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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1891)
fWPP"""'' aV . .ii miiii1jn' P!j!5 PAiS s-Vi1! & lit .aw SERMON TO FARMERS. Dr. Talmage Addresses the Agrl-culturista. The Multitude iBTlted to Drink at the Gospel Well-All CUuei Welcomed Glorious Offartos; of Christ Healing Worldly Sorrows. In a sermon lately Breached mtthm Sgw York and Pennsylvania exposition ' limira, u. Y., Kev. T. DeWitt Tal lage took his text from Genesis xxlx. : "And they said, we cannot until all ie flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then wo water the sheep." After alluding to his early training on the farm and the appropriateness of his addressing an assembly of farmers and nmi stock raisers, Dr. Talmage said: And now while the air of these fair grounds is filled with the bleating of sheep, and the neighing of horses, and the lowing of cattle, I cannot find a more appropriate text than the one I read. It is a scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully pastoral. A well of water of great value in that region. Tho fields around about it white with three flocks of sheep lying down waiting for the watering. I look off, and I see other flocks of sheep coming. Mean while Jacob, a stranger, on the interesting errand of looking ing for a wife, comes to the well. A beautiful shepherdess comes to the same welL I see her approaching, fol lowed by her father's flock of sheep. It was a memorable meeting. Jacob married that shepherdess. The Bible account of it is: "Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept" It has always been a mystery to me what he found to cry about! Hut beforo that scene occurred, Jacob accosts the shepherds and asks them why they postpone the slaking of the thirst of these sheep, and why thoy did not im mediately proceed to water them. The shepherds reply to the effect: "We aro all good neighbors, and as a matter of courtesy we wait until all the sheep of the neighborhood come up. Iicsidos that, this stone on the well's mouth is somewhat heavy, and several of us take hold of it and push it aside, and then tho buckets nnd the troughs are fillod, and the sheep are satisfied We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep." 0, this is a thirsty world! Hot for the head, and blistering for the feet, and parching for tho tongue. The world's great want is a cool, refreshing, hatisfy ing draught We wander around and find the cistern empty. Long and tedious drought ha dried up the world's fountains, butnear.y nineteen centuries ago, a Shepherd, with a crook in tho shape of a cross, and feet cut to bleed ing, explored tho desert passages of this world, and one day came across a well a thousand feet deep, bubbling and bright, nnd opalescent, and looked to the north, and the south, and the east, and tho west, and cried out with a voice strong and musical that rang through the ages: "Ho, evcre one that thirstcth, come ye to the waters! " Now a great flock of sheep to-day gathor around this gospel well. There are a great inHny thirsty souls. I won der why the flocks of all nations do not gathor why so many stay thirsty and while I am wondering about it my text breaks forth'in the explanation, saying: "We rannot, until all tho flocks bo gathered together, and till they roll the stone from tho well's mouth; then we water the sheep." If a herd of swine come to a well they angrily jostle each other for tho goreeedence; if a drove of cattlo come ff a well, thoy hook each other back from the water, but when the flock of sheep romp, though a hundred of them shall be disappointed, they only ex press it by sail bleating, they come together peaceful'y. We want a great multitude to come around the gospel well. 1 know there are those who do not like a crowd they think a crowd is vulgar. If they arc oppressed for room in church it makes them posi tively impatient and belligerent Not so did these oriental shepherds. They . waited until all the flocks were gath ered, and tho more flocks that came, the better they liked it And so we ought to be anxious that all the people should come. (Io out into the highways and the hedges and compel them to come in. Oo to the rich and tell them they are indigent without the gospel of Jesus. Go to the poor and tell them the afflu ence there is in Christ (to to the blind and tell them of the touch that gives eternal illumination. Oo to the lame and tell them of tho joy that will make the lame man leap like a hart Gather all the sheep oft of all the mountains. None so torn of the dogs, none so sick, none so worried, none so dying, as to he omitted. When tho fall elections come the whole land is scoured for voters, and if a man is too weak or sick to walk to the polls, a carriage is sent for him; but when tho question is vt hethcr Christ or the devil shall rule this world, how fow there are to come out and seek the sick, and the lost, and the suffering, and tho bereft and the lame, and induce their suffrages for the Lord Jesus. Why not gather a great lhck? All America in a flock; all the world iu a flock. This well of the gos pel is deep enough to put out the burn ing thirst of the fourteen hundred mil lions of tho race. Do not let the church, by a spirit of exelusivcness, keep the world out Let down all tho bars, swing open all the gates, scatter all the invitations: 'Whosoever will, let him come." You notice that this well of Mesopo tamia had a stone on it which must be removed before tho sheep could be watered; and I find on the well of sal vation to-day impediments and ob- stacles, which must be removed in or der that you may obtain the refresh ment and life of this gospel. In your case the impediment is pride of heart Yon cannot bear to come to so democratic a fountain; you do not want to come with so many others. It is to you like when .you are dry, com ing to a town pump, as compared to sitting in a parlor sipping out of a chased chalico which has just been lifted from a silver salver. Not so many publicans and sinners. You want to get to Heaven, but it must be in a special car, with your feet on a Turkish ottoman and a band of music on board the train. You do not want to be in company with rustic Jacob and Rachel, and to be drinkiug out of the fountain where 10,000 sheep have been drinking before you. You will have to remove the obstacles of pride or never find your way to the welL You will have to come as we came, willing to take the water of eternal life in any way, and at any hand, and in any kind of pitcher, cryfng out: 0, Lord Jesus, 1 am dying of thirst Give mo the water of eternal life, whether in trough or goblet; give me the water of life, I care not in what it comes to me." Here is another man who is kept back from this water of life by the stone of an obdurate heart which lies over the mouth of the welL You have no more feeling upon this subject than If God had yet to do you the first kind ness, or you had to do God the first wrong. Seated on His lap all these years, His everlasting arms sheltering you, where is your gratitude? Where it your morning and evening prayer? Where are your consecrated lives? I say to you, as Daniel said to Belshaz zar: "The God in whose hand thy breath is, and all thy way, thou hast not glorified." O, man, what dost thou with that hard heart? Canst thou not feel one throb of gratitude toward the God that mado you, and tho Christ who came to redeem you, and the Holy Ghost who has all these years been importuning you? If you could sit down five min utes under the tree of a Saviour's martyrdom and feel His warm life trickling on your forehead and cheek and hands, methinks yon would get some -appreciation of what you owe to a crucified Jesus. Heart of stone, relent, relent. Touched by Jesus' cross subdued; See His body, mangled, rent. Covered with a gore of blood. Blnfnl roul, what hast thou done? Crucified the eternal Son. Jacob with a good deal of tug and push took the stone from the well's month, so that the flocks might be watered. And I would that to-day my word, blessed of God, might remove the hindrances to your getting up to the gospel welL Yea, I take it for granted that the work is done, and now like the original shepherds I proceed to water the sheep. Come, all ye thirsty! You have an undefined longing in your soul. You tried money making; that did not satis fiy you. You tried office under govern ment; that did not satisfy you. You tried pictures and sculptures, but works of art did not satisfy you. There are men who are perfectly discontented. Unhappy in tho past, unhappy to-day, to be unhappy forever, unless you come to this gospel welL This satisfies the soul with a high, deep, all absorbing and eternal satisfaction. The wealth of Croesus and of all the Rothschilds is only a poor, miserable shilling compared with the eternal fortunes that Christ offers you to-day. In the far cast there was a king who used once a year to get on the scales, while on the other side the scales were placed gold and silver and gems; in deed enough were placed there to bal ance the king; then, at the close of the weighing, all those treasures were thrown among tho populace. Hut Christ to-day steps on ono side the scales and on the other side are all the treasures of the universe, and he says: "All are yours all height, all depth, all length, all breadth, all eternity; all aro yours." We don't appreciate the promises of the gospeL When an aged clergyman was dying a man very emi nent in the church a young theological student stood by his side, and tho aged man looked up and said to him: "Can't you give me some comfort in my dying hour?" "No," said the young man; "I can't talk to you on this subject; you know all about it, and have known it so long." "Well," said tho dying man, "just recite to me some promises." The young man thought a moment, and he came to this promise: "Tho blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin;" and the old man clasped his hands, nnd in his dying moment said: "That's just the promiso I have been waiting for. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.' " Come, also, to this gospel well all ye troubled. I do not suppose you have escaped. Compare your view of this life at fifteen years of age with what your view of it is at forty, or sixty, or seventy. hat a great contrast of opinion! Were you right then or are you right now? Two cups placed in your hands, the ono a sweet cup, the other a sour cup. A cup of joy and a cup of grief. Which has been the near est to being full, and out of which have you tho more frequently partaken? What a different place the cemetery is from what it used to be. Once it was to you a grand city improvement and you went out on tho pleasure ex cursion and you ran laughingly up the mound and you criticised in a light way the epitaph. Hut since the dny when you heard tho bell toll at the gate as you went in with the procession, it is a sad placo and there is a flood of rushing memories that suffuse the eye and over master tho heart Oh, you have had trouble, trouble, trouble. God only knows how much 3011 have had. It is a wonder you have been able to live through it It is a wonder your nervous system has not been shattered and your brain has not reeled Trouble, trouble. If I could gather all the griefs of all sorts from this greit audience, and could put them in ono scroll neither mau nor angel could endure the recita tion. Well what do you want? Would you like to have your property back again? "No," you say, as a Christian man; "I was becoming nrrogant and I think that is why the Iord took it away. I don't want to have my property back." Well, would you have your departed friends back again? "No," 3'ou say, "I couldn't take tho responsi bilty of bringing them from tearless realm to a realm of tears. I couldn't do it" Well, then, what do want? A thousand voices in the audience cry out: "Comfort irive us comfort" For that reason 1 have rolled away the stone from tho well's mouth. Come, all ye wounded of tho flock, pursued of the wolves, come to, the fountain where the Lord's sick and bereft ones have come. "Ah," says some one, "you aro not old enough to understand ray sorrows. You have not been in tho world as long as I have, and you can't talk to me about my misfortunes in the time of old age." Well, I have been a great deal among old people, nnd know how they feel about their failing health, and about their departed friends and about the loneliness that sometimes strikes through their soul. After two persons have lived together for forty or fifty years, and one of them Is taken away, what desolation! I shall .not forget the late Rev. Dr. De Witt, of New York, when he stood by the open grave of his beloved wife, and after the obsequies had ended, he looked down into the open place aud said: "Fare well, my honored, faithful and beloved wife. The bond that bound us is sev ered Thou art in "glory, and I am here on earth. We shall meet again. Fare well! Farewell!" To lean on a prop for fifty years and then have it break under you! There were only two years' difference between the deaths of ray father and mother. After my mother's decease my father used to go around as though looking for something; and he would often get up from one room, without any seeming reason, and go another room; and then he would take his cane and start out, and some one would say: "Father, where are you going?" and he would answer: "I don't know exactly where I am going." Always looking for something. Though he was a tender hearted man, I never saw him cry but once, and that was at the burial of my mother. After sixty years living to gether, it was hard to part And there are aged people to-day who arc feeling just such a pang as that I want to tell them there is perfect enchantment in the promises of this gospel; and I come to them and I offer them my arm, or I take their arm, and I bring them to this gospel welL Sit down, father, or mother, sit down. See if there is anything at the well for you. Come, David, the psalmist, have yon anything encouraging to offer them? "Yes," says the psalmist, "they shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat and flourishing, to show that the Lord is upright He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in me." Come Isaiah, have yom anything to say oat of your prophecies for these aged people? "Yes," said Isaiah, "down to eld ags 1 am with thee, and to hoary hairs will I carry thee." Well, if the Lord is going to carry you, you ought not to worry Bach about your failing eyesight and failing limbs. You get a little worried for fear some time you will come to want, do you? Your children and grandchil dren sometimes speak a little sharp at you because of your ailments. The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you think you will come to want? Who do you think the Lord is? Are His gran aries empty? Will He feed the raven and the rabbit, and the lion in the des ert, and forget you? Why, naturalists tell us that tho porpoise will not for sake its wounded and sick mate. And do you suppose the Lord of Heaven and earth has not as much sympathy as the fish of the sea? Hut I gather all the promises to-day in a group, and I ask the shepherds to drive their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the sparkling supply. "Uehold, happy is the man whom God corrcct eth." "Though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion." "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them alL" "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." I am de termined to-day that no one shall jjo away uncomforted. So I come to your timid and shrink ing soul to-day and compel you to come out in the presence of the Divine Phys ician. He will not hurt you. He has been healing wounds for many years and He will give you gentle and omnip otent medicament Hut people, when they have trouble, go anywhere rather than to God De Quincy took opium to get rid of his troubles Charles Lamb took to punclu Theodore Hook took to something stronger. Edwin Forest took to theatrical dissipation. And men have run all around the earth, hoping in the quick transit to get away from their misfortunes. It has been a dead failure. There is only one well that can slake the thirst of an afllicted spirit and that is tho deep and inex haustible well of the gospel. Hut somo one says in tho audience: "Notwithstanding all you have said this morning I find no alleviation for my troubles." Well, I am not through yet I have left the most potent con sideration for the last I am going to soothe you with the thought of Heaven. However talkative we may be, there will come a time when s&u stoutest and most emphatic interrogation will pro voke from us no answer. As soou as we have closed our lips for the final si lence, no power on cartli can break that taciturnity. Hut where, O Christian, will be your spirit? In a scene of infinite gladness. The spring mornin-J of Heaven waving its blossoms in tin? bright air. Victors fresh from battle showing their scars. The rain of earth ly sorrow struck through with tho rain bow of eternal joy. In ono group, God and angels and tho redeemed Paul and Silas, Latimer aud Ridley, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Payson and John Mil ton, Gabriel and Michael tho arch angel. Long lino of choristers reach ing across tho hills. Seas of joy dash ing to the white hcacli. Conquerors marching from gate to gate. You among them. (), what a great flock of sheep God will gather around tho celestial well. No stone on the well's mouth, while the Shepherd waters tho sheep. Tliero Jneob will reeognizo Rachel the shep herdess. And standing on one side of tho well of nternal rapture, your children; and standing on the other side of the well of eternal rapture, your Christian ancestry, 3011 will bo bounded on all sides by a J03' so keen and grand that no cither world has ever leen permitted to experience it Out of that one deep well of heaven tho Shepherd will dip reunion for the be reacd, wealth for the poor, health for the sick, rest for the woarj And theu all the Hock of the Lord's sheep will Ho down in the green pastures, and world without end wo will praise the Lord that 011 this autumnal Sabbath of lS'Jl uo were permitted to study among tho bleating Hocks and lowing herds of this fair ground tho .story of Jacob and Rachel the shepherdess at the well in Mesopotamia. O, plunge your buckets into this great gospel well and let them come up dripping with that water of which if a man drink he never again shall thirst A PET ORANG-OUTANG. It Kvlnreil About an Much liitrlligrnre as a Human Itelns;. liorneo is the home of the orang outang, which, leaving out tho genus man, occupies the third place from the highest iu the animal kingdom. Tho gorilla has tho highest place, tho cliim pan.ee conies next in order, then the orang. The males are as fond of fight ing ns are human roughs, and, like them, bite off each other's fingers and lips. They all show, in a human-liko way, tho emotions of pain, rage, satisfaction and affection. Ruby orangs range, as human infants do, from good to bad. Some, when they arc good, are "very good, indeed," and others when they are bad, "are horrid." Mr. Hornabr, the naturalist took a baby orang from its dead mother, shot in the cause of science, which had the temper of a tiger. An orang's instinct is to seize and bring an offending hand to its raoutli, thnt it may bite tho member. This baby orang, though only six months old. made so man3' attempts to put tho naturalist's hands up to its mouth that he was obliged to tie its elbows togeth er behind its back. Kven then, when he was not watch ing it the orang rolled over and seized the calf of his leg between his teeth. Hut for the hunting trousers and woolen stockings the naturalist would havo lost a piece of his leg. At last it relieved the naturalist of anxiety by dying. A baby orang of more gentle disposition was brought to Mr. Hornaby with its hand and feet bound. When he approached it instead of at tempting to bite it whined softly and rolled up its big brown eyes so appeal ingly that the naturalist cut its bands and placed it on pile of soft straw. It soon became a pet and was named "Old Man," on account of its bald head and air of profound gravity. It was fond of being held in the naturalist's arms, and when he grew tired it would grasp the folds of his fiannci shirt and hold itself. It would lie on Mr. Hornaby's lap whilo he was writing, reading, or eat ing, and amuse itself by catching hold of his penholder or book or by tugging at the tablecloth. Its favorite food was bananas and sugar, bat it learned to relish rice, cooked meat canned fruit, and bread, and drink tea and coffee, milk and chocolate. Beer, wine or spirits it would not touch. The baby did its best to amuse ita master. Drawing his hand to its mouth and making a pretense of biting and making wry faces were its favor ite tricks. If the naturalist sat down to a meal and began to eat without feed ing the baby it would whine, scream, throw itself on the floor on its back, and kick like a spoiled child. Its happiness was complete when ita master permitted the baby to sleep with him. It would lie sprawling upon Mr. Hornaby's breast, with its head oa his shoulder, its face close to his neck, and its arms and legs clasping hia body. It could not learn to swim, aad. on Mr. Hornaby putting it ia the watea sank helplessly, as if it had be tn iron bar. Pen d PwaU AGRICULTURAL HINTS. SHELTER FOR MACHINES. Why Every WrII-Kffaltl Firm Shoald Have m Tool Hosae. It is not to 1 wondered at that man ufacturers of agricultural machinery get rich. The owner of farm machinery would do vastly better to po in debt for means with which to build a tool and machine house than to get trusted for new implements with which to work his land and then leave them to nature's mercies. The indispensable in a tool house are a tight roof and dry floor. For the former it is doubtful if anything is superior or in the long run cheaper than shingles. For floor lumber will do, but a well-drained, slightly raiel floor made of coal ashes, engine cin ders, day or brick is preferable, being more durable and stronger. Hut a floor of this kind positively must be well drained or the machines will be lnjund by dampness from below. Where a site can 1h: secured next the road and sloping from it, the sills laid on low walls can be filled level with the floor ing. This will pack down hard and give great satisfaction. On level land it is better to raise the ground in front CT3 r-SJZ ZZ of the tool house to the height of the floor than to use an incline, as it is easier to roll the stock in and out An excellent building erected for this pur pose I saw in Worcester county, Mass. It is built like the drawing. The little doors enter a shop 8 feet wide across one end. Rolling doors protect the re mainder of the front They are hung so as to pass one another or the small doors and the convenience is perfect Wagons or machines out of order may be taken bodily into the shop where wrenches, etc, quickly put them to rights wet days. The shed is '.20 feet wide and may lc made of any desired length. A rolling platform 3x12 feet covers an aperture in the up'wr floor through which sleighs, rakes and other light things are raised by pulh'ys for storage. A piece of scantling fastened to the wall near the floor will prevent mowers and wagons from marring it with their hubs. Abundance of light should be let in and the fowls kept out the same as snow and other destructive agencies. I lollister Sage, in Farm and Home. DRIVING THROUGH MUD. How to 1'rrtrut Xrnllras Wear and Decay of flugiiirs ami Wagons. After a hcav3 rain, when carriage roads are covered with two or three iu inches (more or less) of parity liquid mud. a bngg3 may le driven for miles with such rare as to receive very little of it except what udlieres to the rims of the wheels. Or a mud-pool extend ing the whole breadth of the road may have to be passed and would .soil tho new varnish of the vehicle unless tho driver has learned bj- trial how fast he must drive for the occasion. Wo have seen careful driving over a cer tain road, with scarcely any deface ment; and again heedless driving over the same line with formidable damage. A vehicle which is allowed to become covered more or less with soil and sand is worn out in half the time which a clean one may continue to Ik used. Wlitn it is remembered that the wheel vehicles of the country at large have cost the owners in the aggregate more than two hundred million dollars, the amount of nione3' saved iu preventing needless wear and deca3 must be ob vious. If the horse Is driven on a walk, or about three miles an hour, the mud will adhere to the rim of the wheels and be carried up by them as they revolve. Its weight will cause it to drop on the s pokes and hub, nnd these, in a short time, will l cov ered with it iu one adhering mass. Hut drive a little faster, on a slow or moderate trot four and a half or live miles an hour, and then the mud which is carried up on the rim of the wheels will not drop, for the increased circular motion now given to them will impart enough centrifugal force to hold the mud to the wheels. The rim is the only part that will be muddy: the spokes and hub will le clear. The writer has successfully practised this course more than fifty years. Hut if the horse is driven six or seven miles an hour, this increased velocity will send the mud olT, and nil parts of the vehicle will re ceive a copious plastering. At a speed of eight or nine miles, it ill be shot as high as the top of the cover, and the driver will le liable to receive a liberal share. Country Gentleman. SUCCESSFUL DRAINAGE. Tlir Kirellrnt Syntrm Employed ly an Ohio 'armrr. Last winter a subscriber asked for Information, or rather advice, alout draining a 1.1-acre field of rolling land that washed badly in heavy rains. The piece was slightly lower in the center than around the sides, and he asked how best to drain laud in that shape. I have a field similar to his. and I drained it iu this way: 1 run an 8-inch tile from the mouth up to the Ihx (illustrated) in center of the field, or lowest place, making cal culations on having plenty- of fall from there. The box is 4 feet square, with -J.4-inch posts in the inside at the cor ners, upon which the planks are nailed. The bottom was bricked over, bricks flat to keep from washing. In the cut .T'ZStf wr A shows the tile entering the box, and H is the S-inch tile or outlet r is the the brick bottom. I use 4-inch tile in draining. Put the box in during dry weather. Take i-inch plank and mark size of tile in the lower one. and make hole to fit the tile. Make the boxing as deep as necessary. You can run the branches in any direction. I have nearly 400 rods entering one box- Get all the fall you can in the tile. If you want to farm over the box cover it with S-inch plank and then earth. Thus is what I did. I put a support in the mid dle, as there is great weight in a foot or two of earth, especially when saturated- L. T. Hitter, in Ohio Farmer. CaltivaUoa ot tfarrieika. A garden will produce large crops in proportion to the space allotted to that purpose. A garden is really but a min iature farm, and demonstrates the pos sibilities of the farm. Manure is ased freely, and careful cultivation given when the garden is relied upon aad with less area cultivated on the fara and snore, attention given to the matter of maaur.ng and cultivating the eropa, the whole farm could be mads to equal the garden. jK -X HBfr "?"sssW ssssl r ssT -?-W f--' a. .' r'- s c -t-3f--" ITTm. I I III &9 ".'-" j.".lBB.-,i ' ! UNUSUALLY ENCOURAGING. financial aad Haalaa rrtrnpet tlnlt Cheering;. New York, Sept 12.- R. G Dun A Co.' weekly review of trade aja: All returns of the condition of busi ness are encouraging. There is no room for doubt about the improvement in trade. From nearly every city comes the cheering information that busine is better and prospects brighter. At ISoston business in increasing. At Phila delphia the tone of the iron market has much improved. Husinevs Is encourag ing at Huffalo, decidedly improving at Cincinnati and Cleveland, and it may b noted that at eastern points jnerally vime improvement Is seen in collec tions. Receipts of whrat at Chicago are five time) those of last year, of corn double, of rye seven times and of oat and dressed lieef about a third larger, with some increase in wool, while a decrease of a third appears in barley aud cured meats. Dry goods sales in August were the largest ever known, the cloth-, ing trade is very large w ith fair collec tions and the shoe trade excellent Money is plentiful for legitimate trade. At Minneapolis sales of lumber are large with prices stiff, ami receipts of wheat 1.40J,000 bushels against i00.U00 last year. At St Paul improvement Ls se n and reports are brighter. At St 1-ouLs shipments of money to the cotton states are increas ing, but the market is comparatively eas3 At Denver trade improves and also at Kansas City. Kven at the south the improvement is general, especiallr at Louisville, Meuphis, Savannah and . Atlanta and at N-w Orleans trade is , more actie, rice be.ng especially strong j and money 111 good demand Tho financial outlook n clearer. Ex ports of merchandise from New York for the past two weeks hai exceeded thoso of the same weeks last jeur by more than (H) per cent, while in im ports there appears a decrease of about M per cent The opening of (icrtuany and Denmark to American iork prod ucts has lifted tho price of pork .10 cents per barrcL With the greatest crops ever grown, and an unprecedented for eign demand for grain and meats, the prospect must te considered unusually encouraging. SALVADOR'S CALAMITY. totalis of the IJttf Kjtrtliiiiikr In Min Jil vaalor The lrt rurlliin Trrrililr. San SAt.VAlMtit, Sept 12. -Details of the terrible earthquake shock of Wed nesday proves it to have been more dis astrous than nt the time supposed. In this city alwut forty jwople were killed and sixty were more or levs seri ously injured, but it Is impossible to give the names of the (lead. There is no telling to what extent the mortality list will reach, but judg ing frcm the fearful results in S:n Sal vador, the number of killed throughout the country will be somewhere in the hundreds. While the alarming revolutions were going ou it was an utter impossibility for ati3'one to keep his footing. From all the houses the unfortunato dwellers issued ou all fours amid clouds of dust, while showers of tiles nnd plaster kept falling all about them. The air was filled with agonizing shrieks. Kver3' where, could be heard the cries of parents calling for their children und children screaming for their parents. Merchants, druggist and liquor deal ers lw.t heavity through the fall of glass and china. Telegraph and telephone wires were broken and en tingled. The Indlsof all the church towers were rung, sounding mostdismalty. The prisoners were killed by the fall ing of the walls of their cells. The two lame patients iu the hospital were crushed to death in their ledv Seven children, each under the age of I year, were killed. Tho dead, how ever, an; mostty old men and women. The panic has now pretty nearly sul sided, although families are sleeping in tents in their yards and in public parks. The details of the ruin of towns in the axis of the earthquake are very meager. Of S20 houses at Comasagua only eight remain standing. The loss of life there is great BREADSTUFFS. The Kiort of llrr.iituffi Show Hr inarkahlr Inrrraar. Wapiiinoton, Sept It. Tho exports of breadstuffs from this countrj- for August have been compiled. It was known that the increase would be great but such a showing as the fig ures make Is a surprise even to the bu reau of statistics. Here is the official statement as completed: Kiportof Ijre.i'ltSiilM Aticiiot. 1M..I?VS.&10 Kxportof lrHltutN Austnt. lsl M.-1.710 In other words the aggregate of grain and of llonr shipped out of this country last month was nearly three times what it was during the same month last year. This is an unprece dented showing. An examination of the figures for the two months makes it appear that the tremendous increase in exports had its beginning in July, but it received most of its swell In Au gust when the shortage in other coun tries came to te fully realized. The official report is as follows; Kxports of hrrail'tiiff for July and AujfiMt, IKM. r.,MJ.ail Kxport of hrTuiltuff for July and aurum, ioi ii,iji.i;v Reference to the report in detail for August reveals the fact that wheat is the item mainly responsible for the sur prise. The wheat exported from this country in August l'.M, reached f"ii, 774,979 In August 1V.X). the wheat ex ports were $4,949,479. Prrry's lrtory OIhrmtd. SANnrsKT, O., Srpt 12. The Man mec Valley Monument association cele brated the seventy-eighth anniversary of Perry's victory on Iake Kric at Putin-Bay island yesterday. Ex-President Rutherford H. Hayes is president of the society and presided. He made a brief patriotic address. The orator of the day was Hon. Cassias M. Clay, of Ken tuckv, who spoke with special refer ence to the part taken by (Icn. Green Clay, his father, in the war of 112 Criticisms by some writers were consid ered and answered. Mr. Clay, who is now SI years of age, spoke with consid erable vigor. Orr a Vrrlptcr. Gr.xr.VA. Sept 12. Mr. Charles Lane, of New York, who has for some time been residing at Oberhofen Thun. took a party of ladies on an excursion to the Boatcnberg. The ladies in returning to Oberhofen Thun took the mf road which they had traversed in going to Boatcnberg. but Mr. Lane started to go home via JustustbaL Nothing hav ing been heard nf him for several hours, a party was sent out to discover his whereabouts. The erchers found Lane's fearfully mutilated body lying at the foot of the precipice, S0 feet in height over which be had fallen. Favored tb KvyrabUr. London. Sept 12. The Chronicle's Rome correspondent says: "la receiv ing the French Catholics the pope made a declaration la favor of the Fresco rc pablte. and expressed his belief that the restoration of the monarchy is France was quite impossible." RUN Seat to Rrtra-rtna. Nashvillx. Teas.. Sept 12. Acting vader orders of Adjutaat-Geaeral Nor ma, twenty-Sve rifles belosgisg to a local jDilitary coapaay at KnorriH hare beea turned over to the wpetia tca4eat at Briceville to be ate-J ia pro taetiar tfca ecsrricJa thert. STOCK ITEMS. When possible let Wt crowing ani mal have Mine excrci every day. By this time th fattening hogs should be on full feed; gitf them all they will eat The science of feeding is better un dcrntooi now than it wa five years ago, but there Is still room for considerable improvement Care must be taken at Ihis time to keep the quarters of the piga clean and to change their bedding occasion ally la order to keep them clear of He. No de Unite rule can 1 laid down for all cows as to the amount of grain rations -s different animals are not capable of bringing equal result. All classes of stock most be fed ac cording t tbeir age and condition, a young growing animal nerd a dtfftn ent ration from one that is matured. I'nder ordinary conditions It U net lrsl to wean young colts and calvta until the weather gets cooler, and thcu see that they hare learned to eat writ Do not let tlia cows go dry too soon. A gwd milch cow ought to give milk the greater jwrtion of the yar, and thorr is much in the doing thus. management In Hogs do not require a high tem perature, but will thrive lrtter with lev feed if they have a comfortable shelter A dry hog house is important, but it is not by any mean necessary U have a costly one. Hogs should not eat or sleep in thn dust A dry dirt floor makes a god sleeping floor, but it should not be al lowed to get dusty, ami a tight floor is better than the ground, but car must, b taken to keep it clean. The only way to inject a solid fact into the heads of some men Is to pound it In with a sledge-hammer, a crowlmr or a baseball bat There Is one fact how ever, that every farmer and atock raiser should have impressed on hi memory, even if it ha- to be done with a crowbar, to-wit: That poor stock of any kind, por In breed, poor in tho method of is handling, jnor in flesh and in appeartnee. never will .sell any where, nl any time, for a high price, or even for as muh as it ia realty worth. Live Mock Indi--ator. Three milkings 'u a day arc better thnn twv They should bo at as regu lar intervals as sille that is cver3' eight hours or if twi-e dally, every . twelve hourv When the udder is filled . to a certain jvolnt secretiou of the solids . ceases owing to the pressure of tho j mammary glands, but the secretion of i water from the blood continues wl'h J the result that the milk already fortuol Wcomcs gradualty moro and more di luted. This theory explains the fact that the greater the intervals lietwerii milkings, the poorer is the milk iu prj-ortioii.- ritchaugr FARM NOTES. Budding can be test done late In the spring or curly summer, that Is, for plums and jveaehes. The buds shocld le taken from this season's growth. Poultry like fruit of all kinds csjm ciiilty apples, which at this season can nearty alwa3's In; fed to a good ad van tage when more or less is going t waste. While Leghorns are the lest w inter Ia3ers it is necevsar3' to provide tb-tu with comfortable quarters if they are kept laying: this should be nrraured for now. Western farmers are rapldty learning the advantages of fall plowing an I iu some localities nearly or quite all tho land Intended for spring crop is plowed iu the fall The magnitude of the nlfalfn Industry in Colorado is something mormon- for so young a state. Colorado contains Hil.sM acres of this mngnlcent bar ami pasture erop. Placing the estimate .it tho low average of four tons an acre, nnd we find that U7, IJtl tons are pro duced nnnunlty, and valued at $ a ton the crop is worth. to the .state $:t,ss,4 nl a trille less than one-seventh of the total value of the mineral output of the state. One of the advantages in fall pl-iwing is that if the work is properly done and good drainage provided the laud will dry out aud warm up quickrr and Ihj ready to work earlier than If left tin plowed. But good drain ago most l-e provided in the fnll so as to gel rid of tho surplus water readily in order to secure the full tn-netit (teuerady all that will Ix- necessary is to run out the furrows clenn. The work should always be done lefore ground freezes. On tho farm it is always g'xxl rcon oni3 to stire up a sufficient supply of fruit and vegetables in the fai to last all winter. If the work is properly done they can readily le kept In good condition. While the cellar s a con venient place for keeping what is need ed during the winter the average farm cellar is too warm to keep fruit or veg etables a long time. Nearly all varie ties will keep lieat at a low temperature as nearly just above freezing as poasi blc. It is with the late summer and early fall apples that the evaporators can 1 used to the best advantage Winter fruit can be stored away and kept un til needed, or it can be marketed, but when there i anything like i full sup ply of summer and fall fruit It is often difficult to market to an advantage green, and if it cannot 1 mdily evap orated will often le wasf-' to a more or less extent If the wo-!c Is don- properly all of these can te vaporaUi readily and in this way b- n vrketed to a good adrantagc. Cor. Lit- Stock In dicator. 'ol. Pigs that are to !e wlnvred over should be farrowed taffionntly early to secure a good start to grow; should in fact be weaned and learned to eat well before cold freezing rather .t in- A ycung pig Is easily ttnntcd. aad especially if the weather 5s cold, aad for this rcaon it is very important to provide a. warm, drf shelter early in the season, and the failure to do this ia. in many cases the caae of failing to derive a profit from fall pigs. It U not advisable to have young, growing stock fat bat verj necessary to keep them in a thrifty condition. Properly cared for, a horv b seldom sick. A good way to make runaways ia to leave the team anhitebed. Let the first halter put oo a colt be a strong one. It is as ca-.r matter to learn him to break loose -..o teL An all-parpose borse aM a so-pur-poc horse generally acia the same thing Too many peopU are ralslag no-pnrpose borsc-s. The -cod crop of c!ott will make s good (el for hog aad pvultry- The old ewe can be sold readily now. Keep only Ttgoroe ewes for breeding. A very Iitt!e feed wbes 1 1 needed will often make the diScrtice between profit and Iosa. A hog that cos tains a fair propor.k-a of fat aad lean will briag tie bSgaest price ia Market. Stock asaiataia their tt by slow cosabvstkre within ,. their bodies for which food is the fstl Ecg-alarity ia feeding ax-sala i &ee esaary te their thrift, aad especially o with fatteaiag atotk. Oae of the principal advaatages ia catting or grisdlag-feed is t?rat there is a very sital! per cest o? ne Is feetV m favor of the Utt tatxiirm in the world thai ma not U atl of h most worthless In one c.f n true; in the other, it isn't; but hsw can you distinguish ? Judge by what la oVi. There's only one MoodpuriuVr that's yu.ir-. anttni. It's lr. iVrcf's Golden Jklcdical Disco cry and tht L . is done with tl; if it docuft l-nciU or cure, in every cae, you get yur money back. Isn't it llVoly t Ikj the lHst? AH the year round, as ell at one time as another, it cloanss and jur ifies the M'stotu. All blood joins must go. For I)yjojsis, Hiltoua ncss. Scrofula, Salt-rhctitu, Tetter, Kryielas, or any Mood taint or dis order, it is an uiustjualcsl remedy. It's the cheajH'at, too. With this, you joy only for the yoo you get. And nothing else ts "just xs good." It may 1 bettor for the dealer. But he lMi't the one that's to b helctL Ely's- Cream Balm VtlXt.'t MK CATARRH TrlrjTseMlir I Aptl Hstm ll twli iMMtnL KM llUs4 Wr L.. V $500 REWARD w1IlttiaVllothaTatuf anraJsxnaar who will u; iurr hu own Dm a arrauthai tt Jus m 6 TON WAGON 8CALE, $60 ta not cflusl to anr tn.lr, M standard rr&abat scata. t't twtWuUrt. aJJrraa uotjr Jones of BiDouamt0Q, Biighmtoo, IT. 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