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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18
nuLLrYG RICE,

these take the punches and set them
out in rows OF from four to six plants in
a bunch, and so that there are from
1900 to 5000 punches in an acre. This
planting is done about the first of June.
The plants begin to grow at once, and
within few weeks the land Of Japan,
from being rough aud brown, has become
a most beautiful green. The country has
a climate which is extremely favorable to
agriculture. 1t is so moist and warm 10
the summer that the rice fields are like
so many hot beds, aud after planting the
only thing that is necessary to do is to
to see that they are kept free from weeds
and are well watered. The farmers watch
them as carefully as an old maid does her
pet flower bed. You may at any time
see men trotting along under big hats
watching closely every plant, aud If one
is out of shape, too deep in the water, or
not deep enough, they will push them
down or pull the mud up to them in such
a way that every plant produces its best
product.
SThe labor OF planting rice field is very
great. II you will take all the blades or
sprouts in field OF oats or grain and put
them down in the ground again with a
dibble or your hands, you may get sor,e
idce of the labor raising rice.
"a It is the same with the harvesting.
II is also done by hand. The rice bios.
SONS in September, and about the end
Of September or the first Of October, and
in some parts Of Japan still later, the
harvest is ripe. The sickle is used and
the rice is cut off close to the ground and
tied near the roots In small punches,
which are hung over poles to dry. The
rice is about as high as our oats when it
is still in the field, and it has to be
pulled from the straw and husked be-
fore it can be used. If you will take
bundle Of oats and pull them through &
cross.cut saw, fastened to piece of
wood about the hight Of table, so that
all the grains Of oats are pulled of, you
will get fair idea Of how the Japanese
get their rice from the straw. 1t is still
in the shell, however, and this husk or
shell has to be taken of before it can be
used. One OF the most common arrange
ments for getting this off is an immense
mortar, in which the rice grains are put
aud pounded with wooded pestle until
the hulls and kernels are separated. Then
the mixture Is put into a winno wing
machine, sad this is turned by hand to
separate the rice from the chat. Many
Of the farmers have Little rice mills which
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A SINGERS FACE DOCTOR.

Patti has a face doctor, a woman
whose duty is to keep PATHS facc
smooth and free from wrinkles. The
face doctor has n little curtained
boudoir TO which Patti repairs, and
with the full glare of MONDAY upon
hcr the face doctor looks for every in-
cipient line and possible blemish.
This Is Immediately removed by mas
sage, stcaming, or unguents as the
occasion requires. This woman studies
the peculiarities of PATHS skin as a
physician would study his patients
constitution. For il in n
mysterious laboratory at the
the back of her rooms she prepares
lotions, powders and soaps especially
for tho singers use. She has re-
sponded to summonses to Craig-y-nos,
and ii is said that this year Patti will
take her face doctor with her to her
castle in Wales. -rNew York Sun.
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The Peculiar Mexicans.

"There is one popularity about the
Mcxicans in their social and family re-
lations which doubt to exist among any
other people on the globe" said p. L.
He'll, of chihuahua, Mexico. "Whie
it is true that majority of those occupy.
ing the highest social and political posi-.
tions in the country are descendants Of
the proud old aristocratic Spaniards, yet
it is equally true that good many others
of wealth and acknowledged leadership
have come up from the lower ranks by
some sudden turn Of the wheel OF fortune
or eruption of evolution. Unlike the
American, the Mexican who acquires
fame and fortune never forgets or neg
lects his poor kin. And, unlike the
American again, he treats his more i'm.
pecuuious relatives in queer way. He
takes them into his household as servants,
giving to them the most menial service,
but never denying the relationship or
attempting to conceal it. know Of
many instances where a rich Mexican's
mother is his cook, his sister his house
girl and his father or brother his butler.
The American would either disown them
altogether or put them on equal footing
with himself. In this regard, you must
admit, the democracy of Mexico is purer
than that so loudly boasted OF in this
country. Louis Globe Democrat.
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THE LABOR WORLD,

THERE are 1900 laborers in Detroit
Mich.
lHtRE are nearly 1900 stitches in pair of
hanu-sewn boots.
IN Ohio laws have been enacted prohibit
ing shaving on sunday.
FARM latorers in Italy get but twenty
cents day on an average.
The Brotherhood OF Railway Trainmen
has membership % about 49, 100
The convention OF the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers met this year in
Atlanta, Ga.
IN Philadelphia the cabinst makers havs
succeeded IN reducing their daily working
hours TO nine.
In the rice fields Of northern Italy women
wade to their knees twelve hours at a stretch
Tor ten cents.
OVER one million children ara at present
employer IN the mills and factories of the
United States.
AN influx OF English potters is looked for
IN trenton IN. j. this summer on account Of
the Stanordshire strike IN England, where
25, 900 men are out.
WEE 200 granite cutters working a num-
Der OF New England quarries were locked ont
Tor ceman0ing that their yearly agreement
should be signed by their bosses at the regu
lar time.
AT the dctaton of the men put In mower
by the unionists in Australasia all immigra.
tion into the colony is prohibited, 50 that the
thousan Is OF people now uuem2lo yed rhsre
may have an opportunity TO fini work.
IN the telegraph service OF the United
States, 1t Is estimated that 1900 msu and
women are at present employed Toe lenyth
OF wire IN use is over 9)0,0)0 miles and the
capital invested Is stated 10 bs at least SlOO.-
1000.
CAPTAIN MITCHELL, OF Chicago. known
famiiiar.y as "Old Mitch" Is said to be the
oldest sleeping car porter in service on the
road. He Is sixty-eight Years old and has
been employed by the Pullman Company tor
seventeen years.
PRESIDENT CLARK of the Union Pacia,
kairoaJ, began life as brakeman on a
gravel train. He is particularly popular
with all the labor organzations and no
trouble has ever arisen from thess sources
since he became manager.
LAST year 1884 people, most of whom were
railway employees, were killed in this coun.
try IN railroad accidents, and 30, OBS were
wounded The number OF killed in England
were 1918 and 472l wounded; in France $40
were killed and 100 wounded, aud in Prussia
the number OF Killed was Az, while 1907
were wounded.
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has on iron point for plowshare, but
there Is no loam-board, nor any arrange-
ments for turning furrows or for plow.
ing deep or shallow at will. The farmer
carries his plow with him on his shoulder
to the field, walking behind his bullock,
and he does not hope to do anything
more than break the surface with it.
The chief part Of the work is done with
the spade or with the mattock. This
last has short handle, aud you see all
over Japan during the springtime men
and women standing up to their knees
In water and digging up the ground with
these great hoes.
The first thing in rice. planting is the
nursery. This is usually made In the
corner OF the field and the seed is sown
In it. The bed has been first covered
with manure, and IL is always the richest
part OF the farm. AS soon as the grourd
has been prepared the seed is scattered
over its surface by hand, and the water
is then let out from the irrigation canals
so that 1t covers the bed for depth of
few inches. There is great care in the
selection of the seed, and it is sometimes
kept under water several days before.
hand. Four or five days after the seed
has been sown 1t begins to sprout, and
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about five weeks later the young rice
plants have grown up and are ready for
transplanting. During the planting
scarecrows are put up in the field, and
the Japanese scarecrow always has bow
and arrow, which tits supposed frighten
the birds away.
In the meantime the farmer has put
his rice lands in order. His beds are
made at different levels, and he has seen
that little earth walls have been thrown
up around the divisions of his fields and
has arranged his canals so that he can
let the water from one place to another
as he pleases. He ha, been manuring
the ground throughout the winter, and
he has made it rs level as the floor. He
has flooded it with water, aud it is as
soft as mush when he is ready to plant.
He now takes his shoots from the nursery,
ties them into bunches of size that you
can easily take in your hand, and then
wading through the field, scatters them
singly right and left over the water
where they are needed. lie has number
of men and women to help him plant, aud
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the rose, and Its fields are greener than
those of the Valley of the Nile. The
whole country looks like garden, and
Japanese farming is more like market.
gardening than bonanza agriculture.
The country is divided up into small
holdings, and few acres suffice to sup
port family. The people do not In
many cases live upon their farms. You
find little villages Of one and two story
cottages thatched with straw along tho
roads, and from these people 60 out to
the fields, and men, women and children
work together in them. A surprising
thing about the farm lands to us is the
absence of barns. The japanese would
look upon the big barns Of New York,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio as so many Bud
dhist temples, and they would get down
on their knees and bump their heads
against the ground as they past them.
The crops are generally taken from the
fields to the markets, and such grain as is
kept is stored about the house. The
japanese do not require barns as we do.
They keep but little stock, and in four
fifths of Japan you will not see COW
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18
DRESS OF ITALIAN FrsuERwoyES.

DRESS OF ITALIAN FTSHERWONEN.
The chief feature of the dress of
the women of the Italian coast fishers
Is double skirt. the lower portion of
which hangs rather scantily about
their feet. The upper skirt is often
booked up at the front and sides,
forming sort of bag. In this they
carry seawced, fuel, fish or shell-f ish
from the sands; and when not in such
use 1t is drawn up over the shoulders
and back Of the head as a sort of
wrap. Mothers also wrap this skirt
about their babies when needing to
carry them for any distance. The
material is usually the coarsest white
cotton, but IL the women can possess
any sort Of holiday attire, the upper
skirt may be of scarlet, yellow or
green, loopcd most gracefully above
the lower skirt aud surmounted by a
black cloth, or, IN rare instances, q
coarse velvet bodice. They rarely
wear any foot covering, and only such
hca | covering as is supplied by the
folds Of the upper skirt.-[New
Orleans Picayune.
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sLoaING SHOULDERS IN STYLE.

'hpt INV oii'N NIbEho IN oI1 LIZ.
Sloping shoulders, one of a woman's
good points, have of late been but
little recorded, but they are again
coming to the fore, inasmuch as fash
tonable mantles (not paletots) are
made to fall plainly on the shoulders,
and entirely without any puff The
line of beauty is scarcely thus at
tained, as the fulness of the dress
sleeve makes an impress on the
mantle. The fashionable idea-broad
shou'dcrs-is attempted in every pos.
sible way, aud to attain it even the
elimncss of the waiat is al andoned.
The cape is the best help in this re-
epect, and the name includes every
variety of mVntle, exclusive of the
paletot. The cape proper is a round
pelcrine cut in one piece and reaching
to the knees; the top can have several
graduated collars, a short pelernc,
ruohings or a hood. The more or
less eccentric deviaiions show two,
three or more rows of large collars.
--rSt. Louis Republic.
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THE SPRING GIRL.

Every right-minded woman can
regulate her temperature in accor-
dance with her ideas of what the
weather ought to be, and when it Is
time for spring things she puts them
OIL regardless of the mercury. The
spring girl is tall, superbly tall. Sho
has to be TO wear the striped skirt she
affects with its lines zigzagging
around her OH the cross. The skirt is
dark rather than light in color, to con-
trast happily with tho palest tan, and
is just long enough to make carrying
IL in the hand imperative, for beneath
the skirt is the bright bit of color in
the petticoat that complete the CO.'S
tune as high lights finish picture.
The coat has rough, ragged edges,
very smart mannish reveres, and two
rows of white pearl buttons as big as
plates. The hat is of straw in four
in-hand shape, with sparkling paste
buckle in front and pert, indepcnd-
ent sort of bow in the back. That is
dark, too, for the thing the girl really
wants You to notice about the dress is
the smartncss of the coat and the
bright of the gay rullles beneath
the edges of the train. A spring girl
without a tightly rolled blue or red
club-handled umbrella, pair of Rus
sian red gloves and a bunch of viole,s
or one American rose on her breast,
would be as much of u failure as tho
Star-Spangled Banner with the stars
left out of the blus field.-IDetroit
Free Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
TRAINING MILITARY NuRsEs.

In ,lie school for tho training of
military nurses established by the
Princess Hohenohe, in Srassburg,
the princess shares alike with all
members of tho class in everything
they arc called to do, from binding u
broken leg TO answering tho test
questions of tho examining corps of
physicians. The princess is woman
of sixty, of strong nerves aud splen-
did health, an excellent shot, being
especially fond of boar hunt, aud a
fine horscwoman.-lBoston Cultiva-
dor.
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from one years end to the other. They
have but few horses, and the most. of the
labor is done by hand. The fields are
sometimes plowed with bullocks, but
they are more often spaded or dug over
with a great mattock. and in the cultiva.
tion Of rice nearly everything is done by
hand.
The work begins about the 1st Of
April, when the ground is broken up
with the hoe or the plow. II the plow
is used 1t is drawn by bullock, and the
plow itself is for oil the world like that
used in Egypt in the time OF Pharaohs.
It 10 Of wood, and Is more like . forksd
stick than . good American 2low. It
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18
THE NATIONAL GAME.


WBrEwAsHEs are frequent enough this
season.
Tpr pos,o,o ox,oo, - ,r;,, ,,o ,.
without trouble
Kelly 10 do;,, ,,ost NJ t,,a co,c,,,,, ,o-
The Rosto, ,san, " ''' 'o'
p,,,,,,,',.
a, tITchER GALV1N, OF Pittsburg, Is In his
4, os pro0kIyn' oatteu sateiy In every
one oi MS hrss eieveh games
The Boston team so far leads all the
League teams In base-running.
RYAN, Of Chicago, is probably the best
throwing outfielder In the profession.
Aysoy. of Chic,gn has fpaIIv reo,,xaI
the value of hunt hitting AMI ia nract,c;ng
his men mt Il daily.
McA,rrp ~ cio,.,o,a ..,.o, ..,...
the New Yorks in a recent game from
second base. on a hit 10 the pitcher.
Hrrcu,xsov % chio,, 40, p,,.,. -,
New YnrS tha t,vS, nsass ,',,o, JnJ s AZ ~.
countrv Jas, saason 40 Iii, ,, 20 go, ~. '"0
So, ,, u 's" ou' y. 'o'"'
ronr sho,Yi,, ~, Nv. VIe, tne psceI.
lama arm ar5 hoois 80 -. 20 ,, ..s,'w
' 'a'n a"u iae" y. 'ea"i "o'A'
lHE hrst base ball fatility OF tho season oc-
Gur,eu at Dover, ". H., when Jones Kicker
uleu from injuries received while sliding TO
the nome plate.
SENATORS HIGGIvs, WoLcoTT AND Du-
BoIs, who are frequently among the spec
their college mines.
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You MUST BE sMARrLY sHop.

To be smartly gowned avails us
nothing, If Mt the same time we are
not smartly shod; and as shoes vary
so little in their style, almost every
thing depends upon their shape. OF
two sorts to bo especially recon-
mended, one is black cloth with finest
French kid foxings, and the other is
the Louis XVI. shoe. These last are
made in undressed or glace kid, and
have small buckles in jet or cut steel
George III. stock buckles in fine mar
quisates are used on slippers and low
shoes to be worn with handsome tea
gowns or at garden parties, when peo-
pie are expected to be elab-
orately attired. A carriage boot
of finest kid with patent
leather foxings is smartly brogued.
and has the high heels 60 undesirable
in walking-boot. Bronze shoes have
their placcs, which is, however, q
limited one. 1t is affirmed that the
gray and pale-fawn undressed kid
shoes will be worn again this summer
with drossy promenade costumes, the
gloves matching these shoes in kind
aud color. Five o'clock tea-shoes are
made to order, to match the tea-frock
which difsrs from tho prinesss .ss,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.

The Democratic convention of the Fourth
Ohio Congressional district renominated
Hon. f. G. Layton by acclamation.
l.. A. Tucker was nominated for congress
by the Peoples party of Crawford Co., Pa.
The Republicans of the Fourth congress
sional district Of Kansas, nominated Charles
Il. Curtis for Congress.
The Democratic congressional convention
Of the Fifth Missouri district renominated
John C. Tarsney by acclamation.
The Democrats of the Second Indiana
District have renominated Congressman
Brett.
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of all the revenues Of JAPANESE PLow.
Japan are gotten from the farmers and
farm industries.
The Japanese are among the best
farmers of the world. They understand
how to use manures and fertilizers, and
they have brought irrigation down to a
science. For more than 1000 years they
have titled the same soil over and over
again, and to-day the land blossoms like
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18
FASHION NOTES.
Free Press.

Capotes and toques grow smaller
is size.
The Vatican plcat, according to
Partisan edict. must be worn only on
tea gowns and evening dresses. A
modification is made in favor of dust
and driving c,oaks of silk.
Jewels of color, gold embroidery,
spangles and pearls, that were used
last season on gowns aud bonnets, are
to bc worn again this year.
A Russian belt of silver with a
Kremlin buckle is among the girdIes
of fashion.
Trout silks is the suggestive name
given to tho new changeable shot
silks, blue with yellow, green with
blue, pink with gray, blue with
yellow brown.
Silk blouses of surah and Chinese
silks are worn with wool skirts and
underneath wool coats.
Narrow ribbons are wound around
the crowns of Tyrolean hats.
Roscttes of narrow ribbon are placed
under the low fiat brims Of shade
hats.
Cloth Of gold gauze for embroidered
bonnet crowns.
Les bagnes is the poctical name for
a new crimped chiffon.
The Incroyable only is wanting in
the group of fashionable styles Wat
teau, Rocco, Empire.
Hercules braid bordered by tubular
braid is suitable trimming for cloth
gowns.
The tourists parasol unscrews, so
that it can bo put in the trunk.
Ecru linen batistes have returned
and will be used for blouscs during
the summer.
Flowers for the hat arc arranged as
aigrettes.
Point dc Gene is the lace for French
batistes.
Among the revivals are the old-time
rings in hoop shape set with dia-
monds. The diamonds are placed in
a row with just gold enough to form
n setting.
An attractive and novel design for a
pin is stile,to in Roman gold, to
which 10 attached a sheath and chain.
Tho dagger which forms the pm is
stuck through the lace and then slipped
into the sheath, the chain connecting
the two. The hilt, which is in the
form of a cross, is set with sapphires.
Busy women are preparing summer
waists of black India silk; comfort
waists they call thcm. These are made
with shirred yoke, or with narrow
tucks, and have full-topped slcvees
and ruffie below the belt, or they
may be drawn in at tho waist-line,
with the skirt portion to be worn un-
der the dress-skirt.
For evening wear, gloves In dark
shades are no longer worn; they must
be Of finely glazed kid, in pearl, cream
or lemon shades. Gloves for outdoor
wear are generally made of antelope
akin, a. 1t 10 30 soft aud pliable; the
same skin 10 used largely In the manu-.
facturs Of purses, pockeibooks, etc.
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gown in being short oil around Chat
is, it has no train), and in being quite
tight fitting, and worn with an EN-
pire waist that is made to look short
wasted to absurdity by its wide sash,
whose top folds reach to the armpits.
New York Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18

Ross WNANs, the American millionaire
sportsman, u being sued by the Trustees Of
Sir James Mackenzie from whom be reuts
an immenss deer forest In lnvSrnesA Scot
land, for allowing his ksspsss to drive 600
red dssr of the grounds IN sn unsportemal-
Nke fashion. WinAus contends he did u
because his estate Is ovsrstocksd with der.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18

outside OF Christendom. We are our
selves the chief meat eaters OF the world,
and we have the idea that man can
not do good work without meat. The
farmer of China and Japan works twelve
hours every day on rice diet, and I
have been pulled all day in jinrikshas by
bare-legged men who ran at the rate of
five miles an hour, and who ate nothing
but rice aud pickles to keep them going.
Some of the strOnges. men in the world
are the japanese wrestlers, whose fat
and muscle are made entirely from rice;
and in siam they take baby of few
months old and it begins the rice food,
which it takes to the day Of its death.
The japanese look upon rice as we do
upon wheat. Our expression "as good
as wheat is with them "as good as
rice" and for long time all the taxes
of the country were paid in rice, and
rice was practically the money of Japan.
Now the Emperor collects his taxes in
the same way that we do. He has in
stituted banking system much like
Al
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18
SEVEN PERSONS surrocArEp.
They Were Asleep When a Fire Broke
Out in tho House

BERLIN, May ii-scven persons have been
sufrccated by the burning of house at
Krefeld, Rhenish, Prussia. They were
asleepst the time the flames broke out, and
were smothercd by the smoke while en-
deavoring TO make their escape.
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that OF our NatioLai
banks, but the
money received by
the Government is
largely the result of
the taxes on rice,
and eighty per cent.
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RICE In JAPAN.
RAISING THE BnEADsrUFr OF
THE FAR EAST,
Great Care and Labor Necessary to
Produce Crop-Queer japan.
csc Plows - Threshing
and Hulling lticc.

ICE, says Frank G..
Carpenter in the Am
eIcan Farmer, is the
bread Of the Far
East, and Of all the
people in the world
ore.third grow up,
work, and die on
little else than a rice
diet. The Chinese,
the japanese, and the
East Indians know
nothing of bakers
bread, and wheaton
-four is hardly used
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-18
Tho League Record,

The following table shows the standing Of
the various base ball clubs: