Sunday Sermon 8 A Scholarly Discourse Bv 1 Dr. F. W. Gunsaulu3. 5 New York City. The Rev. Frank W Gunsatilus, D. D.. LI.. I)., of Chi ta.no. In filling Dr. Donald Sage Mackay's pulpit In the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, and Sunday morning, to a Very .large congrega tion, he tneached "0:1 "The Shut Ioor." His text was Matthew vl:4. 'Shut the Door." Dr. GiinsRuluc ill 1 wish I ccutd by some contrast Impossible for me and possible onl in (he experience of your own hearts emphasize thedlfference between this command, as It comes to uh loaded th infinite love, and the command hat come out of recollections of oui nildhond, that might Rive us some Idna of the different texture of life the life from which the heart Is al ways moving into the Inflrite range? of Ood'g life, Into which we ar? in vitd day by day. "Shut the Door." I think the instant demand, espe cially upon American life, with its swollen veins and arteries, its various confusions and starry look and stum Ming feet. Is to get out of tile whirl He-! hear a voice speaking with deep, fine authority, saying to us as we ge through life, with Its cares, duties, amusements and contradictions, "Shut the door." This Is the voice ot Jesus. He is telling us the secret of prayer, In the closet se-r:t pray, er in which the human soul come? alone into the presence of Go.i; pray er in which man finds his true alti tude and attitude; prayer l;i which alone a man is able to look Into mo tives, perceiving the values of life, in which he gains his spiritual herpdlty and in which he assumes his sonship unto God through God's grace. The one thing that Jesus s-'ms most, intent about, that you and I snould enjoy the privilege of prayer and receive its b-jnetns. is all ex plained and emphasized in these words, "Shut the door." We are liv iig at a time when prayer Is a fact and a force. The world of the mate rialist has passed: the world of the idealist Is here. Th scientists of to day are telling us. "Let. us pray." It is not strange that we should" begin to realize the unifying and exalted influence of prayer upon man's men ial life. What, i-fter all. is there to day in life, when life's issues are si profound and even tragic, that, will mi If all one's powers the powers of the mind and of the affections as will praer? When I pray In secret I am unified as a man. K man Is to tie re-made, if he is to be made whole so that his various parts shall be no longer fragments, each afar from the other, he must be ulvinelv unified. But, my brother, if that is to be your syerienee, "Let us pray." Mere is ilie Master coming quietly from the ft;lds of Galilee into your heart and mine, urging upon us. as the old, aeep harmonies of the religious of il ages sweep into His soul, urging is. Dot only that we should pray, but Iray alone. We see Him at Oethse mane, at the very crisis of His life, leaving Peter and James and John tifchtnd. and going aione to pray. 1 think the mo3t significant, announce ment with regard to Saul, who was to become Paul, and his eiperience r.tl tha vnn r 1 ... ... n ...... j unconsciously by the one who said: "Behold, he praytth." What an en tire transformation: What a pro phecy of his future: Do you think thai Christ i. railing you to an easy task wiieu Ho says: 'Shut the door?" Do you even know the pathway back to the old closet, c.t early days? The road is now all overgrown. But since that day there have grown up bru'iihles over thr pathway. First or all. we must find this path, if we are to find our man hood and womanhood. Is it not an astounding fuel how Hide secret player there hns been in our lives? How this passion for publicity ha:-' linked itself t.a our willingness to re main away from the secret place. True, a while ago. wh-.n we were in trouble, we found our way back. How sweet It was! But that was not secret prayer, for we did not. "shut the door." It was prayer with the door wide open, through which we ere looking back at the ihings l'roni which we were trying to escape. You say, "I can get bacl; to that plae." Are you quite sure ihar you can'.' If so, "sh'it the door." How we like to peek out ai,d aee what th:; majority ate thinking how our neighbors leel about things. How we want the door Just a little way open In ordei that we may hear the sounds of the claims of good cavils, in which we are interested: S ue;., t h .re is noth ing wrong ahum that. "Shut, the door." Let us laki the words ot Jesus Into our hearts to-day a- sin: ply as we cau and sincerely acr--;,t tlu-ui. "Shut, the rtoov." "Why hi rely," you say, "I ha" Is i.or.i'l hing 1 can do with on-: hand, while I urasti other thing-i with the othei hand " No. both hands must lie hide. There iiiui l.e no effort tu lirasp things wit bout. "Well," yon t-ay. "what shall I shut the dooi gainst, there are .so many thing" uh which I must hoop in touch?" 1 don't know; He say, "Shut the door." "Hut," you reply, "there I my church, my family, my relative.' my dear friends." O, poo.- soul! Il keenis such ordinary talk, does it not. in the presence of the grear. sweet being. Who is saying. "Shut. ht door?" I must be alone with Cod; I must feel again my personal rela tionship to my Father, 1 must realiz. again that if there wer only oih being in the world, iind 1 were thai being, while the moral universe huh stated, still theiH wist bo a urua fctill a Chrlsl, still ;. (,ethsenia:ie, slit ihu morning of the ascension, stib the open sepu.cller. The only way tu be rid of our B-.ienilas is to "shut the door." The real truth is that, .hen the real crises of life come, ray only enemy is myself. This Is the one I need to conquer. Here are passions, preludlces, bates, lusts. Uh, my friend, whatever your gain or loss, realize this, that never until you shut th door will you go into the presence of Ood, never until lu secret prayei you are alono with your enemies What tan any man do to harm me, Unless 1 harm myself? If ever yoi are tossed about upon se ts of dark uess, it will ne because you neglected to put the anchor on hoard and your ship is at the nercy of the waves, "Shut the door." After all the limitations ot life thai are serious are the limitations that rome to t's through loved ones. If there is one thing that a man needs, I It is in some holy and grind way tu ! be separated from these friends. I know or no other right, gentle and loving way but the way of prayer, and as I' shut the door. Inside of that door I will never lose my power ol (Headship, my soul's friendship Is real, lighting her altar fires for her .friend, and when the prayer Is over jandthe door ouen my. friendship wJJJ oe t4urr and' ueeper and I shall say, "My own. dear friend, I come back to you with a friendship that Is all divine. Thou art my friend. I hava been inside where the door was shut." I wonder where this door is to 13 found. I wonder, sometimes, when I try to have a secret moment in my own life. If there might rot have been a second meaning in the word when He said: "I am the door." For surely there is nothing in this uni verse responsive enough, great i-ough to shut everything elsj out and to shut the soul In great enough In tendernrsa so that the slightest touch of an Infant soul will "shut the dt.or." Hera is the authority of Jesus Christ. No one knew the world out side aa He knew It; no one knows the world inside as He knows it; no one els? will take my thoughts, my feelings, my soul; no one else can shut the world out and the s:ul In. Here is a man who has been trying to pray and shut the door rs Jesus told him to do. It takes more intellect to shut, that door than to write Hin dustanee or Shakespeare; more char acter than to marshall an army and lead It to battl". No muscular power will do it: no intellectual refinement or process of philosophical investiga tion, no wealth. Ah. you will have to leave ;-our wealth outbid. . "Shut the door." It Is only thf man in the grandeur t.f his solltttie. lu the pres ence r( Goj, when he means more to God than eicr b?for?. It U only then that irally h gets tii? door shut Just because Jesus Is our etitia.ic?. He is the door. I realize, d:y by day. how finite He H when I touch Kim: hiw infinite Ik: !s .vhoii lie touches me. How about that past? There it ,r. Nothing rankles m ire than man's past, that will V Its had u;i an 1 say: "Ah. here I am. Loo!; at me. I know jnu. I .mve h-arJ you pray before. Those hands. I kuo.v wher thf-y h;.e ben. That har;. I know how dark it is." Have you ever trie.! to shut the door against a p;?. Ilk" that? Have you ever known wlip.t It is to have te j.ast l'.is and sting? So netlnn s you think you have t jie door shut, but oil, how that pus:, that seem- a giant, fully armod. ton big t: g,'t into tne door, s.iddenlv transforms, flattens it?ilf out. lies like a serpf-nt. and by and bv yo;i bear it wiggling at ihe door, hissing. Oh. 1 must hi. iv r. door accurately tiffing, that whether th? east slithers like a serpen.", osj contest like a tiar.v, 1 tan shut that. tiao". oh. r.o-,v ut l. s, iht" soul takes hold c' oi:e i''e- n-vl severs all from the past, a.ul that one thing is Jesus Chrisc. I am interested ii men's problems. Do you kr.ow anything that is li-ter-estirrg euniLh in this world to ke-:i the past out. e.c?:it Jesus Christ? there anything that so app?als to your Interest tha" you actually turn ycur bacl: upon the past and say: have a present. Thank God. I have a present. I am looking to Him who sr.i s. 'Follow Me.' He bus never yet told us we have followed Him too far. Since He says that, and as long as my heart pulses and rs long ss mv wili keeps in harmony with Hln. I have a f iture," Your past is out of doors; our present and your future here, simply because you have "shut the door." I tell you, brethren, the manliest, the grat'dost. th" greatest thing you can do this morning is sim ply l.i accept Jesus Christ ns the door iti"o the communion. The door moves upon such hinges of love that you need but to say: "' am a sinner: I want ti be aione with Go!," to start It i loving to pet l.i, with the past outside. My fil-nds I will lcolt for them by and by. And ny enemies? I want to connuer only ore of them. I want to ue alo:ie. I wi) "shut th? dour." May God's holy Spirit, who is here this morn inc. quicken every heart. Get Lack this very day now, and "shut ch? dour." You r.ed not be n;nud that th- world will lose ar.t.hiug. Yen will ee a Ir't'er man when you go out. with a whiter face, leatK-r hands, a more loving. a".d a biaier e.irt. "Shut the door." l)epe:;!ein e on God. Our htavrnly Father ke-i s us con stantly in tie- C'liiriitlon of iwtrrmost dej.endeticj on Him. Were it othe--wis with us how wanton would we h. coin". T.ierefc re, l.'e writes the t,--?uteii( ( Oi .ieutii u noil ourselves, and also ispon our chol-a-if temporal iiie: cIhs no: .hat He alwa: s nwans M rer.:ove iii("ji. but to hold them as a spei.irl git" from Him: and. despair ing or all succor but Hi; own. that ws should place our trust no", on self, not ou value! felliw-creatures. but on Cod. who can rata up o help us even the iery deal (2 Cor. i:S-10). He is considering our weakness, at.d our need, and our work: and in per fect wisdom a.il lov:1 has already ar rans?l for the very b.sr. The Only II iixli-nucc. Wl .it hinders that you s.hou!.! Ie a ihlid of God? I i:,t salvation '!'"'' Is i ' the ievi.ation to it 1: 1 li ou' to you on eiery pa';e of the New Test a in til? is leu Christ offered t;, you iii a!i Lis lilies, and ar- Mm not welconi" to nil His bene tits if von mint thfin' Is no: th" Holy Spirit .onii d t- thetu that I ask Him? Nothing can hind-r yoi; from being a Christian, but jour own worldly selfish, proud, olsinut, i:n worthv and stlt'-rlghtecuh hfuri. Ii hiud Spencr. lake God Willi Is. To enjoy God and lieavt-n It do-s not rcquiro that we wait till the las; touch of death rev:a!s all things In the light of eternity. We may takn Gjil and h-aven along with i:s every dn.v, and carry th'-lr pence ard glor) into ail the dull and prosaii. s.ene. of earth. Thomas Lathrop. Me l iiieAiii' i ii an Itailivav. Jt the io,39l miles of the pro posed i'an-Aiiiurican railway route lying between New York and Argen tina. 570U miles are covered by roads in opor.it in n, and over 70.1 miles the work of construction is proceeding. Links for future building measure just under 41100 miles. By the end of IS UT a passenger may ride from New York to Guatemala City, though not without, change of cars. The dream that goes farther is that of Pullman cars running from Hostou or New York through to Duenos Ayres. That a time of full realiza tion is mre to come the I'an-Aineri-can Congress in session at Itlo Janei ro has Just given its renewed ex pression of belief. New York World. WORTHY OF WIDE ADOPTION. "The Arnolds are a very happy couple after all these years. How do you account for it?" "Weil, he can't get over the Idea that he married a mighty good woman and spends some time each day to prove it to her," Anicrlcau Spectator, EPWunili LLAbUi 8UNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. The Standard of Personal Service Rom. 12. 1. 2. The supreme rule. Matt. 2C. 39-42. As to our characters. John 6. 39 11! 1 Thess. 4. 3. As to our service. John 1ft. C-1C; 1 Thess. 2. 4. As to our acceptance. Matt. 7. 21-2". Doing Ills will relates us to him. Mark ".. U5. Obedience makes us Ills peculiar treasure. Exod. 11. 5. It is worthy of remark that the church, visible or Invisible, here or yonder. Is frequently termed a king dom. It is not u republic, or a demo cracy, where the people l'ule, but a monarchy, and God Is king Immor tal, Invisible, eternal. There can bo none to question his authority. Hlu will Is sole. Human beings me not to challenge il. We must abandon ourselves to tha will of Cod. ami let him have his way with us. We need not fear. It Is, alter all, a sweet way. It may be hard to dio to self; but it Is lovely lifter , ou are dead. The npo.stle exhorts us to submit ourselves to be transformed from the fashion of this world, and then we shall ascertain by n lull, rich experi ence what the will of God is; we shall find out what is the good, the perfect and the acceptable. We can not know these desirable things with out surrendering fully to the will of God. Jesus was the pattern for all and forever. It Is not wrong to de sire that the bitter cup be not put to our Hps, but every prayer for re lief must have In it In some form the submissive, "If It be thy will." It is comfort to know that, if the bitter draught cannot lie remitted, It Is for some reason founded In deepest love and highest wisdom. "As to our characters" suggests the Daily Headings, and refers uh to John ;, ::o, in, which tells us that the will of God is the everlasting salva tion of every one that seeth and be Hovel h on the Son; and then takes us over to I Thess. 4. 3, where we learn that God desires nothing short of our sanctiticntioti. Then, indeed. Is our service not that of servants, but of sons and friends who servo for love's sweet sake, and who, in closeness of fellowship, have reveal ed unto them day by day the "secret of the Lord." It is this kind of ser vice that bears the fruit that remains. "Iieing put in trust with the gospel," oh who shall dare to shrink, or dodge, or compromise for fear of men? SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH Gilmour, and Missions In China. Isa 49: 5-12. Africa is not the only Dark Contin ent; it ts dark everywhere save when the Light of the World has shon forth. in most nations it in the "comtuot people" that first "hear Him gladly"; but In the end Christ shall rule alsi over the rulers. In heathen lands life is a struggle most often, for bare subsistence; ant' the hunger and thirst of the body i only parallel to the hunger and tblr of the boiiI. Nothing in the Bible is more re markable than the way in which, from the beginning to the end, t claims the whole world for Its realm RELIGION IN BUSINESS. Alternate Topic for September 301 Religion In Business Affairs. Gen. 39: 1-5. So much of life is business that If business is not religious we shall have an irreligious world. We can never hope to make a busi ness ot religion unless we bring re ligion into our business. Businesslike ways of conducting religious affairs conduce toward re ligious ways of conducting business affairs. If it Is not feasible to conduct a business under the Golden Kulw the business ought not to be conducted at all. Young men should consider their chosen business a calling as sacred as the ministry. It is an unprofitable business if the balance is not entered on the right side in the book of the recording angel. STABBED BY A SWORDF1SH. ICugenlo Martinez, a Casa Blan :a lisher'iian, was yesterady taken through the town of Cojlmar to Hos-pit-1 No. 1, where he in now lying sufie'lnK from a wound which he re ceived from .1 swordflsh while out tliret? miles irom Havana, engaged in fishing. ' Martinez, ho is an expert fisher man and Ives at the little borough of Casa Iilanca. yesterday left, in a small boat accompanied by a fellow fisherman for thu purpose of landing cio.ne sword fishes for which lie al ways finds a ready market in Havana. As they were about three miles away from the Mono they stopped the boat, letting out the hook baited with ba con. They had not waited long when a tug was felt at the eiiu of tho line which carried the boat in an easterly direction at a very rapid pace. Mar tinez, who had the line in hla hund, was standing In the forward part of the boat when tne fish stopped all of a suuden and making a rush at the boat jumped through the air and striking Martinez, whone leg ho p. ireed through. The rush of the fish tbrsw Martin' - overboard, but ho never lost control of himself, and managed to again it on board. Ills companion laid him on board, and tied the line to tho boat. They Im mediately made for the Cojlmar shori where the wounded man was taken ashore. His swordtlshship, which was by that time -ompIetely exhausted, was taken ashore, and after being cleaned weighed over fifty pounds Havana Post. Odors are stronger In damp weath er than tLey are in dry weather be cause damp air is llph'er than dry air, and the odors, being heavier than the damp air bang around the sur face of the earth. In dry weather the air Is heavier than the odors, and therefore the latter rise aud are dis-t'?ated. THE. SUNDAY SCHOOL I XT K RX ATION A Ii I.KSSON COM MLW'TS FOll SKlTEMUKIl 30. Temperance I.csson, Gal. v 15-20, Gal. vl., 7, 8 Golden Text, Prov. xx., 1 Memory Verses, 7, 8 Topic: Life Contrasts. T. The Spirit and the flesh at en mity (vs. 16-18). 15. "If ye bite and dovour." In contrast to the love ot verses 13, 14. These are terms drawn from the habits of wild beasts in the order of climax. Bite desig nates tho momentary outbursts; de vour, the steady purpose of injury; consume, thq final result probable to both parties. "Take heed," etc. As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. The idea is that in their contentions they would destroy the spirituality and happiness of each other; their characters would be ruined; tho church would bo over thrown. 1C. "This I say then." Having pointed out the effects ot violating tho law of love, the apostle now pro ceeds to show how this law may be obeyed. "Walk." This word Is of ten equivalent to "live." "In the Spirit." This Is differently et plained: 1. By, or according to the rule of the Spirit. 2. By the guid ance of the Spirit. 3. By the help of the Spirit. Notice. 1. Tho an tagonism between the Holy Spirit in nil that ho is and produces, and the flesh with its appetites and works. 2. The certainty of victory over the flesh to all those who walk In or by the Spirit. "Shall not fulfil." The strongest negative possible. Ye shall in no wise fulfil. If the Spirit of God dwell in and rule your heart, the whole carnal mind will be destroyed; and then, not only carnal ordinances will be abandoned, but also tho works and propensities of the flesh. "Lust." Desires. "Flesh." That is, the evil Impulses which have their seat in the body. 17. "Flesh lust eth against the Spirit." The two are antagonistic; each Becks to control the man and be supreme. One or the other rules In every soul. IS. "But." This internal strife may be ended. "Be led." By sub mitting to the Spirit and by follow ing His drawings. "Not under the law." Not under the restraints ol the Mosaic law or dispensation, but under tho control of tho Spirit. II. The works of the flesh (vs. 19-21). 19. ' Works of the flesh." Tha works which are done when the man exalts the flesh and its desires to a controlling Influence. 20. "Idolatry." The worship ol false deities. "Witchcraft." Or sor cery. The use of charms, incanta tions, etc., to produce preternatural effects. "Variance." Strife; a dis position to dissent. "Emulations." Jealousies, rivalry, endeavoring tc excel at the expense of another "Strife." "Factions." R. V. "Her esies." Parties. Nothing is more in line with tho Eslflsh, independent, fleshly nature than strife, conten tion, factions and parties in the church. 21. "Murders." Omitted in the- Revised Version. But if not rightly in the text it is certainly one of the works of the flesh. "Drunk enness, revelings." These arc the sins that follow the indulgence ol appetite. Revelings include drink lug, feasting, dancing, ribald Bong! and debauchery in general. Thf seeds or possibilities of all these slni are in every unregenerate heart Many of them may lie dormant for s time; many may never coma into act ual life; but under favoring clrcum stances, away from restrains, thej will appear in the life and character Every one of these evils Is promoted and encouraged by the use of intoxi cating liquors. Intemperance oxcltct every evil passion, arouses wrath ant! hatred, leads to murders, is the friend of revelings. Intemperanco is a work of the flesh. It exalts the flesh above the Spirit. HI. The fruit of tho Spirit fv3 22-2C). 22. "Fruit of the Spirit. Tho fruit of the Spirit is one. yet' manifold. He who has tho Spirit 01 Christ has in him the root of al Christian graces. 23. "Temperance." Self contro' In the gratification of appetites While this Includes the abstinence from strong drink it must not be limited to this. "No law." There is no law to condemn those whose Hve3 are adorned by these virtues. 2 4. ""Have crucified." The nptis tie uses the strong figure of cruel tlxlon to show how completely Chris tians those "that aro Christ's" have forsaken aud renounced the old life. They are dead to sin. 2S. "LIvo la tho Spirit." The Revised Version hns "by the Spirit" in both clauses. That is, if tve have entered into a spiritual life, let m continue in that life. 26. "Let ut not," etc. The nposllo again polnu which were destroying their spiritual life. IV Sowing and reaping (vs. 7, 8j, T. "Be not deceived." This ii a warning against self-deception, which, strange its it :nay soem. I? common. "Not mocked." Go! is no! ' aeciiveu or r.oludiu. "Sowetu reap." ThU Is a universal law oi God's government which Ife will nol relax. 8. "To his f!"h." l!o that grati fies his carnal desires and lives a life of ease and self-lndolgence. "Reap corruption." A strong figure. He will reap ruin and spiritual death. A course of self-indulgence Corrupts the moral nature and ends In de struction. "To tho Spirit." He who follows and obeys the Spirit. "Life I everlasting." In this promlso Is In- i eluded bIJ that God has provided for 1 111s people in tne world to come. Sleeping on His Amis. "Now," said Freddy s mother, as she got him ready for a vIbU to his aunt, "be sure you are not late to breakfast, as you often are at homo. That won't do when you are visiting." Freddy's triumph is recorded in tho New York Tribune: On her son's return his anxious mother inquired if he was ready in lime for the family breakfast. "Yes'm!" responded Freddy, tri umphantly. "1 was down every morning Boon's any ot 'era." "I am so glad; hope you'll keep it r.p." "You won't let me." "Won't let you? Why not?" . "Well, ;-ou see, I Just put' my nighty on aud slept In my clothes, so's to be nice and ready In the morn ing." There la a arrest demand for flat all over the world, and a great effort ' Is being made to induce Americans ta cultivate It. TiCTarW The Lnte-Hatched Pullets. One advantage that the late hatched pullets possess is. that with proper care nnd attention they just get to laying very nicely during the next breeding season when good fer tile eggs are always In demand. Cost of Developing the Calf. Professor Wing In an address stated that an average of forty-five experiments carried on by different experiment stations shows that to de velop the calf during the first year ot its life costs $3.r0 per 100 pounds. For the second year tho cost is $7.10 per 100 pounds, and for the third year the co3t is $11 per 100 pounds. (ood Business. On some farms it will be a good business operation to sell off the best timothy and horsehay and buy stand ing grass of the lower grade to be cut and cured for thu cattle. The crop is so good in many localities that a great deal of this meadow hay and brook grass is for sale at very low prices, farmers having enough of the better grass to fill their barns nnd not caring to stack the lower grades. American Cultivator. How to Keep Milk Sweet, W. .1. Frazer. of the Illinois Exper iment Station, gives these suggestions In regard to securing milk from your cows that will keep sweet for a re markable length of time: Keep the cows clean and do not compel or allow them to wade and live in filth. This means clean yards and clean, well bedded stalls. Every thing short of this Is absolutely re pulsive and should not be tolerated nny longer in a civilized community, Uop the filthy habit known as wet ting the teats, by which Is meant the drawing of 11 little milk Into the hand with which to wet the teats before and during milking, leaving the ex cess ot filthy milk In the pail. Wash nil utensils clean by first using lukewarm water, afterward washing in warm water and rinsing in an abundance of boiling water, then exposing until the next using. In direct sunlight, which is a good ster ilizer. Use milk pails, cans, etc.. tor no other purpose but to hold milk. Keep out of these utensils ull sour or tainted milk, even after they have been used for the day. Using them for this purpose at any time infects them so badly that no amount of washing is likely to clean them. Bac teria are invisible, and millions can find lodging in th-. thin film of mois ture that remains after dishes are s.-arently clean. Advice For Poultry Growers. Use kerosene to rid the hen-house of lice. Wash the roosts with it. Apply it with a brush, us you would paint, to all cracksand corners where lice would be likely to lurk. Use It liberally and frequently. Act on the principle that prevention Is better than cure. ' Persian insect powder. If you can get tho fresh article, is the best rem edy Ut lice on fowls. It is harmless to the fowl, but death to the Insect. Old powder is generally worthless. Catch the hen and dust it freely among her feathers Bnd under her wings. Feed a soft mash in the morning. The hens seem to relish it better then than at any other time during tho day. Make it ot two parts bran, one part middlings, one part corumeal, one part crushed oats. Add a pinch of ualt and one of cayenne pepper. Meat can be used to advantage about three times a week. Run it through a sausage grinder. Use about a pound each time to a dozen hens. It will stimulate them to lay ing, as n general thing, and will prove k welcome addition to their usual diet, which ought to be vuried occasionally. A fowl's appetite is sharpened and beuefited by a change of food, now aud then, though the regular bill of lure should be made up largely or corn, oats, wheat and barley. It pays to humor a heu's whims, somewhat, when eggs are bringing a big price and fresh cries are hard to get. Ouliug Maga.iue. Rabbits and I-'urm Crops. Too many of tho so-called game laws are made for the benefit of the sportsman rather than the preserva tion of insectivorous birds or bene ficial animals. Wo have heretofore spoken of the protection of rabbits itmany States. There is no possible reason for the protection of these pests of the farm, except to give sport to the idle fellows who follow their beagles over the farmers' land without any regard for tho farmer or his crops. No close season is need ed for rabbits, for no matter when or how they ate hunted they will In crease more than Is desirable to the farmer. And now wo hear that on Long Island they are having a pest of Juck rubblts, which are far worse than our commou hare. Sportsmen turned loose there a large number of these long eared gentry and they have increased to such an extent that the crops of the truck farmers have suffered greatly. We do not believe that if tho matter was curried to the higher courts that any farmer could be fined for thootlng any wild animal that is n pest to his crops at any time he ehoones to do so. No on has a right for more sport to turn out a lot of auimals that prey on the farmers' crops, and every farmer has the natural right to protect his farm and crops from trespass by wild ani mals or by the idle fellows that hunt them. All that Is needed is for the farmers to unite lu testing the ridic ulous game laws that are made solely for the sportsmen. As it Is now, the fruit grower must stand by and let the robins eat bis cherries and the jack rabbits eat his garden truck, and under the game laws he cannot shoot them. The law guarantees every tuau peaceable possession ot his lanJs, and these are serious tres passes, and we believe that under any sensiblo bill of rights the farmer bat the right to protect Uut laud from trespass. It Is mainly a craze for sport at the expense of the farm er. The Practical Farmer. The Best Remedies. Tho young squash plants are at tacked when they are Just appearing above ground, to prevent which the hills should be covered with wire net ting, the edges to be burled under the soil, as the bugs will endeavor to get under them. The netting will also keep out the flea beetles and yellow and black-striped bugs. Ar soon as the plants have five leaver the covers should be removed and the bugs fought by other methods. Some gardeners plant more seeds than can properly develop in order to provide against the destruction ot the whole hill. The bugs are not partial to clean cultivation. The burning of useless rubbish in the fields reduces the winter shelter, and all vines should be collected, and burned after harvesting the crop. The bugs muy be collected by band from the vines, or from the squash plants between the rows used as traps. The bugs also seek shelter under leaves, in the earth, undei clods or boards, or wherever they can find a covering. All eggs should be destroyed and the vlneB examined twice a day. The bug will always leave the melon or cucumber for the squash, hence a few squash vines among the melons and cucumbers will trap them. Kerosene emulsion may be used. An eight per cent, ker osene emulsion may Injure the plants, about seven per cent, being strong enough (seven parts kerosene to 100 parts water). It Is also im portant to kill as many bugs as pos sible lu autumn, after the crop is har vested, and be sure to burn every vine. When spraying the vines care should be used, as the kerosene and water must be intimately mixed. The first flow should be on tho ground for a minute, as it may contain too much kerosene. Spray the "vines lightly, not too much, the spray tc be very fine. The mixture will drive the bugs from their covers, when they cau then be destroyed, but, at stated . before, everything depends upon destroying them by hand. Philadelphia Record. Some Points For Care of the Horse. Raise the collars from the shoul ders of the work teams several times a day and bathe the parts with cool water. It Is not only a bumane prac tice, hut will prevent galled shoul ders. Horses, like people, should be wat ered before feeding, not afterward. A fittle attention .0 this matter will prevent colic and promotes good di gestion in oth beaBts and humans. Lye water will act like magic in cleaning the currycombs and brushes. It won't take much time to give them a thorough cleansing, and the result will be pleasing to you and the stock. Stock prefer Bait where they can get at it at will rather than having it, forced upon them in their food, at irregular intervals. Keep a salt box where horses and co ve can help themselves. Whether your horses and colts are easy or clinic alt to catch, when in pasture, does :iot depend so much on the breed of the animals as on the master. A horse that is sure of find ing a taste of oats, a lump of sugar or some other treat waiting for him in his muster's hand, when called, will not hesitate to obey the summons. It Is all right to brush and curry the horse's sides and back all you please, but don't forget their feet and legs. Kven careful grooming of the extremities wilt amount to little ' if' the animals are compelled to stand In dirty stables. Clean stable floors are essential to sound feut and limbs on a horse aud what is the animal good for without these? The foundation principle of driv ing or riding is never to ask a move ment of a horse unless yau have con veyed to htm, by a delicate manipu lation of the bit and reins, the intel ligence that you are about to require motion ot him. This applies to start iiifc, slopping, turning, backing and every movement possible to the ani mal. Its conveyance Is so subtle a? to be almost automatic electric- ' Indianapolis News. Practical Advice on Horse Feeding. A noted French horseman gives the following in an agricultural jour nal of Paris regarding the proper feeding of horses: "Threo meals are necessary and sufficient, with an Interval of four or five hours between to keep a horse In good condition. Oats take at least two hours to digest; hay takes three hours, and because It takes so long it should be given when the day's work is over. The evening meal should be a full meal, the animal be ing thou at rest and able to digest its food at leisure. There should be an interval of half an hour between the return of the horse to the stable and his getting his evening meal. "Too much food at a meal or too long abstinence between meals, fol lowed by voracious feeding, is condu cive to colic and Indigestion. Irregu larly fed be Is given to showing his Impatience by letting his hoofs play about the woodwork of his stall. Giv ing 'refreshers' at odd times is also bad. Remember that both .stomach and, bladder should never be loaded in work time, whether light or heavy work is done. A horse, therefore, should not be ridden or driven imme diately after a meal, ou the same principle that it ought not to be fed sooner than halt an hour after work is over. Between one end ot the year and another a horse consumes an amount of dry, heating food which calls for a special regime to neutral ize the excessive proteld consumption that has taken place. Thus in au tumn a ration of carrots given before the evening meal is good, and so in spring, at the fall ot the winter coat, a little grain meal Isbeneflcial, mixed with bay and oats, for the evening weal. Another maxim much disre garded lu practice is that the horsd should be watered long enough be' fore being put to work;, aud then sparingly . ( 111 P6blilc1reteqce lis The weight of theclrculatlng blood is twenty-nine pounds. Recent corrections of surveys show that -India Js placed on the world's maps COO feet northward Anil im . and a half miles eastward of Us true position. Altitudes are five to thirty, five feet or more In error, Mt. Ever est's corrected height being 29,141 feet instead of 2 8,002 as usually given. Tho use of decayed eggs Is ex tremely dangerous. Dr. Cameron hag called attention to a case of poison ing that happened In a convent at Limerick, Ireland, in 181)5, after a meal at which had boon served a cream in which a bad egg had been used. Seventy-four women who par took of the meal were poisoned, and four of them died. For an artificial rubber a German authority recommends mixing nn in. I fusion of Carragheen moss with starcn, ana arying.on.a slightly oiled metal plate. When the transparent Bheet produced Is broken up, It soft ens In cold water, and on subsequent heating It forms n thick gummy sub Btance, which may be used for thick ening paint or for many of the pur poses of rubber. The asteroids or minor planets, ot which nearly 600 have been recorded since the beginning of the nineteenth century, have been supposed to form a ring in the space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. One discovered on February 22 of this year, how ever, has a unique interest in having been proven to be beyond Jupiter, its mean distance from tho sun being 5.25 to Jupiter's C.20, while its aphe lion distance 6.151 exceeds that of Jupiter by nearly the earth's distance from the sun. A correspondent of Nature remarks that the now known facts seem to re quire a modification of the statement found in some text books that "it is impossible to say whether a flash of lightning moves from a cloud to the earth or in the opposite direction." Many photographs of lightning taken in the Transvaal show that. In all cases, the discharges were from cloud to cloud, or from the clouds to the earth. Quite frequently, the corre spondent says, he has observed light ning flashes leaving a cloud for the earth, but fading away before reach ing it. The opposite phenomenon has not been observed. "Calcium Steel" is the name given to an earthenware of great hardness nnd durability, manufactured in En rope of pulverized feldspar, Band and lime. The materials are made Into a paste and baked in an oven. The cal cium from which the product obtains its name is contained In the feldspar. Another kind or calcium steel will be known if experiments now under way in Germnny are successful In produc ing an alloy of iron and calcium com parable in Its properties with nickel and chrome steel. Thus far, how ever, it is. said that these etperi monts have failed to bring about a combination of calcium with molten iron, but it is hoped to make calcium useful in refining copper and nickel, and in bronze casting. WASHINGTON'S SLEEVE LINKS. and llalleck to Gen. J. G. Wilson, nnd Halleck to Gen. J. G. Wilson At a dinner given by the Union College alumni in New York, two or three years ago, an Impromptu speaker, not on the program. Gen. James Grant Wilson, told the follow ing story concerning the sleeve Unks of Gen. Washington, afterward the property of Benedict Arnold and Col. Tarleton: "I wish to talk of one of whom Americans always like to bear. I will turn the hands of time back to 1777, and ask you to go with me to the battlefield of Saratoga, which the 1 poet Halleck callod the field ot grounded arms. There was a great victory, which was not due to the ef forts of the American commander, but to Benedict Arnold. "The story of that victory was re ported to General Washington. A short time afterward he met General Arnold,' and, after complimenting him on his great victory, said: , " 'I have heard, general, that you lost your sleove links in the battle, and I ask you to accept of me these, although I have worn them for some time.' "General Arnold took them and wore them for some time. But later, when be became a traitor, and Wash ington, in his dignified manner, bad expressed his contempt In strong and burning words, Arnold no longer cared to wear the sleeve Unks, and gave them to Colonel Tarleton, the only British officer who lind treated him with any kind 01 courtesy. "Tarleton, when he departed for England, gave them to a loyalist, who had acted as his secretary, and he gave them to General Fitz Greene Halleck, who, In turn, left them to the man who later was bis bio grapher. 'And here, gentlemen,' said General Wilson, drawing up bis sloeves a little and raising bis arms, 'are Washington's sleeve links.' " New York Sun. Flogging For British Criminals. The home office has informed Par liament that In the course ot 1805 the punishment ot Hogging was admin istered to criminals la six Instances In England and Wales. Mr. Justice Bucknlll passed one sentence ot fif teen lashes,, Mr. Justice Darling two ot eighteen lashea each, tha codlmon sergeant two of eighteen lashes eacb also, and Mr. Justice Orantham one of twenty lashea, la five cases the punishment was administered with the "cat," and In on case with a birch rod. Two of tha verdicts of "guilty" were found where the ac cused were charged with robbery with violence, and four verdicts were given where tbe charges were rob bery with violence by parsons La com pany. PaU Mali Oaiette.
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