ders. With one of her delightful smiles sue apologized for her simden advent, saying: "I beg Austria-Hungary's par don for appearing in morning toilet, but I cannot let my husband depart with out bidding him farewell." .? "-'I'll-. f-V)i'"V , , r S to, . ' 'AW r '-JfOk fe AFTER THEY ARE DIVORCED. THE eleventh annual report of the Commissioner of Labor contains in tubulated form, reduced to ex net percentages, a statement showing the occupations of divorced women. The divorced women constitute . nine tenths of 1 per cent, of the ft male popu lation of ten years of age or over in the United States, anil they are distributed throughout various occupations, which the statistical experts have endeavored to state with undeviating exactness. Of the total number of divorced v'o uien employed, it seems that .21 per cent, are bookbinders, .1)8 are shoe makers anil .(!() are corset-makers. A much smaller proportion, .42, are sales women, while .(it) are telegraph and telephone operators. Stenographers and typewriters make up .0 per cent, and .58 are mill hands; 1.23 of the di vorced women of the United States who have any business occupation are merchants, 1.04 are carpet-makers and .40 are hat and cap makers. Milliners come under a separate division, their percentage of divorced women being 1.32. Of seamstresses there are 1.35, and of clerks ami copyisls, 51. More over, .2!) are boxinnkors, .08 printers, .31 cigarette and tobacco makers, .04 In the confectionery business, 1.43 dressmakers, .40 paper mill operators and 1.5 silk mills. The professions have a considerable number of divorced wo men, 1.24 being music teachers and 1.18 teachers of art,. There are 3.33 per cent, described as hotel, restaurant and saloon keepers and barkeepers, Hiid a somewhat larger proportion as boarding or lodging house keepers; 1.02 as laundresses, 1.80 as nurses and .51 as agricultural laborers. Woman Golf Champion. An 18-year-old girl, Miss Beatrix Iloyt, holds the title of woman golf champion of America. She has held the title for more than a year, although It Is only two years since her first ap pearance on any link. During the sum mer of 181)0 she made the woman's rec ord over both the short and the long course, which record stood until this summer, when she herself lowered that of the shorter course to 38. Her sec ond Niiecess was In winning the ladles' I1S 1IKATIIIX 1UIVT. chnmploushlp of the rdilnnocock Hills (lolf Club, but this was only u preamble t her greater triumph In the national championship of 181HJ at Morrlstown. In the tournament at Manchester Miss lloyt again upheld her prestige with 1he lowest of all scores. She defeated Miss N, C. Sargent on Friday, Aug. 27, thereby securing the woman's amateur golf championship for 181)7. Miss lloyt lives at Westchester, N, Y., and learned the game on the grounds of the Country Club there. Htowuwuy In Petticoats. Stowaways are generally accredited to lie beys, but when the steamer Eugene was thirty miles away from 1'ortland, Ore., on her voyage 10 the Klondike recently, a woman was found Mowed away In the engine room. She was Mrs. 11. K, Stetson, the wife of a man aboard the st.-nmor, who was go ing to look for a fortune In the gold tlelds. Her husband had decided to leave her at home, believing that she could not withstand the dangers and Imi'dsnlpH of life In Alaska. She thought otherwise, and, accordingly, hid herself away In the ship. The hus luiml was dumfoundcd when his wife was brought on deck, lie gladly for gave her for hiding herself on board, and paid tier fare. No n 1 1 y. 1 ii u No wml ay. The dancing congresses and the dancing teachers may consider the wait in all Us aspects and send forth rules and regulations as to how and when and where I. Is to be danced, but as a mailer of fact the wait, is not danced at all, says the New York Even log Sun. The dodo Is hardly more ix tlnct. it Is two-step, two-step, two step nowadays. A ballroom orchestra may now and then, at Judiciously long Intervals, strike up a waltz, but only ,o have the tloor remain descried until they resume the quicker teuiKi tnat lias become so dear to dancing feet, The one or two pairs who may gyrate a lew times while the walu Is In prog ress are sure to belong to an cider era, and the eyes of the youngsters follow them wondcrlugly as the walUcr might the mazes of an ancient minuet. It li the two ktcp o.' nothing nowadays. kh Ym m& . r mm. HW5 Any up-to-date pair that deigns to in dulge in the waltz does so with a sort of two-step adaptation; the old-time gliding motion has been discarded alto gether. Smart cotillons nowadays are always danced the two-step. Reason la Kestored. The ex-Empress of Mexico, sister of the King of the Belgians, who lost .her reason when her husband was shot, has been under restraint for many years, and her state has been consid- erod hopeless. She has now so far re covered, that it Is thought a visit to Mexico will replace many missing links In her mind, and she will probably be under the charge of a trusty friend and reliable attendant before long. To Mend Mackintoshes. To men mackintoshes procure a small tin of pure India rubber cement, or dissolve some strips of pure India rubber In naphtha, then apply a little of the cement to the surface of a strip of the material of which the mackin tosh Is made; this can be purchased by the yard from the waterproofers'. Also apply a little of the cement on each side of the torn part and bring the edges together, and place over them the patch, which requires to be kept In po sition for a few days, until quite hard, by placing a weight over It. To Make the Hair Soft. It Is not generally known that wash ing the hair In rain water and soft soap and rinsing In cold, ordinary water, makes the hair soft and silky. The New Womun. , Miss E. A. Green has been appointed a truant agent by the Chicago Board of Education. The women of Hiawatha, Kan., have started the innovation of appearing in church with hats off. Miss Bertha Oppcr has beeu appoint ed postmistress at Granville, 111., and Laura L. Hoak at Ustlck, 111. Miss Chellier, a graduate of the Uni versity of l'arls, has been given charge of a medical mission In the mountains of Biskra, by the governor general of Algeria. Mrs. X. Honslnger and her daughter Maud, of Missoula, Mont., are em ployed by the State Land Department In drawing township plats at the dif ferent land olllces. A woman clerk Is editor of the Of ficial l'ostal tlulde, with Its S0,u00 oltlces. A man clerk, whom she form erly assisted, received $1,(KK, She now does his work and her own und gets 1 1,400. One hundred Catholic women In Chlc opee, Mass., have subscribed one dol lar each for the new Trinity College for Women lu Washington, and have pledged themselves to send a like a mount annually for nine years. Mrs. Agnes K. Mullican Is a success ful real estate broker lu upper Xew York, and Is the only woman member of the New York Heal Estate Ex change, that honor having been accord ed her for accomplishing one of the largest deals lu real estate history, to the discomfort of her male competitors. Miss Bertha V. Thompson has been appointed city physician at Oshkosh, Wis., by Mayor ldeson, to succeed Dr. H. X. Xlntzel, the regular city phy. slclnn, who has been suspended from duty pending an Investigation. Dr. Thompson Is the first woman to hold the ollice of city physician In the State of Wisconsin. To Market tiy Trolley. An English trolley line, plying be tween Bcssbrook and Xewry, through a rich farming district, makes a sub stantial addition to Its receipts by hauling farm wagons over Its lines at tached to the motor car, lu the place of the trailer which Is sometimes wen. lu order to keep the wagons ou the track a second pair of rails Is laid In side the working tracks and slightly higher. The towns at either end of the line are lioth market towns, and the line runs directly to the business center, where the wagons are drawn aside and mil Into their places by a half-dozen Murdy men, who are paid a few police each by the countrymen for this serv ice. It Is, therefore, invisible for a farmer to bring his produce to market and dispose of It without the aid of his horses. It Is not an uiK'ommon sight, and always a rather amusing one, to see a lumbering farm wagon loaded with hay or produce Hying along be hind the motor car on Its way to mar ket. The farmers take kindly to this scheme, as It Is a saving oX uiouey us well as horseflesh. 'if ' ' ki'j 1 fm r, m imi! It f EX-KMI'ItESS OF MEXICO. Senator Evarts, upon being asked if he did not find the drinking of "differ ent wines at a dinner" Injurious, re plied: "No, It is the indifferent wines which trouble me." ' James Payu tells of a divine who, on passing a strange house, heard a voice which said: "Go down and speak the things which I bid thee." He was nat urally surprise, and exclaimed (naively enough): "O Lord, I don't know the peo ple!" However, the Injunction was re peated, and he obeyed it, witli most ex cellent results. ' P. T. Baruum, the famous showman, once walked Into Dr. Collyer's church Just as the preacher entered the pulpit. Barnum was pul In a back seat. The clergyman recognized him, and, lean ing over the reading desk, said: "Will that usher please take Mr. Barnum to my pew? When I go to his show he al ways gives me a front seat. I don't see why he shouldn't fare equally well at my show." In a letter to one of his children Gui- j zot tells how on his first visit to Wind sor he lost his way and opened a wrong door and beheld for a moment a lady having her hair brushed. The next day the queen, for it was she, joked him about lt, and he says: "I ended by asking her leave. If ever I wrote my memoirs, like Sully or St. Simon, to mention how, at midnight, I opened the door of the queen of England. She laughingly gave me the desired permis sion." James Payn recalls that, when young and romantic, he agreed with a friend to ascend Helvellyn from Thirlnjere to see the sun rise. The guluo called them, as it seemed to Mr. Payn, In the middle of the night, and he - quite agreed with his friend, when the latter persuasively asked the guide, whowas expatiating on the beauties of the dawn: "Don't you think that the sunset would be almost as beautiful?" This recalls the undergraduate, who, when rebuked by the dean of the college for not coining to morning chapel, replied: "But 7 o'clock Is such an Inconvenient hour, sir. If It were 4, or even 5, one could sit up for It." The late Prof. Jowett, during his con nection with Balllol College, had occa sion to visit some of the farms belong ing to the college near the Scottish bor ders. One of the leading tenants was deputed to take the professor round. A long tramp they had, In the course of which Jowett uttered not a word, while the farmer was too much stricken with awe to venture a remark. But when the walk was almost done, the pro fessor was roused to speech. Looking over a stone wall, over a goodly field of vivid green, he abruptly said: "Fine potatoes." Quoth the farmer: "Yon's turmets." Not a word more was spok en between them. Among the curious answers given by children at examinations the following, perhaps, are not the least amusing: ,u a country school the other day the In afnts were put through their paces. When they came to natural history the teacher placed the colored picture of a goat before the children. The first tiny mite pronounced It to be a camel, the next quite seriously expressed tne opin ion that it was a pigeon! A list of curi ous answers made by children Include: "Charlestown Is a naval arsenic," "A backbiter Is a flea," "Blacksmith is a place where they make horses, because you can see them nailing the feet ou," "The nest-egg Is the one the hen meas ures by," and "The four seasons are pepper, salt, mustard and vinegar." Dr. Thompson, the famous master of Trinity College, Cumbrldge, Is regard ed chiefly as the sayer of sharp, witty and often bitter epigrams. lie said of Ely, where, ns professor of Greek, he held a canonry: "The place Is so damp that even my sermon won't keep dry there," nnd at a college meeting, where some of the young fellows were treat ing with very little respect the opinions of their seniors, he said: "None of us Is quite Infallible, not even the young est," Of an amiable and excellent scholar, he said: "The time that he spends on the neglect of his duties he wastes on the adornment of his per boii"; and of an eminent professor, whose first lecture he attended: "I lit tle thought that we should so soon have cause to regret his predecessor, Pro fessor ." A charming anecdote Is going the rounds, which proves the devotion of the German empress to her consort. Kaiser Wllhelm was not long ago about to leave Berlin and as he returned from his dally drive be stopped at the Aus trian embassy to visit the ambassador before his departure. Some interesting political event bad Just occurred and the diplomat and his august visitor be came so engrossed In conversation that time sped on unnoticed. Suddenly the emperor started and, glancing at his watch, exclaimed with genuine con sternation: "1 am too late! Pray con nect the telephone with the palace; 1 should like at least to take leave of my wife in that way." Ills majesty's wish was instantly fulfilled and affectionate messages were sent to and fro from the imperial abode. When the last words had been spoken the kaiser said, laugh ingly: "That Is all rigid; we have still tl few minutes left to continue what we were saying." Almost Immediately af ter, us the emperor was In the act of taking leave of his host, one of the pal ace carriages dashed up to the embassy nnd before he and the ambassador un derstood what had happened the em press stood before them In a gorgeous dressing gown and with an ermine iiiied cloak the first thing which came to huud hastily throw u over her shoul Handwriting of Famous People. A Paris correspondent of London Truth, discussing the handwriting of famous people, says: Mollere auto graphs are extremely rare and the most valuable of those of the authors of le grand slecle. The National Library has one only a receipt written by somebody else and signed J. B. P. Mo llere. It is clear, strong, well accen tuated, full of character and resem bles Ferdinand de Lesseps. Louis XIV.'s autograph is that of an ex tremely busy man who had to write a great deal. But It expresses a strong personality. Napoleon's snaggled au tograph is as well known as Shak speare's. So Is Queen Elizabeth's. She wrote often to Catherine do Medicis and her sons. Elizabeth's signature was always majestic and, so to speak, In full dress. But when she was on some crooked scheme intend the body of the letter was the merest shorthand. It must have been trying to read her letters. They had to be read to be an swered. But they generally beat about the bush and were involved, unless she was in a passion. Then she went straight and swift to the point and the handwriting was as clear as her words. Marie Stuart was an .ancestress through the Lorralnes of Marie An toinette. The handwritings of both Queens are alike. Mme. de Revigna, I am sure, feared that If she were not legible her daughter would complain and perhaps throw her letter aside. The daughter was not an amiable per son, and was prone to find fault. The mother tried often to Improve her heart. Her moral reflections tire nice ly baited with crisp (gossip. If they were not, would they be read? Mine, de Sevigne is not so legible or so gos sipy when she writes to her son, or her uncle, the abbe, or to her cousin, Bussy de Rabutln, but is not less love ly, and rises to higher heights of thought nnd feeling. Mme. de Grig nan was a prig. How strange that such a mother could have had a prig gish daughter! Perhaps she was changed at nurse. The sou was charm ing, but a ne'er-do-well. Mme. de Malnteuon was an able woman and a good woman of business. She was dig nified in manner, prudent, and, Indeed, cautious. One sees that she weighed her words well before she committed them to paper. There Is dash and strength In the callgraphy of the Trin cess des Ursins. She drew her Inspira tion from her Inkpot, and felt quite sure that her pen would not hurry her Into any blunder. Victor Hugo wrote largely to keep his sight. He reached the age of 82 without ever wearing spectacles. He also wrote standing, so as to be able to walk about when Ideas did not run freely to the point of his pen. Louis Philippe also wrote big very big and without glasses. Louis Na poleon's signature Is remarkable, but otherwise he wrote like a clerk. The "N" Is daring, the other letters steal quickly and unobtrusively on, and then there Is a great flourish at the end. One sees the author of the Slrasburg at tempt and of the coup d'etat in the first and last hitters of his name. The quiet conspirator Is betrayed In the others. Sugar Invigorates the Holy. Experiments of an interesting nnturs have lately been made at the instiga tion of the Prussian war office to en deavor to decide the question as to whether the consumption of small quantities of sugar renders the tired muscles capable of renewed exertion. In order to obtain a practical result, the person who was made the subject of the experiment was kept totally Ig norant of the object of the experi menters. On one day a sweet liquor was administered, containing thirty grams of sugar; on the next day a sim ilar liquid, containing a sufficient amount of saccharine to render it in distinguishable from the other as re garded taste. After a very large amount of muscular work had been performed It was found that better re sults could be obtained on the day when the sugar was given than on thi days when saccharlue was given. The blood had become very poor In sugar In consequence of the severe muscular effort ,and the administration of a comparatively small quantity of sugar had a markedly Invigorating effect. -New York Medical Record. Wealth Sunk In the Ocean. Some of the famous treasure ships which lie at the bottom of the sea In clude L'Orient, sunk by Nelson at the battle of the Nile, with ?3,000,000 aboard; the Lntune, sunk in the Zuy der Zee with $7,000,000 In her hold; the De Brake, lost off Delaware Bay with Spanish bullion; and the ship Golden Gate, which went down off Cape Hat teras while returning from California lu the 50's loaded with gold. Official statistics show that 2,000 vessels are sunk annually, the vessels and cargoes being valued at $100,000,000. The At lantic and Pacific coasts are strewn with old and new wrecks, many laden with valuable cargoes. Its Origin. Teacher (of class lu rhetoric) What Is your Idea of the derivation nnd sig nificance of the expression, "a tralu of thought?" Gifted Pupil It's got somethln' to do with a feller havln' wheels lu his head, Imlu't It? Chicago Tribune. The Sour-Grape lluhlt. The people should quit the sour-grape habit; It is likely to cause appendicitis. Atchlsou Globe. Jueen Cleopatra's ltemalns. All that remains of Queen Cleopatra Is an ugly mummy in a glass cast; lu the British Museum. V, 3 M'v lsijjjiiim Cuttlet Texas Is fighting upon her own ground this terrible little tick which is now believed to spread the cattle fever. Dr. Victor or- 'gaard, chief of the division of pathol ogy in the bureau of animal industry at Washington, Is conducting experi- " ' " St monts at the ex- V J pense of the own: ent, akotcd tic! em of the great stock yards at Fort Worth. The meth od Is to swim the cattle through a large tank containing a mixture which It is hoped will destroy the ticks on them. These experiments are made by clipping the cattle infested with ticks into a carbolic preparation, "chloro-naphtholeum," manufactured by a New York company. To properly make these interesting tests required the building of special pens and shoots and a large vat to contain the chemical for dipping. The actual work of dipping the cat tle is interesting. They were driven by way of a shoot into the pen at the head of the vat. From this they were it tUPPINO APPARATUS. driven through the narrow shoot, one at a time, on to a metal covered trap door that lies horizontally with one end projecting over the vat. This door is fixed on a horizontal pivot, and when the animal reached the far end his weight would bear It down and before he would know It he would plunge head first into the chemical bath be low. The animal Is completely submerged by the fall into the six feet of fluid and upon rising cannot escape from the In voluntary bath without swimming over twenty feet to the other end of the vat, where the ascent is an Inclined plane provided with footholds. At the top the steer Is allowed to stand for awhile and drip, when the gate Is open ed and he Is allowed to go with his fellows Into pens prepared for their re ception. These pens are carefully ex amined at certain intervals after being dipped and notes taken. They are driven' back to the vat and redlpped If found necessary. So far It does not appear that the ex periments have proved a decided suc cess, the end in view having been only partially attained. Experiments are now being continued, with the addition of West Virginia black oil, frhlch, It is promised, will destroy all the ticks. A Folding Rack. It Is often convenient to have a rack or crib in a place that at other times must be used for other puriwses. A folding rack will be found very con venient for such a situation. A design for this Is shown In the sketch, taken from the American Agriculturist. The bottom hinges at the back to the wall, and at the front It hinges to the front of the crib. The whole Is held to the wall and ceilings as suggested. The ropes attached to the wall will not have to lie unfastened In order to fold the rack down closely against the wall. Stunting Plus He fore Birth. It Is not so geuerally appreciated as It should lie that the breeding sow while she Is bearing her young needs Just the kind of nutrition that the growing pig will require. Sows fed heavily on corn fatten, and bring thin, stunted pigs, with very little ability to care for themselves. Such pigs will never do so well os those whose dams were fed milk and wheat bran with some kind of roots while bearing their young.' These will have good diges. tlon, and will grow rapidly, while the stunted pig will never fully recover from the Improper nutrition it received before it was farrowed. Better Mutton 8heep. The agitation lu favor of better sheep for mutton Is changing the breeds on many farms. Fanners 're not now as much tuterested in wool as j POLDIXO CRIB OK RACK. formerly, but are turning their atten tion to the production of mutton of the best quality. Although there are fewer sheep now than a few years ago, yet the value of sheep is much more. .There is nlso an improvement in keep ing and feeding sheep, th6 hillsides, with exposure in winter, being the lot of sheep In former years. Fow Potatoes Exhaust Land. As the potato is so largely water It might be supposed that It Is not at nil exhaustive. But the potato crop Is always sold from the land, instead of being fed on It. The only thing that the potato takes from the soil is pot ash, and this Is largely found In its leaves nnd stems. The tubers also contain some potash, and It Is this which blackens ihe knives tuv.l hands of those who peel and cut potatoes. A large crop of potatoes it is estimated will take one hundred pounds of pot ash per acre from the soil. Only heavy land can stand this drain. Kven what potash, such soils contain is largely un available, because it has combined with sand and has formed a silicate of potash. Sandy soils are generally deficient in potash, and what they have Is not in an available form for use' by crops. Overshirta for Stable Use. There is much dirty work about the stable, which, together with hairs from animals, will make the clothes dirty and extremely offensive. It Is the habit of some men who take pride in their personal appearance, as every one should, to have made two stout shirts, one of which can lie slipped on quickly before the stable work Is done. This prevents the necessity of carry ing stable odors into the house. Most of the chores about the stable are done before breakfast, aud there will be a better appetite for the first meal of the day if stable odors are kept out of the room. It will also effect a great saving, of clothes to keep them free from these odors, which require fre quent washing to remove. Scorched Grain for Hens. Where hens are fed large amounts of corn newly husked, and not thorough ly dried, their digestive apparatus be comes disordered. This is often reme died by beating the corn to the point of scorching. Hens will eat this scorched corn quite readily, and they will be the better for it. But partly burned oats where the hulls are burn ed off and only the blackened grains are left are even better than scorched corn. This is really the best way to feed oats to hens. The hulls mnke the food more bulky than is best for them, ns their crops are limited, and the light, chaffy grain does not give sufficient nutrition for the best egg production. Cheap Drinking Fountain. Not every farm is supplied with run. nlng streams where the poultry can get good water when they want it, espe cially the young chickens, turkeys and goslings. A correspondent of the Orange Judd Farmer bought several three-gal-1 o n galvauized dkinkino fountain. P'i"s for 17 cent? each and Borne small pans for 10 cents. A small hole was made In the bottom of each pail, which was then filled with water and set In the middle of a shallow pan. A board cover was placed on top. A space of one and one-half Inches between the pall and the outside of the pnn is sufficient. This allows plenty of room for drinking, but the young birds cannot get Into the water and foul it. Care should be taken to have the hole In the bottom of the pall quite small. Grains for Producing Pork. Experiments In this country and Canada, extending over a period of sev eral years, with different grains for producing pork show that to produce one pound of pork requires about 4 pounds of barley, which makes the bar ley worth 50 cents a bushel In the form of pork. With wheat a pound of pork was mnde from 4Vi pounds, returning 70 cents per bushel. Pork from corn required 4Vj pounds of corn, making the value of the corn In the form of pork 03 cents per bushel. At market prices barley, 25 cents; wheat, 55 cents, and corn, 33 cents the pork cost 2,4 cents from barley, 4 cents from wheat nnd 2.85 cents from corn. Potato Disease In Ireland. The disease which is destroying the potato crop in Ireland Is known as "Phytopliora Infestans," and prevails more ou moist soils than where the land Is dry, though ory soils are not free from the disease. It generally affects the tubers late in the season, and frequently the attack is sudden oud fatal. It begins as a single sinit on the leaf, spreading to the entire plant, prevailing mostly during damp weather. Where the potatoes have been sprayed with Bordeaux mixture the disease seems to be checked. Dunking Iturn with Ptone, When basement barns are built, it Is often necessary to bank up against them to make a driveway on the first floor. Loose stones are often used for this purjiose, but this Is sure to be re pented of later, as the loose stones make a refuge for rats from which it U almost Impossible to dislodge theta.