~ "in; it will ruin your whole building.” SERONS BY ENE DIVES GOSPEL MESSAGES. &n Appropriate Toplo—The Great Need of Reform—Churches Must Change to Work For Good—Religion That Will Make a Revolution in the Family. Text: “These that have turned the world apside down are come hither also,”’— Acts xvii., 6. There is a wild, bellowing mob around the house of Jason, in Thessalonica. What has the man done so greatly to offend the people? "He has been entertaining Paul and his comrades. Themob surround the house and cry: “Bring out those turbulent reachers! They are interfering with our usiness! They are ruining our religion! 4 They are actually turning the world upside down!” The charge was true, for there is noth- ing that so interferes with sin, there is nothing so ruinous to every form of estab- lished iniquity, there is nothing that has such tendency to turn the world upside down as our glorious Christianity. «The fact is, that the world now is wrong side up, and it needs to be turned upside down in order that it may be right side up. The time was when men wrote books en- titling them ‘‘Apelogies for Christfanity.” I hope that day has passed. We want no more apologies for Christianity. Let the apologies be on the part of those who do not believe in our religion. We do not mean to make any compromise in the mat- ter. We do not wish to hide “the fact that Christianity is revolutionary, and that its tendency is to turn the world upside down. Our religion has often been misrepre- sented as a principle of tears, and mild- ness, and fastidiousness; afraid of crossing people’s prejudices; afraid of making somebody mad; with silken gloves, lifting the people up from the church pew into glory, as though they were Bohemian glass, so very delicate that with one touch it may be demolished forever. Men speak of religion as though it were a refined im- becility; as though it were a spiritual chloroform, that the people were to take until the sharp cutting of life were over. The Bible, so far from this, repre- sents the religion of Christ as robust and brawny—ransacking and upsetting ten thousand things that now seem to be set- tled on firm foundations. I hear some man in the house say, “I thought religion was peace.” That is the. final result. A man’s arm is out of place. Two men come, and with great effort put it back to the socket, It goes back with great pain. Then it gets well. Our world is horribly distorted and out of joint. It must come under an omnipotent surgery, beneath which there will be pain and anguish be- fore there can come perfect health and quiet. I proclaim, therefore, in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ—revolution! The religion of the Bible will make a revolution in the family. Those things that are wrong in the family circle will be overthrown by it, while justice and har- mony will take the place. The husband will be the head of the houeshold only when he is fit to be. I know a man who spends all the money he makes in drink, as well as all the money that his wife makes, and sometimes sells the children’s clothes for rum. Do you tell me that he is to be the head of that housohold? If the wife have more nobility, more courage, more consistency, more of all that is right, she shall have the supremaey. You say that the Bible says that the wife is to be subject to the husband. I know it. But thatisa husband, not a masculine caricature. There i3 no human or divine law that makes a woman subordinate toa man un- worthy of her. When Christianity comes into a domestic circle it will give the do- minancy to that one who is the most worthy of it. Again: Christianity will produce a revo- lution in commercial circles. Find me fifty merchants, and you find that they have fifty standards of what is right and wrong. You say to some one about a merchant, “Is he honest?” ‘‘Oh! yes,” the man says, ‘“‘he is honest; but he grinds the faces of his clerks. He is honest; but he exaggerates the value of his goods. He is honest; but he loans money on bond and mortgage, with the understanding that the mortgage can lie quiet for ten years, but as soon as he gets the mortgage, he records it and begins a foreclosure suit, and the Sheriff's writ comes down, and the day of sale ar- rives, and away, goes the homestead, and the creditor buys it in at half price.”” Hon- est? When he loaned the money he knew that he would get the homestead at half price. Honest? But he goes to the insur- ance office to get a policy on his life, and tells the doctor that he is well, when he knows that for ten years he has had but one Jung. Honest? Though he sels prop- erty by the map, forgetting to tell the pur- chaser that the ground is all under water; but it is generous in him to do that, for he throws the water into the bargain. The fraudulent man piles up his gains, bond above bond, United States security above United States security, emolument above emolument, until his property has become a great pyramid; and, as he stands looking at it, he thinks it can never be destroyed; but the Lord God comes, and with His little finger pushes it all over. You build a house and you put into it a rotten beam. A mechanic standing by says: “‘It will never do to put that beam But you put it in. The house is completed. Boon it begins to rock. You call in the mechanic and ask: ‘What is the matter with this door? What is the matter with this wall? Everything seems to be giving out.” * 8ays the mechanic: ‘‘You put a rotten beam into that structure, and the whole thing has got to come down.” Here is an estate that seems to be all right now. It has been building a great many years. But fifteen years ago there was a dishonest transaction In that commercial house, That one dishonest transaction will keep on working ruin in the whole structure un- til down the estate wiil come in wreck and ruin about the possessor’s ears—one dis- honest dollar in the estase demolishing all his possession. I have seen it again and again; and so have you. You have an old photograph of the signs on your street. Why have thosesigns near- ¥ all changed within the last twenty years? oes the passing away of a generation ac- count for it? Oh, no. Does the fact that there are hundreds of honest men who go down every year account for it? Oh, no. This is the secret: The Lord God has been walking through the commereial streets of our great cities; and he has been adjusting things according to the principles of eter- nal rectitude. The time will come when, through the revolutionary power of the Gospel, a false- hood, instead of being called exaggeration, equivoecation, or evasion, will be branded a lie! And stealings; that now sometimes go under the head of percentages and commissions, and bonuses, will be put into the catalogue of State-prison offenses. Society will be turned inside out and up- side down, and ransacked ot God’s truth, until business dishonesties shall come to an end, and all double-dealing; and.God will overturn, and overturn, and overturn; and commercial men in all cities will throw up their hands, crying out, “These that have turned the world upside down are come hither,” The religion of Jesus Christ will produce 8 revolution in our churches. The non- committal, do-nothing poliey of the Chureh. of God will give way to a spirit of bravest conquest. Piety in this day seems to me to be salted down just so as ‘to keep. It seems as if the church were chiefly anxious to take care of itself; and if we hear of ~ want, and squalor, and heathenism outside we say: “What a pity!” and we put our hands in our pockets, and we féel around for a two-cent piece, and with a great ourish we put it upon the plate and are azed that the world is not con-wrted in "weeks. Suppose there were a great 1 case.” go down; our worldliness and there were three hundred thou- sand soldiers, but all of those three hun. dred thousand soldiers, excepting ten men, were in their tents, or scouring their musk ets, or cooking rations. You would say: ‘Of course, defeat must come in that Is is worse than that in the church, Millions of the professed soldiers of Jesus Christ are cooking rations, or asleep in their tents, while only one man here and there goes out to do battle for the Lord. I saw in some paper an account of a church-in Boston in which, it is said, there were a great many plain people. The next week the trustees of that church came out in the paper, and said it was not so at all; “they were elegant people and highly- conditioned people that went there.”’ Then I laughed outright; and when I laugh, I laugh very loudly. ‘“Those people,” 1 said, ‘‘are afraid of the sickly sentimen- tality of the churches.” Revolution! The pride of the church must come dowa. The exclusiveness of the church must come down! The flnancial boastings of the church must come down! If monetary success were the chief idea in the chureh, then I say that the present mode of conducting finances is the best, If it is to see how many dollars you can gain, then the present mode is the best. But if it is the saving of souls from sin and death, and bringing the mighty population of our cities to the knowledge of God, then I ery, Revolution! Itiscoming fast. Ifeel it inthe air. - I hear the rumbling of an earthquake that shall shake down, in one terrific crash, the arrogance of our modern Christ- ianity. The talk is, whether Protestant churches or Roman Catholic churehes are coming out ahead. I tell you, Protestants, this truth plainly: that until your churches are as free as are the Roman Catholic cathe- drals they will beat you. Intheir cathe- drals the millionaire and the beggar kneel side by side. And, until that time comes in our churches, we can not expect the favor of God or permanent spiritual pros- perity. Where gin? mine, £ and when will thafSevolntion be- Here, and now. In your heart and Sin must go down, our pride must must go down, that Christ may come up. Revolution! “Except a man be born again, he can not see the Kingdom of God.” Why not now let the revolution begin? Nqt.next Sab- bath, but, now! Not to-morrow, when you go out into commercial circles, but now! Archias, the magistrate of Thebes, was sitting with many mighty men, drinking wine. A messenger came in, bringing a letter informing him of a conspiracy to end his life, and warning him to flee. Archias took the letter, but, instead of opening it, put it into his pocket, and said to the mes- senger who brought it: ‘‘Business to-mor- row!”” The next day he read it. Before he opened the letter, the Government was captured. When he read the letter it was too late. To-day I put into the hands of every man and woman, who hears or reads these words,a message of life. Itsays: “To-day, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your heart.” Do not put away the message and say: ‘‘This business to-mor- row.” This night thy soul may be required of thee! A Bullet Its Own Doctor, In spite of the terrible increase in the destructiveness of modern warfare, the tendency of the times {s to make a conflict as humane as practicable. For this reason the use of copper-covered bullets has been frowned upon, and a Philadelphia physi- cian has a plan that he claims will wonder- fully mitigate the suffering of a man whose body has been perforated by the modern small-caliber bullet. It is well established that the velocity and penetrating force of these bullets are so great that unless they chance to strike a bone they will pass en- tirely through a man’s body without his knowing it. The physician’s idea is to at- tach a small wad of antiseptic cotton to the rear of the bullet. This would be cov- ered by the shell of the cartridge, and could not interfere with loading or firing. As the bullet passes through a person the wad will antisepticize the wound and pre- vent consequent suppuration. It may be possible to so nicely adjust the adhesion of the wad to the bullet that as the migsile passes out it will leave the wad to plug the hole and stap bleeding. Ultimately this system might do away with the necessity of a large medical corps, as each bullet would carry medical treatment for the un- fortunate it wounded. — Philadelphia tecord. : The Land of the Lazy. “In a late sojourn in Honduras,” said Mr. L. B. Givens, “I came to the conclusion that it was a paradise for lazy men. Every- thing grows luxuriantly with but little labor on the part of the natives, and many crops do not need replanting more than once in eight or ten years. The country offers fine inducements to enterprising men, but it is hard on a white man used to civilized ways to go down there and dwell among an ignorant lot of natives who are 100 years behind the times. A man would have no congenial soclety, and might as ’ well be in exile. The natives usually live in bamboo houses, though in the towns the dwellings are of adobe. Children go naked for the first two or three years of their life, and the attire of the adults is rather scant. The Government is liberal with concessions in order to encourage development of the country’s resources, but there is no gen- eral rule governing the granting of privi- leges, it all depends on how good a bargain may be driven, The climate is very salubrious, and laziness is about the only prevailing disease.— Washington Post. EX-CONVICT CANNOT CURE, Doctors Who Commit Crime Prohibited From Practicing. The United States Supreme Court af- firmed the constitutionality of the act of the New York Legislature of 1895 prohibit- ing persons who have been convicted of and punished for a erime from practicing medicine in the State. The question arose in the case of Walker vs. the State of New York. Walker had served ten years in the State Penitentiary for an offense committed in 1878 and after his release set up as a physician, and at the time the law in question was enacted was practieing that profession. The Court held that it was within the police power of the State to enact such a law. COMEZ'S WIFE AN AMERICAN. She is a Daughter of Henry Martin, of Nail’s Creek, East Tennessee. The wife of Maximo Gomez, eommander- in-chief of the insurgent forces in Cuba, is an American woman. Her name before marriage to the great old soldier was Miss Pink Martin, and she was a daughter of Henry Martin, of Nail’s Creek, East Ten- nessee. She married n Georgla man, and after he died she went to Havana, and there met Gomez, rwvhom she married shortly after- ward. As the Martin family was an old and wealthy one, Mrs, Gomez has had all the advantages, social and educational, of a reflned and cultured American woman, CUBA'S FUTURE. It Will be Under the Stars and Stripes Until Peace is Restored. President McKinley has authorized as- surances to be given ‘that everybody’s rights will be respected, and that, when the people of Cuba establish their govern- ment, it will be under the supervision of the military authorities of the United States, and all qualified electors, whether combatants or non-combatants, will be given an oppurtunity to participate in the formation of the constitution. The island of Cuba will be under the Stars and Stripes until peace is restored and some guarantee can be given that no outrages will oecur. A Great Year For Corcts. The year 1893 is the time appointed for the return of a number of periodic comets. * IH SHBBHTR SCHOOL LESS INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 15. Lesson] Text: “Watchfulness,’”” Matthew xxiv., J 42-31 —=Golden Text: Matthew xxiv., 4%-—Commentary on the Lesson of the Day by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. 42. “Watch, therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” The title of this lesson is *‘‘Watchfulness,” and if we consider the special topic of this whole chapter and the next one, “The Sec- ond Coming of Our Lord,” there is no event for which we would more eagerly watch if we loved it as we should, and we would surely love it if we understood it. The les- son committee suggest that it may be used as a temperance lesson, and if we un- derstand the word ‘‘temperance” in its Scriptural significance of the whole matter of self control there 'is no truth that tends more to denial of seif and complete self renunciation than that of the imminence of the return-of our Lord. Having uttered His last public word to the hypocritical Pharisees and having announced the deso- lation’of Jerusalem, Jesus and His disciples lett the temple and as they did so His dis- ciples tried to draw His attention to the buildings and the stones, and the adorn- ings, but He surprised them by telling tiem that the whole thing would be thrown down. This lad to a question privately asked Him by four of the disciples (Mark xiii., 3), and the cuestion led to this discourse, in which ie refers tothe ap- proaching destruction of Jerusalem, but chiefly to events connected with His com- ing again at the end of this age. , 43. "But know this—tftat if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.” On a former occasion our Lord used the same words (Luke xii., 39), but in connection with watching for His return from the wedding. In this sermon and in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke we must remember that the commis- sion was to Israel, and the messengers were forbidden to go to the gentiles, and while there are lessons for us allin the Bible we must not attempt to apply some things which are specially for Israel to the church, or vice versa. Truth forthe church concern- ing the second coming of Christ is found chiely in the epistles. Notice specially that the coming -as a thief does not or should not apply to the church (I Thess. v., 4,5), for she is loving His appearing and looking eagerly for Him and constantly saying, ‘‘Come, Lord Jesus” (Rev. xxii., 0). 44. ‘“Thersfore be ya also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh.” Now, to be ready and watchful is a word for every believer at all times. Having received Christ and become clothed with His righteousness, we are ever ready for His presence, for nothing more is necessary to fit us to enter heaven than His merits only. But we are expected to be ever ready for any manner of service and watchful to see His way and hear His words (II Sam, xv., 15; I Chron. xxviii., 21; Nah. ii., 1: Hab. {i., 1). This is not, how- ever, the special thought of these words, forthe coming of the Son of Man, as I un- derstand it, is always His coming with His saints in power and glory for the special benefit of Israel and the overthrow of her enemies, It is never death nor Pentecost nor the destruction of Jerusalem (Isa.lxvi., 5, 15; Zech, xiv., 4, 5). 45. “Who thew is a faithful and wise servant whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household to give them meat in due season?’ Here is something a child of God can always lay to heart. Two things required of us are that'we prove faitaful and wise. 46. ‘‘Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when He cometh shall find so doing.” One of his accusations of the Pharisees was, “They say and do not” (chapter xxiii., 3), and His warning in chapter vii., 21, is, “Not every ome that saith, but he that doeth.” He was never idle ot indo- lent, and it 13s impossible that those in whom He has full control can be either the one or the other. 47. “Verily I say unto you that He shall make him ruler over all His goods.” In the story of the talents in the next chapter both the ons who gained {ive and the ono: who gained two received the commenda- tion: *‘Welldone, good and faithful servant, Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things, Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” What can it all mean but that the faithful ser- vants will have plaess in His kingdom ac- cording to tneir faithfulness? Saved by grace, but rewarded according to work (Rov. xxii., 12). 43, “But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming.” Whether all that talk that way are evil ser- vants or not we caunot say, God knows, but we do know that there are many who bear His name, at least.outwardly, who not only say it in their hearts, but are very bold to say it with their lips, and even after tie fashion of II Pet. iii., 3, 4. 49, *‘And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken.” There are many Christians both in the pulpit and in the pews who seem to take special pleasume in the smiting of others, at least with theirtongues, unmind- ful of the word, “The servant of the Lord must not strive,” and of that other, “Judge nothing before the time,” and “All things whatsoever ye would that mep should ‘do to you, do ye even so to them?” (I Cor. iv., 5; II Mim. ii., 24; Math: vii., 12). As to eating and drinking with the drunken, the Lord sees those who bear His namo doing even this also, and openly without shame and in a very literal sense. It is still true that many walk whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things (Phil, iti., 18, 19). Whether there age many who weep over them or not, the Lord knows. If you are clearof tho guilt of the literal fulfillment, remember that there are many seemingly lawful things, as study, business, innocent amusoment, the bicyele, etc., which are very intoxicating and tako time and strength and money which ought to be wholly devoted. to Him. 50, 51. “The lord of that servant shail come.” He may seem to delay and not to care, but in an unexpected day and hour He will deal with his unfaithful servants. There may be present dealing in the way of treading under foot of men, like the savorless salt, or sickness or death, but these are only partial and except death may be with the desire to lead to repent- ance. The great dealing is, as in the last lessons, and also in chapter xxv., 30, the final one, from which there is no appeal or recall. See remarks onthe last lesson, and hesitate not to repeat to your class any- thing you then said, or have them tell you what you then told them, for these things must be oft repeated.—Lesson Helper. It is manifest that the Prussian state railway system is a great practi- cal success, says the Dublin Indepen- dent. We find from the net result of the workin of the state railway, as given at the close of the report, that from 1882-83 to 1895-9; the excess of receipts over expenditures had been £198,868,510, of which £120,- 148,244 had been applied as interest on the railway debt. After paying off £600,000 to meet deficits in the state expenditure, the remaining surplus of £77,560,332 was distributed for general state purposes—f{or paying off the state debt, for cancelling the debt incurred by the state for railway purposes, and for forming a fund for increasing the working stock enlarging lines and un- foreseen: expenditures. : A French physician declares that dyspepsia is often caused by soup. He says it distends the stomach and pre- vents the digestion of the solids that are eaten after the scup. REYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED FATAL EXPLOSION. Mother's Futile Attempt to Rescue Her Child From Death. The 38-year-old daughter of Mrs Stephen D. Corbin, of Altoona, was burned to death the other morning in a fire which destroyed the carpenter shop and stable of Contractor John Plummer. It is supposed the children were playing with matches. The loss on the building and contents is $5,000. .A small son of Edward Shaffer of Al- legheny township was fatally burned a few days ago, having set fire to his clothing while playing with matches. His mother was badly burned in en- deavoring to extinguish the flames. The following pensions were granted last week: James McCormick, iknslow, Allegheny, $8; John Lehner, Upton, Franklin, $8; Chas. C. Van Giesen, President, Venango, $2 to $6; Sylvester Bennett, Houtzdale, Clearfield, $8 to $17; Robert B. Clark, Fay, Lawrence, $16 to $24; John McCracken, Cokeville, Westmoreland, $14 to $24; Robert Sum- merville, Mattie, Bedford, $17 of0 $24; William T. Smith, Willett, Indiana, $6 to $8; William Howell, Gallitzin, $16 to $17; Henry J. Heimbach, Reedsville, Mifflin, $72; Charlotte Wombacher, Ridgeway, Elk, $8; Amanda, M. Ran- dall, Franklin, $8; Mary A. Holden, Tracy, Erie, $8; John J. Esher, Soldiers’ | Cameron, | Franklin, $10; Jacob Schultz, Loshley, | Fulten, $8; John H. Shields, Scranton- | Hartz, Coakley, ! home, Erie, $6; Bezalee dale, Clarion, Waynesboro, $8;: Abram 8. $6; Michael Pleasantville, Venango, $3; Clark, Braddock, $6; Joseph DeHaven, Allegheny dolph, Apollo, $6: John T. Mahon, Beaver, $6; James Hydetown, Crawford, $8 to $12; Albert Wilhelm, Sweden Valley, Potter, $8; Willaam J. Welch (dead), Franklin, Michael Preston, Frazier, $12; James Wise, Washington, $6 to $8; | Silas F. Templeton, Deckers Point, In- | Johns- | Union- | town, $8; Elizabeth A. McCoach, Kit-| diana, $6 to $8; David Huber, town, $6 to $8; Eliza J. Hess, tanning, $8; Annie C. Zellers, crans, Clinton, $12; Jacob Rider, Mec- Clellantown, Fayette, $6; George W. Schell, James Creek, Huntington, $6; Arthur McLain, Soldiers’ home, Erie, $6; -Hezekiah Bard, Altoona, $8; liam G. Jack, Freedom, Beaver, Rose- $6; John McRoberts, Pittsburg, $6; Henry | Dietrich, Pittsburg, $6; James Johnson, Soldiers’ home, Erie, $8; John C. Hoover, Altoona, $10 to $30; Edward C. Eagerton, California, $17 to $50; Ellen Durbin, Gallitzin, $8; Susan C. Fisher, Lewistown, $2. The Third brigade was inspected 2,266 men and 195 officers volunteering, ' and 259 men and 5 officers refusing. The latter number was divided as follows: Twelfth regiment, 17 men; Eighth, 66 men and one officer; Fourth, 25 men; Ninth, 54 men and three officers; Thir- Leenth, ‘75 men and one officer; Battery A, 10 men and 1 officer; Governors troop, 12 men. Summarizing the re- sults of the entire inspection, 7,756 men and 570 officers have volunteered out of | the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and 776 men and 14 officers have re- | fused. The Halsted mine of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company at Duryea was the scene of an accident the other evening which Monghan, Stephen Jenkins Titus. and John The men were engaged in re- pairing the lining of the shaft, which ! had been damaged by the cave-in last week. Heavy timbers were being low- ered, the rope attached to them slipped off, and the timbers struck the plat- form upon which the three workmen were standing, with great force, demol- ishing it and precipitating the men to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 260 feet. The bodies were horribly mangled. Harry Davis, aged 8 years, was acci- dentally shot by his brother at Brook- | field the other day while they were playing soldier. Harry was acting the part of a Spanish soldier, and his brother was a United States soldier. Harry was asked to surrender and he refused. His brother then pointed a revolver at him, and it was discharged, the bullet entering his arm. Secretary of the Commonwealth Mar- tin, by direction of Gov. Hastings, is- sued commissions to the surgeons in the Pennsylvania national guard, who have becen examined the past two days by the army board at Camp Hastings. The physicians will examine the troops for muster into the United States serv- ice. When the whistles sounded Tuesday morning it was the signal for active work on the new capitol to begin. Sub-Contractor F. M. Harris of Phila- delphia started work on the excava- tions. For the present 2350 to 300 men will be employed. Most of the old iron was carted away Saturday to allow an entrance to the ruins. Charges of extravagance have been lodged by Detective John Toole, before the Schuylkill County Comm: ssi ners, against Prison Warden C. W. Brower. Suit for $50,000 damages has been brought at Bellefonte azainst the Pennsylvania Railroad Company by Mrs. Joseph Fox, whose husband was kilied by a. train. Lieut. Werlick, TU. 8. N., completed the inspection of 13-inch navy projec- tiles at the Carpenter steel works, at Reading, and a shipment of 150 of them was made last week to 75 tons. Work is progressing on 5, 6, § and 10-inch navy shells. Benjamin Smith had a literal hair's breadth escape with his life recently at Mansfield. He was walking along a country road, a mile east of town, when a man leaped from behind a fence and shot at him. The bullet passed so close to his head as to cut off a tuft of hair, which was found inside his hat. Eward Guanton, a miner, near Dun- bar, is fatally injured at his home. A few nights ago he came to town and ridiculed this government and hoped Spain would whip. While going home some person struck him on the head with a brick, cutting a deep gash and rendering kim unconscious. James M. Somerville, aged 22, dled near Philipsburg last week. It was supposed until a few days ago that bis trouble was consumption, During 1 coughing spasm last Friday he roughed up a live toad, weighing near- iy two ounces. 20vVer. The University of Pennsylvania has Jecided to admit women to an under- graduate course and give the same de- zrees as to men. The other evening, while two lads were digging near the rairoad at the lower end of the town of Ramey, they unearthed a bag containing almost $200 n gold. Efforis are now being made to discover how the gold happened to be there. Evidently it had not been buried long. Mrs. Nettie Hogamire has just died near Wellersburg, aged 118 years. It is held that she was the oldest woman in the world. A few days ago Mrs. Bet- tie Duckworth died at the same place at the reported age of 108 years. Walking in his sleep, aged Benno Wirth, of Easton, stepped out of a scc- ond-story window the other day and fell on the pavement, sustaining- in- juries from whic he died. vy, $10; Alonzo Ran- | Archer, | $4 to Wil- | killed John Washington. | The weight of the shipment was nearly i rapidly ! He was too weak to re- : ACRICULTURAL TOPICS, Farm Farrows. High thinking goes well with higk I farming. Farm the land red hot. The truck farmer sells mostly high: flavored water and air. Cattle will pattern after an ill-tem: pered owner. A tripod of good farming: Good stock, good care, good marketing. Fall plowing fattens the profits. Never allow two men, two cows or two acres, to do the work of one.— New England Homestead, Growing Brussels Sprouts. Brussels sprouts require the sams treatment as cabbage. The soil must be rich and contain considerable mois- ture. If the small sprouts do not grow rapidly they will be tough. Sow seed in a hotbed and transplant, oz scatter seed in hills and thin. Give the plants plenty of room. Have the rows thirty inches apart and the plants two feet apart. Ordinary eulture will suffice. Sprouts half an iuch in diameter are thought to be more pala- table than larger ones. The top leaves are sometimes used as greens. Truck Farming and Dairying. In addition to our Jersey dairy re- quirements, we shall raise this year quite a quantity of hay for sale and more sweet corn than usnal. We shall also grow a few acres of potatoes, one of popeorn, one of onions, one of carrots,one of squashes, two of melons, one of cucumbers, one of strawberries, jone of raspberries, besides quite a quantity of beans, peas, tomatoes and the like. We find it cheaper on an average to buy corn and oats in this --B. F. Wyman, of Illinois, in Orange Judd Farmer. Sweet Corn as a Money Crop. Sweet corn as a money crop is a pretty sure thing if one is situated | where the ears can be marketed when in the roasting stage. What grain is not sold in this way makes good feed. The fodder is worth all it costs to raise the crop, leaving the receipts for corn as net profit. The stalks are cut up at the bottom as soon as the ears become too old for market and are carefully cured in the shock, or put into the silo whole or cut ears and all. Either feed is preferred for milk or butter production to the best hay. The best variety of sweet corn is still ; 3 moot question.—American Agricul- turist. Clean the Damp Hives. Cleaning out damp bes hives ana opening them up as much as possible to the warm sun to dry out is very im- portant. But this must be done only {during the warmest part of the day, rand also when the bees are ontiying freely. Never work with bees at any time during cool weather, when they are not flying. Combs are often found very mouldy and damp {rom moisture accumulating in the hives, and this wo can do nothing with bat let them re- main so, and when the bees get strong they will clean them thoroughly, and no damage is the result. They will also remove all dead bees that may be sticking in the combs, which he could not do without damazinz the sa 22 Jottings in My Garden. Take good care of the garden tools. Good onzs do better work and in much less time than poor ones. Now is a good time to haul manure and scatter around the spberries which are to frait next year. One grower of fruit plants says the | Gregg blackeap raspberry must give | way to ‘‘new blood.” It may but it hasn’t yet. | Where our apple, plum and pear scions were buried in dry leaves they are fresh and keeping in the finest shape. The Champion, although an early grape, is just about worthless as far as quality is concerned. The Clyde strawberry, doubt, from its behavior grounds, has come to stay. ° It is sarprising what a& large quan- tity of berries can be raised on a small plot of ground when highly manured and heavily mulched with old straw or marsh hay. I have known some small patches of blackberries to yield five times as many berries when treated in this manner as the same amount of ground not £5 managed,— Charles C. Nash, of Michigan. a I have no on my Planting Parsnip Secd. The parsnip seed, even when fresh, is so hard and woody that it is very difficult to start it in early spring with- out first putting it in pretty hot water and keeping it there until it was near to germinating. We never had much faith in soaking sced to give it an earlier start, but we always made ex- ‘ception of parsnip seed, which, if planted wholly dry in early spring, takes so long to grow that weeds will get too big a start before they can be weeded out. Salsifly or oyster plant must also be soaked before planting, ! and for the same reason. In fact, all the sceds planted in very early spring ought to Le nearly at the sprouting point before they are planted. Weeds . grow at lower temperatures than will any garden vegetable. But in plant- ing seeds that have Deen swelled by soaking, extra care should be taken to compact the soil all about them, eo that when the first rootlet puts out it may touch damp soil, and not reach out into a vacant space filled with air, If the weather and soil are warm, it is better to plant the seed dry, and then have it swell as it absorbs moisture from the soil. This compacts the soil around the seed far better than it can be done by hand.—Boston Cultivator, Gil in Fishing Iloats. The fishermen of Iceland now regn- larly carry oil in their boats to smooth tho waves, which enables them to con- tinne at work in weather that before { thev weuld not have Javed {o face. part of the country than toraise them, | terfered with. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Astronomers tell us that in our solar systems there are at least 17,000,000 ovomets of all sizes, There is enough salt in the sea to cover 7,000,000 square miles of land with a layer one mile in thickness. In Germany peroxide of hydrogen is said to be mixed with various drinks, in order to give them the mellow tlavor of age. The hydra fusca, a sort of polypus, may be turned inside out like a glove, and will eontinue to live and eat as heartily as ever. It has been proposed to equip Lon- don policemen with portable electric batteries to feed electric lights on their helmets. A curiosity of the Stockholm expo- sition is a pine tree section four feet in diameter from 60 or 70 miles north of the Arctic eirele. The world’s useful fibers number 1018, according to a catalogue by the department of agriculture, about 30 being used in the United States. In French trails, a mixture of ten parts of air and one part of acetylene has proven suitable for ordinary gas engines, giving three times the energy of ordinary illnminating gas. A single bell is made by a German manufacturer to give more than one note.- A number of dents divide the bell into sections of different sizes, and each section, when struck, emits a tone corresponding to its size. The fact is stated that in a single one of the standard locomotives em- ployed byaleadingrailroad of America there are, counting individual rivets and bolts, though not nails in the cab and tender, over twenty thousand pieces. The gradual eooling of France is proven by its vegetation. The Ital- ian poplar, common in early French etchings, is now seldom seen in the country, while the lemon has disap- peared from Languedoe and the orange from Roussillon, and the northern limit of many plant species has shifted far to the southward. A noiseless and more efficient flame for incandescent gas burners is pro- duced by giving the air and gas a rotary motion to thoroughly mix them as they are admitted to the bottom of the burner, the mixed air and gas then being heated by means of corrugated rings in the burner, which draw heat from the flame above. Sunken iron ships which are too deeply submerged to permit of the descent of divers to make connections for raising them can be lifted by means of powerful electro magnets attached to lifting ropes, the magnets being lowered until they strike the wreck, when an electric current is applied through wires to cause them to grip the boat. Don’t Cross Your Legs. Don’t cross your legs! Not only is it bad form, but is one of the worst things in the world for a man or woman. Jtis particularly injurious I for women to sit with one leg swung over the knee of the other. Many have often wondered how in the world they have contracted a splitting headache, or why their feet cet so cold at times. These two troubles and a score of others are due solely in many cases to the common habit of seeking comfort by crossing the le rs. Cold feet, varicose veins, headache, nleers and countless o'her troubles from the improper circuiztion of the blood in the lower limbs are caused by the pernicious habit of crossing the lexs. if yon cross your right leg over the left knee you will notice that the whole weight of tne suspended right leg is. sustdined by the left knee, which places all of the pressure azainst that under part of your right ler between the calf and the kneecap. Now, any school text book on physi- ology will show that just in the very spot where all the pressure is placed there is a large number of large veins, nerves and arteries. The mere fact of putting undue pressure ' against this spot in either lex has the effect of erowding all these tissncs together, and the circulation of the lifegiving fluid is materially in- Of course, the absence of & plentiful supply of blood to the legs and feet causes them to become so susceptible to the cold air that the least draft csuses the feet to become annoyingly cold.—Journal of Good Health. A Very Old Violin. Myr. Taylor Buttrill of Jackson has a vidlin that is 183 years old. It has been in his possession some twenty years, aud is considered by first-class musicians to be a valuable and high- toned instrument. It was manufac- tured in 1715, and is perhaps one among the oldest ot its kind in the south. Mr. Butrill prizes his violin very highly, and as he is one of those “back date” musicians himself he sometimes takes the bow in hand and knocks off “The Arkansas Traveler’ and ‘The Old Cow Crossed the Road’” with a degree of satisfaction that could hardly be obtained from a violin of a later date than 1715. While he is not what would be considered an expert he can knock a tune out of that old violin that would surprise the natives. —Jackson (Ga.) Argus. Round the Earth. The time required for a journey round the earth by a man walking day and night, without resting, would be 428 days; an express train, 40 days; sonnd; at a medium temperature, 32 1-2 hours; a cannon ball, 21 3-4 hours; light, a little over one-tenth of a sec- ond; and electricity, passing over a copper wire, a little under one-tenth of a second,
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