The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 08, 1892, Image 4

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jfffp terrier* CToar4 the Elephaal* | : raiwa to the Central Pat^ 'menagerie in New Y-srk City, often won f dec why fox terriers are always to bs r foood in the enclosures with the ele phaate. It is simply because if they were not there the rat?, which are many and large, would off the feet of the elephants. The elephants are chained, j and wfc&n they He down they can't ?eep the rascally rodent? from gnawing their feet. So a fox terrier is kept in with them <rh?se busineus it is to see that the , I rata are kept away, and to kill as many ? as possible- The elephants appreciate the dog, too. And lately the rats hare begun to gnaw holes in the thick, hide of the rhinoceros. So a terrier was placed j in with this beast, and in one night Q foiled twenty- se*en rats.. Rats, by the ^ way* are one-of tb* greatest pests which the keepers havj to fight. ? Boston Transcript. The United States possesses forty per ? ccnt. x>f the total railway mileage of the vorld. Fsctft Worth Kuewlaar Q. Is Alabai-tine expensive? A- No, it b the cheapest article for toe pur pose oo the market. a Q- How ifo that ? Cannot 1 purchase kako JpfTMss at a few-cents per pound? A- Yes. kalaominee can be purchased at I nl most any price. Q. Why then is Alabestine leas expensive? A. In the fint place a package of Aiabastina. ooeting a few cenb? more, wili cover double the ?! surface that a package >f kaisomine wilL Q. What other advantage haa Alabaetine I that kai*ominc:s do not possess? A. Alaha*tine is entirely different from all ! ' kaisaininef. It Is man? factored fromfo baae to 'I'M a cement, and whim applied to a wail sets hart. f Q. How do kaisoroinen differ m>m this? A. Kalsmnines are nuuie frpm whiting. clays, cha&s or None Inert powder for a ba*e and are : entirely dependent on ani iOkl glue to hold them ' on the wall . ""Q. ^Vhat are the re?u)ts? ? A- la od?? caae the Ai.i bastine being a cement i .nardcbM with age, and the kalsomines as #oon ; yt the glue, which a>n?titute4 its binding quality, decays rat** and *cale? off, as it haa i nrjthiruc to hold it on the wall. "VT Due* Alabaetiite r?-?[uire washing mnd ; scraping off before recotH'ag? A- Aiabastine wiaen <>n<-e applied to a j clean surface oan be reoated for any length of i time without ha.viag i? wash or scrape the it, jwuUs. 2 i i j : (A' IX*# this feature count for much? (f , ? A? Ask any practical housekeeper, who baa \ i -been driv?;n from home to have waHs wa*hed JjgtfTscrilped, whether it will b? desirable to : yfiaWraU of this ovetoonte. and walla improved ? iantead of *V. Mtd by coating them. ?[ V- How can f get Ala>;airtme? 7: A. From vour te-al paint dealer. If be doea not k<*w it in utot-k, and tries to sell you some tfeifg nhe, tell him you are determined to tiy AlAwtiiM. and if he will not keep it you will . fret it elawwhere. ? Charleston's Foreign Trade. Wasehnoto!*, D, 0. ? The report of tfee Bureau of ijtatisucs for themooth of I*ebtuary shows t??e value of imports and exports of merchandise as follows ai"j ? . Charleston : Imports, |73.774; exports, 't3,7?2,8ta. At Beaufort; Imports |2, exports. $31.3^. tr The fellow jtwt out of the lock -up h i&e fellow who thoroughly enjoys th? ??/y ?'freedom of the city." ? Co lumbus Poet. r Tho Only One Ever Prfntad. cas yoc rtstD th* wo an? ? Inch display advertisement in wisfnper. this week, which has no two words alik e except one word. The same is true of "XToscent" on everything they make and nub* liaiL Look for it. send them the name or the word and they will return you %>or, racti | Wl trTHOOR4PHSorSA3<PI,*S r?" - A Kkmjlsxa farmer bee be_ ? , ef fettling a book agent who ferswtad hi * forcing bis Look on him. COCfOBsSiiOASfsv^. Sons Tsn%>Ai. etc., quickly relieved b Bkowx's B*o??chiai. Taocasa Jrhty liryamt all o:her*?grepar=i tiwan in aduic viog hoarseness. and as ?<4uu<jti rmmtviuAr* ^-^^-menUy the best. \ raxws estimates that Boston, naea $13,0X5,000 far this year's Fanning exp?nsea. Willie TUUmxS* Neck ?jfe. By ifood'B S<fmapai*ill+ it jWI iwnais whose childreu aaffer fro** rrScttfaift, %it Rheum, jyc other (Hxmw ii caQtoci bf impure Wool, siumkl read the fol* 'fowfagr from Mrsr. J. VV. Tillbrook, wife of j tbe Miyor of McKeesport, Penn.r V pj*C.X Hood * Co loweil. Maaa.: " ?| tittle boy WQUe, now fix ysara old, two jwi m: Bunch Under One Ear the- doctor sold wa* scrofula. As It ooattar ;tMdto Anally lanced It and )t diacharged [for *>n?e ttia&? We then beg an giving hta Hoo-V* Amitpnrtfla and. Jbe improve* rery rapidly natU it iInM upw L**t winter u broke out again ud wi; ,;fuO<ywed by * - ? \ Erysipelas Weagcfe* ga^e hjbn Hood'* Sar*aparfl!a wtth bm( UtDdltt rtMit* and he has bad no fwrtbes fetoble. fflecure 5a due to the nse of Hood>Sana~ jjfcrtHOu, Helta* never been wry robu. t, bat aow jt?a?r healthy and daily grew i a# St reaver. tM doctor werae^jait^ p>asel at his appearance ?od?aidb* feared at one time that we aheald Uw U>h I h?*e also taken Hood's S area par Ua ?jrtelf and am ^a< that I have been helped by ^t,"* ' lit 3. Vf. Tr&eaooc,. Pifth Are., XeKeeaport ?jy ? ??? ? '? ? ? ? #r? ^ 'Meedr? Pllla are pfirrty vegetable, peifecth ?an?te?r ? aotcr uk. "MOTHERS' FRIEND" To. Young Mothers H.O REGULATOR CO. ATUMITA. CiA. BY A.LL. DROOQI8TS. man k ^ ^ ^ Wiffiatn it r Blobmkrgdafe, WcH.' "tfeavehad | hthe Asthma badly eve r since I came [ r out of the army and though I have u been in the drug bttskiess nrfitieor H ' year*, an! have tried nearly every S. t thing t>n the market, nothing has f ;.^n me the slighted feliei until a t jyfcw months ago, whn* I nsed Bo? scree's German . Syrup. I am sow [.vgtart to acki?wledge<jhe great good ' ttiafcAmenje? I am ipeatly rdWr day and at mghtgpto p| itepwHtou! the least ttcttWt." ? M&P'Sfr*---'-' ^ J ?? L : J FARM AND (3ARDE5. *?? FEAJ5 FOB FODDER. r-f^as are always sown with oats when i shev are intended lor fodder. The Ca- | cadiao per* are preTemji, as the seed is not injured by the weevil, and th*re is no 1 003 "by this damage. Weevil-eaten pe^s will not germinate when the germ is injured, as i* generally the case, and if j not, the substance of the pea being* partly destroyed, the strength of th* young plant is lessened for the want of nutriment that is furnished to it by the seed. One and one-half bushels of the peas and two bushels of the' oats are sown. The strongest kindr of oats are | chosen, as they hold up tbe peas better j than the weaker land. It is advisable i to Cover the seed with a cultivator or a i harrow, as three inch's of covering is ! necessary. ? New York Times. A SOILING KXPEBOCEXT. The indications from this experiment are* The average cow wiB eat about seventy-five pounds of green feed a day, kept in the stabfa with grain ratioa ad ded. v Tbat cows feed on oat* and peas, clotter and corn, fed green in the stable in midsummer, will give more milk than when feeding on a good blue grass pas ture. That a cow fed on green feed in a stable darkened and ventilated will gain in weight more than she wiii in a well shaded pasture. That the cow responds as promptly to a well-balanced ration of grain while eat ing gieen feci a* ?be dees on dry feed. An acre cf peis cut green weighed 13.5 tons. An acre of peas and oats cut grsen i weighed 9i ions. An acre of corn cut green weighed 33.6 tons. s* - The second cut of closer in a drought was 3.1 tons. It is not necessary to cat green fee 1 ofteaer than twice a week, if it is spnad to avoid heating. .p. Articles on 4 'Time o* sowiag grass weds, winter wheat and oats.''? James Wilson, Director low* Experiment Station. 9WSBT VJCR808 SOUJt CUBA*. "Still another of our old cherished be liefs knocked higher taan GHderoy's kite. It has always been a settled fact with butter- makers that when cream was allowed to stand until it became very 3ou# the acid developed in some way -d^troyed part of the buttar fats, so that such cream would produce lee butter than the same cream would hare, pro duced had it been choroid while in a pilder state of acidity. However, we are told by Professor W. W. Cooke, of tbe^T ermont Station, that his experi ments have proven that tin acid does not in any measure whatever destroy the butter fats. He says: "We have fol lowed a good many lots of milk all the way from the cows ' to< the butter-tub, both when churned! sweet and when churned sour, and the results check out the same in either case. A great many . figures on this subject wers published in " the last reports this station, and many more oa a large seal* have bee^obtained since then, all pointing uum&takably to a non-destruction of fat d oring the pro cess of souring." Perhaps this is another OMfe of non -charoabfiity. " It may be that while the fat is there the churn can't get it, but we will probably know more about this by-and-by. . TBS ADVA!7TA<?fcS OF BITTTNG. Where bitting is done properly it has many advantages, while the ka proper use of the bitting machine often leads to serious consequences. Maay horsemen believe that if a colt has no style born in him be never wit! acquire it However true this may be, it is possible, with the bitting machine, to greatly improve the style that a colt naturally possesses. Be sides, it teaches him restraint that he would not learn otherwise. Toe ma chine consists of a bridle check rein, girth, crupper and two'side straps. Use a common straight bit, and, preferably, ^a side check, fastened high up on the bridle. The back pad of an old harness is good if the terreta and check-riog are ; taken out, so the colt cart roil over if he throws himself. Pat the back piece or girth on, and buckle it tight; fasten the j ;beck to it, and bring the twit's head up where lie carries it natarc lly. The side straps are fastened about half way down on each side of the girth, and the loose ends backled into the bil rings. Tbese are to prevent the colt from turning his head to either side, and should be light enough for this, but <u>t 10 pull his nose in much. Put. this on him every day for j.an hour, and turn him in. a paddock, or 1 loose box. Gradually take up the check | rein, until his head is brought where it | is wanted. It may take two or three I months. If the training is pushed too f fast, or the check is taken up too much at one time, or the machine is left long, it may do irreparable harm. done thoroughly this stresjrthe muscles of the neck so the colts ways carry his head up. It wi help to improve his knee action. ? can Agriculturist. CTJLTtV ATIOK OP HOIlSEUADtSH. It is estimated that between five .and I six hundred acres are dsvoied to the i cultivation of horseradish by what are called the market gardeners in the im mediate vicinity of New-fork, and per haps as much more near other large cities. The author of u Gardening U? ProBt^grresexplieit directions for tihe cultivation of ?his crop, cr at least hw j it is cultivated by our market gardeners^! fof with them it is altfays grown as s j >nd crop, ^rloUo^: "In preparing ; roots for. market during the wintei ; all the small' rootlets are ^broken off and reservei^ior planting, leaving nothing ! but the main root, which i$ usual ly frorc twelve to fifteen inches Itfog and weiqlT- J ing about three-quarters of a pound.- i The rootlets' or sets are cut into- pieces of j from four to six inches iiyieagth, and j are from one-quarter t<wjde-half inch in diameter; these are Uflfia bundles from fifty^^^|g|^^p gad ;ut square an<? ing, so that in plant- ; _ of setthl* them upside down.^^M^84 when pre pared are stowed awa^fc boxes of sand, care being taken that ?flicient sand is put up between each lay A of bundles t< prevent thpir heating. Tl>ey may eithei j ho kept in boxes in a cooliceNar or"p^fce<! j in the open g&urid." The above diV , t'ons for preparing and storing'~~the~ cut. j l ngs are as given by the kothor of th^ j work named, and are tfiose generally, practised by market gardeners. The sett are left undisturbed until the early plant ing of cabbages, cauliflowers and simiiai vegetables is finished, then the horse radish sets are planted between the rows and at about the same distance as the . cabbage. When the crop of early cab bages, cauliflowers or whatever it msiy ba^ie removed, -the horseradish receives thorough and frequent cultivation up to the time the roots are ready for digging late in autumn. But if jou do not care to plant horseradish as a second crop, then put in four sets as early as con- " veoieati& the spring, planting them in rows two or three feet apart ami twelve to eighteen inches in the rows; If. set three "feet by one fjot, yeu will need 14, 5?0 for each acre. Tfce richer the ground the 1*$* the R>ot?, and while '"T- I ? - ' V -tir stable immnw is the best, you cut use al most any good commercial fertilizer as * substitute, applying from one-half up to\ one ton per acre. The yield of roots, for what may be considered a good crop of horseradish, should be about five torn pet acre. ? New York Son. - -- FARM JCSD GARDE5 *0TE8. How many acre* do the fences on your farm waste? Improve the road*, lessen the fences, save the manure. How is the road along your farmi Can it be improved ? Ho.v? "When the fowls ge> too fat aa exclusive feed of oats will reduce there There is no advantage ia hatching out goslings until grass gets a good stars. Damp ouirtera and stagnant wate? often proves fatal to turkeys and chick ens. Thorough white washtag the hea house 1 inside and out will aid in killing out the | **ce. j Potatoes are best kept in a cool place ' - ? just above freezing is a good tempera ! ture. Until the weather, gets warmer whole corn can begiveiyto the fowls at night with benefit. Poor roads are the heaviest tax most farmers bear. Reduce the tax by im [ proving the roads. ! - Properly fed, a duck at nine or ten ! weeks old should weigh four pounds, a chicken two pounds. Hens should be killed when three years old, as they lay less ..fogs every year after the third. ^ Good roads, clean culture and few fences will help on the day wiien farm ing will be more profitable. Bantams may be a thing of beauty, but for practical poultry keeping for profit generally they are a nuisance. In fowl-culture, nothing can take the place of aq?keen ejeM and a "quick mind" to sewtha^'all is well/' What did your fence corners produce last year? Are they going to be used the same way the coming season 1 Did you ever figure oa the amount of corn you could raise on the land used in fences and the waste land they make? Milk,sweet or sour, is the best poultry food. It may be fed in several different ways. It ia excellent for laying hens. Turkeys, ducks, geese and guineas can be hatched in the incubator as well as chickens, and can be raisei in a brooder. The best croas for sitting hens is a vig orous pet game cock with good partridge Cochin hens, this also tnakes a good tabie-towl. You siiouH never give your fowls a bad fright, as it injures them, aad is will cause a falling off in the aumbsr of eggs for a few days. .The early chicken is the largest and strongest^ aad will never be Overtaken by I the ones that are hatched out late; push j the early hatching. Cracked wheat or corn makes a better chickens get old enough to made into a mush. When it is especially desirable to se cure the largest size with geese crossing the Toulouse gander with Embden geese will secure this the most readily. Gather your eggs as sooa after laying as may be. They are liable to become broken in the nests and eaten by the "hens, thus laying the foundation of a very bad habit. I ? When you receive a basket of eggs for hatching let them rest from twenty-four to forty-eight -hours before being set, and they will recover trom the jarring received while traveling. The farmer who lets his calves and colts stand out-of-doors all day, may, by process of evolution, succeed in raising animals that will be hardy, but hardi- < ness will be their only virtue. It costs no more to raise the best breeds of poultry than die common barnyard fowl, while the "returns are double. Get a setting of eggs from 30 ne reliable breeder and convince yourseli of the fact. A horse that dist urbs its bedding by j pawing and kicking it about may b? I prevented from doing this by lieeping it ! in a large stall and ?: untied. The tying up of a horse is most frequently i the cause of of its restlessness, and induces the habit of pawing and kicking in the stable. A wash of strong lye or potash water I ' on the trunk and large limbs of the fruit trees early in the spring will destroy in jects under the bark, or their eggs, if pthere are any.*yAnd if it runs down to the ground anSK<?ks ia where the roots find it, it will not hurt the tree or the j fruit at all. either fed ground fine and Remarkable JSasical ffodisr. BliQd Boone w^& borqJmMiami, Saline Count*, Mo., in 1S63. His mother was a contfciband,: cooking for Federal sol diers. He lost his sight with? brain fever when only, six months old. His first anusical instrument was a tin whistle, on which he could play any or dinary air alter once hearing it. t His next, with a mouth-organ, charmed all Vie young folk3 of Warrensbtirg,.wbere hSJiome was. Some Warrensburg peo ple a blind school to learn a trade, buMiS^-^^g^was towards music, and the attempt totfeac^ him anything else was a failure. He left school and, with a little company, tramped amend through the State. Finally John Lange^; of Co'umbia, a shrewd, intelligent col ored man, took hold of the j prodigy, fitted up a company, and- Boone fa now playing under his management, pleasing audiences alt over the United States and Canada; He has amassed considerable fortune, has an elegant home in Colum bia, gives liberally to every good cause, and is respected by all his acquaintance*. He is the most remarkable musical prodigy of "Tift present generation. ? Columbia (Mc.) Herald. How Plate Glass Is Ground. Franc Bertram, the United States Consul at Aix la Chapclle, France, has reported to the State Department in re gard to the plate glass industry of that city. He says : "I regret to have to report that it was impossible for me to find out the cost of grinding, smoothing and polishing for rolled and plate glass, as well as crystal I plate, owing to the fact that the man agers of the stock company at Stolberg decline to give any information what ever, even nsi tors not being allowed to see the works. "I managed, however, to find out that | the method of holding the glass on the I grinding table is as follows: The glass is | placed oa a wooaen table, of which the \ whole lop must be covered. In case one ? sheet of glass is too aiua^ ^ey: must fill f cut the empty .apace agfer piece?. They then nail Sibijjk of Wood ail around the tabie to tatejj* thel glass [ steady and preveut it from moving dwr j ing the grinding. After the afiss i*. | ground it is taken from the table, and | placed on a second table to be polished. On this table the whole surface is cov ered with wet gypsum, and is this matrix - ? the sheet of glass is laid. | After the i gypsum is dry the gtess is firmly held in place and can be polished. T^?n > is not manufactured here.*7 How ftoads May Be Iajpevftt. Apropof ?fthe subject of improving ? country roods, Colonel A. A. Pope soys ??in the FofeOm: | t4I wotgd have each State bj a legis- 1 lative enactment do at once two or thre^, things in the direction of this movement, viz. : Procure anthdisseminate informa tion by establistangj* bureau where the - facts relating to Vie expense, mechanical construction, case, durability, use and ; extent of the different kinds of roads shall be known Wnd ascertained; th^n 7 | would have some kind of State super- j i vision ana advisory assistance by a com petent engineer or engineers appointed by the Stste in aid of road and bridge building and repairing upon scientific principles and upon a comprehensive aud economical plan* for the whole State; thirdly, I would have the State either own or control and maintain some through highways, connecting the prin cipal towns in the State, and connecting these witlt the principal towns of neigu boriog States, where they are most needed, either for great public exigencies or for the greatest general use. The State would thus promote the equaliza tion and the general redaction of expense of construetion and maintenance of theie main roads, and would give a profitable example and a strong incentive .-to the adjacent towns to cjnstract better con tributory roads as feeders to the main ones. I would have the State divide the expenses q I this scheme of road better ment in t^e tax levy, so that part of it should be apportioned to the whole State, parf to th^co unties through which roads ran^and part to the town*. And, further. I would have this tax levy kept small and -the * investment adequate and quickly made by the business man's method oi borrowing the money on long loans. It would thus W-essily paid out oftheprogts by those sharing them." Some Speed M&ejra. Some curious facts are brought int * promineaee by a correspondent of Cycling, :who has been at the pains to draw up a comparative table of the rates of speed: in different modes of loco motion. "The express train, of course, ' stands pre-eminent. Man has as yet discovered no way of getting about faster on the eSfrthX surface. It will be ? ? surpise, however* to many to learn that the safety bicycli, of which so much ia heard nowadays, ^nlf occupies in this list the seventh pWce. ? * The fastest tfme m which a train has been kn(fWn t6 travel a mitt was forty nine seceaas and a fraction ; to accom plish the same distance the fastest bi cyclist, who has hitherto ridden, took two ancfc taree-quarter minutes, or just ?bout ^trte times as long. An ice yacht has traveled a mile in one minute and ten seconds, ? running horse in one raioute and thirty-Jive aod a half secoads, & tor ' pedo best ia one minute and fifty seconds, a steam jacht in two minutes y?nd twelve seconds and arfraCtion, and a skater <>n ice, with a favorable wind behind hi<n, in two minutes and twelve seconds and rather a large fraction. A little way after the safety liicycle comes the ocean liner; the oarsmau is ..much slower, taking five minutes ana forty seconds to travel a mile, and the slow est of all is the swirn:ner, who requires very little short of an hour to perform the same journey. Lost at a Profit. The captain of ooe rather oM and slow ateaiper, finding that he would have to oe a* lorig time in C'niua before he re *ei rod a full cargo of tea, and would have probably !''/ return in ballast, began, to every one's astonishment, to say that, owing to the repairs that bad been done to his engines, he hoped to make a racing passage/' Tben^&till more to the astonishment of the captains of the fast steamers and the world at large, heconmenced to back himself to make the fastest passage home. v In such very considerable sums ol money did he wager that people began to thinfc. there was something in it, and the merchants sent their tea almost en tirely by his ship, arguingAfrat, as th< captaifc stood to lose $25007 the repair? to his steamer's engines had probab'j put hitti in a position to bet almost on a certainty. Of oouise the steamer, whose greatest speed was eight knots an hour, arrived in England weeks after the others, anr the cagtfain lost his $2500, but insteac of having to lie in China waiting hit chance-of cargo coming in from the in terior-** probable delay of week ? h? had cleared in a few day?, after his bett became fenown to the public, with a full ship, tfrns recouping to his owners, who ?of coude paid his betting losses, a con sjglerab}? number of thousands of praQt. ? BTafcfcwood;s Magazine. Development of Weapons. The history of mankind 39 the history of the development of weapons for war, by -improvements in which one nation has pyeT^ome another- and survived. Though the tale may not be safely vouched for, Archimedes is said to have set fire to the vessels of the enemy be siegins^pjracuse by directing upon them . the raya. of the sun concentrated with great 4)i&ning-mirrors. Hannibal, in a , naval .battle, threw among the Romans earthen pots filled with venomous ser pent?, which broke and so frightened the foe with their writhing contents that tbey fled. In the middle ayes "Gieek fire" ? described as a "bituminous fluid" ?was commonly employed in fights on -the stater, being made to spout from ! copper pipes set^.at the prows of the ! ships, ^hese tubes were placed in the I mouths-of fantastic monsters, whose j gapin^^jaws were thus made to vomit ! formidable flames. On one occasion, however, during an action in the Bos- j phorour between the fleet of the Emperor j A.lexius*nd the Crusadeis under Bald- ? win, tie tire used in this fashion by the Greek admiral burned up his own vessels. : ? Boston Traqscnpt. IT mma "Something Abont Cocoa. All jjirer the .civilized world people drink e$c>a, and yet few, I venture to say, writes Pan me B. Ward, know how it is made, bn a scraggly bush that looks Hke underbiusa the long bean-lika green pods grow th*t contain the "nibs" from which coco? is made. These kernels resemble in sizo and general appearance ! the kernel of an almond. They are first spread out in the sun To dry, where they are raked over and over by barefooted colored girls tout w;iik over them with utter disregard to their future u^e as a beverage 011 an English or Ainenotc breakfast table. After it is well sun driefd j it is put up by the buskcl in cotEee bags i and shipped fill over the world. The ; after process of makingJt: palatable, con sists merely in scerchjuBg' 1$ bwhi- iti an or en, finding it and mixing'it with sonqe tjpjetance that will allow it to be h worket3[int\ cakes suitable for sale in the markets, btit the famous brands one buys in American groceries are no better than the beverage made by grinding the dry and scorched nut between two stones in j a West india mountain side camp and boilingjt in goat's milk. Skeptical cooks' may denbt this, but the "proof of the pudding is in the eating." A tsTsniu-a ntlreedora dji.per??<? the j c^t^'erin ^ V'j?!ciunati <Oiiio) restaunmt ! tecenUjf. g 1 1 REV. DR. ^ ? V ? : j : T - ? ? J. - ? ?1 : THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S 6UJf day'sermon. Tkxt: uFe blind guides, who strain at a gnat, and. swallow a comet.*? Matthow xiii., 31 ?????., mvhww . AS^overb is compact wisdom, knowledge in chunks, a library in a ssgtpnoe, the slec tncity of many clouds dischareedin on* bolt, a river pat through a miUraoe. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text He m sans to set forth the ludicrous behavior of th,^?t who make a great Master about ?m?H d|v and have no appreciations of great oo?. In ray text a small insect tod a large Quadruped are brought into rompnriton <a gnat and a camel. You have in unman or on the desert seen the latter, a great awk ward^ sprawling creature, with back two stories high and stomach having a o^xeservoirs for desert travel an forbidden to the Jews as food, and in many literatures entitled -the ship of the desert," The gnaT spoken of in the text is in the grub form. It is born in pool or pood, after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis, and thcki after a few days becomes the gnataawe recognize it. But the insect spoken of in tb? text is in its very smallest shape, and yet It i inhabits the water? for my text is a misprint J and ought to read "strain out a gnat." - My text shows you the prinoe of fonv?wi(L tenoies. A man after long observation has formed the suspicion that in a cup of water he is about to drink there is a grub or ?H* grandparent of a gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or a strainer. He takes the water and pours it through the sieve in the broad light He says, "I would rather do anything al> most than drink this water unlit this larva be extirpated." This water is brought un der inquisition. The experiment is tfuocest Jul. 1 he water rushes through thasieve apd leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then the man carefully removes the and drinks the water in placidity. But go* ing out one day and hungry, he devours a "ship of the desert," the oamei, which ^ J ews were forbidden to eat. The gastroaq* mer has no compunctions of conscience Ha suffers from no indigestion. He pate the lower jaw under the camel's forefoot and hb upper jaw over the hump of the camel's back, and gives one swallow and the drome* dary disappears forever. He strained out a gnaVhe swallowed a camel. While Christ's audience were yet at the oppositeness and wit of ^Lis itlg .rv, .VI1J, ? for smile they did in church;- unless the] were too stupid* to understand the hj ?Christ practically said to them. ' you." Punctilious about small things; iess about affairs of great magnitude. NA subject over withered under a surgeonl knite more bitterly than did the "" * unJer Christ's scalpel ol troth. As on anatomist will take a human to pieces and put them under a micro*w for examination, so Christ finds His way _ the heart of the dead Pharisee Mid cuts it opt and puts it under the glass of inspec< tion for all generations to arinH^f Thosa Phai'isees thought that Christ would flat* ter them ancF*?ompliinent them, and ho* they must have writhed under tie red hot words as He said, "Ye f oo!a,^y*_w hitod seoulchers, ye blind guides whichsfralil out a gnat and swallow a camel." There are in our day a great many gnate. straiued out and a great many swallowed, and it is the object of mon to sketch a few persons who are ex* tensively engaged in that business. First, I remark, that all those ministers of the Gospel are photographed in the text who are very scrupulous about the conven* tionalities of religion, but put no particular stress upon ? matters of vast importance. Church services ought to be grave and solemn. There is no. room far frivolity in religious convocation. But there arfnitas trations,' and there are hyperboles like of Christ in the text that will irradiati with smiles any intelligent auditoiy. ThereSlre men like those blini guides of the text who advocate only those things in religious rr vice_ which draw the corners of the mouth down, and denounce all those things which ha^e a tendency to draw the corners of tht mouth up, and these men will go to taons and to presbyteries and to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of flw sieves to strain out tip gnats, while in their own churches at hc^e every Sunday then are fifty people sound asleep. They makt their churches a great dormitory, ?nd their somniferous sermons are a cradle, and tht drawled out hymns a lullaby, while yynt wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flies off unconscious persons approximate. Now. I say it is worse to sleep in church to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, while the former implies the indifference of the hearers and the stupidity of the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity) or from long watches with the sick, drowsiness will sometimes overpower one, bat when ? minister of the Gospel looks off upon an audience and finds hedthy and Intelligent people struggling with drowsiness it is ttmt lor him to give out the doxology or pro* nounce the benediction. The great fault ol church services to-day is not too much viva* city, but too much somnojfuce. The one ii an irritating gnat that' may be easily , strained out; the other ig.a greats sprawling and sleepy-eyed camel oflfche dry desert, It all our Sabbath schools, in all oiir Bible classes, in ail our pu'piis we need to blighted Up our religious message with such Christ like vivacity as we find in the text-. I take down from my library the biog raphies of ministers and writers of the past ages, inspired au.1 uninspired, who hav? uOQe the most to bring souls to Jesus Christ, and . I find that without a single exception thef consecrated their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah use.i it when he advised the Baalites, as they could not make their God respond, telling them to call louder u thetr goa might be sound asleep or {gone ahunt ing. JobJused it when he said to his self conceited comforters, "Wisdom will die with you." Christ not only used it in t&e text, but when lie ironically complimented the putrefied Pharisees, saying, "The whole need ncftr a physicifta, ' and when by one word He described tbe cunning of Herod, saying, "Go ye, and tell that fox." Matthew Henry's Commentaries from wit first page to the last coruscated with humor - as summer clouds with heat lightning. John Bunyan'a writings are as full of humor M they are of saving truth, and there is not AO aged man here whq has ever read "Pilgrim's Progress" who does rftx^emetnber that whfie reading it be smiled a?N?ften as he wspt. Chrysostom, George HerberV Robert South, John Weelev, George Whit^field, Jeremy Taylor, Rowland HiU, Nettleton, George G. Finney aiid all the men of the past woo greatly advanced the kingdom of God can* secrated tfceir wit and their humor to the cause of Christ. So it has been in all tin ages, ana I sny to these young th?ologicil students, who clus ter in these services Sabbath by Sabbath, sharpen your *w its cs !;een as scimitera and and then" take then: into the holy war. '.ttto a very sbort bridge fi srnil? and ft tear, a bUiosnsion bi'idze from eye to lip, M and it is soon ci'ossei over, and a smile is sgri?etimes just as sacred as a tear.. There is .-As much religion, and I thinltf a little more, in a spring morning than in a starless mid night. Religious work without any humor or wit in it is a banquet with a side of beef, and that raw, and no condiments and no dessert succeeding. People will not sit down at such a banquet. By all means remove all frivoli^v t and all pathos and all lightness and all vul garity?strain them out through the sieve of lioly discrimination ??>bot, on the other hand, beware of that moaiter which overshadows the Christian ctifcrph to-day, conventionally, coming up from the Great. Sahara Desert of Ecclesiasticism, having on its back a hump of sanctimonious gloom? and vehemently re j fuse to swallow that camel Ob, how particular a ereat many oeoole are about the inLinitesimals while thev are quite reckless about the magnitudes. What did Christ say?* Did He not excoriate the people in His time who were so eareful to wash their hands before a ineal, buf "did not wash th'-ir hearts? It is a had thing to have I unclean hands; it is a worse tiling to h*re an unclean heart. How^natiy people there are in our time who are very anxious that after th-.'ir death they shall be baried with their feet toward the east, and not at all anxious that during their whole life thiqy should face in the ri -lit dirfjetiftn no that t ney sian conie up in tbe resurrection of the . just whichever way they.are burltvi . How n.any there are chiefly anxious thht a min ister of the Gospel shall come in roe line of apostolic succsssioD, not caring to much whether he c:>me3 from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas. They have a way or meas uring ft a^jst nntii it is laivar tbin ji carx|*) Again, my subject photograpos all those ! who are abhorrent of sola 11 sins while they ; are reckless in regard to nia-^ni Scent thefts. > You wi'l find many a merchant, who while | he is so careful that he vrouM not take a yard I of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter 1 without pavin; forit, add wh-.i if a bauk cashier sUou'd make a mistake ani seni in * roll of bills live dollars loo much would dis mt',-h a me?seii~rt" h >t haste to return the hiirp us, vct w jfS will go into a stock coupany 111 which aft*#a while be gets control of the f stock and there's ers the stock and make3 $100.1KJO appearjfckd SCO.'J,OGO. He stole ouiy i i4WK),pG0 by the Wperltion. -Many of the men ! <x fortune ma le their wealth in that way. TJneof^hose men engaged in such unright i eousacts, tnat ievening; the even;u<: of th3 i very day when be watered the stock, will ; find a wharf rat stealing an eveninz new-soa ^S**2UfifiSU2IU^^X^UWk baveo't wretixryjlnd then ?? ?? ?teckgambler, with* ? ?ty can bear^ three blocks, will cry po That mum man, the evening of the c?y on which he watiad the etock, will ka?el with hit family hi prayer and thank GkxJ for the prosperity of the day, then kiss his children l good night with an air whioh seems to say. ?1 hop* /on will all grow up to, ba as good as your father!" Prisons for sins linsectile intixe, Vol palaces for crimfts < No mercy for sin , . 7 for mastodon Jnymifr. It is time that we learn in America that sin & not excuiable in proportion m it de clares large dividends and has cutriders in equipage. Many a man is tiding to perdW tion postilion ahead and Jsokej behind. To i tttal a dollar it a gnat; to steal many thou. ; tends of dollars is a camel TLera is many a\ ' fruit dealer who wouUTnot content 'to steal a basket of peaches from a naighbot-s stall, but who woald not scrapie to depress the . frnit market: and as long as I can remembar we hare heard ev*ry summer the patch oaop of Maryland is a failure, and by ttoitiias the : crop oomes in the misrepresentation! makes a ! difference of millions of doUan. j A m,w ? who wouldnot steal one peach basket steals fifty thousand peach baskets Any summer go down into the Mercantile library, in the reading rooms, and see the newspaper reports of the crops from all pares of the country, and their phraseology is very much the same, and the same men wrote tnem, meuKKUcaiiy ana mtamousfcr carry ing out the huge lying about the grain crop from year toy ear ana for a1 score of years. After a while there is a ; <<cornei? in . the wheat market, hnd men who had a cont?npt for 'a petty theft will burgfcrlte the wheat bin of a nation and commit larceny upon the American ooracrib. And men will sit in churches and in reformatory institutions try Sto strain out the small gnats of scoundrel , while in their grain elevators and in r storehouses they are-, fattening huge camels which they expe<*j after awhile to swallow. Society has to be entirely recon structed on this subject. We are to find that a sin is inexcusable in proportion as it ?s; great. ! (. 9 x know in our time the tendency is to charge reUgious frauds upon good men. They say, tlOh, what a class of frauds you hare in the Church of God in this day,'" and . when an elder of a church or a deacon or a minister of the Gospel or 'a! superintendent of a Sabbath school turasj out a defaulter what display heads there are in many of the aewspapers^-great primer j type; fire Hue pica? *\?nother Saint Absconded," Cler ical . Sooundrriism, ' ' "Raliiion at a Dis count," "Shame on the Churches," while there are a thousand scoundrels outside the ohurch to where" there is; one inside the and the misbehavior of those who never see the inside of a church is so great it is enough to tempt a man to, become a Chris* tian te get ont of their company . But in all circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency is to excuse siu in proportion (frit is mammoth. Even John Milton in his "Taradiee Lost," while ha condemns Satan, eres such a grand description, of him yon ve bard work to suppress ypur admira tion. Oh, this straining out of small tins like gnat* and this gulping down great in iflttitletipte came!?. H ThOTmbJectdftes not give the picture of of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which thousands of peopls may see their lit miasm For fautaoee; all these people who, while they wotrid not rob their naign bcrof a farthing, appropriate the money and the treasure of the pubK& A man has a house to sell, and he tells his customer it is worth ?X),0Q0. Next day the assessor cornea around and tbrbwnerhavs it is worth 915, 000. T%e Government of the United States took off the tax from , personal income, among other reasons becaUss so few people wow tell the truth, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply he was about to be handed over to the overseer .ct the poor. 1 Cartful topav their passage from Liver - poaltoNew York, yet smuggling in their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses irom Paris yul a half dozen watches from Genevt, Switzerland, tellidg the cu$:om house officer on the Wharf, ui'hei e it nothing in that -trunk fattt wearing. -apparel," and putting a five gold piece io his hind to punctu ^ ate the statement. - i Described in toe text ase all those who art particular never to i>reak the law of gram? mar, and wfjo want all th^r language an elegant epeoimni oT svntHxrsti ainingout all the ihaocuracies of :p cc* with a fine siere of literary criti<ri?ii'i wty e through their convenation go ? n i lei* I innuendo and profanity an * fr> - s *"? '"! ?<* than a whole caravan of camels, when they mirht better fracture every law of tbe language and shock their intellectual taste, and better let rerb seek in vain for It) 1 nominative, aud every noun for its government, and every preposition lose its way in tbe sentence, and adjectives and participles' anl pronouns get into a grand riot worthy Of the Fourth ward on elec&on day, then to commit a moral in accuracy*^ Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. Such persons are also described in the text who are very much alar ned about the small faults of others aud have no alarm about jtheir <?wn great transgres sions. There are in avery community and in every church watcfylo^e who feel called upon to keep their eyes on others^ and growL They are fult of suspicious. They wonder if that man is not dishonest, if that man is not unclean, if there is not something wrong about the oth?r man. They are al ways the first to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell car rion Tbey are self appointed detectives. I lay this down as a rule without any excep tian? that those people Who have the mo-t faults tbemseivfe are most merciless in their watching of others . From scaip of head to sole of foot they are* tuti- of jealousies and hypercritici8m& % i '? They. spend their life in huntins for musk rats and mud turtles instead of hunting for Rocky Mountain eagles; alway< for some thing mean instead of something grand. They look at their neighbors' imperfections through a microscope, and look at their own imperfections through a telescope upside down. Twentv faults of their own do net aurt them halt so much as one tauJJt of ssnte Ibody dlsa Their neighbor's iqiperfectWus are like gnats, and they strain itbeoiout; their own imperfections are like ctfmels, and they swallow their . . | ' " | \ But lest any mignt think they estape the scrutiny of tbe text; 1 have to tell you we all come under the divine satira when we make the questions of time more pro.niuent than the questions of eternity. Come now, let us all go into the confetsional. Are not all tempted to make the question, Vvhere u'uail I . live now? greater than the question, Where y-sball I live forever? How shall I eet moire dollars here? greater ^Viuti the question, ' How saall I lay up treasures in heaven? the question. How ?hall I pay my debts t<? man' greater than the question. How shall I meet my obliga tions to God? th? qu?:-tion, How stm.Tl I gain tbe world? greaser than the question, What if I lose my scu!? the question, Why did God let sin come into the world? greater than the question. How shall I gee it ex tirpated from my . nature? the question, Wnatshallldo with th? twentv or forty or seventy years ot ray suoiuoar . existence: greater that the question,- What s lall I do with tfe* millions of cycles <j:\my post terrestial existence? Time, honi small it is! Eternity, how vast it is! fhe former mor insignificant in comparison With the latter than a gnat is insisnidcantU'j^i compared with acamek We lodged tlte text. We said, "That doesn't mean me. and that doesn't mean me," and with as ruinous be nevolence wo are giving tbe whole sermon away. j | \ But let Ui all surrender to the charge. What an ado about things lere. " What poor preparation for a great eternity. As thougn a minnow were larger than a bsha motto, as thou|?fra swallow tocis wider cir cuit than an a.'batros* as ^bt>u?h a nettle tftfkr than a LeUanwW cedar, as a giant were greater tban a cam"), igh a minute were lotiger than h |tory, as though timi were higher, er, broader than et>?rnitr the which flashed with lightnta^ of wit us , tftrist uttered it, is folio we; I b; r the crash ing thunders of awful catastrophe to those \ who make the questio??of time greater than i ]- the questfems or the fuluiy, tfe oncoming, ; overshadingf future. . O Eternity! Eternity I ! Eternity ! \ A t'ajnons The walking stick _ witfU winch I'rinco George of Greece rescued tlie Cz,uf>.vit^ of Russia from his Japanese kisailauf his j been magnificently mounts! with ^old ana precious stone*. *tud iuicribed '-To j | Prince George, for .Valor, i;y order of th?- Czar. .rho has seni it with his < om- i [ plimcuU to it* 'jnner it'. At|iSQ3. ? Pica yune. 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