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/ AN ANCIENT EPI (i HA M I DR. TALMAGE FOUNDS HIS SERMON ON AN OLD SAYING. lie l's?n It tu Illuuti-ate the Lndlcrou* Ilelinvlor of Thowe Who .IIiikihIi'}' ' Small Slim and U.uorv tironl tinea, i Much In Little. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1SC9.1 Washington, July 10.?iu tliis tils( course, founded on nu ancient e[>igram repented by Christ, Dr. TaImage illustrates the folly of being very piirtlculnr about iusiguitlcaut things, while neglectful of vast concerns. Tl:e text is Matthew XXitl* 24: "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat aiul f swallow a camel." A proverb Is compact wisdom, knowledge in chunks, a library in a .sentence, the electricity of many clouds discharged In one bolt, a river put through a mill race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text, he means to set forth the ludicrous behavior of those who make a great bluster about small sins and have 110 appreciation of great ones. In my text a small Insect and a large quad-* ruped are brought into comparison?a gnat and a camel. You have in museum or on the desert seen the latter, a great awkward, sprawling creature, with back two stories high and stomach haviug a collection of reservoirs for desert travel, an animal forbidden to the Jews as food and in many literatures entitled "the ship of the desert." The gnat spoken of i:i the text is in the grub form. II is born in pool or pond, after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis and then after a few days uiTuim^ 11.1- gusu ;'.s we iTCO^iiiKt' ir. But the insect spoken of in the text Is in its very smallest shape, and it yet inhabits the water, for my text is a misprint and ought to read "strain out a gnat." My text shows you tin* prince of inconsistencies. A man after long observation las formed the suspicion that in a cup of water lie is about to drink here is a grub ,or the grandparent of ;? gnat. lie goes and gets a sieve or struitr.T. He takes the water and pours it through the sieve in the broad light. He say:-. "I would rather do anything almost than drink this water until this larva be extirpated." This water is brought turner inquisition. The experiment is successful. The water rushes through tlie sieve and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then the man carefully removes the insect atjd drinks the water in placidity. But going out one day and hungry, he devours a "ship of the desert." thi' camel, which the Jews were forbidden to cat. The gastitju- , oiuer br)H .'jo compunctions of conscience, lie suffers from no indigostlou. He puts the lower jaw under . the camel's forefoot and his upper jaw ( over the hump of the earners hack and ] gives one swallow, and the dromedary rl I on pp. -p f a \Y.,' \.,;s - . stalling oln7^*- i Ills illustration " ''.7o.. $ '"'fm. / less they were tod* v..M ' stand the hyperbole -Christ practically said to litem, "That is you." ITiuc tilious about small things; reckless about atiairs of great magnitude. No subject ever winced under a surcoon'a knife more bitterly than did the Pharisees under Christ's scalpel of truth. As cu anatomist will take a human body to pieces and put the, pieces under a microscope for examination, so Christ buds his way to the heart of the dead Pharisee and outs it out and . puts it under the glass of inspection . for all generations to examine. Those j Pharisees thought tlint Christ would a flatter them and compliment them, and how they must have writhed un- 1 tier the red hot words as lie said. "Ye a fools, ye whi ted sepulehers. ye blind guides, wlileli strain out a gnat nud swallow a eainel." There are in our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels swallowed, and it Is the object of this scrmou to sketch a few persons who are extensively engaged in that business. First. I remark, that all those ministers of the gospel who are very sentpulonsabout the conventionalities of religion. but put no particular stress upon matters of vast importance, are photographed in the text. Chureli services ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivolity in religious convocation. I*tit there are II. lustrations, and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in the text, that will irradiate with smiles any Intelligent mullcnce. There arcu twcrr?tffco < those blind guides of the text who ad- I vocato only those tilings in religious ' service which draw the corners of the i mouth down and denounce nil those < things which have a tendency to draw < the corners of the mouth up. and these I V men will go to installations and to ' presbyteries and to conferences and to 1 associations, their pockets full of fine t sieves to strain out- tlie gnats, while I tn tlinlv ?.1A...,.1 ? ... ...v,. iiiuiciH-s 111 iiuuiu I'vury Sunday there are. r>0 people sound I asleep. Tliey make their churches n ?rent dormitory, and their somniferous > ' sermons are a cradle and the drawled 1 > out hymns n lullaby, while some wake- > ful sou! in a pew with her fan keeps 1 the flies off unconscious persons op- 1 proximate. Now. I sny it is worse to ' eleep in church than to smile in church, ' for the latter Implies at least atten- 1 ion. while the former implies tlit? In- '< llfTereuce of the hearers and the stu- 1 Idlty of the speaker. f In old ape or from physical Inflrml- ^ -> or from lonp watching with the i ck drowsiness will sometimes over- ' I >wer one; but when a minister of the . 1 i sjiel looks off upon axi audience and ' I ( ds healthy and Intelligent people * ft uppllnp wiili drowsiness It Is time < ft him to give -out the doxology or ' ft nouhce the InrtivdJvUoti. The gfWt , I y Iii Lit of church services today Is not ; too uutich vivacity, but too much somnolence. The one Is an Irritating i gnat that timy be easily strained out," the other Is a great, sprawling and sleepy eyed camel of t'.ie dry desert. In all our Sabbath schools, in all our Bible clashes, in all our pulpits we need to brighten up our religious message whu such Christlike vivacity as we tiud in the text. WIS m:(l Hiautot*. 1 take down from my library tlie biographies of mi ulsters and writers ; of the past ages, .inspired mid unin- j spired, who have done the most to I bring souls to .Jesus Christ, and 1 iitid j that without a single exception they j consecrated their wit and their humor j to Christ. Lilijah used it when he ad- ; vise;! the Baulltir, as they could not j make their god respond, to call louder, j as their god might be sound asleep or j gone a-huutlug. Jolvtised it wlieil he j sai l to lils noil' conceited comforters. 1 "Wisdom will die with you." Christ ! not only used it in the text, but when ! lie ironically complimented the cor- 1 mpt Pharisees, saying. "The v.hole j need not a physician." and when l?y \ one word he described the cunning of ( Herod, saying, "(So ye and tell that ; fox." Matthew Henry's commentaries from the lirst page to the last corruscated with limnor. as summer clouds with heat lightning. John Hnnyan's writings are as full of littmor as they are of saving truth, and there .is not an aged man here who has ever read "Pilgrim's Progress" who does not remember that while reading it lie smiled as often as lie wept. ('brysostoin, (ieorge Herbert. Ilohcrt South, tJoorgc Whiteileld. Jero my Taylor, Rowland Hill. Ashael Nettleton, Charles <1. Finney and all the men of the past who greatly advanced the kingdom of (lod consecrated their wit ami their littmor to the cause of Christ. So it lias been in all the ages, and I say to all our young theological students, sharpen your wits until they are as keen as sci:.liters and then take then into tills holy war. It is a very short' brldpe between a smile ;uid a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to lip. and it is soon crossed over, and a smile is sometime.: ii" I -is s-io??wl no . x ' Itvi V\I ??o u tear. There is s;s much i\ ligion. and I think a little more. in a. spring morning than in a starless midnight. Religious work without any humor or wit in it is a banquet with a side of heel , and that raw an 1 no condiments and no dessert succeeding. lYopIe will not sit dowti to such a banquet. Ry all means remove all frivolity and all bathos and all lightness and vulgarity; strain them out through lite sieve of holy discrimination; but, on the other hand, beware of that monster which overshadows the Christian church today. conventionality, coining tq> from the Great Sahara desert of cedes!fisticism. having ou its back a hump of sanctimonious gloom, and vehemently refuse to swallow that.camel. I'ni-1ic 11 Inr At>oiit Small 'I'liiofCN. Oh, how particular a great many people are about the intiuitesiiuals, while I'tjy are quite reckless about the untgI UfaTv coilld BMrrnrar &h?T l.'H 'it rirr,-'r'!' TJr"^uued people in his time ;x,;?vA to wnsl1 Ultjh" hands beio.i -l/4Ml,1>ut (]it| uot wash their hearts? It Is a had thing to have unclean hands; it Is a worse thing to have an unclean heart. IIow many l)l>01ltl> thao-ft aim it! ..111- till... ??.!.*? very anxious tliat after their death tliey shall be buried with their face toward the east and not at all anxious that during their whole life they should come up in the resurrection of J''lier4UikL W " nlulfu " T it i SI (t n i !, "i } n ixr.rTgiKcuiio ii.iii i-iiumg, the 'veiling of (lio very day when lie walereil (ho stock, will llud a wliarf rat dealing a daily paper from the basement doorway and will go out and ?atch the urchin by the collar and Iwist the collar so t'j<litly the poor follow lias no power to say that It was thirst for knowledge that led him to Hie dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying: "I have lieen looking for you a long while, i'ou stole my paper four or live times, iiiveu't you. you miserable wretch?" \nd then the old stock gambler, with i voice tliey can hear three blocks, will cry out, "Police, police!" That Mimo ninn tho evening of the day In which lie watered tho stock will kneel with ids family In prayers and thank "Jod for (lie prosperity of (lie day, then kiss Ids children good night with an ilr which seems to say, "I hope you >11 will grow up to be as good as your 'nther!" Prisons for sins insect lie In size. hut palaces for crimes drome larlau. No tnercy for sins animalcule u proportion, but great leniency foi nastodon iniquity. A poor boy fclyl.i akes from the basket of a market wo ! nan a choke pear, saving some on> dse front th? cholera, and you smoth >r him in the horrible atmosphere of Raymond street Jail or New Yorl Combs, wlifts hi* cousin* who knt booh ' *- ??? skillful enough to st< ul $10,000 from the city, you make it candidate for the I state legislature. Oiuiilimtrtii i u?; There is a good deal el uneasiness aii.l n .wousnosa now among some people iu our time who have got unrighteous fortunes, a groat Meal of uuensiuess about Mynainite.' 1 toll them that t,oil will put under their uurlgk'eous fortunes something more explosive than <!;. naiaite, the ? arthquake of his omnipotent indignation. It is time tl.at we kniu in Aineriea that siu Is not. excusable iu proportion as it Me- j .lares large dividends and lias outrld- I or3 iu equipage. Many a man is rid- i ing to perdition postilion abend and j lackey behind. To steal one copy of a newspaper is a gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer who woui 1 not | Consent to steal a basket of peaches ; from n neighbor's stall, but who would , not scruple to depress the fruit mar- ! Uet, and as long as I can remember we have heard every summer the pem.ii crop of Maryland is a failure, and by the time the crop comes in the | misrepresentation makes a difference ' of millions of dollars. A man who would not steal olio 1 nsket of peaches steals f;0,000 baskets of poaches. tie dowu Into llio public library, Su : the reading rooms, and see t!:o news- | paper it ports of ike crops from all pnita o4* tlie country. ami their phraseology is very tuueli the same, ami the same men wrote litem, methodically i and infamously currying out the huge \ i.\ lug about titer grain crop front year to year and for a score of years. Aft- ' or awhile there will he a "corner" In ' the wheat market, a.tul nun who had j a contempt for i etty theft will burglarize the whea.t bin <d* a nation attd commit larceny upon the Antcricau corn crib, and some of the men will sit ! in churches and in reformatory institutions trying to strain out the small 1 gnats of seoundrelism. while in their grain elevators and in their store I houses they are fattening lingo camels which they expect after av.ldlo to 1 swallow. Society has to be entirely re- i constnvt ad on t^sis subject. We are i to find that a sin is inexcusable in pro- ! portion as it is great. I know in our i time (lie tendency is (o charge religious frauds upon good mint. '11 toy i say, "tilt, what a liost of frauds you ' have in llio Church of Goil in this day!" And when an elder of a church, or a deacon, or a minister of the go?-.- . pel, or a superintendent of a Sabbath school turn:; out a defaulter what dis* j play heads there are in many of the ; newspapers. Great primer type. Five line pica. "Another Saint Abscond* i ed," "Clerical Scoundrel ism," 'Tloil- j glon at a Piscouut," "Shame on the Clinrehes," while there are a thousand scoundrels outside the church to one inside the church, and the misbehavior , of those who never see the inside of a j* church Is so great that it is enough to ' tempt a man to become a Christ in 11 to ' get out of their company. I>ut In all circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency is to excuse siu In proportion demnn Sntan, gives such a grnWJJVPWo scription of him you have hard work to withhold your admiration. Oh, this straining out of small sins like gnats and this gulping dowu great iniquities like camels! (taller)' of I'lctnro*. This subject does not give the piclure of one or two persons, but is a ! gallery in which thousands of people j may see their likenesses. For instance, | all those people who, while they would not 10b their neighbors of a farthing, appropriate the money and the treus- ! tire of the public. A inau lias a house j to sell, and he tells his customer it is worth $20,000. Next day the assessor comes around, and the owner says it j is worth $ir>,0'J0. The government of the United States took off the tax from personal income, among other reasons ' because so few people would tell the truth, and many a man with uii in* j como of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to ini* , ply lie was about to be handed over to 1 the overseer of the nnm*. Pnmfni pay their passage from Liverpool to , New York, yet smuggling in their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from I'arls and a half dor.en watches from Geneva, telling the custom house o Ulcer on the wharf, "There is nothing in that trunk hut wearing apparel." and putting a ?r? goid piece in" his hand to i ninetuate the statement. Described In the text are ail those ' %vho are particular never to break the ; .i\v of grammar and who want ail heir language an elegant specimen of yntax, straining out all the Inaccura- ! ies of speech with a line sieve of lit- > orary criticism, while through their conversation go slander and innuendo and profanity and falsehood larger than n whole earn van of camels, when 1 they might better fracture every law of the language and shock their intellectual taste, and better let every verb seek in vain for its nominative, nmi ?v. i erj' noun for lis government, and lot every proposition lose Its way in the , sentence, and adjectives and partlcl- 1 pies and pronouns pet into a praud riot worthy of the Fourth ward of ' Now York on election day than to ' ' commit a moral Inaccuracy. Hotter , 1 swallow a thousand gnats than one i camel. f.1 Such persons are also described in 1 the text who are very much alarmed | 1 about the small faults of others and : have no alarm about their own great 1 ' transgressions. There are In every ' community and in every church watchdogs who fool allied upon to keep their eyes on others and growl. They < are full of suspicions. Thoy wonder If this man Is not dishonest, If that man Is not unclean. If there Is not something wrong about the other man. 1 They are always the first to hear of [ anything wrong. Vultures are always > the first to smell carrion. They are ' Rolf appointed detectives. I lay tlda f down as a rule without any exception 1 timt \hrm pwptw wire httvtr tire revet 1 faults themselves arc most merciless lu the It* vutchhij; of others. From sculp of head to solo of foot they are 1 till of jonlouskv; nit 1 hy parent k-isMJ. They spend their life in huutitf* for inuskrats anil mini turtles instead of hunting for Kock.v mountain u, lis, always for soiucthiu;; mean luste:: 1 of something grand. They look at their neighbors' Imperfections through a microscope and look at their own hisperfections through a telescope np-dJe down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt tlieui so much as one fault ni somebody else. Their tu Ighhor.s' Imperfections are like gnats. and they strain thorn out; their own imperfections are like camels, and they swallow them. Treaxtiros In ttonvtn. But lest too many lni^ht think they escape the serutiuy ol the test 1 have to tell you that we all como ;.t. lor the divii.o satiro wliotl wo make the (pactions f time ntoro prominent than the questions of eternity. Come, now. let uti an go I'i'.o Uio confessional. Are not nil tempted to make the question. Where shall 1 live uow? greater than I ho question. Where shall I live* iij"ever? How shall I sot moro dollars hero? greater than the question. Ilow shall 1 lay up treasures in lion von V tho question, How slm'.I I pay my del. to to man? greater than the question, IIow shall 1 meet my obligations to Clod? the quest ion. * How shall 1 gain tiie world V greater than the question, What it' I lose my sjuI? the question, Why did (Jo:l let sin come into the world? greater than the question. IIow shall I get it extirpated from my nature? tlie question. What shall i do with the HO or -10 or 7<> years of my sublunar existence? greater than the question. What shall I do with the millions of cycles of 'my post terrestrial existence? Time, hew small it is! F.ternity. how vast it Is I The former "more insignificant In comparison with tiie latter than a gnat is insignificant when compared with a catnel. We dodged the text. We said. "That does not mean me. and that does not mean me," and with a ruinous benevolence we are giving the whole sermon away. But let us nil surrender to the charge. What an ado about things here. What poor preparation for a great eternity. As though a minnow were larger than a behemoth as though a swallow took wider circuit than an albatross, as though a nettle were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat were greater than a camel, as though a tniu mi' wore longer man u century, as though time were higher, deeper, broader than eternity. So the text which Hashed with lightning of wit as Christ uttered it is followed by tlie crushing thunders of awful catastrophe to those who make the questions of time greater than the questions of the future, the oncoming, overshadowing future. Oh, eternity, eternity, eternity! "The InipcudluK Crinta" Man. llintou Itowau Helper of North Caru ifffflWtteu j ids prophetic work in 1857, and from that time he was an exile from his native state. Mr. Helper differed much from the old northern abolitionists, but was powerful In bringing the crisis ho had predicted. Today he would settle the race question by deporting the African. He said lu a recent interview: "I can recommend today what I advocated in 1857?deportation to Africa. We do not even want the negro in tho West India islands. If I could have seen tho first slave trader who ever lauded on this continent and had the power, 1 would have killed him and also his captive?tho former for his horrible crime of man stealing and tho mild lur nil? WL'ilKUl'ijS WlltCU Ul.llie It possible for him to be a slave."? Spriugtielu (Mass.) Republican. "Fellow" In tlie llllile. The New England papers are having a pleasant little battle over the origin and exact meaning of the word "fellow." They have dragged forth examples from the four corners of literature, but by some strange frcuk they have missed the word as used by Tyndale. The free use of old days allowed him to write in translating (Jcncsis xxxix, 2, "And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a luekie fellow." That looks at least quaint to most of us, but the effect Is accentuated when we come to Mark Iv, -11: "What felowe is this? For booth winds and see obey him." and Mark ii, 7, "How doth this felowe blaspheme?" Again in John vi, 52, we read, "IIow can this ? . ..... . reiowe give i;s liis tleshhe to eat?" Let j the people of New England study the early IJlbles.?Philadelphia Press. 1'n r t ridxcn us Tame an Chicken*. The idea that a partridge could not 1 he tamed has always been a prevailing one, and that, too, not without I foundation. The experiment has often been tried without any success. Mr. Joseph (.Solloway of this city, however, lias made an exception to this seemingly natural rule. He has a number jf partridges about 2 years old which were hatched on his premises. They ire perfectly gentle and are as do most ion ten in tneir nanus as the com- ) won clilckon. Tliey go about with tlio other fowls and In like manner livood and raise their young. This lemons!rates the possibility of what ins always been considered impossible. thinks Mr. Golloway.?Morrlstown ,Tenn.) Gazette. Stntco Renllnm. Joseph Jefferson tells a story of a i friend of his who was playing "Riehird III" on tiie Texas frontier. When t eame to the wooing of the Lady \nne, an Indignant cowboy Jumped up ind shouted: "Don't you believe him, narni! Ile've two Mexican wives , town in Bm ActtmttrT ' I .v * ?M?f ?? > * THEY CAME BACK? j : A Lover In n Uornc nntl n Letter C'nr- , ( ri'.r In :i Duti. So.no time ago ;i stor.- was told about j a bor.sc which was owned by a farmer at IJsh. N. Y? which showed Its foinl- _ ucss for a young woman of that place j in such a marked ay.il unmistakable | manner that some people of llu; place t c expressed the belief that thi^piflt of j the young woman's lover, who had died j a few years before the horse appeared ^ on the scene, had returned in the horse. ( 'J'iie young man, the story went, was a ^ linn believer in the transmigration of l-r.il'J ...,-,1 1..-.. I,,. ?n11.,.l DWiio, tur.i iviwi \J mr* nvti 111 ?V vm?iv:\? ^ his sweetheart and told her that even J; if lie died ho wou'.d always ho with ' hoi* in some form, and would in any form dcmousi'rate ids nITcctiou.for hoi*. ^ The young woman, a Miss Davis, acquired possession of the animal, and, although she did not subscribe to the theory advanced by some of her friends, named tire animal Jesse, after her dead lover, and had a comfortable room built next to the house, in which he was maintained in lior.se luxury. A transmigration story with kss romance comes from All any. A practicing physician in that place owns a handsome Irish setter. The dog is a . great pot in the family and is remarkably Intelligent. "Ho minds his own bin.'. ..ess, has no bad habits, and would bo pm feet if it were not for one trick." raid the owner, "and we forgive him that since wo know the reason for it." The setter takes every opportunity to get out of the house early in the morning, and it is iticod that whenever lie gets away !:*. tnah-s a straight dash down the Capita! ldll and never ci stops until ho gets t > ike postoJ'dee. i There the dog waits until the letter o carrier;! <-o;;:o out with their delivery pouches, and the first t tan in the strei t j has the dog's company until lie returns i to the posioflieo. lie hat*, no favorite o on the force; any letter carrier r: "fas t to suit bis purpose, ami his anxiety to t make the rounds. Ids familiarity v.dh e the hours of duty, and his friendship f for the uniformed carriers have c.V.tscd c many people to point tj> the dog as g proof that there is something in the v transmigration of souls theory, and I that the spirit of a tired out carrier has found its way into the dashing setter.? I New York Tribune. 1 Ciirlyle u:i the f.onl'K I'rnj'ir. \ Carlylo. although u disciple ( f ihc I, skeptical philosophy, livingnprayerless 8 life, once wrote to his friend. Tho^nis p IOrskine, the following testimonyujf The adaptability of the Lord's I'r./yer to man's nature: 3 i "'Our Father, which art lu/heavon, hallowed be thy name. Thv/kingdoni come. Thy will ho done.' m'liat else cau we sayV The other ninht, in my sleepless tossiugs about, v/hleh were growing more and mor^e luiserahle, these words of that hriejf and grand prayer came strangely i,nto my mind 1 with an altogether new /unphnsis, as if 1 within, and shining fior me In mild, liure splendor on th/e black bosom of I * ^''ii I, as it were, read tucm word by word, with a sudden 1 check to my imperfect wanderings, with a sudden softness of composure which was much unexpected. "Not for perhaps 3d or 40 years had I ever formally repeated that 1 prayer?nay, I never felt before how 1 intensely the voice of man's soul it is; the inmost aspiration of all that is 1 high and pious In poor human nature; 1 right worthy to be recommended with 1 an 'After this manner pray ye.' " Well, Wn* ft f ' Tho Kennebec (Me.) Journal tells this 1 story: "The committee on library In the 1 Sunday school of a church In one of 1 Portlanfl's suburban villages recently < determined that some of the books in ( the library were not exactly proper for Sunday school books and took it 1 upon themselves to expurgate the li- * brary. The books in question were of 1 a very high class from a literary stand- 1 point, and tlie objection to them was ' that they did not teach religion, as ( Sunday school bodks should. - 1 "The committee went over the library 1 carefully and picked out the volumes 1 which did not meet their ideas of what 1 the Sunday school standard should be, 1 having previously determined that they '1 should be burned. When they had been 4 laid aside, however, it was decided that It was too bad to burn them, and the matter was finally compromised by voting to present them to the library I of the other church In town. I "Now, was that Christian charity?" c 'We Xeeil n Mcltliiur." ?Apropos of the proposed "Anglo- 6 American alliance," the story of Ilqr- I ace Greeley's neat rebuke of the englishman who once agreed with him too literally may he worth telling. Mr. Greeley was discussing in n general company the faults and needs of his own nation. "What this country needs," said he in his piping voice and Yankee accent, Mis a real good licking." It happened that there was an Englishman present, and he promptly said, with unmistakable English accent: e "Quite right, Mr. Greeley, quite right, c The country needs a 'licking.' " i Hut Mr. Greeley, without glancing In f the Englishman's direction or seeming a to pay auy attention to the interrup- r tion, went on in the same squeaky c tone: "But the trouble Is there's no nation t that cau give it to us!"?Youth's Companiout a c Tornndo Proof Dwelling*. Now that Iron and steel can bo so j cheaply made lu the United States, v there should bo evolved some form of e tornado proof tenement suitable for rj the use of the inhabitants of the Mis- ^ slsslppl valley. Nothing less stable v than a well anchored bessemer dwellIng seems a safe place of residence lu v the prairie etates.?Philadelphia Bee- t ** . .-1 THE SOY BEAN. iiltlvntrd Ldltv-* Corn?Tip jlcillam Marly Variety Heeon?ii?ei??Ic?l. The eoy bean is one of tbe staple rops of Japan which in now becoming nito commonly grown in this country, "lie crop is cultivated like corn, the ped being planted in drills ut the rate t about half a bushel per acre. Its niln value, as demonstrated in recent ears, seems to bo that of a forage rop. The composition of the plant hows a high percentage of food ingrei : H!j J i -j;s ...< 3 SOT IIKANS?EAKLY, MIIDI CM A SI) J.ATK. i tents, and, as it is one of the legumnons plants, it doubtless derives much f its nitrogen from the air. There are many varieties which at resent are classified by a few seedsmen nto early, medium and late; others iflcr simply soy or 4,soja" beans, which he New Hampshire station has found o be usually the late variety. This tat ion has cultivated tiio soy bean for our seasons. The cut.shows specimens, f early, medium and late varieties ;rown last season and represents their arums degrees cf development when ihotographcd in September. No. 1 is dead ripe, with leaves fallen, t contains, on an average, from 40 to bean pods, with from two to three leans each. No. 2 is the medium early 'ariety, and, although green wlieu unvested, the seed was matured. No. I is tht> late variety, and, although of ;ood sizo-it iw.._ still in blossom when lltfuvtjgraphed. The average yield of each variety'per acre, when grown upon a fairly rich, hut poorly drained clay loam, was for No. 1, the early, 3 tons, 1.S08 pounds; for No. 'J, medium early, 4 tons, 1,1)23 pounds; for No. 51, the late, 4 tons, l.GtSO pounds. The seed of the early is brown, while that of the medium early is black. Professor Pane in bis report on this plant advises that, all things considered, the medium early variety the best on account of its inaturinulMt Igj large quantity of seed, as well as inii'?fl H; iug a fine leafy growth, that: -em.'** ono either to sell tLe seed or convert the whole into silage. The Velvet Bonn In the Hontli. A nw^tif 4-1*^ . . 1? f ? ? ? 41? _ x_ uiiiuug mo jiiiiuin iiTi'utiy introduced to tho public few have received go much notice in the gulf states na tho velvet bean. In Florida within the last few years it has come into extensive use and has found general favor, especially aa a plant for use as a fertilizer in orange groves. The Alabama station says that, although Alabama has no arange groves, the farmers of this state also have uses for the velvet bean, which matures seed in the southern part of Alabama and makes a luxuriant ;rowth of vines in every part of the itate. As a ruin the leguminous plants prized for soil improvement are also excellent for feeding animals, their large percentage of nitrogen making them especially nutritions. 13uth vines and seed >f the velvet beau are used as food for louiestic animals, and some slight use las been made of the seed as food for uankind. Another use for velvet beans s as mcaiis of crowding or shading troublesome weeds. In the velvet bean ve probably have a means of lighting iermnda and nut grass and perhaps llsri .Tnlmurtti v..MUv/U ft'UOO. Lifting; a IInyriu?k Off ami On. A correspondent sends the Iowa lonicstead a device for unloading and Hitting on a hayrack, which has been >f great help to him: To make this *\ke two 2 by 0, lt3 or 20 feet long, spike each to posts, as in the cut. The hortest post or the top of 2 by 0 most jo 8 feet 8 inches high or just high ... I-J IlKVICE FOB LIFTING A HAYUACJC. >nough to catch nmlrr the crosspiecen if the rack. Tho highest cud most bo nnch higher. The post must he or G ect high, owing to the height of stand* rds on wagon or the height tho rack nnst be raised to clear standards Spiko n some braces. Set tho posts so the tram and wngon an pass between, which will l o G or IJli feet. Take a chain or , ieco of wire nd chain from end of tongue to front rOHspiece of rack. This is to poll tho ack on the inclined 3 by G. Tako the earn by the bits and lead them through intil the incline has raised rack high notigh, unhook the chain and drive off. 'o put rack on, back nndcr and cbnin ind axle to the rack. Be snre to chain rngon directly under ruck. Back team nd tho rack will settle to its place on rogon without any lifting. I have used bis for ?na? tfw?t and it is all rifbfc