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r-'- I I y VEIN i«, i lift, * i i i //- & 7 -1 § i The Coif Girl. The golf girl who dresses according to hygienic principles can have her laeky four-leafed clover even if she does not wear a round elastic with a clasp. The side elastics have the clover charm at the clasp half way down the side, as they are worn in men’s suspenders. From l*arU to Mlskra. Miss Chellier, a woman gradua f e of the University of Paris, has been given the charge of a medical mission to the mouutaius beyond Biskra by the Gov ernor-General of Algeria. Her chief work will be ih j care of the native women and children, and she has al ready gained experience by making two successful journeys into that part of the country, placing trained nurses at the various stations. Women’s Pockets. Ladies fifty years ago, when going on a journey by stage coach, carried their cash in their under pockets. There were no railways opened in Wales then, afid people who had not a close carriage either went in the mail coach or in a post chaise. Farmers’ wives and market women wore these large under pockets. I remember my Welsh nurse had one, wherein, if she took me out cowslip picking, or nut ting, or blackberry gathering, she car ried a bottle of milk and a lot of biscuits or a parcel of sandwiches, often a clean pinafore as well. Her pocket on those occasions was like a big bag. I was very proud when she stitched up a wee pocket for me to wear under my frock, out of some stud like bedticking, similar to that of which she made her own big pocket. —Notes and Queries. HnU Wrongly Named. Probably because of the fact that ostrich feathers were never used in greater profusion than they are this season, we hear a good deal about the “Gainsborongh hat.” As a matter of fact, despite the many ostrich plumes employed and the shadowy methods of their use, there has been this season uo revival of tho’stxle of hat in whi^h the great .English artist painteiF one.of his most beautiful sitters. ( The historic chapeau worn by the Duchess of Devonshire had a low, broad, square crown and a very broad brim of equal width all around, its distinctive feature being the great, shadowy tuft of ostrich plumes which, set at the left side of tne crown, toward the front, did much toward concealing the original contour of the hat. There are no hats of this shape, or exactly of this character or dimen sions, or scarcely a modification of the idea evolved, shown in the shape or worn by smartly dressed women this season, although flaring brims and a wealth of ostrich feathers are seen at every turn. In most cases the ostrich tuft has, mounted with it, one or two long, curved heron plumes; but os trich plumes alone, generally long and semi-long, or the full-grown plumes and tips, held in place by a handsome ornament of steel or of old silver with settings of rhinestones, constitute the only exterior trimming of the hat— small tips set on a velvet bandeau, held by a small, tight bow or a drapery knot nestling under the brim, either at the left side or the back, form the inside garniture. Lavinia, Cornelia, Ernestine, Annabel, Joanna, Veronica, Camilla, Juliana, Adeliza, Araiuinta, Honoria, and scores of of ers of the same descrip tion. Names For Glrla. A prize was lately offered by an English newspaper for the prettiest selection of names for girls, either new and invented for the occasion, or old and disused. The list supplied was not very enticing. Perhaps the most successful ideas were for the ap plication to girls of the names of more flowers thau are now in general nse. There is n6 reason why the rose, lily, and violet should monopolize the name-giving office as they do in Eng land. Clematis, Laurestine, and Eglantine were suggested. Pansy is already popular in this country. A good hunting-ground for uucommon names is a copy of “Debrett’s Peer age,” for there is a whim for singular names iu “upper circles.” Lady Aberdeen’s name, “Ishbel,” is invaria bly misprinted “Isabel,” and has to be corrected on proof. Lady “Aline,” one of the daughters of Lord Dun- raven, generally comes from the print er as “Alice.” Lady Breadalbaue’s name is “Alma,”aprettyaudfemiuiue- souuding cognomen, but one that dates its owner too closely. “Idina” is the name of oue of the daughters of Lord Abergavenny. Among the original names that a very few moments turn ing over of “Debrett” has disclosed are Aglaia, Amicie, Alberica, Florinda, Fiorina, Montagu, Ninfa, Josette, Al- rington, Melesina, Leopoldina.Albinia, Loriua, and Marcia; while many old names rarely heard are found iu the same list of titled ladies, such ns a * IlaU and ISonneit. Eccentric in the extreme are some of the hats that are to be worn; but be sides the eccenFnc ones there are some that are most charmingly simple and none the less smart. One style of black velvet turban is, when becom ing, exceedingly so; it has quite a high soft crown, and is all made of velvet. A bird, with beak pointing downwards, is poised at the left side; the wings are closed, and there are long tail feathers (generally of another species of bird) which droop over the hair. With a blue costume this hat made in a darker blue velvet is parti cularly good. A charming poke-bonnet is very smart, and the Hues are excellent; it is of medium size, with wide brim of black velvet put on absolutely smooth. The crown is small, round, and high, and the trimming consists of ostrich tips. There are ribbon strings, which arc tied under the chin. Another style of poke-bonnet has a brim of velvet put on full, a double crown of satin antique, and a bunch of eagles’ feathers fastened with a cut steel buckle at the left side. This shape is much larger than the other, and is to bo worn with a gray cloth costume. An all-gray velvet hat, to be worn with an exquisite pale gray cloth gown trimmed with mink fur, is in the old- fashioned Gainsborough shape. The ^>rim at the left side is turned up and covered with velvet put on full. The crown is of velvet, and the trimming is of three long ostrich plumes most gracefully arranged. The gown has a circular skirt laid in tucks, and finished around the foot with two bands of mink; the waist in blouse style with long revers faced with mink, open over a vest of yellow velvet. This will be one of the smartest costumes worn. For the evening small bonnets will be the correct head-gear. Oolored velvet orownh rtbhly embroidered, and a trimming of soft ostrich tips with a knot of real lace, make these bonnets much more elaborate and smarter in effect than au ordinary bonnet.— Harper’s Bazar. Geoloztcal Probabilities at Klondike. It is worthy of note that the com parative lowness of standard of the gold is, under the existing conditions, iu favor of the view that the placer gold is derived from the erosion of auriferous quartz lodes formerly existing at a higher level, and has not been formed in situ by being deposited from solution. For, according to those who support the former view, placer gold becomes of higher standard than reef gold after it has found its way into the drifts, the base metals being gradually removed by the solvent action of running water, in which gold is not readily soluble. Since, howev er, the Klondike gold has been frozen up during a large part of the time since it was deposited in the gravel, it is cbvious that it cannot have altered in composition so much as the gold in river sands further south, and might be expected to resemble the gold in the parent lodes, which is not usually more than 800 fine. The low standard of the gold is not so readily accounted for by the accretion theory of formation of placer gold. Some auriferous veins have already been discovered both in the creek valleys and on the mountains round them, although no direct evi dence has yet been adduced to connect these lodes with the sources of the placer gold. Moreover, many nuggets have been found adhering to quartz, so that the weight of evidence appears to be iu favor of the view that the gold in these placers, at any rate, has been laid down there by mechanical rather than chemical processes.—Nature. A Railway to Mecca. About 100,000 Muslim pilgrims visit the sacred city of Mecca every year on the occasion of the pilgrimage, and there is very considerable traffic be tween Yembo and Medina, the birth place of the prophet. It is now pro posed by a London syndicate to con struct a railway between Yembo, Me dina and Mecca. A i difficulty, how ever, arises not from the natural fea tures of the country, which are ex ceedingly favorable for the construc tion of a railway, but from the pecu liar rites of the Hajj, or pilgrimage, which were instituted at a time 'when railways were never dreamed of. It is. however, probable that a railway will be constructed from Yembo to Medina, a distance of 130 miles, thus leaving the rest of the journey tb the sacred shrine to bo trudged on foot. Chestnut*. Every one mnst have noticed the difference in size and productiveness of different chestnut trees in our woods, says the Massachusetts Plough man, some producing large handsome nuts in quantity, while others yield enly a meager crop of inferior size. None of our native nuts, however, compare at all for size or attractive ness with the chestnuts ot Spain, Italy and Japan, which are easily grafted upon the cotnmon chestnut of our woods. The peculiarities of these large nuts are not propagated with certainty by growing seedlings; these differ widely from each other and from the parent tree. It is, however, by no means difficult to graft the chestnut, and by this method the different varieties are perpetuated with certainty. Trees grown from our native nut make ex cellent stock upon which to graft the large varieties. The Italian and Spanish chestnuts are not hardy enough to endure our climate, but there are several large va- i rieties from Japan that are entirely hardy and much larger than any of our native ante. If one wishes to grow stocks o n which to graft chestnuts he should save the nuts now and pack them carefully in sand in boxes made of hemlock boards, which mice and squirrels dislike to gnaw into, and these boxes should be covered with a foot of earth in a dry place out of doors; in spring the nuts should be taken out and planted in rows two and one-half feet apart, setting the nuts six inches apart. After the trees have made one or two years’ growth, they should be grafted near the ground in early spring and banked up with earth so as to cover the place where the scion is inserted, but leaving its point exposed to the air. As with any other grafting it is necessary to bring the inner bark of the scion and stock together in order to effect the union and to keep out dry air and sunshine until the union is well per fected. The chestnut is a very useful tree both for its nutsi and wood and de- d much more larga- hllTs where ft cept in the more J New England.-- • Fireside. serves tp be^ ly upon bur grows naturally, northern parts Farm, Field ani] More Front In Sheep Than Poultry. No one questions the value of a flock of poultry on a farm when well kept. All the estimates as to profits are too low. There are eggs and chickens that go onto the farmer’s table that never get into the account book. My experience has proved that with a good market near by, a small flock, well cared for and skillfully managed, prolific in producing eggs and good for rearing chicks, may with out difficulty pay, in clear profit, the interest on $50 a year for each hen. This is only $3, and I have made with the best of care and management fully $6 a year from a small flock of light Brahmas from eggs and chickens alone. No fancy prices were received for the eggs. They were simply sold for domestic use, and were fresh aud guaranteed to be not more than three days from the hens. The broiling chicks, too, were fed well and reached a good size early, so that they were tender and sweet to eat, and brought a high price. Perhaps it will not be thought rea sonable, but I have found it true in practice, that a sheep may be kept for no more than a hen, if managed as they may be. This is counting things at cost, for it is not fair to charge a flock with fodder and grain at the selling price and then expect it to pay another second profit. But this is often done, and yet this second profit is really made from the sheep. I have fed sheep for seventy-five cents a year over and above the value of the fleece in cases where they have had to be fed on costly food aud hand-fed the whole winter. Elsewhere I have fed sheep for seventy-five cents a year, all expenses included. This is where they have been pastured nearly the entire twelve months. It has cost me the same amount to feed a hen, that is, as it must be fed to make a profit. And in the case of the flock I have sold three-month-old lambs for $10 a head, and the ewes, fat in the fall, at a profit of $3 a head. AU this was clear profit, for in the most expensive method of feeding the fleece never failed to pay the sheep’s feeding. But as a rule it is quite possible to feed a sheep for the same cost as five hens and at the average value of their products the sheep will be far more profitable than the hens will. There is the home market, however, for the sheep reared on a farm, to the extent of at least twenty head, and at the average value of the meat a sixty- pound mutton wUl be worth six or seven dollars. And just here the farm ers’ meat clubs will serve a good pur pose. These are mutual associations, each member of which kills a beef or a mutton in turn, dividing up the meat according to some rule established on a fair and mutually satisfactory basis. In this way the meat is disposed of at the full butcher, s price and at the end of the season an accurate division is mode of the funds in hand or of the credits, the balance in cash accruing to each creditor being settled. In this convenient way the cost of the meat supply is reduced to its actual value and at least one-half the mon ey other wise paid will be saved. For this mu tual co-operative business, the s heep is most acceptable.—Henry Stew art, in American Agriculturist. Farm and Garden Notes* * Get rid of all surplus stock. ' See that the pullets have comforta ble quarters. Sell off all hens that do not show signs of moulting. The early hatched pullets will lay twice as many eggs this winter as the old hen. It will pay to have the garden plo all cleared and ready for plowing this fall. In fact, won’t it pay to plow it as soon as the crops are off? Those contemplating the erection of beet sugar factories will do well to re member that for expert assistance and management a small factory will cost quite as much as a large one. The secret of winter eggs is: Hatch the pullets early and keep them grow ing; have warm quarters; do not crowd too many in a small place; keep them exercising, and feed properly. If any of our readers neglected to repair and oil the harness last spring when it should have been done, they should make a note of the fact and at tend to it at the first opportunity. Again we say radical changes in the food of animals should be made grad ually as possible. This is especially true of cows, for sudden changes effect the quality as well as the quantity of the milk. Corn and alfalfa go splendidly to- g^ther 4 especially for feeding fatten ing animals.' TlorH'beiffg'tWflUlBUI iu protein, and alfalfa rich in the same ingredient, serves to more nearly bal ance the ration. WORDS OF WISDOM. It is always a mystery to a woman why her husband doesn’t seem to pity old bachelors more. The fountain of beauty is the heart nnd every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. .-lelp somebody worse off thau your self, aud you will find that you are better off than you imagined. Civic virtue is a good text for the preacher always, but a better thing for every citizen to guard in his daily life. A good life is the best philosophy; a clear conscience is the best law; honesty is the best policy, and temper ance is the best physio. Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine, and whoever breaths its air and works by its light has found the lost paradise. Consciousness of error is to a certain extent, a consciousness of understand ing; and correction of error is tha plainest proof of energy and mastery. We can never see this world in its true light unless we consider our life in it as a state of discipline, a condi tion through which we are passing to prepare us for another state beyond. A life in any sphere that is the ex pression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficenca in the best possible direction.—J. G. Holland. We should ponder the particular j characteristics which are needed to encounter manfully all failures in life, and secure from them whatever bene fit they are capable of bestowing, for these are very different from the quali ties which enable a man to ride trium phantly on the tide of success. There is no quality, however admira ble it may be, which does not need some other quality to balance it. Humility and self-respect must join hands, or the one will degenerate into pusilanimity and the other into pride; justice and kindness must qualify each other, or the one will be stern and tha ether will be weak. Hauling corn fodder up from the field every few days as wanted during the winter is, in most cases, a very slavish and unnecessary operation. No time should be lost now in getting it into mow or stack. On many farms we see the stock still tramping over the meadows as it has done ever since haying. We never thought it paid to thus secure a little fall picking at the possible expense of the hay crop the next year. Here is the way a prominent stock man puts it: We are going to have the best times we have seen in fifteen years, and the stock-raising interest will, with proper management, have its fall share in the general prosperity. One objection urged against winter dairying is that it is so much trouble to raise the calves when they cannot be turned out on pasture- This dif ficulty is not a serious one if you have a good, warm barn, clover hay and ensilage. Those of our readers who took our advise and saw that the pigs and shoats received through the summer a fair proportion of bone and muscle form ing foods, have now a staunch frame upon which to lay the fat produced by a corn diet. Professor Plumb hit the nail fairly on the head when he wrote that the farmers of Indiana ought not to allow a pound of skim milk to go to waste from the creameries or farm dairies. It can be fed to great profit to grow ing pigs, for it will assist in rapid flesh development. What is true of skim milk in Indiana is equally true of it elsewhere. * • The use of butter which contains neither salt nor coloring matter is said to be increasing in New York to such an extent that it may now be obtained at some of the best hotels and restau rants, while other houses are using butter containing about half the usual salt. Of course, customers can sea son the fresh butter to suit their own individual tastes. Hebrews are the largest consumers of unsalted butter. A bunch of hungry hogs will do a good job turning and fining coarse, straw manure if some grain is sown upon it. Occasionally, their rooting propensities may be utilized in other ways. A Maine farmer is said to re move stumps by fencing them in, mak ing holes under them with crowbar, placing grain in holes and turning hogs into the enclosure. In rooting among the roots, the hogs are said to root the stumps out by the roqta. A Famous Poem. Mrs. Bose Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote Curfew Must Not Bing To-night, lives in a pretty frame cottage at Paci fic Beach, near San Diego, Cal. When asked recently to tell how she came to write the poem that has made her famous, she replied: | “I can not remember when I did not write poetry, I have done it ever since I was a child. My mother did not approve of my writing. One day after school I went to my room. I had been studying the historic period of the poem, and the incident impressed itself so strongly on my mind that I felt impelled to write about it. I was 'abour'MTT^ay through when mf mother came in, saying a young friend had come to spend the afternoon and | take tea with me. In great distress I called out: ‘Oh, mother, can’t she wait a little while?’ My mother, thinking I was solving a hard problem in arith metic, said she would amuse my friend until I could leave. At last I finished it and put it away. “Two or three years later I wanted a poem for publication in a Detroit paper, to which I had been in the habit of contributing short poems gratuitously. I was unable at the time to write, as usual, and, on looking over my papers, found this one, which I decided to send, though doubting its acceptance, as it was too long. A day or two after ward I received a note from the editor, complimenting my last contribution highly, and prophesying for it great and immediate success.”—Philadel phia Press. No Taxes There. i The community forming the British colony of the Falkland Islands should be a very b»ppy one. From the latest ‘report of the administrator it seems that there are no direct taxes—unless a trifling levy on houses in Stanley, the capital, to maintain a fence round the town, and one on pastoral land to eradicate the scab disease amongst the sheep, can be called by this name— the assets are much in excess of the liabilities, society is enlivened by the frequent presence of Her Majesty’s ships, and the climate is so excellent that there has been complete immunity from all diseases, whether of au epidemic or an endemic nature, and the colonial surgeon thinks that such a satiifactory state of things, due “to the health-giving qualities peculiar to these islands,” may induce health seekers to visit these happy lands “on the fringe of the Atlantic to recuperate their shattered energies.” The im ports last year amounted to £63,985, and consisted mainly of clothing, pro visions, coal, tobacco and the other things that a community of about 2900 british-born people would require. The exports amounted to £132,194, and consisted wholly of wool, sheep skins and tallow. Practically the whole import and export is with the United Kingdom. Sheep breeding is too business of the islands; hence the importance of eradicating the disease aiready mentioned, and of maintaining aud improving the breed.—London Times. I.aml Values in Cape Town. / J*it of waste land at Cape Town, bo. f.it five years ago for $3000, has $hs« been valued at $150,000.