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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1897)
p ; E y. DR.TALMAGE. NOTED DIVINE’S SUN day discourse. * 8 of Christ—Walking the Kurtli The FroS ' e Followed l>y the Through Centuries of Faith—The Glory in Heaven Eye Sacrificial Work is Ended. When HI* Tixt: -On his head were m ‘iny crowns.” . Ppv. XIX., !*• In watching this march of Christ we must 18 '.j. before Him or beside Him, for that “°„,hl *' not behind be reverential Him. We or follow worshipful. Him while Ho t in his teens up a Jerusalem terrace, building 600 feet long and 600 feet wide, under the hovering crowned splendor of gate " , in d by a pillar with a capl l'c h's-le 1 into the shape of flowers and tl U marble screen until a leaves un’of and white-haired near a philosophers and theologians gather around him, and then boy bewilders and oonfounds and over whelms 'U these scholarly septuagenarians , uestions they cannot answer, and under His quick whys and whyfores, and L,., and whens, they pull and their white beards with embarrassment rub their wrinkled foreheads in confusion, and put tin? their staffs hard down on the marble floor as they arise to go, they must feel like chiding the boldness that allows twelve lie year; of age to ask seventy-live years of such puzzlers. building follow Him into Oat of this we the Quarantania, the mountain of tempta tion its side to this day black with rob bers' dens. Look! Up the side of this mountain come all the forces of perdition to effect our Chieftain’s capture. But al though weakened by forty days and forty nights of abstinence, He hurls all Pande monium down the rocks, suggestive of how }[,* can hurl into helplessness climb all our temp tations. And now we after Him up the tough sides of the “Mountain of Beati tudes,’ and on the highest pulpit of rocks, the Valley of Katin before Him, the Lake of Galilee to tho right of Him, and lie preaches a sermon that yet will transform the world with its applied sentiment. Now, we follow our Chieftain on Lake Galilee. We must keep to the beach, for our feet are not shod with the supernatural, nnlwe remember what poor work Peter made of it when he tried to walk the water. Christ, our leader, is on the top of the toss ing waves, and it is about half past three inthe morning, aud it is the darkest time just before daybreak. But by tho flashes of lightning we see Him putting His feet on the crest of the wave, stepping from crest tacrest, walking the white surf. The sailors think a ghost is striding the tem pest, but He cheers them into placidity, showing Himself to be a great Christ for sailors. And He walks the Atlantic, and Pacific, and Mediterranean, and Adriatic now, and if exhausted and affrighted voy agers will listen for His voice at half past three o’clock in the morning, on any sea, indeed at any hour, they will hear His ■oiee of compassion aDd encouragement. As in December. 1339, I walked on the •ay from Bethany, and at the foot of bunt Olivet, a half mile from the wall of •rusaism, through the gardon of Geth bane, and under tho eight venerable We trees now standing, their pomologi «ancestors having been witnesses.? of the 0urren<*es spoken of, the scene of horror u crime came back to me, until I shud *-'4 with the historical reminiscence. L’.gh following our Chieftain’s march the centuries, I find myself in a < - ! Nl in front of Herod’s palace in Jeru and on a movable platform placed sib Tja And tessellated pavement Pontius condemned Pilate as once a year a c ri’m: is pardoned, Pilate lets the peo P* e oo.se whether it shall be an assassin or tue - Chieftain, aud they all cry out for oration of the assassin, thus declar tag y prefer a murderer to the Saviour <>. World. Pilate took a basin of water intA of these people and tried to wash off to food of this murder from his hands, out could not. They are still lifted, and 1 se8 am looking up through all the ages Stbllowing carnage. mil vpi General our Chieftain, I ascend tho Ii3.i Gordon, the great Eng (Sorer and arbiter, first made a clay inoikf. it is hard climbing for our Chief tnin, He has not only two heavy tim bers tarry on His b;lck, the upright and iiorizul pieces of the cross, but He is st J ll ;k from exhaustion caused by lack 01 mountain chills, desert houts, v T i Pgs with eluawood rods, and years of m tent men t. Nowe follow our Chieftain to the p.tour of Mount Olivet, and without w ‘ n S e rises. All Heaven lifted a shout of w#me. In tdl the libretto of celestial ir.usi \?tis hard to find an anthem enough conjoint celebrate the joy saintly, Cl! “ r ‘. seraphic, archangelic, del tic. buiii we follow our Chieftain in His Kiarturough the centuries, for invisibly neswalks tha earth, and by the eye of lintr still follow Him. I hear His tread u tsiek room and in t’.ie abodes of berenient. He marches on aud the nan are gathering around Him. The is aro. the sen arc hearing His voice, ruentments are feeling His power. ^ 3 ’ Europ 0 will be His! Oiv one governments will fall into liiie constitutions and literatures will name. More honored and wor- 1.'P s 1:0 in this year of 1397 than at any sir!* ’ , '.‘j 0 “ieyear 10 na R° ns one,and will join the day hastens i one proces ,vl " K th ” Lain!) whithersoever °ld Vlarehlng ou! Marching on! world,whose back lias been ■ 1v 'k°so eyes have been blinded, ynrenrt lie has been wrung, will yet rival a J lie planet’s torn robe of pain and u nud dementia will come off, and the linii s /' otloss and glittering robe of i„„,' uml happiness will come on. The '■ will have stung for the last Ke' !e A ast la b’rief st will have wiped its 1118 i ’ or lminal will have re • last i crime, and our world,that a*. J a str –gglor among worlds—a lost . Wayward P lan0 t, a rebellious globe, od satellite—will hear the voice and e ^ c WJdish plaint in Bethlehem, dvivJ Zei , prayer in Gethsdmane, and orie'° 0l an ? e °- n 0U1 U°lgotha, world and will as return this voice from ,j ‘ its ^ SCon! ’ UiUt Slray MarCh ° ' - HOUCHT AND ACTION, A So„ Freached In Chicago '•< Neill, by liev. of Edinburgh, Scotland. 1 lll0, ;ght on my ways and turned Hu- U '] l: ? J testimonies. I made Iris i U> l uot t0 ke ThyCom ms. - —1’sttltu v' - cxix., 55-5G. ’3’ S Testament story of the Tes.nf'^k Pro* have in the New you on - j 5,1 wondrous detail by a 8 in[, nitable story, vou have cojiori SKI ln ‘ . 0 bri °< «Pitome the of Tsa rp. 01 116 man "’ho wrote the tor\ him , '! er V« 10 onc0 lived, you have and the whom his it m. of he ’,.V j ier< °, u ^ tlu aa 'l expressed track, there, that that he s2 ’ wrong “ d tlmt-he came to him ba - k a - alu lltld brought - s * 0 ret'uru° m ^ 0ral aUd ® terr,ia ‘ 1 bios* ciis J*i!t is IK headstone of the prodigal son after ho died and was burled. \v« hope he lived long and did well, uml that in the end of the dn.y he redeemed the follies and disas ter's of the early part; then, at lust, filled with years and honors, he lay down and died ried him and was burWl, “Devout men car to his huriat, and male lamenta tions they over him,” and we will suppose that as do in this country, they put up a headstone tuid Inscription, if so, I ojumot ■ thiuk of an inscription more suitable than our present text: “Here lies a man who thought on his ways, and turned his feettc God’s testimonies, and made haste and de layed not to keep His Commandments.” . It to—to change the figure—an entry it tho spiritual diary of the man who wrott ; tho Psalm. It is one of these little auto biographical bits that are one of the ele ments which give to the r.salms their per ennial interest. So here you have a little autobiographical olt— one of those things which keep the Psalms ia a state of great freshness for all our hearts. I wonder if we keep a diary? If there is anything that men want to remember, it is that God is writing our diary. Listen to the. scratching of the pen behind the arras! - Has God had occasion, do you think, to enter into the diary of yourspiritual history such an entry as we fludhere.by His grace, in tho diary of tho man who wrote the Psalms? I want to get at the root of the idea of experimental religion. It is time the entry was in, for there are black and shameful entries opposite your name and mine to a great extent, and it will need every entrv which will avail to redeem tho record. That which I have named is the only entry that will save it from being a ; damning indictment against us in the day when the judgment is sot and the books are opened. The diaries will ho brought out, and our eternal state will bo fixed by the record of our diary that God. with impar tial pen, has kept. That will be reading for some of us! This will redeem it—this red-letter entrv—only this: “I thought on my ways, and turned, my feet to Thy testi monies. I made haste and delayed not to keep Thy Commandments.” Do not let any one turn away, saying: “I am not included, fori have not wandered; I am not a prodigal.” All we, like sheep, have gone astray; wo have turned every one to his own way.” Some of us go blundering on through the mud and mire of drunkenness, swearing, licentiousness and open sinning; that is one way to the far oountrv. Some of us go along the macadamized road of self-righteousness, and church-going, and sermon-hearing: that is one way to tho same outer darkness and the same far country. “I thought on mv ways.” The beginning lies there. Now, I speak to peo ple who pride themsolves, I have no doubt, ‘•'that they are thinkers, and they prido themselves that dust is not to be thrown in their eyes, and they examine what is set before them.” A preacher of the Gospel asks for nothing better than that. “I speak unto wise men; judge ye what I say, to the law and to the testimony.” “I thought on my ways.” The beginning lies in serious thoughtfulness. Religion is not magic, it is miracle; but it is not jug glery, it is not witchcraft, it is not being “hypnotized;” it is not anv of these things. You never put your intellect to a higher use than when ways* you turned its powers upon your own enlightened by the surest guide, the word of God. I rather fear that many people think that, while you need to take your intellect with you when you go to hear a lecture on philosophy, or on science, you can bring your addled head when you come to hear the Gospel. Get rid of that idea. Bring your best brains with you when you come to hear God’s word. “I thought on my wavs;” that is the beginning of all experimental religion, and that is the only thing; because it be gins there, therefore, conversions are so uncommon among us. “I thought,” that is the beginning; to think for ourselves. Do not let me do vour thinking for you. No, no; it is not “T thought ou ray own sermon,” but “I thought ou my ways.” In God's providence I may be a great help to you, or I may not be, but the thing has to be done by yourselves. It is your own soul that is the issue at stake, and the thinidng that will save it must bo done by that soul’s powers themselves. “I thought on mv ways”— a man who thought for himself, that was tho begin ning with him of ait his blessings. Aro you doing it’’ For there is an essential thought lessness in all our hearts, naturally, as re gards the gospel. You will get men who sit under the best preaching intellectually, and from the point of view of interest and of power to awaken the heart and the con science and emotions, and they sit, and they sit. and they grow white, and they grow-old, and they die, and leave no sign that ever once they were awakened up to think for themselves about their eternal drift and destiny. Secondly, he tells us he thought about himself. He ceased to think about other people, and fastened his gaze upon his own soul; lie communed with liis own spirit; he talked to his own heart upon his bed, did this man who wrote the Psalms. To our selves we ought to be in every sense of the term interesting creatures, And this text helps the preacher, it relieves him of a great responsibility that ought never to be put on him. I do not know your ways: you are a deep mystery to me. You do not know my ways. I can only see the surface current, and the winds that blow and curl and crisp the water on the top of it, but of those deep, strong undercurrents that flow through what can I know? Think of your owu wavs, save your owu soul. Do not expect me to work miracles. I don’t know your ways; I don’t know the secrets that lie within your ken. If I did, God knows I would use them, God knows I would preach them to vou;I would spread them out before you till your heart stood still with this thought: “God Al mighty must have told that man all my wavs.” Your own wavs! Two or three channels into which we mav run our independent thinking: Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going? All that is covered by the expression, “thinking of one's ways.” Vfho am I? The Bible and my own conscience give the only and the sure answer to that question, What is man? Ask philosophy; ask science, and, to their infinite shame, they are developed, not quite sure whether we are gradually not yet perfectly developed monkeys—or which, donkeys, maybe-—they don’t know nor whether we are going up or back. They have not made up tii4ir “protoplasm.” minds yet. Who am I? A “germ,” a give. I What pitiful answers these men know there is some good in them, but you have put them in a corner when you ask them to give a plain answer to intensely a plain man on a plain and desperately, Who per sonal question. “Wha* is man?” am I? God’s Word says—my own conscience rings responsive to it—I am an immortal soul. God breathed into our nostrils the breath of life, and man became a llviug soul. There is in us a spark of God's own kindling, and God shall die the day I die. v die—never, That is to say I shall never never. My body goes down, but ray body is not I any more than my coat is I. I can do without one. I can do without the other. The okl heathen poet was far ahead of some of these modern ones when he said, “Non oinnts moriar” (T shall not all die), 1 admire the bold spirit of that iufldal SCHLEV COUNTY NfcWb. wio S!\M, “Whoth4r m noaveu or hell, ho felt ho whs everlasting.” That Is the es sential soul o C n uriu speaking out for its author God, and declaring its iuitestruet Ibie nature. That is who we are—Immortal souls. Think of it. Born never, never, never t > £ > ?’-t of the eons Motts oxlsconoe. l'oukno.; .vlirt Christ sail about one un i-urnel sinner. Tb•» only thing Christ con’d think of was, “Good and It been fot tha mat hal he never been born.” A good, nhs! that could never, never coat 1 ! his way, for he ha 1 been borr. Then where atn I'.' On the most uncer tain footing you can possibly imagine. A little while ago a wave out of the past eternity east up like driftwood here on the shores of time, and a iittl« wnile lienee a wave from the eternity that is coming will sweep and carry us back with itself into tlte eternity that is to be. Lauded here for a while on this narrow neck of land, be tween the two great seas, the eternity out of which we came. and the eternity to which soon we are going. Here to-day. and gone to-morrow. Upon Clydeside, where I come from, one afternoon on a busy working day, upward of launched—upward a hundred men on board hundred a ship newlj of a carpen ters with their tools in their hands—sud denly Went through into eternity. Con tinually, by terrlblo tilings in righteous ness, God is doing Ilis best to sober us. “Oh, man, prepare for eternity!" said un ancient. “Turn to God the day before you die.” His disciples said to Him: "Master, death.” we do no 1 : know the dav of our “Therefore.” He said, “turn to-day.” And another thought, another channel ia which we can run the current of our inde pendent thinking, not only who am I? and where am I? but where ur-n I going? And the Bible tells us more than the vague word eternity. Th« Bible toils ns where wn are going. The Bible distinctly gives the des tination of every soul hearing me to-day, the prenoher Included with the audience. We inu.st all appear—put in an appearance before the judgment seat of Christ. Think of it. man, there in the gallery, and woman down there. Individual souls all over the place, yog and I must take our turn, we are to drift across the blinding blaze of light that streams from the judgment seat of Christ. We must, like specks in the sun, take our turn of appearing In front of the judgment seat of Christ, to be inter penetrated. to bo shot through and through with that piercing light that will discover everything. In that fierce light every black speok wiil shine out with horri ble distinctness, you maybe sure. Then the eternal doom! We are going to meet Je3us, and yet, while I speak, the hearts of some of you cringe with fear or turn away witli aversion. You do not like Jesus. Notice further, that our text describos a practical thinker. He .urned his feet. After all, perhaps, thiuking is not so un common. But practical thinking is very rare, and it is the measure of progress of the kingdom of God amongst us. You are, some of you, concerned about your souls, your presence here Is a proof of that. Perhaps that is what brings you here. You would fain go away and cannot. It is this: Your soul is in the wrong way. and is wantiug to be put right for eternity. That is what brought you. Now, this is what you have to do next—de cide for Christ. There is a turning point, and the turning point is now. Tim turning point is the Lard Jesus Christ lifted up in the preaching of the Gospel. Turn with Him, turn at Him, in your thoughts, in your purposes, in vour plans, in your opinion of him. Believe in Him and your Soul is turned. When you have had the common sense to believe in the Lor i Jesus Christ, from that moment your ways are changed and your destiny determined by the Blessed One. I think I have used this illustration before: How, when we took our Sabbath-school children into the country, and the little ones ran races, I went away down the field and became the turning point. I cried back to the intending runners that they were to run to me. I was the turning point, and thev were to turn round and go back agnin to the goal. Well, so Jesus is the turning point in your life. Oh! I wish I could fill the church with Him, and make it impossible for you to move out of this place without saying to Him, “Yes, Lord,” or “No, Lord.” That is what I am trying to do—so to fill your souls with the image of Him, and the idea of Him, and the presence of vour Saviour, a really human being, and yet God—having a name like you. a being like you, aud a personality as you have; not a mere myth or a phantom, but Christ Jesus, who lives, who loves, who wept, who died, who rose, who is coming again. A Millionaire by Accident. The London City Press is responsible for a story which shows how the con fidential clerk of a rich distiller in London quite unexpectedly found him self in possession of a fortune equal to several millions of dollars. The rich distiller, who was in failing health made his will, and estimating his for tune at not much more than a quarter of a million sterling, as a matter of business, left the whole of his property to his confidential clerk on the terms that a quarter of a million sterling should be paid to the executors. The confidential clerk fell ill, and another young man was engaged, and the distiller simply changed the name of the clerk in his will, so that tho deed prepared for the one did service for the other. But when the employer died the confidential clerk found that the property had been altogether un derestimated. After he had paid the executors a quarter of a million there was about a million sterling, or #5, 000,000, left. A White Throat Racer. George Stewart, while working on the farm of J. Kennedy Tod, the New York banker, at Sound Beach, Conn., came upon a reptile known as a white throat racer, which was coiled behind a rock. He procured a gun and fired at the snake, slightly wounding it. The snake, a monster, sprang at him and hit him on the shoulder, but was knocked to one side. Mr. Stewart seized a rail, and for more than an hour there was a run ning fight between him and the snake. When it wa 3 finally killed the reptile was found to measure eight inches around and nearly ten feet in length. The snake is the largest ever seen there.—Trenton (N. J.) American. Kentucky claims that she can grow coffee. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. ^ I»«t-Up On Appointment* — Fall Elec tions Discussed. Major W. H. Smyth has been ap pointed, by the president, postmaster at Atlanta, Ga. Thus was brought to an end the long and desperate local light for this postoffice that has almost torn the republicau party of Georgia into fragments. The Buck dynasty has again triumphed and the mighty hand of the republican emperor of Georgia is felt though it is wielded from far Japan. Tho appointment was like a thunderbolt of surprise to the Wilson party. There will be little more business done as to federal appointments be tween now and the meeting of con gress. It is so stated about the com dors of the white house. There are several reasons for this, two being im- ; portant ones in the administration. In the first place it is not good politics to j : go on making appointments wlli i 0 congressmen are not present. Then, too, the elections arc but a month off, and the president thinks he bad better let well enough alone. In two states the fights will determine the election of United States senators, while in the * other states there are important state officials to be chosen, including gov ernors, judges of the supreme court and state officers. Elections will lie held next month in Ohio, New York, Virginia, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland, Colorado, Nebraska and Massachu setts. In Maryland and Ohio the con tests are for the legislatures which are to elect senators. There seems to be little doubt here that Senator Hanna in Ohio will win his ye-electiou, but in Maryland the fight is nip and tuck with the chances favoring Gorman. In New York the contest for the con trol of Greater New York overshadows everything else. In Massachussetts, Ohio, Virginia and Iowa, governors are to be elected, while in Kentucky the fight over the clerk of tho court of appeals is attracting interest, aa the gold democracy of the state is bent on measuring its strength with the free silver wing of the party. Pennsylva nia elects a state auditor, Nebraska a judge of the supreme court and regent of the university, while Colorado elects a chief justice. “CUBA MUST BE WHIPPED,” Says Spnnlsli Premier Sagustn, “Before Peace Can Be Secured.” The Spanish cabinet held a four hours’ session at Madrid Saturday, during which the decision previously arrived at regarding the recall from Cuba of Captain General Weyler was confirmed. El Heraldo makes the announcement that the appointed captain general at Porto liico will be acting governor of Cuba pending the arrival of Marshal Blanco. in replying to a number of Cuban senators who had offered their support to the government Premier Sagasta said that the government would devote itself before all else to the pacification of Cuba, and would then introduce in the i3lan,d a model administration. Advices from Havana state that fol lowing the appointment of Marshal Blanco to succeed Captain General Weyler, the Marquis Palmeroia, civil governor of Havana, and tho other provincial governors have tendered their resignations. MONEY NEEDED FOR NAVY. Estimates Compiled By Secretary Cong Aggregate «:u, 991 . 937 . The estimates for the support of the navy for the nett flee,,! year have ju»t been prepared by Secretary Long and submitted to the secretary of treasury for transmission to congress. They aggregate #31,991,927, made up as follows: Pay of the navy, $8,449,0(50. Pay, miscellaneous, $300,000. Contingent navy, $7,000. Bureau of navigation, $208,950. Bureau of ordnance, $3,179,554. Bureau of equipment, $1,514,178. Bureau of yards and docks, $4(59,435. Naval observatory, $34,200. Bureau of medicine and surgery, $24,200. and Bureau of supplies accounts, $1,525,433. construction and repair, Bureau of $3,157,007. engineering, $1, Bureau of steam 167,000. Naval academy, $238,578. Marine corps, $1,123,574. Increase of the navy, $8,565,273. LUETGEItT CASE CLOSING. Final Arguments Begun and the End Drawing Near. At Chicago, Monday, the final argu ments commenced in the Luetgert trial and the case will be given to the jury by the end of the week. This, at least, is the expectation of the attor neys. defense expected Monday to The the court take most of the session of in offering rebuttal evidence, but some of its witnesses were not present when their names were called aud it was de cided that the case might as well go on. Assistant State’s Attorney Mc Eivsen then began the opening addres 8 for the state. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. ■ Cutting Corn Fodder With Reapers. Borne farmers who have reapers which rake off the bundles at the side use them for cutting corn fodder. This machine works quite well on sowed corn, but there is little of that now among farmers who know their busi ne88 - Drilled corn left far enough apart to cultivate between can be out with the reaper, but it is rough work f° r the machine. The stalks are heavy and full of juice. Only one row can be cut ftt a time, and this is not left in so g°° ( l shape for binding as if cut by is fiand. likely Working to injure on if rough, not soft break ground the reaper, When Disease Comes. The chicken , . , . business . is . all very moo 11111 disease comes along, and then co,uea r ^ ,) - At the season Aug alu ^ September when the weather 18 10 ^ ft inl cool >y spells, uit specter of the poultry yard chicken cholera, 19 very likely to stalk abroad. Now, ™ ? et are in tre “I « 1 the ^ that ™ ^ ave 7 ° n f ver V ° ’ ™ 18etl cLlckeUfl , ’ **le , , to , « oholera-to corner it, so to speak, and tel > llst ?' hat l£ }\ Per ! ha E 8 the , old-time , chicken cholera of our grandmothers has played out. W ° ha ™. among our « . hlckens at Particularly among the very smallest ones when in brood ers, ami then it often proves disas trous. But when grown fowls take the dysentery it does not spread, only one or two at a time being affected. There is, however, another disease that comes in the autumn that carries off' the chickens, young and old, and will keep it up sometimes till all are gone. It is what we call limberneck in the South, and we suspect very strongly that it was the cholera of the olden times. It is nothing more nor less than the natural result of carelessness and im purity combined. It comes of the chickens eating the maggots contained in dead animal matter lying about on the surface of the ground in some fence corner or other out-of-the-way place, and it will kill the chickens just as long as a new one comes along and is contaminated by it, Why chickens should peck, scratch about and eat the maggots in such stuff we do not know; but we do knoAV that they will do it, and that it will kill them, too. So, if disease comes along now, and the chickens begin to die suddenly and mysteriously, go and make a search for the cause of the disease and bury it. Bury all the chickens that die, too. Suffer nothing dead to lie unburiodon the premises.—The Epito mist. Mammoth Clover. There is no better hay for general farm use than the old clover and timothy mixture, provided it is cut at the right time and properly cured aud secured, writes George T. Pellit. But with the common clover there is a difficulty in tho way of securing such a mixture of the very best quality, in that the clover reaches maturity so much earlier than the timothy. The mammoth variety of red clover possesses some advantage in this respect, as it reaches the proper stage for cutting at about the same time timothy does. We do not like mammoth clover alone! for in a favor able season it does not long retain an upright position; but when grown with timothy the latter supports it, and the hay is also much easier cured than pure clover. At the proper time for cutting mam moth clover the weather and ground are usually hotter and di yer than a\ hen common clover is at its best, and dif fi cult y is sometimes met with in get *»* . ra r ,f l ««»?’* meadow burned . and losing having it value. In such a large per cent, of its cases it is best cured in cock. While the mammoth does not produce as much aftermath as the common, yet we have found that by keeping all stock off in the fall, the second crop has reseeded the land and kept the stand up for five years, there being more clover present this year than in any crop since the first, and when taking up the hay we found on most portions of the field a fine stand of young plants from last fall’s seeding. The field before cutting presented a somewhat ragged appearance because of the clover climbing upon the timothy and leaning it this way and that. Had it been all clover, the crop would have been flat and badly damaged. In mowing the field this year the timothy came to the horses’ sides and specimens of clover stretched to four feet. Yield of hay, twenty-nine good loads from eleven acres; quality, fine; horses extremely fond of it. There is more waste in the stems of the mammoth variety, but we do not consider this a loss, as larger crops are produced and the stems, used as an absorbent, make the best of manure - 0 return to the land. I “Strawberry Steamboats.** It is stated that the strawberry growers of Plougastel, in Brittany, who produce over 1000 tons of straw berries every year, keep two steamers going in the season to Plymouth so steadily that they, have got the narno “strawberry steamboats.” They have made four-and-twenty voyages this season, and have carried nearly 1,500, 000 pounds, or over half the local pro duction.
