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courageous advocate of the rights of
women, has established, in the little
city Of Reading, practice school in
which girls of unblemished reputation
and of good families can learn every
thing appertaining to scientific hor-
ticulture, Horticulture, vegetable grow
ing, poultry raising, bee culture and
butter and cheese making. When Lady
Warwick opened her training school
in 1898, an agricultural college had al
ready been established in Reading, and
the teachers of older institutions were
engaged to instruct the girls in all the
branches mentioned. A house, now
known as the Lady Warwick dormi-
tory, was furnished completely and
opened, in October, 1900, with IL board
ers. Even during the first year OF it's
ress and the dormitory had to be en-
larged to house the growing number
of students. The 10 pupils have in
creased to over 60, and instead of the
two acres which were to be cultivated
over II acres arergiven to experiment
tai work. Every country in Europe is
represented among the scholars and
several have come all the way from
Canada and the United States.
h The course which comprises COM
plete education in all branches of agri-
culture, lasts two years; and part OF
that time pupils are sent to model
farms where they are supposed to
learn all about dairy management and
the feeding of cattle.
The setting out and replanting OF
vines, small fruits and flowers, graft
ing, pruning and laying out of or
chards are taught theoretically as
well as practically. The sowing of
vegetable seed and the subsequent
starting of the plants, and especially
the culture of mushrooms, are exem-
plifed; and wonderful success has
attended the practice classes in bee
culture. The sorting and packing Of
fruits and vegetables for the market
has lately been added to the curricu-
lum, and this year the cooking and
preserving of fruits ard the manu-
facture of fruit juices is to be made
special study.
Work on the experiment farm be-
gins at 6:45 a. M, and ends at 5 p.
m. Immense greenhouses have been
erected in which are raised magnifi-
cent flowers which find ready sale
in the London market.
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So successful has been Lady War
wick's experiment that number of
landowners have already engaged
several graduates of the school in the
capacity of lady gardeners dairy
managers and heads of small pre-
serve factories. In short, many new
avenues of support have been opened
to women by this new movement;
and now it has been proposed to still
further encourage those graduates.
who have but small income or are
possessed of limited means, by pur-
chasing for them, in their own
names, small farms for which they
can pay in easy installments. To
make this idea popular it is the in
tention OF the managers to establish
colonies and build houses in which
the girls can live alone or together,
as the individual fancy may dictate.
Whatever the future may have in
store for the graduates of this
school,, SO much is certain: they will
prove of great benefit to their coun-
try and never be without the means
of making comfortable and pleas
ant living.
In connection with Lady Warwick's
school an agricultural society for
women has been founded, whose pur-
pose is to assist women who are in
any way connected with agricultural
work with advice and money. y Sec
ond object of the society is to find
suitable positions for the graduates
of the school,
When the deplorable condition of
many women in large cities is con-
sidered, this grand movement to
ameliorate their condition appears
doubly grand; and it is not surpris.
ing that other countries are taking
steps to follow the example set by
England, through the magnanimity
of Lady Warwick. In Prussia especi-
ally has the movement been studied
with painstaking care and several
schools have already been estab-
lished, similar in character and scope
to the Reading institution. The Prus-
sian schools are supported, partially
at least, by the department of edu-
cation, and have been placed in
charge of women noted not only for
their educational qualifications, but
for their social standing as well.
One of them is under the direction
Of Baroness Notwithstanding, the
other under that of Miss DR.. Cashier.
Both of these continental establish
ments train young ladies between
the ages of is to "a to become expert
gardeners. Another school, located
at Proshau. is devoted exclusively 10
the teaching of dairy work.
WILLIAM WALTER WELLS.
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THE DISEASE OF BEES.
Foul, Black and Picked Are Most g.
Feared and Should BE stamped
Out Promptly.

1t has been said that bees are less.
liable to disease than any other liy-
ing things. 1t is probably because the
older members of a colony are con-
stantly giving away to younger ones
Nothing but "a contagious disease can
do much harm where youthful and Wig
orous members are being added to the
family almost daily for a great part OF
the year, says the Farm, Stock ana
Home. Therefore, if bees lack thrift,
start brood-rearing briskly, and if tho
queen is at fault, substitute another
Therefore, we have little to fear from
any disease that does not attack the
brood or young Matching bees. Luck
lily, we have but one such disease, sfouE
BROOD" The novice in bee-keepins
need not be at loss to know foul brood
at sight. 1t has two features which
make it easily distinguishable from.
"black BROOD and "pickled brood,'>
which somewhat resemble it. Fous
brood always has an odor somewhat
resembling that of y glue pot, and the
matter contained in the cells is always
ropy, will stretch like rubber ana
snap IN the middle.
Of late years a good deal has been
written about what, for better name.
has been termed ''pickled BROOD" and
another disease of like nature has
gained considerable Roadway in many
aplaries in New York, which is at pres
ent termed "black brood" The dis
eases are not so we'll unde1stood as
yet as is foul brood. We are not pre-
pared to state positively whether these.
diseases are contagious or not. Jersey
eral years we had what appeared to be
picked brood in both of our Yards.
some colonies had only few cells OF
dead brood scattered here and there
with the cappings sunken down slight
~, and little pin hole in most of
the diseased cells, and in some cases
it seemed as if the young bees maturet
to the point of Matching and then died.
They would cut their way partly out
OF the cell, but seemed to lack the
strength to come clear out All the
diseased matter was usually left in the
cells, as the bees seemed very unwilling
TO clean them out. We were alarmed
when the disease first made its an
pearance. but soon decided that it was
not serious, for with one exception
the colonies affected showed up alsous
as we'll as their healthy neighbors. The
excepted colony was seriously affected
Tor two seasons, and in the fall OF 1899
had but few bees TO go into winter.
quarters. They gave no surplus THAI
season, but had over 20 pounds of honey
for winter stores. They were put in
the cellar along with the others, am
died soon afterwards, leaving the
| honey almost intact. We would i'm
press upon the mind of every bee
keeper who reads this the necessity OF
extreme care in handling all colonis
that have any disease in the least
sembling foul brood. The germs of
that dread disease are contained in the
honey, and are conveyed from one
hive to another by robber bees getting
load of the diseased honey and feed
ing it to the larya in a healthy colony.
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WOMEN AS FARMERS.
English Educational Experiment of
Vast Importance.
New Avenues of Support Opened to
Bright Girls by Lady Warwick
Her Model School Mt
Heading.
Especial London letter.

IOPSSAol
THE problem of suitable employ
ment for women and girls is
one that has engaged the seri-
Gus attention of European sociologists
for many years. In England as we'll
as on the continent women can find
ready employment as clerks in stores,
it is true, but the wages paid are SO
small that absolute self-suppcrt is
out of the question. Many thousands
are employed as telegraph operators,
teachers and governesses, but the
fields of endeayor are necessarily linn
tied and consequently oyercrowded.
Some 40 years ago the British house
OF commons appointed commission
for the purpose ofinvestigating in how
far agriculture might prove suitable
occupation for women and children. The
report of the commissioners was radi-
cally unfavorable, as might have been
expected from the then prevailing meth
DDS of farm tillage, which consisted
principally of blowing, narrowing,
digging and hoeing; rough work to-
tally at variance with progressive
ideas of woman's work.
But since then conditions have
changed materially. In the first place,
agriculture is conducted along entire
ly different lines, especially in Eng
land. Grain raising no longer pays,
the cost of producing crop having
increased from year to year; to say
nothing of the competition with the
cheap wheat of countries where labor
can be had for almost nothing or
where cultivation is conducted on a
vast scale and by improved methods.
Consequently, unproductive English
soil is being used for pasturage for
cattle, while the good soil is given
over to the raising of flowers, fruits
and vegetables. And for the latter
kind of rural work women are quite
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can expect to secure desirable posi-
tons.
To effect general change in exist
ing conditions will, of course, require
years of patient endeavor. For wom-
en- of the laboring class the problem is
a simple one; they require no prelimi-
nary or preparatory education. All
they need is place to work, where
the remuneration shall be fair and
adequate. But such positions it will
be almost impossible to find until
women of a higher grade take up ag-
riculture as an occupation and work
on farms as managers or overseers;
and in order to fill such responsible
positions they must, as the prime es-
sential, have thorough theoretical
and practical education.
In order to meet this educational de-
mand. Lady Warwick, famous at home
AID abroad as philanthropist and
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as we'll adapted as men. AS auxiliary
industries they can take up poultry
raising, agriculture and dairy work.
Moreover, the really deplorable con-
dition of agriculture which has pre-
vailed for long time has driven thou
sands of men from the country to the
cities and towns. In other words, the
prospects of woman who adopts ag-
riculture as a profession-either as
manager or employe-are better to-
day than ever before. Another point
to be considered is the extraordinary
surplus of women in England. Large
numbers of boys emigrate to the col
onies every year, in the hope of bet
tering their condition, but the girls re-
main at home. The various professions
open to women in cities are over
crowded, and only the most fortunate
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AN IDEA FROM OHIO.
Installed IL Cooperative Corn
stalk Shredder.

There are perhaps many farmers
who realize the value and conven-
fence of shredded fodder but do not
feel that the results justify the eX-
pense of personally owning shred
der. Two years ago we hired a husll-
er and shredder, the first one ever in
our community, at $40 per day. But
with cold weather, short days, NOV
ing the machine, etc., we found it a
very expensive method. Besides, the
owner was some distance from home
and did not like to stop work When
the fodder was not in the best COLI
dition for storing. Last year eight
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mayor. The latest son to step forward
is Frank Croker, the pride of the house
of the man who said on the witness
stand that he was in politics for my
owrpocket all the time"-an utterance
that will live as long as Tweed's What
are you going to do aboutit?"
Young Croker is a clean-shayen,
bright-eyed, rather athletic looking
fellow. He has not the sturdy physique
that brought his father to the fore in
the "gashouse gang" by sheer power of
fists; he has what his father had not,
a fair education and knowledge of the
world acquired while he is yet young.
He has power by circumstance.
Frank recently ordered that the old
sessions of the Democratic club should
recommence. was ludicrous to see
democrats of thrice his years tumble
over their own feet in their haste to
obey the boys orders. You see, they
do not know. Young Croker may be
sit, and he may not. 1t isn't safe to
take chances. Perhaps the senior Gro
ker has deputed him as boss by proxy.
Such terrors as these possibilities in
spire may be laughable, but they are
real. There are plenty of political
heelers who have no hope or ambition
save to live by otficeholding. These
men do not have "their ears to the
ground" They do not need to have.
They do keep both eyes on the boss
or upon him who may be boss, If the
senior Croker should die the junior
Croker could not for single day retain
the littloc court of sycophants who now
gather nightly about him in "the club"
X x x
The Ways of the Politicians.
Laughable are the ways of the ward
leaders in that famous IammanY club
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frock coat. Croker reproved him.
The trut' is, Mr.. Croker" said the
counselor, 81 heard of the or-r-rder
rather late, an by that time l cudden't
hire dhress suit in town. The byes
had 'em ALL"
Doblin, whose testimony in Washing
ton in a case of alleged bribery so
amazed the country, is an example of
the typical New York ward politician
upon the other side of the fence. The
Holland Submarine Boat company,
which is concerned in the allegations,
has now little to do with Holland, the
honor and the mirror of gentleness-a
quiet voiced, old-fashioned schoolmas-
ter, whose face is a guarantee of char
acter and an index of the enthusiasm
that sustained him through his eleven
years fight to make his invention go"
His only connection with the company
is that of consulting engineer" who
by his own account is never consulted
\ different man from Doblin was
Judge Pat" Diver, who has just been
gathered to his fathers.
Next to the great lin" Sullivan,
Pat was the best known East slider
He was the owner of several saloons
and of plenty of money. His was
generous fist, ever open for charity,
never long closed against a foe. He had
no education and cid not think like
Sullivan that he would be "a better
congressman than Dan Webster" 1t
was his ambition to be iudge-and
he achieved it, at what cost will never
be known. True, his bench was that
of police court, but from it he dis
pensed rude justice whose essential
value was seldom called in question.
Diver knew his people.
Diver died out of power and only So
years old. Ward politics demands vic
tins.
X X X
The Death of "Mr. Dana.o
People were surprised, when they
read OF ''Mr. Dana's" death, to learn
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of us, neighbors, bought husker
and shredder including a knife grind
er, etc, for 1925, or $25 per share,
as one stakeholder was allowed two
shares, he having about twice as
much corn as the others. He also
had to furnish two men when husk
ing, as it took nine to work it up to
full capacity; two in the field to load,
three to haul corn from field, one to
haul husked corn and three around
the machine, to haul water and keep
the thing moving in general. They
also took turns in feeding, as that
was perhaps the hardest work in
connection with it.
Each shareholder was charged
three cents per shock, LA hills, for
what he had husked, and was allowed
ten cents per hour for helping the
others, no charge being made for
teams or wagons, as they would have
been idle anyway. We found this
better than husking at so much per
bushel, as it was Jess bother. If
ones corn was good and large. it
cost him less proportionately than
his neighbor. but as it took longer
to husk it he had to pay for more
labor. and vice versa, so that at the
settlement things We're pretty we'll
evened up We hired man with his
traction engine and necessary outfit,
at so cents per hour actual running
time. AS most of us had consider
able stock to feed we began at eight
a. m. and quit at four p. M, so that
we We're not rushed to DEATH If
the fodder or fields were not in good
condition we quit until they were
One of the number kept account of
the shocks.and time we were at work.
In 40 hours we husked 1.7OO shocks,
which made at least $500 bushels
shelled corn. Much of the crop had
been husked by hand before getting
the machine.
This plan gave very good satisfac-
ton. This year, however, we have
not accomplished much, as the
weather has been so unfavorable.
We found no difficulty in keeping the
fodder if practically dry when shred
ded. The blower is much better than
the old style carrier. as that requires
man in the NOW. which causes the
fodder to heat where tramped over.
We tried stacking the fodder and it
kept very we'll, except where the
blower deposited on the stack. But
it was quite a job to stack it. and
much of the lightest and best parts
of the fodder We're blown entirely
Off the stack. Ii was also quite n
task to haul the shredded fodder tc,
the barn, as it is difficult to handle
by ordinary means. A neighbor had
some baled, but did not find it profit
able selling it in competition with
hay at So He said the bales were
nearly all moldy when opened for
feeding. Shredded fodder is all right
if one has NOW room to store it. and
plenty of stock to consume it. other
wise we doubt its value when com.
pared with its cost.-Ohio Letter. in
Rural New Yorker
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their successors are doing now. A
few weeks ago the firm bought from
the receivers of the Blakely Hall out
fit a fashy, ten-cent magazine which,
they wanted as the basis of venture
in that field With it, because the
receiver refused to sell separately,
they acquired sporting daily. This
they have now issued in bigger and
gayer form as perhaps the sportiest
publication of its sort in the world.
Meanwhile Mr.. Munsey waits and
considers what to do with his three
newspapers York News, Bos-
ton Journal, Washington Times. He
is "layin' low" for the campaign VI
1904. If he gets in good fighting trim
by then he will be satisfied.
1t is not strange that the rumor
goes that Morgan is backing MunseN.
That the former is behind five great
publications in New York alone is a
matter of common knowledge But
so far as l know, he is not yet con.
cerned in any daily newspaper-es-
cept the sporting sheet already men,
toned. That must be said to have
Morgan, trustee of the Harper re.
organization, rs It's ultimate power
Queer situation!
OWEN I.ANGpaN
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ON fltth avenue.
Once when the
Van Wycll admin
istration was all
powerful the edict
went forth from
Croker that no one
must appear in
"the club" save in
evening Gress. The
next night "Coun-
selor' Nolan, a
queer character
now dead, APP
peared in his GUS
tOmary tn s 1 V
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Thomas C. Platt's
son Frank is an eX-
pert lobbyist in
Albany and has
few superiors in
managing legisla-
ton. Depew's son
Buster" is a good
campaign orator.
The sons of Gen.
Mcclellan and of
Calvin Brice are
successful Tam
many leaders, the
former a likely
candidate or
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The Politicians, the Men of Wealth
and the Newspapers Of New York

or so used to pity "Mr. DANA because
at his ago he had TO stand for hours
at a hat frame and bow to flushed and
unsteady diners. He was satisfied,
however
The fortune the coat man left was
small by comparison with the posi-
billties of waiter in fashionable
restaurant. Some of these men die
worth their hundreds of thousands,
helped by lucky investments pointed
out by patrons in moments of good
nature. And of these flush patrons
how. many will Idle poor?'
The tip system is lodged upon New
York. 1t is nowhere in the world SO
expensive to the public who pay.
You can give two cents to the wait
er in cheap Paris eating house and
be treated with civility. In New
York nothing under ten cents would
be accepted anywhere. Walters often
turn up their noses at anything less
than quarter, though it is "rula-
BILE" to offer ten per ceut. of the bill.
The old English rule was penny in
shilling, or about eight per cent;
the French a sou in the franc or five
per cent.
dinner to three or four in fash
ionable restaurant costs from $40 up
ward, according to the hosts econ
omy. If the change is less than
two dollars the waiter is apt to get
it. OF course this is absurd-but-
X X X
Giddy with the Talk of Millions.
But the very air is poisoned with
the talk of millions; it is giddy with
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u piano and called it cheap at that;
another $1,000 for an old engraving.
In a perfectly proper way the city
itself helps on the general talk of
millions. BY Encouragement of the
assessment schedules upon full
value" basis the limit of legal debt
expenditure has been raised in this
single year by $14O,Ooo,0oo. The city
prepares to spend the money well and
wisely, on such seal, of magnifi-
cence as was never yet seen in
America.
All the world wondered when it
was announced that the city was to
spend $35,000,000 upon a rapid tran
sit railroad, and it was illustrated III
the weekly journals of Europe as an
instance of American enterprise.
Little attention is paid to the $780,
100000 which the city is now to spend
upon additions to the system.
1t will pay. So with the vast
scheme for a new municipal building
which is to cost some $3O,OOO,OOO
more. This will beautify the city
greatly, and will be an economy, as
more than the interest of that sum
is spent in rent for Office room in
private buildings. Still, it sounds
big, doesn't it?
The group of buildings when COM
pleted will be almost as impressive
as the capitol in Washington, and
something upon the same architectu-
raj order. The new hall of records,
approaching completion at cost Of
some $6,00o,0O0, will be one wing of
the completed group. and its cost
must be added to the figure above
X X X
Tho Newspaper Situation.
The newspaper situation in New
Veil La ]
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that the old man
left $4,000 to his
heirs.
What "Mr. Da-
mas" real name
was no one will
ever remembers;
his title chung to
him because of his
resemblance to
the late editor
of the New York
S n; a n d h e
worked humbly,
but not unproft-
apfy. as a coat.
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that which OBJ
tanned in Phila-
delphia a year
ago when mil.
lionaire O w n er S
W e + e struggling
for the mastery.
What would the
founders of Har-
per & Bros. have
said to the prop
osition that they
should issue a
fashy sporting
paper?
That ic what
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NEAT SHIPPING coop.
If Built of Good, Sound and Light Ma
terial 1t Will Last for
Long Time.

Here is a very neat and attractive
coop, and about the best coop for ship
ping tonear-by customers and the show
room. When you ship your birds to
the poultry show, line the inside of the
coop with unbleached muslin. to pre-
vent your birds from soiling thei-s
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t II e glare O t
wealth.
Il h c Germans
had 4 pat phrase
a few years ago.
The C o IL n t "
smells of pros
perity," t h c y
said. You might
say that of New
York. The oily
S m e II of money
is in the air. a
man has just Civ
EN- $3S,000 for an
eastern rug; an
other IS ono for
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checking 'boy" in an uptown restau-
rant.
Young men who Tipped lin quarter
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The "son of his father. is not with
out honor in New York.
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Tho Newspaper situation.

The newspaper situation in New
York is leading up to condition like