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gMMI: ^B^BpPor^^cl ^feele B^^^nBAPTKR XlIT?Continued. Sg| Bnlauk Point it was discovered of the middle chains was SSjWa^B and the better to repair it eail Ben in, and the Wanderer came flnHhor. mBt. Denham and every man on ^^Pvd the ship, with the exception of Fox 'and~Fr"enauld. believed that the break in the middle chain was the re suit of accident. I Capt. Fox and his Lieutenant arranged I the accident in advance, and they even knew thepoint where it was to happen. |B "The wanderer needs overhauling, wad I hope to be able to do so in New SHffnrk." said Cant. Fox. cominc down tc fthe cabin where Palph Denham was reading. "How4oi>?will the break detain you?" B at>&ed Ralph, who was naturally anzK lous to report In advance of the time named In the Governor's order. W "It is worse than I at first supposed, I but we shall be under way again early I in the afternoon. The only way is to I have patience." f "Patienoe Is very essential to the sailor. But this is not a bad place to be imprisoned for a few extra hours," Bald Ralph, looking admiringly about the luxurious cabin. "Consider it all yours, my dear Capt Denham. We shall have dinner in an hour, and.If you feel like turning in after that, Don," nodding in the direction of the bright-looking cabin boy, "will show you t?> your cabin; by the way, it was occupied for a week by an Indian princess, the daughter of the Jting of Oude." "That certainly -will not be an objection," laughed .Ralph, his thoughts going back to his own beautifui princess, to whom, he felt very confident, all the rest of the world could not produce an equaL It was the custom in this era, on land v and sea, when the elements permitted, to dine at high noon. Promptly at 12, Don came to anlounce dinner. It was served in anther cafcin, with plates for three. At the fete given on board the Wan.^ierer, Ralph Denham was amazed at .the lavish display of costly plate, and / the extravagant iiDatlons ox rare wines. He then' 6Upppeed that this was the grand effort, of great occasion; con^ Biderable then was his Burori&e at flndMpg the cab'n table as richly set as at ^Hne fete, while the dinner itself was HKuch as the Governor of the province w could not duplicate with all the rer sources of the oity at his command. \ "I. am afraid," said Ralph Denham, ' when he, Fox and Frenauld were seat d at the board, that if I were to remain fctt^yjAhyou, that I should be wholly gBgraBaa^kr service on board a.ship officers were forced to degHH^^on their rations for subsistence, mPRT their own small pay for luxuk "You would soon-get u6ed to it, and t like it," eaid Captain Fox, refilling &A^ph DenUam's glass from a fiagon, of mHich neither he nor Frenauld tasted. ?QH sailor's life, at the best, is one of HKnger and privation, and my motto is make the beat of it. Thanks to mv IgBcestors, I have a large estate in HHtgland, and the question with me, when I first got command of a ship, W was, 'elia.Il I let that property go on B accumulating on shore till I retire, and am too old to enjoy it, or shall I spend a goodly portion ol it for the enjoyment of myself and shipmates?' I decided 1 on the latter course, and so far I have r no reason to regret it." s "You hive, no doubt, acted wisely, I but had I been- in your place," said I Balph, "I think I should have dreaded | -to make the experiment." "Why so?" I "Luxury would demoralize me, per19 because I am not used to it; and ygy meu, who are provincials, and, of duty, think themselves just ||H as I am, would growl unless I Vwith them." Wf men have their share of the Cap* rs good things. If the authorities w of it, of course there would be no ^of trouble, and they would accuse X?|injuring the service; but whenj^P^r the time comes for hard work, in etorm or battle, my men are not found wanting." & "They certainly behaved admirably ^mrell while In Sag Harbor," said Ralph; Hpd he uttered no compliment, for the IHrew of the Wanderer, though as fierce looking lot of desperadoes as ever put loot on Rhore, behaved themselves in a twavthat excited the admiration of the petti era. ggl This was the result of the strictest JBliscipline and constant watching. There ^Bvas not, a sailor on the Wanderer who jgHid not understand the true charactcr his ship, and who did not appreciate h^E^. great necessity for caution. And had one of them broken the rules, jgSLt were kept in their minds meaning, ^B>on. and night, he well know that the S^fcaalty would have been chains and the IBtHsh, and for the second offense death. MF"When it can be done with safety to Bthe ship and without dishonor to the Wservice, I relax and let tho men go I ashore and get rid of their excess ot ^spirits. They are devils here, sure ^Bnou5?h, but they come on board thorHighly exhausted and as tractable hi Hme iambs. Try a little more of thie g^jine, Captain Denham. I will guaran^Re that there is not a headache in a g^irgo of it," said Fox, again raising ihe. ag^ETCicmui IIUKUU. I am not accustomed to wine," Sj^Hied Ralph, who did not like it; miHther did he wish to appear indifferenl nflrhe conspicuous kindness of his host. Sra^&You cannot cultivate the taste for ?ra^^?rticular brand, I am sorry to say, Kwjl^Hron't think there are ten gallon? SMBhSB in this hemisphere. There, one gZgnB glass will not affect you, unless, it makes you feel sleepy, and if Bjggg&^nid, I promise you that you will HBSl^tesbed, and there is your cabin,' ^gfig^K, pointing to an open door. njg^ffgHkRalph could reiuse a second l^jiBgMgMLild reached ont his glass, Capt. Denham." mm^Hrau^Ajive been a discourteuy U^aBHHGB^*dge thus offered, Ralph glass, bowed to Fredown the deliSnH^S^ram^^^j^feexhilarBted. to him lStR&Bi3ftaW?gSSBffl to frJ^TrOtzjitt hit r 3j 'Would you like .to lie down, 6ii OOttCU JL/UU, tut? tauili UU), upcuiu^ tuo door of a splendidly furnished apartment, which, to the exolted imagination of Ralph, appeared to be one of more than Oriental magnificence. "Yes; I will, though I do not feel sleepy. That was rare wine, boy, thai you served me at dinner," said Ealpto, nodding and laughing, yet fuljy aware that he had said nothing provocative of hilarity. "It sometimes makes one sleepy," said Don, taking the Captain's coat and preparing to remove his pumps. "Very well; let me rest for a 6hort time. If I should go to sleep, which I rarely do in the daytime, wake me in nr SO." Ralph Denham threw himself on the luxurious couch, and as Don closed the door there was an expression of minged pity and admiration on his face. Captain Denham. though fully aware that the ship was at anchor in a calm sea, felt that he was being rocked and swayed by gentle, invisible hands. Through the open port-hole.that admitted light and air to his room, he heard the splash of the rippling water against the ship, but it was transformed into music, more soothing than was ever blown from the shell of a triton or fell from the ecductive but treacherous lips of the fabled mermaid. - The music and the swinging kept on till the cabin expanded into a gorgeous arcade, down which he floated to music of increasing rapture, while maidens of exquisite form, with golden tresses that shimmered in the rosy light, beckoned him ?n onH T.on HcHoflo IaH tJiem- ho could not be mistaken in the cornelian lips and teeth of pearL What cared he now lor earth? He wae in an elysium more refined and glorious than Mahomet promised to hie faithful followers. The earth had sank beneath him; it had rolled up like a vesture and passed away, and he had become a part of that illimitable space, about which he had often thought, and the new life on which he had entered was bounded by eternity. "Is he aBleep?" asked Frenauld, coming into the cabin on tiptoe about the middle.of the afternoon, and tiddressint? Don, who had been ordered to remain in attendance on Captain Denhara. > ' "Yes, air, dead asleep," was the reply. "Then," said Frenauld, "goon deck and tell the captain to come down." 4 CHAPTER XIV. ;aptajn rox and lieutenant rB*?iui.d put their heaoe together. " AoIapiv did vou sav?" said C&Dtain Fox, when he joined Frenauld in the :abin. and made sure he could not be overheard by the unconscious man in the next room. "The hasheesh has had its effect," replied Frenauld, "and he is as indifferent to life as if he were lyjng down there beside the anchor." "Good; the point is to keep him in thai condition till I am ready to act" "That can be easily done. While in that sleep he will obey. If I were to tell him to get up, go aft and leap overboard, he would do it." "But the effect will soon wear off. I had an opportunity to look into the workings of the drug, as given in that wine, when we were in Bombay; but 1" bad no idea that I would ever need to emoloy it Confound it I am as wicked as the next man, but I dislike sneaking methods. I'd rather knock a man on the head than drug him to death," said Fox, as if he felt that he was saying something rather commendable. "That is a matter of taste: I look at the end rather than the means. If you desire to carry out Colonel Graham's plan we could toss him into the sea. through an open port to-night, and that would be the last of It" "But, Frenauld, I told you that I do not intend carrying out Colonel Graham's plan. You know the whole story of my first interest in Denham?" "Yes; when he was a little boy and his father was drowned you saved him, and, with the uncle, took him off to another Long Island. Oh, I could sit down and tell you all from A to lzzard, or put it all down in th9 log as straight as one of them lawyer sharks." "Yes; well, my heart was tender then ?it's tough enough now," said Fox, vrith a laugh that told he felt no sense of degradation at the change in liis feelings. "Then it is not a feeling of humanity :hn; leads you to save his life?" " Di.1 I say I was going to save his 111-.?" "T understood you." "I told you, Frenauld, that I would save him until I jhad drained Graham ol his last ducat, or exhausted his last vestige of power." "You don't like the old Colonel?" "Fudge, Frenauld, you know with us it is not a matter of like or hate, but ol success. We want to win, and when vr( are rich enough to retire, we can sinb the ship and <ro home to England, and live in luxury and all the glory thai wealth brings, to the end of our days,' and Fox's blue eyes flashed at the picture he had conjured up. "But if you carried out Graham's wish and got rid of this fellow," Frenauld nodded towards the room in whict Captain Denham was sleeping, "don?'l you think you would make him more securely your friend?" "My friend?" "Yes, he has the power." "I know he has, but he nover has and never will use his power, or his wealth, from a sense of friendship. If Graham were sure that Ralph Denham was dead now, he would hasten to givo warning that 1 was a pirate in these seas, and he would exhaust every power to destroy me." "He does not like you, then?" "Men never like men they cannot trust, and we can never trust our partners in crime. I see, Frenauld, you look as if you thought this remark had a decided personal bearing, and I confess it has. Now. what keeps the offi:ers and crew of this ship iogether, ag closely as if they were bound by the strongest ties in the world?" "Interest, Captain." "There you have it. It i6 all interest, all self. Now, take away the hope fox gain which is the interest, or let a greater gain be neld out to those who would betray or turn queen's evidence, and every man and officer in the ship would be breaking his neck in order to be the first to reap the reward, and insure himself the safety of the law. I have looked into the question from all airloc anH T havft to the COndU Bion that it. is 6elf-interest that rules the world. I know my knowledge of thia fact enables me to rule this ship." "I think you are right," said Frenauld. "There is no doubt about it." "But if Denham were dead ana Colonel Graham betrayed you, could you not then retaliate by telling all about the murder of his brother and the abduction of his nephew?" \ "I could do so. but it would nr?t 6ave me. It is the first successful blow that teils in a fight. A pirate in chains makes but an indifferent accuser of the man who bring3 him to justice. The accusations of incarcerated criminals have but little power to defame a character." ^LButB^Hh^^ham, 'e call t ' m; ?d, is bellev^a to oe aeaa, <i oannot eee how hie existence comes into the case at all," said Frenauld, who, though a mac of large intelligent}#, had not the intellectual grasp to 6eize his superior's plans, or the penetration necessary to Bee through them. "His being alive or dead forms iwpor tant factors in the case. There has long been a belief in England that Colonel Graham is criminally responsible for his brother's death, and there is a very general belief that the ohild was not drowned. Tne mother, a wealthy ! lady in her own right, has never ceased ' her exertions to find her boy. and I am informed by the Colonel that she is now I in the new world prosecuting her search." "Has Graham children?" < "He is not even married. I doubt if he could get any one, even among the peasants of his estates, to marry him." "Could you not make more money by communicating with the lady?" "No; and then a man who was privy to her husband's death would not be apt to find continued favor in h?r sight, even if he restored to her her son. How, as to Ralph Denham living or dead; let me say that with him alive I could prove my case beyond all dispute, for not only is his old nurse, Dinah alive, but he is as like his father, as I remember him, as it is possible to conceive." "That is an important .point" "A very importantpoiet, Frenauld." "But when you have accomplished your purpose, what is to be jGenham's fate?" "I will leave him in the hands of the Indian, .Uncas, who pledges himself to keep him secure and concealed for six months; At the end of that time the, p.liipf will hft mora than readv to slav the man who has provoked his jealousy, and I think I shall be willing, for, as I. believe, he has provoked my jealousy," said the Captain, laughing lightly, and going over and opening the door of the room in waich his victim slept. Closing the door again, he came back with a pleased expression on his face, and said: "He sleeps like a child." "And I will show you how to keep him asleep." "Ah yes, Frenauld, I was going to ask you howthat was done." "I told you that, people in this state obey those who speak to them; all their own will power bein? deadened by tie drug." - "I see." . "Then, you can see, it is an easy matter to feed him, and keep him in that condition as Jong as you please." "So it is.' Now, let me give you instructions." Suddenly Fox's manner changed from that of an equal to that oi a superior, giving an oTder which he expected to have implicitly obeyed. "Get together whatever food and clothing you will need for five days, for yourself and two men, whom you can select from among the craw. To-night, when I see a signal fire burning this side of the beacon hill, on Montauk Headland, l wiu eena you neuore. mcas will not join you till to-morrow night, but he will send a messenger, and for this messenger I will give you a . note that will announce to the chief your arrlvaL In the meantime, you can spend your time examining the coast, with a view to secreting the greater part of the treasure now on board." "I understand, sir," said Frenauld, who rose to bis fefct, and stood, while the captain gave bis order; "but permit I me to aak how I am to know ol your return?" "Should I come back by day, you can Bee the ship. Should I return by night, keep a fire burning at the same point, and I will come ashore to you in the gig-" "And bring him, sir?" Frenauld jerked his thumb in 'the direction of Ralph I Denham. "Yes. if I can keep him alive on your prescription." "Follow It out, sir, according to directions, and you can't fail," replied Frenauld. / ^nw?rTier*PTY i A Prairies In Manitoba. "If the horse could stand it," said S. A. Rowbothan, a well-known resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba, to a Washington Star reporter, "a man j could leave Winnipeg and ride 1,000 miles west and northwest over a level prairie before he would be obstructed by mountains. This gives an idea of the great territory lying west of Winnipeg, which, to the Eastern man, ! seems way out of the world. The soil of this prairie produces the finest spring Wheat grown anywhere and this enormous plain I've just mentioned will in a few years be the great granary of the world. ,Eastern people have a misty idea of our expansive Wa oi?n nnmrr<Anpinff I 1>ci i j 1>w1 j. ? c cuv/ jucy wiiiiuvmvm^ to grow wheat compared to a decado hence, though our crop two years ago was 30,000,000 bushels. We have but little snow, and the many years I resided in Manitoba I. never saw the 'tops of the bright prairie grass covered. Cattle fairly roll in fat and we are becoming.a great cattle country. While most of our settlers a're from across the water, yet the number from the Western States is yearly increasing. We have no wild westfrontier scenes. There are no settlers killed over disputed claims, as has been an everyday story in the West for years. Our homestead laws require a three years' residence of six months each. Land may be preempted, too. Gold has been discovered in wonderful rich quartz deposits a few miles east of Winnipeg, and paying mills have just been erected by Minneapolis capitalists. I predict a 'rush' to the Lake of the Woods txtj ? t, or UlSll JCb UCAl JUcM. YV 1L1U1JJC? HOD OU,000 inhabitants and Is a thriving city. Our winters are cold, but we do not mind them. The atmosphere is dry and the days are clear, fresh and sunny, murky weather being almost unknown." In 1842 Dr. C. W Long, of Geor gia, first removed a tumor from a patient under the influence of an anesthetic, and two years later a Dr. Wells had a tooth drawn whilo insensible under the influence of nitrous oxide gas. In 1846 Dr. J. C. Warren, under the direction of Dr. Jackson, anaesthetized a patient and removed a tumor from his neck, and from that time anaesthetics rapidly came into use, and few, if any. operations are now undertaken without first placing ihe patient under tho influence of an anaesthetic. King of Trappers. 1 t.v- t? a ~ ~ a i i r? ouau r. owoope, in Alexandria. renn., slaims the title of King of Trappers of Central Pennsylvania. He|has done nothing but trap all the year round for the premiums tllowea by Legislative enactment. Binoe "Tanuarv 18, he has trappo.l 63G foxes, thirteen wildcats and 1298 minks, for which he received a bounty of $1128.25. Diphtheria Spread by K toning. . Diphtheria necessitated the closing of schools at Columbus, Ind., just about at the time a curfew ordinanoe went into effect. A neighboring newspaper said that Columbus acknowledge kissing to have been the cause of the spread of the disease. v",T;-SSW&'AZa&ttBuS -v. rM* TO PRHPABI5 CHARCOAL FOB MOQB. Pile old rails,or any waste timber i compactly as possibly. Start a fir< throw on enongh earth to oat off considerable draft Whim ohsjrring somplete pot ont the fire. In makin cob charcoal, dig a pit in the groun< start a fire in tbe bottom, nil tbe p level full of cobs and cover with light layer of earth; the jobs will <;ht aicely without burning. Hogs ehonl always have access fco chaicoal.?Atue; ican Agriculturist. cows aO.ING'DRT TOO LONG. The time a cow goes dry is tbe tin when she is costing her expense < keeping and making no return. * It with many cows worse than this, U the cow that ir not milked fatt3ns an is more likely 'io.'Siiffer dt.ring partur tion than the milk cow which beeps i moderate fleBh. A worse rosult iollow as tbe cow allowed onoe to go dry to long gets in the habit of drying off i the same period of gestation, and thus made less valuable au a milker a her life. If the cow is well fe ehe may be milked with advantag up to a month belore the time to dro her calf. Thin ie better than to etc milking two 01 tbree months earlu and feed less liberally, so as to prevei an excess of fat. HULKNTLiMU FIG DEEDING. Scientific piff feeding h ie been tr dertaken at the Vermont Experimei Station. It wits fonni thu.t sixty-t^ per cent, of th<? market v*lne of tt food was got bmok in the value of tt mannre, when the latter was proper] handled. The coBt-of food for a pons of increase in live weight and tl profits were sli tjbtly in fuvor of tl less watery ration, bnt the shrinkag at slaughter wu the same in thei pigs as in those fed on & d ryer ratioi Buttermilk had about four-fifths tl feeding value of skim milk. Polam Chinas and Berkshires gave the saa results, but in another test Berkshin outstripped Yorkshires. Ia most cas< it costs more to keep pigs after a ce tain age than tbeir gain in weight worth. At the Danish station at Fro kau, feeding.com meal was followc by good results in every case. Coi meal may' be fed to pigs under fot months old with no bad results, pri vided the amount fed be not too grei at first, but gradually increased, ac the whole ration not too ri<;h. The ai imoio uuuvvacu cuiu u.cai uauc slightly larger gain than those fc oooked meal. Whey gave good r< suite.?New England Homestead. GhOWINO GRAIN TO FEED DOWN. Eastern farmers when they gro grain always adopt the method c harvesting rather than allo<? hogs an other stock to tarn in and fe3d it dowi This last in the West need always -1 be done with corn, wasting thoret some grain and losing altogether o nearly so the value of the corn Btalki This is now generally recognized ? being too wasteful of valnable feed t ? A. HT..1 ua piuuiHutts. x>ui< uuuio wesier fanners think that growing :rye to fee down is less wasteful than :is corn fo the same pnrpose. The tj e straws feed is undoubtedly not so Taluabl 1 as the corn stalks, and where there i i do maiket for the rye straw the grai i crop may be grown for the purpose c trampling it down by hogs and pigi : A correspondent of the Prai:rie Farme | writes that he has found rye thus fe ' especially valuable for bows with youn pigs. The little pigs pick np the ry grains scattered by the old row as sh crunches the rye heads. It is an es cellent early feed, the rye c oming t | bead before the Indian ccrn is an} I where near earing, and at a l ime whe | old corn in ma:ay farmert' cribs j exhausted. Besides, the ryd is poun j for pound worth more for growin 1 animals than is tLe Indian cc rn, as rj 1 ranks next to wheat in nilixogenoc food nutrition.?Boston Cultivator. FOODS FOB FOULTRT, The natural food of fowln is con posed of eeeds, insects and grass. I the domestic condition we all ow graii grass and meat. Turkeys anc ohiokec drink very little water when feeding and even ducks and geese resort t (rater when feeding sometimes, in oi der to -wash their bills more than t drink, saysthe Poultry Keeper. This brings up the question of th propriety of feeding soft foe d. It: known tbat ground grain absorbs large volume of water, and irhen th mixture is apparently dry, quite large proportion of water exists in il though more so when the mixture j very moist and sloppy. It is aot ben< ficial water, as the results are som< times injurious, bowel diseaso and ii digestion prevailing. It is better to feed all fool dry, possible, and keep a trough full c waier wnere loe iowib can u.Ke ttm quantity they desire. Ever groun food may be given in a dry conditioi the different substances ns>>d bein thoroughly mixed and placed in trough. When chicks are Ted the have corn meal moistened several tim( a day and bowel disease snaply b< cause too much water is forced upo them in the food. The fo^-ls nev< resort to wet food when they can g< dry kinds, and this is a mat tei that d< serves attention. pigs. Pigs must be pushed in the first ei months of their livop. This is doc by feeding grain and 6uocaleat gree foods. While quite young, milk, wit shorts or meal in it, makes f;he bei food for pigs. s Pigs must have good pasture an grain. But few farmers rccogniz either of these as essential. To coi fine pigs in a small pen for sia montl and feed them on corn without gree food is wasteful. II! the hogs are give grain and green food together, the will increase twenty to forty per cen more than if no green food is give them. Green food is more ossentii in the summer than in the winte The pig is as much a grass as it is grain-eating animal. To conllne pi; ' ' . . I1 -' S.fr-' -.c :..; '. in filthy pens for any length of ti 1B and force them to eat in their c B droppings, as is very frequently do a is very injurious to the fig. The js is a cleanly animal in its habits, i ,g will not live in its own filth if peri ted to do otherwise. it Pigs should be kept from foul we ft and wallowing holes. lr Extremely large hogs are no Ion l(j more desirable for pock than sma r. pigs with less blabber fat. A pig * a streak of lean and a streak of makes the sweetest and most palate pork. If homemade pork is well trimn . and carefully cared and smoked, . will bring better prioes in home n kets, and if the lard is free of cc *1 and firm it will likewise sell bet '. By goiag to a little expense for f< orops, to supplement tbe waste t 1 occurs on the farm and from kitohen, the farmer's supply of .p can be made at an inappreciable * pense, while, ae the case now is 10 * Al? 1 <1 many iarms, me pure, ouppij m uuue , and these waste foods are lost.?Ph delphia Ledger. P MAKING A HOTBED. p }r In many sections of the com fresh vegetablea^nay be had the j round if a hotbed iB constrnoted i properly oared for. Saoh a bed i not be an expensive one of briok stone, covered with glass, unless a" owner so desires. Oiled car stretched over a frame will answer 0 purpose nearly as well as glass. i 16 will be far oheaper. It should e made s few days before needed, ^ that -the oil oan penetrate-through i through the cloth. Linseed oil ie best, and may be applied by meam 16 a oommon paint brush. For the hotbed make a bed of o< 36 mon barnyard manure, being si a" there is no cow dung in it. Turn 1 I? over and over two or three times intervals of four or five days. A1 \e the manure to ferment until smob ^8 hot. When the manure is tboroug 58 heated make an excavation two i T.' longer and two feet wider than 18 box, which may be of inch boai s" The back part should be about twe | inches high and the front twelve ^ fourteen inohes. This will give ir sloping top, whioh will permit 3" rain to ran off. The cover may \ made so it oan be poshed down or at the owner's will; or a stiok m 3" notches in it at intervals will ans' * as well. In this way the cover can lifted entirely off the bed or berai e* just enough to admit the neoessary and light. By having a notched st the cover will take no extra ro when not in nse. The hotbed may w of any size desired. In the excavation plaoe six or ee1 d inches of rich soil, and apon this ? fermenting dang until, the bed o about, twb feet high. On top of 1 J plaoe three or four inches of pnh r ized uoil. Put on the frame and k< * it covered until the temperature ri ^ to 120 degrees, then sow the s ? Every night until danger of flroBl a past cover with mats or similar prot d tioia. The bed should be opei r every day from 9 until 10 or 11 a. 18 and from 2 to 3 or 4 p. m., unl e freezing, to let in air. Never aL ib the temperature to exceed nin :1 degrees or fall below seventy, f secure good, healthy plants plenty ! air is necessary, and unless the aii if admitted tall, siokly growths will d the result. Care must be taken " * 11 A?' J - oil (S DSDK Uie UUIDIUOUI blic uou hubivi * with good stable manure.?Farm i J Home. i o Value of a Telescope to the Han ^ The valne of a good telesoope glass was illustrated forcibly to | Maine hnnter recently while he after deer in an open space in woods that had been formed by a : ' some years ago. The hunter ha< tolerably clear range of vision eighty or one hundred rodi across open bnt beyond that briars i sorub,growth poplars made it eztre: l' ly difficult to see. The hunter D down on the side of one ridge, i l> watchedthe Bide of another across 1E> wide gully. He was certain that a d >> was on that hillside. After a bit 0 saw something moving in the bns r* near a big clamp of trees tnat naa 0 caped the fire, nearly ninety i away. The something seemed sm e and was of a neutral tint, not apt k be observed bja tenderfoot at all a Bach a distance. e The hunter had a small telesco a with him, one worth about three d lars. He took it out to look at 's moving thing. Instantly he made ( the form of a small deer, a doe. was :uot after these, however, but x" wanted a buck. Instead of folding the glass he began to examine if ridge side carefully. When hie g! turned to a little alder bed, follow; the course of a brook in the gully, d saw the form Of a big deer through J? bushes. Wnen he took down his g B to look at the deer with nis bare a he could not Bee it. He tried sev< y timen, and at last succeeded in locat 38 the deei. It was not hard then to \ 2" for the deer to move out, which it n in about an hour, and was dead bel ;r it knew a man was anywhere neai I \Tn?n T -A/1 /vnr HOW -LU1A The Telephone in Worship. JefFersonville is probably the o Is city in Indiana whioh can boa9t of 1 >e ing a telephone installed in one ol in churones permanently for the purfi h of conveying sermons and services i st member. The chnrch which cla this distinction is the First Presby td ian. On its pulpit a long-dista :e phono gathers up the Sunday and we a- day services and conveys them to is residence of Mrs. Dan Howard, an in valid, who can thus enjoy all tne si m ing.preaohing and praying which f< y a part of the chnroh proceedings w t. out leaving her*house, wbich is pi n ably one mile away. However, 'e il when at chnroh, Mrs. Howard use r. phone, which connects with her pi a i where a email transmitter is suspend js j as she is hard of hearing. I... "V ? | REV. DR. TAIiMAGE. J i 1? } !' SUNDAY'S DISCOCH8R BY THE & NOTED DIVINE. * . i l Subject: "The Mask of Deceit" ' i *' ' I Test: "Why feigp.eat thou thyself tobe an| other?"?I Kings xiv., 6. e0 In tho palace of wicked Jeroboam there Is ? a sick ohild?a very sick child. Medicines have failed; skill is exhausted. Young Abiime jan, the prince, has lived long enough to be>wn oome very popular, and yet he must die unlQe less some supernatural aid be afforded. ' Death comee up the broadstairso? th-? palace pig and swings back the door of the slokroom of ana royalty and stands looking at the dying it- prince with the dart uplifted. Wicked Jeroboam knows that he has no right to askanything of ithe Lord in the way of kindneSB. iter He knows that his prayers would not be answered, and so he sends his wife on the deling. cate and tender mission to the prophet of 5 the Lord in Shiloh. Putting aside her royal ft ftttlre. she puts on the garb of a peasant wo'lth man and starts on the road. Instead of oarfat rylng gold and gems as she might have car bie ried from the palace she carries only those gifts which seem to wdioatetbat she belongs to the peasantry?a few loaves of bread and aed a few cracknels and a cruse of honey. Yon* it der she goes, hooded and veiied. the greatest lady in all the kingdom, yet passing Uhob, * served. No one that meets her on the high>lor way has any idea that she Is the first lady in ter. &U the land. She is a queen in disguise. . _ j The fact is that Peter the Great working in the dry docks of8aardam,tfae sailor's hat iiiat and the shipwright's ax gave him no more the thorough disguise than the garb of the peasor]j ant woman gave to the queen of Tlrfcah. Bat the prophet of the Lord saw-the deceit Alei' though his physical eyesight had failed. he on was divinely illumined, and at one glance fht, looked through the imposition, and he orled jia. out: "Oome in, thou wife of Jeroboam! Why feign est thou thyself to be another? I have evil lldlnffa for thee, flat thee hAek to ftav house, and when thy feet toaoh the gate of the city the child shall die." She had a right to ask for the recovery of her boo; she had 'try no right to practice an imposition. Broken ear hearted now, she started on the way. the . n<3 tears falling on the dost of the road all the way from Shiloh to Tirzah. Broken B&y hearted now, she Is not oarefal any more to or hide her queenly gait and manner. Tree to fjje the prophecy, the moment her feet tonoh the gate of the elty the child dies. As she goes ivae jn the Bool of the child goes out The cry in the the city palace is joined by the lamentation and of a nation, and as they carry good Abljah ue to his grave the air is filled,with the voice of eulogy for the departed youth and tho groan SO of an afflicted kingdom.and It is for no insignificant purpose that I pro ie sent yoothe thrilling story of the text In . the first place I leam that wickedness in3 01 volves others, trying to makethem its dupes, its allies and its scaDetroats. Jeroboam oro am- posed to hoodwink the Lord's prophet How __A did he do it? Did he go and do the work himself? No. Ho sent his wife to do it. una Here the peril of exposure, hers the fatigue i at of tize way, hers the exeoution of the plot, ]0^ his,nothing. Iniquity is a brag,but it is a great oo ward. It lays the plan and gets some one else to execute it; puts down the gunpowder nly train and gets some one else to touch it off; feet ooDtrivee mischief and gets some one else to i.vQ work it; starts a lie and gets some one else to , circulate it. In nearly all the great crimes 'as. of the world It is found out that those who nty planned the arson, the murder, the theft, the or fraud go free, while those who were decoyed and cheated and hoodwinked into tne oon1 a splracy clank -the chain and mount the gal-r the lowa, be Aaron Burr, with heart filled with impurat) ity and ambition, plots for the overthrow of ."f the United States Government and gets off rilu with a few threats and a little censure, while wer Biennorhassett. the learned Blennerhassett, ii be sweet tempered Blennerhaasett, Is desed ??yed by from the orchards and the . laboratories and the gardens and the home air on the banks of the Onio River, and his foriok tunes are scattered, and he is thrown into om prison, and bis family, brought np in lax* , ury, is turned ont to die. Abominable Aaron De Burr has it comparatively easy. Sweet tem-j pered Blennerhassett has it hard. Benedict pen Arnold proposed to sell out the forts of the il. United Btateeito surrender the Revolutionary . army and to destroy the United States rtev18 ernment. He gets off with his pockets fall his of pounds sterling, while Major Andre, the rer. brave and the brilliant, is decoyed \ato the conspiracy and suffers on the gibbet on the }eP banks of. the Hudson^ so that even the ?68 literature?the marble tabl&ture that corned. inemorated that event?has been blasted by . .jg, midnight desperadoes. Benedict Arnold has ' it easy. Major Andre has It hard. I have 10?* noticed that nine-tenthB of those who suffer led for crimes are merely the satellites of some m arreat villains. Ignominious fraud is 'a jaffgier which by sleight of hand and leger,8 domain makes the gold that it stole appear low in somebody else's pocket. Jeroboam plots ety the lie, contrives the imposition^ and gets itiq his wile to execute It. Stand on irom an . imposition and chicanery. Do not consent r 9 to be anybody's dupe, anybody's ally In ' l'} wickedness, anybody's scapegoat, be The story of the text also impresses me x with the fact that royalty sometimes passes !: In disguise. The Irook, the veil, the hood of md the peasant woman hid th? queenly oharinc acter of this woman of Tirzah. Nobody suspected that Bhe was a queen or a princess as she patsed by, but she was Just as much a queen as though she stood in the.palace, her ter robes inorusted witb diamonds. And so all around about us there are princesses and 01 queens whom the world doee not recognize, i a They sit on no throne of royalty, they ride wae In no cbariot, they elieit no hnzza, they make no pretense, but by the grace of God ljQe they are princesses and they are queens; fire sometimes in their poverty, sometimes in 1 a their self-denial, sometimes in their hard for struggles of Christian service?God knows ,, they are queens. The world does not reoogtne nizethem. and , Royalty passing in disguise, kings without the crown, conquerors without the. palm, x empresses without the jewel. You saw her j yesterday on the street. You saw nothing ?uu important in ner appearance, out sne is l a regnant over a vaat realm of virture and eer goodness?a realm vaster than Jeroboam , ever looked at. You went down Into the ne house of destitution and want and suffering, hes You saw the story of trial written on fhe ee- wasted hand of the mother, on the pale 0(j ' cheeks of the children, on the empty bread , tray, on the flreless hearth, on the broken >a"i ohair. You would not have given a dollar to for all the furniture in the bouse. But by the grace of God she is a princess. The overseers of the poor come there and discuss the cause and say, "It's a pauper." They pe do not realize that Qod has burnished for lol. her a crown, and that after she has got it, - through the fatiguing journey from Tirzah ? to Shilolf and from Shiloh back to, Tirzah )ut there will be a t Drone of royalty on which He ehe shall rest forever. Glory veiled. Afhe fluence hidden. Eternal raptures hushed up. A queen In mask. A princess in disguise. UP When you think of a queen you do not the think of Catherine of Russia, or Maria lass Theresa of Germany, or Mary, queen of Scots. When you think of a queen, you think of a plain woman who sat opposite he your father at the table or walked with him the down the path of life arm in arm, sometimes lass t0 ,he Tnanksglving banquet, sometimes to the grave, but always side by side, soothing r eBi your little sorrows and adjusting your little aral quarrels, listening to your evening prayer, iing toiling with the needle or at the spinning rait wlieel>1111(1 on colcl nights tucking you up ... , snug nnd warm. And then on that dark dny aia when she lay a-dying, putting those thin 'ore hands that had toiled for you so long, put . ting them together in a dying prayer com mending you to that God in whom sne naa taught you to trust. Oh, she was the queen, Bhe was the queenl You cannot think of her now without haviDg the deepest emotions of your soul stirred, and you feel as if you . oould cry as thougn you were now sitting in lQly infancy on her lap, and if you call her baek lav- to speak your name with thetenderness with f its 9he 0006 spoke you would be willing now to throw yourself on the sod that oovers 096 her grave, crying. ' Mother, mother!" \h, to a she was the queen! Your father knew it. ime You knew it. 8he was the queen, but the t queen in disguise. Tne world did not recognize It. noe But there was a grander disguising. The sek- favorite of a great house looked out of the the window of His palace, and He saw that the people were carrying heavy burdens, afnd 1D* that some of them were hobbling on ng- orutehes, and He saw some lying nt the gate jrm exhibiting their sores, and then He heard uv. their lamentations, and He said: "I will just , put on the clothes of those poor people, and ol5' 1 will go down and see what their sorrows ven are, and I will sympathize with them, and I is a will be one of tnem, and I will help them." Well, the day came for Him to start. .The i ' lords of the land came to see Him off. All 100, who could sing joined in the parting song, HBi Vbleh shook tbe hills and woke optbe a&e^BHH h^rds. The first tew nights He baa beenH sleeping with the hoetlere and the tUttriBi ^T?re. for no one knew there to * In town. ^He wimt Moosg^tnej V? law than any doctors. He fished.' with tfce\fl8heraen. He fnnoto with His own hammtr SD the carpenter's.shop. Hq*te raw coin of tbe field. He fried fl?b onO the banlfc oK Oennesaret. He was howied^^BEMg by eras/v pd^pie in the tombs. He HMHH without aty pillow, a sick man withdB Win* fit. the* hflnnnet- 4* Eft r'i oi^B whe? ' *^-\t5T'ihaokl?d. de." moniao of Gadaw, kg Wben He tamed, W s Whole school of *fch Into the nS 1 of the <ilsoouraged boatman as trhen He' 1 throbbed life into the sbMyeW arm of the 1 paralytic, but for the mdwr Dart He waeln I disguise. No one saw ttie\Klng'B jewels in ! His sandal. No 0n? saw tte r.oyai r0be In His . *? j>Iain^co?t. No one knewtbl^t that shelter-^ itatiozL. None knew that tha^f ^nifgered ' -1 Christ owned all the olive grovife tad. au the ' 1 harvests which shook their gokl oi?the'hlUil ' of Palestine. No oneknewtbat He\whoseJtt "I thirst!" poured the Euphrates 0% 0f Hl? own chalice. No one knew that ,th?? ocean r lay in the palm of His bond like fc da^drop In the vase of a Illy. No one knew tha^ the v . stars and moons and sane and gala&i&fcjMf . constellations that marched on age aftor We a < were, as compared with His liretirf^fiKe sparkle of a firefly on a summer nigtgg , one Knew mar me bub in only the shadow of His throne. No onjflj that His crown of univeral doroinUM covered np with a bhnnb oI tborna. <M otencq. sheath.in .a human body, Q| cience hidden in a hnman eye. Infinlm beating in a hnman heart. ?verlastinfe|^^ monies subdued into a hnman TOicoflfol* H alty^en^masqae. Grandeurs of heM My subject also: Impresses me people put on masks and bow the Loifl IV them oh. It was a terrible moment fl H|| nistory of this wompn of Tirzah wtH| OH prophet aecosted her, practically iw? J know who you are. ion cannot ohtfE A You cannot impose upon me. Why mm thou thyself, to be another?" SueBwt"*' 1 right to aek for the reetoratfon of h90h;. '4 she had no right to practice that faWroood. : 'J Itisnevtr riffht to do wrong. Sometime* you may be able tcrconw?l^an affair. It to; ^ indicate^that silence som^mes ts right, bd^ but anathema and* exposure. He)8will tear off the lie. i He will,rip up the empiricism. He will scatter the .ambuscade. , There are poojije who are just ready to be duped, They seem to be'waiting to ue'deoelVed.They believe in, ghosts. They saw one themselves onob. They heard something ; strange in an uninhabited hoaaa. Going Along the road one night, something ap- . proached them in white and crossed the V ': road. Tney would think It very disastrous to count the number of carriages at a funeral. They heard in a neighbor"* hoo^' > something that portended death In: the' , family. They say it is a sttre sign of evil it a bat fly into the room on a summer night or they see the moon over the left shoulaer. They would not for the world undertake any enterprise on Friday, forgetful of, the . infect that if they look, over the calendar of ;he world they will see that Friday has been the most fortunate day in all the history of - >">' the world. As near as J oan (eir, looking over the oak endar of the world's history, more grand.' , bright, beautiful tbiogs have happened on Friday than any other day of uwrvseek.; They would not begin anything on Friday, Tbey woqld not for tbe world go back to the "S house for anything after they had onoe's started. Such people are ready to be duped. Ignorance comee along, perhaps in the disguise of medical science, ana carries th&m fi captive, for there are always soma men who ? lave found some etrange and mysterious weed in some strange place and ptaoked itin the moonshine, and then toeyoover the bo&ra fences with the advertisements of "elixir" And "panaceas" and "ineffable cataplasms" and "unfailing disinfectants" ana "lightning ; salvee" and "instantaneous ointments," enough to 8tun and scarify and poultice and kiu half the race. They are all ready to be wrought upon, by such Imposition* Ah, my friends, do not ' be among such dupes! Do not' act the part pi such persons as I have been describing. i TStand back from all chicanery, from all imposition. They who praotioe such'-^Mfdsition shall be exposed in the day of God's i n d ig- , C nation. They may rear great fortunes, but ineir aappie grays wiu oe arreerea on ti j** road someday, *8 was the *bs by the angel , of God with drawn sword. The light of the- 3 last day will shine through all saoh Bubterfages and with a voioe loader than that ' which accosted this Imposition oftne*?ju:r <i "Come in, thou wife of Jerobbam. Why felgnest thou.thyself to. beanothW?* Wltn a voice louder than that God will thunder , ' down Into midnight darkpess and doom and death all two faced men, and all charlatans, and all knaves, and all jockeys, and allswindlers. Behold how the people pot on the masks, and behold how ther Lord tears them off! My subject also impresses me with lu>w precise and accurate and particular'' are, God's providencea Just at the momentvthat woman entered the <jity the child died. Just asit: was prophesied, so it turned outj'sb it , always turns out. The event occurs,".ife death takes place, the Naiion is born, the '* despotism is overthrown at the appointed J time. (*od drives the universe with a stiff 1 rein. Events do no just happen so. Things do not go slipshod. In all the book of God's providences-there is not one "If." God's-,. . M providences are never caught in dishabille. To God there are no surprises, no disappolntments and no accidents. The most insignificant event flung out in theageais the, 1 connecting link between two great chains-, the chain o! eternity past and the chain of eternitv to come. I am no fatalist, bat I should toe complete-" i:; i '7 ly wretched it I aid not feel that all the affairs of my life are In God's hand and all that pertains to me and mine, just as certainly aa all the affairs of this woman of the t**xt, as this child of the text, as this king V the' text, were in God's hand. You may ask me a hundred questions I cannot answer, bat I shall until the day of my death believe ? that I am under the unerring core of God/ ,', .v ^ and the heavens may fall, and. the world ' may burn, and the judgment may thunder,; and eternal agee may roll, bat not a hair shall fall from my head, not ft shadow sb&U drbpon . - V, mylpath, not a sorrow shall transfix my heart without being divinely arranged?arranged by a llving^sympathetto Father. Ho fyMtes " our tears, He catches our sorrows. the orphan He will be a Father, ana ftKlttfct o| , widow He will be a husband, and to cast He will be a home, and to the mofl^H erable wretch that this day crawls ; the ditch of his abomination cryuKslm: r mercy Ho will be an all pardoning Go<felBMHy8 k rocks shall turn gray with age, and th?*j?^^H| ests shall be unmoored 1n the last hnrn^^BBB H and the sun shall shut its fiery eyelid, aiMSB . H stars shall drop like blasted figs, nr.fi th^ n continents shall go down like ancb<aHSjga ' 1 the deep, and the ocean ?ball heave lt&XN3?| groan and lash itselt with expiring a?B? and the world shall wrap itself in a wiroK&E ; shoet of flame and leap on the funeral hH. , of tbe judgment day; bat God's love not die. It will kindle its sans afte^^H other lights hxve gone out. It'will billowy sea after the last ocean has sweftjVnHgB, t seir away. It will warm Itself by the.fljfjK ' a consuming wor/d. It will Bing wbile'/jHwEl archangel's trumpet is pealing forth andjjfi^ggO. air is tilled with the crash of broken sejNMgj chers and the rush of the wings of the riSHH c.e*d. Ob, mnv Qod comfort all this petfHgjjHifl' with this Christian sentimentl ^ranja Threw Flower* at General I^fiyettctsHSHBS Mrs. Dr. James Bryan, of Elm street. Elfc?- ; j beth, N. J., has just celebrate ! her aiRhtmt^. / birthday. Blie was one of the school dren wao threw llowers In the path of Gan? enl Lrtfayette when he, visited the aitj in 1824. Potatoea Dear in Germany. '/"* - WotB Pototoes are dearer in Germany than theyf^fjH have been in many years. Chicago'! Destitute. ( Chicago eays she hns 70,000 destitute peo- &S9H pie rithin her corporate limits A present of fruit grown in Ontario. Conada, reached Queen Victoria the other day at Windsor Castle. It was contained In thirty boxes, and inoluded apples, pears, grapes aB8 and quinces, all in splendid preservation.