oh 3 o TES SION SEA AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE The Eleventh of the New York Herald’s Competitive Sermons is on “The Sin of Pespising Others”—Dr. Talmage Preaches on “Traps For the Unwary.” “ “He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth.’’ Prov. xiv., 21, ‘ x 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. letter of the Ten Commandments; if we keep clear of acts whieh public opinion forbids; if we maintain a character upon which society sets no brand, then we feel at peace within ourselves and make sur 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 80 much as in those weightier matters of justice and mercy and truth which are in- volved in all the business and intercourse of daily life. Thousands who would trem- ‘ble to participate in any of the so-called amusements of society, and who are ‘as strict and ostentatious as the Pharisees in regard to prayer and other duties, are yet living in such an atmosphere of uncharitablenessand wrong that they are actually further from the kingdom of heaven than the very publi- cans and harlots. In a terse, direct and emphatic way a form of guilt is pointed out by Salomon which we seldom think of, yet 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- | duet never fails to insure moral resentment and to elicit 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—any electric current, soto speak, by which 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 ourneighbor. ‘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 between the highest and more cultured 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 sometian€stinduvaluopnd insult _ the poop and the lowly; and tho pGor wud theTowly in return hate the rich and the great, and ascribe all their importance solely to their wealth and rank. Surely, in both eases, this is despising their neighbor —forgetting their common humanity, their common dignity and their common origin. To treat your neighbor with indifference, NS if there were no ties binding you to- gether, and no sympathy due from one to She other, is to “despise him. The affini- ‘ties of human nature are such that it is treason to place ourselves in proud isola- Ta. belong, and gaze upon the sufferings pint helplessness of our kind with stoical in- «difference. Such conduct is not only rep- ~rehensible; it is actually sinful, It 1s 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 can only be held together by a true and proper recognition of the useful- ness and necessity of each individual to the whole. Society is one body, Its mem- bers are manifold, but they 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 he 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 brealk- 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- dérvalued. We depend upon each other. This offence is also a sin against God. Humanity is His child—the out®ast and .the sinful as well as the poor. If you des- ise his child, 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. Talinage. “I did but taste a little honey end of the rod that was in my and, lo, I must die,’—I" Samuel TEXT: with the band, honey bee is a most ingenious archi- tect, a Christopher Wren among inséets; ~ geometer drawing hexagons and penta- . gons, a freebooter robbing the flelds of pol- en and aroma, wondrous creature of God whose biography, written by Huber and Swammerdam, is an enchantment for any _ loyer 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 explored the region and. ~ found the hollow of a tree or rock not far off from a stream of water, and they here - set up a new 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 sweetness, part of it the very life of the and of it the life Of the flelds? Plenty of this luscious product was hang- Ing in the woods of Bethaven during the Huon! Saul nd Jonathan. rLbeiz army 8 in pursui an enemy that hy God’s command must be exterminated. The y were Dositively forbidden to stop +is hon khome is to-day penniless, 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 his hand into the candied liquid, and as 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 §lain. 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 ono good, honest, healthful book is read now, thereis 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- trigugs, 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 houses that leave no excuse for the choice of that which is debauching to body, mind and soul. Go to some intel- ligent man or woman and ask for a list of books that will be strengthening to your mental and moral condition. Life isso short and vour time for improvement so abbreviated that you cannot afford to fill 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 produces 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 suppose 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 theres- 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 {llthy 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 womanbood, thrusting beak and claw into the mortal remains of what once was glori- ously alive, but now morally dead. ‘Old Crow!” But alas! how many takeno warn- ing. Remember Jonathan and tha forbid- den honey in the woods at Bethaven. Furthermore, the gamester’s indulgence must be put in the list of temptations de- licious but destructive. You who have EAB TNE A VIDIHEWE An Unarmed Transport Captures a Blockade Runnex 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 between England and the Confederate States when taken by Un- cle Sam’s boys. 3 2 The capture was one of the most uni- que 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 faot that the men who did the work never received even a ‘thank 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. SEA 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 Ardgo’s.Captain was called to it, and after*@ 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, and Col. John L. Chatfield, of Water- bury, Conn., mortally wounded at the same time. 3 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 was 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 deck, it was useless on this occasion, so it was lifted to the rail, securély 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. Hpwever, 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 OUR INDUSTRIES. The Total Production of Pig Iron in 18% Amounts to Almost, 10,000,000 Tons. f An advance sheet of the Bulletin @ the American Iron and Steel As:spols, tion gives the total production of pig Liron 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 1894 8,279,870 tons in'1891, and 9,202,703 ton in 1890: The production in 1897 wai 1,029,653 tons more than in 1996, an in. crease of almost twelve per cent. The increase wag almost wholly in the last half of the year. The production of Bessemer pig iron in 1897 was 5,795,568 tons, against 4,654,955 tons in 1896, anc 5,623,695 tons .in 1895. The increase ir 1897 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, 97,662 tons, an Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri 29,720 tons. 1 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 ncew idle, as the lease of George B. Lessig, of the Ellis & Le&sig 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 greal 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. 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 increase 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 rand sheet mill attach- ments to the Frank-Reeland Machine Company of Pittsburg, and to the Lloyd Booth 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 lace 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 crossed the ocean many times have noticed morning until late at Nght, hee zion up to gambling practices. I heard of men, who went on board with enough for an European excursion who landed without money to get their baggage up to the hotel or railroad station. State Legislatures have again and again sanctioned the mighty evil. by passing laws in defense of race tracks, Yas many young men have lost all their wages at such socalled ‘“‘meetings.”” Every man who FETE WIRAYS one ie best rooms has, frog T= +1! leave their ship for such a, purpose. 1 of head he though it would ge and’ zac 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 dies 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 manure. It needs the winter’s freezing to lighten the soil and make its fertility 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 bythe 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 pretty heavy frost, and grow again if warm weather 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. Our 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 surrounded by 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 garden and to which the. cherry tree roots helped themselves freely. The cherry tree does not do well with wet feet. On high, dry land its roots will run deeply enough to find all the moisture it needs, and on such land in grass is the best to plan cherries for profitable fruiting. gad IT I I eer 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 imade prisoners of the of- ficers and crew. 5 g bills has on bis hands and forehead the blood of these sculs. Stock-gambling comes into the same cat- alogue. It must be very exhilarating to go into the stdek market and, depositfag a small sum of money, run the chance of tak- ing out a fortnne. Many men are doing an honest and safe business in the stock mar- ket, and you are an ignoramus if you do not know that it is just as legitimate to deal in stocks as it is to deal in coffee, or sugar, or flour. But nearly all the outsiders who go there on a financial excursion lose all. The old spiders eat up the unsus- pecting flies. 1 had a friend who put his hand on his hip-pocket and said in sub- stapce: ‘I have there the value of two | hundred and {fifty thousand dollars.” His 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-packages, bet on no bhase-ball games or yacht racing, have no faith in Iuek,answer no mysterious circulars, proposing great income forsmall investments, drive awgy the buzzards that hover around our hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go out and make an honest living. Have God on your side, and be a candidate 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 1s 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. Wlen 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,” says God to the recreant. Here ey gathered from the blossoms of | treed of life, and with a rod made out of the wood of the Cross I dip it up for all your souls. 2 X I LITTLE BOY SAVES THREE. Hero 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. ¥. - The ice gave wa riding on hand sl the water. Young Quick, who had been skating near- by, heard their cries for help and hurried to the spot. He threw himself upon his breast, and crawling to the edge of the tole, with a “shinny stick,” suceeeded in pulling the three lads; one after the other, | out of the water to a place of safety, Chester Thornton, age flve, had gone down twice, and it was with the greatest exertion 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 Sorp= at Washington to present to young Quick a medal for hig brave deed. A Huge Commercial Fleet. while the. lads were , and they all fell in 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 sold 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 duty, 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 Lathrop mow 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 eminent Gesenius when. 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 posséss 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 (or 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 work was done, If they they were accursed. Coming The Hamburg steamship line ows six-" $y-twa steamers at presents ‘ ‘In the year 2,072. morse and grief so overwhelmed him that he mixed up a dose of paris green 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. —i PITTSBURG. wi Grain, Fiour and Feed WHEAT—No. 1red............ $ CORN—No. 2 yellow, ear No. 2 yellow, shelled 92a 90 FLOUR—VWinter patents Fancy straight winter Rye flour HAY—No. 1 timothy. aie CloVer, NO, 1. ice vrennnsnss ; Hay, from wagons FEED—No. 1 White Md., ton.. 18 756 14 2¢ 500 5b 2 500 52 3 b0@ 3 Ti Timothy, prime 150 Dairy Products. BUTTER—EIgin Creamery....$ Ohio creamery. Yancy 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. ONIONS—per bu Poultry, Etc. CHICKENS, ¥ pair small TURKEYS, # Ib EGGS—Ya. and Ohio, fresh. ... CINCINNATI 8 4 20@ 4 40 5% 9d 90 80 WHEAT—No. 2 red........... BUTTER—Creamery, extra.... EGGS—Pa. firsts FLOUR—Patents. ... WHEAT—No. 2 red CORN—No. 2 OATS—White Western. . BUTTER— Creamery EGGS—State of Penn : : LIVE STOCK. CENTRAL STOCK YARDS, EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTLE. 3 Prime, 1,800 to 1,400 Ibs Good, 1,200 to 1,300 Ib, Tidy, 1,000 to 1,150 ths. 4 25 Fair ligut steers, 900 to 10001bs. 3 75 Ucsamon, 700 to 900 lbs........ 825 HOGS. srs stesgmenteaninan $44@ 465 4 35 5 Medium.... Heavy : SHEEP. Prime, 95 ii Ibs, wethers...$ Good, Bursa sinensroess Fair, 70 to 80 bs. .... COMMOR...ovivresssers Ses ass sass tnnsnn rate the utmost limit will be reached Tey ro ww Bgxgs2 ese Cullis Fair to good lambs . . + - . , +t much chance to put in a Manure. Value of Hog 1 Hog manure is populaMy pone so be very rich, partly becaus gs and in a few hours are always fed on grain or other very concentrated food, and also because they are 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 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- rbon 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 bone as 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 tlre 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 propartion of nutrition. 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 light frosts, there is not later crop 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 todo in making fall-sown 5 1 grain ripen early than does its growth the preceding 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 hay witho “tate he has just ut serious injury, 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. Flaxseed whole is a very rich feed,and if boiled 80 as to swell 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. Thereis 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 np 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 wit greater safety than if the tree were not banked at all. Still it is bettef 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, 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 mmome and Farm, is to require a writ- ment from the maker that iline in the article of- here are some brands jectionable article, qd make haste to there is no fered for sale. and the makers shou let the buttermakers k are. Would it really mak ference to the makers of fine coloring matter was forbidden by I think it would be a good thing. 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 purposes. 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 those 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. —Home and Farm, The Church Bell. The church bellis another oneof the relies of barbarism with which -eivili- zation could feadily dispense. = Since the general introduction of elocks and watches, the bell has really lost its significance. Certainly it ‘can be classed among the ‘‘needless noises.” In the days of Paulus of Nola, in the A. D. 400, when the castom 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 in this present year, so near the beginning of the twentieth century, there is surely no need of such an alarm as is sometimes sounded from the iron throat of the average church bell to summen people well supplied with timepieces to their chosen place of worship.—American Medical Month- ly. i : A Dublin lawyer, writing of an es- ught, said: ‘‘There is a chapel upon it, in which my wife and I wish to be buried if God spares our lives.” 5 Lo
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