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Wanted a Change. "Ah," murmured the soubrette,nib bling thoughtfully with her stora teeth on the edge of her handkerchief, "how dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood." "Well, by thunder," remarked-the heavy villain sourly, "I thought our stuff was pretty old, but I didn't im agine the scenery dated back that far." Some men can never rise superior to shop talk, or understand the true poe try of the feminine mind.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Don't Give Way to Despair, Although you have suffered for a loss time from malaria, dyspepsia, kidney trouble, nervousness or biliousness. Know that Hostettor's Stomach Bittere has cured worse cases than yours, and ls potent to help you as lt has helped hosts o? others. But always remember that trlt 3 saying, "Delays aro dangerous." Mole hills grow to be mountains In consequence of disregarding lt. Check disease at the outset with this incompar able defensive medicine. A Kansas woman is trying to abolish tho cor Bet In that state. What style ot architecture do you suppose that she represents? JUST try a 10c. box of Cascare ta, candy cathar tic, finest Uver and bowel regulator made. Deafness Cannot he Cured by local applications, ta they cannot reach tho diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that ls by constitu tional remedies. Deafness ls caused by an In flamed condition of tho mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When Ulis tube gets in named you have a rumbUng sound or imper fect hearing, and when lt ls entirely closed Deafness is the result, and uniese the In flam - inaUon can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing wlU be de stroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten B-O caused by catarrh, which ls nothing but an in flamed eon anion of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any (ase ot Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by HaU1s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. 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A OW pretty she waa as ^w?i\?? ly fingerB danoing on ?>rJef'7y-vv keyboard of her 3?v W /^at typewriter. j y?AJr I think in the time I Yg0<s to come when this (m^L "< I ?^C*. shall have become the Vi ^*-> V^/ classic period for the fntnre centuries, as the ancient Greek is tho classic for us of this time, that instead of the maiden with the distaff as we haye, they will have the maiden at the typewriter, as one of the beau tiful figures that make art everlasting. Her eyeB were so blue, her cheeks were so pink, and truly, her hair must haye been transplanted from the banks of the Pactolua whose shifting sands were crystals of pure gold. The man sat near her diotating a letter. On the window pane next to the street were the words "Hurford, Blinker & Co., Brokers," and the man dictating was the Blinker of the firm. He was also the Hur/or J and the Co., seeing that he had bought out every body else, including the well-known name of the firm. And what a man was Blinker Haverhill Blinker. A bachelor of forty years' experience, a business man of large and i icreasing wealth, a calculating speculator, a good all 'round fellow, and among women the very prototype and synonym of bash fulness. To see him bow and smile to and at a lady when meeting her would have led the most critical to say he was a courtier of courtiers, but if it became necessary for him to go be yond the bowing and smiling limit, life had no further charms for Haver hill Blinker. Strange to say, too, he was not always conscious of his weak ness, and there were times when he really thought he waa quite a ladies' man. When he recovered from one of these litter attacks he was always sur rounded by a large circle of sympa thizing friends (male). Until within six months he had never been able to persuade himself that the real and only way to accustom himself to the uso of a woman's society was to employ a "lady typewriter," and then he did it because a relative of his, his aunt, in fact, in a neigh boring town, hud as!?ed him as a spec ial favor to help thc daughter of an old school friend of hers, in sore dis tress, who was quito a skilled stenog rapher and typewriter. It W8s entirely beyond the compre hensibility of Mr. Blinker's aunt that Mr. Blinker would give her employ ment, but the aunt thought he might know someone who bad a place for her. Therefore, when he wrote to bis aunt saying that he would give the young woman a place in his office at $40 a month she was more than surprised she was delighted, and sent the gold en-haired daughter of her dear old sohool friend right over to her nephew. The day she made her first appear ance Mr. Blinker was out when she called about ll o'clock, and the office boy and the clerk having insisted upon her remaining for a few minutes until Mr. Blinker should return, she sat down near the window and waited, never once noting the fact that the office boy and the clerk were each put ting in every moment of his spare time watching her and wondering what the mischief business an angel right from heaven had with Mr. Blinker, When Mr. Blinker finally appeared, and the ol? cc boy and the olerk col lapsed, ho hadn't the least idea who she was, and his heart began to pound so on the inside of him that ho thought it was the janitor turning on more steam and shaking up the radi ators in the office and halls. It was the very first time he had ever seen a woman in his office, and the exp?rience was so entirely novel that for an in stant he was speechless. "Is this Mr. Blinker?" she inquired, rising to meet bim aa he came hesi tatingly toward her, "Yes'm," responded Mr. Blinker, as if he were a schoolboy about to be licked for pasting a wet wad ou the wall. "May I inquire to what I am indebted for tho honor of this visit, ma'am?" Blinker would no more have made suoh an egregiously silly and stilted speech as that to a man than he would have tried to have told the truth in Chicago, but this was a woman, and Blinker was not responsible. "Your aunt," Baid the visitor, with a roguish twinkle in her eye, but Blinker didn't see it any more than he saw profit in honest politics. "I-I-beg your pardon, ma'am," he stammered. The?very idea o f his say ing ' 'Ma'am," to a girl like ti .at 1 It would have been criminal ii Mr. Blinker had been11 responsible. Then she told him who she was, and the way Mr. Blinker began to assume airs and strut around as if he were a migh'y potentate with a lot of sub jects was as funny as it could be. Now she had been with him six months, and ho sat near her dictating a letter. In the midst of it he stopped short. He had been tempted to do this many times before. He bad studied the matter thoroughly, as be thought, " and having considered it in every light and having deliberated upon it for many days, and having tried to ac complish the desired result by every means in his knowledge, be had at last determined to do this. Therefore he stopped in the midst of it. **I am very sorry. Miss Prince," he began, quite abruptly, and as if he wanted to get through with the dis agreeable task in a hurry, "but I am afraid I shall have to lose you as my typewriter. She clutched suddenly at the sides of the machine as if to support her self. "W-w-why," she stammered with qvivering lips, "why, Mr. Tlinfier, what have I done that 1 should be discharged without warning?" "But I'm giving you warning," be said, half with bravado, half with apology. "You don't have to go right away." .*I do not want to go at all until I know why I am going," she argued. This is all I have in the world, and I am entitled to know why I am unfitted : for this," "Oh, it isn't your fault, exaotly," he went on evasively. "There aro no , such things, you know, as misfortunes, whioh can scarcely be classed as faults, i In your case, Miss Prince, your mis fortune is that you are too pretty," and Mr. Blinker actually tucked his head to one side and simpered at her. She bad been suspicious for a long time, as most women ore when they have their wits about them under cir cumstances similar to those surround ing Miss Prinoe and Mr. Blinker, and i she almost smiled through the mist that was gathering in her eyes. "You have always said, Mr. Blink xriv BLINKER. SAMPTOh' or," she pleaded, ' ;ihat you liked fe see pretty things in your office." He coughed nervously, uneasily. How many things he had said to hei he did not kuow. Kow many moro hi wanted to say he did not know. What he was now saying he did not know how he was ever going to finish. "I know that," he admitted, "hut sometimes, you know, my dear Miss Prince, a man cannot always have what he wants. As long as I was a bachelor, Miss Prince, I could do as I pleased, but I. am to be married, at least I hope so, and you know a man's wife sometimes di?fcrs with him on what may seem to the world at large to be quite trivial points." Married 1 At one blow all her castles were thrown to the earth, with not so mnch as a corner standing to show that they had ever been other than crumbling ruins. True, he had never said anything definitely to her, but there is so much moro in what is never 6aid, and daily out of tho unspoken affinity which Eurely existed between these two con genial people the more foolish woman had constructed such hopes as women cherish to the end of time. That he had thought enough of her to warranl tuese hopes, a thousand wordless wit nesses testified. Now thus in tho very midst of tho work that he had given to her to do for him, and that she loved to do be cause it was for him, the blow fell. "Yes?" she responded to his stat? mcnt in the faint pathetio question ing that fills a woman's voice when she is thus called upon to face her heart's doom, and her hands, uncon sciously sought to go on with her work. ..Yes, Miss Prince," he said, with rio sound of sympathy in his voice, "and I am pretty sure my wife will not per mit you to remain here as my type writer. I may tay," and he simpered again, "os my pretty typewriter." " She never so much as saw the sim per, and in that far Mr. Blinker should have thanked h's good fortune. "I have thought tho matter all over," ho continued, "and I leavo it to you as a fairminded woman whether it is my duty to gain n wife and loso a typewriter, or vice versa?" By this timo she had recovered from the primary shock. She had even begun to wonder how ho had ever mustered up snfiicient courage to propeso to the future Mrp. Blinker. She even went further and mado up her mind that the lady was a widow, and had used the traditional wiles of the widow on tho unsuspecting and bashf il Mr, Blinker. "By all means, Mr. Bliaker," sho said coldly, "gain tho wife. The world is full of typewriter?, but it is not every day that a man can get a wife. At least suoh a wife as you de serve, " and ia ispito of herself there was something soft in her tone that she did not want to bo there. Mr. Blinker noticed it, too, but ho didn'f; stop to oomment upon it. i "Good for you, Miss Prince," he laughed. "I knew you were a woman of sense." She shrank as if she had been touohed with a hot iron. "Thank you, Mr. Blinker," she said, "Now, if you please, wo will go oa with our work." It had seemed as if a lifetime had past since she had written the last word, and as she beut down over it, as if the better see what it was, a tear fell upon the line. This Mr. Blinker also observed, but said nothing, seeming to enjoy it. "Boforo wo do, Miss TjpncfiJLbe said, "may I ask a favor at.your hands -a promise?" "What is it?. Yee," B'?o answered. Mr. Blinker braced himself. 'Thal, if this woman whom I am soon to ask formally to bo my wife," he said, "should refuse me, that you will marry me." For an instant tho girl looked nt him, then elie roso to her feet, her eyes ' fairly blazing. Mr. Blinker saw that the tigress was abont to spring, and he was fright ened. "Wait, stop!" ho exclaimed, hold ing ap his hands as if to shield himself from the blow. "Hold on till I tell you who tho woman is. It's you, Miss Princ3-you-you-youl Won't yon | marry me? Will you bo my wife? I Haven't you always known I didn't caro a cent for any woman on earth but you? Bath, darling, don't look at me like that!" Mr. Blinker was going all to pieces mentally and emotionally, and the young woman took pity ou him, for it dawned opon her all at onco that the ? more bashful a bachelor is the more ridiculous he is in love, and tho only way to prevent a tender omotion from becoming ludicrous is to accept it on the spot. Which she did, and Mr. Blinker . never had another pretty typewriter. -New York Sun. . S'.orago Purines Waler. After all, 'the best kiud ot purifier is nature's own. The minute organ isms known as bacteria aro the chief causes of the impurity of drinking water. These invisible creatures have to live a well as their larger brethren, and they must eat to live. As soon as they have eaten all in tho water that there is to feed on they die. Dr. Frankland has stated from his recent examination of water stored for two weeks, that it seems as pure and free from bacteria life as though it had passed through the best of filters ; but it seems strange that this should havo so recently come under Dr. Frank land's experience. Every one knows that there is no purer or better water in the world than that which is sup plied to seafaring people. Almost any kind of water stored away in a Bhip's tank becomes absolutely pure after the vessel has been a few weeks at sea. This is usually ascribed in popular language to fermentation; but there is really nothing to ferment, it is simply that the bacteria have eaten everythiug in tho water there is to eat and then died of starvation.-r Meehan's Monthly. The Balancing of Trees. A very interesting saggestion con cert: ing the utility to a tree of the irregular arrangement of the branches is made by a correspondent of Nature. Watching a largo plane tree during a gale, ho observed that while ono great limb swayed in ODO direction, another swayed the opposite way, and although all the branches were plunging and bending before the blast, they did not move in unison, or all at once in the same direction. But for tho peculi arity in the motion of the branches, be thinks, tho tree could not have escaped uprooting ; and he suggests that this kind of balancing serves in general to protect largo trees, like oaks and beeches, which have their branches unsymmetrically ' placed, from being overturned by high winds. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDER. BLACK KNOT ON PLUM If it has not been done before, this is a good timo to destroy tis blaok knot on plum tress. Euch specimen should be cut out, removing tte limb to which it is attaohed, ii a small one. Keep the knife wet with carbdic acid diluted while making the cits, and apply the same to the cut surfl?e. In this woy the danger of projjigating tho spores by use of tho knife ii prun ing wili bo prevented. j. CLEARING OLD FENCE CORNBg. Wherever an old-,fence ba} stood the land is pretty sure to groflinto a hedge of bushes and trees thainnless gotten rid of make the fence an offence. Very often the co6t of gettingrid of these encumbrances prevents Armers from dispensing with the fen? alto gether. Where there oro mary trees in the fence their stumps, ater the trees are disposed of, will jpevent plowing the land for yearj." But where the fence row is only filid with bushes, digging "them o?t Titho?t cutting them down is the bestrnYihod. With a team of horses to pullen the fop .wlieii the root is dujj. aroihd and partly loosened, it is not a'lon; job to snake cut a large pitch of bushes. Tho land whero these ore po .vii is generally rich, as the fence hs held tho leaves from adjoining fiel? .from blowing any farther, and it is tfeir do composition -that, has favorrt~the growth of bushes. . Tho rcolainjog of such fertile land helps to growicrops to be made into manure and tins en rich tho cultivated fields. By laking the fields larger and disponsirj wich the fences, the. cost of cultivfji?n; j8 greatly reduced. This is an imjprtant matter in these days of improve] farin implements," most of whioh' dj their lest work when they have platy of rcoin.- American Cultivator. \. _ ' i . CURING MEATS. Probably one reason why eojmuch cured meat is purchased by faners is that much of tho homo curing p im properly done, But-this need mt be so. In tho first place the farmr who propos?s to.cure his . own meas can specially feed tho animals sojas tc start with n really ?uperior inst for caring. The work of curing ltfis not difficult nor hard to leain.'; J 'only meeds a little careful - attention to .de tails, and co?vhere in life.-ojre ghd,re sults obtained without this ottntion. In the first place, it must 4)e ?n.em bered that meat is not fit fdr Hiing until it is entirely free 'from ipimal heat,' and yet it should not be ]ozen, or penetration by th? salli will 1} pre vented. For pork cover the littom of the barrel with salt to the dajth ol three inches, then paok the stjps o? pork in circles, the rind faor?. the staves, but with a deposit of e t in tervening. Pat a layer of salt bJween each layer of pork. When thijmid dlings hove been packed in thi way, prepare a brine sufficient to co^ the pork, using all that the wal ; will take up. In other words, make*what is called "a saturated solution. "Hring the brine to a boil,skim it.and 1 ten it. is cold pour it over the pork. Ogood cover is a necessary part of i.pork barrel,and tho p' 'r sb down so that it with the bric o Trim the h rub them^.w; blood.' Pack i . . pickle consist of salt to a pc each gallon o - saltpeter to :. Bring tho pic*" ?csr it over r .?.-. - remain in the pickle from four to weeks. Care should be taken not a let the hams press against each otha as "bono spoil" is"theh likely to seirj. beforo the hams are thorough salted.- Thoso who cure- corefullyj move the hams from one borre! to -. other ns often as twice a we?k ni^ the curing ia well toward complet?1. This prevents the taint at the boni' Tho value of hams, shoulders nd bacon largely depends upon the sink ing. Salt-cured hams and shouters should bo make perfectly cleou.nd sprinkled with fine black'peppe?or with equal parts of blaok andr?a^f-O per, which is .preferred by^ so;o. Loops for hanging should be inserid in each piece. The smokehouse sh'cpld bo so arranged as to guard ?gailst fires, and should have a brjek.^r earthen floor. Moderate quantiticipf meat may bo smoked in an inver.d barrel. The fire should be 6tarni with dry stuff and then smothered vl.h. green, hard wood chips. preferaTy hickory. Sometimes tho chips are ?>c dry and they should then be wet. 'ie point to bo sought for is acarefu|y eguktod fire that will not go to h'.t nor make a blaze, and yet will kt^p smoking ail tho'tim?. A very ged practice is'-to use hard, wood ss.wdut, and tire it in a.large iron,kettle. Tis is safe ; the sawdust never makes' ary blaze, ?Q.d always makes a good vclune of smoke. Wet'corncobs are vised Ty many with Ducce6s, but after all, thee is nothing like hickory chips* -Wbtd that grp?s:?lf a .disagreeable odor.mut bo especially avoided. Slo./ BtnokUg is prcferablo to-quick, and smoking it intervals pf, say, half u day twice o week is , preferable to'' continuai-; smoking. ' The longer the stoking is carried on, the'better will'bejthocolor and the better the protection agarist the bacon bug. In smoking in a smokehouse the meat should be changed, that nearest the fife moved toward the wall, and that nearest the wall brought toward the centre in or der to secure uniformity. In the spring tho hams can, if necessary, be sewed up in coarse cloth, whitewashed and packed away in clean hay or straw.-The Indicator. FARM AND GARDEN KOTTfc. Neglecting to salt the cows egularly is often a cause of tho butter aot com ing. Milk to churn easily and mike good butter should not be over tUrty-six hours old. Dogs continue to make the sheep industry very unprofitable importions of Oregon. Did you ever think of it, that a good apple tree was worth ?50? At any rate, with wiso cultivation am good business management of the erop, it will pay eight per cent, dividend on that uniount year after year with but few exceptions. /' Whenever you find yourself able to do so, buy a pair of Angoras ind run them with your flock, if you wknt real protection- from sheep-killint dogs. The dog has a great deal of [respect for a billy goat and shows it bi giving him a wide berth. In treeless sections the maitj object has been toeecure tree growth cjuiolily, without much regard to actual value ; but no time ehould be lost in starting trees of greater value, that will actu-. illy supersede tho box elder, with its bugs, ind tho thort-4ived Lombardy, poplar. WORDS OF WISDOM. Wo have but one instant to live, and we have hopes for years. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul. Doing good is the only certainly happy-action of a man's life. I Our happiness in this world dependa chiefly on tho affection we are able to inspire. When the character of a person is discussed, silence,in the good natured, is censure. There are more fools than sages ; and among tho sages there is more folly than wisdom. Wo must often consider not what the wise will think but what the fool ish will say. The next time you are tempted to buy an article on credit remember the impudent collector who will call on you. One reason why tho world gains knowledge so slowly, is that every child must find out for itself that fire is hot. Be honest. Dishonesty seldom makes one rich, and when it does riches are a ourse. There is no such thing as dishonest success. It is woll to remember when in or out of society that people and fine linen never mado a porcino character a fine gentleman. "The bider a man gets," said the corn-fed philosopher, "the J1 .-der he 'finds it to feel sorry for a woman .whose pug dog has died." Ono of tho superstitions that will sur vive until the endrof time is that tho mau . who . do?b hot smile when ad dressing a female acquaintance is a cross-grained boar. The wife who is meek und patient and forgiving and always meets her husband with a smiling face no matter how much h? makes her cry in seoret, gets terribly tiresome. Narrow-minded men who have not a thought beyond the little sphere of their own vision, tecali tho Hindoo laying, "The snail secs nothing but its own-shell, and thinks it tho grand est in the universe." Improving Tjpou Fiction. "Around the World in Eighty Days" ?vas a romancer's dream, only a few years ago. Around the world in thirty .days will shortly be a fact. *' The Trans-S?b?rian railroad is the i^ey to the thirty-day problem, and the 'road wjll bein operation, it is thought, by 100?. . The, best possible connections at present will enable a traveler to go around tho world in soventy-ono days. The average time is about one-third more. Perhaps the shortest cut would bo this : New York to Southampton ; Southampton to Brindisi ; by way of tho Suez Canal, Bod Seo, etc., to Yoko hama; Yokohama to San Francisco, and thence over the American con tinent by rail. The itinerary over the Trans-Si berian roato would be as follows: New York to Bremen, eeven days; Bremen to St. Petersburg, one and one-half da*, s ; St. Petersburg to Via* divoutok, eight and one-half days; Vladivostok to San Francisco, nine days ; San Francisco to New York, four days ; total, thirty days. ;" the popular mind as . late region, yet it is . es. Coal and iron rec iou s metals are andance. The short nough to admit of a AB portion of its great of the motives that the most gigantio]rail ..s century. e mean that tho new railroad bum. over serve as a path for the invader. Other European traoks are standard-gage. The Siberian rail road is several inches wider, and in case of war no other Nation will be able to switch engines and cars onto the tracks, and thus convey troops to the interior.- Youth's Companion. His "Little Feller." "I happened to be down in -my cel lar tho other morning when the ash man came arouud to collect the ashes," said a gentleman who resides in Second avenue. "I was opening a barrel of great red apples at tho time, and when the big, dnst-oovered . and' necessarily untidy man came back with the empty ash barrel I picked up an apple and held it out toward him, Sf ~ing asl did eo: " 'Won't yon have an apple?' "He took it eagerly, saying as he did so : . " 'Thank ye, Eir: I've a little feller at home who'll bo tickled to death to gib it. I most always find something or othor in tho ash barrels to carry home to'm at night, but it ain't o'ten I git anything equal to this big apple. I toll ye tho little feller's eyes will shine when ho sees it.' "I don't know how many times that day my thoughts were of that big, rough-handed fellow, with that apple put away so carefully in his pocket for -that ?little feller.' "When evening carno 1 thought of tho 'little feller' who was on tho look out for the big, (lust-covered father, with <the calloused and soiled hands, but with tho true heart and kindly word that made him a king in the oyes of that 'little feller.' "It must have been a very poor and .humble home to which the man went at tho close of his weary day, bat then there was the 'little feller's' pre*enco to make beautiful evon tho bare walls and floors and to bring the love light io his father's eyeo and joy to h:s leather's heart. "These 'little fellers' glorify and beautify many a homo in which pov erty abides. But human affections can sweetly and patiently enduro toil and rags and poverty when there is a .little feller' to meet and greet tho father when tho long day is done." Detroit Free Press. Thc Cat Liked Ether. lt is told of a pet cat owned near Augusta, Me., that, it having mani fested 8ymptons of acute agon/, a surgeon was called in to attend it, and he decided to administer ether and make an incision in its stomach. He found there a darning needle. Soon after the cat's recovery it had a simi lar attack, and the doctor, repeating his operation and finding another needle, came to the conclusion that tho cat had, liko other victims, got under ?ho spell of the anaostbetic, and wanted to have experience with it again.-New York Sun. Singing ns an Antidote to C'lnstimption. It is asserted that singing is a cor rective of the too common tendency to pniinonic complaints. An eminent physician observes on tho subjeot: "The Germans are seldom afflicted with consumption, and this, I believe, in in part occasioned by the strength which their luugs acquire by exercis ing thcuriu vocial music, for this con stitutes an essential brunch of their education." INJURED BY THE BICYCLE. Heavy Declination in the Value of Hay and Oat Crops. The production of American hay amounted to 65,000,000 tons lu 1803, 55,000,000 tons In 1894, 47,000,000 rons In 1895, and 43,000,000 tons In 1896. ia other words, says the New York Sun, the production of hay 'has declined one third in four years, and there has been a considerable though not correspon dingly large decline in the market value of 'the crop during the four years suc ceeding 1S92. Tlie gross value of the hay crop that year was $570,000,000; last year it was $370,000,000. New York ranks first among the States in the product of hay. This decline In the product and sell tog price of hay 1s due to several causes. One and perhaps the chief one, Is the bicycle, which has too a great ex tent, superseded by the use of liorses: and another is the substitution of elec tricity and cahle traction for horse pow er on surface railroads. The m?loag? of these surface roads In all Che cities of the United States is nearly 15,000, and the use of electricity and steam power has, by gradually reducing the number of horses required, reduced also the demand for hay. Along with tilie reduction in the mar ket price and product of hay, 'Chere has been a similar reduction in the price but not the production of oats, also expensively used for fodder. The average price of oars per "bushel, which was 42 cents in 1890, mis 32 cents in 1894 and 20 centos In 1 - ?5. It 1s now about 18 1-2 cents, a reduction of more than one-half in six years. Tlie oat acreage of the United States is 27,000, 000, and this Item of agricultural pro duct ls important In Iowa, Illinois, Min nesota and Wisconsin. The sajne causes which 'have operated to de crease the market price of hay have operated also to decrease :lie market price of oohs, and the failing off in both would no doubt be even greater than It is but for the 'increase lu the foreign demand, stimulated by the export of these products ait a price low enough to meet foreign competition. In the year 1890 the exportation of oats In the United States amounted tc 900,000 bushels. In 1890 it was 13, 000,000 bushels, and during the six months ending on Jan. 1 the America? shipments of oats amounted to 17, 000,000 bushels, with Indications that the total exportation of American oats for the fiscal year ending on July 1, 1897, will amount to 30,000,000. There has been a similar Increase In. thc ex portation of American hay to forelgu countries. In 1891 the total exports of hay were 28,000,000 tons. In ISDG thc volume of exportation had risen to G0, 000,000 Cons, and the American market for these products is likely to continue so long as the diminishing demand in the United States makes it impractica ble to se/.l here profitably all of the hay and oats grown. There is a homely expression which declares that when one door shuts an other opens, and apparently, the door which is open to the American farmers with a surplus stock of unsalable hay and oats is the door of foreign export. Meanwhile, the spread nad improve ment of the bicycle have goue ou unin terruptedly, and the speed and conven ience f transportation on surface cars have btc-n promoted greatly by the re tirement of horses. A Chinese.New Year's.' Chinatown of San Francisco waa keeping holiday, and all was gaiety aud bustle. The narrow, picturesque streets were decorated with brightly-colored lan terns, while overhead above the roof tops, the yellow dragon flags floate? against a blue California sky. It was a sunny day In February; and the streets were swarming with a mul titude of Chinese-men, women and childiyn-all arrayed in their richest holiday attire. The children especially, with their bright faces and black eyes, and in their pretty costumes, formed a most pleasing and Interesting feature of this living Oriental picture. Everybody seemed to he happy and good-natured; and ever and anon, as a group of friends met, they stopped and amid much ceremonious bowing exchanged the compliments of the sea son; for this festive occasion was noth ing more nor less than the celebration of the Chinese New Year. The idea of celebrating New "Year's Day in February may strike some of my readers as odd. But, since this has been the Chniese custom from time im memorial, and ls older, by several thousands of years, than our accept ance of the first of January as the pro per time, the Chinese, perhaps, are not far wrong in supposing themselves to be at least as much in the right as our selves. This question, however, was of no concern to this merry holiday throng. They were quite satisfied with the arrangement; and, with the inmost belief In their own superiority, they felt at heart an inborn contempt-common to all Chinese-lor "outside barbarians." This term embraces all nations not liv ing within the sacred boundaries of "The Flowery Kingdom," and includes th?* inhabitants of all the world; and these unfortunate outsiders are broadly divided into two classes-Eastern and Western barbarians.-St. Nicholas. Why the Music Ceased. "I used to have a very fair voice," said Mr. Meektou, "but I have given np singing." "That is to be regretted. There is much pleasure to be derived from mu sic." "Yes; if the conditions are right. My wife and I used to sing duets hy the hour. But oue evening we found one in which I sang the last word two measures longer than she did, and somehow it seemed to hurt her feel ings."-Washingtou Star. lt It Only Helped a Little It would bo worth 50 cent*. Ono hour's froo dom from tho terrible irritating itch of totter ls worth more than a wholo box of Tntterlno costs. It will euro-sure, and Ifs tho only thing th.it will euro. 50 eents at drug stores, or by mall from J. T. Shuptrlno, Savannah. Ga. The duties of lifo aro ours, but tho events are God's. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400.000 cured. Why not let No-To.nac regulate or romove your desire for tobacco? Saves monoy, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and $1.00, at all druggists._ Glass oyes with which you can soo aro among tho inventions of tho future FITS stopped troo and permanently cured. No fits after first day's uso of Du. KLINE'S UKEAT NERVE HESTOKEK. Freo 92 trial bottle and treat ise. Send to Dr. Kline, 031 Arch St., lidia., Pa, St. Vitus' Dance. Ono bottlo Dr. Fennor's Specific euros. Circular, Frcdonla, N. Y. WHKX bilious or costive, eat a Casearot, candy cathartic; euro guaranteed; 10c., 25c. BUCKINGHAM'S DYE For the Whiskers, Mustache, and Eyebrows. In one preparation. Easy to apply at home. Colors brown or black. The Gentlemen's favuiitc, because satisfactory. lt. P. HALL* CO., IVi'.nrirfnr?, Xuhua. X ll. Soli)by nil Drupvi.ti. New Diseases. There are a number of ills Incident to the use of new appliances, and these have already become so clearly recog nized that they are a matter of course in medical practice. Indeed, the vic tims have given names to them which have been adopted in scientific phrase ology. Bicycle back ls a familiar Ul, and comes of the doubling-up position about which so much has been written and said. It is akin to the disease known as miner's back, which comes upon men who work in mines and are in a stooped position for many hours at a time. Telephone ear is a not un common complaint. It is not an or ganic disease, but purely a nervous condition and arises from nervous strain. Almost without exception the trouble ceases with the discontinuance of the use of the telephone. Telegraph er's and typewriter's cramp has many victims. This difficulty is not easily gotten over, as in many instances the muscles become almost or altogether useless, and the patient ls unable to control them. It is curable only after a course of scientific treatment. One of the latest complaints is the trolley foot. The continuous use of the foot on the bell causes soreness, inflamma tion and nervous troubles, and very many men have left the employ of the trolley roads in consequence of this dlfllculty. So it is seen that the higher grades of mechanics bring evils with them, and that the law of compensation obtains here as well as In almost every thing else in the world. Obeying Orders. Kind Lady-Ah, if you had only done what your mother told you, you might not be in this situation. Convict-I don't know. She told me to go out into the world and mnko money. -Detroit Free Press. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Thirty creameries in Central Kansas pay to farmers $10,000 a month fer cream. Milwaukee is preparing to hava hanging gardens for its exposition in 1898 rivaling those of Babylon. Six women and six men compose the jury in an intricate divorce case now proceeding in South Dakota. After a long series of experiments Brazilian planters are satisfied that tea can be profitably grow n in Brazil. Ignace Felott, who has just passed away on Mackinac island, at tho age of ninety-three, was said to be the only surviving witness of tbe taking of the island by the British iii 1812. A Michigan evangelist recently por trayed hell as a large hall, at one end of which a walking runton was going on, while at the other end Bob Inger soll was delivering a lecture on "Gene sis." The lumber dealers of Florida have been notified by their customers in the Spanish West India islands that a war tax of $2 per thousand on pitch pine lumber has been made by tho govern ment. This news will raise the rate of freight $2 on lumber. Two Married Men. 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