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Show JTcrmon$ OLD HOUSES OF BOSTON AHE MARVELS OF BEAUTY ON.& kMBITl v. ' w 77 j CHECK THE MELON LOUSE. - done by Every year great damage the melon louse, which usually gets jts work well started before Jt is interfered with. Preventive measures re the first to be looked to. They consist of cleaning up and burning the yubbish and weeds in and around the melon field, especially if that field has before been infested by the melon Jouse. The young vines should be examined every day for tho first appearance of the lice, and the work of destroying them should begin as toon as they are found. Spraying with tobacco decoction is one of the best known, as it is generally fiective and is not likely to Injure the vourg plants. One method of making this decoction is to pour two gallons of hot water on one pound of good lobncco stems and allow it to stand This may be applied eithei jbll night. in a spray pump or by menus of an firdinary sprinkling can with very "rose." Kerosene einul-,01is sometimes used, but care must Jl e taken not to have it strung enough ko Injure the leaves. When the lice kre to be smoked, tobacco may be Turned in a saucer or pan under a ub or a box over the vines. The box Should be left over the plants tor an or more, to insure killing of the On the question of using Sl.our bisulphide, an experimenter td the Oklahoma station says: "Treating the melon louse with the fames f carbon bisulphide (hokey pokiy) is k comparatively simple operation, but J.as the disadvantage that unless it is clone with care not to use too large dose or expose the plants too long to it, it may injure the vines. Two kablcspootifuls poured into a saucer or to )a pan and placed beside the plant covered be to whole the Wvaporate, immediately with a tight box pressed Into the soli and allowed to remain 3a that position for an hour and a work Jialf, has been found to do the In making the Ait killing the insect. kest of this method before applying fit to the field it will be well to see khat the test is made with the temperature as high as it is likely to be in practice. i finely-perf- orated W BERRY PICKING. J. L. Herbst of Wisconsin tells of ..is methods of picking strawberries ns follows: "in the morning the foreman starts the pickers, two lu a row, ir one, as the case demands iL As last as they get their stands full they kali their number and a tender goes ?and gets it, gives her cheek for same land brings it to the tables, which At each in the field. j we have f table stands a girl whose business Is to put the boxes in crates. If in doing so she discovers berries in picker's stand No. 14 are soft, too green, or not picked properly, she reports the number of tho stand to the foreman, who can remedy the trouble or let the picker go. The girl at the table puts the boxes in the cases properly and sees that all boxes are filled. As fast as the crates are filled they are drawn to tho slilpplug house, and after another InspMtlon, are nailed up and ent to their destination. We aim to g t all fruit as quickly as possible to Its destination, and never unless in use of accident, or late pickings, hold fver night. The above system Is used In both strawberries and cane fruits The number of pickers taking a row of cane berries is placed at tho head of the row, so in case the piekers finish and take another row, the foreman can tell who picked it, in case it not done properly. We pay pickers lti rents per quart while picking ami if they remain throughout the lin.'on are paid another quarter of a I1 I cut for each box picked, making tents a quart. In strawberries wo try to get all one variety picked separately. or If two varieties are of about one color and shape, they are' picked together. Light and dark sorts do not Jonk well together in one box. We it k with a short stem and calyx as Ibis gives the berry a much better iiqirarnnre, und they stand shipping Raspberries both red pegib better. kind Mack are picked In pint boxes, all hers in qunrts." THE ONCE TREELESS PLAINS. Man found great prairies in many pr our western states, but he lias largely obliterated them by planting iiees. The largest naked areas are low found further to the west. In Nebraska and Kansas. In both of these g' ales much tree planting is being d me, and the next generation wilt lave to look a long time to find a eralrle such ss the school books used to tell sbout. The United States Bureau of Forestry has begun work in Kansas and 1s studying the natural tue growths. The buresu will study the tendency of tho trees and shrubs tiling tho water courses to tncrense nd spresd, especially when protect- I from fire and stock, and will determine what species are best adapted (i planting on those uplands that Contain no natural growth. In ninny Jaics along the streams where fire nd stock have been excluded for ten or fifteen years are found thrifty lottonwoods, white din. ntid other rpecles which are dusty Invading the great plains, lox-elder- i The "saddle" is the posterior part f the back, running to the tall In a Sok and answeilng to the cushion In however, ti!r; to a very connl lornhV deroP 1 Uinnl, r In Cochins, while "mldM" W be St lliil t any breed m hen,-cushi- on, THE AMERICAN ROYAL STOCK SHOW. From the Farmers' Review: Kansas City, Mo. Breeders and importers of draft and coach horses are taking a lively Interest In the coming American Royal Live Stock Show, to be held in this city October and the indications are that the exhibit of horses will be a largo one, and one of excellent quality. Messrs. Wolcott, Beers & Co. of Kansas City have offered $300 in cash prizes for the horse department of the show. McLaughlin Bros, of Columbus, O., and Kansas City, have just announced that they v.lll contribute ?300 to the fund for prizes, and that they will exhibit 30 to 40 of their best animals. Crouch & Son of Lafayette, ind., and J. W. Robison, have also signified their intention to enter large numbers of animals. It is expected that the Perch-eroassociation will offer a liberal sum in prizes. The success of the sheep department, one of the new departments to be added to the show this year, is assured. Dwight Lineo.ln of Miltord Center, O., secretary of the American Raiubouillet Sheep Breeders Association, and F. W. Harding of Waukesha, Wis., breeders of Shorthorn cattle and Kamhouillet sheep, are working enthusiastically to get a large representation of their favorite breed. They have raised $100 by individual subscriptions to be added to the amount offered by the Kansas City Stock Yards Company for prizes. The stock yards company offers $200 In cash to each of the breeds of sheep , exhibited. Leading breeders of Shropshire, Southdowns and Oxford Downs have signified their intention of taking part in the sheep exhibit The erection of a new barn to be used for the sheep, goat and swine exhibit, has Just begun. This will take the place of the tent used last year for the swine and goat exhibits. Jno. M. Iiazelton. 19-2- While much of ancient Boston has crumbled to dust there is still enough of it left to fascinate the visitor from other cities. There is one peculiar thing about many of these old colonial houses they are not so much destroyed as they are in hiding. One feels sorry, as for an old friend, when he sees these fine old houses given over to Chinese laundries, butcher shops and what not. They suggest good people who have fallen upon evil days in their old age. The pathetic note Is there, and it sounds lu ones ears with an almost human Intensity. Yet here and there one of these old structures raises Its head with all the dignity of other days. Almost in- - Vaotw ! mill's, sat Aswiwasws s "Yet from the very first, some f the houses which looked squalid and cheap from the outside were full Of interesting Interior details. In almoft all the first frame houses there were fine old mantles that are the despair of the modern finisher. In the bet homes throughout the country thesis early colonial ilethails are reprodno ed, not because they are old, but because they are better than anything modern architects have been able td devise. "One of the most curious features about these very old houses is tbs purple glass used in the windows. This glass can not be reproduced by modern glassmakers. There Is some thing about the tint that defies re production. It is of a delicate, violet- AND AMERICAN AYR-SHIRE- I have retently received the report of the offlcMl milking tests of Ayrshire cows In Scotland for the year 1902, and hate selected the five giving the highest lecord for butter, also the five giving the highest record in the Home Dairj test in the states for the ypar 1902, ;i omparison of which is of Interest, all being official and supposed to be among the best of the breed in either country. The natural conditions In Scotland are more favorable for a large dairy yield from the same cows than in America on account of the more uniform moisture in Scotland, and the consequent succulence of pasturage. The record In both countries shows a good degree of uniformity and a good class of dairy cows. The five Scotch cows gave per day of milk (pounds) respdfctively CO, 52, 30, 43, 46, an average of 46. Their milk tested in butter fat, 3.87, 3.50, 5.92, 4.47, 3.30. Butter made per day was (pounds), 2.73, 2.11, 2.05, 2.03, 1.76, 2.13, an average of 2.13. The American cows gave per day in pounds, 51, 42, 46, 42, 47, an average of 45. Their milk tested 3.80, 4.60, 4.00, 4.50, 3.80. The butter made per day was 2.26, 2.25, 2.14, 2.10, 2.08, an average of 2.16. C. M. Winslow, Soeretary. -- circle where men run. Etch fancying himself my hold the lead A race With prised guerdon never won, Where no one i contented with tu meed; Where men go, tuinng ceuelemly, the round And thinh nt hit their effort are complete. When, following, they beer the warning aound The falling o a neariag aval' feet LIPTON Cots-wold- SCOTCH S tobltioa b 1 eird where nee ran, Etck bopinj he the leading place mar Sad. Sack backward glance ihowi bus the winning oner Each forward look, tel! him be b behind Ha quail betimee the red wine of deceit. er And then atide he casta the empty toundand in bit eagernen That aihich Ire Bong away be would lake op OaWtioo b s A Relic of Margaret Type of architecture of variably it looks out upon squalid surroundings. But not even the ugliness can utterly destroy its charm, for it has architectural character. lie who would learn more of old Boston architecture would do well to have a talk with William Ralph Emerson, a Boston architect who has given much time to the colonial period. "it is a fact," he will tell you, "Boston was built In England, it was sent over here and set lip by our colonial The archiectq of early carpenters. Boston were Sir Christopher Wren, James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers and a few other masters of that period. "There were no early American architects. In those days we had carpenters and builders only. Batty Langley's guide and the printed directions of the other architects mentioned were used as text books And that by the colonial builders. Is why our homes are so beautiful. JThose masters of the English renaissance were the first great architects of the world who had their Ideas put In wood. The old world built . Street 0. like hue. It Is thought that originally this glass was white, and that the chemical action of the light streaming through it for so many years has changed its color. "So those who live in glass houses made of that kind of glass live in constant terror lest some one throw stones. It cannot In all the world be reproduced. Consequently It Is almost priceless in the eyes of those who love antique tilings. During the Revolutionary period some fine old French houses were reproduced In wood in this country. Those are the houses we see wearing hip roofs and adorned with stately fluted columns. It was along In 1820 builders cut loose when American from English models. Up to that time we had no distinctive American architecture. Then we got It with a Our first architects vengeance. weren't satisfied with Roman architecture as Illustrated by the English renaissance. They harked back to the Greek, with the most horrible results ever seen anywhere. Many of those monstrous examples of architecture are still to he seen In East Cambridge and In Roxbury. They . SHALL POTATO GROWERS SPRAY? This Is the question asked by Bulletin No. 221 of the station at Geneva; and the figures given In the bulletin go fur toward answering the query with a very strong affirmative. In seasons whin blight and rot are very destructive, as they were In 1902 in nearly all parts of the state, there can he no question as to the profitableness of the use of Bordeaux mixture. The results at Geneva showed this very plainly; for spraying seven times, at an expense of about $lj) per acre, gave an lucrcui-cyield of 123', bushels of potatoes, and three sprayings increased the yield 98 Va bushels. But growers generally think they cannot afford to pay tho premium for disease insurance, through spraying since rot and blight do not come, destructively, very often. Tho results of tho test on Long island, though, indicate that even in sections seemingly freo from disease, the spraying does more than enough good to repay Its cost. Both early and late blight were absent from the ares near Klvcrhead, Long Island, yet here spraying seven times gave a gain of 45 bushels per acre, and spraying three times s gain of 7 3 3 bushels. SUPPLY. PLAYING-CAR- It Amounts to Tent Cards a Year for Each Inhabitant of the Country. One of the irternal revenue taxes provided by Congress to meet the expense of the Spanish war was a tax of 2 cents on each pack of cards manufactured in the United States, says the New York Sun. The usnal pack contains 52 cards or with a joker, 53, lint for the sake of uniformity the number was fixed by Congress at 54. The government revenues from the war tax on playing rards amounted to about $1,000 for each working day, and assuming that all the packs were full decks, the average number manufactured in each year was 15,000,000 packs, or 780,000,000 cards. The population of the United States is, approximately, 76,000,000, and there were 10 cards manufactured each year for each man, woman and child in the United States. To the total revenue of $300,000 from playing cards. Ohio contributed New York following with $140,000, $90,000, ard Michigan ard Illinois with $10,0(10 each. These four States have a praetka! monopoly of playing-card making in the United States. s.v-w,.--.- . Dignity About the Ancient Structures Which It Is Impossible to Destroy Architect Says the City Was Built in England byr Famous Designers. TO THE In 13 NOT DISMAYED. English Newspaper Tells of Hopes of the Challenger. WAS BARABBAS A PUBLISHER? Here is an account, from an English paper, of tho disaster which beIncident That Recalls Jest of George fell Shamrock HI. recent ly: Augustus Bala. Tho accident to Shamrock III. has The recent nows of the arrest at evoked a chorus of sympathy with the Budapest of a notorious pang of owner of that vessel, whom so thieves, whose chief turned out to bo a publisher, recalls the story of George Augustus Salu's presenting a Bible to a eertuln Irondon publisher who had handled some of his books, says Harpers Weekly. The publisher was at a loss to understand just why lie should have been singled out for this peculiar (gift, until some time after he discovered a slight change in the wording of John xvili., 40, where the phrase, "Now, narabbas was a robber, was made to read "Barabbas was a publisher." When Miss Cor-illi- s "Barabbas appeared with the -c Try text on the title page a reviewer, vcW Jiowmo, rpc tucsig quoting the words in his review, evif dently indistinctly written, rerelved the proof with the amazing statement, VRarabbas was a ratter." Correcting It, he deemed It wtoe to see the review through to a finish In print, and asked for another proof. , Either a nuur. the proofreader was not given to searching the Scriptures, or his zeal The Disaster to Shamrock III. for truth led him to overconseientious-ness- , doggedly pursues I11 his efforts to for the writer found ills corraise the eup. Sir Thomas Llpton is rection garbled to read, "Barabbas still most sanguine, both as regards was a rotter!" thb rapidity of tho refitting operations and' the ultimate performance of the CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE. contest off boat in the Double Catfish Captured on North Sandy Hook. He declares, moreover, that there will be no necessity for Carolina Shore. the date of the races. The postponing The accompanying curious illustraan interviewer, Is the tion represents a double catfish given yacht, he told. boat ever built In this wondeiful most many years ago to Prof. Stillman, an like the best has and nothing American scientist. The fish was country, of her. out been During her trials got captured alive In a shrimp net at the up to the time of the accident Mr. Fife had expressed himself as highly gratified with the display she bad given. -- - MODEL T FOR THE WHITE HOUSE Mansion of Chief Executive s Copy of Monticello. M. Jefferson Levy of New York, who owns Jefferson's old borne near Charlottesville, Va., says that the white house is getting to look intire abd more like'' Monticello. The architects who remodeled the executive mansion recentmouth of Cape Fear river. North Car- ly asked him If the mirror In the olina. It took the form of two com- salon of Monticello cauld be bought plete bodies, Joining at the breast, for the white house, and he wrote Siamese twins fashion, the point of that while he did not feel like selling union being marked with a dark them lie was willing they should be streak. Between the viscera of the copied. This will be done. The mirfishes there was no connection at all, rors in question were purchased in but the Joining Integument was hol- Frame by Jefferson. low and flexible, and the two could swim easily together. The bigger of WELL-KNOW"COMPOSERS." the oddly united couple seems to have had the start of the other In tho battle of life, ard to have annexed the lion's share of the good things Which tell to their Joint lot. d SIZE OF CORN EARS. to the accepted rules for According corn judging tho proper lingth In Inches of ears of seven of the leading varieties is as follows: Reid's Yellow Dent, 10; Golden Eagle, 9; Riley's Favorite. 9; U'umitig. It); Boone County White, ID; Silver Mine, 9; White Su should be pcrlor, 10. All of these seven Indies In circumference except liooue County White, which should be The pioportlon of corn to the 7,5, viliolit ear should he, by weight, Iteld'l 0; Yellow Dent, 88; Golden Eagle, Riley's Favorite. 9o; learning, 88; in nine County White, 86; Sliver Mine po; White Superior, 88. With these fic'ures our readers ran do soms work In their own corn If they wish to become familiar cribs with the standards set. An Ominous Phrase. "I hope you will excuse what may seem to you to bo a liberty," said the young man. "Certainly," replied the merchant. "I am ture that ou will not presume on your ixisltlnn us s (rusted e- mploye'' "It is Just that that I desire to men- heard you speaking of me to one of your friends the other clay as a 'trusted employe, and I wanted to ask you as a special lavor to call me something else. After all that has been happening I cant help feeling that It causes mo to be regarded with suspicion which I do not deserve." New York Times. tion. I The Action of Poisons. Nature seems to have provided that no poison whlih act externally shall have anv effect Internally, and vice versa. Thus the most deadly snake STANDARD A Richmond Street Dwelling. 1m lt iff rri-- t In stone; that Is. everything that embodied the thought of an architect. "But In this country timber was The first bouses of tiie plentiful. settlers were, of oure, rude nffalf. built of logs, or roughly hewn timbers. everything Al soon B tho colony gave nKurutiro of permanency, however, the people began to erect wooden fume Minxes, No one here know any tiling shout designing, und It was tniitr,! that otr pernudni'les" are tile quill feitheri builders should hark loo I. M the old wli.rs. which are visible when country. the of the wing an folded. I tlitri not known. have heavy columns with pedomented ends, itcynnd II. at I can't doserlbs them other than to ray that they are mongrels of the worst type. "fter this period of chaos our architects Ml bark on French roof Anne house and stylo, the Jitoen other eccentricities. sro now back to (he obi colonial style after a century of wandering In the wilder. And we haven't returned to nesR. ;! r.t type hcrrim It Is old. hut u It bulks better and a D.-- t t r," 1. os'. on Jourt al. , . bo-ra- Whst tha Whits House la To the Amerhan people the white house represents the personality of the president of the United States, To the politician the mngle word may stand for the goal of an ambition too often associated with the deepest snd most poignant disappointment, while to the historian the name may typify decisions that have marked ipoibs In the affairs of nations. In tho mind of tho people, however, the offlilal dswr-aete- r of the building bus always been subordinate to Its domestic uses. rpcai lng. the white house is the place flit where tho pusldcul works, but where he entertain. Charles Moore in Century. Iou-ulnrl- y To Warm Railroad Cara. A new system of warming the ut;u'i, i.:rn on nil It otslit railway Is hem; I r eyllndrr tbnrji l wit'.i lemicuX pass-enve- r venom can ho swallowed with Impunity, the Juice of the stomach presumably decomposing It and rendering it harmless. Fearful and Wonderful Sign. Tho Japanese tradesmen of Tokio are becoming very fond of binging cut Enr.lbh slgrs. the notice, one rtre t ap-pou- simp; European nourishing nke." Another hnpl.erper has In largo lotto, over the doorway the word. "Phut, grspher eeiutoi." The principal 1m tier of the town calls Mm If n "Mm ami ! a taken tu wearing a lour white gown of approved night Mrt p.ittem. Municipal Development Pays. Municipal devrlcpmcrt of water, pa. oMefiilty, st eet lui'wsvs, mnr-keibaths and rent' torn' in Nottingham, Em bind, i.tis ri ot 0 ! an nvirirrn n t pi off of f i fi: nut D a ipl ed TUo to In t fni,- - jpi-!- , to t!i" I'M it ;:.,u if t.v os. u-- of In "Re-laura- U-- , |