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i;kv. dr. talmage THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Text. ' Forasmuch as thou knowest how v e are to encamp in the wilderness.”—Num. s., 31. Night after night we have slept in tent in Palestine. There are large villages of Bedou ins without a house, and for three thousand vears the people of those places have lived in black tents, made out of dyed skins, and •when the winds and storms wore out and tore loose those coverings others of the same kind took their places. Noah lived in a tent; Abraham in a tent. •Jacob pitehed his tent on the mountain. Isaac pitched his tent in the valley. Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom. In a tent the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the general, to the ground, first having given him sour milk called “lebeu” as a soporific to make him sleep soundly, that being the effect of such nutrition, as modern travelers can testify. The Syrian army in a tent. The ancient battle shout was “To your tents, O Israel!’ , Paul was a tent maker. Indeed,Isaiah,mag nificently poetic, indicates that all the human race live under a blue tent when he says God “stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in,’’and Hezekiah compares death to the striking of a tent, saying, “My age is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent.” In our tent in Palestine to-night I hear something I never heard before ancj hope never to hear again. It is the voice of a hyena amid the rocks near by. When you may have seen this monster putting his month between the iron bars of a menagerie he is a captive, and he gives a humiliated and suppressed cry. But yonder in the mid night on a throne of rocks he has nothing to fear, and he utters himself in a loud, re sounding, terriffiCi almost supernatural scuud, splitting up the darkness into a deeper midnight. It begins with a howl and cods with a sound something like a horse’s whining. In the hyena’s voice are defiance and strength and bloodthirstiness and crunch of broken bones and death. 1 am glad to say that for the most part Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The leopards, which Jeremiah says cannot change their spots, have all disappeared, and the lions that once were common all through this land, and used by all the prophets for illustrations of cruelty and wrath, have re treated before the discharges of gunpowder, of which they have an indescribable fear. Buc for the most part Palestine is what it origi nally was. With the one exception of a wire thread reaching from Joppa to Jeru salem and from Jerusalem to Nazareth and from Nazareth to Tiberias and from Ti berias to Damascns, that one nerve of civili zation, the telegraphic wire (for we found rmrselves only a few minutes off from Brook- 'yn and New York while standing by Lake Galilee), with that one exception Palestine is just as it always was. Nothing surprised me so much as the per sistence of everything. A sheep or horse falls dead, and though the sky may one min ute before be clear of all wings in five min utes after the skies are black with eagles cawing, screaming, plunging, fighting for room, contending for largest morsels of the extinct quadruped. Ah, now I understand the force of Onrist’s illustration when He said “Wheresoever the carcass is there will the eagles be gathered together.” The long evity of those eagles is wonderful. They live fifty and sixty and sometimes a hundred years. Ah, that explains what David meant when he said: “Tfty youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” 1 saw a shepherd with the folds of bis coat far bent outward, and I wondered what was contained in that amplitude of ap- uarel, and I said to the dragoman: “What has that shepherd got under his coat?” And the dragoman t?aid: *Tt is a very young lamb he is carrying; it is too young and too weak aqd too cold to keep up with the flock.” At that moment I saw the lamb put its head out from the shepherd’s bosom and 1 sai®:'“There it is now.^ Isaiah's description of the tender ness of God—he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom.” Passing by a village home, in the Holy Land, about noon I saw a great crowd in and around a private house, and I said to the dragoman: “David, what is going on there?” He said: “Somebody has recently died there, and their neighbors go in for several days after to sit down and weep with the be reaved.'' There it is, I said, the old scrip tural custom, “And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them con cerning their brother.” Early in the morn • ing passing by a cemetery in the Holy Land I saw among the graves about fifty women dressed in black,and they were crying 1 “Oh, my child!” “Ob, my husband. “Ob, my father!*’ “Ob, my mother!” Our dragoman told us that every morning, very early for three mornings alter a burial, the women go to the sepulcher, and after that every week very early for a year. As I saw this group just after daybreak I saief: “There it is again, the* same old custom referred to in Luke, the evangelist, where he says, ‘Certain women which were early in the sepulcher.’’’ Rut here we found ourselves at Jacob’s w ell, the most famous well in history, most distinguished for two things, because it be longed to the old patriarch after whom it was named, and for the wonderful things which Christ said, seated cn this well curb, to the Samaritan woman. We dismount II om our horses in a drizzling rain, and our dragoman, climbing up to the well over the slippery stones, stumbles and fright- ms us all by nearly falling into it. I meas ured the w'ell at the top and found it six feet 1 rom edge to edge. Some grass and weed* rna thorny growths overhang It. In one } lace the roof is broken through. Large stones embank the wall on all sides. Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped them in, and from the time^ they left his hand to the instant they clicked on the bot tom you could hear it was deep, though not as deep as once, for every day travelers are applying the same test, and though in the time of Maundrell, the traveler,the well was a hundred and sixty-five feet deep, now it is only seventy-five. 8o great is the curiosity of the world to know about that well that during the dry season a Captain Anderson descended into this well, at one place the sides so close he had to put his hands over his head in order to get through, and then he fainted away and lay at the bottom of the well as though dead, until hours after reoov.i cry he came to the surface. It is not like other wells digged down lo a fountain that fills it, but a reservoir to catch ft*** falling rains, and to that Christ refers when speaking to the Samaritan woman about a spiritual supply He said He would,if asked, have given her “living water.’’ that is, water from a flowing spring in distinction from the water of the well, which was rain water. But why did Jacob make a reservoir there when there is plenty of water all around and abundance of springs and fountains and seem ingly no need of . that reservoir!' Why did Jacob go to the vast expense of boring and digging a well perhaps two hundred feet deep as first completed, when, by going a little way off, he could navt» water from other icontains at little or no expense? Ah, Jacob w as wise. He wanted his own well. Quarrels and wars might arise with other tribe-! and the supply of water might be cut off, so the shovels and pickaxes and boring instruments were ordered, and the well of nearly four thousand years ago was sunk through the solid rock. When Jacob thus wisely insisted on having hisown well he taught us not to be unneces sarily dependent on others. Independence cf business character, independence of moral (haracter, independence of leligious char acter. Have your own well of grace, your • wn w ell of courage, your own well of divine supply. If you are an invalid you have a l ight to be dependent on others. But if God has given you good health, common sense and two eyes and two ears and .two hands and two feet, He equipped for independ ence of all the universe except Himself. If He had meant you to be dependent on others you would have been built with a cord around your waist to tie fast to somebod* • s T’ y° u are 1,11111 with common sense • fashion your own opinions, with eyes to find your own way, with ears to select your own music, with hands to fight your own rattles. There is only one being in the uni verse whose ad vice you need and that is God. Have your own well and the Lord will fill it. Dig it if need be through two hundred feet of solid rock. Dig it with your pen, or dig it w ith your yard stick, or dig it with your shovel, or dig it witftvour Bible. fn my small way I never accomplished anything for God or the church,or the world, « r my family, or myself, except in contradic tion to human advicre and in obedience to «.ivine counsel. God knows everything, and what is the use of going for advice to human » eings who know so little that no one but the »11 seeing God can realise how little it is? I m >pose that when Jacob began to dig this well on which we are sitting this noontide peonle gathered around and said, “What a us dess expefnse you are going to, when roll ing down from yonder Mount Gerizim and •town from yonder Mount Ebal and oul yonder in the valley is plenty of water!” Dh,’ replied Jacob, “that is all true, but NUpfiosemy neighbors should get angered against me and cut off my supply of mount ain beverage, what would I do, and what would my family do, and what would my rocks and herds do? Forward, ye brigade of pickaxes and crowbars, and go down into the depths of these rocks and make me independ ent of all except Him who fills the bottles of ••» * cloudsl I must have my own well!” "ung man, drop cigars and cigarettes an t wine cups and the Hunday excursions and build your own house, and have your own wardrobe,and be your own capitalist! “Wby, I have only five hundred dollars in come a year!” says some one. Then spend four hundred dollars of it in living, and ten C r cent, of it, or fifty dollars, in benevo- ice, and the other fifty in beginning to dig your own well. Or if you have a thou sand dollars a year spend eight hundred dollars of it in living, ten per cent., or one hundred dollars, in benevolence, and the re maining one hundred in beginning to dig your own well. The largest bird that ever flew through the air was hatched out of one egg, and the greatest estate was brooded out of one dollar. I suppose when Jacob began to dig this well, on whose curb we are now seated this December noon,it was a dry season then as now, and some one comes up and says: “Now Jacob, suppose you get the well fifty feet deep or two hundred feet deep and there should be no water to fill it, would you not feel silly?” People passing along the road and looking down from Mount Gerizim or Mount Ebal near by would laugh and say: “That is Jacob’s well, a great nole in the rock, illustrating the man’s folly.” Jacob replied: “There never has been a well in Palestine or any other country that once thoroughly dug was not sooner or later filled from the clouds, and this will be no excep tion.” For months after Jacob had completed the well people went by, and out of respect for the deluded old man put their hand over their mouth to hide a snicker, and the well remained as dry as the bottom of a kettle that had been hanging over the fire for three hours. But one day the sun was drawing water, and the wind got round to the east and it began to drizzle, and then great drops splashed all over the well curb, and the heavens opened their reservoir and the rainy season poured its floods for six weeks, and there came maidens to tho well with empty pails and carried them away full, and the camels thrust their mouths into the troughs and were satisfied, and tiie water was in the well three feet deep, and fifty feet deep, and two hundred feet deep, and all the Bedouins of the neighborhood and all the passersby realized that Jacob was wise in having his own well. My hearer, it is your part to dig your own well, and it is God’s part to fill it. You do your part and He will do His part. Much is said about “good luck,” but peo ple who are industrious and &I' denying al most always have good luck. You can af ford to be laughed at because of your appli cation and economy, for when you get your well dug and filled it will be your turn to ; laugh. But look up from this famous well and ' see two mountains and the plain between them, on which was gathered the largest ! religious audience that ever assembled on earth, about five hundred thousand people. Mount Gerizim, about eight hundred toot high, on one side, and on the other Mount Ebal, the former called the Mount of Bless ing and the latter called the Mount of Cursing. At Joshua’s command six tribes stood on Mount Gerizim and read the blessings for keening the law, and six tribes stood on Mount Ebal readme the curses iur oreaKing tne law', while tho five hundred thousand people on the plain cried Amen with an emphasis that must have made the earth tremble. “I do not believe that,” says some one, “for those mountain tops are two miles apart, and how could a voice be heard from top to top?” My answer is that while the tops are two miles apart, th » bases of the mountains are only half a mile apart, and the tribes stood on the sides of the mountains, and the air is so clear and the acoustic qualities of this great natural amphitheatre so perfect that voices can bo distinctly heard from mountain to mount ain, as has been demonstrated by travelers fifty times in the last fifty years. Can you imagine anything more thrilling ami sublime and overwhelming than what transpired on those two mountain sides, and in the plain between, when the responsive service went on and thousands of voices on Mount Gerizim cried, “Blessed shalt thou be In the city, and blessed shalt thou bo in the fields, blessed shall be thy basket and thy store,” and then from Mount Ebal, thousands of voices responded, crying: “Cursed be he that removetli his neighbor’s landmark! Cursed be he that rnaketh the blind to wan der out of the way,” and then there rolled up from all the spaces between the mountains that one word with which the devout of earth close their prayers and the glorified of heaven finish their doxologies, “Amen! Ahien!”— that scene only to be surpassed by the times which are coming, when the churches and the academies of music and the audi toriums of earth, no longer large enough to hold the worshipers of God; the parks, the mountain sides, the great natural amphithe atres of the valleys, shall be filled with the outpouring populations of the earth and mountain shall reply to mountain, as Mount Gerizim to Mount Ebal, and all the people between shall ascribe riches and honor and glory and dominion and victory to God the Lamb, and there.ehail arise an amen like the booming of the heavens mingling with the thunder of the seas. On and on we ride, until now we have come to Bhiloh, a deafl city on a hill sur rounded by rocks, sheep, goats, olive gardens an 1 vineyards. Here good Eli fell backward and broke his neck, and lay dead at the news from his bad boys, Phineas and Hophni, and life is not wori»u living after one’s children have turned out badly, and more fortunate was Eli, instantly expiring under such tid ings, than those parents who, their children recreant and profligate, live on with broken hearts to see them going down into deeper and deeper plunge. There are fathers and mothers here to-day to whom death would be happy release because of their recreant sons. And if there be recreant sons here present, and your parents be far away, why not bow your head in repentance, and at the close of this service goto the telegraph office and put it on the wing of the lightningthat you have turned from your evil ways? Before another twenty-four nours have pasted take your feet off the sad hearts of ..the old homestead. Home to thy God, O prodigal! Many, many letters do I get in purport say ing: My son is in your cities; we have not heard from him for some time; wo fear some- ;ood )OUt him; he is a child of many prayers. But how can f hunt him up unless he lie in this audi ence? Where are you, my boy? On the main floor, or on this platform, or in these boxes, or in these great galleries? Where are you? Lift your right hand. I have a message t rom home. Your father is anxious about you: your mother is prayiug for you. Your God is calling for you. Or will you w ait until Eli fallc Vtanlr lifnlooo or»rl flio t.oo*«+ onroinut wUir.U yim i»y iu mutney cearms io oeatr »v nnc » .tory to tell iu eternity that you killed her? Mv God I Avert that cat^trouhe! nut 1 turn from this Shiloh of Eli's sud den decease under bad news from his boys and find close by what is called the “Meadow of the Feast."' While this ancient city was in the height of its prosperity on this “Mea dow of the Feast ’ there was an annual ball where the maidens of the city amid dapping cymbals and a blare of trumpets danced in glee, upon which thousands of spectators gazed. But no dance since the world stood ever broke up in such a strange way as the one the Bible describes. One night while by the light of the lamps and torches these gay ieties went on, two hundred Benjamites, who had lieen bidden behind the rocks and among the trees, dashed upon the scone. They came not to injure or destroy, but wishing to set up household of their own, the women of their own land having been slain in liattle, by preconcerted arrangemeift each one of the two hundred Benjamites seized the one whom he chose for the queen of his home and carried her away to large estate and beautiful residence, for these two hundred Benjamites had inherited the wealtli of a nation. As to-day near Shiloh we look at tho Meadow of the Feast,” where the maidens danced that night, and at the mountain gorge up which the Benjamites carried their brides, we bethink ourselves of the better land and the better times in which we live, when such scenes are an impossibility, and amid orderly groups and with prayer and benediction, ^nd breath of orange blossoms, and the roll.fif the wedding march, marriage u solemnized and with oath recorded in heaven, two immortals start arm in arm on a journey to last until death do them part. Upon every such marriage altar may there come the blessing of Him “who setteth the solitary m families!” Side by side on the g ath of life! Side by side in their graves! ide by" side in heaven! "But we must this afternoon, our last day before reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent on the most famous battlefield of all time- the w Nazareth? Not a flower blooms there but has in it* veins the inherited blood of flowers that drank the blood of fallen armies. Hardly a foot of ground that has not at some time been gul lied with war chariots or trampled with the hoofs of cavalry. It i« a plain reaching from the Mediter ranean to the Jordan. Upon it look down the nxmnteina of Tabor and Gilboa and Car mel. Through its rages at certain seasons the river Kuhon, which swept down the armies of Kisera, the battle occurring in No* veipher when there is almost always a shower of meteoiwso that the "stars in their courses" were said to have fought against Sisera. Through this plain drove Jehu, and the iron chariots of the Canaanites, scythed at the hulls of the wheels, hewing down their awful swathes of death, thousands in a minute. The Syrian armies, the Turkieh armies, the Egyptian armies again and again trampled it. 1 here they career across it. David and Joshua and Godfrey and Richard Cceur de Dion and Baldwin and Saladin—a plain not only famous for the past, but famous because tho Bible says the groat decisive battle of the world will he fought there-the battle of Ar mageddon. i o me the plain wae the more absorbing IwcauM of the dssperate battles here and iu thing is wrong; hunt him up and say a g< word to him ;his mother is almost crazy air regions round in which the holy cross—the very two pieces of wood on which Jesus was supposed to hare been crucified—was carried as a standard at the head of the Christian host, and that night closing my eyes in my tent on the plain of Eadraelon—for there are some things we can see bettor with eyes shut than open—the scenes of that ancient war come before me. The twelfth century was closing and Saladin at the head of eighty thousand mounted troops was crying: “Ho! for Jerusalem!” “Ho! for all Palestine! ’and before them everything went down, but not without unparalleled resistance. In one place one hundred and thirty Christians were surrounded by many thousands of furi ous Mohammedans. For one whole day the one hundred and thirty held out against these thousands. Tennyson’s “six hundred,’’ when “some one had blundered,” were eclipsed by these one hundred and thirty fighting for the holy cross They took hold of the lances which had pierced them with death wounds, and pulling them out of their own breasts and sides hurled them back again at the enemy. On went the fight until all but one Chris tian had fallen and he, mounted on the last horse, wielded his battle ax right and left till his horse fell under the plunge of the jave lins, and the rider, making the sign of the cross toward the sky, gave up bis life on the f ioint of a score of spears. But soon after the ast battle came. History portrays it, poetrv chants it, painting colors it, and all ages ad mire that lust struggle to keep in possession the wooden cross on which Jesus was said to have expired. It was a battle In which min gled the fury of devils and the grandeur of angels. Thousands of dead Christians on this side. Thousands of dead Mohammedans on the other side. The battle was hot test close around tie wooden cross upheld by the bishop of Ptolemais, himself wounded and dying. And when the bishop of Ptol emais dropped dead, the bishop of Lydda seized the cross and again lifted it. carrying it onward into a wilder and fiercer fight, and sword against javelin, and battle ax upon helmet, and piercing spear against splinter ing shield. Horses ami man tumbled into heterogeneous death. Now the wooded cross on which the armies of Christians had kept their eye begins to waver, begins to descend. It falls! and the wailing of tho Christian host at its disappearance drowns tiie huzza of the victorious Moslems. But 1 hat standard of the cross only seemed to fall. It rides the sky to-day in triumph. Five hundred million souls, the mightiest army of the ages, are following it, and where that goes they will go, across the earth and up the mighty steeps of the heavens. In the twelfth century it seemed to go down, but in the nineteenth century it is tho mightiest symbol of glory and triumph, and means more than any other standard, whether in scribed witli eagle, or lion, or bear, or star, or crescent. That which Saladin trampled on the plain of Esdraelon I lift to day for your marshaling. The cross! Tiie crossl The foot of it planted in the earth it saves, tho top of it pointing to the heavens to which it will take you, and the outspread beams of it like outstretched arms of invitation to all nations. Kneel at its foot. Lift your eye to its victim. Swear eternal allegiance to its jiower. And as that mighty symbol of pain and triumph is kept before ns, we will realize how insignificant are the little crosses we are called to bear, and will more cheer fully carry them. Must .Teens bear the cross stone. Mid the world go free? No, theie’s a crosa for every one, And (here’s a cross for me. As 1 fall asleep tonight on my pillow in the lent on the plain of Esdraelon reaching from Ilia .Mediterranean to the Jordan, the waters of the river Kishon soothing me as by a lul laby, I hear the gathering of the hosts for the last battle of all the earth. And by their representatives America is here and Europe is here and Asia is here and Africa is here, and all heaven is here and all hell is here, and Apollyon on the black horse leads the armies of darkness^ and Jesus on the white horse leads the armies of light, and I hear the roll of the drums and the clear callof the clarions and the t hunder of the cannonades. And then I hear the wild rush as of million of troops in retreat, and then the shout of victory as from fourteen hundred million throats, and then a song as though all the armies of earth and heaven were Joining it, clapping cymbals, beating the time—“The kingdoms of this world are become the king doms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever ” Ihe Gold Ceil in Alaska. Alaska is a country worth look!do after sharply. The PribyloH Islands are the richest centre of seal fishing in the mure clausum that bears the name of Behring. Five hundred miles cast of tho PribyloH Islands is the Alaskan penin sula. A thousand miles cast of the Alas kan peninsula, and parted from it by a stormy and inclement ocean, lies the fertile and gold bearing region which the Canadians are annexing by survey to an unknown extent. This, in natural wealth possibly the most valuable part of Alas ka, seems a narrow strip on the map. But its landward boundary, in a bee line, is as long as from the eastern boundary of Maine to Philadelphia, and its area is greater than that of all New England. But the boundary of this little inter esting strip of land between the moun tains and. the sea is not a bee line. It is a little straighlcr than a corkscrew, hut not nearly so straight as a rainbow. Tho virgin summits of untrodden mountains are the boundary line when the ranges Uo within ten leagues of the sea and paral lel with the coast. Whenever this diffl- cult guide to tho surveyor is not at hand, an exact parallel to the tortuous windings of the coast line must be laid out. lo carry this imaginary thread tlyough an icy desert of uninhabited mountain forests and glaciers fora dis tance of at least 600 miles is the task for which it is now proposed to nppropriato $100,000. A clear title to the territory in dispute must Ire demonstrated, Canadian surveys refuted, and the right of American citi zens to work American gold mines es tablished. Truly the sum is not extrava gant.—liotlon Advert iter. TIIE FARM AND GARDEN. A Sensitive Balance. In a lecture to the British Association on his now celebrated quartz fibres, Pro fessor C. V. Boys '’xhibited the applica tion of the minute threads as suspenders for extremely delicate apparatus. The heat from a eandlc at the extreme end of the hull was sufficient to turn it mirror suspended from one of the fibres, the movement being made visible by the spot of light reflected on a screen. A musical rote even produced a deflection of the spot. What was perhaps even more wonderful was the demonstration that attraction so small as the flS-mil- lionth of a grain might be weighed, the attraction of gravity of that amount pro ducing a visible effect on a torsion bal ance made of the quartz fibre.—Trenton (N. J.) American. The band of France has consented tv supply Madrid with 800,000. pounds ra New towns are springing up In Mary land and growing like Jonah's gourd. Over 0,000,090 letters are seat to tht Dead Letter Oiliuc annuail^. ■WORN-OUT APPLE TREES. An orchard needs manuring os well as a cornfield, and the cause of the failure oi the fruit is no doubt the poverty of the soil. Small, gnarly fruit indicates starvation of the trees. The trees should be well pruned as soon as convenient and a few loads of manure ipread over the orchard. It would be useful to plow the manure in and in the ipring sow clover, which may be turned under with a dressing of lime next fall. —h'ew York Timet. HARVESTING THE APPLE CEOP. The gathering of fruit is at all times an operation requiring care and tender handling. In the case of apples, a iqueezc, or drop, hard enough to pro duce a bruise, renders them unfit for keeping purposes, on which much of their value depends. There is an additional reason for careful hand- ting tho present season, owing to the scarcity or the crop and the high priee of the fruit. In picking from the trees, baskets with smooth bottoms should be used, and the apples laid, not dropped into them. By a rough handling of the basket iu the interior of a tree or care less movements of the ladder around its outside, a careless picker cm easily cause more loss in au hour than his wages for the entire day would be worth. The same man or the same ones, where more than one is required, should always re ceive the baskets and do the packing. Place the first two rows stem end down against the head to be taken out when the barrel is opened for sale or use. Uniformity in size should be observed as closely as possible. It is always best to make two qualities when barreling, and the present season, when even very in ferior apples will sell, the latter, if packed at all, should make a third class. Leaves and twigs ought to bo carefully ex cluded and the apples should be pressed in, so there will bo no shaking when moving tho barrels around after these are filled and hen led up.—New York World. GETTING RID OF QUACK GRASS. Quack grass, or witch grass, is some thing not easily gotten r d of. It may well seem a waste of labor to plow and cultivate this weed, for the more this is done intermittently the more it spreads. Every root will grow and make a new plant in the course of a few years after it has been nearly eradicated, being as bad as ever. Yet continuous culture during a single growing season will entirely de stroy it. The cultivation must be often enough so that not a single spear of the grass reaches the surface. Where quack grass has grown unmolested several years it is a good plan to plow the piece just deep euough to throw to the surface the network of main roots which are found exactly on the hard pan left by the keel of the plow in previous years. It is often possible in this way, by careful plowing, to throw most of the main roots on the surface, where during the winter they will freeze and dry so that they can be raked up in winrows and burned. Con tinuous cultivation with some hoed crop will do the business in one season, though to make sure that none escapes it is bet ter to plant in hoed crops the second year. Great care is needed to prevent this plant spreading from ouc lot all over tho farm. It spreads by its roots, which sometimes penetrate potatoes, and are thus planted by careless farmers. Its seed usually ripen in August, though we have seen it ripened in July enough to grow. Quack fields should not, there fore, be sown with oats, as both ripen at the same time.—Courier-Journal. The Oldest Vessel AjAoat. The oldest sailing vessel afloat! What must she look like and what is her history? She is 110 years old, built in Baltimore in 1780. Her name is the Vigilant. She has since then been a coast er,, a peaceful common carrier of merchan dise, a slaver and a pirate, and now to-day she does good service as mail carrier be tween St. Thomas and Santa Cruz in the West India Islands. Her owner, Mr. 8. Penthany, of Santa Cruz, was in Bangot Sunday and displayed a picture of the ol(j craft which was taken last summer as the vessel was roundingn coral reef under full sail. The picture is a good one and the lines ol the cruft are well brought nut. How much of the original craft is there now?” asked the reporter. “The keelson and main tributors ol the hull which are laid In the construction of her are still there,” said Mr. Penthany, “and they are good for many years to come.” What a story would the history of this craft make!—Banjor (life.) News. IT IS A MISTAKE. To try to save axle grease by letting the wagon go unoiled. To save clover by keeping the hogs in pens. To save blacksmith bills by letting the plow go unsharpened. To use a plow that compels one to wait till the land is neither too wet nor too dry, too hard or too soft, before.plowing in order to save the cost of a first-class plow. To let tho stock eat the pasture too close to save the labor of cutting up a few acres of corn fodder. To cut down the milk of the cows to save the cost of a ton of bran. To raise a small, cheap horse in order to save $5 or $10 in stallion fees. To keep a cow that produces only enough butter to pay for her feed to save the money that a profitable cow would cost. To make ten cent butter in order to save the cost of good dairy utensils. To sell all the hogs because the prices are low. To put an ill-fitting harness on a horse expecting he will do as well with it as with a well-fitting one. To crowd the work horses to their ut most every day and drive them for pleas ure Sunday. To use cheap hreediu" 'took when bet ter can be had. To keep an animal of auy kind that costs more than it brings in. To shrink tho milk of the cows $10 a month by letting a boy run them from the pasture in order to save $2 worth of a hired man’s time. To keep hogs in filthy pens when there are good pastures at hand where they will do better at less expense. To expect boys to enjoy farm life if they are made to work every day and all day without recreation and no means of enjoyment in reach.— Wettern Plowman. WHT BUTTER DOES NOT REEF. J. T. Fowler, Wayne County, N. Y., desires advice how to prevent butter from fading and losing its quality, but as we are not informed how the milk was set, the cream cared for, how long the cream remains unchurned, etc., our answer can not be very definite. It cannot be the feed, as butter color is used; so the fading must be looked after elsewhere. It the butter is packed in small crocks, the glazing of the butter may have been imperfect and the porous material of the crock absorbed the finer oils of the butter, and color along with it, and so bleach out a circle of butter next to the crock. That the butter gets “salvcy” would indicate that the tem- jierature of the cellar was subjected to ureat extremes, hot and cool, alterna- ling. This would cause a chemical change to go on in the elements not butter, and Hie heat would tend to fuse or rather causo the butter to lose its globular form or granulation. By some “chance” the -alt may be charged with too much lime, •md so act upon the butter as to cause it to lose color. From the fact that tho butter is ell ri'rht when made, end becomes unsalable only after being “made two and three months,” raises the inquiry, why this butter was not sold as fast at made. In the long run, the butter maker who holds butter for two or three months for a rise, pays fifty per cent, interest on the ven- ture. The market and tiie consumer do not want butter that is “old,” or has been held for a rise. The butter that brings highest price is that freshest made. The good butter made yesterday nlwaya sells highest and is first inquired for. Holding butter only clogs tho market when it does flud ita way to tho city, and its depresdug influence injures all alike from maker to consumer. The most successful butter makers are those who sell their butter as fast as made, and try to make the bulk of their butter be tween October and June. Whatever the cause-of the trouble may be, wo would auggest'tbat when the milk is put into the pans or cans to add . to each four quarts of milk one quart of water at 125 degrees, and'if possible set these cans in a tank of cold well water. Temper the cream evenly, ( and churn at the first sign of acidity. As soon as the cream breaks up into distinctive globules add two gallons of water.and a half tea cup full of salt to the chum before trying to remove the buttermilk. This will give a perfect separation of buttermilk and butter. Wash twice mere with clear water. Salt this wet butter with one and one-fourth ouuccs of salttto the pound and churn it in. Let it stand an hour and work over lightly.yand pack into well-glazed crocks. .CoVer well with a cloth and a paste of wet salt; set in a cool, dark place whoro tho temperature is as near statiouary as- possible, and sell this butter every week, and if the cows are well fed andshave wheat shorts and a little corn-meal.it is not likely that the butter will fade-or get salvcy.—American Ayriculturiat. ■ FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The income from sheep is always sure, at least. Now is the time to weed your flock, if you have not done it before. Overcrowding is a fertile cause of the breeder's worst enemy—roup. Choose, if possible, for a poultry ranch a olope to the south or southeast. There is nothing better for your tur keys than curds squeezed dry and crum bled. Unless care is taken, hogs will begin to fiul now, unless extra feed is sup plied. Cool, sweet water is one of tho most important factors in the health of the flock. In managing the teams it is best not to use unnecessary words in giving com mands. If you have not feed sufficient to keep the pigs growing, some of them should be sold. Do you believe the health of a horse largely depends upon the cleanliness of his skin? A dairy school in every State would revolutionize tho dairy and creamery business. Better throw the grain feed among straw or leaves and make tho fowls scratch for their living. A small lump of pine t«r in the drink ing water supplied to the fowls will be found beneficial. In purchasing a horse, always reject one that is not a good walker. It is'an important quality. Tho failure to make sheep pay can, to a considerable extent, be traced to'failure to give proper care. Destroy old blackberry and raspberry canes as fast as they become useless, and thus destroy iusects. Two full crops—one of weeds and one of grain or roots—cannot grow on the same soil at tho same time. Bet out groves of sugar maple as wind breaks. In a few years you will have ‘both a windbreak and a sugar orchard. This is the month you will have to de termine what birds you will exhibit at the coming shows. Slake your entries on time. In many cases it will pay to purchase and feed bran, sbipstuff and oil meal to the growiug pigs. It will be better and cheaper than corn. Sugar beets are counted worth ten dol lars per ton for feeding, and they are as easily grown as corn or potatoes. They will keep as well as mangolds. Blemishes, as well as dis rases, aro often transmitted to offspring, and for this reason it is very important to have the sire, at least, as perfect as possible. In these days tho fascination of a “pure bred” is not strong enough to loosen the purse strings of a business man unless you show that great profit may be bad. Raising plug horses for market rarely pays. They cost as much to raise as the better class and sell for much less. Re member this this fall when engaging a horse for service. It is when prices are low and the margin of profits is small, that it is im portant to keep a close account with each class of stock in order to determine which is the most profitable. The idea of diluting milk, set foy cream, with fifty to sixty per cent, of water is fast gaining headway in the practice of go ahead dairymen. Try it and see how it works in your case. When your heifers come in, weigh and test their milk for a whole year, so that yoq can tell without any guess work which produce the most, and when you have any to sell, always let the poorest 6°* Neglected Mild Rico. When Columbus discovered America the two most valuable and important cereals known to the Indians were corn and wild rice. Corn has been contin- ua’ly cultivated and greatly improved three or four centuries, but our rice lias been sj generally neglected that few persons seem to know that such a grain exists, growing along the banks of thousands of streams, cov ering millions of acres, in swamps, bays and salt-water and fresh-water meadows, the food of myriads of wild ducks’ geese anil other graminivorons birds. The aborigines of North America knew the value of anti highly appreciated this grain, gathered it when ripe, and stored it in vast quantities for winter. As this species of rice, like its near relatives, the cultivated varieties, thrives best in low ami submerged lands, the Indians could readily hardest the crop while paddling, or pushing their canoes through the dense thickets of this grain-bearing grass, by merely bending the heads ove'r their frail vessels, ami either shaking or beating out the seeds. Many earlv voy agers and settlers in this country were highly pleased with this wild rice, and boaiC of our earlier botanists gave rather extravagant accounts of its value. Elliott, in his Botany of South Caro lina and Georgia, says that “this grass grows in great abundance near the mouths of our fresh water rivers. It constitutes a considerable portion of the fresh-water marshes, preferring those situations where the soil is overflowed one to two feet deep at high water.” He adds that the leaves are. succulent ami eaten with avidity by stock, but it does not appear to have been found of much importance for forage. There are really two species of this wild rice, one with a round grain, the other oblong; the latter is most common, and extends much the farthest northward, in fact its original home appears to be around the great lakes of the Northwest, from whence it may have been disscminateil by the prehistoric races of America or by the many streams flowing from these re gions. Kecdmcn do not usually have a call for the seed, but a visit to almost any tide-water bay or marsh ou the east shore of Pennsylvania or New Jersey duriug November would afford oppor tunity of gathering an almost unlimited quantity.—New York Tribune, A DOCTOR’S CONFESSION. during native He Dnesn’t Take Mneb Medicine ana ad vises tbe Reporter Not Tn. “Humbug? Of course it Is. Thesmoalled science of medicine is a humbug ami has been from the time of Hippocrates to the present. Why the biggest crank in the In- ainn tribes is the medicine man.” “Very frank was the admission, especially so when it came from one of the biggest young physicians of the city, one whose practice is among t he thousands, though he has been graduated but a few years,’’ says the Buffalo Courier. “Very cozy was his of fice too, witli its cheerful grate fire, its Q'-een Anne furniture, an t its many lounges and easy chairs. He stirred the tiro lazily, lighted a fresh cigar, and went on.” “Take tiie prescriptions laid down in the books and what do you find? Poisons mainly, and nauseating stuffs that would make a bualthy man an invalid. Why iu tiie world science should go to oobons for its remedies lean not toll, nor cun I flud any one who can.” “How does a doctor know the effect of his medicine?” ho asked. “Ha calls, prescribes, nnd goes away. The only way Jo judge would be to stand over the bed and viuteh the pa tient. This cannot ha dona. So really I don’t know how he is to tail what good or hurt he does. Sometime ago, you remem ber, the Boston Olobe sent out a reporter with a stated set of symptoms. He went to eleven prominent physicians and brought back eleven different prescriptions. 1 his just shows how much science there is iu medicine.” There are local diseases of various charac ters for which nature provides positive reme dies. They may not Iro included iu tho regu lar physician's list, perhaps, because of their simplicity, but the evi lence of their cura tive power is beyond dispute. Kidney dis ease is cured by Warner's Safe Cure, a strict ly herbal remedy. Thousands of persons, every year, write as does H. J Gardiner, of Pontiac, R. I., August 7, 1890: “A few years ago I sufferol more than probably ever will he known outside of my self, with kidney nnd liver complaint. It is the old story—I visited doctor after doctor, but to no avail. I was at Newport, and Dr. Blackman recommended Warner’s Safe Cure. I commence-1 tho use of it, and found relie. immediately. Altogether I took three tiot- ties, and I truthfully state that it cured ma.” Tho Muskrat’s House. Tho muskrat builds ita house so that while it has a couple of stories high and dry on the ground, the entrance to it is always under wator. This entrance is a a long tunnel running from a point a foot or raoto beneath tho water at low tide line to tho ground floor of tho house which is always flooded. The muskrat’s reason for having this subtcrraucan en trance to his dwelling-place is that there by he has an exit or au entrance in time of danger that will not betray him to his enemies, cither in his flight from home or in seeking refuge within its walls. But his instinct docs not warn him against tho trap his most cunning and persistent enemy places at his hidden entrance to his house, changing it from a way to safety into an avenue to certain death. This trap is a wooden box, threo feet long and six inches in width and dejth. In each end is a wire door, hung on hinges at the top. These doors rise at the slightest push on the outside, but will not open from the inside. The trap is sunk in the water to the mouth of the muskrat's tunnel and anchored there,and whether the muskrat is going out of his house or returning to it, he is sure to go into the trap. If he had time, the captive rodent could gnaw his way out of the box, but before ho can free hia- self he will drown. A whole family of muskrats may be taken in a single night n otic of these traps.— Courier JounuiL Japanese Vegetable Paper. This paper is manufactured largely in Japan from the bast fibres of a shrub which grows wildly over the middle and southern parts of the country. The bast paper—used in the home country for a great number of purposes, such ns ban dages, etc.—possesses au astonishing tenacity and flexibility, combining the softness of silk paper with the cohesion of a woven fabric; it is so thin that tho ttnest writing can be read through it, yet it ia torn oniy with great difficulty. Commercially the paper is known in Japan as usego; as put upon the market it has a uniform yellowish-white color and a silky lustre.—New York Journal. A Novelty in Bookbinding. A novcltj in bookbinding is announced in the employment in it of metal as a substitute for cardboard. A special preparation is first necessary, nnd tbo leather may be bent and straightened again without perceptible damage, a course of treatment that would destroy cardboard covers. The metal is covered with any material that taste may dictate, nnd the finished book shows no differ* onto in appearance, excepting in a gre 'tcv thinuess of the cover, which in uittays desirable.—Picayune. Surviving Signs of Celtfo Initiicnci The ‘Journal of the English Anthro pological Institute'' contains some curious observations by T. W. Shore, on the sur viving signs of Celtic influence in Hai_p shire. In that county uu fewer than seventy of tbe oldest churches ‘Irew’- twenty degrees north of eist, instead oi due east and west. Their orientation it thus on the line of the old May day sun rise, a poritl-n reverenced by the Uelta. —Nett York Post. For its 125,000 people, Denver, Col., has 09 churches: 10 Methodist, 8 Pres byterian, 8 Congrcgatioualist, 9 Baptist, 7 Roman, 0 Lutheran, 5 Episcopalian, 2 Disciples nr Campbollites, 2 Jewish, I German Reformed, 1 Unitarian and I UniveraalisL ^ The Vice-President of the United Stales gets $8000 a year. The hop crop of Oregon for 1890 ia es Unrated at 18,000 balea. FITS stopped friv. by Dit. Klinr's Qurat Nrhvr Krktohkr. No (He after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise au 1 %'! trial b itlle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St.. I’kila., I 'a. In the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the sphiux symbolized wisdom and power. HowN Thin ? We offer One !iun<lre«l l).»!lars reward for any ca oof catarrh that u;inn>v bj cured by tnkinK Hair' Gatarrh Cure. K. L. Chlnky A: Co., Props , Toledo, O. We, the undeisUine.i, have known F. J. Cheney tor the hint la years am! believe him per fee ly h* norabte in all bu Inez* transac tions, and financially able to carryout any obliuations made bv their firm. West & Thuax, Wholesale Druggists, Tole do, O. Waldino, Kinnan & Makvin, Wholesale Druggists, To’e to, (). Hali’s Catarrh < lire Is taken internally, act ing directly upon the hloo I and mucous sur faces of the system. Testiiu » .inis sent free. Price 76c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. A ln*y appetit* bothers the rich man grout deal more than an active one does th poor man An Inventor’s Folly. A. few months ago an inventor of oer-j lain apparatus of a very simple character, which could have been readily duplicated In many different forms, was offered 16000 for tho right to a certain inland town. He was a poor man and needed Ihe money badly. The reader supposes, of course, that tho inventor jumped at the chance and pocketc l the mouey on the spot. Not he; he told the buyer that the patent was worth $100,000, and he was not going to sell one town in New York State for $6000. Tho tame inventor was offered a similar sum for another large town in the State, or $10,000 for only two cities iu tho coun try, but he refused to take it. We have these facts from tho inventor himself, ind they arc correct. Before it was too late to negotiate we berated tbe man roundly for his folly, but he was deaf to argument. The sequel was that the in ventor never sold a single right, and has his patent to this day.—Mnginetring. A Five-Logged Calf. B. S. Staples, of Belfast, Mo., bn* on exhibition at the Phtenix House stable a steer calf with five legs. The fifth one starts from the nigh hind gambrel joint and branches down with a perfect foot, upon which lie steps tbe same as upon the others. In addition to this freak of nature the calf is a beauty, being only six mouths old, and weighing 615 pounds. His girth is four feet nine inches.— : < —Picayune. Trades nnd Orcupatlonii. The Youth’s Companion for 1891 will give an instructive and helpful Series of Papers, t*a<*h of which doseribos the character of some leading Trade for Hoys or Occupation for Girls. They give information as to the Ap prenticeship required to learn each,the Wages to he expected, the (Qualities needed in order to enter, and the prospects of Success. To New Subscribers who send $1.76 at once the paper will be sent frrx to Jan. 1. 1891, and for a /ull year from thit date. 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