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THAT BLACK SILK norv

a plain black gown, fashionably cut,
is blessing to the woman who owns
1t. 1t may be made of any of the new
black silks, crystalline, Pekin stripe.
MORE or Persian gro grain. Such n
gown made with a plain full skirt
and bodice equally plain, but with
enormous sleeves, may be transformed
many times with but little expense and
trouble. just a stock collar of bright
velvet gives it n pretty, fresh touch.
A yoke of lace Van Dyke points in adj
dition to stock and belt Of velvet will
transform it into n theatre costume
not to be despised
Jet is always an effective trimming
for n black gown, and in combination
with ioweled passementerie is very
elegant.
A plain gown of black silk which
was made in hurry for theatre
party had the yoke outlined by n band
of old rose and gold gallon. From this
hung deep fringe Of jet. The sleeves
were crowned with epaulettcs of the
Jet fringe, and stock collar of old
rose velvet completed the charming
effect. The little bonnet, which was
also put together in a hurry. was
formed OF butterAy-shaped bow of
old rose velvet, the wing-Iike looms
being covered with tracery Of lief.
New York World.
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A Great Well.

At Bourne, in Lincolnshire, England,
at depth of sixty-six feet, water i'm
pregnated with iron was encountered
but this chaly beate liquid was exclud.
ed as the tubes we're carried deeper.
Some twelve feet lower the main
spring was tapped, and the water rose
very slowly up the tube, and it was
twenty four hours before the water
ovcrhowed. As the depth increased,
so did the volume of the ascending
current; and by the time the we'll had
reached the depth of 100 feet the flow
was 1900 gallons per minute, or -
S72, 900 gallons per day
Although this was an enormous flow.
yet the engineers thought that by CO.
ing a little deeper still larger supply
would be available. Numerous cases
are on record where, under similar
circumstances, the deepening of tho
well hos resulted in complete failure.
II will be readily understood thu IN
such instances increased boring mas
carried the well through the non-por-
Gus rock upon which the water bear
ing layer rested, thus allowing the
water 30 escape With the Bourne
well, however, the deepening of the
bore hole had the desired effect, for ut
depth of 100 feet the outflow in
creased g. 1900 gallons per minute, or
no less than 1922, 900 gallons per day.
--Chamberss Journal.
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DoN'r SELL TIE OLD 1nnar

The following words are from tbe
Indiana Farmer: Before Offering the
old horse for sale, we wish that
farmers would think n little of bis
probable fate il he is 20 unfortunate
as TO be sent to the city. The faith.
ful old animal deserves better fate than
TO fall into the hands of some parLago
man or rag dealer, rs he is most likely
to do if brought here.
Just now VIC snw poor, starved.
bony, supernunuatcd creature. driven
by a ragged old cDlored man 10 q
rlckety wagon, in which was n load of
some unknown substance, hidden from
view by largo piece of dirty muslin.
The prominent bones Of the horse
bore evidence of scnut feeding and
hard treatment II seems that officers
should interfere with such cases and
cause the animal 60 boz shot and pnt
out OF tho possibility OF such suffer
ing, as he will inevitably he subjected
TO IN such handy The colored man
bought him because he was diseased.
worn ont -acap. He is not able
70 feed him properly and ought not to
have him. The other day such horse.
because he was too faint and feeble to
pull his load, was beaten and then
knocked down i'm the street. The
driver was arrested, we believe, and
lined for his cruelty, but the poor
starved and beaten horse got but little
comfort out of that fact.
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M1ny-Sfded.

These persons who believe that he
who is able to do one thing perfectly
would find IL possible to do other
things better than the average man
or woman, would Ind support for the
theory in the capabilities OF the actor
Kean.
One day he was riding along the
Strand on Il fast horse which pranced
and curveted in somewhat n arm
ing manner.
y Take care" called friend.
You're a good actor, but"
But what" asked Kcan. You
evidently don't know that l was paid
$50 last year, at Brighton, for break
ing three horses"
AT another time n friend who
heard that he was about TO give read :
ings from Milton, said TO him:
''kean, stick To Shakespeare.
"Don'u NEEDLE with Milton"
why not?" asked Keau IL gave
readings from Milton three time a
week at Exmouth."
lie seemed to be universal gen.
Jus. He had been fenc ng-mastcr,
dancing master, singer, and at one
time proposed setting up a school.
That he aid not do 50 wa, only the
fault OF circumstances; none who
knew him doubted that the oject
would have been successful. Youths
Companion.
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THE SCIENCE OF HOME LIFE.

The new science, Oikology, or the
science of home life, has to do with
the physical side of the house, and
concerns itself with such vital subjects
as plumbing, heating, and ventilation,
bacteria, purity of foods, housekeep-
ing, etc. Mrs. Tobey, of Boston, who
is trying to interest women in the
height and depth and length and
breadth of the science, has been lectur-
ing on Bacteria as Friends, Bacteria
as Foes, "Pasteur and His Work, +"
Sanitary Bedrooms" Household
Pests and Best Methods of Extermina-
ting Them, TESTS for the Purity of
Milk and Water" and other domestic
questions.-New York Post.
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wRETcnEp CHINESE WOMEN.

''The lie of Chinese woman must
he something in the nature of an af
Fiction. She is of little value, save
as worker. Young girls are seldom
educated, and those of the lower
classes are not infrequently sold as
slaves to married men and families.
AS in Japan, the marriages are man
aged by go-between. The betrothals
are sometimes made when the pair are
infants. They do not see each other
until the marriage ceremony is per
formed. The wife, in higher class
circles, leads life of seclusion, never
going anywhere, doing her husbands
every bidding without question. Yet
they are quite Industrious. In form,
face and costume, they are not pleas.
ing. Their long, baggy trousers, long
gown and stumpy feet, would be sui,
ticlent to make guy of any woman,
to say nothing of woman possessing
the additional advantages of n com.
plexion like au ancient lemons and
features which look as if they had
been shaped in the dark with rusty
axe. "-Lenz's World Tour Awheei,
Outing.
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BUILDING STACK OF CORN FODDER.

BUILDING A STACK or CORN FODDER.
Corn fodder may be stacked when
it is so we'll cured in the shock that it
will not sweat much in the stack, thus
insuring its keeping sweet. The
amount of sap remaining in the stalk
can be Judged by twisting it, and ex-
aiming the pith. If the fodder is so
dry that the leaves break badly, choose
damp, drizzly or foggy day for
handling 1t. Otherwise much of the
most nutritious food will be lost, and
the sharp midribs will tear the cloth
ing to tatters. For hauling from the
field low wagon is best. Have the
front wheels about three feet in di-
Gmeter, and the hind wheels SIN inches
larger. The rack may be made with
open spaces betw cen the boards, but
tight level floor is best 10 prevent
waste and for convenience to the
loader in walking and in sliding the
heavy stalks. These should be Crashed
by the tops and swung on to the load,
be laid across the rack with the stalks
parallel, and the butts all in the same
direction. Unless the fodder is husked
1T is too heavy for large loads. Drive
the load so that the tops will be to-
ward the stack, and then lift and pull
off the punches of stalks in the reverse
order from which they were loaded,
avoiding all tangliug and confusion.
The middle of the stack OF rick must
be kept 60 full that the outside stalks
Will have steep slope outward and
downward. Top with long straw or
hay. New England Homestead.
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FARM AND GARpEN NOTES.


The bottom of your hen house
should be filed up until it is higher
than the surrounding ground, to avoid
dampness.
The natural food of the horse is
grass; there is nothing else upon which
he will grow SO large, SO healthy, OF
live SO long.
If you1 hens catch cold, give them
little tHrpentine. Kerosene oil is also
used, and a small pill of camphor gum
will help them.
The boy who has been an attentive
student at good agricultural college
will show IN after years on the farm
the value of his training.
Mulching is valuable in winter tc
prevent crops from injury from alter.
nate freezing and thawing and in sum.
mer for retaining moisture.
Too many COWS for the pasture, for
the grain bin in winter and for the
help to properly milk, prompt the re.
mark that there is no money in dairy.
ing
With the sheep breeder now work.
ing to produce the best and most nut.
ton, 1T Is more necessary than ever
that the breeders of all kinds of meat
producing animals should breed the
best.
1t costs more to feed pounds onto a
scrub animal than it does onto n grade
or thoroughbred. The breeder of
scrub stock loses at both ends of the
business-at the grain bin and at the
market.
In France every fowl is fattened
separately by hand The process is a
examining one, and consists in feeding
certain number Of pellets composed
of barley, corn and buckwheat meal
dipped i'll milk
The COW whose owner provides no
roots or ensilnge, would dread the adj
vent OF winter il she could look into
the future. Her owner should think
Of his pocket book, and dread the
outlook for her.
Sell off the straw and buy better
and more concentrated food Better
results in feeding aud better manure
will be realized. The rule must not
be adopted rs an invariable one, but
It's adoption IS often valuable.
Kick out the stunted fowls. They
will always be Improbable, and Won
would better ent them now than that
they should eat themselves several
times before spring. May as we'll put
your feed into hens that will return
eggs for the favor.
When grit is needed, pound up some
glass for the hens, and il will assist
them to grind their food. Do not use
coiored glass, however, as it may con
tain poisonous matter You cannot
pu+ Jour broken glassware, china or
carihcuware to better use than to
pound such material for the hens and
thoy will relish it.
Ono bushel Of potatoes is much like
another bushel, and so it is with most
OF the products rs well but there is n
vast difference between pound of
sweet fresh butter and the mass we
run across in the market. No danger
Of confounding one with the other.
The field is wide for one who wishes
TO make reputation.
You seldom sec sick fowls where
fresh ground green bone is feed three
or four times n week. It is not so
much extra food, but takes the place
OF more than its weight in wheat or
other food, besides aiding digestion,
toning mp the system, helping along
tha bone and egg making process, and
building up the flock IN every way.
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RAISING TURKEYS.

Select the earliest Matched, largest
and best formed turkeys for breeding
urposes-securing n male not related
to the females in near degree Keep
the hens until seven or eight years old
or so long as they continue to lay well
and keep their young strong and vigor-
Gus. Keep the males until three or
five years old
1t is the inbrecding business which
has played the mischief with the con-
situations of tn young turkeys and
rendered the raising of them such n
difficult and uncertain task. The
breeder who is enterprising enough to
get his males from distance will find
his birds much less liable to disease
than those Of the farmer who has ex-
changed cocks with his neighbor. -
Now York World.
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PRIZE ESSEX SWINE.

broad, deep and straight, with heavy
, hams, bones fine, but sufficiently
strong to support the body; hair fine
and soft, but thin; no bristles; legs
short and fine, but straight and set
wide apart; hoofs erect.
When maturcd, the improved Essex
will weigh from three TO four hundred
pounds. They mature early, are pro-
life and possess great vigor of consti-
tuition. They fatten easily, range well
and, not being troubled with mango
or sun-scalc, are peculiarly valuable
breed for the South. The Essex are
| excellent as n cross, being sure to give
quality and early maturity to any
breed. When crossed upon common
| or coarser swine they will improve
them almost beyond recognition. The
objection urged against them is their
tendency to fatten rapidly, which
causes the carcasses to lack the desired
proportion of lean meat This obiec-
ton can be largely overcome by limit
ing the amount of food and compel
ling exercise. Being good grazers.
they should be allowed unrestricted
run of pasturage and no corn or other
fattening food until it is desired to
finish them off. On the other hand,
their tendency to fatten lsa great
recommendation where roasting pigs
are desired. The meat can be made
tit for pork at any age, from n
month upward. In England these
hogs are marketed in great numbers
when from five to eight months old,
for light family pork, and for that pur-
pose there are none better. New
York World
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business woMEN's D1Rrcropv

A woman was complaining the other
day of the difficulty of obtaining com
prehensive statistics about women's
work. There was, she said, no work
of which she had been able to hear.
after persistent inquiry, in which was
condensed and tabulated information
OF all departments of work in which
women are now engaged. That want
will not long exist. Business women's
directories are being compiled in
more than one city, and once they be-
come common statistics collated from
them will be forthcoming in an easily
referred to shape. A Boston woman
publisher is about to issue n woman's
directory after the appearance of
which the continuance of popular
ignorance in regard to woman's work
will not long exist Her book has
already brought to light some unusual
occupations of the sex. Women har-
ness-makers, tailors, commission mer-
chants, crockery, shoe and cutlery
dealers, funeral directors, managers
OF milk routes-all these are recorded
with printers, lawyers, electricians,
sculptors and druggists besides. New
York Advertiser.
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all the fruit from the tree, including
the hardest to get at-that on The
ends Of the branches. The frame is
made of heavy wire, or light round
iron, and sack of heavy cloth sewed
to the frame. leaving the slots at each
end so that an apple will be free to
enter the sack. Then all You have
to do is to push or pull and the apple
drops into the suck 1 have one with
fourteen-foot and another with n
six-foot handle. The wire from 4 TO
y is eight inches wide, from G to d
ten inches. The slots ut G and d are
three inches long and I'm inch wide.
The handle or pole may be of any dc.
sired Iength.-A y. Nicholson, in
Orange Judd Farmer.
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INFLUENCE OF QUEENS DOLLS.

"They are more than mere puppets !;
they are the material for the social
history of great monarch and not q
little of her times, Also" 1t would be
difficult for any ordinary American
citizen to guess what is referred to in
this sentence, which occurs in an edi-
torial article recently published in the
London Standard, the principal organ
OF the Conservative and Unionist par
ties. The material for the social
history" of Queen Victoria and her
times, is nothing else than collec-
ton of wooden dolls used by Her
Majesty when she was n child. New
York Tribune.
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Good Reason.

An exchange reports the sarcastic
saying OF a master o. elocut:on who
was instructing an unusually duh
pupil.
when you have finished your lee
ture," said the teacher, bow grace.
fully and leave the platform on tip.
toe"
The pupil was very dull, but not so
very dull as not to feel surprised at
this last remark.
ION trptoe?" he said
Yes" answered the teacher, $50
as not to wake the audience"
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needed by women who are compelled
to be self-supporting. If architecture
can be added to the list of their occu-
pations, SO much the better.
Many women have natural talent
for this line of work. and if some of
them desire to cultivate it and make a
living out of it they should be given
the chance.
It should be the policy of society
and the State to encourage, aid and
equip women for all proper breadwin-
ming occupations, and they should not
be barred out by the senseless preju-
dices of those who do not appreciate
the dignity of labor. Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
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4 NEW r.ELD roR wo,tEv.

The success of n number of women
IN this country who have made arcbi.
lecture thcir profession is drawing at-
tcntion TO this new field of enterprise
for the gentler sex.
a bright woman Of a practical turn
OF mind can beat man nine times ont
OF ten IN planning n dwelling that will
be comfortable, homeliEe and beauti-
ful. Perhaps a!woman architect would
make failure if she drew the design
for public building, n factory or n
warehouse, but she knows just what a
mansion or cottage should be, and
there IS no good reason why she should
not devote her attention TO domestic
architecture.
BY all means, let us widen tho fields
OF woman's work. Teaching Jaw.
medicine, authorship and typwrf.ine
do not offer all the opportunities
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of all cases of consumption can, if taken in
the earlier stages of the disease, be cured
This may seem like n bold assertion TO
those familiar only with the means gener-
ally in use for its treatment rs, nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy emulsions, extract
of malt, whiskey, different preparations of
hypophosphites and such like paIlfatives.
Although by many believed TO be incura-
bic, there Is the evidence Of hundreds of
living witnesses to the fact that in all its
earlier stages, consumption is a durable
disease. Not every case, but a Ldtee FER
ccntGge Of cases, and we believe, JtEIy oS
PER cent. are cured by DIR. Piercc's Golden
Medical Discovery, even after the disease
has progressed so far as to induce repeated
blccdings from the lungs, severe lingering
cough with copious expectoration (includ-
ing tubcrcular matter, great loss of flesh
and extreme emaciaton and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported to us as cured by Golden Med
ical Discovery " were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal disease You need not take
cur word for it. They have, in nearly cve-y
instance, been so pronounced by the best
and most experienced home physicians,
who have no interest whatever in mis-
representing them, and who were often
strongly prcjudiccd and advised against
q trial of Golden Medical Discovery "
but who have been forced 90 confess that
II snrpaSSes; IN curative power over this
fatal malady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy "cmulsions1' and
mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these
cases and had either utterly failed to bcnc-
fit, or had only seemed to benefit little for
short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations of the hypophos-
phites had also been Faithfully tried in vain
The photographs of a large number of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis
lingering coughs. asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred maladies, have been
gEillfullV renrOduCc6 in boolr of 10
pages which will be mailed to you, ON re-
ceipt of address and six cents in stamps
You can then write those cured and learn
their experience.
Address for Book, WORLDS DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Buffalo N Y
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SALT FOR BEES.

1t is we'll known that salt is required
by bees, particularly in spring, before
any honey-how sets in, and it probably
acts rs n mild purgativo on their con
stitution. 1t is very desirable that a
few small wooden troughs filled with
brine or, where the atmosphere is not
too dry, few pieces of rock salt be
kept at every apiary, to enable the
bees to get the necessary supply
ready and in clean manner when
they feel inclined for it.-New York
World.
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MERITS AND DEFECTS OF ESSEX SWINE.
This is one of tho Oldest English
breeds of swine. Its merits have OBJ
tanned for it well deserved popular
ity in this country, as we'll as in its
native land. The modern Essex breed
is the result of "A cross of tho original
stock on the Neapolitan. 1t belongs
TO one of the so-called small breeds.
Essex swine are black, or, rather,
ash-hlack in color; they have short
dished face, broad between the eyes, /;
erect, thin ears, full iowls, short,
thick neck, body of medium length.
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The farmer who has had long and
profitable service from his horses
ought to be willing to give them COM
Portable shelter and food after they
are past usefulness till death. If not
able to do that his conscience will snffer
less if he shoots and buries them,
than, for the sake of few dollars,
sells them to strangers to be starved
and brutally treated during their few
remaining years.
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a Better Scheme

A Yankee is going to try TO cross
the Atlantic in ten-foUt boat a
better scheme would be to buy one
or those siX-foOt boxes that the I'M
dertaa ers sell, and cross the Styx.
He would arrive at his inevitable
destination sooner and more COM
fortably. White River Journal.
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AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
POINTS OF A GOOD STEER.

AT a Canadian institute these were
given as the points for a model steer
Tor the English market: Good quality,
with soft skins and as evenly feshed
as possible, good straight, broad
back, well sprung and deep in the rib,
we'll filled behind the shoulders, good
hams and brisket. short legs, a fine,
clean-cut neck and head, with nice and
well-set horns. Only a prime article
is iii demand there.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOE
FEMININE READERS.
pIsArrEARANcE OF TIE nANa.

The bang has almost wholly disap-
peared from the streets. New Orleans
girls are all wearing their hair fluffed
from the face and dainty coiled over
the ears, with part in the middle and
a high top knot that makes them look
for all the world like the old pictures
of our grandmothers.- New Orleans
Picayune.
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STATE OF ONO, Cry OF TOLEDO, [.


FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that no Is the
senior partner OF the firm of +. j. CHENEY d
Co, dong business I'm the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay tho sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Cltarrh that
cannot be cur i by the use Of HALLS CATAnnH
CURE. FRANK j. CHENEY
worn TO before me and subscribed In nv
presence, this 9th day Of december a. ID. 1856
t-l a. w. GLEASON,
49, NOtITU Pub fc
Halls Catarrh Cure istaken internally nd act ;
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces OF
tho system. Send for testimonials, free
+. j. CHENEY 81 Co, Toledo o.
"a Sold by Druggists, Toe.
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A HANDY APPLE-PICKER.

In the season for picking apples
orchardlsts will find the illustrated
picker of great service in reaching the
fruit on extended limbs, One man
can stand under n tree and pick nearly