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W-. PR TALWAGE. 1 The Brooklyn Divine Preaches on the j "Prodigal Son." A Graphic Picture of llir Kiting Boy's , Itrtillli. (itid'n Grcnl Lovr. Text: "When he teas yet a yreat ioay off, his father saiv him, and had compassion on him, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed Aim."?Luke xv., 'JO. One of tho deepest wells that inspiration ever opened is this well of a parable which | we can never exhaust. The parable, I sunpose, was founded on facts. 1 have described to you the going away of this pro ligal son frorn his father's house, and I have shown vou what a hard time he had down in the wilderness, and what a very groat mistake it was for him to leavo so beautiful a home for such a miserab.'e desert. But he did not always stay in the wilderness; he camo back after a while. We do ' not read that his mother came to greet liiin. I I suppose she was dea l. She would hive i been the first to come out. Tho father } would have given the second kiss to tho returning prodigal; the mother tho first, it | may have been for the lack of her examplo : and prayers that ho became a prodigal, j Sometimes the father does not know liow i to mauage the childt eu of the household. I The chiet work comes upon the mother. Indeed, no one ever gets over the calamity of losing a mother in early life. Still this young man was not uugrceted when he came back. However well appareled we may be in the j morning when we star! out on n journey, hefore night, what with the dust and the [ jostling," we have lost all cleaulinoss of ap- I jiearance. But this prodigal, when he started from the swine trough, was ragged and wretched, and his appearance, after he had gone through days"of journeying and exposure, you can more easily imagine than describe. As the people see this prodigal coming on homeward, they wonder who he is. They say: "I wonder what prison In has broken out of. I wonder what iazaretfco he has escaped from. I wonder with what plague he will smite tho air." Although these people may have beeu well acquainted with the family, yet they do not imagiuo that this is the very young man who weutofT only a little while ago with quick step, and ruddy cheek, and Ixjautiful apparel. The Jroung man, I think, walks very fast. Hf j ooks as though he were intent upon some- j thing very important. Tho people stop. ; They look at liiiu. They wonder where ho came from. The}* wonder where lie is go ing to. You have beard of a son who went off to sea and never returned. All the people in the neighborhood thought the son would never return, but the parents came to no such conclusion. They would go by the hour and day and sit upon the beach, look- | ing off upon the water, expecting to see tho | sail that would bring home the long absent boy. -Ami so I think this father o' my text 6at upon tho vine looking out toward the road on which his son had departed; but tho father has changed very much since we saw him last. His hair has becomo white, his cheeks are furrowed, his hearl is brolun. What is all his lxjuutiful table to him when his son may be lackiog bread? IV bat is all the splendor of the wnrdroba of that homestead when the son may not have a decent coat? What are all the sheep on that hillside to that father when his pet jatlll) IS gone." CMlll na sua nuu V?nuunos, looking out on the road, and ono day ho beholds a foot traveler. He sees him rise above the hill; first the h*ad and utter awhile the entire body; aud as soon as he gets a fair fiance of him ho knows it is his recreant son. [o forgets the crutch, and the caue. aud the stiffness of the joints, and bouuds away. I think the people all around arc amazed. They said: "It is only a footpad. Itisonly some old trauip of the road. Don't go out to meet him." The father know bettor. The change in the son's appearance could not hide the marks by which the father knew the bov. You know that persons of a great deal of independence of character are apt to indicate it in their walk. For that reason the sailor always has a peculiar step, not only because he stands much on shipboard amid the rocking of the sea, and he has to balance himself, but ho has for the most part an independent character, which would snow in his gait, even it he never weut 011 the sea; and we know from what trauspirod afterward, and from what transpired before, that this prodigal sou was of an independent and frank nature; and 1 suppose that the characteristics of his mind and heart were the characteristics of his walk. And so the father knew him. He puts out his withered arms toward him; he brings his withered face against the pale cheek of his son; he kisses the wan lips; he thanks God that the long agony is over. "When he was yet a ! great way off, h s father saw him, anu had ' compassion, and ran, and fell on his nock, I and kissed him."' Ob, do you not recognize that Father? i "Who was it? It is God 1 I have 110 sym_ pathy with that cast-iron theology which represents God as hard, severe and vindictive. God is a Father?kiud, loving, lenient, gentle, long-suffering, patients and Ho flies to our immortal rescue. Oh, that we might realize it. A wealthy lady in one of the eastern couutries was going off for some time, and she asked her daughters for some memento to carry with her. One of the daughters brought a marble tablot, beautifully inscribed, and another daughter brought a beautiful wreath of flowers. The third daughter came and said: "Mother, I brought neither flowers nor tablet, but here is my heart. 1 have inscribed it all over with your name, and wherever you go it will go with you." The mother recognized it as the best of all the mementoes. Oh, that our souls might g ) out toward our Fata 2.*, I uy our hearts might be written all over wit'i the evidences of His loving kin buss, an I that we might never again forsiko Him. i^. In the first place, I notice in this tovl the 1 father's eyesight; in the s200111 place, 1110> *1.? 1 in tU,.> M.a- I 1/11*7 IUVU7I J"? 11\rz, Jiu I, III lll'i vim 1 place, I notice the father's kiss. To begin: The father's eyesight. "When he was a great way o(T his father saw hi ?t." You have noticed how ol I pooi>lo soaietiiiies ! put a book off on the ot tcr side of the light. J They can see at a distance a great deal easier than they can close by. I do net know whether this father could see well that which was noar by, but I do know he coull see great way oft*. "His father saw him." Perhaps he ha l been looking for the return of that boy especially that day. 1 do not know ; but that he had been in prayer, an 1 that Go 1 | had told liiin that that (lay the recreant boy j would coine home. -"The father saw him a great way off." I wonder if God's eyesight can descry us i when we are coming back to Him? Tue text pictures our condition?we are a great j way off. That young mau was not farther off from his father's house, sin is not farther off from holiness, hell is not farther off fro m hanvin than \v^ hnvA Iwnnr cIik i Vd ir off from our G >cl, aye, so far off that wo could not hear His voice, though vehe nentlv He has called us year alter year. I do not know what bal habits you ma/ have formed, or in whatevil places you hivebee.i, or what false notions youiniy have outer tamed; but you are ready to acltuowlol je, if your hoart has not boon c'laugol by the grace of Gol, that you are a groit wiyoff ?aye, so far that you cannot get bait of yourselves. You would into bo cons oac'c. Aye. this moment you would start, if it were i not for this sin, aud that habit, and this dis- i advantage. But I am to tell you of the Father's eyesight. "Ho saw him a groat way off." (Ie his seen all your frailties, all your struggles, all your disadvantage-. He lias been longing Cor your coming. He has not b sen looking at you with a critic's eye or a bailiff's oyo, but with a father's eye; and if u parent ever pitie I a child, Gol pities you. You say: "Oil, I ha I so many evil surroundings when I started life." Your Father sees it. You' say: "Ihave so mauy bidsurroundiugsuow, and it is very difficult for me to brei\ a way fro n evil associations." Your Father sees it. an I if you should start heavenward ?us I pray you may?your Father would not sit idly down anl allow you to struggle ou up j to ward Him. Oh.no! Seeing you a great j way off He would fly to the rescue. Hew long does it take a lather to leap into the mi Idle , of the highway if his child bo there an 1 a swift vehicle is coming an 1 may destroy , him? Five hundred times longer than it takes our heavenly Father to spring to the deliverance of a lost child. "When ho was a great way off his father saw him." And this brings me to notice the father's haste. The Bible says ho ran. No wonder! He did not knew but that the young mail would change his niio I and go b ick. He li 1 not- know but that lie w.vfd Iropdo v.i from exhaustion. He did not know bat t'in t something fatal might overt ike him b .Core he^ot up to thedoorsid: and so the father run. The Bible, for the most part, speaks of God n: walking. "In the fourth watch of the night," jt says, "Jesus came uuto them walking ou the sea." "He walketh upon the wings of the wind." Our first parents heard the voice of the Lord, walking in the garden in the cool of the day; but when n sinner starts out for God the father runs to meet him. Oh! if n man over wants help it is w}ie i h3 tries to become a Christian. The world says to him: "Back with you. Havemore-spirit. Don't be hampered with religion. Time enough yet. Wait until you get sick. Wait until vou get old." Satan says: "Back with you: you are so bad that God will ha%*e nothing to do with you;" or, "You aro good enough and need no Redeemer. Take thine ease, eat, drink and bo merry." Ten thousand voices say: "Back with you. God is a hard master. The ohureh is a collection" of hypocrites. Back into your sins; back to your evil indulgences; back to your praverless pillow. The silliest thing that a young man evor does is to come homo after he has been wandering." Oh, how much help a man does want when ho tries to become a Christian ! Indeed, the pro lig.il cannot find his way home to his father's house alone. Unless some one conies to meet him he had better have stayed by the swine troughs. When the tide comes in you might more easily with your broom sweep back the surges than you could drive back the ocean of your untorgiven transgressions. What mv> iv? tr> do' Are we* tn fi'lit the hattla alone, and trudge on with no one to aid us, and no rook to shelter us, and no word of encouragement to cheer us? Glory bo to God, we have in the text the announcement: "When ho was yet a great way off his father rau." When the sinner starts for God, God starts for the sinner. God does not come out with a slow and hesitating pace. The infinite spaces slip beneath His feet and He takes worlds at a bound. "The father ran." Oh, won leri'ul mooting, when Go I and the soul com3 together. "The father rau." You start for Gol aul G)l starts for you, and you meet; anl while the angels rejoice over tin mojting your lon? injurol Father falls upon voar ne-': with attestations of compassion au l pardon. Your poor, wandering, sinful, pollute! soul and the loving, eternal Father have mot. I remark upon the father's kiss. "He foil on his neck," my text says, "anl kissol him." It is not every father t int would have done that way. Sou) would have scoldel him, au l said: "More, you wont oil' with beautiful clothes, but now you are nil iu tatters. You went olt healthy, cn.l co ne back sick nil 1 wasted with your dissipations." He did not say that-. The son, all haggard au l ragged and filthy aud wretched, stood before his father. The father charged liini with none of his wanderings. He just receive I him. He just kissed him. JLlis wretcholness was a recora nen lation to that father's love. Oh, that father's kiss! Uow shall I describe the love of Go I? ?the urdor with which He receives a sinner back again? Give me a plum not, with which I may fathom this sea. Give me a la Tier with which I can scalo this height. Give mo ... ...1, .wuu ivma'i r /)! ? il aiapiin h i i 1 invd Thoapostlos say iu one plaoo, "an.earchahle;1 in another, "past fin ling out." Hoi 'ht overtopping all height; dopth plunging beneath all flopth; brealth conpassihg all immensity. Ob, this love! Go J so love 1 the world, Ho loves you. Don't you believe it? Ilns Ho not done everything to make you think so? Ho has given you life, health, friou Is, hone?the use of your hvil, t'no si<ht of your eye, the hearing of your oar. Ho has strewn your path with mercies. H o Iras fed you, clothed you, sheltered you, defeated you, loved you, importuned you nil your lifelong. Don't you believe He lovo3 you? "Why, if now you shoul l start up from the wilderness of your sin II o would throw both arms arounl you. To make you believe that He love3 you Ho stoope 1 toraaugerau 1 cross au 1 sopulchre. With all th j passions of His holy nature rotuod Ho stauis before you today, and would coax you to happiness au I hoaven. Ob, this Father's kiss! There is so much meaning anl lovoand compassioninit: so much parJon in it; so much lioaveu In it. I proclaim Him the Lord God, merciful, gracious aud long suffering, abundaut iu goodness aud truth. Lost you would not believe Him He goes up Golgotha,and while the iocks are ronaiug, anu i>ne graves am uyjuing, and the mobs are howling, aud the sun is hiding, Ho dies for you. See Him! See Him on the Mount of Crucifixion, the sweat on His 'orow tinged with the blood exuding from His laceratedJernples! See His eyes swimming in death ^Hear the loud breathing of the sufferer asHe pants with a world onHisheirt! Hark to tue fall of the blood from brow and hand and foot on the rocks beneath?drop! drop! drop! Look at the nails! How wide the wounas are! Wider do Coy gape as His body comes down upon them. Oh! this crucifixion agony! Tears melting into tears, l^rod flowing into blood. Darknoss dropping w darkness. Hands of men joined with hands of devils to tear apart the quivering heart of the Son of God! Oil, will He never speak again? Will that crimson face uever light up again? He will speak again; while the blood is suffusing His brow, and re ideuing His cheek, and gatheringou nostril an 1 lip. an I you think He is exhausted au I cannot speak, Ho cries out until all the ages hear Him: "Father, forgive tliein, they know not what they do!" Is there no emphasis in such a scene as that to make your drv eyos weep an 1 your hard heart break? Will you turn your back upon it. and say by your actions what the Jews sai l by their words: "His blood be onus, and on our children?" What does it all mean, my brother, my sister? Why, itmcaii3 that for our lost race there was a Father's kiss. Love brought llim drwn. Love opened tJic gate. Love le i to the sacrifice. Love shattered the grave. Lovolifto1 Him up in resurrection.. Sovereign love? Omnipotent love! Infinite Jove! Bleeding love! Everlasting love! Oil. for this love let roilci an 1 hill < Their lwt'ag eileace broi'r: An.I all harm niiom liti nan tongues The Savlonr's praisee ep^ak. Now, will you accept that Father's kiss? The Holy Spirit comes to you with His arous. ins.'. melting, alariniug, inviting, vivifying influence, llearev, what creates in thoe that unrest? It is tho iloly Ghost. What, influence now tells thee that it is time to fly, that to-morrow may he too late; that there is one dear, one road, one cross, one sacriiice, one Jesus? It is the Holy Ghost. My most urgent word is to those who. like the young mau of my text, are a great way off. and they will stirt for ho ne, and they will get home. They will yet preach the Gospel, and on communion days carry around the c mseorated broad, acceptable to everybody, because of their holy Jifo and their consecrated behavior. The Lord is going to s wo you. Yo.tr home has got to be rebuilt. Your physical health has got to be restored. Your worldly business has got to be reconstructed. The Church of God is going to rejoice over your diseipleship. You are not Gospel harden? I. You nave not heard or read many sermons during the last few | years. Yon do not weep, but the shower is j not far off. You sigh, au l you have noticed j that there is always a sigh in the wind before the rain falls. There arc those who would give nil}-thing if they could find relief in tears. They say: "Oh, my wasted life! Oh, tho bit tor past! Oli, the graves over which I have stumblod! ' Whither shall I fly? Alas for the future! J Everything is dark?so dark, so dark. God help me! God pity me!'' Thank the Lord for that last utterance. You have begun to pray.nni when a man begins to petition,that sets all heaven flying this wav, and God steps in and beats back the hounds of temptation to their kennel, and aroun 1 about the poor xvouu'lel soul puis the cover oi ins piraouing morey. Hark! I heir something fall. What wasthit? It is the bars of the fence around the shaepfold. The shepherd lets them down, and the liunte I sheep of the mountain bound in; some of thein their fleece torn with the brambles, some of Ihem their feet lame with tho ctog?; but bounding iu. Thank Go:3! Saved for time, and saved for eternity. A Hint to Anglers. The angler should take care of his fish after he has caught them. It is discreditable to fetch back a lot of sun and wind dried trout, all curled up and still'. Put a handful of grass 01 ferns at the bottom of the creel, and kill the fish as soon as caught by hitting them a sharp blow on the back of the head. If the weather is I hot clean the morning's catch at noon, and every few hours dip the creel in the stream. The best way to keep trout to take home is as follows: Clean them thoroughly, taking care to remove the gills and the blood under the back bone; wipe them dry, inside and out, but do not wash them; sprinkle them inside with black pepper, but on no account use salt. Pack iu cool, fresh grass, and keep them in the shade. If ice is used it should be put in a tin can, or at least at the bottom of the creel, for it spoils the flavor of trout to have them soaking io water.?[Forest and Stream, AGRICULTURAL. ;; i TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVES TO FARM AND GARDEN. i CARE FOR THE CXI/VE3. t Every calf pasture should be provided! witlj a shed closed ou three sides as a) place of retreat from chilling wind, pelt-? ing raiu or burning sun, and a constant^ supply of. fresh-water. Calves always} pay for such comforts in increased growth: and general thriftiness. Other things^ being equal, the gentler the calf, the more rapid its growth, and the morcW comfortable and contented the calf, thej gentler it is likely to be, especially if it|i| associates its comforts with its keeper. A gentle keeper makes a gentle calf;.a, gentle calf a gcutle cow. Quite young1 ? i ...:u 1 UHIVU5 Will iITell 11 u? uiuuiu aucucvi uau^ and hay, if a haudful of each is placed,; within easy reach. Tic the hay with ai cord and hang it where the calf can pull; at it without getting it under loot. Put* the oats in a shallow, wide box. Remember that variety in food stimulates,: the appetite and digestion, health andt i growth following. At regular feedingrime every calf should have its own feeding-place, and care should be taken that ihe stronger do not crowd out the weak. !F"or this purpose some sort of fastening should be provided, either stanchions or halters.?Jersey Bulletin. WATER FOR FOWLS. Did you ever notice how often a hen will go to a vessel of water to get a drink, if it be convenient, in course of an hour? If you put a fresh lot of water before fowls, did you ever watch the eagerness manifested to get there first? "When such need of drink is so plainly seen, does it not seem a cruel thing to let hours, days or even weeks pass without furnishing the necessary supply? It is stated that three-fourths of the composition of the egg is water. "When the hen is not conveniently supplied with the necessary article do you suppose she can derive enough moisture from what she can garner aooui rue yaru iu umuuiauruiu an egg every" day, or even every other day? All who arc interested in the comfort and welfare of the creatures around them will do what they can to alleviate the suffering that may result from thirst. Those who have not the time to supply fresh water every day or two can construct a fountain in some shaded place which will furnish a supply until the water is exhausted. Take a ten-gallon J keg with a small auger so that a row of them may be close to the bottom. Construct a cover to this, the rim of which may be an inch and a half larger in diameter than the head of the keg. and deep enough to cover the holes, fill the keg with water from the perforated end, place the water-tight cover on it, invert it. and the water will rise in the extra width of the cover until the hole3 are covered, and there it will stand, a threequarter inch trough all around the keg, a fountain which will keep fresh in the shade, and into which the fowls cannot step, and thus befoul the water with their feet.?Dakota Farmer. HOME MADE CHEESE. The first requisite is good milk, and that presupposes good feed for the cows. If there arc wild onions or other weeds that flavor the milk unpleasantly it is unfitted for cheese. Everything used about cheese making shhuld be clean and fresh. The best rennet I have used is Chr. Hansen's rennet tablets. No. 2 is the most convenient size where there is only a small uraount of milk. If you are not convenient to some city it will be best to send to some reliable Ann for these. Country dealers arc apt to ask too much. A /Itnt/w/viuf iiolrn/1 mo 1 fr\r o Kay /if jCX v4.1 u^^jou aoauu luv t/v *v/i ?* wva u? i fifty last summer. The regular price is fifty cents. A dairy thermometer is quite ncces- j sarv, aud a wooden or tin or zinc hoop. The size should correspond to the amount of milk you expect to use daily. Eight inches in height and diameter will be large enough for seventy-five to 101) pounds of milk. If there is not milk enough in one milking to make the j cheese the size you wish, the night's! milk can be set av.'ay and warmed with the morning's milk. It should be heated to aoout eighty-five degrees. One No. 2 rennet tablet dissolved in a teacupful of cold water will coagulate 100 pounds of -".ilk in less than an hour, if the milk is of the average' quality. When it is curdled cut with a knife in small chunks that the whey will separate readily. I suppose you can buy vats from which you can drain the whey conveniently and presses that j are more costly and handy than those we use on Kansas farms. But as I only made cheese for home use and with as little expense as possible, 1 will own that I dipped the curds into a cleau flour-sack ana nuug it iu n cooi piacc tin wen drained, then put a clean cheese cloth into the hoop and the curd well incased in that; then covered with a board that just fitted the hoop, and placed a jur that also fitted the hoop on the board and filled the jar with stone and flat-irons, etc..about 100 pounds to each ten pounds of cheese?not all put on at once, but ! added gradually* during the first half day, with care to keep the cheese straight. After twenty-four hours the cheese should be turned the other side up and again pressed. When taken from the press it should be kept iu u cool, dry place and turned over every day. 1 have only made cheese two summers, and though they were in great demand (at home), yet I would like to improve, and hope some one who has had more experience will improve on my "directions."?Farm, Field and Stockman. FEEDING rOK BUTTER. One by one the scientific authorities nre. helninrr to out a ouietus on the mis J, 0 - J A leading and injurious statement that the proportion of butter in milk can not be increased by feeding. It is strange that such a heresy should have obtained currency among those to whom dairymen look for instruction. The writer, led by long experience to differ from the prevalent belief, has singly fought the error and hns sustained the opposition to it alone for some years past. And now the professors are coming to the rescue,-one by one, and already a powerful influence for the good of dairymen is exerted to encourage them to feed skillfully for increasing the fat solids in the milk. First, [ the Wisconsin Experiment Station, in a I bulletin, declared that by suitable feeding the proportion of butter fat3 in milk may be increased; then Professor Phelps, of the Connecticut Station, and now Pro lessor Caldwell, of the New York Station, follow in making the same statement. Eight or ten years ago T gave a detailed i , ? account of the}effects of various foods in this'direction,^observed through a whol< ( year's experiiisntal feeding, which hai been rcprjntediin.. the American Dairy < ' mans Manual, and which shows horc (various foods, rich in oil, tend to increase I the propoctionrate quantity of the but-tei 1 in milk, and how the}' also affect the quality. TJii?.last effect has been recently noted by the chemist of the agricultural department at AVashingto'n, and reported in ?n bulletin, and this is exceedingly noteworthy as showing the importance of. choosing those foods whose fat will not .deteriorate the quality of the butter. This point may be worthy of some explanation. For some years past physicians have known that fats in food or in medicinal preparations, when taken into the stomach, are not digested, but are mixed with the digestive fluids in the form of an 'emulsion, precisely in a similar manner to the mixture of the fat jjiuuiiicft ju iiuum, auu iuni llus cujuioiuii is absorbed without change by the villi of the intestines, which arc very fine tubes, set so closely together as to leave the appearance of the pile of velvet, and whose office is to absorb the nutriment and pass it into the. thoracic duct, the large vessel which is found passing along the spinal column and close to it, and which' conveys the nutriment directly into the blood, so that the minute globules?of fat in the food thus pass directly into the blood, by which they arc distributed to the various parts of the body, and* of course to the minute glands of which tfie milk 19 formed. And when this glandiilar substance is broken down to fcrm the(milk, these same particles of fat are let ibose and escape into the milk and form fche butter. Thus, tracing the fat in the food in which it exists in the form of minute drops or globules in the cells which make up the tissue ot plants or grains, we can follow it directly into the milk, without change; and'thus are able to account for the effects on the milk of the various kinds of foods gh'en. rru~ i j z~ ~ i.~i iuc itiiuwieu^e i? ui luuuckiiuuiui iuiportance to the butteianaker, and the whole subject is worthy of the most careful study. It relates, too, to the varying ability of the cows to extract the fats from the food, for cows vary very much in this respect, and some can healthfully dispose of twice or three times as much fat as others, and some, as/in the case of the Jersey cow Princess the Second, may be able to actually convert seven pounds of fats in the?foods into butter in one day. This is a .physiological function and ability, and is thus to be inherited and conveyed'by breeding, while it is excited and encouraged*?educated, as it may be said, or led outvas the word signifies?by feeding and training. Thus, it may not be right to think or speak of such cows as phenomenal any more than we should call the extraordinary young horses Axtcll or Sunol phenomenal. They are not so at all. They are instances of the result of human power/skillfully exerted over the domestic animals, aud every one of the numerous examples of this successful exercise of man's dominion over creation should he an incentive to exertions in the same way by every intelligent dairyman in the improvement of his herd, and in his pursuit of success and profit in his business.?American AffricuLurist. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Clean, careful culture, compensates. Feed hellebore to the currant worms. Bad farm hands contaminate children. Grow something to show at the fair. If the soil is dry, cover seeds deeper than when it is moist. NeverJorget that pigs: in clover-enjoy themselves and grow. Large growing Irets should not be planted in small yards. A well-fed sucking pig is worth two or three half-starved runts. The old rule is to plar t corn when the apple tree is in blossom. A wise farmer learns from his mistakes as well as from his successes. Look over last year's bean poles, and if you need more get them ready. Hnvinrr hp.rrun fruit-orowinir. stick to ? O o o ' it. It is not a business to be picked up one day aiid dropped the next. Constant nagging wears away the spirit of the best farm team, precisely as it wears out the patience of men and women subjected to its painful influence. Do not dose yourself or your stock with medicine for every little ill. Diet and rest. Sleep, and a moderately empty stomach are the best medicines in the ; world. "We churned sweet cream two b undred times and sour cream the same number, as an experiment, and failed to find any | regular difference in yield of butter," says the American Dairyman. i r-nnc- i\onr fpfliO Y^Q fl T*1 XT j i' 1 uik viVMU |/ui vivuii?i ij f I should grow rapidly wheD young, and not bear much, in order to attain size ] and bear heavy crops through long i lives. Early bearing dwarfs and wcakj ens. "Buy the Best and Breed Better," io the heading of au editorial in the Jersey Bulletin. It is axiomatic and good enough for a motto, without comment. The man who obeys the injunction cannot fail to succeed. The borers or grubs may be kept out of peach trees by washing the bark with lime wash in which a few drops of carbolic acid are raixed. This should be | applied at once and renewed if it is worn j oil by the weather until July or August. 3I?rcurial ointment is poisonous, and ! it is the cause of the slabbering or saliva I tiou of the cow. It is not the best remedy for lice, cither, as a mixture of equal parts of sweet oil or linseed oil with kerosene is more effective and is perfectly safe. The mainspring of farming is the seed. It is more important to secure good seed than to prepare for its reception in the soil. The failure of seed to germinate may cost the farmer the loss of an entire crop. The seed is something that the farmer should carefully examine now. Every farmer should raise pigs and cure his own bacon. There is no meat equal to that produced at home. You will at least "know what you arc eating," which is a valuable point in favor of home-raised meat, as only healthy, thrifty stock will be used for home supply A prominent poultryman in the East says: "My poultry pay all my family and farm expenses. I take as mQeh care of my chickens as some people do of their children. In winter I keep a fire in their home quarters, and they lay every day in the year. I had rather have hens than cows fpr profit." f He Drew the Line at Elephant's Egg*. Pat Maher, the wild Irishman of . "Vine street bill, has kmg borne the. reputation of being the champion eggeater of this citj, and boasts that he once ate six dozen raw eggs, shells and all, at one sitting. But the boys got the best of Pat one evening recently. As usual, they offered to give him ail. the liquor he could drink if he would swallow a certain number of eggs. "Eat a dozen eggs, sh lis and all, in our presence, and you can get drunk at our expense," said the spokesman of the rounders. "Wan dozen hin eggs!" exclaimedPat, with a contemptuous laugh. "Why, ihat will be notljin' but a lunch. Ho, ho, ho!" "We didn't say hen eggs. You are to eat one dozen eggs of whatever kind are furnished you." "All roight, boys, I'm wid yez. Oi'm just as equal t' goose er turkey eggs uz Oi am t' the fruit 61 th' hin. O'm ready, ' lads. Trot out yer banket." The "boys" did. They went over to the bar and procured a monstrous os tnch egg that had long ornamented the sideboard. It was fully seven inches long and four inches in its smallest diameter. The contents of the shell had of course long been removed, but this fact -was not apparent on casual inspection. The egg ' was carefully carried to the table by which sat Mr. Maher, beaming and smiling over the free drunk which was soon to be his. "Here's the first egg, Pat," said the spokesman, quietly; "the waiters will be along with the other eleven presently." Mr. Maher gazed with bulging eyes at the giant egg, then at the gaDg, each of whom preserved an impassive face. Solemnly he pushed his chair, back from the table, buttoned his coat, and fixed his battered plug firmly on his head. Then, with one reproachful finger directed at the shell upon the table, he said: "BoysJL's not roight, it's not roight. Oi didn't ask that thim eggs be all hin eggs. Oi would a'been satisfied .wid dook eggs or goose eggs?onvtbing in rason. But whin ye bring th'progeny uv th' illvphant before me it is toime ioor me ro renounce rne oargain wia ye. Oi wudn't eat wan o' them illyphant eggs if Oi end." Pat got no free liquor that evening. ?Cincinnati Enquirer. Rejected Gems. It is a matter of history that some of the finest poetry ever written has had a narrow escape.from the "limbo of things lost on earth." One of the greatest poets that ever lived came within an ace of being the "mute, inglorious Milton," for his almost divine epic fQund little favor with the booksellers of his day, and was finally sold for about the sum which a first-class pcet of the present day would expect for a poem of forty or fifty lines. In that day, as in ours, every leading publishing house "kept a critic," on whose fiat the fate of an author's manuscript depended, and then, as now, the "readers" of such establishments sometimes made terrible mistakes. It is our deliberate opinion that had the "Paradise Lost" been submitted to certain regularly employed critics of the present time instead of to the Grubb street gentlemen of the seven teenih century, it would have been pronounced, aa of yore" a "dull and tedious production." Byron, as we all know, was mercilessly snubbed by the literary Jupiter of the Edinburgh Review, and. Kev. Charles Wolfe's exquisite "Ode on the Burial of Sir John Moore" was bo scornfully rejected by a leading periodical of the time that the author, in sending it to a provincial Irish newspaper, timidly withheld ki3 name lest he should be cauterized by the press. But the public, a better critic than any cynic in foolscap uniform turned up with ink, unexpectedly franked him for immortality. There is an enormous amount of humbug in modern criticism?quite as much as in the criticism of days gone by. The fact is that the ability to decide intelligently whether a work will succeed or fail is not an art, but a gift, and very few possess it. Mere book men know very little about the tastes of the community. If you want au "opinion as is an opinion" on what you have written, go to a man who understands human nature and, though he may never have seen the inside of a college, he will be apt to tell you truly how the world will receive your offer ing.?Tor A: Ledger. A Tarrot that Doesn't Like Chestnuts. A friend tells this story about a parrot and vouches for its truth. It must have been a. wonderful bird that, but belonged to one of those fellows who are always in hard luck. One day he found himself reduced to hard pan in the way of finances and left his grecnhued exile from Afric's coral strand at his "uncle's." Every day after that when he passed the shop the parrot would b9 hanging over the door and would cry out in beseeching tones: "Pete, Pete, when are you going to take me out ?" Another peculiarity of his was that whenever any oue said "hullo" to him ho would reply: "Hullo, but for God's sake don't ask me if I want any crackers."?Providence Telegram. "Mistooken." Children sometimes cry before they are hurt, and even in the case of grown people imagination sometimes confuses the testimony of the senses. "Whew!" said a customer in the barber's shop, "that razor pulls like a mowing machine." "Must be mistooken, sail." "Mistaken! Why, man, do you suppose I don't know how it feels? Mistaken, eh? "What do vou mean?" ?XT., cr. ? T* XI U111U, CUii, XJUXJ JL unit UC^UU lot shave yer yit. Jes' puttin' on de lather."?Lawrence American. The increase of capacity of the Suez canal resulting from the use of tho electric light for night passages is equivalent to widening the canal from its present bottom width of twenty-two metres to thirty-two metres?an operation which would cost at least $20,000.000. Health and Strength Soon replace weakness an'I languor If that reliable medicine, Hood'sSorsaparllla, Isfa'rly and faithfully tried. It Is the best mod cine to keep Hie bmod p'ir> and 10 expel the germs of scrofula, salt rheum and other poisons which cause so much suffering, and socner or Inter undermine the general health. By Its peculiar curative power Hood's Sarsaparllla strengthens the system while It eradicates disease. "I think Hood's Snrsaparl'ln Is Just the medicine for women or anyone who has had blood."?Jennie E. Smith, East Broad Top, Pa. Hood's Sarsaoarilla Sold by all druggists. SI; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar Just as I Advertised. .Mrs. Coolum?What is the- price of your canned beef this morning, Mr. Sandum? ' "Thirty-eight cents, ma'am." "Why, that's the same price it was yesterday morning; you forget that yon advertise 'sweeping reductions ' " "Not at all, ma'am. You'll find them?er?just below ? at the broom CQunter." _ . ... Ah Only Dnnghter Cured of t onrnmptlon. When death was hourly expected from CnnmmutUiv,. all remedies having failed and Dr. H. James was experiment ing. beaccidentally made a preparation of Indian Hemp, which cured" hiSTonly child, and now gives this recipe free on receipt of t wo stamps to pay expenses.. Hemp also cures night sweats, nausea at the stomach, and will breqk a lrcsh cold in twenfv-four hours. Address Craddoek & Co., l(j:>2 ftaoe St.. Philadelphia. Pa., naming this paper. The m*n who would he a leader must never keep the procession waiting. ,T. S. Parker, Fredonia, N. Y., savs: "Shall not call on vou for the J100 reward, for I believe Hall's ('atarrh Cure will cure any case of catarrh. Was very bad." Write him for particulars. Sold by Druggists. 75c. All the reward !ova ever asks Is the privilege of do ng its brst. va..?io sv?.> trill ha Kant he Craortn Co.. ' Pbila., Pa., to anyone in U.S. or Canada, post-, age paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. Soap for sale by aJJ grocers. Many people never hccunplish much bt- ^ cause they never plan for mucb. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kx.rxa's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after, .first day's use. liarrelous cures. Treatise and S2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. i?l Area St.. PhilR.,.P? If you always do good as you have oppor- , tnnity, you Wlil never be id e. 1 Beecbam's Pills cure Bilious and Nervour Lb. j , It someof oar in wis wvre not so big, our hearts wou'd grow 'aster. M, oisn$ Both the method and results -when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta Esntly yet promptly on the Kidneys, iver and Bowels, cleanses the ays* tem effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste ana acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and trulv beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualiries commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup^Figa is for sale in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any subst^e. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRdP CO. 8AN FRANCISCO. CAL imSVILLE, Nr. NEW YORK, N.t, . .. Heroltlsl want to learn an about a a* Bone 1 How to Pick Out a A Good One? Knowlnoperfec-^^V v Hons and so Guard against \ jV Fraud ? Detect Disease and /*" "" ' 7 \ Effect a Cure when same Is / \ / \ possible? Tell the age by </ V / 1 he Teeth? What to call; h j Different Ports of ths Animal? How to Shoe a Horse Properly? All thli and other Valuable Information can be obtained hi leading our 100-PAGE II.I.USTItATE!) HORSE BOOK, which we w.U forward, pOjt paid, on receipt of only 23 cents in stamps, BOOK PUB. HOUSE. {34 Leonard St.. K?w York CityFATEHTS-PE?siOHS^:,VicV?:r, dgestof Pension and bounty laws. Send for Inventors' Guide or How to Get a Patent. Patrick O'Farreix. Attorney at Law, Washington, D. C. 0 mi IBS snd WHISKiY HABHJel B iSui 1T8 cured at home withE a 1998 out pain. Book of par fc I (U If B Ilcnlars sent FREE. ^JLaSnL. 11- M. WOULLEY, EL D., ATLANTA. Go. Oflics MJ< Whitehall 8L Money in Chickens If yon know how to properlv cars J If for them. For 2 3 centa In stamps Iff A you can procure a ino-PAGE BOOK Mil f\ giving the experience of a practl/ \ cal P ultry Kaiser?not an ama/ v N tour, but a man working for do.', t " SI are and cents?during a period of , -S7S years. It teaches you how to 1'^**" Detect and Cure Diseases; to Fe d 11? '.f.rEggs and also for Flattening; I 1 which Fowls to Save for Pxccdlnf 1-4 Purposis: and everything, ndeeo, pen should know on this subject to rjake It profit* Able. Sent postpaid fo 25c. BOOK PUB, . QOUSF. 134 Leonard fttieet, N, Y. Cll*. I QU\i'fnni ; , w kmi ^ termi wiiich tradermost Doctor Books so Ttlnelet a intended lo lie ot Service in the Fmnily, find I'aut i contains Information on General Dlsea Anatomy and Functions?covering Erysipelas, llurbc Prickly Heat, Measles, Small Pox,* Chicken Pox. War J and Cure. Fifty pages on tin: itlCAIN and N li a Fits, Dizrhiess, Delirium Tremens, Epilepsy, Falntin Neuralgia. Diseases of Spinal Cord. Lockjaw, St. Vlti ? Inflammation, Cataract, 2 pages on the EA1J?Deaf- ? _ 2 Noises In, to Extract Foreign f fig "fij G ? the NOSE?Bleeding, f.'n- 5% WB yJP pjo Flftccu pages on the FACE. R '*' Si TEETH-Cracked Lips. ij | 9 BJ J] 2 Gum Boll,Ac. Elgiiteeu pages vF W 'W . I'I PE?Bronchitis, PIphtlie Mumps, Ulcerated Sore PROFUSELY II on M'NHS?Consumption. . .. . . Spitting Blood, Stitch in Side, Ac. Twelve pages i."?I. r- .. ? llinilllivi I fI ( "?t i wijnviu (Uti' J <[u n . Mm rhiva, DyMutfry, Dyspasia, Heartburn, Wall ! ihe vcr.v Important | riiiarynud (Tenilal Oram ? Hon of Bladder, &e. Klfty paxes on Di?cnsrs 2 Debility, Pevers of all kinds, .Malaria, Gout, l'liouma r Part if relates to Diseases ot Women 'Mcni I'aiit III I*devoted to Children and Their Information mothers constantly need. This part alo 1'art IV covers Accidents Z Household Surgery, Poisons aud I n, m _ u ; l'AnT v_t,>nernl II)- JSt |\5S$ and Guide to I .oner. Healthy l,!fe. { ?" " linns Answered; valuable | Van Ms w Need all topics relatln;; to Health | *0U may Xteetl J Part Vll? For the peiiisal ? relations of Man and Wife; for the Newly Married. I'ait Vltl? Cookery mid Dniiitien for the ? Part IX?Indications ol Disease by Apnen 2 Pakt X?.Medicines?I heir Preparation an.i Da s 1'artXI?IJotHiiical Medicnl Practice: lus Over ItiOO LINES OF INDEX to guile .? 2 ranged alphabetically. A most valuable work. w!ii< 0 on receipt of l?o cents In cash or Ic. and ','e. postage 1 BOOK PUS, HOUS gTJACOBSQl^ I S BAvr^^^k^u',?8 1 2 ^N\ 8PRAll?8f J 2 S BRUISES, I ^RHEUMATISM. I To cure Biliousness. Slcic Headache/Constlpatlon. Wk Malaria, Liter Complaints, take the saftf Tfl and certain remedy, SMITH'S fl BILE BEANS J Use the 8MALL 8IZE (?0 little leans to'the boU 'fl tie). They are the most convenient: spit all agafc fl Prlceof crther elie, 25 cents per bottle. .' fl KISSING panel size of this Dlctva fo*^ fl oante (coppers or stamps). - .* W v 7. r. smith iibo'.,' d Mat en of "Bile Beans.'' Bt-'Lotdnhla m I. ?r ; ii _ 11 ' -fc I good ? vl REVOLVER 1 *C^3!rS>l -' I purchase one of the ceJe- \o ihr_J\s s?r5v 8 brAted 8MFTH * WE8SON i arme. The finest fmali arms if \W 1jdK. erer manufactured end the U, JJ )) WW ,1 flr?t choice of all experts. jst Ui 1 Manufactured in calibres 32; 38 and 44-1UO. 81n- Hwl I eleor double Action, Safety Hnjnmerloea uA 1S7 I Target model*, Constructed entirely of beat on at- 8 Ity wrongbt ateel. carefully inspected for wpn- J manshlp and stock, they are unrivaled for IIdmS* dornblll/y nnd nccnrncv. Donotbedeceivadfin-' <? cheap mnllenble east-Iron Imitations sues are often sold for the genuine article and are pot 1 cmlv unreliable, bnt danK?roua. The SMITH ft WESSON Revolvers are all atamivd upon the bap- J rait with firm's name, addresa and dales of pateaai 1 and art guaranteed perfect In trery detail la- j Hat upon having the genuine article, and If roar I dealer cannot supply yon an order sent to addraM I below will reoelve prompt and careful attention. Deacrptlvecatalomie aid nrtca* fnrnlahel upon ay- ' phcaton SMITH & WESSON, WWkUQU thispane*. SjriugiieltL Ulna*. B "ufmreoe 4^niuinu\o < Km^WwW' 1 JRADFfELO REGULATOR CO/ATLAnWoi' ? .MOID Mf All DAUGG/ST3.S *? \ ' /J0HE8\ / TON SCALES \ ( OF \ , { $60 BINGHAMTON I \ Beam Box Tare Beam/ y? N. Y, \/ I H PIso'b Remedy for Catarrh Is the r\ ^^Best^asles^^Jse^n^hMp?^^SJj IrfflBMBIBMI Sold by drietfsta or sent by mall. H 50c. E. T. Hazeltinc, Warren, Pa. . rig DCNClMNK&?s 1 r ? II31UIIO ??X?55S are entitled to 81 '2 t>. uiontb. Fee $10 whm you get your money, Llnnks tree. JOSEPH H. "j HUNTER, Att'y, Washington, U. C. "3 MEN WANTED TO MUX NITRM'-HV -TOOK. **o Experience Required, Wet kly Pay UU'kantiib Writo lwood & ( o.. (Geneva. N. Y. DETECTIVES' I Wanted it erery Ceaoty, Shrewd am to mot under laetructieoe la oor Seem Serried. Experience set neeeteary. f ?rtlcaUre free. Sraanam DttdeUra Bureau Co. M Arc?dt,Ciadiutt,a COMMERCIAL COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY M LEXINGTON, KY. Hlgbeit Award at World'e Kxpoetlloo. f/Qe., J II Bnok kerplnr.BuilDe.r.Short-heed,Type? " " ^aa Writing and Telegraphy tanght. 1,000 Stndente. 13 Teaehera. IO.OoO (iraduatee In Boalncee. Begin note. Addree*, W. KC8H SMITH, PreVt, Lexington, Ky. FRftZiRafgjA HBST IN THE WORLD UllLflOfc (W~ Oet the Qeuulne. Sold Evemrhawh nnill&l HABIT. Only Certain and llriRIm enay CURE In the World. Dr. UljUIII J. L. STEPHENS, Lebanon,O B N U C6 ^ CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS RCO CROSS DIAMOND BRAND. fc*afc sod Blwrjrs reliable. Ladles A f',il LL .raj ark Drugriat for Diamond Brand, In /?\ rod, metallic bor-e, eealed with blue AJW _^\iJ7rlbbon. Tako no other. All pills \\Cy in pasteboard boxer, pink wrapper*, are \Ay ? nf dnncteroot cotiutcrfelta. Send 4c. v Jf <?tamj.r) for particular*, teeilmonlali and ? Ej> "Relief for Ladlca," fn leiter, by return if naall. Same Paper. SeWl tblihcetcr U.eia'1 Co., Xadiaaa 8g, Pblln^Pfc I prettorlbo and fu'lyen?ea rlnrwo Rio (2 tin tht OOlT specific forthecertai-cure hSP to 6 DAT8.^| of this disease. ?-u-^e^;rv: |S lird only by tb? We have sold Big G for rSllnii Clttktl Co n,cny years, and it has otpMn" "i'Sbb y|Y^n tlae boat of satis"D. RI'DYCHE A COb. \ Trs4^^^6^^^e*rt 18I.OO. Sold by Druggists!, TOR'SBILLSli SAVE HEALTH! : y kuowlug how t? take care of your dear ones wlieu ? rst attacked by disease. THE Tl.ll K TO* HECK 1 LI.NESS IS IN ITS INCH* I EN Y{ but how many persons know what to do in* ich a case. Not one In a thousand. Do you? If J ot, you uecd a physician to tell you ; and you don't ? eucrally have a doctor at hand in the middle of the Igbt, or at a moment's notice, and In any event bis * trvlces are expensive. A Book containing the In trmation you want can bo at hand, however, and # 1 yon aro wise will be ot hand. Such a book . we offer you for only /? /Th ? I and If you arc prudent I j* I bUc. I I oOCi | Postpaid. 11? -liVEKY .11AX I Postpaid. I* HIS OWN !)(>(:. '? '(>?." It Is tlie labor of J. HAMILTON AYEItS, * . M.. hi. D., and Is the result of a life spent In light- a IK disease in every form. It Is written In plain rery-day English, and Is free from the technical s to the generality of leaders. This Book is Is so worded as to be readily understood by all. a ses'ami consists of t>? pases on the SKIN, Its# r's Itch, Tetter, Scalp Diseases, ltiugworni, Rashes. is, Corns, fit;.. Ac. Showing how to lb-event, Arrest It VKS?covering -\pO|"exy, Trance, Congestion, J K. Headaches, Hiccough, Hypochondria, Insanity, # ns's Dance, l'nlsy, Ac. Nineteen pages on the liVE # Squinting, Stye, Ac. Ten ness, Earache, Running of, . firH kFf fff Podle*. Ac. Eight pages on J rl H RLf m.' tnrrh. Ulcerated, Tumor. Ac. # Hi? H? ^ l.ll'.S.MOL'TII,JAWS, 51 B hUS? Canker Mouth, Toothache,* tod Wf on Til It OA T and HIND-* rin. Hoarseness, Iutlueuza. # LLUSTRATED, Throat, Ac. Eighteen pages# ' - .y.(hina, Cough, Pleurisy, on II HA KT?Palpitation, Enlargement, Dropsy* ivity?Cholera Morbus, Colic, Com ivories?. Cramp, J Stones, J tilt n. I iec, Piles. Ae. Twenty-six pages on # is?Gravel, Diabetes. Private Diseases, luflaniina ul t intern I System?Abscess Caneer, Drops}-. tism. Ae. Everything treated Indian, irnation, IVoinb, Pregnancy, Coiiinieincnt, Ac. * llisfiiset, from hlrlh, and is tilled with just the # no Is worth many times the price of the work. i iiikI Ijiunipuirlrs, Including * ***???? their Ainldotes, Ac. Invaluable* * 7.5 3 g Vt/ gienr?Preservation of Health # ** " ? w Pai:t VI?Common t(ucn- # r? Trt inlf.-elhuieous .information ou J.l fO-mgltt. mid Disease. Idled with Hiuts. * " " ?f thiukinx > on ax people; the 5 *- ' * " mauHiffo J I M' III KDO"-ICtliiC an ?c>i. w dc'? (Iihuii?Am invaluable section for housewives. irnnee?'Temperament.*. Sc. Worthy close study. "<; lYcfrviptinus, i;cecipt?, &r. Kxtremrly useful. iructions for preparlug and using Common Herbs. ( on iii.-iniiii.v to the information you want. Ar ?h should lie in every household. Sent postpaid stamps. n iE. 134 Leonard St. New York. I I