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* The Negro on the Farms. He Cultivates Nearly Half a Billion Dollars' "Worth of Land in this Country, Mostly in the South. (From the Baltimore Sun.) A supplementary report of the census of 1900, just issued, shows that the value of tne farms of the Uuited States cultivated by negroes was $499,941,234, all but a small fract on of the amount re presenting' farms in the South. Buildings were worth $71,902,0(H); -land, $324,242,000; live stock, $84,936,000; implements, etc., $18,859,000 The average v:ilfin rlor fa-tv. ... ?? a n n r\ ... ?iin jj>oow; 01 the l>uildinKf, $96 ; of live stock, $114: of implements, etc., $25; of lond, $434. 4^0ver half of all negro farms are in Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia. The number of farms held by negroes was 746,715 ; the aggiegate acre age, 38,233,920; the average acrea,?e per farm being 51.2. From one-half to two-thirds of tbese farms was improved land. Only five States uorth of Mason and Dixon's line reported over 1,000 farms hold by negroes. Of the entire number of negro farms in xne united Slates 517,000 were of 50 acres or under, the number under from 20 to 50 acres being 343,178. Ail idea of the area held by negro farmers may be gathered from the fact that their acreage of 38,233,933 acres is 9,7 A square miles, or about the area of New England. The value of all products of negro farms in 1899 was $255,751,145, of which sum $25,843,413 Represented products led to livestock. For labor there was paid $8,789,792; for fertilizers, $5,#114,844. The farm homes of negroes were 758.463, or 414 per cent of all homes of negroes inflm *- vu iMimcu omifs, nooui on?* fourth of all negro farmers owned their farms. "The massing of negroes, tenant farming and cotton culture," says the report, ^ ** appear to l>ecorrelated facts, the first resulting (rom the last." As respects the distribution of negroes owning farms, Maryland >k credited with 2,262; Delaware, 332; District ol Columbia, 5; North Carolina, 17,520; West Virginia, 534, and Virginia, 26,566, the last mentioned State leading all I lie Southern States in Ihis regard. Hog Notes. BY Sll K 1*11 KKI>. A pure-bred hog looks better, matures earlier and ou jess feed, .w - nous-more reaony, commands a higher price and affords his owner and all who look at him far greater satisfaction than a scrub fca .) Now is the best time to push hogs intended for early summer market. With the run of a good pasture and all the grain they will co'iiRume. they should gain very, rapidly. As far as can be done, the sows should be bred to farrow their full litters the latter part of September, or early in October, no that the pig" will have plenty ) of time to get well started to growing before severe cold ^weather sets in.?Live Stock Journal. ' A Legend of the Zulus. ^ (From the Country Gentleman.) The Zulus account for their origin by a story ot a talking elephant who ted upon children. He met a woman laden with an axe and bundle of laggots, accompanied by her child. Seeing the elephant, she guessed his intention, and pleaded : ? ' Spare my child, O elephant!" The elephant refused. "Then," aaid the mother, "if this evil must happen, swallow me too, () elephant." So the elephant swallowed mother and child, and they found themselves with all the other children who were eaten previously. By ami by the child grow hungry, and tlie mother lit a fire with her faggots. She then, with her axe, cut away the elephant's llesh,cooked it, and they all ate. As the fire burned its great heat filled the elephant with pain, and he ran, and ran, and ran till they felt the thunder of his hoofs racing over hill and valley. At length, exhausted, he dropped down dead. Using her axe, the mother chopped until she made an opening in the elephant's j ? ah ? * - o?ud. Aiier mis, tney crept out, and became a new nation in a ' new country. Rebuke for Human Hog. A slender, plainly dressed woman stood behind a very stout and pompous man at a ticket office in the Grand Central station. When the fat man received his change he dropped a coin.? Turning to the woman, he asked her to pick it up for him, as he could not stoop to get it. "I find it rather difficult to bend over myself," replied the woman quickly, "but there is a lit lift hf?v wtin **?;n ?-? ' ? J ? ..U mil goi It lor I you." The little fellow's eyes had fol lowed the money, and as soon as the woman spoke he ran and picked it up. When he handed it to the owner it proved to he only a cent, but the fat party pocketed it with a grunt which may have been intended to ex- | press thanks or mere porcene satisfaction Tlte boy was moving away, when the woman called him back, thanked him for his kindness, and then,opening her purse, gave a nickel to him. The tat man looked on with amazement. Then his face and necK became red with rage.? Knowing of no better way to escape, be waddled to the tram gate as tast as his fat legs would ^ carry him,all the time muttering ^ i strange oaths at the bov and tli? woman. ? LI Men Under Indictment Killed by Train. i Uv Uv Shreveport, La.. June 18.?A lv I special from Mindan, La., says ^7 drover Cunningham and doorga 'V* Huff were run down by a tram t,v and instantly killed at Spring JiX Hill early this morning. Both |-v recently had been indicted by lg the grand jury, Cunningham lor ~~ embezzlement and Huff for lar- (;ii L.A ceny. F ? M f RESOLVED! -p. THATJN ?JUAJE ISWMEN NATURE ^ CLoTHES HERSELF IN RADIANT . beautv- NATURE is giving us /NO $? v v THE TIP To Do THE SAME. WoW I Do WE Look in June with old 1 N CLOTHED ON? AND Now Do \ 'flCwB ^ui WE FEEL ? LLT u5 begin LIKE I r v-JS"* """15s o- oji S ?? ? - \ i im i ~ t nature does, FRomthe(feoUND 1 w j^c >^ - urwitm a new outfit. go ? to the: place* i co?r*'tmt IHI, BY TMf buitch. bpowh CO. chicaco " Kwce OEC^* IM JUNE ntj. ltt. Aren't you going to follow the suggestion ? nature makes and cloth yourself in beautiful 1 attire. How bleak and hot a park would I look if the trees and bushes wore only their $ heavy winter barks and no leaves and bios- g soms! How out of place women and chil- | dren dressed in heavy garb look during this | month of June! For summer the weights of S cloths are not so heavy, therefore for a little | money you can have the best. We have so I mon,, 4-u: r? _ i .1 1 many ULctuill LU 1UI WUlllCn SI1Q meiL children to wear that will make them look as beautiful as a rose bush in full bloom. Ycu love a blooming rose bush. People will like you better if you too are in full bloom. It will not cost you much to bloom. A Few Bargains Dotted Swisses at 15c yard, in all colors and figures. Flowered Organdies in every conceivable color at 10c yard. Just in, j one case figured Lawns, 10c quality, at 5c. 45-inch Persian Lawns at 12 1-2, 15 and 20c?others are asking 5c yard more than we are. Valencine Laces and insertions, a full line just re- 1 ceived, z 1-<L, .'i and 4c yard?these are bargains. Also a new line of Swiss Flouncings just opened up. Laiitaslfr Mm-aiiiilc Co. > 4NCASTER & CHESTER A PIANO OR ORGAN - ,,~w? ttiiiliiiwjj ounoiarRAILWAY COMPANY FOR YOU. , . , t? 4 tr SCHEDULE IN KEEKCT MAY 8. I9CA Snip ailU LntrailCe EXUAILY EXCEPT SUNOA" To the head of every family ? lin is mil- , Eastern Time. bilious tor tlm future an<l education of his amination. WK.sTllOlJND children, we have a Special Proposition to ^rrAwa.v.|2" 5r Article ... .be ho..,,.shows.?.c?;vi-1a? rtiuicomviue e it i? in ?o? n r device ot endure I hut doe* a Piano or C)v- | udi?i?si??n of new stmlttits will t><* held at the J?.? 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