TALMAGE'S SERMON.
preached at Capernaum, in
the Holy Land.
SI
KJ tCT:"THi: VI OK21Y PASSAGE."
Texts: "Entered into a ship, and went.
0xer the. sen toward Capernaum." John
vi., IT; "And He arose and rebuked the
Kind and the sea." Mark iv., 3i).
Here in this seashore village was the tem
porary home of that Christ who, for the
Jn0st part of Urn life, was homeless. On the
site of this village, now in ruins, aul all
nrounil this lake, what scenes of kindness
ami power, aiv.l glory and pathos when our
Lord lived here! It has been the wish of my
life I cannot say the hope, for I never ex
Itfletl the privilege to stand on the banks'
of Calilee. AV liiit a solemnity and what a
rapture to be here! I can now understand
the fooling of tho immortal Scotchman
Kohert MoCheyne, when sitting on the banks
of this lake, lie wrote:
It is not that tho wiM gazelle
Comes down to drink thy tide,
Dill He that was pierced to save from h"ll
Oil wMiidorod by thy side.
Graceful around thee the mountains meet.
Tlifil raim reposing eca;
Utit aii ' far more, t lie beautiful feet
Of Jesiw walked o'er thco.
I can now easily understand from the con
tour of the country that bounds this lake that
storm- were easily tempted to make theso
waters their playground. From the gentle
wav this lake treated our boat when we
tailed on it yesterday, one would have
thought it incapable of a paroxysm of rae
but it was quite different on both the ocoal
.inns spoken cf in my two texts. I close my
ryes and the shore of Lake Galilee as it now
h, with but little signs of human life, disap
pears, and there conies back to my vision the
lake as it was in Christ's time. It lay in a
scene of great luxuriance; the surrounding
hills. tenavj, sloped, grooved, bo uianv
hanging gardens of beauty. On the shore
wore castles, armed towers, Roman baths
everything attractive and beautiful all
styles of vegetation in shorter space than in
almo.-t any other space in all the world from
the palm tree of the forest to tho trees of
ripirouo climate.
It seemed as if the fiord hn.l ioi i
vi ufuuiy on an rne scene, and it hnnx
1 swimir from rooli and tiill mwi i.,...i.r
lIlU
ami
!toni;m gentlemen in pleasure boat.3 sailin"
this lake, and countrymen in fish smacks
eoiuing down to drop their nets, pass . each
other with nod and shout and laughter, or
swinging idly at their moorings. O, what a
beautiful scene!
It sr-ems as if we shall have a quiet ni-ht
!nt a leaf winked in the air; not a ripolellbl
tmbed the face of tJennesaret; but there
seems to be a little excitement up the beach
and we hasten to see what it is, and we find
it an embarkation.
From the western shore a flotilla pushin
out; not a squadron, or deadly armament
nor clipper with valuable merchandise, nor
piratic vessel, ready to destroy everything
they could seize, but a flotilla, bearing ims
sengers of ligh t and life and peace. Christ is
in the front of the boat. . Hi3 disciples are in
a smaller boat. Jesus, weary with much
speaking to largo multitudes, is put into
somnolence by the rocking of the waves.
If there was any motion at all, tho ship wag
easily righted; if the wind passed from stav
lionrd to larboard, or from larboari to star
board, the boat would rock, and by tho
gentleness of Ilia motion putting the Master
asleep. And they extemporized a pillow
made out of a fisherman's coat. I think no
sooner is Christ prostrate, and His head
touched the pillow, than He is sound asleep.
Ine breezes of tho lake run their fingers
through the locks of the worn sleeper, and
tuo boat rises and falls like a sleeping child
en I he bosom of a sleeping mother.
Calm night, starry night, beautiful night.
Run up all the sails, ply all the oars, and let
the large boat and the small boat glide over
gentle Gennesaret. But the sailors say there
is going to be a change of weather. And
even the passengers can hear the moaning of
the storm, as it comes on with great stride
and all the terrors of hurricane and dark
ness. The large boat trembles like a deer at
bay among the clangor of the hounds; great
patches of foam are flung into the air; the
sails of the vessel loosen, and the sharp winds
crack hke pistols; the smaller boats like
petrels poise on the cliffs of the waves and
then plunge.
Overboard go cargo, tackling and masts,
and the drenched disciples rush into the back
part of the boat, aud lay hold of Christ, and
say unto linn: "Master, carest Thou not that
we perish?" That great personage lifts Hi3
Lead from the pillow of the fisherman's coat,
walks to the front of the vessel, and looks out
mto the storm. All around Him are tho
smaJer boats, driven in the temptest, and
through it cr.mes the cry of drowning men.
by the flash of the lightning I see the calm .
brow of Christ as the spray dropped from His
beard. II.3 has one word for tho sky and
another for the waves. Looking upward He
cries: "Peace!" Looking downward He says:
"Be still!"
The waves fall flat on their faces, the foam
meits, the extinguished stars relight their
torches. Tho tempest falls dead and Christ
stands with His feet on the neck of the storm.
And while the sailors are bailing out the
boats, and while they are trying to untangle
trie cordage, the disciples stand in amaze
ment, now looking into the calm sea, then
into the calm sky, then into the calm
baviour's couutenanoe, and they cry out:
v hat manner of man is this, that even the
w inds and the sea obey Him?"
TI12 subject in the first place impresses mo
with the fact that it is very important to
have Christ in the ship; for all those boata
would have gone to the bottom "of Uennesa
rtt if Christ had not been present. Oh, what
a lesson for you and for me to learn ! We
must always havo Christ in the ship. What
ever voyage we undertake, into whatever en
terprise we start, let us always have Christ
111 the ship. All yoa can do with utmost ten
sion of body, mind, and soul, you are bound
to do. but oh! have Christ in every enter
prise, Christ in every voyage.
There are men who ask God's help at the
i eiinnmg of great enterprises He has been
with them in the past, no trouble can over
throw them; the storms might come down
tioni the top of Mount Hermon, and lash
Oennosaret into foam and iuto agony, but it.
coul.I not hurt them. But here is another
man who starts out in worldly enterprise,
an I he dopjnds upon tho uncertainties of this
mo He has ikv God to help him. After a
w"ile the storm comes and tosses off the
masts of the ship; he puts out his lifeboat and
the long boat; tho sheriff and the auctioneer
wy to help him off; they can't help him off;
he must go down no Christ in the ship,
lour hfe will b3 made up of sunshine
an.i shadows. There may be in it Arctic
masts or tropical tornadoes; I know not what
is lieiore you, but I know if you havo Christ
wit h you all shall be well. You may seem to
got along without the religion of Christ while
every t, ung ROos smoothly, but after awhile,
w. ion sorrow hovers over the soul, when tho
" ayes of trial dash clear over the hurricane
ueok and the decks are crowded with pirati
cal disasters oh, what would you do then
without Christ in the ship? Take God for
your portion, God for your guide, God for
your hold; then all is well; all is well fortune,
'l! shall bi well forever. Blessed is . that
man who puts in the Lord his trust. He shall
never be confounded.
th'" Ty SIibj,J-fc also impresses me with
Ch , V,lafc when People start to follow
7p 1 I ney must not expect smooth sailing.
. VT;0 ,llsciPlcs got into the small boats,
I, .., r,vo, no rloubt they said; "What a
Vf.f'W" day this is! What a smooth sea!
"lit l; 1 bright s-y this is! How delightful
sailing in this boat! And as for the waves
1 tV18keelol! 1,1,0 boat, why they only
r Ni". motion of our little boat the more
pshtn,l. Bat wheu tho winds swept
"own and the sea was tossed into wrath, then
7 .ound that following Christ was not
hi, J1 sa,,i,,S- So you have found it; so I
f lo."J1'1 it;- you ever notice tho end
"itlie lifo of the apostles of Jesus Christ?
u would say, if ever men ought to
thJ,?,1!'1'1 a sniooth life, a smooth departure,
ine those men, the disciples of Jesus Christ
a hf Vl? had such a departure and such
" V bt- James lost his head. St. Philip
1 n,?.to death on a pMar. St. Matthew
Mini dashed out with a halbert. St.
"wa! 1 dragged to death through the
dr-iVi, James the Less was beaten to
rtn.nwtth a uller's club. St. Thomas was
II. ,1 t ro?gl with a spear. They did not
ho vi? Wlng Christ smooth sailing. Oh,
H. L in6yi Wre al1 tosseA ia i,le tempest ! John
A 'lob in 1.1a TT 1. Tiff ir -t . -i .
uss in the flr- TTntrii Mirn iui
jj. , " nuc UUIU Ul
tho svV th Alblgenses, tho Waldenses,
it "smooth 1 .9.venanters-did they find
hist00"' saillg? But why t!9 into
own mo we aa draw from our -what
17 lllustration3 of the truth of ,'
ing to X T young man in a store try- 1
0 bJve q:1, while bis employer scoffg
'SSX.yS. in the
same
teasing him, torraentin
UgionTtrTto' SkH-SL ab fi 1
re
Cettin him o a ..iney succeed
Christian?' tv2-yP Y' a pretty
in
smooth sailin- Xn h tTS. man flnd ifc
Or, you remember .ow Christ?
- Jra
-JSwSJ Jrciirist?
ClL .W0Hld the life of Y&
nooth sailing when rAJman JS"4 "
Vh Z iff "1 W ..alked:
-n--iict.i, 1113 turone' And
the answer came back: "Thes, are they
flS?i, 'I? nt ot- glvat tribulationrreat
and nide whi& iXoSdSf SfSS&S
You arT toeHleart3ne:l! Take coumge.
deliver von U tr aIs and Hc
with the f?rt tbol SUb,GCt a s impresses me
very Such ftgJS?
rushJf68,0', t:3CS0 disciples as they
they are f r?!1!6 hVrt of the boat. "I find
l y. dr,e f riShtenod almost to death. They
Parish " TWli ?arest Thou not that we
f rL J By had no reason to befrirrhten-l
WhrlSt. ,was in th0 at- I suppose if we
mMrfZirM LaVS
mucn affrighted. Perhaps more In all arrP
l 8oftepr le gefc vc,7 mw SSSsS
"Whv loo -1 ?m; a,Kl me" y:
ny, look at the bad lectures; look at the
various errors going over the church of
God; we are going to founder; the church
13 going to perish; she is going 'down"
Oh, how many good people are "affright
ed by iniquity In our day, and think
the cjiurch of Jesus Christ is goin- to bo
SI wr,,',?n1 f r just as mi,cn affrignted
M r lm dlsp1l5le?? my text. Don't worry,
don t fret, as though iniquity were goin to
triumph over righteousness. A L go"
mto a cavern to sleep. He lies down with his
shaggy mane covering the paws. Meanwhile
the spiders spin a web across the mouth of the
va vern and say : "We have captured him."
Gossamer threa-l after gossamer thread, un
til I the wnole front of the cavern iscoverel
)y!Jib t'?e' spider's web, and the spiders say:
1 he hon is lone; the lion is fast," After a
while the lion has got through -sleep-113
i U3 rouses himself, he shakes
lus mane, he walks out into tho sunlight - he
does not even know the spider's web is spun
and with his voice he shakes the mountain'
bo men come spinning their sophistries and
skepticism about Jesus Christ; He seems to
be sleeping. They say: "We have caoturod
the Lord; He will never come forth' again
upon the nation; Christ is captured forever.
His religion will never make any conquest
among men." But after a while the Lion of
the tribe of Judah will rouse Himself and
come forth to shake mightily the nations.
hat 3 a spider'3 web to the aroused lion?
Give truth and error a fair grapple and
truth will come off victor.
But there are a great many good people
who get affrighted in other respects; they
are affrighted in our day about revivals.
They say: "Oh! this is a strong religious
gale; we are afraid the church of God is go
ing to be upset, and there are goiug to bo a great
many people brought into the church that
are going to be of 110 use to it;" and they are
affrighted whenever they sae a revival tak
ing hold of the churches. As though a ship
Captain, with five thousand bushels of wheat
for a cargo, should say somj day, coming
upon deck: "Throw overboard all the car
go;' and tho sailors should say:
"Why, Captain, what do you
mean? Throw over ail the cargo?"
"Oh." says the Captain, "we have a pock of
chaff that has got into this five thousand
bushels of wheat, and the only way to get rid
of the chaff is to throw all the wheat over
board." Now, that is a great deal wiser than
the taik of a great many Christians who
want to throw overboard all the thousauds
and" tens of thousands of souls who are the
subjects of revivals. Throw all overboard
because they are brought into the kingdom
of God through great revivals, because there
is a peck of chaff, a quart of chaff, a pint of
chaff ! I say, let them stay until the last day;tho
Lord will divide tho chaff from the wheat.
Do not be afraid of a great revival. Oh, that
such gales Trom heaven might sweep through
all our churches! Oh, for such days as Rich
ard Baxter saw in England, and llobert Mc
Cheyno saw in Dundee ! Oh, for such days
as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton!
I have often heard my father tell of the fact
that, in tho early part of this century
a revival broke out at Somerville, N.
J.; and some people were very much
agitated about it. They said: "Oh, you
are going to bring too many people into tho
church at once; " and they sent clown to New
Brunswick to get John Livingston to stop the
revival. Well, there was no better soul in
all the world than John Livingston. - He
went and looked at the revival; they wanted
him to stop it. He stood in the pulpit on th-j
Sabbath, and looked over the solemn audi
tory, and he said: "This, brethren, is in
reality the work of God; beware how you
try to stop it." And he was an old mau,
leaning heavily upon his staff a very old
man. And he lifted that staff, and took
hold of the small end of the staff, and began
to let it fall slowly through between the fin
ger and the thumb, and he said: "Oh, thou
impenitent, thou art falling now falling
from life, falling away from peace and
heaven, falling as certainly as the cane is
falling through my hand falling certainly,
though perhaps falling slowly!" And the
cane kept on falling through John Liv
ingston's hand. The religious emotion in
the audience was overpowering, and
men saw a type of their doom, as the
cane kept falling and falling, until the
knob of the cane struck Mr. Livingston's
hand, and he clasped it stoutly and said:
'But the grace of God can stop you as I
stopped that cane;" and then there was glad
ness all through the house at the fact of par
don and peace and salvation. "Well," said
the people after the se: vice, "I guess you had
better send Livingston home; he is making
the revival worse." Oh, for gales from
heaven to sweep all the continents ! The dan
ger of the church of God is not in revivals.
Again, my subject impressed me with tho
fact that Jesus was God and man in the same
being. Here lie is in the back part of the
boat. Oh, how tired He looks; what sad
dreams He mint have ! Look at His counte
nance; He must be thinking of the cross to
come. Look at Him, He is a man Imne of
our bone, flesh of our flesh. . Tired, He falls
asleep; He is a man. -But then I find Christ
at the prow of the boat; I hear Him sav:
"Peace, be still;" and I see the storm kneel
ing at His feet, and the tern ptests folding
their wings in His presence; He is a God.
If I have sorrow and trouble, and waut
sympathy, I go and kneel down at the back
part of the boat and say: ' Oh, Christ! weary
one of Gennesaret, sympathize with all my
sorrows, man of Nazaret h, man of the cross."
A man, a man. But if I want to conquer
my spiritual foes, if I want to get the victory
over sin, death ami hell, I come to the front
of the boat, and I kneel down, and I say:
"Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, Thou who dost hush
the tempest, hush p.ll my grief, hush all my
temptation, hush all mv sin!" A man, a
man ; a God, a Got'.
I learn once more from this subject that
Christ can hush a tempest.
It did seem as if everything must go to
ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of
managing the ship; the crew wero entirely
demoralized, yet Christ rises, and He puts
His foot on the storm, and it crouches at His
feet. Oh, yes! Christ can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble. Perhaps it was the
little child taken away from you the sweet
est child of the household, the one who asked
t ho most curious questions, and stood around
VOll with t,hl rri-fVitrtKt. rnnflnncc q.1 1t,a
.7 - 1 : - - . . j, ,. 1.11' tnij j
spade cut down through vour bleeding heart. I
1 1 : - 1 . - - i . 1
iciuaii naaauuriiy soil, anu your ueart
has ever since- been like a desolate castle, the
owls of the night hooting among the fallen
arches and the crumbling stairways. Per
haps it was an aged mother. You always
wont to her with your troubles. She was in
your home to welcome your children into life,
and when they died she was there to pity
you; that old hand will do you no more kind
ness; that white lock of hair you nut away in
the casket or in the locket didn't look as
it -usually did when she brushed it
away from her wrinkled brow in the
home circlo or in the country church. Or
your property gone, you said: "I have so
much bank stock. I have so many govern
ment securities, I have so many houses, I
have so "many farms al! gone, all gone."
Why, sir, all the storms that ever trampled
with their thunders, all the shipwrecks, have
not been worse than this to you. Yet you
' have not been completely overthrown. Why?
Christ says: "I have that little one in My
keeping. 1 can care .for him as well
as you can, better than you can,
O bereaved mother f Hushing the
tempest. AV hen your property went away,
God said: "There are treasures in heaven, in
baks that never break." Jesus bushing the
Jm1. Thfre is one storm into which we
will all have to run. The moment when we
let go ol ! this world and try to take hold of
the next, we will want all the grace possible.
Yonder I see a Christian soul rocking on the
surges of death; all the powers of dark
ness seem let out against that soul the
swirling wave, tho thunder of the sky
the shriek of the wind, all seem to
unite together; but that soul is not troubled
there is uo sighing, there are no tears;plenty
of tears in the room at the departure, but he
weeps no tears-alm, satisfied and peaceful;
fu l Wu1L -By tho flasu of the stornVyou see
tne harbor just ahead, and you are making
for that harbor. All shall be well, Jesus b
ing our guide.
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide:
Y,e re home at lat, home at last.
Softly we drift on tho bright, eilv'ry tide.
We're home at last.
G:ory to God ! all onr dangers are o'er,
e !ta?,d f?cnre o the gloriued shore;
Olory to God ! wc will shout evermore,
We're home at la?U
CCEIOUS FACTS.
Calico was imported into England by
the East India Company in 1631.
Geneva is said to be the cheapest city
in Europe for a permanent residence. .
The two-months-old son of a Salem
(Oregon) Chinaman was recently baptized
in the Presbyterian church of that city.
In the basement of the White House
Mrs. Harrison has found two old ma
hogany cabinets which were used in the
mansion when it was first built.
There are now enough French people
along the line of the Maine Central Rail
road to justify that corporation in posting
its time tables printed in French.
There is a woman near Astoria, Oregon,
whohas to hold up her hand and get per
mission from her husband before she can
go out. She is going to school to him.
fcau Francisco has a Chinese physician,
Li Po Tai, whose professional income is
stated to be $6000 per month. He has
been established in that city for thirty
years.
Our word 'butler" comes from an old
Euglish word, boteler, a man who has
charge of the bottles. The chief butler
of Pharoah, mentioned in the Bible, an
officer of high rank, was more properly
cup-bearer to the king.
A cork tree at Vistalia, Cal., was re
cently transplanted to the court house
yard. It was planted from an acorn in
1857 in a vacant lot and has grown to be
thirty feet high and twenty inches through
the butt.. The bark is one inch thick.
- A watch for blind people has been in
vented in Switzerland. In the middle of
every figure is a small peg, which drops
when the hour-hand reaches the figure.
The owner feels that the peg is down, and
counts back to twelve to determine the
hour.
A big poplar tree was felled at Utica,
Iud., recently, and as it struck the ground
a large limb broke off, in the heart of
which was found the antlers of a deer, a
cow's horn, and a number of curious
shells. The mystery is how they got
there.
Aleck Smith, living near Jeffersonville,
Ind., is probably the only farmer in the
Union, perhaps in the world, who de
votes all his time and territory to the
raising of butter beans. He owns a small
place and has on this for years grown the
butter bean, realizing a comfortable liv
ing therefrom.
Rev. John "W. Farnham, the minister
of the colored Methodist church at Char
lotte, N. C, wears a boot the size of
which is thirty-live and a half, which
necessitates a sole of twenty inches in
length and seven inches broad. Rev.
Farnham stands six feet ten inches in his
sizable stockings, and weighs 410 pounds.
Two Boys and a Bear.
Two boys, aged fourteen and sixteen
years, the sons of Abram Burger, a farm
er, living on the East Branch of the
Delaware, near Farlow Lake, N. Y.,
were hunting raccoons on Dry Brook
Mountain a short time ago. When about
half-way up the mountain they found a
beech tree from which hung a large
number of pods of ripe beech nuts.
Leaving their rifles on the ground, they
climbed the tree to thrash oil some beech
nuts to take home with them. They had.
hardly got into the tree when their dog
gave a yelp of fear and shied away into
the brush. At that moment the brush on
the other side of the little clearing where
the beech tree stood broke away and a
huge black bear came out and walked
straight to the tree where they were.
The bear smelt about the butt of the
tree for some minutes, and then began
to hitch himself up the trunk of the tree.
The frightened boys climbed higher into
the tree. The bear followed them how
ever, until he had got to the very limb
on which they were holding. The boys
balanced themselves, first one and then
the other, on the limb on which they
were sitting, and then sprang for the
limbs, of a hickory tree which interlaced
the outermost branches of the beech.
Fortunately for them they both caught a
limb end then began a race for the
ground.
Before Bruin could understand what
had happened the boys were peppering
him from the ground with rifle balls
from a pair of Colt's rifles. They finally
hit him, in a -vital spot and brought him
to the ground. New York Herald.
Hon Young Abe Lincoln Danced.
General Singleton, of Quincy, III., who
was one of the bright young lawyers of
Springfield when Abraham Lincoln was a
green youth there, tells this story which
we believe has never been printed before.
The bevy of bright young ladies to which
Miss Todd belonged before her marriage
to Mr. Lincolnused to have a good
deal of sport at this awkward young
man's expense. One evening at a little
party Mr. Lincoln approached Miss Todd
and said in his peculiar idiom :
"Miss Todd, I should like to dance
with you the worst way."
The young lady accepted the inevitable
and hobbled around the room with him.
When Miss Todd had returned to her
seat, one of her mischievous companions
said:
"Well, Mary, did he dance with you
the worst way?"
"Yes," she answered; "the very
worst." Washington Post.
Catching Salmon Jhy Hand.
The canning of salmon is one of the
greatest industries of Alaska. The can
neries are situated near the mouth of some
river or the outlet of a lake, up which
the salmon passes in schools to deposit
their spawn. As they return, the stream
and the bay are so alive with them that
they are caught by millions, and often
tossed into the boat or on to the shore
with the hand. The output of the can
neries for Alaska alone during the past
year is 500,000 cases, each case contain
ing forty-eight one-pound cans, and
worth at the cannery $0 a case. Maty
nJ Express,
A BIG SILK FAEM.
THAT IS WHAT THIS COUNTRlf
MAY BECOME SOJIE DAY.
A Keeling Machine That May Ac,
complish Wonders-An Industry .
for Farm Women How to
Obtain Silt Eggs.
"I have just returned from Europe,"
said Chief Walker of the newly-created
sjiic division in the Department of Agri
culture, "with a reeling machine tfeat
seems likely to accomplish the great
problem, the solution of which will turn
the Lnited States into a gigantic silk
farm. This one difficulty, as things are
now, alone stands in the way of the s;'Jk
Pioducing industry in America. So
troublesome and costly is the process of
reeling silk with the contrivances thus
lar applied that manufacturers on this
side of the water cannot afford to pay
cocoon raisers here living prices for their
Product, if they are to compete success
lully with foreign competition. For this
reason comparatively few cocoons are
raised in this country not more than 10,
OU0 pounds in all, probably of which
amount we ourselves buy one-half for ex
perimental purposes. One fair-sized silk
factory can easilv rnnsnmo inn tinn
pounds of cocoons in a r n'XZ.
ou7d oTmy?CntatiODSitWillbe
iouna to be nracticallv mitnmat; on
that, as nn .. - " I
, jr, me cocoons put
m at one end will come out raw silk at
tne other. A contrivance that-accorn-pushes
this will o-
vuunmuuijr rLuciK
tne expense of making fh
m f una um gi
American manufacturers can buy cocoons 1
here for material, instead of importing I
it, in the shape of raw silk, from Jirpan !
and elsewhere abroad, as they do now.
The moment that the cost of nrnHnrinr.i!
on. r-;n. : . 1 . , . . 1 cl!
on, is urougntaown a big per cent.'
below the foreign market price o the
article, the profits of silk manufacture
will nse proportionately, and the busiaesil
will jump into activity all overt th
'"uullJ- -a corresponaing riemand Vill,
of COUrsp. nrisn fnv l il
w iva tutuuua, nuu ill'
3
nciently to draw thousands of farSneiS
into the occupation of raising them
Aua wny the farmers," asked a
porter.
I 'I should rather say the farm wociev.-.
It is to them that the great American? si; k
manufacturers of the future will look for
their supplies of cocoons. The produc
tion of silk cocoons is an industry esj i
cially adapted to the use and opportuuijy
of farm people. In France each farme
wife raises a few pounds of cocoons eve jy
spring, and makes a little money by see
ing them ; in this way mainly is tbs sil'v
crop grown. Women of the agricultujtl
class in the United States are not oblifAf I
to work in the fields as French won. ..a
are, and thus they have more time to de
vote to such a pursuit. There is a v.;t
amount of waste female labor in tjis
country, or rather idleness, that ihitit
be turned to labor, and here is a pu'rpise
to which this spare hen-time' might je
devoted for six weeks in the' year t Jiy
rate, during the cocoon-raising si;tsa.
No occupation could possibly be nl re
easy and agreeable for a woman thi;V ghe
raising of cocoons, and it will offer a ilw
source of income to rural wives ;Id
daughters north, south, east and west' is
quickly as this little mechanical probh m
is solved. This machine which I h.'pe
embodies the solution of it is already v.-ut
together, and the first trial of it will be
made at once." i '
"But how is a woman to get started." in
rtcti; in
& I he
trouble
the silk-raising business?"
"Easilv enoush. Anv woman
TTnitprl Stafoo ivln --;il V.
...i,.j, . . m t ii lane luc iiuijk;
to write to us in March of any yearith
a request for silk-worm eggs, will b cmt
about April 1 a quarter of an oud f of
them, or about 9000 in a little box-f he
eggs will have been kept on ice by y to
prevent hatching, and all the beginoer
need do is to put them in a dry j i-ice
where they will come out of themselves.
The 9000 worms will take up a t.ble
space forty feet square, and the riost
convenient way is to put together rn) gh
ly a tier of big square shelves for tlLm,
one above the other, with spaces of Itwo
feet between. On these or on orlfary
tables the worms should be placetllmd
upon as many mulberry or osage lei Is as !
mey win consume ; no oiner sort el f xid
will do. When they are ready t 1 pin
their cocoons, light brush must lKput
over them for them to climb up ou.
Once spun the cocoons must be detar-ied
from the brush and thrown into bj'ing
water for a few seconds to kill the .-rms
inside; otherwise they would bo j. out
and spoil the silk. With two ounf: of
eggs a year a woman ought to be aj'ii to
raise fifty or sixty pounds of cocooi-.J per
annum, hatching the eggs April lf and
catiierins? the eoeoons .Tune 1. TlJ bit.
I - t-f - - m
i ter are worth about $1 a pound no we
buy most of the cocoons at that rati f rom
the women whom we supply with f ggs.
When the groat demand for cococfu ar
rives as it surely will before long
100,000 women, producing fifty pounds
each per annum, will supply fifty factor
ies with material for turning out an
enormous amount of silken fabric."
Washington Star.
Called Out of Name.
Irish stew is a dish unknown in Ire
land.
Kid gloves are not made of kid, but
of lamb skin or sheep skin.
German silver is not silver at all, nor
of German origin, but has been used in
China for centuries.
Dutch clocks are of German manufac
ture. Baffin's Bay is not a bay.
Turkish baths are unknown to the
Turks.
Turkey rhubarb should be called ftus
sian rhubarb, as it is a Russian mo
nopoly. Why are turkeys so called? They do
not come from Turkey.
Slave means noble or illustrious.
Tit-mouse is a bird.
Sealing wax contains no wax.
Shrew-mouse is no mouse.
Rice-paper is not made of rice or the
rice plant.
Cat gut should be sheep gut.
Blind worms have eyes and can see.
Cleopatra's needle should be named
after Thotmes III.
Besetting: Sins.
Here is a list of the sins that are said
to most easily beset mankind in the va
rious ages:
Infancy Over feedine.
Childhood. . . ." Scanty clothing.
Youth..... Late Rising.
Manhood Reckless marrying.
Middle age Over feeding.
pidage. ,.. . . ...Scant clothing.
T
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Bay Fony.
,t "Mamma, -where do ponies grow
kittle tinty tonty ones like this V ami
Jfe held np a picture of a number of
ijhetland ponies.
i rjdon t know" answered mamma.
Out on the prairie, I guesa. Mam-
nucrreis me prairie? la it over
i-oio. pyiuuug iowara a largo
leadow that lay along the river.
x guess so. nun out and play," an
iwered mamma, without looking np.
, "All richt. Good-bv. mammi T
m troinar to eateh
i i " 1 ""J 1 uu an aj
Je ran to his own little room for tha
;hirgs he thought he should need.
There was hi.i warm winter overcoat ;
ue must have that to wrap round him
f he should camp out. His pea-pistol
le must take to shoot bears and buffalo
with, and his fur cap he should want
if it should be winter before he got
!aome again.
Takincr off his mm now kTh-voo nn.1
triped stockings, for fear he would
roil them, he laid tbm iiKrnii....
at the foot of hia lin.l lwi i
ing his pistol in his belt, buttoning his
.overcoat to his chin, and BAttlinn- 1,;
fur cap on his sunny curls, he was all
ready to travel.
"Good-by, mamma!" ho shouted,
but mamma was too busy to hear him.
t Vn,e "?lMai. f,le-ml ? ' Wm.
. old Bruno, who lay bask
: m,'n sn.i..- ,1 J
ew on uie piazza.
After watchincr a few
no roso, and, after stretching his shag
gy limbs, started after Ray.
Down through the orchard, over the
hill and across the brook trudged the
sturdy little figure; across tho great
meadow to the stream between that
and the island.
It was only fun to wade that, for the
water hardly covered the chubby feet.
He turned and looked toward "home,
then caught his breath, for he had
never been so far from home alone be
fore. . Old Bruno followed slowly in his
footsteps.
The sun sank behind a great black
cloud, and suddenly a clap of thunder
1 e-hdnino- acd.i .i 1
to come in bier. RnlAi1nnop rlmna if
rj wet even through his warm overcoat.
i nw T?av -n-oo .f..M - ' - 11 1
-.' a on urn vi a inunaer
storm. He had not reckoned on that.
He forgot everything but home and
mamma, but he could not tell which way
home was ; the rain blinded him, and the
thunder roared bo that he could hard
ly hear himself cry.
He stumbled and fell over a big rock
and hurt his ankle, and then Bruno
thought it was about time for him to
attend to matters himself.
Bounding to Ray's side lie lapped
his cold, wet hands and face, and told
in every w ay a dog could of sympathy
aud protection.
Ray starftd up with a joyful cry he
had often ridden on Bruno's back why
couldn't he do fo now ?
Bruno stood perfectly still until Ray
dragged himself up on one foot, and
after many trials, was fairly seated 0:1
lm broad back with both hands
clenched Ir . the hair on his shaccv
neck. - - ..... bi?J
Then, step by step, ca.-11y as
though he knew w hat pain every moTu
ment gave Ray, Bruno picked M3 way
across the stream and the meadow, up
the hill and through the orchard, to
the house.
The shower was over and the warm
eun shone through the mist.
Papa and John were looking every
where for the lost boy, and mamma
6tood on the piazza with a faco white
with fear.
"O, Ray! Ray! what made you run
away V she cried.
"I jnst wanted the pony, mamma,
but I don't now," answered Ray; "and
I'll never go on the prairie any "more
never."
"I guess not," said mamma. And
she langhed and cried all the while she
w as changing his wet clothes. Then
papa came in.
"What's tbi? about a pony? Come
out to the barn, little son. Judy has
found a pony for you just the enn
ningest lit'le coltie'you ever saw."
And thero in Judy's warm stall Ray
found his pony after all. Youth'
Companion.
Tla sad to see a woman growing old before her
time
all brokn-do.n and hopeless when lifo
should hold ita prime;
Ihe feels herselc a burden when blessing she
should be
and .ones for death to brln j ber release from
misery.
If these poor, discouraged women who Buffer
!rom diseases peculiar to women ould only
t iow that health could be re rainod by the
f Dr. Pierce's Favoiite Prescription, how eajf
irly they would hasten to avail themselves of
A. They ought to know it, and try it. Every
Rroman who i still healthy ought to be told
tbout the wonderful vi-tue la th s medicine,
ind unders and that it is a s if canard ajainsl
lie t;rrible dlse isos common to her sex. It is
nuiranterA to give satisfaction or money pa d
ior It will be refunded.
Cleanse the liver, stomach, bowels and whole
tystem by using Dr. Pierce's Pel lets.
Who lives In a glass house should make
arrangements to move.
SI 00 Iteward. 9IOO.
Th readers of this paper will 1 p!cM to
1. am that thero is at least one dreaded di
ease that M-ience h.n K-on able to cure In all
Its stasesnd that Is O.iarrh. Catarrh
tnretfl the only poutiro cure now known to
the medical fraternity. CiMrrh U-im; a con
stitutional rtlsomc. requires a conslltuiional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Core is takon in
ternally, acting dirrvtiy :ipon tho Mood and
mucous furfaces of the extern, thereby de
stroying tho foundation of the diM-ase. and
giving tho patient Mrontrth. lv bo Inline up tho
constitution and afieiMinc nature in doing lis
work. Ihe proprietor! have so much fitli in
Its curativo powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case th.nl it fail to euro,
fcend for list of testimonial. Addrc,
VSj Sold by DriiKcLda, 75c
Pleasing ware is half oM, lot the
may le said of an o d pair of bootv.
same
Wash'ng powd.rs
mm clothe: The tin
are
trnnv jlIYaIIm mnA
The purest soap obtainable is the
best and cheapest. DobbinVn Kltvtrin Kran
has been acknowledged for 24 years to be the
jmret a aii. Try it right an ay.
J la ffl fried with oreeyi nse DrIaao Thorn r
fCL'tEyeWater.DrugKlrtsscll ati"o.pr bottle
The fottir home of the wicked Is paved
with pood Intention, but the pavements
never b ow np and the system has Its
advantages.
The Plain Truth
Is that Hood' Fartaparilla baa cured thousands of
people who iuffered severely with rheumatism. II
neutralizes the lactlo add in the blood, which
caotes those terrible rains and acnes, and also vi
talizes and enriches the blood, thus pre renting the
recurrence of the disease. These facts warrant as
In urging you, If you suffer . with rheumatism, tl
ghre Hood's FarsaparlUa a trla'.
"flaring been troubled with Inflammatory rheu
matism for many year, my favorable attention
was called to Hood's Saroaparllla by aa advertise
ment oT cures It had efTecte1. I bar now ase-1
three bottles of Hood's Sarsaparllla aud ran already
testify to beneficial reoulla. I highly recommend
K as a great blood purifier. "J. C ATaas, West
Moomfleld, X. Y.
Hood's Sarsaparllla
Bold by all druggtstsL. !; six for Prepared only
Ij C. L HOOD a CO., ApoUiecartes, Lowell, Jtaas.
100 Poses On Dollar
A Pleasing Bcase
Of heaUli and strength renewed and of aas
and comfort foUowm the use of Syrup of Fl;s,
as It acts ia harmony with nature to effectual.
It cleanse the system when costive or billons.
F or sale la fiOcand fl bottles by all leadiag
druggists.
Fear nothing rt sin. tat keep away from
the. electric light wire.
' , Oregen, tbe Parasllse ef Ftratrs.
anid. equable olimat-. certain and abundant
jropa. Best f rait, grain, grafla and stock ooun
world. Full information free. Ad
dress Oregon Imlgrat'a Board. Portland, Ore.
Oldest and bet "Tansill'a Punc V CIsar.
Every day brines it tread, and the bill
comes on Sntuiday.
TRADE
MARK
CURES PERMANENT! v
SPBAINS.
Washington, Tex.. June C.
Had snfTercd otT and on for liAccn years
with (trained bark; no tronhle with It now;
two years ago was cured by Ft. Jiool-i tut.
ho return. H. CART II EIX.
At Ircooist9 aud Pr.ALER.
THE CHARLES A. V0GELER CO.. Btltlmort.Ui.
SMITH'S BILE BEANS
Act on thclirer and Mlc;rlrarthe complexion;
cur biliousot ?, si W headache. -Mivenci,
malnria and nil Hvcr and Momne ti disorder.
We nrcnow making cmnll Fizo Kile limn,
especially adapttwi fr chiMren nod women
cry email nnl easy to take. I'ri.-c of cither
til 2io per bottle.
A poreltdze PHOTO-GRAVURE of the
above picture, "Kirii!? m r niai!el "n
receipt of Se stomp Ad.lr the makers ol the
great Anil Bile ttemedv "Mile Iknn."
J. F. SMITH &. CO.. St. Louis, Mo.
Ely's Cream Balm
cPru
iv;
MRALI '
n. c hi lint. a e,cclJtfRw
Cold in HeadFl
IS !UKE TO CI? KB
('!( KI.Y.
ApplrRalmlutoeach noUrit
ONE DOLLAR E,
Will
A SOLID GOLD WATCH
awv
sr cua cxva STSTEM.
n to rmct isvt mo chcwm
R. HARRIS & CO.
tcn cive
HtaeovaaTtas.
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Mention Ih'i pyp-r hn vndgi.
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ivioney in Chickens
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FlviriK tn DiTrKKTi f a pnu ti
csl p iiltry l'i-r-rt en imv
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ly-l-t and "nro IntwaM-a: to r"e d
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wbk h t en la to hare for Urmliug
Ftirprw- a: and eenrthin. n!re.i.
yen Should know en One utli-t to tnskr it 1 rrMU
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L
Si North Fifteenth t.. rblUdelpbla. ra, for
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