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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
the garden of the church.
“I cm come intomy srarden " —H '
moil’s Song, v., l.
Tiie Bible is a great r>< em; we have in it;
faultless rbytlim, ami bo .I m a.o-rv, an t
sta ■ t ling antithesis. ai;'l rapturous lv: i. . and
mv. < t | nstoral, ami in-tin tivenairativ.* ai .1
devotional maim; tho-ght- e q>r< set iu
*tyle more solemn than that of M nto ;
1 • b°l 1 than that <fBJ It q iro r< nih .
, U 1 * an’e; more natural tl.au t’ at
, '.’ r , u °rth'. more impa.s i .no 1 than that
of Kollos; more tender than that of Cow... r;
mote ’aoir.l thair that of Spenser. This yr.-at
}■ brings all the g ms ofth* tart A* into
it' . • .roiiet, at .1 it weaves the flame-of udg
m.-i.t Into its garlands, and pours eternal
bar : . nies into its rhythm. Everything this
1,, i-: lou- h's it irak s beautiful, from the
p.ain stones of the summer tlmshing th or to
the daughters of Nahor tilling the trough or
tuecamels, ami the lish-j ools of Hodil.o'n up
toti.e l'.-u m st praising Co<l with diapason of
storm nml whirlwin I, and Job leading I rib
• *rion, Arcturi s aurl the Ple ad s.
Mv text leads us into n s cue of sumn.fr
r> doleare. '1 he world has had a great ninny
beautiful gar dens. (’harlernague added to
the ghirv of his reign by decreeing that they
bp eriafiln-hed all through the realm—le-
C Y even
th. re. Henry IV., at Montpelier,
established gardens of bewitching b auty
and luxuriance, gathering into them Alpine,
Pyrenean arid French plants. One of the
sweetest spots on earth was the garden of
SI n astone, the poet. His writings have rnado
but little impression on tl e world, but his
garden, Phe Seasons, will be immortal. To
the natural advantage of that place was
brought the perfection of art. Arbor and
terrace and slojie and rustic temple and
reservoir and urn and fountain here had
their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put
forth their riche t foliage. Tlieie was no life
more diligent, no soul more ingenious than
that of Sheiisti.no. and all that diligence, and
genius ho brought to the adornment of
that one treasured spot. He gave OOu for
it; he sold it for 17,0 ki. And yet lam
t>> tell you today of a richer garden than
any 1 have mentioned. it, is the garden
spoken of in my text, tho garden of ti.o
church which belongs to Christ, for my text
says so. He bought it, lie plant 'd it. He
owns it, and He shall have it. Walter Scott,
in his ouflay at Abbotsford, ruined his for
tune, and now, in the crimson flowers of
those gardens, you. an almost think or imag
ine that you sc.' the blood of that old mans
broken heart. Tho payment of the la-st £IOO,-
000 pounds sacrificed ' him. But I have left
t > toll you that Christ s life and Christ’s
death were the outlay of this beautiful gar
den of tho church of which my text sjieaks.
Oli, how many sighs, and tears, and pangs,
andagoni.s! 'J ell mo, ye women who saw
Him hang. 'fell mo, ye executioners who
lifted Him and let him down. Tell me,
thou sun that didst hi to, yo rocks that fell.
( mist lyved tli ■ Church aud gave hi ms.‘lf
for it. if the garden of the church belongs
( b>bst, certainly He has a right to walk
K. if. Come then, Oh blessed Jesus, to-day,
walk up and down these aisles, and pluck
what Thou wilt of sweetness for Thyself.
The church, in my text, is appropriately
compared to a gar den, because it is a place
<>f choice flowers, of soiect fruits and of
thorough irrigation. That would beastrauge
garden in which there were no flowers If
nowhere else, they would be along the bor
ders or at the“gatevvay. The homeliest taste
" ill dictate something, if it be tho ol ( fash
ioned hollyhock, or dahlia, or daffodil, or
Coreopsis: hut if there he larger means, then
yon will find the Mexican ca dus, and dark
veined arbutelion, and blazing a alea, and
clustering oleander. Well, now, Christ comes
to his garden and he plants there some of tho
brightest spirits that ever flowered upon the
world. Some of them are violets, unconspic
uous, hut sweet as heaven. You have to
search pjid find them. You do not see them
very often, perhaps, hut you find where they
lim e been by the brightened face of the in
valid, and the sprig of geranium on the
stand, and the new window curtains
keeping out tho glaro of the sun
light. They are, perhaps, more like
tho ranunculus, creeping sweetly along
amid the thorns and briars of life, giving
kiss for sting, and many a man who has had
in his way some great black rock of trouble,
have found that they' have covered it all over
with flowery jessamine running in and out
amid the crevices. These Christians in
Christ’s garden are not like the sunflower,
gaudy in the light, but whenever darkness
hovei s over a soul that needs to be comforted
there they stand—-night-blooming oereuses.
But jn Christ’s garden there are plants that
may be better compared to the Mexican oae-
■us thorns without: loveliness within—men
with sharp pointsof character. They wound
almost every one that touches them. They
are hard to handle. Men pronounce them
nothing but thorns, but Christ loves them,
notwithstanding all their sharpnesses. Many
a man has had a very hard ground to culti
vate, and it has only been through severe
trial he has raised even the smallest crop of
grace. Avery harsh minister was talkiug
tea very placid elder. a nd the placid elder
said to the harsh minister: ‘‘Doc
tor. 1 do _ wish you would control
your temper.' "Ah," said the min ster to
the elder. “I control more temper in five
minutes than you do in live years.” It is
harder for some men to do right than for
other men to do right. The grace that would
elevate you to the seventh heaven might not
beep your brother from knocking a man
down. I had a friend who came to me and
said: ‘ l dare not join the church.’’ 1 said:
"U hyC “Oh," he said, “1 have such a vio
1> t temper. N e-terday morning 1 was cross
ing very early at the Jersey City ferry and
saw a milkman pour a large amount of water
into the milk ian and 1 said to him, ‘I think
that will do,’ and l:e insulted me and I
knocked him down Do you think I ought
to join the chuta h.” Never!li 'less, that very
same man who was i-o harsh m his behavior
loved Christ, and could not speak of sacred
things without tears of emotion and affec
tion. Thorus without but sweetness within
-the best specimen of Mexican cactus I ever
saw.
There are others planted in Christ's garden
v. ho are always ta liaut. always impressive—
more like the rose's of deep hue that we oc
casionally find, tailed "giants of l-a‘tie’'—
the Martin Lutheis. St. Pauls, Crysostoias,
\V ickliiVcc, La timers aid Samuel Ruther
fords. What in etc r men is a spark, in
them is conflagration. When t ev sweat,
they sweat great drops of blood. \\*hen they
pray, their prayer takes tire'. When they
preach it is a 1 ’euteeost. When they tight
it is a Thermopylae When they die it is a
martyrdom \ou dud a great many r- s's
iu the gardens, but only a few "giants of
• le." Men say: “Why don't you have
eof them in the church:" 1 say, “Why
don't you have in th" world more Humboldts
an! Wellingtons:" God gives to some ten
talents; to eth rs. one
In this garden of the ehur h which Christ
has planted I al-o tin 1 the snowdrop-, beau
tiful but ivl'.-looking, seemingly another
phase of winter. I mean tin's.' Christiaus
who are precise iu their taste-, uninuas
sioned. pure as snowdrops and as col 1. They
never shod any tears, they never get excite t,
they never say anything rashly, the> never
do anything pie ip ta ely. Their pul-es
never flutter, their nerves never twitch, their
indignation never boils over. They live
longer than most people; but their life is a
minor key. They never run up to C above
the staff. Iu their musi •of life they lia eno
staccato passages. Christ planted' them in
the church an 1 they must be of some service
or they would not be there: snowdrops, al
ways snowdrops.
But 1 have not t 'ld you of them st beauti
ful flower in all this gird >n spoken of in the
text. It you see a 'ecutarv' plant vour
emotions are started. You say: “Why.'this
flower has h-vn a hundred ye -rs gathering uvt
for ou bloom, an 1 i; will be a hurdle l war
no w before other petal- will cone out."' B ,t
1 have toted you of a plaut:h .t was gather
ing ui> from all eternity, and that 1: <u yea s
ago put forth :t- b. ' in no er to with-'r. It
is the passion-plant of the o and Prophets
foretold it. Bethlehem she herds looked
upon it in tne bud; the rocks shook at its
bursting, and the dead got up in'all their
winding sheets to -ee its full bloom. It is a
orim-i u flower—blood at the roots, blood on
th.' branches, blood ou all the lea-e- Its
perfume is to till ail the nations. Its breath
is heaven. Come, oh winds from th> north
and winds from the south, aud winds from
the east, and winds from the west, and bear
to all the earth the sweet-smelling savor of
Chri-t, my Lord—
His worth if all the nat oas knew.
Sure the whole earth wouldlove Him too
Again, the church may be appropriately
compared to a garden, because it is & place of
select fruits. That would be a strange gar
den which had in it n > berries, no plums or
pea hes or apricots. The coarser fruits are
planted in the orchard, or they are set out on
ih • s tnny hillside; but the rii 4 etfr.iitsare
l.e .: in tne gar 1 -a. to in the world o .tside
i e a irdt C iri-t had plant *d a cr> a mmv
0er.,1 nl th.-.gs—par en e, charity. ge.iec-
I in 1 H dy. but h • iaten i- th?.-,o<cst
irur. r• b ‘ iu th- gad • . aud , the v are
• ' ' t e; - era on th c.iUr: h i.• r
:°n in>z a niT' novv-r n- seat m :-n a!uy.
[■ is a pra ticai. I fe-givi -g, healthful
nunt, nit irises but ar> ile-. ■-i >, --
siys sotn .-bj ly, ■ I don't s e v hat
v-'iir garden of the church has
y.elde 1. .* her. - hd your a-vlu‘iis come
and your ho* nta sf an i y nr i .
tut.on? of m ■!• )•; Ctirisfc friuiel e.ervone
ot t e:n: II" planted th-u ia His gaoi-n
"Ti n t hrait gave sight to Haiti me is He
laid tie corner-t me o: every blind as vlum
that ha ever b- a built When Ckr -t
sooth and the demon.a •. f (ia i!ee H ■ lai t the
corner-stone tei -y lu a- icasylu nth it his
ev. r lieen established Whin Ch i-t sa dto
tho sick man: ‘Take up thy bed and walk,’’
He laid the corner shone of every hospital the
world ha ever seen. When Christ said: "I
was npr son .and ye visited me. He 1 lid tiie
cotiici -srone of every prison reform asso ;a
ti >n that has ever been formed. The church
of Christ is a glorious garden and it is full
of fruit.
I know there is some poor fruit iu it. I
know there are some weeds that ought to bo
tlmown over the fence. I know there are
s- • crabapple trees that ought to be cut
down. I know there are some wild grapes
that ought to be uprooted; but are you going
to destroy the whole garden because of a lit
tle gnarled fruit; You will find worm-eaten
leaves in Fontainebleau aud insects that
sting in the fairy groves of the Champs
Klysee.s. You do not tear down and destroy
the whole garden because there are a few
spe omens of gnarled fruit. I admit thera
are men aud women in the church who ought
not to be there; t ut let us be just as frank
and admit the fa t that there are hundreds
aud thousands and tens of thousands of glori
ous Chris ian inen and women—holy.l les ed,
useful, consecrated aud triumphant. There
i- no grander collection in all the earth than
the collection of Christians. There are
Christian men in this house whose religion is
not a matter of psalm-singing and church
going. To-ir.orrow morning that reli
gion will keep them just as consist ?nt
and consecrated in their worldly occupation as
it ever kept them at the communion table.
Th re are women here to-day of a higher
type of i lit!actor than Mary of Bethany.
They n t only sit at tho feet of Christ, but
they go out into tho kit hen to help Martha
in her work that she may sit there too. There
is a woman who has a drunken husband who
has exhibited more faith and pat'cnee and
courage than Ridley in the fire. He was con
sumed in twenty minutes. Her s has been a
twenty years' martyrdom. Yonder is a man
who has been fifteen years on his back, un
able even t > feed himself, yet calm and peace
ful as though he lay on one of the green banks
of heaven, wat hing the oarsmen dip their
paddles in the cry.-tal river. Why, it seems
to me this moment as if St. Paul threw to us
a pomologist's catalogue of the fruits grow
ing in this great garden of Christ—love, joy,
pea-e, patience, charity, brotherly kindness,
gentleness, mercy—glorious fruit, enough to
fill all th ; baskets of earth and heaven.
I have not told you of the better tree in
this garden and of the better fruit. It was
planted just outside Jerusalem, a good while
ago. When that tree was planted it was so
split and bruised and barke 1 men said noth
ing would ever grow upon it: but uo sooner
had that tree been planted than it budded
and bios onie 1 aud fruited, and the soldiers’
sj ears were only tiie clubs that struck down
that fruit an l it fell into the lap of the na
tions, am! io -•'**-! eat it,
and they found in it au antidote to all thirst,
to all poison, to all sin, to all death—the
smallest clu-ter larger than the famous one
of Eshcol, which two men carried on a staff
between them. If the apple in Eden killed
the race, this one cluster of mercy shall re
store it.
Again, the church in my text is appropri
ately called a garden because it is 'thor
oughly irrigated. No gar den could prosper
long without plenty of water. 1 have seen a
garden in the midst of a desert, yet bloom
ing and luxuriant. All around was dearth
am 1 barrenness; but there were pipes and aque
ducts reaching from this garden up to tho
mountains, and through those aqueducts the
water came streaming down and tossing up
into beautiful fountains until every root and
leaf and flower wtre saturated. That is like
the church. The church is a garden iu the
midst of a great desert of sin and suffering;
but it is well irrigated, for “our eyes are
unto the hills from whence comethour help.”
From the mountains of God's strength there
flow down rivers of gladness. There is a
river the stream whereof shall make glad
the city of our God. Preaching the gospel
is one of these aqueducts. The Bible is an
other. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are
aqueducts. Water to slake the thirst, water
to restore the faint, water to wash th" un
clean, water tossed high up in the light of
the Sun of Righteousness, showing the rain
bow around the throne.
Oh, was there ever a garden so thoroughly
irrigated? You know that the beauty of
Versailles and Chatsworth depends very
much upon the great supply of water. I
came to the latter place, Chatsworth, one day
when strangers are not to be admitted; but
by au inducement which always seemed as
applicable to an Englishman as an Ameri
can, I got in, and then the gardener went far
up above the stairs of stone and turned on
the water. I saw it gleaming on the dry
pavement, coming down from step to step
until it came so near I could liar the musi
cal rush, and all over the high, broad stairs
it came foaming, flashing, roaring down
until sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle
tumbled at my feet. So it is with the church
of God. Everything comes from above, joy
from above, adoption from above, satisfac
tion from above. Oh, that now God would
turn on the waters of salvation, that they
might flow down through this heritage, and
that to-day we might find this place to be
“Elini, with twelve wells of water aud three
score and ten palm trees.”
Hark! I hear th? latch of the garden gate,
and I look to see who is coming. I hear the
voice of Christ: “I am come into my gar
den ” Isay: “Come in, O Jesus, we have
been waiting for Thee; walk all thr ugh the
paths. Look at the flowers, look at the fruit:
pluck that which Thou wilt for Thyself.”
Jesus conies into the garden and up to that
old man aud touches him aud says: “Almost
home, father, not many more aches for thee:
I will never leave thee; I will never forsake
thee; take courage a little longer aud I will
steady thy tottering steps and I will soothe
thy troubles and give thee rest; courage, old
man.” Then Christ goes up another garden
path aud He comes to a soul iu trouble and
he says; “Peace! all is well. I have seen thy
tears; I have heard thy prayer. The sun
shall not smite thee by day nor
the moon by night ' The' Lord
shall preserve thee from all evil. He will
preserve thy soul. Courage, O troubled
spirit!” Then I see Jesus going up another
garden path and I see great excitement
among ttie leaves, and I hasteu up that gar
den path to see what Jesus is doing there,
an t lo! He is breaking off flowers sharp and
clean from the stem, and 1 sav: “Stop,
Jesus, don't kill those beautiful flowers." He
turns to me and says:. “I have come into my
garden to gather lilies, and 1 mean t > ta’ e
these up to a higher terra e aud for the gar
den around my palace, and there I will i 1 ,i.t
them, aud in better soil and better air they
shall pu: forth brighter leaves aud sweeter
redden e. and no frost shall touch them for
ever."’ And 1 looked up into ilis ace and
said: "Well, it is His garden, and He !as
right to do what He will with it. Thy wil
be done!” —the hardest prayer a man ever
made.
It has seemel as if Jesus Christ took the
lest: frtm many o. your ho s> holes the best
on? is gone. You knew that she was too
good for this world: she wa- ihe gentlest in
her was. the deepest a her affe lions; aud
w hen at !a-t the s ckness n e you had n
iaith in medicines Y< u knew that Jes:
v.a- coming > ver th doors il. 5 0,. km w the
hour of parting had -e e. ami when through
the lich grave of the Lord Jesus Christ you
1 that treasure y >u said
Jes ta eit -it is th I twe ha tak
it. T.iou a t worthy." Ti e others iu the
liousein !-l may ha- e l-een f .r . -'-er mould.
She was ■. he finest. One .. nu i was
takiug me ■iom the depot t av. Page. He was
very rough and ton re. and very ilasphe
rnocs: but aft-.-r awhile he tn love i down as
- . _ ■■■ to talk f his □ he
had lost. “Oh! sir." he said, “that boy was
different from the rest of us. He never r.-ed
sir, 1 1
use ala 1 word :a isr life. He u-. dt > say
Ids prayers and we laugh and at him, but he
would ke j p on saving his prayers 1 often
th tight. T > au't keep that child,' and 1 said
to my w ife ‘Mother, we. ant keep that Lild.’
B :t. sir. the day he wasdro'-ned. and they
brought him a and laid him on the carpet,
so white and so beautiful, my heart broke,
sir; 1 knew we couldn't kieu him.'’
The heaven of your little ones will not be
fairly begun until jou get there. All ti e
kindness s shown them bv o* tils will n t
make them forget you. TANARUS: rre they are. the
radiant throngs that went ont from your
homes. I throw a kiss to the sweet darlings.
They are all weH now iu the palace. The
'•rip f kil 1 has a sound fee t now. A l.ttl ■
! m-* .'hbd savs: “Mn. will I te lame iu
heui'env “*°. d , ar j. :n -\ l°\ t
lame in hs/ v, p- . A , ll e ck thdd says:
-Ma wi.l I, lo . M i inherent ..“No my
da - you wonhi ' sic ia heaven. A little
Ih I: wil! V Knd
i , - - V. i . vou won t b blind
in h a .V3. I hev ae a.- ,
1 n-.tice Fiat the tine an.-n,--iflreon.i's
have hgh fen < : a,- un-1 tl.*. •* t
get in. It i< so with aKi it's k ar .eu. ih:
only glirnis: yoie ergetofsa hi. :l •"
wh t ■ K ■.. ■ los ''lit n his spleu I,l '
riage It is u.,t s> wi.h this garden, t;lis
King's garden. 1 thro v w.d>* o[>ec tiie gc. t
and tell y ■; .nil to ton e hi. No tuonopol in
r 1 cion. TVh isoever will nnv choose now
betwe.ru a desert and a gar bur. Manv
of you have tri*_<l the garden of this
world delight. \on i ace fouu 1 it has
been a chagrin. Fo it was with Theo
dore Hook. He li akoi u augh now
when we rea l h ; s poems: b.t in: could not
make his owa h art laugh. While iu the
midst of his festivities he confr nted a look
ing-glass an l he saw hirrseif an 1 said:
"Tnere, that is true. I look just as I an.
done up ia b dy, mind aud purse.” S> it
was of Sh ustoae, of whose gard -u I told
you at th • beg lining of my se inon. He sat
down amid those bowers aud said; "f have
lost my read to ha .piiness. iam angry and
envious and frantie, aud deipisr everything
around me just as it becomes a madman to
do.” Oh ye weary souls, come into Chri t s
garden to-day and pluck a little hearts
ea e. Christ is the only rest and the
only | a vion for a perturbed spirit Do you
not think your chance has almost come.'
You men and women who have been waiting
year after year for s me goo 1 oportunity iu
which to accept Christ, but have post
oned it five, tea, twe ity, thirty years, do
you not feel as if now your hour of iSc-liver
luee and p rdon aud salvation ha 1 come.'
Oh man, what grudge hast thou against thy
poor soul that thou wilt uot let it b 1 si\ ed ?
I feel as if salvation must, come to day in
some of your hearts.
Some years ago a vessel struck on the
rocks. ,They had only one lifeboat, lu that life
boat tho pa eagers and crew wore getting
ashore. The vessel ha 1 fouudered and was
sinking deeper and that one boat could not
take the passengers very swiftly, A little
girl stood on tho deck waiting for her turn to
get into the boat. The boat came and went,
came and went, but her turn -lid not seem to
come. After awhile sLe could wait no longer
and sho leape l on the taffrail aid
then sprang into tho sea, crying to the boat
men: “Save me next! Save me next!” Oh,
how many have gone ashore into God’s mercy
and yet you are clinging to the wreck of sin.
Others have accepted the pardon of Christ,
but you are in peril. Why not, this moment,
make a rush for your immortal rescue, cry
ing until Jesus shall hear you and heaven
and earth ring with the cry”: “Save me next!
Save me next!” Now is the day of salvation!
Now! Now!
This Sabbath is the last for some of you.
It is about to sail away forever. Her bell
tolls. The planks thunder back in the gang
way. She shoves off, she lloats toward the
great ocean of eternity. Wave farewell to
your last chance for heaven. Oh, Jerusa
lem, Jerusalem, how often would I have
gathered thee as a hen gathereth her brood
under her wings and ye would not. Behold
your house is left unto you desolate. Invited
to revel in a garden, you die in a desert.
May God Almighty, before it is too late,
break that iufatua‘ion.
Making a Sale.
A man was driving across the country
i"< Dakota, when Tie ?am£ to a houw V.”’ 1 '
a 111'.” hobbling around the yard on a
crutch. A fine-looking horse was tisd to
a post near by, and the traveler stopped
and said:
‘•ls that horse for sale?' 5
“Well, now, I tell you jest how ’tis
’bout that air boss: you see it’s the one
my wife drives, and I don’t know as she’d
want ter part with it. It’s a very gentle
hoss, very gentle.”
“That’s what I want, a horse that is
gentle and kind.”
‘ ‘That jest hits that hoss precisely,
pardner, no easier hoss to handle in the
country.”
“Never kicks, I suppose?”
“Never knew him ter histc his foot
’cept ter walk.”
“What is it worth?”
“That’s jest it—don’t b’lieve I can sell
him—my wife would miss him so. Tell
you what I’ll do though; you give me
$175 fer that hoss and I’ll try and break
in one of the colts fer her to drive. Don't
b’lieve I can ever get ’em as gentle as he
is, but seein that you want him, I'll let
you have him fer that.”
“Well, I’ll take it. What makes you
so lame?”
“Oh, rheumatiz got holt of me ag'in—
jest ’bout used me up. I’ll tie the hoss
behind your wagon fer you.”
“All right. Your barn seems to be
scattered around somewhat, cyclone strike
it?”
“Well, now I should say there did—
reglar twister uv a tornado jest spread it
all ’round. There, you'll find thathoss’ll
lead up all right, and be jest as gentle’s
a kitten. Good-day stranger, yer’ve got
a mighty fine barg'in there, that hoss is
sound and wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
The man drove off, and a boy crawled
from under the house and said;
“Dad, it’s a mighty good thing old
Bill stopped kickin’ 'fore he come 'long.”
“You bet it wus, my son. He had
jest sent the last board of the barn flyin’
over in the garden, and the dust wus
settlin’ when the feller drove up. I guess
he busted two uv my ribs and put my leg
sorter out of j'int the first kick he made,
but I reckon $175 will fix ’em up. I wus
t Iraki he’d up and begin on the barb wire
lence while the man wus here, but he
didn’t happen to. ’Bout the time he
planted his off foot in my ribs I'd a took
ninety cents fer him, but I s'pose it’s jest
as well ter get a fair price. Always re
member, my son, in future life ef yer
sellin" yer wife's favorite buggy hoss, jest
own right up to it and put on a good
price ter sooth yer wounded feelin’s at
seein' it go. Never forget that the
straight truth is the best in a time like
this.’’ —EstelJine Bell.
An Old Story for Him.
“No,” said the bride, “Henry, I want
you to understand distinctly that I do not
wish to be taken for a bride. lam going
to behave exactly as if I were an old mar
ried woman. So. dearest, do not think
me cold and unloving if I treat you very
practically when there is anybody by.”
"I do not believe I can pass for an old
married man. lam so fond of you that
lam bound to show it. I am sure to
give the snap away.”
“No, you mustn't. It's easy enough.
And I insist that you behave just as old
married men do. Do you hear?”
“Well, darling i'll try, but I know 1
will not succeed.”
The first evening of their arrival the
briee retired to her chamber and the
groom fell in with a poker party, with
whom he sat playing cards until 4 o'clock
in the morning. His wife spent the weary
hours waiting. At last he turned up and
met Li- grief-stricken bride with the hi
larious question:
“Well, ain't I doing the old married mar
like a daisy:"
She never referred to the subject again,
and everybody knew after that that they
had just been married.
An Appropriate Text.
The minister was struggling to put on
a four-piy collar and the perspiration was
starting from every pore.
“Bless the collar,” he ejaculated.
“Oh, yes, bless it. Ble s the blessed
collar;”
“My dear,” said his wife, “what is
your text for this morning’s sermon.”
“T- twenty - first verse f-tifty - fifth
Psalm." he re led, in short gasps. “The
w-words of h s mouth were s-smoother
than butter, but w-war was in his heart.
AGRICU.TUKAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Tiie Faimer.
lion -ran 1 feariesc free au 1 glad,
Avery prince is he!
At pea e with God, in love with truth,
II i h man in harmony.
Success and Failure in Peacn Cul
t ure.
The conditions 0 f failure in peach
grb>r :n eb concisely stated, are:
1. Aw" e t soil, or one that from any
cause hcldsjrater around the roots of the
tree, whether the land is situated high or
low.
2. Excessive fertility, while the trees
are young, whether it be secured in the
natural condition of the soil or by the
ingenuity of man.
J. Severe cutting back of tbe young
growth each year, thus dwarfing the
tne and robbing it of much natural vital
ity.
4. Allowing trees to overbear, and
thus exhaust their vitality by a single
crop of fruit.
5. By deficient and improper cultiva
tion.
On th? other hand, the conditions of
success in peach-growing are:
1. An elevate 1 lec itiou that is not sub
ject to late frosts in the spring cr early
frosts in the fall.
2. A warm and moderately fert’le soil
that is well drained by nature. Artificial
drainage may prove successful, but its
utility has not yet been fully demonstrated
in this region.
3. Thorough cultivation, without ma
nure, until tne trees come into bearing,
thej combine the two so ;s to supply all
trie depletion produced in the soil by
growth of trees and fruit.
4. Never let a tree overbear.
5. Continue cultivation until the close
of the dry season, every summer, even if
it continues until September. —Michifjan
Horticulturist.
Soot-Water.
When made sufficiently sti'ong and used
in a clearstate there is no other fertilizer,
either solid or liquid, that is so well suited
for amateurs’ use as soot-water, as it is
gentle in its action and sustaining in its
in ture. This is not the ease with the ma
jority of concentrate 1 manures, for if they
are used slightly iu excess, serious con
sequences are often the, result. When a
regular supply of soot-water is required
there should be two barrels, or other re
ceptacles, in which to make it. A cask
holding about thirty gallons is very suit
able. In one of these place one peek of
soot, then fill up with water, and
keep it stirred twice a day for a week.
Ih ten days it should be ready for useful
it is jiecessary that it should bo quite
clear before ” Kin 2 lt < cr tlloro v ’ i!l be . a
settlement of the so^^
A better plan is to put the soC.
coar-e hessian bag and place it in the
water. Tie a strong piece of string to the
mouth of the bag, and have one end of it
fixed on to the edge of the barrel; the
bag can then be moved about in the
water, for the purpose of mixing it with
the greatest ease. As soon as one lot is
ready, auoth r should be in course of
preparation, so that with a little fore
thought a regular supply may be ob
tained. As regards how ami when to
use it, as an old practitioner I can only
say that when given regularly when the
plant is_in aptive growth I don't know the
plant that it would do harrjp but 1 jiave
known it benefit a vast nufilbfr. Even
such delicate rooted plants as erica and
epacris I have kept in s; Ivadid health in
tiie same pots for seven and eight years
by the aid of soot water, and such plants
as cadas,camellias, azaleas and roses may
have regu ar supplies the whole year
round. Such subjects as fuchsias, pelar
goniums, cyclamens, primulas and ferns
are greatly benefited by it when they are
in active growth. Plenty of soot water,
whenever the soil about the roots is dry,
will send green-fly and other enemies to
the roundabout; therefore, I say, use it
and keep your plants healthy and your
mind at rest. Gardening.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Over-churning injures the quality of
butter.
Clean out all the watering troughs
frequently.
Crush or crack corn that w fed to
young poultry.
A. S. Fuller claims that applications
of lime and salt to the soil will usually
prevent club-foot in cabbage.
In plowing under green crops it should
be done while the crop is full of sap,
generally before it has attained full
growth.
Unless the manure is old and well
rotted it should not be allowed to touch
the roots of the fruit trees, but be spread
upon the surface.
Several farmers give the assurance that
if seed corn is soaked in copperas water
before planting, there will be no trouble
with wire worms.
Too long pulls on a muddy road often
hurt the wind of a horse. ' When they
begin to breathe heavily it is time to
give them a “blow.”
A New England poultry raiser keeps
lice from his fowls and their house by
the free use of powdered sulphur about
the nests and in the dust bath.
There is no interest that better or
more universally pays for time and
trouble expended, than the poultry busi
ness when it is properly carried on.
Professor Burrill, of the Univer-ity of
Illinois, does not believe that the fruit of
the strawberry is affected by the kind of
pollen used in the fertilization of the
ov.ules.
An egg broken in the feed once or
twice a day will tone up a horse's system
and make his hair glossy. But special
foods are to be used only for emer
gencies.
French farmers fatten poultry through
mechani al devices, where a paste com-
I o-ed of barley meal, milk and lard is
shot down the birds' throa slike a metal
lic cartridge to pr du?e plumpness.
Weed and hoe the onions, peas and
all of t;:c garden vegetables, harrow the
ot toes again, replant the corn and com
mence plo v i.:: it the very day it is large
in m_h. Keep the gr mud which the
crops occupy free from weeds, loose and
mellow.
Dr. .1. A. Sewell, of the Colorado
Universitv, h s been making experiments,
testing the blood of hogs "affected with
hog cholera that he finds contains
microbes, wh.ch are not present iu the
blood of healthy hogs. He is cultivat
ing the microbe for purposes of inocula
tion and expects important results.
The hogs should have undisputed swav
in the orchard during the fruit season
and they will eat up all the fallen and
w trrnv apples and hunt out many of the
gru’ss. etc., which are injurious to the
t ees. In this way they destroy many of
ta ■ enemies of sound fruit and sound
trees, and in other ways greatly benefit
the creluird.
Hie ti ne fir top-dressing meadows is
in the fall, when rains, frost and snow
I will dissolve the particles of manure and
. carry them down to the roots of the grass.
; Even quite coarse manure will be got out
of the way before mowing time if applied
j the year prev'n ns. It is not yet too late,
however, to apply a dressing of salt or
other mineral fertilizer.
Squash and sweet potato vines having
i rpotlets that grow out from the under
sidxs of the joints, which anchor them
and prevent the wind from dislodging
them, should be lifted very carefully
when growing, as the rootlets not only
hold the plants in place, but assist iu
procuring nourishment, and any damage
done in handling retards the vines.
"Do not forget that fuchsias will make
their best growth in summer only when
partially shaded in the heat of the day.
The beautiful fuchsias which skilled flor
ists show are made so by careful and lib
eral pinching back of the fast growing
Teni'. Tiiis induces the tree-like habit
which is so attractive in the tine speci
mens seen at exhibitions and florists’
greenhouses.
Avery observing and prosperous
farmer attributes his success to sowing
cheap seed. He studies at seeding time
to put iu those crops which had paid
least the previous year, rightly calculat
ing that enough farmers would become
disgusted and cease growing that crop to
make it profitable again. Besides, lie
made th? certain gain iu the cheapness
of the seed used.
The roots of horse radish to be set in
at irting a plantation should be strong one ,
though they may be cut into lengths of
| less than an inch each. In planting, a
i at lea-t a fo )t deep should be made
i with a cro .\ bar or stake, aud one
piece deposited at the bottom, fill
ing up the hole afterward. The root
will easily find the surface and make a
straight clean root in the future.
All trees and shrubs should be proper
ly labelled. The labels that come on the
trees from the nursery should not be re
lied on, as the names soon wash off.
Sheet zinc, cut in the form of a long
tapering wedge, makes the best cheap
label we know of, being indestructible,
easily applied and can never injure the
tree if rightly put on. This is done in
the easiest possible way by merely coil
ing the tapering end around a small
j branch several times, aud thus it will
| yield to the increase of sfze. The writ
i mg may be done with a common lead
! pencil, and will increase in distinctness
| with time.
If the bees arc assisted with a small
beginning of comb as a foundation, it will
| greatly lessen tlieir labor and afford the
j bee-keeper an opportunity for attaching
; the comb to any particuliar portion of the
I hive. This material for beginning the
j comb is simply wax pressed into proper
shape, which often comes in sheets speci
! ally prepared for the purpose, and the
I bce-kccncr has but to cut or break off •>
! small piece aiid fasten it in place'by
: beating the end with a match or lighted
eanuic. It^ni ay se?m but a very small
matter tQ begin a conib foundation, so
far as the lessening of the labor of the
bees is concerned, but although every
portion of the labor saved is an advan
tage to the bees, the placing of tbe foun
dation where mostly desired by the bee
keepers is of valuable assistance to him
when he conies to the hive for honey
later on, after the busy season is aver.
A Sharp Bookdealer.
A curious fact in New York city life
is that the value of things is estirmlted by
their c; st. That is not generally trile,
of course, for most people try to get
| worth for their money; but among our
| million inhabitants there are a sufficient
j number of men of another sort to form a
| conspicuous element in public places. In
| the store of a dealer in rare books I
I saw Ben jamin F. Butler looking at a war
j book that had been interleaved with en
i gravings illustrative of battles described
jiu the text. He asked the price and
j was fold He remarked that possi
j bly he might come in later to buy it,
j and sauntered out. The bulky volume
: still lay on tbq Counter when a stylish
i Mining man entered and glanced at it,
j “There's something you ought to put
into your library,’’said the merchant. “It
Is unique and curious.”
“How much?” asked the fellow, as he
carelessly turned the leaves.
“Eightydollars,” was the bland reply.
The interest of the customer palpably
rose at the price, and within five minutes
he was the owner of the book. I asked
the seller, a familiar acquaintance, how
he could bring his conscience to that sort
of double-dealing.
“It is a perfectly legitimate feature of
my business,’’ he replied, “to get the
most I can for curiosities like that. Gen
eral Butler is a regular customer, and I
was well aware that he knew the value
of such things. There was no chance of
selling to him unless I named a reason
able figure. But in the other case I
knew the man, toe. He wouldn’t have
looked twice at the book if I had named
the same price that I had given to But
ler, but the high cost struck his fancy.”
—New York Letter.
Early Use of Artillery.
When Romulus w T as marking out the
limits of his new city, gunpowder was
already known, and 2,000 years before
the birth of Schawrtz, pieces of ordnance
j had been cast in China. The Moors
used guns in Spain in the beginning of
1200, if not in 1100. The claims of the
Chinese having now been generally ad
mitted. it is supposed that ordnance
reached Europe through the Moors of
; Spain or the Venetians. Neither, how
ever, had any connection with China. It
j is unaccountable that it should not have
been perceived by the Tutkq who con
; quered the northern portion of China in
the early part of the Thirteenth century,
and were established all around the Black
I Sea with the exception of a strip between
Verna and the Bosphorus.
i It is now doubted whether, indeed, the
Black Prince did use guns at the battle
of Cressy; but there is no doubt that
Murad I.had before then employed them at
the battle of Cossova. On both sides
j they were used, the Turks having already
instructed the population with whom
they were at war. Employing artillery
in the field, it was easy (reversing the
process in Europe i to apply it in f r
tresses: the peculiar nature of the Straits
of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in
vited its use. To the batteries placed
above Constantinople is attributed the
fall of that city, the supplies from the
Black Sea being cut off. —National Repub
lican.
An Old Story.
L
This is the size I thought I was
During the days of my bachelor hood:
The world might have moved if I had died
But I didn't think it could.
t
This is the size I've found I am
In the last few years of my life:
If you ask what changed mv opinion,
j I answer simply, “my wife!”
—Detroit Free Preat.
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THURMAN & MURPHEY, Proprietors,
Open Sunday from 8 to 10 a. m,
NEW JEWELRY STORE!
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