TOPICS FOR FARMERS
A DEPARTMENT PREPARED
OUR RURAL FRIENDS
FOR
Tbe Her Appreciates Kindness
How to Treat Karly Sitting Hen
'Teaching Young CiItm to Drink
Sheep Balsiac-Brief Farm Mention
Trait of Horm,
"Whenever I see a borse with Its
front feet on the sidewalk," said the
man from Maine, "I always stop ami
pat hlin on the nose. He always ap
preciates such attention, and I feel bet
ter when I see him smile. A horse al
ways wears a holiday air and a mis
chievous look when he has his front
feet on the pavement. Take him In the
streets and he looks ordinary. He
knows that that Is his right place, anil
he wears an air of sedateness. Hut oc
casionally he gets tired and wants a
little human sympathy, and then he
get up out of the gutter and puts half
of himself on the sidewalk. Then he
looks at every person who comes along
In a hail-fellow-well-met sort of way
tbat always goes to my heart.
"The other day I saw a horse half
way on the sidewalk. Near him was
an Italian push-cart. On the push-cart
were apples and flannel caps. Mr.
Horse watched the apples for a long
time, and then, when he saw the Ital
ian looking another way, be slyly crept
Up and began to munch the apples. lie
bad eaten three before the Italian dis
covered him, and was having a high
old time. The Italian was a good-natured
fellow. He simply, shoved the
horse away and turned the flannel
caps toward him. Of course the horse j
oau. no interest in nannel caps. I was
feeling pretty good that day, so I went
up and paid for the apples the horse
had paten. The Italian was grateful.
was happy, and as I patted the horse
on the uose be grinned at me and I
wared my hand at him with a So long,
old chap." as I moved off." New York
Sun. "
Karly fitting Hen.
Man-'b and April are the months for
-eujpf hens. Chicks batched later
than April will be too late to furnish
laying pullets In autumn. Hens which
sit early are a little more difficult to
manage because the broody fever Is
not so strong as it Is in warm weather,
but f carefully handled they can us
ually be made to stick to a nest when
changed. The safest and easint way
Is to give each hen a room by L Yself.
At first the nest should be filled vith
... nt unr nitont s dozen of litem.
CUl" i - - - r
., 1 hn.ib n-htlo mllln,,
iUrr 3tir Liiuuut 1.1.1. Tiui.v. (jet i.ttit,
aeemtouied to the cuange, aud she Is
ouaoU more likely to sit ttian upon an t
'empty nest-
The nest should be carefully made? (
wlth a good foundation of earth aud
chaff covered with line bay. A hen
ofteu knows a poor neat better than
ber owner does and will refuse to
adopt it. Place her on the nest and tlx
a covering of cloth over It to keep it
dark. With these conditions the hen
will usually accept the situation. After
a day of two the genuine eggs may be
given her and the nest uncovered. If
she has a separate room and is given a
good supply of grain, water, grit and a
dust imth, the hen will require but lit
tle more attention.
Teaching Calves to Drink.
It Is important that the calf should be
eariy weaned from the teat. It is better
for the future of th calf that It be
taken from 1U dam within twenty-four
hours after it is dropped. The milk at
this time is Just what the calf requires,
but It is better that It be milked iu a
pail and thus fed to the calf than that !
the calf should suckle. Remove the calf
far enough from its dam so that neither I
can hear the oilier, for the longer they
renmiu near enough to see or hear each
other the less contented either will lte.
I'.y giving miik from its own dim, and
warm, we have never Lad much trou
ble In teaching it to drink. The finger
m:ty be put in the calf's mouth, when it
will suck vigorously. If this finger,
while the caif is still sucking, is gently
held down so as to be under the milk,
the caif will be drinking almosst before
it knows it. Care should be taken to
bold the pail firmly. Sc soon as the
miik begins to come into Its mouth the
caif win butt most violently, as Inxtinct
teaches It that this Is the way to Induce
a better flow from the udder. The calf
at this early age does not know enough
to distinguish between a wooden pall
and its dam's udder American Culti
vator. Point in Sheep Urtedin.
A swollen odder often causes a ewe
to disown and abuse her Iamb. The
milk flow Is then usually deficient,
which only makes the hungry lamb
niore persistent, the ewe more desper
ate and a bad matter worse. In such
a case we put the lamb In a 1kx or
barrel near the ewe, supply tbetn with
almost enough cow's milk from bottle
with nipple, or let them to aotne other
ewe, and only let them to these enough
to keep the milk taken; In the mean
time bathe the odder with tepid water
and wltcb haael or arnica. Do all this
often at least every two boars for a
day then extend th times until sore
ness and swelling la rone and milk
flow Increased, when the lambs will be
received. Indiana Parmer.
tot-k Haiaiac and Beet,
la all couatrles where the sugar beet
is made a specialty much consideration
It riven the value of the basts as cattle
food; that Is, tbt rssldwun, after the
agar Is extracted. By faadlng stock
la connection with tha gra-wiac of the
beets for salt to the factory, carry tBf.
boate tbt pulp for stock toad, tbt tarn
tra' apportanttlaa froa tbt graarinc of
beat art Intrriasttt ExpsriaMatta In
rMrJranla abow that aba rMda of
- ktnoi torn tm to Claw taw par
cm. ami tbt araraea af atrw
trtntti 13f$raCa
have to contend with wet and dry sea
sons, and bis profits wll! be more soma
years than during others, but H la be
lieved that farmers hare Deflected the
beet as an Important food for cattle,
Independently of Its use as a source fat
procuring sugar, not that the beet 1 al
valuable as grain, but because farmer
will Hud a larger Increase in production
from cattle by reason of the feeding ol
succulent food, and, although there
some preparation required for all kind
of roots before feeding them to stock,
such lalior Is unnecessary when the
beet pulp from the factories Is used, the
combination of the pulp with grain glv
ing belter results than when beets or
grain are fed separately. Philadelphli
Record.
Protection of the Teach.
Experiments have been made In pro
tecting peach buds from frezing by
whitening the branches that are very
Interest ing. Such experiments at th
Agricultural Station, Columbus, Mo.,
have proven to be measurably effective
In savin:: the crop. The whitening is
done by staying the twlirs and bndi
with whitewash. The efficiency of th
protection Is easily comprehended aJ
we consider that a whitened surface re-
fl.H-ts heat, hence the growth of whiten
eil (mils Is retarded as compared with
those that are not treated. The fact 1
lHtinted out that the purple coloring
matter of peach twigs Is well suited t
alsorbing heat. In the experiments al
the Columbus station It has iwn found
that whitened binls blossom three tc
six days later than tl-e untreated.
Klzhty per cent, of whitened bud pss-
et the winter safely as azainst onlv 20
per cent of unwhitened buds. Such a
means of protecting the peach is hc
sensible and so easily within the reach
of every grower that it should com
Into general use. even with those wh
have but a few trees. Meefcan'
Monthly.
Felrctlon in Hrredinij.
It Is a well-known fact that man can
gradually change the habits and even
the forms of animals by careful selec
tion In ln-eeding. There are various
breeds Qf cattle, sheep, horses and
swine, all coming from ancestor dif
fering entirely from the farta stock of
the present time. There are over a
hundred breeds of poultry, and the dif
ference between the game bantam and
the heavy, feather-leg Cochin is so well
marked as to make it a matter of dis
pute regarding their relationship, yet
both breeds came from the name ances
tors the jungle fowls. Success has
also attended the efforts to produce new
fruits and vegetable. These fact
should encourage every farmer to im
prove. A number of years ago a Vir
ginia farmer produced a variety of
corn which yielded from five to seven
ears on eueh stalk, and he secured a
yield of l.W bushels per acre, but the
corn was only qdapteu to bis section.
There is an opening, however, for farm-
era to Improve the variety of com and
wheat grown by them if they will care
fully select the seed from the best
stalks every year, wtilch will sooner or
later result in greatly increased yield,
Beet growing.
It seems to me tliot our farmer ar
getting too much advice on bow U
grow a crop whose management Is s-lm
plieity it.self compared with that of
nnionx, carrot, grapes or rasp!erTles
Take a good piece of loam, clay or sand
that had a corn crop' well cared for Las,
year plowed In fall would be the be
cultivate well In spring to get a goo!
semi bod; drill iu early, rows eighteer
Inches apart: s"oon a the seed make I
visible plant, keep the weeds down
thin to six Inches apart in rows. Aites
the plants are thinned out they nred tu
more attention than a crop of C44t At
to the .harvesting and stodujj, the aver
ace farmer wiW find methods the Euro
pian farmer never thought of, and I
have no doutrt that his crop will coat
! than it would in any part of Eu
rope, r rom my own knowicice or tin
plant. I would say there Is not a ctoj
to-day that te surer to come to maturltj
if planted at a season when the ground
is supplied with enough aioisture U
give a full stand. The rest Is easy. Oor
res.jKndcnee Country Gentleman.
The Pcnle at Han Joe.
A correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, residing at San Jose,
has this to say: "Our Eastern friend
are everywhere In a state of great
alarm at the ravage of tbe San Joat
scale, so called because It was neal
Sao Jose that it began serious work tip
on Its arrival from South America. Wt
do not believe the trouble will be per
manent any more than it was In this
State. One may mingle among frull
farmers near San Jose for a year and
never hear the pet mentioned. The
lime, sulphur and salt mixture has lxeo
considered a sovereign remedy. Iait
terly It has been claimed In olher places
that the decrease was due to a parasite.
There Is, however, at present In Sat;
Jose so little Interest In the Ran Joss
scale that we do not know that anyons)
there has ever looked for a parasite, s
though probably the official bug banters'
have done so. We state this as a word
of encouragement to IJastern fruit
growers who are now alarmed, aa wa
were here about ten years since."
Individuality In Farss Mtock.
No positive rules con be given f
feeding farm stock. Besides the differ
ence In size, which may be tested by s
pair of wales, there Is a great differ
ence In the apM'tlte and feeding ca
pacity of animals. This last can only
be determined by experiment. Toll
makes the work of caring for farm
stock one which require care ant
thought, Instead of being merely me
chanical. When domestic animals r
pregnant their appetite and ability t
digest a large amount of food Is great
ly Increased. In most cases this In
creased ability to eat and digest food
remains sifter tha necessity for It bat
passed, Hence, sal ma Is that bars bred
atreral time fatten macb more rapid
ly tttaa win those of Mica feya tbt, ban
ST ftm
Ik M
T:
HIS (I scciiire of lr. Talinage la j
revolutionary for g.Mid in families.
and cliiin lics ami nations and esiie-
cially appropriate for tlie-e tiiinn; text, j
Ads xvii., I,, "These ibat have turned the
world upside down are come bit her also." !
There is a ;.), Udlowins moh ar.iuud i
the house of .lau in Thessaloiiicn. What i
has the man done so grc.-iti) to offend tbe ,
people? He h;i Iieen entertaining Paul i
and his comrade. The i.iob mirmund the i
house and err: "Itraii: out thov turhu-1
lent preachers! They are interfering with
our biisinc.!.'.
ligion! They
They tire ruining our re-
are actually turning tbe
v.onn upkufc ij.iw n.
The charge was true, for there is noth
ing that so interferes with sin, there is
nothing ko ruinous to every form of estab
lished ini'juity, there is nothing that has
such tendeiii ) to tnr:i the world uiwidp
down iu our glorious Christianity. The
fatt is that the world now is wrong side
up, and it needs to Is- turned uiide down
in order that it niB.v be right side up. Tbe
time was when men wrote books entitling
them "AKiogies for Christianity." I hot
that day has passed. We want no more
apologies for Christianity. Iet the apolo-
gies be on the part of those who do not
believe in our religion. We do not mean
to make any compromise in the mutter.
We do not wish to hide the fact that
Christianity is revolutionary and that its
tendency is to turn the world tipide down.
Our religion has often ls-eii misrepre
sented as a principle of tears and mildness
and fastidiousness, afraid of erowsing jieo-
pie s prejudice, afraid of making some
body mad. with silken glovm lifting the
people up from the church pew into glory,
as though they were Bohemian glass, so
very delicate thai with one touch it may
be demolished forever. Men si'k of re
ligion a though it were a refined imbecil
ity, as Ihough it were a spiritual chloro
form, that the people were to take until
the sharp cutting of life were over. The
Bible, so far from this, represents the re
ligion of Christ as robust and brawny
ransacking and upsetting lu.onil things
that now seem to I settled on firm foua
dntions. I hear some man in the limiav-
say, "I though! religion was peace." That
Is tbe final result. A man's arm is out of
place. Two men come, and with great
effort put it back to the socket. It goes
back with great pain. Then it gets well.
Our world is horribly disordered and out
Of joint. It must come under tin ofuiiipo
tent surgery, beneath which there will be
pain and anguish before there can come
perfect health and quiet. I proclaim,
therefore, in the name of my Lord .lestnj
Christ revolution!
The religion of the Bible will make a
revolution in the family. Those things
that are wrong in the family circle will
be overthrown by it. while justice and
harmony will take the place. The hus
band will lie tbe bead of the household
only when be is fit to be. I know a man
who spends all the money he wakes In
drink as well as all the money that bis
wife malies.'and' sometimes sells the chil
dren's clothe for rutn. I)o yon tell me
thfit he is to be the bend of that house
hold? If the wife Imve more nobiljty,
more courage, morg cousisteiiey, more of
all that is rigfit, she shall have tlie su
premacy. Vou say that the Bible says
that the wife is to be subject to the bus
band. I know it, but that is a husband,
not a masculine caricature. There is no
human or divine law that makes a woman
subordinate to s man unworthy of her.
When Christianity comes into a domestic
circle, it will give the doniiuanry to that
one who is the most worthy of it.
As religion iniun in at tbe front door,
mirth and laughter will not go out of the
back door. U will not hopple the chil
dren's fi-et. John will laugh just as loud,
snd George will jump higher than be ever
did before. It will steal from the little
ones neither ball nor bat nor hoop nor
kite. It will establish a family altar.
Angels will hover over it. ladders of
light will roach down to it Tbe glory of
benven will stream upon it. Tse books
sf remembrance w ill record it. and tides of
everlasting blessedness will pour from it.
Not stt'-h a family altar as you may have
seen where the prayer Is lang and a long
chapter is read, with tedious explanation,
snd the exercise keeps on nntil the chil
dren's knees are sore, and their backs
ache, snd their patience is lost, ami for
the seveuth time they have counted all the
rungs in the chair, but I mean a family
t'tar such as may have been seen in your
father's house. Tou may have wandered
fsr off In the paths of sin snd darkness,
but yon bare never forgotten that faailly
altar where father and mother knelt im
portuning God for your soul. That is a
memory that a man never gets over.
There will be s hearty, joyful family altar
In every domestic circle. You will not
bsve to go fsr to find Hannah rearing her
Samuel for tbe temple or a grandmother
Lois instructing ber young Timothy in
the knowledge of Christ, or a .Mary and
Martha and La rams gathered In frater
nal and sisterly affection, or a table at
which Jesus sits, as at that of Zacchru.
r a home In which Jesus dwell, as In
the house of Simon the tanner. The re
Hgion of Jesus Christ, coming into the do
nestle circle, will overthrow ill jealousies,
II jaugliugs, snd peace and order and
iolinesn will take pomiesslon of the bouse.
Again, Christianity will produce a rev
lution in commercial oirclss. Kind me
ifty merchants, and you find thst they
lave 6fty standards of what Is light sad
STong. Yon say to some one about s
uerchant, "Is he boneatr "Ob, ras,"
(he man says, "be I honest, but ba grinds
the fares of his clerks! lie Is honest, but
te exaggerates the vslus of bis goods. He
s honest, bat he loan money on bond
i nd mortgage with tbt aaderstsndinf
but the mortgsge can lit quiet for ten
'Stir, but ss soon ss bt gtts tbt Mort
age bt records It sad baglas a fortclo-1
Ktirr soil, aaa tbe abertfl i writ come
dowo, and tbe day of ule arrives, and
ami foes the homestead, and the crei
itor buys it in at half price." Honet?
When he loaned the money, he knew that
he would get tbe homestead at half price.
Honest? But he gue to the insurance
ofll -e to get a policy ou his lite and tells
the doctor that be is well when he know
that for tea years he ha bad but one
lung. Honest? Though be eIU prtH-rty
by the map, forgetting to tell tbe pnrchas
er that the ground is all under water, but
it i generous in him to do that, for be
throws the water into the bargain.
Ah. my friends, there is but one stand
ard of the everlasting right and of the
everlasting wrong, and that is the Bible,
and when that principle shall get its pry
under our commercial houses I behove
that one-hnif of them will go over! The
ruin will begin at one end of the street,
and it will he crash! crash! crash! all the
way iUD to the docks. "What is tbe
maiter? Has there Is-eu a fall in gold?"
"Ii, no." "Hiis there lsn a new tar
iff?" "No." "Has there been a failure
in rro?" "No." "Has there been an
unaccountable panic?" "No." This is
the secret: The Ixrd God has set up bis
throne of judgment in the exchange. He
has summoned the righteous and the wick-
ed to come before bim. What was 1K.I7?
i A day of judgment! Wbat was 157? A
j day of judgment! What was the extreme
i depression of two years ago? A day of
I judgment! Io you think that (est is
j going to wait until be has burned the
I world up In-fore be rights these wrongs?
I toll you, nay! Every day is a day of
; judgment.
The fraudulent man piles up his gains.
i bond sIm.vp bond, United States security
shove I nitei Males security, emolument
'. above cmihinieut, until his protH-rty lias
' Ix-eome a great pyramid, and as he stands
i looking at it he thinks it can never t'
i destroyed, but the Ixmi (5od comes and
with bis little finger put-bes it nil over.
You build a bouse, and you put into it n
rotten leatn. A mechanic standing by
soys: "It will Dever do to put that U am
in. It will ruin your whole building."
But you put it in. Tbe house is complet
ed. Soon it begins to rock. You cull in
tlie mechanic snd ask: "What is the mat
ter with this door? What Is tbe matter
with this wall? Everything seems to tie
giving out" Kays the mechanic, "You
put a rotten beam into that structure, snd
the whole thing has got to come dow n."
Here is an estate that seems to be all
right now. It has U-en building a great
many years. But fifteen years ago there
was a dishonest transaction in that com
mercial house. That one dishonwt trans
action will keep on working ruin in the
whole structure, until down the estste
will come-in wreck and ruin alsiut tbe
possessor s ears fine dishonest dollar m
the estate demolishing all bis possessions.
I have seen it again snd again, and so
have you.
Here is your money safe. Tbe monu
facturer and yourself only know bow it
can Ik niened. You have the key. You
touch the lock, and the ponderous d.sir
swings liack. But let me tell you that,
however firmly barred and bolted your
money safe may he, you cannot keep God
out. He will come some day into your
counting room, and he will demand:
"Where did that note of hand come from?
How do you account for this security?
Where did you get that mortgage from?
What does this mean?" If it is all richt.
God will say: "Well done, good and faith
ful servant. Be prospered in this world.
Be happy in tbe world to come." If it is
all wrong, be will say: "Ik-part, ye curs
ed. Be miserable for your iniquities in
this life, and then go down and spend
your eternity w ith thieves aud horse jock
eys and pickMK'kets."
Y'qu have an old photograph of tlie sign
on your street. Why have those signs
nearly all changed within the lust twenty
years? Does the parsing away of a gen
eration account for it? Oh, no. Dock the
fact that there are hundreds of honest
men who go down every' 7' "r 'account for
It? Oil, no. This is the secret: '"be Lord
God Jhn been wsjking through the com
mercial streets 7,f our gret eitie. ami he
has been adjusting things according to the
principles of eternal rectitude.
The time will come when, through the
revolutionary xiwer of di.s gosiM-l, a
falsehood, instead of being called exag
geration, equivocation or evasion, will Is.
brambsl a lie, and stealings tit-1 now
sometimes go under the hetid of pc -ein-agi-s
and commissions and (sinuses will be
put Into the catalogue of Slate prison
offenses! Society will be turned inside
out and uistde down aud run sucked of
God's truth until business dishonesties
shall come to au em', and all double deal
ing, and G'xl w ill overturn and overturn
and overturn, i id comniprcinl men in all
cities will throw up their bands, crying
out, "These that have turned the world
upside down are come hither."
The religion of Jesus Christ will pro
duce a revolution in our churches. The
non-oommlttal, do nothing policy of the
church of God will give way to a spirit of
bravest oonquast. I'iety In this dsy seems
to me to be salted down just so as to keep.
It seems as If tlie chureb were chiefly
anxious to take care of itself, and if we
bear of want snd squalor and heathenism
outside we say, "What a pity!" and we
put our hands in our pockets, snd we feel
around for a 2-cent piece, and with a great
flourish we put It upon tbe plate and are
auiaxcd that the world is not convened in
six weeks. Suppose there were a great
war, aud there were m),i0 soldier, but
all of those aOO.trfiO soldiers, excepting
ten men, were In their tent or scouring
their muskets or cooking rations. You
would say, "Of course defeat must come
in that esse." It i worse than that in
the church. Millions of the professed
soldiers of Jesiis Christ are cooking ra
tions or u sleep In their tents, while only
one man here and there goes out to do bat
tle for the lrd.
"But," says aoiup one, "we are estab
lishing a great many missions, and 1
think they will save the masses." No;
they will not. Five hundred thousand of
them will not do It. They are doing a
magnificent work, but every mission
chMl is a confession of the disease and
wenknss of the church. It is making a
dividing line between the classes. It Is
snyiiig to the rich and to tbe well con
ditioned, "If you can psyonr pew reMi,
come to the main andienco mom." It is
nayliig to the poor msn: "Your coat I too
bad snd your shoe are not good tnonch.
If you want to get to heaven, rot will
lisve to go by the way of tbt
efts pet The mission chpel ba beeomf
the kitchen, where tbe chrrb does Iti
sloppy work. There are hundreds ant
thoussnds of churches In this rountry
gorgeoosly built and supported that eves
on bright and sunshiny dsys sre not halt
full of worshipers, snd jH they sre bnild
iog mission t-haiieb-, hecue by some ex
pressed or implied regulation tbe great
masses of the people are kept out of tbt
msin audience room.
Now, I say that any place of wsrsblp
which is appropriate for one das i p
pmpriate for all clasw. Let the rich and
the poor meet together, the Ixird the Mak
er of them all. Mind you that I say that
mission chapels are a necessity, the way
church are now conducted, but umy God
speed the time when they shall Cesse tc
Is- a necessity. GihI will rise up and break
down the gate of the church that have
kept back the masses, snd w-oe be to thie
w ho stand in tbe way! They will be tram
pled under foot by tlie vast populations
making a stampede for heaven.
I saw in nome pai-er an acoount of s
church in Boston Iu which, it Is said, ther
were a great many plain people. Th
next week the trustees of that church
came out in the paper and said it was Lot
mi at all; "they were elegant eop!e and
highly conditioned Js-ople that went
there." Then I laughed outright, aim
when I laugh I laugh very loudly. "Th'f
ts-ople," I said, "are afraid of the sicklj
sctiUmciiUlity of tbe churches." Now
my ambition is not to preach to you s
much. It m-ciiis to mc that ym must Is
faring sumpiuoiu-ly every day, and ihi
marks of comfort are all alsmt you. You
do not need tjie gosjel half as much as d"
some who never come hen'. Katlier than
be priding mjsclf on a church hi front of
which there shall halt fifty splendid equip
ages on the Sabbath day 1 would have a
church up to u-hnne gutes tlierp should
csmie a long procession of the sutlering.
and the stricken, aud the dying, begging
for admittance. You do not need the gos
pel so much as they. You have g-xid
things In this life. Whatever may be your
future destiny, you have had a pleasant
time here. But those dying populations
of which I sj-ak, by reason of their want
and suffering, whatever may tie their fu
ture destiny, sre in erdition now, and if
there be any comfort in Christ's gospel fr
Ood's sake give it to them!
Bevolutfoii! The pride of tlie church
must come down. The exclusiveness of
the church must come down! The finan
cial loatings of the clmnii must come
down! If monetary success were tbe
chief idea in the church, Uien I say that
tlie present toode of conducting finances
is the best. If It is to see bow many dol
lars you can gain, then the present mode
is the best But if It is tbe saving of
souls frotu sin and death and bringing
the mighty population of our cities to the
knowledge of God, then I cry revolution!
It is coming fast I feel it in the air. I
hear tlie rumbling of axi earthquake that
shall shake down in one terrrtic crash tbe
urrogancp of our modern Christianity,
The day of which I sieak will be a day
of great revival, 'iliere will Is? such a
time as there was in the parish of Shotts,
where 500 souls were born to God In one
day ancb times ss were seen in thi
country when Kd wards gave tlie alarm,
when Teiineiit preached, and Wbitetield
thundered, and Bdward Fayson prayed;
such times as some of you remember in
1K."7, w hen the voice of prayer and praise
wa heard in tln-utcr and warehouse and
blackshop and factory and engine house,
and the auctioneer's cry of'"a half, and a
half, and a half," was drowned out by the
adjoining prayer meeting, in which the
people cried out, "Men and brethren, what
shall we dor
In those days of which I am niK-sking
the services of the church of Gsl w ill be
more spirited. The ministers of Chris,
instead of being anxious about whether
they are going to bwe their place In their
notes, will get on fire with the theme and
pour the living truth of God upon an
aroused auditory, crying out to the right
eous, "It shall le well with you," aud to
the wicked: "Woe! It iall be ill with
you." In those day tue singing will he
very different from what It is now. The
music will weep and wail and chntjt and
triumph, ''eople then will not 1 afraid
to opet tjieir months when they sing. The
man with a cracked v. -ice will risk it on
"Windham" snd "Oriotivillc" and "Old
Hundred." Grandfather will find the
place for his grand-hild in the hymnlssik,
or the little child I Is- BHctcle for the
grandfather. II.is.inna will meet hosamia
and together go climbing to tbe throne,
and the rr gels will hear, and God will
listen, I tiie gates of heaven will hoist,
and it will be as when two seas me t -the
wave of Mirthly song mingling with the
surging anthems of tbe free.
Oh, my find, let me live to see that day!
ICt there lx no power in disease or acci
dent or wtive of the sea to disappoint my
cxotatioiw. Iet all other sight fail my
eyes rather than that I should misa that
vision. Iet all other sound fail my ears
rather than thst I should fail to hear that
sound. I want to stand on the mountain
top to catch the first ray of tlie dawn and
with flying feet bring the new. And,
oh, when we hmr the clattering hoof
tlmt bring on the King's rtmriot may we
all be ready, with arche sprung and
w ilh bsnd on the rope of the bell that Is
1o sound tbe victory, and with wreath all
twisted for the way, and when Jeu dis
mounts let It be amid the huzza! huzza! of
a world redeemed!
W'-ere and when will that revolution
begin? Here aud now. In your besrt
aud mine. Kin must go down, our pride
must go down, our worldliwss must go
down, that Christ may come up. Revolu
tion! "Except a man be born again, be
cannot see tbe kingdom of God," Why
not now let the revolution begin? Not
next Sabbath, but now. Not to-morrow
when you go out into commercial circles!
but now.
Arch la, the magistrate of Thebes, was
sittlim with many mighty men, drinking
wine. A meenger came In, bringing- s
letter Informing him of a conspiracy to
snd hi life H4id warning bim to flea.
ArcbU took the letter; but, Instead of
opening It, pat it into his pocket and Mid
to tbe messenger who brought It, "Huai
ncs to-morow." The next day he died.
Before be opened the letter the govern
ment wss cn pt u red. When be read th
letter, It was too late. To-day I put Into
tlie band of every mau and woman who
hears or read these words a nieaaaga of
life. It says, 'To-day, if ye will hear bis
voice, harden not your heart." Do not
put a way the message and say, "This bus
iness to-morrow." This night thy aouj
may be required of thee!
Cpyrlbt. ISM.
When one la overtired or worried and
cannot sleep, being gently rubbed all
OTsr with a towel wrung ont of ba4
aaltad water generally baa tbt ittlrai
fact
fflebrasfca THoteo
Lexington voted out tbt saloona
is dow trying to kill off the "blind pigs."
Tbs Lexington Pioneer is now pub
lished as sn evening daily, giving tba
latest war news right ofi the wire.
James Kinnear ol Columbus was ont
of the brave fighters in Msuila bay, as
a sailor on board tbe Baltimore.
Asbland'l curlew ordinance prohibits
children under sixteen yearsolago from
"running at large" alter eight o'clock
p. m.
Tbe village board of Syracuse has tar
nished saloonkeepers with a list of
name ol those to whom they mast not
se'.l boote.
M. V. Clark, and John H. Evan,
have commenced tbe publication of the
Mid-Kepublie Stockman at Thedford,
Thomas county.
A Thedford farmer ha set apart ten
acres lor a melon pstch. The town boys
are aaaiil.ig the tid of events with
eauer cxiiectancy.
Tbe Monroe. Looking Glass as tlie of
ficial orgnn ol the liberty party is still
waging a relentless warfare against the
liquor traffic.
A patriotic girl telegraphed her
brother at Camp Alvin Saunders, "Do
not come home disbonorabl y discliared."
He obeyed orders.
When people are not very anxious to
go to war, says the Winside Tribune,
they offer their services to the president
or to the governor. It sounds big and
means nothing.
The school board at Lyons finds it
difficult to select teachers who are sat
isisclory tosll the reboot patrons. It is
very much like running a newspaper to
please everybody.
Friday afternoon, while starting snd
adjusting bis steam brick machine, Fred
R. Wooiiey of Hesard had the misfor
tune to have three fingers on one of bis
bands cut off in the machinery.
Mrs. J. Yetter of Blootnington, agd
eighty-t wo years, who has almost lost
her eyesight, while at tempting to get a
drink fell down cellar, dislocating her
shoulder. Her recovery is doubtful.
Colonel N. II. I'siks is slowly re
covering from a tedious flt of sickness.
He is a grand old man, snd the boys
will be delighted to hear that he is once
more sble to est three meals a dsy and
do full time in the editorial harness of
the C ilumbus Telegram.
Postmaster ol Greel-ty Center received
s telegram Thursday from the Klondike
region announcing the death of hi son
Eph. Tlin sal accident occurred while
crossing an ice bridge in one of tbe
tficaL passes, the bridge yoing dow n and
carrying twen ty of tlie boys on the trail
to an untimely death.
In the district court in session at
Brewster County Treasurer George O
Sawyer was aequi'ted of the charge of
rape upon the person ol Lu'ti Barton,
alleged t) have been committed during
tbe month of June, 1835. Mr. fawyer
was elected treasurer of this county last
(all in spite of the case then pending.
A "bucket shop" went to tho wall at
VVvmore Thursday and as a result tho
'jieeulative element of the city is out
several tin usand dollars. The "shop"
was a branch of the commission house
W, A. Michiel Company of Kan
sas City, and the heavy losses the bouse
lias suffered from all part the last eek
was more than it could stand, t
The preliminary hearing of John
Dunn, ol Greuley Center, charged with
the rape of fxinise Lund, was concluded
his' week befo-e Coiwity Judge Barry.
The jdge thot.ght there was" probab'a
cause to think bim guilty, and bound
him over to the district court in the
sum of one thousand dollars. The com
plainant is a prepossessing young girl of
fourteen y.-ars, who told ber sad story
in a way that carried conviction.
Frank Fu'nlrodt, of Fremont, the bor
who was arrested on the mm plaint of
II. Blumenthal, chatging him with
breaking into his store ami stealing
g ssla of the value of several hun
dred dollars, filed a petition in the dis
trict .court Thursday in an actic n for
false imprisonment, claiming f 10,000,
The suit will l hotly contested on both
s ties. The case against Fuhlrodt wss
dismissed on the preliminary hearing
by the county attorney.
A frightful accident occurred Thurs
day night near Blue fiprings which re
suited in the death of one child and
badly crippled another , both eon ol
Frank Smith, a farmer. While his old
est son was In the Held cutting
stalks tha latter's brother, seven years
old, climbed onto tha cutter. The team
getting frightened, ran away, throwing
the boy under the cutter, cutting off ono
foot and ba lly bruising him. Tha taan
headed straight (or the house and in
tbe barf yard ran over a four-year-old
son of Smith's, killing him instantly.
Tha latter wss terribly mutilaUd. Ont
leg wa eat off it the thigh, his bowtla
were laid bare snd a lengthy cot was
made on one side of his neck. Tho
boy first injured was at onos plaosd
nnder tha care of pbvtiuisas snd it It
thought be may recover.
Corn planting has been considerably
delsyed on account of wet weather.
Herman Blumenthal of Fremont baa
recovered a portion ol the oods recently
stolen from bis depsrtmtnt store. Ovaa
a week ago Mr. Hughes discovered tha
goods stored away in tbo craasaary
building, Tha polios wars not 1 Bed anst
a watch was put in tha building, bat M
one tamo to claim tbt (tolsn goods,
Tha goods recovered wars asoatlr 4ry
goods, abont one-third tha vaiat al tha)
