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THE MORGANTON STAR, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1888 REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SER3ION. Text: ti77ie sheplierds said one to an other: Let its noio go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass." Luke xxii., 15.1 One thousand years of the world's exist ence rolled painfully and wearily along, and no Christ. Two thousand years, and no Christ. Three thousand years, and no Christ. Four thousand years, and no Christ. '-Give us a Christ," had cried Assyrian and Persian and Chaldean and Egyptian civilization, but the lips of the earth and the lips of the sky made no answer. The world had already been affiuent of genius. Among poets had appeared Homer and Thespis and Aristoph anes and Sophocles and; Euripides and Alexia .ffisehylus, yet no Christ to be the most poetic figures o the centuries. Among historians had appeared Herodotus and Xenophon and Thucydides, but no Christ from whom all history was to date backward and forward B. C. and A. D. Among the conquerors Camillus and Manlius and Eegulus and Xantippus and Hannibal and Scipio and Pompey and Caesar, yet no Christ who was to be conqueror of earth and heaven. But the slow century and the slow year and the slow mouth and the slow hour at last arrived. The world had had matins or concerts in the morning and vespers and con- certs in tue evening, cue now ic is to nave a concert at midnight. The black window shutters of a December night were thtown. open, and some of the best singers of a world where they all sing stood there, and putting back the drapery of cloud, chanted a peace anthem, until all the echoes of hill and val ley applauded and encored the Hallelujah chorus. ' At last the world has a Christ and just th3 Christ it needs. Come, let us go into that Christmas scene as though we had never be fore worshipped at the manger. Here is a IJadonna worth looking at. I wonder nob that the most frequent name in all lands and in all Christian countries is Mary. And there are Marj's in palaces and Haiys in cabins, and though Germ in end French" and Italian and Spanish and English pronounce it differ ently, they are all namesakes of the one whom 7e find on a bed of straw with her pale face against; the soft cheek of Christ in the night of the Nativity. All the great painters have tried on. canvas to present Mary and her child and the incidents of that most famous n-lght of the world's history. Raphael in three different masterpieces celebrated them. Tintoret and Guirlanjo surpassed themselves in the "Adoration of the Magi." Corresio needed to do nothing more than his "Madonna" to become immortal. The "Madonna of; the Lily," by Leonardo da Vinci, will kindle the admiration of all ages. Murillo never won greater triumph by his pencil than in his presentation of the "Holy Familv." But all the galleries of Dresden are forgotten when I think of the small room of that gallery con taining the " Sistine Madonna." Yet all of them were copies of St. Matthew's "Ma donna" and Luke's " Madonna," the inspired 3Iadonna of the Old Book which we had put into our hands when we were infants and that we hope to have under our heads whn we die. t- Behold, in the first place, that on the first night of Christ's life God honored the brute creation. You cannot get into that Bethle hem barn without going past the camels, the mules, the dogs, the oxen. The brutes of that stable heard the first cry of the infant Lord. Some of the oid painters represent the oxen and camels kneeling that night be fore the new bora babe. And well might they kneel. Have you ever thought that Christ came, among other things, to alleviate the sufferings of the brute creation? Was it not appropriate that he should daring the first few days and nights of His life on earth be surrounded by the dumb beasts whose moan and plaint and bellowing have "tOr ages been a prayer to Gol for the arresting of their tortures and the righting oi their wrongs? It did not merely "iiappen so" that the unintelli gent creatures of God should have been that night in close neighborhood. Not a kennel in all the centuries, not a bird's nest, not a worn out horse on towpath, not a herd freez ing in the poorly built cow pen, not a freight car m summer time bringing the beeves to market without water through a thousand miles of agony, not a surgeon's room witness ing the struggles of fox or rabbit cr pigeon cr dog in the horrors of vivisection but has an interest in the fact that Christ was born ic a stable surrounded by brutes. He remem bers that night, and the prayer He heard in their pitiful moan He will answer in the pun ishment of those who maltreat the dumb brutes. They surely have as much right in this world as we have. In the first chapter of Genesis you may see that they were placed on the earth before man was, the fish and fowl created the fifth day, and the quadruped the morning of the sixth day, and man not until the afternoon of that day. The whale, the eagle, the lion, and all the lesser creatures of their kind were Eredecessors of the human family. They ave the world by right of possession. They have also paid rent for the places they occn- 1ied. What an army of defence all over the and are the faithful wt,tch dogs. And "who can tell what the world owes to horse, and camel, and ox for transporta tion? And robin and lark have, by the cantatas with which they have filled orchard and forest, more than paid for the few grains they have picked up for their sustenance. When you abuse anv creature of God you Strike its creator, and you insult the Christ who, though he might have been welcomed into life by princes, and taken his first in fantile slumber amid Tyrian plush and canopied couches and rippling waters from royal aqueducts dripping into basins of ivory and pearl, chose to be born on the level with a cow's horn, or a camel's hoof, or a dog's nostril, that he might be the allevia tion of brutal suffering as well as the re deemer of man. Standing then as I imagine now I do, in that Bethlehem night with an infant Christ on the one side and the speechless creatures of God on the other, I cry : Look out how you strike the rowel into that horse's side. Take off that curbed bit from that bleeding mouth. Remove that saddle from that raw back. Shoot not for fun that bird that is too small for food. Forget not to put water into the cage of that canary. Throw out some crumb3 to these birds caught too far north in the winter's inclemency. Arrest that man who is making that one horse draw a load heavy enough for three. Rush in upon that scene where boys are torturing a cat or transfixing butterfly and grasshopper. Drive not off that old robin, for her nest is a mother's cradle, and under her wing there may be three or four prima donnas of the sky in training. And in your families and in your schools teach the coming generation more mercy than the present generation has ever shown in this marvelous Bible picture of th Nativity, while you point out to them the angel, show them also the camel, and while they bear the celestial chant let them also hear the cow's moan. No more did Christ show interest in the botanical world when he said: "Consider the lilies," than he showed sympathy for the ornithological whn Tie said: "Behold tho fowls of the air,1, and the quadrupedal world when he alio tved himself to be called in one place a lion and in another place a lamb. Meanwhile, mav tha Christ of tha Bethlehem cattle pen have mercy cn the suffering stock yards that rra preparing dis2a?ed and fevered meat for our American households. Behold a'so in this Bible scene how on chat Christmas nisr'nt God honored child hood. Cnrisc might have made His first visit to our world in a cloud. In what a char.ot of illumined vapor he might hove rol'ed down the sky escorted by mounted .-. - S7.avT ittt' lightning of drawn sword. Jth.iaa had a carriage of f!re to take him no why not Jesus a carriage of fire to fetch Him clown? Or over the arched bridge of a rain bow the Lord might have descended. Or Christ might have had his mortality built up on earth out of the dust of a garden, as was Adam, in full manhood at the start without the introductory feebleness of in fancy. Oh, no! Childhood was to be hon ored by that advent. He must have .'i child's light limbs, and a child's dimpled hand, and a child's beaming eye, and a child's flaven hair, and babyhood was to be honored for all time to come, and a cradle was to mean more than a grave. Mighty God! May the reflection of that one child's face be seen in all infantile faces. Enough hc.ve all those fathers and mothsrs on ban4, if they have a child in the house. A throne, a crown, a scepter, a kingdom under charge. Be careful how you strike him across the head, jarring the brain. What you say to him will be centennial and millenial, and a hundred years and a thousand years will not stop the echo and re-echo. Do not say: "It is only a child." Rather say: "It is only an im mortal. n It is only a masterpiece of Jehovah. It is only a being that shall outlive sun and moon and star and ages quadrillennial. God has infinite resources and he can give pres ents of great value, but when he wants to five the richest possible gift to a household e looks around all the worlds and all the universe, and then gives a child. The great est present that God gave our world he cave about 1887 years ago, and he gave it on a Christmas night, and It was of such vaTuo that heaven adjourned for a recess, aud came down and broke through the clouds to look at it. Yea. in all ages God has honored childhood. He makes almost every picture a failure unless there be a child either playing on the floor, or looking through the window, or seated on the lap gazing into the face of its mother. It was a child in Naaman's kitchen that told the great Syrian war tier where he might go and get cured of tho leprosy, which at his seventh plunge in the Jordan, was left at the bottom of the river. It was to the cradle of leaves in which a child was laid, rocked by the Nile, that God ciUel the at tention of history. It was a sick child that evoked CiiviSL s curative svrmvirhips It was of The a child that Christ sat in the mi squabbling disciples to teach the lesson of humilit-. Wo are informed that wolf and leopard and lion shall vet bo so domesticated that a little child shall lead them. A child decided Waterloo, showing the armv of Blncher how thev could take a short cut through the field, when, if the old road had been fell owed, tho Prussian gen eral would have como up too ljtte to save the destinies of Europe It was a child that decided Gettysburg, he having overheard two Confederate Gen erals in a conversation, in which thev de cided to march for G-ettysburg instead of Harrisburg, and this'reporte I to Governor Curtin, the Federal forces started to meet i'h"ir opponents at Gettysburg. And the tnua ot to-day is to decide all the great oat ties, make all the law; , Fettle all the clesti- mes and usher in the world's salvation or destruction, juen. women, nations, all eartc and ail heaven, behold the child ! Is there any velvet so soft as a child's cheek ? Is there any sky so blue as a child's eye? Is there any music so sweet as a child's Voice ? Is there any plume so wavy as a child's hair? Notice also that in this Bible night scene God honored science. Who are the three wise men kneeling before the divine infant? Not boors, not ignoramuses, but Caspar, Bel thasar and Melchior, men who knew all that was to be known. They were the lssac New tons and Herschels and Faradays of their time. Their alchemy was the forerunner of our sublime chemistry, their astrology the mother of our magnificent astronomy. They had studied stars, studied metals, studied physiology, studied everything. Aud when I see these scientists how no- hp '-,,- fVo Kao.iHf ni v- i j liV WWUblUI babe, I see the prophecy of the time when all the telescopes and microscopes, and all the Leyden iars. and all the e'ertrir' hnttris and all the observatories, and all the universities shall bow to Jesus. It is much that way already. Where is the college that does not have morning prayers, thus bowing at the manger? Who have been the greatest physicians? Omitting the names of the liv ing, lest we should be invidious, have we not had among them Christian men like our own Joseph C. Hutchinson, and Rush, and Valen tine Mott, and Abercrombie, and Abernethv? Who have been our greatest scientists? Jo seph Henry, who lived and died ia the faith of the Gospel, and Agassiz. who, standing with his students among tho hilis, took off his hat and said: "Young gentlemen, before we stuly these rocks let us pray for wisdom to the God who made the rocks." To day the greatest doctors and lawyers of Brooklyn and New York, and of" all this land, and of all lands, revere the Chris tian religion, and are not ashamed to sav so ueiore juries ana legislatures ana senates. All geology will yet bow before the Bock oi Ages. All botany will yet worship the Rosa of Sharon. All astronomy will yet.recogniza the Star of Bethlehem. And physiology and anatomy will join hands and say: We must by the help of God get the human race up ta the perfect nerve, anel perfect muscle, and perfect brain, and perfect form of that per fect child before whom nigh twenty hundred years ago Caspar, and Belthasar, and Mel- cUior bent their tired knees in worship. ' Behold also in that first Christmas nighj that God honored the fields. Come in, shep herd boys, to Bethlehem and see the child. "No," they say; "we are not dressed good enought to come in." "Yes, you are, com in." Sure enough, the storms and the nighl dew and the brambles have made rough wori with their apparel, but none have a bettei right to come in. They were the first to heai the music of that Christmas night. The first announcement of a Saviour's birth was mad to thosa men in the fields. There were wise acres that night in Bethlemem and Jerusalem snoring in deep sleep, and there were sal aried officers of government who, hearing of it afterward, may have thought that they ought to have had the first news ot such a great event, some one dismounting from a swift camel at their door and knock ing till at some sentinel's question: "Wh comes there?" the great ones of the palac! might have been told of the celestial arrival; No; the shepherps heard the first two bars ol the music, the first in the major key and the last in the subdued minor: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth psace, good will to men." Ah, yes; the fields were honored. The old shepherds with p!aid and crook have for the most part vanished, but we have graz ingon our United States pasture fields and prairie about forty-five million sheep and all their keepers ought to follow the shepher dj of my text, and all those who toil in the fields all wine dressers, all orchardists, all hus bandmen. Not only that Christmas night, but all up and down the world's history Goi has been honoring the fields. Nearly all the messiahs of reiorm, and literature, and elo quence, and law, and benevolence, have come from the fields. Washington from the " Ms, Jefferson from the fields. The presi "jal i TCarts. GarfVld and Lincoln, from tne fielns. Henry Clav rrom the reins. Daniel Webster from the fields. Martin Luther from the fields. And before this world is right the overflowing populations of our crowded cities will have to take to the fields. Instead of ten merchants in rivalry as to who shall sell that one apple, we want at least eight of them to go out and raise apples. Instead of ten merchants desiring to sell that one bushel of wheat, we want at least eisrhfc of them to go out and raise wheat. The world wants more hard hands, mora bronzed checks, more muscular arms. To the fields! God honored them when He woke u: the shepherds by the midnight anthem, and He will, while the world lasts, continue to honor tho fields. When the shepherd's crook was that famous night stood against the wall of the Bethlehem kahn, it was a prophecy o? the time when the thrasher's Hail, aud farmer's plow, and woodman's ax, and ox's yoke, and sheaf binders rake shall surrender to the God who made the country as man made the town. Behold also that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Two angels on their wings might have brought arf infant oaviour to Bethlehem without Mary's bein there at all. When the villagers, on the morning of Doc. 30, awoke, by a divine ar rangement and in some unexplained way, the child Jesis might have been found in some comfortable cradle of tho village. Put no, no! Motherhood for all time was to be consecrated, and one of the tenderest rela tions was to be the maternal relation, and one of the sweetest words "mother." In all age3 Gol has honored good motherhood. John Wesley had a good mother, St. Bernard I 1 -1 3 " , . -m iiau a goou. moaner, amuei jtsuagett a gooa mother, Doddridge a good mother, Walter Scott a good mother, Benjamin West a good mother. In a great audience, most of whom were Christians, I asked that all those w.V.o had been blessed of Christian mother? arise, and almost the entire assembly stood up. Don't you see how important it is that all motherhood be consecrated? Why did Titian, the Italian artist, when lie sketched the Madonna, make it an Italian face? Why did Rubens, the German artist, in his Madon na, make it a German face? Why did Joshua Reynolds, the English artist, in his Madonna, make it an English face? Why tlid Murillo, the Spanish artist, in his Madonna, make ic a Spanish face? I never heard, but I think they took their own mothers as th3 type of Mary, the mother of Christ. When you hear some one in sermon or oration sp-ak in the abstract of a good, faithful, honest, mother, your eyes fill up with tears whilo rou say to yourself: That was my mother, xhe first word a child utters is apt to be "Mother," and the old man in his dying iream calls "Mother! mother!" It matters not whether she was brought up in the sur roundings of a city and in attluent home, and was dressed appropriately with refer ence to the demands of modern life, or whether she wore the old-time cap and great round spectacles and apron of her own make, and knit 3'our socks with her own needles seated by the broad fireplace, with preat back log ablaze on a winter night. It matters not how many wrinkles cross! and recrossed her face, or how much her shoulders stooped with the burdens of long life, if you painted a Madonna hers would be the face. What a gentle hand she und when we were sick, and what a voic tr soothe pain, and was there any one who could so fill up a room with peace, and purity, and light? And what a sad day that was when we came home and she could greet us not, for her lips were forever stilL Come back, mother, this Christmas day, a:id take your oM place, and as ten, o- twenty, or fifty years ago, come and open the eld Bible you used to read and kne;?l in tho same place where you used to pray, and look upon us as of'old when you wished us a Merry Christmas or a Happy New Year. But no? That would not be fair to call you back. You had troubles enough, and aches enough, and bereavements enough while you are here. Tarrv by the throne, mother," till wo join you there, your prayers all answered, and in the eternal homestead of our God we shall again keep Christmas jubilo3 together. Put speak from your thrones, all you glorified mothers, and say to all these, your sons raid daughters, words of love, words of warning, wcrL of cheer. They ne: 1 -our voice, for they have traveled far and with many a heartbreak since you left them, and you do well to call from the heights cf heaven to the valleys of earth. Hail, enthroned ancestry! wo are com ing. Keep a place for us right beside you ct the banquet. Slow footed years! More swiftly ran Into the gold of that unsettiag eun. Homesick we are for thee, Calm land beyond the sea, What Prohibition has Already D me in .Maine ana Elsewhere. By careful research and fortified by un questioned testimony we find that: It has made liquor-selling a disgrace. It has greatly modified the drinking habits of young men. It has greatly reduced the number of sa loons. It has largely reduced the amount of drunk- 1 It has virtually relieved the community of tramps and vagrants. It has increased the demand for labor. It has greatly reduced the taxes. It has addeel largely to the value of all kinds of property. It has nearly emptied the jails, prisons and poorhouses. It has greatly reduced the amount of sick ness. It has greatly reduced the number of rail road, steamboat and other accidents. It has elevated the moral character of the people. It has largely diminished litigation. It has contributed to the attendance at churches. It has increased the attendance at the schools. It has greatly increased savings-bank de posits and banking capital. It lias reeluce-el the criminal cases before the court over fifty per cent. , and crime of al kinds, including murders aud violence, have diminished more than seventy-five per cent. It has added greatly to the volume of trade, including the tlemand for wearing apparel, pianos, sewing machines, carpets, furniture, etc. , etc. , also increasing railroad traffic. In fact all branches of bnsineis have had a greatly increased prosperity, and the people have better security for their lives, homes and property. The above positively, clearly, and unan swerably prove that when Prohibition ot the Liquor Traffic becomes general in both State and Nation, drunkenness, poverty.and crime will be almost unknown in the community, anel the promised glorious good time will havo come for the country. May God speed the day, and each citizen realize his personal re sponsibility for its consummation! 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The Pall Mall Gazette says : "The atten tion of the Woman's Christian Temperance UiKon of the United States should be turn - J without delay to the statement made by Lord Onslow in the Houso of Lords. Lord Onslow said the attempt to establish an in ternational compact prohibiting the sale of strong drink to the South Sea Islanders had broken down, owing to the refusal of tho United States Gevernment to enter into tho agreemont. Our Government, therefore, re luctantly abandoned the attempt, but held themselves ready to renew it the moment t!io American Government showed a disposition to remove its interdiction on a Maine Law for the Facific. Clearly this is a caso in which all the temperance peoole m the Stat s shoulibe set to work at oneo to britip- tho Government at Washington t a (iue senso of the enormity cf its auiiu.ie in tho South ern eas." ouipoaoojd osta v qcu ;nq 'nr,ioxo vu. -otuos T 'iooe!jjTi;.M. v jo of.uro Jr.qr.b bqquoi.ui -Tits oq sqmnuijqs jo fin -piup oqiuoixnu qui sejoelutoo 'uopuo-j jo 'piaiioqog 'v J(j sok ji-pur saiom oouujodmox Among the inscription at tho base the "v tford-onarvoii.pro0 sentdd by George W. Childs, of Philadelphia. - Xr? Sh VaeeD'S Jubile' "'oE5w ig irom. bnakesneare' ,4IIr-i.- TO1 isrer lef c mafi tk -ire?"iiv;r A temperance movement has bem in augurated in Hart ford, Conn., wuich promises to eiiect a great redaction in the number of drinking places in that city. The manufac turers and workingmon havo united in peti tioning tha County Commissioners oawst licensing the liquor dealers in the vicinTty of tho l actones. Fully $300,000 capital aud two hundred workingmen are interested in the movement. CURIOUS BURIAL CUSTOMS. FlJNERAI. OBSERVANCES A1I0N3 DHJITEItltSNT NATIONS. Anciont'Eyptian Ceremonies Cns toms in Chinatown Habits of Other Ilaces. The ancient Egyptians celebrated a funeral by feasting" and drinking while the work of embalming wh'ch took seventy days was poingon ;but through out all tlicy remembered thr.t no one is exempt from death, and to remind them of the fact a skeleton was p'aeed in the banqueting hall, where it remained dur ing the feast. Sacrifices were offered to the gods, and the flesh used for f.od among the priests and guests. In the case of a gieat lord or rich person a costly monument was erected, but the poorer clashes were laid in the ground sometimes with no embalming, and at times even without a coffin. The Uindoes burned their dead and sometimes sacrific ed human beings at the funeral of any personage of note. The suttee, or widow burning, among great personages was a very repulsive feature of the ceremony. Tie ceremonies were conducted amid feasting, s'.ngingbv der vishes and dancing by giris. Sometimes the mourners lashed themselves with knotted cords and sticks until they fell exhausted from exertion and loss of blood. There are in Africa almost as 'many different burial customs as there are tribes cf negroes, each tril e having its own peculiar ideas and manners. The majority of tiibes. however, bvry the dead and destroy ail property belonging to the deceased, even taking down' the hou. If it I e a chief of high rank, the more barbarous tribes kill "numbers of slaves to serve him in the next world, and bury his favorite wife alive in tho same grave with her dec eased lord. The natives of Peru placed their dead in a sitting posture with the lua l be tween the knees ami the arms crossed oa the breast. Hopes of bark were tigh?y bound around the bod-, which wasthen wrapped ia cloth and'agaiu bcur.d until it resembled a mass of cordage rather than anything cl-e. h'odies thus pre sence!, and Irom which thy air was cn entirely excluded, are constantly bciLg found among the ruins cf the c id cities devaslated by the Spaniards. The an cient Mexicans observed much the same custom, adding to it the sacrifice of hundreds of human beings, in many cases the victims freely giving their consent to die, believing that by this means they more surely reached the abode of their gods and enjoyed everlasting peace. Among our Indians the burial custema differ somewhat, but all believe ia a G'reat Spirit, and in the maii they are alike. The Indians of the eastern part of the country east of the Mississippi -.ried their dead in almost all cases m sitting posture, wrapped in a blanket. With the dead warrior were buried his arms, ammunition and food for his journey to the Happy Hunting Grounds, and over his grave his favorite war horse was slaughtered, and sometimes his dog. in order that he might enter the land of the Great Spirit ia a manner becoming a chief of renown and of good repute The Indians of the West erect high scaf folds, on which they place their dead, in order that they may be out of reach of wihl animals. The dead brave's amis cooking utensils and blanket are placed with him for use in the next world. The Hebrew manner of conducting a funeral is very plain and simple. The bedy is wrapped in a shroud and placed in a plain pine coilin, with a lighted candle at its head. U he caudle is al lowed to barn itself out aud symbolize the dedication of the soul of the dead t: the Creator, who gave it. A sira.J-.lr ceremony is held at the grave by the rabbi, and it is a very rare occurrence fo any portion of the service over the dead to take place under a roof. A most curious sight to the resident. of Isrew York is a Chinese funeral, whiel is much the same when held here as when the Chinaman is at home in the Flowery Kingdom. It makes all the dif ference in the world whether the dead Chinaman is a member of the Order Freemason or not, and whether or not he is rich. If he is a Mnson his funeral is the oc asion of a great spread md dis- td.iy in Chinatown. A brass band is liiel to p!ay in front of the dead man's residence and also accompanies the body to the grave. It would teem that noise, and not the'appropriateness of the tunc, is the object in view, for the friends o the dead man are perfectly satisfied, n matter whether tho tune be some Ger man waltz r the " Uoulangcr March,' and it ia a f&x;t that at areoerjt Chines funeral ia this city the band hired fo the occasion played ''Sunday Kih When the Parlor is Full." On" the wax to the grave a prominent Chinaman sits on the hearse and scatters pieces of col ored paper along tho route, the object oi this being to occupy the attention of the evil sp'rits. whveh are suppo ed to follow the departed Chinaman until the grave closes over him. In the coilin with the body is placed a pack of Chinese play ing cards in order that the spirit of the dead man may have an opportunity of making a little change during his long nnd dark journey. At the grave food is placed around the coffin, but after the ceremony is con cluded th's is taken to the lodge rooms, and the friends cat for themselves anel the dead also. No Chinaman is ever buried in this country whose body is not io:nc time, usually after a lapse of two or three yDars, .taken up and carried home to China by his friends. This is a sacred custom among all Chinese, and the body oi a Chinaman who has been dead thrco or four years is no uncommon freight on the stcmiers plung between t-an i-rsir cisco and China. Aio Yuri Telegram Getting Hops sOut jfliui-.j tg Stables. A New York man has ma le an inven tion to save horses in case of r're. The in vention can be worked cither by electri city or by hand. At a certain tern cra-tu-e a bell will rin, and the moment the bell ring! the doors will y open, thu norses will be unhitched and" two small streams or water will -trike each hore in the face. I o escarp the water the horses will back out of the stalls, and once out of there they have an opportunity of seeing a -ay of escape through the open doors. It is never too late, and never impos sible, for a human face to look beautiful. FAU.1l AND GARDEN". "Water for Cows in Winter. Warm water for cows to drink ia win ter is beginning to bo understood as one of the essentials in successful winter dairying. Kven drinking ice cold water in winter so chills the cow's system anel lowers its temperature as to caus? a marked diminution in the flow of milk. Exposure to a p'ercing 'cold draft of air on leaving the stable and goini: but a short distance to drink, plainly shows in the shrinkage of the ms of milk. Hence it pays to not only warm the water for the cows to drink, but to give it to them in the stable, or under shelter, in severe winter weather. These things, which have a solid foundation in com mon sense, have not been thought of or discussed, much le3 practiced, until within a few yrars past. Uut they are tiesticed to become of universal accep tance and co intelligent dairyman will think of dispensing with anything that add3 to the cow's comfort. 1. all U Faim-.r. Mixing Feed for fitock. It is well known that a variety of food for stock is better than auv enc kind, partly for the reason that no one food contains the full elements of nuta tion m their right proportion. Bat with ruminants, giving variety is ro enough. They will do better if 'the dif ferent kinds arc mixed before feeding, that they may all come up and be remas ticated. Neither the full benefit of hay or grain is secured by feeding separately. It is commonly supposed that the Iofs "i chiefly in tho grain, which Is too hastily and greedily swallowed to b? thoroughly digested. Uut there i- a!-o a loss mih:? less palatable forage, which, b ring ca:c:i with liitla relish, does not take with it enough saliva to make sure of its thor ough digestion. Whatever is eaten with good appetite does the i::o..t uo d, though this rule is scarcely of anv" prac tical importance to any tscrpt "bur an beings. Dumb animals never eat unh-s they are hungry, and their hunger is for what has mot nutrition instead of dainties to tempt the pulite. J.i,-j r Farmer. Uses and Value of Clover. All agricultural plants draw most of their food directly or indirectly Irom the atmosphere, and of those used none ate exceeded by clover ia the large pro portion of nutriment thus derived. If the stubble and roots contain more than half of the manurial value cf red clover, and if live stock only appropriate from five to ten per cent, of the nitrogen, ami the other ninety to ninety-five ier cent, goes back to the Held or dun:; heap, it certainly must be the best practice, as a rule, to feed red clover instead of plow ing it all under. Owing to the great depth to which the clover roots penetrate the soil,frequent!y six feet or more, they help to bring up u run-down farm. They bring the valuable ingredients from a grcat'depth. and store a large part of them in the large roots near the surface, where they are available for future plant growth. Kcd clover is valuable to enrich the land, wid hence to enrich the owner. It is not excelled I y any forage crop as a whole some summer pasture for swine. For soiling, a good growth of red clover is very valuable, and it lias often been packed into the silo to feed en-ilu-e in the winter. Profcfcor Yv J. Teal, in his uef::l wcrk ou the "Grassesof Xcrth America," says that lie knows cf no mere concise and vrduable summary of the iws ai.d value of clover than tha one -A the late Dr. Yoclcker: 1. "A good crop of clover removes from the hoil more olash, phosphoric acid, lime aud ether mineral matters, which enter into the composition of the ashes of our cultivated crops, than any other crop grown in this country. 2. ''There ia fully three times as much nitiogen in a crop of clover as in the average produce of the grain and straw of wheat per acre. ' .Notwithstanding the large amount of nitrogenous matter of ah constituents of plants in the proeluce of an acre, clover is an excellent preparatory crop for wheat. 4. "During the growth of clover a large amount of nitrogenous matter ac cumulates in the soil. 2. "This accumulation, which is greatest in the surface soil, is due to de caying leaves dropped during the growth of clover, and to an abundance of roots, containing, when dry, from 1 J to two per cent. 01 nitrogen. 6. " The clover roots are stronger and more numerous, and more leaves fall on the ground when clover is grown from seed than when it ia mown for hay; in consecpuenee more nitrogen is left after clover seed than aftrr hay, which ac counts for wheat yielding a better crop after clover than after hay. 7. "The development of roots being checked when the produce, in a green condition, is fed off by sheep, in all probability leaves still less nitrogenous matter in the soil than when c lover Is al lowed to get riper and is mown for hay; thus, no doubt, accounting for the obser vation made by pastoral men that, not withstanding the return of the produce in the sheep excrements, wheat is gen erally stronger and yields better after clover mown for hay than when the clover is fed off green by sheep. 8. "The nitrogenous matter in the clover remains, on their gradual decay, are finally' transformed into nitrates, thus affording a continuous source of food, on which cereal crops especially delight to grow. 9. "There is strong presumptive evi dence that the nitrogen which exists in the tdiipc of ammonia and nitric acid, and descends with these combinations in the rain whiih fal's on the ground, satis fies, under ' ordinary circumstances, the requirements of the clover crop. This croii causes a large accumulation of nitrogenous matters, which are gradually changed in the soil into nitrates. The atmosphere thus iurnishes nitrogenous food to the succeeding wheat indirectly, and, so to say, -rat is. 1". "Clover not only provides abundance- of nitrogenous food, but delivers this food in a really available power (as nitrates) more graduallyand continually, and with more certainty of a good re suit, than such food can be applied to the land in tho shape of nitrogenous spring top-dressing." CuUirator. Farm and flanlen N'otes. The pig likes a clean pen. J A gooci mound of earth pro -c , i trees from mice. 1 s "- I Hens nr:st be wnrmV 1 .. . . are to be secured. " The sashes of cold fr-i.r. lifted on mild days. M -1 U Potatoes in pits reed p"et- r' or coar c manure to ki p o u fi-,.-' ":Ur Keep the best fodder ba.k -m l ' .1 -out to stock toward tb? end tf V' season. tx '.- Clean and houc fcr the wi --,, tools that will not bs ued a-'' next sea;on. s t;- If you want to kill burdocks c -t off closely and pour j ctrokum o- t? short stumps. OJ thc .r i i 1U"S,CC ,s attention to vrr, , slight details mere rc.uUi;e tTJ poultry raisin- 1 aa poultry raising. Swill for hogs should be fed fresh, and not allowed to stand until and disgstin-. uitow e ur From this time forward grass i wo more to the pasture for winter prof eS than to the farm animals for food a The cTeat secret of successful f i is to keep the soil increasing in fp.? by the abundant app'.icaxi Jn" of manure Spare-ribs to be used whil,- frcil may be hung up where thej will freeze. and will not spoil so long a they r -n-a fro cn. Onions are said to be valuable ajn- ii-.mwy ior cnxcicnz. Th( v -h'.i.M ujl auu IUIMU Wliu I.. in winter. 4 'H d The imnurc-Leip should lei. tight enough to avoid th t-c: k 4 " cf caiT-OBu, a:a lire-fan in-r. I.SOSC er.o-.:'-a t... ..f-.d ... r;- Cor.ibininir hrcp husbandry grain growb g 1 c-. s out an u: e n :.. . t - . .. .- ' iji in i:i.a'.:cf.v in ti e ' -of Hunt! It; . . ( . .... .., .j,:i i;. - -' f4. ; cral n.arke: u:v "i:; plied fr. m t 01 .c v.- iorK. ys:tcia::c l nh . a gxnlbu'sir.cs. The d .iry requires cmfal nr.-. - --. m-r.t to be provable in v.ii.tcr. i c ow. good fi-od, good care and rr.. ra appliances irake it par. The A'lnr'run Cllle i'o- calls :.:t'n tioa to th? gicat r mount of ta;-.- there is in feeding grain ungrour.d to any stock except sheep and f-oultry. According to a Southern correp-.c i ent of the .ltner!cnn Aqr'.cuV'tri.; a crc of cow peas is one of the surest w-y-i t!f restoring vegetable matter to a worn-out soil. The most critic.il period in the life of a calf is the f rst winter, but it will brie no serious risk if the animal has abus ant food of good quality and good, c ci foitaMe quarters, with freedom .'rem parasitic insects. A poultryman claims that milk wi'.l give far larger and quicket -return; if fed to fowls tfcaa if given to pi-s. Milk, l.c savs, resembles in composition :h? egg far more than almost any food i: is possible to obtain. If land is plowed in the fall fur c;r ia no way can manure be mere advantage ously applied, according to one autb-r-ity, than by hauling it out in the winter and scattering it over the plowed irrvu- l direct frcm the wages. Loss sometimes oc ursfrem tot -ai'.ir, pork promptly after it is cut up. If it freezes " it caar.o: be well s-ah'd 1 i.-.l thoioaghly thr. Aed o t, and the t-sj fu sion and contract on caucd bv alt fteeing ar.d thawirg do. s no 'c; 1. 3Iajor Alvord ay that in ready ill cases objectionable edors and favor !c not exist in milk is drawn from the co-x, but are ab?ori cd frcm the air, the -tcrior of the cow cr the clotiii:: a-td person of the milker, cr whiie thtr mlik stands in the stal le. The consumption of mutton is incrca- large cities, and it has become profitable 10 suppiy mis demand, it is profitable, tirst, because the pri. e is remunerative, and secondly, because if is promotive of good husbandry, the improvement of the soil Beans arc good food for cows. The bean meal is probably the best form. Uut if the bans are lioilcd until soft they may be fed with prorit. Waste beans oa the farm, or darnaeil stock that caa sometimes be bought cheap, should al ways be fed. Beans are rich in protein or nitrogeneous matter. IAt the Ontario Agricultural Collegf, an experiment of feeding eighteen he-ul 01 score came wiiu twelve pounds 01 nay, thirty-five pounds of turnips and nio pounds of wheat bran per head daily, and also the same amount of 1 ay acd roots, but with different kinds of gr.10, I resulted in the lowest cost of productica ' on the bran ration. f There are r.o secrets in sheep raising. I It has to be done by feeding. The sheep have to eat something, and that some thing has to be sweet feed, grass, grain, vegetables, fruit, or anyhing thst is I wholesome and nutritious, but must to I abundant and unfailing. Weeds, brush ' Ami lirtira will l-nan clinnn tl!t-. !::! i 1 , " ; " j uon i &sk sueep 10 grow mutton oa sucn pastures; no, nor wool. A writer in the JJretd rJ GVc f-rrJ up the general purpose cow question in this way: Any fanner who extccts to raLo a calf aadgrow a steer needs a cow which will brirg him a large, growthy calf; and any farmer who expeetc to in Ae money raisinga calf or growing a '5r must get the calf from a cow which will pay at the pail the expenses of her kcp and care, in order that the calf nuy co-t the least money. No dairyman but know that i cows are c.po.'d to inc'cnu-tit V-r. .' , r compelled to submit t-j pr:v:.tir.-. ia :h- matter of ood they will imr.i i d" register the effect in a diminished t".w f milk. Because these ejects an- mc 1 once anil produce an immc .iat? ruc tion in income, they arc understo.i 1 ' to some cxtcr.t guardtd against by y " body. Other cattle, while kp: 'on' li ferent purposes for stock pir;-o-s or for breeding feel the same elcprivaM and to the same degree a cos k j t f r milk, although they cannot cxpns ;t s plainly and so promptly. Good feclii.g helps society to rr'5 liars of most of nsr.ct absolute &'4 but such careless handlcis of the lr'7, that its sharp corners gel tc.T.ul rounded.