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THE FAUX AND (DARDEN. NITIUTE OF SODA ON WHEAT. The wonderful properties of nitrate of soda are being strikingly exhibited at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, where wheat is being grown con tinually under different methods of fer tilizing. Although the nitrate was not applied until the middle of April it stim ulated such a big growth that the plots which received nitrate in large quantities carry almost thrice as great a height of vegetation as do the plots that had no nitrate. —New York World. GUINEAS ON THE FARM. There is no sale for Guinea fowls in market, but the Guinea fowl is, never theless, one of the finest of all table birds, possessing a certain game flavor that is not found in other fowls. They have full meated breasts, and possess but a smalt proportion of offal compared with hens. If their real value for the table were known they would sell at. high prices. On the farm they cost almost nothing, being industrious foragers, and there never was a better insect extermi nator than the Guinea. Outside of the eggs they provide, without cost, they de stroy thousands of insects, and though their efforts in that direction may not be apparent, yet the work goes on with them constantly. They are never idle, being engaged from early mom until night.—Mirror and Farmer. HOW TO PLANT A FLOWER BED. It is no easy matter, writes a corre spondent, to prepare a flower bed for the seeds, and especially if the turf hat not been spaded up for years. After the sods are taken away the bed should bo well filled up with earth, so that it will not bo too damp, It should then be raked over and made smooth, after which it is ready for the seeds. Some seeds, pan sies lor instance, should first be planted in boxes, and when large enough must be set into the ground. It is well to transplant pansy seedlings two or three times, and when the seedlings are trans planted it should be done at night rath er than in the morning, unless it is a very cloudy day. Some seedlings will not stand it well to be transplanted. The poppy, for Instance, should never be transplanted. When pansy seed* are first planted it is better to water them with boiling hot water, because they will sprout quicker. This must not be done more thau two or three times, on account of killing the sprouts. Seeds may be planted in rows or not, but I prefer to have them mixed up, as I think they look prettier. It is very discour aging to have a bed all dug over, seeds planted and sprouted, and then to have some child run over it. That was my case with a nasturtium bed, and the seeds were just sprouting. My brother was out digging up a bed and playing with a little girl at the same time, when she ran straight through the best part. Of course I shall not know the difference ten years from now. The weeds should always be kept out from among the plants and the earth should be loosened quite often. The plants should be wat ered every day, and I think it is better to do it at night. When the plants are in blossom some folks seem to be afraid to pick them. It is very much better for various kinds of plants to pick off the blossoms, as it makes them bloom more freely.—New England Uomateal. BOARDING THE HELP. Grace Perry wiites to the Farm Journal tliat to many a farmer’s wife the most disagreeable part of farming is the taking into the family of help that is needed. It is the primitive custom yet retained in many locations, but w ith im proved methods of farming will come more enlightened ideas as to the preser vation of the heart of the home, the wife and the mother, and her strength wiil be husbanded as we do not think of now. It is too precious to be wasted in prepar ing immense dinners for brawny men other than her own family. And what an absurdity to fry and feed children on food fit for hard working men; it cannot be done. Food proper for children would not furnish the strength necessary for the performance of hard physical labor, and to feed chil dren on the hearty food laborers need would lead to no end of ill-heath for them, ft is almost an impossibility to deny children food that is on the table and to hold them to the proper diet with things before them that they want so bad. There are so many dishes that a wo man loves to prepare for her own family that would be silly to set before laboring men. Dishes that would be of no more good to them in the way of nourishment than so much candy, but that we love and make good for us—such as custards, cream puffs, cakes, lemon pics and such light dishes. And, too, the meeting of the family at table should be the pleasantest affair of the day, and where a man is a busy one it is often the time to make plans, to talk over many private matters that one does not speak of before any but members of his own family. One’s evenings, too, should be gen erally spent in private, just the family. Who is willing to admit to the intimacy of the heme evening circle those who may retail all that happens or who may influence the boys and girls ever so little in a way we cannot approve ofl Let the help have their own quarters. A married man Is best, then he has his own home life and is content. HOG CHOLERA. The most reliable authorities differ la many points in regard to the disease known as “hog cholera,” for it seems to be manifested in nearly as many ways as ever the “hornail” in cattle was, and as that has been found to be in no way a disease of the horns, though the horn may become diseased in consequence of some forms of it, so the cholera is not the disease, but a symptom of the efforts nature is making to throw off the dis ease. And quite as often the first symp tom of these diseases are constipation rather than scouring, but it does not at tract attention. The feeding of indi gestible food may originate diseases that are often called “hog cholera,” and most frequent are the feeding of grass oi clover while wet, weeds that are partially iwilted or have lain in piles until they Shave begun to decay, decaying vegeta bles, and musty or mouldy grain, and city swill containing more or less of mat 'ter which has reached nearly the Iasi stages of decay. While scouring and vomiting are among the earliest symp toms noticed in many cases, others jhov dulneis, stupor and loss of appetite, and perhaps a breaking out of red or nearh purple spots back of the ears, on tin rump or thighs, and on parts lain on oi kept too warm by contact with other ani mals when lying down in the pen. In nearly all stages the evacuations are poisonous to other swine, and when the disease once appears in a herd the larger part of them will take it unleoa the most effective measures are taken to check Us progress. The rem ival cf all not yet ailing to clean pens and grounds, the best of care in regard to proper food, •nd a supply of clean water for drinking and bathing, are usually more effectual remedies than medicine, but all pens and yard* in which hogs have been takei sick should be at once disinfected after they have been removed, for which pur pose a solution of carbolic acid or of sulphuric acid seems to be as good as anything known, though sulphate of iron (copperas) may suffice in place of more powerful disinfectants, or a solu tion of corrosive sublimate. These so lutions will not be very strong, but must be used abundantly about all wood work, to penetrate into all cracks and crevices. Air-slaked lime upon the earth of yards and pens may assist very much, but pastures where sick swine have run should be plowed to bring up fresh earth) to the surface, and e\ cn then it is wel to use the lime around their most fre quent haunts. All dead animals should be buried deep or cremated.—Botton Cultivator. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Have your fowls any shade? Spade up the runs occasionally. No farm should be without one or two good brood sows. Fowls having the run of the farm will get along with a little corn these days. Sheep are often a source of economy, a? they thrive on what would otherwise be wasted. All plants started in hot-beds should be exposed to the air a few days before transplanting. The little chicks will sooner be big ones is kept shut up each morning until the dew is off. As far as possible, contrive to have your crops come on successively—not all at the same time. Make pot pies of stock you do not wish to winter, if you have too few to make a shipment. What a blessed thing it is that the weather and the growth of crops do not depend on politics. Look to your sources of water supply, and see that they are not receptacles of foulness and disease. No country is ever so prosperous as when its labor forces are all employed and properly directed. Did you mean to clean out the hen house yesterday? Did you do it? If not, stick your head into it to-night at nine o'clock. Notwithstanding the good fruit pros pects tomatoes will find ready purchasers and can always be made a salable and paying crop. Fowls running at large should be pro vided with convenient secluded nesting places known to you or they will Bud some unknown ones. We believe the sooner a sick hen is killed the better. It saves time, saves feed, saves health to the rest. Kill and bury every moping heu. Don’t pull too many stalks from ths rhubarb bed; let some of the leaves re main, for they are the lungs that supply life and vigor to the roots. Some men pay a great deal of atten tion to the branches of the fruit tree, and let the roots take care of themselves. Doth require equal attention. Don’t pick the peaches too green. Remember that this fruit cannot ripen after leaving the tree without losing its flavor, hence the value ot near-by mar kets and local growers. Present prices of land and its products will not justify a man in clearing rocky land for pastures or fields either, unless it is near some large town where market gardening can be followed. To keep borers away from my peach trees and to keep the trunks nice and smooth I wrap them with tar paper from an inch below ground up eighteen inch es when first set out and keep it on. If you do not use a lawn mower save tome nicely cured fine grass where you can get at it next winter. Run some of it through the feed cutter and soak out for the fowls; they will appreciate it. It cost much more to regain a lost pound of flesh on a steer than to add a like weight to a thrifty one. In pur chasing steers to feed, thrifty ones will generally be found the more profitable. We know of nothing that purifies the hen-house better than fresh earth scat tered on the floor. Kerosene may kill lice, ashes or dust be good for a dust bath, but neither of these give the fresh ness that fresh soil does. Try it. The improvement in native wild fruits has made the Norlhwest more productive in the line of plums, cherries and cur rants, while the introduction of pears and apples from Russia has greatly in creased the production in that line. The little culls of strawberries, per haps imperfect on one side, will add but a trifle to the quantity of fruit and surely pull down the price for the basket or crate more than seems possible. Suc cessful fruit men agree in the advice to assort closely. The Ruling rnssion Strong In Death. While extending and repairing the old buildings of the late Royal Navy School at New Cross, London, which is shortly to be opened by the Goldsmiths Company ns tiicir Technical and Recreative Insti tute, it became necessary to remove the floor of the old gymnasium. In doing so the workmen discovered the skeleton of a cat in close juxtaposition to that of a rat, exactly ns shown in the picture. The bodies of the animals were not quite two inches apart in a sort of wedged- thaped cul-de-sac, which was wider at the top than the botton, and so prevent ing the cat from quite reaching the rat. When found the entrance to the hole or passage was tilled up with dust and rub bish, and there was nothing to prevent egress of the animals by the way they had entered except the disclination of the cat to leave Its prey. The skeletons when found were more than than half covered with dust from the floor above them, and have probably been many years in the position they were found, in which position Mr. Rcdmayne, Secretary of the Goldsmiths' Institute, has had them carefully mounted and photo graphed. A curious coincidence is that exactly the same discovery of the skele tons of a cat and rat together under a floor occurred while pulling down some old buildings to construct the People's Palace, which is the immediate prede cessor of the Goldsmiths’ Institute. The Emperor Catches No Whale. Christiana, Norway, [Cablegram. ]— The Emperor of Germany has been out whale hunting but did not meet with success. Upon hit arrival to-day at Ibiininerfest, the northernmost town of Norway, the Emperor proceeded to the island of Skoro. /I WONDERFUL STRUCTURE, rHE STORY OF THE GREAT LONDON, BRIDGE. f Us Original Erection Darted In the Mist* of Antiquity—No Other | Bridge Like IS Anywhere. The original building of the bridge, | writes Walter Besant in Harper, cannot 1 be discovered. As long as we know snything of London the bridge was there. For a long timo it was a bridge of timber, provided with a fortified gate—one of the gates of the city. In the year 1095, the chronicler relates that bn the feast of St. Edmund the Arch bishop, at the hour of six, a dreadful whirlwind from the southeast, coming from Africa—thus da all authors in all ages seize upou the opportunity of pa rading their knowledge—“from Africa!” all that way 1—blew upon the city and overthrew upward of COO houses aud several churches, greatly damaged the Tower, and tore away the roof aud part of the wall or St. Mary le Bow, in Cheap- side. During the same storm the water In the Thames rose with such rapidity and increased so violently that London Bridge was entirely swept away. The bridge was rebuilt. Two years ftf ter ward it narrowly escaped destruc tion when a great part of the city was destroyed by fire. Forty years ago it did meet this fate in the still greater fire of 1135. It was immediately re built, but I suppose hurriedly, because thirty years later it had to be constructed anew. Among the clergy of London was then living one Peter, chaplain of a small church in the Poultry—where Thomas a Becket was bsptized—called Cole-* church. The man was, above all others, skilled in the craft aud mystery of bridge-building, He was perhaps a mem ber of the fraternity called the Pontiflc (or bridge-building) Brothers, who about this time built the famous bridges at Avignon.Pont St. Esprit, Caho.s, Saintes and Rochelle. He proposed to >uild a stone bridge over the river. In order to raise money for this great enterprise, offerings were asked and contributed by King, citizens, and even the country at large. The list of contributors was written out on a table for posterity, and preserved in the Bridge Chapel. This bridge, which was to last for six hundred and fifty years, took as long to build as King Solomon’s Temple, namely, three-and thirty years. Before it was finished the architect lay in his grave. When it was completed the bridge was 9!i6 feet long and forty feet wide—Stow says thirty feet; it stood sixty feet above high-water; it contained a drawbridge and ninety pointed arches, with massive piers vaiying from twenty-five to thirty- four feet iu solidity, raised upou strong elm piles covered with thick plauks. The bridge was curiously irregular; there was no uniformity iu the breadth of the arches; they varied from teu feet to thirty-two feet. Over the tenth and longest pier was erected a chapel dedicated to the youngest saint in the calendar, St. Thomas of Canterbury. The erection of a chapel on a bridge was by no means uncommon. Everybody, lor instance, who has been in the south of France re members the chapel on the broken bridge at Avignon. Again, a chapel was built on the bridge at Droitwich, in Cheshire, and one on the bridge at Wakefield, .in Yorkshire. Like the chapel at Avignon, that of London Bridge contained an up per and a lower chapel; the latter was built in the pier with stairs, making it accessible from the river. The bridge gate at the soutiiern end was fortified by a double tower, aud there was also a tower at the northern end. The wall or parapet of the bridge followed the line of the piers, so as to give at every pier additional room. The same arrange ment used to be seen on the old bridge at Putney. The citizens have always regarded London Bridge with peculiar pride and affectiou. There was no other bridge like it in the whole country, nor any which could compare with it for strength or for size. I think, indeed, that there was not in the whole of Europe any bridge that could compare with it; for it was built not only over a broad river, but a tidal river, in which the flood rose aud ebbed with great vehemence twice a day. Later on they built houses ou either side, but at first the way was clear. The bridge was endowed with broad lands; certain monks, called Brethren of St. Thomas on the Bridge, were charged with the services in the chapel, and with administering the rev enues for the maintenance of the fabric. The children made songs about it. One of their songs, to which they danced, taking hands, has been pre served. It is modernized, and one knows not how old it is. The author of Chronicle* oj London Fridge gives it at full length, with the music. Here are two or three verses; London Bridge is broken down, Dance over my Lady Lee; London Bridge is broken down, W ith a gay la dee. How shall we build it up again? Danes over my Lady Lee; How shall we build it up again? With a gay lades. Build it up with stone so strong, Dance over my Lady Lee; Huzza! ’twill last for agee long, W ith a gay ladee. Convicts Off for Siberia. The Moicow correspondent of the London News says. “To-day I witnessed the departure for Siberia of the first batch of convicts this season. They stood in marching column at the railway station, surrounded by a guard of about 100 soldiers with drawn swords. At the head came the worst class of convicts, about 300 in number, all having leg fet ters and chains. Many had the right half of the head shaved, an indication ol long-scrvice sentences. Then came about 100 without fetters, convicted or sus pected of lighter offenses, most of them being without passports, and therefore liable to punni'ament. Next follow about 100 women, some convicts and some prisoners’ wives. It is pathetic to see little children and some infants starting on this long and terrible journey of ex ile. The dress worn is gray, with a yel low diamond on the back. The by standers threw money to them to cnablo them to purchase comforts ou the jour uey.” Custer's Last Sward. The sword which Custer used in hia campaign against the Indian*, and which ho lost with his life at the battle of the Little Big Horn, is now in the possession of a Chicago man. Its battered blade is as flexible as whalebone, and it looks ns though it hail been through many a haud-to-haud' encounter. It is covered with innumerable designs of drums, flags, cannons and other impiemcnU of warfare.—Indianapolis Journal. The Kaiser end Temperance. Berlin. [Cablegram.|—A bill for the suppression of incbiicty is being prepar ed in the Bundcsrath. The Kaiser take* the liveliest interest in the scheme to check drunkenness snd has ordered that (he progress of (lie measure be repotted to him during his Dip. Erasures on account-books are sure •igns of a bigger scrape coming.—Fuck, THE LABOR WORLD. Steel rail exports increase. New York has 3000 sweaters. Austria has 60,000 union men. There is an electric carpet-beater. Electrical cranes gives satisfaction. Indianapolis sewing girls organized. France has 4,220,000 industrial workers. Boston has an Independent Labor party. ^ Illinois has adopted the weekly payment Indianapolis carpenters have formed a band. World’s Fair buildings employ 15,000 hands. Indianapolis hasn’t a non-union stone cutter. New Jersey Socialists held a State Con vention. Denver ice-wagon drivers gets $55 a month. Drummers in Brooklyn must wear a 1L cense badge. Some New York horse-car men get $2 for sixteen hours. The Order of Railway Conductors has 17.000 members. France’s workingmen average twenty- eight cents a day. Chicago shopgirls' pay averages from $2.50 to $4 weekly. At Boston seamen on steamers get $25 a month, firemen. $30. A convention of green-glass blowers was h»ld recently at St. Louis. Striking furniture workers in New York get $9 a week from the union. New York Knights ask theState to build a hall for free public meetings. In Sweden competent servant girls receive the enormous salary of $14 per year. The Cigarmakers’ Union paid $9-1,000 in sick and death benefits the past year. California glassblowers want the limit of a week’s work fixed at thirty-six hours. The average daily wages of the French agricultural laborers amount to twenty-five cents. Bill-posters have organized a national union. A million dollars is invested in the business. The entire number of wage-workers in Franca Is 14,768,000, among whom 4,415,000 are women. Among the exiles in Siberia are forty-flv* compositors who were senttberefor working on Nihilist papers. It is said that harvest hands in Minnesota, the_ Dakotas and Montana are being paid $2.50 to $4.50 per day and board. A Pullman sleeping car porter gets $15 a month and is charged seventy-five cents a day for bis meals, so at the end of every month he owes the company some $7. Most of the trades unions in Australia having obtained the eight hour workday, they now demand one half hour after dinner for smoking. And they will get it as their organizations embrace almost every worker in the trade. There is a brewery concern in Milwaukee, Wis., whose business has increased to such an extent that the proprietors are now building a glass works to manufacture their own bottle*. These glass works will em ploy abejt 1000 men. NEWSYGLEANINGS. Chicago has 6000 saloons. Chicago has 15,000 Italians. Ban Francisco has 4500 saloons. Cholera is reported in Abyssinia. CLEVELANDhas 25,000Bohemians. The oil wells iu Canada are failing. Americans are swarming into Italy. English crops are reported very good. Yellow fever is in Tampico. Mexico. New York’s directory has 379,971 names. Guatemala is hard up over a debt of $37,- C00. There are 1,100,000 people in Liberia, Africa. Female suffrage is coming to the front in England. P.oumania forbids the entrance of Russian Hebrews. Texas saw mills are embarrassed by over- pro Suction. The Canadian gulf fisheries this season are a total failure. Small-pox is so prevalent in Berlin as to be nearly epidemic. The worst forest fires ever known recently ra ged in upper Michigan. The City of New York employs a dozen doctors to attend the poor. Venezuela declines to negotiate a reci procity treaty with the United States. Many mad wolves abound in the woods at Pincopolis, a suburb of Charleston, 8. C. It is told that the Australian wool clip of 1SU1 will exceed that of all previous years. Official estimates of the Russiau wheat e.-op indicate a shortage of 34,000,000 bushels. Daleour, Irish Home Secretary for Ire land, comes out in favor of Irish home rule. The campaign against the ‘‘intruders” in ths Chickasaw Nation has been abandoned. In Hamilton County, Ohio, in which Cin cinnati is located, over 2500 saloons have just L-cen licensed. Meat is so scarce in Munich, Bavaria, that the authorities have ordered the slaughter of dogs for eating purposes. The head tax of $120 upon each immigrant Chinaman, collected at Vancouver, British Columbia, last year was $15,960. The Whitewater River, which formerly crossed the Southern Pacific Railroad, in Arizona, has entirely disappeared. Twenty-four foreign nations have now officially accepted the Invitation to partici pate in the Columbian Exhibitibn. A colony from HomersYille, N. Y., will shortly go to Costa Rica to engage in tobacco planting In the Talamanca district. Manogi, the Samoan chief, en route home, died of consumption on the train between Medicine Bow and Rawlins, Wyoming. The German Emperor climbed Cape North, the northernmost part of Europe, on the extremity of the Island of Mageroe. A young dentist of New York has just died in great agony from the effects of a bite inflicted by a woman whose aching tooth be was attempting to pull. The Balmaceda (Chilean) Congress awarded $150,000 as prize money to the com- .underset the vessels which blew up the insurgent ship Blanco recently. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Jay Gould weighs 105 pounds. Bret Harte makes $15,000 a year. President Diaz, of Mexico, Is sixty. Secretary Blaine weighs 183 pounds. Halford, President Harrison’s Private Secretary, was a newsboy. Senator Vilas owns one of the largest cranberry farms in Wisconsin. Gossips are bethrothing the Czarowitz of Russia and the Princess Marie of Greece. The late Senator Hearst’s fortune has been appraised and found to be over $8,000,- 000. The Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury is one of the most prominent philanthropists in England. Henry W. Slocum is said to stand near the head of the roster of surviving war gen erals of the array. When ex-Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, was in Congress, he was the smallest man there in point of physique. Justin McCarthy, the younger, has al ready written eleven books and seven plays, although he is only thirty years old. John Sherman is the only remaining United States Senator who sat In that body during Hannibal Hamlin’s term in its chair. T he new “Old Probs,” Professor Mark W Harrington, of Michigan University, is a college graduate, an astronomer, and a writer on meteorology. H. M. Flagler, of the Standard Oil Com pany, travels daily from his house on Long Island Sound to and from his business m New York on a yacht that cost $280,000. The oldest ex-Senators of the United States now living are James W. Bradbury, of Maine, and Alpheus Felch, of Michigan, who entered the Senate in December, 184T. Sir William Gordon-Cumuinj, of bac- caret notoriety, has been elected, unani mously, as honorary chief of the Highland Association of Illinois in the place of the late Sir John Macdonald. Colored Colony in Mexico. Washington, D. C, [Special.]—The Ihiicbh of American Republics is inform ed that an association called “American colored men's Mexican Colonization com pany,” is planning to establish a colony of negro farmers, coming chiefly fiom Mississippi anil Tennessee,in the state of Arizona, and has arranged for the pur chase of a tract of 100,000 acres about twenty miles south of Yuma, Aria., on I he Southern Pacific railroad, at the place where the remains of the Lcrdo colony, founded by G. Angradc, of San Francis co, still remains. REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon Text: “HTio knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" —Esther iv., 14. Esther the Beautiful was the wife of Ahasuerus the Abominable, The time had come for her to present a petition to her in* famous husbaufi in behalf of the Israelitish nation, to which she had once belonged. She was afraid to undertake the work lest she should lose her own life; but her uncle, Mor- decai, who had brought her up, encouraged her with the suggestion that probably she had been raised up of God for that peculiar mission. “Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther had her God-appointed work; you and I have ours. It is my business to tell you what style of people we ought to be in order that we may meet the demand of the age iu which God has cast our lot. If you have come expecting to hear abstractions discussed or dry technicalities of religion glorified, you have come to the wrong place; but if you really would like to know what this age has a right to expect of you as Christian men and women, then I am ready in the Lord’s name to look you in the face. When two armies have rushed into battle the officers of either army do not want phil osophical discussions about the chemical properties ot human blood or the nature of gunpowder. They want some one to man the batteries and swab out the guns. And now, when all the forces of light and dark ness, of heaven and hell, have plunged into the fight, it is no time to give ourselves to the definitions and formulas and technicali ties and conventionalities of religion. What we want is practical, earnest, concentrated, enthusiastic and triumphant help. What we need in the East vou in Wisconsin need. In the first place, in order to meet the special demand of this age, you need to be an unmistakably aggressive Christian. Of half and half Christians we do not want any more. The church of Jesus Christ will be better without ten thousand of them. They are the chief obstacle to the church’s aa- vancement. I am speaking of another kind of Christian. All the appliances for your becoming an earnest Christian -are at your hand, and there is a straight path for you in to the broad daylight of Goa’s forgiveness. You may havo come here to-day the bonds men of the world, and yet before you go out of these doors you may become the princes of the Lord God Almighty. You know what excitement there i$ in this country when a foreign prince comes to our shores. Why? Because it is expected that some day he will sit upon a throne. But what is all that honor compared with the honor to which God calls you—to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty; yea, to be queens and kings unto God! “They shall' reign with Him forever and forever.” But, my friends, you need not be aggres sive Christians, and not like those persons who spend their lives in hugging their Chris tian graces and wondering why they do not make any progress. How much robustness of health would a man have if he hid him self in a dark closet? A great deal of of the day is too exclusive. It hides It needs more fresh air, more outdoor' exer cise. There are many Christians who are giving their entire life to self examination. They are feeling their pulses to see what is the condition of their spiritual health. How long would a man have robust physical health if he kept all the days and weeks and months and years of his life feeling his pulse instead of going out into active, earnest, everyday work? 1 was once amid the wonderful, bewitch ing cactus growths of North Carolina. I never was more bewildered with the beauty of flowers, and yet when I would take up one of these cactuses and pull the leaves apart, the beauty was all gone. You could hardly tell that it had ever been a flower. And there are a great many Christian peo ple in this day just pulling apart tneir Christian experiences to see what there is in them, and there is nothing attractive left. This style of self examination is a damage instead of an advantage to their Christian character. I remember when I was a boy I used to have a small piece in the garden that I called my own, and I planted corn there, and every few days I would puli it up to see how fast it was growing. Now, there are a great many Christian people in this day whose self ex amination merely amounts to the pulling up of that which they only yesterday or the day before planted. Oh, my friends! if you want to have a stalwart Christian character, plant it right out of doors in the great field of Christian usefulness, and though storms may come upon it, ami though the hot sun of trial may try to consume it, it will thrive until it be comes a great tree, in which the fowls of heaven may have their habitation. I have no patience with these flowerpot Christians. They keep themselves under shelter, and all their Christian experience in a small, exclu sive circle, when they ought to plant it in the great garden of the Lord, so that the whole atmosphere could be aromatic with their Christian usefulness. What we want in the church of Go i is more brawn of piety. The century plant is wonderfully sugges tive and wonderfully beautiful, but 1 never look at it without thinking of its parsimony. It lets whole generations go by before it puts forth one blossom; so I have really more heartfelt a Imiratiou when I see the dewy tears in the blue eyes ol the violets, for they come every spring. My Christian friends, timo is going by so nv>- hlly that we cannot afford to bo idle. A recent statistician says that humn?i life now has an average of only thirty-two years. From these thirty-two years you must sub tract all the time you take for sleep and the taking of food and recreation; that will leave you about sixteen years. From those sixteen years you must subtract all the timo you aro necessarily engaged in the earning of a liveli hood; that will leave you about eight years. From those eight years you must take all the d'tys and weeks and months—all the length of time that is passed in childhood and sick ness, leaving you about one year in which to work for God. Oh, my soul, wake up! How darest thou sleep in harvest time and with so few hours in which to reap? Ho that I state it as a simple fact that all the time that the vast majority of you will have for the ex clusive service of God will be less than one year! “But,” says some man, “I liberally support the Gospel, and the church is open and the Gospel preached; all the spiritual advan tages are spread before men, and if they want to be saved let them come and be saved; I have discharged all my responsi- bility.” Ah! is that the Master's spirit? Is there not an old Book somewhere that com mands us to go out into the highways and hedges and compel the people to come in? What would have become of you and me if Christ had not come down ofl! the hills of heaven,and if He had not come through the door of the Bet hlehem caravansary, and if Ho had not with the crushed hand of the crucifixion knocked at ths iron cate of the «*puicner ot our spintuil death, crying, “J.minis come forth!” Oh, my Christian friends, this is no time for inertia, when all the forces of darkness seem to be in full blast; when steam printing presses are publishing infidel tracts; when express railroad trains are carrying mes sengers of sin; when fast clippers are laden with opium and rum; when the night air of our cities is polluted with the laughter that breaks up from the ten thousand saloons ot dissipation aud abandonment; when the fires of the second death already are kindled in the cheeks of some who only a little while ago were incorrupt. Never since the curse fell upon the earth has there been a time when it was such an unwise, such a cruel, such an awful thing for the church to sleep! The great audiences are not gathered in the Christian churches: the exeat audiences are gauiereu in tom pies oi sin—tears of unutter able woe their baptism, the blood of crushed hearts tho awful wine of their sacrament, blasphemies their litany, aud the groans of the lost world the organ dirge of their worship. Again, if you want to be qualified to meet the duties which this ago demands of you, you must on the one hand avoid reckless iconoclasm, and on the other hand not stick too much to things because they are old. The ail* is full of new plans, new projects, new theories of government, new theologies, and J am amazed to see how so many Christians want only novelty in order to recommend a thing to their confidence; and so they vacil late and swing to and fro, and they are use less and they are unhappy. New plans— secular, ethical, philosophical, religious, cis atlantic, transatlantic. Ah, my brother, do not uuopt u imng merely Decause it is new. Try it by the realities of aiudgment day. But, on the other hand, do not adhere to anything merely because it is old. There is not a single enterprise of the church or the world MV has sometimes been scoffed at. Th. ro was a time when men derided even Bible societies; and when a few young men met near a haystack in Massachusetts and organized the* first missionary society ever organized in this country, there went laugh ter ana naicuie an around me unristian church. They said the undertaking was pre posterous. And so also the work of Jesus Christ wan at-sailed. People cried out, “Whoever heard of such theories of ethics and government? Whoever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?” Ezekiel had talked of mys terious wings and wheels. Here came a man from Capernaum and liennesaret, and H* drew His illustrations from the lakes, from the sand, from the ravine, from the lilies, from the cornstalks. How the Pharisees scoffed! How Herod derided! How Caiphas hissed! And this Jesus they plucked by the beard, and they spat in His face, and they called Him “this fellow!” All the great en terprises in and out of the church nave ad times been scoffed at, and there have been a great multitude who have thought that the chariot of God’s truth would fall to pieces if it once got out of the old rut. Aud so there are those who have no pa tience with anything like improvoment in church architecture or with anything iiko good, hearty, earnest church singing, and they deride any form of religious discusjion which goes down walking among everyday men rather than that wnich makes an ex cursion on rhetorical stilts. Oh, that the Church of God would wake up to an adapt ability of work! Wo must admit the sim ple fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great masses. There are fifty thousand people in Edinburgh who never hear the Gospel. There are one million people in London who never hear the Gospel. There are at least three hundred thousand souls in the city of Brooklyn who come not under the immediate ministrations of Christ’s truth, an l the Church of Go.l in this day, instead of being a place full of living epistles, read aud known of all men, is more like a “dead letter” postoffice. “But,” say the people, "the world isgo ng to be converted. You must be patient. r J iie kingdoms of this world are to become t he kingdoms of Christ.” Never, unless the church of Jesus Christ puts on more speed and energy. Instead of the church convert ing the world, the world is converting the church. Here is a great fortress. How shall it be taken? An army comes and sits around about it, cuts off the supplies and says, “Now we will lust wait until frn»n exhaustion and starvation they will h »ve to give up.” Weeks and months, and perhaps a year, pass along, and finally the fortress surrenders through that starvation and exhaustion. But. my friends, the fortresses of sin aro never to be taken in that way. If they are taken for God it will be by storm. You will have to bring up the great siege guns of the Gospel to the very wall, and wheel the flying artil lery ipto line, and when the armed infantry of heaven shall confront the battlements you will have to give the quick command: “For ward I Charge!” Ah, my friends, there is work for you to do and for me to do in order to achieve this grand accomplishment! Here is a pulpit, and a clergyman preaches in it. Your pul pit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the nouse scaffolding. Your pulpit is the me chanic’s shop. I may stand in this place and, through cowardice or through self seeking, may keep back the word I ought to utter; while you, with sleeve rolled up and brow besweated with toil, may utter the word that will jar the foundation of heaven with the shout of a great victory. Oh, that to day this whole audience might feel t hat tho Lord Almighty is putting upon them the hands of ordination. Every one, go forth and preach this Gospel. You have as much right to preach as I have, or as any man has. Only find out tho pulpit where God will have you preach, and there preach. Healey Vicars was a wicked man in the English army The grace of God came to him. He became an earnest and eminent Christian. They scoffed at him and said, “You are a hypocrite: you are as bad as ever you were.” Still he kept his faith in Christ, and after awhile, finding that they could not turn him aside by calling him a hypocrite, they said to him, “Oh, you are nothing but a fanatic.” That did not dis turb him. He went on performing his Chris tian duty until ho had formed iul his troop into a Bible class, and the whole encamp ment was shaken with the presence of God. So Havelock went into the heathen temple in India while th? English army was there, and put a candle into the hand of each of the heathen gods that stood around in the heathen temple, and by the light of those candles, held up by the idols, General Have lock preaefied righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. And who will say, on earr’u or in heaved, that Havelock had not the right to preach? In the minister’s house where I prepared for college there was a man who worked, by the name of Peter Croy. He could neither read nor write, but he was a man of God. Often theologians would stop in the house— f rave theologians—and at family prayers eter Croy would be called upon to lead, and all those wise men sat around, wonderstruck at his religious efficiency. When he prayed he reached up and seemed to take hold of the very throne of the Almighty, and he talked with God till the very heavens were bowed down into the sitting-room. Oh, if I were dying I would rather have plain Peter Croy stand by my bedside and commend my immortal spirit to God than some he.irt- lesss ecclesiastic arrayed in costly canon icals. Go preach this Gospel. You say you are not licenser!. In the name of the Lord Almighty, this morning I license you. Go preach this Gospel—preach it in the Sabbath- schools, in the prayer-meetings, in the high ways, in the beiges. Woe be unto you if you preach it not. L remark, again, that in order to be quali fied to meet your duty in this particular age you want unbounded faith in the triumph of the truth and the overthrow of wickedness. How dare the^Christian church ever get dis couraged? Have you not the Lord Almighty on our side? How long did it take God to slay the hosts of Henuacherib or burn Bo- doin or shake down Jericho? How long will it take God, when Ho once arises in His strength to overthrow all the forces of iniq uity? Between this time and that there may be long seasons of darkness—the char iot wheels of God’s Gospel may seem to drag heavily, but here is tho promise, and yonder is tho throne; and when Ominiscience has lost its eyesight and Omnipotence falls back impotent and Jehovah is driven from His throne, then the church of Jesus Christ can afford to bo despondent, but never until then. Despots may plan and armies may march,and the congresses of the nation may seem to think they are adjusting all the af fairs of the world, but the mighty men of the earth aro only tho dust of the chariot wheels of God’s providence. I think that before the sun of this century shall set, tho last tyranny may fall, and with a splendor of demonstration that shall be the astonishment of the universe God will set forth tho brightness and pomp and glory and perpetuity of His eternal government. Out of the starry flags and emblazoned in signia of this world God will make a oath for His own triumph, and returning from uni versal conquest Ho will sit down, the grand est, strongest, highest throne of earth His footstool. Ttien shall all nations’ song ascend. To Thee, our Kuler, Father. Friend, Till heaven’s high arch resounds again With ‘‘Peace on earth, good will to men.” I preach this sermon because 1 want to encourage all Christian workers in every S jssible department. Hosts of the living od, march on! march on! His spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His sword will strike for you. March on! march on! The last despotism will fall, and pagan Ism will burn its idols, and Mohammedanism will give up its false prophet and the great walls of superstition will come down iu thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of the Gospel trumpet. March on! March on! The besiegement will soon be ended. Only a few more steps on the long way; only h few more sturay blows; only a few more bat tle cries, then God will put the laurel upon your brow, and from the living fountains of heaven will bathe off the sweat and the heat and the dust of the conflict. March on! March on! For you the time for work will soon be past, and amid the outflashings of the judgment throne and the trumpeting of resurrection angels and the upheaving of a world of graves and tho hosanna of the saved and the groaning of the lost, we shall be rewarded for our faithful ness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth ba filled with His glory. Amen and amen. Out of Sorts Describen a feellnj? peculiar to persona of dyspeptl 5 tendency, or caused by change of climate, season or life. The stomach Is out of order, the head aches or does not feel right The Nerves seems strained to their utmost, the mind Is con fused and Irritable. This condition finds an excel lent corrective in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which, by It* regulating and toning powers, soon restores har mony to tho system, and gives strength of mind, nerves and body. Hood’s Sarsaparilla fold by all druggists. 91; six for $5. Prepared only »•> C. I. HOOD ft CO., Ixmell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar AllOITT Hunt Tcnnes* •e’w FINK FLlillATK and (Jrrat Hesockcrs in KNOXVILLK. SENTINEL; daily lino., 50c.; weekly 1 year, $1; samples 5c. ALL “RED EYE” XOfiAf-Co a Mild. Sweet I'll K\V. No IlKAKlhi (tN nor HEAD ACID'. Neud I O roiltM in Muii.m for I M V- PU:, If your dealer does not i» KKI* IT. TA V I .OU uitos., u \MH('ii’KKk.s, whiMion, v r. Dyspepsia Is tlio banc of the present •ration. It is for its cure mnl Hsattendutit*. sick headache, constipation unil piles, that Tuffs Pills Iiavc brroiiu. rmnim.. Tliey art g.ufly on the oricaii., giving tlivin tone Rnd vigor without griping or imuaca. 350. Thcie Is a mountain of coal in Wild Horse Vallejr, Wyoming, which has been burning for more than thirty years. It sends up dense volumes of smoke, and at times the gas from it is almost suffo cating, even at a distance of fifty to seventv-five m'les from the burning coal. bed. How’s This ? 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