X (J. 1 toatrfeon 3ournaI. VCAlUX, tUSJUSOV, - MB, "God made the country," but man makes the country roads. Cuban advices indicate tbat Spanish warfare ia not one-half so deadly as foot-ball. Willie Hohenzollern evinces a desire to turn in a still alarm just to see the war engines come out. The farmer has no cash drawer, still He gets his money from his till, And yet his till has nothing in it Until be tills his field to win it. Undeviating civility to those of In ferior stations and courtesy to all are the emanations of a well-educated mind and finely balanced feelings. The world is shadowed or brightened by our own heart rather than by any thing in itself. Our joy makes the cloudiest day glad, and our grief finds night in the sunset sky. A Western editor who says "We stand on the edge of a seven-year era destined to be full of stirring events" should cheer up. Sulphur is said to be a specific for those seven-year afflic tions. Don't worry about that "full cargo of cotton seed oil which was shipped from New Orleans to Marseilles" the other day. It will come back pretty soon as "pure olive oil," and you can get it again by paying double prices. A little wrong, a trifling injustice, an insulting word, piquing our self-love and personal vanity, stirs us more ef fectually and interests us more really than the chances of being lost or saved. And yet we dream we are serving God. You cannot tamper with the striking movement of a clock without injuring 14; and you cannot tamper with orderly recurrence of sleep without impairing the very constitution of things on which the orderly performance of that func tion depends. A Boston man declares that surgeons are overanxious to operate on people for appendicitis, and to protect him self In case he falls in a fit or faints and Is disabled mentally he wears sewed to his undershirt a card with this inscrip tion: "My appendix has been cut out" No emergency has ever yet found the American people unprepared to defend and protect their interests. The very fact that they have no standing army to depend on keeps alive in the minds of the people those patriotic impulses which are essential to the preservation and perpetuation of the republic. When you write to an advertiser, whose announcement appears in this paper, tell him that you saw it there. Advertisers like to know whether or not their advertisements are read, and It is to the advantage of the publisher to have them know. You will do a special favor to us if, when communi cating with our advertisers, you will observe this point The lack of emotion, of enthusiasm, of desire can never be justly pleaded as an excuse for lack of action, for the tatter, In all its details of duty, is at least within our power. If we cannot make ourselves feel, we can act as the feeling would dictate, and thus dis charge our responsibility. But p so doing we shall have done the other also, perhaps unconsciously, but In the only effective way. The Union Point (Ga.) Review says: "A girl in this place says her mother has promised to give her $1,000 if she will get married and keep quiet about the whole affair until it is over. The young lady herself offers to give $500 of the amount to the gentleman who will take her. Step up, boys; she's all right and pretty as a peach." Has Cu pid been driven into the brokerage business in Georgia? Naturally we become sour and crab bed when we are not appreciated and when things go ill with us. To be mis understood by friends, to suffer earth ly losses, to be rebuked, or to be as sailed is a trying experience, yet it need vol, and should not, embitter us and make us testy, petulant and cyn ical. Better to turn the face toward the sunshine and let in the rays of hope, love, kindness, and charity. This will cause a sweetness of soul that makes Itself felt In word, feeling and act. It la estimated that in tbe last three ' ears forest fires In New York State have destroyed more than 49,000 acres of timber. And In 1804 and 1805 the BUte paid $.V),000 for putting out for , est fires. Most of these fires are the result of carelessness, which might al most be called criminal, on the part of farmers and sportsmen. It is evident that unless some more effective meas- ares tre takes for their preservation, tbe forests of the State will soon dis appear. Official efforts are of little aval! without the intelligent co-opera-CM of citbsena generally ' ' ' SS"nsSSJSBSBJP"SfcMBBI n Boston Herald's" "chatterer" Is rsBslble for the following: It la lata ta th day to admlr Dumas for his aMUc art, but aftsr seeing so many , fz:'2z3, sstir constructed modern "-" vasts to Ea obeisance to .' L i ta tbs presence , . tt C I ft SBStTBCtteB "' i ilrv f osctatsf links In the story, who feels, and even hears, the straightforward march of the Inevitable, enjoys not only the piece but the performance a hundredfold more. In addition to the present rapid-transit facilities in London a new electric underground railway is projected, which is expected to be in operation in four years from the present time. The route is from Broadway, Hammer smith, to Cannon street in the heart of Xhe city, and the trains will run sixty fevt below the sidewalks. The princi pal stations will be at Ludgate Hill, the Law Courts, Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, the Haymarket, Hyde Park corner, and the Albert Hall A syndicate has been formed aud 3, 500,000 has been' raised, a sum sup posed to be sufficient for all expenses ol construction. Certain streets in the city of Boston have been In a dreadfully congested condition, owing to the great number of street cars which have been obliged to pass through them. Probably half of the cars make their way through Tremont street, and the other half through Washington street. The wind ings and twistings and the narrowness of the crooked streets often stopped traffic, and the cars would be blocked for several miles through these two crowded thoroughfares. A sub-way is now being built by means of which a large portion of the street car traffic will be accommodated. The cost will be, probably, about seven millions of dollars. There is a monkey in the Bellerue Zoological Gardens of Manchester, En gland, that rides a bicycle, plays a vio lin and bugle, though he does not ex tract much music; sits at a table to eat, uses soap and towel when making his toilet, and shaves himself. When rid ing his wheel he rings tie bell almost constantly, not so much to alarm pedes trians as because he enjoys the sound. He smokes cigars and cigarettes, and eagerly picks up a stump when he finds it. He is afraid of the fire, and will not hold a match or lighted paper to light a pipe or cigar, but scratches a matc.h and hands it to his trainer. He has learned to box, and in a fight with another monkey used bis fists like a pugilist. j The next Paris exposition will con tain "A City of Gold." It will be an historical exhibition of the progress of banking. One section will show the processes for obtaining the precious metals, with models of the different kinds of mines; another will show the conversion of the metals Into coin, and the workings of the mint; still another the progress of all kinds of commercial papers, with reproductions of historical banks from the Strozzi and the Medici to the Rothschilds and the Bank of France. There will be a gallery of por traits of great financiers, and a recon struction of the Pont au Change as it was in the middle ages, connected with streets representing various historical periods. A student in Lafayette college at Easton, Pa., who disapproved of hazing was seized by a crowd of hoodlum stu dents, knocked down, Jumped upon,, and then taken to a barber shop, where they shaved off his whiskers and near ly severed one of his fingers. He com plained to the faculty, whereupon he was expelled from the college band, the literary society, the athletic club and dining club. He is at home in New York, and the faculty confesses its inability to control the hazing element and has written advising him not to re turn to his studies. State legislation may be necessary to give spinal firm ness to college faculties otherwise un able to cope with such unruly elements as these. It is strange that the author ity of the States has not been Invoked before this to close ' up institutions which permit such outrages upon stu dents. It Is said that tbe English are highly amused over the boast of the London Chronicle concerning the part it thinks It played In bringing about a settle ment of the Venezuelan dispute. Of its exploit the Chronicle says: "To send a secial commissioner at such a crisis to Washington was a step so un precedented as to approach audacity. It was not merely a difficult and costly but a dangerous enterprise, yet In the high interest of the peace of these na tions we ventured It and It was abso lutely successful." The language em ployed concerning an enterprise which would have suggested itself to any American newspaper under like cir cumstances is, of course, ridiculous. What the Chronicle did was, however, remarkable, considering the arrogant bigotry which marks English Journal ism, and the Investigations and conclu sions of the British foreign office have sustained tbe position taken by the Chronicle's commissioner. As to Mr, Norman's mission Influencing Sails bury, that is nonsense. England Md London. The general abstract, of marriages, births, and deaths for the year IKOfi was recently presented to parliament. The summary shows that the enume ated population on April (!, 18M, was 20.OO2,S25, and the estimated popula tion In 1896 was .'10,717,355. The total number of marriages in England was 44,8!). The births were 917,201; of this number 40(1,0.12 were males and 450.M9 females. The deaths were R27 928, of which number 271,288 were males and 2!W,M females. In London the estimated population to the middle of 1JM was 4,421 ,05B. In 1M the number was 4,211,743. The 'total number of marriages was 79,738 and btrtba 136,790. Of this number AO,. 638 were males and 08,200 females. The deaths were 81,979, and of this number 42,214 wars males and 83,763 TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. When and Bow to Plant Cera Beet Sugar aa Food for Stock-Mistake of Corcrias Seeda Too Deeply Cleaa Out the Grain Ftelda. The Corn Crop. The corn should be planted when the soil is warm and moist Have the ' ground mellow and rich. Iut the corn ' in with a planter, and drop 200 pounds ' of some good corn fertilizer in the hill Bone phosphate or dissolved bone, ; either will answer. If the sod was ' plowed last fall, the cut-worms will j be killed by the front Spring-plowed ' sod should have a dressing of court salt two aud one-half to three bushels to the acre. Pish or Iwcou salt will do. Sow the salt broadcast after the first harrowing, and cross-harrow It In. The young cut-worms and the larvae of the worms will be killed by the salt and the salt will also benefit the corn. ; When no salt can be used, and there are many worms, harrow and roll the field once every five days, and plant the field the last of the month. The hot sun and the constant stirring of the ground will kill out the worms. Plant corn on well pulverized sod. If you plant on fallow or thin soil, and have little manure, spread the manure broad cast as far as It will go. Harrow It in well, and then put the corn In with a i little phosphate In the hill. If the manure is very coarse. It should be plowed under not more than four inch es in depth. It will not pay except In a small way to manure corn in the hill. Phosphate alone will not bring a crop of grain where the field Is destitute of vegetable matter. Beet Sugar for Stock. In the beet sugar producing sections of France low-grade sugar has become low enough in price to make a cheap stock food; but experiments made by Prof. Malpeaux show that It will not do for dairy cows. In repeated tests, the addition of sugar to tbe ration caused the cows to lay on flesh with out Increasing the yield of either milk or butter a particle. Massachusetts Ploughman. Covering Seeda Too Deeply. The mistake In spring planting that is most common Is covering thu seeds too deeply. It is a good rule to put only twice the depth of the seed in soil over It This with some very tine s'eda means merely sowing on finely pre pared seed bed, whei they will natural ly fall into the depressions, and then pressing the soil over thiiu. The root naturally strikes down tor moUiure, and a very slight hold on the surface, so as to give the young p'aiit light and air. Is best for Its early growth. There are usually plenty of rains In spring, so that some soil will be likely to be washed over surface-sown seeds, anj this Is better than any way of covering them l;y cultivator, harrow or drag. Even the smoothing harrow Is apt to cover small seeds too deeply. Grass and clover seeds are sown ?asiy euou?a so that alternate freezing aud thawing does the work of covering better than man can do it Grain Field. Go through the grain, walking be tween tbe grain drills, and cut out the rye, cockle, garlic aud other weeds. This should be done early, itefore the wheat heads out An acre can tie gone over In an hour. Clean grain is worth several cents more per bushel. Orange and Lemon Trees. The youug oranges and lemons raise1 from seed last year should be trans planted Into larger pots. After trans planting, water immediately, aud set the plants in the shade In the green house for a few days, until they are well rooted. Seeds of tbe best oranges and lemons may now be sown In boxe of good garden still. Sow the seed about five inches apart and two inches deep, and cover with fine earth. Set the boxes upon the ground," partially protected from the hot sun. The soil should be kept moist. Fruiting orange and lemon trees should not be set out before the 20th of the month, when the weather becomes warm and set tled. Set the trees partially in tbe shade. From six Incites to one foot of the top earth In the tubs should be taken out and good garden soli put back. Wash the leaves off and water every two weeks each tub with one gal lon of weak manure water. The Amer ican. Fimmer Forage Crops, Corn Is tbe bust soiling crop. Oats, peas and barley, sown early in April and tbe first part of May produce a rich feed for all stock, especially for milch cows and young pigs. In a moist season the crop will be a heavy one. It is valuable for rich clay beans. Sandy or gravelly soils are too dry and hot Plant corn In drills run two and a-half feet apart. One bushel of corn and 000 pounds of bone phosphate will plant an acre. One acre, grown on rich ground, In connection with pas ture, will feed twenty-five cows for a month. Make four sowingsthe first about the 10th, the second about the J."tli of May. the third on tbe 10th and the fourth about the 25Ui of June. Shallow Tlllas-a Best. All tillage tit crops should be shal low. The time to go deep Is when tbe ground Is plowed In tbe fall. Deep tillage of a growing crop serves no good purpose whatever, while M Is Terr Injurious to the plants. It Is folly to move the soil In which the roots of a plant are growing unless It Is desired to check tbe growth of tbs plant What Is needed is Intelligent shallow tillage. After every rain the crust that forms on the aurfics must bs brvksa us, aad aajr.UBpltmest that rcr mm or two inches deep will accomplish that pur pose. During drought the surface of the soil gradually packs and forms a crust and hence surface or shallow cul tivation Is as necessary as after a shower. Shallow cultivation will de stroy weeds quite as effectively as deep, while It can be done with less than a fourth of tbe labor. The time to de stroy weeds Is Just when they appear above the surface. Thorough tillage Includes the destruction of all weeds as soon as they appear. Neither weeds nor grass of any sort should be allow ed to rob the soil of one atom of its fer tility. This Involves watchfulness and labor, but not hard labor If the right kind of tools are used and used in time. How Much Tile Per Acre? There are two extremes In tile drain ing. The beginner Is apt to think tile drains are only needed where water stands on the surface in hollows, aud has to be drawn off. Hut when this is done, It leaves the ibil in these hol lows so much dryer and better fitted for cropping thtit the fanner sees that even the uplands, that hud leen sup posed dry enough, need draiuing also. Usually the first drains are put in too shallow. That, if continued, means a large useless expenditure for tile. No where should underdrains be dug less than three feet deep. They will then ; drain perfectly two to two and a iialf j rods on each side of the underdrain. j The soil will hold so much more water t with a deep drain that it will not re-j quire larger size than will a shallow one. Care for Tranap'aated Trees. Thousands of dollars are every year wasted by neglect of proper care for trees that have been transplanted. The most common cause of this is in the idea that plenty of water applied to . the roots can be made a substitute for! frequent cultivation. Newly trans planted trees really need little water on the soil. The roots of newly planted trees cannot at once begin to supply plant food from the soil. They need time and contact with moist soil, but not too wet before new rootlets can put forth. To keep the soil sodden with water while the roots are In this semi dormant condition is to rot them. Less water with thorough Burface cultiva tion, to keep the surface soil loose and prevent rapid evaporation, Is what Is needed. If water Is applied It should be in moderate amounts, and often by spraying so as to keep the buds from withering until the roots can supply them with moisture. Dwarf A pplea. Dwarf apple trees, as objects of orna ment as well as luxury, are scarcely lews valuable than the pear. They need but little space, come Into bearing hn--med lately, and a small plantation of them will supply an abundance of fruit of the finest quality. Their importance for small gardens and suburban grounds baa been altogether over looked. 6wine Note. - I The true secret of profitable breeds is in the feed and care given them. J Health is the first thing for the swine breeder to look after. The healthy hog makes the best gain and gives the most profit. See that the young pigs get plenty of exercise In the sunshine and that they have a dry place to sleep. Wet bedding and damp sleeping quarters are a fruit ful source of diarrhea in young pigs. The hog Is but a machine to convert corn and other food into pork, and pork brings what we are most in need ofmoney. If tbe hog Is a machine, and we are going to keep some of these machines for use, we surely want the very best attainable. j All runts are not born runts, but many have their runtlness thrust upon them. In his early life a pig will go backward or forward very easily. Al most every pig will make a good pork er if started right Give the runt a lit tle extra lift. A little boiled milk sev eral times a day sometimes works won ders. I Poultry Points. A fresh egg has a Hmelike surface to Its shell. Examine the droopy hen. It Is prob ably lice and Immediate attention Is necessary. Scatter lime broadcast over your yard. It is a splendid thing for both youug and old fowls. Too much soft cooked food is not good for fowls. They need some em ployment for the gizzard. Keeping poultry with success Is not a difficult feat to perform; the chief re quisite Is common sense. Don't try to keep all the3dlfferent va rieties of poultry. Two or three varie ties of the best are plenty. Overfeeding is expensive. It not only costs more for feed, but the hens get too fat and lay no eggs. One good thoroughbred fowl can of ten be sold for as good a price as a doc en poor ones and cost no more to raise. Clean up and disinfect all feed and watering troughs. This Is especially necessary if wooden troughs are used. Tbe gizzard of the fowls masticates the food, but this can only be done by the aid of sharp, gritty material. Be sure this bhsupplled. Don't fall to whitewash tbe bouse outside as well as Inside. It adds to the appearance and really Is as much benefit as the Inside work. Broken bones are often more highly relished than when ground. A hen will sometimes refuse bono meal and yet will readily eat broken bones. i Feather pulling la the most peml-, clous of all vices. Tbe habit usually comes from Idleness and can generally be prevented by keeping fowla busy, j If the ground around the poultry I house door gets muddy In soft wVitber, ' throw coal ashes for a few yards from U so fbs bona wia tars dry fast all of thstlm. STYLES FOR SUMMER. HOT WEATHER COSTUMES NOW IN VOGUE. Details of Some of the Oatflts that Are to Be Worn Aronnd Bam me r Beeorta Dainty Light Weight Toque Hate-Shoes of Varlons Uses. Feehloa'a Fane lea. Maw Tort correspondence: V LIM as the list of iff J fashionable folk in town should be by the middle of June, there are, uever theless, a host of caroruiiy aresseu women who have not yet completed the wardrobes for their outings. The weather has had something to do with this, and where it has not acted directly on the exodus to the resorts, it has of ten served as an excuse for delay that lean purses really compelled. So it comes about that the present shoppers may be taken as models more safely than is usual at this time of year, both as regards their purchases and the at tire in which they are now appearing. To go a-shopplng in the gowu of the first accompanying picture is to make sure that a glance at your rig will con vince the observer of your sound judg ment In dress matters, and to win at tention from salesfolk. Besides this, tOR TRAVELING AND OCTISO. It Is quite equal to later service as a walking dress, being made, as sketch ed, of brown and white checked goods for skirt and sleeves, and of brown silk for the pretty bolero. Bauds of brown silk passementerie braid trimmed lKrth skirt and Jacket and beneath the bit ter was a white pique vest, over which fell a handsome lace Jalntt. Noticeable among the laces that are worn Juxt now, as distinguished from those that adorn the windows, and that don't top women, are very dainty light weight toques of a hew filier. This sort seems a mere twist of black, of straw color or white, and there is a great bunch of flowers at the back and a single uplift of trimming at the front The impression made by this headwear Is, as it should lie with a perfect hat of a handsome woman, and not of hat at all. Over the face with such a hat comes a mere gauze of a veil, for the stylish woman no longer wears a close dot net with a small liat that brings the' dots close to her eyes. The gauze is fastened loosely, and comes under the chin, the waving looseness of the free-hem veil leing considered unsuitable to city triguess. These toque usually accompany gowns of crash, denim or canvas, made either In strictly tailor finish, or with greater or less degree of simulation of that At tbe throat comes a faultless stock of white, with a tie of swagger gingham or India silk. The stock Is so perfectly fitted that though It Is neither stiff nor high, it seems to hold tbe throat snugly and without wrinkling. A white, soft front, inany-tucked shirt waist shows where tbe Jacket bolero or bodice opens. A plain skirt with a deep hem and possibly several rows of braid Is worn. If tbe gown be blue denim, then the toque is dead white, trimmed with a splash of black, and, of course, with many -colored flowers. If nor gown Is linen color, tbe toque Is likely to follow It In shade. Quits naturally one of the items that shoppers now seek Is a trarebi g dress, aad It Is pleasant to note that serice aMKty Is dominant lu these rigs Pos aXsly tbs lesson tbat women bare learn- ' THB S1WEST Ut OF PI.KATINO. ed IB their bicycling has helped towers this desirable end, though there art much more or ornamentation and a greater variety in traveling dresws than In tbe wheeling tuni-. Tula turn toward positive simplicity In the traveling dress makes one common re. sort of economy rather more dlft'-cult. That is the trick of planning a travel iug gown so that it will serve later for an outdoor, general utility gowu. But DOMINATED BY PICT IRESQUSSESS. this can still lie clone, and the model in to-day's sketch Was chosen because It accomplishes this uii-ely. It was tring colored linen, the trimming on skirt and Jacket la-ing bias folds of tho goods. Its fitted Jacket bodice hooked beneath a white pique vest, the white chiffon 1mw had lace ends, and a tan leather belt confined the waist With a change of vests this rig wi!) strve finely as an outing gown, and as de scribed it will pat muster for travel ing. The three remaining dresses that are shown here are very handsome and fashionable examines of what wise shoppers are taking away with them. Of the two outdoor gowns the first was made of pearl-gray crepe de chine, sunburst pleated aiwl arranged over a foundation of the same shade of taffe ta. Tbe bodlt was fitted and the pleats ran around the figure instead of up and down, and the frisits opened over a vert of white satin fiaiwhed with white chiffon frills that lay beneath the ruffle-Uke edges of the fronts. The prettily draied belt was white satin, and the sleeves luul plealed puffs. Three lace bands trimmed the pleated skirt. This pleating lias so recently Iwcotne fashionable that It will stamp tbe gowu as a brand new one, so for that reason Is desirable; from the standpoint of economy, however, It cafl'-'hy hardly be commended. The second V gown of this trio was a very original 'i i and plcturcftkue . design, malting a showy hat a ncceamty. It was a cbalUe whose wlbtte ground was strewn with tiny violets. Several rows of violet satin rtblKiu trimmed the skirt near the hran, and the lod1"e lad a deep yoke FOR HREAKFA8T AND FORK.IOOS. of violet taffuta covered wktb tucked and Miiangfod black chiffon. Tbe sleeves were oroamnled to match the yok,' and violet silk furnished ttie belt With the traveling dross heretofore described to serve as a rough and read outing gown, and witJi the two cos tumes last pkrtured for dressy use, most women would deem t.her wardrobes well eqinpped m the llurs they cover. For a breakfast and morning dress tbe artlwt presents a pretty modal in her final sketch. It was pale-blue mousse line de lauie, Its skirt and bodice gath ered at the wulM and confined by a narrow belt of tbe goods. The skirt had a wide hem showing a drawn work edge, and tiie blouse was completed by a flgaro of the mousHellne edged along tlie slashes with dark-blue surah. Each of Its f rout was pointed and finished with a long bkie satin bow, and a loose pleat and lace Ja4ot filled In tne center, the pleat falling on the skirt. The sk-oves had draped epaulettes and lace ruffles at the wrUts. I'rotMibly no living woman would be satined with a summer wardrobe or winter one, for that mutter-that was picked out for her by some one else. But considered singly, each of these pUituml gowns has points that are worth romcmherUig, and tine models can lie reproduced as Utey are, or their novelties can be transferred or adspnad to other plans. In the originals they were new and pretty, and any one knows that all new design are not lovely. Copyright 1807. The most unfavorable report con tinue to come concerning the coni'tlon of the Hungarian painter, Munkacay, Until recently he has hen In a stato of listless apathy, but la now a dangerous maniac, having attempted to kill big errant and his physician, whose live were saved only with difficulty. ' f 't.,"- -l 1