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TALME'S SERHON. Dr. Talmage's text ra II. Chroo idea ix. 9: "Of spices great abundance neither waa there any such spice as the qeeen of Sheba gare Solomon." What is that building out yonder, glittaring in th" sun? It is the hones of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon has just taken to it his bride, the princess of Egypt You see the pillars of the portico, and a great tower adorned with 1,000 shields of gold, hung oq the outside of the tower 500 of the shields of gold manufactured at Solomon's order, 900 were captured by David, his father, in battle. See how they blaze in the noonday sun! Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne between twelre lions in stat uary, and sits down on the back of the golden bull, the head of the bronze beast turned toward the people. The family and attendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the palace have to provide every day 100 sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and the pawing of 4,000 fine horses in the royal stables. There were impor tant officials who had charge of the work of gathering the straw and the barley for these horses. King Solomon was an early riser, tradition Bays, aud used to to take a ride out at daybreak ; and when, in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses in the realm, and followed by mounted archers in purple as the cavilcade dashed through the streets of Jerusalem, I suppose it was something worth getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to look at Solomon waa not like some of the kings of the present day crowned im becility. All the splendor of his palace and retinue were eclipsed by his intel lectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. He was the first groat naturalist the world ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted the basal tic walk, and apes chattered in the trees, and deer stalked In the parks and then were aquariums with foreign fish and aviaries with foreign birds; and tradition says these birds were so well tamed that Solomon might walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitted about him. - More than this, he had a great repu tation for the conundrums and riddles that be made and guessed. Queen Battis was so pleased with the acute neat of Solomon, that she said: -111 just go and see him for myself." Yon dec it comes the cavalcade horse- and dromedaries, chariots and char ioteers, jingling harness and clattering boats, and blazing shields, and flying ensigns, and clapping cymbals. The place is saturated with perfume. She brings cinnamon, and safron, and cal amus, ana nnuuneense, and all man ner of sweet spices. As the retinue iweeps through the gate the armed guard inhale the aroma, "Halt:" cry the charioteers, aa the wheels grind the gravel in front of the pillared portico of the king. Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere bewitched with per fume. As the dromedaries are driven op to the king's storehouses, and the bandies of camphor are unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon, and the boxes of spices are opened, the purveyors of the palace discoverer what my text an Douneea: "Of spices, great abundance; nettner was were any such spices as the queen of Sheba gare to King Solo- Well, my friends, yon know that all theologians agree in making Solomon a type of Christ, and making the queen of Sheba a type of every truth seeker; and I shall take the responsibility of aaying that all the spikuenard, and cassia, and frankincense which the queen of Soeba brought to King Solo mon are mightily suggestive of the iweet spices of our holy religion Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities, and angular facta, and chronological tables, and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankin cense and to cassia, bat never to i nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh It is a dash of holy light It is a sparkle of cool fountains. It is an opening of gates. It is a collection of Would Ood that we wise in taking spices to our Divine One aa Queen Balkis was wise in tak the spices to the earthly Solomon! What many of us moat need is to have .VV.-. . . ... ute tmatcrum anven out oi our me snj the humdrum oat of our religion' rAaserlcan,and English, and Scot tgatiimaxek will die of humdrum unless thfrebes change, An editor from ' fts Itsacisoo a few weeks ago wrote M Baying be was getting up for his payer symposium from many clergy bbsm fcatuasing among other things "way do not people go to chorea r" erf hs wanted my opinion and I gave ttfci ana ssatenes: ' People do not go ta etmrcsi hipauee they sannot The fact Is that BBQch homdrua IMwartSy easing tart they do not wart to have la add the kamdruni of We fteed all oar serai d soitsB and Draysr s lefwfcrtMeonEeSls broaghtto ICtmfBCta great deal of KTc.3i tafeyla utterly laeijrii OOfctMk th kava Urn C toVaCatio tow to liar- Crr tt ar Cater arty m te-n- Why go growling on your wsy to celes tial enthronement ? Come out of that cave and sit down in the warm light of sun of righteousness. Away with your odes of melancholy aud lleivey's "Meditations among the Tombs." Than Irt cur aoag iboand. And amy t-ar la drj; Wa'ra nurehias throat! Emmanuel' ground To fairer world uo high. I have to say, also that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our religious teaching; whether it be in our prayer meeting, or in the Sabbath school, or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine in our lunga, and our heart and our head. Why did you look so sad today when you came in? Alas! for the loneliness and the heartbreak, and the load that is never lifted from your soul. Some of you go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote: "if I had another month of such days aa I hare been spending, I would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the ground like a weary factory child." And there have been times in your life when you wished you could get out of this life. You have said: "Ob, how swe t to my lips would be the dust of the valley," and wished you could pull over you in your last slumber the cov erlet of greeu grass and daisies. You have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in the tomb. I wish I was there." 1 see all around about -me widowhood, and orphanage, and child lessness; sadness, disappointment, per plexity. If I could ask all those to rise iu this audience who have felt no sorrow, and been buffeted by no disap pointment if I could ask all such to rise, how many would rise? Xot one. A widowed mother with her little child went west, hoping to get better wages there, and was taken sick and died. The overseer of the poor got her body and put it iu a vagon and started down the street toward the cemetery at full trot The little child the only child ran after it through the streets bare headed, crying: ".Bring me back me back my mother! bring me back my mother!" And it is said that as the people looked on and saw her cryinp after that which lay in the box iu uie wagon ail sue lovea on earth it is said that the whole village was in tears. And that is what a great many of you are doing chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appease ment for all this sorrow that I see about me ? Yes, the tiiooght of resur -rection and reunion far beyond this scene of struggle and tears. "They shall hunger no more, neither shall the sun lighl on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living foun tains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from your eyes." Across the couches of your sick and across the graves of your dead, I fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis, driving up to the pillared portico of the house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as exhales today from the Lord's garden. It is peace; it is sweet ness; it is comfort; it is infinite satis faction, this Gospel I commend to you. Someone could not understand why an old German Christian scholar used to be always so happy and hopeful when he had so many trials aud sick nesses and ailments A man secreted himself in the bouse. He said: "I mean to watch this old scholar and Chris tian." And he saw the old Christian mm go to his room and sit down on the chair beside the stand and open the Bible and begin to read. He read on and on, chapter after chapter, hour after hour, until his face was all aglow with the tidings from heaven, and when the clock struck 12 he arose and shut his Bible and said: "Blessed Lord. we are on the same old terms yet Good night; good night" Oh, you sin parched and you troubled-pounded, here is satisfaction. Will you come and get it ? I cannot tell you what the Lord offers you hereafter so well aa I can tell yon now. "It doth not yet ap pear what we shall be," Have you read of the Taj Mahal in India in some respects the most majestic building on earth? Twenty thousand men were twenty yean in building it. It cost about 16,000,000. The walls are of marble, inlaid with cornelian from Bagdad, and turqouise from Thibet, and jasper from the Punjaub, and amethyst from Persia, and all manner of precious stones. A traveler says that it seems to him like' the shin ing of an enchanted castle of burnished silver. The walls are 24 feet high, and from the top of these springs a dome thirty more feet high, that dome containing the most wonderful echo the world baa ever known; bo that ever and anon travelers standing below with flutes, and drums, and harps, are test ing that echo, and the sounds from be low strike up and then come down as it wan the voice of angels all around about the Vuildlng. There to around it a garden of tamarind, and banyan, and lieim, assail the floral glories of toe ransacked earth. But that to only a compared with tbegnmdean which God baa kallded for your living and iausortal spirit Oh! home of the 1 Foundation of coll of victory t Ot;steoos of jftttml iawxfektacteCttlng -.irtn i rla Irr-r'-i-. If Be an snra Kmiri rpn at bbi aa the deep hue that was caught up iron the carnage of earthly martyrdoms j and the fragrance is tua prayer ot ai j the saints, and the a.-ma puts into uttei forgecfulness the cassia aud Hie spin-" ard, and the frankincense, and U world renowned spices. WbeoahaU Uiewrra ty taew built wU And pearl; gafat benold. Ilij tail war ka wiUi aaljatioo Wrong. An ' itnota of 'Mains gold? . Through obduracy on our part, n through the rejection of that t uris; who makes heaven possible, 1 wonder if any of us will miss that spectacle: I fear! I fear! The queen of the south will rise up in judgment against this generation and condemn it, be cause she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here! May God grant that through vour own practical experience you may" find that religion's ways are wavs of pleasantness, and that all Iter paths are paths of peace that it is per fume now and perfume forever. And there was an abundance of spue: "neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Mo rn on." ! ilk. I Jtwmm OooU Advice. Never take into your confidence, oi admit often into your company, an man who does not know, on some im portant subject, more than you do. Be his rank, be his virtues what the; may, he will be a hindrance to join greatness. If indeed, the greatnes were such as courts can bee tow, ami such as can be laid on the shoulders oi a groom and make him look like tlit rest of the company, my advice would be misplaced; but since all transcend ent, all true and genuine greatness must be of a man's own raising, and only on the foundation that the hand of God has laid, do not let any touch it; keep them off civilly, but keep them off. Affect no stoicism; display no in difference; let their coin pass current; but do not exchange it for the purer ore your carry, nor think the milling pays for the alloy. Greatly favored and blessed by providence will yon be, if you should in your lifetime be known what you are; the contrary, if you should be transformed. Walter Savage Landor. Senator Hearst's Men in Muck ram. One day while the late Senator Hearst was a young man and yet had his fortune to make he and a few com panions were on a prospecting tour Along in the afternoon they sighted a band of Indians, and, as in those day- all Indians were hostile, Mr. Hearst and his friends naturally wanted to get away from there. All the prospectors, except the future senator, were mount ed on horses. He was on a retired army mule, and soon found himself left in the reer. The Indians were on his trail and things began to look seri ous, when he called out to his rapidly disappearing companions: "Hold on, boys; there's only a few of them. We needn't be afraid." Just then the mule scented the ap proaching Indians, and with a wild snort started out at a gait that soon left the horsemen far behind. When Hearst was about a quarter of a mile in advance he turned in his saddle and yelled at the top of his voice: "Hurry up, boys; you'll get scalped There's more'n a hundred of them." Chicago Post Queer Postures of Women. Have you ever seen a girl sit on her foot? I heard at Miss Chreimaa's class the other day. Cousin Madge tells London Truth, that it is a favor ite attitude of the young women of the period. She puts her foot upon the seat of a chair and immediately sits down on it, the other serving as a prop and balance, being firmly planted on the floor. When you come to think of j it very wonderful are the attitudes in which girls often sit tsomestimes they will screw up their knees until they almost touch their noses, holding them tightly around with clasped hands, while they devour a book perched upon the knees. The position is highly insecure. The slight est touch would knock them over. Lived onfOa Year. The Widow Paret "5 years old, starved to death in Lisle four weeks ago. She left a fortune of $175,000. As a thoroughbred miser she was with out a rival Twelve years ago, when her husband died, she had only' a few hundred dollars. She invested her money judiciously, and set about get ting more with unsurpassed energy. She sewed, begged, and did the hard . i ,, obi, uiauiuu moor wnenever an tunity was offered to her. He, savings were almost identical with her earnings, for her living cost ner wuj v annually, she got her ioou irom me reruse heads at v.i.. ble markets and from the garbage of " restaurants. She gathered the coals for her fire usually at the uocu wnere ireight ships were loaded and emptied. Every morninir rain -1 ... v. uu, sne appeared at the wharves with nor coai oasaet on her arm. Vh e,,,her ket there si pi,fered the desired eupply from neighboring MBl Tarda t. .i ' ' uj mis nrart m w herself several times in the LUi noil-. courts. . r " Last fau her only son, an nnsuccees fol miser, ded of h,. hLJ . . ' ue 1 ' oi sixteen vi joung woman U the sole heir of the tortone. She Is one of th. JZJt. ana is said to b Unt j great preparations for the pwdy dissipation of h . oppor- Ol'R FARM DEPARTilEST Cnuit; Baiter. After all that cau be said for cream ery butter it is not always periwt. In creasing numbers note its poor keeping qual:tv, because imj-erfectly freed from caseou's matter; also the fact that it , . - . t..r n.iiin.1 for uouud. Ss 0's ink gu bo '. r" - . dairy butter, more solid from careful making. Families are discarding it. while they desire the lost, because needing to practice economy. Hut ail rreameries do not turn out "spongy .utter." Here and there one euuals dairy buWer in solidity. Cream gather ing creameries are prone to let cream sour too much. Of course oversowing, eveniu the dairy, will produce tue same sorry result. The creamery or dairy coming nearest to the manufac ture of sweet cream butter, provided it is proir!y washed and packed, will make the most solid and best keeping article. N'ew York Tribune. HDr flanta. A. I. Root, authority on all subjects pertaining to bee culture, says; Past experience seems to have taught us that not only is it true that no plant bears honey invariably, but It is also true that a great many plants may now and then give quite a yield of honey Doolittle got quite a crop of very nice honey from teasel. Dr. Miller had quite a little honey yield from cucum bers, where they were raised for pickle factories. Spanish needle from the swamps sometimes gives large quan tities of very rich amber honey. Last season Dr. Miller had a yield ot very nice honey right along for months, and if I am correct he does niit know yet where it came from. When I visited him he asked me if I could see enough white clover, or clover of any kind, to account for the amount of honey that was then coming in. I could not Arid yet there was nothing else visible to us in our miles of travel that should fur nish it. llape sametimbs gives quite a Mow of beautiful honey lu localities where the plant Is raised largely for seed. Mustard fields also furnish more ot less. Farm HlnU. The borer which attacks the currant stems may be kept in subjection, says the Michigan Farmer, bv cutting and burning all the infected stems. In stems that cannot be spared go for the borer with a knitting-needle. This season there is more water in the boil than has been the case for years. Cellars that have always been dry, in some sections, are now partly filled with water. This will probably not be lessened, as we are to hare the usual spring rains. Michigan has a cow insurance club. On joining, each person pays into the treasury 75 cents for each cow in his posesaion, and when a cow belonging dies, an assessment is made and 8(0 is paid to the loser. Aftes Uie initiation fee the members are required to pay nothing except the assessment llange cattle are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and the stock farmer may breathe easier. With the con . jtant encroachment of the homestead and the farm, the almost boundless range and the days of the vast herds ire surely numbered. Like the Indian nd the Buffalo, they will soon become i thing of the past Young chicks will become afflicted with lice as soon as hatched. The lice eave the fewl and go to the chicks. As won as a hen comes oft with a brood :ub a few drops of melted lard or oil on aie skin of the head and neck of the ben, and dust Uie chicks well with Ualisatian Insect powder. No breeder or farmer should believe ir ccepi as a iact mat any breed of twine or any individual animal peneci, says the .National Stock muk. ine rorce or strength of the meaning of the word "thorough-bred ncreases with the improvement of the luality of the animals. No one reall- w uie worm oi me adage that "the Ijest is none too good" with more force .nan me true fancier aud breeder. Ha s always looking for his ideal higher -7P tuia wnen iouna will pay fabulous ior iu r.im. rifld, Oaraaa. Many of our progressive culUvatofi lave left off old methods for the newer ine of drilling in the see 1, surface ma tinring and level or shallow cutivatlon Other good farmers still cling to old wavs, while others again strike a me dium bet een the old an J new systems. Following is what Southern Cultiva tor has to say on the subject of plant ing corn: The first plow uif? may ana snonia ue deep and close on all soiU that are stiff or inclined to run together, and we know of nothing better for the siding furrow than a nnxlerately long square or diamond joi!itel scooter. It is not necessary to plow out the entire mid dle at once; on the contrary, we have fomwl if tmnerallv expedient to Hill villus- p 4 a i round the entire rop, or as much of it aa may be ready for the operation, and then returned and plw the middles out ( n mellow, soft clean lands deep plowing is not at all necessary if the ground was well plowed U-iore plain ing. Indeed, in our own practice we adopted the general rule that wherever a sweep, scrape, or other wide expand ing cultivator will do good work, no other implement or deeper plowing is required. It is a pretty safe rule all through the cultivation of any crop, thus always giving the preference to the implement that will do satisfac tory work at the time, and the largest amount (acres ier day) with the least labor. The first plowing of con; should be done so carefully as to obviate the ne cessity for hand hoe work, which may be easily done on smooth, well prepared land. It is not a bad rule to require every plowman on such land to stop and remove, or, cover with his hands, or a paddle kept at hand for the pur pose, every bunch or sprig of grass that might have been destroyed by the plow. Under such a rule greater care and skill will be exercised by the plow man, for no m ah liked to slop to un cover or cover anything. If the plants are healthy nnd vigor ous, and the land not especially infest ed by bud worms, we greatly prefer thinning out by hand or by means of a narrow paddle in advance of the plows It may be done when ths ground is too wet to plow or hoe, each hand being arinexi wun a suck or paddle three or iour ie long, auu carrying two rows at a time. W03LVSE DuU headache fa J! Of potHMim j na glassful iodine grains in a glassful ti to be taken in little j,, hour. When making wt J half teaspoon - vi g limn auwia n cream oi tartar nufa. stiner. m ivuiii, ooi An. 5 Gl It Soma Milk. A Canadian describes a plan by which he gives his calves new milk and yet manages to have a good supply of butter from his milk. The idea is sim ple enough and well worth considera tion. '1 he plan adopted is as follows. At milking time two large vessels arc put outside the barn door, one marked "dairy" and the other "calves." One half of the milk given by each cow viz., that drawn first is put Into the vessel marked "calves," and the other half viz., that last draw is put into the vessel marked "dairy." This latter half is found on being tested to con tilnfrom two-thirds to three-fourths! of the cream. The calves have the ad vantage oi ueing Tea mtu milk warm from the cow; at the sama time they are reared at a moderate cost, as their allowance of milk does not contain much cream. Exchange. 5 boil well: drink 111 li.i ... seed in a pint of wattr.jJ a little honey, one ouw and the Juice of tlirtuJ sg If the globes oniJ much stained on the -' soak them in tolt-raUj w' whieh a little washin. J dissolved. Then t,uti J powdered ammonia in J warm water and wiHii scrub the globes until tin J disappear. Rinse indtJj They will be as white uiJ Kggs in an euwgenc, f seal letters. Will wuitfcj glass covers. Will res sublimate harmless, if 14) given after an emetic. R burn, if several applW whites be nut in to D Will not permit a pUtttrj the mustard be lulird t&J of water. Will remove ti the throat, if the white I given at once. Naw Vork'i I rt Afta Just at the bcginningtff nvery stands the big bror dicated to science aitd a; Is Saaal Mawtag. A sowing in shallow drids, fin. apart 01 r rencu norn or early Nantes carrots, ujuum u maae on the south border. in preparing the ground, take advant age of a fine day, so that the surface wil may become somewhat drv lif. owing me seed, and a dressing of wood ashes may be aDDlied hf fir A that Uru .re cioseo, as a manure, a,,d rem. sdy against wire-worms. Early Milan turnip seed should be sown in drills 1 foot apart A small sowing only should now be made, and again in three weeks Large b-esdth are undesirable at this early date, asmeplanU run i ,hPldl7' J1 .own on me south border, the tuml rariatu. Vl . --rw a ;T V "n,P,07t Cover the radish beds with drv litur ,,B,n .. . wds come up, wUn It ihouid he taken off in the day and replaced at night "Suppose one anarch! r.iu ... . wealth and claims that i h. .. the poor live. And bomwbb other flnds a fWa f rvll.. Will .. . -now one. The Inadequacy of Critic sin. The critical kodak has not yet been invented; there is no little instrument that promises to do the rest In review ing if you press the button; and in the meantime there is the chance of giving ouly a glimpse of the work that comes before one. One aspect Is 'seized, Bud a moment only of that: a few traits are grouped about this general look of an author a nose here, a mouth there, an eye or iwo, a chin-and then the whole must be intrusted to the intelllireuce of the reader, with a suggestion that hi had better go to the boak for a right conception 01 it. W.I). I)oweU ia narpers. Ho dedicated Cooper, who has a mosv heart of every New Yornr ible one in the city of hk During the lifetime of at" man, there was no inn nude done at Cooper 1 a very intelligible, old ft dice against it Now, fallen Into line with the sesses that crowning glory tf school, a life class. I'ulike the League of the Coom-r Is for women onli. 1 xtruction is free to all itj iiiiinr a proiession oi an. usual studies ft has riitw ing photographs, crayon engraving, remunerative K employments, and the which young women art teachers. This course onlj year. Jo appreciate tin may be obtained in that sli must s the fine work ent petition for the prizes ol class, such as deigns Mr stained glass, for wall papa, There is little discipline, larity about art school, C has h slight flavor of tface usually inseparable from tbt school. 1 do not know because or this fai t or in Cooper is perhaps the pie for a young girl to pursue hs At the other schooli no cms over the students in other hours, and not much then. erative employment is fi advice given as to buard df The students come and pi please no one tikes anjtf them. I f they come, the rai if they stay away, it is UiM! It Is taken for 'granted tia) chosen their career they a. every opportunity for profnt Kibe! McDougail in neon lt were, beinsr a ixnjt.u common level can t -.. VTW How Hpools ar j Made, jJircn wood is preferred. The wood Is first sawed into slicks four or live ieiiong and seven-eights of an Itx-h W4inci.es square; according to the sIms of the spool to be produced. These sUcks are thoroughly seasoned. Thev -.ovru mio snort blocks and dried in a hot-air kiln. At the time the. are sawed holes are bored perpendicu larly through each block which i. on erm under a rapidly revolving lonir "" ""Ker. exi one whirl nf eacnnuie block against some little knives that are turnintr at li.htr.in. laauiuiu 11 into a spool accord ing to the pattern desired, and .. ' t one a second for h jet of knives. A row of small boy. feed the spool-making machines w7 uinpiy piecing Uie Mock. In . fleeting the best, and h 1 the knotty and defective stock. The machine is "automatic," but there ar """ cannot do. hence '"piuyment or the iroali bora bove mentioned. After the soook --'uwtryarapweeti m a large drum ad revcve ridTy aUl they - - . pntian. rot torn l2i irpoi uey are dyed tcOow or red, aordlng to one seat a spoei of thread Barked -wr aaaavw a .. - a aaav A tortoise shell hairpin it ed with a bow knot of gold A silver brooch has ' forget-me-nots, within whinl ant a moonstone heart. ' Iormette handles a'e stiJH tortoise shell elaborately ani of them being profusely l . raonds. J A brooch is In the form ol white mmwI alHint which ii C ly coiled a serpent formed i dinmouds. A Hroadwav jeweler hutti In the farm of a curb chill,! sapphire and two diamond, square setting. A caudleatick recently tM ni m.. .w u nt ilrsrs candle is set in the centtf l water lily. A shade accofflf is in Uie form of an Invert! . A costly pair of o ragl In -..1.1 l.lanlr aniimel m j 11 j- 1- --..J itn trefoila onUined with mU , alternating with single rwk Mh nt f ha lanaf l SUI1W;, n af atnall HlaillllllllJ. TbM all 1,152 stones. An odd ease for a manicun reconUy placed on M 1 pitmillit Silverware 0J j design on the cover MWt u" j forming what U known aw pUyWM-astraiglitnash. UMMtrds is the itucflpuoi good hud". J form of the ww sonstsnuy rr-d -nmhlnstinol A goU sad pearl brooch In tat a tyre, and Mother sbowinl r , of for-st.iivs.noU surrounding New oocbea are every passible stea iMrt set In lr"-"lt( " X ' -4. MfetoMloaa" k . a, A, board "WJieri will tha. ' Ttaere pool baa been gmaVted. and u