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Show A man who has never lived up his less. Not that the circumstance had last uiciment on earth and survived to escaped his mind, for as a matter of rl it afterwards, can ever one can knowj howVi'mnch'-vlttisinestransact, in his mind, during that moment in which he waits and listens for the is wish, of the seythe. But one does hot always review his life . wastes at such a moment; often, hepast time thinking upon a' mere trifled In Congress ,. Lafe Pence! was In a wreck the. next day after 'his election, and although he had bi?en a Democrat and had become a Populist, he gave no thought to the past nor the future, but said to himself, as' the sleeper plunged down an embankment, "Now, what the devil tell about ; ; THE GHOST TflfllU Speelal and Llsht Engine Dow 3Iet on One Trade A Railroad Incident Relnted toy Cy Warmau. When the Itio Grande Western was a . road it was very crooked- Even in the Utah tlesert there were many curves among the sand hills that have been piled up dur-iithe past few thousand years. A good locomotive one of the type " because known as all of their machinery wa In sight-w- as was I elected for?" trying to make a spurt for the driver of the special engine had general manager's npeeial, against a The boy, and this boy had climbed up which she had a time order. The time on, was growing alarmingly short, and the good-by-ae picket fence to kiss his father morning at their home driver of the light engine knew that in Salt. that but he slipped, fell and Lake, G. on the special, with the the man hung there with a fence picket through .the seat of his first pair of trousers; and It was all so funny that now as the engineer recalled the circumstance, he threw back his head and laughe1 as heartily as he had ever laughed In his life. The fireman, casting a farewell glance at his companion, saw him laughing and concluded,. In his last moment that the driver had suddenly become insane, but, as he glanced ahead where death was waiting, he was not sure that he was sane himnarrov-gau;r- e - ir "sewing-machines,- , ; It m 1 self. The driver, having finished his laugh and still feeling no shock, looked ahead. The track was clear! He unlatched the reverse lever and threw the engine in the forward motion and the speed of the train, which had been but little checked, carried them away down among the sand hills. The driver looked over at the fireman and asked: "Did you see anything?" "No," said the fireman. "Did you?" and the driver said no, tried his water and opened the throttle and the engine whirled away, while the fireman returned to his place at the furnace fai t he had thought of little else, but he knew not how to answer. "Did you think that engine was on the main line?" asked the general manager, noticing the embarrassment of the engine crew. "What engine?" asked the engiieer, look and speak naturally. trying to was there beonly one engine "There s recolonel was the side you own' sponse. "Will yen be good enough to answer my questlo.i?" "Well," thought the driver, "If I've G. M.'s got em," and be got 'em the she was on answered : "I did think " 11' the main stem." "What did you think, Harry?" asked who the superintendent of the fireman, n The was staring at the engineer. shook and only closed his eyes his bead slowly as though he considered them all crazy, and his long lashwith coal dust, lay upon er darkwashed face like the lashes of newly chorus girl. 'Wr:r:r: "Did you see anything on your BiOmT' asked the colonel, who was determined to unlock the Hps of the fireman. "Not a thing," said Harry. "I don't believe In ghosts." to "It willG¬ be necessary for yon but I accident report), (an take out saw me what tell would you wish you and how It affected you," said the general manager, addressing, the you saw any"May I ask you first if driver. the said colonel?" thing, "I saw a locomotive standing on a spur or siding Just east of Coyote." "When I see her first," said Sam, from' the colonel's contaking couragewas "she bang In front of us, fession, cut like a, ball out of a out of coming a cannon. I saw it was all up with no hnt t natnrallv shut off mechani cally, so to speak. I think I hooked her over, but I didn't whistle, open the sand valve nor set the air-t- hey then I just wan't no use no time but saw him as I Sammie little thought of on seat the fence the by last, hangin uv his pants, an' it seemed to me that funny, I never see anything quite so and I laughed that hard that the tears came In my eyes and blinded me. Then the thought came to me that we were a long time coming together; so a thing I looks ahead an' there wan't see he anyif asked In sight. I Harry the an' up lied opened too, thing an' I about know all I That's throttle again. It." There was a noticeable Increase in the attention of the company, and Tim Farrity, the flagman, leaning low toward the table, crossed himself and that they ventured the head-enprediction d collision before would have a "I never they reached the junction. show Tip yet that see a ghost train srvmethincr." he moon added, but 'wburst of followed the laughter that no more. ne ana saia closed his circuit, numa with came in Now the agent ber of messages for the superintendreading ent, and as the official began the first of the lot he began to smile. "Read it out," said the colonel, "pertell us something about haps It will" The the 'ghost.' superintendent read: off Is the track and near57 "Engine of off the right way 1,000 yards east ly of Coyote spur, but still on her feet" That explained the ghost engine At the Instant when the engineei shut off, the "sewing machine," jus then the rounding a sharp curve, JumpfeJ and on her wheels, track, lit square went plowing out over the hard adobe of the desert. She rolled and rocked for a few seconds and then came to a stop with the engine men still standing in the cab. The engine had been working hard and If the throttle had remained open she might have made the curve all right, but the sudden relaxation of all her tension caused a that threw her off her feet, but it jar was a lucky jar for her crew. Since that time, however, old Sam has been In hard luck. He has already lost three legs. The last one, being caught under an engine, was chopped off by the conductor with an ordinary ax to prevent the engineer being roasted alive. Those who witnessed the operation say that Sam rested on one elbow and smoked a cigar until the conductor hacked away at his anZJe. ?s f Ci-ot- train failed to respect the ruier sue mignt, at mat moment, be passing the spur. At last there remained but a single mile and a "minute to do It In. The throttleonly was .wide open and the little engine was rolling so that 'the bell rang continually. The 'fireman had put In his last te i : ss " i k ! r." hen-hou- se toui-tere- d. Pleuro-Pneumon- ia . pleuro-pneumon- ia note-takin- g, -- pleuro-pneumon- ia a""N ; n i mm pre-rale- Ml-ma- LWhlstle rope, . tol-lislc- , EhoclL. ' ls. 1 1 e . ' i fire, and was now straining his eyes. & catch the smoke of the special. The engineer, with bis left hand on the clung to the side of the cab to keep from being . thrown out of the right of way. The wheels under the sewing machine were so small that the best the cony do was forty-fivmiles, and now when she came down to the very last Second there was still a quarter of a mile between her and the meeting point, but at that moment the flying wheels of the special engine crashed over the switch and shut her out. The little sewing machine, hid among the 6and hills, was straining every nerve to. reach the passing point at which she was already overdue. The en the special was Just beginningnjin to feel sure of his position when he rounded a curve, and saw the light engine emerging upon a shallow cut.n Of course he shut off and tried to leys-ethe force of the collision, but to , stop was out of the question. The fireman on the light engine saw the special and warned his companion, to the left and for they were curving the driver, could not see, but the four men knew that nothing short of a n miixcle could prevent a dreadful seconds time and that In a few they would all be piled tip In a hejp. Botii drivers had called to their firemen to jump, and the firemen . had tnrr.ed to their windows. The special engineer was In the act of reversing-that he might take the good opinion of the officials with him. The otnpr driver only shoved the throttle lever In, braced himself and awaited the rtr,?--hav- - flra-ma- en-ginee- tork Not?. need of study or "brain work" has At the. Iowa experiment e enormously increased, and In poultry of as in forms been labor, other keeping, making some tert3 't? I INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR it clearly marks the difference be- parative feeding of cattle ar.dV tween" failure and success. In other The tests are not. yet. completed' v." OUR RURAL. READERS. words 'tis not the business that suc- to date show very favorably 7cr but the man or woman In It, and sheep. The cost of one pound of r now Successful Farmers Operate This ceeds, the one who puts business methods Into In the month of was for ti J Department of the Farm A Few poultry keeping never fails of success. sheep 3.32 and forJanuary the cattle 3.C2 ce Hints as to the Care of Live Stock This lst of course, not exactly a PI and Poultry. I will suggest a few of tbe ways in comparison, as sheep and cattl which good business ability is shown. different in their very methods a stock. use pure-bre- d In the first growth, the sheep growing more rr H. EING unable to One is not placeto atfirst-clagive likely but ceasing ia u(! beat the people tention to scrub so there is ly comparatively, and stock, sooner. ' fairly, the manu- no doubt but that pure-bre- d stock leads growth f facturers of filled to better methods.' English farmers use a dcs.1 tf cheese are now In the second place, and I don't know oil meal in fattening theirgreat Block. 0s trying to get a but it should come first, don't inbreed. of the chief In using it y advantages More evils and; loss of profit results they claim, that they save much thr j congress. through from this practice than from all other and complete the fattening proc., ? The dairareymen, sources, lice Included. In no place Is much quicker then they othurai i. on nowever, i "&3d the saying that "Cleanliness Is .next to would. jpv 3 OT,- ,fT,o Hhln Godliness," more appropriate than in Dairymen's asso the raising of poultry; and if there ever The market for heavy horses is ciation sends out the following circular: Is a time when I am strongly tempted manding an animal, that weighs In tbeg. In 1894, the United States exported to put; cleanliness first, it is In this neighborhood of 1,700 or 1,800 pout is cheese to the value of only $7,180,000 connection. It is useless to think of using a gmii a decrease in fourteen years of 40 per Some men practice, economy, chiefly mare to get such animals. If yeU zt cent. when buying for their wives, and on the about to breed, start right and xn In 1894, Canada exported cheese to same principle the men who have gran- mares heavy enough so that the fol the value of $15,500,000 an increase aries, corn and hay structures, hog may develop to the weight desired, in fourteen years of 400 per cent. houses, horse, cattle and sheep barns to The Kansas experiment station lu our weak inefficient and galore tell their wives that it wouldn't Owing she been experimenting laws favoring manufacturers and ex- nay to put up the new with hogs sheltered porters of adulterated goods, the mar- asked for, and at the same time per- and without shelter. The sheltered kets of the world have lost confidence mit, (I almost said expect) their better hogs made a gain of one pound of fiesfc in our cheese. halves to purchase the groceries for a for every five pounds of corn fed, but The Canadian government have laws family of six or eight, (with an occas- the unsheltered hogs made no gain at prohibiting the exporting of any but ional plug of tobacco thrown in) with all. The station also refers to tht full cream cheese. Thus the confidence the proceeds of the poultry yard, with necessity of having shelter In summer, and demand for the Canadian products. no better facilities for housing than is as the animals suffer as well from too Hon. D. F. Wllber, of New York, has given by the top of an apple tree, or a much heat as from too much cold.! introduced a bill in congress as "The 10x12 house, which leaks badly, and The English cavalry has Just had Wilber Filled Cheese Bill, No. 5,213," has openings between the boards on the restricting the manufacture and practi- sides, through which the wind whistles review and 14,000 horses were This was supposed to be a cally prohibiting the exportation of in a manner mournful enough to suginmust I filled cheese. Aeolian an good showing, but Sir Charles Tv:'i ; harp. Still, gest This bill is endorsed by leading, sist that one of the requisites of profit- criticises them as being in many idairymen, farmers and all interested in able poultry raising is a suitable house, nstances too young for military service, which should be made as secure against at least in a hard campaign. .He said the reputation of our food products. The subcommittee of the ways land drafts as possible, with boards and that no other army in the world Would means committee have reported another building paper, a door on the east count horses that were less than six bill to congress, which is directly which should, fit closely, and a window years of age, while many of these wer against the interests of producers and on the south of glass with board shutter only three and four years old. to close at night consumers, and would legalize and promote an industry which has already In Englai&. Roots for Iowa Stock. nearly ruined the reputation of AmeriWe notice tha British agricultural can cheese. Prof. James Wilson, of the Iowa staare recording an outbreak of We earnestly urge every farmer, and tion, in an address said: The questions papers among the native others interested in pure food products, are prominent whether we can main- cattle in the county:of England, and their reputation in the markets of tain the excellence of imported animals Two cows that had beenEssex, sick for a lour the world, to send, at once, a telegram, without roots, ahd whether perfect time died, and their lungs were sent letter or postal card to their represent- health can be maintained easily with- to the of ths ative in congress, insisting that they out them in winter, arid what can be board ofveterinary department for examination. agriculture support the Wilbur Filled Cheese Bill, most readily and profitably grown to The examinuatlon showed that one had No. 5,213, together with the amendkeep dairy cows in milk during Sep- died from the disease above mentioned, ments as suggested by Mr. Wilber. tember and October drouths, such as and the other from tuberculosis. The Oleo and Filled Cheese Interests we had last fall. In order that the are told that the herd in which the are represented in the national capital, farmers of Iowa might get! some facts former cow was found is to be slaugbacked by millions of money, demandroot growing, we have been htered, but fears are expressed that th regarding ing legislation favoring adulterated growing different kinds during the two disease has been widely spread on a- 1 products. Do not despair! The voice wehave been at Ames. Inquiry ccount of the long time required for tfcrs of the millions of yeomanry, through years was rife whether the state could grow disease to reach the state shown by the pointed, personal letters, to our law- sugar beets profitably. We have grown examination. makers, must and will be heeded. two crops tinder rigid rule and careful At the same time the British papers, Keep an eye open for legislation, state find and the that average are fighting for a law toprohibit foand national, touching the farming inof sugar in the beet was 14.14, rever the admission of American cattle, cent per terests. Be prompt to let your repre- that the tonnage per acre was except such as are slaughtered at th& sentative know your position. Honest 20,that theaverage highest per acre was ports of entry. The reason given for demands, backed by the voice of the 28, that clay soils tonnage the give highest per this prohibition Is not that the EngM people, dare not be disregarded. ' of cent that sugar, gave the stock growers are to' be protected subsolling This circular is Issued by order of the best that shaped beets, early planting against foreign meats, but that they Ohio State Dairy association, which has is and that rio fertil- fear the terrible way better, every Mxefully examined all features of the izer we could buy gave us any benefit. that they declare exists in the United Wilbur Filled Cheese bill, and considers success and profit States. It a measure of vast importance to the We have had; most from for stock.; growing jmangles They Americans hear nothing of the didairy and pure food interests of the are arid well. yield They sease in their own country, where it ha healthy, hardy, country. are valuable for cows, keep well, and been officially pronounced as stamped L. P. Bailey, Secretary. are to of all cattle .Very can acceptable out therefore only think, T. F. Hunt, President They kinds. The harder varieties of turnips that the outcry raised in England i& are good for stock, but seem to be liable for the purpose of getting a protective Poultry on the Farm. to insect ravages and do not uniformly law under another name. The following paper was read by Mrs. give the amount of feed per acre that Rose S.V Carr at the Jasper (Illinois) do. The mangles yellow turnips sown The Sheep and the Tick County Farmers' Institute: on in the or fall potato early ground At the Wisconsin experiment statloa No branch of agriculture is so uni- on fall for winter plowing, early early as versally underestimated poultry. I feeding, are valuable. By carefully they have this winter dipped sheep might quote, in proof of this assertion, preparing new land! In the fall and when the temperature was down to lew reason for dipping and below. statistics from our large cities In the planting early we can grow the man? was that the Their had been collected United States, but I think it will, per- gle sheep with very little hand labor, and we haps, be of more Interest to tell what I are convinced that it can be profltabfy from many points and some of them J have been able to glean in regard to the ' a in the Iowa farm system. were found to be infested with usticks.t money value derived from the poultry given place They did not consider it of any alone in for the Jasper county yard Too Much Corn Fed. People more try to feed while the animals were thu closed. fear just and more are demanding bacon and covered with parasites. All of onr fanhams that have not too much fat n ners that have sheep will do well tot&fe I have experienced great difficulty them. They want meat that has a good the hint, and give their flocks the beIn procuring reliable Information from proportion of lean. We have noticed nefit of an inspection, anC if the need ethe farmers themselves, because of the In the butcher shops of Chicago xist, of a dipping in any reliable sheep lamentable fact that so few of them that thegreat dealers have the hardest work dip. It is not desirable to feed a lot of keep a record of their work. The habit to get rid of the fat This exces- sheep, that the latter may in turn feed ' pork. of guessing is supposed to belong strict-l- y sive fatness comes from feeding too a lot of ticks. The time spent in rint to the Yankee, but it is far too much corn. think that it makes dding them of the vermin will be well among farmers, and is the rule no differencePeople in selling hogs, but the paid for in the added thrift of the with farmers' wives, to which I have market generally is affected. What Farmers' Review. found no exception. hacon the Irish makes best in the Guessing has long been discarded by be not the food upon which The Sheep in the South. Talklnwe the commercial world, but the farmer world if itare grown ? Not having ac- with a Montana stockman recently hogs ind his wife have not dispensed with it, the to cess Indian corn, the Irish do not learned that some of the great m$ because they do not consider them- feel themselves obliged to feed it al- owners of that state are ok!Jf selves business people. Well, they St" the more southern of the United need not regard themselves so, nor together. One for, a future feeding ground. to ihould they be so regarded by others, Demands Lighter . Hogs. Market obstacle, however, seems ral- intll they adopt business methods. a was when time the There market and that is that the that paid them, The record for my. own flock, (I con. nnncl Hrhle for B heavy hogs, hogs that IUW BUUUI ir, ID nA W""'"" fine myself in this paper to chickens the top prices 300 between 400 and pounds, ilone, as time will not permit my talk- weighed has but that forever. gone There without shelter. This is one day Is: Pure on different : ..varieties), ing a gradual decline through a things that makes the business bred Plymouth Rock hens seventy-liv- e; has been of years till now in the west tive in the far west The fall of mow series males, two; eggs $37.62; chickens, long a 250 pound hog and in the east even as ure is small, and because of tiusr $97.04. Total, $134.66. Eggs used, 1495; chickens used, 45; stock on hand, 17 low as 150 pound hog is the kind de- snow seldom comes to such a depth manded. This is to the advantage of the sheep cannot make a liens. , the feeder, for he can produce that kind as the settlers are coming In tre As near as I can get at it Newton of a hog at less price. It is to the ad- sheep men are finding themselres alone has expended for poultry and vantage of the consumer because he is stricted and want to get out products $65,500, and I am assured by surer of getting the lean meat he wants. figure that on a small range w both poultry dealers that this estimate tana they canno keep enough United States Cavalry Horses. (s low. , ; make a good profit, and if they ' are about 7,000 horses in the to be restricted in territory These figures show that the poultry There United States one a is rates as cavalry service. They are better go to some state where th that branch, industry, on a basis of dollars and cents, just purchased at from $125 to $200 each. acre production of food Is &reate;Lrf; as does any' other branch of farming. Seldom does the price go beyond these to make fencing the fields an No luck about it. (Banish from the In either direction. A gelding is the We may expect in the future j mind at once the idea that luck has only horse that stands a, show of being something of a movement to the Anything to do with success in poultry accepted, and he must he very perfect raising. When you hear that some one in all points. Five years Is about the has "good - luck" In raising chickens, minimum age, unless the animal has xnenced dairying I found that nay . rest assured that they give their flocks been handled exceptionally well. , were not making me the prom vu - . proper care and attention, and that should, and I commenced tobuwjj- g A Good Name for It their so called "luck" consists in pracand raise heifer calves and ' tical business methods. of grade" Jerseys. I raisea has been bicycle in the dairy "My injured deIndustry and close attention to said Gildersleeve. butter yield In about nine tails are necessary to successful poultry windpipe," "What on earth is a bicycle's wind- about two hunderd and sixty-si- x raising, but they are not the only or pipe?" asked Tilllnghast to the cow. The year sven the chief factors of success. There -- "The very part that is on earth, the 1880, I got gross profits from tvas a time when the best farming was pneumatic tube." Detroit Free Press. ?S3 arid some cents each. M' Ihe result of Increasing toll, with comifth necesGod The Is Whatever us a reasonasks of Some people would say more, paratively little thought: ' i didn't talk so much. sity for work has not ceased, but the able service. . ' ' door. The two men scarcely glanced at each other again until they stopped for water at Green River, but each In his own mind was recalling all the wild tales of "ghost trains" he had "Saw the Light Engine Emerging ever heard. Each was firm in the beFrom a Shallow Cut." lief that he had seen a but lehind him. would be crowding the he would never tell It not"ghost," for his job. were limit. These "sewing-machine- s official in the The train special famous riders. The springs were so the resistance of the engine when felt the light and so perfectly adjusted that engineer shut her off and reversed, and one of these locomotives would ride as the general manager, turning to the easily as the engineer of a Pullman car superintendent, asked, with a surprise: does does to a commercial tra veler, "When did you put in that siding?" with one seat for himself and another back that's "What, there, Coyote for his feet. As the little machine spur, and it has been there for six rocked around the corners, screaming months," .was the reply. fireat every curve, the engineer and "I know very well," said the manman kept a sharp lookout ahead, at ager, "where Coyote spur Is, for we the same time counting the minutes waited there fifteen minutes for No. 8 and reckoning the miles that still lay going down the other day, but we Just between them and the spur. a siding on the north." Down the desert one of the swiftest passed was inclined to The superintendent engines on the road was trembling be funny, but the colonel, stroking his away toward the sewing machine, and long gray Peffers, remarked that he at the end of each minute the two loco- had seen a locomotive standing at the motives were a mile and a half nearer and "as trains are mentioned, point each other. in not the habit of meeting to To be allowed "pull" the general ing between stations I takeandit passthat manager is an honor earnestly striven there must be a siding there." There for by engineers, and when once ob- was just a twinkle of mirth in the tained it is carefully guarded. Whatwhich, despite the finger ever record a man makes at the head marks eyes, about them by the touch of left of such a train is sure to count for or are still with the sparkle time, bright against him, since he is then directly of youth, but the superintendent was knder the eye of the management. The to understand unable the genutterly chances are always in favor of a good eral manager. run, for the train dispatcher, with his There was silence for a little while, own reputation at stake, can be dethe general manager was by no pended upon to keep the track clear. but means He pressed the butHe will hold a passenger train ten ton and satisfied. the when porter come in minutes rather than hold the special he asked: "Did black see an you engine on a five. Another point in favor-othe a back ways, George?" special engineer is the fact that he is siding "No, sah, I haven't saw no engine, due at no particular point at any specie spur, an' to d'aint no sidin' 'cept fied time, and, having no time-car- d wus clear." dat hold him down .he may regulate the "Send the conductor to me," said the speed of the train to suit himself. Me official, and when the conductor came is always an experienced runner who in the asked to be allowed to manager knews the road knows every low look at the running orders. sag on the division consequently the to Grand Junction. "Bun special no miners put limit upon the speed of all regular trains. J Extra enthe train, but leave it all to the good avoiding 57 has until five fifty-fiv- e (5:55) to Judgment of the engineer. It was a gine make Coyote spur against you." clear, dry day in the early autumn, the time did you pass the spur7" "What of a best time the for fast very year the colonel. demanded run, and "Old Sam" had been gauging "Precisely at 5:55," said the conduo- his speed for fifty miles back so as to hit Coyote spur on the dot, and break the record for fast running on the Alkali division. By the rules of the road five minutes were allowed for the variation of watches, ,but the rule Is not always wholly respected, and as the man on the special was known to be a daiing driver the RPwlnc rrmrhfrx s53k that they were in a close place long .before the smoke of the approaching locomotive was seen. Now they had hardly five mlutes left and nothing for the variation and the coveted siding J fou? miles away. If the opposing if M "five-minucol-onr- daisy and poultey. r She Jumped ihe- Traclc - at tor, now somewhat alarmed mnnflffer'H ar. "Is there a siding between here apd and the suCoyote?" asked the colonel, . loss to make a at perintendent being out what the manager was driving at started to leave the car, but his superior officer called him back. "There is not," was the conductor's reply. ' "Perhaps," said the colonel, "there was not when we went down, but there is now, for I saw a locomotive standing there." The conductor laughed as the superintendent h id done, but the colonel offered to risk a case of champagne ho had seen no "ghost" tram, ana tne su-- j bet as the easi-- ; perintendent took the est way of settling an argument which was about to become embarrassing. When the special reacnea ureen River the party went into the eating house where supper had been ordered, and, as was his habit, the colonel sat at the same table with .the train and engine crew. "What did you shut ff for just this side of Coyote spur, Sam?" asked the colonel, looking the engineer in the eye, and Instantly the eyes of the whole party were upon the driversdusky face The engineer was speech, ; itd lit Square on her Wheels. the j It was a wooden leg. Detroit "Proas ."..!; - Frsj ..;.;- - . The Decline of Needlework. The decay of the fine art of needlework Is one of the accepted condition of the moment. As to preserve that which was. but is threatened not to fc, d is a some one of ' the pursuit just now, much-affecte- . many-women'- club s should turn its attention to this matter. Not long ago a New York periodical published a paper of some length on sewing, In whi$2 hemming, running-- felling and the various other ways of our grandmother with the needle were duly set fortB, To many readers to most, of the young women whose probably, eyes fUi upon It It told of strange and unknown tricks with the tiny steel Instrument. Even older women' who glanced over it doubtless said: "YeA I learned such sewing when I waa ft child, but it is years since I have doiu any of it." Pretty soon to sew will U one of the lost arts, and then we sh&I be having parlor lectures on It old-fashion- ed ; , . j yef.' oSc0W - f ; |