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REY, DR. TALHAGE.
THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
febjects “The Value of Good Wives"
Qualities Which Crown Noble Woman«
Heed. Wonders Christianity Has Done
ar the Weaker Sex.
“xxx: “Elisha passed to Shunem, where
“as a groat woman, "II Kings iv,, 8,
The hotel.of our time had no counterpart
#0 amy entertainment of olden time, The
aust majority of travelers must then be en-
Senmtaimod at private abode, Here comes
Bisha, a servant of the Lord, on a divine
ndssbo a, ahd be must Had shellel: ian
wverlooking the va 0 raglon
Rd him in a re hose, and {it is
aspocially furnished for his occupsncy—a
alsule to sit on, & table fram which to eat, a
-mmndisstick by which to read and a bed on
wided to slumber, the Whole sstablighment
belenging te a great and good woman, Her
Jembaad, it seems, was a godly man, but
he was entirely overshadowed by his wife's
-ameelleaces; just as now you sometimes
@nd in a household the wile the centre of
Jignity and influence apd power, not by
ance or presumption, but by su-
intellect and force of moral nature,
domestic affairs and at the same
@fme supervising all financial and business
affsire—the wife's hand on the shuttle or
ge Banking house or the worldly business,
You see hundreds of men who are suc-
«esslui only because there is a reason at
deena why they are so successful, If a man
msarry & good, honest soul, he makes his
Sertupe. If he marry & fool, the Lora help
The wife may the silent partner
the firm, there may be only masculine
down on Exchange, but thers often-
&ispes comes from the home circle a poten-
tial and elevating influence. This woman
my text was the superior of her husband.
as far as 1 can understand, was what
we often see in our day, a man of large for-
and only a modicum of brain, intense-
quiet, sitting a long while In the same
@pisos without moving hand or foot, if you
“Yes,” responding “‘Yes;" if you say
** responding ‘‘No''-—inane, eyes half
sbat, mouth wide open, maintaining his
2 ia soclety only because he has a
patrimony. Bat his wife, my text
Sys, Was a great woman. Her name has
aet come down to us. She belonged to
that collection of people who need no name
@e distinguish them. What would title of
dachess or princess or queen—what would
escutebeon or gleaming diadem be to this
weman of my text, who by her intelligence
and hear behavior challenges the admira-
tfom of all ages? Long after the brilliant
wramen of the court of Louis XV have been
Sexgotten and the brilliant women of the
eourt of Spain have been forgotten and
the brilllant women who sat on the throne
of Bassia have been[forgotten some grand-
father will put on his spectacies, and hold-
fag the book the other side the light read
#e ils grandchildren the story of this great
woman of Shunem who was so kind and
osurteous and Christian to the good
prophet Elisha, Yes, she was a great
woman.
In the first place, she was great in her
Bospitalities, Uacivilized and barbarous
mations have this virtue. Jupiter had the
sername of the Hospitable, and he was
ssid especially to avenge the wrongs of
stmangers. Homerextolled it in bis verse,
¥he Arabs are punotilious on this subject,
aad among some of their tribes it is not un-
& the ninth day of tarrying that the ococu-
pant has a right to ask his guest, “Who
aad wheace art thou?” If this virtue is so
Bhavoped among barbarians, how ought ft
de be honored among those of us who be-
Beve in the Bible, which commands us to
wee hospitality one toward another with.
out grudging!
©OFf courss 1 do not mean under this cover
4%» give any idea that I approve of that
wagrant class who go around from place
fe place, ranging their whole Jifetime, per-
Bags under the auspfees of some benevo-
Jdemt ar philanthrople society, quartering
Ehemanives on Christian families with a
gat pile of trunks in the hall and carpet.
poctentous of tarrylug. There is many
A country parsonage that looks out week
By week upon the ominous arrival of
wagon with creaking wheel and lank horse
and dilapidated driver, come under the
of some charitable institution to
spead a lew weeks and canvass the neigh.
Backood. Let no such religions tramps
take advantage of this beautiful virtue of
Christian hospitality, Not so much the
ssmptuousness of your diet and the
swgality of your abode will impress the
friend or the stranger that steps across
your threshold as the warmth of your
@roating, the informality of your recep-
Shen, the reiteration by grasp, and by
Josk, and by a thousand attentions, ig-
significant attentions, of your earnest.
mess of welcome, There will be
sppeeciation of your welcome, though
yeu bare nothing but the brazen ecan-
diestick and the plain chair to offer
Elsha when he comes to" Shunem., Most
Sematifal is this grace of hospitality
when shown in the house of God. I am
Shaakini that I have always been pastor
af oburches where strangers are wel.
some, But 1 have entered churches
wheres there was no hospitality. A
would stand in the vestibule
Ser a while and then make a pligrimage up
Ake long isle. No door opened to him until,
@ashed and excited and embarrassed, he
started back agaln and, coming to some
Salf glied pew, with apologetic air entered
i, while the occupant glared on him witha
Boek which seemed to say, "Well, If I must,
4 emst."” Away with such accursed inde-
Semey from the house of God. Let every
wbunch that wonld maintain large Christian
Safluence in community euiture Sabbath by
Sabbath this beautiful grace of Christian
he widerness, was overtaken night
mad storm, and he put in at a cabin, Ho
‘www Serearms along the beams of the cabin,
sod he falt alsrmed. He did not know but
’ be had fallen into a den of thieves.
sat there greatly perturbed. After a
the man of the house came home
& gun on his shoulder and set it down
sooner. The stranger was still more
After awhile the man of the
swidispered with his wife, and the
thought his destruction was be-
. Then the man of the house
ard and said ~ the stranger;
‘We are a rough and rude peo-
oat here, and we work kard for
living. c make our living by
wee #20 thied dud we aes ap to 0
and we are apt to go
«arly and before retiring te rn
fa the habit of reading a chapter
Swe the word of God and makiug & prayer,
: don't like such things, if yon will
; alep outside the door until we get
Khoi, 1 Yok
n the room,
and the old hunter took hold of the horas
witha altar and brought down the blessing
«af Glad upon his household and upon the
steaeger within their gates. Rude but
Aarhows Christina hospitality!
This woman of the text was only a type
al thonsands of men and women who come
from and from eot to do
Lord's servants, I
Halll pow of somethiag that you might think
et A young man uated from
Beauswick Theological Seminary was
mile to wu vil ehureb, Fe had not the
to furnish the parsonage. After
"iikee ox four weeks of Jroching a commit.
Ni Shutel waited on
all ready for the canes and the ump,
and the overcoats, &hd oh the left hand
of the hall was the parlor, solaed
chaired, plotured. He passed on to the
other side of the hall, and there was
the study table in the centre of the floor
with . stationery upon it, bookshelves
bullt, long ranges of new volumes, far
beyond the reach of the means of the
young pastor, many of these voiames,
The young pastor went up stairs and
found all the sleeping apartments furn-
fshed, came down stairs and entered
the pantry, and there wore the sploes,
and the coffees, and the sugars, and the
groceries for six months, He went down
into the cellar, and there was the coal
for all the coming winter. He went into
the dining hall, and there was the table
already set-—the glass and the silver.
ware, He went into the kitchen, and
there were all the cullnary implements
and a great stove, The young pastor
lifted one lid of the stove, and he found
the fuei all ready for ignition. Putting
back the cover of the stove, he saw in an-
other part of it a lucifer match, and all
that young man had to do in arting to
kesp house was to strike the match, You
tell me that is apocryphal. Oh, no, that
was my own experience. Oh, the kind-
ness; oh, the enlarged sympathies some.
times clustered around those who enter
the gospel ministry! I suppose the man of
Shunem had to pay the bills, but it wie
the large-hearted Christian sympathies of
the woman of Shunem that lookea «ter
the Lord's messengers.
Where are the feet that have not been
blistered on the hot sands of this great
Sahara? Where ere the soldiers that have
not bent under the burden of grief? Where
is the ship salling over glassy sea that has
not after awhile been caught in a cyclone?
Wiere is the garden of earthly com!
but trouble hath hitehed up its flory an
panting team and gone through it with
burning plowshares of disaster? Under
the pelting of ages of suffering the great
heart of the world has burst with woe,
Navigators tell us about the rivers, and
the Amazon, and the Danube, and the
Mississipp! have been explored, but who
can tell the depth or the length of the
great river of sorrow, made up of tea
and blood rolling through all lands an
all ages, bearing the wreck of families,
and of communities, and of empires, foam-
ing, writhing, bolling with the agonles of
6000 years, Etna, Cotopaxl and Vesuvius
have been described, but who has ever
sketched the voleano of suffering retching
up from its depths the lava and scorias, and
pouring them down the sides to whelm tin
nations? Ob, it I eould gather alithe heart.
strings, the broken heartstrings, into a
harp I wauld play on it a dirge such as
was never sounded. Mythologists tek
us of gorgon and centaur and Titan
and geologists tell us of extinet speciel
of monsters, but greater than gorgon or
megatherium, and not belonging to the
realm of fable, and not of an extinet
species, a monster with an {ron jaw and
hundred iron hoofs bas walked across th
nations, and history and poetry and scul
tare, in thelr attempt to sketch it and 4
seribe it, have seemed to sweat great drops
of blood. Bat, thank God, there are those
who can conquer as this woman of the text
conquered, and say: “It fs well. Though
my property be gone, though my children
be gone, though my home be broken up,
though my health besacrificed, it is well; it
is well!” There is no storm on the sea but
Christ is ready torise in the hinder part of
the ship and hush it. There Is no darkness
but the constellation of God's sternal love
ean {llumine, and, though the winter comes
out of the Northern sky, you have some-
times seen that Northern sky all ablaze
with auroras which seem to say: "Come up
this way. Up this way are thrones of light
and seas of sapphire and the splendor ol
an sternal heaven. Come up this way.”
Again, this woman of my text was great
in her application to domestic duties.
Every pleture isa home oleture, whether
she i# entertaining an Elisha or whether
she is giving careful attenion to her sick
boy or whether she is appealing for the
restoration of her property. Every picture
in her ease is one of domesticity. Those are
not disciples of this Shunemite woman who,
going out to attend to outside charities,
neglect the duty of home-the duty of
wile, of mother, of daughter. No faith.
fulness in public begelaction can ever
atone for domestic negligence. There
has been many a mother who by lade.
fatigable toll has reared a large family
of children, equipping them for the du.
ties of life with good manners and large
intelligences and Christian prineiple,
starting them out, who has done mors
for the world ‘than many a womag
whose name has sounded through all
the lands and through the centuries. 1
remember when Kossuth was in this
country thers were some ladies who got
honorable reputations by presenti
him very gracefully with bouqueta o
flowers on public ocoasions, but what
was all that compared with the plait
Hungarian mother who gave to truth
and civilization and the cause of uni
versal liberty a Kossuth? Yes, this wom.
an of my text was great in her sim.
plicity. hen this prophet wantad to re.
ward her for her hospitality by asking soms
preferment from the king, what did she
say? She declined it. She said, “I dwel
among my own people,” asmuch as to say,
“1 am satisfied with my lot; all I want ls my
family and my friends around me; I dwell
among my own peopls.”
Oh, what a rebuke to the strife for pre
ecedence in all ages! How many there are
who want to get great architecture and
homes furnished with all art, all painting,
all statuary, who have not enough taste to
distiaguish between Gothic and Byzantine,
and who conld not tell a figure in plaster of
paris from Palmer's "White Captive,” and
would not know a boy's penciling from
Blerstadt's “Yosemite.” Mea who buy
large libraries by the square foot, buy-
ing these libraries when they have scarcely
enough education to plek ont the day of
the month in the almanac! Oh, how many
there are striving to have things a8 well as
their hsighbots or better than their neigh-
bors, and in the struggle vast fortunes are
exhausted and business firms thrown into
bankruptey and men of reputed honesty
rush into astounding forgeries!
But what I want to impress upon you,
my hearers, is that you ought not to ia-
ventory the luxuries of life among the in-
dispensables, and you ought not to depre-
ciate this woman of the text, who, when
offered kingly prelerment, responded, “I
dwell among my own people.” Yes
this woman of the text was great
Just read the cha
you go home. Faith
, and she was not ashamed to talk
about it before idolaters. Ah, woman will
never appreciate what she owes to
Christianity until she knows and sees
the degradation of her sex under pagan-
fs and Mobammedaniam! Her very
birth considered a misfortune, Bold like
cattle on the shambles,
work, and at last her bod
funeral pire of her husband,
shriek of the fire worahi in India, and
above the rumbling cf the Juggernauts I
hear the million volesd groan of A
insulted, broken-hearted, downtrodden
woman. Her tears have fallen in the Nile
and Tigris, the La Plata and on the step
of Tartary. She has been dishono in
Turkish d P palace and
Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones have been
sacrificed in the Indus and the Ganges,
There is not a groan, or a dungeon, of
an island, or a mountain, or a river, or
a lake, Sta gon. but could tell a story of
5 oul un +
thanks to God, this glorious ors 7
comes forth, J and the Slaims sof th
vassalags ana
from ignominy to at
comes the affectionate dan
wite, the honored mot
tian, Oh, if
for woman, pure
most Ariens a vooate
omplifi
itis
NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS.
(ireen Bone for Hens-=-Care of Horses’ Hools
«Succulent Food as an Appetizer—-Mak-
ing Meadows and Pastures, Etc, Etc.
GREEN BONES FOR HENS,
It is a fact that can be proved from
poultrymen in the country, that green
cut bone is the greatest egg producing
food in the world. It is a food that
cannot be omitted from the diet to
have the best results obtained both in
breeding and egg production,
upon thousands of our readers who
are still ignorant on the subject,
they would get one of the cheap bone
mills advertised inour columns, grind
the fresh green bones that are
to thelr poultry in moderate quantities,
all such persons would soon be con-
vinced of the truth of the statement,
CARE OF HORSES HOOFS,
Horses are confined to stables more
winter than in summer, and as a
thelr feet are more apt
to become diseased, especially when
kept upon dry board floors. The front
feet are always more affected than the
hind, becoming hard and brittle. To
prevent this it has veen found that a
little pure cod liver oil applied once in
two or three days by means of a rag
or soft brush is a great ald. Rub over
the outside surface of the hoof and al
so the frog and sole. Apply it at night
and it wil have pleuty of time to pen
etrate into the horny substance and
dry off before using pext morning. It
is all important that superfluous
growth be trimmed off occasionally.
in
CONSequeLce
SUCCULENT FOOD
TIZER.
cannot
AS AN APPE
In dairying, afford to
loge sight of the necessity and utility
of supplying regular feeds of
sort of green, succulent food In econ
nection with the usual rations of the
more solid foods, grain and hay. It
does not matter just what
succulent foods are Those
that are cheapest and most available
In any given locality w
ally be employed All
turnips,
potatoes are
Ensilage is also vers
and pumpking are very
when they are plenty and che
Whatever juicy food
all means supply a reasonable amount
of it every day, for the efficiency of
such ix Such foods
have what nourishment they contain
In a most palatable and eaxily digesti
ble form: but their chief value doubt
sn consists in the healthful stimulos
One
some
i 1k
Hay much
chosen,
il most natur
sneh
afd
«nips
the purpose
roots ns
beets, carrots, parsnip
excellent for
good, Cabbages
desirable
ap
is selected, by
yory marked.
they give the entire digestive system,
succulent sul
the regular healthy a«
tls, encouraging the stomach to do lis
best work in the
These tances promote
tion of the bow
digestion of the more
dry and solid foods, and as a general
result the vitality of
whole animal is decidedly
augmented,
vigor and the
organism
MARKING MEADOWS AND PAS.
TURES.
A certain per cent. of the forage
frops must of necessity be fed on the
farm and naturally 1 1s good pelicy
to have such crops as rich as possible
in food values. As a rule the pure
grasses sown for hay should have a
mixture of some variety of clover to
add protein to the grass when fed, On
heavy amd rather clayey soils alsike
clovers are the best for mixing with
timothy or any of the pure grass seed
Another. point to be observed in mak
ing a profitable meadow is to sow
mixtures of seed that bloom about the
containing too many varieties. For
Inte grasses no mixture is better than
mon red top clover.
With grasses grown exclusively for
pastures an entirely different phase of
the situation appears, and grasses
must be sown that will grow vigorous.
ly throughout the entire season. It
therefore follows that grasses suitable
for megdows are not always the best
for pasture. For example, while tim.
othy is one of the best of meadow
grasses it is a poor pasture grass, In
pasture making a close, thick turf
should be obtained. Kentucky blue
grass and fine red top, with from eight
to ten pounds of small white clover
seed mixed in will make a pasture
grass that will be long lasting and
furnish a large amount of nourishing
and milk-making food.
FEWER HENS-THOROUGH.
BREDS,
A farmer who has discarded his old
farmyard fowls and started afresh
with a few thoroughbreds tells me
that he averages as many eggs a year
now from his twenty and thirty first
chickens as he formerly did from his
old flock of seventy-five to one hun.
dred. That was the average size of
his flock when he pinned his faith to
the old mongrels which had descend-
od to him from a long line of mixed
ancestors with no particular variety
of blood in them. They bad been in-
bred and inbred until no one could
guess what their original ancestors
were, They were the common barn
yard chicken which we see on so
many farms. ‘The owner kept the
flovk up between fifty and one hun
dred year after year, selling or eating
about fifty every fall and winter. He
didn’t get much a pound for the birds,
struggling often with meat so tough
—
Then the eggs formed an item. In
the summer time the entire flock Jald
enough eggs to keep the basket mod-
erntely fll, and sometimes a few
could be sold at prices that left very
little profit. The chickens were not
fed much, but they managed to con-
gume a good deal in the course of a
year. One year the owner tried to
keep account of the cost of feeding
them, and the result was that he de-
cided to kill them all off. They did
not pay for their keep.
After that he purchased a few fancy
| breeds. As he was proud of them, he
{ fod them carefully and regularly and
| gave them good quarters. He started
in with a dozen and gradually raised
the number to fifteen. Now he has
twenty-five, and every year he raises
a few more, He sells a few when
anybody wants a few thoroughbreds,
and he gets good prices for them.
But the most pleasing feature of the
| change is that he gets as many eggs,
| taking the year around, from his
twenty-five thoroughbreds as he for-
merly did from his flock of seventy-
five and eighty. He attributes it to
i the better care and better breed, and
he is right. The cost of keeping that
number is so much less than the old
flock that he feels that every egg he
eats reduces the cost of his living by
at least half. The moral of this true
story is apparent, and I judge my
friend I8 not the only one who has
had such an experience.—Jas. Ridge-
way in American Cultivator.
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HOME MIXING OF FERTILIZERS,
Ro long as farmers continue to take
from the soll in crops, so long must
they continue to return fertility to it
in greater measure than they take
from it. Stable or barnyard manure
are to a certain extent good, complete
| fertilizers for many crops, but in di
| versifled or extensive farming chemic-
al fertilizers are seeded to increase the
quantity or to add largely to one par-
ticular element not contained in suffi-
clent quantities in barnyard manures,
The questions then
and how to buy it. It Is conceded
that it costs, something to mix the
several ingredients forming a com
fertilizer. but on the other hand
it must be admitted that the farmer
often pays heavily for some ingredient
not needed in onder to obtain a com-
paratively small quantity of the de
chemical,
1 *
plete
plots
sired
Here, then, ix where home mixing is
cheaper than buying the mixed fertili-
zor, Statistics show that each pound
of phosphoric acid in mixed fertilizers
farmer six and one-half
he may buy
itself for four and one
Costs the
cents, while
phe
ball cents
wphate by
equally as good. for three
pound. Potash, usually in the form of
muriate, in mixed f&tilizers, costs be
six
may be bought by itself for
and eigh
tween eh
while it
four cents
tilizers costs twenty-one cents a pound
eel it may bought for
if the needed nitrogen
is obtained by the use of crimson clo
while by be
fifteen conts
to the section of the country, it is got
clhieaper
form
separately
than by buying it in chemical
even at the lowest price for it
£4 farmer can then
add the other chemicals needed. pot
ash and
the
phosphoric acid, at about one-
half the usual cost by buying them
separately and mixing
the fertilizer bill ceases to become the
formidable nightmare it is at present.
| In the south less commercial fertilizer
{ and cotton and more stock and the use
of cow peas for nitrogen, and in the
north more home mixing of commer.
| cial fertilizers and more crimson clo-
| ver seems to be the way out of some
of the present difficulties.—Atlanta
Journal,
VEGETABLER FARMERS OUGHT
TO RAISE.
i We astonished when we learn
! how many valuable food plants were
unknown to our ancestors and wonder
what they ate When a new food
| plant is discovered it comes into gen
eral use very slowly, often requiring
| the ald of the government to get the
| people to use it Many excellent
| foods bave been used in one country
{ for many years before they are intro-
duced into the neighboring countries,
Cities will use vast quantities of foods
which the surrounding farmers sel
dom produce or taste. In the com-
munity in which 1 live I never saw
| salsify or asparagus in any farmer's
| garden, yet 1 sell wagon loads of it
in the town, Not one farmer in twenty
are
while in the town they consume about
five gallons per eapita. 1 can name a
number of food niante which can be
easily produced by every farmer, and
which his family wonld enjoy, or
which conld he sold with profit.
he is wedded to “hog and hominy”
and knows not what he misses,
Saleify, or vegetable oyster, has long
been known as a food plant, yet not
generally known as it should be. It
should be planted and cultivated the
hardy ax parsnips and should be dug
late in the fall and buried or put in
the cellar and covered with moist
earth. It ig usually used as a soup,
but any cook book will tell you a
number of ways to prepare it. 1 have
introduced it into a great number of
families, Most of thew will eagerly
call for it and many of them have
come to prefer it to the genuine oys-
ter. 1 have also bullt up quite a mar
kot for asparagus and find there is
now almost no limit to the demand for
it. until green peas come on. But
THE TALE OF A CASTAWAY.
ADVENTURES OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW |
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ON A RAT-INFESTED ISLAND.
Hospitably Treated by the White Colony that |
Leads an Incredibly Miserable Existence
Penguin Eggs-~Rescued by a Warship.
Cast on a rat-infested island in the
South Atlantic Ocean, more than 1,500
miles south by west of the Cape of
Good Hope, Capt. BR. Rt, Shaw and his
154 days, mostly on penguin’s eggs. At
last they were rescued by the British
warship Thrush, and a few weeks ago
were landed at Simon's Bay, Bouth
Africa,
The bark salled from New York on
March 31 last, with a general cargo.
for Freemantle, Australia, RR. W.
Cameron & Co. her shipping agents,
New York city, were rejoiced to
learn that the Glephuntiey's crew
long since given up as lost—had been
rescued from starvation and now are
on the way to Liverpool, where the
Mark was owned.
The voyage from New York was ub
wventful until the first days of June,
shen a flerce storm was encountered.
The eraft was so seriously damaged
hat on June 4 Captain Shaw and his
men were forced to abandon it at sea,
Yhey took to the lifeboats, and several
days later landed on one of the Tris
tan d'Acunha isles.
The adventures of the shipwrecked
men on the faraway island are best de
scribed by Captain Shaw.
After telling of the abandonment of
the bark and the landing on the island
of Tristan d'Achuna, he writes:
“I'he first ship that approached the
island and was boarded by us was tae
American vessel 8. D. Carlton, on Sep
16, from New York to Hong
Kong. [I wanted the captain to take
as to the Cape of Good Hope, but he
could not. Our second mate, however,
Three days aft
a sall from the
of a mountain
men and myself
and got to her.
about 10 p
four-masted bark
highland at the foot
That afternoon eight
left in a small boat,
safling and
She proved to be the
Strathgrype, of Greencock, from New
York for Melbourne,
not but the captain gave us
seventy pounds of bread, fifty pounds
rowing,
They also could
take nus,
oy ¥ a § |
tobacco. This was the first sub
0 We gol sine
As the popula
tion of the place, with our eleven, had
increased to eighty-three, the
supplies did not last long
“1 pever thought that there
white poor as the
Wer
people so seventy
two who made Tristan 4d" Acunba thelr
nouses built
with
The natives have
thatched
The houses ar
one and the
cook, eat and sleep in a single
Along the inside walls of some
bunks
of stone, and these are
only story high, peopl:
apart
ment
of these apartments are like
on ships
“The natives make trips in their jit
boats to Inaccessible Island, twen
miles distant, in a southwesterly
for tussock to used iu
The islands are overrun
which get scant food, ex
tie
ty
direction, be
rats,
Then they dig up the
The
grow very little of anything.
in a while they succeed in
raising a few potatoes. There are a
few apple and pear trees, but the rats,
which climb them, eat the fruit befor
it can ripen,
“The Governor of the Island gave me
shelter, and the rest of the crew were
quartered at the houses of the natives
sho divided thelr stock of eaglets and
penguin flesh, and eggs of the latter
sea fowl with them. Sea eagles are
about the size of a duck, and their
flesh was too strong for me to eal.
The natives, however, seem to relish
in, and in time there is a possibility
that 1 would also fall into line with
them. The craving of hunger is a
terrible thing, and to satisfy it 1 at»
penguins’ eggs for breakfast, dinner
and supper. They were cooked in all
styles, but the variety, such as it was,
could not disguise the egg to wy
taste.
“The sea cagles Jay their eggs In
holes on the sides of the mountains,
and when the eaglets are about as
big as a pigeon the natives take their
dogs in a small boat and go "round the
people
but once
birds, and bring them home and cook
The eaglets have a strong and
to eat their flesh,
“There are several penguin rooker-
fes, where we got eggs which furnish.
ed the main part of our daily food
while we were on the island, We
the ofl secured in the cooking we
used in our lamps. The little coffer
was all that had been on the isiand
for three months, The bpatives own
they secure
ed. They wear no shoes, and when a
beast Is killed its skin Is pegged to
the ground and dried. Then it is ent
up into stripe, and out of the skin a
sort of a moccasin is made,
“The Governor of the Island is up.
ward of ninety years old, and his wife
is elghty-three. One of the natives,
pamed Thomas Hill Swaine, was with
Lord Nelson on the Victory at Trafal
gar. When the government had a bat.
tery on the island of Tristan d'Achuna,
Swaine came as a corporal, and after
but the women rarely get a petticoar.
As a sort of home amusement, the
members of the poor colony on the
island make grotesque bonnets and
caps from the fleece and skins of sea
birds and fancy feather work from
the plumage on the heads of the pen
guins.
“The Governor told ine that he land.
ed first on the island in 1836, and that
only made two trips to 8t. Helena,
which is over 1.000 miles away. He
had never been to the Cape of Good
Hope.
“When the Thrush made its yearly
visit to the island, her captain con
sented to take us to a port in Africa”
The Glen Huntley, which was built
at Glasgow in 1862, was 940 tons bur-
den and HS feet long. She was owned
by Messrs, T. C. Jopes and J. H. Foyl
of Glasgow, Beotland,
VENUS AND 11S MYSTERIES.
Astronomers Puzzled to Know Whether it Is
a Living or Dead World
The most beautiful planet, and the
one that comes nearest to the earth,
and most resembles the earth in size,
is at the same time the most mysteri-
is Venus a living world or a dead
That is to say, is it in a condi-
tion to support inhabitants, and is it
probable that such inhabitants are
or, on the other land, is it un-
suited for their presence and barren
of living forms?
These questions astronomers at pres-
are unable to answer, but their
efforts to answer them and the obser-
vations that they have made of the
mysterious planet possess an almost
startling interest.
First let us briefly recall what Venus
It is a globe like our earth, and of
very nearly the same magnitude, hav-
ing a diameter of about 7700 miles,
while that of the earth 1s a little more
than 7000 miles, 80 nearly of the
same size are the two planets that if
we could view them from an equal
distance we should be upable, without
aid of instruments of measure-
to detect any difference between
The of Vepus is
slightly lighter, for bulk, than
that whiel the earth; but
the difference in this respect Is so lt
tle that again it would require special
examination to distinguish by weight
between a cuble foot of the soll of Ve
jus and an equal amount of the soll
of the earth. It follows that on Venus
thie force of gravitation or the weight
of bodies does not greatly differ from
that on earth If we could steu
Venus should find that we
had parted with a few pounds weight,
but the difference would not be very
noticeable, except perhaps on the race
track
But this planet, so like the earth in
many respects, is very different from
our globe in its situation. The earth's
from the sun is 83,000000
the distance ¢f Venus from the
G7.000,000 miles. This differ-
ener becomes a matter of great impor
tance when we consider the effects
which the sun produces upon the two
Heat and light, as every.
body knows, vary Inversely as the
square of the distance. When we com-
pare the square of the earth's distance
from the sun with the square of Ve
nus’s distance, we find that the former
is about double the latter. This means
that Venus, on the average, gets
twice as much heat and light from the
sun as the earth gets.
But, on the other hand, we know
tft all forms of life depend for thelr
existence upon the radiant energy of
the sun. On the earth, when we pass
{from the artic regions toward the equa-
tor, we find the number of living forms
and the variety and intensity of the
manifestations of life continually in-
creasing, until, in the equatorial zone,
earth, sea, and air are all crowded
with animate and growing things. The
touch of the sun everywhere produces
fife, and in the absence of sunshine is
death. It is but natural to infer that
Venus, having twice as much sunshine
as the earth, should be proportionate-
ly more crowded with animal and veg-
etable inhabitants, and that the loten-
gity of life there should be correspond.
ingly greater. Some geologists have
thought that there was a time when
the climate of the earth was so hot that
tropical plants and beasts lived abun-
dantly around the poles. A similar
| condition of things might be supposed
i pow to prevail upon Venus.--Harper's
Round Table.
His Back to the Foe.
An army officer tells that in one en
| gagement there were bpumbers of
young fellows who smelt powder for
the first time, and it is not surprising
that at times the recruits wore a trifle
unsteady.
“Howover,” sald the old officer,
“1 only remember one case of actual
flight, and when 1 think of it 1 can
scarcely refrain from laughing.
“In the very thick of a hotly contest.
od engagement one of my own men
threw down his rifle and bolted.
“ ‘Here, you coward,’ I roared after
him. ‘What are you running for?
“Without so much as a glance over
his shoulder the fellow replied: “Be
cause I'm in a desprit hurry, an” I
can't iy.”
Barren Lands Redeemed.
The sandy lands of Eastern Caroll
na, which heretofore have been deem
ed too poor for any kind of cultivation
and have been growing up in weeds
with tobacco. This bas been going on
for several years, and by
ous,
one?
there,
ont
is,
the
ment
them. substance
bulk
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