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THE MONROE
VOL XXXIX.
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Lace-Trimmed Articles-- Notes
for Women - • Fashion Items.
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gi came with her family to New
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mid this young girl’s knowled^o
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MISS SARA HADLEY.
that I he beautiful Battonburg lace
evolved from her brain and fingers.
This clover young woman is Miss
Sara de Hadley, to whom is due the tin
sloele woman’s knowledge of mak¬
ing her own family hires at home.
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of tlm convent . ami to prevent
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A POINT LACE COLLAR OF MISS HADLEY’S.
this gray-haired century, the woman
of fashion lakes refuge from the
giddy social whirl in lacemaking.
It is not only the most delightful
and fascinating of all needle craft,
but allows a woman to leave very
substantial heirlooms to coming gen
orations. Queens set the noble ex
ample—Isabella in Spain, Catharine Catherine
de Medicis in France,
of Arragon in England, wore clever
and dihgcn workwomen, who them- .
selves taught the art of neediewoik
to the young maidens of their courts,
It is probably that lave was invented
in one of these workrooms, for it was
but a slight stop from open embrokl
ery to guipure, which was the first
rfVisnn interesting fact that no
where else in the world is Batten
burg lace made but in this city, un
der the instruction of Miss Sara Had
lov, and nil the braids and threads
are especially made in Europe for
this kind of lace.
The first notable strip of it was
made for Mrs John Jacob Astor
Some few years ago she brought a
quantity of table linen over from
Germany, lhere was one exquisite
tablecloth in satin damask, which
proved to be too narrow for the ban
quet table, so it was out down
through the middle and a strip oi
Bat ten burg lace inserted which con
sumed about a year in construction.
\ellow satin was :aid beneath the
lave, and this ":b the beginning of
the fashion for table laces.
Sinee that time, however, the de
mand for finer lace than the original
Battenburg has increased, so a new
braid had to be specially manufac
tured. The pioot joints are the dis
tingliishing characteristic of this lace,
while the pattern itself closely re
sembles old Bruges. No two pat
terns are alike, and the lace is aUvays
made on the wrong side.
“Every pattern.” said Miss Had
ley, “is designed in our workroom,
and is thoroughly original, and every
piece which goes out finished is care
fully pressed by my own hands with
a warm iron.
“Here is a table cover in which 1
take much pride, for it received first
prize [at the Chicago Fair. It took
just fourteen months to make it.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY LA,TUESDAY MORNING
• DECEMBER IS,
And, indeed. Miss Hadley well
be proud, for it is truly a work of art
and the design !. of her own "sX& creatine
The centre of white
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faithfully Sas
reproduced.
The table laces are made in set*
and with doilies a round or square centre niece’ eires’ I
to match in different bawls’
for plates, caraffes and finger
A polished table is exquisitely decor
a ted with tlje.se lace pieces in lieu of
a tablecloth.
desired, liesides hein-employed for
the table it Is ntueh rfnrtnirfLT used (or window
and vestibule bedspreads
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r,i„ . 1 ?, , r 0mton ... ,9 next to the Bat
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tenl)Urg ' 11,0 most P°pulnr and hand¬
!°T ° f m ? dern laces - and is exten
Bively used in every class of decora¬
tion. It is a lace which may be
made readily with very little instruc¬
tion, and is worked with silk. Marie
Antoinette lace is more particularly
appropriate where large designs are
necessary. Net tulle is the founda¬
tion in cream, white or gray braids,
cords rings and buttons being
used in the formation of the pat¬
tern.
.Needle point is a very much finer
texture of lace, and while used for
table decorations it is principally
liked f-»r ecclesiastical pieces, flounc¬
es, collars and cuffs, Spanish jackets
and the like. Since the Falstaff col¬
lars have become so popular, a great
many ladies are making them at
homo in needle point. Needle Honi
ton is also a leading style of lace, and
is a combination of the Point, Honi
ton and Ideal Iloniton braids, worked
with linen threads. Its tide, Needle
Iloniton, serves to distinguish it
from the lace it imitates and closely
resembles, the well-known Honiton
lace of the English peasantry, which
is made on a pillow with bobbins.
Princess lace is a combination of
the Point and Honiton braids, and
can bo arranged for almost any class
of decoration, being very light and
appropriate for dress garnitures as
well as for table sots, but the Bat
t on burg may be said to take the lead
cipal as a thorough novelty, and its prin
ch rm being the fact that such
heavy braids and threads are used in
the making, th> ,nost effective re
suit, ■< a h or aarativcly
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small labor and requiring less skill
and loss tax upon the eyesight than
the finer and more delicate point lace.
Neither can it ever become common
in one sense of the word, being all
handmade, and therefore in every re
spect as much “real” as the finest
point lace itself. Ella Starr.
LIKES OLD THINGS BEST.
"iU 11 a comfort to the lounger
to know that the Empress of all the
Indies and high and mighty ruler of
the British Empire abhors new
clothes, tight shoes and innovations
0 f cverv description that hamper
e ., se ? Well, it is a fact. If the
court shoemaker can be believed the
t^y ZoZZ
j n g a loose black silk wrapper and a
pair of slippers that are run down at
t lie heels. Most people give away
their old clothes, but the Queen
,vi ves her new boots and new gowns
to charity and hangs on to the tried
and comfortable pets of her ward
robe. She takes breakfast at 8.30
every morning in the year, and when
at Balmoral two magnificent Scotch
laddies in plaids and kilts play the
bagpipes while she takes her coffee
am j C ake. Coffee and Cake for break
fast, however, is quite German, and
not Scotch. There are four pipers
in all. and they alternate when Her
Majesty’s ear is tuned for the windy
strains to which she is very partial.
—[New \ork Advertiser.
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where widows need help to marry.
According to a vernacular paper
in India, a movement in aid of the
remarriage of widows among Mussul
nuns was started two or three years
ago in Kalanam, in the Gurdaspur
district The Mahometan religion
does not prohibit the remarriage of
widows, but long residence in India
and contact with the Hindu has
made many Mahometans look down
upon remarriage of widows.
Considerable opposition was at first
shown, but it has been overcome. A
widow remarriage association has
been formed, and publishes a flourish
ing weekly paper which disseminates
nows and information on the objects
of the society, Over eighty widows
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been remarried within the Imt
three vears and the fun 1 ^ * t0 .
tU>0d aid maJC destitute “xceedfsO.oSS wi,lmv nn rupees’— h
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Wh ! fc ® Jovelin ess time has
t0 despod> attributes
i tothe . tioe
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n hS Sl t^^wT/m f ° U ° !rf ery *£^**1 ten days ,
naturaUy ’ ai ld
Ktf.Kf <r 0 es back to bed W amiin «.j ' bere lpr she ,
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f™ ,uts on her dressing robe and
a l P Z d i 1,er rec)lnes ,. d , ‘' iner on f her rved sofa *“ b« until room,
o clock. She will not allow anything
to interfere with this program me.
—[New York Times.
ONE OF THE LEAKS.
A lady wh+is rather curious about
domestic statistics, and who is com
piling a statement which she calls
“where the money goes to’’—that
perennial cry of the distressed house
holder—asserts that every good-sized
French range in New-York costs in
repairs on an average six per cent
per annum on a capital of $1,000.
This is only one of the money “leaks”
which are never taken into consider
ation when probable expenses are
computed.—[New York Tribune.
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LATEST FAD.
A new fad among women is to
the glass jars which hold the
densed milk tins in all sorts of
propriate decorative
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FASHION NOTES.
No. 12 is the right size of
for your new belt.
Many suits consist of a mixed
cloth skirt, silk waist and golf cape.
Milliners have discovered that
golden-yellow and bleuet combine
handsomely.
Leg-of-mutton sleeves aro increas¬
ing in size, but are also soft and
drooping in effect.
A crepon has a dull heliotrope
ground, with a black chain stitch in
mohair, forming a stripe.
Umbrellas were never cheaper.
Dresden and natural woods are the
revailing styles in handles.
The most' beautiful silver
buckl ‘
pattff
pi as t r o n
gowns are still in great de
One can now wear a gold chain
around one’s snow-white neck if so
disposed. Dame Fashion approves of
it.
Extreme simplicity, scrupulous
and excessive cleanliness comprise
what the Chinese and Japanese term
luxury.
•Jetted net is very fashionable.
Bands, borders and edgings of it are
seen, and it is made into yokes and
bodice fronts.
The stiff, high collars, particularly
when worn by sliort-necked women,
are being accused of producing
nervous headache.
A black and olive blending form
the ground work of another, and its
raised design consists of regular,
close polka dots of black.
Numbers of dark petticoats to be
worn under all gowns are to be seen,
Mohair, alpaca and light-weight black
moreen are the materials employed,
qq ie mos t, modish handkerchiefs
f or dee p mourning white wear have black
centers and borders. This
truly reverses the usual order of
things.
It is prophesied that for nice wear
favorite wrap will be the double
cape of boxcloth of pale tan color,
and will be verv broad vet scarcely
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reaching the waist line.
a dainty silken nuckered i novelty
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,ythin g else, that run be
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Golf capes are much worn for
carriage wraps and for traveling.
They are half-long circulars, with
cither a double cape or a hood. The
iniported ones, of Scotch reAersible
cloth, are the most fashionable.
Many of the new* veils are finished
with an edge of two or three rows of
the narrowest velvet ribbon. A veil
of light brown net, sprinkled with
chenille dots, is finished with a
narrow puffed border of blue chiffon,
Flour made from chestnuts ground
after they are thoroughly dried,
forms the main food of the poor
peasants in the Apennines all winter,
They also-shell the nuts and boil
them with caraway seeds to give
them a flavor.
One of th«eomin<r the coming novelties novelties will will he be
tbe ^ u l e C ?, ? r ’ long accordion
P} eated rf ads ^ a ^S in = a iai = " fr0 ™
eit ber side of the neetc .. aa< d , broad
aecordlon *P ieated rf in f s at tbe
^ ancient suggests times t le ecoming ruff of
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The winter jackets _ shown in the
shops are cut long with very full
backs and fitted closely to the figure
coat c ° p ars and large revers.
The materials are cheviot, covert
cloth, diagonals, kersey cloth, and
chincilla beaver.
Those that have come clearly indi
cate that some of our fancies of last
year have gone by, while others will
be revived in new guise. For in
stance, the combinations of color are
[ een i. 111 inan J' °* new materials—
but combinations much softer and
qU18te f ‘ hli “ 0( Tot< ‘
dashtog lineslh^o«r
inches undulations, each being about two
wide. Tie alternate stripes
have a lustrous s^Hn effect, as con-
1™*** tweon with iht » ] * in ^epon be
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A Chri ^ma 8 present for
of Sjandma modern is design. a knitted On shoulder the cape
perfect
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materials are stX > „ht ’ or German German
town.
STEPS ON RAILWAY CARS.
An Authority Thinks They Should
Be Abolished.
"hen the first primitive railway
j was built in this country, says the
i Rail way Age, somebody thought it
would be cheaper and handier to at
tach steps so that passengers could
S e t ou or off whenever the train
might accommodatingly stop, without
the trouble of drawing up to a plat
form ’ an( l the fashion once started
' b»s been followed cmtil there
in the United now
a L' e Soates not far from
d 'V)00 cars, passenger, baggage, mail
and express, which are dragging
around four times as many—1404*00
" ®ets of steps that are costly to
build and maintain, are a constant
source of danger, discomfort and de¬
lay, and serve no purpose that could
not much better be accomplished by
having station platforms at a level
with the platforms cf the cars. The
elevated railways in New York first
demonstrated the needlessness of
steps for cars on the American plan
Of having end doors, as had from the
European on all
doors railways where the
open at the side. The
Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany had the enterprise to extend the
principle of no steps to surface roads
by building special cars and high sta¬
tion platforms for its World’s Fair
tram service, with Jbhe result of
handling with great extraordinary niimfprs of passen¬
gers celerity and
satet-y, and the same progressive man¬
agement is now preparing to abolish
ear steps in its exteiAjve surburban
train service by elevN tegjj^station
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S S would 0 ladSe a tIie eX gradual
adoption of the high station platform
principle on all roads, allowing them
to apply it at first only at the princi
pal stations
Cycling and Heart Disease.
The wheel rages in France with in¬
creasing velocity, not to play upon
words,and the manufacturers of/every
kind of machine are kept in high spir¬
its, being scarely able to meet the de¬
mand for home use and export, there
being a considerable preference in
England for the French tire,which is
lighter, and, for some grades, cheaper
than the British. The daily papers
as well as those specially devoted to
sports devote large space regularly
now to wheeling,which a few years ago
they were disposed to treat as slight¬
ingly as stilting, a form of running
still in vogue in France and Switzer
land. Women in France have not
Y e ^ taken to the wheel as they have
in England and the U nited States,
the French woman of gentility being
ayerse to physical exercise except
the little she takes in the saddle and
her routine outi ng in the carriage,
The suburban roads are beginning
however, to show many women on
“Wcylette.” and they are adopting
“S'Ve
suggested by the sport is its danger
f 0 r persons predisposed to heart dis
ease The controversy has been
taken out of the newspapers and up
to the Academy of Medicine of Paris,
•^•hich, after listening to various
specialists, adopted a report sub¬
stantially affirming that wheeling
at moderate speed isless Injurious to
persons with cardiac ailments than
rapid walking or going up hills or
stairs. They warn the sufferers with
heart disease, and all who have rea
son to fear its development, that
there is some danger for certain
phases of the disease, and that ex
animation by a physician ought inva
riably to be sought to guard against
strain of certain muscles, which
should be left in repose under all cir
cumstances.—[Chicago * B Herald,
Whimsical Bracelets.
Senora Donna Maria de Esposito, a
whimsical Mexican woman, has a
pair of bracelets, made from the bod
j es D f y n y * g re en snakes, which are
very rare and G f an exceptionally
brilliant hue. They are caught alive
and asphyxiated, after which their
coloring is carefully preserved by an
embalming process. Diamonds and
sapphires are set in the eye sockets,
and pointed rubies take the place of
the iarge fangs. The effect at night
when these ornaments are worn is
said to be weird and uncanny.—[New
York Mail and Express.
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WHERE TIME SLEEPS.
CHARACTER studies ON AN
ISLAND.
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Fu „ 0 , T ,.„ ltlo and th e Romance of
the Old Smuggler Days--It Lies
zz,:rz ir^
Jn the } ear 1(45 a ship loaded with
liooded horses was sent from Eng
mnd by the London Company to the
coiomsts at Jamestown. While mak
ing .or the mouth of Chesapeake Bay
i si‘o»]s‘ \°-V' P Th» YT Indians kCd on "'ho , Assa then , tea « In- ue
habited i Assateague 4 and its sister
island, Unncoteague, piloted the sur
MAOisof the crew and cargo across
the bay to the mainland, and as are
o '\. a 1 horses, "' 10 P^sented which they with a number
them took with
to tneir island homes. These
horses outlived their savage masters,
and become long after the Indian tribe had
extinct they roamed over the
island, subsisting upon the sparse
pastures which the place afforded.
Under the hardship and exposure to
which they were subjected they de¬
teriorated rapidly and became the
S ‘ Urdy P0DieS th8t «“>•
that league fiS auractwl^aeulorl sma“ Settlement 1 tJ’tsM
Island. A
sprang up about eighty yeago
one-half of which looked after
ponies, ‘
while the others devoted
spools Spvoplelo-dty’freto^nv primitive rf'
as as their ancestors
heedless were. They are a roimh of”the lot nff Pr |vr
of the laws State but
very hospitable and good-hearted and
possessing more reli-ion t an
would find among ^uchmo™ the same civiTized number
of people in a
community. '
Before crossing to Assateague Is
land I spent a few days at Ohinco-
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a hundred T ,° head f pe ° P f l? “ P^Ple they do he°re“ °f
caUle doAvn here.) N ? s some good
and hsbl ” and ma > Tbe
ye c n pick up i a few . t ahpin, but ye
won’t have much of a good time.
That’s the lighthouse—ef that’ll
interest ye—an’ the life-savin’ sta
tion, and the wild ponies. Oh, y r es
— ye don’t want t’ fail t’ see old Ken
Jester. He’s the oldest pussun
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ASSOTEAGUE LIGHTHOCSE.
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riCT u t J. 1 1 stories
, 16 J® sorr!e
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re’ll find *;
mi ; h tv inters in’ ri nn ”
prepared to stait ne hp v said ai(l to to
me :
“Tha’s one thing I fo’got t’ tell
ye. Take care an’ don't get any
sand in yo’ shoes. Tha’s an old
sayin’ ’round heah that ef ye once
get sand in yo' shoes ye’ll never leave
the place. Either ye settle down
an’ stay heah all yo’ life, o’ some
thin’ happens’t ye. I'm not a su
perstitious man, but ef ye take my
advice, suh, ye’ll be ca'hful not t’
get’ny sand in yo'shoes.”
From the standpoint of a sports
man or a gourmand, Assateague
Isiand is little snort of paradise,
Heine once said that heaven, accord
ing to the gourmand’s ick-a. is a place
where roast ducks fly about in great
numbers with a dish of excellent
gravy in their bill. Although the
ducks insist upon flying about in
their natural state, there are enough
of them to make a gourmand's heart
leap with delight and give a sports-
life. man happy dreams for the rest of his
In their proper season, wild ducks
diet, ' eS pl ° V °j snipe ’ brant >
Jj vello yellow-legs l and curfew almost
• rf t0 Y° u r face in their eagerness
sii5>€3“F weak fist/^bhc'k r!?^i halibut,
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CHIUCOTEAGU B C.SXOM
the”w te apin—orawI out of
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treatln en
& m °sfc . pitifully with their
mite^ 0 ^ C °° ked & la Trenton aud
r ’? 6 T‘ bunT’ day 8 •«,“°! 1 saw Ka " 86 Jester. y0ar8
of stout - tout build, with a round, weather- ’
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bushy ou ” ? nance - half encircled
hL! , fri
? lue l* ge of thi ck, gray hair,
ey f’ undim ^ed by age and a
™,! n"?! , heart y smile that made you
} on have ken Jester. I found him
Hiswife, c ^ da S e . )s a small, one-story af
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Avas spinning wool at an old-fashioned
.soctjs
■" Follo^ng Capt. Matthews’ advice,
the \ he wild g™ ponies, askin S of Uncle which Ken he about
owns
; more than any otlier man on the
j island. He answered very freely
! and soon warmed up to the subject,
: telling me many interesting things
j connected T In with this .I. the breeding of these
ponies. way we began , con
\Gisa ion, and pretty soon U ncle Ken
a ( 4 uit e loquacious mood.
y nal ly she went into the woods,
thinking . that perhaps Tom had fallen
aa re.u. , e< P ice ZTVlri- tae lull where the lighthouse rf s , sbo
now stands she saw him
across the open with his arm around
another girl. She walked right up
to Him and slapped his face, and
then, without saying a word, turned
on her heels and went back home.
Tom knew there was going to be
trouble, but lie wasn’t quite sure how
it was going to come.
“He took the other girl home, and
then joined the fellows in the boats.
When they all came back from the
ship Sarah Avas standing on the shore
as if nothing had happened.
“The next day Sarah wrote a letter
to Washington telling all ifbout the
U esfc India man and the smuggling
of the night before. Nobody knew
anything about this until three
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weeks later, when two revenue chaps
came to Assateague and went straight
to they old man out Field’s Sarah house. with them, When j i
came was
She took them down the road to
Thornton’s house, where Tom was j
sitting in the sand, whittling. I re- I
member that part of it very well, for
I was sitting beside Tom. When
Sarah saw him her face became as
white as a sheet of paper.
“ ‘There he is. ’ she said. ‘That’;
Tom Thornton.’
Tom jumped up, pale in the face.
‘What’s wanted?’ he asked,
Y'ou’ll have to come along with
us, one rf <’• - ’ —
NO. 49
‘You’re wanted for smuggling.’ Tom
gofng'to^ay^°somVthin-°but he to'me whispered in "toU qTl
turned and •
the boys it’s all right. I’ll keen ,nv ..?
mouth shut.’ Then he <m\v s ., r
Field a look which I slialf never for-
them. That was about 2 o’clock in
the afternoon. That night Sarah Field
went into the woods to the same lull
where she had caught Tom and sat
down to think the matter over. I
v’liess she felt pretty sorry (or whnt
she had done, but nobodv ever knew
for Sarah Field was never seen a live
again. Late that night her father
an d her brothers went out to look
for her with lanterns and do«s.
NNlmn they came to the woods the
later dogs began to bark. A few minutes
they found her. She was lyiim
0,1 th « ground with her throat cut
from ear to ear.
“ 1 he next day the revenue officers
came again. Tom Thornton had es¬
caped and had stolen one of their
boats. They found t he boat the next
day drifting down the bay, but no
one ever heard of Tom Thornton
agam.’ —[Rudolph E. Block,in theN.
X. Recorder.
He Raises Owls.
I). B. Dickinson, a naturalist and
taxidermist, who lives on the banks
of the Passaic River, near Chatham;
X J., has for years been engaged in
the cultivation of owls, lie lias what
may be termed an “owlery. ” He
used to raise owls by inducing old
birds to nest upon his place. The
inducements ho offered were in at¬
tractive sections of hollow logs, closed
at the ends and provided with con¬
venient holes. Owls like that sort
of thing, and, as a result, Mr. Dick¬
inson kept his “owlery” well stocked
with tame specimens, which he took
as liedglings from the nests and
raised by hand. He has made a neat
sum out of the business, because
there is always a good and profitable
market for stuffed owls. Now Mr.
Dickinson is obtaining his owls in a
different way.
A few years ago the Chatham Fish
and Game Protective Association be¬
gan to pay liberal bounties for the
canture and slaughter of hawks and
owls, and the boys of tlie neighbor¬
hood took Aid va n tau^o f 1 he offer to
aagsMi ***** * q„. owl), Knowing
thev
-■
night they captur
time hawks. Mr. ilick™
that those devices perceptibly de¬
creased the number of hawks and
owls of all kinds. They never catch
crows, however, because these wise
birds know too much to alight upon
the poles.
Some time ago the secretary of the
Society got tired of this task, and
delegated Mr. Dickinson to do the
work for the privilege of keeping the
trapped birds, the society refunding
to him all lie paid out in bounties.
Since then Mr. Dickinson has secured
many specimens which were difficult
[ ;0 procure in any other way, and
among them several monkey faced
owls, which are quite rare in this lati
tude . The trapped birds are seldom
i„j ure d, and are much better for the
taxidermist’s purpose than speei
mens which have been shot.—[New
York Adveitser.
Howto Squeeze a Lemon.
There are lemon squeezers and
lemon squeezers, but I wouldn’t uso
one of them, writes a correspondent.
The acid on metal makes the juice
taste metallic, and the wooden ones
are apt to leave a bad taste. Be
Sldes ., thafc ,, , - U .. you use a , lemon squeez¬
er you are sure to get a lot of the
essential oil out of the rind of the
lemon, and that is rank poison to the
stomach. The best way to get the
juice from a lemon is to roll it till it
is soft, then cut off the end and in¬
sert a silver knife and scrape the
pulp out into the dish. That way
you get all the good of the lemon and
none of the bad. Roll it under your
hand on a hard table or put the lem¬
on down on the floor and roil it
lightly under your feet. Then wipe
it off before squeezing, Never leave
the seeds of a lemon in the pulp that
you take out. The seeds will make
the juice very bitter in half an hour
after taken from the lemon.—[New
York World.
An Enemy of the Pines.
The Pascagoula Democrat-Star
tells about some mysterious worm,
which, it says, bears a strong resem¬
blance to the army worm, and ha 3
attacked the pine forests near Van
cleave, Miss. The worm made its
appearance but a few days ago, and
has already stripped the leaves clean
from large sections of trees. It is
said that the worms are so numerous
j 15 some p] ace s that the limbs of the
smaller trees bend beneath their
weight, “o far their attacks have
been confined to the pine trees, and
the land owners and mill men are
very apprehensive as to what the
effect of their ravages will be on the
trees. It is a matter that ought to
have the prompt attention of the au
thorities of the Agricultural Depart
ment. So Iarge a part of the wealth
ofSouthernMississippiisitspinein
lustries that any serious injury to
the pine woods would be a serious
blow to the prosperity of the State.—
* New Orleans Picayune,
Hungary will soon celebrate its
one thousandth anniversary.