FARM AND UARDEJ.
FLA ST PEKTS AS rOW FEED'
. nr i.rcts are worth more to feed
1 ' ',., f,.r milk ni bntter than the
t0C.eS wbi-h the sugar-beet factories
Tfor "for them for making sugar. So
0 nt ne.-oHSBry that a farmer
h-'ill l"' l",a,v', neftr a beet-root
r fd''r? 'n or''er malte beet
'"fwiRB l,!,.v- ,f 1,6 as ri8kt kind
FrJr,w In; can make more money
'J i'ino 1 ts tj them than he can sell
;hpm fr in any other way. The 6ame
Vtr't" "f !n"st of Rra'n products
'f tbe form --Borton Cultivator.
ynf; rKi.i v r .k or thk bctter olobcle.
The rhiisn mule in a communication
frr'n "l'r. Hopkins, of Vermont, that
'wfli. to the alleged existence
s,tV on the butter globules
(5 l'n.' "-" ft! l-t ifl cheerfully
To(o"niz"-l- This opposition has long
len """;m"n nmon" physicians and
. v!(1,.i.ts, who know of milk as a
';',,-, emulsion, while those who
Ji'ave fnv'irf'l it have been persons who
til,,.!i.'f on a very common mis
take !ii lr ''.y inexperienced micro
p(.,i, who ignored the effects of the
r(,fr -ti"!i "f l'gl't from glistening ob
.. tbii viewed, nnd in this way
n.n.M'H' I tlii supposed pellicle. Dr.
Jjnj-kins flmiiis that when he made the
,l,M'V-rv thTe was no Btich thing in
1m;i. win ii hu published the fact. But
bur u ifk Ims leen done since then to
rtmut-i he prevalent popular belief to
the i-uutniry. -New York Times.
UTTrS'ISO PIUS ON WHEAT.
Wh'-ie tnsiie can be grown to per
if.rti'm i pri)baljly continue to be
n(. ..f tin: chief food materials for
futti-iium wine, but in colder climates
,,t!n i ni'i'-t be grown for this
VHTp'-s". H. T. French, of the Orc
ein St;i1i"M, Ini-t continued the experi
mented feeding wheat to pigs and
the results nro especially interesting
t.i fni nn r-, w ho fiud the market price
f win at nliout the same rs that of
cm. In the rate of grain produced,
tlm ti'-'ilts compare favorably with
ohtiiined from feeding corn.
Vlio'pel wheat- proved to be better
thin i-!i"pped outs, and there was 1-3 J
jionnds of gain for efich bushel of
nli.iit eniisiitinMl. The quality of the
incut whs all that could be desired in
fui poi k. There was a good thickness
i hit, n;i 1. the same time, a good
il:-tn!'!ti,ii of lean meat. The pigs
ti-ia elt ven months old when slaugh-t.-rt-l.
The pigs were not in pasture
t niivtnne. but were in pern connect
ed with small yarJs. They weve fed
twi'-e " day, at eight in tha mora
iny. find t live in the evening. Each
ration was weighed out. and allowed
f. sunk until the tune for the next
teed. A handful of suit was added to
wli feeding, uud charcoal was given
li)t!ii'in twice a week. The breed was
h (!" of the Poland-China aud Berk
(IniT, w ith the Berkshire points pre
iKnuioatiug. American Agriculturist.
SEED ORAIN.
Soel grain, whether barley, oats
wheat or flax, should be selected with
irreat care. The Idiho Station n-.lvo-
t-ites tes'ing the grain before sowing.
Tins can lu done by the farmer, it
mvs, and requires but n fuw days.
The si-ed lii'iy lie sown in a box of soil
mi l th" box kept in a warm exposure.
Thy soil must be kept moist.
Aimt le t- and easier way is to flo.it a
tire of thick sheet cotton on water.
The titiin to be tested is placed on the
(ttnti an 1 is covered with a similar
fh.int. n romoving the cover the
1'rniii is exposed to view, and the
fprmited grain can be quickly
Cmillti'd.
A oh1 germinatov or seed tester
run h. made out of n coal-oil can, a
Meek of w ood and t wo pieces of cloth.
'it one of the sides out of the can.
l'lm'A the block of wood within the
run, allowing it to rest on the bottom.
The hl.e.-k should be two inches thick,
nl'i'Mi us wide as the can an.lthrec
f'i:irt!i us long. Pour one to one and
rie bull' inches of water in the can.
Stretch .me of the ends of the cloth to
ilip m tii" water. The oth.Bc piece of
rlctli is used for h vvv- ;.nd is put on
in the same way. '!! feeds to bo
te-ted are put between the folds of
'loth Capillary attraction keeps the
eh'tli damp. Keep clean and fresh
water in the germiuator and set in a
Wiirm .ae.-.
I pi -I'venl sinut use one pound of
"'''"stone" to four gallous of water.
Allow the main to remain in contact
with tlie 1 Kfiiiil for five minutes.
Never sow k- , I tint is foul with
(el ..f weeds nil 1 other grains. Th
wil I oats must 1o got out of the way.
A yre.it help ju this direction is to ile
tr v s iiiuidi of the wild oat seed as
1'oiMe. Kvery seed sown brings
f"rth nearly a huu lre.1 more. New
Yerk World.
IMMioVRD VKVII OU 'IIARDS.
Kv.ry spring a largo number of
I'-1 'h orchards nre planted in differ
fnt part of the country, anl nearly
nil are arranged in the old way of set
tuij them in Mjnares or in rows both
wny (of ,,,, sl, culture, aud training
iie:n up t n head five feet high on a
''are i-teni t that hight. As many
farm rs and orchnrdists are now car
ri!ii; out their plans for spring plant-j'l,-.
ii f. v practical suggestions may
I'e'.'fu-e.
tendency of nil peach tree
Pr "'!i i in running up and out hori
Zo'itallv mt,) l)Hro ,e3 and arms,
'h eradually reduce the value of
i" trees :ii, l lesSon (ie excellence of
"MPiit. Th-duration of the trees
'tK;:enel, and they perish much
Yn "' ' "uti mi lor a bctter treatment.
rv' of nil, the superiority of broad
Hs? ''''''ivation should be appreciated,
1 uipare I with onlv narrow strips
rI.1.!r''!'s "f '""'t'VHte.i ground. The
M-s of both young ant old peach
'fff-s extend ,. 'U t.mt t
t'?,-' to n distance of at least equal to
e litiitht of the trees. This we hare
Ie l hv experiments, showing that
trees. t.., 1U1 twelve bet high.
eD ' -it root, thirteen feet in length
- nr.- uicr- ise I in growth by manure
.Z "' :-' aist,,1H'e- Itisthere-
e iittlc c i nparative importance
.i- r.li ' narrow spot at the base
tie,. r-:ejves manure or not.
,a"r'' c ml I l.e, therefore, but little
VeUon f,, jle j.j, i,rrtcile9 exteud-
' S "early to the "round.
, ! l,r'' s"veral reasona for such
'""de I trees. The annual prun-
. e uttiiig liiick is more easily per
."nej. ciucli of it being doae wUUe
the operator stands on the ground.
The thinning, which all heavy-bearmr
trees should receive, is more easily
!f The mfty be mo easily
gathered There will be bnt little
ground that may not be subjected to
horse cultivation, for the shade of th
foliage above will prevent mo-sb
growth of weeds closely around the
stem aad slight and broad harrow
will stir nearly all the soil by passin
nnder. Planters who wisli to adopt the low
headed, compact training, shoull not
purchase trees more than a year old
ct which haya beads already forme 1
several feet high ; but procure one
year trees from the bud, or else those
which have already been trained with
in a few inches of the ground. Coun
try Gentleman.
A MODEL FARM.
Elmdala farm, owned by (leofge W.
Swett & Son, is one of the best farms
in Hampden Corner, Me. In the large
eow barn they have a sib (built orfa
level with the floor;, 8x18 feet base
measure and seventeen feet high, filled
to about two-thirds its capacity with
fine cut corn fodder, which they have
been successfully feeding this winter.
The corn was cut, then carried rjy
power and dropped into the silo, Where
it was levelled and trodden like hay in
a mow. No weights were nsed. It is
now carried in baskets to the cribs and
the grain rations are scattered over it.
Two quarts of grain fed in that way
nre as good as three fed alone. It is
needless to say thut Mr. Swett intends
to fill his silo another season.
A tank is placed on the npper floor
of the stable, so that water may bs
carried to the barns. The water is
supplied by a windmill. There are
two of these on the farm, one near the
buildings and one in the pasture.
In front of the cattle, running the
whole length of the crib, is a covered
trough, six inches each way, anl lined
with zinz. A little hot water put into
the tank tempers the drink for the
animals. It is carried by pipes to the
trough. The stable, also, is very con
venient and fitted for four horses.
The farm workshop is well stocked
with wood-working tools, and has an
anvil and forge. Cold and rainy days
are spent here pleasantly and profit
ably. Mr. Swett sets the tires ai well as
rims the wheels, and has invented a
simple but erTective device for that
work. Other inventions of his are a
drill, a punch and a machiue to cut
iron pipe.
Commencing in the milk busings?
twenty-six years ago, Mr. Swett drove
the cart himself for seven years, miss
ing only three trips during that time.
Twenty-four years ago he bought this
farm of 100 acres, pleasantly situated
at Hampden Coruer, six miles from
Bangor. The large convenient build
ings are kept in thorough repair.
New England Farmer.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTE3.
Patience is needed in teaching the
calf to drink.
A good blooded colt may be made
no better than a scrub by being half
Btarved.
After the crowth is made the meat
hog or the lard hoj is a nutter of
feedinr.
It is calculated that with everv
liSOJ-poun l ste?r thjre ar3 3t.) pouuls
of waste.
In raisini strawberries keep the
ground moist aa 1 ragllow by f re pient
cultivation.
The food of piars must, to pro luoa
good results, be largely nitrogenon
or muscle forming.
Give the chickens nlenty of mother.
that is, do not give the care of too many
chickeus to one hen.
Everv farin?r should remember that
pigs cannot digest properly sour milk
or sour feed of any kind.
Excitable horses can cenerally be
quieted by smoothing tho head and
rubbing down over the eyes.
Much of the distemper which pre
vails in spring mouths might be pre
vented by a little judicious care.
Milk in boilin? alwavs forms a pe
culiar acid, so a pinch of soda should
be added when beginning to cook.
Sleepless and Voracious Lirv.
professor Tiintner. Xew York's State
Entomo'ogiKt, is of the opinion that
the InrvK) sta''e of manv species of in
sects is one of sleepless activity, the
grub feeding incessantly from the
"moment of its birth. He says that
ii is doubtful if Bome species ever
Bleep or take a moment's rest. The
voraciousness aud rapid growth of
these crentures may be better under
stood bv 'making statements of two
facts: A certain flesh-feeding larvm
(which simply meaus the infant state
of a carrion beetle, whose scientific
name would be of no particular inter
est) will consume in twenty-four hours
200 limes his own weight a parallel
to which in the human race would be
an infant consuming 1500 pounds of
nutriment on the first day of its exist
ence. There nre vegetable feeders
caterpillars which, during their
progress to maturity, increase in size
ltOo during the first thirty days of
their lives. To equal this remarkable
growth a mature man would weigh
searee'.y less than fifty tons! St.
honia Hepublie.
A tJirl's Heroism,
A correspondent of the Londou New
gives the following story "The flam
idie Kurds fell on Herfev, an Arme
nian village, and asked that the beau
tiful daughter of the priest b9 deliv
ered to them. The girl, hearing that
the villagers really intended to deliver
her to them in order to get rid of their
barbarities, hid herself, and at night
succeeded in making her way, with
her brother, toward Russian territory.
When the Kurds heard of this escape
they followed them, and overtook them
in the mountains. The brother and
sister defended themselves from be
hind a rock uutil they had tired all
their cartridges but two. The sister
then threw herself into the arms of her
brother, and begged him to shoot her
with one of the cartridges, so tht shf
might not fall into the hands of the
Kurds, nor see the death of her broth
er, and that with the second he should
deliver himself also from the hands ot
the Kurds. This was doue. The sister
was killed, but the brother was taken
half dead and delivered to the Turkish
authorities, and is now iu prison,".
REV. DR.TALMAGE
T IE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S 6U
DAT SERMON.
f AT;i!If tH,r f" ord th south ot
lowant the north, in thn vn the
xTffl. there It shall be'Eecsiast
ft vfls,t rntiUHuSetbat therwlll b an m
rtunityinthe next world to correct thf
Si - J? PWreck ' our e"r,h,v " wl
T' UP Thich mV to a pal.
in ihiif B rtfn,,,,nt mr IomMucm
. C',rt "n'1 c,rrv 11 OD tho
premB oourt or court of ch-tneerv and -Pt
eversal of judgment In hi, hlf. all the
post heinirihrownoveroii th other nirtv
MA" fai' ' 1h" "rthlyirlV. w nwr ln
Hl7V1.T,!Cfion of """'"V Have th
ill a. V" ,0W',r eo"rt d. all
"r?HM, n0 W" mavbeWorio",
derend. nti, forever. My object In thi ser-
i78h,V',"t rommon sense as wH
M mv text declare that snob art exoectatlon
U chimerics'. ou say that th Impenitent
roan, havine ot into the next WorM n-1
see.intf the disaster, will. result of thnf
disaster, turn, the pain th cam- of hi.
reformation But vou can find lO.OOo in
stances In this world of men who havs done
WTu5' rtistresq overtook them sud
denly, toid the distress heal them? So.
tbeV went right on.
That man was flune of dissipation!.. "Ton
rnimt stop drinkine," said the doctor "and
quit the fat life you nre leadin.tr or it will
destroy you." The patient suffers piroxrsm
firter paroxynrrt, hut tinder skillful medicul
treatment be begins to sit up, begins to walk
about the room, begins to go to bosines-.
And in, be goes back to the same grog-shop
fo- hip morning dram, and his evening dram.
nd the drams between. Flat down again?
Rame doctor! Same physical anguish ! Sams
medical warning ! Now tho illness is more
protracted, the liver is mote stubborn, the
Stomach more irritable, and I he digestive or
gans are more rebellions. But after a while
be ia out again, goes back to the dramshops
htid goes the srme round of sacrilege against
his physical health.
Me sees that his downward course is ruin
ing his household ; that bis life is a perpet
tial perjury against bis marriage vow ; that
t hat broken hearted woman is so unlike the
hopeful young wife whom he married that
rrr. t, schoolmates do hot recognize her ;
that his sons are to be taunted for a lifetime
ry the father s drunkenness : that the daugh
ters are to pass into life under the scariflca
! l tt 1isrfiPutabIe ancestor. He is
drinking up their happiness; their prospects
for this life, and perhaps forthe life to come.
Fomctimrg an appreciation of what be is do
Ihg comes Upon him. His nervous system is
hll a-tanele. From crown of head to sole or
mot he is cn aching, rasping, crucifying,
damning torture. Where Is he? In bell on
oa'tb. Does it reform him?
After awhile he has delirium tremens, with
a whole jungle of h'ssinsr reptiles lot out on
his pillow, nnd bis screams horrify th
neighbors as he dashes out of his bed. cry
ing. "Take these things off me !" As be sits
Tale and convalescent the doctor says :
"Now, I want to have a plain talk with you,
my doar fellow. The next attack of this
kind yon have you will be beyond all medi
cal skill, and you will die." He gets better
snd goes forth into the same fight again.
This time medicine takes no effect. Consul
tation of physicians agree In saying there is
no hce. Death ends the scene.
That pron-ss of inebriation, warning an 1
dissolution is colngon within a Stone's throw
of you, going on in all the neighborhoods of
f'brlstendom. Tain does not correct. Suf
fering does not reform. Whit Is true In ono
Sjnse is 1 rue in all senses and will forever be
so. and yet men are expecting in the next
world purgatorial rejuvenation. Take up
the printed reports of the prisons of the
United Slates, an t you will find that the
Vast majority of the incarcerated have been
there before, some of them four, five, six
times. With 1.003.000 illustrations all work
ing the other way in this world, people are
expecting that distress in the next state wilt
be salvatory. You cannot Imagine any worss
torture in any other world than that which
some men have suffered here, and without
any salutary consequence.
Furthermore, the prospect ot a reforma
tion in the next world is more Improbable
than a reformation here. In this world tho
life started with innocence of Infancy. Iu
the case supposed the other life will open
With all the accumulated bad habits of many
years upon him. Surely it is easier to build
n strong ship out of new timber than out of
nn old hulk that has been ground up In the
breakers. If with Innocence to begin with
in this lire a man does not become ffoJly,
What prospect Is there that in the next world,
starling with sin, there would be a seraph
evoluted? Surely the sculptor has mors
prospect of making a fine statue out ot a
block of pure white Parian marble than out
of an old black rock seamed and cracked
With the storms of a half century. Surely
Upon a clean white sheet of paper It Is easier
to write a deed or a will than upon a sheet
of paper all scribbled an 1 blotted and torn
Irom top to bottom. Yet men seem to think
that, though the life that began here com
paratively perfect turned oat badly, the next
lire will succeed, though it starts with a dead
failure.
"But." says some one, "I think wo ought
to have a chance in the next life, because
this life is so short it allows only small op
portunity. We hardly have time to turn
Bround between era tie and tomb, the wood
ot me ono almost touching the marble of the
olher." But do you know what ma le the an
cient delude a nfvssity? It was the longe-
v.ty of the ant-sailu vians. Taey were worsa
in the second century of their lifetime than
in the ftrM hundred yearn, and still worse in
the third century, and still worse all the way
on to 700, 800 and 900 years, and the earth
bad to be washed and scrohbed and soaked
and anchored clear out of sight for more
than a month before it could t9 made flt for
decent people to live in.
Longevity never cures impenitency. Ail
the pictures of Time represent him with n
scythe to cut, but I never saw any picture of
Time with a case of medicines to heal.
Seneca says that Nro for tho first five years
of his public life was set up tor an example
of clemency and kin Iness. but his pith ll
the way desccn led until at 69 A. D. he be
came a suicide. If 800 years did not make
antediluvians any better, but only made
them worse, the aies of eternity could have
no effect except prolongation of depravity.
"But." says some on", "in the future state
evil surrouudings will be withdrawn and
elevated influences substituted, and hence
expurgation nnd sublimstion and glorifica
tion." But the righteous, all their sins for
given, have passed on Into a beatlflo state,
and consequently the unsaved will be left
alone. It cannot be expected that Dr. Puff,
who exhausted himself In teaching Hindoos
the way to heaven, an t Dr. Abeel. who gave
his life in the evimgeliz-ition of China, and
Adoniram Judson. who toilel tor the re
demption of Borneo, should be sent down by
some celestial missionary society to educate
those who waste I all their earthlyexistence.
Evangelistic nn I missionary efforts are
ended. The entire kingdom of tho morally
bankrupt by themselves, where are lh
salvatory influences to come from? Can ona
speckled and bad apple In a barrel of dis
eased apples turn the other apples goo Yi
Can thosrt who aro tbemsalves down help
others up? Can tbosa who have themsIves
(ailed in the business of the soul p-iy the
debts of their spiritn il iusoivents? Can a
million wrongs make oin riht?
IVineropolis was a city wher King Fhilip
of Thra ua put all the" bad people of bis
kingdom. If any roan had opened a primary
school at l'oneropolis. I do not think the
parents from other cities would have sent
thi-ir children there. Insteadof amendment
in the other world, all the nsso;-intion. now
that the goo I nr evolve I. will be degenera
ting and down. You would not want to send
n man to a cholera or vellow fever hosp'til
ror his health, and the great lazaretto of the
nixt world, containing the diseased and
plague struck. tv!I1 be a poor place for moral
recoverv. It the surroun lings iu this world
were crowded of temptation, the surround
ngsof the next worl '. after tho righteous
have passed up and on. will be a thousanl
per ctnt. more crowded of temptation.
The Count of Chateaubriand made bis lit
lb) son sleep at night at the top of a castle
turret, where the winds howled and where
specters were said to baunt the place, and
while the mother and sisters almost died
with fright the son tens us that the process
gave him nerves that could not tremble an 1
i cour.ige that never faltered. But I don t
think that towers of darkness and the sPe?"
tril world swept by sirocco and euroclydon
will ever flt one for the land cl eternal sun
shine. I wonder what Is tho curriculum Of
that college of inferno, where, after proper
preparation by the sins of this life, the can
didate e titers, passing on from freshman
class of depravity to sophomore of abandon
ment, and from sophomore to junior, and
from junior to senior, and day of gradua
tion comes.- and with diploma signed by
satan, the president, an 1 other professorial
demoniacs, attesting that the candidate has
been long enough unler their drill, be
passes up to enter heaven! Pandemonlun
a preparative course for heavenly admis
sion ! Ab. my friend3, satan and but cohorts
have fitted uncounted millions for ruin, but
never title i one soul for happiness !
Furthermore, it would not be safe for this
world if men had another chance in the
nex. If it had been announced that, how
ever wickedly a man might act In this world,
be could fix it up all right in the next,
society would be terribly demoralized, and
the human race demolished in a few rears.
The fear that if wa are bad and unforglven
here it will not bs well for us in the next ex
istence is the chief influence that keeps civil
ization from rushing back to semlbarbar
Ism. and semibarbarism from rushing Into
mighty savagery, and midnight savagery
from extinction, for it is the astringent im
pression of all nations. Christian and
heathen, that there is no future chance for
those who have wasted this.
Multitu les of men who are kept within
bounds would siy "do to. now ! Let me
ret all out of this' life there is In it. Come,
gluttony and inebriation and uncleanness
and revenge and alt sensualities, and wait
upon me ! My life may be somewhat short
ened in this world by dissoluteness, but that
Will only make heavenly indulgence on a
larger scale the sooner possible. I will over
take the saints at last and will enter the
heavenly temple only a little later than
those Who behaved themselves here. I will
on my way to heaven take a tittle wider ex
cursion than those who were on earth pious,
and I shall go to heaven via gehenna and
via sheol." Another chance in the next
world means free license and wild abandon
ment in this.
Suppose you were a party in an important
case at law, and you knew from consultation
with judges and attorneys that it Would be
tried twice, nnd the first trial would be of
little Importance, but that the second Would
decide everything, for which trial would you
make the most preparation, for which retain
the ablest attorneys, for which be most anx
ious about the attendance of Witnesses? You
would put all -the stress Upon the second
trial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure,
saying, "The first is nothing, the last Is
everything." Give the race an assurance of
n secoud aud more important trial in the
subsequent life, and all the preparation for
eternity would be "post mortem," post fu
neral, post sepulchral, and the world with
oue jerk be pitched off into impiety and god
lessuess. Furthermore, let me ask why a chance
should be given in the next world if we have
refused innumerable chances in this? Sup
pose you give a banquet, and you Invite a
vast number of friends, but one man de
clines to come or treats your invitation with
indifference. You in the course of twenty
years give twenty banquets, and the same
man is invited to them all and treats them all
in the same obnoxious way. After a while
you remove to another house, larger and bet
ter, and you again invite your friends, but
send no invitation to the man who declined
or neglected the other invitations.
Are you to blame? Has he a right
to expect to be invited after all
the indignities he has done you? God in
this world has invited us all to the banquet
of His grace. He invited us by His provi
dence and His spirit 3S5 days of every year
since we knew our right hand from our left.
If we decline 1 it every time or treated the
invitation with indifference aud gave twenty
or forty or fifty years of Indignity on our
part toward the banqueter, and at last He
spreads the banquet in a more luxurious and
kingly place, amid the heavenly gardens,
have we a right to expect Him to invite us
again, and have we a right to blame Him if
He does not invite us?
If twelve gates of salvation stool open
twenty years or firty years for our admis
sion, and at the end of that time they are
closed, can we complain ol it and say :
"These gates ought to ba open again. Give
us another chance?" If thusteamer is to sail
for Hamburg, and we want to get to Ger
many by that line, anl we read in every
evening nn I every morning newspaper that
it will sail on a certain day. for two weeks
we have that advert issraeut before our eipe,
nnd then we go down to the docks fifteen
minutes after it has shoved off into the
stream an 1 say : "Come back ! Give me
another chance ! It is not fair to treat me
in this way ! Swing up to the dock agaiu
and throw out pluuks nn 1 let me come ou
board !" Suci behavior would invite arrest
as a madman.
And if, after the gospel ship has lain at
anchor before our eyes for years and years,
and nil the benign voices ot earth and
heaven have urgel us to get on board, as
she might sail aw:ty at any moment, and
after awhile she s.iils withojt u, is it
common sense to expect her to come back?
You might as well go out on the highlands
at Nuvesink and call to the Majestio after
she has been three days out ud exp?ct her
to return as to call back au opportunity for
heaven when it once has spud away. All
heaven oftere 1 us as a gratuity, and for a
lifetime we reluse to taka It, and then
rush on the bosses of Jehovah's buckler de
manding another chance. There ought to
be, there can be. there will be. no such
thing as posthumoui opportunity. Thus
our common senss agrees with my text, "If
the I roe fall toward the south'or toward the
north, in the place where the tree falleth
there it shall be.-
You see this idea lifts this worl I u; fri n
an unimportant way station to a pl-it'nr i o
stupendous isv.i ai :iu I nn'in ail "
whirl around this hour. But one trial for
which all the preparation must be made in
this world or never made at all. That piles
up all the emphases and all the climaxes and
all the destinies into life here. No other
chance' Ob, how that augments the vaje
una importan-'e oi mis cnauce :
Alexander with his army used to surround
acityand then would lift a great light in
token to the people that if they surrendered
before that light went out all would be well,
but if once the light went out then the bat
tering rams would swing against the wall,
and demolition and disaster would follow.
Wei', all we need do for our present and
everlasting safety is to make surrender to
Christ, the Kingand Conqueror surrender
of our hearts, surrender of our lives, sur
render of everything. And He keeps a great
light burning, light of gospel invitation, light
kindled with the wood of the cross and
flaming up against the dark night of our sin
and sorrow. Surrender while that great
light continues to burn, for after it goes out
there will be no otheropportunity of making
peace with Got through our Lord Jesus
Christ. Talk of another chance I Why, this
Is a supernal chance !
In the time of Edward VI.. at the battle of
Musselburg, a private soldier, seeing that
the Earl of Huntley had lost his helmet, took
off his own helmet and put it upon the head
of the earl, and the head of the private sol
dier, uncovered, he was soon slain, while
his commander rode safely out of the battle.
But in our case, instead ot a private soldier
offering helmet to an enrl. it is a King put
ting His crown upou an unworthy subject,
the King dying that we might live. Tell it to
all points of the comp is". Tell it to night
and dav. Tell it to all earth and heaven.
Tell it to all centuries, all ages, all millennf
urns, that we have such a magnificent chanee
in this world that we need no other chance
in the next.
I am in the burnish 1 judgment hall of the
'nst dav. A great white throne is lifted,
but the judge has not yet taken it. While
we are waiting for his arrival I hear immor
tal spirits in conversation. "What are you
waiting here for? ' say3 a soul that went up
from Madagascar to n oul that ascended
from America. The letter says. "I came
from America where fnrtv years I beard the
gospel preached and Bible ra-'. and from
the rraver that I learned iu infancy on my
mother s kn -e until rav las' hour I had gos
pel advantage, hut for some reason I did not
make the Christian cho c", and I am hero
waiting for the judge to give me n new trial
and another clninc." "Strange !" says the
other. "I had but one gospel call In Mada
gascar, and I accepted it, and I do not neel
another chance."
"Why are you hereV" says one who on
earlh had feeblest int"llect to one who bad
great brain an I silvery tongue and ssPter
of influence. The latter responds : "Oh, I
knew more than my fellow". I masterei
libraries anl bil learned titles from co!
Iege, and mv nine was a synonym for
eloquence and power. And yet I neglected
mv soul, an 1 I am here waiting for a new
tria'." "Strange," says the one of the
fbhi earthly cacacjtyj. . 'l knew, but Uttlq
of worldly knowledge, but" I knew Christ
and made Him my mrtner, anl have no need
of another chnnce.'
Now the ground trembles with the ap
proaching chariot. The great folding 'doors
of the hall swing open. "3tand back?" cry
the celestial ushers. ".?ian 1 back, anl lot
the judge of quick and dead pass through !"'
He takes the tbron, and looking over tho
throng of nations He ssys, "Come to judg
ment, the last judgment, the ho!y judg
ment? By one flsh fron the throne all the
history of each one Amies forth to the vi
sion of Himself an 1 all others. "Divide V
sys the ju Ise to the assembly. "Divide !
echo the walls. "Divide V cry the gutrds
angelic.
And now the immortals separate, rushing
this way and that, and after awhile there is
a great aisle between them, anl a grat
vacuum widening and widenin?, and ths
judge, turning to the throng on one side,
says, "He that is rlghttoa. let him be right
eous still : and he that is holy, let blm be
holy still,' and then, turning toward the
throng on the opposite side, be says, "He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still . and
be that is filthy, let him be filthy still," and
then, lifting one hand totrard each group,
he declares, "If the trea fall toward the
south or toward the north. in the place
where the tree falleth there it shall be."
And then I bear something jar with a great
sound. It Is the closing of the boo'; ot
judgment. - The judge ascends the stairs be
hind the throne. The hall of the last assir.t
is cleared and shut. The high court ot
eternity is adjourned forever.
SCIENTIFIC ASD INDUSTRIAL.
Artificial ear drums are a success.
Insect eggs have the greatest vi
tality. The sour gourd trees of Africa are
the oldest living vegetation.
The apple contains a larger amount
of phosphorous, or brain food, than
any other fruit.
The United States has a lower per
centage of blind people than any oth
er country in the world.
Microscopists say that the strongest
microscopes do not, probably, reveal
the lowest stage of animal life.
It was twenty-nine days from the
casting of the Lick objective glass be
fore it had cooled sufficiently for safe
removal.
The Electrical Review says the elec
trical purification of sewage "is a com
plete success, chemically and bacter
iologically." The South Sea Islands is the home
of a worm which emerges from its
hiding place only one day of a certain
change of the moon in October.
The East Indian ship worm will in a
few months destroy any vessel by eat
ing out the interior of the beams an
planks. They will be left a mere shell
that can be shattered by the fist.
The onion has virtues to which
thousands of people will swear. This
is its ability to ward off attacks of ma
laria in any form, and to cure cases
as rapidly as the strongest doses of
quinine.
A New York lady has so contrive I
matters that she can, before getting
out of bed, start a fire in the kitchen
by turning on the current, and when
she comes down stairs finds the kettle
boiling and the place comfortably
warmed.
J. J. Hogan, a mechanical student
of Yale College, has inventel a re
markable instrument, cilled the Kine
simeter, which is nsed to measure the
slightest motion perceptible to the
test of touch. The measure is one
millimeter per second.
The important discovery has been
made by Doctor Bickelanl th it the
addition of a minute amount of a solu
ble flnorid to yeast will preserve it for
more than six months. Doubtless other
important applications will be ruvleof
this remarkablo property ol the solu
ble fluorids.
Mi". Grib.n, ths gra' Britii-i ele;
trician, has invented a "Ion l-3p3V!i-ing
telephone," an apparatus wlitc'i
gathers and materializes tha wave
sounds to such a wonderful degreo
that they can be heard any plaji i:i a
targe room, even after traveling ovir
the wires hundreds of miles.
A Colored Populist.
John Mercer Langston, an ex-Minis-ter
to Hayti, and an ex-Congressman
from a Virginia district, has been lec
turing at various points in the South
ern States. In an address at Hunts
ville, Ala., he advanced with enthusi
astic acceptance of his audience, the
Populistic idea that the Federal Gov
ernment should establish an industrial
institution of learning near the capita
of each Southern State for the educa
tion of Afro-Americans.
Hall's Catarrh Care
Is a Const it ut ional Cure. Trice 75c.
Anotheb Insurrection in Cuba Is Immi
nent. Karl's Clover Knot, the great blood purifier,
gives fre-dincss and clerness to the (complex
ion and rures constipation, St ct .. 'ii ts., L.
Thb annual cost ot the British navy lfl
70,000,000, of the army 85,000,000.
The Magic ToM
OF
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Ton smile at the idea. But if you are
a sufferer from
Dyspepsia
And indigestion, try a bottle, and be
fore you have taken half a dozen
doaes." yon will think, and no douht
exclaim " That just hits it !" " That
Hood's
Sarsa
parilla soothing eff-ct
is a magic
i..h" II.. Va
ures
Rarsariarilla i 't
gently 1on-s andstrengttn-nsthestom-nch
and digestive organs, invigorates
the liver, creates a natural, healthy
d-sire for too I, gives refn-shing sleep.
Hood's Pi IS a prompt and eiUcient.
THE PROGRESS It
SELF-TRAMPING
COTTON PRESS.
n t-fc. Mnu. rjtfcle 4k
'reliable- are trumping la
iX. nrnr ttntj OEf mmn tt
ired trUh Pr. rarWrt
onlr to raise handle to tn mna
(allow block in inumntt-nr
li-iprS. Alunwle I r l 0
rrrr Sir. .., r. Mnini, Jita.
S luaiTwlTtsi au f:Lst fiT
I I Beat Coo fcjmpTTaMea Good. TJaa I I
1.1 latum. Sold try drogiogta. I
The Royal Baking Powder is in
dispensable to progress in cookery
and to the comfort and conve
nience ol modern housekeeping.
Royal Baking Powder makes hot
bread wholesome. Perfectly leav-
4
ens without fermentation. Qual
itics that arc peculiar to it alone.
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riimsoll's Mark.
The nest time you get near one ol
the big ocean greyhounds, or, in fact,
any of the ocean going craft, loo'i
along her side just above the atet
line and about the center you will see
a peculiar mark which looks as though
it might have been made by an inebri
ated cobra. This is known as "riim
soll's mark." Load a ship so that this
is below water, and if she sinks you
can collect no insurance. It is the
danger mark. ' It is an outcome of ma
rine insurance, and the regulation has
undoubtedly saved many million dol
lars' worth of property and many
lives. Weighted below it a vessel is
loggy and tinbuoyant ; in a storm she
could not ride the waves easily, an 1
would be likely to founder. The
Flimsoll mark is simply a bisected cir
cle; to the left are the private IJoyJ
measurements and marks. In Eng
land these are regarded very closely ;
in America we are more lax. New
York Mail and Express.
Strange History of a Clit-rr Tree.
In the management of a cherry tre?
the late Almeron Higby, of Watson,
Lewis County, may be regarded by
some people as wiser in his day and
generation than the youthful George
Washington. When nine years oil he
planted a cherry stone, fro n which
grew a tree thit was kuowu by his
parents as "tb.3 boy's tree." When it
begau to bear cherrie? ho picke I tho
fruit, sold it, anl save 1 the money.
This he continued to do during his
entire life. Lxst summer, at the ago
of fifty -nine, his health declined, an 1
the tree also began to decay. So he
cut it down, had the trunk sawed into
boards, and with his own hau Is mi la
a pretty ch rry C!3iti for liinnt lf. A
few days ago he died, and all of his
funeral expenses were paid from the
money that he had saved as the pro
ceeds of the sale of the cherries. Alil
wuukee Wisconsin.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with,
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in tho
remedy, Svrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
ana permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
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Length of a Knot.
The velocity of a ship is estimated
in knots aud tenths of a kuot, and the
distance on the log Hue between two
successive knots or marks is obtained
by the following proportion: As the
number of seconds in an hour is to the
number of seconds in the hour glass
(usually t wenty -eight), so is the lougth
of a sea mile to the length of a knot.
This gives forty-seven feet four inches.
Trevions to marking the log line it is
soaked in water for a few days to get
it into the condition it is when in use.'
About fifteen or twenty fathoms of
'stray line" is marked off by a piece
of fish line with one, t wo or three, etc.,
knots in it, as may be required. Each
division is subdivided into fivo equal
parts, And a small piece of ra or
bunting marks the two-tenths division
thus formed. Tha knot or sea mile
is tifWJ feet, or 1.15 statute mile.
Boston Cultivator.
IT GIVES WARNING
that there's trouhlo ahead
if you're getting thin.
It shows that your Mood
' m 7 ia impoverished, and your
I I I organs deranged, so that
I I I whatever you eat fails to
III ProP'rly nourish you.
Ill And just as long as you
I I I remain m this condition,
III Consumption, Pneumonia.
w I l una oilier OTonnous ana
IT 11 dangerous dixeascs are
$ I likely to fasten upon yen.
t&K ACl You fhould hnilH v.inr.
elf up with Dr. Fierce '
Golden Medical Discovery.
blood, rouse every organ into natural ao
tion, and hulld up healthy, wholesome,
necessary flesh. Ocn PorTf.J.
Dr. R. V. Picrcs: Drar Wr-We have used
your "O.M.D." In our family am) And nothing
else to equal it One of our children bad the
Sneuinonia. and one lung become consoll
ated. tmt bv the use of tho " blacovery " she
baa entirely recovered, and is now in good
health.
HORSE OWNER
ought to think ennngh of
bis animal to wirti iu be
able to care for It properly
In health and rirknoK. Ilia
money oat of hir km ki t If
bedoeanot. Torriniiliti
this remit we nllir onr
On Hundred rage Il
lustrated Hone took
lur 25 cent', h tear her tnu
to pick ont a fciKxl llotie;
know imp rfriion anrt o
guard aalnat froud; lr
lert di aw nil eflcrt a
core whi-a name is x"t-
ble: tell the au-e l t'U
toclh; what to (ail O
different parte of the ani
mal; bow toaliue a Uura
properly, etc.. nr.
All this and olher rat
eable Informal Ion ran b
olila iwd by radiiit onr
line llnndnd I'mre IMa
t rated llore llix.k. nlii h
we will forward. xit paid,
on receipt of lirlre id
tamp. Awnred'y the Florae ia loo food a ft lend
to man to he neglectrd tor want of kmrnleilta
w hich can he rrorured for only twrnti -ve -,!.
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