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Newtc 1HE jNTERP VOL. XL NO. 52. NEWTON, CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1890. PRICE: 81.00 PER YEAR. R iWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity strength and wholesoniene. More economical than tLe ordinary kinds, ami cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight alum of phosphate powders. Sohl only in en. Uoyal Bakiso Powiikb Co., 100 Wall St.. N. Y. MOTHERS Child PHWdk LESSENS PAIMcr TO LIFE 0k ' DIMINISHES D r zmp&YT CHILD CHAS. W. RICE, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Newton, N. O. L. McCORKLE, J T'lOliNEY AT LA W, NEWTON, N. C. LO'JNi' liUJSE. W. E. YOU2sT, Proprietor, NEWTON, N. C. well furnished rooms ; polite and attentive ser vants; table supplied with the best the market affords. A. P. LYNCH, Attorney at Law, NEWTON , - - - N. C K01T37 t: L0i.1T O N IMPROVED FA I J MS IN sums of S3U0 and upwards, on long time and easy terms, i or par ticulars, apply to L. L. WITHEKSPOON, Attorxey-at-Law, NEWTON, - - N. C. MOW El TO LOAN. We will loan money on good real estate security on better terms than ever before offered in thif Btate. For full informal ion call on the under signed. A. P. Lynch & M. E. Lowuahce. J. E. THORNTON, I." EKPS constantly on hand all sizes of Woo IV Collins. Also Burial Kobes Strangers sending for Coffins must send good se runty Shop one mile north of Court House, Newton, N. 6 J, 13. LITTLE, RESIDENT DENTIST. NEWTON, N.C. Office in Yount $ Shrum'a Building. Dr P F LAUGENOUR, DENTIST. (A Graduate of Baltimore Dental Oollege, with lev eral uaers experience.) Ioe everything pertaining to dentistry in the best manner possible, at reasonale prices. Aching teeth made easy, treated and filled so that thev will never ache again. Extracjing lone without pain by usiug gas. Oft re on Main street Opposite the M. O. Sherrill Utiilding SHOE SHOP ! ! We have employed good workmen and and art running a flrst'class Slioe Bin.op In the second story of our building. Boots and Shoes of any grade made to order. Shoes kept on bund. Mending promptly done. YOUNT S II RUM. A WORD TO THE PUBLIC! T 1 1 1 : x i ; wto s a it keb SlIOl. v' are prepared to do all kinds of work in our "' in first class style. Soberness and cleanliness strirtly observed. Will do our utmost to make onr shop a pleasant place t our customers. Careful attention given to Ladies and Children at residence or shop- Kariii'st Ij. Moore, I'rop. F0 farmers' gfpvtmcnt. CLOVER (TRIFOLIUM PRA-TENSE. American Farmer. flnf nnnn it li l r. li an mn,-!i m) of the prosperity of our whole country depends, seems to be hardly understood by our scientists, agricultural writers or practical farmers. WThat are the essential requisites for its profitable growth ib still the question for botanist, farmer and agricultural experiment station. We have had some experience the past few years that is calculated to upset many well formed theories and make many of our best farmers do not a little talking about cause and effect, as it relates to clover growing. IToTPVHr H-.yar bay may be appreciated in the city mark et, it is or has been the great stand by for the farmer in all the best farming regions of the State. Any failure of this crop from any cause is at once felt, first by the grower and next by every other citizen. It has become a serious question, or what is to be clone, or what is to take the place of our old red clover if it is going to die out. We do not predict that it is dying out, and are confident that other causes can be assigned to tbe failure of the crop on several occasions dur ing the past decade. The botanist has classed our red clover as peren nial, as much so as Trifolium Repens, white clover, but a not very close ob servation of the habits of the two plants will show that they are very unlike in root, if they are similar in seed and flower. The procumbent stems of the red clover never make any supplementary roots, or adven titious roots, or roots of any kind, other than the one tap root that starts from the seed, and no matter what the drain on it may be, this one main root has to do it all. Tho other, or the white clover, may have its original tap root also, but it also strikes root from every joint of its horizontal stems and is able to con tinue to live and flourish even if tht orignal root at the starting point is entirely destroyed, as anyone can testify who has undertaken the job of clearing it out of a strawberry bed. The white clover is also self seeding, which the red is not, to any considerable extent. The seed of white clover remain in the soil for years, and then grow under all sorts of conditions, at any tima of year. Red clover seed may lie dormant over one season and then grow, but we have no knowledge of a stand of red clover so seeded. Some does come up from seed scattered by stable manure, and a crop may be raised by spreading the cbafi that contains light and immature seed. The bulk of the evidence seems to decide that red clover is not a peren nial but a biennial plant, aud we have varieties of it that will certain ly not survive more than one winter. There is one grown in Western New York called Giant clove, that grows so, and produces a crop of seed with its first growth as our ordinary sort never does. They do, as a rule, cut a first crop early, and then a second crop produces their seed. They sometimes obtain a yield in favorable seasons far in excess of anything grown here, but after that the clover mostly dies out. The clover we have to survive our second winter may be, in many cases, the product of a self seeded crop. We confess not to have conducted any careful experiment to prove this point, but only know that it has been an invari able rule to have a crop of clover hay, with an admixture of timothy, the first year, and then a crop of nearly pure timothy hay on the same land the next year. This first year's crop of mixed hay has been tbe main dependence of farmers for feed for cattle and horses; the second year's crop of timothy is reserved for sale. It is the timothy hay that brings the highest price in Baltimore market, the highest quotations being for prime Cecil county hay, and that means hay of this character with lit tle of any other grass intermixed with it, and no coarse weeds. There are many soils of a certain character on which clover will not make a good "catch," as they say, no matter in what "sign" the seeds are sown. If it does grow well during spiing, summer aud autumn,it holds on during the alternate freezing and thawing of winter and early spiing, so we may find the clover roots, a foot or more in length, laying on top of the earth exposed to sun and wind and mostly dead. They have been thrown out by frost. There seems to be no remedy for this. vVe may know the cause, but the cure is too expansive. Some surface drains and furrows to carry off the water in winter as soon as possible will pre vent this heaving as well as tbe drowning out of grass aHd grain. There is another enemy to the clover crop that does not very often put in appearence in force, but when it does, it is to be dreaded. That enemy is field mice the short tailed black mouse. During the winter of 1887, these little rodent did an in -calculable araouut of mischief over a large extent of country. Tbey bark-" ed apple, pear and locust trees, su gar map!e and osage orage, ruiuing some young orchards and destroying mauy trees in nursery rows. Hedges girdled by them sprouted up from the roobs to repair the breach, but where they went for the clover they ate the roots entire, leaving the fields abso.utely bare, where there had been a prospect of two tons of clover to the acre when winter came on. Their tracks were everywhere, under the mat of tops; and under the snow wheu it fell, their work went on secure from any interrup tion from hawk or cat. Foxes are about our best mousers where they frequent, and may do us more ser vice than we give them any credit for in scenting out and eating these smaller vermin during the whole sea sou, which else would increase very rapidly upon us where there is sus tenance for them. As these mice live upon seeds of weeds and never freqnent our building, we are not of ten reminded of their presence among us, but this particular season theie was an unusual swarm of them or an incursion, that destroyed near ly all our clover, as soon as the oth er sources of their food was gone. The like was never seen before and we hope there never will be seen so many again. DISEASE AMONG CATTLE. CfT having been reported that a (fll contagious disease had broken Zj out amongst the cattle in Sus sex couuty, Delaware, the Secretary of Agriculture sent Dr. W. H. Wray. the veterinarian, to investigate. He reported to the Governor of that State: "Found several herds af fected with a non-contagious disease that attacked the digestive organs, skin and teats. As the malady is comparatively a new one, the cause at present is unknown. The major ity of the animals have been pastur ed on young clover in fie'ds that formally contained wheat. I would respectfully recommend in all- casei) to change the pasture, or confine the diseased animals in the pounds or eatables. As constipation is the first symptom, give all animals so affected one quart of linseed oil with sloppy drinks; to each bucket of slop give one large handful of salt. If the teat beer mes sore, or ulcers break out cn the skin, dress the part so affected with carboiized vaseline." TREE PLANTING MISTAKES. VXjETTIJnG varieties not suited to vJ J your soil and climate is often a serious error, because it may bo some time planted before you are aware of it. 2. Failing to properly prepare the : oil, thinking you can do this after wards, which, while it decreases the chances for the trees to become a success. 3. Supposing that by merely put ting a shovelful of manure iu the bottom of the hole made for the tree that you are manuring it properly, when in reality you are doing more harm than good. 4. Neglecting to work manure in all the land about the tree for yards. 5. Failing to dig a place sufficient ly large for the roots; and again, iu not pressing down firmly after the roots are covered. 6. Failing to fine the soil, that it can be filled in well around the roots. It is very necessary, if the tree grows to have the roots come in close contact with the soil. This can only be done by having the soil fine, and then pressing down firmly. 7. Planting in a thin soil and not properly manuring, so that a strong, vigorous growth will be secured. The best of manuring is broadcast ing over the surface with thoroughly rottftc manure, and working well into the soil. The next best plan is to work well into the soil before fill ing in when you are setting out. 8. Failing to provide good drain age. Whilst it is. best to tile drain the land, when this cannot be done conveniently, the next best plan is to provide surface drainage not so that the land will wash, but suffi cient to carry off the surplus water readily. 9. Failing to mulch properly, iu the dry season, to prevent the young trees from being damaged by drought before they have secured a good root hold. 10. Letting the trees take care of themselves, instead of cultivating, pruning, and giving such attention as will induce a good growth. 11. Failing to protect the trees from the ravages of borers or other pests, that often, if they do not kill, at least seriously injure tbe tree. Farm, Field and Stockman. SOUTHERN TIMBER LANDS. Wilmington Star. E HAVE on several occasions in these colums expressed our views on the value of our "t timber lands as a source of future wealth, if judiciously cared for, and warned our people against a useless wai?te, or against disposing of tbem at merely nominal prices, as has so often been done. There are in the Southern forests today treasures of wealth for coming generations, if thtjy be not foolishly hquanJeted or foolishly bartered away for trifles. WTtile the population of tl e coun try is every year becoming greater, increasing at the rate of a million a year, the area of the ti'uber lands is becoming annually more contracted, vast belts of it which at one time furnished the necessary supply hav ing been completely cut away. No effort has been made by replanting to secure a growth to take the place of the trees felled. That was never thought of, if practicable, for the men who cut the timber were inter ested only in tbe profits to be made out of that, and cared neither for the land nor for the future supply. The consequence has been that vast scopes of country in the North and North-west have been stripped of all their marketable timber, and are now covered simply with slumps or a stunted growth worthless for lum ber purposes, save where the land aud the location were such as to in vite settlers to seek homes and make farms. There are great and magnificent virgin forests on the North Pacific in which the ring of the woodsman's axe has scarcely yet been heard, but the cost of transporting the timber oy sea to San Francisco by rail across the continent is too great to permit of its becoming available for many years to meet the demands of the Atlantic States, so that the eye of the lumberman and the builder, and ot ers who handle or work in lumber lias turned to the South with her wide stretch of forest of varied grow th a3 the source of sup ply for the future, an : as a result we read of some very large transac tioiiS in the purchase of timber lands, and of much activity in the felling, sawing and shipping of Southern lumber. Iu North Carolina there has been a great stimulus given to t Li - busi ness within the past few years, and i it has become immense, com pi red with what it was a short while ago. some cf it being sent by rail as far north as Boston. Much of the land from which tins timber is cut had never contributed a plank to the market until penetrated by the C. F. & Y. V railroad, which is now taxed to it3 full capacity to carry the great quantities it furnishes. It is probably paying the owners, and those who do the cutting and ship ping reasonably well, but still there should be judgment aud discretion used in the rate at which this timber is cut up and marketed, because in carrying it to extremes the owners of these lands may be "killing the goose that lays the golden egg.v With the increasing necessity and demand for lumber of all kinds, but for building purposes especially, the price will never be less than it now is, but will be greater. Iii this con nection the following extract clipped from the Baltimore Manufacturer's Record, from a letter of a writer who has given this subject special attention, corroborates our views now and heretofore expressed on this subject, and we reproduce it as worthy of careful consideration by owners of Southern pine land. What he says is in a measure true of all timber in demand for manufacturing purposes, but as the greatest draft is being made upon the pine so the greatest interest at present centres in it : 'I have," says the writer in the Record, "for ten months been en gaged in an earnest, careful and thorough investigation of the yellow pine stumpage available in the South. I have encompassed Flori da's vast pine domains, and realized the vagaries and visions set forth as to her wonderful pine timber re- sources. They are wrong and the timber is partly unavailable. Ihave searched the Carolinas and Georgia, taken in their vast territory of 'box ed and sapped' pineries. The figures set forth by the statistician are all wrong. I have travle throughout the length and bredth of Alabama and Mississippi, estimated their pines. I have taken Louisiana by parishes, and Texas by counties ; Arkansas by facts as given by her State official records, I have made all and proper allowance for Missouri West Virginia nnd Old Virginia, Delaware and Maryland, and to all of my most convincing and conser vative figures of standing stumpage I have added a large percentage of increase to provide for - oversights and inaccuracies, and from this grand and liberal total I have de ducted the production of the mills, making limited allowance for the de struction and waste by storm, fire and cl.-aring fqr the homestead, and I real-a that within six years yellow pine K.impage will command by the thousand feet the prices prevailing to-da by the acre. There are ahead some woaderful revelaMons in the matter of supply, and s sure as night follows day they reveal the fact of an im mense shortage. Now, I write a timelj word of warning, which is trite f,nd brief 'pin your faith to and pat your dollars intoyellow pine timbe- lauds.' " T '- WTXn rT,r TTFTlfiF.? - American Cultivator. 4 GREAT many farmers teIer- A, at-e hedges where they are no Z longer needed, because of the supposed great labor and difficulty required to get them out of the way. If cut down they sprout again, and their roots are too strong to admit of plowing them up. To dig them cut seems therefore the only remedy, and this involves such heavy ex pense that we can hardry. wonder if the job is often indefinitely postpon ed. But there is a much easier way. During the vinter cut the hedges as close to the ground as is possible, and let the hedge lie, making a nar row and compact row over the roots. Next spring new sprouts will start, and as soon as these are in full leaf, pile on a little straw and burn it. The hedge cut last winter will with very little help burn, and with it de stroy the new growth. Tne next season the roots will be rotted suffi ciently to enab'e a good team with strong plow to cut them up and turn over the soil. It is them plant ed with potatoes, for which the mix ture of a?hes and rotten sod makes an admirable preparation So inex pensive is this method that often the first crop of potatoes on the ground redeemed from waste will pay all cost. PLANT BEDS. Wilson Advance. R. AMU.S Hays, of Black Creek township is one of the TjL ) most successful tobacco raisers in the county. He gives us the following information for those of our leaders who propose raising tobacco, on the preparation of plant beds : "It is time for the farmers that ex pect to plant tobacco this year to sow their plant beds. Many of them know little or nothing about how to prepare the 6oil, and it may therefore be of service to theji to have the benefit of my judgment, after raising tobacco. "For the plant bed select a good rich, moist soil, where it will be ex posed to the warm sun, aud where it will not be exposed to the North and West winds ijrrub or noe up the bed well, so as to get roots and sticks all out, turning up as little of the subsoil as possible. Burn the bed then so as to kill all vegetation Then put ten bushels of dry stable manure, two bushels of cottou seed and twenty-five pounds of guano to twenty five yards of plant bed. Use chic-ken manure if you have it as it is the best manure I have tried. Spread the manure all over the bed ; hoe or rake it in so as to have the manure near tbe top of the soil. If the soil is cloddy lake a brush and beat it until it is fine. Then mark oft the bed three feet each way. Take "one teaspoonfull of seed to every twenty-five yards of plant bed, mix with dry ashes or guano. stir well so as to avoid thick and thin places. Don't stir the -bed after the seed are sown but trample the bed all over and the seed will come up much quL ker. All plant beds should be canvass ed to prevent insects, and besides plants will be ten or fifteen days sooner. Every "farmer should be ready to set out his plants by the first of May in or?er to cure before cold weather. AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT Of the success of Hood's Sarsaparil la is the fact that every purchaser receives a fair equivalent for his mon ey. The familiar headline "100 Doses One Dollar," stolen by imita tors, is original with and true only of Hood's Sarsaparilla. This can easily be proven by any one who desires to test the matter. For real economy, buy only Hood's Sarsaparilla. Sold all druggists. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. AKE fresh dust baths and sprinkle them with carbol'c acid. Provide a plentiful su pply of grit or sharp gravel. Keep feeding troughs and drinking ves- sel s clean and Wholesome. And to- wt rd the close of the moulting sea son make a number of nice new nests, for hens thus cared for will pay for th ie trouble by heaping your egg baskets when the market is at its best. Two neighbors set out strawberry beds at the same time. One had 14 rods, did not enrich his bed, and nad three bushels of fruit, or at the rate of 34 bushels per acre. The other planted only 4 rods, and heav ily mulched tha bed with manure in autumn and in spring. He had 7 bushels of berries, or at the rate of 280 bushels an acre. A grape grower in Central New York set his vines twelve feet apart in the row, and afterward crafted every alternate one with another sort. The gaafti all died, thus leav ing the vines twenty-four feet apart. The ample room thus afforded gave a he ivier crop, and of better grapes, than before To keep apples in winter, spread buckwheat chaff on the barn floor, and on this place the apples, and then cover them with chaff two feet thick. Fill the interstices with chaff. Other fine chaff will answer The chaff will exclude cold current?, and absorb incipient decay. Dry lime is too caustic to be given alone. Keep a vessel of lime water convenient, and mix a small quantity with soft food and also with their drinking water. Lime water is a correctiye of bowel diseases, and it is also a remedy for soft shelled eggs. Chickens are as peryerse as people, and just as a man will often drink vile liquors when he can get pure sweet water, so fowls will often abandon their drinking vessels and slake their thirst at some dirty pud dle. With them prohibition is the only safeguard. An orchard was suffering from a wet 6ubsoil. The growth was stunt ed, and there was little fruit The orchard was tile drained three or four feet deep between the rows. The trees started at once into vigors ous growth, and bore well. The cow is a wonderful machine almost a creator; for, feed her 40 worth of appropriate foods per an num, and she will furnish a family with more food than they can buy in other as palatable forms for 8100 One of the best cultivators ol fruit in Michigan never permits his orch to bear any other crop than the fruit, after the third year, previous to which he raises hoed crops only among the trees. When paths are constantly trod den they are kept clean, but when abandoned the weeds choke them up; so weeds choke the mind in the ab sence of employment. Every lost, broken or worn out screw or bolt should be replaced with a new one before spring, so that each implement will be ready for work when spring comes. The man who starts ont to break a colt with a whip in his hand makes a mistake. He also makes a mistake if he plays with the colt or teases it. Dairy salt stored in the vicinity of codfish or kerosene, or turpentine, is apt to contract flavors that injure the butter in which it ia used. One who has hied it finds a mix ture of copperas and glue the best keeping rabbits and mice from trees. If you have an abundance of straw, do not be afraid to use it lib erally as bedding for your stock. Forest leaves fcr bedding cost only the expense of gathering. Avoid foddering on the ground. Feed well, but waste no forage. Give animals pure water daily. THE NEW DISCOVERY. You have heard your friends and neighbors talking about it You may yourself be one of the many who know from personal experience just how good a thing it is. If you have ever tried it, you are one of its staunch friends, because the won derful thing about it is, that when once given a trial, Dr. King's New Discovery erer after holds a place in the house. If you haye never used it and should be afflicted with a cough, cold or any Throat, Lung or Chest trouble, secure a bottle at once and give it a fair trial. It is guaranteed every time, or money re funded. Trial Bottle Free at T. K Abernethy & Co's Drugstore. SUGGESTIONS ON PEA R GROWING. Fruit Grower. NE of tne gre t edible luxuries fruit is a supply of first rate peais properlv ripened. and this a luxury which conduces to good health, than which nothing is more desirbable. Further, a good pear-orchard ir- a delightful source of both employment and profit. A single tree often yields more profit with less labor than half-acre of grain. But to get bearing of choice pears requires time, good judgment and skillful treatment. There is no great amount of hard labor required, after the ground has been properly pr-pared and the trta nlarte. but the right thing must be done at tbe right time ; then when the bearing time comes, there is a "snap for the owner. In preparing a pear-orchard, we would be particular in having the ground thoroughly subsoiled as deep as the holes in which the trees are to be set, so there would be no basins under the tree-roots for holding water ; and we would set standards only half as far apart say about fifteen feet as would be proper for standard orchard trees when in bear ing ; and then would put dwarfs be tween these. The object of this plan is to get pears as soon as possible, from the dwarfs, which come into bearing much sooner than standards ; then root the dwarfs out as they get old as the standards require the space. When the standards become of Deal ing age, root out the least desirable of thest;. In case of there beinr O trees valuable enough to preserve, left too close together, remove alter nate ones in winter, with a ball of earth adhering to the roots of each to some desirable place. OUTSIDE ROWS IN ORCHARDS. Sew York TriLnne ,H value of sunimht and of free circulation of air is fully recog nized by experienced orchard ists, and trees are now planted farther apart than ever before. TLe fact that "outside rows" in orchards bear the finest fruit has been seized upon in certain sections, and planters s:-t their trees so that every row shall be an "outside row This is done by planting two rows moderately close together, and then leaving a space of about sixty feet between the second and third rows in case of tbe apple orchard Thus we have alternately a wide space and a narrow one. This large amount of "waste space" may be utilized, while the apple trees are young,by growing dwarf pears, or small fruits, or both, and thus yield a continual revenue. ABOUT HIS BROTHER. Several years ago my brother, who lives with me, had a very strange sore to break out on his leg about half way between the body and the knee which afterwards developed into a rose cancer. It resulted from a bruise made by the rubbing of the stirrup-leather while riding. The cancer continued to grow un til it was about five inches long, and three wide. The flesh sloughed off, black, rotten and foul, and it was almost impossible to procure a servant that would wait upon him the air in the room where he lay be ing so foul that it would sicken any one who entered. Every physician of any prominence in the State was consulted, and treated my brother without success. One doctor finally advised him to try Swift's Specific (S- S. S.); he did so, and used noth -ing else. He commenced to improve immediately, and after taking several bottles was completely cured, and since 1884 not a symptom of the disease has manifested itself. C. A. GRIFFITH, Mayflower, Ark. HIS HEALTH BROBE DOWN. Last summer my appetite failed, my health became poor and I was in a very feeble condition, in fact, I was compelled to give up all busi ness on account of my health. I tried physicians and their medicines, but without avail. At length I be gan taking S. S. S. and nothing else. After taking several bottles l was entirely cured and able to resume business. I increased nineteen pounds in weight in less tnan a month after I commenced taking S. S. S, J. M. Mabet, Abbeville, S. C. Treatise on Blood and Skin disea ses mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO. Atlanta, Ga. ladies' Column. SOMETniXG OF HATS. Xew l'ork Star. Joyous is the woman with a new hat which is becoming to her. It is dearer and of more concern to her than even the fold, the texture, the cut and the make or her robe. Her hat js the cynosure of the eyes of all her female acquaintances, the attrac tive point which brings the gaze and the criticism of her gentle women friends. Curiously enough, howev er, there is nothing about her dress that is more of a mystery to her. From the tip of her nicely fitting shoes to the top of ber well shaped hat the best-informed woman of the T'T! . rf?"T'S TT.r-ra abcul ever? at il cle that goes to make up her toilet than she dees about the headgear, which, next to a woman's hair, is her true glory. Of course every woman is aware of the texture of a felt hat, but this article is intended to solve the mystery surrounding straw hats. "Fashion is ever changing." said a manufacturer, "and women's bats are no exception As soon as a lady enters a millinery store she expects to find something entirely different from anything worn last year. If it should bear the slightest resem blance to her head adornment of the previous Summer she will immedi ately exclaim, 'I don't care for that ; it is last year's style, I might as well wear the one I have at home.' This year everything points to low-crowned, scoop-shaped and short backs. The hair will be worn low and the hats trimmed with ribbons and flowers, or a wreath of flowers may adorn it alone. They will meet with great success, and should, for what is prettier than to see a hand some face peeping out from a large brimmed hat, whose top is covered with beautiful blossoms ? The latest colors from Paris are black, white, beige, noisette, mastic, mordove, tobae, tobac fouce, marron, cardinal, argent, acier, marronier, light cyr, serpent, yienne, rose, mouse, etrusi que, eiffel, buffalo, nil, emeraude, myrtle and russe. Tbese straws are perfect in colo ring, and there is no reason why every young lady should not have a hat to match her costume. The goods will be row and row and fancy combinations. White and black will play an important part the coming season, particularly black. The lace straws are beautiful, and when one looks upon this exquisite braid made up, which is in itself a work of art, the thought comes : What a pity to cover up such a beauty, with trimmings ! The market has al ways found a ready sale for these hats, aud no lady's wardrobe will be complete this year without one. Tuey are both light and handsome. An entirely new thing will be the leghorn and lace combinations. The crown will be made of leghorn and the brim of lace or vice versa. Of late years leghorn has been worn considerably by misses and children, but by the addition of lace braid it is sure to meet with general favor for lady's goods. There is one thing certain, lace straw will take the lead and many a cocoanut tree will be sacrificed. Their fate seems sealed. One day bearing fruit, the next cut down and its inner fibers made into braid, and this in turn shaped into a hat to adoin the head of some pretty society belle. Children's hats are made with square crowns and large brims. Small bonnets will not be worn this year. On the contrary, the prevail ing styles will be low square crowns, large poke brims with almost any thing for a positive break in the brims. Very few shapes will be rolled high on the sides, as have been largely worn for several years past Black Cake One pound flour, one pound sugar, one and one quar ter pounds butter, thirteen eggs, three pounds seeded raisins, two pounds of currants, one pound of citron, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful each. of cloves and mace. Just before putting into the stove stir in a small teacupful of vinegar with a teaspoon ful of soda. A handsome afgban for a baby carriage is made of cream-cclored wool canvas, in three stripes, each about five inches wide, aud embroid ered with a pretty vine in crawela. These are fastened together with lo g crochet stitches of wool through which are run cream-colored Batin ribbons. A border of crocheted lace is around the edge, headed by a bor der of the ribbon, fastened cn with fancy stitches. Bows of ribbon finish the corners.