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KEY. DRTALMAGE.1 SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: ^Expurgation of the Scriptures." Text: "Let God be true, but every man Q liar."?Romans iil., 4. The Bible needs reconstruction according to some inside and outside the pulpit. It is * no surprise that the world bombards the 8criptures. but it is amazing to And Chris{ tian ministers picking at this in the Bible i and denying that until many good people are left in the fog about what parts of the Bible they ought to believe and what parts reject. The helnousness of finding fault with the Bible at this time is most evident. In our day the Bible is assailed by scurrility, by misrepresentation, by infldel scientists, by all the vice of earth and all the venom of perdition, and at this particular time even preachers ot the Gospel fall into line of criticism of the word of God. Why, it mjikes me think of a ship in a September equinox, ' - the waves dashing to the top of the smokestack. and the hatches fastened down, and many prophesying the foundering of the steamer, and at that time some of the crew with axes and saws go down into the hold of the ship, and they try to saw off some of the planks and pry out some of the timbers because the timber did not come from the right roresr. It does not seem to be a commendable business for the crew to be helping the winds and storms outside with their axes and saws Inside. Now, this old Gospel ship, what with the roaring of earth and hell around the Btemand stern and mutiny on deck. Is harming a very rough voyage, but I have noticed that not one of the timbers has started, an t the captain says he will see it through. And I have noticed that keelson and counter timber knee are built out of Lebanon cedar, and she is going to weather the gale, but no credit to those who make mutiny on deck. When I see professed Christians in this particular day finding fault with the Scrip^ tures, it makes me think of a fortress terrifically bombarded, and the men on the ramparts. instead of swabbing out and loading the guns and helping fetch up the ammunirtion from the magazine, are trying with crowbars to pry out from the wall certa'n blocks of stone, because they did not come from the right quarry. Oh, men on the ramparts, better fight back, and fight down the oommon enemy, instead of trying to make breaches in the wall! While I oppose this expurgation of the Scriptures, I snail give you my reasons for Buch opposition. "What!" say some of the t?Trolnfinnict<5 vhoflA brains havo been addled '^ytoo Ion? brooding over them by Darwin and Spencer, "you don't now really believe all the story of the garden of Eden, do you?" Yes, as much as I believe there were roses in my garden last summer. "But." say they, "you don't really believe that the sun and moon stood still?" Yes. and If I had strength enough to create a sun and moon I could make them stand still or cause the refraction of the sun's rays so it would appear to stand stilL "But," they say, "you don't really believe that the whale Bwallowed Jonah?" Yes, and if I were strong enough to make a whale I could have made very easy ingress for the refractory prophet, leaving to evolution to eject him if he were an unworthy tenant! "But,"say they, "you don't really'believethat the water was turned Into wine?" Yes, just as easily as water now is often turned into wine with an admixture of strychnine and logwood! "But." say they, "you don't really believe that Samson Blew 1000 with the jaw*bone of an ass?" Yes, and I think that the man who in this day assaults the Bible is wielding the same weapon! There is nothing in the Bible that staggers me. There are many things I do not understand, I do not pretend to understand, never shall in this world understand. But that would be a very poor God who could be fully understood by the human. That would be a very small Infinite tbat can De measured d>* / finite. You must not expect to weigh the f thunderbolts of Omnipotence in an apothe> cary's balances. Starting with the idea that ' God can do anything, and that He was present at the beginning, and that He is present now, there is nothing in the holy Scriptures to arouse skepticism in my heart. Here I stand a lossil of the ages, dug up from the tertiary formation, fallen off the shelf of an antiquarian, a man in the latter part of the glorious nineteenth century believing in a whole Bible from lid to lid' I am opposed to the expurgation of the Scriptures in the first place, because the Bible in its present shape has been so miraculously preserved. Fifteen hundred years after Herodotus wrote his history, there was only one manuscript copy of it. Twelve hundred years after Plato wrote his book there was only one manuscript copy of it. God was so careful to have us have the Bible in just the right shape that we have fifty manuscript copies 01 me >0W i.esiament a thousand years old, and some of them 1500 years old. This book, handed down from the time of Christ, or jost after the time of Christ, by the hand of such men as Origen In the second century and Tertullian in the third century, and by men of different ages who died for their principles. The three best copies of the New Testament in manuscript in the possession of the three Rreat churches?the Protestant church of England, the Greek ohurch of St. Petersburg and the Bomish church of Italy. It is a plain matter of history that Tischen; dorf went to a convent in the peninsula of Sinai and was by ropes lifted over the wall Into the r convent, that being the only mode of admission, and that he saw there in the wastebasket for kindling for the fires a manuscript of the Holy Scriptures. That night he copied many of the passages of that Bible, but it was not until fifteen years had passed of earnest entreaty and prayer and coaxing and purchase on his part that that copy of the Holy Scriptures was put into the hand of the Emperor of Russia?that one copy so marvelously protected. Do you not know that the catalogue of the books of the Old and New Testaments as we have it is the same catalogue that has been coming down through the ages? Thirtynine books of the Old Testament thousands of years ago. Thirty-nine now. Twentyseven books of the New Testament 1600 years ago. Twenty-seven books of the New Testament now. Marcion, for wickedness, was turned out of the church in the second century, and in his assault on the Bible and Christianity he incidentally gives a catalogue of the books of the Bible?that catalogue corresponding exactly with ours?testimony given by the enemy of the Bible and the enemy of Christianity. The catalogue now just like the catalogue then. Assaulted and spit on and torn to pieces and burned, yet adhering. The book to-day, in 800 languages, confronting four-fifths'of the human race in their own tongue. Four hundred million copies of it in existence. Does not that look as if this book had been divinely protected, as if God had guarded It ail " through the centuries? Is it not an argument plain enough to every honest man and every honest woman that a book divinely protectod and in this shape is in the very shape that God wants it. It pleases God and ought to please us. The epidemics which have swept thousands of other books into the sepuleherof forgetfulness have only brightened the fame of this. There is not one book out of 1000 that H lives Ave years. Any publisher will tell you thRt. There will not be more than one book out of 20.000 that will live a century. Yet here is a book, much of it 1G00 years old and much of it 4000 years old and with more rebound and resilience and strength in it than > when the book was first put upon parchment or papyrus. This book saw the cradle of all other books, and it will see their graves. Would you not think that an old book like this, some of it forty centuries old. would come along hobbling with age and on crutches? Instead of that, more potent than any other book of the time. More copies of it printed In the last ten years than of any other book ?Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. Macaulay's ''History of England." Disraeli's "fludvmion." the works o1 Tennvson and L^nsr lellow, and all the popular books of our time having uo such sale in the last ten years as this old worn out book. Do you know what a struggle a book lia* iu order to get through one century or two centuries? Someold books, during a lire in a seraglio of Constaminople, were thrown into the street. A man ' ' -without any education picked up one of those books, read it, and did not see the value of it. A scholar looked over his shoulder and saw it was the first and second decades of Llvy. and he offered the man a largo reward if he would bring the books to his study, but in the excitement of the fire the two parted, and the first and second decades of Livy were forever lost. Pliny wrote twenty books of history. All lost." The most of Menander's writings lost. Of 130 comedies of Plautus all gone but rwenty. " Euripides wrote 100 dramas, all gone but nineteen- iEschlyus wrote 100 dramas, all gone but seven. Yarro wrote the laborious biographies of 700 Romans, not a fragment left. Quintilian wrote his favorite book on the corruption of eloquence, all lost. Thirty books of Tactltus lost. Dion Cas3ius wrote eighty books, only twenty remain. Beroslus's history all lost. Nearly all the old books are mummified and are lying in the tombs of old libraries, and perhaps once in twenty years some man comes alonir and picks up one of them and blows the dust off and opens it and finds it the book he does not want. But this old book, much of it forty centuries old, stands to-day more discussed than any other book, and it challenges the admiration of all the good and the spite and the venom, and the animosity, and the hypercriticism of earth and hell. I appeal to" your common sense if a book so divinely guarded and protected in its present shape must not be in just the way that God wants it to come to us. and If it pleases God ought it not to please us? Not only have all the attempts to detract from the book failed, but all the attempts to add to It. Many attempts were made to add the apochryphal books to the Old Testament. The council of Trent, the synod of Jerusalem, the bishops of Hippo, all decided that the -* * ' ? ? ? ? -? fka HI/1 apoonrynai doou muss, uo nuucu iu iUU v>? Testament. "They must stay in," said those learned men, but they staid out. There is not an intelligent Christian man that to-day will put the book of Maccabees or the book of Judith beside the book of Isaiah or Romans. Then a great many said, "We must have books added to the New Testament," and there were epistles and gospels and apocalypses written and added to the New Testament, but they have all fallen out Tou cannot add anything. You cannot substract anything. Divinely protected book in the present shape. Let no man dare to lay his hands on it with the intention of detracting from the book or casting out any of these holy pages. Besides that,l am opposed to this expurgation of the Scriptures because if the attempt were successful, it would be the annihilation of the Bible. Infidel geologists would say, "Out with the Book of Genesis;" infidel astronomers would say, "Out with the Book of Joshua;" people who do not believe in the atoning sacrifice would say, "Out with the Book of Leviticus;" people who do not believe in the miracles would say, "Oat with all those wonderful stories in the Old and New Testament;' and some would say, "Out with the Book of Revelation;" and others would say, "Out with the entire Pentateuch," and the work would go on until there would not be enough of the Bible left to be worth as much as last year's almanac. The expurgation of the Scriptures means their annihilation. I am also opposed to this proposed expurgation of the Scriptures for the fact that in proportion as the people become self-sacriflcing and good and holy and consecrated, they like the book as it Is. I have vet to find a man or a woman distinguished for selfsacrifice, for consecration to God, for holiness of life, who wants the Bible changed. Many of us have inherited family Bibles. Those Bibles were in use twenty, forty, fifty, perhaps 100 years in the generations. Today take down those family Bibles, and find out if there are any chapters which have been erased by lead pencil or pen, and If In any margins you can find the words, "This chapter not fit to read." There has been plenty of opportunity during the last half century privately to expurgate the Bible. Do you know any case of such expurgation? Did not your grandfather give it to your father, and did not your father gives.it to you? Besides that I am opposed to the expurgation of the Scriptures, because the socalled indelicacies and cruelties of the Bible have demonstrated no evil result. A cruel book will produce cruelty. An unclean book will produce uncleanness. Fetch me a victim. Out of all Christendom and out of all rne ages jricu me u viuuui ?u?g a?ui been hardened to cruelty or whose life has been made impure by this book. Show me one. One of the best families I ever knew of, for thirty or forty years, morning and evening, had all the members gathered together, and the servants of the household, and the strangers that happened to be within the gates?twice a day, without leaving out a chapter or a verse, they read this holy book, morning by morning, night by night. Not only the older children, but the little child who could just spell her way through the verse while her mother helped her, the father beginning and reading one verse and then all the members of the family in turn raori<no> n The father maintained his Integrity, the mother maintained her integrity, the sons grew up and entered professions and commercial life, adorning every sphere in the life in which they lived, and the daughters went into families where Christ was honored, and all that was good and pure and righteous reigned perpetually. For thirty years that family endured the Scriptures. Not one of them ruined by them. Now, if you will tell me of a family where the Bible has been read twice a day for thirty years, and the children have been brought up in that habit, and the father went to ruin, and the mother went to ruin, and the sons and daughters were destroyed by it? if you will tell me of one such incident, I will throw away my Bible or I will doubt your veracltv. I tell you if a man is shooked with what he calls the indelicacies of the word of God he is prarient in his taste and imagination. If a man cannot read SoloI mon's Song without impure suggestion, he is either in his heart or in his life a libertine. The Old Testament description of wickedness, uncleanness of all sorts, is purposely and righteously a disgusting account, instead of the Byronio and the Parisian vernacular, which makes sin attractive instead of appalling. When those old prophets point you to a lazaretto, you understand it is a lazaretto. When a man naving oegun 10 ao ngnc iatis onus uuu wickedness and gives up his integrity, the Bible does not say he was overcome by the fascinations of the festive board, or that he surrendered to convivialities, or that he became a little fast in his habits. I will tell you what the Bible says, "The dog is turned to his own vomit again and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." No gilding of Iniquity. No garlands on a death's head. No pounding away with a silver mallet at iniquty when it needs an iron sledge hammer. I can easily understand how people brooding over the description of uncleanness In the Bible may get morbid in mind until they are as full of it as the wings, and the beak, and the nostril, and the claw of a buzzard are full of the odors of a carcass, but what is wanted is not that the Bible be disinfected, but that you, the critic, have your mind and heart washed with carbolic acid. I tell you at this point in my discourse that a man who does not like this book, and who is critical as to its contents, and who is shocked and outraged with its descriptions, has never been soundly converted. The laying on of the hands of presbytery or episcopacy does not always change a man's heart, and men sometimes Ret into the pulpit. as well as into the pew, never having been changed radically by tho sovereign Brace of God. Get your heart right and the Bible will be right. The trouble is men's i natures are not brought into harmony with the word of God. Ah. mv friends. exDunra tionof the heart is what is wanted! Yoa cannot make me believe that the Scripture?, which this moment lie on the table of the purest and best men and women of the ag<\ and which were the dyin? solace of your kiudrcd passei into the skies, have in them a taint which the strongest microscope of honest criticism could make visible. If men are uncontrollable in their indignation when the integrity of wife or child is assailed. and judges and jurors as far as possible excuse violence under such provocation, what ought to be the overwhelming aud long resounding thunders of condemnation for any man who will stand in a Christian pulpit'and assail the more than virgin purity of inspiration, the well beloved daughter of God? Expurgate the Bible! You might as well go to the old picture galleries in Dresden ami in Yenico and in licime anti expurgate the old painting?. Perhaps you could find a foot of Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment'' that might be improved. Perhaps you could throw more expression into Raphael's "Madonna." Perhaps you could put more pathos into Itubens's "Descent from the Cross." Perhaps you could change the crest of the waves in Turner's "Slave Ship." Perhaps you might go into the old galleries of sculpture and change the forms and tho posture of the statues of Phidias and Praxiteles. Such an iconoclast would very soon find himself in tho penitentiary. But it is I worse vandalism when a man proposes to refashion these masterpieces of inspiration and to remodel the moral giants of this gallery of God. A Prohibition Church. ; There is a "Prohibition Congregational , Church" in Santa Monica, Cal. RELIGIOUS BEADEK COCBAGE FOR THE Bir.Iir. A successful evangelist tells what great i suits followed from a simple stand for Chr when he was a commercial traveler: He h made a good sale, and the merchant said.' is your treat." He knew what that rneai There was a saloon across the street, and was expected to >ro across and "set up t drinks' for the whole establishment. "\Vb is the use?" he said to himself. This is o of the expediencies of the trade. I need: drink anything. I can order the cigars. a supper or " "Yes," something said him, "you can just seli out right here a make a wreck of it all." "Boys," he sai in the new inspiration sent to h from above, "if I should do that, I would i the meanest thing in all the world, and you'll bear with me I'll tell you why. I ha just come up from the very gates of dea and hell through strong drink, and if I <1 what you ask, I'd do the meanest thing in the world, both for you and me." Instan the cashier leaped down from his des "Have you got a pledge? I'll sign it." Ai the merchant afterward took the commerc traveler aside to say, "I promise you ] never drink another drop as long as I liv It pays to be outspoken for Christ. Try ?Selected. TBCE PENITENCE. As God reckons jewelry, there is no g< that shines with more brilliancy than t tear of true penitence; yet God only know? what heart pressure and what crushing wilful pride may have been necessary force the tear to the cheek of a stubbc sinner. 1 have sometimes met with a pers who possessed peculiarly lovable traits ofg( tleness, self-abnegation, and meek brav< under sharp trials^ I envied such a beau ful character. Ah! I little knewatafear price of severe cbastenings, bitter disi pointments and bereavements, of faith tri in a white heat of affliction, all that lov< ness of character bad been attained. ! who would be most like Christ must pay t cost. If a furnance is needed to purify a brighten you, do not shirk the furuace. 1 tience is an admirable grace; but it is i ofteuest worn by those who walk on ( sunny side of the street in silver slippers, is usually the product of headwinds and hs fights?of crosses carr.ed, and of steep hi climbed cn the road to heaven. "The* tr of vmir f-iith worketh patience.''?Theod< L. Cuyler, D. D. BEALIZE XT THOROUGHLY. It is a methodical not an accidental wor If the housewife turns out a good cake, it the result of a sound receipt, carefully t plied. She cannot mix the assigned ing dients and Are them for the appropriate ti: without producing the result It is not ? who has made the cake; it is nature. S brings related things together; set9 causes work; these causes bring about the rest She is not a creator, but an intermedia She does not expect random causes to p duce specific effects?raudom ingredie; would only produce random cakes. So il in the making of Christian experienc Certain lines are followed: certain effects i the result. These effects cannot but be I result But the result can never take plf without the previous cause. To expect suits without antecedents is to expect cal without ingredients. That impossibility p-pcicHy the almost universal expectation Drummond. THE TERPETCAL TRESEXCE. Some of us think and say a good d about "a sense of his presence." sometin rejoicing in it, sometimes going mourning flar Irvnff hUMISB W6 httVfl it UOt : DD in? for it. and not always seeming to rece what we ask; measuring our own po3lti< and sometimes even that of others by it; n on the heights, now in the depths about And all this April like gleam and gloom, stead of steady summer glow, because are turning our attention upon the sense his presence instead of the changel reality of it! All our trouble and disappoi ment about it is met by his own simple wo and vanishes in the simple faith that gra< it. for if Jesus says simply and absolute ' Lo, I am with you alway," what have wt do with feeling or "sense" about it? 1 have only to believe it and to recolle' c And it is only by thus believing and rec jll ing that we can realize it. FELLOWSHIP. Fellowship is companionship?a sharing each other's interests, an accord of spi: mutual understanding, mutual confide] and trust. Think of some friends w whom you have fellowship. How comfc ing their pressnce. how helpful tb counsel, how comfortable the freed of intercourse and the absence of t trust or suspicion! And think of hav fellowship like that with God! Can thi be anything else so desirable, so nope! helpful, restful.so all-satisfying as this/ C it be possible that there should be comp ionship, sharing of interests, accord of spi mutual confidence and tiust between heart and God? Cad it be that he desires Yes; it is a possible and positive experienc THE OBEAT CROWN'. Tho crown of all, that which sots the s in our inner life, though illness may con though the very mind itself grow w& though all the scenery of life may be da: ened with misfortume, is to have the sunlij of God's presence in our souls; the sunlii of goodness, of a pure heart, of the true o loving spirit of Christ Jesus. It is to live light to live in Him. His light in us is c light. It is a life that conquers sin, and the conquering we know and rejoice in f giveness.? 3. A. Brooke. OOD IN HEATHEN BELrOIOXS. I have been deep in my study of the w of God in heathen religions. The past mankind does not now seem a black oe? covered with fog and storm, ana wre drifting everywhere; but a long wake life crosses it, coming from the Light t lighteth every man in the world, the Pha of humanity?the Spirit of Qod. In t gleam the nations have steered their ba and made towards haven. He hath not himself without a witness.?C. L. Brace. tbcthfuljceps. He is already half fa sa who speculates truth and does not do it. Truth is given to be contemplated, but to be done. Lif an action, not a thought, and the pen; paid by Jiim who speculates on truth is t by de& *** the very truth he holds becoi to him i iaisehood. There is no truthfuli therefore, except in tfie witness borne to C by doing his will?to live the truths we 1 or else they will be no truths at all?F. Robertson. Dr. Lyman Abbot, a profound thinker,! seldom speaks or writes that which is worthy of consideration, recently said in | course of a sermon : "Ihe Church of Cb has walked forward, but locking over shoulder; it hits 'walked towards a lai truth and looked back to an old creed; it walked toward simpler ceremonials ; looked to the old ceremonials; it walked toward a larger moral life an hotter manhood, but looked bacK Old Testament models and the Ten C mandmenis. Evolution does not look br ward lor it? ideal, does not believe man made perfect, does nut believe that he from a perfeet condition and does not be! that the object of G"d in the work he is rying on in the worid is to restore him to condition he has lost." Such words f such a representative of religious thoi show which way the theological wim blowing. "To sift thee as wheatSifting is a s process sometimes; it takes time to get d< to the grain. And that is what God wa the true and sweet kernels. We don't m bread of chaff.- It"v. I onise s Baker. Kosult of a Steamboat War. People in.St. Loui* now find it eh"apei travel than to board at home. A trip of miles may be taken on a first-class steal for .-1.50 and no extra charge is made either meals or stateroom during tin* I ujiys uau ti qiui requirou ior iih'jvuil This is one of the incidental results of steamboat war of rates on the Mississippi Death of a Self-Style<l Christ. Mrs. Hannah H. Martin, the divorced \ of J. R. Martin, wa? buried so quietlv at ( cinnati. Ohio, that the knowledge of the was only obtained from the Health Ofi Several years ago she gained a National putation by announcing that she was Je Christ Her death was kept a secret. "V few know where she was buried. }. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOE JUNE 30. reist ,?t Review of the First Quarter?Scrlpat. ture Rcadlng.'l Cor. xv., 12-28 he ? Golden Text: Hcb. xil., 2 k? ?Review Questioos. ne a t Sections of History.?The history stndied ?r during this quarter is contained in Matthew xxi.-xxviii.; Markxi.-xvi.; Luke xix.-xxiv.; John xii.-xxi.; Acts i., 3-12; 1 Cor. xv., 5-7. d. Place.?Jerusalem and neighborhood. Time.?A. D. 30, April 1 to May 18. The ".? last days of our Lord's earthly ministry. l? Home Readings.?Monday (June 24), Mark J? xl., 1-11; xil., 1-12. Tuesday, Matt, xxiv., 42*5 51; Mark xlv., 12-26. Wednesday, Mark xiv., 32-42, 53-64. Thursday, Mark xv., 1-15, 2237. Friday, Mark xri., 1-8; Luke xxiv., 13?y 32. Saturday, John xxt., 4-17; Luke xxiv., lk* 44-53. Sunday Acts 1., 3-12; 1 Cor. xv., 5-7. ad lal [>|[ QUESTIONS FOB BEVIEW. The lessons of this quarter cover less than It. seven weeks of time?from April 2 to May 18, but the events are appalling and majestic. In what way did Jesus accept kingly honors? In'what parable did He foretell His death? How did He seek to put His disciples lrn - ? ~_.--l.l- t ^ on tneir guarcu wn&i rotmirh.tiuiu i^uir 9? He celebrate, and what establish? Where did ~J He manifest His bitterest agony? Who arP rested and first tried Jesus? Who finally condemned Him? What was the cause of Jesus's death? What became of the body of ?a Jesus? Where did Jesus first walk with His disciples after His resurrection? How many '*7 and what questions did He ask a fallen disL , ciple? Where was Jesus last seen by His apostles, and what was His last act? In our regular Sunday-school work, we have come again to the end of the most 11" precious study and association in this world, p But our true study and association are never f to end. At best, we have only begun to , know a life exhaustless in its lessons and its a: love. If only our hearts have sometimes "j? burned within us by the way, we shall still "I? seek Him, and find evermore more precious 2J truth and sweeter comfort ,l.| Chiefest amongst ten thousand, the one , altogether lovely, blessed are they who find 1IU Him? Alas for those who live and die, and )re know Him not!?Lesson Helper. The l'aciag King. Robert J. ia a neat, compactly bnilt bay gelding, standing fifteen hand* ip- high and weighing 850 potlndB. He re- has an exceedingly intelligent head, yery broad between the eyes, and his ibe eyes are the perfection of gentleness, at John Eassley, his good natnred colilt. ored groom, a term which might be ^ interpreted to mean a valet and waiier Qt3 combined, is completely in iove with t is nim, and the horse is as fond of him e9' as he is of the horse. He has his littie cot in the stall and for the last ice three year? has Blept with him every re- night. Robert J. is an exceedingly hearty feeder. He is also an early riser, and is as fastidious as to the regularity of his toilet and his breakfast as the biggest swell of clubdom. T< - mn?nin/> +Via nrrnnm 11) 111 tuo conjr rnuimug! vuw does not awake, Robert J. begins to ail 'nose' around the cot in a very gentle iy- manner. If no notice is taken he belv0 comes more marked in his movements, ^ and finally, if the groom persists in it. sleeping, he gently but firmly seizes to- the coverlids of the cot with his teeth and pulls them off. Resistance is useess ' less then, and the groom at once rises lit- and attends to the duties of his office. rd< Ed. Geers, who drives Robert J., is |^,9 also a unique character. He is known i to as the silent man from Tennessee. He N'e is a man who bears an enviable record i(j? for honesty, ability and abstemiousness, and his only vice is an exceedingly mild one, that of chewing gum. Strange to say, although he has a mag in nificent stable at his disposal, his j ILL rit, favorite amusement, when not attendace ing to his horses, is to ride on a >rt- bicycle? *n *ac*? ^e n6*s tbla m?de ol ieir locomotion to keep down his weight; om and a favorite joke on him is this, that M9" when he is sweeping along a country road in the neighborhood of Buffalo ful, and finds himseif overtaken by one oi 'an the crack riders of that city, he softly Jg" clucks to himself as if he were admy dressing one of his favorite steeds and it? then nnconscionsly puts on an extra !e- spurt and probably beats the crack who has just passed him. Geers receives a salary of $5000 a year from un the Village Farm for driving, and he is richly worthy of it*'?"Trotting rl-i and Pacing Cnampions."?Outing. ght ght Engraving by Sand Blast. 1 in The sand blast is now regularly used >ur by a London firm in engraving lithoin m-ar>hir> ntonfia. The whole surface of 0 c>--L the stone is first impregnated with grease, bo that if inked it will print a uniform black. The sand blast is then allowed to play on the surface under of most careful control. Its action is to an remove entirely the grease from all portions that are not to print?that is l,at to say, intended to show white; to .ros granulate or mure or less destroy it hat upou those parts which are to give ^ different tones of shading, and tc leave it intact upon those that are tc print black. All that remains of the original greased surface alone prints, on the stones being wetted as usual prioi not to inking for every impression. ?Chi' e is cago Record. llty m ?2 An Odd Happening a lumber schooner which lately ar md r^vec^ Francisco reports an odd happening. When three days oul from Grav's Harbor, on a dark night, there suddenly appeared in the west a n0? huge meteor, which looked as large as the the moon. It seemed to grow largei rist in size to the frightened watch ou lts deck, and was apparently bearing has down on the vessel. But it wasn't, 01 and else no one would have lived to tell tins tho tale. It passed across the bow.-i t* and plunged into the sea, 30J yards om- away. An explosion took place, which lck- was like a great clap of thunder, when tlie meteor struc& iue water, miu iuuli j^' ail became dark.?Atlanta Coustituear tiou. tho m rom Animal Life on Hawaii. i?ht _ , 1 is Some interesting discoveries have recently been made about animal life jo uu the Hawaiian Islands. It appean jwn that all the land and 1'rosli water shelluts, are peculiar to the locality. Nor i> ako this ali. Fifty-seven out o: the sever.' ty-eipht species .>f birds and 7 JO out of the 10i[0 ?i>e:ie:i of ic.iects do not r t.i enist in any other i>or;icu ol tci (500 '"lobe. 1UT ? M f?>r Thirty Year* to Got Thlrtr-nre Cento. L\Vn ??v After more than thirty years Richard W, Allen, of Albany, N. Y.. has efTeeted a settlement with the United States Navy Department. During tho late war ho served in the navv as landsman, and the final settlement disclosed the fact that Uncle Sam owed him vife thirty-flve cents, which be received by check ^in- from* the navy pay office at Washington, fact Mr. Allen says that the Government will lee. never be called upon to pay the thirty-flve re- cents, as he intends to fr.amo the check and isus keeD it as a memento. On the left end is a 'ery fine portrait of the late Admiral Farragutonder whom he served. i AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. watering plants. The best way of watering plants ifl to stand the pots in a pail of water, and leave them there until all bubbling ceases, which shows that the water has well soaked through the mold. This should be done about twice a week in winter, and when it is cold weather, luke warm water should be used. To keep plants healthy and green, their leaves should be sponged over at least once a week.?New York Dispatch. the weather bureau. There is no question of the value of the forecasts of the Weather Bureau for the use of farmers. It is not a waste of money in any way, and as the farmers are qnite as dependent on the weather as sailors are for the safe prosecution of their business, it must be considered a good use of the public money to spread this information for the benefit of farmers. One farmer who yearly cuts more than 100 acres of hay has the reports telegraphed to him from the nearest large city every day, and in this way, has for two years past escaped any injury or stoppage of the haying, getting in every load dry and an the best condition. This is easily worth fifty times the cost of the information. It would be a good thing for the majority of farmers to take one of the daily papers of the nearest large city, if for no other use than to get these weather prognosti-1 cations.?New York Times. KEROSENE EMTJLSJON. Plant lice, scale and other insects which get their living by suction cannot be poisoned, says the Massachusetts Ploughman. Something must be used that will kill by contaot. Kerosene emulsion is best. This emulsion is made by dissolving one poand of soft or hard soap in one gallon of boiling water. While this solution is still very hot add two gallons of kerosene, and quickly begin to agitate the whole umbo tuiuu^u a ojiiu^cui IUXUC jmuip, drawing the liquid into the pump and forcing it back into the dish. Continue this for five minutes or until the whole mass assumes a creamy color and consistency which will adhere to the sides of the dish and not glide off like oil. It may now be diluted with cold rain water, or the whole mass may be allowed to cool, when it will assume a semi-solid form not unlike loppered milk. This standard emulsion, if covered and placed in a dark, cool place, will keep for a long time. In making a dilution from this cold emulsion, it is necessary, first, to dissolve it in two or three parts of boiling water, and then add what is necessary of cold soft water. AJl ECONOMIC ICE BOX. This consists of two boxes, the larger about three feet square, the smaller of , sufficient size to allow a space or three inches between the two at the bottom as well as the four sides. This space should be filled with sawdust or fine charcoal. The inside box is lined with zinc. Through the center of this i a small hole is cut which will admit a half-inch lead pipe. This is of a suffininn ^ 1 niV> i/\ ?\Anr /vVi iVi n f_ . LICUt tu LU pooa bUiUU^U tuo UUU' torn of both boxes to carry -off what :TT : viiiiiiiwt ECONOMICAL ICE BOX. water may come from the ice. These | boxeB can be varied acoording to the size of the oake of ice whioh is placed on the bottom of the inside box, with s no other support. Shelves can be ( easily supplied by hanging strips of ( tin over top of inside box which will ! hold cleats upon which shelves can be placed. These boxes can many times be obtained at dry goods stores. The entire cost is about one dollar. ?American Agriculturist. BEMOYE THE SH0E3 OFTEN'. E. Boylston Hall says in Colman's Rural World there comes up another and fully as important a point in the matter of keeping the feet of the colts and mature animals trued, balanced, , in proper proportion and in proper angle to the limbs they support, so that the articulation shall be as near smooth, and frictionless as possible, 1 and that is, never allow the shoes to remain on the feet longer than three weeks, when they should be removed, reset, or new ones put on, as the case may require. The importance of this is obvious. The feet in a healthy state of growth grow about threeeighths of an inch each month and they grow irregularly; therefore, to keep the animal "plumb on his pins," advantage must be taken of the irregularities of growth by observing the rule pointed out, as to duration of 1 time the shoes should remain on the ' feet without removal. ' Some people have ft prejudice against " ! removing the shoes so otten, and it is only a prejudice. When the shoos are removed as ofteii as directed, it is but a few moments' job to do what a tritle there is to be done to the foot with the rasp only. It is but a shaving off here and there, and the foot is true, balanced, and in proper angle again, and it will be easily kept so with just this little bit of care; and does any 1 one owning a horse begrudir* the little time and eipeuse required tc keep him in this perfect conditio n of balance, therefore in comfort: I hope not, lor owners, let me tell you, you'll ' be the winners "by a large majority" i in the capacity of your animal to peri form Its duties, and in the retultant saving ot money by not having your animal "off," with a necessary lay-up, involving loss of time, and "time u money." CHEAT OBCHABD-SPIUTI>*<3 OUTFIT. In a recent interview Secretary Morton described as follows a cheap orchard-spraying apparatus, which iff shown in the accompanying ilia stration: "Spraying to control various insect pests, particularly those of the orchard and garden, has reached so satisfactory and inexpensive a basis that it is recognized by every progressive farmer aa a necessary feature of the year's operations, and, in the case of the apple, pear and plnm crops, the omission of srtch treatment means serious lose. The consequent demand for spraying apparatus has been met by CHEAP ORCHARD-SPRAYING OUTFIT. all the leading pump manufacturers of this country, and ready-fitted apparatus, consisting of pump, spray tank or barrel, and nozzle with hose, are on the market in numerous styles and at prices ranging from $20 upward. The cost of a spraying outfit for orchard work may, however, be considerably reduced by purchasing merely the pump and fixtures and mounting them at home on a strong barrel. An apparatus of this sort, representing a style that has proven very satisfactory in praotical experience, is illustrated in the accompanying figure. It is merely a nnmn nrifVi a n ai'? nViamHaf Oil U-Ug Tt uu UM v.mi.. WW to give a steady stream provided with two discharge hose pipes. One of these enters the barrel and keeps the water agitated and the poison thoroughly intermixed, and the olher and longer one is the spraying hose and terminates in the nozzle. The spraying hose shonld be about twenty feet long, and may be fastened to a light pole, preferably of bamboo, to assist in directing the spray. The ozzle should be capable of breaking the water up into a fine mist spray, so as to wet the plant completely with the least possible expenditure of liquid. The two more satisfactory nozzles are those of the Nixon and the Vermorel type. A suitable pump with ozzle and hose may be obtained of any pump manufacturer or hardware dealer at a cost of from $13 to $15. If one with brass fittings be secured it will also serve lor the application of fungicides. The outfit outlined above may be mounted on a cart oi wagon, the additional elevation se cured in this way facilitating thf spraying of trees, or for more extend ed operations the pump may b< mounted on a large water tank." FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. A fretful, nervous>horse is, as a rule a poor article to start out with on i long campaigning tour. Worms are hanging out the dangei signal on the trees of many a prettj village. Don't put off the application of remedies. The man who buys now and breedi his horses intelligently will hav< youngsters ready for the market whei there will be plenty of men willing tc buy at good prices. Professor Warington, in his inau? gural lecture at Oxford, England, saio that in the full adoption of scientific methods lay the only hope of placing the agricultural industxy on a sound basis. Professor Warington is good authority. Avoid the lunkhead horses; breed the best; breed none but the best; breed from nothing but your best, and look out sharp to improve on the next cross, and wherever your dam is lacking be sure the sire you use is not laoking in the same point, and, if possible, not lacking in any essential qualification. There are plenty of instance of highly successful race horses and producers of race horses that were so far from being high spirited that they were called loafers by those who came in contact with them. Joe Patchen is a successful race horse, and all who have seen him race have noticed his "soldiering" characteristics. Any farmer who has a dozen or more apple or pear tree should have a spraying apparatus and familiarize himself * 1 * A 1? ? ? ? inoa/ifi' Willi llle U5?i U1 luu^iuiuco auu lussuiicides. The difference in value between a good and a poor crop will more than pay for the outfit, aud it often comes handy for spraying other crops, such as potatoes, tomatoes, etc. Some day it will be discovered that certain kinds of horses are scarce, but that several years will elapse before the demand can be fully met. Rises come as a thief in the night. No one is ever expecting them until it is too late to stock up, but if everybody kuew just when the rise is to take place there would be no rise. Examine carefully the teeth of every horse and colt on the place. If the teeth are sharp and cut the cheeks aud j>revent proper mastication of the food, your ho-aH will be in poor eon 11.. trnii faoA V. i m J Ultion UO IllllllUl null. J -" >* u?u?. Sharp teeth will cause them to throw up their heads, drive on line, etc. All long or irregular teeth must be shortened or smoothed with the tooth rasp. It is said tho manufacture of false tails for horses has reaohed so high a degree ol perfection that the counterfeit maj be buckled on to the stump of a docked horse and he will travel along beside a mate with a natural long tail defying detection. Yet for the sake of the pocketbook, as well as for the animal's comfort in fly time, it is far better tc let the horse keep his < natural tail. \ ->. - ' rig* ; % .. /1 HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. HOW TO KEEP LEM05S FBESH. It is not generally known that lemons may be easily and almost indefinitely preserved under glass. Someu: one year, were purchased on thai & Fourth of July, and, by way of experiment, each one was put under air inverted goblet. Thus kept from the>; air they were finally removed oa Christmas Day in perfect condition' ^ and as juicy as ever.?New York World, : $ DUSTEB CASE. An inexpensive case for the light; feather duster, used so much to dust bric-a-brac, is made of two yards of satin ribbon, two inohes wide. Double one and a half yards length, mak- . ing a bag three-quarters of a yard long, by overcasting in fine stitohes all the way up. A bow made of the balance of the ribbon finishes the bottom, and crochet a ring of embroidery silk over a brass form for the - ? Olin IUa iup, bu uau^ lit up. KJixtf in, brush end np. Feather edge rib. . xl _1_;_ *? Don ib muoa preiuer iuuu puuu. the handle of the daster is more or less than twenty-seven inches, make the case according to its length. Louis Star-Sayings. ? - - ' %g? A NOVEL FLOUB CHEST. It has just been admired in tha pantry of an enterprising little housewife, and it is certainly worth description. It is easily made and very convenient It is formed from a cracker box that is large enough to hold half a barrel of floor. Strips of woodf nailed to each of the four corners raise the box a foot or more from the ,'M floor. This gives a chance to sweep under the "chest" without moving i^ V', and serves to keep the flour from becoming damp, and to prevent the mice from troubling it. It is lined with muslin neatly fitted in and tacked closely in place. The outside is covered with wall paper. A cover fit* closely, but can be removed at pleasure and used for a kneading board. When on the chest it is oovered witb a piece of oilcloth.?New York World. CABE OF LAMP WICKS. A housewife who makes use of lamp* in the administration of her domestio economy, 'will save herself much trouble, and get more light out of her lamps, if she takes care of her lamp wicks. The first object to be attained toward getting a well lighted lamp is to get a free flow of oil; the wiok, fhnrof/vro ntinrilrl V)A held to the firs and thoroughly dried before osing. By this meanB it will quiokly absorb the oil, and the flow is not. impeded. Another way is to soak the wiok is . vinegar and then dry it thoroughly; this prevents smoking. In some oils there is a sediment whioh sinks to tha bottom of the reservoir and adheres to that part of the wiok that lies there. Oil will not flow through'a dirty wiok, and without a good flow there is littla light. Foul wicks should be washed , ? ; or boiled in soft water and soap, then rinsed and -well dried. Another thing 1 to be carefully borne in mind is that . the reservoir of the lamp should always be kept filled; if the oil i? loir I the flow is imperfect and the wiok be| comes charred The lamp would then : give a poor light and emit a disagree| able smell So you see, like every! thing else, a little attention to lamp wicks in the first instance will save ! creat deal of trouble and in con venience. ?New York Telegram. BE CIPES. 1 Quick Bisouit?One pint of floor, 1 one heaping tablespoonful of shortea* ing, onesaltspoonfal of salt, two heap: ing teaspoonfals of baking powder* ' one cap of milk. Beat well and bake 1 in a hot oven. if. 5 Johnny Cake?Half a cup of sugar, 1 small, one tablespoon/ul of melted 1 butter, one cup of sour milk, in which , 1 dissolve one-half teaspoonful of soda, one cup of Soar with one teaspoonful of baking powder, one oup of cora? meal. 1 Vegetable Soup?Boil a small shank of beef for two or three hours; thea strain aud return to the pot. Shred one carrot in long pieces, cut two ' onions and two or three stalkB of celery with a large slice of turnip. Sear i eon to taste with pepper and salt Eggs on Toast (chafing dish recipe)< ?Pat one tablespoonful of butter with a little salt and pepper into a chafing, dish, and when hot add one gill of cream and six eggs slightly beaten. Stir constantly for two or three minntes and serve on slices of hot bufctered toast. Floating Island?Take five yolks of eggs and beat well, add half a onp of; sugar, heat one and a half pints of fresh milk and gradually stir in tha eggs and sugar, cook in a double boiler till a little thickened. When cool: * poor in a dish and add spoonfuls of frosting to form islands. Queen of Puddings?One cup of rolled bread crumbs, two cups of milk, two eggs, one small cup of sugar, the grated rind of one lemon, a little cinnamon; bake slowly forty minutes, cover the top with jelly or any preserves, and spread the sweetened white of an egg over the topu Serve warm. Boiled Custard Pudding?Mix a pint of cream with six eggs well beaten with two teaspoonfuls of rose water and eight teaspoonfuls of flour, half a nutmeg, grated, and sugar to taste. Pour the mixture into a bowl and tie a buttered cloth over it. Pour into a pot of boiling water and boil half ah hour. Serve with wine sauce. White Cake?Two cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, the whites of four eggs, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of floor sifted four times ? :il al ? ?f Knlr Willi larec CYCil tCaspUUULUu ing powder. Beat sugar and butter to a eream, Btir iu flour and milk gradually, beat well and add the whites last. Make two square cakes. 'Frost with white of an egg beaten stiff, to which add one cup of sugar boiled in half a cup of water till stringy. Spread while the cake is warm. A Prize Fighter Turns Aesthete. A former prize fighter now conducts u florist's establishment on Broadway, New York City, and has displayed no little ingenuity in floral decorative work. He secures many rich contracts from fashionable people, and besides has a genuine love for his dainty wares. ?New Orleans Picayune. . I- ..-'i. . . ? .. . ^r,'* fv .*