Tin' Southern States produce about
eight-tenths of the world's cotton
crop.
Huston tolls with pride of the Kan
sas visitor who wanted to see "tlio now
public library and the ocean."
The Japanese consul in London says
thnt tho foreign trade of Japan has
incronsed nearly ton-fold iu the post
ixteen years.
It has been "King Corn" in tho
northwest long enough tho farmers
there think, ninl King Potato is assert
ing his right to the throne.
It is said that in Japan "earth
quakes are so frequent that tlio only
at tout ion pniil to tliem is to stop
fdinving until tueshoeto is over."
Tin! New Orleans I'ienynne writes
thnt when the papers these duys do
not contain mi account of a wile mur
dor it is because n husband murder
lias crowded it out.
The University of Gottingeii is
more mid more becoming the (termini
I'.ldorado of feiniile students. Keu
during the niiiimi ! semester tho num
ber wiis twenty-six.
Mr. Stead, tho notorious Knglish
editor, wants to establish n baby ex
change, where those who have too
tunny children iimv dispose of them to
those who have too few.
Tho Russian g jvemmeiit has now
pfot into its possession nearly nil tho
railroads of thnt country, and has pro
ceeded to make im enormous reduc
tion iu alt freight and passenger
rates.
W ith a population of about thirty
millions, Kugland gets along with
thirty-two judges of tho first class,
while Indiana, with a population of
about four millions, has I'M judges
ul together.
According to tho Atlantu Constitu
tion, the Alabama iron furnaces now
dictate the prica of pig iron iu the
United States. Never licforo has tho
iron industry of tho South been in so
prosperous a condition.
A Hritish parliamentary report de
scribes tho benefits conferred on the
village of F.gypt by tho reforms in
troducsd by Great Britain and de
clares that au evacuation of tho coun
try would undo them all.
Au Ohio man, who is being sued for
breach of promise, makes the defense,
relates the Louisville Courier-Journal,
that ho proposed and was ac
cepted on Sunday, and that nccording
to the laws of that state contracts made
on Sunday are not legally binding.
Tho Prison Congress at I'aris
lidi'pted a resolution declaring that,
with the view to deterring criminals
from olVending, progressive penalties
hhoiild be inflicted, and hardened of
fenders be more severely treated thau
they now are. T id resolution also
provides that Legislatures shall have
the fixing of the minimum penality
and the power to abolish toobbort sen
tences. The refinement of criminal audacity
lias been achieved by Harry Hay ward,
the condemned murderer of Catherine
Ging, in his formal demand for the
810,000 insurance on his victim' life,
the policies for which were assigned
to him. Possibly he proposes to be
queath this money as the nucleus of a
fund for the benefit of American
assassins of helpless women, suggests
the New York Mail and Express.
The railroads of Great Britain rep
resent im expenditure of about $",
000,000,000, which is one-sixth of the
total railway capital of the world The
number of pusseugers curried annually
is about 1)00,000,01)0, besides about
3'J5,000,030 tous of merchandise. Tho
railroads give omployuieut to 400,000
people. There are noma 21,000 miles
of lino iu the whole empire. The
total mileage of the world is 400,000,
A notable iustauoe of the withering
effeot upon the Western Indian of the
fciud of civilization with which they
SoTne in contact is the ease of the
- Roger River Indiaus of Oregon, re
lated iu the New York Sun. Iu 1852,
when the first white men appearod
among them, there wore H00 members
of tho tribe. In November, 1851,
one-fourth of them died, and their
numbers have gradually deoreaaed un
til, aooordiug to the last census made
by the Indiau agent a year ago, there
were but tlfty-four members of the
tribe living. This tribe showed no
likiug for olvilizod ways, and oould
not be brought to adopt them, al
though the govermoutevideutly h is
doue all iu its power for thorn uloug
these Hues. ,. . .
Ills Mother's Kiss.
It was hr wont when, tire J ot play,
11 to her bosom on-pt,
With golden locks In disarray,
To kiss til in as lei slept.
Anil still linr plea would be hut thlsi
"I shall not wake hlut with a klssl
"Ho heavenly sweet. Ills sloflpliur lie's
Ro lieaiitlful nuil bright,
I know ths ainrels lift the la"S
To kiss my hoy good-night.
For, seo! h" smiles In dreams of lillssi
How should I wulis him with a kiss?"
So did his mother 'ay, and when
ld whispered Ills sweet will,
Hhe only moaned t "He sleeps!" and then
Kneeling, shs kissed him still :
fnd weeping, murmured only tills t
"I cannot wake lilm with a kiss!"
Wish b. Xi ids, In ( Memo Times rtor
nld. .
A Strange Case of Telepathy.
by i.oi'isis riiAMir.rn wort, ton.
Tho May afternoon was more than
warm it as hot. Summer had hur
ried into the world, unexpected find
uninvited. Perhaps that was wh.t
Hindu .1 isinvu .Meredith lend a little
pink ear to something sho had re
solved over and over that alio would
not hear tin) passionate, illogical, al
together nhsitr.l love making of a
young fellow who would not have
taken his university degrci till a
month later on. l-l-i was twenty-one,
to bo sure, an I she was only eighteen,
but at eighteen a girl believes herself
already a woman.
S!i! lUt, mod, and then she said,
with a smile: "Why, you ate a
boy I"
'A wise boy," be answered, "who
knows enough to love you, and who
will have all the longer time in which
to love you, because ho begins early."
"I'm glad you are to be a lawyer,"
sho answered somewhat irrelevantly,
as it Hoetucd to Hubert Marsh.
"Why?" h ventured.
"Rjoauso I now see that you have,
after all, a logical min I. Your powers
of argument might be thrown away in
any other profession." And then she
added: "It takes a good 'while to
gut admitted to tho bar."
"It. shan't take very long in my
case," he answered, "if you will
pro mi io me my reward for making
haste."
"Oh, yes," she said, "I will come
to court and hear your first plea."
"That!" hocried, a little scornfully,
"No, I want you to Hsteu in private
to my first argument, and ba oou
vineed by it."
"Ah, but you are not u lawyor yot
you must wait."
"You can keep mo waiting as long
as you please it is for you to say
but I have toid you that I love you.
You can't get away from that. I'll
trust you to remember, and when any
other man tells you tho sumo story, I
I will be his judge. Yon ahull
think of my love and my words, and
you sli-.I ask yourself whether ho
loves you as well."
Jasmyn smiled nt this outburst, and
then Him said, with au air of sweet
toleration: "Dream your dream,
gnntlo youth- it may keep you from
some worse folly !"
"And you will not oven b- hero for
cltifs day?"
"No; we anil on Saturday. My
mother is half Kiiglish by birth, aud
more thau half at heart. She is sigh
ing for May fair. We shall go to New
York to-morrow."
Ho looked for a moment into her
eyes. His lips were athirst for her
but he know her too well to venture
anything she would have tho right to
resent. He contented himself with a
hnnd clasp ; but there was a tone in
his voice she would not soon forget
as he suid: "Yon will reraeiubor."
Three years went by, and still Mrs.
Meredith uud her daughter had not
returned to America. Hubert Marsh
hcardof their movements only through
Lie kind newspapers, for Jasmyn had
decreed thnt there should be no cor
respondence. She was a social success iu Loudon,
where there were so many fair com
petitors, but she deftly nuuugad to
avoid proposals for tho roost part, and
when she hud to say no, to say it so
goutly as to make no enemies. Her
mother had not iuterferred hitherto.
Mrs. Meredith was 'too wise a woman
not to hasten slowly, but now the time
seemed to her to have ooiue wheu a
sou-in-luw would be desirable.
"You are twenty-oue now," she said
to Jasmya.
"Yes, Muuisie. Of course you can
easily remember my birthday, since
you also are a Mayflower."
"Yes, ami a year before I was twenty-one
I had married your father. Ho
never onmed me but one sorrow, and
that was wheu he died. I wish you us
happy a lot lis my own and I think
you are old enough to marry."
"Yet," her m. ther answered, mus
ingly. "Perhaps you have not seen,
but I, who have lived twice as long as
you, can see clearly that Lord Onius
ford is only waiting hisopportnnity to
ask you to be Lady Gainsford."
"That old fellow 1" cried Jasmyn
irreverently.
"He is thirty-nine," said Mrs.
Meredith, smiling." "Thnt does not
seem so venerable to most of the world
ns it seems to you. Do you see any
thing else iu him to complain of?"
"1 bavn't thought. Why should I?
He is very well, I suppose, but 1 see
no reason why I should care for him
more than for another."
"Ah, well, you must know him bet
ter." And the opportunity was not long
iu coming. It seemed as if fate were
on the side of his lordship. Whore
ever the Merediths went they were
sure to meet him -and he tet it be
seen clearly enough that it was for
Jasmyn's sake ho had come.
One night they were sitting out a
dance which she had promised him.
He had porsu.ided her to go into the
conservatory instead oT dancing, and
she sat on a low sent, over which some
strange foreign plant leaned. An
odoi tlmt seem ;d like iueeiiso burned
on the shrine of some old time god
half intoxicated her. And there and
then Lord G.iinsdorf tola his love
story. She had charmed him from
the first, ho said, and now he loved
her. Would she At that very
instiint it seemed to her us if she
heard a voice from far, oh, so fur
away a voice that said: "Wait!"
And just then, before she had spoken
at all, her part nor for the next dance
nppenrcd, and Lord Giinsford snid,
with that cool self possession that be
longed to his age and rank, "I shall
see you to-morrow."
That night sleep did not come to
Jasmyn. Sho lay with wide opeu
eyes, vaguely wondering. What
should sho say to Lord G.iiusford?
Could she love him aud why not?
Would she be happy as his wife?
How much there would bo to make
her so.
Then suddenly it seamed to her as
if the room opened its windows, to the
stars and the definite night, and she
looked far, far oil', as perhaps we all
shall look wheu death has taken us by
tho hnnd and led us far away from
what we call life. She know that her
vision had gone beyond the sea, aud
that it was a room iu New York, iu
which sho saw a young man writiug.
He had just turned a page. She did
not know how his letter b.igau, but
sho read these words:
"I am twenty-four now, aud you
are twenty-one. You can no longer
call mo a boy. I w.n admitto.l to tho
bar a year ago. I h ive succeed ed so
well that iu October 1 shall make my
llrst important pies. Remember that
you promised to hour it. I will cross
the sea and bring youbiok iu time.
I shall be with yon utmost as soon
as this letter. 1 have obeyed you
hitherto in keeping silence. I write
now because I wish you to know bo
fore we meet that I am unchanged."
And when she hud read thus fur it
soemed to her that suddenly the win
dows thnt had period to the vastuoss
of the night were closed and she was
alone.
What did it all mean? She was not
asleep. It was no dream. Plainly as
it bhe had held the sheet in her own
hands sho had rend those written
words. Plainly as if ho had been in
the room with her she had seen Robert
Marsh.
Yes, she would wait. She would
decided nothing until she knew. She
turned ou her sido anil drew a long,
culm breath, aud then sleep, the delin
quent, kissed her parted lips aud lod
her at last into dreamland.
Tho next day Lord Gainsford
pleaded his own cause, but ho pleaded
in vain.
'If you will wait two weeks," Jas
myn said, "I will answer you then.
If I say auy thing to-day it must be
'No.' I do not feel that I understand
myself. Will you give uu time, or
shall it end here?"
Of course he gave her time. He
turned to Mrs. Meredith. Mrs. Mer
edith was his senior by three years,
therefore sho was a safe as well as a
sympathetio contiduute.
The two weeks were not over, in
fact, ouly u i lie days had passed, wheu
a letter came to Jasmyn iu a baud she
used to know. Hhe opened it. She
read the first page, and then she
turned the leaf, and there she saw the
very sentence she had read when the
windows of her chamber opened into
the infinite night.
Aud that same day Hobort Marsh
followed his lotter. Than Jasmyn
Meredith knew for the first time her
own heart's secret , The love that
was stroug ooxigh to conquer time
and apse and speak to her across the
estranging sea was: tho love of her own
life, as well as of her lover's.
The next day she told her mother
that she had made up her mind.
Naturally, Mrs. Meredith did not like
it, but aim was helpless. John Mer
edith hnd left his fortune to be eqnnl
ly divided between his daughter and
his wife, and after Jasmyn was twenty-one
she was absolutely her own
mistress. Mrs. Meredith would fain
have been motbor-iu-law to a lord,
but there was Uothing to be said
against Hubert Marsh, so she quietly
resigned herself to the inevitable.
"You deserve," she said to Jasmyn,
with a little vexed laugh, "that I
should marry Lord Gniuaford myself."
And that is precisely what she did six
mouths later. St. Louis ( llobe-Deui-ocrat.
The Pigmies nt liqiiaterial Africa.
Whatever doubt may have existed
iu the minds of naturalists as to the
existence of true pigmy races iu the
wilds of Central Africa, as was first
authoritatively reported by Du
Chaillu, has, as is well known, been
dispelled by the discoveries of Stan
ley J indeed, years before, the ex
plorations of Schwcinfurth hud al
ready satisfactorily demonstrated that
the fabled people of Herodotus, or
others representing them, had a full
claim to recognition. Recently the
researches of the erudite traveler and
naturalist, Dybowski, iu tho western
equatorial forests, have put us in pos
session of many and valuable facts re
garding these diminutive people, the
Oboiigos, which help to clear away
the anecdotal from the true history of
what must, for the moment, nt least,
be considered among tho most inter
esting inhabitants of our planet. 'in
stature they are shown to be (prob
ably) the smallest of ull living poo
ples ; if the specimens selected for
measurement by M. Dyhowski are at
all representative of the many, thou
the average stature of the men can
not greatly exceed four aud ouo-hall
feet. In three cases the heights ob
tained were respectively four feet six
inches, four feet seven and one-quarter
inches, and four feet seven aud
Ihreo-quarter inches a stature far
below that of the Kdiimo, who is in
popular (but erroneous) estimation a
true pigmy. Despite their diminutive
frames tho men are described as being
very powerful and courageous, the
hunters having no feat of either wild
beast or attackiug man.
A most striking feature of tho peo
ple is their light tint, the color ot
their skin being a light bronze, baroly
darker thau the brown of tho mulatto;
eyebrows and eyelashes are also both
lair, and the eyes have little of that
visual intensity which distinguishes
these organs among most negroes.
Tho greater part of the body is largely
hairy, the arms and chest being iu a
measure protected by a short, almost
straight nud nearly bloude down. -New
Science Review.
Piling Mure Thau lie Promised.
A story is told of a Pittsburg oil
producer who was putting dow n a well,
some years ago, iu a territory that had
never been tested for oil. He was
keeping the fact a profound secret, in
order that, iu case he got a good well,
he might without diHi.Milty secure all
the leases he desired iu the vicinity.
He was ou the ground hiiusjlf, wntoh
iug with great interest tho indications.
Kverylhing pointed to success. Two
days before the well was expected to
come in," he was called homo. Anx
ious about tho result, ho arranged with
his contractor to telegraph him as soon
as the drill reached the sand. He
knew, however, that secrets will some
times leuk out of a telegraph olliee
and so he told the driller that the
sentence, "Pine trees grow tall, "would
mean thut he had struck oil. Tho
driller promised to do us he was or
dered. The mingled satisfaction and
vexation of the producer may bo imag
ined wheu two days later, he received
tho followiug telegram: "Pino trees
grow tall. Shu's squirting clean ovor
the derrick !"
A Ready Answer Won Promotion.
When the Duko of Clarence, after
ward William IV, went down to
Portsmouth to inspect tho British
seventy-fours, the guide allotted to
him was a battered old lieutenant with
one eye, who, luokiug a "friend at
court" had served for years without
promotion. Ai the veteran rotuoved
his hat to salute the royal visitor, the
latter remarked his baldness aud said
jestingly: "I see, my frieud, you have
not spared your hair iu your country's
service." "Why, Your Royal High
ness," answered the old suit, "so many
young fellows have stepped over my
head that it's a wonder I have auy hair
left." The Duke laughed heartily at
this professional joke, but he made a
note of the old man's name at the same
time, and a few days after the latter
was agreeably surprised to reueive bis
appointment as oaptaiu. Now York
Advortiser.
I'Oll FARM AMI UAKtrEN.
Cr.KAJt MII.KIMd.
The vnlno of clean milking is shown
by the following experiment: Five
cows were milked four weeks by two
persons, each milker nerving two
weeks, both boiug competent, one do
ing his avefngo milking and not aware
of a test, the other knowing of It and
ordered to milk tho cows thoroughly
dry. Iu tho case of the man unaware
of the test the yield from live cows
for two weeks was H(!4 pounds; the
other man, knowing of the test, got
1, l:)l pounds of milk, au excess of
2(17 pounds. Wisconsin Agricultur
ist. SOFT UHlH POH MKNS3.
To keep a lieu iu good condition for
laying, she should never have n full
crop during the day. It is not wrong
to give a light meal of mixed food,
warm iu tha morning, in the trough,
but such meal should bo only oue
fourth the quantity the hens require.
They should go away from the trough
lllisatislled, and should then seek their
food, deriving it grain by grain, en
gaging in healthy exerelue in order to
obtain it, and in hiich circumstances
the food will be passed into the gizzard
slowly and bo better digested. Grad
ually the lieu will Boeiimliito suftlcietit
food to provide for the night, going
on the roost with a full crop, where
she can leisurely forward it from the
crop to tho giz.ard. I'eedmg soft
food leads to many errors on the pnrt
of the beginner, causing him to over
feed and pamper his hens, und by it
they will reach u condition that is en
tirely antagonistic to laying. It is
much better to feeil hard grains only
than to feed from a trough, unless the
soft food is carefully measured. A
quart of mixed, ground grnin, mois
tened und iu a crumbly condition,
should be auflieient for forty hens ns a
"starter" for the morning, but two
quarts of whole grain should then bo
scattered in litter for them to seek aud
secure for themselves. Farm aud Firo
side. VII,I,MIK DOUS AXI FRNCES3.
Of late years it has become quite a
general practice iu tho Last to remove
all street aud roadside fences iu coun
try villages and their immediate
suburbs. It tho lawns are kept iu
good order down to the sidewalks,
put lis and main street, it gives to the
town a kind of democratic, social air
aud freedom from neighborhood cx
clusiveness, as represented iu tho
ordinary fence, but it is still a ques
tion whether or no somo barrier to
tho encroachments upon private
rights and property is not ns a wholo
absolutely necessary even iu tho most
placid of country villages. If flowers
or small ornamental plants of auy
kind are to bo cultivated iu village
gardens, they must be protected from
the village dogs of various breeds aud
races, else broken bt mis aud wilted,
scorched foliage will soon indicate the
source of injury. Muzzling does not
iu tho least prevent the village dogs
from scorching the foliage of rare and
beautiful plants, especially the fine
leaved conifers. It is surprising that
such troes and sh uhs should be
planted only to bo mutilated and
scorched by tho village dog. New
York Sun.
VINK ISSBCTS AVI Fl.tM-IIKKTr.ES.
A. II. Cook complains ot a small
worm about half an inch long that
honeycombs squash vinos near tho
ground. This is evidently tho squash
vine borer, the .eggs of which have
boen mostly laid by this time, so that
tho best thing uow w ill bo to cover the
vines with earth a few joints from the
main stalk, whero if the soil is rich
new roots will be sent down, aud en
able tho vine tc make a crop even if
cut oil' ut the main hill. The eggs are
laid at twilight, by a moth halt' an
inch long with an orange colored
body, ornamented by several black
spots ulotig tho back, uud having olive
brown front wings and transparent
hind ones. These may bo picked off
and killed. The tlea-bectlo nttacks.
oucumbers, patulous and otlur pluuts,
1'owdored tobaccj is the old ri mudy,
but bordeaux mixture sprayed ou to
prevent blight was very effjctive at the
VermoU'. station against both flea
beetles and grasshoppers. American
Agriculturalist.
CARE OK I'UUHH,
Many complaint! are made of the
porvor.sity ot chicks in dying without
cause. The uwnuri never think of
blaming themsulves or imagine tlut
the little thiugs would havo preferred
t. go on living if they had beeu giv u
a chuueu. They ouly ceased the
atni.iglo bec.kiiso sour aud iusuftluieut
food, lico aud general uoglout proved
mo strong for them, and the uwuer
has himself alone to blnmo for tha
result.
There is a cause for the death of
chickens, just ns there is for the death
of any person. When one suddenly
shullles off this mortal coil an Inquest
should be held and the exciting cause
promptly removed. In ninety-nine
cases out of every hundred this can
be traced to neglect Thu hen house
should be cleaned constantly, tha
birds kept free from lice, dry, com
fortable quarters furnished and water
ing vessels rinsed out daily and sup
plied with fresh water and proper
food be given at regular intervals.
There is plenty of work involved in
all this, but if faithfully performed
the returns are commensurate with tha
labor.
To do all this properly a regular
system must be laid down and ad
hered to, and this is, perhaps, one of
the greatest trials of the amall poul
try keeper. It is so natural to thiuk
thut a few minutes would make no
ditVerotico to the birds. We are apt
to forget that each hour brings itl
appointed tusk uud that what is neg
lected then is either omitted alto
gether or done iu a very careless fash
ion. If it is worth while to keep fowls it
is worth while to got the best results
from them. Having settled this
point look around and see what you
can do to better their condition. Give
them the sume thought and consider
ation that you would bestow ou larger
animals. Do not overstock ; seo that
their quarters are clean, dry and
comfortable ; keep a sharp lookout for
lice nnd even if not present occasion
ally dust insect powder iu the feathers
(this will destroy tho little rjd mitei
but for the large, gray body lice on
the necks and heads a little grease
must be used). Sharp grit serves tho
birds as teeth and is essential to di
gestion. Seo that it is kept where
they can easily got at it, aud do not
make the mistake of substituting
round, smooth pebbles therefor. The
dust bath is as uooussary to their com
fort as water is to you. Fine ojal
ashes are excellent for this purpose
New York World.
HUM AND OAltOEX NOTR3.
Rats thrive under leaky manger!.
Hogs prefer clean, pure water, aud
sound, clean food.
When swino are houlthy they can be
fattened very readily.
Apple trees will grow where it is too
steep or rocky to plough.
No one can appreciate pork until
they have sampled tho home-cured ar
ticle. Do not give tho cuttle more than
they will eat, just because, it is corn
fodder.
Swine need grazing iu all seasons of
the year, aud especially iu the spring
aud kumuier.
A slop barrel und a food o on
wheels, lightens thu labor of ciriug
for the pigs.
Don't feed your little chicks sloppy
food. They will do better on dry
food, like crucked wheat, rolled oats
and tho like, and it won't get sour
und dirty like the soft, mushy food.
Oiler the hogs clour, cool wator at
all times in hot went her. It aids di
gestion, und increases their content
ment; besides it is the principal stay
iu inaiutuiuiug good health. Avoid
surface water.
If your hens run out all the time
where they can eat grass, aud pick up
bits of refuse, bugs, grasshoppers,
etc-, you need not feed them ofteuer
than ouoo a day. They will give you
more eggs thau if you stuff them.
Better hustle all the eggs you can
from your (lock at once, for tho
moulting seasou is ut hand, and that,
you know, menus no eggs at all for
weeks to come. You can greatly in
crease the egg product by feeding
some meat scraps, or cut green bone.
Feeding grounds, if you must feed
on tho ground, should be ou tho slope
near tho top of a hillside, that the im
purities iu the dust may be washed
uway by rains. If water is ou low
grounds by all moans arrange to toed
aud havo the hogs sleep ou higher
.ground.
Don't dump the graiu all iu a pile,
but scatter it well among the litter on
the floor of your heu house. Make
the heus work for it It will do them
more good, and they won't get so fat
aud lazy, ' A lazy hen is never a good
layer, any moro than a lazy woman ia
a good housekeeper.
If the pigs sleep iu a shed in sum
mer great oleaulinoss is necessary.
Besides reuioviug all dirt with shovel
and by thorough drenching with
water, ubuudanoo of carbolic acid and
lime should bo sprinkled inside and
outside the shed to- keep it pure, uud
free from disease germs.