I Berelation riii., 1: "There was sOsae iu heaven about the pace of half ma boar.' The busiest place in ttte universe is heaven. It is the center from which all food influence start; it is the goal at which all good results arrive. The bible represents it as active with wheels and wings and orchestras and pro cessions mounted or charioted. But my text describes a space when the wheels ceased to roll and the trumpets to sound and the voices to chant' The riders on the white horses reined in their chargers. The doxologies were hushed and the processions halted . The hand of arrest w as put upon all the splendor "Stop, heaves!" cried an omnipotent voice, and it stopped. For thirty minutes everything celestial stood still. "Th re was ailence in heaven for the space of half an hour." From all we can learu it is the only time heaven ever stopped. It does not stop as other cities for the night, for there is no night there. It does not stop for a plague, for the inhabitant ' never says: "1 am sick." It does not Stop for bankruptcy, for its inhabitants t., never fail. It does not stop impassable i" s streets, for there are no fallen snows j nor sweeping freshets. What, then L stopped it for thirty raiuutes r Grotius and Prof. Stuart think it was at the t time of the destruction of Jerusalem. t f Mr. Lord thinks it was in the year 311, f" between the close of the Diocletian r persecution and the beginning of the f ' wars by which Constantine gained the i throne. But that was all a guess, V though a learned and brilliant guess I I do not know when it was, and I do not care when it was, but of the fact that such an interregnum of sound took place, I am certain. "There was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour." Learn also from my text that heaven must be an eventful and active place from the fact that it could afford only thirty minutes of recess. There have been events on earth that seemed to demand a whole day -or whole week or -- Vrbflle SFTor celestial consideration. If Grotius was right and this silence occured at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, that scene was so awful and so prolonged that the inhabitants of heaven could not have done justice to it in many weeks. After fearful besiegement of the two fortresses of Jerusalem Autonio and ilippicus had been going on for a long while, a Roman soldier mounted on the temple a firebrand, and, the temple was all aflame, and after covering may sacrifices to the holiness of God, the building itself became a sacrifice to the rage of man. The hunger of , the people in that city during the 4-vwbeaigeinent was so great that some out- w laws were passing a doorway and in- i haled the odors of food they burst open the door, threatening the mother ; of the household with death unless she gave them some food, and she took them aside and showed them that it was her own child she was cooking for the gastly repast. Six hundred priests were destroyed on Mount Zion because the temple being gone there was nothing lor them to do. Six thousand people :n one cloister were consumed. There wero 1,1000,000 dead, according to Joseph i i.t. Grotius thinks that this was Jho cause of silence in heaven for half an hour. If Mr. Lord was right and this tUence was during the Diocletian persecutions, by which 8M,0.io Christians suffeicd death from sword and lire, and banishment and exposure, why did not heave j listen throughout at least one of those awful years? Xol Thi.ty minutes! The fact Is that tho celistial pn ia-a is so crowded with spectacle ths: it can afford only one recess in ail eternity and that for a short space. While there are great choruses in which all kaven can join, each soul there his a story of devine mercy peculiar to itself, and it must be a solo. How can heaven get through with all its recitatives with all its cantatas, with all iu grand marches, with all iU victories? Eternity is too short to utter all the praise. In my text heaven spared thirty minutes, but it will never again spare one minute. In worship in earthly churches, when there are many to take part, we have to counsel brevity, but how will heaven get on rapidly enough to let the one hundred and forty-four thousand get through each with his own story, and then the one hundred and forty-four million, and then the one hundred and forty-four billion, and then the on hundred and forty-tour trillion. Not only are all the triumphs of the past to be commemorated, but all the triumph to come. Not only what we now know of God, but what we will know of Ma after everlasting study of theDeiflc. If my text bad said there was sited ce la heaven for thirty days, I would not hare been startled at the announcement, but it indicates thirty minutes. Why, there will be so many friends to bunt up; so many of the greatly good and useful that we will want to see; so many of the sera table tings of eaith we will need explained; se many exciting earthly experiences ws) will want to talk over, and all the sOer spirits and the ages will want C can, time there will be no other t ":.'.Zst9t sisuUon. How boar UwiZte kept ia having Minted eat ttf a tte heroes and heroines that the 7 -If. world never fully appredated-ihe yellow fever and cholera doctors, who died not flying from their posts; the female nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos; the railroad engineers who stayed at their places in order to save the train though themselves perished. Hurbert Goffin, the master minor, who, landing from the buckets at the bottom of the mine, just as be beard the waters rush in and when one jerk of the rope wonld have lifted him into safety put a blind miner who wanted to go to his sick child in the bucket and jerked the rope to have him pulled up, crying: My subject also im presses me with the immortality of a half hour. That half hour mentioned in my text is more widely known than any other period in the calendar of heaven. Xon e of the whole hours to heaven are meas ured off, none of the years, none of the centuries. Of the millions of ages past and the millions of ages to come, not one is especially measured off iu the bible. The half hour of my text is made immortal. The only part of eternity that was ever measured Dy earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text. Oh, the bai' hours! They decide everything. I am not asking what you will do with the years or months or days of your life, but what of the half hours! Tell me the history of your half hours, and I will tellvou the story of your whole life on earth and the story of you whole life in eternity. The right wrong things you can think in '.birty minutes, the right or wrong thing you can say in thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can do in thirty minutes are glorious or baleful, inspir ing or desperate, i ook out for the fragments of time. They are pieces of eternity. It was the half hours between shoeing horses that made Elihu Hurntt, the learned blacksmith, the half hours between professional calls as a physi cian that made Abercrombie the Chris tian philosopher the half, hour between his duties as school master that made Salmon P. Chase chief justice, the half Henry Wilson vice president of the United States, the half hours between canal boats that made James A. Gar field president. The half hour a day for good books or bad books; the half bout a day for prayer or indolence; the half hour a day for helping others or blasting others; the half hour before you go to business, and the half hour alter your return from business; that makes the difference between the scholars and the ignoramus, between the Christian and the infidel, between the saint and the demon, between triumph and catastrophe between heav en and bell. The most tremendous things of your life and mine were cer tain half hours. The half hour when in the parsonage of a country minister I resolved to become a Christian then and there; the half hour when I de cided to become a preacher of the gos pel; the half hour when I first realized that my son was dead: the half hour when I stood on the top of my house in Oxford street and saw our church burn the half hour in which I entered Jerusalem; the half hour in which I ascended Mount Calvary; the half hour in which I stood on Mars hill; the half hour in which the dedicatory prayer of. this temple was made; and about ten or fifteen other half hours, are the chief times of my life. You may forget the name of the exact year, or most of the important events of your existence, but those half hours, like the half hours of my text, will be immortal I do not query what you will do with the twentieth century, I do not query what you will do with 1892, but what wilt you do with the next half hour? Lponthat hinges your destiny. And during that some ot you will receive the gospel and make complete surrend er, and during that others of you will make final and fatal rejection of the full and free and urgent and impas sioned offer of life eternal Oh. that the next half hour might be the most glorious thirty minutes of your earthly exifteuce. Far back in history a great grographer stood with a sailor, looking at a globe that represented our planet, and he pointed to a place on the globe where be thought there was an undis covered continent. The undiscovered continent was America. The geogra pher who pointed where he thought there was a new world was Martin Behaim, and the sailor to whom he showed it was Columbus. This last was nut satisfied till he bad picked that gem out of the sea and set it in the crown of the world's geography. Oh I ye, who hare been sailing up and down the rough seas of sorrow and sin, let me point out to you another continent, yea, another world, that you may our selves find, a rapturous world, and that is the world a half hour of which we now study. Oh, set sail for it! Here is the ship and here are the compasses. In other words, make this half hour. beginning at twenty minutes of twelve by my watch, the grandest half hour of your life and become a Christian. Pray lor a regenerated spirit. Louis XIV., while walking in the garden at Versailles, met Mansard, the great architect, and the architect took off his hat before the king. "Put on your hat," said the king, ' for the erening is damp and cold. And Mansard, the architect, we rest or we erening kept on bis hat. l he dolus and marquises standing with bare heads before the king expressed their surprise atMansard, but the king said: "lean make duke or a marquis but God only can make a Mansard." And I say to you, my hearers, God only by bis convicting and converting grace can make a Christian, but he is ready this very half hour to accomplish It, Rut imw will tou spend the hrst nail hour of your heavenly citizenship aftei vouhave gone into stay? After youi prostration before the throne in wor ship of him who niaae n possiow ioi you to get there at all. I think the rest of your first half hour iu heaveu will be passed in receiving your reward if you have been faithtul. I have a strangely beautiful book containing the pictures of the medals struck by the Lnglish government in honor of great battle; t)e,A medals niniied over the heart of the returned heroes of the army, or, great occasions, the royal family pre (1 the roval bands playing; tl.e Crimean medal, the Legion of Honor the Victoria ctoss, the Waterloo medal. In your first hii hour iu heavt in some ttav von w ill be honored for the earthly struggles in which you won the day. Stand up before all the royal house of heaven and receive the insignia while you ar announced as victor over the draughts and freshets of the farm field, victor over the temptations of the stock exchange, victor over profession al allurements, victor over domestic in felicites, victor over mechanic's shop, victor over the storehouse, victor over home worriments, victor over physical distresses, victor over hereditary de pressions, victor over sin and death and hell. Take the badge that cele brates those victories through our Lord Jesus Christ. Take it in the presence of all the galleries, saintly angelic and divine! While all heaven chants: 'These are they who came out of greal tribulations and had their robes washed ana made white in the blood of the lamb." FARM DEPARTMENT. The saints in all this glorious war .shall conquer though they die Yhey see the triumph from afar And seize it with their eye. This must absolutely . . . 1 l,l-.pllV. must ix u" - - experience I.lfo'g Lights and halit. A Ifaltiinore spinsfef-'sue'u' itittilt fW breech of promise who courted her foi eighteen years. John Bright once spoke of Cyrus W. Field as "the Columbus of modern times," who by his cable had moored the new world alongside the old. In Ireland a Parnellite was knocked down by a priest in the midst of a political row. Believing himself mortally hurt, the man asked his as sailant to administer the last rites of the church, and the priest complied A prisoner in Auburn prison was able to earn and save about 8300. When he was ill Warkon Durston drew his will, bequeathing the money to his three children. He died recently and the warden has been summoned to prove the will. Frederick dleason, in inmate of the Old Men's home iu Boston, is said to be the father of illustrated journalism in the United States. Ho was rich and prosperous less than forty years ago, with an income in 1831 of 50,000 a year. The intellectual mulishness that oc casionally uloulds the mind of the aver age jury was shown in a recent verdict of a Schuylkill couuty jury in Pennsyl-, vania. 1 he twelve men first proclaimed a man innocent of the charge of crim inal libel aud then assessed him with two-thirds of the costs of the prosecution. Princes Who Cannot Borrow. in regard to the Prussian royal fami by there is an excellent law, which, had it existed here, would have saved us much money. No royal prince is al lowed to borrow, and no one is allowed to leud money to him. If anyone does lend he cannot recover. Acting on this law, Frederick the Great never re paid any Prussian who had lent him money vihen he was heir to the throne. for he deemed that such a person had not only violated the law, but ought to lose his money for having done an im proper action. Where one of our prin ces to uorrow money, and an annlh-a. tiou to be made to parliament to repay it, the strong probability is that the house of commons would follow the ex ample of Frederick the Great 1 would inflict a heavy fine on any one asking to be repaid by parliament and on any imiibier asxing ior a vote for any such purpose. London Truth. Waaar-r ! I done and H !ixten years in markev s" r .. . . m-aa dune p taught US thai . miglt expect paying W JL, or bad one, insect or no i.. ivii. tou may pay for raU that has the bu k. but little plant or food. And in buying manure, time is lost, la r money is lost, and the anxious grower n disapoiuted. To buy manure from Uvery suble you will get much saw dust aud other bedding that made up bulk, but not one cent of value as manure, until it is thoroughly rotui except r. hat liquid it has absorbed. Liferv stable manure, as a usual thing is handy to get, and the ganluer is often induced to buy it aud neglect borne resources. And here is where the cheapest manure is obtained, and where the best can be made. To garden successfully one must manure heavily, and to be able to do so he must get all the manure he can from every source; but at the same time he should be on his guard not to buy it at a price that will be above the profit that may be derived from it. To be a successful garduer is to make the most from the least outlay of money andlabor. Manuring heavily is one of the greatest means to this effect, To secure this, one must be energetic and . . w 1 ... I J not despise small things, neither snouw he be too nice to lay hold, but should carefully husband all material-at home, great orsmall, clean or filthy, and con vert it into plant food. Where the gardner fattens hogs for his own mea he will lind a grand resource for good manure, for fattening hog evacuates an abundance of manure of the richest quality. If no better way can be ar- anged, he Can pen his hogs m a lot and plant it to some garden crop the follow ing season. If the garduer is not mindful he will let much valuable manure watte that Ts dropped around tiie stables, in the lanes, and and in the hen house. Much good manure might be accumidated by forming a compost heap at a convenient place and then throwing all suds from the laundry, all old woolen rags, waste leather, all rubbish from the garden, etc.. upon it. These materials have to oe disposed of some way and if com oosted could be made into valuable plant food. Keeping the soli loose and mellow enables it to absorb and store up much amonia from the atmosphere, and hold the nitrogen brought dow n by the iummer thunder-showers. Where the ;ardner can so arrange his crops as to keep a part of his garden in clover, he may, thiough the agency of this crop, supply his soil with nitrogen much faster than his crops take from it- have a friend ho is making gardening a success, and he relies on clover to keep up his soil, writes Thomas D Baird in the Ohio Farmer. Another manure I have noticed may be zained by setting a portion of the garden in strawberries. Cultivate them the first vear for the fruit and after bearing turn them under. I have found the strawberry plant almost equal to clover as a renovator of the solL Another thing many gardners neglect. am guilty somewhat myself, and so I know. After their early crops are sold the refuse is left, such as cabbage stalks, beets, radishes, bean vines, etc these draw the plant food already in the soil and thus it is wasted. milk, never that wi dividual Wheat Ior .Hot Grow Wild. The existence of names for wheat In the most ancient languages confirms the evidence of iu great antinuitv ami of its cultivation in the more temperate parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. From the evidence adduced by botanists of high standing, it seems highly improb able that wheat has never been found growing persistently in a wild state although it has often been asserted by poets, travelers and historians. . J?.1.!18 0tdy,4ey. examply, we are told that wheat formerly grew In Sicily without the aid of man. Diodorus re peats the tradition that Osiris found wheat and barley growing promiscu ously iu Palestine but neither this nor other reputed discoveries of wheat growing wild seem at all credible see ing that It does not appear to be en dowed nith the power of ptrslstencv except under continued culture -St Louis Republic. " A fund is being raised by the Danish students of Chicago for the purpose of erecting a monument to Hans Chris Urn Andersen in Lincoln park. The Fruit t'roporl: Homestead: What if the present and past two years of abundance were to be followed with a total failure? What the winter will be is an uncer tainty. Heavy and contiuous bearing for three years has lowered the vitality of trees and plants, there is a proba bility that if they do not rest and are not entirely fruitless they will crop ugnu Long ana continuous wet wather during the growing period has caused excessive wood growth, and this is generally followed by imperfect fruit-bud formation. The late dry fall that saved the corn crop has in a large measure, ripened up the new growth but this cannot help out the fruit-bud formation very much. Fruit has been plenty and chean. The low price has made people care less anu caused tuem to drift into the idea that the conditions that hava lately prevailed will continue, and that no thought or anxiety is necessary for nexi year s crop. Glutted markets and lB ...I - .JJ . . ... , . F"ca auu ui mis luainerence. At mis season u is well to remember that a nigh price during an off year is i.r. the fruit business tells, and it Is not wo late io work for even yet. A large share of the iiicctss of a crop of fruit lies in the cultivation of the trees and plants the season before. This time I. pert, but severity of the winUr .... yet be mitigated by mulching straw berry beds, pulling raspberry and black berry canes and thinning grape vines and covering them with mulch or earth. If bearing ,ppte trees are beaily manured in early winter with ordinary stable manure, they w ! winter with better mh .. will be of grMtrtrantatenTxt ...JZlI would hara haJr. : Tf!.n,.t 'umoer aaiepwa good Jm-y Bulletin: In the matter feeding b far the moat important jSiw under debs.e is the influence o7 different foKls on the quality of This paper " DUl has had, any doubt whatever ilhiut he limits of l.reeu w.a iu- idiosvnaracy, the amount oi . .:tl. rCtfermillMl bV fat in every co ""'a i --' the kind it food Ih I'" n M There are differences in breeds, the re sults of many generations of differ entiations; these differences are the average dairvman, practically msur. mouutable. By long aud persistent feeding the breeds poor in fat, such as the Holsteins may, iu the course of generations, be much improved. But the improvement does not become fixture in the breeds 'i he tendency to reversion is always present, and II the high feeding is not maintained the old characteristics will asM-rt them selves. S), on the other .hand, by a con tinued course of underfeeding, a breed rich in butter, as the Jersey, may have its fatmaking powers much impaired in the course of generations. But here too, the tendency to reversion is always present, and a course of high feeding is almost sure to bring it out. These are fundamental facts in breeding which it is useless to deny and folly to ignore. Again, there are individual idio.syn cracies deve!oed in a'l breeds where by the Individual rises above or fails below its class and its kindred to an ex tent and in a manner, entirely inex plieable by any known law. Cows are met with that give milk much richer than their breed or family, or the re verse. There is generally a teiideney in such cows to transmit this ecuii arity, and heie lies the opportunity of the skillful breeder to Improve the breed by fixing this tendency. To lio this he must continue to feed generously and breed the cow to a bull that has inherited richness from both sire and dam, and persevere in fto doing from generation to generation. While, therefore, it is unreasonable to ho), by any manner of feeding, to convert n Holsteiuor a scrub-lnto a Jersey, it is practicable largely to im prove them by judicious feeding from year to year. Time, it must be re membered, is an essential element. It takes times to enrich a row's milk, because this richueHs is a product of of growth growth of htitterniRking tissues. All test experiments as to the buttermaking properties of foods should continue at least through two periods of lactation. A Maffnlflrrnt Vr!. In 'ifo B. C. Archimedes devised a a marvelous ship for llieroof Syracuse, ller three lofty masts had been brought from Britain, whereas our ship, masts are of iron or obtained from Xew Zealand or Vancouver island. Lux urlously fitted sleeping apartments abounded, and one of her banqueting halls was paved with agate and costly Sicilian stone. Other floors were cun ningly inlaid with scenes from the Iliad. Htables for many horses, ponds stocked with live fish, gardens watered by artificial rivulets and hot bat baths were provided for use or amusement. Chambers' Journal. turf AFFAIRS OF f Hnm Ml.t It is beet to buy homin, etc , in quantities. Never stt aside a bottle 4 clean and turn with tbeneH it may dry, aad no iu,t you want it u crcauuig any veai strongniueiniig vegHiai cooked, use Half a iu a little not water, h anerwarus in not soapsuj Half a tearpoonfui of J cm; a;a revive djil unlike the few droj ofee servairis are so fond of ) which have caused so nim dents, is erfectly af& lieu table-cloths and their fresh, red color soon fully bandied. They s,UdU for half an hour in cold quickly through l'ikewarB1 in salt water and hunij up in, A brass kettle can I colored iy co king in it well with soup and .ish fn in half a pint of vinrir lu , C ..... I !.. . I i , in nmiiiiiu rci. ia:ll OOllQd-J short lime; then wash ai,d fJ in hot water. To tie a bow knot tiutw,: loose of itself, proceed ell(. were about to lie an orduurj uui oi-iore you draw it 8i right hand loop Ihrouii ti J a steady mid simultaneous Uauns, and the thing a d,i ing, be sure to pull the r,r aui the string will rcuhlfU One of the uiost .ii!.v, ing mils is in tive-)Hiitiijr? viled ou get the Ix-v. j lit- uiiiiliary tinlt il nut: fieqiieutly contain aomrii, .mil r.ndesirable, and !,:r sold only at a very l"u . by themselves. Bui vm , dealer! make an assorting oi me. niwa niiin mt-v a, when this is doue tin- mt ally finds a five-pound pj,-J grade to lxa very ih-ti.ralA XPJ?2i'efLbut thinATf before th wui be wamaeraccMs London mm a Onlrr. The city of London Is put down by geographers as the ceut-r of the landed hemisphere. Jn other words, a radius of about 6,000 miles on the curved sur face of the earth, with London as the center, would describe a circum ference inclosing more land than any 6,iJ0mile circle that could be drawn from any other city In the world.-F.x- change. Theolo(r a Pro(realr Hrlrnoa. Theology is always as much a pro gressive science as theology. If 1,000 of the wisest, purest most Intellectual, most healthy scholars in Christendom today were to formulate a creed out of the 'ew Testament scriptures, as they are known today, that theology state ment could not remain the same of A. D. 2892. The power, the thonakt ti.. tudy of a thousand years would throw It into new forms of expression, while the substance would remain the same. Beacon. titrrmltl.. or Animal. Xo animal has more than five tot j. i. . . . u'giu or ciaws to each foot or limb. The horse is one toed, the ox two toed, the rhinoceros in three toed, the hippo potamus is four toed and the elephant and hundreds of other animals art five toed-St. Louis Republic, Dltkraaa aa Art Critic. The son of a neighbor of Dickens, then a very young artUt-lndeed, quite a boy-had painted his first picture, the subject being an aged knight in full armor, apparently baring cntly returned from the wan. and orercome with fatigue. Finding him self unable to reach bis ancestral castle he sinks exhusted on a fallen tree in a rt of orchard, and anma children bring him some fruit to re cruit his exhausted strength. Dickens took great interest in the yoong atria -t.. i a ' -. .--..,, uy ue way, is now rery eminent and grentiy admired bis Picture, especially the figure of the eld knight; but, -My dear fellow," be i4 "ose PPX went be any sw-tk4 gentle!,, retina tana knady brlM aim nt&rji&tza . ' Wrlin loWjrlliJ lliamomls should u,n morning ever, suy a this February Ladn-V II- They should lint 1 r simple visit in paid helrt;tj They should not U a-umi doing charitable nmk. I ney should not o- r. i are likely to attract vj imir that thiy will -auernr '""'ii'lO- k ' They nlioiiM imt noiml- w in any street (w. a.'uio.- brooch, a pair of vtoair' a ring which is concealed ! are frequently iiotKciliiur-j fii. I hey should not rnn i this sounds lit ti- odd, if J have been seen in mi -hi evidently needs t" ! ' two about liieiu. They should not in? ur. j lent, even in the cu'iniii. limine inent. They should ncV'-r They should not be l who are in mourning. 1 They should not ! gown is in harmony iu 1 soiled, mussed costnine ai4i j of diamonds is a u-iy but (4 They should not lx- nornM They should not Ik- mtl they are real, uulen tly n set. and unless tln-y art m wearer. Enormous ear-rluirs, i'uM lobes of the ear, are tl ' vulgarity. Knormoui pia like electric lights are i taste. Choose your diamonds ( ness and perfection or en their size, and wear uiwu, t wmm. lad who roved " of covered with gem, in the evening upon you and uoet who described beauty is far beyond gems. raralan l.a.a ' r"1 I'.ralan lamb is in.-re.um!1 in faror and grace, eiw A few years ago the lfj work to convince nut'" beauty and elegance: t' la dill increasing. Dlaoe and taste bought ( athar aide, with a bit of 1 fur for decoration. vm'1 of equal discern mint aixlH lllllrH A .1 . a w lu-ll iw you can K"" I own who couldn't buy akla ranted the dec( Dark was kindled. The fickle, capricious K u mnn arvrl now liollir"! Is tor demlseasonwesr" tin sMrnoses than t Mo- is remored by its great nun alone from outr faror. It is the decorati! sjsMt for seal gsrmenti, ir mBm trm mantle ni 9 tw ana nlTord it. A sTtrwynfa'toof mouse f f i M attest closet" the J , Adjoint of gray jJJ to form the back, and "l V - .W 1VSlk If -t agfjMfJM fjt Www vsv" - gsty for-rOilm0 ,w