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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1905)
73 rlJk .S&SJL 9 5ksjfrd in M 1 111 rWSTOMSOT I I k-. if t MUM ran nn rsYiRT3 LIU 'THE HUNGER OF THE AGES. fly Her. Henry P. Cote. "Blessed nro thoy which do hunger .nnd thirst after righteousness, for they Bhull be lllleil." Matt, v., li. This Is the central beatitude; In a measure It embraces all the others, for every virtue they Inculcate Is included in righteousness. Hut It Is often re jected as impracticable because fanci ful teachers who substitute' subtle dell- nltions for simple duties have twisted its plain words until righteousness Is made something so unreasonable as to be repulsive to a right mind. As n matter of fact, it moans no more than Tightness; the hunger nnd thirst for .righteousness is but the earnest, su preme desire and endeavor to bo right .and to do right at all times, the nppe tlto for the right. Theological righteousness may mean some strange Imputed quality laid on a man like a cloak to cover his real eon dltlon or a bill of health given to a sick man. Hut mm who live next to real things fMiro nnthlnir one way or the other for theoretical rlghtness; they want the real article. And a right man will not be satisfied to have even the Most High think of him as being pe fnctlv right when lie knows he falls tar short of It. lie would rather bi the faltering pursuer of actual right ;ness than the possessor of a hypothet ical, ascribed perfection. The Great Teacher cares nothtn about Imaginary virtues; he praises those who ardently seek the real ones He knows that In the market of char acter cash nlono Is currency; hero you cannot draw checks on some other per son's deposits. To him It Is better by far to die facing the right than to live in smug content with borrowed mer its. This world will never be content with a gospel that offers only vicarious vlrtnns: at its heart It knows too well its need of the genuine usable ones it has at least the dormant faculties for an appetite of rlghtness. And all this world story is but a rec ord of the struggle for rlghtness. All human nrogross Is but Its fruitage. In every age there have been glorlou souls who have made this passion a thing that glowed In their lives nnd became a light to their day. In every man the divine discontent that divides him from the animal i's the sign of this desire In some form; It shows man seeking to find -more perfect, more nearly right relations with the things about him. As the things about him eome to include God and heaven and things unseen so will his search for rlghtness become wider and deeper and more spiritual. Every form of spiritual aspiration, every religion, no matter how uncouth and strange, Is still the soul of man seeking right re lations to the infinite. What a glorious thing Is this passion for the right; what visions It has seen, "what strength It has given to their re alization. It is the great tide that, moving restless a" ml resistless In our bosoms, has carried us on toward God. We cannot but believe It Is born of him. It does not originate In man, for it disturbs his peace, it stirs him from sloth, It spurs him to new and often unwelcome endeavors. It ever holds before him the shining possibility of a perfect being In a perfect word. No wonder Christ used the figure of hunger and thirst. Literal appetites have been the motives back of the world's struggle for physical rlght ness; yet these cravings have not been more general or more forceful than those of the soul. Hut for hunger and thirst man would have lived In perfect content with the form and facts of life as he found them; progress, all that wo call civilization, would not have been. Man Is happy In proportion as neces sity compels him to heed these crav ings. So is It In tho moral world; the struggle has been our salvation. To cease to strive for rlghtness Is to cease to live. Individually and nationally they are happy who accept the rigor ous, climate of lofty ethical Ideals, who nro not content 10 take life as they II ml it, but who seek to cultivate How ors and fruits ot paradise on the ster ile, rooky soil of the human heart. This Is the life that .Jesus shows, the life that seeks and llnds tho truth, that with passionate ardor seeks right relations both with his fellows am! with his Father. Out of tho fullness of experience, in tho midst of his own struggle he encourages all who strive; they shall be satisfied. No Ideal, no noble passion, no glorious sacrifice, no honest endeavor for tho right was over in vain; the soul finds Itself in seeking tlu" euyreme good. THE TIME." ly Her. Lcanilcr Hall Whnt house will you build Vets 7, 20. In the olden days of nrt Bulkier wrought with greatest caro Knelt minute ami unsueu part For the gods see everywhere. This stanza from "The Builders," by Longfellow, is strikingly suggestive In the conception of the poet the feei ng that the eyes of their gods were ever resting upon them led uncioni "builders" working upon tho "walls of time" to do their work with greatest care. The thought may be applied to mod ern "builders;" modern meoiogy teaches and modern faith accepts tho doctrine of the omnipresent God, not many gods. As beautifully expressed by a young Christian girl In answer to the question by an lnlldel: "How large Is your God 7" "So large," she replied, "that tho heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and yet so conde scendingly kind as to dwell in my lit tie heart." The divine presence tills Immensity, not only reaching beyond the limits of the material universe, but in Infinite condescension dwelling In human hearts. In a marvelous presentation of the anlinalculae kingdom, using the most powerful glasses, Dr. Ellp'nalet Nott of Union College said: "There Is no place too small for God to work In." With equal correctness It may bo said there Is no place too small for God to dwell In. The laws governing spiritual exist ence nro above human comprehension They are fundamentally different from those governing the material kingdom, where the presence of one substance excludes the presence of all others The onminresence of God admits of the presence of tho material heavens and also of unnumbered spiritual ex istences. Without the God-given fac ultyof faith, how wonderfully clrcum scribed would be tho realm of human knowledge! Could all modern "builders" working upon the "walls of time" have an abid ing consciousness that It was utterly Impossible to escape the divine pros once, would not this have a powerful influence in determining the character of tljdr "building?" Mnny heavy bolted doors may conceal tho gambler from the eyes of men, but they cannot conceal him from tho eyes of God Should nil human building that is done under the cover of darkness bo uncov ered to tho observation of men tho world would stand aghast. Yet, as the royal psalmist truthfully tells us "Even the darkness hldeth not from Thee." What a scene It must have boon upon which tho eye of God was look Inir when Ho "so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, Urn whosoever believeth in Illm should not perish, but have eternal life. Whnt emphasis this thought gives to the words of tho loving disciple, "Y love Illm because He flrst loved us." It seems purely impossible that such love should fall powerless upon human hearts. "Thou God seest mo" Is truth that cannot be too strongly em pliasized, especially In all religious teaching. It could appropriately bo written In tho vestibule of every church. It wore well if it had a prom nent place over the entrance to every place of business. Could it be emblazoned along all tho thoroughfares of human existence would prove an effective guide to bet ter "building" and a nobler destiny No better motto could be hung upon the walls of tho living- room of every home. It would bo Impossible to lm press it too deeply upon the mind and heart of every child. Birth, not ueatn, is tne entrance o every soul to the Divine presence. God dwells In heaven no more than He dwells on earth. Here, as well a there, the hand of faith can lay hoi unon His blessings. Ho sends Ills angel .to care for the helpless Infants He looks to the nr. rents to guide tho unfolding child; when the years of ac oountablllty are reached He holds eaeli Individual responsible for his ow "building" and nil relatively rospon slblo for eaeli. When He comes and calls each must lie In readiness to answer the quos tion: "Where Is ihy brother?" The eye of an omnipresent God Is restin upon every "builder." Are we like th ancient builders, building "with great est care each minute an unseen part? Will our dual reward bo "well done? HIIOKT METE 11 SERMONS, Small sorrows are most voluble. Kindness 3 the key to every heart. Fidelity Is the best evidence of faith No big success can coino to a little soul. Saving money is not being saved oy money. Money hns powor to crush happlnes only when its roots get in the heart BUILDERS OP me ? I WW s '.j " m I A I.ubor-Snvlni: Hair. It Is not nn easy task for the man . . who must do all of the work urounu the farm most of the year to handle some tilings alone, so that If he Is at all Ingenious he welcomes the devices which will enable him to do his work more easily. Here Is a plan for one man to Hand e grains or any ouiui thing which may be placed In a bag which Is stored n the tumor part of the barn and must go to tho main lloor. Take a bag of strong material, a seed bag Is the best, and have It re- sewed so that it will be a trifle smaller at the top than in any other part; a light Iron or strong wire hoop Is then sewn around tho top, so that the bag la kept open and yet the contents are not oasilv sullied out. Two rings are placed In the bottom of the bag sev oral Inches apart and a ring Is slipped over the wire or Iron hoop before It Is sewed to the bag. Place a strip of lumber properly braced over the top of tho door and to It fasten three puJ leys, the center one fastened so that It will come down some four Indies lower than the others. Now fasten one rone to the ring In the hoop, run It through tho first and tho third pulleys and you have the raising and lowering rope. Then fasten a second rope in tho ring at Uie bottom of the bag, the one farthest away, run it through the second ring nnd then up through the middle pulley and you have the eon trlvance by which tho bag may be LAIIOH-SAVINO I1AO. easily dumped. A glance at the Illus tration will show how useful this ap pliance Is and how readily It will work in practice. Use the Whltcwanh. A writer in a prominent poultry Journal says that the houses should be whitewashed and cleaned twice a year. By cleaning It Is assumed ho means everything removed and thoroughly renovated. The poultryman who works on this plan can not keep the house free from vermin and disease no matter how freely he may use in sect powder, and how thoroughly the whitewashing is done twice a. year. Twenty years of experience in raising poultry has taught tho writer than no house ought to go longer than two months without being thoroughly whitewashed in every nook and crev ice. In certain seasons the work is done more frequently. All our houses are built with scratching sheds so It Is easy to do the whitewashing while the hens are In the shed nnd then by shutting them In the house whitewash the scratching sheds. Insect powdor is, of course, a necessity, but less of It will bo necessary If the houses nro kept clean by lime nnd disinfectant. Hny Tea for Calf Feeding. Hay tea is made by boiling sound hay for half an hour, tho hay being best cut Into half-Inch chaff Ijfore boiling It. For a young calf under a month old, give two gallons of this hay tea, with four ounces of linseed and pollard per day. Silo Advantage. I have no silo, but have boon watch lug my neighbors who have silos and shall build one, writes a Pennsylvania fanner In Rural New Yorker. I have Investigated my neighbors' who have been using them for two and three years, and am satlslled that it Is a good and cheap way of feeding cattle and sheep, even where brewers' malt may be had with short haul. My judg ment on tho mntter of feed is that with alfalfa and a vrell-fllled silo we enn produce milk, muttoji uud beef at ttmnll cost Derrick for Stacking liny. Where there Is much hay to Htack abor and time may be saved by using derrick. There nro numerous plans for building a derrick, but none Is sim pler or cheaper than this design, which s the Invention of n fanner, who says: 1 have tried to make a drawing of derrick that I put up to stack hay with this year. It works ho slick that am sure It will please anybody. The pole is 10 Inches at the butt, fi at top nnd 47 feet long. 1 made a mortise ut the butt through which to put a chain to fasten It to the tree. Twenty- two feet from that I bored nn Inch hole, through which to put a pin to keep legs from slipping. I used crotches for logs, and wired them fast to the pole. I twisted four No. 12 10 Yt TO HAY DKUUtCK. wires together for cable with which to stiffen pole by guying to tree as shown In cut. I can take a fair-sized load at four forkfuls with this rig. When we get a stack done we rope the two legs together, hitch a team of horses to them, as Illustrated, and haul It over to a new place; It works like a boom on a mast. If I had not had the tree handy I should have set n 50-foot pole In the ground -1 or fi feet, staying It with u couple of guy cables. I should fasten butt of pole the same as a boom; then 1 could build stacks three-uuarters of the way round tho center pole. We build our stacks 21 feet square and 2." to 28 feet high By having a pulley at the legs, as shown, tho hay will not rub against ihe stack, but swing clear and drop right in tho middle of the stack, there by keeping tho center of the stack solid, thus making It sure to keep Uoforiu In Milking. Additional knowledge and the ne cessity for looking after every detail In order that tho dairy may be profit able, has resulted In wonderful Im provements In the care of cows and of tho milk afterward. Stringent health laws of the several cities have forced the shiftless man to wake up or else get out of business. There are still many opportunities for Improve ment, particularly along the line of cleanliness of the cows and of the sta bles and milking along more scientific lines. If the dairyman was half as clean ns the milkman there would be little to complain of. The milkman must, of course, keep his milk on Ice, but use an abundance of scalding water In tho washing of bottles and utensils of tin, nnd further purify them In the sun. I go further and wash the little crates of wood In which bottles of milk are carried, using hot water and scouring soap and give these, too, a sun bath. Seo that Ice boxes are scrubbed with hot water dally, that the mllkhouse floor Is also scrubbed, and then thoroughly dried. Spraying with Bordeaux. I have been spraying with the liquid bordeaux, arsenate of soda, and arse nate of soda and arsenate of lead com bined for several years with good re sults. I give one good spraying Just before the bloom, a second just ns soon as most of the bloom has fallen, a third a week or two later, a fourth about a mouth later and made a fifth application last year still a month later, or the last of July or the ilrst of August. For tho last two applications the bordeaux was not used at full strength but the lime was increased rather than diminished and the arse nates about the same. With a strong mixture all tho season, the foliage Is sometimes injured, especially In wet weather, and when the leaves drop tho fruit quits growing and does not take on the most beautiful color nor hnvo the best llavor. Ohio Cor. Amer ican Agriculturist. The Clean Barnyard. A clean, well-drained barnyard Is an essential factor In the production of sanitary milk, for where cows are obliged to wade in mire and 111 1 li It Is easy to foretell what the quality of tho milk will be. In order to secure a good barn van! tho slope should be away from tho stnble, or at least toward tho stable; and It should covered vXth gravel or cinder. If manuro Is not taken directly from stables to the Holds, It should not be the the lo placed whero uccosa to1 it. tho cows cannot have Squash Crumpet". Beat four eggs until light, then add' one and a half cupfuls of milk, ono cupful of canned squash, three table-; spoonfuls of melted butter, one cupful. of wheat Hour and half a cupful of entire wheat Hour, half a teaspoonful of salt, threo tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of milk and two tea spoonfuls of baking powder; boat those Ingredients well and bake In but tered niullln tins for tweuty-ilvo niliw utos. Krled Carrots. Select tho smallest young roots; wash and scrape them and boll them until nearly tender enough for tho table, then drain and saute them In butter until Bllghtly browned on all sides; sprinkle with minced parsley and servo very hot. Tho carrots may be cut Into large strips before frying, If that way Is preferred. Some per sons- add a trace of sugar to tho but ter In which they cook. Cabbage Tart. Slice or chop lino a small head, and season with salt and pepper; cook In a kettle In just enough water to keep from burning; take one-half cupful f-onr cream, one-half cupful vinegar, two eggs, butter size of an egg, beat together and pour It ovor tho cooked (abbage In tho kettle; let It boll up once and serve. This can be oaten by, a dyspeptic without harm. Oatmeal Cake. Mix together two cups of Hour sift ed with two teaspoonfuls of baking soda and a cup and a half of oatmeal; cream together a cup of butter and two cups of brown sugar, add threo beaten eggs, and beat this Into tho oat meal and Hour mixture. A()d enough milk to make a good batter and bako in a shallow tin, well greased. Foam Bailee. This sauce requires careful making Just before It Is wanted. If made too soon It loses Its foamy appearance en tirely. Break ono egg Into a Jam pot, which stand In a stewpan of hot water. Whisk well, adding gradually, iiu wlille whisking, the required Havorlng, Sweeten with one teaspoonful sugar, also added wbljo whisking goes oiu 1 Cousin Anna's Oiticiot. Bent four eggs separately. Add four tablespoonfuls of fhlllc to the yolks, one tenspoonful of salt and pepper to taste. Pour on tho whites and fold In.1 Put one tablespoonful of butter Into a saucepan, heat and pour In tho mix ture. As soon as set, and brown on tho bottom, place In tho oven nnd, Bllghtlyy brown the top. Fold nnd serve. l,cnox I'uddlng. Four tablespoonfuls of butter, threo teacupfuls of sugar, three-fourths of a pint of Hour, five eggs, three-fourths of a teacupful of milk, ono tencupful of raisins, one-half of a teacupful of cup rants, tho Juice of one-half of a lomoiii one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder. Boil three hours, and eat with sauce OyHtcr Patties. Prepare enses from puff pnste or purchase from tho caterer. Scald sufll cleut oysters In their own liquor, then drain nnd chop line. Make a richly seasoned cream dressing, and, while hot, stir in the oysters, 1111 the heated shells and serve hot. Plum Jelly. Take the plums before they dm wholly ripe. Cover with boiling xvn'j& and let them boll slowly until they nro thoroughly cooked. Then drain In 3 Jolly bag. .Use an equal mensv'o of sugar and plum Juice, and lln.'.'a liko other Jellies. French Mustard. Into four tablespoonfuls of dry mus tard stir a tablespoonful of salad oil and enough vinegar to make a till paste. Woik until very smooth, thoii season with j'iiprika, a Httio sugar niuj a dash of onion juice, then bottle. Heat until llvi'-J Jiauaua Cro(iietteH. After removing the skin and oarso threads from bananas, cut In ealf, roll In egg and sifted bread .r.nnnln sea soned with salt and ivpor, and fry for a minute and a half In deep, hot fat, draining on soft paper before soar ing. Canned l'caa. Shell fresh peas and lay them 1: cold water for an hour. Drain ai boll until tender In salted water. Pack in clean Jars, f.ll these to overll win with tho boiling liquid and seal irv moil lately. Tomato Sauce. Skin half a dozen ripe tomatoes, add salt and pepper and allow "to mellow awhile In their own JiuVre; add one third cup hot ollvo Cr'i and a small, finely minced garlic clovo, and boll, dowu to 'thick omtm consistency.