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4 7 FARM AND GARDEN Hints for Poultry and Potato Raisers. CHANGE OF FOOD NECESSARY. Thorough Cultivation Essential in Order to Produce Good Growth of Potatoes. ltaltonn Mtinint. Place your gitn pans on the range to .et very'liot. Take one pint of (lour, half-pint milk, half-pint water; heat thoroughly with a keystone or wire leater. Uutter the pans ; fill two-thirds full and bake in a quick oven twenty ininuteH, or until they are pull'd anil iiii'elv browned. Use no etilt. or baking ixnvder. Salt is easily added when they are broken open to eat. Poultry Niite. Ejrg layers will front now on bepin to increase 'their daily contribution to the wealth of the owner, and it is important that the hens should be aided and abet ted in this work as much as possible. As soon as cold weather leaves us. the hcHS seem to regain their accustomed lower of laying eggs regularly, but as a rule it is only tlie weather anil not the treatment which makes them do this. There is, however, a way of helping the hens in this good work, and no poultry man should neglect it. Man and beast ttlike need a change of food and treat ment in the spring of the year, for the conditions of life change with the sea sons. From r'ose, conlinim; work we go to labor in the open air, and from heavy, uitasy food we go to light vegetables or fruits. There is needful a complete change in the whole system, and many lake bood purifiers at this season of the year. , In the same way the hens require new methods. They are supposed to produce more eggs, and they do this, but the work cannot be kept up unless their sys tems are amply supplied with egg-producing material. The warm, genial weather is stimulating to them, and in duces them to lay, but they must have the material to do the work, otherwise they will wear their systems out in do ing nothing. ICgt'S cannot be produced unless the hens have sufficient lime in their lwdies to form the shells. U round lone and oyster shells are given to the thickens now by nearly all poultrynien ; but at this season of the year the quan tities should Ikj doubled. The grains will not sufiice now, but the lime con tained in the ground Iwne, shells and uch material is essential. They will not only stimulate the hens in laying, hut thtiy will give the right materials to them to make eggs. The hens should also be accustomed to their new food. They should be turned out to range aradnally and not allowed to run alxnit a much" as they please the first day. This extra exercise, which has leen de nied them all winter, will consume a great amount of force, and much of the mineral element contained in their food will have to go toward forming new tis sue. Tli is 'imkes it all the more essen tial that thev should have more shells and ground butie. This is a work which should not be neglected. 1'otiitu Culture. Tt is veiy important t' give thorough cultivation in order t" secure a good growth. It is very important to give clean cultivation "from the start, and generally, if this be done, the soil will Ikj in good tilth. It is necessary that the cultivation be commenced early, so that the weeds can be kept down, and the earlier it is commenced after the seed is planted the easier the work can be done. Potatoes are nearly always planted in drifts, and the cultivations giver, only one way, and it requires careful work to give thorough cultivation without hoe ing. One of the advantages in preparing the soil in a good tilth lcfore planting the peed is that the cultivation can bo commenced much earlier than would othurwibu bo possible. Under average conditions the best implement to com mence the cultivation is the harrow, and in a majority of cases it can be used within ten dav at least after planting with good results. Potatoes are plow to germinate, and to let the soil remain un disturbed until the plants show above gronnd the weeds are sure to get a good start, which will require considerable hard work to clear out. Very often three harrowings can be given with nrotit.and then the cultivator can be used. At lirst it will bo the best to work reasonably lep and close to the plants, but each subsequent cul'ivation should be shal lower and farther away from the roots. While the cultivation may be continued after the tillers begin to grow, yet care should be tak?n only to work tt.e surface o as not to disturb the roots. Unless the soil is more than usually free from weeds, it will be necessary to hoe once or twiec'in order to give clean cultiva tion. The cost of hoeing will be more than made up by the better growth and yield and the lessened work ut harvest- Under ordinary conditions the soil should be kept 'level in cultivating. There is no advantage in lulling up. while in n dry season the plantH will suffer more for want of moisture than if the soil is kept level. Keeping the t-oil level and in a good tilth, stirring fre quently, aids materially in reaming moisture in the soil, so that in what may be termed the dry season a growing crop will suffer less if the soil is kept level than if it is hilled up. There is also the rdditional advantage o Wing able to re Teat the cultivation as often as may !e necessary. When liooini; is necessary it will bo" found a good plan to cultivate horoughly, and then hoe out carefully between tho rows, thus lessen ng the work very materially. If jione in vA reason, two harrowings, three workings with the cultivator and one iw.na s U 1h' all that ia necefsarv, although in wre.lv soil it nwv bo nocoss.ryU. hoe twice and it la Iwttor to g.ve the extra hoeing than to allow tl wcojIh to make lx clearly muniMed. MISCELLANEOUS. Tli- I'lrmllip Cotinrl! of t'nr .Ym.rlon I'cil.TMllim ,,r l.iilmr. The Farmers' Alliance of .1 .nsas is preparing to ratify the Cincinnati con ference platform. The bill to extend the modus vivendi to American fishermen has passed the Dominion Semite. The Dominion government will allow a rebate on refined sugar manufactured in Canada for export. The government is distributing head stones in Kan?as to mark the graves of soldiers who have no monuments. Abiiiham .Innsen has Ix-en arrested in New York n a telegram from Pierre, S. 1)., charging him with grand larceny. Pittsburg river miners have with drawn from the United Mine Workers' Association of the Federation of Labor. President Mctirath of the Farmers' Alliance in Kansas thinks that the third patty tickut in will lead Donnelly and Weaver. Koheit I.. Dulanev and wife of Minne sota have sued the Pennsylvania railway lor $-5.0.Xl each for an accident while on their bridal tour. P.ardslcy, the defaulting Citv Treasurer of Piiitidelphia, was a heavy dealer in stocks, lie always purchased outright air' never on margins. The l'.oston Common Council has paK'd unanimously a resolution to re fuse licenses to shows or performances advertising by indecent poster. The United States Supreme Court during the ten-: just ended settled til" ca-es,'170 bvinir the largest number here tofore passed on in a single term. About 2,000 warrants have been served in Portland, Me., since the preent liq uor law was put in force, but still there is said to be an increase of drunkenness there. A piece of real estate in New York citv purchased in 18h0 by Vice-President Morton and his partner, tieorge. Pliss, for )0,000 has just iwen sold for $1, 500,000. The sand-laden wind from the lake Michigan shores have wiped out tho town ' of Singapore, near SangatucK, Mich. F.very house except one has Ihjcii compkteiy covered. It is whispered that the liritish capi talists who a year ago were buying up American breweries and other manufact ing plants are a great deal less enthusi astic than they were. An action ha" begun in the Supreme Court of New York in which Henry Al ien, a nephew of Commodore Vaifder bilt, seeks a half-million siice of the estate left by the latter. Half of the pubsidy of 10,000 has been raised for the new theater which Josep'i MacDonoitgh will biiuild at Oak land, Cal. The theater will be the same size as the P.aldwin of San Francisco. Surrogate Ablwtt of Brooklyn, N. Y., has decided the great suit over the Gaines wMl. He declares holosniphic of will January 8, 1SS5, to be false and fraudulent, ami upholds will of .January 5, ISSfi. The Chicago Medical Society requests the people of that city to boil the water used for drinking. If this were done, thevsav it would prove a great safeguard against typhoid fever, which is at pres ent prevalent in Chicago. The Executive Council of the Ameri an Federation of lihor will soon usuo in r.ddrcs regarding the failure of the ilnited Mine Workers to support the 'ight-hour movement and charging the "ailure to the Knights of Labor. President Harrison denies thnt ho in my manner discuased the Nebraska rimver-Povd controversy while a guest f Nebraska. In a letter to Governor Thayer the President says he hardly hinks it necessary to make this expla nation. The principal witness in the caso of Deputy sheriff White, who is charged with bribery in connection with the llennessy trial at New Orleans, has dis mpenred after summons was served. This is considered as evidence strong igainst the accused. It is stated on the authority of Vice President Webb that the New York Cen 'ral railroad will bridge the St. Lawrence from Cape Vincent to Wolf Island and from Wolf Island to Kingston; then by m agreement with the Canadian Pacific trains will be run from British Columbia to New York without change and by the shortest possible route. SPORTING NOTES. JurliMon to Insiio ii C1in!Ii'iii; ISr.rrlntr No Oiitt Curlititt to IIhvxh llonellt. Corbett is to be tendered a benefit in San Francisco at which Sullivan has consented to spar. Jackson is alxmt to issue a challenge barring no one. His friends will back him against Kilrain. The Granite Athletic Club of New York offers a $10,00!) purse for a light tHJtween Jack McAuliffe and Jim Car ney. An international bicycle road race from Pordeaux to Paris", a distance of t S miles, was won by Knglishman Mills in 25 hours and 8" minutes. The French men were nowhere. The French Derby (Prix de Jockey Club) was won by Kmaka, by Farepidit, d.ini Knergetic. Lo Hardy, the promis ing three year-old of Cannlle Plane, gen erally expected to win, was second. Hanlon and O'Connor have signed ar 'ides tor ft race with McKay and Gau .1 mr for the double-scull championship of the world. The contest is foi $1,00U a side, and is to be held about the mid dlo of July. It is stated authoritatively that Cor bett has received a veay flattering offer to resume his position as boxing in structor of the Olympic Club, and that 'ie will probably accept. Ho will not go K t unless to witness the Kilruln-Sluvin fight. Dick I'urgtn the English light-weight champion, who defeated Jimmy Carney, as agreed to fight Carney again for XI , 000 a side. Carney's backers are willing to match him againat Burgo. Tho referte claims that he disqualified Carney for hickhu ling ISurgtt, ,M. J. Mooney, instructor of sparring at the Mifsouri gymnasium of Ft. Imis, U out willi a chailengn to Andy 1 to wen for a finish fight for ft'OO or f 1.000, and fur any purse that may lie put up by any athletic dub in the country. As nn earnest Mooney has dei-onlted f 100 for Mi, THE CAPITAL OF SLAM. BANGKOK AND ITS FIFTEEN MILES OF FLOATING HOUSES. A City u Irsi n OliiCHOi, of Wlilrh Nine Out of Ten of I lie lYnilo I. Ivy on tile Vutr "Miiiietliliig ol tliu Country ItelC Tln King Ouiin the People. Slain in one il" the out of the way coun tries of the world. None of the great steamship lines of the Pacific or of tho Indian xv.ui stop tit it. Few globe trot ters visit it. ami it is n'.xnit 1.500 miles out of the regular lino of travel around the world. The j'T"at Siamese peninsula juts down from the east, coast of China. It contains h;-.!f a do umi different coun tries, the chiel of which are Pttrmah, Siam and the French states of China. Siatn itself is nt the low r end of the pe ninsula iiii'l it Uumds the greater part of the mighty body of water known as the Gulf of Biaitt. It is 1.I500 miles long, and nt its widest part it w 4.V) miles wide. It is almost a.s Hat as ymir hand, though it has here and there a few mountain chains. It has many big rivers, and the country is as much cut up with canals ns is Hol land. During the rainy season it becomes a mighty lake, and the people move hero and there from one city to another in boats, ON THE KlVUIt JtKNAM. The greatest river is the Meiiam, which tho Siamese know by the same name as the Indians knew tho Mississippi. It is "the father of waters." and it forms tho great highway of the kingdom. This river (lows into the Gulf of Siam nt its head, and it is about forty miles from its mouth that 1 sit here on its banks and write this letter in this lloating city of Bangkok. Imagine a city as largo ns Chicago, of which ninety-iiino hun dredths of the people livo on tho water. There are fifteen miles of Hunting houses on the two sides of this river, and these, with tho king's palacesand a few foreign buildings on the land, make up tho capi tal of the Siamese people. There are six millions and inoro of these Siamese and their country covers a territory ol about twice the sizo of Colorado, four times tho sizo of Now York, and it is about five times as big; as Ohio. The cocoanut and the palm trco lino the banks of this Menam river and the boats flit in and out of jungles which remind one of the swamps of Florida. I wish I could gie you a picture of our ride up the Menam lo Bangkok. The .sides of the liver are lined with these small floating houses. They are I anchored to pilt s and they Ho half hid den by the great palm trees on the banks. Hero and tliere a canal juts" oil' into the jungle and the houses on it makes this a lloating street. These houses tiro made of bamboo, w ith their hides and their roofs thatched wiih palm leaves. They are .sometimes on piles high above tho water, but more often they rest on its surface. They tire lied to poles driven into the bed of the river, and they rise and fall with the tide. Their average height is not more than ten feet, and cack looks like two large dog kennels fastened together and covered with palm leaves. The river is winding. It is perhaps a quarter of a mile wide and every turn brings new surprises. As we near Bang kok the waters are alive with craft of till kinds. Little, naked, brown, bhocl; headed youngsters paddle long canoes not over two lVet w ide and so sharp that the least balance would unseat the rower. There are h i If naked women with groat hats of straw, which look like inverted wwrk baskets, sitting kire legged and bare breasted in boats which they paddle along, and boats of all sizes aro worked by all ie.;es ami bexes from babies of 0 to wrinkled old men and bhort, gray haired women of (iO. As you enter Bangkok tho crowd increases. In stead of one line of lloating houses along the bank's there are three and sometimes four. The whole river is alive, and you turn your eyes this way and that, meet ing a maze of new objects at every turn. i.iki: I.ONU m.avi:ry. The king of Siam is supposed to own the people, and each man in tho realm has to serve for three, six or nine months as a bervant of the government. At a certain time of tho year tho entire popu lation is marked oil' to particular noble men or government masters. Theso masters, whenever the government de mands anything of them, can compel tho men marked olF to them to nerve. All kinds of work are demanded, and tho various marks put upon tho men indi cate their trades or prolession. Soino men aro required to give till their time to tho government, and in this caso they get nominal salaries. Those who give half their time work for tho king fifteen days, und then have fifteen days off. Tho three mouths subjects get no pay, and during the timo they are in Bangkok they have lo find themselves in food and lodging. This work practically ciiblavcs tho whole imputation of males, and blavcry is common in Siam. Criminals convicted often become slaves, and they aro sometimes marked or branded on the forehead. I have seen many men in chains during my stay here, and just outside the walls of the palace thero tiro at least two scoro of men, bright oyed, good looking, lusty fellows who havo great iron collars about their necks uud chains alwut their legs and r.mis, who were making basket work, and who offered to bell mo their wares as I passed. Tho debtor who does not pay in Siam must lecomo tho blavo of his creditor, who charges him from 15 to 80 jwr cent, a year, puts him in chains and takes his work as tho inteivst on tho debt. There aro hundietls of such slaves in Bangkok, and many of tho men Ixicomu fclavoa by gambling away their living. Tho nation, all told, bccuts addicted to vice rather than to virtue, nnd it is nearer akin to pure heathenism than any other 1 havo yet seen. Still it claims to lo progressive, und its king lias made soino ttepa to tho froiiL Tho whole, however, com)arus muro to the colored republic of lla ti or Ut th blacks of Ban Domingo than to any otbor olwluu tion. Tlio x-oplu aru duvoUul to lJuilah jbiu, and tliu priontn uru numlwicd by thousands. Prank U, CarjHmter. ANOTHER VIEW OF HIM. A l'urltiiii Matron l'rotot .gntnt the Am tkiiw ot rUiulatne tiuui. I was pained to see in a recent issue of Once a Week an article by the Marquise Lanza, entitled "The Man Who Fasci nates," for it so entirely ignored the moral clement in the character of men and women, ami presented for our con sideration such low and unworthy standards of conduct ns to shock all who have not Uvome roues or cynics. Brieth, Madame ltnza declares that women do not admire men for their goodness or nobilty of character, but for tin ir man ners ami the ability which they tiu possess to Hatter, cajole and deceive the silly if not immoral creatures whom she makes women out to he. 1 pass over her assertion that women are fascinated by mere brute strength. Possibly some of them are; but it is no credit to them. Yot what P wish especially to protest against is the calm assumption on the part of the w riter that all women ignore the question of character in a man. "The veriest scoundrel." she says, "that ever drew breath is apt to be a thousand fold more magnetic than he who, having marked out an ethical path for himself, proceeds religiously to follow it. All women like insinuating manners." And again: "A mini who desires to please a woman should never tell the whole truth. Sincerity aromes and even retains respect, but that is a far different thing from fascination. It suggests tho tradesman in a leather apron and smell ing of garlic compared with u lovely woman made j et lovelier by tho scent of rose leaves." There you have it all. All women uro either fools or worse: and in order to gain their attention men need only bo outwardly charming. Lying and deceit will not only not hurt them in the esti mation of the poor fools whom they wish to ensnare, but will actually help them. As for the rest, they may be as dissolute and immoral as they please; women will still be fascinated by them, so long as they aro dissolute in a charming way. Now, I ask in all seriousness, is that tho highest outlook of our ago on this great question of the relatiso relations of men and women? After all theso ages of moral conflict, after all the teachings of Christianity, nay. after all tho prog ress made by humanity in intelligence and inoralil , is that wretched and re pulsive bit of boulevard cynicism all wo have to show? 1 will not believe it. I deny that all women are so mindless, so vain, so utterly unable to appreciate or understand moral goodness and purity as this writer makes them out lobe. I submit that Mine. Lanza speaks only for the fashionable idlers of both sexes who in our great cities audaciously assume to bo tho whole of good society. In reality, they are only tho unhealthy and artifi cial scum that lloals on tho surface of the great stream of human life. In thousands of happy homes in this city today, anion;; both the lofty and tho lowly, men and women aro to bo found who would repel with indignant scorn such a low and cynical view of our so cial life. Thank God there is such a thing yet among us as a lovo of good ness, and truth, ami virtue in spite of our society cynics, and club roues, and miasmatic erotic novelists. The women of this fair land aro not yet so silly and vain as Mine. Lanza considers them to be. "With an exception hero and there they aro attracted by purity of lifo and nobility of soul in a man, and repelled by the roue ami the liar, however "charming" their manners may bo. A Puritan Matron in Oncua Week. An April Pool. A joke upon popular credulity was a trick perpetrated in London no longer ago than 1B0O. Thousands of persons received official looking invitations to be present on Sunday forenoon, April 1, "to witness the annual ceremony of the washing of the White Lions in the Tower." The favored recipients of theso missives were instructed to present them selves at the White Gate for adinibsion. All that forenoon tho streets near tho Tower were thronged by hundreds of vehicles herring people in earnest quest of tho White Gate. Finally somebody a little less thick w it ted than the rest 'of tho crowd refiienibeied that thero was no white gate to the to.vcr, that there wereno white lions, and that ceremonials under governmental auspices on Sunday were at least wildlv improbable. Like an electric hhork' his reflections flashed tnrough thoth.ong of ceremony seekers, and their recognition of tho fact that all were "April fools" tent them scurrying away in angry haste. Bedford's Maga zine. Tint View from Ml. lliiuillton. Profcsfeor Whitney says that from the summit of Ml. Hamilton in California, more of the earth'n surface can bo seen than from ciiy other spot on the globe, though it i i only about -1,500 feet high. The view cMeuds around in every direc tion, and the snow capped range of the lofty Sierras can 1m plainly seen 200 miles away against the northern sky. To tho south, nearly as faraway, tho San Beruadino range limits the view, and between tho two lies room for all tho eastern states, with their rivers, lakes, mountains und sea coast. Twenty minutes U-foru reaching tliu summit, a heavy while cloud floated up tmd treated us to a drenching bhowerof -ain. Vu were well prepared, however, and did not buffer any inconvenience U'yond loss of tho view. Worcester Spy. l'roiur I'ri'ciiutlou. Young Man (confidentially) I want to seo soino of your bolitairo rings. Juweler Kngagomcnt ring, I pre sume? Young Man Y-yos, eir. Joweler Here's jiiht tho thing you want. Alaska stono, rolled plato and warranted for n your. Young Mun But 1 want a real stone. Jowolor Of course. Ah I was going to say, wo givo ono of tho plated ringd along with each rail btouo. Tlioy uru cuct duplicator. If tho ingagumont U a success it is vary oasy to uubetltulo the nml for tho initiation, Term JIuuto I'.tpreui. 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Hie PM crin.il, rric, miiiuur, 1 rlHn !.! in J, Hottifo. Ilurmali, Ih Paul w If h WbMviW. Herna, KaffiirU. Tartar?. 'Oinir ant TunU, lb ArtM, I Turin, MMkin. hauui American, American inmnn, sjb- i liant, Mmee, AbTMlnlaii, Noreln, Hi anlard. Hwm, ' I'altsn, Oreet, llulti, Siberian, Afghan, Per!, i M.xlem. Australian, liulcailan, Sicilian, cuticle. I M A N l' PA VT Tit In llil (treat erfc; I ata 4te4 , tlx! lllullttlt-l til Ct ail.l WOCfMfl of I rll.tlflf, lteattlJ. irlntina tatio mVln(, aieh mkfnn. rP" mallnf, U iiianuftciiiievf Uk. Iron, aietl, (tlats.rhlna, tttometj, , leather lar'li 11 paper turpentine, pottil crJ. pot iitmii envelope, en, pencil, neeJU, anJ many thlo, all of which Mllt founJ jfcullttlj lotertftloc a4 lntruetife POltr.MIN PltOIrrT. Intereillo deterlptlon. 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Herein art deaerlhert m( lllutriel the many wonierful and beaut ifnl thing found alia tiottou oftheocean.the plant, flower, thella, fltbt, tU.tlka e peatl diving, coral (lining, etc., eta, RTATIATH'AI AMI M iHOPMtA NT.or, Herei laglvrn a v Mt amount or naeful and Intrreatlng lnfo;maitat com of rhlch lithe population of American cltlea, area popul Clonal thecAiitinenta, of theRtatr and Territories, mnd. uff'tP wlnilpa. counlrle ef tha world, length ot the pr1netjd ,1vt . 'IJe.tth ' Tote for ltf year, Preldentlal atatUUoa, crc 2ii' depth of , lake and ocenn. height of mountaia, locomv tlon onnlnial and tetocliy of hodfea, half lit ol tueaa tnents, tow , an tructure,dilance from' Wathlngton, al- fromN wY rUtolmportanl point. chronological hlitory of dH covcry an. pregreaa, tpulr otriquet of American Btaiea, clllc. etc , common grammatical error, rule for lulling, pea itunol.itlnn cm uae of cplK Wail Mlreet phrae connnera nf Vac uorlt, cutlou fact In natural history, longevity anlmcvla, origin of the name nictate, and of countrlet.of greai work, poputar rb1( ramillar quotation, or gentn and nt plant, dving word of famon perona, fate of lh Aj-oU atailttU of tb (Iota, leading governmtuli of thi world, t etc. . 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Tliuy abound lu wit. btunor, jiRtlii B, muHterly delincutiou of cimrHe.ter, viid dcHcrilitioiiH ot pUct'tt awl llicidenta. tbrllliim itlut dklllfully wiiui)-lit jiIdIh. Kauli tiook Ih iiitciiBely iulercBtliiK'. No lioniCHl.oubl bo witbout ft net of tbine ceut uud remark ublii woiks. Not to bfivti tend tliem la to Imi fur ImjIiIiiU tliu ace In wbicli wo live. Tliu BARNABY RUDOE AND CHRISTMAS STORIES, OLIVER TWIST AND GREAT EXPEC TATIONS, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP AND THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, HARD TIME8 AND THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.