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THK T EDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C„ SEPTEMBER 17, 1896.
THE CHANGED CITIES.
REV. DR. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW THE
GOSPEL WILL AFFECT THEM.
lie Say* They Will All Be Evangelized,
ami He Expects to Live to Sco It—How
It Will He Ilronght About and the Con
sequence.
Washington, Sept. 18. — So much
that is depressing is said about the
wickedness of tho cities it will cheer
us to read what Dr. Talmago says in
this sermon about their coining redemp
tion. Tho text Is Zechariah viii, 5,
“And tho streets of the city shall be
full of boys and girls playing in tho
streets thereof. ”
Glimpses of our cities redeemed I
Now boys and girls who play in the
streets run such risks that multitudes
of them end in ruin. But, in the com
ing time spoken of, our cities will be so
moral that lads and lasses shall be as
safe m the public thoroughfares as in
the nursery.
• Pulpit and printing press for tho
most part in onr day are busy in dis
cussing the condition of tho cities at
this time, but would it not be health
fully encouraging to all Christian work
ers, and to all who arc toiling to make
the world better, if wo should for a lit
tle while look forward to the time when
onr cities shall be revolutionized by tho
gospel of tho Son of God, and all the
darkness of sin and trouble and crime
and suffering shall bo gone from tho
world?
Every man has a pride in the city of
his nativity or residence, if it be a city
distinguished for any dignity or prow
ess. Caesar boasted of his native Romo,
Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta,
Desmosthcnes of Athens, Archimedes
of Syracuse and Paul of Tarsus. I
should have suspicion of base hearted-
noss in a man who had no especial in
terest in tho city of his birth or resi
dence—no exhilaration at the evidence
of its prosperity or its artistic embellish
ments or its intellectual advancement.
A Noticeable Point.
I have noticed that a man never likes
a city where ho has not behaved well!
People who have had a free rido in the
prison van never like the city that fur
nishes tho vehicle. When I find Argos
and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove
themselves the birthplace of Homer, I
conclude at once that Homer behaved
well. He liked them and they liked
him. We must not war on laudable city
pride, or, with the idea of building our
selves up at any time, try to pull others
down. Boston must continue to point
to its Faueuil hall and to its Common
and to its superior educational advan
tages. Philadelphia must continue to
point to its Independence hall and its
mint and its Girard college. Washing
ton must continue to point to its won
drous capitolino buildings. If I should
find a man coining from any city, hav
ing no pride in that city, that city hav
ing been the place of his nativity, or
now being tho place of his residence, I
would feel like asking: “What mean
thing havo yon done there? What out
rageous thing have yon been guilty of
that you do not like the place?”
I think we ought—and I take it for
granted you are interested in this great
work of evangelizing the cities and sav
ing the world—wo ought to toil with
the sunlight in our faces. Wo are not
fighting in a miserable Bull Run of de
feat. Wo ere on our way to final vic
tory. We are not following the rider on
the black horse, leading us down to
•death ami darkness and doom, but the
fidcr on the white horse, with the moon
under his feet ami the stars of heaven
for his tiara. Hail, Conqueror, kail!
I know there are sorrows, and there
arc sins, and there are sufferings all
around about us, but as in seine bitter,
cold winter day, when we are thrashing
onr arms around us to keep onr thumbs
from freezing, we think of the warm
spring day that will after awhile come,
or in the dark winter night we look up
and sco the northern lights, the win
dows of heaven illuminated by some
great victory, just so we look up from
the night of suffering and sorrow and
wretchedness in our cities, and wo sco a
light streaming through from the other
side, and wo know wo are on the way
to morning—more than that, on tho
way to “a morning without clouds.”
I want you to understand, all you who
we toiling for Christ, that tho castles
of sin arc all going to Is; captured. The
victory for Cln i-t in these great towns
is going to be so complete that not a
man e.u earth, < r an angel in heaven, or
a devil in hell will dispute it. How do
1 know? 1 know just us certainly us
God lives and that this is holy truth. The
old Bible is lull of it. If tho nation is
lo be saved, of course all the cities are
to be saved. It makes a great difference
with you and with me whether we aro
toiling on toward a defeat fir toiling
on toward a victory.
A Glorious Time.
Now*, in tk.is municipal elevation of
which I speak 1 J<avo to retnuik theae
will be greater financial prosperity than
onr cities havo ever seen. Some people
seem to have a morbid idea of the mil
lennium, and they think when tho bet
ter time comes to our cities and the
world people will give their time up to
psalm singing and tho relating of their
religious experience, and, as nil social
life will bo purified, there will be m»
hilarity, and, us all business will be
purified, there will be no enterprise.
There is no ground for such an absurd
anticipation, in the time of which I
•peak where now cue fortune is made
there will lo n hundred fortunes made.
We all know business prosperity de
pends upon coufidt ncc between man
and man. Now, when that time comes
of which 1 •peak, and when all double
dealing, all dishonesty, and all fraud
are gone out of commercial circles,
thorough coulld) nee will he established,
aial thero will be better business done
uiid larger fortunes gathered and
mightier snrce.' u s achieved.
The great btniu' .i disasters of this
country have cornu from the work of
godless speculnrors and infamous stock
gamblers. Tho great foe to business is
crime. When the right shall have hurled
back tho wrong, ami shall have purified
the commercial code, and shall have
thundered down fraudulent establish
ments, and shall have put into the hands
of honest men the keys of business—
blessed time for tho bargain makers. I
am not talking an abstraction. I am not
making a guess. I urn telling you God’s
eternal truth.
lu that day of which I speak taxes
will be a mere nothing. Now our busi
ness men are taxed for everything. City
taxes, county taxes, state taxes, United
States taxes, stamp taxes, license taxes,
manufacturing taxes — taxes, taxes,
taxes! Onr business men have to make
a small fortune every year to pay their
taxes. What fastens on onr great indus
tries this awful load? Crime, individual
and official. Wo havo to pay the board
of the villaius who aro incarcerated in
our prisons. We have to take care of the
orphans of those who plunged into tin ir
graves through sei ">al indulgences. We
have to support the municipal govern
ments, which aro vast and expensive,
just in proportion as the criminal pro
clivities are vast and trei i<mdous. Who
support tho almshouses ni .1 police sta
tions, and all the maehinen of munici
pal government? The taxpa. .rs.
No More Crime.
But in the glorious time of which I
speak grievous taxation will all havo
ceased. There w ill be no need of sup
porting criminals; there w 11 be no
criminals. Virtue will have taken tho
place of vice. There will be no orphan
asylums, for parents will be able to
leave a competency to their children.
There will be no voting of large sums
of money for some municipal improve
ment, which money, before they get to
the improvements, drops into the pock
ets of those who voted it No oj er and
terminer kept up at vast expense to the
people. No impaneling of juries to try
theft and arson and murder and slander
and blackmail. Better factories. Grand
er architecture. Finer equipage. Larger
fortunes. Richer opulence. Bitter
churches.
In that better time, also, comiiq to
those cities, Christ’s churches will bo
more numerous, and they will be larger,
and they will be more devoted to tho
gospel of Jcsns Christ, and they will
accomplish greater influences for good.
Now’, it is often the case that churches
are envious of each other, ami denomi
nations collide with each other, and
even ministers of Christ sometimes for
get the bond of brotherhood. But in the
time of which I speak, while there will
be just as many differences of opinii n
us there are now, there will lx: no acer
bity, no hypercriticism, no exclusive
ness.
In our great cities tho churches are
not today large enough to hold more
than a fourth of the population. Tho
ehurrhes that are built—comparatively
few* of them are fully occupied. The
average attendance in tho churches of
the United States today is not 400.
Now, in the glorious time of which I
speak, there aro going to bo vast,
churches, and they are going to bo all
thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what
earnest sermons they will preach! Oh,
what fervent prayers they will offer!
Now, in our time, what is called a
fashionable church is a place where a
few people, having attended very care
fully to their toilet, come and sit down
—they do not want to be crowded; they
like a whole seat to themselves—and
then, if they havo any time li ft from
thinking of their stole and from exam
ining the style of the hut in front of
them, they sit and listen to a sermon
warranted to hit no man’s sins and lis
ten to music which is rendered by u
choir warranted to sing tunes that no
body knows. And then, after an hour
and a half of indolent yawning, they go
home refreshed. Every man feels bet
ter after lie has had a sleep.
In many of tho chfirches of Christ in
our day the music is simply a mockery.
I havo not a cultivated ear nor a culti
vated voice, yet no man can do my sing
ing for me. I have nothing to say
against artistic music. The $2 or $5
I pay to hear any of the gnat
queens of song aro a good investment.
But when the people assemble in icli-
gions convocation, and the hymn is read,
and tho angels of God step from their
throne to catch the music on their
wings, do not let ns drive them away
by our indifference. I have preached in
churches where vast sunis of money
were employed to keep up the ninsic,
and it was as exquisite as any heard on
earth, but I thought, at the same time,
for all matters piartieal I would prefer
the hearty, outbreaking song of a buck-
woods Methodist camp meeting.
Let one of these starveling fancy
songs sung in chnreh get up before tho
throne of God, how would it seem stand
ing amid t)ic great doxologics of the re
deemed? Let the finest operatic air that
ever went up from tho cuurch of Christ
get many hoars the start, it will bo
caught and passed by the hosanna < f
the Subbath school rhildn n. I know a
church where the choir did all the sing
ing, save one Christian man, wbo,
through “perseverance of the saints,”
went right e.u, and afterward a com
mittee was appointed to wait on him
and ask him if he would not please sp p
binging, as he bothered the choir.
Let those refiiMi to sins
Who never know our Ood,
Rut ehtUlreu of tho heavenly Kiutf
Should Mimuk their Joys abroad.
“Praise yo the Lord. Let everything
with breath praise the Lord.” In tho
glorious time coming in our cities and
in the world hosanna will meet hosan
na, and halleluiah, halleluiah.
How It Will He lions.
Ill that time also of which 1 speak
all the haunts of iniquity and « rime and
squalor w ill lie cleansed and will be il
luminated. How is it to he done? Vou
say, p< ihups by one influence. Perhaps
1 say by another. I will tell you what
is my idea, and 1 know 1 am right in it:
Tho gosisd of the Hon of (hid » tho only
agency that will ever accomplish this.
A gentleman in England hud a theory
that if the natural forces of wind and
tide and sunshine and wave were rigidly
applied and rightly developed it would
make this whole earth a paradise. In a
book of groat genius, and which rushed
from edition to i lition, ho said: “Fel
low men, I promise to show the means
of creating a paradise within ten years,
where everything desirable for human
life may be had by every man in super
abundance without labor and without
pay—where the whole face of nature
shall be changed into the most beautiful
farms, and man may live in the most
magnificent palaces, in all imaginable
refinements of luxury, and in the most
delightful gardens—where ho may ac
complish without labor in one year
more than hitherto could bo done in
thousands of years. From tho houses to
be built will bo afforded tho most cul
tured views that can be fancied. From
tho galleries, fxum tho roof, and from
the turrets may be seen gardens as far
as tho eye can see, full of fruits and
flowers, arranged in tho most beautiful
order, with walks, colonnades, aque
ducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphithea
ters, terraces, fountains, sculptured
works, pavilions, gondolas, places of
popular amusement, to lure tho eyo and
fancy. All this to be done by urging tho
water, the wind and tho sunshine to
their full development.”
lie goes on and gives plates of tho
machinery by which this work is to be
done, and ho says he only needs at tho
start a company in which the shares
shall be #20 each, and $100,000 or
$200,000 shall be raised just to make
a specimen community, and then, this
being formed, tho world will see its
practicability, and very soon $2,000,000
or $8,000,000 can bo obtained, and in
ten years the whole earth will bo em-
parudised. The plan is not so preposter
ous as some I have hoard of. But I will
take no stock in that company. I do not
believe that it will ever be dene in that
way by any mechanical force or by any
machinery that the human mind can
put into play. It is to be done by the
gospel of the Sou of God—the omnipo
tent machinery of love and grace and
pardon and salvation. This is toempar-
adiso the nations. Archimedes destroyed
a fleet of ships coming up the harhor.
You know how li3 did it? He lifted a
great sunglass, history^ tells us, and
when the fleet of ships came up the har
bor of Syracuse ho brought to hear this
sunglass, and ho focused the sun’s rays
upon those ship . Now the sails aro
wings of lire, the masts fall, the vesse ls
sink. Oh, my friends, by the sunglass
of the gospel converging the rays of the
sun of righteousness upon tho sins, the
wickedness of tho world, we will make
them blaze and expire.
Tho Cteauseil Cities.
In that day of which I speak do you
believe there will be any midnight ca
rousal ? Will there be any kicking off
from the marble steps of shivering meu-
uicautsf Will there he any unwashed,
unfed, uncombed children? Will there
be any blasphemies in the streets? Will
there bo any inebriates staggering past?
No. No wine stores. No lager beer sa
loons. No distilleries, where they make
the three X's. No bloodshot eye. No
bloated chi ( k. No instruments of ruin
and dcslrui lion. No fist pounded forer
head. The grandchildren of that wom
an who goes down the street with a
curse, stoned by tho boys that follow’
her, will be the reformers and philau*
thiopists and tho Christian men and the
honest merchants of our citii s.
Ti m what municipal governments,
too, we will have in all theeities. fcjome
cities arc worse than others, but in
many i f our cities you just walk down
Ly the city halls and look in at some of
the rooms occupied by politicians, and
see to what a sensual, loathsome, igno-
iant, besotted crew city polities is often
abandoned. (Jr they stand around tho
city hall picking their teeth, waiting
for seine emoluments of crumbs to fall
to their fret, waiting all day long, and
wailing all night long.
Who are those wretched women taken
up lor drunkenness, and carried up to
the courts, and put in prison, of course?
What will you do with tho grog shops
that make them drink? Nothing. Who
are those prisoners in jail? One cf them
stole a piair ef shoes. That boy stole u
dollar. This girl snatched a purse. All
of them crimes damaging society less
than $20 or $80. But what will you do
w ith the gambler who last night robbed
the young nun of $1,000? Nothing.
What shall be done with that ono who
breaks through and destroys the purity
of a Christian home, and with an adroit-
n< ss and perfidy that beat the strategy
of hill, dings a shrinking, shrieking
soul intoruiu? Nothing. What will you
do w ith those who fleeced that young
man, getting him to purloin large sums
of money front his employer—the young
man who came to an officer of my
church and told the story and frantically
uskid what ho should do? Nothing.
Ah, we do well to punish small
crimes, but I have sometimes thought it
would be better in some of our cities if
the officials would only turn out from
the jails the petty criminals, tho little
offenders, $10 desperadoes, and put in
their places some of the monsters of in
iquity who drive their roan span through
the streets so swiftly that lium-st nan
have to leap to get out of the w ay of be
ing run over! Oh, the damnable schemes
Hint professed Christian men will some-
times engage in until God puts the lin
ger < f liis retribution into tho collar of
their robe of hypocrisy and rips it char
to tho bottom! But all these wrongs
will be righted. I expect to live to s< o
the day. 1 think I hear in the distance
the rumbling of the King’s chariot. Not
always in the minority is the church of
God going to be, or arc good men going
to be. The streets are going to lie tilled
with regenerated populations. Three
hundred and sixty bell* rung in Moscow
when one prince was married, but w hen
righteousness and js-aoe kiss each other
in all the earth 10,000 times 10,000
bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enriched. Hunger fed. Grime banished.
Ignorance enlightened. All the cities
saved. 1m not thiu a cause worth work
ing in?
Oh, you think uomutimes it does not
amount to much! Yon toil on in your
different spheres, sometimes with great
discouragement. People have not faith
and say: “It does not amount to any
thing. You might as well quit that.”
Why, when Moses stretched his hand
over tho Red sea it did not seem to
mean anything especially. People came
out, I suppose, and said, “Aha!” Some
of them found out what ho wanted to
do. He wanted the sea parted. It did
not amount to anything, this stretching
out of his hand over the sea. But, after
awhile, the wind blow all night from
the east, and tho waters were gathered
into a glittering palisade on either side,
and tho billows reared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits. Wheel into
line, O Israel! March, march! Pearls
crashed under feet. Flying spray gathers
into rainbow arch of victory for the
conquerors to march under. Shout of
hosts on the beach answering the shout
of hosts amid sea. And when the last
line of Israelites reach the beach, the
cymbals dap, and the shields clang, and
the waters rush over the pursuers, and
the swift fingered winds on the white
keys of the foam play the grand march
cf Israel delivered and the awful dirge
of Egyptian overthrow’.
So you and I go forth, and all the
people of God go forth, and they stretch
forth their hand over the sea, the boil
ing sea of crime and sin and wretched
ness. “It do?snt’t amount to anything,”
people say. Doesn’t it? God’s winds of
help will, after awhile, begin to blow.
A path will be cleared for the army of
Christian philanthropists. The path will
be lined with the treasures of Christian
beneficence, and wo shall be greeted to
tho other beach by the clapping of all
heaven’s cymbals, while those who pur
sued us and derided us and trii d to de
stroy us will go down under tho sea,
and all that will be left of thorn will he
east high and dry upon the beach, tho
splintered wheel of a chariot, or thrust
out from the foam, the breathless nos
tril of a riderless charger.
Tim Ladicroas.
There is one modern philosopher who
j appears to mo to have given us a satis
factory formula of the ludicrous. That
; philosopher is Schopenhauer, uuques-
, tionably one cf the inest profound and
j penetrating intellects of this century,
| however we may account of his system
! us a whole. One of his cardinal doc-
1 trines is that all abstract knowledge
springs from knowledge of perception
: and obtains its whole value from its re
lation to perception. And npon this
doctrine he hangs his theory of the lu
dicrous. “Tho source of the ludicrous, ”
he teaches, “is always the paradoxical
| and tin n fore unexpected subsumption
of an object under a conception which
j in other respects is different from it.”
| Or, as he elsewhere in his great work
writes more at large:
"The cause of laughter, in every case,
| is simply the sudden perception of the
! incongruity between a conn pt and the
S real objects which by means of it we
! have thought in a certain association,
and laughter itself is the expression of
this incongruity. Now, incongruity oc
curs in this way: We have thought cf
i two or more real objects by means of
ono concept and have passed on the
I identity of tho concept to the objects.
If then becomes strikingly apparent,
from the discrepancy of the objects,
i in other respects, that the -concept ap-
i plies to them only from one point of
view. It occurs quite as often, however,
that the incongruity between a singlp
i real object and the concept under which
! from one point of view, it has rightly
been subsumed is suddenly felt. Now,
the more correct tho subsumption of
such objects under a concept may bo
from one point of view and the greater
and moie glaring their incongruity from
another point of view, the stronger is
the ludicrous effect which is produced
by this contrast. All laughter, there*
fore, springs up cn occasion of a para*
j doxical and unexpected subsumption,
whether this is expressed in words or
actions. ”—Fortnightly Review.
Found a Huge Busin.
A curious discovery has been made by
the workmen engaged upon the restora
tion of Pctcrboro cathedral. Under
the southern leg of tho parviso, or libru-
iy, within the west front of the cathe
dral, a nuinlior of blocks cf molded
marble havo been found, which on be
ing put together make a portion of a
^ huge basin between 20 and 30 feet in
circumference. It has apparently a sc-
riis of small basins or hollows running
j around it, united to each other, hut not
| extending to the center. It is expected
i that farther fragments will bo found
which may east additional light upon
its crigiii. The fragments were cast
, into the foundations, w here they were
discovered by the fourteenth century
builders. A conjecture has been made
by Mr. Irvine, the clerk of the works,
that it may be the bottom basin of an
ancient fountain from the cloisters,
which, having become broken, probably
from frost, the fractured materials were
j put into the foundations, where they
were found.—London News.
Senator Lyumii Trumbull.
An inventory of the estate of the late
Lyman Trumbull, taken in probate pro
ceedings, shows that it amounted to
$173,000. Tho probate invoice affords
obvious proof that every dollar in value
of this great statesman’s property was
absolutely clean. Not a dollar had the
taint of abuse from pi rverted official
influence or loose professional practices.
Lyman Trumbull’s official lifoextended
over a iH-riod cf 10 years, lie was a
uu-uibcr of the United .States senate 18
years. The amount of the estate left by
him is absolute proof of his purity in
public life. It is no greater in umunnt
than should bo accumulated during a
long pr< fessionul career by. any inaii
With ordinary economy and thrift and
sagacious limited investments. This
< videiice of the purity of his character
w as not needed by those who were fa
miliar with ins long and distinguished
career. But it is n trolling to find cir
cumstantial evidence so obvious of a
great and pure example. »*Chiuago
Chronicle.
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AN ELECTRIC PLOW.
It Taken Power Through s Flexible Wire
ami Goes Anywhere.
Many experiments have been made
with electric plows. An implement of
this class was tried this season on the
prairie near Chicago and is reported to
have given satisfaction. As described in
tho New* York Tribune, it is a simple
contrivance, although tho illustration
makes it appear a complicated machine.
Tho inventor is a Chicagoan.
Four pieces of timber are put together
to form a horizontal frame, which is
mounted on an axle, and tw’o light,
broad driving wheels. Two rollers in
front serve as guide wheels and can bo
steered by a wheel that looks like the
brake wheel of a railway car. The elec
tric current comes in through one strand
and goes out through the other of a
double wire. Enough of this wire to
reach across the field is put upon a reel,
and it unwinds as the plow goes away
from tho starting place. When the fur-
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IIOCELAMl's KLECTWC PLOW,
thc.sfc point has been reached and tho
machine begins to comeback, tho reel
winds the slack wire all up again auto
matically. Out on o so front corner of
tho frame is a box having a crank on
top. The box contains tho “controller, ”
which is really tho samo sort of tiling
soon on every tiolley car. Tho object of
this contrivance is to regulate tho
amount of current admitted to the ma
chine, precisely as a valve lets in steam
from a boiler to an engine. The amount
of current depends on how far around
you move that crank.
After the electricity passes through
tho coiled w-iro on tho reel it goes into
what is called the motor back of the
driver’s seat Tiiere an armature is set
in rotation by thoouTeiit, and the shaft
of the armature drives certain gearing
and thus compels the two driving wheels
to revolve. In this manner tho whole
machine is forced to go ahead. Tho
plowshare is seen in the rear, but a
hand lever out in front enables tho
driver to alter the depth of tho cut
without stopping or alighting. On leav
ing tho field ho can draw the share up
clear of tho ground and run his machine
around exactly like n common traction
cngiiio eo long as he has wire enough
on the roil. In fact, it could be used to
pul) a gang plow, or could bo anchored
and made to run a thrashing machine.
"When the Hogolund device was tested
last rncutli, it ent furrows as clean,
straight mid deep ;is any two horse
plow. The front wheels have flanges,
which prevent flipping sideways or
wabbling. And the thing is easily steer
ed. Current was obtained in this
inieut from a trolley line
HULLING COWPEAS.
Machinery For I’icking him! Tbraxlibill
Fo<1h Georsla Method-!. L
In a communication to The Kural
New Yorker F. E. Emery, North (
lina experiment station, ri por: that t . <>
^ machines have Is < n invented to take ■
place of hand picking the pods. On ' f f
i these picks from a row and works v.-y
well. Ir will pick many bush* Is a d.;y.
It also thrashes the well iij !i: <1 pod-;,
and tho next step is to fan the j < m
; by hand. But the second machine i ;
| up the pods from broadcast sowing ; ;.d
: thrashes them out practically tl. amo
j as would the prepared wheat thru.-h- r,
| while the pods and broken vine.- aro
blown out on the land near win m tin y
grew. Both inventors have been advi. - d
to form a company and make 1 < *h n.,i-
i chines. With either of these the hand
picking is done away with, though ear*'
will necessarily have to he taken to
drive over tho field when the we;'.:: nr i
dry and when the great* r proper o n of
the crop is ripe and ready to be hoc I.
In Georgia the prevailing nc i'cci of
thrashing (hulling) cowpeas is t!- old
fashioned hand flail, which is quite
S effective, but very slow and therefore
unsatisfactory. A rheap haudpov. rmr
: chine for the purpose is a di sh! ; uni.
R. H. Redding, writing to the journal
already quoted, gives an idea of mi Ihods
used at the Georgia station. He ays:
At this station we use an ordinary
power grain thrasher and shaker, run at
a low speed, and find it very t ■' live
l and rapid, the only objection hein that
! many of the peas are broken or splii by
tlicspikeg. This objection v. ii! b likely
| to lie against any machine thatdoi s the
j work rapidly. After rnmiirg tiirou r h
the thrasher and shaker the peas and
chaff are then put through an < rdim.ry
grain fan mill. Of course it should he
understood that the peas are in th“ con
dition of “peas iii tlie hull,” separated
from the vine, as they are alui' -t g- n-
erally gather'd in the south.
There is very little sale or use of the
hulled peas in the. south i xci pt furs ed.
As a rule, tho farmer gathers enough
in the pod to supply seed and s no for
his cows, to be fed in the hull. The
most profitable way to u-e the crop ns
food is to convert the vin- s into buy or
ensilage, saving only enough ]■• t'b.r
seed. For those purposes theciopbi uM
be mown when just a few of tl: p ds
have become grown or have arriv d at
the stage when they are suitable for the
farmer’s dinner table. The harv sting . f
the ripe pods by picking with the lin
gers is, like cotton picking, t!
expensive detail < f the er< p and
be avoided as far us possible.
i- most
hould
exper-
Tho Water Trough.
A trough or tub of water standing all
day under the rays of the summer sun lio-
comes very un
palatable for cat
tle. An automatic
arrangement for
keeping water
cool is shown in
tlto accompany
ing cut from The
Farm Journal. A
rovr.nrn WATKP.Titoccii.loose cover is sus
pended over tho trough by ropes. Cattle
and horses will quickly learn to press
this aside and drink, when the cover
will come back over the water again.
Make the cover light and support It
evenly, as shown.
Value of tho Pea Crop.
Southern Cultivator sums up tho val
ue mid adaptability of tho pea crop as
follows: It is a nitrogen gatherer; it
shades tho soil in summer and aids the
process cf nitrification; it goes deeply
into the soil and brings up water and
mineral matter needed by tho plant; its
adaptability to all kinds of soils, stiffest
clays to tho most porous sands, fertile
alluvial bottoms to barren uplands; it j this purpose, and the tightu
stands the hcntundsnnshincnf southern
summers; its rapid growth enables tho
fanner in the south to grow two crops a
year on tho same soil. If sowu thickly,
it will by its rapid growth and shade
effectually smother all woods and thus
servo ns a cleansing crop; it is the Inst
preparatory crop known to the southern
fanner; every kind of crop grows well
after it; it furnishes a most excellent
food in large quantities for both man
and animals.
Tlio Stan'L'ini Hay Crop.
Timothy is the standard hay crop in
American markets. It has ]:nr attained
this pcsitii u from its hi !i i ding
value, since a mixture of olover and
timothy or blue grass, rodtop, etc., hows
higher percents of protein and other
nutrients than does timothy : . Yho
fact that timothy can be mor ■ <
and uniformly cured than i > < ;
grasses and clovers has made >: j>i.
for the city buyer to secure a na . • uni
formly fiimm! and wholesome f I than
can he obtained from other gva: i u.
Tho prairie hay free from weeds and
clover is easily cured and can be 1 :;;d
of quite uniform grade, and ibis quality,
along with its cheapiiess, has ereuted
quite a dr maud for it in the cities.
Since, like timothy, it is f'd along with
grain and mill feed, it is easy to furnish
a well balanced ration with either
sound, bright timothy or prairie hay,
when oats, barley, corn and mill feed
are handy and cheap, if is el- ar, ays a
writer in the Ohio Farmer, that if. tim
othy is to give us the br st priee u >il ! i
we must give due care to famishing
sound, bright hay. This qnu’.'y lin
made a market for it, and that alone
can keep the trade.
Filling ami eilor.
An American Agriculturist o irre-
spondent complains that hi.-i si!:;' • ha.-'
never been quite free from I, .t, not
enough to greatly injure it, hut more
than has been noticed inpn vio.i- years,
A second correspondent- telis that this i t
due to atmospheric inllm ne< s, and t! *
remedy is to have a sniulh r sr.i ia f e ex
posed to the air. The best way i to fe* d
from the top. Have at all l ina s tho
least possible surface exposed to the air.
Heat and mold ensue wher - a largu
surface is exposed, and hut 1 \. catth
are fed therefrom. A silo fill' I in » i >
day, even if well tramped, v.ill 1 ■ J. s
than half full after tho Ir atiug . nd < •
tling processes are properly c .i.pleti d.
If properly eared for, thci ns;!. shout 1
be equally good whether the , ling l. •
done quickly or slowly. W. : I 'ing i
cover is economical and will mu, Jy
pay. If projierly done, it sav s ane < -
silage. Plank and steue are all light for
the covi r
tho better.
Combination Cart.
J. C. Stribling of And« iM>n county.
S. C., lias a good, broad tin d, low dowir
hay wagon and a two her. dump rn?l
combination. This is. what > • wrote
about it to Huial New Yorker when
sending a sketch of the wagon :
I made it by sawing off the spokes of
an old wagon and putting on 4 inch
Johnson Grass.
Professor Tourney, writing from the
Arizona experiment station, tolls that
Johnson grass will grow as long as any
of tho root stock is left in tho ground.
Tho root stocks am strong and will rnn
for a long distance underground, and as
long as left there will come up, but if
kept constantly cut off as soon as it up-
jH-ars at tho surface of tho ground it
may bo killed. If mallow is eu* off two
or three inches below tho surface of tho
gtoniid, it will not grow again. It has
a long root, which penetrates two or
three feet into tho ground. The root of
this plant is a true resit, while the so
culled roots of Johnson grass are only
underground stems. Every little knot of
tbe knotgrass (eft in tho ground ifl sure
»•> giow. All must be taken out and
destroyed if it is-to be got rid of.
FOL’K WIIKLl. Ill’Ml’ ( ALT.
wagon tin’s at a cost of ah at , J. The*
tires are fastemd on the sp<>! s by pass-
ing wood screws through the tires into
the ends of the spokes, di.-* tp,ing with
the use of fellies. Instoud of whin g
the tin’s, they are bent bai !^.at th" ends
and bolted together, as *-hown in cut,
at the ends, which admits of tightening
them with Isilts instead of th'* e My
cutting at a blacksmith's sh. p. The law
front wheels shown in the eat are us. d
for Isith the low down hay v i u nnT
thf two horse dump (MkVt by t U j
j removal of ono coupling pin.