ANS RSNGRS eS rn, A SERMON" § pY THE REV~ Wi (RA V/~ HENDERSON Subject: Knowing Christ. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching on the above theme at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg ave- nue and Weirfield street, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his text, Luke 24:31,32: “And their eyes were opened and they knew Him, and He vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, was not our heart burning within us while He spake to us in the way.” He said: If there is any one thing for which I am at all envious it is that I might have had, in God’s providence, the same opportunity that these men had to talk face to face with Jesus; to have had an intimate, personal, hu- manly perceived knowledge of His reality in the bodily sense. If there is any particular men of whom I am envious, it is those disciples, who, from time to time, went with Jesus on His ministering tours; who knew Him, as we do not know Him—since "He has gene hence; those men who heard His voice, who could look up 4nto His face while He spoke to them, who could hear Him in the accents of their own language, which they were able to understand with the human ear. And while I am cognizant of the fact that we can get just as close to Jesus, spiritually and personally, as these men ever got in a bodily and material sense, there is to me a pe- culiar charm wrapped around their lives, owing to the fact that they talked with Him, that they really held conversation with the Lord and could see Him and understand Him and love Him 25 a man. You know how these two men were walking by the way when Jesus came and spoke to them and interpreted to them the Scriptures. They were un- able to sce Him, because He was then to be discerned only spiritually. And after a few moments their eyes were opened and they knew Him and He vanished out of their sight. And they said one to the other, “Was not our heart burning within us as He spake to us in.the way?” ! There are a great many Christian people who have never heard Jesus speak to them; who have not the faintest cort of idea of what it means to have communion with our Lord; people who have no spiritual percep- tion; who are but babes spiritually; who have not had their eyes opened to the contemplation of spiritual things; who have no realzation—as they should have—that Jesus is con- tinually speaking to them by the way. “Their eyes are closed because they have never gotten spiritual power. It is a peculiar thing about Chris- tianity that you cannot tell whether the Lord can be spiritually discerned until you get into spiritual relations with the Lord. You cannot tell what was the spirit that thrilled and throbbed through the hearts of these men, until your own heart has been throbbing and thrilling with the knowledge that you have been talking with the Lord.” But as soon as you have had a definite and experimental .communion with the Lord, you begin to understand what was the feeling of those men who talked with Christ .and whose hearts burned within them.’ = itis : I am not to define to you this morn- ing what ought to be your spiritual experience. Some of us think that we ought to hear some voice speaking, .audibly, to us; that we ought to have ;gome oral communication that will gtrike upon oyr cars and convey a ‘definite, distinct impression. But the very moment that you are conscious .of committing a wrong act or that you are doing right before God, that very moment He is speaking to you by the way. The very moment that you open these Gospels, writings and epistles—thece explanations and ex- plications of what Jesus meant—the moment vour soul is filled with the «divine glory and illumination, you may be just as sure that He is speak- ing to you, as that He spoke to those two going to Emmaus. I do not think it is necessary for you to have a cold «chill run up and down your backs in order that you may have a real knowledge in the flesh that you have ‘been talking with a Divine power. I think our Christian life is susceptible to a great deal of senseand much non- sense. Idonotthink weneed any more visions of men than wegetinthe world .around us, than we get in the faith and life of Jesus Christ. I do not think that you need any more demon- stration that the Lord is speaking to you as you go in the way, than you have when you feel that the Scrip- tures "are illuminated to you; when you hear the still, small voice com- mending you when you do right or admonishing you when you do wrong. I believe that God gave us brains and that He talks to us with our under- standing; that God gave us hearts and speaks to us through our eme- tions. When we are lifted up into {ranscendental heights—of which it | mayv be difficult to tell our experience | ti ine. —QGod is then speaking to us. is not one of us, however There weak in faith, who has not from time to time | been lifted up out of the senses and the sensuous into the eternal. There are times when it has seemed that we have taken flight from the body, have taken leave of the senses, and are lifted out of ourselves. And while I believe that that is purely emo- tional, vet it is for you and me just as puch of a vision of the Divine reality as we shall ever get this side of Heaven. It is a different thing to know about Christ, than to know Christ. I can refer you to all sorts of books in my library which will attempt to tell you all about Christ. This Bible will tell you all about Christ, but it can never give you an experimental knowledge of Christ; that is some- thing which no man or book can give or take away. The Scriptures may tell you what is the love of God to vou, but that is only to know about Him. It is quite a different thing to be able to say,” “I know Him, for I have had a vision of Jesus, revealing wnd ministering the love of God to me.” T may read to you from day- light to dark about the love of God, about the wondrous sacrifice on Cale vary, and all that it means to men; but if you have not the love of God in your own heart; if you do not know that Calvary is your own salvae- tion, youdonot know anything about-it experimentally. All “hat you know lis hearsay. You may go into the realm of other things than spiritual and you may take another man’s word for much truth. As we are humanly con- stituted, it is necessary that we should take a great deal of truth on the testimony of others. I do not pretend to be an expert on electricity or economics. I go to a man who has experimental knowledge of these things, in whom I can trust, and take his word for it. So it is throughout all the realm of nature. Bu‘ when you come to spiritual things, the only thing that is of any use to you is a first hand knowledge. I care not how much you may be able to philosophize. You may do that from the Scriptures. The heathen can build a system of philos- ophy on that Book. But it is far more necessary to have a life that is founded on divine realities. I care not how much you may know about the Scriptures, about Christ from the testimony of other people; the thing that is important to me is, is your heart burning within you as you walk by the way, while the Lord is speak- ing to your soul? O, my friends, let us not be de- ceived. Christ can speak to you to- day just as powerfully, just as up- liftingly and just as burningly, as ever He spoke to the disciples. Christ can speak to you, in words adapted to your peculiar need, just as much as when He spoke to Moses in the burn- ing bush. He will reveal Himself to us, just as truly as any patriarch ever got a vision of God. I am weary of the way the church of Christ goes back to the Fathers. May we have the Christian foresight and brains and ability to turn our faces to God and learn from Him. I am a great believer in giving all homage to those who have gone before. The knowl- edge of to-day is very largely founded on what is left to us by those who have antedated us—it is the consum- mation of an ecver-increasing pro- gress. But the only way that those who lived before us grew in knowl- eo was by turning their own faces | ) ede as oy z their own land. to God that He might lead them, give them illumination and knowledge of the truth. And, if we are to make any progress at all in spiritual things, we must be willing to have a divine and wholesouled faith in God's pur- pose to lead us aright, even as He led the patriarchs. I do not mean to say that we are perfect, that we have no reason for contriteness of heart— but we belittle ourselves. ple think that the power of God stopped in the hearts of men, with Jesus and Paul. Some people have more faith in Abraham and Moses than they have in the men of their own day. A man of our day and age who bears upon his face the marks of divinity and of inspiration and of power, a man who is in all things just as good as Abraham, should re- ceive just as much recognition from his own and from the world as Abra- ham gets. Why! on the basis of common knowledge, what was the wisdom of Abraham compared with the wisdom of to-day; the enlighten. ment, the spiritual power of the pa- triarchs compared with what we have with Christ in our hearts? And yet, we are more willing to accept: the dicta of Moses or Abraham than of Beecher or Spurgeon. 1 understand just what Jesus meant when He said, “A prophet is not without honor save in his own country.” His own day and age outranking any man who ever lived, in spiritual things; and yet they said, “Is not this the carpenter’s Son from down yonder’| in Nazareth?” “Why, out of that town no good can come; knoweth nothing.” We in our day and .age hail Jesus Christ and the revealment of God in His truth and beauty. And yet I know men to-day who are just as much inspired of God as Abraham was ever inspired, who are just as much filled with the Spirit of God as was Abraham, and more S80; men who have a better and wider knowledge of the truth of God; men whi live lives which are nobler. But they are not trusted. Let us have some sort of confidence that God is | able to lead us to-day even as He led our fathers and the patriarchs. You may try to down that if you will. But, my friends, unless the church of Jesus Christ begins to give men a God who is ruling in the world to- day, a God who is lifting men in the world to-day, a God who is just as powerful in your life and mine as in any other man’s, you will see that the Presbyterian and the Baptist and the Methodist and the Congregational and all the other churches will be swept out of existence that men may get for themselves in some way, un- der some other organization, the truth of God. I know there is a good deal of talk, and a good deal of trouble in the hearts of men, in the church to-day, lest various organizations outside of the church should cripple us. But let us read in the movings of the people away from us the signs of the times. T.et us read the handwriting in the heavens. Let us see in the workings of God to-day, a God who is just as powerful as He ever was 4n Pales- The time is coming when the church of Jesus Christ must get its eyes opened spiritually. Personally, I cannot believe all the things that I hear. I do not like the philosophy of certain cults; I do not believe their logic is correct in many points; but vou will find that there is in the higher, intellectual classes of men to- day a desire to have a God who is present, a God who is just as power- ful in their lives to-day as He ever was in the lives of the prophets. Let us give to men a God who will speak to them by the way. Let us lead men to a Comforter who will make their hearts burn as they walk through life, a God who is ever present, around about them, and within them. Let us tell men that it is one thing to know. about the glory and the love of God, and another thing to know the beauty and the loveliness of the Father. Let us lead men to compre- hend that it is one thing to know that Jesus spake to your fellow by the way; that He may speak to you by the way; and quite a far different thing to have Him speak to you by the way. i i A Ss home. Some peo- There He was, a man in, that man | .0on EPWORTH LEAELE LESSONS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8. God in the World—(2 Cor. 5: 18-20)— Missions. Paszages for reference: Matt. 1: 21: Luke 19: 10; John 3: 16; 20: 21. This Scripture fits aptly into a Home Mission treatment. Writing to people likely to have many gods or altogether neglecting God, he de- clares, “All things” that have ceme Into Christendom “are of God.” Lib- erty-giving America, with its open doors of opportunity, is of God. Without him we could not have had these privileges. God's anger against sinful men was real. All the efforts of ages had failed to pull him out of his sinfulness. If the gospel fails at home it will not have a strong admission abroad. Splendid news service has narrowed the world. Nearly all people know the condition of our neighbors. With 2,128,156 immigrants coming to our country from the nations of the world in the last two years, we be- come as an open book. Letters and newspapers sent back to relatives are spread about in that neighborhood until all the people know about us. Americans are envied by all nations The cause or our favored condition is being searched after. If the true cause—the presence of Christ—is re- vealed they will enthrone him. We must then see to it that city slum, Southern outposts, mountain fast nesses and new: country communities are Christianized. Then, again, ‘We have a rare opportunity to evange lize foreign lands through natives dropped into our midst. We spurn or pass the Italian and the Chinaman too easily. Some of the best workers in all lands were converted here and returned to spread the good news at William Nast, an infidel Ger- man, converted in America, practie- ally started our promising ‘work in not only Germany, but Europe. God seems to be sending these people to our very doors so that we may train them under unusually favorable sur- roundings for spreading the news in We can; by their coversion, also convince doubting home folk who question the suscepti- bility of “low grade” foreigners to the high-class gospel. It will pay your Epworth League to start and support | a mission among some group of for- elgners located in the town or city or near-by country community. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES DECEMBER EIGHTH. Lessons from an old love story. The book of Ruth. Read in the meet- ing. Ruth 2: 10-20. : A mother's misfortune. Ruth 1: De. A mother's sacrifice. Ruth 1: 6-13. A daughter’s unselfishness. Ruth 1: 14-22. A daughter's toil. Ruth 2: 1-9. Grandmother of David. Ruth 4: 16-22. ie 3 An ancestor of Christ. Matt. 1: 1-16. fire a Real desert is always modest, -as- tonished that it- should be so favored, rather than: that it is not more. fav- ored. No one need herald his good deeds; they are their own best ad- Yertisomiont,. nee wens Boaz called “upon the Lotd- to re- ward~ Ruth: but ‘he helped to answer ‘his own prayers. =~ A thoughtful mind ‘will: wirderstand : that the blessings he .receives. are mot wholly for himself, but largely, per- haps,: because those before him have been pleasing to God. ris ig Ruth’s kindness to Naomi was the best policy; but it would not have been if .she had dong it through mo- tives of policy.’ Shot Sk There are {wo modes of expressing affection: - “Orpha kissed her mother- in-daw: bit Ruth ¢lave unto-her.” “Ite was: Naomi's ‘great ‘loss; ‘of ‘hus- hand. twe sons: and one daughter-in- law, that proved the greatest gain of her life. How scended from Ruth, the lover of the Old Testament! If you are living a godly life you are building a cathedral; but you see | only a piece of the plan at a time. The “happening” that led Ruth to | the fields of Boaz was like the ‘hap- pening” that brings one, on a “well- planned road, upon some beautiful vista: It is like a great chain of helpful- ness. One link was the love of Ruth for Naomi: another, the love of Boaz for Ruth; and so the chain went on to the great Ilove-link of Christ's life; and it is going on to- It Matter? leseribed by English before Did Sandys the nn, was he was known to fame to paint the greates Go cine asked portrait of the mayor-of a town, a ! The spokes- | most estimable grocer. man of the deputation said that the committee was prepared to pay as high 50 for a geod portrait, but artist's face grow long wanted a half thot makes a8 as eging the add=d that they lencth, “Ch, of course, difference,” the tist, most ur- banely. “Which half would you pre- fer. gentlemen ?"—Bellman. only said ai em Maryland has adopted the primary election plan of making nominations for tlte United States Senate. That State, avers the New York Tribune, has suffered unduly from legislative deadlocks and underground manipula- tion in the choice of Senators, and it is not surprising to find it welcoming the opener method of pepular desig- nation. J ———————————— Clothes don’t make the man, argues the Dallas News, but in some longi- tudes they make a pretty effective disguise. fitting that Christ, the Laver | of the New Testament, should be de- | “ SHBBITH SCAODL LESSONS | INTERNATIONAY, TIRSSON COM. MENTS FOR DEC. 8 BY THE REV. I. WW. HENDERSON. Subject: Ruth's Wise Choice, Ruth 1:14-22 — Golden Text, Ruth 1:16—Memory Verses, 106, 17—= Read Ruth 1-4, Leaving the Book of Judges and opening the story of Ruth we pass from vehement outdoor life, from tempest and trouble into quiet domes- tic scenes, says the Rev. R. A. Wat- son, D. D. After an exhibition of the greater movements of a people we are brought, as it were, to a cot- tage interior in the soft light of an autumn evening, to obscure lives passing through the cycles of loss and comfort, affection and sorrow. We have seen the ebb and fiow of a na- tion's fidelity and fortune, a few leaders appearing clearly on the stage and behind them a multitude indefinite, indiscriminate, the thou- sands who form the ranks of battle and die on the field, who sway to- gether from Jehovah to Baal and back to Jehovah again. What the Hebrews were at home, how they lived in the villages of Judah or on the slopes of Tabor, the narrative kas not paused to speak of with de- tail. Now there is leisure after the strife and the historian can describe old customs and family events, can show us the toiling flockmasters, the busy reapers, the women with their cares and uncertainties, the love and labor of simple life. Thunderclouds of sin and judgment have rclled over the scene; ‘but they have cleared away and we see human nature in examples that become familiar to us, no longer in weird shadow or vivid lightning fiash, but as we commonly know it, homely, erring, enduring, imperfect, not unblest. And Ruth—memorable for ever is her decision, charming for ever the words in which it is expressed. ‘‘Be- hold,” sald Naomi, “thy sister-in- law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god; return thou after thy sister-in-law.” But Ruth replied, “Intreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; | and where thou lodgest, IT will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.” J.ike David's lament over Jonathan these words have sunk deep into the human heart. As an expression .of the tenderest and most faithful friendship they are unrivalled. The simple dignity of the iteration in varying phrase till the climax is reached beyond which no promise could go, the quiet fervor of the feeling, the thought which seems to have almost a Christian depth—all are beautiful, pathetic, noble. From this moment a charm lingers about Ruth and she becomes dearer to us than any woman of whom the Hebrew records tell. Dignified and warm affection Is the first characteristic of Ruth, and close beside it we find the strength of a firm conclusion as to duty. It: is zocd to be capable of clear resolve, parting between this and that of op- posing considerations and differing claims. Not to rush at decisions and act in mere wilfulness, for wilful- ness is the extreme of weakness, but to judge soundly and on this side or that to say: Here I see the path for me to follow; along this and no other I conclude to go. Unreason decides by taste, by momgntary feeling often .out of mere spit® or antipathy. But the resolve of a wise. thoughtful per- son, even though it bring temporal disadvantage, is a moral gain, a step towards salvation. It is the exercise of individuality of the soul. Life has many partings, and we have. all had our experience of some which without fault on either side and bless each other. Over matters of faith, questions of political order and even social morality separations will oceur. There may be no lack of ‘faithfulness on either side when | at a certain point widely divergent | views of duty are taken by two who have been friends. One standing | only a little apart from the other sees the same light reflected from a different facet of the crystal, stream- ing out in a different direction. AS it would be altogether a mistake to say that = Orpah took the way of worldly selfishness, Ruth only going in the way of duty, so it is entirely | » mistake to accuse those who part with us on some question of faith or conduct and think of them as finally estranged. A little more knowledge and we would see with them or they with us. Some day they and we shall reach the truth and agree in our conclusions. Sepa- | rations there must be for a time, for as the character leans to love or jus- | tice, the mind to reasoning or emo- { tion, there is a difference in the vision | of the good for which a man should | strive. Yet one difference between men roaches to the roots of life. The com- | pany of those who keep the straight | way and press on towards the light | have the most sorrowful recollection of some partings. They have had to leave comrades and bregfhren behind who despised the quest of holiness i and immortality, and had nothing but {| mockery for the Friend and Saviour of man. The shadows of estrange- ment falling between those who are of Christ's company are nothing compared with the dense cloud which divides them from men pledged to what is earthly and ignoble; and sc the reproach of sectarian division coming from irreligious persons needs not trouble those who have as Christians an eternal brotherhood. The people of British America, and particularly that part of it on the Pa- cific coast, are becoming greatly aroused at the large and sudden in- flux of Japanese into their country, announces the New Orleans Picaynne, Those Canadians are talking loudly about resorting.to arms to keep the Asiatics out of thelr country, but ow- ing to the treaty relations between Japan and Great Britain, their prov isions extending to the British colo nies, there is no legal way in which the Japanese can be kept out. separate those well fitted to serve. Electricity On a Dairy Farm. The Labor in Many of the Necessary Farm Operations Much Reduced and the Hired Man Not Greatly Missed. WILLYAM On the outskirts of a hustling little manufacturing village, Oriskany Falls, in Southern Oneida County, is a farm that is probably as interesting and remarkable as any in the State of New York, and it is doubtful if there is another in the United States equalling it in completeness of labor saving, power generating and me- chanical devices. The farm is owned by E. Burdette Miner. Besides being cultivated and conducted in every way in accordance with modern and up-to-date farming science, it also possesses one of the most thoroughly perfected and efficient electrical farm plants ever constructed. By electric power generated on his own farm Mr. Miner runs a large saw for cutting up all lengths and sizes of stove wood, runs the milk- ing machines, ensilage cutters and hoisters, separatars and ice cream freezer, churn, thrasher, grindstone, pumps, washing machines and wring- er, besides lighting every room in his house and heating most of them by the same method. He has electric lights in every barn and other build- ing on his farm where lights may be needed, including a well appoint- ed machine shop, where he, with his sons, does all his own mehcanical work. In that shop he has an elec- tric motor that runs a lathe, drill, wire winding machine, electric sol- dering iron, buffing machine, buzz- saw and a large pump that operates the milking mahcines down in the stables. In his house he has electric heaters in the different rooms that thorough- ly warm it at an absolutely even tem- perature at the will of the occupants. He also heats the flatirons by clec- tricity, and has even a little electric motor attached to the sewing ma- chine. And this is all accomplished on a farm by a farmer without any help, advice or assistance from any one outside his own family. All this saving of labor and the inestimable conveniences have been made possible by Mr. Miner and his sons by harnessing the Oriskaney Creek, a turbulent little stream that flows through the beautiful Oriskany Valley, in which Mr. Miner owns a large section of fine, fertile, “well tilled land. At a suitable point in the stream about one-quarter of a mile from the house, where there is a normal flow of about four thousand cubic feet a minute, with about a six- foot fall, a thirty-six foot flow dam was put in, with a concrete and plank foundation, that is built to withstand almost any pressure that might come from floods and spring freshets; but to make the dam safe and sure be- yond all doubt, they built slosh boards in the dam, six feet wide and one foot high, that can be drawn out, one or all, as the supply of water demands. Further, they have two large flood gates in the concrete at? the bottom of the dam that can be let out, and should the flood be so great that all these methods would fail to save the dam from going out they have built a spillway on the side of the pond that would take care of a great quantity of flood water. At the left of the dam, leading down from the pond about a hundred feet downstream to an abrupt bank, a dike eight or ten feet wide was dug. At the lower end of this a wheel pit, laid in concrete, was built, with a small powerhouse above. There it was found that a head of four and one-half feet had been obtained and an upright thirty-inch Samson water wheel was installed. Upon test it was found that the wheel under this very low head developed seventeen and one-half horsepower. In the power- house a dynamo of twelve and one- half kilowatt capacity was placed. This was connected by 1500 feet of bare aluminum cable with the farm buildings. In the house were placed twenty-five sixteen-candlepower 220- volt lamps, and in the barns eight more, electric illumination being the first and principal object of the plant. In a little more than two months after work was started in the bed of the creek to build a dam, the plant was started up, and it has been run- ning successfully, night and day, ever since, and with no attention whatever from any one, save oiling, which is necessary about once in two weeks. The water wheel and dyna- mo run continuously, and, now that the expense of purchasing and in- stalling them is over, there is abso- Intelv no expense or trouble to it, and the vast amount of labor it saves and the many luxuries and conveni- ences it affords Mr. Miner and his family make life on the farm about as pleasant as it could be anywhere in the world. Only a small portion of the power that could be generated is necessary, and Mr. Miner placed a governor at ihe wheel gate, which regulates the amount of water passing through the wheel to the amount of power needed. After the problem of illumination on the farm had been solved, two of Mr. Miner's sons proceeded to extend the application of the power then at their command. It was in the winter _and in this climate heat is very essen- tial, and fuel, either wood or coal, is always expensive. Se there was a problem to solve, and it was an easy one. They purchased a 4000-watt heater, placed it in the house. and heated two rooms, one 16 x 13 x 714, to a temperature of seventy-five de- grees, while out of doors the ther- mometer sowed zero weather. And from that extension of his system Mr. . DOYLE. Miner has continued until it seems that there cannot possibly be a fur- ther use to put it to on the farm. The cow stables are built and kept in a condition that shows that the owner believes in the most approved and up-to-date methods in farming, but that fact is also evinced in every- thing connected with his place, and a visit there is well worth consider- able effort. In both the stables and the horse barn he has running water pumped in by electricity, and there is a plentiful supply of pure spring water at all times for the livestock. The floors of the stable are all of concrete except where the cattle stand and lie. That ‘is of plank, as Mr. Miner has not come to the belief that cattle do well or enjoy life as much on cold concrete floors. A pit back of the cows is so graded that all waste is carried off by flushing to a large tank, the contents of which are then used for fertilizing. Pat- ent swing stanchions ‘are used which allow the greatest freedom for the cattle’s heads, whether:standing or lying down. All the milking is very successfully and quickly done by electrically driven milking machines, which Mr. Miner says give satisfac- tion in every way. In the creamery, where the milk from a dairy of twenty cows is daily transformed into butter, is a milk separator, the heavy bowl of which must be made to revoive at a speed of 7400 revolutions a minute each morning and evening, till the entire milk production of the cows hes gone through it. Before installing electric power this laborious work had to be done by hand and was counted part of the hardest farm work. With that was the big churn, which for an hour at a time, several days a week, de- manded the strenuous attention of some muscular person who no doubt could have been profitably spending his time at some other less laborious work. All that work must be done away with, so a wire was run into the creamery, and on a concrete foun- dation a half-horsepower motor was placed and connected. Irom this mo- tor a narrow belt was run to the separator. Then the churn was placed on a platform swivelled from one corner to the floor, the other three corners resting on casters. This arrangement permitted the churn to be swung into line with the motor and connected by belt when the churn is to be used. After the churning is completed the belt is stripped off and the churn pushed back out of the way. > In a room adjoining the creamery was the grindstone, that torturous, back breaking arrangement that every farmer boy has cause to re- member, especially his associations with it about harvesting time. That was a simple matter for Mr. Miner. He ran a small round belt from the motor through the open door and around a pulley on the axle of-the stone, and labor on that crank was at an end, the old Oriskany running it more smoothly than it could be done by hand, and with no com- plaints. > All around:the farm are many .me- chanical contrivances that show con- siderable study, thought and ingenu- ity, and one of the cleverest of these is on the separator. When the milk has all passed through the machine the latter should be stopped and rinsed. To accomplish this auto- matically a float is connected with the electric current operating the mo- tor in such a manner that when the milk is all run out of the separator the ‘float is lowered to a point where it breaks the circuit, cutting off the power and stopping the machinery. Simultaneously with the breaking of the currant a dish of water, previous- ly placed-above the separator, is emp- tied by an ingenious device into the separator before it has ceased to re- volve, and © the: larse machine thoroughly rinsed. Thus the sepa- rator is made to stop at the moment its work is done and to proceed to to the indispensable work of rinsing itself out properly. A hand pump had been in use to force water into a reservoir in the qttic of the house, which supplied the : bathroom, and then a motor brought into use which did away with the work of pumping. A larger. mo- tor was secured and plac din tion in the woodyard. A circular saw and frame were provided and wood in sled lengths is brought from the wood lots in winter and is piled: up to await the time when it con- venient to reduce it to stove wood by the aid of the Oriskany Creek. In the Hghtening of labor on the farm Mr. Miner did not for a minute neglect the part performed by wo- men, and his constant thought has been to help his good wife in her work. Electric flatirons and elec- trically driven sewing machines are among the results in the house. In the dining rooms are electric fans, which ventilate and cool the house in the warm weather, and even the jce cream freezer has a belt and motor. The cost of equipping a farm in that manner must be no small item, but on that point ° Mr. Miner silent. He declined to give any fiz- ures, but the results are all so satis- factory that it is doubtful if he would go back to the old methods of farming for five times what the new method has cost him. — New York Tribune Farmer. is was posi- is was
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