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New York City.—The simple shirt
waist that is made with long sleeves
is one of the very latest to have
appeared and unquestionably will
be much worn throughout the com-
ing season. This one is designed for
young girls and is made pretty and
dainty by the use of embroidery on
the wide box pleat which finishes the
front. There also are frills shown
in the illustration, but these can be
omitted if a plainer waist is wanted
All the linen and cotton waistings,
the washable flannels and the silks
are appropriate, so that the waist can
be made available for all seasons and
in a great many different ways. As
illustrated, however, it is made from
the linen that is fashionable at all
seasons of the year, and the box
pleats at the front and the cuffs are
hand embroidered and finished with
frills of linen lawn.
The waist is made with fronts and
back. There are tucks laid over the
shoulders, which give both
and tapering lines, and there are also
tucks in the front, which provide
becoming fulness. The closing is
made invisibly beneath the wide box
pleat. The sleeves are of the simple
shirt waist sort, and can be finished
with the straight cuffs, or with roll
over ones, as liked.
The quantity of material required
for the sixteen year size is three and
one-half yards twenty-one or twenty
four, three yards thirty-two, or two
yards forty-four inches wide.
Must Match.
For either house or street wear
frock and shoes match in correct cos
tiumes.
Latest Parisian Parasol.
Cr onne parasols, lined with
vhtte silk, are the fad at the smart
Vrench watering places. They are
flowered protectors from the. sun and
*dve brilliant touches of color to the
landscape.
Net and Soutache.
Braided net, which has been used
for several seasons, is still one of the
most popular trimmings for hand
some gowns.
Nine Gored Skirt.
Fresh variations of the gored skirt
are constantly appearing, and it is
such a pronounced favorite that it is
likely to continue its popularity in
definitely. This one is cut after the
later method to give a slender effect
to the figure and is absolutely with
out fulness at the upper portion. It
can be made in walking length or
round, and consequently it suits both
the street and the house and in either
style it is exceedingly charming and
graceful. As illustrated, serge is
trimmed with stitched bands of
broadcloth held by buttons, but for
immediate wear the model will be
found admirable made of foulard,
linen and materials of the sort, as
well as of wool fabrics. In fact, it
suits all suiting and all skirting ma
terials, and is adapted both to the
present and the future. The trimming
is novel and effective, and the bands
can be of the same or contrasting ma
terial or of braid, as liked.
The skirt is made in nine gores.
The front and side gores are laid in
underlying pleats to the depth of the
bands, and those at the sides and
back are plain. The fulness at the
back is laid in inverted pleats and the
trimming straps are arranged on in
dicated lines. The pleats at .the front
and side seams provide graceful flare
without undue fulness.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is eleven and
three-fourth yards twenty-seven, six
yards forty-four, or four and three
fourth yards inches wide
when material has figure or nap;
eight yards twenty-seven, four and
five-eighth yards forty-four, or four
yards fifty-two inches wide when ma
terial has neither figure or nop, with
one-half yard fifty inches wide if
straps are made of cloth. If made
from the material there will be found
ample in the quantities allowed.
Dainty Challies.
Ewcry woman loves dainty neg
liges, and the newest in dainty chal
lies aro extremely pretty and just the
right warmth. These printed fabrics
require little trimming, and simple
models are preferred.
Crowns of Flowers.
Some of the new hats have straw
cro#ns with brims made entirely of
flowers. Geraniums and hydrangeas
are both used.
Overfeeding Dangerous.
To prevent heat prostrations: don t
overfeed. It is generally believed
that horses, which die from sun
stroke are suffering from indigestion.
Certain it is, that there are many
cases of colic from indigestion in
very hot weather, and the probabili
ties are that the stomach is out of
order in a case of prostration. —
Farmers’ Koine Journal.
Bigger Pig Crop.
If you intend to try for a bigger
pig crop next year, select your gilts
before you begin to feed fattening
rations to the bunch. Choose those
which in general form and character
istics resemble your best brood sows.
Remember, ‘Tike mother, like daugh
ter,” is often true in hogdom as well
as with the human family and every
thing else being equal, choose ac
cordingly. Let these gilts have all
they will eat of bone and muscle
making food, with just enough corn
to keep them in thrifty condition.
Such feeding, with plenty of exercise,
will develop the constitutional vigor
which later will be transmitted to
their descendants. —Epitomist.
Is the Well All Right?
The weak point as regards health
on many farms is the water supply.
The neighborhood is not likely to be
crowded, but various matters which
defile the water are liable to be neg
lected. There is no better time to
clean out the wells than the last of
August before the heavy fall rains
begin. The bottom of the well should
be thoroughly scraped, and the walls
washed down. The top and covering
should he made rat proof with ce
ment. Of ninety samples of well wat
er analyzed, only twenty-eight were
pronounced thoroughly wholesome,
while twenty-one were more or less
injurious, and thirty were condemned
as wholly unfit for use. These were
all from farm wells. —American Cul
tivator.
Making Clover Hay;
We all know it can be injured more
easily than any other grass in curing
into # hay, on account of its broad
leaves and its blossoms; and its being
exposed to dampness, dew or rain, or
even to scorching sun, is very injuri
ous to the hay, so it should be cut in
good season, wilted and put into
heaps, left remaining in those heaps
from two to four days, until it cures
quite well in the heap.
Possibly in wet seasons we need
hay caps. In a season when w r e got
very little clover in without being
da’ and somewhat by the rain, hay
caps . ere found very useful things
to have on the farm.
The poorest of all ways of making
clover hay is to cut it down and let
it lie until it is cured, then rake it
up with a hay loader, breaking off
the leaves and the valuable portions
and so putting a lot of sticks and
stalks into the barn, the feeding value
of whitfli is probably very low.—
George Hill, in the American Culti
vator.
Fertility Notes.
The great question of soil improve
ment In the future is going to he
based upon the improvement of con
ditions favorable toward the growth
and development of the soil organ
isms, or bacteria, that work for us in
changing the plant food contained in
the soil into a form available to nour
ish the growing plants. The success
ful farmer of the future will be the
man who understands how to make
the conditions favorable for these lit
tle helpers to do their work in the
most efficient manner.
When we depend upon the grow
ing of legumes to improve our soils,
we must not forget that they depend
upon certain elements of plant food
that is in the soil as well as that from
the atmosphere, aud that when we
neglect to keep them well supplied
with potash and phosphoric acid they
are not capable of dc'ng their most
efficient work at nitrogen fixation. —
Epitomist.
Rusty Cans and Milk.
In bulletin 162 of the Wisconsin
Agricultural Experiment Station, the
harm to milk handled in rusty cans
is brought out, and the following con
clusions reached on the subject:
1. A better grade of utensils should
be used in the handling of milk and
its products. The iron or steel plate
should be heavier and more thickly
coated with tin.
2. No milk should be accepted at a
factory which has been kept in iron
exposed pails or cans.
3. The factory or creamery should
be an example of neatness and clean
liness, with all utensils in first class
condition.
4. Co-operation among the propri
etors of creameries, cheese factories
and city milk supplies will tend to
bring about cleanliness among pa
trons, and the use of better utensils.
5. Milk should be bought on its
merits, by some satisfactory arrange
ment following well founded sanitary
and hygenic rules, by which the pro
duction of milk of superior quality is
encouraged, and milk of low grade
either rejected or gradually improved.
Must Love Your Business.
No man in whom there was not
born a pleasure in the handling and
care of animals should have any
thing to do with live stock husbandry.
His efforts will not advance the de
velopment of any breed, nor is he
likely even to prove the shipper of
any market toppers. The shiftless,
careless man whose study is princi
pally to discover a plan for avoiding
work, to whom feeding is a drudgery
and cleanliness and exercise are too
unimportant for special attention,
may make a reputation, but it will
be one that is unenviable and un
salable. If he cannot interest him
self in his work and enjoy results
attained by systematic and persisted
effort, he w ? ill more than likely find
swine raising too difficult for his
capacity.—Swine Breeders’ Journal.
Profitable Swine Feeding.
Dr. Warrington, in Chemistry on
the Farms, states that for each 100
pounds of feed consumed the gains
are: For cattle, nine pounds; sheep,
eleven pounds, and pigs, twenty-three
pounds, or pigs make nearly two and
one-half times as much from a
given amount of feed as do cattle.
Analyses show that for every 100
pounds of the digestive nutrients con
sumed cattle gained 12.7; sheep,
14.3, and pigs, 29.2 pounds, thus
showing the great value of hogs on
the farm for profit to the farmer,
and -why it has become an adage,
that the hog is the rent payer, the
mortgage lifter and farmer’s cashier.
The hog can sell the farmer's corn
through his stomach at a better price
than any other animal on the farm.
This makes pigs desirable farm an
imals, not only because of the fact
that they can convert more pounds
of meat out of a given quantity of
feed, but because at the present time
they can be marketed as quickly as
a field grain. At the same time it is
more profitable than selling grain,
not only because there are better
prices received for it by feeding it
to the hog, but because the farmer
looks farther ahead and retains the
fertility of the soil in feeding back
that produced from it.
The profit of pig feeding depends
upon the cost of the feed given them.
Therefore, anything that cheapens
the feed increases the profit and es
pecially if it is not done at the ex
pense of the health of the hog.
Farm Fowls.
Fowls on the farm should in the
very nature of tilings be the most
profitable of all fowls. They cost lit
tle to feed and the space they range
over costs no more on account of the
presence of the fowls. Most of them
have free range and forage for their
food; this is profitable for the owner
and enjoyable to the fowls.
Most farm flocks are too small.
They might easily be increased in
size with little effort and small ex
penditures. It has been said that a
fowl will pay a dollar a year clear
profit under such conditions as pre
vail on the average farm if they are
rightly housed and cared for. This is
surely large enough a profit to be in
teresting to any farmer. Usually the
do not get credit for all
they for the farmer seldom
figures and other poultry
products his own family,
which make item in the
course of a year.
Not only the be
increased, but also the qualroMfcffhere
are vastly greater possibiliuSwfor
profit in pure bred fowls than in
scrubs. They look better, weigh and
lay better and really are better in
every way.—Epitomist.
Quick Fattening.
The theory on which crate fatten
ing is encouraged is that a hen will
digest more food than she will eat.
Shredded wheat will put the fat on
at as low a cost a3 four and one-half
cents per pound. The sections of
our crates are two feet wide, two feet
high, twenty-seven inches long, three
sections to a crate, five birds to a
section. These have to be very care
fully fed so that the appetite will not
be hurt.
Careful attention has to be given
not only to what they are fed, but
when and how often the feed is of
fered to them. Equal quantities of
corn meal, ground oats and shredded
wheat, mixed with skim milk, consis
tency of good porridge in front of
them for a few minutes, every twelve
hours for t>vo days. Next evening
let them eat their fill. Next day feed
in the morning not enough to satisfy
them. At night, all they will eat.
Do this for a week, all they want. At
the end of the second week give a.
noon feed of just a little. The third
week give all they want at noon.
Next week add a little tallow to fif
teen birds. Give a little grit from
time to time.
If growing broilers give them a
large percentage of bran six weeks,
then make the bulk of the feed corn
meal for four weeks. Milk and buck
wheat, or milk and oats tend to
whiten akin. If anything is not con
tented, it won’t put on flesh.
You can’t fatten a bird at temper
ature above sixty-five degrees.—Pro
fessor L. B. Graham, Connecticut Ex
periment Station.
An Extensive Wardrobe.
The Tragedian—“l'm indeed sorry
to leave you like this, Mrs. Buskins,
but 1 presume you have no objection
to me taking my belongings away
with me?”
Landlady “You needn’t worry.
My husband has already hung your
other collar on the hatrack!”—Lon
don Opinion.
A Louisiana man has invented a
machine for measuring and recording
the measurements of lumber. Planka
passed through it engage a roller at
tached to a registering device on the
side. y .
Jf Good Roads, ff
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Trains on Highways.
Consul General Robert-P. Skinner,
Marseilles, furnishes the following
information concerning the running
of passenger and freight trains on
the highways of France:
“There recently passed this consul
ate a ‘Train Renard,’ composed of a
locomotor, two passenger cars and
one baggage car, which had just ar
rived from Paris under its own power
and over the ordinary roads, thus sup
plying to the public a demonstration
of its own efficiency. The trains
mentioned are composed of elements,
each receiving the energy of a vehi
cle called a locomotor, which being
placed at the head of the train dis
tributes the necessary power to the
following elements by means of a
transmission shaft extending from
one end of the train to the other,
thus enabling each car to utilize its
own adhesion to the road surface as
a means of advancement.
“The locomotor —that is to say, lie
creator of the energy—is therefore
lighter than any of the cars. Trains
of this type completely loaded are
able to maintain a speed of twenty
one kilometers (13.03 miles) per
hour in case of passenger trains on
levels and from fifteen to sixteen kil
ometers (9.32 to 9.94 miles) per hour
in the case of freight trains. It is
said that the freight trains of this
type are able to maintain an average
of from ten to twelve kilometers
(6.21 to 7.45 miles), fully loaded,
in any kind of country.
“It would be useless to enter into
further details regarding these high
road trains, as far as the United
States is concerned, inasmuch as we
are without a road system sufficient
ly advanced to make their application
possible. On the other hand the
adoption of passenger and freight
trains over raillass roads in France
has become not only a possiblity but
a fact. Already hundreds of inacces
sible hamlets, hitherto served by slow
going diligences, are kept in constant
contact with the outside world by
means of large auto-omnibuses, mov
ing at an average rate of fifteen miles
an hour, transporting both passen
gers and express parcels; and now,
following this development, comes
the explosive engine motor, drawing
full trains of cars, which it is claimed
can be operated on level or mount
ainous reads at an exceedingly mod
erate expense. In other words, if ail
that is claimed for these trains is re
alized, it will he possible to give 2 5,-
000 communes in France, which do
not at present enjoy railroad facili
ties, approximately the same advan
tages w r ith respect to transportation
as the most populous and highly fav
ored centres.
“This illustrates how much the
creation of a better highway system
would benefit the rural populations
of the United States, who are at a
great disadvantage in regard to trans
portation as compared with foreign
communities, and deprived of the
various kinds of satisfaction result
ing from the existence of modern
highways.”
A Great, State Koad.
In his address before the Pennsyl
vania Bar Association Governor Stu
art led up to eulogy of the plan to
construct a great highway across this
State from end to end. This project
has been frequently discussed during
recent years, but never with a better
grasp of the principle involved than
by Governor Stuart. I irst, there
should be the great trunk line from
Pittsburg to offering its
accommodation alike farmer
on his way to market tour
ist seeking pleasure pic
turesque scenes of the K< > jftone
State. Next, there should be lateral
branches, making this great highway
accessible from all sections of the
Commonwealth.
This is a project on which the Stata
of Pennsylvania may well expend
sums for the benefit of its people. It
is a rich State and great—in all
things save its public roads. For
reasons clearly set forth by Governor
Stuart Pennsylvania has not such
highways as it should have. But it is
never too late to mend. The great
road is by no means to be considered
an end. It is only a means—a prac
tical example to encourage counties
and townships to build and maintain
good public highways. It will serve
the purpose of showing the smaller
civil divisions how to do the work,
and it will eiemplify the advantages
of having good roads in every dis
trict. It is in this aspect that it is
given the sanction of the Governor
and his encouragement.
Tho time has arrived in this State
when good roads are essential to its
highest development. Though its in
dustries have thriven amazingly and
its farms have prospered, with indif
ferent roads, its further develonment
demands that which has heretofore
been neglected. Jts great industrial
population must be put in closer
touch with its rural population,
which is destined to grow in numbers
and usefulness. Good roads are a
necessity.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Admit Their Age,
In Japan women have to admit
their true age. A woman dresses ac
cording to her age. She wears gold
pins until she i twenty-five. At thir
ty the pins are white, merely spotted
with, gold, and at forty sire wears
plain shell combs.
Oysters thrive best in water con
taining less than four per cent, ot
aa.lt.
PERUNA A rov/copj
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HON?R. &
Hon. R. S. Tharin, Attorney at t
counsel for Anti-Trust League
Pennsylvania Ave., N. \\ y ’wA * IroK >
D. C., as follows: ’ a^‘a gkn (
“Having u*ed Peruna for cm,. ,
disorders I am able to ten - , lfll
great remedial excellence , y ;
tat® to give it my emphatic
and earnest recommendation t , .ip” o ®*
affected by that disorde- h :
tonic of great usefulness '> * auo ‘
Mr. T. Burnecott, West Aylmer o,
tano, Can., writes: “Last winS- i ,
ill witu pneumonia afterhuviLi 1
VrlVVe. 1 took Peruna for two montv
when I became quite well. I also ni, J
a young lady, who was
and confined to the house, to take lw
and after taking Peruna for tire- 5
she is able to follow her tradeTf taiV 1
lean recommend Peruna L
are ill and require a tonic.” wlia
Fe-rc-na Tab els.
Rome people prefer to take tabU
rather than to take medicine in a b
form Such people can obtain lW
tablets, which represent the solid medi4.l
ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet i.
equivalent to one average dose of Peruna.
True. Isn't !t?
He —Women are a delusion and a
snare.
She —It’s curious how people will
hug a delusion, though.
Hicks’ Capudine Cures Nervousness
Whether tired out, worried, overworked, or
what not., It refreshes the brain and
nerves. It’s Liquid and pleasant to take.
10c., 25c., and 50c., at drug stores.
Explicit Information Wanted.
An American, while visiting Kin?'
ston, Can., recently saw flames is
suing from a house he chanced to
be passing at noontime. Rushing
round the corner, he burst into a
fire engine station, shouting “Fire!’ 1
At his entrance and cry an oil
man, the only occupant of the station,
who sat reading a newspaper, slow
ly rose, carefully deposited his paper
on the chair and hobbled over to a
desk, on which was a large hook,
“•Now,” said he, taking up a pencil I
and opening this volume, while the
American stared in amazement
“Wot.’s the street and number?”
“I don’t know, but it's just around
the corner.
“Well, you’d better go back and
find out the number,” advised the
old man, shutting the book. "When
the boys git hack from dinner an!
hear there’s a fire, they'll be pretty
anxious to know just where it is!
Death By Lightning.
The Supreme JJeitv in the Greek
and Roman religions, Zeus ol Jupiter,
was supposed to be the manipulator
of the lightning, and the person
struck down by one of the fiery bo; s
was especially distinguished, mn
mu oh as he had been felled d* re, " r '
by the King of the Gods. Ihe le
nity of the killer was reflected upon
the killed. In addition to this, the
opinion was quite universal that •
bodies of those struck by lighhfin?
were incorruptible.—The American.
ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR
Old Lady Got Well With Change of
Food.
A great scientist has said we
put off “old age” if we can oi d> c
ish the body properly. ,
To do this the right kind and
of course, is necessary. ‘-- j
manufactures poisons in the ,
and intestines from certain
food stuffs and unless sufibk -
right kind is used, the inju l
ments overcome the good. ,
“My grandmother, 71 >' ears
writes a N. Y. lady, “had been ■
valid for 18 years
called consumption oi tn - D
and bowels. The doctor
her up to die.
“I saw so much about !li ; totr y
that I persuaded grandmother.
it. She could not keep
her stomach for more than a ’
Ut6S. . i l. ft
“Sb. began Grape-Nuts wit•
teaspoonful. As that did no &b 0
her and as she could retai
took a little more until she
all of four teaspoonfuls at a’ _ *
“Then she began to gain a
strong and her trouble in 1 . eo joy
was gone entirely. S he n( j we
good health for one so 01
know Grape-Nuts saved hei • ' tta ?
“The doctor was
instead of dying she got ’ ’ gjje
without; a drop of ’ ier e’s ft
began the Grape-N uts -
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Name given by p o stm C p o ad t 0
Creek, Mich. Read l-
Wellville,” in pkgs. v n e *
Ever rend the above letter.
one appear* from time to • j lUl)! sr
are genuine, true, and i l *
interest.