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!V. Dll. TALMAGE.
HZ BROOKLYN DIVINE S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
HhHJccI : “From Ocean to Ocean or.
My Transcontinental Journey.**
7 - • *
TEXT: “ He shall hare dominion from
sea to sea.”—Psalms Ixxii.. H,
What two seas are referred to? Home
might say that the text meant that
Christ was to reign over all the land
Iwtwnen tho Arabian Hea and Caspian
Kea, or between the Red He* and the
Mediterranean Hea, or l<etween the
Black H«a and the North Hea No; in such
case my text would have named them. It
meant from any large Ixwly of water on the
earth clear across to any other large body of
water. And so I have a right to read it:
He shall have dominion from the Atlantic
Sea to the Pacific Hea. My theine is,
America for God * -
First, consider the immensity small of this pos
session. If It were only a tract of land
trod callable of nothing better than sage brush
with ability only to support prairie
dogs, 1 should not have much enthusiasm in
wanting Christ to have it added to his do*
minion. Bnt its immensity and affluence no
one can imagine coach unless, in immigrant wagon Union
or stage or in rail train of the
Pacific or the Northern Pacific or the Can
edtan Pacific or the Houthern Pacific, lie has
traversed it. Having been privileged six
limes to cross this continent, and twice
this summer, I have come to
some appreciation of its magnitude.
t’alifornia, which I sup|>oscd in l*>y
hood from its size on the map, was a few
yards amiss, a ridge of lam! on which one
must walk cautiously lest he hit his head
against the Hierra Nevada on one side or slip
'•ff into the Pacific waters <m the other. Cali
fornia, the thin slice of land as I supposed it
t.. is* m boyhiwid, 1 have found it to be inrger
than all the .-yates of New England and all
New- N oi k Slat*-and nil Pennsylvania added
together: and if you add them together their
square miles fall far short of California,
North and Month Dakota, Montana ami
V\ ashingtypi Territory, to lie launched next
winter into statehood, will Is* giants at their
hirtli. led.'the Congress of tho United States
strain a point and soon admit also Idaho and
Wyoming keeping and New Mexico. What is the
use them out in the cold any longer?
le t us have the whole continent divided into
.smies Wil l, Heroitori.il and Congressional
llepresenitttiv es and we will all l»o happy
together, ff some of them have not quite the
mpiisite miinlM-r these or jieople, fix up the Con
st,tut,o„ to suit caws. Even I tali will
i»y drowning Monogamy p.lygamy lias sen i,e ready to
cnmi-. ah and will probably triumphed tnuinnh in parts of
at this
,» I ln Wa (
I mu nil the Territories . nib. . Mates and it
some Of the sisters are sma ier than the elder
J 1 " >,V r° V'lT »tk**}' 1 Because u" y WlU some SOOU u of ,
„ • ; ! # " f ', l !" ,ly "V “r f, T‘
m Mat i e and the , others only four feet , do
*j‘ , , ie fu £) es * h of ^ rK .i! those V,! ^ who hiKh m e only four
feet high. Among the .lying utterances of
" um» -‘ K, L’ r i^’he ' " ‘ I "' wisestatesman U, “ l and great nt
*
so, , H. H. < ox. was the exprenseil detomim- -
lion to move next winter iu Congress for the
" “HnC^vs 0t er 1 ijdoStates.
mime.mil> of our n continental ''' ;’»h’ulating acreage you the
m."". Ik: domain r,‘Tm U lT me r unciiltivabsl, Ha u reaches heaps of our of pub- dry
sand, ninl the‘Iwd lands’of Montana and the
s Honed r ^.^7 ihnl. i,a w. Within , Sr r t twenty-five t ” years you .r there n -
reclaimed either hand Sj
crowbar. Mv irrigation, hy farmers’ plow or miners’
the waters of the
rivers and the showersof heaven in what are
calleil the rainy season wili lie gathereti
into great reservoirs mid through aque
ducts let down where and when the iample
want them. Utah is an object leason. Koine
parts of that territory which were so barren
that a spear of grass could not have Ik*.-,,
raised there in a hundml years are now rich
4W LmioriKtor County tarins «»f IViinsvlvnnia
or U’cstchestcr farms of New York or
KoniersetUnimty farms of New Jersey.
Experiments have proved that ten acres ol
ground hydrologic irrigated from waters gathered in
gr.-a* ill lasins will pn since
rain uiuch n* fifty acres from the downpour ol
freehets ss seen and in our regions. We have onr
which to our he scientifically di-oughts, but in those lm,d>
ill be arc neither freshets droughts irrigated there
W nor As von
take a pitcher and got it full of water and
then s,.t it on a table mid take a drink out of
it when you are thirsty mid never think
of drinking u pitoherful all „t »nee so
Montana and Wyoming and Idaho will catch
the rains of their rainy s*-ason and take m,
nil Hie waters of their rivers in great pitch
ers of reservoirs and drink out of them when •
ever they will mid refresh their laud when
cver The they will.
work has already Government/ beeu grandly begun
by the hundred United States Over
four lakes have alreudv been offl
daily ti*»n for taken isissession of bv the na«
tiie great enterprise of irri
gat ion. Rivers that have been
rolling idly through these regions, doiua
nothing on (heir wav aiid to the sea, will Ih> Ins
mhm| and corralled penned up until such
time as the farmers need them Under the
winie processes the Ohio, the Mississippi and
all the other rivtirx will be tauaht «oMaw
themselves letter, and. great Basins will hr
mule to catch the surplus of waters in times
*>f frrahets and keep them for times of
ilixutght. :v‘?i lan,ls The irrigating process by which all
bet ¥ T , ' th ® Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans are t to lw fertilised is no new
t xperiment. rt lias been going on success
fully India, tuuidreds of years, in Spain, in China
in in iluKsia, in Egypt.
Aixnit eight hundml millions of people of
,h f T k opt •livo by food raised
on , irrigated land. And here we have al
toned to lie waste, given up to rattlesnake
and bni and prairie dog, lands enough to sup
port whole nations of industrious popula
tkm. The work begun will In. consum
innteil. Here and there exceptional
lands may be stubborn *itul refuse to
vield any wheat or corn from their hard
il-ts but if the h,K. fail to make an impres
sion, tho miner's pickax will discover the rea
-on for it and bring up from beneath those
uiinnuinetivo surfmvs coal and iron and lead
Mnd copper and silver aud gold, trod speed
tlie geologists ami the suvvevora the enci
neers and the senatoriaPcommissioua, audi the
capitalists and the new settlors, and the bus
bandmen oho put their brain and hand nnd
l t-vrt to this transfiguration of the American
^But while I speak of the immensity of the
continent, mensity I must remark it B not'on i m
of monotoue or tameness. The
larger some eoimtrics are, the worse for the
world This continent is not more remarks
ble for its magnitude than for its wonder* of
construction. U hat a taVe^wssesakin nifv the Yv^*.
Government did not of
mite, California, as it has of Yellowstone
\V vvnuing, andof Niagara Falls, New York ’
Vosemite and the adjoining California re
Kicii#! M ho that has seen them can think
..( them without having his l.lood tin
Rl«* Trees now standing there that
were oki when Christ lived. These monarc h*
foliage reigned before Cwsar or Alexan
dc-r, and ihe in-xi iiunwin l years will not
shatter thrir scepter. They are the masts of
the continent, their canvas spread on tho
winds while the old ship l^rs on its wav
through »lore the ago*. Their siz... of which trav
often speak, does not affect me so much
as thmr longevity. Though so old now the
branche s of some of them will crackle in the
la*t conflagration of the Sj, planet
That Valiev of the ei . thousand ht
Dag and a half mile wide and throe
feat deep. It seems as if it had been the
lusaniii;; of Otunipotenm to crowd into «
small a place as possible some of the most
the Hvner%* of tb<* world mealurjbv
cliffs you do not stop to feet i
for they aiw literally a mile high Stcco
1 hat neither foot of man uor beast ever scaled
lhem, they stand in everlasting deiiame. If
Jehovah ha* a thmne on earth these
and yonder is Cathedral Roct
vast, worship gloomv the minster built for the silent
of mountoins. Yonder is Sen
Unel Rock, 3870 feet high, bold, solitarv.
dom stAiiding touched guard among the oneFourthof’july age*, its top ad
uutil a bride
mcHinted it and planted the uational stand
anUi and the people down m the valley
terbaueef lcoked up and saw the head of the mountain
with the Stars and 8trines Yonder
ai-e the “Three Brothers,” four thousand feet
high; Dorne “Cloud s Rest,” North and South
the fiery au-t beyonets heights never captured save by
of the thunder storm.
'Wrisry th **>'\“°««PP»ng place for
■ ,.uSL sss&
Meantains flanked by mountains Wnwhim
^ %
split. Mountains ground. Mountains
fallen. Mountains triumphant. As though
Mont Blano and the Adirondack* and
Mount Washington were here uttering
themselves in «>ne magnificent chorus
of rock and pradpie.. and waterfall,
Sifting and dashing through the rocks, the
water comes . down. The Bridal Veil
Fall-, so thin you ran see the face
of the mountain liehind. Yonder isYose
inite Falls, dropping feet, sixteen
tiroes greater descent than that of Niagara.
These waters flash***! to death on the rocks,
m that the white spirit of the stain waters
as*-ending in robe of mist seeks the heaven.
Yonder is Neva*In falls, plunging seven hun
dred feet, the water in errows. the water in
rockets, the water in pearls, the water in
amethysts,' the water in diamonds. That
caw-nde flings down the rocks enough jewels
to array all the earth in l«eanty. and rushes
until it drojw into a very hell of waters.
the smoke of their torment ascending forever
M n«l ever
Hut the most wonderful part of this Amer
ican continent is the Yellowstone Park. My
visit there la-t month marie upon me an im
oression that will last forever. After all
poetry has exhausted itself, anil all the
Morans and Bierstadts and the other enchant
:n g artists have revelations completed their canvas,
there wil! be other to make and
.,ther stories of its In-anty and wrath,
splendor end agonv, to be recited,
n,,. Yellowstone Park cheapening' is the geol
,»gist’s jmradise By of
travel niav it laconic the nation’s inhere play
around! In some portions of seems
to be the anarchy of the elements. Fire and
water, and the vapor born hills of that of crystal marriage, that
terrific. Geyser cones or
have been over five thousand years growing,
j„ places the earth, throbbing, sobbing,
groaning, At the expiration quaking with of aqueous sixty-five paroxysm, min
every hewing its ltoiiing
utes one «>f the geysers
water lnr, feet in the air and then descending
Into -.vails swinging large enough rainbows. for the Caverns sepulcher of pictured of the
'mmnn race. Formations of stone in shape
and color of cal la lily, of heliotrope, of rose,
of cowslip, of sunflower and of glndiola.
Sulnlmr nnd arsenic and oxide of iron, with
;heir delicate pencils, turning the hills into
gallery. > Luxemburg or a Vatican Thanatopsis picture
The so-railed
geyser, exquisite ns the Bryant poem it was
named after, anil the so called Evangeline
geyser, lovely as the Dnigfellow heroine it
commemorates* The so called Pulpit Ter
race from its white elevation preaching
mightier sermons Tho of God called than Bethesda human lips
ever uttered. so gey
>er, by the warmth of which invalids have
already been cured, the Angel of Health cou
u„„aUy stirring the waters. Enraged era
ters, with heat at five hundred degrees only a
lit tie below reaches' th** surfa-e
Wide of stone of intermingle l
,i„, x |,j U( , fts the sky, green as the foliage,
crimson «s the dahlia, white as the snow,
.potted Hs the leopard, tawny as the Hop
;rizzly as the bear, in circles, in angles, in
-tars, in coronets, in stalacites. in stalag
;nita ,. Here anil there are petrified growths,
, r tho dead trees, and vegetation of other
**««. lailmuient. kept through a process of natural em
In some places waters as inno
anil smiling as a child making a first at
tempt to walk from its mother’s lap. and not
crnable hs foaming and frenzied and ungov*.
as a maniac in murderous struggle 8
with his keeners.
But after ‘yon have wandered along the
'^.vserite M that enchantment for days and iiegin to
there can Ik* nothing more of in
forest to see you suddenly come noon the
peroration <>t "nil majesty an«l grandeur, the
c, rand canyon. It is here that it seems to me
-and I speak it with reverence—Jehovah
seems to have surpassed Himself. It seems
truleli ‘
;l ^reat Nlero let down into th,.
eternities & ai hmv m un and £ let
colors of land and sea and skv ITpllolster B&t
^ ^ ’i lrtec of >v ' ,rl,ls Sculpturing work by
r ”, « n U'*i. « M aso iV rv b >' nu omnipotent
, el Ye l ,ovv , ° 11 llt,V01 ' >aw yellow
’ ll,1 , ” ss ' .ymi siw it : there. / Red! You
never
v" ,e< unle8s vo n sa 'T lt ther ” Violet!
«aw vudet , uniess you otw it there,
rnumimant lKinners of color, In a cathe
r sun ^ an( ! 8Unset married
, , , raniB.-.v rmg.
11 ? r Conuthian capitals ano
, oasihcus v build before human archi*
was bom. Huge fortifications of
wnstructed before war forged its
»i,Tt «H‘\ercan °‘ UM1011 - be ‘"braltars taken. Alhamhras, and Sebastopols where
1 c‘l'^..,i i R» l loo/t?<l'«ec-ns long before the earthly of beauty
• w first crown
) VI '^ r in ^ RrIei1 on which no one
’ e f ,n * of , «»d earth ever sat.
* -Eh”?. nt vh i ch l he i es ^ hiUs are
r
p, ‘ l " hl ' e t,u> F 1 • *" 11 ,,llffs 1 stan<l roun ‘i , as
Jl >uns, ’ , : s - for thousands of years be
fc " iiS u “ veiled tP hui »an
M k"t, *, the elements 4 w-el-o busy, and the , gey
were hewing away with their hot chisel.
".T* hurricanes ^ mn,iiuK witl 1 th eil '
! , “?htnmg strokes, and wereoieavmg hailstones , . giving witli
fi ” lshu *8 touches, and after all tliese forces
lv , natu r ft ha done their i*est, in ourceuturv
“
the eurtam . dropped and the world had anew
8 , divinely mspin-d revelation, the Old
written on papyrus, the New
, le J rt *meiit written pai-chment, and
fhis last on now
Testament written on the rocks.
Hanging overone of the cliffs I looked off
! u,t, ‘1 <’ould not get. my breath, then retreat
,nK a ]ess ‘‘xpoxeii place I looked down
- I*°wn , v there
? ga,u ; is a pillar of rta'k that
!!' oerta *“ conditions of the atmosphere looks
’‘ke a pilar <d blood, bonder are fifty feet
' J^o ° f five • i u,id.-»*d footnf
, > l m *• v al * of ™uk renting t>h pedestals of
. Turrets »>f
°f darkness ihe light brown tumbling on iltsirs
k°'den Snow of crystal melting brightening into
Flaming into fire of
Iviiw e> r«i cwling into russet.
kimlUn? iuV,?5 m t l n ' K ’' Morning twilight
„ tlus, 'uig midnight , l 4 shadow , s. Auroras crouch
m S among rock*.
| ’ «h Through an »’ a sle's nest on a shaft of
,a - s an eyeglass we see it among
JJjJn <»«»P ‘annot hm*l huK a stone stout<>st near arm enough of .°« to r
bxturb the feathered domesticity. Yonder
,n ' bel k htfl that would be chilled with hoi-*
ror but for the warm robe of forest foliage
with which they ai-e enwrapped. Altars of
T™” hl P which nations might kneel.
Domes of chalcedony on temples of r,or*
phyry* See all this carnage of color up and
1,, ' vu tho riiffs; it must have l>oe» the bat
of Ike war of tho elements
ra nre nil the colors of the wall of
“S. , *WP iir * tho
nov
WM ,he topau nor the
* asc “? ,h > die . amethyst nor the jasin-r
nor the twelve gate* of twelve pearls, want-
11 If spirits bound front earth to heaven
J^uki :!! a ' 1 pass V,' up ’ * aat by > way would nf this not canyon, be the dashof
so overpower
which V™ 11 the thnSgh ^ earaflv^cSefv ’In
would crystal is so bright and the red so
art!nm S lie tit preparation for the
of glass mingled with fire.”
.),\ t 'v'iVi Ils V 1 "**" ' n J 116 Grand canyon of
' Wlowstone Park on the morning of
, 1 for the most part held
but . we our
l^*ce, after awhile it flashed upon
' Vlth sueh pow er I could not help but say to
'uy cmnrades: “What a Hall this would be
'2 V t a ^L ’ Ia,1 ? !a ent!" Hee that mighty
’■^ hC * de , with the rainbows at the foot of it.
t-ie ^hose agitations waters congealed of that day, and what transfixe*! with
wjmla make for the xhmtng feet a of place Judge they
^ a
9 U * C antl dead. And those
ainb , . kxik like
f “' Vs now the crowns
c *" r at his fw>t - At the
of , this great t canyon is a floor on
w b K ' h tbe nations of the earth galleri^ might stand
a n<1 al, u P aad down these of rock
l . ‘ic nations . of heaven might sit. And what
of ar ^| lau se!s' trumpets there
' v <a “ d through all these gorges and from
all , the«e caverns and overall these heights.
Why should not the greatest of all the da vs
,he Wor,d shft!1 ever aniid the grand
< ^!atr Oh, ei1 the u ry Omnipotence ever built?
sweep of the American continent!
Vhtt r ^ hundred j OUI l <l miles - shores a ship's so bold
V"l d touch ,heshore before keel touted prow
its
the bottom. I said: “This is the Mediterra
apan America \ isiting Portland aud
Townsend and \ and Fort
aucouvers and other cities
tons. New "Yorks, Charlestons and Savannahs
^ thePacidc <x»ast. But after all this sum
Ul *^twani fil s j®tirneymg other and my other tourneys
bad m summers, I found that I
seen * only a part of the American^ Con
or Alaska is as far west of San
”*j ac f s th <X) as the tral Coast <**T of Maine is east of it,
8“ c *“ °* American Con
“ o Francisco.
I have said these things about the macni- afew
Hide of the continent and given you
of some of it* wonders to let you
know the comprehensiveness of tha text when
itsays that Christ is going to have dominion
froo^gy^ea. that y. fromjhe Atlantic to
at the northwest. Only Behring Straits
«eparate os from Asia, and these will be
^tanned rentary clones, by a great and bridge probably before long another before J
that. The thirty-six miles of water between •
these two continents are not all deep also sea.
I Hit have three islands and there are
Jioal.s which will allow jJlers for bridges, is only and
for the most of the way the water
about twenty fathoms deep. bridge which will
Tbe Americo- Asiatic
yet span those straits will make America.
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent.
So you see America evangelize*!, Asia will be
evangelized. Europe taking Asia from one
side and America taking it from the other
side. Our great-grandchildren will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and
Europe all one, what substraction from
cies the pangs in of Revelation seasickness! will and be the fulfilled. prophe¬
There shall be no more sea.' 1 But do I
mean literally that this American continent
is going to be all gospelize«l v I do. Christo¬
pher Columbus, when he went ashore from
the Santa Maria, and his second brother
Alonzo, when he went ashore from the Pinta.
and his third brother Vineent. when he went
ashore from the Nina, took jiossession of this
country in the name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Ghost.
Satan has no more right to this country
than I have to your pocketbook. To hear
him talk on the roof of the Temple, kingdoms where of this he
proposed world and to the give glory Christ of them, the might
you that sup
pose he that Satan was a great real capitalist or the
was loaded up with estate, when
old miscreant never owned an acre or an inch
of ground on this planet. For that reason I
protest against something I heard and saw
this summer and other summers in Montana
anil Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado and California. They have given
devilist!*- names to many places in the West
and Northwest.
As soon as you get in Yellowstone Park or
California, you have pointed out to you
pla<-©s cursed with such names as “The Devil’s
Slide.’’ “The Devil's Kitchen,’’ “The Devil's
Thumb.” "The Devil s Pulpit,” “The Devil’s
Mush Pot," “The Devil s Tea Kettle." “The
Devil’s Saw Mill.” “The Devil's Machine
Shop.” “The Devil's Gate." and so on. Now,
it is very much needed, that geological sur¬
veyor or congressional committee through or group Mon¬
of distinguished tourists go
tana and Wyoming anil California anil Col¬
orado and give other names to these and places.
All these regions belong to the Lord to a
Christian nation, ami away with such Plu
tonic nomenclature.
But how is this continent to be gospelized? liar
The pulpit and a Christian printing press
nessed together will be the mightiest team
for the first plow. Not by the power of cold,
formalistic theology, not by ecclesiastical
technicalities. I am sick of the.n and the
world is sick of them. But it will be done by
the warm hearted, sympathetic ready presentation pardon all
of the fact that Christ is to
our sins and heal all our wounds and save us
both for this world and the next. Let your
religion of glaciers crack off and fall into the
Gulf Stream and get melted. Take all your
creeds of all denominations and drop out of
them all human phraseology and put in only
scriptural phraseology and you will see how
quick On the the Columbia iw-ople will River jump after few days them.
a ago we
saw the salmon jump clear out of the water
in different places, I suppose for the purpose
of getting the insects. And if when we want
to fish for men we could only have the right
kind of bait they will spring out above the
flood of their siiis and sorrows to reach it.
The America Young Men’s Christian Associations All of
will also do part of the work,
over the continent I saw this summer their
new asked: buildings “What rising. In Vancouver’s I
sightly place!'*’ are The you going to put on Young that
answer was: “A
Men’s Christian Association building.” At
Lincoln,Neb.. I said; “What at they making
♦ hose excavations for?” Answer: “For our
ing.” Young At Men’s Dps Christian Association build¬
Moines. Iowa, I saw a noble
structure it rising being and I asked for what pur¬
pose was built, and they told me for
the These Young Men’s Christian Association.
institutions are going to take the
young men of this nation for God. These
institutions seem in better favor with God
and man Ilian ever before. Business men
and capitalists are awaking to the fact that
they can do nothing nettei - in the way of
living beneficence or in last will and testa¬
ment than to do what Mr. Marquanddid for
Christian Brooklyn when he made our Young Men’s
stitutions will jialace possible. These in- !■
the land get our young men all
over into a stampede for
heaven. Thus we will all in some way help
on the work, you with your ten talents, I
with fit e. somebody else with three. It is es¬
timated that to irrigate the arid and desert
lands of America as they ought to be ir¬
rigated, it will cost about one hundred
million dollars to gather tho waters
Into reservoirs, As inuoli contribution
Sospel jnd effort influences as that all the would waste irrigate places with
this continent. of
Ix>t us by prayer an d
-ontribution and right living all help
the reservoirs. You will carry a bucket an d
foil a cup. and even a thimbleful would help.
And after a while God will send the floods <f
land, mercy and so gathered, pouring down all over the
some of us Oil earth and tome of vt
: n heaven will sing with Isaiah: “In the wil
(tertiess waters nave broken out and streams
in the desert," and with David: “There is a
river the streams whereof shall make glad
the America sight for of God.’’ God * Oh, fill up the reservoirs}
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Tr-nc^o i, w ' G aaa°\^A°^t i . B1X
months the year „ . i 1889 bids fair to be re
tnembered as the year of di$a?ter ail
over the wBrld. During tho month of
Jaiiuaiy wrecks there were no serious rai’road
wrecks evoent except the tne co’liaion couision on on the the Vow Aew
lork, 1 ennsy.vania & Olno railroad, m
'which eight persons were killed and ns
many more seriousiy in tired; but there
were fifteen marine v.B.-.m,-.*L dis ;ste:s, involving
B lnwinf ss iftfilivn* ^tinUaiJ and j March
a!s<> , were singular y free from railroad
disahkers, but the marine losses in Feb
JftH.Uaiv. rilftrV were 284, .An increase of 119 over
Durin *- the same month 20
if”' , „' n . os ^ t;: eu ' 1 ‘7 rt 1 ,irbat , |
“
ster f . B^lgutnSj . 10 by wind . storni
“ l fl l!T a
lfi in Nebraska* Hartford, . 23 by the terilb'ehote' fird
quhke Conn., 200 U-a bv cyclohe an fearth
in C6§ta Eicti; 13 in
(jpo-n-i** ^,V. f, rind 11 11 bv a a rmvile powde - ovnlosion explosion
A tikes, nitre, ,. * la. Iu March tne
. h further increased to 351,
tuanne s-es
the number being swelled bv the 116
sailors of the German and American war
IZ™* wl »® ^rowiifd dming the
j i'i aIa ur:cane Gio at floods t ] ie begun -'H moan their Islands. work In of
v
death .
( aud devastation. The first into’*
ligence came from Austria and Bohemia,
; where 135 li\-es were lost The consum¬
! ' vris l “ the C ,, ouemaugh , ,, \ R .. ley
on tl,e * 8t day of the month, when
nearly 5,000 persons perished and
S10,000,000 worth of i ropertv wbs <’t-s
! troved i,fo,T The “Hi month was clmn torizc.l *ri ?
I a ghtfU senesofdjsasters. t . Tlurty
Versons r\pre kil c-1 by an a-cident on
! tho Pennsvl\Rain road at Latrobe. 7C
bv a :ailroad disaster at Armagh, Ire
’and ; 1,200 bv a fire iu Chins. 40 bv a
f.,Uj uiumg U c market market h-iildino builtling ,*« m Mexicij vr A . , . ,' .t
tlisastet in Austria, and <0 by
i & the cyclotoe record iu Cuba Ju'y well keeps u]i
with railroad, mine aud stoim
disasters. ? 1,/af Altogether dnrimr t’ e first
pi T- 51 mont,1 m n n f tkn t,: o year nearly 15^C w
1 \ Te ? XVt1 ^ ,08t » . disasters of all kinds,
l besides 1 the 1< ss of property involved in
disasters, untinc file his‘swept away
proiX'rtv in ,^ am, to over S70.000 " 0CC
“ ra Ue ,c g,. {L e i- 1 i ates , II T . ■‘M* ,,
“ :
the monrufu , . record of the six months
that *ntolde.s, murdfs, hangings ivneh
mgs and crimes of all kinds have al-c
shown a marked inc-ea e over the cor-
\ Speaking of
| White House nandshaki a c at L. th#
j “ Tlie dutv a bo-,° cones non D sl tu 1 7> a 8
f-' U ^heaviest on the Presi- -
ePt .. i *, the
_ President wife of the
mak has wiselv concluded
e a bold break for freedom Mrs
Harrison, it is said i,„’ will henceforth nenc-efortn .1G <l s
uense with -V-. »| w ban i hhakii’g feature at
T 1 r Her docisnn w ill uu
oOUDtea.y^ v, ’hich will cal. be adverse, down criticism, but :ome of
fate of all reformers, this is the
and, foriucatelv
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FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
STAKING DAHLIAS.
Dahlias should always hate stout
stakes driven close to the main stalk of
the plant to give the support needed in
case of high winds, If these stakes
are painted green they will not be no¬
ticeable, and if they are taken indoors
in autumn, when the dahlia roots are
taken up, they will last several years.
They are much neater than anything
that “happens to be at hand” when you
get around to attend to this necessary
work .—American Agriculturist.
CATCHING GBOCXD MOLES.
Tne editor of tho "Winn Parish (La. )
Democrat gives the following plan for
catching the pestiferous ground mole*,
which is quite novel but s mple and
inexpensive, and is said to be effective:
Take a beef horn anl place it in the run
of the moles, with the mouth facing
their approach. They crawl into the
horn aud will never go backward. As
many as three are said to have been
caught at ono haul, all in the same
horn. Two horns with their msuths
facing in different directions, so as to
catch the moles coming and going,
would-soon clean them up.
PRECAUTIONS IN TREE PLANTING.
Trees carried long distances some¬
times arrive in bad condition, owing to
imperfect packing or to the extremes
of weather. In instances of mutilated
roots or branches, it is best to cut them
off smoothly, low enough to prevent
injury from the lacerated wood. A
clean, smooth cut invariably heals
quicker and with less risk of forming
a blemish than if a ragged wound be
left. In hceling-in treoi, when the
ground is not ready for immediate
planting, many persons suppose it
merely necessary to throw a little soil
over tho roots to shade them. Air, es¬
pecially if dry, will penetrate loose
earth and act disastrously upon roots,
causing them to wither, owiDg to rapid
evaporation. As great care should,
therefore, be exercised in placing the
treci in temporary trenches as when
planting in permanent position. The
soil shoull be mellow and carefully
distributed among the roots, so as to
avoid an air chamber in their vicinity,
and due regard iniist always be paid to
making the soil around them as firm as
possible. —New York World.
THE VALUE OF BRAN.
The value of brai for feeding all
kinds of farm stock readers it a de¬
sirable article of purchase. But its
lightness and bulk incss greatly increase
the cost of tran-porling it from the
great flour manufactories in the "West to
those localities in tho East where it is
most wanted. A method df compress¬
ing it into cakes, similar to the ordinary
oil cakes, has long been in use in E i
rope, and the cakes form a large part of
the subsistence of the cavalry horses of
the armies. Bran is one of the most
nutritious parts of the grain. It con¬
tains a well balanced proportion of tho
different elements of food, viz., 13 to
16 per cent, of flesh-forming substance,
50 to 59 ]>cr Cent, of heat and fat pro
dueing matters, and 3 1-2 to 4 per ce.it.
of fat. All the fit of the gfaiu is in the
bran, bontaiuecl in minute cells in one
of the layers of which it is made up.
It a’so has the mineral matter needed —
lime potash, and phosphoric acid. Of
the liltter a ton of it contains 9iity
fivc pounds, so that an animal could live
healthfully for a considerable time on
br in alone, if it were not for the me¬
chanical action on the intestines of its
indigestible matter. It is interesting,
therefore, to learn that an establishment
for the pressing of bran into portable
cakes is proposed in the West, through
which its use will be much encouraged.
—Attc York Tim s.
kALL AlAntInG ok STRAWBERRIES.
By this wc mean the transplanting of
runners of the present year’s growth,
whether it be done in July or October.
By care and skill it may be done ns
soon as the young roots are an inch in
length, cr even earlier. The rule is,
however, that a plant is not old enough
to set until it has branched roots; nor
is it self-supporting until sometime
later, l or this rea-on it is necessity to
setting remove otit one or more of the leavers when
Very yoUng plants in the
Bummer, lest more sap be evaporated
than the roots can supply. As the sea¬
son advances, more root3 are developed,
and there is less ri k in the operation
The advantage of potted plants is
that they receive little or no check in
being planted, even if it be done by an !
unskilled person. This enables one to 1
fruit a new variety to perfection in
nine to ten months after planting. 3Vhiic
one may not get a full crop, he wiil j j
usually get more than ha otherwi e
could. lliis is important w.th new, ^
high-priced variet'es.
The disadvantage, are that they cod j
more, express cliarg.-s are higher, and
the larvae of injurious insects, as the
strawberry-root worm, crown borer and
crown girdler, aro liable to be carried in
the pots to the new plantation. This,
however, can occur only when plants
are layered in the pots in an old bed
where these pe ts arc found.
As a rule, potted plants should be
u ei near wbera the/ are ju-oduced, so
as to give express charge*. If c:.m
raon vaiieik to be sent for,
iklayers and pot
■ roots
long they may be shortened. Common
layer plants potted in two-inch pots,
and put in a frame where they may bo
shaded and watered when necessary,
wiil make good potted plants in from
one to two weeks. This will save a
dollar a hundred on the first cost, and
nearly all the transportation charges.
Me use one-and-a-half and two-inch
pots, and ship in handled baskets lined
with waxed piper and damp moss. The
plants are laid on their sides in the
pots, with moss between the layers, and
then each layer is covered with moss
and a cloth cover wed on. Oac- and
a-half-inch pots run thirteen t> the
pound, and when filled with damp soil
seven to the pound. There is no pro¬
tection to the roots of a pot plant while
in transit that is nearly as good as tho
pot in which it grew. One hundred of
the smallest s:’z-s weigh about twenty
pounds when packed .—Boston Culti¬
vator.
houses' teeth and what they tei.l.
Some valuable rules for telling the
nge of a horse aro thus laid down in
Column's liural World.
A foal of six months has six griuders
in each jaw, three in each side, and al¬
so six nippers or front teeth, with a
cavity in each.
At the age of one year cavities in
front teeth login to decrease, and ho
has four grinders upon each side, one
of permanent, and reniaiuder of milk
set.
At the age of two years ho loses tho
first milk grinders above and below and
front teeth have their cavities filled up
alike to teeth of horses of eight years of
age.
At the ago of three years or two and
a half ho ca ts his two front nippers,
and iu a short time after the two next.
At the age of four years, grinders aro
six upon each side; and at about four
and a half years his nippers are all per¬
manent ones, by the replacing of the
remaining two corner teeth; tuslie 3
then appear, and he is no longer a colt.
At five years a horse has his tushes,
and there is a black-colored cavity in
the centre of his lower nippers.
At six years this black cavity is oblit¬
erated in the two front lower nippers.
At seven tho cavities of the next two
arc filled up, and the tushes blunted;
and at eight the cavities of the two cor¬
ner teeth arc filled up. The horse may
now be said to be aged.
Cavities in the nippers of the upper
jaw are not obliterated till the horse is
about ten years old, after which time
the tushes become rouud and tho nip¬
pers project and change their surface.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Above all things keep the hen house
clean and well ventilated.
Don’t forget that green food should
be fed to fowls when confined.
Save tho best birds for nefct year’s
breeding and send the others td iuarket.
Young poultry should not life fed
with the older oac3. It will always pay
to keep a coop and provide a board or
shallow trough in order to economize
fee!.
Fiuit and vegetable growers are apt
to look at the distant city market with
a magnifying-glass, nnd to overlook tho
advantage of the home market in consc
fju nee. How foolish to reach for tlio
stars to light yont pipe with, when you
haVe a match in your pocket.
The effect of damp ground find stag¬
nant water on fowls—especially oni
young tiirkeys—is well known, Fatal
disease! follow as inevitably in those
cases as with human exposure to mias¬
matic exhalations. A dry gravelly spot
is absolutely necessary to hta thful con¬
ditions.
An excellent way to make a strange
cow feel “wonted’’ or contented as pos¬
sible—and there is money in this to the
dait-ymafl—*is a dai y use of the card
nnd biUsh. Sueh use promotes her
Comfort* and Very quickly causes her to
feel coiitented tfith het new master and
home.
Tomato Figs.
My tomato fi ,*s are praise 1 wherever
they are tried, boasts 31.ss Grey in the
Pm r-e Farm r. This is the way I pre¬
pare them: Pour boiling water over
the tom a oes in order to remove the
skins; weigh them and place them in a
stone jar, with as much sugar as you
|, aVe tomatoes, and let them stand two
j iy3> p oU r off the syrup, boil and
skim it un il m scu.-n rises, Pvur it
over the tomatoes, and let stand two
days as before; then boil and skim
again. After a th'ri tinu thsy arc fit
f 0 dry y if the weather is gool; if not,
let them stand in the syrUp until good
drying weather. Pi.cn them on large
earthen plates and put them in the sun
dry. Turn them occasioaa ly. The 1
to
dryin * will take about a week; after
wbic h pac : c them down in small wooden
w - t k fi ne w iute sugar between
each liyer. Dried in this way I have
kept them three years.
Why Gladstone’s 3Iarriagc is a Success
The Grand O.-d Man, YV. E. G ad-
6tone, on the occasion of his golden wed
ding, is reported to have said that he
has solved the domsstic problem in thij
way: "“Whenever Mrs. Gladstone
insists I submit, aid when I insist she
submits.” Hj, However, dosen't say
whether they take turns about insisting
or submitting. Marriage is a failure
where one of the 1 igh contracting
parties insists on being the insider all
the time, and dotftn't take turns in
to be the submitter.
A Sure Cure. —A free application of CIRCUS
soft soap to a fresh burn almost instantly
removes tho firo from the fit sh. If the
injury is very severe, as soon as the pain A MONEY
ceases, apply linseed oil, and then diwt
over with fine fiour. When this cover¬
ing ing is dry, repeat the oil and flour obtained. dress¬ 'l A splendid
until a good coating is [>
When the latter dries and falls off, as it NJbOYS Story for
will do in a day or two, a new skin will and
be found to have formed over the burn. GIRLS.
Marriage tfcifcR The story is of a
tutions, I* but the th* stepping-stone to those divine Insti¬ IWttJaisPih WPf aR-»!* ero who worked
stitute the family foundation and the home, which con¬ hard to earn bis
tion and very on which our na¬ M spending money,
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of the wife, and m th* r, depends the sunshine 4.^ M many
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thousands f single ladies, drag sad how unselfishly ha
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congestion, d- ed ailm inflammation, ulceration nnd kin- his own pleasure. A pure story—sent free to boy
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Dr. Pierce’s Pellets- -cleanse and regulate required.
the stomach, bowels and system generally.
Out- a dose; purely vegetable.
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“The race is not to him who doth the swiftest
Nor run.
ihe battle to the man who shoots with the V
“All longest Bun.” N
t' e sann-e,” a long gun <1- <x count, and
, the tallest pole gets the persimmons.” If cdfc*
are not satisfied with you the rK
for your equipment for
face tie of life, financial success,or position m the bat
Johnson take our advice and w rite to B. F. ^^1
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If there’s one set of men who appicciate a
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Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant “ Fish Brand Slicker” costs him less per year than
crops. Best fruit, grain, and stock any garme.tt made. Did you know it rains or
try tho world. Full grass coun¬ snows one dav in three the whole year through ? A
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son s Lye-water,Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. times as long. Rubber If is good lor show days, forhaid but
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become worn out, clogged up or diseased. Hood's
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