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FAB* AN' I) G ARDEX. , : f ' - i , . . V' I CLOVES HAY FOE 3HEEP. Many abeep-fatteners give their sheep j clover hay, and it is a good food for But it ought to be remembered it contains a large percentage of nitro genous Jood^ matter. We do sot say thia to prevent them using the clover bat to remind them that when they j bereave the quantity they increase the quantity d nitrogen supplied, and an r- attofraace for this should be made ?when . imaging the amount of eorn or cake. - 'Except for this, clover hay is one of the hest rectitfers a? well as best foods that ?SO be. gives to sheep. As a means of towering the quality of the blood, Epsom I ^jalta are a mild aperient. ? New York ! World. ,v * ? VEGETABLES A*D FSUIT VOR HolTES. , j Too many farmer? neglect lo supply j their own tables witn" any suitable va riety of vegetables and frufi? By a small j outlay of money and labor every farmer can keep his table supplied with a suc cession of fresh vegetables through the whole season. Spinach planted as so&o . as the weather is suitable will furnish the finest greens before other vegetables eorae on, but if it had bcea planted in - ?the fall it would have c min into it* use this month, under ordinary conditions. t Thea radishes. lettuce, cucumbers, to ? tnatoes, peas, beans, sweef^orn, summer aqaaahea, beets, melon* and t urban ; fquaohes will furnish a welcome- and wholesome addition to the farmer's fare j throughout the season. If, in addition to these there are a. few r>o\$ of rhu ^barb, a bed of asparagus, a.bsd\of straw 4 fceirks and a small collection k>f small fruits, a farmer may live in luxury and ; health> tteh as hi* occupation Ought to ? ?f- iUbf^LU id of the "fire-so me monotomy j fc aad scarcity of the good things of the' luteal thatmany farmers put up wkh fpjto - ahaer carelessness, thoiightlesaaess or :* Jnintm ? American Farmer. ? A I1! T::[ I BOOM or CiBBMSS. floe ol my neighbors by manuring befaily^Cnd oajifctiag the cibbages on MJ third row eC hi? cabbage piece, and itf>Hng this to squash at the proper io rawing two excellent cop* the same aeaaoa. To succeed in tie **rangemeui - the cabbage must l?M of the very cartiesfcsorts, each sw fetlj Wakefield, so that the ground w? b? entirely cleared at &n early day, M theaoii bietwcea the squash rows be IjHtyited until it is thoroughly light ?iftne. The market gardeners close jflfirfl.ii citie$ oo tbeir thoosand-dollar Mcn land must and do r^se,from two' >foor crbpe annually, by am of hotbeds I tat tler $tu?I, and the stimulus of i^tr aod laige market is which they jjgMSqpope of produet* on a large scale, would fcw worthless if saiaed on a Ordinary farm , still, farmers at large It do with grofit more than they now Ujftk possible ioL this direction, mfrnhri in n1[n n caoibe raised profit won the same land.) I grew over 200 ?Me of green peas mad five tons of wkA& on (he same kiece three years pT Beets, cabbage 3, T rye, barley asa nfegjuriaa are all cropaLwhicht the^farm [?ean arov as second nona. Bat when |itaa$C to douMe-crto our land there JW eaMiiUi we most toerer forget? KSrvWfrgMnare accordia|lv, for no one pt sacceeded in cheatiog V3 ^and out |* crop.?Masaacftusette PlWghman. rUSBiei WITHOUT TBA2fSPLA.ST15G. all the cjops raised 011 tbe farm none 93 ' much on Datura ily rich land ! ? osbbpge. J; The btet soil is a deep, | feck, loose loam, weik dn&rad, such as p$gnd in the vaileyVof me smaller ! Immc. It Ssplowed in the faii17eight Kt*o inches, dooft ' in, nasrow Iand3. i BMnrten-days o< April ? oaf time ; Br#*w?g the seed. The ground isTnar MMd only to levels as the action of j bigf* dfuring Winter lias reduced it to tbe M*jm of mtbes. It is then raaTked off : i|pl^|e<t' e*dh^n$ 4ith a cc'rn marker. j Jtitfc* hoe enough soil ia drawn up at j jMfcfltalsraifr to make a small, fiat bill, ] tpMSe ehofelhe general level. A dozen jMfr ?m dropped on each and pressed by Urn foot to bring the seed in j &NO contact Wftb the soil, no covering f N*? teoemary. A day or two before |Siy#tts appear a bote ground we press I M? feough the rows' wim a nan | I Wk enWrator as dote as possible with fef Hw*riaj any toil on the hills. This pit* easily done u the tucks of the 1 |pker serve as a guide. vibe second cultivation is given when ' b? plants art an inch high, and should ? Mj'ORMSwise of the list plowing, once in j WT. The JMd should be thoroughly j tpinod of weeds by the time the' plants; kfttvo inches high." Discretion must, j s exercised in thinning the ytoft, If ' i HjVOna* %re nnoaeroua the hills should [ p be thinned to one in a place until 1 I* phots are four or five iaechea high, \ pl at tte time should they be allowed to towd one another in the hill. . Some pSt viH be wholly missing. These PlM be reset Irora the thinnings, j tae stockiest plantss^that j J** ?P with good roots. The j Agh<? cabbage is cultivated the better iM*** c*>Pv .Tfcegrottud shonldbe i Mftetao* mellow to a depth of four j fci#cbee, tweaty times is not too j h^ltieatecafefcage for the best re - l^fc^Ml^^Jl^boewga^nly are the only one if thoroughlv 4a4^MHmktor w use! as il the !a^ Nt but few cabbages Bod; to sow cue js?eeti jxfcfhant. U*?l titers on ! cabbage I i vc not so oitea afjee'e-i bar in mkhuniDVrr a cabbage niant lias a toog thati tse-4>taat caa* I when one* broken it will sever pfcoetrai the soil so deeply as before. In 1885 bid two and a half acre* of Lse fte Dutch cabbage, grown without teas* planting, that yielded 16,000 marketable heads. Another acre of jot as goo* land wee planted with the beet ptait thinned out on a large field. Tfce re tarns from tide acre were not over sb hundred good beads, and the reeuits har been with more or I em variations, tin same through succeeding years O. course this plan is advisable for late cab bage only, as the early kinds are trans planted. and have usually headei before dry weather commengm. ? Americac Agriculturist. Far* AKD GAHD2J9 XOT8S, Dig around the raurmrfi plaits. Be on the lookout for ^arlyUarrowin? SOW3. ; " ' ? . Make a second planting of early #ar deo\crope. ? 9 Milk and grass are the best (ends for young pigs. Trees should be set out before they start to grow. No hog is quite so ravenous as a sow that is suckling pigs. At first give a sow bran and miik,and and then add corn Keep all colonies strong. This is the aecret of keeping bees for profit. Gladialosus come true when pro pagated fro n the small bulblets. . There is no special advantage in setting out strawberry plants early. Any of the leading breeds of hogs are good if they are given proper treat neat. The only safe plan of being sure of saving at! of the pig* p to be ready for Jbtsm. The Dawson rose, it is claimed, is a valuable addition to the list of hardv roees. ? | Seeds of hardy flowers ought to be sown as early as the ground cm bs put in order. i j Good pasturage of any kind win help the brood sows materially to give a good' -flow of mile. The fiat cover is the best for all b6e hivej. ft costs less than- the gable cover and is more convenient. Do not take the winter packing out of the second story of the bee hive tilf time to put in section boxes.. The best remedy for the cut worm is to put a piece of tin or still eardtaard around each plant when iris set out. "When stock are first turned out to grass care should be taken that they have access to all of the salt and water they want ^ s ; : Sheep may be rid of ticks very satis factorily by feeding sulphur, watch should be given in small quantities and not too often. If the acreage in meadow is not suffi cient to furnish a full supply of hay for winter feeding it win pay to tow millef or Hungarian for hay. In nearly all eases it will pay to har row the potatoes thorough!? before the plants make their appearance above gtoundf It will help kill oat the weed* \ The&rui the mflk is the most potent ^ctor in determining the yield and quality of cheese, and the quality of cheese is largely atfeeted by tie of fat contained in it. j Let ihe bees alone as much as possi ble. Decide upon some method and a*, bere to it The double hive methol is the best, and Will give the best results, if properly carried out, if there be any honey in the fiel?& When cattle are turned in on clover it will be best to turn in for one or twe tour* the first day, two or three the sec ond/so that they may be somewhat ac customed to it In this way the nsi of bloat may be greatly reduced. * , j A /Rochester commission merchant, addrwsiag the Western New York Hot Wtortf Association ? oa "Points u Shipping," said that if growers would sort each one hundred barrels down to seventy-five, they would receive just' m much money, and save the extra barrel} and freight A valuable grain to feed chickens dur log the first three weekrof their lives ii Ooiden, Millet. Very small chicks need >viery small seeds. They constantly search ljr the seeds of grass or any small seeds. Nature is the best teacher. 8mall wholi seeds are the best thing in the graii line that can be fed to very youni chickens. 7 ? fanner who has a bit of marsbi land near his houie where the grass ? not of much value for cattle feeding mai do well to enclose it with a fence and pot s gpese there. They like such feed, ani are profitable poultry when rightly man, agedv A small yard to themselves ani feed carried to them is better than allow tag tbem to roam. Tne results or trials at tfce Mayoard agricultural experiment station for two year* indicate that for fall or winter pigs, wnich are to be killed when about on* year old, it is more profitable to let then run in pasture or woodland during tin warm months, and shift for themseivet until within eight or ten weeks of kiflina time, than it is to feed them in confine ment during the summer. lilnofsses and ft presses Bare "Nerres^ A correspondent of tbe Voseiche &ngv writing of the menagerie connected With the Paris National History Museum, cavs the lionesses and tigresses and fe male leopards, are subject to "lems," and frequently hare ' to" be treated with j large <i re ts of brom-kalium to caha them. | The elephant suffer? from toothache, and j one of its teeth had to be staffed. The ; sasjncioijs creature endured the operation j of filtfn^aod boring with great patience, ; only rapidiVsjvaviog its trunk when the pain was violent. When all was oter it showed its gratiEade by caressing M. Snuverru with the fiftg.er-Kke extremity of lt3 proboscis. ? Kew Tork Tribune. ^ , L? - ijwrr Chinese Commodities. I Seme curious items are fonad m the ifcts of China's trade statistics. For instance the report of expotta from I chart# r a large city on the middle Yang tse-Kiang, eoo tains" an item of 13,000 wounds oil tiger bones, valued at nearly fSOOO. Ooly a Chinese would think of putting tiger bones to aay older use than that of a fertiliser, bat in China ti$er botes are used as a medicine. Thej impart tolhe invalid tome of the tiger's j strength. Another item is 9000 ponnds ! of old deer boras, worth $1700? an- j other; mediciuai agency with whose j peenhr properties Western medical science yet acquainted. ? Boston TranscriytCw ? " : Boys Mam :e> Wm*. To-day in England, at Harv^r. 'Ac ] boys are doctored en -mims. Each one ) ; ? served with two grains of ^aiiri^at j * morning and Bi<hc, as a\ safeguard i against tbe iortnenaa. The drog w ad* i ministered after prayers, aod tbe cere- j mony has thus a d?m&Se solemnity. As j the boys go out in single file they are 1 met by tbe matron, who grre* each one i his choice ot powder oc pill. Thechuce ! ? isi^e.jfae dra 4 la saallowed ami to j iin^Tis jrmrltiaUy shortened. ?dt? | Louis Republic. 1 m ' I PBOMHEHT PEOPLE, ! Th* P ope has the large* private fortune ; ef any man in Rome. - Xnv Yagbx, the African explorer, hat | (teoMbfisd, it I* stated. Xoobt ax&Sastxt hare ten urgently ' requested to visit Australia. M. Rwncunr, the newly appointed Italian ? Minister to Pari*, is a German by birth. TarwriHegi at Gladstone fill twenty-two |eges of the printed catalogue of the British Justxcb LtiUBy of the United States Su preme Court, fa well enough once more to go y outdriving. ' Gcroux Loirosraxsr has become quite Infirm with years, and is now very deaf, so that ?oa*wa??on with him has to be through an e* trump#. Th* colored ex-Senator, Blanche K. Brace, received the name "Blanche" after Miss Blanche Meckrae, of Virginia, who was hit mothers mistress. Mb& JicncBfs and Ma Coalbm, the two women alternates to the Minneapolis Con vention from Wyoming, are said to be forci ble speakers and energetic workers at the polls. ' ~ " / . A. C. Gcstek. the novelist add play* r wright, is said to h? reqgj^edr f43, OOP in royalties from the dramadcversioas of "Mr, Barnes of New York." ani "Mr. Potter of Texas." . j Sseios Roxcbo, the Mexican Minister, baa acquired the reputation of being the most at tote of the diplomatists in Washing ton. He baa been known to pass sixteen hours at hisdeek. . 8m Jamxs Allpoet, who died a- few ' weeks ago, was the oldest railroad man in England in point ofsarvice. He began as a lamp-room porter and was at the head of ^hejpreat Midland Railroad Company when Db. Ehoch Ftthuh, of Green wick, Cum berland County, N. J., has just celebrated his 100th birthday. He isperhapethe oldest physician in the country, and b thought to bef the oldest Free-Mason in America. He never married. The old man is in fair | health, but fa hlind. ? CoLoina, J. W. Avert, the Commander in-Chief of the Kn KLux in South Carolina, : died suddenly a lew days since, at his resi* | dence near Virginia Beach, aged sixty-four, i Hie received a wound near Appomattox, | shortly before the surrender of Lee, from . I which fas never recovered. 4- i jAKnOaotJOiJE, Sr., of CbicegQL it dead. ; He built the firsi bo* to cross the Atlantio by steam power aloae.v The boat was the i Eoyal William, which made the trip from ; Pictou, Nova: Scotia, to Gjfcresend in 1883. He was eighty-three years oli and leaves a wife and six children, all living in Chicago. CoLomx Ai> BL McCluhb, the editor of ' the Poiiadelphia Times, whose building was burned down, a short time ago. , was attend ing a banquet on the evening of the Are and was just ngir^g to correspond to the toast on ?The Press'* when word cam* that the build ing was in flames. He hastened to the scene, saw quickly >het the case vfas bopelses and then coolly returned to the banquet* Anumg the losses in the building was his ?alu&Se political library which he had beeo collecting for fifty years. NEWSY GLEANINGS.* try in jts&ea woimaed . TFk were ] 075 and r were kii.'ed an Pacific coast continue to increase. I 4W.OOO pounds bate been peek ?? ;?r?te ilrnMin KaUraa^^VrfBj^J REV BR. TALMAGE ' ' : j '? ' * ' The Brooklyn Divine's Sun *r day Sermon. Text: "Thou dumb and deaf spirit J charge thee, come out of kim*?. lurk tr., -26. ? was tout of great domestic an gntsfc i. The son of, the household wsspos Mvd of an erfl spirit which, among other i things paralysed his tongne and made him \ speechless. When the influence was onthe V patient he could not say a word? articula tion was impossible. The spirit that cap tured this member of tbd^hooashokl Was a dumb spirit? so caOed by Christ? a spirit abroad to-day and as lively aad potent as it New Testament tames. Yet in all of th* realms of sermonoloey I cannot find a die course concerning this dumb devil whiel Christ charged upon my text, j saying "Come out of him." There h<w ben much destructive supersti tion abroad in the world coocerning poeotn sion by evil spirits. Under the form of belie:' in witocraft this delusion swept tbo continents. Persons Were supposed to bu possessed Willi some eril Writ which tnado them able to destroy, others. In the six teenth century In Genera 1500 persons weru burned to death as -witches. Under on<? judge in Lorraine 600 persons wens borne! , to death as witches. In one neighborhood of*, i France 1000 persons were burned. lntw> centuries ? 200, COO persons were slain , as witches. So mighty was the delusion that rt included among its victims some of He greatest intellects of all time, such as Chi^i Justice Mathew Bale ml Sir Edward Coke, and such renowned ministers of religion es Cotton Hither, one of whose books, Bebjatnin Franklin said, shaped his life? and Richard Baxter and Archbishop Cranmer and Mar tin Luther, and among . writers and philoso pher?, Lord Bacon. That belief, which bts become the laughing stock of all seiuible people^.coanted itsdisdples emoog the wisest and best people of Swede*, Germany.. Eng land, France*' Spam and New England. ' B it while we reject witchcraft an? man who b? lieves the Bible must believe that 'there arc diabpncal agencies abroad in the world. While there are ministering spirits to bites there ve infernal spirits to hinder, te poison and deferoy. Christ w^peakinglto a spir itual existence when, standing before the afflicted one of the text, He said, 'Thou dumb; and deaf spirit, Come out of him." Against thisdumb devil of the teat* I put you oh your guard, Do not t&injk that this agent of evil has put his blight on those who, by onkihissioo of the vocal organs^ have lad the golden gates of speech bolted and barred. *Among those who have never spoken a word are the most gracious and lovely j:and dsal ( ented souls that Were ever incarnated, ^he schaplains of the asylums for the dumb ian t*Jl you enchanthig stories of those, irho never called the name of father or mother or child, and many of the most devout and prayerful souls will never in this worli speak the name of God or Christ. Many a deaf mate have I seen with the angel of in telligence seated at the window of the eye, who never came forth from the door of>the mouth. "j < i j Witot a miracle of loveliness and knowl edge was Laura Bridgman, of New Hatnp shire r Not only without faculty of speocb, tat without hearing and without sight, alt these faculties removed by sickness when two years of ag& yet becoming a wonder at needlework, at the piano, at the sewing ma chine, and an intelligent stndent of the Scriptures, and ; pon ounding philosophers, who came from sill parts of the world to study the phenomenon. Thanks to Christi anity for what it has done for the Amelior ation of the condition of the deaf and the dumb. Back in the ages they were pat to i among the iusvwiv CUIU But in the Sixteenth century came Pedro Pone 3, the Spanish monk, and in the Seven * teenth century came Juan Pablo, Bo net, anotbor Spanish monk, with dactylology or the finger alphabet and in our own Century we have had John Braidwood and Dr>. Mitchell and Ackerly and Peet and Gallau det, who have given uncounted thousands o. those whose tongues were forever silent; the power to spell out on the air by a mamuai alphabet their thoughts about this world and their hopes for the next. We rejoice la the brilliant inventions in behalf of those who were born dumb. ? una oi-tne most impressive audiences I ever ^addressed was in the far west tiro or three years ago? an audience o? about 600 persons who had never heard a sound or spoken a word, an interpreter sftnding t efide roe while I addre$sedtbem. I congratulated that audience on ttfo advantages theyJihd and over the most of us? the one that taey escaped hearing a. great many disagreeable thing*, and on the other fact that tbov. es caped saying things they were sorry tor af terward. Yet after all the alleviations a shackled^fcpague is an appalling limitation. But we are not this morning speaking of congenital mutes. We mean those who are ( born with all the faculties of vocalii:atidn band yet have been struck by the evil one .mentioned in the text? the dumb deril to .whom Christ called when fie said, *'Ibou - dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come outof him. . j j * -.There has beeuapotheo3izationo<f silence. Some one has said that silence is golden, and sometimes the greatest t^um^h is tc keep your mouth^shufc. But sometimes silence is a crime and the direct result of thtf baleful influence of the dumb devil of our ^exfc. ; There is hardly a man or woman in this house to-day who has not been nresent on "aoios occasion wnen we unnsuan reigion became a. target for raillery. Perhaps it; was over in theaitoi e soma day when there was i^Uot much going on and t&e clerfc% were in a group, or it was h? the factory ait the noon 'I, or it was out on the farm under th<( trees le you were resting, or it was i:i the clnbroom, or it was in a social circle, or -it was in the street on the way home from Business, or it was on some occasion which you remember without me describing it. t Some one got the laugh on the Bible 'amd caricatured .the pmession of re ligion as hypocrisy, or mi^e a pun out of something that Christ said. The laugh started and you joined hi, aud not one word of protest did you utter. What kep; you silent? Modesty'' No. Incapacity to answer? - Not Lack of opportunity? NoX It was a blow on both your lips by the wing ] of the dumb devil. If tome one should ma- J ligtt your father or mother or wife or bus- ? band or child you would flush up quick, and/ either with an indignant word or doabled j up fist maker esponse. And yet here is our i , Christian religion which has done so much ; j for you and eo iquch for the world that it j will take all eternity to Celebrate it, and yet : when it was attacked vou did not so much ' as say: MI differ, I object, I am sorry to bear you say that. There is another side to ? this." Yon Christian people ought in suoh times as these to go armed, not with earthly weapons, bat with the sword of the Spirit. You ought to have four or Hive questions with which you oo'uld confouni any man who attacks' Christianity. ? man ninety yeai*s old was telling me a few day:? ago how ho put to flight a scoffer. My aged Irienn said to the skeptic, ' Did yoti eve. read the history of Joseph in the Bible?" "Yes," said' the man; ',it is a fine story, and as interesting a story as I ever j-ead.'' "Wall, cow,* sail my old friend, ".nip pose that account of Joseph stopped half way?" "Ob," said the man. "then it woul'l ffot be en t?r mining .'I "Well, now," said my frien\ "We have in this world only half of everything, an 4 do you nob 'ttrnk that wben we hear^the laft hilf things rray be consistent, and: that tlwn we ma) find that God was rightF' Oh, friends, better load up with a f<?w in-/ terrogation points. You cannot afford i be silent when God and the J&ible an1 tt things of eternity are assailed . Your silei gives consentrto the bombardment o* yc?. Father's house. You allow a slur to ba e ?? on your morners aymg puiow i In l?eh ilf of the Christ, who for? you vi-ent th/oa :h th? agonies of assassination <\n the i-oc & bluff back of Jerttsaletn, you d fired mi ft ea a Rickly joke. , Better load ujl with ? t w questions so that next time yoa will $be ready. Say to the scoffer: "My dear sir, will yen tall me what mikes the difference bet ween the condition qf woman in Clhina and the Ignited States? ^VV bat do you think of Cua sermon on the mount? How d t? you like tl^ golden rule: laid down in the ScKotures? Arts you in ravor o t tbe ten commandments? -iii your large and extensive reading^ have yojr come across a lovelier Christ? Will yon pi phant deathbeds of inftd Sow do yoa tbeoqtaaft wur? sack! John than Jesus the triu<n ath-ji IWIIrll toott, Adatiril Famumty Mil ton. Wiifiuf n Chief Justice Marshall, John I W ebster, George Washing ton? Bow do you account for t heir fondness /for the Christian religion? Among the in | ^inmerabte collates apd univeirsitie* irtr ib*? eartn wui you name jqa Stores started by infideb and now supinrtorC by intic Jtown in your heart are^QiirQ ?tfv happy , "'00 von occupy antag apfctic to ireligion? Whendojwi haw? -1 ie^sof the nc EC wocM^ i a few such en tdk Lin -the face ?h to i i lis witpjii ^ ? i . ri ?Ml ?TOMhr# regions aw&nc* km JtS w&wdSW? ?ndW know ho# to w many of the tunaa and jrs* tbe great raptures.ax music pi? by. tihM thooe who: fmg not one owtijof a fcW"S^ sings load en%h to hair his own Trie* They IjfLm it They give a sort of raHstaai' grunt They make the lips ga bot tthta audible. With a voice strong enough tottoe a street oar one block away, all they oaia? * ford in the praise of God it aboat half a whimper. W? enough sopranos, * Sur wall*, they; lot the afipat foreign oxology, tttnity go by unimproved. T^a volume of^voioe that ascends from largest audienoe that over afrstbfcd < to be multiplied about twotbouaaod Bttt the nHKier rime wa4\Srm^ bynm; the organ begins; the choir oen tor leads; the audience ere that the long* may hare full ex a mighty harmony isaboot to ii , the evil spirit spoken of in my text^-ths dumb devil? spread* hie two rwinga, one over tbti bps of one-half the audience and the otner irtng over theHps of tfeoHbar baff of the audience, and the voioes roll baok'into the throats from which they started, aad only here aad there anything fa hoard* 1 tad nine-tenths of the holy powsa Is . destroyed; and the dumb detll, as he files away, cava: ; "I could not keep Isaac Watte from w (hat hymn* and I could not keep (Mason from composing thai tuna to Is set, but I emoteinto -silence or JMH ?jsileafce the lips from whidf it would hate spread abroad to blaat neighborhood^ :aad Imtiea, and then mount the wide. open heav ens.? Give the long meter dosoLogy the full rapport of Chrietendom, aad thoaaifoor Hoes would take the whole earth for GddJli " the cotton famine: in I when the suffering' was as the first wagon "load of in, the starving people unhookr __ horses and drew the load tbeatfetvsa sing ing, until all Lancashire joined M with tFi um?hant vojqss, their cheeks sopping] with tears, "PraWGod from whom all b&sriags flow.? Whan Commodore Parry, With his j^anhip, the Mississippi, lay off the ooast of Japan, he bombarded the shores With "Old Hundred,1* played by the marine hand. Glorious "Old Hundred," composed by WW iam Franc, of Germany. la a war prison, at ten o'clock at night the poor fellows far from home and wounded ana sick and dy ing, one prisoner started the "Old Hundred Dosology," and then a score of voices joined,' then all the prisoners On the floora took up the acclaim until the building, from founda tion to topstone, fairly qqpked with thei melodious ascription . A A British man-of-war, lyin-foffa fc coast, heard a voice singing that doxol ^and immediately guessed, and gusaeed I ' aright, that there was an Englishman i la, captivity to the Mohammedans; and in the email boats the sailors rowed to shore and r burst into a gaurd-house and sot the captive free. I don't know what tune the trumpets . of resurrection 6hall play, bat It may be the ogy which is now sounding across ^ tendom. How much more hearty we would be trf^cr songs, and how easily w? cottld drive btoh^he dumb devil from au our worshiping asaemWaggs, if we oould realise that nearly art cpr^ymilPho^ea stirring his tQ^iat glorious hymn, "Stand TTp for Jesus," was suggested by the last words of Dudley Tyng, w&of was dying from having tie right arm torn off in a thrashing ma*, chine. That hymn, ;<lWhat a Frieda Wo Have in Jesus," heard through a telephone, . converted an obdurate soul. , "Shall Wo Gather at the RXvSr^was a Hymn first sung in our Brooklyn Prospect Park, at the chil dren's May anniversarry, and then started to enciscle the^world. "Where Is My Wan4 deHng Boy To-night?" is a song that ban saved hundreds of dissipateii<youog men, \ i Tom, the drummer boy in the army, WM found crying, and an Officer saked him what' I was the matter! "Oh," he mid, "I had a dream last night:- My sister died ten years ago, and my mother never was herself again and she died soon after. Lwfc night I dreamt I was killed, in batU&i and that mother aril sister came down to mfeet me.",*! After the next battle was over, some one croasing the field heard a voice that! he recognised as the voice of Tom, the drummer boy, singing "Jesus, Lover of My Soul!' Bat at the end 4f the first varsa the voice becami Yer feeble, and at the end of the seconl vera 3 it stopped, and they went up and foun lj To.n, the drummer boy, leaning against agtump aad dead. ?? : ! ? .That hymn, "Oh,for a^Qousand Tongues to Sing," was suggested t6 Charles Wesley by Peter Bohler, who, after his conversion, ?aid, "I had better ketyp silent about it" "No," said Wesley, "if you had ten tfcotmnd tongues you bad better use them for dbrist." And then that angel of hrmnolozy penned the words:1 Ob, for s thousand tonpnei to sins a My dear Redeemer'* praise, The glories of my God and King, Thstrlmnpbs of His grace. \ ? Jesus, the name that calms oar f^ari, ? That bids oar sorrows cease. Tls music iaihe sinner's ears, 'Tie life and health and peace. While much of the modern music is a rtligious doggerel, a Consecrated nonsenae. a sacred tomfool^ry;-4-yauld like to see some | great musician of our time lift the baton and ; marshal Luther's Judgment Hymn, Yar- ? mouth, Dundee, Ariel, Brattle Street, Ux- i hridg&^>*eeVs Hymn, Harwell, Anjaoch, MounM^^h and Coronation, withAJtew regimeW^Pmighty tunes made in oar tffiv, and storm Asia, Africa and AmerlcA.for Jfee kingdom ot God. But the first thin? to do is to drive out the xdumb: devil of the text from all our churches ? , Do not, however, us lose ourselves In generalities. Not^jie of us but has had our vee sometimes touched by the evil Spirit of the teit? this awful dumb devil. We had just one opportuuitv of saying a Christian word tnat mignt save led & man or ; woman into a Christian life. The opportunity tfas fairly put before us. Tbe word of invita tion or consolation or warning camp to the inside gate of the mouth, but there it baited. Some hindering power locked the jaws to gether so/tbat they did not open. The ton&ue lyr fia'an'l still in the bottom of the inouth %s" though strack with paralysis. We were mtote. Thousa Go 1 had given us the phvsijwogical anparapus for speech, and our lungs were filled Fitu air which, by- the command of our mil, could "have made the ?fcryngeal muscle/ move anl the vocal organs vibrate,/ we were wickedly and fatally silent, wnr all time and eternity we missed our chance . ; Or it wax a prayer meeting, and the ser vice was thrown open for prayer and re marks, and there was a dead halt?every thing silent as a 'graveyard at midnight. Indeed it was a graveyard an t midnight . An embaraV^pg pause took place that put a wet blanket on all ths meeting. Men, bold enough on businesi exchange or in worldly circles, shut their eyes as though they were praying in silencs, but thev were not crav ing at au. iney were ousy nopmg some body else would do his duty. The women flushed un ier the awiul pause and made their fans more rapidly flutter. Some brother with no col 1 coughed, by that sound tryinjL-*rr"fill up tbe time, and the meeting wap^viia. Hut what kill? 1 it?? tbo> dum'j ' This is the way 1 accouat for ths tact tbat the stupidest places on earth are some prayer meetings. I do not see how a man keeps any grace if he regularly attends them. They are spiotuai refrigerators. Religion kept on ice. How many of us hive lost occasions of usefulness? In a sculpCSWr studio rtood a fl&ttp of toe zoi Oooortunitr. me sculptor naa tue nair fall down ?VtS'lHeftfL'e of the status so as to complete ly cover it, and there were wmgs to the feet. When asked why he so represented Oppor tunity, the sculptor answered, "The face oCr the statue is thus covered up because we doi not reco^i^e Opportunity when it, comes. * and the wings to tbe lest sho.w that Oppor-' tnnity i&j&riftiy -gone ." But do,not let the world deride thp church because of all this, for the dumb devil 1s just as conspicuous in th| world. Tfea tfro?rset political partiee wi" platforms for stand on. beappo: rt-T :at.' !>?' ' ? r J ? toe country about the liquor .. ? lows the ram in regard to the universal at jat the demolition ? of the Lord's day. No recognition of God in the history of this nation for that would lose the vote of athe ists. But "VTnJives" and "Whereas" and "Whereas/' Niile cheers will be given foil the platform. The dumb devil of roe text: will put on* wing over tbe Republic m platy form and the other enttic platform. T . in the next election 4rothlh -^33-.. Jord, ? .. 4 masters an-i consuis an t lonaign ,oita?ters and united States district a ? sad lor feat jlplllsfc [;Sfcd aaai aaita m nmr beta*? ! ^^Mktiotoria^aad-*^" nl be God, follow Pf |,a daf iDObMT oataadout, up and dtwi for right* If nor ship is afloat on t bo Pa in of God's mercy, Jmu* out ytm r: fium masthead. 8ho*your passport m one, Do not saiMi your soul harbor, of heaven. qpeofc eat far fhie morning okw up cm of ? ovtunities, and pitch it into the East ad q>en a new chapter. Before you .the door on your way oat this: j sttake hands with eom* one,! hint to join yon an tfee road to: Do not drive up to heaven in a two "Sulky" with room only for one,1 end Wat yourself, but get the biggest Goeoel waaoir oo am find mad pilo it fan of friends ana n<ftjh bora, end about till they hear yon. ail up and down the skies, ''Com* with ut, end we wfll do yon good, for the Lord hath 'promitadgood concerning lend." i The opportunity for goo-l which you may ooneider iarigoiftcan^. may be tremendous tbr results, as when on sea Captain Hdldans swore at the ship's crew with an 6ato that Wished ifihem all in nerdition. and a Scotch sauer toocaed his cap, and said, "Captain, God beiirs prayer, and we would ba baaly off "i were answereg." Captain i* was convicted by 'the sailors and converted, and became the ?( the salvation of hie brother ,|?hohad been an in&det. and then Robert fafctun<? a minister of the Gospel, ant Under hL# ministry the godiees Felix Jfeff be. dame the world renowned missionary of the sad'tha worldly Merle L'Aubignebe tlie author of "the History of the formation." and Will be the glory of the inrch for all agea * 1 *?*?#?, J061 may do as muoh as the Sootch^niior who jnst tipped hit can! and .& as; with potent innuetsee. Do somethiag for God, and do it :righf away, or you will never <lo it at ail ?" ; ' the Didn't Meau la' Propose. "j| A flood story is told of a very reverend and very dignified master of anr&aglisk college. | Although 4 4 the docttfr" wfc t serious man, he .was also a kindly one^ and vhen a young maq^f his cojlege fel ill, did all in his powef to procure hin good care and the best medical; advice. Finally the invalid's sister arrived, and as sho wns young and inexperienced, tht worthy doctor endeavored, by ponstanl attention, to lighten her load of anxiety. She was most grateful, add confided tt her Ijetrothed, who was at a distance her desire fh&t only 4 'the dear doctor^ \ the master of the college, should; perforn < their wedcung ceremony. The student recovered, and was now to acCompaoj his sister home, there to be nucsed int( vigor a^ain. The doctor was present to ; say goodbye, and *the young lady wai full cf gratitude. "Doctor," said she, grasping both his hands, 4 'you have beer so good to me I" "I have found greai pleasure in your acquaintance, " said tht \gentleman, is. his roost dignified anc courteous manner. "You have; done m much for me, but I am going to ask onl more favor! Will you promise to marrj mef The doctor, amiable as ; he was, dropi>ed her bauds and started back it horror! "My dear young lajly," h't stammered, "I? I'm afraid we shoulda'! gV'a ^together 1'' ? Argonaut, j Didn't (JrnSp the SnAli* Rev. Hugh Price Hugiies,of New 2ea? land, says the Providence Journal, is.bf all accounts, very particular thatj his BL . A. should appear always after bijr name. [' A deacon, in an out-of-the-way Netf j Zealand tcwnship, one Sunday read te ' I his coMregation tho written notice oi [Mr. Etughes's forthcoming visit thus: j "Tfca pulpit oi this church will be oceo* pied*ou Sufcday next by the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes's Ma. " He added the sage reflection: "And we have no doubt the oldfcdy will giv# us a very telling d? nouxaa," -- ?i-'l In the Spring Nearly everybody needs a good 'oiedicine. Hie , imparities which have accumulated in the blood during the cdli months mtbt be expelled _ or when the mild days come, ?pd the effect of )>raciii{ air is lost, the body is liable to be over come fy debility o? some serious cHawse. The remaricahle tsuccee* of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and the Universal praise it has received; make it i worthy your confidence. It is the " ideal j Spring Medicine." " It Is Invaluable." " 1 have used Hood's Sarsa par ilia in my fam ;j fly for the past four years, and far a thorough blood purifier it has no superior. It Is in valu able alia spring medicine; it invigorates the {.whole system and tones up the stozpacb, and since 1 became acquainted with Hood's Sarsa j parillf. I always take several bottles in the spring, and, as occasion requires, the rest of the year,' L. U. Gilman Aureiia, Io\va> ? Hood's Sarsaparilia Cures Where othfer preparations fail, lie sure to ijet v Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is Peculiar to Iti?elf. " HOOD'S PILL'S cure- liver Uls,;coa>tira tion. biliousues.-. vaundire.sick headache. CURES Mn. E. J. Rowell, Medford, Mass, says hei mother baa been cured of Scrofula br the um SCROFULA of fomit bottle* of modi other treat after baring had merit, and being j ndnoed to quite a low conditio of health, as H ! was thought she could not live * Cured my little boy tary ecroful* peared all over his aye*:! had of his I was ? fewbo of beredt which ap> giren tip all hope I face. Fot recovery, wlien finally induced to use | tiles cured him .and no ' symptoms of the disease remain. j; T. L. Mathers, Matherrflle, Miss. tt*l?ok on Blood tad Skis Diseases suited free. Swift Srsciric Co., .\daata, G?. ClflTD BIRTH MADE EASY! " MoT>feR5' frreKn " is a scsenotjc-t gaily prepared Liniment . every i-.igre ?|fcnt of rccognized value and in " constant use by the medical pro fession. These ingredients are com bihed in a manner hitherto unknown r'MOTHERS* [r FRIEND" ? ^VILL DO all th^t t> Maimed for VT^JLaND MORE. It Shortens Labor, ^ V^r Ccssetis Paiiy[ Diminishes Danger to 9~*.. Lite of Mother and ^hiUL^Bpok ; ? C *5 to " Mo r?E?.s " mailed hKj&^pon . plaining valuable information . ttnd ! ? ?rvofcmtary tesftinoriials. , .j! ({?tbvfl;<!CvtOB r ??!-?- ipt ri( tirtcc [>cr Ivtttis iflUDFlELt RE6UUJOII 20., AtUftbt.ttft. BOLD *V ALL JtftUVOUfflfc ' ,:v ' ll ; ? stored to its normal < destroyed forersr; caused by Mtttrbt \ flfrrM condition of We will giveOne caeeof deafness (os cannot core br tak W" * * CO.; Tohdo, a Sold by Druggists, I6c. i ' ' : ?SSsi Pajovusoft Fbak* Letts, known u ttait Kescpr of German sutoeons, it dead (*? Munich, Bavaria. Win Travetlag ! * J I . ? j , { : Whether on pleasure bent, or business, take rip a bottle of Sjrrop of Figs, aa It. IT and efsotlrel y on the 'bowel**f?risqti?f fevers, headtehes and othsr forms Of stebness. For sals In SO cents an 1 flbettlsis br ail leading i . ?*****<* =_ O . A' acnUBcrt direr sometimes ro*k? M high aa EO.WQ a year. Malaria cured and eradicated tr>m tW system by Brown's Iron Bitters, which eg richer the blood, tones the aervee.*ids digak Uom Acts liko a charm on persons in genarBl ui health, giving new energy- and strength. The Princess of Wale* ;is ssl'i to have "aged" very materially siaw the death of her favorite son. ' I : ? Tke Oaljr One Ever Printed. CAS YOU rt*D THE WORD? The*eisa3 Inch display ad rariiseuant In thb paper, thl* we^k.which has no two words alKe except orfPlvord. The same is trueof each new OMapp< aring each week, from The Dr. Hart er JMedicine Co. This house plfcpes- ? /Crescent^ on everything they mmteand pab ll"h. Lotfk Tor U, sen 5- them the name of the word and they will return ybu book, bbaoit* |tTL LlTHOOtiaPBS or samples rnBK. ! - jrtlBAR ADsnan, Kimrskly has been %laced oil the r^tirei list. L'nfler all circumstances, under all conditions, under all influences, Pcadycrotlne will promptly cure all headache*. U llUruggfcts, fifty cent*. Tips master cotton-spfeners in Enylan I have inaugurated a lockout which will affoct laTyj TOO, uuj operative?, j ; r; 's Iron Bitters cures Dyspet Shu Ma* iousners and Oenetal Dew lty. 0ive? , aide Digestion, tonea the ns The best tonte- for K Mot^a, weak women-and children* Thb litugand Queen o: tt&l England; ttsily are fcc v*:dt Bbbc organs, thr teei act Ukq magic on the yftgl ost compleijon and bring bafck , "appetite, j i; Ha*s row BtLow cills Biwnaro'i tin Bsi thoven of politic.*. I , i ; If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr, Isaac Tboma sop's Eye- water J>rugglste sail atj S5o.per bottle A hospital for railway; men' is to be built - in Ch'ca^ix 111. |- ;1 ; 'AUgUSt Flower" Eight doctors treated me for Hetft Disease and one for RheumatisjOi, butdid me no good.^ speak aloud. ^Everything that I too|F into the Stomrch distressed me. I could not sleep. Ij had taken all kinds of medicines. Through ft neighbor I got one of your books. I procured a bottle of Green's Auj^ ust Flower and took it. I amto-day stout, hearty ani^stroc^ af?ct enjoy ~~lhj toluf'tftaUh. August Flower sayed-mylifeandgavememy health. Mrs. Sarah T Cox, Defiance, 0. % AflC A ttftCV aab?wB?d lyuyucr aI'I 11 If EC A For pirttcaUr* *d tm I .. V?W W. XKKDHAM, lUMgrf, Chka o, 111 Private European Parties Under the patronage of Mr?, M. D. Frazar, 70 and 71 Qloba Building; Boston. , f oar* of olfhty. flity and forty-flre ^*y??. i ; t Party for North Cape saU? June 18. ) Serul for circular* ?ad reference*. ira?uT*fi?L?'s5KS purify the blood. are eaf* tod <4 factual. The be* general family tpMidne known for BUkrareea., Constipation, Draxp^a. FOoli Breath. Hendicbt, Heattbuin. Loo* of Appetite. M octal Deprmicn, I^lnnuWcwiori, Pimple*, fallow Complexion. T?r?l FceMor. sad' every tytnmom or omu* resulting irom impure blX^J. 01 *T*i!upe bjr4h? rtotnocb. Uvef of V? perform thtir prooer fut<rti?ins. 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