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THE LEDGER;: GAFFNEY, 8. OCTOHEU 15, I8»«.
THE CLOSING BATTLE
IT WILL BP. THE GREATEST OF ALL
THE CONFLICTS.
I
The Rev. I)r. Tnlniag*''* Klo(| lent Sermon
on Armnc:r«l<lou—The Roglniontx nntl
Their Comumiulem—On the Wrong ^hlo.
SwonU of Truth.
Wasiiinoton, Oct 11.—In his ser
mon today Rev. Dr. Tulmngo discussed
the great conflict which prophecy foio-
ehndowH as the climax of the world’s
struggles—Armageddon. His text was
Revelation xvl, 1C, "And ho gathered
thorn together in a place called in the
Hebrew tongue Armageddon. ”
Megiddo is the name of a mountain
that looks down upon Esdrielon, the
greatest battlefield that tho world has
over soon. There Barak fought tho Ca-
uannites; there Gideon fought the Mid-
ianitrs; there Josiah fought tho invad
ing Egyptians. Tho whole region stands
for bottle, and tho Armageddon of my
text borrows its namo from it and is
hero used not geographically, but fig
uratively, while setting forth the idea
that (hero is to bo u world's closing
battle, tho greatest of all battles, com
pared with which tho conflicts of this
century ami all other centuries were in
significant, bccanso of tho greater num
ber of combatants engaged, the greater
victory and the greater defeat. The ex
act date of that battle we do not know,
and tho exact locality is uncertain. It
may bo in Asia, Europe, Africa or
America, hut tho fact that such a battle
will take place is as certain as God’s
eternal truth. When I use the superla
tive degree in regard to that coming
conflict, I do not forgot (hat there have
been wars all along on stupendous scale.
They Will Not Kamil.
As when at Maratbon, Miltiades
brought on his men, not in ordinary
march, but in full run, upon tho horse
men of Persia and the black archers of
Ethiopia and scattered thorn and, cry
ing, “Bring fire! Bring fire!” sot into
flame tho ships cf tho invaders. As
when Pizarro overcame Pern. As when
Philip II triumphed over Portugal. As
when the Huns met tho Goths. As when
800 Spartans sacrificed themselves at
Thermopylae. As when tho Carthagin
ians took Agrigcntuiu. As when Alex
ander headed tho Macedonian phalanx.
As when Hannibal invaded Italy. Bat
tle of Hastings! Battle of Valmy! Bat
tle of Pultowal Battle of Arbeln! Bat
tle of Tours! Battle of Borodino) Bat
tle of Lucknow 1 Battlo of Solforino!
Battlo of Pontcuoy, where 100,000 wore
slain! Battlo of Chalons, where 800,000
were massacred 1 Battle of Herat, where
Genghis Khan destroyed J,000,000 lives!
Buttle of Hoisliar, where 1,747,000
wont down to death) One million eight
hundred and sixteen thousand slain at
Troy) And American battles, too near
us now to allow us to appreciate their
awful grandeur and significance, except
you who were there, facing the north
or facing tho south. But all the buttles
I have named put together will not equal
in numbers enlisted, cr fierceness, or
grandeur, cr triumph, or rout, the com
ing Armageddon contest. Whether it
shall he fought with printer’s ink or
keen steel, whether by brain or muscle,
whether by pen or carbine, whether by
booming cannon or thunders of Chris
tian eloquence, I do not know, and you
may take what I say r.s figurative or
literal, but take as certain v.hat *St.
John, in his vision on tho rocks of the
Grecian archipelago, is pleased to call
Armagenldon.
Tho Rival Commanders.
My sermon will first mention the
regiments that will be engaged in tho
conflict, then will Fay something of the
commanders on both sides, and then
speak cf tho battle itself and the tro-
mondons issues. Beginning with those
who witi fight on tho wrong side, I first
mention tho regiments diabolic. In
this very chapter from which my text
is taken wo aro told that tho spirits of
devils will be there. How many mil*
lions of them no one can tell, for tho
statistics of the Satanic dominions have
never been reported, and tho roll of that
host lias never on earth been called, but
fiom tho direful ant contiuental and
planetary work they have already dono
and flio fact that every man and wom
an and child on earth has a tempter
there must be at least 1,000,000,000 of
evil spirits familiar with our world.
Perhaps us many more arc engaged on
espeeiul enterprises of abomination
among tho nations and empires of tho
earth. Besides that there must bo an in
conceivably number of inhabitants in
realms pandcmonlac, staying there <0
ke«p the groat capitals of sin going
from ago to ago. Many of them onco
Jived in houven; but, engaging in con
spiracy to pul satan on tho throne, they
were hurled out and down, and they
are now among tho worst thugs of tho
uuiv« rro. Having been in three worlds
—heaven, earth and hell—they have all
tho advantages of great experience.
Their power, their speed, their cunning,
their hostility, wonderful beyond all
statement. In tho Armageddon they
will, I doubt not, be pn sent in full array.
They will have no reserve corps, but all
will Lo at the front. There will not on
ly bo soldiers in that battlo who can 1*
seen and aimed at, hut troops intangi
ble and without corporeity, and weap
ons may strike clear through them
wit hoot giving them hurt. With what
shout of defiance will they climb up the
ladders of fire and 4eup from the battle
ments of a«hct*tm into tho last campaign
.tftwll. Paul, tho bravest of nu n, Was
tmjTeHKi d with their might for »vil
whjtu be said, “We wrestle not against
flush and hlood, but against principali
ties and against powers and against tho
rulers of tho darkness in this uor 1:1,
against spiritual wickedness in high
places." Oh, what an agitating 1110-
nu^, wiiou tho runkj diabolic move up
uin|cJLc their plan* h for conflict in the
Armageddon.
Thv UeglmrnU A Icolmlto.
Other regiments who will march into
the light will bo the regiment* alco
holic. They will be made up of the
brewers' companies, distillery owners
and liqurr dealers' associations and the
hundreds < f millions of their patrons.
They will move into tho ranks with
what the Bible calls the "song of the
drunkard." And what a bloated and
soaked and bleared and blasted and
hiccoughing and nauseating host. If
now, according to a scientist in Eng
land, there are 60,000 deaths annually
from strong drink and in the United
States, according to another estimate,
98.000 deaths annually from strong
drink, what an army of living drunk
ards that implies, coming up from the
whole earth to take their places in the
last battle, especially as tho evil in
creases and tho millions now staggering
on their way may bo joined by other
millions of re enforcements, brigade
after brigade, with drunkards’ bom'S
drumming on tho head of beer barrels
the dead marehof souls! These millions
of victims of alcohol, joined by the mil
lions of tho victims of arrack, the spir
ituous liqnor of China and India and
Arabia and Egypt and Ceylon and Siam.
Other regiments who will march into
the fight on the wrong side will bo the
regiments infidel. God gave but one
revelation to tho human race, and these
meu have been trying to destroy it.
Many of the Itooks, magazines and news
papers, through perpetual soolT at Chris
tianity, and some of the universities,
have become recruiting agencies for
those regiments. Tho greatesl brigadier
of all those regiments, Voltaire, win*
closed his life of assault upon Christian
ity by writing: ‘‘Happiness is a dream,
and only pain is real. I have thought
so for 84 year?., and I know no better
plan than to resign myself to the inev
itable and to reflect that flies are born to
bo devoured by spiders and man to bo
consumed by care. I wish I had never
been born." Oh, the God forsaken regi
ments of infidels, who, after having
spent their life in antagonizing the on
ly influence that could make the earth
better, gather with their low wit, and
their vile sneer, and their learned idio
cy, and their horrible blasphemy, to
take part against God and righteous
ness in the great Armageddon I
To Kill Christiana.
Other regiments who will march in
on the wrong side in the battle will bo
tho regiments Mohammedan. At the
present time there arc about 176,000,000
Moslems. Their plain mission is to kill
Christians, demean womanhood and
take possession of the earth in tho in
terest of ignorance, superstition and
moral filth. Tho massacre of 60,000 Ar
menians in tho last two or throo years
is only one chapter in their effort to de
vastate tho earth of everything but
themselves. So determined aro they in
thoir bad work that all tho nations of
the earth put together dare nut say to
thorn, “Stop, or we will make you st op 1”
My hope is that long before that last
battlo of which I rpeak tho Turkish
government, and with it Mohammedan
ism, may bo wiped out of existence. The
Turkish power for the last 400 years
has been the mightiest hindrance on
earth to religious liberty and moral im
provement. Her extermination is proph
esied in the book of Revelation in
the figure of the drying up of the river
Euphrates, and she is going rapidly,
thank God. In 1820, by the Greek in
surrection, she received the first destruc
tive blow. In 1823 the Turkoman array
of 30,000 was destroyed and the cause
of liberty advanced. In 1827 England,
France and Russia, not so cautious as
they have since been, at Navarino hu
miliated the Turkish fleets, and Greece
was free. Weaker and weaker the Turk
ish power haa become, and it lias lost
Algiers and Wallacbin, and, more than
all, during the past decade, through her
cruelty, has lost tho sympathy of every
good man and woman in all tho earth,
and if William E. Gladstone were
prime minister of England tho Turkish
government would very soon cither quit
her outrages or go down under the bom
bardment of the mrn-of-war from many
nations now hovering near tho Bospor
us. But if tho Bible prophecy concern
ing the drying up of tho Euphrates is
not fulfilled before tho battle mention
ed in my text Mohammedanism will
march in with sword and poison and
torch to take her part in tho great Ar
mageddon.
On the Wrong Mldo.
Yea, to show tho magnitude of tho
forces on the wrong side, I have to tell
you that what is left of heathenism at
that time will march into the conflict.
There are 160,000,000 fetish idolaters,
220,000,000 Brahmins, 400,000,000
Buddhists. Through tho sublimest move
ment of this century, the missionary
movement, all tho timo gathering in
momentum, I believe all or nearly all
of that 770,000,000 of heathendom will
bo converted to God. But that which
is not converted will come into the Ar
mageddon on the wrong side.
Other regiments on that wrong side
will lx* made up of offenders of all sorts
—tho defrauders, the libertines, tho dy
namiter.", the anarchists, tho oppressors
and tho foes of society, tho criminals of
all nations, by whatever name they are
now called or shall then bo called. They
may not before that have openly taken
sides, but then they will bo compelled
to tako sides. With what venom, with
what violence, with whut dcsjierution
they will fall into line at tin* great Ar-
mugi dt'oul Is it not appalling, >these
uncounted regiments of tho earth, to be
joined by the uncounted regiments from
perdition? (Jan any power cope with
them? Especially when I tell yon who
their commander is, for so much in all
wars depends upon the chieftain. Their
'ouder will not be a political accident
rr a military "happen so. " BytaU nt
and adroitness and courage and un-
evusing industry ho has come to the bad
eminence. Ho disputed tho throne of
heaven with Iho Almighty, but no one
has over disputed the throne of eternal
night with this monarch, who will in
the lust buttle take tho field in person.
Milton culls him Lucifer, Goothu calls
him M* ph stopheles, tho Hebrew calls
him Abaddon, tho Greek calls him
Apollyon. Ho is tho impersonation of
all malevolence, of all oppression, of all
cruelly, tho summing up of all fubto-
hood. In his make up nothing bad was
1* ft out and nothing good was put in,
and he is to be the general, tho com
mander in chief of all the forces on tho
wrong side in the great Armageddon,
lie has been in more battles than you
have ever read about, and he has gaiu-
(d more victories than have ever been
celebrated in this world. But I guess
this old warrior of pninlcmcnimn will
not have an undisputed field. 1 guess
there will be an army to dispute with
his forces. I have mentioned tho su
premacy of this world. I guess our
troops will not have to run when on
tho day mentioned in ray text all tho
infernal batteries shall bo nnlimboml.
Wo have been reviewing the troops dia
bolic. Wo have been measuring the cal
ibers of their guns. We have been ex
amining their ammunition wagons.
Now let us look at tho forces to be mar
shaled in tiio Armageddon on tho right
eide.
Tlic Rt-gltnentf Angelic.
First of all, I mention the regiments
angelie. Alas, that tho subject of de
monology seems better understood than
the subjects of nngclology. But the
glorious spirits around tho throne and
all the bright immortals that fill tho
galleries and levels of the universe aro
to take part in that last great fight, and
the regiments angelic aro tho only regi
ments capable of meeting the regiments
plutonic. To show you something of an
angel's power, I ask yon to consider
that just 01m of them slew 186,000 of
Sennacherib’s host in a night, and it is
not a tough arithmetical question to
Folve, if cue angel can slay 186,000
troops in a night, how many can
600,000,000 of them slay? Tlie old book
says that "they excel in strength. ” It
is not a celestial mob, but a disciplined
host, and they know their rank. Cher
ubim, seraphim, thrones, principalities
and powers. And tho leader of those
regiments is .Michael tho Archangel.
David saw just one group of angels
sweep past, and they were 20,000 char
ioted. Paul, who in tho Gamalian col
lege had his faculties so wonderfully
developed, confesses his incapacity to
count them by saying, ‘‘Ye aro come to
Mount Zion and un innumerable com-
p.iny of angels." If each soul on earth
lias a guardian angel, then there must
be 1,000,000,000 angels on earth today.
Besides that, heaven must be full of nu-
gels, those who 8tay there. Not only
the 12 angels who, we are told, guard
the 12 gates, but those angels who help
in the worship and go on mission from
maiu ion to mansion and help to build
the hosannas and iuthronc tho hallelu
iahs and roll tho doxologies of the serv
ice that never cuds. But they all, if re
quired, will be in tho lust fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven could afford
to adjourn just one day and empty all its
temples and mansions and palaces and
boulevards into that one battle. I think
ail tho angels of God will join in it.
F!ro Footed Hosts.
The one that stood wi th sword of
flame at the gate of paradise. Tho one
that pointed Uugar to tho fountain in
the wilderness. The one that halted Ba-
bumi on tho highway. The one that
warned Lot to flee the doomed city. The
one that took part with Joshua against
the Cunaanitcs. Tho one that informed
Mary of tho approach of tho Nativity.
The one that wrestled with Jacob at the
brook Jabbok. Tho one that swung op-11
the gate for tho incarcerated Apostle
Peter. The one that strengthened Chr'^t
in his last paroxysm. All, I think, will
be there—their velocities inconceivable,
so that when Daniel was in prayer Ga-
briel, wo arc told, came from heaven to
speak to him, and if heaven be at the
center of the universe that angel must
have traveled thousands of millions of
miles in an instant. Talk cf earthly
regiments on double quick march I What
will ho the speed of the regiments an
gelic when at tho command of tho
archangel, ‘‘Down to earth! Forward
into tho battle!" those regiments an
gelic, lightning winged, rainbow gir
dled, lire footed, shall sweep into tho
great Armageddon.
Tho next regiments that I see march
ing into tho fight will be tho regiments
ecclesiastic. According to the last ac
count, and practically only in the be
ginning of tho great gospel movement
which proposes to take tho whole earth
for God, there are 4,600,000 Methodists,
3,726,000 Baptists, 1,280,333 Presby
terians, 1,230,000 Lutherans and 040,000
Episcopalians. But tho present statistics
of churches will he utterly swamped
when, after all tho great denominations
have done their best work, the slowest
of all the sects will have more numbers
than tho present enrollment of all de
nominations throughout Christendom.
You eee, by that time an atheist or an
infidel will be a curiosity, and ho will
be looked at as wo look at a man with
long hair reaching below his should* rs
and 1 ;ng fingernails that are never cut
and a stare in tho eyes indicating incipi
ent lunacy--not to be argued with, bnt
to bo pitied—while it will not bo any
unusual thing to see meu as much do-
voUd to their religion as Francis Xa
vier was devoted to his religion, when
ho went through tho streets asking all
to come to hear his faith expounded, in
t» n years planting the gospel in 60 11a-
iious and baptizing over 1,000,000 souls.
And th** great hosts of believers will
I'll the earth, making tho 2,317,000
combatants that Xe rxes reviewed u cor
poral's guard in comparison.
Tlie K<‘Kluio»tii Uccli'Hlaittlc.
I see them, tho regiments ecclesias
tic, moving into that last battle. The
Let in rans headed by some gn at Martin
Luther yet to Iw born. The Methodists
headed by some George Whitefleld yet
to come. Tho Presbyterians headed by
some John Knox yet to arise. Tho Epis-
eopalians headed by some Bishop Uihur-
uock yet to bo enrobed. Tho Baptists
h* uded 1)}’ Home Missionary Can y yet
to bless the world. The Congregational
church head* 1 by sonic Doctor Kirk of
pentooosfu 1 power yet to take tongue of
lire. I m’o th* m moving into the ranks,
carrying a standutd striped and stuirod,
striped us suggesting him by whose
■tripes we a r o healed and stamid as
with the ptoiniso that those who turn
many to righteousnes* shall shine a*
the stars, forev* r and over. Into that
battle on our side will roll those mighty
engines cf power, the printing presses
| of Ohistendom. Into that battle will
also move tlie mightiest telescopes, that
shall bring the stars in their coutaes to
i fight for our (<od.
Again, the regiments elemental will
: rome into that battle on tho right side.
Tho winds! (V*d showed what ho eould
do with them when the splint* roil tim-
bers of tho ships of tho Spanish nnnada
were strewn on tho rocks of Scotland,
Norway and tho Hebrides. The watersl
He showed what ho cm. d do with them
when lie put tho wh hi earth under
them, leaving it subaqueous 160 days.
Tho earthquakes! Ho showed what he
could do with them when ho let Cara
cas drop into tho open mouth of horror
and the islands of the sea went into en
tombment. Tho lightnings! He showed
what ho could do with them when lie
wrapped Mount Sinai In flame, and wo
have all seen their flushing lanterns
moving with the chariots of tho mid
night hurricane. All the regiments ele
mental will come in on onr side in the
great Armageddon. Como, and let us
mount and ride along the line and re
view tho troops of Emanuel and find
that tlie regiments terrestrial and ce
lestial that come into that battle on the
right side are, as compared with those
0:1 the wrong eide, 2 to 1, 100 to 1,
1,000 to 1.
The King of Klngi* In Commaml.
But who is the commander in chief
on this side? Splendid armies have been
ruined, caught in traps, flung over prec
ipices and annihilated through tho in
competence cr treachery of their gener
al. Who commands on our Fide? Jeho-
vah-Jireh, so called in one place. "Cap
tain of salvation,’’ so called in another
place. King of kings, Lord of lords,
Conqueror of conquerors. His tyo om
niscient, his arm omnipotent. Ho will
take tho lead. Ho will draw the sword,
lie will give the command. And when
ho plants his foot for tho combat tho
foundations of the earth will quake, and
when he shall give the battlo shout all
tho gates of hell will tremble.
But do not let us shout until after wo
have scon tho two armies clash in tlie
last struggle. Oh, my soul 1 The batt 1c
of all time and all eternity opens! “For
ward!" “Forward!" is tho command
on both sides given. Tho long lines of
both armies waver and swing to and
fro. Swords of truth against engines in
fernal. Black horse cavalry of perdition
against white horse cavalry of heaven.
The redemption of this world and the
honor of the throne of God to vindicate.
How tremendous is the battle. Tho army
of righteousness seems giving way. But
no. It is only a part of the maneuver of
tho infinite light. It is r. deploy of tho
host celestial. What a meeting in this
field of splendor and wrath, of the an
gelic and of the dianolio, of hosanna
and blasphemy, of song and curse, of
tho divine and the Satanic. Tho thun
derbolts of the Almighty burst and blaze
upon tho foe. Boom! Boom! By the
torches of lightning that illumine tho
scene I see that the crisis of the Arma
geddon has come. It is tho turning
point of this last battle. Tho next mo
ment will decide all. Aye, the forces of
Apollyon aro breaking ranks. See, seel
They fly! Some on foot, some on wiugl
They fly! Back over the battlements cf
perdition they go down with infinite
crash, all the regiments diabolic. Back
to the mountains and caves tho armed
hosts of earth, crying as they retreat to
the rocks and mountains, "Fall cn us
and hide us from the face of him that
sitteth upon tho throne and from the
wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of
his wrath has come, and who shall be
able to stand?"
After the Rattle.
And while Apollyon, tho prisoner of
war, is being dragged in chains to his
dungeon and our conqueror is remount
ing his throne I look off upon the bat
tlefield, and among tho slain I find tlie
carcasses of Mohammedanism and pa
ganism and atheism and infidelity
and dissipation and fraud and multi
tudinous wrong strewing tho plain,
and I hear the angel that staudeth in
the sun crying in tho words of Revela
tion to all tho fowls that fly in tho
midst of heaven—tho eagles, and the
vultures, and the hawks, and tho alba
trosses, "Como and gather yourselves
together unto tho supper cf the great
God, that yo may cat the flesh of kings,
and the flesh of captains, and the flesh
cf mighty men, and tlie flesh of horses,
and tf them that sit on them."
The prophesied Armageddon of tho
text has been fought, and Christ and
ids followers have wen tho day. The
kingdoms of this world have become
tho kingdoms of our Lord and his
Christ. All tho Christian workers of
our time, you, my hearers, and you, my
readers, and all tho Christian workers
of all the nges have helped on tho mag
nificent result, and tho victory is ours
us much as theirs. This moment invit-
iog all outsiders, througli the ransomed
blood of tho everlasting covenant, to got
into tho ranks of tho conquerors and un
der tho banner of our loader, I shall not
close tho service with prayer, as wo
usually do, but immediately give out
the Moravian hymn, by James Mont
gomery, appropriate when written, in
1819, but mere appropriate in 1896, and
ask you, with full voices as well as with
grateful hearts, to chant it:
Boo Jehovah’s banner furl'd,
Sheathed his sword. Hi' speaks; ’tin douu.
And the kin"(lonis of this world
Aro tho kingdoms of his Bon.
r.'itlonts Should Not He Told loo Much.
Tlie profession should always bo
ready with any information tending to
ward tho prevention of disease, but any
attempt directly or indirectly to teach
therapeutics is fraught with nntcld evil
to the giver anil the receiver. Tho more
the patient is kept in ignorance of tho
remedies pn scribed the better for him,
and certainly the better for the pro-
ecribtr.—Now York Medical Record.
Aiitlriuitjr of Checker*.
In u picture cu tho palace wall, at
Thebes, liutncscH II is represented as
playing with hi* wive* at checkers.
AN
~77
THE FARM TOOL SHED.
How to Itulld It V/lth l.lttlo Money De
vice For Work flench.
No more convenient building ran be
erected upon a farm than a good, roomy
tool shod, where all farm machines mid
small tools ran lx* housed from the
wcutli. r, while tho owner has the as
surance that he can put his hand at a
moment's notice upon any implement
that may bo needed without the neces
sity of hunting through half a dozen
buildings to find tho tool desired. On
tiie average farm the tools arc either
left out of doors for lark of a place to
put them or are crowded away into any
nook or corner that can be found, often
to he in tho way for the next six months.
The accompanying illustration from
the New York Tribune shows a cheaply
built toolhouso that is fitted to hold all
the farm tools and Implements, provid
ing also in one end a repair or carpen
ter's shop. Three sets of double doors
are provided, both in front and opposite
■m
*<«**•- — -
X FA KM WORK DENCH.
Ward through the side. The strip with
tho pegs can (lieu bo slipped into eny
set of holes, according as tho board to
be planed upon the edge is wide or nar
row.
Cornstalk DUe&tie.
From experiments made and report
ed upon by tho Kansas station it seems
conclusively demonstrated that corn
smut and the bacterial disease which
sometimes attacks cornstalks known as
the Burrill bacterial corn disease have
no influence in the production of what
is known as cornstalk disease in cattle.
Observations seem to Indicate that there
may be more than one disease or con
dition which is liable to be confnsed
under tho term cornstalk diseasa There
aro indications that what may bo called
typical cornstalk disease in cattle in a
combination of indigestion and some
toxic substance in the cornstalks, pos
sibly saltpeter (potassium nitrate).
Forcing Lcttaco.
Any one with frame room can easily
have lettuce till Christmas by planting
u succession, say every ten days, from
now on. American Gardening says that
tho first consideration should be to se
lect a sheltered spot for th<> frame where
it would catch sun all the day; also
have good drainage or tho lettuce will
damp off. Of course where there is a
greenhouse it is not necessary to try
growing them in cold frames so late It
is also best not to have tho soil too
heavy. Lettuce delights in a sandy, rich
soil. Grand Rapids is a good lettuce for
cold frames, Big Boston for a head let
tuce.
Young Orange Trees.
It is a good plan to go over tho young
orange sprouts onco a week and pinch
back those that are running up too tall
and slender. This will make them grow
more stocky and branch out more. It is
much Letter to compel the young sprout
to hold itself up than to tie it up and
allow it to grow as high and spindling
as it may be inclined. If it has to be
pinched back several times, so much the
bettor. It will bo forced to put out
branches and thicken up tho head, be
coming symmetrical, well ronnded and
self supporting.—Florida Fruit Grower.
Cnttlng Timber.
The Economic society of Westphalia,
says Cosmos, has been attempting to
determine the most fitting timo to cut
down trees. Results gained from experi
ments in this direction make it appear
that tho appropriate time for cutting
timber to be used for construction is tho
month of December, and it seems that
the period of cutting should by no
means be prolonged into January.
China lierrle* na a Fertiliser.
At tho South Carolina station u ton
of dried china berries was analyzed us
to the fertilizing value and found to
■fferd the principal elements to the fol
lowing extent:
Putin da.
Nitruucn 28.8
Phoai.horlo uetd 10.1
Potnah 66.7
The fertilizer value in 7.84 per ton.*
CHEAPLY HITILT TOOLHOrsE.
those in the back side, so that a ma
chine can bo driven in at one side, tho
horses unhitched and driven out tho
other side, leaving the machine ready to
be hitched cn to the next day mid drawn
out the front doors without turning it
about. There is no chamber in the build
ing, bnt there is ample storage room
above the cross tics to pile away lumber
or the hundred and one other things
that need to bn kept from the weather.
A part of the space could In' floored over
at one end to provide a place for sleighs
and sleds during the summer months, a
hook being placed conveniently in the
ridge polo for a pulley block to use in
hoisting them into place.
A second illustration from the same
source shows advice for making tho
work bench convenient. Tho strip of
board lias wo pegs set into it at an
angle. In tho side of the bench are a
series of ho'os bored, not horizontally
througli the side of the bench, but down-
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Ayer ,s Cherry Pectoral,—procured, for
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and in my family, whenever wo have
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for colds, coughs, and lung troubles.”—
Emily \Vooi>, North St., Eikton, Md.
Ap; j ’s Sherri Federal
Highest Honors at World’s Fair.
C'canse the System with Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
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