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It oosts from five to Keren cent to
take n bushel of wheat from Dulutb,
Minn., to New York.
Slatin Pasha says that tho slave
trade in Africa is as bad as ever, and
that tbe only way to end it is to con
quer tbe dynasty founded by the
Mahdi.
Rov. Dr. A. J. Zubm, tbe sclontist
of Notre Dame Univorsity, told bis
audience at Pittsburg, X. Y.,the other
day that it "seems impossible to ig
nore the tact that some kind of evo
lution has obtained in the formation
of tbe universe.
General Lew Wallace says that the
future of tbe bicycle depends on tbe
women riders. "If tho use of wheels
wore confined tr tho mon," bo said,
"the fad might spend itself in a sea
son. But when the women take hold
of the bicvele its future is secure.
The transfer of 12,000,000 of tbe
Tilden fund to tbe Treasurer of tho
New York Public Library was a not
able event in the history of tho city,
remarks the New York World., It
ought to make the consolidated lib
raries tbe greatest educational institu
tion in America. And it can hardly
fail to do it if it makes them really
public
The feeling is spreading rapidly in
military circles abroad that the new
rifles with their long "pencil" bullets
re not the best weapons to employ
against savages or half-civilized
troops. The bullets go through those
they hit so cleanly .that the wounds
do not stop the fanatic's rush. What
is wanted on such occasions is a bullet
that "smashes," as one critic puts it.
The supply of natural gas in the old
fields of the East is decreasing stead
ily and materially according to tbe
last report of the Geological Survey.
In rosst places artificial means have to
be used to force tho gas through rripes
to distant points whore not long ago
the natural pressure was more than
sufficient. The total value of the nat
ural gas consumed has fallen from
$22,500,000 in 18SS to $14,000,000
last year. Many factories that used
natural gas for all purposes have re-
turned lately to tbe use of coal. Mean
while now fields are dovelopecd and
prospected in the West which promise
to afford new supplies in great quan
tity; but there is only a certain
amount of natural gas contained in
the earth, and scientific, men agree
that, at the rate at which it has been
used heretofore, it will not last long
at tbe best.
The Boston Cultivator observes:
The year 1893 will be known as the
year of the most valuable oorn crop
ever produced. It is estimated by the
Department of Agriculturo ut 2,000,
000,000 bushels, and worth nearly one
thousand million dollars. Last year's
crop was unusually small, and was
worth only $.00,000,000. The crop
this year was grown on 82,000,000
acres, and as tbe stalks are well worth
82. 50 per acre, $200,000,000 additional
must be set down as the valuo of the
crop. Such a crop as this will do
much to make permanent the era of
prosperity on which tho country is
entering. A considerable . part of the
large oorn orop is grown in tho South
ern States, which have until last year
depended on corn from the North
west. That crop failed last year, and
as a result there is a larger oorn aver
age everywhere than usuul.
Women have been playing in late
years an increasingly important part
in British politics ; never more so, no
cording to the New York Tribune,
' than in the last election. A canvass
of members has been made to ascer
tain their experienoe and views as to
women' usefulness in the campaign.
Practically all of them seem to agree
that women did highly effective work,
though few approve of women speak
ing on pnblio platforms. Of those
who do approve of their thus speak
ing, curiously enough, the most en
tbusiastio is tbe Indian member, Mr.
Bhownaggree, who says: "Tbe more
we have of it tbe better" Most of
them prefer women to take upon them
selves less pnblio but not laborious
tanks. First of all, perhaps, they are
to bunt up and get tbe addresses ol
voters. Then they are to address en
velopes and do other clerical work.
After that they may be engaged in
. house-to-house canvassing. Finally,
tbey may personally bring voters to
the poll. Many members teem to
' think them more effective tean men in
these things, especially in house-to-
house canvassing. Certainly there is
general sgreeuient that women are
doing more and more sueh work, and
Are henceforth to be reckoned as
freat foros in practical politics. '
Echoes.
t heard beyond the hills a olear voice ring
ing,
And rocky heights the tones were backward
Singing,
Each airy summit towering there
Have forth sn answering sound i
And vet so changed It was by oft repenting,
It seemed soma other self had caught the
greeting
And tossed it back with mocking air
And hurried, luaplug bound.
1 heard a word of gossip, lightly falling,'
A little word, but gone beyond recoiling
Ho swift from Hp to Hp It flow,
Caught in the social gsle
Itut when the echoing sound eama backward
stealing
Each voice had added somewhat In reveal
ing,
So that a listener scarcely knew
Tho author of the tale.
Anna B. Patten, In Boston Transcript.
An Incentive to Effort.
"Of course you will have a good
timo; I realize that Just as well ns
anybody. What do you take mo
for?" And blythe,kind-hearted Marion
Harris finished tying her bead up with
a napkin preparatory to the morning's
sweeping, which she invariably in
sisted upon doing, much to the disgust
of her sisters.
"But, Mariou ; just reflect. What
will folks think? You ought to have
respect enough for ma to do ns sbo
desires not to mention tbe obedience
which as a daughter you owe her. You
know just as well as I do that every
body will say that you stayed at borne
just to keep pa company ; and tbe
henrtlcasncss of the Harrises will have
to be dilated upon.ns it has often been
before, just oil account of your obsti
nate capers," Aud Miss Belle Harris
turned from the contemplation of tho
little figure iu evident disgust.
"That's so, is it?" laughed Marion,
with a defiant twirl of the broomstick.
"Well, let's give Mrs. Grundy credit
for telling tho truth, then. The Har
ris family is a heartless family. Some
times I have been puzzled with that
family myself, albeit, I nm a member
of it. It ha,s never happened since I
was old enough to remember, that
father has had a week's leisure in tho
summer ; and yet the dear old fellow
is left to take care of himself from
June until Octobor.ono-third of every
year, with ns little remorse as though
ho wore a dog to whom a bone could
be tossed, instead of the precious hus
band and father we all know him to
be. By tho powers ! If ever I got a
husband I'll never leave him, or lot
him leave him; and then father can
come and live with us. There is one
thing certain, whatever happens, I re
main at hornet So now, please va
mose, and allow your younger sister
the privilege of kicking up a dust."
Harmon Laight told me tbe other
day, that ho had docidod to accom
pany our party wherever it determined
to go this season. So just see what
you will miss by your obstinacy.
"Humph, miss 1 miss what? A cane
a stale operatic criticism a 'Bon
jour, Miss Harris.' If I don't havo a
rest it will bo beoauso I have lost my
senses."
"And do yon mean to toll me you
don't like Harmon?" put in her sister,
apparently a littlo surprised.
"I can conceive of a Harmon
Laight who would bo absolutely glo
riousa man one could love to doath
a bright, spiritualized, earnest
reality. Aud now the broom forgot
to twirl, and tbe littlo dimity-covered
bead, with a wave of hor deliciously
golden hair pooping out from its im
maculate prison-house, leaned dreami
ly against tho handle of the dust-rais
ing weapon, and continued:
"I wouldn't give fig for a man
who isn't mauly. I believe I bate
fashionable men, anyhow; but there
is something about Harmon Laight
that few men possess, and I'm blessed
if I know what to call it Sometimes
it appeurs to me like the essence of
nobility, and then it makes me sad to
note the bad effects of bad educa
tion. I think that tbe good that was
born in bim has been almost entirely
obscured, from the fashionable Biipcr
floial and conventional training he has
reoeived from bis haughty mother,
and the false lit'o be has boeu com
pelled to live. I have wished for
more than a year that ho was some
relative of mine, ao that I oould give
him a pieee of my mind."
"What little sense you bad to begin
with baa taken leave entirely, I see.
I like Harmon just as he is. He is
handsome, intelligent, perfectly au
fait iu the ways of the beau niondo,
and refreshingly good natured. Why,
a woman oould scold away all day at
Harmon Laight, aud bu'd never think
of such a thing as talking back I Aud
hotter than all, he is to inherit heaps
of money."
"I wish that old unole he is eternally
talking about would leave every dime
of bis money to somebody else; just
push Harmon out into the oold. I
believe it would be the making of
him. But, oome now ; make tracks or
I shan't get my work done today. One
thing is sure, as Harmon Laight
stands today in true manliness and In
tellection, to a sensible woman he can
be nothing more nor less than bore,"
And with this parting shot, the broom
wns set in actual motion, and Bolln, iu
order to save her fair hair from the de
filement of dust, was forced to retreat
ignominously. Ju it at that moment,
young gentleman, in a white suit,
with a face upon which consternation
and disappointment were both written
might have been seen passing steal
thily out the hall door of the Harris
brown stono mansion, walking quickly
and shamefacedly away. This wss
Harmon Laight Finding the door
ajar, and beingt on intimato terms
with the family, ho bad passed quietly
in, intending to surpriso tbem; but
up to this time the sirpriso had bocn
quite a one-sided affair.
"This bents the Dutch!" bo mut
tered, after a corner or two had been
turned, and ho felt himself in safe dis
tance from tbe cnomy's camp. "This
is a shower bath I little expected ; but
every word is as truo as tho Gospel;
nnd the worst of it is I have always
realized it. Jerusalem ! what is a fol
low iu such a fix to do? I cnu never
look the girl in the face agniu until I
have resolved npon something.
Twenty-four years old, and never did
a day's work iu my life! not because I
was too lazy to work, but because my
lady mother oonsidored nil labor ig
noble; nnd the consequence is, I am a
laughing stock for sensible people as
fools. I'll go at something! see if I
don't, Harmon Laight! if it is nothing
more exalted than carrying mortar.
There is ouo thing I am thankful for,
that she believed tliero was a spark of
good iu me. 'The essence of nobility,'
sho called it. Au essence now without
flavor! I'll give it an odor yet, if it
bo as common as tho odor of the cs
senco of peppermint!" And moro au
noyedthan be over dreamed it possible
ho could beoomc, Harmon Laight
locked himself iu his room, nnd gave
himself up to earnest thought One
result of this self-communion wns a
letter recoivod by Mariou the follow
ing day which ran nfter this stylo :
"Miss Mariou You have awakened
me to a humiliating sense of my real
character. I have always been nwnre
of my mental and moral deformity,
but until now have lacked tho proper
incentive to healthy ami honost action.
Bid mo Ood speed my fricud! I shall
never again enter your presence until
I feel in somo degree worthy your
notice ; nnd have rubbed out, I trust,
the singularly expressivo and truthful
title of 'bore.' In all kindness,
Harmon Laioht."
"That accounts for tho ball door
being opou yesterday. He must have
overheard every word I said." And
Marion re-read the littlo note, while
a tear trembling among the brown
lashes, and a quiver of tho arched lip,
almost gave the lioto M irion's declar
ation of "I'm glad of it."
"I should havo said this to bis face
and more kindly," she murmiffed.
"I have heard q leer nows of Har
mon Laight today," said Mr. Harris
to bis daughter, as they sat at the tea
table alone, a few days after tho above
occurrence the family having de
parted for Saratoga. "He starts for
California on Saturday. 'Going into
business,' his friends say. 'Going to
work,' be says. The idea of associat
ing lubor with that hot houso plant is
too ridiculous for anything," aud tho
old gentlemen laughed heartily. "His
uncle Rulph read mo a letter today he
had rocoivod from the foolish fellow,
which proves conclusively to mo that
he has lost whatever littlo sense he
bud,' to begin with. He declined the
honor of being his uncle's heir, begged
bim to do some good with his money
while bo was liviug,suggostod the plan
of establishing a truiuiug school for
girls. Very good letter ; but, good
gracious, so confoundedly unpractical!
But what the dickens is the matter
with you?
Marion was sobbing.
"Oh, father, there is lots of good in
bim, but I have driven him from his
home." And Marion, sitting upon her
father's knee, gavo him a dotailod ao
oonnt of the affair.
"Humph 1" muttered tbe old gen
tleman, holding his pet obild at arm 'a
length. "I hope my little girl will
make sensible choice of the mau she
takes for better or worse." -
"What father?" and Muriou wiped
away the tears and looked hor puront
full in tbe fuoe.
"That's what I said child, and that's
what I mean. It is a little strange
that you should have dived deep
enough with that follow to have dis
covered the little spark of good hidden
under the orust; but love ia very onte,
I shall lose you one of these days."
"Nonsense, father," was all she
oould say.
A year passed. Letters came oc
casionally from the wanderer. He was
doing well ; always sent kind remem
brances to Marion. Wrote hopefully
and with an earnestness nnd force
which alarmed bis lady mother ex
ceedingly. Another summer rolled
around with its sunshine and flowers.
Tho Harris family, with the exception
of Marion and her father, were again
nt Saratoga. '
"Just one year today," said Mar
ion, "I stood, broom in band, pitch
ing into Bulla aud Harmon, and the
dirt, all at the same timo. Poor Har
mon I"
"Miss Marlon, a gentlomnn to see
you," and the servant opened tho
door.
' 'Harmon P nnd down went the
broom, and utterly forgetful of bare
arms and head, Mariou gave him both
her bands.
"Marion, yon darling littlo house
hold augoll tell me yon believe iu
me. Trust me, and then I will assure
you I am worthy of that trust"
A little cough, a big bunch in tbe
throat, a frantic effort to swallow it,
and this iuoeutivo to manly effort
burst into tears, nnd well, Hurmon
took her in his arms and kissed hor,
just ns any other sensible man would
havo done.
They were married a month ago,
and father Harris is spending the sum
mer nt their residence on Long Island.
New York News.
Smuggling.
It is curious to see how many good
people engage in smuggling with an
ease of conscience that is astonishing.
Good church members would feel that
thoy were unredeemed iudeed nnd
willful "partners in tho fall" if they
took a small red apple from tho fruit
stand. They wrestle mightily with a
temptation to use a postage stump
from a friond's desk whon a guost in
the houso aud given tho freedom of
the dusk for correspondence. Thoy
might use costly stationery ad libitum
nnd split n gold pen without a qualm
of conscience; but whore is tho man
or woman of evory-duy respectability
who would fail to produce two copper
cents nnd offer it ou the shrino of con
science for using a postage stninp?
Yet tlieso same good folk teuder-soulod
iu other matters, will smuggle with
alacrity, aud cheat, aud lie, aud swin
dle Uncle Sam with a smiling light
hearteduess that is iuoxplicablo.
As overy una of the steamers ap
proaches her wharf tho passengers ap
pear, ono by one, before tho olllcersof
tho United States government to ask
and answer questions concerning tho
contents of their trunks. Tho ques
tions are simple, tho amount of goods
allowed by law not altogether nig
gardly, yet hundreds and thousands of
people lie with tho greatest facility,
concoal costly dutiablo purchases aud
openly bribe tho customs officers.
"Nono of tho big people who come
home let thoso horrid officers go
through thoir trunks and tumblo up
their things. Just give any ono of
thorn $10 and you o in have your trunk
sent up to your hotel nntouohod, and
you need not wait for it, either."
This frank statement on the part of
a travelor is au example of the atti
tude ofton taken. But thero nro still
some people who reoognize tho old-
fashioned principle that a law is a
law, that to ovado it is criminal, and
"slip a bill iuto a customs officer's
baud" is corruption of ono's self nnd
bribery of the man. Boston Tran
script
Honey Ants.
Honey ants have recently been dis
covered iu Natal. They belong to a
genus different from thoss of our
Western States, whose houey-produo.
iug workers have spherical, enormously
swollen abdomons filled with honoy.
In tho Natal ants there aro very fow of
these workors in proportion to the
entire colony; and whilo a few had
very large round abdomens others had
abdomens in various degrees of dis
tension, showing that tbe dogreo of
absolute distension is gradually ar
rived ut This is tbe first African
honey aut yet discovered. Besides
our Western speoies, others ooour in
South America, Southern Australia,
and, it is said, in India. New York
Independent '
Embarrassing Popularity.
At one time the Duke of Welling
ton's extreme popularity was rather
embarrassing. For instance, on leav
ing borne each day, be was always in
tercepted by an affeotionute mob, who
insistod ou hoisting bun ou thoir
shoulders and asking where they
should carry him. It was not always
oonvonient for bim to say where ha
was going, so he used to say : "Carry
me home, carry mo home;" aud so
bo used to be brought homo half a
dozen times a day a few minutes aftoi
leaving his own door. Argonaut,
FOR' FARM A5D GAROEX.
CntCRRNS AND FLOWER BEDS.
Feed your poultry well, and loosen
the ground in some tempting place for
their dust bath. Do this aftor each
rain. Give them a damp place to scratch
in whon the wenthor is dry. Oive thum
some pounded bona, nnd green food,
and in every way lesson tho temptation
to try whnt your garden has for thorn.
lo not blame a laying bun if she has
to hunt for egg material, but help bor,
and you may enjoy your floweri in
peace. Womankind.
nun b tots ox cream.
When cream is raisod in a damp
place or iu any place that is moldy,
red, round spots are often seon on it
This is a peculiar fungus that livos,
grows and feeds upon milk, or chocse,
and is quito common iu cheese fac
tories aud dairies. It is accompanied
by, or it causes, a cortaiu decomposi
tion in the milk or chocs;) that devel
ops a cheesy flavor and bonce it is in
jurious in a butter dairy. It accom
panies tho oommon blue mold, and
eithor of these should not ba per
mitted to grow in milk houses. The
result is a disagreeable flavor in the
butter made from such cruatn.aud tho
rapid spoiling of tho butter. It miy
be prevented by keeping tho milk
houso or collar dry,or by fresh white
washing it, mixing half a pound of
copperas in tho wash. Tho cellar
may bo dried by , keeping a a nail
quantity of fresh limo in it, aud chang
ing it when it has booome slacked.
This takes up the moisture of the air,
nnd so dries tho whole place. New
York Times.
TIME TO nUI AND TIME TO SELL.
The right time to sell the products
of the farm is when they are ready to
sell and when time can be bad to haul
them to market, writes nu observant
farmer. ' The right time to buy auy-
thing is when it is needed nnd you
havo tho money. Poor ltichnrd once
said that anything bought because it
wns cheap, and not because it was
needed, proved dear to its purchaser.
I once was persuaded to buy a colt at
a sulo, by a remark of tbe auctioneer
that tbe oolt would pay the note
twelvo mouths henco with money
euotigh loft to buy another. When
the time arrived for paying tho noto,
the colt would not sell for enough to
pay it nud I had to touch the bank
account a tritle to got tho note back.
Have lot tho othor fellow do tho spec
ulating iu this lino since that transac
tion. Selling well and at the oppor
tune momont, nnd using good horse
senso in buying what is needed, be
long to modern agriculture. Econom
ics should bo the first branch studiod
by our farmer's sons.
BOIL MOISTUI1E.
This soason is adding abundantly to
the ovidonce that soil moisture is one
of tho greatest factors in crop pro
duction. On millions of acres of laud
naturally fortilo and not exhausted by
bud farming, land which has boeu
woll cultivated, thero aro poor orops
because thero has not beeu sufficient
rainfall. With our present knowledge
tho farmer is powerless so far ns ob
tolute prevention of injury is cou
corned in such oases, but ho can do
much to roduoo tho extent of tbe in
jury by first getting tho soil in condi
tion to readily take the rainfall as it
comos, and then reducing evaporation
nnd neodloss use of tho soil moisture
as far as possible. In some cases
mulohiug tbe surface is the best thiug ;
iu caso of most orops which can be
cultivated, frequent shallow cultiva
tion, leaving tho s urfaco nearly level
aud finely pulverized, will be tho best
means of reducing evaporation, as
preventing the growth of woods and
all plants we do not want is the best
mothod of preventing needless use of
tho moisture. Pruirio Farmer.
8ECOXD GROWTH SORC1IU M.
When sorghum is cut down early in
the season, or in timo for second
growth from the stubble, it is assorted
that this lato product is dangerous to
cattle if they are allowed to feed upon
it in tho field. A recent iustunoe of
injury to cows is reported in the Ne
braska Farmer. The owuer of some
oows having turned them out to browse
this soooud growth, soon discovered
that thero was something wrong with
the animals, and before thoy could be
driven from the Hold two died. Eleven
others died soon afterward. Our No
braska contemporary says that this ia
one of the things that ought to be
widely - kuowu omong farmers, thut
there is developed in growth sorghum
a very aotive poison, and that it is al
ways dangerous to turn cattle at largo
iu fields oontainiug it This may be
true, but wo doubt it very much, for
it would be a rather anomalous freak
of a plant to be first hormloss and then
noxious from the same root all in on
season. The State experiment sta
tions should look into this matter and
report results. New York Sun.
COTTON REED FOB MILCH COWS),
Thero has been and is still a great
diversity of opinion among dairymon
n regard to the value of cottonseed
meal for feeding milch oows. Some
have reported adversely as to its value
and effect upon the butter, but others
bolicve that it is equal, if not superior,
to any kind of grain for makiug the
best of butter. We now have a re
port diroct from an experiment sta
tion iu a cotton-growing state, that is,
from Texas, and Prufossor Soule sums
up his experience with this food aa
follows;
1. Cottonseed and its products In
crease and maintain the milk flow,
2. It maintains tho per cent of fat
n tho milk.
3. It enables churning to be done
nt higher tomperatnres, thus largely
taking tho plaso of iee.
4. It roudors tho butter harder to
color, salt evjnly and print satisfac
torily.
5. It gives the butter a more grensr KJ
appearance, a stiff, waxy oonsistenoe,
and a flat and somewhat tallowy taste.
0. Those defect) however, are not
marked, and have been highly exag
gerated by magy ; aud since cotton
seed and its products are soohoap and
valuable as food for dairy cattle, it is
poor economy not to use it more free
ly.
niB DUCK AND TUB HEN,
The question is repeatodly asked,
"Which is the more profitable, the
duck or the hen?" In order to deeide
this matter an enterprising poultry
man, P. II, Jacobs, Hamilton, N. J.,
made a test. The result is reported
as follows :
At a week old the duckling weighed
four ounces, while the ohiok only
reached two ounces. At two weeks
old the duckling reached nine ounces,
and the chick four ounces. ' At
three woeks, duckling one pound;
chick, six nud a quarter ounoes. At
four weeks, duckling one pound and
nine ounces; chick, ton ounces. At
five weeks, duckling two pounds and
two ounces; chick, fourteen ounces.
At six weoks old, duokliug, two pounds
and eleven ouueos ; chick, one pound
and two nud a half ounces. At seveu
weeks old, duckling, throe pounds and
five ounoes; chick, one pound and .
seven and a half ounces. At eight
weeks old, duckling, four pounds;
chick, one pound aud twelve ounoes ;
At nine woeks old, duokling, fonr
pounds aud eight ounces; chick, two
pounds.
So it can bo seen that the same time
woight of tho chick was doubled by
that of the duck. Tho prices for
dressed ojreasses ruu-vory olose to
each other, so that the increased prico
per pound makes the profits on tho
duck greater, although it takos abont
twice the amount of food to grow
thorn. Poultry Keeper.
FARM AND (1AKDEN NOTES.
Feed all the growing stook liber-
all v.
Let the pigs soe what the orohard
looks like.
Keop good collar on tbs horses ia
hot weather.
Don't loavo tho horse during fly
time without first covering him with a
light blanket
Do your part towards keeping the
roads in good repair, and. perhaps
yonr neighbor will take the hint
Keep tho hen houses olean and
swoet Fresh earth bouutifully spread
uuder the roosts is a wonderful help.
Tho Wyandottes and Plymouth
Bocks are both good farni breeds:
thoy are good layors and excellent for
the table.
The dairyman who dumps a mass of
decayed garbage before his oows, for
ooonomy's sake, is iujuring his cus
tomers more than if ha diluted his
milk with water.
This is the time when weeds aro
forming thoir seeds with whioh to
trouble yon another season. Destroy
as many of them as possible before
they are ripe enough to grow.
There is no genoral purpose breed
of fowls. One will be better for eggs
than for market, and another will ba
better for market than for eggs. Study
your market and choose accordingly.
For protecting fruit trees from rab-v
bits, probably the easiest and cer
tainly a very effective mothod is to 1
rub axle grease on the trunk. Or in
the early part of the season kill a rb.
bit, out it open and rub the raw flesh
on the bark. If the winter ia very
severe this will not save tho trees, -Binding
the trunk with straw, laths
or screen wire ia effective.