt water. They have all taken on a whitish appearance. In places the timbers are pile twenty feet high; at other points they rise to a height of only four or five feet. Under this wonderful beach is found large quantities of dark, ruby sand, rich in fine particles of gold, for the separation of which no successful process pro-cess has yet been discovered. Monday for Sabering Up. Monday is a dies non in Chill, writes correspondent of the Chicago Rec ord. People have learned by long experience ex-perience that they can expect little from their servants and employes on that day. They call it "San Lames" sobering-up day. A manufacturer goea to his shop Monday morning to find that only a few of his bands bare reported for duty, and even they are La a seedy condition. In some establishments, estab-lishments, in places where labor ia plenty, the hands who are absent on Monday get no work during the week, but this rule cannot be applied ii roost of the cities, because labor is so scarce that employers are at the mercy of their help, and are compelled to tolerate toler-ate their delinquencies. The mistress of a household allows her servants a Sunday off in turn, but seldom expects them to report for duty on Monday, and is never surprised to receive a message from the police station. Carpenters, Car-penters, masons and other mechanics seldom work more than five days in a week, for the reasons I have given, and there is a proverb that the shoe-shops shoe-shops are never open on Monday. The same customs attend the celebration of legal holidays, and it requires five days for the people of Chili to express the patriotic emotions inspired by the "Diez y Ocho de Setiembre" the 18th of September or the "daisy ocho," as it is familiarly called the anniversary of Chilian independence.' Everybody prepares for it. Houses are freshly painted, flagpoles are raised over every roof, bonfires burn on the surrounding mountains, fiestas are held in every park and plaza, special masses are sung in the churches, all the banks, business houses and manufacturing establishments es-tablishments are closed, schools are dismissed, labor is suspended on all the plantations, and everybody, young and old, great and small, engages in the festivities with a zeal and enthusiasm that is seldom seen elsewhere. Irish Superstitions. From Blackwood's Magazine: On Inishkea a particular family handed down from father to son a stone called the Ne-ogue (probably part of some image), with which the owners used to make the weather to their liking. One day a party of tourists visited Inishkea, Inish-kea, heard of the Ne-ogue, saw it, and wrote about it in the papers. The priest, in whose parish Inishkea lay either had not known of this survival of paganism or thought that no one else knew of it. but when the thing was made public he decided to act. So he visited the island, took the Ne-ogue Ne-ogue and broke it up into tiny fragments frag-ments and scattered them to the four winds. The priest was sacrosanct, but the islanders vowed vengeance, and an unfortunate man of science who had lived some time among them was pitched upon as certainly the person who had made the story public. This man after some time returned to complete com-plete his investigations at Inishkea, and was warned of danger; but he laughed at the idea, and said the people peo-ple were his very good friends, as, indeed, in-deed, they had been. However, he was hardly out of the boat before they fell upon him and beat him so that he never completely recovered indeed, died In consequence of his injuries some years later. Probably a like fate would befall any one who touched the cursing stone on Tory, which was "turned on" th j Wasp gunboat after she brought a posse of bailiffs there to levy county cess; and, as every one knows, the Wasp ran on Tory and lost every soul on board. Only the other day I heard that a fish buyer stationed there displeased the people; the owner of the stone "turned it on him," and a month after the buyer's wife committed suicide. Kiver I Forever S'nglng. From the Portland Telegram: "There is something peculiar about the Yukon river that I have never heard of In connection con-nection with any other stream," said Captain Gray, who has recently been running boats on the big Alaska artery. ar-tery. ."From the mouth of the Yukon up as far as there is any navigable water the stream is constantly singing. sing-ing. No matter where you are, there is sound like that made by escaping steam. At first I used to think that maybe it came from the boiler or engines. en-gines. But when we were tide up at night, with everything cold, the sound was the same. I have puzzled my brain to find an explanation of the phenomenon, phenom-enon, but without avail. The singing goes on, day and night. When you get upstream some distance you can also hear the rocks rolling over the bed of the river, and this produces a most peculiar pe-culiar sound." VICTORIA, PRINTER. Her Copyrights Will Last as Long as the British Empire. Curious as it may appear, her majesty maj-esty (through the government) is a printer, publisher and bookseller. The queen is more than that she will not allow any one else to print and sell certain books, says Pearson's. It is not known that all mariners' charts are printed and published by her majesty, maj-esty, and a very good thing for the mariners, for the queen's appropriation of that responsibility insures strict accuracy. ac-curacy. Ordinarily dealt with, competition com-petition might spell inaccuracy. Her majesty is also printer and publisher of all ordnance maps, so you may rest quite assured that they are reliable. The queen is the owner (through the government) of the monthly Journal of the Board of Trade, and, seeing that it is usually crowded with advertisements, advertise-ments, it ought to be a very profitable source of revenue; as a matter of fact, it is. Strangest of all, perhaps, is the fact that the queen, together with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, has the exclusive privilege of printing print-ing and publishing the Bible. You may not publish the text of the Bible as it stands in the original translation, but you may with notes. The queen's copyrights in the publications named are exceedingly valuable, for they will never run out. Your copyrights protect pro-tect you and your works for seven years after death, for forty-two years from the start, but her majesty's will last as long as the British empire. Punch and Judy. Paris old-fashioned theaters still have Punch and Judy shows. The audiences aud-iences are models of attention. The children sit serious or lightly laughing, laugh-ing, following with delighted eyes the evolutions of the Notary, the Gendarme, Gend-arme, Pierrot, Mother Bcrlingu and the others that take the places of the characters our own young people know. The theaters are in the open air. All through the fall into early winter the bare-legged little folk come to them, rosy-faced and hardy. Under the baro branches of the horse chestnut trees of the Champs Elysees they spin their tops when it is all but freezing. The play Is a much longer one than is given here, and there is always a wheezy old aceordeon to furrnish the music, but Mr. Punch fights his "ay through it all and meets with the same end at last. Turn Abont. Mrs. Weeds "Oh, you remind me so much of my first husband." Mr. Weedj "I'm glad to hear it. You've been reminding me of him so often." Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Press, DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. IIow Stteeesfol Farmers Operate This Department . of the Farm A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. Dairy Note. Reports from the eastern seaports tell of butter being sent back from Europe and having to be sold for packing pack-ing stock or even for grease. It was reported to have Leeu put up in such poor shape that the boxes did not stand the journey and the packages became broken and their contenia injured. Whether this was the reason for their rejection by the English we do not know, but it is ce:tdin that this manner man-ner of shipping butter is a poor recommendation recom-mendation for its sale on any market. Would Canadian butter have been sent in any such shape? In New York state the violators of the oleomargarine law are being prose- ! cuted vigorously and the cases have resulted, when brought into court, in the securing of vei diets for the prosecutors. prose-cutors. One case went up to the Supreme Su-preme court and the pros2cutors were upheld. There will evidently be no Supreme court decision in New York j pronouncing the oleomargarine law il-j il-j legal, as has been the case in Michigan, Michi-gan, and aa is threatened in Illinois. Some of the Chicago manufacturers I have also violated the internal revenue j law in sending oleomargarine into New York state without reenus stamps on : each tub. About 200 tubs were rec-ent- ly returned from Albany to the n akers in Chicago, but the latter did not dare take them from the cars, fearirg arrest ar-rest by officers of the national government gov-ernment for not having used revenue stamps. The dairy farmer is more prosperous than most of the general farmers, ' largely because his business is nore I of a cash business than theira. The effect is seen alto on the tr. d.-smen in ! dairy communities. The credit sys- tern is with many tradesmen stretched to the limit. We have heard of some j farming communities where the farm-! farm-! ers do not settle more than once a ! year. This is very hard on the men j that sell them goods, especially on the men ot small capital. the larmer must needs be charged a good round interest in the way of a higher price for goods. Not only do:s the tradesman trades-man frequently lose his bill, but in other cases the farmer, keeping no account ac-count of what be buys, finds himself deeply in debt, often so deeply that he cannot get out without making some great sacrifice. The dairyman receives re-ceives his pay as he goes and pays as he goes. This is best all round. It is a system that is bound to make him master of the situation, and moreover win for him the respect of every man with whom he deals. e The good price of butter this fall and winter should stimu'.ate winter dairying. dairy-ing. The industry seems to be experiencing experi-encing the results of former low prices in butter and present good prices or beef. In some sections of the west and northwest the low price of both grain and all kinds of meat turned the attention at-tention of the farmers to dairying. But as soon as beef began to bring good prices the farmers began to neglect neg-lect their dairy cows for their beef cattle. In most cases they had stuck to the beef cattle to some extent even for dairy purposes. In Minnesota particularly par-ticularly comparatively few of the dairymen had herds of pure bred dairy cattle. As the profits from such cows must necessarily be small it is no won-that won-that as soon as beef began to rise in price the producing of beef became a larger item in their eyes than the producing pro-ducing of butter. We believe it to be a mistake for the farmers in any section sec-tion of the west to let up on the production pro-duction of butter. . Miik products are bound to bring a good price in the future, fu-ture, and the man that goes into dairying dairy-ing with any kind of determination to make it succeed, and begins to develop a good herd of the right kind of cows, will be doing the wise thing. The price of butter is more stable than the price of almost any other product of the farm. Rye for Poultrv. From Farmers' Review: There is entirely too little written of rye as a green feed for poultry. Why, it is hard to tell, for surely there is nothing noth-ing cheaper and easier had, also it i3 extra good for all kinds of poultry and at the same time it is making pasture for fowls and possibly the cow it is loosening the ground for next year's crop. Its fertilizing qualities quali-ties may not be so good but it does no harm and without a doubt makes the ground looser. There is no one but what can sow a patch in his garden gar-den anyhow and after it gets a start let the fowls have the run of it. Unless Un-less your poultry is in very great numbers num-bers and the rye patch small no harm is done to allow them the run of it all the time except the ducks and geese. Their broad feet pat the soft ground down so hard and then after it is up the blades do not seem to grow up so quickly after being nipped oif by ducks' or geese bills as when they are picked by chickens or turkeys. After it gets a start there is nothing better however for laying ducks than to be turned into a rye patch. Four weeks ago we sowed the garden and truck patch to rye after harrowing the ground. The rye was broad-casted. then logged, and now (Nov. 18) it is quite green, notwithstanding the short winter we had the week after it was sown and that almost a hundred head of poultry have had the run of it all the time. There i3 a little over two acres on which was planted two and one-half bushels of rye. We were compelled to keep the ducks off it, much 'to their disgust, but can soou allow them to pasture on it. There is hardly a bit of pasture for the chicks, and for awhile it seemed the rye would have to give up the struggle, for the chicks would eat in the day nearly all the growth the rye could make in twenty-four hours, but it is coming on nicely now, thanks to the warm rains. If you have never watched chicks, you have no idea how busy they will keep on a patch of rye all day. Were the ground ia condition condi-tion and I had no rye or clover pasture, pas-ture, I would not hesitate to ow now. for it would probably make pasture fov the poultry next spring before grasn starts up much. During every warm spell this winter the rye will be there inviting the poultry poul-try to eat, and they will not wait for the econd invitation. Then in the early spring what a feast! It will not only result In our getting a larger number of eggs, but they will hatch better and stronger chicks, ducks and turkeys. By all means have a patch of rye If you haven't a patch of clover, especially for your poultry's use. We sold all of our young gobblers and the largest of our young turkey hens the first of the month, receiving 84 cents per pound. We received hut 7i cents last year. The way prices are running now we sold them well. We will keep the young hens for the February market. Our experience the past two years in turkey raising has been such that our plans fre no- to procure enough old hens, so that they may sit after laying their first litter, unless too early in the season; let them sit upon, hatch and raise their own young, but not without our supervision. su-pervision. To be sure they will need to be watched to the nests, eggs gathered gath-ered and taken care of until they are set; then after hatching they will need to be penned a week or two, but after that they will be comparatively little bother, nothing like as when chicken hens raise them, and they make a better growth, also are free of disease. EMMA CLEARYVATER3. Heaves. "I cannot understand," writes a western farmer, "why it is that in the last five years four of my horses have become badly affected with "heaves," so that I cannot work them. I have always fed them all they wanted and in winter they have had a yard to run in where there was a stack of clover hay and another of flax straw so they could not want for food." We fail to see how horses so fed could escape having "heaves." Yet comparatively few farmers understand how the disease is brought on. The fact of the matter is that coarse fodders fod-ders are practically always at the bottom bot-tom of the trouble, so to speak, and dusty timothy hay is also a common cause. Average farm horses get far too much hay and cannot possibly derive de-rive any benefit from it, for the surplus amount that cannot be digested becomes be-comes a burden and sets up indigestion, indiges-tion, eventually a lesion of the pne'i-mogastric pne'i-mogastric nerve, and as a reflex consequence con-sequence emphysema of the lungs. The disease is incurable when fully developed, although the severe symptoms symp-toms may be alleviated by common-sense common-sense methods of feeding. Bear in mind that no working horse should have all the hay he can eat three times a day. Indeed, when working hard he should be fed hay but once daily and that meal by preference at 8 p. m., after the oats liave been eaten and largely digested. Should the hay be dusty it is liable to produce heaves even when fed but once daily, unless it be well shaken up and wetted with water, or where carts are already present, pres-ent, with lime water, which is easily prepared by pouring water upon hot lime. Where the intestines are continuously con-tinuously distended with undigested hay they soon lose toDe. gas forms, and the characteristic cough of heaves with the accompanying passage of flatus fla-tus from the bowels are the next suxe signs of the disease. It may be confidently asserted that "heaves" need never occur if horses are carefully fed as we have so often advised in these columns, viz., feeding nay and fodder in moderation, always providing old, sound, sweet, dustless hay, always giving drinking water before be-fore feeding, never allowing horses to eat when hot, fatigued or perspiring, and feeding oats in preference to corn during times of hard labor in hot weather. In addition to these precautions precau-tions every horse should get. a bran mash at least twice a week when working work-ing and much oftener when idle with carrots in winter time, as both of these foods tend to keep the bowels acting properly and so ward off attacks of indigestion. in-digestion. If the following rules are followed any horse afflicted with heaves will in time be fit for light work but will not entirely recover. Keep in clean, well-ventilated barn, and make it impossible im-possible for horse to eat bedding. Place a lump of rock salt in manger. WThen idle feed clean, bright oat straw in preference to timothy hay. Never feed clover hay. Wet all food with lime water. Feed grain In small quantities never using grain under one year old. Never work horse immediately after a meal. Arrange feeding hours so horse will have at least one hour of rest before be-fore going to work. If there is any tendency to constipation keep bowels acting freely by giving sloppy bran mashes and gradually accustom horse to taking raw linseed oil in these mashes. In bad cases where great improvement im-provement does not follow above method meth-od of treatment give one-half ounce of Fowler's Solution of Arsenic morning and night, and In one week, if necessary, neces-sary, increase to three doses daily. In ' using arsenic in this or any other disease dis-ease it must, however, bo remembered that a horse will "go all to pieces" if suddenly deprived of it, so that when it is decided to quit its use it must be done very gradually by lessening the dose day by day until the horse can get along without it. P'luid extract of lobelia may also be given in very small doses along with the arsenic in aggravated aggra-vated cases. Precocious MiiUcm. I have been handling Jerseys for about 12 years, and have had several eises where young heifers" have given milk before ever having calves, says a contributor to Rural N:-w Yorker. At one time, a yearling heifer was sucked by some calves and brought to her milk in such quantity that we milked !.vr regularly, and used ner milk, but ! could not state the amount, as it v,a3 put in with that from the rest of the h. -;d. She proved io be a "non-breefi-and was sent to the butcher. I have a heifer now, just a year old, that has 1o much of an udder that several have asked whether she was not in call. She would, evidently, give milk i I would take it. Last summer, 1 had two heifer3 whose udders Ailed so that I milked them several mouths before calving, but I do not cuii3id" this advisable ad-visable when it can be avoided. Eating Oleomargarine. We wonder whether the writers who urge the use of oleo as a worthy food product have ?vr really eaten it for any considerable consider-able period. The writer lived for nearly near-ly two years with a co-operatjve colony col-ony in a southern stite. The native butter war. scarce, and of miserable q-.i&iity, our dairy was in an embryonic embry-onic state, and from motives of economy econ-omy it was not deemed practicable to buy good northern butter. So we tried to conten'. ourselves with oleo as a fat ration. Scarcely one individual out of 300 ever professed to like it, and many cases of sickness, treated by resident resi-dent physicians, Beamed to fcs directly caused by eatine the oleo. Rural Now Yorker. There Is an inclination among some poultry writers to charge roup to colds. The fact is that a cold and ro-;tp are very different things. Roup is a bacterial bac-terial disease, and a cold i not. But a, cold "may make the bird ru-jre easily attacked by ruup germs that may be in the poultry house. Recent experiments Jc Rho4e Island conducted under more r.r!y rwrxnal soil conditions give afceat S3 for th assimilability f tit bet lity oi dried black blocd. HE WAS A DREAMER. THE LATE DORM AN B. EATON OF CIVIL SERVICE FAME. Believed That all Mankind Could Be Reformed lu Miort Order" but Died to See Things Worse Thau When He Began, One f ihe foremost advocates of civil service reform in the United States passed away in the person of Hon. Dormau B. Baton. On account of the persistent energy of purpose with which he applied himself to this political crusade. Mr. Eaton earned the distinction of being the father of civil service reform and no one undertook to dispute his right to that badge of honor. Mr. Eaton was born in Hardwick, Vt., June 27, 1S23. He graduated at the university of Vermont, in 184S, and . . . fc y ' r J H " ; DORMAN B EATON, then entered the law s.-lsool of Harvard Har-vard university, where he was graduated gradu-ated in I8."i0. His lej;al essay prepared pre-pared there took the lhvt prize in the university. That same year he determined de-termined to settle in NVw York city, and soon after going there he became the partner of Judge William Kent, the author of the famous "Commentaries." "Commenta-ries." He gave Jude Kent much aid Ui preparing this work. His unselfish interest in municipal reform and improvement was early manifested. In ltr,r, he drafted the law creating the New York metropolitan metropoli-tan board of health, and in 1S67 drafted draft-ed the sanitary code of the city. Another An-other law which he framed was that under which the police courts of New York are now organize' !. He identified identi-fied himself early with the Union League club, and for several years was chairman of its committee on political refor . In 1SG6 and again in 1S70-72 he traveled trav-eled in Enrope, and made a special study of the status of the civil service of the different countries, and of the progressive laws by which it was being be-ing improved. After his return to America President Grant appointed him chairman of the civil service commission com-mission as successor to George William Wil-liam Curtis, and he held that position until the commission came to an end through the failure of congress to make an appropriation for its support. In 1875 he again visited Europe, and in 1877 he went again at President Hayes' suggestion in order to prepare a historical report upon the British civil service. In 1878 the first society in the country organized to promote civil service reform was formed at his residence. Five years later, when congress again passed a law organizing organiz-ing a civil service board, Mr. Eaton was appointed the first commissioner by President Arthur. The law, indeed, in-deed, had been drafted by Mr. Eaton himself. He resigned July 28, 1885, but was reappointed by President Cleveland in November of the same year. The next April he resigned again. The laws which control the municipal government of Washington were drafted by him at the request of a joint committee of the two houses of congress. Mr. Baton received recognition from many sources for his wo:k. In 1S82 ha' was invited to deliver the annual address ad-dress before the law school of Yale university. The degree of LL. D. was bestowed upon him by the university of Vermont. As a writer he published a number of works of great value, 6ome in book form, some in the magazines. "The Independent Movement in New York" and "Civil Service Reform in Great Britain" appeared from his pen in 1880. In the following years he wrote u number of article.-; on civil service reform and other subjects, and contributed papers of value to Lalor's Cyclopaedia of Political Science. He prepared an edition of "Chipman on Contracts Payable In Specific Articles." Arti-cles." Mr. Eaton was a member of a number of New York societies, including includ-ing the Bar association, the Citizens' Municipal league, the Excise Reform association, the City Reform, Union league, Commonwealth. Century, Nineteenth Nine-teenth Century and Unitarian clubs, and the Reform club of Boston. I 1 Uryedt Iortion of the i;rtli. A place on the coast of i'eru about 350 miles south of the equator, known as Payta, is supposed to be the dryest spot on the face of the earth. Tha average interval between showers at Payta is seven years. The opposite side of the world furnishes the counterpart coun-terpart to this almost rainless region. It is among the hills of Assam, where the elevations condense the moisture brought by the south monsoon and pour a deluge upon the Cheraponji station sta-tion of the Indian government. Th annual mean rainfall there is about 620 inches, and in the exceptional year of 1861 it amounted to 790 inches. Nowhere No-where else does the tropical downpour equal that which descends upon thi3 district among the Khasia hills. Tho rains begin in March and continue almost al-most steadily till the middle of November. No-vember. That part of the plains ad-Joining ad-Joining the rivers is under water for eight months every year. During this period there is no communlcatlont even between neighboring villages, and to this enforced isolation is attributed the fact that there are considerabla' differences of language among the peo pie of neighboring hamlets who un doubtedly, at one time, spoke the sama language. Oranere Free Slate. The coat of arms of the Orange Free State shows an orange tree in the middle mid-dle of the field; on 'one side stands a lion, on the other a lamb. The motto beneath is "Freedom, Immigration, Patience, Pa-tience, Courage." The emblem of the Hon and the lamb has a scriptural reference re-ference to the peace and harmony within its borders, and does not glance at th geographical position of the republic re-public between the domain of the British Brit-ish lion and the pastoral Boers of the Trans.al. as an American joker migh assume. Mr -AA A " ; ''.. , , v |