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THE GAINESVILLE NEWS, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER ’> 10, 1902 ALL OVER Trig HOUSE. : Teach!ng the- Housemaid How to Do Her Work Properly. Teach your housemaid never to enter a room without tapping at the door, except, of course, a parlor or dining room. If she rises early, her work is more sure to be done on feme, and insist thait her bed shall (fee aired as well and her room as ixeatly kept as your own. Give her a tablet and pencil to be fang on a nail behind ‘the front door, that she may take the names of callers who have no' cards and write down messages. Near the tab let find a place for a silver waiter, on which all cards, notes and bun dles are to be delivered. Train her to punctuality. Cer tain duties at certain hours obviate a world of thought. If she has not been taught clean liness, you have a struggle before you, but she must learn that this virtue requires never ceasing care and oversight and conscientious ness. % When she sweeps a room, let it be done thoroughly. Show her how to take every ornament from its place and put it dusted and clean on the bed cover with a dusting sheet; to open the windows, to put all mov able furniture out of the room, to sweep hard, to dust every bit of .woodwork, to wash the panes and f lasses and finally to restore the usted furniture and bric-a-brac to their places. If you can instill these habits within three or four weeks, you need not despair of the greenest maid. * "Stained Glass" Pillows. Take an ordinary long needleful of any shade of wool, begin at one corner of a square of canvas and work either irregularly or other wise as long as the wool allows in ordinary cross stitch, then fasten off the thread and edge the worked section with a line of cross stitch in black; take a thread of another shade of wool and make another section, edging it, like the other, with black. Continue this method - till the square is covered, varying v occasionally the length of the nee dleful. When the square is finished and backed with silk or other mate rial, the edge seam may be covered with a heavy cord of twisted black wool. If one has the wish to do it, a me diaeval saint, copied from a Berlin pattern, may be embroidered in the center of the square and the ground covered with v the colored sections described above. If in this case the outlining is done with stone gray instead of with black, in imitation of the leaded setting, the stained glass window effect will be more realistic, although the colors will be shown out with less brilliancy than where black is chosen. Lighting a Dark Hall. A mirror will lighten a dark hall if properly placed. Place the glass opposite a door, and the light from that apartment, falling on the mir ror, is reflected back from it to the hall, to its much greater lighting, while the apparent size of the little place is greatly increased. The mir ror is untrained and is fitted in be tween cornice and baseboard and finished at the sides with a flat molding that seems a part of the woodwork. The value of this treat ment is not realized until it is tried. Often a blank stretch of wall that seems a hopeless shutting in of space may offer the transforming opportunity. Gare must be taken not to overdo the treatment in such a. way as to create the effect of a hotel corridor or public hall, but judiciously used upder the care of a good architect the plan is to be commended. Pillsbury,the great chess expert, is noted for always coming in second in a match. No matter-now, many contest ants there may be. His naval name sake can sympathize with him.—Au gusta Chronicle. Mrs. L. S Bisby and daughter, of Savannah, are in the city as the guests of Mrs. C. H. Backus. The family of Mrs. L. L. Alien of Jefferson, have moved to Gainesville and are residing at Mr. N. C. White’s house on Syca more street. GEORGIA CROP REPO: * I Issued by State Agricultural - Department. COMPARISON OF CONDITIONS. Some Counties Report Crops Unusual* ly Fine, but the Great Majority Say They Are Considerably Below the Average. The crop report from the Georgia de partment of agriculture represents the crop as it stood in the field Aug. 20, 1902. It is made up from nearly a thousand blanks sent out into differ ent sections of each county to parties who are considered capable of giving the desired information concerning the conditions and prospects of the crops in their neighborhood. Most of those were returned with the desired infor mation. The conditions t. -s year have been peculiar. Over large areas of the state hot, dry winds have prevailed, affecting very materially the condition and prospects of all crops. Some times there is marked difference in the reports coming in from different localities in the same county, in some of which a long-continued drought is reported, while in others the seasons and conditions are said, to he good. The general complaint is drought and rust. A few of the counties report crops unusually fine, but the great majroity state them to be considerably below the average. In a few instances complaint is made of too much rain, in August. The general outlook dis closes conditions and prospects less favorable than at this time last year. In the Three Sections. The condition of the various crops compared to an average for the vari ous sections is as follows: Northern Section—Cotton, 62 per cent; corn, 62 per cent; upland rice, 81 per cent; sweet potatoes, 64 per cent; tobacco, 52 per cent; cow peas, 67 per cent; ground peas, 68 per cent; forage crops, such as shredded corn, hay, etc., 63 per cent; number of hogs, 76 per cent; conditions of live stocK, 83 per cent; sugar cane, 70 per oent. Middle Section—Cotton, 71 per cent: corn, 65 per cent; upland rice, 78 per cent; sweet potatoes, 69 per cent; to bacco, 50 per cent; cow peas, 71 per cent; ground peas, 79 per cent; for age crops, such as shredded corn, hay, etc., 68 per cent; number of hogs, 82 per cent; condition of live stock, 90 per cent; sugar cane, 75 per cent. Southern Section—Cotton. 81 per cent; corn, 77 per cent; rice 88 per cent; sweet potatoes, 80 per cent; to bacco, 81 per cent; cow peas, 89 per cent; ground peas, 91 per cent; for age crops, such as shredded corn, hay, etc., 83 per cent; number of hogs, 87 per cent; condition of live stock, 00 per cent; sugar cane, 79 per cent. Averages for the State. The total averages of all these crops for the whole state is as follows: Qotton, 70 per cent; corn, 68 per cent; rice, 82 per cent; sweet potatoes, 71 per cent; tobacco, 61 per cent; cow peas, 76 per cent; ground peas, 79 per cent; forage crops, such as shred ded corn, hay, etc., 71 per cent; num ber of hogs, 81 per cent; condition of live stock, 88 per cent; sugar pane, 75 per cent. , The total average of these same crops for the same date last year was as follows: Cotton, 75 per cent: corn, 77 per cent; rice, 86 per cent; sweet potatoes, 91 per cent; tobacco, 87 per cent; cow peas, 88 per cent; ground peas, 90 per cent; forage crop®, such as shredded c<m«, ha^, etc., 88 per cent; number of hogs, 91 per Cent; condition of live stock, 90 per cent; sugar cane, 86 per cent The Treasury Department received in its mail the other day the stomach of a dog, which had been foolish enough to eat a twenty dollar note The treasury experts found the muti lated fragments and in their place sent the owner a fresh certificate of the na tion’s indebtedness. The incident should afford a warning to all canines troubled with a longing to transform treasury notes of large denomination into fractional currency.—-Savannah News. Rev. G. B, F. Stovall, of Bir- mingham Ala., is visiting his Sto vall relatives in Gainesville. liiil JiliPiPiiSi . ' •