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c: - - AN EX PL ANA TION. "Mr. L. G. Yorxu, Manago;- The Times, Union, S. C. Dear Sir: For reasons which would not inter est jou we have found it necctsaty to discontinue handling the sermons by Dr. Uillis. We beg to inform you that we still furnish by special *rrangem *nt with Dr. Taluioge his sermons for newspaper publication. These c^lebrattd sermons we are sure would be very acceptable to your readers. Very truly yours, American Press Association." The shove letter explains itself si is the cause of our change from Dr. llillis' sermons to those of Dr. Talmage. WHISPERED VENOM. t tHE VOICE OF THE GOSSIP LIKE THE SERPENT'S HISS. Dr. TntM?K? *?J? the Purveyor of Idle Tale* fa the Poisoner of Society?A StronK Arraignment of Liars and Tattlers. [Copyright, i.ouis Klopsch, 1S0P.] . Washington, July 2.?lu this discourse Dr. 'Deltuagc vigorously arraigns ~ r All A A.AAA A A-:t? I 1 ... i 1....... A. A.I ui ui?: ' ini *.1113 iiuii Iiiixu turstu liio world and urges generous interpretation of the character of others; text, flomaoa 1, 20, "Full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," Paul was here calling the long roll of the world's villainy, and he puts in the tnldat of this roll those persons known fn all cities and communities and places as whisperers. They are so called because they generally speak under voice and In a conihlentlal way, their hand fo the side of their mouth acting ns a funnel to keep the precious information from wandering into the wrong gar. They speak softly not because thlf have lack of lung force or because itheg are overpowered wltli the spirit j>f gentiepnst, but because tliey want to aft^ape the consequences of defnuiatloif. If no one hears but the persou whispafed anto, and tho offender he arraigned, he can deny the whole thing, for whisperers ore always tirst class liars I Some people whisper becoii.se they are hoarse from a cold or because they wish to convey some useful information without disturbing others, but the oliotonrrnnhed bv the anostle fa my text give muffled utterance from sinister nud depraved motive, and sometimes you can only hear the sibitant sound as tb<? letter "S" drops from tb* tongue into tbe listening car, the brief kiss of the serpent as It projects He venom. . Whisperers are masculine and femltdne, with a teudeucy to mujorlty on the side of those who are called "?h* lord? event ion." Whisperers are heard at every window of bank cashtier and are heard in all counting rooms as well as in sewing societies and at meetings of asylum directors and managers. They nro the worst fees of society, responsible for miseries Innumerable? they are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart through every community, and today I hold up for your holy anathema and execration these whisperers. Paul a Victim. > From the frequency with which Paul speaks of thein under different titles I conclude that he must have suffered somewhat from them. His personal presence was very defective, and that made him, perhaps, tho target of their ridicule. Aud. besides tuat, ue was a bachelor, persisting in his celibacy down Into the sixties. Indeed all the way through, nnd, some having failed In their connubial designs upon him, the little missionary was put under the raking Are of these whisperers. Ile'wns no doubt a rare morsel for their scandallratlon, and he cannot keep his patience any longer, nnd he lays hold of theee miscreants of the tongue and gives them a very hard setting down In my text among ttis scoundrelly and the murderous. "Knvy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers." Tbo law of libel makes quick and atout grip of open slander. If I should In a plain way, calling you l?y name, charge you with fraud or theft or murder or unclennness, tomorrow morning I might have peremptory documents served on me, and I would have to pay lu dollars aud ceuts for the damage i bad done 3*our character. But these creatures spoken of in my tazt are so small that they escape the time tooth comb of the law. They go ?a, and they go on, escaping the judges and the juries nnd the penitentiaries. Tba district at..?rney cannot find them, the sheriff cannot find them, the grand Jury cannot And them. Shut them off from one route of perfidy and fiwf start on another. You cannot by the force of moral sentiment i?ersuade them to desist. You might as well read the Ten Commandments to a dock of crows, expecting them to retreat under the force of moral sentiment. They are to bo found everywhere, these whisperers. I think their paradise is a country village of about 1,000 or 2,000 people, where everybody knows everybody. But they also are to be found in large quantities In all our cities. They have a prying disposition. They look Into the basement windows at the tables of their neighbors and can tell Jast what they have morning and nighl to eat. They can see as far through a keyhole as other people can see with n door wide open. They can hear conversation on the opposite side of the room. Indeed, the world to them is a whispering gallery. They always put the worst construction on everything. rieaaieh Spirit. _ Nm guntlM * irtfe descends (?tt the street, her eyes damp with tears, and that is a stimulus to the tattler and is enough to set up a business for three or four weeks. "I guess that liusbnnd and wife dou't live happily together. I woudcr If lie liasu't been abusing her? It's outrageous. lie ought to be disciplined, lie ought to bo brought tip before the church. I'll go right over to my neighbors and I'll let theui know about this matter." She rushes in nil out of brent!) to a neighbor's house and says: "Oh, Mrs. Allear, have you heard the dreadful news? Why, our neighbor, poor tiling, came down off the steps in a flood of tears. That brute of a liusbnnd lias been abusing her. Well, It's just as 1 expected. I saw lilui the other afternoon very smillug and \ery gracious to some one who sullied back, and I thought then 1 wonld Just go up to him nud tell iiio) ho had better go home nud look after ills wife nud family, who probably at that very time were up stairs crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs Allear, do have your husband go over aud put nu end to this trouble. It's simply outra *ous that our neighborhood should be disturbed iu this %vuy. It's awful." The fact is that one tuun or woman set on Ore of this hellish spirit will keep a whole neighborhood a-boil. It does not require any very great brain. The chief requisition is that the woman have a small family or no family at nls because if she have a large family, then she would have to stay at home and look after them. It is very impoi*taut that she be single or have no children at all, and then slie can attend to all the secrets of the neighborhood all the time. A woman with a large family makes a very poor whisperer. It Is astonishing how these whisperers gather up everything. They know' everything that happens. There are telephone and telegraph wires reaching from their ears to all the houses in the neighborhood. They have no taste for healthy news, but for the scraps and peelings thrown out of the scullery into the back yard they have great avidity. On the day when there is a new scandal In the newspapers they have no time to go abroad. On the day when there are four or live columns of delightful private letters published in a divorce ease she stays at home and reads and roads and reads. No time for her Dlble that day, but toward night, perhaps, she may find time to run out u little while and see whether there are any new developments. Sntnn'N Dominion. Satan dues not have to keep a very sharp lookout for hia pyil dominion iu that neighborhood, lie lias lot nut to her t)?e whole eoutract. She gets husbands and g,jyes into a quarrel and brothers and sisters ??tp antagonism, and she disgusts the pastor with t'rf" Qoek and the Hook with the pastor, and she makes neighbors who before were kindly disposed toward each other ov? suspicious and critical, so when one o the neighbors passes by In a earring they hiss through their teeth and si9-'; "All, v e eouhi keep carriages if we never pale! ?ur ijebta,.' When two or litre* whisperers iygether, they stir a caldrou oi Rouble, which makes u?? think of the three witches of "Macbeth" <lnusing pround a boiling caldron in a dark cave: Double, double, toil and trouble, l'iro burn atul caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake In the caUlron boil and bake; Kyc of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog. Adder's fork and blind worm's eling, I.izard's leg and owlet's wing For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell both boil and bubble. Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble, Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd suit sea shark; Make the gruel thick and stark; Add thereto a tiger's chaudron For the ingredients of our caldron. Double, double, toil and trouble, Fira burn and caldron bubble; Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. I would only cliaugc Shakespeare In this, that, where he puts the word "witch" I would put the word "whisperer." Ah. what ft cftldrou! Phi you ever Ret a tnstc of it? I havo moro rospect for the poor waif of the street that goes down under the gaslight, with no home and no God?for she deceives no one as to what she is?than I have for these hags of respectable society who cover up their tiger claws with a flue sliawl and bolt the hell ol their heart with a dianiond'hreastpin! Mnscnllnc Whisperers. The work of masculine whisperers is chiefly seeu in the embarrassment ol business. Now, 1 suppose, thero arc hundreds of men here who at souk time have boon in business trouble. J will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten it was the result ol sonic whisperer's work. The whisperei uttered some suspicion in regard tc i your credit. You sold your horse and i carriage because you had no use foi them, and the whisperer said: "Sold ills horse and carriage because be bad i to sell them. The fact that he sold hit horse and carriage shows be Is going down in business." One of your friends gets embarrassed and you are a little involved with hlm The whisperer says: "I wonder if h< can stand under all this pressure? 1 think he is going down. I think he wll have to give up." You borrow inonej i out of a bank and a director whlspert outside about it, and after awhllo tin i suspicion gets fairly started and it leaps from one whisperer's lips to an i other whisperer's lips until all the peo pie you owe want their money am want it right away and the business i circles come around 5-011 like a pack 01 I wolves, and, though you had asseti four times more than were necessary , to meet your liabilities, crash went 1 everything! Whisperers! Oh, hov much business men have suffered! ? Sometimes In the circles of clergy 1 men we discuss why it is that a grea ; many merchants do not go to church I will tell you why they do not go t< church. By the time Saturday nigh I ttomvt lb*r. wp wwu put with the aa noyances of business life. They have bad enough meanness practiced upon them to set their whole nervous system a-twiteh. The Meanest Talebearer. 1 think among the worst or the whisperers are those who gather up ail the harsh things that have been salt] about you and bring them to you?all the tilings said against you. or agalusl your family, or against your style ol business. They gather them nil up am' they briug them to you, they brln| them to you In the very worst shape they bring them to you without any ol the extenuating circumstances, and after they have made your feelings al raw, very raw, they take this brine this turpentine, this nfjua fortls, anc rub it In with a coarse towel and rul It iu until It sinks to the bone. Thej make you the pincushion in which thej thrust all the sharp things thej have ever heard nlwjut you. "Now dou't bring me into a scrape. Now don't tell anj-body I told you. Let It be between you and me. Don't Involve ine lu It at nil." They aggravate you to the point of profanity, and then they wonder you cannot sing psalm tunes They turn you oil a spit before a hoi tire and wonder why you arc not nb sorbed iu gratitude to them because they turn you on a spit. Peddlers ol night shade. Peehllors of Canada this tie. Peddlers of nux vomica. Sometime: thoy get you In a corner where yoi cannot very well escape without belli; rude, ami tlieu they tell you all al>ou< this one, aud all about that one, niu all about the other one. and they talk tiilk. tnllr tnll; fnlL* V ffor nwlillo flint go ft way leaving tlie place, looking llk( a barnyard nftor the foxes ami tin weasels have been aroninl; hero i wing, and there ft claw, ami yonder ni I . ' J I "/ v. Jcsos Cliriat . J "lKL |?t? Iw ;??**?J" "Ju company. "A C.TA uluvor\T~ ^ friend of publicans and sinners. . ? take the best man that ever lived am put a detective on his track for lei years, watching where he goes am when hP pomes, and with a determine tlon to misconstrue pyppy^hlng, and t< think he goes here for n bad purpos and there for a bud purpose, with thu determination of destroying hliu, at tli end of the ten years he will. be heh despicable In the sight of a great man; people. If it is an outrageous thing to despol a man's character, how much worse i it to damage a woman's reputation Yet that evil grows from century t ceutury, and It is all done by whlspei ers. A suspicion Is started. The ue.\ whisperer who gets hold of It state the suspicion as a proved fact, am mauy n good woman, as honorable a your wife or your mother, has bee whispered out of all kindly nssocir tlous and whispered Into the grav< Soino people sny there is no hell, but I there he 110 hell for such a despoiled c womanly character It is high time tlui some philanthropist built one. Bti there Is such a place established, an , what a time they will have when n the whisperers get down there togethi rehearsing things! Everlasting earn val of mud. Were it not for the ui | comfortable surroundings, you mlgl suppose they would be glad to g( ! there. In that region where they ai ! all had what opportunities for cxplolti tlon hy these whisperers! On earth 1 J despoil their neighbors soniptlpies the ' had to lie about them, but down tliei they can say the worst things posslbl 1 about their neighbors and toll tl 1 truth. Jubilee of whisperers. Grau gala day of backbiters. Semlheaven < 1 scandal mongers stopping their gabb 1 about their diabolical neighbors onl ' long enough to go up to the Iron gai 1 and ask some newcomer from tl earth, "What Is tho last gossip In tl ' <Hty on earth where we used to live?" Now, how aro we to war against th J Iniquity which curses every cointuuail [ on earth? First by refusing to llstc ' to or believe a whisper. Every cou ' of the land has for a law, and all d 1 , cent communities have for a law, tin ' you must hold people innocent unl | jtbey are.proved guilty. There Is on! | one i>ersou worse than the whlspcre and thnt Is the raau or woman who II I tens without protest. The trouble * you hold the sack while they till i f The receiver of stolen goods is just i 1 bad as the tliicf. Au uuclcnt wrltor d 1 clares that a slanderer and a man wl I receives the slander ought both to 1 ' banged?the one by the tongue aud tl , other by tho car. And I agree wil him. t Don't Retail Slander. When you hear something bad aboi > your neighbors do not go all over at t ask about It, whother It Is true, ax | won go to a smallpox hospital "and take i a patient and carry him aii through I tho community asking people If they really thought It Is a case of smallpox. That would t>c very bad for the patient and far all the neighbors. Do not retail I slanders and whisperings. Do not make I yourself the Inspector of worts, ami I the supervisor of carbuncles, and the t commissioner for street gutters, and ? the holder of stakes for a dogfight. I Can It be that you, an Immortal man, . that you, an immortal woman, can tind no bettor business than to become a f gutter Inspector? I Besides that, at your family table al! low no detraction. Teach yonr children , to speak well of others. Show them the I difference between a bee and a wnsiv? > the one gathering honey, tho other r thrusting a sting. 1 read of a family r where they kept what they called "A r Slander Boca," and when any slander, ous words were uttered In the house , about anybody, or detraction uttered. It . was all put down In this book. The ? book was kept carefully. For the first i few weeks tliVro were a great many en tries, but after a while there were no ! entries at all. Detraction stopped In t that household. It would be a good fliinir tn htiro a ulmwlor Itnol: In nil > households. r Arc any of you given to this habit of whispering about others? Let uie per< suadc you to desist. Mount Taurus i was a great place for eagles, aud ; crnntes would fly along that way, and t tliey would cackle so loud that the 1 eagles would know of their coming and , they would pounce upon theiu and destroy them. It is said that the old cranes found this out, and before they started on their flight they wonld ali ways have a stone in their mouth so i the?- CQUjd not cackle, and then they would fly in perfect safety. Ob, my friends, l>e as wise as the old crapes aud avoid the Jolly of the young cranes! JJo not eacklo. If there nro people bote who are whispered about, if there nro people here who are slandered, If there aro people here who are abused in any circle of life, let me say for your encouragement that these whisperers soon I run out. They may do a little damage for nwlille, but after awhile their detraction becomes a eulogy, and people i understand them jnst as well as though some one chalked all over their overcoat or their shawl these words: "itcro epos a jyljhspercjr. |toom for the leper, tlopml" ' You gq ahead hind do "your doty, and God will takp care of jour rcputfifiop. How ?larp you distrust blmf Voi? havp pomwlitw IP t>'?p jww souls. L'nn you opt trust |ilpi your reputation? Get down on youi' knees before God and settle the whole matter there. That man whom God takes care of is well sheltered. Proper IL'sj? pf ||t? Tongoe. I.et me charge you, my friends, to make right and holy use of the tongue. It is loose at one end and can swing either tvpy, but It Is fastened at thp tber end to the floor of your month, d that makes you rcspousiblo for the y it wags. Xonthus, the phllosoI r, told his servant that on the roor' I x he was going to have some frieuda / t dine and told him to get the best I .x'hing he could find In the market. The A philosopher and his guests sat dowu J: j the |Jpy nt the table. They had Ing liut 'tcnggp-|f0PF OK fiyc ' courses of tonguC COOKPtl j this way and tongue cooked >o ...V way, and the philosopher lost his patience and said to his servant, "Didn't ^ I tell you to get th.e ^>e?t thing In the ^ market?" He splfl; "f did get the best l thing in the market. Isn't the tongue j mi' organ ol bocmmy, xuv uikim wo el >quence, the organ of kindness, the orguu of worship?" Then Xnntlius said, "Tomorrow I ' want you to get the worst thing In tbo 8 market." And on the morrow the plil' losopher sat at the table, and there was ? nothing there but tongue?four or five * courses of tongue?tongue In this shapo and tongue in that shape. And the 8 philosopher again lost his patience and said, "Dldu't I tell you to get the worst 8 thlug in the market?" The servant ru11 plied, "I did; for isn't the tongue the organ of blasphemy, the organ of defar: motion, the organ of lying?" Oh, my friends, employ the tongue 'J which ffod s# jyojjderfully creeled fts 1 the organ of taste) the ,organ of deglu' titlon, the orgau of articulation to * make others happy and in the service of Qod! If you whisper, whisper good r ?encouragement to the fallen and hope to the lost. Ah, my friends, the time will soon come when we will all 1 whisper! The voice will be enfeebled in the last sickness, and, though that ? voice could laugh and shout and sing l" and halloo until the forest echoes an* 0 swered. It will be so feeble then we eaq 7 ouly whisper consolation to those & vyhoip we leave behind apd only wW?* e per our hope of heaven.' While I speak this very moment l(' there are hundreds whispering their 1 last utterances. Oh, when that solemn 0 hour comes to you and to me, as come y soon It will, may It be found that we 0 did our best to serve Christ and to IU cheer our comrades In the earthly 10 struggle and that we consecrated not only our hand, but our tongue, to Cod! 8 So tlint the shadows that fall arouud y our dying pillow shall not be the evening twilight of i gathering ftlgbt, but the morning twilight of an everlasting S day. 1 This mnrnlnnr ? half nnst 4 oVloelr I looked out of my window, and the f stars were very dim. I looked out o r' few moments after, and the stars were almost invisible. 1 looked out an boui . or two afterward. Not a star was to 1 ' be seen. What was tho matter With 1 the stars? Had they melted Into darkness? No. They had meltad JhtQ the glorious light of a Sabbath mom. i le .?? th DeWitt's Little Early Risers benefit permanently. They lend gentle ut arsisiance to nature, causing no paini id o: weeknets, permanently curing con id stipation and lieer ailments. Sold bi w F. C. Duke. m ^ * * THE BIG DOG FELTTHE HEAT A?4 the Seedy I.ooklnjt Man Tried to Treat the Case. The big dog *?jr on the'pavement In front of the cusSoni house. lie was a yellowish, hrludly sort of a (log, enveloped In a coat of heavy fur that seemed very much out of place with the thermometer at 03. So the big dog thought, at any rate, for his face expressed extreme weariness, and from his open, panting mouth great drops of water dripped ou the hot flagstones. A syinxMithctlc crowd of messenger troys and loungers gathered around him and volunteered counsel after the manner of the angels ministering unto Elijah. "Hully gee! But he's a whale," said one. "Newfoundland," suggested another. "Now, he ain't,, neither," said the shoestring man. "St. Bunnnrd. You can always tell 'em by the color." "Itallano dog; vcrra good; si?" clint.tered the pushcart man, showing nil his white teeth iu the delight the suggestion afforded him. "That dog don't net rlglit, I tell you," said a seedy looking man impressively. "Look nt them eyes. I shouldn't wonder if ho wns going mad. He wouldn't bo the tirst one this hot weather, neither." The big dog turned his head slightly and looked up as If in appreciation of the speaker's acumen. Several of the crowd drew back. "That's the idea," said the seedy looking man. "(live him air. Most likely he's run all the way from Harlem down here in the first stages of byderfoby. What he needs is air and something to cool Ids blood." "Send for de Icemnt," irrovereutly suggested a small newsboy, who was quickly suppressed. "That kid's all right," said the seedy looking man, who was gaining confidence. "We got to do something. One of you fellows go for a policeman and another of you git n chunk of lee somewhere. Maybe we can save ldm yet." Two of the messenger hoys hurried away with the spirit of noble charity In their pace. The crowd by this tlmo had increased to a small multitude. "Now," said the seedy looking man, turning to a fakir, "gimme one of them fans nnd I'M keep down his temperature fill they gif back." He seised the broad palm leaf nut|, stepping in frqut of the eaniuc suffer* pr, described an arc through the air prhick caused flip fan to pass within three Inches pf fhp patient's pose. "Ounce!" said the big dog indignantly, starting to his feet. "Ounce, ounce, ounce!" he continued loudly. But by that time there were only a few whose physical Incapacity left them still within hearing; these only accelerated fliplr speed. Tjip pig dog fipeped his pyes Iq melancholy wonder settled hiniBclf upon the pavement. Then a cool appearing man in a bluo suit came out of tbo custom house and said, "Here, Itox," and the big dog rose and followed him slowly down tho street toward Broadway. Flvo minutes later three policemen rounded the corner at double time, an ambulance dashed up, and the gong of an approaching fire engine was heard Up the hlpck. But they found only an qv^pturned pushcart, whoso owner was | galu^fiujr GO 1)1" wares, with soft Italian curses, a man Dickfue ud a scatter (Wj1 stock of palm loaf fans and a crowd of people watclilng from tho second Btory windows.?Jfew York Sun, Whf flair !>?? c?ri. That the curly *WQf>l of flip African race Is extremely fine hair, instead of poarse, as has been supposed from tliq jrppufpflpp given If in former times, i^ one of tbp statopipfifs ipade by Arfhuf Thompson. lie claims to fmve dlscpy: eyed the mystery of why fialr curls pr does not ppfl- On fhls subject he It) quoted In the Now Qrleqqs Picayune as saying: "Each hair follicle is provided with a gland and a muscle. The size of tho gland varies considerably in different Individuals, and from my observations appears larger and better developed iu the negro races. The muscle, I may Plata, hop PU influence on the position o'f the hair, causing its erection by nulling forward the root of tho hair, thus converting tho shaft Into a lever. "In pursuing my investigations, I discovered that straight hair is always circular iu section and Is usually thicker than curly hair, which is ribbonlike and tine, the finest human hair being that met with In the Bush and Andaman races. These facts have a most Important bearing on the subject. In order fhftt the muscle, that I have described to you, may act as an erector of the hair, it is necessary that the hair must bo sufficiently strong to resist the tendency to bend. If the balr is so weak as to bend before the action of the muscle, the leverlike tendoncy is nullified. Whop the hair is fine and i ribbonlike, tbo action of the muscle bends it into a curve, and this is the reason why the hair assumes the curly form of the Bush scalp." I ??5. A Bit Romh os Hint. Artist?There I Is not that xnagnifi' cent T It's my last work. I Critic?Well, I don't know a boot magnificent, exactly, bnt I'm glad to r hear it's yoor last.?Ally Bioper. SIRUP MAKING. An Improvement on the Common Method of Clarification. So muck interest is manifested in the making of sirnp from sugar cane on r small scale that the Alabama station , presents a report (bulletin 103) of experiments in this direction, which ^ fhonld attruct especial attention on arcount of the low price of the chief staple crop and the consequent tendency of the farmers to diversify their products to a greater extent than heretofore. Aa stated in a previous bulletin (No. 09), bnt little attention has been given, as a rnle. to tho clarification or defecation of sirups in this state, and in many cases a considerable proportion of tha scums and suspended impurities is uuiiea down witb tbe sirnp, darkening its color, affecting its taste and making Its preservation more difficult. A satisfactory clarification of the juice not only brightens tho product very materially, but also effects tbe removal of a largo proportion of the albuminous matters, whose presence favors the jrowtli and action of ferments. It is also of tho greatest importance that nioro attention be given to tbe iensity to which the sirup lias been onnl^r/1 el non In tnos^ ntiuaa 4 U/> ! <? ? oikvv 14? imvcv vaacg uic atiu|f boiler determines by the eye and in a ;*ery crnde wny tbo point at which the simp should be drawn off. In many cases tbo simp ie cooked to too thick a consistency, nud as a consequence n crystallization and deposition of sugar take place, while, on the other hand, if the simp is not boiled to the proper density, fermentation is likely to ensne, and the preservation of tho sirup becomes a more difficult problem. When the ordinary form pf evaporator is at hapd, the qptnal propepp of evaporation can be conducted in the nsual pmnner, hut the crnde preliminary system of clarification now in general nee cop bo pinch Improved by resorting tq th? sulphuring process. In this process the jnice fresh from ! the mill is allowed to run slowly ! through a sulphuring box containing a nnmbcr of inclined shelves,,and, as the juice trickles slowly down from shelf to shelf, it meets with an ascending current of snlplinr fumes which are produced by burning brimstone or roll sulpbnr in a roughly consTVu\.V~_ ,4 furnace. In this way tjie juice is opc<> r?p: dered lighter ip color, n^d when lj[e^jo^ in the evnporat'pp'thp ijepufgtiog pf ah bnmiqons piattefs ppd Ptt,eF impurities is effected pinch more readily and rapidly. After the heating of the juice ia commenced the addition of ft small amount of milk of lime is frequently found to facilitate the clarification and renders the separation of scums more easy. Whero the above process of clariuc^tion is employed the respiting pimp i* nauch clearer pnd brighter, and nt the same time it can be preserved mnch K TA 14 J _ -1 1 J 4 (( It in UCHII'CU Ml preWITB the simp for a considerable period of time, the hot liqnid, concentrated to the proper strength, in rnn into a bottle cr tf well glazed jng of from half a gallon to ono gallon capacity, which haa been rinsed ont with hot water. The Teasel ia filled almost np to the month with the hot airnp and is then securely t sen led and stored away for futaro nee. Py thia process airnn has been buoceksfuily preserved at ttyo laboratory lie* from one'to fottr yenVri.'andcrytftalliia'' tion of sngar can also be prevented if care ia taken to avoid cooking the airnp to too great a density. " - i , .. | Plantlnir Cnenmberi, Mrloni, Etc. 'jTor h nnmWr' of years my practice fias beeti to plant oucnm'pertMinpjpM find Similar ' plants ?5n' ridgeiinhtinrtNj jn the row. ?he results are potter f^an fritl* flat pqlture or >naqnr>ng fi?? ijilf. We plant cu^pbere from ftbsflf ON IlIDCKS MANURED IN THE ROW. | the middle of June until through the first week or thereabouts of July. First, furrows are run HpFpsa tfop tyejd gt flye feet apart, and manure is spattered along the furrows (a in the figure); then two more furrows are plowed around the first, forming the ridge ovey the manure. After leveling down the top the hills are mado four feet apart, says a correspondent of Vick's Monthly. J Brief Mention. i i Two interesting bulletins for sweet I potato growers are "Sweet Potato In J > Jecte," bulletin No 50, and Jieeasea of tbo fiweet potato And Jfolff ' to Treat Them," bulletin No. 80, lisn?&4a| by the Maryland station One of the most luscious, most com* monly grown and most neglected fruits . commercially in Louisiana is the fig, says T. II. Burnetts. It grows in eyeff. ffl portion of the state and seldom fails to\ produce an abundance of fruit, yet vary V little has been done to develop it an ' item of commerce. Cowpens will follow oats nil right! and will nrodnce more npna if lirill^r ? , and cultivated. As a soil renovator M for pasturing broadcasting ja a}) right* advises Texas Farm and Ranch.' '' ' \ Broadcast sorghntn can be mowed an^ saved like any other bay. / Experiments at Anbnrn, Ala., that velvet beans sboald not be planted* like cowpeas. between rows of corn, aa the tangle of vines will canse the corn | to rot and make it difficult to gather > The only trouble in getting alfalfa] started on the uplands is to carry through a season of dryness. Onca twf. alfalfa roots are well groan dad, it wS&r grow and increase in yield. As ^ it<nHjr food it has no equal. Alfalfa is rMidly| " solving the western Nebraska ays it 9