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AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE
The Eleventh of the New York Herald's
. Competitive Sermons is on “The Sin
of DPespising. Others”—Dr. Talmage
© Preaches on “Traps For the Unwary.”’
“He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth. 2»
Prov. xiv., 21.
There is a great deal of sin-in the world
“which the ordinary conscience neither
| recognizes nor condemns. With most-of
us the standard of right and wrong is
purely” conventional. If we do not break
the lefter of the Ten Commandments; if
we keep clear of acts which public opinion
forbids; if we. maintain a character upon
which Society sets mo brand, then we feel
at peace within ourselves and make sures
that we are God’s elect.
We do not see what subtle and far-reach-
ing things good and evil are —how they in-
terweave themselves into all our acts. our
words and motives, and secret thoughts
even; and how they ‘depend, not upon the
fashion of the hour or the place, but upon
eternal and unchangeable principles. An
enlightened and sensitive conscience would
see sin in a thousand things which pass
with the majority as. indifferent, if not
actually praiseworthy. It is not in nice
points of religious observance that places
. our moral character above suspicion half
so much as in those weightier matters of
justice and mercy and truth which are in-
volvéd in all the business and intercourse
-of daily life. Thousands who would trem-
‘ble to participate in any of the so-called
amusements of soclety, and who are
“as strict and ostentatious as the
Pharisees in regard to prayer
and other duties, are Jet living in such an
atmosphere of uncharitableness and wrong
that they are actually furthér from the
kingdom of heaven than the very publi-
cans and harlots. In a terse, direct, and
on atic way a form of guilt’ is pointed
by Solomon which we seldom think of,
oo which we are all very prone to fall into,
and which is one of the peculiarly beset-
tings sins of that large class of men who
are disposed to be religious without being
godly. The chief characteristic of these
people is to trust in themselves that they
are righteous, and to treat others in a way
which unmistakably declares, ‘Stand aloof,
for we are holier than you, » and they are
so far from thinking such spiritual haught-
-iness sinful that they regard it as an actual
proof of their divine sonship. Such con-
duct never fails to insure moral resentment
and to élicit the rebuke, “He that despis-
eth his neighbor sinneth.”
The parable of the Good Samaritan sup-
plies a most beautiful explanation of the
word ‘‘neighbor.” It teaches that every
man with whom we come in contact or re-
lation is to be regarded and treated as our
“‘neighbor. >" The fact that I know of a
man’s existence,‘and that I can in any way
teach and influence him, isenough to bring
me under responsibility in regard to him.
The broad Atlantic may roll between us;
whole continents and burning deserts and
deadly swamps. may separate us; but if
there is any channel of communication be-
tween us—agny electric current, soto speak,
by whieh sympathy may be created and
love may act—that man is as truly my
* neighbor as if we met in the same market
or lived in the same street.
Notice what it is to despise our neighbor.
To entertain mean and contemptuous
thoughts of our neighbor is:obviously to
despise him. We should always remember
that there is vastly more in common than
there is of difference hetween the highest
and more eultured and the lowest and most
ignorant. Frequently, however, we forget
this, and from mere diversity of outward
circumstances we look upon each other
with feelings of haughty superiority and
contempt. Asa consequence the rich and
the great sometisrEsTindeivalue and insult
the poop afd the lowly; and ho poor and
ne lowly in return hate the rich and the
great, and ascribe all their importance
solely to their wealth and rank. Surely, in
both cases, this is despising their neighbor
—forgetfing their common humanity, their
common dignity and their common origin.
To treat your neighbor with indifférence,
as if there were no ties binding you to-
gether, and no sympathy due from one to
the other, is to despise him. . The affini-
‘ties of human nature are such that it is
treason to place ourselves in proud isola-
tion from the race to which we naturally
belong, and gaze upon the sufferings and
helplessness of our ‘kind with stoical in-
differegce. Such conduct is not only rep-
through the woods they found a place
where the bees had been busy—a great
honey . manufactory. Honey gathered in
the hollow of the trees until it had over.
flowed upon the ground in great profusion
of sweetness. - All the army obeyed orders
and touched it not save Jonathan,and he not
knowing the military order about abstine
ence dipped the end of a stick he had in
yellow. and tempting it glowed on the end
of the stick he put it to his mouth and ate
the honey. Judgment fell upon him, and
but for special intervention he would have
been slain. In my text Jonathan announces
his awful mistake: “I did but taste a little
honey with the end of the rod that was in
my hand, and lo, I must die.” Alas, what
multitudes of people in all ages have been
damaged by forbidden honey, by which I
mean temptation, delicious and attractive,
but damaging and destructive.
Corrupt literature, fascinating but dread-
ful, comes in this category. Where one
good, honest, healthful book i$ read now,
there is a hundred made up of rhetorical
trash consumed with avidity.
Corrupt literature is doing more to-day
for the disruption of domestic life than any
other cause. Elopements, marital in-
trigues, sly correspondence, fletitious
names given at postoffice windows, clan-
destine meetings in parks, and at ferry
gates, and in hotel parlors, and conjugal
perjuries are among the ruinous results.
When a woman, young or old, gets her
head thoroughly stuffed with the modern
novel sheis in appalling peril. There is a
wealth of good books coming forth from
our publishing housesthat leave no excuse
for the choice of that which is debauching
to body, mind and soul. Go to some intel-
Jigent man or woman and ask for a list of
books that will he strengthening to your
mental -and moral condition. Life is so
short and vour_ time for improvement so
abbreviated that you cannot afford to lil
up with husks, and cinders and debris.
Stimulating liquids also come into the
category of temptation delicious but death-
ful. You say, ‘“‘Icannot bear the taste'of
intoxicating liquor, and how any man can
like it is to me an amazement.” Well,
then, it is no credit to you that you do not
take it. Do not brag about your total ab-
stinence, because it is not from any princi-
ple that you reject alcoholism; but for the
reason that you reject -certain styles of
food—you simply don’t like the taste of
them. But multitudes of people have a
natural fondness for all kinds of intoxi-
cants. . They like it so much that it makes
them smack their lips to look at it. They
are dyspeptic and they like to aid diges-
tion; or they are annoyed by insomnia,
and they take it ‘to produce sleep; or they
are troubled, and they take it to make
them oblivious; or they feel happy, and
they must celebrate their hilarity.” They.
begin with mint julep sucked through two
straws in the Long Branch piazza and end.
in the ditch, taking from a jug a liquid
half kerosene and half whisky.
One would supposé that men would take
warning from some of the ominous names
given to intoxicants, and stand off from
the devastating influence. You have
noticed, for instance, that some of the res-
taurants are called ‘The Shades,” typical
of the fact that it puts a man’s reputation
in the shade, and his morals in the shade,
and his prosperity in the shade, and his
wife and children in the shade, and his im-
mortal destiny in the shade. Now, I find
on some of the liquor signsin all our cities
the words “Old Crow,” mightily suggestive
of the carcass and the {filthy raven that
swoops upon it. Men and women without
number slain of rum, but unburied, and
this evil is pecking at their glazed eyes,
and pecking at their bloated cheek, and
pecking at their destroyed manhood and
womanhood, thrusting beak and claw into
the mertal remains of what once was glori-
ously alive, but now morally dead, “0id
Crow!” But alas! how many takeno warn-
ing. Remember Jonathan and tha forhid-
den honey in the woods at Bethaven
Furthermorggthe gamester’s indulgence
must be pul in thelist of temptations de-
licious buts destructive. You who have
crossed the ocean many times have noticed J
hat Always one ol the best rooms has, fron]
morning until late at Aight, bee 2ide ‘en up
to gambling practices. I ard. of men
who went on board with enough for an
European excursion who landed without
mohey to get their baggage up to thé hotel
or railroad station.
State Legislatures have again and again
sanctioned the mighty evil by pussing
laws in defense of race tracks, and many
young men have lost all their wages at such
so-called. “meetings.” Every man who
voted for such infamous bills has on his
hands and forehead the blood of these
sculs.
Stock-gambling comes into the same cat-
his hand into the candied liquid, and as |
-and Col.
rehensible, it is actually sinful. It is sin-
ful because itis a great wrong done to
humanity. It rouses within man bitter,
bad, resentful feelings, which sets class
against class. Its tendency is to destroy
self-respect, and let a man once lose that
and there is no telling what he may be-
' come. .
Again, to despise one’s neighbor is an
offence against social unity. The social
organism ean only be hed together by a
true and proper recognition of the nseful-
ness and necessity of each individual to
the whole. Society'is one body. Its mem-
. bers are manifold, but théy are all knit to-
, gether in the closest bonds.
There is no such thing as real independ-
‘ence. And hence for any man to despise
his neighbor is just as wrong and foolish
as it would be for the head to say to the
feet, “I have no need of you;” for his in-
fluence, as far as it goes, operates to the
disorganization of society—to the breal:-
ing up of ‘that unity aud sympathy upon
which the general hapiness and well being
depend, Despising your neighbor is to
sin against your own soul. By such con-
duct the great forces ever operating for
the formation of your own character and
the shaping of your own destiny are un-
deérvalued. We depend upon each other,
This offence is also a sin against God.
Humanity is His child—the outcast and
the sinful as well as the poor. If you des-
le his e¢hild, He says: “Inasmuch as ye
ave done it unto one of the least of these,
. ye have .done it unto Me.”
W. H. KERSHAW,
"Pastor First Congregational Church, Park
Ridge, N. J.
TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY.
Various Pitfalls Exposed by the Rev.
Dr. Talmage.
Text: “I did but taste a little honey
‘with the end of the rod that was in my
band, and, lo, I must die.”—I Samuel
Xxiv,, 43
alogue. It must be very exhilarating to go
into thegtock market and, depositing a
small sum of money, run ‘the chance of tak-
ing out a fortnne. Many men are doing an
honest and safe pusiness in the stock mar-
ket, and you are an ignoramus if you do
not know that it is just ds legitimate to deal
in stocks as it is to deal in coffee, or sugar,
or flour. But neatly all the outsiders who
go there on a flnancial = excursion lose
all, The old spiders eat up the unsus-
pecting flies, I had a friend who put his
hand on his hip*pocket and said in sub-
stance: ‘I have there tho value of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” His
khome is to-day penniless. What was the
matter? Stock-gambling. Gambling is
gambling, whether is stocks or bread-
stuffs, or dice, or ' race horse betting.
Exhilaration at the start, but a raving
brain; and a shattered nervous system, and
a sacrificed property, and a destroyed ‘soul
at the last. Young men, buy no lottery
tickets, purchase no prize-pauckages, bet
on no hase-ball games or yacht racing,
have no faith in lnek,answer no mysterious
circulars, proposing ‘great income for small
investments, drive awgy the buzzards that
hover around our hotels trying to entrap
orn Go out and make an honest
iving. Have God on your side, and be a
‘mandidate for heaven. Remember all the
paths of sin are banked with flowers at the
start, and there are plenty of helpful hands
to fetch the gay charger to your door and
hold the stirrup while you mount.. But
further on the horse piunges to the bit in
a slough inextricable.
The best honey is not like that which
Jonathan took on the end of the rod and
brought to his lips, but that which God
puts on the banqueting table of mercy, at
which we are all invited to sit. When a
man may sit at the King’s banquet, why
will he go down the steps and contend for
the refuse and bones of a hound’s kennel?
*‘Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb,”
says David, is the truth of God. ‘With
honey out of the rock would I have satis-
fied thee,” £ays God to the recreant. Here
FEW NEN TRKE R YALURBLE PRIZE.
NAMES S FORGOTTEN.
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An Unarmed Transport Captures a Blockade
Runnez
Among the many brave acts of the
rank and, file of the Union army during
the civil war that are seldom if ever
mentioned was the capture of the
blockade runner Emma in August, 1863.
The Emma was a new iron steamer,
built in Glasgow. She had made only
three trips beétween Erngland and the
Confederate.States when taken by Un-
cle Sam’s boys.
The capture was one of the most uni-
gue exploits on the Atlantic Ocean dur-
ing the war, writes a veteran in the
National Tribune.” It was accomplish-
ed through a “big bluff,” resulting in
a prize of $450,000, and the most inter-
esting part of the important transac-
tion is the fact that the men who did
the work never received even a “tha
you,” notwithstanding the danger that
attended the undertaking.
During the siege of Fort Sumpter and
Fort Wagner, on Morris Island, many
Union men were killed and wounded,
and as soon as arrangements could be
made some of the sick, -discharged,
wounded and dead officers and men
were sent north on the steamship Ar-
ago.
This vessel reached a point opposite
Wilmington, N. C., about 4 o'clock on
the morning of August 24, when a little
cloud of black smoke appeared in the
distance. -
The attention of the Arago’s Captain
was called to it, and after a close sur-
vey through his glass, he pronounced
it either a rebel or an English ship. He
at once gave chase.
The cargo of the Arago was ill, dis-
abled, wounded and dead men. The
remains of Gen. Strong, "killed in a
charge on Fort Wagner, were on board,
John L. Chatfield, of Water-
bury, Conn., mortally wounded at the
same time.
After an exciting chase of about
seven hours, the blockade runner hove
to. She was loaded with turpentine
and rosin below and on deck with cot-
ton. During the chase every bale of
cotton had been thrown overboard, also
a brass cannon (25- pounder), and the
name on her stern had’ been painted
out to hide her identity.
The most unique feature of the ad--
venture wag the method adopted by the
captors. The Arago was an unarmed
transport, but one of the swiftest ves-
sels in that branch of the service. She
carried a two pound signal gun, and
that was brought into service and made
to do more than its regular duty. In
its usual place, attached to the deek, it
was useless on this occasion, so it v
lifted to the rail, securely lashed with
ropes, and loaded and fired at the flee-
ing Englishman.
Besides the little signal gun, about
fifty Sharp's rifles had been left in the
hold .by some troops that had been
transported, but there was not a cart-
ridge for them.
However, they had the desired effect.
As the Arago neared the Emma, the
rifles were distributed; the passengers,
who lined up along the rail, making a
formidable showing.
A shot from the little cannon hap-
pened to pass directly over and danger-
ously close to the deck of the Emma,
and her commander concluded that it
was time to stop and surrender: Then
the Captain of the Arago met with new
trouble. He endeavored to persuade
some of his crew to board her, but they
refused to a. man. They were not en-
listed, and could not be compelled to
leave theirg ship for such a purpose,
r= Fhey—aATa—1ot- Know" Wat — sero a = —
reception they would meet with; be-
sides, they claimed they had been over-
worked—in short every man positively
refused. Thus the Captain appealed to
the soldiers, who had brought the Em-
ma to a “standstill,” for volunteers, and
in less than two minutes 10 men went
down the ship’s side, entered a yawl-
boat, rowed to the prize, climbed to her
deck, and made prisoners of the ocf-
ficers and crew.
Comrade F. O. Lathrop was the sec-
ond man to make his way on board the
ship. He found the Captain, a red-
haired Scotchman named Lewis, at the
wheel, and informed him that he was a
prisorer tow hich that dignitary re-
plied that he supposed he was, adding
that he was ashamed at being captured
by a transport.
The crew of the Emma were under
the influence of liquor, and the faucet
of a whisky barrel was turned and the
deck was being flooded with liquor.
‘When the Captain and crew had been
transferred to the Arago, the Emma
was taken in tow and brought to New
York, and the ship and its cargo were
soon after condemned and soid by the
Government for the snug sum of $450,-
000; but the names of the real captors
never appeared on the roll at the office
of the Secretary of the Navy, although
they were taken while on board the
Emma.
Lathrop was a member of Co. B, 6th
Conn., and had just been discharged
for a temporary disability. Later, he
entered the Regular service in the 14th
U. S., where he remained until long af-
ter the close of the war. The 14th was
sent to Richmond after Lee's surrender
to do police ddéty, and while on the
way Lathrop met with a serious injury
at the hands of Mosby's guerrillas. Dur-
ing the summer of 1865 he was at Gen.
Terry's Headquarters, which were at
the house deserted by Jeff Davis. Com-
rade Liathrop now resides in Man-
chester, Conn., and is Senior Vice Com-
mander of Drake Post, G. A. R., of that
place.
His Interpolated Prayer.
In the new Polychrome Bible the
name of the Deity is given as Jhvh,
this vowelless form:being as near the
original Hebrew as the English alpha-
bet can express _it. This reminds a
writer in the Rochester Post-Express
of a story told of the famous professor,
Ewald, who once,inserted a parentheti-
cal footnote to a prayer. Ewald was in
the thick of a fight (such ‘as scholars
wage the one with the other) with the
OUR INDUSTRIES. ~~
The Total Production of Eig Iron in 18%
Amounts to Almost, 10,000,000 Tons.
An advance sheet of the Bulletin“ a
the American Iron and Steel Asspois,
tion gives the total production of pig
iron in 1897 as 9,652,680 gross ton
against 8,623,127 tons in 1896, 9,466,3
tons in 1895, 6,657,388 tons in 1894, 7,124,
502 tons in 1893, 9,157,000 tons in 189%
8,279,870 tons in 1881, and 9,202,703 ton{
in 1890. "Phe production in 1897 wai
1,029,553 toms more than in 1996, an in.
crease of almost twelve per cent. The
increase was almost wholly in the las!
half of the year. The production of
Bessemer pig iron in 1897 was™>5,795,58(
Lous, against 4,654,955 tons in 1896, and
623,695 tons .in 1895. The increase ir
x over 1896 was 1,140,629 tons. The
production of 1897 was distributed as
follows: New York and New Jersey,
79,041 tons; Allegheny County, Pennsyl-
vania, 265,548 tons; - other counties in
Pennsylvania, 84,520 tons Maryland
Virginia and Alabama, 97,5662 tons, and
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri
29,720 tons.
Negotiations are now in progress by
which the large plant of the Pottstown
Iron Company at Pottstown, Pa., will
resume operations in full at an early
date. It,is understood that by the new
arrangement the plant will be run in=
definitely. The plant is ncw idle, as
the lease of George B. Lessig, of the
Ellis & Lessig Steel and Iron Company,
expired on January 1. When the Iron
Company plant was in its best days
between 1500 and 2000 men were em-
ployed and its operation means a’ greai
deal to the industrial welfare of Pitts.
town.
The large iron furnace at Hacketts-
town, N. J.,, may be purchased by a
company which expects to operate it
on a large scale. Senator Jones, of
Nevada, is ‘the largest stockholder in
the old company. The American Sheet
Iron Works, at Phillipsburg, N. J., re-
sumed last Monday after a month's
idleness with 100 employes. n
Shippensburg, Pa., will soon have
two new’ industries. The buildings for
a large canning factory are about com-
pleted and the engine.and machinery
are being placed in position. Work has
also begun on a large creamery and
milk shipping station, which will be
completed in a couple of weeks.
The Youngstown, O.,, Steel Roofing
Company, which started with a capi-
tal of $10,000, has decided to increase
the stock to $50,000 and make a number
of important improvements to increaseq
its capacity for preduction. The com-
pany reports an abundance of orders,
and will increase its working force.
The Old Meadow rolling mill, Scott-
dale, Pa., has let the contracts for the
rolls, housing - ‘and sheet mill attach-
ments to the Frank-Reeland Machine
Company of Pittsburg, and to the Lloyd
| Beothr Company of Youngstown, O., the
contract for building shears and lathes.
The sawyers and boxmakers at the
Chambers & McKee window glass fac-
tory of Jeannette struck against a re-
duction of 28 per cent. Twenty-five
men are out.
J. C. Atkins, president of the Wy-
oming Valley lace mills of Wilkesbarre,
Pa., has purchased the ‘dace mill at
Mattingham, Tex., which he will re-
move to Wilkesbarre. They employ 300
hands.
The Wilkes rolling mill, Sharon, Pa.,
which has been idle for three years,
resumed operations last week,
Charles Miner, a 12-year-old West
Brattleboro (Vt.) boy, threw a stone at
some hogs the other day, but it went
wild and hit a pet dog. When he saw
the dog bleeding from a wound in its
morse rse and grief so so overwhelmed him
that he mixed up a dose of paris gréen
and took a large quantity, He was
hurried to a doctor, who gave emectics
freely and the boy was soon declared
out of.danger.
Kansas City has a cable road of
which the driving power is an electric
motor.
MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
Grain, Fiour and Feed.
WHEAT No. red... ....s.s $ 92
No 2 réd -e
CORN—No. 2 yellow, ear
No. 2 yellow, shelled. .
FLOUR— Winter patents
Fancy straight winter........
Rye flour
HAY—No. 1 timothy...
Clover, No. 1
Hay, from wagons
FEED—No. 1 White Md., ton.
Brown middlings
Bran, bu
STRAW—W heat
Oat
SEEDS. Glover, 60- Ibs.
Timothy, prime. .
Dairy “Products.
BUTTER—EIgin Creamery...
Ohio creamery.
Fancy country roll
CHEESE—Ohio, new
New York, new.
Fruits and Vegetables.
' BEANS—Hand-picked,,# bu... $ 1 10
POTATOES—White, per bu.. 70
CABBAGE—Home grown, bbl. 90
ONIONS—per bu
Poultry, Etc.
CHICKENS, # pair small
EGGS—Ya. and Ohio, fresh.
CINCINNATI
bee is a most ingenious archi-
‘tect, & Christopher Wren among insects;
geometer drawing hexagons and penta.
gons, a freebooter robbing the fields of pol-
den and aroma, wondrous creature o? God
- whose biography, written by Huber and
Swammerdam, is an enchantment for any
lover of nature.
Do you know that the swarming of the
bees is divinely directed? The mother bee
starts for a new home, and because of this
the other bees of the hive get into an ex-
citement which raises the heat of the hive
some four degrees, and they must die un-
less they leave their heated apartments,
and they follow the mother bee and alight
on the branch of a tree, and cling to each
other and hold on until a committee of two
_ or three bees have egxplored the region and
~ found the hollow of a tree or rock not far
off from a stream of water, and they here
~~ set upanew colony, and ply their aromatic
industries, and give themselves to the
manufacture of the saccharine edible. But
who can tell the chemistry of that mixture
of bee. und po part of it the very life of the
d part of it the life Of the flelds?
y of this luscious Srodust was hang-
the woods of Bethaven during the
ri kh Saul and Jonathan. Their army
ed.
| Gre Evi forbidden to stop
work was done, If they
they were accursed. ; Coming
F
is honey gathered from the blossoms of
trees of life, and with a rod made out of
the wood of the Cross I dip it up for all
your souls. ead
LITTLE BOY SAVES THREE,
Hefo of Ten Years Pulls Playmates Out
of the Water.
Through the heroism of Jimmie Quick, a
lad of ten years, the lives of three little
boys, ranging from five to nine years old,
were saved from drowning in Underhill
Pond, in Hudson, N. Y.
* The ice gave way while the lads were
riding on hand sleds, and they all fell in
the water.
Young Quick, who had heen skafing near-
by, heard their cries for help and hurried
to the spot. He threw himself upon his
breast, and evie to the edge of the
hole, with a “sh stick,” succeeded in
pulling the three lads: one after the other, .
out of the water to a place of safety.
Chester Thornton, age flvé, had gone
down twice, and it was with the greatest
exérfion and at the risk of his own life that
Quick finally pulled him out. An applica-
tion will be made to the Volunteer Life
Saving Corps at Washington to present to
young Quick a medal for hig brave deed.
A Hugo Commercial Fleet.
THe Hamburg steamship line. owas Six.
ty-two steamers at present.
eminent Gesenius wien he arose to
pray in his classroom. And he began
thus in slow, solemn voice: “O thou
great, omniscient, infinite ‘Jah,”’” and
then added, half to himself, ‘not Je-
hovah,” as that fool Gensenius says.”
The Chinese are.said to possess se-
erets in the preparation of sweets that
astonish our most accomplished «con-
fectioners. They know how to remove
the pulp from oranges and substitute
various jellies. The closest examina-
tion fails to reveal any opening or in-
cision in the skin of the fruit. They
perform the same feat with eggs.
Experts say that the clock of the fu-
ture will have a face dial, but no
hands. There will be two slots or holes
on the dial—one showing the minute
and the other the hour. Thus when it
is 40 minutes after 3 o'clock p. m., the
number 3 (or the hour) will appear in
the lower slot and the number 40 (o
the minute) in the upper slot.
_ Statisticians claim that the earth will
not support more than about 5,994,000,-
000 people. The present population is es-
timated at 1,467,000,000 ,and the increase
being 8 per cent. each decade. At that
rate the utmost limit will be reached
in the year 2,072.
“WHEAT—No. 2red
CORN—No. 2 mixed.
OATS—No. 2 white
BUTTER—Creamery, extra..
EGGS—Pa. firsts
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WHEAT—No. 2 red «7508
CORN—No. 2 33
OATS—White W. estern 29
BUTTER— Creamery 20
EGGS—3State of Penn 20
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CENTRAL STOCK YARDS, EAST LIBERTY, PA.
CATTLE.
Prime, 1,300 to 1,4001bs
Good, 1,200 to 1, 500 ibs
Tidy, 1, 000 to 1, 150 ths. 4 25
Fair lignt steers, 900 to 1000 ibs. 3 75
Cesameoen, 700 to 900 lbs
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Care of the Garden.
If the garden is thoroughly under-
drained, as it always ought to be, it
should be fall plowed in ridges and
the surface left rough, so as to expose
the soil as much as possible to
freezing. 'This is the more necessary
because the garden is always a shel-
tered spot, where snow lies much of
the winter,so that there are few times
when the soil freezes very deeply.
The garden is always the richest spot
on the farm, It often is what the
Scotch farmers call ‘‘much midden”
or heavy with magfare. It needs the
winter’s freezing $0 lighten the soil
and make its fer tility available.
Late Grown Turnips.
There is no crop grown so easily
and with so little cost as late-grown
turnips in a field of well-cultivated
corn. ‘The shade of the corn will keep
the turnips from growing much until
the corn is cut. Possibly also their
growth will be checked by the demand
of the corn roots for plant food. But
in the Indian summer that follows the
first frost the turnips will make
rapid growth, as they will then have
all the land for their own use. The
turnip will endure a prefty heavy
frost, and grow again if warm or
follows it. But in our climate turnips
cannot be left in the ground all win-
ter as they arein England.—American
Cultivator.
Cherry Trees Standing in Grass.
Orr experience with cherry trees is
that they do not require cultivation.
Those we had in the garden were al-
ways more liable to rot and to be af-
fected by insects than the trees that
stood in dry places and surroundedby
grass. It may be that it is the extra
moisture in the cultivated soil that
predisposes cherries to rot, or it may
be the manure annually applied to tlie
cherry tree
roots helped themselves freely. The
cherry tree does not do well with wet
feét. On high, dry land its roots will
run deeply enough to find all the
moisture it needs, and on such land in
orass is the best to plan. cherries for
profitable fruiting.
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Value of Hog Manure.
Hog manure is populatty supposed
so be very rich, partly because. Logs
are always fed on grain or other VeIy...-—r
concentrated food, and also because
they ure so neat that they always de-
posit their excrement by itself un-
mixed with bedding, as will ‘animals
that are generally supposed to be
much more cleanly than the hog. Yet
41 hog manure is generally slow to heat,
though after fermentation has once
begun it progresses very rapidly.
One reason why manure from the hog
is richer than from other animals is
because the hog uses more of the car-
bon in his food to turn into fat, and
less of the phosphate and nitrogen to
change into bone and lean meat. © No
domestic animal when fattened has so
large a proportion of boneas compared
with its total weight as has the hog.
Apple Pomace as Feed.
There is considerable nutriment in
pomace as it comes from the mill.
Stock will eat it quite readily if fed
before it begins to ferment. This,
however, it does very soon if exposed
to the air.- Consequently it is best to
place the pomace in air-tight barrels
or hogsheads, so as to keep air from
it, and cover the pomace with some-
| thing that will hold down the carbonic
acid gas and prevent its escape as it
forms. This is really ensilaging it.
The pomace’ itself has not nutritive
value to make this worth while. Its
chief value is its succulency, and it
should be fed with grain, hay or meal,
so as to give the proper propar tion of
When put up in air-tight
barrels and kept slightly below freez-
ing temperature there will be no more
fermentation in the pomace than there
is in the silo, and it can be used till
late in the winter.
Rye After Turnips.
Turnips are the latest crop to be
harvested, and as they continue to
grow after lightfrosts, there is
after them. Of course nothing can ;
be grown and mature the same season
after turnips are off. But winter rye
will bear to be sown very late if the
land is only rich enough. = We have
known rye to be sown late in Novem-
ber and barely peep above the surface
the same year. But it grew a little
more during the January thaw, and
the next year made as good a crop,and
as early also, as rye sown two months
earlier, which made a growth that
covered the ground in the fall. In
each case all the spring growth had to
be made from the root. Where that
is established the richness of the soil
has more to do in making fall-sown
grain ripen early than does its grow th
the pr Seeding fall.
Linseed vs. Cotton-Seed Meal.
While fully grown animals with
strong digestive organs can eat cot-
ton-seed meal properly diluted with
straw or bay without serious njury,
-not-
J inuch chance to put in a later crop"
it is doubtful whether it is advisable
to make this part of their ration. Lin-
seed meal can be purchased at about
the same price as cotton-seed meal,
and has equal nutritive value. The
new process meal is the kind gener-
ally used. It is not so fattening as
the old process meal, because more of
its oil has been expressed. TIlaxseed
whole is a very rich feed,and if boiled
so as to gwell it out all that hot water
can do it may be given to cattle,sheep
or horses with safety. Only a very
little should be given at a time, as the
oil in it makes it very laxative, and a
small amount daily is better than
more. There is nothing better for an
animal’s hair than a little flaxseed
daily. It will insure the shiny coat™
which in either cow or horse is always
a sign of thrift. —American Cultivator.
Banking Earth Around Trees.
As it is often done; the banking of
soil around trees in fall to prevent
mice from barking them does more
harm than good. If any sod, ‘weeds
or other rubbish are included in bank-
ing up the tree, the object is not only
defeated; but the liability to injury is
increased. - The purpose should be to
oblige the mice to climb up above the
snow line and expose themselves to
their enemies while gnawing the tree.
This they will rarely do, for much. of
this work is done at night when their
natural enemy, the owl is most watch-
ful. But if the mice find vacant spaces
around. the tree, as they surely can if
sod or rubbish are used, they can
work under this protection with
greater safety than if the tree were
not banked at all. Still it is better to
bank young apple-trees, at least as
high as the snow line usually comes.
The warmth from the tree makes a
vacant space in the snow all around
it, and it is under this protection that
most of the destructive work is done.
‘Warning to Dairymen.
The Country Gentleman, under the
heading, ‘‘Beware of Aniline Butter
Color,” publishes a column of affida-
vits to prove that a little child about
two years old got hold of a bottle of
one of the fashionables makes of but-
ter color, got some of it in its mouth,
and in'a few hours died ‘from plain
symptoms of poisoning. Later a
healthy grown cat was made to swal-
low a spoonful of the coloring matter,
and was a.dead cat in twenty-four
hours, with all the signs of poisoning.
fhe Country Gentleman says -this
brand of coloring matter was con-
demned by the Pennsylvania experi-
ment station, but does not name it.
I suppose the best one can do under
the circumstances, says a writer in
ame and Farm, is to require a writ-
ten statement from the maker - that
fom AEa in the article of-
fered for sale, \[here are some brands
free from this oRjectionable article,
and the makers should make haste to
let the buttermakers knew who they
are. Would it really maka puch dif-
ference to the makers of fine Rutter if
“coloring matter was forbidden by law?
I think it would be a good thing. t
is a horrid stuff at best. ’
Dehorned Cattle Sell Better,
A cireular issued by.a cattle com-
mission company that is in no way’
supposed to be prejudiced on the sub-
ject beyond making more money for
both buyer andsellersays: “Dehorned
cattle sell better than horned cattle
for all purpeses. -They are preferred
by shippers, feeders and packers.
They look better, feed better, sell
better, kill out better. The man who
feeds horned cattle.is handicapped
from 10 to 25- cents per hundred
weight in most cases.’
This is all in relation to beef cattle,
and when we come to consider the
dairy the man who cultivates horns is
still further on the wrong side of the
fence. Why a herd of cows should be
ever and eternally on the move, each
cow frying to get behind the other
cow to get away from these ever pres-
ent spikes on a cow’s head, surpasses
human comprehension, when an hour’s
work would take them off and give
each cow in the herd a lifetime of rest.
That is one objection to handling
thoroughbred Jerseys; the fashion
requires horns on their heads, but I
have seen quite a number of dehorned
Jersey cows of late, to say nothing of
lots of bulls. Horie and Farm,
The Church Bell.
The church bellis another one of the
reHes of barbarism with which civili--
zation could readily dispense. Since
the general introduction of clocks and
watches, the bell has really lost its
significance. = Certainly it can be
classed among the ‘‘needless noises.”
In the days of Panlus of Nola, in the
A. D. 400, when the custom first had
its origin, the ringing of bells may
have been necessary to call people to
places of worship—and this was the
sole purpose of the first church bell—
but inghis present syear, so near the
beginning of the tw entieth -century,
there is surely no need of such an
alarm as is sometimes sounded from
the iron throat of the average church
bell to summon people well supplied
with timepieces to their chosen place
of worship.—American Medical Month-
ly.
A Dublin lawyer, writing of an es-
tate he has just bought, said: ‘There
is a chapel upon it, in which my wife
and I wish to be buried if God Spates
‘our lives.” :