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Show 5 I present outburst la aa entirely new phase in its biatory. The passengers on the City of Topeka also report that Bheehaldln volcano la in a state of tremendous agitation. Every American ought to know of baantifnl Bheshaldin. It comes nearer to being a perfect eons than any other mountain in the world. It is tha chief ornament of Unimak, a little east of Akutan. Unimak, aa the Russian reeorda say, waa alwavs regarded by them as the roof of a subterranean The island has smelting furnace, been the feature of the must stupendous spectacles of Plat rale activity in Alaska in historic times. Those who read the Russian records have observed that they usually sneak of as bheshaldin flames," emitting while of most of the volcanoes they menLlon only smoke and ashes. Ths beautiful proportions of the mountain rise to a height of about No feet above the sea. ,790 LAND OF VOLCANOES. ALASKA'S CRATIHS BOOMIMd WITH QRBAT VIOLENCE Ml Bapurtt Fna Oar Morthurn Toritoip Indents a Frost Ontbrsak af Firs Bad Lava Katlvss Fine la BIO MOUN- - tains of tha A lea tlanohain ate keep-- J P thie year rfl. ;l ir .the grand display of flreworlu whioh for Mveral seasons have made onr (Alaskan volcanoes I the greatest center of Platonic activity in the world. The foot hills obstruct the view. The nugj triking feature of uificent mountain rises directly from - ,w the eruptions of the low lands of Unimak. The waves this year ia that some mountains which dash into spray against its edges. The have for many years been apparently extinct, or nearly so, have taken a new lease of life, and have burst into remarkable activity. The steamer City of Topeka, which arrived at Seattle from Alaska recently reported that Mount Makuahin was belching forth huge msaeea of inky smoke, flames and lava. This mountain waa smoking very gently its part black vapor, while streams of lave flow down its steep and symmetrical sides When the steamers first reached Unimak in April last year, the mountain was clad in robes of snow, but down the sides facing the sea waa TIIE FARM A ell and the easier to establish a regular demand for it Wooden packHEAVY AND UNNECESSARY ages give good satisfaction. They THEY can be bought of different sizes from two pounds up They should be soaked In water or brine before using and be kept perfectly clean and fresh on the outsido. Glass jars are coming into use and seem to give good satisfaction. They are usually too costly to give away with the butter and are used where they can be returned regularly to the dairyman. Another neat package that we have seen is in the form of a small galvanized bucket with a tight fitting cover. Inside is a glass receptacle that will hold about five pounds of butter; this does not entirely fill the bucket, there being room around the glass containing the butter to pack ice or cold water. This makes a very neat package and by using it the butter is pretty sure to reach the consumer In good shape. A number of other have been introduced packages which wa have nut space to mention. It is not so much a matter of what kind of packages to use as to have ft neat and inviting. This is absolutely essential to success in building up a profitable trade among private cus- TAX ON THE FARM. Imposed by Weeds Dipping Sheep to Health Butter Packages Laed Plaster Tunuthjr vs. Wheat Perm Mutes aad Home Hints. Xee-esse- Hanellag ry Harmful Weeds. Most of our American farmers look on weeds as a matter of course, and never seem to get tha idea that a farm cau be so managed as to become free from weeds; so they lopk on with placid indifference while the orab-gras- fox-tal- l, morning-glorie- s and various kinds of burrs and noodles overrun the cornfields after cultivation ceases, and the ragweed hides the clover In the stubble-field- s, and the garden is hidden by a mixed mass of weeds so that it is necessary to hunt for the potatoes with a scythe and a pitchfork when it cornea time to dig them. Thia carelessness and indifference suggests that good can be done by fighting weeds with the pen, and that the most essential thing to do is to convince farmers, first, that weeds impore a heavy and unnecessary tax on them, and second, that by intelligent management they can be subjugated. If tha farmers of Europe need clean fields, we need them much more, for they can hire about three hands a day for what one costa us; and so, while they possibly might afford to cultivate weedy fields, we certainly cannot One of the greatest helps in subjugating weeds Is clover, writes W. 1L liowen In the Country Gentleman, for two bodies cannot occupy tho same space at the same time, and if fields are well set with clover there is A thick much less room for weeda stand of clover shades the sell and keeps it moist which is favorable to the germination of seeds, and thqp smothers them in their infancy. Clover is thickened and benefitted by cutting, whilo most of our perennial weeds are killed by cutting. A field so soeded with ragweed that it takes full possession of the soil can be thoroughly cleansed in five years by the use of clover, and by mowing tha stubble the last of July or first of August I Lavo a field on which this plan has been followed, and five weeks ago it was planted to potatoes. An examination of it yesterday showed it to be clean of weeds, although It has rained so Incessantly that we have not been able to go on it at all, but a strip eight feet wide, where a row of corn shocks stood, had no clover on and late last fall ripened a crop of weed seed, and on this strip . there is now a mat of weeda One must study the habits of plants to fight weeds Intelligently, and know the conditions under which they mature seed, and how they propagate and scatter, to fight them successfully. Some weeds are most likely to spread in pastures and others on cultivated land. Of some varieties the seed will come up early In the spring and with others the battle must be continued all summer. Some weeds are comparatively harmless on day uplands, but run riot on rich bottoms I read that when the first Colorado potato beetle was seen in Germany the cabinet was convened to taka prompt measures for its destruction, and there are some weeds o persistent and difficult to eradicate that If one is discovered on a farm every man, woman and child should be informed of its character and enlisted in the fight against it On mmny of our bottom farms where corn is grown most of tha time the common blue morning glory is tho worst pest that waa ever introduced, and it is well nigh impossible to eradicate it It comes up soon after the eorn is laid by and grows until the lues reach from hill to hill, so that one can scarcely get through the fields If you try to cut the corn up to save the fodder you will have to eut it at both ends, and a man walking through the field gate tangled In noble mountain does not seem to be broad and blackened pathway of ashei fallen to the base from thi justifying the faith with which the that had natives who have long lived at its huge orifice near the base in fancied security have repoeed apex. From all points of tha compsei in it All vessels going to or fAn the the mountain presents the same syme Seal Islands of the Pribylov group metrical appearance, have a splendid view in olear weather It waa on this island of Unimak that of .the volcano of Makuahin. It ia tha the Russians first observed the manner in which the natives chief point of scenic interest on the Island of Unalaska. It is one of the obtain fire. From the volcanoes they busiest of volcanoes, though for many procured an abundance of sulphur. It years it has been thought to have was their practice to scatter the powupon a passed the stages of great violence, dered sulphur over moss spreadstone in One hundred and one years ago this rock. Then, with a great summer this giant chimney waa hand, a native would smite the mass with all his smoking and vessels that visited the neighborhood two years ago re- might. Tha sulphur would unite, setported that immense volumes of ting the dry moaa on fire, we have no information yet about team and white smoke were slowly but steadily pouring from its crater. the other volcanoes of this great area The ebullitions were visible on clear of Plutonic disturbance, though it is that other mountains which days for fifty miles at sea. Makushin probable is about 9, DM) feet high, and lifts its have been smoking and ejecting lavs lopes, snow covered, almost from tha in tremendous quantities for three waters edge at the extreme northwest years past are still in process of erupcorner of the island of Unalaska. Tha tion. A little east of Unimak island view of the volcano presented here we come to the Alaskan peninsula, was taken from the north in Behring and on this main land Pavlov mounmiles tain puffs out great volumes of dense eea at a distance of twenty-si- x The natives of Unalaska have long black smoke from an opening on one accused Makushin of making loud side of the mountain, perhaps a thoud sumnoises and shaking the earth, but no sand feet below its more serious charges have been brought mit. The mountain is little, if any, and the fact over 4,000 feet high. The puffs oi against the old mountain, natives have that for many years the lived at its base proves their confisharp-pointe- d eone-uk- sulphu- r-sprinkled sharp-pointe- dence that the mountain would behave fairly well, says the New York aaSun.to We have no definite information the results of this eruption, though fear is expressed that the natives have suffered from the sudden outburst. The passengers on the steamer report for many miles at sea they could hesr the tremendous roaring, and that a of smoke and fire reared Sand column fully S.uOO feet above the Dipping Msommt to Health. mountain crest 1 VJ IHESHALDIlf AHD PROGUOMXIA VOL- CANOES moke occur at intervals of about thirty seconds, and the snow on the side where the orifice is is blackened to the base. There are a number ol reeorda of Pavlov's eruptions from 1701 to recent yearn All these active volcanoes are magnificent sights from tha sea. Some of them rising to heights of 13,000 feet are more impressive, apart from their Plutonic activitv, than the tallest oi . the Alps, for the reason that they are viewed from the sea level, and all their giant stature is revealed to the ' gaze. Professor A Jlrudel Harris. Prof. J. Rendel Harris of Cambridge university, England, who is reported as having discovered at Mount Sinai the only complete Syrian manuscript of the four gospels, was formerly connected with the faculty of Johns Hopkins university. From 1883 until 18M4 ho was a lecturer on Kew Testament Greek, and from 1884 to 1889 associate professor of Kew Testament Greek an During hie stay ia Baltimore I)r. Harris attracted much attention among classical scholars by through the Johns Enblishing an edi-- j elegant tion of the Teachings of the Apoa-- I ties." He has since been connected with Haverford college, Pennsylvania, and with the Pitt Press, Cambridge, ; and since i8Sl has bean the holder of a newly established chair of palmo- ' ; paln-ograph- rosmoif or tiix volcanoes A black isisbp-Tins- . line Is under the anmeoleach volraao. of lava breaking out of the dark shroud of smoke which winds around the crest of I rogromnia look this season like sheets of lightning piercing storm elouda This volcano is shown in one of our pictures It ta considerably consort, Ww.r than Its grand which is seen on the same island near it The old Russian exof plorers gave no information outbursts from Frogromma, and its bliee-haldi- fsc-slmi- la , lifrophy- - The Chlmaav Haw. An amateur punster informs ue that tune hoaxes have wings, and that he has often seen a house fly. We thought no pert of a house save the chlmsey flue. Chicago - lisraid ... ox-e- attar Packagas. Nothing is of more help in selling butter at a good price than to have it In neat, dean, attractive looking packages, says the Homestead. Of course if the butter is taken to the tore and traded for dry goods and groceries the kind of packages does not make so very much difference, for the price is usually adapted to butter of tha very poorest quality and the most untidy appearance. Those who are satisfied with butter to the country store anduUng tending It will not care to Improve their method i of packing, anyhow. They are very easy people to' satisfy and the store keeper can pay about what he plcaves for their butter so long as he pays the same price for all. both good and bad. Hut there are some farmers anil dairymen who want to improve the quality of thoir butter and increase the price they are getting for it. They sell to grocers who will retail it in the original (lockages to consumers who nttvc learned to that brand, or to appreciate rivals customers The neater tho three-stringe- up-stai- d as the' yolk and grease which collects in so large a quantity on the sheep prevent the healthful perspiration which would otherwise carry off impure matter that must necessarily, be got rid of to preerve the animal in good health, and as this interferes as every other unhealthful condition, with the growth of the fleece, as well as with the vigor of tho of the sheep and the prosperity lamb, it will pay to dip the flock, al. though there may be no ticks or scab 16 make it imperative. 's Col-man- Rural World. Ilra aulas. Fruit sent to market should be packed so it cant jostle. Make an effort to constantly improve the quality of the fruit A mule colt will always sell at some price, though it may be low. Skim-milground oats and middlings will make pigs grow rapidly. Sheep that are to be marketed should be well fattened before selling. e Is costly, but sometimes It almost pays for itself in one I season. It is claimed that a slight dusting with lime aids the keeping quality of potatoea Strawberries are frequently small j and inferior because too thickly i i matted In the row. Black knot and the tent caterpillar I are best destroyed by cutting off the affected portions and burning them. A man to succeed in the stock business must first have good stock, and then he must produce and feed the produce economically. The results of experiments made In detasseling corn do not seem to justify j a farmer In wasting much time In that way. lie can employ himself more profitablv. The good farmer will see that the fertility of his soil is maintained, and gradually increased from year to year by rotation, the application of manure and proper drainage. k, Under-drainag- : THE EMPRE8S OF JAPAN. in the southwest corner on the walls In the room are a number of fins specimens of woman's work, but tha articles on the floor are mans work, placed there by Mrs Potter Palmer, simply to complete the furnishing of the room. But, unfortunately, their presence not only given a false Impression, bur also detracts somewhat frou the propet appreciation of the exhibits on the down-stai- rs up-stair-s, walls. These articles of masculine labor are screens, the center table, a chair and the artificial ceiling. The screens are eith- - r called yuzen" or embroidery, or both. The process or fairy-dyeincalled yusen-zom- e ia one by which a pattern is painted on babntays" silk, velvet, crepe or muslin, the piece then steamed and the design fixed by secret means Aa you enter the room you find on the left a large screen with designs of birds and flowers bv the famous K'iahi-mura screen with a similar design, by lids, and a screen by KobaysshL Hums Uinta Phasing back down the other side of Ether will take out water marks i the room you see screens by Kishimnra from silk. and also a chair made of A lump of sugar saturated with; white cedar and upholstered with broOn the center table, itself j caded ailk. vinegar will cure hiccoughs. not lacking beauty, stand two low Rendered beef fat makes an excelwhich one, twelve-leaveof screens, lent piecrust used with butter. is by Kishimura. It is done in water Leather bindings will supersede j colors and gold, and shows ths peony, velvet on the bottom of dress skirts j horse tail pink, azalea, morning A little paraffine rubbed on screws glory, chrysanthemum flowers repreall the seasons. The ceiling is will make them enter wood more: senting of made square panels of brocade silk, J easily. with designs of birds and flowers Diamond ivy leaves and pearl berTo view the art work of Japanese ries form long sprays for the front oi women yon may begin again on the an evening gown. left wall where are hung some framed Madras muslin or printed frilled pictures The first to attract apscial e scene of a few attention is an curtains are effective bed-roonobles in the reception-room- ; eonrt much are and draperies sought aftei then comet a mountain scans and by reason of their artistic coloring. next to that are four panels, done in The Vandyke sleeve caps which water colore and representing in order taper to a point above the elbow art scenes of winter, autumn, summer now quite as often added to the short and spring. On the wall at the farther end of the room from the door hangs a open jacket aa the square-shapo- d picture of peonies above a framed oil Russian model. (Mias by Tsukahara Sleeves, sashes and corselets an painting Eiteu Tsukahara). The latter eannot made of the very elegant light velvet be perfectly understood without readhot of two colors called zephyr vel- ing the description written beneath. vet, or of tho soft, bright satin which On the other wall the most striking picture ia the Urge Kakemono, by goes by the name of liberty satin. is a good specimen of Nervous headache may be greatly Kiehimnraand It represents a group in the ynzen, relieved by the application of hut time of the cherry-viewinIn the water to the temples and the back corner near the door is a water color of the neck, particularly if a hot picturing three etiqneta holding the pen, giving and taxing the biwa," footbath is used at the same time. d and the art of arlute, Brass should be cleaned at least a On the wall next flowers ranging once a week. Alcohol spirits of the entrance are four interesting pict-turturpentine, benzine or kerosene will of which two readily attract generally remove all ordinary spots ones attention. In the corner ia an on this metaL The final cleansing oil painting of a Japanese lady in cosand polishing should be done with tume, and in the center U another of a and Japanese baby in costume on tbe floor. powdered rottenstone, oil chamois skin. The main exhibit of Japanese There Is only one right way to women is down stairs in the southcorner o' the building. In a clean wall paper, and that is with a west show esse are samples of the varglass week-olloaf of bread cut in halves ious kinds of work ia which they enBegin at tho top of the wall and gage. There are cocoons, S' lk for the obi (sash) and other fabrics; there wipe downward, with tho crumb sido of the loaf, making the strokes a are painted plates, lacquer boxes, vases, half yard or so in length. Never fans and fan holders; there ia an Ivory a rub crosswise or upward, but always carving to represent a boy with rooster in his hands: there la a hana-kago- " downward. tbis after Generally (flower basket) paper operation the paper will look as and ailk blossoms, andcontaining thera are apaui-uien- e good as new. of oehie, which may ba called ; a: fine-grai- n d, ( old-tim- m ye spreading. s, The practice of dipping the sheep In the spring and fall is useful and healthful in two ways It gets rid of tho innumerable cutaneous parasites that infest the flock and weary them by their continual biting and the consequent exhaustion by tha loss of so much blood, and it is equal to a warm bath, which so refreshes tha owner, t;rd and annoyed by the constant gathering of unwholesome excretions from the skin. This excretion is enormous iu the sheep and y i A little further to the east is the Akutan Island, notable only, for its This great volcano of the samename. volcano is the observed of all observers when ships are in this neighborhood. Two years ago a wide open mouth at its summit was violently puffing out black and white smoke at intervals of every few seconds. Unlike Makushin, the volcano of Akutan has been in frethis quent violent eruption during it is vieing century, and this year volumes of with Makushin in the moke and fire whieh issue from its peak. On Unimak Island is the great volcano, which has long been about supposed to be extinct. It is violent 7,900 feet high and ia now in a 'state of turbulence. The reports from Alaska say poetically that the streaks the vines One ought carefully to inspect all seeds which he buys and refuse those containing a mixture. I introduced the morning-glorreferred to by buying a bushel of beans, and it has only been by constant watchfulness and vigilance that I have kept it from spreading over my farm, and although for eighteen summers I have hunted for it and destroyed every plant I could find, I have not yet exterminated it A few years ago I bought soma alsike clover seed that oontained seed of the daisy, but I am not apprehenaivq of trouble from it, as it is confined to a pasture and does not seem to be to tomers it MAKUSHIN VOLCANO. a Wind of applique work, in which the relief figures are modeled ia crepe and ailk These exhibits ail disp ay delicate skill of Japanese women MAKE AN EXCELLENT the in both useful and ornamental work. 8HOWINQ AT CHICAGO: The two rooms, constructed and fur niahed in Japanese style, represent and library of a lady of Tha Sspuriarttf at Amariraa Wusssa the boudoir rank. To au American, accustomed Otar Thaaa af Other Katinas Kavaraly to much large furniture, there U littlo Contests by Thair Si tars Fra at Iks in either room to suggest the use, except as the rolies and mirror in fits. Mlhadea Kanina. north room might Indicate a dressing-roomIn order that readers especially World's Fair Letter those of the gentler sex, may thorOTIIING IN TIIE oughly appreciate the unique exhibit exhibit of the Jap of their oriental sinters, diagrams of ansae st the Ex- the rooms and explanations of the arposition is slighted. ticles are here added. Whatever they In front of both rooms are sliding have attempted to lattice doors, covered with a white do iu connection translucent paper. The solid paper with the Fair tev doors bei weep may be taken out and have done well tha two rooms trim thrown into one. This is especially 14smboo curtains hang in front and true of the exhibits painted ptnela make the walla, of in the women's which the south oue is in two places building, where broken by a paper window. The floor the life and work is covered witu straw matting w th of tbeir women is accurately and artis- a neat border; in order that tha-- may tically portrayed in clear object les- not be torn or soiled, wooden clogs in-or sons. A living model with her quiet shoes must always be remared and charming courtesy and grace is doors. In tho library at the place marked A ail that is needed to make this picture perfect. A Japanese lady, like Mrs. are four articles lying on the floor. Morimoto of the tea house, sitting Next to the wail Is a kind of lancewhich rooms a woman might find occasion to use; and moving about in the then eomes the koto," a tiiirteeu- -' would wake the acene lifelike. The exhibit made by Japanese stringed instrument, played with ivory women may be found in two different finger-tipand in front are thesaiuf- a at the I sen," guitar, and the parts of the building, I fiddle. B ia north end of the east gallery, and kokyn," a three-strinre-d THE W0MEN0F JAPAN AND HOME. package the better the butter will : four-stringe- es d in which a. tha "hibachi" little bright charcoal furnishes all tha haat tar tha room; 0 ia tba mat on which my lady site: D ia a box on which is soma of the paper nsed int; stead of handkerchiefs; E is a F stands for s short sword on a rest; L marks several little painted (fire-bowl- ), book-res- . eliding doors which open, into small apartments. The space at the left of these is s little recess or alcove, called which ia the place of honor In a Japanese room. In this place H serves for a low screen with thirteen leaves, and K appropriately stands for kakemono" picturing the pine end the plum. In front or tbla recess, at the space labeled K, is a cabinet containing books and other things; and at the opposite corner of the room M is a writing-tablupon whioh is a box containing probably ink. India and brush, pen In thebondoir A shows the location of a large number of laoquer boxes of various kinds, sbspss and sizes; B indicates boards on which the game of go," an extremely complex and difficult kind of checkers is played; C represents cabinets with various ornaments, and D stands for two large round boxes, made of cells, end containing tha carda need in the intellectual game called Hyakunin-ieshu,- " (One Hundred Persona One Poem. ) To take np again the description of the diagram, E represent n rack over which hang magnificently embroidered robes and sashes; F ia a tray with several fabrics on It; H marks tbe location of n baby's bath tnb and water pot; K ta the towel rack; L ia the hlbachi"; M stands of course for tbe mirror, with probably a bronze handle, and N U the mat This completes tha description of the rooms, constructed of the very best quality of timber, and of the furniture," comprising about all the articles nsed in very day life. Nothing bettor than these could be found outside the as they were loaned by ?since, rinceia Mori and the Marehioneeaea Maeda and Ilachkuka. ller majesty the empress also has personally loaned specimens of raw silk from the palaee and the empress dowager has sent four fabric woven in her palace. The empress, moreover, composed and wrote with her own hands Japanese poem, which ia yet to be pnt in ita place. It ia written in a beautiful hand onan ornamented tablet, and it is accompanied with a few verses composed and written by ladies In waiting. Tbe poem by the empress reads aa follows: toko-noma- ," (wall-banners- ), e, Yoshlno-yam- a Mine no kssumi wa Tachl nsxnra Kawakami tokn Chidors nnkn sari. This means, As the haze ascends from the crest of Mount Yoshlno, the nlover'i call is heard far np the stream;" and, like most Japanese, poems, It ia nothing more than a hint of a beautiful picture, an outline sketch of a natural scene. An Appropriate Duslgnatlun. 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