HARVEST TIME HERE
Sermcn cf Congratulation for
Christian Endeavorers.
pr Talmuse WtutM Mlttity
(llturM in Ilia Tell-'lbf (irowlk
and Perfection uf ( Lirie
tlajiity. Copyright, 1901. by Louis Klopech, N. T.
W jtl.ll.KK'-. July I.
Although Dr. Taluiage was hiuuereu
from attending the great annua! meet
ing of the Christian Endeavor society
at Cincinnati, his sermon shows him to
lie ia sympathy with the greut move
ment; "text, Aruoi 0:13: "Behold the
tiav. come, taith the Lord, that the
plowman shall overtake the reaper."
Unable because of other importanl
duties to accept the invitation to take
part in the great convention of Chris
tian KndeaVorers at Cincinnati, begun
last week, I preach u sermon of eon-j-ratulation
for all the members of that
magnificent association, whether now
fathered in vast assemblage or busy In
their places of usefulness, transatlan
tic au j cisatlantic, and an it is now liar
veal time in the fields and sickles arc
flushing in the gathering of a great
crop, 1 tlnd mighty suggestive lies in
By text.
It Is a picture of tropical clime,
with a season so prosperous l lint tin
harvest reaches clear over to the plant
ing time, and the swarthy husband
man, busy cutting the grain, alums',
(eels the breath of the horse on hi.
shoulders, the horses hitched to the
plow, preparing for a new crop. "Be
fcnld the days come, saith the Lord,
that tlie plowman shall overtake the
reaper." When is that? That is now.
That is this day, when hardly have you
done reaping one harvest of religious
result than the plowman is getting
ready for another.
In phraseology charged with all ven
om and abuse and caricature I know
that infidels and agnostics have de
clared that Christianity has collapsed-;
that the Bible is an obsolete book; thut
the Christian church is on the retreat.
1 shall answer that wholesale charge
to-day.
Between 3,000,000 and 4,004,800 Dn
dcirsrers sworn before hlgb Heaven
that they will do all they can to take
America for Qod, Europe for God, Asia
nd Africa for God are not the signs
most cheering? Or, to return to the
agricultural figure of my text, more
than a million reapers are overtaken
by mora than a million plowmen. Be
sides this, there are more people who
believe in the Bible than at any time
in the world'a existence. An Aaab
guide waa leading a French infidel
cross the desert, and ever and' anon
the Arab guide would get down tn the
and and pray to the Lord. It disgust
ed the French infidel, and after a WMf,
is the Arab got up from one of Ms
prayers, the Infidel aaid: "How do
you know there ia any God ?" And Hie
Artb guide said: "How do I know that
a man and a camel paseed by our tent
laat eight ? I know it by the footprint
in the sand. And you want to.knuw
bow I know whether there la any God?
Look at the sunset. Is that the foot
step of a man?" And by the same
proceeds you and I have come to noder
itaeffl that this book is the footstep
of (tad.
But now let ue see whether the book
is s last year's almanac. Let ua are
"httaer the church of God is a Bull
Runt retreat, muskets, canteens
asversacks strewing all the way. The
frest'English historian Sharon Tur- ;
atr, a man of vast learning and grd.
socurtcy, aot a clergyman, but an at- .
orney as well aa a hiatorion, gives this
OTCmhtlminff atatla.ln in 4
Christianity tad jn regard to the nans- ! will." Why, my friends, infidelity ia
ber os Christiana in the different eon- not half ao blatant in our day aa it
turiens ln the first century 50O0u was in the days of our fathers. Do
Christians, in the second century 2,000,- I ywu know that in the days of our fs
MO Christiana, in the third century j there there were pronounced infidels
wdwo Christians, in the fourth cen-
"7 W. 000,000 Christians, in the fifth
ternary n.ooo.OOO Christians, in the !
!r.th century 20,000,000 Christiana, rn !
Joe seventh century 24,000,000 Otacis- !
'at, in the eighth centurv 30.000.006 t
h, .il , . ... . I
vneuinia oeniury tu,ouu,- j
WO Christians, in the tenth century 50,- j
300,000 Christians, in the eleventh mm. i
"yTO.W.oooChristUne.inthetwselfth ,
'arery 80,000,000 Christians, in the j
h-rfeetith century 75,000,000 Chris-
''at, in the fourteenth centurv 80.000.-
I. v II I 1 1 I , U I " I ,
' wmstlana. in th fimK t,,,.-
M.000,000 Christians, in the sixteenth
,ntry 115,000,000 Christians, in the
"'nteenh century 155.000.000 Chris-
UB. in Kn -1 1- , , .
' rii-iiicriua centurv uu.
'" I. nrlstln mA I
i K utVOUCULC, UIJUII .
j'"' ln uly one century and more
made up in the following cen- ,
r"0. whrle it is the usual computa
. 11 tBt here were at theclose at te
, century 470,000,000 Chris-
tu makinr u to believe that before
tts oenturw- . -i j .i !ii.i
II k . .
U, wmm uuvm uj Hiiru
notanna.
- ' ' luri-n it. I,.,,..,, ., ., ,f.
p i
ia,T Chrictlnnlt..! - l... i. t
-inenai liow lonesome it nnikt
wiu TBKe It out or the uoor-
, "or Christianity! Four hun- j
aillions in one centurv In f...
or tnis year 2,500,000 copies of
- o f n . , , . , nrt 1
- ..ubuiai.iiuuiT-u.
--in ia im- an oil rill nuiih .in
" snH .i. . , .
-- uown everv irate. Si-n how
-luuora is being surrounded and j
. "lOlnbed nnd attacked h thia nil
-uiiii unaisai si .i, i...
"U.nin.tn.-.u I. , , "
a ' IITHIIIIIIIIK
""lonanes and native helpers
u cMirilfP leic 4. a.- 1
urii'cnih i
.. .a c a
...vWjuu 1 11 1 it n l Tl tl II I
onver- Now there arc over
"W.OOO convert, I.
V- ' iu 1 1 c i ii r uuu m
OUalltn.v-.-- . .
B f my 1, to plant the batteries. It
r ass niunv ,.... , i a
In . il " " ' ,v.r I'm ll I l Ul Will
"eand lh.o j -ii .t ,
eand they maj do all theworkin
ten minute. These Gospel batteries
are being planted all along the sra
coasta and in all nations. It ma 3 take
a good while to plant them, and they
may do a'l their work in one da) . '1 1.. j
Will. Nations are to be born insdsy.
But just come back to Chrlstendi in
end recognize the fact that during the
last ten years us BMuy people1 have con
nected themselves with evauge Ileal
churches as connected themselves with
the churches in the first 10 J ears of last
century. So Christianity is failing
back, aud the Bible, they suy, is be
coming au obsolete book. I go into a
court, and wherever I find a judge's
bench or a clerk's desk I find a Bible.
l"pon What book could there be uttered
the solemnity of au oath'.' What book
is apt to be put in the truak of the
young man as be leaves for city life?
The Bible. What shall 1 find iu nine out
of every ten homes iu this city V The
Bible. In niue ont vf every tei homes
ill Christendom? Tlie Bible. Voltaire
wrote the prophecy that the Bible in
the nineteenth century would become
extinct. That century is gone, and 1
have ro tell you t hat the room iu w hich
Voltaire wrote that prophecy not long
ago was crowded from floor to ceiling
with Bibles from Switzerland.
Suppose the congrena of the United
States should puss a law thut there
should bo no more Biblea printed in
America and no Ribles rend.' If
there are lit), 00(1,030 grown people In
t lue 1' nitetl States, there would be 60,
000,1100 people iu an army to put down
such n law und defend ttieir right to
read the Bible Hut suppose the con
gress of the Onlted States should
inuke. a law against the reading or
the publication of any other book,
how inuny people would go out In
such a OTUaade? Could yieu get 60,
000,000 people to go out ami risk their
lives in the defense of Shakespeare's
tragedies or Gladstone's traits or
Maouulay'B "Uistory of England?"
You know that there are a Cliousuint
uieu who would die in the defense of
this book where there is not more
than one man Who wonld die in the
defense of any other book. You try
to insult my common sense by tell
ing me the Bible is fading out from
the world. It is the most popular
book of the centuries.
How do I know it? I know it just
as I know in regard to other books,
i Harw many volumes of that history
( atre published? Well, you say 5,000.
now many copies ( anotner nook
are published? A hundred thousand.
Wtjich la the more popular? Why, of
coarse the one that has the hundred
thousand circulation. And if this book
haa more copiea abroad in the world,
if there aro fire times aa many Bibles
abroad aa any other book among civ
ilised nationa, does not that ahow you
that the moat popular book on earth
to-day ia the word of Qod ?
"Oh," aay people, "the church ia a
collectkesn of hypocrites, and it ia lott
ing ita power, and it ia fading out
from the world." Ia It? A bishor
of the Methodist church told bm that
that denomination averages two new
churches every day. In other words,
they build 730 churchea in that de
nomination in a year, and there are
at -least 1,500 new Christian churches
built in America every year. Does
1 (.hit liuiV n m Ihniifl, Ik. I'hrlatUn
church veere fading out, as though it
were a defunct institution? What
stands nearest to tlso hearts of the
American people to-dey? I do not
care in what village or what city or
what neighborhood you go. What is
K? In it the poet oSSee? Is it the
hotel? Ia it the lecturing hall? Ah,
you know it ia not! You know that
that which stands nearest to the
hearts of the American people ia the
Christian church.
The infidels aojr: "There ia great
liberty now for infidels; freedom of
platform. Lnfldelity shows iu power
from the fact that it is everywhere
w, 1 . -., I .,1 . n.l S k. It
in public authority, and they could
get any political position? Let a man
to-day declare himself antagonistic to
the Christian religion, and what city
wants him for mayor; what atate
waata him for rovernort what na-
. . .... . .
how wama mm lor president or lor
king? Let a aaaa openly proclaim
himself thn enrmr of our irlorioua
Christianity, and he cannot get a ma-
jority of votes ki any stute, in any
city, iu any county, in any ward of
America.
I ana mightily encouraged because
1 1 find, among other things, that while
thia Christianity has been bombarded
for oenejsiriea infidelity haa not de-
cfrwnil nnfl rhurh ue erilllllpil i.ui.
1-1. a. ...i ...
uuuiarwi , ur WW UVKU mil! TCI nc Ol
one chapter of all the Bible. If that
haa been their magnificent record for
the centuries of the past, what may
we expect for the future? The church
all the time getting the victory, and
' their shot aud shell all gone.
And then I find another must en
! couraging thought in the fact that
ine secui.ii ii lining i'ipub uiiu liie
I -.1 1.. 1 U ..
tum for the oroi'liiiniLLioti of the
flnsnel. Kverv banker in this eanltal
to - morrow, every Wall street banker
t,,..rrnu In N',.w Vnrk. avarr Stutu
street banker tomorrow iu Boston,
mo i . i. i.B.
I'll r v 11111,1 h ii-t-i, ui nil l i ' i 1 1 1 i w
i I'hii-nl,. hi hi i arerv Imnker in the
Z7. , ' , .
n - ill hnvn In Ins liiiikut a treatise on
Christianity, 10, 20 or 30 passages of
Rnrlnturn in tlie reiiorts of sermons
int - ilLIICU UMllm V..V , u HHI.
1, 1, .., t ,., on.i ... .s .
It will be so in Chicago, so in New
Orleans, so In Charleston, so in Bos
ton, so in Philadclphlai so in Cincin- (
ol trt nmrvivln 1 Lnnn' the tl'ni-t
societies are doing a grand and glo- j
rious work, but 1 tell you there is no
power on earth to-day equal to the
fact that tlio American printing press :
is taking' up the sermons which arc
preached to a few hundred or a few
thousand people, aud ou iluuday
rtiorning and Monday evening scatter
ing thai truth to the millions. What
.ii encouragement to ev-ry Christian
maul
Then you have noticed a mere sig
nificant faei a you bava talked with
people on the subject, that they are
getting disgusted with worldly j'liiioa
opliy us ;i matter ol comfort. They
aay it docs no. umouui to anything
when yi.u bavi a dead child in the
( lu.'ise. They tell .iu ivheu they were
kick und the door of t hi- future sc?m-d
, opening tin- only comfort they couid
find was the fjoapel. People are hav
iag demonstrated .iil over the land
that science and phlloaophy cannot
aolace the troubles and woes of the
world, and they want some other re
ligion, and they are taking Christian
ity, the only sympathetic religion
Unit ever came into the world. You
just take a ecientifto consolation isto
that room where a mother haa lost
hor ahild. Try in that case your
(splendid doctrine of the "survival of
the fittest." loll her that child died
because It was not worth as much us
the other children. That is your
i "survival nf the fittest. " Just try
your transcendentalism, your phlloao
phy, your science, uu thai widowed
soul, ::ini tell her it was a geological
necessity unit her companion should
1m taken away from her. jiwt us in
the course of the world'a history the
megatherium and tli iohtbyosaurua
had to pusH out of existence, und then
you go on iu your scientific, consola
tion until you get to the sublime fact
that 10,000,000 years from now we
ourselves may be scientific specimens
on the geologic shelf, petrified speci
mens of an extinct human race. And
after ymi have got all through with
your consolation, if the poor afflict
ed soul Is not erased by it, we will
, send rtvrth from any of our churches
the phiiuest Christian we have, aud
with One-half hour of piyer and
reading of Scripture u-oinises the
tears will be wiped away, and thn
house from floor to copoiu will be
flooded with the calmness of an In
diaji summer sunset. There Is where
I see Uie triumph of Christianity,
i l'eople are dissatisfied wrth every
thing oise. They wuut dud. They
j want Jews Christ.
The fact la that Infidelity nnd ag
noaticlam are founded en igno
. ranoe geological, ignorance chemical,
I ignorance eetroneesical, ignorance
! geographical. We hava heard what
I the enemies of Christianity have had
j to testify. Now I put before you the
i teatfmoeiy of the church on earth an
; the church in Uaaven. Net hftn, uot
a thouaaad, net a million, but all of
the chvuarh on earth and all of' the
redeemed in Heaven. Will you take
taw evidence of those who have wit
nessed as well aa felt the power of
religion, or will you prefer tlie tes
timony of those who begin by declar
ing that they have never witnessed
or felt Its power? You tell me that
on a certain 4th of March, to yearn
ago, a prerMent of the United States
was maaagurated. How do I know It?
You tell me there were 10,000 per
sons who distinctly heard his ineftigu
ral addreea. I deny both. I deny
that be was inaugurated. I deny that
his inaugural address was delivered.
You a4c why? I did not aee It. 1
did not hear it. But you say there
were 20,000 people who did see and
hear him. Is not the testimony of
the 20,000 who were present worth
more than the testimony of one who
was absent? Now, there are some
men who say they have never seen
Christ crowned in the heart, and they
do not believe, it is ever done. There
Is a group of men who say they have
never heard the voice of Chrtat, that
they have never heard the voice of
God. They do not believe tbat any
hing he It ever occurred. 1 point
to twenty, a hundred thousand or a
million people who say: "Christ waa
crowned ln our heart's affeetiena, we
have aeen Him and felt Him tn our
sous, and we here heard His veios; we
have heard it in the storm and dork
neeer; we have hoard it again and
again." Whose testimony will you
take? These men who aay they have
not heard the voice ef Chrlht, have
not seen the coronation, or will yon
believe the thousands and tens of
thousands of Christians who testify
of whet they saw with their own eyea
and heard wrth their owe) eare?
Young man, do not be ashamed to
be a friend of the Bible. Do atqt put
your thumb in your vest, aa yeung
men sometimes do, snd swagger
about t iilking of the glorious right of
nature and of there being ne need
of the Bible. They have the light of
nature in India and China and in all
the dark places of the earth. Ihd
you ever hear that the light of
nature gave them comfort for their
trouble? They have lancets to cut
und juggernauts to crush, but ne com
fort. Ah, my friends, you had better
stop ymir skeptkiam. Suppose you
are put in a crisis like that ef Col.
Kthan Allen. I saw the acaount and
at one time mentioned it in an ad
dress. A descendant of Ethea Allen,
who is un infidel, Baid it never oc
curred. Soon after I received a let
ter from a professor in one of our
colleges, who is also a descendant of
Ethan Allen and is a Christian. He
wrote me that the incident Is aecn
ratc; that my statement wa authen
tic and true. The wife of IVh.in Al
ln was a very consecrated Woman.
The mother instructed the daughter
in the truths of Christianity. The
daughter sickened and was about to
die, and she said to her father: "Ku
du r, shall I take your Instruction or
hli.ill I take mother's instruction? I
ii ti i going to die now; 1 must have
the matter decided." That man, who
had been loud in his infidelity, Mid
to his dying daughter: "My dear,
you had better take your mother'!
religion." My advice Ts the same to
you, O young man! Ymi know reli
gion comforted her. You know what
she said to you when she was dying.
You had better tuke your mother's
religion.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
mans In Hie InteemntlOBMsl Series
(ur Jul) nun i.Mi cnlle
aVtsrafcusn.
Prepared bj n C. Lcnlrcton.
TUB LOBSi S THAT,
III. t . i::l-.v)
1, Now the Lord had said unto A or a in,
Jet thee out of my country, ;.rr u ,n thy
ather's house, ui to a lunU lii it l will
hew thee:
ii. AnU I win maki at thei a great na
ton, and 1 will Diet, thee, and ir. .I.i- thy
titiue sn-at; and thou shall be u blessing.
I 3. And 1 will bless Hum thai bless thee,
tad curse hlru thai curseth thee; .mil In
I ihee shall all families ot tin- tartb be
pleased.
i 4. So Abrum depart, d. tin l...n: hud
I (Boken unto him; and Lot Hint with him;
lir.d Abratn was seventy and live yearn old
llthea he departed "ut of Haran.
6. And A brum took Karat, his wife, and
Lot his brother's son, and all tin ir Mil
llanee that they h.n! gathered, and tin
I .mils that they had. (often In Haran; and
ihey wenl frth to so Into tin land "f
.'ana. in; and Into the land ut Canaan they
tame.
6. And Abrum passed through the land
into the place of Blchi m, unto the plain of
Mori h- And tin- ( 'a i. aai.it a- I hi n In the
-al. d
7. Ami the Lord appeared unto A lira m
ind said. Unto thy seed will l u.vi- this
and; and there bullded he un altar unto
Ihe Inird. who appeared unto him
s. And he removed from thence unto a
nanataln on the east uf Bethel, and
pitched his tent, having Bethel on tin
sest, and Hal un the east; and there he
jullded an altar unto the Lord, and calltd
ipmi tin nam of the land.
9. And Abram tourneyed, on .-till
toward the south.
80LDBN TEXT. 1 will bless H
i ml make i name srreati nnd thou
ibult In- n blessing-. lies, 111 tat.
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Two stories come up for considera
tion In connection with this lesson,
tad they are embraced in the eleventh
and twelfth chapters of Genesis, Uead
he whole of both chapters. The n"
ttoriei lire:
The Confusion of Tongues..
The Call of Abraham
Qi nesls II
Qi ni l is
The Confusion of Tongues, The
loAdf according to Ussher's biblical
ihronology occurred iu the year L'.i is
d. ('. The population at this time
gain began to increase through the
fumllies of Noah's three suns, and as
ihe population increased a new civil!
tation was gradually taking the place
3f the old. Before the flood there wn
anarchy, after tc flood began the
-eign of law. Not law aa we under
stand it to-day. Patriarchal govern
ment Came into being, that is the head
of each family or group of families be
ran to exercise control over and com
mand the obedience of his progeny and
icrvants in nil the affairs that per
;a!ned to social life. He became the
judge in case of disputes, and exercised
generally the functions of ruler and
Df judge. For 100 years these people
poke one language. But they lie
fame too numerous to live longer in
ne community, so they separated,
oine going to the east, some to the
ecet, others to the north, and many
to the south. The immediate cause
of this grent migration lay in a great
project which was on foot near the
present site f Babylon. Tlie people
hud begun to fear another flood. A
tower that, would reach to Heaven
leemed a plausible way of preventing
any wholesale destruction of life.
They had begun to forget the promise
af (iod. So God Himself took a part
in the work, and nbout that same time
it happened tbat the discovery was
made that they could no longer under-
titad what one said to another. (If
course it was impossible to go on
with the great Undertaking when gen
eral intercommunication was denied
l hem, so gradually the work was
dropped nnd the people separated. It
is said that to-day there nre over 3,000
language spoken, and that all are
traceable back to less than 3(10 leading
iangnnges. The OOnfuaion of tongues
has always been going on and will con
tinue to go on as long as people will
continue to work at cross-purposes
with the plans of fiod. Contrast the
lay of Pentecost with the day of
'onfuslon of tongues. On the day of
Pentecost the disciples of Jesus be
came brothers with all the world, and
were understood by each hearer iu his
own tongue.
The Call of Abraham. -Oeneail 12: l-'.
letails the account of the call of Abra
ham. This may be sitrri to be the first
great call recorded in the Bible. It
reminds us of the call of Moses a lit
tle later, of the call of Samuel, of the
call of David, of Jeremiah and
Isaiah, of Matthew and Saul
(Paul). Kvery man receives n Di
vine call, but these referred to have
been especially notable in that they
were of national or international im
port. The call of Abraham meant the
beginning of a nation, and, through
this nation in rhe person of Jesus
f'hrisf, the salvation of the world.
Abraham was n religious man, a man
of God. His heart was so nearly right
that Hod could say: "I will bless them
that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee." He was a man so pure
in heart that the Lord appeared unto
him (Gen. 12:7). Ur was the holy city
of the Chaldeana. It waa an idol at roua
city, worshiping many gods. If the
truth were to be perpetuated among
men, the men who saw the truth would
6ave to give it n better environment
into which to grow. Abraham was a
worshiper of the true God. he heard
the call to leave the city of idolatry.
Because of his ready compliance it was
made possible that in him should all
families of the earth be blessed.
Wheat nnil Chaff.
Christ completes the command
ments. The picture of Christ is developed
in the dark room of prayer.
Your feelings In the meeting may
be injurious if they do not become
facts In the market
They who do not bring the Kingdom
to earth will not be brought into the
kingdom in Heaven.
When we nsk fur deliverance from
suffering God often answers best by
giving deliverance through suffering
Ham's Horn.
GOOD AND BAD MILKERS.
Why lliilrjmen Minnie Mnke Oee
si. .mil I 1.1. Of (lie Milk In. hi
aii Thee .
At in i Ik. i n c trial held in connection
with one of the lecelit summer shows '
iii ICngland the con which was awarded
the tirst prUr produced over six gal
lons of milk iii the day, and her milk
was so rich in qualHj thai i' produced
over four pounds of butter. At the
game Shot there were i n exhibition
other cows of the Mime breed and
practically the same sie nnil weight
Which produced only two to tl re. gal
lens uf milk and barely urn- ooml i f
butter. It would be a mistake Ni sup
pose thai the feeding of one of the
last-named would cost as much as the
six-gallon cow, because, ns a rule, the
better milker a cow is Ihe more f . .... I
will she consume. It is only natural
that a cow yielding six gallons of
milk .should require a much more lib
eral food ration than one producing
less than half that quantity. The dif
ference in the cost of fei ding tin cow -in
question would not, however, be
anything like so marked as their rela
tive milk yields Wonld suggest. In
practice it is found thai cows pro
ducing only H, gallons to two gallons
that is. six to righUquarts per day
cost us much to keep gg those y ielding
double that quantity. Il is only when
calculations of this kind are gone Into
thut the difference between good gnd
bad milkers can be properly estimated.
At least occasional tests should be
made of the milk which all the cows in
thu herd arc producing, and a similar
test should be made of the food which
lin y are consuming, and if it is found,
as it i to be feared will be only too
frequently the case, that the animals
are not giving a sufficient return for
the cost of the food which they ore
disposing of. they should be got rid of
at the first opportunity and their
places filled by others capable of giv
ing a better return for the food.
Farmers' Gazette.
GOOD PASTURE FENCE.
Ite Inventor, n North Dakota Men.
Una I ard One fur Three lenra
with atlefaetloa,
A cheap fence for cows and calves
St panturs can lie made as sketched,
'l ake, two-foot posts (a a a), sharpen,
drive in the ground u rod apart, leaving
eight Inches ubove ground. Fasten a
EXCELLENT PASTURE FENCE
smooth wire (bb) on top of posta with
staple (c c c). A cow is tied to a rope
about IS feet long. Fasten a block six
by sis inches or three feet long to
rope. Attach rope in center (d) of end
of stick with staple. I have used this
sort of a fence w-ith satisfaction three
years. I used four-foot cordwood
sawed in half for posts. The longer
the rope used the farther the cow can
graze. J. Peterson, in Farm and
Home.
WATER AFFECTS MILK.
.
Therefore the Farmer Who Lets Ilia
t'owa Drink from
I -.... 1 t'omnilta i
I Miiuiimif
Crime.
We hear some tltfsus that we find
hard to believe in the way of the treat
ment of dairy cows. One of these
things is that there are here and there
pastures in which the only watering
place is a stagnant pond full of in
sects and slimy grasc-. It it I won
der t hat cows can driuk such si i,1T and
still remain healthy, but it is certain
that tiny take chances ou acquiring
sonic one of the water-borne diseases
common to stock. No human being
should be asked to drink milk made
out of such wuter, even after it has
been strained through the cow. It is
claimed that other owners are known
to water their 0OWS out of rain water
barrels. Well, tlmt is only a slight
improvement over the stagnant pond
method. The water iu the rain water
barrel soon takes on a smell that is
disagreeable to man und beast. Why
can't our cows have at least pure
wuter to drink? Water, pure und
sparkling, enters very largely into the
life of every being. Lei us be sure
that the milk we drink is made from
water and food absolutely pure.
farmers' Keiew.
euichutcl Cheese Making;.
Neufchatel is a soft, white, und, us
generally eaten, entirely uncured
chaeae, resembling iii name only the
celebrated Ncufchatel cheese of Switz
erland. Very briefly and exactly we
may define it as unskimmed milk, coag
ulated with rennet, allow ed to atand
until sour, the surplus whey removed
by drainage am pressure, after which
tha resulting curd is salted to taste and
molded into the familiar little cylin
ders of the stores. This is an out
line of the process, but the questions
of ripeness of milk, amount of ri nnet,
length of time it stands before drain
ing and the pressure to be npplii d lire
not easily explained on paper, and thi i
constitute the ort of N ufchati ! n .ik
ing. The bumblebee, with his Fuzzy .
and body, is the best carrying medium
for the distribution of pollen from
blossom to blossom. Without this in
sect the clover field would be seed
less. The blackbird is a great enemy to
the insect pests of the garden and or-shard.
g appears to be rapidly ap
a degree of re-pect aoility
Juillclel Itei-.ianl.
en un con - ni e r a-
tion. As hereto
fore noted, the
I lllll III I .11 III Ii I i II U
United States supreme court holds
that a stock deal cannot be repudi
ated mi the ground that il is a gam
bling transaction. This would teem
to cover "bucket shop" deals as well
s i hose oft he st i ek i xchange proper.
And now we gel from the I'uited
States cuiirt at Indianapolis another
Illustration, observes the Uetroil l''r
Press, gambler opened a "jack pot"
with a counterfeit dollar, and w;ts
hauled before the court
counterfeit m ni j I .u
dered is that II is no v lol
to use a counterfeit coil
a "jack pot" In a poker
would Indicate recogniti
game, by consideration i
and w rungs in playing it,
suggest i thai t is safe t
for passing
verdict rcn
ttion of law
in opening
game. This
iu of the
if the rights
while it also
i have i" Kiu-
terfeil money
while s'.M'.iiL' I
elsewhere. Tl
.11 i
B p
pro
ne s pus
ker game,
iecution v
ession
If not
a . not
for gambling, luiinl
using counterfeit col
to fleece possible tl
how hairs can be spl
simply for
i a ii : t tempt
rs. Strange
"As a rub
worldlings'
i ' 'thorough-going
i be termed 'smart,'
It i- very seldom
'l hi- Onl "Smart'
People,
i lui t religious or pi
i iis people can be
culnrly observes a world
rnry. "To be 'really
perfi ct ion iu dreas and
so cnueu, on
ly contempt
smart' nieaui
general effect, ami artistic taste in all
places and at nil times, whether it be
iii the world of sport or in public
p races of iiiniis ii-, and In society
generally, it also entails a great deal
of thought as to how all things what
soever can be dune iii the best possi
ble style. Smart people look nice from
the moment Ihej rise In the morning
to the last thing iit night and never
give themselves away over the smallest
detail of appearance or conversation.
When they entertain it always 'done
perfectly,' with plenty uf go and life,
whether it be a dance, dinner or garden
fete; ol course, to act up to this stand
ard of 'smartness' would mean a large
income a mastery of the ark of wit
and 'tact' at all times gad in all plnces."
This view will hardly receive sufficient
substantiation to make it authorita
tive. The young man in demand every
where, to-day, is the one who can
create something, the man of product
ive power. There nre many who can
do routine work, follow prescribed
lines, carry out in detail a programme
mapped out by others; but the man
of origingl force, of constructive en
ergy, who can Mart out in untrodden
!"iths a"d w the way for others.
is as rare as ne is valuable, says Suc
cess. There is alway s a premium on
the thinker, the man of original ideas
and methods and real productive
force. Insurance companies are
scouring the country for such men;
merchants are iu need of them, great
combinations are looking for them as
leaders; they are wanted in law. In
the business world, in the field of sci
ence, in nil walks of life.
A Brown county, Kansas, gtrl
loved a young man sonic arid his driv
ing horse more. She was engaged to
him, but when he sold the horse she
stoutly declared that he would hava
to get the animal back or hunt an
other wife. The young man offered
the purchaser of the horse a Inmus
of $50 to trade back, but the latter
refused, and the young man, in ex
treme distress, told the story of Ids'
love and his plight. The purchaser
melted and gave up the horse and the
announcement of a marriage is mnui
to be published in Brown county.
It is said that Niagara Kails lunks
like a veritable midway. There nre
fakirs and side shows of every kind
and description, from the bearded
lady to the three-horned cow, that
have attracted Ihe small buy and his
elders, too, for that mutter, for many
years iu the circus side shows. The
r.ulTiilo exposition is, of course, the
cause of all this additional effort at
amuaement, as it i calculated that
fully nine-tenths of the people that
visit the exposition during the sum-
1 iner Will journey to MaglU'.l.
The Daughters of Ceres la a iclety
in Iowa composed of women win. live
on farms, but who have the prevailing
"jitiing" instinct. Some of the wives
and daughters of the farmers are said
to drive over 12 miles to attend the
meeting', which are held semimonthly.
A systi in of traveling libraries among
the various branches has been founded,
and ilebatts on social und economic
questions, with i heir special relation
to a rural population, are frequently
held.
A musician in New Vork asserts that
not only animals o.it piants have a pas
sion for sweet iniisic, and a Hostoniati
musician avefs that when he plays
harmonies his sensitive plant
"stretches abroad, drinking iu the
music like sunshine." If. i ri the oth
er hand, he strikes a diacord, tii plant
tremblt and closes.
The people of the United S: .. j arc
the best (ed people of the v. . anil
I consume more per bead per ye; . .juji
I the inhabitants ol any oihei uouatrj
of the w orld. L
Qambl
oroach'n