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Show American Volcanoes May 'Be Source of Danger HOME AND FASHIONS. TO THE THINGS OP INTEREST WOMEN OF THE HOUSEHOLD. Pimoli of th Briton Ar Elaborate Affair Two Haadtome lira Bo.velt Wearing rutmrlilni Temperature. A series of experiments, in cont of those conducted in previous years, was carried on this past yuar. chiefly to determine the effects of d1'-ferent pasteurizing temperatures, tween 140 and 200 deg., on the b content of milk, and upon the quality of the butter, says a bulle in of the Ontario Experiment station. A joint bulletin by the dairy and bacteriological departments has been published giving the results of these exBriefly, the results indiperiments. cate that a temperature of 180 to 185 deg. is very favorable in reducing the bacterial content to a low point, and this temperature also adds keeping quality to the butter. If we wish to establish a good reputation for Canadian butter in the British markets, we shall have to adopt pasteurization; and if we wish our butter to retain its tine flavor for some time, we shall do well to pasturize at a temperature of 180 to 185 deg. In our experiments, the whole milk was pasteurized before separating and the skim milk was run over a water cooler before it was returned to the patrons. We found that this plan enabled us to send to the farmer a good quality of skim milk for feeding purposes. J Thi Supplier of Dottor There is a considerable Increase noted in the supplies of butter in the great markets of the country. The pastures in many localities are now in good condition and the cows are producing increased yields. The buttr supplies come not only from the many farms, but also from new creameries that are opening up or from creameries that have been closed since last fall. It will doubtless be found that the supplies this summer will be somewhat short of the average, due to the fact that the cows go into summer in a much poorer condition than was the case a year ago. It is hard to see where an increased amount of milk to come from. The prices for butter products during the past few years have not been sufficiently high to stimulate breeding, and young cows do not give large quantities of milk anyway. It is to be hoped that the farmers have not been disposing of their cows due to the high price of feed and that an .increased number will come into use this year. The creamerymen are claiming that the vield of milk is very low, perhaps the lowest of recent years. There seems no particular danger of a slump in the prices paid for either milk or butter. Salt and Water In Hotter At the Wisconsin experiment station a study was made of the effect of jalt on the water content of butter. In each of eighteen experimental churnings the butter was divided into two lots, one of which was salted and the other not salted. In other respects the two lots In each case received as nearly identical treatment as possible. In eight trials both lots were worked once and in ten trials the lots were worked twice, the two workings being separated by an interval of about hours. twenty-fou- r Chemical analyses showed that the salted and uusalt-butter in the lots worked once con5.12 tained, respectively, 12.74 and pei cent of water. In the lots worked twice, the salted butter contained 10.53 and the unsalted butter 14.33 per cent of water. The unsalted butter always bad a dry appearance, but in every comparison it was shown by chemical analysis to contain more water than the salted butter. The sait appaiently made a difference of about 3 per ceut in the water content of the butter. , ' Sugar Beet Palp for Cow. A publication of the Department of Agriculture says: Prof. Thomas Shaw expresses his belief that sugar beet pulp can be fed more advantageously to cattle and sheep that are being fat tened than to dairy cows. The New York Cornell experiment station, however, found that this material gave good results with milch cows, the dry matter (solids) in it being about equal in value to that in corn silage. German experiments with beet pulp for cows have also given good results, the flow of milk being maintained in satisfactory manner. Some Danish experiments have shown that, as compared with mangels, the butter produced on sugar beet pulp was of about equal quality and kept fully as well. Where large quantities of the pulp were fed the cream required to oe churned a few minutes longer. 1 airy Kttabllshraant. A conference of Canadian dairy ex perts adopted the following: That it would tend to secure a better and more uniform quality of dairy products to have all cheese factories and creameries organized Into groups or syndicates consisting of from 15 to 30 factories, each group being under the supervision of a competent instructor, and that these groups should be centralized under one authority in eacn province; that short courses of instruction should be held in the dairy schools for farmers sons; to ensure cheese and butter being manufactured only in factories that are free- - from sanitary defects, and possessed of and readily cleansed rooms, pure water, good drainage, and clean utensils, and surroundings.' Concentrating Two Form of Araonlte. ' Prof. . Blair: As a rule London purple is more variable In composition than Is Paris green. I would not recommend its use. It should be done away with. If used at all more lime must be mixed with it than with Praia green. It Is better to go to the drug store and buy , white arsenic. You can take one pound of that and lour pounds of lime and boll them In four gallons of water for 45 minutes, and you have arsenite of lime. This is a better insecticide even than is Paris green. It has this objection, it is pure white and in some cases might be taken for milk. If used it should never be left around where it may be so mistaken. A. Q. The most important scientific fact proved by the St. Pierre and St. Vim cent eruptions is the underground connection Detween volcanoes. This is also the most important fact to be remembered by all who live near these treacherous destroyers of life and property. Almost all volcanoes are like manholes along a sewer. They are located in rows above long cracks or fissures in the earths surface, so that when one of the volcanoes in the row begins to throw out lava and fire the others are very liable to follow suit and become equally dangerous. The recent explosion of naphtha at Sheridan, Pa., by waich 23 people were instantly killed and over 200 severely burned, gives a very simple explanation of the method of explosion along a volcanic fissure. Thus, in the Caribbean Sea disasters, Mont Pelee of Martinique and La Soufriere of St. Vincent are both manholes in the same great fissure that extends in a curved line for 500 miles or more. Martinique is located almost in the exact center of this line of weakness. The island of Jamaica, 400 miles from Mont Pelee. is located on the firing line, and the latest dispatches report that the sulphur pits in the Jamaica mountains are beginning to smoke and boil. The air around them lows: No. 2 Closing price cash corn Chi- has also grown very hot. The area of volcanic disturbance cago board of trade: has spread rapidly s.nce the explosion January 2, 1901 $ 36 cf Mont Pelee. A dozen or more isApril 1, 1901 . 4254 lands have been more or less affected, September 3, 1901 54 all being located along the great fisDecember 2 ,1901 sure or crack in the earths surface 28. 1902 April 62 The following comparison shows whicn is at the present time in a state that the price of 'cattle largely coin- of eruption. a number of these There are cracks cides with the price of corn, and corn or fissures in the United States, most has ranged much higher in price durof them running from north to south. ing the feeding season commencing September 1, 1901, than for many years. The wholesale price of dressed beef is governed by the cost of live cattle. Prices months of April 1901-190- Extreme As P. Prof. R. Whitfield. head curator of geology at the Muselm of Natural History, said when interviewed oy a New York Sunday World porter: A line of fissures runs from the Aleutian Islands southward through North and South America to Terra del Fuego, and all along the course of this gigantic crevice there may be an earthquake at any time. According to the experts of the United States Geological Survey there is a fissure or line of weakness which begins at Troy, N. Y., and runs southward through Baltimore, Washington and Richmond, Va. The principal rivers of the Atlantic coast have their source near this long break in the earths crust The chain of eruptions on each side of Mont Pelee has shown the practical importance of this discovery by the It United States Geological Survey. has made the fact known that Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia and New York are in the same danger zone. The same connection exists between Troy, N. Y., and Richmond as that which has recently been shown to exist between Martinique, St Vincent and Jamaica. mountains A chain of usually, though not always, marks the course of one of these fissures. In the Cats-kil- l and Adirondack mountains volcanic action has ceased, these two ranges Deing the oldest on the American continent. Compared with the Adlrondacks, 1902. range beef cattle at Chicago, per J3.806.00 ,cwt- Vverage H757.50 price No. 2 cash corn, per bu.... .48 214 Average weight of cat- tie. per head 1,041 lbs. 955 lbs. Average price, dressed beef, per cwt J7.6X j9 53 The following table gives the com parative cost of feeding a d 1,000-poun- steer in winters ter 190275 bu. corn at 190175 bu. corn at and in win 1900-19- 1901-190- 2: 62c J46.88 36.00 48c Increased cost 1902.. J10.88 On a d steer this Increased cost would amount to 51.08 per 100. and, the estimating dressed beef in a steer at 65 per cent of the live weight, would increase the cost of dressed beef 51.98 per 100 live-weig- re-se- ear-beari- 00 Hennepin said the first mass on this point of land, and it has gone down in history as being the first mass ever said in this territory. La Salle had left Fort Frontenac some time after La Mottes departure, Intending to go to the site of .the fort he projected at the mouth of the Niagara. However, he narrowly escaped being shipwrecked and landed at the mouth of the Genesee river. He. visited the chief Seneca village, met the chiefs and obtained their consent to the building of a vessel above the Niagara cataract, and the establishment of a fortified warehouse at the mouth of the river. He immediately set to work to build the vessel. All the tools, rope, etc., In Russia factories are usually near were carried across the neck of land forests, wood being still the chief fuel to-d- said to have been sixty or eighty miles long and nearly half as broad. The Inyo Valley earthquake was caused by a renewed movement along the great fault plain at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. The chief shock lasted only a few minutes, but others of less violence continued for two or three months. A tremendous fissure was formed along the base of the mountain range for about forty miles. The land west of the fissure rose, and the land east of it fell, several feet Owens river was temporarily swallowed up. In the village of Inyo all the houses were thrown down and h of the inhabitants were killed. States postal printing office up in Rumford Falls, Me., is being run night and day. It Is now turning out 3,000 000 postal cards daily and still the 'demand Increases. New York, Boston Chicago, Pittsburg, Detroit, Cincin-nat- i, Baltimore and. Troy use more postal cards than other cities. One of the newest and increasing uses for postal cards is to secure opinion on all sorts of subjects Whenever a business concern, a sa cial organization or a political body to wishes test the state of public feeling on any point now it circulates postal cards. They are printed so that all the zen whose opinion is sought needsciti to do, is to write yes" or no or to afBIG DEMAND FOR POSTAL CARDS fix a mark to a question, sign name and drop the card In the his mail Cncls Sam Printer Turning 01 3,000,-OO- O box. a Day and Eno That Not Enough, It is a simple and effective means One of tne most noticeable develop- of feeling the public ments in the postoffice department Is helping Uncle Sams pulse and It is trade in postal the Increasing use of postal cards. cards wonderfully. The number circulated through the mails is Increasing every month and Lawyers houses are built of fools to supply the demand the United heads. pne-tent- a Bloat of Crep d Pretty blouse of dull green cm chine, trimmed with fagoUtu ( with silk of the same shads, j plastron and undent are of white luxeuil lace, former Is a pretty drapedand, 8ch close-fittin- g d s 1,000-poun- After two centuries and more the name and fame of Cavalier de La Salle has been honored by the erecpounds. tion of a monument bearing a suiUble tablet, on the site where in May, 1679, elilota Alb. known to have Press Bulletin 233, Ohio Station. he built the first boat This lakes. the sailed upper great Animals do not eat sweet clover readiGriffon. was named the boat ly, but when confined to it they are It was on Nov. 18, 1678, that La said to soon learn to relish it, and It Motte, Hennepin and fourteen others is largely grown for forage and hay in started from Fort Frontenac in a n the southern states. It resembles al brigantine for Niagara, and on falfa in appearance and habits 6, they rounded the point December growth, and like alfalfa must be cut now as Fort Niagara, and their known before full blossoming if it is desired to make hay of it, otherwise the stems craft crept into the mouth of the Niagara river. They anchored there become too hard and woody. Like alas they recorded it, "in the beautiful falfa it will furnish two or three crops of hay In a season; but it differs from River Niagara, which no bark had ever On December 11, 1678, alfalfa in being a biennial plant, bo yet entered. that it will disappear at the end of the second season after seeding unless EARTHQUAKES FELT IN AMERICA permitted to itself. One Two Best la That at Charlaiton of Them Swallowed a Fiver, Barren Corn Stalk At the Illinois station in five yGJirti Besides the Charleston earthquake the percentage of barren stalk3 lives were of 1886, in which forty-on- e the corn field has been reduced from lest and about 53,000,000 worth of 60 to 12, by selection of seed from property was destroyed, there have stalks fertilized by other been two other notable earthquakes sulks. Experience has taught many in the United States within historic seed corn growers that it is difficult times one near the head of the Misto get good seed corn of the and oie in sissippi delta in 1811-12- , The introduction of right variety. the Inyo Valley, Cal., in 1872. the score card begins a new tra in the The former, known as the new Madgrowing of seed corn. In this card rid earthquake, was remarkable for uniformity has a prominent place, for the length of time which its phenomthe ears of corn must be uniform. ena covered. There were several shocks at short intervals for several Recent dispatches from Australia of months, and the whole series sUted that widespread devasUtion shocks lasted about two years. was caused by an earthquake in th The country was sparsely settled New Hebrides Islands. The series of and no scientific records of the disearthquakes were followed by erup- turbance were made, but it is related tions of Albrim, Lopeir and Tingoa that the alluvial land of th river botvolcanoes. The use of the milk tester keeps one toms wa9 traversed by visible waves, which rocked the trees to and fro familiar with what cows are most valand uprooted many. Huge fissures uable to keep. were opened, and lakes were drained the escape of their maters into Your failure is as sweet to your rival by them. The largest sunken area is as it is bitter tc yours'.-if- . lateit Par a If there Is a thing dear to a womans heart and enhancing to her beauty It is a lovely parasok This season the designers seem to have tried themselves in bringing this artistic of creation up to the requirements feminine taste. There is a parasol for every style of woman from the one who buys a Ducbesse lace affair behandled with ivory and snugly cased in a long pale green straw box adorned with lilies of the valley and choux of white ribbon, to the one who buys a simple linen sunshade. For the conservative woman It is a joy to find the color and form she likes the best the quiet parasol. For the pretty, fresh girl, or her more wilted sister in a soft linen gown, this modish parasol Is the thing par excellence. It has a silk spun lining in pink or blue, or any preferred color, and a lace insertion on the outside, showing the colored lining. Then there are the exquisitely fine the Rocky Mountains are hut embroidered grass linens, with ruffles jf yesterday, as their sharply sheer and shimmering. "Persian fawn defined peaks and jagged sides silks come next; these are nothing show. Consequently, the whole more than chene silks on which course of the Rocky Mountains, blurred roBes and poppies of various and of the Andes as w'ell, marks colors are designed. out the longest line of weakness In the world, extending alNewel t In Stock. most from the north pole to the Ribbons for neckwear, unless made south pole. Into fancy knotted stocks, are evi From Mount SL Ellas, the up passe. One might say that at 18,-0iently giant mountain of Alaska nothing is considered quite so present feet, to the volcanic region :hlc as the separate stock, which is a is there of Terra del Fuego, merely a shaped collar. By no means, line of fissures nearly 10,000 however, is this a simple affair quite miles in length. the contrary. If a stock happens to runs A series of short fissures se made with a drooping point in front parallel with the great Rocky .hen the space so secured usually exCascade The Mountain fissures. hibits an elaborate trimming of drawn Mountains mark a volcanic belt. work of pretty applique. From Mount Hood to Lassens extinct of line a Peak there is The Lateit Thing In Coat. volcanoes, several of which have had The newest modification of the Eton the since epoch. glacial eruptions is a jaunty little afThe Sierra Nevada and San Fran- or bolero jacket coffee coat or "Moncisco ranges are also located along a fair termed the line of weakness and have a num- te Carlo coat, the attractive features craters which were of which have already won the favor ber of burned-ou- t in their day as dangerous as Mont Pe- of the First Lady of the Land, Mrs. Roosevelt, who has appeared on sevlee and La Soufriere. occasions wearing a wrap of this eral repPark The famous Yellowstone resents a tract of weakness rather type.' Taffeta silk is best adapted tn than a fissure. The whole region is volcanic and in a constant state of eruption. A short line of weakness extends through Colorado and New Mexico, containinfg several extinct volcanoes. And from Guatemala to Costa Rica is a volcanic belt with cones from 8,000 to 10,000 feet high. It is quite certain that there Is a subterranean connection between that string of islands in the Caribbean Sea, said Sir Henry T. Wrenfordsley, formerly chief justice of the Leeward Islands. The fissures on which Mont Pelee and La Soufriere are located may possibly have branches that extend to Central America, Mexico and the United States. , the garment, though It is also made It may be also more than a coin- up in moire, soft woolens, etc. cidence that Mount Iona, 150 miles from Omaha, Neb., is now showing Handsome Neckwear. its first signs of activity for Sheer white linen stocks, curved out under the chin and brought down in front in a rounded or pointed effect, Tired folks are quarrelsome. frequently have scroll patterns inverted in this space. These are held tobetween Lewiston, on the lower river, gether with fine lace stitches or perMany others are ornaand the point selected by La Salle haps braids. above the falls. This spot has been mented with fine lace or embroidery yell located on the Jackson Angevine designs put on in applique, while those farm, and there the monument to his which are handsomely embroidered memory and deeds has been erected. with white or colored cotton repreLa Salle remained with the men until sent one of the smartest conceits. he saw the keel laid, and then he led other men to the mouth of the river Pretty Cloth Gown to take advantage of the permit of the Dark red cloth gown. Waist small, Indians to erect a fortified warehouse. pointed cape of red silk- - edged with Two blockades were built, and were red and white striped silk. Lace jablater destroyed by fire while La Salle ot down front. Pointed bands of red was absent at Fort Frontenac, and white striped silk down front; al' La Salle arrived at Niagara again in so dart seams bottom of tabs edged August, 1679, only to find that his creditors and enemies had well nigh However,-hiruined him. boat, the Griffon, was ready to sail, and in the proceeds of a trading voyage he sought financial aid. In order not to delay this enterprise he abandoned everything else, and it was under these con ditions, this inspiration of his previous reverses, that La Salle set sail up the Niagara to Lake Erie in the Griffon. From that time the commerce of the great chain of lakes has been ever on the Increase, until It has attained a magnitude of vast commercial Importance. When the people of the various cities on the lakes view the commerce of their ports, it may be interesting for them to know that on the afternoon of May 24, the monument to La Salle was unveiled In the quiet country suburb of La Salle, live miles eastward from the Cataract of Niagara. fawn-colore- 2: 1901 Latt Tip. In leep? We keep the Shrcpshlres. How much do the lambs weigh when you sell them? A. Sometimes they weigh as much b 45 pounds. The February lambs we sold in April. Q- Do you use a basement barn for these lambs? A. No; I have only an ordinary barn boarded up and down. Q. Which will stand more cold weather, cattle or sheep? A. Sheep. Q. Where do you market your lambs? A. In Chicago. I have shipped to one man there for fourteen years. We ship carloads at a time, by getting other Jambs to send with ours. Q- Is there not a limited market for that class of lambs? A. No, sir; there seems to be no end to the demand. I dispose of all my lambs at $3 per head at the depot. Q. Do you select your breeders from yearlings? A. No; I use Q. Is silage good feed for sheep? Mr. McKerrow. Our experiment station at Madison has issued a bulletin on the matter. We have been feeding a good deal of silage to sheep at our farm. Our ewes and lambs are doing well. They are getting clover hay and alfalfa. They are getting two feeds of silage per day. We have seen no bad results from it. Q. How about rape for sheep feed? Mr. Roberts. It is the best feed 1 know of. Mr, McKerrow. Let me warn you against feeding your breeding stock on rape. It is too stimulating. It is better to have only half a ration lr. Canadian exporters are very rape. shy about buying sheep fed on rape for they go down quickly when pu on grain feed. The Packert Explanation. The Chicago packers are endeavoring to explain to the people the causes that make beef high. With that end in view they have Issued the fol lowing circular: Way beef is high. The present high price of dressed beef is occasioned: 1. By the increased demand In the United States and Great Britain for dressed beef, and 2. By the high price of corn, which Is used-l- a such a large extent in feed ing cattle. The advances in the price of corn during the past year have been as fol- Some Lltt.e Tblag In Coat DltfoxHa on Lambi (Condensed from Farmers Reviev Stenographic Report of Wisconsin Pound-u- p Institute.) R. E. Roberts read a paper on the tsndllng cf early lambs, which was Pillowed by a discussion, in part as fellows: Q. What breed of sheep do yon Coatnm Th has she known the fuiaimeilt est love and bliss. Neither known the anguish of the i death, when her fondest v been laid low. She has escaij ' care and responsibility, hat lost from her life in unallo more than she has escaped of The American Mother. mousseline de sole, which through eyelet holes in the frwt the blouse, and is knotted oa tiny The girdle is of the crepe de d fastened in front with an old j buckle. Wiener Chic. Th Faalilonabl Nearly all the newest Bloua corsage j some!, it is formed by the ribbons d celnture, but it is always a nondescript as it may be. For the street during a great many blouses will much trimmed with the English embroideries, lace ing. The marked change in their! is noticeable In the sleeve, wfaid more ample than last season, m the shoulders, which show leas ation to sloping. is& 1 Her Honest Self. do to preach tog folks and practice the opposite; j dren are keenly observant of inaJ tencies; they are perfectly literal It will not make them otherwise is to first to them to say what they do not a then they are punished for lying, 4 the fact is, they have heard yon I much many a time, with no out, punish you for it. So the mistra her home and her children, to nothing of her maids and, pk men, will do well to cultivate ta ously a broad, kindly, large wijj looking at and criticising the b and failings of all humanity, thib may not be horror-strickeat a chance remark tots, in which she can, honest with herself, see the k result of her practices; not her pr ings. n Chlo Strapping. , j Instead of going out of ftf strapping Is more in vogue that 4 On the winter materials, it mu' tractive and useful and on se fabrics it is pleasing and is a a of holding seams in shape, lit - I as being an ornament A new satin foulard gown, it made, is strapped with broaifck and the effect Is stunning! Tltof has a blue background strewi i white posies, and the strappings j of blue cloth. Shirt-wais- ts show strappings IT in various ways.. They are g seams and applied in design! 1 stitching Is exquisite when It I the waist is dowdy as dowdy can t Ear to ou ) Have you a real smart jacket? If you havent, and want 0M.1 cannot pay the price in the make one for yourself. Get an eton pattern and cut A It Finish with a lace or befit edge. Use your skill with the a and your good taste and preits! become the possessor of abort same thing on exhibit in the it You see, time and art and craft and design must be count the price of the garment yon a in the shop. all-ow- LltUe Tips with same silk. Belt of red silk. Skirt, bias ruffle trimmed with band of red and white silk. The Juice of a lemon taken t water on awakening in the mon an excellent liver corrective medltf better than any anti-fa- t finest of manicure ad made by putting a teaspoonful 6 on juice in a cupful of warm ' , Chlldle Mother. The wife who has passed her many This removes most stains froc fingers and nails. years of married life in childless moth To prevent a mustard plaster erhood, has lost from out that life ; the skin mix the 'mustard ing and greatness pleasure that she may white of an egg. the not have realized at first, but that Is brought home to her with redoubled force and meaning when she has Wald Ornament. Inset medallions and bandi passed the zenith and is coming to understand that life is not perpetual sertions of all kinds are used e and the embroidered fronts i youth. Keen anxiety and sorrow she may lonable last season are again i have missed also. Yet It is also true Ing. Ths embroidery is eh that it were better to have loved and white, black or colors. Wh lost than neved to have loved at all. cleam lace and Insertion ar 1 The childless mother has not known one waist and give a very the depths of degradation to which a White and black is a t child can bring its parents, nor yet combination. et |