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THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. isterctting Itemi About Our Own Country, Urcat Britain, the United States, and All Part* of tha Qlobc, Coodenaad and AtMrtcd for Ea«y Reading. CANADA. A Hunt Club is being formed in Hamr ilton. Mr. James McDonald's infant daugh- ter was liurned lo death at London. Seventeen graduates of Manilotia University received the degree M. D. hold on, ami to get on the btjttom of an u|)tuTne<l boat, from which he was afterwarcLs rescued. It is learned in Ixradon thai the re- cent meeting between Uallington Booth and hLs sister, Mr.s. Ikioth-Tucker, re- .sulte<l in a compiroraise, by which the V'fdunteers will continue as a distinct lxj<lv for si>ecial work among the rich, with (ienernl Booth nominally in su- preme command, and with B<'illington H«jth the (K-rmanenl local head of the new force. VNITED STATES. Ohio has adopted capital punishment by electricity. The .State Legislature of Ohio has passed an anti-Iyncbing I'ill. The Culian resolutions have passed both Houses of the United States of j Congress. Graduates of McGill University in Mr. David Coi>e, one of the oldest re- New York held their first annual din- aidcnts of South Dumfries, died at St. 'ner. Geor<{e, Ont., on Friday, aged 94. ( ijje \_ p. .4. jjave declared war on At Strathroy the by-law in favor of Mr. McKinley in bis candidature for the furniture fa<;tory bonus was car- . the Presidency ried by a lar^ majority, 502 voting in ' favor "and only 9 against. | The towns of Essex, Amherstburg and Harrow will lie supplied with na,- tural gas from the South Essex gas fields. j The Mayor of Gait has offered a rt*- â- J he Mayor.s of Brooklyn and New York are opposed to the Greater New York bill. Bi.shop Ryan, of the Buffalo diocese, who was " l)orn in Almonte, Ont., seventy-one years ago, died on Friday. .Senator Sherman thinks that the ward of »50 for the conviction of a iK-r.^ stronger Democrat as a Presidential â- on who is assaulting young ladies m • pjj^jjjjjf^ would Ije ex-Governor Camp- the town. {bell. The Dominion Artillery Aesociation j (j^„ jj^„j Harrison, ex-President of met at Mont real and considered a plan ,}j^ United States, and Mrs. Mary for sending a team to compete at j ^^^^ j ^,^,, JJ^^Jl^j^.|^ „.pre married at 8hoet>urynei«. j^ew Y'ork. Arrangementa have l)een made by I a startling story comes from Saa whuh afl the Cree Indians, the w-ards prancisco of a conspiracy to hold up ot Canada will lie deported from Mon- .. -' . . ,,. â-  \ . ' . ... r tana to the North- \\ est Territories. The Controller of Customs lias ai>- provtwl of apian to allow United States bicycle riders to tour in Canada with- out the payment of custom duties. John Williams, while feeding the fur- Batvs at the smelting works in Hamil- ton on Friday, was overcome by the coal gas, and before help arrived be was dead. At a general meeting of the Board of Trade in Toronto, held on Thursday was passed adv(>- Ihe V'anderbilt special tram and kidnap Mr. Cornelius Vanderliilt. At Ogden, Utah, an explosion of giant (xjwder occurred at a quarry in which seven men lost th'^ir lives and three more Imdly injured. A 70-yeajr-old citizen of Ell.sworlh Falls Me., has had a severe attack of whoojiing cough during the past week, and Ls simvly recovering from it. In the elections at Chicjigo for town officers and Aldermen the Republicans carried all of the seven towns by ma- whereby four thousand horses were de- stroyed. The young King Alexander of Ser via is in At liens, and is said to be paying ma- trimonial court to Princess Marie of Greece. The rumour is gaining ground in Madrid that Captain-<J«neral Weyler is to lie recalled from Cuba, and that Marshal Campos is to be reinstatext. The Paris Temps asserts that the idea of the. Dongola expedition emanated from King Humbert, who .simultaneous- ly addressed England and Germany on the subjeut. T)i« latest Corean intelligence is of a very disquieting nature. The fight be- tween the Russian and Japanese factions at Seoul atiU continues, and murders take place almost daily. King AVilliam of Wurtemberg is a hotel-keeper in one of the best capaci- ties, owniiig two hotels at Stuttgart. This, however, does not worry him or any of his Royal friends in the least. Advic«a from China state that there is a strong anti-foreign feeling existing in Ching-Tu. Several petty acts of hos- tility against the Canadian Missions in the Ku-Cbeng district are reported. Tae Khalifa says that he was always ready to submit to the authority of the Kheaive of Egypt, but he will resist lo the death of any^ expedition from Egypt so long as the Brltuih occupy the coun- try. The. daughter of Grand Duke Michael, .son of the Grand Duke Michael-Nic4dai- vitcb, was baptised in the Russian Church al Cannes on Thursday morn- ing, the Prince of Wales and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin lie- ing her sponsors. A boy who served as model for Mme. Marck, a sculptor, in Paris, lo<jk his death of cold, am he was expo.<wd nude, and had wet plaster put on him, for the purpose of making moulds. The sculp- I tor was fir-st charged with manslaugh- ' Kjr, but after acquittal on that score I the boy's father liegan a suit for S^.OOU damages. crop in scientific agriculture, and ^ close study of Cliis plant will explaia many of the new ideas which thinking; observsnt men are finding out each year. It will i«y any farmer to not* more accurately than he has lieen isj the custom of doing, the jieculiar habit of the clover plant; its long tap root; its ability to stand dry weather when once established; its tenderness w hen in loose soils iiefore it becomes well root- ed; its little nodules on the rnot« through which it alisorbes nitrogen from the atmosphere and especially its effici.- ency as a sulisoiler. Every farmer understands that a hardpan under his farm means grief to him and his un^ less it be thoroughly broken up. How- to do this cheaply and effectively haa been the trouble. Subsoil plows have been invented, used a few years and. for the most part aliandoned. Deep plowing has Ixsen tried with the result ^i ^cir?'"t^a ^Uti^r^iihTh; I Jorities rangmg from 1 to 4.000. Mother Country. ^he New lork i>enate has passed a »i t V /i„i!,i, !,„= 1,..-., o.>..r.ir.t«.l resolution in favor of co-o()erating Mr. J. h. y"i'<='' '"^,'*J'' "«*If.'"'?^ with Canada for the prou-ction of fish General Baggagt^. .Vjfent of the Grand,. ^ , ^^ \i,.„,.r» Hiv..r «nH I «V.. On- Trunk in pUoe of Mr. Samuel Symons. Mr. Quick's headquarters will be in Toronto. Roliert Morran was arrested at Hol- land, Manitoba, on a charge of muai- dering Miss Hannah Hal Ion. The prisoner worked on the farm of the young lady's uncle. it is announced in Ottawa that the 'in ibe .Nu'igara Kiver ana 1 tario. I Col. Peter Glen, of New Y'ork, the I highest officer next lo Commander Hal- lington Booth, has deserted the Volun- te«T< and returned lo the Salvation Army. Id the Albany Court of Appeals on Wednesday a decision was giten in the co^n^d rrS Bi^ley Team ^Hl go Adelphi Club ca«.. to the effect that a toLieut-Col. Slark, and that Mator.;'"'' " practically a man's home, and Bruce, of the Royal Grenadiers, of To- '" not 8ubje<t to a lioen.« fee. nnto, will be adjutant of the team Mr. Louis Frechette, the Canadian poet laureate is writing, by special or- der, a play for Mme. Bernhardt. It deaKi with Italian life in the seventeen-- tb century, and is to !» finished on Ifky 23rd. The Government of Canada c8lile<l to Mr. CTiaiulierlain offering a mili- tia regiment for service in the Sou- don- The offer created a good im- prawlon, but will not prolialify Ije a<^ oepted. Superintendanl Whyle of the CJ". R. ««timate« th^l 9,1)00,000 bu-shels of wheat is in Manitolia and western ele- vators waiting the opening of navi- oatum. A giMMl deal ot it is still held by the farmers. The St. George's .Soi^iety of London do not take klmlly to the recent move of tlie churches against Sunday par- ades. They have aecure<l the Ojiera House, for their annual sermon, and are now looking f<T a minister to preach for them. At the meeting of the Augmenta» tion Committee of the I'resbyteruui Church in Canaila, held at Toronto, on W«*lne«!lBy, the Rev. Dr. Canipt)ell, of ,Renfi-ew, was appointed chairman of the committee until the meeting of the General As-senilily. when a successor to the late Ilcv. D. J. Macdonnell will tie appointed. GREAT BRITAIN. I.«dy Moiuntstephen is seriously ill in Ixm<lon. A lalxff conference is in session al Nottingham. It is rumoured in financial circles in Ivondon that (Jreat Britain has conclud- ed a treaty of alliance with Spain. The British Board of I'raxle returns for the first ouarter of the year stiuw a sulislantial increase in both exiHuMs and imiKJTt.s. The DucheiiM of l'"ife is sjiid to have a knowledge of cooking such as would aatonish a gooil many nilddle-<'la.s,s hauHekee(ierB. Lady MounlJilephen died in l.ondon yesterday moinlng. I'ntil five years ago six- had sjienl most of her married life in Montreal. Mr. Chamlierlain stateJl in the Brit- ish House of Commons that President Kruger had not replied to his invita- tion to visit England. One irf the most complete and valuable collections of hymn Ixioks in existence li Mid to be that which Mr. Gladstone kas accumulated at Hawarden. Sir .lulian Golilsmid, who left aboui $1,(IIKI,000 to his daughters, has done so on the footing that if any of them mar-- r'Ms a Gentile the share is to lie re- duced to half. A meeting of the Grand Trunk .share- holders was held in London at which President Sir Charles Rivers-Wilson eiprciised the hojie that the rate cut- ting which hiul done so much injuiy to the oomi)any hod lieen stopped. In the election on Monday for a mem- ber of Parliament to succeed Dr. J. Edward Kenny, Parnellite, who re<-ent- ly r(«igne<l, in the College Green di- vision of Dublin, Mr. J. L. Carew, Par- nellite, was returned without opimei- tion. In Greater London there are consum- ed every year aliout 45,000,000 galUms of malt liiiuor, K,IKN),000 gallons of wine., and 4,500,000 gallons of ardent spirits. H is stated thjit glanders are rife In the Liverpool quarantine for imported horses, and that out of one hundred Canadian horses in one de|iot forty are •uffei'ing from lh«f disease, Lloyd's silver mo<ial baa been award- ed U) Capfain Nutman, of the steam- â- hip Aidar, who. wh«n his shiji found.- ered, refusisd to lie taktvn off, in order not to leave a<i injured man. He went iaWB with the ship, but managed l>o At New Y'ork a monster welcome demonstration wi»9 given by the Salva- tion Army to Commissioner Booth- Tucker and his wife at Carnegie Music Hall. Fully 0,000 persims were present. -Du!||e}| jiy puB jrf3(.>n,j,-i|)oop 'sJiv ton Booth nail a long and codial inter- view on Sunday night. After the con- ference Commander Booth expressed his determination to adhere to the policy he had outlined. Commander Booth-Tucker, of the .Sal- vation Army, appeared on Thursday he- fore the Naturalization Bureau of the New Y<irk Supreme Court, and declar- ed his intention of becoming a citizen of the I'nited .States. An exhilition of electrical appliances is to lie held in New Y'ork in Ma.v when electricity generated at Niagara Falls will lie use<l to oiierate some of the machinery. The distance of the trans- mission is 462 miles. The New Y'ork .Slate Assembly has iiassed the Andrew-s Mercantile Estal>- lishment bill, which limits the labour of women and children to sixty hours l>er week, and puis all establishments under control of the Board of Health. In the Second Baptist church in Chi- cago, while the Rev. Dr. Lawrence was preaching, a burning brand fell from the ceiling, and icreated a panic. In the wild rush of the con^egation for the doors several persons were injur- ed. Samuel P. Langdon, the wealthy coal o|)erat<jr of Philadelphia, who was held c-ii a charge of having caused the death 01 Annie lIcGrath, the girl with whom he w.is living, has lieen discharged for want of evicience connecting him with t be crime. In the United Slates House of Repre- sentatives on Thursday a bill was in- lro<luc*'d, providing that yachts lielong- iiiM >'<< a regularly organized yacht club of any foreign nation which shall extend like privileges to the I'nited States shall have the privilege of en- tering or leaving United .States ports without entering or cle<iring ill the Ci.sloiii-houses or (laying tonnage tax. Commercial advices from the Unilid .Slutts continue to lie of by no mean.* an encouraging nature. It may lie as well to remark that the.se weekly state- ments are prepared by the two lead- ing commercial agt'iicien of New York, iind that while endeavouring to lie :us fair ii-s |H«silile, they would not natur- ally present the worst aspect to view; so that when tlw-se trade rejioi â-  are unsatisfactory, it is safe lo coiiclude that there is not much very f' vorable to lie advanced on the other t. The week just ende<l has been a broken week, jLs some l'nite<l .Stales and sev- eral Kngllsh markets have lieen close<l, but the aveJ-age of trade ha« not in- crea.sed, while prices shiyw no promise of advaix'ing ; and the prices of many leading lines are now the lowest oii rei-orcl in the United States. Had weather, over-production, strikes, and financid! unrest from political causes have re.sulted in a general commercial demoralization, of which, it is to lie feurwl, the end has rtut yet been seeei. GENERAL. M. Stoiloff, Prime Minister of Bul- garia, is cmly four feet six inohiee in height. ' The German naval programme to be. intnxluced next winter provides for eight new cruisers. Capt. Clifford, who was rem-ntly wounded in an engagement with the Matabele has bad Ills arm am{i>utated. Prince Hohenlohe, the German Impe- rial Chancellor, is at present in Paris incognito, and wUl proceed to Vienna. The Governorship of Jamaica will lie- come vacant this month, when Sir Henry Blake's extended term of employ- ment tlK-re will come to an end. There was a terrible fire recently at .Manilu, capital of the Philippine Islands, BURIED WHILE HYPNOTIZED. Falafal HpeeUrlr KrrruU) >*tluri>MHl bj Norbld LonduM .iadirurr^. Morbid sentiment has apparently reached its height in England in a re- cent hypnotic exhibition at the Royal j Aquariima, at which the subject was lit- erally buried alive and allowed to re- main so for six days. The hypnotized man was sealed up in a stout casket, and, in the presence of the spectators, lowered into a grave 9 feet deep. I The lid of the casket was furnished with an aperture, and this connected with a shaft which led to the surface, making respiration possible, and also enabling spectators to view the face of the buried man. .\l least seven feet of earth were shovelled on top of the cof- fin, and for the period of six days it was not disturbed. On the seventh uay me casket was dug up in the presence of a large crowd. The man when uwaKened was apparent- ly none the worse for his experience. The London Lancet, which prints the account of this distressing spectacle, comments on it. saying : "It is difficult to imagine a more re- volting experiment than this. Even granting that these iranoes have any use whatever â€" which we ourselves fail to admit â€" there can be no possible ex- cuse for making them more horrible than they already are by burying the man. "Any experiment it was desired to lierform could have lieen done eqimlly well by sealing the man up in the box without going through the details of burying him and digging him up again. Moreover, under such circumstances, it I is impossible to give him aid quickly should he need it, and although ac- cidents majr be rare in bypnotisax,lheir ' iioasibility is by no means to be neg- . lected." AGRICULTURAL FACTS FOR DAIRYMEN. The producer of milk finds a market for it either by sendyig the whole milk to the city for the retail trade, or send- ing the cream to market and' keeping I thu skim-milk at home to lie fed to pigs 1 and calvee, or else, as is the case with i the major jjart of the milk in the coun- try, it is manufactured Into butter or j cheese either on the farm or in fa<'t- orles, writes C. P. Goodrich. From the creamery the farmer j{cts hack the skim-milk and buttermilk to feed, and from the cheese factory he gets back the whey. ! Weight of Milk.â€" The simplest way of determining the amount of milk or cream in any given quantity is by weighing it. This is the way it is usu- ally determined in creameries and . _ cheese factories or in transactions where »' » "5;?''^ h'"',"^ ^°'^ ?°k S'. ''"'° ^^"f" amounts are concerne.1, but the "^ ^nt'l t'^*' lo^^'^r sod had been sweet- ened up by exposure to the rains and frost or by heavy manuring. The Ijeat and at the same time the cheapest sub- soiler we know of is clover roots. The hardpan may be so near the surface thalt clover will not grow, but in ordinarr' farming sections where there is suffi. cient rainfall to grow clover there ia no subeoller as cheap and effective am the roots of the clover plant. Not only that, but it fertilizes the air space and thus tempts do\vnward the roots ai. other plants and grasses.- What sub- soil plow runs so easily and is so cheap in its construction and efficient in oper- ation ? All it needs is clover seed sow« early and covered In time. Watch tha process going on next sununer, examiiM the clover roots a month old, two months, six months and eighteen montha old. Dig down for yourself and see ho^v deep they go; find out in what kind of soil they go deepe*-.!;; compare the ex* pense of this wiit that of the suljsc^l plow and the L'.bor, and rememlier thi^ the sulieoil plow can go at best hut a few inches, while the clover roots reach downward one, two, three feet, and eve* further, in the subsoil. CITY OF CIQARS. Palnli nf f;ilqu< tie Aatnac Ike Mmokert af Havaaa. Cubans of the upper class are extreme- ly particular about preserving the aroma and fragrance of their cigars by keeping them in wrappers of oiled silk; and it is a sight to liehold with what unction and ceremony they are produc- ed at a gentleman's table, like the ush- ering In of old wine. There are something orer 15,000 to- luicco planters in Culia, and the annual crop of the island is estimated in value at alio«t £5,000,000. Havana might lie called the city of cigars, for It alone contains more than 123 cigar manufactories. All the to- liacco of the farms, when duly prepar- ed and dried, is packed In bales and ship- ped to Havanaâ€" the distributing mark- et of Culia for the world. Most of the small shops turn out inferior gradesâ€" f-»i so-ue of the vilest cigars on earth may be bought by the unsophisticated in Culia. There are many little ]ioints of eti- quette practicu'd by Culian smokers. Y'ou can tell a thoroughbred Cuban gentle- man by the way he handles his cigarette, as liy the way he draws on his gloves. They have what Is called tenacina (tongs), of silver or gold, in graceful design, and small enough to carry In the waistcoat pocket. It has tiny claws al one end with which to grasp the cijrarette, and a ring at the other to slip over the finger, and it Is as Useful as ornamental, saving lioth fingers and gloves from unsightly stains. The candela is another much to lie commended institution of Cuba. It is a little silver vase, filled with wootl ashes in which some live coals ore burietl.and at a gentleman's table is served at meals as regularly as AnT other plate usually coming in just after the fruits; and as a lighter ot the weeds that accomi>any It, is decidoly more pleasing than the odorous mateh." TOO OBBMBNT. At a children's party, a little girl, as â- he was 0oing away, eame »p to the hcetess aad said good-by as follows: "Good-by, Mrs. H., Mother told me to lie sure and say I've enjoyed my- •rtfl" large retailer of milk or cream measures it out by the pint, quart or gallon. s A gallon of imlk weighs 8.00 i;ounds, or 2.15 pounds per quart. A gallon of cream containing 20 per cent, butter fat weighs 8.46 pounds, or 2.12 pounds per quart. If cream has less butter fat it weighs a trifle more and if moretiut- ter fat it weighs a trifle less. Annual Milk Yield of a Cow.â€" Agwid dairy cow, well fed, ought to yield at least 5.000 pounds of milk a year, or 2,S25 quarts. Some cows produce more than this. Occasionally some very large milkers produce double this amount.but a cow that produces leas cannot be, at present prices of dairy products, a pro- fitable cow, unless the milk is excep- tionally rich in butter fat. Percentage of Butter Fat in Milk.â€" This varies greatly, depending upon the breed to which the cows lie- long and also upon the capaliility of each individual cow. Average milk tests aliout 3.G9 per cent of butter fat, but the range of different herds w-ill run from 3 to 5.5 per cent. There are individual cows that average for the year less than 3 per cent, and also those thai average more than 5.5. To come up to the legal standard In Wis- consin milk should contain not less than 3 per cent, butter fat. It is not lawful to sell milk containing leas. The Y'ield of Butter from Milk.â€" This is about 1.15 [lounds to each pound of butter fat. It varies somewhat, depend- ing on the closeness with which the skimming and churning are done and also upon the amount of w^ter, salt and other matter, aside from butter fat which the butter cootains. But this adding of 15 per cent, will be found in most cases, where good work is done, to be not far from right. Thus 100 pounds of 4 per cent, milk should make 4.0 pounds of Initter. Yield of Cheese from Milk â€"With ordinary milk the yield is about 2.5 pounds of cured cheese fur each pound of butter fat in the milk. The per cent of butter fat in different milks very nearly determines their relative values for cheeee making. Prof. Van Slyke found by a series of oareful experiments that with milk ranging from 3.4 per cent, to 4.4 per cent, the amount to each pound of butter fat was 2.72 pounds of green cheese or 2.5 poiuids cured five weeks. It was found that 5 iier cent. milk made but 2.4 pounds of cured cheese for each pound or Imtter fat, but the better qoaUly of the cheese from the richer milk wa* thought lo compens- ate for the slight difference In quantity. It will be seen that 100 pounds of 4 per cent, milk made ten pounds cheese and 100 pounds of 5 per cent, milk made twelve pounds of cheese. The Value of Skim Milk and Whey. -1 have foimd by carefully conducted experiments that for feeding hogs 100 pounds of skim milk was worth a.smuch as one-half bushel of corn and that whey was worth ono-half as much as skim |uulk. Now wheji corn is worth 30cts. a bushel skim milk and butter milk are '•....-♦», II cents per cwt., and whey ' wort 'a T cents. What Shall the Farmer Do With His Milk fâ€" Shall he sell it outright » Shall he separate the cream and sell that and keep the skim milk, or shall he take it to the creamery or cheese factory and , bring home the skim milk or whe.y f I Thesti are often very pertinent ques- tions. A consideration of the data 1 ^ have given in this article may enable him to do some rational figuring. Let me give a sample. Let us suppose that liutter will bring 16 cents a pound net. after iKiying for making and market- I mg at the creamery. Suppose he has 4-per-cent. milk. One hundred pounds I of milk will make 4.0 pounds of butler, bringing him 73.6 cents. Besides he will have 13.4 cents worth of skim milk making 87 cents which he should get for his milk if he sells it outright. If he takes his milk to tlie cheese factory he will get lock cents worth of whey, therefore the factory should pay in div- idends 81 cents, or cheese should bring liesides the pay for making 8.1 cents a (lound. If he skims the cream oft and sells that he will have 12 cents worth of skim milk and must look for 75 cents in the cream, of which he will have, if it contains 20 per cent fat. 2.30 gallons, and if he gets 32 cents a gallon he will come out even. Let me recapitulate. Start with 100 pounds of 4-per-c<"nt milk worth 87 cents. Take it to the creamery and get 73.6 cents; or take it to the cheese fac- tory and get 81 cents; or separate it and make 2.30 gallons of 20-per-ccnt cream and sell that for 32 cents a gal- lon, and there will be no difference in the amount ot money you get out of It whichever way you do, provided yoii have equal facilities for doing each of these ways, and provided you have the proper animals to feed the 8bm milk and whey to. Now, I say farmers, do your own fig- uring. Find out some facts and liose your figures on them. The time has cmne, I am afraid, when the farmer who does not figure, and figure closelv too, will lie left behind. CLOVER THE BEST SUBSOILER. Aa it ki time to commence sowing olorer weed we would like to impress A LOST ART. There is real danger that fine sew:- ing will become one of the lost artj|, and that it will be with women as with men, only thoiie whose sole profession it is can handily hold a needle. As wo- men grow more and more llli£ me« is their attachments and professions, thiv may be a necessity of the change. Read/ made clothing, and even mending an4 darning, done in the shops, help all this along, aa well as the multifarioop other duties which press upon a littl* girl's attention, which absorb her lat«r years, and which leave her, as a wo- man, scant time and little knowled^ to "take a stitch" for herself or far others. She, in turn, is not competent to i|^ struct her children, and so the evil ex- tends, and has even now extended, a». til one sees comparatively few womea any more who can do the exquisite sewing which was common tjerore tb* days of the machine. Yet there ai« certain things which canned be done tm machine, and which exist enormoixsly tt one goes to the city headquarters for them. She who is a perfect uiistreas of felling and hemming, tucking aii4 gathering, should be able to turn her talent to account. Not only may she establish a sewing class for girls and impart to tbeo* knowledge which she possesses, but she may also make a specialty of doll's wardrobes, of babies' layettes, of chi^ dren's clothing, aud of bridal outfitv. There is in a Southern city a woin4a whose w hole good income is derived trom the infants' fine wardrobes which sh* prepares. There is no re.ason why Imt example should not be followed ela*. where. In this case, as in all others of am^ teur work, the general rule should h» enforced â€" conscientious work at a mo- dest sum. Any one who can sew well is able to do fine mending. Likewia* one often wonders that she did not tura her thoughts to making up the count- less pretty things which a deft pair ot fingers find so easy, and which most ot us have to go without. A village dry goods shop would sell these on a pei>. centage. Do you know it Is almost in^ possible to obtain ready made a widow's cap ? If one could make one, one couli make other such dainty gear as welL And one should do it. HIRED BEAUX. A curious custom prevails in some provinces of Holland during the carni- val season. Young women of the work- ing class, especially domestic servants, who have no sweetheart of their own, are In the habit of hiring "followerB" for their Sunday out, or For the whols of the carnival period. These lovers are by no means to be had very cheap. Often two or three maids will club to- gather and share a lover between them if he comes too expensive for one glrX This temporary lover has many duties to perform. Of course, he must be good- looking and well dressed, and au effi- cient and indefatigable dancer, "fit t» he seen with anywhere:" he must like, wise po8.se8s good conversational pow- ers. Besides receiving a variety of vaU uable presents from his "girls," he is "found" by them in victuals and drink. If a poung woman can afford to engOA* a "swain"^ all to herself, so much 'Ss letter, for the hireling often develom into a i-eal lover and ultimately into a husliand. It can thus be said that, in some districts of Holland, the girli do all the wooing. WORST OF PUNISHMENT. Little 4-year-old Florence was c^^ght wading m the mud puddle in front of her home. '"Now," declared her mother, as sh« led her mto the house by the arm "I am going to whip you flrat and t'hea â- end you to bed, and you can't get up agam till to-morrow morning all b^ oa«se you disobeyed me and went out- side in the mud." 1 ^"f ''j*. ^^^ P^ preparation that was mtended to be impressive, Florence was •ttly »panked, and she boo-hooed lustily, i. L }*!'. '^^' I *â„¢ going to put you to bed. "Oh, don't, mamma," begged Floe- upon f^mer. the importance of this p?i^. "a^dlet^Se'.^t'SI uT"' ""^""^