——————————— ——— —— REV. DR. TALMAGE, doxology spreads oat in Its branches! Whet A voica when the tempesis pass through ft! How it looks down upon the cradle and the grave of conturies! As the fruit of ons tree SERIES OF ROUND THE WORLD | unlawiully eaten struck the race with woe SERMONS TO THE PRESS. Subject. “Ceylon, the Isle of alms.” Texr: *T s of Tarshish first, "—Isa- fah ix., 9. The Tarshish of mytext by many o« tators {8 sung ed Di 19 island of Coy lon, upon i sermon of the round the orl ries Innds us, Ceylon was called by t! omans Tapobrane, John Milton called | ‘hersonese arns have call wion ‘‘the le of “the isle of : brow of Ind} sland of sy boy yorse is mmen- ith and ruby.” In my eves, ared to be mixture of ¥ All Christian Ceylon, fort tribut fro: hove ellowstone Park Au 1 * it A 15 thick nd black as the island there superstit that whi fsnowa | long, Ww with thi congregate Doves ea the bran styled rav hink th which eyion with of all slug, blas butterflies avad ks upholstered and sights and ind nostrile vie with shall tntment, nN nn, and rns of trees sl | ear n sense A siraggle ne and iridescence, ntoxioestion of color, at eon ghanging turies, oach agave ; ’ sno growth, attracted | | i | huge pot of flowars on his head, his face dis- | | eAme | Bry { more wa coud | an Indes of | | the glooms, | for aye and ear a horror which it open the | century care | and the uplifting of another tree brings peace to the soul, let the woodman spare the trea and all nations honor it, if, through higher tenching, we do not, like the Ceylon | ese, worship it! How consolatory that when we no more walk under the tree branches on earth wo may s20 the ‘‘tree of life which bears twelve manner of fruit and yields her fruit every month, and the treo are for the healing of the nations Two processions I saw In Ceylon within one hour, the first led by a Hindoo priest, a loaves of the 1 figured with hcly rnshed followers } hat supposed ] ] a8 at one time oan be Induced to nter the human ear, The procession halted at the door of the huts, I'he occupants out and made obelsance and presented ntributions. In return therefor the sprinkled upon the this evidentiv a forn Incerations and his un- many words he nn usieal fn. bonting ig fl are t \ ull oo priest ushes forward, benadiction I'hen the procession, } by the priest, started agai Mora Woo eame Bn. ashes. more genuflect one's ser a to under. 1 sald, no An , In I mn, the way to M \ is to the Mo- what Christ is to the Chris tian, Bud to the Baddhist. We walt. yr 4 pause in the recitation, and then ir thanks retired, ist tample, on the altar mage of Buddha are of wors, As night was coming on Hind temple, First we hibited going farther than the out but we gradually advanced until that was going on Inside The worshipers were making obetsanoe, The ws were wildly beaten, and 8 il pes | several other it ants full bang and biare, Te Wa ribable hubbub and the most iat worship I had ever seen or The dim Hgh'p jargon and the flitting Agures mingled is AiMeoult All this was only suggestive of what would there transpire after the tollers of the day had ceased work and had time to appear at the temple, That such things ne n. What aonmedan, and iha is ’ re 1 YY \ ton yy were p side sto] goo nll ; vn, were in ana i 15 sty heard, and the and to shake off, | should be supposed to please the Lord or have any power to console or help the wor. | shipers is only another mystery inthis world 1% pass in the year of | the gensrations of » 8 so thoroughly | | Christian missionary was preaching in the down upon the eity | fo that i you go into one i eannot see a house, ‘ tr yion! May you live to be- bioid the ‘limbing down through their bran loves with tA ia nnd gold! 1 worship ol trees until they Gor who made the trees, | that there are some trees in Cey- acred, To A her Du he know of won ol lon e 1 sacred, them they burn camphor flowers and hang lamps around its branches and 100 000 peo- at fort rthe evening tipping their | lorgive the | i i i me all trees are | I wonder not that befors one of | It wus the morning light after a thik dark- | of mysteries, But we came away saddened with the spectacle, n sadness which did not leave us until we arrived at a place where a stroot to a group of natives, I had that morning expressed a wish to withess such a scene, and here it was, Stand. ing on an slovation, the good man was ad. dressing the crowd, All was attention and gilones and reverence, A religion of relief and joy was being commended, and the dusky noes were illumined with the sentiments of pacifieation and re-enforoement, It was the rose of Bharon after walking among nettles, ness, It was the gospel after Hindoolsm, But passing up and down the streets of children | there is | ~ | been | | be | eerning yr | calia, most Interesting thing on earth is the hn. man race, and specimens of all branches of it confront you %a Ceylon. The {sland of the present is a quiet and inconspleuous affair compared with what it once was, The dead eities of Ceylon were larger and more ime osing than are the ilving cities, On this sland are dead New Yorks and dead Pek. ings and dead Edinburghs and dead Lon. dons, Everand anon at the stroke of the archmoglist’s hammer the tomb of some great munieipality flies open, and thers are other buried eities that will yet respond to the explorer's plekax, The Pompell and Herculaneum under- neath Italy are small compared with the | Pompells and Herculaneums underneath Ceylon, Yonder is an exhumed city which wns founded 500 years before Christ, stand. ing in pomp and splendor for 1200 yenrs, Stalrways up whieh fifty men might pass side by side. Carved pillars, some of them fallen, some of them aslant, them Phidinses and Christopher Wren never heard of hera, performed the marvels of culpture and architecture, Alsles through which royal fons marcel Arches under which kings were carried. ( with reservoir twenty n {les In clreunmler- ence, Extemporized that did their ‘0 r snd refreshing for twelve centuri re than , Ceylonian Karnnks 10h of gran some of arect proces . ity Inkes suggestive ce I A History of St, Valentine, unper Asterius to be ke of Christ, Asterins ht of the wor world, and the lig hight to my blind for two years.” n was brou and after Valen. her sl Asterius i mig! iperor, being enraged, © ] \ danght« a maid tine prayed and received her asked that he and h 1 yt laid hands Then i8 honsehol mn 0 sight. baptise ime | prisoned and Valentine to be beaten with clubs, He was beheaded a year | Inter on February 14, 270, little to tell con- the man, makes amends by dwelling at length on the ceremonies ohserved on this day. origin of these to the celebrated ir February, which practice was to put names of women in a box to be drawn by the men, each being bound to serve and honor the woman whose name he had drawn, EE —— Novel Discovery of a Comet, Eclipse photographs taken in Chile in April, 1803, showed a comet-like structure in the corona, near the sun's south pole, but nothing of the kind could be made out on photographs taken in Brazil and Africa, History, having They trace the Roman Laber- ono idea that faint objects can easily be | found when it is known where to look ] an | nad made by an | food, I'h | prevent the check whi . | will | designed, and the | i | | | | | | nt | the | | 1 i With the | for them, however, copies from the negatives havs been compared and it’ lis found that the photographs all | show the object. Its angular distance | from the moon's limb, as photo graphed from the different stations, jie eneh year make prigrimage to that tree, | Ceylon you find all styles of people within | has flually been measured, and the Vorship something man must, and, until | five minutes—Afghans, KafM be re. ro. the only Being wortny of worship, what »0 elevating as a tree | What glory en- throued amid its foliage! What a majestic i | rm, Portuguese, Moormen, Duteh, English, Sootoh Irish Amerioan-—all classes, all dialects, all man« ners and customs, all styles of salaam, The | variations of this distance seem to ! | prove conclusively that this interests | ing apparition was really a comet. | | 1 LH KEEPING APPLES IN WINTER, One method suggested for keeping apples during the winter is to pacl them in perfectly dry oats, not per If wrapped in paper before packing ir better. or barrels, and if put up in an attrac tive manner will bring good Apples have been higher in price thar orange and weather sets in, 1 salable after col Now York O 1 Are BRIWAYS BEeIver, WARMTH rE HEN HOUSE In the v nx it Pas th heat into the tempt nN al increased consumption of is is a costly substitute an an unsatisfactory one, CAL h ni growtl tutes, mplish the end animal then Like all t to ace receive somet all subset: i imes fails ETOW sick and weal ly. 1f, on the other hand, the animal is toughened and hardeaed by exposure, what is gained? Theextra feed he has consumed is more valuable than the shelter which would have avoided its need, his stunted growth will never be made up, and the toughening and hardening of his constitution, on which so much stress is often laid, has resulted in a deterioration in quality, The uative steer is hardier than the Bhorthorn, bnt which makes the best beef? The serub cow will bear more exposure than the delicate Jersey, but which yields the richest milk? law of nature that improvement, whether in man or beast, is accom panied with a certain amount of deli cacy, If we desire the former must be willing to give the necessary care to counterbalance the latter. New York World. DANGER OF FEEDING we WHEAT TO HORSES, This winter a great many are ad- voeating or considering the advisabil- | ity of feeding wheat to horsea on ac- count of the cheapness of this feed, and a few have raised the alarm against such a practice, prove of advantage to hogs snd other animals, it is certainly unsuited to horses, except in the very smallest | quantities, and then more as meaicine than as food. It is much better for an old horse than for a young growing animal, and while it may be fed with impunity to a horse twenty or thi=*™ mitting one apple to touch the other. the onts the apples will keep all the They may be packed in boxes prices. for the past four or five years, | WAY, Itis al While this grain may | | years old, it will, in nine cases out of , | ten, founder a young one. . If of the old horse and farmers ean look back ROMO i ‘ and the term “grain founder,” hard founder kr This to horses experience, 18 the own 1 ¥ it found that i wise of rain was when Was the KTRIN WAS has been Libera &tion all and Two parts each of bran and ground wheat and of chopped oats 1 best ration for brood one INK the They should be given about three pounds of it, hree with hay or siraw MATes times a yand of beef butter or two If butter and beef there is money in dairying, rather than stock- raising. Feed that will make a p 1 of cheess will make a poun pounds of choese bring more than | Barn menures are generally more | sconomionlly used when applied t farm crops than when applied to or chards; yet they be used with good results, particularly when rejuve nating old orchards. Whole wheat should not be fed te horses, they swallow it without chew ing, and it ferments in their stomachs, producing indigestion and colic, o1 passes through unchanged. It should be either soaked to burst the grains, or coarsely ground, for the same pur i pose. oan In general, the commercial complete | fertilizers are less practieal for or- ohards than a fertilizer made for the occasion out of materials evidently i needed by the trees; but the com- | plete fertilizers give much better reo | silts then the prevailing indifference and neglect, Any cow that will give less thax | twelve pounds of solids in every 1X | of her milk, three pounds of which | should be butter fat, is not profitable, | and should be converted into beef. { There should be thirteen pounds of | solids in every 100 of milk, with fous ~ands of actual butler fat, breeders thirty or forty years, they will remember when whent was fed quite liberally to horses, then | beeame very generally known through great number of horses suffered in this the A WOMAN'S NERVES. THE STORY OF A WOMAN TO Wilton KOISE WAS TORTURE. 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