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THE HALL QUA HOUSE. _ An Attractive Feature of the Mod¬ ern Dwelling. In the furnishing of a modern house tho hall constitutes one of the most serious problems, but there is one consolation, If one solves it sucoess- fully tho hall becomes one of the most attractive features of tho ontiro house. It then censes to bo a mere paRsago- way, and becomes a veritable room, aud ono which, strangely enough, will be more generally used than almost any other in the house. In the con¬ ventional oity dwelling, when the hall is long, narrow aud dark, with a high i -Te, Si, cm E ii frrer-, PERSPECTIVE VIEW. ceiling and a flight of stairs that makes an nnbrokon sweep to the floor above, very little can be done to give a true artistic eflect. If tho front door is of solid paneled wood a great im¬ provement will result from replacing the upper panels with glass. This can take tho form of a sash of small leaded pones in fanciful design, or a single sheet of plate glass, protected by a neat iron grill. The mistake should never be made of using colored glass unless one can afford a masterpiece of genuine stained glass, for the ordinary so-called “cathedral” glass is crude in colors, and an abomination. The hall stand or hat rack, which is of¬ ten found just within the front door, should be banished to some rear corner, if it is to be tolerated at all, where it will not bo so much in evi¬ dence. Theso racks become “catch¬ alls,” and old coats, hats, umbrellas and canes are not at all ornamental. In place of these conveniences a broad hail chair, of formal design, or better still a mahogany settee, will serve every purpose. These shonld be re¬ served for the use of casual callers. If there are no convenient closets that can he made for the garments of the members of the household, a neat clothes tree such as are imitated from the antique, will prove a great deal more sightly than the hall racks that are made nowadays. It takes up but little room and can find a place in some rear corner. His® I HALL ASD STAIRCASE. Under the best of conditions the hall will be none too light, and this fact should be borne in mind in choosing wall paper and carpet. The furnish¬ ings should be in light warm tones, "and only the most formal designs are permissible. Few people seem to realize the effectiveness of pictures in the hall. It is customary to hang one or two large frames on the side walls, and allow the long stretch above the stairs to go uncovered. In the latter place pictures are needed,-if anywhere in the house, for there is no other way in which the vast wall sjiace can bo broken. All of this has reference to the fit¬ ting and furnishing of the ordinary city hall. In the villa house the architect gen¬ erally plans a square hail that has all the effeots of an ordinary room. There may be windows on the side, an open fireplace, and plenty of contrivances that lend themselves to decorative effect. Here the treatment should be the same as in any other room, with this restriction. The purpose of the hall must never be forgotten. Easy chairs and sofas will not be out of ' place if they do not detract from the formal character, or do not obstruct free passage. There should never be a profusion of ornaments or bric-a- brac. In a general way the hints as to the city hall apply equally well to one in the suburbs. A hall chair, or settee should bo placed in close proximity to the ontrauce door, and the fittings of the walls and ceilings should be in the light, worm tones. The design illustrating this article lends itself readily to a most beauti- k -o* *’ t V '<SWA- n I “EOT Strain rft. m ; «MM " ►M ketf i 1'kss iteffiH .r.ftStftw I 'te’.f- FIRST 1X003. fully nrtistio treatment; tno hall is a host in Itself. Its ceiling is paneled to represent open timber work, nnd the walls finished in hard white plas¬ ter, with wainsooating four feet high from the floor, above which is tinned with a formal design planted on in stnoco work, representing tho fleur-de- lis of Franco. The residenoe is sixty-two feet wide, by seventy-eight feet in depth, the ttrst story being ten feet six inohes in r~e ^Vltonv| mk uh« ^."W35 (| ^ | - 13‘tViM* M*Jf uv'-i* I«r r i- '^Ij b f J m } J rdrmnm CX/tp I /\ H / SECOND FLOOR. height. The arrangement and size of rooms is shown by the floor plaus. The sum of §8405 will build the design, not including the cost of mantels ranges, and heating apparatus. Copyright 1897. A Strong Snake Story. The latest snake story comes from South Africa. It is recordod in the Transvaal, published in Cape Town, as cold fact, that in Sekukiniland a native ran across a boa constrictor measuring about forty-seven feet, which had just swallowed a young koodoo buck, all except the horns. The horns stuck out on each side of the reptile’s mouth. The native rec¬ ognized the horns as those ot a buck he owned, and he ran and got sticks and pinned the serpent, which was dormant, to the ground. Then he got hold of the horns and pulled and twisted. He got the buck out inch by inoh, until half its body showed, and then it came with a jerk, and the boy fell over on his back. Before he had time to think twice the snake, re¬ lieved of his load of mutton, was upon him, and it seized his head in its mouth and in three minutes the na¬ tive had taken the place of the buck, only he was all inside; there was nothing loft out to pull on, even if a rescuer had come along. Having swallowed the boy the boa deliberately swung its head around and grabbing its tail swallowed eight feet of it, then closing the mouth and throat down which the native had disappeared, and making escape almost impossible. The Transvaal vouches for the truth of the story.—London Times. UNCLE SAM’S 0It 1 (JINAC ATTIRE. Somewhat Different From the Mod¬ ern Figure. The original Uncle Sara of song and cartoon was so different from the modern figure, with its long striped pantaloons, that our read ers will be interested to see the costume as some of the students of history say it should be. In the first place, say these authorities, he should wear a high hat, slightly bell crowned aud of felted fur. His shirt should be portrayed with a frilled bosom projecting out, pouter fashion, and generally with a breastpin in it. His shirt collar should be high and connected with his shirt. gP} 8J# ) v A mm a w f ,, ^\v a HI I ///' His cravat should be wide and tied with a “pudding,” as it was termed in former times. The waistcoat should be a buff, single breasted affair, with gold or gilt bnttons. The swallow- tailed coat should be made with high rolling collar and high pointed lapels. The greatest difference between Uncle Sam as be is and as he should be lies in the pantaloons. They should be made with a “trap door” in front and fitted below the knee for the wear¬ ing of the boots outside. These boots should have tassels in front. Colored shirts were unknown until about 1829. Striped pantaloons are of a compara¬ tively late date, and straps under the boots were not known until 1825. They were a part of the pantaloons and were fastened on the boot in front and buttoned under it. Goatees were not worn until late in the 30V. The accompanying picture shows the correct Uncle Sam of a century ago, but times change and our good uncle with them. Governor Smith, the new Executive of Montana, advises the amending of the State constitution to provide that the million acres of land owned by the State be not sold, bnt leased, and that persons residing on theso lands be exempt from all taxation ou personal eprovements. ^ N - < z «» tFpa 'MM ' rSl *" liSIst * M V r r * -IL-i'-lr. OATS FOR TREE ROOTS. In planting trees put in one peck of oats at the roots before filling in the dirt. They will draw moisture for the roots until the tree has started to grow. EXTRA FEEDING TWIN LAMBS. Not long ago a farmer remarked that he did not see much advantage in hav¬ ing ewes that bred twins. The extra lamb, he remarked, took part of the food needed for one alter the second week, and caused both to be second class, and perhaps not worth more than one in prime condition, No doubt this estimate was correct so far as his experience went, but it simply showed that tho farmer was not alive to the opportunities which twin lambs gave him. All lambs should be fed something besides their mother’s milk after they are two weeks old. In the case of twin lambs this is especially necessary. At first the feed should be of the simplest character and not of a' kind to tempt tho appetite. A small wisp of clover hay, all the better if of second-growth clover, is enough to begin with. When this is eaten greed¬ ily, as it probably will be, and after a few days a gill of whole oats per day, given half at morning and half at night. To this may be added after awhile a teaspoonful and ultimately a tablespoonful of oil meal per day. When this is eaten without injury add to the clover hay ration all the lamb will eat clean. In this way, with the addition of its mother’s milk, two lambs from a ewe can be grown with better results than one lamb can which depends only on its mother’s milk and what hay it can pick up while running with its dam. What is more, twin lambs thus reared will make thrifty sheep, aud will be good feeders ali their lives because at no time has their digestion been injured by being starved or stinted in their food. MILKING. If money is to be made from cows it is essential that they be milked at reg¬ ular hours morning or evening, says the Patron’s Bulletin, and the nearer the time is divided equally the better it is. It is also advisable to milk them in Ihe same order every time ; it prevents them from fretting. Personally I have found no satisfactory result unless I managed to make friends with the cow, or, if you please, induced her to look upon me as an “adopted calf !” While pure lood and water are essen¬ tial to the production of perfect milk, it has been proven that many of the taints which we thought were intro¬ duced in the milk while it is elaborated in the cow are due to direct contami¬ nation from the dust of dried urine and excrements as well as of the fod¬ der itself in the stable. When the cow converts the food into blood and then into milk, most, if not all, of the im¬ purities are separated in that wonderful filter—the kidneys—and the germs are found not in the milk but in the urine and excrements. A healthy cow fed clean and healthy fodder and water will always produce perfect milk. We have been fooled, as, for instance, by the fact that milk from cows fed on turnips had a turnipy flavor, but care¬ ful experiments have shown that this flavor was produced by a bacterium found on the turnips and in the excre¬ ments and introduced in the milk di¬ rectly by dust falling into it while milking in a stable where turnips were fed while milking or shortly after, or where the excrements had a chance to dry and float as dust in the air> These facts make it clear that we should not feed the cows while milk¬ ing, aud shonld not clean the stable just before milking, as the dust then raised may drop in the milk. Nor should we keep a stock of such fodder in the stable. Of course there are certain weeds, such as leeks, rag weed, etc., which will taint the milk as produced in the cow, and too much of certain food will afleot the milk in various ways. Thus more than two pounds of linseed meal per cow will make the butter soft, and so will rape-seed and peanut meal, while more than two or three pounds of cotton-seed meal will make it hard and like stearine. CONSERVATION OF SOIL MOISTURE. In the discussion of subsoiling, the statement has often been made that porous sandy land is injured more than benefited by deep stirring, writes Professor J. L. Rudd, Iowa. This is undoubtedly true, but the best soils for horticultural uses in the prairie states are those with a large mixture of clay, which pack readily under the pressure of the plow and the tread of the horses in the furrow. A well de¬ fined crust is formed at the bottom of the furrow, which holds the water of heavy rains, forming little rivulets that not only carry off the moisture but tons of the very finest and best soil particles. Even the favored Loess soils of Iowa soon show this crust un¬ der the plow. A peculiarity of western climate is a lessening of orchard and garden yield by a shortage of earth moisture when the crop is maturing. During the pnst four years premature dropping and ripening of apples was the result of too little water in the lower levels reached by the feeding roots. As orchard fruits do best on high lands, with more or less slope lor the drain¬ age. the loss from suriace draipage of water is more apparent than on those places nearly level. In a dozen places ccming under the writer’s observa¬ tion, crops of fruit and grains have grown during the past four years on hilly slopes, part of the land being subsoiled and part given common plowing. Ou the subsoiled part not u trace of water gullying could be found, nor was any loss of fine earth particles apparent. On this part the frnit was larger, smoother, later in maturing and not subject to premature drop¬ ping. In corn, oats and other crops, the gain in quantity and quality was equally apparent. In the common plowing by its side, after every rapid falling shower,little gullies were every¬ where seen, carrying off water which the subsoil needed and also the richest part of the soil. At harvest the les¬ sening in size and yield of fruit and grain was easily apparent. In the nursery during the same period, root grafts of the apple, pear, cherry and plum planted in deeply subsoiled trenches grew into healthy trees, with moisture ever present under the dust mulch of cultivation. On the other hand, root grafts planted with the dibble or common plowing showed a poor stand, slow growth and more than tho usual amount of leaf curl and blight. This trenching under the rows seems in practice to give quite as favorable results as breaking the crust over the entire surface. In preparing for orchard planting, harrow the field smoothly, run the lifter or snbsoiler where the row is to be set and to a distance of four feet on each side. This gives a mellow bed to the depth of usual planting, into which the water from rains will flow to wet the subsoil and by seepage the whole orchard surface. Even on relatively flat land, where it is re¬ garded best to ridge up the rows for surface drainage, subsoiling in the lines of the rows is far better than to dig hills into the compact earth. In fields subsoiling for strawberry plant¬ ing or for any small fruits, it is best to harrow smoothly and then run the subsoiler from the surface down at least fourteen inohes under the row and at intervals of eighteen inches apart over the whole surface. PLANT YOUR TREES IN AUTUMN. All fruit trees, except the peach and all the small fruits except the black¬ cap raspberry are best planted in the autumn, and the earlier after the leaves fall, the better. The advan¬ tages of fall planting may be summed 1. Nurserymen have fuller and bet¬ ter stocks of trees in the autumn when the sales begin. The best sold first, and later orders are filled with the material which remains on hand. Sometimes it is impossible to have an order for certain varieties filled in the spring, all of that stock being sold. There is frequently ob¬ served a marked superiority in stock received in the fail. 2. If trees are properly planted in the early autumn almost every one is sure to live and thrive the next sea¬ son. while of those planted in the spring a considerable per cent, will die the first year. The explanation is that during the warm days of autumn the trees become established in their new locations. Having no leaves they do not nted moisture as they do in the spring. The earth becomes com¬ pacted about the roots, which form cailusses over the cut and torn ends, and oven begin to emit small rootlets before the winter sets in, so that on the earliest warm days of spring the young orchard is ready to start off to make a full growth.. 3. Another reason for fall planting is that the nurserymen then have more time to dig aud pack the trees, and there is less liability of errors, which are very provoking when discovered after the lapse of eight or ten years when the tree begins to fruit. The planter,too, has more time to properly do the work of planting, so that all orchards planted in the autumn have a better chauce of succeeding. strictly first-class trees and vines should always be purchased, Other qualities may live, but they will gener¬ ally come to bearing so far behind first-class stock that more will be lost than is gained. To illustrate this: Some years ago the writer purchased a thousand third-class currant bashes. They nearly all grew, but failed to fruit the second and third years with any degree of profit, so that the loss was considerable, i o with pear and apple trees of the second-class more will die and the remainder will be lugger in coming into bearing. Nurservmen often advocate the planting of very young trees, This will do if the trees are to have garden culture, but where trees are to be planted in an orchard and will receive only ordinary care the larger tree, threebor four years old, will stand much the better chauce of living and early fruiting. Always order straight, thrifty, clean and healthy stock from the nursery, and insist that it be guaranteed free from all insect and fungus diseases. After the trees are planted pull the earth up around each one to support it against the winter winds. In ex¬ ceptionally windy places it may be advisable to stake each tree, but orchards should not be planted in such locations, for the fruit will stand but littlo chance of remaining upon the trees to maturity.—New York Trib une. Parisian ragpickers earn $6,000,00( -i year. I POPULAR HITENUK. As comets near the sun their velocity always increases. Glowworms are much more brilliant when a storm is coming than at other soasons. To aid in filing saw teeth straight a new fileholder has'a frame witu two parallel guides, between which the file is fastened to make it rue true. Under forced draught the new Brit¬ ish first-class battleship Jupiter made an average of 18.4 knots in her four- hour trial, nearly a knot more than the contract speed. Microscopical investigation L said to prove that the pores of wood invite the passage of moisture in the direction of the timber’s growth, but repel it in the opposite direction, Newton calculated the velocity of the comet of I860 to bo 880,000 miles an hour. Brydonne rated the speed of the comet he saw in 1770 at two and a half millions of miles an hour. A thermometer was left near a stove in a sleeping room at Dusseldorf re cently and the fumes from the mer¬ eary poisoned two children so that their lives were saved with difficulty. Bo says the British Medical Journal. Gold or bismuth is extracted from various mineral mixtures by melted lead in the process of two- Swedish metallurgists, Olm and Loftnind, and this method is claimed to' be so effec¬ tive that even very poor ores are made to yield a profit. Percival Lowell m an interesting paper ou “Venus in the Light of Re¬ cent Discoveries,” show how his ob¬ servations at Flagstaff, Arizona, have led to the conclusion that the planet Venus always presents the same side to the sun, and is, therefore, lifeless. Some iron tonics of the phariua- eopceia are useless,others are harmful. It has been suggested that the iron should be obtained in an assimilable form from vegetables, and tho idea has now been extended by a French chemist, M. Gabriel Viaud, who- pro¬ poses to feed the vegetables with iron to prepare them specially for vegetables having any required proportion of iron. The red clover, when introduced in¬ to Australia, grow most luxuriantly, and flowered, but produced no seed. The reason for this was the absence of bumble bees—the bumble bee being the one that does the fertilizing, al¬ most exclusively, in the red clover. Bees were introduced, and the clover seeded in profusion consequently. Exactly the same was the case with the apple. The Way to Sleep. Where practicable the bed should be placed on a lino north and south, with the head toward the north. This arrangement places the sleeper in harmony with the electrical currents caused by the rotation of the earth on its axis. Often a person in sickness and sometimes in health can obtain much needed rest in no other Bedrooms should, where possible, have a southern exposure, that is, have the windows on the south or the sunniest side of the house. The head to- the north will keep the lungs aud respira¬ tory organs away from any possible draughts, and the room will also ob¬ tain that indispensible requisite to health—plenty of sunlight through tho day. In many cases it will be impos¬ sible to obtain these conditions in houses where there is very little sun¬ light that can enter the bedrooms,.and where windows and doorways make it impossible to place the head of the bed toward the north, but where there is a choice of rooms those that offer these conditions for comfort and health should be chosen for the bed¬ rooms in common use. Better sleep can be obtained with a low than with a high pillow. To lessen the work of the arteries that propel the blood to every portion of the organism should be the aim of every one, so that the posture that most nearly places the body in a horizontal position is the most to be desired. Bolstering up the head is always to be condemned, whether in sickness or in health, unless bodily injuries render the perfectly recumbent position im¬ possible. It is not well to lie always on the back ; by this practice the spine and the nerves that there congregate are kept too hot, and a feverish sleep is apt to be the result. The right side is the best to recline on, for then the heart and the larger arteries are re¬ lieved from undue pressure. Occasion¬ ally one rests well lying on the stomach. As a general rule eight hours is ample for a person in health ; more produces a dull, heavy feeling on arising; less, an unsatisfied craving for more. And there is also no room for doubt that the two hours im¬ mediately preceding the midnight hour are the most favorable for enjoy¬ ing the “beauty sleep” of the night. A Remarkable Gag. A remarkable story was told in a Cleveland (Ohio) court by Nellie Gil¬ bert, the wife a prominent physician of that city. She says that her fa¬ ther-in-law, who does not like her and has tried to have his son divorce her, filled her month with wet plaster of paris and allowed the stuff to harden, so that she coaid not talk. A hammer had to be used to break the plaster in her mouth before itoould be removed. She now sues her fatherdn-law for $20,000 for this assanlt, and for $30,- 000 for endeavoring to alienate her husband’s affections. —Detroit Free Press. Through a Small Hole. A female burglar, twenty-one years of age, recently sent to jail in Lou¬ don, was proved to have worked her way through an opening nine and one- quarter inohes square, and on a pre¬ vious occasion had wriggled through a hole eight inches square. A Record Breaker. He—They have u saying now that all the world’s awheel. She—To be sure it is. Ami it’s a scorcher, too, whirling at the rate of more than 1,000 miles an hour.—De¬ troit Free Press, Am Appeal for Asaiatniree. The man who i.voheritable to himself will lis¬ ten to the mute appeal for assistance made by his stomach, or hlB*l$v.er, in tho shape of divers dyspeptic qualms and/ uneasy sensations in the regions of tho gland' thvst secretes his bile. 11 os- tetter’s Stomach Bitters\ my dear sir, or madam --as the caso may be-—Is what you require. Hasten to use If you n/ro troubled with heart¬ burn, wind in the BtoiYwaelk, or note that your skin or tho whites of your eyes are taking a sal¬ low hue. In time of war you shm«M prepare for the cemetery. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Why not lot No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco 1 ? Saves money, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 60 cents and $1.00, at all druggists. _ ______ The road which leads to wealth'is-full of blinth lanes. Ponder Over It. A prominent building owner, with years- of 4 experience, gave the following instruc¬ tions to his architect: “I have had my ex¬ perience with kalsomine and other goods claimed to bo just as good as Alabastine. I want you to specify the durable Alabastine on ali my wails: do not put on any other manufacturers’ dope, if they furnish it for nothing. Alabastine is right, and when I cease to use it I shall cease to have confi¬ dence in myself or my own judgment.” During the sixty years of Queen: Victoria's reign the English debt has been reduced nearly a billion dollars. That Everlasting Irritating I tell. That describes Tetter, Eczema and other skin diseases. 50 cents will cure them—stop the itch at once. 50 cents pays for a box of Tetterin© at drug stores or postpaid for 50 cents in stamps from J, T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. Cascakets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken internally, and acts directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Sold, by Druggists, 75c. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Just try a 10c. box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. ARE YOU SICK? Consult a Skilled Specialist of Fifteen Year#’ Experience. Cancers removed in 10 dayo, without pain. Diseases of the Blood, Skin, Liver. Kidneys and Rheumatism Bladder, such as Dropsy, Fits, Catarrh, Asthma, and private Diseases speedily and permanently cured. Female troubles relieved. Treatment sent to your home for $5 per month. Guarantee. Dr. O. Henley Snider. Offices and Dispensary, 5 to 9 N. Boulevard , Atlanta, Ga. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous¬ ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma¬ tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. For Whooping Cough, Piso’s Cure is a suc¬ cessful remedy.—M. P. Dieter, 67 Tliroop Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 14, ’94. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬ son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle. When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10c., 25c. St. Vitus’ Dance. One bottle Dr. Fenner’s Specific cures. Circular, Fredonia, N. Y. Painful Eruptions “My sister was afflicted with eruptions around her ears which kept getting worse and spreading until they became very painful. We made up our minds we must do something for her, and we procured a bottle of Hood’s Sarsa¬ parilla. She continued taking it until she was entirely cured.” Nadia Dunning, Concord, Wisconsin. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. $1, six for $5. Rood’s Pills are prompt, efficient and easy in eueet. 26 cents. Her Easy Method. “It must distress your wife to be so delicate. ” “No; she likes it.” “Likes it?” “Yes; every little while, you know,, she thinks she is going to die, and she- gets a new silk gown to be buried-in.” —Chicago Record. They’re Welcome. “Does your mother like her new neighbors, Jennie?” “Very much. We borrow butter of- them and give them oleomargarine in return. They seem pleased over, it.”' —Detroit Free Press. Buckinghams dye For the Whiskers, Mustache, and Eyebrows. In one preparation. Easy, to apply at home. Colors brown or black. The Gentlemen's favorite, because satisfactory. R. F. IIai.l & Co., Proprietors, Nashua. N If. Sold by all Druggists. m I OTTM 5 of Hires Rootbeer on a sweltering hot day is highly essen¬ and tial to comfort health. It cools tlie blood, reduces your temperature, tones -HO the stomach. oiotb -100 HIRES WAT r so I! NX SUM AT F»° i-70 Rootbeer TW 160 r30 should be in every home, in every =■40 office, in every work¬ shop. driuk, A temperance health¬ more ful than ice water, ■10 more delightful and ztn& jr- o satisfying beverage than any other pro¬ 20 duced. • only hr the Charter T>. Hir«B Co., Phliad'-lphla, SqW A pack* age makes 6 gallons, cv< flrjnfcers.