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NATIVE AUSTRALIANS.
Vice and Whisky More Potential Among
Them than Civilization.

Vice and Whisky More Potential Amona
Them than Civilization.
For many years there has been an
annual distribution of blankets and
other necessaries. Mission stations
have also been established by govern
ment and private funds in different
parts of the country, where as many of
the blacks as are willing to conform to
the mild rules laid down for the con-
duct of the esta blishments are housed,
fed and taught. Their want of con-
straint, and their instinct for free,
roaming life, however, generally weigh
more heavily than does even their lik-
ing for regular rations and a lazy life.
The majority prefer to become hang
ers-on about the townships and sta
tions, eking out existence by begging
and doing odd jobs. Every station
and township has its little band of
black fellows and their gins" who
wander about in wonderful assort-
ments of the cast-off clothing of the
whites, begging from everyone, and
not always clearly distinguishing be-
tween ''meum" and ''tuum. "Bacca"
and sixpenses are what they most
favor, but nothing at all comes wrong.
The men and women are alike inor.
dinately fond of tobacco and intoxi-
cants. This fondness for drink has
had not little to do with their down
fall 1t is a pitiable sight to see the
poor creatures loafng about the hotels,
begging and praying for the madden
ing poison which they know too well is
fast destroying them.
Once having acquired the vices of the
whites, their ruin is swift. A few, but
not many, are employed as cattlemen,
shepherds, and general helps about the
stations. They are also drafted into the
police force as mounted troopers and
trackers, and have done and are doing
some splendid service in hunting down
criminals who escape to the bush.
Many are fine runners and athletes,
but since abandoning the old wild life
their prowess in these respects is
| waning.
Mission work among the blacks can
not be said to have been successful.
Undoubtedly, good work has been
done by the devoted missionaries who
have spent their lives in trying to raise
| and enlighten the native tribes. The low
| type of intellect, the shiftless, aimless
life, the wandering habits, the tradi-
| tional instincts of the aborigines, and
the too often evil example set them by
the rough settlers, have been hard to
! overcome. bers' Journal.
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MY LADY'S WRITING DESK.
Correct Modes in Stationery That Are
Given Place There.

Correct Modes in Stationery That Are
Given a Place There.
The stationery a woman uses is one
of the little things which betray her
knowledge of the world, culture, and
refinement, and especially is one of the
things about which strangers are most
unsparing in their judgment. One in
evita BILE rule can be laid down-ayoid
all lined papers; they are extremely
bad form. If you wish to make choice
of stationery that is beyond criticism
select either white or cream-tinted. It
is used by most fastidious women, for
strictly good form does not recognize
any tinted or fancy papers as possible.
1t may be rough or cream laid, ac-
cording to personal taste, and three
sizes are chosen for social correspond
ence-commercial, octave, and billet
Envelopes should be almost square,
of size to hold the paper when folded
once. Odd shapes are in as bad form
as fancy colors. From time to time
the stationers' windows blossom out in
various rainbow tints, and the popular
fancy, ever eager for something
new, selzes upon the latest novelty.
But these are things which we can only
chronicle without recommending. The
only new color this season is a peculiar
reddish heliotrope, called "highland
heather"
Either the monogram or address is
stamped at the top of the sheet paper,
in the middle. Metallic lettering, gold,
silver or bronze is the first choice, but
purple and blue are much used. The
envelopes are left plain.
The ultra-fashionable secretary. bv
the way, is in white enamel, with all
its furnishings in scarlet leather. The
big white blotter. laid over the lid, has
its corners capped in scarlet, the cut
glass ink bottle has scarlet leather
cover, the pen wiper looks like a lus-
cious red strawberry, with the chamois
concealed beneath the leaves, and a
flaming red quill is the pen. To carry
out the color effect the books which
stand upon the top of the desk are all
bound in Chicago Times.
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SMALL FRUIT FARMING.
When Wisely Conducted the Indu.t,L
Pays Fair Protits.

"nsn Wisely conducted the IDdust-I
Pays Fair Profits.
The Philadelphia Record saws. n.
make a speciality of small fruits ;s -
use less land, give the best. of cult;vs !
ton and apply manure and fertiliza,.
literally. Instances have been knowr
where as much as 81, 1000 per acre hava
been secured from one acre of strav
berries, but such results are An evca.
ton. In this section the experiaroas
growers do not wait until the season
opens, but begin work as soon "a Al.
condition of the ground permits ri
manure is to be used, nothing that i
coarse is placed on the ground. oniv
the finest and most perfectly rotta5l
material being used. If fertilizers ara
resorted to they are used before tbs
young sprouts begin to shoot out, and !
If possible, the rows are cultivated. the
object being to have the plant food
within reach of the young plants at :
time when they need it most.
In order to give the young plants .
start the land is made rich, and thew
are transplanted as early as possible
SO as to give them the advantages of tbs
spring rains. A dry spell not only in.
terferes with their growth, but cuts the
crop from the old bed shoot The
greatest enemy of the strawberry is the
weeds. 1t is easy enough to keen
them down between the rows, and 4
the bed is matted in wide row hand-
pulling must be resorted to, but If the
young plants are well worked the first
year, and the space between each plant
kept clean, the weeds can be kent
down so as to protect the matted rows
the second year. The young plants
may be put out in rows wide enough to
permit of morse culture, and should be
a foot apart in the rows. Later in the
season they will throw out runners
which will cover every square inch Of
space in the rows. The plants that are
set out this spring will bear full crou
next spring.
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Experiment with Cows.

At Purdue university experiments
made from January to March, 1898,
with three cows kept in the barn and
three exposed all night, all being fed
alike, showed that the cows exposed
TO the weather during the day ate more
food than those given shelter in the
barn; ti.ey lost in weight while the
sheltered cows gained, as well as gave
less milk, there being a difference OF
s13 dollars in favor of giving the COWS
shelter. The university director hao
large posters printed, containing the
results, which were placed in prouii..
nent places for the observation OF
farmers. The exposed cows were shei.
tered at night, while the sheltered
cows were allowed outside for an hour
on pleasant days. Shelter is cheap
mode of saving food.
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An ENGLISH NURSE,
Duties That Are Assigned In Various
Hospitals.

Duties That Are Assigned In Various
Hospitals.
The sentimentalist idea of n nurses
occupation as consisting mainly in the
gentle smoothing of pillows is now
generally disabused. The work of
nursing proper demands muscle, pluck,
and endurance, deftness and sympa-
thy, but does not in itself involve anv
serious strain to healthy and capable
women. The word nursing has come
to DC synonymous term with over
work, because the hours of continuous
duty by night and day are very long.
and also on account of the amount of
cleaning work, sweeping, dusting, and
polishing which supplements attention
to the patients
The intensity of work varies greatly
in different hospitals. and depends
much upon whether they are situated
in busy and densely-populated
centers or in quiet provincial
towns. Things adjust themselves,
however, with such nice econ
omy that, though other circumstances
may change from place to place, the
labor of the nurse will remain Just as
much as she can manage to get
through. In general hospitals, with
medical schools attached, where the
cases are acute and require much at
tention, the proportion of nurses to
patients will be comparatively high,
end the greater part OF the manual
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labor in the ward will be performed

labor in the ward will be performed
by ward servants.
In slow provincial hospitals or in
frmaries where the cases are mostly
chronic, the proportion of nurses to
patients will be low, and all the time
the nurse is not actually engaged in
necessary attention to the patients
will be filled up in various other ways
The term nursing is an elastic one, and
can be made to cover such .oc-
cupations as scrubbing, sewing,
washing bandages, and even cleaning
windows, as at Rhyl, in Wales A
good example of what seems incredi-
bly, low proportion of nurses to patents
is afforded by hospital at Harrogate,
in which there are two nurses to one
hundred and sixty beds, even suppos-
ing, as one is obliged, that the so-called
'hospital' is. in reality, to all intents
and purposes a convalescent home.
A nurse may generally count on be-
ing on her feet the whole of the time
she spends in the wards-that is to say,
ten or eleven hours, and even longer on
night duty, when the staffs are weak
and the wards small. The prevalence
of the deformity known as fat feet
among nurses bears witness to an ex-
cessive amount of standing and NOV
ing. In many institutions it is a canon
of etiquette that the nurse may never
sit down in the ward, even should she
have opportunity.-Westminster Re-
view
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NATIVE HOSPITALITY.
Henry ClaY's Admiration of the Anne rica
Housewife.

Housewife.
Henry Clay often said that it seemed
to him that American women of any
class surpassed in tact and natural
good manners the women of any other
race. One example which he gave was
the following:
During presidential campaign. after
he had addressed a mass-meeting in
Kentucky town, one of the neighbor
ing farmers invited him to dinner at an
early date to meet some of the leading
wings of the county.
When the day arrived Mr.. Clay rode
up to the farmhouse, and was surprised
to see no stir of preparation, for the
hospitable Kentuckians usually found
no banquet too rich for their beloved
leader. The farmers wife, in q home
spun gown and white apron, was feed
ing the chickens. She turned startled,
and then approached him smiling.
''lt is Mr.. Clay? Come in! Come in!
My husband will be here in moment"
She led him directly into her clean,
cheerful kitchen, and blew the horn to
summon her husband and sons. giving
them warning look as they entered.
81 knew" Mr.. Clay said, "there was
blunder somewhere. But there was
no hint of it in my hostess's manner as
soe soon after composedly placed the
single dish of food on the table, and
invited us to be seated. The dish was
pigs jowl and cabbage, and it was ex-
ceedingly well cooked. I never en-
joyed a meal more or listened tc better
talk. When it was over, and we men
had smoked our pipes, I prepared to
mount my horse. The farmers wife
then came out.
"'You will dine with US tomorrow,
and meet the politicians as you prom
ised, Mr.. Clay?" she said. we are so
honored and grateful by your coming
to us, alone, to-day
THE next day large company of
men sat down to royal dinner. But
l enjoyed the jowl and cabbage most.
1t had the flavor of the finest hospi-
tality."
Most American women have had en-
barrassing experiences in social emer-
| gencies. Perhaps none was ever more
| trying than the adventure of lady
| noted in New York society for her
| courtesy and savoir faire.
One winter day she started on tho
train for Philadelphia, taking her seat
in what she supposed was an ordinary
parlor car. There was but one other
occupant, somewhat stout man who
sat with his back to her. Presently he
lighted cigar and began to smoke.
The lady coughed and moved uneasily,
but her hints had no effect. She said
at last tartly:
''You probably are foreigner, sir,
and do not know that there is smok.
ing-car attached to the train. Smoking
is not permitted here"
The man without reply threw his
cigar out of the window.
A few minutes later the conductor
entered and started at her in dismay
How did you come here, madame"
he inquired.
'Why-where am I?'
''1n Gen. Grants private car"
The mortified lady's usual tact failed
her here. She looked at the dumb,
immovable figure, and retreated with
out a word.-Youth's Companion.
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Wagner's Early Life.

-Wagner's stepfather was named
Geyer. and until almost grown Wag-
ner himself went by that name. Geyer
wanted to make a painter of young
Richard, but the latter could never
learn to draw. His gift for music was
first suspected from his learning to
play bits from the Freischutz. His
first determination, made before he
was ten, was to be poet, and by the
time he was eleven he had written a
grand tragedy in five acts. Forty-two
of the characters died by various vio-
lent means during the first four acts,
and he found himself compelled to bring
about dozen of them back as ghosts
in order to keep the fifth act moving to
a proper conclusion.
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The Game of Reviewers"

4 new game is brought out this win
ter modelled after the old one called
consequences. This is called "The Re-
viewers" and is played as follows:
Every member of the party is provided
with sheet of note paper. A writes
the title (real or Imaginary of book,
folds it down and passes it to B, who
gives it an author, covers it and gives
the paper to c, who adds a motto. D
writes an opinion of the press, E a Sec
ond, all that has gone before being un-
known to the players. The writer's
then change places and papers are
passed round once more, so that there
may be fresh reviewers for each paper.
Finally the papers are read out aloud.
st. Louis Globe. Democrat.
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INFLUENCE OF BREED.
An Important Claim That Has Been vers-
fed by Exper ience.

An Important Claim That Has Been yeri-
fed by Experience.
1t is settled fact that there are ami
mails that possess the quality Of a more
perfect assimilation of food for the pro-
duction of milk than others, and it is
not unreasonable to suppose that Ger.
tain breeds possess this quality to
greater degree than others.
Under what may be termed average
conditions an animal is of little or no
use to the owner unless he is able to de-
rive a profit by keeping it. In the dairy
good animal is the one that will
protitably convert feed into milk, but
ter or cheese. In this, quantity is not
the only consideration, neither is quail.
ity. Both are important, but the cost
is rather more important than all else.
There must be a liberal quantity and
the quality must be good. At the same
time both must be secured at cost
that will leave fair per cent. of profit
If rightly managed. And there is more
certainty of doing this with certain
breeds than with others. There may
be individual animals in all breeds that
excel in some essentials, as there are
others that fail almost as regularly.
Yet, generally, there are breeds that as
a class can be depended upon to convert
their excess of food, the amount over
and above what is necessary to sustain
animal life, to milk and cream, and this
characteristic is in the breed to an ex.
tent that it can be depended upon to
transmit this quality from parent to
offspring.-Prairie Farmer.
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OId-Fashioned Currant Dumplinrs,

Oldfashioned currant dumping,
boiled in cloth, is seldom seen on our
tables, and yet it is generally favor
lite, and will be found just the thing to
vary the desserts. 1t is made thus:
Into pint of flour, sifted, with heap
ing teaspoonful of baking powder and
half q teaspoonful of salt, rub a large
teacupfui of fnely-chopped beef suet
and the same of currants, washed thor.
oughly and dried in cloth; now with
a fork stir into this enough very cold
water (about third of cupful) to
make rather soft, biscuit-like dough.
Put this into a Toured canton-hannel
cloth, rough side out, allowing room to
swell; tie closely with stout string
and pop it into potful of boiling water;
cook for three hours and do not let the
water stop boiling for a moment; re-
plenish from the hot teakettle. It
should turn out a light, appetizing-
looking ball. Half a cupful of granu.
lated sugar may be rubbed through the
-four if liked; if not, the soft white
sauce should be well sweetened. Flavor
the latter with nutmeg or ya1iIls-Ht
touis Rspublic
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A Solicitous Friend.

"Can you let me have five dollars to.
day, Bellefeld?"
'Well, Bloomfield, I'm little afraid
to let you have any of the five-dollar
bills have now. They have all been
in circulation quite awhile, and are not
as clean as when they left the cash
factory. Doctors and scientists say
that bank notes are regular breeding
grounds for microbes. I'd hate to be the
means of loading you up with bacteria,
you know, and giving you job lot Of
diseases. When 1 get "a brand new
fve-6ollar bill I'll let you know
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
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|II.5)l=i5I7Zg 7Zg1}11

out rapidly. The illustration shows q
practical plan to overcome both the OBJ
jectionable points. Place box within
the crib with the top and front side re-
moved. Place it tight against the side
from which the corn is to be removed.
Remove the stats of the corncrib in
front of the box aud substitute from
three to five posts. The side of the box
need not be over a foot high. Corn by
this means can be easily and rapidly
removed, as the corn will drop into the
box only as fast as removed. Farm
and Home.
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What the Farmers Want.

No farmer objects to having gooa
roads, but he does object to being taxed
outrageously for them. If the expense
is borne by the state and not by as
sessment or direct tax, there are lew
of the agricultural class but wnas
would gladly support any measurs
that would gradually insure improves
highways --AmsyiGsn Farmer.
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A Fine After-Dinner Sneaker.

Col. Brown" remarked a chappie,
sis the finest after-dinner speaker
know Of"
Why" said his friend, in some as
tonishment, 81 never heard he had any
ability in that direction at all.''
We'll, he has; I've dined with him
several times at various places, and
after dinner he always says: That's
all right, my boy, I'll pay for it. De
troit Free Press
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A Moment of Embarrassment.

''Smithers is discouraged about his
love affair"
whats happened?"
''He was in the act of proposing last
night when the girls mother and father
came in."
"What did Smithers do?"
stopped short, of course"
"What did the girl do?"
"She said, What were you saying,
Mr. Smithers| Life.
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MlD-WlNTER MILLINERY.
Hat, Mum and Wrap Are Now Frequently
Made to Match.

Hat Mum and Wrap Are Now Frequently
Made to Match.
That many women prefer having
the hat and gown of the same material
is demonstrated by the fact that lead
ing milliners are showing what are
designated in the fashion world as
millinery SETS" These consist of hat
and muff made to correspond entirely
with the wrap or gown of the fair
wearel', Most of the hats are made of
plaS~au of cloth either single or dou-
BILE. according to individual taste.
Where there are two colors in the cos
tune the hat is constructed SO that the
more becoming color comes next the
face; sometimes this shade is used sim
ply as a garniture. Made with care
and taste these sets are extremely
stylish and are especially suitable
for the mid-winter season. They are
easily made at home, although the
safer plan-one by which an effective
and chic finish is assured-is to
put the selections of materials and
style and the making into the hands of
good milliner. The muff worn with
as they are intended for use, not for
ornament alone, and should be simply
made. A cloth muff can be lined with
satin or moire (of which about three
eighths of yard is required), and a
little pocket put at the top between the
outside and lining will be found very
convenient for holding handkerchief
and purse. If desired, the muff can be
finished with a full ruffle Of silk or
wide moire ribbon. With gray gown
trimmed with black is hat of gray
cloth with black and gray ribbon
rosettes, two mercury wings coming
out at the front, and three tiny tips
of mottled black and gray rest
ing in back on the hair. The muff
going with this is of gray cloth,
having lining and ruffle of black satin
and strong black silk cord by which
it is suspended round the neck. Fine
Persian fur trims some of the pretty
plateaus, which will always retain
their popularity because of their plia.
bility.
A most becoming and effective bon.
net is made of poppy-colored. MORE vel
vet, the brim being bordered with a
trimming of jet PALLETS. Two wings
of black net spangled with jet orna.
ment the front of the bonnet, an
aigrette and couple of black rosettes
being set in the center. Around the
crown is twist of black velvet, which
is tied in bow at the back and termi.
mates in long strings.
A picturesque hat of brown velvet
has it's briln, which is overlaid with
cream gulpure, cut sharply on the
right side. A torsade of velvet is
passed around the crown and secured
at intervals with small rhinestone or
naments, the only other trimming be
ing a couple OF brown plumes set on
the side of the hat and fastened by q
loop of -clvet which passes beneath the
brim and ends in graceful bow.
An exquisite little opera bonnet is
also shown. 1t is SO simple in CON
struction that almost any clever home
milliner should be able to duplicate it
1t is simply coronal of jet pailettes
over which is disposed an artistic bow
of rose satin ribbon. The strings are
of black velvet.-Chicago Times.
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Why He Lacked STYLE.

Housekeeper-Now. you just get out
Tramp-You shouldn't judge of me
by me disheveled appearance, mum.
came to town i'll a sleeping-car, and
neglected to fee the porter, mum. IN
Y. Weekly.
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-Harry-"I have half a mind never
to speak to You again :" Henrietta-''I
always believe just half what you say.
Harry. and I'm willing to admit what
you say about half mind Boston
Transcript.
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FEEDING FROM CRIB.

Practical Plan to Overcome Several Oh
lectionable Features.
Stock feeders are often troubled in
removing corn from the crib, because
of the corn sliding out on the ground
or the aperture through which the corn
Is taken being too small to be taken
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-Gallus divorced his wife because
she ran about with her head bare;
Vetus got rid of his because he saw
her talking with freed woman;
Sophus, because she went to the thea
ter; Amillius Paulus, because he did
not like her.
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AN UnfashionabIe Mother.

Mrs. De Style-What's the matter,
my little man?
Boy-Boo-hoo! I'm cryin' cause my
mother is so questionable.
Poor child! Is she so dowdyish as to
make you weep?'
"Yes'm. She wears common leather
slippers. Good News.
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-Schumann's father was a book.
seller, who gave his son all the assist
ance he could in the musical studies
the boy adopted almost from infancy.
At tive young Schumann began the
piano; attwelye he was writing operaa
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-Frank-"Did Maude finally break
off her engagement with George be.
cause he went to the Kelley cure?"
Mayo. no; but after his return he
broke it of. ff."-TQwn Topics.