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run of bare. hot, dusty ranch houses in
plain countries.
Tbe range is general here IN New Mexico,
not under fence. a. 1t is in Texas, and to Sc
cure certain amount of pasturage 1t ID
only necessary to own the watering places,
mountain springs and, streams. The range
thus controlled by the Three Rivers ranch
is very large, and the books show about
5000 cattle belonging to the company; some
of these being at pasture in the Texas Pan
handle and some in Kansas
Her Remarkable Judgment Of Men.
Mrs. Barber has two nonresident part
ners. They both live in Milwaukee, but
she is manager, "a she was the originator of
the entire enterprise, having acquired the
property in the beginning by taking the
settlers. It is she who buys, sells, ships
and transfers the cattle from one State to
another.
She selects, employs and controls her men
with unerring instinct and discrimination,
and says she has never yet found herself
burdened or troubled with ''bad man,"
shirk, scamp or weakling of her own choos-
ing and employing. Her instinct and
judgment are as quick and unfailing in the
matter of four-fpoted cattle a. they are
with the two-footed sort, aud she yearly
buys and sells a large number of the former
for other parties
1t has seemed to me that aside from the
strong heart that refused to be crushed or
broken, the high indomitable spirit and
powerful will OF the woman, Mrs Barber's
remarkable personal success is due to her
rapid and unerring judgment of men, which
is almost a divination. She reads face
and bearing like print, and knows scamp,
a sneak or an untrustworthy man as surely
as the wonderful dog in the good little
stories Apropos of this faculty. she
said to me Iaughingly: II was sitting in q
hotel parlor once talking to lady whose
acquaintance I had made on the train,
when well dressed man came in and sit
ting down near her began to talk to her
aside. withdrew little, and idly, from
force of habit, began to study his face.
WELL said l, to myself, you look like a
horse thief. Yes, you'd steal horses; you
could murder, too, if it became necessary
He went out presently, and the lady turned
to me and said: 4 don't know what he
wanted to come talking to me for, don't
know any good Of him. He came down to
--in the same stage, with officers, to be
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your discontinue. The fact is she has
learned certain swing-swlng Of gait, which
keeps the dip from really settling on the
ground, and as long as she can add few
inches to her height and thus increase her
slenderness, you may be sure she will be in
no hurry to give up the popular Paris
fashion.
Girls Do What Birds and Beasts Won't
Thus, in spite of the stern censure of the
genial "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,"
who says, "If any man can walk behind
one of these women and see what she rakes
up as she goes and not feel squeamish, he
has got tough stomach. Why, there isn't
a beast or a bird that would drag its tail
through the dirt in the way these creatures
do their dresses"
A soft gauntlet doeskin is the ideal tennis
glove
Outing handkerchiefs are Of linen cam
brio, with colored button-holed, scalloped
edge, worked with white dots.
White wool braid is the best for trimming
woods.
Belts of all kinds have clasps to harmon
ize with costume; anchors for yachting,
flags, rackets and wheels as the case may be.
DOT DIMMICK.
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scraggy neck, hence high choking collars
for all women. The collars will last prob
ably until she goes out The "Iangtry
bang" has withstood all the powers OF ridi-
cule, exhausted all the resources of satire
and caricature, and defied all the denuncia-
tions of the pious brethren, but it still
fluffily waves, notwithstanding the effects
of some to re-establish the "Pompadour.
The skirts of a year or two ago which
cleared the ground have gone back to the
trailers and street sweepers at the behest Of
Fashion
"No woman wants to look like q dowdy
and make herself ridiculous BY being out of
the fashion," said one woman to another as
she passed through the Union station.
''There," she exclaimed, pointing out .
Norwegian emigraut. ''There is the ideal
costume as described by the dress-reiormers
at Chautauqua No corsets, the Venus
waist-or rather no wsist-short skirts, no
ing ing band, perfect freedom in
motion. What does she look like?
Picturesque? Truly. But what would
look like in that costume going down Fifth
avenue? More comfortable? Certainly. 1
Just envy her that short dark blue skirt,
but could no more face the world in that
style than could a man 60 down to business
in his bathing suit"
The Men are Slaves, Too.
Nor are men in the main any more inds-
pendent of the all powerful god who, in the
darkness of mystery, arranges what man
shall wear to look right. The height OF his
hat, the width of his trousers, the length OF
his coat tails, the cut of his vest, are laid
down with the force of the Ten Command
meuts President Harrison would not have
&ba to NJ
II ouse in his grandfather's hat James G.
Blaine, with all his great mind, could
hardly be induced to appear in public in
the queer cut coat, high black satin stocks,
and huge white collar up to his ears in
which Henry Clay appeared SO distin-
guished and elegant When Daniel Web
ster "got himself up" in the way of attire
to appear in the Senate to make his cele-
brated speech in reply to General Hayne,
of South Carolina, he wore "a blue dress
coat with brass buttons, buff waistcoat,
and high white cravat" Imagine Cam
eron, or Quay, or Carlisle, or Vest in such
a rig nowadays, handsome as it was! The
laugh would go round the world, because it
is out of style. In days agone
in Washington Congressman wore green
and blue, and mulberry colored coats in the
evening-two or three waistcoats of differ
ent colors, ruffied shirts, high stock, knee
breeches, and silk stockings A load of
seals were also fourished. Their
hair was arranged in what is known as a
"roach." They must have looked "reaI
sweet" But such fashion has gone by.
But who knows that it may not come up
again? The women are getting back to
Marie Antoinette and Josephine styles, SO
it would not be surprising if by caprice
of Fashion, men should be called upon to
array themselves after the pattern of Napo-
leon Bonaparte or George Washington.
BESSIE BRAMBLE.
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Collie and Cholera Morbus.

Collie, cholera morbus, cramps and many
other affections of the stomach and bowels
prevalent at this time of the year are due to
two causes First, the depressing effect of
the hot weather upon the nervous system,
and second, the use of green fruit cucum-
bers, melons,, etc. No one is sale from
painful and even dangerous attacks of
these affections unless unusual precautions
are taken at this time of year. A table,
spoonful of Pe-ru-na taken before each meal
is complete protection against these mala-
dies. Pe-ru-na is not only preventive of
collie, cholera morbus, cramps, stomach
ache, summer d:arrhea and cholera, but is
also a prompt cure for these diseases.
Where the attack is very severe and pain
full wineglassful of Pe-ru-na should be
taken at once, followed by two tablespoon
tul doses until complete relief is obtained.
This never fails in single case. In cases of
less severity tablespoonful every hour is
sufficient No one should neglect the pre-
caution of taking a dose of Pe-ru-na before
each meal, until the hot season is over.
Complete treatise on diseases of hot
weather sent free to any address by The
Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company,
Columbus, O.
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navy blue serge, and then, not to be Just
like the other girls. she will work on the
front breadth of the skirt, just above the
hem, two tennis rackets with crossed han
dies. The skirt will be made wide belt at
waist or girdle, and here she will embroider
two smaller ones She can draw out the
shapes herself, if she is the capable creature
American girls are supposed to be. Her
shirt waist is fine white serge,
with racket in each corner of sailor collar.
She buys a rough straw sailor for IS cents
and fastens round the crown tan leather
straps at 80 cents a pair. If she has any
money to spare she picks out fancy stick
pin, in racket or flag shape in blue and
single small diamond in the center. She
tastens her chatelaine watch with the bow
knot in frosted gold, set with little tur-
quoises which Tom or Dick gave her as a
souvenir of the day which she did such
wonders, and then, if either of said young
men notices the carefully wrought suit, as
he is sure to do, he admires her skill and in
ventive genius He need not know she
caught the suggestion out of fashion ar
ticle, for, of course, he never reads that
nonsense"
Creation in Light SILK.
A very dainty little maid, who likes her
clothing to be as light as a feather, has
selected this year q thin silk tennis suit.
The skirt, instead of being the regulation
bell, is full one gathered to girdle, the
silk being dark blue striped with hair
lines of white. The shirt waist is a sheer
white null fastened with gold studs. The
silk blazer fastens in front with heavy
white silk frog. Some of the newest
blazers are belted in the back with wide
belt Of gold galloon, passing underneath at
the sides and clasping in front over the
shirt waist
Many girls see to it that the same suit
answeres for tennis and bicycling, for which
purpose one of dark blue serge trimmed
eompanisd BY visor cap and tan canvas
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tried for horse stealing. He's got Off

ttieu ior uofec Stealing. ne kos on
Yes, said I, but he's guilty
She Runs n Silver Mine, Too.
A year or so ago when there was q special
stir over mines and mining interests in New
Mexico, Mrs Barber was infected with the
fever. A, sort of outfit or procession,
familiarity seen about in the White Noun
tains to the south of Three Rivers, con-
sisted of Mrs. Barber on her red roam pony,
Bucephalus, with Pompey, her factotum,
trotting along behind on whatever sort Of
quadruped could be caught up.
She is skillful and intelligent pros
pector, and can instruct you in most prac-
tical and scientific way upon '1eads, I"
''contacts." etc. etc.
She prospected all down through the
Rinconada country in the White Noun
tains, where her outfit and cattle then were,
but it was up nearer the ranch, only seven
miles distant from it, that she finally found
the rich and valuable silver mine of which
she now owns half interest, the other half
being held by several prominent capitalists.
Mrs. Barber says she doesn't care to vote,
and isn't interested in Woman's Rights,
but she is herself most powerful argument
in their favor.
She entertains very handsomely at her
house in White Oaks; gives progressive
whist and euchre parties, little dances and
occasionally a german; and it seems to me
that woman who can run ranch, manage
a mine and engineer a successful german is
fairly entitled to the designation of an all
round genius
ALICE MACGowAN.
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any way above her deserts, my ideas are
somewhat modified as to the manner Of her
royalty.
A dozen miles from White Oaks is the
ranch of Mrs Barber. You might meet
Mrs. Barber at her house in White Oaks,
where she spends portion of her time, and
where she dispenses very graceful hospital
ity; but if you want to see the "Cattle
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our luggage to take pillows and rugs for
lawn and piazza. make instead half
dozen bags with flap corner and band
attached to hang up by, and when I get out
to the village boarding house where we stay
1 fill them with dry sweet hay, and they do
excellent service.
White Dresden china lamps with white
silk shades are the latest accessory to the
white and gold rooms.
The summer girl who Is "form" takes
her constitutional before breakfast, swing
ing along the country roads in a tailor-made
blazer suit of English storm serge, with .
cheviot skirt and four-in-hand tie, and fol-
lowed by from six to ten dogs, hounds, set
ters or terriers, as her taste inclines. She
wears gauntlet gloves and carries dog
whip, but with all her appss ens contempt
OF fine ladyism she-is careful to tie,ss-dark
green or black-zkl over her sailor ha. -
pretty face. MARGARET II. WEIGH.
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The quantity of heat wasted b. Stag has
suggested projects for utilizing it in raising
steam, but nothing practical has been at
tanned until recently. A: a mine in New
South Wales the molten Stag is run into the
bottoms of iron chambers Jba, can with
stand internal steam pressure, ami jets of
water are forced on the Stag. lii short
time the chambers are filled with steam that
can be utilized in other parts of the
works.
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Some Experiments With Iron.

Experiments with malleable cast iron by
the Admiralty of Sebastopol, Russia, have
been successful. A trial bar, heated to red
heat, was folded and refolded several times
in succession, and at the end only one
scarcely perceptible crack showed. An
other bar that was folded cold under hy-
draulic pressure, broke after taking per-
sistent curve. A third bar, heated to cherry
red, could be forged and heightened into
strips. Its tensile strength was almost
equal to that Of ordinary Siemens-Martin
steel
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Mementoes OF Columbus.

boat which, it is said, is as exact repro
duction as can be made of the carayel which
took Christopher Columbus to america
The ship floats around in large basin whose
edge is made to represent the shore of the
island on which Columbus landed, and there
are Indians and other accessories to give
realism to the picture. A pantomime rep
resenting the landing of Columbus on the
shores OF the New World is given.
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What is It?

In point of fact it is the
freedom from poisonous and
spurious ingredients, the ex-
cellence in flavor which gives
to DR.. Prices Delicious Flaw
oring Extracts of Vanilla,
Orange, Lemon, etc, their
wide popularity and increas-
ing sale.
The retail grocers are learning
that quality rather than price
is necessary to retain the
confidence of customers and
make a successful business.
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still calls 1t the Cleopatra girdle and fan
cies she takes on classic grace when she
dons it. The hair is dressed low and the
girdle is made of ribbon or velvet. A
woman with lovely titan red hair was seen
the other evening with girdle of black
velvet which was very effective. White
and blue velvet were also seen, and the
twist Of pearls in very black hair had vel
vet wings in front studded with pearls.
r =
In the modern tondness for bizarre effects
people accomplish curious manifestations.
A bachelor apartment in New York has a
dado about the room with frequent oval and
square openings, cabinet size, in which are
inserted the photographs of his girl friends.
1t is an odd conceit. and one which interests
everybody who visits the place. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. In her bungalow at Short
Beach has frieze of photographs around
one of her rooms. The dado seems more
sensible, as the pictures are not "skyed."
White duck hammock pillows embroid-
cred in some sketchy athletic design, as
tennis rackets, golf crossed or hunt
ing cap and whip in colored fax are much
used.
A private letter from Bar Harbor COM
ments on the somber touch on the season
there by reason Of the Blaine and Wander
bilt bereavements. Several members OF the
latter family are at the Maine resort, though
none of the direct Cornelius Vanderbilt
household, which is summering very quietly
at Manchester by -the-Sea, in Massachusetts.
The young man who died was quite the
pride of the whole family, and it is more
than complimentary mourning they are
wearing for him. Since Mrs. Emmons
Blaine has gone to Bar Harbor she is ire
quently seen driving out with her infant
son, and it scarcely needs the heavy weeds
of the young widow to make her presence a
reminder to the most casual observer of the
lass crush ing sorrow of the Blaine house.
hold.
Tea talk seems to have been exhausted,
but the good tea is still rare. The very
simplicity of the process initiates against
its successful accomplishment Like the
New York woman with a French chef who
found it impossible to get bowl OF palatable
Cruel made by him for her sick husband,
cup of tea, not too strong nor too weak but
brewed to perfection, seems too small re-
suit to provoke intelligent effort. Let every
reader Of this paragraph recall how many
times in her comings and goings she has
encountered tea, bitter with the tannin of
too long brewing havorless from the oppo-
site cause or rank with the stepping in half
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Capture Of . Sea- Turtle.

A South American sea turtle weighing 80
pounds was captured few days ago off the
coast of Massachusetts, The turtle is very
common in Southern waters, but is very
seldom seen in the North. This is the first
one OF the species ever taken along this
coast, and the fishermen say that it must
have struck in q northern cnrrent and came
North by mistake
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Herculite, new French explosive, is .
yellowish gray powder, com posed of saw
dust, camphor, nitrate of potash, and sew
eral substances that are kept secret. 1t
cannot be fred by sparks, fl anne, or detona-
tion. At a trial, q half-pound charge of
the compound was inserted in blast hole,
about tour feet in depth, tamped with sand
and earth, and tired by special igniter
placed.
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OAA AAAH w HN4>
That is what Eastern
people love to call
t he Independent
ranch = woman who
takes upon her slend-
er shoulders the bur.
den too heavy for
any but the strong
est man to carry
successfully. The
phrase calls up
visions Of q dashing
Amazon in cow-girt
toggery, riding q
snorting bronco-for
the Cattle Queens
throne must certain
ly be the saddle.
Now I have recently
met q Cattle Queen,
and, while I do not
think the title in
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AN ALL L-ROUNDGENIUS.
She Runs q Cattle Ranch, q Silver
Mine and a Hospitable Home.
THEY CALL HER A CATTLE QUEEN.
Can Pick Out Horse Thief in q Crowd by
His Face and His Manner.
WITHAL SHE'S A CULTIVATED WOMAN

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsPArcH.l
WHITE OAKS, N. NJ, July 20
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LrIg photo studio, 10 and II Sixth street,
delivery. Bring the babies. IN
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WE pack and store furniture.
HAUeH q KEENAN,, 50 Water street.
wsu
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What an Apt Girl Can Do.

What an Apt Girl Can Do.
But the girl who loves to play tennis can
generally plan pretty suit, without paying
any unheard-of sum for the sake of cele-
brated artists tag on the inside of her
jacket. If she is deft at embroidery, she will
perhaps select a serviceable, sensible
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-27
CurIositIcs Of Punishment.

An examination Of the different en-
tries contained in the Machyn diary sheds
strong light on crime and criminal
punishment during the reign OF Mary,
who served the English people from 1853
to 1858.
First he mentions young fellow who
was tied to a post, "hard by the Stand
ard Chop" with collar of iron about
his neck, and soundly whipped every
two hours ''for five days by two stout
men, for the crime Of pretending to see
visions. Further on we read; "Cheken,
parson of st. Nicholas, Cold Harbor,
was this day driven about the streets of
London in cart, the parson himself
dressed in yellow gown" all Of this
because he had sold his wife to the
butcherl Was it only coincidence that
a butcher was one OF the parties to this
transaction, or was IL the intention of
"the goodly man" to have his better
half served up in roasts9 As it is now
nearly $50 years since "the parson" COM
mitted that uncanny crime, it is doubt
ful il we ever find out whether she
'went to the skillet" or not
According to other items in Machyn
ono can readily see that pIrveyors of pro-
visions were the came kind of mortals
then as they are to-day. They were in.
cllncd to palm off their base goods as
sound; TO use their arts to take in the
customer, only the punishment inflicted
when the fraud was discovered was
somewhat mere personal and severe than
it is now. Machyn says that a butcher
of that time who had exposed diseased
meat for sale "was forced to ride about
the streets of London, his face toward
the horses tail with half lamb before
and another half behind, and beef and
veal borne before him on long pole. "
Men who sold spoiled fish were put in
the pillory with decayed fish strung
about their necks.
The entry of March 3, 1857, says
"Seen Thomas, the shoemaker, soundly
thrashed at Cheapsido to-day for making
high priced boot of cheap quality of
leather. ."-St. Louis hpubiic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-27
DEHoRNrNe OF CALVES.

The most favorable time to dehorn
calves is when they are month old.
The embryo horn is then in a condition
to be easily destroyed, aud the young
animal does not suffer in the least by the
operation. This is as follows. The
hair over the small crust Of skin which
marks the spot where the horn will grow
is shaved, and the part is rubbed with
caustic potash, or the skin is removed
by means of a sharp knife. The wound
is then touched with a white hot piece
of iron, which instantly destroys the
tissue, absolutely without pain, as has
been proved beyond question by many
persons who have submitted to this
operation for the cure of disease. The
intense heat instantly destroys the nerves
of the part, and thus no pain is felt. II
the potash is used, two applications are
requireo, the second in three or -four
days after the other. As this substance
is exceedingly caustic, it is necessary to
be cautious that it does not come in con.
tact with the fingers, which should be
protected by wrapping paper around the
stick of potash. This is to be applied
after the skin is moistenei with water
Neio York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-27
PITTING POTATOES,

Where potatoes are to be kept through
the winter and are not wanted for use or
market until spring, we'll constructed
pit out OF doors is the best way to keep
them. Cellars are always too warm,
and even temperature of fifty degrees
starts the eyes whether the cellar be light
or dark. In dark cellar the potatoes
in a bin will be found grown together il
not examined frequently. In out-of-
door pits, unless the winter is extremely
warm, scarcely an eye will have started
up to the time the pit is ready to be
opened. Such potatoes for seed are
worth double what the same potatoes
would be kept so warm that each eye has
sprouted and must have its original
growth broken off. 1t stands to reason
that this first growth has greater vigor
than will anyone that starts afterwards.
The pit should only be lightly covered
and good ventilation be given up to the
time of severe freezing. Just before
that put on another coat of straw over
the whole heapaud cover with four or
five inches depth of soil. If weather
below zero is threatened in winter draw
few loads of manure from the horse
stables and give the pit another cover
ing. When thus trebly covered there is
little danger that even zero weather will
reach down to freeze the potatoes. -
Omaha Culti0at0r and Stockmdn.