An effort will bo made to oultivatQ the sugar beet in the South. Texas isharder on shoe leather "per capita" than any other State in the Union. Professor Graham Bell's claim that ho "can talk a million miles on a sun beam" sounds to tho Chicago Booord like moonshine. Tho common belief that fina white bread contains less nutriment than coarse brown broad is a mistake. So says M. Girard, tho eminent French chemist. Tho German law now requires that contracts for futures in agricultural products be made a public record, and subjects all dealers iu futures to a substantial tax. The law is intended to entirely suppress speculative deal ings in produce. Svys the American Agriculturist: "Wo believe none of the reports to tho faviugs banks commissioners of our Middle States classify the occupa tions of their depositors aud borrow ers. It would be highly interesting to havo these facts, as without them it i 3 not possible to tell to what ex tent agriculturists avail themselves of the savings banks. At the congress of the deaf mutes lately held in Geneva, tho surprising fact was developed that these unfor tunates iu general disapprove of tho comparatively now labial system of instruction which in mauy schools has been substituted for tho old method of digital signs. Many speakers, employ ing the latter method, argued very lucidly against tho innovation. Only one ndvocatod it. The majority said that the reading of tho lip 3 never gives to the deaf mute an exact idea of tho thought or sentiment which it is desired to express. It is to them very much as the reading of a dead language is to those who can bear, but can only vaguely understand it. Tho digital language, thoy declared, was that which was most natural to deaf mutes. These views are a great dis appointment to many who havo sup posed that the toaohing of the labial system was one of the greatest booms ever bestowed upon thoso who can neither hear nor talk. The distinguished soientist, Lord Kelvin, who has been termed the "prince of living physicists," has placed on record this confession: "One word characterizes tho most strenuous of tho efiorts for tho ad vancement of science that I have made perseveringly for fifty-five years; that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force, or of the relations between ether, electricity and pondornble matter, or of chemical affinity, than I knew and tried to teach my students fifty years ago, in my first session as professor." Yet Light ning, a London paner, suggests that Kelvin's failures may may be more fruitful than some men's successes. It likens the modern physicist's humility to that of the great Newton when he compared himself to a child playing on the beach, and adds: "The riddle of the universe is scarcely nearer being solved now than it was in 169G, and if our mathematical tools are better tempered than those then used, they have tougher metal to cut." Spain is having her hands full with her colonies, exclaims the New York Independent. In addition to the war in Cuba there is considerable disturb ance in Puerto Itico, but more serious still is tho revolt in t'ue Philippine Islands. For years these have been a source of much revenue to the home Government and very little expense. Tho exports of tobacco and hemp, as well as of coffee, cotton etc., have been very heavy, and tho Government has been a curious mixture of Spanish despotism and local self-government. The original inhabitants havo almost disappeared; and tho Malays, who have to a great degree taken their place, are for the most part quiet, in dustrious, iuoflensive people. Of late years numbers of Gbiueso have coma in from Hongkong, and tboy and the Mestizoes (children of Ghincso fathers and Malay mothers) form the most aggressive element. A number of these, it is supposed, in connection with filibusters from Hongkong and secret societies in Japan, perhaps brought over from Formosa, have taken advantage of tho small number of Spaniards aud the weak garrison at Muni'ila, have raised a revolt, and, so far as can be learned from tho meager dispatches, havo seriously endangered the Spanish rule. Troops havo been sent from Barcelona, but it will be some time before they eau reaeli their destination. Merchants havo been warned aguiDst shipping goals to tho Philippines, and a British war ship re mains at Manilla to protect British subjects. 1 THROUGH FIELDS OF CORN, In solemn hush of dewy mom, "What glory crowns the fields of corn! A joy and gladness in tho land Tho lithe, green ranks of beauty stand; Broad-acrod vales from hill to hill Tho lifted plumes and tassels fill, While birds sing in tho cool, sweet morn Through fields of corn. Like palms that sha lo a hidden spring The reeded columns sway and sing; The broathlug censers swing aiwav, Tho leafy cymbals clash and play, And when tho breezy voices call, The sea-grown billows rise and fall, Aud inusic swells and joy is born Through fields of corn. To fields of corn tho summer bring 3 The rustling blades, tho blackbird's wing, Theshardel locust's strident tune, And idle raven's mocking rune, Tho bobolink's exulting strain, And cuckoo prophesying rain In low, sweet whistle in the morn Through fields of corn. In bannered fields of corn unfurlol God grows the manna of tho world; Ho waits to bring the yellow gleam, The harvest song, the reaper's dream; And stili A3 through tho Syrian gold Of Galilee, in days of old, lie loads again this Sabbath morn Through fields of corn. -—Benjamin P. Loggott. TWO HEAKTS' NI?thello is not nhsurb, but Othello rehearsing herself 1 Ho would tell her that ho was ready to stand by his 'promise; aud then he tried to imngino tko look in Sibylla Ashley's eyes when a man told her, in effect, that he did not want her, but would take her if she insisted. That flash of lightning which almost bliu ed him as he reached the Ashley gate was pale in comparison. For a moment ho thought of riding by. Ho wanted to postpone the in terview—ho needed inoro time for thought. Then ho threw his head up and his shoulders back as he turned his horse and rode through the gate. "It is the act of a brave man or of a coward; I shall not make it the act of a cowa.d," he said. After Sibylla had been left alone sho sat for awhile and wondered how Jul ien would leoeive her letter. Perhaps he would come out in the evening. She hoped he would not. Sibylla wanted to hear no entreaties; sho dreaded a scene. It would be so much better if 0 ulien would write a sorrowful, manly noto and accept her decision. Tuen they could meet after that as friends. Of course, he would be unhappy for a long time; she expected that. It made Sibylla herself feel a little sad, now that it was done. But that would soon pass. Sho wondered how far Chrissy was on the road, and if Julieu would be at the hotel when she arrived. She went down stairs and walked on the lawn as far as tho gate, where she had so often parted from him. She saw the rain clouds gathering and returned to her room. Sho tried to read but could not. She heard the sound of a horse's hoofs below the window and looking out her lips turned pale. Julieu was riding up tho drive. He must have galloped all the way from the towu, she said, as she hurried from the win dow to her mirror. Julien threw his bridlo to Absalom, who was hopping about on one foot before tho door. In the hall he met Letty, who with seared eyes told him that Sibylla was at home, and ran up stairs to warn her sister. When Sibylla entered ho was at the window. She closed the door and stood looking at him in silence. The color had not yet returned to hex cheeks, and .Tulien, she saw, was very pale. For a long moment they stood looking into each other's eyes. "Will yon not give me your hand, Sibylla," Julien said at last in a voice unlike his own. "Why should I not do so?" she said kindiv, and advancing placed her hand in his. "i'erhaps after to day, Sibylla, you will never give me your hand again, for the woi'ds I have coma to say to you are surely the hardest that man can speak to woman." She drew her baud away quiokly. "Ho not say them then," she said with all her old imperiousness—"l forbid you I"—then in an altered voice: "Julien, I havo been a weak or a wicked woman, perhaps, but remem ber lam a proud woman. I know all that you have to say. Don't reproach me." Ho stared hard at where she stood, looking at him with kindly, sorrowful eyes; then sank trembling upon a chair. She had read what was in his mind tho instant she entered the room. AVhat a marvelous sym pathy existed betwoen them! She was making his task easy, but oh, how doubly hard 1 "How long havo you known this,' Sibylla?" he asked after a while. "How long? How can I measure it by time?" she said with a touch of im patience. "It was days, weeks ago that I became cousoious of that in lo anable something which had oj.u: ue tweeu ns. f felt that wn wore grow iug iu.vajr ujjufii, aud 1 u.dd to draw myself nearer yon. Ye?, I tried. liut even wh.u I was most aftectiouate, cveii when you held 1110 closet, I felt it most strongly - oh, miserable sham and pretence; Juiien, von make mo speak of it?" ".Sibylla, it was not sham and pre tence—-it was real—while it lasto I it was true." "Think so if you can; even truth has its phases and mutations I sup pose." Then she added more gently, "I want you to lielievo the best of me." Captain Booth bent his head and covered his eyes with his hand. He attempted to speak, but only succeeded in mnking a sound like a groau. Sibylla rose and stool beside him. "Julien," she fluid, "I am not wont to speak slightingly of myself, but I am not the woman to make you happy. AU my lifo I have baea humored aud indulged. I should havo demanded much from you and should not havo been satisfied with le3s" —hi 3 very thought. "Somewhere thero is an other woman who will make you a better wife thau I—" "Not that—Sibylla—lhink any th'ng but that—l swear thero i 3 no other woman I" "Not now; but thero will be one day, of course." Ho was silent a moment. "You do not dispiso me Sibylla?" he asked in a low voice. "Despise you—despise you, Julien?" She touched his hair eoltly. "I honor and respect you more thm any mau I over knew." Captain Booth raised his head and gazed at lier with adoring oye.s. Then, us ho continued to look upward into her calm, lovely faoe, ,ho slid slowly from his chair an I fell on his knees before ber. Ho bent his head, and taking tho hem of her robe tenderly and as though it were a sacred thing, ho raised it to his lips. Then he stood up, took a few steps backward, with head inclined, and was gone. It was a beautiful, triumphant end ing to tho interview she had so dreaded, and it satisfied Sibylla Ash ley. As the door closed behind.Julien she suddenly realized that the rain was falling iu torrents. Could she, after that maguilieent exit, call after him to get uu umbrella from tho rack, but to bo careful no{ to tithe-tho heavy black silk one because it was her grandfather's, aud ho never lent it? How ridiculous 1 Swiftly she cro3so 1 the room and opened the door. "Jtilien, I cannot let you go in the rain," she said. Captain Booth was at the front door. He did not trust himself to speak, but waved his hand without turning his head. The door closed behind him, a tremendous clap of thunder shook the house. Stbylla ran back into the parlor, throw hersolf upon a 6ofa and burst into tears. Julieu walkod rapidly toward the barn after his horse. He heard a pat tor of bare feet aud becamo aware that a small colored girl was running beside him trying to hold a big ging" ham umbrella over his head. "You're never goin' to ride out. in his rain, Capt'nßooth,"cried Absalom from the hayloft as Julieu onterod the ham door. The young man stood for a long time staring out nt the brilliant green of the dripping shrubbery, under neath which the chickens, milled an 1 sullen were huddled. 110 lookod down into Chrissy's swollon face aud brim miug eyes, and wondered vaguely if sho was crying because sho was sorry for him. Then ho looked up at the leaden, streaming sky aud tried to imagiue # what his life was goiug to bo like without Sibylla Ashley. . . , Of what noxious hellebore or night shade had he drunk that he fancied her lacking in tenderness?—this glo rious, beautiful woman whom ho hil just reuouuoed, and whom, he know now, ho loved with all his soul. lie darted out into ths ruin again and strode buck to tho home. Chrissy still ran at his side. Ho pushed the front-door open. The sound of his footsteps on tho hall lloor was drowneJ by the fury of the storin. He hoard Lotty's voice, and then Sibylla's. She was sobbing. "I sent him away in the rain, Hetty. . . . Ho behaved so beautifully— so nobly. ... I did not think it eouhl be so hard." "Don't cry, dear," said Letty. "it is better so, sinco you do not lovo him." "But—but—l do lovo him, I didn't know how much till now that I kavo lost him forever." Tho door opened softly, and Julien stood within the room. Sibylla was lying on tho sofa, her face burict in tho pillows. Letty stood beside her, holding her hand. She dropped it with a start as she saw Julien, who held up a waruing tiugor. "Don't go away, Letty!" sobbed Sibylla, and then using nlmost ths words of Kgypt's miserable and do serted queen, "Don't talk to me—just pity me 1" She reached out gropingly to take Lettv's hand again. Sweet Letty sim ply faded out of the room, and it wa3 Julien's hand that Sibylla clasped. "Letty, I know he will no —never comeback I He said hardly a word, but looked so mi—miserable ! How tight you are holding my hau I —you hurt me, Letty!" She suddenly sat upright. Julien was kneeling beside her, his nr.a was around her waist. A sob wis treuxb - ling on ber lius. Thero rt ust bo an outlet; a lit of hysterical, uodiguiiied weopiug if she pushed him away, and there was his shoulder waiting for her head, so comfortable, so restful a haven. Bsforo she realized it, and by no volition of hers, yet wilh no resist ance, her face was buried there, Ju lien's cheek pressed a -.aiust her own, and his arms held her oloio. "I could mt givj joi up, my dar ing." h- whispered. "An . I c inn at let you go," she sail, bct.veeu her sobs. The stor.u was passing, and there were already glimpses of tho sua be hind the low hanging clouds. The lower part of tho house was very still. Mur mured, fragmentary phrases of tho talk of the two lovers penetrated to the hall, where a ridiculous liltlo liguro in a muddy pink frock lingere 1 uear the parlor-door. "I guess tho trouble's 'bout nil over," thought Chrissy. "It has brought us nearer together, •1 alien," she heard Sibylla say, "ami t shall always hold this day blessed ; i' it let us uovor speak of it again." "Never ngaiu, my Sibylla," Julien's voice made answer. "Dis lettah's no good now," solilo quized Okrissy, us sin drew tho soiled and crumpled envelope from her pocket. "It 'il l jes' make mo' trouble if I hand it ovnh. Dey don't want dat uinttah talked about no mo', au' 1 ain't goiu' to bring it up. I'll jes' go in' put do 010 ting iu dc kitchen lire," Goodey's Magazine. The Beitl of School Chilli-en. It is a lamentable Tact that too liltlo attention is given to ths hygienic sur roundings of the pupils iu the schools, ind by fur too iittlo to the nature of fho food and the maimer of eating, file aim often seems to bo to so prj } paro tho food that it will rojuiro little or no mastication before it is swal lowed, and when solid food is taken it is not sufficiently masticated to prop erly prepare it for tho digestive orguus. Some years ago a doctor re quested many of his patients to report 03 to tho number of bites it required to masticate different foods. He especially desired to learn how much less children chewed the food before swallowiug it thau their parents. Ho got reports from one hundred aud lifly intelligent people, and learned that practico in this regard varies very much, that children generally were entirely too apt to holt their food. To encourage tho habit of cbewing it more thoroughly, ho had advised parents to give tho children chewing gum, much to the disgust of mauy of the parents. Ho thought tho habit of swallowing foo 1 before it was properly masticated tho cause of insufficient nonrisliineut iu ' many cases.— New York Lodger. VICTOKIA'S DAINTY HAND. A delicate bit of scuiptuvo is a model of Queen Victoria's hand, which is still a very handsome one, and is said to have signed more im portant State papers aud been kissed by more important men than tho]hnnd of any other Queen that ever lived. THE NEWEST THING IN LUNCHES. The latest "fad" is to issue invita tions for a meal called -'branch." This means a repast at 11 o'olook a. m., which is sap oiel to he the mi.'.- (lay time between breakfast and lunch. Fashion may be foolish, but it is quite safe to sfcato that if the free lunch had not been knocked out by the Raines law Bueh an epicureau idea would never have been thought of, THE SHORT GIRL. Tho short girl has everything on her side so far as tho men are concerned; a man feels immediately at ease with a short girl, aud to most men that is half the battle. Tho tall girl may be more imposing, but sho cannot coax and pout, and tlouuce into pretty pas sious with the same exocution as tho short girl. No man likes to feel him self dwarfed by comparison with tho girl ho is fond of, and here again the small woman has a decided advantage. The short woman neols a protecting arm in a crowJ, and she doeH not take up so much room in the street cars. Tin! DAINTY TYPEWRITERS. Nearly every typewriter girl keeps a pair of curling tongs in her desk drawers, nud the smartest of thein a canning little alcohol lamp, too. That is why thoy como uptown looking BO trim after a hnrd (lay's worn iu a hot office. No girl, however, likes to havo tho men think that her hair is not nat urally curly, so late each afternoon sho slips out with her paraphernalia in her nands aud visits the offiecs of some kindly tirm of women stenogra phers in tho building. After !> o'clock the rooms of some of those feminine lirmsKeem like an afternoon tea.—New York F.oeorder. WEDDING IN TUB WOODS. A beautiful and unique wedding oc curred recently in the mountain town of Roeklaud, Sullivan County, N. Y., tho details of which have just reached the outer world. The ceremony was performed in tho woods at Clear Lake Cottage, near Beavcrkil), by tho Rev. Thomas K. Bcecher, of Elmira, N. Y., a brother of the lato Henry Ward Bfiechcr, and tho Rev. A. F. Eastmau, also of Elmira. The brido was Miss Theresa C. Hall, who has spent tho most of her summers at this spot, aud tho bridegroom, Lyman V. W. Brown, a Californian, who is a great lorcr o. nature and outdoor life. The spot chosen for tho wedding was on tho wooded shores of tho lake, where encircling trees and vines formed a natural audience chamber, r.rouud wb'eh rooo sloping banks o. ferns aud sbrnb3. A company of about tweuty friends and relatives embarked in small boats about 5 o'clock iu the afternoon and were rowed to this beautiful plaoe. The two ministers stood on the mossy carpet in the centre of tho spot, with the t'rieuds grouped around them. Tho bride and groom camo down a path through the woods and took their positions before the miuisters, and tho nuptial vows were taken. Congratulations and good wishes were showered upon tho newly mar ried pair as thoy stepped down to the shore. Tho bride took her seat iu tho bow of tho boat, while tho husband plied the oars, and they were soon out of sight. It was a seme never to bo forgotten. It presented a picture of an ideal mar riage, celebrated in an ideal way, and in keeping with tho simple tastos and high ideals of tho bride and groom.— New York Herald. MENDING AS A TRADE. One of tho charitable activities of public-spirited women in London that is said to bo doing much good is a "mending guild." Tho probabilities are that there will he one in Now York Eoon. Mrs. L. S. Bainbridge, Super intendent of tho Woman's Branch of tho New York City Mission, think well of it, and intends to orgauizo a guild right away. The intention is to furnish work, in the way of mending and plain sewing, for that class which is always so piti fully promiuent iu largo cities—that of persons who have been reduced iu circumstances, and yet have so much pride that they cannot take employ ment which would ho welcomed by others who always have bceu accus tomed to laboring for others. These reduced women are not lazy. Indeed, they aro eager for work. But they do not know how to procure it, and consequently aro in a state of destitu tion that is worse than any endured by their sisters whoso wants aro more often brought to tho notieo of tho public. In hundreds of families in New York there is a "mending basket" that is never less than lull and running over. There aro garments of all kinds that seem to becomo ragged without rhyme or reason, and that ucvrr yield to the attacks of neollo uud thread' ton auy satisfactory extent. Yet -tbo ld>use'-' wife is anxious tot see the heaps of torn clothing reduced, an I is willing to pay reasonably to: help. She knows, however, that the fiverago seamstress is not of much use in darn ing and patching, and that the work is not likely to bo satisfactory if done by her. Here is the chnnco for the reduced gentlewoman. If the guild comes in to existence it will bring the house wife with the big basket of ragged clothes and the neat-handed woman anxious for work together. The prop osition is that there shall bo an of ficial in connection with the guild who . r-h'llbe h jrsclf a practiced needle j woman, with a proper understanding i of the value of the work to bo done, | and the best kind of person to do it. • The women who need work will give | their names and addresses to the guild, and the officer whose duty it will be to arrange the work and the price to bo paid for it will select tho woman she considers most adapted to a par ticular job. The scale of prices must necessarily bo moderate, but still high enough to reimburse tho worker fairly.—New York Press. GOSSIP. The Woman's Ex -bango in Fhiladel j pbia had receipts of nearly $35,000 in the year ending February I, 13J3, and is free from debt, Mr?. Julia Bradley, of Peoria, 111., has left by will over $2,000,000 for a polytechnic institute to bo associated with tho Chicago Uuiver&ity. Mayor Doran, of St. Paul, Minn., has appointed Mrs. S. V. Root, promi nent in society, a special police officer, possessing full power to make arrests. Mnncie (lad.) young women have u cold feet club whoso newest and most popular amusomen: is a "corn roast," at which the chilly members aro warmed around a lire. Miss May Abraham, tho new English superintendent of factory inspectors, is a beautiful woman of the Semitic type. She began her career as Lady Dilko's private secretary. At the last meeting of tho convoca tion of tho Law Society of Upper Canada, held in Toronto, the legal committee were directed to frame rules providing for the calling of women to tho bar. Even in India tho new woman is bo gin niog to appear. Miss Cornelia So rabjee, i>. A., barrister at law,of Puna, has formed a business partnership with K. P. Gadgill, barrister-at-law, ol tho same place. Mis 3 Eliza Talcott, who has boen n missionary in Japan for twenty-live years, an 1 acted as a nurso in tho Japanese army during the war with China, is visiting her old homo in Rockviile, Conu. Mrs. Heck Meyer, a Scandinavian lady who represented three Scandina vian countries at. the Inter national Woman's Congress at tho World's Fair, is at present a special lecturer at S.ua ford University, California. The death is announced from Paris of tho Countess do Harck, who, under tho Second Empire, occupied a brill iant position at tho court. Owing to a succession of finauciul misfortunes, she had been reduced almost to pov erty. It is not generally known that tho lato Lady Tennyson was herself quite a poet. She set to music many of her husband's songs and it was she who wrote tho rau-sio of the words which were sung at Tonuyson's funeral aud which he dictated on his death bed. In romembranco of the heroic deeds of Miss Edith Ledingham, a memorial is to bo raised in West Ham Cemetery, England, where she is buried. She was second stewardess on board the stermship loua, which caught lire in Septomber last off Clacton-on-S6a. Miss Ledingham tried to save the life of a child which was in tho cabin, bub lost her own in doing so. Mrs. Houdsb, who is known in tho West as the Queen of the Chuoka walla, has made $1,000,000 solely by her own efforts. Her mines yioid her thousands of dollars a month. She is her own geologist, prospector nud superinten dent, and attends to all the details of her business herself. Hue has a beau tiful homo nt Rivcrsido, Gal., and is said to bo a woman of charm and cul ture. FASHION NOTES. TiCftl magenta will bo a very popular member of the color card. Bullous to match belt buckles aro tho latest fcmiuiiiu extravagauce. Rcptilo jewedry his a Btraugo fascin ation for even the most tuni 1 uud re finod women. * The fair golfer has her cote paper decorated with a tiny golf stick, the fiat end of which bears her monogram. As tho season aivancoi velvet rib bon in black aud pretty autumn foli age colors will bo in great use both with dressmakers aud milliners. The greatest novelty in wraps is the model fitted with a back, cut iu threo pieces, with dolman sleeves sewed in witli tbo back seams, but falling loose ly in lront. The collar is in Stuart shr.pe. Japanese crape is an admirable an I inexpensive material for covering pil lows, In dark biue, with large white conventional tiower wandering over it, it is most ofiee.ivo. Both chiutz aud cretouue make pretty pillows, an I tho pillows covered with plain gingham are among favorites of tlio season.