POSTAL IMPROVEMENTS.

GREAT BRITAIN KEEPS THE LEAD IN MAIL FACILITIES.

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Enc'bnd Keeps In the lead In poulbl fbcUIUe«. The ilmpllclty of the (ortn-s to bs gone through and the ibpldlly with which they are attended to are really admirable. The offlcials endeaver to expedite bualnetti by all menus In their power, and tncy succeed In their aim. The clerks, courteous, obliging, correct and quite "up to the mark." ore particularly complaisant, and soem fully allre to the truth that the post ofltce was Invented for the publls. and cot the public for the post office. The transmission ot letters In London is achieved with marvelous rapidity. It Is possible to write to a friend In the morning, receive an answer and send a reply to that answer, which will be delivered the same day— making three letters exchanged between two persons In twelve hours: and this. loo. within the radius of twelve miles from the head office. So complete are the postal arrangements of London that there Is not a house more than dot* yards from a letter box or »00 from a post office and money order office. There are over 10.000 pillar boxes (\ve call them letter boxes), which arc cleared every hour from 10 in the morning till 5 in the evening, and there are twelve deliveries a day In the city. About 260 of the chief sul*-o*Bces receive letters and parcels to be dcll.cred In London and its suburbs by special messenger at a charge of three-pence a mile. Special deliveries handed In at other offices are foi warded In the ordinary course of poet tour American system) to th-* nearest express delivery office, whence they arc sent on by special messenger. In this express delivery service both letters and parcels Are charged for as follows: Nof-ffxteeding one pound in weight. Inclusive of railway, omnibus • or street car charges, for every mile, or fraction thereof, threepence. If the distance exceeia two miles, and public conveyance Is not aiailaole. a special conveyance must be paid lor. Ordinary postage is not charged. In America we must affix the ordinary postage to all special delivery, in addition to the express stamp of 10 cental. If the packet exceeds one pound in weight, for each additional pound, or fraction thereof, the charge is 1 penny. The maximum charge Is 1 shilling. Maximum weight 20 pounds, or. If a public conveyance Is not obtainable, 15 founds. . A convenience much appreciated is the conveyance of single letters by railway and steamship companies In agreement jrtth the post office. On payment of two pence to an employe of such "common carrier” In addition. to the usual one-penny stamp of the government. letters not exceeding four ounces may be forwarded by the next available train or ship, to be called for at the station to which the letters are addressed. or to be transferred thence, to the nearest letter box for postal delivery. These letters must be taken to the passenger station of the railway oj* steamship company, or they may be handed In at any express delivery pas [office for Immediate conveyance to the station by special messenger on payment of the express fee of threepence a mile. Neither In England nor the United States Is there any limit to the weight or first-class mall matter fully prepaid. In Englnand the maximum length of a letter or packet Is 2 feet, width 1 loot and depth 1 foot—unless sent to or from a government office. Our charges are 2*cents an ounce, or fraction thereof; England's 2 cents tetters not exceeding four ounces, and for every additional two ounces 1 cent. Thus a letter weighing six ounces in America would require 12 cents, while in England the postage would be only 8 cents. Notwithstanding this great disparity. the British postal service has always paid a handsome revenue while that of the United (States always shows

a- handsome deficit

In England the perforation of post'

blue lamp*. In order that they may avddad.—Victor Smith, In the New York Prera.

TO RESTORE FORESTS.

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Maw Jaraay.

One of the moet Important and Interesting contributions mads In recent times to the literature of sylviculture In New Jersey it contained In Kuril ry Bulletin No. 11, iesued by the State (leu]ogle il Survey. It was compiled by Prof. F. R. Meier, consulting forestry expert to the commission, and comprehends a narrative of the first extensive, systematic and successful experiment evnr attempted la this •gute. It gives the actual result of eight years’ practical forestry work upon a 3000 acres of land near Darlington. Berg^ County, situated Just off the itamapo River, and belonging 1 to H. O. Havemeyer. Jr. This woodland is covered with oak and chestnut and a little maple and hickory, forty to fifty years old. and grown mostly from sprouta. The Inroads of lumbermen had caused such dege neratlon that trees rotted at the heart when less than forty years old. Prof. Mcler after studying the situation. proceeded to apply a treatment based on the theory that a healthful and vigorous growth of timber inquired the raising of trees from the seed, and U.e abandonment of the sprouting from the old stumps, as rapidly as the coming forward of the new seedlings could be brought about, without seriously Impairing the commerctfl productiveness of the forest. la order to preserve there conditions the cuttings of each year were reatricted to a portion of the area, so that It would take a cumber of years to cover the whole tract The forest was divided Into ten parts of 300 acres each, and every year one of these- sub-divisions was taken in haqd for treatment, so that ten years would be consumed in going over the whole reservation. Once In ten years, therefore, the cumins will return to the same section. * The cutting consisted of ^ systematic course of thinning, the purpose to im-

prove

age stamps is recommended, the Initials of the individual, firm, corporation or

association being used. The perforation of the stamps on postal cards, new-spaper wrappers and embossed stamps or sumps cut from envelopes, wrappers or postal cards are not available for postage. For example: If the custom of perforating stamps obtained here The frees would purchase them In sheets and have them perfor-' ated with the initials "N. Y. P." Such sumps on single letters would not be received by the post office; In bulk only would they be available for postage. This would be a decided protection for The Press In case of a theft of stamps. Let me a£d. for the sake of all cun-

Our ••

cerned Our "Official Postal Gold*." which Is sold for cloth. Is about the biggest fool thing In guide form that ever came off a printing press. It Is a disgrace to the Post Office Department A ten-cent almanac contains more information. Tbs department

edit this monstrosity.

The very perfection of imperfection

U to bf found In Parisian post They are dirty. !U ventilated and tnsufflc'.enlly manned, and Um transaction at badness with Indifferent clerks la a trial of patience, it one wants stamps It Is, better to buy them at a tobacco store, where there Is also a post

mux oe ubac. UngulxhM In »b- day Urns hr a red double cusve. aad at night by » red lamp. Here the govern meat setts tobsreo. cigar* cigarettes, postage stampt. tobacco, malthas aad sumps l :lr.g tkrxj.of its pet moaopo-

WINTER FARMING NEW.

SCIENCE SETS AT DEFIANCE ALL LAWS OF SEASONS.

The Demaad far Sarin Predeats Is Wla lar Ueaponalbla far Iba Expa** 1 *" #r TUI# ladaalry — Matbaosa Srslia aad Vegetables If nliiplr Is Oaantlty.

of modern industrial developments is so far from the actual truth that occasionally the public Is surprised by reports which Intllc ate a change and revolution In methods and result of s most phenomenal character. In r« .thing has our agriculture changed more decidedly in recent year*, however than In the seasons of production. Science has deliberately set at defiance all the laws which go’v tn the seasons of growth, and In the conflict It has proved a great triumph for man. Winter farming has become In the past decade an industry more profitable and Buicessful than ordinary summer gar-

dening or farming.

The demand for farm products In winter, when most of them ar? scarce and difficulc to secure, has been responsible for the growth and expansion of winter fanning. To-day this Ind'tstry is of national Imrortance. and aids millions of dollais to the wealth, of our country. Lands that were formerly considered almost worthless have attained through this Industry oonsider-

mple oppcrtunli n in this line.

Ity for fur-

arrt there Is ami ther expansion

Winter gardening and farming In the southern belt of states where the climate Is warm enough to produce the products out of doors here spread with phenomenal rapidity In recent years. Whole sections of states have b-wm reclaimed by this Industry, and land that was worth only a few dollars on acre ten years ago sells to-day for two or three hundred dollars sn acre. Our whole system of living and diet has been transformed by this Industry, and our winter season Is supplied with fnil's and vegetables almost ss freely

as the summer.

The expansion of this form of winter farming has been due to the railroads and steamship companies operating lints along the coast or through Ihe belt of slates with climate and noil suitable to the business. The corstructlon of refrigerator cars which would enable growers to ship their ctrewherries and tomatoes from Florida and Louisiana to New York or Boston In midwinter gave a great stimulus to the Industry. It is now liosslble to land the most perithcfiie fruits and vegetables in New York from the most distant gardens within seventy-two hours after picking and In peifect condition. Each year the source of the supply is extended. It was first the Carol Iras. Norfolk and Georgia wblrh monopolized this Industry. Then Florida enter-

’y thi

and

in the Mls'lsslpnl Valley. Call-

able value, and fanners who were ells- i speclaT efforts'to'rtilp l»r appointed at the outlook of their pro- fnillB ^ rwuld,, to eastern mar-

yea.s ago. they have biarched out In ^ Pnjcage<1 ln , h | 8 traffic in

develop an Indus- j tlie w j nter season, distributing the

fession nave suddenly discovered new means of reaping financial rewards tor their labor and genius, instead of fol- j n( . ! lowing In the old ruts In vogue fifty p ro ,j,

qut ■-

rely new lines to develop an indi try that is as fascinating as It Is pro- | Naturally one thinks first of truck gardening, either under glass in the North In winter or along the belt of Southern States, when this subject Is broached; but winter farming Is not by any means confined to even this field. WlnLr dairying has become In the last five years ones* the most profitable

future growth, for there sources if farming, and it-is pursued trees that bad reached ma- by the most progressive dairymen ol turity. inferior trees that were crowd- the country with great sucofes*. By ing out superior ones, stunted and un- means of the silo, succulent food Is promising specimens and heavy sprout j stored away for winter (ceding that trees with no prospect of thriving, produces almost as flnemjlKand cream During th last eight years 2400 acres as the Jun^ grars. TKe milk and

cream in winter time are worth so much more than in summer that the dairymen find It profitable to provide goed winter quarters for the best cow* and to feed them with the best food. The poultry farmer has likewise changed his methods, and by means of the incubator and brooder winter and spring broilers are produced to-day in enormous quantities for our table*. Winter poultry' Is to-day about the only product of the chicken farm that

keta in,cars made for the purpose. And now Texas and exen Mexico are enter-

the field with their peculiar farm There are some 60.000 refrig-

egetables of the tropical

have been subjected to this process of nuture and in addition the same period

cultivated throughout the pre-

serve numerous groups of young and viperous seedling tiees. Figuratively speaking. Lhasa new groups provide the

blood, so greatly needed, and will

supply the recuperative energy of the

fresh forest.

"The result of this treatment." writes Prof. Mcler. " both from the sylviculture and financial standpoint. U a marked one. The trees which were t vtrshadowed by inferior kinds have been set more free by the trimming and hare already doubled their rate «f growth in diameter. Young seedlings which were set free ire thrifty and appear in Increased numbers, both in

groups and singly; the forest is healthier. and the sale value of the tract hi*

prices obtained for spring chickens and broilers out of season have caused complete changes in this industry. Those who depend upon the eggs fpr their profits are endeavoring to Induce the hens to change their season of laying. so that winter eggs will be had In abundance. Extensive experiments m

not been impaired by the cutting, but winter feeding and winter breeding in on the contrary, it has been enhanced. ' glass-covered houses have produced reTho financial statement of the eight j suits which encourage the poultrymen years' receipts and expenses shows a to believe that eventually breeds of net revenue of 111.254.66; or a net rev- I hens will In time he reared which will enue/Of forty-seven cents per acre per lay their eggs In winter Instead of sumyear. ’ This was a trifle aver five per- j mer. At present the results obtained cent on the Investment not Including are not entirely satisfactory.

the enhanced value of the forest" There are 32S4 square miles of forest ares In New Jersey that could be subjected to this treatment, and the forthcoming report points out that there are only two ways In which it might bo brought abouu One Is for men of wealth. UlEe Mr. Havemeyer. who can afford it. to buy large tracts of land and place- them In charge at capable (onsters and wait for the sure results. The other Is for the state to acquire cut tensive holdings of forest and where they can be profitably devoted to no other purpose, and cultivate them In accordance with the system proposed and ' successfully tested by

Prof. Meier.

<T«u> Cell for Ibe Doctor.

A local clergyman, whose name is withheld out of deference to his feelings, tftls a Story on himself. Recently he had occasion to drop Into a kindergarten where he Is well known and where the ladies in charge ' ai c always glad to see him. "Why. doctor. * said the ladies, " we are so glad to see you. We would like to have you tell the children something about the difference between the Froebel and the Petzl lozzl systems of kindergarten work." The doctor was expected to say something to the pupils He had already mounted the platform and thought to himself: Petxiloxxi'. Who was he? What was his style? “I was stumped." said the doctor. "Now for a little bit of diplomacy." He began and gave the youngsters s few glittering gen wall ties; then pulling out bis watch he said: "By gracious. I have used up all my time.” and be l-.’t In a hurry without ever referring to the strange system of Juvenile instruction. But be acquainted himself with this

l! aMh0,5 ^ * oon Afterward, and the

next time he vlolls the school he vriU be prepared to enlighten the childr-

—Brooklyn Times.

■•ay Peer* Met ReaUemep According to a London cable In tbs the New York Herald. The Ancestor, a new genealogical quarterly, contains an article by Sir George SttwaU on “The English Gentleman," in which he maintains thnt a gentleman Is not n person of bersMir vtaiue who Is mtlUtd to bear arma. hat a freemaa. whose anoeetur* always have beea free.

at quite 3 • not gvt

it at Srtt-

Hothouse lambs have become Important parts of our wlnterd diet of recent years, and breeders have established enormous bouses where these delicate animals can be reared and fatlorcd •through the coldest of our winter weather. The work is profitable. and the breeders are increasing Industry each year. Hothouse lambs arc delicacies out of season at present, but In the future they may become an ordinary part of our regu-

lar winter diet

Hothouse fruits and vegetables mul-

year. The industry

rapidly that the aunusl winter supplies of these delicacies aie running up Into thousands of tons. Around Boston there are several hundred acres of land covered with glass where fruits and vegetables are raised for’ the winter markets. Jersey and Long Island are also centers of this Industry'- *ml hundreds of acres are now under cultivation right through the winter. These hothouse products bring high prices all through the winter, and from two to four crops are raised annually un the same land. In the spring when the weather grows warm, the glass sashes are removed, and the plants for the iminer markets are raised ss easily

If thjhLs , -whiter.

come, the glass sashes protect the new crop that has been planted for the Christmas holiday seasons Then

east and west- The best of these cars are scientific products of modern genius. and they carry their loads of fruits as carefully as a Pullman palace car transports its millionaire occupant. Strawberries from the Carollnas alone amount to some 12,000.000 quarts a year, while California pours across its borders some 193,000,000 pounds of fresh fruits. New York city alone absorbs some 4.000,000 packages of southern vegetables every winter. All told, the winter farming which supplies the dtles with their fruits and vegetables In the cold season'represents sn industry amounting up into many millions of dollars. All this Is pure gain for the farmers and land owners, who formerly made little or nothing from the soil which Is now brought under contribution to feed us with a winter diet of fruits and vegetables. The creation and expansion of the Industry represents wealth added to the country yuat as surely as if new gold mines had been discovered which yielded annually a dozen million dollars' worth of the precious metal.—George E. Walsh, in

the Scientific American.

lied Tawed TrevtoB* Qeeetlen. The not wholly peaceful and quakerUke meetings of the new board of aldermen called forth a rather appropi story from District Attorney Jer the other day. “I am reminded." said he, "of a story old Senator Nesmith of Oregon, one of the first settlers of that state, used to tell. At the ttme when Oregon was ml tied ss a state, and the first legislature of that state met Nesmith, who arms a member, possessed hlmseff of copy of a book on parliamentary procedure. This work, which was at the time probably the only one of its sort west of the Mississippi, he studied diligently. and by the Ume it the first sion was well up In the rules of debate. “At the first meeting of the new legislature a motion was introduced and speedily carried, but on the second measure a dispute arose, and for three days the state legislators wrangled aad debated. "Finally, jn thc-third day. Nesmith, who had watched the proceedings without even opening his mouth, decided it was time to use a piece of his parliamentary procedure, so he rose and moved the ‘previous question.' "There wax a moment of silence follow Ing this motion, and then amid a shout of derision the speaker cried. "Sit down, you fool! We passed previous question three days ago.' New York Tribune.

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OFFICERS

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DIRECTORS

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The board of agriculture draws attention to the tact that the landing In Great HrtU&n of dogs brought from any country except Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man will be subject to Ariticle 2 of the Importation of Dogs Order of 1901, which ex-, pressly provides that every imported dog must be detained and Isolated for six months upon premises in the .occupation or under the control of a veterinary surgeon, which gball have

vested. e-ed» tor an early spring crop been previously approval In writing are sown, and by the time Easter la by the board for that purpose. This

t glass ern In-

here fresh vegetables ar e again ready

for nicking.

The truck products raised under In winter receive the most modern tensive culture. The soil la of the richest, wall bested by steam* pipes, moistened property, and sometimes lit artificially at night time by arc light*. The electric light tends to stimulate

thus rapidly hastened. The profit* from this buil-b-jvs often run from M to SO percent on the Investment, ard during the

for the vegetables raised under gtus soar up to almost fabulous price* Yet In spite ot the great number of arrea ot

load noversd with g

keep, pact with Ike b

pply ported dog which Is Intended to be exported from Great Britain within forty-eight hour*.—London Globe.

Cablteriac Beir-Keteere. *1 am afraid yon have a very good opinion of yourself." said the candid

"Well" answered the genial egotist. "that Isn't any disadvantage to me. People have to admit that I know more about myself than aaybodalto does."—Washington Star.

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