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Religious.
A holy life is a voice; it speaks when
the tongue is silent, and is either a
eomstant attraction or a perpetual re-
proof.
Let all your words be full of truth,
Let kindly feelings reign;
Do to all, and let your smiles
Leave biegsings in their train.
1f Satan seeks by winsome wiles
To fill your life with woe,
Oh ! heed him not, but turn away,
And boldly answer, No!
Poor and content is rich, and rich
emough ; but riches, fineless, is as poor
as winter to him who fears he ever will
be poor.
“0 deem not they are blest alone
Whose lives a peaceful tener keep;
Yor God, who pities man, hath shown
A blessing for dhe eyes that weep.
“The light of smiles shall fill again
The lids that overflow with tears,
And weary hours of woe and pain
Are promises of happier years.”
The Gospel of Work.
This was the gospel of the first cen-
tury. “We read of the ‘Acts of the
Apostles; the work of faith and labor
of love ;»’ and are toldjto ‘‘work out
our own salvation.”
The gospel has more to do than just
to get individuals souls to heaven. It
is to rear a christian civilization, to
build up righteousness in the earth, to
redeem society from the evils that prey
upon it lift from the heart of hu-
manity the burden under which ‘‘the
whole creation groans and travails in
pain.”
Our view of the “kingdom of God”
is too meagre if we do not take in all
this. And how much the hand has to
do in bringing this to pass | We need
converted hands, consecrated hands, as
well as hearts,
Some of you, brethren, think you have
very little talent to talk; a very poor
gift at prayer ; and so it may be. But
God has given you two good strong
hands, Use them for him. The gos-
pel of the hand is as scriptural as the
gospel of the heart ; the gospel of work
is as orthodox as that of prayer. With-
out the two together the world has no
gospel at all. The bible order is to
pray out your work, and then to work
out your prayers. So the psalmist
prayed : ‘‘Establish thou the work of
our hands upon us, yea the work of our
bands establish thou it.”
An honest, manly, womanly work in
which you can make yourself useful to
your fellow-men—eamning bread for
your family, if you have one ; training
your children in various wavs ; cooking,
mending, washing for them, as a chris-
tian mother ;—there’s the gospel of the
hand.
And how Christ preached this gospel
in the shop at Nazareth! And so can
you in your shop, too. Why not ? Your
saw, your auger, your plane, your ham-
mer, your hoe and plow and yard-stick
and scales may be just as consecrated
instruments of religion as those which
Jesus used when he worked in the
carmenter’s shop ; and be just as truly
devotional as your bible or hymn book.
People get a notion that religion is
something connected with churches,
and what are called religious exercises ;
and that is all. It is a great misleading,
fundamental error, propagated by ‘‘the
father of lies,” and which the whole
life of Christ ought to explode.
Of course, mere work is not religion.
But work inspired, enthused by the love
of God and the Spirit of Christ and
“good will to man’’—this is religion ;
the kind the world needs most, and out
of which its regeneration is to come,
Christian love and loysity and principl
put into the gospel of the land.
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Reflections on Death,
The following lines are an extract
taken from a letter recently written by
Col. Ingersoll from Long Beach to a
personal friend who had suffered a
béreavement in the death of his
mother :
“After all there is something tender-
ly appropriate in the serene death of
the old. Nothing is more touching
than the death of the young, the strong.
But when the duties of life have all
been nobly done—when the sun touches
the horizon, when the purple twilight
falls apon the present, the past and the
future—when memory with dim eyes
ean soarcely spell the records of the
vanished days—then, surrounded by
kindred and by friends death comes
like 8 strain of music. The day has
been long, the road weary, and we
gladly stop at the inn.
“Life is a shadowy, strange and
winding road, ort whiéh we travel for a
little way—a few short steps, just from
the cradle, with its lullaby of love, to
the low and quiet wayside inn, where
all at last must sleep, and where the
only salutation is ‘Good night.’
“Nearly forty-eight years ago, under
the snow in the little town of Cazenovia,
my poor mother was buried. I was
but two years old. I remember ber as
she looked in death. That sweet, ccid
ace has kept my heart warm through
1ltkere years,"
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For Our Youth.
FRUITS RIPE AND GREEN.
Apple green,
y Same,
Eating seen,
Walketh lame.
Curleth lower,
Pain immense,
On the floor,
Prostrate, tense.
Papa cometh,
Janeth boy,
Mamma runneth,
For a toy.
Telephone call,
For Doctor Screw,
Doctor cometh,
P.
D. Q.
Brisk confrication,
Urchin hollers,
Hot application,
Fee, three dollars.
EXVOY.
For the children, Heaven sent thee,
Fruits a kind of new nepenthe.
They'll eschew unrippened dummies,
If you cater to their “tummies.”
Buy them ripe fruit as you “orter,”
“Peaches, all ripe, three quarts for a quar
ter.’ 0
Life,
Little Harry had been told not to
bathe in the mill-pond ; but as he was
climbing over the fence back of his
house he saw other boys in bathing,
and the temptation was too much for
him. He was careful however, to
keep his head dry, so as not to arouse
suspicion when he returned to his
mother. But she immediately taxed
him with having disobeyed her.
“Why, mother,” said he, taking off
his hat, ‘“‘look at my hair; it would
be wet if I had been swimmin’.”
“Yes, my son; but how comes your
shirt wrong side out “Oh! why,”
—faltering, then gleefuly—*Oh, I
turned that getting over the fence.”
“Oh, you did, did you? Well, then,
one good turn deserves another.” And
the wails from little Harry told that
he had been turned to a herizontal
position.
Zsor RevisEp—How THE CANINE
AND THE ROOSTER SECURED THE
Bure oN REYNARD.—A dog and a
rooster who worked the Damon and
Phythias racket were traveling together
one summer, and finding no wayside inn
en route wherein to rest at night, took
up their abode on the soft side of a tree.
The fowl flew readily to a leafy branch
near the top, but the dog, remarking
that ‘it was a heathen climb up there,”
laid down en root and slept the sleep of
a democrat.
At early dawn the rooster waked and
tooted his calliope as only a rooster can.
By his noice, which indeed was louder
than the bark of the dog—or the tree
for that matter—he attracted the atten-
tion of a fox, who was in search of
his morning meal, and who viewed
with delight the prospect of rooster on
toast.
“Ah, my pretty bird,’ said he, ‘how
useful you are. Will you come down
and live with me, and be my owny 'ittle
alarm clock ¥ Come down ; it is raining ;
you'll get wet.”
“Does it rain hard ?
fowl
“Don’t move,” said the fox. "A
bird that will make such tough puns
must, according to the proverb ‘toughs
from thetough,” be unfit for my pur-
poses. Why, I believe you're so tough
that if you werea hen you'd lay hard
boiled eggs. You'rea—"
Just then the dog awoke, and striking
the fox on the collar button, sent him
to his halo, thereby deducing the moral
that it don’t pay to vituperate a
rooster,
“OLD RATTLEBONES.” — A writ
ter in the Cottage Herald tells the
following story of how a thought-
leas boy was punished for calling
names :
A number of us school children were
playing by the roadside one Saturday
afternoon, when the stage-coach drew
up to a neighberinz tavern, and the
passengers alighted. As usual, we
gathered around to observe them.
Among the number was an elderly
man, with a cane, who got out with
much difficulty, and when on the
ground he walked in the most curious
contortions and queer variations of
gait. His feet turned one way, his
knees another, and his whole body
looked as though the different members
were independent of each other, and
every one was making motions to suit
itself.
1 unthinkingly shouted, ‘ Look at
old rattlebones!” while the poor man
turned his head with an expression of
pain which I can never forget. Just then
to my surprise and extreme horror my
father came around the corner, and im-
mediately stepping up to the stranger
shook his hand warmly, and assisted him
to our house near by.
1 could enjoy no more play that after-
noon but, when tea time came, to
my great relief the stranger did not
recognize me, but remarked pleasantly
to my father as he introduced me:
“Such a fine boy was surely worth the
saving 1’
How the words cut me to the quick !
My father had often told me the stery
of a friend who had plunged into the
river, to save me, as I was drowning,
or
smiled the
when an iofant, and who in con.
sequence of a cold then taken, had |
been made a cripple by inflamma-
tory rheumatism ; and this was the
man I had made a butt of ridi-
cule and a laughing stock for my com-
panions !
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The Wonders of Mexco.
There is a wonderful galt lake, situ-
ated 150 miles west of Albuquerque, in
New Mexico, and about fifty miles
from the Arizona line, The lake is
located upon the top of a volcano moun-
tain, and evidently occupies an extinct
crater. It is, perhaps, three-quarters
of a mile in diameter, and is so strongly
impregnated with salt that the crust of
pure white salt, of a spongy consis
tency, like floating ice, encrusts the
margin, It is so plentiful that it is
carried away by the wagon load. Tt
has long been used by the Indians.
The salt is whi:e, of the purest quality
and destitute of sand or amy foreign
ingredient. The texture is porous, like
congealed white foam.
The most curious feature of this lake
isa tall column or monument shaped
formation, which rose up near the cen-
ter to the height of 100 feet, and which
appeared to be composed of white lava,
thrown up by some ancient convulsion
during some ancient period. The out-
side of this singular column is sloped
from the base toward the top, and was
rough enough to enable it to be as
cended. On reaching the top of the
cone the interior was found to be hol-
low like a tube, and at the bottom
there was seen a circular pond of water
with bright emerald green color in ap-
pearance, probably to be attributed to
the sparse sun rays which penetrated
the huge tube, and were reflected from
the smooth, mirror-like surface of
water. On the projecting sides of the
interior of this bow! were found no in
crustations of salt on the surface like
that on the outside, but on thrusting
the hand into the water and withdraw-
ing it, the hand came out perfectly
white from particles of salt that ad-
hered to it. It was evidently a very
strong brine,
There is also a desolate, arid plain,
composed of lava, 100 miles in width,
situated beyond the Organ mountains,
80 called because the basaltic columns
rising up, as seen at a distance, resem-
ble the pipes of an organ. The great
plain beyond is about eight miles west
of Las Cruces. It is entirely destitute
of water, which has to be conveyed by
tho crossing this inhospitable waste,
But the remarkable thing about this
desert is an immense stratum of gypsum
of selmite of a pure white color, and
when seen at a distance resembles a
huge snow drift. The gypsum bed is
several miles in extent, and is in sufli-
cient abundance to furnish a supply for
all purposes for which it is used, to the
markable physical appearances in the
region mentioned scarcely known to
the outside world. It is a scene of won-
ders. — Las Vegas Optic.
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Table Fowl"
It is an admitted fact that the wa
jority of the American people induige
too freely in pork as a meat food. And
it is equally true that the major num-
ber of farmers and market poulterers
are very indifferent as to the quality of
poultry flesh they send to market. One,
class of our poor people see nothing
tempting in the poultry line to induce
them to become lovers of chicken flesh
and the other do not endeavor to pro-
duce a fowl that will be universally
considered excellent for the table.
If we take any of the fancy bred var-
joties of poultry there is hardly one
except the game, which is what may
be considered a first-class table fowl.
The Dorking, though having a national
reputation, is almost tabooed from the
poulterer’s yard on account of being
tender and difficult to rear in this coun-
try. The Asiatic, as now bred, carries
enormous quantities of feathers, while
their breasts are almost devoid of flesh,
and present little more than a heap of
bones when placed on the table, while
their skins are terribly course,
The Plymouth R ck has been bred
in the past few years above the natural
gize. This alone, if no other, would
detract from the quality of its flesh,
The Houdan is fast being changed, by
those who breed them for exhibition,
into an ornamental fowl, The Cre-
vecoeur is also becoming a bird of
plumage, and is difficult to raise, The
Spanish will never answer for
a table fowl as they are utterly
useless for the rough wear and
tear of the farmyard, The
Hamburgs, Leghorns and Polish are
too small for the food maiket. and do
not take on fat kindly, Farmers could
not be induced to breed them for t hei
eggs only. We are therefore compelled
to arrive at the conclusion that among
the many varieties of poultry we have
not yet succeeded in breeding one
which may be considered a prime table
fowl, American Poultry Jowrnal,
~Love laughs at locksmiths, but it
gate when pa was coming with a club,
Experiment in Feeding Pigs.
Last spring, at the Iowa Agricul
tural College, was tried an experiment
which developed some points of interest,
Six shotes were fed in two lots, one
lot receiving only shelled corn, fifteen
pounds per day, the other the same
weight of corn meal moistened with
water. After continuing the ration
four weeks two pounds were taken
from each ration and the place supplied
with the same weight of oil meal
When wt ole corn and corn meal were
fed alone the cost of pork per pound
was 245 cents and 31-10 cents when the
oil meal was added the cost was re-
duced to 2 cents and 21-5 cents in the
corresponding lots, Corn is here
valued at 35 cents, corn meal at 41)
cents per bushel, and oil meal at 1}
per pound.
pigs would eat their mess of moistened
meal in eight minutes, while it took
the others twenty-two minutes to eat the
shelled corn, In this experiment,
with pork at $6.65, corn meal fed to
pigs returned $1 per bushel and whole
corn 93 cents,
This experiment points in the same
direction as the one reported some
weeks ago, that about feeding ensilage
to fattening steers, It will be remem-
bered that in this case the steers that
were fed ensilage gained sixty-feur
pounds more than those fed hay. It
is not to be inferred that this increased
result is due to greater nutritive value
of ensilage, but rather that the succulent
ensilage had the effect of increasing
the digestibility of the corn fed with it,
It is a well-known fact that two animals
will sometimes eat the same amount
of grain, and the one will gain in flesh
and the other not. In certain condi-
tions of digestive organs the power W
assimilate nutriment is so impaired
that no more is used than just what is
sufficient to keep up the ordinary
operations of life. It seems highly
probable that the increased gain
in the pigs fed a small quantity of
oil meal with their corn was due to
fire over corn or corn
Nebraska Farmer,
meal alone, —
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How Ideas Come.
A certain lawyer his
hobby, which is carpenter work, not
merely by the healthy relaxation of
nervous tension and exercise of muscle
justifies pet
it brings him, but chiefly because he
works out his legal problems, plane in
hand. Old law reading comes back to
him then, out-of-the-way recedents re-
cur to mind, the very text of the law
book is never so clearly before him as
then. He has a glimpse of the column
and page, and the very part of the page
on which is some needed citation for
which he would otherwise have long to
seek. Nor is it only memory which
works when he is half engrossed with
the affairs of his handicraft. Original
thought arise and ingenious devices and
clever combinations take shape of them-
selves, The case works itself out, and
mental labor is only pleasurable exer
tion, just as his amateur handiwork is
Hawthorne composed walking. Music.
jans are seized with ideas, and modern
playwrights seize upon others’ ideas at
the most unexpected moment. Business
their meditations at dead of night for
a sound review ef the present and the
forecast on which they base their plans,
When we are hurried we long for rest.
to ‘“think over things’ and decide ra-
tionally ; but relieved from pressure we
“think of nothing at all.” Come the
moment for action, we settle in three
seconds the confusion of days, and, for
good or ill results, our plans are at least
clear, What is needed is not time nor
will but rather the favorable moment
when there is harmony. Then, like
the electric message, thought is swift
and sure. The idea which we have
jong waited for arrives not as the cer-
tain result of earnest thought, but as
the reward of thought, just as honor-
able fame is the reward of noble deeds.
but not the certain result of them,
SY
A Prehistoric Giant,
Farmer Hannon of Barnard, Mo.,
found a shin bone protruding from the
bank of a ravine cut by the heavy rains
of the last few years. He began an in-
vestigation and succeeded in unearth-
ing the skeleton of a human being who
was twelve feet high when Jn full life,
The thigh bones were thirty inches
long and large in proportion. When
the earth was removed the ribs stood
up high enough to enable a man to
crawl in and explore the interior of the
skeleton, turn and come out
with ease, The first joint of the great
toe, above the nail, was three inches
long, and the entire foot eighteen in-
ches In length, The skeleton lay on
its face twenty feet below the surface
of the ground, and the toes were imbed-
while the right arm was stretehed out
to the front and right.
Mme, Jenny Lind Goldsmith flatly
denies, in the London Press, that she
had any such interview as recently
went the rounds of the English and
American press, purporting to be the
report of a conversation between herself
and an American reporter, She pro-
nounces the article a pure invention.
oo oso som
A Good Indian Robbed,
Wtn—
An Indian of the Piute tribe settled
on a piece of land in an out-of-the way-
corner, about forty miles from Ban
Bernardino, Cal., on the head of Rock
Creek, in a place where he found some
water, and as he kupposed was safe
from intrusion. He built here for him-
the material on his back for the same,
and fitting up quite a comfortable home.
He worked for fifty cents a day and
earned sufficient money to get some
seed barley, and at infinite labor pre-
pared his land and put in a crop and
patiently worked and watched his
growing crops, upon which he was de-
pending for life, A short time since
he went with his squaw to hunt down
deer ; he was gone but a short time,
and upon his return he was confronted
by a scoundrel who had jumped his
little farm and stood in the door of his
house with a pistol and threatened to
shoot the owner if he dared to claim
what by the most laborious toil he had
made for himself. The unfortunate
Indian was driven from his home by
the scoundrel, robbed of everything he
possessed on earth, and the fellow who
was guilty of this outrage is now har-
vesting the grain which the poor In-
dian had produced by the hardest
manual labor. If this outraged man
appeals to the courts, there is no redress
for him; if he does as a white man
would do, and take justice into his own
hands, then there would be an outcry
against the savage race and a demand
for their extermination.
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Clips,
11,368 acres in London parks.
~Wurtemberg, Germany, has over
000 breweries,
Several new comic operas have re-
cently been brought out in Europe.
A ‘mysterious’ disease is reported
to be killing off a great many horses in
Utah.
— A soda-water fountain in a Brook-
lyn candy store exploded a few days
ago and broke the proprietor’s arm.
Silence is golgen, and the modern
philospher observes three spherical sec-
tions of it over every pawnbroker’s
door.
—E. and W, Renshaw, who van
quished the Messrs, Clark at lawn ten-
nis, at Wimbledon, are twin brothers,
— The Russian town of Yekaterin-
oslavskvyvitch, recently destroved by a
conflagration, is to be rebuilt on the old
name, which was fireproof.
~The German Government, for the
encouragement of electric lighting, has
ordered the admission of Edison and
Swan lamps on payment of nominal
duties,
A New thing for a Guess.
It used to be the correct thing to
guess on the weight of a hog at the
agricultural show, and on the cake at
the church fair, and later, folks have
pamed their ‘futures’ or the number
of beans or pills in a glass jar, generally
at a quarter a guess, with about a mil-
lionth chance of winning a sewing-
machine or a cook-stove, Now the
smart young man takes out a $20 gold
piece, and asks his friends how many
dollars bills will balance it in the scales,
and offers to treat any one who will
guess within one hundred of the num-
ter. The thing was tried and the
range of human judgment was never
better illustrated. One clerk thought
it would take 800 bills to counter-
balance the gold coin, another 1000
and so on until everybody present had
placed his judgment in jeopardy. The
lowest guess was 350 bills. When the
guesses were all recorded the double
eagle was placed on the scales and
new dollar bills were counted into the
other side until the beam went down
with 34 in the tray.
Not Altogether,
“I have made it a rule through life,”
he said at a lunch table the other day
to the man ot his Jeft, “never to meddle
with another man’s business.” “That's
right, perfectly right,” was the re-
ply. “But Isee you have a new con.
fidential clerk.” “Yes sir, yes.” He's
a hard looking case. I've seen him
drunk a dozen times, and I would not
trust him out of my sight with a nickel.
Took him out of charity, eh ¥° “Well,
not altogether, you know. He happens
to be my oldest son.” Then there was
a period of silence so painful that both
wished some one would yell “fire” to
break it.
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Cultivation of Tobaceo.
mes
There is some reason to apprehend
white veins and piebald colors in neg-
lected sheds of '83 Seedleaf. To
avoid these blemishes vist your sheds
daily, or often enough to know that
the curing process is going on properly.
There will be unavoidable variation of
moisture in the shed during the day,
of course, but the extremes of dry and
brittle or wel and dripping leaf may be
measurably avoided by soaking the
ground in the bottom of the shed with
water, when the season is dry, and
leaving a space of six or eight inches
o en all around the bottom of the shed,
all other openings being kept closed ex-
cept the space above the plates on which
the rafters rest. Too much moisture
in sheds will produce houseburn; a
lack of moisture will produce white
veins, The whole secret of successful
curing lies in preserving, as far as pos-
sible, a uniform degree of moisture in
the sheds and in avoiding the extremes
of drought and flood at all hazards.
Among growers of Seedleaf the opin-
fon prevails that tobacco must go in
and out of case frequently to cure well,
but not a single good reason can be ad-
vanced in support of this theory. The
curing process is not necessarily a fit-
ful, halting, grasshopper movement,
As a matter of fact such progress is
disastrous jn most seasons, Curing
should be a gradual and uniform
change, and when the season is unfa-
vorable to a process of this sort artificaj
measures must be resorted to.—Mi-
amisburg Bulletin,
interesting to Tobacco Men.
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The tobacco division of the internal
revenue bureau hasmade several in-
teresting decisions in regard to the sale
of tobacco and cigars, A dealer who
does business on fair grounds must
have his special tax stamp affixed to
his stand and cannot send out persons
to sell away from it without providing
each such peddier with a seperate
stamp. Collector Routt, of Illinois,
has been informed, in reponse to an
inquiry, that a manufacturer cannot
pack tobacco in apy but the lawfully
prescribed packages, but, after the
tobacco is packed and stamped, it may
be removed to another building and
there placed in envelopes or other
small packages for gratuitous distri-
bution, but in case of delay in such
repacking, evidence of its having been
taken from duly stamped packages
may be required. Some anxiety has
been expressed by manufaéturers
whose districts have been changed
under the consolidation scheme, in
regard to their being required to give
bond. The trade generally has been
rendered quite unsettled by thé uncer-
tainty arising in regard to this ques-
tion, and in response to an inquiry, the
commissioner has had a circular letter
addressed to the collectors in the sev-
eral districts interested. The follow-
ing is the effect of this letter: “It is
not necessity to require a new bond to
be filled by a cigar manufacturer if his
present bond is good and sufficient.
Neither the law nor the regulations re-
quire more than one surety to such a
bond. After a cigar manufacturer has
properly qualified by giving a good and
sufficient bond and paying a special tax,
it is not deemed good policy to require
a new bond, or to interfere with his
legal right to manufacture, unless there
is reason to believe that his present
bond has become defective or insuffi.
cient.”
Comptroller Lawrence has rendered
a decision to the effect that no claims
for rebate on tobacco, cigar or cigarette
stamps presented after June 30, 1883,
can be entertained. He holds that the
60 days’ grace granted from the date
{May 1) that the law went into effect
expired on June 30, and that any hold-
ers of stamps who neglected to pre-
sent their claims until after that date
must jose their benefits under the law,
A large number were so received from
distant districts, and the senders have
been notified that their claims cannot
be allowed. Phila. Tobacco Age.
Of Interest to Tobacconists,
The following information is of such
interest to tobacoonists that we publish
it in official form :—
U. 8, INTERNAL REVENUE, |
Derury CoLLECTOR'S OFFICE, |
Bix CT, YA, |
LyNcunure, Sept, 1, 1883, }
The tobacco manufacturers of the
old Fifth District of Virginia, who
have been consolidaved with the Sixth
District, Virginia, are hereby informed
that no change will be made in the
number of their factories,
The manufacturers will change their
caution labels from the Fifth to Sixth
District, Virginia.
Jonx 8, Warsox,
Deputy Collector, Sixth District, Va.
Lynchburg Virginian,
pa Nashville iron furnaces have
making money, many of them
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