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A Healthy Dress for Girls.
Mss Lookaoouti in Boston Herald.

Miss Lookaboutin Boston Herald.
| know l shall astonish II good MANY
people when | saw that / think that
venerable and highly respected article
of female dress. the chemise. NAV ad-
vantageously be wholly dispensed
with. Every one is supposed to have a
chem'se Ito her back but that this
supposltion is not wholly true was
proved to me some time ago. When
at the seaside last autumn two girls.
mutual friends of nine, and whom [
introduced to each other, went n
warm day with me to battle.
One said to the other: 81 am afraid
You will be awfully shocked when o
see me undress." Shocked! Whyp"
We'll hardy like to tell you; but
the fact is | have SO little on.' Il
don't wear much" said the other. '.All
l have is combinations. stays, and one
petticoat undermy dress" Cur.ously
enough. both these girls were dressed
in precisely the same way in wooden
combinations, stays (well-shaped and
not tight) n petit coat and a dress
which from its elegance gave no sus-
picion of the state of AFFAIRS under
meath. AS 1shad an opportunity of OBJ
serving, these young ladies were
dressed in perfectly sanitary style, al
though none but myself had any idea
OF the fact; and. in spite OF it. they
passed for two of the best dressed girls
at the fashionable watering place
where we We're staying.
/ have since had several opportuni-
ties of observation, and l find that
quite a number of the best dressed wo-
men of my acquaintance have re-
nouncel the use of the chemise in favor
of woven combinations. The majority
however believe are not induced to
do SO by sanitary considerations. but
simply because the chemise is a bulky
article and makes them look stouter
than is natural to them; whereas the
combinations are made in q stretchy
material, fit somewhat closely and
show the symmetry of the figure. This
is, to my mind. a very good reason
why tho chemise should be given up,
but, from q health point of view, we
can find a still better one. Chemises
are generally made of linen or cotton,
both Of which materials. as l have al
ready said, are unsuitable for clothing
because they are good conductors OF
heat, bad absorbers of moisture and
bad ventilators.
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The American Beauty,

| was walking up Broadway the
other day when 1 met q professional
lady of un~questionable beauty. In
fact. it was this endowmens that
caused me TO turn and follow her with
my eyes until she had passed out of
sight. 1t was Dora G%oldthwaite. con-
corning whom there is a bit of I'M
written history that may prove as IN
tcresting to the public as it did to me
when | learned the circumstances from
most authentic sources. 1t was early
IN the iirst LangUy season in tbs
country, when the papers We're full Of
descriptions of the beauty, that Il GER
TIA II Well-known New York nag
made Miss Goldthwa;te a proposit.o on
OF a starring tour, his OBJ Get being 10
place her in opposition to Langtry and
bill her as Our Own Beautv.m This
object was concealed from Miss Gold
thwaite, however. and articles of
agreement were drawn up and signed.
by arrangement made by the
Miss G~oldthwaite passed the greater
part OF several DAYS in Saronv s stu
do, and the best skill of that celebra-
ted artist was brought to bear in max
ing her rare beauty shine forth on
card board and canvas in most be-
coming dress and attitude. At length
the Wis onary manager thought matters
had progressed sufficiently to warrant
nm in approaching his star on tho
subject OF his br liant plan, and when
the real oh, ect of the tour was made
known to the beauty her soul reco;led
at the idea, and she demanded an i'm
mediate cancellation of the contract,
thus what certainly would have proved
a serious matter for the Jersey Lily"
was avoided by the modesty of tho
american beauty"
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The Esthetic Motmot.
!. c. Beard, in Harpcr's Magazine.

~ AS'iu III iatpcF SiaRaLlRe. .
The most striking example of abor-
tive effort or at least bizarre form of
decoration is found in the cast of the
motmot, a South American bird. which
succeeds in paralleling some of the
most absurd of humanity's decorative
freaks, notably that one of some
savage tribes which consists of filing
the teeth to points.
The motmot is by nature endowed
with more than an ordinary degree of
beauty. The prevailing color of it's
plumage is green. the wings and tail
being tinged with a beautiful shade of
blue; a sable tuft, edged with blue,
adorns its breast, and a biue-edged
black triangle surrounds the eye and
extends to the ear. In addition to
this and to a long and graceful tail, it
has upon its head a crest which it can
erect at will.
But, as if dissatisfied with Natures
attempt to beautify it, the motmot
essays an Improvement. 1t selects
the two middle feathers of the tail.
those two being usually the longest
and most conspicuous. as the objects
of its decorative designs. About an
inch from the tip of each feather it
cuts away with its serrated bill about
an inch of the web on each side of the
shaft, thus giving each feather the
appearance Of q lawn tenn s bat. Nor
is this done in a mechanical or in.
stinctive way. for sometimes a too anx-
ious motmot will begin too soon and
before its tail has reached its full
growth, and will clip away on the
wrong feathers, thus disfiguring itself
even in motmot estimation, in this
respect being not unlike the young
males of the human family who rath.
er than not shave at all, will some
times use the razor on that much of
the hair of the head as wandcrs down
in front of the ears.
1t was formerly supposed that the
motmot wore away the web from its
tail feathers by constantly turning
around while sitting on its nest, and
when Waterton explained the real
for the condition of the feath-
ers he a laughed at. Recently.
however. captive birds have been seen
to perform the cutting operation.
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way right into one of the vegetables"
How could yon feed such things to

way right into one of the Vegetables
How could you feed such things to
your stock?n
"Oh, we have to chop 'em up. l use
a tifteen-foo6ro cut saw on mine"
How about pumpkins?"
'Punkins?" They fairly sweat. they
grow SO fast. The e amt no prettier
music than the sound of growing
punkins. Best scarecrow in the world
self acting. Crows and blackbirds
worried us lots until / made the dis
covery. Plant one in your raspberry
patch and the birds won'tcome around.
Why? The growing pains and the
groans Of the punkin brighten EN-
away. Ever hear of Punkin Vine
creek? Got its name from a punkin
vine. Years ago when the Cherokee
Indians lived IN north Georgia they
wanted some sort of a bridge across
the creek. There wasn't a tree around,
and they didn't know what to do. An
old settler said he'd fix it. He planted
a punkin seed near the bank, and
when the vine begin to grow he trained
it in the direction of the water. In a
few days it grew across to the other
bank and bore Il big punkin on that
side, which held it SO that the Indians
could cross. Any old farmer down
there'n tell You that story. From
what I've seen of punkins Ireadily be-
lieve it."
us yours 4 good fruit country? ANY
applesp"
Nor we know what to do with.
turned all my hogs and my neigh
bors' into my orchard the other dav to
see if they couldn't rid Inc of a few
bushels of the fruit. They didn't do
much good. l drove through the
next day with a horse and buggy.
The apples were SO thick on the ground
that there was a regular sluice ofcider
following me wherever l went. Mashed
out. YOU know, by the wheels and the
horses hoofs. That'll give you some
idea OF our fruit crops. Anything else
you'd Ike to know
rs it all like you've been telling
me?"
Every man;for himself, you know.
I'm talking for my own region. I
haven't travelled much"
"Do you mean to say
Young man, l haven't got time to
go into details. Do you want to 90
to Georgia.? Come down and start a
newspaper"
Id starve to death"
No You won't. I'll chip in a bush
ell of Eaters. and / reckon the neigh
bors5H throw in a punkin or two. Say,
can you tell me where I'll find some
boiler or kettle works? l want to give
an order for Il kettle twenty feet across
the mouth and sixteen feet deep."
'.Mv! What in the world would YOU
do with such II kettle2:'
Boil my turnips in it,"
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THE DRvIL

AenSdon't belieye In devil now, as their
tathersasato do;
Ineysve korced She door OF the broadcast creed
sclnt His Majesty through;
ThetestsnAtiA print OF his clovcn foot, OF. q
Alefydaftfrom his bow,
70 befonAdin earth or air today for the
worldshas voted SO.
palsies heart and brain,
And loads the earth Of each passing year with
ten hundred thousand slains
Who blights the bloom OF the land today with
is the aefy breath Of hell
II the Devil isn't and never wasl Won't
somebody rise and tell.
Who dogssthe steps Of the toiling saint, and
digs the pits for his feeta
Who scws the tares in the field Of Time where
ever God sows his wheata
The Devils voted not to be, and f course the
thing is,tfne;
But who i dong the kind 81 work the Devil
alone should dos
We are told he does not go about as a roaring
lion now;
bpt MhoHn shall We hold responsible for the
everlasting row
Io be heard In home, In church, and state, to
the earth's remotest bound,
y she Devil, By : unanimous vote, is nowhere
70 b foundi
Wonstsomebody step to the front forthwith,
md make this bow and show
How the frauds and the crimes Of the day
spsfng uP--for surellysw u. want to know.
The Deyil was fairly voted out, and OF course
The deyil Y .
Bat simple people would like to know who
carries his business on.
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Farmer Aliens Suspicion.

81 suppose you all have heard of old
Farmer Allen. He was IA great tenn
perance man, you know. We'll, thir-
teen years ago we all went to camp at
Portland. One terribly hot day we had
a clambake, and in the tent was a bio
barrel of champagne punch, strong
punch, too. Allen came along yery
hot and very tn rsty, and LOOKING AZ
the tent;saw the barrel of punch.
Hello, boys, got some lemonade,
haven't you?' said the old man.
Yes replied the boys, w.nking at
each other; help YOURSELF
'lhe farmer went in. took one glass
smacked his lips. took another and
liked it so well that he wanted more
In a little while lie came out of the tent
looking very rosy and very unsteady
in his movements. He reflected a mo.
ment and then said:
Shay, boys (hic), thash ALMIGHTY
fine (hic) lem'nadc in thash bar-(hjci,
rel; but (hic) don't you think (hicl 4
tashts lhic) a leetle mite of the
StdFeS! -Ha " H# Ee a.
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A New American Eden.

There is a nan here from Georgia.
says the New York Tribune, burdened
with schemes for making his region
prosperous. He owns land by the
thousand acres and thinks if he can
persuade immigrant farmers to buy of
him it will be to the everlasting pros
pority, and help him along IN the
world, besides doing u little for his
state. He doubts not that his moves
are patriotic. 1.-The people of Geor-
g he says. don't bother their
heads about immigration. Foreigners
may come there il they wan to-, but
they've got TO come without begging.
We don't mind their coming if they'll
settle among us and learn our ways,
but we don't want'em in colonies.
bringing their socialism and commu-
nism and their other isms with them to
destroy the peace of our state. Give
us immigration, but not colonization
That's the way they talk and that's
why we've had no agent here to turn
foreigners down our way
what inducement have you to offer
to farmersp"
Nothing extraordinary, 1 reckon.
My regions the Eden of America.
that's all. Amt no place that can beat
it for crops"
Corn" rl4i ~
Zone hundred and thirty bushels to
the acre. Plant in April and gather in
November: One blowing, no hoeing.
Fodder till you can't rest. Having to
pull it from horseback. Why? Stalks
SO high you can't reach to the top.
There's only one trouble with growing
corn in Georgia; you don'thaye enough
nubbins to feed your steers
"Nubbins for steerss"
That's what's the matter. The ears
are SO big that a steer can't get 'cm in
his mouth. See? you've got to chop
EN- up, and that takes time"
do you grow potatoes?"
Sweet? No. They grow themselves.
We just give 'em half a chance. Run
a furrow in the sand, drop in your
seed. cover it with your foot as YOU 90
along, and leave the crop to itself. 1t
grows summer and winter, and YOU
needn't ever dig it for a year or two,
OF course, by and by the Eaters get
too big to be good. At eighteen
months old half a one makes a meal
for ten persons"
ANY turnips?"
"A few. 1t don't take many to do
us. We darn't SOW the seeds as your
northern farmers do. We check off
the turnip patch like a chess-board,
making the corners eight feet apart,
SO that the turnips won't crowd. 1t
wont do to have turnips too thick.
How large do they grow? Well, i had
f%outecn merino sheep-fine fellows
they were-and l used to fold en- ey-
cry night for fear of dogs. One. night
three OF the biggest were missing, and
the whole farm turned out to find 'em.
hunted for 'em for two DAYS. !
Killed seventeen dogs on suspicion,
and gave up the search. The next
day ! found the three inside one of nv
turnips. You see they had jumped in-
to the tnrnip patch and eaten their
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-11

al Cattle Growers Association of
America will be held at Chicago, Nov.
IL and 1S-during the fat stock show.
DISTANCE APART o APPLE TREES.
This question vas discussed at the
July meeting of the Montgomery coun.
ty, Ohio. Horticultural Society, and
all concurred in the opinion that forty
feet is about the right distance.
1t is very convenient to have a breast
collar on the farm, made with an extra
wide breast-piece, to be used in cases
of sore shoulder. OF course such a
collar must not be used in heavy work,
as 1T will bear upon parts not sufi.
GENTLY toughened by use.
A mixture of one pound sugar, one
pound arsenic and five pounds bran,
mixed dry and stirred up with sutii-
Gent water to make a thick mush, has
been used with good results in the
present grasshopper raid in California.
The hoppers eat it readily, and it kills
them by wholesale.
Pigs relish green corn, and when
they are so fed hal they consume the
entire stalk, they get quite as much
benefit as they do from the grain
alone, later on. The nutritlve ma
terials which go TO make the starch OF
hardened grain are. now scattered
throughout the stalk in the form of
sugar, and are in their most easily
digestible condition.
A correspondent writes: Being a
subscriber to your paper and not see
ing the names of any Hampshire Down
sheep breeders in its columns, |
would like to inquire of your sub.
scribers for the names OF men that
raise pure bred stock of this kind. /
would like to hear from them as l con.
template buying a few.
G. w. Huffman. of the Elmira Farm.
ers' Club, thinks barley straw as feed
for cattle, is more palatable and nu-
trit:ous than any other straw. 1t is
! OF desirable for sheep. because of the
boards which get into the wool. Cat
tie will eat out the barley straw from
a straw stack before they will attack
other kinds. Another member of the
club thinks barley straw nearly as
good for young cattle as hay of ordi-
nary quality.
There is a growing inquiry among
farmers as to the profits from keeping
geese, Feathers are high. and though
geese if unrestrained are destructive
to grain crops. yet It is the belief Of
many that they fully pay for all that
they destroy. A goose may be plucked
three or four times during the warm
season, and. despite the outcry g INST
the cruelty of picking live birds, the
goose will be in as good condition in
the fall as it the feathers had been al
lowed to drop out.
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M THE SHADE.
nosslTER JOHNSON.

AVoblIkh SO6NbON. 5@4 $S
Q fcr . lodge in q garden of cucumbers!
ofor ~ iceberg mtFo At CONTROL
Q for 4 vale With at midday the dew cum
berst
9 for = pleasure trip up to the polel
y for : little one-story Thermometer,
With nothing but zeros all ranged in a row!
9 for I bly, double-hsrreled h~ygrometer,
To measure the moisture that rolls from my
brow!
Q that this cold world were twenty times.
coldert
Chats irony rcd hot 1t scemeth to me);
Q for q turn OF its dreadful cold shoulder!
Q what q comfort an aeue would be!
Q for . grotto frost lined and riu.riyen,
SGoopedi In q rock under cataract vastl
for . winter Of diEeontent even
for . wet blanket iudiciously casti
Q foesa s~odastapnt spoutipgs up boldly /
From every hot lamp-post against the hot
skyi
Q for Z proud maiden to look on me coldly,
Freezing my soul with . glance Of her eyel
Then olfor |. draught from acup of cold
pixcns g% III &
AndO fora resting place In the cold grave !
With 3bsthin the sty1 whers the cold shadow
lies on
And deepens the chill Of It's dark running
wave.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-11
eyes, said the honest farmer.

Yes said the honest farmer, 81
know there are some people what al
ways puts the big apples at the top of
the bar'l; but | don't"
That's right" exclaimed the dea-
con adm ringlv. II have always tried
to convince folks that that sort O.
thing doesn't pay in the long rum
IF they'd go to the city once in a
while they'd learn something. l al
ways put my big apples at the bottom
of the bar'l.'
That's the way"
Yes; You see people has got so sus-
picious that they most always open the
bari at the bottom nowadays
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-11
Buried them Deem.

The Smithsonian Institute has ro-
ceived from Barton county, Ga.
natural curiosity that is arousing much
interest. A company which is getting
100 feet below the surface of the le,lun
an immense deposit of human and an
lmal bones carelcssly heaped together
and 'mbeddcd in the solid rock. The
effort is made to free them from tbo
stone. A mass of this conelomerato
OF stone and bones weighing, 5.ouO
pounds has been received here. and
the Smithsonian author.t es viii send
IT, Which is represented to weigh manv
tons. No explanat on is offered toy
the bones being there, save that a cave
existed there inhabited by anted In.
vans ana It afterwards slowly filled
with a limestone deposit which can'
not now be distinguished from tha
original rock. 1ne
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-11
Wonderings Of a Lover.

Somehow I never weary of watch
ing the girl I am going to marry. 1t
is so odd to think that she and / are
going to pass the greater part of our
lives. together. watched her last
Sunday for an hour at Coney Island as
she sported, unconscious, on the
beach, and when she came back to my
side and closed her eyes in a reverie I
wondered if she would wake me in tho
morning with a sweet kiss or whether
she would pull the pillow from under
my head with a jerk and make mo
feel | had fallen down u prccipice 49,
900 feet high. Will she be ready to
open the door and receive me kindly
when | come home late, or will she
call me hard names and threaten to
60 home to her mother?
AS l take her soft palm in mine and
kiss the tips of her PINK fingers, l won.
der if they will ever give me a box
that will make my ears Jingle. She
has a pretty little mouth and pearlv
teeth; and will she ever put them to
use by reading me curtain lecturesp
Will those mild blue eyes ever flash in
anger at me, and will that wealth of
auburn hair, so neatly coiled, ever
hang in frouzy disorder down her
back? She has cunning little feet.
She says they get cold very easily.
Horror! Will she ever put them on
me when they are cold? Will she
waste all my hard-earned savings in
g%imcracksp Will she give me a cold
dinner? viii she pick all the change
from my pocketsp Will she neglect
the house and gossip with the neigh
borsp
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-11

At . menagerie -Some spectators
chatting with the wife of the lion tam
er: '.ls it true madam that a lion
costs 5000 frances
THAT depends; there are lions and
lions"
But your lions: for instance, Bru-
'Brutus | would not sell for 10, 900
francs: He devoured my first hus-
band"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-11
How to Eat a Watermelon,

To be properly enjoyed the perfect
watermelon should be bounced on IN
the patch just after sun up. 1t should
be carefully selected. In response to
an eager thump there should follow a
dead and meaty sound and the melon
should weigh not less than twenty-five
pounds. After it is pulled it should
be split from end to end with a short
bladed pocket. knife, so that in teal NC
it open the glowing and juicy heart:
bursting loose from its confinement,
shall find Il lodgment on one side only.
At this point the knife is to be flung
AWAY. For a moment the eve should
be allowed to feast itself on the vision
thus suddenly brought to view, then
the heart should be scoopcd out with
the hand and its nectarieus meat thrust
upon the hot and thirsty palate. There
ought to be something savage in the
en-. oyment Of a watermelon; it ought
to be crushed and swallowed with avid
ity. The mar who knows how to en-
Joy one Will come away from the fray
with the sweets in b beard, in his
hair and on his clothes.
Three hundred and fifty-eight Grim
inals who have escaped from Georgia
in the course of the last thirteen years
are wanted in that state. The re-
wards offered for them aggregate
800, 600 :
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A loose. neglectful master, makes a
hired man of precisely the same kind,
tags the New York Tribune.
Plums and cherries may be budded
until the middle OF September. Ii the
sap seems thin and watery, wait a few
days until it becomes thicker.
The honey boxes should be removed.
No more surplus is likely TO be stored,
and the bees will only darken that in
the boxes, if they do not carry it below.
Announcement is made that the
third annual convention of the Nation