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About North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1888)
NORTH GEORGIA TIMES Vol. VIII. New Series. REV. DR. TiLMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY 8ERMON. Subject: “Rewards for the Dull as Well as the Brilliant.” mare^JoDicintoe Manv of the narables of in^hich Tpbikj ChrlRt ?lTvtd were times circu^sten^ H than they are now, because see3 nete“beT^r wheat toe^erhfdSItK the field And Axrmefcin* the ovpp wlmld was the harvest, Vito his avenger 8 ofVe go across the same field a sa ck full seed of rinrttAi srssS.^sri'Kisss wppao cnnffprinff ft n Shekt In wolves^avebeen^i^ktothe this lmid ou? farms off md the ^dwe cannot? stand mountains, the meaning of fully under in the narable regard to the shetiherd and the lost sheet). But the narable from which 1 sneak to-dav is toundedon something we all umier stand. It is built on money, In and that means the same te Jerusalem as New York. It means the same to the serf as to the Czar, and to the Chinese coolie as to the Emperor. Whether it is made out of bone or brass, or iron or copper, or gold or silver, it speaks l'be parable all languages the without in a stammer. of text runs thiswise: The owner of a large estate was about to leave home, and he had some money that he wished properly invested, and so he called to gether “I his servants, and said: and 1 would am take going this away now, and it to wish the you best possible money and when put I back very use, come re turn to me the interest.” To one man he gave $9400, to others he gave lesser sums of money: to the least he gave $ 18 Sft He left home mid was gone for years, and then re turned. On his arrival he was anxious to know about his word I y affairs, and he called his servants together to report to him. "Let me know,” said he, “what have you been doing with my prop erty since I have been gone.” The man who had received the $9400 came up and said: “1 invested that money. 1 got good interest for it. I have in other ways rightly employed it; and here are $18,800. You see 1 have doubled what you gave me.” “That’s very • good,’said the owner of the estate; ‘teat’s grandly and dona industry. I admire I your faithful ness_ shall reward you. Well done—well dona” Other servants came up with smaller accumulations. After a while, I see a man dragging himself along, with his head hanging. I know from the way he comes in that he is a lazy fellow. Hecomes up to the owner of the estate and says: Here are those $1,880.” “What!” ^thg^notLing^^rwhardl^ ■ays the owner of the property, haven’t lose it. There are vour\lSo g ’' t M?nv a Sb&@HS£& £5? is .as. rsy-ss? “ The owner who went out into a far country b Jesus Christ going from earth to heaven. The servants spoken of in the text are members of the Church. The talents are our different qualifications of usefulness given in different proportions to different people. The coming back of the owner is the Lord Jesus returning at the judgment to make final settlement. The ramng of some of these men to be rulers over five or two cities, teiywteteth^stogo^cfftS idleMs toe . If you have any romantic idea about becom tog a Christian, If I want into now to kingdom scatter the romance. you enter the of honest, God, It will be going into plain, practical, work. I continuous, there persistent Christian kuow are a great many people who have fantastic and romantic notions about this Christian life, but ho who serves God with all toe energies of body, mind, and ■oul is a worthy servant, and he who does not ban unworthy servant. When the war trum pet march, sounds, however all deep the Lord’s toe soldiers must snow may be or however fearful the odds against them. Under our Government we may have Colonels, and Captains, the Church and Generals God m time of peace, but in of there b no peace until the last great victory shall have been achieved, But I have to tell you it is a voluntary ser vice. People are not brought into it as slaves were dragged from Africa. A young man goes to an artisan and says: “Sir, I want to learn your trade I by and this service indenture, for the yield next myself four, to your earn I be or five, or seven years. want you to my master, and I want to be your servant.” Just eo, if we come into toe kingdom of God at all, we must master. come, I take saying Iky to service Christ: for “Be Thou my time and for eternity. There I choose drudgery it.” It in is it. a voluntary In service, callings is sometimes no our worldly and head aches, our and nerves get worn out, ties onr break down-but in our thb physical service of facul- the Lord Jesus, the harder a man works the bet ter he likes it, and a man te this audience who has been for forty years serving God en joys the employment better that when he first auctions ' 2?w?inVn ihio ^veS ^pll ato to different feiAnS aC £ c orlci ?T « f A* r S?S« thtf* h“as\n ri/ ipr twenty bushels of wheat te the acre, Here is another piece of ground that has only one talent, You may plow it, and harrow is, »nd culture it, yew after year, but it yields goat He soon, under Christian culture, yields Here great harvests of faith and good work. is another man who seems to have only one talent, and yon may culture, put upon him the greatest spiritunl but he yields righteousness but little You arete of the understand fruits teat ^_of ent teere individuals. are different There qualifications is great ter deal differ- of a ruinous if only comparison when a man says: “Oh, I had that man’s faith, or that man s God has giyen y° 1 I_and employ it in btey g&rgj'teTS SPRING PLACE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1888. should fit And so I have to tell you we are *11 marked for some one place in the great temple of the Lord, and do not let ns complain, saying: “I would like to be the foundation stone or the cap stone." Let us go into the very place where God intends us to be, and be satisfied with the position. Your talent may be in large worldly estate; your talent may be te personal appearance; your talent may be fn high social position; your talent may be te a swift pen or eloquent tongue; but whatever be the talent, it has been given only bu “ dred talents may be shown in the item of Bnduranee - Poverty comes, and he endure &*!*■•«*»“ menTd Sgels ITL^d.lVft^fore hefs splc"meTof a ChrteUan power of Chnst’a Gospel, and ^ is doin S a® much for the Church, and more *" «• active. If you have one talent, use that, n - I learn also from this parable that the ! Steace of God was attended to be accumula feiwo^ When God plants an acorn, He means an oak, and when He plants a small amount of grace in the heart, lie intends it i to be growthful and enlarge until it over ' shadows the whole nature. There are parents i who, at tlie birth of each child lay aside by an amount of money, investing it, expecting accumulation and by compound interest that by the time the child shall come to mid life this small amount of money will be a for tune, showing how a small amount of money will roll up into a vast accumulation. Well, God sets aside a certain amount of grace for each and one of His spiritual children by at his birth, it is to goon, and, as compound in terest, accumulate, until it shall become an eternal fortune. Can it bo possible that you have ten, twenty, been acquainted thirty with the and Lord Jesus for years, that you do not love Him more now than you did before? Can it be that you have been cultured in the Lord’s vineyard, and that Chnst finds on you nothing it, but if sour do grapes? the You talent may that depend upon you not use God gave you it will dwindle. The rill that breaks from the hillside will either widen into a river or dry up. The brightest day started In the dim twilight. The strongest Christian man was once a weak Christian Take the one talent and make it two; take five and make them ten; take ten and make them | twenty. be The grace of God was intended to very accumulative. riorfty Again of I gifts learn is from the text that indolence, info This no excuse for man, with the smallest amount of the money, came of growling the into the presence of to owner “If estate, as much as say: you had given me $9100 I would have brought $18,800 ns well as this other man. You gave me only $1883,and I hardly thought So it was worth while to use it at all. 1 hid it in a napkin and it produced no result. It’s because you didn’t give me enough.” is But indolence. inferiority of facultia. no excuse for Let me say ft fc'SSfiW a ‘ mosfc omnipotent* The merchant, whose cargoes come out from every island of the cs SSSIL?fSsTB n't?,,? "unu 7251? eternal ager f to compu te „<2L it?.....Oh, Ef you say, * ut l?L W vml 't 9?®. ^ brother, c^an you not quote y ; y0 “i 9 it under all proper circumstancea With that one SSSSd*wStofgXl. 70 ? aS^lad that the gMtesw rake all with the firey hail of sassa destruction, But common muskets do most of the hard thousands fighting. It of took only one Joshua, and him, the to common troops, under drive down the walls of cities, and, under 'wrathful strokes, to make nations fly like ®P Luther a 5 ;ka from for the Germany, anviL It one only Zwinglius took one | i?r or Switzerland, Scotland, one one Calvin John Knox for Boreas France, and certainly one John Wesley mission for England as has a to serve as p aul has a mission to preach. The two mites dro Pped bv the widow into the poor-box will be as much applauded as the endowment of a college, which The gets a man’s who kindled name into the fire the newspapers. under the burnt offering man te the ancient temple bad a duty as imperative as that of the high priest, in magnificent robes, walking -nto the Holy of Holies under the cloud of Jehovah’s presence. Yes, the men with one talent are to save the world, or it will never be saved ataU. The men with five or ten telents are tempted to toil chiefly for them selves, and work to build for up their their owu aggrandizement, great name, own and do nothing for the alleviation of the world’s woea The cedar of Lebanon stand “* on the mountain seems to hand do wn the worms P out fruit, of toe heavens to the earth, but it 63 ™ no wmie some owart pear tree ba ® more fruit on its branches than it can 9 arr Y- Better to have one talent and put it to f uR „ use than five hundred wickedly ne fi , ec te“\ “7 snbject . teaches . , that .. there . is . , day me solemn go come a of settlement, When the old farmer of the text got home, I’d pay you what I owe you,and you’ll pay me Ttoday SS?F£F£prv2S wST^me w^enthe^teS Chrbt &wSfeJaldl 5E& oo r es a e^ m fram 6 tlmt r, Sl went. Bometimea you cannot get a settle S ent wifcil a mRn * specially if he owes you. jj e postpones and procrastinates, and says: “X’ll see you next week,” or “I’M see you next month.” The fact is he does not want to .ettla But when the great day comes of f fiave •ss-a’-srsar sometimes been amazed to see h ow ^ accountant will run no or down a long line of figures. if I see ten or fifteen figures in a line, and 1 attempt to add them up, and I add them two or three times, I make them different each time. But I have admired the way an accountant will take a long line of figures, and without announc! a single mistake, and with great the celerity, lart the aggregate. Now, will be in great settlemMd, there Sabbaths, a long lineof profane words, a long sawssa 1 * tsses^i k answer than in that regard question to In regard it is to of myself you; ana more importance yourself for in y'ou regard to answer it in Everyman regard to than to me. f or himself on that day. Every woman for herself on that day. “If thou be wise, thou shalt ^ f or thyself; if thou seomest, thou alone shalt bear it ” VYe are apt to speak 0 f the last day as an occasion of vocifera¬ tion—a great demonstration of power and po mp; but there wUl be on that day, I think, a {ew moments of entire silence. I think a tremendous, an overwhelming silence. 1 tzs&'szt&'sszziws bie of the te that our degrees of happiness in heaven w be graduated according to our degrees of ™meone VSLnke^lnemo^^dl ra «kfnftois° narahleS S*? over £*££2 two cities. “$5 Would it be fair and right that the professed Christian man who has and the L/burch—the man who has otten often 't?*2z "sr-s never communion days-the been man whose of great the world struggle he has could to and see how win much heaven—is it right to get yet will have suppose that man as grand who and glorious all his a seat energies in heaven of body, as mind the man gave and soul to the service o£ God? The dying thief entered heaven, but not with the same startling acclaim as that which greeted Paul, who had gone under scorchings, and across dungeons, and glory. through maltreatments into the kingdom of in One star differs from author star glory, earth and shall they have who far toil mightily reward for Christ than on those who have rendered a greater Some of hastening only half toward a service, the reward the you are f on of righteous want to cheer you up at the thought that there will be some kind of a reward waiting for you. There arq Christian people in this house who are very near heaven. This week some of you may. pass out into the light of the unset* ting sun. I saw a blind man going along kept pounding the road with his .staff, and then* he' the earth and stamping do with Eisfoot Isaid to him: “What do you that ford’ “Oh,” he said, “lean tell by the sound of the ground when I am by near tee a dwelling.” 80und And some of you can tell of your earthly pathway that you are coming near to vour Father’s house, * congratulate you. Oh, weather-beaten voyagei-s.the stor is are driving you into the aarbor. Just as wheu you were looking for a i friend, and you came up to the gates of his house, you friend were hoisted talking the with window the servant, shouted: when your and “Come in! come in!" Just so, when you come to the gate of the future world, and you are talking tee with methinks death, the black porter at window gate, and Christ will hoist to# say: “Come ini cpme ini I will make thee ruler over ten citiea” Inantici pation Augustus of Topladv, that land the I do not wonder that Ages,” declared author of “Rock o! nothing in his last moment: “I have. more ’to pray for: God has give :; my brothers and sisters, how sweet it will be, after the long wilderness march, to get homa s&r - — The Yalue of a Farm Boy. It is my impression that a farm with¬ out a boy boy would soon come to grief. What a does is the life of the farm. He and is always the factotum, always in demand, and things expected to do the thousand one that nobody else will do. Upon difficult him falls the odds and ends, the most things. After everybody else is through he is expected to finish up. His work is like a woman’s, per¬ petually knows how waiting much oh easier others. it is Everybody to cook a good afterwards. dinner than to wash tho dishes Consider what a boy on a farm is required to do; things that must be done or life would actually stop. It is understood, in the first place, that he is to do all the errands, to go to the store, to the post office, and to cany all sorts of messages. If he had as many legs as the centipede, they would tire before night. He is the one who spreads the grass as the men cut it; he stows it away in the barn; he rides the horse to cultivate the com, up and down the hot, when weary they rows; lie picks up the potatoes and splits are dug; he bnngs wood and' water kindling; he gets up the horse and turns out the horse. Whether he is in the house Qr out of the house, there is always something to do. Just before school in the winter he shovels paths; in summer he turns the grind¬ stone. And yet, with his mind fnll of schemes of what he would like to do, and his hands full of occupation, he is an idle boy, with nothing to busy himself with but schools and chores. He would gladly would do all the work if somebody else do all the chores, he thinks; and yet, I doubt if any boy ever amounted to anything in the world, or was of much use as a man, who did not enjoy the ad¬ vantages ohores of a liberal education in the way of .—Charlts Dudley Warner. glx and g Half Tons of Diamonds. Ventured Surely to even compute Sindbad his the diamonds Sailor never the ton. Six and half tons of diamonds, by a valued at about £40,000,000, are report¬ ed to have been extracted from four African mines alone in the course of the last few years. The other great diamond field of the world is India, also a British sterdam possession. has Eveiybody knows that Am¬ hitherto been the centre of the diamond-cutting industry of the world, and in former times there was a good reason for this, as in London, at least, the industry was extinct. But of everybody late probably does not know that years efforts have been success¬ fully ting in made England to reintroduce diamond out and that English cut¬ ters have beaten the Dutch in several reoent prize competitions. Considering the enormous value of the trade—the quires United states alone Jit ia calculated, re¬ £8,000,000 worth of cut diamonds per annum—oare should be taken that land, English diamonds should be out in Eng¬ and not he sent either to Amster¬ dam or to Antwerp and Paris, whioh have lately endeavored to secure a por¬ tion of the Dutch trade.— St. James Oa telte. HUMAN HAIR. Where French Maidens Sell Their Luxurious Tresses. Relative Value of the Various Types of Hirsute Growth. There is a human hair market at Mor ians, in the department of the Lower French Pyrenees. It is little known excopt perhaps in Paris, whore it has a high reputation. The market is held every other Friday. Hundreds of trafficking hair dressers throng to the little place from far and near to buy up the hair of tho young peasant girls. The dealers wander up and down tho long narrow street of the town, each with a huge pair of bright shears hang¬ ing from a black leather strap around his waist, while the young girls who wish to part with their hair stand about m the doorways, usually in couplo3. Tho transaction is carried on in the best room of the house. The hair is lot down, the tresses combed out, and the dealer names \ho price. This varios from three to 20 francs. If a bargain is struck the dealer lays the money in the opon palm of the seller, applies his shears, and in a min¬ ute the long tresses fall on the floor. The purchaser rolls up the trosscs, places them in paper, and thrusts thorn into his pocket. Of course a maiden can rarely see her fallen tresses disap¬ pear into tho dealer's pocket without crying, but she consoles herself with tho thought that it will grow again and by looking at tho money in hor hand. There is at presont a scarcity of fancy human hair in the market. Tho scarcest hair is pure white, and its value is con¬ stantly increasing; and if it is unusually long—that dealer is, from four feet to five feet —the can get almost his own price, while if it is of ordinary length it is worth from 875 to 500 francs ($75 to $100) an ounce. The fact that nure th * *** trough ou<; Europe keeps the demand for it very hinh. It is much urizod hv American who desire to eqrich its folds, for white hair is held to give certain distinction to tho wearer. There is no fancy mar¬ ket for gray hair; it is too common. It is used to work into wigs of persons who are growing old. What is described as golden hair is either a washed-out pale red or a dull blond. Tho goli color so much val¬ ued has no relation to red hair, except in the vividness of its coloring, The demand for tho virgin gold color is great in the capitals of Europe. A woman who gets a coiffure of it is con¬ sidered fortunate. Thoro aro four type colors of hair—white, blond, black and brown—and each of those has boon subdivided into sixteen different shades. The commonest types aro black and brown, and these aro cheap. Golden brown is much in favor, as is pure black, or what is called blue-black. Next to pure white hair the demand is for hair of the color of virgin gold. There are many braids made of hair colored to meet tho de¬ mand with certain preparations, but they prove unsatisfactory. Many foolish women have sought to change tho color of their own tresses, but they have uni¬ formly repented the attempt. A fine suit of hair of the purest blond type will sell for from 1000 francs to 2500 francs ($200 to $500). It i3 said that the Empress Eugenie paid 1000 francs ($200) an ounce fora braid of golden hair that exactly matched her owa. The largest supply of hair comes from Switzerland and Germany, and espe¬ cially from the French provinces. The country fairs are attendod by agents of merchants in London, Paris and Vionna. Only at intervals, however, is a prize like a perfect suit of golden hair ob¬ tained, and I am told that there aro orders ahead in tho shops of Paris and London for all the golden hair that can be obtained in the next five years. When a stock of hair is collected by travelling agents it is assorted, washod and cleaned. Then each hair is drawn through the eye of a needle and pol¬ ished. When the stock is ready for the market here the nobility is permitted to make tho first choice. A woman’s hair may grow to the length of six feet. Mme. Hess of Paris geifised $1000 for her “cranial cover ing” which was about that measurement. Four hundred hairs of average thick¬ ness would cover an inch of space. The blond belie has about 140,000 filaments to comb and brush, while the red-haired beauty has to be satisfied with 88,000; the brown-haired damsel may have 109, 000; the black-haired but 102,000. Fe w ladies consider that they carry some .40 or 60 miles of hair on their head; the fair haired may oven have to dress 70 miles of threads of gold every morning. A German experimentalist has proved that a single hair will suspend four ounces without breaking, stretching under the process and contracting again. But the hair thus heavily weighted must be dark brown, for blond hair breaks down under two and a h^f ounces. As regards the wig trade, the most expensive wigs are, of course, pure white and the virgin gold color. A young Brooklyn lady of much beauty possesses a splendid wig of the latter kind, which sho chanced to find in a shop at Nice. Sho was a blond, but had a scanty supply of dull hair. It did not take her an instant to decide to have her hair cut short and to wear thu wig.—[Galignani’s Messenger. Canine Sagacity. A pretty little story comos to mo from London, says the“Bibble-Babble”writei of tho New York News, which is such a good illustration of sagacity in ani¬ mals, that I am sure it will boar repeat¬ ing. One morning the porter of a Lon¬ don hospital heard two dogs barking loudly at the door ol tho out patient de¬ partment and, hurrying to sec what was the cause of the disturbance, he found sitting on the stoop a sad-looking,‘ long¬ haired collie dog, whoso right foro-foot had been wounded, and which, as he hold it from the stop, was bleeding pro¬ fusely. Beside tho poor creature stood two little fox torriors, who, immediately as the porter showod his head, bolted away in hot hasto, leaving their suffer¬ ing companion at tho door. Tho collio was taken into the dispensary, where it was found that an artery in its paw had been severed by somo sharp instrument, and in short order tho wound was dressed and bandaged by a young at¬ tending surgeon, just as if. the dog had been an ordinary human being. It was evident that tho littlo torriors meeting the unfortunate collio, and having seen people going to tho hospital determined when any aeckiect had.befallen.thorn, to show him tho way there, and then to bark until ho was admitted. A gentle¬ man being told this story became suf¬ ficiently interested in it to make in¬ quiries, and to ascertain whethor or not these suppositions wore correct. He traced the blood • all tho way from the hospital to a spot called Clement's Inn, not far distant, where between two of the groat law court buildings that are situated there was found an opening just largo enough to admit tho body of a dog. There was found a pieco of raggod-odgod glass, and the adjoining pavement being covored with blood Btains proved the place to have boon the scene of the accident. An intimate friend of miao, Mr. William Hutt, a book-seller, whose store is in Clement’s Inn, writes mo that ono of the littlo terriers who took part in this curious drama wa3 his, while tho other be¬ longed to bis brother. And thus tho chain of evidcnco was established. Tracklaying by Machine, George Roberts, inventor of Roberts’ steam railroad track layer, has returned to Ellensburg, Washington Territory, from the Greon River branch of the Northern Pacific, where a practical test of the machine was made in tho presence of about 300 railroad men and spectators. The machino worked beyond the ex¬ pectations of tho inventor and to his en¬ tire satisfaction, tho men laying at the rate of two and a half miles of track per day, and 12 men doing the work of 75 by the old way. It handled ties and rails of the heaviest kind—used in con¬ structing mountain roads—with the greatest eoso, placing them rapidly and accurately in position. The machine is so constructed that it can be used on any ordinary flat car, the motive power being an eight horse power engine. All construction material is moved on rollers from the rear to tho front, where the machino takes up tho rails and the ties, laying them very rapidly. Where tho tost was made the grade was steep and difficult. Tho great suc¬ cess attending the trial has caused tho Northern Pacific to secure the refusal of the first machine, and the inventor is now arranging for building two mora machines to cost $1200, and the inventor receives a royalty of $50 per mile.— [New York News. Why He Went. “Is Mr. Bromley tall?” “Personally he is.” “Personally?'* * ‘Yes. Officially ho is short—$30,000 short. That’s why he went to Mon¬ treal. ”^^azar. A. comely figure in a woman has its 1 charms ; but it is the in comely figure that is the most delightful. ( NO. 45. The Lion Among the Flower* Hero in this garden-nook alone, Lies an old lion of gray stone— Once, in the long-gone golden hour* A lordly lion, prond in state, The guardian of a mansion-gate— Now he lies low among the flowers. Then, oft he saw the shining doors, Heard light feet fall on festal floors, Heard music wake its witching din; Then danced beneath the torches’ blaze The knights and ladies of old days, While he watched over all within. Now, he llos here; in his old age Cast out, rejected, by the rage Of time down-beaten, broken, scarred, An old gray lion; yet not less A lion in his feebleness— One thing is left him still to guard. Ho guards it well, by night and day, In those great paws of granite gray, In the strong shelter of his breast; No man shall serve him yet with scorn, Though on old lion thus forlorn, And all he guards—a robin’s nest I —[New York Tribuna HUMOROUS. A nod fellow—Tho policoman. Good only when used up—-Tho um¬ brella. It is queer that no logs aro ever rafted down the River Styx. Of course & ball player can be put out and not lose his temper. It is claimed that all absconding cash¬ iers aro ex-chequer payers. A man wants to look before ho leaps, especially if he is a blind man. Whan a man settles money on his son it frequently unsettles tho son. Natural gas well secrets are noted for the ease with which they leak out In the game of Chicago wheat it is after a deal that a fellow wants to cut. “Another lio nailed,” said the clerk as he tacked up a ‘ ‘selling out at cost” sign. A coffin trust has been organized. This is carrying the thing into tho ground. ‘• Ad Irish theatries, manager recently advertised for a broth of a boy to make a “supe.” No matter how prompt actors may be at rehearsaU thcro is always one man who is prompter. Samson wonld never have made a minister. Ho had no respect for the pillars of the church. “No,” quoth the topor, “I never wear, A waterproof, not I; Indeed I strain a point t’avoid Whatever keeps me dry.” A Boston policeman refused to arrest a man for stealing, knowing him to be deaf, and realizing that ho could not get a hearing before a magistrate. Judge—“The jury will now withdraw and find a verdict,” Prisoner—“They needn’t withdraw on my account. They can stay right here, as far as I am con¬ cerned.’’ “Do you think I’m tn idiot, sir!” thundered a fiery Scotch laird to his new footman. “You see, sir,’’ replied the canny Scot, “I am no lang her* and I dinna ken yet.” There is a man living in the direction of tho setting sun from this cffica so mean that he wouldn’t give away a cent to anything. He wouldn’t even give away to his feelings. A Missouri editor pullod both barrels of a shot-gun on a man who came up stairs to lick him, and, as was right and proper, he double-leaded hh article in regard to tho tragedy. An agricultural journal makes the re¬ markable statement that “a horseshoe nailed on the forward feet of a cow or a steer will prevent jumping fences.” Farmers who have trouble with jump¬ ing fences should try the experiment. A jumping fence on a farm must bo very annoying. Livery Stable Proprietor to Young Man— “What made the horse run away?” Young Man—“A cow jumped out of the bushes by the road and frightened him.” Livery Stable Pro prieto—“He’s asmalL horse. Couldn’t you hold him?” Young Man—“Yes; but I couldn’t hold him and the girl, too.” I Parisian Abattoir* The slaughter-houses of Paris are clean; no offensive odor frightens the animals to be killed; there are blows, no worrying and fretting, mo unneces¬ sary cruelty. Tho animals are brought to the block quietly from clean stalls, where they were fed and cared for as though intended for a long life. Some one has suggested that the excellency of their meat is due to the methods adopted by Paris slaughter-houses. Feverish excitement and cruelty pro duce unwholesome meat and cause death and disease among the consum* ers.”—[Pioayuae.
