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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1881. 43cmg of €f)ougt)t. Jefferson Davis on Forestry. Beauvoir, 10th Oct., 188i. Sidney Root, Esqh., My Dear Sir:—Please accept my thanks for the reports you have sent me of the proceedings of the forestry Congress Bv a brief compliance with your request I will endeavor to show my grateful acknowledge ment of your consideration. The subject to which the attention of your Association is directed has long commanded my deep interest, and it has grieved me to sec, as is too often the case, the danger that delay of appropriate remedies has created. . In *1830 there were between the upper i.Iissis- sippi and the great lakes the finest forests of mast timber to be found east of the Rocky Mountains. Now they are Baid to have been ouiie destroyed to make lumber for purposes for which inferior trees would have served; and that, such is the fact is indicated by the closer attention recently given to the southern forests by northern lumbermen. How is the devastation to be checked. After the land has become private property, contro. ol it has passed to the owners, therefore it is suggested whether that, where timberlands are remaining in the hands of the government, the sale of such should not be limited to alternate sections, and whether no grants should be made except in lots for actual settlement and cultivation. In homestead grants conditions might be introduced among which would be the preservation of a certion portion of the land in timber on each lot so granted. v\ her- ever a public work would warrant the grant of aid from the government, wby should not money be given instead of land, and this herit age retained for coming generations. The startling exposures which have been made of frauds and misappropriations of the public lands raises the question whether for security in administerting it, as well as for public content, it would not be better to trans fer the control of the public lands to the States in which they lie. Agents of equal capacity with those heretofore employed might be ob tained and the State supervision would have the prompting of a direct interest and greater facilities for information. The arbor-day presents a happy method of renewing destroyed forests as well as creating them on prairie and swamp lands where they have not, within the memory of man, existed In the northwest there are marshes which, have no present or prospective value but which might be utilized for forestry purposes with tamarach. This tree does not attain a great siz- > , but is very durable and the trunks are quite straight. It was tne material mainly employed In building the cantonment of Fort Winnebago and also to make causeways across the boggy marshes, for all of which it was found to be admirably adapted. Why should riot those marshes be thus made profitable? In the historic field of Colloden there was, at the date of the battle of that name a bare boggy moor, it has since been covered by a dense forest of larcb, a European variety imported into Scotland and utilized as already stated. Beyond the preservation of timber for me chanical and domestic uses, there are climatic and other considerations of grave importance. The first effect of clearing the forest and reduc ing the laud to cultivation is to aggravate the spring Hoods through many tributaries into the main°chamiels or rivers of the country—the destructive oveiilows of the valley of the Ohio which have lately been experienced would indi cate this as the cause, for it is known that there the ratio of cutivated timber land is ex ceptionally great. This is however only the lir3t effect due to the oestruction of the forest, beyond that, we may anticipate aridity as the consequence. It is proverbially the character istic of the wise to learn from the experience of others, and as the occupation of this coun try by agricultural men is yet comparatively recent, we must lcok elsewhere for instructive examples of the effect to be produced by the destruction of the forests. In this connection let us refer to Spain; when Cesar invaded that country there is evidence that it was not want ing in rainfall. Travelers have noticed the large stone bridges he built over what are now mere rivulets, but which then must have been rivers of such magnitude as required the bridg es which stand to attest the need for which they were constructed. Also districts which were once productive are no w dependent upon irrigation. The only assigned cause for the change is the denudation of the land. From like cause we must necessarily conclude like results will follow under similar circumstan- ces. The extensive territory of the United States, with its various climatic conditions present many phases of the climatic problem. The vapor which rises from the Gulf of Mexico as from a vast cauldron is oorue northeastwardly by the prevailing aerial current over the Gulf States giving to them such an amount of rain fall that they are marked on the pieterogical charts as the rainy belt. There, it nrghtbe assumed that the danger wo have been con sidering from the destruction of forests would not exist; but there are other consequences alike injurious. If the land be exposed to the scorching rays of a semi-tropical sun, there w.ll be accelerated evaporation of useful mois ture, and if the land be left to the free sweep ot the winds, atmospheric fertilization will be lost. From the joint effect of both productive ness must be impaired though the rainfall should continue. In higher latitudes the anticipated atmos pheric aridity would diminish the winter snows, and the exposure of the surface would increase the power of winter frosts, a contmu- atian seriously detrimental to winter crops. East of the Reeky Mountains and south of the 45th degree of latitude, about the atmos pheric current from the equator descends to tie surftc ■, lies the grand prairie, or, as it has been called, “the American desert.” That the absence of forests in that rigion is due to aridity only is shown by tbe fringes of trees along its few water courses. The cause of the existing aridity is assignable to the fact that ihe prevailing westerly current ot air com ing from toe Pacific Ocean haa ita aqueous vanor condensed in passing over the lofty ranges of mountains which intercept it. At some places it may be practicable, by artesian wells to obtain water in sufficient volume to fiow upon the sraface and to that extent, the land would no doubt be soon clothed with trees. Whether any climatic effect would be thereby produced is problematical, but is it not worth the experiment if the result should only afford shelter for the herdsman, and the herds and flocks which this vast pasture is capable of supporting It was surely a misnomer to call this region a desert in view of the fact that myriads of buffalo with herds of deer and antelope former ly found adequate subsistence upon the “grand prairie” With gratification I have noticed the noble purposes of your association, contrasting so honorably with the selfish aims of partisan strife. With cordial wishes for the success of “the Forestry Congress." I am faithfully yours, Jefferson Davis. FLORIDA ORANGE GROVES. An Excellent Letter from a Reliable Source. Editor Sunny South: In a former letter I stated that Marion county shipped one-fourth the orange crop of the State. Since then I see it stated in “Webb’s Florida,” that this county shipped “two thirds.” This is certainly a mis take, or a misprint. Tbe severe cold of Jan. 1880, has discouraged many who had yoimg groves cut down to the ground, but as such low temperature as that of the past two winters had not been known here in fifty years, we may reasonably hope for ordin ary winters now, for many years to come. When trees have attained a sufficient age to be in good bearing, and are kept in thriving condi tion we regard them as out of danger from any freeze ever known in this section. Mr. Jones, the editor of the Times-Union, of Jacksonville, visiting this county, says of the groves on Orange Lake, “A giimpgs of those groves, or any one of them, is sufficient to re assure anybody whose confidence in the orange industry had been shaken by last winters freeze. In this Garden of the Hesperides, the only effect of the freeze, so far as is apparent, has been to increase the yield. The Harris grove will drop 40,000 boxes this season; Bishop, Hoyt & Co., 35,000; the Crescent grove Co., 20,000; John O. Mathews, 10,000; Jno. Church, 10,000; Brown & Allen, 8,000, &c. Not only is the yield increased this season, but in quality and color the fruit surpasses any previous crop.” Your correspondent is receiving letters in quiring how long it takes to bring an orange grove into bearing and probable cosc. If we have to commence a grove from the seed, it takes seven years. Most of the old groves about here, were that length of time coming into bearing but as nurseries are now plentiful in this region seedlings five years old, may be had for about 35 to 40 cents each which may be expected to bear fruit in three years from setting out. Two years old buds on sour stock, can be bought for 30 to 35 cents each, which may begin to bear in two years; or three years old buds, at 81 each, which are expected to bear in one year from planting. Such trees a few years ago were scarce and sold from §2 to $3 each. One advantage in using buddid stock is that the purchaser may select just such varieties as he may fancy. As it is common to set the trees thirty feet apart in the rows, it takes forty-nine trees to the acre, if more than one acre is planted; so your readers may calculate the cost of trees at nursery. Land costs from ?10 to 825 for good pine lands; hammock land from 835 to 850 per acre according to quality and situation. A grove of five acres is all a man of small means should undertake, at least until his grove becomes self-sustaining. A grove of this size will take good care of an ordinary family, if it(the grove) is properly cared for. No grove, if neglected, will be long profitable. While trees are small, crops of corn, or cot ton or vegetables are often planted between the rows. It is common to sow the ground in field-peas, and turn under the vines as a fertili zer. As lumber is cheap a good board fence will cost only about sixty cents per rod. The first ploughing costs obout 82 50 per acre. Experience has demonstrated that young and tender trees may be protected against cold, by wrapping them by the middle of No vember, with Spanish moss, at a cost of about two cents a tree. Elevation also protects against frost. It is usual, since the cold of 1880, to leave all the timber possible as protec tion for young trees, so that the cost, at first, of starting a grove will be much reduced. Fine or mixed lands may thus be prepared for the plough at a cost of about 85 per acre. An orange tree is “a thing of beauty” when in bloom, or laden with its golden fruit; but to become “a joy forever” it must be planted on good soil, and’well worked and well cared for. Some parties are already shipping oranges which have been artificially ripened, or rather I should say, yellowed. Those who buy them will not form a just idea of a good ripe Florida orange. The shippers may make money now, by this fraud, but the reputation of our fruit will inevitably suffer, and hone3t growers by damaged. This county vo‘ed, Sept. 20th, to close the saloons,by a handsome majority. The religious portion of the people, and the friends of tem perance were greatly surprised and mortified at the stand taken by Ex-President Jefferson Davis, on the Liquor question. R. M. Typings. Anthony, Marion Co. Fla. I’. S.-Parties wishing advice about starting a grove now, and not coming to Florida for a few years yet. Many non-residents own groves in this State, and pay them a visit in winter, but ucless the grove is ol such extent as to justify employing a reliable man to live on it and de vote his entire time to it, the results have not been satisfactory. I have selected lands for parties who could not come and select for themselves, and who relying upon my judgement, and decription given, have chosen a tract from a number ac curately described to them. I obtain deed, and examine chain of titles, before paying over purchase money. I then employ reliable par ties to clean and fence the tract, select trees, and see that they are properly transplanted, and afterwards properly attended to. This is a delicate trust, and of course, I cannot do all the above without suitable remuneration. R. M. T. Cuttings, Crafts and Buds. A hybrid cotton growing in Hanvett county, central North Carolina, has been discovered that averages 50 bolls of cotton to the stalk where the common cotton has only 7 or 8. This new cotton has leaves similar to okra. Eighty dollars per bushel have been offered for the seed. In England a very fine flavor is imparted to the fiesh of fattening turkeys by feeding them, in confinement, with cooked food in which chopped sweet herbs, like parsley, have been mixed. Since the beginning of the present year, the 100 hens (more or less) of B. B. Reames, of Oakland, have laid 375 dozen of eggs, not in cluding those used by the family. A good farmer writes: Don’t plow land in the spring until it is dry enough to crumble as your plow passes through it. A gill of linseed meal fed daily to each cow or horse will keep the bowels in good condi tion and greatly promote the health. The grape-growers of New York have resort ed to burning fires in their vineyards and gath ering fruit all night to escape the frosts. At a California agricultural show two tons ot grapes form one exhibit, illustrating the culture of the vine in one coHnty. Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.—Qlicer Wendell Homes. When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none; and then they endeavor to pursuade themselves so.—Tillotson. No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company.— Jeremy Taylor. He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model.—South. The great principle of human satisfaction is engagement.—Paley. How ready is envy to mingle with the no tice which we take of other persons.—Dr. I. Watts. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the di viding of our grief.—Cicero. Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace. It may serve to cast a gleam of light on these that are without, while the inhabitants sit in darkness.—Han nah More. The purse of the patient frequently protracts his cure.—Zimmermann. Government is the creature of the people ,and that which they have created they surely have a right to examine.—Robert Hall. Gratitude is properly a virtue, disposing the mind to an inward sense aud an outward ac knowledgement of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as the occasions of the doer shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to.— South. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.—Edmund Burke. 0Lft[PtoT Curious Arbor dav-A Local Holiday. Governor Hill, in a speech at the Orange County Fair. Newburg, N. Y., favored a State law legalizing another holiday, to be known as “Arbor Day,” to be devoted to tree planting, tree culture and education in forestry. We believe that our readers, generally, will approve the above wise suggestion; but we would suggest that tbe holiday should be National, instead of State. Agriculture a Born Science. Those who look upon farming as only an ordinary occupation are mistaken. As Prof. Wrighton remarks, agriculture is a born science. It is full of botany, zoology, geology and entomology. It is full of chemistry, from the soil to the growing plant, the ripening seed and the animal life which is the crowning out come. There is no more varied pursuit, and most others are narrow in their scope in com parison with it. TALMAGE’S SERMON. Nianaeement of Poultry-Read It. I have just been experimenting with a flock of forty hens belonging to a neighbor. I found five of them in jail for sitting too much, many of the others were molting and the whole forty only laid five eggs a day. I cleaned up their coops and yards, prevented their eating corn with the hogs, and fed them with a mixture of bran and oats in the morning and clear oats at night. Bone broken up line was also given to them and earthenware pounded up fine was given every morning in place of oyster shells, which are'not readily obtainable here. In five days they increased to twelve eggs a day, and before two weeks they laii as high as thirty eo-gs a day. Y, r e thus see that, contrary to the usual notion, fowls having plenty of run and a little feed require an addition of lime and gravel in some shape to produce eggs. When the hens roam on the grass plots, the growth fre- cmently covers the ground so closely that the fowls cannot set gravel, and disease breaks out. This should be guarded against. They must have lime. It is well to use wood ashes for beds in which the birds can wallow and rid themselves of lice. The droppings should al ways be carefully saved for garden manure.— T. L Foulboef. A young Mexican girl is soon to appear in the arena as a bull-fighter. Twenty-five thousand and thirty-seven loco motives in the United States killed 142(3 rail road employes the past year, and wounded 6548. Nearly one half of these accidents oc curred in coupling cars. There is a watch in a Swiss musenm only three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, insert ed in the top of a pencil case. Its little dial indicates not only hours, minutes and sec onds, but also days of the month. The building of railroads in Mexico has been accompanied by a singular phenomena. Wherever the rails are laid rain follows, and where there are no rails there has been i drought. The fact is said to be well authenti cated. Death Valley, Nev., is to be turned into an ostrich ranch. A Mexican has fourteen well- grown chicks that he hatched oat there at his little ranch from eggs brought from the neigh borhood of Los Angeles. The eggs were bur ied in the hot sand, and of nights the ground was covered with blankets to retain the heat it absorbed during the day. The ranch is about 220 feet below the level of the sea. An astonishing firearm has been introduc ed in France. It is of French origin, and wonderful in the results obtained. At three thousand feet distant ninety-eight per cent, of the balls hit a number of baskets representing a company of soldiers. Col. Lebel, the inven tor, stood within ten feet of a target while one of his friends fired at it 0000 feet distant. A case of poisoning by nutmeg is recorded in the British Medical Journal, in which one nutmeg had been eaten by a patient as a cure for diarrbeea. It caused him to become giddy, stupid and very drowsy all next day. The narcotic properties of these seeds, and of oth ers of the same natural order, do not appear to be generally known, and seem worthy of in vestigation. Two interesting physical experiments are amusing French scientific men. In the first a lighted candle is placed behind a bottle and the latter is blown upon with the breath from a distance of about a foot. The meeting of the air currents set in motion around the bottle quickly extinguishes the flame, though extinc tion would be impossible if a flat board or sheet of cardboard should be substituted for the bottle. For the second experiment two botties are placed on a table, with a space of half an inch between them. The candle is set behind ihis space, and from the same dis tance as before, on the opposite side, the breath is blown smartly against the flame. Not only tfill the latter continue burning, but it will incline slightly toward the operator as if through the effort of suction. This phe nomenon, analogous to the first, is due to the fact that a portion of the air cannot pass be tween the bottles, and is forced around them and back toward the experimenter. 1$ igftorical. The Parian Chronicle is on marble, found at Paros, and (if true) formed in 284 B. C. Chinese chronology is founded on their ob servations of eclipses over 4700 years ago. By an inudation at Dort in 1447, seventy-two villages were swept away and 100,000 people perished. The Hindoo Vedas, or Laws of Menu, ad dressed to a civilized people, were edited by Kuilnea, about 880 B. C. The first known circulating library is said to be that of St. Pampbilus of Ciesarea, who in 307 A. D. collected 30,000 volumes to lend out. The Roman Empire ended with the taking of Rome by Odoacer, who was made king of Italy, A. D. 476. This was 1228 years after the building of the “Eternal City." The battle of Bosworth, in which Richard III, was defeated and killed, and Richmond won his way to the English throne as Henry VII.,eccured A. D. 1485. The origin of spinning, weaving and dyeing is ascribed by tbe Egyptians to Isis, by the Greeks to Minerva, and by the Peruvians to the wife of Manco Copac. Coffee was first used in Arabia^ about 1420, and was introduced at Cairo in 1530, at Con stantinople in 1554, at Venice in 1615, at Paris in 1644, and in London in 1652. The Bibliothfque Royale, Paris, was found ed with only twenty books in 1340. It is now one of the finest libraries in Europe, especially rich in ancient manuscripts. “A little fire is quickly trodden out Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.” Procrastination may rob you of time, but by increased diligence you can make up the loss; but if it rob you of life the loss is irremediable. If your health jis delicate, your appetite fickle, your sleep broken, your mind depressed, your whole being out of sorts, depend on it you are seriously diseased. In all such cases Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” will speedily effect a genuine, radical cure—make a new man of you and save you from the tor tures of lingering disease. Inter State Poultry Association. The Inter-state Poultry Association will have an exhibition at Jackson, Tennessee, December, 12-17. Western Settler’s Chosen Specific. With every advance of emigration into th® far West, a new demand is created for Hos ■ tetter’s Stomach Bitters. Newly peopled re gions are frequently less salubrious than older settled localities, on account of the miasma which rises from recently cleared land, par ticularly along the banks of rivers that are subject to freshets. The agricultural or min ing emigrant soon learns, when he does net already know, that the Bitters afford the only sure protection against malaria, and those disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels to which climatic changes,exposure, and unaccus tomed or unhealthy water or diet subject him. Consequently, he places an estimate upon this great household specific and preventive com mensurate with its intrinsic merits, and is care ful to keep on hand a restorative and promoter of health so implicitly to be relied upon ia time of need. Flour is like butter; it absorbs smells read ily. It should not be kept in a place where there are onions, fish, decaying vegetables, or other odorous substances, or in a damp room or cellar. Keep it in a coo!, dry, airy room, not exposed to a freezing temperature, or to one above seventy degrees, and always sift before using. Brooklyn, October 30.—Six thousand peo ple; sitting and standing in the Brooklyn Tab ernacle, and all the adjoining rooms packed, and people turned away! Such was the scene to-day. The congregation sang : “Awake my soul, stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on.” The Rev. T. De Witt Ta'mage, D. D., preached on the subject: “Defense of Young Men,” and took his text from II. Kings, chap ter 6, verse 17: “And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man.” He said : One moraing in Dothan a young theological student wa3 scared by finding himself and Elisha, the prophet, upon whom he waited, surrounded by a whole army of enemies. Bui venerable Elisha was not scared at all, be cause he saw the mountains full of defense for him, in chariots made out of fire, wheels of fire, dashboard of fire, and cushion of fire, drawn by horses wiih nostrils of fire, and mane of fire, and haunches of fire, and hoofs of fire—a supernatural appearance that could not be seen with the natural eye. So the old minister prayed that the youDg minister might see them also, and the prayer was answered, and the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he also saw the fiery procession, looking somewhat, I suppose, like the Adiron- dacks or the Alleghanies in this autumnal re splendence. Many young men, standing among the most tremendous realities, have their eyes half shut or entirely closed. May God grant that my sermon may open wide your eyes to your safety, your opportunity and your destiny. A mighty defense for a young man is a good home. Some of my hearers look back with tender satisfaction to their early home. It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the Hills, and architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned it. But all the fresco on princely walls never looked so enticing to you as those rough hewn rafters. You can think of no park or arbor of trees planted on fash ionable country seat so attractive as the plain brook that ran in front of the old farm house and sang under the weeping willows. No barred gateway, adorned with statue of bronze, and swung open by obsequious porter in full dress, has half the glory of the swing gate. Many of you have a second dwelling place, your adopted home, that also is sacred for ever. There you built the first family altar. There your children were born. All those trees you planted. That room is solemn, be cause once in it, over the hot piliow, flapped the wing of death. Under that roof you ex pect when your work is done to lie down and die. You try with many words to tell the ex cellency of the place, but you fail. There is ouly one word in the language that can de scribe your meaning. It is home. Now I declare it, that young man is compar atively safe who goes out into the world with a charm like this upon him. The memory of parental solicitude, watching, planning and praying, will be to him a shield and a shelter. I never knew a man faithful both to his early and adopted home, who at the same time was given over to any gross form of dissipation or wickedness. He who seeks his enjoyment chiefly from outside association, rather than from the more quiet and unpresuming pleas ures of which I have spoken, may be suspected to be on the broad road to min. Absolom des pised his father’s house, and you know his history of sin and his death of shame. If you seem unnecessarily isolated from your kindred and former associates, is there not some room that you can call your own? Into it gather books, and pictures, and a harp. Have a portrait over the mantel. Make ungodly mirth stauAback from the threshold. Conse crate some spot with the knee of prayer. By the memory of other days, a father’s counsel, and a mother’s love, and a sister’s confidence, call it home. Another defense for a young man is indus trious habit. Many young men, in starting upon life in this age, expect to make their way through the world by the use of their wits rather than the toil of their hands. A child now goes to the city and fails twice be fore he is as old as his father was when he first saw the spires of the great town. Sitting m some office, rented at a thousand dollars a year, he is waiting for the bank to declare its dividend, or goes into the market expecting before night to be made rich by the rushing up of the stocks. But luck seemed so dull he resolved on some other tack. Perhaps he bor rowed from his employer’s money drawers, and forgets to put it back, or, for merely the purpose of improving his penmanship makes a copy-plate of a merchant’3 signature. Never mind, al! is right in trade. In some dark night there may come in his dreams a vision of Blackwell’s Island, or of Sing Sing, but it soon vanishes. In a short time he will be ready to retire from tbe busy world, and amid his flocks and herds culture the domestic virtues. Then those young men who once were his school mates, and'knew no better than to engage in honest work, will come with their ox teams to draw him logs, and with their hard hands help heave up his castle. This is no fancy pic ture. It is every day life. I should not won der if there were some rotten beams in that beautiful palace. I should not wonder if dire sicknesses .should smite through the young man, or if God should pour into his enp of life a draught that would thrill him with unbeara ble agony. I should not wonder if his children should become to him a living curse, making his home a pest and a disgrace. I should not wonder if he goes to a miserable grave, and beyond it into the gnashing of teeth. The way of the ungodly shall perish. My young friends, there is no way to genu ine success except through toil, either of the head or hand. At the battle of Crecy, in 1346, the Prince of Wales, finding himself heavily pressed by the enemy, sent word to his father for help. The father, watching the battle from a windmill, and seeing that his son was not wounded and could gain the day if he would, sent word: “No, I will not come. Let the boy win his spurs, for, if God will, I desire that this day be his with all its honors." Young man, fight your own battle all through, and you shall have the victory. Oh, it is a battle worth fighting. Two monarchs of old fought a duel, Charles Y. and Francis, and the stakes were.kingdoms—Milan and Burgundy. You fight with sin, and the stake is heaven or hell. Do not got the fatal idea that you are a ge nius, and that therefore there is no need of close’ application. It is here where multitudes fail. The great curse of the age is the geni uses men with enormous self-oonoeit and ego tism’ and nothing else. I had rather be an ox than an eagle; plain, and plodding, and useful, rather than high-flying and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcasses. Extra ordinary capacity without use is extraordinary failure. There is no hope for that person who begins life resolved to live by his wits, for the probability is he has not any. It was not safe for Adam, even in his unfatien state, to have nothing to do, and therefore God commanded him to be a farmer and horticulturist. He was to dress the garden and keep it, and had he and his wife obeyed the divine injunction and been at work, they would not have been saun tering under the trees and hungering after that fruit which destroyed them and their posterity: proof positive for all ages to come that those who do not attend to their business are sure to get into mischief. I do not know that the prodigal in scripture would ever have been re claimed had he not given up his idie habits and ■rone to ret t ing swine for a living. “Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which, having no overseer or guide, pro- Catarrh Cured. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, at last found a prescription which completely cured and sav ed him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sending a self addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 212 East9th St., New York, will receive the recipe free of charge. (621-15t eow are allowed to go free. And so it is with all of us. God passed on us the sentence, “By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread.” We must endure our time of drudgery, and then, after awhile, we will be allowed to go in to comparative liberty. We must be willing to endure the sentence. We all know what drudgery is connected with the beginning of any trade or profession; but this does not con tinue all our lives, if it be the student’s or the merchant’s or the mechanic’s life, l know you have at the beginning many a hard time, but after awhile these things will become easy. You will be your own master. God’s sentence will be satisfied. You will be discharged from prison. Bless God that you have a brain to think, and hands to work, and feet to walk with, for in your constant activity, O, young man, is one of your strongest defences. Pat your trust in God and do your level best. That child had it right when the horses ran away with the load of wood and he sat upon it. When asked if he was frightened he said: “No; I prayed to God and hung on likes beaver.” Again, profound respect for the Sabbath will be to the young man a powerful preservative against evil. God has thrust into the toil and fatigue of life a recreative day, when the soul is especially to be fed. It is no new-fangled notion of a wild-brained reformer, hut an insti tution established at the beginning. God has made natural and moral laws so harmonious that the body, as well as the soul, demands this institution. Our bodies are seven-day clocks, that must be wound up as often as that or they will run down. Failure must come sooner or later to the man who breaks the Sab bath. Inspiration has called it the Lord’s day, and he who devotes it to the world is guilty of robbery. God will not let the sin go unpun ished, either in this world or the world to come. This is the statement of a man who had broken this divine enactment: “I was engaged in manufacturing on the Le high river. On tho Sabbath I used to rest, but never regarded God in it. One beautiful Sab bath, when the noise was all hushed and the day was all that loveliness could make it, I sat down on my piazza and went to work invent ing a new shuttle. I neither stopped to eat nor drink till the sun went down. By that time I had the invention completed. The next morn ing I exhibited it, boasted of my day’s work, and was applauded. The shuttle was tried and worked well; but that Sabbath day’s work cost me thirty thousand dollars. We branched out and enlarged, and the curse of Heaven was upon me from that day onward.” While the divine frown must rest upon him who tramples upon this statute, God’s special favor will be upon that young man who scrup ulously observes it. This day, properly ob served, will throw a haliowed influence over all the week. The song and sermon aDd sanctu ary will hold back from presumptuous scenes. That young man who begins the duties of life with either secret or open disrespect of the holy day, I venture to prophesy, will meet with no prominent successes. God’s curse will fall upon his ship, his store, his office, his studio, his body and his soul. The way of the wicked He turneth upside down. In one of these old fables it was said that a wonderful child was born in Bagdad, aud a magician could hear his footsteps six thousand miles away. But I can hear in the footstep of that young man, on his way to the house of wor ship this morning, a step not only of a lifetime of usefulness, but the coming step of eternal joys of Heaven yet millions of miles away. Again, a noble, ideal and confident expecta tion of approximating to it will infallibly ad vance. The artist completes in his mind the great thought that he wishes to transfer to the canvas or the marble before he takes up the crayon or the chisel. The architect plans out the entire structure before he orders the work men to begin; and though there may for a long while seem to be nothing but blundering and rudeness, he has in his mind every Corinthian wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine capi tal. The poet arranges the entire plot before he begins to chime the first canto of tingling rhythms. And yet, stranger to us, there are men who attempt to build their character without knowing whether in the end it shall be a rude traitor’s den or a St. Mark’s of Venice. Men who begin to write the intricate poem of their lives without knowing whether it shall be a Homer’s Odyssey or a rhyme ster’s botch. Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out cf a thousand are living without any great life-plot—hooted and spurred and plumed and urging their swift coursers in the hot test haste. I come out and ask: “ Hallo, man, whither away?” His response is: “No where.” Rush into the busy shop or store of many a one, and taking the plane out of the man’s band and iaying down the yard-stick say: “What, man, is this all about, so much stir and sweat?” The reply will stumble and break down between teeth and lips. Every day’s duty ought only to be the following up of the main plan of existence. Let men be consistent. If they prefer misdeeds to correct course of action, then let them draw out the design of knavery, and cruelty, and plunder. Let every day’s falsehood and wrong-doing be added as coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds red stripe the canvas, and the clouds of a wrathful God hang down heavily over the canvas, ready to break out in clamorous tem pest. Let the waters be chafed, a froth-tangle, and green with immeasurable depths. Then take a torch of burning pitch and sdbrch into the frame of the picture the right name for it, namely, the Soul’s Suicide. If ono entering upon sinful directions would only, in his mind, or on paper, draw out in awful reality this dreadful future, he would recoil from it, and say: “Am I a Dante, that by my own life I should write another Inferno?” But if you are resolved to live a life such as God and good men will approve, do not let it be a vague dream, an indefinite determination, but in your mind or upon paper sketch it in all its minutia;. You cannot know the changes to which you may be subject, but you may know what always will be right and always will be wrong. Let gentleness, and charity, and ver acity and faith stand in the heart of the sketch. On some still brook’s bank make a lamb and lion lie down together. Draw two or three of the trees of life, not frost-s'ricken, nor ice- glazed, nor wind-stripped, hut with thick verdure waving like the palms oi heaven. On the darkest cloud place the rainbow, that pil low of the dying storm. You need not burn the title of the frame. The dullest will catch the design at a glimpse, and say: ‘ That is the road to heaven.” Ah, me! On this sea of life what innumerable ships, heavily laden and well rigged, yet some bound for another port. Swept every whither of wind or wave, they go up by the mountains, they go down by the billows, and are at their wits’ end. They sail by no chart, they watch no star, they long for no harbor. I beg every young man to-day to draw out a sketch of what, by the grace of God, he means to be, though in excellence so high that you cannot reach it. He who starts out in life with a high ideal of character, aEd faith in ils attainment, will find himself encased from a thousand temptations. There are magnificent possibilities before each of you young men of the stout heart, and the buoyant step, and the bounding spirit. I would marshal you for grand achievement. God now provides for you the fleet, and the armor, and the fortifications; who is on the Lord’s side? The captain of the zouaves in ancient times, to encourage them against the immense odds on the side of their enemies, said: “Come, my men, look these fellows in the face. They are 6,000; you are 300. Surely the match is even.” That speech gave them the victory. Be not, any hearers, dismayed at any time by what seems an immense odds against you. Is fortune, is want of educa tion, are men, are devils against you, though the multitudes of earth and hell confront you, stand up to the charge. With a million against you, the match ia just even. Nay, you have a decided advantage. If God be for us, who can be against us? Thus protected, you need not spend much time in answering your assailants. Many years ago word came to me that two imposters, as temperance lecturers, had been speaking in Ohio in various places, and giv ing their experience, and they told their an dienes that they had long been intimate with me and had become drunkards by dining at my table, where I always had liquors of all sorts. Indignant to the last decree. I went down to Patrick Campbell, chief of Brooklyn police, saying I was going to start that night for Ohio to have these villians arrested, and I wanted him to tell me how to make the ar rest. He smiled and said: “Do not waste your time by chasing these men. Go home and do your work, and they can do you no harm.” I took his counsel and al! was well. Long ago I made up my mind that if one will put his trust in God and be faithful to duty. Have God on your Hyacinth Bulbs, Fine Roses, Tulips, Crocuses, And Rare Plants of All Kinds. ~jf=SEND FOR CATALOGUE TO EVERGREEN LODGE FLOWER GARDEN, 621 _ 8t Clarkesville, Tenn. tact may qualify him for the highest salary of the counting house. He may b9 as sharp as Herod and as strong as Samson, with as fine locks as those which hung Absalom, still he is not safe from contamination. The more ele gant his manner, and the more fascinating his dress, the more peril. Satan does not care much for the allegiance of a coward and illiter ate being. He can bring him into efficient service. But he loves to storm that castle of character which has in it the most spoils and treasures. It was not some crazy craft creep ing along the coast with a valueless cargo that the pirate attacked, but the ship, full-winged and flagged, plying between great parts, carry ing its million of specie. The more your nat ural and acquired accomplishments, the more need of the religion of Jesus. That does not cut in upon or hack up any smoothness of dis position or behavior. It gives symmetry. It arrests that in the soul which ought to be ar rested and propels that which ought to be pro pelled. It fills up the gulleys. It elevates and transforms. To beauty it gives more beauty; to tact more tact, to enthusiasm of na ture more enthusiasm. When the Holy Spirit impresses the image of God on the heart lie does not spoil the canvas. If in all the multi tudes of young men upon whom religion has acted you could fiud one nature that had been the least damaged, I would yield this proposi tion. You may now have enough strength of character to repel the various temptations to gross wickedness which assail you, but I do not know in what strait you liny be thrust at some future time. Nothing-- it of the grace of the cross may then be a 1 o deliver you from the lions. You are i meeker than Moses, nor holier than Da'. . nor more pa tient than Job, and you ougirt not to consider yourself invulnerable. You may have some weak point of character that you have never discovered, and in some hour when you are assaulted the Philistines will be upon thee, Samson. Trust not in your good habits, or your early training, or your pride of charac ter; nothing short of the arm of Almighty God will be sufficient to uphold you. You look forward to the world sometimes with a chil ling despondency. Cheer up! I will tell you how you all may make a fortune. “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all othir things will be added unto you.” 1 know you do not want to be mean in this mat ter. Give God the freshness of your life. You will not have the heart to drink down the brimmirg cup of life and then pour tho dregs on God’s altar. To a Savior so infinitely gen erous you have not the heart to act like that. That is not brave, that is not honorable, that is not manly. Your greatest want in all the world is a new heart. In God s name 1 tell you that. And the Blessed Spirit presses through the solemnities and privileges of this holy hour. Pat the cup of lite eternal to your thirsty lips. Thrust it not back. Mercy of fers it, bleeding mercy, long-suffering mercy. Reject all other friendships, he ungrateful for all other kindness, prove recreant to all other bargains, but despise God’s love for your im mortal soul—don’t you do that. I would like to see 3ome of you this hour press out of the ranks of the world and lay your conquered spirit at the feet of Jesu3. This hour is no wandering vagabond stagger ing over the earth, it is a winged messenger of tbe skies whitpering mercy to thy soul. Life is smooth now but after a while it may be rough, wild and precipitate. There comes a crisis in the history of every man. Wo seldom understand that turning point until it is far past. The road of life is forked and I read on two signboards: “This is the way to happi ness.” “This i3 the way to ruin.” How apt we are to pass the forks of the road without thinking whether it comes out at the door of bliss or the gates of darkness. Many years ago I stood on the anniversary platform with a minister of Christ who made this remarkable statement: "Thirty years ago two young men started out in the evening to attend Park theater. New York, where a play was to be acted in which the cause of religion was to be placed in a ri diculous and hypocritical light. They came to the steps. The consciences of both smote them. One started to go home hut returned again to the door and yet had not courage to enter and finally departed. But the other young man entered the pit of the theater. It was the turning point in the history of these two young men. The man who entered was caught in the whirl of temptation. He sank deeper and deeper in infamy. He was loBt. That other young man was saved, and he now stands before you to bless God that fnr twen ty years he has been permitted to preach the gospel.” “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youtn. and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy vouth; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.” THE CHILL MUSTER. Chills and Fevers Completely Conquered. For three weeks I was suffering from a severe cold in my head, accompanied by a pain In the temples. 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