DOOR OF MERCY.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Says There Will Be
Salvation for the Morally
Shipwrecked.
Yield Not to the Force of immoral Gravits
: tion—MNeiplulsess of Religion
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(Copyright, 1M]
Wasmxeron, D. C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage depicts the struggle of a
man who ires liberation from the en-
thrallment of evil and shows how he may
sot free; text, Proverbs xxii, 35:
“When shall I awake? I will seek 1b yet
again.” :
With an insight into human nature
such as no other man ever had, Solomon
in these : is sketching the mental
rocess of a man who has stepped aside
PE the path of rectitude and would like
to return. Wishing for something better,
he says: “When shall I awake?! When
shall I get over this horrible nightmare
of iniquity?’ But seized upon by un.
eradicated appetite and pushed down hill
by his passions he cries out: “I will seek
it yet again. I will try it once more.
About a mile from Princeton, N. J,
there is a skating pond. One winter day,
when the ice was very thin, a farmer liv-
ing near by warned the young men of the
danger of skating at that time. They all
took the warning except one young man.
He, in the spirit of bravado, said, “Boys,
one round more.” He struck out on his
skates, the ice broke and his lifeless body
was brought up. And in all matters of
temptation and allurement it 1s not a
prolongation that is proposed, but only
just one more indulgence, just one more
gin. Then comes the fatality. Alas, for
the one round more! “I will seek it yet
Our libraries are adorned with elegant
literature addressed to young men, point
ing out to them all the dangers and perils
of life. Complete maps of the voyage of
life—the shoals, the rocks, the quicksands.
But suppose a young man is already ship-
wrecked, suppose he is already off the
traek, suppose he has already gone astray,
how can he get back? That is a question
that remains unanswered, and amid all
the books of the libraries I find not one
word on that subject. To that class of
persons I this day address myself. ;
You compare what you are mow with
what yon were three or four years ago,
and are greatly disheartened. You are
ready ith every passion of your soul to
listen to a discussion like this. Be of good
cheer! Your best days are yet to come.
I offer you the hand of welcome and res
cue. 1 put the silver trumpet of the gos
| to my lips and blow one long, loud
last, saying, ‘Whosoever will, let him
come, and let him come now. The
church of God is ready to spread a ban-
quet upon your return, and all the hie-
rarchs of heaven fall iato line of ban-
nered procession over your redemption.
Years ago, and while yet Albert Barnes
was living, I preached in his pulpit one
night to the young men of Philac wphia
Tn the opening of my discourse I said, “O
Lord, give me one soul to-night At the
close of the service Mr. Barnes intro
duced a young man, saying, “This is the
young man you prayed for. But I see
now it wos a too limited prayer. I offer
no such prayer to-day. It must take ina
wider sweep. “Lord, give us all these
souls to-day for happiness and heaven!
So far as God may help me I propose to
show what are the obstacles to your re.
turn, and then how you are to surmoun
those obstacles. The first difficulty in the
way of your return is the force of moral
vitation. Just as there is a patural
Pe which brings down to earth anything
you throw info the air, so there is a cor
nding moral gravitation. I never
shall forget a prayer I heard a young man
make in the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation of New York. With trembling
voice and streaming eyes he said: ©
God, Thon knowest how easy it is for me
to do wrong and how hard it is for me to
do right! God help me! That man
knows not his own
Te
eart who has never
felt the power of moral gravitation.
In he boyhood you had good asso
ciates and bad associates. Which most
impressed you? During the last few years
you have heard pure anecdotes an im-
pure aneedotes. Which the easiest stuck
to your memory? You have had good hab
ita and bad babits. To which did your
soul more casily yield? Bu: that moral
vitation may be resisted. Just as you
may pick np anything from the earth and
hold it in your hand toward heaven, font
so, by the power of Goda grace, a fallen
soul may be lifted toward peace, toward
pardon, towart salvation. The force of
moral gravitation is in every ome of us,
but also power in God's grace to overcome
that force .
The next thing in the way of your re
turn is the power of evil habit. I know
there are those who say it is very easy fur
them to give up evil habits. I cannot be-
lieve them. Ilere is a man given to intox-
jeation, who knows it is disgracing his
family, destroying his property and ruin-
ing bim body, mind and soul. If that
an. being an intelligent man and loving
is family, could easily give up that habit,
would he not do so? The fact that he
does not give it up proves that it is hard
to give it up. It is a very easy thing to
sail down stream, the tide carrying you
with great force, but suppose yon turn
the boat up stream--is it so easy then to
row it? As long as we yield to the evil in-
clinations in our heart and to our Yad
habits we are sailing down stream, bat the
moment we try to turn we put our boat
in the rapids just above Niagara and try
to row up stream. a
A physician tells his patient that he
must quit the use of tobacco, as it is de-
stroying his health. The man replies, “I
can stop that habit casy enough.” [Ile
quita the use of the weed. He goes
around not knowing what to do with him-
elf. He cannot add up a column of
gores; he cannot sleep nights. It seems
gs if the world had turned upside down.
He feels his business ia going to ruin.
Where he was kind and obliging he is
scolding and fretful. The ccmposure that
characterized him has given way to a fret
ful restlessness. and he has become a com-
plete Adget. What power is it that has
rolled a wave of woe over the earth and
shaken a portent in the heavens? He has
qhit tobacco. awhile he says: “I
am going to do as I please; the doctor
does not understand my oaee. I am going
back 12 my old habits.” And he returns.
verything assumes its composure,
His brighten, The
world becomes an attractive place to live
. His children, seeing the difference,
1 the return of their father’s genial dis
ition. What wave of color dashed
[ive into the sky and greenness into the
mountain fol and the glow of sapphire
nto the su ? What enchantment has
ted a world of beanty and joy on his
soul’ He has resumed tobacrn,
The fact ia we all know in our own ex-
that habit ia a taskmaster. As
ong as we obey it, it does not chastise us.
But let us t it and we find that we
with scorpion whips bound
mwn into the
wv uts.
Sthirats and wong. a1 a death 9.
a nan wants to
om evil bod
of the left hand, which is equal to strik-
a man in the face,
h, how few Christian people under
stand how much gospel there is in a good,
honest handshaking! Sometimes when
you have left the need of encouragement
and some Christian man has taken 1%
heartily by the hand have you mot felt
thrilling through every fiber of your body,
mind and soul an encouragement that was
just what you needed?
The prodigal, wishing to get into
ty, enters a prayer meeting. me
man without much sense frosts him
saying: “Why are you here? You are
about the last person that I expected to
seo in a prayer meeting. Well, the dying
thief was saved, and there hope for
you.” You do not know anything about
this, unless you have learned that when
a man tries to return from evil courses of
conduct he runs against repulsions innu-
merable.
We say of some man, “He lives a
block or two from the church, or half a
mile from the church.” In all our great
cities there are men who are 5000 miles
from church-—vast deserts of indifercnce
between them and the house of God.
The fact is we must keep our respecta-
bility though thousands perish, rist
sat with publicans and sinners, but if
there come to the house of God a man
with marks of dissipation upon him people
are almost sure to put up their hands in
horror, as much as te say, “Is it not
shocking?”
in all our churches arc going to get into
heaven I do not know unless they have
an especial train of ears cushioned and up-
holstered. each one a car to himself. They
cannot go with the great herd of publi
cans and sinners,
0 ye who curl your lip of scorn on the
fallen, I tell you plainly that if you had
been surrounded by the same influences
instead of sitting to-day amid the cul
tured and the refined and the Christian
you might have been a Stouching wretch
in stable or ditch covered with filth and
abomination!
It is not because we are naturally any
better, but because the mercy of God has
rotected us. Those that are brought up
in Christian parentage should not be so
hard on the fallen.
I think also that men are often hin-
dered from returning by the fact that
churches are anxious about their member:
ship, too’ anxious about their ‘denomina-
WILL RINGLETS RETURN
The early Victorian fashions are
slowly returning, writes a feminine
contributor to the London Graphic.
The low-cut dresses, the bell sleeves,
the fichus, the pelerines, the hair drawn
over the ears and gathered low in the
neck. Will ringlets come back, too?
Our mothers loved thosé curious ap-
pendages, which framed the face, half
hiding, half revealing it in the most
coquettish. manner possible. The poke
bonnet, the ringlets which required
constant attention, and which ‘Becky
Sharp shook back so archly, are sure-
ly unsuited to quick movements
the bicycle, the hockey field or the
lightning drive on a motor car, Still,
they may return,
CHINESE RIBBONS
Chinese ribbons, showing quaint
symbols on gold and silver grounds,
at the Oriental shops.
and Italian embroidery
be found
metal accessories will be
excess that was the case
An all-white bodice is al-
If it soils it
readily and thoroughly
Worn with these rich toned
becomes exceedingly chic,
well to remember,
the
last year.
be
it
it is always
wear, deep, glowing or-
is eminently smart. Worn
man about to give up sin and return to
God and ssk him how he is going to be
baptized, whether by sprinkling or immer
sion, and what kind of a church he is
going to join.
Oh, despise not parental anxiety!
time will come when you will have neither
father nor mother, and you will go
around the place where they
watch you and find them gone from the
house and gone from the field and
from the neighborhood. Cry as loud
forgiveness as you may over the mound
in the churchyard, they cannot answer.
Dead! Dead!
God pity the youngman who has brought
disgrace on his father’s name! God pity
the young man who has broken his moth-
er's heart! Better that he had never been
born. Better if in the first hour of his
life, instead of being laid egainst the
warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he
had been coffined and sepulchered.
There is no balm powerful enough to
heal the heart of one who has brought
parents to a sorrowful grave, and who
wanders about through the dismal ceme-
tery rending the air and wringing the
hands and crying: “Mother! Mother!”
Oh, that to-day, by all the memories of
the past and by all the ho of the fu.
ture, you would yield your heart to God!
May your father’s God oon your mother's
God be your God forever!
This bour the door of mercy swings
wide open. Hesitate not a moment n
many a case hesitation is the loss of all.
At the corner of a street | saw a tragedy.
A young man cvidently doubted as to
which direction he had better take. His
hat was lifted high enough so you eould
see he had an intelligent forehead. He
had a stout chest and a robust develop-
ment. Splendid young man! Cultured
young man! Honored young man! Why
did be stop there while so many were
going up and down? The fact is that
every young man has a good angel and a
bad angel contending for the mastery of
his spirit, and there were a good angel
and a bad angel struggling with that
young man's soul at the corner of the
street. “Come along with me,” said the
good angel; “1 will take you home. I will
spread my wings over your pillow. I wiil
lovingly eacort you all through life under
supernatural protection. I will bless
every cup you drink out of, every couch
you rest on, every doorway you enter. I
will consecrate your tears when you weep,
your sweat when you toil, and at the last
I will hand over your grave into the hand
of the bright angel of a Christian resurrec.
tion. I have been sent of the Lord to be
your guardian spirit. Come with ine”
#aid the good angel in a voice of unearthly
symphony. It was music like that which
drops from a lute of heaven when a wer-
aph breathes on it.
PEARLS IN GREAT VOGUE.
The tremendous vogue and conse-
the jewelry world
weeks ago a pearl
feature of
Only a few
of the Countess
in Paris
The famous pearls
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pearls in Eng
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THE NEWPORT STOOP.
A certain modification has been no
with me.
fer.
I have something better to of.
The wines I pour are from chalices
of bewitching carousal. The dance I lead
is over floors tessellated with unrestrained
indulgence, There is no God to frown on
the teraples of sin where I worship. The
skies are Italian. The paths [ tread are
through meadows daisied and primrosad,
Come with me.”
The young man hesitated at a time when
hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel
smote the good angel until it departed,
upward and away until a door swung open
in the sky, and forever the wings van-
ished. That was the turning point in that
young man’s history, for, the good angel
flown, he hesitated no longer, but started
on a pathway which iz Deautiful at the
is caried
itary
Mademoiselle
which is
certainly a graceful pose, quite far re-
moved from lounging. It has some-
thing of the suavity and urbanity im
plied in the pose, an art of graceful
concession to the guest whom one en
tertains. For want of a better name
it is called the Newport stoop. The
assumption implies a delicate compli
ment one's an air
solicitude for ntertainment
one's companions. the reverse
of the old military or stiffly erect de-
was « a
This att of
rather
at a
ereciness
1 he body
and 1
the rule.
able circles.
1
is no longer
to companion, of
¢ of
It is
wr
nce considered
Was onc
dignity, but aggressive in its
assumption of sell importance and
condescension to companions,
though the new deportment and cz
fange of the physique should 1
exaggerated into the vulgarity
“Grecian bend” of thirty or
mn
tude
la mode.
of
direction. It should
Practice before a
begin very gradually
cheval glass and
The inclination
from the shoulders, but from the hips.
DECEITFUL APPEAR-
ANCES,
it strange,” said the
“Isn't observ
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head is beautiful, who has a pretty
I have taken great
owner, only to be disappointed.
woman is either old or noticeably
Perhaps pretty women are so
pleased with the reflection of
angel led the way through gate after gate,
and at each gate the road Lecame rougher
and the sky more larid, and what was pe
culiar, as the gate slammed shut it eame
to with a jar that indicated it would never
open. Past each portal there were a
grinding of locks and a shoving of bells
and the scenery on each side of the road
changed from gardens to deserts, and the
June air became a cutting Decomber blast
and the bright wings of the bad ange
turned to sackeloth, and the fountains
that at the start had tossed with wine
jgured forth bubbling tears of foamin
lood. And on the right side of the road
there was a serpent, and the man said to
the bad angel, “What is that serpent?”
And the answer wae, “That 1a the serpent
of stinging remorse.” On the left side of
the road there was a lion, and the man
asked the bad angel, “What is that lion?"
The answer was, “That is the lion of all
devouring ir” A vulture
through the oY. and the man asked the
had angel, “What ia thas voiture? The
answer was, “That is the vulture waiting
for the carcasses of the slain.”
And then the man said to the bad an.
gel, “What does all this mean? I trus
what you said at the strect corner;
trust Why have you thus de-
ed the last sption fell
off the mer and he said, “I was sent
from pis to destroy your soul.
my chance for many a long
you hesitated that
street corner | my triumph.
ou are here. , ha! You are here!
Come, now, let us and
drink to darkness and woe and death!
Hail, hail!”
all.
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may dislike so much to look at her
face that she turns her attention to
her hair, from which it is possible to
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back head view which is attractive and
an equally pleasing face." New York
imes,
THE COAT OF WINTER.
It is not a subject of congratulation
to most women that the three-quarter
coat will be the coat of the winter.
The majority of women are not tall
and slender, and a three-quarter coat
on any other figure spells a word that
means the opposite of grace.
Except in fur the bolero will at last
retire from its exalted position as first
favorite, and the infinitely more be-
coming and cosy little coat, either very
loose or with a small neatly fittin
basque, has come to comfort us an
iet it be whispered, improve our fig-
ures at the same time,
Another favorite is to be the Rus-
sian blouse in velvet—velvet with silk
strappings and curious embroideries
now and velvet with fur later on. With
thie coat alone shall we see tight cuffs
though the sleeve above will quite
full, particularly at the elbow. Except
in fur revers will have almost van-
ished, big collars will still hold their
own, but in May Siies our shoulders
are to splayed in the neatest pos-
sible lines.
tn pi JOR MAKING uP, leuty
n materials re are pien
of serges, and some with herringbony
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weaving in pastel shades, reps, ehevi-
ots, satin cashmeres of all colors, light
and dark, fancy cheviots with zibeline
the plain, good cashmeres always mn
demand, but now apparently returning
to special favor.
Rich and soft are piano cloths, for
which there is a universal demand in
rays, violets, navy and other shades.
‘hey are so silky, soft and charming
it is not wonderful they have had so
great a following and are likely to
continue it,
A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE IN
KLONDIKE.
We loaded our outfits into the boats,
and at one o'clock pushed out across
Linderman, which is seven miles long,
and which connects with Bennett Lake
by a river about half a mile in length,
the water of which is shallow .and
filled with large, sharp rocks, necessi-
tating the lining through of our boats.
The men packed the goods around to
the shore of lake Bennett, and as I
walked along the shore I came across
a newly made grave with the following
inscription, “J. Mathews, age 20."
learned that after losing his all on the
summit he went back to Dyea, put his
last dollar into a second outfit,
tried to carry his loaded boat through
channel, when it was dashed to
pieces on the rocks and
lost. He was so discouraged after his
second loss that he shot himself
through the heart,
I gathered a few green boughs from
the spruce trees near, placed them in
have learned where his mother
CORN FODDER AND HAY FOR
STOCK.
It is difficult to make a proper com-
parison between corn fodder and hay,
because the quality of either largely
depends upon the curing. Bright,
reen corn fodder, shredden or cut
me, is superior to improperly cured
hay, while good hay is far superior to
zorn fodder that was not cut down un-
A eS A M5 - won -
formerly. Still, the failure or partial
failure of corn or wheat must always
tend to create a great change in cattle.
Without adequate feed on hand cattle
dealers will rush their stock to the
market, and later there will come a
period of scarcity. The wise prepa-
ration for any emergency is a part of
the business policy of every one en-
gaged in this work. It is something
that conservative growers expect and
largely anticipate. Now hogs have
suffered no depression in the last two
years, and in view of present crop con-
ditions, there is little likelihood of the
market being overstocked with swine
for the next eighteen months. Indeed,
one was never surer of good returns
frem swine-breeding and feeding than
til the leaves turned yellow. If fodder
is tender and juicy the animals will
stalks are rich in sugar, but much de-
pends upon the stage of growth
which the stalks were harvested.
VALUE OF CORN STOVER.
The Maryland Experiment
stover of corn, and analyzing
mail from the Klondike,
lone watcher grieving for the absence
of one who will never return.—Emma
I. Kelly, in Lippincott’s Magazine,
VALUE OF DRESSING WELL,
A few years ago a well-known teach-
er, who had founded and carried on for
many years a successful school for
girls in one of the Middle States, de-
cided to retire. She looked about for
SUCCOsSs0T.
Many candidates were
her notice. The place was
'
tant one. The emoluments
brought to
an impor
were
1 higher in the ¢
and M lan}
just
large,
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find
SAYS
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women in the counts aid
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arship or her ability to teach, |
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lost half
think?
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said to a
"ne
put
WES one
buttons. Trifles
hey
you
betrayed qualities
ch made her unfit to be the guide
of young girls. The woman, whatever
her ability, who does not respect her-
self enough to be clean and neat will
never command the respect of others.”
The applicant knew that }
gaping glove and slovenly
her a place of ease and honor {
never
ir
ae
A place of trust with
was open to women in one of the pub-
lic departments in
One candidate brought the
but was dis
the Ccommitice who
slats
gation
tment
appois
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sed In xtreme
{
asl glittering
| nodding plumes.
“We want a working woman, not
said the chairman, after the
irdly dressed candidate had retired
Nothing shows
accurately
than the way
they attach just
cockatoo,”
abst
sense
in 1 or
which they dress
orrect imp
or
nen
women
If
in
the
he other fac-
value.
* be sqg#
ther just
Wool and other knit
heavy winter wear.
Large hats adorned by ribbon run-
ming in and out around the entire
gloves for
Beautiful matched sets consisting of
hat, boa and muff, and made of feath-
ers, fur, etc.
Waists of moire antique silk in light
Women's stock collars with four-in-
hand ties attached; made of flannel
Hats of all shapes and materials,
trimmed with green parrots.
Prix seam suede gloves, showing
Beautiful hats of
with Irish point lace,
Flannel waists in a wide variety of
colorings, with elaborately embroid-
ered fronts,
Women's 36-inch tan coats made of
handsome smooth cloth.
Women's heavy white gloves trim-
med with gilt braid
The new lines of lace-trimmed
handkerchiefs in irregular shanes,
Fur capes, collars and boas in mink,
sable, marten and a variety of other
popular sorte,
A great variety of combinations in
pearl and siiver in umbrella handles,
Women's lace scarfs, to be tied as an
automobile or in any other desired
form,
Raglan mackintoshes, in black, tan,
brown and green.
Gold wire jewelry, forming names,
designs, ete,
Gauze fans, handsomely painted and
adorned with spangles.
Lace collars and boleros in a wide
variety of styles.
Golf jackets of fancy white material,
heavily embroidered with colored silk
ou id front, the design forming golf
ciubs,
Women's black hosiery with small
college flags about an inch in length
embroidered in silk just over the in-
step.
Women's wide scarfs, rather on the
automobile order, but made to be tied
twice; once at the neck and then again
over the bust, the ends hanging down
free.~Dry Eronomist,
Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria are
the only governments in the world that
exclusively own their own railways.
velvet trimmed
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they found 1,530 pounds of digestible
in the ears and
tover, or 112 pounds more of food In
stover than in the ear,
and gram, but
valuable to be
where the corn
And, by
» Jower part of
s than that
Car
too
as was the
certainly
often
tem
stalk is more
Car.
the
EXCELLENT WINTER FEED.
Turnips and carrots make excellent
winter food, F
sliced with a
the work very
consume
« they should be |
which
Even poultry
yds when the
The way to pre-
Lt.
sprinkle
ef. does i
pare sliced roots to
meal and bran over the mes
it to the cattle or fowls
adva
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poured through a
thin material is allowed to rest |
upon the board floating in the tub.
The wax runs through the sack into!
the tub. There will be a considerable |
residue left in the sack. which can be
separated by squezing or rolling the |
mass with a round stick or other press. |
The wax will float on the surface of
the water and soon cool. In the mean-
time the kettle should be
filled with clear water and the wax |
boiled up a second time. After the |
first straining it looks brown and un-
fit for use. It should be boiled a sec-
ond time and strained carefully through
a fine meshed cloth several times. [It
can be melted now without water and
put in molds ready for the market.
The sack or cloth used for straining
the wax is of no special value after-
ward and should be thrown away. 1
have made as much as twenty pounds
a season out of comb considered
worthless, and would have been
thrown away under ordinary tircum-
stances. | always find a good market
for first-class beeswax and save all
scraps and pieces of old comb, treat-
ing it in the manner described above,
Mrs. W. H. Johnson, in New England
Iomestead.
SWINE FOR MARKET,
For several years now there has
practically been a shortage in hogs,
and the coming winter promised to be
an exception. The industry is not sul-
fering under a boom nor depresion.
It has been steady and uniform
throughout. Probably the most un-
satisfactory thing about some farm
crops is that they are subject to rather
violent booms and periods of great de-
pression. No farmer of the right type
enjoys such uncertainties. There may
be a certain class of farmers who like
it. But they are rather the speculators
and hangers-on of the business, who
want to get rich suddenly, and cannot
stand the steady, uniform work which
carries a man's business by de
from a low to a high position, Shes
in the great industrial world booms
and depressions are dreaded by all the
conservative men and are enjoyed by
the speculators and idlers.
In recent years the efforts of cattle
men have been directed toward the es-
tablishment of steady, mniform mare
kets, have deplored the uncer-
tainties of their ess, and to-day
The
with an ol
kettle, and
sack or other |
SOME sor
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Out
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from
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wh
cleansed, |
we have
to-day. With the comparative scarcity
difficult in feeding the hogs at a cost
ize profits. But with our great dairy
and grain interests presenting un-
and almost unguessed possi-
bilities for feeding, the shrewd, expe-
rienced breeder of hogs will not find
the present problem too great for him
to solve. There is more than one way
reach any and al per-
form any proklen often each one
must P,
Smith, in American Ct
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trees where the
been thinned out systematically, in
Now
afford to
est. on such
a tree you cannot
lose an apple by careless
Yet this may be done by
careless pickers so easily that the prof-
its will be seriously cut into. I have
scen beginners in their haste to 61
shake the limbs where
a few choice apples were just beyond
their reach. They not only dislodge
these fruits bul injure many more on
other branches. So important is the
picking that | always begin early and
employ only a few pickers at a time.
They work under my supervision, and
if the limbs are shaken or the fruit nn-
duly bruised and pricked, some expla
nation must be given. The apples are
all large and choice, and I expect each
one to be harvested without a bruise.
There is no reason why more than hali
a deren apples or so should be
dropped from each tree. If more are
dislodged there is some trouble
carelessness or ignorance on the part
of the pickers. The employment of
boys to pick apples is generally
a great mistake unless the apples are
small and intended for the cider mill
or some local market. While the boys
cost only half the amount paid to ex-
pert men pickers, the difference will
be found in favor of the latter at the
end, especially where choice apples or
pears are raised. So much depends
upon the proper harvesting of apples
and pears that it may be said the pack.
ing and shipping are only secon
importance. No bruised and pricked
fruits can be packed and shipped to
keep. First of all, the fruits must be
sound and free from all injury.—S, W,
Chambers in American Cultivator,
Ancestry of Presidents.
President Roosevelt is the second
President of Dutch ancestry, Van Bu.
Of our other Chie!
English 3 et fe Scotch-Irish,
glish stoc "
three ftom Scotch, and one, Jefferson,
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