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/ AGRICULTURAL. Atopics op interest relative to farm.and garden. | GRASS FOR A MOIST MEADOW. A moist meadow may be made very , productive without draining, if the right kinds of grasses are sown on it. It de- 1 pends on the condition of moutness, however. If this is wetness, and water fltands on the surface for any length of time, the case is different and no good variety of ?ras3 will do well until the I stagnant water is removed. Sow ten pounds of timothy, twenty pounds of red tops, and twelve pounds of Alsike clover per acre.?iveio lorn mrux. j.: MANIA FOR BOB-TAIL HORSES. ' The mania for bob-tail horses is a -silly on?, and illustrates most forcibly the power of example on weak minds when it comes from the rich and titled. "The clipped tail is a cruel deformity, and <yet is adopted by its devotees in the ^atoe spirit that Swiss Alpine peasants ! regard the horrid' goitre that adorns so many necks. And yet these American families thaWollow this horrid fashion consider themselves as possessing superb tastes.?Massachusetts Plowman. t GRADING EGGS FOIi MARKET. i" ? Extras, firsts, seconds, thirds and known marks comprise the classification -of eggs decided upon by the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Extras comprise 'the best qualities, fresh-laid clean eggs in season, put up in the best manner. Firsts comprise fine marks of eggs, such as come in carload lots, or smaller lots, and are packed in fine order, fresh in season and reasonably clean, such stock as gives satisfaction to most consumers. RprnnrJs rnmtirise all ?tock that is mcr cantable and inferior to firsts. Thirds comprise all poor stock in bad order, rotten, etc.; stock not considered really merchantable. Known marks comprise such sorts that are well known to the trade under some particular designation or mark,of such quality as those familiar with the mark generally understand it to be in the season in which it is offered. Extra to pass at the mark must not lose to exceed one dozen per 100 dozen and firsts not more than two dozen per 100 dozei^ or one and a half dozen per barrel, if sold in barrels. BEES mVINO THEMSELVES. 1 Whoever has kept bees has counted as chief among the difficulties in the business that of making them take to their new homes naturally. After most persistent efforts and often pain from bee stings the swarm will often fly away to some hollow tree and be lost. A New York man is said to have invented a self-hiver. When the swarm leaves the hive it is arranged so that it must pass .through perforated zinc cages with holes ; large enough to pass the workers but not the queen or drones. The cage is mnnpptprl with .1 nnssft-re to an emntv - t o- # r * hive near the one from which the swarm issues, and into which the queen bee scon makes her way, accompanied by a ifew workers who never leave her. When ; the swarm finds it has no queen it returns and makes its way readily into the new hive, and the job is done, while the first knowledge the bee keeper has of the swarm is seeing it at work in its new 'home. The self-hiver can be easily attached to different hives in succession, as they are found to be on the eve of 'swarming.?Boston Culticaler. GROWING CABBAGE. ' Cabbage is so easily raised, avers a New .Tersev farmer, that no vegetable garden should be without at least enough for the family use. As a cooked vegetable it is very generally used, and in winter and spring a head of crisp, ravecabbage is to many persons as good as celery. Cabbage makes its growth so late in the fall that it can often be Elanted after early potatoes have been arrested. I have also raised it between ;the potato rows without any injury to ipotatoes or cabbage so far as I can discover. By making the potato rows slightly wider apart than usual I can see no objection to setting a row of cabbage iplants between them where one has not the ground to spare elsewhere. The .potatoes will bo harvested and out of the way by the time the cabbage is half grown, if the late varieties are the ones transplanted. Every farmer should raise his own cabbage plants, and there is no good reason why any person who has a garden should depend on buying them. A. little seed sown on a few square feet of good soil will not only give all the plants wanted, but they will be on hand at the exact time when they are wanted, and can be transplanted at once with but little check to their gowth if done immediately after a rain. In the neighbor1 J _ r x _ l_ 1 \ 1 J oou 01 towns caouage cau ue sum in considerable amounts, so that it may be made profitable to give more attention to its cultivation than it commonly receives. Then persons who raise fowls in runs of limited space should raise enough of this vegetable to be given them for green fo?d when they cannot obtain a supply from grass by running at large.?JVVjc Tork World. THE PEACH TIIEE SCOURGE. The mjstery that hus all these years attached itself to the peach tree scourge seems likely soon to bo solved. No one has yet fathomed it. The Departments of Agriculture have sought earnestly for a solution, and now the Chief Department at "Washington expect to tell the world that insects and worms are the actual cause of the yellows, and that in this assurance there is a remedy for further destruction by this agency. The insect discovery is claimed by j Captain Joseph Bonsail, Thomas P. Hanson, and Cornelius Saxton, and they claim to have a cure that is efficacious in every instance. The insect is descriDed as a little black bug, smaller than a pin head, which buries itself under the bark and absoibs the sap. Meanwhile a white ! worm an inch long is extratcing the sap from the roots. Their united efforts cause the leaves to turn yellow, the fruit to j pear to ripen a mouth in advance of the season, and in two years' time the tree is j dead. The source of these pests is not yet ascertained. The remedy applied is both a powder and a liquid. This spring Mr. Hauson has had as many as fifteen hundred trees affected, but he applied the remedy, and now there is no trace of the disease. The other gentlemen named have had similar success. Unfortunately, the remedy comss too late to be of general help this year, and the enormous crop expected must be much reduced, while much inferior fruit will be put upon the market by uaacrup ulous growers. There will be a large | yield of peaches, notwithstanding the J scourge, but it is materially reduced by the most unfortunate appearance of the TJg dreadful yellows.?Massachusetts Plowman. t Sa; PACKING BUTTEU FOR WINTER. In packing butter in summer for wintet use considerable care is required in se- j curing good, clean, and sweet tubs il all wood ones arc to be used. Ordinary wood contains considerable dried sap and ? gummy matter, which gradually works prjl out and into the brine, and i3 liable to pre. taint the butter. To prevent this the tfcei tub3 should be soaked in hot brine made ^or with pure salt for three or four days be- ^ fore they are used, Professor Arnold, who hor is probably one of our best authorities on "P? all dairy matters, says. The -practice of ^ the best dairymeu in U3ing firkins is to can take out one of the heads and cover the | and other with salt half an inch to an inch deep. Theu the lirkin is packed nearly jmc full and perfectly solid so as to have no a 1 air spaces at the sides of the package, tka leaving room on top of the butter to put j1*' on a layer of salt equal to that on the bor bottom head. A circular piece of fine and bleached muslin, having a diameter half *?\ ?? i i a. _ e i.1 l j. tO ' an men greater tnau tne top 01 me uuiter, is wet with brine and laid over the this butter, which should be even and smooth. f?r' Then with a wooden tool shaped like a gouge, with a thiu edge, and with a cur- C0D vature corresponding to the side of the ehai package, the edge of the muslin is neatly ?^t pressed down between the outside of the ^ butter and the cask. The package is me then filled with salt and set away in a whi cool cellar, and the end having the mus- j? P lm on is turned down. In the head now j ^ up a small hole is bored and saturated tha: brine of pure salt turned in to fill any space that may have been left in the ^ firkin, after which the hole is plugged, witl Where'only a small quantity of butter is wai is made from week to week it may be ^ packed in a firkin or smaller tub and each layer as added covered with a cloth and and brine, the object being to exclude Met the air. Only well-made butter will keep in good condition from summer un- ess til the following winter, and it must also pro: be stored in a cool place.?New York she< c. mai Sun. .... of i _____ his **C; my: FARM AND GARDEN* NOTES. abo 1 fArf You can't make eggs from food that ^ki produces fat. of 1 You can't Leep chickens in health thei without grit. "W Bees work upon the tassels of corn, and gather honey from them. thai The Ohio ?jrape wi'l stand more rough usuagc and give the most fruit. aDd Save for seed the best developed ears of corn on stalks bearing two or more. Apple blight is a fungus disease; rapid *he< growth and wet weather good developers. pan If Parker Earle has foliage enough it P"*1 will be the best berry for geneial plant- t] ing. dro' A pint to the pound is not true of the ^1D< fluid known a3 milk. It is heavier than of a water. Pl01 one Black raspberries?Souhegan, Ohio deej ! and Grec-cr are preferred in the ordei and I named. the VOH Waldo P. Brown says that he has be- the | gun to think that bran is profitable foi coa i fattenincr pork and beef. = r aroi Fall planting of small fruits is best mai because the plant is dormant. In the floc spring the plant should be growing. The person who has never tried feed- plai ing a limited amount of grain to thrifty 1 J I ro11 iiugs uu a yuuu. uiuvci pwimc ?vuiu wo we surprised at the results. li If your stock ia the "back lot" are *(n| dependent upon a small stream or the cac] "slough" for water, keep a look out that the their dependence does not fail. It is better to cut the black knots out geti of cherry tree3 and burn them rather ?tu than to apply kerosene, a3 some recom- _t? mend. Badly infested trees should be 0pp cut down bodily and the knots burned, ppsi Pansy seed for spring flowering in the unt open border may now be sown. Young moi plants can be kept through winter in a itcold frame, and old ones will winter Jj?* with a light protection of evergreen ! hed boughs in the north. ' in. Comfort mu3t be the rule for live stock to t and poultry if they are expected to do ia in well. Good feed and nlentv of it. frond of tl 4 j , 0 p . treatmeat and a mild temperature would work a revolution ia the product-books oi many complaining farmers. moi To cause quick and strong growth on roses, curnation3 and all plants of the the flower and vegetable order out or in mai doors try watering once a week with a little nitrate of soda solution, say a tea- the spoonful in a gallon of water. thei A large proportion of the poultry sent ^ to market from now on until cold the weather will be in a very poor condition, flocl ana tnis is one leading cause lor low prices. A little better feed and care jng would greatly improve the quality. ! of t! Japanese bamboos in a small state, crown in jars, are useful lor indoor gat< dccoration?a use to which they are evei much puc by the Japanese. Bamboos *?lac are among the handsomest and most graceful ornaments of gardens and plan- Con tations. ' one. While young pigs may not derive muclif che] ; benefit from pastures cxcept through the salv i exercise and contact with the soil, when conr j the weather is suitablo it is the safest j place to keep them, as old pens with win j their uuhcalthy surroundings and bad coir ! atmosphere are particularly injurious. ; * ! Coppc-ra.3 and geatian together form bef< j an excellent tonic for horses. Mix four find | ounces of each thoroughly in the pow- jjj?' j dcrcd state; keep the mixture tightly fres ! shut up in a box or bottle and give a cas< | tablespoouful cf it in the horses' feed at night. To colts a smaller quantity mu3t be given. are A coating of linseed oil is being ??? brushed on the handles of new hoes, fr0i rakes, etc., and well soaked in at all can joints and tenons, and especially where hea wood and iron join. The tools not only ^ , last louder, but are much pleasanter to wai use, aad do double the work in a day and ihat old, dull, loose or rusty one3 will, even in willing hands, to say nothing of t0 , delays caused by breaking. find Goou butter is in demand. The difficulty with butter is that an enormous han amount of inferior butter is put on the | "0 market, which opens the gates to oleomarg^fiue and other substitutes. It is, j ca known as a fact that a large number of' witl those who make butter do not under- we* stand the process as well as they should, ^ and the necessity for holding daisy ^Ql schools is being urged. In Europe the Yoi establishment of such schools has led to | did excellent results. ? j aud HEV. 1)I{. "TALMAGE. : tl e: IE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- ? DAY SERMON. f( bjcct: "The Droves at the Wei?," J Delivered at Elmira, N. Y. n Ci EXT! ".4nrl they said. We cannot, until jj the flocks be gathered together, and till j, [/ roll the stone from the welVs mouth,' q n we water the sheep."?Genesis xrir., 8. ^ here are some reasons why it is appro- s< ite that I should accept the invitation to n ach at this great interstate fair, and to ? se throngs of countrymen and citizens? h semen just come from their fine charg- ^ the king of beasts (for 1 take the crown a ti the lion and put it on the brow of the tl se, which is in every way nobler); and ^ ik to these shepherds just come from Q ir flocks (the Lord Himself in one place ^ ed a Shepherd and in another place a ed a Lamb, and all the good are sheep); p . preach to you cattle-men come up from ? herds, your occupation honored by the Q t, that God Himself thinks it worthy of j aortal record that He owns "the cattle on s thousand hills." It is appropriate u t I come because I was a far- a 's boy, and never saw a city until a ras nearly grown, and having been v n in the country I never got over it, q would not dwell in cities a day if my ,j k was not appointed there. My love a you now, and when I get through I ^ give you my hand, for though I have ^ summer soaxen nanus witn puruapa :y thousand people in twenty-one u tes of the Union all t?e way through a Colorado and North and South I will not J elude my summer vacation till I have c ken hands with you. You old farmer Tl there I How you make me think of my n ler! You elderly woman out there P. ti cap and spectacles' How you make ? think of my mother! And now ?, le the air of these fair-grounds f lied with the bleating of sheep, and the " jhing of horses, and the lowing of cattle, } annot find a more appropriate text q the one I read. It is a scene Mesopotamia, beautifully pastoral. A j 1 of water of great value in that ion. The fields around about it white ( ti three flocks of sheep lying down a ting for the watering. I hear their iting coming on the bright air, and laughter of young men and maidens alging in rustic repartee. I look off, . I see other flocks of sheep coming, jr tnwhile, Jacob, a stranger, on the in>sting errand of looking for a wife, yi tes to the well. A beautiful shepherd- a comes to the same well. I see her ap- w aching, followed by her father's flock of y. jp. It was a memoriable meeting. Jacob w Tied that shepherdess. The Bible accouat y< C is: "Jacoo Kissea irtacnei. ana mica up y< voice and wept." It has always been a B stery to me what he found to cry tc ut! But before that scene occur- pi , Jacob accosts the shepherds and fl< 3 them why they postpone the slaking e] ;he thirst of these sheep, and why they hi not immediately proceed to "water oi 33. The shepherds reply to the effect: a e are all good neighbors, and as a mat* it of courtesy we wait until all the sheep ni the neighborhood come up. Besides r< t, this stone on the well's mouth is al lewhat heavy, and several of us take hold ai t and push it aside, and then the buckets sc the troughs are filled, and the sheep are di sfied. We cannot, until all the flocks be d< tiered together, and till they roll the stone hi n the well's mouth; then we water the ai *P" P h, this is a thirsty world 1 Hot for the it d, and blistering for the feet, and bi ?hing for the tongue. The world's fr it want is a cool, refreshing, satisfying c( ught. We wander aiouad and find in cistern empty. Long and tedious a ught has dried up the world's fount- d< i, but nearly nineteen centuries ago w Txrith ntwvlr in thft shnnft nr . cross, and feet cut to the bleeding, ex- ti ed the desert passages of this world, and fi day came across a well a thousand feet e< p, bubbling and bright, and opalescent, tc looked to the north, and the south, and ai east and the west, and cried out with a ;e strong and musical that ran?: through ei ages: "'Ho, every one that thirstetc, j hi ie ye to the waters!" I ? ow a great flock of sheen to-day gathered ti and this Gospel well. Thera are a great bi ly thirsty souls. I wonder why the ki ks of ail nations do not gather?why so b iy stay thirsty; and while I am wonder- fi about it, my text breaks forth in the ex- ti aation, sayiDg: "We cannot, until all the ti ks be gathered together, and till they oj thestcne from the welt's mouth; then a' water the sheep." g ' a herd of swine come to a well they N rily jostle each other for the precedence; g drove of cattle coni9 to a welf, they hook ? tx other back from the water; but when o flock of sheep come, though a hundred oi them shall be disappointed, they only tl fess it by sad bleating, they come to- a Wa want, a ptnat mill- n IJt7i ? v * - ? 0 ^ de to come around the (Gospel well. I p w there are those who do not like a crowd u ley think a crowd is vulgar. If they are d rwsei for room in church it makes ehem f, itiveiy impatient and belligerent. Not so d these Oriental shepherds They waited tl il all tae flocks were toother, and the v re flocks that came, the better they liked a And so we ought to be anxious a t all the people should come, ai out into the highways and the e ges and compel them to come a Go to the rich and tell them they are a igent without the Gospel of Jesm. Go e he poor and tell them tho affluence there a i Christ. Go to the blind and tell them J lie touch that gives eternal illumination. t to the lame ana tell them of the joy that v make the lame man leap like a ^ t. Gather all the sheep off of all the n mtains. None so torn of the dogs, none a ick, none so worried, none so dying, as to b mitted. When the fall elections come $] whole land is scoured for voters, and if a D1 i is too weak or sick to walk to the a s, a carriage is sent for him; but ? n the question is whether Christ or e] devil shall rule this world, how few ${ e are to come out and seek the sick, and fx lost, and the suffering, and the bereft, ^ the lame, and induce their suffrages for js Lord Jesus. Why not gather a great ^ i? All America in^ a flock1; all the tc Id in a flock. This well 01 tne p pel is deep enough to put out the burn- aj thirst of the fourteen hundred million j be race. Do not let the church by a a it of exclusiveness keep the world o#l. a] down all the bars, spring open all the ij ?s, scatter all the invitations: "Whoso: will, let him come." Come, whit* and ?? ;k. Come, red men of the forest. Come, m ilander, out of the snow. Come, Pata- bl mn, out of the heat. Come in furs, hi ae panting under palm leaves. Come t'c , Come all. Come now. As at this tt I of Mesopotamia, Jacob and Ra- m 1 were betrothed, so now, at this*well of st ation Christ our Shepherd will meet you vv ling up with your long flocks of cares and w ieties, and He will stretch out His hand n< ledge of His affection, while all heaven ni cry out: "Behold the bridegroom sp letb, go ye out to meet Him." sp ou notice that this w?" of Mesopotamia so I a stone on It, w&lch must be removed bi Dre the sheep could be watered; and I ee I on the well of salvation to-day impedi- n its and obstacles, which must be re- ai red in order that you may obtain the re- Si ihment and life of this Gospel. In your m 3 the impediment is pride of heart. You M not bear to come to so democratic a foun- is i; you do not want to coine with so d? ay others, it is to you like when you m dry, coming to a town pu.np, as com- tt ed to sitting in a parlor sipping out of a sed chalica which has just been lilted gi n a silver ralver. Not so many publi- ot s and sinners. You want to get to w ven, but it must be in a special car, with ni r feet on a Turkish ottoman and a band in music on board the train. You do not ni it to be in company with rustic Jacob oi Kachel, and to be drinking out of the ni ntain where ten thousand sheep have "' a drinking before you. You will have k< "emove the obstacle o pride, or never e] 1 your way to the well. You will have ?' :ome as we came, willing to take the ir>' ;er of eternal life in any way, and at any r.e id, and in any kind of pitcher, crying out: 811 Lord Jesus, I am dying of thirst. Give fl< the water of eternal life, whether in gi lgh or goblet; give me the water of life; w ire not in what it comes to me." Away tu h all your hindrances of pride from the tc I's mouth. >lo ome. an ye nnrstyi You have an unned longing in your soul. You tried ley-making; that did not satisfy you. i tried office under government; that " not satisfy you. You tried pictures sculpture, but works of art did not " itlsry you. x ou are as muca aiscontcuuou i rith this life as the celebrated French an- J nor who felt that he could not any longer ndure the misfortunes of the world, and rho said: "At four o'clock this afternoon I nail put an end to my own existence. ] leanwhile, I must toil on up to that time ir the sustenance of my family." And he rrote on his book until the clock struck I 3ur, when he folded up his manscript, and, by his own hand, j included his earthly life. There are men ere who are perfectly discontented. Unappy in the past, unhappy to-day, to be un- T appy forever, unless you come to this Gospel well. This satisfies tho soul with a ij;h, deep, all-ab3orbing, and eternal I itisfaction. It comes and it offers the lost unfortunate man so much of this rorld as is best for him, and throws all T eaven into the bargain. The wealth of ircBsus and of all the Kotbschilds is only _ poor, miserable shilling compared witn ' tie eternal fortunes that Christ offers you . >day. In the far East, there was a king who sed once a year to get on a scales, while on ae other side the scales were plaoed gold nd silver and gems; indeed, enough were m laced there to balance the king; then. t the close of the weighing, all those treasrpa thrown amone the noDulac?. I ? tut Christ to-day steps on one aide the jales, and on the other side are all the treas- p res of the universe, and He says: "All re yours?all height, all depth, all length, 11 breadth, all eternity; all are yours." j. Pe don't appreciate the promises of the fospel. When an aged clergyman was ying?a man very eminent in tne churchyoung theological student stood by his j Ide, and the aged man looked up and said j him: "Can't you give me some comfort i my aying nour^' no," saia tne young ian; "i can't talk to you on this subject; ou know all about it, and have known It so I >ng." "Well," said the dying man, "just cite to me some promises." The young ian thought a moment, and he came to this SI rotnise: "The blood of J esus Christ cleans;h from all sin;" and the old man clapped is hands, and in his dying moment said: That's just the promise I have been waiting >r. 'The blooa of Jesua Christ cleanseth om all sin.'" Oh, the warmth, the gransur, the magnifltnce of the promises! Come, also, to this Gospel well, all ye cl oubled. 1 do not suppose you have it icapsd. Compare your view of this life tt t fifteen years of age with what your view tl f it is at forty, or sixty, or seventy. What tl great contrast of opinion! Were you ai ght then, or are you right now? Two p; ips placed in your hands, the one a k veet cup, the other a sour cup. A cup of H >y and a cup of grief. Which has been the ai iarest to being full, and out of which have tt du tna more rrequeatiy partaken? ivnac Q different place the cemetery is from ai hat it used to be. Once it was to ir du a grand city improvement, and you ai ent out on the pleasure excursion, and je du ran laughingly up the mound, and a: 3U criticised in a light way the epitaphut since the day when you heard tna bell k >11 at the gate as you went in with the ai rocession, it is a sad place, and there is a P Dod of rushing memories that suffuse the s< re and overmaster the heart. Oh, you n ive had trouble, trouble, trouble. Gk>d it oly knows how much you have had. It is H wonder you have been able to live through tl v It is a wonder your nervous system has ^ ot been shattered and your brain has not * seled. Trouble, trouble. If I could gather u 1 the griefs, of all_ sorts, f?pm this great sj idience, aud could' put them in one c> troll, neither man nor angel, could en- u; are the recitation. Well, what n > you want? Would you .like to tl ive your property again? "No," you say, tl 5 a Christian man, ,ll was becoming arro- fc int, and I think that is why the Lord took m a wo tt T Hnn't want to have mv nrooertr W lck." Well, would you have your departed b iends back again? "No," you say, "X p juldn't take the responsibility of bring- c< ig% them from a tearless realm to li realm of tears. I couldn't ft 3 it." Well, then, what do "you G ant I A thousand voices in the audienca cl y out: "Comfort, give us comfort." For lat reason I have rolled away the stone , om the well's mouth. Come, all ye wound1 of the flock, pursued by the wolves, come > the fountain where the Lord'9 sick and f< id bereft ones have come. li "Ab," says some one, "you are not otd ni lough to understand my sorrowa. You tc ave not been in the world as long as I have. ai a3 you can't "talk to ma about my misfor- 1?' mes In the time of old age." Well I have ei Ban a great deal amoa? old people, and I h now how they feeT" about their failing | D talth, and about thgir _departed I ft iends, and about the loneliness thafsome^ a I mos strikes through their soul. After in fro persons have lived together for forty rr: p fifty years, and one of them is taken tr way, what desolation! I shall not for- tl et tne cry of the late Rev. Dr. De Witt, of 'ew York, when he stood by the open cc rave of his beloved wife, and, after the ob- bt quies had ended, ho looked down into the U! pen place and said: "Farewell, my hon- P= red, faithful and beloved wife. The bond "I lat bound u9 is severed. Thou art in glory, til ad I am here on earth. We shall meet ?t gain. Farewell! Farewell!" To lean on a d? rop for fifty years, and then have it break si nder you I There were only two years' of ifference between the deaths of my Either and mother. After my mothers ui ecsase. my father used to go around as th dough looking for something; and he P' rould often get up from one room without to ny seeming reason, and go to another room, lo nd then he would tako his cane and et tart out, and some one would say: "Fath- cl< r, where are you going?" and he would "i nswer: "I don't know exactly where 1 m going." Though he was a tender-heart- re d man, I never saw him cry but once, "J ud that was at the burial of my mother, pa Lfter sixty years living together it was Sard in 0 part. And there are aged people to-day 80 rho are feeling just such a pang as that. I th rant to tell them there is perfect enchant- 0f lent in the promise* of tnis Gospel; and I <<s 3me to them and offer them my arm, or I ike their arm and I bring them to bis Gospel well. Sit down, father, p mother, sit down. See if there is nything at the welt for you. Come, en 'avid, the Psalmist, have you anything th icouraging to offer them? "Yes," says < le Psalmist; "They shall still bring forth ha uit in old age, they shall be fat and flour- ou hing; to show that the Lord is upright; He g0 my rock, and there is no unrighteousness jm 1 Him." Come, Isaiah, have you anything > say out of your prophecies for these aged bv sople? "Yes," says Isaiah; "Down to old be 50 I am with thee, and lo hoary hairs will th carry thee." Well, if the Lord is going to inj irry you, you ought not to worry much [jjj jout your failing eyesight and failing nn mbs. do But some one says, in the audience: Notwithstanding all you have said this re( lorning, I find no alleviation for my trou- m( les." Well, I am not through yet. I ou ive left the most potent consideration for nij le last. I am going to soothe you with the 8j0 lought of heaven. However talkative we . ay be, there will come a time when the jei outest and most emphatic interrogation |je ill evoke from us 110 answer. As goon as so, e have closed our lips for the final silence c;, > power on earth can break that tacitur- an ity. But where, O Christian, will be your trc irit ? In a scene of infinite gladness. The ^ iring-morning of heaven waving its bios- or ims in the bright air. Victors fresh from pe ittle showinz their scars. The rain of irttily sorrow scrucu torougn witn tne |jn linbow of eternal joy. In one group. God t|,, id angels and the redeemed?Paul anil C01 ilas, Latimer and Pddley, Isaiah and Jere- -p|, iah, Payson and John Milton. Gabriel and j^j jchael the archangel. Lou? imes ot' cbor- jjj ters reaching across the hills. Seas of joy .,n i3hing to the white beach. Conquerors ?[| arching from gate to gats. You among g, iem. t Ob, what a great floci: of sheep God will jn? ither around the celestial well. No stone n,j I the well's mouth, while the Shepherd qJ aters the sheep. There Jacob will recog- otze Rachel the shepherdess. And stand- |)e' g on one side of the well of eterII raptute, jour children; and stauding |u? 1 the other side of the well of eterU rupture, your Christian ancestry, you HI be bounded on all sides by a joy so ;en and grand that no other world has *er been permitted to experience it. Out 1 ! that one deep well of heaven the ,' iopherd will dip reunion for the bslave J, wealth for the poor, health for the a >. ck. rest for the wearv. And then all the jckof the Lord's sheep will he down in the :een pastures, ana world without end we Pe ill praise the Lord that on this first au- pa imnal Sabbath of 1891 we were permitted jt 1 study among the beating flocks and , wing nerds of tnis fair-ground the story of by icob and Rachel the shepherdess at the ha ell In Mesopotamia. Oh, plunee your V?| ickets into tnis great Gospel well and let iem come up dripping with that water of 111 hich it a man drink he never again shall tic . >1^. tit RELIGIOUS READING. : SOMETIME. IJ am waiting for the shadows round me lying To drift away; am waiting for the sunlight always dying, L To come and stay; know there'u light beyond the cloudy curtain, A light sublime! hat it will stiinc on me I now am certain, Sometime! sometime! am waiting for the Summer's golden of lustre? Now fur away? ar Then golden fruits around my life shall wi cluster , E:ich sunny day! 7e read of fndeless flowers in fabled story, ac In fur-off clime, tb .nd I shall pluck them in their pristine glory, tis Sometime! some-time! i I hen I shall hear the voice of loved ones To call me i To their dear side; Sii nd I shall then, whatever may befall me, th Rett satisfied! & or on my ear sweet notes of love shall I tremble wl In mf tchless rhyme, m rom heart and lips that never can dis- j semMe, 50 Sometime! sometime! I Or am waiting; but at times I grow so weary? < Far seems the day ti] r'hen all the pain which makes our life bo j dreary je Shall pass away. < know the heart oft filled with tones of sadness, thi Like funeral cbimc, I hall echo loud with songs of love and it gladness, < Sometime! sometime! 4n ?[Hosea Q. Blaisdell. jr in i THE CAUSE OF FAILURE. ^ The father prays in the morning that his { liidren may grow up in the Lord, and calls tbi even the principal good of their life that ley are to be Christians, living for God and j0 le world to come. Then he goes out into le field, or the shop, or the house of trade, pfl nd delviDg there all day in his gains, keeps raying from morning to night, without gj nowing it, that his family may be rich, [is pinna and works, faithfully seconded by un [i affectionate wife, pull exactlv contrary to le pull of his prayers, and to all their com- | ion teaching iu religion. Tbeir tempers ha re worldly, and make a worldly atmospnere < 1 the house. Pride, the ambition of show fri ad social standing, envy of what is above, re] lalousv of what is below, follies of drew ad fashion, and the more foolish elation | ;lt when a son is praised or a daughter ad- mj itred in the manner of personal appear- < ace, or wbnt is no better, a manifest preorlnc onH fnrpfflsfiniy rtf thin fnllv when the < )n or daughter is so youn* aa to be tbc f0] tore certainly poisoned bv tne infection of | ?O these unspoken, damning prayers 1 -e low many are they, and bow totally do ^ ley fill up the days! The mornings open j ith a reverent, fervent-sounding prayer of je ords, and then the days come after, piling j p petitions of ends" aims, tempers, pasons and works, that ask for anything and j kerythmg but what accords with the gen- j ine rule of religion. The prayer in the br icrning is that the son, the daughter, all Qg le sons, all the daughters, may be Chris- | sns; nnd then the prayers that" follow are 0f >r anything but that, or anything in fact lost contrary to that. Is it any wonder, UE hen we consider this common "agreement ; etween the prayers, even the fervent ravers of the family, and all other con;rns, enjoyments, and ends of the common M fe besides, tbat so many fine shows of j-r imily piety are vet followed by so much of t._ j 1? *?i. ? u i.u* JS ouicss ana even repruuaie uu;nunci iu ium, bildren?? [Dr. Horace Bushnell. m ??? Mft. . cl blVlXK COMMUXIOJf. oI There is no pos ible way of finding coraw sa >rc amid the providences that come to us in ^ fe but in an intimate and habitual com- t, mnion with God. Much as we may desire > avoid providences, so often of an afflictive w ad disciplinary character, our Heavenly athor sees it wise to administer His gov- m ninent over us in a manner that often ides His love to our human thought, q oubtless in this way He would keep us om pride and vanity, impress upon us our ^ isolute dependence upon His guidance, istil n deeper religious conviction in our jj, linds, perfect more fully our ideals of a ue life, and chilfy our vision of spiritual lings. But, theorizing thus, as we often st o. how few accept His way with unruffled imposure, rejoicing that we are in His was! Such blessed rest in God comes to i only through one well-trodden path?the ith of holy prayer. We do not mean an jproach to* the mercy-seat merely at stated tic mes and in formal utterances, but a conant drawing near to Him in the silent 'pths of devotion, in the soul's unuttercd 7e implications, in the hourly spiritual contact de 'the human with the divine heart. tb But this power to pause amid conflicting . icertainties, and let God give lizht upon 01 e path in His own good time, is not the toi oduct of human philosophy. This ability eif wait until He shall solve the problem be- oc n?3 only to souls that are constantly closed in His presence. Helping Him to de- ^ de difficult questions is one of His ways of thi awarding them openly." he And who will say that this is not a rich ward for obeying our Lord's command, reJ 2nter into thy closet"? Can anything sur- to) is8 such comfort as Is found here? Toll- *'I g. weary pilgrims, at the shore of the undingsea, amid mountain steeps, beneath , e broad canopy of the heavens at midnight, berever thou art found, enter the enclosure du prayer and abide very near to Him who 0f eeth in secret." Oh, what safety is here! . u wa CHRISTIANITY* ASD CHRIST. Dr. John A. Broadus' book just published, n ~c xrn m ...m, UP liweu ~ ui uuaua \tuu * esc sentences: of "I can imagine some one saying, it is so dei rd to brine that first Christianity near to ij0( rselves. It shines like a star, but it seems distant. Christianity has indeed been by "? any s?.dly corrupted, grievously abused. ay< it consider, every gift of genius is abused 0f many, every form of jrovernment has _i en corrupted, every dearest relation of life at ought to make us hlessed may be so ate sused as to render us miserable. And ha< ink how much good Christianity has done, 8ec d how much more good it assuredly would , if we who -all ourselves Christians Pa' )uld live more faithfully according to its lik lulreraents and in the "inspiration of its cu] jtives and hopes, and would more zeal- , sly carry out the departing Saviour's com- , ssion, anil preach repentance and remis- 13 l m ^.sir.s unto all nations. oni 'LW us remember, too, that believing in sus Christ and His religion is not like beving in some mathematical formula, or ne metaphysical conclusion, or some as- net tainment of general history. If Christi- ?U| ity be true, it is gloriously true?yea, and mulously true. Remember, furthermore, iristianity is not only a system of ethics, sid a system of doctrines; it is embodied in a ma rson. Egotism is often ridiculous; but tu ;e one step upward, and behold it is a sub- f* le egotism when Jesus Christ says, *1 am the t way, the truth and the life. No man a s neth" unto the Father but through Me.' rough Him, then, let us draw near, on m let us personally rely. It may be that al9( Terences of doctrinal conception are at yoi jsent unavoidable, but why shall we not trust and lovingly obey the personal kiour? Xor must we forget that to hold o<u iof from Christianity is not simply reject: some i-reod or system of opinion ; it is S ecting Jesus Chris: Himself, the Son of id. the Saviour of men. Cannot each one ? us say at least so much as this, 'Lord, I -"c ieve, help Thou mine unbelief? Behold, pla who one day said that to Jesus was wh ird and likssed." fro grs Hebhew resentment over the deflnin of "Sheeny, a sharp fellow, hence . lew," is wholly fust. That editors ^ the "Century Diotionary" should cn( rmit bo gross an error to deface a ge of that work ia as surprising as is censurable. The slang epithet is so no means limited to onn race, but a ti .3 been vulgarly applied to persons ol rio rious races. In revision of the work au< to which it has slipped by uninten- wo >nal oversight its offensive restrio- Th >n will be, of course, exponged. ' i .wYiv^.1 . ... . ? lv.. " ' . % ;? ' SABBATH SCHOOL STEItNATIONAL LESSON FOE SF!PTli'M nr? Of csson Text: Second Quarterly Re view?Golden Text: Hebrews, xlii., 8. _______ t REVIEW EXERCISE. Superintendent?What does John first say tha Word? School?In the beginning was the Word, id the Word was with God. and the Word is God. Supt.?What is next said of the Word? School?All things were made by Him; id without Him was not anything mode at was made. Supt.?What testimony did John the Bap- _ it bear to Jesus? School?Behold the Lamb of Go J. Supt.?What did Andrew do when he una Jesus. School?He first findeth bis own brother mon, and saith unto bim, We have found P* e Messiah And he brought him to ot sus. Supt.?What did Jesus say to the servants 61 i?n they had filled the water pots with itor? School?Draw out now and bear unto the er vernor of the feast. Tj Supt.?What did the governor say to the C idegroom? School?Thou hast kept the good wine unnow. Supt.?What did Jesus first say to Nicomus? bt School?Verily, verily, I say unto thee, n< ccept a man be born again he cannot see m s kingdom of God. at Supt.?What did Jesus say to the woman w the well? bi School?If thou knowest the gift of God, pi d who it is that saith to thee, Give me to pt ink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, ax d He would have given thee living water. bt Supt.?What did He further say of this h< iug water? hi School?Whosoever drinketh of the water -w it I shall give him shall never thirst in Supt.?Why did the Jews seek to kill sp sus? _ m School?Because He said that God was His h ther, making Himself equal with God. Supt.?Wbat authority has the Father ieri to the Son? 3cbool?He bath committed all judgment to the Son. that all men should honor the tb n, even as they honor the Father. n( Supt.?How much remained after Jesus n( d led the five thousand? jjj School?They flUed twelve baskets with the w igments of the five barley loaves, which d( mained over and above unto them that u, d eaten. 10 3upt.?What did those who had seen the ]0 iracle say? th School?This is of a truth that Prophet jj at should come into the world. Supt.?What did Jesus say to those who y llowed Him to Capernaum? w School?Labor not for the meat which af risheth, but for that meat which endureth hi ito everlasting life. uj Supt.?What did His hearers then say to n( SUS? g\ School?Lord, evermore give us this tL earf. th Supt.?What did Jesus reply? School?Jesus said unto them, I am the n( eadof life: he that cometh to Me shall jf ver hunger. th Supt.?What did Jesus say on the last day jj, the feast? . School?If any man thirsts, let him come n( Mp and drink. m Supt.?What did Jesas say- to thosa who ft lieved Him? " ^ School?If ye continue in My word, then -fa o ye My disciples indeed: and ye shall al low the tniUit and the truth shall make ^ lii tree. . tr Sujjk?What did Jesus do to the blind ^ au> * tt School?He spat on the ground and made ^ ay or tWs'pittle, and He anoiptei thS eyes u, iia. . tt Supt.?What did the blincTman do? ?,' School?He went his way therefore, and 1 ashed, ana came seeing. Supt.?What question did Jesas put to the an to whom He had given sight? School?Dost thou believe on the Son of .. ?a? g Supt.?What did the man do when Jesas id made Himself known unto him? Pc School?He said uuto Jesus, Lord, I be- JJ 5ve: and he worshiped Him. **j Supt.?What did Jesus say of Himself? School?I am the good shepherd: the good leplierd giveth His life for the sheep.? ^ restmin&ter Question Book. w JTnsfc as MeiRcIne. " The London Lancet gives a very can>U3 reply to a suggestion as to the use ^ music as a medical treatment. "Five be are ago," says the Lancet's correspon- m nt, "I had an opportunity of trying e effect of dreamy music upon a lady 0; great intellectual power,who retained, bj o, her faculties at the ripe age of eP ?hty-six. About seven minutes were ^ cupied by the music, and before its tiz it notes were heard my reverend friend, to a Viscountess Combermere, had closed ^ r eye3 and was napping." This story be ninds us (says the Hospital) of another all Id by the late Dean Ramsey in his j?1 Reminiscences of Scottish Life and ^ laracter." A certain country laird was ba cen ill with some affection which pro- b?1 olonnlaconnaa All OArffl tcu LUC\L auu OlttpiWJULjgi u.44 ovi w 1 ^ remedies fcr the insomnia were tried, ( or t in vain. The Laird had a son who me a what is called in Scotland "draft," it ia, he was somewhat weak in the ^ per story. When the other members pie the laird's family were in a state bor- sin ring on distraction, the lad, whom nody thought of taking into consultsn, suddenly burst out with, 4,Feyther lov j sleeps i' the-kirk." The suggestion 1111 getting a minister to preach to the ^ e pleas man was acted upon immedi- UQi ly, and with the best results. Hardly ble i the reverend divine got well into the h.a; ond head of his discourse, before the :ient was sound asleep and snoring coi e the dione of a bagpipe. The pe- ^ iar monotony of the prcacher's voice th? i acted as an irresistible soporific. It fri 1 common experience that the monot- str jus reading of a book, or the measid cadence of quiet singing, is often tioi great value in the soothing, of the vous system. It might be well if rses were taught to chant a little, and ^ re to learn suitable music lor the bed- jor e. Young ladies, too, and even j trons, would be all the better if, in tha s course of their ordinary education, the :y had a little instruction in music, of 1 leep-inducing kind. There is manitly a field for the musical composer tali 3, as well as for the nuise and the j jng lady. the - - __T un< irin? Birds FromMTlieftt With Bells. ^ Some of the farmers of the Eifel, the his trict that lies between the frontier of cou Igium and the Rhine, adopt a novel 141 n for scaring the birds from the j/J eat. A number of poles arc set up in ucs ! cornfields, and a wire is conducted all m one to another, just like the tele- tio1 tph posts that you see alongside the ex? [way. From the top of each pole j00, re hangs a bell, which is counectei age :ii the wire. Now, in the valley a mil tok.s runs alone;, with a current stronsr f. ' >ugh to turn a small water wheel, to mo ich the wire is fastened. As the iir< eel goes round it jerks the wire, and I the bells in the different fields are su't 1,10 inkling. The bells thus rung myste- jl'j? usly brighten the birds from the gram, for I even excite the wonder of nen and bin men until they discover the secret. is simple contrivance is found to serve If,," purpose very well. tha TEMPERANCE. 1 ? # WHAT SHALL I D1UNK f Give me the pure water From heaven's own fountain, ' Dancing ani leaping From hillside and mountain - j So sparkling and bright ' ?3 In its silvery flow, It seems to shed light ^ On the valleys below. iucri Diessings ic Drings ^ / : To the homes of the poor, / v For water ami bread They find ever sure. There's nothing so good In way of a drink As water, pure water, Welling up from the brink. It is better than wine. And much clearer than beer; j&nj It will keep the head cool, And it cost is not dear. A. N. Chance, in Temperance Banner. no ALCOHOL IN THIS HOSPITAL. . v# In Chicago there is a hospital which trecte ' itienta without the use of alcohol. CasN ! all kinds are taken and the patients ar? irsed through all stages of disease without rer taking a drop of any medicine whldfau intains alcohol, lhe treatment has been jry suocessful, and now it is proposed to \ v ect a new hospital that will cost lOO.OOIk lie name of the old one is 'The Womarfk hriatian Temperance Hospital." ' ' TEz Htm susnriss. It is a business which every merchant and t isiness man hates and detests. It is a but ; jss which is the standing dread of every r i other. It is a business which is the con? ' ant fear of every father. It is a busineaa hich is the horror of every wife. It is isiness which make ninety per cent, o* . V' Hinnmom fftt* wllioK f.hft fflTnflUAl* ly. It is a business which keeps employed , i army of policemen in the cities, ft u ftisiness which pots oat the fire oh ths ^ sarth, and condemns wives and children ta ' . inger, cold and rags. It is a business hich fosters vice for profit, and edocatas . vj wickedness for gain. Drunkenness means eculation, theft, robbery, arson, forgery, urder, for it leads to ail these crimes.? ish Templar. WHAT IS A DRUNKAED? What is a drunkard? I have gone throogi [,/j le whole creation that lives, and I find >thing in it like the drunkard. There is > other thing in nature to which he can bft cened. The drunkard is the self-mads , retch who has depraved and has gratified (praved cravings of the throat and bodjv:^ itil he has sunk his soul so far that It at ,';'1 st in his fiesh ami has sunk his very flesh wer, lower down beyond comparison than iat of the very animals which serve Um. e is a self-degraded creature, whose degrsition is made manifest to every one bnfr >; mself; self-made miserable being, what.ii* hile he is insensible to his own misery* . fiicts every one else around or belonging to; J m with misery. The drunkard is let loosfe >. Kin mankind like some foul, ill-boding and >xious animal, tc pester, torment and disist everything that reasons or feels, white .; ~ ie curse of God hangs over his place, and ;e gates of heaven are closed against him. Drunkenness is pever to be found aloofly. -'fi iver unaccompanied by some horrid crim^ '.rJ tinf Kw a winiPA/1 rtf fliom (V in uyu uj a ??iwawu \t vnu v/i vuuiu< mv ?11 10 house of the drunkard, consider his flun* *3 r", look on his affair?. listen to the soanti lat proceeds from the house of drunk??K* r? as as you pas?, survey the insecurity oftiM".'; lblic ways and of the night streets. Go toCtaB ie hospital, to the house of charity and ttMK'i. k! of wretchedness. Enter the courts of LStice, the prison and condemned cell. Look ~f, ; the haggard features of the ironed cringe ^ al. Ask "all these why they exist to dbh ' e?s?, jinlyou will everywhere be answeMtf; f Caico &ud recitals of drunkenness. And ie miseries, aui^ttw vices, and the sorrowv id scenes oJ suiT-rin? tW harrow??*"] Li.C\U* fCIll were HHmoit without exceptiott^n ther prepared by drinking, or were tmd??|i 5ne for procuring the means for satisfying.' /* lis vic3 which soraw; from it,~4>W0>i4M?jggj| Uathorjje " _ . ALCOHOL AND THE CkUK OF CHlLDttrf. T!p| Very many people, and among them not'' te least well educated, think that alcoboc a cure for different sicknesses and india* >sitious, and in such cases eren children anz equently compelled to make use of it. If p is still a question as to whether the tub cohol produces the wished for and expected > j suits in the case of men who f?el indfr<_? >sed, there is not the slightest doubt tint r children alcohol is a poison in every casct - y hose after effecte may fee Inexpressibly far-. ^ aching. Professor Demme cites a noteor thy case of the injurions effects of albo-TOS >1 on a boy, which should sure as a warn- raj g. For tha purpose of "strengthening" He n year old son, who was very intelligent' :<?jj it physically weak, an anxious father ad-' ioistered daily,at first a glass, then several -Vfi asses of strong malaga wine.' After some jeks the parents noticed that the memocy the boy was steadily declining. Finally, ' order of the phvsician the supply waa,h? tirely discontinued, and, in the course ofjyffl r or ?icht weeks tha bov recovered. His ental powers bad become so weak that at es he did not know his own name, failed p recognize his relatives, and could scarcely ','i int out the simplest objects in daily dm.. it as is often the case with fathers who iieve in using alcohol, this one could not ow himself to be convinced of its injur- , is effects, lie could not bear to withhold is supposed strengthening article, and ha ain staked his son's life and health on this lie/. This time he experimented wtth er and gave the boy a wine glass full every on and evening. In a few weeks he oo? ved the same significant decline of mamj and the same dwindling of his wont* intal powers, which were again recovered ' > ten the use of alcohol was at last forever . ied. Reasonable thinkers can scaroely derstand how well informed poo- ;< i are able to deny this and lilar effects of alcohol. This destructive lueace upon thought and the mental powi is self-evident, and every one, who does tin work, will be a proof of this, if ho airs himself to be led to use alcohoL That ' s effect will become greater by continued >A ) need not be mentioned. And now tha $ ne result has been found in the delicate used faculties of a child. It is inexcuea- V-j i for any parent to allow bis children to re even a taste of alcohol. How many knesses, for which one has vainly sought explanation would be understood if tt? r -elessness of parents, in this respect, wera awn. A child should bo taught to fear ' ohol as it dreads the fire. It is sad that s is so seldom the case. There are even ',-yU volous fathers who give their children . ,< ong drink for a "joke," instead of becom; acquainted with tbe spectacle afforded the nlay of the child's natural inclina- * as.?New York Bclletristisches JournaL ' 3111 TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. L woman was recently arrested in Boston the ninetieth ticue for drunkenness. t is reported on unquestioned authority it tho natives of Alaska are drinking mselves to death with startling rapidity/ /'$5 Irs. Julia A. Cbase has been doing splendid rk in the military prison at Fort Leavenrtb, Kansas. Four hundred men have en the pledge. t is ascertained that nearly one-half of criminals in the German prisons were arted for crimes committed when they were ler the influence of intoxicating drinks. l recent advertisement in the Derry (Irad) Signal readst "Wanted: A man and wife as caretakers for a gentleman's in try house. One must be sober." Was 00 much to expect both to be? 'ho owners of 130 small drug-stores in Inna hare boon obliged to go out of busi- ' s sinco the law went iutoeffect compelling drug-stores keeping for sale any preparais ot alcohol to pay the regular liquor tax icted from saloons. 'he Ilev. Mr. Passinore wanted the aans closed on Sunday, and the ill-Ieeliug liust him took the shape of placing dyna:e in the bell of his church, the Methodist i.?copai. The bell and the belfry were wn to atom?, endangering the lives of re thau 10J people. This occurred ii :ckenridge, Col. 'he unitod committee on native races anl liquor traffic cf Great Britian have adssed an interesting letter to Gi ngunhana, ief of Uazalaud, whose envoys have beeu some time in this country. They inform 1 that the Governments of Europe ha'-a e^tl that the ''white man's strong drink" lot to be forced on any chief or people linst their wishes. The letter is signed by Duke of Westminster and others. '-ii