The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, August 07, 1890, Image 4
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
A PREVENTIVE FOR PLANT MILDEW.
A preventive of mildew upon plauts:
Take three pounds each of flowers of
sulphur and quicklime. Slake the lime
and boil with the sulphur in six gallons
of water until reduced to two gallons.
Allow this to settle, thcu pour oil the
clear liquid aud bottle it for use. An old
iron pot will auswer to boil it in. Mix a
gill of this liquid with five gallons of
water, and shower upon the plants as
soon ns the mildew appears.?Boston
Cultivator.
A QUESTION ABOUT OAT HARVESTING.
One of the questions for farmers to
begin to consider is whether oats to be
fed on the farm should not be cut while
the graiu is yet in the milk, and cured,
straw and all, for feeding without
threshing? Of course the portion of the
crop that is to be used for seed or sold
in the market must ripen and be threshed;
but, as an Eastern paper puts it, "It is
difficult to see any advantage in all the
labor of threshing out oats to put in a
bin and the straw in a stack, only to put
them together again in the manger."
But we do not advise raising oats for i
hay in any country natural to the hay
crop, and for the reason that, whero so,
the hay is cheapest.?Prairie Farmer.
CURING THE RUNNING AWAY IIABIT.
A habit of running away is fatal to the
usefulness of a horse. It is the fault of
training, for in the training escape from
control should never be permitted. The
vice may be cured in thi3 way: Fasten
two strong rings in the top of the bridle,
one on each side; put a strong round
cord through these rings so that it can
bo drawn on as the driving lines are. As
soon as the horse starts he is checked by
pulling on the cord, which presses on the
windpipe and shuts off the breathing. If
he persists in running he will soon drop,
but this is seldom done; some shaking of
the head and the runaway will stop. After
standing a few minutes lie may be pulled
up a few times until ho learns that the
driver has control of him.?American
llorsc Breeder.
mcsiirooms.
From a little experience wo have recently
had with mushrooms, we arc satisfied
they may bo often grown with profit j
by farmers for near markets. They j
bring a high prico at certain seasons of;
the year, but when farmers gather those !
for sale which grow naturally in the!
fields the price is usually lowest. To ;
get the best prices, they should bo grown >
in hotbeds, as gardeners do, planting the
spawn or thread-like seeds in beds
properly prepared and well fertilized.
It is the heat quite as much as the man- .
ure that makes the spawn productive. |
Perhaps wherever there is a good market
for mushrooms a hotbed ceunot be devoted
to more profitable use than this, j
The market may be cultivated by gather- |
ing and selling the mushrooms that at
this season may often be gathered in j!
fields. There are many varieties of |'
mushrooms, and a thorough knowledge j
of thij subject turns itself into money !
more surely than knowledge of anything j
else will. The mushroom is in Europe j
considered a substitute for meat. A !
pound of it can more cheaply be grown
than a pound of meat, and it always ;
brings a higher price, as it deserves to !
from its finer quality.?Boston Cultivator. !
THE CAtTSE OP POOR RADISH SEED. j
It is stated, upon what seems good au- !
thority, as well as good sense, that the I
poor quality of radish seed that comes to :
our market is the result of saving the
seed from stocks that have not been transplanted.
This story, however plausible '
it may appear, is in no respect true. The |
true state of the cose is, all the radish |
seeds which come to our country arc [
grown from transplanted roots. The I
growers would not produce them in any I j
other way; the seeds arc sown in seedbeds,
quite closely, and, when fit for the
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table, tneyare transpianteu into me iiuiu. .
They are liret grown in seed-beds for
economic reasons, as a given amount of
seed-bed will furnish roots that will plant
at least fifty times as much ground as the
seed-bed contains. This enables the
growers to economize time and lubor.
Much of the seed growu in France is |
raised by small farmers, who do all their :
farm-work by hand; so while the plants |
are growing in the seed-bed, the farmer
is spading the soil for the crop. Poor .
radish seed, like poor other seeds, comes 1
from poor selection. A worthless plant |
will always yield double the amount of
seed that a valuable one does.?American
Agriculturist.
THE MOON#S INFLUENCE ON VEGETATION, j
The reflected light of the rnooa has no |
appreciable influence upon cither vegeta- j
ble or animal life on this planet, and if
there is any electrical or other influence j
it has not as yet been discovered. The i
idea, however, that the moop has some .
peculiar influence on vegetation and ani- j
mals is a very old one, and while there
never was nuy foundation for it except i
the vagaries of a disordered brain, still, |
as the belief is perfectly harmless, it is !
useless to disturb the quiet of your ig-1
norant neighbors who take so much j
pleasure in planting their cucumbers and
beans during certain phases ot the moou.
The noor old moou has long been accused
of being the cause of mauy a catestropho
of which she was only a silent spectator.
What are called the sigus of the zodiac
originated from the supposed influence of
certain planets within the imaginary >
band or zodiac extending around the
celestial sphere, having as its mesial lino
the ecliptic or appareut path of the sun.
The original planets know to the ancients
within this band were Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter nnd Saturn, but later ,
other piauets were discovered, and this i
destroyed some of the old ideas of the
planetary system, as well as the influence
of these celestial worlds upon our own.
No intelligent or learned agriculturist of
the present day pays any atteutiou to the i
signs of the zodiac when cither planting '
or harvesting his crops, or in wcaniug
his calves and pigs.?Neio York Sun.
FOOD FOIt CniCKS.
Millions of little chickens are now |
toddling about in front of the coops of j
our land. What will become of tlicin? !
Most of them will die at about the age
of five days for lack of right feeding.
Let us try, this summer, to save some of
these unconsenting martyrs to the ig- ;
norance or laziness of their owners. '
Granted safe coops, cleanliness, and
motherly hens^ nourishing food, proper- j
ly fed, will do the rest. Usually the
question is how to use Indian corn advantageously,
because, at present, this
food is the great American reliance.
Corn meal ought to be well cooked before
a grain of it is fed to young poultry.
Itaw corn, even if scalded, irritates
young intestines, and it should be palatably
cooked so that it will be eagerly
eaten. The idea should bo, not to manage
with as little food as possible, but on
the contrary to urge the chickens to cut
all that they can profitably digest. Clean
feeding trays are as important iu this
point of view ns they are in the matter of
health. Chickens hate dirt and dirtydishes.
The mold on an old iccding
board is a plant which will grow rapidly
In their "little insides." To make a
good "standby" pudding for chickenfeed,
take one-half yellow corn meal,
one-half middlings or bran, aud a little
salt. Mix soft with skim-milk and bake
slowly. If the milk is sour, put in some
soda. Ouc can substitute for the milk
a broth made of the table scraps. This
pudding cau bo used ns a steady diet,
varied by an occasional day of oatmeal.
If there is not enough moat in the table
scraps, add more.
Give your chickens milk to dnnk always
if you can; givo water also or they
will suffer from thirst; aud beware of the
tyrotoxicon which kills many babies aud
chickens. Sour milk soon turns to
spoiled milk. Don't delude yourself by
trusting that your chicks will do exactly
as welt when you miss a feeding timo or
two, provided you leave extra food
which will keep 6weet, but they will not
prosper as when fed at the regular hours.
Litttle chicks ofton starve to death rather
than eat stale, dusty food. Look out
for the scrawny fledglings; every one
will look out for the downy new ones.?
American Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Keep the mower kuives sharp.
Use tin pails only in the dairy.
Be gentle in handling the bees.
Improve the run-out grass land.
Boys, don't skip any hills in hoeing.
Protect your animals from flies and tho
hot sun.
. Bag the grapes. Thin the fruit. Watch
the insects.
Never let a strange peddler or agent
have your autograph.
Science is tho handmaid of progression
the farm and in the shop.
Tomatoes yield on an average from
eSfdit to ten tons to the acre.
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Average commercial flint corn contains
about eleven per cent, wntcr.
Ilalf of the commercial sugar of the
world is produced from beets.
Do not sell fruit when the market is
glutted. Evaporate it, dry it or can it.
Do not depeud on borrowing the ordinary
farm tools from your neighbors.
Own them and keep them in good condition.
Soapsuds should be added to the
manure heap. Never waste such. Later
in the season suds may be applied to as>paragus
and celery with advantage.
Hooks about the stable, upon which to
hang the lantern, are an excellent thing.
The lantern set down is frequently
knocked over, and the straw <rt hay set
on tire.
When an'raals arc confined, it is the
duty of the owner to sec that they have
a variety of food and enough of it, as
well as a full supply of clean water acd
fresh air.
The average dairyman will never bo
contented until he has an easy chair for
a milking stool and can lie back and
rnko a snnnze while soniebodv else does
the milking.
An enterprising onu thoughtful farmer
will push his work rather than ullow it
to push him. Nobody has as much time
fcr rest and recreation as the man who is
always ahead with his work.
Kickers among coirs and calves arc
usually brod, not born, Handle them
gently and kindly and kickera will be
rare. Teasing by heedless boys and
hired men, originates most of the farm
kickers.
When hens arc shedding feathers they
often stop laying nnd grow fat. Most
people consider fat a sign of health. It
is not a sure one. Many of the worst
cases of roup are oontractcd whilo the
hens are moulting.
The editor of the Maine Farmer, says,
that in sixteen years' experience of farming
he has learned that when his land is
poor or in a poor condition he is dependent
largely on the season for a crop; but
if the land is rich and woll-handlod he Is
reasonably sure of a crop anyhow.
Those who grow lettuce thickly in
beds or rows and eat It thus grown,
really know little of the deliciousness of
this article of food. Transplanted into
rich ground, when of sufficient size, and
"fAn-n in+rv larnrn li/>?1<1ft lh 1ft Ivfi.Pl'
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in quality, and much more ot it will be
eaten.
If the pigs can be pastured in the
orchard from the time the first imperfect
apples begin to drop from the trees, they
will do much toward ridding you of the
codliug moth. If the orchard is, as it
should be, in'agood growth of grass and
clover, tho pigs will be benefited as
much as the orchard.
Don't crowd your fowls in the hen
houses. Give them breathing room,
space to move about in, and ample roosting
accommodations. Hens will not lay
well if you crowd them up in close
quarters. They must have air, and their
bodies not come in contact by night or
by day, so far as possible to prevent.
General farm products are depressed,
but the best never arc. There is always
short supply of the best, and at a remunerative
prices. Take horses, cattle,
sheep, butter, cheese, fruit?no one today
has these of the best, who canuot
find a ready market for them at large
prices. The way is open for every far netto
nroduce them.
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Hood Drinks for Hot Weather.
"Lemonade and buttermilk arc as good
as anythiug drinkable that you can find
for hot weather," said u physician.
"They both are great things to quench
thirst. They both act as a pleasant tonic
to the stomach, and they have a stimulating
quality, but they should not be
drank ice cold?that is, bits of ice should
not be iu the goblet. Let them be as
cold as the ice chest or refrigerator can
make them, but not more than that.
Wheu you pour down your throat a pint
or so of fluid that is fresh from the ice,
temporary paralysis of the stomach follows.
If a man happens to be very hot
such a thing not infrequently is as fatal
as a stroke of lightning.?Cincin/uiSi
Times-,Star.
1. TA LMAGE'S SBRIQN.
What He Has to say About the Open
Gates of Heaven.
Dreams of Matchless Splendor Which
Came In Barren Spots.
Text: "And, behold, a door was opened
in heaveri."?Rev. iv., 1.
John bad been the pastor of a church fn
Ephcsus. He had been driven from his
position in that city by an indignant populace.
The preacliing of a pure and earnest
gospel had made an excitement dangerous
to every form of iniquity. This will
often be the result of pointed preaching.
Men will flinch uuder the sword
strokes of truth. You ought not to bo
surprised that tho blind man raake6 an
outcry of pain when tho surgeon removes
tho cataract from his eye. It is a good sign
when you see men uneasy in the church pew;
and exhibiting impatience at some plain utterance
of truth which smites a pet sin that
they aro hugging to their hearts. After the
patient has been 90 low that for weeks ho
said nothing and noticed nothing, it is
thought to be a good sign when he begins to
be a little cross. And so I notice that spiritual
invalids are ip a fair way for recovery
whan thoxr hwnmn onmflwhnf: Ira^ihlft nnd
choleric under the treatment of the truth.
But John had so mightily inculpated public
iniquity that ho had been banished from his
church and sent to Potmas, a desolate island,
only a mile in breadth, agaiist whoso rocky
coasts the sea rose and mingled its voice with
the prayers and hvmnings of the heroic exile.
You cannot but contrast the condition of
this banished apostle with that of anothor
famous exile. Look at the apostle on Pat*
mos and the great Frenchman on St. Helena.
Both were suffering among desolation and
barrenness because of offenses committed.
Both bud passed through lives eventful and
thrilling. Both had been honored and despised.
Both were imperial natures. Both
nad bron turned off to die. Yet mark the
infinite difference?one bad fought for tho
perishable crown of worldly authority, the
other for one eternally lustrous. The one
bad marked his path with the bleached skulls
of his followers, tho other had introduced
peace and good will among men. The one
nad lived chiefly for solf-aggramlisement
and the other for tho glory of Christ. Tho
successes of the one were achieved umid tho
breaking of thousands of hearts and tho
acute, heaveu-reuding cry of orphanage and
widowhood, while the triumphs of tho other
mado joy in heaven among tho angels of
God.
The hoart of one exile was filled with remorse
and despair, while the o".her was
lighted up wit i thanksgiving and im *?
tiuguishablo hope. Over Sj. Holoia gatu>
ered the blackness and darkness, clouds,1
lighted up by no sunrising, but rent ami
fringed and heaving with tho lightnings of
a wrathful God, and the spray flung over
the rocks seemed to hiss with the condemnation,
"The way of the ungodly shall perish."
But over Patinos tho heavens were opened,
and the stormy sea bsnoath was forgotten
in the roll and gleam of waters from under
tho throne like crystal; and the barrenness
of tho ground under tbo apostle was forgotten
as above him he saw the trees o 1 life all
bending under the rich glow of heavenly*
fruitage, while tho hoarse blast of contending
elements around his suffering body was
drowned in tho trumpeting of trumpets ami
tViohnrninf of hams, the victorious crv ot
multitudes like the voico of many waters
and the hosanna of hosts in numhei like tho
stars.
What a dull spot upon which to s^and and
have such a glorious vision! Had Patmos
been some tropical islaud. arbored with tho
luxuriance of perpetual summer, and drowsy
with breath of cinnamon and cassia, and tosselated
with Jong aisles of geranium and caotus,
we would not have been surprised at the
splendor of the vision. But tho hist place
you would go to if vou wanted to fiad beautiful
visions would be tho island of Patmos.
Yet it if around such gloomy spots .hat God
makes t ao most wonderful revelation. It was
looking through tho awful shadows of a
prison that John Bunyan saw the gr.teof tho
celestial city. God there divided :ho light
from tho darkness. In that gloomy abode,
on scraps of old paper picked up about his
room, the great dream was written.
It was while John Calvin was i. refugee
from bloody persecution, and was hid in a
house at Angouleme, that lie conceived the
idea of writing liis immortal "Institutes."
Jacob had many a time soon the sun breaking
through the mists, and kindling thein
into shafts and pillars of flcry splendor that
might well have been a ladder for the angels
to tread on, but the famous ladder which he
saw soared through a gloomy night over tho
wilderness. Tho night of trial and desolation
is the scene of tho grandest heavenly
revelations. From tho barren, surf beaten
rock of Patmos John looked up and saw that
a door was opened in heaven.
Again, tho announcement of such an
opened entrance suggests the truth that God
is looking down upon the earth and observant
of all occurrences. If wo would gain n
wide prospect we climb up into a tower or
mountain. The higher up wo are the broader
the landscape wo behold. Yet our most
comprehensive view is limited to onlv a few
leagues?hore a river aud there a lake aud
yonder a mountain peak. But what must
must be tho glory of the earth in the eye of
Him who from tne door of heaven beholds at
one glance all mountains and lakes and prairies
and oceans, lauds bespanglod w th tropical
gorgeousness and Arctic regions white
with everlasting snows, Lebanon majestic
with cedars and American wilds solemn with
unbroken forests of pine, African deserts of
glistening sand and wildernesses of water
unbroken by ship's keel, continents covered
with harvests of wheat and rice and maize,
the glory of every zone, the whole world of
mountains and seas and forests and islands
taken in in a single glance of their great
Creator.
As we take our stand upon some high point
single objects dwindle into such insignificence
that wo cease to see them in the minutiae, and
wo behold only the graud points of the
jcenery. But not so with God. Although
standing far up in tho very tower of heaven,
nothing by reason of its smallness escapes His
vision. jl.very lily of the field, every violet
Under the grass, the tiniest heliotrope, aster
and gentian are as plainly seen by Him as
the proudest magnolia, and not one vein of
color in their leaf deepens or fades without
His notice. From this door in heaven Go.l
boos ail humau conduct and the world's
moral changes. Not one tear of sorrow falls
in hospital or workshop or dungeon but He
tees it, and in high heaven makes record of
Its fall.
The world's iniquities in all their ghastliaess
glower under His vision. Wits and
tumults, and the desolations of fam ne and
iarthquake, whirlwind aivl shipwreck
spread out before Him. If there were no
being in all the universe but God II3 coulu
be happy with such an outlook as tae door
of heaven. But there He stands, no more
disturbed by the fall of a kingdom than the
dropping of a leaf, no more exciter by the
rising of a throne than the bursting of a bud,
the falling of a deluge than the trickling of
a raindrop. Earthly royalty clutches nervously
its scepter and waits in suspense the
will of inflamed subjects, and the crown is
tossed from one family to another. But
above all earthly vicissitudes and the assault
of human passions in unshaken security
Stands the King of Kings watching .Ml the
affairs of His empire from the introduction
of an era to the counting of the hairs of your
head.
Again, I learn from the fact that a door
in heaven is opened that there is a way of
entrance for our prayers and of eg,-ess for
divine blessiugs. It does not scorn that our
weak voice has strength enough to climb up
to God's car. Shall not our prayer be lost
in tho clouds? Have words wingi;? The
truth is plain: Heaven's door is wide open to
receive ever)' prayer. Must it not 13 low I?
Diitrht it not to rbi" 1111 with Mia st.re urth of
stout lungs? Must it not bo a lou 1 call,
such as drowning in on utter, or like the shout
of some chieftain in the battle? No; \ wh'sper
is as good as a shout, and tho mere wish
of tho soul in profouu I silence is as <;oo I as
& whisper. It rises just as high and accomplishes
just as much.
But ought not prayer to be inndo of goldon
words if it is to enter such a splendid door
and live beside seraphim and archangel?
Ought not every phrase be rounded into perfection,
ought not the language be musical
and classic and peotic and rhetorical? No;
the most illiterate outcry, tho unjoin petition,
the clumsy phrase, theseuteucc breaking
into grammatical blunders, an unworded
groan is just as effectual if it bo the ut-oranco
of the soul's want. A heart nil coverol up
with garlands of thoughts would he no utroption
to God, but a heart broken and contrite
?that is tho acceptable sacrifice. "J kn >.v
that my Redeemer livotb," risiu j up in the
mighty harmony of a musiciluai leaiy, may
overpower our ear an l heart, but it will not
reach the ear of God like the broken voic; 1
hymn of some sufferer amid rags aud deso
lation looking up trustfully to a Saviour's
compassion, singing amid tears and pangs,
"I know that my Redeemer liveth."
I suppose that, there was mora rhetoric
and classic elegat#)e in the prayers of the
Pharisee than of the publican, but you know
which was successful. You may kneel with
complete elesanco on some ssoft cushion at an
altar of alabaster and utter a prayer of Miltonic
sublimity, but neither your graceful
posture nor the roll of your blank verse will
attract heavenly attention, while over some
dark cellar in which a Christian pauper is
prostrate in the straw angels bend from
their thrones and cry one to another: "Behold,
he prays P Through this open door of
heaven what a long procession of -prayers is
continually passing! What thanksgivings!
What confessions! Whr.t intercessions!
What beseechingj! "And t?ehold a. door was
opened in heaven
Again, the door of heaven Is opened to allow
us the opportunity of looking in. Christ
when He came from heaven to Bethany left it
open, and no one since has dared 1o shut it.
Matthew threw it still wider open when he
came to write, and Paul pushed the door
further back when he spoke of the glory to bo
revealed, and John in Revelation actually
points us to the harps, and the
waters, and the crowns, and the
thmnoo Thftro nra nrofound mvsteries
about that blessed place that we cannot
solve. But look through this wide open door
of heaven and see what you can see. God
moans us to look and catch up now something
of the rapture and attune our hearts
to itn worship.
It is wide open enough to see Christ. Behold
Him, the Chief among ten thousand, all
the bannered pomp of heaven at His feet.
With your enkindled faith look up along
these ranks of glory. Watch how tbeir
palms wave, and near how their voices ring'
Floods clapping their hand3, streets gleaming
with gold, uncounted multitudes ever
accumulating in number and ever rising up
into gleulder nosannas. If you cannot stand
to look unon that joy for at least ono hour
how could you endure to dwell among it forever?
You would wish yourself out of it in
three days, and choose the earth again or
any other place where it was not always
Sunday.
My hearer in worldly prosperity, affluent,
honored, healthy and happy, look in upon
that company of the redeemed, and see how
the poor soul in heaven !?: better off than
vou are, brighter in apparel, richer in estate,
higher in power. Hearers, afflicted and
tried, look in through that open door, that
you may see to what gladness and glory you
are coming, to what life, to what royalty.
Hearors pleased to fascination with this
world, cather tin votir souls for ono nnnro
eiative look upon riches than never fly away,
upon health that never sickens, upon scepters
that never break, upon expectations that are
never disappointed. Look in and sea if
there are not ouough crowns to pay us for
all our tattles, enough re3t to relieve all our
fatigues, enough living fountains to quench
all our thirst, enough glory to dash out for
ever and ever all earth's sighing and restlessness
and darkness. Battles onde-J, tears
wiped away, thrones plucked from the
bosoms, stabs healed, the tomb riven?what
a sceuo to look upon!
Again, the door of heaven stands open for
the Christian's final entrance. Death to the
righteous is not climbing high walls or fording
deep rivers, but it is entering an open
door. If you ever visit the old homestead
where you were horn, and while father and
mother are yet alive, as you go up the lane
in front of the farm house, and put your
hand on the door and lift the latch, do you
shuddor with fear? No, you are glad to entor.
So your last sickness will be only the
ianein front of your Father's house, from
which you hear the voice of singing before
yon reach the door. And death, that is the
lifting of the latch before you enter, the
greetings and embraces of tho innumerable
family of tho righteous. Nay, there is no
latch, for John says tho door is already open.
What a company of spirits h ive already entered
those portals, bright and shining!
Souls released from the earthly prison house
how they shouted as thev went through!
Spirits that spod up from the flames of martyrdom,
making heaven richer as they went
in, pouring their notes into the celestial harmony.
And that door has not begun to shut. If
redeemed by grace we all shall enter it. This
side of it we have wept, hut on the other side
of it wo shall never *weep. On this sido we
may have grown sick with weariness, but
on tho other side of it we shall bo without
fatiguo. On this side we bleed with the war
rior's won ads, on the other side we stall wave
the victor's palm. When yon think ot dying
what makes your brow contract, wh it makes
you breathe so deep a sigh? Whf.t makes
you gloomy in passing a graveyard? Pollower
of Christ, you liavo been thinking
that death is something terrible, the measuring
of lances with a powerful antagonist,
the closing in of a conflict which may be your
everlasting defeat. You do not want much
to think of dying. The step beyond this
life seems so mysterious you dread the taking
of it. Why, who taught you this lesson
of horrors? Heaven's door is wide open,
and you step out of your sick room i ato tnose
portals.
Not as long as a minute will elapse between
your departure and your arrival the ro. Not
half so long as the twinkling of an eye. Not
the mikionth part of an ins Ian t There is no
stumbling into darkness. There is no plunging
down into mysterious depths. The door
is open. This instant you are here, the next
you are there. When a vessel struck the
rocks of the French coast, while the crew
were clambering up the beach a cage of birds
in the ship's cabin, awakened, began to sing
most sweetly, and when the last man left the
vessel they were singing yet. Even so in the
last hour ot our dissolution, when driven on
the coast of the other world, may onr disembarkation
from this rough, tossing life be
amid the eternal singing of a thousand promises
of deliverance and victory!
For all repenting and balievin; siuls the
door of heaven is now wido open, the door
ot mercy, the door of comfort, for the poorest
as well as for the wealthiest, for the outlaw
as well as for the moralist, for Chinese
coolie as well as his Empjror, for tho Russian
boor as well as the Czar, for the Turk
as well as the Sultan. Richer than all
wealth, more refreshing than all fountains,
deeper than all depths, higher than all
heights and broader than all breadths is
tho salvation of Jesus Christ which I press
uuoti vour consideration Corns all yo trav
elcrs of tho desert undor theso pafoi trees.
Ob. if I could gather before you that tremendous
futuro upon which you aro
invited to eater?dominions and principalities,
day without night, martyr;
under tho throne, and tho four-andtweuty
elders falling before it, stretching off
in great distances t.he hundred and forty and
four thousand and thousands of thousands,
host beside host, rank beyond rank, in infinite
distance, nations of tho saved beyond
nations of the saved, -until augelic visions
cease to catch anything more than tho faint
outline of whole empires yet outstretching
iKjyoud the capacity of any vision save tho
eye of God Almighty. Then, after I had
liuished tho sketch, I would liko to ask you
if that place is not grand enough and high
enough, and it anything could bo added,
any purity to the whiteness of tho robes, any
power to tho acclaiming thunders of its
worship. And all that may be yours.
Fishing with a Wheel.
The present catch of salmon, 9nys r I
Portland (Ore.) letter, approximates to a
thousand tons daily and is so great the
factories find it impossible to handle it.
Great quantities, therefore, spoil and aro
lost. Salmon are caught by the usual
method of using nets; Indians spear them
in large numbers, but the main source of
supply is the iish-wheel. This most ingenious
and effective contrivance is at}
immense wheel about thirty feet in diameter
by eight feet in width, consisting of
four great pockets of ordinary mesh fence
a ire. This wheel is placed in a favorable
situation in swift running water. The
force of the water carries it around with
a steady, resistless motion, plunging the
monster scoops into the stream. Any
hapless fish that wanders into the radius
of this wheel is quickly lifted from the
water, dropped into a slippery trough
constructed iu the wheel near its nxlo
and slides into a box, where its animate
career ends. The efficiency of this invention
is shown by the fact that one of
these whecli has landed' twelve tons in
twenty-fauj- hours.
THE MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY.
Jinks?Winks married a woman of intellect,
didn't he?
Blinks?I don't know. Why?
Jinks?I notice he never has any but,
tons on his clothes.
CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS.
Fnll Lint of tlio Famons Enactments
Which Forbade a Woman to Kiss Her
Children on Fast Day.
The term "Bine Laws" is applied to
such as relate to the private consciences
of individuals. All oonntries
formerly had such statutes, and the
thirteen colonies were no exception before
tho Revolution, The oode of Connecticut
is often spoken of in this respect.
Those most noted were of the
Colony of New Haven, which was
united with the Connecticut Colony in
1G55. Here is a fnll copy of the Now
Haven list, often called the "Connecticut
Blue Laws."
The Governor and magistrates, convened
in general assembly, are the buflr>A
r\9 tln'o in/1o.
piUUiO jAiHUlj UUUC1 V?VUj Ui tux.i XUUQpondent
dominion.
Conspiracy against tho dominion
shall be pnnishcd with death.
Whosoever says there is a powor and
jurisdiction above und over this dominion,
shall suffer death and tho loss
of his property.
Whosoevor attempts to change or
overturn this dominion shall suffer
death.
No one shall be a freeman or give
vote, unless he bo converted, and a
member in full commnnion of one of
the churches allowed in this dominion.
Each freeman shall swear by the
blessed God to bear true allegiauco to
this dominion, and that Jesus is the
onlv king.
rfo Quaker or dissenter from the
established worship of this dominion
shall be allowed to give a vote for the
election of magistrate or anv officer.
No food or lodging shall be offered
a Quaker, Adamite, or other heretic.
If any person shall turn Quaker, he
shall be banished and not suffered to
return on pain of death.
No Quaker priest shall abide in this
dominion; lie shall be banished, and
suffer death on return.
Priests may be seized by any one
without a warrant.
No one shall run on the Sabbath day
or walk in his garden, or elsewhere,
ornnnt. rovcrnntlv to ftlirl from mfifitini?.
No one shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds, sweep house, cut hair or
shave on the Sabbath day.
No woman thall kiss her children op
the Sabbath day or Fast day.
The Sabbath shall begin at sunset on
Saturday.
To pick an ear of corn growing on a
neighbor's garden shall be deemed a
theft.
A person accused of trcspais in the
night shall be judged guilty until he
clear himself by his oath.
No oue shall buy or sell land without
permission of the selectmen.
When it appears that an accused
person has confederates, and refuses to
discover them, he may be racked.
A drunkard shall have a master appointed
by the selectmen, who are to
debar him the liberty of buying and
seiiing. -
Whoever publishes a lie to the
prejudice of his neighbor shall be put
iu the stocks or receive ten stripes.
No minister shall keep a sohool.
Men stealers shall suffer death.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed with
gold, silver, or bone lace above two
shillings per yard, shall be presented
by the grand jurors, and the selectmen
shall tax the offender ?300 on his
estate.
A debtor in prison, swearing tnat lie
Las no estate, shall be laid oat and sold
to make satisfaction.
"Whoever brings cards or dice into
this dominion shall pay a fine of ?5.
No one shall read the common
prayer book, keep Christmas, or set
days, or play on any instrument except
the dram or jews-harp.
No gospel minister shall join people
in marriage. The magistrate only
shall join them in marriage, as they do
it with less scandal to Christ's Churoli.
When parents refuse their children
convenient marriage, the magistrate
shall determine the point.
The selectmen, on finding the children
ignorant, may take them away from
their parents and pat them in better
hands at the expense of their parents.
A man who strikes his wife shall pay
a fine of ?10.
A woman who strikes her husband
shall be punished as the court directs.
A wife shall be deemed rood evidence
against her husband.
No man shall court a maid in person
or by letter, without first obtaining
consent of her parents.
Married persons must live together
or be imprisoned in jail.
Every male shall have hi* hair cut
round according to a cap.
A little railway just opened between
Lynton and Lyamouth, in England,
has the steepest incline in the
1J rrt?n/1tnnf 1 in
WOI'IU Ur IIUUU1U1 . .v.
1}. Tho lino is only 900 feot long,
and was built to give passage over a
cliff nearly 500 feet high separating the
two places. Water is brought from a
distance of a mile to the summit of the
cliff, and is drawn from the reservoir
to move the cars, two of which are connected
togother by a wire cable and
sufficient water-load applied to 1ho
descending one to drag the other up
the incline.
Fortune turns faster than a millwheel,
and those who were yesterday at
the top may find themselves at the bottom
to-day.
Summer
Weakness
Loss of Appetite,
Sick Headache,
Quickly Cured by
HoocPs
SarsapariSIa
Make Your Own Rugs,
' I rice Ust of Hug Machines. l:ng
1'iittcrna, Yarns, etc., KHKK. Acent* Wnntcil.
E. POSh A- ('<).. Toledo, Olilo.
V N91 I, a s J?i c#new I'oiisiuii taws, spnt
"SLBIlfijJ I L 9Hal free. lieaerierarelttved.
W mmwff I k IBV success or no fpp. A.W.
McCormlck ft Boat,Washington, D. 0., ft Cincinnati. 0
nnill&l HAIIIT. Only Certain and
llrlfllAra eanr (,'IRK In the World. Dr.
Ul mw J. L. bTEPHEXS, Lebanon,0
ajnup STUDY, Hook-keeplng, Business Korn:i\
KUDIC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, etc.,
II thoroughly tmight by MAIL Circulars free.
Hrynnt'a College, -137 Main xt., Buffalo, X. Y
PENSIONS 'nkwdaW.8, '
I LnVJIUIlU Soldiers, Widows, Parents, sen I
for blank applications and Information. PatiuoiC
O'Farrkij, Pension Agent, Wasnlugton, 1). C.
#TC TO8*i50 A MONTIIcan bp made working
? I w for us. Persons preferred who can furnish
a horse and give their whole tloie to the business.
Spare moments may bo prolltnhlr employed also.
A few vacancies In towns ami eitlev. II.' P. JOHNfcOX
& CO., 1UU." Main St.. lticiunoud, Va.
I
According to a New York newspaper. 30.000
strangers spend tho night of every day in
New York city.
Children Enjoy
The pleasant flavor, ccntlo action and soothing
effects of Syrnp of Figs, when In noed of a laxative
and if the father or mother bo costive or
billon# the most gratifying results follow Its
ose.so that it is the best family remedy known
and every family should have a bottle.
In the year 1703 there was but one newspaper
in the United States.
One Tlionsnnd Dollnrs.
I will forfeit the nlwe amount, if I fail to
prove that Floroulcxiou is the best medicine in
existence for Dyspepsia,Indigestion or Biliousness.
It is a certain cure, and nffords immediate
relief,In cases of Kidney and Liver Comfloint,
Nervous Debility and Consumption.
loraplcxion bnilds up the weak system and
cures where other remedies fail. Ask your
drncirist for it and get well. Valuable book
"Thing Worth Knowing," also, sample bottle
sent free: all charges prepaid. Address Franklin
Hart, 83 Warren street, New York.
The earliest d-ited print, 'the St. Christopher
print," was printed In 1-123No
soap in the world has etvr been imitated
ns much as Dobbin-*'* Electric Soap. The market
Is/nil of Imitations. Be careful that you
are not (Weired. "J. B. Dobbings, Philadelpbia
and New lork," is stamped on every bar.
The rnc horso is said to have a great dltlike
for u camel.
FITS stopped free bv Dr. Rune's Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day'e
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 52 trial
bottle free. Dr. Kline. 031 Area St.. Phila., Pa
The bunya.ow is now tao English name
for the summer cotta.e.
E. A. Rood, Toledo, Oliio, says: "Hall's Catarrh
Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen
years ago and she has bad no return of it. It's
a sure cure." Sold by Druggists, 75c.
a street in Hu'l, England, Is called "The
Land of Green Ginger street."
If afflicted with sore eyes use Drlsoao Thompicn'tEyoWater.Drugglsts
sell at25c.per bottle
Gunpowder and alcohol mixed used to be
giv* n to so diers to make them fight.
Cures Promptly and Permanently
LUMBAGO,
Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache,
SPRAINS,
Neuralgia, Swellings, Frost-bites,
B R UIS E S .
THE CHARLES A. V06ELER CO., Baltimore, Md.
n/vn tvttccttm rnttdtr
XUIt U I 0?j1N 1 XjH 11
BILE BEANS.
I Try "BILE BEANS SMALL" (40 llttle
beans In each bottle). Very
small?easy to take. Prloe of
either size, 25 cents.
asrBUY of your druggist..
(
Carter, Tex.. Jan. 19.
We hare need "Bile Beane" for a long time, and
they have given perfect eatlefaction in each caae.
J. c. McDakeau
THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY,
i BEECHAM'S PILLS \
For Bilions and Nervous Disorders.
"Worth a Guinea a Box" bnt sold
for 25 Cents, t
BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Id Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use JSW
IS In ttmo. Sold by druggists. liTj
afe % aWHJSKEY HAS*
H B I III mm ITS cured at home wilh>
H W* B | I BWa om psin. Book of tar'ULlJsiS
K%aUH?:
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HEST I* THE WOULD UutHVb
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PENSION Bill
1 LliulUNU isPassed. ,^
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to $12 a mo. Feo tlO when you get your money.
Blanks free. .'OSKPll 1L IIl.XTKU, Atty, tVuhtaiUa, IX (,
Pennsylvania Agricu
Address A. B. FARQ
2 Icrmswhich rendermoot Doctor Hooks so value!
i Intended 10 hp ol Service in lite Knuiilj-, a"
t I'artI contains Information on (lencral Di?
? Anatomy nrut Functions?covering Eryslpelw, Dai!
Prickly Heat, Measles, Small Chicken Pox, W
and Cure, Fifty pages on the II It A IN noil N
a Kits, Dizziness, Delirium Tremens. Kpllepsy, Faint
Neuralgia, Disease- of Spinal Cord, Lockjaw. St. V
? Inflammation, Cataract,
unties on tho KA It? Deaf-I _ A ^ n
S Koises In, to Extract Foreign ^ fill fflS
a the MINK ? Hired lilt-, ca- k|uU fi
Fifteen pages on the PA<'K. t? 3 iflB m
TKI.TII ? Cracked J.ips, bJPs3 5J3 3
(turn 1MI,Ac. F.lglitcett page* sdf xir *
a I'll'H?llruuchUI.-:, Pipliihca
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on 1,1'XliS?Consl'Oi|itlon. -
Spittim; Wood, Stllcli In Side, Ac. Twelve page,
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a Dlnrrhren, Dysentery, Dyspepsia, Heartburn, fail
the very Important I riiim-v mill tfcnlral Orn
Hon of Madder, Ac. Fifty paces on Diseife
Debility, Fevers of nil kin.In, Malaria. Oout, libcini
a 1'art If relates to Disrnses ol XVaineu -Met
a Part Iff Is devoted to Children itml Tliei
Information mothers constantly neeil. This part a
l'snT IV corers Accident* n
J Household Surgery, l'olsous and mm n ~
a Part V?t.'riirral lly- F la 81
anil Uulitc to lamp. Healthy I.lre. ??
lion* Answered: valuable vn? ilt.w N?
all topics relating to Health xouaiayrie
a PAnx VII?For the perttFnl i
a relations of Man end Wire: for ilie Newly Married
Part VIII?Coiikery mid llaliillrslbrilir
i Part IX? Indications III lll<f:io by Ape
1'art X?.11 rilicilies?'t'liolr 1'eejwratlon ami I
| a PartXI?llotanlcn! .lleilicnl I'racticei ii
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Don't read I Don't think f
Don't believe! Nov/, are you
better ?
You women who think that
patent medicines are a hum*
bug, and Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription the biggest
humbug of the whole (because
it's best known of all)?does
your lack-of-faith cure come ?
It's very easy to u don't" in
this world Suspicion always
comes more easily than confidence.
But doubt ? little
faith ? never made a sick
woman well ? and the " Favorite
Prescription" has cured
thousands of delicate, weak
women, which makes us think
that our " Prescription" is
better than your don't believe.
We're both honest Let us
come together. You try Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
If it doesn't do as represented,
you get your money again.
Where proofs so easy, can
you afford to doubt?
Little but active?are Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Best Liver Pills madegentle,
yet thorough. They regulate
and invigorate the liver,
stomach and bowels.
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BARGAINS!
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made, and full length?a yards to tbc roll.
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.Jilt Borders. 4 to 18 incites wide, '2 and
Borders without Gilt, V to 0 Inches lc. jer
yard.
Send ?c. In stamps for samples of tha best and
^realist bargains in the country.
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Mention this paper. . Providence. R. I.
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honorably discharged Soldiers and Sailors of tho lata ,
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Widows the sa;ne, without regard to cause of death.
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ar's Standard Engines, Saw Mills, Shingle
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CTOR'SBILLSii
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t.'V'j tut liow many persons know what to do In*
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