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v | Dh V X ?? ^ H Rented Hair. There is a new powder, straight from M Paris, made f<?r scenting the hair. 11 is nothing mofe nor less than a tinelj powdered sacjbet, and comer in tints f to match an? shade of lia r. It is dusted into fhe pompadour and ovci f the bun by means of a powder puff ana luipartyto tne tresses tne iamiesi attl mosy fascinating odor irnagin Scented tresses are as much the fash Ion to-day as they were in the tim( of our grandmothers. Spraying then: with ordinary perfume is not effective but sacbeting them leaves a lasting and delicate odor. * ? i A Sensible Fad, Perhaps it is because her attentior has been directed to the thrifty, in dustrious Dutch maiden that the New York smart girl adopted for her v.erj own such a sensible fad as sewing For some years past the fasbionabh girl has never been able to find anj time for sewing. Now she has sud denly acquired a fondness for making pretty things with her needle?daintj chemisettes, frilly undersleeves and sheer turn-over collars and cuffs, tc say nothing of transforming plait ^ pockethandkerchiefs into things ol v beauty. Her sewing afternoon is now as much the fashion as an afternoor tea. Many times prizes are given foi the most original bit of hand-work such as a novel stock or something new iu the way of a chemisette. And mau^ h%xIM#ll9k yij ?uu was ujwi ruiuusiaouv over her swing fad served individual Ices at her sewing afternoon in th< form of work-bags and very big thini blesl?Woman's Home Companion. Fans and Olom. A new wrinkle in gloves is that the long suede mosquetaires may mutch the tint of the frock exactly. More ' white than colored gloves ere worn, however, and more white slippers than tinted ones. But to match a faintly colored gown slippers sometimes hare the toe trimmed in color, with white lace or embroideries setting off the bow or rosette. All evening slippers are wonderfully fussy, and everything Is seen upon them, from a geuuine diamond buckle to a little vreatli ot pink rosebuds. Fans, be it said, to the shame of the makers of modes, are dally growing bigger. Some of the radiant Louis sort, with their superb paintings, are still small enough not to lose in loveliness; but <be fan of the moraept is njb-ostrtcb father affair, made in a set ~s*^Orm~or to open and close. It is rather i clumsy for small women, though the renus of fashion will carry one off superbly.?Philadelphia Inquirer. " Styles In Buckle*. In plain flat gold a buckle of colonial shape with two prongs was set off -"V st the corners by marquis stones in American Beauty red. Another in silver showed sapphires at the corners to match the royal blue belt, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. Children's heads in sllve- are employed as clasps and are marvels of the silversmith's art. In one. the fea, tares of a little girl smiling through ; grandmother's spectacles, peered from ?3 tae' depths 'of a poke bonnet. Another showed a roguish baby's face with - tousled hair. * . A jewe^pd buckle will transform an otherwise simple dress. Peaco<*ks have ^heir bodies studded with rbine tooes and the fan-shaped tails picked 'j- out by rh^nestones and emeralds. Crab > "/ or centiped?jM|Mgpre most effective. Each of thei^nanylegs is a line of rbinestones and the bodies are closely """"vjtudded with glittering brilliants. * The horsewoman can have her gold ibockle a combination of horseshoe and Jtaails, and the girl who has a fancy Ac'or her monogram on all her possespygioas can have an odd though smart ^jnckle showing her initials in Chinese jg |characters. The Oevu of Liberty Satin. negligee eneets are oeconnng exceedingly popular this season and the idea is prevalent In many of the evening gowns and party frocks. Tea gowns are, of course, sort of negligees in themselves, but one which is the acme of fashion and displayed recently is of pink liberty satin, shirred several times at the waist as a substitute for the popular girdle. The skirt, which is long and graceful, is inserted with deep ecru lace thrice from hem to belt, and around the bottom is employed handsome lace ecru, making a most elaborate conception of the skirt. The waist is made with the "Dutch" neck and hag for a yoke the plain satin, shaped and fitted siroothlv across the shoulders. The lace then forms a sort of droop shoulder effect below this, and runs across the sleeves, which are puffed with a tightly-fitted cuff. The material is then shirred onto this lace. A pretty novelty which has been but lately introduced is a leaf-shaped affair of shirred lace, which is attached at the collar and falls below the waist line. It gives a finish to a gown and is especially adapted to this one in particular.?Newark Advertiser. Bright Red CoaU<No? Wont. For young girls bright red coats are extremely fetching, and a model which hails from London is now being worn by the heiress of a well-known New VnrL- fnmilr If i? a hrilii?nt srnrlpt cot in sack shape showing the inver. ness cape with a modification?that is, the cape comes over the shoulder and sleeves only, and not in front. It is face4 with black cloth and has a stand-op military collar lined with the I . same. The sides of the cape and the k cuffs are set off by gold buttons, which \ are also med for fastening the doublem breasted^oat itself. The sleeves arc m gathered foil into black broadcloth | cuffs. Except in-very stormy weather this coat is turned above the bust line min the form of revers. and the contrast Jfretween the Wa^kand red is extremely Another novel coat is built of tani colored kersey, trimmed with etubroid> ery and braid, showing the popular brown shades mixed with gold. This j is built on long, loose sacque lines, i the back showing a broad double box pleat, from either side of which the , belt springs, while the front has int verted pleats running from shoulder . to hem. The garment has double sleeves, a tight-fitting undersleeve . with a heavily embroidered bell-shaped > cuff and the large angel sleeves which i fall over these are fastened on with ; a yoke empiecemeut over the shoulj ders. Their outside seam gives the effect of an inverted pleat. The braid and embroidery which run around the neck and down the front are set off , on either side by gold bullet-shaped buttons and the belt has a gold buckle r to match. Garment For Fashionable Woman. What might be termed a cape with ; sleeves is a garment which just now finds high favor with the middle-aged woman, because it can be worn over the high-sleeved blouse without iifc jurious effect on the undergarment/ 1 The wrap proper is pleated into a col lar-shaped neckpiece, which is com; 1 pletely hidden under embroideries. The sleeve and the coat being cut in one, the garment hangs in full folds | straight from the shoulder to a point well below the knee. Between each of the dart-shaped pleats are inserted ' embroidered motifs to match those ^ employed on the collar aud shaped neckpiece. The sleeves are gathered 1 into a large flat band of the embroid ery and the yoke effect is enhanced by the use of ribbon rosettes with long ends finished off with silk tassels. This model developed in hunter's green cloth, with gold and tan embroidery ! and tan-colored ribbons, was most ef1 feetive. Where the two-piece suit is used the ' long fur stole is employed to reduce J the tailored effect. As the season advances womcu seem to add more and more tails to these long stoles, and they now sweep the hem of the dress. Particularly with fox and sables, rows | of tails am set on at regular intervals until the front of the garment looks ; like a shower of fur pieces. Muffs go to extreme. They are either very flat, suggesting a great envelope, or they are very tkiy, the latter being built from rare lace combined with tinv fur tails and flowers. There Is no question regarding the revival of seal for next year, and wise virgins in the matter of fashions are jpicklng'up sealskin wraps included in the reduced garments, with the view of using them next year, if not to wear them this season. A wonderful importation from a London house shows a long ulster-like coat of seal, with immense shawl collar or sable. It is said that another combination which will be extremely popular is one that was common years ago, that of seal and beaver.?Newark Advertiser. Wonen as Rifle Experts. Ride shooting at a standard range promises to become a popular rfport among the fashionable women of Philadelphia, due to the example set by Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel during her recent visit She brought the idea from England, and it bears the stamp of royal approval. Society has therefore taken kindly to the sport, and dealers in firearms are being overwhelmed with inquiries regarding weights and kinds of rifles suitable for women. The secret of Mrs. Drexel's devotion to the sport of rifle shooting did not leak out until just after her departure, together with her husband and Lord vane xempesi. upon tut- reiuru m Mrs. Drexel and Lord Tempest from an extended tour of the West, a valet . was frequently seen about the hotel carrying three rifle cases, one of which was much smaller than the others. It was known that the rifle carrier was Mr. Drexel's valet, but nothing was definitely known of what was going on unjil Mrs. Norman Whitehouse, of New Tork, happened to send a long gossipy letter to a friend in this city in wliich she told of the fhterest she and Mrs. Drexel are taking in range shooting and how carefully they compare scores daily and the benefit they feel as a result of the outdoor exercise. It appears that Mrs. Drexel, while here, was coached on the sport by Lord Tempest. Each afternoon during her stay here Mrs. Drexel would journey with her husbaigl and Lord Tempest to the First Regiment range, near Essington, and before leaving she liad scored several bull's eyes; knew what the scorer meant by a "4 o'clock breeze." and had learned to manipulate the sights without jamming her shapely fingers. Meanwhile Mrs. Whitehouse was practicing at a ifange near Creedmoor. and the two society leaders exchanged daily letters telling of their successes. Mrs. Drexel tried every range from 100 to 1000 yards. Towards the last Mrs. Drexel induced several of her more intimate women friends to go to the range with her and try their luck, and thus the practice has been given a great impetus. .Tust before sailing from New York Mrs. Drexel and Mrs. Whitehouse were warmly congratulated upon their skill by Lord Tempest at a dinner party, and arrangements were suggested which will probably result in the formation of a shooting club made up of fashionable women of Philadelphia and New York.?Phila' delphia IjiQuirer. Rftr Strenavua Hoar. An irate woman made tilings warm i for some men working for the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg and Aurora Truc! tion Company Monday. Mrs. Brum lage operates a hotel at Stop No. 9. i The officers of the road decided to . move the little platform from Mrs. i Brumlage's place to Maley. Thompson i & Moffet's sawmill, about 200 feet west. When the workmen appeared . the woman seized one of the picks and ; chased the entire gang away. Under cover of nigh'/^the station was removed.?Cincinnati Enquirer; J r Y SOUTHERN * I G? ft. TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLAN) K i:?rlr Irish r?(ators. For tho early crop, we selpct. If possible. a lipht, sandy loam that will not produce less than a bale of cotton to the acre. We like to have it turned in i early winter with a two-horse plow . # ti *?.. / ? A../1 tiff n.a I aim ionow in iui- luuun mivi mi iutt ; subsoil with n subsoil plow or a four; inch scooter 011 a single plow. I'y i doing this wo are able to hold the wiiv| tor rains as our potatoes suffer almost | every year by drought when not irri! ?af*l. At planting time we run a cutaway harrow over the land to thoroughly pulverize, and lay off rows with a sho! vol plow, three feet apart and four ? I five inches deep. For fertilizers we use the following: Acid phosphate 1-1 per cent.. .1000 lbs. Cottonseed meal (XX) lbs. Nitrate of soda 200 lbs. Muriate of potash 200 lbs. Use 1000 to 1500 pounds per acre hefore planting, thoroughly mixing in the furrow with a scooter plow or a cultivator set close. Mix thoroughly. This is important, as most eases of burning or injury to the seed can be attributed, I not so much to the amount of fertiliser used as to lack of thorough mixing. |\ If the land is lacking in humus (vog etnble matter), and was not in cowpeas the previous summer, we sometimes give the land a fair dressing of stable ( manure (fifteen two-horse loads per acre), which we thoroughly cut away into the top soil before breaking, which tends to pulverize aii lumps, and the soil more thoroughly pulverized than breaking. If the soil Is fairly well supplied with humus we would rather dispense with the stable manure, as it tends to encourage the scab fungus. Do not use cottonseed, a- they do not become available soon enough for the potatoes. By getting healthy, plump seed; free from scab, we have had so little of this disease as to not pay to treat them. Cut seed pieces to two eyes, and drop twelve inches apart in rows. Cover with two furrows, leaving a slight fridge orer the rows. When the seeds are sprouted and nearly out run a smoothing harrow erossways over the rows, which will all but level down the ridge. As the plants are showing along the rows go cover them with the weedcr. taking two rows at a time. The after-cultivation thou Id be often, but shallow, using a ciilflvater with Vnroi- o siruet iVirin thus retl onrcjic. ?t4 u V4 serving all moisture possible. We plant last week in February, up to the middle of March, aud begin digging by the time they are the size of good sized hen eggs. (In the absence of a potato digger we run a shovel plow under the row. which gets them about all out. We have had no experience in shipping, as we raise entirely for our home niaiket. For the Colorado potato beetle, which every one has learned to dread, we use Paris green and slacked lime, two pounds of the green to one bushel of lime, mixing thoroughly. We find a dry powder duster very good for putting this on. and if done early in the morning, when the leaves are damp Bticks well and is effective. For the grower who has but a small area, tlie dust can be put on by placing it in a coarse woven gunny sack and shake over the row. which can be done almost as fast as you can walk. Hand picking is probably the safest plan for the home garden.?Mark Iiicgcl, Spalding County, Georgia. On* riinttr'i Experience. Now that it is almost a certainly that we are to reduce the acreage and fertilizers of this year's cotton crop, in fact we are compelled to do it. or become absolute slaves to the cotton gamblers, aud become too poor to skin, with our carcases petrified In poverty. *our children servants to the moneychangers and speculators who manipulate the nrtre of our cotton, the finest money and commercial crop grown In the world, to the enrichment of all but the South?now as a prudent people we must bide ourselves, let the fools go on and be destroyed. Why should we ask, "How are we to hide ourselves in this land where everything can be produced that furnishes food and raiment for man and benstV" Not a single atom that adds to our life, pleasure, comfort or happiness but can be produced in this Southland. Last July when that grand man and lamented friend and brother of Southern agricultursts, J. B. Hunnicutt, a man who lias done more in one year for Southern farmers than the State Agricultural College has done in forty, was visiting me, 1 promised to give the Cultivator the result of two special acres ou my farm, one in coru, the Oiucr 111 sugar cane. I Wbeu the com was good ripe it war cut with a harvester, shocked 600 stalks to the shock. It stood about eighty days in the shocks during summer and early fall, and when dry and hulled weighed 12,lr> Choate. When Ambassador Choate was lead27 of the New York bar many a fledgeling lawyer had a fling at him. There was scarcely an attorney who was not ifraid of him in open court, but elsewhere an occasional display of courigo and impudence would be made. One day in the Lawyers' club a budling pundit, now a highly successful practitioner, observing Mr. Choate at a neighboring table, asked in a voice meant for others to hear: "Ah, couns^W*, why was your luncheon so r?imentary?" "Perh?n? vM can exDlain." said the legal light, 'Becauso^^s in Choate," was the "Y'w Ay- upon my name," returned Choate, <^^^ng out the words with keen emphasis^painfully exposes the profoundness of your ignorance. The iuncheon, sir may be in Choate, but vour right to address me is IN-ko-afe." There was a general laugh as the offender departed with a bad c^se oi *iy grins. K%\ .. .... i r.. A L, " 7 'ARM f/OTES. ?<1 : > TER, STUCK MAN AND TRUCK GROWER. ?JL GOO pounds, then shredded with the following result: Net corn on coos 0300 lbs. Net stover GUOO lbs. The acre produced bread enough to feed a man and wife twelve months, and corn and stover sufficient tn^feed two niulps twelve months. Now let some people say what they may about shredding corn. It is the, most profitable of all work done on my farm. The acre in sugar-cane did not do so well as I expected?100 gallons per acre being the average. I made it heavy, just up to sugaring, and have ,\.r.o trouldc in selling it by the barrel at fifty cents; in gallon jugs. sixly-five cents; in quart bottle, seventy-five cents, and can easily exchange a barrel of cane syrup for a baircl of granulated sugar. It f-avi me to make mv own supplies. ""heat, corn, syrup, hops, horses, mules and caitle. with no niore stock of any kind than I can feed from the products of my farm. After th:sc I prow cotton as a money crop. Witbdlie exception of about fifteen acres o^ottom land mine is an upland farii^^the highest point from Atlanta to .figustn. on a direct line. In farming I agree with the old adage, "Variety Is the spice of life."? W:n. L. Teek, Fountain Hill. nearConyers, (Ja.. in the Southern Cultivator. ~ "" ?2 Fertilizing Peach Treei. The peach Is somewhat sensitive to overfeeding with nitrogen or anunouiatc manures. Trees grown near barnyn<ls sloot out very vigorously at first, but the tissues seem to degenerate rapidly, forming gum pockets and exuding largo quantities of gum. The trees have been observed by pencil men to suffer from winter killing, and in extreme cases are often killed outright. An application of nitrate of soda at the rate of fiOO pounds per acre in one case noted by the Department of Agriculture retarded the ripening time of peaches two weeks, reaches regularly ripen on the poor knolls and hilltops earlier than in adjacent valleys or pockets, a'fc-\v feet away, where seepage nitrogen affects them. The latter are also more subject to certain fungi. The proximity of an old stabie was in one case the cause of the fruit being belated, and while the trees and fruit were larger the latter was inferior in color and quality. In a series of testa the fruit on tin? trees moderately suppled with nitrogen was brighter in color, sweeter and finer in texture, and only slightly smaller. In fact the peach is healthiest and yields the best fruit in soils which for most other crops would be considered deficient in nitrogen. Csbbar* rau. trt?o nf calihstirc tier acre A II I I I J \J kiV IVUO V? v.?*rW?0w removes from the soil 150 pounds of nitrogen, 3130 pounds of potash and ISO pounds of phosphoric acid, hence the need of heavy fertilization is apparent. If yard manure can be obtained from sixty to 100 tons per acre, supplemented by a good dressing of potash in the form of sulphate is noue too much. In the absence of manure the best of results of a mineral fertilizer containing. Nitrogen, 4 per cent.; Thos. acid. 8 per cent.; Potash (sulphate formi, 12 per cent., have been known. One thousand or 1500 pounds per acre is not too much. After growth of the young plants has begun a top dressing of 100 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda should be made, and again after the heads begin to form that the growth may be continuous and rapid. * From $700 to $1000 has been received from a tine crop of extra carlr cabbage upon one acre. A Point in Practice. It has been shown by repented experiments that a pound of cotton-seed pineal is equivalent to 1.13 pounds of corn, and that a pound of cotton-seed meal is worth 1.75 pounds of corn for fattening purposes. Taking this In connection with the recent tests, we will realize the Immense value of the cotton-seed products for feeding and manurial purposes. It teaches the student this Important lesson; He cannot afford to soil cotton seed and buy corn as a substitute, even though the latter is cheaper In price per ton. A loss follows both in feeding and in the manure produced.?Progressive Farmer. nation For Steer*. Coi^| and oats, ground together, make an excellent ration for fattening steers. At lirst give an equal number of bushels ground together, which will give most of the bulk in oats. Then as the animal gains, increase a portion of corn and add oil cake meal. One pound of the mixture for every 100 pounds weight of the animal is sufficient, ar.il it should be given in two feeds. The increase toward the last will consist in j stronger feed rather than greater bnlk. Fox Caught by Girl. Hunters started a large gray fox on Longwood farm, belonging to the James Gordon estate. After four hours' chase old Reynard got in such close quarters that it ran under a pen near Waldrop. The hunters punched it out and the dogs bad a sight race for some distance, but it was too cunning for the dogs. It finally dodged the dogs and hunters, somo forty in number, and ran .vw t irhv's vard while all the UliUUgli IT. ?. .. , family were at dinner. Mr. Irby's daughter Anna, 15 years olt'. saw it through the window of the di: ing room and'gave it a 6ight race, he 'ming it oflf from the stable, and can ;ht it by the head. She held it to I the ground until her father got there and put it in a bag.?Richmond TimesDispatch. Miss Willa A. Leonard has been'a money counter in t.he United States Treasury Department since 1802. She is an expert and^ the fastest countei m the Government employ. i on the A man born j Jesus passed by." Jesus_ stiinngered as j Jerusalem, and in one ol liis walks, perhaps to or from a synagogue, He came to this blind man. "He saw." Jesus took notice of his affliction; looked upon him with concern. He anticipated his need. That look meant .sight to the blind man. "A man." He was a beggar; it was his trade, but among all his petitions he did not ask for sight. Yet Jesus gave it. An illustration of free grace. This man was hopeless, helpless, poor. "Mind from his birth." Of the sis miracles connected with blindness which are recorded in the gospels this is the only case described as blindness from birth. In this lies its special characteristic, for since the world began it was not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind (v. 32). Blindness is verv common in Palestine. II. Jesus explains the mystery of providence (vs. 2-3). 2. "Disciples asked.' The first nuestion that arose in their minds was wby this blindness existed. "Who did sin." Scripture teaches that all disease, and even death, is the fruit of sin. The ? --.-j i??: ,1.., ? ! I jevrisn error cousisu:u iu ucucviu^ mai a.i ! special afflictions were divine visitations | for special sins. This error Jesus corI rected. Mark the contrast between their thoughts and those of Jesus in reply. Repentance calls our own afflictions punishments. but love calls the afflictions of others trials. "This man." But how co'^ld the man sin before his birth? The doctrine of t^? o; sculs, by which the same soul is supposed to Inhabit different bodies, was quite general among the Greeks and Asiatics, but there Is no clear proof that this doctrine was prevalent among these Jews. On the popular supposition that special calamities are a punishment for special sin?, the disciples desire to know whose sin caused this man's suffering. Was it his parents' sin or his own? i If Jesus had replied his own they would bqve asked. How? 3. "Neither." That is, so as to be the cause of tne blindness. Our Lord does not deny the existence of sin, either in this man or in his parents. The disciples looked to the origin of the suffering; our Lord looked to its removal. They asked, ''Whs is to blame?" Jesus askea, "Who is to save?" Instead of looking to the dark abyss, out of which sin and misery originated, the Lord's heart looks to the glory of God, who by redemption exalts fallen man to even higher blessedness than that of creature innocence. "Works of God?manifest." Not that this man was born blind for the sole purpose that a miracle might be wrought, but that his blindness furnished the occasion for Jesus to perform the divine work of healing hira fhus to show Himself to be God., God is not responsible for sin and its consequences, but both afford Him an opportunity to show His power and grace. 4. "We must work." (R. V.) By the plural "we." as given in the R. V., Jesus associates His apostles with Him in the work. It is encouraging to think that "we," poor weak men, can ba "workers i together with Christ." To rid the world of evil, of wretchedness, lonely sorrow, destitution and disease is the work of God. "While it is day." The day represents opportunity; the night, opportunity past. 5. "In the world." He would not be long in the flesh, but he has never ceased to be the light of the world. Sin is darkness. He is in bold contrast to sin. "I am the light." Like fhc sun, it is My business to dispense light and hent everywhere; to neglect no opportunity to enlighten and save the bodies and eouls of men. The case KnvnnH Knman wciuic litem >??*o aiku^vbuvi uvtvuv. means, but Jetus reminded Hi* disciples that in Him were light and life. III. The blind man was healed (vs. 6, 7)./ 8. "Made clay?anointed." Jeaus shows His power by proceeding, in His own way, to heal the man. Notice. 1. There is no connection between the means used and the effect produced. 2. Christ came into physical contact to attract attention and to stimulate faith; where faith was in lively exercise, He healed by His word, and at a distance. 3. Christ appeals to two of the maa's senses, his hearing and feeling, thereby arousing faith. Cnrist gave His personals attention to this case, even though His patient was a beggar. 7. "Go." Would He now prove His faith in a stranger? Would He hesitate because of His lifelong teaching that He must not wash the eyes medicinally on the Sabbath; much less at a nool of water? Would He now do what He could? Here came the practical test, proving His faith and obedience. "Siloam." A fountain under the walls of Jerusalem toward the east, between the city and the brook Kidron. It is stHl to be seen, one of the few undisputed 6ites in Jerusalem. "By interpolation, sent." That is, "outlet of waters;" either because'it was looked upon as a gift sent from God for the use of the city, or because its waters were directed or sent by canals or pipes into different quarters, for the same purpose. Some think there is an allusion to Gen. 49:10; that this fountain was a type of Shiloh, the Christ, the sent of God, and that it was to direct the roan's mind to the accomplishment of that pronhecy. he might find encouragement of faith in this. The pool by its very name was a tvoe of Christ. "He jrent." _He.bewevefl awl obeyed. We frequently TOSe God's hist gifts because we fail to set in time. "Carao seeing." The cure arts instantaneous. IV. Various discussions (vs. 8-11). 8. "Is not this he?" There was an immediate stir among'the neighbors; they noticed the great change in the man. The same is true when Christ gives spiritual eyesight. "Begeed." This ia the first mention of the fact that he was a beggar. He must have been well known. 9. "I am he." Jesus had met and healed the man on Friday night, at the beginning of the 8abbath, and the neighbors had not seen him go to the pool, so that on the next morning they were hardly able to believe their senses. But the man himself gave a positive testimony. 10. "How?opened. His neighbors gathered around him and asked foi an explanation, many are anxious 10 snun how things arc done, even though thej have no faith. 11. "He answered." H? had never seen his neighbors before, but now, looking right at them, he delivers this wonderful testimony to the power ol Christ. It is short, elear, positive. "A man." First he knew" Him only as "the Man" (R. V.) railed Jesus, then aS a pro phet (v. 17), thefi as a Man with wjion God was (vs. 31-33), then He was the Sor of God (vs. 35-38). Box Bouquets. A number of departures from conventionality marked the wedding of the Hon. Alexandra Vivian to A. B. Leith, King's Royal Rifle Corps. In the first place, the bridesmaids handed sprays of freesia to the guests as they arrived. In the second place, they carried bouquets in which box?ordinary garden hedge box?was conspicuous! In addition to the glossy green box there were pink roses and sprays of lily-ofthe-valley. Ivory satin dresses, copied from a Vandyck, were charmingly quaint. So were the cavalier hats in white straw, with a shaded bine plume across the front and a blue bow across the back. At this wedding Lady Evelyn GIffard was in a dress of mauve velvet Her rather large hat was of foliage green entirely. At a distance she looked like a giant flower upside down, her hat appearing to be the calyx, while her dress was figured to be the petals. It was of the lovely orchid "mauve shade. Indeed, all the mauve shades were seen. So was violet, and pansy purj pie, and all these colors up to palest | lilac. America^"?? . Review^] The more Magazines Indispensable is The ] " Indispensable," " The one magi world under a field-tflass," "An i current literature,"?these are some people who read the Review of Reviews more necessary is the Review of Reviews, 1 is in all the mod important monthlies c periodical literature that nowadays pcopl with it is to read the Review of Reviews, ing section, it has more original ma'.ter and the most tipiely and important articles prin Probably the moft useful section of all i ro;s of the World," where public events ai cr.p!ainrd in every issue. Many a subscri m v. rr.h ~.3re than the price of the Dagazin I depicting current histcry in caricature, is H Reviews covers live continents, and 3 Men in public life, the members of Coi captains of industry who must keep "up I women all over America, have decided tn J^'THE REVIEW OF RF 1 13 Astor Place I == LABOR NOTES. " A strike of the brewery employes was inaugurated at Scranton, Pa. 1 - Again it is asserted that there is an Increased number of idle men in New !' York City. It is estimated that the Dominion of Canada has an aggregate union mem- * bership of 130,000 to 150,000. F The headquarters of the European Union of Transport Workers has been F removed rrom i>onaon 10 tiamourg. Ia the ten years of its existence the t Woodworkers' Union of Germany lias secured reductions in the working' * hours for about 75,000 members. In Germany employers of labor are ^ compelled to grant one hour's rest at midday, and women with household * cares may claim an extra half hour. fl The North German Lloyd Company 8 -will open an immigrant line between Bremen and Galveston to turn the tide * of immigration toward the South and 8 Southwest. . <1 It is reported that the International Association of Bridge and Structural ' Iron Workers' have entered into a ? year's agreement with the American 1 Bridge Com pany. The annuul report of Business Agent ]j Fisher, of Machinists' District Lodge " No. 8, at Chicago, 111., shows that their c strike for eight months has cost the neat sum of $155,000. I As a result of the referendum vote s recently taken by the members of the 1 United Garment Workers of America the date of the next convention, which t was to have been held in Toronto in t August, 1905, has been changed to i take place in August, 1900. c During the year 1901 the mine em> ployes of the anthracite region, says a < Wilkesbarre dispatch, received an ad- t vance of $3,500,000 over their former * schedule rate of wages, through the < sliding scale established by the Coal < Strike Commission in 1902. PROMINENT PEOPLE. c) Count Tolstoi has opened book stores In Moscow and St. Petersburg. p Emperor William possesses over 130 ^ full military and naval uniforms. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, Md., ? Is a fervent advocate of pedestrianlsm. The King of Siam is the only independent Buddhist sovereign in the world. C King Alfonso of Spain is hesitating among three royal maidens in his It choice of a bride. ta Secretary William H. Taft will be the orator at the Yale Law School commencement next June. The Sultan of Turkey and the ^ Queen of the Netherlands are the only total abstainers among European sov- * ereigns. ' - d John La Farge, the painter. Jus a B high opinion of the wit of beggnrs, the street mendicant being one of his fa- ^ vorlte studies. * It is said on good authority that J. 01 P. Morgan's greatest charity is keeping young boys off the streets by get- I? ting them work. N Mrs. Carnegie, wife of the million- a aire, though the daughter of an old New England family, is as devoted to Scotland as her husband. Another camera enthusiast is the R German Empress. She has taken innumerable photographs of things that have interested her, and her collec- E tion of pictures is unique. Helen Gould has sent a complete dinner set of solid silver, with gold- M lined cups, to her namesake, little P1 Helen Gould Bell, daughter of General P< Sherman Bell, of Denver. ? Probably the world's greatest oculist is Dr. Pngenstecher, of Wiesba- ^ den, Germany. He is consulted by al- w most every European royalty and by ci aristocrats and plutocrats from over rc the world. u Pu>]n*H In Time. "Ia that the way you always get * off a street car?" exclaimed the policeman, as a man leaped off a trolley * car and barely missed bringing about a collision. ii "No, sir, it isn't," was the reply, it "but there was special need for hurry a in tnis case." 1< "Try a bogus nickel on the conduc- * tor?" I< "No. A man asked me whether Caesar killed Brutus or Brutus kill- )1 ed Caesar and I got a hump on me." x "Couldn't you have told him?" o "I could have told him that Brutus k was tv.e man who did the killing, but i then the fool would have kept on and :c asked me what he did it for and I ? wasn't going to stay there and admit i; that I didn't know!"?Chicago Tri- i< bune. _ :1 iV When a man really has free salva- 31 tion he is always willing to give free 1 service. ^ / . / there are, th< i more I ? Review of Re views I izinc I feel I muit "The I education in public^K'cirs and I V of the phrases one hei^Brcm noted I Uj . The more mngazine^Hre ere, the I because it bring* togethe^B: best that I. A'f >f the world. Such isM flood of B e say that the only wcjH Jcccp up I r Entirely over and abcvcMis review. Bf illustrations than mofi clzLnes, and Bf ted in any monthly. V i Dr. Albert Shaw's illxtra'.sd " Prog- H nd issues are authoritatively and lucidhr^B ber writes, "This department aloae^i B ? N e.\ The unique cartoon dsoa:tiy-r.t. B another favorite. The ReVj^w ol B yet is American, firft and foremoA. fl igress, professional men, andf the great I with the rimes," intelli^cr.B men and B at it is " indispensable." V M VIEWS COMPANY \ q V , New York . NEWS OF THE FAR EAST. Forty-four thousand four hundred tussiaus are prisoners in Japan. The advanced forces on the Russian eft have been driven back with heavy MS. Reports in St. Petersburg indicate bat Kuropatkin has removed a large iart of his stores from Mukden. Kuropatkin, bard pressed at all loints, began hurrying bis stores of ood and ammunition out of Mukden o Tie Pass. General Kuropatkin sent word that wenty Japanese torpedo boats and a arge warship were on the tway to ^ Vladivostok. A dispatch from Vladivostok said bat there were no signs of a blockade, ind that crnisers left the harbor occaionally to manenvre. General Nog! struck a sadden blow . o the westward, and the Russian po? itlon, according to advices from Muk* [en, was still critical: General Kuroki held Ta Pass, , and here were Rnsslan reports that the apture of this position would force a f lussian retreat to Tie-Lang. ( General Kuropatkin has ordered the led Cross depots at Mukden, ^Harbin, \ Tieling and Irkutsk to prepare to re- ' eive from 80,000 to 100,000 wounded. 1 Rennenkamp returned from a week's v aid around the Japanese left flank * tnd well to the rear, losing only one nan killed and twelve wounded. The Japanese have continued the at* ack against the Russian positions on he Sha River, driving in both flanks tnd advancing to within a few ban* Ired feet of Putlloff Hill. A body of Russians was recently convoying 200 tons of fodder which bey had requisitioned in neutral ter* itory south of Sinmintun when they vere attacked by bandits, who carried >ff the whole of the provender. SPORTING BREVITIES. , Forty-two riders took part In a pa pee base at Camden. S. C. There is good ice fishing on the uper Hudson and In lakes quits'near to y, le city. There are nineteen players under. jntract to the Washington American eague Club. , The Automobile Club of France has eclded tor run only the International up race this year. Senator Frawley's bill legalising boxig in New York State was advanced > a third reading in the Senate. Antomobilists of New York and New. ' ?rsey are interested in a project for a venty-mlle speedway near Trenton. .J. ' Members of the Harlem Regatta As>clation select Afay.30 as the date for le annual regatta on the Harlem iver. Boats from the North Shrewsbury * Yacht CMt. of Red Bank. N. J.. on the third class ice yacht pennant C America. 1 . The New York Athletic Club hockey am defeated the Hockey Club of ew York in a championship game by, score of 6 to 5. The Hockey Club, of New York City, ?feated the Brooklyn Skating Club jckey team at the Clermont Avenue ink by a score of 10 to 3. W. E. Schutt, the Rhodes scholar of ornell, defeated M. H. Gody, a crack nglish runner, in the three-mile race : the Oxford field sports In England. Fishing has been particnlarly good in aine. both salmon and tront being ientiful in the eastern lakes and >nds, especially Green Lake and ranch Pond, in Hancock County. Winter fishing has been the attracon to draw several parties of sportsen away from the snug firesides of ty clubs, within the month, to the >ugh camps in the Adirondacks or in iaine. a U(l?* i no guwoiui The successful -wife keeps on hand little boom in case of need. . She ieps a.surprise tucked up her sleeve, here it can be fired on a moment's Jtlce. Maybe it is a carnatioq for/ s coat lapel; maybe it Is his favor-. e pudding served extra; perhaps itr * the baby's picture framed for his ;sk. Something she has ready, and hen his affections needs joggliu: she >es not hesitate to do the joj?ng. Why, a bunch of vh>Ict3 or a knot 'bright ribbon where it adds the ost to the wife's charms almost ake a man forget that he is hungry, saucy pinch with the usual kiss or merry chase away from the accus>med greeting will almost make a an forget that he is married to the lorable creature A stage whisper 3w and then and a twinkle of mislief are worth hours of cooing. The oman who buries uer roguishness on er wedding day h)bs her home of tuch of its happiness.?Philadelphia iqulrer.