REV. DR. TALMAGE.
mi
I5ROOKLYN OIVLXE'3 SUN
r.V SERMON.
Subject: "The Mission of the Frost."
Text : "En tl.e breath of God frost it
given." Job xxxvil., 10.
Nothing is mora embarrassing loan organs
it or pianist than ta pat his finger ctfi Ice)
of the intni;nrnt itcd have It nnk& no r
apwni-e. Though nil tbs olhor keys are to
fall play, that oae siienijs destroys tlienmsla.
So iu tile preut rat1ie.1nl of Nature, If ons
part faiis to praise the Lord tha harmony M
halt 1 ami lot. While flr and hall, snow
and vapor. rrpond to tha touou of lnspira
tion. if tlie trost made no titteranea the
or'.'kcs'.rii r.-n lnrius TrouW be hopelessly
da'iiHed mid tiie harmony forever inaaab
jiletp. I am morn glii't than I can tell that
the white toy of th frost sounds fortTi
titpiitiiy as any of the other keys, and wke",
avid touches it in the I'salins it s&andl
forth the words, "lie scattexeth the hoar
frost lilf :is'i." and when Job touches It la
my text it resounds with the words, "By the
Lrnath ot Go l frost is given."
As no one s?mi disposed to discuss the
mission of frost. dpptridinpr on divtiie help I
undertake it. This is the first Sabbat ol
winter. The leaves are down. The warmt-5
has Kone out of tlie air. The birds Bv
made thoir winded marsh southward. The
landscape has been smarted by the autumnal
equir.ox. Tlie busters have rifled the corn
shocks. Tiie night sky has shown the usual
mcteori? restlessness of ITovomber. Three
seasons of the year are past, and the fourth
and List has entered. Aaotkar element now
comes in to bless and adoxa and instruct the
world. It is t he frost. Ike palaees of this
king are far up in the aretiu. Tholr walls
are glittering congelation. Windsor castles
and Yullories and winter palaces and
Konilworths and Alhamhras of lc-,
temples with p'ndant chandeliers; ol
fee, thrones of ioeberg on which
eternal silence rfllrrns, theaters on
wbose stage eternal oold dramatizes eternal
winter, pillars of ice, arches of ice, arowns
of loe, chariots of ioe, sepulchers of ice,
mountains of ice, dominions of loe eternal
fripidfty I From those hard, white, burnished
portals Kinu Frost deseeads and waves Ms
silvery scepter over our temperate aone.
Too will soon hear his heel on the skating
pond. Yon already feel his breath tn tire
night wind. J'.y most considered nn enemy
coming here to lxjnmnb and hinder and
slay, I shall show you that the frost is a
friend, with Lon.. H ' ):i divinely pro
nounced, and char .ill surcharged with
lessons poteut, bene.t.:.-ut and tremendous,
'tlie Iiibla seven times a'.lu les to the frost,
and wft must not isnfirs It. "I:y the breatn
of God fret Is jrivtfn."
First I think of frost as a painter. Ho be
(rlns his work on the lenvaa and eoutlnues i
on the window panes. With palette covered
with all manner of colors in his left haad
and pineji ,..f cr.st.il In his ritrht hand, he
sits dovn l'cti't-e tli ImuiV.Iest hush in tie
latter part of S i te:nli&r and begins t'
sketching of the I.mv. No;v he puts upo
rbe foliaxo a faint pr-.llor. a-i i th":i a tou -h ol
brown, and then a huo of or.inur' an 1 Ui-t a
flame of Are. The beech and ash an 1 oak ;ir
turned first into sunrises aui tljea into fiirt
setsof vividuss and sp'.ndor. Allihe l:ivs
are pen.-lie-l one by one. but sometimes n
whole forest in the course of a few dri-a
shows srreat velocity of work. (
Wer-mi, the Dutch painter, enu.d mako ia.
a summer day three portraits of life size, but
the frost iu ten days can paint t"ii moaik
taiD3 in life si.e. Itrfiakesthela.it days of
nn autumnal wood Ihe d.:ys of its eiiie.'esj
jlory Luxemhourgs in tho Adiron lacks,
Louvres In the Sierra Nevada, Vatl -ens in
the White Mountain;. The work of other
painters you must see In the riic'ut liht to
tally appreciate, ,ut tho puiminj of tha
frost in all lights are enchanting from tbs
time when the curtain of the mornin? liftst'i
.i. ,i i. ... i 1. 1. . i
luw lime unuu i no cu nam ol lueuiuc urons.
Mfchael Auelo put Bpon ouo ceilim; n:
representation of the Ist ju laient. but til l
frcst represeuts universal conflaratioii
upon 8000 miles of stretched out grandeur?
Leonardo do Vinci put upon a fe.v fe-tuf
canvas our Lor J's last suppar for all ae to
admire, but the fr. st puts the c'.eaimn',' chal.
ices of the imperial glories of the Inst sup.
per of the dylnij year in the heights aud
lengths and treadt!; of the Allernanies.
When Titian first tail upon a sketch o!
Corregijlo, he was wrought up into sued
ecatacy that bo crie 1 out, "fi I wero no;
Titian, I would bo 'orr-s! :o." an 1 s sr"at
and overpoivsrin t are the autumnal seues
of our An.erican lore-'s that one forco of
nature micht well ex-iaim to another, "It J
werenot the sunlight. I wou! 1 re the tro-;.'"
Eujfendas, the G-nn-iu painter, tuueriu
from weakness in his rn;ht hand, lal orlousiy
learned to palut with his left hau l. Put the
frosts paints with both hanis. nn 1 has in
them n;ore skill than all the Ketnhrau lts::n I
llubens and Wests and l"uus-ius aui Alt.ert
Durrs nnd Taul V-r uiese.s un 1 CIhu I-s
Kathered in one ion' art calh-ry. liut tiie
doorof that tr-at nir-.-u n .jf aiuu-nnal co'
orine la now close 1 f jra tw?lve:uonth, an I
another spectacle jii'.t as wmd.-T.'ul is u i v
opeu. I put vou on the alert uti 1 asi yo.i to
put your chil ir- n on the ae-rt.
Tired of worinc; ou the leaves, the .'ro-t
will soon turn to the win lov p-ines. ,ei
will soon waken on a cold moruia and lin i
tnat the windows of your home have during
tho night been adorned with curves, w.tu
e-oronets, witn c; juisiteu -aj, witii pomp,
with utmost t'.irerr.a! ;ir il sp ctaclo. Then
you will appr - 'i ite what m' test s ivs as It
declares. !: t !:; breath of Go 1 "frost u
fcdven.'' l"ou will s-e on the window pane,
traoed there l y th- fr i,t, whole gardens o.
beauty ferns, orchids, daffodils, heliotropes,
china aster, fountains, statues, bounds on
the chase, roebucK pluumi; Into the stream,
battle scenes with dyin an 1 dea l, cata
falques of kin:r, triumpnal processions and
as the morning sua breaks through you will
see cities on fire, and bombardment with
bursting shell, nn 1 illuminations as for some
great victory, coronations and angels ou th
wine.
All night lonr while you were sleeping the
frost whs working, an 1 you ought not le
the warmth obliterate the s 'ene until vou
have admired it, at u lied it, absorbed it," set
it up in your memory fer perp-tua! p-fre-h-ment
and realiz-d tlie tore.) uu 1 nia.irmt u le
and intensity of my text. "By the breath of
Gol frost i.s given. ' Oh, what a Go 1 w
have ! What res jure s are :upijn, ,v the fact
that he ts ablo to do tint by the linger of the
frost fifty times in on- wnter and ou a hun
dred thousand win !o v p mes for thous tnds
ef winters 1
The great art galleries of Teniae and Na
ples and l'resien are carefully gaarlei
and gov-rnmcn's protct them, for once lost,
they can never bt reprodaeed, but God se1
up in the royal galleries of the frost pietuivs
such as no human art could ever produ'-e,
hundreds of thousands of them, only for
four or live hours, and then rubs tbem ont,
making tha place cl-ar for a display Jusv as
magnificent tho next morning. Xo one bat
a Gol coui l aford to do that. It would
Isinkrupt overythlrg brt: ir.luity an 1 ooiul
potenee. Standing hen; br clo" 1 doors of
the pl.;ture l wools rnd the rnnin:r doors o
the tr.m.'lg'ired win'o.-. -.-ii-, 1 w mt to
euro my b !;y an 1 vo ir Jolly of longing for
glorlo.is timers iu !hi .I'-tauco, wane we
nogleet appr tati -i of gto-iads tilings neni
t'V. '-Oh, if I could only go and e(j th
factories of laee at lira -Is 1 'aays someone.
Why, within thirty fe -t ef wher-you awaken
some l;eceraber morn '.t yoa will see richer
lace interwo .-en lor yo.r woidow pan-s by
dlvine linger?. "Oh. k I -o ild See the fac
tories of s:lk ;it Lyons:" says some cni.
Why. without ieav.iu; your borne on the
lior: b s:.!e of :;c e .vii i oii-o on Christ. uas
morning vo i iv s e where the Lord haa
spun s:!k a threads a; jt your wlndowsthis
way and tiiat embroidi ri"S such as no on
but flo 1 (via work.
A !n. for this fi -rile iH- n of the distant
and this belittling as t:ie close, by I Thus
fruini" "f " .--.- lt la adj
- j k at f :il .va:en i-a n-.
hi..' as w. I ,....ie - m-t'ii'i ; w caa ee
by cro-ire o ir own re,, n, and free o
rharge! Th:s pr i;.-ir, ; of K i-.liacls h.un Ire 1?
r.. veurs gots, w e-n t he gr at--r K-ir.hae', the
f.-o-t. w.ll ; ja bo buy at the entr :n to
your owa ho ne !
N"xt 1 speak of the fro-t as a rhv..:-n.
''tin ting at the gat .-.f N'.-w York ' h ir: o
suiuipa before li-t, trie frost l-ovo l.i.'i
the cholera, saying. "Thus fir shnlt thou
come and no far'toT." I-ro.n M "nidus am'
fev t piague tin elc i Kir'i aria ....
I'ho fru-st is a physi-iun that ilo-.-tors citi.s,
LS'atioaa and continents. lie medicines the
world. Quinine for malaria, anti-febrile for
typhoids, sulphonal for sleeplessness, anti
spasmodic for disturbed n-rves, but in al'
therapeutics there is no remedy like thb
small pellets prepared by the cold, aud no
physician so skill.il or ho mighty as the frost.
Scotland has had great physicians, but her
greatest doctors have been "tho Abernethies
and Abererombios that have co:ne down
over the highlands horsed on the north wind.
Kngland has had her gn-nt physicians, but
rer irreatest doctors have been the Andrew
t .arkesand tho Jlaekenzies who npp-are 1
the llrst night the Hel ls of England werj
rimraed with white. America has had its
great physicians, but her greatest doctors
have been the Witlard Parkers and Valentine
Motts who landed from bleak skies while
our finirers were benutnbel and our ears
tingled with the cold. Oh, it is hb'h time
that you add another line to your liturgy!
It Is high time that vou make an addenda n
to your prayers. It is high time that you
enlarge the catalogue of Tour blessings. i
Tbanlt 8od for Irosf. If Is the best of all
germicides. It Is the only hope In bacteriol
PKZtiysih8meJi?aJ5utjiients1It .
' n&malnint Ot OPT temnaratT)ne. It Si
(he beet tonda toat God evelr pave tlie human
,aee. It ts the oaf? strong a ri mutant which
has ne reaetlan. The best eouiareuSarv as
it I bad wssfs walking nam here one oodI
motBtogj with my brotaaN3t, 'Who "gaat
the most el Mi Ufa al a jrtl.fl reus ry i Cain a,
SJid in that part ot It where there are ne
Vosts. He said tkaro was tinsHns glao
tssaia his nerves Initsserihable.and aoahnosl
intoxication of delight fxotrrbe fact that it
j.-as the first time lor years he had felt the
sensation of frost. Wo complain of It, we
soold It, we frown upon It, when we otighl
to be stirred by it to gratitude and hoit it on
itATnlncv.
lint I must fro farther anl speaic o! the
Jrost as a jewaloa As the snow is frozen
tain, so the frost is frozen de jr. God trans,
lirifaaitit?" ssjraoia fEto.a crystal, Ills'
to de plorlCed. la the ftlrtvShlh-clmp-rsr
of that inspired drama, tho boolf ol Job,
Ood says to the insplted dramatist with
eestntta'tnterrogatleii. "The hoary frost of
na&Ten, who hath gendered ItV od there
asks Jab if be knows the parentage ol
'the frost. Jle inquires about its pedigree,
lie suggests that Job srody tip the frost's
genealogical line. A minute before God had
asked about the parentage of a raindrop U
Vords that years ago gave me a suggestive
kext for a sermon, "lint the rain a fufhenV"
But now the Lord AlratRhty oateohiainif
lob about the frost. lie praotlcaHy says i
"Do you know Its father? Do you know its
tnottrer? In What oradle of the leaves did
the wind Tact it? 'Thehoary Tro3t af heaven,
who hath gendered itr" "
Ho Is a stupid Christian who thinks so
much of the printed and bound Bible that
he neglects tha Old Testament of the fields,
nor reads the wisdoai and kin tao&s and
beauty of God written fn blossom on the
orchard, in sparkles on the lake, tn stars on
the sky. la frost on the meadows. The
f rent-tit jeweler ot all the earth is the froet.
hare is nothing more wonderful in all
erystallograpny. Some morning In Deee-n-ber
a whole continent is fouud besprent with
diamonds, the result of one night's work by
f bis jevelor. -
Do you make the doprouiV.ory renark tht
the frost is impermanent an 1 will last on y
I wo or three hooper What ef that? Wa go
into Lon don tower anl look at the crows
jewels of England, but we are In a prooes'on
that the guards keep moving on, and fl'
minutes or loss are your only opporl unity of
looking at those crown jewels, but at the
erown ieweis bestarred of tho frost in parln
and Holds yon may stand to look doliberutely
and for hoors, and no oueto tell yu to itovn
on. I
Oh, th.-se regalias an 1 dil Jems of besuly
flung out of heaven ! Kings and queens ou
celebrativa days have come ridin throug i
tho streets throwintr hanlfuls of silver anl
goLl among the people, but the o,uecn of tae
w.nter morning is tbe only queen rich enough
to t;:row peerIK, and the kUi of frost the
only king rich enough to throw opais an 1
sappirtkes and diamonds. IIoT.er d-se'irbhee
a necUace of tlt g.von to Pcue'opc, bat
the frost neeklaees a eoa'.ta'Uit. Tiie o.r-an
of precious stoa -s given t- H.ir.iioa.a bud
piu:tms of orange jasper and white moon
stone an I fa than ag.to, oat it w is a ml .r
t un- to any ona w : o o.v: d or in'ier'.Mt it.
nl it.i history, g nr.:t'on a't T gen -r .? on,
was a history oi disaster, hut the raba o.
fro-t is lae good fortun of every T.-.ornin r
oi-.-ns it.
J h i:r.;-erial bo'.i'it'io! 1 ot I.ou's XVi
eeu' I not a'Tor! tho M:i v. .ad u.ey::a -o v '
h i 1 o -ea order- 1 for Q n n M ir.-i A l'.o a I.e.
an 1 it was stolen anl t.ii ei apart aa 1 nn:,
but too neeSlacs that the :ro-t pu's o.i ft
Wintry morn n, tliojgh ma .e or as ma- -i
r.lham.s as the w. titers I glass blales,
e.;ily alTorded by riiviri'j opatence nn 1 Is
never lost, but arter its u.-e ui the coronation
of 1 1 its lieids is token bacit to heaven. O men
an 1 vr .men, accustomed to go into ecstasv
wiien tn foreign travel you co ne upon ta
hljtorioel gems ef Katieue, whotiier tne Jswel
be allnd the Mountain ot Glory, or the H-a
?r Light, or the Crown of the Moon, or tn
Kye of Allah, or the ar of Sarawst, r the
Koh-i-noor. I iinphia-1 you study the jewels
ftr wn all round your wintry home and rsa
llzetnat "t'V the breath of God frost if
given."
Hat I go a step further and speak of the
frost as an evangelist, and a toxt of S-v.ptnre
Is not of much use to me unless I can find
the gospel ia It. The Israelites in the wil-deru-ss
breakfasted on sorn-tning tr.at
looked like frozen dew, aid the dew evapor
ated anl left a pulverised material, wliheaud
looking like frost, but it wss manna, an I oi
that they ate. Ho now this morning, mix- 1
whh tho fr''an d'-w of mv text, thers Ls
tn.tnna on which we can breakfast oar serfs.
Ve i s-:y the frfi.-t kil's. Yes, it kills sotae
th:n t .it we have already se-.u t hat it .v.-w
h -a t i and li:e to otaers. Tins gosjjel is th-
Kr.r.r of ii.e unto life orof death unto death.
A- th- 'rest is mighty, the gospel is:ni.hty.
A- t :. t.-o-t iKse-'n Is ireai heaven, the r:opei
ei s e.i Is ir .ti h avea. By the iir-nttt ol
God iro.-t i- given. Hy t;ie l-.reath o'- Go lthe
e .ai.! i) etv n. A- tne trost purifies, so th
j-r-iec ot God partdes. Asthelri? ltar-
th- ear:o, so gra-c b"jew.ls th- sorr. As t'ls
iro'-t prertr"3 for food many tii.nrs tha:
o: iie.-.vis j would be in-iiole, so tho trost o.
iria'r.poas r. 5 prep ir.-s 'o id for t ne so't'. li
toe ti t it i-rio of tho fr .sc ta-' har 1 s it- s ..
v i. cut an I c . - .-i: til hi -'-i-.- e ei, an i
tee luxuries of the w o ; ne .;eo o-ir Uo
or upon o.irlab:.-s ; .o the ro--t o tr ai t f."
'Miany a iiar I an i pri-kly s'l-ll no i er.is'i
t cut it that w :i
ee .8 it.
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An 1 t e:re h SO run .:
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v.itio !, and v 1
stu-k with this censure an 1 st a-k w.t'i t :jt
defamation, and Etu -k v.- th som i i il-!; .o 1.
an I iies iu s-ve.r.r.s an bu.in r. I n:-..
aboat your v..rs, an , a' las: you u:i 1-T-. ia
w lat iJavid n.oant w :ru ho s li I, ' i ;r--co.r.i.as
1 me about iiko b:-s ; yea, fij
;oiur-usa 1 iu ahout iie ;,..' (,' uaijroue0
town under r.Tvcr.s prostration and fcal
bat vou are as far dowa as David when he
r el", "O it ot th . depths of hell !"
V.'hat op-ne I all those chapters that
Mt';er. ha 1 no n;j;r oprlatea-'s.' Frosts!
For a long wa.de the Bible a ro tie I lopsided
in I a disproportionate n cour.t of It given
ap to th" ct us o'ai iry. Wdiy page.aftr page
u 1 chrip. .r a": r chapt-r and book after
ie .k iu the l;v,e t-ikeii no ,vhh nll"v;a
:'o we:i pa ':! .1 v:i, with eoudob-nv?
I'h- iob; s. i.s tiks n apothe-a.j- store
w:h cm i-':a':' u'f'e rl-.lves oceuole 1 wit a
t.-i'si-i.-. Whv s-i -h a M'ir. v:ia;iy of bal
ia:r.? Hit n:'"T axhi'e t'r- rieiibr sneous
trojp cirr.es oT jour chil l, or your he i'ta
j'ves way under the gr p. or your pr-vv-rty
! swe;- oT by a ba 1 in- '-tm ut, or perhaos
all three tri'ihhis '0'rv- at oae baril
ruptcy, slckn'S an 1 b T.t-cii -nt. Now
.h' con-.olatory pruts of I'n i.oI- not
ie.u to be .1 . ipo.r:;.:ito. Y-.il w .ut
som-e.ti. a r o.y a n 1st nd th- h-Tv -s or th-it
a -re t d s;e;s-;ry. ':,-tt Ibis nujuvere!
in 1 expose! to ou 11m u-;:rulness of so
rnue'- -f iho 11..- ' was b fore Id 1 Ion?
Tut do.vn all th- p-o-?. s-
tif.le 'nr s-' u iy. sa 1 p 1:
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table p rrvn w .e has ne,- -r
or v ry little of it. but pi
I) '-.hie ii:n all '-f:ey -'op
sri , anl ail ar-'ne .:o r;
ineutari-i, and 01 tlie ot:.-p-it
a ni'in w 10 h -s ha I Irr
osier upon .lis i-t -r, an I 1
Itu ly of tbe promises w.tai
o-it .'ommntary. w'thn-;t
p! iin or help, an 1 this Hi:-
lo U00.1 i:ei ta .ie
i an t al! dietiou--s
an I ail com
r s. !o of the talbe
! -i-.o-i tri-il. .Its
t b: a begiu the
eat lix!cfei1 w':t:i-
any ioo1; to ex
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ft and far more of the 'i-'ght .in I .1
Jen-th and breadth of tlu.-ie j ro
th 1 leirnel rx-get opp'-it-, Hi'
m 'ri" 1 In sacred literature. Th
Ibe a Ivautage over tho oth-r i.e-.n
1. an 1
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s-l 1-
i- has
e has
felt tiie mission of the frosts, oh, t u" the
consolation '' tills theme, ye to whom life is
a fctrugla and a disnopoii.tmrn'. anl a
gantlet and a panfr. That is a o -antiful
proverb among the H-brows wbi'.li siys,
' A lien the talo of bricks ia double!, then
M os-s comes."
Mild doses of medicine will do for mild
sickness, but violent pains n"ed strong doses,
aud so I stand over you and count out some
I'rops that will alleviate your worst troubles
it you wjl only take tho m lieln", and hero
It is: "In the world ye shall bavi tribula
tion, but be of good cheer ; I have overcome
the world." '"Weeping may endure for a
night, hut joy eo nctn in the morning."
Thank God for frosts! What hlp-l mait!
Milton the great -t of poets Tue iro-d of
blindn-ss. What helped make Washington
the irreatest of generals? The frosts of Val
ley Forge. What ma le it appropriate for one
passing John liunyan's grave to e'v-tlai-e,
"Sleep on, thou prince of dreamers ' The
frosts of imprisonment.
The greatest college from which we pan
graduate is the college of frosts. Especial
trial tits for especial work. Just now wateli
and you wilt see that trouble is preparative
nnd educational. That is the grindstone on.
which battle axes aro sharpened. I have
elvays noticed in my own cue that wrt nUie
Lord had some special work for tue to do it
wnfl preeo led by especial attack upon me.
This Is so proverbial In my own house that if
for something I say or do I get poured upon
me a volley of censure and anathema, rr
wife always asks : "1 wonder what new o;U
portunity of usefulness is n'lout to openV
Something gooland grr.ud is snrely cure
Inir !"
What U Iras In my cr----1 line on a larger
r smaller scale In the history of every tiiaf
mi woman who wants to servo tho Lord
Without complaint take the hard knocks
tan will see after awhile, though you tnii
ot appreciate ft now. that by the breath a
a goad anJ loving God frost is given. L4
tlm corners of yonr mouth, so long drawi
down in complaint, be drawn up in smiles a
Content.
Eor many years poals and essayists havj
celebrated the grace and swiftness of the
Arab lan horses. The most wonderful exhi
bition of horsemanship that I ever witnessed
was just outside the city of Jerusalem an
know where these Arabian horses got their
fleetceas and poetry of motion? Long cen
turies ago Mohammed, with 30,000 cavalry
on the marsh, could Dud forthein not a drop
of water for threo days. Coming to the top
ota hill, a river was in sight. With a wild
dash the 33.0110 horses started for tbe stream,
A minute after an armed host vr.ls seen ad
vancing, and at Mohammed's command 109
bugles blew for the horses to fall in line, but
all the 30,000 continued tho wild gallop to
the river except Bye, and they, almost dead
with thirst, wheeled into line of battle.
Nothing in human bravery an 1 self sacri
fice excels that bravery and self sacrifice ot
loose five Arabian war horses. Those flvt
splendid steeds Mohammed chose for his own
use, and from those Ave came that race of
Arabian horses for ages tho glory of the
equestrian world. And let me say that in
tins great war of truth against esror, ot holi
ness against sin aad heaven against hell, the
Kt wnrh- e e descended frost those
ftTco. nfbler pans and self denial andtTBTlblB.
liaswercd the gosp.sl trumpet and wheeled
into line. Oat of great tribulation, out ot
kr"it fires, out of great frosts, they came.
And let me say it will not take long for
God to make np to you in the noxt world foi
ail you have suffered In this. As you entet
heaven He may say. ''Give this man one 01
those towered aud colonnade ! palaces on
that ridge of gold overlooking the sea ol
glass. Give this woman a home among
those amaranthine blooms and between those
fountains tossing in the ever! istingsnnlight.
Give her a ooueb o.inoolod with raiuhows to
pay her for all the fatigues of wifehood an !
motherhood anl housekeeping, from will.,
she had no rest for forty years.
"Cupbearers ol heaven, give these newiy
arrived souls from earth the costliest bever
ages, and roll to their door tao grandest
ohaxiots, and bans on thoir walls the sweet
em harps that ever thrummed to linger 1
seraphic Give to them rapture on raptuts,
celebration on celebration, jubilee cn jubi
lee, heaven on heaven. They had a liar I
time on earth earning a livolinood, or uurs
bi" s'x children, or waiting on Tuerulous
old ge, or bett ing f- '-' 1 o .': it were 'old
about tnean, or were cojipeliej to wort alter
they got shortbreathed and raeummio and
(Jimaiehtsd.
' C'hjunberlalns of heaven ! K lepers of the
kir;'s robes ! Banqueters of eternal royalty !
Make np to them a nundredrold, a thousand
fold, a millionfold for all they suffered from
;r,v 11 ling clothes to shroud, and let all
fhosa who, whether on the hills, or in the
temples, or on the thrones, or on jasper wsli,
were helpi an l sanctified an 1 prep irel for
this heavenly realm by the mi&siou ot tne
frosts stand up aaJ wv their scepters'.''
And I looked and, behold ! nine-tenths of the
r-.iieomed rose to their feet, and nine-tenths
of the scepters swayed to anl fro in the light
of the sou that never sets, un 1 then I under-
atoa I far better than I evur did before taat
trouble comes for brneflcent purposes, nn 1
that on the coldest nights the aurora is
brighioet in the northern heiv-ns, an 1 that
'by the br.-ath of God frost is given."
Origin of tlie Arab Steed.
The origin of tho best strain ol
Amliiad blood has been related by
some roiiiabccr. "iVhiie Mohammel
was ilgtinej his way to jfreatness ho
was ouie compelled to lead his corpa
of 20, (NO cavalry for throe days w.th
uut a drop of water.
A l last, from a hill top, they de-K'tite-rt
the silver t-t:c;.k of a distant
river. Mohammed ot'ered his
trumpeter to blow the call to dis
mount and loose the horses. The
poor t rutcs. t-turvini? for water, at
uikc sprang into a m id gallop toward
t:ie lon-e 1-for fc'o.il. No sooner
loosened than came the alarm
fal-e, as it happened of a sudden
ambush. ' To Poise!" was blown,
ami repeated by a hundred bugles,
luit the demand was t-o ureat: the
I p. eh-; 1 throats wero not to be re
fine 1: the stampede urew wilder a d
wilder as -0.000 steeds pushed tics
peiaieiy for tho river banks.
Of all the f 1 antic crowd but live
itrires rcspou led to the caH. To
th 'sc duly was highcrthan suilering.
'i'h y turned their tra Us, caim!
bravely biicU". i lehding in t heir eyes
and anguisii iu tl.e.r sunken lianks,
and stood before tin; I'rophet. Love
for their master and a sense of obe ii
ence had con'juercd their distress,
but their b't olshot eyes told of a
fear ul torment the more pathetic
for thoir diimbne 8
Tho daner was over; the faithful
m ires were at onro released but Mo
hammed sc'.ccfd the-e live for his
own use; an J they were the dams of
one of the greatest races of the des
tit From them ha.e f-prung the
be t of Arabian steeds. It ean how
ever, Ecat' cly I e cla mcd that tha
avo.age lior c of the ('ri nt comes u;i
to this ideal, lie must have beon
bred from the l'.i.li'J'). Col. T. A.
Do ne. I'nite I States Army, iu Har
per's Maoazine.
Keep Vonr Owu Soercts.
if you are unfortunate enough to
have secrets, Ke p them to yourself.
A secret in joint tenancy is no secret,
l'.ut it has been said that all things
should be common among friends,
that uothine; should lie reserveJ or
hidden. This remark belongs to the
region of the true and the beautiful,
but by co mean to that of the politio
or the useful It is a remark 111 the
wort's of Mr. H eller. ! r , '-wei-gina
on tiie poetical " It Is absurd tosup.
pose that another, to whom your
secret may be of little or no consu.
quence will keep the matter which
you, to whom it may be of the great
est consequence, cannot keen "A
faithrul m::n who can find." .'o
treachery may be involved ia the
breach of tnn'ldence. It isnot gener
ally a couai Jeruion of his own ad
vantage which induces a man to be
tray the secret of his friend; rather
it is an inordinate love of talking.
As taciturnity li said to be a chief
characteristic of tbe mad portion of
mankind, so loquacity may be eaid to
Le that of the sane. It :s thi3 garru
lous habit which leads to an inter
change of tae teoros'ical remarks be
tween two who meet by chance, who
have no interest in common, imd,
having little to say on this, fcae
nothing to suy to one another on any
other eu' jcct tinder the nun: and it
Is this same hn'iil which divuici
secrets, and s-.pi'rates friends. Those
who are troubbl with tho disease
can no n.orc resi.-t its insidious at
tacks than th linn aua ad the royal
family and the lurds of his council
and all the nobility ccu'd tcfiuln
from ilanciag in the story hen tho
manic pipe was played It is the
tfiory of nature to conceal a matter,
but it is the happiness of mankind to
declare a seciet.
Why nntuie 1 nilt a v-.,iiig womnn so
.hat tne prefer" wul .).; to wasluLp
disLcs ts one of th :uj -ti r"i-B.
A not'lo i.ati'te ct- id ne Httruct tht
noble, and slon kn.jv, s Low to retuii.
t-lierr.
Tho ihilonopber th.i wt.'te tht
Bood n.mc I better than riches ctve
iiad a co-'O ia nu American rjurt of law
Tis better far to love and be poor,
than be rich with an empty heart.
A lazy man is necessarily a bad man:
an idle is necessarily a demoralized
population. :
Soman can be provident of his time
ho is rot provident in the choice of
: is company. ;
It is very hard to believe that a thing
s rightly done when it is not done onr
ray. J
FIVE CIVILIZED TKIBE?
nrDiA-srs who haw jeabnei
THE WHITE MAN'S I.E330NS.
White Men Getting "Head Rights" bj
Marry Ins Indian Girls The In
dlan Form or Government.
UNCLE SAM has protected tht
civilized tribes ot the Indian
Territory longer than he evet
did any other Indian landhold
ers very much longer than any ona
thirty years ago ever thought he would.
Their area has been pared down on ever.i
side, wherever an excuse could be rosd 1
by loose or broad, stridor lstitudinanan
construction of laws and treaties, aad
still the five Nations owns some 20.
000,000 acres of land, or about S0,00.i
square miles.
And there are certainly not more thaa
65,000 to hold it, including people ol
all colors. Just how many of the 03,
000 are full-blooded Indians it would bt
hard to say. The traveler bIodi? tut
main roads get tbe impression thnt they
are not as one in ten, even in a district
where they have a majority.
Big coal-mining companies, big cattle
'companies and big "citizens'' of the
Nations who have been able to fence in
large tracts practically own more than
half of it. And most of these "citi
zens" are white, or nearly so, for all the
Nations, the Cherokees especially, have
been absorbing white blood ever sice:
they were discovered. Of late year:
hundreds or thousands of enterprising
young men from the adjacent ritate;
have married Indian girls to get "head
rights" in some Nation and a chance at
the land. In the Chicktaw Nation these
people are known by -the flat title ol
"squaw men," but the other Nations,
more civilized, call tbem "adopted citi
zens." These and the detcendents ol
men like these make up the majority of
the citizens of the five Nations.
But among the Cherokees there is 1
far more honorable white ancestry.
While missionaries settled in the trlba
early in tbe Eighteenth Century, and!
k hite children taken In war were adop
ted. When the Revolutionary War closed
tho best class of the Tories in tbe Caro
linas gathered up their movables, crossed
tbe mountains and located among tha,
Cherokees In upper Georgia. Hence tbs;
prevalence 01 ccoicn names 111 toat trine.
Ooo reads of Indian Legislatures, and
when he reaches TaUicqusa or Atoka it
gives him "quite a turn" to see a map
as white as Tom Reed wielding th i
Speaker's gavel. John Ross was by fi
tiie most noted Cherokee ot his time,
lie was as white as Abraham Lincoln.
Tho present Speaker of the Cheroke 1
House is W. D. Clark, a white man with
no trace of Indian blood, dark-eyed,
chin-whiskered, nervous and business,
like, with a look ia his face that says hi
would just as lief fight as not. IIu
pushes the council along in great style.
All the five Governments are republi
can in form, but native titles are re.
tained. Thus, the head of the nation it
called Principal Chief, his vice is Second
Chief and the Legislature consists of t
House of Kings aud a House of War.
riors. In the legislative records of taa
Cherokees one often sees the names ol
Black Fox, Pathkiller, Turtle at-Home,
Young Wolf, Bark Flute, Big Rttlin$
Gourd and Soft9hell Turtle. Among
the other Nations it is much the same,
thsugh English names are rapidly in
creasing. Next to the Cherokees in tribal im
portance are tbe Choctawi, and t'u..
present chief ls Wilson N. Jones, of the
Ok-!a-fa-lay-a clan. He was born u
Mississippi, where thcra were man
Cuoctaws of that clan, but his fathci
came to the Territory when the preseni
chief was but two years old. Ciiiof Jonet
lives eighteen miles from Caddo. Ib
receives a salary of $20U0 a year, bui
doesn't need it, for he is a very rich
man. Although quite light-colored In
is very much of a Choctaw, for he apeikf
scarcely any English. lie made his for
tune in trade and cattlo taisin.
The two political parties in the Choc
taw Nation are known to each other a
"Eagles" aad "Buzzards," and tb
former, the progressive, are now in
power. Although the land in the Choc
taw country is good enough to make
whites eager for it, the great object,
especially with the railroads and specula
tors, is coal. There seems to be fine coal
everywhere in the Choctaw country. It
has been mined there in greater or less
quantities for twenty-five years. Tht
present output is something over 1,000,
000 tons annually. Tbe Choctaw mining
laws allow a citizen who discovers a coal
deposit to lay claim to it and to the land
for one mile about it. This claim must
be recorded with the County Clerk.
The Nation demands a royalty of hall
a cent per bushel on all coal mined, and
the owner of the land gets another roy
alty, so there is much strife about titles,
and an awful amount of perjury.
The word "owner" is used for con
venience, as it is no easy thing to get
any kind of title. By the laws ot all
the Nations any man can use whatever
land he fences in, provided ho leaves a
certain amount of vacant land between
him and the next occupant. But thii
last proviso is so generally disregarded
that theie is great confusion.
Tbe Choctaw pasture laws allow tin
fencing by each citizsn ot one square
mile of land, requiring that roadway be
left between all pastures. Tbe citizen!
frequently interpret the law to mean one
square mile of land for each member of a
family, and the result is found in some
almost endless pastures. In fact, these
land laws receive about as much atten
tion as. Indian laws generally. A Choc
taw when he wants pasture land takes
what he pleases. Many of tbe chizen
landholders lease their claims to non
resident farmers at fifteen cents an acre,
and these non-citizens raise fine crops of
cotton and corn. As there are but 14,
337 Choctaws, and they have 16,4jJ
square miles, they could run along in this
careless fashion for quite a while if whito
men would let them.
White men are not in the habit of let
ting a good thing alone. There are ai
res J y some thousands of coal miners in
the Nation, and tha Choctaw Govern
ment receives in royalties on coal about
fllO.000 per year. The Nation baa
many other sources of official income
and is rich without taxation. There is
a fee of $ 100 charged for any white man
who marries a Choctaw girl, but the
practice now is for the couple to elope
to Texas, marry there, return and claim
"head rights." New York Advertiser.
1
A Queer Proposal.
A grand-daughter of Delacroix re
ceived the following curious pro
posal of marriage front tbe famous
Champlleury: "Mademoiselle If you
believe, as I bave heard, that an
unmarried person is like the half
of a pair of scissors, which is use
less without the other half, I offer
you my sympathies, my love and my
best efforts to cut together the
material of life." The youn girl'8
answer was the gift ot apair of scis
sors, followed by a marriage thref
weeks later.
Teaix-robbing Is becoming so dan
Itous that the industry ls suffering
!roru great depression. And the on
y safe burglars now are those who
tave Quit the business - -
Dyspepsia, tlie Blues. Headache.
'T wMrnLvnihl nnd dull 11 the time: In short,
d the WuHfc; iVU slt'tcall over and often thought I
Anul1 rtooti (lif. ( ould not s!p, eat or work witfe
mttfwtion. Mr ntorn-ich whs out f onler. I spent
mtany d.jJiftr for tutVine. all forlittie. or I mitfht
Mr, no tieiiftit. I anwand reud so nituU about MootTa
'rnapttrtna toat I thotiKht I would try it- Th flrt-t
aottle inmit a iltrTfr-nt feli:iic. no I kpt on till I ImJ
taken thrvt. The mvrv pain tn my back, headache
am! dlstrv In my sinnwti, all trarea ivt ! t p"ii
have entirely diwppeared and I can ftt, Bleep and
work, and liV so nitich hetter than 1 u l to, that I
cannot thank Hood's rsa parti la et-jlj;;h.- John
HoodsS3pr Cures
SriKLV, "IS tocuat Stmt. -xll;t fa.
Hood's Pills cure sict hesdaohe.
Tides.
A short time before Dr. Charcot
died he said in a lecture that seral
scieutisls had for more than flftv
years ridicukd thj Idea that the
full of the moon waa a dangerous
time for mad people. Letter-informed
mtn are coming back to that
old-time notion, said Lr. Charcot, as
tte result of increased learning on
the subject of e;iith tides, similar to
the o.-cillation of sea tides.
A CHILD LXJOYS
The pleasant flavor, gentle action and
soothing effect of Svrup of Fies. when
in need of a laxative, and if the father
or mother be costive or bilious, the
most gratifying results follow its use ;
so that it is the best family remedy
known and every family should have "a
bottle.
Western Pennsylvania chemists are
striving for a common method in ex
imining iron and steel.
Fifty Cents Well Invested.
Koonomy is wealth; simple incidents
have established the destinies of mon
archies and of republics, monopolies
mid individuals.
Timely appliances will often avert
grent evils; prompt action is frequently
required and only a little of that to
prevent serious con-equencca.
lake "a cold, for example. If not
checked in time, like a spark of tire, it
may cause great trouble, suffering and
lirtr-!. lo stop a fire in the begin
ning is comparative.- an easy process
to that of subduing an extensive con
flagration. So Radway's Ready Relief
taken in time will prevent all of the
serious consequences arising from ne
glecting a cold. For a chill, take from
a half to a teaspoonful of Ready Relief
in a half tumbler of water, drink it
down and repeat if necessary, to warm
up.
For pains in the chest, side or Dack
rub freely with Ready Relief, applied
ly tlie hand, till the skin comes to a
glow; cover well up and keep warm;
one or both of the above pplianees
will cure ninety-nine casos out of every
one hundred.
Investigations of rain drops lead to
the conclusion that some of the large
drops must be more or less hollow, as
they fail when striking to wet the
whole surface inclosed within the drop
IIoot'h ThU !
Vo offi-r One II-.in.lr"l I) .llirs Tlewiinl fur
nnr raei.f 4'Marrh thai i-.t.m -t be cured by
lliiU'a t atarrli Cur.
K. J.Chkhlt Co., Vrnr-i., Tolodn, O.
"VW, the umlrrMlfrned, ltae known F. J. Clin.
npy fur I lii.t 15 year-, ami Iwlieve bim inr-fet-tly
hQnnmltle In all business transactions
anl financ ally a.hl la carry out any o:Iit:;i
I ton mmle by t ue.r firm.
Wubt Ac Thcax, Wholesale Druei;"5'! Toledo,
Ohio.
VTalmvo. KiftvAit & Marvi.s, "iVliolexa'.e
lirugeistM, Toledo, Ohio.
ITa Ta t atarrli 'un Is taken internally, act
ing dirctiy up n the l.ioo-t an l mucous mi:--l.ice
of tbe system. ITi.-e, 7V. Mr botlle. Sole,
by all Druggist. Testimonial: fret;.
Experiments made by M. d'Arson
val with an instrument which he calls
myoplione proves, contrary to the
older opinion, that nervous excitability
may exist for many hours after death.
POSTAL GUIDE FOlt 1S: I
CnntalnlntnK all the pout offices nrrjni;.' I al
babel leal ly. In St.ttes and l ountle. witli all
nibrr matters relating to post office affilrj cm
be ordered from B. Sali.noer. P. O. Box. lisj.
Philadelphia. 1'a. No business man should bs
without It. Price i2.io pai.er cover with monthly;
tiLCl. cloth cover with o.ontltly.
If In every land between Spitsbergen
anil Fatagonia there is some species of
the common blood- sucking mosquito.
In British America and Alaska they
are very large and troublesome.
Jf afflicted w Itb soreeyes use Pr. Isaac Tlmmp
son' Kye waler.Druiutsts sell ati,c. pet bottla.
The moon is not so small after all.
Its surface area is fully as great as that
ef Africa and Australia combined,
which would make it only about 13
times smaller than our earth.
The Importance of keeping tbe liver and
kidneys In good condition cannot be overesti
mated, llood's fsarsaparilta is a great remedy
ror regulating and invigorating these organs.
Hood's Pills act easily, yet promptly and
Hectlvely, on the liver and bowels. -J6c.
The actual occupancy of Mars by a
race superior to our own is said to be
very probable.
Coughs anil Cold. Those who are suffering
from Coughs, Colds. Sore Throat, etc., should try
Bbotvn's Bronchia i. TBocnra. ff only in boxet
Tiie coins of Constantine struck A.
I). 312 were the first to bear the Christ
ian emblems. These showed the cross,
'the monogram of Christ, and sume-
umes me worus aiptia ana omega.
A wonderful stomach corrector Heecham'a
Tills, fteecham's no other. 2 cents a box.
The astronomers discovered twenty
nine new planets during the laet year
"German
Syrup
99
My niece, Emeline Hawley, vratf,
taken with spitting: blood, and she
) became very much alarmed, fearing
I that dreaded disease, Consumption
I She tried nearly all kinds of mcxli-
cine but nothing did her any good.
Finally she took German Syrup rxd
she told me it did her more good
than anything she ever tried. If
stopped the blood, gave her strength
and ease, and a good appetite. J
had it from her own lips. Mrs.
Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn.
Honor to German Syrup.
T . fill
n bunts nntNt au. tLbt UH-S.
Best Couata turn p. TatsJooa.
SELECT SIFI1NS5.
There are only two lawyers ia Iceland.
Asphalt pavements were first laid in
?ris in 1851.
The notation system of writing muiic
was invented in 1070.
A Sedalia (Mo.) preacher advertises
good muiic and abort sermons.
Durinsr tiis Tears tnat Henry VIII.
.-signed 72,000 thieves were hanged.
The swords of Damascus were world
amous tire hundred years before the
Christian Era.
A dozen bee trees in Kcw M"-'
vera lAtely tapped, aad yielded 600
pounds of wild honey.
Tweaty-Sve large nails wero found in
the stomach of a bulloc recoat'y
slaughtered in Wilkesboro, N. C.
An antideluvian frog has b - .'uan.l.
.... i, ;l AAal in anthracite COal
still aiivc, iiuuuu5 -
J00 feet below tbe surface of the ground.
Performances at theatres or. ancieni.
Greece sometimes lasted twelve hours,
aeven o'clock: in the morning was the
time for the raising of tho curtain, so to
apeak.
Frasseville, one of the New HebtiJei
Islauds, is said to be the smallest lis-publ-c
in the world. Its population
comprises forty whites ana about 5Jtf
Africans.
The citv of B-injaD, in Creat U-.-'.aria,
ia cut in the side of a mountain.
Tatre are 12,000 artificial caves and
tsro statiiES, one ninety, the other twenty
feet high, each hewu from a sing.o
stoue.
A pistol ball was recently removed
front tha right thigh of a man which
had bean thera since 1801. Tne ball, It
is said, had gravitated about a foot aad
a halt through the flesh in the last twenty-cine
years.
A couple of pheasant", joined after the
, Ar RimiiMs twin, were shot
hv a hunter in Bellefonte, Oregon. The
connecting ligament was half an laca
lon 5 and a quarter of an inch thicV,
aud' uuiteU taeui just ia front of thu
wings.
A level head is possessed by a certaia
voung m tn iu "W'inaraac, Iud. IIj love 1
two girls equally well, and bjta of the a
adored him. He set them to cooking a
dinuer, etcit ia turn, in his presenc-3.
Ha mirricd the one who;e dinner he pre
ferred. Theiabasheea plowsl upinAnJrew
County, Missouri, a a ancieut Roman
sword", it is reported, whic'a is believed
tci h;tva buloue i t soms me:nhsr of
Uj S to"s erps-lition, who were eiplor
iag in thit pare of t:i3 ciuntry i tha
mi Idle ot the Sixteait'u Century.
ralindromes, that is to say, sentences
,tho letters of which reJ the same from
left to right or right to left, are just now
very popular in London at home gather
ings. Here are several good examples:
Eros stw Ere tub, but Kri was sore
Itepel a leper .".. i- a cat I saw Evil
did I ere I did live Big was I ere I si. v
Gib.
The "oyster" is thought by epicure
to be the sweetest til-bit of a turkoy.
It is a portion of exceedingly tender
dark meat which lies in a hollow on each
side of the backbone, near and just above
the second joint. F.y examining the
jbare frame of a carve J turkey, the to
hollows where the "oysters" lie will be
cosily perceive J, and one will note that
their shape is a long oval.
Do your clothes last as they used to If not,
vou nival t.e n-ing a atxtp or washing jwvdn'
Ibnt rota tbem. Try Ui cofnl otU-tnthtoHeU
lKl.hins' Electric Soup, perectly pure to-fluv u
Iu l!S.
A MOORISH PRISON.
Horrible Dungeon Wl:er Human He
ins Are Co'inned.
Of all the places where human be
ings are confined for punishment,
there are said to be none so horrible
as the prisons of Morocco. The one
presented in our illustration is situ
ated at Fez, and was, a short time
ago, visited by a traveler who gives
the following description, of it: Vou
nscend by a narrow t.t;ii reuse, lie
writes, and come ut. t.n a fiat foof
bathed in the glor ous sp ring sun.
At jour feet is a square opening
with a heavy wooden grating. It is
hell's hatchway. Yon look down
and instaDtly iurn i-Icic with the
horrible steuch which aris"". You
look again and you see down there
upturned faces, white, passionless,
XXTERIOR or A MOORISH FR180B.
despairing, and up from the derithi
comes the clank of chains. Dark-
fou!, damp; a den or filth and fever,
where mind ls destroyed and body
racked with ague; a pit of destruc
tion whence the most fervent prayer
that comes up must be the prayer for
swift death.
"What are thete Drlsoner-,?" I
asked the guard who accomrjanied
rue. "They aro all bad people," lie
said. "Murderers?" "Thev are roo
ters many of them, and there are
many of tho tribesmen who made
the trouble recently at "Wazzan and
attacked the town; others arc
debtors, mci who owe money
to Jews and others." "And they
are all kept together down there
murderers and roblx-rs and reb
els and debtors?" "Yes." "And
when will they be tried?" I might as
well have asked the man the exact
day and hour of the next total eclipse
of the sun. lie knew nothing about
trials, and his ldeaa as to the meting
out of Justice to the wretches below
began and ended right there In the
pit that was Justice. They wer
bad people, and there they were.
There is no fixed term of imprison
ment; the murderer and the robber
and the rebel stay In the hole till
they die; the debtor stays there till
he pays, and if he doesn't pay he dies,
too. No writ of habeas corpus runs
In Morocco.
Anl these thlng3 are done within
six days' steam from Charing Cross;
within twelve hours' ride from the
residence of all the mi
potentlary and envoys extraordinary
uu ...jusua ui me great pewers! And
is nothing ever done? Has the opln
lon of Europe found no expression'
Have the reports of Executive Com
mittees of philanthropic societies
availed, naught? Oh, yes: Once in
a while the Moorish authorities give
tbo prtjonj a Cm of whitewash.
IF YOU WANT TO FEEL A PERFECT CURE PROMPTLY, CF
LUMBAGO,
SL JACOBS OIL WILL DO IT AS NOTHING ELSE CAN DO,
FARM ffOTiig.
1 LaSD PLASTER FOB BTjttZSr
Professor Dean, of the Ontario Agri-
blaster instable!: "tte use con
luiy n our floors a liberal quantity of
J.'ad plaster or gypsum, which has three
effects: (I) It Cs the ammonia and
makes the manure more valuable. (-J
sweeter,, the stable, absorbing bid
It sweetens beUcr
..ndsneatandy. I-
iKcf.sa hour after our cow, mr ,
cut vou would scarcely know . -Ud
been in. This is accomplished I by
liberal use of plaster and whitewash.
Both are cheap."
SOOT TKA TOR FLAST3.
One of the best fertilizers for pot
plants is soot. It not only nourishes the
plant, tut keep, the sod sweet, Kill
destroy all worms and insects, aad e. en
rent the green fly. It best use i m a
liquid form. One tablespoon ful of so"t
to two quarts of warm water is a li.np.e
WBy of making the tea. If one dot res
to make it in larser quantities, put into
a vessel holding filtcen gallons of wa'cr
a half peck of soot, and stir twice a
for a week. Probably the better way ,s
to tie the soot securely in a coarse
T.hichU Urge enough to let the soot
swell and move about inside it. lurow
tte ba" into the water and allow it to
oak, moving it about occasionally, -r
prcssin" it with a stick to extract tue
strength. As the water is used out fres i
can be added as long as any soot remains.
Give the plants light aoses oi mo
oaceortwicea week. Dilute if to.
ttron", because if used in toa thick a
state it will make the surface soil toj
hard and dry.
Soot mixed with twice its bulk or dry
earth may be used for a top dressijg in
sue earden witn goo-i reauiio. -i;
fork World.
BLVST150 STC.MPS.
Til rrnmnhio Drciudice a2aiat the
- . . r i
;omn;on use of dynamite for any :nd o. :
tvork on a faroi, or by iaexperieneel per
ions, makes it desirable to me t'.ie cu.n- t
nou bhck powder for su--h purposes. !
This is not renlly 'i tare as the dynamite
when in the hands of experts, but safer j
otherwise, and persans generally under
hand it better. To bresk un stumps
with blasting powder proceed a. lollows: j
Bore a hole 1J inches wide into the I
rentre of the siutp in such a direction j
is to reach tae middle of it near the
root; c'iare it in the usuil manner,
lining plenty of powder, one foot in
depth at least for a large stump; pro
cure a screw with a hole through it for
the fuse, and a square head by wh:ci it
mny be screwed down on to the powder.
Fire the fuse, and the stump will be
jhattcrcd so that it can easily be taken
nut iu pieces. A lookout for the icrew
ihould be made when the explosion takes
place, and it may be picked up and used
again. It may be well to put some dry
iao.l on the po.vder under tba screw. It
is most often the case that the scre.v le
mains in the wood aad caa be split out
of it. Xew York Timc3.
no-v to cnEAras feeds.
The prices of feed bid fair to be high
the coming winter, and such will con
tin ie to be tbe case every winter, as long
as there is such a tremendous demand
for all sorts of millstuffs, on the part of
dairy farmers, all over this broad land.
The dairymen are all right in their ideas
of feeding well, but they are all wrong
ill not growing more of their own feed.
Wheat is way dovva l.i the lowest notch
t?e have seen in thirty years, and bran
t'.imbirjg up in price every day. We are
not certain but those fanners who are
(cell situated to do it had better buy the
wheat by the car load and get it ground
at tae u-tom mill, and feed the bran
and middlings, selling the flour for what
they can real z ".
If we were in Northern Dakota or
M nnesota we would not sell wheat at
j.iy coats a bushel, if we had good cows
to feed it to, and butter thirty-one cents
a pound in Chicago. We believe there
are four pounds of butter in a bushel of
wheat fed to a good cow, with good
roughage in addition. Bat whether in
j the Uakotss or New York, everywhere
the dairy farmer is at the mercy of the
feed van Jer. This would not be so if
the majority set seriously to work to
produce their own feed, in some form or
ether. The mischief is, the most of far
mers stop feed when prices of feed go
high, no matter what the price of butter
i. Fi'bat a lot of education we all do
need on this feed oiestion. There is so
little real figuring so little really studied
out by the dairy farmers by which they
can figure. The way to bring down the
price of feed stuff is for more farmers to
go at growing peas and silage corn. Not
one man in a thousand knows what he
could do if he should try. Uoard'
Pairvman.
TO KBEP BUTTER.
To keep batter several months it la
necessary that the butter be perfectly
well made and be completely freed from
all traces of tlie buttermilk, or this wilt
quickly spoil it. It must then be packjd
without delay in air-proof packages ; i
glazed crock or jar is a good package,
or a new, clean whito oak or spruce tub,
with a tight-fitting cover. This is first
soaked with water and a little soda tc
remove any acid of the wood. It is then
well scalded and soaked with salt brine.
Then it is rinsed with pure cold watei
and f pvinkled with fine salt on the in
side. Tbe butter is then packed in sol
idly, eac:i layer of four inches being wel
packe'i, to leave no air spaces, anc
.rin'-uc I with line salt. Then anothei
layer ls psckea m tne same way, ana so
on until the tub is full. A clean cover
of cotton cloth is laid over the top ' of
the buiter; this is covered with fine dry
salt, and the cover is fastened down.
Care is to be taken to exclude air by
covering and packing under the cover.
The tub is then kept in a clean, dry,
airy place where no disagreeable smells
may affect it. Good butter thus packed
may be kept foi sir or eight months
without the least deterioration. The
Jtrsey cows make good butter, which
bat a high color, and some of them make
a good deal of it, but tbe best are too
costly for common uje. A good, well
lea Ayrshire cow is as good for butter
as a Jersey for a working dairy. Some
Durham or short-horu cows are good
butter makers, and a goU jud e of
ectoTv?i!ght ge,,dairy of th8 co
stock that would be very good if well
selected The best cLLadU .
half-bred Jersey having a good common
dam and a pure sire. Some ot these
vre as good as the pure bred.
Wbt Brings Release From DirHiirGrnvirv,
Don't You Knmv?
SAPLIO
Sjme Curlois Eematm.
Somo very curious aad imporUat ir
chaeological regains were urseirthe' M
Cre3oa, loa, the other diy by k,,
workman engaged in digging a cellr.
They struclt what at tint appeared to bi
a solid ledge of roci or co i!, aaJ, aittia?
down to rest, one of them becpn idly t
peck at an apparent fissure, when a w'ld
block nearly two feet square disippta
with a dull thump. The men set eigW!y
to work, and removing the bottom of
the pit discovered a chamber wifa ,
tifteen-foot ceiling twelve by twenty frel
in extent, the walls biun or neuir
seamed stone work. Iiangel in rowj n'a
rudely constructed platforms wero ke'e.
tons, each with a toinnhank anl 1
arrow at its side, earrings an b:ac;:e-,
of lead lying where they were dropped,
and piles of what appeared to hT9 bea
furs in the centre of the platform, e;i
pile crumbling to du-t as sooa u ex
posed to light. A number of tools made
of copper were unearths 1 ami freh dis
coveries are constantly beia nu-ic.
Picajuno.
Nature never puts the wrong oiors h
juxtaposition, and a good p.aa waea
choosing an evening go.vn is t s-'.ejt
the colors of a flower au J leaf.
Mrs. M. A. Ilauleabeck, of ';; York,
who has been s commercial traveler for
ten years, earns $ 50U0 a year in commis
tions upon the sales she makes.
Mrs. Monarchesi, wife of the publis'j.
er, has invented and receive.! tae patent
papers lor a new gridiron which is on.
sidercd a great improvement on taa oW
one.
Mis3 Virginia Penny, the a lt'anr, who
gave not only her time but her entire
fortune for the advancement of wj r. i,
ia now living iu dira poverty ia X.
Eork.
There has been considt rable ili-
sion as to who invented ?;.e. tu. 1. hu
who had the phiasure f v. an; ,' tl.e
firt pair. The liomr is p.!,cra',;
awarded to an ItaliAnn-im-' 1 S-ilvin.
Armati, who died in 1-"17.
A vine at TTn niton '-t-vt. I "i
which w.-is 1.ii;'.ih1 in 17'. is I -lit -.-..
to be the lurg.js-t in th- world. I;,
branches extend over :i s;.;ne of i' :. i
feet. It usually l.":t.s ii .w.ir.l- ...
2,000 bu;iches of gr.ip.'s i i t'.'.v.
Vestniintcr nniv-rity is the !::::
nf the new l'resbytM-ian S. hool ut 1 .-::
ver. It will be open f. v i'l kr't" t
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Cliristmas Gilts
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