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t - 'iy .:-.' ''twjii ortrr The Sioux County Journal, V0LU31E VIII. HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 1895. NUMBER 11. TAKES A NEW CHARGE TALMAQC MOVES FROM BROOK. LYN TO WASHINGTON, Installed aa Co-Paator of ths First Presbyterian Charch, Where Presi dent Cleveland Worship Oi Tea Seasons for Accepting the Call. Berasoa ef Last Baada. The lntallation of tba Rev. T. DaWitt Talmag aa a co-paator with tb Her. Dr. Byron Sunderland, of tha First Preaby teriao Church of Washington, city, took place recently. The exercises were held in tha evening. The moderator, the Iter. Mr. Allen, presided and put the consti tutional questious. The First Church is the "President'! Church," the worship ing place of the I'resident being thus familiarly known. Dr. Newman's church, during the Grant regime, became very famous as the General's place of prayer. The First Church is in an out-of-the-wny place, a few blocks from the Capitol. Years ago the fashionable set mured way off toward the White House and left the plain little brick church .to the care of surrounding boarding-houses and encroaching shops. Its life was languish ing when Grover Cleveland, In 1MM4, dis covered In the Her. Byron Sunderland an old friend and took a pew In his church. . TJH. TAt.MAOK. . Tha calling of Dr. Talmage In September last was the result of an Inspiration of Dr. Sunderland, who, for a generation, baa been pastor. Dr. Talmage preached bla second ser mon In his new pulpit last Sunday. If possible the audience waa even larger than the previous Sunday. Tha subject was "The Disabled," tha text selected being 1. Samuel, xix., 24, "As his part la that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." If you have never seen an army change quarters, yon have no Idea of the amount of baggage twenty loada, fifty loads, 100 loads of baggage. David and his army ware about to start on a double quick march for the recovery of their captured families from the Amalekitea. Ho they left by the brook Beeor their blanket, their knapsacks, their baggage and their carriages. Who shall be detailed to watch this stuff? There are sick soldiers, and wounded soldiers, and aged soldiers who are not able to go on swift military ex peditions, but who are able to do some work, and so they are detailed to watch' tba baggage. There la many a soldier who is not strong enough to msrch thirty miles In a day and then plunge into a ten hours' fight who is able with drawn sword lifted agalnat his shoulder to pace up and down as a sentinel to keep off an enemy who might put the torch to the baggage. There are 200 of those crippled .and aged and wounded soldier detailed to watch the baggage. Some of them, I suppose, hsd bandages across the brow, and some of them had their arms In a aling, and some of them walked on crutch es. They were not cowards shirking duty. They had fought in many a fierce battle for their country and their God. They are now part of tha time In hoapltal and part of the time on garrison duty. They almost cry because they cannot go with the other troops to tha front. Whlla these sentinels watch the baggage the Lord watches the aentinela. How Battlea Have Been Lest There Is quite a different scene being enacted In tha distance. Tha Amalekitea, having ravaged and ransacked and rob bed whole countries, are celebrating their success In a roaring carousal. Home of them are dancing on the lawn with won derful gyration of heel and toe, and some of them are examining the spoils of vic tory tha finger rings and earrings, tha necklaces, the wristlets, the headbands, diamond starred, and the coffers with cor onets and rarnellana and pearls and sapphires and emeralds and all the wealth of plate and Jewels and decanters, and the sliver, and the gold banked up on the earth In princely profusion, and the em broideries, and the robes, and the tur bans, and the cloaks of an imperial ward robe. Tba banquet has gone on until the banqueter are maudlin and weak and stupid and indecent and loathsomely drunk. What a time It is now for David and his men to swoop on theml So the Kngllsb lost the battle of Bannockburn, because the night before they were in wassail and bibulous celebration while the Scotch were in prayer. Ho the Syrians were overthrown In tbelr carousal by tha Israelites. So Cbedorlaomer and bis army were overthrown In their carousal by. Abraham and his men. Ho in our civil war more than once the battle wa lost ' because one of the generala was drunk. Now I the time for David and bla men . to awoop upon these carousing A main kite. Home of the Amaleklte are hack ed to piece on the spot, some of them are Just able to go staggering and hiccough ing off the field, some of tbem crawl on camels and ipeed off In tha dlatanco. David and hi men gather together tha wardrobe, the Jewel, and pnt tbem upon tba back of camel and Into wagon, and . they gather together tba sheep and cat tic that bad been stolen and atart back toward tba garrison. Yonder they comet ' Yonder tbey come! Tba limping man of tba garriaon coma oat and greet them with wild bass. Tba Bible say David saluted then that la, ba aakad them bow they all were, "How la yoor broken a mi 7" "How g year fractured Jawf "Haa the stiffened limb been nnlim brrwir "Have you had another chill'" "Are you getting better?" II saluted them. Garrison Dnty. But now cam a very difficult thing, tha distribution of the apoil of victory. Drive up those laden camel now. Who shall have the epulis? Well, some selfish soul luggasta that these treasure ought all to belong to those whu had been out in active service. "We did all the fight lug while theae men itaid at home in the garrison, and we ought to have all the treasure." But David looked into the worn facea of these veteran who bad ataid in the garrison and he looked round and saw how cleanly everything had been kept, and he saw that the baggage wa all safe, and he knew that these wounded aud crippled men would gladly enough have been at the front if they had been able, aud the little general looks up from under hi helmet and say: "No, no, let u have fair play," and he rushes tip to one of theae men and be says, "Hold your baud together," and the hand are held together, an he fill them with silver. And he ruvhea up to another man who wa litting away back and had no idea of getting any of the poil and throw a Babylonish garment over him and fill hi hand with gold. And he rushea up to another man who had lost ail hi prop erty In serving (lod and his country years before, and he drive up ome of the cat tle and some of the sheep that they had brought back from the Amalekltes and he give two or three of the cattle and three or four of the sheep to thi poor man, so he shall always be fed and clothed, lie see a man ao emaciated and worn out and sick he need stimulant and he give him a little of the wine that he brought from the Amalekitea. Yonder I a man who ha no appetite for the rough ra tion of the army, and he givea him a rare morsel from the Amalekitish banquet, and the 200 crippled and maimed and aged soldiers who tarried on garrison duty get Just a much of the poil of bat tle any of the 200 men that went to the front "A hi part i that goeth down to the battle, o ahall hi part be that tarrieth by the tuff." The Impression Is abroad that the Chris tian rewards are for those who do conspic uous service In distinguished places great patriot, great preacher, great philanthropiat. But my text eta forth the Idea that there I Juit as much reward for a man that stays at home aud mind his own business and who, crippled and unable to go forth and lead in great move ments and in the high places of th earth, doe hi whole duty Jut where he I. Oarrison doty la a Important and aa re munerative a service at the front. "A hi part I that goeth down to the battle, ao ahall hi part be that tarrieth' by the atuff." Reward are not to be given according to the amount of noise you make In the world, nor even according to tha amount of good you do, but according to whether you work to your full capacity, accordiug to whether or not you do your full duty In the sphere where Ood he placed you. Kach aa to HI Fart. Suppose you give to two uf yoor chil dren errand and they are to go off to make purchnae, and to one you give $1 and to the other you give $20. Do you re ward the boy that you gave $20 to for purchaaing more with that amount of money than the other boy purchaed with $1? Of course not. If (lod give wealth or social position or eloquence or twenty times the faculty to a man that he give to the ordinary man, 1 be going to give to the favored man a reward because he ha more power and more Influence? Oil, no. In other word, if you and I were to do our whole duty and you have tweuty time more talent than I have, you will get no more divine reward than 1 will. I (lod going to reward you because he gave you more? That would not be fair; thnt would not be right. These 2O0 men of the text who fainted by the brook Besor did their whole duty; they watched the bag gage, they took care of the stuff, and they got a much of the apoil of victory a the men who went to the front "A hi part I that goeth down to the battle, so ahall hi part be that tarrieth by the (tuff." There I high encouragement in thl for I rmT PRKAHYTXRIAX ClirKCtT. all who have great rewponsihility and little credit for what they do. You know the name of the great commercial boi!c of theae citie. Do you know the name of the confidential clerk the men who have the key to the afe, the men who know the combination lock? A ditinguihed merchant goe forth at the dimmer water ing place and he flahea pant and you ay, "Who I that?" "Oh," replies some one, "don't you know? That I the great Im porter, that is the great banker, that I the great manufacturer." The confidential clerk ba hi week off. Nobody notices whether he come or goe. Nobody knows him, and after awhile hi week 1 done, and be ita down again at hi dek. But (lod will reward his fidel ity Juit as much a be recognize the work of the merchant philanthropist whoas Investments thl unknown clerk so carefully guarded. Hudson River Rail road, Pennsylvania Railroad, Kris Rail road, New York and New Haven Railroad bodnees men know th namea of the presidents of theae roads and of ths prom inent directors, but tbey do not know the nsmee of the engineers, the names of the switchmen, the names of tbe Bagmen, the namee of tb brakemen. These men hart awful reepoaaibllltiee, and sona ta roagh the reckleeanees or aa en gineer or the unfaithfulneaa of a witch ma u, it haa brought to mind the faithful ness of nearly all the rest of them. Home men du nut have recognition of their ser vice. They have amall wage and much complaint I very often ride upon loco motives and I very often ask tbe ques tion, a we (hoot around some curve or under some ledge of rock, "How much wage do you get?" And I am alway urprined to find bow little for uch vast responsibility. Do you suppose Ood is not going to recognize that fidelity? Tboma Scott, the president of the Peun ylvania Railroad, going up at death to receive from God his destiuy, wa no bet ter known in that hour than wa known last night tbe brakeman who, on the Erie Railroad, wa jammed to death amid the car coupling. "A hi part i that goeth down to the battle, o ahall bia part be that tarrieth by tbe ituff." Unpretending- Service, A Christian women wa een going along the edge of wood every eventide, and the neighbor in the country did not understand how a mother with so many care and aniietie should waste so much time a to be idly auutering uut evening by evening. It w found out afterward that (he went there to pray for her house hold, and while there one evening die wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all age for cheering Christian heart: I love to ateal awhile away From every cumbering care And upend the hour of letting day In humble, grateful prayer. Shall there be no reward for such unpre tending yet everlaiting service? Clear back in the country there is a boy who wants to go to college and get an eduration. They call him a book worm. Wherever they find him in the barn or in the house he Is reading a book. "What a pity It Is," they say, "that Ed cannot get an education." Hi father, work aa hard a he will, can no more than support the family by the prod uct of the farm. One night Ed haa re tired to hia room and there la a family conference about him. The sisters sayi "Father, I wish you would send Ed to college. If you will, we will work harder than we ever did, and we will make our old dresses do." The mother says: "Yen, I will get along without any hired hejp, although I am not a (trong a I ued to be. I think I can get along without any hired help." Tbe father (ay(, "Well, I think by huaking corn night I can get along without any aaaiatance." Sugar I banished from the table, butter I ban ished from the plate. That family I put down on rigid yea, auffering economy that the boy may go to college, Time passe on. Commencement day ha come. Think not that I mention an Im aginary cave. Clod know it happened. Commencement day ha come, aud th professor walk In on the itaga in their long gowns. The interest of the occasion i paasiug on, and after awhile It come to a climax of interest a the valedic torian is to be introduced. Ed has studied so hard and worked ao well that he hna had the honor conferred upon him. There are round of applause, sometime breaking into vociferation. It 1 a great day for Ed. But away back in the galler le are hi iter In their plain hat and their faded ahawl, and the old fash ioned father and mother dear me, she haa not had a new hat for ix year, he ha not had a new hat for six year and they get up and look over on the platform and they laugh and they cry, and they ait down, and they look pale and then they are very much flinhed. Kd get the gar land. and the old-fashioned group in the gallery have their full share of the tri umph. They have made that scene poi blc. and In the day when (Sod ahall more fully reward elf-acrifiee made for oth ers, he will give grand and glorioua rec ognition. "Aa hia part I that goeth down to the battle, so ahall hi part be that tarrieth by the stuff." Veterans In Work. There is high encouragement In thi ubject, also, for thoae who once wrought mightily for Chriat and the church, but through alcknees or collapse of fortune or advanced year cannot now go to the front. The 200 men of the text , were veterana. Let that man bare hi arm and how how the muscles were torn. Let him pull aside th turban and ee the mark of a battle ax. Pull alde the coat and see where the pear thrust him. Would It have been fair for thoe men, crippled, weak and old, by the brook Beeor, to have no hare In the spoils of triumph? Fret not, ye aged ones. Just tarry by tbe atuff and wait for your share of the spoils. Yonder they sre coming. I hear th bleating of the fat lamb and I ee the Jewel glint In the un. It make me laugh to think how you will be nrprUed when they throw a chain of gold over yoor neck and tell you to go in and dine with the king. I aee yon backing out he- sa , tan mil fft 1111 worthy. The shining one come up on the one aide, and the shining ones come up on the other sine, and thev push you on and they push you . . . i.i i 1- i.i ..i.i;... up aim tney nay, iicrv m nu . j of Jesus Christ," and the Hlilning one' will nihil out toward you and nay. "Yes, thnt man aved my soul," or they will, rush out ll ml MitV. "Oh, yea, she W with me In the last l kiiens." And then the cry will go round the circle, "Come In, come In, come up. come up. We nw you away down there, old anil Nick and de crepit and discouraged because you could not go to the front, but 'As hi part ia that goeth down to the battle, o shall hi part be that tarrieth by the stuff.' " Cheer up, men and women of unappre ciated ervice. You will get your re ward, If not here, hereafter. Oh, that will be a mighty day when the Son of David ahall distribute the garland, the crown, the scepters, tho chariot, the throne. And then It hall ha found out that all who on earth aerved Ood In In complcuou spheres receive Just a much reward a thoae who filled the earth with uproar of achievement Then they ahall understsnd ths height ths depth, the length, th breadth, the pillared and domed magnificence of my text, "As bis part Is that goeth down to the battle, ao aball his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." A dude in Philadelphia was turned ont of tb club to which he belonged bvcao be paid hi tailor' bill tw day after b got tb cloths. Scotch ' Bull." General Wade constructed military roads In the Highlands or Scotland. An obelisk was constructed to commemor ate his achievement on which was In scribed the following "bull," Intended to distinguish between natural and made roads: Had you seen theae road before they were made, You would lift up your hands and bleu General Wade. An Object Lesson. The easiest way to convert a man to tbe "good roads" proposition is to per suade him to mount the festive bicycle, master Its curves and wheel the Instru ment out where the roads are travesties upon the name, and where bumps are the most conspicuous thing In evidence. A few repetitions of an experience like this will make the experimenter an en thusiastic petitioner for the best that can be bad in the line of roads. Heaven will take on an additional charm for this man when he Is reminded of the perfect pavements that are a feature of tbe final abode of the righteous. Los Angeles Times. And In a Good Road State. A sample of the way road money Is wasted has been shown on Monmouth street during the past week. There were some holes In the roadbed and they were filled up with clay and gravel. Then men were set at work shoveling the sand and dirt out of the gutters, and the sod and grass that had grown there, and this was thrown on top of tbe clay and gravel. If a sand road Is wanted there's no use of going to the expense of putting clay and gravel on It, for the founda tion of the road Is sand, before any top dressing U put ont It; but It's a double waste of money to cover up the sand with clay and gravel, and then cover up tbe clay and gravel with more sand. Red Bank Register. Oood Roads In Connecticut. The good-roads movement In Connec ticut which was parted by the last session of the Legislature, has proved to be a popular one, eighty of the towns having applied to the highway com mission for th( State aid provided by the statute. This means a good many miles of roads built according to the specifications of the State commission and under Its practical supervision. Each section of road ordered has to be visited by one or more members of the commission, who are all practical meu and one of them an engineer, before the State money can be given. The popularity of the movement had not been anticipated, the legislators appar ently not realizing the desire of the people of the State, especially of the farming sections, to establish better transportation for their products. Complimentary to the Prince. The celebration of the anniversaries of the battles of the French aud Ger man war of 1870 has brought out many anecdotes of that terrible struggle, some of wblcb are picturesque and sig nificant. One of these relates this In cident that occurred after the Battle of Welssenburg, on Aug. 4, In which the German army, under the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick, won a great victory over the Freuch under General Douay: The crown prince, tiding over the field, was attracted by the figure of a gigantic Bavarian soldier. The man wan lindens; lii h fuce wan blackened with tlie powder of the battle. He was sitting on a log. anil was tranquilly eat ing u big piece of black bread, though he was surrounded on every side by dead men, dead horse., and all the ter rible debris of a great battle. All tills did not seem to impress the big soldier at all, nor did the approach of the Prusslau prince, his commander, though he knew the prince well. Four years before, Prussia and Ba varia had been arrayed against each other In another great war, and In It the Bavarians, and their allies, the Aus trian, had been vanquished. The sol dier was a veteran of that war. The prince recognized the uniform of the soldier as that of a regiment which this day bad done him valiant service, anil bud also suffered terrible loss. He paused, and with tears in his eyes, said: "Ah, my brave Ixty, you have earned a little rest! You Bavarians have fought to-day like heroes. With such soldiers I should always lie sure of victory!" "Oh, Ja!" answered the man, with the broad accent of a mountaineer, "we fought somewhat, your royal highness, but you see we bad genera la to-day. If you had been our general In 1866, prince, we should have whipped those miserable scoundrels of Prussians within an Inch of tbelr rascally lives!" The soldier munched away at bis bread with a ferocity that suggested that he imagined be waa devouring a Prussian alive. Tbe crown prince laughed heartily; he thought, no doubt, that the man had that day earned his right to express his opinion of Prus sians. But bis young aide-de-camp bit bla lips with patriotic Indignation. Contesting; Harmony. On the occasion of the second mar riage of Madame Mallbran, the world famous singer, says Monsieur Legouve, in his "Recollections," he asked Thal berg, who was one of the guests, to play. "Play before you, madame!" ex claimed be, "I could not think of It Besides, I am too anxious to bear you." "But you'll not hear me, Monsieur Thalberg. I am not supposed to be here at all; it Is merely a woman dead tired with the fatigues of the day. I haven't a note left; I should be simply execrable." "So much the better; It will give me courage." "You Insist upon It? Very well; you shall have your wish." She waa as good, or as bad, as her word. Her voice sounded harsh; there was not a spark of genius In It Even ber mother remarked upon it, and chld ed her for It. "Now," said she, "It is your turn, Monsieur Thalberg." ' The presence of such a listener put him on his mettle, and he drew from his Instrument all the wealth of tone It could afford. As be went on, Mallbran's face gradual! changed, her tired eyes grew bright, her nostrils began to quiver. "Admirable!" cried abe, when the last note had died away. "Now It Is my turn." She sang again, and this time with no sign of fatigue or llstlessness. It was no longer the same woman, It was no longer the same voice, and Thalberg could only murmur, "O mad ame, madame!" She had barely finished, when he said with animation, "Now it Is my turn!" Mallbran's genius bad Inspired bis mas terly but severe style. Currents of elec trie fluid seemed to run from his fin gers over the keyboard. At the last bar, Mallbran burst into violent sobs, she shivered from head to foot and had to' be supported from the room. In a few moments she reappear ed, and with uplifted bead and flashing eyes, hurried to the piano. "Now rt Is my turn!" she exclaimed. She resumed that strange duel and sang four pieces, increasing In grand eur as she went on, unconscious of ev erything, in her growing excitement, until she noticed Thalberg's face bath ed In tears as her own bad been. Odd Delusions. In a recent lecture In London, by Dr. W. R. (lowers of the Royal Society, some curious facts were stated con cerning tbe optical delusions suffered by victims of epilepsy at the commence ment of their attacks. One man for years was always warn ed of a coming fit by a Bensatlon of thumping or beating In the chest, which gradually extended to the head. Then two pulsating lights appeared, which seemed to draw nearer. In an Instant these were gone, and In their place was the figure of an aged woman wearing a red cloak, and always the same In appearance and dress, who of fered the patient something that had the odor of Tonqtiln beans. Then the paiient Invariably lost consciousness. Another case cited was that of a wom an whose attacks were Invariably pre ceded by a vision of London lying In ruins, the channel of the Thames being emptied of water in order to receive the rubbish of the destroyed city, and the patient believing herself to be the only survivor of all Its Inhabitants. Still another patient always seemed to himself, just before an attack, to have been set down In the midst of a broad field of grass. The cause of these singular decep tions lies in the brain, but Its mode of working Is not yet thoroughly under stood. Sawdust. The common objection to using saw dust for bedding, that It Is not a good thing to have It mixed with the manure pile, does not apply to Its use for bed ding for pigs. The pig Is the most cleanly of all animals In not soiling his bedding with his own excrement. Sows with pigs will bunch up their straw bedding and then He on it so as to de stroy them. ' This they cannot do when sawdust bedding Is used. The pigs are always cleanly, and the sawdust helps to keep them free from vermin, which often attacks them where straw bed ding is Used. Of Course They Are. "Dearctd girl of all," was the way the letter began. Right there, so ti apeak, he queered hlmwHIf. "Of all," said she softly to herself; "then there are others." Indiannpolls Journal. . What la Needed. Burnley What you church pOpl need Is more tolerance In your religion. Good ley I fancy we don't lifted It any more than you need religion In you: tolerance. The scese of Frank Barrett' new story, "A Set of Rogues," la laid In th England of the Elizabethan drametlata, and the tale deals with tbe fortune of band of strolling players.. Mrs. Mary Hal lock Foote, the author of "The Led Horse Claim" and other stories of far Western life, la now avt Grass Valley, where ber husband, A. D. Feote, is Inspecting the North Star Mine. Julian Ralph's story of Chin wfQ be founded on conditions Just the revere) of those In the current issue. It will be entitled "Plumblossom Beebe's Ad venture," and relates the unhappy for tunes of the native wife of an English merchant The beautiful editions of Gilbert White's "Selborne," have already awakened Interest In London. Tbe Il lustrations are from sketches and pho tographs taken by Clifton Johnson at Selborne, where he spent some time. The Introduction has been written by John Burroughs. Among the special attraction of tbe Thistle Edition of Stevenson's work will be "The Story of a Lie," published originally in the Quarterly Magaxtne and not republished since, and "Th Pentland Rising," which 1 Included only In the costly and limited Edin burgh Edition. In the volume con taining "Familiar Studies of Men and Books," there are three magazine pa pers that are not Included In any other collection of Stevenson's essays. "Tbe Confessions of a Literary Hack," which appeared In tbe Forum for July, was discussed and quoted in almost every literary periodical In thl country, and received a column of com ment by Andrew Lang in the Illustrat ed London News. Tbe article waa pub lished anonymously, and the Identity of the author was for some time almost as fruitful a topic of discussion as the sketch itself. A Boston literary jour nal now states "authoritatively," that tbe paper was written by John Gilmer Speed. Tbe figures given by Mr. Speed were actual receipts transcribed direct ly from bis record-books. Hooseflle. The common housefly, when It alights, after soaring about a room for some little time, may be seen going through a series of operations which remind one of a cat licking herself after a meal; or of a bird pluming Its feathers. First, the hind feet are rubbed to gether, then each bind leg is passed over a wing, then the forelegs undergo a like treatment; and, lastly, If the ob server looks sharp, he will see the In sect carry his proboscis over hi legs and about his body as far aa he can reach. Tbe minute trunk Is perfectly retrac tile, and It terminates In two lobes, which can he seen spread out when the Insect begins a meal on a lump of su gar. This carefully going over the body with the trunk Mr. Emerson, an En glish chemist, asserts Is to remove the animalcules which the quick motion of the flies have gathered on their bodies In their gyrations through the air. In dirty and bad smelling quarters tie found tbe myriads of files which ex isted there literally covered with ana malculea, while other flies, captured In bedroom or well-ventilated, clean apartment, were miserably lean and entirely free from tbelr prey. , , College Girls Like to Eat. A feast of reason and flow of soul d.i not satisfy the modern college maid, a th housekeeping record of the Bal timore Woman's OoUeg .show. For thl year contracts have been made for 23,000 pound of beef, 12,000 pound of mutton, 9,000 pound of poultry, 4,000 pounds of pork, and 8,000 pounds of veal. Four thousand five hundred doz en of eggs will also be used. Large quantities of fish and oysters, which are purchased week by week and not contracted for yearly, 14,000 pound of sugar, 125 barrels of flour, and 3,000 pounds of crackers, 1,200 pound of cof fee, 100 pounds of tea, 120 pounds of chocolate, and ON) gallons of Ice cream have been ordered. Some of th other Hems Include 7,800 pounds of butter. 5,600 gallons of milk, 3,000 pound of lard, 475 bushels of potatoes, 160 cans of canned vegetables, and 160,000 pound of Ice. Fruit, groceries and ther vegetables are purchased a the)' may be needed. These amount are re quired to feed 800 girl. Castles la the Air. The phrase "Castles en Bapagne," or, s some say, "castles In the air," date from the time the Moor 'were driven out of Spain. Th tradition I thnt when the Moors were driven from their lomea, and the country they had helped make ao beautiful and famous, thy :arried with tbem only th key of their raatlea, to which, of course they nvr sould and did return. The kya they would show with great prldav 4 WJI thy mtfltt, and amy, 'Tb urn Cm key to oar castle In Spain.'' If in bar Both In t do. a 1 1 rereif to do It