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THE FARM AND GARDEN. CURRANT BORERS. The hollow stems of currant bushes are caused by a grub which eats the pith, and so weakens the plants that the fruit shrivels. This grub will soon emerge from the bushes and mature into a beetle, which appears late in May and proceeds to lay its eggs upon the bushes, when the young grubs bore into the wood. Thus it is necessary to cut out the old stems very soon and burn them, so as to destroy this pest. Another cur rant borer is the young of a moth, of a dark-blue color, which appears in July. This is the more abundant of these two insects, and may be destroyed in the same way.—New York Timet. ! A NEIGHBORHOOD 8HERHEUD. The New JSnylnnd Ilomeitead proposes a plan which it claims will “beat the dogs and increase the prolits of sheep husbandry.” This is the turning to gether of sheep from several farms and hiring a shepherd to take care of them. The flock is to be taken from one pas ture to another so that each owner will furnish his proper portion of the feed. Under certain conditions this method might be successful, but at the East the great majority of farmers who keep eheep, also keep cows, and many of them pasture the two classes of animals to gether. In their case, the plan proposed would be impracticable. Besides, we think most sheep owners would prefer to keep their own flocks on their own land and under their own management. —Americiu Dairyman. ■ ENSILAGE CORN. In the early days of ensilage thick seeding and early harvesting was the rule. Later on a reaction against this practice set in, and, at present, the gen eral drift of opinion is in favor of com paratively thin seeding and of allowing the crop to become as mature as possi ble. The argument against the practice wag that, as the amount of dry matter contained in a crop of coin increases very rapidly as the crop matures, the practice involved a loss of dry matter. Against the present practice is the lack of succulence presented by the fully ma tured corn. To counteract this loss two methods suggested themselves—namely, thicher seeding, etc.; the use of large growing varieties. Experiments con ducted last season at the Pennsylvania State College Experiment Station, and recently reported upon, gave results that fitrongly favored thicker seeding of ensil age corn than is generally recommended and the use of rather large growing va rieties, even when these do not fully ma ture. —New York World. , SCIENTIFIC POULTRY FEEDING. At Cornell University Experiment Sta tion last year a series of experiments were conducted by James E. Rice, a graduate of the college, under the super vision of the director. The experiments were made upon different Jots of fowls; they were fed all they would eat of the following rations: No. 1, one-third wheat bran, one-third wheat shorts, one-third cotton seed meal, two parts skimmed milk. No. 2 was fed on cracked corn and whole corn. Both lots had a small allowance of green clover or cabbage. The following are the conclusions given: So far as it is warrantable to draw any conclusions from a single experiment of this kind it would seem that: Chickens fed on an exclusive corn diet will not make a satisfactory develop ment, particularly of feathers. The bones of chickens fed on a nitro genous ration are flfty per cent, stronger than those fed upon a carbonaceous ration. Hens fed on a nitrogenous ration lay many more eggs, but of smaller size aud poorer quality than those fed exclusively ou corn. Hens fed on corn, while not suffering in general health, become sluggish, de posit large masses of fat on the iuterual organs, and lay a few eggs of large size and excellent quality. The flesh of nitrogenous fedfowlscon tains more albuminoids and less fat than those fed on a carbonaceous ration, and is darker colored, juicier and tenderer.— New York Obiervtr. HOW TO COOL OUT A TROTTER. When the horse comes in from hi. 1 work rub him all over, from his ears to his tail and down to bis knees, with wash as near the temperature of his body as possible. To make this wash, take- one part alcohol, two parts pure witch- hazel aud three or four times as much soft water as the combined alcohol and witch-hazel. Every muscle should be rubbed thoroughly. Throw a medium weight blanket over the horse now, and let him stand until you have put the bandages on. Use the same wash for the legs as for the body, but have it cold. After putting the wash on the legs rub them well with the palm of the hand, always rubbing down, never up. Put bandages on immediately after rubbin". Rub all his heels perfectly dry, with clean, dry rags. Care should be taken in this, as cracked heels are very stub born and often lay a horse up for the season. Throw the blanket up from his head and scrape out all the wa«h that re- tnaius. Most of it will have entered the pores of the body. Cover up the shoulders and scrape the rest of his body; take a clean, drying and rub him all over lightly, always rub. bing with the hair as much as possible. Now put a light hood ou him and an extra blanket over his loins, and after looking after his heels again, walk him Out for about five minutes; then bring him in, and should he have broken out any while walking, scrape him again lightly, after which give him another light rub bing for, say four or five minutes, when he should again be walked for about ten minutes, and again taken in and rubbed slightly, after which put on lighter blankets, and continue to reduce the weight as the heat leaves the body. VALUE OF ASHES AS A FERTILIZER. The value of ashes as a fertiliwi- de pends upon the quality of the ashes themselves, upon the character of the soil upon which they are used, and the needs of the crop which is to be grown. While their value is supposed to depend mostly upon the amount of potash they contain, there arc certain other elements of^ some importance, such as carbonic «cid, lime, phosphoric acid, magnesia and soda, which arc valuable in certain soils. The amounts of all these vary in the ashes from different woods and other substances, but as a general rule it may be considered that bard-wood ashes havo more potash and phosphoric acid than soft-wood ashes, and the ashes from twigs and young wood is stronger than that from old wood. The amounts will also vary with the heat to which they have been subjected in burning, as at a very high temperature the potash and sand or silicate of the ashes will unite by melting together into glass, so that the potash will not be soluble in water, and the plants cannot reach it. Old farmers know this, and often speak of ashes as losing their value by being “burned to death.” Upon some soils the lime is very valuable aud perhaps more so than the potash. And on others the phos phoric acid is of exeat imoortance, This will in part explain why leached ashes seems to show as good results as un leached ashes upon some soils, although the potash is largely leached out of it. But another good result from ashes is their mechanical effect upon the soil. Being finer than the loam soil, they mix with it and make it less porous, so that it holds water better and draws up mois ture from below more readily. But upon n dry soil they have an opposite effect, making it more porous amd less liable to bake and harden up. On such soils coa! ashes often show a good result that is not due to the potash, as they have but little. It will be seen, then, that it is impossible to tell what price a farmer can afford to pay for ashes, as we cannot tell how strong the ashes are, or how badly his soils needs the carbonic acid or lime or the potash they may con tain. Experiment with them upon your land, and if they show good results buy more liberally, and use upon soils and crops of similar character, As a general rule, it may 03 considered that ashes art valuable where potash is needed, and that they do not do as well upon cold and moist laud as upon dryer and warmer land. They bring in a variety of long green moss upon such soils, and many would not use them there if they could get them for nothing.—Boston Culti vator. FARM A'D GARDEN NOTES. Don't dog the cows. Calves fed milk like a drink of walet hot days. Is there any shade in your pasture! There should be. A regular time for milking is more important than a regular milker. Provide a regular supply of salt for the cows. Let them help theraselvs. Cream that stands till there is a green mould over it can never prduce gilt-edge butter. Remember that the eye often con demns butter that would be relished if put up in neat packages. In practice, one of the chief uses of the milk tester is to mark the unproflt- ible cows lor the butcher. A scant supply of milk fresh from the cow is a never-failing cure for scours in calves fed upon skim milk. If yeu are a patron of a co-operative factory—cheese or butter—insist upon every patron taking the best of care of bis milk. A piece of muslin fresh from the bolt is more attractive over a package of but. ter than a piece of doth with one or two buttonholes in it. If you are selling cream be sure it is in good order v-hea delivered to the driver or at the station, the insist upon full payment for it. The early care of the calf has much to do with the milking qualities of the cow. Stunted in early life, the calf can never make a cow of the best. If you milk in the stable hot even ings why not turn a part of the cows in at a time! It will be more comfort able for the cows even though you sweat no less. Remember, pasturing takes five acres to each cow for six months; soiling feeds a cow on one acre for six months; ensilage feeds a cow on one acre for a whole year. Butter makers want the best price to be had for the best butter. We cannot afford anything else. Our labor should be skilled, aud it should command a good price. If you expect to make your cows profit able during fly time see that they have a cool, dark place to stay during part of the day, and be sure they get plenty of pure water. Do not compel the cows to wade in mud and slush to their bellies to get a scanty supply of stagnant water. See that they have plenty of fresh water that is easily reached. Is you are shipping milk for retailing or are delivering it to a factory cool it to GO degrees or less as soon as possible after drawing from the cow, and have it shaded while on the road. • Care in salting the butter wijl remove all trouble from “mottling” and pay for the time in better prices. The remedy for mottled butter is a second working after the butter has stood for twelve hours. Don’t be surprised that you do not get as much cream as your neighbor though your cows are the same breed as his, if yours are on slough pasture and his are on tame grass, fed hay and some grain. Feed lias much to do with the quality of milk. Fine, rich compost or rich earth is the best fertilizer far flowers. Roses should be cultivated by raking the surface oftbe ground around them. It injures some varieties to stir the ground deep. Super phosphate is an excellent fertilizer for shrubs aud other hearty bloomers. Do Deer Ever Weep! In most species of decr.ahollow which is known to scientists as the lach ymal sinus, or tear-pit, is found. It is a cavity beneath each eye, capable of being opened at pleasure, in which a waxy sub stance of a peculiar, disagreeable odor is secreted. This pit is sometime 5 very small, but often of considerable size, i’oets speak of the deer weeping, but it lias not been shown this is not by poetic license solely. In the case of the wounded stag, which the contemplative Jacques watched aud moralized upon, it is said: The big roun t tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. But this is Shakespeare’s poetical in terpretation of tiie appearance presented by the motion of the glistening edges of the folds of skin which enclose the so- called “tear-pits.” These cavities are very marked in species of deer found in Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean, aud in the common deer of America and Europe. In some varieties in South Am erica and Northern Asia they are less do velopcd.—St. Louis Republic. “Anything to Make Money.’* A steamship has just been chartered t-i take 7,000 to 8,000 barrels of whisks y from NewportNews, Va., to Bremen, and additional very heavy expoits are to lie made. Dnjing the last few yeais a large amount of Western whiskey has been sent out of the country to avoid the payment of taxes, as the government re quires the payment of taxes within three years from the date of manufacture. By exp rting it prior to the date when the 'axes arc due, it can be stored in foreign countries for several years and then re imported. Heretofore the shipments have been made mainly through Bosloa, New York aud Baltimore, but as the Chesapeake & Ohio handles all of this traffic it will now turn it mainly through Newport News, and it has been reported that several hundred thousand barrels will be shipped abroad this year. Singular Dentil of a Humming Bird. A lady living in Tornngtop, Conn., found a humming bird with its bill buried half nu inch in one of the wooden posts of the veranda of her house and quite dead. The little thing had evi dently darted at a flower close by and struck the post with such velocity that it could not get away.—Hartford Cour OAf. THE LABOR WORLD, a Co-operation spreads. Chicago has 6000 union bricklayers. France has established a Labor Bureau. Indianapolis unions hold Sunday pic nics. Blacklisting is a misdemeanor in Mis souri. New York Socialist* have a dramatis company. Chicago coopers protest against convict competition. Women are architects artd builders in Zn- Inland, Africa. The Prdzressive Musical Union will form a national body. New York will have a Woman's Central Libor Federation. Armour, Chicago’s great pork-packer, em ploys 7900 persons. The Boilermakers' Union gained 4230 members in a year. American delegates will attend the Brus sels Labor Congress. New Haven (Conn.) railway hands work eighteen hours tor $1.83. Rochester, N. Y.,has opened a free la bor bureau and library. New York tenement-house cigar-makers struck against a reduction of $1 per 100). Another installment of 1100 Japanese la borers has arrived at Honolulu, Hawaii. The Socialists of Hamburg, Germany, are building an enormous co-operative bakery. Rome families of textile workers in Ger many did not make $31 the first six mouths of this year. At the Embankment Iron Works, London, the heaviest sort of work ia being done by men who subsist cn vegetables. Nearly all the large cigar factories in Key West, Fla., are closed. Four thousand rtgar-makers are out of employment. The Denver (Col.) Hod-carriers’ Union has 700 members, and a physician is in the em ploy of the union to attend their families. There are about 47,000 industrial work men in Kansas, only seven and a half per cent, of whom belong to labor organizatk jS. The Employes’ Savings Fund on ths Pennsylvania Railroad system now amounts to $674,060, the deposits fast year aggregat ing $-114,152. The number of depositors ii 359 ’. The activity in the royal gurt factories ir Rpandau, near Berlin, has almost ceased, j year ago more than four thousand, workmen were employed in the factories. Td-day le.s than one-tenth of that number remain. 1N Cincinnati overalls and trousers are be ing made at three and five cents each. Wommare making from $1.25 to $3 per week, an t many coildren are working for six cents per day. subject to fines that often equal their wages. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Electrical smelting is announced. Compressed coal dust is coming into extensive use in France, An electrician predicts that electrical fireworks Will soon supersede those now used. A wool of good quality is said to have been made from the fibre of the fir by the aid of electricity. The maximum safe velocity of cast iron fly wheels should not exceed a rim speed of eighty feet per second. Of 305 weather forecasts issued in South Australia in 1890, 250 were veri fied and forty were partially verified. It is stated that coffee is a germicide, the bacilli of cholera and typhus having been destroyed by the infusion Of coffee. An attempt to produce artificial rain is to be made in Kansas. Balloons filled with hydrogen and oxygen gas will be sent up and exploded by electricity. Thunder storms are gradually decreas ing in number in the larger towns of Natal, South Africa, according to the Superintendent of the Natal Observa tory. A Parisian camerist has devised a method of taking panoramic views by causing the camera to revolve on an axis so that the sensitive paper may “take in” the horizon. A German biologist say* that the two sides of a face are never alike. In two cases out of five the eyes are out of line; one eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten and the right ear is generally higher than the left. In Sweden an improved quality of glass for use in microscope and other fine lenses is secured by the addition of phosphorus and chlorine. Absolute transparency, great hardness, and sus ceptibility to the finest polish are thus obtained. More than 140 different applications of electric motors have been enumerated, aud the number is still increasing. The sizes of the motors range from those having the power of a mouse up to one of 5000 horse power, which is in opera tion near London. Experiments with electric motors in elevating and depressing heavy guns and turning them in the right direction have been made in France. A saving of time was effected. The three Chilian warships building in Fiance will be pro vided with such appliances. The latest scheme for direct railway communication between England and France provides for a double water tight tube, capable of containing two railway tracks, and sunk about forty feet in the channel. “The engineer propos ing this method proposes to utilize the displacement and buoyancs of the tube to give the necessary support, piles be ing driven into the channel, to which the tube would be chained to prevent it rising.” The “schiseophone” is the name giv en to an instrument for discovering flaws in metals, invented by Captain Louis De Place of the Paris school of cavalry. The instrument consists of a microphone combined with a mechanical striker and a sonometer. In using this instrument one operator directs the striker over the surface of the metal under examination, while another listens at the telephone in an adjoining roira. When the striker hit* a point over a flaw the sound is in creased, and the increase is so magnified by the microphone that the listener at the telephone can detect its presence. Tests of the instrument were made at Ermont on the rails for the Northern railway company, and in every case whore a flaw was indicated by the in strument it was found to exist on break ing the rail. As to State Encampments. The State of Georgia appropriated $30,0000 for the encampment of its troops at Chickamauga, and the public there made large donations. It was not a brigade encampment, but the troops were put in by regiments. It turns out that the appropration has been exhausted,and nearly one-fourth of the troops who were ordered into encampment will have to stay at home. A bill to make further ap propriation for camping these troops passed the Georgia House, but failed foi want of a constitutional majority in the Senate. In Alabama matters seem to have been conducted in a more success ful manner. That State appropriated $l<k000 for the encampment of the lumps ami Hie people of Mobile gave $.',() )0 more. Thirty-six infantry companies, three troops of cavalry and three batter ies, aggregating 1,500 men, transported from all sections of the State, were con ccntratcd as a brigade in the extreme southwestern pait of (lie State and sub aisted for nearly ten days. 'I he cost of all of this, including preparation of camp ground, etc., was about one bundled dol lars less than the estimates. A Reading (Penn.) man has just re ceived a letter mailed to him by his sol dier brother twenty-seven ^eara ago, REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sertnoti Text: "Thou shall be missed, because thy seal iciltbe empty."—I Samuel xx.. 18. Set on the table the cutlery and the chased silverwareof the palace, for King Saul will give a state dinner to-day A distinguished place is kept at the table for his son-in-law a celebrated warrior. David bv name The piests jeweled and plumed, "come in and take their places. When people are invited to a king's banquet they are very apt to go. But before the covers are lifted from the feast Saul looks around and finds a vacant seat as the table. He sdyii tVitbin himself, perhaps audibly, ■What does this mean? Where is my son-in-law? '* here is David, the great war rior* I invited him. 1 expected him. Whatl a vacant cbnir at the king’s banquet!’’ The fact was that David, the warrior had beeD seated for the last time at his father- in-law s table. The day before Jonathan had coaxed David to go and occupy that place at the table, saying to David in the words of my text, “Thou shalt be missed because thy seat will be empty.’’ The pre diction was fulfilled. David was missed. His seat was empty. That one vacant chair spoke louder than all the occupied chairs at the banquet. In almost every house the articles of fur niture take a living personality. That picture a stranger would not see anything remarkable either in its design or execution, but it is more to you than all the pictures of the Louvre and the Luxembourg. You re member who bought it, and who admired it. And that hymn book—you remem ber who sang out of it. And that cradle—you remember who rocked it. And that Bible—vou remember who read out of it. And that bed—you remember who slept in it. And that room--you remember who died in it. But there is nothing in all your house so eloquent and so mighty voiced as the vacant chair. I suppose that before haul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wine pitchers, but all that racket was drowned out by the voice that came up from the vacant chair at the table. Millions have gazed and wept at John Quincy Adams’s vacant chair in the house of representatives, and at Wilson's vacant chair in the vice-presidency, and at Henry Clay s vacant chair in the American senate, and at Prince Albert’s vacant chair in Wind sor castle, and at Thiers’ vacant chair iu the councils of the French nation. But all these chairs are unimportant to you as compared with the vacant chairs in your own household. Have these chairs any lesson for us to learn? Are we any better men and women than when they first addressed us? First I point out to you the father’s va cant chair. Old men always like to sit in the same place and iri the same chair. They somehow feel more at home, and some times when you are in their place and thev <’ome into the room you jump up sud denly and say, “Here, father, here’s your chair.” The probability is it is an arm chair. for he is not so strong as he once was. and he needs a little upholding. His hair is a little frosty, his gums a little de pressed, for in his early days there was not much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chair and old fashioned apparel, for though you may have suggested some improvement, father does not want any of your nonsense. Grand father never had much admiration for new tangled notions. I sat at the table of one of my pariahion - ers in a former congregation; an aged mai) was at the table, and the son was presiding, and the father somewhat abruptly addressed the son and said, “Mv son, don’t try How td show off because the minister is here l” Your father never liked any new customs or manners, he preferred the old way of doing things, and he never looked so happy as when with his eyes closed, he sat in the armchair in the corner. From the wrinkled brow to the tip of the slippers, what placidity! The wave of the past years of his life broke at the foot of that chair. Perhaps sometimes he was a little impa tient, and sometimes told the same story twice; but over that old chair how many blessed memories hover 1 I hope you did not crowd that old chair, and that it did not get very much in the way Sometimes the old man’s chair gets verjf much in the way, espscially if he has been so unwise as to make over all his property to his children, with the understanding that they are to take care of him. I have seen in such cases children crowd the old man’s chair to the door, and then crowd it clear into the street, and then crowd it into the poor house, and keep on crowding it until the old man fell out of it into his grave. But your father’s chair was a sacred place. The children used to climb up on the rungs of it for a good night kiss, and the longer he stayed the better you liked it. But that chair has been vacant now for some time. The furniture dealer would not give you fifty cents for it, but it is a throne of influ ence in your domestic circle. I saw in the French palace, and in the throne room, the chair that Napoleon used to occupy. It was a beautiful chair, but the most significant part of it was the letter “N” embroiaered into the back of the chair in purple and gold. And your father's old chair sits in the throne room of your heart, and your affections have embrokfed into the back of that old chair in purple and gold the letter “F.” Have all the prayers of that old chair been answered? Have a!! the counsels of that old chair been practiced? Bpeak out! old armchair. History tells us of an old man whose t.ire* sons were victors in the Olympic games, and when they came back these three son-, with their garlands,put them on the father’s brow, ami the old man was so rejoiced at the vic tories of his three children that befell dtaJ in their arms. Aud are you,oh man, going to bring a wreath of joy and Christian usefulnos and put it on your father’s brow, or on the vac mt i*hair, or on the memory of the one departed? ISpeak out, old armchair! With reference to your father, the words of my text have been fulfilled, “Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.” I go a little further on in your house and I find the mother’s chair. It is very apt to be a rocking chair. She had so many cares and troubles to soothe that it must have lockers. I remember it well; it was an old chair, and the rockers were almost worn out, for I was the youngest, and the chair had rocked the whole family. It made a creaking noise as it moved; but there was music in the sound. It was just high enough to allow us children to put our heads into her lap. That was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and wor Ties. Ah! what a chair that wa*. It was different from the father’s chair, it was en tirely different. You ask me how? I can not tell; but we all felt if. was different Perhaps there was about this chair more gentleness, more tenderness, more grief when we had done wrong. When w» w»ra wayward father scolde b but mother cri* I. It was a very wakeful chair. In t’n sick days of children other chairs could not keep awake; that chair always kept awake-kept easity awake. The chi r knew all the old lullabies '”il all thnui wordless songs wnfc.i mom.’.-. .>.n ; i > . i t • sick children—songs in wh>h all pity an I compassion and sympathetic infiu *ncj arc combined. That old chair has stopped rocking for a goo 1 many years. It may ba set up in the lof‘ or the garret, but it holds 11 queenly power yet. When at midnight you went into that grog shop to get the intoxicating draught, did you not hear a voice that said, “My son, why go in there?” Aud louder than the boisterous encore of t ie place of sinful amusement, a voice saying, “My son, what do you do here?” And when you went into tho house of abandonment, a voice saying, “What would your mother do if she knew you were here?” And you were provoked with yourself, and you charged yourself with superstition and fa naticism ana your ueaa got not witu your own thoughts, and you went home and yon went to bed, and no sooner had you touched the bed than a voice said; “Whatl a prayerless pillow? Man! what is the matter?” This. You are too near your mother’s rocking-chair. “Oh, pshaw!” you say. “There’s nothing in that. I’m five hundred miles oft from where I was born. I’m thrpe hundred miles off from the church whose bell was the first music I ever heard.” I cannot help that. You are too near your mother’s roc King cnair. "un," you htty. more can’t be anything in that. That chair has been vacant a great while.” I cannot help that. It is all the mightier for that. It is omnipotent, that vacant mothir- er’s chair. It whispers, it speaks, it weeps, it carols, it mourns, it prays, it warn*, it thunders. A young man went off an* l oroKH ms raotuer s neari, ana wnue ue was away from home his mother died, and the telegraph brought the son, and he came into the room where she lay and looked Upon her face, and he cried out: “Oh, mother, mother wbat your life could not do your death shall effect! This moment I give my heart to God.” And he kept his prom ise. Another victory for the vacant chair. With reference to vour mother the words of my text were imnuea, ••inou anaic on missed, because thy seat will be empty.” 1 go on a little further, and 1 come to the invalid’s chair. What! How long have you been sick? “Oh! I have been sick ten, twenty, thirty years.’’ Is it possible? What a story of endurance. There are in many of the families of my congregation these invalids’ chair*. The occupants of them think they are doing no good in the world, but th^t in valid’s chair ia the mignty pu.pn from which they have been presell ing, all those years, trust iu God* Tho first timol preached here at Lakeside* Ohio, a *.ii i the through present, there was notliiug 11 it bo much impressed me as the speoticle of just one face—the face of an irtVali l win Was wheeled in oil her chair. I said to her afterward: “Madam, how long have yoi been prostrated?” for she was lyiiig fli'- in .the chair. “Oh!” she replied. ^‘1 have been this way fifteen yedrs. ’ I sai l, “Do you suffer very much?” “Ob, yes, she said, “I suffer very much; I stiff v- all the time; part of the time I was blin*. I, always suffer.” “Well,’’ I said, “can you kee t , your courage up?” “Ob, yes.” she s lid, “I am happy, very happy indeed. Her isci showed it, She looked the happiest o any one on the ground. Oh. what a means of grace to the world, these invalid chairs. O.i that flel I of hu- man suffering the grace of Gol gets its victory. Edward Payson. the invali I, and Richard Baxt.-r, the invali t, a i I Robert Hall, the invali.l, and the t>n thou- Janiofwho.it the world ha-" never he »rd, out of whom all heaven is cogrii?mt. The most conspicuous thing on earth for Hoi’s eye and the eye of angels to rest ou. is not a throne of earthly power, but it is t i ■ in, valid’s chair. Oh. these men and wo nen who are always suffering, but never con- plaining—these victims of spinal disnse, and neuralgic torture, and rheumatic ex'- cruciation will answer to the roil cill of the martyrs, and rise to the martyr’s throne, and will wave the martyr’s palm. But when one of these invalids chairs be comes vacant how suggestive it is! No more bolstering up of the weary heal. No more changing from side to side to get an easy position. No more use of the ban iage and the cataplasm and the prescription. That invalid chair mar ha fnldal in nr taken apart, or set away, but it will never lose its queenly power, it will always preach of trust in God and cheerful sub nis- sion. Suffering all ended now. With re spect to that invalid the words of my text have been fulfilled, “Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. I pass on and find one more vacant chair It is a high chair. It is the child’s chair. If that chair be occupied I think it is the most potent chair in all the household. All the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are turned toward it. It means more than David’s chair at Saul's banquet. At any rate it makes more racket. That is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it. How that child bleaks up the hart worldliness of the place and keeps you young to sixty, seventy and eighty years of age. If you have no child of your own adopt one; it will open heaven to your soul. It will pay it* way. Its crowing in the morning will give the day a cheerful starting, and its glee at night will give the day a cheerful close. You do not like chil dren? Then you had better stay out of heaven, for there are so many there they would fairly make you crazy. Only about five hundred millions of them. The old crusty Pharisees told the mothers to keep the children away from Christ. “You bother Him,” they said: “you trouble tho Master.” Trouble Hunt He has filled heaven with that kind of troubie. A pioneer in California says that for the first year of two after his residence in tiierra Nevada county there was not a single child In all tho reach of ahuudrei miles. But the Fourth of July came, and the miners were gathered together and they were celebrating the Fourth with ora tion and poem and a boisterous brass Land, and while the band was playing an infant’s voice was heard crying, and all the miners were startled, and the swarthy men began to think of their homes on the eastern coast, and of their wives and children far away, and their heart* were thrilled with home sickness as they heard the babe cry. But the music went on, and the child cried louder and louder, and the brass baud played louder and louder, trying to drown out the infantile interruption, when a swarthy miner, the tears rolling down his face, got up and shook his fist and said, “Stop that noisy band, and give the baby ft chance.” Ob, there was pathos in it, as well as good cheer in it. Tnere is nothing to arouse and melt and subdue the soul like a child's voice. But when it goes away from you the high chair becomes a higher chair and there is desolation all about you In threeflourths of the homes of this con gregation there is a vacant high chair. Somehow you never get over it. There is no one to put to bed at night: no one to ask strange questions about God and heaven. Oh, what is the use of that high chair? It is to call you higher. What a drawing up ward it is to have children in heaven! And then itissuch a preventive against sin If n father is going away into sin he leaves his living children With their mother; but if a father is goiog away iuto siu wnat is he going to do with his dead cbildrentloat- ing about him and hovering over his every wayward step. Oh, speak out, vacant high chair, and say: “Father, come back from euaee uaos nuui wuriuiuies-. i om watching you. I am waiting for you ' 1 Wi! i respect to your chil i the words of my text have been fulfilled, “Thou shalt. be missed, because tby seat will be empty ' Mv bearers, I hava gathered up the voices of your depaited frieu Is and tried to intone them into one invitation upward 1 set in ar ray all the vacant chairs of your homes and of'your social circle, an 1 I bid them cry out this morning: “Time is short. Eternity is near. Take my .Saviour. Be at peace with my God, Come up where I am. We lived together on earth; come let us live together iu heaven.” We answer that invitation. We come. Keep a seat for u-, ns Saul kept a seat for David, but that sear, shall not bo empty. And oh! when we are Hll through with this world, and wo have shaken hands all around for the last time; ano all our chairs in the home circle and iu the outside world shall be vacant, may we be worshiping God in that place from which wo shall go out no more forever. I thank God there will be no vacant chairs in heaven. There we shall meet again and talk over our earthly heart-breaks. How much you have been through since you saw them last. On the shining shore you will talk it ail over. The heart aches. The lone liness. The sleepless nights The weeping until you had no more power to weep, be causa the heart was withered ’ and dried up. Htory of etnpy cradle and a little shoe only half worn out never to bo worn again, just the shape of the foot that once Dressed it. And dreams when yen thought the departed had come back again, and tho room seemed bright with their laces, and you started up to greet them and in tho effort the dream broke aud you found yourself standing amid room in the midnight—alone. Talking it ail over, ami then, hand in hand, walking up and down in the light. No sorrow, no tears, no death. Oh, heaven beautiful heaven! Heaven where our friends are. Heaven where we expect to be. In the east they take a cage of birds aud bring it to the tomb of the dead, and then they open the door of the cage, aud the birds, flying out, sing. And I would to-day bring a cage of Christian consolations to the grave of /our loved ones, and I would open the door cc ' let them fill all the air with the music ut choir voices. Oil, how they bound in these spirits be fore the throne! Some shout with gladness. Boole break forth into uncontrollable weep ing for joy. Borne stand speechless in their sbock ot delight. They sing. Thoy quiver with excessive gladness. They gazi on the temples, on the palaces, on the waters, ou each other. Thev weave their iov into gar lands, they spring it into triumphal arches, they strike in on timbrels, and then all the love! ones gather In e great circle around the throne ot God—fa thers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, lovers and friends, hand to ban I around about the throne of God—the circle ever widening—hand to han l, joy to joy, jubilee to jubilee, victory to victory, "until the day break and the shadows fle> away. Turn thou, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young bare upon tho mountains of Beth- Tcmperiirg' Tools. The following is said to he tho Swisl method of hardening cast steel for cut ting tools. Mix in a suitable vessel four parts of pulverized resin and two parts of train oil. Stir well in this one part hot tallow. Into this mixture the article to be hardened is plunged at a low red heat and held there until thornghly cooled. Without cleaning off, the pieco is again put into the lire and suitably tempered iu the ordinary way. An ex amination of steel thus hardened indi cates that the hardening is deeper and more uniformly distributed than is com monly the case, aud that the steel is less brittle. Articles thus liardenedhave ex cellent and durable cutting qualities.— Stone. An Early Description of California. In an old geography printed in 4812 appeared the following: “California i« n wild and almost unknown land. Throughout the year it is covered with dense fogs, as damp us uuhealthful. In the interior are rolcnnoes which some times shoot columns to great heights, mid vast plains of drifting snow. This would seem nearly incredible wore it not for tho well-authenticated Recounts ol travelers.” The laundries in Rutland, Vt., are now mu by electric power. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Blaine’s favorite game is whist. Susan B Anthony is a vegetarian. Governor HilL is a good swimmer. Jay Gould chops wood for exercise. The Emperor of China is five fe?t high. Count Frrdinand de Lksseps is eightv- five. “Mark TwaIn” consumes 3000 cigars a year. President Hyppolite, Hdyti, te sixty. Carl 6churz is the most gifted amateur pianist in this country. Jules Verne published his first novel when he was thirty-five years old. The Empress of Russia and her children will make a tour of the Holy Land next win ter. Mrs. Henry Clews is considered by many people tho handsomest woman in New York City. PfcoPE&sofl Herman Kottinoer, mud- dan, author poet atid millionaire, recently died in a squalid hut in Sari JosC; Cal Leopold II, King of the Belgians, prides himself on being a workingman. He risis at six o’clock and does two hours work before breakfast. Governor Pattison, like Governor Rus sell, of Massachusetts, is a famous horseback rider. He has been making a tour of Penn sylvania on a charger. President Balm aged a is declared to l.o one of the gentlest and mildest mannerel men in Chili. He is a man of about forty years, well educated aud cultivated. The eldest ex-Benators of the United States now living are James W. Bradbury, of Maine.- and Alpheus Felcb, of Michigan, who entered th6 S?na*e in December, 1847. Seven of the nine Justices of the tJnitci! States Supreme Court now occupy their own houses in Washiugton, and tho other tw >, the new Justices Brown and Brewer, will ^oou be similarly fixed. The late B. J, Lossing was an engraver as well as historian. The quaint and antiquated cover of Harper's Magazine, in which peri odical appeared his earlier work, shows tho main features of his design. The life insurance carried by Postmaster- General John Wanamaker amounts to $1,- 000,000, which is distributed in twenty-nine different companies. The premiums ou these polocies amount to {60,000 rt year Lafcadio Hearn, the author, is teachirig in a Japanese college in the interior of the island where a white man is seldom seen. He has married a Japanese woman, and writes to a friend that he is lost forever to Western civilizationdp The late Hannibal Hamlin wore to the very last the full-dress suit of black broad cloth with expansive shirt front that formed in ante-bellum days the distinctive attire of public men. It was the style of suit that Webster and Clay were always clad in when thoy nddressevl the Senate, and it has sur vived in a few isolated instances, of which Huiuliu’s was probably the most conspicu ous. NEWSY GLEANINGS. It is a gool fruit year. Macon. Ga., has a Syrian colony. Canada has 5,25 ).09i inhabitants. India threatens China’s tea business. Mormons are swarming into Mexico. Scotland is slowly gaining in papulation Garcia, the notorious Cuban ban iit, has been killed. It is said 40.030 persons in Russia are withrut food. England grows enthusiastic for tho World’s Fair. The German Kaiser had three epileptk fits in London. Texas will feed 300,000 cattle on cotton- seed tbisfal 1 . San Francisco is going to have an olive oil convention. The question of fuel in Northern Iowa is becoming a grave one. Louisiana's output of molasses is esfi mated at 27,000,000 gallons. A famine is threatened in Guatemala, owing to the scarcity of corn. Bin thousand saloon licenses have been Issued iu Chicago for the present year. Thirteen lives were lost in the waters about New York City on a recent Sunday. The Dominion of Canada's revenue fot the fiscal year ending June 33, is $7,600,000 Minnesota is the first fitate in tho field with a full fledged People's Party drganiza tioo. The great Maryland fruit canneries are receiving more small fruits than they can handle. An immense deposit of asbestos has been discovered twenty miles north of Medford. Oregon. Nebraska’s bank deposits are $47 per capita and are almost enough to pay off her farm mortgages. The defaulting State Treasurer of Mis souri has been sentenced to prison for throe years for stealing $3.3,030 Mrs. Jefferson Davik has written a let ter agreeing that her husband’s body shall be buried in Richmond, Va. Delaware has been accorded first choice for a site for her State building at the World's Fair, Chicago, becausj she was the firs* State to adopt tho Federal Constitu tion. yi'ECKBERNKR, of the Manhattan Athletic Club, of New York, broke the world’s rec ord in throwing the hammer at Manchester, England. The first step toward the union of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn , was taken a few days ago by the St, Paul Chamber of Commerce, which adopted resolutions ap pointing a committee to confer with a com mittee from tho Minneapolis Board of Trade as to the best means of bringirig about a per manent union. he discovery has been made that not - child has been born in the White Hills school district of Connecticut in nine years and that the youngest child attending school is nine yeai s of age. The population is about five hundred persons, and soon the schools will have to be abandoned, the prospects for an increase being very poor. Where Coal is Getting Scarce. The fuel question in Northern Iowa is becoming a grave one. In addition to the big strikes which have already made t coal famine imminent, it is now stated that the extensive coal fields in that sec tion ate rapidly becoming exhausted. It is beginning to bo realized that the coal veins here were not based upon a genu ine coal fi Id, but were in fact a collec tion of pockets. The mammoth mines at Carbon Junc tion, Holiday Creek, Coalville, and Kaln havo already been practically abandoned, and the prosperous villages that sur rounded them are deserted. The mines at Lehigh arc following suit. The Craig Company, one of the largest mining con cerns, has moved south and opened new mines at Angus. The remaining mines are making a much decreased output at n greater expense.—New York Times. Prosperous Jersey. Potato culture is a leading pursuit in the pleasant little island of Jersey. The average product is $450 per acre. Pov erty is unknowu in tho island. Tiio average assessment is $7000 per farm, and all the culture of tho land is equal to that of a garden all over the island. Agriculture suffers from no depression in that island. Almost every farmer is a dairyman, and the cows are tho mo«t valuable of nil iu tire world.—New York Times. Here is a new industry for women. Miss Constance Blaydes, an English girl, who has been raising goats for the last seven years and carrying off all the med als and blue ribbons in the New British Goat Society, recommends goat raising as a pleasant and protitabie occupation. Good as Gold So enthusiastic arc thousands of people over tho beneflte derived from Hood’s Sarsaparilla, that they can hardly flud words to express their conflderce In and gratitude for this medicine. “Worth Its weight In gold” is a favorite expression of these warm friends. If you are In need of a good medicine to purify your blood, built! up your strength, cure dyspep sia, or create an appetite, try Hood's Sarsaparilla. N. B. lie sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla fold by all druggists. $1; six for $V Prepared >uljr l,)C. I HOOD & CO.. Lowell, Muss. IOO Doses One Dollar An Underground River. A swift-flowing underground river has been discovered in the southern part of Pettis County, Mo. The stream is known to be twenty-live feet in depth, and the top of the water is twenty-six feet below the surface of the earth. The river was discovered by a farmer, J. H. Miller, who has for years resided eighteen miles southeast of Sedalia. For a loug time past tho members of Mr. Miller's family have heard at intervals queer rumblings as (it <in earthquake, or approaching storm. That afternoon a roaring, crash ing noise from the orchard,- near the house, brought the members erf the fam ily to the spot iu a body, and the mys tery was explained. The land in the vi cinity Of Mr. Miller's place is compara tively level, an;} in th« orchard a great hole, over sixteen feet ill diameter, was visible. Tiie earth had caved in sod the space is constantly growing larger. A smoke-house that stood near had to be moved to prevent it falling into the fiver. Measurements were taken, aud it was found td be fifty-one feet from the top of the ground to the bettom ot the water. How wide the rivef is cannot be told. Several years ago an attempt was made to drill a well close by, and, after reaching a certain depth, the tools were lost. It was supposed a pocket had been struck, and the work was stopped.—St. Louis Republic. It seems that the Chinese preserved ginger of commerce is not ginger at alt. The director of the botanical gardens at ilong Koug hSs succeeded in obtaining the flower of the p'ldQt used and has iden tified it as the Alpintn GaitlUa>*i. Though not ginger, it is very nice. Cnforrh fan’i hofnrpi! With local application's.*?* they cannot reach the seat ot tn** disease. is a blood or constitutional disease, and in or<le. v * r cure it you have to take internal remedies. Hail’s < .»i- tarrn Curo is taken infernally.and actsdirectH' on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Ca tarrh Cure if. no quack medicine. It was pre scribed by one of the best physicians in thie country for years, and ts a regular prescrip tion. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting direct.!\ on the mut-ou-' surfaces The perfect comninatiou ot fue Lvo Ingredients i** what Produces sue!, wonderful fesulfs lit '•.•ring ca tarrh. Send for testimonials free, c- . i ^CTienkv lY Co.. Props., Toledo, O. hold by druggists, price 75c. If you would be correct in pronouncing Manitoba accent the last syllable. To Dispel Colds, Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system effectually, yet gently, when costiveor bilious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a health}' ac tivity, without irritating or weakening them, use Byrup of Figs. A mahryino craze is reported to have broken out among the school teachers of Detroit, Mich., and over half of them are to be wedded durins the summer. Malaria cured and eradicated from the system by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which en riches the blood, tones tiie nerves, aids diges tion. Act.-; like a charm on persona in general ill health, giving new energy and strength. A yellow fir tree, measuring 111 feet in length and fifty-four inches in diameter, has already been started towards the World's Fair, having been shipped from Beattie, Yf ashing ton. Brown’s Iron Bitters cares Dyspepsia, Ma laria. Biliousness and General Debility. Giv es Strength, aides Digestion, tones the nerves— creates appetite. The best tonic for Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. Kansas CIty Is promised ico at five cents a hundred, as a result of competition. FITS stopped fteo Ire Dn. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Hts after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila.. Pa. tJespHe all tho efforts of tho Govern ment to stamp out the disease, trichino sis continues to exist in some parts of Germany. Stamped out —blood-poisons of every name and nature, by Dr. Pierce’s Goklen Med ical Discovery. . It’s a medicine that starts from the beginning. It rouses every or gan into healthy action, purifies and enriches the blood, and through it cleanses and renews the whole sys tem. All Blood, Skin, and Scalp Diseases, from a common blotch or eruption to the "worst Scrofula, are cured by it. For Tetter, Salt- rheum, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Goitre or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands, Tumors, and Swellings, it’s an une qualed remedy. Don’t think it’s like the sarsapa- rillas. They claim to be good for the blood in March, April, and May. “ Golden Medical Discovery ” works equally well at all seasons. And it not only claims to do good—it guarantees it. If it doesn’t benefit or cure, in every case, you have your money back. You pay only for the good you get. DONALD KENNEDY Of Roxbuiy, Mass,, says Kennedy’s Medical Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep - Seated Ulcers of 40 years’’ standing, Inward Tumors, and every disease of tiie skin, ex cept Thunder Humor, and Cancer that has taken root. fYice, $t.- r )0. Hold by every Druggist iu the United States and Canada. ALL Amur F.n.l Tf-inir**.*'* FINK L’l.IAl ATE anil great Resources in KNOXVILLE SENTINEL; daily Imo, ; weekly 1 year. SI; sampled 3c. TRINITY mm its ffftw buildings, September I, 189?. AG.Dlt'Koof Philosophy ami Arts; A Oolfegeef Ooiunuri c; A Collect <»f tho Sciences; 4 Divinity Schoid; A Scho'd of Technology; A Law School,A School of Pollth-aJ Science; A Medical SchoM, fc’ENL) FOR i ATALOGl'K To JOIi!: K. (.{RoWELL. \. IT, President. Trinity College t\ 0. % N. C. Trinity High School (Prepamt'-H’y) In Randolph county.open Augustl, Nothing Else Will Do It. We have volumes of evidence to prove that S. S. S. is the only permanent cure for contagious Blood Taint. I suffered for five years with the j I then commenced taking Swift’s worst form of blood poison, during [ Specific (8.S.S.), and in a few months I which time I was at- was entirely cured.and tended by the best phy sicians I could find, and tried numbers of proprie tary medicines without any beneficial results. I continued to grow worse all this time, until my whole system was de stroyed by the vile dis ease, my tongue and Hewers, Coving. O throat having great holes caused by it. | IW Book, os Blood sod Skin DIscsm free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca. ’/C Is as near infallible as it is possible for a medicine fo be in the cure of Blood poison. to this great medicine do I attribute my re covery. Hiis was over two years ago, sad 1 have had no return o*' any effects of the dis- Oa.t Since, and my skin is to-day as smooth 1 as anybou'j'W.—Wilfiaip. “August Flower” The lion. J. W. 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