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KEY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN* DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Sabject: " Watering the Sheep." (rreacneu ar nif nanipiuun, Long Island.) Text: "We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and (ill they roll the stone from the icell's mouth; then we water the theep.''?Genesis xxix., S. A scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully pastoral. A well of water of great value in that region. The fields around about it white with three flocks of sheep lying down waiting for the watering. I hear their bleating coming on the bright air, and the laughter of young men and maidens indulging in rustic repartee. I look off and I see other flocks of sheep coming. Meanwhile, Jacob, % stranger, on the interesting errand of look tng forli wife, comes to the well. A beauti- I Cul shepherdess comes to the same well. I see | tier approaching, followed by her father's i flock of sheep. It was a memorable meeting. Jacob married that shepherdess. The Bible account of it is: "Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice a.nd wept." It has always been a mystery to me what he found to cry about. But before that scene occurred, Jacob accosts the shepherds and asks them why they postpone the slaking of the thirst of these sheep, and why they did not immediately proceed to water them. The shepherds reply to the effect: "We are all good neighbors, and, as a matter of courtesy, we wait until all the iheep of the neighborhood come up. Besides that, this stone on the well's mouth is somewhat heavy, and several of us take hold of it and push it aside, and then the buckets and the troughs are filled, and the sheep are satisfied. "W e cannot, until all the flocks are gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the gheep." On, this is a thirsty world! Hot for the head, and blistering for the feet, and parching for the tongue. The world's great want i3 a cool, refreshing, satisfying draught. We wander around and we find the cistern empty. Long and tedious drought has dried up the world's fountains, but nearly nineteen centuries ago, a Shepherd, with crook in the shape of a cross, and feet cut to the bleeding, explored the desert passages of this world, and one day came across a well a thousand feet deep, "bubbling and bright, and opalescent, and looked to the north, and the south, und the east, and the west, and cried out with a voice strong and musical that rang through the ag^-s: "Ho, every one that thirslfeth, come ye to the waters!" Now a great flock of sheep to-day gather around this Gospel well. There are a great many thirsty souls. I wonder why the nocks of all nations do not gather?why so many Stay thirsty; and whUe 1 am wondering about it, my text breaks forth in the explanation, saying: "We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth: then"we water the aheeD." If'a herd of swine come to a well they angrily justle each other for the preredence; if a drove of cattle come to a well, they hook each other back from the water, but when a flock of sheep come, though a hundred of I them shall be disappointed, they only express it by sad bleating; thev come together peacefully. We want a great multitude to come around the Gospel welL I know there are those who do not like a crowd?they think a crowd is vulgar. If they are oppressed for room in church it makes them positively impatient and belligerent. We have tad people permanetly leave our church because many other people came to it. Not so did these Oriental sheepherds. They waited until all the flocks were gathere 1, and the more flocks that, name the better thev liked it. And so we ought to be anxious that all the people should come. Go out into the highways and the hedges and compel them to come ia. Go to the rich and tell them thej' are indigent without the Gospel of Jesus. Go to the poor and tell them the affluence there is in Christ. Go to the blind and tell them of the touch that gives eternal illumination. Go to the lame and tell thorn of the joy that will make the lame man leap like a hart. Gather all the sheep off of all the mountains. None so torn of the dogs, none so sick, none so worried, none so dying, as to be omitted. Why not gather a great flock? All Brooklyn in a flock; all New York in a flock; all London in a fio.-k; all the world in a flock. This well of the Gospel is deep enough to put out the burning thirst of the twelve hundred million, of the race. Do not let the Church,by a spirit ' of eiclusiveness, keep the world out. Let down all the bars, swing open all the gates, scatter all the invitations: ''Whosoever will, let him come." Come, white and black. Come, red men of the forest. Come, Laplander, out of the snow. Come. Patago nian, out of the heat. Come in furs. Come panting under palm leaves. Come one. Come all Come now. As at this well of Mesopotamia, Jacob and Rachel were betrothed, so this morning, at this well of salvation, Christ our Shepherd will meet you coming up with your long flocks of cares and anxieties, and He will stretch out his hand in pledge of His ' affection, while all heaven will cry out: "Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him." *1-~* mall Af MoflAnnffiTYlla I 1UU 11UUUV mm LUl.-> nca Vi >nvavyvw?m ?? * had a stone on it, which must be removed before the sheep could be waterod; and I find on the well of salvation to-day impediments and obstacles, which must be removed in order that you may obtain the refeshment and life of tms Gospel In vour ease the impediment is pride of neart. Vou cannot bear to come to so democratic a fountain; you do not want to come with so many others. It is to you cute wnen you are dry, coming to a town pump, as compared to sitting in a parlor sipping oat of a chased chalice which has just been lifted from a silver salver. Not so many publicans and sinners. You want to get to heaven, but it must be in a special car, with your feet on a Turkish ottoman and a band of music on board the train. You do not want to be in company with rustic Jacob and Rachel, and to be drinking out of the fountain where ten thouaanri chonn Vim va K^n ^rinlfina* lvkfnra rAII You will ?avo to remove the obstacle of pride, or never find your way to thi well. You will have to come as we came, willing to take the water of eternal life in any way, and at any hand, and in any kind of pitcher, crying out: "Oh, Lord Jesus. I am dying of thirst. Give me the water of eternal life, whether in trough or goblet; give me the water of eternal life; I care not in what it comes to me." Away with all your hindrances of pride from the wall's mouth. Here is another man who is kept back from this water of life by the stone of an obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth of the well. , You have no more feeling upon this subject than if God had yet to do you the first kindBess, or you had to do God the first wrong. Seated on his lap all these years, His everlasting arms sheltering you, where is your gratitude? Where is your morning and evening prayer? Where are your consecrated lives? I say to you, as Daniel said to Belshazzar: "The God in whose hind thy breath i3, and all thy way, thou has not glorified." If you treated anybody as badly as you have treated God, you would have made fiv-j hundred apologies?yea, your whole life would have been an apology. Three timos a day you nave beon seated at God's table. Spring summer autumn and winter he has appropriately appareled you. Your health from Him, your companion trom Him, your children from Him, your home from him; all the bright surroundings of your life from Him. U man, what dost thou with that hard heart? Canst thou not feel one throb of gratitude toward the God that made you, and the Christ who came to redeem you, and the Holy Ghost who lias all these years been importuning you? If you could sit down five minutes under the fcrte of a Saviour's martyrdom, and feel his warm life-blood trickling on your forehead, and cheek, and hands, methinks you would get j anrrtn nnmw>i afcinn of what, vnn nwA fcn <l cmci fled Jesus. "H^art of Ptone, relent, re.ent, Tonclied by Jesus' cross subdued; See His body, mangled, rent. Covered with a gore of blood. Sinful soul, what iiast thou done? Crucided the eternal Son." Jacob with a good deal of tug and push took the stone from the well's mouth, so that the flocks might be watered. And I would that this morning my word, blessed of God, might remove the hindrances to your getting up to the Gospel well. Yes, 1 take it for granted that the work is done, and now like Oriental shepherds, I proceed to water the sheep. Come, all ye thirsty! You have an undo- ( fined longing in your soul. You tried money making; that did not satisfy you. You tried office under Government; that did not satisfy you. You tried pictures and sculpture; but works of art did not satisfy you. You are as much discontented with this life as the celebrated French author who Celt that he could not any longer endure the misfortunes of the world, and who said: "At ! four o'clock this afternoon I shall put an end j to my own existence. Meanwhile, I must toil on up to that time for the sustenance of my family." And he wrote on his book until the clock struck four, when he folded up his manuscript and, by his own hand, concluded his earthly life. 1 hero are men in this house who are perfectly discontented. Unhappy in fcuo pas i, uiuiappjr vu-uajr, w ?*"happy roreTer, unless you come to this Gospel well. This satisfies the soul with a high, deep, all-absorbing, and eternal satisfaction. It conies, aud it offers the most unfortunate man so much of this world as is best for him, and throws all heaven into the bargain. The wealth of Croesus, and of all the Stewarts, aud of all the Barings, and all the Rothschilds, is only a poor, miserable slulliiur. compared with the eternal fortuna* that Christ offers you to-day. In the far East there was a kin^ who u>ed once a year to get on the scales, while on the other side the scales were placed gold, and silver, and gems; indeed, enough were placed there to balance the king; then, at the close of the weighing, all those treasures were tbrown among the jwpulace. But Christ to-day steps on one side the scales, ami on the other side are all the treasures of the universe, and He says: "All are yours?ali height, all depth, all length, all breadth, all eternity; all aro yours/' We don t appreciate the promises of the Gospel. When a:i aged clergyman was dying?a man very eminent in the Church? a young theologiciil student stood by his side, and the aged man looked up and said to him: "Can't you give me some comfort in my dying hourr "No," said the young man; ,-I can't talk to you on this subject; you know all about it, and have known it so lonz." "Well, said the dviner man. "iust recite to me some promises." The young man thought a moment, and he came to this promise: "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin;" and the old man clapped his hands, and in his dying moment said: "That's J USD Llltf pruziuse I uavc Utrcii nailing wt. j The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.'" Oh, the warmth, the grandeur, the magnificence of the promises. Come also to this Gospel well all ye troubled. I do not suppose you have escaped. Compare your view of this life at fifteen years of age with what your view is of it at forty, or sixty, or seventy. What a great contrast of opinion 1 Were you right then, or are you right now? Two cups placed in your hands, the one a sweet cup the other a sour cup. A cup of joy a cup of grief. Which has been the nearest to being full, and out of which have you the more frequently partaken? What a different place Greenwood is from what it used to be? Once it was to you a grand city improvement, and you went out on the pleasure excur- < sion, and you ran laughingly up the mound, and you criticised in a light way the epitaph. | But since the day when you heard the bell toll at the gate when you went in with the ; procession, it is a sad place, and t hero is a flood of rushing memories that suffuse the eye and overmaster the heart. Oh, you have had trouble, trouble, trouble. God only ! knows how much you have had. It is a wonder you have been able to live through 1 it. It is a wonder your nervous system has not been shattered and your brain has not reeled. Trouble, trouble. If I could gather ! all the griefs, of all sorts, from this ; great audience, and could put them in one scroll, neither man nor angel could endure the recitation. Well, what do you want? Would you like to have your property back again? "No," you say, as a Christian man, "I was becoming arrogant, and I think that J is why the Lord took it away. I don't , want to have my property back. Well. 1 would you have your departed friends ( back again? "No," you say, "I couldn't ' take the responsibility of bringing them ' from a tearless realm to a realm of ' tears. I couldn't do it." Well, then, what ! do you want? A thousand voices in the 1 audience_cry out: "Comfort, give us com- ! fort." t or tnat reason I nave roiiea away the stone from the well's mouth. Come, all ! ye wounded of the fioek, pursued of the wolves, come to the fountain where the Lord's sick and bereft ones have come. "Ah," says some one, "you are not old enough to understand my sorrow. You have not been in the world as long as I have, and you can't talk to me about my misfortunes in the time of old age." Well, I may not have lived as long as you, but I have been a great deal among old people, and I know how they feel about their failing health, and about | their departed friends, and about the loneli- ! ness that sometLues strikes through 1 their souls. After two persons have ' lived together for forty or fifty years, ' and one of them is taken away, what 1 desolation! I shall not forget the cry of the J late Rev. DeWitt,of New York, when he stood ' by the open grave of his wife, and after the J obsequies had ended, he looked down into the J open place and said: "Farewell, my honored, j faithful and beloved wife. The bond that 1 bound us is severed. Thou art in glory, and I ( am here on earth. We shall meet again. Fare- 1 well! Farewell!" To lean on a prop for fifty 1 vpars. anrl then have it break under vou! ( There were only two years' difference between j the death of my father and mother. After ' my mother's decease, my father used to go ( around as though looking for something; ho would often get up from one room, without 1 any seeming reason, and go to another room; f and then he would take bis cane and start out i and some one would say: "Father, where j are you going*" and he would an- ' swer: "I don't know exactly where I 5 am going." Always looking for something, 1 Though ho was a tender-hearted man, I { never saw him cry but once, and that was at ' the burial of my mother. After sixty years j lufinr* fawofkop if. u?qc howl nflrf. AnH ' there are aged people to-day who are feeling j just such a pang as that. I want to tell them J there is perfect enchantment in the promises 1 of this Gospel; and I come to them and offer ' them my arm, or I take their arm and I bring J them to"this Gospel welL Sit down, father or 1 mother, sit down. See if there is anything at ' the well for you. Come, David, the Psalmist, have you anything encouraging to offer them! ( ''Yes," says the Psalmist; " 'They shall still ' bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat ' and flourishing, to show that the Lord is up- 1 right. He is my rock, and there is no ' unrighteousness "in me.'" Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say out of your prophecies for these aged peo- ' pie?" \es,' says Isaiah: " 'Down to old ' age I am with thee, and to hoary hairs will I 1 carry thee.'" Well, if the Lord is going to carry you, you ought not to . worry much < about your failing eyesight and failing limbs. J You get a little worried for fear some time you 1 will come to want, do you? Your children 1 and grandchildren sometimes speak a little 1 sharp at you because of your ailments. ' The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you think you will come to want? J Who do you think the Lord is? Are His 1 granaries empty? Will He feed the raven, 1 and the rabbit, and the lion in the desert, and ' forget you? Why, naturalists tell us that the porpoise will not forsake its wounded and 1 sick mates. And do you suppose the Lord 1 of heaven and earth has not as much ' sympathy as the fi3h of the sea? But you 1 say: "I am so near worn out, and I am of no use to God any more." 1 1 think the Lord knows whether you are 1 of any more use or not; if you were of no 1 more use He would have taken you before this. Do you think God has forgotten you because He has taken care of you seventy or 1 eighty years? He thinks more of you to-day than He ever did. b.'cause you think more of Hini. May the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Paul, the aged, be your God for ever! But I eather all the promises to-day in a jfroup, and 1 ask the shepherds to drive their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the sparkling supply. "Behold, happy is the man whom Goa oorreoteth "Thouch he cause erief. yet will He have compassion." "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all." , "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometn in the morning." I ain determined this morning that no one shall go out of this house uncomforted. Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul who seems to hide away from the consolations I am uttering, as a child with a sore hand hides away from th?> physician lest ho touch the wound too roughly, and the mother has to go and compel the little patient to come out and see the physician. So I come to your timid and shrinking soul to-day, and compel you to come out in the presence of the Divine Physician. He will not hurt you He has been healing wounds for many years, and He will give you gentle and omnipotent nelicament. But people, when they have trouble, go anywhere rather than to Go.i. De Quincy took ouium to get rid of las troubles. Charles La"ib took to punch. Theoilore mook ujuk <.? wmeuiuik stronger, Edwin Forrest took to theatrical dissipation. And men have run all around the earth, hoping in the quick transit to get away from tneir misfortunes. It has been a j dead failure. There is only one well that I can slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that is the deep and inexhaustible well of th9 Gospel. But some one says, in the audience: "Notwithstanding all you have said this morning, I tlnd no alleviation for my troubles." Well, I am not through yet. I have left the most potent consideration for the last. I vn eoinz to soothe you wicl* tht 1 thought of beaven. Ho vcover talkative we may be, there will come a time when the stoutest and most emphatic interrogation will evoke from us no asnwer. As soon as we have closed our lips for the final ' silence, no power on earth can break that Rut. uhprA O nhistiflJl. will hft your spirit? In a scene of infinite gladness. The spring morning of heaven waving its blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh from battle showing their scars. The rain of earthly sorrow struck through with the ' rainbow of eternal joy. In one group God < and angels and the redeemed?Paul and Silas, j Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah and Jeremiah, , Payson and John Milton, Gabriel and Michael" the archangel. Long line of choristers , reaching across the liilLs. Seas of joy dash- , ing to the white beach. Conquerors marching from gate to gate. You among them. ' Oh, what a great flock of sheep God will , gather around the celestial well. No stone . on the well's mouth, while the Shepherd J waters the sheep. There Jacob will recognize Rachel, the shepherdess. And standing on one side of the well of eternal rapture, your children; and standing on the other side of eternal raoture. vour Christian ancestry, you will be bounded on all sides by a joy so keen and grand that ' no other world has ever been permitted ' to experience it. Out of that one deep well ( of heaven, the Shepherd will dip reunion for ) the bereaved, wealth for the poor, health for > the sick, rest for the weary. And then all the flock of the Lord's sheep will lie down in 1 the green pastures, and world without end we t will praise the Lord that on this summer Sab- 1 bath morning we were permitted to study the j story of Jacob and Rachel,the shepherdess, at the well in Mesopotamia. TEMPERANCE. ; i A Good Deed. 1 In Rockland, Maine, on circus day, W. D. Breck placed a big barrel of ice water in front of his store, which furnished free the cooling refreshment for the thirsty. Above ( the barrel was placed the following on a placard: " Shun rum! drink this! You'll find it's good advice, 1 And if you wish to trade with us, s The profits will pay for the ice." c s Governor Martin on Prohibition's . Efleet in Kansas. In a letter to the general manager of the Associated Press, Governor John A. Martin, { of Kansas, says: i "On July 3 a dispatch was sent from St. [ Joseph, Missouri, to a Chicago paper, in , which it was stated that 'the closing of the c saloons in Atchinson, Kansas, has cut off the 1 most profitable source of revenue, amount- \ ing to thousands of dollars a year, and as a i result the city has not revenue to keep going; . that the police force, with the exception or ? the Marshal and one policeman, had been 1 suspended; that the services of the firemen 1 were to be dispensed with, and that the gas t and electric lights were to be shut off." c "This dispatch was used by the Associated , Press and thus published in "all parts of the country. As a result I have received many letters from different sections, making inquiries as to the truth of the statements it embodied. "The dispatch referred to was prompted by ^ two motives. It was first sent from a town ] in Missouri for the purpose of injuring a rival f city in Kansas; and it was inspired by the whisky interest and intended to create the impression uiui an emcieni cny government :ould not be maintained without the revenue ierived from saloon licenses. I am thorjuhly familiar with the condition of the city Df Atchison, and personally know that the statements embodied in the St Joseph dispatch are false and misleading. The gas, ilectric lights and water supply of the city have never been turned off. Its fire department has been and is continuously on duty. Its police force has been largely reduced, but lias in the absence of the saloons been ample to preserve the peace and protect the prop;rty of its citizens. A local dispute concerning methods of taxation, and involving the adoption of a tax which has been collected in the city of St. Joseph for many years past, is the only foundation for the malicious and intruthful dispatch from that place. ' This St. Joseph dispatch is only a fair specimen of hundreds of false and malicious statements I have seen published in the news[>apers of the country during the last three i>r four years, concerning Kansas and Kansas towns. The whisky men predicted that the ibolition of saloons in Kansas would injuriously affect the material prosperity of the State, and falsehoods intended to confirm ;his view are constantly invented and circu- a ated in every section or the country, ana ? specially in States where movements are t jeing made to banish the saloons. I am re- j reiving letters daily from different States, naking inquiries concerning the effects ana esults of our temperance laws on the finan- g >ial, commercial and other material interests fl )f our State, and these letters all indicate q ;hat the work of maligning Kansas is going >n in every section of the country. "One argument of the whiskey interest,viz.: ;hat saloons promote the prosperity and growth of communities, has been answered in e Kansas by the convincing logic of facts. In [. LS80 the population of this State, as shown by ;lie census, was 91*6,096; in March, 1886, as c shown by the State oensus it was 1,406,736; a Mid it is now fully 1,650,000. In 18S0 Kansas r aad only 3,104 miles of railway within her } ^orders; on March 1, 1887, the State Board of Railroad Assessors reported 6,207 miles for axation, and from 500 to 800 miles will be a ldded to this aggregate before the close of ;he year. In 18S0 the assessed value of all I ;he real and personal property of the State a lggregated only $160,891,689; on March 1, , L8?6, the total was $277,575,363, and for the c present fiscal year the returns thus far re ireived indicate a total of $300,000,000. In t 1880 there were 5,315 school-houses, 2,514 churches, and 347 newspapers in Kansas there > ire are now fully 8,500 school-houses, 3,500 :hurches and 700 newspopers. In 1880 only ifty-live towns and cities had populations in t ;xcess of 1,000 each; in 1887 more .than 200 n Sowns have each over 1,000 inhabitants; fully : twenty-five have each over 5,000; and four nave each over 20,000. In 1880 only 8,868,000 c lores were planted in crops; this year the area planted exceeds 16,000,000 acres. In 18S0 the \ i'alue of the farm products of Kansas was t jnly $84,521,000; for 18S6 their value was aver $204,001),000. For the fiscal year, 1880, the percentage of State taxation was five and i 1 lo frtw f Ka r>KAoanf fic/iol waai> f ka (1 yfllD'HUlL 1IIUID, bill? j?? voctiv uovai jvui uuo m total percentage levied for all State purpose3 t is only four and one-half mills. In the last c two years and a half I have organized seventeen counties in the western section of the ^ State, and census-takers have been appointed t for four other counties,leaving only two counts a remaining to be organized. Summing up, ^ thu facts of the census confute and confound i those who assert that the material prosperity of a ny community is promoted by the pres- s snce of saloons. So l'ar as Kansas'and all her cities and towns are concerned, the reverse of [ this assertion is true. The most wonderful ? era of prosperity, of material, moral and in- ? tellectual development, of growth in coun- I try, cities and towns, ever witnessed on the t American continent, has been illustrated in c Kansas during the six years since the temper- | ance amendment to our Constitution was f adopted, and especially during the last two : years, the period of its most energetic and 1 complete enforcement." Boor nn(l H^nllh. * i i. 1. ? i' ? o<VA Kw A pampiuet soul uut ix iew uiuiium mj the "Literary Bureau" of the United States Brewers' Association, claiming exceptional c good health and longevity for men employed j in breweries and heavy beer-drinkers, called forth the following noteworthy reply, published in tho Insurance Monitor: "Thomann's pamphlet, published in this I city a short time ago in the interest of tho j brewers, in which it was attempted to prove by statistics that beer-drinking is healthy, lias called out the following criticism from ' Dr. IBombaugh, whose long experience s as a medical examiner enable? him to r speak from the book: Thomann: sim- j ply proves what he did not start out to m ove?that the robust men employed in tho breweries, who drink from forty to tiny j glasses of beer daily, remain in robust health c for some years by virtue of their,large amount ? of vital force and tenacity; not by virtue of j beer, but in spite of it. We have closely watched the heavy beer-drinker in this com- ' niunity, with reference to their mortality I ratio, for more than twenty years, and our t observations show that out of every hundred j who saturate themselves in tins immoderate way, not more than five pass the age of 1 fifty-three. Those that escape Bright's dis- s ease or uraemic poisoning become vie- ( tirns of cirrhosis, or fatty degeneration, or f ervainelas. or apoplexy. One or other of s these fatal diseases invariably gives the finish- ' ing touch to the 'splendid physique,' about j which Thomann rants, long before the period i of natural expectation." I Switzerland has voted two to one to place i the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors solely in the hands of the government, mak- , ing it an exclusive government monopoly. The popular vote was 258,000 in favor to ' 137,000 opposed. AGRICULTURAL. rOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AN'D GARDEN. Foods as Milk Producers. A bulletia issued from the Iowa Agricultural College makes the following classification of the relative values of foods as milk producers: Potatoes, per 100 pounds 10 2orn, per 10.) jx>unds 50 rimotny, per 100 pounds 50 Barley, per 100 pounds 55 3ats, per 100 pounds 110 IV heat, per 100 pounds 03 Wheat bran, p^r 100 pounds TO Clover hay, jx.t 100 pounds 80 3il meal, per 100 pounds 145 Hens and Hen-Houses. It is well to examine the nest and the 4.1,~ i., ^rc : ,1 ;oo* VVilCU 111C null 13 UU ILX'Ulll^ uuu lusting, and if one of the eggs should mppen to be broken, remove it and :leanse the otlier eggs in water at about )lood-hcat, fresheu up the nest, and jiddy will be thankful to you for such mobtrusive kindness. The German'oio7i Telegraph also says: Spray the henlouses thoroughly with kerosene. This 5 better and cheaper than whitewash. V spraying bellows will soou pay for tseif. The spray penetrates every crack ind crevice, and is so fine that a very imall quantity of kerosense serves for a riven surface. This method of cleansng lien-houses is cheap and effectual. ?? Onion Maggot anil GU&rify&ts According to an exchange, frjgs of the >nion maggot arc laid in Wfcs blossom and levelop in the seed; therefore shaking ;he seeds inastroag iiitfiv.tfclbn rtfeayenne >epper kiils the itggs, and proreatB destruction of the crop. Haa the author j )f this theory seen, as I did tho past ipring, eggs of the onion maggot by the easpoonful laid on the earth just aiiroit he plants, he would change 1l;s mind.. Vnother paragraph cexui'nracroda $Jlev,*j?gn autumn to Instiffoal fJle (Cjlwnrms. S) iave provc.l by trial tha# this does no rood, exccpt as it gives birds a better :hance to pick up these fat caterpillars, vhich they are always ready to do. It s worth while to try against cutworms )lacing small bunches of grass or clover >reviously sprayed with the London uirple poison about the garden before he tomatoes or cabbage plants are set, >r in the cornfield just as the corn is :oming up.?Professor A. J. Cook. Turn the Pigs Out to Pasture. The Baltimore Sun says that pigs as veil as cows should be turned out to msture, and gives the reasons why, as bllows : " He is a wise farmer who provides >lenty of pasture for his hogs in summer. Hie hog is entitled to grass in summer is much so as the cow, and will profit >y it equally as well. In his wild or latural state he lives during the entire rear upon such food as he can pick up? ,rass in summer, and mast, roots and j 1. _ n..i. i_;_ j a.z jruus in winter, nut in nis uomesu:ated state his choice of food is more ; iinitcd, on account of the less range alowed him, and lie therefore needs somehing more. Many farmers pay very ittle attention to what food their hogs ! yet until fattening time, thinking that ! intil then all that is necessary is to give hem barely enough to keep them aiive, vhen they are impatient to stuff them vitli all the corn they will eat. The endency of a corn diet is to produce fat ind to heat the system, and is, therefore, 'ery suitable food in winter, or for the inal preparation of the animals for narket; but young, growing hogs need i more bulky as well as a more cooling ind loosening diet in summer, not only he better to preserve their health, but o distend their stomachs, and build up >one and muscle to enable them to digest more food and carry more weight of iesh than when confined exclusively to orn." Hints on Haying. Hay that is raked and bunched up __i? ii < * ~ \ *i? ...:n I illly 111 U1U ill tui UUUU Willie It 15j I1U I Will ?e cured more the next morning than hat that is left till the air grows damp ,nd the dew begins to (all. Do your aking soon after dinner and the getting n later when it is not *o hot. Hay that is to be opened may be opened s soon as the dew is off the grass. Some men wait for the ground to get lot, but the same heat that would not fleet the ground would be drying the lay if it was spread out. Never stop mowing for dull weather ill you get as much down as you can landle when it cleats oif. Rain will not lurt grass till it wilts. . If hay has to stand in the bunch hrough a long, dull spell, build it over, -1 l-i. 1.1. _ il 1. , COCK, at a. nine, auu lei iuu uir inrougn t and put a portion on top that has been m the ground. At night is the time to judge of the reather. If it looks promising then lever stop for fog or clouds in the mornng; they will blow over. Dew docs but little damage to hay in tiy stage of dryness. It brings some of he juices to the surface and changes the olor; it also makes it smell sweeter and :attle will often eat hay better that has ?ecn wet with dew or a slight shower. If you cannot get hay raked before the lew begins to fall let it lie,if the weather j ooks right. ''Make hay while the sun i hines." Dry it before you put it in. Steaming ; n the mow will damage it more than getting wet in the field if it is properly >ut up. An old farmer's rule, and one hat is probably reliable, to tell when Unif Jo annnoli f A nil f in thn iU.tl ii.ljr ?.j I.UU.,SU w r?, ? Kirn is to test it with the thumb nail. If he bark cannot be scraped from the stalk t is safe to put it in.?Neio York Herald. few Method of Growing Strawberry Plants. The method described below perhaps rnglit not to be called new, as it has been cnown and practiced for some time; but lot until quite recently has public atention been called to it. Mr. F. C. Hillcr, of Ohio, has probably practised t mom nvf?nci i-ol v mid III I v thnn iny oik- else, but it has been tried at the _)hio Experiment .Station several years ind found to be practicable. The last eport from the station contains the folowing concerning this method: It consists simply in removing the roung runners from the plants as soon, >r even before, they have taken root, and >ropagating in a cold frame; or, in other voids, treating the young plants as lorists treat cuttings. There arc several nodifications of the plan, but the cssen;ial conditions are a plentiful supply of noisture and partial shade. The plants nay be set in two-inch pots, filled with mitable soil, or they may be planted . losely together in a bed of sand, such is florists use for propagating purposes, sufficient water should be given to keep ;hc soil moist constantly, but not soakng wet. Shade must be given sufficieut ;o prevent wilting. This may be done a ?i tVHIl lain, ClOIU or Wiumntwucu yiiisa. As soon as the plants are rooted sufSciently they should be planted in the Held and kept clean by thorough cultivation. It is possible, by this method, to rJW ? ? . . _ / -(V secure much tetter results thaa hy the ordinary plan of potting plant* good well-rooted plants can be gr? ^ftearly a month earlier than in the fiel^P This j renders fall planting much more sot? and practicable, as the plants have a 16?ger time to grow. In dry weather this method is especially advantageous. More plants can also be grown than by any other method, hence it is especially applicable with new varieties. In market gardens it could be practised to advantage, as strawberries could be grown sue* " -i i~ ;i cessiuuy as a second crop, un ncasun | the growth will be sufficient, so that the plants will yield n arly a full crop the j season after planting. It is probable that some of the insect enemies of the strawberry may be successfully met when this method is practised. Some remarks on this subject will be found in the report of the entomologist. Unless the plants are propagated early, and the planting done as soon as possible, there are no advantages in this plan over that of rooting plants in pots in the field, or even of taking ordinary runners as soon as roots have formed.?Neva York World. farm ana uaruen woies. Keep machinery and wagons well oiled. The squash is a rank feeder and needs rich soil. Keep down the suckers that start from tree roots. Remember to be careful in the use of Paris green. Copperas solution for grape rot has many advocates. The progressive farmer always keeps ahead of the weeds. The first lesson in stock raising is to j learn to love and pet the cattle. An Illinois farmer finds salt an effective protection against the chinch bug. All kinds of stock except sheep and swine have decreased in value in Dakota. Clay soil gives the most solid and best flavored celery, according to some growers. The man who warms himself up every morning grooming his horses will be well remunerated for his trouble. Begin bee keeping with one or two colonies and study the subject as-you enlarge and extend the business. When the leaves of the squash vines i ?*>' ?_ il-. l-_? .1- T?1? -1 uegin ro wile in me urigui <juiy uup look out for the squash-borers. An occasional sprinkliug with cop])cras solution will help to keep the cow stable free from offensive odors. "The best manure for small fruits, and in fact for everything else, is well-rotted barnyard manure," says M. Milton. Strict cleanliness in the care of stables, pigpens, poultry-houses, etc., is nevei more imperative than at this season. Watch for striped bugs upon the vines; n lirrlit rlneM'nnr with whit.A lpfld whilfi tllft dew is on is?said to afford protection against them. Manuring grasi fields near a dairy sometimes leads to tainting the butter, otherwise sweet and objectionable, so as to destroy its use. Better prices are paid for colts and undeveloped horses now 'than have ever been known before. A man can do worse with his farm than to raise good colts on it. According to Commissioner Colman, the germs of apple and pear blight are of extreme tenuity and are borne from place to place and from tree to tree by the atmosphere. One ounce of copperas dissolved in a pint of water, and applied by a sprinkler - - - - 1.1 I _: 11 ?"I ,J1 10 ailCCieu cituuitye:-, mucu ail mi; cuu- i bage worms. Carbolate of lime drove ' them away, but did not kill him them. Turkeys are great foragers, and will gather their entire food from the fields during the summer, at the same time destroying myriads of bugs, grasshoppers, worms, etc., that prey upon the crops. The National Live Stock Journal says ' if the colt is haltered and handled a half hour every day till two months old, and haltered aud led regularly at least once a week, before being weaned, it will be ' better for it every way. A cunning statist estimates that three weeds of moderate size and growth will . occupy as much ground, draw as much , nutriment from it, take in as much of j the life-giving sunlight and of the foodbearing atmosphere as a good stalk ol I corn. Mr. T. E. Piatt, of Connecticut, says in New England, Homestead: -lIf a growing potato comes in contact with a par~ 1 -* ? el'in will Ko r?nrmflnrl ' Ul'IU U1 pUlUSLl Lilt; oum TV All wv vvitvuvui This will give the tuber a rough skin, which some people call the scab, but it is not, yet it may damage the tubers as ! much as the true scab, which is caused I by a fungus." Vich's Magazine says the cod 1 in moth can be successfully destroyed by syring ing the trees with paris green and watei soon after the blossoms have fallen, and when the little apples, nearly formed, arc held ercct by their fruit stems, calyx eud up. The apple aphis can be destroyed by kerosene oil made into an emulsion and mixed with water, the liquid thrown on in a tine spray with a force pump. A Cottage at Elberon. A mile down the coast and we come to j Elberon?the Mount McGregor of New i Jersey, for here Garfield was urougm i lying upon his death bed. The cottage from which he gazed upon the sea until j his eyes were closed forever is as cosy and cheerful as before the villainous shot was fired. The crreen lawn over which a branch railroad was built for that one passenger; the veranda to which the car was backed before the cot of suffering was tenderly lifted out; the room next the sea through which they carried him, and the ' railing that had to be cut away before I they could get him up stairs; the cham- I ber'in which he suffered, surrounded by j the sympathies and prayers of all the people of the earth; the little room upon j the ground floor in which lie lay in state I before starting on his last long journey? I these arc objects of interest, looked at not j only with the eye but with the heart. This i cottage of death is the most impressive I sight upon the bench, and the few who ! arc privileged to see within it must go j away impressed with the superiority of the human soul when they feel the weird light that the great spirit left in its de* | parture.?Rochester Ileraltl. The Sugar King. Clans Spreckles is a native of Hanover, j Germany, and of humble origin. He j came to the United States about 1830,! and opened a grocer's store in New York : City. He went to Califotniaand opened a grocer's store and made money fast. A later venture was to buy an interest in a brewery. After a few years he sold out, j a large gainer, anu liivesieu uis uiouuy in ; the business of refining sugar, lie now i controls the sugar business of the Pacific coast, and has the monopoly of the trade in that staple with Hawaii.-^-Merchant-? Iiemw, f<>PULAR SCIENCE. The color of the sun, if seen outside the earth's atmosphere, is believed by Prof. Lan^Ley to be of a bluish tinge? ? or, as he describes it, a lavender with perhaps a suggestion of purple. Y ?- / -_ _ J i.U Jfure water nows ior a certain ucpm near the surface of every river t h it drains the wide regioa of country, though a stratum, of fluid that is equivalent to A sewage moves sluggishly along near the bottom?these two rivers; scarcely ming- Y ling in ordinary years. Musical composers are incfebtcd to science for two new instruments. The melograph?lately described??s- designed accurately to record the notes of any y tune played upon a piano; and the melotrope has just been devised in France to faithfully reproduce upon any piano- the pieces automatically copied by the- first " apparatus. An interesting series of experiments has been made by Dr. J. W. Fraser on the influence of common beverages on digestion. Among these drinks he finds that water i3 usually the best. Of infusions, tea or cocoa is the best for use with mea tor eggs. Eggs are the best animal ^ food with infused beverages, and should be soft boiled with coffee or cocoa. Starting on Dr. Dawson's assertion that one foot of coal represents fifty h< generations of coal plants, and that each generation took ten years to mature?a very moderate assumption?and taking the actually measured thickness of the coal measures in some localities at 12,000 feet, Prof. Iluxley calculates that the time represented by the coal formation E' alone would be 6,000,000 years?sufficient to show that when we come to deal ^ with geological time the unit of measure......... 1 nnft ?n?rc illULIU iO X^yVV)VVV JVUIO. That odor is, like light and sound, a phenomenon of undulation is the belief M. P. Lcclerc. He urges that it is more reasonable to suppose that the odors produced by rubbing certain substances? b< like sulphur?are due to the waves set w up than that the rubbing causes ^ matter to be emitted which cannot be detected except as a smell. The garlicodor of heated arsenious acid - is a smell ar accompanying chcmical action the same th as in many other cases we have light or u heat in connection with it. With some- j* what imperfect apparatus Leclerc claims . to have produced interference of odors * analogous with the interference phc- su nomena of light. tb The prc-historic development of q Northern Europe is considered in a work . by the late J. J. A. Worsaae, au eminent Danish archoeologist, under tne iouow- " ing phrases, the approximate chronology bf assigned being as stated: 1. The early jj Stone Age, at least 3000 B. C., when portions only of Southern Scandinavia seem to have been inhabited. 2. The later Stone Age, about 2000 to 1000 B. C., contemporaneous with the Bronze t* Age on the shores of the Mediterranean, ol 3. The early Bronze Age, about 1000 to ti 500 B. C., when a Stone Age existed to the north, and an Iron Age had already come in to the south. 4. The late ec Bronze Age, about 500 B. C., to the time lo of Christ's birth, when a pre-Roman Age ta of Iron was developed in Central and tj. "Western Europe. 5." The early Iron . Age, from A. D. 1 to 450, when bronzo | *" was still in use in parts of the Scandinavian peninsula. 6. The middle Age la of Iron, about A. D. 450 to 700, when tc foreign Romano-German influence pre- ^ dominated. 7. The later Iron Age, or ,. Viking Period, about A. D. 700 to 1000, bl when a Stone Age still lingered in the w extreme north of Finland and Lapland, th A Pneumatic Tube to Europe. m Col. J. II. Pierce, of Saithington, who , has been studying the use of pneu- ' matic tubes, has readied a point at which of he hopes to shew that a tube across the Atlantic can be used. Following ^ a description of the apparatus as he conceives it: The tubes will alw:.ys be in ^ couples, with the currents of air in ono tube always moving in an opposite direc- as tion from the other, me neaviesc cannoil will serve to illustrate the tube. A fa car takes the place of the charge, the ^ tube to be indefinitely continuous and the speed of the car to be governed by the rapidity with whichit can be forced through. Time is required to establish w a current of air flowing with great swift- ra ness through a tube perhaps thousands ? of miles in length, but when onco created the motion will be nearly uni- Q1 form. The speed of the current may be af made as great as may be desired by us- bi ing the steam driver fans employed in blast furnaces. Niagara Falls could drive blast fans and furnish motive power to * keep in motion the trains to connect this ^ rnntincnt with the old world. The tem- be perature within the tube may be regu- ar lated by passing blasts of air entering to the tube through furnaces or over ice. , The speed attainable may reach 1,000 miles an hour. The tube lining and car tt exterior would be of polished steel with b< corrugated sides matching, with wheels provided with anti-friction bearings. The speed, owing to the curvature of the earth's surfacc, will tend to overcome all , weight and the pressure will be upon the upper part of the tube; thus there is g' scarcely any limit to the speed attainable, ar The inventions consist in the details of ca the work.?Hartford Courant. Music in China. gc The Chinese play to-day just as they hi did 2,000 years ago, snys H. E. Krchbiel ?i Tho art as it was then has been ^ petrified "by a fantastic system of mental philosophy and an adamantine couserva- ur tisin." So that in considering the condition of the musical art in China to-day dc we have an actual sight of what was tho 0f system and practice at the time of Plato. .. The refinement in this knowledge of music is mostly on its metaphysical side. da The Chinese sages could and do publish ki doctrine touching music which is golden m doctrine in the art of to-day, but the .ric <v,r.v r?rrvflnoo nri? a din in which ^ traces of order and of melodious sequence are not discernible except by a very th patient and a very well trained ear. A nc barbarism rests on the music still, and to . add to the many paradoxes which the Chinese hold before us, they concede that ^ the art of to-day is a degenerate one, Vt but speak with pride of one now lost is which nourished at a time when Greece ^ was yet shrouded in prc-historic gloom, Introduced and then Married. I a Henry AVynn, a bachelor from tho West, who was receut'.y visiting his brother at Owen Sound, Ontario, ex- . pressed the desire one day to get married before his return. The day of his departure had already J been set, and to expedite matters he offered his brother's wife a deed to fifty acres of land if she ' would get him a wife by the Saturday fol- 3Pj lr?win?r the date of the offer. After ex ,-.Q ? _ _ ploring the town wituout success for th, several days, 011 Friday Mrs. Wynn met ad a Miss Milrose, who was willing to ac- or cept the oiTer. She was introduced to her prospective husband on Saturday ^ evening, just before the boat was leav- yc ing. A consultation was held, the pair lie wore married on the spot, Mrs. "VVynn Wl was handed over th^ deed for the fifty acres of land and the bride and grooio ia, steamed away for their prairie home. vo RELIGIOUSREADING. | New Every Morning. rery day Is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new; oo who are weary of sorrow or sinning, % Hero is a beautiful hope for you? A hope for me and a hope for you. 11 the post things are part and over. The tasks are done and the tears aro shed; esterday's errors let yesterday cover, Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled, Are healed with the healing which night has shed esterdav is ft rwrfc of fnPAvar Bound up in a sheaf which God holds tight, rith giad days and sad days, and bad days which never, Shall visit us more with their blcom and their blight, ''^11 Their fulness of sunshine or sorrowful night. sJH 3t them go sinco wo cannot relieve them, Can not undo and can not atone, 5d in His mercy receive, forgive them, Only the Dew days are our own, To-day is ours and to-day alone. ere are the skies all burnished brightly, He is the spent earth all reborn, are are the tired limbs springing lightly To face the sun and to share with ths morn In the chri9m of dew and the cool of dawn. rery day is a fre3b beginning, Listen, my soul, to the sad refrain, nd spite ot old sorrow and old sinning, And puzzle forecasted, and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again. Bear Thy Bnrden Bravely. If thon hast a skeleton ia^the cupjard, keep it there. Believe me, the orld does uot desire to see it. It it z vi vuguu vuiiy iv uuaj iciiuj iaa attract. Eear thy burden bravely id silently, or, better still, cast it oa ie board shoulders of the Almighty, e at least will carry the heavy end of for you. If thy heart be stricken by te cruel hand of adversity, be still and ifTer. Only children cry and show leir bruises. If thou must cry, cry to tirist. If thou must show thy wounds, ten do it to the eye of the great physian and consoler. His glance bringi ilm frnm frilflad.?fRev. Walter J. athams. The Eleventh Hour. "The thief on the cross was saved at te eleventh hour, you know." This is :ten said to us by those who are ' 'put g off." It is quite true that one thief as saved at the eleventh hour, but it it jually true that the other thief was st at the same hour. People do not kc account of this. But even keeping ic lost thief out of sight, we see nothg in the case of the one who was saved i encourage procrastination. He was te certainly, but there is no evidence i show that he had ever put off salva:> . On the other hand, the proba lity is, from trie circumstance 01 ms ild life, that he had never before had ie chance of rejecting Christ That arks a mighty difference between him id so many in our midst who are from ly to day shutting the Son of God out f, -?#g : their hearts. "Doea Jeiaa Often Come Ilercf" A little five-year-old child of poverty, :ing shown over a home of great wealth, i she saw the rich carpets and sump lous furnishings, looked up into the ce of the mistress and said, "I should . link Jesus must come here very often, is such a nice house and such a beautiil carpet. He comes to our house, and e don't have any carpet I am sure he ust come here very often; doesn't ha? * eceiving no reply, she repeated the lestion, ana rue answer was, -i am raid not." Soon the child went home, it her bit of a sermon remained, and iat night t e lady repeated it to her ealthy, worldly husband, telling him ,e touching incident, and it resulted in )th husband and wife seeking Christ id opening their hearts and homes > him. It is the word spoken from the ;art for Jesus, and followed by the Spirit tat does th3 work, whether the preacher s child or orator. A Word for the floor. It is not, after all, a thing to be won;red at that men should reject the eat truths of revelation. These truths e spiritual, and the carnal mind has no pacity for receiving them; they are >ly, and are never likely to please un > 17 hearts, uuu, uoiuos, tucj bio imbling to the crcature, and give all ory to God, and hcnce proud flesh is drawn daggers with them. If the [regenerate world received the gospel ith favor, it would cast great >ubt upon the divine nature the doctrine; but when e unrenewed heart rejects it with dis? tin, it does, in its own blind way, aclowledge that the teaching is not of an, neither by man. If the gospel ?re of the world, the world would lovo ) own: but because it is of God, erefore the world rejects it. Have we ?t been too much staggered by the ct that the direction of modern ought is against evangelical truthV as not ancient thought the same? . ^ _i?<?\r? 1101 rOklC tC.\L a. vrajo w* uu, oughts arc not your thoughts, neither e my ways your ways, saith the >rd;"?[Kev. V. II. Spurgeon. S Heaven is never deaf but when man's art is dumb.?[Francis Quarles. The Poison Alcohol. Hie New York World caused to be analyzed jcimens of whisky, gin, brandy, and rum lich it purchased from a larjre number of intp.chorts iii different partsot the city, and 3report gives them a "clean bill" so rar as ult'.ration is coucerned. There was little no adulteration found. The liquor was rnt it purported to be, and hence the mism of the people who flght against "'adulterams'' is gone. But Dr. Willard Parke." said Kirs ago that the most injurious part of the ]Uor was the alcohol itself. That was the arst poison of ail. It is the alcohol which i light. It is a poison, and ii more and ore being so considered by the publio at