FOR SUNDAY HEADIN' M
SOBER SECOND THOUGHTS FOR A
I*AY OF REST.
lf.th.fntt! from Ruin—Talmaee on
Obtorvnitte—'l lie Formation ol C'lmr
attei—Note* and Comments.
MR. TALMAGE SAYS SUNDAY OUGHT TO
BE KEPT FREE FROM SECULAR
AMUSEMENTS.
Mr. Taimage preached on “Sabbath
Observance," on Sunday. “Men have
lound out," he said, “that they can do
more work in six dava than they can in
seven. Traveler,, hive found that they
can get sooner to their destination FishenneL by
stopping one day in seven.
off Newfoundland testify that they can
, , ,. , . . j .,
ca c more s in six ays wa ey
can y WOT'ing seven ays. n e lgen
man and dead machinery cry out for the
Lord s Day That man gives a mor -
a " d d ! 8 f aSe W Z 8 Z
xhei Sabbath. Yet , v ere is • an a mp
hand to destroy by liquor t e Sa^ dealers a ay and on on e one the
l #r three “ho«T»nT“ dealers to
Brooklyn who are moving against the
Jaw prohibiting the Bale of liquor on
Bandav. Look at the Sixteenth Ward
of Brooklyn churches,’ In that ward there are
six two public schools, and
323 liquor saloons only one of which
observes the Sunday law. In Philadel
phia, when I lived there, a woman was
found selling molasses candy on Sun¬
day. The police rose up in its power
aud the public declared that no molas
ses candy should be sold on Sunday.
She was tried and convicted, yet the
officers of the law with their hands be
hind their back walked right past the
saloons dealing out liquor on Sunday.
Thousands of pens are at work trying
to write down the Christian Sabbath.
I am opposed to any invasion of the
holy law. Yet some men say we ought
to have grand Sunday-night concerts.
A man who went- to one of them said
between the music there was a dance
and a trapeze performance. But I sup¬
pose it was a sacred dance and a conse¬
crated tight rope. There is an attempt
to introduce into this country the Paris¬
ian Sunday. If you have never seen a
Parisian Sunday you don’t know what
a degraded thing it is. When the Sab
bath goes down the Republic will gc
down. The Sabbath came to us in the
Mayflower: When it leaves us it will
be in the ark that floats above the deluge
of a destroyed nation.”
THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER.
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, ol
Boston, in a discourse on “The Forma¬
tion of Character, ’’ said that there were
three forces that controlled men in the
development of themselves. One was
their genius, or qualities that they were
born with ; the other was knowledge?
or that which they acquired from others
or their environment —to use a modern
phrase—and the last was that which
they did themselves toward building tip
their interior life. Washington had had
no advantages over those of his contem
poraries as regarded the two first, but as
to the last he was pre-eminently distin*
guished and stood out in history as a
representa'ive man. While Washington
had a latent fire he kept it in subjection,
and in all that he did he seemed bound
by some supreme law and that law was
his conscience, which bound Mm to the
Infinite—to his God. He was a man of
strong will, very much disposed to have
his own way, but his will was always
amenable to his reason and to his better
instincts. Character meant an organized
power, and Washington developed that,
and his life was such a manifestation ol
patriotism that it constrained men to
believe that there was such a thing. He
lid what was so essentia! in the forma
tion of character—he steered his life, lit
lid not allow it to drift.
Franklin had tried to be virtuous by
making out a list of the virtues, aud
when he had become an expert in one
he took up the next, But he found it
did aot answer, fie dLcovered that
character was formed like the seed in the
flower—by development and growth.
RESCUED FROM BRIN.
“How do you rescue young boys and
girls from habitual attendance upon
liquor saloons Y* An answer to this
question has been found by an organiza
tion in the city of Chicago.
Mr. C. C. Bonney, of Chicago, ex
president of the National Law and
0rder 8™ e ‘ a number o( atar ‘
«■« facta in connection with the work
io Obiraigo He aaid that m 18,7.1 was
ascertained bj actual count that SO 000
»<”«“■ o! " h<>m W6re “ ore thau
nineteen years of age, and over one
"■o'" aa >’ d «“ 9 ° f 9a “ 6 ware ,n
lL f bab “ h>gh«y attendmg liquor
saloons m that city for drinking and
^ aDC j n ^_ This fact appalled a great
^ Christian people, £ and on the night
^ ^ of Nov mber of that ye ar
^ men and two women met in a hall to
consult as to the mode to be adopted for
thg sup p re8g i OD n { this evil.
Jfc wag found that the State of II
Unoig had R ]ftW that f orbade the sale of
***>*** ^ *» -i-rs on pain of
influence, P e ” a >“ aa 0 with “f th 7hHc™ the accompanying toZnvfaglerror terror
°< “> a Hq«w io^reet, has made thatlaw
a dead letter. Several earnest and de
termined Christian men agreed to see to
^ * ;ba * : *he ^ aw was en forced. Prose
cution after prosecution followed this
re solve, and the saloon keepers became
alarmed. A Citizens’ League was
formed, public opinion and the press
were on its side, and in less than a year
the number of minors to whom liquor
was sold had been reduced to 5,000.
CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDIA.
Christian missions are beginning to
produce really practical moral fruit in
India. Dr. Morrison, for many years
engaged in mission work in that country
in connection with the English Pres¬
byterian Church, writes in a most en¬
couraging manner. Touching child
marriage and the remarriage of widows,
he says a great change of opinion has
taken place. Public opinion has by
various means been tested on the general
question, and several leading Hindoos
have given opinions in favor of legisla¬
tive change. Five of the most prom¬
inent leaders of the Hindoo faith have
expressed themselves in . favor of the re¬
carriage of widows, hitherto disallowed,
aud in favor also of some measures to
ckeck ^ be multiplication of widows
by some mild legislative enactments
in the direction of hindering child
marriage. As the Hindoo law now
stands, there are millions of females
doomed to the fate of Jephtha’s daugh¬
ter from girlhood. It is one of the
great curses of India,
The statistics of the Scottish Epis
co l ,id Church for the year ending June,
1884, have just been publisliod. The
figures show what seems progress since
the previous report was published two
years ago. In the interval the number
of members and adherents has increased
from 70,847 to 76,839, and sixteen new
congregations have been added,
The Rev. Dr. Wilder, of the Mix
sionary Review, estimates that there
are now 2,755 ordained foreign mission
aries seat out from all the Protestant
churches of Christendom, a gain of 755
n the last seven years, and that nearly
£2.000,000 was raised for foreign mis*
sions these churches last year.
According to an estimate, there were
in 1880 over ten millions in the member
ship of the evangelical churches of this
country, an increase over the year 1850
of more than six and a half millions,
The average salary of Congregational
ministers in Connecticut, the great
stronghold of the denomination, is
$1,300. The highest is $6,000 and the
lowest $400.
A Roman Catholic mission boat, the
Christopheros, is to be placed on the
Amazon River for the purpose of evan¬
gelizing the inhabitants on the river
banks.
FARM AND GARDEN.
AN OLD KAKDIFU’S EXPERIENCE
WITH CATTLE.
lllutiw niton* Eer'ltntr. Treiument mid (Jen
trail Msuia«tTiien( of Theiu.
The farmer wants to know, not so
much what is absolutely the best feed,
but what is most economical—some
"«»* H 01 * 1 “ nd substantial, and not too
. xpensive, which lie can raiae on the
farm Corn fodder when properly
cured and stored, makes good feed, but
f l * “ lcft “ hold, or long exposed
to the weather, ,t ,s seated, worth the
tarly ab , or 0 H autt,r the weather S a f has taen wet.
Wheat straw is not very nutritious food
for cattle, but as most farmers raise
wheat, it is a good plan to have plenty
of straw well stacked, to which cattle,
during winter, may have free access,
and let them eat what they will. About
the best and cheapest feed for cattle is
good Timothy hay, with occasional feeds
of corn. Clover hay may be fed to
<*jh' »
oeasfully raised’, moke good feed for fall
’ . Pri . , *
“ H raw
or cooked make S ood feed , and d the „
» >
* ma11 ones cannot be nsed to better ad ‘
vantage than by feeding them to cattle.
Potato and apple peelings mixed with
bran or meal, make good feed, particu¬
larly for milch cows. Cattle, as well as
other farm animals, appreciate good
treatment, milch cows in particular do
so, and should always be treated kindly,
and even petted. They will very soon
learn to recognize those who are kind to
them, will take from the hand almost
everything in the way of food, and seem
to relish whatever is offered, simply be¬
cause it is given by a known friend.
The writer has often seen pet cows eat
bread, pies, lettuce, tomatoes, and other
things from the table, and even drink
sour milk, when offered by a recognized
friend. Cows should always be milked
by some one who is naturally kind and
gentle, and so far as may be, by the
same person—never by any one who is
excitable, peevish or impatient. Cows
harshly treated often become unmanage
able, while those kindly treated will be
tame and gentle, and will not be likely
to stray off from home or stay long away
from it. Cattle should be supplied with
plenty of water both winter aud summer.
If they get their supply from a brook or
spring, see that it does not freeze over
in winter or run dry in summer. In
cold weather, milch cows should be sup¬
plied daily with water slightly warm, as
this will increase the flow of milk. For
summer use, the nearest spring should
be dug out two feet deep, and walled
with stone or wood. A small pond may
be dug out, or a substantial dam made
across a ravine, which will retain a suffi¬
cient quantity of water. Where neither
of these plans is practicable, a well must
be provided. Supply cattle with salt
about ouce a week. Cattle should, by
all means, be provided with comfortable
shelter during cold weather. It is pooi
economy to keep cattle without shelter,
for they wili require a good deal more
food ; and even then, will not come out
in spring in good condition, but will be
very apt to be lousy. A comfortable
temporary shelter may be made on the
south side of a straw-stack by setting
stout forks deep in the ground, arrang¬
ing rails or poles on them, and covering
with straw. Good substantial shelter
should be provided at the earliest con¬
venience. Young calves, during the first
six or eight weeks, should get all the
milk they can use. for if they are “stint,
ed,” they will be Bure to be “stunted,”
and never become thrifty afterward. It
is not best to let a calf run with the
mother, but it should be let in to hei
morning and evening. Cows should be
milked perfectly clean at each milking.
In buying a cow, it is an important
point to know if she has been milked
regularly and clean and how long before
calving she has been allowed to go drv.
from jour to six weeks before calving is
the proper time to discontinue milking.
Omit a milking frequently at first, seven
or eight weeks before calving ; then milk
once a day for a week or so, after which
discontinue altogether. Cattle, if prop,
erly taken care of, are not liable to eon
tract any disease. When troubled with
lice, a strong deeoction of tobacco is an
effective remedy.— Agrimlturut,
Water in the flighlandn.
The Allgerneine Zeitung gives some
particulars of remarkable success in in¬
dicating the presence of water springs
by a mau named Beraz, who seems to be
a recognized authority in such matters.
The scene of his performance was in the
Bavarian highlands, at a height of more
than 1,300 feet above the level of the
sea. The Commune of Rothenberg
suffered greatly from want of water,
and invited feeraz last aulumu io en¬
deavor to find some source of supply for
them. He inspected the locality one
afternoon, in presence of the public au¬
thorities, and announced that water was
to be fouud in certain spots at depths
which he stated. The first spot was in
the lower village, and he gave the likely
depth at between 62 and 72 feet, adding
that the volume of water which the
spring would give would be about the
diameter of an inch aud a quarter.
After incessant labor for four weeks,
consisting mainly of rock blasting, the
workmen came on a copious spring of
water at a depth of almost 67 feet.
Wbat he declared about a water source
for the upper village was very singular.
He pointed to a spot where he said three
water courses lay perpendicularly, under
one another, and running in parallel
courses. The first would be found at a
depth of between 224 and 26 feet, and
about the size of a wheaten straw, and
running in the direction from southeast
to northwest. The second lay about 42
feet deep, was of about the size of a
thick quill, and ran in the same direc¬
tion. The third he said^ay at a tiepin
of about 56 feet, running in the same
direction, and as large as a man’s little
finger. The actual results were as fol¬
lows: The first water course was struck
at a depth of 27| feet, running in. the
direction indicated, and having a diam¬
eter of one-fifth of an inch. The work¬
men came on a second at a depth of 42 J
feet, it had a diameter of 7-25ths of an
inch. The third was found at 624 feet
below lhe surface, and having a diam¬
eter of 8-5ths of an inch—all running in
the direction Beraz had indicated.
Is the Winter Climate Changing ?
The present winter is the third succes¬
sive Russian, Arctic. Polar Winter, says
the Detroit Free Press. If they have
come to stay; if, as some profess to be¬
lieve, the c imate of these latitudes is
becoming colder, it will soon produce a
marked change in the customs, habits
and life of the people.
More and greater pains must be taken
to keep warm. Special winter dress
worn ail the t me, double windows,
battened doors, more carefully con¬
structed houses, heavier, or, at ieast
more thoroughly liued wa'ls, will be abso¬
lutely recessary to both the comfort and
the ecouomy of winter living.
Business habits, to >, will change.
Commercial activity that, season will de¬
cline, only to be crowded into the short¬
er and more favorable parts of the year
Sports and amusements wiil be more
distinctly wintry. There will be more
home, and less general social life and
humau intercourse will be modified by
the weather. Indeed fifty winters like
the past three would probably begin to
produce atypiof people somewlias dif¬
ferent from the oreseub
Believed It. —Bill Nye says; A
friend of mine at Bing Bing once wrote
me that from the moment he got hold of
my book he never left bis room until he
finished it. He seemed chained to the
spot, he said; and if you can’t believe a
convict, who is entirely out of politics,
who in the name of George Washington
can you believe.
