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FARM AND HOUSE.
TOPICS OF IVTRRF.ST TO THE
' I ARMER AMI HOI’SEWIFU
Draining the I.and.
I 4 is a wrong policy that prompts many
fanii rs to put off draining tlieir wet land
on ;b- ground that the outlay involved
Wl ‘ •ot be compensated with large re
tun. 1 -. |t i*. an established fact that crops
tara f grow-to ad vantage under an excess
©f icoi-uire, any more than than they
wc y;ell largely on a dry and parched
* There h no danger of draining
t tf and* so much that there will be no
muitum left for the proper support of
vegetation but. on trie contrary land
we pulverized and thoroughly under
do'; i i<i will hold iHi< . -nt moisture for
th;* i iiposi- much longer than w' ere the
wat< is allowed to stand until it evapo
rate* \ to the method, this must de
per.c -n circumstances, though under
dro i ng is generally regarded ns the best.
It e very important that ditches should
be- i closely enough together to drain
thi Hi I thoroughly, the distance apart
tot.i governed by the nature of the land.
Th" >p< IVlJ itch lias several disadvanta
ge-* I* * . sup ninth land which could
otb'f'visi be cultivated; it hinders til
ing- the banks cave in by the action of
fro*' alt* i few winters, and it is a
at 1, b , i /or leaves and litter, which
ar t iv n int'yit • very autumn. But it
i- sin.pie. in construction arid inexpen
hiv< Itcn answering very well for fre-c
--inj.l tlie land of surface water. Tile is
tin i •-t material used for drainage pur
!***■•" 1 boards often decay early, and
-!■ • tills with dirt so readily that they
ar< m-at istaetoi v and often require
tal Uv Up Cullirotor.
l‘li ilosopli y of Seed Potatoes.
-i * | stat<> eye needs enough of the
potato to supply it with nourishment un
til I • roots can be sent otf and become
estr.l isln-il so .is t<> support the plant and
supp.v it with nourishment. There are
ai'oi the -.unti number of eyes in a small
pot ,-.i ns in a large one; the small will
sent ip.iboujt as many sprouts as the
large, imt feebler; the small will not get
so t -in a hobl of the soil, and the stems
being It ~s with fewer and shorter roots,
will develop* smaller tubers. Also, the
large | >l >tat< v -ends up too many stems;
they rovvd each other; some of them
fron the part of the potato where there
an '< \ eyi ■. are much stouter and will
proo ice Hojuic good-size tubers, but tlic
struggle f< ,r room and food and sunshine
anioiiL so many ronipetitors will assured
ly ! u the si/e of all. Potato hills
eighteen' inches apart should not have
moo : Incu four strong -talks; each stalk
will'.hen under favorable circumstances
threw • IT from two to four good-size
tube? ■ Hills one foot apart cannot de
velop te. peri e< pion more than two or
threi -inlks.
barg potatoes cut with one eye to a
<ut :e w ill afford plenty of nourishment
to the jilants until they become estab
lish'd. cvor.il of the numerous eyes at
the stem being destroyed. One cutting
in a lull when placed a foot apart will be
sijfli ent, ~, two when eighteen inches
or two I yet apart. If medium size pota
toes are (used cut them with two eyes to
a piece, ■ except the stem end, which
wotiid h’otter be rejected. Usually the
mctlNim size cutting with two eyes will
about equal the large size cutting with
one \e , because it has stronger stems.
Small potatoes cart all be used to good
advan’agjc tm seed by cutting all the eyes
bu*. tvv. i,u’three. Yet the small potato
wi! not send up so good & stem as the
large i utjting . f the same size because the
bri r.eli itii the small potato begins its
growth iA- a dwarf, and no amount of
food ot favorable conditions will over
come tlo.s poor beginning. The true
philosophy, appears to be to plant only
enough ti > secure three or four strong
stems to a hill. This can be best accom
plished by cutting large potatoes into
pieces with one eye. or medium-sized to
tw< eyes, or use single small potatoes
wit n all eyes cut out except- two or three.
-? HV/.voi, in ,\ 'eie York- Tribune.
Hints in l*ou It r.v Culture.
h ? h’ryone intcre-ted in poultry culture,
am •' specially in raising and breeding
tlioo t igh bred fowls, is acquainted with
tin ii, me of 1 K. Keleh, of Natick, Mas
sac l.i '-etts, a specialist in poultry-breed
ing. Aitd a frequent contributor to agri
ci it ,1 papers on that subject. Mr.
Ft u 1 has just w ritten a book which, says
th? \ew York Obserrer, comes nearer
being a complete manual on the subject
of pi titty raising than any work we have
sen.. It is the result of long and suc
cess u i e xperience in the business and
mny 1 relied upon as accurate and trust
wer ay AYe make a few extracts for the
Ut'uet’- of our readers. In regard to roosts
ao.o .’.t sting places, Mr. Felch says;
“Avoid all permanent or box-made nests,
wfo Uvv me harlmrs for lice. Avoid
ah' the old pt.'. n of an inclined plane for
rtt'ets, for all the fo wls will strive to oc
cupy the highest peri h, and many a light
will be the\ result, which will
vist > increase the list of casualties,
w • the low and level plan saves
mu ' from nnd internal iu
jury lor while a hem yrill walk up to
her (' rh, it she has t'] s . chance she will
in *“ ably fly down, f The floor of the
hoc- should l*e kepV covered three to
fou r inches deep Vvvith a coarse-line
gravel, not so to be called sand,
jet having a bjjgJn mixture in ib This
will dcodorijfe all the filth and stench,
besr ’making a loose and soft substance
t U>t upon in descending from the
tx, s’- Nests so low and easy of access
that a fowl can stand upon the floor and
reach tue egg are conducive to egg
eat iug. If you have only a village lot,
and are limited iu space, and the flock
has from necessity to be confined upon
the cast possible amount of ground, each
house and shed should have two yards,
that one may be sowed with oats while
the fowls occupy the other—and when
the oats are tour to five inches high, let
the flock occupy this yard while the
other is treated iu like manner, thus
furnishing the raw vegetable food so
nc essary to them. Beside, this treat
met : keeps the yard clean and sweet.
These fowls, so yarded, will eat all, even
sera n hing the roots out of the ground,
giving them a needed exercise.”
s9n the subject of feed for young
chitks the author says: “The first meal
for <1- i keus after being taken from the
nest sXiould be boiled eggs, chopped
line eh Rs and all, also baked corn cake
or excelsior meal cake crumbled into
scAlded milk. No fluid as drink but the
scalded tmilk. After the first twenty
four hours, after their gizzards have be
come fillied with egg shell, gravel, etc.,
let their meal in the early morning be ex
cels' r m al, bread and scalded milk; at
JO c lock granulated corn; at 2 o’clock
the excelsior, br< ad and milk, and at 6
o’clock canary seed, millet seed, and
granulated conn This if the hen be
confined and tk ie chickens have their
liberty to find and insect food. Thus
feed till two wee old, when it will be
found that few oj any deaths will have
occurred, and th-g chickens started well
Im ran id and vigorous erowth.”
Farm and Garden Notes.
Never feed cornstalks uncut. Even for
manure making eutting is far better,
i Bran, sprinkled with pepper and mixed
with milk, is excellent food occasionally
for laying hens.
Let no animal be placed where it will be
helplessly threatened by a stronger one
i with no chance of escipe.
An elm transplanted i* said to make no
j more wood in twelve or fifteen years than
I one in mother soil will in ten years.
A lamb will begin to eat when it is
| ten days to two weeks old. There is
nothing better for them than whole oats.
If a horse coughs, dampen his hay. wet
his mixed feed, keep him out of a draft,
after exercise blanket him, and give him
i a little ginger in his feed.
You want a dozen or two of early pul
let-. -o as to have them commence laying
next fall. Early pullets will pay you well
for all the trouble of raising them.
A\ iieii cows gnaw boards give them
• harcoal mixed in the m<-al and ground
bone. They should also have roots and
a sprinkling of wood ashes on them.
If, from improper care or feeding, or
from some unavoidable cause, your horse
is out of condition, you should dose him
with a little medicine and much common
! sense.
Cattle have four stomachs; the barn
yard fowl two, the crop and gizzard.
Cravcl acts in the place of teeth in fowls.
This serves to help grind down the food
in the gizzard. Keep them supplied. The
sharper the gravel the better.
The man who drugs his horse to make
1 1 is hair sleek and “shiny” shows little
-ense. The be t means to keep the coat
j glossy is cireful and daily grooming.
This, with plenty of oats and water and
; an occasional bran mash, is all the horse
needs when in health. The arsenic
j groom should be discharged.
To save eggs for hatching put them
in a box of oats, small end downward,
and in a place of even temperature, and
they must not freeze nor be kept too
warm. Padded carefully they will keep
well for quite a length of time, and will
hatch when two weeks old, but the
fresher they arc w hen placed under the
hens the better.
It is best to set cut the most vigorous
straw ferry plants, as a dry season will in
jure them. Old plants are not good, and
may be known by the dark-colored roots
that adhere to them. If it becomes nec
e-sarv to use old plants break off the
black roots with the stem to which they
may be attached. Young plants have
white,fresh-looking roots.
Cows give bloody milk on account of
inflammation of the udder. The inflam
mation may be caused by cold, bruises,
over heating or over-feeding. The treat
ment of the cow should be according to
the circumstances. Bathing the udder
frequently with hot wutcr, or better yet,
hot vinegar, is always good. If the udder
: has been over-stimulated, feed less.
In cleaning ivies, oleanders and like
I plants that are subject to scale insects,
the means employed for destroying the
! same are frequently insufficient to destroy
I the young broods, so small as to escape
detection. To prevent such vexatious
happenings, use water in washing plants
of nearly 120 degrees of heat, and by the
| addition of tobacco juice to give it a
color like weak tea, or else whale oil
soap or common soap to create suds freely.
Such a liquid starts up the young and
old insectsalike. The washingthoroughlv,
: done, then wait a little, after wh*&a
drench off the strong liquid with cie;®
| water.
Recipes.
Crackers. —Butter, one cup , salt, one
teaspoon; flour, two quarts. Rub
thoroughly together with the hand, and
wet up with cold water; beat well, and
beat in flour to make quite brittle and
hard; then pinch off pieces and roll out
each cracker by itself and bake.
Celery Slaw. — One-third celery, two
thircls green apples, chopped fine like
cabbage; place this in a frying pan and
pour over it a little hot water; cover
tight and let steam five minutes, then re
move it from the tire, pour over it the
above dressing and serve cold.
Apples with Rice. —Peel and with a
scoop take the cores of as many apples
|as is required for your party. Put them
i iu a baking dish with a little lemon peel,
and a syrup of sugar and water. Cover
with a baking sheet or plate, and let the
i apples bake very slowly until done; but
they must not be the least broken. Place
the apples on a dish, fill up the center of
1 each with boiled rice, and if you wish
the dish to look pretty at a small expense,
place a dried cherry on the top, or a lit
tle preserve of any kind will do. Put
| boiled rice also around the apples, and
pour over it the syrup in which they
were cooked.
Fish Balls. —Pick boiled fish into
fine pieces; take mashed or cold, grated
potatoes, using half of each is a good
rule, or a third fish and two thirds po
tatoes; if you have any dressing from
boiled fish mix it with it; if you use
mashed potatoes that have been nicely
seasoned with butter you need not use
any more, but if you use grated potatoes
add a piece of butter the size of a butter
nut ; season with salt and pepper and one
| well beaten egg; if rather moist, add
enough flour to make in little balls, and
mash down fiat; have in frying-pan a
| little butter, as hot as it can be without
scorching; fry the balls in it until a light
brown. For dressing to fish, use the
water it has been boiled in. You can
make calculations when boiling fish to
have enough for balls for breakfast.
Household Hints.
Tarnished Brass and Copter. —To
; brighten tarnished brass and copper,
clean the brass by w arming it and dip
ping in water charged with washing
i soda, then into clear water to remove the
grease. Next dip it in a bath of one
part by measure of sulphuric acid, one
part sal ammoniac, two parts nitric acid
and four parts water. Dip for a moment,
j then dip in clear water and dry in hot
I sawdust.
How to Preserve Milk. —Pour the
| milk into a bottle and place the vessel
up to its neck in a saucepanful of water,
j which is then to be put on the fire and
allowed to boil for a quarter of an hour.
The battle is now to be removed from the
j w ater and carefully closed with a good
and tight-fitting cork, so as to render it
as air-tight as possible. Milk which has
been preserved by this process has been
keep for more than a year without turn
ing sour. Milk may also be preserved
by putting a tablespoonful of horserad
ish, scraped in shreds, ißto a panful of
I milk. When milk thus treated is kept
in a cool place it will be found to keep
good for several days, even in hot
weather. —Household Guide.
An Important Caution. —An import
ant caution is needed in the use of oil
stoves. As recently improved, they are
quite free from disagreeable odors. But
' nearly all burning implies the consump
• tion of the oxygen of the air and replacing
| it with carbonic acid, carbonic oxide,
I nitrogen, etc. An oil stove or lamp in
a room i constantly depriving the air oi
its oxygen, and vitiating it with the del
eterious gases named. In summer, with
th ■ doors and windows ajar, the con
tinued renewal of the atmosphere of the
room by admixture of fre-h air from
without, renders the use of pipeless oil
stoves and lamps quit * harmless. But
in close rooms, in cold weather, it
is important to have over an
oil stove, and over every large
lamp, a hood or inverted funnel, open
ing at its top into a pipe—a stove-pipe or
a tin tube—to convey the rising vitiated
air to a chimney or other outlet, and
thus fresh air be admitted from some
source to replace that carried away. If
the escape pipe cannot be supplied, be
sure to have full, fro? ventilation, es
pecially in small rooms. An ordinary
lamp probably consumes as much air as
three g;own persons do in breathing; a
large one much more: while a four
burner oil stove will use as much air (or
oxygen) as thirty or forty persons breath
ing in the same room. Therefore, al
ways look after fresh air by using an
escape pipe or ventilator; better provide
both.— Prairie Farmer.
Eggs Worth SIOO Apiece.
Perhaps the most valuable collection
of birds’ eggs in this country is the prop
erty of Professor Thomas G. Gentry, of
Philadelphia, who is the author of “The
Nests and Eggs of Birds of North Amer
ica. ” lie spent four years collecting the
specimens, some of which are worth to
collectors SIOO apiece. He recently
showed them to a reporter for the Record ,
in Philadelphia. The handsomest eggs
in the collection are a set of six laid by
the white ptarmigan, a bird related to
the grouse family, and which is found in
Labrador. The eggs are a beautiful
shade of golden brow n, with black
and lines, no two of which arealike
foolish guillimot, a bird which only
one egg and leaves that upon stones, de
pending on the heat of the sun for incu
bation, except in cloudy or stormy
weather, when the female covers them
until the sun appears, is represented by
seven beautiful specimens. Of the Green
land eider duck, five eggs of an olive
hue are found in the collection. The nest
accompanied them, and is made of feath
ers plucked from the body of the bird.
Two eggs of the Iceland gerfalcon, about
the size of an ordinary chicken’s egg, of
a deep amber color smeared with a
darker shade, and valued at S2O each,
lie along side of two eggs of the turkey
buzzard of Florida. These are blue with
blotches, and are laid in the cavity of a
log. Both the male and the female
take turns in performing the imeubating
process.
A peculiar egg fs that of the red
flamingo, found in the Bahama Islands.
The soft shell is like chalk and leaves a
white mark wherever it is deposited. An
egg of the golden eagle the size of a
goose egg, two eggs of the bald eagle,
two eggs of the gray sea eagle, and three
eggs of the fish hawk (which builds a
nest five feet wide) are among the curi
osities of the professor’s collection. As
a natural curiosity in egg-laying the pro
fessor exhibited a set of eggs of the pip
ing plover, found on Seven Mile beach,
New Jersey. This bird does not build a
nest, but scoops a hole in the sand in the
midst of broken shells, always laying
eggs with the points together. They are
the color of the sand, covered with dots
to resemble foreign substances, and are
not easily recognized.
“This nest is worth fifty dollars,” said
the professor, as he opened a handsome
cabinet and took out what appeared to
b seven large beans. The collection was
However, a complete set of eggs of the
golden-crowned kinglet, found on the
coast of Labrador, only two sets of
which can be found in collections in the
United States, and arc highly valued by
egg collectors. A set of eggs of the
least tit of California is highly prized.
This bird, though only the size of a wren,
builds a nest twenty-two inches tong, four
inches wide, and ten inches deep. Its
eggs are about the size of peanut kernels.
Next to them in the cabinet is a set of
eggs of the cactus wren of California,
which builds a nest the size of a half
bushel of cactus spiues to protect its little
ones from intruders.
A Woman’s Perilous Adventure.
A woman named Elizabeth Mouai,
aged 60 years aud unmarried, recently
had a narrow escape from death. She
embarked from one of the Shetlands on
the fishing smack Columbine to visit a
niece at Lerwick. The smack had on
board the captain, two sailors and the
old lady. The sea was very high, and
the captain advised her not to start.
She insisted, how ever. The captain was
washed overboard and the two sailors
lowered the boat in the hope of rescuing
him. They did not succeed, and when
they turned back they found the smack
was two miles away going out to sea.
They pulled after her, but found she
rapidly gained on them, and were
obliged at last to pull back to land.
The smack soon diappeared. Steam
ers were sent in search, but
could find no trace of the Columbine, and
all hope was given up, as no one sup
posed the vessel could live in such a fear
ful sea. The smack, however, was not
lost. It was blown across the North Sea
and, after a terrible experience of seven
days, stranded at Lepso, and the old
lady, nearly dead from exposure and pri
vation, was rescued. She was unable to
sleep all the time she was on board. Sue
suffered more from wet and thirst than
from hunger, and she quenched her thrist
so far as she could by licking the drops
condensed on the window. Gradually
she became weak. Her legs were so
swollen she could scarcely stand. She
therefore lashed herself close to the
hatchway, fearing she might roll away
and be unable to get back so as to look
out.
Safety of Registered Mail.
‘‘Some people imagine.” said a post
office official, “that if they register a
letter it is the same as putting money in
the bank —it's safe. Then there are those
who believe that registering U no gaur
anty. They quote the backwoods maxim
that ‘the government will trace up a lost
registered package and tell you where it
is lost and you can get it yourself—if you
can.' That is a mistake. The under
standing now is that the man who can be
proved to have handled the package last
before it was lost must make it good. If
he doesn't he may hand in his resignation
and let his bondsmen get out of it the
best way they can. Only last week a
package was lost here. There were but
two men in the department when it ar
rived and the agent got his receipt from
them. The people who sent the package
qiade affidavit that it contained SSOO,
and the two men made it good rather
than lose their places and be disgraced.
I guess you'll find the registered mail
pretty safe. ” Chicago Herald.
Cures of sciatica are reported as hav
ing taken place in Paris after a single ap
plication of Dr. Dehove’s method of
freezing the skin above the painful parts
with a spray of chloride of methyl. The
operation is said to be applicable also to
facial neuralgia.
PEPIT THOUGHTS.
Extracts From the Sermons of
Leading New York Ministers.
Owing to the absence of Rev. Dr. Talmage
from l.is pulpit in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
we do not give his customary sermon in this
i sue. but print in lieu thereof extracts from
the sermons of prominent metropolitan min-
I isters:
!’. HKBEK NEWTON ON TRUE IDEAS OF GOD.
The Rev. R. Heber Newton, i'reached at
A 1 Bouts’ Church, iu West Forty-eighth
-tre-t. “The Scientific’ldea of God and the
Spiritual Vision of a Heavenly Father” was
his then e "It seems to me,” said Mr. New
ton, "that a true idea of God ought to
he able to verify itself in the general
1 • s iousness of man. This is the conclusion
which science reache; as Mr. AbViott inter
prets her thought: ‘Because, as an infinite
organism, it thus manifests infinite wisdom,
power, and goodness, or thought, feeling.and
will in their infinite fulluess, and because
these three constitute the essential manifesta
tions o? j ersonality. it must be conceived a;
infinite person, absolute spirit, creative
source, and eternal home of the derivitive
nite peisma ities which depend upon it. but
arc no less real than itself. * * * What
is this but infinite beatitude, infinite benign
ity. infinite love—the all-embracing
hoo 1 and. mother’ro.d of God.’
‘‘liCt me tall you how, iu a very simple
fa h on, I reach this blessed assurance. From
the unity of nature it follows that all forms
of being are ; artial manifestations of this in
finit ■ aud eternal energy. That which is es
sentially human is undoubtedly what we, for
| lack of a better t win, call personality—intel
ligence conscious of itself, free in the power
of will, owning the moral law. If we do not
find personality in the crystal and the beetle,
aud but a dreamlike personality in the dog,
nnd if we do find such personality in man,
hic’h fact are we to trust as the better ex
pression of tlie infinite and eternal energy
that is in us all? The answer of evolution to
this question is unmistakable. The
higher forms of life must more
truly express the[nature of the infinite and
I eternal energy thau the lower forms can pos
sibly do. Over a muddy creek a willow
bangs and tries to image its soft flowing lines
in the waters below, how vainly 1 Above the
clear crystal water of the mountain tarn, ‘the
sat red pine’ stoops and sees its noble form
faithfully mirrored in the lake. Each finer
organism is capable of reflecting a finer
image of the face which broods over us, seek
ing to mirror itself. Man is the mystic flower
of the great tree Igdrasil. I must interpret
the dim, shadowy outline of the Infinite
Power which these lower forms trace for me
by the clearer, nobler form which comes
forth in my consciousness. My consciousness
yields as the essential human fact the idea of
personality. lam a man inasmuch as I am
an intelligence conscious of itself, frhe in the
power of will, owning the moral law. I am
obliged then to look up into the face which
i bends down over life seeking to mirror itself,
and trust the reflection which comes forth in
my nature of the personal power whom I
must call Father. The Divine Being is not
less than personal, however, much more than
! personal He may De. He cannot be uncon
scious, since unconsciousness in nature is the
lower form of being which opens into con
sciousness. He cannot be unmoral, since
nature, as it strains toward man, passes out
of the calm indifferentism of the brute into a
hungering and thirsting after righteousness.
God cannot be heartless, since the very mea
sure of man lies in the heart.
“Because of what I am, as a man, I am
obliged to think of God not less than man but
only more than man, not subhuman but
superhuman, essentially humanity, lifted
higher and breathed out to larger form. Evo
lution goes on in humanity. Climb now to
the very topmost crest of humanity, the
supremely good one of earth. What mons
trous freak of madness could equal a creation
capable, through slow. orderly progressive
development, of unfolding such a human
flower as Jesus of Nazareth without having,
below this climbing growth, a life in which it
roots, infinite and eternal, the source and
spring, the type and pattern, of this flower of
nature! We overheard the soliloquies of his
soul telling the vision mirrored in the calm,
clear watersof his soul, as the sun’s face is
caught and held in the blue mountain lake.
Over the face of Jesus, tha face that bends
and broods, is a greater huhi".,i V'e —One
in whose image he saw himself to be made.
Renan confesses: ‘The highest con
sciousness of God which ever existed
in the breast of humanity was
that of Jesus.’ This granted, the con
sciousness of Jesus becomes the supreme word
of God, a word in which we are to trust im
plicitly, not as a something wholly apart
from our own consciounsess, but as the artic
ulate utterance of the thought that struggles
for expression in ourselves, the clear vision
which in the ordinary man is but shadow
and cloud. Spinoza declared Jesus to be the
temple of God, in which God most fully re
veals himself. The revelation of God
in Christ is the consciousness of God in
Jesus. The blood of the Eternal beats them
in our veins.”
THINKING THAT LEADS TO UNBELIEF.
Dr. White, of the West Twenty-third Street
Presbyterian church, took his text from He
brew xii, 15-16. He said in part: “Men from
intellectual pride sell their birthright by
turning away from God and professing to
find aged among the philosophical idols of
the day. The temptation comes in this form:
If I wish to prove my intellectual vigor I
must not accept anything upon trust. I
must demand that everything be explained
so that its mysteries be cleared up; then I
must not accept anything as true that cannot
be proved by the successive steps of logic or
demonsti ated by the exhibition of scientific
■ experiment. The old faith of my fathers is
very simple and very comforting, but I must
not l e misled by any unexplained instincts
of my nature, nor deluded by any pretended
re . elation from the unseen world. To be
sure thousands of women and children and
of simple-minded men have accepted this
faith in God aud Christ without any ven r
sear .-Liug intellectual examination, but I re
quire proof.
“Now, all this is very well if it is the honest
utterance of a man who truly desires to know
the t:nth aud who with every faculty
awakened proposes fairly to examine the evi
dences for Christianity: such honest seeker
will be aid’d by God.’ But, alas! too many
are po:s?ssed with intell H-tual vanity while
th -V have neither intellectual strength nor
intelio.-tual honesty. They hear of one and
arc 'th r proci nent scientist wh > amuses him
self -as an unbeliever; or, 03 the expression
now is. an agn sic, or a positivist, and it
flatters their \ unity to say that with such we
take our stand. They make no original in
vestigation. They make no earnest study of
evidences. If they rea-h anything up in the
subject it is upon the destructive side. They
sneer a: the idea that any new thoughts can
l>e given them that will support the old faith.
They withhold a .rent an 1 pose as unbelievers,
and think it speaks well for their intellectual
hide cadence that they are disciples of this or
that s dentist. Now, no one more than I ap
proves of independent thought—of an earn
est determination to be able to give a reason
for the hope that is in one. I rejoice to know
that an}' man is honestly asking for proof
even of the highest divine truths, but I do
say that for any man from intellectual van
itv. from a desire to appear to understand
what he bas never really studied, from an
ambition to call himself by the name of this
or that great master, to turn aside from the
faith of his fathers, to shut his eyes to th®
signs of God's presence, to steel his heart
against the influence of the Holy Spirit is to
sell his birthright for a mess of pottage.”
A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE.
The Rev. W. F. Price, of the Madison Ave
nue Congregational church: “ ‘Bum that
overcometh I will make a pillar in the temple
of my God.’ We classify men as wise and
foolish, happy and miserable, grasping and
generous, but the best classification is on the
basis of their attitude toward sin—are they
yielding to it or struggling against it? Many
who s.raggle fall because they have no
abiding place. A stone built into a temple is
fixed: it is necessary where it is and useless
anywhere else. Tue day when it was hewn
; is forgotten. Men and women are coining in
arid going out of the temple daily asking
strength from G and and then hurrying back
into the world to use it for their own selfish
en is; but the pillars of the temple remain.
Tuey came in to stay, and they go no more
out. There are men who love their country
because of tha advantages she gives them,
and others for her own sake. The latter
class are the patriots. Their names go down
in histiry, never to be lost or forgotten.
Some study solely for the advantages
whi h e lucation will give them, others for
the -ake of truth alone. These are
1 enrolled as the great rehoiars of the world.
So th who serve God for His truth's sike,
who strive to fulfil the end for which they
were created, they are those who are pillars
in His temple, aud who go out thence no
more . they must first 1 e hewn out. and fitted
to their place- by contact with the world in
the 'truggle for life. They often feel the
blows of the hammer fitting them to become
stones in the temple, shap’d by toil and suf
fering into the likeness of God, perfect and
everlasting. And upon the stones of the
temple shall be cut three inscriptions, that
all may know that it is the temple of God;
‘The name of my God, the name of the city
of my God and my new name.’ ”
RELIGIOUS LESSONS FROM THE OREGON.
The Rev. c. B. Smith, of the St
James Protestant Episcopal church: "The
ship is the most human work of man and
eqnally the divine work of God. The most hu
man because it is so like the human body. But
how were its parts so perfectly combined in
two ways: by man, who during long centu
ries studied the physical laws of the Creator,
and by God subtly guiding man. The many
overlook the fact that ships are as distinctly
the works of God as trees or rivers or oceans.
Man has simply been doing what God planned
for him to do. Now, there is something in
that sunken Oregon like the generations of
th? i>ast. Every present generation is brought
into its mh ritance in the arms of the genera
tion vanishing. Reformers making it better
for posterity to live, and then as their work
is done vanishing. The Son of God in sav
ing the world leaves the world. But look
not only at the dark side but also at the
bright side. See Christ's willingness to do
so long as He lived to see the redemption of
mankind. Look at the joy of parents as life
abbs away if only they see tlieir children
happy. This is the parable of the sinking
ship. There is also the parable of the saved
traveler. We sail on the sea of life. Our
bodies are the ships in which our souls are
passengers. God brought every one safe to
shore from the sinking Oregon. The ship
alone was lost. Shall it be so with you, my
brother?”
THE JUST DEMANDS OF MISSION WORK.
The Rev. Dr. J. N. Fitzgerald preached in
the Central Methodist Episcopal church on
the subject of “Missions.” He said in part:
Many persons, when asked to contribute to
missionary work, consider that their dona
tions are to be expended entirely in foreign
missions, and say that there is plenty of room
for all their donations and labor at home. If
that is a candid remark, a fair hearing should
be accorded to it; but if it is merely an ex
cuse to get out of making a contribution to
the work, it should not receive the slightest
recognition. This society, in the Methodist
church, reaches to all classes of people at
home and abroad. In the home mission one
may specify to what particular department of
it he desires his contribution to go. To the
Indian, or to the Chinese, that race which
has responded to the proverbial saying:
“Uncle Sam has room enough to give us all
a farm,” have come to this country, and have
been tyrannized and brutally treated in a
manner the like of which has never occurred
before in a civilized country. Others want
their contributions to go to'helping the work
of raising up th > blacks; others to the Ger
mans; others to the Swede, Swiss or Scandi
navian. In all these branches of home and
foreign missions this society has workers.
But if you cannot decide upon which particu
lar department in which you wish to put your
money, place it in the general contribution,
and a little will be sent to help the worker in
all parts of the world.
WHAT TRUE LIBERTY IS FOR MEN.
Dr. Hall preached in the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church on “True Liberty.” He
said: There are various kinds of freedom.
We may think of it on the social and politi
cal plane, and then we may have freedom
from tyranny. Or on the moral plane and we
have freedom from bad habits of living. Or
on that of spiritual life, and we have deliver
ance from sin and from the fear that hath
torment. We are citizens of the United
States, and it is common to say we are
free. But we know that there are forms of
bondage that are entirely compatible with
our free institutions. We know how a
ring may worm itself around a community
and put it under bondage. A judge may
manage to get himself into a place from
which it is difficult to dislodge him, who may
be bribed to defend the guilty and oppress
the innocent. If men are slow to acknowl
edge such bondages as these, it is not strange
that they will not acknowlede their state of
moral bondage. It is through Jesus that true
liberty comes. There are spurious forms of
freedom. A young man throws off the re
straints of home life and even of society, and
trayels over the world with no check upon
the indulgin rof his tastes and of his lusts. Is
he free? Is he not rather a slave to his pas
sions? A man makes money getting his ob
ject and throws off the straints of honesty. He
is not free. Everything that is good has its
counterfeit. Never confound the counterfeit
with the reality. We hear a good deal about
the region of law. No matter how good you
are socially you are in the grip of God’s
law. He is infinitely just, and if you are not
penitent, His law of death will be enforced.
The spirit of life in Christ Jesus can make
you free from the law of sin and death.
. The sword-fish.
The Pride of the Family.
Lore’s Yoffftg; Dream.
A student of the university of Texas
met Kosciusks Murphy on the street.
“You seem to be in a wonderful good
humor to-day. Did you get the medal
this week for good behavior!” remarked
Kosciusko.
“lamina good humor. Let me tell
you something in confidence, in strict
confidence.'’
"All right. Propel.’’
“Miss Birdie McGinnis asked me for
my photograph day before yesterday.”
“Pshaw! ,That’s nothing new. She
told me about it yesterday evening. She
has got a stupid servant girl, who can’t
distinguish one face from another, MUa
Birdie gave your picture to the servant
girl, so that she will be sure to tell you
that her mistress is not at home whea you
call. Miss Birdie told me that was the
only way to keep you out of the house.”
Texas Siftings.
A Dangerous Shout.
“Why didn’t you stop when I shouted
hey?” said an angry passenger who had
been chasing a street car for over a
square.
“Because,” humbly replied the con
ductor, “I was afraid* the horses would
hear your shouts. If any one shouts hay
to the horses of this line they are liable
to die of heart disease.— Philadelphia
Herald.
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An Anglo-Maniac's Origin.
“What is the booking to New Twfc#
inquired a youn" man with a queot
shaped hat on his head and a drawl il
his voice, as he stood before the tickfa
window of an Eastern railroad.
“Seventeen dollars.” said the ticktl
agent.
“You mean—aw—three pound ten,
eh?”
“No. I mean seventeen dollars. I
don't know anything about your threH
poun' ten. Ticket?'’
“Y-a-a-s, you may book me. Bat
three poun' ten is too deuced much,
doncher know; too awfully much.
Does that include me luggage?’’
He was informed that nis luggaga
would be carried, and started off tolook
after it, xvith his one eye-glass elev&tew
toward the roof of the station Louse.
“That chap must be an Englishman,*
remarked the ticket agent.
“Englishman, the deuce!” replied ft
brakemun who chanced to be standisw
by. “I know that young codfish.
was born on a canal boat down here near
Joliet, and his dad got rich buyinw
hogs.”— Chicago Herald.
Birmingham, England, still maker
flint-lock muskets for use in the in
terior of Africa, where percussion caps
or any form of fixed ammunition would
often bfi impossible to obtain, while
powder can always be made and flinta
picked up in the desert.