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THE FARM AND GARDEN.
cnrrxo fopdkr by hard.
If the farmer continues to cho ur
- cornstalks and other coarse Teed by hfn1.
he need not wonder if his sons take a dis
like to farming, and quit it at the earliest
chance; they find for some pleasanter era
, ployment. Many a youag man leaves
the farm because he has a liking for .ma
chinery, and desires to engage in work
where he will direct the .forces of steam
or horse power, rather.than do everything
with his own muscles. Such a young,
man is just now especially needed on the
farm. In a few years we believe that a
majority of farmers will find profitable
to keep a steam engine to "saw wood, cut
.fodder and furnish power for many oper
. ations now. performed by hand. More
than one boy has acquired a permanent
distaste for farming from being required
hour after hour to turn, grindstones 01
swing the revolving churn. American
Ov.ltizat'r. -
' MOSEY FROM SHEEP IK WINTER.
To be successful in raising early lamb-
. 'several things are essential -
First, warm,, dry barns, well venti
lated. . Barns so warm .that watjer will
1 never freeze in heni are not so dj$Kult
to secure even with old open, buildings.
Get somd poles or old boards and nail
,them on dhe inside, tilling between with
straw or .poor hay. To be sure this will
not make a fancy barn, but i yiH se
cure Warmth and cot but a "frifl
becond, jjood feeding, with h variety
f food ;at different times. To mak.
enough milk to keep the lambs growing,
. the ewes must have, some succulent food
like bcYts, silage or applets, "-as well as ;i
liberal grain ration. The regularity of
feeding is also important, for .if the
nhTep do not receive their food at . the
time they should, they will be uneasy,
walking around, bleating, and in every
ytway indicating that theyfare impatient
for'it. " "
Third, their food must be kept clean,
and no dirty troughs' or . drinking tubs
can bit 'allowed, for -they are very par
ticular -about having their food clean.
Lastly, one of the most important c'on
ditions is good care. The rjfian who goes
rushing about the pgns with, a great deal
of noise, will not make a go"od shepherd.
Sheep are very timid, and they will be
nervous and frightened all the time.
When you see a man sitting down in a
pen with the lambs .climbing upon him,
or nibbling his coat, and the sheep eating
or lying, with half;shut eyes, chewing
their ends, you may be pretty sure that
you have the right man to falje care of
sheep. JW-n Enghmd Homestead.
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'iNCRKASINO Tjnjfi lANL'RE HE,VP.
While it is, not economy to increase the
omntity of --manure iat the expense ol
quality, at the sam
imt t
thift
me it is quite im
nothing tljat will
portant to see
make a good, fertilizer
s allowed to waste.
If the plan of cleaning ouk the stables
and. sheds is followed 'and the manure is
piled up either under jshelter or without,
it will be found advantageous to save all
the inoro easily soluble portions as it is
thisthai istho more jiablfo be' lost.
By supplying plenty of bedding iu the,
stables or sheds all the liquid portions
may be. absorbed and held,. and then if
care is taken in the piling the losses by
leaching may be greatly lessened. A .good
layer of straw, leaves or other litter
should be put on the ground 'first, this
will hold a good per cent, of the-soluble
portions, and .then if tffere is a consider
able quantity piled up a layer of straw
or litter can after be put in to good ad
vantage.. '
This is especially the case when there
is a considerable quantity of straw,
more tlian can be "used foieeding to goo.d
advantage. It is less work to ban! direct
from the stables to the fields, but this
cannot always be done-to the best ad van
. tage, and to avoid allowing top large a
quantity to accumulate ; in the stables it
will- be necessary to pile outside. .
A shed will protect considerably and
especially wilt avoir! leaching.
When this cannot be 'done, piling-in a
circular heap putting a good layer of
straw underneath and covering with a
layer of straw or litter wilf protect con
siderably. ' -
T throw manure out of the. stable
without cover, or piling so as to shed
water, is $ lose considerable part of the
most valuable "properties, and as the ex
pense of handling and applying is the:
same it should be the aim to save all the
soluble portions as fully as possible.
Manure should be considered a product
of the farm and should be handled so a?
to realize flic best possible results, avoid
ing waste and securing as far as possible
all the benefits in order fo increase th
profits. Fnfm, FielA nml Sto'kman.
AUK of HoHStS IN WINTER.
If. farmers and others who have the
rare of auimals could so far identify them
'pelvc with the creatures under thpii
charge as to feel that thev belong to the
frame great , animal' kingdom, and that
they have much in eoinmou with them so
. far as the, functions oMife arc concerned,
it would save much suffering' and loss.
In brf athing" for examine, pure air is m
'necessary to the horse as to its owner,
and the'crTect of deteriorating the air by
breathing it is trie sme in doth cases.
Proper ventilation "in" the sleeping apart
- mcnt is as necessary o the health of one
as of the ftjer. In an equal manner
'both require food to keep the body warm,
. and more of it. and of amore nutritious
character in 'cold than in warm weather.
, A-blow or a harsh word , inflicts pain op
both the horse and its master, tjhough one
writer tried to show that horses did not
feel pain, a he had seen a horse grazing
m a pasture while dragging its broken
leg after it. No doubt that beasts are
lens sensitive t pain than man. just a
me animals are much less sensitive than
sthers. For example, we have seen a
pig bitten again andaga by a rattle
make before the pig could put the ser
pent beyond the ability to bite by eating
V t. The pig appeared to suffer no injurv
. from the poisonous wounds inflicted, and
jvidently enjoyed the meal which was ths
. result of the conflict. On the other hand,
-c have seen a high-strung, spirited',
well-bred Kentucky horse come to his
Jeath by a single bite from & rattlesnake.
- t"he pojnt we jvouJ make is this: It
rould often be much better for the. health,
md decidedly hotter for the comfort of
. nr domestic animals, if those who have
Jkt care of them would occasionally "put
fourself in, his placed apd ask themselves
'.'Now. would you like.it if you were a
"ojse, a bollock, or even a-pig?"
As.already indicated, it-is one of the
functions of food not the only, but an
important one to keep up the Vat' of
the body. This is true of ourselves, " as
rell as o-.ir animala - As thn weather'hp
romes colder, we aid the fopd in keepiug
os-wanu, by a change toH yur warmer
tlothing. The animals do this, to a cer
tain extent,' by thickening ip the eover
(ng of hair, fur., feathers, etc., with
which nature provides nhern. If those
who clip their horse; in midwinter, and
let themtand unblankcted, could take
he opinion of the animals, what do they
think it would be? But then it look's so
pretty to sec a horse neatly clipped. Nails
nd a hammer properly applied will often
convert a rickety barn into a warm oner
ind save hay and Other food. Do not
wait until one of the best horses
c f .n . ;.. ,ki
reported lame from n fall on an icy n-afH
lpfore. looking to tlvi condition 01 the
feet. Have all the hor-es properly
hod and kept shirp aH winter. It
is cruel to expose the animals
to the chance of painful- falls. Groom
ing should not be slighted in cold
weather. Grooming in the stall is bad
for the horse, and the man who doer, it
cannot get around the animtl to do thor
ough work. In slushy weather, when
the roads are bad with wet snow, give
the legs of the horses a thorough rub
bing, first witb a wi?p of straw and af
terward rub dy with a iVce, of old car
pet, or some s'Jich fabric!-. Give the heel?
especial attention. '
' Soiled " bedding should be removed
from the stalls in the morning, and not
returned until late in tbe afternoon. On
pleasant daysexpose it at a sunny place
in the barnyard, 'Have ashed where it
can bq kept under cover. Fortunate is
is he who is not obliged to be saving
with'ls bedding
He need not be whoj
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followed our advice . to gatheiforest
leaves in abundance. .Soiled bedding
gives oil ammoniacal vapory, which are
in jurious to the eyes of the- animals, as
well as their health gen era 1 1 y. Ameri
can AgricUvrtxt.,
FARM AND OAROEN OTE5.
Long nd ha.nl pulling makes .wind
broken horse-. '
Charred corn is a good form of char
coal for fowls. - -
Regularity in feeding and work, makes
long-lived horses.
Plant deciduous trees and shrubs il
the ground is not frozen : they will start
early in spring and get ahead of warm
weather.
It is, not safe to invest much in fruit?
puffed only by nurserymen or nursery
agents. Get testimony from .some less
disinterested quarter before buying.
"Like master like man," and like
owner like cow is -yvA as ti ue. If you
are quick-tempered and easily provoked,
and allow " yout cows to receive the full
benefit of, yofir example, they will be
pretty sure to follow it.
It is possible to rear pigs so as to have
seventy-five per. cent, ot lean meat in
them. This can be accomplished by
feeding bran, middlings and skim-milk,
or bran and middlings. Hogs need salt
as much as any other animal.
A moderate dose of sulphur given
twice a week serves as a laxative and
blood purifier to the hens. The sulphur
permeates the whole system, even coming
through the skin; and, being death to
insect .life, causes parasites to drop off.
The wide-awake farmer always keeps a
number of well-bred brood mares that
can do the farm work and produce good
colts as well. They cost no more tyketT
ami thev work as well as geldings or
mules that arc unproductive and rapidly
deteriorate irt value.
Apples should be stored in a cool dry
place a shed or barn assorted and
packed in clean barrels, and kept out ol
cellar as long as . it is possible to do so
without freezing. A covering of hay oi
corn stalks, will alTbrd some protection.
Unfortunately for the safe storing of fruit,
most cellars arelaowarm.
Until farmers . have. generalb-iearncd
that good roads arc as necessary to their.
success as good crops, the country road;
will be generally bad; and. no legislation
will make them otherwise, unless it be by
levying a direct tax for. road purposes
and appointing ofhcial road makers with
salaries, whose duties shall -be the mak
ing of roads awd keeping them in repair.
AVhen fow is arc killed before, beiu"
sent to market, it is best not to uack
them as soon as they are plucked. It is
best to let poultry hang at least twenty
four hours after bciug picked before
packing, so as to-allow the. animal heat
to entirely pass jff. iftcr picking, wash
off the bloodstains with a cloth and
warm water in a carcfutl manner, for if
any arv left to haden"?tTr"nie dry,
their removal will proKe, vctajtrouble
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At War With the Bubi.
The Bubi triby. whojiihahit the little
island of Fernando P n the Gulf of
Hjnnea, recently made a raid upon the
town of Santa Isabel, ant had it not
been for the timely arrival of a Spanish
gunboat they would probably have re
duced the town ti ashes. Their King
and a number of hi followers were cap
tured and are still in custody. They
have once been severely flogged in the
open air, and the news was sent l theii
friends.
The Bribi are among the most peculiar
people ever discovered. Though their
island home contain only about 80"
square miles, and the whites. Portuguese.
British and. Spanish, have been in pos
session for four centuries, the natives were
almost as little known as, thouglv thev.
lived in Central Africa until a fcy-'ycar
ago. They live far up among tin mount
ains tha-t occupy thLiateror 4-Htv inland.
For generations' at a tiin they did not
molest the white residents of the oast
unless they ventured into the interior.
I They kept a. breed pf ferocious dogs
wnicn were a greater source of terror tc
the whites than' the Bubi themselves,
though the latter were well firmed with
arrows and spear. At one time when
they were at war with the whites tber
I were accused of stealing into the settle-
mepts in the night time and. poisoning
wells. They have never yet been sub
jugated, though a while ago a white
traveler, by exercising-great patience and
perseverauce managed to win their con
fidence, lived among them for some time,
andNwo years ago he published a book
giving the first' detailed information
about the native inhabitants.
This is probably the only instance oa
record of an island, twenty miles wide,
being in possession of the whites for four
centuries, during whieh tunc they were
not able to explore the' interior. AV:
3"f- S'f. ' ' v
Gcnhi: and manity are sometimes
combined' in the same person JoTn close
ly -connected' -members ofthe same
family; but it is not eaA to. trace the
connect i'V. between those mental con
dition and. the sinful or criminal acts
that are apt to be committed by persons
so organized. - -
TALMAGE'S TRIP.
HE BRUUSLfN Dl FINE'S StJNDAl
Text: "-'Glory to'Godiri the highest, and
on earth peace, good will toward men."
Luke ii.. 14.
At last i nave wnat i iongei ior. amnsir
eye m the Holy This the timo
j-styfear that Christ landed, tic was a Decem
ber Christ. Ibis is the chill air through
which He descended. I look up through these
Christmas skies, and I see no loosened star
hastening southward to halt above Bethle-
hem. but all the stars suggest the Star of
Bethkhem. No more need that any of them
run along the sky to point downward. In
quietude they kneel at the feet of Him who,
though once an exile, is now enthroned for
ever. Fresh up from Bethlehim, I
am full of the scenes suggested by a
visit t! that village. You know "that
whole, region cf Bethlehem is famous in Bible
story. There, were the waving harvests of
Boaz, in which Ruth gleaned for herself and
weeping Naomi. There t)avid the warrior
wasthhsty, and three men of unheard of
tftlf denial broke through the "Philistine army
to get him a drink. It was to that region
that Joseph and Mary came to have their
names enrolled in the census. That is what
"lie Scripture means when it says they came
to be taxed,"' for people did not in those
days rush after the assessors of tax any more
than they now do.
The village inn was crowded with the
afe-angersw ho had come up bv the command
Government to have their names in the
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CQnsus 60 "-Dat J oseph and Mary w-ere obliged
lo lod ere in the stables. You have soeu some
of these large stone buildings, in thecenter
of which the camels were kept, while run
nine out from this center iu all ' directions
there were rooms, in one of which Jesus was
bcrn. Had his parents been more showily
appare.led I have no doubt they would have
i ouivd - more com f ortable entertainment .
That night in the fields the shepherds, with
crook and kindled fires, were watch
ing - their flocks, when hark! to
the sound of voices strangely sweet.
Can it he that the maidens of Bethlehem have
come out to serenade the wearv shepherds?
But now a light stoops upon them like the
morning, so that the flocks arise, shaking
their snowy fleece and bleating to their
drowsy young. The heavens are. filled with
armies of light, and the earth quakes under
the harmony as, echoed back from cloud to
rloud, it rings over the midnight hills:
''Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will to men."' It seems that the
crown of royalty and dominion and power
whym Christ left behind Him was hung on
the sky in sight of Bethlehem. Who knows
but that that crown may have been mistaken
by the wise men for the star running and
pointing downward?
, My subject, in the first place, impresses me
with the fact that indigence is not always
significant of degradation. When Prince3
are born, heralds announce it, and cannon
thunder it, and flags wave it, and illumina
tions set cities on fire with the tidings. Some
of us in England or America remember the
time of rejoicing when the Prince of Wales
was born. You can remember the gladness
throughout Christendom at the nativity in
the palace at Madrid. But when our glorious
Prince was born, there was no rejoicing on
earth. Poor and growing poorer, yet the
heavenly recognition that Christmas night
shows the truth of the proposition that in
digence is not always significant of degrada
tion. In all ages there have been great hearts
throbbing under'a-ags, tender sympathies un
der rough exterior, gold in the quartz, Par
ian marble in the quarry, and in every stable
of privation wonders of excellence that have
been the joy of the heavenly host. All the
great deliverers of literature and of nations
were born in homes without affluence, and
from their own privation learned to speak
and figrtNfor the oppressed. Many a man
has held up nis pine knot light from the wil
derness until Vali nations and erenerations
i off of his hard crust of pen
ury has broken the bread of knowledge and
religion for the starving millions of the
race. Poetry, and science, and literature,
and commerce, and laws, and consti
tutions, an?Hiberty. like Christ," were born
in a manger. jI the great thoughts which
have decided the destiny of nations started in
obscure corners, andriad llerods who wanted
to slay them,- and Iscariots who betrayed
them, and rabbles that crucified them, and
sepulchres that confined them "until they burst
forth in glorious resurrection. Strong char
acter, like th rhododendron, is . an Alpine
planfy that rfows fastest in the storm. Men
are like wMat, worth all the more for
being flai'--d. Some of the most useful
peoplo would never have come to posi
tions of .usefulness had they not been
ground and pounded and hammered
in the foundry of disaster. When I
see Moses"coming up from the ark. of bul
rushes to be the greatest lawgiver of 'the
ages, .and Amos from tending the herds to
make Israel tremble with his prophecies, and
David from the sheepcote to sway the poet's
pen and the King's scepter, and Peter from
. the fishing net to be the great preacher at the
-Pentecost, I find proof of the truth of my
proposition that indigence is not always
significant of degradation.
My suoject also impresses me with the
thought that it is while at our useful oc
cupations that we have the divine
manifestations. Had thoao shepherds
gene that night into Bethlehem and
risked their flocks among the wolves, they
would not have heard the song of the angels.
In other words, thai man sees most of God
and heaven who minds'his ownlbuainess. We
all have our posts of duty, and standing
there God appears to us. We are all shep
herds or sheperdesses, and we have our
flocks of cares and annoyances and anxieties,
and we must tend them. '
We sometimes hear very good people say:
"If I had a month or a vear or two to do
nothing but attend to religious things, I
would be a great deal better than I am now."
You are mistaken. Generally the best peo
ple are the busy people. Elisha was plowing
in the field when the prophetic mantle fell
on him. Matthew was attending to his cus
tom house duties when Christ commanded
him to follow. James and John were mend
ing their nets when Christ called them to 15
fishers of men. Had they been snoring in
the sun Christ would not have called their
indolence into the apostleship. Gideon
was at work with the flail on the
threshing floor when he saw the angel.
Sa was with great fatigue hunting up the
lofet asses when he found the crown of Israel.
(8roc""ea son would never have reformed
an'avanted to have returned to his father's
house if he hafd not first gone into business,
though it wafe swine feeding. Not once out
of a hundred' times will a lazv man lwnmo
a Christian. Those whohavB nothing Hn
. .- uuiavor"'-'J,eircircumstances tor
ie receiving of.divine manifestations. Tt. is
not when you are in idleness, but when you
are, like the Bethlehem shepherds, watching
your flocks, that the glory descends and there
is joy anions; the angels of God over your soul
penitent and forgiven.
My subject also strikes at the delusion that
th religion of Christ is dolorous and grief
infusing.- The music that broke through tho
midnight heavens was not a dirge, but an an
them. It shook joy over the hills. It not
only dropped upon the shepherds, but it
sprang upward among the thrones. The
robe of a Saviour's righteousness is not
black. The Christian life is not made up of
weeping and cross bearing aud war waging
Through the revelation of that Christ
mas night I find that religion is--not a
groan, but a song. In a world of sin
and sick bed and sepulchers. we must have
trouble, but in the" darkest night the hea wens
pyt with angelic song, "iou mav, like
JfauU be shipwrecked, but I exhort vo'u to bo
f good cheer, for you shall all escape safe to
the lanfl. Religion does not show itself in the
elongation of, the face and the cut of the
garb. The Pharisee who puts his religion
into his phylactery has none left for his
heart Fretfulness and complaining, do
not belong to the family' of Christian
graces which move into the h
tne aeva moves out. Christianit;
uues uwt irown upon amusements
and recreations. It is not a synicjBt is not a
shrew, it chokes no laughter, it quenches no
light, it defaces no art. Among the happy,
it is the happiest. It is jnst as much at home
on the playground as it is in the church. It
is just as graceful in the charade as it is in
the psalm book. It sings just as well in Sur
rey gardens as it prays in St. Paul's. Christ
died tint w e might li v. Christ walk! that
wo might ride. Christ wept that we iniht
laugh.
Again, my subject impresses me with the
fact that glorious endings sometimes have
very humble beginnings. The straw pallet
was.the stan- intbujjthe shout in toe
mldnigbtsky revealed what would bs tin
glorioui coa-juai-nition. Christ oa Mry's
Tap, Christ on the fhrpna ol universal do
minion what an hambls starting!. What a
glorious ending! Grace .begins on a small
scale in the heart. You S33 only men as tre s
walking. Tha graca of God in the heart U
a feeble spark, ani Christ has to kep both
hands over it le-rt it be blown out. What an
humble beginning! Bat look at that sama man
when He has entsred heaven. No crown abler
to express H royalty. No palace able 1 ex-
Bress His wealth. No sceptre able to express
lis power and His doninion. Drinking from
the fountain that drips from the everlasting
Rock. Among the harpers harping with their
harp3. On a sea of glass mingle I with fire.
Bafore the throne of Goi, to go no more out
forever. The spark of grass that Christ had
to keep both hiads over lest it corns to ex
tinction, having flanijl up into honor ani
flbry and immortality. What humble start
iug! What glorious consuin -nation !
The New Testament Church was on a
small s2ale. Fishermen watched it. Against
the uprising walls crashed infernal enginery.
The world said anathema. Ten. thousini
peoole rejoiced at every seeming defeat, an I
sal.: "Aha! aha! so we would have it.'
Martyrs on fire criel: "How long, O Lord,
how long?" Very humble starting, bat sea
the differenc3 at the consummation, when
Christ with His almighty arm has struck otf
the . last chain of human bondage, and
Himalaya shall be Mount Zion; ani
Pyrenees, Moriah; and oceans, th3 walking
place of Him Who trod the, wave cliffs of
stormed Tiberias, and island shall call to
island, 'sea to sea, continent to continent, aud
the song of the world's redemption rising,
Ih? heavens, like a great soundins board,
shall strike back the shout of salvation to
the earth until it rebounds again to the throne
of God, and all heaven, rising, on their
thrones, beat time with their scepters. Ob,
what an humble beginning! What a glorious
ending! Throne linked to a manger, heavenly
mansions to a stable. .
My subject also impresses me with the ef
fect of Christ's mission upward and down
ward. Glory, to God, peace to man When
God sent His Son into the world, angels dis
covered something new in G-orJ. something
they had never seen liefore. " Not power, not
wisdom, not love. They knaw all that be
fore. Bat when Goi S3nt-His Son into this
world then the angels saw the spirit of self
denial in GoJ. the spirit of self-sacrifice in
God. It is easier to lovo an angel on His
throne than a thief on the cross, a seraph
in his worship' than an adulteress in her
crime. When the angels saw- God the Go I
who would not allow the most insignificant
angel in heaven to be hurt give up His Son,
His Son, His only, only Sou, they saw
something that they had never thought of
before, and I do not wonder that when Christ
started out en that pilgrimage the angels in
heaven clapped their wings in triumph and
called on all the hosts of heaven to help them
celebrate it, and sang so loud that the Beth
lehem shepherds heard it: ' Glory to God in
the highest.''
But it was also to be a mission of- peace to
man. Infinite holiness accumulated de
pravity. How could thev ever conn to
gether ! The Gospel bridges over the dis
tance, brings God to us. It takes us to
God. God in us, and we in God. Atone
ment' Atonement! Justice satisfied, sins
forgiven, eternal life sacure l, heaven built
on a manger.
But it was also to be the pacification of all
individual and international animosities.
What a sound this word of peace had in the
of people it had massacred, that prided itself
on the number of the slain, that rejoiced
at the trembling provinces. Sicily aud Cor
sica and Sardinia aud Macedoniayftnd Egypt
hadbowfl to her sword and croufchel at the
cry of herXwar eagles. She gae her chief
honor to Scipio and Fabius and! Caesar all
men of blood. What contemntAthey must
have had there for tho pennilesp, unarmed
Christ in the erarb of a Nazariue. starting out
to conquer all nations. There never was a
place on earth where that word peace sounded
so offensively to the ears of the multitude as in
the Roman Empire. They did not waut peace.
The greatest music they ever heard was the
clanking chains of their captives. If all the
blood that has been she I in battle could bo
gathered together it would upbear a navy.
The club that struck Abel to the earth has its
echo in the bubcherieo of all ages. Edmund
Burke, who gave no wild statistics, said that
'mre had 1)33 1 spirit in slvrrhte tnii-fcy-liva
thousand millions of dollars, or w hat would
be equal to that: but he had nob seen into
our times, when in our own day, in America,
we expended three thousand millions of dol
lars in civil war.
Oh, if we could now ta'o oar position on
some high point and ses the-world's armie3
march past! What aspactacleit would be!
There go the hosts of Israel through a score
of died seas-r-one Oi "waterthe re st of blool.
There go Cyrus and his-army, with infuriate
yell rejoicingverhe fall of tli3 gates of
Babylon. There- goss Alexander, lealine;
forth his hosts an i c m juerine; all the world
but himself, the earth reeling with the bat
tle gash of Arbala and Persepolis. There
goes Ferdinand Cortes, leaving his buthered
enemies on the table lands ones fra
grant with vanilla aud covered over
with groves of flowering cacao. There
goss tho great Freae'irnvn, leading his army
down through Erypt like one of its plagues,
and up through Russia like one of its own icy
blasts. Yonder is the grave trench under the
shadow of Sevastopol. There are tli3 ruins
of Delhi ani Allahabad, and yonlf-r are the
inhuman Sepjys and the brave regiment3
under Haveloek avenging the insulted flag of
Britain; while cut right through the heart of
my native land is a trench in which there lio
one million Northern and Southern dead.
Oh, tho tears! Oi, the blood! Oh, thelon?
marches! Oh, the hospital wounds! Oh, tha
martyrdom!. Oh. tho death! But brighter
than the light which flashel on all thess
swords and shields and musketry is the light
that fell on Bethieaeai, aul louaer tii
than tho
bray of th3 truoipabs, and the neighing ot" tUo
chargers, and the crash of the walls, and the
groauiug bf the dyinr armies, is the son;
thxt- uuroils this moment frorii tho sky,
swaet as though all tie bells of heaven
rung a jubilej: ''Peace on earth, good will
toward mon." Oh, whon will the day coma
God hasten it! when the swords shall bo
turned into plowshares, and thg fortresses
shall br remoielel into churches, and tho
men of blood battling for renown shall ba
come good soldiers of Jeus Christ, and tho
cmnon now striking down whole columns of
death shall thunder ' th 3 victories of tha
truth. .
When we think f thf whole world savl
we are apt to think of the few- people that
now inhabit it. Only a very few compared'
with the populations to cony. And what a
small part cultivated. lv yni know it has
been autli-entieally est imaged that thr-e-fourths
of Europe is ye all barrenness,
and that nine hundred and ninety one
one thousandth part of the entire
gloly? is uncultivated? This is all
to be cultivated. aU inhabited and
all gospelized. Oh.pvhat tears of
repentance when nations begin to weep ' Oh,
what svfpplieaticns when continents begin to
pray! Oh, what rejoicing when hemispheres
begin to sing! Churches will worship on the
places where this very hour smokes thebhwl
nf lmm!l C9irili( anil n nnHprindr tliro!io-li
snati inndes of Africa Christ's"!
d. Ohwhen
the trumpet of salvation shall be'sounded
everywhere and the nations are re
deemed, a lizht will fall udoil
svpry town orignter man iuai wnicn
fell up3n Bethlehrii. and more overwhelm
ing than the song that fell on the pasture
fields wheats tho flocks fed, there will be a
song loader than the voice of the storm
liftedoceans, 'Glory to God in the highest."
and from all nations and kindred and jeopl
and tongues will come the response, ' And
on earth peace, rood will toward mf-n '." On
. a-, J , ,1 A. 1. . . 1. '
l this Christmas Eve 1 bring you good tidings
of great joy- Pardon for all sin, comfort
for all trouble and life for the dead. (Shall
we now take this Christ into our
hearts? The time is passing. This is-the
closing of the year. How the time speed by
Put vour hand on your heart one. two,
three. Three times less-it will beat. Life is
passing like gazelles over the plain. Sorrows
hover like petrels over the sea. Death swoops
like a vulture from the mountains. Misery
rolls up to our ears like waves. Heavenly
songs tall to us like stars.
wish vou a merrv Christmas, not with
.vorldlv dissipations, but merry with Gospel
gladness, merry with padoned sin. merry
with hope of reunion m tne snies wnnao
your loved ones who have preceded you. In
that grandest and best sense a mei-v
Christmas. )
And God grant that in our final momenft
we mav have a3 bright a vision as did th
living gift when she said : "Mother point
ing with her thin white hand through the
Vindow-4"Mothr, what is that beautiful
land out yonder bevond the mountains, the
high mountains?" " ' Oh." said the mother,
"m.v darlinz. tnre are no mountains within
sight of our Xme." 'Oh. yes " she saio.
vond the monn tains out there, just beyond
th. h-i. mnn.r.- .
"don t vou seki tham tnai Draumui ii
the hih mo un tains f
The mother looked down into the face ot
her dying child and said: "My dear, I thmK ,
that must be heaven that you see. . Wg
then," she said, "father, youcomdjntb.
your strong arms canry m TthTlh
mountains." "No," said the weepmg father,
"my darling, I can't go with you." Weil,
she said, clipping her hands, 'never mind,
never mind: I see yonder a shining one com
nac Deauiuiu iau.u uj - rrv
ing. He is coming now, in Mis fZ
to carry me over tho mountains to the beau
iful land over the mountains, over me
moontAUisr'
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. ELI PEBKIXS OX KAXSAS TEMPERANCE.
Editor Union Signal: I send you pood
Dews. I have just completed a tour of Kan
sas, and I have just time to tell you that
Kansas' has full and complete temperance
The cry for re-submission is the last dying
wail of the whisky., poorhouse and jail in
terest. It will not succeed.
Still there is a. vast amount of lying about
Kansas. I often hear the old worn-out blast
from throats hoarse with rum : -
' They s drinkin' more whisky in Kansas
than ever before !'
I hear this cry all over Missouri wher3 in
temperance prevails. Not all over Missouri,
for Missouri is growing in temperance, and
two-thirds of the State, like Norway County,
is for temperance. The same is true of Ken
tucky. Temperance is growing there. At
r-etersburg, Ky.. three distillers were on the
lecture committee. When I asked them if I
could say a few words for temperance in my
lecture, they said:
' Yes. do so by alb means."
' But you are distillers," I said.
"Yes," they said, "we are distillers, butwo
are for temperance in Kentucky."'
' A distiller, and for temperance!"' I ex
claimed. "Ye?; sir. We want you to understand
that we don't make thi whisky for ourKen
tucky boys; we make it to poison the Yan
kees and the Irish !"
But about the. man who lies about Kans
At Nevada. Mo., they had eight big
loofls, 3000 people, seven policemen, a full
poorhouse. and an overflowing jail.
Call this selling whisky,' they said,
"why. you ought to go over to Kansas,
they're just pourin'' it in over thar."
I crossed the line to Pittsburg, Kan., a new
-mining town with 10.000 people a wonder
ful town only two years old. .Wdiat did 7
seeV Not a saloon in town. Not a sign.
Everybody temperafp. Miners paying for
their homes. Real estate advancing, and
taxes next to nothing. Tp govern this 10,000
people, was only one little policeman witb
nothing to do. Not a pauper in the poor
house; not one criminal in the jail.
btill here the few wicked whisky men who
w anted to introduce' poison in Pittsburg cried
it:
They' s sellin' more whisky in Kansas thai
ever before !"'
Everywhere I've been in Kansas Topeka,
Lawrence, Independence, Yates Center, Fre
donia. Sedan, Cherry vale, Ellsworth and
Emporia, I find no signs of bars and no sign?
of drinking-. The good people all tell me they
have practical temperance. - - ,
A whisky soaked , dude screamed the old
falsehood recently on the Topeka train, about
more whisky being drunk in Kansas than
ever before. He was a commercial tre zelei
for a cigar house. You never see a whiskj
commercial traveler in Kansas nowadays
When I got to Topeka. I said:
Now show us a saloon show us a bar,
show-me one man drinking
But I can get yoii a drink."
' -Can get me a drink !" I ..aid, "so you ca:
get men to steal chickens and horses. Lawt
against drinking are lived up to as well a
laws against stealing ""
' Come up to my room at 3 o'clock,'' h;
said, ' and I'll show you sonie beer."
Well. I went to his room at 3 o'clock. Whei
I got there he called a porter, whispered to
him and sent hitn out. In about twenty min
utes the porter returned with abottle of beci
done up in a paper. J
' How much did you pay the porter?" I
asked.
' Twenty-five cents "'
"How much did you give for the beer?''
"Twenty-five. cents more."
"Fifty cents in all for two small glasses oJ
beer?"
"Yes."
Why that would buy champagne in New
York" I said. . ' Can you afford such pricei
fifty cents for two glasses of beerv"' . -
"Oh, .no! 'T did not buy it to drink I got it
to show you ft could be done."
"Then this is . a dime museum you'v
brought me to,' I said. "Why, this is no
only practical prohibition, but it As higl
license, too! Eli Perkins.
Frank Gibbons, who died, recently at
Hibernia, N. Y.. was the greatest guesser
of the age. His faculty Avas first de
veloped in a homely way. and did not at
tract a great deal of attention. It be
came a recognized characteristic when
the boy would stand at the end of a row
of potatoes and guess, wiffi1 singularly
close approaches to accuracy how many
of the vegetables would be found in each
hill. lis could guess the number of
eggs in a basket, the quantity of-milk in
a pail, the nurnber of sticks of wood in a
load, how many bushels of cornwould.be
husked from ajiatch, and in a hundred
instances he guessed within one or two
how many grains of corn there were on
art car.
A Family of Centenarians.
At Wloolawek, in Poland, a rrian
named Tawlikowski has just died at thc
age of 115. He fought through Kosci
usko's wars and through Napoleon I.'s
Russian campaign. He was working in
the fields up tojast year. His father is
said to have lived to the age of 12H, and
one of his brothers died at 116. He
leaves three sisters aged 102, 99, and 93,
respectively. V
rrogreon. 1
It is very important in this.age o!" vast mate
rial proKress that a remedy be pleasing to the
ta'te and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable
to the stomach and healthy in its nature and
effects. Possessing these qualities. Syrup of
Figs is the one perfect laxative and most gen
tle diuretic kixTwD.
Four mcnrecently killed 1000 geese on
Noman Island, Cal., whentheir ammuni
tion "ave out.
t:ninrrh ( nn'l Cornl
with 'I.MC.-Vb APPLICATIONS, as ttuy
ami t reaili the seat ot tbe diea- y C atnrrb
is a blood or constitutional d:seas
and m
ii.t-,eil
frder to cure it you have to take
' I uti i iv tui 11 J ' 1 1 u ' ' 1 1 fi - nun iiai
reniwfh Hall's Catarrh cure is taken in
ternally, and ats directly on the b'oad and
mucous surfacis. Hall's Catarrh Cure is ii"
qu9ck medicine. It was prescribed by one
o' tte test physicians in th's country for
y-ais. and is a regunr prescription. It is
c imr o ed of the best tonics known, com
bine with th best blood purifir. acting
djr .ly on the mucous surface-. Th ir er-fe-t
combination of tfce tw ingrelieiits is
whit prod u es sum wonderful results in cur
iagcatanh. S-nd for testimonials fre.
V. J. CHENEY & CO., Props ,IVledo, O.
Sold by druggists, price V).-.
Experts at piicking lock wig makers.
"Thn the Eurnmer's rose has faded
What shall make it fair again ? .
"When the face with pain is shaded
, What shall drie away the pain
"Sever shall a blosom brighten
After blighted b the frost,
But tbe load of pain may lighten,
And we need not connt as lost
all th? pleasure of .life nhn the wife anc
wither, npon whom th happiness ol
iKn:e so larg-ly depends, is afflicted with the
d-tieat-e diseases peculiar to women- It is
terrible t i contemplate the miiSery existing
in our mid-t because of the p evajanee of
thse disares. It is b'gh time Jhat all wo
rm n sL'ciUid I now that there is one sure rem-ec-
fr all femile compHiiitir, and that is Dr.
Pi ice's Favorite Pi etcription. Do net allow
l 1 health to fasten itself upon you. Ward it
ff by the use of this standard remedr. wt
if it has already crept in, put it to rout. YousJ
can on it pyin- ue or tn "f avorite I'res-
i crjj.tion. jt m guaranteed to give satisfac
tion in every cas-cr' money psid for tt will be
reiuriiea.
For biliousness, sick headache, indigestion,
' tuid ccnsupation. tike Dr. Pierce s Pellets.
Eelics of a Past Age.
" Captain A. O. Paine, of Cocoa, Fla.,
has shells and pottery taken from the
mound on the east bank of Indian River
at the foot of Merritt , Island.. -These
shells and fragments were taken from the
mound about thirty feet below the sur
face, the action of the water having
1 washed away a h
w;n
large portion oi the
mound and leaving the strata espoied to
view. " From that portion of the mound
used as 3" burial ground only conch
shells were taken from among the -skeletons,
and the curious feature of the case
is that in every conch shell a hole is
broken in the same relative position. It
is supposed that the conches were buried
with the dead to be used as food in the
happy hunting grounds, and to facili
tate "the eating process each shell was
broken so that the fish could be eaten
without trouble. r
THE KING'S TOUCH" SUPERSTITION.
Iu
u England, two centuries ago,
Touch "7 with cut-ins: scrofula:
King was declared to be aiv infidel,"' even "his "
with a etui. These superstitious practices have
their place we have a scientific remedy in Dr. Pierce's Golden Mcdic.iM'is.vorv.'
which eliminates the impurities from the blood by the natural tlianix I-. t hereby
cleansing the system of all taints and impurities from wba'tt i - .m-r -ari-in;.
It is truly a royal remedy, world-famed and guarantor! to' 1 m fit Vi . ur iu
every case, or money paid for it wl
til be
so guaranteed and sold by druggis
ts.
Bowels, ' Golden .Medical Discovery'
Dyspepsia,.. Chronic- Diarrhea ano
caused- by malaria, as Fever and
Ague,
is specific. As an alterative or bipod -
erties iu the cure of the
Eczema, and Scrofulous !
worst $kh-
res and
monly known as Pulmonary Con
trial. WoRfcD's Dispensary
Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
REUJARD
Page's Remedy cures the wprst cases, no
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