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WALES ODD TASTE IN HATS.

He Likes Them Of Green Felt with
Feathers or VOLTS Teeth.
Those who are knowing in such
things have been heard to say of late
that the prince of Wales is not the
absolute arbiter that once he was in
matters pertaining to mems fashions,
but that he is still recognized as mas
ter where hats are concerned. If this
be so, Englishmen are in for a change
of headgear, for the prince of Wales
has been buying hats. the color, shape
and decorations of which are all new.
According to the Daily News the prince
has kind of passion for buying hats
and giving them to his friends. He
bought nine in Germany, and they are
of new pattern, and some Of them of a
new color. The color is green and the
material soft felt, and stuck in the
back-as if the wearer, in his hurry,
had put his hat on wrong-is little
tuft of capercailzie feathers. Most Of
them are capercailzie, but there is lati-
tude for choice. The head Of wood
cock as a sort of center for its own fine
feathers, two teeth of a wolf with a
tuft of VOLTS bristle-teeth and bris-
ties of dog will do if the rarer arti-
cles are not obtaina ble-the curled tail
feathers Of black cock; these are the
chief varieties of ornament up to this.
The Daily News, indeed, accuses the
prince of being mere plagiarist of the
composer Offenbach, who 35 years ago,
after tour in the Tyrol. returned to
Paris with the full equipment of a
Tyrolese sportsman, and appeared on
the boulevards wearing the green hat
with its curl of feathers. The fashion
caught on. It spread from Paris to
London.
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IS A MUsrAcHE PROPERTY

A Man Sues for Damages for the Lose
"Is q mustache property" said 4
guest in the st. Charles lobby the other
evening. If SO what is its value?
Those points will be raised in a very
peculiar suit which is coming up at
the next term Of court in a town over
in Georgia. I'd rather not mention any
names. but I happen to be familiar
with the facts, and they are briefly
these: Almost a month ago a we'll
known travelling man was staying at
the leading hotel of the place and went
to the cigar stand one day to get a
light. They had a new-fangled con-
Germ that spouted out jet OF fame
when the lighter vas lifted, but on this
particular occasion it hung fire. The
drummer was trying to make it work
a volcano and licked of his long, beau
tiful blonde mustache. He was furi-
GUS, of course. because the mustache
had been his chief ornament and pride.
but the affair might still have passed
on without trouble IL he hadn't been
SO numerically guyed. The upshot Of
this was that he demanded damages.
the landlord laughed at him, and he
instructed a lawyer to bring suit for
$500. The papers will be filed in the
next term OF court. am told they
make some interesting allegations.
It will be claimed, for instance, that
the mustache was of direct assistance
to its owner in earning a livelihood.
insomuch as it gave him distin-
guished appearance, and thus facili-
tated his interviews with the trade. Its
loss, he holds, was a Disagreement
which has occasioned ridicule.. falling
of in prestige, and consequent shrink
age in business. He will also allege
that his altered appearance caused
great mental anguish to himself and
wife, and that that species of suffer-
ing may be reduced, under the law, to
dollars and cents. Incidentally he will
try to prove that the absence Of mus
tache affected his eyesight. So, as you
may observe, good many interesting
and delicate questions will be raised.
and I dare say the case will attract
wide attention. have the particulars
mention from the victim himself.
What sort Of defense will be set up re-
mains to be seen."-New Orleans
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THE COURTING COAT.

Even a woman could have seen that
Ned Moore was drawing small pleasure
from his pipe.
reckon the doctor spoke the truth
ana I've got to do it, but it's the devils
own luck
Ned Moore slowly reloaded his pipe
"A fortnight's holiday? Well, 1
can manage the time, but how about
money? Spring Lake will eat up $50
bill in less tnan ten days."
Here pipe was abandoned for mo-
ment, while pockets were emptied.
What about clothes? / must have
one new rig-must, but how"
The pipe was resumed, and as the
smoke curled in meditative rings
above the smokers head. the lines on
his forehead deepened.
Il hate to do it. but hang me IL
see any other way. And the price was
only Sc; dirt cheap. Anyhow, who'll
know the rig was secondhand? And
II any one does guess, what the devil
do care?"
When Ned Moore arrived at the Sec
ond-hand shop he made the painful
discovery that the blue serge suit he
wished to buy was built for q man
twice his size. It was his first ex-
perience. however, with a secondhand
clothing merchant, and constitutional
bashfulness made him an easy victim.
Ten minutes later he left that shop the
owner Of a tweed lounge suit, hand
some, it is true, but combination of
yellow and black aggressively "horsey"
In color and pattern.
When Ned Moore caught his first
view of the crowded veranda of the
Monmouth House he wished he hadn't
come. And after working his way
through bevy Of pretty girls sur
rounding the main door he decided to
skip dinner In the big dining-room and
sup modestly in the small cafe. Later,
as he finished washing the Jersey dust
from his pale face. he soliloquized:
"I'll christen my new outfit tonight.
There'll be nobody in the coffee-room.
and perhaps I'll get reconciled to the
vulgar thing after wearing it in the
twilight"
In most curious fashion the modest
supper Ned Moore had planned while
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Conditions for Successful Orcharding.
The past winter, spring and summer
have given us an object lesson as to
cause and effect in the treatment OF
orchards. But If we were to shape our
course in the light Of the effects OF
the last winter on the trees we would
be making a great mistake. The last
winter was so severe that the very
conditions that would have been IA
vorable to the orchards in ordinary
years proved the reverse this last sea-
son. For once the best-cultivated Or
chards suffered the most. Some be-
lieve that this was due to the fact that
the ground above the roots of the
trees. being in q loose condition, per-
mitted the frost to 60 much deeper
than in orchards where there was a
firm sod. In many cases this was the
cause Of the loss of trees and vines.
It is a well-known fact that frost goes
deeper in land that is titled than in
land that is untitled. II we were to
continue to have winters like the last
we would perhaps be compelled to give
up cultivating our orchards and vine
yards or confine ourselves to a few
exceptionally hardy varieties. But as
we do not expect such winters, we are
certainly justified in continuing to cul-
tivate. knowing that cultivation not
only gives us better crops and stronger
trees, but that trees so taken care of
are more likely than others to survive
ordinary winters. It has also been
noted that the older orchards in clover
and grass give the best crops this year,
while the younger orchards, even when
In clover and grass, seem to have sus-
tanned great injury. A possible ex-
PLANTATION is that the older trees are
deeper rooted and were able to get
down below the frost line wherever
the land was in some kind Of crop that
had allowed the soil to remain undis-
turbed for a number of years. The
last winter must not be made the
standard by which to Judge future
possibilities Of cold.
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OH. IT'S ALL A MISTAKE.

dressing developed into a full-fledged
dinner. He seemed to have put on a
new appetite with his new suit Of
old clothes. And a new thirst as well,
for he found himself ordering a pint
Of champagne. That bottle of wine he
enjoyed thoroughly.
Twilight deepened while he dined,
and there came to the ex-invalid with
the gathering shadows a strange long
ing for companionship. Through the
open window came the heavy salt air,
bearing to his ears the mingled talk
and laughter of the many people on
the sands. He was dominated by a
newborn desire to draw nearer the
heart of life-to come closer, in touch
with that crowd of pretty women down
by the sea. And SO he paid his bill.
put on his hat, and was soon one Of the
multitude.
Before he had been on the beach five
minutes he found himself smiling at a
pretty girl, and moment later he
winked boldly at second. AS he
passed along he overheard that girl
say to another girl:
did you see that awful. impertinent.
handsome man wink at me?"
Then suddenly he came into the
presence Of the prettiest woman he
had ever seen. She was all alone. and,
half reclining on the sand. was gazing
steadfastly across the sea to where the
harvest moon now slowly lifted out of
the green waters.
Before he knew what he was doing.
Ned Moore had stepped behind the
girl. dropped on the sand. slipped his
arm around her waist. and was giving
her an old-fashioned hug.
That the young woman took kindly
to this embrace was quickly proved.
for her head dropped against Ned
Noore's shoulder and = little hand
stroked caressingiy his yellow and
black coat sleeve.
81 must say something" thought
Ned Moore, and he was on the point Of
speaking, when another man spoke
Tor him:
well, I'm darned!"
And when Ned Moore looked up. he
NV facing him a man about his own
olse and build-a man whose face was
Iyid with passion. The intruder didn't
give Ned long to think. however. for
n burst out:
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what is this. Nell. What in thun-


der"
He got no further, for with a shrek
the young woman sprang away from
Ned Moore. When she faced him, she
looked an enraged ttg-ess-she was too
angry for words.
Answer me, Nell, answer"
20. it's ali mists Ike, dreadful mis-
take" cried the young woman.
Mistake? Nonse use!
''No, truth, Jack" and the pretty.
tear-stained face was lifted toward the
angry man. Il was sitting here" she
ran on. her voice tremulous, waiting
for you. And l had just dreamed my
way back to last summer, and was. o
SO happy, living over those dear. sweet
days; then somebody so like you pass
ed between me and the sea. fitting in. o
SO true, with my sweet dream. Then
an arm stole around me-the same cid
yellow and black coat sleeve, and
'Why, bless my soul. man." cut In
the angry lover, cycling Ned Moore in
tently, you've got on my old counting
rig. see it all now. Nell, dear, don't
say another word: it's all my fault. I'd
no business to sell that dear old court
ing coat: it was rank sacrileSe."
Ned Moore found something more
than health at the seashore-found his
heart And he returned to New York
a new man. Something. time soon
testified, had opened bachelor eyes to
the loneliness of woman. the loneliness
of bachelor life; for in six months he
married-married and settled down to
hard work and home life. But for rea-
sons. the nature of which he did not
explain to his little wife. he never
parted with his own counting coat.
even when its days of active service
had departed.-Black and White.
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There will be great temptation this
fall to turn the stock into the mead
ows and Craze them as long as the
feed Is good or until fall rains make
the pastures so good that they will
again bear cropping. II the meadows
are cropped at all, care should be taken
that the grass is not eaten down so
smooth that the sod will not recover
before next summer. Remember that
for the field to start well in the spring
the grass roots must have a good store
Of latent material from which to send
mp the young blade. II the grass
blades have continually been eaten
down close. then the roots will have
little material from which to begin
growth In the spring. The root does
not q itself elaboEats tod. but this
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An Extensive Dress.

The most expensive dress in the
world is said to be the property OF Mrs.
Celia Wallis. Of Chicago. who, hearing
that the wife Of London banker pos
sessed a garment :osting $4,000
eclipsed this BY an expenditure OF $685.
600. It was trimmed with Brussels
point lace, a yard wide and three yards
in length, costing $25, 900. and diamond
ornaments held it In place.
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ANCESTRAL HOME

OF the Astors Still Standing In . Little
German village.
Mannheim Correspondence Chicago
Record: The ancestral home of the
Astors is in the little village of Wal
dorf, twelve miles southeast of Mann
helm and midway between the Rhine
and the low-lying hills forming the
northern part Of the Black forest.
Their house, which is still standing,
is an unpretentious structure of two
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work b done BY the blades Of gags.
Thus It Ia that II the second growth
Of grass is left on the field uncut the
next crop is stimulated thereby.
The hay farm is one that seldom re-
ceives encouragement from writers on
agricultural topics, for the reason that
the selling OF of hay is considered
detrimental to the continued fertility
Of the farm. But we must have hay
farms. just as we have farms devoted
to the production Of other special
crops. The fertility Of the hay farm
can be kept up. but it must be by a
considerable expenditure for manures
and by judicious rotation Of crops.
This rotation, however, can be easily
made, for clover can be used after and
before timothy and grasses Of like con-
stituents. It will pay to keep the fields
In q strong. healthy condition. and
when the grasses show signs Of hav-
ing at all exhausted the land. it may
with advantage be put into some such
crop as potatoes. Keeping the land
rich not only gives a good hay crop.
but 1t permits the grass to send down
Its roots to a depth where it may bid
defiance to drouth. Where the mar
ket for hay IL good. and where the cost
OF delivery is not great, the hay farm
may become very profitable.
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fhnt9 for Our Arid Plains.
Sooner or later science will bring
our great semi-arid plains under the
control OF the farmer and stock-raiser.
The system of reservoirs that Is al
ready being planned will do much to
eject this. but we believe that still
more will be accomplished by finding
plants that will grow without the use
OF q great amount of water in the soil.
Perhaps. too. valuable plants will be
developed from useless plants we now
have on the plains. such as the cactus.
Already We are hearing Of cactus that
have no thorns, and that are very val
liable for the feeding Of stock. The
government is searching the world for
plants that will add to the service Of
those we already have. Among those
that have been obtained abroad We
might mention the Australian salt
bush, which promises much. The one
that is giving the best results is called
Atriplex Semibaccata. 1t has great
drouth resisting power, and will grow
on very alkaline soil. 1t is said that
it will keep green all summer. grow
rapidly. and that the root will remain
In the ground to start the crop next
year. 1t is said that stock of all kinds
thrive on 1t. These claims are rather
and it is well TO wait a
little before we praise too highly. We
that sacaline came into tho
country with about as great eclat, but
had so many bad qualities that no one
wants anything to do with it now. II
the salt bush does half that is claimed
for it, it will be great boon to all set
tiers west of the Missouri river.
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In perusing some of C. L. Gabril-
sons writings I note that he says
Quack grass beat him. and he is a good
and practical farmer. l have had ex-
perience with this grass since boy
hood: it is mode tender than most peO-
pie supposed. says contributor to
Farm, Stock and Home. 1t will not
live through Minnesota winter II lay
Ing on top of the ground. To ex-
terminate quack l first seed the field
infested down to blue grass. timothy.
Austrian bronze and white clover.
fence it and, after the pasture is
grown, put in some sheep or cattle
for four or five years. but sheep alono
the last two years II possible. Now
here is the secret: The harder the
soil Is packed the shallower the quack
roots will grow, and the closer grass
is cropped the smaller the roots will
be. Finally remove the fence in July.
after the sheep have eaten the pasture
so short that the field looks bare. The
deepest roots are not over two inches
below the surface, SO do not pillow. but
get good sharp flexible disc. lap one
half back and forth. don't make lands.
or go round. then Over-cross it and
lap, don't let disc cut over 21s inches
deep. Then take a springtOOth har-
row, the finer the better, and drag.
and keep it up, don't let living leaf
show itself on that field the rest Of
the season. The first thing after get
ting grain in the next spring is to
double disc again. and harrow the same
way. Then plant corn and keep it
clean with spring-tooth cultivator.
After the corn is off disc thoroughly
and the next year sow to grain and
there will be no more Quack, and you
can plow and be safe and be we'll re-
warded for your trouble. and mako
money ON the sheep and other things
while destroying the Quack.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
ACRICULTURISTS
Some Cp-to-Date Hints About Cul-
uvation Of the Soil and Yields
Thereof viticuiture and
Horticulture.
Horticultural Observations.

The time of year is approaching
when the horticultural conventions
will be in session. We wish to exhort
every reader of these columns to at
tend wherever it is possible. These
associations are not for scientists ex-
clusively. but any person that has an
interest in growing fruits, flowers or
vegetables will be welcomed. The cost
OF belonging to almost any Of these
societies is but 81 per year, and the
benefits received are far beyond the
expense Of attendance. Many q man
would escape making some expensive
mistakes if he would avail himself OF
these agencies that come almost to his
door.
Preparations should be made this
fall to cover all tender plants with
straw or dirt as q protection against
the winter. The men that covered
their strawberries. raspberries and
blackberries last winter got good har-
vests this year and it was due entire
ly to their covering Of the plants.
Some Of the most advanced horticul-
turists in the West affirm that it Is
Of little use to attempt to grow GER
tain varieties Of raspberries and black
berries. even as far south as North
ern Illinois, without covering them
with some kind of material that will
keep out the sun on the warm days
in winter. II we could depend on hav-
ing heavy blanket of snow to do the
covering no artificial covering would
be necessary. But the experience OF
last winter was that during the period
Of greatest cold the ground over a
wide portion Of the country was en-
tirely bare.
AS the end of the fruiting season In
the orchard approaches is the time to
look over the orchard and see what
trees can be removed with advantage
to the looks and health and future
fruitfulness Of the orchard. This
should be done before the leaves fall.
for it will be more difficult to do the
work after the limbs are bare. 1t will
then be difficult in many cases to tell
the thrifty tree from the unthrifty one.
Many an old tree is allowed to stand
In the orchard till its usefulness has
been passed by many years. 1t be-
comes a harbor for insects and fungoid
diseases, and a nest from which to
spread the pests to other parts Of the
orchard. These old trees should be
tut out and even the roots dug up. A
new tree should not be put in place
If the old one, as the old rotten roots
IN the ground may make it easier for
diseases and insects to attack the
.oots of the new tree. The old dead
limbs and limbs showing little OF
thrift on the other trees should like
wise be cut out, but this need be done
,nly after the tree has stopped activ-
ty in the fall. The limbs can, how
,ver, be marked at this time.
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Soil Mulch.-Nothing Is more effec-
tive as a mulch than fine soil. Straw,
spoiled hay, leaves, pine needles, etc.,
are used to limited extent in the cul-
ture Of fruits and vegetables. These
materials check evaporation. keep the
soil moist and loose. and help to re-
store fertility.
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Astheds Of the rake Tree PsdNsn
After seeing people swindled out d
thousands Of dollars, get little i'm
patient, but did not intend to make
any assertions to the injury Of well
established nurserymen. writes c. 8.
Christy in Nebraska Farmer. There
are hundreds of agents travelling over
the country selling nursery stock al
enormous prices on account of their
patent process of grating" or their
grapes on European roots" peaches
on hard maple" and many other abb
surd1tles to catch those not posted.
Near johnson a few years ago large
orchard planted of summer, fall and
winter apples bore Hyslop crabs. An
otner near Adams. Of 500 trees. bore
crabs only, and one at Beatrice treated
Its owner to full crop Of Gennets In
place Of Red June. Early Harvest.
Duchess and many fall and winter va
rieties as was expected. A nursery
company established near here few
years ago had thirty travelling sales
men. but they did not own an acre OF
land or grow SO much as a currant
bush or seeding peach, depending en-
tfrely upon the culls of other nurseries.
The model orchard" SO successfully
worked on influential" farmers, one
half payable in fruit, three years from
planting. is chief among swindles. One
that I visited cost the owner $50 In
cash. The payment In fruit has never
been called for. But any reliable nur-
sery would have been glad to have fur
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It Is stated by one authority that 100
pounds of clover meal contains enough
lime for the shells of 171s dozen eggs.
says Indiana Farmer. Glover is very
rich in protein, and contains potash.
soda, phosrhoric acid and other in
gradients that make it one Of the best
feeds for fowls that can be named. 1t
contains all the essentials in we'll bai-
anced proportion. and is palatable to
the fowls as well as healthful. 1t would
be wise to cut a quantity Of second
growth clover, especially for winter
feed. II there is no way OF growing
it, it can be cut fine in the fodder cut
ter and soaked over night. But there
are mills in some places for grinding
it. and as the demand increases such
mills will be increased In number.
Waste.-One of the important things
about good farming that most Of VI
have to learn is to avoid waste. We
nay taxes on land that We do not farm;
we only half cultivate our fields and
SO waste both land and labor; We leave
a large percentage of the crop in the
field; we waste time and capital in
raising inferior animals; We waste en-
ergy in trying to do more than one
man can do right; We waste money
in buying what We should raise our
selves; We waste opportunities to i'm
prove our condition by staying away
from institutes and fairs and by neg
lecting to read papers; We waste-in
a thousand ways. and then we are
ready to say farming don't pay" Ane
it is NO wonder.-MOntana Fruit
Grower.
According to George w. Bell, UniteA
States consul at Sydney, the havoc
played with Australians chief industry
by the succession of droughts of tho
last few years has been appalling. A
few years ago New South Wales had
nearly one-eighth Of the sheep of the
globe, and in value her annual wool
crop exceeded all her other products
combined. Now her proportion of the
worlds sheep is about one-thirteenth.
While in her chief source Of income
and the chief means with which to
purchase imports (wooD New South
Wales has lost, since 1891. almost o.
000. 00O head of sheep, in other live
stock she has hardly held her own.
Ropiness in Milk.-This peculiar
condition Of milk or cream Is due to q
number of heterogeneous which
often come onto a dairy farm quite
suddenly. We can assign no plausible
cause for their appearance. and while
ropy, stringy or Shiny milk impresses
rs by its unwholesome appearance, IL
il perfectly harmIeas.-Dr. +. Z. En-,
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Red Hair Figures.
Three out Of every 135 EnglisA-
speaking people have red hair.