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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.
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TIIK WOIII.IVS WOMH:U. Oraphle detcrlptlon.
beaut tfullr llluntrutod, of the Yellow atone Park, Yotemito
Valley, Niagara I'ull, the Alp, l'arl, Veuvhi, Venice,
Vienna, the t'nnon cf Colorado, Hainnioth Cave, Natural
Itrldge, Watklua (lien, the White Mouutalu, eto., etc.
TltA VPJ.M. Description, profuely Illustrated, of the life,
luauticn, euitom, peculiar form, lite aud cereujontca of th
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rercli, cork, camj lior, tutor oil, tapioca, eto.i to.
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tlr.ii, ftilie nllnct, wiib touch cutlou Inlmmailon r
li(C tbflr life ul Lbili.
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took, lelltnit every tnau how h mar he M en liwttr, a.l
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MIMNI1, Peeorlptlon anl llluatratlona of the mining t
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WONIi:i(H F TUP, RCA. 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.
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covcry an. pregreaa, tpulr otriquet of American Btaiea,
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work, poputar rb1( ramillar quotation, or gentn and nt
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