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Art in Moder S ? } * - i : ;yf^h<y &::'^ ?" 'V-' ?. - > '& v - . ^ ( f NEW YORK'S CUSTOM HC J THE MEXICAN CO! IffLQBOOTD^ ! u; ./FARMERS and fruit growers Sfiu ^ have been fighting injuriIfitl F Uli ous insects ever since there pii" were any farmers and fruit E&- vSf growers. - it would seem as if, after these many years of experience, they would have learned good remedies for every insect pest They have learned many, and the cientific men who are constantly .working on this very important problem have found excellent economic means to destroy the great majority of injurious insects. But every few years there appears some new insect ;i>e8t, which is so strong and prolific, jor which lives in such a peculiar way, (that it is able to do enormous damage, \ to destroy millions of dollars' worth of / crops, and sometimes to alarm more / than a single country and affect the t relations of many civilized nations. , A few years ago the San Jose scale. minute creature which injures fruit trees, spread all over the United States and occasioned the passage of edicts and laws in many foreign countries by .which American fruits and fruit trees Were practically barred from international commerce. if Ana now anomer 01 uiese treui iijl Beet scourges Is affecting the cotton 1 crop of Texas, and threatens to spread all through the cotton States. It is partly due to the great damage which / this insect has done that the price of , cotton last year went up to almost unprecedented figures, so that cotton , AN ADULT BEETLE) t 1 mills have been obliged to stop, thousands of operatives have been discharged, and the wages of thousands more have been reduced. THE COST OF THE WEEVIL. Eighty per cent, of the cotton crop of the world is raised by America, and ui uie coiioq raised in me unitea States Texas produces nearly onefourth. All the richest cotton counties of Texas have been invaded by the weevil, and the loss in cotton destroyed by its depredations in tfie past summer has surely been as great as $15,000,000. spurred on Dy tr.e njgti price of cotton and by the prospective danger of a great lessening of the American crop, foreign nations are making every efTort to raise tueir own cotton. The English colonies are particularly active, and the German colonies, as well. Russia is also making every effort to push the growing of cotton within ber territory. Other nations are doing the same. The trade balance of the entire world may soon be affected if efficient remedies for tbe pest are not discovered and used. - --I * IJ.AJC VVCVJVJU JO U 41 lubjguiucuui creature, a little gray snout betHe about a quarter of an inch long, but it breeds very rapidly, multiplies enormously in the course of a summer, and . works during tbe critical period of its life absolutely protected from any application which could be made to the Icotion pianr. Stowed away in old oornstalfcs, ic clumps of grass, under the bark ol trees and logs, and in all sorts of shelHA TUBE BOLL CUT OPEN, tGre<* places, showing full-gbown the we,evi] larva. passes the Promptly a s piaui cuuirs uj. forth, fiy to //j&I^SSfifeev the plants, and as soon as the first "BQuares" Mp' buds ? are rJ mL-* formed 1 ay Ioung grub latches and ,es troys the '/ orming flow-LATK FALL boll, bhowim r, causing how beetles hjde behe square to tween involucbe lyop. The AJ!D E0LLrv ? \ \ n Architecture. /. . -v% \ ?. :-..v.. . :> ' : ' ; v 'USE AeS IT WILL APPEAR. ION-BOLL TOVIL Chief United States ||Sjl 'En torn olo gijl grub changes to a pupa within the bud, and the full grown weevil emerges soon after. When such of the flowers as escape this first attack mature, and the cotI 4-r\v\ fArme ic? o?CA Iw weevil's beak, an egg is laid, and another grub begins to feed on the interior of the boll, destroying all the forming cotton lint, reaching full growth ?] and changing to pupa and emerging as a weevil. In this way the insects increase in geometrical ratio until, by late summer, they occur in countless millions; often hardly a boll matures. AN INVADER FROM MEXICO. j A bale of cotton contains from 450 j to 500 pounds, and in former days to j raise a bale or a bale and a half of \ NEW1/Y HATCHED I^ABVA IN 70VNCI 1 8QT7ABE. * ginned at a place called Alice. From i Alice northward and eastward cotton i culture is continuous, and the weevil spread at the rate of about seventyfive miles a year from 1894 until the present time. It has now reached practically to the northern border of Texas, cotton to the acre rn the best parts of Texas was almost a rule. Where the weevil -'as made its appearance, however, it is often difficult to raise a bale of cotton on ten or even fifteen acres of land. The weevil ccme to Teras from Mexico, where, in certain places, it had absolutely stopped the culture of cotton. It crossed the Rio Grande at Brownsville, and was carried north across a great extent of grazing country in cotton which ?as taken to be and is on the east within a few miles of Louisiana. , During all this time the United States Department of Agriculture and At. - A TAT-OP lilt? Oiillt? AJJUVUI IU1 ill VUUCjjC VI JLCAUO have been studying the insect and try- | ins to find some means of fighting it , successfully. Eight or nine years ago ( it could have been stopped and all this damage prevented by abandoning the culture cf cotton in a rather unproductive section. Or, if the planters could have been induced to cut down and burn the cotton stalks in the fall, " 77r NFAKLY FCLL-OKOWN LARVA IN BOLL. " it is probable tbat the insect would not have spread, and would eventually ' have been exterminated. All sorts of experiments have been made with different insecticide mixtures and with many different kinds of machines. The most careful stud ! ics have been made of the life history and habits of the insect. Experts ; have been sent to Mexico, to other por^ tions of Central America and to the West Indies as well, to study the insect In its natural home?for it is evidently a tropical species?in the hope of being able to find some parasite or | natural enemy which might be iutroduced into the United States with beneficial effect j IS THERE A REMEDY? > Although no such parasite has been , found, and although no poisonous api plication has been discovered which ?J.I J * i?. ?..;i , Itlmiifrll | W1JJ uesiruj Hie WWVII, auu uiiuvub" ) no practical machine has been invent; ed, we have, nevertheless, through our . intimate knowledge of the life history . of the weevil, found a way to grow cotton in paying quantities in spite of i the destructive creature. In the spring the weevils are few in number; the great majority of them have been killed by the long winter. Comparatively few come out of liiber' nating quarters in the spring to lay the eggs for the coming generation. A single female will have millions of descendants by autumn, but these millions are gradually developed. It was the old custom to pick cotton in Texas until past Christmas, and in late autumn the weevils are at tueJr height in point of numbers. If planters use Northern cottonseed, the plants from which develop much more rapidly than from Texas seed; if they plant their rows a little further apart than has been the custom, if they cultivate the crop and force it to early maturity, they will be able to raise a good quantity of cotton before the weevils have become so numerous as to destroy the great majority of the bolls. In this way, on experimental plots aggregating seven or eight hundred nf>r*>s in different Darts of Texas, the experts of the Division of Entomology, of the United States Department of Agriculture, have been able to raise and pick, before the middle of October, from two-thirds of a bale to a bale an acre, whereas from crops not thus planted and treated, only a bale from eight to twelve acres has been secured. Then, after this amount of cotton has been picked, the cotton stalks are cut down or plowed up. left to lie for a while until dry, and are then burned. Very many weevils are destroyed in this way. The few that escape have a much longer period to wait before the ?rop comes up, and many die. The aumber which will be found on hand to attack the cotton on these fields aext year will be v >ry small. The result is that more cotton can be raised pear after year. Thus cotton can be raised in spite if the weevil. But the weevil will not exterminated: it will probably con tinue to spread, and it is altogether likely that it will invade the other :otton-growing States. The work on remedies, however, is still going on; the search for parasites n tropical countries still continues. Congress will probably appropriate at this session a l<irge sum of money to aelp in the work, so that, although the outlook is rather lad, i+ is by no i?eans hopeless, and the prospect that :he United States will lose her sujremacy in cotton production on account of the weevil is, in my mind, not jreatly to be feared.?Youth's Companion. IMPROVING HOME GROUNDS. The Ground Plan of an Attractive Design. While the illustrated design may seem to:> elaborate for application to :arm home grounds, and they will apply quite as well to town or small city )lots, it is not expensive, for the main tem is that of labor. One's house may lot be so pretentious as that shown in iie plan, but that will not interfere ivith the application of the design. It will be noticed that two things in the leslgn are prominent?the preservajon of a large expanse of lawn and :he grouping of the shrubbery in nasses instead of dotting individual ihrubs here and there over the lawn, rhen the drives are in simple curves )y which the symmetry of the plan is reserved. Tho hopt -mrr! r?f tho form nrnner f it extends back from the rear of the louse, is shut off from the road view jy a line of shrubbery at one side on i line with the rear of the house and >n the other side from a little back of ie middle of the house. At the joinng of the drives (which are also the ;valkg) is made a bed for fiowering AN ATTRACTIVE DESIGN. )lant8, other places for such plants jeing provided at the corners of the reranda. The whole plaut is simple, aut very harmonious and artistic, and may be readily carried out from the iesisn shown. Monument, to a Dae!. Many as are the places in England which have been the scenes of duels, only one is marked. This is a part of all that now remains of Cawnton Heath, in Norfolk, on wmcn stanas a small pillar to Sir Henry Hobart. Bart., who was killed on the spot in a duel with swords.?Car. During bloodhound trials near Leamington, a hunted man. who was granted an hour's start, was tracked down in thirty-five minutes. GEORGE WASF This natural -wonder Is located a Angeles, in the 3anta Susana Mount A chiseled monument could scarcely ington than this chance picture cut < boulder. MAGAZINE ' TACKHAMMER | A Machine That Operates on the Maga7 IT\P P.lin DrinnVlfi Patterned after the magazine gun is ! the newly invented tackbacimer that has recently been patented at Wash- ; ington. The head of the house who : , returns from his office after a hard | days work and is assigned the delicate 1 task of putting down tb? parlor carpet will unquestionably relish the possession of one of these latest improved hammers. Besides not having to bother himself with a box of tacks, he will have the added comfort of being able THE MAGAZINE TACKHAMMER. to use both hands in stretching and hammering instead of boing obliged to employ one in holding the tacks in place as he makes futile attempts to strike them on the head. Any one wno has gone through the experience of hanging small' pictures in high out-of-the-way places will also appreciate the new hammering tool. The mechanism is not complicated. As the illustration shows, it consists of a hammer, whose jointed handle is so arranged that a long row of tacks is fitted into a channel, which discharges them one at a time in position under the head of the hammer. The hammer is magnetized so that the tacks are automatically held in place until a sharp crack sends its point into the carpeted floor or other material. The Mango in Forto Rico. B II The Department of Agriculture is informed that the climate of Porto Rico is favorable for the cultivation of what has sometimes been called the finest of tropical fruits, the mango. But although mangoes abound in the island, they are seedling trees, and the fruit i6 inferior to that of the famous Bombay mango, which is a grafted tree. It is believed that fine mangoes could be grown in abundance in Porto Rico by importing the best grafts, and that the industry can be developed into an important one as soon as the excellence of the fruit becomes known in the United States.?Youth's Companion. Decline of Keligion* Newspapers. At the annual meeting of the Boston Wesleyan Association the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., addressed the gathering on "The Future of the Religious Paper." He said that, although ! Zion's Herald has earned $50,000 in the last fifteen years, it has lost 3500 sub- j scriDers during tne last twelve monius, and that its story is the same one which other religious periodicals have to tell. He cited the instance of one religious weekly printed in Boston which has sunk $4U,000 in the last five years. He expressed the belief that the improvement of the press and the opening of the columns of the maga zines to religious topics have forced T"VO T\ar* fvATTi ltC 111 [ liiC IVli^iVUO ?*??*%. V ?M ?~w periodical field. [INGTON ROCK. : ? ' I { , ffefe . * ; bout thirty-five miles northwest of Loa a ins, just outside of Chatsworth Park, bear a truer resemblance to Geo. Washer worn on the ragged contour of a giant uniif TiiiA npin nun i viu dcau DREAD C Catarrh Robs Woi Pe-ru-na Mai J Miss Amanda Jo tin WAW^mWA'AWWW !| MIbs Flora Hauser, 1032 S. New Jer-1 ?j ji sey street, Indianapolis, Ind., writes: S Ji j! "I think I must have been2 ' ]! troubled with catarrh ever since 1 j> "i ;! was very young, aggravated each \ \\ time I caught a cold. This did not i 1 i prove sufficiently serious to be ob-i noxious until last winter. Theni 1 my head and nose were so stopped | 2 tip I fill I X /etc x nmoi'UU suiitcuttni/. f i Jl Pcruna was recommended to me* 5 i'by a friend. I used it for four * H !' weeks, and found to my relief that * 2 !| it cured me. 1 have not had a bit i Jj !; of trouble since. My head is clear, * i I'and 1 can safely affirm that Pe-i J |> ricna cured me."?Miss Flora i !? Hauser. * J UnTidro^B nf Women Cnred bv Pe-rn-na. . of Annoying CatarrL DR. HARTMAN has probably done J more than any other physician to- 1 ward popularizing a means of escape from j the facial deformities, 6uch as watery eyes, twisted nose, offensive breath, dry cracked lips, due to tiie ravaging effects of catarrh. I He has made chronic catarrh a life-long c study. His remedy, popularly known as I Peruna, is the most famous remedy for catarrh in existence. 1 Probably there is not a man or woman, a boy or girl, within the bounds of the United States that has not heard of Pe- c T>_. law/roof m o inri^v Via VP T ruiltt. JU Y iai IUC iaigtov ??. - . used Peruna. t The multitude of people that have been cured of chronic catarrh by using Peruna t can never be known. |f Surveying Then and Now. It is now related of Washington that he received $7.50 a day for doing a j little land surveying for Lord Fairfax ^ down in Rappahannock County. Va. t j Incredible! That is equal to $195 a t month. Living was dirt cheap f those days and the purchasing power i of money far greater than it is to-day. < The best surveyors in these times are s a glut in the market at $150. rnou- i sands of able men are working with transits for $100 a month?New York Press. ( porms; COUCH BALSAM A bad cold needs a good remedy i MADAME ZADOG PORTER'S ! SEVENTY YEARS A STANDARD ? ? J?s MOTHER GRAY'S ' ija SWEET POWDERS ?f FOR CHILDREN, ! "_L A Certiin Care for Feverisbnesi, Constipation, Hefti?che, Sf stomach Tronblee, JTeeltalmr 1 t |?l sorders, *nd Destroy Mother Gray. Worms. The7 Break up Colds . Nureo in Child- ?p 34 hour*. Atal1 2o cU. ren's Homp, Sample mailed TOEE. AddreeN ' ! N^wYorkOitj. A. S. OLMSTED, Lc Roy, N ? Uncle Sam to When the i'ethmian Canal has had it Of the Sea. Standing between the two great oceai Ing House of the World's Commerce. I of trade will flow East and West, to build the world's market place, and 01 portant on the Globe. This will be the busiest country, am part of it. With resources vast and vj mont Region to sustain the greatest on highlands, between the Gulf and th the world. It stimulates to activity, bi try is more conducive to mental and Ing from 6ea level to 5,000 feet above equal ten in the variety of products. The largest state east of the Missis sources, Georgia naturally became th< is reason for thinking she will becor Her people have been called "the most ninety-nine per ccnt. of them are nativ Georgia offers the greatest opportur Products of the soil worth ^0 per cent < The Greater Georgia Association is bodies In thirty towns and cities, work! Elaborately illustrated booklets on Ge tlon, sent fre? on request. WALTER Q. COOPER, Secret TIFUL WOMEN ES ATARBH BY USE lien of Health and ] ces Women Healths iWJWJWMf * Miss Amanda Johns* S "I write to tell you ] gl ij a number of years I hai ? and I thought it was be ?J went to an oculist and I" wore them for some t " I felt worse than J? that the trouble was i 5 anc* ^ musJ ca* J? used Peruna with benef ' ^ was no^ 80rry Jji J1 began to improve, and "J did condition, my gener J1 the catarrh of the Ifead * this trouble, and am g ? as Peruna."?Miss Ama 11 WAVWLVWWWi J |or Attractive. | " Miss Floi Many a girl has regained her faded and >eauty, many a matron has lengthened the self : lays of her comely appearance by using Pe Peruna. the Peruna produces clean mucous mem- the >ranes, the basis of facial symmetry and it w i perfect complexion. If The women have not been slow to dis- tory lover that a. course of Peruna will , do at 01 nore toward restoring youthful beauty menl ;han all the devices known to science. give While it is true that Peruna cures ca- Ac ;arrh wherever located, yet it is advisable The or everyone to use Peruna as a preventive Ohio Descent of the Family Hat In Korea. A Philahelpbian who has been in M iorea, over which the Russians and just raps are at war, long enough to grow the amiliar with its customs, says one of ter, he most unique and picturesque of teet bem is the family bat, that descends the rom father to eldest son. This bat. oppi nade from the hair of the family an- snu ;estors, is a priceless possession, and to t >o carefully handled that it never neei ,years out. * Thf enu The Mexican Government has de- thei :ided to permit Chinese immigration, gla: The FREE Homestead B LANDS OF Hi Western ^ mm Canada ..... wn itTiiiun r._ mm A AretDS SIAH Alinatiliund ror 13U4. m Millions of acres of magnificent Grain and Grazing H lands to be had as a free gift, or by purchase from iailway Companies, Land Corporations, etc. THE GREAT ATTRACTIONS. 1 Rood crops, delightful climate, splendid irhool system, perfect social conditions, ;xceptional railway advantages, and wealth and affluence acquired easily. The population of Western Canada increased 128,0(10 PIi jy immigration during the past jear, over SO.OOO Noyi >eing Americans. sold Goa For a descriptive Atlas and other information ipplyto Jlr. W. I). Kt'OTT. Superintewlent of Immiifration. ' AMI Ottawa, Canada, i MWI Thompson's Eye Waisf' VH PnV fhp Spa i 3 HUiV IJLBV UVUI ' BDO exc b effect, our country will be Mistress eas: sup qua is, this continent will be the Clear"rom our chores the main currents any Europe and Asia. Here we shall ir industries will be the most im- as tl $4 1 d the Southeast will be the busiest iried, nature has prepared the Pied- Lool : industries on the Planet A climate P1 le Atlantic, is the most delightful in coit jt does not stunt with'cold. No counphysical vigor. With altitude vary- w.n it, Georgia's four degrees of latitude fc sippi river, with the richest r?- j w ! Empire State of the South. There |ab Tie the Empire State of America. |an, _ _ . |mc : American of ail Americans," ana cui _ . __ ful e bom, lities to farmers and business men. me COT jf the farm, as shown by the census. re, an organization of the commercial a? ng together to build up the State. ?oi orgia, containing reliable Inform* ^ | CtF 5 sei ary, S. Pryor St., Atlanta, Qa. I j we | shi j sai fiAPFn OF PE-RU-NA. I Beauty. r and Beautiful. 52, Fairchild, Wis., writes: * \ bow mucb Peruna benefited me. Fot 1 pain in my head aroand my eyea, mTT PVP? npprlpr? trutmmt. <ui I bad glasses fitted to my eyes and ime, but felt no relief whatever. In before, and came to the conclusion vj| sot with my eyes, but with my head arrh. As so many of my friends had it for this trouble, I thought I would that I did so, for in a short time I in four weeks my eyes were in splenal health was much improved and all was gone. I was glad to get rid of I.J i~ ?J L A -Tn. iau iu cuuU1?C ouv.u a |wu mtuiwiuc <3 nda Johnson. ra Ha user. \ \ not wait nntil catarrh hast fastened itin some part of the system. '' runa acts auickly and beneficially on inflamed mucous membranes lining different organs of the body. Thu# ill cure catarrh wherever located. you do not derive promjpt and satisfac- . 4 results from the use of Peruna, write ice to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statet of your case and he will be pleased to you his valuable advice gratis. <: - ' Idress Dr. Hartmann, President of M Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Wm 117 Years Old. rs. Catherine Hughes who Das : died in County Armagh, attained age of 117 years, and she bad a sisalso a centenarian. She took the otal pledge from Father Mathew, apostle of temperance, and she waa osed to women smoking or using ff. She had wonderful eyesight up ie last, and was able to thread a die without the aid of spectacles. ! curious thing is that towards the of her life her sight improved, for - - -K re was a time when she had to use ;. ,.i sses.?Boston Transcript. IAD BLOOD , . *' | Bad trouble with my bowels which made my <1 impure. My face waa covered with pimples :h no external remedy conld remove. I tried Cascarets and great was my joy when the pies disappeared after a month's, steady nse. ve recommended them tt> all my Wends and e a few have fonnd relief." i . J. Pnsch, 967 Park Ave., New York Cltr, N. 7* Best For The Dowels. to&caiaa CAN OV CATHARTIC ' sa*:nt, Palatable. Potent. Taate Good. Do Good, sr Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. 10c. So, 50c. Never in bnlk. The genuine tablet stamped OCC. ranteed to cnre or your money back Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.V. 600 MMLSALE, TEH MILLION BOXES 1. L. DOUGLAS t.SS &*3 SHOES U IT. L. Douglas / es have by tiielr '' dT gtk ellent style. M. Ek.. F-fitting, and jpT Sgi erlor wearing igE ^ Aities, achieved largest sale of shoes in the mm v W// y are just as good & loeathatcostyou J glM nscfi Corona skin, whicli If everywhere c edrd to le fluent Putent I.entlicr yet pro<luce<l. Co'or Eyelets used. Shoe* byiuall.25r.t-xtra. i for Catalog. W.L.Donjlas. Urocktou, M**?. APSICUM VASELINE) (PUT CP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBEB) tobstitute for and superior to mustardor y other plaster, and will not blister the istdelicate skin. The pain-allaying and rativeeual ities of th i sa r ticle are wonder? It will stop the toothache at once, and ieve headacne and sciatica. We recomind it as the best and safest external jnter-irritantknown,also asan external nedy for pains in the chest and stomach d all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty comlints. A trial will prove what we claim it, and it will befound to be Invaluable the household.Manypeoplesav"itisthe stof all of your preparations." Price ?5 i.. at all druggists or other dealers, or by ldiugthisamount tousi n postage stamps i willsend youatubeby mail. No articlo auld be accepted b y th e pu blio u n less th e ne carries our label, asotherwise it Is not nuine. CHESEBROUOH MFG. CO., ^^W^iteteJSferMt^NE^roR^^iT^ ! ^^GREGORY'S CrimC Sold under 8 gu*r?o3 ie?s. Catalogue free. ilfirrrtSy J. J. H. CRECORY 4. 80N, Marble head, Mas*. * esr~ fl OIIRCS WHIRE AU USE FAIL*. Q1 fB43t Cough Syrup. T*atec Ooo<L Dgo PJ1 ii to time. Solfl'oy drnggtota. gfl. 'v rJ, 7