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ii*a n*oNcmjw. Tkochk»' nrr f tor Ao reliet of Jloavwoww or Sort rv are eiteee^ing^ «ffec(rve.”— bn YPoMi LofiOtm, Knfj. \ . Thk Co'imeoticat Fisli CoinAisslonere will Mock Ihe streams ol the State with 1,500,00(1 Iry. M. L. Thompson & Co., Di tx>rt, Ha., say Hall’s Catarrh . »nd only sure cure for catarrh Druggists sell it, 75c. rnggisU Coaders. h (Jure is the best Th they ever sold. . Tm* o)M8 of 'H, it Williams, wfll ba th« Hipest eve^ gradnated from that eollaM. ' BMUh’s Cm Th* Kansas wbsat outlook is reiardsd aa tmXaTOrable. • Kafflicted with soratjssartDr.t<a'oThom» •saWKre water, DrunrisiassU at tSo per botua Hr. A. J. Davenport Milton, N. J. Afflicted with Baits Hood's Sarsaparilla Clears the Blood and Gives Health. “Largo bolls broke out all over my face and neck. Different medicines did not affect a cure. I was at last advised to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla regularly and faithfully. 1 yie’ded to his advice and when 1 had taken three bottles my face and neck were free from all eruption?. I have been i orfectly Hood’s w parilla Cures cured nnd am now in excellent health, and confidently Hay that Ilood’a Sarsaparilla i, a wonderful hloo l purifler." A. J. i>AV- knpoht, Milton, New Jersey. Ilnaifs PillH cure all Ilrer till, bllloinnoM, Jaundice, Indlee ti *, tick headache. 2S cents. PATENTS ■ «u> . o(> l-rrTMOMAS r. ^l.wrHON, .. T,-r ’ * H «ihiartctn, P. C. Kn a ir*» fee ur* . # Rtea. f»btai' Ptl.Wr.te for Inventor** OpKb W. L. DOrQLAS 93 8HOB lequals custom work, costing from T $4 to $5, best value lor the money { in the world. Name and price 1 stamped on the bottom. Kvery ^ pair warranted. Takenosubsti. Cute. See local papers for fun description tft our complete "ncs for ladies and gen. tlemen or send for //. lustraUd CmtalfMi i : ‘.ructions haw to or der by mail. Postage frae. You can get the bea bargains of dealers who push our shoes. Your Strength Renewed AND YOUR RUNDOWN SYSTEM BUILT UP AND REORGANIZED./ A few bottles of 8.8.8» will do It. If you art troubled with a depress ed, languid feeling, and lack of energy, your blood is not right, and needs purifying. Will thoroughly clear away all im purities and impart new vigor and life to the whole system. *‘1 have used your medicine often for the past sight years, and feel safe in saying that It Is tha best general health restorer In the world.” S'. H. GIBSON, Batesville, Ark. ©or Trestise on Blood and Skin disease* mailed free: SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY' AtiuU.I*. Unlike Uii Dutch Proem No Alkalies — OR — Other Chemicals are used In th. preparation of w. BAKER a CO.’S ireakMCocoa which It absolulttp l>ur» and tolublt. I it hr,s more (Ann three timet | ti. - etrenuth of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or ' Is far more eeo- Sujtar, ami I t a cup, Mas U.S noffilcal, cut Inf tern thu^- one cm ft Is delicious, soBrisbipa. and MOISTED. J „• SoM bf ererersjtTtrywfcsra. W. BAKER & CO., Dorcheiter, ir«s^ A Ruddy Glow on cheek and brow is evidence that the body is getting proper nourishment. When this glow of health is absent assimilation is wrong, and hea^H is letting down. Scott’s Emulsion taken immediately arrests waste, regardless of the cause. Consumption must yield to treatment that stops waste and builds flesh anew. Almost as palatable as viilk. Prepared by Scott 4 Down©. N. Y. All drociriMt* $12n$35 A WEEK: Cub be m vde working for ue. Parties preferred who can auruish a horse and travel r through tbs country; a team, . thoujb, Is not necessary. A _ i few vacancies In towns and cities. M« n and women of good character wilt find this an exceptional opportunity for prodtable em- u oyment. Sjore hours may ho used to good . Ivan* tag*. B. F. JOIINHON Ac CO.. lltk and Main Sta., Klcbmoud, Va. 8 N U 20 I CauamptlTC. end peep!, vho hare ve.k Iasi, or Auh- ■M.aboDhlnis PUo'a Cure for CouiampttOD. Jt hu car.* la. ft haa not inior- Jt It not bad to t^a. tha tail cough ayrap. " ararywhwa. M«. n ; J M P T ' 0 N. BILL AHFS LETTER. DESCRtrTtON OP THE HOMB Life of Florida folk. Bestows BenedlPttanft Upon the Good Pe**ple hi Clearwater, The place I Baited last in Floi lda wag Wild* Hood. Tlie name dora not ti the loWa, but it does fli the country adj cent on the MMthWeat. I never was In Jnat Inch a dtef tangled wild- wood as that Wbeftih the famous King orange grove is platVe I. Ihe giant monarch! of the forrei etc Ih re tom ring toward the sty, many r.f them eight feet in diameter and one of Ihem Iwe'v,-, and all cppircntlv so id and their it®* mrnso limbs SI recoiling f ,r end wide And th if fv< rgreea foliage hiding the aUntight and cas ing ov. r all a aha 'nw ah I a foar. Undi ineath Ihem was fOMli I a c aparrai of wild oranges, and of these ihe larger on, a were cn' down and th am .Ih r ones were huddid. This pr- duces a Inxnr ona growth of largo neea whrae fo iage is a douse duik grn n r.nd Ihe fruit nf line eolor anl qna’lly. The K tig grove now stands at the head of the 1 at. I otli f .r aereagh and quality. The amount of 1 .bor that it baa taken to anb- due this w ide ness must have been immense, and it slill goes on—Ji e ing and clearing and rjmtliig- 010 acres in oranges does not satis'y Mr. King, and he hui240 m ire coming on. It is jnat Bitch plants that j’io.v the value of the negro. H a muscle, endurance, good heal h an t conti n'ment whil.- doing atloh work ia ad- mir bio. I remember h aring an old blnnt- t-pokeu meWlxr of the legislature say, “Mr. bpoiker, th ae railroids may fool some r« pie, bnt tlicy can’t fool ma. One of ’em gioa right by my hons. and nev r atop, to aay howdy or good nu raiu’. I Wat-bea V m when they was luildin’ it, and I know who <*ouo it, Tito company sold oommon stock and pr. f trod (took, and iann d Bret mortgage bonds tnd ircom: b nda. and they got the Cwtnp to (60,(100 a mile, but moat of that was gnaaago •nd a o 1 ng. The real cost of ibo rood was the sweat of the nigger at a dtdlar a day.’’ Th re is mooh tinth in that the awed of the nigger is the oost of inns'of all the isiln ada, and down hare now ia th ■ cost of all the phos phate plants. Bn* on Is dc of tho h r o towns in Flrrida the negn, Li rarely a en. I s.w Init few in Wildwood, and th"ie are not twenty-Bve in Clear Water. There are hardly nr,ugh to do the cooking and washing. Most of the fam ilies servo Ihrmselvea. Ji.oy do their own c Hiking, and, tiierefare, not much cooking ia done. Yon a<c not invited not to dine. The pc. pie i’o not attach so mnch importance to their a| petilcs as ih y do toother pleasure., nor arc thry bound up hy tlie ruhaot society aa they are in oi ics and old fettled towns.* If <hu.v wiah lo K<> nmalioio they uratk, or else ride is ilia little farm Wag in. There are some buggies, bnt no curriages-no darker sitting up wi ll a heaver on his head and a robe over his tn cs. A man can ait in his pinza with i.isc at off and a woman can wear >n old straw bonnet if she wauls to, and no remark. Mothers 'ake th, ir children to church, bshv aud all, and why shouldn't ihej ? When would they hear preach ing if she dkin'i? I heard a man any not long ago that it always made him ma 1 to ree a woman in church with a baby in i er aims. Well, of conrse, the child does sometimes disturb the congregation but not long for the mothertak a it out, but that woman has per haps b cu tied lo her lions day and night for weeks sewing and cooking and nursing while her husband can go ab ,ut and talk and chat with tho neighbora. No dunbt be ie a very clever, iuduatriona nun and means to be kino, but the wife who is mo'her of young children ia is nnd hand and foot to the hcanhstooe. Then let them go to church, and if the baby crirs let us lie sorry, bnt not mad. How old father time dims slip up on us. Yer- i y the years are all coming this way. I found at Wildwood Andrew Haivey, the on of my old fi iei d, Jit Igo Haivey, of Itou o. When I last saw him l.e wsa Imt a boy g, Ing lo school with my bo a, at d now lie ia Ihe father of a family, < 'paler ftiinT.n,.” Ho is » settled mao and liia wife is a act led woman. Of course, ahe ia setllcd, for five little children will settle any w man, but motherhood is her natural condi tion, and the women who dodge it have lower- isl the standard of tlie sex. Andrew HarveyJa a lea,! ng citizen of Ihe town and tlie superin tendent of tlie Sunday a hool. His home m jn t what a home abonid be and his wifeisahalp- meet ae well aa a helpmate. I was their gn'Wt and nerer felt more at home than when under their roof, and especially at tho r table. Qood gracious! What a Florida dinner waa spread l> f .re ns and what a turkey and what corn bread and bntlermilk. What cream was that on iho grape fruit. There waa a revival meet ing going on in the Beptiat church and I heard good preselling in the daytime, and Ihe preach ers all au-p ndod service at night and honored me with their pretence, and brought the con gregation to hear me talk. That waa kind and unexpected, for sometimes I have had preach ers to warn their flocks against grieving the *nirit by hearing Bill Arp >alk. My thanks to liev. Mr. Porter and to Mr. Farm, r and to the good prepie of Wildwood. Wc left Clear Water list Wednesday. Tim place and Ihe people have onr benedic iona for mr at j urn there has lie n mo-t delightful, and wo will li vc much to talk alH.nt for weeks to come. The re w re no op raa i r theaters or hoi se races or e,invention, or elections, l,at tlie lw.it quiet of the town’aud ike placid waters of Ibo bay were enough to make us feel calm i nd lerciiK by day and by night. Good liralth, good slcip. good appetite and good f ire ought to makn anybody happy. We ate all bronzed an l tanned, and my wife says that when I Hike off my hat I look lik, 1 ha I on a dough fa<e. She said a’so in a whi,p,-r that when ahe was at heme sho didn’t have anything but a mac, for it was always in a comu otion, hut f„r a month past ahe had aim- at forgotten that die hsd a nose. Tho liitlo grandclii'd lias learned to swim an l is so p ond of it that site wanted to bathe tnico a day. C ear Water will miss ua, too, I reckon, for altogether, we krpt things lively and diituilied the lislios and the water a good dca'. The venerab'o Dr. William Brown. D. D., d ed n ar there Ihu day before wc li ft. He was in his eiglity lU.li year and dropped gently to sleep. All Probytcrisua know him aa tlie editor of ihe Cmtral Pro by- lenan, of Richmond, Va., fora long number nf years: a power in tho courts of the chnr.'h and Me of tji« truest and best of men. He preaerved b a mental families to the last and left Ida Meeting on all mankind. •'How Id, st Ihe righteous when he dies) WlictiM If, tho wcaty soul toreat.” — I'ii.i. 'bp in Atlanta Coiistilution. Astoulihoil Mules. “I saw nn odtl sight in Lnzoine Connty a few days ago,” sai l Eokley B. Coxe, of Drifton. “Six mules that had for fonr years hanlod enra in tho lower workings of a coal nit no, -to and from the foot of the shaft, hail to be brought np owing to the Hood ing of tho mine on a tconnt of- lire. Tho males in all that time had seen no light stronger than tho flicker of the little Davy lamps tho miners car- rieda Tho sun was in the Health when they reach the surface, and the atmos phere was as clear as drystal. The astonished creatures closed their eyes to shnt ont the flood of strong light, and kept them tightly closed while they were being driven to a past ure lot, a mile distant, and turned loose. There they stood trembling, as if they worn afraid something evil were about to befall them. Presently they half opened their eyes and peered nronnd in open-monthed amazement. It was clear that they couldn’t under stand it. When they had become accustomed to the sunlight, they elevated thoir heads and slowly swept their gaze over culm piles, sky mountains and horizon, again r.'.td again. Toward sundown they broke into e. chorus of joyous brays, the like of which was never heard from mules before. Aftar a quarter of an hour of tltut music, they took to kicking, jumping,’ whirling around like teetotums, and rolling on the rod as if they hod gone mad. For fonr days they spent thoir time gazing at tho new sights of field and sky, refusing food and water, not even nibbling at the grass and not, us much as blinking an eyo in sleep.” — Philadelphia Times. Seventy thousand professional thieves are said to exist in the United States. FAfttt iftto GARDE*. HEW METHOD OF PR ESSE VINO EOOS. The desirability of (shipping bggfl from Vietori* Id England bos led to the discovery of a new method for pre serving them. They are first nibbed with grease and then placed with brani flour, lime and pollard in small Cases, When opened they are found to be perfectly sweet and fresh. —i World. -New York STIFFNESS IH A WORKING Ol. Overworking and exposure to the weather afterward will easily prodnee rheumatism, and this will canoe stiff ness of the limbs, with pains that move from one limb to another. The treatment in sach a case should be to foment the parts with hot water, and then apply some strong liniment, giv ing thirty drops of tinotnre of aoonite three times at\oy in some acceptable drink, linseed pr oatmeal grnel, for instanoe. The animal must rest from work, bnt moderate exercise will be useful. It should be kept warm and dry.—New York World. QCAl>tTT OF EtKMk There it a great difference in the original quality of eggs, and this has much to do with their capacity for keeping welL Generally, the beat- , „ After the fowls begin to find young gross growing, they wilt pick at and eat it, and of conrse consume lets grain. In summer mnoh of the food is grass and insects. These are not good egg-produoing foods, and though a largo number ol -eggs may be laid, their quality will not be as good as'it is early in in the season. It is not the difference caused by deterioration on account of weather, for an egg cooked the same day it is laid in July is gen erally not so good (is one that is cooked fresh in March or April. lienee there is good reason why eggs should be dearer in early spring. They are better then, and for their price fur nish a cheaper and better food than tho same money invested in meats. The fact may also explain one reason why limed eggs are so generally unsat isfactory. They are always the cheap and poor quality summer eggs. They are inferior when put np, and cannot be expected to improve by keeping five or six months, even whenair is ex cluded. —Boston Cultivator. SEED WHEAT. Heavy weight seed wheat contains a larger quantity of more valuable food materials for the young plant in the form of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash than light weight wheat of the same variety. Experiments at the Minnesota station by H. Snyder show that this additional reserve food is supplied to the yoang plants and pro duces a more vigorous growth. The additional fertilizer material in a bushel of heavy weight wheat is worth from three to five cents more per bushel at the market prices of com mercial fertilizers. Hellriegel in Ger many has also proved that the heavier the seed the more ^vigorous is the young plant, and where there was not nn over-abjindance of plant food in the soil the difference in vigor of the plants are seen even up to the time of harvest. The Minnesota experiments prove that the same characteristic differences that are noted between heavy and light weight seed wheat are observed between healthy and vig- orons, and poor and sickly wheat plants, both in growth nnd yield. The wheat plant takes np over three- fonrths of its food from the soil be fore beading out. Tho soil should be- cultivated nnd managed in such a way so as to supply the growing wheat crop with at least throe-fourths of its mineral foo.l, and seven-eighths of its nitrogen compound before it blooms, which occurs in June or early in July, according to the latitude.—American Agriculturist. TRAINING A HORSE. In training a horse for the saddle, says tho New York World, the animal is made obedient and gentle, and his good qualities best developed, by na- tienco, kindness and encouragems* , nnd, above all, fearlessness; punish ment should bo resorted to only when absolutely necessary. No punishment should be administered to a horse in anger. Under harsh treatment he will first become timid, then sullen, nnd at length violent and unmanageable. As one horse is apt to be governed by the notions of another, well-trained horses that are indifferent to sights and sounds should be interspersed among tho new ones nutil they are al so accustomed to the sounds of tram- pets, beating of drums, tinkling of sabres, etc. E very action of a rider should tendto induce fall confidence that no harm is intended and that nothing bat kind treatment is to ba expected, ’' The horse’s balance and his light ness ia baud depend largely on the proper oarriage of his head sad neck. A yonng horse will usually try to resist the bit, either by bending hie nock to one side or by setting his jaw against the b : t, or by carrying his nose too high or too low. Bending lessons will serve to overcome this habit and make the horse conform to tho movements of the reins nnd yield easily to tho pressure of the bit. The legitimate gaits of tho saddle- horse are the walk, trot, cauter aud gallop. The manoenvring trot is at the rate of eight miles an hour. Blow trot is at the rate of six miles an hour. Trot ont is at the rate of eight miles an hour. ' The canter is at the rate of eight miles an hour, and is generally used for individual instruction. Manoeuvring gallop ia at the rate s>l twelve miles an hour. The full or extended gallop is at the rote of sixteen miles an hour. Tlie oh irgo is at full speed, and is regulated by tho speed of the slower horses. The walk is a gait of four distinct beats, each foot being planted in a regular order of succession. The trot has two distinct beats; the horse springing diagonally from one pair of foot to the other : between tho steps all the feet are in the air. SOURCE OF TH3 BUTTER FLAVOR. The butter aroma appears in the butter as the result of the ripening process. Bveet-oream butter does not have this delicate flavor, and while there is a demand) ia ouY markets, perhaps A growing demand, for a sweet-cream butter, it never develop! the delieate flavor known as the bat ter aroma. Daring ripening certain changes take place in the cream) some of which we understand and othen 'which are at present beyond th< .reach of chemical knowledge. Thi composition of cream is essentially th< same as that of milk except in thi higher proportion of fit. It ia modi np chiefly of bntter fat in the form o globules, of casein in a partial sas pension in the liquid, of milk sagar in eolation, and of a small amount of al* bnmen, probably partly in solution and partly in the form of an extreme ly delicate network*of fibers which we call fibrin. Cream always contains a large number of bacteria, yeasts and molds, which are tho active agents in ripening. The sources of these micro organisms are varied. They are hot present in the milk when secreted by the cow, but find their way into it in a variety of ways. Some come from the air; some from the hairs of the cow; some from the dnst of the barn; some from the hinds of ths milker; some from the milk'vessels, and others from other tonrees of contamination. The chances of contamination are suf ficient to sto^Ir (ha milk with an ^■|rga^sms under ctrcunastanotlirWfly V-J* lime the cream has reached the crqamery it contains a quantity of organisms varying widely with temperature and other conditions, and it is to these that the subseqnent ripening is dne. During the period of ripening, the organisms are growing and producing profound changea in the cream. Bac teria are primarily destructive agents. Daring their growth they are pulling to pieces some of the chemical com pounds of the oreara and reduoing th»m to a condition of greater sim plicity, giving rise in this way to a great number of so-called decomposi tion products. Chemistry has not yet explained all of these changes. A few of them we partially understand. We know that some of the organisms act upon imilk sugar, converting it into lactic acid, with the production of carbonic acid gas os a- by-product. We know, also, that sometimes butyric acid is prodnoed, and that sometimes ferments, similar to rennet aud tryp sin, make thoir appearance in ripen ing cream. Alcohol is also a common product, so mnoh so that the bntter flavor has sometimes been attributed to this prodnot alone.—Storrs Agri cultural Expel iment Bulletin. FARM AND OARDEH NOTES. If the beis are restless give more air and water, and sweep up the deal ones. Eggs stored in s damp place will often taste musty even though the test be clear. A safe role with poaches is always to set them on an elevation, the high er the b<]tter. Good prices and increasing demands are reported for -high-class heavy draught horses. After a heg is fat enough sell him. Stay not npon the order of his selling, bnt sell at once. Lameness always indicates soreness, stiffness or weakness, and demands immediate attention. Unless yon are giving up breeding, do not be tempted by a good price to sell off the good mares. Divide the skim milk between the hogs and hens and notice how much better the latter will lay. There is no reason to fear that elec tricity will ever be able to take the place of good horses of any breed. A hen will eat about a bnshel of grain a year. At that rate she pays » big profit on what ahe eats if she does her best. When the dairyman has learnedhovr to prodnoe Jnne bntter at any time of the year he is getting up to the art of bntter making. By keeping the trash in the garden or orchard olean&d np a large number of pests that injnre the fruits and trets may be destroyed. tn nearly all oosea the earlier tho tit} is thinned the better. It is not u good plan to allow the trees to ma- ;nre too mnch frnit. After an orchard has eome into full bearing one of the best plans of man agement is to seed it down to elover anu nse it as a hog pasture. A good queen and two pounds of boos pnt into a hive where the oombe contain honey will make a strong colony and bnild up rapidly. Boot pruning is done by taking a sharp spade and digging a circle sronnd the stem of. the trees deep enough to ont off a portion of the roots. If the farmer does not like poultry, lei the wife have charge of it, and let her have all the t -u moke out of it. She will soon devc .^flfci.-bg'tiaess into paying proportion Lettuce, peas, spinach, radishes, beet*, parsnips, and salsify are the first things planted in the open ground in the spring. Gncnmbers, beans and the like shonld not be planted until all danger of lata trobt is over. Farmers who ore how using hay will find that some will be more highly rel ished by stock than other portions. This difference in quality is one to the stage of growth at whioh it was out, and also in the manner in whioh it was cured. There is nothing saved by overfeed ing—that is, keeping food where tho animals oan always mve access to it— as such feeding leads to indigestiou. Have regular hours for feeding and give etch animal all that it requires, bnt no more than it will eat up clean. A Kansas frnit grower says that corn is undoubtedly by far the best crop for an orchard that oan be grown, as it breaks the wind, and the trees grow np straight. Insects, as a role, will not trouble a tree when there is plent*- ol green fodder aud corn for them to work ou. The mule is a roach better animal than ths horse for some purposes. Tho feet of the mule do not become ns easily injured as those of the horse, and mules are also less liable to dis ease, will ent a greater variety of coarso food, and can be worked in closer rows than horses. Less than onc-tenth of the amide land of tho itusMun Empire is culti vated. THE LOW PKICfi OF WHEAT. SOME INTERESTING AND VAIfOA BLR IKFOKXATION. <>m c:o;o:o:o:q .0:0:0:0:0:02 Increase In Wheat Contributing Coun tries—What Farmer* Must Do to Meet Competition. ILL wheat ever again be a profitable crop for ex port ?” a correspondent of the New York Tri- bnne asked a prominent official of the Agricultural Department at Washing ton. The latter answered: “In the first place, wheat is now sad for many years to come will be a crop which invites competition from conn- tries in whioh farming is poor and land or labor abundantly cheap. It is es sentially a crop of cheap lands or in ferior tillage, or both. In India, in Egypt and some other countries the la bor is cheap; in Australasia, and here tofore ih onr own Northwestern terri tory, while the labor is high, the lands are cheap and the farmer, moreover, ruthlessly robs the soil. Now in South America we find cheap wheat lands, an^d, compared with our own, cheap la bor. 80 in Sonthern Russia,’where there are comparatively cheap lands and positively cheap labor. “In * recent statement of the world's wheat supply issued by the Depsrt- lucnt of Agr ianlture mp found a dozen countries contributing whose existence is probably ignored by the majority of American wheat raisers, and of whom little is known even to American com mercial men. Among them* we may mention especially the Cancasns, Ru mania, Bulgaria, to say nothing of European Turkey, Turkey in Asia, Ser- via, Persia, Poland, Oratia and Sla vonia, and in Africa, Egypt, Tunis and Algeria. In the aggregate the coun tries mentioned have contributed a yearly average of over 200,000,00J bushels to the wheat crops of the last three years. The aggregate popula tion of the first throe countries uamed is in all about 12,000,000, and of this a large number are not users of wheat flour, using for their own wants ryo. Hence the average home consumption per capita is not mote than two-thirds as much as ours, and yet these three countries produced wheat in the years given as follows: In 1891, 160,575,00} bushels; in 1802, 171,950,000 bushels, nnd in 1893, 116,529,000 bushels an average of 159,688,000 bushels, with probably a home consumption barely ' exceeding 49,000,009 bushels. A few years ago the products of those coun tries, or at least their exportable sur plus, was too insignificant for record. “The London Miller states that tho total figures for Russia show the ship ments from that country for January, 1894, to be 810,000 quarters, compared with 210,950 quarters in January, 1893, and 575,950 quarters in Jannry, 1891. In 1892 they were prohibited. “Another factor, aud one that promises to count more than all the rest in the next decade, is to be fonud in the rapid increase in tho wheat crops of the Argentine Republic, an increase which promises to bo phe nomenal. According to the paper al ready quoted, shipmonts from Argen tina to tho United Kingdom were, for the six weeks ending February 10tb, over 280,000 quarters, or at tho rato of 2,444,000 quarters (over 19,000,000 bushels) per annum; but, adds the paper quoted: ‘March and April ship ments will show a material increase.' The director of the Department of Agriculture of Argentina, recently in this country, assured me that within ten years that country would export more wheat than is now exported by the United States. Moreover, Chile, Australasia and the great Northwest territory of British North America seem likely ere long to show their ability to supply any deficiencies which may occur iu the other countries named. “According to the Department au thorities the wheat supply of the world for the three years 1891, 1892 and. 1893 was respite. '■*, in round numbers, 2,360,000,000, 2,'303,000,000 aud 2,360,000,000 bushels, au ample supply for the world’s demand, with a very considerable surplus in 1892, to sav nothing of the alleged underesti mates of the Department in the years 1891 and 1892. It is true that without a marked increase in the supply there has been a steady diminution in price, bnt that is readily accounted for by the large available increase from conn- tries not formerly contributing in any marked degree, bnt which, by tho de velopment in means of transportation, os in the case of the Cancosus, or owing to changes in their political status, os in Bulgaria, and from other causes, have now permanently joined the ranks of exporting countries, and are able to sell at low prices. “The situation in this country can only be met by a general reduction in acreage and a considerable increase in yield per acre. Onr farmers must learn to attain the yield whioh prevails in the more civilized countries of Enrcpe, instead of lagging among the more backward. Onr pitiful thirteen bushels to the acre must be increased to eighteen or twenty, and our wheat acreage reduced from 36,000,099 or 87,000,000 seres to 20,000,000. At eighteen bushels to the sere, an aver age more than equalled by France and greatly exceeded by Great Britain aud Belgium, the farmers on the cheap lands of the Northwest can make a small profit with wheat at fifty or sixty centsabnshel, where a yield of thirleon bushels means au actual loss. In this reduction in wheat acreage, tho older States, notably Ohio aud Indiana, which together raised nearly 75,0 )0,- 000 bushels last year, must take the lead, their opportunities for diversifi cation being greater than those avail able to the farmers of Minnesota and the Dakotna aud the other newer States. ” Tho folding camp ehnfr, tned by General Lee, iu Virginia, has brc'i given by Joshua Thomas, of Baltimore, to whom tlie General gave it, to the Maryland Confederate Home at i’lLea- ville. When Travellns (Vliptlicr on pleasure bent, or tm itfle-s.tnkt on ivory trip & bottlo of Syrup of Fins, aa It acts most pleimautly nut effectively on the kidneys, liver and towel*, preventing fever*, headaches and other forma ofalckneaa. ForsalelnSOcents ind (1 bottles by all leading druggists. Don’t Blame the Cook If a baking powder is not uniform in strength, so that the same quantity will always do the same work, no one can know how to use it, and uni formly good, light food cannot be produced with it. All baking powders except Royal, because improperly compounded :.nd made from inferior materials, lose their strength quickly when the can is opened for use. At subsequent bakings there will be noticed a falling off in strength. The food is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted. It is always the case that the consumer suffers in pocket, if not in health, by accepting any sub stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder. It is always strictly reliable. It is not only more economical because of its greater strength, but will retain its full leavening power, which no other powder will, until wholesome^ food. - A Rffll Lake of Fire. The greatest natural wonder of Hawaii, if not in the entire world, ii Lake Dana, or Dana Lake, n body of molten Lira ten miles in circumfer ence. To tlie sightseer tho surface of thin wonderful lake appears ns if it were a sen of red hot water dashing against the rltfi which surround it on all sides to n height averaging 100 fjet. J. J. Williams, of Honolulu, who probably knows more about tho roloanio condition of tho island than any other living man, says that "this rushing, restless, heaving lake of boil ing fire never remains silent or calm 1 for’* single instant. 1 ’—St. Louis Re- publia. One Ear Hears First. Late studies iu acoustics have been in the direction of determining the functions of th t Kouu 1. The couiln- sioas deducted from th.’so studies are: 1. Wc are aide to judge of the direc tion from which a sound comes be cause it reaches ouo of tho ears before it does the other; and, second, that the other ear enviles us to determin ) the direction iu which the intensity of the Hound perceive 1 is a maximum without turning tho head.—St. Louis Republic. 8eIdou was one? committed to prison for his allaoUs on tho divine right of kings. ill The subject cl tho r.l-ov > porlra” Is tho Rev. Chariea Frcsrcr, a much t dovod and iuokS devout minister of tfco gospel of Car- no!, Northumberland Co., Ts. Mr. Prosscv'x usefulness, tss. for a long t hue, greatly im paired by a distress;.-!-, obstinate disease, .low hit mafadr rrr-. finally conquered wo will let him tell in his own language. 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