Journal or "Woman's Work, i
What can a helpless female do?
Hock tho cradle, and bake and brew.
Or, if no cradle your fate afford,
Itock your brother's. wife's for your board;
Or live in one room with an invalid cousin,
Or sew shop shirts for a dollar a dozen,
Or please Home man by looking sweet,
Or please him by giving him things to eat,
Or please hiia by asking him much advice,
And thinking what ever he does is nice,
"Visit the poor (under his supervision);
Doctor theick who can't pay a physician;
Save men's time by doing their praying,
And doing other jobs there's no present pay
in,
l?nt if you presume to usurp employments
lieserved by them lor their special enjoy
ments, Or if you succeed when they said you
wouldn't, .
Or earn money fast when they said you
couldn't,
Or learned to do things they'd proved were
above you,
Tou'll hurt their feelings and then they won't
love you.
MY SUMMER OUTING.
"When Aunt Evelyn Roe, a brilliant
Tvidow, took me from my humble
county home to her elegant cottage
on the Hudson, the transformation
was so completf ; that I was at first
too much surprised to comprehend
my increased social advantages. And
it was not until an unwelcome lover
" was pressed upon my notice that I un
derstood why I was so favored, and
that my aunt was resolved that I
should marry well and become an
ornament to tho society which she
herself adorned, she lost no time in
putting her plans in execution, for
though young in years, she was old
in the tricks and shams of fashion
able life.
One evening, after my maid had ar
rayed me in satin and fine lace, my
aunt came in, and surveying me crit
ically, expressed herself as delighted
vlth my appearance. She intimated
tnat she intended me to "do well"
by which she meant me to marry a
rich man.
A number of guests were stayingat
her house, for she was never happy
unless she had a train of admirers.
Among them, I think I liked Mr. Le
Baron, my suitor, least ot all. He
had been encouraged by Aunt Eve
lyn to make love to me-, and the cool
way in which he did so, and took it
as a settled thing that I was his
"destiny," caused me to despise him j
with all my heart.
Not long after my arrival at her
house, Aunt Evelyn recived a letter
which seemed to please her very
much, and she informed me that it
was from Mr. Cyril Worcester, a gen
tleman she had met at Rome, and
whom she esteemed highly. She had
long expected a visit from him, and
now he had written to inform her
when he might be expected.
I took small interest in the news
which seemed to elate her so much,
lor I was nursing my pet grievance,
which had become so aggravated,
that I could hardly bear it longer.
I did not care who came or went; the
coming of another man did not sig
nify; there were too many already, I
thought, especially, of such as Le
Baron. s
It did no good for aunt to lecture
me, which she often did, dwelling up
on the theme of amiability; she in
sisted that it did not matter if I were
Bot interested in any one who con-
Tersed with me, 1 must smile and ap
pear so; also, when a young lady was
thinking of her settlement in life she
ought to consider the social stand
ing, and, above all, the wealth of the
man she married.
All this advice irritated me
and aunt, seeing my state of mind,
wisely forebore further counseling for
the time.
Mr. Cyril Worcester was expected
on Wednesday, and aunt was very
much excited over the anticipated
arrival. All day long she remained
at home to greet her guest, but he
did not come, and in the evening
some one proposed going to tho
opera.
When making up the party aunt
counted me on to Mr. Le Baron. 1
at once pleaded a headache. So it
happened that I did not go to the
opera, but, like Cinderella, remained
at home.
, After the party had gone I fell into
a ht of melancholy musing. How
long was this persecution to continue?
I could not bear it. And brooding
upon my woes, I was on the verge of
tears when a maid brought in a card
I glanced at it carelessly: "Cyril
W orcester.
"Show him in," I said.
I was annoyed by the interruption,
"but I was obliged to meet this man,
for here he was coming forward and
extending his hand.
The guests and Aunt Evelyn have
all gone to the opera, 1 explained.
"Ahl" he said, in a soft, musical
tone. "So you are the neice I have
been hearing about? Correct re
port."
I looked at him wondering a little
- what he meant. He smiled back at
me with the loveliest eyes I had ever
looked into. My foolish heart flub
i.red; the crimson was dying my
cheeks, l lowered my eyes m contus
ion and begged him to be seated. I
hardly knew what we said to each
other, but we were very good friends
at once, and I felt that he possessed
attractions hard to resist.
; He spoke of Aunt Evelyn. He had
met her abroad, he said, and I erath-
ered that the two were on the best of
terms.
The next day aunt questioned me
very closely about Mr. Worcester. I
answered guardedly, for I felt there
was reason for mv doing so. She al
so talked of that detestable Le Bar
on. He had been complaining of
my coldness and wanted her to inter
cede tor him.
."I encouraged him to go on," she
said with calm assurance, "as I was
certain he would win at the end. You
are young and thoughtless, but, my
!ear Stella, you can go too far. Be
sides, you know my wishes. m
, "Aunt," I said with emphasis, "you
also know mine. I hate and despise
that odious man!"
'Why, Stella, Mr. Le Baron is a
perfect Croesus, and I am sure he is
not ill looking." . ,
Then I became angry and said I
didn't care if he possessed all United
States and Canada, too; I did not
like him, and I would go home at
once if he inflicted his company upon
mo any more.
Aunt, seeing I was seriously vexed,
adroitly changed the subject and in
quired how I liked Mr. Worcester. I
said that I found no fault with him.
"11 is a gentleman of culture and
refinement," she said. "But, dear
Stella, don't fall in love with Cyril,
lor he has a heart of adamant."
"You need not fear for me, aunt.
Some charming days followed.
There were excursions on the river,
long strolls over the hills, and read
ings from favorite poets. I would
have been very happy had not
Le Baron shadowed me wherevsr I
went. Sometimes I eluded Mm and
had a quiet walk and chat with Mr.
Worcester; and then it dawned
upon me that Aunt Evelyn did not
relish the idea of my receiving any
attention from her friend.
One evening Mr. Worcester and I
had sauntered down to the riverside
and sat in the cool shadow of a tree
while we watched the brook in the
distance and talked of many things.
Aft er a while he said:
"Stella, if this goes on people will
say that we are to much together,
and Aunt Evelyn will scold you may
be. Have you thought of that?"
"She does not like our friendship a
bit," I replied in my simplicity.
"Ah! I thought so mush," he re-
nlifid. "But we do not care for that,
do we, Stella?" smiling down into my
eyes.
"I don't much mind Aunt Evelyn;
if she is cross and insists on this Le
Baron, I can go home," I said.
"Oh. it must not come to that," he
said hastily, and as I met the gaze of
his tender, sympathetic eyes I grew
hot and flushed in confusion.
A rIi nrt timfi after this I seriously
offended my aunt and she treated me
to a long and severe lecture upon
what she called my flirtation
with her friend. She said I had
been a disappointment to her
from the first; she had no idea I
was so obstinate and willful. As for
Worcester he cared nothing about
me and was only amusing himself.
"You love Worcester. Stella!" she
exclaimed suddenlv. closelv watchinsr
to see the effect of her words.
"What does it matter?" I curtly
answered.,
Tlnn't ennivnente toll the truth!"
she said, looking at m6 with angry
eyes.
"That s my affair, 1 jerked out m
a manner decidedly emphatic.
"Well, you had better not grow
sentimental over Cyril, because he is
not a marrying man, and it he were he
would choose a woman ot the world
for his wife. So you must not snub
Le Baron, who is so kindlv disposed
9J X.
toward you that he is ready to take
you at any time, lion t De a iooi and
throw away a certainty lor an un
certainty. ' ;
Then she left me alone to think of
her words.
After this I was shy of Mr. Worces
ter, who was much in my aunt's com
pany. It is true she sought him and
that I kept out of his way, and he
could not be rude to a lady in her
own house. But I never thought of
the whys and wherefores ot the case,
and became profoundly miserable.
One evening soon alter the entire
party had gone off to some place of
amusement. To evade Le liaron 1
remained at home. I was passing
along the hall, miserably wondering
if Mr. Worcester was my aunt's es
cort, when, just as I passed the parlor
door, who should emerge but Cyril
himself.
"Why, Stella, you here? In dis
grace, I suppose?" he laughed.
"Oh, no! I did not care to pro with
tho others," I explained.
' Ah another of my Stella s de
vices to avoid a certain obnoxious
suitor. 1 thouerht as much. And
you are well?"
"Quite, I said, smiling. "But how
is it that you are here? '
"Well, you .see, I never meant to
go with the party, therefore I stayed
away until alter departure. 1 have
been meandering around the house
wondering if you had gone," he said,
6mihng down at me.
I did not answer. It was all so un
expected, so very nice and pleasannt
to be with him, with no danger of
instrusion for some hours, that I for
got he was reported to be my aunt's
lover, and m all probability would
be her husband.
"We are sroimr to make the most
of our time together," he remarked,
now that those tiresome people are
gone and especially this Le Baron.
Why don t your aunt marry the fel
low herself? She seems to think him
a perfect paragon."
1 was silent. v hat did he mean bv
such erratic talk? Then he went on
to ask why I had avoided him of
late, and I told the truth.
"Does Mrs. Roe really torment you
thusr' he asked m surprise.
"les; she is determined thatl shall
be Mrs. Le Baron."
"Stella," he said with a sudden en
ercry, 'ilet me stand between this fel
low and you. I will promise to keep
him at bay for life. Can I? Will you
be my little wife, dear;"
"Your wife, Mr. Worcester? Are
you not going to marry my aunt,
then?"
"Not if I have a chance of becom
ing her nephew," he gayly replied.
"You blind little mouse! Could not
you see that 1 was courting the aunt
ioT the neice's sake the little neice
with whose picture I fell in love be
fore I saw the toririnal? Why, dear,
that is what brought me here in the
first place!"
Well, I do not know how it al
came about, but I let him kiss me,
and he said I was his darling Stella
now and always.
mi , -m
ine next day we went on a river
excursion. When all were ready for
the start Le Baron came toward me
but one look brought Mr. Worcester
to my side, and he appropriated me
just as coolly as his hated rival had
once none, and said with a smile;
"SteVig, has promised to let me
take care of her today and always,
Mr. Le Baron, and you will have to
look elsewhere for a companion and
for a wife." . .
I can't describe the sensation
caused by these words. Le Baron
turned scarlet, and Aunt Evelyn,
standing near, looked for a moment
as if she would faint, but she joined
the others in congratulations, and
never by word or sign admitted that
through my engagement with Cyril
Worcester the dearest plans of her
life were overthrown. And this is
the end of my love story. Waverly
Magazine.
System-in the Kitchen,
The amount of unnecessary exer
tion given in thi3 country to the ac
complishment of any task has long
been tho subject of comment among
wise men. Individuals so seldom
choose the quiet, systematic way,
allowing each detail of their task to
follow the other in regular order till
everything is done. In no place is
want of system so sorely felt as in
the household. The erratic house
keeper is responsible for more than
half the ills usually attributed to un
trained servants. The fact that ser
vants in this country are sadly un
trained is a reflection against their
mistresses. It requires a large
amount of patience to take a green
girl and train her to the work of a
refined household. The reason so
many girls give up their work in
anger as a hopeless task is that
they are taught without system to
go from one thing to another, and
can never feel that the tasks of the
day have been rounded each to com
pleteness. The worker who does not
feel some pleasure in successful ac
complishment of well-done work must
have a low, brutish nature. It is the
unnecessary steps the girl takes
usually that weary her, and these
the careful housekeeper always seeks
to save her from. Uneducated people
are oiten very obstinate, but it they
are once shown or made to compre
hend a system by which all their
work can be done in order and time
saved for themselves, they will
usually prefer it. It is certain that
in methodical households the serv
ants usually remain longer and there
is less complaint than in easy-going
homes where rules and hours are
scorned. In one house the servant
knows every hour of the day what is
expected of her. There is but slight
variation of the work from week to
week. The servant's time to herself
may be limited, but she is always
sure of that time. It is not taken,
from her on trivial pretexts, while
she, in turn, knows too well that any
appeal to set aside the alloted tasks
will be of no avail. There are few
housekeepers who cannot remember
kitchens where no large amount ot
work was done, yet every one was
forever in a hurry, rushing "thither
and yon," and the tasks of the day
seemed forever undone; and others
where an immense amount of work
was accomplished by the same num
ber of hands, .yet the hitchen was
cleanly, and the quiet manners of the
workers hardly gave aiy sign of
what was being done. If there was
extra work, it was carefully planned
out and ordered by the kitchen clock.
Is there any reason that a girl trained
to the easv way of a systematic
household should not prefer it to the
disorder and drudgery of "go-easy"
homes?
ISeatness in llress at Home.
The importance of neat and taste
ful house-dressing cannot be over
estimated. The matron who appears
before the members of her family in
a shabby, soiled wrapper, and makes
the excuse if, indeed, she takes the
trouble to make one at all that "it
is so much more comfortable," has
little idea of the possible consequenc
es of such a course. Could she but
realize that her dress is an evil ex
ample to her daughters, and one
productive o consequences that will
reach far beyond her own span
of life; that her husband
and sons cannot fail to draw
comparisons between her dress and
that of the ladies they meet in other
homes, and that these comparisons
cannot fail to increase their respect
for her, she might be induced to give
more attention to her personal ap-.
pearance. Not even the burden of care
and constant employment can furnish
a sufficient excuse for careless person
al habits, for lew things are more im
portant to the well-being of a family.
There is an old saying to the effect
that an untidy mother has disobe
dient children; and w hile neither par
rent nor children mayrealize thewhy
or wherefore of it, yet there is always a
lack of respect and an indifference
to the authority of a mother who
takes no pride in her personal ap
pearance. And it is not the mother
alone upon whose shoulders rests
the burden of responsibility for home
neatness and order in dress; the fa
ther has his duties to look after as
well, and should never fail to insist
upon the younger members of the
family presenting themselves with
well-kept hands, clean faces, neatly
brushed hair, and orderly dress, at
least at every meal where the family
assemble.
Sick People and Toast.
From the Philadelphia.
"You want to know why, ever
since you and I can remember, sick
people have been given a diet of toast,
at least for a time," said the hand
some young 13th street physician
"tackled by the reporter. "When
you toast bread you destroy the
germs of yeast, and this converts the
bread starch into a substance that
is both soluble and incapable of fer
mentation. To put it plainly, it ren
ders the bread, after toasting, about
the easiest? thing to digest that has
yet been discovered, and it will also
never sour the stomach nor produce
any discomfort to persons with weak
digestion, as is usually the result of
sickness. And that is why sick peo-
j pie eat toast- Call again."
' TALMACE IN ROME.
The Brooklyn Divine Preaches Undsr fca
Very Shadows of St, Petera.
"I must Also See Eomt," "Was tha Thesis ol
Hia Eloquent Discourse Ha Follows in. the
Footsteps of the Apo3tle Pail A Full Se.
: pert .--
Ten days after writing his letter on board
the steamer city of Paris, announcing his
departure for the Holy Land, Rev. T. De
Witt Talmasre spoke to a large congregation
in the city of Home, from the text, Acts 19,
21 : "I must also see Rome." A full report
of the sermon follows:
Here is Paul's itinerary. He was a
traveling or circnit preacher. He had been
mobbed and insulted, and the more good he
did the worse the world treated him. '. But
he went right 'on. Now he proposes to go
to Jerusalem and says: "After tbat I must
also see Rome." Why did he want to visit
this wonderful city in which I am to
day permitted to stand? "To preach
the Gospel," you answer. No doubt
of it, but there were other reasons why he
wanted to see Rome. A man of Paul's in
telligence and classic taste had fifty other
reasons for wanting to see it. Your Colos
seum was at that time in process of erec
tion, and he wanted to see it. The Forum
was even then an old structure, and the elo
quent apostle wanted to see that building in
which eloquence had so often thundered and
wept. Over the Appian Way the triumphal
processions had already marched for hun
dreds of years, and he wanted to see that. The
Temple of Saturn was already an antiquity,
and he wanted to see that. The architect
ure of the world renowned city, he wanted
to see that. The places associated with the
triumphs, the cruelties, tho disasters,
the wars, the military geniu3, the poetlo
and the rhetorical fame ot this great city,
he wanted to see them. A man like Paul,
so many sided, so sympathetic, so emotion
al, so full of analogy, could not have been
indifferent to the antiquities and the splen
dors which move every rightly organized
human being. And with what thriil of in
terest he walked these streets, those only
who for tho first time like ourselves enter
Rome can imagine. If the inhabitants of
all Christendom were gathered into one
plain,' and it were put to them which two
cities they would above all others wish to
see, the vast majority of them would vote
Jerusalem and Rome. So we can under
stand something of tho record of my text
and its surroundings when it says, Paul
purposed in the spirit when he had
passed through Macedonia and
Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying: "After
that I must also see Rome." As some of
you are aware, with my family and only
for the purpose of what we can learn, and
for the good wo can get, I am on the way to
Palestine. Since leaving Brooklyn, N. Y.f
this is the first place we have stopped. In
termediate cities are attractive, but we
have visited them in other years, and we
hastened on, for 1 said before starting that
while I was going to see Jerusalem I must
also see Rome, vv hy do I want to see it?
Because I want, by visiting regions asso
ciated with the great apostle to the Gen-,
tiles, to have my faith in Christianity con
firmed. There are those who will go through
large expenditure to have their faith
weakened. In my native land I have
known persons of 'very limited means
to pay fifty cents or a dollar to hear a
lecturer prove that our Christian religion
is a myth, a dream, a cheat, a lie. On the
contrary, I will give all the thousands of
dollars that this journey of my family will
cost to have additional evidence that our
Christian religion is an authenticated
errandeur, a solemn, a joyous, a rapturous,
a stupendous, a magnificent fact. So I
want to see Rome. I want you to show ma
the places connected with Apostolic minis.
try. I have heard that, in your city and
amid its surroundings, apostles suffered
and died for Christ's sake. My common
sense tells me that people do not die for
the sake of a falsehood. They may prao
but put the sword to their heart, or arrange
fire around their feet, and they would say
my life is worth more than anything I can
gain by losing it. hear you have in this
city, Paul's dungeon. Show it to me. I
must see Rome also. While I am interested
in this city because of her rulers or her
citizens who aro mighty in history for virtue
or vice or talents, Romulus, and Caliguli,
and Cincinnatus, and Vespasian and Corio
lanus, and Brutus, and a hundred others
whose names are bright with an exceeding
brightness, or black with the deepest dye
most of all am I interested in this city be
cause the preacher of Mars hill, and the
defier of Agrippa, and the hero of the ship
wrecked vessel in tho breakers of Melita,
and the man who held higher than any one
that tho world ever saw the torch of Resur
rection, lived, and preached, and was massa
cred here. Show me every place connected
with his memory. I must also see Rome.
But my text suggests thit In Paul there
was the inquisitive and curious spirit. Had
my text only meant that he wanted to
preach here he would have said so. Indeed,
in another place, he declared : "I am ready
to preach the Gospel to you who are at
Rome also." But my text suggests a sight
seeing. This man who had been under Dr.
Gamaliel had no lack of phraseology, and
was used to saying exactly what he
meant, and he said : "I must
also see Rome." There is
such a thing as Christian curiosity. Paul
had it and some of us have it. About
other people's business I have no curiosity.
About all that can confirm my faith in the
Christian religion and the world's salvation
and the soul's future happiness, I am full
of an all absorbing, all compelling curiosity.
Paul had a great curiosity about the next
world, and so have we. I . hope some day,
by the grace of God, to go over and see for
myself; but not now. No well man, no
prospered man, I think, wants to go now.
But the time will come, I think, when I
shall go over. I want to see what they do
there, and I want to see how they do it. I
do not want to be looking through the gates
ajar forever. I want them to swing wide
open. There are ten thousand things I want
explained about you, about myself, about
the government of this world, about God,
about everything. We start in a plain path
of what we know, and in a minute come up
against a high wall of what we do not
know. I wonder how it looks over
there. Somebody tells me it is like a
paved city pa vea with gold; and another
man tells me it is like a fountain, and it is
like a tree, and it is line a triumphal proces
sion ; and the next man I meet tells me it is
all figurative. I really want to know, after
the body is resurrected, what they wear
and what they eat; and I have an immeasur
able curiosity to know what it is, and how
it is, and where it is. Columbus risked his
life to find the American continent, and
shall we shudder to go out on a voyage of
discovery which shall reveal a vaster and
more brilliant country? John Franklin
risked his life to find a passage
between icebergs, and shall we
dread to find a passage to eternal
summer? Men in Switzerland travel
up to the heights of the Matterhorn, with
alpenstock, and guides, and rockets, and
ropes, and, getting half way up, stumble
and fall down in a horrible massacre. They
just wanted to say they had been on tho
top3 of those high peaks. And shall we fear
to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills
which start a thousand miies bsyond where
stop the highest peaks of the Alp3, and
when in that ascent there is no peril? A
man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold,
and said in joy: "Now, in ten minutes I will
know the great secret." One minute after
the vital functions ceased, the little child
that died last night knew more than Paul
himself before he died. Friends, the
exit from this world, or death, if you
please to call it, to the Christian is glo
rious explanation. It is demonstration. It
is illumination. It is sunburst It is the
opening of all the windows. It 13 shut
ting up the catechism of doubt, and the un
rolling of all the scrolls of positive and ac
curate information. Instead of standing at
the foot of tha ladder and looking up, it it
standing at tho top of the ladder and look
ing down. It is the last mystery taken out
of botany and geology and astronomy ou a
theology. Oh, will it not bo grand to have
all quertions answered? Tin perpetually
recurring interrogation poiat changed for
the mark of exclamation. All riddles
solved. Who will fear to go o"1
oa that discovery, wan all t&e
questions are to be decided wnich.,?I
have been discussing all our lives? . no
shall not clap his hands iu the anticipation 01
that blessed country, if it be no better n
through, holy curiosity? As u
my text did not suppress his
need not suppress ours, x es, thlno.a
limited curiosity about all "".IS
and as this city of Rome i was so
connected with apostolic . time?, the inci
Sn?s of which emphasize and explain and
au-ment the Christian religion, you will
not take it as an evidence of a prying spirit,
but as the outburstmg of a Christian curi
osity when I say I must also see Rome.
Our desire to visit this city is also inten
sified by the fact that wa want to be con
firmed in the feeling that human life is
brief, but its work lasts for centuries, in
deed foreyer. Therefore show us the anti
quities of old Rome, about which we have
been reading for a lifetime, but never seen.
In our b eioved America, we have no anti
quities. A church eighty years old overawes
us with its age. We have in America some
cathedrals hundreds and thousands of years
old, but they are in Yellowstone park, or
Californian canon, and thei r architecture
find masonry wore by tha omnipotent
God. We want to see the buildings,
or ruins of old buildings, tbat were
erected hundreds and thousands of years
ago by human hancis. They lived forty or
seventy year3, but the arche3 they lifted,
the paintinzs they penciled, the sculpture
they chiseled, tha road3 they laid out, I
understand, ara yet to bo seen, and wa
want you to show them to us. I can hardly
Wait until Monday morning. I must also
see Rome. We want to be impressed with
the fact that what men do on a small scale
or large scale lasts a thousand years, lasts
forever, that we build for eternity and that
we do so in a very short space of time. God
is the only old living presence. But it is
an old age without any of thb infirmities or
limitations of old age. There is a passage
of Scripture which speaks of tho birth of
the mountains, for ther3 was a time when
the Ande.3 were born, and the Pyrenees
were borne, and the Sierra Nevadas were
born, but before the birth of those moun
tains the Bible tells us, God was born, aye
was never born at all, because he always
existed. Psalm xc, 2 : 'iBefore the moun
tains were brought forth, or ever thou
hadst formed the earth and the world, even
from everlasting to everlasting, thou art
God." How short is human life, what
antiquity attaches to it3 worth I How ever
lasting is God! Show us the antiquities,
the things that were old when America
was discovered, old when Paul went up
and down these streets sight seeing, old
when Christ was born. I must, I must also
see Rome !
Another reason for oar visit to this city
is that we want to see the places where the
mightiest intellects and the greatest
natures wrought for our Christian religion.
We have been told in America by some
people of swollen heads that the Christian
religion is a pusillanimous thing, good for
children under 7 years of age and small
brained people, but not for the intelligent
and swarthy minded. Wo have heard of
your .Constantino the mighty, who pointed
his army to the cro33, saying: "By this
conquer." If there be anything
here connected with his reign or
his military history, show it to us. The
mightiest intellect of the agee was the au
thor of my text, and, if for the Christian
religion he was willing to labor and suffer
and die, there must ba something exalted
and sublime and tremandous in it; and show
mo every place he visited, and show me if
you can where he was tried, and which of
your roads leads out to Ostia, that 1 may
see where he went out to die. We expect
before we finish this journey to see Lake
Galilee and the pla3e3 where Simon Peter
and Andrew fished, and perhaps we
may drop a net or a hook and line into
those waters ourselves, but when fol
lowing the track of those lesser apos
tles I will learn quite another lesson.
I want while in this city of Rome to
study the religion of the brainic3t of the
apostles. I want to follow, as far as we
can trace it, the track oE this great intellect
of my text who wanted to see Rome also.
He was a logician, he was a metaphisician,
he was an all conquering orator, he was a
poet of the highest type. He had a nature
that could swamp the leadiog men of his own
day, and, hurled against the Sanhedrim, he
made it tremble. He learned ail he could
get iu the school of his native village, then
he had gone to a higher school, and there
had mastered the Greek and the Hebre-v
and perfected himself in belles lettres, '
til, in after years, he astounded the Cre
tans, and the Corinthians, and the
Athenians, by quotations from their
own authors. I have never found anything
in Cariyle or Goethe, or Herbert Spencer
that could compare in strength or beauty
with Paul's epistles. I do not think there
is anything in the writings of Sir William
Hamilton that shows such mental discipline
as 3'ou find in Paul's argument about justl
cation and resurrection. I have not found
anything in Milton finer in the way of im
agination than I can find in Paul's illustra
tions drawn from the amphitheatre. There
was nothing in Robert Emmet pleading for
his life, or in Edmund Burke arraigning
Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall,
that compared with the scene in the
court room when,' before robed o?J
cials, Paul bowed and began h's
speech, saying: "I think myself 1 .
py, King Agrippa, because 1 shall
answer for myself this day." I repeat, that
a religion that can capture a man like that
must have some power in it. It is time our
wiseacres stopped talking as though all the
brain of the world were opposed to Chris
tianity. Where Paul leads, we can afford
to follow. I am glad to know that Christ
has, in the different ages of the world, had
in his discipleship a Mozart and a Handel
in Music; a Raphael and a Reynolds ia
painting; an Angelo and a Canova in
sculpture ; a Rush and a Harvey in medicine ;
a Grotius and a Washington in statesman
ship ; a Blackstone, a Marshall and a Kent
in the law; and the time will come when
the religion of Christ will conquer
all the observatories and universities,
and philosophy will, through her tele
scope, behold the morning star of
Jesus, and in her laboratory see that "all
things work together for good," and with
her geological hammer discern the "Rock of
Ages." Oh, instead of cowering and shiv
ering when the skeptic stands before us, and
talks of religion as though it were a pusil
lanimous thinginstead of that, let us take
out our new testament and read the story
of Paul at Rome, or come and see this city
for ourselves, and learn that it could have
t.e"- no weak Gospel that actuated such a
man, but that it is an all conquering Gospel.
Aye I for all ages the power of God and the
wisdom of God unto salvation.
Men, brethren and fathers I I thank you
for this opportunity of preaching the gos
pel to you that are at Rome also. The
churches of America salute you. Upon you
who are like us, strangers in Rome, I pray
the protecting and journeying care of God.
Upon you who are resident here, I pray
grace mercy and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. After
tarrying here a few days we resume our
journey for Palestine, and we shall never
meet again, either in Italy, or America, or
what is called the Holy Land, but there is
a holier land, and there we may meet, sav
ed by the grace that in the same way
saves Italian and American, and there
in that supernal clime, after embracing
him who, by hi3 sufferings on the hill
back of Jerusalem, made our heaven possi
ble, and given salution to our own kindred
whose departure broke our hearts on earth,
we shall, I think, seek out the traveling
preacher and mighty hero of the text who
marked out hi3 journey through Macedonia
and Achaia to Jerusalem, saying; "After
I have been there, I must also see Rome," I
FOR THE FARMER.
. polnterf for Frmer.
There are ut the present time in
Germany upwards of GOO coopera
tive creameries. Of this number 302
nre situated in the province of
Schleswig: Ilolstein, where they aro
chiefly enguffed in preparing butter
for the English market.
Orin D. Vanco of Caribou,
Aroostook Co., Me., has this vear
raised from one acre of land 405
bushels and 11 pounds of potatoes,
313 1-15 bushels of the lot being
large potatoes. Many farms in
Aroostook regularly yield 250 to
300 bushels of potatoes to the acre.
The cheapest fence, according to
The Country Gentleman, is barb
wire, a ditch being plowed on each"
side and a bank raised, before pu t-
tingonthewire. The ditch and bank
will prevent animals from running
against it, will aid in draining the
land, and require shallow post-holes.
Most house plants are watered
to much in winter.. Even in green
houses, where a uniform and higher
temperature than is possible in
most living-rooms is maintained,
the evil is more apt to be from to
much rather than to little water.
Unless the plants are kept warm
enough to grow rapidly, water is
an injury.
Tobacco leaves or a few stalks
of tansy, sweet fern, or anything
of strong odor put in the hen's
nest will in many cases keep them
free from lice. Sulphur in the nests
is excellent. But if the dust bath
is kept in good condition and
changed from week to week there
will be little need of other remedies.
The fowls will dust themselves and
so keep clean.
In tho absence of milk, an excellent
food for young pigs, says Henry
Stewart, can be made up of potatoes
boiled and mashed with the water in
to a thin paste and mixed with a suffi
cient quantity of corn meal and bran,
so that when ic is cool it ca n be lifted
with a shovel. This mixture is not
only extremely nutritious, but it is a
well balanced and healthful food, for
growing, as well as fattening pigs.
We make the broad assertion, says
the Pennsylvania Farmer, that no
farmer of this section is making six
per cent, on his investments, while
the average Avill fall below three per
cent., while mafiyare makingno pro
fits at all. Again facts force us to
say that twenty-five per cent, of the
farms of this section are for sale.
These include some of the best in lo
cation and improvements. There is
no use attempting to disguise the
fact that agriculture is suffering.
If the butter is thoroughly worked
to remove all the white flakes of
caseine, it will need much less salt.
It is the impurit ies of butter, and es
pecially its exposure to air, that
cause its quick decay. The pnblic
taste of late years requires much le.ss
salt in butter than it used to do, and
to make little salt effectual necessi
ties all tho greater care for the butter-maker.
Over-salting is, therefore,
presumptive evidence that salt has
been added to cover defects arising
from ignorance, laziness and general
want of cleanliness.
It is comparatively easy to procure
of butchers the bony pieces of animals
they slaughter themselves, and which
are worth more even than entire
meat to make fowls lay. Break tho
bones up with a hammer, after boil
ing them so as to make them softer.
It does not matter if some of the
pieces areas large as a chestnut. The
gizzard will quickly grind them finer
if the fowls are supplied with gravel.
It is.the bone material that is neces
sary in making both eggs and shell.
Fowls thus fed will make a much more
valuable manure than they will fed
on any kind of grain.
Don't trust the dehorned, bulls,
says a reader of tHe Breeders' Gazette.
For a time an animal which lias been
accustomed to use his horns is ren
dered more or less harmless on finding
his weapons of the offense and defense
have vanished, but his nature is still
the same, and if once driven or pressed
too far, heaven help the man who has
trusted to this change of disposition.
I have lately had two Scotchmen
working for me; both had been with
polled herds in Scotland, as well as
with Short-horn herds. Both agreed
that they considered it much safer to
work among the horned cattle than
polled. The only safe plan is as you
say: "Never trust a bull, cross or
kind, horned, unhorned, or de
horned." An important legal question will
probably arise soon over the right
of fruit growers to spray apple and
other fruit trees with water contain
ing Paris green, while the trees nia
in blossom. Bees searching the
flowers for honey take the poison
into their systems and are
killed. This is, perhaps, a fortunate
fact, for if bees merely collected honey
instead of manufacturing, it, this
poisoned honey might be stored in
their cells, and poison those who
consumed it. The spraying, even of
the apple, need not be done while
the trees are in blossom. It is true
that the codling moth, usually do
posits her eggs in the blossom end of
the apple, bnt until the fruit is as
large as a walnut, tho blossom end
is turned upwards. After this the
weight of the apple bends the fruit
over. Between the timo of blossom
ing and the fruit bending down with
its own weight, the spraying maybe
done without danger of injury to
bees. There is, therefore, no incom
patibility between the fruit-growing
and honey-producing industries if
the proper precautions are observed.
A Rattle Probable.
Dusukod, Col., Nov. 12 Newa was ro
cdved today that during a quarrel over a
blanket "Old Hatch," chief of tho 1'iuWH,
wjiH shot and killed by Cow IiDy and hi
nroiDer, sous or UlA Wash, of the Southern
Uie tribe on tlio Bine mountain rantre ap".
place called Doublo Cabins. Tiiel'iut
their Rues and other pcirsoual tffio p, LiU
cremated vhm. tt tho fame time killing
kid-wl both of them. Tbe 8julht-ru U.4
gathered a l.trge pile of lopr. placed LW
I'Oy and bi hmthor fherpnn tmn.thu
their horpee. Tbi ocrmocy was accorJl
LW? tuition. F.f ty Ucea nro now atmir.
riei ni tho Ulue mountain rano aad 1-.)
warricrK from tho eouthf-ra trib hav pro no
Murder and Suicide.
Stockton, ICnl., Soy. i& -c. A. ns a
preacher living near Itockford, early th'
mornirg ehot ard killed hl8 wife, hi c!gh
ycar-oid eon and hlmeeif. He was a Mctii
odifct preacher forceral year., tut int.
texly had bacn an Itinerant Caagregiticc
aiisT. engogred J MJih book. H0 hid
not lived liapt.t y with his wifu an.l thPV
e(-paruUd Konie time ato. Sn bupporuu
herseJf mid her boy by teaching nclcvs
near Lec.Vfojg and raade her hom- at, ti e
rcsid-a-noo of Kr&uk Fostfr. For t,omo
past llo$ b&il fcten driving to tue Hch-V i
bous3 and taking Mb wife homo as the cl. h
of reboot huurB. Hm did thla vet tcrdav a; '
rozGaiue I with her till nlht, He luo-e "it
5 o'clock this morning axid f hot bprthrou h
the Umjile v.-ich n pitd, killmr hr in
stantly. T&o report awakened the iirtit fc
boy, who eJept in n adjoining roam. Uti
rushed into hfspireuth'r.-oi-iwuid the i'athtr
ehoE him twice in tho oLeek und teui-ic
cniiKing instant deuth. Th;u liot-s uhot l.liu!
pc!t in the head and poon r.icd. Tho re U
ceuu of the tragedy is not known.
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150 " prime " " 10'
1T" 44 V. L. ' VI
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These oils in barrel lots. The best
harness oil in either one or live g.ilbm
cans, 70 cents per gallon. Pure Xeafs
toot oil in one to live gallon cans, t
cents per gallon. In barrel lots. .-o
cents per gallon. Axle grease, tl.irtv
six boxes in case, $1.85.
Allen Hoot, State Agent.
.Stock shipped to Allen Hoot, care 1
Hell, Collins & McCoy, Omaha, by
members of the Alliance, will realize
from $4 to $5 more per car for then
stock. Give tho agent notice when
shipped. Mr. Hoot is state agent for
the Alliance. W. It. Uenuett & C.
will sell groceries, etc., to the Alli
ances at jobber's rates. Send all or
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vegetables, fruits or poultry, should be
billed to Mr. Hoot, care of Bowman,
Williams & Howe's, Omaha.
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