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Tlio American Farmers' encampment at Mount Grotua, ni'nr this city, today listened attentively to a remarkable discourse liy the great brook lyn preacher, llov. T. Do Witt TiiIiiiiiko, whourrivod hero yesterday (mm Piedmont, Chnutnu(tm, Go,, whom lie spoko on Wednesday last. Tho subject wns ono peculiarly united to tlio vast uudloneo, bo tiiK " "Funning u Gospel Type." 1 Kings xlx, 111; Kllsha, thosonof Sliuplint, who win plowing with, twelve yoke of oxen licforo lilin, anil he with the twelfth. boprosoututlves (r the grout fiirmcrH associations from all parts of the countiy nro at tlio encampment, preparations for which have been going on for months In advance. Tho surrounding densely popu lated counties of Poiinsylvaul i am also fully represented. Today's services wcro held in tho open air. An Immense choir from tho churches of Iuhuunu led tho music. Kov. Dr. Talinngu spoke as follows: Farmers of Americat Accept my sulu tatlon. Our text puts us down Into tho plow's furrow, whero many of us lmvu Ix-en before. My boyhood passed on a farm and my father a farmer, your stylo of llfo Is familiar to me. Ono of my earliest recol lections Is that of my father coming In from tho hot harvest field exhausted, tho perspiration streaming from his forehead and chin, and fainting on tho doorslll, anil my mother resuscitating him, until seeing tho alarm of tho household ho said: "Don't bo frightened. I got a little tired and tho sun was hot, but I am all right now " And I remember mother seated at tho table, often saying, "Well, I am too tired to cat!" Thqfnct Is that I do not think tho old folks got thoroughly rested until they lay down In the graveyard back of SomcrvUlu to tako tho bust sleep. THE KAltMKlt'H IN'tlKfKN'linKCi:. Ofllco Bcekcrs go through the laud am' they stand on political platforms, and they tell tho farmers tho story about tho Inde pendent Jlfo of a fanner, giving Mattery whero thoy ought to give sympathy. In dependent of what? No class of people In this country have it harder than farmers. Independent of what Of the cureullo that stings tho peach trees? of tho rust in tho wheatf of the long rain with tho rye down? Independent of tho grasshopper? of tho lo cust? of tho army worm? of tho potato bug? Independent of the drought that bums up tho harvest? Independent of tho cow with tho hollow horn? or tho sheep with the, foot rot? or tho pet horse with a nail in his hoof? Independent of tho cold that freezes out tho winter grain? Inde pendent of tho snowbank out of which he must shovel hlmielf ? Independent of tho cold weather when ho stands threshing his numbed lingers around his body to keep them from being frosied? Independent of tho frozen ears and tlio frozen feet? Inde pendent of what? Fancy farmers who have mado their fortunes In tho city and go out in tho country 'to build houses with all tho modern Improvements, and make farming a luxury, may net need any solace; but the yeomanry who get their living out of tho soil, and who that way have to clothe their families and edu cate their children and pay their taxes and meet their Interest on mortgaged farms such men Hud a terrllle struggle. And my hope is that this great National Farmers' encampment may do something toward lifting tho burdens uf tho agricul turists. Yes, wo wero nearly all of us born in tho country. Wo dropped corn in tho hill, and went on Saturday to tho mill, tying tho grist in tho center of the sack so that tho contents on either side of rho horse balanced each other, and drove tho cattle alleld, our bare feet wet with tlio dow, and rode tho horses with tho halter to tho brook until wo fell off, and hunted tho mow for nests until tho feathered oc cupants went cackling away. So wo all understand rustle allusions. The Bible is full of them. In Christ's sermon on tho mount you see tho full blown lilies and the glossy back of tho crow's wing as It Hies over Mount Olivet. David uud John, Paul and Isaiah find in country life a source of frequent illustration, while Christ takes the responsibility of calling God a farmer, declarlng,"My Father is the husbaudmau." Noah was tho first farmer. Wo say nothing about Cain, tho tiller of tho soil. Adam was a gn-deiiur on a large scale, but to Noah was given all the acres of tho earth. Ellsha was an agriculturist, not culturlng a ten aero lot; for in my text you find him plowing with twelve yokoof oxen beforo him, and ho with tho twelfth. In 13 1 bio times tho land was so plenty and tho inhabitants bo few that Noah was right when ho gave to every Inhabitant a certain portion of land; thut land, if cultured, ever after to bo his own possession. CHOI'S OK OLDEN TIMES. They wero not small crops raised in those times, for though the arts wero rudo tho plow turned up very rich soil, and barley, and cotton, and flax, and all kinds of grain came up at tho call of the harvesters. Pliny tells of one stalk of grain thut Ijail on It between three and four hundred ears. Tho rivers and tho brooks, through artifi cial channels, wero brought down to tho roots of tho corn, and to this habit of turn ing a river wherever It was wanted Solo mon refers when ho pays: "Tho king's heart Is in the hand of tliu Lord, and he turneth it as thu rivers of water are turned, whithersoever ho will." The wild beasts wero cuuglit, and then a hook was put into their nose, and then they wero led over tho Held, and to that God refers when ho says to wicked Sen nacherib, "I will put a hook in thy noso and I will bring theo back by tho way which thou earnest." And God has a hook in every man's noso, whether it bo Nebu chadnezzar or Ahuh or Herod. Ho may think himself very independent, but some time in his llfo or in tho hour of his death ho will llud that the I-ord Almighty has a hook In his nose. Tills was tho rule in regard tothuculture of tho ground, "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together," illustrating tlio folly of over putting intelligent and useful and pliable men in association with tho stubborn and the unuiunageable. Tho vast majority of trouble In tho churches and in reformatory institutions comes from thu disregard of this command of the Lord, "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together." There were largo amounts of pioperty Invested in cattle. Tho Motilities paid 100,000 sheep as an annual tax. Job hud 7,000 sheep, U.OOO camels, COO yoke of oxen. Tho tlmo of vintage was ushered in with mirth and music. Tho clusters of tho vino wero put into tlio wlno press, and then llvo men would get Into tho press and tramplo out the Julco from tho grupo until their garments wero saturated with tho wins nail 1 1 d Iteconio the emblems or slaughter. Cluiit himself wounded until covered with the blood of crui'lllxlon, inudo use of this idlusiou when the question win uskcdi "Wherefore art thou rvl In thine app'irel and thy garments like one who treudeth tho fvluo vat" Ho responded: "I have trodden the wlno press alone." In all ages there has Wit great honor paid to agriculture. Seven-eighths of the people In every country am disciples of tho plow A government Is strong In propor tion ns It Is supported by an athletic and Industrious jeonmnry So long ago as lie foro tho fall of Carthago Strain') wrote twenty-eight hooks on agriculture; Ileslod wroUi a iH!Ui on tho sumo subject -"Tho Weeks and Days." Cato was prouder of his work on husbandry than of all his mili tary conquests, Hut I must lint bu tempted Into a discussion of agricultural conquests. Standing amid the harvests and orchards and vluevards of the Hlblc, and standing amid the harvests and orchards and vine yards of our own country I want to run out tho analogy between the production of crops and tho growth of grace In tho soul all these sacred writers making use of t lint nnoiogy. PLOW IIKI'l'l PLOW IIKliP! In tho first place I remark, lu grace as In tho Molds there must bo it plow. That which theologians call conviction Is only the plowshare turning up tho sins that have boon rooted and matted lu tlio soil. A farmer said to his indolent sou, "Them are a hundred dollars burled deep lu that field." The son went to work and plowed the Held from fence to fence, and he plowed It very deep and then complained that ho had not found tho money, but when tlio crop had lccu gathered mid sold for a hun dred dollars more than any previous year, then tho young man took the hint as to what his father meant when he said them wero a hundred dollars burled down In that Held. Deep plowing for a crop. Deep plowing for a soul. Ho who makes light of sin will never amount to anything in the church or In the world. If a man speaks of sin as though It were an Inue curacy or a mistake, Instead of tho lout ho some, abominable, consuming and damn lug thing that God hates, that man will never yield a harvest of usefulness. When I was a Itoy I plowed a Held with a team of spirited horses, I plowed it very quickly. Once lu a while I passed over some of the sod without turning it. but I did not Jerk back the plow with Its rattling clevises. I thought It made no dllTereuco. After a while my father came along and said: "Why, this will never do; this Isn't plowed deep enough; there you have mimed this and you have missed that." And he plowed It over again. The dllTlculty with a great many people Is that they are only scratched with conviction when tlio subsoil plow of God's truth ought to lie put in up to the lienin. My word Is to all Sabbath school teach ers, to all parents, to all Christian workers plow deep! plow deep! Anil If In your own personal experience you n ro apt to tako a lenient view of tho sinful side of your nature put down into your soul the ten commandments, which reveal the holiness of God, and that sharp and glittering coulter will turn up your soul to the deepest depths. If a man preaches to you that you am only a little out of order by reason of sin and that you need only a little llxlug tip, ho deceives! Vim have suffered an appalling Injury by reason of sin. Them are quick poisons and slow poisons, but tho druggist could give you one drop that would kill the body. And sin is like that drug; so virulent, so poisonous, so fatal that one drop Is enough to kill the soul. KI-OWtMl roil A HOWL. Deep plowing for a crop. Deep plowing for a soul. Hroken heart or no religion, broken soul or no harvest. Why was It that David and tin Jailer and tho publican and l'aul niiido such nilo about their sins? Dad they lost their senses? No. Tho plowshamstruck them. Conviction turned upagreat many thlugstliat weroforgotteu. As a farmer plowing sometimes turns up the skeleton of a man or the anatomy of a monster long ago buried, so the plowshare of conviction turns up thoglmstly skeletons of sin long ago Intomhcd. Geologists never brought up from thu depths of the mountain mightier ichthjosuurus or me gatherium. but what means all this crooked plow lug, these crooked furrows, tho repentance that amounts to nothing, the repentance that ends lu nothing? Men groan over their sins, but get no lietter. They weep, but their tears are not counted. They get convicted, but not co .orted. What Is the reason? I remember that on the farm we set a standard with a led Hag at the other end of tho Held. We kept our eye on that. Wc aimed at that. Wo plowed up to that. Losing sight of that wu made a crooked furrow. Keeping our eyes on that we made a straight furrow. Now in this matter of conviction we must have some standard to guide us. It is a red standard that God has set at thu other end of tho Held. It is tho cross. Keeping your eye on that you will make a straight furrow. loosing sight of It you will make a crooked furrow. Plow up to the cross, Aim not at either end of tho horizontal piece of tho cross but at tlio upright piece, at the center of It, the heart of thu Son of God, who bom your sins and made satisfaction. Crying and weeping will not bring you through. "Illm hath God exalted to bo a Prineo and a Saviour to give repentance." Oh, plow up to tho cross' Again I remark, lu grace as in the Meld there mil t bu a sowing. In the autumn weather you Hud the farmer going across thu Held atastrlduof about twenty-three inches, and at every stride he puts his hand into the sack of grain and ho sprinkles the seed corn over the Held. It looks silly to a man who does not know what ho Is doing. He is doing a very important work. lie Is scattering the winter grain, and though tho snow may come, thu next year there will Imj a great crop, Novr, that is what we am doing whult wo am preaching tlio gospel wo aro scattering the seed. It Is '.he foolishness of preaching, but It is tho winter grain; and though thu snow of worldliness may come down upon It, It will yield after a while glorious harvest. Ict us be sure we sow the right kind of oed. Sow million stalk and million stalk will come up. Sow Canada thistles and Canada thistles will coinu up. Sow wheat and wheat will come up. Let us distin guish between truth and error I,ot us know tho difference between wheat and hellebore, outs and henbane. THE IIEI.iaiON (IK NKC1VTIOV. The largest denomination in this country is tliu denomination of Nothingarians. Their religion Is a system of negations Von say to ono of them, "What do you lie Hove"" "Well, I don't liolievo in infant baptism." "Whiitdoyoubollovi Well, I don't believe In thu perseverance of the saints." "Well, now tell ntu what you do belieo." "Well, I don't believe In the eternal punishment of the wicked." So their religion Is a row of eypi or- believe something and teach It; or, ti resume the figure of my text, scatter iilnoad thu right kind of seed. A minister in Now Vork preached a ser mon calculated to set tho deuomluntloiiN of Christians qiinrrcllhg. He was sowing nettles A minister lu I lost on ndveitised that he would preach a seimon on the sit porlorlty of transcendental and organized n.-rccsto untiii'iscendontal and unorgan ized forces What was hosonlngr The 1inl Jesus Christ, nineteen centuries ago planted the divine seed of doctilne. It sprang up On one side of the stalk are all tliechurdiesof Christendom Ontheothet side of tlio stal'? am all the five govern incuts of tho earth, and on the top t'irro. shall Is- a (lowering millennium after awhile All from the gospel seed of doc tilne I'.vciy word Hint a parent, or Sab bath school teacher, or city missionary, or other Christian worker speaks for Christ comes up Yea, It comes up with com pound Interest -you saving one soul, that one saving ten, the ten a hundred, the hun dred a thousand, thu thousand ten thou sand, the ten thousand one hundred thou sand -on, on forever. Again I remark, tu grace as In the farm there must Imi a hat rowing. 1 refer now not to a harrow that goes over the Held In order to piopuio thu ground for the seed, but a harrow which goes over after tho seed Is sown, lest the birds pick up tliu seed, sinking It down Into tlio earth so that It can take root. Them are new kinds of burrow, but the harrow as 1 rememls'r It was made of bars of wood nailed across each other, and thu under sldu of each bar was furnished with sharp teeth, and when tho horses wero hitched toll It went tear lug and leaping across the Held, driving the seed down Into the earth until it sprung up in the harvest, bereavement, sorrow, persecution am tho Lord's harrows to sink thugospel truth Into your heart There wore truthsthut j on heard thirty jours ago thut huvonot iilTcetod you until recently. Some great trouble came over you, and the truth was burrowed In, rind It has come up. What did God mean lu this country lu 1Wi7 For a century there was the gospel preached, but a great deal of it produced no result. Then God harnessed u wild panic ton burrow of commercial disaster, and thut hurrow went down Wall street and up Wall street, down Third street and up Third street, down State street and up Statu street until tho whole laud was torn to pieces as It had never been before. What followed thu harrow? A groat awakening lu which them wero f00,000 souls brought into tho kingdom of our Lord. No barrow, no crop, Till: CIIIIISTIAN'H IIKAWXO. Again I remark, lu grace as lu the farm there must bo a leaping. Many Christians speak of religion as though It were a mut ter of economics or Insurance. They ex pect to roup In the next world. Oh, not Now is the time to reap. Gather up thu Joy of the Christian leliglou this morning, this afternoon, this night. If you have not as much grace us you would like to have, thank God for what you have, and pray for more. You are no worse enslaved than Joseph, no worse trot bled than was David, no worse scourged than was Paul. Yet, amid the rattling of fetters, and uiiiid the gloom of dungeons, and uuiid thu horror of shipwreck, they triumphed in the grace of God. The weakest man here bus MX) acres of spiritual Joy nil ripe. Why do you not go and reap lt You have been groaning cor your iuHrmltles for thirty years, Now give one round shout over your cmunclputl m. You suy you liuve It so hard; you might, have It worse. You wonder why this great cold trouble keeps revolving through your sliul, turning ami turning, with a black hand on the crunk, Ah, that trouble is the grindstoueou which you am to sharpen your sickle. To the Holds! Wuko up! Take olT your green spectacles, your blue spectacles, your black spectacles. Pull up tho corners of your mouth us fur us you pull them down. To thu Holds' Iteap! reap! Again I remark, lu yrracoaslu farming there Is u time for threshing. I tell you bluntly thut Is death. Just us u farmer beats the wheat out of tlio straw so death beats tho soul out of thu body Kvcry sickness is a stroke of tho Hull, and the sickbed Is the threshing Moor. What, suy j on, Is death to a good man only taking tho wheat out of thu stiaw? That is all. An aged man bus fallen asleep. Only jesterduy you saw him in tliu sunny porch playing with his gra.ulchlldren. Calmly he received the message to leave t his world. He bade a pleasant good-by to hlw old friends. The telegraph curries thu tidings, niul on swift rail trnins thu kindred come, wanting once more to look on the face of dear old grandfather, brush buck the gray hairs from his brow; it will never ncho again. Put him away lu the sliimlsT of the tomb. He will not Ijo afraid of thut night. Grandfather was never afraid of anything, lie will rlsu in the morning of the resurrection. Grandfather was always tho first to rise. His voice bus ulrendy mingled in thudoxologyof heaven. Grand father always did sing in church. Any thing ghastly in that? No, The thresh ing of the wheat out of the straw That is all. "DKAll LOIIU, GIVE UK SLEEP." The Saviour folds a lamb in his bosom. Thu little child filled all thu house with her music, ami her toys am scattered all up and down tho stairs Just as slio left them. What if thu bund thut plucked 4 o'clocks out of tliu meadow is still? It will wave the eternal triumph. What If tho voice thatmadu music In tho homo is still? It will slug thu eternal Ikhuiiuu. Put a whitu rose in onu hand and a red rose in thu other hand, iiuda wreath of orange blos soms on the brow; the whlto Hower for tho victory, the red Hower for the Saviour's sacrifice, the orange blossoms for her mar riage day. Anything ghastly nbout thut? Oh, no. The sun went down and the llower shut Thu wheat threshed out of tliu straw. "Dear lird, givo mo sleep," said u dying Isjy, thu sou of ono of my elders, "Dear Lord, give me sleep." And ho closed his eyes and awoke lu glory. Henry W. Img fellow, writing n letter of condolence to those parents, said: "Those last words wero sleep.'" Thus not in cruelty, not In wrath Tlmt tliu iva-r ciituu Hint duy: 'Tw us nil muel thut vUltcd tint eitrtli Ami took tint (tower uity So It inny Ihi with us when our work is all done. "Dear Lord, give mu sleep." I have one more thought to present. I have spoken of the plowing, of tho sowing, of tho harrowing, ot the reaping, of the threshing. I must now speak a moment of the garnering. Where Is tho garner? Need I tub you Oh. no. So many have gone out from your own circles yen, from your own family -that you have had your eyes on that garner for many a your Whut a bard time some of them bad' In Gcth semuues of siilTeriug thoy sweat great drops of bhxxl. They took tho "cup of trembling" and they put it to their hot lips unit they cried. "If It 1st possible, let this cup pass from me " Wl'h tongues of burning agony they cried. "O ml, de liver my soul!" but they got over It. They ill got over it Gurnered: Their tears wlodaway; their battles all ended their burdens lifted. Garueredl The 1ird of din harvest will not allow those sheaves to perish In tho equinox Guruercd1 Sonui of us rctnemlsT, on tho farm, that tho sheaves wero put on tho (op of tlio ruck which surmounted the wugon. and theso sheaves wero piled higher and filgher, uud after n while tho horses started for tho burn; and these sheaves swayed to and fro In tho wind, and tho old wagon creaked, and tho horses mado a struggle and pulled so hard the harness camo up In loops of leather on their backs, and when the front wheel struck thu elevated Moor of the barn It seemed as If the load would go no farther until the workmen gavon groat shout, and thou with one last tremendous strain tho horses pulled In the loud, then thoy wero un harnessed and forkful after forkful of grain fell Into the mow. Oh, my friends, our getting Into heaven may bo a pull, a hard pull, a very hard pull, but these sheaves are bound logo lu. Tlio Lord of the har vest has promised It. I see thu load at Inst coming lu the door of the heavenly garner. Thu sheaves of thu Christian soul sway to and frotti tho wind of death, and the old body croaks under tho load, and as tho loud strikes the Hour of the eelestlnl garner It seems us If It, can go no further. It Is thu last struggle, until the voices of angels uud tliu voices of our departed kindred and thu welcoming voice of God shall send tlio har vest rolling Into the eternal t riuuipli, while nil up and down the sky thu cry Is hourdi "Harvest boiuel Harvest hound" Injurious KiiutiU'l "Mm rut Hands." "A good many soro faces," said n well known physician, "are caused every sum mer by poisonous 'sweat bunds' In huts. Some men always Insist on buying Derby hats with enameled sweat bauds, and II they wear them during thosiimmer month ft mild sort of blood poisoning Is apt to re sult. As ii mini's head always perspires very freely under tho sweat bund of his hut thu poison in thu enameling composition U softened and released, but Its unpleasant cITccts are seldom noticeable there. The very fuct thut tho perspiration Is constant ly coming out of those particular pores pro vents the poison from going in. but us each little Isvid of perspiration rolls down his face It Is charged with tho poison, uud if It happens to run over a little pimple or n place whero ho bus scratched his face or cut it with a razor the result will probably bu unpleasant. A dozen tiny pimples will appear, uud no matter how many "hi I jiurlHors" ho doses himself with his face will Ihi (lotted with little sores, until he buys a hut with ft good sweat baud. Straw huts are seldom liiudo upwith tliesoeiiumeled sweat bunds, and that fact Is another reason why every man should wear them In the summer Of course, this warning docs not apply to ah huts with enameled sweat bands Some of them are perfectly harmless, but as It Is Impossible to toll which are good uud which are bad without a chemical analysis, and us a chemical analysis would spoil the hut, enameled sweu' bauds am good things to avoid In hot weather. New York Hun. Muring ut Saint Cyr. Saint Cyr, tho military college at which young men are trained for commissions lu tho cavalry and Infantry, Is Just now the scene of a lively feud between the senior and tho junior cadets. It nil originated out of tliu spirited conduct of u "melon," us thu new comers aro called. He had en tered the billiard room frequented by (.ho. older cadets, who, resenting this Intrusion, proceeded to evict him. Ashe was Wing hustled toward tliu door he bit out right ami left a piece of disrespect which so aroused the wrath of tho seniors tlmt they set to work to throw the mattresses of thu "melons" out of tho windows, and forbade them to saunter Into tho adjacent wood, thus consigning themtothu Wogriim court yard, which they styled disdainfully tho "oyster IksI;" nor did their unlinoslty end hero. They lost no opportunity of playing off tricks on thu juniors pouring water Into tho inuzJcs of their rilles, drenching their ls-ds and muklng their lives generally a burden to them. At last the exasperated "melons" captured a ..enlor one evening mt he was crossing the "oyster lied," denuded him of his uniform and tied him to a tree. Tho unlucky senior was not released till morning. This brought mutters to a bead, uud if report is to be believed a number of Ilttio affairs are on bund which will have their conclusions when the school breaks up for the holidays. Paris Cor Iondon Telegraph. The Town Not Il-siinisllile, All important decision has just leon ren dered by Judge Tyler, of tho Vermont su prcino court, in reference to liabilities of thu towns in tho statu for injuries to per sons and property on tho highways. Tho case in question whs thut of Charles E. bates mid wife against thu village of Hut land to recover damages for Injuries sus tained by Mrs. Dates by lelng thrown from ft carriage near tho village stouo crusher, It lwlng set up as a claim that thu hors was frightened by thu machinery. Thu cusu was heard in thu September term of court, 18b!l, Judge II. Henry Powers pre siding. Tho jury brought lu a verdict for philntlff to recover fJ.MX) damages anil costs. An appeal was taken to the supreme court and heard in January by four members of the court and the opinion assigned to Judgu Tyler, who now hands down thu opinion and Hies thu decision us follows. "In this case tho clerk may enter judgment reversed, uud judgment for the defendant " This Is the llrst case In which the Issue is plainly taken that thu village or town In repairing highways acts as thu agent of t he state, and Is not responsible for negligence. It dis poses of iunuiuerable cases now on the dockets of the lower courts. Springfield ltepublicaii. A Ouery. "I lmvu Ih-oii spending u part of my va cation on a farm u reul, professional farm, und not an amateur farm with a friend, and this observant friend has puzzled mo with a question that I can't answer. Hu has mado thu following list of thu country ;ve";:!e's calls t various kinds of animals: "To cattle boss' boss! Isiss! (snmetlmcH shortened Into boh, IkiIi, Ixih.) "To sheep Ou-duy', cu-diiy, ca-day'l "To horses Co-Jock', co-jock', co-jock'l "To swine Poo-ig', IKMl-lg', poo-lg't "To buns Chick, clilck, chick' "Ho says ho can understand thoorlgiu of most of these calls. When the farmer goes out to cull his cattle hu simply speaks Litin lu shouting bos, Imis. Ims. Hut when hu calls his sheep with cu-duy, cu-diiy, and his horses with co-Jock, co-Jock, what lan guage d(K-s hu speak? boston Transcript. Allmnl. Mine. Albuni-Gyo, like Mr Suit ley, Is a strict and devout Catholic Shu has ob tained special M'ruiissoii from tho popu in order to slug at the festivals in Protestant cathedrals This gifted singer has onu lit tle Ixiy, who has Inherited his mother's milsicul talent. Hu was A or t) years old when (iounisl's "Mors et Vim" first camo out, but he knew the whole of thut grout work, from hearing his mother constantly practicing it Mine. AUniiiI bus u country seat ill Scotland, not fur from Balmoral, and she frequently visits the queen, who lias a groat liking for the popular soprano, j New York TcUxrnui Slife -hm9 No. '410. -An Hour (Unas. Cent nils, read downward, give nil Amur, Icun ilvcr. X X X X X O X X X X X X X X X O X X X X X X X O X X X X X O X X X O X o x o x X X O X X X X X O X X X X X X X O X X X X X X X X X O X X X X X t. To mix. !), Eminent. M. A letter, i. A covetous person. 5. A title of lespect. 0. A letter from Spain. 7. A man's nuino. H, Cnbeiidlng. I). To offer. It). Worthy of Imitation. II, A rope dancer. No, !TJ0. A Cut tullineiit. The monarch 1ms an all; Curtail, a sound does fall Cpon thu ear both shrill and clear Which us from sleep does cull. No. !I'J I. Niimerleiil Itnlgtiia. My whole, composed of m letters, Is ft well known proverb, My M, II, ill, IH, IS, III, Ik) Is the nature of a thing. My'JI, 11,7, 'JO, !W, 5 Is to Ignite. My :i'- 'JU, H, , id In an account. My ft. in, 17, n !, 111, l Is prosperity. My I, l(),t7, 111 Is a rough. My I), a, SKI, 7 Is lean. No. "Jan. Letter Klilirinii. First lu nation, second lu ration, Third lu found lu apple plo; Fourth lu whittle, fifth in little, Sixth and lust lu satisfy. Whole Is ii city far over the sen. Solve this, please, will you, for mu? No. UTJ.A I'rellv I'utrli'. Thu same noun may be used us a prefix to each of tho cloven objects hero shown. Whut Is the prolix? St. Nicholas. No. 'Jit, -An l.'iiilless Ciiiilu. (Words of two syllables, tho last syllahlu of ouch being tho llrst onu of tho following word, and tliu last syllahlu of thu lust word being tho first ono of tho first word,) I, A scenu in upturn. Ji. A graceless fel low. II. An umbelliferous plant, I. A gardener's tool. 0. Ciirvated. 0. An An-glo-Suxou name, meaning a guardian of propel ty. 7. Pupilage. 8. A cargo, t). Magnetic Iron. 10. A quarry. 11. A tool for cutting timlier. 1'.'. A plant of tho rush kind. CI, A color. U. A northern conti nent. No. UJft, Kiilgiiiutlriil Tri-c. Wlmfs tfu tell tale tree, And the traitor's tree. And tlio tree Hint is wannest clad? Tlie laiiKuliliInt? tree, Tlio chriiiiiiliiKlst's tre, Ami tliu Inst Hint makes onu snd? What Is tlietreii Tlmt nmUrs i-m-li towimniaii lice. And wlint round Itwlf dutti entwine? Wliilt's tliu Imusew Ifu'n tree. And Hie llsliiTiiian's tree? What liy cockneys Is turned Into wlno? w'hnt's tie tns tlmt gut up, And Hi" ins- that was Inzy, Anil tli" tns) tluit guide sliis to go forth? Tliv tree Hint's Immortal, Tim lns-s Hint nrw not, And Dm tree whoso wood faces llio north f Tliu tree lu a Iwttlo. Tliu tree In n fog, And what inch must Ih'oouu) eru liu's old? Tlio tree of tlio ieople, The tniNeler's tree, And thu sjid tree which schoolmasters hold? What's '.'i" tree that has pawed through tlio (lory heat. That's half giu-ii to doctors when III? Tho tree Hint wo offer to friends wlivu wu meet, Ami fan trou wo may use as u quill? No. U'Ui. Kuy Squares. I A small liy. 1 A kinall lilnl. 8. 5llddlortofiiwtieel, S. A city of Italy. 8. To uxu-rt. 3. A femalo name. i. Tlni" of m-ssIoii. I. Not dlktaut, No. a'47. Illddlr. White at llrst as snow new fallen, Then a round thing, green and swollen, liy a spheroid that Is followed Scarlet, gold or gurnet colons). Who Wrote Most? Warren wrote ".Vow anil Then;" Kdwurd Multlunil wroto "by ami by;" bitlwer wrote "Night and Morning;" but Dickens wroto "All thu Year bound." Key to the Punter. No. Sit. hhymed Decapitations- bright, right, told, old; sport, port; lit, it. No. UIU - Illustrated Helms: As Davy Crocket onu time said, "bo sure you'ru right, then go ahead." No. Sill. Try this; please. No. SI 4.-A stun C A II P () b T K N T It T W W O I N S N N S H 1 N I N G N N G No S15 An easy one: Spring. No. Sltl. A Knight's movu Puzzle: Ktag of Hie free heart's hope and home. Ily angel hands to nlur glNcn, Tli) tlurs liaxo lit Hie welkin dome. And all thy hues were bum in lioavtu. No. St. Arithmetical: I I from sixty leaves sty. S. Ten from fifteen leaves life, U. O from four leaves fur. 4, V from live leaves He. 5. Three from thirteen leaves tlu. No. SIS. Anagrams of Hugllsli Authors; 1. John Keats. S. Charles Ijiutb. II. Mat thew Arnold. 4. Thomas Hood. 5. Ixilgb Hunt. I