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THE FABX AND GABDE3. S^TZET COS5. Sweet corves maiv uses besides fit ness as a tabl? delicacy. Animals like it much better than field corn. even. as men and women, do. Sweet corn will be useful to feed cow* when toe grass begins to fait in the late summer, and wilL make milk and butter equal to that pro* ducei by June gras3. It is also the next thing to milk for fattening young pigs. Chickeup are very i<f> id of it and do well .on ii. But it will not do for the silo.? J 1 American Farmer. > JlA^UarSG MEADOWS. Meadows will be much x helped by a liberal dreeing of manure immediately after getting off the hay. The sudden change from dense shade and ample moistare to bright hot sun and scorching dryness by the mowing is very trying to the grass roots, and undoubtedly is one reason why our meadows are so short lived. To top d?33 toe grass with ma nure is^jyyra most effective help, and without it Is hardly possible to maintain the grass in permanent good coalition. The manure should be fine and well sotted, so that it may not choke the grass.? New York Times. GOOD GRADE CATTiE. "Between the weil bred grade cattle and the ubiquitous serab is a great gulf fixed. It is ay no msiU3 necessary that an animal should be thoroughbred to be profitable^ but it is necessary that he should <?ttve good blood and that - a reasonabiV^ amount of care should be taken id hii breeding. If this is done you will &o well ^ejxud. If not. the chances are against you. Auj caif of whatever breed ought to have a good sire, and with 3 good grade d3m , weigh trotn 700 to- 10'J J "at a yearling. Blood tells, and there if. plenty of de mand for primely bred cattle, calves ox. beeves. A well kno vn breeder of Here ford cattle recently sola a lot of year lings of taat breed, weighing over 1000 pounds per head, at per hundred. Why can'l every farmer do as well?? Para^ Fidd aoll Stockman.. \ WHERE THB TSEE3 SO. " There are many things which seem to \bave had their infiisfcnce in preventing an ./overproduction of good fruit. In the first place not one-half the trees planted ever reach a bearing age, and of those that do hve and thrive not more than half bear fruit of any special value to the owner, because fie varieties are not adapted to the climate or other condi tions under which they., are grown. B5ght* noxious insects, and general neg lect all contribute to keep .the supply - pt good fruit down^to or a little below ;; the demand. Thousands may sow where fr but lew reap is as true to-day as in any ? ? ige of the world, and it is well that it is so, else the truly deserving would have j i less to sh^jr for their skill and industry. The immense increase in pooulaticn has, %t course, given a proportionate increase ; in consumption, while the modern facilx x transportation of fruit' from one part of the country to pother, a* well as to foreign ports, has helped enormous!/ a in pf$eiiiing good iffkrkets. In addition ! to all of these; the drying or evaporation of the perishable fruits of late years has j 1 stimulated the production of such kinds^ and it is likely to continue, because there . are many foreign Nations who want our dried fruits in im mease quantit Ehder present conditions we think^M is little . danger "Of overpt^JglCGon of choice fruits of any kjjProthis coun try, at least not^00mk\\ who attempt its cuItivatioy^Enow more about the do at ||ie present day. Whole asd piece root oraptixo. A study of whole nad piece root graft log has been bo^un at the Illinois Statioa. For this purpose more than 2000 grafts . were put up and sec, though many of them failed to grow. Advocates of the s whole roo\ method claim as its greatest advantage' that the graft is set ou the collar, of the seedling tree, thit taere alone "is the natural pi ice foe union be tween the trunk of the tree and the root, and. that to put the grift on any other part of the root muH Necessarily make a less perfect uaicfti aa<L consequently a ) poorer tree in the nursery and a less en suring and per feet orchard tree. Many i of them <1:5 not advocate too use of t'ne^ ? whOtc r>r>t, a* one would naturally be lied : to 4t*p,>oiC, bit woafr is usually called the upper cut-, dve to six inches long, from thecoU^lown. Ms reported BarriK and McCluer, station horticulturists, they have used roots in various forms, from whole roots teajrfhea long, to rojt3 cot into pieces of different lengths, with cions set two inches above Che col'ar, oa the collar and two inches below- the collar. The conclusions from one year's work . . are: The a bole root has no advantage p over a piece root of the same size. (Size re'ers to both length a ad thickness.) [ ; . Kooti with small side branches left on gate better results than roots of the same ftixe with the rootlets cut away. Boots Ave inches long gare better re than roots four inches, two inches trimmed, ?*ve nearly as good results as roots ten achat long. ? New York World. ;|l?i 9 PA5TUBIXG MEADOWS. ^ Whether or not tbe-^uantity of feed ? tecored by pasturing the meadows after | Its crop of hay has been harvested will/ make up for the damage done is, to say q*?estion?^!e. This is es ;-.W itfy the case when the summer is regular pastures down and the meadows furnishing neariy or 0 1 jjasturage are eaten down a of top ia summer pro in summer a3 well as in taken away, done-by we, secured an 5 When ^herwhc ?:aojt certaii^to run ' cases, waea the men been cut reaiom^ly early, no question but that {pasturing cast \k done without injur/, If care 13 taken not to aHow the stock^jo crop the gram deftm tod close. inmost cases it W^ibe better !o cut and feed some green crop at this time rather than allow the mefcdows to he eaten down close. Of course, i* many cases the meadows are pastured, one season and a fair crop of bay is harvested, but this is hot proof <that the meadows were not damaged or that a larger and more profitable crop would not have been secured if the stqcs: had bee a kept out. With hay, as with all other crops grown oa the farm, a large yiefci of good quality means a pajo <5*?& -wfcilef a light yield will barely pay expenses. Is many localities it is <$uite aa item to keep. a meado* as long a* a good growth and yield can be had, and to do this care must be Hi en of it. If psstueed too cioseiy in hot, dry wea ther more or less of the plants wiU, be killed out, and if tfcjsirkept up a re seeding wiH be aecenw# . Extremes ahouid bera voided.- .In a favorable season, whea? a.rcod^gtpwta 1 has beenscade, son&.pwsxytzzg can of tea j ba 4oae with ^aic, when5* Sli.-rf? ; ?, ;r-. * * .: ? - ' . - ? p* 1,-L > ; . : - : immediately filter hay harvest, pasturing | is frequently s serioun injury, tad in any I season considerable damage will be done j if the stock is allow jd to eat the grass | down too close. ? 8t. Loom Republic. [ # ATO OASDEf SOTXS. ^Perennial phloxes i m growing in pop Lilaca may be propagated by nteans of - grafting. If you want fine specimens thin oat severely the tree fruits. Over-crowding animals is the surest way of inviting disease. Bran comes nearer being a complete , - stoca food than asjrtltiuz else. ! If flies infttt the stable scatter some chloride of Hme and >bseirre its ^ftect. For pear scab, spmy the a ffedjed tree repealed ly with the Bordeaux fixture. High-priced clothes and Tow -priced cattle will not pay the mortgage . on the farm. : Corn silage, with gluten meal sad bran, iaap excellent ration for feeding i beeves, ' ' >' The California jwiret may be, propo gated by cuttings panted ia the open ground. , Stock owners should be tnort inter* ested in preventing d isease than in seekc io?~oqrts. Those who took their bees oat of winter qnirteit latest this year did best. May 20 papved to be the best time. - Recently a mare fcaied in a freight* car sod got along all sight. The train was running thirty an ho^r. A horse's memory is as long as his life, and this makes the lessons he first learns of thft utmost, importance, as he never forgets them. For young animals, wheat bran is a good food, as it cotnbinos all t]ie ele ments of ha^ and on, and the sugar j it c&ntams renders it easily digestible. j /To prevent bees from stealing the from grafts wrap thin paper around the wax wbkn it is first put oiU By having the paper white the wax frill be cooler. ? It is to the apiaiists' interest k build up a market at horns, even if hi only gets tbe price at which honey is s>ld in the large cities he" saves the ccst of ? transportation. -Those who plant strawberries in July or August can expect a small crop of . very fine- berries next spring. But they should be well cared for durinjj the sum? mer and fall and weta manured a3 winter sets in. 4 1 ? ; j- , It is all right to plan work ahead for a rainy day, but if i; ought to be done at once; do not put it off. A needel r*. . pair on tool or machine may be iiit a small job now, but use will soon ma seat i big job. ?' J ? ! Clover or grass land newly 'plowed is not good for strawberries, fhs red headed Jjrub is abuadant in such land, &a<*. 116 T,00 to strawberry culture. Wait tilrthe soi is well rooted .before putting out strawberry plants. Tbe French have found that the Jersey and Devon >a;tie are less liable io disease than tbe Durham*, and this may account in part for tie fact that there is >a apparent increase in the number of these cattle used in Paris dairies. , Buc^eat is an excellent food, -^enabling tb^corrs to produce a superior quality of miTfcr- Being very rich in . nitrogen, many farmers prefer the bran of it to that of wheat. The kernel is ?known tobe more valuable than that of wheat or oats. ' ? * .. t I The intelligent dairyman must study - incessantly. Every cow has her peculi arities, which must be considered, and adaptations made in food and treatment. Success in almost everything is won by i attention to details, ani this is particu , larly true of dairying. *? A* a recent flower festival given for charity, in the grounds of tbe Villa Borghese, just outside of the walls of Rome, the women st udents of the Roman University were present wearing the col ! ored caps of their colleges, like their ' men tellow-studeata. . Seeing Tfith One Eye. A person may see at far with ape per feet eyeas witir^wo, bat be caa not tee as clearly ; foe the aires tag* thai tfino clilar, or double, vision possesses oyer monocular or one-eyed vision, is thai} the former, by allowing the observer to catch sight o# the object from two different points of view, gives him at once some idea of the proportions of its different parts. ^ r i But though this k tree in theory is practice the judgmeit interferes ana the judgment has been educated and in some measure rendered independent of the services of binocular vision, by experi f; cnce and the use of other senses, such as touch. " l ' Thus a man with only one eye 5s never deceived as to the nature of an object with which. he is well acquainted, far the report of it that he gets from his vision is corrected and supplemented by his ex perienced judgment and transmitted to his centers of consciousness ia aa perfect a form as that which readies those of a man with two eyes. The advantages of binocular vision m&vbe thus further illustrated* _In 'rapiJJly dipping a pen into an inkstand or .putting a stopper into a decanter the one Wed- man cannot judge so accurately as rthe two-eyed man. Or, again, if we shut one eye/and attempt to plunge the finger rapidly into the open month, of a bottle we sre apt to over-reach or fail short of it. ? Washington Post. 'By ? ? t? ? ^ ' J&rreniMe Snakes ia ittcia. A snake not often heard of, at least in America, is the iiver-coioced snake with two heads, or perhaps they should bo called mouths, though it does not have two mouths at the same time. They are reversible mouth*, oscupying the opposite end every six months. It lies with the two ends crossed in eack other, as with folded hands. Every Six months the ; change of the seasons reverses the func tion* of the two ends, the head tec xniog the tail and the tail becoming the head. The mouth at one end heals or close? up all but a small opeeiag, while the oppp-. I site end becomes the mouth for the next \ six month*. ? j r j T-a. A friend of mine in Ihdj$ who told me about this remarkable snake said he refused for a long time "to believe' s.iafc the functions of the two ends were re ; versed every six months, bat one day he found one of these snakes ia the . jtuafie ! and carried it home, where he hai a * physician examine it. The result was tife phys?c:an- confL-meil ti^o stories of the creature, and my friend was skeptical: co longer. 1 learned no other name for this singular reptile than that of' ??the I liver-colored snake." ? Hartford {Conn.) I Times. jN?- ? ! j j Ran Away With His Mother in-Law. Salem, Va: ? A citizen of this pT*ce ! las been placed in a curious predicament j by the ac ion of his *>n in i*w. The latter, Trto lives with nis father in iaw ? and works at the minis of the ?aiem I Fuma ce Company, returned fcotne a few ' nights ago an ! eloped witk his rabther [ is law. The- father-? a-law has ins ituted p^^^^f^ivorce en thrgnwad of de m . BUCK BELT BELIEFS, . W ? , VDT> SOtTTHKBH fiXTPEBWflTIOJIS. Visit to ft Colored SchooL Ohftrmcter i?tic Speech by an SarSIftr* TbaX Bnd'd With ft Prayer HE sunlight is to the earth, after a period of dark new, what super stition is to the. Southern negro. In it he seems to "live, more and have his being." Even Ben, ray faithful guide ^ and storehouse 1 of knowledge, is steeped in it For some days he has not ap peared to be himself, and upon, in quiry I learn that "de ole red mule done lose her shoe in de cotton patch," and that is a sign that Ben will not be successful in selling the* cotton pro ducts in the lali "Fie, fie,cBen, do not be so 6uper* gtitious; that can't hurt you any, The idea of believing such i sign!" "WeUt-cHIe, yo? shuh doan knew nothin' about it. Is yo' superstitious?" u2STo, Ben," I replied, and blushed at the fib. Would It do him any good t p know that I had one or two pet"signs" which I cherished and believed in im plicitly? He would not understand that to%g superstition was "the poetry of life*\ ";'1 "Doan yo* know I'm a Joseph, hon ey?" continued Ben; "an* would yo* know some of my signs? Yo' better vurte 'em down in yo3 little book, "end I obeyed him. "When yo' pfck up a horseshoe an* it has nails in it yo' will sure have sickness in yo' fam'ly; if de nails am gone it means luck, but yo' mus' hang it up. ; j V "When yo' house is full of mice or rats yo' must writers letter to de mice and tell them wa' ^sr gb. If dey doan go at once write another letter and dey \ sure will go." ? "But, Ben; the reason they go is be-^ cause you are closing the holes, and they must starve er go Somewhere 'else." ... "Chile, jes' keep quiet. I sure know moh' about it than yo'. When the house is hanted, an' de *hant' dress is white, yo' mas' cut a lock of hair from de first nigger yoT meet sn' put it over de front; door. Ef yo' chile be sfraid HAILS IK THS SHOS ME AS glCXNESf. of hants, sit it! over bol lard and say: 'De Lawd He pot de debbil in de swine as' I dose send de debbil in de lard, fo' swine? and lard mu^' evil fpirits keep,>but de Lawd He save de? chile." jj - : " "But,. Ben?*' "When yo' dream of a coffin yo' will heafr yo' friend is married to yo'Jover, but if yo* see.de corpse yo* will man-y him yo's*l? When yo' sconr a flo* always turn yo' bncket. to the right; it 8tfye you many; shiver. When de deb bit cpme 1? the sick room, burn de bed and yo'll have a live man ter keep." ;|j: ' "Ben, don't yon? ? " . "When de white lady ask too many questions and 'rupt pore Ben he won't say any mo"" |ind with &is quaint bit nf wisdom be ended his^eemisg solilo W- / . . How sorry 1 was that I had inter rupted him. I coaxed him to continue, but he was not to be coaxed. That ? evening we were all sitting on the ver anda when gen taid: wWh?> ia ie daughters of the B?>vo lution yo" talk so much about!" and we each gnve our views of the question and explained it simply, so that he would understand. M An* must yo' prove that yo' ances tors fought? I sure believe my old woman is one of de daughters. Her grin'fatber, Ha6sa S , wa a Gen eral fn de wah. He sure fought in de BtboittHon; he sure-wa* kille4 at ds Bunker "Are you very sure about it, Ben; very sure? How did she come to be bp far South? Someone carried her mother heah. Y6--Com' tcr de cabin an' ask de <3le woman yo'self; she knows." Again Ben had innocently raised a perplexing question. His wife, the quadroon and! ex-slave, could boast of aristocratic blfood. This women, this negress, was the grandchild of a man whom the colonists loved and admired ?a daughter of the Revolution ! No I No! Her black blood, the negro blood, forbids that, and yet what irony of fate braad^this women a negress and counta ? her three-fourths of white blood as nothing? Is4tv not strange ? What inequalities of lift-rhu a land where all men are declared free and equal. What black and clouded skies fur some, what brilliancy and sunahine fo# Others! Martyrdom ^and freedom go hand In hand. Time must solve this problem. A visit TO BLACK BELT SCHOOL. Bfcn has taken us all' to the Tillage tchool. Wh\t humble bojs and girls we sftti. As we go into the room the pupfli lay do wn_4heir well-th u mbed spellings book* and! look at us in amaaemeni. '? The "professor" tells as to be. seated and continues the lesson. "Sydney C-* ? give ^sentence, con taining a conjunctive adVerbi" ' : .?v8ydney ri&j'and witK, quivering lifcs replies; "O, the surf is running around the globe and Fin so cold:" *Give another." sava Ben. (The profesaor ha* told us to request his pnpils). | ? r "The heavens declare the glory of God aBd Birmragham'is a great city," replies Sydfney, now thoroughly fright ened.]: . b } - 1 look around the bare room and copy the questions; and answers that are upon the blackboard . V Bones or articulation sre t&lose joint at %ich tow (4) born*- play on each other, come in contact^ muscle art com monly cold flesh or moat mosea or red mas. , i .. " Blood is a read li^uaint called ver tebre. Digestion goes through a canal call j asparagus into a poach call stomach, i N.J me two kinds of blood. Thick and thin; warm and cold, red and yellow, . How is the air received into the The air tfc received first by the throat, esters the boddy to ft spungy bulk In our boddies call lites. The organ of circulation is tho nose. Circulation is citsed by the circula tion of the ear. While I am musing upon the pos sibilities and the future of these ur chin* before me I hear the teacher say: 44 We will now hear some remarks from our visitors." <3%w the changes ring in the gamut of fear. Even while I think I am called upon to speak. Don't ask me what I said, something about Cinderella and being good children. They must par don my abruptness. I never madfc a speech, in fact wasn't prepared. Tfren I get to talking about Joseph and am suddenly disconcerted when a pick anninny says: I kncdfl&dat; Joseph was a pritty man an his brethren sheep head3." "So am I" is my inward thought, and I sit down. The others of the party make brief addresses and then Ben comes forward- I take a pencil from my pocket and slyly copy his remarks. OLD BE5 HAKES A 8P?ECH. Chillen, yo' sure should be proud to li?e and go ter school. When I wa' a boy like yo\ I used ter get a lash in THE PeOFRSSOB AT WORK. itead of the spellm4 book. Yo' should , be glad to be in America, and, nig gers tho' yo' be, yo' is as surely Ameri ^ csb a? anyone else in it. See what a r fine city we lire in; we has a bank in this city, we is. We are a great people. Yo1 must be good boys and girls, with hearts large enough to grasp de whole worl*; yo1 myst hab sympathy fo' de fall'n an' de lowly. Po'get yo 'self and live fo' others an' in others. Yo' nebber saw yo' poor *>le mammy | tied and lashed. Yo' nebber heard de houn's bay at ygbt while yo' knelt at her knee an'* tried to say "Our Father."" Yo' nebber heard de cry of de unfor tunit creature. Yo' hab nebbef bin sold ^o de highest bidder. Pore Ben remembers well de fast tim' he wa' ?old. He Were free in soul tho' called brute; free in" thought tho' called ig norant. I've heard yo' spell, an' it fill my soul with joy. It make pore Ben glad ter knew his boys and girls can read and write. And then, leaning forward,' he pray ed for them and tbeiis. What a simple prayer it was? the very a, b, c's! And yet who knows bot in His sight it whs more acceptable than others that qto more magnificent? Ben's prLjer was from the heart.? Miss Jo 2*aro, i tt Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch. The Chocolate Nat or Sean. The chocolate nut or bean is the seed of a small tree nalive of tropical Ameri ca, and now cultivated most extensively in Brazil, Venezuela, New Granada and Trinidad, but as the tree* will thrive in aln&st all tropical countries their culti vation may be extended almost without limit. The plants are easily raised from seed, whloh should be sown iu, nursery rows on moist soils and then transplanted when two or three years old. In trans ? planting the young trees t'oey are placed about fifteen feet apart and shaded with bananas or some , other equally rapid growing broadrleaved plants. Rich bottom lands are preferred for chocolate plantations, in order to secure plenty of moisture at the roots,. The tree comes into bearing when five or six jeara old, and soon shade the ground 'and crowd out all weeds and other Vegetation. There are, however, several varietLrtftjf this species of the cacao, some Being better fitted for grounds and hilly r situations than other*. The fruit some what resembles a cucumber when grow ing, and are from six to ten inches long, each containing from fifty to one hun dred seeds. When the seeds are first removed from the fruit they are covered with mucilage, which causes a slight fermentation when the seeds are placed in heaps, as they generally are for this purpose, in order to destroy this sticky substance; after which they are spread out and dried in the sun, acquiring the brown color of the beana of comnl^rce. "evaporator" is needed to prepare the beans for market. -The beans are shipped to various countries in their dry and natural state ancteold to the manu facturers of chocolate*. Great Britain takes about 10,000,00(J' pounds annually for home consumption in addition to a vast quantity for export. ? New. York Bud TIE LLBQ& WOULD* / Sevxbjx new knitting mils are projected in Virginia. ' , f Neably all the locomotive works are over run with orders. \ ' Waom are very low in Philadelphia shot factories at present. 1 A Mexican bricklayer lays about 500 bricks in eleven hours. ** I ^Machine shogs are generally very busy ( > Two huedbed cars are to be built alto gether out of Pacific Coast fir wood. < These are sixty-five organised trades with 2868 brandies ana 176,664 members federated in Germany, . ' Tax National Convection of the United States Letter-Carriers' Association has held its annual session at Indianapolis. PXEifSTLVAJrirfl woolen mills have a capi tal of 136,000,000, turn over 190,000,000 of product and employ 55,000 hands. ELscT&rc methods are now used in tanning in France, by which in ninety-six hows as lunch work can be done as heretofore in a year and a half. J SfHCE the baksrs of San Frandsoo formed atf^ttees years ago, they fcave reduced their koors of labor from an average of f on r ts?totsn frowns per day* AU0QKMi? to Xba Prances E. Willard theooly industries in which wOmeu arenot now engaged are those relating to railroads, paving stones and lnmberhig, f Tkb bon printers of Pittsburg announce that they wiE proceed against the nnion members boycotting them. A large fund Has been collected to institute proceedings against the union. ??? To teach scientific farming the Africa!- , tural Worker* National Association ofltaiy has established a&Uegsat the oicy of Parma, where the if embers of the association and their sons may study upon contributing $100 per year. The number of Students is at present limited .to 800. ^ . * Tee generator which will supply the elec tric light at the World's Fair will be the largest in the world. The population of Chicago is now one million five hundred thousand. Contractors are expecting to. have an enormous amount of work during the first three months of the year. A Pittsburg dispatch announces that iDoerr, oneof the largest provision tat Homestead has failed, on account cott instituted sgainst him by the ( > mill strikers because he furnished ito the noo-anton workers. No Amalgamate! Aasodatfoa'aan would pa* fco^WaftttUesaMttatati of Itafcfc - Tkxt: rmtktwfrheetvaiedkitj bee, wffc twain he<3cou?red his feat, and with twain he did rty.^Isaiah v(,fc | Ty with solemnity,' and tbeoJorioel etic Isaiah was jfeSt about ru. things, as one is apt to do In time of national bereavement, and facetting" the presence of his wife and two soap, who made up his family, he hade dream, not like the weamsof ordinary character, which gen erally come from indigestion, but a vision most instructive, and under tike touch of the hand of tbe Almighty. The plac*.>? the ancient temple: building --grand, awful, majestic. Within that temple a thrtne. higher and grander than that occupi?>d by any czar, or saltan or em peror. On that throne the eternal Christ. In lines sorroundmg that throne tbe 7 est celestial, not the cherubim, ; but than they, tbe most exquisite and j of the heavenly inhabitants, this seraphim They are called burners because they look like fire. lips of Are, eyes of firv feet of v fire<- in aiditaon to the features and the 1 limbs, which suggest shaman being, there are pinions, which suggest the tightest, the swiftest, the most buoyant and moat in spiring of ail intelligent creation? a bird Bach seraph had six wings, each twoof the wings for a different purpose, i Isaiah's dream quirers and with these C" ?ns. Few folded, now spread, noX ten m lcoomotion. "With twain he oov, ' ered his feet, with twain he ooveredhis flaoe and with tivain he did fly." ? * i Tbe probability is. that these wings were not all used at once. The seraph standing therenear the throne overwhelmed at thain significanCe of the paths his feeb had trodden as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and with the iaaopees of his locomotion amounting almost to decrepitude as compared with the divine velotitjTwiih feathery Toil of angelic modesty hides tee feet. ' "With twain be did cover hiafeeim Standing there overpowered by the over matching sjriendors of God's gibry. ani un able longer with theiyes to look upon them, and wishing those eyes shaded from tbe in sufferable glory, tb? pinions gather over the countenance. "With; twain be didoover the face." Then as God talis this eeraph to go to the farthest outpost of i m m^nsity on message of light and love and joy, and get back be fore the first anthem, it does not take the seraph a great whilo to spread himself upon the air with unimagined celerity; one stroke of the wing equal to ten thousand leagues of air. 4 With twain he did ay." I ^ !,*- - The most practical and useful leseon for* you find ine, when we see the seraph tpresdmg h is wings over the feet, is a lesson of humihty at imperiec|fr>n. - The bright -st ?angels of God are so far beneath God that He charges them with folly. Thesereafc so far beneath God, and we so far beneath the eeraph in service we ought^tobe plunged in humility, utter and, complete. Our f adt, how laggard the? have boen in the divine service 1 f.*etAhow# ?"?tsps ^hey have taken! Our feet, in how-many worldliness and folly they have walked J Neither God nor seraph intended to- pat any dishonor upon that which is one of the masterpieo.'s ot Almighty God? the human I foot, Physiologist and anatomist are over whelmed at the wonders of its organisation. "The Bridge water Treatise, " written by Sir Charles B?J, on the wisdom and goodness of God, as illustrated Ja the human hand, was a result of thef40,W) bequeathed in the last will and testament of tbe EatL of Bridge water for the encourangement of Chrutian ? literature. The world could afford to for give hiseccantricitieF, though he had! two Cogs seated at his tabae, and though ha put six dogs alone in an equipage drawn by four horses and attended by two footmen. \ Sy* With his large j bequest aiduomg Sir Charles Bell to writeiso valuable^ book on tbe wisdom of God in tbe structure of th? human hand, the world could afforo\$o for give his oddities. And the world ooulanow afford to have another Earl of Bridge water, ?however idiosyncratic, if he' would induce some other Sir Charles Bell to write a on the wisdom and goodness of God in.^n constroptiou of the human foot ? the ar ticulation of its bone6, the lubrication of its joints, t^b gracefulness of its lines, the in- . gen^icyd: its cartilage?, the delicacy of its vems^therapidity of its muscuiar contrao tion, the sensitiveness of its nerves. I sound tbe praises of the human foot. W ith that we halt or climb or march, it is the foundation of .the physical fabric. It is the base of a God poised column. With H the warrior braces himself for battle . With it the orates* plants himself for.eulogium. With it the toiler reaches his work* ; with it the outraged stamps his indignation. Its loss an irreparable disaster. Its health an invaluable equipment. If you want to know ite value, ask the man who* foot paralysis hath shriveled, or machinery hath crushed, or surgeon's knife hath %mputated. I* Bioio honors it. Especial care, thou dash thy fooc against a stone;" "he will not suffer thy loot to be moved;" "thy feet shall not stumble." Especial charge, 4 'Keep thy loot when thou goest to toe house of God." Especial periJ, "their feet sball slide in due time.1' Connected with the world's dissolution, "He shall, set one foot on the sea and the other on the earth.' Give me the history of your foot and I will give you the history of your lifetime. Tell me up what steps it hath gont, do *n what declivities, and in what roads and in what directiionf, and I will know mors uboa> you than [ want to know. None of us could en dure the scrutiny. Our feet not always in paths of God. Sometimes in paths of worldlinesF. Oar feet i divine an dgioriou? machinery for usef; ' and work, so often making misstep?, so often going in the wrong direction. Go 1 knowing every step, tbe patriarch saying, 'Thou sette3t a print on tbe heel6 of my feet." Crimes of the hand, crimes of the tongue, crimes of the eye, crimes of the ear not worse than the crimes of the loot. Oh, we want the wings of humility to cover the feet. Ought we not to go into self aoeznation; before the all searching, all scrutinizing/all trying eye of ?.e,seraP-J3 do. ^Sow muca more we? "With twain he covered the feet." All this talk about the dignity of human nature is braggadocio and a sin. Our na ture started at the hand of God regal, but it has been pauperize! There is a well iu ?Belgium which once had very pure water, and it was stoutly masonel with stone and' bnck; but that well after ward became the centre of the battle of Waterloo. At the opening of the battle the soldiers wit l their sabers compelled, the gardener William Von Kylsom, to draw water out of the well for them, and it Was very pure water. Bat the battle raged, and three hundred dead and half dead were flung into the well for quick and easy buria1, so that the wall of rerreshmsnt becime tae well of death, and long alter people looked down into the well, and taey saw the bleached skulls, but no water. So the human soul was a well of goo *, but the armies of sin havi fought around it, and fought across it |ud been slam, and it has became a well of skeleton*, geadhopep, dead resolutions, dead oppor tunities', dead ambition^. An abandonel wbIi umess Christ shall reopen and .purify and fill it as the well of Belgium never was. * t'n clean, unclean! i t,inoLt!ier seraphic postura in the text, w ith twain he covered the fac?." That means reverence Goiward. Never so much irreverence abroad in the world as to-day. I i ou see it in the defaced statuary, in the' i cutting out of figures from fine paintings, in the chipping of monuments for a me mento, in the fact that a military guard at. the graves of Grant and Gar ne.d, and that old shade trees mu*t he ctit down for firewood, though fifty George Morrises beg tbe woodmen to spare the tree, aad - that calif ' ? corpse a cadaver, and that spaaks of death ^s going over to the ma jonty, and substitutes fon the reverent I aJli m other, "the old man" 1 the old woman," and finds nothing m the ruins of Baalbec or the Karnsc, and sees no difference _ ? _ 'bath from any other davs except ^anowa more dissipitioa, and reads tbe BHWe in what is called higher criticism, making it not the Word of God, but a good book with some fine things in it. Irrever ence never so mush abroad. How many take the name of G-oi ia vain, how many trivial things said about jthe Almighty. Not willing to have Go I in the world they roll up an ilea of sfeati mentality and humanitarianigm and \ impudence and imbeclity and call ft 0oi No wings of reverent over tbe face. no taking dff of slioea:onb61y ground. Y<W can tell from the way $hsy talk they cculd have made a better world than this, afd that the God of the Bible shocks every vtise of pro priety. They talk of the lovs' of God in a way that shows you they believe it does not make any difference j;o-v bad a man is here, he will come in at t e shining gate.4 ThOT talk of the love of GOd in suph & way which shows you they tbid?itiS a gen*a* ; jail de- . liverv (or all tbe nbnndonedand the"- vconn; j o'lensm oc ens universe, fto puuiaomgnt hereafter tor any wrong done here. ' - The Bible gives two descriptions of God, and they are just opposite, and they are both trua. In ou? place tae Bible says God is love. In another piacXthe Bible says God is a consuming fire. TV? explanation is plain as plain can be. Gui through Christ is love, Goi ou; of Christ is Are. To win the on* and to eacanethe other we have enlv I to thro* oonatrst, body, Dtfod-aod aoul In to Cbrfatfs tnffiT**? ?}? ?, "fwait do **x*bmb^ I pw ? wlttdrfy flip* ?od I will adk JSafftotawffia*- 80 tttiltow ^*tgg5fl^iSg5gmg the kaNM the l&ntfa ctonot (ho Mtttfm of heaven oom* in with foil dimmtoot "Hoiy, holy, ko^f? ^ M\ Reverence tortfiam. reverence for the dd , S=feS2 now. Bui wo want moro God. more reverence tor the saerament* more retersnoe tor <he Bible, more reT?T* ^S.forESiiSSf fdilSSKc ^ S^SS^tortS %tt ?Xn^ and Christopher Wmm. Do not be &|PP*nt Soot&oTDo not i?*?|?boatd?th. Do sss* ttwy 3fMj- . ?. tart. eeraph must not; ali^yiltand sttll: Be must move end it muit b^wi^rt oinmd sms. Tiere mint ba ??* the movement ] "With twain bo did fly. ^SS?h&retk?. a*Te*jn*our ek)w gait, for w? only crawl in the service when w. ooiht to By* th* dirtos h*44l ?. 93??Sfcg?fS? wine? An of looomonon. xiw CTWBESW^WE aftTand God has wings. Tho Bible says so. dealing in His wings." "Under the shatow of His inngs." S "Under whoee wiag thou 3^3r&?!^. ?? which we often sing : Bise, my soai, end stretch thy wtags. I hear the rustle of pinions in Alexander, Pope's stann, which says. Iaoaatlfty; O Death, whsre U t*y victory? Srt, 5? 0^2: ^hs bright bo'tto^ft. M ?*twTT SSiSrS^tb. &???_&??? albatross nor falcon nor condor from highest range o? Andes so buoyant or ""s^SSSS^thi mountain nest It looks so fide, so ragged feathered, ?o worn out and ao half aaleop. Is tkat eagle dytaf? Ko, The <wit*oloriat < Wl tatt/ou, it ia mgitang season Jit h that btrtf bnt molting. You seathat --?. . ?wH weary and worn odt and eeeoaitigabowt to expire on what is called bis The world cays he is dying. molting season- tor death and trying to hold back and^wthinz you could slay n?re forerrer, and "P**?... departure as though the mbjeot wwefllled wUhSeletons and the varnish ofoofllna, ?ad aa though you preferred lame foot to "omSjfot 8od, let as stop Jgg^jjjg fooliSdir?p*ro|for rnpMroos fltatt, wtato ,$^^me?.C?whlch ?m y wflUr* *T Will you swoop or will too soar .. Witt yo* JkSTg TbSo? the wing,. ByhW^T ?? "? Bternity on the wing, flying toward us. Wl5fJ?^nwr tourist that when you are dead people standing by your We^ej. body wiU wTsoiaoquise, saying: "Whatadis appointraent life was to him; bow avsrse he wasto departure; what a Dityit was he had .to die; what an awful calamity. Rather standing there may they see a sign mor* vivid cm your still face than th* vesttgee of wfo. something that witt indicate that it was* happy exlt-the clearance from op pressive quarantine, the cast off chrysalf , the molting of the taded and useless end the ascent from malarial valleys to bright, shining mountain tops, and be led to say as they stand there contemplaUn? your humU itv and your reverenoe ia life and your hap mbess in death, "With twain he oovered the feet, with twin h",03""! ^ w fc, with twain he did fly. Wing* I Wings I Wing* 5 * ; . UEWSY GBEANINGS, i ?' Tbzs country makes 55,000 watches a week. {. ' An immenw glacial field is reported in Idaho. Thx world's railways are worth $30,000, 000,000. A cjlnax is to be built across Ireland to cost twenty million dollars. 1 Light crops of sweet potato* are re ported from many sections of the South. A. icxjggxt of gold worth 115 was picked up the other day in the diggings at Byron, Me. o Thx New Tork morgue received 9654 bodies last year. Of thue 107 ware nerer Identified. Mori United States vessels visit the Mex ican ports than those of all other Nations oombmedL . J Twxfcvx husdrxd miles of railroad are to be built in Mexico. It will extend to San Diego, California. Thrxx hcitobju) lawyers were candidates on one side or the other for seats in the pres ent British Parliament. 1 A ckksus balletiQ just issued states there are ouly 07,003 female persons to every 100,000 malej in the United States. According io a recent census there are about 86,030 paupers in London, not count ing insane persons in asylums and vagrants. Thx census of India, just completed, shows that country to have a population of 280,000,000, a gain of eleven per cent over 1881. A water moccasin six feet long was late, ly killed at Utica, III. When cut open six* teen frogs were found, several of which were alive. j Grasshoppers are doing an immense amount of damage in Ohio to oats and other growing crops, whole fields of oats have been destroyed. Thx pension agency in Topeka is the largest in the country. It pays out annually ?16,000,000 to the veterans of Kansas, Miss ouri and Colorado. Thx Marksr Ranch, near Lovelocks, Nev., comprising 17,000 acres of tiie best land in the State, was recently sold at sheriff's auc tion for a trifle over $100,000. Samples of tea grown and cured at Sum mer vilie, S. D., have been recsived in Balti more. which expert tea dealers have pro . noun cad superior to East India tea. Thx Fisheries Department has received advices to the effect that the mackerel catch olthe New England fishing fleet to date is 22,000 barrels? exactly twice as imuhaslast year. According to a census bulletin, the 190,355 families in Maine are divided by the census office into 62,122 families occupying farms and 88,233 families occupying homes that are not situated on farms. Tax Japanese are coming to Mexico in large number*. Several laree colonies have been establish ei in the coffee district of Oaxaca, and the rich sugar lands of Sinaloa, during tiie psist few months. During one week in April 313 oar loads containing 3316 tons of green fruit were shipped Out from California. So far this season 6, 000, GOO more pounds of fruit have been shipped tljjin last year. 4 My Wife j miserable all the time with kidney complaint but began improving when she had taken Head's fcarsapar illa one week, and after taking three bottles was perfectly curc<L I hsd Mr*. RtefcairfMii. Heart Failure, Ca- ' ?' "* tarrh and Lirer Complaint. Co?ld not sleep, bloated bftdly, ! had pain* In jny back, ringing noise? in my ; ears. Mood'i .SaTsaparflla rave immediate benefit; eound sleep and good health." H. C. Richaedsow. Slloanu H. Y. j Hood's Pill* cure Nansea, Sick Headache, i ladlf wUoa, biEqw and all Ur? trotbha V rt .< j ' The flower of the 4 gib extremal/ eatll and numbers of tbeo Jine. the la- f >ide of the fruitwe call a dig* Tfceoaly aocess to this flower is bj the mall,' ?eedle-dsedholo tl the apes of;thi fig. These flowers art almoet jk lynp female flowers and the flowers which beer the ?- MtMTete trees. It flowers UQ Iflo uvww , ? poUea ere usually oa separate trees. It i? supposed that the po^en is carried inside of tf*ese flowers by[ a very small insect whicafcbpunds oa we taieie flow-; en j hence it fythe practice of fig reis ers 4n some parts of the world to tie branches of the poliea roaring flowers, oa the trees which beer ti)e figs, es they beiiere the insects travel (rota the pol len-bearing flower* to thofce which beer the fruit, sod in thif^ wij fertilise the flowers. This process is fctfled caprifi; cation. Undoubtedly, 'however, the pulpy portioa of the fig cfm* to perfec tion without any such bringing of pollen from other flowers, although the seed may possibly be imperfect. ?Meehin's Monthly. j The Prince of Wales of the annual receipta Duchy Cornwall last year. I j Sample Paekage < 1 Addre Platform scale, were ^c aren^ of Thaddeus Fairbanks, in ,looi* Will do good in Almost < ~ IBUeBeaw ? case of sickness ^^"BjleBeane; ( President Harrison receives hit ?alary in monthly installments.! J. F. Smith 4 Co., Kewljork City ? CtoUe men? I find Bile iieaas Sm*H to he perfect J?n, and cannot get along without them in tne home. Please find enclosed Wc, for wfcicb kindljr send 2 bottle?. . Mk#Ta. A.Toittfc ? ; F cavertabrCat There are oyer 15,000 Masonic lodges in existence. ' ^ Complexion cleared with Small BUe Fsant Bhe (to Cousin ttet*rge,wno nasjtm re turned from the tropic^)? "Oh, <J*m, dear, how kind of you,' * i.'ar iaj m e this dear little monkey I How thoughtful yoa are I But?but? its fust like Joor*? Funnv Folks. j * The Only Oae Iter Frlafet , oa* YOtr.ftVD *H1 WORD? ; thT?7*??j!^.i8ttneh display advertisement la A/r. n?ricr awmav vu. "Orescent" on every thine- they snake and jWK lwL Look for it. *?ad them t&e nams of the word and they will return yon a^a*, uxavto rCL L1THOORA.PHS Or MMtLtn Thxbtt sardine faotories la Ifofae are doted because there is no run of suitable siaed fish to pack. . j Vast persons ere broken down from o?? ' work or Eoosebold cares. Brown s Iron Bit ter* zeboi da the system! aids digestion, r?> mores excess ef bile, and cures malaria. A spendid tonic tor women and children. ? asmnuL expansion of trade has db> rdoped itself. ! T Th? principal causes of sick headache, biliousness and cold chills are found in the stomach and liver. Cured by Beecham's Puis. Thxbb Is a great scarcity of binding twine. We will give 1100 reward for any caee of oa. tarrh that cannot be cored with Hall's CS# tarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. Chcrbt & Co.. Propra., Toled*, 0. ^ ? v Th* acreage of watermelons at the South is twenty Uvaser cent, less this year than last Ladiks needing a tonic, or want bniiding up, shduld take Brown's Bitters, it ispleasant to take, cures Malaria, Indigestion. 41llid>iuiet!? and Liver ^Com plain ta. makes the Blood rich and purec^ No&thikn Mexidttjis again contro&ted by a total oroo failure. / J ONS BNJOYS J ' Both the method and results wben^ Syrup of Figs is takes; it is pleasant and refreshing, to the taste, and acts 1 gently yet promptly cri the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. S^rup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to ths taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in \ its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy ana agreeable substance^, its many excellent quulities commend it to all and have mode it the mo.t popukr remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for Bile in 50c and $1 bottle? by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may noi iave it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it iJo not accept any substitute. r CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, LOUISVILLE, tr. KEW YORK, N.Y. Every Month many women suffer from Excessive or Scant Menstruation; they dca't know who to confide in to e?t proper advice* Don't confide in anybody but try Bradfleld's Female Regulator a Specific f?r PAINFUL, PROFUSE. SCANTY, SUPPRESSED ftnd IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION. Book to "WOMAN" rrailed fr??. BRADF1ELD REGULATOR CO., Mlcnt*. Ca. by til !>r?gcl*tr. 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