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GEYSER JUDITH BASIN TIMES amommool I Concerning the Fashionable Fox Furs Foxes will need all their cunning, and much inure, if the demand for their pelts does not abate. Just now It seems that every girl wants to wear a red fox, or a white one, coiled about 'her neck, and a fox muff in which to embed her hands. She dines in airy gowns, but, having removed a coat, her graceful fur is retained, not be- cause the public dining room is cold but because her furs are becoming, and fashion allows her to wear them. • White fox is in demand on evening coats in collars and deep cuffs. Or very light colors and white coats em- ploy fox fur dyed black. It is a long, soft and rich fur but not so durable as some others. ,Red fox is especially becoming to auburn -haired, fair -skinned women, and when brow* eyes are added to these the effect. is 80 good that even the fox might be reconciled to his fate, could he foresee it. One of these natural fox sets is shown in the picture. The scarf is held in place by fastening the claws together. In the muff the head is used, but tall and claws are omitted. Fox fur is dyed into several colors, the very dark browns and blacks be- ing favored by the majority of wom- en. Certain species are very high priced, and will not be cheaper. The cross fox and pointed fox are rare -- a single skin from the latter is worth several hundred dollars. Modes -in Hair Dressing. The modes in hairdressing change quite as much as the modes in mil- linery or clothes. Indeed we have to keep modifying our coiffure to suit the everchanging hat shapes. When the crowns are high we must needs wear our knots on top of our heads to fill in the high crowns. When the fiat' crowned shape prevails it means that the hair must be stowed away around the nape of the neck somewhere. But though hair style changes fre- quently, this does not mean that we must follow them blindly and obedi- ently regardless of how they appear on us. There is nothing which BO transfigures a girl's face as the right kind of coiffure. Two Sorts of Crepe Blouses A plain blouse and a dressy one, both of crepe, are pictured above. They are representative styles in blouses made of crepes, which are equally well liked for daily wear and for dress occasions. Crepe Georgette is chosen for the rich -looking waist with handsome lace vest and, ermine bands, while crepe de chine makes the plainer blouse for ordinary service. The plain blouse is set on to a yoke which is narrow at the back and ter- minates At the front, where It is brought over the shoulder. The ahoul- der seams are long and the sleeves plain and almost straight. They are set into a plain cuff with overlapping end. This end is prettily shaped into a point that Is extended rind decorated with a fine embroidered floral spray A small buttonhole worked In the point fastens the cuff ever a round button set on the underside. The blouse fastens rit the front with small ball buttons. These are usually white on light-colored ( repo. On tans and grays they are generally made in bright contrasting colors. The Collar Is cut high , at the back and turns over in two points at the front, where the embroidered flower design reappears. Many of the latest blouses are cut with high collars and others are worn with high collars of batiste not or organdie. In the dressier waist the sleeves are fuller and finished with a frill of fine net and a hand of ermine. The front pieces are turned back, forming re- vers. and a vest and high collar of heavy silk lace are set in. Small jet buttons and a band of ermine about the neck at the hack and sides. give a brilliant finish. The Jet buttons repeat the note of black which appears in the points of the ermine, and:the lace and fur con vert the blouse into a rich -looking at fair conveying an atmosphere of high at yle. /4' The permit seems to be the only weapon which discharges ties leillets aimultaneoualy. IN 111E. ELGIAN WHITE TRADER AND NATIVE JERVANTD G ET out your atlas, turn to the map of Africa, run your finger down the west coast of the continent that Livingstone and Stanley made ferrous until you have crossed the equator and reach the Congo river, direct your course up that majestic stream and in due sea- son you will come to the town of Boma—that Is, provided you have the right kind of atlas. Boma doesn't cut much of a figure on the map. It is the capital of Bel- gian Congo and Americans have been content for the most part to let it go at that. lint since the war broke out food supplies have been curtailed, and now the people of Belgian Congo are having a chance to Sample American products. Credit for the opening of this new field is due to a Detroit man, Harry A. McBride, American consul at Boma. \That portion of Africa with which I am familiar offers unlimited possi- bilities for American prospectors and manufacturers,\ said Mr. McBride, when last at home on vacation. \Bel- gian Congo, for example, is one-third as largo as the United States. It has 9,000,000 natives and only 5,000 whites. One thousand miles up the Congo river from the coast—and that is quite a way, you know—are diamond and gold concessions held by Americans that are said to be among the best in the world and only need developing. There are about thirty American pros- pectors in the district now, nearly all from California. There will probably be more before there are less, for once a movement of that nature gets start- ed it spreads rapidly. \There are rich copper deposits in some localities, and one field is said to excel in extent and richness the best mines in this country. At pres- ent they are each month taking out 1,000 tons of clear copper, and they have scarcely started. Iron ore is found in great quantities and there are other deposits of metal, while much of the country, If it was accessi- ble, Would lend itself to agriculture on a profitable basis. Natives Kill Prospectors. \In spite of what commerce and the missionaries have done, prospect- ing is still fraught with great danger In many localities, for the natives har- bor intense hatred for the whites and will kill them upon the slightest prov- ocation. \It might seem that controlling these savages would be a simple thing As a matter of fact, they know all the time what is taking place, and no mat- ter how remote the village no white mall can enter it ill such a way as to surprise the natives. They are look- ing for you every time. One reason for this lies in the splendid system of wireless communication they main- tain. A log is hollowed out, usually a good-sized one. Over the ends of this are stretched dried leopard skins, forming a head, and when a native Armed with a heavy club or a ba,111MOr pounds on tills log there follt WS a penetrating boom that can be heard for miles through the forest. They seem to have a generally recognized code of signals, and the coming of strangers is passed along the line with astonishing rapidity. \There is another time when therm crude drums come into play. This is when the tax collector makes his rounds. All the natives are supposed to pay an annual head tax, ranging from $1 to $2.40, according to their employment and Income. Naturally, the collector is unpopular. Conse- quently, as he makes his rounds the dull boom of drums reverberates through the jungle, and when he reaches a village he is liable to find only the chief and a handful of sub- jects. Where are the others of the tribe? Ah! With much weeping and many protestations the chief asserts that a plague swept over them and they dre all dead excepting the faith- ful few. The lie is palpable, but as there is no way of determining the number of those liable to taxation the receipts suffer very materially. In fact, since a cessation of the atroci- ties credited to King Leopold and his agents was forced the revenues of the colony have fallen off to such an extent that It requires careful work to make ends meet sometimes. Rubber and ivory aro still exported ill large quantities, and along the coast. \Firearms arc not supposed to be Bold to the natives any more. How- ever, they are at liberty to buy gun- powder for those still in their posses- sion, although bullets are barred. They get around this by taking steel nails, wire and various things, cutting them into bite and using these for bul- lets. You can imagine what happens when a human or an animal gets a charge of chopped steel nails in his hide. Excel American Indians. As archers the African natives ex- cel the American Indian at Ids best, a thing that surprised me, while as metal workers there is no comparison. The Africans still use great numbers of bows and arrows. The latter are three feet long, very heavy, and fit- ted with the most wicked -looking barbs of giant proportions that I ever saw. If one of those barbs entered a *man, and he survived, it would be necessary to cut him pretty well to pieces in order to get the arrows out of his anatomy. They also use poi- son -tipped arrows, which are fatal to anything living that they strike. \Some of the finest examples of metal working I ever saw are pro- duced by these natives in their crude forges and with the primitive tools they make for themselves. Their bat- deaxee are positive works of art, heavy, but carefully wrought and skill- fully finished. Their knives are the finest steel. They have a strange way of keeping score with these same axes. Whenever an ax has done its deadly work, be it taking a human life or merely lopping off a finger or ampu- tating an ear by way of emphasis, an- other pair of eyes and another nose are carved on one of the crossbars. And when all the available space has been given over to these ghastly re -- minders of bloodshed the ax is cast aside, another is brought into play and a new score started.\ According to Mr. McBride, the na- tives are, as a rule, well paid for their services, being given four to six dol- lars a month and their rations—rice, dried fruits, etc. They are largely vegetarians, although game of all kinds is plentiful and much is killed for food purposes. The natives con- sider boa constrictor a delicacy out - rivaling chicken, and are not at all particular as to the length of time these giant snakes have been dead before being devoured or the exact mariner in which they came to an end. Antelope, hippopotamus, crocodiles and other tropical denizens inhabit the rivers and the forests, and leopards are AO common as to attract little at- tention. Boma is 46 miles up the Congo riv- er from tile coast. Matadi, 25 miles further, is the principal seaport From hero inbound cargoes are transferred to a railroad running to Stanley Pool, 240 miles distant, beyond the rapids that prevent navigation. Here the freight is placed aboard river steam- ers for distribution along the 9,000 miles of navigable waterways that ex- tend into the interior. That short stretch of railway happens to be one of the most remunerative enterprises in Africa in good times. Every pound passing over the rails—and there is 110 other way to travel-- T is assessed heavily. There T are about 170 white residents In Boma, most of them Belgian offi• dale. It is not exactly the place one would select as a health resort. Live stock cannot exist there, because it contracts the sleeping sickness. Beeves are brought down the coast on sailing vessels, killed as wanted, and when the stock is exhausted others are imported, but no attempt is made at breeding cattle. There being no horses, carriages have no place. in- stead there is a single -wheeled chair, called a push-puah, with a native In front to pull and another at the Deck to maintain the equilibrium. Taxi cab rates are not exorbitant, It is possible to obtain is push -push and two natives for six dollars a nionth, or thereabouts. All She Wanted to Know. 'But what is 1118 reputation? That Is the principal 'hing.' \Well papa he is reputed to spend $50,000 a yen , That's good enough for me. • cocoanuts cultivated \ CELLARS FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABES ... ] gamma/ 11. t ‘...4;41011.4 44 :\‘ ' ‘ ‘ t : • • . I .1;• • VC.V ti:?* • t kw ckettl P 1 / 4 \ei 141 4,, t 1 1 1 1 1 0 /\11 , 4 , t• \ -P IM A Good Type of Cellar for Storing Fruit and Vegetables. (By le M. RISLEY.) There were two, one at tile house, the other at the barn, built on a side - hill, a favorable location. Roots are 90 per cent water, account- ing for their shriveling when kept in a warm, dry place; all moisture evap- orates, therefore the roots lose most of their fine feeding value, but if one's cellar 113 moist and warm, then rot sets in. Beet roots will stand a little frosty spell without harm. We kept cab- bages, carrots, etc., in the house cel- lar for convenience, being well sand packed in largo boxes, the windows left open. The air is kept away, as coolness prevents rot, sprouting and shriveling. We found them fresh, crispy and tasty in the spring. The other part of the cellar was ce- mented, of course, and we spread some fruit on the floor, yet no earthy taste was noticeable. Apples kept well packed in layers, SILO IS OF MUCH VALUE TO FARMER No Man Who Buys Steers to Fat- ten Can Afford to Be With- out Huge Receptacle. Those farmers who have never stud- ied the silo question, naturally do not know how much money they are los- ing every year in their feeding opera- tions. No man who buys steers to fat- ten can afford to be without a silo. It is a poor cornfield that will not yield an average of from ten to fif- teen tons of green corn per acre. If this is cut into silage it will make a sure profit at present prices of cattle at from $30 to $34 per acre, It has been demonstrated conclu- sively that silage -fed steers bring more money on the big market than those that are fattened on whole corn. It is also a fact well known to expe- rienced feeders that silage saves grain and hay, It is true that corn fodder contains under chemical tests more protein car- bohydrates and fattening material than silage, but the fact remains that steers do not get all of the benefit from corn fodder, while about every- thing that is valuable is consumed in the silage. Then silage being quite bulky, It is an excellent feed given in connection with ground grains and heavy meals, as it aids greatly in their digestion. Another thing, steer's like silage. It tastes good to them and they eat it with avidity. A steer prefers silage to dry corn fodder, Just as a boy prefers pie to dry corn bread, but in the case of the steer, the silage is better food for him than the pie is for the boy. Place silage and dry corn fodder before a bunch of steers and they will not touch the latter until they have entirely disposed of the first. This Is an important factor in feeding, be- cause palatability adds to digestive qualities of feed, and the more a steer digests the more fat be will put On. WELL-TIMED HINTS ON SEED SELECTION When Corn Is in Stiff Dough It May Be Safely Taken—Keep All Ears Separated. -- Because of unusual conditions this year, many farmers will find it de- sirable to practice early field selection Homo distance apart and sand covered. Those in boxes were elevated a trifle on bricks. One season we packed apples in a barrel, with oats between the layers and those proved a suc- cess also. The roots for our stock were uni- formly good, handy to feed. Our barn -cellar was on a side -hill excavation into the high bank. It had a cement wall, several feet high, and a nice driveway on the upper side. 'rho roots were very easily unloaded by a chute through a convenient, re- uiovable window, which furnished light as well. One season we kept a quantity of roots and apples in a pit, in the side- hill—about three feet deep. We spread straw on the bottom, filled the pit to the top and covered all with good straw, with dirt heaped over that, and then a board cover, to protect the contents from water. In February and March they opened out, with only a few defective specimens. DOES CUTTING CORN FODDER ROB SOIL? Few Ways of More Quickly Killing Soil Than to Grow and Re- move All of Crop. There Is much said now about tile value of corn fodder by those who advocate the use of the silo. It is true that the corn plant at maturity, ex- clusive of the ear, contains much valu- able feed if properly harvested and stored, says Kansas Journal. Yet experienced ones say that there are few ways of more quickly killing the soil than to grow corn and re- move all the crop by cutting the fod- der. ' , It Is good farm practice to cut up the corn and feed it on the place, provided that land from which It is cut is immediately manured to re- store the plant -food elements taken from It by the crop. When no equivalent is returned the soil is left sadly depleted of its bal- anced chemical store of life -producing elements. The ear of corn, being largely starch and composed of water and carbon dioxide, free compounds of the atmos- phere, does not remove much fer- tility from the ROW But the entire corn plant contains nitrogen, potas- sium and phosphorus which the soil can ill spare. These cornstalks should be allowed to remain in the field and be plowed under the following season to return these vital elements and form soil humus. KEEP POULTRY FREE FROM ALL VERMIN One of Best and Most Common Methods Is to Apply Insect Powder—Good Formula. (By TI, L. KEMPSTER, Missouri Agri- cultural Collego Experiment Station.) The offspring from a single pair of lice will in six weeks be approximately 125,000. Tills fact emphasizes the im- portance of keeping the poultry free from them. Lice live upon the bodies of the poul- try. They deposit their eggs in the plumage, generally near the vent, and live upon the ecurf, dead skin and feathers. To get rid of them remedies must be applied to the bird. Spraying the roosts with lice -killing remedies is of little value. One of the best and most common methods of getting rid of lice is to apply insect powder, of seed corn, which should be well dusted into the Seed corn may be safely selected in I feathers. A second application ten the stiff -dough stage, if properly days after the first will catch the sec - cured. The vitality of corn selected ond brood of lice and make a thor- earlier than this is likely to be inn- ough job of it. Otherwise if these certain, live the first application is of little Early picked seed corn must begin value. drying rapidly at the earliest possible iA good, cheap and effective louse moment. If left lying in A pile for powder is made by adding a mixture as much AS a few hours the growth of one part of crude carbolic acid and of mold is likely to start. In drying immature corn, It is im- portant to keep the ears from close contact. and store in tight calls. Another ef- While drying, rainproof buildings fective remedy is to rub a piece of blue which provide a free circulation of ointment the size of a pea well into air and a temperature above freezing the skin just beneath the vent. are highly desirable. Well-preserved seed corn a year old Is very satIsfactory.—Nehrafika Col- lege of Agriculture. Sanitary Floors important. Sanitary stable floors are important it milk quality is desired. three parts of gasoline to plaster of paris, all that the powder will blot up. When the plaster is dry pulverize it Guard Against Rabbits. A. SOOB as the fruit crop is harvest- ed 111/18 young trees should he protect- ed against rabbit injury. Wrapping the trees with newspapers is a goad protection from this trouble,
