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The Ghildren. Jest let 'em make all the nolse that they wants to--that"s what Isay! Never wuz yit any children that ever an' rompin'-- to my soul! ese big arms to hug an' to hol'! Jest let 'em make all the noise' that they wants to--that's what Isay! : Felt re with ornate in-winter, or --God em!--in May Talk ¢ poor trouble--it's nothin' * I'm vib 60 cris) Ai ae And when one's in m san' an- other has bridied. and 'waded my Jest let 'em make all the aye! that they wants to--that's what I say! The worl'--it belongs to the children; it's where the Lord tol' 'em to play Talk jerbout worry--it's nothin'! ,,. Never wuz sorrow but smiled An "melted away into EnIO ata kiss from the lips of a child! Bo, jest let 'em make all the noise tes they wants to--that's what The tom made the roses for children, an' I think that Hepiled up the ay Pertickler for children to roil { n! An' I than od with all o' my soul That never a child wuz too Bes for these big arms to hug an' to hol'! COIFFURE CHAT. How to Dress the Hair to the Best Ad- vantage. With some types of faces rather elaborate coiffures are necessary for the purpose of adding importance to Has a Softening Effect, the features. On the other hand, many faces require "toning down," and if there be too much coloring in the cheeks, over fullness in the lipsor any other pronounced characteristic which might tend to rob tle face of A Simple Style. refinement, the hair can be so ar- ie igs as to modify these points. - 1 is a very becoming style, and han a soft tening and ch: ustening effect upon the features. It is parted in the middle, waved at the sides, brought down on--eath side of the forehead and pulled out in soft folds over the ears. At the back it ts ar- si tes Colffure. ranged in careless twisted puffs, one above another, and a fancy tortoige- shell comb is worn, as shown in the sketch, to give height to the colffure. . 2 is a very simple style, suited __Fonga Middle-aged 'Lady. to a pensive face ami to hair which : of a dry, crisp, curly nature." The mode of arrangement needs no des- | 888,657 | to four of the six who got Charles cription, as it is 80 Clearly depicted in the filustration 7 op ir is up high on che divi ided into two strands. these is twisted and pinned in a loop, the other drawn through the loop and coiled around. A coquettish little bow of silk or satin ribbon and a jewelled aigrette make & pretty and effective finish. Fig. 4 shows how to e be- comingly the coiffure of an elderly. or middle-aged lady. Costly Finger Ring. he most valuable finger ring re- corded in the history of jewels and jewelry was thé jewel presented by Shah Jehan to Noor Mohal, his fa- vorite wife, tne heroine of one _ of oore's stories. According to tradi- tion, it was set with a diamond of 76 carats in weight, of such purity and brilliance that its estimated value Was $500,000. It is said that she noes an of the royal pair to be dis- ' is) ; r the rever- cae for this noted monarch in Jokes For Women. Chunk--Doesn't a Mew woman make you feel very mad? Quiverful--Yes; but she's not so bad as a new baby! "Why, do you wear bloomers?" he asked. " Well," she replied, thouglit- fully, "I think tights are a little too an) modes st." So that is the fog horn!" exclaim- ed 'the girl in pink. " How interesting! But 'where do. Thai keep the fog to blow it with? Shearer my > pack. I would never forgive & young man who would kiss a girl against her will. He--Nor I, but do you suppose a young man real- ly ever did? He--I may a well be candid and tell you, Gear, first girl shat: I have k F 8 That un ei be true, Bae you still have much to sai ea that Robins is fairly mad over cycling." "That's so. enthusiastic on the he has Just gone and married a hump- backed woman." "You have too big a heart," they observed. She laughed. "It doesn't matter," she lightly rejoined, " with these loose waists. "Oh, yes," she gurgled, 'since our quarrel day before yesterday my nae: band is quite another man Chicago woman had made 'a Hae? record in the matter off speedy di- voree and remarriage. He (pleadingly)--Why can't we be married right away? She (coyly)-- Oh, I can't bear to leave father alone ius t now. He (earnest@y)--But, my darling,the has had you such a long time, She (freesingly)-- Sir ! " BONANZA FORTUNES GONE. Inheritors of California Millions Are Now an Almost Penniless Crowd. California has long had a reputa- tion as the home of the bonanza king, and a recently issued document, based on the records of the San' Francisco Probate Court, and published by the Denver Field and Farm, tells an in- teresting story of the contents and entanglements which have massed about the last testaments of many famous millionaires and the final dis- position of the vast sums they left behind them. The document gives the history of fifty-three wills, dis- posing of $175,000,000. About four hundred heirs divided that vast sum, and to-day nearly half of that) num- ber are penniless again, and only a few have succeeded in adding to their inheritance The aver: age number of persons pro- vided for in each will wag ten, though in a number of moe sa the most notable of which yas the case of Florence Bylithe, the entire estates passed into the hands of single heirs. The comparatively small estate of Kate Jolinson, which was appraised at $1,256,000, reached more heir than any other, the number on the list being twenty-five, while the $4,- 000,000 of Thomas. Blythe went to the one child, Florence, after a celebrated trial. ™ The estate of Maria Coleman valued at $1,757,000, and it wer equally to three heirs, Charles Crocker's $22,000,000 reached six per- sons; while Mary Am Crocker's $11,- went sliare and share alike was Crocker's larger fortune, Peter Donahue's $3,708,312 went in equal parts to three heirs, Mra. Theresa Fair's $4,693,250 went three persons--Charles Fairs Miss Fair and Mrs. Charles Oel- while William P. Fuller--dis- tributed his $1,771,262 sons of his name. George Hearst's $8,788,187 went ir equal partg.to: his wife and son, while Walte Pts $5,273,866 went -in thirds. to his ae children--Walter la Hobart and Mrs. Mary Hopkins' to two persons, . Johnson's $1,910,550 went to eleven persons in almost equal portions. The Way Out Of It. A hater of tobacco oneé asked an old négress, who Was addicted to the oe ifshe thought she wasa Chris- " : agua I is," was her reply. © you expect to go to heayen ?" a3 « Vea indeed "But the Bible says nothing unclean shall enter there. Now, the breath of a smoker is unclean. What do, you say to that? " Well, T reckon I leave th' bret be- hin when I enters d ar.' It seems strange when a, girl has money in ber own ae that she is anxious to change it, make I this. 'ol hia "old hive, which it enters. to' AGRICULTURE. A-map of the farm, with each field numbered, and its size, quality of soil, ete. specified, will be uw great aid in keeping track of the year's trauUsac- tions; and how few know the expense f each grown Crop the past year! and what have your, cows, pigs, sheep and chickens paid Fou? Which was the most profitable, and why? While labor is spent without, stint upon many afarm, that management B lacking which--is--al -essentiat to uccess. There is no balancing of a ieeeer to know, just how much on the right or oe side the owner has come. Such Jack of management would svon reek any commercial enterprise, it is not surprising that often "farming does not pay." The first sprouts of in are much the strongest. never wise to. plant those which have al- ready sprouted. way to keep in the ground in long, conical made when the potatoes and the ground are both cold. Put plenty of earth, but have ventilators at each end until the severest wea- ther comes, 6 earth which is thrown over the potato hates is frozen cover it a foot or two deep with horse manure, that the earth may be kept from thawing, and be this corn fodder is thrown, the rains will be effectually shedded Potato soll should be made rich by the heavy manuring of previous crops, and nothing is better than clover sod. Cut the crop of hay, and then haul out the barnyard man- ure, that the rains may wash its virtues-into the soil, where it will be held available the potatoes to feed upon. will not prevent Lon saving of the crop of clover seed, There are few seasons when good crops could be raised if the natural rainfall could be retained by subsoiling. as advantages over irrigation. A few acres cun be treated each year until the whole farm has been gone over, and no expensive apparatus is needed. Three heavy iorses Can run a subsoiler sixteen inches deep in an open soil free of stone. By subsoiling twice, the second time crosswise, the ground can be stirred to a depth of twenty inches, and will hold an immense amount of water, which, instead of running off into the streams, is stored for future use. When the process must be repeated it can be done at half the original cost. It necessitates no changes in the meth- eds of farming. Good implements save time, do bet- ter work and imuke ijurger crops tlian poor ones; but do not buy them on time, pay 8 per cent. interest, and then be so foolish as to leave: them out in all weathers, to go to. pieces before they are paid for. You cannot Crops good enough to warrant No matter how hard a farmer works, nor how good crops he pro- duces, there will not be much profit for him unless he produces very largely the things consumed at home, This. has been the matter with the Southern farmer; he has been mak- ing a cotton crop, and someone else ha# been making his flour and meat. He sold his produce at wholesale prices, and bought everything at re- tail. : STOCK. A successful Western honey pro- ducer hives his second swarm and places it on top the parent hive until evening when it is poured off in front B morning ali the young queens save been destroyed, and swarming for that season has been dispensed witli. If all the queen cells but one are removed there will be no after swarm issue. -These quéen Cells are some- times built on the surface-of--the comb, aud are hard to find, or they are built at the edge or in we notch where the comb joins the hiv The best time of day to rinee hone is in the evening; by so doing the disturbance which naturally arises is quieted down by morning. If a stand of bees is tuken irom one place to another during the day more or. less of the bees are out at work, and can not find the new; location at their home coming, and stray away Or perish. Every bee keeper the fight against adulterated honey. The aduiterations with which pure honey is mixed are numberless, anc are upon the market in many forms. Many a stand of honey which jiooks pure and good is a rank fraud. Strange as it may seem, during the past year the st ck raisers of Bpg- land weighed but 3 per cent. of their stock before selling it, ietting it go at so much per head ; ; the farmers of Scotland -used- the scales in 80 ~per cent. of their sales. No one animal can do everything best. As in the mechanical world, there must be a division of labor. We owe all the improvement of the pres- ent day in all classes of domestic live stock to special breeding for a bare nite purpose. here is always an ay ment of error in the demand for a good, ail-round animal. Let the breeder of the race -horse try to combine the strength of the Clydesdale or Shire with the speed of his thoroughbred, and the resuit is an increase of strength, but a decrease of speed. If a cow takes a certain portion of food to make milk, so much less is available for making flesh. We must take our choice. We can not have two virtues in the highest per- fection in the same animai In our earlier recollections of the live stock business, animais, and es- pecially hogs, were "puessed off" toa Sodhiceratio extent at the first pes from grower to buyer, though always weighed at the slaughter house scales not at of wonder the extent to which cattie on the hoof are sold by the eye in Great Bri- tain to-day. Many families are too poor to eat is interested in meat Sg feed their dogs enough to erow a 300 pount pig. The dog nuis- ance seat be abated if females were taxed pretty heavily and the males untaxed. Better dogs * aba be bred. hose who desired t ee could afford to keep an . While dog is_a useful animal now and ihe, the most of them are howling nuis- ances. RY. DAT It is indeed folly and loss to feed dry cows through the winter that they may make $25 or $80 during the summer. We rita not forget that it costs more to -- animal life durinng the win There is no pearls' 'in raising calves unless they are cared for from the start. Starl them like other--eattie when brought in from tle pasture in the fall. There must be no let up in regularity of fe Some fancy butter makers use en- silage as the basis for their winter dairying, and do not suffer from any loss of customers nor decrease of prices in consequence. If properly man- aged, ere is no tainting of the nilk. Ml ons of cows are supported which die indebted to ier owners. Before a person concludes to raise a heifer calf for dairy, purposes he should have good assurances that, judging from the performances of its "ancestors for generations back, the heifer will make a profitable cow. To grow heifer calves without some assurance of their profitableness is but to invite disaster. As soon as a heifer becomes a cow she should be tested to learn whether or not, she will make a profitable. one. If not, she should be beefed at the first good op- portunity, and so bid all one's cows, whether old or you To start right with : am creamery, let it be determined that it shall be an all the year round one, with the larg- outputs in the winter months, that the highest prices may be main- tained for butter, and that they who own the cows may see that hay and grain in the winter may be tarned into dollars. The true solution of the problem is to breed an animal with special quali- fications for the purpose which she intended. If a cow is wanted for a town dairy, a deep milker with a fair tendency to fatten is best; but if the owner is to live way up in the country, where dairying is not profit- able, then an animal with the great- est tendency to fatten is' best. the heavy milker is not turning her food into milk, neither will she urn it into flesh to such perfection as will one bred for beef. Nothing truer than that we must breed our animals for distinct purposes, and not aim at the impossible in trying to make them best for everything Butter is more liable to injury from too much working than from too lit- tle. The old idea is no longer in vogue that we must work butter until every vestige of grain is destroyed. Butter milk should be washed out while the butter is still in the granular form, land very little work is needed to get rid of the brine. It is not wise to work the butter in the churn, using the swing box or barrel churn for the purpose. Nothing is better than the level worker, by the use of which a direct but gentile pressure is obtained without the grind- ing motion, which is at ali times to be ay oidec To pack butter for the winter take glazed earthen jars or clean W hite oak or spruce tubs e tubs should be soaked well in brine, then scalded and thorovghly washed, 'then rubbed inside with fine salt. If, while wet, good, sweet butter is so firmly pressed down into them as to leave no vacan- cies, it will be sweet six months later. HORTICULTURE. Producers and sellers of fruits and vegetables cannot sell in bulk, but must carefully study the consumer's taste, for if these dainties do not suit him he can do without them. Neither can such goods be stored to await a ped dwt rise in prices, as can wheat or po They must be sold on sight, Be the sight must be an agreeable must be prac- The barberry, on Deraiate nt pruning ticed with hedges osage, Orange, lioney locust and buck- thorn will all make absolutely im- penetrable hedges, if properly hand- led. After being started such a hedge requires no more labor to keep in condition than does an ordinary fence, and it never wears ou Peach trees requiresgood feeding to have them do their best. Farm yard manure is good; so also are wood ashes and bone dust. Blighted leaves and branches should at once be cut away and burned, for disease er ly ag onbinstos from branch to Branch. r beauty of bloom, fré ieeaties and oe ce culture but few flowers please as do bulbous plants. time to i planting them as the npproach, both in beds for spring and in pots for win- dows. Such are becoming more and more favorites as house plants If you have any large trees you wish removed, aud which you fear will suffer because of their size, dig around them _ now, cutting off.the large roots. Fill in the soil again, and next season the trees can be trans- planted safely. It is a difficult un- dertaking to reniove in winter with the frozen earth about them. "IT HAD NO FAITH." But My Wife Persuaded Me to Try the Great South American Rheumatic Ctrre and My Agonizing Pain Was Gone in 12 Hours, and Gone for Good. J. D. MeLeod, of Leith, Ont., says: "T have been a victim of rheumatism for seven years--confined to my bed for months at a time; unable to turn myself. Have been treated by many physicians without any benefit. I had no faith inrheumutic cures Isaw ad- vertised, but my wife induced me t get a bottle of South American Kheu- matic Cure from Mr. Taylor, drug- gist, in Owen Sound. At that time I was in agony with pain. Inside of 12 hours after I had taken the first dose ae pain had all left me: I continued I had used three bottles, and I myself completely pei consider ed." ' The Bishop of Edinburgh is in Mon- treal. '| O, the gingerbread Linh FOR LITTLE PEOPLE. § A QUARREL IN THE OVEN. O, the gingerbread boy and the pie- crust girl, The ey had a qu uarrel one day ; Together they sat on the oven shelf, " The eri: fay and the gingerbread And the quarrel - commenced -- this way: Said the sec eechare boy to the ple crust girl, "Tl ow = my new--brown- hat, That I'm fatter than you and much more tanned, Though couse filled with pride" till you cannot stand-- But what is the good of that?" Then the piecrusty girl "turned her little nose up In a most. provoking wa, "QO, maybe Paften 're brown, Se you're poor can You do not tknow tard from a round green pea! Is there aught that you do know, ray?" he laugh: loudly with sco As he looked at erst fakes igeraes "Just watch how T'll the Se cee e, "Just se how I'm bound grow ight!" on she, "While you stay the color of rust." So the ta ata boy and the pie- cr with to gir They each of them swelled pride, Till a ter was heird in the room wit A cry - delight, thon a very glad And the oven Was opened wide. Then the gingerbread boy and the piecrust gir Could have screamed and wept with ain, For - rosy-cheeked. lass and small bright-eyed la Took u big bite Bos tale's very So theyll now aver quarrel again. ANIMAL WORKERS. ' What animal is a great spinner? _ each--yee, this 'The spider. Which one can make paper? z Tp Sp. an excellent mason? What animal can sew well? The tailor bird Which one can saw logs as well as a carpenter 7 he beaver. Which one is a clever fisherman? The fishing-hawk W hich one weaves 'a siiken cradle? 1e silk worm. Which one is a good wax-maker ? u e. Which Boh is a famous digger? The What ata Pes holes finely ? The woodpecke Which is the Haliy chatter-box ? ot. "Which 'one is a swift messenger ? The carrier dove Which one is cleaner ? The jackal What anim: ul is a wonderful carrier ? The elephant.--What and Why. STORY OF FIVE LITTLE FINGERS. id said oe "must I " iy. a thorough street wood- " Dear me,' take Ba " Whieh means that s | eunte: settir ng Baby comfortably in her lap. "Now what shall it be, the five little fingers I know of? Well: Once on a time--not a great while , Five little fingers lived all in a row ; Some were short and some were tall And one of them wasn't a finger at But a little wee thumb, As pink as a poséy and round-as--a& plum And full of mischief as thumbs can be, With four little sisters to stand by and see. He punched the kitty and made her mew, And then the sisters would pull her He put himself into mamma's pie And the sisters would follow him by anc IY. G He punched our eyes and told them all To puli our hair--both great and He helped them pinch us Sern tea a And an would pudge us, all by In tact 80 many things he'd do-- Such ndughty, naughty things, pet, 00, That mamma kissed them all one And tucked them snugly out of sight Ben east the bed clothes clean and ey Wisk: little Joe sleeps every night, Now baby dear must go to sleep, For the little chicks forgot to peep hour ago, And baby, too, must sleep to grow." --Womankind. CON UNDRUM. What is that which no one wishes to have a no one wishes to lose? A bald hea Why is "gate post like a potato? Because they are both put into the ground to propaga What is that which Is often brought to the table, always cut and never eaten? A pack of cards. Why shouldn't a boy throw dust into his teacher's eyés? Because it may occasion harm to the eatery What ate 16 most nsociabie things in the world? Mile stones, for you never see two of them together. JOKES FOR LITTLE JOKERS. Mamma--Don't you feel wellenough to go to school? Bobbie--No, mamma ; I just feel well enough to rida my bi- cycle. " Now, Billy, tell us sf you know comes." (posta I ee Sunday co 1 % grand won't = sing, Ba: Henrietter, She's a Corke