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About Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1898)
T* "T \ x V J A X O m i * A <2 w \ ~ y *3, ; Tin* l!l|)|>|p Collar. The newest collar is the one known ns 4 ‘ripple/ 1 winch really uoes not ripple any move than those of last year. It differs from the old collar in that it fils snugger to the neck, and yet lias the same effect of flaring which it had. If the collar flares too much it loses in warmth, and yet it is the flare which is becoming to most faces. An ingen ions maker of fur garments has obviated tin's difficulty by making tho collar slightly more flaring, and then catch¬ ing it in plaits about two inches wide at regular intervals. The plait is not evident except upon close inspection, ami vet the collar 1ms the effect of lie ing extremely full, at the same time standing up snug and trim around the neck sq as hardly to require fastening in front. t Turkish Gli-1*. Turkish girls of the better, class in flic cities, after they are too old to at¬ tend the primary schools, are largely educated at home by governesses, and manyof whom come from England France, but. unfortunately, do not al ways represent th§ highest culture of these nations, so that the real love of i t-udy is not as a rule, developed un <lei- their influence. Turkish women have a great aptitude for foreign Ian gunge-, andiho.se mot on the steamers off l.« Bosphorus often speak French, ami it is not unusual for thorn to speak German and English also ,,, hn ‘ lu 18 . h '* 1,1 v,,m ' engaged 11 ,u , “ a trade, 11,n ! 1J women are in> Kome even carrying on an extensive • , frequent ■ business, involving 1 , journeys • to . Egypt ,, , and , other ,, places, , which pro • 1 supposes the aliility to read aud write, as well as some knowledge of arithme¬ tic. Moreover, conversation with the Mussulman woman in the capital re¬ veals some progress at tho present time in independence of thought, and, while, social conditions have unavoida¬ bly arrested the development of Tur¬ kish women as a class, forces are slowly but surely working among them that will result in their final emancipa¬ tion. An Economical Princess* Though always elegantly and per¬ fectly dressed, the Princess of Wales by no means errs on the side of ex travagiince. Her Royal Highness has been known to wear a gown three suc¬ cessive seasons xtfhen it suited her, and remained fresh and handsome. Itor instance, at the .peninA of the eoplel Jhitacij). ?'' ,: U]!ly. M'fce 'i'ince®, sw' f ^,rtT--. Wltl.in cll v lkW‘ I 51 ,j- l ' 1 1 ' "^ri ■ JH I I Vo. Am,,. orocaoeij v mall ripe could red straw^errios. be mistaking dis There no so \ iactive n stuff, and it was recognized \ iy 1 : woman who had seen the Princess in Ireland two summers before, as one that had been worn at several func¬ tions in that country. The style had been altered somewhat, but there was tlie same splendid fabric doing its thorough economical duty. Her Royal Highness's influence, too, has ever been against excess in fashion. She has always refused to patronize very wide skirts, balloon-like sleeves or huge over-trimmed headgear. When ordering new gowns, colored pictures of them, back and front, as they should look when finished, xvitli scraps of liie proposed materials and trimmings attached, arc submitted for tl»e Princess’s approval, and it is a very usual occurrence for the Princess to take her own brush or pencil and alter the pictures to please her excel¬ lent taste. The gowns are fitted on a model of her own figure, and the work womeii do not see her at all, unless considerable alterations are necessary. Tho clever brush has made it so cer¬ tain just what Her Royal Highness wants, that a personal interview is needless. -Loudon Figaro. A vl (Jliis In raids. A young American, who, heaped with honors, has just returned from Paris, told 1110 , greatly to my surprise, that she thought it an idle aud unwise plan for girls to go abroad to study art until they had been drilled iiito the fundamental work at home. She gave me over so many reasons for this, but that which seemed to her the strongest, was tho fact, that Paris is full of American women who, not having lmd their abilities tested at home, have gone there only to find .hat years and years of uphill work lie before them with no prospects at the cud. or t lat n Inch they to be talent themse ves has proved, v. non taken to the other side to be but a flimsy allair not worth eulhvat ing 5or bread-winning purposes. With the poverty belonging to most of these women, suffering is inevitable, and this suffering, she argues, is best endured at home, where the young girl is near her family or her friends, and Where the many forms of eompli cited miseries incident to a life alone in Paris are spared them-miseries easy to endure aud accepted without question if success lie ahead, and one is assured of possessing real talent and power, but miseries that cut into the soul of oue and destroy the liner fibers if endured for ends never possi ble of attainment. »The mere cost of living may be cheaper in Paris, but the advantages to be derived among ns for foundation work outbalance all other questions, Oue must have $50 a mouth to live iu Paris. With rigid economy 825 mude to suffice for one s personal The other 825 must be P^^side for the purchase of paints materials necessary to her if she means to derive full benefit from her opportunities to w ork. —Harper’s Bazar. <*ossi |>, Miss Cora Dow, of Cincinnati, it the proprietor of four successful drug stores in that city, iMiss Murnane, a man hater, of Brushy Fork, III., has directed iu he.! will that no men shall bo present at her funeral. Mrs. Elitch, of Denver, drives about tho city in a light wagon, drawn by an ostrich. She is tbe only woman in tho world who owns a zoological garden. Paris has drawn a line on bicycle riding in a rather unexpected quarter. Hereafter, none of the women teach¬ ers in the primary schools of that, city may ride to and from the schools on their wheels. Mrs. .Tessie Palmer Weber, of Springfield, Ill., a daughter of Gcu eral John M. Palmer, has been chosen to succeed the late Miss Josephine Cleveland ajj liljjariau of the Iliuois Historical Library, An original idea of a New York woman’s club,‘whose realization must OCC upy some time, is for each mem her to give a quotation at each club mee ting iir place of the regulation “here” when the roll is called, The wife of Senator White , of Cali fovnia, J does not live with him during Ms teil lauc0 iu Washington, be site , dreads 1 . thunderstorms, ■ . cause winch , . , they ,, do , not . , have in California, „ taking ... earthquakes , substitute, , ... , 1 as a Miss Edna .Whitney, the factory’ young woman who works in a cigar and whom Kansas City rejected as maid of honor at the fall carnival, is going on tho stage. She will study for her new profession in Kansas ' dtj Miss Itamsay Gibson Maitland, by • f ., nT7, „ , iv ( ' i /r a tradland, .... S ’I U n. ' T Eng if *',Vf iiVi'*n‘ , V Tmit t , ' SS SS ° l of 1 r '° ro11 ul f al>out ^ oiro ’ imn < 0 ^ v , irrouiifl b rents ' ‘ in Fdinburffh ' ‘ ° ' Elizabeth Lnler U heatou, probably the besi-.tnown prison evangelist m this country, lias visited every prison in every important - Ty m the world, Mie has Docome 1 * a n to most rail - road men, and rece. «tc annual passes OV< ? j witfta V s<1 ' lini li’ l, ‘ Him cimptTj. f ls 0 ‘ • iWlnrer. dll', like, >^mgiui%to*t h ilia Achilieion, a .the had built such wliicn she at a tremendous cost in Corfu, mid all the furniture and objects of art which adorned it, including the gigantic statue of the dying Achilles, palace have been removed to the imperial at Vienna. Miss Ellen Xusucy, who was the in timate l'rieud of Charlotte Govnersal' Bronte, died on November 2(5, at aged eighty-throe years. It was large ly by means of the 400 or more letters written to Miss Nussey by Charlotte Bronze that Miss Haskell was able to give the public so much of the life of the author of “Jane Evro.” Kan.,Was Mrs R N Perdue of Fort Scott recently drawn by mistake on the jury of the District Court. She insists on serving, and McKinley says that as she voted for Mr. in Wyoming, she is a “qualified elector, and consequently a competent juror.” She believes in woman suffrage, and says she will appeal to the highest courts about her rights as a juror. Fashion Notes. Old-fashioned pink cameos are com¬ ing into vogue again, and the old-time setting- is to be retained. Huguenot caps are added to the tops of many of the short, full, puffed sleeves of evening bodies. Collars with stole ends are worn by the woman who loves frills. They can be fashioned by any deft fingers directed by taste. Many of the demi-tvained dress skirts are cut with nine gores, and al the back some are box-plaited and others fan-plaited, Tne small pad bustle is now worn with the latest day costumes aud even ing toilets; and those of larger pro portions are announced. Cravats of white net. mull or liberty silk< trimmed with frills of lace, chiffon or net, are made easily aud may be ns simp i e OP fts elegant as time, skill and purse permit. Owing to their airy daintiness they seem especially suit¬ a in e f or „;« ts ‘ - . 11 0U R 1 handsome imported . « owus 8een a * ’some recent openings, s «veral , were of black Chantilly taco, aud ^'Oidered b<3ads aui with ] “ ade steel over or h jet a, ' k sequins •"«*>'*• J* 18 pr f dloteJ tha * 1 lace costumes will be mnoh . 1 uext Wrtrn 111 ans Year, l’eplums, which are added to Rus- 81a J 1 blouses, jacket bodices, surplice waists and similar garments, are abaped in various ways. Some are crenelated, others cut in oval tabs or sharp \ andykes. aud also in circular form, with or without plaits at tlie back. Velvet is in high favor for smart gowns this season. Corduroy is seen in Paris, the ribs being wide apart. Some of the swellest carriage and evening wraps have bishop sleeves, quite wide, aud the width equal from tbe shoulder to the narrow bauds at the wrists. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, Cajiet Saner. Melt one tablespoonful of butter In a saucepan; add one fine cut onion, eight whole peppers, half bay leaf. Cook throe minutes without brown ing, then add one heaping tablespoon¬ ful of flour, Stir and cook two mm utes. A.dd one pint of veal or chicken broth, season with half toaspoonf l o meg, and boil fifteen minutes. Strain through a sieve into a clean sauce pan. Mix the yolks of two eggs with one tablespoonfal lemon juice. Add » Jittle s(iuce first to the yolks. Mix well and add the yolks to the sauce. I luce the suueepau on tlie side of the stove, add half a tablespoonful butter in small portions, stir five minutes over the tiro without letting it boil agatu. Add two tablespoonfnls of capeis and serve. t ried Tripe a l lv Marinlere. Wash one and a half pounds of tripe, cut it into pieces four inches long and two inches wide, season with one even tableHpoouf.il salt, one even teaspoon fill pepper. Place the tripe in a bowl, mix one pint vinegar with half pint water and pour it over the tripe, adding one sliced onion, three cloves, one bav leaf, a blade of mace and twelve whole peppers. Cover and lot it stand twen¬ ty-four hours or longer. When ready to cook take out tho tripe, wipe dry and dust with flour. Beat two eggs till light, take each piece of trijie beaten separately 011 a fork, dip it in the egg, then cover wilJv fiue sifted bread crumbs. When all are prepared thus place a frying pan over the lire, add half a tablespoonful of lard or fat. As soon is hot lay in as many pieces of tripe is convenient aud fry light brown on both sides. When all are done uT range the tripe on a warm disband garnish with water cress.—New York Tress. Fried Chicken. To a Northerner fried chicken and corn bread are typical Southern dishes, !ind mean nothing more than fried chicken and corn bread. And yet there are so many different ways of cooking these two delicious foods in the South that they seem almost like different dishes in different sections. 'Take, for example, fried chicken, ^ ryl ? nd styie ' \ f « ooked in tllu billowing manner: Select small young ‘“hickeus, not weighing S % over a pound (>ac , The chicrk en coo ked verv KOon ,if ter being killed, plucked aud dressed. In the country it is not con .sidered tne tiling to keej) a chicken any time after it lias been killed. I 11 the cities of Maryland, where people buy their chickens in the marints, aj'ldy they are generally killed at least before cooking. Dir . Out the dressed chicken into pieces. Then saltj^**- dry it on a eathl sprinkled with .* iv * : ;dif'v l.»«i»--*nf“egg-s, txmfy ifWST i/fi orw whites lieaten separately. If t.hlar chickens are to be fried it takes I eggs. adlj To the beaten yolks of the eggs some milk, a gill to each egg. Stir this in well; then add enough sifted flour to make a stiff batter. Season with salt, aud last of all add the beaten whites of the eggs, which must be thoroughly whipped in aud blended “ ith the batter. Put enough lard in a de< p frying pan toiswim the pieces of chicken in when the lard is smoking hot. Dip the pieces of chicken in the frying pan md fry till a golden brown. Lift and drain tbe and place them on a bofc l ,latto1 ’ _____ Household Hints. J clean “hfij mother-of-pearl ’oTCtt apply -i p * te o b and pi water . Ribbons may bo renewed by wash¬ ing in gasoline and then stretching until the gasolene has evaporated. To restore lace that has become quite yellow, and yet should not be as white as it must surely become through washing, make a suds in a glass jar, drop the lace in aud stand the jar in the sun. Dust marks behind pictures are !n great annoyance to tidy housekeepers, A simple way to avoid them is this Place two small pieces of cork at the bottom of the picture frame. This will prevent an accumulation of dust, ami the consequent dirty, ‘ unsightly rk. - JUJl To clean a Shetland-wool shawl, make a lather of lukewarm soapsuds, and dip the shawl into it, rubbing and squeezing gently with the hands. Even the rinsing water should be soft¬ ened with essential a little that soap and water particular! when' ly is it the ever it is changed should be exactly the same in temperature. To remove mildew from white cot¬ ton materials dissolve oue aud one half ounces of chloride of lime in one quart of boiling water. Strain tli6 liquid through a thick cloth aud soak the mildewed spots in this liquid for several hours, and then rinse thor¬ oughly iu clean water. Wet the goods before putting them to soak. Shoe leather may be dressed with vaseline or glycerine. This is spe¬ cially good treatment for leather that lias become stiff through being wet. When shoes are wet, before putting them away to dry they should be filled with paper. The paper absorbs the moisture and renders the shoes softer than they would otherwise be. To clean picture names, take 11 s quarter, put it into a 1 bottle with r a m tea- , * cupful of water and shake well. Add ^ut la.it e d/1 ,lu aunu l i 0 ii 8 vvm witn 8 t°h> the am mixture, !T ia - using a soft brush. After a few 111111 - utes rinse of! with another brush dipped iu clear cold water. Dry in the sun aud rub with chamois leather, MKXTir ['LTOiE TIIEFAD. 46 MANY WOMEN IN NEW YORK THINK¬ ING THEIR ILLS AWAY. O'*"' *" •'*" " "“‘■•“•y Hobby —11 aril ThinMn^ n» a Cure tor i>.v«|>»-)>»sn— Tii«u«h» Transference For uinu or m- »« •Don’t iv,,rr,” n«n, recently obtained a great vogue among Now York people who have time to dev,t,. to it. The harder one thinks, says the New York Sun, the further »ue advances in menUealtuve, and the things tlmt are promised with ad vancement are so wonderful that in these promised rewards lies the itj centive for thinking and the fascina- ' * tion of it. The practicing of menticnlture be gnu, according to the best information obtainable, in this way: Mrs Blank 'T‘ :Ut 0ct,,1 >er at Lenox. I 11 tho h b ^' y °! th f hou ?« "'here she was vlsl . ! Ug s 1 e l UH ! lce<1 to,ind a mono nt, . . . by the . late Prentice " f u Mul ,’ ' vb ? v& » toni ! d dead in a canoe down Coney Island way on May :5 ,°' 1891, Mulford was » «‘ih>r, ,beI1 ” n ‘‘ ws l» a Per writer in San brum-iseo and New lork, and hually became a Spiritualist and a medium. fIt ‘ " a \° U P ,lews P*Pei- work to write pamphlets on topics akin to what is known now as Christian Science. In the pamphlet v,-hieli Mrs. Blank piCied ■ , , " p S1H , ,. bitind , „ this . text from Emerson; , rr i ., , your to , star .. cu wagon a 1,(0 sentence caugut. her. She read K -i aloud and liked the nay it sounded. . lien she read liivtlier. The author <>t the monograph maintained tha. a man who w ould make up his mind mud enough could accomplish any thing he set his mind on. Mrs. Blank 11 ltor ‘ v l s estoi l,00k8 |, aud 8' I’rom ,t some these 111016 she ot blamed.some , very -_ allimug things j 11)0111 thought She learned that, it one was ih, all he or she had to do was to think hard that he or she was well and health was restored. Now that struck Mrs. Blank very forcibly. She bad long been a sufferer from dyspep sia - Physicians hadn't helped her :U ' (I "he had settled down to the thought of being a chronic dyspeptic, -Vow she had found a cure for the ill. Straightway she began to think she was perfectly well. That night, ac to the story, she, ate ail sorts oi tilings tor dinner. Whenlierhos tess marvelled at her temerity, simpl^ Mrs. Blank smiled sweetly and said: ‘‘Oh, I haven’t been bothered with indigestion for a long time.» that struck the hostess as a bit queer, inasmuch as Mrs. Blank had complained of her old malady only that morning. However, she said noth ing and in a few- days Mrs. Blank returned to town. The story is that when she began at the top of her visit ing Upilate in October all. her friends iJQf * -d o n how w ell she was look themecn. “ -j : 'Ushf. •fij^^i%«JL toli.ialiout the, 2 books she had read, the thinking she had done and the cure that had been effected. All the women of her ac quaititance seemed to have something the matter with them and they became greatly interested in the thinking process. They wanted to know more about it, and one day Mrs, Blank gave and a luncheon to about a dozen friends told all she knew* about how to think, That was the beginning. Other lunch eon parties were given by other women of Mrs. Blank’s acquaintance, and at these the women told of their experi ences at thinking. These think lnuch eons have now become a fixture. A woman in upper Fifth avenue , became interested, ana concluded that it^Trr successors ot I rentice fm 0110 a ! ld f 1 ' 1 ^ om > a "°* man. This woman had a name tor the process of thinking oneself into a desired condition of miml or body. She called it menticnlture, and now that’s what they all call it. Her creed was a little different from Mnlford’s. She held the doctrine of thought transference. According to this teacher, thought can be transferred from one mind to another as rapidly as the telegraph transfers words. All that is necessary is to think hard enough. She asserts, 101 instance, that a person’s spiritual maybe made better by resolute thinking. Think of Christ and His example. Continue to think about Him. Think hard. Little by little the moral life of the thinker will im¬ prove. As he thinks, the thought crystallizes in action. The acts will resemble more and more the acts of the Exemplar. The only bar to absolute perfection, according to this philosophy, is the lack of ability to keep one’s thoughts on the subject. What is true of the spiritual life, nccordiug to the reasoning of this wo¬ man, is true of the physical life, only you must have assistance in improv¬ ing your physical condition. In this assistance comes in the thought-trans¬ ference. A person who is sound of wind aud limb and mind meets a friend who has a cold or consumption or any other ill The well person be gins to think of an ideal healthy per l£a'hoS and m lidays l ™»StSfw“d.wS wun ms fnend thinking Altera me le persin who 1 . ill catches a taint notion of this physi cally perfect person Then the notion becomes clearer and finally he gets an unclouded mental picture oi the physi cally perfect mau. Ouee be lias that idea he can think of uo unhealthy per sell as otherwise >■?»r* than perfectly well. As pain or illuess of any kind is ex- 1>orienc ® d oul VY he *?, nBRti0n iS ti-uusmiueu to the brain, tlie person who can thiuk only of tbe physically perfect ideal eaunot experience a sation of illoess bo great has the interest in become that the thinkers have divided themselves up into circles or cliques. £w'o or three of these circles are known as the Prentice Mulford branch. Then there is another set, who are members of “Don't Worry Cluii.” ^ organized £f™ l Xrfotthese bv Theodore F Sew T iuo inemoeis ot tuese chibsdiV clubs uis avow any belief in “Christian science” or “faith healing. ” They insist that lliud as peifec t a machine as possible, Iie e ud ai)d aim being 1u P e °P le t iu ?<*}* ,e . er . wl(U ,a t? ta better y men P. iy f; an. lc ^ women- y f p. 11 Don .. t Worries do ’, believe, however, in thought transference. It sald that the fooling between the dif Intent kinds ot menticulturalists is ruuniu B high and that some of the wo men of one circle hardly speak to the womo ° of the ‘'there, Women Centenarians. it is an acknowledged fact that a great age is attained by women often er than by men. One of the most famous female centenarians was the Countess of Desmond, who lived to be 115 years old, and died in the reign of James I. from the effects of an acci dent, This wonderful woman found herself, at the ago 100, so lively and strong as to be able to take part in a dance; and when she was 140 she trav eled from Bristol to London—no tri fling journey in those days—in order to attend personally to some business affairs. Lady Desmond is, however, quite thrown in the shade by a French worn an, Marie Frion, who died in St. Col onibe, it is said, at the wonderful age 0 f 150 . Toward the end of life she lived exclusively on goat’s milk and cheese. Although her body was so shrunk that she weighed only forty-six pounds, she retained all her mental Unities to the last. It is an extraordinary but incontesr ible fact that some women at the age when most people die undergo a sort 0 f natural process of rejuvenation— wrinkles hair and teeth grow again, the disappear from the sliiu, and sight and hearing reacquire their former sharpness. A Marquise de Mirabeau is an ex ample of this rare and remarkable phenomenon. She died at the age of eighty-six, but a few years before her death she. became in appearance quite young again. The same change hap pened to a nun of the name of Mar guerite Vevclur, who, at the age ot sixty-two, lost her wrinkles, regained her sight and grew several new teeth. When she died, ten years later, her appearance was almost that of a young girl.—New York Ledger. -------- *SE Bags shakes For a Living. . Dan Reeves, of Portland, this State: who has acquired more than a local reputation as a rattlesnake hunter, gives some interesting facts concerning the sport. “These snakes,” Mr. Reeves said, “have now all gone into winter quar entrrely they ^ fjmring spring, dormanr. that time their eyes are covered with , a sort of film, which obscures their vision. They eat nothing while in this state, but they never ‘go in’until they have filled themselves to their ut most capacity.” Mr. For several years Reeves was the only person who hunted these dangerous reptiles. Last, season others devoted some attention to the pursuit of the snake, but finally gave it U P It is [by no means an unprofitable business, especially in the fall, when the snakes are fat. They yield an average of $2 worth of oil each, which finds a ready sale among druggists. The skins are dried and preserved. Mr. Reeves recently sold about a hundred of them to Meriden parties. They have been sent to Philadelphia, where they will be stuffed for distri¬ bution among museums at good prices. During the season of snake hunt¬ ing just passed Mr. Reeves has bagged thirty-four rattlesnakes, some of which were unusually large. He was as¬ sisted by a small dog, which has learned the dangerous character of the game he pursues aud always keeps a safe distance.—New London (Conn.) Telegraph. Soldiers Must Swim, In the Dutch army a man must be able to swim as well as to fight. More¬ over, if he is in the cavalry he must have a horse which will take a river as easily as a hunter takes a fence. Swimming manoeuvres are part of the regular drill there. Collapsible canvas boats, manned by a few oarsmen, lead the horses so that they do not at¬ tempt to land on stone quays and other difficult points. The men swim across with their horses and on them. They do it in swimming costume, aud iu all the accoutrements of war. There are few nautical emergencies for which the Dutch army is not prepared. Some of the officers have even reached such a degaee of proficiency that not only their horses and kit cross the rivers with them, but then pet dogs sit upon their shoulders and 1 re borne over, almost without wetting.- -Lon¬ don Daily Mail. isata! Gem, As lU) old legead lias itf tbeye is 8 gem especially set , s i,Ie to .jmboliee the character of persons born in Jauu ar 7- mmtlmi- for those born in Febru aryj an< j so 0 n throughout the rest of t)je twelve. The ? gems themselves are / mbolical of qnal tiM . Here is what ach f 8tauds for and what month u ,, el 0 to; January- Oat-net Constancy, Fidelity April.......... Diamond ......... Innocence May...........Emerald..Success .KubjL. in Love J«^:. A 8 ate, August. .Sardonyx, Moonstone. Conjugal Felicity September-----Sapphire...........Virtue ::.".tSpL.'.V. j November. V./.V.'.V.V.'.Lo^e j December. Turquoise. Success. Prosperity AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Selling off ___ oor tq» k. ■* . 1a winter approaches every farmer sllould . Iook over hls «‘°ck and ? oasi der wbat ot lt will pay best for kee P ln . S through until spring. If all that does not come up j- to the standard . ,, 1 to , . liutchei . , othei ,, di s 0 01 w - e ;i . P oso in ‘ ?? h * y s . n .j u , r than if ho fed it Don’t try to get high prices for the Jl £ nnm farmers' ( of it than in keening it. The 5 ^ iMthese davs’depends Ue'keeps rno’-« on the kind of stock than m any other factor ltoishi\i Fall Calves. There is a great unwilling ne. rf n. the part of most dairymen to al! o w calves dropped in the fall to reach mu turity. It is really the greatest ob¬ jection to the extension of winter dairying. That in all cases takes the best" cows, as no one would think of keeping poor milkers through the win ter, with all the extra trouble that winter dairying involves. But if all the calves of these winter cows are se nt to the butcher it must meat* a great deterioration of average dairv stock. No one should begin winter dairying unless he has a warm barn, which f rost will not enter, in which to keep his cows, and succulent feed of 30 me kind to feed them. These are j us t the conditions for successfully rearing fall farrowed calves. The Apple Haircut. The furrows which yju see in »p pies arc due to the presence of a worm in the apple, which is the product growth of an egg laid very early in the of the apple by the apple maggot. As the mature insect does not eat the at : - pie, but only stings it to deposit her egg beneath the skin, it is not likely that the maggot.can be killed bv sonous insecticide. Some success has been had by using an emulsion which is applied before the tree is leaved out. The maggot hatches early m spring aud waits without eating until her work in reproducing her species is done. The orchard should be kept as a hog pasture wherever this pest, becomes numerous. There are many of these pests in the fallen fruit, and a good lot of hogs will eat this fruit a n fast as it falls to the ground. The iu crease of the pest may thus be pre vented if it cannot be exterminated — Boston Cultivator, Siiccessi’al “V cape Grafti j. I. Porter, of Ohio, writes: An old Clinton vine stood at the corner of the woodhouse which was so vigorous that its branches spread over every thing within reach, but bore no fruit, In April, 1896, I cut both branches off close to’ the ground and grafted a Delaware grape into one and an Iona into the other. I used no wax-simply wrapped carefully with strings of doth, pasted a little mud over the cept fheTo^Ib u'^ol the -grafts/TbOAe " grafts made a wonderful growth the first season, owing to the far-reaching roots of the Clinton vine. At close of tire first season the Iona vine was about 18 feet long and the Delaware about 12. This season, with the vines one y ear 0 lil, the Delaware branch bore twenty-four as fine hunches of Delaware grapes as I ever saw. The bunches and berries were slightly larger than the Delaware generally grows and so compact on the stems that they could not be picked off easi ly without beginning at the end of the stem. The Iona branch bore about forty bunches of Iona grapes of the finest quality. This is a quick way of get¬ ting a grapevine into bearing. I tried the same experiment on a wild grape¬ vine down in the pasture. It grew just as vigorously, but an inquisitive Jersey cow spoiled the experiment. Largest Canal in the World. The Chenab irrigation canal, in the northwest provinces, India, is 200 feet broad. It is doubtless the largest canal in the world. Its main channel is 450 miles long, while the principal branches have an aggregate length of 2000 miles, and the village branches will extend, when completed, for an additional 4000 miles. Apart from irrigation, the longest canal in tha world is that which extends from tha frontier of China to St. Petersburg, aud is 4472 miles in length. Another Russian canal, from Astrachan to St. Petersburg, is 1434 miles long: both the last-named canals were begun by Peter the Great. The Bengal Canal, connecting with the River Ganges, completed in 1854, is 900 miles -iu length, and cost £2,000,000 sterling, or £2200 per mile. The total length of canals in India for irrigating 8,000, 000 acres is calculated at 14,000 miles. The Canal du Midi, connecting the Atlantic with the Mediterranean, is 148 miles long. The Caledonian Canal in Scotland has a length of sixty miles. The Suez Canal is eighty-eight miles long, and the Erie 360; the Ohio Canal, 332; the Miami and Erie, 374; the Manchester ship canal, 354 miles. The Word „r an Indian, While Indian Commissioner Pray «. »t cue „t the egencle. » young men drank whisky .li.taVi and be «nH,. They They peace. were tried and convicted and sentenced to do a highways certaiu number of days’ work on the The next morning the Indians Lv under sentence, without guard of k d ' . -JLir * bUa t afl d did their dav’s LTJTZ? mi ’ "Z UtU a f terms of tlieir ' (es a had i , beou tul- , ing' T) rejuirod „„ 1 'Lom eJcept was them VnltRI their word that fchev would lu ^hH -ha be oonditim,. ' x-’ \ *1,^ e sentence. . . , than the word State B eg irt or
