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' •;* THE FARM AND GARDEN. A CURE FOR EGG-BATIKO. The following is said to be a jj^sitive preventive of egg eating: “Sfake a bos fourteen inches square by two feet ten inches long. Cover one end entirely, leaving front end open of lower half. Nail boards over the upper half. Build nest in the back end with board six inches wide in front of the nest. Gather up the e/igs from the little door made directly over them. This makes an en tirely dark nest, and no hen will cat eggs in the dark.”—Fancier's Monthly. STACKING RAILS. A good many farmers who have taken up needless fences have piled their sur plus rails in stacks to save them from wasting. In most cases they think that after a year or two these surplus rails will bo wanted again. We can advise them differently. Even where fences can be had merely by the labor of mak ing them with fence rails the advantage of summer sqjling is so great that stock once soiled will not be turned out again. Enough of the best rails to eucloso a small lot may be put up in a portable fence; but the remainder can be better sold or used as fuel, as the longer they are kept the less they will be worth Boston Cultivator. A WIRE FOOTBRIDGE FOR A FARM. A bridge of common fence wire may be made very cheaply, ns follows: The anchorage on each side of the stream may be made of a frame of logs tilled with stones and buried in the ground. If the banks are not high enough to afford safe passage for floods under the bridge, a bent of timber on each side should bo put up to give sufficient rise for the floor of the bridge. Four No. 8 wires are enough for the floor of a three-foot-wide bridge. These should tie fixed by cross wires at distances of three feet apart to hold up the floor if placed lengthwise, or to stiffen it if the floor is laid cross wise. The supporting wires should bo four No. 8 wires on each side, bound to gether by small wire wrapping every three feet. These should fall in a gentle curve, two feet iu the 100 is enough, and should pass over a post framed in the anchorage. These wires are con nected with the floor wires by others three feet apart on each side to support the floor.—New York limes. MILK AND BUTTERMILK IN SUMMER. While milk and buttermilk are excel lent for fowls and chickens, it will not be beneficial to give cither unless fresh and unchanged. To place milk where it is liable to be fermented (or become sour) may be the cause of bowel disease. It is true that some persons feed sour milk to poultry, but we have knowu it to kill chicks when given too liberally. Bkimmed milk is a very cheap article iu some sections, and there is no jjocessity for giving it in any condition except fresh, especially in the summer scasou. The hens will not drink sour milk if they can get milk that is fresh. For chicks, the best method is to mix the food with milk, let the chicks cat all they desire at one time, and c.ean away that which is left. For fowls that have a range, a pan of fresh milk at uight wilt be all that they will need in the shape of food, as they avill find all that they wish ou the range. Milk is highly nitrogenous and answers a purpose as a part of the ration, but, like all other substances allowed, it gives the best re sults when in a fresh and wholesome condition.—Farm awl Fireside. HIGH FEEDING. The statement that “all the overfed cows in America could be accommodated in a moderate sized stable,” is going the rounds, but is not likely to be universal ly accepted as a true presentation of the case. That overfeeding is not very gen eral we admit, and we believe that there are farmers and dairymen who think that they run perilously close to the danger line in this direction, who really have no practical knowledge of what is involved in genuine high feeding. But there are a good many men who crowd their cows too hard, either for their own profit or for the good of the animals. They do not inteud to keep their cows very long, but they mean to make the most of them while they last. There is another class, and a largo one, which feeds so inegularly as to receive nearly ad the evils of overfeeding, yet without obtain ing anything like the increased returns which they hope to secure. When but ter is high they feed liberally, but when the price falls the quantity of grain is diminished, if its use is not entirely dis continued. Under this uncertain method the health and productive capacity of the cows become impaired and the busi ness of keeping them rapidly becomes unprofitable.—American Dairyman. POINTS IN FAVOR OF THE SHEEP. In a paper read before the Kansas Im proved Stockbreeders' Association by Mr. E. D. King, of Burlington, the sheep in dustry was considered by the essayist from the practical standpoint of pro fitable returns. He said that no indivi dual farmer can prosper lor a series of years by growing grain alone and selliug it. We must diversify our produts. Of the great staples, flax and linen, sorghum and beet-sugar, wool and mutton, we cannot have a surplus for years to come. The sheep is the poor man’s best stock, because one can get a start more cheaply than with any other stock and they make much quicker returns, paying their way ns they go. If he dies at birth he lias consumed nothing. If he dies the first winter his wool will pay his way. If lie lives to be sheared he brings his owner in debt to him. If the horse or steer dies at three or four years, the loss is al most a total one. The sheep U the stock for the poor man because he can be win tered without grain (when that fails), on corn fodder and sorghum and straw, and the sheep’s fleece, if he is a good one, with Merino blood in bis veins, will pay his way and a profit until the grain to fatten him docs grow. The Merino is the tiuo upland and hill sheep, because ho will hast endure extr.-mes of heat and cold and drought, and because he is the only improved sheep that will bear herding and keeping in flocks of any size. Americans, by years of faithful selection and breeding, have developed him from the thin, flat- ribbed, long-necked, illy-covcre 1 sheep of an early day into the low, broad, heavy-built sheep of the present models of form and beauty, covered everywhere with the highest, quality of wool. If more farmers could be brought to realize how rapidly they can build a choice flock from common ewes and a uure bred ram of the right sort, more of them would try it and the scrub would have to go New York World. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The best onions are generally grown from seed. Always cut cucumbers from the vines with a piece of the stem attached. A good farmer will not let his chick ens roost on trees, under opcu sheds or on the fence. Th beet way to water hangiog basket Is to plunge it into a tub of water unti I U is thoroughly soaked. The Rural New Yorlfer commends Michel’s Early as the best jof the notab^ early strawberries in cultitation. Bed the c&llas but during the eummqr in good soil, thus checking their growth and giving them a season of rest. July is a good month to prune the azalea, as this gives the plants time to make new wood and set their buds. Ducks lay at night or early in the morning. Don't let them out until after 9 o’clock. They seldom use a nest. It is a mistake not to mate your breed ing hens early. In this way you get tho brood out early and they thrive better. Mix a little charcoal with the soft chicken feed and it will aid digestion and prevent disease. It is a good puri fier. It will be an advantage in many cases to scald the chicken feed at night and let it stand until morning, not keeping so long, however, as to allow it to sour. Guinciis are light sleepers and if dis turbed at night make considerable racket. Hence it is a good plan to in duce them to roost in the house with tho rest of the poultry. Ducks should not be fe 1 too much grain. They will thrive better and keep in better heilth if given plenty of coarse, bulky foods, such a? potatoes, turnips, cloves and materials of that kind. Many failures in keeping now breeds of poultry have resulted from having too many. The breeder not being proficient enough to know that different breeds require different management causes a failure of the best results. Wait until the fo vis are well matured before determining the make-up of tho breeding pens. By studying the char acteristics of tho different fowls intende l for breeding and mating accordingly better results will bo obtained. A mulch will help all trees, roses and shrubs ns well as peas and vegetables. Materials: Lawn clippings, straw, horse droppings, leaf mould, old manure. The coat should be at least an inch aud a half thick. Three inches would be better. Iu planting now strawberries do not overlook the fact that there should be a staminate and pistilato together, unless the variety used is both stininito uni pistilate. Beginners may make mistakes in such matters, an 1 it is well to call their attention to it. Chop tho manure well into the soil of tho garden. Use only the line an l well rotted material. Coarse manure, con taining cornstalks, straw, or other litter not decomposed, will only ba in tho way of the young and tender plants. Tho finer the manure the better. According to the Fruit Manual, pre pared by the Kansas Horticultural Society, the cherry thrives quite well on either high or low lands and on sandy or loamy soil. An eastern or northern slope is preferable, as trees do not suffer so much from droughts or heat of sun on such locations. This is the Farm Journal's way of watering a tree, shrub or vine: Punch holes with a crowbar all around the tree in a circle as wide as the branches spread and pour the said holes full of water. To simply pour a few bucketfuls of wa ter around the stem of the tree is to do more harm tiian good. It is not necessary to blanket a horse iu the stable unless the animal is wet or should not be cooled suddenly. A- sheet may be used to keep the skin clear of dust. When standing on tho road or in any exposed position, especially dur ing windy weather, tho horse should al ways bo covered with a blanket. Tho perennial pea in some situations is one of the most useful of hardy climb- ers, according to Vick,for rambling over hedges and giving them a touch of rose color or for c >vcring a strip of old fence; if planted iu au out-of-the-way corner in the garden it needs supports to prevent it from straggling over too much surface. It is a mistake to expect that your eggs will hatch precisely iu tvventy-ono days. While this is the rule it is not au invariable one. Some will hatch in nineteen days, others in twouty-oue days, and others still will require twenty- four days for iucuhatioa. The causes are varied, such as getting too cold, too much heat, lack of moisture, want of vi- tality iu cither or both of the parents aud the age of the eggs. WISE WORDS. what their mothers make and you will learn is tho one wo no- the spun gold of than under- by profes- not < Men arc them. Live svith wolves to h nvl. The first blue-bird tice most. Tfii- dandelions are spring-time. Open defeat is better handed victory. Some men arc balloonists siou; others by inflation. A hundred petty virtues are worth one genuine heart-touch. The most insupportable company are those who are witty all day long. Memory is tho only paradise out of which we cannot he driven away. Since the days of Adam there lias been hardly a mischief done iu this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it. Life is a chance in the lottery of death; your chance is sure, but whether it is a blank or not depends largely on your self. Politeness has been compared to au air cushion, which, although there ',s ap parently notbiog in it, eases our jolts wonderfully. When the suo .v fell he wished to mow my lawn; when tho sunlight mado my grass grow he was a snow-shovelcr by profession; by genius lie was a tramp. A Rival to the Shetland Pony. There is a rival in tho Southern horse marts to the Shetland pony. This, ex- plains tho Southern Cultivator, is an out come of the war and called creole. Ho is a ininature horse, and originated dur ing and since tho war in tho prairies along tho Gulf coast from Mobile to the western limit of Louisiana. Many plant ers during the war allowed their thor oughbred mares to escape, and, breeding in the wild state with tho natives, the size has gradually diminished until many of them do not reach thirteen hands aud few of them go much over that. Tho good blood in them shows in their symmetry, and their better style and ac- li in commend them to a boy. They are too mettlesome fora child of four or five years, bu’; for the girl from soveu to ten tiiey fill the bill. For driving purpos s they are not so go xl us the Shetland, as the infusion nt thoroughbred blood makes them impatient of so ignoble work. Tbe gait is a long gallop. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. " . ' >■ Jeweled lacea are nest.' 4 ChurctT weddings are on the decline. Creamy colored lace is gaining favor. Woman’s suffrage is popular at the an-' lipodcs.’" Chicago will build a home for work- 1 ing girls. Embroideries seem to be tho pet child of fashion this year. Thirteen more women than men voted at the municipal election in Cawkcr City, Kan. • There is a well grounded rumor from Paris th>t hcop skirts are coming in next year. One costume worn by tho late prima donna Emma Abbott weighed 150 pounds. Mrs. Jennie 0. Croly, “Jennie June,” has been made honorary president for life of Sorosis. The Greensboro (N. C.) Female Col lege graduates wore dresses of their own making Ibis year. The very latest craze which is exciting femininity is to have pockctbooks made of the exact stuff of the gown. Two enterprising Indianapolis (Ind.) girls recently won a box of gloves by climbing a smokestack 120 feet high. Mrs. Leland Stanford has given $100,. 000 for the permanent support of the flv* kindergartens in Sau Francisco, Cal. Light gloves can be cleaned with corn meal; black kids, with a teaspoon of oil to which a few drops of ink have been added. Mrs. Oscar Wilde and Lady Hubbcrton are two of the noted English women whs have adopted the divided skirt as part of their every day attire. Miss Nellie Blessing Eyster, President of the Women’s Press Association of the Pacific coast, is a grand-niece of Barbara Frictchie, Whittier’s heroine. England has more women workers than any other country in proportion to its population, twelve per cent, of thc^i- dustrial classes being women. ™ In all the cotton materials used for misses’ dresses there is full scope for any amount of white embroidery, aud this is especially fanciel lor ginghams. Mrs. Georgia Kegdrick, of Pough keepsie, N. Y., wife of the late Rev. Dr. Kendrick, lias been electe 1 to tho lady prineipalship of Vassar College aud has accepted it. A Pomona (Cal.) woman has devised a process of drying rose leaves so ns to retain their fragrance, amt has secured a market for ail she can prepare .vith a New York firm. Dr. Martha Robinson, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been her father's partner in lentistry for live years pist. aud tho old eutlemau leaves all difficult operations iu her especial care. The only woman in America who is an operatic conductor is Miss Emma Steiner. A Southerner by birth, she composed music, as well as read and executed it, by the time she was eleven years old. Belva Lockwood, the Washington lawyer, is annoyed at the statement in a well-known bootc of reference which makes her seventy-one years of age. She declares that she is yet only fifty nine. Bismarck’s wife is rather short and stout. She was never pretty, but aha has always had a remarkably fresh and clear complexion. Her gruff husband’s devotion to her is said to be quite touch ing. Shirring is desirable ou the dresses ol young girls and children because it is dressy, audit docs away with the neces sity for any other ornamentation, unless it be a few loops of ribbou or ro settes. Tlie wife of Joel Chandler Harris, “Uncle Remus," is a pretty brunette woman, with beautiful tcetlx and a charming smile. She if of Frenoh- Canadian descent and is an accomplished linguist. Due of England’s brightest girl college graduates Uiis season is Miss Mary K. Montgomery, who has just taken tho highest honors at the University of Lon don. She is a young woman of twenty- two, the daughter of a Unitariaa clergy man. The woman’s branch of the Society for the Preveution of Cruelty to Animals in Philadelphia, after winning notable victories over fox hunters and pigeon shooters, lias begun a determined cam paign against the docking of horses’ tai's. Travelers iu Ceylon are astonished to discover that the men there arc far more graceful than the women. They are better looking also, and dress more stylishly, while the women work in the fields and become more coarse and homely. A novel dress, for a girl of six to eight, is of gingham, and lias tho hem very deep, and in embroidered white muslin, which also forms the sleeves aud a deep collar, while the waist is shirred, has a belt, and the skirt is gathered very full all round. An Atchison (Kan.) woman who could not afford to buy mourning when her husband died, wore tho usual color* until he had been dead about six months, when she succec ied in saving enough money to astonish every one by appear ing heavily covered with crape. There was a time when widows who remarried did not wear white, nor veils, ou the occasion of the second ceremony. Now, however, fashion, custom or bra vado decrees otherwise, aud tho woman aud widow of forty dresses as if she were “sweet sixteen” for her second matri monial appearance at church. The first woman to receive a diploma from the State Law School of Kansas il a Mrs. Ella Brown, of Holton, who has just received her diploma as a lawyer from the Kansas State University at Lawrence. She will begin to practice at once, having entered into a business puitucrihip with bet husband. A Russian Millionaire. At Nice there is a Russian who made many millions of dollars in railway specu lation. He refuses now to go into society, and receives nt his house none but the persons whom he knew in tho happy old days when he had not a sou. To them he makes little prescuts of $500 or $1000, and so on,—Chicago Times. A Roy Killed by a Spider. A curious case of poisoning from the Lite of a spider is recorded by A. Ross, of New South Wales. A hoy about five years old was bitten on the neck by a large black spider, anil on examination a large erythematous circle was seen at the spot where the spider was supposed to have bitten him, which was scarified aud bathed with the usual remedies. Ammonia and brandy were administered, but the child continued to scicam with pain. The ease continued under Dr. Ross's care for a week, and is one of so singular and remarkable a character and smrounded with symptoms ami suffer ings so amazingly violent and peculiar, that he deems it his duty to lay the full history of the ci se before the public as a warning to beware of sue’i supposed in nocuous “insects.”—English Mechanic. Thomas Cooper nnd wife, who live neftr Flowery Brauc'i, Oa., have four laughters. All cxeept one married widows’ sons, all tlieir liushauds being lamed William, aud all of them the roiingesi o( the family, and all married Jn the third Sunday in the month. The ear is ssid to be the most useful orgau for the identification of criiutuals, NEWSY GLEANINGS. CHipwoo b%n 18,000 Italians. Smallpox is raging in Honduras. England is to have free public schools. Southern China is in a state of turmoil. Sealino has been stopped in Behring Sea. Parched India is at last relieved by rain. Reports of the crops are generally favor able. France has taken formal possession of Tahiti. New York City has 3M3. public school teachers. The New Orleans mint is turning out 100,- 000 dimes daily. The convicts have been sent back to the mines in Tennessee. Bankers estimate that it will take $50,- 000.000 to move the crops this year, Gold in Buenos Ayres, Argentine Repub lic, is now at 317 per cent, premium. Chinese immigrants are coming to Cali fornia by means of bogus certificates. From $75,000 to $100,000 is the coil of the electrical outfit on one of our new cruisers. TnEattendauceon the races has fallen off at least twenty-five per cent, within a year. A town has been discovered in the Andes Mountains nearly IS,000 feet above se.t level. A California lobbyist sues twenty-four members of the Legislature for services ren dered. The internal revenue receipts for the last fiscal year show an increase of $3,440,830 over 1890. The police statistics show that 130,009 per sons are dependent upon charity for subsist ence in Naples, Italy. In Lawrence County, III., a disease is rag ing among cattle which kills within fifteen minutes after the attack. The German Buudesrath is preparing a bill for the suppression of vice in which the Emperor is greatly interested. The Chilians are organizing small armies of recruits in the Argentine Republic and other South American countries Regarding the recent experimentsin New York State as entirely successful, Germany is about to introduce "electrocution.” Truk far an aggregate of $3,005,000 has been appropriated by twenty-nine States for representation at the World’s Fair at Chi cago, III. Some of the small shopkeepers of Paris have appealed to the Pope for protection from the big concerns that are driving them out of trade. First returns of tho potato crop show a condition higher than the average of recent years, while that of tobacco is higher than in any year since 1888. Smokeless powder was used for tho first time in this country the other day in an eight-inch rifled gun at Sandy Hook, N. Y. with surprising results. There is likely to be a large demand for American foodstuffs during the next twelve months owing to the failure of crops in India, France and Russia. The Chicago Exposition Company has leased a right of way of its own, providing every railroad coming into Chicago with an entrance to the Exposition grounds. Russia has made large purchases of corn, and the Government is storing large quanti ties of grain supplies. The rise of prioea in (eieals in Germany is partly due to Russian buying. Mrs. Ann Millnbr Woods, of Cyn- t hiana, Ky., died recently, aged ninety- eight. She was one of the original follow ers of Alexander Campbell in founding the Church of the Disciples. 800 Colored Democrats. A New York special says: Colored Democrats, two from cash Assembly dis trict in the city, met in the rooms of the l nique Club on Third avenue, near Ninety-ninth street, and arranged a pro gramme by the following out of which they expect to bring the colored Demo cratic vote of the city into working order. A county organization was formed, upon " base list of membership were enrolled over 800 names. Captains, with instruc tions to establish district organizations in each of the Assembly districts, were ap pointed. It is admitted that there am from 1,200 to 1,500 out-and-out Demo crats among the colored people now, ami it is believed that organization will have the effect of increasing this number iu a way to make the vote of the colored Democrats effective. Failure of a Land Bubblo. A special from Denver, Col , says: “The Berkeley Land Syndicate made a $400,000 assignment. They owned LiOO acres of land, purchased about two years ago. They have not transacted the amount of business anticipated, and this embarrassed them. The assignment is made to President Valentine, of the same rompany The syndicate had $1,000,- 001 capital. Liabilities, $4,000,000; as sets, $000,000. 15 Year-old Girl Becomes a Highway Bobber. Uniontown, Pa., [Special.]—Violet Fuller, a 15-year-eld girl of North Union township, nnd a member of the Cooley gang, donned a suit of boy’s clothes nnd started out for plunder. The first person she met was an 11-year-old boy named George Rutter, of whom ’she demanded his money or his life. The boy had no money, and she took Ids watch. Tnc boy gave the alarm, and the girl was cap- t ired. She now says it was only a lark. Fatal Fight Over a Melon. At Grafton, 111., three brothers named Murphy, a man named Donohue and one or two others, all substantial farmers and neighbors, after fiding themselves with liquor, purchased a wulerme’on and sat down behind the saloon to cat it. They quarrelled over its apportioument and used the’r knives on each other until six men were badly cut, and one of the Mur phy brothers was fatally slabbed. A Glorious Six Days’ Go-as-you- please. Fort Dodge, Iowa, [Special, j—Joseph Bowers, aged 78, and W. S. Renno, aged 01, engaged in a six days’ go as-you- please corn hoeing match on their fa'ina ncarCoriectionville. Bowers hoed thirty- one acres of corn and Renuo twenty-nine, nnd the old man was declared the cham pion. He challenges any man of his ago in the State to hoe against him. •oninqv ‘||a.»on»{| m ■fptq pjinAUi u* jo 9j«o Sujjp'j A|.i,iipn 'smjiowdna tool -jra ni psijJOAV si:q pun pajp punqsiiq .i.iq Jtijjn ibrji ouiuo oipq 'aniipioj pooit j.-iq JO paiuuoi Jsuf snq ptm ‘.Hiuqy uio.ij .tj.Hj pdAtJiu snq ‘tqoiiid^ jj sjjiiv.i.q n.qq jo ssajisq aq; pm; ooaiu su sjadcds.wati UJ3i|7no£ aqi u; jij p.mijjaApu ii.iaq SIHJ oq.w ‘njounipni J° ‘J-Huii.iop; cqi.uijy ' SJ It—[ 'piiaad^ j “tsvjjj ‘noanhvx ‘Wionidg uafl jo ssaaiaji The First Lord From a Colony. A London cablegram, says: In the House of Lor Is, Lord Mount Stephen, formerly President of the Bank of Mon treal, and now President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who was in May last r iscd to the peerage, took the usual oath and subscribed to the roll of peers. This, it will be remembered is the first instance of a native of a British colony being made a peer. An Elusive Ball Pitcher. Leavenworth, Kan., [Special.]— Four convicts in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth escaped curly in the morning by tunnelling under the east wab of the prison. Among the four was Base Bali Pilcher Lucas, who made his third successful attempt to escape since his incarceration some months ago. The Cholera in Mecca, London, [Cablegram. [-.Dispatches re ceived from Mecca state that the death rate from cholera is 140 per day at that place aud 30 daily at Djeddah. Philadelphia has ordered a new town clock, with a dial twenty-live feet iu di ameter nnd a hell weighing 25,000 pounds, which is to ring chimes .at the hours and quarters, so that it run iiq heard all over the city. REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Uivine’i? Sunday sermon Text: “And she went and came and, gleaned in the field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Unas, who was of the kin dred of Elimelcch.”—Ruth ii., Jj. Within a few weeks I have been in North Carolina. Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Canada, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and they are one great harvest field, and no season can bo more enchanting in any country than the season of harvest. The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at Bethlehem is harvest time. It was the old custom when a sheaf fell from * a load in the harvest field for the rea ers to refuse to gather it up; that was to be left for the poor who might happen to come that way. If there wore handfuls of grain scattered across tho field after the main harvest had been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now, it was, by the custom of the land, left in its place’ so that the poor coming along that way might glean it nnd get their bread. But, you say* •'What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun; nnd can you expect that lluth, tho young aud the beautiful, should thn her cheeks and blister her hands in the harvest field?’’ Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out to see the reapers gather in tho grain. Com ing there, right behind tho swarthy, sun- browned reapers, he beholds a beautiful wo man gleaning—a woman more fit to bend to n harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop among the sheaves. Ah, that was an event ful day! It was love at first sight. Boaz forms an attachment for the womanly gleaner—an attachment full of undying interest to the Church of God in all ages; while Ruth* with an ephah, or nearly a bushel of bar ley, goes home b> Naomi to tell her the successes and adventures of the day. That Ruth, who left her native laud of Moab iu darkness, and journeyed through an un dying affection for her mother-in-law, is in tho harvest field of Boaz, is affianced to one of tho best families in Judah, and becomes in after time the ancestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory! Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn so bright a morning? I learn in the first place from this subject how trouble develops character. It was be reavement, poverty and exile that developed, illustrated and announced to all ages the sub limity of Ruth’s character. That is a very unfortunate man who has no trouble. It was sorrow that made John Banyan the better dreamer, and Dr. Young the better poet, and O’Connell the better orator, and Bishop Hull the better preacher, and Have lock the better soldier, and Kitto the better encyclopedist, and Ruth tho better daughter- in-law. 1 once asked an aged man in regard to his pastor, who was a very brilliant man: “Why is it that your pastor, so very brilliant, seems to have so little tenderness in his ser mons?” “Well,” ho replied, “the reason is our pastor lias never had any trouble. When- misfortune comes upon him his style will be different.” After awhile the Lord took a child out of that pastor’s house, aud though the preacher was just as brilliant as he was before, oh, tho warmth, the tender ness of his discourses! The fact is that trouble is a great edu cator. You see sometimes a musician sit down at an instrument, and his execution is cold and formal and unfeeling. The rea son is that all his life ho has been prospered. But let misfortune or bereavement come to that man, and he sits down at the instru ment, and ycu discover the pathos in the first sweep of the keys. Misfortune and trials are great educators. A young doctor comes into a sick room where there is a dying child. Perhaps he is very rough iu his prescription, and very rough in bis manner, and rough in the feel ing of tho pulse, and rough in his answer to the mother’s anxious question, tut the years roll on and there has been one (lead in his own house, and now he comes into the siefc room, and with t?arful eye he looks at the dying child ami he says, “Oh, how this reminds me of my Charlie!” Trouble, the great educator! Sorrow—I see its touch in the grandest painting; I hear its tremor in tho sweetest song; I feel its power in the mightiest argument. Grecian mythology said that the founda tion of Hippocrene was struck out bv the foot of the winged horse, Pegasus. I have often noticed in life that the brightest and most beautiful fountains of Christian com fort and spiritual life have been struck out by the iron shod hoof of disaster and ca lamity. I see Daniel’s courage best by the flash of Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace. I see Paul’s prowess best when I flud him on tho foundering ship under the glare of the light ning in the breakers of Melita. God crowns His children amid the howling of wild beasts and the chopping of blood splashed guillotine and the crackling fires of martyrdom. It took all our past national distresses, and it takes all our present national sor rows, to lift up our nation on that high career where it will march along after the foreign despotisms that have moexed and the tyrannies that have jeered shall be swept down under tho omnipotent wrath of God, who hates oppression, and who, by the strength of His own red right arm, wili make all men free. Aud so it is individually, and in tho family, and in the church, and in the world, that through darkness and stons and trouble mon, women, churches, nations, are developed. Again, I see in my text tho beauty of un faltering friendship. I suppose there were plenty of friends for Naomi while she was m prosperity. But of all her acquaint ances, how many were willing to trudge off with her toward Judea, when she had to make that lonely journey? One—the heroine of my text. One—absolutely one. I suppose when Naomi’s husband was liv ing, and they had plenty of money, aud all things Went well, they had a groat many callers. But I suppose that after her hus band died, and her property went, and she got old and poor, she was not troubled very much with callers. All the birds that sang in the bower while the sun shone have gone to their nests, now the night has fallen. In this world, so full of heartlessness and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find some friend as faithful in days of adversity as in days of prosperity! David had such a friend in Hushai; the Jews had such a friend in Mordecai, who never forgot their cause; Paul had such a friend in Onreiph- orus, who visited him in jail; Christ had such in the Marys, who adnerod to Him on the cross; Naomi had such a one in Ruth, who cried out, “Entivat mo not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where then lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, aud thy God my God; where thou diest will 1 die, aud there will 1 be buried; the Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.” Again, I learn from this subject that paths which open in hardship t nd darkness often come out in places of iov. When Ruth starfod from Moab toward Jerusalem, to go along with her mother-in law, l suppose the people said: “Ob, what a foolish creature to go away from her father’s horse, to go off with a poor old woman toward the land of J udea! They won’t live to get across the desert. They will ho drowned in the sea, or the jackals of the wilderness will destroy thorn.” It was a very dark morning when Ruth started off with Naomi; but behold her in my text in the harvest tl Id of Boaz, to bo affianced to one of the lords of the land, aud become one of tho grandmothers of Jesus Christ, tho Lord of glory. And so it often is that a oath which starts very darkly ends very brightly. It was very hard for Noah to erdure the scoffing of the people in his day, whU« he was trying to build the ark, and was everv inor.img quizzed about his old boat that would never be of any practical use. But when the deluge came, and the tops of the mountains disappeared like the backs of sea monsters, and the elements, lashed up in fury, clapped their hands over a drowned world, then Noah id the ark rejoiced in his own safety and in the safety of his family, and looked out oii tho wreck of a ruined earth. Christ, hounded of persecutors, denied a pillow, worm maltreated than the thievea on either side of tho cross, human hate smacking its lips in satisfaction after it bad been draining His last drop of blood, the sheeted dea 1 bursting from the sepulchers at His crucifixion. Tell me, 0 Getnsemane nnd Golgotha! were thereover darker times than those? Like the booming of the mid- night sea against the rock, the sunres of Christ's anguish beat against the gates of eternity,to be echoed back by all the thrones of heaven and all the dungeons of hell. But tho day of reward comes from Christ; all the pomp and dominion of this world are to t>e hung on His throne, uncrowned heads are to bow before Him on whose head there ore many crowns, and all the celestial wor ship is to come up at His feet like the hum ming of the i'oroat, like tho rushing of the waters, like the thunderin'? of the seas, while all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat time with their scepters: “Hallelujah, lor the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!” Again, I learn from my subject that events which seem to be most insignificant maybe momentous. Can von imagine anything more unimportant than thecomingof a poor woman from Moab to Judea? Can you imagine anything more trivial than the fact that this Ruth just happ?noi to aitgnt — as tney say — just Happened to alight on that field of Boaz? Yet all Cges, all generations, have an interest in the fact tL>t she was to become an ancestress of the Lord Jesas Christ, and all nations and kingdoms must look at that one little inci dent with a thrill of unspeakable and eternal satisfaction. So it is in your history and in m ne; events that you thought of no impor tance at all have been of very great mo ment. That casual conversation, that ac cidental meeting—you did not think of it Again for a long while; but how it changed all the current of your life! It seemed to be of no importance that Jukal invented rude instruments of music, calling them harp ami organ, but they were the introduction of all tho world’s min strelsy. And as you hear the vibration of a stringed instrument, even after tho fingers have been taken away from it, so all music now of lute and drum and cornet is only the long continued strains of Jubal’s harp ami Jubai’s organ. It seemed to be a matter of very little importance that Tubal Cain learned t : ie uses of copper aud iron, but that ru le foundry of ancient days has its echo in the rattle of Birmingham ma chinery and the roar and bang of factories on the Merriraac. Again, i see in my subject an illustration of the beauty of female industry. Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest field under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain bread with the reapers, or eating the parched corn which Boaz hand*'1 toiler. The customs of society of course have change I, nnd without the hardships ami exposure to which Ruth was subjected, every intelligent woman will find something to do. I know there is a sickly sentimentality on this subject. In some families there are persons of no practical s»rvie« to the house hold or communitv. and though thann nra so many woes all around about them in the world they spend their time languishing oyer a new pattern or bursting into tears at midnight over the story of some lover who shot himself! They would not deign to look at lluth carrying back the barley on her way homo to her mother-in law* Naomi. Madame de Stael did a world of work in her time; and one day, while sh* was seated amid instruments of music, all of which she had mastered, and amid manu script books which she had written some one said to her, “How do you find time to attend to all of these things?” “Oh,” she replied, “these are not tho things 1 am proud of. My chief boast is in the fact that I have seventeen trades, by any one of which I could make a livelihood if neces sary.” And if in secular spheres there is so much to be done, in spiritual work how vast the field! How many dying all around about us without one word of comfort! We want more Abigails, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas, more Marys, raore'Doborahs consecrated—body, mind, soul—to the Lord who bought them. Once more I learn from my subject tho value of gleaning. Ruth going into that harvest field might have said: “There is a straw and there is a straw, but what is a straw? I can’t get any barley for myself or my mother-in-law out of these separate straws.” Not so said beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws and she put them to gether, and more straws until she got enough to make a sheaf. Putting that down she went and gathered,, more straws until she had another sheaf, nnd another and an other nnd another, and then she brought them altogether and sho threshed them out. and she had an epiiuli of barley, nigh a bushel. Oh, that we all might be gleaners! Elihu Burritt learned many things while toiling in a blacksmith’s shop. Abercrombie, the world renowneil philosopner, was a phy sician in Scotland, and he got his philosophy, or the chief part of it, while as a physician he was waiting for the door of the sick room to open. Yet how many there are in this day who say they are so busy they have no time for mental or spiritual im provement; the great duties of life cross the field like strong reapers and carry off all the hours, and there is only here and there a fragment left that is not worth gleaning. Ah. my friends, you could go into the busiest day and busiest week of your life and find golden opportunities, which gathered might at last make a whole sheaf for the Lord’s garner. It is the stray opportunities and the stray privileges which taken up and bound together and beaten out will at last fill you with much joy. There are a few moments left worth the gleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field! May each one have a measure full and running over! Oh, you gleaners, to the field! And if there be in your housenold an aged or a sick relative that is ndt strong enough to come forth and toil in the field,then let Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning. “He that goeth forth and weepetb, bearing precious seed, shall doubt less come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” May the Lord God of Ruth and Naomi be our portion forever! THE LAB.0E WORLD. We have i,000,000 railroaders. Mexico has no shoe factories. Chicago wants a labor temple. Chinese are leaving California. New York carvers work eight hours. Chicago has 1100 union longshoremen. New York has an Italian labor paper. Brooklyn engineers*run a labor bureau. The German Government runs lace schools. Chicago has a railway employes’ hospital. Chinese matting workmen get five cents a day. Turkey’s working day is as long as tho sun shines. Birmingham (Ala.) miners get forty-five cents a ton. Lincoln (Neb.) unions will build a fiO.OOO labor palace. 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