Bewoaftcan. Bellefonte, Pa., Nov. 27, 1896. | FARM NOTES. | i — Lettuce can be grown during the win- ter in hot beds or cold frames, and as they ' are hardy they do not require much warmth a temperature of from 40 to 45 degrees at night being correct. —Turkey raising is becoming more prof- itable and popular. Likesheep, they grow and fatten in the fields on what would be otherwise lost ; beside, their eating of in- sects by the million is a benefit to the crops. A good crop of turkeys brings a fine income for a little expense. Their long legs ena- ble them to move easily anywhere. —Those who have failed to find crimson clover as hardy as desired should not over- look the fact that it has been the late seed- ling which caused the loss. It should not be seeded later than September 15th, though many disregard the rule. If seed- ed too late it does not make sufficient growth to enable it to endure a heavy win- ter. —It is & common mistake to suppose that all weeds are killed by frost, and when a good freeze comes they give the weeds in gardens and among hoed crops no further attentien. The truth is that some of the worst weeds are not injured by light frosts, but are thereby incited to produce a few seeds to perpetuate their species the following season. —Meadow lands infested with white grubs should be plowed and thoroughly cultivated in the fall, then planted to some crop that requires thorough cultivation the next season. The fall cultivation will de- stroy many of the insects which are then in a very tender stage in little earthen cells in the ground, and the thorough and fre- quent cultivation of the following crop will soon discourage the grubs. —Mulching sometimes fails to give satis- factory results. This is due to the fact that the mulch should be heavy. A little mulch does not protect the plants, espec- ially if they are somewhat tender. The ob- ject of a mulch is not to keep the ground warm, as many suppose, but to keep it cold ; that is, when the ground is cold to prevent sudden thawing, as itis the alter- nate freezing and thawing that injures plants. —All fowls get too much corn in fall and early winter, especially if they are on a farm that produces corn. This is bad for them, not only because corn is in itself a fattening ration, but because fowls can quickly fill themselves with it and without any exercise whatever. It is this lack of exercise as well as too much fat-forming food that makes fowls lazy, fat and unpro- ductive of eggs at just the time when eggs are likely to bring their highest price. —An orchardist says: Peach trees will not bear choice fruit when growing sod. In fact, there are few fruit trees that will not produce better fruit, and more of it if the grass is prevénted from growing near them. Fruit trees in poultry yards, where the ground is kept constantly bare of all vegetation, usually bear excellent fruit. Of course, some allowance must be made for the fertilizing benefits received from the droppings of the fowls. —Celery blight is encouraged by leaving | all wine spoken of in the Bible is grape | refuse celery on the ground to harbor the | juice when it has undergone this great | germs of the disease. The blight appears | change, and is, therefore, no longer harm- | in the form of small, yellowish-green spots | less, but poisonous. | understand about the Bible wines when | fermented or unfermented, good or bad, | | just as milk may be sweet or sour, meat | It is just. the essence of the whole matter, | C T. CATECHISM ON BIBLE WINES. WwW. T. Why is it needful to give serious atten- tion to this important subject ? Because through lack of knowledge Christ is dishonored, and much sin is the outcome of ignorance regarding Bible teaching on the matter. Is the Bible misunderstood ? Yes! It has been called a book of sanc- tified common-sense, and yet thousands i represent it to be the very opposite by | their erroneous views about wine. Do you say there are different kinds of wine mentioned in God’s Word ? Yes, the good and the bad wine. The unfermented and the fermented. The blessed and the cursed.—1 Cor. x. 16 to 21. How is it that there are writers upon the subject who have us believe that all Bible wines are intoxicating. They are like the Negro preacher who said, ‘‘I reckon I put my own narrow no- tions into the Bible and then proceed to think they are inspired.’ What has misled such writers ? The fact that in the English Version there is but one word, ‘‘wine,’’ for at least twelve different words in the Hebrew and Greek. The word wine is used for grapes, grape-juice unfermented, and grape-juice fermented. The Hebrew word yayin, the | even dark grapes is nearly white when first I squeezed in the vats ; but when alcohol is i formed by the process of fermentation, it { with the forbidden drink ? Greek word oines, and the Latin word vinum are used in the 'sime way. Is it necessa:y to know Hebrew and Greek to understand about these wines ? Certainly not, for then how many would remain in ignorance ? Do the learned see these truths more quickly than the ignorant ? | No, for God by His Spirit, reveals Him- self to ‘‘babes,”” and many ‘‘wise and pru- dent’’ are ignorant regarding things ‘‘spir- itually discerned.”” God used the weak ones to confound the mighty. As the Rev. J. Mattheson puts it, ‘‘The wise men had to journey a long way to see the star of Bethlehem, but the shepards saw it as they humbly did their duty and watched their flocks by night.” Many have learned to wrestling in prayer for those who are en- slaved by the power of intoxicating drink. How may I know abont these wines ? By a careful study of passages which speak of the different wines. The context makes it plain which kind is’ meant in most instances. Will a knowledge of Eastern customs help. : Most certainly ; and those whom God has alggady taught by His Spirit can teach others ; and amongst these are many emi- nent Theologians and scholars. Is “wine’’ a generic word, a word used for the good and the bad ? Yes, as much as ‘‘man,”’ for man may be good or bad, and only by the context can we tell if we are reading of the righteous or the sinful man. Can you illustrate the two kinds of wine | by other objects ? Yes. Wine is grape juice. i It may be | { | fresh or putrid, apples good or rotten. | In hot countries, do other liquids become | intoxicating when exposed to the atmos- | | phere ? i | Yes, the sap of certain trees, refreshing | in the morning, is often intoxicating be- ! fore night. Also honey quickly changes. | What has this to do with Bible wines? { for many who would not like to be called | unlearned are so misinformed as to say | | Some go further, and | that grow larger and darker, withering the | assert that there is no such thing as non-in- leaves and causing the plants to die. not easy to kill the disease, but it may be prevented from spreading by the applica- tion of a weak Bordeaux mixture, theappli- | on this point. cation of which must be discontinued 15 or 20 days before blanching. —Unless it is intended to fatten the dry cow care should be taken not to feed any fattening food. If she is to have a calf within a month or two, some succulent food that will keep her digestion good is best. In such case, too, the milking should be continued as long as possible, if for no other reason than to prevent the cow from hecoming too fat. Yet the opposite evil, of having the cow too thin, must decrease her value as a milker all the following sea- son. ‘ —The family strawberry patch is not un- usually large, and can therefore, be given the best of attention. Rake the beds and clear off all the refuse, or burn the beds over. Then sprinkle fine hone meal and muriate of potash over the rows, or use well-rotted manure that is free from litter, covering the beds with straw or salt hay, and placing cornstalks or brush on the hay. Early in spring remove the mulch and sprinkle nitrate of soda over the rows, he- fore the plants begin to grow. —Experiments at the Cornell station demonstrated that the cost of a pound of butter was 12} cents; at the Minnesota station, 11 cents, and at the Missouri sta- tion, 11 cents. The cheapest butter made was by a cow in June, at 2} cents per “pound, but another cow in November, con- sumed 55 cents’ worth of food while pro- ducing a pound of butter. The cost of but- ter, however, is less in summer than dur- ! ing the winter, and some cows can produce butter at less cost than can others. For that reason the farmer who does use pure breeds, and carefully select every sow will not be able to produce butter at the lowest possible cost. —No one can inform a farmer in regard to the requirements of his farm as well as | the teachings of experience. It is the hun- dred details which come only under the observation of the farmer which enable him to make the proper changes in his plans. The methods practiced on one farm may be unsuitable for the next. tile valley is different from working a hill- side farm. Then there is stony land, sticky clay, sand lots and other variations of soil in a neighborhood. Every enterprising farmer, however, will endeavor to improve and accept the results of the experiments of others, making them applicable to his farm wherever possible if it is to his advan- tage to do do so. —Farmers object at times to expending | money for fertilizers, relying entirely upon manure, but the low yields on some farms demonstrate that the farmer should not hesitate to use fertilizers liberally, as it is not possible to manure a large farm every year. ing that it may be four or five years before the first manured field is reached again. In the meantime the field has perhaps | borne four or five crops, and i$ poorer than at the time of receiving the first applica- | tion of manure. The use of fertilizers will enable the farmer, to apply plant food to his crops every year (using manure as be- | fore), thus increasing the yield of crops and avoiding loss of fertility. It is | toxicating wine. Cultivating a fer- | The system usually practiced is to | manure one field at a time, the result be- Do learned men talk like this? | Yes, but they are not rightly informed | | Why do you not agree with them ? | | Because such a want of common sense ! | represents the Bible as a hook to be ridi- | culed. How ridiculed ? | For contradicting the established truth | of science and experience, and also fre- | quently contradicting itself. | Who can disprove such arguments ? Those who make unfermerited and fer- mented wines ; also travellers in the East and in the North of Africa, as well as in grape growing countries on the Continent, where the pure, unfermented wine is a common beverage. Travellers in Alexan- dria have seen skin bottles filled with un- fermented grape juice, which have been in the wine stores for longer or shorter periods without any sign of fermentation taking place. Do not the errorists on this subject say that it is impossible to keep pure wine from fermenting ? Yes, but a wine maker on the Moselle keeps tons of such wine, and the flavour of the old is better than the new, thus ex- plaining the words of our Lord—‘‘No man having drunk the old wine straightway de- sireth new, for he saith ‘‘The 01d is bet- ter.”’—Luke v. 39. How is unfermented wine kept ? i In many ways, some of which have heen | handed down to us from the earliest days | of the Christian era. Pliny gives a large number of recipes for this purpose, and he ; is followed by many other writers of var- ious nationalities. Sometimes heat is the |! principal agent, and sometimes cold. Some recipes give a list of aromatic substances to be added to the juice which, besides giving | to it a special flavour, preserves it from ! fermentation. | Is not the process of boiling the same for | keeping bottled froits and fruit juices ? ! Yes. 2 “Can you give texts to prove that grapes | are called wine? In Gen. xxvii. 28, ‘Plenty of corn and wine’’ should be ‘‘Plenty of corn and vine fruit.”” In Jer. x1. 1I, 12, ‘‘Gather wine | and summer fruits’’ clearly means ‘Gather grapes,’’ ete. Where is grape juice unfermented spok- (en of ? . In Gen. xI1.11, we learn that Pharoah | drank.it. In Isa. lxv. 8, the ‘new. wine’’ | in the bunch of grapes was unfermented, {In Deut, xxxii.-9, 14, we are told that | “Jacob drank the pure blood of the grape,’’ | or unfermented wine. - | Isthere any marked disapproval where "intoxicating drink is meant ? Yes, in Deut. xxxii. 15-33, we see how | the self-indulgence of the Jeshurun type, { led by unlawful desiresand appetites, went | after other gods, and ‘‘their wine was the | poison of dragons.’”” What a contrast this 1 is to ‘Jacob, whom God alone did lead.” Are there any other such passages ? ‘Go not in the way of the wicked ; they {drink the wine of violence,’’—Prov. iv. | 14-17. By what names is intoxicating drink i known in the Bible ? By the same names as the devil—a mock- ! er, a deceiver, the poison of dragons, etc. Is the drinking of intoxicants forbidden ? Yes, in Levit, x. 8-12. “Do not drink ; wine nor strong drink when ye go into the | Tabernacle of the congregation.”’ This was uttered by the Lord after the awful | when death of Nadab and Abihu, who had, probably under the influence of intoxica- ving drink, offered strange fire unto the Lord. Is there another prohibition ? Yes, ‘‘Look not upon the wine when it is red.””—Prov. xxiii. 31. The juice of extracts the red out of the skins, and the wine is red by the time it is intoxicating. Would it not prevent misunderstanding, if unfermented wines were the natural colour, nearly white ? We think it would, but to please theeye it is coloured for those who wish it with the juice from a tiny grape which resembles a black currant. Where are woes pronounced against the drunkard’s drink ? Isa. xxviil. 1, 3, 7, and 8 to 18 ; Hab, ii. 5-15, ete. Was the destruction of cities associated The wealth of Babylon was used to make the nations of the earth mad, and Eng- land’s wealth is being used in the same way.—(Jer. li, 6-9), Babylon was de- stroyed. (Nahum i, 1 to 10 ; Nahum iii, 1 to 11) Nineveh was destroyed. Is there any passage that fitly describes the drink traffic ? Isa. xxviii. 15. covenant with hell. Are abstainers specially blessed ? Yes, the Rechabites (Jer xxxv.), Daniel, Samson, John the Baptist, and many others. Explain the first Miracle of our Lord ? Dr. Isaac, a Rabbi. says fermented wine was considered to contain an omen of evil, and it would have been an insult to offer this to the newly married. Into what difficulty do those lead us who say that the Lord Jesus made intoxicating wine ? That our Saviour did what no consistent abstainer would do. ‘‘The disciple is not above his Lord.” Where is there a verse to prove that feast- ing upon intoxicating wine is a sin ? Isa. v 11, 12, 20, 25.—‘“Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning to follow strong drink, that continue until night till wine inflame them.’” There is no sight more disgusting than the hilarious or changed condition of those who are inflam- ed with wine, and the first draught of in- toxicating wine begins to work this change. Could the son of God encourage anything so degrading ? No, this is the devil’s work. State another reason why the Saviour could have nothing to do with intoxicating drink. > Because it defiles, and Jesus was unde- filed. How do we know it defiles even God’s servants? Look at the cases of Noah and Lot. What other proofs have you ? The great army of those living in im- purity ; intoxicating drink is rarely absent from the bodies of such, and it is nearly always the cause of the first step on a The drink traffic is al | 1 downward course. What wine was used at the Passover ? Because leaven or ferment was so strictly | forbidden, it being a symbol oi death and | Huntingdon have corruption, and nothing that had seen cor- | county also has a special law, passed in [ ruption was a type of Christ, we know that | 1878. | nitro-glycerine, {lime or any poisonous or explosive sub- At this yearly feast, each guest had his | stance in any stream is punishable by - fine unfermented wine was used. How was the Passover observed ? the unleavened wine. What is used by the Jews to-day ? fermented grape juice has always been | valid, and if not easily obtained, boiled ! raisin syrup may be used. { Is it not strange that so many Christian ; churches are still satisfied with the peculiar mixtures palmed off upon the public as | wine, much of which has never seen the | grape ? Yes, indeed it is strange ! i Is it not a great danger to substitute in- | toxicating wine for the harmless ‘‘fruit of the vine,’’ so named by our Lord ? Yes, both to those who administer and those who receive, and the numbers of re- claimed drunkards who go back into sin through this cause should teach this great lesson—also the large number of our teach- ers and leaders who become drunkards,and are to be found in the company of drink’s victims in our poorest lodging houses. Can a destructive agent of the devil be a suitable symbol of salvation ?. Certainly not! The drunkard who best understands the drink often says it has the devil in it. The Christian would have us believe it has Christ in it. If this were | true, Christ would be the minister of sin, | and the drunkard who wants to be deliver- ed from the slavery of this sin would be no better off when he wishes to be a follower of Christ. Is all this error giving place to truth ? Yes, at least 6,000 churches in the Brit- | ish Tsles have put awa; from the Table of the Lord. | Will this not strikea blow at the drink | traftic es, we believe it will be it’s death | blow, when the church of Christ ceases to | Je a partner in the business, and washes her hands of all complicity with the im- moral traffic. Explain the new winein the new bot- Kd > As the old and new cloth won’t agree in the torn garment, neither will new wine in an old or dirty leather bottle. The Saviour wished to prevent waste and fermentation, and advised a clean bottle. This is the advice in any kitchen where fruit 1s being preserved. : What wine did Paul advise to Timothy ? As a wise counsellor, he could not urge a young man to drink fermented wine in- stead of unfermented. Probably Timothy drank watar only. Thecommon drink was and is still, the grape juice mingled with water. : | What could he have advised * The same treatment as that prescribed for weak digestion by the grape cure on the Continent, which is either the eating of grapes or the drinking of their juice mingl- | ed with water. Was Timothy observing the Nazarite vow regarding drink and the eating of | grapes ? ! See num. vi. 1-4. He may have abstain- | ed entirely from the grape. | How in Eastern countries is this pure wine made and used ? A boy born in Palestine said he was as- tonished at the ignorance of English people who thought all wine in Palestine was fermented. He narrated the following : “My mother bought up large quantities of | grapes in the season and hoiled them down, | and carefully kept this preparation for use | when we could not get the grapes. Some- | times, it was diluted with water, for it | could be made solid. Some of our neigh- | bours did not carefully prepare their wine | and it fermented, and made them stupid, and my mother would not let me touch that. And he added, with reverence, of | hare or rabbit, Nov. 1 to Jan. 1. | own cup, and even children drank freely of | or imprisonment. | ed by trout, eel-pots made of wicker work | or netting, not exceeding five feet in Dr. Adler, the Chief Rabbi, says that un- | length, with an entrance to same not ex- | confirmation in a story from the Green Bag. y the accursed thing | | 41-14 course the Lord Jesus would never touch it it would make Him stupid. Is not the mind stupefied through even the moderate drinking of the brandied mixtures sold as wine in the, present day ? | Yes, and unfortunately the intoxicating power pleases the senses, and weakens the desire to see the truth. How have some been enlightened ? By drinking for health purposes the life- giving and nourishing fruit of the vine. What other terms distinguish the intoxi- cating from the pure wine in Scripture ? It is called ‘‘the cruel venom of asps,’”’ and described as ‘biting like a serpent, and stinging like an adder.” Does science agree with these Bible state- ments ? Yes, the poisonous serpent is sure of its victim, and the drink often takes hold of the drinker and his children ; for they can not escape’ the punishment of weakened will power, shaitered nerves, imbecility, and other horrors which descend to ‘‘the third and fourth generation.’ Did not the loving Father know of this inheritance of suffering? Yes, and to prevent this, He warned us against the formation of deadly habits and encouraging depraved tastes which quench or thrust out the Spirit of God our only Helper. . What encouragement have abstainers to wage this war against so mighty a foe? The assurance that the battle is the Lord’s, and that Christ is our Captain, who will help us win it for stricken humanity. When discouraged at the fierceness of the struggle, what passage should we read ? Rev. xxi. 20, where the foundation of the wall of the Heavenly Jerusalem is de- scribed. It is ornamented with precious stones, and the twelfth and last is the Ameythyst. This word is derived from two Greek words—Anot ; and methustos a user of strong drink. Total abstainers are not users of strong drink. God grant that 1 ! Placed a Monument on the. Spot Where Two Amer- ! rr ———— King Oscar’s Goodness. icans Were Killed. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—King Oscar II | of Sweeden and Norway, has given further | evidence of his kindly feeling to Americans by erecting a granite monument on the spot where Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Youmans, of New York city, met their death, on July 4th, last. The circumstances of King Oscar’s grace- | ful act are reported to the state department with photographs of the monuments erected by him. Mr. Youmansand his wife, while backed off a declivity and killed. Consul Many writes that when the king passed the point soon afterward he placed a “beautiful boquet on the wooden cross marking the spot, and directed the chief official of the district to replace the wooden cross with a granite monument. This has been com- pleted, and is an imposing shaft of rough hewn stone. On one face the circum- stances of the accident are briefly given and on the other are the words : ‘‘Oscar II erected this memorial.” The secretary of state has made suitable acknowledgment and has directed our min- ister to convey to the minister of foreign affairs a suitable expression in behalf of the secretary of state. pure blood and cannot be cured with local applications. Hood’s Sarsaparilla has cured hundreds of cases of catarrh because it purifies the blood and in this way re- moves the cause of the disease. It also builds up the system and prevents attacks of pneumonia, diphtheria and typhoid fe- ver. tic with every one who tries them. 25c. soon all who call themselves by the name ! of Christ may be like precious stones, rend- | ered meet to adorn the City of God. Fish and Game Laws. 1 —— 1 Information Sent Out by the State Agricultural | Department. Dr. Warren of the State Department of Agriculture, in response to requests, has | Sent a summary of the State fish and game ° aws. | The dates when fish can be legally taken are : Sea salmon April 1 to Aug. 1; speckled | trout, April 15 to July 15; lake trout, | Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 ; pike or pickerel, June | 1 to Feb. 1; Susquehanna salmon, May 30 to Jan 1; black and other bass, May 31 to | Jan. 1; shad in Delaware river, Dec. 31 to June 15; no rock bass or wall-eyed pike can be taken in the Delaware river for two years from June 25th, 1895. : Game—Ruffled grouse or pheasant, also called by some partridge, Oct. 1 to Jan. 1 ; prairie hen or pinnated grouse, Oct. 1 to Jan. 1; woodcock, July 4 to Jan. 1; quail — or Virginia partridge, Nov. to Dec. 15; wild turkey, Oct, 15 to Jan. 1; wild fowl (ducks, etc.,) Sept. 1 to May 1 ; upland or grass plover, July 15 to Jan. 1; elk, wild deer or antelope, Oct. 1 to Dec. 15; gray, ' black or fox squirrel, Sept. 1to Jan. 1; Bedford laws. and Pike f\ Tioga, special The counties o To place any torpedo, giant powder, dynamite, electricity, In streams not inhabit- ceeding two and one-half inches, are al- lowed. 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The subreme quality of St. Nicholas is its bright, healthfuland invigorating atmosphere. THE COMING YEAR will be a great one in its history. It will have a more varied table of contents and more spirited illustrations than ever before. The leading serial beginning in November, will be A STORY OF SHAKSPERE'S TIME. “MASTER SKYLARK,’ 0 BY JOHN BENNETT. IMustrated by Birch. : THIS is a live story, full of action, color, merri- ment, and human nature. The world’s greatest poet figures as one of the principal characters, al- though the hero and heroine are a boy and a girl. It is poetic in treatment, but full of the romance of the Elizabethan age, and very dramatic in plot. Another serial, beginning in Novem- ber, is 3 A GREAT WAR STORY FOR SOUTH. “THE LAST THREE SOLDIERS.” BY WILLIAM H. SHELTON. A strong story with a unique plot. 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