REY. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON. A GOSPEL MESSAGE. Subject: “The Art of Friendship”—=Get Your Heart Right With God and Man and This Grace Will Become Easy-—Ee an Ezekiel, Not a Jeremiah. TexT: “A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.”’—Proverbs xviii., 24. About the sacred and divine art of making and keeping friends I speak—a subject on which I never heard of anyone preaching— and yet God thought it of enough impor- tance to put it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on one side by the popular Psalms of David, and on the other by the writings of Isaiah, the greatest of the prophets. It seems all a matter of haphazard how many iriends we have, or whether we have any friends at all, but there is nothing accidental about it. There is a law which covers the accre- tion and dispersion of friendships. They did not ‘just happen so’ any more than the tides just happen to rise or fall, or the sun just happens to rise or set. It is a science, an art, a God-given regulation. Tell me how friendly you are to others, and I will tell you how friendly others are to you. I do not say you will not have enemies; indeed, the best way to get ardent friends is to have ardent enemies, if you get their ermity in doing the right thing Good men and women will always have enemies, because their goodness is a per- petual rebuke to evil; but this antagonism of foes will make moro intense the love of your adherents. Your friends will gather closer around you because of the attacks of your assailants. The more your enemies abuse you the better your coadjutors will think of you. . The hest friends we have ever had ap- peared at some juncture when we were especially bombarded. There have been times in my life when unjust assault multi- plied my friends as near as I could calcu- late, about fifty a minute. You are bound to some people by many cords that neither time nor eternity can break, and I will war- rant that many of those cords were twisted by hands malevolent. Human nature was shipwrecked about fifty-nine centuries ago. the captain of that craft, one Adam, and his first mate running the famous cargo around on a snag in the river Hiddekel; but there was at least ome good trait of human nature that waded safely ashore from that shipwreck, and that is the dispo- sition to take the part of those unfairly dealt with. When it is thoroughly demon- strated that some one is being persecuted, although at the start slanderous tongues were busy enough, defenders finally gather around as thick as honey bees on a trellis of bruised honeysuckle. If, when set upon by the furies, you can have grace enough to keep your mouth shut, and preserve your equipoise, and let others fight your battles, you wiil find yourself after awhile with a whole cordon of allies. Had not the world given to Christ upon His arrival at Palestine a very cold shoulder, there would not have been one-halfas many angels chanting glory out of the hymn books of the sky, bound in black lidsof midnight. Had it not been for the heavy and jagged and tortuous Cross, Christ would not have been the ad- mired and loved of more people than any being who ever touched foot on either the Eastern or Western Hemisphere. Instead, therefore, of giving up in despair because vou have vnemies, rejoice in the fact that they rally for you the most helpful and en- thusiastic admirers. In other words, there is no virulence that can hinder my text from coming true: ‘‘A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.” It is my ambition to project especially upon the young a thought which may be- nignly shape their destiny for the here and the hereafter. Before you show yourself friendly you must be friendly. I do not recommend a dramatized geniality. There is such a thing as pretending to be en rap- port with others, when we are their dire destructants, and talk against them and wish them calamity. Judas covered up his treachery by a resounding kiss, and caresses may be demonical. Better the mythological Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell, barking at us, than the wolf in sheep’s clothing, its brindled hide covered up by deceptive wool, and its deathful bowl cadenced into an innocent bleating. Disraeli writes of Lord Man{red,who, after committing many outrages upon the peo- ple, seemed suddenly to become friendly and invited them to a banquet. After most of the courses had been served he blew a horn, which was in those times a signal for the servants to bring on the de- sert, but in this casg it was the signal for assassins to enter arth slay the guests. His pretended friendliness was a cruel fraud; and there are now people whose smile is a falsehood. Before you begin to show yourself friendly you must be friendly. Get your heart right with God and man, and this grace will become easy. You may by your own resolution get your nature into a semblance of this virtue, but the grace of’ God can sublimely lift you into it. Sailing on the River Thames two vessels ran aground. The owners of one got one hun-. dred horses, and pulled on the grounded ship, and pulled it to pieces. The owners of the other grounded vessel waited till the tides came in, and easily floated the ship out of alletrouble. So we may pull and haul at our grounded human na- ture, and try to get it into better condi- tion; but there is nothing like the oceanic tides of God’s uplifting grace. If, when under the flash of the Holy Ghost, we see our own foibles and defects and depravi- ties, we will be very lenient, and very easy with others. We will look into their characters for things commendatory, and not damnatory. If you would rub your own eye a little more vigorously you would find a mote in it, the extraction of which would keep you so busy you would not have much time to shoulder your broad- axe and go forth to split up the beam in your neighbor’s eye. In a Christian spirit keep on exploring the characters of those you meet, and I am sure you will find something in them fit for a foundation of friendliness. You invite me to come to your country seat and spend a few days. Thank you! I arrive about noon of a beautiful summer day. What do you? As soon as I arrive you take me out under the shadow of the great elms. You take me down to the artificial lake, the spotted trout floating in and out among the white pillars of the pond lilies. - You take me to the stalls and kennels where you keep your fine stock, and here arethe Durham cattle ana the Gordon setters: and the high-stepping ¢ steeds, by pawing and neighing, the only language they can speak. asking for har- ness or saddle, and a short turn down the road. Then we go back to the house, and you get me in the right light and show me the Kensetts and the Bierstadts on the wall, and take me into the music room and show me the bird-cages, the canaries in the bay window answering the robins in the tree-tops. Thank you! I never en- joyed myself more in the same length of time. Now, why do we not do so with the characters of others, and show the bloom and the music and the bright fountains? No. We say, “Come along, and let me show you that man’s character. Here is a green-scummed frog-pond, and there's a filthy cellar, and I guess under that hedge there must be a black snake, with the nuisances.” Ob, my friends, better eover up the faults and extol the virtues; and this habit once established of universal friendliness will become as ensy as it is for a syringa to flood the air with sweetness, as easy as | it will be further on in the quail to whistle up from the grass. season for a When we hear something bad about somebody ! whom we always supposed to be zood, talks out your lead pencil, and say: “Let me see! Before I accept that baieful story against that man’s character, I will take oF Irom it iwenty-five per cent, for the! Come, and | ; 3 3 let us for an hour or two regale ourselves | it this morning iv Caakperation which belongs to thi» mun who first told the story; then I will take oli twenty-five per cent, for the addi- tions which the spirit 6f gossip in every community has put upon the original story; then I will tuke off twenty-five per cent, from the fact that the man may have been put into circumstances of overpowers ing temptation. So I have taken ofl sev- enty-five per cent. But I have not heard his side of the story all, and for that rea- son I take off the remaining twenty-five per cent. Excuse me, sir, I don’t believe a word of it.” Do not prophesy misfortune. If you must be a prophet at all, be an Ezekiel, and not a Jeremiah. In ancient times prophets who foretold evil were doing right, for they were divinely directed; but the prophets of evil in our time are generally false proph- ats. Real troubles have no heralds running ‘ahead of their sombre chariots, and no one has any authority in our time to announces their coming. Load yourself up with hope- ful words and deeds. The hymn once sung says: We should suspect some danger near, Where we possess delight able all the time. The old song sung at the “Kind words can never die. words have their nests in kind hearts, and when they are hatched out and take wing, they circle round in flights that never cease, and sportsman’s gun cannot shoot them, and storms cannot ruffia their wings, and when they cease flight in these lower skies of earth, they sweep around amid the high- er altitudes of Heaven. At Baltimore I talked into a phonograph. The cylinder containing the words was sent on to Wash- ington, and the next day that cylinder from another phonographic instrument, when turned, gave back to me the very words I had uttered the day before, and with the same intonations. Scold into a phono- graph, and it will scold back. Pour mild words into a phonograph and it will return the gentleness. Societyand the world ard the church are phonographs. Give them acerbity and rough treatment, and acerbity and tough treatment vou will get back. Give them practical friendliness, and they will give “back practical ‘friendliness. A father asked his little daughter: ‘Mary, why is it that everybody.loves you?” answered: “I don’t know, unless it is be- cause I love everybody.” ‘‘A map that hath friends must show himself friendly.” We want something like that spirit of English Channel, where in the storm a boat containing three men was upset, and all three were in the water struggling for their lives. A boat came to their relief, and a rope was thrown to one of them, and he refused to take fit, saying: ‘First fling it to Tom; he is just ready to go down. I can last some time longer.” A man like that, be he sailor or laadsman, be he in upper ranks of society or lower ranks, will al- ways have plenty of friends. What is true manward is true Godward. We must be the friends of God if we want Himto be our friend. We cannot treat Christ badly all our lives and expect Him to treat us lovingly. I was reading of a sea fight, in which Lord Nelson captured a French offl- cer, and when the French officer offered Lord Nelson his hand, Nelson replied, “Kirst give me your sword, and then give me your hand.” Surrender of our resis- tance to God must precede God’s proffer of pardon to us. Repentance befors forgive- ness. You must give up your rebellious sword before you can get a grasp of the divine hand. Oh, what a glorious state of things to havethe friendship of God! Why, we could afford to have all the world against us and all other worlds against us if we had God for us. He could in a minute blot out this universe, and in another minute make a better universe. I have no idea that God tried hard when He made all things. The most brilliant thing known to us is light, and for the creation of that He only used a word of command. As out of a flint a frontiersman strikes a spark, so out of one word God struck the noonday sun. For the making. of the present universes 1 do not read that God lifted so much as a fin- ger. The Bible frequently speaks of God’s and God’s foot; then suppose He should put hand and arm and shoulder and foot to utmost tension, what cculd He not make? That God of such demonstrated and unde- monstrated strength, you may have for your present and everlasting friend, not a stately and reticent friend, hard to get at, but as approachable as a country mansion on a summer day, when all the doors and windows are wide open. Christ said, “I am the door.” And He is a wide door, a high door, a palace door, an always open door. If God is your friend, you cannot go out of the world too quickly or suddenly, so far as your own happiness is concerned. There were two Christians who entered Heaven; the one was standing at a window in per- fect health, watching a shower, and the lightning instantly slew him; but the lightning did not flash down the sky as swiftly as his spirit flashed upward. The Christian man who died on the same day next door had been for a year or two fail- ing in health, and for the last three months had suffered from a disease that made the nights sleepless and the days an anguish. Do you not really think that the case of the one who went instantly was more de- sirable than the one who entered the shin- ing gate through a long lane of insomnia and congestion? In the one case it was like your standing wearily at a door, knocking and waiting, and wondering if it will ever oven, and knocking and waiting again, while in the other case it was a swinging open of the door at the first touch of you: knuckle. Give your friend- ship to God, and have God’s friendship for you, and even the worst accident will be a victory. How refreshing is human friendship; an: true friends, what priceless treasures! When sickness comes, and trouble comes, and death comes, we send for our friends first of all, and their appearance in our docrway in any crisis is reinforcement, and when they have entered, we say: “Now, it is all right!” Oh, what would we do with- out personal friends, business friends, family friends? But we want something mightier than human friendship in the great exigencies. When Jonathan Ed wards, in his final hour, had given the last good-bye to all his earthly friends, he turned on his pillow and closed his eyes, confidently saying: *‘Now, where is Jesus of Nazareth, my {rue and never-failing Friend?” Yes, I admire human friendship “4s seen in the case of David and Jonathan, of Paul and Opesiphorus, of Herder and Goethe, of Goldsmith and Reynolds, of Beaumont and Fletcher, of Cowley and Harvey, of Erasmas and Thomas More, of Lessing and Mendelssohn, of Lady Churchill and Prince Anne, of Orestes and Pylades, each requesting that himself take the point of the dagger, so the other might be spared; of Epa- minondas and Pelopidas, who locked their shields in battia, determined to die together; but the grandest, the mightiest, the tenderest friendship ip all the universe is the friendship between Jesus Christ and a believing soul Yet, after all I have said, I feel I have only done what James Marshall, the miner, did in 1845 in Cali= fornia, before its gold mines were known. He reached in and put upon the table of his employer, Captain Sutter. a thimbleful of gold dust. “Where did you get that?” said his employer. Thereply was: “I got from a mill race from which the wgiter hal heen drawn off *' But that gold dust, which could have been taken up between the ingér and thethumb, was the prophecy and specimen that ree vealed Catifornia’s wealth to all nations. And to-day f have onlv put befors you a specimen of the vilue of divine friendship, {only a thimbleful of mines inexhaustible and infinite, though all time and all eternity zo on-with the exploration, ree ee The sweve-potato cro)» tais year on th- Mu:jlaad and Virginia peninsala is esti- matad a. 2,002,009 barrel. in our churches is unfit to be sung. for it | ) : ! fied the tribe of Benjamin. She | sacrifice for others which was seen in the | hands and God’s arm and God’s shoulder. (HE SABBATH: SCHOOL LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 25 -y Neview of Lesrons For the Third Quarter —Golden Text: “No Good Thing Will He Withhold From Them That Walk Uprightly,”’ Ps. Ixxxiv, 1 l—wComments: T.esson I.—-The Kingdom Divided (I Rines xii., 16-25). Golden Text, Prov. xv.. 1.**A soft answer titrneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.” DBeeanse Solomon turned away his heart from the Tord and worshiped the gods whieh his wives worshiped, allowing his wives to come hetween him and his God (ehapter xi., 4, 9), therefore the Tord divided the kingdom, rending away ten tribag and leaving to his son only the tribe of Judah (chapter xi., 36). with which seems to have been identi- The divided outward of the-divided kingdom was the | heart. In other words, manage to keep miser- T.esson TI.- Elijah the Prophet (I Kinzs xvil.. 1-16). Golden Text, I Kings xvii.. 16, ! “And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither pianos a quarter of a century ago was right: | »” Such kind | did the cruse of oil fail. according to the word of the Lord.” In contrast to Solomon and his divided heart here is a man with a whole heart for God, ready to.stand before kings or to hide himself by Cherith. or in the widow's house at Zarephath, a living witness to the living and true God, obedient to Him and depending wholly upon Him. Lesson ITL.--Elijah on Carmel (I Kings xviii., 30-39), Golden Text, I Kings xviii., 39, “And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and they said, The Lord, He is the God: the Lord, He is the God.” The desire of Elijah was that all might know that the I.ord God of Abraham was the God of [sraeland that he was His ser- vant (verse 36). So the desire of David was { that the Lord of hosts might be magnified (I Sam. xvii. 45). : Lesson IV.—Elijah's Flight and Encour- agement (I Kings xix., 1-16). Golden Text, Ps. xxxvi., 7, “Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him.” Seeing only the Lord, Elijah was strong and fearless, but when he | saw Jezebel and her anger he was weak in- deed and fled for his life. Truly the fear of man or woman bringeth a snare. but looking up steadfastly into heaven (Acts vii., 55) takes away all fear. We must not think that we are essential to God, lest He appoint our successor (chapter xix.. 16), Lesson V.—-Naboth’s Vineyara (I Kings xxi., 4-16). Golden Text, Ex. xx., 17, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.” Hera isa man the very opposite of Elijah and the God of Elijah—a man who lived oaly for himself and to obtain what he desired no matter who suffered. He is in the line of Cain and related to antichrist, of whom we read that he shall do according to his will and exalt and magnify himself above every god, and sitting in the temple of Geil will show himself that he is God (Dan. xi., 36; II Thess. ii., 4). The Christian magni- fies Christ. Lesson VI.—Elijah's Spirit on Elisha (II Kings ii., 6-15). Golden Text, Luke xi., 13, “How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.” For salvation we do not need to eling to Christ. When once we have re- ceived Him, He clings to us and will never Jet us go. But for power and service and for intimate fellowship with Him we must zleave to Him as Elisha did to Elijah, never taking our eyes off Him, seeing no man save Jesus only. Lesson VII.—The Shunamite's Son (II Kingsiv., 25-37). Golden Text, Ps. lv., 22, ‘Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.”” The boy restored to his mother from the dead would be much more to her than if she had never lost him. God, who gave her this son, would be more to her also. She now knew the joy not only of the gift of a son, but of the restoration of a son from the dead. Oh, that we may know the Son, God's Son, and the power of His resurrection! (Phil. iii., 10.) Lesson VIII.—Naaman Healsd (II Kings v.,: 1-14). Golden: Text, Jer., xvii., 14, “Heal me, O Lord, ard I shall be healed; save me and I shall be saved.” All the greatness and honor and might of Naa- man was marred by the fact that he was a leper. All the greatness of earth is marred sin, and there is only one who can deliver, the God of Israel, Israel’s Messiah, the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. As a little child was the means of directing Naaman to the healer, so may every boy and girl who knows Christ direct others to Him. Lesson IX.—Elisha at Dothan (IT Kings | ” vi., 8-18). . Golden Text, Ps. xxxiv., 7. “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him and delivereth them.” When people take counsel with each other against God or against His ser- vants, they are sorely blinded and deluded by the devil. Our God sees and knows everything and has all power and can do everything (P's. exxxix.; Job xlii., 2; Math. xxviil.,, 20). Let us ever rejoice in His presence and power and in the ministry of angels and gladly serve Him without care or ferr. Lesson X.—-The Death Kings xiii., 14-25). 15, “‘Precious inthe sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.”” Though Elisha had a double portion of the Spirit, yet he was permitted to die, while Elijah was taken without dying. Either way it is a gain. They do rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. The bow and ar- row incident suggests that limitations in the service of God come from us rather than from God. The coming to life of the dead man makes us think of the power of His resurrection who died for us. Lesson XI.—Sinfullndulgence (Amos vi., 1-8). Golden Text, Isa. xxviii., 7, “They also have erred through wine and through strong drink are out of the way.” Ease and self indulgence are net bezoming in a child of God, for “*even Christ pleased not Himself.” It is our privilege to have quietness and peace and rest, but these only in order to serve Him who said, **My Father worketh hitherto, and I work,” and “I must be about My Father's business.” We are soldiers and chosen to please Him who hath called us to be His soldiers (II Tim. ii., 3, §). . Lesson X1I.—Captivity of the Ten Tribes (II Kings xvii., 9-18). Golden Text, I Chron. xxviii., 9, “If t's)u seek Him He will be found of thee, but if thou forsake Him He will cast thee off forever.” Every word of God is trae and shall be literally fulfilled. The Lord testified against Israel and their sins, warned them of the results, earnestly and lovingly entreated them to return to Him that He might forgive and heal and bless them; but they would not hear. Therefore He did uuto them as [He had said (II Kings xvii., 23). “Everyone of us must give account of himself to God” (Rom. xiv.. 12). Oar works will be ap- proved and rewarded or rejected, and we suffer loss (I Cor. {li., 14,15). Are we liv- ing as if we believed it? He will have to say to some, “Depart from Me ye cursed.” Do we believe and teach this also? —Les- son Helper. of Elisha (II Fortunes From Bananas. Immense fortunes have been made out of the banana business. Revenues accrue not alone from the sale of the fruit, for the leaves are used for pack- ing: the juice being strong in tannin makes an indelible ink and shoe black- Ing; the wax found on the under sid» of the leaves is a valuable article of commerce; manila hemp is made from the stems, and of this hemp are made mats, plaited work and lace handker- chiefs of the finest texture; moreover, the banana is ground into banana flour. A Chinaman always takes usually rice whisky,- with his but he drinks moderately, and apart from meals. spirits, meals, never Chinese coinage in the shape of a knife has been traced back as far as £240'B. C. Golden Text, Ps. exvi., - REYSTONE STATE NEWS GONDENSED SECRETED GOLD. Wife Searching for Her Dead Husband's Weaith- . Money Eaten by Mice. Andrew Reichard, Numedia, died last week without re- vealing to his wife the place where recently he secreted $2,000 in gold, He thought it safer to Keep the money about the premises rather than to de- posit it in a bank. $160 was found ‘in the barn, «lose to the homestead. Two Years ago Reichard hid $1,600 in bank notes in the barn, and one morning when he visited the hiding place to add a few greenbacks to the roll, he was almost stricken dumb to find that mice had nibbled at the money until noth- ing remained but a few shreds of a $50 bill. The following pensions were issued last week: Jasper Wolfe, Wymps Gap, $8: John Steer, Ambler, $6: Richard Vandussen, Sayres, $6; John H. Gross, Cerry, 36 to $10; Andrew (‘ozzens, Johnstown, $8 to $10: Anna Cooper, New Castle, $8; John Cullen, Titusv.l e, $8; W. H. McDonald, Sunbury, $35; Henry Fickes, Altoona, $8 to $10: Levi Wright, Mapleton Depot, $8 to $12: Sadie C. Shelly, Williamsport, $8; Emily Hallam, McDonald, $8: Rachel H. Zimmerman, Greene, $12: John M. Baird, dead, Pittsburg, 312; Henry Kaler, Pittsburg, $6 to $12: Mary Baird. Pittsburg, $8; minors of Jacob W. Dorschimer, Portersville, Butler, $20; Elizabeth Themas, Howard, Cen- ter, 38; Delia Thompson, Buena Vista, Allegheny, $8; Elizabeth Johnson, Rural Ridge, Allegheny, $8; Elias Dil- field, Tremont, $8; William H. Gilbert, Shippensburg, $8; J. S. Haynes, Corry, $30 to $50; Emma Miller, Hyndman, $12; Anna Pfeifer, Oakmont, $8; Han- nah W. Young, Newton, $12. On the trolley line between Carlisle and Boiling Springs a cow was struck by a car a few days ago and Killed. The car was derailed and eleven pas- sengers were injured. Among those most seriously hurt are: J. Li. McCas- key, Boiling Springs, side injured; J. William Stock, injured about head and neck; Miss Yoe, right foot: Charles Thurston, arm injured, and Conduc- tor Deckman, who was thrown from the rear platform half way through the car, was badly bruised. Two 3-year-old boys, one the son of Joseph Martell and the other of Anth- ony. Dominick, were playing on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie tracks at New Castle when the southbound passenger train came along this morning at rapid speed. The engineer saw the boys too late. They were hurled from the track, the locomotive hitting them on the head. When the train reached the spot the two children were dead. the skull of each being crushed. Workmen engaged in putting up a nionument in the Holy Trinity Cath- olic Cemetery at Hazelton recently, found it necessary to reinter the re- mains of the late Joseph Kellar, who died in Scranton seven years ago. When an effort was made to raise the casket they found it next to impossible, and on opening the casket they discov- ered “that the body was undergoing petrification. It weighed nearly 2000 rounds. A terrific explosion occurred in No. 2 shaft of the Susquehanna Coal Com- pany at Nanticoke a few days ago, by which seven men were badly burned. Their names are Isaac Smith, Thomas Smith, Louis K. Thomas, Joseph Uren, Peter Shipkupsky, John Yarus dnd John Tarashesky, The two latter may die. One of the miners set fire to the gas by epening his sarety lamp. The other morning two masked men entered the residence of Henry Landis, a few miles east of Sharon. Mr. Lan- dis was absent and the men attempted to force Mrs, Landis to reveal the hid- ing place of their money by choking and otherwise abusing her. She fought desperately, and during the struggle tore the mask from the face of one of the burglars. Mrs. Barbara Seanker, an aged ow, who had been leading residing. near wid- possession of considerable wealth. In her will filed she bequeath- ed $11,700 to St. Michaels church Hollidaysburg, and also created a per- petual fund out of the residue of her estate for the support of the church school. Mrs. Martell, the mother of one of the boys, saw the train coming and saw the boys’ peril, but was not in time to reach them. She saw the train strike them, then fell over unconscious. Her condition is very precarious and there is very little hope that she will recover, The train was delayed about an hour hy the accident. Robert Rochester, 62 years old, of West Newton, Westmoreland county, last Tuesday fired a load of buckshots into his wife's body. She is about her hushand’s age, and they had not been living happily together. The wound is dangerous and the aged man is in jail De Lia Green, late cashier of the First National bank of Muncy was convicted in the United States court at Williams- port last week of making fraudulent returns of the bank's condition and of aiding and abetting President John M. Bowman to deceive the comptroller of the currency. Neshannock mine. A ghost and lamp, goes into busily, emerges about daylight and vanishes. Years ago Elijah Bowaker, a miner, disappeared there, and it was thought he was murdered. The hospital train from Lexington, Ky., carrying 28 sick members of the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, arrived at Wilkesbarre Saturday night. and the invalids were removed to the hos- pital and their homes. A daring robbery was committed the other morning at Wilkesbarre, Two men entered the office of Real Iistate Agent Raeder, gagged his clerk and took $460 from the safe. There no trace of the thieves. Nearly half of $300,000 required for the building of a new National Guard armory at Pittsburg has been raised by subscription, the Carnegie Steel Company contr.buting $2,000. The trial at Easton of George H. Stephens for burning dee Hall, at Lafayette College, postponed until Novemyer Court, the defense was unprepared. The triai of Professor G. H. Steph- ens, who set fire to Pardee Hall and other Lafayette College property, wil not take place this week, counsel tor deterse not being ready. James Bristol, of Athens, put 49 shots in the legs of Uarry Streets, a boy he found in his orchard. George W. Keister, of Aaronsburg, has sold this year 2,000 crates of peach- es at $1.25 per crate. (i. John Morse, aged 58, shot himself through the head at Corry a few days ago, and died instantly. at more pected has a haunted coal miner takes his pick the mine, works is Professor Par- was Kas‘on, oncned than 109 now Lafayette Colleg>, its fall term with students. It is claimed at New Castle, Pa., that S00 new buildings are geing up in that town. of | as DDD DODDS DA AOL - FOR FARM AND GARDEN. 3 The Use of Fodder Shredtiers, Fodder shredders have been found equal to cutters in preparing eunsilage for the silo. According to the ex- perience of those whohave used shred- ders for the purpose mentioned Abb can be packed in the silo. It also keeps well and is more highly relished by stock. Late Fall Pigs. The only pig that will attain size enough to safely pass the winter one that is born six or seven months before cold weather is expected. We have raised pigs inthe fall aud that too when we had the advantage of a base- ment baru to provide warm quarters for then. Yet the growth daring the winter, notwithstanding good feed, was never satisfactory. little sunlight during the months, and if the pig is kept warm without sunlight it is usually a? the expense of poor ventilation. Without good air no animal can maintain good digestion or remain healthy. is What Chaff Is Good For. All kinds of grain have chaff rounding the kernels. In its wild state this chaff serves a very impor- tant use, as it absorbs the moisture that would otherwise swell the grain and canse its premature generation. After long cultivation this use seems less necessary and there is less pro- fusion of chaff and husk. It is quite possible that all our Indian corn orig- inally came from. that curious wild variety in which each grain on the ear had its separate husk. sur- there are severe droughts during the | time the grain is forming there will be less development of chaff and husk. With our self-binding grain harvest- ers, grain is now often put into stack or mow before it has dried out as it should do. The husk in such case serves an important use, as the straw will often rot under the baud where it is tightly compressed, while the head with still damper grain is preserved from injury by the loose chaff with which it is surrounded, and the grain in contact with it. Barley, which is most apt to be injured by rains, has a better supply of chaff and awns to keep its head open to air than has any other grain. Sewage as Affecting Food. Investigations, it is declared, show that animals fed on sewage farms are, under certain conditions, liable to have their flesh and secretions changed by the herbs and grasses,produced by the sewage, upon which they feed. Thus, if the sewage on a given fa 'm be so managed that no more of t be put iato the soil than any given crop oan adequately deal with, it is asserted that the crop will, under these con- ditions, be sweet and nataral,and that : the cattle or other animals fed on it will also be of that character. On the other hand, if the soil be gorged to repletion with sewage, then the crops will be surcharged with sewage ele- ments, and unfit for food —the ment { and milk of animals derived from such a solitary | crops will also be like the crops, alike life at Hollidaysburg, died in the unex- | | to the health. unpleasant to the taste and daugerons These hospital state- ments ave proved Lv well-known facts; that is, if a cow is fed on turnips, her milk will within twenty-four hours taste like them, the intensity of the flavor being according to the quantity of turnips taken; in the case of hens and their eggs, a like result follows, for, if fed on decaying matter, which they always eat greedily, both their eggs and flesh will be disagreeable and unwholesome eating. Ducks, ton. are still more objectionable in these | respects. —New York Tribune. Alightingz Boards. Not only in winter is the lighting board of great importance, but in sum- mer as well. Every convenience about the en- trances of hives should be afforded the bees, and this is of equal importance the year round. The entrance to the hive of itself should necessarily be small in winter and for this reasou the surroundings should be more favor- able. A good broad board, well cleated at each end to keep it straight, should rest on the ground at one end, and slope to the entrance to the hive at the other. This does not apply to well kent apiavies, as other conveniences used are better,but as farm beesare usually kept. The up-to-date apiarist makes a nice little mound of earth to set the hive on and places the bottom boa d directly on the same, and banks up in front with sand, gravel or sawdust on a level with the entrance or hottom board, and neither a spear of nor a weed is allowed to grow near the hives. It ismuch better to have hives set directly on the ground, but if the ground is allowed to grow np with grass and weeds until the bees are totally shut out of the hive. then the old rule of benches two or three feet high would probably be better. Farm, Field and TIireside, Grasses for Permanent Pastures. In order to obtain the greatest’ amount of profit from grasses, sele¢t | that heavy and forg the tions of seed should be made ordinary soils will give the crops of hay, the thickest nourishing pasture, and last longest time without renewing. tendency of the average farmer pin his faith too closely to and clover, or to timothy aJone, or with some other one grass, aad as a result he is forced to be confent with 8 yield of one or two tons of hay’ per is to the | ensilage is finer and a larger quantity | There is too | winter |! Wherever | which | very rapidly dries not only itself but | grass | imothy | acre. The best results are usually obtained from a mixture of several grasses as put in proper proportions by reliable seedmen. One of the finest mixtures for = fairly productive soil consists of or- ! chard grass, English rye grass, mead- t ow foxtail, Italian rye grass, sweet- | scented vernal, Rhode Island bent and | red top. This mixture is sown in the fall at the rate of three bushels per acre, more on poor land, and in the spring a mixture of clover is sown over the field broadcast at the rate of ten pounds to the acre. The hay crops from this sowing ! frequently amount to more than three times that from timothy and clover or other two-grass mixtures, leaving after cutting a pasture of value until late in the fall. Another point in favor of a mixture of several grasses is the long life of the meadow. If cared for i by occasional fertilizing such a wead- ow will scarcely need renewing under ten or a dozen years. Drying Wheat for Seed. After every damp harvest the i present has been in most localities, the grain goes into the barn with its | straw not so thoroughly dry as it should be. There is also considerable dampness in the grain itself, and this will probably cause heating of the grain in the mow. With spring grain ! this does not matter much for the grain will be pretty sure to dry out when freezing cold weather comes. | But whenever winter grain is grown the seed for next harvest has to be | selected from the present year's crop, | and this often means the premature { threshing of the winter grain and us- ing it while still damp as seed. {To this fact is probably to be at- | tributed the common belief among | farmers that old wheat and rye are better for seed than new. In the old | grain the freezing of winter and the | subsequent thawing has made the | seed nearly wholly free of moisture. | Yet all these experiences are not ab- solutely necessary. If the grain thoroughly dried in the fall that it is | grown, it is not only as fit but more I tit for seed than it is aft r being dried | out by winter freezing wherein its | germinating powers are more apt to be injured than they are by being i thoroughly dried out the previous | fall. We have heretofore advised the greatest care in drying seed grain for | fall sowing. But it is far better, we believe to thoroughly dry the seed even by artificial means. We have over and over again dried seed grain \_ in fruit evaporators such as are used | for drying ap; le , and always with the best results in a large proportion grown of the seed that was sown. We : believe that it is best to dry all grain used ns seed by the heat of fire. 16 | may be by braiding the seed corn and ! hanging it beside the chimney, so as to secure the heat of the kitchen fire. | But however it is dried, the seed that has fire heat to dvy it is sure to pro- "duce the most vigorous growth aud the largest crop of grain. —American Cultivator | as is Soil Exhaustion, In Bulletin 94 of the New York state agricultural experiment station attention is called to the dangers of a continued free use of farmyard man- ures. Referring especially to cereal crops, the bulletin shows that such manures are deficient in potasii and phosphoric acid, and that when used continuously for a considerable period they will hasten soil exhaustion. It is undoubt dly true that all soils less accessions of am- atmosphere, throngh rainfall and the action of leguminous plants of various kinds, but potash and phosphoric acid cannot possibly be obtained by such means. quently, while the supply of ammonia may be obtained within limits the mineral fertilizers rapid depletion and crops fall off. Farmyard manure tends the phosphoric acid and potash of the soil, simply because it less mineral fertilizer than in proportion to the needs of the crop. fhe elect on the soil (is a kind of stimulation, for the supplies of phorie acid and potash naturally isting in the soil are drawn npoua to make up the balance. While the amonnt for any one year may not be large, after years of cropping the loss receive more or monia from the (‘onse- reasonable suffer a begin to + to exhaust contatus ammonia phos- ex- becomes serious. Even in those cases wher: no man- ures were used at all the same result ‘reached. A very consideriible quantity of ammonia reaches the soil every vear through the aid of legumes, while every pound of min fertil- izers taken oft in crops is just so mueh dead loss to the soil. This is shown very clearly by the fact that the sim- ple application of phosphoric acid and | potash will very frequently give heavy { crops. The large fertilizer maunfac- tarers of the east make up their mix- tures from actual farm tests, and it is a striking fact that the ammonia in such goods is very low as compared with the phosphoric acid apd potash. If farmyard manure is used, or if no jproanure at all is used, dress the tields with phosphoric acid and potash. When these fail it is time to look after a further ammonia supply. It is not wise to run the soil down to the verge fof exhaustion by using the most ex- § pensive ingredient of fertilizers. Ifor J potash, potash salts are all that can be desired, and ordinary bone pro- duets will supply the neediul phos- phorie acid. Cereal farmers will find | that the normal fertility of their soils "may be muintained for many vears vet, by the simple application of the mineral fertilizers. 18 ral The | | Rare Self-Possession. Drowning Man—Help! Help! Rescuer (yelling to amateur photog- i rapher on bank) — Wait a second. I've | nearly reached him. * + * Now! | — (Chicago Tribune.
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