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A HARVEST OFHUMAN HAIR. . ■ * —i Million* of Pound* Kvory Year Get Tangled Up In Commerce. Perhaps there is no staple article about which less is known by the aver age person than human hair as an ar ticle of commerce. It will doubtless surprise many when it is stated that the dealers in human hair goods do nos depend on chance clippings here and there, but that there is a regular hair harvest that can always be relied upon. It is estimated that over 12,000,000 pounds of human hair are used annu ally in the civilized world for adorning the heads of women. In New York city alone over four tons of this class of goods are imported yearly. “Not a little of the hair used in this country, “ said a New York dealer to the writer, “comes from the heads of American women, and it is fully as fine in shade and texture as the imported ar ticle. We had a big harvest during the craze that the fair sex had not long ago for having their hair cut short Many thousands of women who then had their locks sheared have since bitterly regret ted it, as in many instances their hair has grown so slowly that they have been compelled to wear a wig or a switch since the fashion changed. After the majority of women reach the age of 80 the hair seems to partially lose its vigor, and if cut it will not grow long again. “Two-thirds of the ladies nowadays use false hair more or less. The decree of fashion, or the desire to conceal a de , feet or heighten a charm, is the reason of course. One woman, for instance, has a high forehead and wishes to re duce it in appearance. Another has worn off the front hair by continued frizzing and would like to conceal the fact Both make use of a front or top piece, with a choice of many styles. “Ladies’ wigs cost from S2O to s2fio; half wigs, top pieces and switches from $lO to SSO, according to quality. “The largest supply of hair comes from Switzerland, Germany and the French provinces. There is a human hair market in Merlons, in the depart ment of the lower Pyrenees, held every Friday. Hundreds of hair traders walk up and down the one street of the vil lage, their shears dangling from their belts, and inspect the braids which the peasant girls, standing on the steps of the houses, let down for inspection. If a bargain is struck, the hair is cut and the money paid on the spot, the price varying from 60 cents to *5 in our money. “A woman’s hair may grow to the length of 6 feet, and I know a lady who has been offered and refused SSOO for her crown of glory, which is over 6 feet long. A single female hair will bear up a weight of four ounces with out breaking, but the hair thus heavily weighted must be dark brown, for blond hair breaks under a strain of 2 ounces. There are some 2,000 importers, manu facturers and dealers in human hair in the United States.—Washington Star. Valorous Cows. The editor of the Condon (Or.) Globe saw a deed of cow valor that was worth recording as well as seeing. A herd of cattle, and among them two cows, ac companied by their calves, were graz ing in tall dead grass when the calves became separated a little from the rest of the herd. Just then two huge, hungry coyotes crept up through the grass, cut off the calves from the rest of the cattle and started in pursuit of them. After run ning about 200 yards the calves came to a high, five wire, barbed wire fence, and, being small, managed to get through it On the other side of the fence was an open pasture. The wolves quickly followed the calves through the fence and Were rap idly running them ’ down on the other side, when the two cow mothers discov ered what was going on. Each uttered a loud bellow, hoisted her tail and' started for the'rescue. It appeared to be a hopeless chase, for the wire fence intervened, and the cows were certainly much too large to get through it They knew well enough that it was there, and could, besides, see it plainly, but both cows plunged together straight into it The watching editor, horrified, look ed to see them hurled back, frightfully wounded, but instead one of the posts gave way under the onslaught, tha wires sank down, and in another mo ment the mothers were on the pasture side of the fence, badly cut and bleed ing, but still able to charge the wolves successfully and put them to flight Soon the cows were licking the res , cued calves affectionately, and the coy otes were howling a disappointed duet from the summit of a knoll near by. Cat Basket*. Cat baskets are made especially for the convenient carrying of cats in trav eling, and they are also used to some extent for small dogs. Those of Ameri can manufacture are made of whole willow and are oblong in shape. Cal baskets imported from Germany are rather more costly, and are made of split willow. The German cat basket is oval in form, made larger at the top than at the bottom, and with the top finished rounding. There is in the side of the basket a grated door of willow rods, which opens on hinges and gives the cat light and air. In each end of the basket, higher up than the door, there is a small square window. Cat baskets are made in various sizes, and in the course of a year there are sold a considerable number of them. — New York Suu. Perhaps She Came Down Too. She—So you are engaged to Miss Spry? He—Yes, but it’s a big come down for me. » . She—Why, I thought she was such a sweet girl He—She is, but she rooms on the first Um on the eighth.—New York Journal ■ . - . . .• - - - —<•’ . WANTS HAMS, NOT ARTISTS. I A Muaic Hall Manager** Complain* of I*. tar* Who Are Above Their Bn*in***» > “I don’t want any more artists, ** said . the music hall manager who gave the burlesque. “The people I want are i hams and nothing but hams. Whenever b I get an application from an actor who f calls himself an artist, I’m going to [ tear up the letter for fear I might leas , my presence of mind and engage him. If the play’s a success, the artist did it ( If it’s a failure, it was the author. Sometimes I wonder, when I hear thesi , artists talk, what is the use of their ever ; having plays written for them at all. , They’re independent of the dramatists, and I should think they would just step on the stage and talk their plays... But > they don’t do that. They merely oon ! tent themselves with refusing to speak ’ this or- that line because it’s ’rotten, ’ substituting something of their own, and then saying it’s the fault of the au ( thor that nobody laughs at their stupid , gags. I happened to have a bunch of . ’em here, and that lasted me for the rest of my life. Hereafter I’m out of ; it.” • ' “What are artists?” asked the inno -1 cent. J “They’re chiefly actors who’re con , demned to come and act in the music halls for three times as much as they ' ever got in their lives before. What they do is to call everything rotten, de cide that they know more about the ’ play than the man who wrote it and ’ walk around as though it were beneath them to do anything moro like acting than that when it came to the question of acting in a music hajl. ’* “And hams, what are they—the sori 1 of hams you mean?’’ “They’re chiefly variety actors acous -1 tomed to hard work, rough maybe, with 1 a quality of get there that makes the audience interested. They’ve come up, and the artists think they’ve gone down. ' The difference is between trying to do something well, because it’s the best 1 opportunity you’ve had, and taking no * interest at all in it because you’ve been in the habit of doing what you think is better.” “But isn’t it better, as Sam Bernard says, to be a has been than a never was it?” “Maybe it is, but it’s rough on the manager who pays his money out for them. I had one of them here, and he was going to be so original that he would not use the lines the author wrote, but promised to tickle the audi ence to death by some entirely original grinds of his own. When the test came, he went on the stage and did the same things he had done 11 years before. He was never able to do anything else dur ing the rest of the time. I had some others like him, and that is why I say now that I only want hams, not artists —hams that work hard and know how to make an audience enjoy itself, not artists too fine for anything."—New York Sun. Fresh Figs For Northern Markets. Fresh figs are not known or appreci ated \n northern markets, and conse quently the demand is too limited to encourage shipments. It seems doubt ful if the distant shipment of fresh figs Will ever become a profitable business. The fruit is more perishable than any other that is generally marketed. It can be handled only by the most careful and experienced persons, and even then it is not in a condition to show its best quality. Ripening in midsummer, when the northern markets are crowded with many well known fruits and not being especially attractive to the eye, fresh figs would at best gain favor slowly. The fact that many people do hot care for them at the first would be another obstacle in the way of their popularity. Moreover, the fig is a tedious crop to handle when in proper condition for the market. It is necessary to pick the tree! over carefully every day during the sea son or much fruit will be overripe. With large trees this involves much la bor. The acrid juice of the immature fig eats into the fingers of the pickers and packers, while rainy weather oc casions heavy loss by the cracking of the fruit, which renders it unfit for market. —Southern States. ——; Home Dtftles of Indian Children. There are home duties as well as pleasures for the children. Boys are re quired to look after the ponies, to lend a hand in planting, to help in the har vest, and they are often made to do ac tive duty as scarecrows in the newly planted field, where, like little Bopeep, they fall fast asleep. The girls help to gather wood, bring water and look after the younger ones. As they grow older they are taught to cut, sew and make garments. In former days, the old Oma has say, no girl was considered mar riageable until she had learned to tan skins, make tents and clothing, prepare meat for drying and could cultivate corn and beans, while a young man who had not learned to make his own wea pons and to be a skillful hunter was not considered fitted to take upon himself the responsibilities of the provider of a family.—“ Home Life Among the In dians,” by Alice C. Fletcher, in Cen tury. A Peculiar Dutch Custom. A peculiarity among Dutch farmers Who live at a distance from a town is to have a coffin in readiness for their burial. It is by no means uncommon to see a still sturdy old patriarch going to an outhouse and gravely contemplating that which is to hold his body when he shuffles off this mortal coil. This char acteristic has also appeared in President Kruger, who has recently imported a coffin, and at a' cost, too, of £IOO. Precautionary Measure. Patient—lsn’t it a little dangerous to administer anaesthetics? Must be terri . ble to have one die in your chair after you have given him ether. Dentist —Yes. It was for that reason that we adopted a rule that where an anaesthetic is administered the patient must pay in advance.— Boston Tran script MODERN CHICKEN COOPS. ' The Once Familiar Let l a Have Gives Way \ to Wire Netting. i Men whose memories go back, say, i 40 yean will remember that in those i days when a man wanted to build a ■ chicken coop he bought a bundle or two > of laths and built it There are mighty 1 few lath chicken coops built nowadays Even the smallest chicken raiser, who keeps a few in his back yard, makes his coop or runway of poultry netting. The chicken house, or shelter, is made of boards, often of two thicknesses and ■with tarred paper between, for better protection from the weather, and with openings at the bottom and under the projecting roof for ventilation. Laths were cheap; poultry netting is still cheaper. It is made of steel wire, galvanized, in various widths and in various sizes of mesh The netting most commonly used is six feet wide, with a two inch mesh. The chicken raiser sets up a frame and tacks the netting to it. Narrow nettings of smaller mesh are used in various ways to keep in little chicks—sometimes a foot wide small mesh netting to run around at the base of the inolosure, the regular netting being set above it, thus increasing the total height of the netting. Sometimes the small mesh netting is run around inside of the regular netting, thus mak ing the lower part of the netting doable, Sometimes it is used to make separate small inclosures within the large run way and perhaps to make a number of small inolosures to keep separate broods of chicks apart The narrow,- small mesh netting is made up to three and s half feet in width. There is nowadays a use for wire net ting in chicken houses. A netting with a square meth is laid on the floor of chicken houses to keep out rats and mice. There are now many large establish ments in this country for the raising of chickens for commercial purposes, for market and for breeding, and there are as many men as ever who raise chickens at home, from the many who keep a few in the back yard, with a simple chicken house and coop, to men who raise many chickens and maintain an elaborate plant for their breeding and keeping. But under whatever conditions they are raised, chickens are rarely Seen nowadays in coops made of laths, such as were familiar 40 years ago.—New York Sun. AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. Somber and Terrible Wa* the Scene at the Moment of Totality. Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, writing in The Atlantic of an eclipse seen in Ja pan, says: “Just before totality, to oc cur at 2 minutes after 3 o’clock, I went over to the little lighthouse, taking up my appointed station on the sum mit, an ideal vantage ground for a spec tacle beyond anything else I ever wit nessed. Grayer and grayer grew the day, narrower and narrower the ores cent of shining sunlight The sea faded to leaden nothingness. Armies of crows, which had pretended entire indiffer ence, fighting and flapping as usual on gables and flagpoles with unabated fer vor, finally succumbed, and flew off with heavy haste to the pine forest on the mountain side. The French man-of war disappeared in the gloom, the junks blended in colorlessness, but grass and verdure suddenly turned strangely, vividly yellow green. “It was a moment of appalling sus pense. Something was being waited for. The very air was portentous. The flocks of circling sea gulls disappeared with strange cries. One white butterfly flut tered by vaguely. “Then an instantaneous darkness leaped upon the world Unearthly night enveloped all things With an inde scribable outflashing at the same sec ond, the corona burst forth in wonder ful radiance. But dimly seen through thinly drifting cloud, it was* neverthe less beautiful, a celestial flame beyond description. Simultaneously the whole northwestern sky was instantly flooded with a lurid and startlingly brilliant orange, across which floated clouds slightly darker, like flecks of liquid flame, while the west and southwest gleamed in shining lemon yellow. It was not like a sunset; it was too som ber and terrible. ” Sane Advice to Tonng Artist*. “Don’t give in” was about the gist of what Sir Wyke Bayliss said to the English art students in a lecture at the South Kensington museum. He told them what ought to be their watchword: “Dq not believe, he said, in the in sidious lie that the devil is always whispering to the soul of the Artist that the golden age of art Is past and that what was done yesterday cannot be done today, for art is in its decadence. Such an assertion was the danger of the time, and he would have them track it to its source and kill it there. It had two forms—despondency and tempta tion—but he urged them not to be in fluenced by either. Let their study be baaed upon knowledge, the knowledge that had accumulated during the ages and was formulated in what was known as academic training, and let their knowledge in turn be based upon their own study. ” Certainly that is the best of advice, for what has been done before can be done again. No Need to Cry. “Don’t cry, Buster, ” said Jimmleboy after the catastrophe “Napoleon didn’t cry every time his brother hit him acci dentally on the eye. ” “I know that, ” retorted Buster. “Na poleon did all the hittin on the eye his self. ” —Harper’s Bazar. Bare Felicity. She—Such lovely bargains as there are at that new place! He—Ah? She—Yes, silks at 18 cents, and in a store so small that a hundred persons crowd it to suffocation!—Detroit Jour- CUSTARD PIE ASSOCIATION, It* Annual Meeting, Held Faat Day, I* a Royal Feaurt. Unique among the organization* of New England to the Hartford (Me.) Cugtard Pie association. Its very name is so sug gestive as to excite curiosity concerning its origin, its history and what is done at its annual meeting*. The aseooiatton started in rather a commonplace manner. One Sold winter morning in 1800 William B. Cuahmanjand Charles Irish, neighboring farmers of the town, met after some pre liminary bantering, during which each claimed to be able to eat the most curtard ' pie, and appointed the following fast day for a custard pie eating contest, their wives to be cooks and judges. At the stated time they met with their wives and two huge custard pies at Mr. Irish’s saphouse, in his maple orchard, and Mr. Cushman, who had spent the forenoon In walking over the great hills as a sort of training for tbo occasion, proved the better pie eater. The next fast day several other farmers of tho neighborhood, with their families, joined them, and the meeting was changed from a pie eating contest to a social gathering. After this they met each fast day, and the story of their good times spread until almost all the farmers, with their families, for miles In every direction joined the association. The last meeting of this .prosperous as sociation was held at the residence of Wil liam B. Cushman. About 60 persons at tended, each bringing a huge custard pie baked in a two gallon milk can. During tho forenoon, while tho women were pre paring the dinner, the men passed the time rolling ninepins, pitching horseshoes, playing cards and in other rural amuse ments. When dinner was announced, a scene was presented such as never was seen else where in New England and probably never in the world. The long tables extending along the spacious rooms were loaded with the great two gallon custard pies, made of freshly laid eggs, rich new milk and cream, sweetened with such fresh maple sugar as city lips seldom taste, baked as only oougtry housewives can bake when they make the effort of their lives, slightly browned on top and sprinkled with fra grant nutmeg. When this unrivaled deli cacy was washed down with simmered maple sap or country older, sparkling with the sunshine the apples had stored the previous summer, it seemed tho nearest approach to the fabled nectar of the gods that human skill had ever attained. Toasts were proposed and happy responses made. After dinner the men again rolled nine pins, pitched honeshoes and engaged in other pastimes while the women cleared the tables and prepared the rooms. Then fiddlers appeared, and the party passed the evening in the merry whirl of country dances.—Boston Herald. , The Seed Record Broken. Over 20,000,000 packages of vegetable, flower and field seeds have been distributed by the department of agriculture during the past spring. This distribution has given to each member of congress 40,000 packages of seeds at a total oost of *IBO,OOO. Over 1,000,000 of these packages were flower seedsand nearly 800,000 field seeds, the balance being a great variety of vege tables. In the entire distribution nearly every variety of vegetable known to the asrlculturist* was distributed. There were 82 varieties of bean*, 10 varieties of beets, 28 varieties of cabbage, 11 varieties of carrots, 19 varieties of sweet corn, 18 kinds of cucumbers, 80 kinds of lettuce, 19 varieties of muskmelons, 17 kinds of watermelons and 15 varieties of onions. The entire amount of seeds distributed was sufficient to plant an area of 855 square miles, or about six times the size of the District of Columbia. This is the largest distribution of seeds •ver attempted by the department of agri culture, and It Is said that seedsmen all over the country are complaining that they do not make sales to farmers and others because they are getting all the seeds they want free from the department of agriculture. The distribution of seeds In 1898 amount ed to 8,800 packages for each member of congress, at a total cost of *66,548; in 1894 each congressman got 16,000 pack ages, the entire oost to the government be ing *57,000; in 1895 the number of pack ages of seeds distributed was the same as in the previous year, but the total cost was reduced to *47,000. In 1896 congress men got 15,000. packages i *eaoh, and the government paid *80,500 for the whole lot. During the past spring each member of congress has received 40,000 packages of seeds, for which the government has paid *IBO,OOO. —Washington Star. Manner of an Introduction. It Is mortifying to note how many per sons pay little or no heed to what may be styled the etiquette of Introductions. To the lover of good form there Is something that sets one’s teeth on edge on hearing an Introduction so worded that a woman is presented to a man or an elderly woman to a young one. The rules with regard to introductions are so simple and sensible that It would seem that the wayfaring man or woman, though a fool, could scarcely err therein. A man is always In troduced to a woman, and it may be well in passing to add that a lady's permission should usually be asked before such a pre sentation is made. It is a simple matter to say,'“Miss Smith, may I present to you, Mr. Jones?" before uttering the for mal, “Miss Smith, allow me to Introduce Mr. Jones." The man to, of course, always brought to the woman whom he is to meet. The woman should never be led to the man. These rules might seem superfluous were it not that one so often observes their in fraction among people who should know better. At a tea a matron who years be fore had arrived at the dignity of a grand mother was piloted by her hostess to a young girl of 20, and they ’were made known to each other in the well meant words: “Mrs. Knight, I want to present you to my dear little friend, Mabel Day Mabel, dear, this to Mrs. Knight, of whom you have so often heard me speak.” If the ladles wereamused by the speech, they were so well versed In that knowledge of good form in which their hostess was lacking that they showed no consciousness of her error.—Harper's Bazar. Indiana Employed as Train “Spotter*.” An’educated Pueblo Indian boy and a squaw, attired In full Indian regalia, have been traveling over the Atchison, Tppeka and Santa Fe road between El Paso and Trinidad far the past month, paying rail road fares in cash to the conductors and acting as “spotters." As a-result eight or ten passenger conductors have been de tected in ’.’khookingdown” and have been discharged. It to said this to the first time in history that innocent looking Indians have been employed in the secret service of any railroad company.—Santa Fe Let ter in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. • -, - « • — —- • — i rmaewii mffl * i SEE rksroßftl THAT 1II1: Vflw IU F| I FAC _ Si MILE I SIGNATURE lirjgtte Stomachs and Bowels of ■ OF Promotes nessandltestContalns neither ■ Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. ■ jg ON THU I WRAPPER / II OF EVEEY BOTTLE OF A perfect Remedy orConstipa- jtt HU S Eg tion,sourStdmach,Diarrhoea, ■■■ ffß KI Worms .Feverish- ■ ■ ■■ W Sj I ■ BJP ness and Loss of Sleep. | TaeSisnile Signature oC I ' wr " * N"EW 'YORK. H C*»toria 1* jmt «p la «s*-*ixs botths only. It flls not sold in bulk. Don’t allow *sy«v wed* ■ you auytking else on tho pie* or protniio th ' Hifl U J ust as e ccd " tarter every pur. (fl poM." AS- Sc# that you get O-A-8-T-O-k-I-A JXMTCQFrorWRAIW*. GET YOUB JOB PRINTING DONE JIT The Morning Call Office. We have just supplied our Job Office with a complete line of Blationef* kinds and can get up, on short notice, anything wanted in tho way oi LETTER HEADS, • BILL HEADS v 1 ’* STATEMENTS, 1 ROTH. ARK. ‘ ENVELOPES, NOTES, MORTGAGES, PROGRAMS, - JARDS, POSTERS- DODGERS. KTC., ETC Wetrnytoe 'xet iue nf ENVEWFES w : thistrada. Aa atlrac.ivc POSTER cl any size can be issued on short notice. Our prices for work of all kinds will compare favorably with those obtained yo» any office in the state. When you want Job printing of? any dtre rip tiro ine nt call Satisfaction guaranteed. 11 ALL WORK DONE With Neatness and Dispatch. ' ♦ X- T t ■'‘■-’■A. » Out of town orders will receive prompt attention. I J. P. & S B. SawteU. Tim ofleohgla ImT Schedule in Effect Jan. 9, 1898. ... 1 Dally. Daily. Dally. hahoh. ; Dally. Dally. 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