AN EIGHT-TRACK ROLLER-LIFT BRIDGE. r ——— I r 5 The Marine Review prints a descrip tion of an eight-track roller-lift bridge to be erected over the Chicago drain age canal near its junction with the Chicago Riverr It provides a clear waterway for navigation of 120 feet between the piers, at right angles to the centre Wo'i of the canal. On each side of the waterway provided for nav igation is placed a main supporting pier. These piers are each forty-eight feet wide. They rest on bed rock, forty-four feet below city datum. The : teuUUUPPUUOTUUUOTUU&j | A School of Farming I § It Will Rin\ to Raise tt\e Standard cl "V" ~T" G~~r IIEN the promoters of the \ A / School of Practical Agri- V culture and Horticulture looked about for a spot wherein to establish the institution various places were suggested, but it was finally agreed that Briarcliff Man or, one of the most beautiful parts of Westchester County, N. Y., would be -• - * THE MODEL DAIRY. the most suitable. It will be on a pla teau overlooking the sixty-six acres which nave been acquired, and also much of the land and many of the buildings on the Briarcliff Farms, which will serve not oi?l" as a beauti ful picture, but as an inspiration for the students. The object of the school is "to train men and women iu the methods of hor ticulture, Horticulture, gardening, poul try raising and allied branches, that they may become proficient iu the man laid from the main line to the farm, <ind by means of these the shipment of farm products is facilitated. Near the railroad are the neat homes of some of the farm hands, and a short dis tance beyond these, toward the ridge, are several large granaries; further away, on the main road, is the model dairy building. Of the 875 head of cattle on the place, about 400 are regis tered Jerseys. No other breed Is al lowed in the herd. There are several milking stations, and from these the milk is taken to the dairy as soon as the cans are filled. All known safeguards against Impurity are employed, and no milker Is allowed to milk a cow until he has thoroughly agement of farms, estates, greenhouses and gardens, and may be able by thor ough knowledge of the science of the soil to make the field, through intelli gent and skilful work, bring forth abundantly of Its great wealth of beauty and usefulness." The school will aim to raise the standard of agricultural methods. Practical instruction will be given in the orchard, garden, greenhouse, poul try yard and dairy, and students will he taught "how to overcome and not be overcome by the many difficulties beauty and usefulness." Ilriarcliffe Farms occupy a tract ex tending about four miles north and THE BUTTEB BOOM. south and about three miles east and •west. The railroad tracks have been washed his hands, and this must be done again before he begins with the second cow The attendants wear piers are not solid; In each pier there are four cavities, which materially re duce the amount of the required con crete and masonry. The bridge con sists of four independent double track Seherzer rolling-lift bridges, placed side by side, with a clearance of six inches between the adjacent trusses. The spans may be operated either jointly or singly, as desired, by two operators, one on each side of the ca nal. When It Is desired to open the bridge the centre pins are unlocked by white duck suits while on duty, and those who are employed as milkers are not allowed togo near the barns. When the milk reaches the dairy it is emptied into a sterilized copper tank on the ground floor. There is a large butter room on the second floor of the dairy, which is tinished In white enamelled wood, marble and glass, and has an inlaid marble floor. The milk is forced into this room from below by means of compressed air, and is converted into butter, which is placed in a large glass and marble fitted cold storage room. Near the dairy is the largest of five barns. This is occupied by 150 regis tered Jersey cows, and although there are no elaborate decorations in the place, the building has been de signed with the health and comfort of the cows In view. Over each stall in a neat frame is the name and pedigree of the occupant. A salt brick is fast ened to the side of the stall, where the cow may reach it with ease, and a water trough, into which the water runs automatically, is a convenient fixture. There are no mangers, but the food is placed on the floor, and the manager of the barns thinks that the danger from impurities getting into the animals' food Is minimized by the arrangement. The offices of the farms are only a short distance from the barn, and in an opposite direction, on one of the broad roads which traverse the estate, is the pretty boarding house which has been erected for the bachelor hands on the estate. On the ground floor of this building are a reception room, a large apartment In which the men meet after work hours *o read, play games or lounge: a dining room and a well appointed kitchen. There are about 400 breeding pigs on 1 THE POULTRY IIOUSE. the place, including fine specimens of Berkshires, Yorkshires and Chester Whites. The poultry department has a large incubator building, with a capacity of 4500 eggs, and a perfectly equipped brooder house. There are about 5000 chickens on the place, and the house where the little ones are kept, which now contains about 1000 pretty chicks, is one of the sights of the place. In speaking of the objects of the school which will be established near this model farm, George T. Towell, the director, said: "Its purpose is to give a thorough training In the art of agriculture in all of its details. It Is proposed to pro duce the finest qunllty in fruits, vege tables and flowers, and, in addition to the production cf a high quality, also to give special instruction in the es sential part, that of marketing them. "We already havj trees growing and small fruits for the use of students. Landscape gardening Is a feature, as It may be applied to the beautifying of ' country homes In an Inexpensive mad means of electrical devices, the spans arc then rolled upward and backward upon the track girders. The movable spans are counter weighted so as to be at rest at an angle of about forty de grees. This greatly facilitates the opening of the spans, and also aids In closing them. The bridge is to be opened or closed In thirty seconds, by means of four forty-horse-power elec tric motors on each side of the channel. The electric motors are controlled by a controller In an operator's house. ner. There Is In contemplation a sys tem of branch schools, where Instruc tion may bo carried to the farmers of the State. One (lay will be devoted to lectures on specific topics and one day AH to practical work In the field, where applications of the principles glvqn during the first day will be made."— New York Tribune. LIKE A CORN POPPER., Automatic Collection Uniket Is tlie New* est Thine For Church Use. An automatic collection basket is one of the newest things for church use, and a trial was made of its merits upon a fashionable congregation at New York on a recent Sunday. Ac cording to the New York Evening Journal the device Is remindful of a corn popper. In fact, it might well be called a "coin popper.' It has a long handle, hollowed, n wire box or pocket, with a trap-door arrangement, marked "AA," which opens when the collector pulls on the ring marked "E," which connects with the cord marked "CC," which runs in the hollow of a handle, and sets again when lie loosens the cord. "DD" shows the depth of the shallow tray at the top of the basket. The contribution when taken up, ac- AUTOMATIC COLLECTION BASSET. cording to the Inventor of the popper, remains on the trap uoor until the col lector has a chance to Inspect It before It is dropped into the basket. Willie's Thirst For Knowledge. It was on a steam railroad going from Washington to Philadelphia that I overheard the following conversa tion between a little boy, just at the interesting age, anxious to know, and his aunt, whose patience was severely tested by little Willie's questions. The first to attract his attention was a buzzard Hying high in the al» "Oh, auntie!" he exclaimed, ""look at that chicken way up there." "That's no chicken, Willie: that's a blizzard." "But, auntie, I don't hear him buzz." "Auntie, look nt the man pumping the cow; is she punctured?" "He is milking the cow, Willie. Do be still for a while." After a short pause, he spied several pumpkins in a field and asked: "Auntie, Is a pumpkin a grown up orange?" "Auntie, look at the moon. Whera did all the stars come from?" "I don't know, Willie. Don't nsk so many questions." "Did the moon lay 'em, auntie?" And as darkness drew on little Wil lie began to nod and auntie gave a sigh of relief.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The Austrian crown jewels contain n splendid emerald necklace and the largest single emerald in the world. SURVcYINC BY MACHINE. The Oromph, Which Hue Ileen Adopted by the Aruiy. Mention was made somj time ago of the "Orogrnph," a new Instrument which hnit been adopted in the United States Army, and 's intended to take the place of the engineers' chain and level in the important work of making a profile of any road or stretch of country over which a surveying or rec onnoltering party is passing. This machine is shown in the ac companying cut from the Scientific American. It consists of two substan tial carriage wheels, one following the other in a single track, supporting be tween them, and on one side, a box of mechanism, and on the other a sort of cistern. This cistern is twenty-four inches in diameter and one-half inch deep. It is placed vertically and con tains mercury. When in operation the "Orograpli" must be held upright, and not allowed to careen to either side. As stated, the object of the machine is to draw upon paper an accurate pro file of the ground over which It rolled, thus furnishing the army engi neers with all the results of a survey excepting the courses and general topo graphy. The principles upon which the machine is constructed are those of the perambulator, operating in con junction with a lever maintained con tinually In a horizontal position by floating upon a cistern of mercury. Tills lever Is twenty-four Inches In length and one-half of an inch thick, with floats nttached to each end, and has free motion in a vertical plane on a horizontal axis. Know Not Whence "Yankee" Came. At the monthly meeting of file Mary land Historical Society, Dr. William Hand Brown read an Interesting ar ticle on"The Origin of "Yankee Doo dle.' " The doctor's manuscript con sisted of two letters relative to the subject in question, which were writ ten to him by Mr. Albert Matthews, the eminent archaeologist, of Boston. The letters discussed all the theories which have been brought forward on the subject, treating It very fully in all the fifteen different solutions which are suggested, but failed to make any satisfactory answer to the question, which, as he said in the introduction, had never been solved. The great stumbling block on which the ques tion generally brought up was the fact that the word "Yankee" had been applied primarily only to the New Eng enders and did not originate in the South. Several of the solutions seemed plausible, as. for Instance, the fact that the Algonquin Indians pronounced a word "Engree" which they applied to the English.—Baltimore American. The "Boxer Organization." The "Boxers" are the scum oft lit Chinese population. They have no uni form organization, nor any official leaders. Formerly they carried broad swords, but now they have well man aged modern weapons, undoubtedly supplied by the Imperial family. Before drilling they throw them selves on the ground, work themselves into a frenzy, and then believe them selves invulnerable. The Empress Dowager has fostered an otherwise unimportant movement because of the wholesale desertions from her army under General Tung. A BOXER, CAUGHT AND COLI.AI'-ED. —Harper's Weekly. The Empress Dowager, who becomes more intensely anti-foreign as time passes, has been greatly annoyed by the work of the Germans in Klao- Chau. She desires to use force to stop the reform movement, and is ready to defy the European powers. DB. TALMAGE3 SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Miracle at Cane—Lesson of Changing the Water Into Wine—Clirlst Teaches That Wa Should Not Shadow Joy# of Other* With Our Own Oriels [Copyright lsuu. I WASHINGTON, D. C. A remarkable illustration of the übiquity of English speaking people is furnished by the re quests that have reached Dr. Talmage in Northern Europe for a sermon in out-of the-way places, where he did not expect to find a single person who could understand him. There, as here, he presents religion :is a festivity and invites ail the world to come as guests und join in its holy merri ment; text, John ii, 10, "Thou hast kept the good wine until now." This chapter invites us to a marriage celebration. It is a wedding in common life, two plain people having pledged each ■ other, hand aud heart, ana their friends having come in for congratulation. Ihe joy is not the less because there is no pre '-ensioa. In each other they find all the future they want. The daisy in the cup qa the table may mean as much as a score of artistic garlands fresh from the hot house. When a daughter goes off from home with nothing but a plain father's blessing and a plain mother's love, she is missed as much as though she were a prin cess. It seems hard, after the parents have sheltered her for eighteen years that in a few short months her affections should have been carried off by another, but her mother remembers how it was in her own case when she was young, and so she braces up until the wedding has passed and the banqueters are gone, and she has a cry all alone. Well, we aro to-day at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus and His mother have been invited. It is evident that there are more people there than were expected. Either some people have come who were not invited or more invitations have been sent out than it was supposed would be ac cepted. Of course there is not a sufficient supply of wine. You know that there is nothing more embarrassing to a house keeper than a scant supply- Jesus sees the embarrassment, and He comes up im mediately to relieve it. He sees standing six water pots. He orders the servants to till them with water; then He waves His hand over the water, and immediately it is wine—real wine. Taste of it and see for yourselves; no logwood in it, no strychnine in it, but first rate wine. I will not now be diverted to the question so often dis cussed in my own country whether it is light to drink wine. I am describing the scene as it was. When God makes wine He makes the very best wine, and 1.10 gal lons of it standing around in these water pots —wine so good that the ruler of the feast tastes it and says: "Why, this is really better than anything we have had! Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Heautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person who should write the best es say about the miracle in Cana. Long man uscripts were presented in the competition, but a poet won the prize by just this one I line descriptive of the miracle: "The con | scious water saw its God and blushed." We learn from the miracle, in the first I place, that Christ has sympathy with housekeepers. _ You might have thought that JesUs would have said: "I cannot be bothered with this household deficiency of wine. It is not for Me, Lord of heaven and of earth, to become caterer to this feast. I have vaster things than .this to attend to." Not so said Jesus. The wine gave out, aud Jesus, by miraculous power, came to the rescue. Does there ever come a scant supply in your household? Have you to make a very close calculation? Is it I hard work for you to carry on things de cently and respectably? If so, don't sit down and cry. Don't go out and fret, but goto Him who stood in the house in Cana of Galilee. Pray in the parlor! Pray in the kitchen! Let there be no room in all your house unconsecrated by the voice of prayer. If you have a microscope, put under it one drop of water find see the in sects floating about, and when you see that God makes them and cares for them »nd feeds them come to the conclusion thai i He will take care of you and feed you. A boy asked if he might sweep the snow from the steps of a house. The lady oi the household said, "Yes; you seem very poor." Ho says."l am very poor.'' She , tays, "Don't you sometimes get discouraged | and fed that God is going to let you i starve?" The lad looked up in the wom an's face and said, "Do you think God will let me starve when I trust Him and then do the beat 1 can?" Enough theo logy for older people! Trust in God and do the best you can. Amid all the worri nicnts of housekeeping goto Him. He will help you control your temper and su pervise your domestics aud entertain your jfiiests and manage your homo economies, i'here are hundreds of women weak and nervous and exhausted with the care of housekeeping. I commend you to the Lord Jesus Christ as the best adviser and the most efficient aid—the Lord Jesus who performed His first miracle to relieve a housekeeper. I learn also from this miracle that Christ docs things in abundance. I think a small supply of wine would have made up for the deficiency. I think certainly they must have had enough for half the |piests. One gallon of wine will do; certainly five gallons will be enough; certainly ten. But Jesus goes on, and He gives them thirty gallons and forty gallons and fifty gallons and seventy gallons and 100 gallons and 130 gallons ot th# jrery beat wine. It is just like Him—doing everything on the largest and -most generous scale. Does Christ, onr Creator, go forth to make leaves? He makes them by the whole for est full—notched like the fern or silvered like the aspen or broad like the palm, thickets in the tropics, Oregon forests. Does He go forth to make flowers? He makes plentv of them. They flame from the hedge, they hang from the top of the grapevine in blossoms, they roll in the blue wave of the violets, they toss their white surf _ in the spiraea—enough for every child's hand a flower, enough to make for every brow a chaplet, enough with beauty to cover up the ghastliness of *ll the grave. Does He go forth to create water? He pours it out not by the cup tul, but by a river full, u lake full, an icean full, pouring it out until all the -arth has enough to drink and enough with which to wash. Does Jesus provide redemption? It is not a little salvation for this one, a little for that and a little for the other, but enough for all. "Whosoever will, let him come." Each man an ocean full for him self; promises for the young, promises for the old, promises for the lowly, promises for the blind, for the halt, for the outcast, for the abandoned; pardon for all, com fort for all, mercy for all, heaven for ail not merely a cupful of gospel supply, but 130 gallons. Aye, the tears of godlv re pentance are all gathered up into God's bottle, and some day, standing before the throne, we will lift our cup of delight and ask that it be filled with the wine of heaven, and Jesns, from that bottle of tears, will begin to pour in the cup, and «ve will cry: ' Stop, Jesus; we do not want ..o drink our own tears!" And Jesus will say, "Know ye not that the tears of earth are the wine of heaven?" Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. I remark, further, Jesus does not shadow the joys of others with His own griefs. He might have sat down in that wedding and said: "I have so much trouble, so much poverty, so much persecu tion, and the cross is comins. I shall not ! rejoice, and the gloom of My face and of My sorrows shall be cast over all this group." 80 said not Jeaua. He said to Himself: "Here are two persons starting out in married life. Let it be a joyful oc casion. I will hide My own griets. I will kindle their joy." 'lhere are many not so wise as that. I know a household where there are many little children, where for two years the musical instrument has been kepi shut because there has been trouble in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents saying: "We will have no Christmas tree this coming holiday because there has been trouble in the house! llusb that laughing up stairs! How can there he any joy when there has been so much trou ble?" And so they make everything con sistently doleful and send their sons and daughters to ruin with the gloom they throw around them. Oh, my dear friends, do you not kno-.v those children will have trouble enough of their own after awhile? Be g':ad they cannot appreciate all yours. Keep back the cup of bitterness from your daughter's lips. When your head is down in the grass of the tomb poverty may come to her, betrayal to her, bereavement to her. Keep back the sorrows as long as yoi! can. Do you not know that that son maty, after awhile, have his heart broken? .Stand between him and all harm. You may not tight his battles long. Fight them while you may. Throw not the chill of your own despondency over his soul. RaUier be like Jesus, who came to the wedding hiding His own grief and kindling the joys of others. So 1 have seen the sun on a dar'/ day struggling amid clouds, black, ragged and portentous, but after awhile the sun, with golden pry, heaved back the black ness, and the sun laughed to the lake, and the lake laughed to the sun, and from hori zon to horizon, under the saffron sky, the water was all turned into wine. I learn from this miracle that Christ is not impatient with the luxuries of life. It was not necessary that they should have that wine. Hundreds of people have been married without any wine. We do not read that aTiy of the other provisions fell short. When Christ made the wine it was not a necessity, but a positive luxury. I do not believe that He wants us to eat hard bread and sleep on hard mattresses unless we like them the best. I think, if circum stances will allow, we have a right to the luxuries of dress, the luxuries ot diet and the luxuries of residence. There is no more religion in an old coat than in a new one. We can serve God drawn by golden harness as certainly as when we go afoot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a tine ceiling as well as under a thatched roof. What is the difference between a Chi nese mud hovel and an American home? What is the difference between the rou~h bearskins of the Russian boor and the outfit of an American gentleman? No difference except that which the gospel of Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused. When Christ shall have vanquished all the world, 1 suppose every house will be a mansion, and every garment a robe, and every horse an arch necked courser, and every carriage a glittering vehicle, and every man a king, and every woman a queen, and the whole earth a paradise, the glories of the natural world hurmouizin;; with the glories of the material world un til the very bells oi the horses shall jingle the praises of the Lord. I learn, further, from this miracle that Christ has no impatience with festal joy ; otherwise He would not have accepted the invitation to that wedding. He certainly would not have done that which increased the hilarity. There may have been many in that room who were happy, but there was not one of them that did so much lur the joy ot' the wedding party as Christ Himseif. He was the chief of the ban queters. When the wine gave out. He sup plied it, and so, 1 take it. He will not deny us the joys that are positively festal. Who was it that sent the raven tapping on the window? The same Cod that sent the raven to feed Elijah by the brook Cherith. Christ in the hour extremity! You mourned over your sins. You could not find the way out. You sat down and said: "Hod will not be merciful, lie has cast me off." But in that the darkest hour of your history light broke from the throne anil Jesus said: "Oh. wanderer, come homo! I have seen all thy sorrows, lit this the hour of thy extremity I offer thee pardon and everlasting life!" Trouble came. You were ilmost torn to pieces by that trouble. You hruced yourself up against it. You said, "I will be a stoic and will not care." But before you had got through making the resolution it broke down under you. You felt that all your resources were gone, and tnen Jesus came. "In the fourth watch of the night," the Bible says, "Jesus came walking on '.ln: sea." Why did He not come in the first watch or in the second watch or in the third watch? 1 do not know. He came in the fourth and gave deliverance to Ili.« disciples. Jesus in the last extremity! 1 wonder if it will be so in our very last extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and the doctors will eonie, but in vain We will try the anodynes and the stimu lants and the bathings, but all in vain Something will say, "You must go." Nc one to hold us back, but the hands of eter nity stretched out to pull us on. \\ hat then? JeHUS will come to us, and as we say, "Lord Jesus, I 11111 afraid of that wa ter; 1 cannot wade through to the othej side," He will say, "Take hold of My arm.' and we will take hold of His arm, and then He will put His foot in the surf of the wave, taking us on down, deeper, deeper deeper, and our soul will cry, "All Thy waves and billows have gone over me.' They cover the feet, come to the knee and pass the girdle and come to the head, and our soul cries out, Jesus Christ, 1 cannot hold Thine arm any longer." Then Jesus will turn around, throw both His arms about us and set us on the beach far beyond the. tossing of the billows. Jesu? in the last extremity! That wedding scene is gone now. The wedding ring has been lost, the tankard:) have been broken, the house is down, bui Jesus invites us to a grander wedding You know the Bible savs that the church is the Lamb's wife, and the Lord will af ter awhile come to fetch her home. I here will be gleaming of torches in the sky, and the trumpets of Cod will ravish the air with their music, and Jesus will stretch out His hand, and the church, robed in white, will put aside her veil and look up into the face of her l.orit the King, and the Bride groom will say to the bride: "Thou hasl been faithful through all these years. The mansion is ready. Come home. Ihou are fair, my lovo!" and then He shall put upon her brow the crown of dominion, and the table will be spread, and it will reach across the skies, and the mighty ones of lieaven will come in garlanded with beauty and striking their cympals, and the Bride groom and bride will stand at the head of the table, and the banqueters, looking up, will wonder and admire and say: "That is Jesus, the Bridegroom. But the scar on His brow is covered with the coronet, and the stab in His side is covered with a robe," and "That is the bride! The weari ness of her earthly woe lost in the flush of this wedding triumph!" There will be wine enough at that wed ding, not coming up from the poisoned vats of earth, but the vineyards of God will press their ripest clusters, ami the cups and the tankards will blush to the brim with the heavenly vintage, and then all the banqueters will drink standing. Esther, having come up from the bac chanalian revelry of Ahasuerus, where a thousand lords feasted, will be there. And the Queen of Sheba, from the banquet of Solomon, will be there. Anil the mother of Jesus, from the wedding in Cana, will lie there. And they all will agree that the earthly feasting was poor compared with that. ' Then, lifting their chalices in that light, thoy shall cry to the Lord of the feast. "Thou hast kept the good wine until now "
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