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"AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE to winif ivn r.innnv Fowl With Broken Lea:. The leg of any small animal, broken on the lower part or where the bone is not covered with muscle, can be easily repaired in this manner: Procure a number of strips an inch wide of cotton cloth, and sew them together by the ends and , roll them into a ball. Wet them thoroughly ; have some one hold the animal aud tlie leg properly adjusted, and begin wrapping the bandage around it in a piral manner the whole length. Then continue to wind the bandage, but prinkle caicined plaster of paris upon it to cover the cloth thinly, until sufficient i? wound on to keep the broden Done firmly in place. Then sew the end of the bandage and support the bone with three thin splints of wood bound with thread over the bandage until the plaster sets >' and dries. In a few days remove the wooden splints and leave the plaster bandage for a month or six weeks, when it may be removed. This plan has been used to repair fractures of legs of horses And cows with success.?NetcTork Times. Hints on Killing "Weeds. Plants cannot live indefinitely deprived lnav/ia TT/mr?n iiw?v*i?n t incr thr*ir V? VUVi. .V...VO. I O appearance above the surface will kill them sooner or later. Plants have greater need for their leaves, and can be more easily killed in the growing season thau when jxirtialjy dormant. Cultivation in a dry time is most injurious to weeds and bcncficial to crops. Avoid the introduction of weeds in manure or litter or from weedy surroundings. Some gardeners use no stable manure on grounds they desire to keep especially clean, relying on commercial fertilizers and the plowing under of green crops. After a summer crop has ripened, instead of allowing the land to grow up to weeds, it is often well to sow rye or 9ome other crop to cover the ground and keep them down. Give every part of the farm clean cultivation every few years, either with a hoed crop or, if necessary, with a fallow. It is often stated that cutting weeds while in flower will kill them. This is only reliable with biennials, and with them only when done so late that much of the seed will grow. If the ground is kept well occupied with other crops weeds will give much less trouble. Keep meadows and roadBides well seeded and plow-land cultivated, except when shaded by crops.? Agriculture Report. Best Time for Harvesting Crops. In harvesting, important principles are involved. While we allow root crops to Sow as long as they can, and harvest em before frost damages them, grains, ' * 1 -* - -a- 3 wneat, oariey, oais, eic., ueeu lu uc cut before perfectly ripe, if wp would secure the largest amount of starch is the kernel, which iuiprove3 the quality of the flour, the value for malting, etc., while at the same time, the straw is better for feeding. Indian corn is quite sensitive to frost. Sorghum should be cut when the grain is fully ripe to secure also the largest quantity of sugar in the stalk. Grass when cut before it is in blossom is innutritious, and dries out greatly in making hay. "When cut in full blossom, or when just out of blossom, it is in lull flavor, in its highest degree of nutritious value, and loses far less in drying. When cut after the seed has formed, much of the foliage will have turned brown and dried, the stems will be woody, and, though it dries with comparatively little loss of weight, yet it is far less relished by cattle, and is le3s nutritious, while in very few grasses does the seed make good J ?< Tkn me uilliuigi; tU IUU icac \jl mr piaui/. iuv same general principles apply to clover and other forage crops. Thus corn for ensiloing or for drying for coarse fodder should Le cut up after the eais are well formed, and before they are fully ripe, for then the stalk is richer in sugar, has more foli:ige, andOless woody fiber. ? American Agriculturist. Oat Straw for Stock. In a recent report of conclusions, j reached through a long series of experiments concerning the feeding of oot straw, Professor Sanborn, of Missouri, says '.hat this straw is mainly valuable as a heat and fat producer. It does not | produce much fat, because cattle will not eat enough of it. It contains but 1.4 per cent, of digestible albuminoids, or flesh formers, and 40 per cent, of diges tible carbohydrates, or fat formers. Hence, to use it with advantage and get the full benefit of it, it must be fed with a food of directly the opposite kind,such as oil meal or cottonseed meal. The I x luicdsui iuuuu mat mut>-juui jiuumi?) ( of oat straw and six pounds of cottonseed { meal gave the same results as fifty pounds of the hay, because cottonseed meal has 33.2 per cent, of albuminoids and but 17.G per cent, of carbohydrates, thus forming, with the straw, a well-balanced ration. Oil meal contains 27.0 per cent, of albuminoids and 27 percent, of carbohydrates, so that a pound more of oil meal than of cottonseed meal should be fed. The cost of this feed as compared with hay at $5 a ton, or i of a cent per pound, is an important question. It is said to take tw enty-tive pounds of it to make a steer gain a pound a day, or (5? cents daily to keep him in good growing condition. But if by feeding four pounds of oil meal, worth It cents per pound, the same gain can be made, and by feeding a proportionately less amount we can keep up the weight, it will help out a short crop of hay. ISut to the fanner who has not and cannot get oil meal the following fact3 will be of value: Clover hay contains about 9 per ccnt. of albuminoids, timothy contains 3.8, and oat straw 1.4 per cent; therefore, it will be seen that a ton of clover hay fed with a ton of oat straw will be equal iu value to two tons of timothy, because clover hay contains an excess of albuminoids, and it is waste to feed it by itself, as it is w iste to feed oat straw alone. A steer fed on the straw long enough would starve, b it when fed with clover they are a well-balanced ration, and make a poor hay crop go much larthcr. it is cieany established that the food value of oat :;traw can be obtained only by feeding wit h something that has an excess of albuminoids and a j deficicncy of carbohydrates. The farmer's food of this class is clover hay. Farm and Garden Notes. It is a mistake to suppose that sour, fermented slop for hogs is better than a fresh mixture that is sweet and clean. Sunflower seed is often fed to poultry, but if too much be given it will cause the feathers to fall as it promotes early moulting. Although it is supposed that the hog qats anything, yet it rejects many grasses And weeds that are readily eaten by sheep and cattle. V Rata are dire enemies of young' chicks, and will kill all of the crop if they can remain among the fowls long enough. Professor Stewart reports the feeding of 104 cows on an acre of corn in the milk, and it gave them full feed for four days, equal to 41G days for one cow. If in"a very fat condition the chanccs are that the hen will show an inclination to set. Even the so-called non setters on becoming fat will attempt to hatch a brood. When the leaves of plants assume a yellow tinge the application of fifty pounds nitrate of soda (saltpetre) will often cause them to again become green and thrifty. In Flanders the farmer's maxim is: "Without manure there is no grain; without cattle there is no manure, and without green crops and roots cattle cannot be kept." Animals are subject to sunstroke as well as human bcir.gs if compelled to endure excessive heat. The pasture should always contain a few shade trees, and also running water. A poulterer says: We would never attempt to keep a flock of chickens through the winter without plenty of dry earth for a dust bath. The best time to store it is when it is dry. The free use of insect powder in the stables will greatly lessen the annoyance to stock from flies, but the stalls and floors should be kept clean. Dusting the legs of horses with carbolate of lime will aid in preventing attacks from insects. I A farmer writes that he considers a cow three-quarters Jersey and one-quarter corn meal about as good for butter as any he can find. He has a small herd of such cows who<e butter sells at a handsome advance over the average price. The dairy cow maybe regarded as a machine for transforming the food which she receives into milk, butter and cheese. She has no power, however, to produce something out of nothing. The best she can do is to perform her work economically. A correspondent ot the London Eorti- ' cultural Times, who has u?ed salt upon | all kinds of crops successfully for thirty ; years, warmly recommends it. IFe says, however, it should not be used on cold, | heavy, moist soils. It should be in every : garden. I Farmers will find it to their advantage to com mutton in a weak brine for home consumption. The hams can be smoked and used like dried beef, or they can be boiled. The corned mutton will be found an agreeable change from sausage and spare ribs. Tomato vines will endure quite an amount of cutting and trimming, and often renew tiiemselves when nearly dead. If the branches be too thick it will be of advantage to cut some of them out from a few vines where a limited amount of pnriv fruit shall be desired. Store beet?, carrots, parsnips and turnips in bins in the cellar and pack them in dry sand or earth and they will keep well for winter use. This method will enable the farmer to use them at any time, which will not be the case if they be stored in mouuds in the open air. Hogs kept in confinement will eat charcoal or even bituminous coal with relish, and they are also fond of rotten wood, these substances seeming to furnish a desired, if not necessary, condiment or appetizer. Charred corn once a week is a welcome variation in the fare of swine. Sassafras is a nuisance in any field, but it cannot be destroyed very easily except Zi. ?AmAff!n/v Q14 f Vi a t>y gruumug it uui, iCLuu>mg ?>? .??? roots. Being a hardy and persistent plaut it must be killed in its younger stages. If allowed to overrun a field it will entail nearly as much labor as is required to clear new land from brush. An observing writer remarks that farmers may naturally be divided into three classes: 1. Those who grow crops below the average, and whose live9 are a struggle with poverty. 2. Those who grow average crops and make a living by elose economy. 3. Those whose crops are always above the average, and who are prosperous. Those making use of driven wells should remember that the patent expired two vnnrs :i<ro. and that the wells r>ut down since then are free of any royalty; also, that the right of any person claiming to act as agent of the patentee should be clearly established before money is paid him. It Is a good rule in all such cases I to go slow and act with neighbors, j Grease of any kind will destroy lice on i cattle, but the use of grease to a great extent will injure the cattle. If a single animal be infested with lice all the others will soon be in the same condition. A pound of carbolate of lime, mixed with a nf Ann flrtr rlirf snnttprpfl uuoiiv.1 \JL mivj ^ ^ j on the backs of the animals, is a harmless remedy, and will prove successful if used daily. Farmers generally do not yet appreciate the value of bran as a feeding1: substance. It conta:ns less oil than corn meal, but one-fourth more flesh-forming, bonebuilding material. It is, therefore, less heating and more healthful. By analysis its mauuriul value after being fed to animals is rather more than double that of meal. Bran can usually be bought in the fall for about one-third le;s than in . winter. I Cream is more valuable than butter, since it is equal to both butter and buttermilk, although the impression seems to prevail with most milk producers that the one great and only legitimate end of milk J and its cream is to make butter, and a I sense of waste and misuse involuntarily arise wheuever either is used for any other purpose; while, iu fact, butter making is the least useful purpose for which milk is employed. Profit in agriculture means hard work and plenty of it. Instead of a few old log gums and box hives and brimstone for the bees in the fall, with no management, the present demands the best movable frame hives with large capacity for surplus, simple in construction and ad; mittingof ease and sp ecd in handlingone that v ill winter well on summer stands without further p icking or piOtCCtinn with ftntrimro oncilv rnntrnot-fxl r*r | V.V.M J enlarged, and with a brood chamber that can be expanded at will. ? A Taste Destroying Plant. It has been for some time reported that there existed in Madras a plant the leaves of which, when chewed, destroyed the taste to such an extent that one could not distinguish sugar from sund. The report was supposed to be founded on a j mere notion. Specimens received in L\irAi\A f/\ Ka o rnnl'K' TKn J'tAl VSJJV JHUVC Xb tl/ uv u ivuuvj, lliu plant is Qymnema sylveitre. The use of such a plant in removing nausea from disagreeable doses, and in many other ways, is apparent. It belongs, however, to a natural order, Asclepiadacea, which have patent powers of their own, and it has yet to be known whether its power of destroying taste may not also destroy the value of the medicines it may be Ufed | with.?Philadelphia TeUqraph. RET. DR. T ALU AGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. t Subject: "Woman's Specific Rights. TExfc: ' ' There are three-score queens."? Solomon's Song, vi., 8. So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth the imperial character of a trne Christian woman. I She is not a slave, not a hireling, not a subI ordinate, but a queen; and in my text Solomon sees sixty of these helping to make up the royal pageant of Jesus. In a former sermon I showed you that crown and courtly attendants and imperial wardrobe were not necessary to make a queen; but that graces of the heart and life will give coronation to ; any woman. 1 showed you at some length | that woman's position was higher in the world j than man's, and that although she had often j been denied the right of suffrage, she always I did vote and always would vote by her infiu j ence; ami that her chief desire ought to be j that slieshould have grace rightly to rule in the dominion which she has already won. I began an enumeration of some of her rightey and this morning I resume the subject. In the first place, woman has the special and the superlative right?not again going back to what I have already said?woman j has the special and superlative right of blesst ing and comforting the sick. What land,. whaH street, what house has not felt the smitings of disease? Tens of thousands of sick beds! What shall we do with them? Shall man, with his rough hand and clumsy foot, go> stumbling around thesick room, trying to soothe tne distracted nerves and alleviate the pains of the tossing patient? The young man at college may scoff at the idea of being under maternal influences, but at tho first blast of the typhoid, fever on his cheek be says: "Where is mother?" Walter Scott wrote partly in satire and partly in compliment when he said: O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncurtain, coy and hard to please ; When pain and anguiah wring the brow, A ministering angel tbon. I think tho most pathetic passage in all the Bible is the description of the lad who went out to the harvest field of bhunera and got sunstruck?throwing his hands on his temples and crying out: " Oh, my head ! my head 1" and they said : " Carry him to his mother." And then the record is< "He sat on her knees till noon, and then died." It is an awful j thing to be ill away from home in a strange hotel, once in a while men coming in to look at you, holding their hand over their mouth for fear they will catch the contagion. How roughly they turn you in bed. How loudly they talk. How you long for the ministries, of home. I knew one such who went away from one of the brightest of homes for , several weeks' business absence at tho West. A te'.egram cams at midnight that he wason his deathbed, fair away from home. By express train, the wife and daughters went westward; but they went too late. He feared; not to die, but he was in agony to live until his family got there. He tried to bribe the doctor to make him live a littlewhile longer^ He said: "I am willing to (Liebut not alone." Bat the pulses fluttered,, theeyes closed, and the heart stopped. The express trains met in the midnight; wife- and i daughters going westward?lifeless remains of husband and father coming eastward. O, I it was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming I spectacled When we are sick we want j to be back at home. When the time comes for us to die, we want to die at home. The room may be very humble, and ths faces that look into oin-3 may be very plain; but who.cares for that? Loving hands to bathe the temples. Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving lips to read the comforting promises of Jesus. In our last dreadful war men oast the cannon; men fashioned the musketry; men cried to the hosts: "Forward, march 1" men hurled their battalions on the sharp edges of the enemy, crying: "Charge! charge!" but woman scraped the lint; woman administered the cordials; woman watched by the dying couch; woman wrote the last message to the home circle; woman wept at the solitary burial attended by herself and four men with a spade. We greeted the general home with brass bands, and triumphal arches, and wild huzzas; but the story is too good to be written anywhere, save in the chronicles of heaven, of Mrs. Brady, who came down among the sick in the swamps of the ChichaUominy; of Annie Ross, in the cooper shop hospital; of M: rgiret Breckinridge, who came to men who 1 aa been for weeks with their wounds undressed?some of them frozen to the ground, and when she turned them over fhrKp that had an arm left waved it and filled the air with their "hurrahot Mrs. Hodgo. who came from Chicago with blankets ana with pillows, until the men shouted: "Three cheers for the Christian Commission! God bless the women at home," then sitting down to take the last message: "Tell my wife not to fret about me, but to meet me in heaven; tell her to train up the boys whom we have love 1 so well; tell lier we shall meet again in the good land; tell her to bear my loss like the Chris- J tian wife of a Christian soldier;" and of Mrs. | Shelton, into whose face tlje convalescent soldier looked and said: "Your grape3 and cologne cured mo." Men did their work with shot and shell, and carbine, and howitzer; women did their work with socks, and slippers, and bandages, and warm drinks, and Scripture texts, and gentle strokings of the hot temples, and stories of that land where they never have any pain. Men knelt down over the wounded and said: "On which side did you fight?" Women knelt down over the wounded and said: "Where are you hurt? What nice thing can 1 make for you to eat? What makes you cry?" Tonight, while we men are sound asleep in our beds, there will bo a light in yonder loft; there will be groanins" down that dark alley; there will be cries of distress in that cellar. Men will sleep and women will watch. Again, woman has a superlative right to take cane of the poor. There are hundreds and thousands of them all over the land. Thero is a kind of work that men cannot do for the poor. Here comes a group of little barefoot children to the door of the Dorcas Society. Thoy need to be clothed and provided for. Which of these directors ef banks would know how many yards it would take to make that little girl a dress? Which of these masculine hands could fit a hat to that little i r\9 thfl wicA man ^ii i ^ ucau : ii uivu vt wuv ??*w ??>-? would kuow how to tie on a new pair of shoos? Man sometimes gives his charity in a rough way, and it falls like the fruit of a tree in the east, which fruit comes down so heavily that it breaks the skull of the man who is trying to gather it. But woman glides so softly into the house of destitution, and finds out all the sorrows of the place, and puts so quietly the donation on the table, that all the family come out on the front steps as she departs, expecting that from under her shawl she will thrust out two wings and go right up toward heaven, from I whonce she seems to have come down, j Oh, Christian young woman! if you j would make yourself happy and win the blessings of Christ, go out among the destitute. A loaf of bread or a bundle or I socks may make a homely load to carry, but j the angels of God will come out to watch, o" I flin 1 A 1!nrlifir will rriViio moc. j s?nger hosts a charge, saying: ''Look after that woman. Canopy her with your wings and shelter her from all harm;" and while I you are seated in the housa of destitution and I sufTerins, tho little ones around the room will whisper: '"Who is she? Ain't she beautiful:" an 1 if you will listen right sharply you j will hear dripping down through tho leaky ' roof, and rolling over the rotten stairs, the an^el chant that shook Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." Can you tell me why a Christian woman going down anion;; tho haunts ot' iniquity on a Christian - ~ :n. .-rwl.-.rnitv) r emiuu never iiicw? nan ?u; inu^u..; > ? stood in tho cha[>el of Helen Chalinors, the daughter of tho celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in tho most abaudoued part of the city i of Edinburgh, and I said to her as I looked out upon the fearful surroundings of that ]vace: "Do you come here nights to hold a service?" ' <_), yes," she said. " (Jan it be possible that you never maet with an insult while performing this Christaiu errand ?" " Never," she said, "never." That young woman who has her father by her side walking down the street, an armed police at each corner, is not so well defended as that Christian woman who goes forth on gospel work into the haunts of iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread. God, with the red right arm of his wrath omnipotent, would tear to pieces any one who should oiler indignity. He would smite him with lightnings, and drown him with floods, and swallow him with earthquakes, and damn him with eternal indignations Soms one said: "I dislike very much *o see that Christian woman teaching thwso bad boys in the mission school. I uu afraid to have her instruct them." "So," said another man, '! am afraid, *00." Said the first: "I am afraid they willu?e vile language before they leave the placc** "Ah," said the other man. "I am not afraid of that. What' I am afrttftf of b that If a?y of those toy? should use a bad word in that presence the other boys Would tear him tcr pieces and kill; him on the spot." That woman is- best sheltered who Is sheltered by the Lord God Almighty, and you need never fear going anywhere where God tells you to go. It seems as if the Lord had ordained) woman for aa especial work in the solicitation of charitsiw. Backed up by barrels ini which there is no flour, and by stoves in which there is no fire, and by wardrobes in which there are: no clothes, a woman is irresistible; passing on her errand, God says to her: "You go into that bank, or store, or shop, and act the money," She goes in and gets it. The man is hard fisted, but she gets it. She | could not help out gee id. n is aecreea iroim eternity she should get ift No need of your' turning your back and pretending you don'thear; you do hear. There ? no need of your saying you are begged to- death. There is no need of your wasting your time, and you might as well submit first as last. You had better right away take down your check book, mark the number of the check, fill up the blank, sign your name and hand it to her. There is no need of wasting time. Those poor children on the back street have been hungry long enough. That sick man must have some farina. That consumptive must have something to ease his cough. I meet this delegate off a relief society coming out of the store of auch a hard fisted man, and I say: "Did you gei the money J" "Of course;" sh& says, "I got the money; that's what I went for. The Lord told me to go in and get? it, and be never sends me on a fool's errand." Again, I have to tell you1 that it is a woman's specific right to comfort under the stress of aire disaster. She is called the weaker vessel, but all profhne- as well as sacred history attests that' when the crisis conies she is better prepared: than man to meet the emergency. Howoften you have mViA frtnmArl f A .Kn.fti rltaninlo nf I3CCII tm fTV/UiOll nuu ocvtuou uw KTV u ut?tvi|>iw Vk. frivolity and indolence, who, under one stroke of calamity, changed to a heroine; Ota, what a great mistake those business- mem make who never tell their business troubles to their wives t There comes ^ome great lbss- to their store, or some of their companions-in business play them a sad trick, and. they carry the burden all alone. He is asked in the house-, hold-again and again: What is the'matter? but h? believes it a sort of Christian duty tO' keep all that trouble within; his own soul. Oh, your first duty was to tell your-wife all about it. She perhaps- might not have disentangled your finances- or extended your credit but she would! have helped you to bear misfortune. You have no right to carry on one shoulder that which is intended for two. There are business mon her? who know what I mean. There came a crisis in your affaire. You: straggled bravely and long, but after a. white there came a day when you said: "Here I shall have to stop," and you called int your partner^ and yon called in the most prominent men m your employ, andyousaid:: a\Ve have cat to stop." You left the store suldenly. Yoacoull hardly make up your mind to pass through the street ami over on the ferryboat. You felt everybody would be looking at you and blaming you and denouncing yon. You hastened home. You told,your wifeall about the affair. What did she say? Did she play the butterfly? Did she talk about the silks and the ribbons and the fashions? No. She came up to the emergency. She quailed not under the stroke. She helped you to begin to plan right away. She offered, to. go out of the comfortable house into a smaller one, and wear the old cloak another winter. She was one who understood? your affairs without blaming you. You looked upon what you thought was a thin, weak woman's arm holding you up, but while you looked at that arm there came into the feeble muscles of it the strength of the eternal God. No chiding. No fretting. No telling you about the beautiful house of her father, from which you brought her ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. You said: "Well, this is the happiest day of my life. I am glad I have gotten from under my burden. My wife don't care?I don't care." At the moment you were utterly exhausted, God sent a Deborah to meot the host of the Amalekites and scatter them like chaff over the plain. There are sometimes women who sit reading sentimental novels, and who wish that they had some grand field in which to display their Christian powers. Oh, what grand and glorious things they could do if they only had an oppur tunity/ My sister, you need not wait for any such time. A crisis will come in your affairs. Thoro will be a Tlnrmopylce in your own household, where God will tell you to stand. There are scores and hundreds of h-i-elnv where as much braverv and courage are demanded of woman as was exhibited by Grace Darling, or Marie Antoinette, or Joan of Arc. Again I remark, it is woman's right to bring to us the kingdom of heaven. It is easier for a woman to be a Christian than for a man. Why? You say she is weaker. No. Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings of divine love. She is in vast majority. Tiie fact that she can more easily become a Christian, I prove by the statement that threefourths of the members of the churches in all Christendom are women. So God appoints them to be the chief agencies for bringing this world back to God- I may stani here and say the soul is immortal. There is a man who will refute it. I may stand here and say wo aro lost and undone without Christ. There is a man who will refute it I may stand here and say there will be a Judgment Day after a while. Yonder is some one ! WHO Will reiUI/e 1C. X)Ui u> uuruviau nuuiaii | in a Christian household, living in tho faith and the consistency of Christ'3 Gospel?nobody can refute that. The greatest sermons are not preached on celebrated platforms; they are preached with an audience of two or three, and in private home life. A consistent, consecrated Christian service is an unanswerable demonstration of God's truth. A sailor came slipping down the ratlines one night, aa though something had happened,and th3 sailors cried: "What's the matter7" He said: "My mother's prayers naunt me like a ghost." Home influences, consecrated, Christian home influences, are the mightiest of all influences upon the soul. There are men here to day who have maintained their integrity, not because they were any better naturally than some other people, but because there were home influences praying for them all the time. They got a good start. They were launched on the world with tho benedictions of a Christian mother. They may track Siberian snows, they may plunge in African jungles, they may fly to the earth's end?they cannot go so far and so fast but the prayers will kejp up with them I stand beforo women to-day who have the eternal saivauon 01 tneir uu^uanua m buwr right liand. Oil the marriage day you took an oath before men and angels that you would be faithful and kind until death did you part, and I believe you are going to keep that oath; but after that parting at the door of the grave will it be an eternal separation? Is there any su:h thing as an immortal marriage, making the flowers that grow on the top of the sepulcher brighter than the garlauds which at the marriage banquet llooied the air with aroma? Yes; I stand hero as a Eriest of the most high God, to proclaim the :inns of an immortal union for all those who join hands in the grace of Christ. 0 woman, is your husband, your father, your son, away from God? The Lord demanis their redemption at your hands. There are prayers for you to oltor, there aro exhortations for you to give, there are examples for you to set; aim 1 s:iy now, as raui saiu 10 me ^onniman worn in: "What knowe<t thou. 0 woman, but thou canst save thy husbandi" A man was dying: and ho said to his wifo: "Rebecca, you wouldn't let me have family prayers; anil you laughe 1 about all that, and you got me away into worldliiiess: and now I am going to die, and my fate is sealed, and you are the causo of my ruiul" O woman, what knowest thou but thou canst destroy thy husband/ Are there not some here who have kindly influences at home/ Are there not some here who have wandered far away from God, who can remember the Christian influences in the early home? Do not despise those influences, my brother. If you die without Christ, what will you do with your mother's prayeri, with your wife's importunities, Willi your sister's entreaties? What will you do with tho letters they used to write to you, with the memory of thosa days wheuthey attende 1 you so kindly in times of sickness? Oh, if there bo just one strand holding you from lloating off on that dark sea, I would just like this morning to take hold of that strand and pull you to tho beach! For the sake of your wife's God,for the sake of yourmother's God, for the sako of your daughter's God , for tiio sake of your sister's God, coin3 this day and bo saved. Lastly, I wish to say that one of tho specific rights of woman is, through the grace of Christ, finally to reach Heaven! Mary, I Christ's mother, in Heaven; Elizabeth Fry in I Heaven: Charlotte Elizabeth in Heaven; the I mother of Augstine in Heaven; the Countess of Huntingdon?who sold her splendid jewels to build chapels?in Heaven; while a great many others who have never been heard of on earth or known but little, have gone into the rest and peace of heaven. What a rest I What a change it was from the small room, with no fire and one window, the glass broken out, and the aching side, ana worn out eyes. to the "h<?tbe' at many matfefoft!" Ifo mwe stitchin# until 12 at night, no more fchrnsting of foe- Shumb If the smployer tln-ough the work to show iti was- not done quite right Plenty of bread at last. Heaven for aching heads. HeaV<m'for broken heaA tff. Heaven for anguish bi*t?n frames. No1 more sitting up" until midnight for the coming of the staggering st2D3. No' more rough blows across 11& temples. No'more sharps keen, bitter cursas. bome of you will have no> rest in this woyldL It will b# toll and struggle and suffering all the way up> You will Barve- to stand at your door righting back the wol? with your own hand, red with* carnage. But God has a crown for yoU: I want to realize this morning that he is now ; oirin<r i?. n rvl whenever v&a weeD a tear he* B2tsano titer gem in that crown ;* whenever you haw a pang off body or j soul, he puts another gesn in thatt crown, until, after a while; in all the teara there- will be no room for atf? ; other splendor, and God will sayUo his angel: "The crown' is done: let her up that she may. * wear it" And as the Lord of righteousness* j puts the crowa npon your brow angel will | crylo angel: 'Hv ho is she?-' and Christ will ! sayr "I will'Cell you who she is.- She is the one that came np out of great tribulation, andihad her robe washed and made white in the-blood of the-Lamb." And them God will j spread a banquet, and He will invite all the \ principalities of heaven to sit at the feast; and' the tablfe? will blush with the best clust&rs from1 the vineyards of God, and crimson with the twelve manner of fruits from the Tree of Life ; and waters from the fountains of the rock will flash from the goWto tankaardb; and the old harpers of heaven will sifcthere, making music with their harps ; and-Chriafc will point you out, amid the celebrrties-of heaven, saying: '' She suffered with m? on earth, now we are going to be glorified' together. And the banqueters, no longer able to> bold their peace, will break forth with' congratulation: "Hail!" haill" And there wUl be handwritings on the wallnot such as- struck the Persian nobleman with horror?but fire-tipped fingers, writing in blazing capitals of light, and love, ana victory: "God hatb wiped away all tean from all faceei" j TEMPERANCE. The Drunkard's Wife's Secret. 'Til tell you.aisecret," said a broken-hearted' wife; "It's the shame of my children the load .of my life: My husband, so kind, so gentle and good, Takes more of strong drink than a prudent: man should. "He's a hard-working mail as any you find,. And when he-dosen't drink he's patient' and kink; He gives mo his wages and stays home to rest, And makes us all happy, contented and blest. "But husband; will drink. I'm sorry to say, And then, from; his home he wanders away, Comes ini lata at night when the family's abed, * And fills the' whole hou3e with terror ancL dread. "I never before of my sorrow have spoken^. And would not speak now, but my heart is nigh brokeu; I've oome to my pastor, but not to complain, Butt only some counsel and comfort to gain." Poor woman! her secret is sadly well known; Alas! on the street it is publicly shown; As plainly 'tis seen in the wife s.pallid face As in, the debauch aud drunkard's disgrace. . 'Tis the oJd story told, for ever retold, As vividly new as terribly old* How the Devil of Drink, when he enters the home, Puts out its candle and shrouds all in gloom. Oh mothers and sisters and sweethearts, arise! Take in the drink-curse with your pitying eyes; By the might of your love, your tears* and your faith, Oh! save our dear homos [from the [blight of this death. ?Joel Swartz, D. D., in Temperance Advocate. Prohibition in Georgia. "Whatever may have been the results of Prohibition in other States, the experiment mau'e in Georgia appears to have fully justified the expectations of its frionds. The plan of Prohibition there adopted?local option by counties, to bo tested for a period of two years?has now been in operation for a year and a half, having been adopted by 118 out of 137 counties ; ana the general testimony of the public is so clearly in favor of it that it will probably be renmacted at the expiration of the trial term, me testimony 01 Dusmesa men, in such a city as Atlanta, that business has greatly thriven under the action of this law, is certainly significant. It disposes effectually of the assertion so often made that Prohibition is a rich man's law, discriminating against the rights and tho comforts of the poor for the benefit of the prosperous. This testimony means nothing more nor less than that the poor have had more money to spend?have earned more, that is?and have spent it upon commodities which have contributed to their comfort; commodities such as the rich consider the necessaries of life. A state of active business prosperity is not a state in which, while the rich grow richer, the poor grow poorer; it is a state ir which the general standard of prosperity is raised, and the comfort of the lower strata of society more than propor tionauy ennancea. j.r.cre may possioiy uo i an element of injustice in an act which deprives tho poor man of the "comforts" of his groggery, under the plea that the remaining Classes in the commOnity are benefited by the better law and order, the decreased taxation resulting from the decrease in pauperism and crime, which will ensue. But if tho poor man is himself directly benefited; if his prosperity is so promoted that he may find in liis own improved home the comfort for which he formerly sought the goggery; if the compensation for his loss of ono form oi pleasure is proved to be, not remote and indefinite, or u vague and incalculable advantage to his posterity, or a far distant and improbable immunity from pauperism or crime for himself, but is rather, as the experiment in Georgia seems to show, an evident prosperity speedily following upon the enforced withdrawal or a luxury formerly believed to be a necessity, the case is quite different. No laboring man, other than & confirmed drunk- ! ard, is beyond conviction from the logic of j facts; and it is evident that the poor men of I Georgia, in the majority there as elsewhere. I iiave seen the cogen y ot this kind of reasonI ing, since they propose to're-enact the prohibition law when the period of its expiration j shall have come round.?Frank Leslie'sNo Inspiration of the Bottle. "In a conversation with Read," said Mr. Grafton to the writer, "I once ventured to say: 'Read, did you take nothing but a pot of black tea into your room when you invoked the muse for ''Sheridan's Ride?'" To my surprise, in a most placid, unexpected manner, he said: 'I took nothing else but that. Let me confess to you a fact: I can do nothing with the pen unless I am clear headed. I know,' he continued, 'that poem, i wi'Mi ii-c fnnitq p.ime from no insniration of I tho bottle. I would like, however, to have corrected some of those faults, but Bayard Taylor advised me not to allow the least change or emendation, but to let it stand as written. The wisdom of this advice insured its acceptance, and, if I mistake not, it now stands word for word as the muse gave it, nothing to add or subtract. "Mr. Read also said this to me: 'They may talk what they choo. e about Byron, Burns, Poe and others writing so tinely under the influence of drink, but I don't believe a word of it. If the tongue does wag, the brain will lag when much drink has been indulged in, for then I have discovered I am just about as dumb as a Princess Bay oyster.' "?Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Tmrmerancc News and Notes. One person in five in South Australia is an !' abstainer. I' The Boston Post says: "Whisky-drinker9 '' are apt to make rye faces when they are iin- 1 bibing." Charles Sumner, says the Boston Traveller, 'never smoked and never tasted of whisky but once." Sir Wilfrid Lawson says: "The drink-traffin icfhn frreat cominz QUGStion Of tllfi Anrrlii. I Saxon race." In Tennessee there are Il'i papors, including several doilies, which advocate the prohibitory amondii'ent. Dr. Crosby in the Forum estimates the receipts of the saloons of New York City at Sol),000,000 a year. The annual meeting of the United King dom Alliance for 1887, will be held in Manchester, England, October 11. Fulton County, On., shows an increase of taxable property during tl>e past year of $1,447,528. That is the way prohibition "ruins:' business. >?J?Mfc*?I? II'III T> *PT rmwrrcY n-n * "nTvr/"i f XIUUXU1U U k> Jt/wlnj}' tfftr Grave. ''A little child shall load tbem."?Isaiah ll.-flf (a th*ne rxciDEsrr.) A little hand was clasped in mine, A c?ild-*oice prattled on,TV a wanflered to tho grassy trpot, Whet* one lay, lcwed, and gone. I silent srttood, and thought how Death Had me bereft of joy,? And mounted the weaHh of happiness That vanished with a boy. The child was kneeling aS my feet, And bent hit* little head, I saw him strotee the flowers-that grew, And kiss the mossy bed. "I will not waken him," he-said, "Nor give him any pain; Like me, when mother kisses me, He'll turn, and sleep again." "When will we waken, dear?" I- asked, Still more the child to try, And marveled that am infant mind Could grasp a thought so high; ""I -waken up when morning come*, And better'n every thing Are Mother's arms stretched open wider For me to rise and spriag! "He1 IS waken too when morning comes-, For Jesus loud will call, And hold his arms stretched open wide;. xru? :n 4-u^v^ 4.^ ^ii ir OJ yjL mini m iiiuu tv iuu. Dear cbfld! had I thy simple trust; 'Twere well for me to-day, 'Twere well for all that e'er have mourned For lbvcd ones called away I Who bade thee kiss that mossy bed) And Dsp these words to me, But that great Heart that stood besideThe-gpave at Bethany i doom and Darkness. THe- ripest apples are most liable to' lw. i braised*, and so the ripest natures seemta have developed a danger in this same direction. We have observed frequently the ten- ! dency to morbidness and even to downright > I despondency in the finer minds. They are ; putrin situations to which they arostrangB,.; or they are- assailed by new and ugly ele- j] ments of trouble. Money is scarce- witit' them;; on-they beat against the dead wall of 1 some obdurate church; or they are sufferers- . from overwork or dyspepsia. From this- ] class of mea many go down to their graves yearly,, whose story, read by the recording j ( angei Deior? ine ureat vv mte i nrone,ic win not be pleasant for some of their associates to hear. They have been made the victims o? intrigue or calumny; or they have been misapprehended and morally beaten:. They have lacked the peculiar fiber whiclii constitutes a reactionary force in some of their successful neighbors, and they havo consicfc- , ered that they failed. Nowv bo man fails so long as- he himsetf I does not believe the fact. But let llim once . congidler himself unsuccessful, and lov all about him stamp his own verdict on Mm. If a maa will not be slaughtered he cannot be ( slaughtered; but woe be to him if hebecomes 1 a walking grievance and goes about talking of his troubles. And still room woe be to him if he puts this grievanoe-into Ms nestlike the devil's nest-egg that ibis?toa<scumu- ! late to itself other unhatched miseries. The joys sssy sometimes be added,, but the sorrows invariably break the shelL'! Tf thorn ic crlnnm nr>r1 HnrknASRm the mind. then is the time when the enemy comes and sows tares. In daylight and under the rays of the sun he will not dare to scatter the evil seed. So that the first thing for everv downhearted soul to do is toi gee a healthy light upon his spirits. The la&? and the prairie are free to the poorest? of ns. Our natures are so constituted that to> allow ourselves to be stung and pricked' and poisoned by the petty annoyances of life, is decidedly wrong. We must come in contact with trouble, of course; but then, w? must learn and teach the lesson of trust. Like the fine old aristocracy of the better Italy we will not talk to each other of disagreeable things. We will rather put the best side out and the beet foot foremost. For he who makes another feel better and brighter has done his own soul good. We must make times of darkness and gloom times of rest?sometimes of actual as well as moral rest in sleep. There are momenta when we can do notning. Let us then employ these in recuperating and growing strong for what is ahead. The Lord Jesus took his followers aside to rest awhile?and himself slept through a great storm. Elijah had a gloomy time under that juniper tree, but it was the reaction after Carnxel; and presently being fed from God's hand he was led on to ? rvr?n. 4.^^, See UOUS glory.?[iwnunoiiciu Advocate. The Minimum Christian. The minimum Christian! And who is he? The Christian who is going to heaven at the cheapest and easiest rate possiblok The Christian who purposes to get all out of the world that he can and not meet the worldling's doom. The Christian who aims to have as little religion as he can without being destitute of it altogether. The minimum Christian generally goes to church in the morning, unless he is too tired with his week-day labors and has lain in bed too late on Sunday morning to get ready for the morning service; in that case he will attend in the afternoon or evening, unless it is likely to rain, or is too warm or too cold, he feels too sleepy or . has the headache. He listens respectfully to the minister and joins in prayer and praise. He app::03 tne irucn oixen 10 uis ueiguuui, rarely to himself. If there is a lecture in the week he goes if quite convenient, but rarely attends the prayer-iueeii^.', 03 the letter is apt to be uninteresting. He feels it his duty to be present on communion Sabbath, and I Las family prayer at least once a day, unless business presses him too urgently. The minimum Christian is friendly to all good works; he wishes them well, but it Is not in his power to do much for them. The Sabbath-school bo looks upon as an admirable institution, especially for the young, the neglected and the ignorant. It is not convenient. however, for him to take a class or attend very regularly. His business engagements are so pressing during the week that lie needs aaooaia as a ciay 01 rest; nur uwa i lie think himself qualified to be a teacher. | There are so many persons better qualified for this irnpoi 'cant duty that he must beg to i be excused. He is in favor of the visitation ] of the poor, but he has no time to take part in these labors of love. He thinks it a good thing for laymen to take part in tho prayermeetings of the church, but ho has no gift for pub'ic pravers or for making addresses (unless tho subject be business or politics), mid he must leave it to others. He is friendly to home and foreign missions, and gives his "mite," but he thinks there are too many appeals; still he gives, or ho will lose his reputation. The minimum Christian is not clear on pome points relating to Christian conduct. The circus and dancing, the theatre and cardplaying give him considerable trouble. He cannot see the harm in this, or that, or other popular amusements. He says there is nothing in the Bible directly against it. He does pot see but thnt a man may bo a Christian and go to the theatre or to trie ball-room. He knows several people who do go, and members of the church, too. Why should not hel In short, the minimum Christian knows that he cannot serve Ood and mammon; he would if ho could, and he will come just as near to doing so as he can, for he thinks it best not to be "righteous overmucu." Jtie | will give to himself and the world all that he may, and to God and His cause as little as he fan, and yet not lose his soul. He stands so close to the dividing-line between the people of God and the people of the world that it is hard to say on which side of it he actually is. Ah! niv brother, aro you making this attempt? Beware, lest you find at last, in trying to get to heaven with as little religion as possible, that you have missed it altogether , ?lest, without gaining the whole world, you liave lost your own soul. "Would it not be (vise and better and happier to make sure of heaven by being a maximum rather than a minimum Christian??rRev. John W. Duller i Alcohol as a Medicine. ( l)r. J. H. Hanaford, writing of alcohol as a medicine, says: "1 well know that it has been claimed by the friends of intoxicants? their claims have never iteeri oasea on science, reason, or truth?that alcohol aids digestion, reasonably inferring that, it true, its use will add to the strength, a very important matter in all cases of illness. It should be understood that alcohol is in no sensj a food, that it can never impart any strength, since it is never digested, passing into the circulation and leaving it, when ejected, as pure alcohol as when it entered. Only that which is digested affords strength." Thirteen cities and two hundred and seventy-five towns and villages of Massachusetts are under prohibition this year. : * " *!: '' ?'* MAftVES'f, The purple wfn'er gfcins cluster flpwr ther drbo^ ing vine, The suu fed peafcfi leans low upOB the gar* den wall, "With their burden goid and ruddy the apple boughs incline, ; Sfee pear and plum bend down to the eager reach of all. The polbhed nute are drooping from sheathe 0-; of bursting burrs, The goiden gorse is weaving' a field of clot? Of gold, '-KIw The airs-are heavy laden with th? balsam of the fiars, The aster's royal splendor is a marvel on the moid. V'WUM A tender flhstt of Sun^ner lingers still on hill and pteinv ' And on the fletlcb close stacked and on th? ' woods aglow; There's a sound of harvest singing, and s sound of falling grain, And a sound of flashing sickles as the reapers comeandi go. _ The sadness of perfection lies in these sweet late davs, With cool crisp moms and eves and noonsof mellow fire-, As on the full bloom- roeo that forecasts itsown decay, Too fair and faultless to leave room forhope or for desire-. ?Jennie Waxwell Paine. PITH JtSD POINT. M _ Sills are usually presented in due Some one says the age of a political party may be told i by its rings. It is a singular.thing that a man never begins to show his- temper until he loses The crow is aaeensibSe bird for he seldom opens his-mouth without caws.?Waterloo Observer. I never was on.the dull, tame shore, But 1 loved the great sea more and more; And ne'er on the steanuer's deck I stand, , \'-;j But that I'd give-my boots for land.?Lift. Advice to young: ladies who are setting; .. '; 3g| their caps: Use percussion caps so that rVio "nnn" minr ho. Vwinl TlfineTL New 3. The reason that dogs are seldom. irowned 13 because they always have their bark, withi them.?Duluth Para*grapher. What ifl. ancestry after all? The rich man as well as the- poor one begins life without- a, shirt, to his back.?Charleiton Advertiser. A policeman, declares that he has to handle about as many pieces of male n ",Js matter as they do> at the postoffice. ?-Nevf York News. Some think it adds to a woman's, beau ty to bang her hair, but others thinlc a woman is- ugly who bangs her heir.?St. Ptiul Herald*. The young* men who originated the- ' ice-cream, scare now have an expert at. * work on, the dangers of op<aa.?Pitts* burg Dispatch. "I'm coming, my darling, through tha> tall, waving corn," says a new love song. . - <* Been steaJing her old man,'3 pumpkins,. . most likely.?Dansville Breae. Do. not blame the genial hotel clerk; the big diamond he weara generally be-. longs to some fellow who owes fox hi3. board.?Macon (Oa.) Telegraph. . The female mosquito does all tha biting and the male mosquito all the sing-, ing. Together they make up a heap, oi agony for mankind.?Hartford. Post. What is that sound, so deep and strong, That seems the skies to burst? What jjreat event so moves the throng?? McGinnis is out at first. ?Washington Critic. There is no need of your taking youj daughter to Europe in order that she may Vt marry a title. For $3,000 a man can be cnnoblod in Hawaii. ?Minneapolis Tribune. , The number of photographers in th| United States has incressed to eleven thousand, but you can try them all and not get a picturo to do you full justice. ?Detroit Free Pw?, --^^1 ; ^38 Times are awfully dull in Cincinnati. ' i. i.u \V:i? A prisoner at tne ponce court, tuiu judge that he had sat for eighty-five days in one saloon without being able to strik* a job.? Detroit Free Prm. One of the queer things of the age Q that where one man can be found to work m lor two dollars a day, four can be found to sit on the fence and look at him foi nothing.?Lincoln Journal. ? Resolute old lady, on the ferry? "Young man, I wish j'ou'd throw awaj that nasty cigar; it's making me sick." Wavering young man, meekly complianl ?"Me too."?Brooklyn Ea<jle. '.??j? 'Tis pleasant to move in a quadrille while list ing To airs one delightfully hears, But awful it is when your necktie's insisting - .. . . ?, --X , Un cumumg up wvw/vm vjvi": ?Boston Courier. A photographer says i "A man undcj the influence Ot liquor nevef takes a good photograph." A man under the influenCI of liquor shouldn't be allowed to taki photographs. He should hire a sober man or dose his shop.?Boston Courier. "How did you break that lamp?" roared Mr. Testy. "Just lighted it, and that broke it," said his wife; "darknesi falls, you know, but light breaks." "It'i a wonder your head doesn't break, then," JJlr. Testy was going to say, out umortu* nately, he didn't think of it. ?BurdeUe. A FELT WANT. The social young fellow, Whose years are a score, Who hath at the mountains, . ,7: Or on the sea shore, With sad prodigality Squandered Ins store, i Now taketh no comfort in Pleasuring that Hath gone nown tho paat With its blisses ccstat Ic; but nutoriy sayem In language quite pit, "It wouM fill a felt want, If I had a fall hat!" -Tid-Bits. The Equalization of the Sexes. The Epoch discovers a curious aspect of our modern literature to be that while women, intellectually speaking, arc beginning to show a certain masculine power, meu are beginning to develop certain feminine characteristics, such a* expansiveness, exaggerated delicacy of expression, and a tendency to a gossipy analysis of trifles. While women are CllIUDlIlg tncsiairs oi mu:ureiu;ii jjiuyicsa men are descending by the ladder oi gossip to sit by the lire and play with painted trifles and fantastic toys. This is all right. It is time the men were having a rest anyway.?St. Paul Globe. John Brown, Jr., son of the Harper'i Ferry hero, is sixty-six years old, and ig engaged in grape-growing on Put in Bay Island, in Lake Erie. He is a justice ol tho pence in Put in Bay Township, consisting of eight inhabited islands in thai part of the lake.