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REV. DR. TALMA GE. THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY DISCOURSE. Story o! G>. Three Tnvernu—The Kuln Wroiij-ht by Liquor— Crimson Wave of Dissipation Has Destroyed More Sail- «rs Than tlie Ocean—Mankind's Curse. Text: “They came to moot 11 s ns far ns Appli Forum and the Three Taverns.”— Acts xxvlil., 15. Seventeen miles south of Rome, Italy, thovo was a village of unfortunate name ami bibulous suggestion. A tavern is a plane of entertainment, and. in our time, part of tho ontertainmont is a provision of intoxicants. One such place you would think- would have been enough for that Italian village. No! There were three of them, with doors open for entertainment and obfuscation* The world has never lacked stimulating drinks. You remember the conr.ltIon of Noah on one occasion, and of Abigail’s husband, Nabnl, and the story of Belshazzar’s feast, and Iienlindnd, and tlie new wine In old bottles, and wholo paragraphs on prohibition enactment thousands of years before Noai Dow was born; and no doubt there were whole shelves of inflammatory liquid in these ho¬ tels which gave tho name to tho village whore Paul’s friends came to meet him; search namely, tlie Three Taverns. In vain I ancient geography for some satis¬ fying account of that village. Two roads came from the sea coast to that place: the onefrom Actium and the other from Pute- oli, the last road being tho ono which Paul traveled. There were, no doubt, in that village houses of merchandise and me¬ chanics’ shops and professional-'offlces, but that nothing is known of them. All wo know of inns—the village is that it had a profusion of Three Taverns. Pam did not choose any one of these taverns as the place to meet his friends. He certainly selection. was very abstemious, but they made the He had enlarged about keeping the for body under, though once he prescribed lating a young cordial theological student a stimu¬ for a stomachic disorder; but he told him to take only a small dose— “a little wine for thy stomach’s sake.” One of the worst things about these Three Taverns was that they had especial temptation for those who had just come ashore. People who had just landed at Actium or Puteoli were soon tempted by these three hotels, which wore only a little way up from tho beach. Those who are disordered of the sea (for it is a physical disorganizer), gradual instead of waiting for tho return of physical equipoise, are apt to take artificial means to brace up. Of the one million sailors now on the sea, how few of them coming ashore will escape the Three Taverns! After surviving hurri¬ canes, cyclones, icebergs, collisions, many of them are wrecked in harbor. I warrant that if a calculation were made of the com- parntive number of sailors lost at sea and lost ashore, those drowned by the crimson wave of dissipation would far outnumber those drowned by the salt water. Alas! that thelargemajorityof those who go down to the sea ill ships should have twioe to pass the Three Taverns, namely: Before they go out and after they come in. That fact was what aroused Father Taylor, -the great sailors’ preacher, at the Sailors’ Bethel, Charlestown Boston, and at a public meeting at he said, “All the machinery of business the drunkard-making, soul-destroying is in perfect running order, from the low grog holes on the docks, kept oppn to ruin my poor sailor boys, to the great establishments in Still House Square, and when we ask men what is to be done about it, they say ‘you can’t help it,’ and yet thereis Bunker Hill, and you say vou can’t stop it; and up there are Lexington and Concord.” We might answer Father Tay- lor’s remark by saying, “The trouble is not that we can’t stop it, but that we won’t stop it.” We must have more generations slain before tlie world will fully wake up to the evil. That which tempted the travel- ers of old who came up from tho seaports of Actium and Puteoli is now the ruin of seafariug men as they come up from the eoasts of all the continents, namely, the Three Taverns. There are streets in some of our cities where There are three or four taverns on every block; aye, wherg every other house is a tavern. You can take the Arabic num- eral of mv text, the three, and put on the right hand side of it one cipher, and two ciphers, and four ciphers, and that re-in- forcement of numerals will not express the statistics of American rummeries. Even if it were a good, healthy business, supplying a necessity, an article superbly nutritious, it is a business mightily overdone, and there are three taverns where there ought to he only one. The fact is, there are, in another sense, Three Taverns now; tho gorgeous tavern for the affluent, the medium tavern for tho working classes, and the tavern of tho slums, and they stand in line, and many people, through beginning the with the and lirst, come down, second, come out at the third. At the first of tho threo tav- erns, the wines are of celebrated vintage, and tho whiskies are said to be pure, and they are quaffed from cut glass, at marble side-tables, under pictures approaching master-pieces. Tho patrons pull off their kid gloves, and hand their silk hats to the waiter, and push back their hair with a hand on one finger of which is a cameo. But those patrons are apt to stop visiting that place. It is not tho money that a man pays for drinks, for what are a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to a man of largo j income; but their brain gets touched, and j that unbalances their judgment, and they can see fortunes in enterprises surcharged witli disaster. In longer or shorter time they change taverns, and they come down to tavern the second, where tho pictures and arc not quite so scrupulous of suggestion the small table is rougher and the castor standing on it is of German silver and the air has been kept over from the night be¬ fore and that which they sip from tho pewter mug has a larger percentage of ben* zine, ambergris, creosote, henbane, strych. nine, prussic acid, coculus nightshade. indicus, plaster of paris, copperas, and The patron may be seen almost the every day, and perhaps many times same day at this tavern the second, but he is pre^ paring to graduate. Brain, liver, heart, nerves, are rapidly giving way. ' That tavern the second has its dismal echo in his business destroyed and family vocabulary. scattered and woes that choke one’s Time passes on, and he enters tavern the third; a red light outside, a hiccoughing and besotted group insido. Ho will be dragged out of doors about 2 o’clock in the morning and left on tho shut sidewalk, The because the bartender wants to up. poor victim lias taken the regular course in the college of degradation. He has his diploma written on hisswollen, bruised,and blotched physiognomy. Ho is a regular graduate of the Throe Taverns. As the police take wheels him up and put him in tlie ambulance tho seem to rumble with two rolls of thunder, one of which says, “Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it movoth itself aright in the cup, for at tho last it biteth liko a serpent and stlngetli like an adder.” The other thunder roll says, “All drunkards shall have tboir place in the lake that burnetii with fire and witli brimstone.” I am glad to find in this soeno of the text that there is such a thing as doclining successfully great Tavernian temptations. and did I can seo from what Paul said aftor ho had traveled the following seven¬ teen miles of his journey, that ho had re¬ ceived no damage at the Three Taverns. How much he was tempted I know not. Do Dot suppose that ho was superior temptation to temptation. That particular tho grandest, has destroyed many of mightiest, noblest statesmen, philosophers and heroes, clergymen, apostles of law medicine and government and religion. Paul was not physically well under any cir¬ cumstances; it was not in mock deprecia¬ tion that lie said he was “in bodily presence weak.” It seems that his eyesight through was so poor that he did his writing an amanuensis, for he mentions ft Is some¬ thing remarkable that his shortest Epistle, the one to Philemon, was in bis own. pen¬ manship, saying: “I, Paul, have written it with my own hand.” He had been thrown from his horse, ho had been stoned, lie had been endungeoned, he baa bad bis nerves pulled on by preach ibg at Athens to tho most scholarly au¬ dience of all the earth, and at Cor¬ inth to the most brilliantly profligate assemblage, and been howled upon by tho Ephesian life worshipers of Diana, tried for his before Felix, charged by Festus with being insane, and crawled up on the beach, drenched in the shipwreck, and mu ch of the time had an iron handcuff on. ills wrist, andjif any man needed stimulus. Paul needed it, but with all his physical exhaustion, lie got past tho Three Taverns undamaged, and stepped into Rome all ready for the tremendous ordeal to which he Wfi* subjected. Oh! How many mighty men, feeling that they must brace up after extraordinary service, and prepare them¬ selves for other service, have calked on tho spirit of wino for inspiration, and In a few years have been sacrifled on the altar of a Moloch, who sits on a throne of human carcasses. Shall I call the names of fifty of tho victims, all of them illustrious in American history? No! It would not bo wise, or kind, or Christian to call their names in public, but you how call them out of your own memory. Oh, many splendid men could not got past the Three Taverns. Long ago ail arch fiend arrived in our world, and he built an invisible cauldron of temptation. Ho built that cauldron strong and stout for all ages and all nations. First lie squeezed into tho cauldron the juices of the forbidden fruit of paradise; then he gathered for it a distillation from the harvest fields and the orchards of the hemispheres; then he poured into this caul¬ dron capsicum and logwood and assault and battery and vitriol and opium and rum and murder and sulphuric acid and theft and potash and cochineal and red carrots and poverty and death and hops. But it was a dry compound, and it must be moistened and it must be liquefied, and so the arch fiend poured into the cauldron the blood of twenty thousand assassinations. And then the arch fiend took a shovel that he had brought up from the furnaces beneath, and he put the shovel into this great cauldron and began to stir, and the cauldron began to heave and rock and boil and sputtor and hiss and smoke, and the nations gathered around it with cups and tankards and demijohns and kegs, and there was enough for all. and the arch fiend cried: “Aha! Champion fiend am I! Who has done more than I have for coffins and graveyards and prisons and tho populating of the lost world? And when this cauldron is emptied I’ll fill it again, and I’ll stir it again, and it will smoke again, and that smoke will join another smoke—the smoke of a torment— that aseendeth for ever and ever. I drove flftv ships on tho rocks of Newfoundland and the Skerries and the Goodwins. I have ruined more Senators than will gather next winter in the national councils. I have ruined more Lords than will bo gathered in the House of Peers. The cup out of which I ordinarily drink is a bleached human skull, and the upholstery of my palace is so rieh a crimson because it is dyed in human gora, and the mosaic of my floors is made up of the bones of chii- dren dashed to death by drunken parents, and my favorite music, sweeter than To Deum or triumphal march—my favorite music is the cry of daughters turned out at midnight on tho street because father has come home from a carousal, and the soven- hundred-voiced shriek of the sinking steamer because the captain was not him- se lf when he put the ship on the wrong course. Champion fiend am I! I have kindled more fires, I have wrung out more agonies. I have stretched out more m i fl¬ night shadows, I have opened more Gol- gotiias, I have rolled mors Juggernauts, I have damned more souls, than any other emissary of diabolism. Champion liend am I- Haiha! ha! ha!” But what a glad time when the world comes to its last Three Taverns .‘for the sale of intoxicants. Now there are so many ot them that statistics are only a more or b‘ss accurate guess as to their number, We sit with half-closed eyes and undis- turbed nerves and hear that in 1872 in tho United States there wore 1961 breweries, 4340 distilleries, and 171,669 retail dealers, and that possibly by this time these figures may bo truthfully doubled. The fact is that these establishments are innumerable, and tho discussion is always dishearten- * n g. and tho impression is abroad that the plague is so mighty and universal it can never be cured, and the most of sermons ou tins subject close with the Book of Lamentations, and not with tlie Book of Revelations. Excuse mo from adopting an Y such infidel theory. The Bible reiter- ates it until thero is no more power ' n inspiration to make it plainer that the earth is to be, not half, or deemed. three-quarters, but wholly re- On that rock I take my triumphant stand and join in the cho- rus °f Hosannahs. 0no of the most advantageous move- merits in . the right direction is taking this whole subject into tlie education of tho young. On tho same school-desk with tho grammar, the geography, tho arithmetic are hooks telling the lads and lasses of ten and twelve and fifteen years of ago what ar e tho physiological effects of strong drink, what it does with the tissue of tho liver and the ventricles of the brain: and whereas other generations did not realize the evil until tlieir own bodies were blasted, we are to have a generation taught what Gm viper is before it stings thorn, wluit the the hyena is before it rends them, how deep is abyss before it jswallows them. Oh! boards of education, teachers in sohools, professors in colleges, Legislatures, and Congresses, widen and augment that work, and you hasten tho complete overthrow of this evil. It will go down. I have the word of Al¬ mighty God for that in the assured extirpa¬ tion of all sin. But shall we have a share in the universal victory? The liquor saloons will drop from the hundreds of thousands into tho score of thousands, and then from the thousands into the hundreds, and then from the hundreds into the tens, and from the tens to Three. The first of these lust threo taverns will he where the educated and philosophic and the high-up will take their dram, but that class, awaro of the power of the example they have been set¬ ting, will turn their back upon tho evil cus¬ tom and be satisfied with two natural bev¬ erages that God intended for the stimulus of the race—tho Java coffee plantations furnishing tho best of tho one und the Chin¬ ese tea Helds the best of tho other. And some day tho barroom will be crowded with people at the vendue and tho auctioneer’s mallet will pound at tho sale of the appur¬ tenances. The second of these last throe taverns will take down its flaming and sign and ex¬ tinguish its red light close its doors,for tho working class will have concluded to buy tlieir own horses and furnish their own beautiful homes and replenish finely the wardrobe of their own wives and daugh¬ ters,instead of providing the distillers, wardrobes the brewers, and liquor sellers with and mirrors und carriages. And the next time that second tavern is opened it will be a establishment, drug store, or a bakery, or a dry goods or a school. Then there will be only one more of tho Three dissipating Taverns left. I don’t know in what coun¬ try, or city, or neighborhood it will be, but look at it, for it is the very last. The last inebriate will have staggered his up to its counter and put down pennies for liis dram. Its last horrible adulteration will be mixed anil quaffed to The eat last out tho drunkard vitals and inflame tho brain. will have stumbled down its front steps. The last spasms of delirium tremens caused by it will be struggled down, through. The old rookery will be torn and with its demolition will close the earth’s abomina¬ tions. The last of tho dissipating Three Taverns of all tho world will be as thor¬ oughly blotted out as were the Three Taverusof my text. In this battle the visible troops aro not so mighty as the invisible. The Gospel campaign began with the supernatural— I the midnight chant that woke the shep¬ herds, the hushed sea, the eyesight given whore the patient had been born without the optlo nerve, the sun obliterated from the noonday heavens, the law of gravita¬ tion and loosing the Gospel its grip campaign as Christ ascended; with supernatural, as will close began the it with the supernatural; the and the winds and the and the waves and lightnings earth¬ quakes will come in on the right side and against the wrong side; and our whether as- cendod champions will return, the world sees them or does not see them. I do not think that those groat souls de¬ parted are going to do nothing hereafter but sing psalms, and play harps, and breathe frankincense and walk seas of glass inlngied with lire, The mission they fulfilled while in the body will be eclipsed by their post-mortem mission, with faculties quickened and velocities multiplied; and it may have been to that our dying reformer referred when he said; “I long to be free;” There may no bigger worlds than this to be redeemed, and more gigantic abominations to be overthrown than this world ever saw; and the discip¬ line gotten here may only bo preliminary drill for a campaign in some other world, and perhaps some other constellation. But the crowned heroes and heroines, because of their grander uehievoments in greater spheres, will not forget thi3 old world where they prayed and suffered and tri¬ umphed. Church militant aiul* Church triumphant, but two divisions of the same army—right wing and left wing. One army of the living God, At His command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. DRIED VEGETABLES. A Nev» Industry Which Has Started Up in « California. A new and important industry has come into existence in Santa Clara County which bids fair in time to rival the fruit drying. This is the prepar¬ ation of dried vegetables for the mar¬ ket, which at present is generally con- lined to the short seasons at the driers between the ripening of the different fruits. Just lately the vegetables have been usurping the place of apricots, but they have now already begun to give way in turn to the prunes. On approaching a drier it does not take one long to decide whether fruit or vegetables are being prepared, for in the latter case a pungent odor rushes out to sting one’s eyes and crawl uncomfortably up one’s nostrils —for the trail of onions is over the land. Within a lively scene is pre¬ sented. Men are hurrying to and fro bearing trays and boxes, while long rows of women and children sit busily peeling potatoes and carrots, which, together v ith the onions, form at pres¬ ent the stable product. When boxes of potatoes and carrots are filled they are poured into a large hopper, and from there fed to a machine with ro¬ tating knifeblades, which cuts them up into small slices a quarter of an inch thick. The further process which the potatoes undergo is simple, and for carrots and the other minor vega- tables it is practically the same. After being sliced the tubers are slightly sulphured in a chamber built ol’ wood. Here great must be used, for, if they are sulphured too much, the potatoes 'will taste of the fumes; if too little, they will not contain enough antiseptic property, and bacteria attracted by the starch will develop. Moreover, a little sul- phuring is necessary to preserve the color of the vegetables as far as pos- sible and to prevent decay. After this process the potatoes are not spread out in the sun, but put in- to an evaporator. The latter looks like a small Ferris wheel and is in- closed in a sort of brick oven with glass windows. Within this it re- volves close to hot air pipes for a few hours. When the moisture is suffi- ciently evaporated the cars of the wheel are emptied through the win- dows and their contents are now ready for shipment in sacks. When this stage is reached the sliced potatoes resemble dry chips, and it takes six or seven pounds of the fresh to make one pound of the dried. By their pungency onions possess the power of warding off bacteria, and are, therefore, only slightly sulphured to preserve their color. They are next evaporated until one-third of the mois- ture is expelled, and then placed in trays in the sun, just as is done with fruit. The drying process shrivels the onions so much "that it takes twenty parts of the fresh to make one of the dried. While the onions are being cut up the moisture■ coming from them is disagreeable and hard on the eyes of the employees. When carrots are evaporated it takes about nine parts of them to make one dried part. Perhaps tho drying process used in the case of both carrots and potatoes might be improved upon were steam employed. By using the latter the starch in the potatoes would be partly cooked and sterilized, and after this the tubes could he evaporated in a chamber similar to the one above described. In this way the potatoes could be rid of sulphur, well dried and yet capable of being quickly soaked, and there would be no chance for bacteria to de- velop. Other vegetables than those men¬ tioned are at present in process of development; but so far the industry has proved very profitable, as evinced by the Increased demand for dried vegetables all over the country, but especially in the mining regions.—San Francisco Chronicle. To Restore Montezuma’s Castfj. Montezuma’s impregnable castle in the cliffs near Camp Verde, Arizona, is to be restored to Its original shape by the Arizona Antiquarian Association. The castle is located three miles from the abandoned military post known formerly as Camp Verde, and is perched in a high niche, which towers far above the left bank of Beaver creek. It is the finest and largest cliff dwelling in the United States. From the foot of the perpendicular cliff to the entrance is exactly forty feet, while above it rises the precipice, another hundred feet. SUMMER AND WINTER IN ALASKA. Swift Change of Seasons In the Northern Clime—Trial* of the Hot Weather. Professor William Healey Dali writ¬ ing about life in Alaska, in tho Forum, says: Ordinary woolen clothing for the body and leather boots for the feet are, of course, utterly unsuitable, and cau be worn only at serious risk when traveling. Indian suowshoeB are es¬ sential; the Norwegian variety proved worthless. As the season advances the snow settles, and at night a firm crust forms. The most favorable months for travel¬ ing are March and April. The mid¬ winter days are short, with sunlight in some latitudes from 10 in the morn¬ ing to 3 in the afternoon. When neces¬ sary, one can travel fairly well by starlight and moonlight over the snowy tundra, but not in the woods. In May the snow is wet and heavy and travel difficult. Pools of water and tho first mosquitoes then begin to appear. By May 20 the river bursts its bonds of ice and floods the lowlands; ice, debris and broken timber pouring, with a grinding noise, heading toward the sea. For at least a rveek navigation is im¬ possible. Summer, swift-footed, trips upon the heels of winter. The sun pours down with a violence not soon forgot¬ ten, though in the shade it is always cool. The cry of the brant., northward bound, is continually beard, and my¬ riads of smaller water-fowl appear on every hand. All the minor forms of life, native to the region or migrants from the South, with startling sudden¬ ness people copses and pervade the air. Vegetation springs into leaf and flower at a bound, and, with hardly a hint of spring, summer is upon us. Mosquitoes, the pest of tho North, appear in clouds. Except in midstream, or where a brisk breeze is blowing, life without a net and leather gloves is misery. The Indians smear their faces with a mixture of grease and charcoal, and paddle with a smudge on a square of turf in the bows of their birch canoes. The caribou, moose and bear, driven from the tickets, plunge into the river for a temporary respite. Curiously enough, during three summers, black flies and midges, so plentiful to the eastward, were encountered only once on the Yukon; possibly, near its headw'aters, our luck would have been worse. The records show that the lower Yukon valley has a summer tempera¬ ture much in excess of that normal to the latitude. As the days are long, the traveler will prudently sleep at noon and utilize for his work the cooler hours when the sun sweeps low along the northern horizon and the mos- quitoes are less active, Frosts appear in mid-September, Early in October the Yukon begins to be covered with ice; though it is no t fully ice-bound until late in No- vember. So the round is completed, Fate < >f olli Bicycles. The question “What becomes of old bicycles?” has often been asked, but no satisfactory answer baa been given. It is said by Cycling Life that they are made into new machines and sold to persons who cannot afford to give more than $20 or (525 for a wheel. The process by which this is accomplished includes raising thejframe, enameling it, bending the handle bars, plating them, a new saddle, new tires, black- ing the chain and gears and nickel- plating cranks, seat posts and fork ends. Besides, broken spokes are re- placed with new, set screws attended to and parts cleaned. Five or even three years ago this could not be done for half what it costs for a $100 ma chine, and would not have paid. Ac- counts of stock and labor in making these operations tell a different story, and show that it does pay, and pay well, to rejuvenate wheels, providing that the work is done methodically and economically, and that modem ap- pliances are used. The work should be done with not less than six wheels at one time. They may be valued at less than $6 each. The tires are worn out completely, the nickel parts are scratched and rusty, spokes bent, iron rims broken and twisted, bars mis- shappen, saddle seat ripped or gone al- together, the chain gummed and wheels hard to turn. But the tubing in the frame is good and strong, the bearings all right if cleaned, oiled and trued, the frame joints firm, and much else is serviceable for years to come. The cost of making the bicycles over need not exceed §7 each, and this leaves a margin of §7 when the altered wheel is sold for $20. Senses Sharpened in the Wilds. 1 made bold to say to Dr. Nansen, writes Walter Wellman, that thousands upon thousands of men who were not specially interested in arctic work had read his book with delight, and that to me the marvel was not that he could do what he did in the field, but that he could write such a book about bis experiences. thing in notion,” “The best it, to my I said, “is your description of your dramatic meeting with Jackson on Franz Josef Land, and the best part of that was your reference to the man¬ ner in which the wild man’s sharpened senses discovered the fragment of the soap which the civilized European had used in his morning ablutions.” “It is really true,” replied Dr. Nan¬ sen, “that I could smell that soap as plainly as if it had been a strong per¬ fume. Johansen noted the same thing when he came up. In fact, for several days our sense of smell was wonder¬ fully acute. As I approached Jack¬ son’s hut I thought I could smell everything it contained and give a sort of inventory of its stores without en¬ tering. In a day or two this acuteness wore off and we became quite normal in that as well as other respects. But I wonder if a man were to live wild for a few years if his sense of smell would not become quite as keen as that of an animal.”—Chicago Times-IIerald. A TALK WITH MRS. PINKHAM About tho Cause of Anemia. wm Everybody comes into this world with a pre¬ 1 disposition to disease of sovho particular tissuui 1 in other words, everybody has a weak spot. 1 In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred tho weak spot in women is somewhere in the uter¬ My ine system. disease The uterine the organs vital organs; have less that re* a * sistance to than why they give out the soonest. Not more than one woman in a hundred nay., in five hundred—has perfectly healthy organs of generation. This points to the stern necessity of helping one's self just as soon as the life powers seem to be on the wane. and want of , tone Excessive menstruation is a sign of physical weakness produces (blood in the uterine organs. It saps the strength away and anemia turns to water). knowing what will happen. If your gums If you become anemic, there Is no color, and the inside of your lips and inside your eyelids look pale in you are in a dangerous way and must stop that drain on your powers. VY hy not build up on a generous, uplifting tonic, like Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound? St., Bethlehem, Pa., Mbs. Edwin- Ehrig, 413 Church says: “ I feel it my duty to write and tell you that I am better than I have been for four years. I used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com¬ pound, one package of Sanative Wash, one box of Liver Pills, and can say that I am perfectly cured. ‘Doctors did not help me any. I should have been in my grave by this time if it had not been for your medicine. It was a godsend to me. I was troubled with excessive menstruation, which caused womb trouble, and I was obliged to remain in bed for six weeks. Mrs. Pinkham's medicine was recommended to me, and, after using it a short time, was troubled no more with flooding. I also had severe pain in my kidneys. This, also. I have no more. I shall always recommend the Compound, for it has cured me, and it will cure others. I would like to have you publish this letter.” (In such cases the dry form of Compound should be used.) I GET THE GENUINE ARTICLE! S Walter Baker & Co.’s _ Breakfast COCOA ! ^ Pure, Delicious, Nutritious. pi Costa Less than ONE CENT a cup . Be sure that the package bears our Trade-Mark. ! m item 4 1 m Walter Baker & Co. Limited, (Established 1780.) Dorchester, Mess. Trarle-Mark. Agricultural statistics, according to | the New York Tribune, show some in¬ teresting industrial movements in the United Kingdom, which are mostly uniform in Great Britain and Ireland. In both the present year shows an in- crease over last year in wheat acreage and a decrease in barley,’ oats and po¬ tatoes. The increase in wheat is more than 200,000 acres. That still leaves the total far less, however, than It was a few years ago. Tlie total in the whole United Kingdom is now 1,93(5,- 041 acres, while in 1892 in England alone it was 2,102,909 acres. The in- crease at present recorded is promis- j ng jt j s greater than the decrease j n a n other grains put together, indi- eating that some potato-land, grass- land or other is being devoted to wheat. There is reported a consider- able decrease, in both parts of the Kingdom, in permanent grass-land, while the acreage of clover and rota- tion-grass has increased in Great Brit- a i n an( j diminished in Ireland. Turn- ing to live stock, an increase in the number of cattle is seen, but it is vastly greater in Ireland than in Great Britain. In fact, Ireland is getting ahead of Great Britain as a cattle country; is far ahead now, pro¬ portionately. She has fully 40 per cent, of all the cattle in the United Kingdom. In sheep a decrease is noted in Great Britain and an increase in Ireland; which is strange, for the former is certainly better adapted to sheep culture than the latter. The re¬ vival of Irish woolen manufactures has, no doubt, much to do with it. In swine a considrable decrease is re¬ ported all around, and it is to be ob- served that Great Britain is mere given to hog-raising than Ireland, she having 64 per cent, of the whole num- her to Ireland’s 30 per cent, Tho general showing seems to indicate that Ireland is making better agricultural progress than Great Britain. She is making her products more varied than they used to be, and of a more profita- hie and trustworthy charaotei. 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