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AGRICULTURAL. |l * TOPICS OF INTKHKST RFXAT1VE f TO FARM ANl> GARDEN. . < t i r.AXGE FOR TPKXET8. j Turkeys are the kin<l of fowl least > removed from the wild state, because not 1 long since domesticated by uian. They 1 Hlf> nntivoii of 1 ? ** . w uui WUUUVUIr, HUH US (111' 1 Indians did not try to tame them, their t domestication has lasted only 200 or 300 < years. No kind of fowl bear confine- i jnent so poorly. The young chicks arc 1 tender, and do better while small under i a domestic hen thau under one of their i own roving kind. But after they get to < be as large as quail, they need a wide i range, and will live during the last half 1 of summer and early fall tnainly on ( grasshoppers aud other iusccts, which t they, better thau any other fowl, know l how to catch.?Anwican Cultivator. ? j FEEDINO COWS. \ In feeding cows there is less danger in any departure froin the strict rules of I feeding, and yet cows, although the milk < ucts as a safety valve to let of! the execs- I dve pressure iu this way, are subject to 1 damage by infractions of these rules. A t cow, of any breed, has more or less abil- f itv to dispose of food above the natural 1 requirements for the maintenance of the s system. The excess of food is disposed i of iu the production of milk, and it is 1 the business of the feeder to discover the ] profitable ability of each cow in the herd I in this respeet. Cows vary very much ; in this natural ability. Some are vcritu- 1 ble mills in this respect, taking in n < practically unlimited grist and turning ? out a corresponding product. One cow I especially is reported to have eaten scv- 1 cnty-nine pounds of grain food in a day, I and yielded seven pounds of butter daily, i This, nerhaos is itn nimvunmlo.1 ' ? ? 1 of the disposal of food, but the inevita- ! Me result happened?it killed the row. 1 The food was more than could be health- i fully disposed of. Cows are not exempt ] from the ill results of overfeeding, aud I the safe way is to find what cau be douc I with due regard to health aud maintain ' j that point constantly while the product ! ' calls for it. But, even then, there is ' danger of an accumulation of unassim- i ilated products in the animal which pro- < duce or make the cow liable to milk I fever, tuberculosis, garget, or luug fever I in the end.?New York Time*. ; STORING UNDER SilKI.TER. i It is certainly imperative to store everything under shelter. This includes the crops and the feed, the stock aud the ma- i 1 chinery. It is also an item, in storing | away, to arrange as far as possible for : convenience. Much of the labor of feed- , ing aud caring for stock cau be reduced by arranging the stock, and providing j the feeding boxes and mangers, and stor- I ing the feed where it can be fed out eon- j venicntly. Iu putting away the tools a plan should ] be devised so that those that will be ! needed first can be reached without be- j ing obliged to move or take out such as . will not be needed uutil later. System , in wofk mwavs economizes tunc; in- storing the crops so that they cau In' reached conveniently, as they are nccttSd to ^ceci out; the stock so that ^licyjpa^ In* jnapaged with as little difficulty as possible, ami tiic machinery so as to save tinter ttien making it a rnto-To put every thing J in its place, much valuable time can be j j saved, as very often, much more time jp \ lost in hunting up a tfeol( or gettfpg out i r feed that, is needed, ILh&n wouljj. ha\e 1 j been required twice over to have, arranged t conveniently at the *1;ii43lZ&$rfi*tLorjs tern or pian is folio wcdt^jb}g? ^so^n.. get misplaced, and time is when work is pressing and the moments arc i } valuable. And this is not all. ANHien | no particular system is fql|p>ved, .jheVc is i ' waste; and what is waster]* is? lost and this lessens the profits.?phttVW&Hfrwter. MANURING FRUIT TREES. ! If the best quality of fruit tal'i bi sc- | cuied, and it is only the best quality that q pays the best profit, it i> very necessary i' to keep the soil at least reasonably rich. While in many cases it may be sufficiently rich when the trees are first, planted, ,J yet the growing of several crops while c the trees are making their grofwing, with ' the growth of grass that usually follows I and the cropa of fruit that have been I grown after the trees commenced bearing, c must, to a considerable extent, have decreased the available fertility. a It should be understood that the grow- t ing of trees and maturing of a good crop t of fruit draws nearly or quite as heavily j t upon the available plant food in the soil j t as that of any other crop, and it is, i j therefore, just as necessary to apply man- j r ure to the orchard, if the fertility of the ; soil is to be maintained, as to the soil in i , which the field crops arc grown. i s Iu nearly all cases the best way of ap- j t plying manure is to have the ground well 1 0 plowed and then scatter the manure I s broadcast as evenly as possible; then ; a working into the soil with the harrow or j p cultivator. But, with the orchard, as j 0 with the meadows, it is not always desir- i able or best to plow up; and then a good ! ? plan is to use only well-rotted manure, j and make it tine aud scatter evenly over ; the surface. Ashes arc a good fertilizer ? to use in the orchard,but the manure and 1 * ashes should not be applied together, or ( there will be more or less loss of am- j monia. I When the quality of the manure is in- | sufficient, considerable benefit may be derived by scattering under the trees as far out as the loaves and branches extend. T It is not a good plan to pile it up around the trunks of the trees. . Whatever material is used will be best scattered broadcast over the soil, under the trees first, aud over the whole sur. face when the quantity of manure is miC ,, ficicnt. The roots extend out a eonsid- ( crahlc distance, and the trees will be ( able to derive a larger amount of benefit ,, if the manure is scattered broadcast. | s With young trees the manure should not i j l?c allowed to come in contact with the ' v roots. ( In manuring trees when setting them f, * out, the manure should be worked into the soil thoroughly before filling in t around the roots. Olfc of the poorest plans of applying manure to young trees is to ? throw the manure in tho bottom of the ,] place prepared for the tree and then set . in Ihfi Irnn ntirl fill In oil Vn f-?- "? ...... ' ??" o ble tho manure should always be incor- j, porated with the soil.? Western llmal. a 11 HOW TO PREPARE KOK SOWIKO WHEAT, f I And, says a writer in Farm, Slock and \ v H#me> that after a field has been well 1 o plowed it has to be made solid again, by 1 f iota of harrowing and cultivating, before : t ft wheat crop will grow to perfection. 11 * , V^" **>% h proof of this I will call attention to vhere there has been a farm road across i plowed tiehl in the fall or spriug, or sven after scediug auil lxjfore the wheat :ome? up. This strip will usually have a, wice us much wheat?earlier ami hotter I< n every respect?as the laud ouc foot rrom the edge of the road. The road ^ vu8 packed so hard that seeder hoes nor pi larrow hoes could work it loose or mel- n ow, nor had the uhcat auy holes to fall ? nto and get covered deeply; in fact, if ho strip does not get extra work not )ver one-half of the seed is covered nt c ill, and that which is covered has only- > 'rum one-eighth, one-quartet or one-half* J nch of soil over it; the one-half that has u 10 covering mildews and rots in a few lays, while the rest comes up, grows r nost vigorously ami gives big results. b H' nee it follows that any manipulation j >f the whole Held, calculated to get as near c he conditions of the road bed, as a seed c >ed for the wheat, must be advantageous. ' 1'hc soil needs to be worked and packed t is tightly as possible before the seeder is t ised, so that the seed cannot and will 1 lot. get covered deeply, for it is the { ecrnuls that have ouc-liaU inch or less of ; t mvering that make the big stools of roai five, niue to thirteen stalks and f leads from one grain of seed ; and where ] liese large stools grow they choke off S is many more of other kernels that were * ilanted deeply, which come up weak and ipindling and never come to a head. If ; . t is all stoolcd and spread with the usual ; 1 leavy seeding, the yield should be from | j 100 to 200 bushels per acre. Many t , farmers wish to sow on broken, rough j ' ground, so that the seed may fall iu the j ' loles and hollows and get covered | ' deeply to protect and help against i Irouth, us they claim, but i there cannot be a greater mis- j ' take. Sow or plant as shallow as possi- j ble, and then as soon as it comes up it makes a rank growth aud goes to stooling, because the kernel or grain is nearer j the top of the ground where it can sprout freely; as it makes top it will make roots ! iu proportion, and if yon have done your j l>art in the preparation of the soil, na- j iurc will take care o 1 the plant and see ! that the roots go down, if uecessnry, to | gather moisture for strength aud support 1 when the drouth comes, If any farmer j will take any well cultivated and harrowed spot of ground iu the Held or garden iu the spring, scatter some wheat thinly in a row before him, cover it by treading it into the ground with his feet, getting about cue-half inch of soil oyer it in the operation, I am sure lie will satisfy himself that to raise a good crop of wheat I he wants it sown on smooth, solid soil, | with light covering. This compact con- [ < ilition of the soil is best secured by very | thorough harrowing in the fall, then the I ! heavy fall rains ami the fall and spring j freezings and thawiugs tfcl^ to settle the ! soil and make it solid, something like the road spoken of. Then another good harrowing both ways in the spring before the seed is put on makes it more compact, level ami smooth, and all of these conditions arc the same as the road bed, for none of the seeds can get into holes I , and hollows, but must keep near the top of the ground. Have most of it cov- , ered, uo matter how slightly. " ' FA KM AND (l.VKDEN NOTES. The asparagus bed and the rhubarb plants should be carefully mulched late in \ tlie fall. This will aid materially to the j Hens will lay just as many eggs and ! ust as good for all purposes except ! latchiug, when there arc no cocks run- 1 ling with them, as when there are. .More ban that unfertile eggs will keep their j J reshness longer than fertile ones. ! A pig that is stunted in .lie eirly days r n weeks ol its liio, should never have u t >lacc in the breeding herd. If used in t he herd it is to be expected that the olT- j t pring will inherit some of the uuthrifti- i J icss caused in the parent. by stunting. ! , Old orchards can be renovated by plow- i " ng shallow and thorough manuring, j ' mining and clearing up after whitewash j t ng the trees to destroy vermin and doing uc'.i other work as may be necessary to vt the soil and trees in n good toudi- | ion. j b A farmer who had many sheep killed j >y dogs, built round tho bodies an in- | ^ losure of rails twelve, feet high, the rails n ieing sloped so that the dogs could ; '1 asily climb in and exit was impossible. | ? n three nights he captured fortv-3ix <> logs. " j; Kill, sell or give away the roosters 3 iter you are through setting eggs for v he season. You don't want to breed rom them again; the hens will lay bet- j er without them; the eggs will keep J s tetter if you want to pack them; and f rou will save considerable feed. The , 1 j ( oosters must go. t No fruit grower should be without a ) food supply of ladders, light, strong and ^ ubstnntial, and of varying sizes, if the t roes are trained as they should be, most f the ladders should be self-supporting, o as to place under the branches and cubic the fruit gatherers to reach what ^ hey could not from the ground. Prop- si rly cared for, such ladders will last a ; t reat many years. j The most practical method of putting ! a >p a family supply of eggs for winter ise is to take a box pf suitable size and , astcn the bottom on with greased r icre.ws; put in a layer of salt and a layer 'J >f eggs 011 top another layer of salt and o 011 until the box is filled aud the , | tggs completely covered and surrounded vith salt. The eggs should ho fresh and j lot touch each other. Keep in a dry j dace and as cool as possible. When ( vanted for use take ml tlie bottom ami ! t isc the oldest eggs first. 1 I - , r Caring for Men's Mines. \ < I have only one hobhy, said a St. Louis . > tan. and that is shoes, or rather a peculiar | nsliioa,! Imve of wearing them. I used to s hink that a man got the host service out i f a shoe by putting on tlie best pair a i ? hociuaker eonld make him and wearing ! j hem eonstantly until the leather gave [ f nay somewhere, but I now think that is | ' he mast extravagant way of dressing the net. i a:n never wimoui tnree or lour j, irtirs of shoes in good, wearable eondi- s ion. 1 never wear the same |M?ir two * lays in succession, and at least once a n aonth I go over each pair with a brush rj lipped in vaseline. Thus, with three i inirs of shoes, I give each pair one day r if work and two days r?f rest, and the ' eather lias time to regain its elasticity nd stretch out the wrinkles the foot has uade. These wrinkles become breaks in I he leather when the shoe is continuously 1 ii rorn. The vaseline is better than any !l il for fiuc leather. I used to wear out ,, our pairs of shoes a year, one at a * ini'i. The same number no*.v lasts me P wo vcare. ? Globe Democrat, ? .. . _ A 19 t - ^ ? -,-j TEMPERANCE. f AUtOr THE UQCORITES. > 1 TTnserwpulous liquorites have scattered far ad wide tl.e statement that in Dep Mcines, >wi, there Hre sixty-four large brick storeraises in the center of the city "unoceti- 1 itnl The Iowa Regi*t?r proves that there only one such empty storehouse, and that ne a building which air 8 saloon gained a put at ion so had that no legitimate business juld afford to go there. THE DRINK TROUBLE ABROAD. t Not the least important o/the international 0 onferences recently held in Paris was that ? rhich met to study the drink question. Tho Curoi>ean countries have become alarmed, at ho (tangerous progress of alcoholism, and ire searching for means to stem it. in Franco and Belgium Government ComnisMons have considered tho question and uggested various remedies. Drunkenness intil a few years ago was all but unknown in I "ranee. One might have walked the streets >t Paris at any hour of the day or night with>ut seeing any ouo tlie worse for liquor. But low drunkenness is there in its worst form. I'ho report of the recent Congress contains igures which prove that drink is now one of he chief causes of crime and of lunacy, fourteen percent, of the lunatics under treatnent in France owo their insanity to alcotolism, and in 185s~> it was tho cause of 638 iccidental deaths and 80S suicides. Home statistics of the number of liquor laloons to inhabitants iu different European ountries were given at the congress. In England there is a licensed house for every inhabitants; in Austria, one to 266 inmbi tents; in Denmark, one for every 194; in Italy, one for every 175; in Holland, one for >very 149; in France, one for every 90 peo>le, and in Belgium one for every 43. The Belgians drink more than any other people u Europe. They consume 70,000,000 litres of iquor every year, which gives 60 litres to pvery male adult. Paris is prettv well provided with liquor shous, or cafes, naving one imong every Sb inhabitants. * llie quantity )f liquor consumed per head of the inhabitants, women and children included, is 6 itres in England, 10 in Sweden, 16 In Denmark, 0 litres in Belgium, and 7 in Prussia ind France. DRINK AND CRIME. It is a signiflcent fact, says the Tempernice Advocate, of New York, that while ;here has been a general increase of crime in !he country at large during the last decade, there has been a diminution of crime in oU the States and localities Wherein the Uqucr 1 traffic is prohibited. In this aspect, the next United States census report is likely to prove i valuable temperance document. Alcohol transforms women as well as men into reckless criminals. Recently, at. an early liour in tho morning, thoattention of a Jersey City noli soman w as att racted by screams of murder, and he found the street in an uproar mid about a dozen inen and women in a iruuken row. After he had separated the people and was about to leave he heard a pistol shot, and a bullet whizzed bv his par. Turning he saw a revolver in the hands sf a drunken woman, aimed at his head, but by a dexterous movement he wrested it from her, and took her a prisoner to the station bouse, v. hcre she awaits trial. Alcohol converted the woman into a murderous fleud. A tim.. .r,, - vnnntr tnan nr boy, of sixtceu, near Oshkosh, went to a Saturday night village dance, and after drinking heavily went home and shot himself, tho shooting unpremediated, the result of a brain crazed with whisky. Kccently an Indian at Odanah, addicted to drink, stabbed and killed his brother, horribly mutilating his body, because the latter bad givou information to the authorities about taking liquor into the reservation. Alcohol is no respe<*tor of either sex or race. Tit.POUM IN INDIA. A rcmnrkubie movement has token place runong the casto of Ahirs, an intlucntial brotherhood of lienares India. As a result i>f the remarks of the Hon. AV. 8. Caine in I lie British House of Commons last winter mi the liquor traffic, a meeting of the Ahirs, numbering ilO.OOO, was summoned, and the piestion of abolishing the use of liquors from their caste was discussed without cessation, anil with th? greatest earnestness, for six consecutive hours. The presiding officer was a distinguished Brahmin, who had heard the speech of Mr. Caane in the English Parliament, and w as so tTie startling rni^h TTfl'trfn^ l t ** [iient orator, that he determined on the spot I o bring the question before his own people. ' lis powerful influence and thesliong feeling j f the brotherhood succeeded in bringing | bout the remarkable result of prohibiting II liquor drinking in their caste regulations, 'his is a method purely Hindu and is their egular court of justice from which there is 10 appeal. This astonishing movement eerrs but to liave begun in India, us already lie village mstes of tailors, blacksmiths, poters and oil sellers have promulgated the new i (ilnl iiit'tin* lnw until I hpr?> nn? now lit*. " con 40,.000 nn'l o0.000 people subjected to i he inexorable reputations of their respective I astes. The liquor sellers have appealed for | reduction of their license fees on t no ground hat their business is ruined. Can *\o not n-ofit by the fervor and righteous conviction d' these idolaters?? I'nion Siynal. LA KOK LEADERS WHO ACHOR l.IQl OR? It is a hopeful sign of the times thnt the eider of the late London Dock strike, John turns, declared in n recent speech that "he nd never drunk intoxicating liquor in hi* life, ml had never smoked," and that "he would ave nothing to do with a strike that would linister to the vilest passions of men. or j>auer to their drunken habits by giving money way thnt ought to go to build tip the const!- I ution of women and children.'' When the i reat body of workingtneu will join in a per- I ietual "strike" against the brewery, distil- j , cry, and the saloon, under such leaders as Jr. Bums, the greatest oppressor of labor ' vill be speedily overthrown. it is also significant and encouraging that ' Jr. I'owdcrly, the ofiteinl head of Knights of j | .nbor on this side of the Atlantic, is out- ' pol:en for the prohibition of the liquor traf- | ic, and that he gives his aid to Sunday cios- i ng, where saloons exist. On a recent Sun- j lay afternoon in Chicago lie addressed five : housand people in one of the large halls of j ; hat city upon "Sunday Closing of Saloons." i md his'address was greeted with remarkable , I nthustasm.?AVitional Temperance A dvo'u(e. DIVORCE AND DRINK. Rev. S. VV. Dike. LL.D., in introducing .] discussion of the divorce question in the ( forth American lle.vicio for November, ( tntes that a special study of forty-five coun- , ies, in twelve States, shows that drtuiken- , ess was a direct or indirect cause in one- ! < fth of the cases. Other estimates give even larger percentage. , TKMI'KRANCZ NEWS AND NOTES. j Tito Peaeo Society of Paris publishes a I nontlily imper and works with the W. C. I 1 r. u. 11 The Boston AVeor.f says there were .CM5 ' ' voincn arrested for drunkenness in that city i ' he past year. The City Council of Kansas City, Mo.. ' , ifivp appropriated !M(X)Ofor thirty drinking | < untnios in that city. < Jive us clubs. Bands of Hope, societies by | lie thousands, all having temjiernnee educa j ional work as th?ir aim. , Beware of bad company. Jinny an in no- { ' cut molasses jug has been sen ndn listed be- ( 1 rinse it was in the bands of a drinking man. . ' At the tsuitc ki<i i* 111 Milwaukee. Wi ... tne . v ('. t. U. distributed I4,'l00 pagesof tetit* t , ku-uihm literature in different lenguag *, b?- i ides nearly .'50U0 paper*. Miss Frances Willard, fh'* temperance ( iralor. sometimes stops iis front of a saloon ; | r.i*. on treats a would-be customer not to go ! ] ii. Her persuasive tongue anil handsome J j nee seldom meet with failure on such an o;raaion. A florist who has had opportunities of oliervation :nyn that nine murderers oat r.f ten illve n love for flowers. From careful tndy,addsthu Voire, wo are able to report nat Yen murdort.M In overy t?.i have a still noro jwrsionate love for whisky. "] Christian man and women, the in junction i f the Apostle is, "Dt> good unto all men." 1 'he saloon is doing evil to all men, either ill- . erllv or indirectly To abolish it, say* tlia JinnTr, would he" to do tile greatest good to he greatest number that it is possible to ilo iy tiny political act. Wake up the churches. Patrick Cox, after being confined in the \ wa State Prison six years for selling Ji juor , n violation of law. was pardoned out several aontlis ago on the condition that he would icither drink nor sell witiikv. Kscently ho ' raft found openly violatiug the prohibition i tutute. He was triou, convicted and sent to ( irison. The remaining ten years of his old erm added to hi* recent sonte.i-5 v.'ill keep ' mi in prison for life. I rr , : SUNDAY SCHOOL. NTER NATIONAL LESSON FOR ' DECUMBEH 13. ] tcwon Text: ".Solomon's Fall," I King" < xl , 4-_18-Qohlffn Text: I Cor. x., 18?Ot moienlary on Iho , Lesson. 'i "It cam# to pass when Solomon was old, ! hat his wives turned away his heart after >ther gods.'' As to the things of this world, 1 n which thAh?M|s of people*in ail ages have io.C ?o fTrtRTHBHolomou was filled with heuf.1 Rieh^ O honor ho enjoyed to the ull and all the pleasures that wealth could ituchase. (Eccl. ii., 10.) No vessels of silver vas usoii in his bouse (it v.-as plentiful as 1 tone and was thought nothing of), all wero >f gold; he exceeded all the Kings of the arth for riches and for wisdom, and all the artb sought the face of Solomon to hear his 1 visdoui, which God had put in his heart. Chap, x., 21-24.) But King Solomon loved nany strange w omen of tho nations, concerning which tlio Lord had forbidden Israel tc iavo auything to do with theai (see v. ind Deut. vii.. 8, 4), aud these turned away lis heart, as God"liad said they would. Tho me great peculiarity of Israel was that Je10vali, the only living and true God, was heir God dwelling in their midst, and thus ihoy were a peculiar people, separated from 1 ill other nations to make known the name of Jehovah. (Ex. xxxiii, 16.) We cannot cleave !o God und at the same time cleave to that , which God forbids, so when Solomon clave into these heathen women in love (v. 2) God ceased to occupy His proper place in Solomon's heart. i "His heart was not perfect with the Lord Ills God, as was the heart of David, his father." He had, at the dedication of the temple, urged the people to let their hearts be perfoct with the Lord their God that all people of the eorix might know that Jehovah is iiod and that IhVite is notie eWe (chap. vill.. fiO, 11); but now through these many wives of his bis own heart is gone. We are to love Ood with the whole neart, m.d whatever else ivo love, whether wife or husband, parents ir children, God Hiuis >lf must have tno first place. 5. "Solomon went after Ashtoreth, * * * and after MUcom." These were idols of the 6iuomans aim Ammonites, v.-nose worsmp was accompanied with abominable rites; but as Solomon had taken wives from lhe6e nations, and they had probably ?0110 with him to the temple to see the worship of his God, they now persuade him to set up also their Idols which they had been accustomed to worship; and as he had sinned in taking these wives, he now sins yet more to gratify them. 6. "And Solomon did evil hi the sight of tho Lord." He did evil in the sight of men, he did evil against himself, but tho greatness of his sin was tho fact that it was against God. He was tho Lord's representative, and he, of all men, should have been faithful to Jehovah who had so blessed him above all men. 7, 8. "Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, * * and likewise aid he for all his strange wives."' Thus adding sin to sin. tho more evil associates we have. thP-flioro s'n w?T are likely to commit ; and it wgput ourselves under the least obligation t<*n ungodly person we cannot well deny theft a favor when they ask it, even though know it is wrong to grant it. Righteowness cannot have fellowship with unrighteAisness, nor light with darkness (II Cor. vl.,lt; Enh. v., 11). Let us walk in the light an At void all appearance of evil. Some of these Jiboitiinntions which Solomon built on tho Miunt of Olives remained over three hundretfvears, until the days of losiali (II Kings xxiti., 13); showing * us how lasting and far reaching siu is and how hard to undo. \ 9. "The Lord was angry with Solomon." So we rend 'that Jehovah was angry with Moses and A iron and Israel (l)eut. iv., 21 : ix., 8. 20; II ti. xvii., 18); nud that while neissiow untiffw ana great in mercy, yet there is a day aniline when it will be ill far those who are tot hnl in tho Hock of Ages. (Xahuni i.. 3; 2Jep. ii.. 3). It is hard for us to think oft anger apart from sin, but when we read Vf the anger of God we must think only of tbe righteous indignation of a holy vlnd who fyiuuot sin. He does not desire the death or any .sinner, but. rather that tho wicked to-"} from his evil ways and live i (Ezck. xvh ncly xxxill., 11: II Pet, iii.. 1?>: I | ^y^fcntA'lt" Mi'niff* may Ih? lor- I [ ;i' MX .iVf.s sake, and sing: *'0 Ixird, 1 j T** t'lo,lK'1 Thou wast ahgrv r ivitlr J* anger is turned away, and i Fhou co ^.Titmo.*1 (tea. xii., I.) i ''His) i.vas turned from the Ixnvl God ! u jf I?rae?j f J'lch had apjieared unto him !" twice. ' wW'.ord had appeared to him at f [Jideoi*^ If !< said "Ask what 1 shall givo thee.Wi, 'tFnii in answer to his prayer at the A*, 4l!Wi<yf the temple (chap, lii., 5; ix., 1 i), j Mn(.igh favors, in addition to nil the?, /.i/r. 'ngK, should have kept Solo- , inon r I to his God; but alas for tbo | lesp.y /''^cketlness of the human heart,' i ana |//D..arvelous the long suffering and pationcsit' Jehovah? 10. "j I kept not that which toe Lord com- ] nanded J It was a case of direct and willful disolftdience. He was forbidden to multi- j ply hors I or wives or silver or gold, and yet j these wiH the very things he did; he was | :onnnai Id to keep by him a copy of the ; law antUArd therein ull the days of his life, I but thirdaevidently did not do, and consequently, Kit being anchored, he drifted on the rock-jVCeut. xvii., What a con- i trast to fwathcr, who said: "O. how love I rhy lavUy, is my meditation all the day" (P* cxur?7); and, "By the word of Thy lips I have kejil nie from tho paths of the destroyer." (Ps. xvii., 4.) "I will surely rend the kingdom from thee and give it- to thy servant" The record of this will be found more at k-ngth in our next lesson; but notice here how'/tisobedience robs us of our blessings. Listening to the tempter ? and becoming persuaded by him that to eat 1 i trie tree ui Hnuwiuu^c ^v?a>i*i piuve tiu uuvantage, Adam and Eve, iiJ disobedience to 1 fiod, sought a present grutiftcution and thus . brought sin and misery upon the wholo I j human race. Esau, for the present gratifica- 1 ] tionof a mess of pottage, despised his birth- j I right and all its high privfirges. Achaui, i for the present ratification af some mid and ' goodly raiment,Drought uponjiiinsolr and his j , household u fearful judgment! Hero we have , Solomon gratifying himself !> the full, re- | gurdless of consequences or of \tlio command of God, and thus ne loses the kingdom. Abraham and Moses, on the other bond, and the ' list of worthies of Hob. xi. gat their eyes and hearts fixed upon the r?lities of an eternal city and kingdom, and tlus were en- i ablod to walk with God in obedience here, setting a right value upon present, things and treating them accordingly. 12. "Notwithstanding. hi thy days I will not do it, for David thy father s sake." While godliness is not her^itary. vet who can estimate the benefit/ of godly parents, or the blessings which come to us through those 1 who love I/ord Jesus. I>et the children consider this and contrast the condition of many { whose parents know not God with tho condition of the children of pious parents. "I will rend it out of the hand of thy son." Here is the contrast: Solomon delves benefit rrom his father's piety, while Salomon's son Is to suffer beoause of his 'ath'/'s impiety; so that evil doing reaches to others besides the evil doer. > 13. "For David My servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, which 1 have .-boson." The j blessing that will yet come to Jerusalem, boauso God lias chosen it, shall b; seen in millennial days, but leaving tha, notice that David was not only Solomon's 1 ithor: he was he servant of Jehovah; one <*' tho highest it les that, can be given to inort-il man, inns nuch as it is one of thelitis of tho Lord 'exiis Himself, wlio shall vet/bf the salvation f God unto the ends of tiiyViuth dsn. xiil.. I; xllx., ttb and for whose take any one may iow be saved who < >flies to God in His S'ume.-Lowoii 7Wj>rc. CHILDREN BK.iKT Wi l li TEMPTATION. The rights of cldldn-n ur?# not recognired whan 10,000 children in (Jlitfl -. zo uro bearini the burdens of ns nmfiy msb, and nvj beset with temn^iQoidx /liat no ifmn ought to face. wdrt our Lord, and we miff. "".iiiC0 about our atresia with hcgrirao Scattered clothes, and bare feet, besnrfWeirJjth tobacco, and hearing the atenelv of thrfVog shop oil their breath. ? Walter rAoml Mlth. Rrmnrkotr Presence or Mind, latum (iof-oontlv) ? Doesn't t lie train go throiv.h a long tunnel soon, (Itorge? J (ieorge?Ttnilel's just ahead, Laura, 11.cans forwi^d and whisper* to l>oy ou Heat in front ^ "Johnnv, I want you to rough with arl your iiiight-while wo'ro q >iog througythis tnnneT. Hero's half ? dollar Tribune, Josh Dil ingj' Philosophy. The man who knot fi^d ennything to ; Jo ih this word i.: as had oph az a ' I rearling heffor. i Thare iz no pashun ov the human < lieart that promises po urueli and pays ?o little az re von go. I Thare haint no man yet lived long I ennff in this world tow doubt the iu- j fallibility ov hiz judgement. Thar? iz this odds between a humorous lokter and a feciontiflick oue?yu | hav got to understand the humorous , lekter tew pnioy it, but you kan enjoy , the Rcientiffick oho without understand- ( ing it. It iz but a step from zeal tew bigotry, but it iz a step tliat iz moat generally taken. Don't lay ennv certain plans for the (ewter; it iz liko planting tuds, aud expekting to raize tmlstools. No man yet who had strength ov mind enuff ever resorted tew cunning. Cunning iz liaff brother tow fear, and tliov are both ov them weakness. Natur once in a while makcsaphool; but, az a general thing, phools, like garments, aro made tew order. A man who iz good company for himself iz nlwus good company for others. (Jennino prnize consists in naming a man's faultz to hiz face, and hiz good qualities tew liiz back. One ov tlio best temporary curea for pride and affektasliun that I have ever seen tried iz sea sickne ss; a man who wauta tew vomit never puta on airs. A fault concealed iz but little better than one indulged in. Witty speeches are like throwing " i.. 1 .1 a: . awuvo Ob u tnigux?ill" UU>1B UMIO a|)CIH in taking aim, the lesB danger tliare iz in hitting tho mark. I have nlwus noticed ono thing, when a person beknms disgusted with this world, and konkludes to withdraw from it, the world very kindly lets the person went. Woman haz no friendships. 8I10 oither loves, despises, or liate3. A day in t ho life ov on old man iz like ono ov tho last days in the fall ov the year?every hour brings a change in the weather. I love tow to an old person joyfull, but not Iticknpthehcelsfull. A coquette in love iz just about az tame a/, a bottle of ginger j op that haz j stood sum time with the cork pulled out.?New York fVcehh/. Tho Reason. Two moil, in the dining-room of a hotel, were watching a hungry fellow who sat near them. "Waiter," said the hungry follow," "bring mo some fried porch." After ho had eaten the perch ho ordered a broiled bass and, after devouring it, Faid: "Now just bring me along any other fish that you happen to have handy." "That fellow is extremely fond of fish," said one of the men. "Not so much that he is fond of them as the fact that he hasn't had any for a long time." -He could got them, I am sure. The markets are full of then'." "Yes, but you see he has been boyotnl the reach of the markols; lie has just returned front a fishing expedition." Vou may sine of Fie beauty of springtime 'I hat jjlow? on llie cheek of the young. But I sing of a iN'ftiily that's rorcr Than any of which you have sung. Tho beauty that's seen in the faces Of women whoso summer Is o'er. The autumn-like bosuty that charms us For mora than the beauty of yore. But this beau'y Is seen too raroly. The faces of most, women lose the beauty of youth too oon. Female disorder* arc Hk.e_froata which nmo tonm tnc~ifth'ors winch fie to it ongocSr | lealtb, without wlilrli there can bo no roal 1 leauty. If our American women would fori I v themselves against tho approach of the tor- I iblo disorders so prevalent, among them, by isi g Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, their ;o <1 looks would b< rolained to a "sweet oltl i e." Tht * remedy is a guaranittd cure for all e distressing weaknesses and derangements tecuilar to women. Dr.Pierces I'elicits, one a done. Cure heatlchc, conslip Uion and indigestion. Thelulur- home of the wicked Is paved / vith good intent oas. but tho pavpments | lever bow up and tho system lias Its ulvantager. Deafness f'nn't lie Cnrcd | . By local applications, as they cannot roach j ' the discn-ed purl inn of the ear. There Is only one way t ? cure lieafness, ami that i.%by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by au i flamed condition of the mucous lining of tlie Kusi aciiinn Tub". When this tub. yets Inflamed >ouI;:imi a i iiiub ing miuiiiI or Imper- < loot hearing, and wlicn it is entirely closed i ' Deafness D tlio result, np.il unless the inllaai- j inntion can l?e taken out and this tulie restorer! ! ? toils normal condition, hearing will be de- 1 stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give Due Ilitmlicil Dollars for any case of Deafness caused by Catarrh) that wo cannot, euro by taking Hull's Catarrh Cure, bend for cir u!u s. iree. F. .1. CHUNKY & CO, Toledo, O. Mr Sold by Druggists, 75c. I | Who hath no more bread than ho needa tbonld i.ot keep ft do*, but lie generally I keeps bt-veii. A S'i.-IO Paper ror *1.75. The Yotmi's companion wives so much for | ' he small amount that it costs it is no wonder it is token at ready in nearly Half a Million Kainilies. Willi its line paper and beautiful illustrations, its Weekly Illustrated hupplements and its Double Holiday Numbers, it teems it* if the publishers cotud not do enough to plen a. By pending ?1. 73 now vou may obIntu it free t> January, and for a full year iromthnt date to January. 1M?1. Addrea*, Tuu Youth's Companion, lioaton, M?uEvery dry linn.sits bread, and the bill ionics on Sat uuIhv. A Planning Henae Of benlth and strength renewed and of ease and comfort follows the use of Syrup of Fija, as it acts In harmony with nature to effectually cleanse the system when ooetive or bilious. For rale tn OOc. and {1 bottle* by all leading druggists. Who lives In a cans bouse should make nrrnngenit nts to move. MlU'onn of woir.en use Dobblns's Electric i Boap daily, and Kay it it the best and eheapeet. i If tioy are right, jou t?u lit to upe it. If j wronp. Ofie trial i\n!v Will tthow VAII Mho n Ha* 1 of your grocer nn<l try it noxt Monday. Oregon. I lie Pat-inline of Farmers. 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