The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, November 08, 1888, Image 3

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R - bev. dr, talmage. tnl! BBOOKtV.N DIVINE'S SCNDAV SERMON. ;“»S tti! x Clines, then the TbxT: "He drew out hittuiord, mid would hare killed himeelf, suppotinj that the priioners had been fled. But Baul cried tcith a loud voice, nyiny : 'Do thyself no harm:" Actsxvl., 27-38. y 1 Here is a would-be suicide arrested in his deadly attempt He was a sheriff, and ac cording to the Roman law, a bailiff himself must suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner; and if the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced to be endumreoned for three or four years, then the sheriff must be endungconed for three or four years; and if the pri oner breaking jail was to have suffered capital punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff bad received ispecinl charge to keep a sharp lookiut for laul and Hilas. The govern ment bad not bad confidence in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, atwut whom there seemed to be something slnui-e and supernatural. t-ure enough, by miraculous power, they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and Knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ, and realizing that be must therefore die, rather than go under the ex-cut oner’s axe on the morrow, and suffer public disgrace, resolves to pre cipitate his own decoass. But before the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart, one of the unloosened p-isonei s arrests the blade by the command' •‘Vo thyself no harm.” , In olden time, and where Christianity had pot interfered.*Uh it, suicide wag condderad honorable and a sign of courage. Demos thenes poisoned himself when told that Alex ander's ambassador had demanded the sur render of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed himself rather than surrender to I hilip of Wa odon. Cato, rather tlian sub mit to Julius Censar, took his own life and after three tiuias his wounds had been dressed tore them open and per ished. Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pomney, the con ineror. Han nibal destroyed his life by poison from his ring, considering life unbearable. Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a suicide After the disas ter of Moscow, Napoleon always carried w,th him a preparation of < pium, ami one night bis servant bearil the ex Emperor arise, put something in aglass and drink it, and s ion after the groans aroused all the attendants, end it was only through utmost medical skill ho was resusd ated from the stupor of tlie opiate. Times have changed, and yet the American conscience nee Is to be toned up on the sub ject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that did not announce the passage out of life by one’s own liehest? Def an Iters, alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life precipitately. Men lasing large fortunes go out of the world le-cause they cannot endure earthly existence. Frustrated affectim, domestic infelicity, domestic impatience, anger, remorse, envy, jealousy, destitution, misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for absconding from this life by Paris green, by laudanum, by belladonna, by Oth-llos dagger, by baiter, by 1-ap from the abuts ment of a bridge, by fir arms. More cases of feio de so in the last two years than any t wo years of the worn's existence, and more in the last month than in any twelve months. Jbcevil is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ogoexpn sse i soma doubt as lo whether there was really anything wrong about quitting this life when it became disagreeable, and tliere are found in respect- ahle circles peop’e ajiologetic for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that su-cide is the worst of all crimes, and J shall lift a w arning unmistakable. But in the early part of t h;» fermon l wish to admit that some of the liest Christians that have ever lived have (ommitUd self-destuetion, but always in dementia, and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than 1 have of tha Christian who dies in bis bed in the delirium of typhoid fever. While the shock of the Catastrophe is very great. I charge all those who have had Ihrist- friends under corehal abt rrat on step off (he boundaries of this life, to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear I.ord took them right out of their dazed and fren- lied state into perfoct gaiety. How Christ feels toward the insane you may know from • he kind way He treated the demoniac of Ua- darn and the child lunatic, and the potency with v, hich he hushed tempests either of soa or hrain. Gcrd'and, the land prolific of intellectual Riants, had tibhe grander than Hugh Miller. Great for scien e and great for God. 116 came of the lest Highland blood, and was a def eudant of Donald P.ov, a man eminent for p ety and the rare gilt of tecond sight. His attainments, climbing Up as he did Irom tho quairy and tha wall of the stonemason, drew toi th tha astonished admiration of Buck- land and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the tlieol gian, and held universl- tier sp 1 bound whi e be told them the story Of what be laid teen of God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived I ■ show that the God of the hills is the Owl of the Bible, and ho struck In* ton ing fork on the rocks of Cromarty dutil he hrou ht g< ology and theology accordant in div ne worship. His two books, entitled “Footprints of the Creator ’ and the ••Testi mony of tho Rocks," proclaimed the banns of nil everlasting marriage lietwteen genu ine science and revelation. On thG latter book he toi’ed day and night thiough hove Of nature and love of God, urtil he could not sleep, and his brain gave way, tnd h? was found dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel instrument having had two bul'ets one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner’s inquest was examining It and fell dead. Have you my doubt of theb.'atifl'ationai' Hugh Miller, after his hot brain had a ased throhb ng that winter night in his study at Fortobello! Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of hojven. INo one doubted the piety of William Ccw- per. tho author of thosu three great hymns, “Oh, fora closer walk with God,” “What various hindrances we meet." “Tliere is a fount sin filled w,th bloodWilliam Cow per, who shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian hymn- ology. In hypoebrondria ho resolved to take his own life, an 1 rode to the river Thames. I ut found a man seated on some goods at the very point from which ho ex pected to aprin j, and rode back to his home, and that ni^ht threw himself upon his own knife,but the blade broke; and then he hanged himself to tho ceiling, but the rope parted. No wonder tl at when Gal mercifully do livered him from that awful dementia ho sat down and wrote that other hymn just os memorable; “ God move- In a mjstsrions way His wonders to perform; Ds plant* His footsteps in the se% Ami rides upon the storm. •mind unbelief is snre to err And scan His wort In vein; God Is Ills own interpreter. And he will make it pi tin. While we make this merciful and righteous allowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental incoherence, l declare that that man who, in the nso of his reason, by bis own act, snaps the bond between his body and bis soul, go. s straight into perdi tion. Shall I prove it! Revelation xxl, 8: “Murderers shall h ive their part in the lake which burnetii with tire and brimstone. ’ Revelation xxil, 15: “Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whore mongers, and murderers." You do not believe the New Testament! Then, perhaps, you bel eve the Ten Commandmeuts; “Thou shalt not kill’’ Do you say all these passages refer to the taking of the life of others' Then 1 ask you if you are not as responsible for your own life as for the life of othersl God gave you a special trust in your life. He made yon the custodian of your life as He made you the custodian of no other life. He gave you as weapons with which to defend it two arras to strike hack assailants, two eyee to wat h for invasion, and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on the alert. Assassination of others is a mdd crime compared with the •e®*a-sination of yourself, because in the lat ter case it is treachery to an especial trust, it |s tho surrender of a castle you wore espe cially appointed to keep, it is treason to a natural law, and it Is treason to God added to ordinary murder. To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime, I point you to the rogue’s picture gallery In some parts of the Bible, the pictures of the people who h ivo comm.'Ue i this ui.atural crime. Iioi j is the iieuuloMs trunk of Haul ou the wall* ut Batiishan. Here is the man w ho chased little David— ton foot in itaturt* cliasing four. Here is the msn who oo suited a clairvoyant, Witch of tador. Here isa man who,whipped in battle, Ahitophel, the Machiaveiliof olden times, be- traymg his beet friend David in order that Ini ipay become prune minister of Absalom and v' Uiin F*hat fellow in bis attempt at paricide- TJ?.! » anted b y change of politics, he lakes a graced life into the s . change short cut out of a dis- icide’s eternity. There he U the ingrate! Here is Abimel^h, prac- y a We h with an army, Dom- take -a 8 e-rto 1*^' W £* n a w ' ,man in the tower takei a grindstone from iu place and drops it upon his head, and with what life £ h« 2rm n r^ C,acke 4 ,ku " b» commands his armor-bearer; “Draw thy sword and Th«r« n ^’i l®** “T" ** y * woman slew me." 1 here is his post-mortem photograph in the ^bamuel But the hero of this group w Judas Iscariot. Dr. Doune says he a martyr, and we have in our day apologists^ for him. And what wonder, in this day when we have a book revealing Aaron Burr as a | attorn of a °d m this day when we uncover a hwi.,, 1 tjaor ® 8San : 1 a< Hie benefactress of , a ?,', 1 ! n *bi* day when there are hetrayalsof Christ on the part of some of His pretended apostles—a betrayal so black it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! \ et this man by his own hand hung up for th *« I ^ ra iion of ail the ages Judas IscariAt. i AH.Utefa*! mwi and women of tho Bible left to God the decision of their earthly Tu nm I 13 , ? n< * *bey could have said with Job, who had aright to commit suic de if Tty man ever had—what with his destroyad property, his body all aflame with insuffera ble carbuncles, and everything gone from his home except the chief curse of it, a pes tiferous wife, and four garrulous people pelt ing him with comfortless talk while he sita on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out in triumph; “All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. Notwithstinding the Bible is against this evil, and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and gbastlv spectacle of those who have burled themselves out of life, and notwithstanding Christianity is against it, and the arguments and the useful lives and the illustrious deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the increase. M hat is the cause? I charge upon -Infl- oeliiy and Agnosticism this whole thing. If there lie no hereafter, or if that herea'ter be bi-slul without reference to how we live and how we die, why not move back the folding doors between this world and the next? And when our existence here becomes troub- ic*° m *, why not pass right over into Elysium! Put this down among your most solemn re flections, and consider it aft r you go to your homes; there has never l eer, a i a*, of suicide where the operator w,r. not either demented, and therefore irresponsib'e, or an infiuel. 1 challenge all the ages and I challenge the universe. There ne.er lies Imen a <a<eof self-destruct.on while in full appreciation of his immorta lly and of the fact that that im- mortality would lie glorious or wretched ac cording as he accepted Jesus Christ or reject ed Him. You say it is a bus ness trouble, or you say it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is that, or it is the other thing. Why not go clear back, ray friend, and acknowledge tiiat in every case it is the abdica tion of reason or tho teic'hing of infi delity which practically says: “.f you don't like this life get out of it, an 1 you will land ei her in anmhhation, where there are no notes to pay. no pers options to suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where tlnre wilib' everything glorious and noth ing to pay for Is." Infidelity always hsM Ix-eii apologetic for self-immolation. ' After Tom Paine's “Age of Reason’ 1 wav published and widely rea 1 there Was a marked increase of self-slaughter. A man in ton don heard Mr. Owen deli vet his infidel lecture on Socialism, and went home, sat down, and wrote these words: Jesus Christ is one of the weakest characters in history, and the Bible is the greatest pos sible deception,” and then shot himself. David Hume wrote these words; “It would be no crime for me to divert the Nile or the Danube from its natural bed. Where then can be the crime in my diverting a few drop; of blood from their ordinary channel?" And having writteil I he bssay he loaned it to a friend, the friend' read it, wrote a li tter of thanks ami admiration, and shot himself. Appendix to the same book. Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Mcntaigne, under certain circumstances, were apologetic for self-immolatidn. Infidelity puts up no bar td peop’e’s rushingblit from this world into the next. They teach us it does ruvt make any difference how yon live here or go out of this world, you will land either ui an oblivious nowhere or a glorious some where. And infidelity holds the upper end of the rope for the suicide, and aims the pistol with which n man blows his brains out, and mixes the ftryebnino for the last swallow. If infidelity could carry the day and persuade the majority of people in this country that it does not make any difference how you go out of the world you will land eifely. the Hudson and the East river would be so full of corpses the ferryboats would lie impeded in their progress, and tin crack ofa suicide'*pistol wou’d bo no more alarming than ttie rumble of a street rAr. I have sometimes heard it discussed whether the great dramatist was a Christean or not. 1 do not know, but I knot* that he considered appro -intion of a future existence the mightiest hindrance to self-destruction: "For who could bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrnns, the prou I mar's contumely. The pang* of desp »'d love, the - dolsy, The insolence of nfflee, and the spurna Test patient merit of the unworthy lakes, When he himself inli;ht Ivs quietu. make With a bare bodk n? Who would fardels boar, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, Hut that the dread of something after desth— The undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveler returns—puzzles the will?" Would God that the coroners would he brave in rendering the right verdict, and when in a case of irresponsibility they say: “While this roan was demented he took his life;” in the other case say: “Having read infidel liooks and attended infidel lectures, which obliterated from this man’s mind all appreciation of anything like future retri bution, he committed self slaughter! ’ Ah! Infidelity, stand up and take thy sen tence! In tho presence of God and angel; and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with the corruption of the ages' Stand up Satvr, filthy goat, buzzard of the na tion’s, leper of the centuries! Stand up, thou monster Infidelity I Part man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand ud aud take thy sentence I Thy hands red with the blood in which thou bast washed, thv feet crimson with the human gore through which t hou hast waded.stand up and take thy sentence! Down with thee to the p:t an I sup ou the sobs an 1 groans of families thou has blasted,ami roll on the bed of knives which thou hast sharp me 1 for others, and let thy music be the everlasting miserere of those whom thou h ixt damned! I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self-inimo ation for the last century on the I>ait of those who had their reason. My friends, if ever your life through its abrasions and it* molestations, should seem to be unbearable, an 1 you are tempted to qu.t it by your own behest, do not consider yourself as worse than otli ts. Christ him self was tempted to cast Himself from the roof of the Temple, but as He resisted, so resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I f rescribe life instead of death. People who have had it w orse than you will ever have it have gone songful on the way. Remember that. Goff keeps the chronology of your life with as much precision as lie keeps tho chronology of nations, your death a; well a; your cradie. Why was it that at midnight, just at n* ld- night, the destroying angel struck the blow that -et the Israelites free from bondage; The four hundred an 1 thirty year; were up at twelve o'clock that night. Tlie four bun- dre I and thirty years were not up at eleven, ami one o’clock would have been tardy and too late. The four hundred and thirty years were up at twelve o'clock, and the destroying angel struck the blow an 1 Israel was free And God knows just the hour when it is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. Fy His grace make not the worst of things, but th-> best of them. If you must take the pills, do n it chew them. Your everlasting re wards will accord with your earthly per turbations, just as Cains gave to Aggnppa a chain of gold as heavy as had been a 'bain of iron. For tho asking—-aud 1 do not know to whom I speak in this august assem blage, Imt the word may be especially ap propria to—for your asking you may have the same grace that was given to the Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his letter from “the de testable orchard of the Fteonine prison. And remenibar that this brief life of oors is surrounded by a rint, a very thin but very important rim, and c!ose up to that rim is a great eternity, and you hod twtter keep out of it uutil God breaks that rim and separates this from that To get rid of the sorrows of sartb, do not msb into greater sorrow* To a Swarm at summer Insects, totn ..jungle of Bmbrf tigers. P ?u* om)wl * M "oHd, and it b so r*. ‘j&srsrS’asSL*’ "’*■ ■p our nortlwnt Imvlnf 4 coarcumtinK astronomers as to what it can ha is i he . w * vin 8 of the tanners of the com ® take the conquerors SS?* . fro ' n church militant to church tnumphani, and you and 1 have ten thou- sand reasons for wanting to go there, but w* 5*“ "®. vor S?t there either by self-immola- tion or impenitency. All our sins slain by ths Cnn.-t who came to do that t>f r, we want to go in at just the time divine.., arranged, and from a couch divinely spread, and then the clang of the sepulchral gates behind us will be overpowered by tta clang of the opening of the solid pearl Were uc 0 God whatever others may choose, give me a Christian's life, a Christian's death, a Chris tian s burial, a Christian's imniortalitw! HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. More Apples. M ere every family to put in practice tbe following sensible advice of Profess or 1 araday, a marked gain in the health of its members would be the result: Let every family in autumn lay in from two to ten or more barrel*, and it will be to fbem the fnost economical investment in the who e range of culinary supplies. A raw, mellow apple is digested in an hour and a half, while boiled cabbage requires five hours. The most healthful deseit that can be placed on the table is baked apple. If taken freely at break fast, with coarse bread, and without meat or flesh of any kind, it has an ad mirable effect on the general system, often removing constipation, correcting acidi- t e<, ana tool ng oil febrile conditions more effectually than the most approved medicines. If familiea could be induced to substitute the spple—sound, ripe and luscious-for the pies,cake*, candies and olher sweetmeat*, with which children are too often stuffed, there would be a ilimiir tion of doctor's bi ls sufficient in a single year to lay up a stock of this do- licious fruit fora season’s use. Laundry SIcthods In Holland- The washerwomen of Holland and Belgium, so proverbial for their clean si d beautifully wh te linen, u e refined bo:a\ a- a washing powder, in the pro port on ofa half pound of botax powder to ten gallons of water. This saves soap nearly cue half. 1 or clothes, as cuffs and shirt liosoms, requiring to be made stiff, a stronger solution is neces sary. Borax being a neutral salt doe; not in the smallest degree iu jure the tex ture of the linen. Next comes starching. A very'nice preparation for glossy s arch isin ule in this way Pound two ounces of li. e white gum arabic to a powder, pul it into a pitcher and pour on it a pintormo e of boiling water, coverthe ! itcher and let it stand all night. In the morning pour it careful iy from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork it and keep it for use. A taitle t-poonful of this gum water should be pouicd into a pint of starch made in tlie usual way, and the linen starched with it. In ironing col lars, cuffs, etc., rub them before ironing, w ith a clean, white towel dampened in soft water. 1.no the iron on a cotton bng, iu which is a good-si-ed lump of bee-wax. The bosom of a shirt should be the last part ironed. — Cjuricr Journal. Home Dressmaking. It is now very easy for girls to make their own dresses, for that which pre sents the largest difficulties is all done for them by a new system; a measure is taken, applied to a lining, and an accu rate waist pattern obtained while a lady i; waiting, the whole operation requir ing less time than it sotneti t.e; takes to gw. chanae. Foundation skirts are al o m tdc which only need the p eating upon the edge, aud tjic material draped over them; in every other respect they are shaped and i.ni-hed for w ear, includ ing the insertion of ste. Is and a small “matt; css.” 'J he skuts of this season’s dresses are very simple, and not intricate in the way of draperies. The foundation skirt is from two and one-quarter to two and one half yards wide, and it always has a pleating at the edge. But this is not much seen, as the upper drapery is so long that it nearly covers it, the use of it being mainly to keep the plain drapery irom setting in too flatly over the feet The newest way of making the back drapery i; to sew it into the back, with large plaits, which hang down in fold;, the drapery falling straight to the edge of the skirt. The only variation to this arrangement is that the back breadth is lifted up and caught here and there with a stitch, to add slightly to its fullne-s. The foundation sk rt consists of a gored front breadth, a gored breadth on each side, and a straight w dth at ’he back ungored. A small mattress about seven inches square is worn, and one or two steels. These last are no longer put in in a straight line, but form au aich upwards; the top steel coming about six incite; below the waist in the center, aud about twelve inches at each end. This is a much more com fortable way of pulling in the steels than the old One.—U»u ewii'e. "• r 1 ■ -vr- PAB1 AND GARDEN. Dens Eating Kggs. to tnswef to a question, remarks the Prairie Farmer, we can simply reiterate what ire have stated many times hereto- fl>W. A hen that become* addicted to U&iftg eegs cannot easily be broken. If she ts not killed as soon as she is found eating eggs, she will soon teach Others to do the same. The taste is acquired generally by finding broken eggs in the nest, or elsewhere. Then the fowl begins to break the shells to get at the meat. Thin-shelled eggs are easily broken. The remedy for thin-shelled eggs is to keep the fowls supplied with plenty of lime in some form. Ground oyster-shells are excellent for thia. Iteclpes. PrE Crust.—One teacup each of lard and cold water, one teaspoonful of baking powder, pinch of salt, flour enough to roll out. Salad DnEsstNo.—Two tablespoon fuls each melted butter, mixed mustard and salt, one teaspoon of white pepper; beat to a cream; add eight eggs beaten tight, half cup of vinegar and half cup of sweet cream. C’kkam Pie. — Beat the white of an egg stiff, mix smoothly one tablespoon- fuTof sugar, one of flour, one-half of a tea-poouful of lemon uicC^oue-half pint of sweet cream; add to the egg and bake with open crust. Hot Slaw. —Cut one-half of a head of cabbage up fine, season with salt and pepper; take one cup of m lk. two egg;, a tablespoonful of melted butter and one cup of vinegar, boil and pour over the cabbage; serve hot. Potato Cake*.—Two pounds of mashed potatoes, four ounce; of butter and a little salt, two pounds of Hoar, and m Ik enough to make * Ratter; one half cup of yeast; set to rise and when light bake in cake; the si/e of muffins. Mint Sauce.—Remove the leaves from the stalks of a whole bunch oi mint. Cut in fine bits ai d place in the sauce bowl. Bruise with three tea spoonfuls of sugar. Pour the whole half a pint of vinegar. UV'ch if very strong should be diluted. Lost Half His Body. “In surgical circles in Vienna,” says a London paper, “a auccessful ope ation performed by Profe sor Bilrolh at the Vienna Klinik is much commented on. While a carrier was driving bis team last wittier his legs, fingers, ears and nose were frozen. At the time his life was d ,Saired of. Both his legs had to b« <£. off, and only one finger on each hand could be saved. Hi* nose was replaced by an artificial one, and hit ears were clipped. He bore h s sufferings with re markable <omposure. and, having been supplied with artificial legs and feet, he now gets about with the help of two simple sticks. H is surprising that with one linger he is able to write very well* Winter Dairying. The chief advantages of winter over summer dairying, says a writer in the Cou trj Gentleman, consist in having the greater part of the season’s make of butter to sell when the price is highest; in having less trouble to make and mar ket a good article in cool weather; in making the milking season considerably longer, and the quantity for the season considerably greater; and in being able to raise better calves, because they will be so much older and larger than spring calves to eat gi ass in the summer, ami endure the rigors of the ensuing winter. The disadvantage is in having to feed more meal and bran to make good win ter butter and to keep up a full How of milk till grass comes, when the meal can be taken away without the yield-falliug off, though if it be continued the flow will incrca;e. Feeding liberally with meal aud bran makes winter butter cost more than grass butter, but the higher prices of the winter market more than pay the additiondl expense for feed. Tlie Question of Sheep Washing. English authorities are divided as to the advantages of *hecpjwashing. Most of the wool received there from France, La Plata and South Australia comes un washed, and packed in its natural grease. In the latter countries the wool is of more importance than the meat, and it may be reasonably assumed that grow ers know and follow the bcNt plan of dealing with the fleeces. Where sheep are kept on grass lands there is no pre-s- ing necessity for washing, but where they are fed on tillage lands, say the English farmers, it is almost absolute.y essential to remove the soil and dirt. The washing of sheep always carries away from the skin of the animal a natural oily soap called suint, which is very soluble in water, with the result that the wool heroines harsh and dry and re duced in value for many manufacturing purposes. I n washed wool should be a double advantage to the grower, ns it ought to fetch a larger price, and the cost of washing would be saved. In cares where sheep must be washed, it is advbab'e to perfoim the operation in n pond or tub, rather than in a running stream, as the suint does not flow away, but is taken up or at least a portion of it-by the fleece of the animal as it emerges from the water.—American Cul tivator. Horse Staples. To have healthy and hearty horses iue care must be taken to provide them with suitable stables. These should be warm, dry and well ventilated. If the roof is of straw let it be thatched so that it does not leak. No farmer can tiilor<l to have water leaking down upon his horses. Have first a roof that does not leak, next see that the sides of the stable are free from crack*, so that there will be no drafts upon the horses. Have the ventilators so that they are under your control. After you have a good roof and tight sides, properly ventilated and lighted, it is proper to consider the floor of the stable. You can get no better one than earth. This will keep the feet of the horses in good condition, and needs only to be kept level by tilling in the holes made by the stamping of the feet of the hones. If you have an earth floor be sure and keep it free from a ridge over which the horse must hang when it lies down. The next best floor is one made of short blocks of wood, such as are used in paving city streets. If the stable is not on the ground level, of course a floor will needs be made of plank. Of what ever the stable floor is made have a drain. This will facilitate keeping the horses clean and the stable clean and healthy. Have the stalls wide enough to allow the horses to lie down comfortably. It is well enough to have the partitions lugh enough to prevent the horses reaching each other. Be sure io have no pro.jec tions in the stab es, upon which the horses can hurt themselves in lying down, turning around, or raising their heads. This will necessitate having the ceiling high enough lo clear their heads when jerked up nuddenly. Have the feed boxes and racks just high enough to allow the head to be in a natural pos tion while eating. Have both these so arranged that there will be no waste of giaiu or hay. To save time in fee ling bavegiain bin and hay handy to stable. When the stable i; made comfortable, convenient and healthy, see that the surroundings are made the same. Don’t have a great pile of manure just iu front ol the door Have a small draiu to carry the water from the stable, so that it may be ap proached handily, and be at the same time more healthful, because free from stagnant water. Now is the best time ol the year to put your stable in good shape. —Farm, Held an l Stockman. la one respect rye Is a cheap crop because it requires bo land for its growth, to a certain eitent. 1 hat is, if tne seed is sown in the fall on land intended fo corn in the *pr ng, and tbe tyo turned in before planting corn, tbcr.e simply bolds the laud that would otherwise l».- unoccup ed during the winter. It i* also excellent on laud intended for pota toes, aud as it a-siats in keeping down weed; it tave; much labor in that re spect. As rye can be pa tured at nearly all stages ol growth and can I e turned un- dir a; a green uianur al agent at an\ t mo, the fainter who fails to ow it will depr.ve himrelf and his stock of a mon rateable plant, and as it can be seeded low n at any time at this season the land or that purpove should l>e prepared with- tut delay. Of course it thrives Lest ou ich land, but even the poorest soil ihotdd be sowed to rye rather than to eave it unoccupied.—Xew York Herald. Svvinc-Dreoitinu for filxe. The fane'es of men do so vary that it s not po sible at any given period to say u whatsha|)oor in what condition a tt.en commodity mty be most salable, rhe time was when cream cheese would lot sell to consume *, if under one year >ld or approaching that age. Now, rich Team, tre*h from thehandsof the maker s esteemed a luxury. It is not long since he center of the berry was thought best or producing superior flour. Now, that vhich is obtained from close proximity o the hull, or btan, is counted best of til. It is within ths memory of many that he large breed of swine, notably the Poland C hinas and t hester N\ bites, got heir “send-off” to quite adegree through loaseasing large size. The same was true if tho beef breeds of cattle, notably ihort horns. We rcracralier well when it was counted a serious detect in a short lorn beast not to be.large—extra large— iymmetry n;t being considered of first m|)ortancc, as now As to swine, tho indents bred for size, and history teds is that great weights and extraordinary .hickness of meat were bred for and st ained. Prior to the great depreciation that oc- jurred to live-atock-groV ing and general Agriculture during the middle ages- say ap to the sixteenth century—great weights were attained to. \ arro tolls of a cut of swine meat that was sent by a ffcasnnt to Volumnius, a Senator, that neasured a “foot and three lingers in thickness.” Another Homan historian nentions a Lusitanian hog, whose meat, when cut up, measured one foot and three inches iu thickness. We have accounts of great weights, Approaching the period when the im provements in farm stock took place. A tpecimen of the old Berkshire breed is ttated to have attained the weight of 1280 pounds. In 1774 a hog was killed, saving a reported weight of 1100 pounds, with a length of close to ten feet, and a ueight of four feet and five inches. The writer, when a boy, was in Cincinnati, )hio, at the time of the exhibition of a ipotted hog, brought to the city from Butler County, Ohio, whose weight was aid to be lff25 pounds. A small flat- aoat was built, on which this hog wae loated down the river to New Orleans, aeiog exhibited on the way. Thia was ibout 183'). This hog was doubtless #f :he Folaud-China sort. Hize, other things being equal, was, aot many years since, to quite a degree :he thing that governed the price in our ending markets. But it is different now —at any rate, it is to quite a degree. Yet, should the exactions of the market hange, calling again for very large Itogs, swine are so readily molded, and jrecd so rapidly, that the caprices of th* markets can be met to an extent not at- :aiuat le by any other class of live stock. As is well known to breeders, there are, n pretty much every litter, pigs that ire shaped for a greater growth thau nhers in the same litter, aud nothing is more certain than that by selecting these, breeding of like kind, not akin, upon them, large size would be promptly tecured.—iVairta Farmer. Plant More Rye. Bye is a crop that can be made render more service to the fanner and dairyman than any other, yet it is more frequently overlooked and discarded than it should be. It is a plant that not only endures the cold of winter and the heat of summer, but it will grow on the richest soil or> the poorest sandy land. In some sections it is really the clover of sandy soils, for without its aid and the advantages of green manuring would lie unavailable, and as it can be made to im part more to tbe soil than it takes from it there is no risk in growing it undei any conditions. Even the seed is cheap, while the cultivation necessary is very little as compared with oth r crops A- a profitable grain crop it is behind out;, wheat, barley and corn, but the straw i- raore valuable than that of any other crop, for which it is sometimes grown alone. I eaving out the value as a grain crop entirely it still ranks high in more ways than one. The fact that it can he rold in the fall aud made to produce a late supply of green food after other grasses cease growing should prompt farmers to devote a space to rye every season, but its usefulness extends further. The *e vere coldof the nardestwinters will not in jure it,and early in the spring, long before gi ass begins to grow, rye appears iu its green condition to afford a supply of suc culent herbage to the stock at a time when it is most needed. It allows the stock the privilege of eating off the early growth, and when the gia*s ap pear*, and the gras; is no longer re quired, it will grow cut again and make a crop of grain. It can then, in early spring, if preferred by the farmer, be ploughed under instead of being allowed to seed, and it will provide an excellent manure for the corn crop. Effect of Snake Charming on a Dog. Giles Melton, a farmer, was out hunt ing in the woods near Kastman, Ga., a few weeks ago. His dog ian tome dis tance ahead, and when Mr. Melton found h m, ten minutes later, he had been chaimed by a rattlesnake. The dog was crouching down on the ground and whining piteously and slowly creep ing forward Looking further ahead he saw an immense rattlesnake coiled as if ready to i-trike, and its glittering eyes fixed on the dog, which was trembling in every limb and seemed powerless to do anyth ng except creep slowly nearer and nearer to the deadly reptile. Every few momi nts the dog would whine pite ously, and then, impelled by an irresiKti- ble impulse, would creep a few inches nearer its deadly charmer. When the snake hud been kill: d the dog fell down foaming at the mouth and for half an hour was apparently lifeless. It recovered lin illy and accompanied Mr. Melton home, but all day it continued to act strangely, and would not touch food or water. The follow ing morning Mr. Melton found the dog in the back jard foaming at th‘ mouth and snap ping at everything in reach. He was soon satisfied that the dog had hydro- pbob : a, and lost no time iu killing it. He is satisfied that the efftets of snake- charming caused the dog to go mad.— C'inciniiuli hin.mr A Boston woman made the tour of Eu rope ami came home and never even mentioned it to her most intimate friend. Dumb! Ah! Yo i’ve struck it. A Vii'iialile KfiiifHv. Brandrktu's Pills purify the Blood, stimulate the 1 iver, strengthen the Kidneys, regulate the Bowels. They were introduced in the United States in 1835. Since that time over tiftv million* of boxes of Bka.n- dretii's Pills hav* been consumed rtiia, together with thousands of con vine ing testimonial; from all part* of the world, is positive evidence of their value. BranduKTH’s Pill* are purely vegetable, absolutely I.armless, and »:tfe to take at any time. Sold m every drug and medicine store, either plain or vugar coated. Mr.;. Amelia Rives Chanter’s latest story is, “On BoneV Island.” Wonderful UoinilurUr- The fact that tli* site of Dr. Pierce’s PIom- ant Pm gut ive Pellets t scuds that of any other pill in the niirket, be itgreat or small, W on accor.a'of tho fact that they are tiny, littte, sugar-coated granule*, and that in most la-c* one little “Pellet” is sufficient for it d'Ko; that ihey are purely vegetable and perfectly harmless; and for constipation, billiousncsK, Ock-lo udarlie, and ail diseases arising from derangement of the liver, stom ach or bowels, they are absolutely n specific. A gentle laxative or active cathartic, accor- mg to eize of dore. Ton busTt-ss houses \v« r.* destroyed by fire at Calhoun, Ga., Monday night. A UadniMU at l.itrae! He is a well known citizen, and his nearest and dearest t riunds do not suspect hi* in-ani ty. How do we happen to know about it? Listen: bisapjietito is gone 1 , h- is lowspiritod, he di n t slee;> well, ho lias night-sweats, he is annoyed by a hacking cough. These symptoms are the* foron nuors of consump tion and death, an’l yet ho n 'gl.M’fc; them. Is it any wonder that we call him a madman) if you are hU friend tell him to get a bottle of Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery without delav. It will cure him if he takes it in time. It will not miraculously create new lung* when the old ones are nearly gone, but it will restore disease 1 ones to a healthy condition. T 11 him about it, and warn him that in his case delay means death. You cannot ini n I a win ug subtraction by doing your addition rieht. Keep Tin in In the Nurtrrr, HAMBURG FIGS should be kept in the nursery, where they are particularly u-eful iu o ise of constipation or indigestion, us they are liked by children, and are prompt and ef lieicious in action. 25 cent*. Dose one Fig. Mm k Dyug Co , N. Y. Areal live princess ke-ps a millinery store on Fifth Avenue, New York. Tlie best cough tii'Alieiue is Pi*o'Cure fi r Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. The Philadelphia statistics *hoiv that there i* not a trade or prof wsion pursued in that city w hich i* not more or less followed by women. Farm and Garden Notes. Plant cucumbers for late pickles. Near the close of a journey 1st ths aorse walk. Bran will pay the milk seller, but oats he butter-maker. Never wash a horse with cold water when he is heated. I se land in which some cultivated :rop grew last year. dhc cropping process diminishes the | iupiilv of plant foods. The humble cow pe» does not receive the attention it merits. Sheep are often injured by roaming through tall, wet grass. It is inhuman to allow a sharp-spurred rooster to run with hens. Swedish turnips, parsnips and carrots ire all excellent for fattening hogs. If the hog pasture gets short this month, roots aud pumpkins can be used to supplement it. Du ks may be profitably raised on farms where there are no streams or ponds >1 water for tuem. Do not use coal oil or grease of any kind on a sitting hen; it will prevent :he eggs from hatching. The evening milk has been proven by ret ent Fngl sh dairy tests to contain more solids than the morning milk. The net food may be taken at about two th'rds the value of the ration. The balance is the value of the manure. The dairyman has a good chanre te do some iudependeut thinking on politi cal matters th s fall. When he has thought sufficiently let him vote intelli gently. A poor cow in the dairy is like a dull tool in a carpenter’s eyes, it requires ■ he expenditure of a large percentage of energy to obtain a small percentage ot result One of the cornerstones of success in sheep raising is to draft out heavily but udiciously at len t once each year; there is no time at wh ch a sheep can lie so accurately sized up as when sheared.^ Do not stint your horses in the use of salt, especially in the spring time. A horse ought to have a pound a week of it, if he wants it. Throw it in the end of his box; then he can help himself as he withes. Young colts are as fond of petting as kittens are, and a little fondling every day will do them good. By b<«ag han dled hindly often, they soon become gentle and docile, and are much more easilv handled when they become horees. A Man Drowned in a Beer Glass. A man in Trenton, N. J., was recently drowned in a beer glass. He had been drinking hard and wat well under alco holic influence, when he entered a saloon and ordered a glasa of beer, which was brought him. He sat down at a table and fell into a stupor, his head dropping forward into the glass before him. AVhen the barkeeper tried to arouse him half an hour later it was found that he was dead, his nose being immersed in the liquor in such a way that respiration ’ was completely stopped-—Chicago New. You“Are~srck iVitb Headache, Neuralgia. Rlc umatism liyppep si a, Biliousness. Blood Rumor*, Kidney Diacaac, Constipation, Female Troubles, Fever and Ague, Sleeplcssnesa, Partial Paralysis, or Nervoua I’roe traliou, use Paine’* Celery Compound and l>o cured. In each of three the cause is mental or physical overwork, anxiety, exposure nr malaria, the effect of which I* to weaken the nervoua sys tem, resulting In one of there diseases. Itemove the cu si with that great Nerve Tonic, and Ahe RESULT will disappear. Paine's Celery Compound Jas. L. Bowen, Springfield, Mass, writes:— Paine's Celery ( oraiiound cannot be excelled a* a Nerve '1 nnic. In my rase a single bottle wrought a great change. My nervousness entirely disappeared, and with it the resulting affection of the stomach, heart an 1 liver, and the who** tone of the system was wonderfully invigorated. 1 tell my friends, if sick as I have been, Paine'* Celery Compound Will Cure You! Hold by druggists. ?1: six for $5. Prepared only by Weu's, KichaRDson ,v Co., Burlington, Vt. For the Agee Nervous, Debilitated. Warranted to color more good* than any other dyes ever made, and to give more brilliant and durable colors. Ask for the Diamond, and taks FOR no other. A Dress Dyed A Coat Colored Garments Renewed ) cents. A Child can use them! Unequalled tor all Fancy and Art Worn. At druggists and Merchant*. Dye Book ttem WELLS, RICHARDSON A CO., Propt., Byritagtsa, Vh Where Log Cabins Flourish. A party of American gentlemen, who had been camping out on an island in the great lotke NipisSing, Canada, last Summer, were returning in a sail boat and wire yet seven mil* a from port when the aun went down, and with it the sailing bree.e. A dis ouraging ailuation, truly. “Nevermind.! can row you there inaido of two hours,’' said the guide who hod charge of the |>arty, os their murmurs arose. “Why,man, it is seven mire, there are four of us iu this heavy host—its a big job you undertake.” said one. “No matter, I have done the likes before and can do it again,” cheerfully replied tho broad shouldered irishman, as he stowed away tbe sail and bent to the oars. He wat a splendid oarsman, and the boat. was soon under headway again. “What would 1 not give to entoy your health ami strength,” remarked the Pro fessor. «m i 1 stood at death's door, uni never thoughtto puil an our again. You see, I was in the woods all winter, logging, and I got into the water one day and enught cold. It settled on my lung;and 1 h id a bad cough, which hung on t ill 1 ran down almost to a skele ton.” “Call ina physician?” “Yes, 1 went twenty miles through the bush to see a do, tor. he gave me some medi cine, but it didn’t help me much." “How was the cure effected)” “An old Scotch lady, who had come over from the Slabs gave me a preparation of balsams and borbs, which she laid tne early settlors in • America used, and it soon i topped my cough and put me on my feet again. tine has but to travel along the frontier to learn how easy it is to get along without doctors, and how effective ara the natural remedies which tl.e old gland mothers know how to prepare. They often cure wffiere th# iiest physicians fail. Every toother of a family knows how roughs and colds are quickly and radically cured with *yrupe end tea* made from bal sams and herbs which “grandmother taught us how to make.” Warner's Ig>g Cabin cough and consump tion remedy was, after long investigation into the merit; and comparison with otbsr old-time preparations, selected from them I ecause proved to be the very liest of them all. It has brought back the roses to many a pallid cheek -there is no known remedy ito equal os a cure for coughs and colds. Edwin Booth, tjie actor, haunts studi nd smokes a pipe. Children winrvInB to Dentil On account of their inability to digest food, will find a most marvelous food and remedy in Heott's Emulsion of pure Cod Liver Oi! with Hypophosphil is. Very palatable and easily digested. Dr H W. Coder, of Waco, 'lexas, says: *’i have used your Emulsion bi Infantile wasting with gcSxl results. It not only restores wasted tissues, but gives strength and inc.•eases the appetite. I am glad to u*e such a reliable article. ” The Princess of Wales has discarded lace,-, satins and furbel >ws. Use the great specific for “cold in the bead” and Catarrh—Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Kemedy. Trii* 1 broth i* b stter thn» no porridge. ■ ejn l*>a*I *••••*< a, bgu >-■ anAts hams; warning ioi ««<**• th# w*rM I'ithwr swi r<»atlv#utfll *bk«. Adds one. 1 ACC Is i u . A uf is#Ut, Maum» UfllffcnPTo HI V A KA KM In thl» locality, n AH I Clf Curtis h Wright.*233 HrosdwM.N. t. PEERLESS DIES Hold by Dscuuina DrUfU IfCDC 11 mble Aitl"!,. Self-doekldfc nCV ULvCIltf •l’»ll Hop-Sire, catalogue rrut v'Mtirs* Hnrsr,0*kosti, Wls. $5 IRE YOU MARRIED? IhiBhoctHv, which pays its member* * r:»0 to iM.tMMV lit mui riiiife. Circular* free. I»\ \\. itrtUAL EN uOWAUuMT HOC)LTV, livx »4C, Minneapolis Mia* lo US m tin y. SmivihIom wor'n $1-10 Fr** Line*?* nut under the home a feet. Write to Brewster Safety Ueln Holder ( o., Hi lly. 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Us* T ballava Plao’g Cure f. Consumption aaved u.T Ufa.—A. H. Dowell, Editor Enquirer, Eden tata, N. C., April 28, 1887. W arner’s Loo CAitts Hkmeuif.s. — “Sarsapa rilla,”—“Cough andi on- sumption Bemedy,” — “llo|>s aud Buchu,” “Extrac t,”—“H a i r , ,, , Tonic,”—“Liver rills”-- T'katera,” (I'orous-Electrical“Rose Cream,” for Catarrh. They are, like Warner’* “Tippecanoe,” the simple, cf- fectiv# romcd’Cs of the old Log Cabin PI80 Tbe best Cough Madl- dne ts Pioo’n Curb fob Consumption. Children taka U without objection. By all druggists, tba. •si PlSO'S CURE FUR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS, rtaair * ’-se?® igood. Dee days. UoWjflS. I flSH with thv ekvn ei»i. —a;— Tmnrni Waterproot . -BraHalt, „ AiilorMRASI)’’ »uc«ma**!. b ZJ m ,a i c»t>V J. TOY S3M te*;.'