One of tbo largest lava fields In the
World is in Arizona. It extends from
Run Francisco Mountnin to Mount
Taylor, nud cover 20,00 square
miles. A
According to the most recent census
tbo population of tbo Unttoit States
wholly or in part of African descent
aggregated 7,470,040 souls, or 12.2
per cent of the total population of the
couutry.
Mnyor Jcwctt of Buffalo, N. Y.,
euKSCHts the utilization of tho trolley
railways for carrying all street gar
bage out of tho city from collecting
stations established nt convenient
places along tho railway ronton.
A follow of tho Royal Society Las
issued a pamphlet on "How to Draw
a Straight Line," something most
think thov can ilo without
learning. Ilut those who can draw ft
lino Btr.iight without ruling it can draw
anything.
Tho New York Times publishes
Hit of 104 person, men, women oud
rhildren. killed lv the trolley cars in
Brooklyn ainco electricity was iutro
dueed as a motive power in tbo sum
mer of 1802. Truly a Moody record
comments the Trenton, X. J., Ameri
can.
There is one very good explanation
of tho fact that great cities almost in
variably grow toward tho west As
rogards Europe, the prevailing winds
are from the west and southwest, so
that these portions of tho towns are
britrhtcr. cleaner ond healthier than
the eastern.
It is estimated that the agricultural
earnings of the lmted btates are
$1, 490, 000,000; from manufactures,
83,330,000,000 ; from mines, 8480,000,
000 from transportation, SI, 155,000,
000 J from commerce, 8100,000,000;
from sbinnina 8100.000.000; from
banking, 8200,000,000.
Tbo Signal Service of the United
States is founded on the text in Ec
clesiastics: "All the rivers run iuto
tbo sea, and yet the sua is not full."
Commodore Jlanry writes that it was
by thinking on the meaning of this
Assertion that ho first got at the cen
tral iilea of what is now the growing
cience of meteorology.
A fine pieoj of wood carving about
sovon feet nigh representing a woman
crowned with a wreath and supposed
to bo the figure of the wife of Sir
John Franklin, who was lost in tho
Aretio ice, is displayed in Baltimore.
It is said to be the tlguro head of the
old British bark Lady Franklin which
was lost off Cape Horn a number of
yo m ago. Tho Now York Tribuno
thinks it must have drifted abo:it the
oj'an for a long time as it was covered
with barnaoles when picked up by an
Italian bark and brought to port.
It is estimated that 50,000 Chicago
women do self supporting work away
from homo, without counting those
employed in domostio service. The
majority of those, of course, work in
the great distributing trados in the
department stores, etc Large num
bers are employed in making paper
boxes, in the clothing trades, in the
-tarnishing goods business, in the mak
ing of bags, in the big book-binding
establishments. Tbon there are armies
of stenographers and typewriters,
bookkeepers, waiter and tolegrapb
operators. Now and then a woman
soapes irom tue tnrong of wage
'worker and sots np a business for her-
self. There are women lawyers, sta
tioners, bakers, real csUto agonts,
druggists, newsdealers, tobacco setters,
and even bntchors.
The Central American republios are
getting ready for an exposition in
1806, and a bill has been introduced
in the Mexican congress providing for
an international exposition to be held
nt some futuro date yet to be fixed.
These expositions are the natural out
come of the Cotton States and the In
ternational exposition, maiutains the
Atlanta Constitution, which adds:
Our Spanish American friends doubt
loss think that if they are going to the
trouble and expeuso of getting np fine
exhibits for our big show they might
s wen worx mom jor an lUey are
worth and get as much benefit out ' ol
there, as they possibly can. ' ' With this
objeet in view they have gone to work
making arrangements for expositions
da their countries to be bold a year or
.two after the one in , Atlanta, . It is
(plain that all this will help onr great
fair. The Spanish Americans, know
ing that their exhibits will be made' to
do a busy a second ond a third time
mill take ears to got up something
worth seeing. It is hoped , that , the
exposition craze will spread .until . it
, i
licmi
touches every country on this
ehere, ' 1
A Nprlna; Ron.
Meadows dreamy meadows, stretrhln' tnt
away i
Tlnklln' o' tho dowdrops on the daisies every
da? I
An' the olotids are loookln' whltor and thesap
Is In the sod,
An' the sua Is boamln' brighter an' Is colorln'
the oloil.
Hlngln' of tho mockln' birds where wild tho
b'ossoms blow
Fifty million roses In a perfect storm o'
snow.
An' all the groves rejolcln' an' all thogronnln'
hills '
A-lookln' glad and giddy with tho rattlo o'tlio
rills.
Thnro's a twinkle In tho maples, there's a
whisper In the pines,
An' tho liummln' bird Is huntln' for tho mora'
lu' n'ory vines i
T!i'To a thrill of life proradln' all the moun
tains an' tho doll,
An' niuli;'s in thn bronzes when tlio cattle
shako Ihnlr bells.
oh, the country's growln' brighter an' tlio
world In glory rolls
Tho sunshine's streamln' whiter through tho
windows of our souls i
Tlio Lird's unlocked His storehouse with all
He's got to giro,
An' If life would last forever, wo'd Jest live,
an' live, and live.
FnAMK L. Utastos In Atlnnta Constitution.
Only a Woman, After All.
BY W. J. I,AMIrON.
It was Helen Hoyt's third revolu
tion in the fnshioaable maelstrom
railed "society," and as yet, though
slightly giddy, she had not lost ber
hoad.
Neither had she lost ber honrt, al
beit sho was 22, and there aro young
women who think if they still retain
possession of their hearts np to that
advanced nge, thoy are destined to
hold them forever.
it may do iioubtoa if sue una n
heart to lose. She had a heart, but
ber bead went with it, and wheu a
woman' head goes with her heart,
sho seldom loses it. She may let it go
iuto the keeping of a man, but that is
not alwavs losing it, as the term is
generally applied among sentimental
ists. Sho kuows where it is, and it is
never beyond recall. These ore the
"sensible" women of the world. Nover
enthusiasts, but always reliable, and
steady to the end, come woal or como
woe, if it so be that tbo holders of their
hearts are worthy. Horoines thoy may
bo, sacrificing everything to motives
higher than mere soutimcnt
That Holen Hoyt was snob a womati
could not be said definitely, but there
was evidence to that effect in tho clr
oumstanco that three men were swiug
ing uncertainly in tho balance before
her. This is boyond the powor of the
emotional enthusiast. She may have
throe men in the balance at three ilif
foront times, but nover three at one
time. She chooses first, and tho man
puts himself in tho balanco aftorward.
As young as sho was, she had rea
sonod threo things out for bersolf,
aided and abetted somewhat by the
counsel of tbo colonel, a man twice
her ago, a votoran of many emotional
battles, and a ripe experionoe, which
had nevor been rudoly shocked by
matrimony.
She had seen him much oftener
than tho three men in the balanee, ond
she had diBoussed them with him, not
always directly, as if she were the in
forested person, but oftenest under
the thin veil of a supposititious case, as
is the custom of men and women
whose inoxperience needs a remedy
which they are too diffident to ask for
openly. Fortunately for such, there
are those who will humor them.
This afternoon, Miss Hoyt sat in
the quiet drawing-room, thinking.
The oolonol and sho had talkod a long
time the day before on this, to her.
all-important subject, and he was to
come again at S o'clook. To add to
tho interest of tbo colonel's visit of
counsol, their last talk had not boon
of a supposititious o:ise, but he bad
made it direotly personal, and she had
not deniod that she wa tho previously
supposed young woman whoso destiuy
was to bo determined by question
analysis and reason.
'Ah, mo," she thought, "what
study the heart is. I wonder if all
women's hearts are as mine will persist
in being? I know many men, but of
them all, it seems there is not one
that fills it, and Alice, who is th
dearest of girls. Bays there can be
but one. And the oolonel well, the
oolonol, tred to point out the way,
but he seems to obsouro it by his ow
presence., Of them all, threo stand
out distinctly, asking me to choose,
My head says 'choose,' but my heart
remaius dumb. If it should spoak,
woudor what it would say? I wonder
U in all the world there . is no magio
touob to break its seal of silence.
There stands tno proiossor, - a man
,muoh older than myself' a grave man.
noble-hearted and good, devoted to
his scientific stndiosaud rising in his
p'roiewlon'jj. ill at 'ease and , slow 'of
speech in tho tumult of sociotyj man
ifesting his brilliancy only in some
philosophical or seiontifio discussion
with men ; reserved yet loving luc, be
says, with an ardent and absorbing
love, which must be tho pledgo of a
happy comfortable futuro. But is it
true? Docs a woman find in sclouce
ond philosophy what her heart craves?
Will the man who is so profoundly
interested in these subjects find his
wifo a substitute for thorn? His sweet
boart may for tho time, but tho
colonel snys there is much difference
otweon a sweetheart and a wife in
most men's minds, and I wish I didn't
alf believe the colonel."
She laughed a short, hard langh,
and looked out of tbo window a mo-
meut at a man and maid as thoy walk
ed slowly along, very intent upon each
other.
Sweethearts," she said, almost
cynically, and became thoughtful
gain.
And next is tho ortist, nor
thoughts whispered to ber. "The
colonel soys an artist is lovely to bong
on tbo wall for ornament, but ho is of
uncertain value os a pioco of domestic
furniture. Still I lilto tho nrtiKt very
much indeed. Of courso, ho is youth
ful, dreamy oud on idealist with the
gaze ond locks of a poet, but such
things oppeal to most young women os
they appeal to mo. Not to my every'
day sense, perhaps, but to tho ortistio
ongings that movo every refined soul,
ml I hope I am sufllciently refined to
appreciate the ideal, although I don't
want to neglect tho real. His slight
est attention is os graceful as a sonuet,
so different from tho clumsy, well
meant efforts of the professor, but is
it sincere? Docs ho not study it as he
would study and fashion a lovo ditty
to mo? Possibly to some other girl?
Men are deceivers over. With wealth
and luxuries lavished upon him, he
lingers on iu retrospective glimpses of
the past; his eyes, dimmod by the
subdued, fading tints of rare old
tapestries, shrink from the glare and
bustlo of the present Aoareor! the
word has a brusque and martial souud
that disturbs his reveries? Ah, if life
wore only a sunny morning; a canoe
afloat upon a placid stream with a vol-
umo of Ibsen and no clocks to tick
away the flight of time. Would it not
be wiser to accept tho bread, somewhat
thickly cut, but well buttered, with all
that science oilers? The oolonol says
it would; and, really, I begin to think
tho colonel is a valuable counsellor,
The fact is, I like tho colonel, oud
when a woman likes a man she likes
his advice, and likei to toko it, if for
no other reason than to ploaso him,
Which I think is tho height of unsel
fishness, for advice is so bard to take.
Tho oolonol smiled at mo Sunday when
tho third man came down to seo ine.
He smiled, too, as if ho had found
something. But he said nothing di
rectlv. I wonder if ho thinks I like
the third man best. John Franklin,
that's a good, substantial name, but
John isn't quite up to it. He's a Har
vard kind of a man, of tbo sunny, flit
ting, class-day-in-Junetypo; physical
ly perfect, handsome, stunning, I
might say, and mu oh more, he stauds
at the university gates with empty
pockets, half soberly, half gladly,
and all problematically, gazing into
tbo great unsolved future. Is it my
mission to help him solve the prob
lem? Does he love me because he is
young, and love is the light of youth,
shining whither it will? Would he be
the same in the aftortimos? Would
his promise meet the fulfilment I ex
pect that any woman would expeot?
More ; that any woman has the right
to demand of the man to whom she
givos ber heart? Is he as sure as the
older man? As the sweetheart of his
youth fades bofore him, iu his wifo,
withered by the years that wreck the
beauty of so many women, will he in
his strong manhood be as tender and
loving as he now is? The colonel says
a woman should uot marry ow man so
near bor own age that she should grow
old before ho does. The colonel, I
think, is arguing for himself, buoause
he has waitod so long, that he must
eitbor marry a ajwoinan twenty years
younger tban himself or fill a bachel
or's grave. I know it, for he has told
me so himself, and he says it is a
dreadful thought to thus perpetuate
his loneliness. . Sometimes I feel roal
sorry for the oolonel, because he is
siioh a . oongenial, oompanionable,
honest kind of an old fellow, who
would be so nice to havo aronnd all
the time. Not much romanoo, of
oonrse, but what's roiuanoe after the
wedding day? Huigho, I wish I wore
like Alice. ' one man i nave 10 mane a
ohoioe. The man simply appeared
and the. choice mad itself."
Mss Hoyt arose from ber chair and
stretched herself as o.ne, does when
waking. She hadn't thought so muoh
in i months, and. it made ber tired.
I without accomplishing the purpose
The threo men wore still in the bal
ance, and it showed no variation in
favor of any one os against tho other
two. She stepped to the window as the
oolonol came np ond rang the door
boll. "Ob," alio oxclaimed, as he on
torod the room, "I don't know
whother I'vo boon osleop or not, but I
have surely bad on attack of night
mare." "Threo of a kind still in your hand,
eh?" he smiled as ho sbook hands with
ber.
Yes," Rbo sighed.
'My deor Miss Hoyt," he sold to
her moro gently than his usnnl tone
of lightness and Jocularity, "it is not
three mon you should have in your
hend, but one in your heart."
But which one?" sho asked ner
vously, for sho sow tho colonel's hand
tremble oud biB eyes weroturuod from
her.
"I cannot toll you if you do not
know," bo replied, ond this timo bis
eyes looked straight iuto hers oud sho
felt a heart-throb sho had nover felt
boforo.
Isn't it funny," remarked Miss
Hoyt nn hour later, "that I nover
thought of you?"
It's a blessing to me that you
didn't," he answered, "for if you hod
over taken mo iuto your hood, I never
would hove gotten into your heart A
woman," concluded the colonel sen
tcntiously, but with infinite satisfac
tion, "doesn't need a head anyhow)
the man is tho bend of tbo family."
And Miss Hoyt only smilod and was
content with this early assumption of
authority, for her heart was at rest,
oud when a woman's hoart is at rest,
t is easy to smile ond to bo contented.
Detroit Frco l'ross.
Tho Cork Industry.
Herbort W. Bowen, the United
States consul at Barcolona, Spain,
recently sent to the United States
Oovernmont a dotailed account of tho
trade in Catolouian cork. Ho says:
"One of the principal articles of
export from this consular district is
cork, and more of it is purchased ' by
tbo Uuited States than by any other
couutry. Tho exports of cork to the
Uuited States in 181)1, 1892 and 1893
omoutcd to 8273,395, 8189,139 and
$171, 012 respectively. The next heav
iest purchasers are tho Argentine Re
public, England, Italy, Frauoe and the
Spanish oolonles.
Tho forosts are almost all situated
in the mountains of the provinco of
Ctorona, which is contiguous to
Franco, and which is one of the four
provinces, comprising tho principality
of Catalonia. Some of the forests are
small, but othors cover many acres of
land. Most of them are natural, and
these ore the hardiest and most pro
ductive. Tbo planted forests never
yield satisfactory results.
"Iu the natural forests thore exists
treos of 800 and even 400 years of
ago. When tho tree is twenty-five to
thirty years old tho bark oau be taken
off, aud tboreaftor every twelve or
fourtoen years, aooording to the vigor
of the tree. Tho averago yield is
about forty-five pounds, and the time
selooted is gonorally the month of
July.
"Tho manufacturing is dono al
most exolusivoly in the neighboring
towns. Tbo bark is divided into
three qualities, aooording to its condi
tion. The only instrument nsod in
stripping a tree is the axe. Cars are
used in transporting it to the towns,
aud mulos and oxen aro also employed
for that purpose. The wages of oork
men are ubout eighty-five oonts a day,
which is rather more than the average
workman receives in this part oi
Spain. In order to protect the forests,
and incidentally to increase the na
tion's revenue, an export duty of
eighty-five cents per 100 kilograms is
levied on all grades of oork."
Poetry of Rose Culture.
Doan Hole, who knows the drudgory
of roso-onlture, thus translates it into
poetical prose, and one would hardly
suspect that he meant struggles with
insects and soil and all manner of to
tal depravity : "He who would hove
beautiful roses in his garden must have
beautiful roses iu his heart. It is the
iuner cordon. He musli love them
woll and always. To win he must woo.
Jaopb won Laban's dmghtor,
though drought aud frost consume,
He must have not only tbo glowing
admiration, the enthusiasm, and the
passiou, but the tenderness, the
thoughtfulness, the reverenoe of love.
New York Post.
No Tick There.
"Why don't you wind that olook
and set ' it going? asked a bad cus
tomer at a country grooery store. . j
"That clock is a sign,"-said th
grooer, and 1 the customer studied it
out for himself before he left the
store. Detroit Free Press. ;
FUR FARM AND (MR I) EX.
rnotrxTiNO iouko tree.
Young trees when badly broken
down by cattle, can often be saved by
caroful pruning and painting tho ex
posed wood with thick ochre paint
well rubbod into tbo wound, and re
nowed until thoy aro closed by new
wood growing over them. Bolts and
screws are nocossary in repairing trees
which have been broken. A large
branch will need several props. . It
will be necessary to cut back, often
qiiito severely, long branches. Some
it will bo better to remove entirely.
But much loss nud subsequent work
may bo saved by timely and studious
pruning, to keep tbo heads of tho
treos well open ond properly cut
bock. American Farmer.
CMPPINO rtORHRfl.
The advantages in clipping horses
in winter ore mnny. Notwithstanding
that some object to removing tbo
Imrso's cont in cold weather, as inter
fering with tbo laws of nature, there
oro sound physiological roasons for
tbo practico. Experience is also in
its favor many practical men mnin
tniuing that to clip a horse is equiva
lent to giving him an extra food of
corn a day. The fetlock and hair
behind tho pasterns should not bo
removed if we desire to avoid cracked
hoels otherwiso chilblains. The hair
should bo left on, which from its non
conducting properties will keep that
part of tho limb warm which is so
sonsitive to chills. Draught horses
are better left with hair on from the
coronet to some little distance abovj
tbo knse-jolnt New York World.
HOW TO FEED CORXSTALKS.
Rot'uce your fotldor to a soft, pulpy
mass ; if you do not, it will hnve a
sharp edge wherever tho stalk is cut
and hurt tho mouth of tho animal, and
will invariably cause sore gums and
impair the vigor of the animal in a
short time. If tho fodder is not re
duced to a soft, pulpy mass, some ani
mals will reject it because they cannot
masticate it, owing to these very
numerous aud extremely sharp odges,
aud fodder thus rejoctod will often
oad to tho belief that there is nothing
iu the oorn fodder that the animal
wants. This is wrong, and nothing
oan bo further from the truth. Pre
pare tho food proporly, ond soe what
different results come to light A
machine can be obtained at a small
exponso which will cut and reduce the
foddor to a soft, pulpy mass, and
make it enjoyable food for tho animal
and a profitable one to the farmer or
feeder. Nebraska Farmer.
FISH AS A FERTILIZER.
Fish scrap is an excellent fertilizer,
and the well dried and finely ground
artiole that is found in the market is
admirably adapted for plant food.
There is very small profit made in
handling fish, aud for this reason it is
not recommended by dealers as much
as other goods. One of the largest
producers of dry ground fish claims
that "the farmer who buys fish, gets
more for his money tban he ean in any
other material." This is not true this
soason when cottonseed and linseed
moals are so cheap, though at current
quotations fish is good stuff to buy,
for those who know bow to use it.
Last year it sold in New England and
New Jersey at 835 to 838 per ton, con
taining of nitrogen 8 to 9 per cent,
and of phosphoric acid 6, to 7 per
cent, and had a chemist's valuation of
$JU to gtl por ton. rotas n salts or
unleachod wood ashes should be used
with fish to make a complete manure.
Now England Homestead.
MANAOEIf ENI OF HOTBED PLAXTS.
"Sow thick and thin quick," is the
gardnor's motto, writes of W. L. An
derson of Indiana. Put in, enough
seed to insure a good stand but before
the plants have more than two leaves
see to it that no plant stands within
one inch of anothor. Radishes should
be three inohes apart - In a month
the cabbage will have eight leaves.
Then transplant into open ground four
inches apart. Let thorn stand about
twenty days and then plant out, and if
you tike good care of them you will
have all you oan eat before you cut
wheat Through April you will be
taking ont lettuce and radishes also.
As these are removed transplant toma
toes, peppers, eto, eta, four inches
apart in the bed. Da not put these
things into open ground before the
middle of May. You will remember I
told yon, in making the bed, to lay
tho framo on, not to stake it
down. ' Also I told you to let the soil
come np very close to the glass. The
bad will sink some, bat it Will not be
long till the plants touch the glass.
Tban orv un the frame, and koau raia-
ing it as tho plants grow. I often
raise mine fifteen inches for tomatoes,
for they should bo in bloom by plant
iug timo. Stir tho surface of the soil
of tbo bod once or twice a week with
your fingors or a tnblo fork. Make
tho plants greon and stocky by giving
all tho light and air possiblo and thin
ning woll. Do not be afraid to put
out cabbogo plants in April. I had
plants in open ground last year wbeu
it was twenty-two degrees below freez
ing. I was scared but not hurt
American Agriculturist.
rAt.KS ON IIIMD SHOES.
H. B. Chubbnck in tho American
Horso Brooder, says: Mr. Hall asks,
why tiso bcol calkins on hind shoes?
An cany matter to explain. Simply to
caso tho pastern joints and baok ten-
duns, which otherwise would be
strained by the rapid growth of tbo
too. To illustrate: Your horse is
shod today, tho foot lovolcd ond shoe
adjusted tu tho quocu's tauto. . Now
measure from the hair to the bottom
of tho shoo on tho too. It will mea
sure, for expnmplc, five inches. Now
measure from hair to bottom of heel
calk, which will measure say two inches.
If the horso has a healthy foot you will
And in the courso of six weeks that the
too will measure 5 to 51 inches, while
the heol remains the same. One can
readily soe that without the heol calks
tho back tendons are subjectod to a con
stant strain.
There is yet another advantage of
tho little heol calk. As the horse
throws his foot forward on a hard or
slippery surface, it prevents the foot
from slipping.
Why should wo use hoavler shoos on
the fore feet? Booausa the foro feet
are larger, thoy have more ond heov
ior pounding, thoy support two-thirds
cf the weight of tbo horse, aud there
fore it is necessary to hove a heavier
ond stiffer shoe to support thorn. Toko
a horso driven on paved and macad
amized streets. His front feet are tho
size of a numbor 8 shoe, and his hind
feet one sizo smaller. He wears 13
ouuee shoes forward and sevon-ounea
shoes behind. I am an advocate of
light shoes, but 13 ounoes is as light
as he can wear and protect himself. If
shod with 13-ounoa shoes behind I am
satifled it would impair his aotion,even
if tho foot were strong enough to
carry the weight The averago light
harness horso should wear from threo
to six ounces more weight forward to
protect his foot andbalauoo his action.
This opplies in all cases with rare ex
ceptions. I would not nlvisa using narrow
webbed shoes forward. A shoe with
the wobs ono-half inches wide would
barely cover the thickness of the wall
forward of the quarters, and would
not be of sufibiont width to protect a
font that had a low solo or a fat foot .
The bearing would come outside of
the braces of tho foot, which would
cause the sole to drop.
There are three essential prinoiples
to adopt in shoeing general purpose
horses. First, to adjust a shoe that
is adapted to a horses gait or action ;
seeond, one that is adapted to the
foot, and third, to the surfaoo tho
horse has to travel on.
FARM AND OABDIN NOTES.
Winter sunshine is always good for
dairy animals, it it does not reach
them through a frosty air.
No cow needs aboard hung over her
face, or a poke around her neok, on
farm where thore are good fenoes.
It nover pays to ovororowd tho
pasture or stable with cows. Mako
the farm larger, or the dairy smaller.
Spring i tbo proper season for
transplanting deciduous shade trees.
Evergreens do bettor planted later la
the spring.
Some cows are older and less profit
able at eight years of age than others
ore at twelve. Difference in caro is
the cause of it
The preparation of the tree foi
transplanting is of as muoh impor
tance as tho preparation, of the soil
for its reception.
A cow is different from a child, in
that she can never be spoiled by too
muoh petting. Speak softly, milk
gently, and she becomes at once youi
profitable friend.
In order to seouro tho best growtk
and thrift, the orchard should have at .
good attention as, any other crop. Be
fore the trees are planted out the land
should be thoroughly prepared and in
good oonditiou.
Care should bo nsed to mutilate the
roots as little as possible in removing
the tree. It is neoessury that the root J
bo very long, bub they should not b
bruised and broken but smoothly out,
and proteoted from oold drying winds,
and the direct rays of the tun on til
rs.urned to the solL