THE CITIZEN', FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1000. SATURDAY NIGHT TALKS H By REV. F. E. DAV1SOH g Rutland, VL THE GRACE OF GIVING. International Bible Lesson for Dec S, '09 (2 Cor. 8: 1-15). The graco of giving! Not the fact of giving, tie duty of giv ing, but the grace of giving, that Is the theme of the lesson. If wo could see the motive behind ov ery dollar going Into the treasury, as ChrUt saw the heart of the widow who trem blingly, b u t cheerfully dropped In her two mitos, "which make a farthing," what a rev elation It would be. Good 8teurlty. How littlo giving there li of that magnificent pattern. In Paul's day the church In Antloch took up a col lection, and sent Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem with It, and the offering was permeated with love. Now, the church has to keep a set of men busy all the year round going from place to place, prying money out of the pockets of the brethren. Dean Swift once preached a sermon from the text, "He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord," and his sermon consisted only of these words, "Breth ren, if you are satisfied with the se curity, down with the dust." He got a generous collection. But even in that instance there wsb shown a keen knowledge of human nature, a desire for security for every farthing doled out. He who gives gracefully doeBn't Inquire about the security. It la not a question of lending, it is a straight- out gift Credit for Intention. Much that passes for benevolence Is not that at all. A man by mistake put a $5 gold piece In the collection plate in one of my parishes. When ho discovered the error he came to the treasurer and demanded the re turn of the coin, saying that he In tended to put a new penny in the of fering. He was an officer of the church, too, and had a bank account. Another man who made that mistake and who could not recover the funds because the missionary had left town, said bitterly, "Well, I will get credit In heaven for $5 anyhow." "Oh, no, you won't," was the pastor's reply, "You. wjllget credit .for what you meant to give one cent." "The Lord loveth the cheerful giver." But he who "casts his bread upon 'the wa ters," simply and solely, that he may get it back again after many days, Is merely putting out his money at In terest, anticipating increasing riches. He Is planning to build bigger barns, to buy another farm, to augment his bank account, to feather his own nest. There is not the slightest element of pure benevolence about that. Getting Money's Worth. Neither Is the grace of giving exer cised in the "ring cakes," "grab bags," "post-offices," 'and "auction sales" to which many churches have resorted as effectual methods of separating tight-fisted people from their money We have come to an age when young and pretty maidens are educated in the arts of wheedling susceptible young men into buying at exorbitant prices, things they have no earthly use for, for the benefit of some "cause," and many a man eats five dishes of Indigestible cake, and two dishes of cream, and labels it benevo lence. It has come to be taken for granted that like old-fashioned wood en pumps, that have to be prlned with a bucket of water in order to get more water out of the well, a man must have a turkey supper put Into his stomach In order to get the money out of his pocket. The "cooking stove apostacy" is as much an evil In its way, as heresy In the pulpit or wick edness in the pew. Not that there is anything wrong In Itself in a good meal of victuals in a church vestry. Christ Himself en Joyed a square meal, and accepted more than one Invitation to a fulL Oriental banquet, the evil consists In the false education that trains our young people to think that when they eat themselves sick at a church sup per, and pay for It, they are giving that money to the Lord. They are notl They are paying for value re ceived. They have already secured the worth of their money, and carry It away with them In headache, dyspep sia and such like accumulations. Oh, no, the man who, at a church supper, eats GO cents worth of cake, and strawberries and cream, and trouble In his economy, and pays 25 cents for it, and then refuses to give anything toward the church debt on the ground that he has already contributed has been wrongly educated. He knows nothing about the grace of giving. Listen to Paul, "Ilemember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, 'It Is more blessed to give than to recelvo.' " A complaining christian once asked a preacher whether he really believed we could get the heathen to under stand or practice religion Just as we do. "I hope not," said the preacher, "for converted heathen sing and pray and give, while from what I have heard, of you, I am persuaded that you do neither." WHAT HE WANTED. Rode a Horse Whan on Duty and not a Crow. A certain officer of the Royal Horse Artillery, having his battery divided Into half batteries which were gar risoned over 40 miles apart, by road, applied that he might have an allow ance grantod him for an extra charger, it being his duty to frequently visit both portions. The war office ruled that this allowance was inadmissible, saying, "Measured by the ordinance map, as the crow flies, the distance is found to be only 33 1-2 miles." For a time the officer was non plussed, but an idea struck him and ho seized his pen and wrote: "There would appear to be somo misunderstanding regarding my ap plication. I am asking for an allow ance for an' additional charger, not an additional crow. I do not ride a crow. I ride a horse." He got it London Tits Bits. Mennonltes Founder. The Mennonltes take their name from Menno Simons, born in Wit mar sum, Holland, in 1492. He entered the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church, renounced Catholicism early in 1638 and was baptliod at Leou warden. In the course of the follow ing year he was ordained a minister In what was then known aa the Old Evangelical or Waldenslan Church. From this time on to his death, In 16E9, he was active traveling through northern Germany and preaching everywhere. The churches which he organised as a result of his labors re jected Infant baptism and held to the principle of non-resistance. A severe persecution began to make Itself felt against his followers, the Mennonltes, and having heard accounts of the colony established in the "New World by William Penn, they began to eml grate to Pennsylvania near the end of the seventeenth century. Somo Advice. The following was sent by a coun tryman to his son In college not many years ago: "My Dear Son I write to send you two pair of old breeches, that you may have a new coat made of them, Also some new socks, which your mother knit by cutting down somo of mine. Your mother Bends you $10 with out my knowledge, and for fear you will not spend it wisely I have kept back half and only send five. Your mother and I are well, except your sister Annie has got the measles, which we think would spread among other girls, If Tom had not had them before, and ho Is the only one left. hope you are well and will do honor1 to my teachings. If you do not yoil are an ass, and your mother and my self are your affectionate parents." Sociable 8plders. Our native spiders are notable for their extreme unsociability. Of thoso which are spinners, each one con' structs Its web apart from those of Its kind, and those which hunt, pursue their prey alone. In other countries. however, there are spiders which live In communities, and one such, a na tive of Mexico, is described by M. L, Dlguet. It Is known as the mosquoro and makes a large nest In oaks and other trees. Here the spiders live gregariously, and along with them in the nest is found a mlnute'beetle and another species of spider. The beetle Is said to act as scavenger. Parts of the nest of the mosquero are hung up in the houses during the wet sea son to get rid of the flies. The First Language. No one of the existing languages has any legitimate claim to be con sldcred the original of the family of languages, standing to the other as Latin, for Instance, stands to Italian and French. Of an original primitive language of mankind the most patient research has found no trace. All of them Assyrian, Phoenician, Hebrew Arabic are sister languages, polnUng back to an earlier parent language, which has long disappeared. Since the historical period man has done lit tie In the way of the absolute crea tlon of language. The work had al ready been accomplished ages before the birth of written inscriptions. Witchcraft. 0 The number who perished In the period of the witchcraft delusion will never be known. In every country, through fifteen centuries, the super- stltutlon wont on piling up its victims, In Geneva 600 were executed In three months, 7,000 were burned at Treves 600 by a single bishop of Bamberg and 800 In a single year at Wurtz burg. At Toulouse 400 perished at one execution. A Judge at Renny boasted that he had put to death 800 witches In sixteen years. A thousand were executed In a single year In the prov ince of Como. "Witches" were exe cuted In Spain as late as 1780. Great Writer's Prayer. The service of the day is over, and the hour come to rest. We resign Into Thy hands our sleeping bodies, our cold hearths and open doors. Give us to awake with smiles, give us to labor smiling. As the sun returns in the east, bo let our patience be re newod with dawn; as the sun lightens the world, so let our loving kindness make bright this house of our hablta- tlon. Robert Louis Stevenson. Praises American Women. Alfred East says that American women, like American machines, neod but little man power. The American woman, he says. Is the most chum mable woman in the world, therefore aha Is the most charming. Our excel lent educational system, he thinks, is responsible for the fact that American women are such "good fellows. 3 LIVE m STOCK 1 CARE OF THE FLOCK. Sheep Need Little Sheltor Except to Keep Off Rain. Sheep need little shelter except to keep off rain and snow. I have always allowed them to stay out In the cold est weather, If It was not stormy. However, I never, under any circum stances, allow them to take rains and snows in winter, writes a correspond ent of Farm and Home. At this season I give good clover hay, and In addition a little silage or corn fodder about three times a week. feed twice a day in the yard on the ground if it is frozen, but when the ground is not frozen I feed in racks In the sheep barn. I feed a little en tire grain, mostly oats to the breed ing ewes. My troughs are made of three boards, 8 feet long, the bottom one 10 Inches wldo and the sides 6 Inches, as shown In sketch. I scatter the oats thin in these troughs and the shcop cannot get a large mouthful. Thus better mastication of the grain Is se cured than in narrow troughs. I have fed threshed oats to my sheep for a good many years and have not as yet experienced any bad results from their use. I feed oats until after lamb ing time, then I add about one ear of 1 Miwrr ma Wall Sheep Trough. shelled corn to one pint of oats per day. I know from my own experience that it pays to keep sheep, provided they are kept well, and those who do not do this are very likely to condemn the breed of sheep which they may happen to have or the breeding stock which they have purchased for the Improvement of their flock when the fault is really their own. Live Stock Notes. It's poor economy to feed lice upon hogs. Skimmed milk finds Its best mar ket in the pig pen. Next year's grain feed should be planned for now. The dairy hog has helped raise many a mortgage. Crowded sleeping quarters often cause disastrous results. The hard coal ashes can be dumped into the hog pen to good advantage, A dollar Invested in live stock is worth $50 Invested in mining stocks, Recently a successful farmer said: "I can make more out of $100 invested In sheep than In any other way." Breed straight and improve your stock. Don't be led away by some cross-breeding that looks good to you. A short-sighted policy of using a scrub ram is the cause of the inferior ity of the average flock on our farms. One cross may answer, but in the end cross-breeding becomes a very complicated affair and has ruined more than one flock of sheep. Muzzle the horses and pad the out side portions of whlffletrees and har row when cultivating the orchard; thus avoiding all bruised and "barked" trees. One great value of sheep on the farm is that they destroy brush and sprouts and reduce the crop of weeds. It will almost pay a farmer to keep a small flock of sheep simply to keep down underbrush vegetation. Thistle as Stock Food. Stock of all kinds greatly relish the plants of the Russian thistle, which has fairly Jumped out of the ground since the rains, and our Eastern plains are verdant with it Why not make hay of ltT So palatable is the hap to cattle that they leave green pasture and break through fences to devour this obnoxious and outlawed weed If It is cut and stacked before the .red dish tinge comes on to the plant, which occurs about the middle of July. Many of our Colorado people have used Russian thistle for forage for several years, and some of them say that it is as good as alfalfa. In a re cent analysis the Russian thistle as sayed as follows: Protein, 17.95; ether extract, 3.61; ash, 21.98; crude fiber, 20.14, and carbo-hydrates, 36.32. All over Eastern Colorado there Is a lamentable shortage of protein feed stuff. Corn, corn stalks, straw, mil let, Kaffir and prairie hay are all long on starchy matter, but short on pro tein. In the thistle we have a crop that grows on the arid reaches which will not only yield a large amount of forage, but a very palatable one at that, and a crop that Is rich in the two elements in which others are de ficientField and Farm. Hog Feeding Test. Hog feeding experiments by the Missouri station produced the follow ing results: Corn and bluegrass $3.27 per 100 Corn and rape 3.34 per 100 Corn and red clover.,.. 2.98 per 100 Corn and alfalfa 2.59 per 100 Corn and skim milk.... 2.17 per 100 Corn and middlings 8.99 per 100 Grade Poland China pigs of 60 poundB each were used In the experi ment and the prices Quoted were the current market prices at time of the experiment . , MMIGAN GRAZE HITS JEW YORK Hotel Man Declares He Has Had to Lay in a Supply to Meet New Demand TASTES LIKE SAND AND ASHES Liking for Pemmlcan, Like that for Caviar, Olives and Llmburger Cheese Is An Acquired Taste Haa Particular Effect on Eater. New York, N. Y. Dellcacioa which hitherto have been confined to the frozen North will have a place on every well regulated table during the coming winter if reports from the Chi cago packing houses are to be credit ed. It has been an open secret for some time that many of the Broad way hotels and hunger huts were otocking up with pemmlcan, musk ox and polar bear milk, but no one bad the temerity to forecast the crate for Arctic foods which threatens to sweep the country. Pemmlcan bids fair to be the most popular of all the dishes, and pemmlcan parties will be in order from now on. "If anybody had told me a month ago that I would be featuring pemml can on my bill of fare I would have sent him to Bellevue for examination," said one of the big hotel men. "Right after Cook and Peary discovered the North Pole we had a few scattering demands for it, but we paid no atten tion to them. We thought It was sim ply a novelty, and that it would die out Bach day found the demand get ting more Insistent The climax came when a fellow rushed in and declared If he couldn't get pemmlcan he'd wreck the establishment We had to use the greatest diplomacy to get him out and the next day we laid In a stock of It" "What does It taste liket" asked the reporter. "You've got to acquire a taste for it The first mouthful tastes like a mixture of red sandstone and cold ashes. It has a peculiar effect on you. After you swallow it you begin to blubber. The second mouthful starts you exploring. The night I was lnlti ated I was blubbering and exploring all night I couldn't stop until my wife put a cake of ice on my chest." "What is It made of?" "The groundwork 1b lean beef from which overy sinew and tendon has been removed. This is dried and pul verized. Added to It are the best seed ed ralslnB and currants and a quantity of the best beef suet It is all mixed up together, seasoned with pepper and salt and put Into hermetically sealed cans." "Sort of a trapped mincemeat?" "That's it. It's served with a ham mer and chisel, and Is generally wash, ed down with a cod liver oil cocktail." The dish Is an old one. Its native habitat was the plains of the Far West, where the aboriginal Indian after killing a buffalo, dried some of the meat by hanging It up where sun and wind would strike it pounded It Into a paste, flavored it with Juices of berries to suit his taste, pressed it Into cakes and called It pemmlcan. Later, Arctic voyagers, after the buf falo had been eliminated, used beet as the basis of a compound bearing the same name and made In almost the same way, raisins, currants and beef suet being added, with salt and pepper as seasoning. It is this concentrated, queer tast ing mixture which, according to re port, bids fair to be the food novelty of the season. PUFF8 BARRED IN GIRLS' GYM Normal School Authorities Find Rats Interfere with Exercise. Philadelphia. A ban has been put upon puffs and rats In the Normal School, and It is whispered that a se vere Grecian style of dressing the hair is required in the gymnasium. The girls were reticent about it all to-day, and Dr. Grace E. Spiegel, medl cal director of the gymnasium, would not commit herself. It was learned, however, that three seniors had actu ally to be requested to leave their superfluous hair in their dressing rooms when they donned their "mid' dies" and bloomers. It is an uncomfortable thing for a girl, when she takes a running high Jump or vaults over a bar, to have a section of her back hair become-de tached or to have her rat flop up and down on top of her head. One of the Juniors intimated that such things have happened, and that in order to avoid them and concentrate the sent ore' attention on their athletic feats this mandate has been Issued: "Who enters hero leaves all rats be hind." EATING TACK 8 WON A WIFE. "That's the Man I Want to Cook for He Can't Fuss," She Said. St Louis, Mo. Mrs. Terrenoe O'Grady, who until her marriage was Miss Gertrude Arnoldy, and is now wife of the "human ostrich," said that she had fallen In love with O'Grady when she saw him eating tacks at one of his exhibitions. "I thought I would like to cook for a man like that" she said. "Ho can' fuss at what I prepare for the table.1 The couple were married by Justice Martin Moore. Mrs. O'Grady says her husband has promised to teach her tlit art of eating tacks and .ftUss. ermong For a Theme: MATERNAL. AND MORAL ADVANCE. fr "ir 4r By Rev. Charles E. Perkins. j f j Text: "And went backward, and not forward." Jeremiah vll:24. Hh -i 4? The early settlers of our country made their voyage to-this land slowly enough it seems to us, who have short ened the distance from months to days. The frontiersman took days to make Journeys that are accomplished In hours at the present time. Such is the advance In the means of travol. Tho log cabin and adobe huts are supplanted by commodious homes and palatial residences. Luxurious furnishings add to the comfort and pleasure of our people. Delicious vi ands from the world's end are spread upon our board, according to the wealth and tasto of tho people. Ad vance Is the watchword of our man ner of living. Modern discoveries havo harnessed the lightning so that whether on land or sea, we may bo in continuous com munication with our friends, either for pleasure or for profit Future generations may not only read tho great speeches of our orators, but the actual reproduction of them upon the phonograph will become a great source of amusement and revenue to them who are minded to keep the re cords as relics in days to come. Nor do we rest content Improvement is the demand of the age. What shall be next? Who can say? Methuselah, with his reputed 969 years, were a babe indeed as com pared with a young man of to-day, The latter has seen more wonderful achievements and traveled more, and accomplished more in the material welfare of his time. A wise man cannot afford to depre ciate the blessings that have resulted from this advance. But he also asks himself, "Is this the whole of life?" Then he wonders if the moral ad vancement has kept pace with the material. Does the warning of the old prophet come to us with any sign! ficance to-day? Is there an Increased appreciation of eternal principles? Perhaps the Investigation is not so rich in direct evidence. The intangi bility must be recognized. But we believe we can speak words of hope and faith to our generation. Principles of righteousness are operating to-day. This is evidenced in the exposure of certain corruptive principles which obtained In political and commercial affairs not long since. Men became alarmed when these were made public. No doubt they felt like Jeremiah, that the people have gone backward and not forward. But men of faith and hope took courage. They believe that publicity is a good thing. Indeed, they welcome it Their vision Is beyond mere temporalities. They rejoice at the .onslaught upon the spirit of corruption and selfish ness. These investigations give value to the etymology of an old English word. So that when an Intelligent man asks to-day "what is a man worth?" he expects the answer, not to be in dollars and cents, but is de sirous of knowing the character of th man. We use this word in its highest sense when we speak of how much a man is worth to a given cause. "If a man gain the whole world and lose his own soul" In narrow, hard hearted, commercial competition, what has he gained? Another positive advance to-day Is found In our appreciation of peace after warfare. No parades of victors bearing the scalps' and spoils, or cap tives taken, would be tolerated. In stead, great commemoration is made annually of peace proclamations. Monuments are erected to establish their permanence and importance. The Red Cross societies minister to friend and foe alike. Better still Is the effort made by peace commissions to make warfare as remote as possible. As a nation we are approaching nearer to that Ideal of the Master: "Love your ene mies." Many other instances we might cite In a general way, such as our institu tions of learning for all people, homes for the orphan, the aged and infirm, A keener sense of civic righteousness lb being aroused. Men of faith and hope ire not resting in a lethargic op timism, crying "Let well enough alone." They believe, as there has been a remarkable advance In ma terial progress, so there has been growth In eternal principles among men and that there is still opportun ity for progress. Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God Is more than a fine sentiment or a beautiful figure of speech. It is the realization of all our hopes and desires, of our highest aspirations and deepest longings. Rev. G. W. Grinton, Episcopalian, Newburgh, N. Y. Committing Sin. To deny God is usually to disobey His laws, and that le to commit sin. Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, Protestant Episcopalian, Toledo. Heavenly Life. You cannot have the heavenly Ufa without the heavenly lore. MIND'S INFLUENCE on BOtrr. Dr. Vaughn 8aya tho Dogma le With out a Scientific Suport Taking for his subject "Tho Physical Basis of Life," Dr. Vaughn, speaking before the Association of American Physicians, said that much had been heard of late concerning the Influence of the mind over the body. That as sumption was as old as the philosophy of Plato. It always had bewi and rrv malned to-day a dogma without scien tific fact Every attempt to apply it to the treatment of disease h-xi lc-1 to the deve'oproent of conscious or unconscious charlatanism and re sulted in more or less marked ata vism. Medical observation and study had shown that healthy cerebral function was to bo found only when the activ ity of the brain was influenced prop erly by normal function of all the co rolated organs. "We know f qval'y," said he, "of the influence of tho brain on the othbr organs of the body. Wo are fully aware of the fact that Impulses may bo started in .'be brain throngh any of the five senses that may favorably or unfavorably Influence the activities of the corelatod organs. And for cen turies the medical profession has em ployed this physiological principle in lh treatment of disease." Tuberculosis Among Soldiers. For 1,000 active troops in the armies of the groat world powers, the follow ing figures show the pereentase of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis: United States, 4.72; Great Britain and colonies, 2.4; France, 6.8; Germany, 1.6: Austria, 1.0. and Russia. 2.7. 1ft t tilt ttttti MARTIN CAUFIELD Designer and Man ufacturer of ARTISTIC MEMORIALS Office and Works 1036 MAIN ST. HONESDALE, PA. Eves Tested Fitted GRADUATE OPTICIAN, A. o. BLAKE, AUCTIONEER. You will make money byhavlne me. bell phone s-u Bethany, Pa. Time Card In Effect Ci' 31st,' 1809. 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