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FARMING A GOSPEL TYPE! Dr. Taimage's Sermon at the Dedication at Mount Gretna, Penn. Plough Deep, Aim for the Cross, Sow the Klglit Seed and the Crop Will be Worth Renplng. Text: Etisha, the son of Shay hat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen be- \ fore him, and he with the iwclfth.?l Kings xix.t 11). Farmers of America! Awpt my ??!natation. Our text puts us ilown into the plow's furrow, where many of us have been before. My boyhood passed on a form and my father a tanner, your style of life is familiar to mo One of my earliest recollections is tliatof my father coining in from the hot harvest held exhausted, the |>orspi ration streaming from his forehead nml chin, and fainting on the iloorsilt, and my mother resuscitating 1 im, until seeing the" alarm of the household ho said: "Don't be frightened. I got a little tired and the sun was hot, but I am all right now." And I remetiilier mother seated at tho table, often saying, "\Vell, I am too tire 1 to eat!" The fact is that I do not think tho old folks got thoroughly rested until they lay down in the?ravevard bank of Somerviiio to take the Inst sleep. Office seekers go through the lain! and they stand or. political platforms,and they tell tho farriers the story about the independent life of a farmer, giving flattery where they ought to give sympathy. Independent of what ? No class of people in this country havo it harder than farmers. Independent of what? Of the curculio that stings the jieach trees? of the rust in*the wheat? of the long rain with the rye down? Independent of tho grasshopper? ol the locust? of the army worm? of the potato bug? Independent' of the drought that burns up the harvest? Independent of the cow with the hollow horn? or tho sheep with the foot rot? or tho pet horse with n nail in his hoof? lndej>endcnt of the cold that freezes out the winter's grain? ludejienclent of tho snowbank out of which ho must shovel himself? Independent of tho cold weather when he stands threshing his numbed fingers around his !?ody to keep them from being frosted? Independent of the frozen ears ami the frozen foot? Jndependent of what* Fancy formers who havo made their fortunes in the city and go out fnto the country to build bouses with all the modern improvements, and make farming a luxury, may not need any solace; but tho yeouianry who get their Jiving out of tho soil, and who that way have toclotho their families ami educate their children and pay their taxes and meet their interest 011 mortgaged farms-such men fimla terrific struggle. And my hope is that this great Nat;onnl Farmers'Kncampment may do something toward lifting the burdens of the agriculturist. Yes, we were nearly all of u? born in tho country. Wo dropped corn in the hill, and went 011 Saturday to the mill, tying the prist in the centre of the sack so flio rH-tnlnnic nn nihluip ci/ln of tlin linrcfl balanced each otlior, on<l drove the c title afield, our bnrov foot wet with the dew, aud rode the horses with the halter to the brook until we fell off, ami hunted tho mow for ncsta until tho feathered occupants went cockling away. Mo we all understand rustic tdlusious. Tho lliblo is full of them. In Christ's sermon on tho mount you see the full Mown lilies and t he glossy hack of the crow's wing as it flies over Mount Olivet. David and John, l'aul aud Isaiah find it country life a source of frequent illustration, while Christ lakes tho res[>onsibility of calling God a farmer, declaring, "My Father is the husbandman." Noah was the tirst farmer. IVo say nothing about Cain, the tiller of the soil. Adam was a gardener on a large scale, but to Noah was given all the acres of the earth. Elisha was an agriculturist, not culturing a ten awe lot ; for in my text you find Liin plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and lie with the twelfth. In Bible times the land was so plenty and the inhabitants so few that Noah was right when he gave to every inhabitant a certain portion of laud; that land, if cultured, over after to bo bis own possession. They were not small crops raised in those times, for though the arts were rude the plow turned up \ vy rich soil, and barley, uud cotton, ami this, and all kinds of grain came up at the call of t he harvesters. J'liny tells of one stalk of grain that had on it between three aud four hundred ears. The rivers and the brooks, through artificial channels, were brought down to tho roots ol the corn, and to this habit of turning a river wherever it was wanted Solomon refers when he says: "The King's heart is in the hand of the Lord, and lie turneth it as the rivers oi water are turned, whithersoever He will." The wild beasts were caught, and then a hook was put into their nose, and then tlijy were led over the field, and to that Go 1 refers when He sav3 to wicked Senacherib, "I will put a hoolf In thy nose and 1 will bring thee back by the way which thou earnest " And God has a hook in every man's nose, whether it bo Nebuchadnezzar or Ahabor Ilcrotl. He may tbink himself very independent, but some time in his life or in the hour of his death ho will find that the Lord Almighty has a hook in his nose. This was the rule in regard to the culture of the ground, "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together," illustrating the folly of ever putting intelligent and useful and pliable men in association with tho stubborn and the unmanageable. The vast majority of trouble in the churches and in reformatory institutions cotucs from the disregard of this command of the Lord, "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." There were large amouuts of property invested in cattle. The Moabites paid 100,00C sheep as an annual tax. Job hau 7000 sheep, 0000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen. The time oi vintage was ushered in with mirth and music. The clusters of the vine were put into the wine press, and then five men would get intc the press and trample out the juice from the grape until their garments were saturated with the wine and had become the emblems of slaughter. Christ Himself, wounded until covered with the blood of crucifixion, made use of this allusion when the question was asked: "Wherefore art Thou red in Thine apparel and Thy garments like one who treadeth the wine vatHe responded: "I have trodden the wine press alone." In all ages there has been great honor paid to agriculture. Seven-eighths of the people in every country are* disciples of the plow. A government is strong in proportion as it is inpportod by an athletic and iudustrious Yeomanry. So long ago as before the fail of Carthage Strabo wrote, twenty-eight books on agriculture; Hesiod wrote a poem on the same subject?"The Weeks and Days." Cato was prouder of his work on husbandry than of all his military conquests. Hut I must not be tempted into a discussion of agricultural conquests. Stauding amid the harvests aud orchards and vineyards o? tho Bible, and standing amid the harvests and orchards and vineyards of our own country?I want to run out the analogy between tho pro taction of crops and the growth of grace in the soul? all these sacred writers making use of that analogy. In the first place I remark, in grace as in the fields, there must be a plow, That which theologians call conviction is only the plow- 1 share turning up the sins that have been rooted and matted in the soil. A farmer said to his indolent son, "There arc a hundred dollars buried deep in that field." The son went to work and plowed the field from fence to fence, and lie plowed it very doeo and then complained that he had not found the money, but when tho crop had been gathered and sold for a hundred dollars more than any previous year, then tho young man took the hint as to what his father meant when he said there were a hundred dollars buried down in that field. Deep plowing for a crop. Deep plowing for a soul. He who makes light of sin will never amount to anything in the church or in the world. If a man speaks of sin as though it were an iuae? uracy or a mistake, instead of tho loathtome, abominable, consuming and damning thing that God hates, that man will never 3 iold a harvest of usefulness. When 1 was a boy I plowed a field with a tonai of spirited horses. I plowed it very quickly. Once in a while I passed over some of tho sod without turning it, but I did not jerk back the plow with its rattting clevises. 1 thought it made no difference. After a while my father canto along and said: "Why, this will never do; this isn't plowed deep enough; there you have missed this and you have missed that." And he plowed it , over again. The difficulty with a groat r.mv people is that t liey are only soratcl!!^ with conviction when the subsoil plow of Cod's truth ought to be put in up to tho bourn. My word is to all Sabbath-school teachers, to ail parents, to all Christian workersplow deep! plow deapl And if in your own personal experience .you are apt to take a lenient view of the sinful side of your nature put down into your soul tho ten commandments which roveal the holiness of God, and that sharp and glittering coulter will turn up your soul to tho deepest depths. If a innn preaches to you that you are only a little out of order by reason of sin and that you need only a little fixing up, he deceives I You have suffered an appalling injury by reason of sin. There are quick poisons and slow poisons, but tlio druggist could give you one drop that would kill tho body. And sin is like that drug; so virulent, so poisonous, so fatal that one drop is enough to kill the soul. Deep plowing for a crop. Deep plowing for a soul. Broken heart or no religion. Broken soul or no harvest. Why was it that David and tho jailer and tho publican and Paul made such ado about their sius? Had they lost their senses? No. The plowshare struck than. Conviction turned up a great many things that were forgotten. As u farmer plowing sometimes turns up tiie skoloton of a man or tho anatomy of a monster long ago buried, so tho plowshare of conviction turns up tho ghastly skeletons of siu long ago iutonibed. Geologists never brought tin from the depths of tho mountain mightier ichthyosaurus or megatherium. But what means all this crooked plowing, these crooked furrows, tiio repentance that amounts to nothing, the repentance that ends in nothing? Men groan over their sins, but get no better. They weep, but their tears are not counted. They get convicted, but not converted. What is the reason? I remember that 011 the farin wo set a standard with a red flog at the other end of the field. We kept our eye on that. We aimed at that. Wallowed up to that. Losing sight of that we made a crookol furrow. Keeping our eyes on that we n\a le a straight furrow. Now in this matter of conviction wo must have some standard to guide us. It is a red standard that God has set at tlio other ond of the field. It is the cross. Keeping your eye on that you will make a straight furrow. I<osiug sight of it 3*011 will make a crooked furrow. Plow up to the cross. Aim not at either end of the horizontal piece of the cross but at the upright piece, at the centre of it, the heart of the Son of God, who bore your sins and made satisfaction. Crying and weeping will not bring you through. "Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance." Oh, plow up to the cross! Again I remark, in grace as in the field there must b? a sowing. In the autumn weather you find the farmer going across Iho field at a stride of about, twenty-three inches, and at every stride he puts his hand into the sack of grain and ho sprinkles the seed corn over the field. It looks silly to a man who does not know what he is doing. Ho is doing a very important work. He is scattering the winter grain, and though the snow may come, the next year there will be a great crop. Now, that is what we are doing when wo are pr. aching the Gospel? we nre scattering the see 1. It is the foolishness of preaching, but it is the winter grain; and though the snow of worldliness may come upon it, it will yield after a while I lorious harvest. Let us bo sure we sow the right kind of seel. Now mulleii stalk and mullcn stalk will come up. Sow Canada thistles and Canada thistles will come up. Sow wheat and wheat will come up. Let us distinguish between truth and error. Let us know the difTerenco bctweeu wheat anu liollohnrn oats and henbane. The largest denomination in this country is the denomination of Not hingarians. Their religion is a system of negations. You say to one of them: "What do you believe?" "Well, I don't believe in infant baptism.'* "What do you believe?" "Well, I don't believe in the perseverance of the slints." "Well, now tell me whit you do believe?" "Weli, 1 don't -believe ;n tne eternal punishment of the wickei." So their religion is a row of cyphers, believe something and teach it; or, to resume the figure of rny text, scatter abroad the right kiud of seed. A minister in New York preached a sermon calculated to set the denominations of Christians quarreling. IIo was sowing nettlos. A minister in boston advertised that lie would preach a sermon on the superiority of transcendental and organized forces to untranscoudental and unorganized forces. What was he sowing? The Lord Jesus Christ nineteen centuries ago plantc I the divine seed of doctrine. It sprang up. On one side of the stalk are all the churches of Christendom. On the other side of the stalk are all the free Oovernmon the earth, aud on the top there shall bo a flowering millennium after a while. All from the Gospel see I eft doctrino. Every word that a parent, or Sabbath-school teacher, or city missionary, or other Christian worker speaks for Christ comes up. Yea, it comes up with compound j interest?you saving one soul, that one saving ten, the ten a hundred, the hundred a thousand, the thousand ten thousand, the ten thousand one liuudred thousand?on, on forever Again I remark, in grace as iu the farm there must bo a harrowing, I refer now not to a harrow that goes over the field in order to prepare the ground for the seed, but a harrow which goes over aft.*r tho seed is sown, lest tho birds pick up theseed,sinkingitdown into the earth so that itcau take root. There are new kinds of harrow, but the harrow as I remember it was niado of bars of wood nailed across each ether, and the under side of each bar was furnished with sharp teeth, and when the horses were hitched to it it went t;a: lng an I leaping across the field, driving the sew down into tho earth until it sprung up in the harvest. bereavement, sorrow: persecution are the Lord's harrows to sin* the Gospel truth iuto your heart. There were truths that you heard thirty years ago that have not affected you until recently. Some great trouble cn no over you, and the truth was harrowed in, and it has come up. What did God mean in this couutry in IS57? For a century there was the Gospel preached, but a great deal of it pro laced no result. Then God harnessed a wild panic to a harrow of commercial disaster, and that harrow went down Wall street and up Wall street, dqwu Third street and up Third street, down State street and up State street, until the whole laud was torn to pieces as it never had been before. What followed tho harrow? A great awakening in which there were 500,00J souis brought into the kingdom of our Lord. No harrow, no crop. Again I remark, in grace as in the farm there must be a reaping. Many Christians speak of religion as though it were a matter of econunlcs or insurance. They expect to reap in the next world. Oh, 110! Now is the time to reap. Gather up the joy of the Christian religion this morning, this afternoon, this night. If you,have not as much graco as you would like to have, lhauk God for what you have, and pray for more. You are no worse enslaved than Joseph, no worse trouble 1 than was David, no worse scourged than was Paul. Yet, ami I the rattling of fetters, and ami i the gloom of dungeons, and nmid tho horror of shipwreck, they triumphed in the graco of God. The weakest man hero has 501 acres of spiritual joy all ripe. AVliy do you not go and reap it? You havo been groaning over your infirmities for thirty years. Now give one round shout over your emancipation. You sny you have it so Hani; you migtit nave it worse, aou wonuer why this groat cold trouble keops revolving through your soul, turning and turning, with a black hand on the crank. Ah, that trouble is the grindstone on which you are to sharpen your sicklo. To the fields! Wake up! Take off your green spectacles, your blue spectacles, your black spectacles. Pull lip the cor iters of your tnoul n as far nS you pull them down. To the fields! Heap! reap! Again I remark, in grace as in farming there is a time for threshing. I tell you hluntly that is death. Just asa farmer beats t!i.: wheat out or the straw so death beats the soul out of the body. Every sickness is a stroke of tho llail, an*l the sickbed is the threshing floor. What, say you, is death to a good man only taking tho wheat out of the straw? Thatisnll. An aged man lias fallen asleep. Only yesterday you saw hiin in the sunny jmrch playing with his grniidcbildreu, Calmly he received the message to leave this worid, lie bade a pleasmt good-byto his old friends. Tho telegraph carries the tidings, an I on swift rail trains tho kindred come, wanting once inore to look on the face of dear old grandfather. Brush back the gray hairs from his brow; it willucver aehengaiu. Put him away in the slinnber of the tomb. He will not lie afraid of that night. Grandfather was never afraid of anything, lie will rise in the morninz of tho resurrection Grandfather was always tho first to rise. His voice has already mingled in the doxology of heaven. Grandfather always did sing in c .urch. Anything ghastly in that? No. The threshing of tho wheat out of the straw. That is ali. The Saviour folds a lamb iu His bosom. | The little child filled all the house with her music, an 1 her toys are scattered all up and down the stairs just as she left then. What if the hand that plucked four o'clocks out of the meadow is still? It will wave the eternal triumph. What if the voice that made music in the home is still? it will sing tho eternal Uosanua. Put a white rose iu one hand and a red rose in the other hand, and a wreath of orange blossoms on the brow; the white flower for the victory, the red flower for the Saviour's sacrifice, the orange blossoms for her marriage dav. Anything ghastly about that? Oil, uo. l'ho sun went down aud the flower shut. The wheat threshed out of the straw. "Dear Lord, give me sleep," said a dying boy, the son of one of mv elders; "Dear Lord, give me sleep." And he closed his eyes and awoke in glory. Henry W. Longfellow, writing a letter of condolenco to those parents, said: Those last words were beautifully poetic: 'Do -r LorJ, give mo sleep.'" Twas not In cruelty, not in wrath That the reaper cainc that day; Twas an angel that visitcd tho earth And took toe flower away. So it may be with us when our work Is all done. "Dear Lord, give me sleep." I have one more thought to present. I have spoken of tho plowing, of the sowing, of tho harrowing, of the reaping, of the threshing. I must now speak a moment of the garnering. Where is the garner? Need I tell you? Oh, no. So many have gone out from your own circles?yen, from your own family? that you have had your eyes on that garner for many a year. What a hard time some of thein had! In Gethsemanes of suffering they sweat great drops of blood. They took tho "cup of trembling" and they put it to their hot lips and tlioy cried: "If it be possible, let this cup pass from mo." With tongues of burning agony they cried: "0 Lord, deliver my soul f Hut they got over it. They all got over it. Garnered! Their tears wiped away; their battles all cuded?their burdens lifted. Garnered! The Lord of the harvest will not allow those sheaves to perish In the equinox. Garnered! Some of us remember, on the farm, that the sheaves wera put on the "top of the rack which surmounted the wagon, and thesa sheaves wero piled higher and higher, and after a while the hcrse3 stnrted for the barn; an 1 these sheaves swayed to cud fro in the wind, an t tho old wagon creaked and the horses made a struggle and pulle 1 so hard tho harness came up in loops of leather on their backs, and whon the Iront wheel struck the elevated floor of the barn it seemed as if the load would go no farther until the workmen gave a great shout, and then with one Inst tremendous strain tho horses pulled in the load; then they were unharnessed and forkful after forkful of graiu fell into the mow. Oh, my friends, our gottiug into heaven may be a pull, a hard pull, a very bard pull; but these sheaves are bound to go in. The Lord of the harvest has promised it. I see tho load at last coming in the door of the heavenly garner. The sheaves of the Christian soul sway to and fro in the wind of death, and the old body creaks under the load, and as the load strikes the floor of the celestial garner it seems as if it can go no farther. It is the last struggle, until the voices of angels and the voices ot our departed kindred and the welcoming voice of God shall send the harvest rolling into eternal triumph, while all up and down the sky the cry is hoard: "Harvest heme; Harvest home!'' BRAIDING MACHINES. Some of the Marvelous Work Produced by Them. It is very curious to an outsider to watch the operations of a braiding machine. In one factory there are sonic ten different kinds of machines kept in operation. The most curious of all is a machine whose special domain is the socalled "applique" work. It performs three ta<-ks at one and the same time, says the Ladies' Wear Review. When properly adjusted a tiny ktiife cuts out, according to the pretty design intended, the figures from the upper laytrof cloth, while, simultaneously, the machine sews these figures into the layer of cloth underneath, the upper layer being gencrallyof medium thickness, while the lower one is cloth of the thickest, warmest and most expensive kind, such as is suitable for a lauy's cloak. The effect thus produced?artistic arabesques, beautifully curving lines, forming an intricate, yet pleasing, pattern, lying on the cloth underneath?is very pretty indeed. Generally two cloths?of shades differing so much as to form a fine contiast are chosen. The delicate mcchauism of this machine is especially noticeable in the cutting out of the upper layer of cloth. For, while the whole process of cutting it and sewing it on tight at the same time is done so quickly under the hands of a skillful operator that a yard of this "applique" work is made within five minutes, the knife must be so nicely adjusted that it will cut exuctly through the thickness of the upper cloth, aud not the hundredth part of au inch deeper. Another machine, which is likewise the product of a very ingenious brain, is the so-called "three-spool" machine. Two threads of worsted and one thread of silk cording arc manipulated by this machine in such a manner as to lay down the worsted on the cloth and to spin the silk right over and all around it. The effect thus produced is that of very thick silk braid, the whole being more durable than silk throughout, yet much less expensive. The beading machine, by nunos of which those most elcgTint ornaments oa a woman's dress?those glistening arabesques of beading?arc put on, is another triumph of mechanical genius. The same may be said of the fcithcredgc machine, which does the so-called "sunbeam'' and "rainbow" work, embroidering the shades, which arc gradually toned down; or the cornellv machine, which does the cording; and still more so of the soutache machine, which docs the simplest and yet one of the most eilectivc styles of embroidery. A Child Victim. An incident reported by Missionary R. Darby, who is laboring on the Congo, shows how inhuman heathenism is, and how remorseless arc its cruelties. He Eays: "A man died near the station where I work. The people, as usual, concluded that, some witch had caused his death by her spell, so they gathered together to try to find the witch. They came to the conclusion that the wife of the deceased was the guilty woman. They took her, cut her head ofT, threw her body into the river, buried the head in the ground until the flesh decayed, and stuck the skull on the roof of the house. Fathers, listen ! mothers, listen! and then think of the darkness of Africa. That man and woman had a little baby that could scarcely walk. There was not a man or woman in all these towns that would give the child a bit of bread or a drink of water; not a soul would allow it to come into their house. They left the poor little thing outside, aud I saw it wasting away. I said to me of tnv boys, 'Whose child is that?' 'It is the child of a witch,' he said. I came heme. I thought to myself, ' Well, I have been a good many different things in work, and I think I will just turn nurse now.' I thought I could not see that child starved to death. I went off into the town -to buy it. They told me they had taken the poor little innocent baby and tlung it into the river to the crocodiles!" A oiki, in California, named Delbert Reynolds, has been wearing male attire for several years and passing as a man. Her object was to have greater nco oc in earning money, the father of the family being dead. She has driven an express wagon and a sprinkling cart. Though people often noticed her feminine voice and other peculiarities she was never found out. She now looks very charming as the wife of Sherman Hartmau. > ? .1 A? HOUSEHOLD^ MATTERS. ' A BEEP'OICEI/'ET. A dish that'is always?acceptable either for breakfast or teatis beef omelet. It w made of one pouudiof chopped beef, two eggs, three soda crackers, rolled fine, Rtid three or four tablespoonfuls of milk. Season to taste with'- salt, pepper and sage. Make into a ?roll, cover loosely with a buttered clothlpand bake half an hour. Put a little wnterin the pnn before you put it in the*oven. It can bo eaten cither hot or? cold.?New York World. A NICE WAY TO* COOK SQUASH. A nice way for a ichnnge to cook white summer squash is tfc> cut, say three squashes in quarters, ythen cover them with boiling salted water; add one sprig of parsley, four peppercorns, two cloves and a raineed lemon. .Let all boil gently for forty-five minute. When the squashes.are cooked p&*s them through ft sieve and put them on the back of the range to'Jceep warm. Mix one>tea9poonful of flour iu ft little cold milk; add two cups of boiling milk, mix with tho n?/1l enrtrn vrrifTi /MYMl flAIIS. M]u:wm auuinunu ?? ?* v. ?JIA8H 8AU1D. The real hot weather* dish is the salad. It may bo made, asuiwatty youog authoress used to say, of "'anythingexcept old clothes." There is> no- vegetable, meat, or fish when cooked aud cold that will not, either alone or< combined with other ingredients, form, an agreeable salad. Few larders do noticontaiti the elements for this addition to> a meaL left from tho preceding meal or meals. Cooked red beets, cold potatoes, raw 1 tomatoes and raw cupumbers in equalparts but in dice, mixed with a cream or oib dressing and placed aroucd the heart of a lino Icttuco is one of the nicest of combination salads, the real name of which is salad a la Duinas.?American Agriculturist. CRAB APPLE MARMlAUADE. "Wash Siberian crab apples, putin water to cover and boiL till tender; press through a colander; add three-quarters of a pound of sugar to iu pound of the sifted crab apples; boil'.carefully. Marmalades and jams requJro almost constant stirring, as tho least bit of burning spoils tho flavor. Take some out in a saucer and let it cool. If no moisturo gathers about itiand it glistens,it is sufficiently cooked. Put up in cups or ?mall jars. When coldmtid ready to put -tway, cover with pieces of tissue or writing paper cut to fit, aud pressed closely upon the marmalade. Cover again with strong paper, brushed over on the inside with the white of an egg and turned down on the outside of tho cup.?Farm, Field, and Stockman. '.I/UK ll IB It Jl'JDB'UBAI W.m'llo. Turkish rose leaf conilits or sweetmeats are made like some of our sugared fruits. Small jars are used because exposure to the air injures the preserve. Marmalade, pots are best. The most fragrant roses ue choseD, in full bloom, while the leaves, are full and plumb. They should be plucked perfectly clean and free from dust and insects. Put them in layers in the jars, with crystallized, sugar, the top md bottom ktyers being j.t least half an inch thick; over the sugar paste a double thickness of glazed paper thiough which *he air cannot ^aaaa-. The jar must be iept in a cool, dark place for about three nonths, whei'the comfit will turn from, the jar in a cake almost jelly-like in consistency.?New York Sun.. HOUSEHOLD II f NTS. Before cutting very rich cake dip tho knife in hot water and you will have no crumbs. ? 4 Keep plectyof chloride of lime around the house during a humid spell. It will keep the air dry and pure. Ringworms washed two or three times * day in a strong solution of borax and water and dusted over wkh the powder soon disappear. Paint spots may be removed from wood by covering them w ith a thick coating of lime and soda. Wash oil after twenty-four hours. To neutralize the peculiar acid formed in milk when boiling, a pinch of soda should be added just when the milk is beginning to simmer. A good way to preserve new matting or to make old matting look frc3h is to give it a caat of varnish. If the matting is ?K?+A MSA wliito vorniQ^l. The rubber rollers' of wriugingmachiues that have become sticky or covered with lint from colored clothes 1 can be cleaned by passing a rag wet with kerosene through them. Pound two crackers very fine, add a pinch of salt, one egg and milk enough to make a tt.in batter, and you will have very nice and light griddle* cakes for either breakfast or lunch. A wash that will prevent the hair from falling out is made of one ounce of powdered camphor and one quart of boiling water. When it is cool, bottle and wash the bead with it once a week. Feather bods or pillows should never be put in the sun, for the heat draws out the oil from the feathers and gives them a rancid smell. Air them on a windy day where the sun will not touch thein. A favorite lotion to remove sunburn is made by adding to twelve ounces of elder-flower water six drams of common soda, aud 6i:c drams of powdered borax. This lotion will not only remove sunburn, but it will flake the skin clear and soft as a baby's. Furniture that is covered should bo looked over carefully every two or three weeks, and if there is the least sign of a moth the chair or sofa should be saturated with benzine. The benzine will not harm the most delicate colors, but it will effectually destroy the moth. To see if a cake is done a much better way than inserting the splint of a broom is to pull the cake gently forward and *. - aUoa frv Jt- Tf fhnrn ia n hi S3. put tin; vtii tiust w >. >?w .. ? ing sound put the cuke hack in the oven until it ceases. When bread or cake is thoroughly baked there will be no sound. I lie Thlhit in the Drum fish. What is in a name? A certain portion of brumfish which is very much sought for by epicures, and whose scientific title is "Acanthorhynchus reptans," is a parasitic worm coiled inside the tish, and is three inches long and ane wide. It should be of much encouragement to a good cook to know that it is her art alone that makes all meats and nearly every fish eatable.?New York World. Various American summer hotels have, added dark rooms for amateur photographers to their attractions. / TURPENTINE AND ROSIN. TbejLoDg leaved-Pines of Carolina Far* nlih Both Products. Shaw's Ridge, sixty miles southwest of Rauleigh, N C., is the homo of tho long-leaved |>ioe. From this sort of pine rosin and turpentine are made, and the manufacture is an interesting process. The turpentine is a noticeably slender tree that, when a foot in diameter, rises forty or fifty feet without a branch. Above the first branch it may grow twenty feet or more, having a cone-Bhaped top. The leaves grow in a great cluster on the end of the branches, and are from a foot to a foot and a half long. Toward October the various land-owners send men, generally negroes, into the wooda for the purpose of tapping the pinos. In the trunk of the tree near the ground a gash is cut a foot or more in width, Bix or seven inches high and four or five iDchesdeep. Usually a man can cut 150 boxes a day, as the gashes are called. Naturally as spring comes on the sap begins to flow up th'| pore3 of the tree and the cut bleed | freely. During tho first week of April the gatheriug of the dip begins. Me'i go arouDd each tree with dippers and buckets and carry the sap to central places where it is put into barrels. Aj time passes the tree is chipped to ac( celerate the flow of sap and the chip* ping is carried on until the fall. A11 the sap gather the first season a tre<j is tapped is known as virgin dip. li makes a superior kind of tui pontine am] sells at a higher price to the distiller. This, year it is selling at $2.80 a barrel, After the dipping season is over tho trees are scraped to gather the deposij of sap that may form around the boxe*; One man can chip and gather the sa.k from 10,000 trees and this number o| trees is called a crop. In the course o.j the first voar the tree is ohipped abou'i a foot above the box. When warm weather comes around again the chipping process is continued, and so on, year after year, until tho tree is chipped so high that a tall darkey with his hook on the end of a long pole cau chip or pull no higher. The tree is chipped say fifteen feet high in the course of twelve or fourteen years. Notwithstanding this constant chipping the trees are possessed of wonderful vitality and will easily last thirty or more years. As soon as the 3ap is all gathered it is taken into a distillery where it is boiled in large iron tanks. Pipe3 lead from theso tanks and the vapir in passing through is condensed and becomes (terpentine. The deposit is run out upon large shelves through which the purest of the stuff flows into tanks. The rosin iu the tanks is then dipped into cheap pine barrels, where it hardens. The barrels are then headed and shipped to market. Swearing l'nys Bct'cr Tlian Washing. "Dese liyar commissioners cirtny does make mo sick," said an elderly woman of the colored persuasion as she emerged from the auditor's oihce at the District building a few days ago. In her right hand she carried a voucher, from the police court which entitled her to $1.25 witness fees and this was the cause her remarks. "What's the matter, auntie? quered a by-stander as the woman passed by him. "What's de matter? deres a heap de matter. Here I hab been down to de police court all de morning fer to swear in a whisky case, *6pecting to 'ceive $1.25, but hvar I finds out thnr ain't no money fer to pay ine, and de man in yonder says l'se got to wait till de bill passes 'fore I can get my money; but what de devil does I know about de bill? Don't eben know what de bill is 'bout and ain't got no business knowin', 'ficient fer me to say I done swore agin a man, and 'fore de Lord it's worth $1.25 and I wants my money. Why, Lord save yer, honey, I could done fifty cents worth of washing by dis time if I had knowed dat I was not gwine to got paid fer swearing." "Wore you ever a witness before?" asked the reporter. "Why, 'course I was," said the woman as she wiped her face with her apron "I am a lyitness ebery time I gets a chance, 'cans it's a heap easier to make 41 OS cnmoffn nrrin nonnln flon llv wash O T1 uaii.i ?*5?" |^vwr.w ?v.. -j ? ing it out, fdj: you see it takes ober two days fer to njake dat much money washing. Butv sometimes de work is hard, especially^ when dem tbar fool lawyers get 'zammining you. I tell you, mister, dey is got a way of mixin you all up aud making you'pear foolish like to de court, but I don't, mind it, for I gets my $1.25, but I hates to wait fer it. Neber mind, I's gwine home right now and tell a woman what I lieered a gal say about her and she will come . out and lick de gal and I will see de fight and get another $1.25 for being a witness, i toll yon dis hyar government don't know who dey's foolin* with, and befo' d?y gits through, if dey don't pay me my money dey will hab tq get another bill passed,; you hyar me talk. Come along hyar, Liza," she said to the little crirl who was with her, "let's get out of dis hayarbqut place.' Now, don't you go \ crying 'eaus I didn't get de money and can't buy you any 'nanna^. Befo,' long you will be old enough to swar an', be making the old $1.25 yourself. Well, good-by, mister," and with this the old woman and her companion vanished ' down the back stairs.?Washington I Star. No Show tor the Agent, v Agent?I don't think I'll succeed as a book agent. Employer?Why not? "At the first house I tried I showed the lady the book, and?" "Then what?" "She showed mo the door." I'm So Hungry i ( Says Nearly j Everyone After Taking { A Few Doses of ! i Hood's Sarsaparilla I pitKribo avid fo'ly en* doreo Mr (2 fa the only OmMla "^W specific forthncortm euro iuSrl TO 6 DATfl.^l of thin dlsenseC panau*d not te? 0. U. IKHIUJHAM, M. D-, BS fltooBtHMica. Amsterdam, N. Y. gJS Mri ooij bj tlx Wo have o^ld B1g G for ClnclnnxUrME?5 faction. Ohio. JW D. K- OVCTTR A CO.. ^8g*^ W ] Chicago, III. ^rvU ' URilPatf'flirkl 9)1.00. Soldi by Drasflatv Of IICinMC oTi'.-efesiOK Bill rtNo UNoispas&w.ss.r f WD WD D W fr,nn(j(Kn(h(.rH arr eD. titled to $ 12 n mo. Kec ?t0 when vou Jtet your money, (llaiilu free. 20btril U. Ul.MKK, iUj,j IYiAImMd. O. L { . I If brevity is the sole of wlf, levity is tbe upper. Confirmed. The favorable impression produced on the first appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs a few years ago has been more than confirmed by the pleasant experience of all who havo used it, and the success of the proprietors and manufacturers, the California Fig Syrup Comp any. ' Which is the best way to get fat, drctoi?" ' Order from your butcher a piece of lean beef," One Thonsnnd Dollars. I will forfeit tbe above amount, if I fail to prove that Floraplexion is the best medicine in existence for Dyspepsia,Indigestion or Biliousness. It is a certain cure, and affords immediate relief,in cnses of Kidney and Liver Complaint, Nervous Debility and Consumption. Floraploxioo builds up the weak system and cures where other remedies fail. Ask vour druggist for it and get well. Valuable book "Thing Worth Knowing," also, sample bottle sent free; all charges prepaid. Address Franklin Hart. 88 Warron street, New York. The tea-kettle 811178 because It Is always able to keep itself outside of hot water. Why not five j/ tir clothes, by using the host, purest, trust economica' soap. Dobbins'* Electric. Made ever since 1W4. Try it once you will use it nt icons. Your grocer keeps it or will get it. Look for the name. Do ,btns. "You seem to think I'm on idiot." "What a mind-reader you arel" FITS stopped free by Da. Kntxa'a Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and >2 trial Dottle free. Dr. Klin-. 5C>i Arch St.. Phlla., Pa ''Miss Pncethat coes around a goel dea'." 'Yes. She's a reau'sr spinster." Rev. H. P. (.'arson, Scotland, Dak., says: "Two bottles of Hall's Catarrh Cure completely cured liy little girl." Sold by Druggists. Most people eat to fill, but the dentist fills <o eat. J D> filleted with soreeyesuse Drlsaac Thomptcn'sEyeWater.Drturcista sell atiic.per bottle Fiy-t'tne? 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McCormlck a Son.,Washington, D. 0., 4 Cincinnati. 0 J^IIIIIHI and WHISKEY HASM 19 III Bfl ITS cured at homo withllrlUm PENSIONS ?1 t ii1 new uTw,E u I UlivlUllVI Soldiers. Widows, Parents, vjnd for blank applications and Information. Patuick O'Farrsll, Pension Agent, Washington, D. C. FRAZER6^als| BEST IN THE WORLD UlltHUb %W Oot the Oenulne. Sold Ererrwhera. finillfti IIA HI T. ilnly i;erimn ana llrlalM cany CUKE In the World. Dr. Ul IWlTI J. L. STEPHENS, Lebanon,0 Bethel Classical and Military Academy Prepares for Business, Univ. of Va. and West Point. Address SlaJ. A. O. Smith, Bethel Academy P. O. Va. ||nur STUDY. Book-keeping, Business Forms, HUmC PeumaiiKhtp, Arithmetic, .short-hand,etc., 1 thoroughly tauitht by J1AIU Circulars free. Bryant's ('oherr, <157 Main M? GulTaln, N. V To Parents.?'Tho si est. most practical and least expensive boarding school for your son is St. lieorge's Hsll St. lie ige's, MJ. Prof. J. (J. Klnear, a. M. Prin- Ci culars sent. P A FIFTY DOLLAFS F fill PALMS BUS 1J U 1709 Chestnut St., PKILADA., w w 3 to 4mon. Beat Equipped. Beat terms which render most Doctor Books so Tihel s Intended to be ol Service in the Fninlly. nn Part I contains lnformntlon on lieneral Disc Anatomy and Functions?covering Kryslpelas, Burl Prickly Heat, Measles, Small Pox, Chicken Pox. Wi J and Cure. Fifty pages ou tbo II It A I N and N1 0 Fits, Dizziness, Delirium Tremens. Kpllepsy, Fnlntl Neuralgia, Diseases of Spinal Cord, Lockjaw. St. VI ? Inflammation, Cataract, ??? ? ? pages on tho KAIt?Deaf- ? ?. _ z Noise* In, to Extract Foreign STn mm IT ? the NOME ? BI.-e.llDK. Co- IbA. It 8 V-IC ML Fifteen pages on the PACK, " H w*fll IT TEKT1I ? Cracked l.lps, ? Hum Boll,Ac. (eighteen pages V W W * 0 PIPE?Bronchitis, Plphlhe Mumps, Ulcerated Sore PROFUSELY 1 on 1,1! VUS?Consumption, ????? Spitting Blood, Stitch in Side, Ac. Twelve pages J of, Ac. Forty-four pages on A KIHI.1I IN A I. 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It was Ben Johnson, we be-j lieve, who, when asked Man lock's question, " Is life worth' living ? " replied " That de-J pends on the liver" And Ben. Johnson doubtless saw the1 double point to the pun. ..) The liver active?quick? life rosy, everything bright,' mountains of trouble melt like mountains of snow. -1 The liver sluggish?life dull*' everything blue, molehills of worry rise into mountains of anxiety, and as a result?sick headache, dizziness, constipation. Pi-it*n i wu wayo aig u. vuiu permanently, or relieve temporarily. Take a pill and suffer, or take a pill and get well. Shock the system by an overdose, or coax it by a mild, pleasant way. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the mild means. They work effectively, without pain, and leave the system strong. One, little, sugar-coated pellet is enough, although a whole vial costs but 25 cents. Mild, gentle, soothing and healing is Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Only 50 cents. T3 CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. E| U DestCoutfh Syrup. Tastes good. Use Kl JCd In timo. Sold by drnralRts. fif v qpB3saaiailE?p Wc offer you a ready made medicine for Coughs, Brouchitis and other dis- ill cases of the Throat and Lungs. Liko other so-called Patent Medicines, it is ' well advertised, and having merit it has attained to a wide sale. Call it a "Nok1 trum" if you will, but believe us when we say that at first it was compounded after a prescription by a regular physi- cian, with no idea that it would ever go J on the market as a proprietary medicine. .^3 Why is it not just as good as though costing fifty cents to a dollar for a prescription and aD equal sum to have it put up at a drug storb? Here It Is! I Want lo iram a'l about a At Horn 1 How to Pick Out a A ""*v Good One? Know Inperfec-^/'N. ~ ^ ' 1 " V Hon end go Ouani against \ fraud? DetectDiseaseand pi4 Effect a Cure when tame It / \ I V* powlblo? TelJ the ago by / V / V be Teeth? What to call; b Different Potto of the Animal? How to Shoe a Horae Properly? 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A Book containing the lu- J formation you want can be at band, however, and J If you are wise will be at hand. Such a book c ? we offer you for only /w /fw ami If you ore prudent / > /y, _ . OUC, you tvlll send for It by rYlSf* J ? ., return tnall. Its title . t Postpaid. is "EVERY .ifAN Postpaid. HIS OWN HOC- * it I, the labor of 3. HAMILTON A VERS, A. M., M. D., ami In the result of u life spoilt In light- ? lug disease iu every form. It Is written 'In plain cvery-day English, ami Is fivo from the technical ess to the generality of readers. This llook is il Is so worded tut to he readily undenitood by all. J ases and consists of no pages on the s*ltlN, Its* xt's Itch, Tetter, Scalp Diseases, Ringworm, Rashes, irts, Corns, Ac., Ac. Showing how to Prevent, Arrest BUVKS? covering Apoplexy, Trunce, Congestion,? Ing. Headaches, lllecough, 11}pochoudrla, Insnnily, ? tns's Dance, Palsy, Ac. Nineteen pages oti the KVK ?? Squinting, stye, Ac. 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