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GOSPECL OF FEEDING. It is a theory well accepted among live stock breeders that like pro- -duces like, or the likeness of an an- cestor, writes Mr. W. F. McSparn-.n. ir When this theory is discredited and the latitude noted that is given in the phrase closing the sentence one may e.xpect almost anything in the way of individuals in breeding and find a warrant even for freaks by authority of the above theory. It is true that wo breeders put a va.st deai of confidence in the per- forming merits of the progenitors-of the strain or tribe from which we are breeding, beliuvins that the tran.'imission of good performance is to -be depended upon. Wo are of- ten disappointed, and if we follow hasty judgment we are Inclined to think that we have been imposed up- on by reports of good work done by ancestors of our animals, when in reality tlie good work was never done. As we grow older and more experi- enced in the business of breeding, however, we get more u.sed to these diSitppointments, and do not expect every throw to win a prize. We have less trouble in getting like to produce like in physical out- line or conformation than we have qnalities, increasednnn nm nm nnnn r- In securing the more desirable quali- » ties, increased production., or even the ability, to equal tho work of the immediate ancestors. In breeding pedigreed dairy ani- mals, when pei'formance is more sought after than shape or color or mere PHYSICAL STRUCTURE, â- when the milk function is one of n«rvous force, we often find that the •fcpring does not inherit to a • sal> (â- factory degree tho tendencies of the sire's heredity or the dam's abil- ity. We therefore -are forced to do the best we can in the matter of breed- ing, and trust to a satisfactory out- come. I am well satisfied tHat we are not more able to foretell results from a given mating, because along with our careful, superb brooding hero and there has been a man who has not done good feeding. I do not care how royally an animal for the dairy may have been bred, or how many generations the careful breed- ing has covered, in a large measure the good restilts to be expected from such breeding are nullified without proper and abundant feeding. As *e well know, the highest produc- tion of milk is had when tho cow la well and wisely fed: and it is as easily known that the growth and development of tho milk-giving ♦ functions are as fully dependent on ' such feeding from caUhood to ma- turity as is performance after ma- turity. It is easily understood, al- so, that a period of starvation or insufficiency in tho early life of the future cow may so arivst the development of the mammary func- tions, it may be a critical time, and all tho fine trends transjnitted by heredity and careful breclnp be scattered, and reversion to ^'fe un- do years of labor. So in tke t^eeding and roaring of fine and useful e.»Smals the first le.»- C*Q to iearn is oiie most important on». of wise feediog. ^ QUAUTY IN BUTTER. Some time ago a Chicago mer- chant made a proposition to change the basis of scoring butter .so as to give prominence and points to the clement of "duality" (meaning keep- ing properties) and to lessen the prominence and points oow given in ittvor. The reason for tho propos*- Ition was that the quick, high flavor and aroma that tickle tho palate and noso in fre.sihly made butter of high grade is evanescent and like- ly to be lost before the usual me- thods of distritrution bring the I goods to the consumer's table; and i ^ th»t the milder flavored butters, if ! well made, will maintain their grade j longer and prove of intrinsically â- r»&t«r worth. It is supposed that the high, quick fla'V'or of scoring are gained by a process of making â€" high ripening and the presence of an undue proportion of caueinwâ€" which is detrimental to keeping quality; while the process o( making b«st adapted to producing stability of qualityâ€" medium ripening and a low pro- portion of casein â€" results in A M.ILJ>ER FLAVOR. In support of the proposition to give greater weight (o keeping pro- perties when scoring butter in com- petition many instances are given where butter scored very high at butter shows has been found after a few days to have deteriorated ser- iously, falling far below the grade of other samples, which, though of Ipwer flavor value when first scored, had maintained their grade with no apparent change â€" in some cases had even Improved by tho loss of evan- eaoent fiavors ol an undesirable char- acter. It is an undoubted fact that some of the butter which possesses very high flavor when fresh made loses Its q<t«lity rapidly, but there is probably a considerable dllTercnce In the stability of high flavor in dif- ferent butters. It Is a doubtful matter that a Judge can dtatinguish the difference in keeping properties wfcen he examine* the different sam- ple*. He may adopt a» a general rule that Um waxy bodied, miki flar- WOMANS SHIRT WAIST. 32 to 40 Bust. To be made with or without the fitted lining and clos«?d in double bi'easted style or rolkd back in revers. Shirt waists that incli:de tho Gib- sou plaits over the shoulders are much likod and can be relied upon as correct for the ."-eason to come as well as for the inmiediate present. This stylish model also includes the fashionable postillion and has the merit of allowing a plain double breasted front, or of being rolled back to form tapering ie\ei"S as shown in the small sketch. The or- iginal is of the new parametta cloth in pastel blue and Is trimmed with the border of the material which is embroidereil in white silk, but all waist and dre.-s materials are ap- propriate. The waist is made over a fitted lining that closes at tho centre front but itself consists of back and fronts only which are ar- ranged over the foundation after tho 'dhoidder seams are closed and the â- plaits stitched. The slcovea are in bishop style and at the nct-k is u regulation stock. When desired with revers the fronts can be faced and rolled back from the indicated cen- tre which is closed invisibly. As shown on lij^ure the waist is lapped in double breasted style and closed by means of buttons and button- holes. The quantity of material required tor the medium size is 4 yards i!l inches wide, 4 yards 27 inches wide, or 2i yards 44 irwhes wide. ored goods, will last longer than those which appeal more strongly to the nose and palafe. but it is a serious question that his judgment as to the stability of quality in in- dividual samples would be at all accurate, although it might be fair- ly so on the average. WHENCE COME THE WEEDS ? There are two classes of weeds â€" those that come from seeds and those which nro propagated prin- cipally by means of their roots. Weeds- which spring up from seeds can be destroyed by successfully bringing the seeds in the soil to the surface, where tlicy germinate. The seeds of some weetis have great vitality, and remain in the soil for years. Some are cnclo.sed in clods, and are retained for another sea- son, but when the ciods are bix)ken and the weed seeds e.xposrtl to warmth near the surface, they are put out of existence by the harrow as soon as tlicy germinate, for which reason it is impossible to clear a piece of land from weeds in a sea- sx>n unless every clod is pul\x;rizod. The oft-rcpcatcd enquiry, "Fiom whence come the weeds?" may be answered, "From tho clods." The weeds that spring from roots are cut up, checked, and prevented from growing by frequent cultivation, be- cause they cannot e.xist tor a great length of time unless ix'rmitted to grow. If no leaves are allowed on such plants they perish from suffo- cation, because they breathe through the agency of the leaves. The advantages derived by the soil in the work of weed dost rudt ion re- duces the cost of warfare on the wee<ls, for every time the harrow or cultivator is used the manui-e is more intimately mixed with the soil. more clods are broken, a great- er portion of plant food is offered to the roots, the lose ol moi.9tur« is lessened, und the capacity of the plants of the crop to secure , more food is increased. Tho cost ol the destruction of weeds should not be charged to the accounts of a single year only, as thorough work dur- ing a season may obliterate the weeds entirely, or reduce their destruction during succeeding years to but a trifle. A GASTRONOMIC FDAT. In a little schoolhouee in the north of Scotland the schoolmaster keeps the bo.vs grinding steadily at their desrke, but gives them permis>- sion to nibble from their lunch- bankets !>ometimes aa they work. One day while the master was In- structing a class In the rule ol three, ho noticed that one of his pupil's waa (xiying more attention to a small tart than to his leaaon. "Tom Bain." siald the master, "listen to tho Iwsson, will ye 7" "I'm listening, sir," sctid the boy. "Ls.stening, are ye ?" exclaime<l the master. "Then ye're listening wi' one ear an' eating pie wi' the other." Ix>ndon alone has 200 more per- iodiral.<> than Scotland and Ireland combined^ FADS OF JLLIOMIRES HOBBIES THAT EAT BIG HOLES IN THEIE FORTUNES. How the Multi-MilUonidres of the World Spend Their Money. Given a m'lHon a year to spend at pleasure, find something on which to spend it. That is the proposition which IS met by multi-millionaires of the United States, England, and Germany. It is a peculiar fact that the men who have this opportunity choose one thing as the object of their expenditures. Tho millionaires choose their hob- bies and they are are as various as the wealthy men are numerous. Apart from the expenditures requir- ed in business these millionaires spend more on their hobbies than they do on themselves personally. _ In some celebrated instances ' the "spending" is not spending, but giv- ing, and many of the immensely wealthy men are giving away more than they spend. Andrew Carnegie's teachings and his practices are the best known. He is one of the three great multi-millionaires who gives away far more than ho spends. Of the other two one is an Englishman arid tho other a German. Pictures more than anything else make big holes in the bank accounts of the men of wealth. There are seven millionaires who spend more for paintings than for anything else outside their business, and J. Pier- pont Morgan leads tho list. MORGAN'S FAD IS PICTURES. Mr. Morgan is credited with an an- nual personal expenditure of about S150.000, and his average annual bill for paintings is about 5250,000, not far from double what he spend.s on him.seif. His biggest purchase last year was the Colonna Raphael, for which he gave §500,000. To this purchase he added seven others, worth altogether S2d0.000, so that his expenditures la.st year wei-e far above his average and amounted to nearly $1,000,000. -Hiat was tho biggest year in picture buying that Mr. Morgan has had. His entire collection of famous paintings now amounts to '200 pictures, and is valued at SIO.000,000. Stephen Gould has been one of Mr. Morgan's chief rivals in bidding for famous paintings. He broke all records by buying fourteen old mas- ters in one year, and his checks tor pictures make the biggest hole in his bank account. Staveley Bruce, the English ship- ping and iron king, has made a specialty of statuary, as well as paintings. The Italian laws for- bidding tho exportation of art trea- sures has had a i.H?culiar ofTect on the collection of Mr. Bruce. He is ob- liged to keep 5,500,000 worth of statuary in Italian cities. He adds a love for pictures to that for stat- uary and s-eldom spends less than $200,000 a year for paintings. FORTUNE SPENT FOR PRINTS. Dullus Grant, auotlier English mil- lionaire, has a different hobby in the art line. Mr. Grant wants fine prints and lie spends a fortune an- nually in rare prints, and in the last few years has made a half million dollar collection. In the collecting of prints the buyer is especially liable to imposi- tion, but Mr. Grant is an authority â€"one of the chief authorities in Eng- land. Altiiough he h;is purchased more than 20.000 prints ho ha-s the reputation of never having been de- ceived. This collection is now as valuable as it was when he made it. Tliat is one of the features oi the art hobby. The man who spends his money for art treasures has a tangible asset. The millionaire who makes his expenditures in race horses ami yachts is money out at the end of tho year. .Mr. Carnegie's fad, as is well known, is the public library. He is credited with handing out $1.'>.000.- 000 annually in putting his preach- ing into practice. Last year his gifts in this direction imiountod to $.}, 000,000 in the United States., Ho gave in addition 85.000,000 to Ehig- lish workmen and $10,000,000 to .Scotland. As he now is giving away a great deal more than his in- come, which is $10,000,000 a year, he may b* able to renJiio his am- bition to escape the "disgrace of dying rich." It has been computed that at his pre-'sent rate of giving it will require twenty years tieforo he can become "poor." TREATS FOR SLUM CHILDREN. An English millionaire, another of the three multi-millionaires who give away most of their income, is Mr. .Spiller. the cloth and cotton mag- nate. His favorite amusement i» a peculiar one. and It has made him known as a sort of fairy godfather to the poor children of northern English towns. He organizes and pays for huge treats for slum child- ren. The outings and pleasure ex- cursions ho gives these children cost him In the neighborhood of $500,- 000 a year. In addition to this he supports eight children's ho.svitals and orphanages. His hobby on the betterment of poor children gives him DO time for any other amuse- ment, Ue lives in a fashion sloxilar to that of a well-to-do professional man, and maintains but one estab- lishment for himself The third of these three milUonr aires who glv« away the bulk ot their income is the German gunnaak- er, Herr Krupp, the richest man In his country. When the more personal amuse- ment.^ of millionaires are considered, it will be found that yacht.i and race horsM take the most of many a wealthy man's money. It has been computed tJiat eighteen men of groat wealth â€" American. English, and of other nationalitiesâ€" spend the larger part of their income on yachts. Sir Thomas Lipton is among the best known. He spent $600,000 on the cup races alone. Col. McCalmont is another English- man, a rival of Sir Thomas. who spends a fortune on the water. Aside from the royal yocht-smen of Europe, it has been estimated that the eighteen millionaires interested in this sport spend about $20,000,- 000 a year on their craft, and that the value of the yachts foots up to $55,000,000. There are five millionaires who "go in" for natural history. The best known is Miles Forre.st. an Englishman. He has a private "zoo," the finest in England, and it costs him $60,000 a year to main- tain it. In quality he e.xcels even the London zoo, although not in quantity. Three American million- aires spend their money in this di- version, and one Belgian, Doorslaer, whose income is used in procuring wild animals. Mr, Fairburn, a sherry shipper of England, has the renown of being the only man of great wealth who is absorbed in the collection of .stamps. His expenditures are trivial compared with some other million- aires, but his amusement is not a costly one. About S5.000 a year .goes in buying stamps and his col- lection is valued at 335,000, THE BRIDGE AT QUEBEC. Longest Span in the World Across St. Lawrence Biver. A bridge which will have the long^ est span in tJie world is now being constructed over the St. Lawrence river about six and a half miles THECElDLEOFHUmiTT AUSTRALIA WAS THE Gi'EDEN' OF EDEN. So Saya German Professor, Wlio Declares It Fulfills Con- ditioss. The cradle of humanity has been located more than once. More than one anthropologist has staked out a little section of tho globe and said: "This was Eden." But now another scientist has used certain premises as a compass and certain, theories as a chain, and has surveyed a new portion of tlie world, and has located a new nursery. Australia is the new Eden and Prof. Schoetensack of Heidelberg is its discoverer. His conclusions were presented to the Berlin Anthro- pological Society at a recent meeb- .ing. The msthods by which they were reached are as interesting as the conclusions themselves. The anthropologist began with th« assumption that during the geologi- cal ages the brain of man was de- veloping and his body was extremely feeble. At this time there wer* beasts of great strength and agility which would have made the develop- ment of a race weak pliysically im- possible. With this assumption fi.xed Prof. Schoetensack, with his knowl- edge of the various forms of life which existed at various times on the globe, began to count out th« regions where it would have been impossible for man to ha%'e been nourished. America. Europe, Asia and Africa were quickly put out of cousidai'a- tion, as there existed on tliese con- tinents animals which would hav^ south of Quebec. Ihe great St. [destroyed every trace of human Uf« Lawrence flows between high, rocky clills at that joint, and varies ac- cording to the tide. The water is about 180 feet deep in the channel and ilows by at a swift rate. The channel will be crossed with a sus- pended span and two cantilever arms, making the uiisiVi>porte<l structure 1,800 feet long, which will be by far the longest span m the world. It will te 200 feet longer than the si>an of the new East Ri\er bridge. New York, The length of anchor arms on each side of the main spans will be 300 feet, with one approach span of 220 feet at each end between anchor piers and terminal abutments. The length of the structure. in- cluding abutments. will be 3,300 feet. The bridge will have two rail- way tracks, a single electric motor track and a highway for vehicles. The depth of the sust ended span at the centre will be one hundred and twenty feet. The substructure will coiiBist of two main piers, two an- chor piers and two abutments. One of these anchor piers is founded on solid rock and the other on hard blue clay. The sinking of the caisson for the main pier was a great engineering feat. The caisson was sunk through in e.xtremely short order. Life couid not have been sustained at the northern or southern extremi- ties of the globe because of the cold. The brain of man at thi« time was not suiriciently developed to enable him to discover fire. an<l he could not have warmed himself. The only place men could have e.x-> isted where ferocious beasts Iive4 would have been in the trees, and il they had led such a life the resulti would be a four handed instead of a TWO H.VNDED RACE. Every one of the scientist's prenjr ises forces the conclusion that men were developed in some clime wher« the temperature was moderate, whore food was easily obtained, and where life wi»s not a continual strug- gle against animals supeiior phy»; ically. Such being the case, the anthropo- logist finds but one place answering that description. That is Austra- lia. At one time this nia.y hav« had a coimection with southern Asia. Hero man may have beea nourished and developed, he reasons. It is safe from carnivorous boast* which could threaten the e.xistence of men. Such carnivorous animals as e.x- isted on the island or continent wera a compact ma.ss of granite bowlders too small to te a danger. The din- bound together with cobblestones and fine gravel. The penetration of the caisBon was so slow that on some days the distance could not be recorded; on other days it was scarcely more thau four inolies, though it bore a load on its roof of more than twenty thousand tons. Owing to the immensity of this load and its attendant danger, this method was finally abandoned, and concreting in the working chamber was begun. Progress by this method was rapid, and in seventeen days the pier was built. The caissons for the two main piers are each 150 feet long, 49 feet wide and 25 feet high. They are of Southern pine. The caisson lor the north pier was built on the north shore, about tour thousand feet east of the pier site, and was su».cessifully launched and towed into position and made fast in a berth proviously prepared in the short sjuice of seventy minutes. At the site of the two main piers the water has a depth of only about ten feet at low lido, and as the caisson draws about tweUe feet un- loaded, it grounded at low tide and floated at high tide, the water then being about twenty-nine feet deep. Tho concrete was being placed in the cribwoplt on top of the working chamber of the caisson for the north pier lately, and excavation in the chamber was being carried on only during low tide, and i^ was con- tinued until sufficient concrete was put in to overcome the buoyancy of the air pressure, after which the ex- cavation Was continued without in- terriyjtion. go or wild dog. now known to hava existed there with prehistoric man. was not a dangerous foe. One ot the marsupials was carnivorous, bu* it was neither lai-ge enough nor strong enough to have been a dan- ger at any time. There was an abundance of food easily procuivci. ami tho climate wa» tempered to a weak race, Ther» more easily than anywhere else tha art of makiiig ur^' might have beea discovered, Australia also lacks the dense for- ests which might have produced an arboreal race, but it is pointed out that the tall Australian trees would be calculated to produce just such hands and feet as the human raca actually has, .Ml these theories have led Trof. Schoetensack to pronounce with pKwitiveness that .\ustralia was the cradle ot tho race and that it was the garden of Eden. WANTFJ) A 'BUMPER." A new post olftce had been estab- U,"vhed in a rojnoto country village, and a native of Ohe place was ap- pointed postmaster. After awhile coniiPlaints were made that no let- ters were sent out from the new office, and an official wn,9 despatched to inquire into the matter. Ho called upon the postmaster, and, stating the cause of his visit. a.<)ked why no mail had been sent out. Tho pofrtmaster pointed to a big and nearly empty n^ail bag hanging up in a comer, and sold : "Well. I ain't sent it out, "oau."* don't yoiu ace, the bag ain't no- wherea nigh full yet '." The British Empire is 40 times as large as Germany and ber Colonial dependencies. Rurop« builds nearly 7,000 new ktromotlves yearly. EDITOR'S TROUBLES. A correspondent tells the following story of methods of censorship in . Russia: I wa.'; at an evening party of the local press censor ip a .South Ku.ssiau town. About midnight I had strolled from the music room into a card room, and was wafthing a game of cards, one of the players being our host, the censor, when tho hostess approached her husband: "I wish, my dear, you would step be- hind. There are three poor wretches there who have been waiting for you a couple of hours, I did not wish to disturb you sooner," "They must wait a little longer," replied tlie censor; "I must finish my rubber," Twenty minutes later our host ab- sented" himself for a quarter of on hoiir. Meetin,g his wife next d»i^'. 1 nsked her who were the "three poor wretches" referred to, "Editors of the three local journals." she re- plied. They had waited two und a half hours in the censor's back kit- chen with their MSS, and proof sheets for that morning's issue, without which they could not go to press! "I suppose," he ventured, that you would nerver apoaJk to ine again if I were to kl.«s you 'V 'Oh. tJoorge," she exclaimed, "why don't you get over thi habit of always looking at the dark side of tihinRrf?" The value ol the pre.sent Crown is put at £113,000, British The famous Siamese twins were born i« 1811, and dica in 1974.