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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. rHE FARMER’S KEY TO SUCCESS Farmers sav it is just what they have been looking for ever since the war. THE BOSS OF ALL CRUSHERS! By which farmers can make their own fertilizers, grind steamed bone, phosphate, uul land plaster rock, marl, cotton seed, dry stable manure, corn and cob for stock bod. or ANYTHING THAT ISGRINDABLE! It will make good corn meal when you can’t do any better- By its use the fann er will grow rich instead of poorer all the time. >KND FOR CIRCULARS, giving full particulars; also state if you would lik* •iivulars of the DeLoach WATER WHEEL, Portable Mills, etc. We sell Tortabl* Mibs as low as $80; guaranteed to make good meal. A. A. DeLOACH & BRO., In writing mention this paper. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. HjSC Engines, Saw Mills, Cotton Gins, etc., at low prices, especiallly Engine*. INSURE IN THE EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society OF NEW YORK. The Strongest and Most Reliable in the World I ASSETS December, 31, 1885, $06,553,387.60 INCREASE OF SURPLUS IN 1885, 3,378,622.03 INCREASE OF ASSETS IN 1885, 8,391,461.96 . This company issues Polices upon all the various Plans with Tontines 10, 15 and 29 rears including the Unrestricted Tontine, upon the best terms of any first class company. H. HORNE, Agent at Macon, Georgia. CHAS. J. WILLIAMSON, f.blG Soliciting Agent, Proctor House, Forsyth, Ga. GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY i THE EMPIRE DROP WHEEL Cotton Planter. 1 ACKNOWLEDGED by Leading Planters to be SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHER machines of its kind, manufactured and sold by the undersigned. You are invited to examine them, try them, and be convinced that the above is TRUE. THE DREWRY WAGONS Are still takiag the day. They are too cheap, hilt my motto is “Good Goods, Quiek Sales and Small Profits.” Call and see me. E. M. DREWRY. Opposite I). W. Patterson, Griffiin, Ga. D. J. PROCTOR, Agent, Forsyth, Ga. M. L. MUNGER 7 DEAI.HR in ORGANS! Tie \i Orpi House ii tin ML x \ laree and comnlete stock of Instruments of all styles constantly on hand, at very ° moderate prices for CASH OR ON LONG TIME*. It is folly to pay high prices for Inferior Instruments when you can get the VERY BEST here for less money. Catalogues, Prices and Particulars sent to any addrew. Correspondence solicited. Call at Masonic Temple, 96 Mulberry street, or address M. L. MUNGER, Macon, Ga. STEAM ENGINES; THRESHERS, '"ui i ‘ ~ Saw Mills, Mowers, Reap and Matches. Cotton Gins, Feeders, Condensers PIT: Prossers, Ac. Write for circulars find prices. -J. H. ANDERSON, apn!3 G3 South Broad street, Atlanta, Ga. 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.