Published by Roanoke Publishing Co.
'FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
W. KLKTCHER AUSBON, EDITOR...
C. V, W. AUBBON, BUSINESS MAKAGER.
VOL. III.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1892.
NO. 52.
JR.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
V ' ' - ;
. tatijecl: "The morions Palpi."
! . Text: "They took brancte of palm trees
and went forth to meet fitm." -John xii.,13.
How was that possible How could palm
branches be cast in the way of Christ aa Ha
approached Jerusalem? There are scarcely
any palm trees in Central Palestine. Even
the one that was carefully guarded for many
years at Jericho has gone. I went over the
very road by which Christ approached Jer
usalem, and there are plenty of olive trees
and fie treei, but no palm trees that I could
see. You must remember that the climate
bas chanced. The palm tree likes water, but
by tbe cutting down of the forests, which
ar.8 leafy prayers for rain, the land has be
come unfriendly to the palm tree. Jericho
once stood in seven miles of palm grove.
Olivet was crowned with palms. The Dead
Kea hss on' its banks the trunks of palm
trees that floated down irom some oldtime '
palm grove and are preserved from decay
by the salt which they received from the
Uea.i Sea.
Let woodmen spare the trees of America,
If they would not ruinously change the cli
mate and brin? to the soil barrenness instead
of fertility Thanks to God and the legisla
tures for Arbor Day, which plants treas,try-
' frig to atone for the ruthlessaess which has
destroyed them . Yes, my text is in har
mony witb the condition of that country on
the morning. of Palm Sunday. About three
million-people have come to Jerusalem to
Attend the religious festivities. Great news!
Jesus will enter Jerusalem to-day. The sky
is red with the morning, and tbe people are
flocking out to the foot of Olivet, and up
and on over the southern shoulder of the
mountain, and the procession coming out
from the city meets the procession escorting
Christ, as He comes toward the city. There
is a turn in the road where Jerusalem sud
denly bursts upon the vision.
' ' "We bad ridden that day all the way from
Jericho, and had visited the ruins of the house
of Mary and Martha and Lazarus, and were
somewhat weary of sight seeing, when there
sucMenly arose before our vision Je. usalom,
tbe religious capital of all Christian ages.
That was the point of observation where my
comes in. Alexander rone cucepnaius,
Duke Elfe rode hi famous Merchegay, Sir
Henry Lawrence rode the high mettled Con
i adk Wellington rode his proud Copenhagen,
but the conqueror of eartu and heaven rides
a. colt, one taat had been tied at the roadside.
tiousat the vociferation of the populace, Ait
txtemporizdl saddle made ont of the gar
ments of the people was put on the beast.
While some people griped the bridle of the
colt, others reverently waited upon Christ at
the mountain. '
The two processions of people now become
one those who came out of the city and
those who came over the hill. The orientals
are more demonstrative than we of tbe
(Western world, their voices louder, their
gesticulations more violent and the symbols
by which they express their emotions moro
significant. The people who left Phocea, in
the far east, wishing to make impressive
that they would never return, took a red hot
ball of iron and threw it into tbe sea, and
eaid they would never return to Phocea until
that ball rose and floated on the surface. Be
not surprised, therefore, at the demonstra
tion in the text.
As the colt with its rider descends the
slope of Olivet, the palm trees lining the
road are called upon to render their contri
bution to the scene of welcome and rejoic
ing. The branches of these trees are high up,
.and some must needs climb the trees and tear
off the leaves and throw them down, and
others make of these leaves an emerald pave
ment for tbe colt to 1 rod on.
i Long before that morning the palm tree
bad been typical of triumph. Herodotus and
Btrabo had tuus described it. Lsyard finds
the pal in leaf cut in tbe walls of Nineveh,
with the game significance. In tbe Greek
athletic games the victors carried palms. I
am very glad that our Lord, who five days
after had thorns upon His brow, for a little
while at least had palms strewn under His
feet. Ob, the glorious' palm I Amarasinga,
the Hindoo scholar, calls it "the king among
the grasses." Linnaeiu calls it "the prince of
vegetation."
Among all the trees that ever cast a
shadow or yielded fruit or lifted their arms
toward heaven, it has no. equal for multi
tudinous U3es, Do you want nowera? One
palm tree, will put forth a hanging garden
of them.pne cluster counted by a scientist
containing 207,000 blooms. Do you want
food ? It is the chief diet of the whoie nations.
One palm in Chile will yield ninety gallons
"of honey. In Polynesia it is the chief food
of the inhabitants. In India there are raul
titu ies of people depaudent upon it for sus
tenance. Do you want cable to hold ships or cords
.to tiol wild beasts! It is wound into ropes
unbreakable. Do you want articles of house
furniture! It is twisted into mats and woven
Into baskets and shaped into drinking cup3
and swung into hammocks. Do you want
medicine! Its nut is the chief preventive of
i disease and the chief cure for vast popula
. tions. Do you want houses? Its wood turn
. 4uVie tha wall for fcha homos, and its leaves
thatch them. Do you need a supply for the
pantry? Ityields sugar, and starch and oil
and sago and milk and salt and wax and
vinegar and candles.
. Oh, the palm ! , It has a variety of endow--nients,
such as no other growth that ever
rooted the earth or kisse l the hsavem. To
the willow, ; Uoisays, "dtandby the water
courses and weep." To the cedar He says,
"Gather the hurricanes into your bosom."
To the flgtree Hessvs, "Bear fruit and put
. it within reach of all the people." But to
, the palm tree He says, "Be garden and
'storehouse and wardrobe and rope walk and
chandlery and bread and banquet and man
tifactorr, an'd then be type of what I meant
when I "inspired Davil, My servant, to say,
' 'The righteous shall flourish like a palm
Ob, Lord God, give us mora palm trees
men and women made for nothing but to be
useful; dispositions all abloom; branches of.
influence laden with Trait; people good for
everything, as the palm tree. If kind words
are wanted they are ready to utter them.
If hpful deeds are needed they are ready
to perform them If plans of usefulness are
to be laid out ' they are ready to project
Diem. If enterprises are to be forwarded
they are ready to lift them.- People who
fiy "Yesl Yesl" when they are asited for
-' stanca by word or deed, instead of "Nol
Iviostof the mysteries that bother others
do not bother me, because I adjourn them;
hr.i tbe mystery that really bothers me is
whv God made bo many people who amount
to liothingsofaras the world's betterment
i concerned. They stand in tbe way 4. They
ol ii'ct - Thy discuss hindrances, i I hey
F,i".t possibilities of. failure. Over the
rnn i of u instead of pulling in the trace, -tt
.-i art- ;s iug bucte in the breelnngii:. Ihev
er ' 1 t ' lii-C No- They are brambl;
i tov 'are willows, alwuys monrulng;
tr .v'ii.j i fry Ie'os, ynldin." only t'uo bi;
t,r .'r r i i" - trus r-rt ''lag o'-:y ti.
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like tbe palm tree. Pianted in the Bible that
tree always means usefulness.
But how littie any of us or all of us ac
complish in that direction. We take twenty
or thirty years to get fully ready for Chris
tian work, and in the after part ot life we
take ten or twenty years for the gradual
closing of active work, and that leaves only
so littie time batween opening aui stopping
work that all we accomplish is so little an
angel of God needs to exert himself to see it
all.
Nearly everything I see around, beneath
and above in the natural world suggest
useful service. If there is nothing in the
Bible that inspires you to usefulness, go out
and study the world around you this spring
time, and learn the great lesson of useful
ness. '-What art thou doing up there, little
start Why not shut thine eyes and sleep,
for who cares for fo? thy shining?" "No,
saith" the star, "I will not sleep. 1 guich
.the sailor on the sea. I cheer the traveler
among the mountains. I help tip the dew
with light. Through the window of the
poor man's cabin I cast a beam of hope, and
the child on her mother's lap asks in glee
whither I come and what I do and whence I
go. To gleam and glitter, God set me here.
Away I I have no time to sleep.."
The snownake comes straggling down.
'Frail, fickle wanderer, why comestthou
hare?" "1 am no idle wanderer," responds
the snowflnke. "High up in the air I was
born, tbe child of the rain and the cold, and
at the divine behest I come, and I am no
straggler, for God tells me where to put my
crystal heel. To help cover the roots, the'
grain and grass, to cleanse the air, to make
sportsmen more happy and the ingle flra
more bright, I come. Though so light I am
Jhat you toss me from your muffler and
crush me under your foot, I am doing my
best to fulfll what I was made for. Clothed
in white 1 came on a heavenly mission, and,
when my work is done and God shall call, in
morning vapor I shall go back, drawn by
the fiery courses of the sun."
1 "What doest thou, insignificant grass
blade under niy feet?" "I am doing awork,"
says the grass blade, "as best I can. I help
to make op the soft beauty of field and
lawn. I urn satisfied, if, with millions of
others no bigger than L we can give pasture
to flocks and herds. I am wonderfully made.
He who feeds the ravens gives me substance
from the soil and breath from the air, and
He who clothes the lilies of the field rewards
me with this coat of green."
"For what, lonely cloud, goest thou across
the heavens?" Through Ltae brizhfc ,air a
voice drops from afar, saying: "Up and
down this sapphire floor I pace to teach men
that like me they are passing away, I gather
up the waters from lake and sea, and then,
when the thunders toll, I refresh the earth,
making the dry ground to laugh . with har
vests of wheat and fields of corn. I catch
the frown of the storm and the hues ot the
rainbow. . At evening tide on the western
slopes I will pitch my tent, and over me
shall dash the saffron, and tbe purple, and
the fire of the sunset. A pillar ot cloud like
me led the chosen across the desert, and sur
rounded by such as I the Judge of Heaven
and Earth will at last descend, for "Behold
He coraeth with clouds P .
Oh, my friends, if anything in the Inan
imate world be useful, let us immortal men
and women be useful, and in that respect be
like the palm tree. But .1, m.U8t not..be
tempted by what David .says of that green
shaft of Palestine, that living and glorious
pillar of the eastern gardens, as seen in olden
times the palm tree; I must not be tempted
by what the Old Testament says of it, to
lessen my emphasis of what John, the evan
gelist, says of it in my text.
Notice that it was a beautiful and lawful
robbery ot the palm tree that helped make
up Christ's triumph on the road to Jerusalem
that Palm Sunday. Tbe long, broad, green
leaves that were strewn under the feet of the
colt and in the way of Christ were torn oft
from the trees. What a pity, some one
might say, that those stately and grace. u
trees should be despoiled. The sap oozsd out
at the places where the branches broke.
The glory of the palm tree was appropriately
sacrificed for the Saviour's triumphal pro
cession. So it always was, so it always will
be in this world no worthy triumph of any
sort without the tearing down of something
else. 1
Brooklyn Bridge, the glory of our conti
nent, must have two architects prostrated,
the one slain by his toils and the other for a
lifetime invalided . The greatest pictures of
the world had, in their richest coloring, the
blood of tbe artists who made them. The
mightiest oratoriefe that ever rolled through
tbe churches had in their pathos, the sighs
and groans of the composers, who wore their
lives out in writing the harmony. American
independence was triumphant, but it moved
on over tbe lifeless forms of tans of thou
sands of men who fell at Bunker Hill and
Yorktown and the battles between which
were the hemorrhages of the nation.
The kingdom of God advances in all the
earth, but it must be over the lives of mis
sionaries who die of malaria in the Jungles
or Christian workers who preach and pray
and toil and die in the service. The Saviour
triumphs in all directions but beauty and
strength must be torn down from the palm
trees of Christian heroism and consecration
and thrown in His pathway.
To what better use could those palm trees
on the southern shoulder of Mount Olivet
wid clear down into the Valley , of Geth
semane put their branches than to surrender
them for the making of Christ's journey
toward Jerusalem the more picturesque, the
more memorable and the more tiuoipbant?
And to what better use could we put our
lives than into the sacrifice for Christ and
His cause and the happiness of
our fellow creatures? Shall we not be
willing to be torn down that right
eousness shall have triumphant way? Christ
was torn down for us. Can we not afford
to be torn down for Him? If Christ could
suffer so much for us, can we not suffer a
little for Christ? It He can afford on Palm
Hunday to travel to Jerusalem to carry a
cross, can we not afford a few leaves from
our branches to make emerald His way?
The process is going on every moment in
all directions. What makes that father
have such hard work to find the hymn to
day " He puts on his spectacles .and holds
the book close up, and then holds it far off.
and is not quite sure whether the number of
the hymn is 150 or 130, and the fingers with
which he turns the leaves are very clumsy.
He stoop a good deal, although once he was
straight as aa arrow, and bis eyes were keen
as hawk's, and the hand he offered to hi
bride on the marriage day waa of goodly
shape and as God made it
. I will tell you what is tho matter. Iorty
years ago he resolved his family should hava
no need and his children should be well edu
cated and suffer none of the disadvantages
of lack of schooling from which he had
suffered for a lifetime, and that the wolf ot
hunger should never put its paw on his door
si u. and for forty or fifty years ha has been
tearinz oft from tbe palm tree of his physi
cal strength and mauly forai branches to
throw iu the pathway of his household. It
has cost him muscle and brain and health
and eyesight, and there ' have been ' twisted
off more years from his life than any man
In tbe crowd on the famous Palm founday
LwUted off branches from the pahn trees oa
the road 1rm Bet lipase to Jerusalem.
What makes tht mother look m muci
oM'r than she really ' 0)1 - ons""
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hard struggle at the start. Examine the
tips of the forefinger and thumb of her right
hand and they will tell you the story of the
heedle that was plied day in and day out.
Yea, look at both her hands, and they will
tell the story ol the time when she did ber
own work, her own mending and scrubbing
and washing.
Yea, look into the face and read the story
of scarlet fevers and croups and midnight
watchings, then none but God and herself in
that housa were awake, and then the burials
and the loneliness afterward, which was
more exhausting than the preceding watch
ing had been, and no one now to put to bed.
How fair she once was, and as fair as the
palm tree, but all the branches of her
strength" and beauty were long ago torn off
and thrown into the pathway of her house
hold. Alas I that sons and daughters, themselves
o straight and graceful and educated,
should ever forget that they are walking to
day over the fallen strength of an indus
trious and honored parentage. A little
bshamed, are you, at their ungrammatical
utterances? It was through their sacrifices
that you learned accuracy of speech. Do
yoa lose patience with tbem because they,
are a little querulous iand complaining.
I guess you have forgotten how querulous
and complaining you were when you were
getting over that whooping cough or that
intermittent fever. . A little annoyed, are
you, because her hearing is poor and you
have to tell her something twice? She was
not always hard of hearing. When you
were two years old your first call . for a
drink at midnight woke her from a sound
sleep as quick as any one will waken at the
trumpet call of the resurrection.
Ob, my young lady, what is that undet
the sole of 'your fine shoes? It is a palm leaf
which was torn off the tree of maternal
fidelity. Young merchant, young lawyer,
young journalist, yoiing mechanic, with
good salary and fine clothes and refined sur
roundings, have you forgotten what a time
your father had that winter, after the sum
mer's crops bad failed through droughts or
floods or locust, and how be wore his old
coat too long and made his old hat do, that
he might keep you at school or college?
What is that, my young man, under your
fine boot to-day, the boot that so well fits
your foot, such a boot as your father could
never afford to wear?
It must be a leaf from the palm tree of
your father's self-sacrifices. Do not be
ashamed of him when he comes to town, and
because his manners are a little old fashioned
try to smuggle him in and smuggle him out,
but call in your best friends and take him to
the house of God and introduce bim to your
pastor, and say; "This is my fathor." If he
had kept for himself the advantages which
he gave you he would be as well educated
and as well gotten up as you. When in the
English Parliament a member was making
a great speech that was unanswerable a
Lord derisively cried out, "I remember you
when you blaokoned my father's bootsr
"Yes," replied the man, "and I did not do it
well?" Never be ashamed of your early
surroundings. Yes, yes, all the green leaves
We walk over were torn off some palm tree.
I have cultivated the habit of forgetting
the unpleasant things of life, and I chiefly
remember the smooth things and as far aa
I remember now my life has for the most
part moved over a road soft with green
leaves. They were torn off two palm trees
that stood at the 6tart ot the road. The
prayers, the Christian example, the good
advice, the hard work of my father and
mother. . How they toiled! Their fingers
were knotted with hard work. Their fore
heads were wrinkled with many cares.
Their backs Btoopec" from carrying our
burdens.
They long ago went into slumber among
their kindred and friends on the banks of
the Raritan, but the influence they threw in
the way of their children are yet green as
leaves the moment they are plucked from a
palm tree, and we feel them on our brow
and under our feet, and they will strew all
the way until we lie down in the same slum
ber. Self sacrifice! What a thrilling word.
Glad am I that our world has so many
specimens of it. The sailor boy on ship
board was derided' because he woula not
fight or gamble, an4 they called him a cow
ard. But when a child fell overboard and
no one else was ready to help, the derided
sailor leaped into the sea, and, though the
waves were rough, the sailor, swimming
witb one arm, carried the child on the other
arm till rescued and rescuer were lifted into
safety, and the cry of coward ceased and all
huzzaed at the scene of daring and self
sacrifice.
When recently Captain Burton, the great
.author, died, he left a scientific boos: in
manuscript which he expected would be his
wife's fortune. He often told her so. . He
said, "This will make you independent and
'affluent after I am gone." He suddenly
died, and it was expected that the wife would
EubUsh the book. One publisher told her
e could himself make out of it ftOO.000.
iBut it was a. book which, though written
jWith pure scientific design, she felt would
do immeasurable damage to public morals.
' With th two large volumes, which had
cost; her husband the work of years, she sat
pown oh the floor before the fire and said to
herself, "There is a fortune for me in this
book, and although my husband wrote it
with the right motive and scientific people
might be helped by it, to the vast majority
of people it would be harmful, and I know
it would damage the world." Then she
took apart tbe manuscript sheet after sheet
'and put it into the fire, until the last line
was consumed. Bravo I -She flung her,
livelihood, her home, her chief worldly
resources under the best moral and religious
interests of the world.
How much are we willing to sacrifice for
'others? Christ is again on the march, not
ifrom Bethpage to Jerusalem, but for the
"conquest of the world. He wUl surely take
it, but who will furnish the palm branches
for the triumphant way? Self sacrifice is
the word. There is more money paid to de
stroy the world than to save it. There are
more buildings put up to ruin the race than
churches to evangelize it. There is more de-
waved literature to blast men than good
iterature to elevate them.
Ob, for a power to descend upon us all like
that which whelmed Charles G. Finney with
mercy, when, kneeling in his law office, and
before he entered upon his apostolic career
of evangelization, he said: "The Holy Ghost
descended on me in a manner that seemed
to go through me, body and soul. I could
feel the impression like a wave of electricity
going through and through me. Indeed ft
seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid
love. It seemed like the breath ot God. I
can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan
me like immense wings. I wept aloud with
joy and love. These waves came over me
and over me one atter another, and until. I
recollect, -1 cried out, 'I shall die If these
waves continue to pass over me. I said,
Lord, I caunot bear any more."' And
when a gentleman came into the office and
said, "Mr. Finney, you are in pain?" here
plied, "No, but so happy that I cannot liv."
My hearers, tbe time will come when upon
th whole church of God will descend such
an avalanche of blessing, and then th
bringing of tho world to God will be a mat
ter ot a few years, perhaps a few days or a
few hours. Ride on, O .Christ 1 for the
evangelization of all nations. Thou Christ
who itidst rid on the nnbrokisn colt down
tbe hide ot Olivet, on tbe wuito horse of
eternal victory ride through oil notions, and
iu ' y we,
r
y tier pray i r ail i unr u c.
cur '' Rtri'- : ions imd ''.r tvti-
secrations, throw palm branches in the
way. 1 clap my hands at the coming vic
tory. '
I feel this morning as did the Israelites
when on their march to Canaan, they came
not under the shadow of one palm tree, but
of seventy palm trees standing in an oasis
among a dozan gushing fountains, or as the
Book puts it. "Twelve wells of water and
three score and ten palm trees." Surely
there are more than seventy such great and
'glorious souls present to-day. Indeed, it is
a mighty grove of palm trees, and I feel
'something of the raptures which I shall feel
twhenourlast battle fought, and our last
(burden carried, and our last tear wept we
Bhall become one of the multitudes St. John
describes "clothed in white robes and palms
in their hands." '
Hail thou bright, thou swift advancing,
thou everlasting Palm Sunday of the skies I
Victors over sin and sorrow and death and
woe, from the hills and valleys of the heav
enly Palestine they have plucked the long,
broal, green leaves and all the ransomed
6om"elirgaTes'ot peart; and some on battle
ments of amethyst, and some on streets of
gold, and some on seas of sapphire, they
.shall stand in numbers like the stars, in
splendor like the morn, waving their palmBl
ENGLAND'S SHAME.
Kesponslbla for the Use or Opium Among,'
670,000.000 People. I
Americans do not realize the ex-j
tent of the terrible curse of the opium;
vice in Asia. In China alone 125,-;
000,000 out of a population of be-
tween 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 use.
it. '
And now the Uritish Government
in India, to increase its revenue, ha'
authorized the licensing of shops,
throughout India and Burmah for thej
free sale of opium. These licenses are)
issued in very unusual form. Those
who take the license come under obli-
gation to sell a stipulated amount, or
to pay a forfeit: rnus tne uovern
ment almost compels the holders of
the license to stimulate its subjects
to consume a deadly poison! The
door is thrown wide open for all the
inhabitants of India to take that
which destroys at once the body and
the soul.
The unrestricted sale of opium i?
permitted in Java, with its 20,000,,
000 of population. It is also permitted,
in the French possessions of 8,000,
000 or 10,000,000. The vice is alsoj
carried by the Chinese immigrants
into Siam and all the islands of thd
Eastern Archipelago. If the popula-j
tions of the various countries in
Asia, in which free sale of opium ia
permitted, are added together fche ag-j
gregatc number is more than 600, -j
000,000! In Europe and America thej
sale is restricted to medical use, by the1
direction of physicians, and the vialsj
and boxes containing it, when thus
given out by druggists, are carefully)
labeled, "Poison!"
The laws of China once prohibited;
the sale and use of opium, tho viola-i
tion of which was punished by death.;
So earnest were the Chinese to prc-j
vent its introduction into the coun-i
try that the Government became in-;
volved in a costly war with England
about it, at the close of which a
treaty was made, in which England;
recognized China's right to prohibit
the introduction of opium, but left it
with China to seize the vessels thati
smuggled it in and confiscate the;
vessel and cargo! But as the smug-i
glers were Englishmen and the ships'
English ships the Chinese were afraid!
to execute the law, and so opium,'
was brought in English bottoms from)
India to China from 1842 to 1860.1
The Chinese Government finding it
could not stop the smuggling o
opium into the country by Britishj
ships finally determined to legalizq
the horrible traffic it could not de
stroy. Shops were opened in evervj
village and town in the country and
the cultivation of the poppy was be
gun. To such an extent has the use
of opium been extended that mis-
'sionaries have said that seventy out
of every 100 people are more or less
opium caters.
' To sum up: The population of
India and Burmah, according to the
census taken last year, is 285,000,000;
that of China is 350,000,000, some
make it 400,000,000. The Island of
Java counts its 20,000,000, to which
the French possessions in Southeast
ern Asia dd at least 10, 000, 000 more,
'.he Eastern Archipelago has
say 5,000,000, making altogether a
total of 670,000,000! The curse of
Asia has been saddled upon that con
tinent by Christian Europe. For
;,his terrible blight cast upon the,
greatest of the four-quarters of the
globe,, the British government isi
chiefly responsible A hundred years!
ago the East India Company com-!
menced to monopolize the production;
of opium for sale in China, and the
government at home gave to the com-j
Vany the protection or tne uritisn
flag. Since 1858 the Britfsh Govern
ment has had a monopoly of the pro
duction and sale of opium. Great
Britain is thus directly responsible
for the prevalence of the opium plague1
among the 670,000,000 people in Asia!
Street Cleaning.
Analysis of the street cleanings in
one of the large cities thows that
while they contain less water than
horse manure, they contain also less
potash, nitrogen and phosphoric acid.
The insoluble mattor, sand, etc., in
the sweepings are fifty time more
than in the horse manure, vhich
leaves 1 it little value in the s vorj...
li-.-s co:: ;:irc-J with hor. mu: 'C.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS,
PAL-SODA A KITCHEN TREASURE.
There is nothing more useful about a
kitchen than sal-soda. It will, dissolved
in a little water, remove grease from any
thing, and there is nothing like it for
cleaning aa iron sink. It is also the
very best thing for cleaning hair brushes,
which, by the by, should be cleaned
much mote frequently than they are.
Dissolve a . little sal-soda in clear warm
water and wash the bristles thoroughly,
avoiding as much as possible wetting the
back of the brush. Then rinse in clear
water and dry with the bristle side down.
The bristles of a brush washed in this
way will be as white and firm as those of
a new brush. Chicago Post.
PRACTICAL DI6H WASHING MACHIXE.
At last a satisfactory and practical
machine for washing dishes ha9 been in
vented. It is an arrangement with racks
of various sizes so that each article of
tableware has its own appropriate place
and a whole dinner outfit can be washed
at the same time. Everything fits in its
own little wire rack and the water is then
turned on and they are washed perfectly
clean without being touched, and they
don't even have to be dried for after the
washing is all over a crank is-turned,
they are rinsed with boiling hot water,
the lid of the machine is left open and
they are dried by steam and left perfectly
.smooth and shining. Silver and knives
and forks of course have to be dried.
The dishes can be left in the box until
they are needed again for the table so the
endless handling by which sc many
things are chipped, is avoided. Isn't
this a blessing? American uairyman.
FCRNISHIG A ROOM WITH BARRELS..
"Do you know you can really furnish
a room with a few barrels?" said an en
ergetic lady, who had lived on the fron
tier for many years. "When I lived in
a shanty in , at the time my hus
band was opening the new railroad, I
made nearly every bit of my furniture
myself. Borne day I may teU jou more
About my various contrivances. : The
barrel and its uses is a sufficiently pro
lific theme. Why, there are no end of
things they can be used for," she con
tinued, waxing enthusiastic. "Cut-in
tmn nd nronerlv fastened, thev serve
...w, i r a -
aswashtubs or bathtubs; turn them over
and upholster them, and you have beau,
tiful French puff divans for your parlor,
and every one knows the. comfortable
barrel armchairs that they make. Take
out the staves and string them on ropes,
and you make for yourself a delightful
hammock. Bore holes at each end of
three or four and pass a rope through,
knotting it to keep the staves about a
foot apart, and you have a perfectly
good lot of bookshelves, which you can
either vatnish or paiut." Now York
Tribune."
PRAISES FOR THE HUMBLE OJUOJST.
Onions are invaluable for soups. They
are blood purifiers. A liberal use of
them is recommended as a cure for
boils, and they tend, to make tbe com
plexion clear and the face free from
pimples. The children of those nation
alities who eat of them most largely,
noticeably escape that bane of child
hood, worms. Their use is beneficial to
the digestive organs, they are excellent
in certain diseases, are of benefit in liver
complaints, and their powers for
good in lung troubles U well known.
They are the best cute for insomnia.
A favorite remedy for a cough is a
sirup made by alternating slices of raw
onion with white sugar. Cut a large
onion, horizontally, into thin slices, put
one in a dish, sprinkle sugar over it, then
add another slice of onion, building it
up thus by layers until all are used.
Cover the dish. About once in three
hours a teaspoonful of sirup will have
formed, which should be takeu at inter
vals of about this length throughout the
day.
Hot poultices, made of onions, and
mixed with goose oil, have been used
advantageously in croup. Roasted onions
are sometimes bound to the feet and
placed upon the chests of little ones suf
fprirn from the effects of a cold. Placed
raw upon a cloth, then beaten to a pulp,
bandaging with this the throat and well
up over the ears, they have given relief
in cases of diphtheria. Gook House
keeping. PRECIPES.
Egg Bread To two eggs, well beaten,
add one teaspoon sugar, one tablespoon
lard, one-half teaspoon salt, one pint corn
meal, in which has been thoroughly
mixed one heaping teaspoon baking
powder. Mix to a thick batter with
sweet milk.and pour in well-greased pan
to bake.
Mayonnaise One egg.two tablespoons
sugar, one teaspoon butter, one-half cup
vinegar, one-half teaspoon salt, one tea
spoon mustard. Mix other ingredients
and pour on beaten egg. Simmer all to
gether ten minutes, stirring constantly.
This is a nice dressing for any kind of
meat, and will keep for two weeks.
Sour Milk Corn Cake One cup flour,
one-half cup corn meal, one-half tea
spoon salt, one-half teaspoon soda, one
third cup sugar, two eggs, one tabiepoon
butter melted, one cup sour milk. Mix
the flour, meal, salt, soda (sifted) and
sugar; add sour milk, eggs beaten well
and butter. Bake in shallow : cake-pan
and cut i a squares
Potato Biscuit One cup each butter,
6!q;w, rr.ilk, hot mashed potatoes and
t:-Q cj 'M a'.togetV-v witU
enough flour to make a batter ; let this
rise; then add as much flour as you can
stir with a sooon. "rise acain; roll out
one-half inch thick, cnt in small round..
cakes, place one. on top of the other, or. ;
rather put two together.
Baked Omelet Six eercs.one teaspoon
corn-starch, one-half teaspoon salt, one
cup eweet milk, one teaspoon Dutiei ,
beat yolks with-corn-stareh, add salt,
butter and milk, and lastly, the whites,;
beaten separately. Have . frying-pan ,
(thisis best) hot and well greased, pour;
into it and set in oven. It will bake in a
few minutes, and should be slipped on a
hot plate and served immediately.
Easter Broth To one quart sweet
milk and one tablespoon, butter, at the
boiling point, add one tablespoon flour,
mixed thorouchlv in a little cold milk; ,
pour into the niilkl adding salt and pep
per and stir constantly tin smoom auu
thickened. Pour this over a broad dish.
of brown buttered toast, covered with
slices of hard-boiled eggs. Sprinkle a
few sprips of parsley and servo hot.
Tho Tramp's Food-nantlog Ingenuity.
Much ingenuity and knowledge of
human nature are often displayed by the ;
tramp in his efforts to obtain food. I
presume .all railway surgeons in the
smaller towns and cities have experiences
similar to my own, I occasionally see .
some of the class who seeks my services
gratis, ostensibly for illness, but ap
parently, to me at least, for the purpose
of mentioning, at an appropriate time, ,
that he thinks his trouble is almost
wholly due to the fact that he has had
no food for two, three, or more days, ac
cording to circumstances. If ho has any.
illness worthy the name, the ruse, suc
ceeds; for I cannot send a sick nan away
hungry, if I an being5 mildly imposed
upon. . As I stepped out of the door one
morning last winter, a man clothed
about as are the men who work upon
the track of the railways accosted me
with a cordial "Good-morning, doctor."
These section men,beiag very numerous,
furnish a large proportion or the cases of '
illness among railway employes, and
hence are seen constantly by the com
pany surgeons. Supposing him to be"
one of these men who knew me, but
whom I failed to recognize, I responded
with a "What can I do for you?" sort of .
an air. when the tramn. for such he was.
produced a tomato can from Dehma nis
back, and asked, with a smile, "li i
couldn't get him a little collee. l
ttnitiitntwri at nnee. for I do not believe
such talent Bhould go uore warded," and
took him arouna to the mtcnen to oo-
tain his refreshment. . ', . : . ,
fh main thine nflf.-
AtbUVUgu - B , ,
9rv to the tramo' welfare, he oc
casionally asks for some cast-off cloth
ing. As the weather tecomes coiaer
is noticeable that these vagrants work
off to the South. Hunger and thirst are
more easily provided against than cold,
and so they move away from the north
erly States. And yet there must be a vast
amount of suffering among them from
this cause. "
At times they want things not or
dinarily in the line of articles desired by
Ana aclrnrl mo nnn dnv fir R
a tmuip. - j -
blacking-brush and some blacking, and
another for a hat diff ereat from the one
he wore, for the weather had grown
warmer, and that one was rather out of
style. The hotels and boarding-houses,
where considerable help is employedre
great sources of food and raiment to tma
tramp,many a goo J meal being obtained
for splitting a4 little wood for some kitchen-boy
as lazy as he is dishonest, or
for similar service for which the env
ployes are paid. Harper's Weekly.
Clever Horses and Cattle,
That horses and cattle can communi
cate intelligence to each other, and are
endowed with a certain amount of rea.
soning faculty, the following" facts aro
pretty conclusive proof: I once pur
chased a station on which a large .num
ber of cattle and horses had gone wild.
To get cattle in, I fenced the permanent
water (a distance of twenty miles) leav
ing traps at intervals. At first this an.
swered all right, but soon the cattle be
came exceedingly cautious about enter
ino- the tram, waitinc outside for two or
three mVhts before coiner in. and if thev
could smell a man or his tracks, not go
ing in all. At last tney aaopiea a pian
which beat me. A mob would come ta
the trap-gate, and one would go in and
drink and come out; and then another
would do the same, and bo on till all
had watered. They had evidently ar
rived at the conclusion that I would not
catch one and frighten all tho others
away.
To get in wild horses, 600 of which
were running on a large plain (about
20-t000 acres), I erected a large stock
yard, with a gradually widening lane, in
a hollow where it could not easily btf
seen, and by stationing horsemen at in
tervals on the plain, galloped the wild
horses in. My first hunt (which lasted
gome days) was successful, the wild
horses heading toward the mouth of tho
lane without much difficulty, but, of
course, some escaped by charging back,
at the stock-yard gate and in other
ways. My second hunt, about a montU
later, was a failure; every mob of horses
on the plain seemed to know where ths
yard was and would not turn that way
This seemed . to show that the hordes
that esearjed from, the first hunt told all
j the others where the stockyard was.
London (England) Spectator.
The Russian navy of the prefif1: . ilia
consists of 192 vessels, of which il-rt-six
arc f.;t Cli:f -1 ;I .' ' " "