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TALMGE'S SERMON! Talmage's subject was "Echoes" and his text Ezekiel vii.. 7: ""The sounding anin of the mountains." At last I have found it. The bible has in it a recognition of all phase of the natural world from the aurora of the midnight heavens to the phosphore scence of the tumbled sea. But the well-known sound that we call the echo I found not until a few days ago I dis covered it in my text: ' The sounding airain of the mountains." That is the echo. Ezekiel of the text had heard it again and again. Born among moun tains and in his journey to distant exile be had passed among mountains, and it was natural that all through his writ ings there should loom up the moun tains. Among them he had heard the sound of cataracts and of tempests in wrestle with oak and cedar, and the voices of the wild beasts, but a man of so poetic a nature as Ezekiel could not allow another sound, viz., the echo, to be disregarded, and so he gives us in our text 'the soundine neaiu of the mountains." : Greek mythology represented the echo as a nymph, the daughter of earth and air, following Narcissus through forests and into grottoes and every whither and so strange and weird and startling is the echo I do not wonder that the superstitious have lifted it into the supernatural. You and I in boyhood or girlhood experimented with this re sponsiveness of sound. Standing half way between the house and barn, we shouted many a time to hear the rever berations, or out among the mountains back of our home, on some long tramp, we stopped and made exclamation with full lungs just to hear what Ezekiel calls "the sounding again of the moun tains." The echo has frightened many a child and many a roan. It is no tame thing after you have spoken to hear the same words repeated by the invisible. All the silences are filled with voices ready to answer. Yet, it would not be so startling if they said something else but why do those lips of the air say just what you say? Do they mean to mock or mean to please ? Who are you and where are you, thou wondrous echo? Sometimes its response is a reiteration. The shot of a gun, the clapping of the hands, the beating of a drum, the voice of a violin are some times repeated many times by the echo. Near Coblentz that which is said has seventeen echoes. In 17W, a writer says that near Milan, Italy, there were sev enty such reflections of sound to one Snap of a pistol. Play a bugle near a lake of KiUarney and the tune is played "back to you as distinctly as when you played it Theie is a well 210 feet deep at Carisbrooke castle, in the Isle of Wight. Drop a pin into that well and the sound of its fall comes to the top of the well distinctly. A blast of an Alpine horn comes back from the rocks of Jungfrau in surge after surge ot reflected sound, until it seems as it every peak had lifted and blown an Alpine horn. But have you noticed and this is the reason for the present discourse that this echo in the natural world has its analogy in the moral and religious world? Have you noticed the tremendous' fact that what you do and say comes back in recoiled gladness or disaster? About this resonance 1 preach this rermon. First Parental teaching and exam ple have their echo in the character of descendant. Exceptions? Ob, yes. bo in the natural world there may be no echo, or a distorted echo, by reason Of peculiar proximities, but the general rale is that the character of the child ren is the echo of the character of par ents. The general rule is thiit good parents have good children and bad parents have bad children, if the old man Is a crank, his son is apt to be a crank, and the grandchild a crank. The tendency is so mighty in that direction that it will get worse and worse unless some hero or heroine in that line shall Tiseand say: "Here! By the help of God, I will stand this no longer. Against this hereditary tendency to queerness 1 protest." And he or she will set up an altar and a magnificent life that will reverse things and there will be no more cranks among that kin dred. In another family the father and mother are consecrated people. What they do is right; what they teach is right The boys may for some time be wild and the daughters worldy, but watch! Years pass on, perhaps ten jycars, twenty years, and you go back to the church where the father and mother used to be consistent members. You have beard nothing about the family for twenty years, and at the door of the church you see the sexton, and you ask him: "Where is old Mr. Webster?" 1 "Oh! be has been dead many years." "Where is Mrs. Webster?" "Oh! she died fifteen years ago." "I suppose their ton Joe went to the dogs?" ' Oh! no," says the sexton. "He is up there In the elders' seat He Is one of our best and most important members, You ought to bear him pray and sing. He is not Joe any longer; he is Elder i Webster." "Well, where is his daughter 'Mary? I suppose she is the same thoughtless butter -fly she used to be?" "Oh! no," says the sexton; "she is the president of oar missionary society and Um directreM In the orphan asylum, jand whan she goes down the street all Um ragamuffins take hold of her dress and in. 'Auntv. when an too roiur to bring us some i tnote books and show and things?' And, when in t roes of revival, theresis some hard case back iu a church pew that no one else can touch, she goes where he is, and oue minute she has him a crying, aud the first thing we know she is fetching the hardened man up to the front to be prayed for, and says, "Here is a brother who wants to find the way into the kingdom of God. And if nobody seems ready to pray, she kneels down in the aisle beside him and says. 'Oh! Lord! with a pathos and a power and a triumph that seem instantly to eman cipate the hardened sinner. Oh, no, you must not call her a tnougnuess butterfly in our preseece. You see we would not stand it." The fact is that the son and daughter of that family did not promise much at the start, but they are now an echo, a glorious echo, a prolonged echo, of parental teaching and example. Yea, I take a step further In this subject, and say that our own eternity will be a reverbration of our own earthly lifetime. What we are here we will be there, only on a larger scale. Dissolution will tear down the body and embank it, but our faculties of mind and soul will go right on without the hesitancy of a moment and without any change except enlargement and intensification. There will be no more difference than between a lion behind the iron bars and a lion escaped into the field, between an eagle in the cage and an eagle in the sky. Good here, good there: bad here bad there. Time is only a bedwarfted eternity. Eternity is only an enlarged time.In this life our soul is dry dock. The moment we leave this life we are launched for our great voyage, and we sail on for cen turies quintiliian, but the ship does not change its fundamental structure after it gets out of the dry dock, it does not pass from brig to schooner, or from schooner to man-of-war. What we are when launched from this world we will be in the world to come. Oh! God! by thy converting aud sanctifying spirit make us right here and now that we may be right forever! And if it is so hard to destroy a natural echo, how much harder to stop a moral echo, a spiritual echo, an im mortal echo. You know that the echoes are affected by the surfaces, and the shape of rocks and the depth of ravines, and the relative position of buildings? And, once in heaven, God will so arrange the relative position of mansions and temples and thrones that one of the everlasting charms of heaven will be the rolling, bursting, ascending, decending, chanting echoes. All the songs we ever saug devoutly, all prayers we have ever uttered earnestly, all the Christian deeds we have ever done will be waiting to spring upon us that in this world the roar of artillery and the boom of the thunder are so loud, because they are a combination of echoes all the hill sides and the caverns and the walls furnishing a share of the reasonance. And never will we understand the full power and music of an echo until with supernatural faculties, able to endure them we hear all the conjoined sounds of heavenly echoes harps and trum pets, orchestras and oratorios, hos- annahs and hallelujahs, east side of heaven answering to the west side, north side to south side, and all the depths, and all the immensities, and all the eternities joining in echo upon echo, echo in the wake of echo. In the future state; whether of rapture or ruin, we will listen for reverbrations of earthly things and doings. Voltaire standing amid the shadows will listen and from the millions whose godless ness and libertinism and debauchery were consequence of his brilliant blas phemies will come back a weeping wailing, despairing, agonizing, million voiced echo. Paul will while standing in the light, listen and from all the many mansions whom he helped to people, and from all the thrones he helped to occupants, and from all the gates he helped throng with arrivals, and from all the temples he helped fill with worshipers, there shall come back to him a glorious, ever-accumulating, transporting and triumphant echo. Oh, what will the tryants and oppres sors of the earth do with tho echoes. Those who are responsible for the wars of the world will have come back to them all the groans, the shrieks, the canonades, the bursting shells, the crackle of burning cities and the crash of a nation's home: Iiohenllnden and Salamanca, Wagram and Sedan. Mara thon and Thermopylae, Bunker Hill and Lexington, South Mountain and Gettysburg. Sennacherib listen! Sem iramis listen! Marc Antony listen! Artaxerxes listen! Darius listen! Juhus Ctesar lisfen! Alexander and Napoleon listen! But to the righteous will come back the blissful echoes. Composers of gospel hymns and singers will listen for the return of Antiocb and Brattle Street, Ariel and Dundee, Harwell and Woodstock, Mount Pisgah and Coronation, Homeward Bound and Shining Shore, and all the melodies they ever started. Bishop Heber, and Wesley, and Isaac Watts, and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury, and Horatius Bonar.and Frances Havergal listen! But you know as well as I do that there are tome places where the rever berations seem to meet, and standing there they rush upon you, they rain upon you, all at one they capture your ear. And at the point where all heavenly reverberations meet Christ I will stand, and listen for the resound of all his sighs, and groans, ana sacri fices, and they shall come back iu an echo iu which shall mingle the acclaim of a redeemed world and the "J ubilate Deo" of a lull heaven. Echo saintly cherubic, archangel: Echo of thrones! Echo of palaces! Echo of temples! Omnipotent echo! Everlasting echo! Ameu! Third Inlvmlty Karurelaa. The third and last university excur sion for W.r is that offered by Mi 2 Sarah Wool Moore, aud may be termed an art excursion. It is proposed to leave New York early iu Jane and re turn about the middle of September. The route includes the cathedral cities of England and France, a few days In Switzerland and the great art centres London, Paris, Munich and Antwerp. To really profit by this tour a certain amount of preliminary reading and study should be undertaken, concern ing which applicants may consult Miss Moore. It can be easily accomplished in the tune intervening before the de parture of the party. The expenses of the journey, which will take about ninety days from Lin coln to Lincoln again will not exceed 8475. This iucludes sleepers to Xew York and return, iu which a saving may be made by any member of the party who so desires; and a margin of some 135 for each person, for unlooked for expenses, in connection with which a still greater saving is possible. It is not impossible that when the party is collected it will be found that the total expense may be reduced to say W35. The trip is open to ladies only, and i not resfricted to university students. All applications should be made at once to Miss Sarah Wool Moore, Lincoln. FARM DEPARTMENT. i ui- returns at the ten Abandoned rarnm In Mamchuaett. Within the borders of the old Bay State are more than 900 abandoned farms. A list of many of these for saken homesteads is accessible at the headquarters of the state board of agri culture, and any one who wishes a couutry life and country air can have his longing gratified for a very small outlay in cash. Most of these abandoned farms are found in the hill towns of the western counties, ideally beautiful for situation many of them, and lacking only the touch of the wand wealth to become magnificent manors. Essex has less than any other county, except Suffolk, where farms of any kind are rare, if not precisely few and far between. There seems to be no good reason why such places should go to rack and ruin, when hundreds of city folks are longing for a summer home at a modest price. Boston Globe. Span-own and Blarkblrda. Birds, notwithstanding their attract tiveness iu plumage and sweetness in song, are many of them great thieves. When nest building they will steal the feathers out of the nests of other birds and are often much inclined to drive off other birds from a feeding ground even where there is abundance. This is especially true of one of our greatest favorites, the robin redbreast, who will peck and run after and drive away birds much bigger than himself. Very different as the robin and the sparrow are in other things, thay re. semble each other in this. On an early spring morning, when a little touch ot frost still made the surface of the earth hard, I have seen a blackbird on a lawn at last after great efforts extract a worm, and this was the signal for a crowd of sparrows, who, by dint ol numbers, managed to drive away the blackbird and carry off the worm, tc feed their own young ones, no doubt. CassetTs Magazine. Descendant of Some Noted Men. It is noteworthy what a number of men eminent in the era 1861-60 are now represented only in the female line ol descent Neither Abraham Lincoln nor Jefferson Davis has a living grand son. Neither has Audrew Jacksou, Thurlow Weed nor Horace Greeley. General Hancock's one son left behind him only a small daughter. There Is no representative of General Scott's name. A singular parallel runs betwixt two Confederate generals, Stonewall Jackson and John Morgan, prince of raiders. Each died before the war ended, leaving one fair daughter. Th two girls grew up, married happily, bore each a daughter and died soon after giving birth to a Second child New York Press. Way a Blue Boa la Iaiaoealble. Florist makes the assertion that a blue rose is among the Impossibilities, but while an explanation of this curi ous fact may be equally impossible, he fails to mention a Very interesting law which governs the colorings of all flowers. A knowledge of this law would save many flower growers hours of unavailing and foolish hope. The law is simply this: The three colon red, blue and yellow never all appear In the same species of flowers; any two may exist, but never the third. Thai we have the red and yellow rosea, but no blue; red and blue verbenas, bat no yellow; yellow and blue tn the various members of the viola family (as panslee, for instance), but no red; red and yellow gladolj, but no bin, end so on. -St, Louis Re&ualic. j. Farm 'o'. Underfeeding ruius more live stock than overfeeding. It is a costly experiment to give proved stock iudflerent care. With good care growth is obtained at less cost with young animals. It is a mistake in breeding V) mate two animals each possess tae same defect lu farming it is very important to prevent the deterioration of the fertility and to secure the best lowest cost. Light feeding, especially of growing animals, is against a proper growth and development aud consequently in the end is usually eiiensive, While pampered stock are often apiiouxlv injured, eeneraliy wureoue animal is ruined by overfeeding, are ruiued by being starred. The most economical feeding is that which secures the most rapid growth and developemeut of muscle, and tho irroatit, amount of fat with the least waste of feed. It is stated that a suear fifteen times sweeter than cane sugar and twenty times sweeter than beet sugar lias been extracted from cottonseed meal by a German chemist. While there is not a vast amount of available plant food in dried stalks weeds and grasses, yet by plowing them under the mechanical effect produced is beneficial aud everything should be turned under that is possibe. All Indications seem to point to the fact that the suear beet industry is destined to be of very large proportions in this country. Throughout the Western slates thousands of acres are already devoted to raising of this pro duct and manufactories costing from $100,000 to 82uO,OO0 are in process of erection. A feed of clover can be given daily to the pigs that are confined A sow may bring a good litter aud yet fail to be a good mother. Young pigs are often stunted by ex posure to cold, wet storms. Separate any animal from the others whenever he shows signs of being sick. In nearly all cases it is best to let tne pigs rut with the sow until she weaus them. One objection to a very large sow for heeding is tho danger of smothering her young. Oats, rye and middlings are a better feed foe youug growiui pigs tuau corn n.eal. Nearly or quite all diseases of bogs are eoutagious, hence the danger of allowing thorn to remain together. With good care hogs give returns so quickly that even if only a small profit on each lot Is mad-, and results are satisfactory. A hog of good breed that has len properly fed during growth, should be able to walk -o the railroad station after being fattened ready to ship. Brood sows require food that is rich in the elements required for tbe growth and developemeut of bone and muscle. Scalded clover hay, oats, shorts bran and roots will supply them better than corn. The Farm Fertility A noted Western man, riding across the country and noticing thousands of acres of cornstalks standing in the fields, from which the ears had been jerked, said "the farmer was conducting the only business in the world that allowed a man to lose 45 per cent or his capital stock, and the same time live." The force of this remark is doubly significant from the fact that an acre and a half of corn fodder is raised in the United States for each head of horned stock and the other standpoint quite as clear, that corn and its fodder to the extent of three hfths of the entire ration is the best food for dairy stock yet found. Here is a vast amount of animal food in this country not utMlzed boyond lo ir cent, that is suitable of making the nnesi una oi aairv product, and as a fertilizers is p.-ctkally lost when if fed to milk cows would not only mak Jl I . a uauymg pay, out at tne same time supply stores of fertility to keep up our farms that are very rapidly depleted by wholesale fertility of the soil and a waste of fertilizing material upon the soil. This country waste can notgo on for ever in this country and now the dairyman has a chance to preach a sermon about utility fertility and profit-ability, and practice at tbe same Ume the doctrine that be preaches td others-Practical Farmer. Apallratloas Sf Bet Water. Hot water taken freely half an hour before bed-time is helpful in con tipatlan. Headache almost always yields to the tlmultaneous application of hot witer to the feet and back of the neck. Atowl folded, dipped In hot water wrung out rapidly and applied to the stomach, acta like magic in cass of colic. Thereto nothing that so promptly cuu short congestion 0f tbe lungs, sore woat or rheumatism, as hot water wiw applied promptly and thoroughly Vefrlabla Growing f T Market. The selection of the particular crop-, and the exact proportion in wbich it would be best to plant the different vegetables, dej-ends altogether on the demands of the particular market Every grower must study his available market, and try to raise just "actly what is wanted. Some markets have demand for early forced vegetables, and offer a good price for such; in that case the gardners thould make a sclalty oi growing spinach, radishes, brets, carrots, soup celery, lettuce perhaps even mushrooms, tomatoes etc, under glass. Near a manufacturing town the dem md will most likely be for all kinds of vegetables grown in open ground, such as lettuce, radishes carriots beots, early jMilatofS, and in the kitchen of towim-people. 'Hie gardner catering to such a trade should plant a general assortment, aud be able to lurni h anything, that may be wanted. 1'laiiting everything and for succession as needed, aud close cropping ami strict attention to the customers' wants these are the leading features to be considered in the business of the market gardner near a manufacturing town.-Popular Garden ing. . Atnu( the Poultry. A good hen will lay twice her weight in eggs in a year. When grain is fed throw on a litter and partly cover it up. A cooked mixture of table scraps makes a good morning ration. Close to large cities broilers bring iu more than anything else. One fowl with scurvy legs Is apt to impart the disease to others. Jlarley aud wheat fed alternately make a good egg-producing ration. Ducks aud geese are the best fowls to raise on wet, low-lying land". Wheu hens lay solt-shelled eggs they either need lime or they are too fat. Corn and corn meal are the best fattening foods, Geese are not only valuable as meat nroducers but should annually produce a pound of feathers each. One advantage with ducks is that they are less liable to disease than most any other kind of poultry. Poultry manure is the richest that can be secured on the farm aud it should be carefully stored away. A Family Tree. A pretty custom which was at one time common In some parts of New England was tho setting apart of a 'family tree." This tree was not of a dry, gatWaiogical kind, but wa always one of tbe finest in the orchard selected with a view to its apple bearing abilities and its beauty. - In one little village many of the or chards have trees of this description and the oldei inhabitants can refresh their memories as to the number of children in the families wbich have occupied farms at different times provided the period of occupancy was long enough to make the setting up of a "family tree" worth while. On one farm there is a large old tree which bears seven different varities of apples: Baldwins, Jermiabs, summer sweetings, winter pippins, Astrakhan, russets and gillyflowers. The grafts on this tree were made not one at the birth of each child of the household, as was sometimes the custom but when each boy or girl grew old enough to choose bis or her special favorite among apples. The tree is now more than sixty years old and its present owner shows it with great pride, and gives samples of its fruit to the children of theneighbor hood with a free hand. -Youth's Com. panion. Valuable Depoalt. One of the most remarkab.e of all de posits of silver is at Broken Hill mines in Australia. At that place the precious metal is found lyinir in an enormous lode. It has been suirsrested bv Mr. c Sutherland that this creat deiwisitnf silver was left by a large salt lake that uas now aisapueared but tracka nf whose former existence are clearly to o seeu. According to this interettinir the salt lake was formed of imprisoned oceau water, a large quantity of which was caught in a basin beLwtwn .. of hills when Australia was lifted out ot tne sea. This water rrarf...u. leaked aud was evaporated away leav. g ueposiis of the mineral and other matter that it bad held In solution. If this view Is correct tha mat of silver at Broken Hill la a rich gift beatowed by the sea upon the land; but scan has discovered the precious deposit, and seized It in his capacity of the lord of the earth, Y outn'r Compaulon. Way Ike Sky la Flat. The annarent flait.i... .. .I I . ' " l" vanu of the heavens has been found to have an annual ntriod and h. j clouds. It seems feast flat with a mUty horizon, aud leas by night than by day Ad Die BMwta ana nmA l at.. - . . au mm inanuiact- ure of prussie acid. A Vermont farmer pick them from hie elder preeTand r . . " wmwwi. Out ef 140 buaheUof apple, beget, about one bushel of seeds. AFFAIRS OF J lea. i Silk velvet comes to u Is season as a fabric adapted for trimming j4 materials. J A mourning p tial J. mended Is a heart-shal r j' enamel with an inner row Some of the dainty fan. (,, uses are made of sn.,, feathers mounted on otic,, , o' pearl. 1 .Some of tbe new round wij es are finished with iarA brttellea that reach I , J line, front and back. The girl who wanu t. J on a rainy day now en, proof coat, with an eiiorml breasted cape made ol stui iiunon is sun a garniture and oft blouse fro to wiiite lace iiits ,ni.i without seams. Some of the new fajM-suf , dressy evening wear m tn and picturesque lu n-:ut:i: . fer great distinction .,n ( j I... ...It I ..t I 1 tne uc mii kuu airime r lasiiwerrs are siik t-OrnJ l'ersiau colors lu plain-leaf sun a ury . is ust-d fur rutj Jilts, ami mu .tiiuifttlw Dnnlidiioil In Al..it .1:. ! ,.:!. wi'.u unwilling ui biik 1:0 In, jp Back combs ami l,a.r f popular and more enniliej i Amtx-r shell sticks, never three iu number, arc vi the richest tops in gold aml 'j J-alanibo is a new tlehcaUrJ raspberry pink that it cot', ' liussian green in French w; i.' t;t pc Jf Ci'.i.k and Mark brocade, showing a U autili. floral surface upon a lacitj-i with these two colors. (Jarnet ornament ure m; the foot ol fashion's Hirwx, . Orundy has welcomed fhtut mg hospitality. ftaruH cU'.s and garnet galoons tot e!;; skirts and silk street idrti i length enliven the nioit v Kullinch I am sorrr to Crej neck, that your liusbu:i lost at sea. Mrs. Grewied-1 a terrible blow, lluliinrt-: body, 1 believe, has imt barn k Mr, (jreyneck Ah, tint's ft part of It. He'd ju-! Ii.td :l filled with gold. I A gray iiengaline silk, aaiai ejuU VAat. W VOX JtR-mV. s't on under a row of pat-a3ft ijoM aud silver studde-i colored jewels. A band of ci menlerie ulaced round each A ishina them off just urnler from rich ruflles of lace. Spotted or plain siik, ert ' may be renovated, (upeciallyj toilette, by having a narrow! lace edge the skirt, uliilo edged with lace, put, on fittl the front drapery. 'I'lm fui'd ie of deep lace flonn ing fj lace finished with a fnl), au ive reiiei. I lipped iu salt t? ;nlic aciA brass tea.f?v Help far ll.iii.rnl." ,?,; At some hospital" alin$ gargle used for sore throa! water. l'ut olil rubber rintt of v weak ammonia water mid roine elastic. J A tablespoon ful ol wi spnekied in barrfl ot Hi precipitate all impm' nu bottom. j Horseradish grated and e- vinegar and applied lu lh td the face or head is aWf neuralgia will give relief. I Half a lemon dipped i the work of oxalic copper boilers, other copper or brass uteiuik To break up a coH try the i of hot salt water, arm an appba same on chest or throat, if d ofteu relieve a hard congli h making custard, r,liI1? lemon pies it Is better to the crust before adding tlie K that it may not be .lUwrtN paste, J A remedy for creaking In"! ton tallow rubbed on tK.'j great many locks that n'fu work are simply rusted and '4 right if carefully oiled. Aged people, Invalid, or i have feeble digestion or i"J dullness, aa well as gromof i wU be greatly beneiited H sweet cream In liberal qust Awayi fold table clotlu lni creases; they keep clean Nf f everyday towels once ,B ; when dry, fold again and pt" with the handf Instead of Z Steaming tbe face at nil f, bowl of very hot water, and 9 $ Inglt with very cold water. i pie method of giving It R, and will tend to make tbe-0'. Md smoother and tbe flesh m When a eandle la blown disagreeable odor 01U thsN to very easily prevented. ij upward tte wick will not m bad small la avoided. want to light it again tb' iowd4 MOelMtly kmc