THE SHYING HORSE. When street cars first appeared horses had to become used to them in order to be safe drivers, and tne auto on the road is a new alarm for horses, and both the auto driver and horsemen will have to learn to be cautious, A writer on the shying horse makes same good suggestions that are worthy of- ‘hoting and we give a few paragraphs below from the Farmers’ Advocate: The chief difficulty was to tom them to the trolley cars which came along the roads at any speed up to thirty miles an hour. My plan was to ride quietly to the terminus, and walt, distance, the advent of a car. When it was stationary I spent the ten min- utes of its stay in riding round it in circles of gradually diminishing size, but pever trying to force the horse nearer than he could be coaxed to approach. Generally, in less than an hour, te horse would go right up to the car and accept caresses from the conductor. The next step starting car, which, ly for the first mile, trotting behind and alongside, till tha horse took no notice of it whatever. After that was merely a matter of meeting cars at points where they till gradually, the horse grew accus tomed to face them at any speed. In tea of any strange, and therefore, him. alarming object, there are three rules of conduct to which there is no exception: — Never speak sharply. Never use your whip, and Never him forward with a tight rein. frightened or nervous horse psychologically the equivalent of a faightened child. Would any one in his scnses expect to cure his child's timidity by scolding or whipping him, or by yanking him suddenly by the arm? It was to follow is impossible to condemn too strongly the pulling of a horse's mouth and laying whip smartly across his back, which is the practice usual ly seen and popularly advocated “to distract his attention,” shows symptoms of alarm at an ap proaching object, such as a motor car: a greater mistake or one more productive of future trouble for the driver, was never made. The ancient superstition that a horse can think of omly one thing at a time, and that, therefore, the whip will divert his attention from the ob- | ject of his fears, is neither logical, nor tenable in practice. “Put yourself in his place,” Is a good motto when dealing with horses. A sudden curtailment of his usual freedom of movement, by tightening the reins, when a nervous horse is looking suspiciously at some strange approaching object, naturally In creases his alarm: while use of the whip engenders a fear of the object, which it will take no end of time and trouble to eradicate. The fact that the approach of the alarming object was quickly followed by punishment naturally produces an association of the two in the equine mind, and a logical objection to face that object again. The psychology of the free hand in the nonfrightened shier, is not so easy to follow, but 1 can vouch for its success. Do not go to the extreme of letting your reins fall loose; hold them so as to have instant control of your horse's head, but just relax whatever pull you have on his mouth. If He knows you talk to him soothing- ly: a horse will pass with a rider or driver, whom he knows, many an ob ject that no stranger can persuade him to face. If riding, never leave your saddle; if driving, you may be compelled from + ha ae vou do so, walk between him and the cause of his alarm, DAIRY HERD NOTES. The principal dairy breeds and Mol steln, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire and Brown Swiss. There are several other dairy breeds such as the French Canadian, Kerry and Dutch Belted, ete, but these are rather scarce at present. In buying dairy cows, we have a different standard to go by than In selecting beef animals. A dairy cow is a machine that turns feed into milk and cream. So we must look for one that will convert the greatest quantity of feed into the most milk and cream. The type of dairy cow we want Is a cow weigh- ing t one thows pounds. She must have a lean head and neck. Her eyes should be clear and large, in- dicating health and temperament. Her body should be narrow over the shoul ders and broad at the hips and rump. She should have a Iarge chest, in dicating vitality. Her pouch or belly should be large, showing that she is thle to consume a large amount of ough feed. She should ave a vet of large, oy = eloped udder, on which are placed four good-sized teats. She should carry Before introducing into the stable, tested to avoid little new very any COWE bringing any healthy herd. Watch for any discharge be due to abortion, as this is another disease you must watch.—Dr. David Roberts, Wisconsin State Veterinar fan. LIME ON GRASS LAND. Ground limestone only has a very mild action in the soil. It is probably not effective as thoroughly air lime. Prepared lime or agri as it is sometimes call is made by adding water to caus lime out of contact with alr. By as ed, tie lime becomes seventy-four pounds lime. Thus, when buying You would, therefore, need to at a low anything like as profitable as caustic lime. You will find caustic lime which purchase you can buy caustic lime carload lots and get It ity good condition, and asf if not cheaper, than you can the ground lime or prepared If you ground lime be as finely to Probably pre cheap, obtain use f § the the results ob Magazine. be -Southern Farm FOOT ROT ~N COWS This is not a very common trouble who been so unfort up against I the remedy Hoard's better will have have been will be glad to learn of used by a correspondent Ho says: to work at first which 1 have seen could not seem to disease. One of the srrosive gub commenced using this at once, dissolving two tablets In two quarts of water. Where the would allow ft I would put their feet in the pail and let it soak for a few minutes morning and night Some I bathed them the could Thia powerful disin fectant seemed to be all that was needed, for the cattle commenced to improve at once and some of the cows were all over their trouble in ten days { others were lame a little longer but is as to of “I went with dif remedies but of the ed 3 get ahead COWS best 1 remarkably well” THE BEST MARKET The nearest town to the farmer ie the best market and deserves his con sideration. It is not unusual to wit ness heavy shipments of fruit and vegetables to the large cities may bring enough to pay freight whes the congumers living at the shipping prices. It is a wellknown fact rich agricultural regions buy near them from the large cities. In all towns the ean build up a local custom that wil cities —Epitomist. EFFECT OF SALT ON SOILS. The effect of salt on soils is due to its indirect action in aiding decomposition of animal and vege lime acting as a solvent for phos phates, says the Country Gentleman it. because, in the first place, it too expensive. be obtained by an application of kain it, one-third of the total which Is common salt. In any case saline fertilizers should be applied months before sowing or just before rain, or at least during rainy weath er: otherwise plants are apt to be killed. THE COST OF PORK. The Nebraska station has shown that with corn worth thirty cents a bushel pork can be produced on corn and alfalfa pasture at a cost of $2.43 per hundred pounds. With corn worth fifty-six cents per bushel pork was produced on the same ration for $4.13 per hundred pounds. If ‘you don't have alfalfa just try corn and lover, and notice the results —Week 1y Witness. has just been made by a firm in Lon. don for an Oriental potentate. The tray is seven feet in diameter, and fs sald to be the largest ever execut- ed: It has bee In the hands of the workmen for over a year $ " Jk ¥ oosTEsT DAIRY IN IN ALL THE WORLD T0 BE CLOSED UP nD AGIs FARM PRODUCTS COST HIM. Milk .. $10 a gallon. Pork ..3118 a pound, Chickens $356 a pair. Cows $300 to $2,500 each. After investing fully a million dol lars, to show the world just how a dairy ought to be conducted, Howard Willetts, the famous sportsman and White Plain millionaire, has decided to quit fancy farming and dalrying. Not only is he going tb give up pur- veying milk to those who can afford to pay 15 cents a quart, to be sure it was milked by a man in a white duck suit who has first washed himself and bathed the cow, out of the horse business, the prize pig business, the fancy chicken busi- ness and all the other lines of breed. ing which - have made the White Plains farm noted. Notice was served on the hundred or more <mployes of the Gedney garms, as the Willetts place is known, the first of this month that thelr services would be required no longer than Dec. 1. The high-priced super intendents, farmers, foremen men who have helped known the world around, Although Gedney farms was breeding station Hetherbloom, champion high-jumping horse of the world, and prize winning horses, chickens, pigs and cattle without number, it was the dairy made it famous Famous the World Over. The farm has al by learn. bodirs from the Boards Health world have pointed to it producing establishment Milk pro ducers have been urged to adopt Mr Willett's ideas, regardie ¢ag of the fact that few milk raisers are million. aires Mr dozen Howard Willetts Decides That Selling Milk at 60 Cents a Gallon Doesn't Pay When Total Cost is $10.00. 0+0+0+-0+0-0-0+-0+0+00-99 and al all the will all go. of of been viait all over the around as the modal milk ed of Willetts times over is a millionaire a half The Gedney fa one of the historic spots in neighborhood It was the head ters at different times of both American and British armies during the Revolutionary war. Mr. Willetts this Guar the land, of the choicest land In Westchester county, It is the highest land in the coun- ty. year around stands on top of Westchester County watershed. From the front porch may be seen the waters of Long Island sound, where the owner's yachts have won as many victories on sea as his prize stock has won on land Several years ago Mr. Willetts de. cided to go Into the dairy business, believing that enough persons would pay a sufficiently high price for milk to make it worth while, Models of Cleanliness. The cow sheds are bullt entirely of concrete and are in no wise con- nected with the feed barns. They are big and roomy, well lighted and the walls, sides and ceilings are all ce ment plastered. The comers are rounded, and every day, as soon as the cows are turned out of them, the walls, ceiling and floor are scrubbed down. There iz not a crack or crev. fce of any kind in which dust may lodge. The dairy is always open to visit ora, but one class of persons is strict. ly barred. That is, people afflicted with tuberculosis In any stage Equal care is taken to guard against the milk product being contaminated with the germs of any other disease. When milking time comes a little army of men in white duck suits seize milking stools which have been scrubbed and steamed. Their white duck suits are laundered every glay and are used only for milking. The milkmen are provided with bathrooms and must bathe before beginning to milk. The cows have already been curried and brushed until thelr coats shine, Immediately after the milk is milk. ed Into patent buckets which will ad- mit no dust it is taken to the pasteur- iting department, where it Is treated snd bottled ready for the consumer. One of Mr. Willett's employees roughly figures’ that, counting In the value of the dairy buildings, which cost a half million dollars, the cows, which cost from $300 to $3,500 each and all the labor and other expenses, the milk he has sold has cost him about $10 a gallon. The piggery has been as much of a model as the dairy and {f Mr. Wil letts could get about $118 a pound for the pork he would come out even The chicken farm has been another model one, but until the public be comes accustomeed to paying about $36 a palr for its fricasseed spring Mr. Willetts chicken farm will not be productive of profit—From the New York World. “FIRE SUPERSTITIONS. Avert Impending Evil, In the lake land of northern Eng land there i838 a well known case a fire that has been kept up three generations. When it accidental gome wood cutters their fire from his, says the london Dally News, and brought back thelr fire to his own hearth in order that he might possess, as it were, the seeds of his ancestral fire. Undoubt. edly this arises from the old that the home fire is derived a sacred source. Then there are house fires which are kindled ceremonial fires once a year. at Burghead all the fires are lighted from the “burning clavie,” and kept alight continuously during the year, who had lighter from from flame from the clavie all the rest of the year. This clavie was lighted first of all at a fire of peat made by youths of the village who were sons of the original inhabitants. Every stranger was rigidly excluded from the cere mony and peat only could be used The ceremony takes place on New Year's eve, and after the clavie has been kindled one youth after anoth er bears it In triumph around bounds of the village. At houses and street corpers a halt made and a brand is whipped out of the crowd, who eagerly catch its em them kindle the fires on their hearths. Finally the remaing of the clavie are placed in the centre hollow of a pile of stones, called the “Durie,” and the remaining are distributed to the villagers all whom attend the ceremony Another curious feature of the servance is that the long nall fastens the staves of clavie i# made of iron by the village smith, but the hammer must be stone. Such Importance is the ceremony that if stumble during illage it calamity, foretelling of the a attached bearer ambula the the per dire oh in the course of next Year There a number of ce lighted on St. John thi In Nottinghamszhirs Yule log Is kept till th war, to be burned upon the The last burn put on are quite > eve part of the » is og then method year's it the little while a lit car's eve, con por weil unis Ch to put a bit the fresh ristmas eve of fireplace and jog must be allowed to burn for a is then taken off and burned New Y first firs the It on the fire and the exception of a which 1s kept in the house Christmas Day. It Is the observance of this “keep the witch away.” practice obtains of touc hing ACTOSSH with fire it Is with put tion believed that custom In Cornwall the mantel stone chimney) into the or anvthing burn. This form “hearth sacrifice” is regarded means of averting a myster cravel (the head of an the forehead, and casting of dry grass +h wae open of as the most effectual any Impending evils of fous All are derived from with which our fire. these customs, in various ways the sacred character ancestors invested BERLIN POSTAL TUBES. Connect the Central Office With the Principal Stations. The Berlin postal authorities are revolutionizing the conveyance of let ters and parcels, The idea on which they are exper! menting, says the Chicago Tribune is to have an underground tube with a large enough circumference to ad mit a man In a stooping posture Thess tubes are to connect the cen tral post office with the principal sta tions and with the district offices. Two sets of ralls are bulit in this tube or tunnel, one over the other, not side by side. The upper set of rails is supported on the sides of the tube, thus practically dividing it io two. Small carriages, running on two wheels, are automatically driven by electricity along these rails, No locomotive fs used nor ig there any attendant with the carriage. As many as six of these carriages can be run together for conveying letters and parcels from the arrival station By this means letters can be de Hivered in any part of the city in fess than a fourth of the time former ily required. So far the scheme {% not beyond the experimental stages, but it promises to be a success and to banish from the streets the mail van, with all its poetry and romance. Divine Clamor Appreciated, The family were gathered in the library admiring a splendid thunder storm when the mother bethought %yerself of Dorothy alone in the nur gery. Fearing lest her little daugh ear should be awakened and feel afraid, she slipped away to reassure mer. Pausing at the door, however, in a vivid flash of lightning which {} jumined the whole room, she saw her youngest olive-branch sitting straight up in bed. Her big brown eyes were glowing with excitement, and she clapped her chubby hands while she shouted encouragingly, “Bang ft again, God! Bang it again! "~Brook- lyn Life, : A man respiros—that fs, draws In breath--16 to 20 times a .. 20400 ten 4 gay, ke § Nias THE PULPIT. _ A BCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY PROFESSOR HUGH BLACK. Subject: Esau’s Temptation, | Brooklyn, N. Y.—Professor Hugh i Black, of Union Theological Bemin- | ary, preached Sunday in the Lafay- | ette Avenue Presbyterian Church toa large audience. His subject was, i “Esau’'s Temptation.” He took his text from Genesis 25:32 “And | Esau sald, Behold, I am at the point | to die; and what profit shall this birthright do to me?" Professor | Black said: : We cannot suppress a natural sym- pathy with Esau in this scene be- tween the two brothers. He séems { a8 much sinned against as sinning, | and in comparison with the cunning, | the better of the two. His very faults ! lean to virtue's side, we think, as we { look at his bold, manly, impulsive ' figure. There 18 nothing of the cold, calculating, selfishness, the astute { trickery, the determination to get | his pound of flesh, which make his brotaer appear mean beside him. face judgments we are inclined ' think it unjust that Esau should be { malice and frand in advancing ment, true go far as it goes, is some- thing less even than half the truth, | and that though he hereandelgewhere | sinned and was punished through all | | his life for his subtlety and seifishness, yet he wasnot the monsterof unbroth- erly malice merely which this scene might suggest, and that he had qual- i ities of heart and spirit which made it inevitable that he. and not Esau, | purpose. Our subject is Esau and his | weakness and fall in the presence biz overmastering temptation. Ksau's good qualities are very evi dent, being of the kind easily Trecos~ the typical Spovism an who is or sportsman, bold and frank and foe @ i and generous, with no intricacies of character, impulsive and capable magnanimity, the very opposite of the pruden dexterous, nimble man of affairs, a reckless indeed and hot-blooded and passionate. His vir- tues are already, we see, danhgerous- ly near to being vices, Being largely a creature of impulse, he was, in a crisis, the mere plaything of animal passion, ready to satisfy his desire without thought of Without self-control, ftual Insight, to know what Judging things and material y not in him depth of nat which a really noble cha be cut This damning lack control comes out our text, the transaction of the right. Coming from the hunt hungry and faint, he finds Jacob pottage of lentils and asks for it. The sting of un governable appetite makes him feel as if he would die if he did not get it. Jacob takes advantage of his brother's appetite and offers barter his dish of pottage for Es birthright There would be without without capacity even spiritual issues were, by immediate advantag: th ere out ure of of self- birth- more superstition valus of the birthright Both of them valued it as a vague advantage, carrying with it a religious worth, but it meant nothing tangible; and here was Ksau's temptation, strong to 2 man of his fiber. He tun , and befors his fierce desire for the food actually belore him such a thing as a prospective right of birth terribly ov gre value. If he thought of any spiritual privilege the birthright might be sup- posed to confer, it was only to dis miss the thought as not worth con- sidering. Spiritual values bad not a high place in his standard of things He could not be unaware of the ma- | terial advantages the possession of i tha birthright would one day mean { He must have known that it was something to be recognized as the eldest son, with special rights of in- neritance and precedence and author , ity after his father’s death. Thesa ‘things were real enough to nim, even | though he might have no notion of a | deeper meaning in being the heir of the promise. tages were too distant to weigh much. | In the presence of immediate satisfac- | tion the distant appeared shadowy ! present enjoyment for. He feels he {8 going to die, as a man of bis type js always sure he will die if he does not get what he wants when the { passion is on him; and supposing he does die, It will be poor con- solation that he did not barter this intangible and shadowy blessing of nis birthright. “Behold I am at the point to die; and what profit shall this birthright do to me?” The Bible writers speak of Esau always with a certain contempt, and ! with all our appreciation of his good natural qualities, ‘not help sharing in the contempt. The man who has no self-control, who is swept away by every passion . of the moment, whose life is bounded by sense, who has no appreciation of the higher and larger things which call for self-control-—that man is, after all, only a superior sori of ani mal, and not always so very superior at that. The author of the Epistle to the Hobrews calls Esau “a profane ‘ person, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” “Profane” means not blasphemous, but simply secular, a man who is not touched to fine issues, judging things by coarse earthly standarde, without spiritual aspiration or insight, feeling every sting of flesh keenly, but with ro ; sting of soul toward God. Bold and . manly and generous and with many | gplendid constitutional virtues he may { be; but the man himself lacks sus. ceptibility to the highest motites of fife. He is easily bent by every wind of impulse, and is open t de- fense to animal appetite. ARE capa { thing, | because he cann secular arson ax Baas. i i hy [This scene where he surrenders his birthright 41d not settle the destiny of the two brothers; a compact like this could not stand good forever, and in some magical way substitute Jacob for Esau in the line of God's great religious purpose. But this scene, though it did not settle their destiny in that sense, revealed their charac. ter, the one essential thing which was necessary for the spiritual suc- cession to Abraham; and Esau failed here in this test as he would fall anywhere, His question to reassure himeelf, “What profit shall this birth. right do to me?” reveals the bent of hig life, and explans his fallure. True self-control means willingness to re- sign the small for the sake of the great, the present for the sake of the future, the material for the sake of the spiritual; and that is what faith makes possible. Of course, Esan did not think he was losing the great by grasping at the small At the mo. ment the birthright, just because f(t wag distant, appeared insignificant. He had no patience to walt, no faith to believe in the real value of any- thing that was not material, no self- restraint to keep him from ins surrender to the demand for prese gratification, This §2 the power of all appeal to passion-—that it is present, with now, to be had at once It is claim- | ant, imperious, insistent, de ding to be satisfied with what is actually present. It has no use for a far-off good. It wants immediate profit, | This is temptation, alluring to the eye, whispering in the ear, plucking iby the elbow, offering satisfaction now, Here and now not hereafter; this thing, that red pottage there, not an ethereal, unsubstantial thing {like a birthright. What is the good of it if we die? and we are like to die if we do not get this gratification the senses demand, In the infatuation of appetite all else seems small in com- | parison; the birthright is a poor thing | compared with the red pottage It is the distortion of vision which passion produces, the exaggeration of {the present which temptation creates, i making the small look like the great, discred ting the value of the lost. The vivid, lurid descrip- in the Proverbs of the young void of understanding, snared street by the strange wom nan, gives both these elements of the ef- fect of passion-—the weak surre nder to impnise and the distortion of vis- fon which blinds to the real value of what is given up for the gratification: | “He goeth straightway as an ox goeth to the slaughter, till a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.” But it is not merely lack of self- { contrcl which Esau displays by the | question of our text It iz also lack apprec ation of spiritual values. {In a vague way he knew that the { birthright meant a religious blessf and in the grip of his te mptati { looked to him as purely a sen to be serioi F CO! par with a material advantage. { The profane man, the secular man, {may not be just a creature of im- { pulse; he may have his impulses in i good control, but he has no place what is unseen He asks, natur- ally, What Shall it profit? Men who judge by eve, by material re- turns on ly, who are frankly secular, think themselves great fidges of profit; and they, too, wi ould not make i much of a birthright if it meant only | gomething sentimental, as they would icall it. The real and not the ideal, the actual and not the visionary, the {thing seen and net the thing unseen | —they would not hesitate more than {| Esan over the choice between the ! pottage and the birthright They {| judge by substance, and co not un- { derstand about the faith which is th the us mar { ana {thing tion i man, in the of ! not ita for he { substance of things hoped for, i evidence of things not seen {| How easy it is for all of us to drift into the class of the profane, the sec- persons as Esau, to have our spiritual sensibility blunted, to lose our appreciation of things unseen, to be so taken up with the means of liv- {ing that we forget iife itself and the things that alone give it security and dignity! How easy, when soul wars with sense, to depreciate every- | thing that is beyond sense.and let the i whole moral tone be relaxed! There is much cause for the apostie to warn us to “Look diligently lest there be among us any profane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat gold his birthright.” We, too, can despise our birthright iby living far below our privileges | and far below our spiritual opportun- ities. We have our birthright as song of God, born to an inheritance as joint heirs with Christ. We be- long, by essential nature, not to the animal kingdom, but to the kingdom of heaven; and when we forget it and live oaly with reference to the things { of sense and time, we are disinherit- {ing ourselves, as Esau did. The sec- { ular temptation strikes a weak spot {in all of us, suggesting that the spir- {itual life, God's love and holiness, i the kingdom of heaven and His right- cousness, the life of faith and prayer | and communion, are dim and shad- owy things, as in a land that is very far off. "What profit shall this birth right do to me?” What shall it profit? seems a sane !and sensible guestion to be consid- (ered in a business-like fashion. It is the right question to ask: but it has a wider scope and another appli- cation. What profit the mess of pot- tage, if 1 Jose my birthright?! What profit the momentary gratification of even imperious passion, if we are resigning our true life and losing the clear vision and the pure heart? What profit to make only provision for the flesh, if of the flesh we reap but corruption? What profit the easy self-indulgence, if we are barter- ing peace and love and holiness and joy? “What shall it profit a man if be gain the whole world (and not merely a contemptible mess of Wet tage) and lose his own soul?” profit if, in the insistence of appetite, men go like an ox to the slaughter, knowing not that it is for their life? “Thus Esau despised his birthright.” Then and Now, Once, we are told, it took one sermon to convert 3000 souls; now it takes 3000 sermons to convert one soul.--Rev, T, J. In. ry Rav Villers, Baptist, uiar, i dam God ne 0 heart, but He their
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