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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Colic in llotaos.
This very common trouble among
horses may be avoided by regular and
moderate feeding, by keeping the ani¬
mal from exposure to extreme changes
of temperature, not allowing it to drink
cold water while heated, or to change
suddenly from dry fo green feed.
Colic may be detected from inflamma
tion of the bowels by noticing whether
the pains are spasmodic or constant.
Colic is spasmodic, and rubbing or
pressure upon the abdomen appears to
be enjoyed by the animal, while the
soreness from inflammation will make it
cringe. As the u/xm presence of gas may be
surely counted in case of common
colic, alkali is demanded. One-half
ounce spirits of hartshorn to a pint of
warm water is good. A tablespoonful
of saleratus in a quart of warm water is
also an excellent remedy, and if neither
one of these are handy, put 1 a stove
shovelful , , of , , hot wood , -ashes , and , embers ,
into two quarts of water; allow it to
settle ... after - thorough , stirring, and ... then
a
drawoff. Use by drenching. I once
saved j a >o,000 -r ono stallion , ir after he iiti had been
given ~ up 1 to die by - a horse doctor by (1 o
use of the last given . remedy. , T If , the J
horse has chills and is constipated, al
ternate five drops of tincture acouitum
and nux vomica every J thirty \ minutes in
a pint of warm water, or give one and
one-half one nail pints nints of oi linseed linscca oil oi . — Tribun li
and Farmer .
Hint, for tli« Hay Field.
A few short and pithy rules for mak¬
ing the best hay might just now be re¬
peated, as follows; Get tbe mowers into
good condition,without a day’s unavoid
able , , delay; , , watch . the . grass closely, and ,
cut it before the seed is formed—just
when . the ,, blossom , , • fading. , Cut ., . it
is as
soon as the dew is off, blit not while it
B damp. , Before „ the , aew falls , „
evening
upon it, rake it up and put it in cocks
, holding , ,. about , :>00 pounds , each. , ... If rain
threatens, cover the cocks safely with
hay caps. lake hay until all ,, , has
m no
been cut and cocked. Tbe hay will cure
in the best manner in the cock, and it
may stay a week without harm,if covered
with the caps. When ready to draw it
to the barn, uncover tlie cocks and throw
them over and open them. Have one
person doing this, while the others are
loading and drawing in. Do not stack
it, but place it under a t gbtrcof, if it is
only a barrack, open at the sides. Un¬
cover only what can be drawn in in one
day. As soon as the field is clear, give
qjt a top dressing of compo-t or some ar¬
tificial fertilizer: but do not turn the
cows upon it it would pa;/better to
buy some hav from a neighbor. Tiiis
, last , rule I applies to the next . years crop
but it is rightly placed here,because nex^
ter would be too late to use it. It 'is of
the greatest importance, and should by
m. mean, be omitted. Finally, gather
the hav caps ‘ together; drv them, if
‘
necessary; lay them cvenlv one upon an
other; roll them up; bind them in the
roil, ,, and , -store them , in a drv place where ,
no mice can gnaw holes in them. It
would be an excellent tiling to steep them
in a solution of alum and sugar n of lead, ’
to preserve and make them waterproof,
—American Agriculturist.
Hitilt '.or Marketing,
Good beef, when fresh, has a fine grain
and is of vermilion color, with a slight
tint of purple on the cut surface. It is
firm, but tender to the touch, and is so
elastic that no mark is left, alter pressure
from the finger. The fat is yellowish
white, like fresh butter, and firm. Some
times the lean is slightly veined with fat,
but it must have no flavor of suet. Tlie
surface must be quite dry when cut,
scarcely moistening tlie finger. If a
clean knife be pushed up to tlie handle
into the raw meat, the resistance will be
uniform, if it be fresh, but if some of
the parts: re softer than others it has
begun to decompose. When beef is lean,
coarse and sinewy looking, it is old and
tough. Cow beef is coarse looking and
lias white fat.
Mutton and lamb should have a fine
grain ; tlie , , em should , be bright and ,
evenlv tinted and the fat perfectly white,
I„ mutton tho lean i, tod. in liana
ing mutton, if it be hung with the cut
pait up, instead of down, as usual, the
juices will be far better preserved.
A eal should , x , have firm, white i .. ( fat . and ,
♦he lean have a pinkish * tinge. If the
, barbarism . of , bleeding has been practiced
the flesh will be quite white. Veal
should . .. ... be six or eight . , weeks , old ,, , before ,
it is killed, else it is unwholesome. Too
young veal , may be detected by a bluish , , . ,
tint. The vigilance of the meat inspec
ors should, . . however, . prevent the , |
im- ;
mature veal from entering the markets ‘ J
In , choosing , mutton veal , from , the
or
carcass the quality ‘ raav be determined
• •
from , the , fat . inside the . thigh. . ,, U there , 1
be Diemv l™! of clear firm fat there th.
meat mea is good. i
Pork, when fresh and young, is smooth
and firm and the rind is thio. The lean
must be of a uniform color and the fa
whUeandnotat i A fah* all streaked. ii oia Salted
corn i I pork has pinkish fat. A good
test for ham is to run a knife under the
bone; if it comes out clean and smells
pleasantly , the ham is good. .
In choosino fish see that the g gills ‘
are bright pink, the fins stiff and the
eves clear and full; the scales and skin
must be bright. Lobsters and crab#
must be chosen by their weight as com
pared , with . , their . ur When , e fresh \ the
sire.
tail of a lobster will quicklv spring bsck
into position after it is straightened. A
-r .fr- W ‘? "T" •*»
the bluish tinge of the flesh and the iri
descence of the cut part. It is not fresh
if the fish be yellow.
*• ke
round; they should be cho-en for |
their thickness rather than for thur size,
| SERMON
A Ilf
* the Insignificant Becomes
mentous.”
Sermon by tho Rev. T. De Witt
D.^I). Subject: Tlie insignificant becomes
: mentous. •
Text: Ruth ii. 8; “Andshe went and
and gleaned in the field after the reapers;
net hap was to light on a part of the lieid lie
longing unto Iioaz. who was of the
° The "hno'.hat Kuth and Naomi arrive
H wa* the custom
«Jt^ field fo^tL reariers°to refuse to e ither iUrp'
were handfubof gnfiifseatteml across ‘the
£?™ n i‘ ttrV8 ? t ' laa .' ,( f n r .® a P ed -
"the i Tand' left Ynl'ts*
j by the custom of office'
-What is the use of all these harvest fields to
Ruth and Naomi? Naomi is too old and
feeble to go out and toil in tho sun: and can
you expect that Ruth, the ohieks young and the
her beautiful, hands should tan her and blister
in the harvest field!” Boaz owns
a large farm and he goes out to see the reapers
in the grain. Com,ng there, right be
bind the swarthy, sun-browned reapers, he
beholds a beautiful woman gleaning_a wo
Ina “ '“°re lit to bend to a harp or sit upon a
throne than to stoop among the sheaves Ah,
that was an eventful day. It was love at first
si S ht Boaz forms an attachment for the
dying woman interest gleaner—an attachment lull of un
to the church of God in all
R uth with an ephah or nearly a
bu>hel of barley goes home to Naomi to tell
h?r t* : - • adventures of the day.
Vhat Ruth, who left her native land of M ab
in darkness, and traveled, through an undy
ing affection for her mother-in-law. is in the
harvest field of Boaz, is affianced to one of
the best families in Judah, and becomes in
after time tlie ancestress of Jesus Christ, the
Lord of Glory! Out of so dark a night did
there ever dawn so bright a morning!
1 learn in the first place from this subject
how trouble develops character. It was be¬
reavement, poverty and exile that developed,
illustrated and announced to all ages the sub
ii„,ity of Ruth’s character. That is a very
unfortunate man who has no troubles. It was
sorrow that made John Runyan the better
dreamer, and O’L’oimell and l)r. better Young the better poet,
the orator, and Bishop
Hall the better preacher, and Havelock the
better soldier, and Kittotho better enoyclo
pedist, and Ruth the betterdaughter-iu-law.
1 onco asked an aged man in regard to his
j pastor, who was a very brilliant man: “Why
« it that your pastor, so very brilliant,seems
i to have so little heart and tenderness in Ins
sermons?” “Well,” lie replied, “the reason is
1 our pastor has never had any trouble. When
! misfortune comes upon him Ins style will be
| different.” After awhile the Lord took a
child out of that pastor's house; and though
tlie preacher the was just us brilliant as he was
lief ore, oh, warmth, tho tenderness of his
discourses! The fact is that trouble is a great
educator. You sets sometimes a musician sit
down cold at formal an instrument, and his execution is
and and unfeeling. The reason
is that all his life lie has been prospered. But
let misfortune or bereavement come to that
man, and he sits down at the instrument and
you discover tho pathos in the first sweep of
the keys.
Misfortune and trials are great educators.
A young doctor comes into a sick room where
there is his a dying child. Perhaps he is very
rough in prescript ion, and very rough in
bis manner, and rough In the feeling of the
pulse.and rough in hts dLi‘ta*hto answer to the mother’s
^^HS^^ b 0 n toS
own
ami now he comes into tlie sick room and
I | with tearful eye ha looks at tlie dying child
alul ho says: “t)h, how this reminds me of my
: Charlie!” Trouble, the great educator, sor¬
| rhl^'rttta^iiL^Vt^te 1 ;; 1
its power in the mightiest argument;. Gre
in ringed hie that home the PjMsng. brightest I and have most often beautiful noticed
fountains of Christian comfort and spiritual
p have lieen struck out by the iron-shod
hoof of disaster and calamity. I see Daniel s
courage best by the flash of Nebuchadnezzar's
t UI ’! ia ,' ?• * *** s prowess best when I
find him on tlie foundering ship under the
glare of the lightning in the breakers of
“ eli t a - ( ;° a ‘towns his children amid the
howling blood-splashed , . of wild beasts and the chopping of
guillotine and the crackling
l " a '/ vr,l j l,M ' u ,,,ol j the persecute 'US
of Marcus Ourelius to , develop , Polycarp and
Justin Martyr. It took the pope’s hull and
the cardinals’ curse an l the world’s anathema
to develop Martin Luther. It took all the
hostilities against the Scotch covenanters and
the fury of Lord Claverhouse to develop
James Kemsiek and Andrew Melville anil
history. Hugh McKail, It the the glorious martyrs of Scotch
took stormy sea and the De¬
cember blast and the desolate New England
coast and the war whoop of savages to show
forth the prowess of the pilgrim father—
•‘When amid the storms they sang,
And tlie stars heard, and the sea:
And tho sounding aisles of the dim wood
Rang to the anthems of tho free.”
It took all our past national distresses and
takes all our present national sorrows to lift
up our nation on that high career, where it
will march long after the foreign aristocracies
that have ntoeken and the tyrannies that
have jeered shall l»o swept down under the
omnipotent wrath of God, who hates despot
ism and who by the strength of his own red
is right individually arm will make all men free. And so it
and in the family and in tho
church and in the world, that through dark
ness and storm and trouble, men, womed,
churches, Again nations, are developed.
I see in my text the beauty of un
faitering plenty of friendship. I suppose there were
friends for Naomi while she was
in prosperity; but of all her acquaintances
how many wore willing to trudge off with
her toward Judah when she had to make
when Naomi’s husband living TStf and they
had was
well, plenty they of money anti all things went
had a givaf many callers; but l
suppo e that after her husband die l an 1 her
property went an 1 she got old an l poor she
was not troubled very much with callers. AH
the birds that sang in the bower while the
night sun shone, have gone to their nests now the
has !a len. Oh, these beautiful sun
«°"ers tlmt spread out their color in the
morn mg hour; but they are alwavg asleep
when the suit is going down. Job had plenty
?- ^kmls when lie was the richest mania
U*; but when his property went and the
trials came, than there were none so much
as the Temanite and Bilda l
the! hubiteand Zophar the Nainathite. Life
often seems to be a mere game where the
mc wssfii! pulls down all the other men into
man’s lap. Let suspicions arise about a
character an 1 he becomes like a bank
« P a, n' - . and ail the imputations push on
lam ami break down in a day that character
which in due time would have had strength
defend ifself. There amputations biding, that
nave been half a e ntury in which
tern,?,!"'"" >r «m.e moral exposure as a vast
' a 't a ‘onsumetl by thetoueh of asniphu
hypocrisy h ,vv thtallmg it is to find.some
nend ns faithful m days of adversity as
mdays „f parity. Davidihad sul-h *
such a friend in Mordecai who never forgot
their cause. Paul tiad such a friend in Ones
Pb” n ! s « •' visited him m jail, t’hrist had
such m the d totem on the
cross. Naotm had such a one in Ruth who
” r ied out: “Entreat me not to leave thee or
return from following after thee; for
where thou goest I will go and where thou
P Sf 9 °P le aud Ld'teU'tEi thy God thy my P?°? (.ted; te where thou
dtestwill 1 die, and there will I be buried.
w mea “ l1 nK>re also if au J ht
but death part thee and me.
Again I learn from this subject that paths
”‘ >en m hardship and darkness often
SS2S: started from 'zrss towa^r'jerusatem
tense,*
X when Nao£i, bTS
ltuth started oil with
teild her in my text in the harvest field of
And so it
darkly " “
ends veiy brighUy. When yw
.
Once more, I learr from my subject the
value of gleanings. Rutli going into that
harvest field might have said: Tin-re is a
straw ami there is a straw, but what is a
straw? I can’t get any barley for myself or
my mother-in-law out of these separate
straws.” “Not so,” said beautiful Ruth.
Bhe gathered two straws and she p’-fi them
together, and more straws, until she got
enou gh to make a sbeaf. Butting that d—vu
she went aud gathered more straws until she
had another sheaf, and another and another
and another, and then she brought them all
together, and she threshed them out, and she
had an ophah of barley, nigb a bushel. Oh
that we might all be gleaners! It is all the
straws that make the harvest, it is the pence
that make the pound, and it is all the oppor¬
tunities of doing good that make a life of use¬
fulness if rightly employed. Klihu Burritt
learned many things while toiling in a black¬
smith’s shop. Abererombie, the world-re¬
nowned philosplier, was jihilosophy, a philosopher the in
Scotland, and he got his physician h or
chief part of it, while as a c m,
waiting for the door of the sick room to open.
Yet how many there are in this day who say
they are so busy they have no time for mental
or spiritual improvement; the great duties of
life cross the field like strong reapers, and
carry off all the hours, and there is only here
and there a fragment left, and that is not
wortli gleaning, f h. my friends, you could
go into the busiest day and busiest week of
your life aud find golden opportunities,which whole sheaf
gathered might at last make a
for the Lord’s garner. It is the stray oppor¬
tunities and the stray privileges which,taken will
up and hound together and beaten out,
at last fill you with much joy—yea, more joy
than Ruth felt when she took home to her
mother-in-law, Naomi, tlie ophah of barley.
There are a fevr moments left worth the
gleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field. May each
one have a measure full and running over.
Oh, you gleaners, to the field! Aud if there
be in your household an aged one or to a sick
relative that is not strong enough come
forth and toil in this field, then let Ruth take
h me to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleanings.
“He that goeth forth aud weepeth, bearing with
precious seed, shall doubtless come with again him."
rejoicing, Lord bringing God his Ruth sheaves and Naomi be
May the of
our portion forever.
A Fight Hettveen Turtles.
A novel combat was witnessed by two
Erie Railway employes, on Big Walker
Rond, a few miles back of Shoholu,
l’enn. The men u’ere fishing in the
pond, and were in a boat near the west
shore, when they saw a commotion in
the water u few rods away. The fisher¬
men paddled out to the spot turtles, aud saw for
two which very large snapping engaged in
the pond is famous, a
desperate fight. The turtles would rush
at one another and come together with
such force that the shock would cause
them to rebound several feet. Then
they would dart around one another,
and as they passed each would make a
savage lunge with its great head
and long neck toward its an¬
tagonist’s legs, the evident effort
of each one being to seize the
other in a vulnerable part. The two
men watched the collisions and frantic
dartings to and fro succeeded for several in minutes, gaining
but neither turtle
inv advantage over its enemy. Finally
one of them swam off a few feet and,
the turning, made a terrific rush through
water toward its opponent. The
latter awaited the onslaught with glar¬
ing eyes. When the former came to
within a foot or so of its foe it divad
like a ilash and came up under the othA -
turtle, and before the latter could thV
fend itself against this unexpected atl
tack, seized one of its forelegs in its
massive jaws The ensuing struggle was
so desperate that the water was lashed
into foam about the two combatants,
and in a short time became colored with
blood that followed the laceration of
the outwitted turtle’s leg by the jaws of
?h« <wb«r Ttvc. former twisted and
turned, dived towhrd the bottom, an 1
darted back again to the surface with
such speed that half its body, in
spite of the weight of the other
turtle hanging to it, shot out
of the water, but it could not
break the vise like hold of the deep-set
jaws on its leg. It was plain to the two
spectators that the battle was to end in
favor of the turtle that had secured hold
of its opponent, and they determined to
capture both combatants if possible.
Paddling close to where they were strug¬
gling, and, watching their opportunity,
each man seized a turtle by the tail and
lifted them both into the bont.
The fishermen soon became aware of
the fact that they had made a move that
was destined to give them some lively
work, for the fight went right on in the
boat, and the men were compelled to
take a hand in it in order to keep a place
in the boat for themselves. With the
aid of the paddle and a seat they suc¬
ceeded after a few r minutes, in stretch¬
ing both turtles on the bottom of the
boat. The jaw of the one remained
tightly locked on the leg of the other,
and for hours after the head was severed
from its body, the hold could not be
broken. The turtles weighed twenty
pounds each, and were served at a grand
banquet at a Port Jervis hotel.
Mexican Water-Carriers.
Guaymas. savs a letter from Mexico
is built of brick and adobe ,Y ’ the hrieks b ”? ks
being ,„ , very large ana „ o thin, something
like the Roman brick in shape. They
are very soft, and although there is no
> u °Vc° j causes them to
crumble ,, flway almost like much adobe,
ir „ n „ . . so
The city lias no wells, and, as yet, no
water works, with the exception of the
nines P 1 of the r railway iilwav rnmn-inu company, from
« , , . the , , bouses of its officers, beside
its shops and tanks, are supplied. The
water carriers are a curious local specta
cle. The public wells are at the tinner
emt i „*• ot tl aud nude , v Yaquilndi- . *
,.,, ( e t0 " “• , .
aus may be seen there all the day, pull
ing up the water in buckets, standing
on a staging beneath which donkevs
are coming and coin ”. ” with enormous
ot f a ' v hlde , riveted and water
’
ti . s“ t > hanging down almost to tiie
ground on either side. When the
donkevs arrive the baos are flabbv and
'
light. The naked Yaoui ,! ul above a ?°' e nours pours
‘'own the ., w ater in . a glistening stieam,
aDt ' the skins swell up until they hang
heavy Tiie and distended, like a full paunch* !
donkevs then depart down the
street ^ into ^ the town ^ on a slow deliber
ln F r slowly as they go. .Scantily clad
bovs, happy siUastride looking 'the and hindfriers brown as '
berries.
an i kick their, bare heels incessantly
against the donkey’s flanks. There is
a bullock's horn in the bottom of each
hair and when ' ttie the bom horn is is noshed pushed nn up !
>t>ets the water out into a bucket, also !
of raw hide. \\ ater is sold for one real
(twelve and a half cents; a bag or bv •
the bucketful for a cent or so Alto- L
6 e *u t ' ler tbe8e water a carriers are about \ ! j
as
oriental . in anything
aspect the as on this:
continent, and lover of the pictur- i
esque might regret the establishment of
the waterworks which with uianv other
n PW thi "S 8 arn to be introduced under I
, bJ " a ’ I
w -
Wb ° ^ Ws hogs «ven
tow "- “d then sold them for
r < ciselv what was offered him before
m.iney, r but theoompMty then, "brightening, of “you
10 * the hogs on
wav down.
! Btarted out for heaven, oh, how dark was the
I hour ot conviction—how Binai thundered
aud devils tormented and the darkness thick
j I ened. and Ail it the sins the ot your darkest life hour pounced you upon ever
you was
saw when you first found out your sins.
After a while you went into the harvest-field
of God’s mercy; you began to glean in the
fields of divine promise and you had more
sheaves then you could carry, as the voice of
God addressed you saying, “Blessed is the
man whose transgressions are forgiven and
whose sins are covered,” A very dark start¬
ing in conviction; a very bright ending in of
the pardon and the hope and the triumph
the Gospel,
Ho, very often in our worldly business or in
our spiritual career we start off on a very
d ark path. We must go. The flesh may
; shrink hack but there is a voice within or a
; voice f rom a h OV e saying: “You must go,”
J ’ and^e have'totr^e^tto
(les t and w e haV( . (0 break through the
thorn hedge, and we are pounded and flailed
*^ leS w“ baTO^^itftheriv^weXveto
climb the mountain, we have to storm the
castle; but, blessed be God, the day of rest
captumfblttlenuXwe wiUM^the vfc
H not in this world then in that world
carry, „•/battles no t atties U> to fight ngnr How now do qo I j knowit> Know
,,.,!> noW ■} [ knoW ^ because God says so
Jhe >’ »hafi ,, hunger no more, neither thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the
fountains oi of w'X water, an^ltl and <*od shall snail wi™'^ wipe all
tears Noa from their eyes.” It was very hard for
his j day . h to while e , n ^ upe he tbe was s foffmg trying to of build the people the ark, in
and was every morning quizzed about his old
“ e ^ er of any pra'-Hca!
use ' out when the deluge came and tho tops
of tbe mountains disappeared like the backs
* *i hed UI ?
m rury, clapped their hands over a drowned
w °rld, then Noah in the ark rejoiced in his
own an(i safety footed and in the safety of his family,
out on the wgeck of a ruined
® art “- behold Christ, hounded of persecu
t ? r8 ’ denied a pillow, worse maltreated than
thiov es on either side of the cross, human
, hate smacking its lips in satisfaction after
it had been draining His last drop of blood;
the sheeted dead bursting irom the sepul¬
chres at his crucifiction. Tell me, oh Geth
seruane aud Golgotha, were thereover darker
times than those4” Like the midmight sea
against the rock the surges of Christ’s an
giiidi beat against the gates of eternity to be
echoed Lack by all the thrones of heaven ami
all the dungeons of hell. But the day of re¬
ward comes for Christ; all the pomp and do¬
minion of this world are to be hung on His
throne, him, uncrowned heads are to bow before
on whose head are many crowns and all
the celestial worship is to come up at his feet
the humming of the forrest, like the rushing
of the waters, like tlie thundering of the seas,
while all heaven rising on their thrones beat
time with their sceptors. “Hallelujah for tlie
Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah,
t ie kingdoms of this world have become of
our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“That song of love now low and far,
lire long shall swell from star to star;
’j hat light, tlie breaking day which tips
Tl.a golden-spired apocalypse.”
Again ] have to learn from my subject that
event? which seem to be most insignificant
may he momentous. Can you imagine any¬
thing more unimportant than the coming of
a poor woman from Moab to Judah! can
you imagine anything more trivial than the
loot that this Ruth justhappenened to alight
that —as they say—just happened to alight on
field of Boaz? yet all ages, all genera¬
tions have an interest in the fact that she
was to become an ancestor of the Lord Jesus
Christ and all nations and kingdoms must
look r.t that one little incident with a thrill
oi uu ;; cnkable and eternal satisfaction. So
it is iu your history and in mine; events that
you been thought of of no importance at all have
very great moment. The casual
did conversation, that accidental meeting—you
not think of it again for a long while;
but how it changed all tho phase of your life.
It. seemed to be of no importance that Jubal in
vented rude instruments of music,calling them
of harp and organ .but they wore the introduction
all the world’s minstrelsy; andasyouhear
<u “ Vilaaiiiw e-t' ■» .oiJiiiu. rHt?' t V" *'’ ow
ailet th.? fingers have been taken away from
it, so all music now of lute and drum and
sonnet Jubal’s are harp only the long-continued strains of
and Jubal’s organ. It seemed
to he a matter of very lit tie importance that
Tubal Cain learned the uses of copper and
iron: but that rude foundry of ancient days
lias its echo in the rattle of Birmingham ma¬
chinery and the roar and bang of factories
on the Merrimac. It. seemed to lie a matter
of no importance that Luther found a Bible
m a the monastery; brass but as lie opened that Bible
and lids fell back they jarred every¬
thing irom in the Vatican to the furthest con
vent wormed leaves Germany and the rustling of the
was the sound of the wings of
the Angel of Reformation. It seemed to be
a matter of no importance that a woman,
whose name lias been forgotten, dropped a
tra t in tho way of a very bad man by the
nane of Richard Baxter. He picked up the
tract and road it and it was the means of his
salvation. In after days that man wrote a
book called “The Call to the Unconverted”
that was tlie means of bringing a multitude
to God, among others Philip Doddridge.
Philip Doddridge wrote a book called “The
Rise and Progress of Religion” which has
brought thousands and tens of thousands into
the kingdom of God, among others the
great Vv iiberforce. Wilbcrforee wrote a
book called “A Practical View of Chris¬
tianity,” which was tlie means of bringing a
great multitude to Christ, among others Leigh
Richmond. Leigh Richmond wrote a tract
called “The- Dairyman’s Daughter,” which
has been the means of thesalvation of uncon
ve ried multitudes, and tint tide of influence
sta rted from the fact that one Christian
woman of Richard dropped a Christian tract in the way
Baxter-tho tideof influence rolling
011 through Richard Baxter, through Philijj
through Doddridge, Leigh through the great Wilberforct,
forever. Richmond, on, on, on, forever,
So the insignificant events of this
world seem, after all, to be most momentous.
The tact that you came up that street or thil
street seemed to be of no importance to you,
ami tho fact that you went inside of somt
PUSSK.8 it the turning point in SASHS history.
Again I in your
see beauty my subject an illustra
of female in
dustry. Behold Kuth toiling in the
harvest field under the hot sun, or at noon
taking the plain bread with the reapers, or eatino her?
Tho parched com which Boaz handed to
customs of society have changed, and
w ithout the hardships and exposure to which
Ruth w as subjected every intelligent woman
will find something to do. I know there is a
sickly sentimentality on this subject In
some families there are persons of no practical
service to the household or community, and
though there are so many woes all around
about theni in the world, they spend
their time languishing over a new pat
tom. or bursting into tears at midnight
over the story of some lover who shot linn
s,,|f ’ They would not deign to look at Ruth
carrying back the barley on her way horns
*° her mother-in-law Naotni. All this
fastidiousness may seem to do verv well
while they are under the shelter of their
i father's nnsmrf.me"uJwlmt* house-but. wh -n th.. th^'U^ri^i -i.,,... , , -
of ,,myg.?t
Persons under indulgent parentage
upon themselves habits of indolence: but
They severely will feel in their h art? wha! the’poet c
so satirize soawk^arff l when tet^'imp h • -iiti
“Folks ,’ite,
The > , ' ru, '; , ’Sa" t iy panic 1 from morning until
mght -
" g!l !il;
np< ’’ 1 P Kate of indoleuce how tnany
m 11 amt I , women have marched, useless
earth, to d-sir. on
a v, d cternitv: Spinola said
“•",>> Horace Mere: "Of w hat did. ” your
brother die? ’ “Of having nothing to do’t was
the answer. Ah!” -aid Spm.da “that
11 -
11 h ' p*>”-»L b/ m ai tue Y Bvn.ral world ofu.-.” where there Oh.-vm is *<»
,m,rh suffering to b» alleviated, so much
deiib a,",',-i'?TJ' to be carried ' that there U '” J is so any many person bur
cannot, find anything to do? Madame
‘ 1 .« ' v ;‘ rl( l °f work in her timojand
ments of murie, auTSfwhkh sl^“hL<l"utSt
Btsfrsrrw.s* -tsa*
wv” mu/h ‘Ant'd ^ritu^w^k | f
to te dime iu
how vast the tield< rJ?J« Ho»
fails, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas,
‘
Everybody’s Alr-ltroko.
“Ycb, sah,” sail! Uncle Zach, “I’se watched
it forty years an’ its as I sjz: De fust of May
an’ Christmas day of de same year alters
comes on de same week day.’’ _ .
Further conversation proved Chancing Uncle to Aaeh cl a
most incredutou? person. m
W on Dr. Carver s feat of breaking glass balls
with a ride, he said: and knawel .
“I hoard ’bout dat shootm’
right off it wasn’t squar’; dat was a \ ankee
trick, boss, sho’s you born.”
“What was the trick!”
“Dar wuz loadstone put intode _ glass balls,
an’ likewise onto de bullets; so when de bul¬
let fly outen de gun, it an’ de ball m?’drawed
tergodder, which, in course, brokes de glas3
—dats de trick!”
Later, Uncle Za -h observed a rope running
along tho side of the car.
“Boss, what’s dat line fur? ’
“To apply the air-brake in case of acci¬
dent.” Then we had further to explain how
tiie force of the brake was obtained, to which
Uncle Zach responded: study , don^t . , spect .
“Look a here, boss, foolishness? you Why, do
me to b'leeve dat
btegest harrieane whatever blowed couidn t
stop dis train, runnin’ forty mile a hour.
Au’ you think I gtvine to b’leeve a little pips
full of wind under de kyars cau do it! No,
There are a great many Uncle Zaehs who
judge everything simply by appearances be
Tlie air-brake does not seem to a very
powerful necessarily thing, equivalent but power to and bigness efficiency and pre- ,,r. .
n it
Phillip Beers, Esq., who resides at the
United States hotel, New York city, and is
engaged in raising subscriptions for the New
York World Bartholdi pedestal fund, was
once upbraided by a distinguished commending relative in such
who was a physician, for
enthusiastic terms, a remedy that cured him
of Bright’s disease eight years ago. He said:
“Sir, has the medical profession with all
its power and experiences of thousands of
years, anything that can cure this terrible
disorder!” No, no, that is true, there is no
mistake about it but that Warner’s safe cure
is really a wonderfully effective preparation. that
That remedy is an “air-brake” every
man can apply, and this fact explains why of it
has saved so many hundreds of thousands
lives.— Copyrighted. Used by permission of
American Rural Home.
SOMETHING SURE.
“What a pity nothing ever
Has a beauty that will stay!”
Said our thoughtful little Nellie,
Stopping briefly in her play.
“All these velvet pansies withered—
And I picked them just to-day!”
“And there's nothing very certain.”
Answered Bess, with face demure;
“When it rains wo can’t go driving—
I wish promises were truer 1
I could rest, if I were certain
Of a single thing that’s sure l"
Grandma smiled from out her corner,
Smoothing back a soft gray tress;
“ Sixty seconds makes a minute;
Did you know it, little Bess 1
Sixty minutes make an hour,
Never more, and never less
“ For the seconds in a minute,
Whether full of work or fun,
Or the minutes in an hour,
Never numbered sixty-one 1
That is one thing that is certain
Ever since tho world begun.
“ Though the rose may lose its crimson,
And the buttercup its gold,
There is something, through all changes
You may always surely hold;
Truth can never lose its beauty,
Nor its strength, by growing old.”
—Julia P. Ballard, in Our Little Ones.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
A host in himself—The inn keeper
k pluVoaapber says: “Man was born
I fo rule in this world.” It is believed
tjhat the philosopher was never married.
j-Brooklyn Times.
There are about 700,000 cats in Lon¬
don. The manufacturers of bootjacks
have all they can do to supply the de¬
mand .—Boston Transcript.
In France there are 100 holidays; . -
this country there are only sixty. This
is one reason why the Frenchmen excel
this nation as fishermen.— Graphic.
in those old days when wrangling ns
Flung down their clanging gages,
There were so many knights, since th'
They have been called dark ages.
—Lift.
“I threw a stone I knew not where” is
the first line of a recent poem. Thu' A?
the great trouble with women's throwing
stones; they never know where they will
hit. - -Puck.
There is one aspect in which fashion
able young ladies and old herring fisher¬
men are exactly alike—they both spend
the greater part of their time bragging
about last year’s catch.
“The Bumble Bee’s Mistake” is the
title of a new poem. The bumble may
mistake his mark occasionally, as he
never sights his piece, but lie manages
to get his work in, as a rule.— Picayune.
Flupgon is becoming quite proficient
as a gardener, lie planted some beans
this spring and in a short time noticed
the seed pushing through the ground.
He was amazed and exclaimed, as he
pushed the beans back into the earth:
“Them vegetables don’t get away from
me this time, b’gosh.”— Judge.
Doctor—“Your wife is in a very criti
cal state, and I should recommend you
to call in some specialist to consult on
the case.” Husband—“There, you see.
doctor, 1 was riqht again! 1 told my
wife long ago she ought to get proper
medical advice, but she thought you
might get offended .”—-Fliegende Blaelter
THE AMATEUR HARDENER.
With joyous expectation tiilwl
He goeth to his hone at mg it.
Explores And the patch, so lately vilied.
Some hopes to find the shoots in sight.
tiny sprout? begin to show
The precious promise of his seeds;
He tends them tor a month or so,
To find at la?t they're worthless weeds.
—Boston Courier.
v. Nature (n .e, 8 I ranstoi million.
^ tadpole, the larva of a frog, lias a
ta ;i j n . R s P‘»s ,dll, instead instead of ot lun^s. Linos
r? - a a
. , .
J 16 * 111 precisely like that oi a fish, a
horny beak for eating vegetable food
a “ d a *P Iral lntestme to d, S est U ’ Wlth
"‘C approach 1 of maturity the hind legs
^off ‘To ^ T' f ' ^ ^
’ th andgill? wasteawav ;
lungfs are created; the digestive hull ap
$«»*** diet, the heart becomes to suit reptilian the an m
D'P 6 b y the addition of another auricle;
' n s kin, muscles, nerves and blood
vessels vanish being ° absorbed atom by
atom j set is llwtit -
at0m ’ and an( 8 „ “ uew eW Set 18 8ub 8 . ’ tlt,,ted ,. tpH -
lh ® , ast , n lint,sh ... . census shows that
®W> tiOO.OOO more womni than men
in England b and WrIpr
The Care of Children.
»* ** OSTO *L Mass.—A a* leading
• &i thinks medical
F ,urn it is about time mothers
clnhl'rln wnlte i'^^fh ^ hea!th ol
and tifies officially effective that «c^«yTharmle*
plaints yot srticle for such com
has come to his notice He refer#
' P y TegeUp,,-.
___________ _
About three fifths of the State of New
Jersey is devoted to a#jtoui»ure.
lfow to Make Hens Lay.
About the quickest way to make a hen
lay is to wring her neck or else nil Ler
full of bird-shot. And this is what many
persons feel like doing when they do not
,et any eggs, while tlieir neighbors and selling are
netting a goodly number
them at high rices. I hose who keep
poult rv for profit must realize that a ben
is an egg machine, and that the machine
must have material from which to man
u tture the finished and salable goods. profit
Hous cm not be made to return a
my more than a loom will pay without
running it and keeping it supplied i-ufficient with
he proper raw material, and in
.aid rogul r quantities. If no more is
suppl ed than to keep the machine Irom
listing, then no profit will result, hut
ra;her a h ss. Breed is a good thing,
but without liberal and judicious feed
mg, t igothor with proper housing and
i■ ro, mere breed will not bring the de
tred answer <f profit, f both breed
nad food arc happily combined, the re¬
mit will invariably be plenty of eggs and
i very com ortable degree of profit. their
Kc-v tbe machines running at
fullest c pacify, and there will be no
room for fault-finding or any complaints all
li it the hens do not or will not lay
the eggs winter aud summer, that cau
reasonably be expected from them.
The only goose runclie—a farm de¬
voted to the breeding and care of geese—
in tiiis country, is oeated on the eastern
shore of Virginia, and covers nearly
8,000 aerts Its flocks number in the
neighborhood of 5,000.
Hlo'.v nsj I p Hell <>«te
has been a 1 iu u-i u . and costly work, but the
Obstruction .
•nil justiSos the effort. m any
nnpni'laut channel means disaster. Obstruct¬
ions ill the or.ans of t li ■ human bo iy bring
n witable dise.is-‘. They must be cleared
awav, or physii al wreck will follow. Keep
!he liver in order, aud the pure blood courses
through the body, conveying health, strength
a-ul life: let it beta me disordered and the
■haunels are clogged with impurities, which
result in disease and death. No other modi
cine equals Hr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical lfis
covery” for a ting upon the liver and purify
ing tlie blood.
The camel is the only bird that we yearn to
hear after listening to a man learning to play
the violin.
Foit DYsrK.rsiA, indigestion, depression or
spirits and general debility in their various
forms, also as a preventive against fever and
ague aud other intermittent fevers, the “Ferro
rhosphovated Elixir of Calisaya,” made by Cas¬
well. He.zzard A <’o., Ionic New Fork, and sold by all
Druggists,is the best ;andfor patients recov
cring from fever orot her sickness it liss no equal.
Tlie best way to accumulate property is to
buy wlu-n others want to sell, and to sell when
others want to buy.
We guarantee the speedy, painless and
permanent cure, without knife, caustic or
salve, of the largest pile tumors. Pamphlet
aud reference? sent for two letter stamps.
World’s Dispensa -y Ale ii.-a! Association, ti l.
Main street, liullalo, N. Y.
If yon are in a public office, be punctual—at
all events in leaving.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c
Nothing can constitute good breeding that
has not good nature for its foundation.
“The Ere n*r Srndv of tfankinit is Man.”
say’s the illustrious i ope. It lie had included
woman in the li t, he would have been nearer
the truth, if not so poetical. I)r. B. V.
Pierce has made them both a life study, espe
cially woman, a id tlie peculiar derangements
to which her the delicate who system is liable. rited Many with
women in land are aequa
Dr. Pierce only through his “Favorite Pre
scription,” bless them him with all their hearts, thovc for
he has brought the I a lacea for all
uktom- u-i "’prvnlhq- r, 11 ' ,■. .— a suen a*
leucorrho a, prolapsus and other displace
merits, ulcei ation, “internal fever,” and bloating,
tendency to internal cancer, other ail
ments. Price reduced _’ to one dollar. By
druggists.
profound Simplicity of character is the natural result of
thought.
An Only Daughter l ured of Comumptlnn.
When death was hourly expected from Con¬
sumption, all remedies having failed and Dr.
H. James was experimenting, he accidentally which
made a preparation of Indian Hemp,
cured his only child, andnow gives this recipe
on receipt of stamps to pay expenses. the Hemp
aleo cures night swi a s. nausea at stom¬
ach, and will break a fresh eold In 24 hours.
Address Craddock & Co., 1032 Race street,
Philadelphia, Pa., naming this paper.
Avoid temptation, through fear you may not
withstand it.
Important.
When you visit or leave New York oity, save baagasta.
ipressane and $:? carriage hire, aid stop at the Grand
nion Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot,
_
dolia fit*) elegant *1 and rooms, upward fitted up at European a cost of one million
vator. irs, Restaurant supplied per day. with the beat. plan. Horae Ele¬
stages and elevated railroads to all depots. Families cars,
can live better tor less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at anv other firat-efasa hotel in the oity.
He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to
be charitable.
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