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. n. lll'S SERMON.! NOTED WASHINGTON DIVINE'S j SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Mighty Influence of Prayer For the World'* Good'?It Comes From Secret i Places?The Christian Home the Foan- | tain of Pious and Gracious Influences. 1 Text: "I answered thee in the secret j place of thunder."?Psalms 81: vii. It Is past midnight, and 2 o'clock In the morning: far enough from sunset and sunrise to make the darkness very thick, and the Egyptian army in pursuit of the escaping Israelites are on the bottom of the lied Sea, Its waters having been set up on either ~J 1- - S1UU 1U lU^UUl y KJl I'J'UHU, w* uvu vuii make a wail as solid out of water as out of granite, aud ?lie trowels with which these two walls were built were none the less powerful because invisible. Such walls had never before been lifted. When I saw the waters of the Red Sea rolling through the Suez Canal they were blue and beautiful and flowing like other waters, but as the Egyptians look up to them built into w.alls, "now on one side and now on the other, they must have been frowning waters, for it was probable that the same power that lifted them up might suddenly fling them prostrate. A great lantern of cloud hung over this chasm between the two walls. The door of that lantern was opened toward tho Israelites ahead, giving them light, an I the back of the lantern was tow tr I the Egyptians, and It growled and rumble.; and jarred with thunder; not thunder like that which cheers the earth after a drought, promising the refreshing shower, but charged aud surcharged with threats of doom. Tho Egyptian captains lost their presence of mind, and the horses reared an 1 snorted and would not answer to their bits, and the chariot wheels got interlocked and torn off, and the charioteers were hurled headlong, and the Red Sea fell ..II K ? rPko ? ~ r, fJ i rw, nn>1 /?nn. VU cm I.UU xug vvuiujiu^ founding thunder was la answer to the prayer of the Israelites. With their backs cut by the lash uud their feet bleeding and | their bodies decrepit with the suffering of whole generations t hey had asked Almighty God to ensepulcher their Egyptian pursuers in oue great sarcophagus, and the splash and the roar of the Red Sea as it dropped to its natural bed were only the shutting of the sarcophagus on a dead host. That is the neaniug of the text, when God says: "I answered thoo In the secret place of thunder." Now. tnuuder, all up and down the Bible, Is the symbol of power. Small wits depreciate the thunder, and say, "It Is the lightning that strikes." Bat God evidently thinks the thunder of some importance or He wonld not make so much of It. That man must be without imagination and without sensitiveness and without religion who can, without emotion, see the convention of summer clouds called to order by the tailing gavel of the thunderbolt. There is nothing iu the natural world that awes and solemnites me as the thunder. The Egyptian plague of hail was acoompanied with this full diapason of the heaven. While Samuel and his men were making a burnt offering of a lamb, and the Philistines were about to attack them. It was by terrorizing thunder they were discomfited. Job, who was a combination 01 tae juantesque ana the Miltonio, was solemulzed by this reverberatioa of the heavens, and cried: "The thunder of His power, who can under tand?" and He challenges the universe by saying; "Uau'st thou thunder with a voice like Him?" and he throws Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair" into the shade by the Biblo photograph of a war horse, when he describes his neok as "clothed with thunder." Because of the power or James and John, they were called "the sons of thunder." The law given on the basaltio crags of Mount ssinai was em phusied with this cloudy ebullition. The skies all round about St. John at Patmos were full of the thunder of f war, and the thunder c! Christly triumph, and the thunder of resurrection, and the thunder of eternity. But when my text says, I answered thee . , in the secret place of tnunder, it suggests there is some mystery about the thunder. To the ancients the cause of this bombarding the earth with loud sound must havo peon inure ui t% iuvsuty luau u u iv us. The ligntniugs, wuich were to them wild monsters ranging through the skies, in our time have been domesticated. We harness electricity to vehicles and we cage it in ?- lamps, and every schoolboy knows something about the fact that it is the passage of electricity from cloud to cloud that makes . 4 < the heavenly racket which we call tliuar der. Bit, after nil that chemistry has taught the world, there are mysteries about this skyey resonance, and my text, true fn the time of the psalmist, is true now, and always will be true, that there is some seIcret about the place of thunder. Now, right along by natural law, there is always a spiritual law. As there is a secret place of natural thunder, there is a secret place of moral thunder. In other words, the religious power that you see abroad in the church and in the world has a hiding place, and in many cases it is never discovered at all. I will use a simil. ltude. I can give only the dim outline of a particular case, for many of the remarkable circumstances I have forgotten. Many m*t: years ago there was a large ehuroh which g?v was characterized by strange and unaccountable conversions. There were no t great revivals, but individual cases of spiritual arrest and transformation. A K young man sat in one of the front pews. He was a graduate of Yale, brilliant as the north star and notoriously dissolute. Everybody knew him and liked him for his genialty, but deplored his moral errantry. To please his parents he was every Sabbath morniDg in church. Ope day . . there was a ringing of the door beli of the pastor of that church, and that young man, whelmed with repentance, implored prayer r and advice, aud passed into complete reformation of heart and life. A.11 the neighborhood was astonished and asked, Why il.J 1 ITS- /* - a U ~ J -iU was ims: nis tuiuer uuu mutual- uau miu nothing to him about his soul's welfare. On nnoth?r side of the same church sat an sfc old miser. He paid his pew rent, but w;is hard on the poor and had no interest In any phil&nthropy. Piles of money! And people said: "What astrugglehe will have, when he quits this life, to part with his bonds and mortgages." One day he wrote to his minister: "Please to call immediately. 1 have a matter of great importance about which I want to see you." When the paster * came in the man could not speak for emotion, but after awhile he gathered self-control enough to say: "I have lived for this world too long. I want to know if you think I can be saved, and, if so, I wish you would tell me how." Fpon his soul the light soon dawned, and tha old miser, not only revolutionized in . heart but in Jife, began to scatter bener factions, and toward all the great charities of the day he became a cheerful and I?' \ bountiful almoner. What was the cause of this change everybody asked; and no one was capable of giving an intelligent answer. In another part of that same chnrch sat Sabbath by Sabbath a beautiful and talented woman, who was a great society leader. She went to church because thut was a respectable thing to do, and In the neighborhood where she lived ~ It was hardly respectable not to go. Worldly was she to the last degree, and u!l her family worldly. She had a: her house the finest germans that were ever danced and the costliest favor3 that were ever given, and though she attended church she never liked to hear any story of pathos, and as to religious emotion-of any kind she thought it positively vulgar. Wines, cards, theaters, rounds of costly gayoty were to her the highest satisfaction. Ouo day a neighbor sent in a visiting eard and this lady came down the stairs in tears, _ and told the whole story how she had not slept for several nights, and she feared she was goiDg to lose her soul, and she wondered if some one would not come around and pray with her. From that time her entire demeanor was changed, and though m - v f /. she was not called upon to sac: '.floe any of her amenities of life, she con'-crated her beauty, her sociat position, her family, her all to God and the church and usefulness. Everybody said in regard to her: "Have you noticed the change, and what in the world caused It?" And no one could malte satisfactory explanation. In the course of two yearsi though there was no general awakening in that church, many such isolated cases or unexpected and unac, countable conversions took place. The very people whom no one thought would be affected by such considerations were converted. The pastor and the officers of the church were on the lookout for the solution of this religious phenomenon. I "Where is it?" they said, "and who is it, and what is it?" At last the discovery was made and all was explained. A poor old Christian woman standing in the vestibule of the church one Sunday morning trying to get her breath again before she wont upstairs to 4.L- 11^-.- Kaov/1 flm innnirv nnri fnM tht* lilt? gailCIY, umiu kuv iu.ju.4j ? ? secret. For years she had beon in the habit of concentrating all her prayers for particular persons iu that church. She would see some man or woman present, and, though she might not know the person's name, *ho would pray for that person until he or she was converted to God. All her prayers were for that one person?just that ono. She vaited and waited for communion days to see when the candidates for memberf hip stood up whether her prayers had been effectual. It turned out that these marvelous instances of conversion were the result of that old woman's prayers as sat in the gallery Sabbath bvSabbath, bent and wizened and poor and unnoticed. A little cloud of consecrated humanity hovering iu the calleries. That was the secret place of the thunder. There is some hid- : den, unknown, mysterious source for almost all the moral and religious power demonstrated. Not one out of ten million : prayers ever strikes a human ear. On public occasions a minister of religion voices < the supplications of an assemblage, but the 1 prayers of all the congregation are in i silence. There is not a second in a century ! when prayers are not ascending, but my- i riads of them are not even as loud as a i whisper, for-God hears a thought as plainly 1 as a vocalization. That silence of suppli- < cation?hemispheric and perpetual?is the secret place of thunder. i The dav will come?God hasten it?when i people will And out the velocity, the majesty, the multipotence of prayer. We brag . about our limited express trains which put i us down a thousand miles away in twenty- I four hours, but here is something by which in a moment we may confront people 5000 miles away. We brag about our telephones, but here is something that beats the telephone in utteranoo and reply, for God says, "Before they call, I will hear." We brag about the phonograph, in which a man can speak, and his words and the tones of his voioe can be kept for ages, and by the turning of a crank the words may come forth upon the ears of another century, but prayer allows us to speak words into the ears of everlasting remembrance and on the other side of eternities they will be heard. Oh, ye who are wasting your breath and wasting your nerves and wasting your lungs wishing for this good and that good for the church and the world, why do you not go into tne secret place of thunder? "But," says some one, "that is a beautiful theory, yet it dees not work in my case, for I am in a cloud of trouble or a cloud of persecution or a cloud of poverty or a cloud of perplexity." How glad I am that you told me that. That is exactly the place to which my text refers. It was from a cloud that God answered Israel?the i cloud over the chasm cut through the Red Sea?the cloud that was light to the Israelites and darkness to the Egyptians. It was from a cloud, a tremendous cloud, j that God made reply. It was a cloud that was a secret place of thuader. So you ortnonlfiH/ln ftf UUUUVSb ?inn; uvot ?uv w*mv?m?.vm v. my text by talking that way. Let ali the 1 people under a cloud hear it. "I answered ' theo in the secret place ol thunder." ] This subject helps me to explain some < things you have not understood about cer- ] tain useful men and women. Many of them i have not a superabundance of education. ] If you had their brain in a post mortem ex- \ animation and you could weigh it it would < not weigh any heavier than the average, i They have not anything especially impressive in personal appearance. They are not 1 very fluent of tongue* They pretend to < nothing tinusual in mental faculty or so- 1 ciai influjnee, but you feel their power, j you are elevated in their presence, you are ! a better man or a better woman"having . confronted them. You know that in in- j tellectual endowmeht you are their su- 1 perior, while in the matter of moral and < religious influence they are vastly your superior. Why is this? To And the revelation of this secret you mu9t go back thirty or forty or perhaps sixty years to j the homestead where this man was brought up. It in a winter morning, and the tallow candle is lighted and the Ares* kindled, sometimes the shavings l hardly enough to start the wood. The < mother is preparing the breakfast,thoblue- ! edged dishes are on the table, and the lid of tho kettlb on the hearth rattles with the steam. The father 13 at the barn feeding I the stock?the oats thrown into the horses' 1 bin and the cattle crunching the corn. The < children, earlier than they would like and J after being called twice, are gathered at the table. The blessing of God is asked on 1 the food, and, the m?al over, the family Bi- j ble is put upoivthe white table cloth und a < chapter Is read and a prayer made, which 1 includes all the interests for this world and the next. The children pay not much at- 1 tention to the piayer. for it is about the 1 same thing day after day, but it puts upon 1 them an impression that ten thousand i years will only make more vivid and tremendous. As long as the old folks live their prayer is for their children and their children's children. ' Day in and day out, month in and month out, year in and year out, decade in and decade out, tho sons and daughters of that family aro remembered in earnest prayer, and they know it and feel it and they caunot get away from it. Two fanerals after awhile?not more than two years apart, for it is seldom that there is more than that lapse of time between father's going and mother's goiDg?two funerals put out of sight the old folks. The daughters are in homes where they are Incarnations of good sense, industry and piety. The sons, perhaps one a farmer, another a merchant, another a mechanic, another a physician another a minister of the Gospel, useful, consistent, admired, honored. What a power for good those seven sons and daughters! Where did they get the power? From the schools and the seminaries and the colleges? Oh, no, those these may have helped. From their superior mental endowment? No; I do not think they ba l unusual meutal caliber. From accidental circumstances? No, they had nothing of what is called good luck. i itunic we win mice a i?iu auu n.io ?.w the depot nearest to the homestead from wbioh those men and women started. The train halts. Let us stop a few minutes at the Tillage graveyard and see the tombstones of the parents. Yes, the one was seventy-four years of age and the other seventy-two, and tho epitaph says "that after a useful life they died a Christian death." 0:i over the country road we ride ?the road a little rough, and once down in a rut it is hasd to get the wheels out again without breaking the shafts. But at last we come to the lune in front of the farm-, house. Let me get out of the wagon and open the gate while you drive through. Hero is *he arbor under which those boys and girls many years ago used to play, but it is quite out of order now, for the property is in other hands. Yonder is the orchard, where they used to thrash the trees for apples, sometimes before they were quite ripe. There is the mob, where they hunted for eggs before Easter. There is the doorsill upon which they used to sit. There is the room in which they had family prayers, and where they all knelt?the father there, the mother there, and the boys and girls there. Wo have got to the fountain of pious and gracious influences at last. There Is the plaoe that decided those seven earthly and Immortal destinies. Beholdl Behold! That Is the secret place of thunder. The reason we ministers do not aocompllrh more is because others do not pray for us enough, and we do not pray for ourselves enough. Every minister could tell you a thrilling story of sermons, sermons hasty and impromptu, because of funerals and "sick beds, annoyances in the parish, yet those sermons directing many souls to God. And then of sermons prepared with great care, and research and toil uninterrupted; yet those sermons falling fiat or powerless. The difference was probably in the amount of_ private prayer offered for the success of" those services. Oh! pray for us! Poor sermons in the pulpit are'the curse of God on a prayerless parish. People say, "What is the matter? with the ministers in our time? So many! of them soem dissatisfied w'th the Bible,e and they are trying to help Moses and and Christ out of inconsistencies and con-,. tradietlons by nxtng up me ui uie. aswell let the musicians go to work to fix upli Haydn's "Creation" or Handel's "Israel inc Egypt," or let the painters go to fixing up Raphael's "Transfiguration," or architects go to flxing up Christopher Wren's St.ti Paul's. But I will tell you what Is the mat-s ter. There are too many unconverted,, ministers. Their hearts have never been? changed by the grace of God. A mere in-" tellectual ministry is the deadest failure this side of perdition. Alas for the gospel of Icicles! From apologetics, and hcrmeneutics and dogmatics,p good Lord deliver us! They are trying to* get their power from transcendental the-*' ology, or from profound exegesis, or fromti the art of splitting hairs between north anda northwest side, instead of getting theiru power from tho secret place of thunder. We want the power a man gets when he is? alone, the door locked, on his knees, at p midnight, with such a burden of souls up-jj on him that makes him cry out. first in.i lamentation and then in raptures. We wantr^ something of the consecration of John! Knox, who, when his wife heard him pray-t< ing in the cold night in another room, and? said to him, "How can you endanger your life praying there in the cold when you8 ought to be asleep?" responded, "Woman! How can I sleep when my country is not8 saved? Lord God give me Scotland or I die!" Dear brethren and sisters in Christ, our? opportunity for usefulness will soon bet< gone, and we shall have our faces uplifted ^ to the throne of judgment, before which we must give account. That day there will be 9 no secret place of thunder, for allthethun-t! ders will be out. There will be tho thunder t, of the tumbling rocks. Thero will be*, the thunder of the bursting graves. . There will be the thunder of the do-*' scending chariots. There will be the thunder of the parting heavens. Eoom!a Boom! But all that din and uproar and. crash will find us anaffrighted, and will11 leave us undismayed, if we have madeti Christ our confidence, and, as after anp august shower when the whole heavens have been an unlimbered'battery cannonading the earth, the fields are moio green, 9 and the sunrise is the more radiant.andthea waters are the more opaline, so thethun-^ ders of the last day will make the trees of i life appear more emerald, and the jasper of the wall more crimson, and the sapphire a seas tho more shimmering and the sunrise of eternal gladness the more empurpled. ^ The thunders of dissolving nature will be , followed by a celestial psalmody, the sound * cf which lit. John on Patmo's described, M tvhen he said. "I heard a voice like voice of t< mighty thunderings!" ^ TRULY A C03VI03DLITAN TOWN. j Red Jacket, Mich., With 8000 Population a ar.d Thirty Nationalities. d What is perhaps the most cosmopolitan ti town in the United States, if not in they ivorld, is the little city of Red Jacket, y Houghton County. Mich. The town is un- , Jermined and honeycombed by vast artery-^ tike shafts, drifts, cross-cuts, levels and a dopes. Each twenty-four hours sees a fortune brought to surface in this little x mining town. The adult foreign residents of the town outnumber the nRtive-born Q more than a hundred to one. C Red Jacket, the town proper, has a popu- a Intlon of SOOO, including no less than thirty different nationalities, represented as fol-? lows: Americans, Welsh, French, German, a English. Italian, Aus.riaD, Russian, Scotch, o Finlanders, Polish, Hungarian, Irish, v Arabians, Greeks, Swedes, Danes. Norwegians, Swiss, Africans, Brazilians, Belgians,8 Dutch, Jews, Spaniards, Turks, Persians, a Chinese, Mexicans and Moors. v MANY BURIED ALIVE. T Prizes For a Solution of the Problem to t Be Offered In Italy. I The subject of premature burial is just c aow attracting great Interest In Italy, ac-a :ording to a reoort of United States Con- 8 ml Mantius, at l*urln. He says that realizing that there is atpres- f snt no infallible test that may be applied n to prevent the horrifying cases of persons t burled alive, a namber of prominent physi- x clans and laymen are at work preparing, reports on the subject. * nnuwill Kia mclfl tliA. cfrlUniy fAAfcnrA R IUC9X7 rw 14 W ???-0 ? of the Medical Department of the National t Exposition next April at Torln. Reports of a similar kind are expected from all over ? the world. * Prizes will be offered for the best sola-1 tlon of the problem, and the Consul says Inestimable good to the cnuse will result If the people of the United States interest themselves in it. a CUT HIS CORN AT NICHT. s Pennsylvania Farmer* Pleasantly Sur- _ prise a Sick Neighbor. Washington Sands, of East Robeson, Berks County, was the most surprised farmer in Pennsylvania the other morning. Mr. Sands has been in ill health for somo time, and in consequence his farm work has not been attended to as it should have been. His corn, in an lmmenso Held, being over ripe, required speedy shocking, but farm labor is scarce and this work was neglected. All day Friday Mr. Sands worked as hard as his poor hea th permitted, and quit very tired that night. After the moon had risen e about thirty neighbors gathered in his corn field and industriously worked until after midnight, when the corn was all in shocks. Next morning, when Mr. Sands went to the ' field, he was astonished to find his task completed. Georgia'* Prosperous (1. A. K. Colony. In 1895 a number of Indiana Grand Army men resolved to colonize in Irwin County, Georgia, upon the spot where Jefferson < Davis was arrested as He was trying to escape. They founded the town of Fitzgerald. * Within two years they have grown so strong that they are now moving the county site from its old place, Irwinville, to Fitzgerald.. The assessed valuation of the county in. 1395 was something more than $1,000,000,3 which has been increased in the last twot years to nearly $3,000,000. j Series of Shocking Crimes. Gastave Muller surrendered himself to j the police of Rotterdam, Holland, confess-* ing the murder o:' his wife and child. As J proof of the truth of his confession he pro-J duced from his pocket four human ears, j and the police on searching his house found two bodies. Muller subsequently J confessed that be had also killed his par-1 ents, and fourteen wives whom he hadt married in various parts of the world, G Sheep Raising Booming. Sheep raising in eastern Oregon has im-* proved to such ap extent that whereas1 lambs in any quaiMty could be bought a{ year ago at seventy-five cents a head,i they command now $1.50 a head, and herd-: ert are not anxious to sell at that price. i^pim - -" - - - J-M-'.l. .I.f.r.l-f-i-ujr-l Management of Late Cabbage. There is nothing better than frequent ultivation of cabbage to make it grow. Jvery time the soil in stirred, and specially is such warm, wet weather s the whole country has lately had, here is liberation of plant food in as urge amounts as even a gross feeding rop of cabbage can require. It is in uch seasons as this that care must be jken to upset late cabbage and loosen ome of their roots so as to check rowtli. Without this the largest cabage will split open and will soon spoil. Managing Swarm*. Swarming is always a sure sign of rosperity in the apiary, anil is ateniletl with profit if given good at-1 eutiou. The first swarms that issue ' re always the best bees, as they are suallv strong in numbers, anil they ontain the old queen, which is the rincipal object, as she is already ferile and will begin laying as soon as liey arc ready to begin housekeeping, 'irst, or "Prime" swarms, as they are armed, are the cream of the colony, ud are more valuable than the pareut tock they issue from. First swarms usually store more urplus honey than any other, and in very respect keep in the lead thronghut the season, and the only objection j them is that, as they always conain tli9 oldest oueens. sometimes the I neen is too old to successfully carry be colony through the following winsr. There is a wide difference beween first and second swarms from he same colony. Second swarms are accompanied by young queen, and one that is not ferile, and she takes the chances of ferIlization after beginning housekeepng, and as this requires her to take ring away from the hive, she stands ne chance out of ten of becoming lost, nd if so, the colony will do no good rhatever of its own account, as they ave no brood from which to raise nother. Since exploring the interior of a ee-hive we are no more at a loss to now when to expect swarms. The reather being favorable, we can tell 3 a certainty the day, and almost the our they are likely to issue. Bees egin to construct queen cells eight ays previous to swarming, and at ny time during this period we make .iscovery of these cells, we can ascerain their time bf maturity by the adaucement of construction. The cells -*ii i 1 - j -i A. in ut? seuieu uvci uuuut iuo ci^iua ay, and at this time the swarm is ho. Second swarms will issue eight days hereafter, at which time tho young ueeas will hatch. If we desire the olony to ,swarm but once, and not gain after the first swarm has come ff, we can prevent it by taking out 11 but one cell, or take all the cells ut, and introduce a queen. It will >e seen that the cause of second warms in Ihe surplus of young queens, nd to deprive them of these, will preent further swarming. Swarms when not interfered with, rill usually settle and hang in a cluser near their hive for several hours iefore leaving. It is only a rare exeption that they go directly away, nd it is best not to molest them, but imply keep in sight of them until they ettle, and when well settled get them a the swarming box and take them to he hive. 1'or arresting swarms a iitle force pump and a pail of water is he best, but it is necessary unless the warm takes wing the second time, and hen it is but a small per cent, that an be induced to settle again with any :ind of prevention.?Farm, Field and Preside. The Snow Gooae. Snow geese are exceedingly graceful ,ud beautiful birds, of about twentyight inches in length. They are ometimes known as White Brant and '' sxow GEESE. Slue Winged Geese. Their range Is rery extensive. They have been noted n Texas, are abundant on the Colum)ia River, and Audubon notes that he las seen them in every part of the Jnited States which he has visited. |?he young geese are gray. At what >eriod they become w hite is not defnitely known. One that had been ;aptured while young remained gray or six years, when in two months' ime it grew to be a pure white. Every ipring these birds migrate to the tforth, and it is a curious fact that the >ld, white birds go first, followed a veek or two later by the young or jray ones. Dr. Richardson is authorty for the statement that they breed n the barren grounds of Arctic Amer J.VJ-'.l - '.^.'-1 1 ica. The young are able to fly in . August, and by the middle of September they have departed for the South. They mainly feed on rushes insects and berries, and in turn are very excellent eating themselves, but are rarely domesticated.?New I. tgknd , I Homestead. i Protecting: Tomatoes From Frnst. I By exercising a little extra care. the i season for ripe tomatoes may be pro- j longed for two or three weeks beyond the usnal period. As soon as there j are indications of frost, cover the toma- : toes in the evening with some kind of . ! canvass or old blanket. Between the ' j rows of tomatoes drive sticks about four feet apart and nail strips of hoards on the top at the height of the tomato ; COVER FOB TOHATO VINES. vines. Place the covers over these, letting the edges extend to the ground, where they must be fastened so that the wind will not blow them off. Leave ' no opening or the frost will get in. I prefer a heavy cover made of blankets, as this will often protect the vines when light canvass will fail. If the j work is carefully done the tomatoes will stand a great deal of cold weather. ?Lewis O'Fallow, in American Agriculturist. Csbbsce. The cabbage docs not rank high in nutritive food value, consisting as it . does almost wholly of woody fiber and j water. Yet it has an important place ? among the vegetables handled by the 1 grocers and in the home vegetable garden, for the housewife would hardly know how to arrange her winter menus without including it. Moreover, it is to the interest of the farmer to give a space in the garden or cornfield to cabbage, for any surplus not n?de U3e , of in the house is very acceptable to the stock, and greedily eaten by it. It does not really pay to raise cabbage for feeding purposes, but a little extra | supply needn't be wasted. The most inexpensive way of rais ing cabbage for the home demand, and one that is at the same time the least troublesome, is to take it ont of the garden and plant among the potatoes in the cornfield. Simply sow the seed j where the cabbage is to grow, and I avoid all the trouble of transplanting, watering, etc., which are important factors in farm work and apt to prevent the cabbage patch from attaining adequate dimensions. The average j man dislikes to break his back over a '> \ few cabbage plants, and the tAsk is I apt to devolve on the women, who, of I course, haven't backs to break. The crop will not be as early, but there will likely be plenty of it, which is a compensation. The seed maybe sown when the corn is planted, or earlier if desirable; later also if more convenient. Sow in hills, same as corn or potatoes. Eighteen inches or two feet is the ' proper distance in the garden, where ! space is to be economized. The cab- j bage will of course receive the same ! cultivation as the other crop, and very j little hand work will be necessary as the cultivator will keep the weeds down. For the ordinary grower, or the man who merely grows a home supply, it is not necessary to bother about early | and late varieties. A quick-growing; variety may be sown the last of June 1 or even, with a little coaxing, the first cf July, and make good heads. Or seed of an early sort sown late answers every purpose of a late variety. The cabbage worm and the flea beetle are the chief insect pests of the j cabbage, though aphides or plant lice sometimes attack the heads and prove ! troublesome. For the flea beetle, ' which works on the young plunts, a j dusting of fine road dust, or Scotch' snuff, is effective. The worm is a more 1 troublesome foe, and years when it! abounds one might as well sui mder ; the cabbage patch. The best i oedy j is sprinkling (spraying) with paris ' green in solution before heading be-1 gins. Afterwards, of course, it should : not be employed. Sometimes the , butterflies can be trapped early in the j season, thus diminishing the supply, i The cabbaze prefers a rich soil, i generously supplied with mauure. By gratifying its preference we get mam-; moth heads, but invoke a danger. It is awfully aggravating to have the heads fill up and keep on growing till . they burst and turn themselves inside out, being then of no earthly use. ; The usual remedy advised for this is twisting or loosening the roots, the idea being that the plant devotes itself to repairing the damage done to its , root system, aud the head stops en-; larging. But in actual practice this ' often fails, and I have come to the conclusion that when the bursting has once begun there is no use trying to stop it, and the only way to save the head is to pull it up and feed it to the hens, cows or sheep. The safest and surest way is to take the heads in charge before the bursting begins, and as soon as they are solid and full tip them to one side, or loosen the roots by twisting th& roots a little. This will stop growth and hasten maturity, and the heads will remain firm and solid all winter. * ... i POPULAR SCIENCE. English scientists declare that the chewing of gam is a solace for grief. The light-giving power of acetylene has been accurately measured, and is found to be twenty-one times that of ordinary gas, under the same pressure. Though Trowbridge wrote this year that electromagnectic waves could not be detected more than one hundred feet from their source, Marconi's wireless telegraph has already sent signals eight miles. Veneer cutting has reached such perfection that a single elephant's tusk thirty inches long is now cut in Lon- ,'i don into a sheet of ivory 150 inches long and twenty inches wide, and . ^ some sheets of rosewood and mahogany v ^ are onlv about a fiftieth of an inch $2 thick. A yellow or orange-yellow coloration of glass is found by M. Lemal to take place when the glass is heated to 550 degrees or 600 degrees C. in contact . *3 with any salt of silver. Glass into whose composition salt ha9 entered is especially susceptible of coloring in this manner. Experiments have lately been car- ' 'jS ried on at the Paris Academy of Sci- tfg ences with a view of ascertaining the influence exercised on the human ' >! voice by giving the singer electrical ' Jj treatment. As the result, Dr. Moutier has established the fact that the influence is a beneficial one, the voice gaining both in amplitude and quality and"being less subject to fatigue. ijJ The observations of Professor Golu boff, of Moscow, have convinced him vug that appendicitis is not only a oontagious disease, but that it sometimes : V; occurs in epidemics. It was unusually prevalent in Moscow last year. To illustrate, Professor Goluboff mentions that in a small boarding school, where v 'wjk in several years there had not been a single case of appendicitis, he treated seven cases within two months. It appears from the experiments of .j&j a French scientific man that oak trees are in more danger than other trees of ^ being struck by lightning. Beeches, * on the contrary, are not good oondncr . tors of electrioity. The danger of trees from lightning is great in proportion to the electrical couductibility of ,l;(? their wood. Dead trees and dead wood generally form a much better conductor than living growing wood, which offers great resistance. Snperstltlona Turks. . Hps Some of the Turkish superstitions are of the mo3t extraordinary nature. For instance, if by any chance a sparrow or swallow flies in at the window and circles three times around the room it is a sign that a blood relation of some one present is about to die. ; There are many signs and happenings that are supposed to predict marriage. When in summer a bee fliM in at the window it is regarded as a hexbinger of good news, as is also a this- . tledown or a beetle. A moth at night flying about a light means thoughts and good wishes from immortals; the ^ nnexpected braying of a donkey, a - ^ visit from an unpleasant acquaintance If a man leaves his home for business ,39 and walks along the street and a bird alights exactly in front of him three ?. I times, he turns on his heel and^ goes home, and no power short penal firman will make him pase ^Qlit, . place again that day, for he is /rare that if he attempts to do so something v. unpleasant will happen to him. A dog running three times across his nalh will also turn him back. When a Turk is starting ont On an important venture he will sa7 to himself : ' 'The issue will be as I deeire it if the first three persons I meet have blue eyes." Blue eyes being far less common than black, he takes the v: chances, and sometimes sees three " ',!;? blue-eyed ones 'first. Augury is also made from the forms of the clouds and by the entrails of fish, animals and fowls, from orange pits and the odd. and even number of divisions in the pulp. If a red orange be peeled by accident the person feels grest pleas* . >3, ure, as that betokens prosperity and gold. [m The Pig Deer. < Among ^he more recent and important arrivals at the Zoo are twc ' -?9 young babirussas, presented by the Duke of Bedford?comparatively rare : animals, and the only examples seen / at the Zoo for abont fifteen years. The word babiruasa means pig deer, if and the animal has been so called by the Malays on account of the remarkable development of the tusks of the f. males, where emerge close together y jBB near the middle of the face and sweep frA. . ,.' j W It a a nti uiijj u^md uM.an.1,., \jtz quently attaining a very great length. *' The tusks of the lower jaw arise like those of the boar. What the male -babirussa needs the upper pair for is a point which nobody apparently can 'j satisfactorily settle. Another peculiarity of the animal is . that it falls short of the number ol vjsi teeth usually p-.^essed by the ordi- '".'S nary pig, having only thirty-four in ,v all, a fact which indicates that it , must be directly descended from one * yij of the extinct genera of pigs marked by a similar type of dentition. In other respects the babirussa is not * * very different from other wild swine. It is a splendid swimmer, has a somewhat lighter gallop than that of the wild boar, and when hunted will fight gamely and ferociously to the last.? * Loudon Graphic. High Price For a Book. The highest price ever paid for a ; single volume was tendered by a number of wealthy Hebrew merchants of . . Venice to Pope Julius II. for a very ancient Hebrew Bible. It was believed to be an original copy of the Septuagent version of the Scriptures, translated from the Hebrew in Greet in 277 B. C. The sum mentioned tc >Julius was $(*00,000, but the Pope de- 1 clmed the offer. ' "J!