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I. f,> MARRIAGE WITHOUT MENDELSSOHN A Word For the (ilrl Wlio CbootM a Quiet Wedding. There is something to be snitl in fnvor of the quiet wedding, where the bride agrees to dispense with "fuss and feathers," u long cortege of bridesmaids, wlio must all be provided with uiore or less expensive gifts, and will be quietly married without thnt grand spoctnculnr entry to the church, and the more gorgeous recessional to the strains of the weddlnir march. What a saving of the pouips ami costly vanities of this world. It. may be natural to a girl to wish to have n tine wedding and to plan each detail of costuming for herself anil her bridesmaids, but It Is a wearyIns process for the family who have to attend to all the minutiae of a bis church wedding and reception at the house. It is expensive, the way It is done now. The bride-elect has dttle time or though to bestow upon the stop she is taking in life, llor mlml is occupied Willi her trousseau, wedding presents and I lie vexing question of minor arrangements for the bridal party on the great day. llor dressmaker, milli,ner and tailor till up her hours with appointments, and leave her uo moment for repose or reflection. The bridegroom-elect is anything but ji happy man, with the multiplicity of duties which are thrust upon him. lie is dancing attendance early and late, and yet seems somehow to tie a eipher ju the grand pageant of the fashionable ehureh wedding. If the parents of the brhle give their sanction for a quiet ceremony there is iinuch to he said in favor of a "marriage without Mendelssohn," solemnji'/.od without the eurious eyes (if the (gaping crowd. Witnesses, of course, there must be. but the wedding can be quiet, a ceremony much more welcome to some brides and bridegrooms than {the ostentatious functionsaudcrowded church and house where a big wedding Is "on." A return to simplicity Is a good thing. The great world has but a passing Interest in a private wedding. Why should ail society be culled upon to witness the solemnisation? Whore hieonu'S are small, ami tlie expenses of a large wedding are great, It is certainly more sensible to take the quiet way, to renounce the musical accompaniments, the pageant of tnalds of honor and flower girls, the crowd of guests Invited and uninvited, the amart breakfast, expensive flowers, elaborate toilets, cards and carriages, and with parental consent to essay the experiment which may he called "marriage without Mendelssohn." ? Philadelphia ltecord. Tlu? Ciirn of tho Kj'ru. The beauties of old. Helen of Troy and Cleopatra notably, were famous for the beauty of their eyes, and no doubt they devoted much time to their care. Some beauties ? nowadays, but many a girl who has a pretty eye could enhance its attractiveness by a little care. Long, sweeping eyelashes have been admired by poets and lovers from time immemorial, and there is certainly something very beautiful and seductive iu the long eyelash sweeping down on a velvet cheek. Not only does it add to the expression, but It is a greater safeguard to the eye from dust and dangerous living particles, if a little vaseline or olive oil be put upon the laslies each night the growth will be aided very much. And then about the eyebrow. Kyebrows differ with every individual, but if nature has not been careful to provKlo one with those of perfect form much can be done to nelp matters. The eyebrow should extend slightly below the orifice of the eye at each * end. Toward the temple it should terminate in n mere line, and it should be slightly broader at the other end. Upon the necull.ir arch anil the Ini m!iIi c ' 'i- ? ;. ,oivou much depends. Deiicttie features require a delicate eyebrow, while a face that is strong in character requires a bolder one. Never pull hairs out of the brow, hut rather try. by careful brushing, to train them to grow as you wish. If you will try brushing your eyebrows In different directions you will see just how the hair should grow in order to suit your eye best, and then you should be careful always to brush It the same way. A very little oil 111:1 v l>e used hut be careful not to use It often, or It may make tliein grow bushy. The ('n)mtilo Woman. The capable woman is Just as likely to develop to perfection in the backwoods a< anywhere else. Environment has not very much to do with producing her. Like the poet she Is born and not made. There Is no college or other institution of learning which cm turn her out to order. * ? The capable woman knows just the right thing to do in any emergency which may confront her. and she does it. She has confidence in herself. She does not think it necessary to run among her friends and ask everybody's advice before she does as she has a mind to do. She doc: n't rend l'or the doctor every , | ^ tin.' . an ache or bad feeling MW t 8be doesn't get frightened orery time llbe hears a noise she cannot account tor. She and linds out what the nolpe originated from. She does not throw cold water on her family. She encourages effort, she assists ever;.enterprise with her well-balanced strength, and she inspires all those who come within her influence. She knows how to do things. If the house should catch lire she would try her best to put out the flames hefore she rushed into the street, and so give the lire a chance to develop strength and destructiveness. If anybody In her vicinity should break a limb or cut an artery she wouldn't scream or faint away, but she would render such assistance as lay hi her power until medical aid could bo procured.?Table Talk. Wet-Weather Costumes. Rainy-weather gowns now require a good deal of attention, although there has never been a season for years when women invested in mackintoshes to the extent they have this season. I probably because the in nek In toshes arc j smarter garments than they were, being made on the lines of the long coats. Some women never wear a mackintosh, and prefer instend to have it i-usiuiiH' inicuueii solely Tor liaU wont her. A good model for such n gown as this is made of the rough cheviot, and has a close-fitting skirt with an attached flounce short enough to clear the ground. The waist is in blouse shape, with two wide pleats, and a very narrow waistcoat of white cloth or. hotter still, red cloth, with small gold buttons. This waist is really a jacket, and is intended to be worn over the dress waist. The hat Is of the same material as the gown, with long stiff feather that canuot be injured by wind or weather. The long cloaks tire most graceful this season, and much fuller than they were. They all lit well over the shoulders, hut have considerable flare, and there is always some trimming around the shoulders, either n capuchin hood or two or three capes that cover the shoulders well In front the cloak is fastened at the throat, generally with some pretty clasp, and there are rovers of velvet or fur and a turned-down collar of the same material.?Harper's Bazar. \ Iii-Aiity a nil the Profit. It Is the correct thing to be sensible this winter. Stout-soled shoes and i garments suited to the climate's ticklei ness were never so fashlouublo. * * i Clrls who are proud of their health | are buying heavy stockings and for [ very cold and hlustcr.v weather woolen loggings that reach to their ldps Common-sense and red cheeks and lips are running mates as never before. o No woman who has sense washes her face, neck or wrists just before going out into the frosty air. To do so ruins the skin. ? * If you want to wrinkle your fate prematurely, empurple your Hps, miden your nose and make your eyes j "bleary" hug the register. ? Never take a full bath before going out. Never "sponge off" before going to any function when the temperature Is at zero. Health and beauty protest alike. Ilpfore entering the cold air rub the lips of the ears, nose, chin, chocks and hps with a little glycerine, rose water and alcohol; dust with talcum, and VOitr hSltlo is hnlf f7?nr?lit \\\?.?i- .. blno, brown, or green veil on very bitter days. t'nreful drying of the hands and face will save tnnch suffering for nil classes. Don't bite the lips or ilie.v will crack. . A Woman a* Knfflncpr. Of Miss Nevada Stout, of Dycrvllle, Ohio, who lias received ji license to run a stationary engine, the district examiner states that she answered correctly twenty-four of the twentylive questions asked, wldeh is better than the average male engineer does lie says: "1 never was more surprised in my life than when I entered the engine room of the mill where this young woman is employed, for she is i barely eighteen. The ninehhtery was as elean as a new pin; there wasn't a speck of rust on It. and she was shovelling coal into the furnace and looking after the fifty horse power engine In a way that indicated that she thoroughly understood her business. She was the only person about the mil!, end vet the nlnnt wnu mtinlno ly. aiul her employers lia<l loft her in charge, apparently, with every eonildence that she was fully competent and responsible. ? - 1' Choice of Jewelry, Every well-dressed woiran now makes quite e study of suitable Jewelry to wear with certain pown . There is so much color tit the dainty neck chains, safety pin brooches, etc.. that lay require careful selecting. If the brown-eyed woman wears amber or pink coral, let all the Items of jewelry correspond: the sante with the blueeyed woman who deepens the color of her eyes with blue stones. But do not wear an amber chain with a turquoise brooch or n blue ncckclinln with a pink bangle, ete. Keep t?> tbe color of one stone, even to the tiny pins that secure the loco jabot tit your throat. Pink coral Is extremely fashionable just now as well as expensive. In the language of precious stones it is supposed to guard against danger and evil. Strings of coral will be much worn as watch and lorgnette chains. J * riSHmLTI A lint; Ilangor. An Ohio farmer writer sketches nn arrangement for hanging hogs wheu scalding, etc. It is made by talcing n largo polo about llfty foot long for lever aud another about sixteen feet long for post. Set this post four fe??< in the ground and have a clevis-shaped iron (A) to support the lever on the post This clevis is about one foot long and as wide as the post after squaring, with a crosspiece welded on near the middle of the bottom or round part. A thrce-quarter-lnch hole If AN ABB AN Q i'.MHNT FOB IIANGINO TT0G.3. mado through the bottom of the clevis and the centre of crossniece. through which an Iron pin Is run nml driven into the top of the post, so ns to permit the clevis to revolve on the post. Make a live-eight hs-inch-hole in the long pole or lever about twelve feet from the large end. liaise lover tip ar.d hang in clevis. Attach a strong chain to large end, ami have the scalding vat directly beneath this chain. Set a bench or a i Intform heshle the vat, t<? scrape hog on, ami next to this platform erect a post with four crosspieces on top to hang hogs on. Fasten a small rope to small < ml of lever to ' pull it down with when lifting the hog in and out of scalding receptacle on bouch and to hanging post. Stir tho Soli. At a recent Farmers' Institute in Maine, Professor <1. M. Cowell, of the University of Maine, began by saying that tlie general opinion had gone abroad that the soil of the State of Maine was uot fertile or productive, but tho chemist bad proved that this was not the ease by analysis of the soil from various average Maine farms, and in every case it had been found to contain enough of the essential plant foods to product? maximum crops for an almost unlimited number of years; the reason why good crops were not produced lay in the fact that these ingredients were in such composition that while the chemist could ? ^ ii i m" pin Hi was unable to ?li> so; tlio fanner must, therefore, till tlu? soil In such a manner that these plant foods would he available to the plant; this must be done by turning the sell and allowing the air to circulate freely through it. The same thing might lie said of many of the worn oui farms elsewhere in New Knglund, but in many there is need for returning to the soil a supply of organic mutter, which was abundant when the land was newly cleared. This, by Its decay in the soil, not only adds fertility, hut makes it more porous that air may penetrate Into it, and helps to make available the mineral elements in it. Where the farm is remote from large cities and not much stock is kept, the easiest and cheapest way to obtain the organic matter is to grow green crops to plow under. For this purpose clover stands at the head, where it will grow, hat peas, buckwheat, rye and other green crops may be used. Fiitt-t'liuitnil Trees. Where one can oversee the digging and transplanting of frui: trees in the fall there is Ic- * likelihood of their being set bark by the change. It is a crying shame in many parts of the country to see the utter indifference nrltl. ...I.I ? -- ...... .. nu n nurs ryi.ioa take up trees sold to farmers and ship them to their destination in a condition that will cause total or partial failure. The only way to make them more careful is to have inserted in the purchasing contracts a clause requiring the nurseryman to make good any trees that die from exposure of roots or poot packing when shipped. There are plenty v%*ho will tell you tint t it does not hurt young trees to be dug up in the late fall, ami even if the roots are disturbed it matters little. That sort of ?:-li: ha Just a little grain of truth in it. It dm s not linrt the young trees to he disturbed nearly ns ntucli as it does old ones; nor docs it hurt them so much in late fall when the roots are frozen; but hurt them it does, and it will put any tree back from one to two seasons. xou ran transplant a large, fnU growing tree without. checking Its development In on.- way only, ::n?l that is l?y digging up an cnonnous hall if frozen earth with the roots. Tho hi-.; anil small roots must not bo disturbed, and tho bail of eifth must l?e kept closely clinging to them. If this Is done with great care gigantic eltns. <oks ami maples ran be transplanted without musing them any apparent io.jury. A knowledge of this should help us in tir? matter of transplanting ; fruit trees. We should follow exactly tho saute directions. I have time ami again transplanted young trees from the nursery in this way, and they have absolutely not lost a month'* growth. Alongside of them I have planted other stock that has been shipped in the ordinary way, where tho roots had been disturbed, although there was an apology for a ball of earth wrapped around them. The. comparative results In the growth were such as to convince me that there is only one true and successful way to transplant young and old trees. Dig them UD In tha fall of tha vear wbeo | the grottnd is solid. and leave a ball to their roots equal in diameter to their longest roots. If removed carefully with tills ball of earth unbroken, and planted immediately, they will lose nothing In their next season's growth* ?S. W. Chambers, in American Cultivator. Walk* and Driven Through Lavnn. Walks and subsidiary drives must lie provided where people want to walk or where they expect to drive. Neither is artistic in Itself. livery foot^of walk or drive is a trouble, au expense and usually a* distinct detraction froui the artistic beauty of the place. They should, then, lie designed to fit the actual demands of tratiie about the place. The most practicable thing is often to await the most explicit call for a walk. When a path begins to appear through the grass, the need of a walk is manifest and its general direction pretty accurately indicated. Gentle curves are better tlmn straight lines for walks, except upon small places or in a geometrical plan. 1 ? -... ov i.un>i> ijiusi in- ueiermiueu oy tlu? exorcise of good tnstr and judg 1110nt, on the ground. A design ninth* oil paper is apt to Ik- vory unsatisfactory when transferred to tlio soil, nn loss it is made by an experienced hand from an accurate topographical survey. Even then it may not lit. Curves made up of ares of oireles are not very sr.lisfaetory. unless the arcs are comparatively short and judiciously combined. if a road is properly made, only a very short are -will be visible from any point; and this enables the designer when working -on the ground Divnnoixa drives. A. Correct. 15. Wrong. to innke many curves and conibinalions of curves which would be decidedly mipleusiug if ueeurately platted on a ma}>. When u walk or drive branches, each arm should take such a course as to appear to be the proper continuation of the trunk. Imagine how one arm would look with the other removed. Would it still be complete? Would the whole seem to be the perfectly natural course for the walk? Such bifurcations should not be at too obtuse 1111 angle; and yet this angle of divergence is of ciuite minor iiimnpunim \t foregoing consideration Is kept fully j in ml nil. The right anil the faulty | way of laying out branching walks is | dearly shown in the accompanying | diagram.?F. A. Waugli, in American j Agriculturist. 1'ccillnK lions In 'Winter. It is so easy, comparatively, to have. J hens lay in winter, ttiat it is an inexcusable waste and had management not to have them lay. To have plenty ot fresh eggs upon our own table is a j consideration ilint is worthy of all the effort that is required to stimulate the liens to lay; hut the protit on the eggs we may have to sell in winter is far greater than the profit we derive from anything else that is produced on tin farm. It is unnecessary to say anything about warmth in this connection, for we all know that without warmth, we cannot "get eggs. It is i equally unnecessary to mention the necessity of exercise or to mention the fact that plenty of litter with grain scattered through it is the proper means for inducing liens to exercise. Sonic other features of the business, however, may profitably receive notice. If we expect the highest success in winter egg production, wo nnmt f..o.i .? variety. When the thermometer Is low, we should feed plenty of whole corn at night. Warm water twice n day. in cold weather, is very beneficial. In very cold or stormy weather the fowls should ho kept Indoors. The practice of feeding corn all the time? which Is common on the farm?Is unwise. Corn Is not an egg producer. It is a fat former, and for the production of eggs, nitrogenous foods are used. Wheat is a splendid food of tli's character, and It may be fed from January to December, with excellent icsults, a statement that cannot be made as to corn. Especially Is much corn harmful to the large, comparatively inactive breeds. The small breeds, whleli are always active, can manage a steady corn diet better. It must always be remembered that a confined hen cannot he fed large quantities of corn as safely as can one that is on the range. Yarded fowls can be kept successfully the entire year without a grain of corn, although as already said, corn at night in cold weal her is excellent feed. The yolk of the egg of the yarded fowls is not is yellow as that of the eggs of tha fowls that are on the range. The r.ason of this, is the lack of green .cull iiihj coloring matter. Yellow corn will give the higher eolor, but it Is :; >t advisable i<> feeil It in sutlleicnt <iuantities 1 o accomplish the purpose t-specially as the average oonsunjer will i>? satisfied with n lighter colored yolk, if the egg is fresh. In the construction of houses, it may be said In this connection, provision should be made for the admission of plenty of sunshine in winter.?Horatio Wood, in Agricultural Epltomist. Kxrosilvc Duelling flour*. At Venice this week there was a duel with swords between two noncommissioned otlicers of the engineers. There were no less than twenty-seven assaults, with short intervals between thein. and the duel lasted nine hours. Finally one of the sergeants was wounded in the face.?Belgian Star. I S33d R33ds f23i3s I w j| I Wliat Mnnt>arliUfirtlN Khs IIccti Doing. Pit. T. C. MENDEXHALL. President of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a member of the' Mnssncliu-1 setts Highway Commission, recently delivered an undress before the Automobile Club of America on the policy now pursued by the Old lday State in regard to roads, lie said that for the last six or eight years Massachusetts had spent more money than any other State in the Union on her roads. For this new system the people were indebted largely to the wheelmen of the State. The bicycle had thus done a public service. The topography of Massachusetts is different from that of New York and New Jersey, and the supply of material is not the same. The general plan that is now being followed is to construct in the host possible manner a complete system of roads throughout the Commonwealth. This does not moan the reconstruction of all existing roails. Only about ten per cent, of the roads are to be rebuilt. This is about the same percentage as is maintained l?y the National Government in France. Not counting city streets, Massachusetts lias about twenty thousand miles of roads. Ilenco only two thousand miles will be included in the new scheme. These, | however, will be judiciously distributed over the State, so that there will scarcely be a farm or corner of the State which will not be within two or three or four, or. at most, live miles of this great system of State highways. It is expected that the local roads connecting these more remote localities with the great system will be improved, and. in fact, many of lliem have already be n improved and eon| neeied with the uuiin system by the local people. Thus far nearly throe hundred miles of road have been built, at an average I cost slightly exceeding ?lo.0oo a mile, j Hut this will probably be reduced a j trille ere long. An nnuual appropriation of J?r>tM),OOrt enables the Commission to builil about tlfty miles a year. Dr. Mcmlcnhnll said that if .<1,0<>0,000 was asked for the Legislature would probably give it. but tlie Commission j was satisfied with less. It should be | remarked that, although the counties repay one-fourth of the cost, the money is provided at first by the State, and spent tinder the direction of the State Commissioners, who nre three in number. The work Is done in such a way that the roads will he as good twenty, thirty and forty years lienee as to ....... ..... .... .. iiui in nun a au|t plied by tIk* address: Wo build our roads mainly of maoadam. Wo have built six or eight miles of gravel out of 270 or 27.r?, the total mileage up to this time. We have not yot found?although we would l>e glad to do so?a gravel road to be a very satisfactory road, especially where tliero Is considerable traffic. Whore the traffic Is small it seemed to do well, | but wo have found that it costs ricar1 v as much to build a gravel road as i it docs To build a"'stono road. When | you spend as much money as you must I In grinding and drainage and culverts I and all of the things that must go with I the rond except the more surface, then you do not gain so muoli by simply usI lug gravol instead of broken stone, and, | as broken stone is so much more lasting and bettor in every way than gravol, we have mostly used it. Our roads are macadamized fifteen feet wide, with an extension of three feet on each side, making a travelablo way of twenty-one feet. We limit the p.Min w? win lliillM l<? 11 W JILT I.TIIf. ; wo occasionally, however, have to raise it to six or six and a half where our hills are so Ion;; and steep that it would he extremely costly to reduce them to a live per cent, grade. We pay great attention to the removal of water, which is the great curse of the public road, as everybody knows, doing a great deal of drainage, side drainage, using telfovd ft great deal and putting down drain pipes on both sides; in fact, about half of the $10,000 per mile that. 1 speak of is under ground In our roads; half of ;t is not visible, so that the surface part which people mostly see. and which they only see. represents about $.~tH)0 or $(5000 of tin? total $10,000 which Is spent. We put more stone upon our roads than Is the practice of some other States. Our standard road is six to eight Inches of stone after it is rolled. We put the stone down In three different sizes, in three layers, which is a practice much condemned by some road builders, but highly approved of l?y us after considerable experience in both systems, and each course is rolled very thoroughly by a ten-ton or twelvc| ton roller as it is put down, so iu the end wo have a solid pack of six or eight Inches In thickness, and, If necessary, with telford six or eight inches underneath. Our masonry work In bridges and culverts is as good as can he made. Our system is expensive l?ecause we purposely make it so. We tlnd it Is not wise for the State of Massachusetts to build roads that will have to he repaired a very great deal within a few years. /y To Better Life on tlio Farm* Rural free delivery and good roads are twin improvements which will do more than anything else to relieve life on the farm, especially In the West, of many of Its social drawbacks.?Minneapolis Tribune. The baker sends in Lis bill when Db needs the dough i J 1-/^4 :V r " I SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Centra! Time at Jacksonville an<l Savannah Eastern Time at Other Points. Schedule in Effect Jan. 27th. 190J. NoitTiinor.Ni>. jf[0-fL>?o.SV>;o.3J |Daily;Daily ex tau Lt. Jacksonville > i- j). 5Ste 745plJ2op - savannah 1 So. Ky .) UAip 12 t?,a. 430? " Hamwwi 4 2.ip 104a! " Hluekvule I lJii>( i 28a ?13p Ar. Columbia ...I *il5p 0 10a' l'4ip Lv. Chart*.ston, itio. ICy . ..". T?Ca iVUUpl 5lVp " SuiumorviUe 7 11a 12QUut| OOop " Branchvlllo H ?ja 2UUal 7 3in? " Orangeburg 9 23a 2 45a! 7 Up " Kingvillu 10 13a 4 2Ja, ?4.-p w. Columbin .. 11 ooa 5 55a t?nip Lv. Augusta, pso. Wv.) o?x>p "tiuuit ti jop Lv. Ornnituvillu 3:>3plul5p Lv. Aiken H lftp 7 lip Lv. "1 ronton lutp noOp ' Johnston .. 4 17p 11 JOp Ar. Columbia, (L. D.) 5 56p 2 loa Lv. 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Daily oxoopt Sunilav, I'ompowtl exolu-' si vcly of Pullman tlnost Drawing K00111 Hhs-pIng. Compartment and Obsorvutory Curs botw 10:1 Now York, Columl in unci St. Augustine. Pullman stooping oars between Augusta and Aik?*n and Now York, runs from Augnstu to Columbia via lilu.k villa. Purlor cars between Charleston unci C ilumbia. No*. 8.1 anil 84?Now York and Florida Exl>r< ss Drawing-room Rloeplnx cars between Augusta and Now York. Pullman druwingroom Meopiug oars between Por? Tampa, JaekBonvllle. Savannah Washington and Vow York. Pullman sleeping? cars betwoon Charlotte and ikii-uiutiuu. umiiig card uuiwcoa Oliarlutto iuu'. Savannah. Nos. Hi unci .'Ml?I". S. Fust Mail. Through Pullman drawing-room bufTot sleeping oars bt?Iwci'E Jacksonville and Now York and Pullman sleeping oars lwMweon Augusta oiidOknrlotto. Dining oars servo all inouls enrouta. Pullman sleeping ears botwesm Jacksonville! and Columbia, onrouto dailv between Jacksonville and Cincinnati, via As'ioviUe. FKANK d. GANNON, e>. H. H AKDW10K, Third V-P. <St Hon. Mgr., Hen. Pas. Agt., Washington, 1>. C. Washington, D. C. W. n. TAI.OK, H. W. HUNT, A?'t lien. Pass. Ag't., l)iv. Pass. Ag't., Atlanta. lJu. Charleston, M. O. TUK DAIKY COW. Professor \V. J. Spillman, of tt.e Washington Agricultural experiment Station, recently talked on "The Dairy Cow and ller Food." Professor Spllltnnn lias given iuucli study to the points whieh indiente a good dairy cow and is acquiring a reputation as tin accurate judge. lie said if he were picking the good dairy cows out of a, herd he would see lirst how luuch eaebi cow can cat. The profitable cow must be a big eater. Don't take the cow with a pinched nose, because that Indicates a delicate constitution. The cows selected should have :larin<r nostrils, big mouths and strong Jaws. If tlio cow is a big cat or and t. gooC milch cow slic will have a great afr domlnal capacity- be deep throrgh til*, body, wide also. A long body is in1 dicative of stamina. The next thing f> tind out is whether the cow makes moat or milk of what she eats. If she has been giving milk three for four months, the dairy eow will bo thin and angular, no matter how well) she ha* heen fed, but if she lias been, well fed and is not sick she will loox healthy and vigorous. Among I lie moat imnortft'lt tions of agin idcow" ir.ill j secreting organs. First lock at ?ie ' milk veins. These ilo not convey milk t<? tin' u<Mei\ but carry awuy from the udder blood from "\vliich tlu milk has jl been made. As a large amount of tiiilk I cannot be made in the udder without a large How of hloou, large-veins 9how a large secretion of milk. If a eow is really a lilie dairy cow the veins <>11 the udder also staud oul I prominently. I The udder should not hong down very low, but should be Irtrge and extended well forward and bnck in the I form of a semi-elrele.--Oregon 1 AgriI eulturist. ' A Sketch of General Oelarey. ? I Michael Davitt, in a latter to the Ouhliu Freeman's Journal, gives the following sketch of the Boer general, Del.iroy. The general in about five feet nine Inches in height. ?nd well, but not stoutly, built. He has (lark hair, black eyebrows, and dark, deep, I dreamy brown eyes, strong Homan nose, and full, darkish beard. His face is very handsome a id noble-looking and impresses you as being tho true index of a kindly and lovable nature. He Is of a (iM^SHbc .itlon, rnd talks very lit tlorn W tod in his saddle *4 looks Jn IdeiUU natural ool1 I An African who b*4. r?lted leacrlhed ?oow M "r* A mv?