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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
CULTIvATING STRAWBERRIES.

We cultivate our strawberry rows
In shallow manner, so as not to dis
turb the roots up to the time Of BIOS
soming, and sometimes little later.
The rule is to stop cultivatlng when
the Strawberries blossom. Much de-
pends upon the soil. If the leaves last
year showed signs of fungus it will be
well to spray with Bordeaux mixture
soon after the new foliage has ap
peared. Possibly one spraying may be
enough, but If the fungus attacks the
leaves again spray once more. Do not
spray after blossoming. l would not
apply lime. Ashes between the rows
is always helpful, but will not help
the foliage. Try cultivating across
the rows in old plantations. This will
leave the plants in squares like hills.
--Green's Fruit Grower.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
FRUIT AND BERRY NOTES.

1t Is suggested that all fruit growers
take much pains to secure trustworthy
plckers. Careless, slovenly gathering
OF the fruit may rob it of half its
value. 1t often is necessary for those
who live remote from villages TO pro-
vide quarters for their pickers. Usual.
ly, the better the quarters, the better
the class of plckers.
On the average, apples do not cost
more than fifty cents a barrel to pro
duce, but they ought. If little more
time and care were given the returns
would be better. Suppose the sales
averaged S1.50. then tho returns are
excellent, and there is money at raising
apples in Maine at 81 a barrel. But
when the price is So or rising, as at
present, then there is certainly an
excellent profit in apples, much greater
than can be obtained from oranges.
No definite rule can be laid down as
to the kind or the amount of CONNER
cial fertilizers which can be used profit.
ably on an apple orchard. 1t has been
suggested that trial be made on a few
trees each with acid phosphate alone
at the rate Of six hundred pounds per
acre. sulphate OF potash alone at the
rate Of four hundred pounds per acre,
and OF these two combined. This win
give some indication as to whether
these fertilizers may be used success
fully. II growth is not vigorous under
proper cultivation, then try nitrate OF
soda at about 100 pounds per acre.
when the leaves open, and again in
about three weeks. and then use nitro
gen gathering cover crops.-Massa-
chusetts ploughman.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
AGED DWARF TREES.

Surprising results have been pro-
duced in the line Of dwarf tsees by
japanese growers. 1t is said there are
pine trees that started to grow in the
seventeenth century. which are still
not too large to be carried in one hand.
The gardeners. nip of the trees roots,
pinch back the branches and starve
the tree in poor soil. keeping 1t barely
alive. and checking the growth almost
entirely. AS time goes on the tree
gains the appearance of extreme old
age, but is no larger than a Seeding
q few months old.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03

Jacob II. Schn, who was instru-
mental in bringing pa"t Of the Jap
anese war loan to America, was talk
ing to reporter in New York about
his recent European tour.
"London's courts of law have always
Interested me-" he said, "and | revis-
tied them last month for about the
tenth time. A Q. c., whom l happened
to meet there, told me how Peter the
Great had once gone through the law
courts. He said that Peter, az the end
of his inspection, 7aid;
"tThese men are all lawyers? What
can be the use of so many@ / have
only two in my empire. aud | mean to
hang one of them as soon as l re-
turn"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03

the many combinations of landings
with fancy stitches all are admirable
for yoke and cuffs, while the trimming
can be one of many things.
The lace is made with full front and
backs which are arranged over lin
ing that is smooth at the upper por-
ton but gathered at the waist line
to blouse with the waist. The yoke
is separate, arranged over the waist
on indicated lines, and the sleeves are
full puffs finished with fitted cuffs
and can be either arranged over the
foundation or left unlincd as liked.
The quantity Of material required for
the medium size Is four and one.
Quarter yards twenty-one inches wide,
three and five-eighth yards twenty.
seven inches wide or two. and one.
quarter yards forty-four inches wide,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
Belts Made of CowhIde.

A distinct feature of the up-to-date
masculine costume for the summer of
1904 is to be the cowhlde belt. 1t is
narrow, not more than one and half
inches wide, and is made of cowhlde
with the hair on. The irregular brown
and white colorings are odd and strlk-
ing. Also fad of the season is the
handkerchief in colored effects to
match the shirt worn. whatever that
may be. These come both in linen
and silk. The self-color shades in
cluded are light blue, hellotrope, pale
green, very deep pink and champagne.
Equally expensive, though perhaps In
better taste. are fine white handker-
chiefs, hemstitched and having a bor-
der of fine cords forming plaids.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
Editor shepard's News.

When the late Elliott +. Shepard
published a newspaper he printed ut
the head of the editorial column each
afternoon q Scrlptural text The edi-
tor of one of the sensational newspa-
pers instructed a reporter TO interview
Mr.. Shepard and outlined the questions
the young man was to ask. All went
well until the interviewer asked:
"Why do you publish Bible extracts?
The one to-day dealt with the Cruel
fxion. Do you consider that newsT
~ do" emphatically responded Mr.,
Shepard. 1T is news to great many
people-especlally so, believe, to the
gentleman who sent you to question
me-"
The interview ended there.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
THE "sLelpy" woopcHvcK.
rhe Little Ground Hog That ia Far More
Alert Than He Looks.


IL there Is any one of our native
animals that looks slow. clumsy.
"lazy," "and generally unfit to survive In
the struggle for existence, It Is the
woodchuck, says Country Life in
America. After lie has built, or rather
excavated, his home--which, to tell the
truth, he does in rapid and business
like way-he does nothing but eat and
sleep. Yet any one who sizes him mp
as an incompetent, is likely to get
fooled, for he Is q source of continual
surprises.
When your garden Is not far from
the woods. you may be awakened in
the middle of the night by n series Of
most alarming yells and howls. occa-
stoned by some hungry woodchucls
that has come for n nocturnal visit to
the cabbage patch and met with n
warm reception from our two dogs.
The woodchuck usually gets away APP
parently unharmed, while the dogs are
left to nurse their scratched noses and
forepaws. The woodchuck. In fact,
has plenty of courage, and will always
fight In preference to running away.
Throughout the summer, this little
"woodpig" spends most of his time in
the vicinity OF his burrow. coming ont
early in the morning to take his break
fast, returning 10 his nest for morn.
ing nap, appearing again at noon aud
late In the afternoon for his dinner and
supper, only TO return again for an.
other snooze. Occasionally, lie makes
a visit to some nelghborlng orchard or
garden. BY October first. when he Is
fat, he retires into his subterranean
home for long sleep, until, we are led
TO believe, the proverbial grounding
day.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
STARVING TREES.

Feeble growing and unhealthy trees
are, as rule, the result of starvation,
bad soil or unfavorable conditions of
the atmosphere, climatic or otherwise.
When a tree dies from old age, the
signs are plain enough and very little
can be done TO help it except taking
care Of the scant foliage that puts
forth every year, and encouraging
young growth as a means to sustain
the flickering vitality.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
DON'T SET TREES TOO DEEp.

Experiments in planting trees Of
different depths have been tested at a
German experiment station with char
acteristic thoroughness. A number of
trees were set at the usual depth, and
others Mt various depths. all lower than
the nominal, TO see what effect this
would have upon the root of the trees.
In every case the tree. botn intop and
roots, grew more slowly, with every
increase in depth in planting beyond
the usual depth.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03

The petticoats of the coming season.
since the rage of cleanliness is on the
increase, are preferably Of wash ma.
terials. Tinted chambrays, tucked and
lace trimmed, are used for those des.
tined for the hardest wear, but the pet.
ticoat for dressy use is invariably Of
white
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
A lingerie Novelty.

One Of the daintlest lingerie petit
coats has deep fiounce made up Of
row upon row of narrow Valenciennes
lace stitched together. A deep fiounce
on another skirt Is composed of alter
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03

Plain styles are noticeable among the
parasols carried by fashionable wom-
en-. Tucked effects have been very
good this season.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03

cludes an oddly shaped yoke which is
eminently becoming and which gives
the dropping shoulder line. AS shown
the material is embroidered batiste.
with yoke and cuffs of Valenciennes
lace finished with little ruches of plain
muslin, and is unllned, but there are
innumerable fabrics which are equally
appropriate. Many simple silks of
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03

II you hear prayer that moves you
BY its humble, pleading tone,
Join lido not let the seeker
Bow before his God alone.
Why should not your brother share
The strength of two or three in prayer
II you see the hot tears falling,
Falling from brothers eyes,
Share them-and thus by the sharing
Own your kinship with the skies.
Why should anyone be glad
When brothers heart is sad?
New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
p&sgsaEaN>s,1saa
HoRsI,leUITUR Hs: AEg@as
,asSlA'INIsS7gI
HEAD THE TREES Low.

Peach trees especially should be
loaded low. and all branches that grow
out long and slim should be cut back
to proper length.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
TRUE SYMPATHY.

II you have friend worth loving
Love him--yes, and let him know
That you love him, ere hfe's evening
1inge hts brow with sunset glow.
|. Why should good words ne'er be said
y OF o friend, till he is dead?
II you hear a song that thrills you,
Sung by any child OF song,
Praise lido not let the singer
Wait deserved praises long.
|. Why should one that thrills your heart
Lack the JOY you may impart?
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03

New York City.-Young girls are al
ways charming when wearing full
waists made of soft material. This
one is peculiarly attractive and in
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03

nate rows of lace footing and tucked
French nainsook.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-03
OUT OF THE ASHES
BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.

Ne afternoon she heard
movers in the hall, and
knew that the fourth-floor
studio had been taken.
The next morning unfa-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
DON'T WANT TO A
Spnniards spend More to support Bun
Rings Than the SchOOis-A
Significant Comparison.

S~choolhouses are very scarce in Spain.
More none is paid to support bull
rings than the schools. 1t is estimated
that more than S., 200, 900 is expended on
bull fights during each year, while in
1901 only 81, 617,314 was expended for
public education, says William E. Cur
It's, in Chicago Record-Herald.
There were more students in the uni
versity of Salamanca alone 400 years
ago, during the reign of Ferdinand n
Isabella, than are enrolled in all of the
nine universities of Spain to-day, and,
by the census of 1896, more than 6S per
cent. of the population is illiterate. The
exact figures show that 6,104,470 can
neither read nor write, 3,417, 855 can read
a little, while 2,686,615 can read and
write a little.
The act of July, 1902, requires a school
for every 500 population, and the min
lister of education is required to ex-
anime teachers to see that they are
qualified, and to inspect the schools for
sanitary reasons and for discipline, but
the law is not enforced.
A few days ago Senior Silvela, recent
ly prime minister, in explaining his re-
tirement from political life, declared
that he had reached the melancholy
conclusion that his country was not in
terested in agriculture, industry, trade,
public works or public instruction.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
RUNS A 0 U FARM.
A Washington Cd. CO. Woman EN-
barks in Business of Breeding
Fancy Rodents for Profit.

Breeding white, piebald, black, and
japanese mice is the latest household
industry which is receiving attention.
A woman living on the northern out
skirts of the city, says the Washington
Post, has embarked in the business
quite extensively. The mice sell whole
sale at the rate of $40 per 100, and reg
ulerly, once every week, she delivers
so of them to the leading bird and ami
NAL dealer, who sends them out to his
customers in this and other cities. In
this way she earns SIS every week, and
S21 and $22 per week from the 9TH
er sales of her mice. 1t would be hard
to imagine easier money than the S.
which she receives weekly for her
dwarf cattle" The rearing of fancy
mice involves little or no work, and
the proceeds are for the most part pure
gain. She has at her home part of a
large room partitioned off, and the
floor covered with straw and earth.
This is her mouse farm. 1t must be
cleaned now and then and new straw
and earth put in for the mice, but aside
from this her only care is to feed them
twice per day and keep their basin full
of fresh water. The mice increase at
such a rapid rate that by selling so ev'
cry week she is able to keep the num-
Der down to about the original limits.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
INTERSTATE LEAGUE.
LIVE IN SCALDING LAKE.
Tt, xcIcr ~scoyc Strange Species
Of Fish in Jaunt Through Gua-
ternaIR-Other

Marcollin Pellet, a traveller who has
recently returned from Guatemala, de-
scribcs a curious species of fish, the Pa
ella dorri, which he found in the boiling
lake of Ammatitlan, says London An
swe-s. It passes its days literally lin
continual hot water" So hot Is the
water of this lake, it is said, that to
thrust ones hand into it means scalded
fingers. Ebullition is, however, some
what tempered, as the really boiling
water rises to the surface, leaving a
temnerature of 35 degrees cent. at the
level where the fish is found, which Is
even then exceedingly warm for cold
blooded creatures like fish.
Frank auckland states in n OF his
works that the naturalist, Broussonet,
found by experiments that some fresh
water fish would live for several days In
water so hot that a human being could
not keep his hand in 1t for a minute.
De S%aussure, the Swiss scientist. dis
covered living cells in the hot springs OF
AK, the temperature of which averages
:113 degrees Fahrenheit. Humboldt also
saw living fish thrown up from a vol
vano In South America.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
THE GRAPE CROP.
United states Raises 100000 Tons of
the Fruit-COmparatfvely Little 81
Wine Made Here.

The cultivation of grapes for the
market, for raisins and to make wine,
has become an important business Of
the United States during recent years.
says the National Geographical Maya
zine. Two hundred million dollars of
capital are invested in this and de-
pendent industries. California sup
plies the people of the country with
practically all the raisins that they
eat, 100, 900, 900 pounds, and the same
state, with New York and Ohio, pro-
duces annually 24,000,000 g-llons of
wine. The annual grape crop, before
any of the grapes are changed to wine
or r~aisins. reaches SIS, 000, 900 in value
and nearly 100000 tons in weight.
The amount of wine made in the
United States is, however, very small
compared to that produced in the
countries of Europe. Even Turkey,
whose Mohammedan population drink
little wine, produces nearly twice as
much wine as the United States.
France in 1901 produced 1929 33,-
200 gallons of wine, while this coun-
try produced 29,50c, 900 gallons. But
California alone has a grape and wine
producing area almost equal to the
whole of France, so that some idea
can be formed of the great possible
ties of this important industry.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
AS PATIENTS.
servinn Doctor Depicts Traits of
Royal PatrOns-WfIliam Likes to
Display His Little Learning.

A distinguished Servian doctor who
has had much experience with royal
patients gives some Of his impressions
of crowned heads when suffering.
Emperor William, he says, Is docile,
but has a mania fer discussing with his
doctors and likes to parade all the med
ical knowledge he has gained through
well-known medical books.
King Edward VII. is the gentlest pa
tient imaginable. He obeys without max
ing the slightest observation.
The queen of Holland is a very unruly
sick person. She does not like to have a
physician touch her, eve to feel her
pulse.
The czar and the sultan are very diff
icult patients. The former Is highly
impressionable and has an instructive
fear of the most ~inoffenslve remedy
The latter mistrusts his doctor and |.
always afraid of being poisoned. HI
wants every medicine prescribed ana
lyzed by his special chemist before 1t Il
administered.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
THE REAL LAND OF PEANUTS.
Senegal, Africa, Raises Over 1So,OOo
Tons of Them Every Ycnr-
What of Them.

If you like peanuts, the place for you
is Senegal, Africa.
Senegal is one of those places that is
hard to remember, even after you have
found it on the map, and many a Fail
ure!" has old Senegal produced in school
days past and present. But the peanut
gives it a sort of lifelike look, and should
make 1t easier to remember, says an ex-
change.
The peanuts raised in Senegal in one
year weighed more than 125 900 tons.
France takes most Of them. But thou
sands of tons go also to Holland and
Germany.
Tbo little French and Dutch and Ger
man children do not, however, eat pea
nuts b. the ton. Indeed, they hardly eat
them at all. The peanut in those be-
nighted lands Is turned into oil instead
Of being turned into hungry children.
The only European country that treats
the Senegal peanut with proper respect
is England. 1t takes less than a hun
dred tons out of Senegal but the nuts
are packed carefully in bags, and are
sold TO confectloners, as they should be,
instead of too | makers.
Senegal also raises great quantities
of that typical Arabian Nights grain, Sc
same. Do you remember the open Sc
same of the 40 thieves?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
POLITE DISMISSAL.
That IL What an English Court Holds
Aequest for Resignation of
Bank Clerk to BE.

The true meaning and effect of the
words, you are required to resign your
appointment in the bank forthwith"
will never, we hope, have more than a
speculative interest for our readers. but
for the sake of gratifying natural Gu
riosity on the point, it may be worth
while to record a recent decision OF the
court of appeal as to the construction to
be put upon the words, says the Bankers
Magazine. In Stephenson VS.. the Lon
don Joint Stock bank, a clerk had been
found to be concerned in a transaction
In such a way as to meet with the banks
~disapproval, and the secretary sent him
d letter worded in the manner described,
whereupon he sent in his resignation.
By the regulations of the bank, sub
scribed to by every officer on admission
to the service, pensions are granted on
a certain scale, but no allowance what
ever is made to any clerk dismissed from
the service. The clerk in question sued
the bank for his person, ~contending he
had not been dismissed, but that he had
resigned. The court OF appeal, however,
affirming the judgment of the court be-
low, held that the letter was a dismissal,
and that the use Of polite instead of per-
emptory language in no way altered the
fact-a view which commen6s itself to
common sense.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
STRENGTH OF GUN STEEL.
a Pressure of 10000 Pounds
Per Square Inch.

There is going or at the present time
a steady advance in the strength of the
metal used in guns. The elastic strength
of metal now commonly used in larger
guns is about $4,000 pounds per square
inch, and in the smaller guns it runs as
high as $4,000 pounds per square inch.
This, however, is used only as an addi-
tional margin of safety, largely because
the recoil Of guns when fired is so great
now, and the reaction thereby set up in
the carriage is so severe that nothing
would be gained by tightening the gun.
Tightening the gun, says the Scientific
American, would only mean putting ad-
ditional weight, and perhaps a weight
greater than that saved, in the gun
carriage and foundation. Many are of
strength of gun steel should be pushed
further, but it would be hard to do this
without lowering to some extent the
elongation asked for in the metal at rup-
ture. This now runs in the neighbor-
hood of IS to rs per cent, and it could
wisely be lowered for the sake of gain
ing a harder and stronger metal, because
the entire operation of the gun is within
it's elastic limit. When it moves out
side of this and becomes permanently
enlarged, a comparatively slight en-
largement would give warning, and the
gun would be laid aside and not used
any more.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25

A recent chemical examination of the
black deposit, resembling boiler scale,
that has formed to a thickness of
three-quarters of an inch under the
coping of the balustrade surrounding
the stone Gallery" at the base of the
dome of st. Paul's cathedral, reveals
the curious fact that it is essentially a
calcium sulfate collected from the air.
In two centuries the smoke and gases
from London chimneys have charged
the rains with sufficient sulphurous
and sulphuric acids to cover the stone
with a deposit that strikingly resem-
bles %calcareous tufa. 1t is thickest on
the under side of the copings, because
of the dripping of the rain.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25

Streets paved with glass are not by
any means unknown, says Stray Sto-
ries. The famous Rue de la Republic
que at Lyons is a notable example.
Here the pavement is laid in glass
blocks. eight inches square, which are
SO symmetrically fitted together as to
prevent the possibility of water passing
between the interstices.
An Italian nobleman has lately had
the courtyard of his @aiace paved with
slabs of marble, granite and other
stone, every one of which has been
brought from a different land. Europe,
Asia, Africa, America and Australia
have all supplied materials for this Gu
rious MOSAIC, which is composed OF
over 500 pieces, each engraved with
the name of the country from which 1t
came.
Tombstones are not infrequently en-
ployed in different parts of Noting
hamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and
Leicestershire for the purpose of paw
ing: a year or so back the inhabitants
of the Vale of Belvoir raised a vehe-
ment protest against their being used
for a pathway leading to the parish
church.
The local authorities, however, en-
deavored to excuse themselves on the
ground that they had plenty OF old
gravestones on hand, which, if utilized
would assuredly save the ratepayers'
Il
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-25
Modern Athens.

An American traveller writes: cath
ems Itself, as a city, is insufferable. 1t
IS raw, garish, new, staring. crude. 1t
smells Of paint. 1t reeks of varnish.
1t is redolent of last week. 1t is the
newest city M sees in southern Eu-
rope. 1t is dusty. 1t is noisy, it is vul-
gar. Everything in it is imitation. The
army is imitation. The city is a sham.
1t is q joy to leave the commonplace
s%treet=, to quit the insufferable city and
to climb the Acropolis. There, every
thing is calm and peaceful and the
magnificent ruins are restful. There
only in Athens do you find a spot
With is not oppressively new and raw.
The royal palace is one of the newest
and rawest Of all the raw, new build
trgs.