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r f AGRICULTURAL | % 6f 6 S S C- ^S?6^ Active H?>ns Good L:iyers. The wedge-shaped hen may bo the (ayer, and she may not; that is an open question. But the hen that has a quick movement, especially of the head from side to side, and is never content to mope, is certainly the business hen and may be relied on to give tlie desired egg. Remedy For Cut Worms. Those who are much troubled by . ADy of the several species of cut worm . should remember that they cau easily be destroyed by the use of a mixture of bran and Paris green, moistened with sweetened water, just enough to make into little balls that are to be placed by the side of each hill, or scattered at intervals of three or four feet apart along the drills. The worms will eat this in prefereuce to the plant, and they will never eat plants again after once trying this. Each ball should be about atea3poonful. One pound of Pari3 green to fifty pounds of bran is sufficient. It should not be put where the poultry can got it, but poultry have no business in the cultivated fields. A Few Points on Cherrleft. Standard cherry trees should be set from twelve to twenty feet apart, the distance depending upon the variety planted. Fifteen feet is a safe distance tor the common varieties to be " n planted upon oruinary sun. lunucnuo when planted on a strong soil should have at least twenty feet. Cherries will d(o well when grown on a sod and do comparatively better under- such circumstances thau the apple, still it pays well to cultivate the cherries in about the same way as the better class of fruit growers cultivate the apple orchard. In brief this cultivation consists of a shallow plow* ing in spring followed by occasional surface cultivations until about the middle summer, when some corn crop is sown. When this is high enough first cutting might be used as hay. aud when high enough for the second turn sod and all under. Growing Parsnips on One Land. Hit*-; It is not practicable to grow parsnips in succession on the same land, as they are apt to be attacked by a large worm, which always comes in the second year and which makes such destructive work o n the leaves as to destroy the crop. Even when the parsnip is set to grow seed it should al ways be dug up and replanted aB far as possible from where it grew. Whore a parsnip root is allowed to stand over winter and reseed where it grew, it " " shows the effect of winter freezing aud thawing, and also of lack of cultivation, as the grouud is always hard around ii. Seed thus prodaced will be worse than worthless for planting, is the parsnip like the carrot very quickly degenerates into a weed when it is deprived of good culture. In some places wildparnips and wild carrots have becoma among the worst weeds that the farmer has to contend with. They are,of course,biennials, and pulling them np when they are going to seed ends them, provided the plant has not too far advanced so that the 3eed will be perfected after it is uprooted. ^But that in grass land makes a long job, as the plains grow very small and seed when they are leas tlyxn a foot high. Value of a Small Garden. Every one who lives oat of the city Bhoald have a garden, even if it covers but a few rods, that they may have fresh vegetables and well-ripened ' small fruits. It is surprising howmuch can be grown on a few rods of ground if properly cared for. A rod of land may be made to produce all the strawberries which a small family would care tc eat, and a half rod all the currants for a large family. A rod may be made to produce all the raspberries and blackberries required and another al! the tomatoes, radishes, beeta, parsnips and late turnips. When the garden is confined to a few rods two croDs shonld be crowu on the same laud each year. Peas may be followed by rutabagas, squashes, late beans, sweet corn, or celery, early beets with late cabbage and early lettuce with cucumbers. To have a good garden, the laud should be heavily manured and thoroughly piepared before planting, and as soon as the crop begins to grow cultivation should begin and continue uutil the crop covers the ground. It is a mistake to suppose that the sole object of cultivation is the destruction of weed3. While this is one, and to many the principal object, it is by no means the only one, for a rapid growth cannot be expected unless the soil is frequently stirred to keep the surface light and loose. As soon after a heavy rain as the soil permits, the garden should be well cultivated, to prevent a crust forming on the surface. A hand wheel-hoe is an excellent implement in the garden. Three times as much work can be done with it as with the common hand-hoe, and done much better, but in using a whecl-hoe the weeds should never be permitted to grow over an inch in hight. When the crops gets large anmicrli tr? .qharln thfi wlinlfl surface of the ground cultivation may cease, but if any weeds appear they should be pulled by hand.?F. H. Sweet, in American Agriculturist. Cold Frame* and llotbedftThe value of frames to a small garden is seldom estimated. Very few large gardens but contain them, yet in a way they are of more value where land for garden purposes is not plentiful. In the latter case the owner, who wants to fully supply his table with fresh things, tries to get all that he possibly cuu out of his limited space. By means of a moderate size hotbed, lettuce, radishes and other quickly maturing plants may be raised for winter use. Other plants may be started in late winter, for transplanting to the open ground in spring, thus oecuriug the earliest crops possible, and opening the way for a succession of crops to take the place of the early ones. Of course, this sounds more extensive tban it really is, for all vegetables cannot be handled alike; but SllflflP.iont thof it pan ]\a ilrvnu tn enmc r t k extent by a careful and studious garl deuer. i Considerable judgment must bo exi ercised to make thorough success?for \ instance, the depth of the pit must be ; regulated to agree with the plants to be grown. As an example, lettuce? especially that grown in early winter ?is liable to draw upward to the light, a very .undesirable thing whore good, solid heads are wanted. Therefore, tho pit should be shallow to bring the plants fairly near the glass. This also applies to all seedliugs intended for transplanting; they must not be drawn up, spindling and weak, but en1 ? 1*1 "1 -L 1 couragea 10 grow aona ana aiuc&.,y. i Even aucli slender things as peas could be started a trifle earlier by sowing the seed in pots plunged in the frame, , aud transplanted later. This would i not pay on a large scale, but to obtain a few dishes for the table it woald be desirable. Then care must be taken in the regulation of air and protection from frost, for raised in this way plants are delioate. Setting Tomatoes In Field. When possible, run the rows of tomatoes east and west. This will expose every plant to the sun. The tomato requires all the sun it can get. Tall growing plants, like corn or pole beans, should never be planted on the south or east of the tomato patch. If for a field crop, mark off the land four by four or five by five feet with a common field marker, and with a small plow open a furrow about four by five inches deep. If the land js very mellow, as it should be, I prefer opening the hills with a hoe. This leaves the land smooth and in better condition for the weeder, which Hhould'be used as soon as the plants ;are set. I find it pays well to takd considerable pains to make the rows/{straight, and of equal distances apartt^fo a large field it is also well toskip^Bay one row in ten, which will aHtt*r of dri-ina through the field?, wiratjihe team in Water the plants before, or at least an hour or^j|IBlfore tak ing them up. As earlySj?4iBagimei as possible, dig th0au3|BHft^tronp garden hand tork^^^SKj^cB^ pre t'er the fork to4*$Mpel, a* it doef not destroy any ^s Leave | shallow bos. ^ a^box at on each side^'tbe.TV'heelbarrow follow and set^ to firm the earth well abbuV the plants, putting fresh dirt nest the roots and finishing off by brushing^ IwUt^overing of chsj dirt on top aa .a : mulch. ifX oouaid<|i this latter rery iniportaat^H t^pvfieid is far from the hotbeds, the jflaiits cab be taken up in tie boxes -then ^ taken to the field on a dfrltg, ora low j* down wagon, which, by tbB ^ay. is s ? L.>J_ t/\im flk* nnr I VW?. illtUU^ IU<aU^UUIvuv &V4^cnrposea ;jp It has been my experience that it is best to. set the plants a little deeper than they stood in the hotbeds, unless the plants are "Iong-leggeds" in which case I would not t>u6 the xoots anj deeper,*, ttiaft theothers,'fi*?' would lean the plant over so as to cover a part oi, the st^ with dirt. I have ] fotm&tbat t'drawn" plants will do ver j well 'when treated in tfaia manner The roots start jfriit all riong the stalk, and if these long plantB have fe&en we) I hardened off they will be fopjro nearly onea.?A." A. HalliJiyi 'In Hew EngA rarmw** B*p?Wmental Plot. Every farm, io.r|i great extent, is at, institution by tiiielf. The successful farmer must riofc onjjjnttioroughly un | derstand bis bnitiuSTvnt must be i constantly stndyitfMpd learning from 1 experience of hittwfifejfcnd from scien j tific expcrimentoJEpB^eaearcbes made by specialists.-4s|Hfii$tkeep up witb the times. Ev<&piJis6n be must be a better farmerSpnthe previous one. I He must be ablito My he has learned j somethiug that vrill make his business more profitable, either by lessening j the cost of production or the improve j inent of the quality of the produce of i bis farm. For this reason he should ! be able to know what his farm is best ! adapted to raising. It would pay any farmer to have an ! experiment acre on his farm. This *1 should be of soil that most nearly rep- ' resents bis farm, and not selected because of its depth or richness. As all plots about a well-kept farm, it should have a neat fence that will turn all stray cattle,, pigs or chickens that might chance to get beyond their own forage fields, xue grounu snouia oe j carefully layed otfin plots, with walka I and paths between the sectious. It I should be mapped and planned each j season before planting time, and then | layed out in strict accord to the plans | made. A record book should be kept, each section, bed or row numbered i and everything concerning it during j the season should be jotted down for i future reference. One season's study of a plaut will usually show whether it would pay,to raise it extensively or whether it would not pay at all. There are also new methods of tending the plants already familiar with, which can be tested in the experimental plot before old and tried methods are abandoned. The studying of books and journals devoted to the farming iuterest. will suggest items which the farmer may desire to test before introducing on his farm. He can jot it down on a page ' of his record book devoted to new ex-1 periments and make his plans accord- j ingly to accommodate it the following ' year. Of course, he will not be able ! to try everything he might desire to, j but he can pick out the must impor ' taut from the list each year. Nor need tue plot oe an expense i without a return. A well-conducted j plot -will be ' self-snstaining. The ! kitchen table, the poultry yard, acts ! and tubers and seeds for the next sea- j sou, all can come in oa the profit side j of the balance sheet, at the end of ' the year. The experiment acre wilt j be of the greatest benefit not only to | the farmer himself, but to all his | i neighbors a9 well. By keeping in j touch with the State and Governmental ; ; experimental statious and running a i miniature station of his own, the far- j mer will not only save himself many | expensive mistakes but will learu | i many things that will meau a goodly . addition to his yearly iucomo aud add j : to the value of his farm.?J. L.Irwin, ! i in Farm Fiel'J arxl FirARida i I DE. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Sabject: The Roll of Honor?A Tribute to .Everyday Heroes?In the Final Read, justment They Will Receive tlie Crown of Valor. [Copyricht 1SHKI.I Washington*, D. C.?Dr. Talmage, who is now preaching to large audiences in the great cities of England and Scotland, sends this discourse, m which he shows that many who in this world pass as of little importance will in the day of nnal readjustment be crowned with high honor; text, 11 Timothy ii, 3, "Thou therefore endure hardness." Historians are not slow to acknowledge thu merits of great military chieftains. We have the full length portraits of the Cromwells, the Wauhingtons, the Napoleons and the Wellingtons of the world. History is not written in back ink, but with red ink of human blood. The gods of human ambition do not drink from bowls made out of silver or gold or precious stones, but out of the bleacned skulls of the fallen. But I am now to unroll before you a scroll of heroes that the world has never acknowledged?those who faced no guns, blew no bugli blast, conquered no cities, chained no captives to their chariot wheels, and yet in the great day of eternity will stand higher than Borne of those whose lames startled the | nations?and seraph and rapt-spirit and archangel will tell their deeds to a listening universe. I mean the heroes of common, everyday life. i In this roll in the first place I find all the heroes of the sick room. ,When Satan had failed to overcome Job, he said to God, "Put forth Tny hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and he' .will curse Thee, to Thy. face." S&tyn had found oixt that "which we have all found out?that sickness'is/the greatest tesV.of one's-character; A man who can stand that can stand anything. To be shut in & room as fast as thiugh it wer" a bast2e,.to be so nervous yiu cannct endure the tap r of a child's fort, to hfcve luscious fniit, which tempts the appetite of the robust and healthy, excite our loathing rnd disgust when it first appears on the platter; to have the rapier of pain strike through the side or across the temple like, a razor or to put the foot into a vise or .throw the r? ? - f 71 tr.x whole Doay tntp a owe 01 iever. tec there have, been men and women,, but more women than-men. who hare cheerfully endured this hardness. Through years of exhausting rheumatisms and ex?: cruciating neuralgias they have gone and, through bodily distress that ^rasped the nerves and tore the muscles and raled thecheeks and stooped the shoulders. By the dull ligto of the sick room taper they saw on fjfeir will the picture of that land where fne inhabitants are never Through the dead silence of the nighi.^jb^ heard the chorus of the angels. The cancer.ate away her life from to> week and day to day, and she becamw .iWeakcr and weaker and every ''goda JjnighJr was feebler than the "good night" Spgtp, yet never sad. The children looked her face and saw suffering transiijto A heavenly smile. Those who battlefield amid ..hot and ' not' more heroes and heroines Than B$ro0.;Who, in e field hospital and in the a&yjum, had fevers which no ice could cool and no surgery cure. Xo shout of a comrade to cheer them, but numbness and aching and homesickness, vet willing fto suffer; confident in God, hopeful of ^heaven. Heroes of rheumatism, heroes of Neuralgia, heroes of spinal complaint, hcjoea of sick headache, heroes of lifelong invalidism, heroes and heroines! They phall reign for ever and ever. Hark! I /catch just one note of the eternal anthem, r'flCnpvp shall he no more nain!" lilcss God for that! * In. this roll I also find the hcroea of t"'.!, yho do their work uncomplainingly. It is comparatively easy to lead a regiment into battc when you know that the whole nation will applaud the victory, it is comparatively easy to doctor the sick when you know that your skill will be appreciated by a large company of friends and relatives, it is comparatively easy to address an audience when in the gleaming eyes and (lushed cheeks you*know that your sentiments .ire adopted, but to do sewing when you expect the employer will come and thrust his thumb through the work to show how imperfect it is or to have the whole garment i-rown back on you to be done over asain; to build a wall and know there will be no one to say you did it well, but only a swearing employer howling across the scaffold; to work until your eyes are dim and your back aches and your heart faints, and to know that if you stop before night cour children will starve! Ah, the sword has not slain so many as the needle! The great battlefields of our civil war were not Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Mountain. ihe great battlefields were in the arsenals and in t>-e shops and in the attics, where women made army jackets for a sixpence. 'Iney toiled on until they died. They had no funeral eulpgium, but, in the name of my God, this day I enroll their names among those of whom the world was not worthy. Heroes of the needle! Heroes of the sewing machine! Heroes of the attic! Heroes of the cellar! Heroes and heroines! Bless God for thorn! In this roll I also find the heroes who have uncomplainingly endurea domestic injustices. They are men who for their toil and anxietv have no symoathy in their homes. lSxhaustmg application to business gets them a livelihood, but an unfrugal wife scatters it. He is fretted at from the moment he enters the door until he comes out of it. The exasperations of business life, augmented by the exasperations of domestic life. Such men are laughed at, but they have a heartbreaking trouble, and they would have long aeo gone into appalling dissipation but for the grace o? God. Society to-day is strewn with the wrecks of men who, under the northeast storms of domestic felicity, have been driven on the rocks. There are tens of tnousands of drunkards to-day, made such bv their wives. That is not poetry; that is prose. But the wrong is generally in the opposite direction. You would not have io go far to find a wife whose life is a perpetual martyrdom?something heavier than a stroke of the fist, unkind words, staggering home at midnight and constant maltreatment, which have left her only a wreck of what she was on that day when in the mulst of a brilliant as-. sernblage the vows were taken and full organ played the wedding march and the carriage rolled away with the benediction of the people. What was the burning of Latimer and Ridley at the stake compared with this? Ihosc men soon became unconscious in the fire, but tnere is a thirty>years' martyrdom, a fifty years' Eutting to death, yet uncomplaining, no itter words when the rollicking companions at 2 o'clock in the morning pitch the husband dead drunk into ?be front entry, no bitter words when Swiping from the swoUfti brow the bloody struck out in a midnight carousal, bendinjKover the battered and bruised form of nim-who when u. i,?_ ? ..... ntr uui iiuni uci uu/u^i o.uuiuc yiLriu* ised love an&M^bM&fcQd protection, yet nothing but sympathy and. pravers and forgiveness .before .they are asked for; :.o bitter jyord?;3jrhen the family. Bible goes for nrniyjaad- tne pawnbroker's shop irets the la^t^'decent'. dress. Some day, desiring tOi^obf-.the story of her sorrows. you isajv /Well, how are you gettins along vac#?" and, rallying net trembling voice and quieting her quivering lip. she says,Y"l?tetty well. I thank you; prcttv well."' She never -will tell you. In the delirium of her lost sickness she may te!! nil the other secrete of her lifetime, but she will iiot tell that. Not until the looks of etarnity aye opened on the throne o? judgment'will ever be known wi. it she has suffered. < >h, ye ,wto are -twisting a garland for tin' victo^, put it on that ' pale brow. When she is dead the neighbors will beg livn.'ii to make her a shroud, and she will be c arried out- in a plain box with no silver plate to tell her-years, for she has lived a thousand years of trial and aneuish. The gamblers and swinders who destroyed her husband will not- co-ne 'o the funeral. One carriage will be enough to carry, the orphans and the two Christian women> who presided over riie obsequies. But there is a flash, and the opening of a' celestial door and a shout, "Lift up your head, ore everlasting gate, ind let her come in! ' And Christ will step forth and say: "Come i#! Ye suffered with Me 0:1 earth, be glorified with Me in heaven." What is the highest throne in heaven? You say, "The throne ot the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb." No f doubt about it. What is the next high> est throne in heaven? While I speak ii seems to me that it will be the throna of the drunkard's wife, if she with cheerful patience endureu all her earthly tor> ture. Heroes and heroines! I find also in this roll the heroes ol Christian charity. We all admire th? George Pcabodys and the James Lenoxej of the earth, who give tens and hundred! of thousands of dollars to good objecta But I am speaking now of those who, oul of their pinched poverty, help others-^ol such men as those Christian missionariei at the wesf, who proclaim Christ to tai people, one of them, writing to the seer? tary in New York, saying: "I -thank yon for that $25. Until yesterday -we "have had no meat in our house for three months. We have suffered terribly. My children have no shoes this winter.' And of those people |rho have only a half loaf of bread, but give a niece of it to othera who are hungrier, ana of those who have only a scuttle of coal, but help others to fuel, and of those who have only a dollar in their pocket and give twentyfive cents to somebody else, and of that father who wears a shabby coat and of that mother who wears a faded dress, that their children may be well appareled. You call them paupers or ragamuffirw nr omiorantB. I call them heroes and heroines, ^"ou and I' may not iinow where they live or what their name is. God knows,'and they have more angels hovering over them tnan you and I have, and they will have a higher seat in heaven. They may have only a cup of cold water to give a poor traveler or may have only picked a splinter from the nail of a child s hnger or have put only two mites .'nto the treasury, but the Lord knows them. Considering what they had, they did more than we have ever done, and their faded dress .will become a white robe, and the small room will be an. -rternal mansion and the old hat will ke exchanged for a coronet of victory and all the ap-plause of earth and the shouting of heaven will be drowned out when God rises up ,to give His reward to those humble work* .'era in His kingdom, and to say to them. "Well done, k:-u and faithful servant." Who are tboso^who were bravest and deserved < the greatest monument?Lord Claverhouse aiid his burly soldiers or 'John Brown- the .Edinburgh carrier, and . wifef Mr. Atkins, -the persecuted minister of Jesus Christ in Scotland, was secreted by John Brown and his wife, 1 and Claverhouse rode up one day with his armed -men fad shouted in front of the house." John Brown's little girl came out. He said to her, "Well, miss, is Mr. Atkins fyere?" She made-no answer, for she .cpul# riot betray the minister of the gospeL 1V''Ha!" Claverhouse said, "Then you 8Ce*^J?IU0 Ot tne Old DIOCK. are you; I: bave^ometlung in my pocket for you. It ill a nosegay. Some people call it a thumbscrew, vbut I call it a nosegay." 'And hfe4 not off his horse, and Le put it on tire little girl's hand and began to .turn it the Bones cracked and she cried. He' said: "Don't cry, don't cry. This isa'tl i," thumbscrew; this is a nosegay." And tl bey heard the child's cry, and ths father and mother came out, and Claverhouse said: "It seems that you three have la ??1 voi,r- h?Mv l<aa<^ tozetho'-. determ tied to die like aH the rest if your hypocritical, canting, sniveling crew. Rather than give up good Mr. Atkins, pious Mr. Atkins, you would die. -I have a telescope with me that will imorove your vision." And he pulled out a pis- ! tol. "Now." he said, "you old pragmatic, lest you should catch cold in tfois cold [ morning of Scotland, and for the honor , I and safety of the king, to say nothing : of the glory of God and the good of our , souls, I wiJ'? proceed simplv and in the neatest and most expedition style to blow your brains out." John Brown fell upon his knees and I 4w^fatr "AM" cntrl niavprlifiUfle I "look out if you are going to prav. Steer ' clear of the king, the council and Richard Cameron." "0 Lord," said John Brown. ! "sinceit seems to be Thy will that I should leave this world for a world where 1 can love Thee better and servo Thee more, I nut this Door widow woman and these helpless, fatherless children into Thy I hands. We have been together in peace a good while, but now we must look forth , to a better meeting in heaven, and as fox j these poor creatures, blindfolded and in< 1 fatuated. that stand before me, convert ! them before it be too late, and may they } who have sat in judionent in this lonely place on this blessed morning upon me, ! a poor, defenseless fellow creature, may j they in the last judgment find that mercy which they have refused to me. Thy most unworthy "but faithful servant. Amen." He rose and said, "Isabel, the hour hag j come of which I spoke to you on the i morning when I proposed hand and heart i to you. and are you willing now, for the | love of God to let me die?" She out her ! arms around him and said: "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, | ilessed be the name of the Lord." "Ston j that sniveling," said Claverhouse. "1 i have had enough of it. Soldiers, do your j work! Take aim! Fire!" And the head j of John Brown was .scattered on the i ground. While the wife was gathering j * ? nf Kor Imcfc I up III Iter UIUU11 UIU ua^ivviiw uv. ( hand's head?gathering them up for bur* j ial?Clavorhousc looked into her face and i said: "Now, my good woman, how do \ou J feel now ahout your bonnie man ?" "Oh, j she said. "L always thought weel of Uim | He has been very good to me. I had no ; reason for thinking anything but weel oJ ' him, and I think better of him now.' Oh, i what a grand thing it will be in the last ] day to sec God pick out His heroes and j heroines! Who are those paupers of oter | nicy trudging off from the gates of heaven! s Who are they? The Lord Clavcrhousas ; and Herods and those who had ic niters and crowns and thrones, but thoy lived for their own aggrandizement, and they broke the heart of nations. Heroes oi earth, but paupers in eternity. I beat tha drums of their eternal despair. Woe, J woe, woe! But there is great excitement in heaven, Why those long processions? Why tha I booming of that great bell in the tower! i It is coronation day in heaven. WUio arfl ! those rising on the thrones with Crowns of eternal royalty? They must have been ' no^rJn nrt fVio onpfh wnrM renowned ! B1 V** V..W , people. No. They taught in a ragged school. Taught in a ragged school! Ia j that all? That ia all. Who are thoae aouls j waving scepters of eternal dominion! ! Why, they are little children who waited on invalid mothers. That all? That ia i all. She was called "Little Marv" on earth. She is' an empress now. Who are that great multitude on the highest thrones of heaven? Who are they? \/hy, thoy fed the hungry, they clothcd the j naked, they healed the sick, they com- I forted the heartbroken. They never ; found any rest until they put their heads i down on the pillow of the sepulcher. God watched them. God laughed defiance at > the enemies who put tneir heels hard , down on these His dear children, and one day the Lord struck His hand so hard on His thigh that the omnipotent sword rattled in the buckler as He said, "I am their God and no weapon formed against them shall prosper." What harm can the world do you when the Lord Almighty with unsheathed sword fights for you? I preach this sermon for j comfort. Go home to the place just ! where God has put you to play the hero j or the heroines. Do not envy any man his money or his applause or his social po sition. Do not envy any woman her wardrobe or her exquisite appearance, lie the hero or the heroine. If there be no (lour j in the house and you do not know where j your children are to get bread, listen, and you will hear something tapping against j the window pane. Go to the window, and j you will find it ia the beak of a raven, and ! open the'window, and there will liy in the messenger that fed iMijau. Do you think | that the God who growa the cotton of the south will let you freeze for lack of ' clothe? Do you think that the God who allowed His aiscioles on Sabbath morning \ to go into the grainneia ana men the grain- and rut it in their hands and 1 cat?do you think (iod will let you starve? I Did you ever hear' of the experience of j that old man, '*!' have been young and now am old, vet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or his' seed begging | bread?" Get up out of your discouragement, 0 troubled soul, 0 sewing woman, 0 man kicked and cuffed by unjust employers, 0, ye who are hard besei in the battle of life and know not which way to turn, 0 bereft one, 0 you sick cne with complaints you have told to no one, come and get the comfort of t!/i subject! Listen to our great Captain's cheer, "To him that overcome th will I give to eat of the fruit 6{ the tree of life which is in the midst cf the paradise of God." Important PhyBldlojh&i'&atoriiry. , . Gr&ssi; the Austrian physiologist, haa discovered the brain cell that forgets names, I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Item*. United States Cousul Hay. at Pretoria. has sent a brief message to the State Department that all is well. II is supposed to refer to the safety ol the Consulate. Secretary of War Root sent to the Senate a report on the North American Trust Company's operations io Cuba. The Senate confirmed the nomination of John It. Hazel to be Unitec GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROV! TH7 WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. The Enfolding Hand ? Fnitli and A*sur. nee?"Thy Will He Done"?The Ho j Spirit's Interference ? Keinforced Lj Beavenly Grace?Ever-Present Lord. My little one with flu3had and troubled face Bat by my study table, toillni? late O'er strange wblte creatures scrawled upon nerslute; And oft did sbe erase, With sighs, the nameless figures that she drew, And on the clouded slate began anew. The'damp curls tumbling down Vexed her hot face, but still she wrought, Her velvet forehead rumpled in n frowa, Nor aid of me besought. My writing done, I sat and watched ber with a hidden smile, Marking each line the while, With wistful thought to help the little one. But what she sought to draw' I never under heaven saw! At length she raised her little grieved, hot face And tear-dimmed eyes, Mor spoke, but brought the slate and climbed my knee So trustrul wise, And gave the blunted pencil unto me And nestled down In her accustomed pla33. Then, did I understand, And in the wee soiled hand Replaced the pencil, while my own Clasped the tired fingers. And I drew The finest horse 1 knew? Buch as my babe had sought to draw alona 80 was she happily content, And smiling to ber waiting mother went. ltfot otherwise, I love to think, When we have planned and wrought and , ! wept in vain. Does the God-Father take our childish bands in His. iina neip us to attain TJie best that in us is. When from,' the hopeless task forospaat wo ' shrink, Defeated, weary and undone, Then dotlrthat loving One Bend pitying o'er us and with heavenly pow're Enforoe these human purposes of ours. 0 child of His! believe He yearneth o'er us, e'en as you and I Over our children, when they grieve Because their small ideals prove too high. Ah! fain is He, did we but understand, To fold In His the faltering human hand! .?James Buokham, in Cougregationalist. Faith and Ansurance. Faith is the root, and Assurance is the flower. Faith is that poor trembling woman who came behind Jesus in the press and touched the hem of His garment: Assurance id Stephen standing calmly in the midst of hi3 murderers, and saying, "I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." Faith is the penitent thief, crying, "Lord, remember me;" Assurance if Job sitting in the dust, covered with sores, and saying, "I know that my Redeemer liveth"Though He slay me, yet will I trust In Him." Faith is Peter's drowning cry, as he began tosink,"Lord,save me!" Assurance is that same Peter declaring before the council. In after-times, "This is the stone which is set at naught by you builders which is become the hea l of ttfb corner." Faith is the anxious, trembling voice,"Lord, [believe; help Thou my unbelief;" Assurance Is the confident challenge, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Who is he that condemneth?" Faith Is Haul praying in the house of Judas at Damascus, sorrowful, blind and alone;' Assurance is Paul, the aged prisoner, looking calmly into the grave, aud saying, "I know whom I have believed. There is a srown laid np for me." Faitti is life. How t;reat the blossing! Who can tell the gulf between life and death? And yet life may be weak, sickly, unhealthy, painful, trying, anxious, worn, burdensome, joyless, smileless to the very end. Assurance is more than life. It is hoalth, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.? Ryle. HTlio Witt Ra n?na ? My God!. Thou hast formed the eye, and 3balt thou not see:' Thou bast planted the sar, and shalt thou uot bear? Thou haat made the heart, and shalt not thou take ;hought? I will roll my trouble do further :&on to thee, or,If that be beyond my mitfht, [ will admit thee into my heart and show thee there that it is too heavy for me. Then wilt thou know, though I may tot, by what means it may he removed, I thank thee that thy watchful eye is over all things and that thou governest them with mercy and wisdom. 1 thank thee that the world i Gfoes uot as man wills, but as thou, the Lord, wilt. In whom can I trust better than in thee? How strangely soever, then, the world's affairs may sometimes seem to proceed, I will be dumb and not open my mouth, because thou doest it. By thy tfraoe I am what I am. Let uot thy grace which thou hast Riven unto me be given in vain. Cause the light of thy countenauce to shine upon me and give me peace. Amen. yho Ifoly Pplnt'ii Interference. Little by little Christ's example has led men on ijind upward to even better and better things, elevating aim*, methods and the quality of service, never interfering with freedom of action, but always so 3haping events that out of evil good has iome, and the glory of God has been revealed in the movements of society. And if we turn from the larger to the smaller sphere of observation and ?tudy tho individual, the same thing is true. If we look back oa our personal history, thosa of us who are endeavoring to do God's will rarely can Tail to see the divine hand in the course of avents in which we have participated. Hera we have- been guided, there guarded. On one day we were heipad in some distress b7 a power which we felt was mare than human. On another there came, for the solving of some harrowing doubt, a flash of divine light into the soul. In many ways we have experienced this. We have learned to trust the actual presence and benevolent' interference of the Holy Spirit with our lives. This may be true of all men. . Reinforced by Heavenly Grace. Life has another color and another end because it has another hopet when we know for a certainty that the Lord has risen from the dead. We are assured of another world, of the blessed departed, of thettomortal soul, of the victory of holiness. We goon our way to commonplace dutle3 and varied trials, but we are encompassed with a cloud of witnesses, we are re-enforced by heavenly grace, we travel beneath an open heaven, we see our Lord at the rijjht hand of God. Our faces are now set steadfastly to go up to Jerusalem, not to the sorrow of the cross, which is over, but to the glory of the victory which Christ has achieved; and. as each one comes to his brethren with the joy of his own vision, nis testimony is cirowneu la toe voice of the whole company declaring that the Lord is risen indeed.?Rev. John Watem. Immanuel! God with us! Only the large language used by the saints jn light may express that consciousness of An ever-present Lord which ceases at hut to be a mere belief and, striking as into the very arteries and veins, bone aud brain, becomes part of the circulation and constitution, the life of the believer. William II. Bukar. Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leuf in springtime ?Luther. MAJOR DROPPED FROM ROLLS. He Disappeared After Starting to Inspect Posts in Philippines. The name of Major Gharles M. Rockefeller, of the Ninth Infantry, who disappeared in the Philippines in AprU? 189'J, has been dropped from the army registor. Shortly after Major Rockefeller's arrival in the Philippines he went to inspect outposts and was not seen again by his comrades. For some time It was supposed that ho had been assassinated and his body thrown into one of the wells or pits iu the vicinity of his camp. E^ery effort was made to discover lii.s whereabouts or to recover his body in case he hud been killed, but to no avalL ?iiues LMsirict .jiiuge ior uie wesieiL District of New Ytrk. The House agreed to the S<?uat amendment to the sundry civil bill ap propriating $5,000,000 for the Louis iana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis The United States steamship Iroquois sailed from Honolulu for Midway Island, presumably to collect further information as to its availability for use as a cable station. A suit against the Government for upward' of $64,000,000 was dismissed by the Court of Claims. Secretary Long reduced from two years to six months the sentence of suspension on half pay of Captain John McGowan, found guilty by courtmartial of shooting a Filipino. An arrangement has been made by which the Montana Senatorship question will go over to next winter. Our A<lopre<! I?l?n<1?. In the Island of Tablas, one of the Philippine group, a number of rebels were put to flight and a large quantity of ammunition captured. The Triscormla railway around Havana. Cuba, is said to have cost this Government $5,000,000 more than it can be sold for. All parties in Cuba oppose General Gomez's plan for political amalgamation. Nueva Eciga, a town in Candaba, P. I., has been burned, and many poor families are rendered homeless. General Wheaton recommends Government succor. The Havana floating dry dock is td be purchased from Spain by the United States Government, and remov^ to San Juan, Pdrtd Rico. W. H. Reeves, former deputy auditor In the Cuban Postal Department, was released from Jail In Havana on depositing $1500 ball. The Mataafa faction in Samoa have protested against German rule, but the natives of Tutuila have welcomed American control. General Maximo Gomez has arrived in Cuba from San Domingo. Sweeping reductions in salaries and , offices have been made in the Postal Department of Cuba. The fugitive Governor of Benguet Province, a rich, influential and devoted friend of Agu Waldo, was captured by American troops. THrt UntroHan o nthnvltloa hflw J.UC IjIUM UliUM ?u?,uv?*?..vv ? V* v w dared the Hawaiian Islands free from infection by the bubonic plague. The quarantine of the islands has been raised. Reports from Manila announced that a number of small engagements had taken place in various islands, the insurgents losing many men. Domestic. John R. Heldin and his wife, Marie, committed suicide together by drinking carbolic acid at, Chicago. X, WiiJam Smith, alleged. Jb be the dean of a college of professional beggars and cripples, was arresteclittt New York City.' ' r The Governor of Missouri has been asked to preserve order dnd to protect women in the streets of St Louis while the strike is in progress. Delegates from Maryland to the j Democratic National Convention are ( aniustructed, though the State Convention recognized and "indorsed i Bryan. Two Christian Scientists were found guilty of practlclnglmedlcine4n violation of the State medical lag? at Milwaukee, Wis. An appeal ws takes. Dr. O'Hanlon of the Coroner's Office, in New York City, declares that women's long skirts are a menace to public health, and should be regulated by law. . Robert E. Bonner, of N"-,v York City, found $70,000 worth of bonds in an old magazine, where his father, the late Robert Bonner, had concealed ' tlioin. / A kiss was given each juror by Mrs. E. R. Sutton, of Detroit, wncn the jury at Lansing, Mich., acquitted her husband of complicity in the State military clothing frauds. William Clements, aged seventeen years, was cauglTt by tb" oase in the Taylorviile (111.) mine and his head was severed from his body. Charles A. Naulty, twenty-one years old, shot anu killed his stepmother, Mary Naulty, thirty years old, at their home in Newark, N. J. The murder was the result of frequent quarrels over food. A National Civic Federation, nonpartisan, has been organized with 500 , men of national reputation as a\i advisory council. Cranks and beggars besieged Helen Gould at her hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1 Koretcn. i . Violent Anti-Semitic riots have oc- J curred at Buelow, Germany. The Ministerialists have' won the elections In Italy by a large majority. Because of the scarcity of skilled apprentices the British gunraaking trade is being absorbed by continental competitors. Stephen Crane, author and war correspondent died at Badenweiler, Germany. He was born at Newark, N. J., on November 1, 1871, and was the son of the Reverend Doctor J. T. Crane, a Methodist clergyman. 1 1 Bubonic plague has ar,po,*?rr?d at 1 Smyrna. 1 Miss Mary H. Kingsley, well known as an African explorer and author, died near Cape Town. Ravages of cholera in tile Bombay < district of India .continue; the situa . tion in the fiative States has improves. Great Britain la said, to be gathering j a fleet at Malta with a view to landing ( troops at Tangier, Germauy, to give moral backing in the move against France. TU-rv n rntlrrnl A? flirt 5 (Yn ml 9 r/1 <2 flf C X Lie an it <11 VI luc wnt,?u ?. ,. Pekln had a marked effect on tbe j bearing of the Chinese toward foreign- r ers. j American Minister Merry's mails were robbed lu the Tost Office at Saq Jose, Costa Ilioa. Geueral I{ol>errs reported Johannes- I burg quid, the shops reopening. '1 Sir P. C. Lascellos. the British Ambasador at Berlin, has presented a ' I note to the Foreigu Ottiee complaining ( of the treatment to which Australian canned meat will be subjected uudei t the Inspection bill. i At a meeting of the Cabinet ar Ottawa. Out.. Colonel It. Uit-hard llelnv ( den O'Urady Ilaiy was appointed to j succeed Colonel K. T. II. llntton. as commanding officer ol* the Canadiat* militia. j \ \ v;. a&sflttkA i -^ii A , \ , o \ r t ? 1 n THERUSH FORCAPENOMFI Outgoing- Stoamers Are Crowded With Men Seeking Fortunes. More Than 2fi,000 Gold Seeker# Will Have Reached There by the End of July?A "Hot" Camp Expected. Tacoma, Wash.. (Special).?The first and biggest part of the Cape Nome rush is over, so far as the departure of 10.000 gold seekers from Tacoma and Seattle is concerned. The argonauts have come from the four cor ners of the earth. Miners from far away Australia have mingled with their fellows from South America, South Africa, and every mining State and Territory of the Union on the streets of the Puget Sound cities during the past month. They were all headed the same way?for the golden beaches aud tuudra stretching along Bering Sea between Cape Nome and Cape York. Since April 15 no loss than fifty-two parted from Puget Sound for the northparted from uget Sound for the northern gold fields. These vessels have taken northward just about 10,000 meu and women. Most of the steamships will make second and some of them third trips, making, at a conservative estimate, the number from Puget Sound alone 10,000 to 18,000. The " rush from California and down the Yukon from Dawson will easily bring the total number of newcomers tojje landed at Nome during the next B?y days to above 25,000. It goes without saying 'that Nome will soon be the "hottest" mining camp ever seen in the United States or American territory. The minecs themselves look forward to this. Many of tl*} old-timers glory in the fact that they are to participate in one of the wildest scrambles for wealth that the world has ever seen. Other things point in the same direction. By the middle of June Nome will have enough "resorts" in opera tion to put Dead-wood, Leadville or Butte to the blush. Ordinary supplies have, of course, not been overlooked, else this vast throng of humanity would soon be foodless and shelterless. Lumber and other building materials, food and clothing supplies and mining apparatus to the value of over $5.000.000 comprise the cargoes of the fifty-two vessels already sailed. Seafaring men are wondering what will result when all these craft reach Nome and attempt to unload their cargoes, both human and freight, at one time, through the heavy surf. That some of the sailing vessels will be wrecked is considered very probable. At least the loss of some of their cargo is likely on account of the grave difficulties experienced iu unloadiug by means ol lighters. HOUSE PASSES TRUST BILL Onlr One Vota Against the Liltlefleld Anti-Trust Measure. Washington. D. C. (Special).?Only one vote was cast in the House against the Littlefield Anti-Trust bill to amend the Sherman act of 1890 so as to make it more effective iu the prosecution of trusts and combinations, theh agents, officers, or attorneys. Mr, Mann (Rep., 1)1.) cast the negative vote. The bill amends the Sherman antitrust law so as to declare every contract or combination in the form of trust or conspiracy in restraint of commerce among the States or with foreign nation illegal, and every partj to such contract or combination guilty of a crime punishable by a tine of not v less than $500 or more than $3,000 and , by imprisonment for not less than six months or more than two years. It provides that any person injured by a violation of the provisions of the law may recover threefold damages. < 'The aeflnltion of "person" aud "persons" in the present law is enlarged so as to include the agents, officers or off/imoxra nr fnrnnriltlons. . ,For purposes of commerce It declares Illegal all corporations or associations formed for carryiug on business for purposes declared illegal by the common law; provides tbat they may be perpetually enjoined from carrying on Interstate commerce, and for bids them the use of the United States mails CALIFORNIA STACE ROBBERY. Boldneia of a Lone Highwayman Wbc 1 Get* 83S0 From Fimengera. Raymond, Cal. (Special).?One of the boldest robberies ever committed ic California occurred when three of the Yosemlte Stage and Turnpike Com p.-.ny's stages, a private conveyance, and two soldiers were hald up by s lone highwayman. The hold-up occurred at a point twe miles this side of Grub Gulch. Ser froonf Tliifhinnn nrul nnother troonei of Troop F, Sixth Cavalry, en rout* from San Francisco to the Yosemifc National Park, had gone ahead tc make ' arrangements for a camping place. The highwayman suddenly ap peared masked, and getting the dro[ on the soldiers, took away their guns and held the troopers until the stagf arrived. The robber handed the driv ?rs of the stage a card reading: "Black Kid; they fooled me on the Big Oak Flat Road, but you can't this time." From the three stages the robber collected about $350- CavalrymeD started In pursuit, hut found no traces Farmer Die* of Hydrophobia. , James Sims, a farmer, died at Jack Jon, Ga., of hydrophobia. He was Sitten by his own dog several weekt igo. A few days ago hydrophobia leveloped in a most violent form. A Polygamlat Convicted. John C. Graham, formerly postmas:er at Pr,ovo, Utah, who was removed jy President McKinley because he vas living fn polygamy, was convicted >y a jury in Salt Lake of uulav/fui cohabitation. Know* About N?elv'a Fr:iu<U. W. H. Reeves, former Deputy Aulitor, wa3 arrested in Havana anj odged in jail. He is believed io know nucli more than lie told aliout Neely't jroceedings. Newsy Gleaning*. A California fresh fruit exii:!?it is Deing maintained at the Paris Esposi ;ion. Chicago police have stopped ihc rab<!t f bases conducted by tlu Cousins L* no. Tlie total receipts of the Phi ippine lvasury for March, 11)00, wenChicago has spent more than $ >?,)00.?X)U for me purpose of getting >urei* water. Railways aud steamship companies n Germany are experimenting with he use of oil for fueL .'. ?m" -