What Is a Farm Worth? My old friend William H. Plumb, of Bangor, N. Y, wants me to tell him what a farm is worth that gives an an- nual income of $00, and what is the value of a cow that gives $15 net in milk and butter a year. According to the system of farm bookkeeping, with which 1 have long been familiar, this $600 income means that there is that sum left after deducting the cost of seeds, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and marketing the crops, paying wages of all the help, feeding the hands and all the stock, lie the family, paying the taxes, pew rent, tickets to the cir cus, buying a new horse or two, repair- ing the carriages, wagons, and imple- ments, expenditure for chewing tobacco, smoking tobacco, pipes, a few gallons of whisky now and then, &c., world without end. Such a farm is too valuable to sell at any price. As for the cow—why, she 1s worth, according to the same system of bookkeeping, a good currying and three bran-mashes a day—N. Y. Press. 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I'he text is Isaiah xxvii, 27, 28: “For the fitches are not thrashed with a thrashing instrument, neither 1s a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cum: min with a rod. Bread corn is bruised be cause he will not ever be thrashing it.” Misfortunes of various kinds come upon various people, and in all times the great need of ninety-nine people out of a hun dred is solace. Look, then, to this neg lected allegory of my text, There are three kinds of seed men tioned—fitches, cummin and corn. Of the last we all know. But it may be well to state that the fitches and the cummin were small seeds, like the caraway or the chick- yea, When these grains or herbs were to TE thrashed they were thrown on the floor, and the workmen would come around with staff er rod or flail and beat them un- til the seed would be separated, but when the corn "was to be thrashed that was thrown on the floor, and the men would fasten horses or oxen to a cart with iron dented wheels; that eart would be drawn around the thrashing floor, and so the work would be accomplished. Different kinds of thrashing for different products. “The fitches were not thrashed with a thrashing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is ing it.” The great thought that the text presses upon our souls is that we all ihe some kind of thrashing process. The fact that you may be devoling your life to hon- orable and noble purposes will not win you escape. Wilberforce, the Christian was mn his day derisively called “Doctor Cantwell.” Thomas Bab ington Macauley, the advocate of all that was good, long before he became the most conspicuous historian of his day, was cari- reviews as “Babbletongue Macaniay Norman Me Leod, the great friend of the Scotch poor, was industriously maligned in all quarters, go out his burial a workman stood and 1.1 loo to “Ii he had done nothing for 3 t forever and ever.” All the wits of London had their fi Wesley, the father of Method If such wien could not escape the ma ng oi neither to get rid of the sharp, keen tribulum. All who will live godly in suffer that, there are { bankru; and disappointments as the {| small John silars wy the word, DETR perse ties : d the joys and hilarities of lif i trouble w ; the peopie were assembled in ill sometimes break | town theatre during the War, and hile farce and t} 3 the they were witnessing a andience was in great gratu of an advancing army uns ing un wid d the nd ran for thei i Bre seated + i audience Mie AY 3 t been as ch pounded Is DeCause as I am i a BEVPrely ran on Yon were, ! Yet there ose the re the Lord's favorites simpiy because their barns and their bank account is flush and thee are no funerals in the house, [It may be because they are fitches and cummin, i while down at the end of the lane the poo: i widow may be the Lord's corn You are but little pounded because von are but little worth and she bruiced and ground because she is the best part of the harvest. The heft of the thrashing ma chine is according to the value of the grain. If you nave not been much thrashed in life, perhaps there is not much to thrash! If you have not been much shaken i of trouble, perhaps it is because there is | going to be a very small yield When there are plenty of blackberries, the gatherers go out with large baskets, | but whon the drought has almost consumed ! the fruit, then a quart measure will do as i well, It took the venomous snake on Paul's hand, and the pounding of him with stones { unti' he was taken up for dead, and the | jamming against him of prison gates, and { the Ephesian vociferation, and the ankles skinned by the painful stocks, and the i foundering of the Alexandrian corn ship, { and the beheading stroke of the Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his proper develop ment. { It was not because Robert Moffat and Tady Rachel Russell and Frederick Ober | lin were worse than other people that they | had to suffer. It was becanse they were i better, and God wanted to make them { best. By the carelessness of the thrashing i you may aiways conclude the value of the i gram, Next, my text teaches us that God pro { portions our trials to what we can bear | the staff for the fitches, the rod for the { eumnmin, the iron wheel for the corn Sometimes peopie in at trouble say, { “Oh, I can’t bear it!” But you did bear it ; God would not have sent it upon you if | He had not known that you could bear it You trembled and you swooned, but you got through. God will not take from your | eyes one tear too many nor from your | lungs one sigh too deep nor from your tem. | ples one throb too sharp. The perplex ties of your earthly business have not in them one tangle too intricate. You some. times feel as if our world were full of bludgeons flying haphazard. Oh, no; they are thrashing instruments that God just suits to your case, is not a dollar of bad debts on your or a disap intment about goods that you expected go up, but that bave gone down, or a swindle of your business partner or a trick on the part of those who are in the same kind of merchandise that you are, but God intended to overrule for your immortal help. “Oh,” you eay, “there is no need talking that way to me. I don’t like to be cheated and outraged.” Neither does the corn like the corn thrasher, but after it has been thrashed and winnowed #t has a great better opinion of winnowing mi A orn Sri, could ehose e'l,” you say, could o m troublss, I would be willing to be tronbled Ab, my brother, then would not be wou be i er r are men who sup are inl troubie. You would choose something that would not hurt, and unless it hurt it does not get sanctified. Your trial perhaps may be childlessness. You are fond of chi dren. You eay, “Why does God send children to that other household, where they are unwelcome and are beaten and banged about when 1 would have taken them ’n the arms of my affection?’ You say, “Any other trial but this.” Your trial perhaps may be a disfigured counte nance or a face that is easily caricatured, and you say, “I could endure anything if only 1 was good looking.” And your trial perhaps is a violent temper, and you have to drive it like six unbroken horses amid the gunpowder explosions of a great hol day, we ever and anon it runs away with vou, Your trial is the asthma. You say, “If it were rheumatism or neuralgia or erysipelas, but it is this asthma, and it is such an exhausting thing to breathe.” Your trouble is a husband, sharp, snap py and cross about the house and raising a small riot because a button is off. How could you know the button is off? You trial is a wife ever in contest with the ser vante, and she is a sloven, Though she was very careful abont her appearance 1p vour presence once, now she is careless, because, she says, her fortune is made! Your trial is a hard school lesson you can not learn, and you have bitten your finger nails until they are a sight to behold They never cry in heaven because they have nothing to cry about. There are no tears of bereavement, for you shall have your friends all round about you, There are no tears of poverty because each one sits at the King's table and has his own chariot of salvation and free access to the wardrobe where princes get their array No tears sickness, for there are or ne crutch for the lame limb and no splint but the pulses throb no for the broken arm, fall or our gorgeous October before the leaves scatter. different modes of thrashing. Oh, story of the staff that struck and the rod that beat the cummin and the iron wheel that went over the corn! Dan el will describe the lions and Jannah levia- thian and Paul the elmwood whips with how aromatic Eden was the day she left it, and John Rogers will tell of the smart of the flame and Elijah of the fiery team that wheeled him up the sky steeps and Christ of the numbness and the paroxysms and hemorrhages of the awful erucifixion There they are before the throne of God of ail who were ruck of the rod, on the highest elevation vd amid heaven a all He 3 4 y 1 one eevalion those st v the highest ait who were unde not ever be thrashin ¢ h of those F Wace) aere wounds? very fe el t o LAer 1s ant BOON iter.” And that when He embosoms all the hush of this ay end rod saves hie in great ire | mornin I anod If would cure The thought that you as vagh with this after awhile rrow and all this trouble We shall have a great many grand n heaven, bat I will tell you whiel the grandest day of all the mill heaven tell me we get there more glorious. [ suppose it is, but I do not care much about that. good enough for me Yes, I cap than the breaking in of the English army upon Lucknow, India. A few wéeks before in and slew them. slain were (sken out and thrown well, As the English army esme inte Cawnpur they went into the room. oh, what a horrid scene! into a floor was ankle deep in shoes be submerged of the carnage locks of hair and fragments of dresses, the same awful death, waiting amid anguish untold, waiting in pain and starvation, but waiting heroically, when, one day. Have lock and Outram and Norman and Sir David Baird and Peel, the heroes of the English army-huzza for them'!—broke in on that horrid scene, and while vet the guns were sounding, and while cheers were issuing from the starving, dying people on the one side and from the travel worn and powder blackened soldiers on the other, right there, in front of the king's palace, there was such a scene of handshaking and embracing and boisterous joy as would ut. terly confound the pen of the poet and the pencil of the painter. And no wonder, when these emaciated women, who had suffered so heroically for Christ's sake, marched out from their incarceration. one woutided English soldier got up in his fa tigue and wounds and leaned against the wall and threw his cap up and shouted, “Three Cheers, my boys, for the brave women!” Yes, that wae an exciting scene, But a gladder and more triumphant scene will it when you come up into heaven from the eonfliets and incarceration of this world, streaming with the wounde of bat. tle, and wan with h , and while the hosts of God are o ng their great ho. manna you will strike hands of eongratula. tion and eternal deliverance in the presence of the throne. On that night there will be bonfires on every hill of heaven, and there will be a eandle in every window. Ab, no! 1 forget, 1 forget. They have no need of the candle or of sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign for. ever and ever. Hail, hail, sons and ugh: ters of the Lord God Almighty! Copyright, 4 LL. Klawerp } a — COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions. R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of Trade” says: Evidences of further im- provement are numerous, Labor con- troversies are less threatening, many set- tlements having been effected, while oth- ers are momentarily anticipated; wages have been advanced, not only through strikes, but in some cases voluntarily; traffic congestion has subsided until it is possible to deliver goods according to specifications, Pressure for iron and steel has not di- minished perceptibly, yet the impression is growing that after July 1 the situation will become approximately normal and it will be possible to secure deliveries with some degree of promptness. Grain markets have begun to feel the effects of weather reports, and for the next few months it will be a simple mat- ter for speculators to secure erratic fluc- tuations. 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