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PASTEURIZING CREAM. km ROBINS EST ON ENGINE. Birds Select Queer Home, But Have Views of L. H. Ftagel, a Successful Butter-Maker of the Northwest.

The pasluerization question baa many things to it that the butter-maker won't realize until he has used one for awhile. am aatlsfled to say thai al'lcr a butler-maker has used it for awhile, and need it right, he would not he wllbout one in a Stuck to It. W. engine No. Oil makes short trips from Ciadstone to Summit, N.

.1., and chiefly lute at night or early In the morning, so thai she Is laid up In a rural roundhouse in (thulnlono during the day. Tor convenience tbo engineer and fireman who run her have erected a scaffolding around her tender to enable them to carry more coal. In 1he scaffolding at the rear NEW BRITISH COMMISSION APPOINTED TO MUST HAVE PANELS (501TN MrPGHN DdtASL I baliste, handkerchief linen, mull, this panel is made entirely of hand-run tucks, a most exacting opernlion for the homo seamstress. Again Una or conrse lace Insertion will alternate with horizontal twking in groups; or, with batiste tucking-, a very open Insertion miggestlng Irish crochet, pattern is Introduced. Again the panels may he of all-over embroidery, outlined by va! insert ion from a gown of white pique trimmed on tine phiitings of val, though the latter mean that, the frock must, be sent to the dry cleaner when soiled, which is an item.

Insertion or lace milling is better than the knife plaiting of htte which is eo charming when new, but bunchy and inelegant if poorly laundered. Jn silk frocks the panels are outlined by braid of rHther broad novelty patterns or with bias bands of the same fabric, piped with contrasting color. Often a panel of lace, dyed to AALY CTA6 Or "lr panoRoinc," the root cause of the THZ UGANDA WHICH JPMAl IwiX I lV IGHT SIDED SILO. Problem of One Farmer and Sugges tions That May Help Others. A fanner correspondent of tho Rural -w Yf'-ker anxious to build a silo part of his barn slates tho condi tion)-: a.n follows: I have a basement bam upon on ht loot wall, which Is 18 inches thic nt the.

fop and 20 Inches at the bottom Tho is arranged so that in build about 28 feet above the present wall. In one corner is a Hpace jitiout JZxlb where I shall bumf. I would like to build an eight-side silo in Huh space, making each corner side about three feet, building a wall upon five sides to height of the pre or Use in Construction. ent wail, and using the present wall for two sides, and leaving ono corner open for the door." 'lie suggestions made by R. Angevine iu effort to help this farmer will prove instructive and helpful to tho-e who have similar problems to solve lie says: I would advise breaking into ol wall a few inches at places where new wall joins, so asfcto-get a little fresh hold to make a tighter job.

Ono could go down a fow feet if needed, pro vided that old wall also goes down the distance required. The silago will keep perfectly In the wall part provided -the wall is smooth and not fult of humps and holes like all the stone wall 1 have ever seen In silos. They win Kpuil silage every time. My experience teaches mo that there is gen erally a bad streak of spoiled silage where wooden silo joins a wall, and while it need not bo bad I do not like lo see spoiled silage, and cannot rec ommend such a plan of construction. 1 would build silos for my own use nl no other material than concrete, an below is what I really advise In this silo: Big down required depth and also m.ske trench extra wide at very bot tom.

Hay 24 3 inches. Carry up a good heavy foundation a couple ol feet, keeping inside line of walr straight and even with desired size of silo, into old wall by breaking out seine of old wall and also carry wall right, on over old wall about four or five Inches thick, until top of old- wall is reached. New wall need be only sis inches thick above tho heavy foundation mentioned. When top of old wall is reached go on up all tho way with "six-inch concrete wall. li this wall I should put reinforcing iron ns follows: A ono-quarter-lnch steel rod around silo in concrete about one end, font of height.

This may be any other sort of reinforcing. It need not he welded together; just a little loop at each end of each piece, and ends lupped by one another. Across over doors and such places would put li more iron, enough so that I felt that it was strong. Forms could be mado as shown in cut. Wire could bo used in place of holts to hold forms In place and cut off each time to loosen form.

Forms to bo of two-inch plank, any width handy. This tlguro caa le drawn ont on a barn door ami form plank cut to tit and then numbered and set. up on Job. Holts across wall through plunks aro used to hold them. together at bottom and bolts can bo also used at tops, but a pieco of board could be also tacked across and removed each time It was desired (a raise form, which could bo done each, day.

Door opening 26x30 inches and door to tit Into It set In notches in concrete. I would recommend about two feet of concrete between each two (hairs well reinforced. Concrete to be mixed one part Band to six parts good" sharp gravel, and after all done tlntsh by brushing over with cemont whitewash." FLAVOR AND BACTERIA. Keep Bad Germs Out, Cautions C. H.

Eckels. The important quality ol butter known as tlavor depends almost entirely uimu the ripening of the cream. The practical importance of this fact Is being reovgnized more and more.br practical butter-makers and creai ripening lo-day is receiving more attention than it did before. Experiments carried on by ecientiflc men li variouB parts of the world have taught us that this ripening Is a fermentation due to the growth of minute pianta called bacteria. We have also learned by experiments what kinds of bacteria glvo tho proper ripening to.

make the desired flavor and also knmr a few of the many kinds that may give the undesirable taints to milk and bad Havers to butter and cheese. Let us remember at this point that all changes which tako placa in milk are the result of the growth of bao-leria. Remove these completely from milk and keep them out and it would never sour, even If kept for ten years, either would the many bad tainta found in milk ever appear. On the nlher baud, without the action of this) army of bacteria, small in size, but mighty in results, we would not hava the fine flavor and aroma found In our prize butter at this convention, nor the fine taste of our cheese: Tba greatest problem Iu making high-class dairy products is to control theso bae-tetrla, to develop the right ones an! keep out the wrong. 11 band separator creamery, at least, during the winter when the cream is delivered only twice a week or in the spring, when the cows get out in the grass and get hold of some weeds that will cause a had flavor In the bulter.

To take an entirely spoiled cream and expect, the pasteurizer to put it in a condition so It will make an all-around good piece of butter is expecting too much, although it will do such cream a great, deal of good. A Iso, sour cream cannot be pasteurized as satisfactorily as sweet cream. You have got to be very careful while pasteurizing sour cream and not II too hot or else it will give the butter a gritty or mealy taste like as though there was flour in One hundred and fifty degrees is high enough for sour cream, while sweet cream can be heated up to 170 or even higher before It gets that mealy taste. If I could get the cream delivered perfectly sweet and free from bad flavors I do not think I would bother with a pasteurizer, although It would improve the keeping quality, but we hi the hand separator creameries will find cream every day that can be improved by pa si eurizing and keep It lrom spoiling the whole lot. Pasteurizing takes out most of the bad flavors in the cream that come from the feed or tanks that are not caused by germs.

The germs that cause the bad flavor in the cream cannot, be taken out, but their growth can he checked so that when you add a good starter to your cream directly alter pasteurizing and let it stand at 70 degrees for a few hours it will deelop acidity enough so that you can cool it down to churning tempera ture ami get It made into butter before he undesirable germs' can renew their growth, and as but ter is not a suitable germ food, it can then stand a long time at a medium temperature before It will go off in flavor. whereas the butter made from raw cream with Its undesirable germs in full growth will go off in flavor much faster. The extra expense in pasteurizing besides the fixtures, cun be mad it will be very small in the first place You can put. on pulleys so the engine don't have to more than merely move to give the pasteurizer and pumps full speed, and coming light down saving points, you can catch the con doused steam that, comes from tho panteurizer after heating tho cream and use it for cleaning up. It is as good as soft water and almost boiling hot, or if you can't use it yourself, perhaps you can sell it to some wash woman or laundry during the dry time of the season when rain water Is a scarce article.

It makes some extra work to pas teurize, but we must put up with that If we see a chance to improve the quality of our butter. A SIMPLE STANCHION LOCK. The Picture Will Show You How Is Made. Tin? hlock shown at A in the arcom illustration, reproduced from Stanchion Lock. Prairie Farmer, slides in the slot ami will drop into the notch nt thus locking tho stanchion securely.

DAIRY DOTS. The separator has been the salva tlon of many a western farmer. There is no use in kicking about the separator. Get out and show your patrons how to take care of it, and there will be no trouble. The separator is one of tho greatest invenilons of the day.

It makes dulry lug possible In the west where farms are too large to make the creamery advisable. A dalrjninn cannot meet with the highest measure of success until he learns to pick out the cow that is built for giving milk and the one that is built for making beef. Examine the young stock out In tlte pasture and see whether there are any Injuries that need attention it's easy to neglect them when they dou come- up for the night. A cow may be a comparative failure oue year and a success another. Souk: of them have their "off seasons," and It 1h not safe to condemn a coa on oue year's record, providing she is built for giving milk.

Convenient Straw Shed. The following method for tho con st ruction of a convenient straw Bhed has been submitted: I'osls of the sired height and at the proper dis tanees apart should be set in the ground. On top of these may be nailed cross pieces or brush may b' laid there. At threshing time the son arator can be set. so the straw will run on top of it and fall around it forming a windbreak to the north eust and west.

This makes good shel ter for cows, horBes, hogs or sheep. It will pay the farmer to build such a shed if he needs more barn room even though it be necessury to con struct it by hand. There is generally enoug.i old straw or hay nn th aver' age farm to do very well for this purpose. Some farmers ubo such sheds as milking places and others And them convenient for housing their ewea at lambing tim. COL.J1H DAVID The sleeping sickness of Africa is one of the diseases which not only miaces the black man, hut the white man as well.

It. has claimed lis vie tinis by the thousands, and bus re tnained np to recent years a disease of meat mystery, and one baffling the skill of the physician to successfnlly treat. Scientific men have a study of it and have about come to the conclusion tlint it Is caused by the bite of the tsetse fly. KntUand, because of her possessions Africa, hns been specially active in tn estimating the disease and t-n- deavoring to discover some remedy. As evidence of this the kovci nment established in London last May a na tional sleeping sickness bureau, which should act in co-operation with the Soudanese government and the Royal society.

This bureau undertakes the collection of topographical, statistical. pathological and other information regarding sleeping sickness, and arranges for its prompt distribution among those who are engaged in combating the disease, as well as for the circulation of publications designed for the use and guidance of government officials and missionaries abroad. It Is contemplated, also, to prepare a map of tropical Africa on as complete a scale as possible, with the view of Indicating the distribution of the malady and of the species or kinds of blood-sucking InsectB which may be concerned in the causation of the disease in Infected areas. Hut more important by far is the recent decision of the British govern meat to institute a new commission of inquiry to resume the investigatory work In East Africa, which was suspended In 190fi, following the fatal con tract ion of the sleeping sickness by Lieut. Tulloeh.

The commission Is to be charge of Col. Sir David Hruce, F. H. of the Royal army medical corps (upon whom the king lately conferred the honor of knighthood), and that officer will be accompanied by Capt. A.

E. Ilamerton, R. A. M. and Capt.

H. R. llateman, R. A. M.

C. They will proceed in September next to Lake I Victoria, on the northern shores of which, in the province of Chagwe, Sir H. Hesketth Hell, It. C. M.

gov ernor and commander-in-chief of the Uganda protectorate, has been au thorized to provide a suitable laboratory station. Sir David Rruce has had special training and varied experience In treating tropical maladies which mark him out as one eminently qualified for the task at hand. Twenty-four years ago as an army doctor he began the study of iMalta fever, and in 1SS7 discovered and isolated the offending microbe. Two years of work In Zululand, from 1894, enabled him to determine the parasite (and hence the true nature) of the "Nagana" disease of South Africa, so fatal to horses, donkeys, and other domesticated animals. Moreover, he proved experimentally that a species of tsetBe fly transmitted the particular infective micro-organism called In the terms of science, a "trypano some.

Thus he was the first to demonstrate that an insect a biting fly-could promote disease by harboring a blood parasite capable of being passed bs a poison into the circulatory system of animals. In 1903 occasion served for the further study of sleeping sickness In Uganda, and before long he was able to show that here, too, a species of tsetse fly acted as the carrier of a NECESSARY ELABORATION OF THE "FROCK." Decree of FaBhion That Is Expensive and Troublesome But Really Gives Them a Charm-Ing Effect. Have you over noticed Unit It Is a "frock" iu Hummer and a "gown" in winter? To llie feminine mind, the distinction is not so subtle as it appears in type, for "frock" HUggusts simplicity, airiness and youth, while "gown" hints at. dignity, richness and more or less elaboration. Certainly the summer frock of 1008 is airy and youthful, but.

alas, not simple, and no one feature contributes more to lis elaboration than a panel. A panel can never be simple, and it generally involves trimming within its borders and as an outline. In the up-to-date lingerie frock the panel is absolutely essential. Quite generally it runs from the edge of the deep yoke to the hem of he front gore, and then on the sides and back smaller panels are Introduced, Even sleeves are paneled to match. On some of the finer frocks, like GOOD HOT WEATHER COLLAR.

New Design Is a Rival to the Low Puritan Style. Since tlie hot weather began there has come out a very pretty rival to the low Puritan collar. It is either attached to the shirtwaist or, better Btill, buttoned to It. It is cut on the fashion of the regular stiff linen turnover collar, except that the part that rolls over is wider and has slightly pointed ends. The foundation Is as high as one wants It and to the top edge of this is the turnover part of sheer organdie or dotted swiss.

The edges are finished with narrow ruilles of valenciennes or cluny lace Even the foundation is quite sheer, double In thickness, and carries very little starch. It is fastened to the neck band, when detached, back and front and under Its whole width is tied a broad cravat of colored satin ribbon, ending in a flat bow In front. Not Always Becoming. The fashion of trimming the hats on the right rather than on the left side is gaining favor, though it cun not be said that the arrangement, is generally becoming. Nodding plumes or tips are graceful, but the heavy bow of ribbon, with short, closely packed loops, is decidedly the opposite In effect.

There is a heaviness about it suggestive of anything but good taste, and not infrequently the wearer is positively dowdy looking In consequence, for this style is only Buited to very few faces. Most women need the aid of clothes that will not detract from a good appearance. The Black Cat Parasol. The fashion for carved and jeweled animals has not quite died out. The novelty of the midseason is a bright green silk parasol with a stick of black wood, at the end of which Is carved a jet black kitten.

It has green eyes. TALL WOMEN IN FASHION. Season's Costumes Little Adapted for the Stout Sister. The thin woman has never been given half a chance. For the past 25 years she has tried all the remedies advertised to become stout, and bought all manner of things to trick the observer into believing she had a beautiful figure.

Conditions are different. The stout woman Is trying all the anil-fat remedies on the market to become like her thin sister. The tall thin woman Is the thing. The new gowns have brought tills about and the new corsets. Hut It is a si niggle.

And the thin girl just laughs. She Is having her innings. The woman with a good figure cannot but rejoice at the hip yoke, which has appeared In Paris and which is being rapidly adopted elsewhere. The hip yoke Is very deep and It fits the figure like a glove. It Is fastened invisibly at the back.

The Bkirt, which la a circular skirt, It fastened to It In such a manner that II shows uie slightest flare. Around the foot the skirt fill ft corner a pair of robins have built the'r nest and ride on the trips from Ciadstone to Summit and hack in security tf not in peace. They appeared there in July first, about a mouth after mating season 'began, and proceeded at once with the building of their nest, working all day until the engine drew out about five o'clock to make its evening trip to Summit. Then they Hew up In a tree over the engine house, and seemed to lament their lost labor. Hut the next morning the engine was In its place, and the birds began to build again, and so it went on for several days, when the nest was completed ami on successive days appeared there, and on July 13 the female be took herself to if with the obvious in tention of rearing a brood.

On that night she accompanied the engine to Summit and the next morning as well, siding tight on her nest at the watering station and apparently unafraid on llie turntable which reverses the ngine at the end of its run. There she has rem ni ned ever since. The male bird flies up in the oak when the engine is away, and on lis return goes to the nest and feeds his mate. The henry is that he birds were driven from some partly established homo early iu the season and that, their se. lection of a nesting place finally was made without the customary' discrimination.

New York Press. WORK OF THE RAILROADS. They Knit the North and South To gether After the War. The southern railroads, more than brotherhood, knitted llie north and south together after the war, accord ing to Leslies Weekly. The railroads gave prosperity to the south by encouraging immigration and bringing in people to help do the upbuilding.

Memphis 20 years ago had a population of fit, 000. To-day It has 102.000. The railroads did It. A few years ago hundreds of places in Louisiana, like Crowley, for exam ple, were only prairie land. The South.

ern Pacific built a station at Crowley, and to-day that place boasts 7.000 per sons. Oilier railroads did the same tiling for a hundred other thriving places In the southern states. The Southern railroad went into the waste places of the south and caused towns to spring up. The Seaboard Air line went into a country of blasted hopes and built up new industries and with them new courage. To a region of penury the Atlantic Coast line brought plenty by putting cash into circulation where no cash had been before.

The Southern rail road gave the exact service necessary for the healthy development of the states through which it runs. Railroad Statistics. The total mileage of steam railways in the 1'nlted States at the end of 1907 was 22S.128 miles, an increase of 5.302 miles over the previous year. Total capital liabilities were 1 .4 1 3.0Gn, an Increase of of which increase ,717.800 was represented by stock, the rest by bonds, etc. The total of the capital stock was of bonds, 257.

Other bond obligations were $815,041,027. Hills payable, il may be noted, figure at The total liabilities aggregated $18,558,881,437 against for 190G. Stocks and bonds owned amounted to $2,884,. 0111,173. The volume of business continued embarrassingly large till the panic of October and for a little while after, so that the figures of 1907 give no hint of the great shrinkage which was to follow In 1908.

Gross earnings in 1907 were $2,602,757,503, an Increase of $256,117,217, or 11 per over 1900. Net earnings from operation were $833,839,600, an increase of $43,051 888, or G'4 per cent. The previous year net had Increased 15 per cent. Of the total gross earnings, $2,002 757,503, passenger tratflc supplied freight, $1,825,061,858, and $202,977,007 came from other sources. The revenue a passenger a mile averaged 2.04 cents; a ton of freight a mile, 782-thousandths of one cent, or 16-thousandlhs more than in 1906.

Road Had the Block System. After several sudden jerks and abrupt stops the Chicago man on the southern railroad became apprehen slve. Calling the porter aside, he said: "Sam, is this train safe?" "Safe as any, sail," assured the porter. "Well, Is there a block system on this road?" Sam's face extended from ear to ear. "lllock Bystem.

boss? Why, we hab de greatest block syBtem In de world. Ten miles back we were blocked by a load of hay, Bix miles back we were blocked by a mule, just now we were blocked by a cow, and I reckon when we get further souf we'll be blocked by an alligator. Block system, boss? Well, Ah should smile." Chicago Dally News. Thirsty for Knowledge. "Now, children," said the history teacher in her most Impressive man ner, "I wish you to remember that the time to ask questions In my class whenever anything Is said which you wish explained.

Do not wait until the time conies for recitation and then complain that you 'did not hear' or 'did not understand when I talked "Yes'm." chorused the scholurs, cheerfully. "Very well, Bald the teacher, "W8 will begin to day with James who came after Elizabeth." The new scholar raised his hand. "What Is It?" asked the teacher, gra ciously. "What made him come after asked the new scholar, Youtii'i Companion. disease, in this case Inimical to man.

Sleeping sickness, since its introduction in Uganda in 1901, has levied a heavy toll fin the unfortunate natives, no iewnr than 200.000 out of a total population of 300,000 in the affected districts hf.ving been swept away. In large areas of the Congo Free State it his decimal eil he tribes. Furthermore, it. has appeared in the Sudan, nnd is now threatening German East Africa. Rhodesia, and the Hiitish Central Africa protectorate.

Coupled with the native mortality are cases of Europeans who have succumbed to the disease, of whom a certain number, it may lie mentioned, have died in England while under medical surveillance. The malady seems not to have been described until 1S03, when Dr. T. Winterbottom furnished an account of cases as seen In West Equatorial Africa. We have now, of course, full information regarding the symptoms of the complaint.

The usual course of Ihe disease Is from four to eight months. At the outset there is headache, a feverish condition, lassitude, and corresponding disinclination to work; the facial aspect changes, "a previously happy and intelligent-looking negro becomes, Instead, dull, heavy and apathetic." Later, tremor in ihe tongue develops, speech is uncertain nr mumbling, the walk shut' fling, and progressive weakness, drowsiness and oblivion to his surroundings atflict the sufferer. The last stage Is marked by extreme emaciation, and an ever-deepening coma until 'death supervenes. It Is, indeed, the comatose symptoms so manifest in the final stages that have given rise to tho term sleeping sick ness. Here It Is appropriate to say a few-words with reference to the cause of a disease, which, down to tho time of the Uganda outbreak, had remained a mystery.

In 1902 the veil was in part lifted by Dr. Aldo Castellanl, who, working at Entebbe as a member of the first commission of inquiry from this country, observed a particular microscopic parasite In cerebro spinal fluid taken from sleeping sickness patients. This formed a new starling point, ami observations made by additional workers quickly supplied confirmation, and Irrefutable evidence was forthcoming that the parasite was present in all cases of the disease and associated with Its course. Soon after It was demonstrated by Hruce that a correlation existed between the prevalence of disease in the stricken areas and the presence of the tsetse fly, abundant In those localities where sleeping sickness was rife. He proved, further, as a corollary, that the parasites were transmitted from the sick to the healthy subject by this species of biting fly.

Since then the elucidation of the parasitic origin of the malady, Its mode of transmission, spread and related questions of infection In both man and animals have assumed important aspects, which many Investigators In various countries are now earnestly studying. Curious Russian Law. Russia has a law which to outside obbervers seems almost to put a premium on theft, by which stolen goods become the property of tho thief if he can prove that he has had possession of them for over five years. In the thieves' market which is, of course, licensed by tho police goods that admittedly have been stolen (more than five years before) are openly offered for sale, and the place is a veritable Mecca for the lighi-fin-gered gentry and their enterprising friends, as also for the more honest members of society, who secure many a templing bargain. Rushing Things.

Estelle He is a perfect brute. Ho almost fractured my skull. Murilla How? Estelle I agreed to give him a kiss for every shootlng-siar 1 saw, and as they were scarce he gave me a whack-on the head that made me see about a million. Half Holiday. I 4 match the 1 1 is or with pongee silk of natural tone, an ecru-lace is used.

A very striking silk frock recently seen at Newport was of brilliant, almost grass-green silk, with a panel from yoke to hem of point da venise all-over picked out with heavy gold thread. The tucker worn above thia panel was of extremely fine sillt net embroidered in gold thread. Much braiding is also seen on the silk panel, and the very latest fad is an applique of cloth on silk, outlined wllh soutache braid or embroidery. For cloth dresses, almost invariably the panel effect is secured by braiding with soutache or a combination of soutache with novelty JjruJd. On linen suits, either coarse Jace or braiding is employed.

In the Illustration you have the princess jumper frock with panel effect extending from the shoulders to lie hem of the skirt. This illustration was drawn with heavy lace in imitation Irish crochet- pattern. A wider band of tfie insertion was used around the sides and hack gores of the skirt, and the guimpe was of very fine all-over batiste embroidery. The hat worn with thia frock is one of the mid-summer novelties, a pic-turesqne leghorn crowned with roses and finished with streamers of white mousseline dotted with palest pink rings. These streamers are most becoming to a young girl, and the softer and more picturesque, the better.

Bow Knots for Hat Pins. Bow knots made of cut jet, brilliants or colored glass stone are now used for hatpins. They are quite a change from all the other designs we have had. Jet ones used on hatH of white chip trimmed with black silk net are quite effective. They are also used on hats of pastel pink.

Those of brilliants are used on black hats. NEW NIGHT-DRESS 8ACHET. To Be Suspended by Ribbons from the Head of the Bed. A very novel idea for a night-dress sachet is shown in our illustration, which gives a suggestion for a shape which will make a change from the more ordinary one which folds over and fastens with a flap. The Backet sketched is made in the form of a deep pocket, and it is In- tended thai It should be suspended by wide satin ribbons from the head of Ihe bed, so that It.

may serve a more decorative purpose than has hitherto been the case. The sachet itself is of white satin, embroidered with a wild rose and foliage design, worked in very delicate shades of pink and green, with a border of silk cord to edge the sachet throughout in a delicate shade of turquoise blue. Many other pretty floral designs might be used in place of wild roses, and on grounds of various colors. Sprays of apple-blossom would be effective, for Instance, on-a pale blue ground, or clusters of dark violets on white or green. They should, of course, be chosen to suit the draperies, in the room.

Is finished with a band of trimming put on in wall of Troy design or in flat bnnds. The Btyle is severe and the trimming must also be Bevere. One of the most original of the hip yokes wag fastened at the left. The skirt opened down each side and was buttoned with big bill tons and but tonholes right down ihe hem. This was a rather trying slyle end certainly an ex- treme, but it served the purpose of Introducing an original note in the trotting skirt.

Gray Is Worn. Gray is much worn, though not heralded color. The paler shades, such us pearl and silver, are the fa vored tones, and, as a rule, gowns of this dainty color show a relief by way of a contrasting trimming. Gray combines effectively with pale or turquoise blue, yellow, orange, golden brown, almond green and shell pink. Cretonne, too.

Is attractive If used In small quantities, though too much of It is apt to result In a cer tain heaviness, unless the gray it trims la one of the heavier linens or a canvas honsacklog. A DEAD CITY IN PERSIA A retired French officer, M. H. de Bouillane de Lacoste, hae diecovered In Seietan, in eastern Persia, a buried town. It lies almost midway between Meshed and the Persian gulf, In a district that Great Britain and Russia may bring some day Into prominence.

It lie In a desolate region, but shows evidences of a high civilization..