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!ne Mas the en! ft kiss disappeared, nev
er to reappear." It had served Its pur
;xse and soon was forgotten."
Thus the sniff kiss proves the mother
and father of all kisses. Blessed be
the sniff kUs. Philadelphia North
American. ' '
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The wise and daring Investors who
transplanted ostrich farming from Af
rica to the United States are congratu
lating themselves now. They are reap
ing a harvest now, such as perhaps
they never dreamed of, for the plumed
of the gawky bird are at the top wave
of popularity that has lasted ever since
the days' when Gainsborougu painted
his world-famous beauties with huge
hats covered with ostrich feathers. ,
; Since that day, If not before It, in
fact, the ostrich plume has lain very
close to the feminine heart, but its
vogue this year surpasses all records.
The fair votary of Dame Fashion
may array herself in all that Is beauti
ful and costly, her. dress may be purest
Bilk, her fingers blaze with diamonds,
her coat be precious fur,, but she is not
happy unless the whole be surmounted
by a picture hat, with two, three, or
perhaps four superb ostrich plumes. It
Is almost impossible for ufmluers to
meet the demand for high-grade feath
,ers, and if they were dependent solel7
on the stock imported from Africa, it
would be quite out of the question, but
the American ostrich farms at Pasa
dena, Jacksonville and Phoenix have
nourished, and the big bird has proved
himself such a flourishing American
that a large part of the supply is now
a home product.
The modern society woman spends
more money on her hats than ever be
fore, for the reason that with shopping,
calling, driving and lunching, she has
her hat on most of the day, and natur
ally must make it the crowning glory
of her costume. ' Fifty dollars Is no un
common cost for a hat trimmed with
only modest feathers, and the particu
lar customer, who seeks, for example,
a plume, say twenty-four Inches long,
must not be surprised if called upon
to pay $80 for the feathers alone, with
out taking Into account the cost of the
otner materials ana the making.
But It Is not alone the member of the
four hundred who dons the feather nf
the ostrich. Women In more moderate
civnnmatnnnfa pan. ernt a mxr li,v,iwi.,a
- - v - p " vtj luAuiiuua
effect from a feather that costs less
than $10. In fact a milliner will say
that there is no form of headwear in
which such good results can be obtain
ed as from ostrieh feathers.
. ' The world's total supply of ostriches
Is now said to be about 380,000 birds.
All but '20,000 of these are In Afriqa,
the native country of the biggest birds.
The stock is not decreasing,, for it is
one of the good fortunes of the ostrich
that to take his feathers does not cause
his death. The feathers would drop
off themselves If hot removed, and
there is nothing painful about the lat
ter operation, though the vanity of the
bird that is being robbed of its chief
ornament makes him resent the pro
cess. The ostrich Is too valuable a bird
to be III used, for on the average they
are worth $S00 per pair, and each one
will produce some sixty dollars' worth
nt fenthprs everv vear. " HeniH It will
be seen that the owner has the strong
est motives of self-interest to take care
of the birds. The feathers are never
plucked till they are ripe.
It is only a little' more than two
decades ago since the first ostriches
were brought Into the United States
with the serious purpose of attempting
their cufture here. Before that time
"s.rtiiaitS
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This interesting photograph shows the scene In the
prison yard at Wormwood Scrubs, England, when the
convicts are taking their daily exercise. The men are
taken , out in squads, It will be noted that he walka.
in the yard are so laid out In serpentine manner that
they never cross. Every convict has to start In at one
nd and follow the windings of the walk until he reaches
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the only ones seen In Uncle Sam's
realm had been adjuncts to circuses.
When the experiment was first at
tempted there were many misgivings
as to what success would attend the
venture. It had been the accepted
opinion that the birds would not thrive
anywhere save In the Dark Continent
This doubt has passed away, for not
a single one of the farms is a loser,
and some are yielding a considerable
profit.
Outside of the first cost of the birds,
ostrich farming Is not a costly ven
ture. The food bill is not a big one,
and a farm of a couple of hundred
acres is big enough to take care of as
many birds as any fanner would want
to handle. The herds have to be kept
in lnclosures, for while many of them
become tame, others never lose their
wiidness and tendency to pugnacity.
The ostrieh in this country is feel
ing so much at home that It Is more
than a dream of the future that nine
tenths of the plumes nodding over the
American woman's hat will some day
be the product of her own country.
OEIGIN OF THE KISS.
Its Earliest Form The Caress of the
Ancient Indians.
At. a recent session of the American
Oriental Society Prof. Hopkins of Yale
read a paper on "The Sniff Kiss In Aft
elent India." .Reduced to Its founda
tion, the paper was a history of the kiss
as we know it The learned Orientalist
traced It from its birth and proved that
the earliest peoples and earliest times
knew It not. That there might be no
mistake he labelled the kiss of to-day
"the genuine kiss" and "the , perfect
kiss." . - '
" Oddly enough, he finds that the genu
ine kiss was invented,by a womanThe
description is given in the epic of an
cleut India which treats of the science
of love.
"She laid her mouth on my mouth,"
recites the poet, "and made a noise
which gave me pleasure." : V1
- 'The early peoples," declared Prof.
Hopkins, "knew nothing of the kiss In
any form. Had they known of It they
would have told something of It in the
mass of records that has come down to
us, for surely an act which conveys
such pleasure could not have been for
gotten.;'. . ' . : -
"Even to this day there are races
that do not kiss," The Mongolians and
certain, of the tribes inN central Asia
do not osculate, and the Esquimaux, we
are told, employ the kiss only' as a
prophylactic. . , . '. .
"The earliest form of the kiss Is
that which we know as the sniff kiss.
This is a smelling, usually of the head.
The father of a new-born son sniffed
his head that his days might be long
and that honors might come to him.
Returning from a Journey, he sniffed
the heads of hjs children In the same
manner. . ,
"Gradually with this sniff kiss there
came also a caress, a touching usually
of the head. Gradually, also, the (en
dearment came to be applied to others
than children. The rubbing of noses,
which has persisted In some tribe, was
probably an intermediate' process in the
evolution. . -.
"With the development of the genu-
. CONVICTS TAKING DAILY EXERCISE IN AN ENGLISH PRISON.
the other end. These fellows get coffee and bread for
breakfast and supper and the same for dinner, with pota
toes and a bit of meat added. It does not seem likely
that the men can hanker for much exercisen such fare,
'bat It is compulsory. Wormwood Scrubs la called the
greatest penal institution in England. . . .
, MAW'S ACTIVITIES,
Agricultore Holds the Leading Place
Among Them,
At the annual banquet of the Amerl-
cus Club of Pittsburg, In honor of the
birth of U. S. Grant, Secretary of Agri
culture . James Wilson. Congressman
Grant Mouser of Ohio and Washington
Gardner of Michigan were the chief ;
speakers. Wilson spoke on "Agricul
ture in Our Industries." He said in
part:
"Agriculture Is a creative force '
among our Industries. The result of
the farmers' work of 1000 was $0,794,
000,000, an Increase of 44 per cent over
the last census year. We exported In
1006 $1,718,000,000 worth of goods of
all kinds, and of this 72 per cent was
grown from farms and forests. Ani
mals and their products yielded $323,-
000,000, or 19 per cent, for export af
ter supplying the home demand. Cot
ton and cotton products exported were
$481,000,000, or 28 per cent; grain and
products sold abroad were $197,000,-
000, or 11.5 per cent; and $113,000,000,
or 6.5 per cent, was miscellaneous farm
products. v
."Forest products are 7.5 per cent of
our exports. WTe use tobacco extensive
ly and pay around $3,000,000 for Im
portations from Cuba and Sumatra,
Porto Rico, Mediterranean countries
and Brazilian ports. We raised Su
matra wrappers last year to the extent
of $7,000,000 worth. The department,
after discovering principles, conducts
object lessons on the farms of the peo
ple to help them toward better things.
: "We found in the Connecticut valley
and In Florida the same soil that grows
the wrapper tobacco In Sumatra, after
visiting that country and studying their
methods and soils. We found In Ala
bama and Texc the same soil that pro
duces the filler tobacco In Cuba, after
learning what soil Is suitable, and last
year raised 400 acres of It in those
States. We hope In time to grow all
the tobacco now Imported from Cuba
and Sumatra into the United States."
NO LONGER GOOD FORM.
People in High Society Say Appendi
citis Is Vulgar Disease, i
The fashionable valetudinarian is
threatened with a distinct bereave
ment. Appendicitis has been declared
to be bad form, and those who wish to
preserve a true social eminence must
on no account suffer from it. There
was a time when only the educated suf
fered from appendicitis,, because only
the educated knew the anatomical posi
tion of the appendix, but in these days
of . vulgar equality even the washer
woman knows where to put her finger
when she Is asked where the pain Is.
As a result the supergilded must find
a new disease Into whose domain the
great unwashed have not yet found
their way. - .
An eastern scribe has made Inquiries
from prominent physicians and the
worst mmors are confirmed. One great
authority admits that but few opera
tions are now necessary, and that "we
are glad to send our patients from the
surgical to the medical ward, where
hot fomentations and a milk diet are
prescribed."
A well-known nursing sister said
frankly that appendicitis has become
unfashionable, and she added unkindly
that fashions In the medical world vary
as much as In the showrooms of a styl
ish dressmaker. A well-known surgeon
admitted that "appendicitis has follow
ed the example of all fashionable crazes
and Is dying a natural death, and for
no other reason than that the laundry
lady has dared to imitate the duchess.
"Needless to say, I am not alluding
to genuine cases of the disease, but be
cause the fashionable Illness has been
pronounced unfashionable the large
contingent of hysterical patients have
turned their attention to the creation
of some new complaint." '
. Perhaps it would help a little in get
ting rid of the pest If every one in
cluded In his spring medicine a little
dandelion tea. .'-.",
m., s-t -', -,.'J'-'tw.'l
WpffJ; The small garden Is the one
A Dehorning Chnte,
While there are a great many cattle
that lose their horns by dehorning
fluids and preparations of this kind in
calfhood, there are a great many that
come to maturity with an ugly pair of
horns that create a great deal of trou
ble In the feed yard. We have received
quite a number of inquiries of late re
questing a plan for a good dehorning
chute. Accordingly we have here re
produced a most convenient and satis
factory chute.
One of the good points about this
chute Is the hinged doors on the rear
end w hich make It possible to adjust
the chute to any sized barn door.
Where the width of the rear end of the
chute Is satisfactory and cannot be ad
justed to the door ns shown In the 11-
lustration, there is often a foot or two
of space to be divided between the two
sides. As our readers who have had
experience in dehorning know, an ani
mal will always choose to pass through
this small opening rather than Into the
chute and thereby cause a constant ag
gravation. The chute proper is mount
ed on two heavy timbers which mayj be
4x4's or 4xG's, while the uprights are
generally 4x4's. ' The stanchion is made
to open and close and secured in any
way that suits. The convenient part of
the chute is the trough shaped part
marked H. This is made of two-inch
stuff and securely fastened to bottom
crosspieces. - After the animal is secur
ed In the stanchion a halter Is thrown
over Its head and the halter rope is
passed through the hole Just below the
letter II. t The letter A shows a contin
uation of this rope to the pole which is
used as a lever to bring the animal's
head Into position on the trough.
As soon as this Is' accomplished the
rope B Is thrown over the neck of the
animal, and secures the head firmly to
the trough, when the dehorning opera
tion may be performed. As soon as the
operation is concluded the animnl is
unstanchloned and one of the sides of
the chute Is hinged so that it may be
opened for the animal to escape fpoih
the chute, after which Is closed and
another animal is driven In. Montreal
Star. v :
Points in Spraying.
R. A. Emerson, of the Nebraska ex
periment station, In a recent bulletin,
gives the following recommendations
for this year's spraying based on the
results secured last year.
1. Spray with Bordeaux ' mixture
after the cluster bads open, but before
the individual flower buds open. , .
2. Spray with Bordeaux and some
poison, such as arsenate, of lead, parts
green, etc., as soon as possible after
the blossoms fall, and at any rate be
fore the calyx lobes of the apple close.
3. Spray with Bordeaux and poison
three or four weeks after the flowers
fall.
4. Spray with arsenate of lead
about July 20. ,
5. Spray with arsenate of lead
about August 10.
Use paris green at the rate of one
fourth to one-third pound per barrel
of Bordeaux. Use arsenate of lead at
the rate of two pounds per barrel of
Bordeaux or water.;
Make Bordeaux as follows : Blue
stone, four pounds ; quicklime, six
pounds ; water, fifty gallons.
, Slake the lime, dissolve the blue
stone; dilute each with half the re
quired quantity of water, and mix
thoroughly. ' n
Use good nozzles and maintain a
high pressure as uniformly as possible
In order to distribute the liquid in a
inlst-llke spray. Take care to reach
all parts of the trees and to avoid
drenching any part Careless spraying
should not be tolerated.
. The Lima Dean.
No vegetable Is more popular than
the Lima bean, and it Is suitable for
all classes of persons, as well as for
all manner of dishes. The difficulty
with Lima beans is the poles, which
are sometimes expeusive; but If strings
are used, as is done for the climbing
fliwers, the vines will grow and thrive
equally as well. All that Is necessary
Is to keep them off the ground, and ft Is
riot necessary to pole them If inconven
ient The late crop should Wa large
one, not only for the purpose of sup
plying the family with a sufficiency of
green ones for the table, but also that
they may be dried and laid aside for
wintejf. If stored away they are very
serviceable at that season, as they may
then be soaked and used for the same
purposes as when they are green. The
dwarf varieties do not require poles.
sgj 111 iing-..L yi"
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: , A DEHORNING CHUTE,
tbat
gives the owner pleasure. Probably
the majority of those who cultivate
small gardens make no profit, but ac
tually suffer a loss, when the crops are
compared with the prices received and
the cost of seeds, fertilizers and labor.
But there Is considerable pleasure de
rived, the value of which cannot be
estimated. No matter how small the
plot owned or rented may be, the one
who can bestow a portion of his time
to the cultivation of crops the coming
spring should do so. There are some
things grown In a garden that cannot
ecsily be procured In market, when the
freshness and quality are considered.
Xo one can buy tomatoes In market
equal to those taken from the vines
nnil n!nref1 In fVocri
t , . ,
nine it uie moi is very lercue. auu
!! f" At anilfll tr m-A than Vmlr nr n
- t.
nwwuui vi jjiuuuce mm may ue
TlVnZl"nmyV,lyi 0,t fT
ly from early spr ng until late In the
fall Beginning with onions and peas,
beets, carrots, parsnips and early cab- (
bnge, followed with string beans, Lima
beuns, tomatoes, corn, turnips and late
caooage, two crops can be grown on
the same location during the season. (
Potatoes need not be planted In a gar
den, as this crop demands protection
tmm tiio wh t iHii ir. if
desired, a small strawberry patch may;
uc Biurieu, wnicn win come into oear-
lng the following spring.
. Improving Dairy Stock.
A 2-year-old heifer, fresh in milk.
will sell for more than a fatted steer
and she will cost only half as much
to produce. These grade cows are not
hard to produce. Purchase a pure sire
of one of the standard breeds, cross
him upon the mixed stock now on the
farm and the young will, in all useful
characteristics, be far more than half
of that pure breed. When we remem -
ber the years, even centuries, of pure
breeding in these animals, and remera-!
ber also that the purer the blood In
any stock, the stronger will be that'
blood, $100 or $150 for a male of
breeding age will not seem an extrava-
gant price. Every neighborhood where
there Is any co-operative spirit should
prepare to supply this demand for
fairly well bred cows. Every male
purchased should be of the same breed,
so that' new animals will not have to
Ha nnrchnsed everv two or thrw. vaava
By exchanging these animals about the
neighborhood, a farmer will then be
paying $100 or $150, not for two years,
but for six or ten years of service.
The cows thus produced ' will find a
more ready market, because there are
a sufficient number to attract purchas
ers. Higher priced males may also
be purchased with economy because of
tlie much longer period of usefulness.
Wagon Box Device.
There are various ways of removing
a wagon box from the trucks, and one viding for the settlement of the Ala
of 'these Is described In Iowa Home- baraa claims. , , .
stead. The upright pole Is 4 by 4 by 14 187(1 Opening ot the Centennial exhibl
feet and is set several feet In the I tion at Philadelphia. ,
ground, so that It will be firm enough 1880Sir Alexander Tilloch Gait sp
in Its position to stand the strain which I pointed first High Commissioner for'
is required of it. The platform on f Canada in London. '
which the rear end of the wagon box 1SS2 Dominion government created tli
rests when it is to be raised from the I four provisional districts now coin
wagon may be made any height so as prising the western provinces of Al
to suit the height of the trucks. Two' bcrta aP(! Saskatchewan. j
guy vvjrps should be attached to the 1889 Father Da mien ; died at the leper
pole a "foot or so from Its top and be I ' settlement in the Sandwich Islands.'
secured-eight or ten feet In the rear of
the platform. The rope which is used
EEMOV1NO THE WAOON BOX.
to do the lifting Is attached at one
eud of the upright pole near Its upper
end. From there It continues on to a
pulley hooked In a rope which passes
around the front end of the wagon box.
then back over a pulley In the top of
the pole and down to p windlass at the
rear eud of the platform. When the
wagon box Is in its final position on the
platform, it should, stand upright und
should be left attached to the rope,
so that It cannot be blown down In case
of winds.
The Family Coti.
Families that keep only one cow
should endeavor to have the best ani
mal that can be procured. More labor
is required to care for a single cow,
proportionately, than for a herd. A
cow for the family should give a large
flow of milk for at least ten months of
the year, and the milk should contain
not less than 4 per cent of butter fat,
as cream Is one of the essentials. It
Is better to have a cow that gives even
richer milk, but the majority of fami
ly cows are selected without regard to
merits in that respect It Is difficult
to rear the calves In such cases, hence
In purchasing the family cow It will
be profitable to pay ,a high price for a
superior animal.
Looking After the Sheep.
The large and constantly growing
sheep shipments of the northwest are
giving fbe railroad officials some con
cern to provide means for taking care
of the business. One means of relief
has been made In the suggestion of
triple-decked cars for the accommoda
tion of the animals In transit
iim i.watn or imvia i., ivmg oi iu(s(
i Scots, nt Carlisle. .
i402Scots dereated at NW. f
1502 Columbus
sailed on his fourth
voyage to the New World.
1534 Hessians
defeated Austrians
at
Lauff'n '
ISOS-Mnry'-Queen of Scots defeated" at
M yof 'x ide. . ' ; ,
- .,,. , w',, ,;
Jamestown.
1045 Montrose defeated the Covenant-'!
ers at battle of Auldean. ' . '
1703 The Indian chief Pontlac began
his blockade of Detroit. '
1070 Hudson Bay Company founded. ,
iui u. gliomas isiooa mnue a aanug,
C"t Iftn
,1781 The Spaniards captured Pensa-
cola, Florida, from the British,
17S3 Society of the Cinclnnati: organ
ized.
1797-WaIter Coltvn, who made the first
public announcement of the disco?!
ery of gold in California, born, i,
Rutland, Vt. Died Jan. 22, 1851. . .
1S00 John Marshall of Virginia becaMt
Secretary of State. .
J810 First agricultural exhibition '1
the United States opened at George-,
l town, D. C. '
1S12 Mr. Perceval, British premier, M-
snsninated by Bellingham. , !
1S43 Hugh S. Legare of South Carolina
became Secretary of State,
1841V Battle -of Palo Alto, first engage-,
l mpnt in the war with Mexico. ,t . (
1848 Daniel Webster resigned as Sepre-
tary of State. r
1819 Astor Place riots made by friends
' of Edwin Forrest to break up Mac-1
ready's acting at Astor Place Opwa'
House.
18o3 Jacob Burnet, one ot the early
Whig leaders in the Senate, died.,
Born 1770. ..... First transatlantic
steamer arrived at Quebec. ,
1857 Outbreak of the Indian mutiny at
Meerut. .. .Delhi captured by the
Sepoys.
1801 Baltimore occupied by federal
troops. " j
1804 Battle of Itrurys Bluff, Va...
Sheridan's famous raid commenced.
1S05 Capture of Jefferson Davis at Irf-
winville, Ga.
1S71 Treatv of Washington slimed, nro-
1S91 Cardinal Martinelli invested with
the red berretta at Baltimore. . . .The
Chilean steamer Itata escaped from
the harbor of San Diego, Cal. .
189'3 Earl of Aberdeen became governor
general oft Canada. ,. .Carlyle
.Harris, the'murderer of Helen Potts,
executed at Sing Sing. ;
1894 Several village.! destroyed and
11,000 lives lost by earthquake in
Venezuela. .' :
1S95 treaty of peace between Japan
. and China ratified at Chefoo. '
1896 H. II. Holmes, the multi-murderer,
executed at Philadelphia. J j
1897 French steamship ' Viile de St,
Nazaire foundered off Cape Ilatterax,
with loss of many lives.., , , The pow
ers intervened in the war between
Turkey and Greece. . . .Turkish army
occupied V'olo. .. .United States' Su
preme Court decided the Berliner
patent case in favor of the Bell
Telephone Company.
1898 China paid the last of the war In-,
demnity to Japan.
1899 Fatal collision on the Reading rail-
road; 25 killed and many Injured. I
1902 Eruption of Mont La Soufriers,:
St. Vincent's; 2,000 lives lost....
Thirty thousand lives lost ly ,th;
eruption of Mont Pelee, Martinique
1905 Tornado at Snyder, Okla., killed
100 people, and Injured many others
1900 Anthracite miners In IVnnsylva-
nla accepted terms offered by the'
operators. . , . ;
Short Personals.
Justice W. II. Moody Is the blond bach
elor of the United States Supreme Court."
Charles Law Watts, a KS-year-oId boy
of Kent, England, weighs 873 pounds and
Is still eating. ' ! '
J. P. NiinnettL M. P? for the college
division of Dublin and mayor of tha
city, is a working printer, and. is foref
man of the Freeman's Journal. f
George Trollope, an English actor o
considerable note, has forsaken the- stage
and will enter the Catholic priesthood
He first appeared In "The Sign of the
Cross." - '
Chief Appah of the Utes holds corn
tnissioner Leupp responsible for every
thing... Being told that Congress makes
the laws, "If you let them make such a
law you are no account lav your jtofc-
exclaimed tna old chief. '
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