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OUR. GIRLS THB DOLLS AT 8CHOOL. ' The fadUty of dolla vm silently contemplating their young mistress at her nursery tea when If las Vraachon. the ParlkM besoty. began ratline her ?yes It) tb* Young-Brsve-of-tbe-Ws baab, as. the Indian doll waa called. The Youaff Bra re returned, theflances with Intweat and Miss Fan ebon whis pered: "Do yon kuow, I think she acoma dis conaolate to-night!" t When tbe dolla said "she.** they al ways meant Mary Marcella. their little mistress) so the Young-Bra ve-of-the Wabash looked over at Mary Marcella w and granted as Intelligibly aa a bra re might do. "An affair of the heart?" questioned the sentimental Gorman gentleman doll, who retilned In aa attitude ?f careless o*ae on the hearth rag. "He. he. he." laughed the Dlnali doll, whose duty It was to alt beside the infant In long clothes. V Just than fctafcella flnlshad her' ten and caro^-orer to where the'dolls Were gathered. " I suppose I moat begin packing-you away," she said, lookiug sadly at the dolla, "for to-morrow will be the Utst day." She picked up Miss Fanchoti tenderly, and two large, round tears rolled down her cheeks. "Yea," ahe continued, "I must pack you away forever, for I am going to boarding school, and one is not sup posed to take dolla to boarding acbool." v The speechleas sgony with which the dolls suffered at the revelation will per haps never be understood. Dinah fell out of her chair in a faint, the infant uttered a shriek, and Fanchou forgot for once to roll lier eyes and shut them Instead, j Rut the India rubber doll took no' part in their demonstrations, for he had rolled into the passage on an ex ploring expedition and was just in the I path of Marceila's papa and bis guests when they passed on their way to the laboratory, -where Marceila's pupa worked ont all manner of wonderfnl (hlngs, which were so far abcad of the I limes that he forgot all about the pres ent. Although he stumbled over the rubber doll, he would have passed It by had it not squeaked loudly and houneed very high when the professor took his foot away. Even a professor cannot help being a trifle disturbed at such a demonstra tion. \ "This mast be one of Marceila's r dolls," he said, as he picked the rubl>er doll up. and the remark seemed to re call something to his mind, for he added rather abruptly to the younger professor who was with him: "My little daughter, you know, she's going nway ta boarding school in a <iav or two. I'll leave this in the nursery." He was so much aroused by the rubber . doll, which Continued to squeak, even ' after It had been picked up. that be ac tually noticed, while he was handing the doll to Mary Marcella, that she had been crying. "Why, what Is the matter?" he asked, and he looked in a puzzled way at the large packing case and the dolls on the hearth rug. "Are you packing your dolls to take to boarding school?" I "No," said Marcella, bravely; "they are not going. C5reat-Aunt Caroline says that one is not expected to tuke dolls to a boarding school. They make one's room so disorderly." "But, perhaps," suggested Marceila's *papn, who was about as clever about dolls as about anything else when he was once aroused to a sense of their paramount Importance. "boarding schools have changed since Aunt Caro llne's day. I am quite certain the one which you are going to will not object to dolls." And when, a few days later. Marcella and her belongings were received nt the boarding school, her papa was par ticularly anxious about a peculiar look ing hamper and an even more peculiar looking frnrne box, out of which there emerged tho entire family of dolls and n most commodius doll mansion, which exactly fltted into a corner of Mary Marceila's small dormitory division, and in which, at her papa's request, a particularly elegant apartment was re served for the rubber doll.?Blrmlng I hat* Age-Herald. WREN DISCIPLINE. TTidden in the i;rnss, I tried to aolto the secret of the father's petutnnt ac tions. JCacli time hie patient mother retvrned ho grew more restless and violent in his language. Soon I snw his wife whirl Jgy<>u?ly by with an uu uf*i:a1?3r large white grub?surely a prize for nuy bird. But, alas! for all her process, her spouse darted at her aw if In madness, while she, troubling iii terror, retreated down the limb ami through the bushes. For a few r.io inen'iH it seemed as if the wren house hold was to be wreeked. I was tempt ed to take the mother's part against such cruel treatment as she quivered through the fern on fluttering wing toward me. font nt that moment, rt* !f thorough);/ subdued, she yielded up the bug to tMo father. This was the bone of contention. A domestic battle had been foitght and he had won. The scolding censed. Both seemed satis fled. Minting to the tree top, the lit tle mother poured forth such a flood of sweet sopg as rarely strikes human ear. Froln that moment she seemed a different wren, released from all care and worff. Her entire time wit* spent in senrcU.for bugs. Each return was heralded l>y a high-sounding trill from the tree mp, and her husband whirled oat of tke tangled vines to take tlic morsel site carried. * Bnt wliot of his actions? lie hnd either gone cra*y or he was a most ?elfish little tyrant, for I10 flow about the alder it limp, calling now In a softer tone to hla children within, and finally ?watlowcQ (fro grub himself. Two or tbree times he did this, until I was so disiu?ted I could hardly endure him. IX he were hungry, why could he not skirmish for his own bug*? While 1 was chiding him for his In famous action, the mother appeared with a,large moth, which he readily took. Among the alder limbs the father flew, and finally up to the nest hole, out of wblch was Issuing such a scries of hungrjr screams as no par ent with the least bit of devotion could resist. Hardly <*p?W I ,bellqre my < eyes, tor the little' Knave Just Arent t? the door, where each hungry nestling could get a good view of the morsel, then, as If scolding the little ones for being so noisy and hungry, he bopped back down the tree into the bushes. This wns Indeed cause for a fnmlly revolt. The brown nestling nearest the door grew ho bold with hunger that be forgot his fear and plunged headlong down, catching In tbe branches below where the father perched. And the precocious youngster got the large moth M a reward Tor his bravery. Not'till then It dawn upon me that there was a reason for the father's queer actions. The wrenlcts were old enoufjb to leave the nest. Outside in the warm sunshine they could be fed more easily and they would grow moro rapidly, and they could be taught the ways of woodcraft. In half an hour, one after another, the little wrens had been persuaded, even compelled, to leavflthe narrow confines of tbe nest and launch out into the big world. Witt a task the father bad brought upon himself. Surely the old woman In the shoe never had a more trying time. Tbe fretful father darted away to pusish one of tbe wrenlets for not remaining quiet; he scurried here to scold another for wandering too far, or wblrled away to wblp a third for not keeping low in the underbrush, away from the hawk's watchful eyes. ?From William I<ovell Finley's "Rear ing a Wren Family," in St. Nicholas. THE OBSTINATE FLAME. Of course you know what a "b!ower** is. The meaning that we have in mind Is not to be found in the dictionary, but you are doubtless familiar with the term boaster, which is the same thing, Tbe ntpt tlflge you encounter him tell him tliat you fllon't believe he can blow oat 4k can die placed only a foot from his experienced mouth without any other obstacle than his own breath be tween them. . It ne accepts the challenge, seat him comfortably at the table, place tbe lighted candle in front of bim, and put* tlug to his lips a large tin funnel, with the centre of its Jaio^th (Opposite near the flame, nutl tell liiiu to l?low through thnt. lie may blow until he becomes black In the face without extinguishing the candle. The harder be blows the more It doesn't go out. After lie haw given It up Ray, "It Is easy encug'j when you know how," put the funnel to ynur ilps and blow out the candle. IIow? Simply by bring ing the rim instead of tho centre nc*r the flame. When you blow through a funnel your breath spread* and follows the conical surface, leaving a region of dead calm in the centre. Your friend blew all around the flame without touching it, but you extinguish it with a puff. There; rre a good many queer things about air currents thnt would never have been thought of if they had not bean found out by experience. This is our tt tin in. . 7 CENTRAL AMERICAN STAMPS. The stamps-of Gentral American re publics have always been favorites with young collectors. The bright col ors a qui newly engraved specimens have made the pages of nlhums appear very attractive. The sets of stamps Issued by some of these countries have been quite numerous, so that there has been little difficulty in securing a representative collection' of the vari ous issues. Such countries as Salva dor have furnished also a large num ber of provisional stamps made by tho use of different surchages. The regu lar Issues have been printed in many instances In the UHlted States, while the provisionals bare been manufac tured ^n a printing press In the coun try wtere the stamps have been Issued, tt tliM happens that some of lhc<-e stamp! are not filscevered by those makiffe notes of new Issues for the stamptoapcrs, and they, therefor*', may not b% found listed in the catalogues. Collectors who have opportunities to nrctbrilarge numbers of Central Amer ican sAmps are fortunate, as they fre quently succeed*in finding new and scarce varieties.?From the St. Nicho las Stamp Page. Am*rl?*n Wages In the United States on the average are more than twlco those in Belgium, three times those of Den mark, ^France, Germany, Italy and ttpaiu, and one and one-half those la EuglaLd and Scotland. THB P&AMR DB7IUS THE IltiOWER, ill; ^ ;FQpLED AGAIN. I bought ion? patent leather afrof. (It really anake* me tired)? I t. Mly won tkn three week* and The patent has expired. THE LES8ER EVIL. Joe?"Do yon like picnics no w?lir John?44No, bnt If 1 don't go I'll have to take care of the baby while my wlfo goes."?Cincinnati Commercial Tri bune. JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE. "This brand lan't fit for a doc to eat." growled the husband. ( *tVW well, my dear,** replied hla Wire; ?'don't eat It, then."?Chicago Newa. ' MASCULINE SYMPATHY. Office Boy?"I've got th* toothache." Bookkeeper?"Pooh! I've got rheu matism in both knees, a stiff neck and a headache."?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. WHERE? Native?"Yes, It's a little warm here to-day. but the air is magnificent." Visitor?"Yes, it's fine. Do I hsve to pay anything extra for it?"?Chi cago Tribune. THE TACTFUL BARBER. "Do you shave yourself, sir?*' "None of your business." "I was only going to say, sir. that It's done as well as any professional could do It." That netted hint an extra tip.?Cleve land Plain Dealer. NEED SCRAPING. v Cockney?"Thank the Lord, there Is ?ne thing we've not got In England." New Yorker?"Say. what's that?" Cockney?"Skyscrapers." New Yorker?"Well you want 'em; your akies are so bad they need scrap ing."?Harper's Weekly. AS IT USUALLY HAPPENS. Barnes?"They say that Widow Oueeds' busband wasn't much of * man." Howes?"No, I don't think he was; but he'll get a splendid character from Mrs. Oueeds when she marries his sue. cessor."?Boston Transcript. a ALL OUT. ' "I am strongly Inclined to think that your husband lias appendicitis." said the physician. * "That's Just like him," answered Mrs. Cumrox. "lie always waits till any thing lias pretty nearly gone out of style before he decides to get It."? Washington Star. HE KNEW.. ' t t)Ick?'"No, you're not a true friend? or you wouldn't nsk me to lend you money, when you know that I haven't any myself." Slli-k?"But you forget that the only friends who are willing to lend money are the one.s who haven't got it to lend."?Detroit Free Press. A GOOD HINT. lie?"I came noar proposing to you the other niplit." Klio?"I'm Rind you didn't. I'd miss your visits over so much."?Comic Cuts. POSITIVE PROOF. "Yes," said the young man, "the girl I nm engaged to is an angel." "Ob, sure," sneered the scanty haired man who bad been up agai*.ist the ma trimonial gam? for many years. "That's what they nil ?ay." "But she is, all right," continued the smitten youth. "Even mother says sho Is too good for me."?Chicago Mews. HOW TIIEY LOVE ONE ANOTHER. First Loving Friend?"CJood even ing, dear. Why, you're sparkling all over." Second Loving Friend?"Yes, dear, these are my family diamonds." First Loving Friend (sweetly)? "Really, dear. How nice! But I didn't know that your ancestor wns * glazier."?Ally Sioper. ' A DREAM OF BLISS. ' "So you are looking forward to a good time till!, summer?" ?Yes, sir," answered Mr. Cumrxr. 'Oolng out of town?" 'No. l'iu going to send mother aad the girls out of town. Then I'm going to sit in my shirt sleeves, amoke my pipe In the parlor, and hire a steam piano to play all tho ragtime I want,"? Washington Star. W*r on the t-lnrn Ham1k?rcfif?f. Professor Calmette, of tue Pasteur Institute of Pnrls, Is tnakiug war on linen handkerchiefs, which hi consid ers a great source of lnfectlou. He *uggc*tK the use of specially construct ed wnllets for Japanese paper hand kerchiefs, with separate divisions for the new and the usM ones. The latter are to be burned.?Philadelphia Re cord. The .Tapsnexe word of parting id not "So long" or "See you later." but "Jtoyeuutf'?'"if It mutt bo so*" FARM TOPICS. KAFFIR CORN. Kaffir com b?Mts> to the sorghum family, and Its Md Is excellent for poultry. In tbls section it is not ss profitable as corn, bat has the advan tage of withstanding a dry spell that would be verf severe pa corn. It re quires good cultivation, bat is a fairly sore crop. WHITE CLOVER. White ciover is a hardy plant, and If seeded on bare plates in the pas tare, or wherever there Is a vacancy. It will soon germinate and secure a good hold. It msy be qolte late, and .will make considerable growth if win ter does not sppear too soon. White 4over Is one of the best for sheep, and it is subject to fewer insects at tache than red clover. DRY DUST BATH. During the summer season the best mode of providing a dost bath is to dig out a space in the poultry yards three feet square and about six or eight inches deep. When the dirt is dry sift it back into the place from which it was taken, and when so do ing, sprinkle a little carbolic acid to give it the characteristic odor. After each rain, stir the dirt and make it fine, but it aeed not Again be sifted. The hens wflT resort to It snd rid themselves of lice. If the poultry house is kept clean, snd a dust bath la provided, the hois can keep their bodies free from lice with its use. BREAKING COLTS. To hslter break and gentle a wild horse or colt, place a six ring halter on same, with a good stout rope, three-quarters or one-eighth around the animal's body, in a sllpnoose; let the rope come up between the fore legs and through the halter ring, but do not tie in ring; then tie to a good solid post, ordinary length. If the horse is vicious, whip him with an old coat or a sack all over, but do not hurt him. I can take the wildest tR?rse and in one hour's time lead him behind a wagon. That is the way I break Montana broncos and I never failed with one yet.?H. A. Briggs, In The Epitouiist. ROADSIDE WEEDS. The great hotbed of weeds in a com munity is the roadside. The number of weeds grown along the roads, and which *are permitted to scatter their seeds far and wide, is enormous. The duty of destroying these weeds seems to be that of the farmer, but he will not work on the outside of his fence as long as he is busy on the other side, and he, therefore, spends more time destroying weeds on his farm during the growing season than would be necessary if he kept down the weeds along the road. But such work will be useless unless all farmers are interested, us a single thriftless indi vidual may undo the efforts of many. It IS a lit subject for discussion in fnrmers' meetings, niul State laws should make roadside weed-killing compulsory. BACON HOG IS DEMAND. The bacon hog is now attracting a lot of Interest. This class of porcine has captured the public taste and left the heavy fat hog in the lurch. The packing houses demand a good bacon hog and will pay well for it. The bacon type of hogs has often been misconstrued, and in many cases Ridiculed, says Southwestern Stockman, but this is done more be cause of lack of knowledge of the real bacon type than anything else. This type does not demand a thin hog, as is often thought, but a hog witn a thick covering of lirui flesh. It is, of course, highly Important that this flesh be lean, and this will follow if the true bacon breeds are-raised. The bacon hog must possess extreme length aud depth. He must be smooth and evenly fleshed from the shoulders to the hips, presenting a neat and trim appearance. While to a large number of people these hogs are strangers, it would be well for every farmer to watch their progress, as they are becoming more numerous every year. FARM NOTES. The best eggs are the result of a meat diet Avoid drafts upon the fowls os far ax possible. lTae plenty of whitewash, adding a little carbolic acid. Regular attention to all live stock 18 very important. No animal is profitable at a stand still. Keep all growing. Fowls having a free run find their own feather making food. The pig's first year is his time of greatest liability to cholera. A good laying hen will often lay her weight In eggs In six weeks. Even when the fowls have an un limited range It Is a good plan to feed them every evening. One of the first things to learn about poultry is that they must be kept clean and freo from vermin. Garget most often sets In after calving, and this is nearly always due to a failure to get the udder dry. Attempting to manage a farm with out system In every part la sure to re sult In more or less of a failure. Keep the sheep's fleeee clean ant fffce from burs If you wish to get th* top price of the market for tho wool. It is generally conceded at the stockyards that tho marketing of clipped lambs does not pay, as the packers' dock Is more than tho wool Is worth. To Explor* In Anatrallt. The Australia* Government has or ganlxed an expedition under Captain Barclay to explore the region compris ing GO,000 square miles, between Byre Lake and the western boundary of Queensland. It Is a desert of the worst type, which has cost the Uvea of sev era! asftorsra. apuomrui, NATURAL BRIDCE. it TIum till ? Utah Oi?H Hero, acros* n canyon in<?*orint three bunlrwl aud thirty-five feet ?even inches trout wall to wall, na ture kai thrown a splendid arch of aoUA sandstone, ilxtjr feet thick in the central part and forty feet wide, leaf lug underneath It a clear opening 357 feat In perpendicular height. The lat eral walla of the arch rise perpendicu larly nearly to the top of the bridge, when they flare suddenly outward, giving the effect of an Immense coping or cornice overhanging the main struc ture fifteen or twenty feet on each side and extending with the greatest regu larity and aymmetry the whole length of Hi* bridge. A large rounded butte at the edge of the canyon wall seems p?tiy to obstruct the approach to the bridge at one end. Here again the curving walls of the canyon and the lmpoaaibillty of brlng lng the whole ef the great atructure late' the narrow field of the camera, except from distant points of view, render the photographs unsatisfactory. But the lightness and grace of the arch is brought out by the partial view which Lqng obtained by climbing far up the canyon wall and at some risk crawling out on an overhanging shelf. The majestic proportions of this bridge, however, may be partly real ised by a few comparisons. Thus its height is more than twice and its spaa more than three times as great as those of the famous natural bridge of Vir ginia. Its buttresses are 118 feet fur ther apart than those of the celebrated masonry arch in the District of Colum bia, known as Cabin John Bridge, a few miles from Washington city, which has the greatest span of any masonry bridge on this continent. This bridge would overspan the Capitol at Washington and clear the top of the dome by fifty-one feet. And if the loftiest tree in the Calaveras Grove of giant sequoia in California stood in the bottom of the canyon its topmost bough would lack thirty-two feet of reaching the under side of the arch. This bridge is of white or very light sandstone, and, as in the case of the Caroline, filaments of green and or ange-tinted lichens run here and there over the mighty buttresses and along the sheltered crevices under the lofty cornice, giving warmth and color to the wonderful picture.?From W. W. Dyar's "The Colossal Bridges of Utah." In the Century. WORDS OP WISDOM. Evil is not eliminated by a synonym. New light does not mean a new kuu. Only the truthful can kuow the truth. Religion is more than a law; it la a life. Divine fear delivers from all other fear. The lowly in heart are lifted in honor. The world is a fearfully noisy place to the man who is waiting for a chance to blow his own horn. If we expect to appropriate the "whatsoever" of his promises, we must try to comply with the "whatso ever" of his commands.?Samuel B. Randall. There are some persons whom to meet always gives one a greater cour age and hope, as If there were more no bleness and high purpose in the world than one thinks.?C. L. Brace. Seeds of the Yellow Water I.lly m KoaiI. Some of the Indian tribes of the I'lil ted States still cling to their primitive forms of food. A notable Instance of this Is the continued use of wokas l?y the Klamath Indians. This tribe occu pies the Klamath reservation, which is a part of the territory originally occu pied by them before the arrival of tlie white men, and lies in the southern part of Oregon. The land has but a small annual rainfall, but, on account of Its situation at the foot of the east ern slope of the Cascade .Mountains, it Is well watered with streams and con tains two considerable bodies of water. One of these, Klamath Marsh. Is par ticularly rich in plants, and conse quently In animal life. Occupying about 10,000 acres of this marslj there hi a solid growth of the large yellow water Illy, Nymphaea |H)lysepala. In the old times the seeds of this plant were collected by the Indians, and, un der the name of wokas, furnished their principal grain supply, filling the place of the corn used by some oilier tribes. To-day these seeds are still collected and regarded by the Klamath Iudiaus as n delicacy. The lily seeds are har vested in August; the wokas gatherer uses a dugout canoe, and poling herself around among the dense growth of stems and leaves, picks ofT the full grown seed pods. Adventures of ? lOOOr. Note. A lady passing down the Ituc Riche lieu had the misfortune to lose a pock etbook containing among other valu ables a lOOOf. note. The pockethook was picked up by a chalnucnder named Renaud, who lives at Mon treux. He placed It very carefully In his pocket and proceeded home. It is not often that u chalrinender luis occa sion to change a note for that amount, and Renaud, recognizing the impossi bility of turning it Into gold without detection, agreed with a friend to do the business for the consideration ot lOOf. This friend, Luclen Matbern, also a chalrinender, was In turn filled with apprehension. The difficulty was solved by the aid of a horticulturist named Slmonnet, who kindly consent ed to buy himself a horse for 3<)0f. and return the change. Renaud thus be came richer by itoof. All might then have gone well If. two days later. It had not been discovered that the horse had been stolen from a dealer at Moaux. This led to the arrest of the trio, and later In the day the police put their hands on tljo horse thieves.? Paris Messenger. ' ' Matrimonial Reform la Affchnalatm. It Is stated by a correspondent from Pesliawur that the Amir has ordered that the people of his Statu should have no more than four wives, and this Is to be strictly carried out by the Afghan Kardnrs. It Is stated that the Amir himself has divorced his additional wives, and that under this order Far dar Abdul Kudus lvhan has divorced eight and Mir At* Ulla Khau thirty VtTMr?Labor* Tribune. I MARKETING SMALL FRUITS. These fruits are seldom seen in our j ?markets, except in the quart straw* berry basket, shipped in the thirty-two quart crate. The red raspberry is in ?owe cases noM lis the large pint basket, in which it keeps in a good condition longer than in the quart basket, yet the latter la almost uni versally used In New England. The | currant In some markets is sold in the ten or twelve-pound "diamond" market basket and is then sold by the pound, but the quart basket In thirty-two quart crates is much the more satis factory. *^Armr ABOUT FRUIT TREES. The presence of borers in fruit trees Is always a source of great annoyance. An old farmer rubs hard soap into ] every place In the tree that seems wounded by them. His grandfather always did it before him and he claims that it is an effectual remedy. Strong iy* made of potaRh and swabbed on, in the proportion of one pound to ? gallon of water, is also very beneflciaL This same old farmer prunes the de cayed limbs of bis apple trees, and ruba the trunks with a hard brush, then paints them with a mixture of soft soap and sulphur, Ave gallons of soap to one of sulphur. He also strews lime under the trees and around tho trunks. This destroys the worms and improves the quality of the fruit and grass, and will prevent the trees from decaying. He has always been suc cessful In the cultivation of the pear trees. To prevent the disease csllet fire-blight, which in summer causes the leaves on the extremities of the branches for two or more feet to ap pear as if scorched, he cuts off a foot or more from the diseased part and immediately burns it. If this is faith fully practiced the evil Is arrested. When plum trees become affected by the disease called the "black gum,** which is caused by an Insect, if the diseased part be immediately cut off and burned, the tree may be preserved. ?Helen M. Richardson, In The Epito mist. PACKAGE FOR APPLES. The relative advantages of barrels and boxes as packages for fruit were given a thorough discussion at the re cent meeting of the Western Horticul tural Society. The advantages of the boxes are chiefly, that they can be made and obtained more easily and cheaply, and that fancy fruit generally sells for a higber price In them, as it can be packed solid, in nice even rows, like oranges; also the export trade is accustomed to this kind of package and It sells more readily and for a higher price abroad. The principal disadvantage Is that It requires an expert packer to put In fruit in this way. It is also true that there Is practically no opportunity to work In uneven or poor fruit in a box. It depends on the . point of view whether this is to be classed as an ad | vantage or a disadvantage. I As to barrels, they are increasingly . expensive and ditlicult to get, and It requires skilled labor to make them. I Their principal advantage seems to be that it dot-s not require skilled labor I to till them, and that they are easier ' to move because they can be rolled. ' There seems to be a good deal of conservative clinging to an old fash ioned custom in this respect, despite the fact tliat barrels tend to bruise and injure fruit. West of the Rocky Mountains, however, barrels are no longer used, partly because they can not be easily obtaiuiMl and partly be cause only the choicest fruit is shipped, and boxes are preferable for this grade. ?Prairie Farmer. BORDEAUX MIXTURE. Where a large orchard Is to be sprayed the mixture should be made up in large quantities, so that there will bo no delay at spraying time. It Is somewhat diflicult to estimate the amount of material needed on a cer tain number of trees, but a safe basis qf calculation for trees of moderate I size is fifty gallons of mixture to fifty trees, or one gallon to each tree, writes i I'rofessor E. E. Little, in Wallace's Farmer. After an approximate amount required has been determined upon, the mixture should be prepared. A quantity of fifty gallons Is most easily made up, as a common barrel will hold this amount. Prepare a stock solution of Bordeaux, the common mixture, by placing fifty pounds of copper sulphate in a gunny stick and suspending It In a barrel hold lug fifty gallons of water. Cold water will dissolve It providing the lumps have been crushed; if not, it will be necessary to use b*t water. The fifty pounds of lime should be carefully slacked in a large box, and when it has assumed a creamy condition place it.in a barrel holding fifty gallous, and stir thoroughly. Now you have a stock so lution of Bordeaux mixture. When ready to use, stir the contents of both barrels. Take five gallons of lime water and place It in the spray barrel; odd twenty-five gallons of water, then add five gallons of copper sulphate so lution, filling the barrel with water. Stir thoroughly and apply. For spray ing plums and cherries this should be diluted more, using only four gal lons of each mixture. Never mix the copper sulphate and lime mixture to gethMr, but put each in the spray bar rel separately and dilute with water. Tnrtory Workers' Children In Prance. The French Academic de Medicine discussed recently the rights of chil dren and their working mothers against those of the employers. Near ly one half of the children who die un der the age of one year are victims of diseases of the digestive tract, the great cause of which is artificial feed ing. It should be made possible, there fore, for working mothers to nurse their children. In Italy, a speaker declared, a law required a nursery in every factory employing us many as fifty workers; and he urged that a similar law be en* acted in France. The Academic de Medicine approved Ms suggestions and ?cut them to the MUUster of the In terior, POPULAR SCIENCE The windmill lias boon put to work lu Germany driving dynamos. Argon, the recently discovered ele ment of air. Is, as was expected from Its existence lu the chromosphere, very light and apparently monatlmic. A Swiss scientist has made a discov ery of prehistoric remains In the Jura Mountains which is so Important that extensive excavations are being made. For several years a record has been kept of the wear of locomotive wheels i on the Danish State railways. The sin gle drivers are found to wear better than four coupled, the latter better than six coupled, and in all cases wear la increased by lllmsiness of road. A remarkable luminous meteor trail seen at Madrid has been reported by. J. A. Peres. It continued visible from about 10 p. m. until midnight, and the shape gradually changing from an al I most closed curve with a loop in It to an enlarged loop with a very faint de tached portion of the primary curve. A local study of rural depopulation near Paris has been made by Dr. A. F. Plicque. lie finds that the causes Include sanitary ignorance loading to high infant mortality, migration of young people to towns, effects of con scription and alcoholism. His sug gested remedy?one tbat promises suc cess In Belgium?Is improved primary and technical education, with special efforts to cultivate a love for farm life. Old age is an Infectious disease, which we may expect soon to be treat ed by a preventive scrum, prolonging life. Such was the view expressed in the late Paris lecture of Dr. Menchnl koff. Senility, he explained, is pro duced by certain physiological states, which cause the "macrophages," which are a beneficent species of microbes, to Increase too rapidly, when they be come Injurious. These parasites flour ish in the large Intestine, which is pos sessed by muinnials. but is almost lack ing In birds. The result was Illus trated by the doctor's own dog and parrot, the former being decrepit st eighteen, while the latter was hale and lively at seventy. While the se rum is being awaited, we are advised to eat curdled milk. * ?SENSATION" IN VILLA ART. Wonderful Kfleet Gained by m Ca(?d Mountain Torrent. Just across the lake, in the deep shade of the wooded cliffs beneath the Pizzo dl Torno, lies unotlicr villa still more steeped In the Italian garden magic. This is the Villa Pliniana, built in 1070 by the Couut Anguissola, of Piacenza, and now the properly of the Trotti family, of Milun. The place ?takes its name from an Intermittent spring in the court, which is supposed to be the one described by Pliny In one of his letters, and it is further cele brated as being the coolcst villa on Como. It lies on a small bay on the east side of the lake, and faces duo north, so that, while the vlllss of Cer nobhio are bathed in sunlight a deep green shade envelops it. The house stands on a narrow ledge, its founda tions projecting Into the lake, and its back built ag;iinst the almost vertical wooded cliff which protects it from the southern sun. Down this cliff pours a foaming mountain torrent from the Val dl Calore, just beneath the peak of Torno, and this torrent the architect of the Villa Pliniana has captured in its descent to the lake and cnrrled through the central apartment of the villa. The effect produced is unlike any thing else, even In the wonderland of Italian gardens. The two wings of the house, a plain and somewhat melan choly looking structure, arc joined by nn open arcaded room, syrninst tlio back wall of which the torrent pours down, over stone work tremulous with moss and ferns, gushing out again be ncuth the balustrade of the loggia, where It makes a great semicircle of glittering whiteness in the dnrk green waters of the lake. Tlio old bouse is saturn ted with the freshness mul drenched with the Hying spray of the cagcd torrent. The hare vaulted rooms reverberate with it, the stone floors are green with its dampness, the air quivers with its cool incessant rush. The contrast of this dusky dripping loggia, on its perpetually shaded bay, with the bla/.lng, blue waters of t'.ie lake and their sun-steeped western shores. Is one of the most wonderful cffect3 in sonsatlou that the Italian villa art has ever devised. The architect, not satlsfled with di verting a part of the torrent to cool bis house, has led the rest In a full tlown the clll immediately adjoining the villa, and has designed winding paths through the woods frrni wlilrli one may look dewn o:i the bright rush of the waters. On the other side of tlio house lies a long baluslraf.ed tcvrace, between the lake and the hnngiag woods, and here, o;i the only bit of open and level ground near the house, are the old formal gardens, now much neglected, but still full of a melan choly charm.?Froiu Edith Wharton's "Lombard Villas," in the Century. All !<??(! "Tlio newspaper which circulates among the people, all the people, is tlio medium in which 1 advertise my most czpcm ivc carpets and rugs," said a high class dealer, "ltlch people do not have papers of their own, but read the most enterprising. Some of the people who buy costly goods make you won der where they get the monew to do It Anyhow, they do not read the mag azines, but do read the newspapers. In short, everybody rends the newspa pers."?Phi la del ph I a Hecord. A Itoyal Athlete. King Carlos of Portugal has the rep utation of being a great athlete. IKs skill at tenuis was recently demon strated when ho defeated Lieutenant K. W. Mclntyre, of the battleship Io wa, during the visit of the United States North Atlantic fleet. The King ulso gave an exhibition of his ability as a pistol shot for the entertainment of his American visitors, who wfrc as tonished with his accuracy of Are.