: ,4- sourenaNTiIMwchi‘ION Movement of the World’s Popula- tion Takes a New Direction. In This Country the Tendency Is Most Marked—Many Northern and West- ern Farmers Are Moving Down South. i The next great movement of popula~ tion that the world is to witness will be southward. The conditions are now all favorable. It has required a quarter of a century since the war to bring about the changes that were necessary to make the south a thoroughly attractive country formorthern and western farm- ' ers. All the questions relatingto pos- sible race troubles had to be settled; the prejudices engendered on both sides by the war had to die out, and the fact that the south could produce other things than cotton had to be demonstrated. The construction after the war, of railroads through the West and nothwest by the ‘aid of enormous land grants made it absolutely neces- sary. that these roads, controlled as they were by the leading financial pow- ers of Europe and America, should bend their energies and unite the influences of all the financial forces concentrated in them to turn population westward. The south was in no condition to in- vite immigration, even if 'it had been in its power to accomplish anything against sucha combination of forces as were at work in behalf of the west. But a great change has come and all the disadvantages ’under which the south has labored are being removed. During the last five or ten years there have settled here and there all over the south a few northern and western farm- ers, whose great success is now being ‘ made known to all their friends in their former homes. This is awakening a 'direct interest in the south in all parts of the west—an interest such as could be aroused in no other way. From every section of the north, the west and northwest, and even from Cali- fornia, requests for information about the south audits advantages for set- tlers are being received. Items of news from several thousand towns and vil- lages from Maryland to Texas pass be- fore the writer every day'. The most striking feature in this mass of news— so pronounced that it would impress itself even upon the most casual reader -—is the number of settlers reported from day to day as locating in the south. This is entirely a new thing. A year ago items of this kind were rare. Now every issue of every southern paper has something in it about immigration mat— ters and the incoming of new people, and 'even now thousands of western and northern farmers are settling in the south—Richard H. Edmonds, in Chau- tauquan. ' UPSTAIRS BY EXPRESS. The Through Elevators Run in Tall , Buildings. “All aboard-seventh floor, first stop.” This cry greeted a reporter the other day as he stepped into a down-town office building and faced a half dozen elevators. He wished to go to the ninth floor. He stepped into an elevator over which was the sign: “Express— first stop, seventh floor.” In it there were three men and a middle-aged woman. The starter said _“All right,” and the elevator. man grasped the throttle of the “express.” It was the usual cable rope, and as the man pulled it began its journey up- ward. The lone woman passenger gave vent to a slight “Oh,” and held her breath. Floor after floor was passed at a ‘ speed of about eight miles an hour. When the sixth floor was reached the woman wanted to get off, but was in- ' formed that she was on an express, and it was against the rules to stop an express until its destination was reached. The elevator arrived at the seventh floor on time. It took exactly eight seconds to make the upward jour- ney of 85 feet. The elevator man then announced that the next stop would be the top floor, 100 feet above. The ‘top floor, according to the directory, was the 14th, and the elevator flew upward once more, arriving near the roof a. few seconds later. “We can make around trip in 45 sec- onds, including short stops,” said the engineer of the express, “but We have made it in about 40 without stops. There are two express elevators and four regulars, that we. call way trains. They stop at every floor and for every- body who shouts. Often I get passen- gErs whowant to get out at the sixth or tenth floors. They get mad, too, when they are told they must go up and take another elevator down. The other express makes no intermediate stops at all during ,the busy hours."— N. Y. Press. To Freshen Silk Bodices. Avery easy and charming way to freshen a black, white or colOred silk or satin bodice is to cover it with an over-waist of chiffon the shade of the bodice, or, if liked, of a contrasting colon. As there are neither darts nor side seams, this airy drapery is easily adjusted, and to finish the waist, one .can purchase in any of the fancy dry goods houses accordion-plaited or cgimped chiffon, frills in white, black, cream and fancy colors, with Persian, ribbon or beaded edges. Shoulder straps of satin ribbon carried dow'fi the front and back would serve to keep the fullness of the chiffon in place, thus giving a slender look to the figure—St. Louis Republic. Parental Sympathy. Mr. Billus .(waking suddenly in the dead of night)——What’s all that bellow- ing about! - Mrs. Billus—It’s poor little Johnny in the next room. He’s crying with the stomach-ache. He ate too many dried apples for supper. Mr. Billus (preparing to resume his slumbers)——I wish you wOuld tell him not to make such a howling swell of himself! (Snores.)—Chicago Tribune. ”a7. r - w EEKLY- - NORWALK'; GAZETT a. *. ' A VALENTINE SONG. Words by ROBERT HERRICK. Music by ETTA DICKSON. ‘7 m mf / _ ghgose me yourVal - en-tine, f'. ,.-_ r r \ ‘ mf—< >— —-< rit. 9 ry, Love to the death will pine If we long tar r e \ v . a tempo. f /-——-\ rit. and keep your vows, If we long tar - ry! .................. Prom - ise," /* :\ f M, A- - er, Love’s doc ~- trinc dis - a1 - lows; ( 2 pp. )—2. Copyright, 1892, by The New York Musical Echo Co. A - Troth breakers / You have broke promise twice, Twice dear, to me- > P‘ me— If i you prove faith - less thrice, None then will If you prove m faith - less thrice, None then can 1.1 Marcuto il basso. *7 .5“ _ \ ‘A PRETTY GIRL'S PROBLEM. Tried to Buy Postage Stamps at Less ‘ Than the Market Price. The sad event chronicled in the fol- lowing lines occurred several days ago in the small and insignificant-looking structure on F street between Four-‘ _ teenth and Fifteenth, which the United States government uses as a branch post office. She was an extremely pretty girl," with the brightest eyes, the pinkest ' cheeks, the rcddcst lips, the cutest nose and the sunshiniest face that had been' seen in that locality in years. So pretty was she that the suscep- tible clerk at the stamp window gulped as if he hadswallowed something as she came tripping up to the window and spoke to him. “Have you postage stamps?" she asked, as innocently as if government post offices usually dealt in haystacks and grindstones. But the clerk never noticed that. He didn’t notice anything but the spark- ling vision bcforc him with three un- stamped letters in its soft, white hand. “Yes, miss,” he responded, making a herculean effort to suppress his emo- tion. - , “Can I get three for a nickel?” Now, this clerk loved his little joke, and a man who will joke on a sacred subject is fit for treason, strategy and spoils. “Yes, miss,” he answered, and quite tenderly, too. - “Oh,how nice," she twittered. “Marn- ma said they never sold them any less. no matter how many we wanted. But I said I was sure they would, and now won’t mamma be surprised when I tell her that. I got three for a nickel?” The coy, arch smile she sent flutter- ing through the window to theiclerk was something to be treasured in the heart of any man to his dying day. “I am sure she will,” he murmured, smiling back at her as best he could under the circumstances. “Will you give me three, please," and she laid a nickel down in the window before him. ' Ilc did not dare to look at her, but kept his eyes on the drawer where the stamps are confined. As he picked out two twos and a one and laid them beside that soft, little hand waiting for them on the window sill, there came into her beautiful eyes such a look of tender reproach that he went right over to the registry clerk and registered a solemn vow that never, no, never again, would he per- mit his sense of duty to dull the finer faculties of his feeling—Washington Star. SPRING HATS. Styles That Are Popular 172th the Ladies it Jult Now. . Large hats have not appeared yet. They will probably form a part of the summer millinery, but for the early spring the capote and thue are pre- ferred, and these are generally made of fancy straws, violets and gauze. A beautiful “flower hat,” however, has rather a. wide straight brim. The shape is made of wired black net, but the whole brim is covered with I'arma violets, with the leaves making an edge about the face. The crown is encircled by pink roses, with many green leaves, and a cluster of leaves and stalks rises up on one side. The whole chapeau is draped with a. light cloud of green tulle. This use of tulle is very modish and appears on the majority of spring hats. A pretty walking hat is of a fancy black .straw and has a rolling brim. On one side there is a double brim, and the two are separated by a bunch of vio- lets. The hat is charmingly trimmed with white gauze, greenish white snow-balls and Parma violets. Some trim little toques are made entirely of violets, with bunches of tulle and fancy quills on one side. The regular style of trimming is en- tirely abandoned—in fact, spring mil- linery seems to have gone to the other extreme. Hats are turned up in every odd way possible, and toques are trimmed either in front or on one side. so as to do away with any regularity of for. Some little toques for theater wear have crowns of cloth-of—gol‘d; and a toque with flaring wings is of cloth- of—silver embroidered with gold and trimmed with pink roses. But to describe some of Virot’s pret« , tiest spring models. There are a num- ber of fancy black straws trimmed . with velvet in the bright-green thati 2" so modish now. One has the rolling brim turned up in an irregular three- cornered shape, and an additional trim- ming of pink roses and black cock plumes. A dear little toque is of shot- blue and green straw. There is a ruf- fled band of peacoek’s plumage resting on the hair. Many hats and toques are trimmed, with violets, and a profusion of tulle is used. Neck boas are huge ruffles of two shades of tulle, with a double green jabot in front. A charm- ing one of green and violet tulle accom- panies a toque of violets and fancy green straw arranged with a pale green cloud of tulle—LN. Y. Tribune. Hunting Deer- with a Camera. An important part. of the modern Sportsman’s paper is the pictures. A part of the up-to-date Sportsman’s out- fit is a camera, and no trophy, to his mind, equals a good picture of wild life in the woods. The Sportsmen’s Re view has such a. picture in a recent is- sue. It shows two does walking, one behind the other, on their way to a spring somewhere beyond, along the foot of a hill slope, where thick bushes -' are shown, even to the little twigs. The deer are looking askantly toward the camera, as if watching an unexplained contrivance on three wooden legs part. ly concealed in the brush. The pho- tographer of game running wild has to be the st-illest, craftiest kind of a still hunter. He must find his game in open places on fair days, but once he gets a good shot, without the misfor- tune" of a. missfire, he is the happiest of mortals—N. :Y. World. 9
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