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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1898)
TOPICS FOlt FAUMMS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Directions for Pprayins Fruit Trees Wood Ashes Not Good for Potatoes Different Varieties of hm at -In-s-e1eat IJorseahoera. y Spraying Froit Trees. Mr. J. 0. Blair, assistant horticultur ist at tbe University of Illinois, gives the following directions fur spraying Omit trees: "The first application of solutions for the controlling of fundus diseases Should be ou the dormant wood liefore the buds have expanded, This con elat of copper sulphate, one pound to fifteen gallons of water. The object of tbl U to kill the mycelium and spores of the apple scrab fuugus or of other diseases wuicu may oe present on me '""twjg and branches. It has been ' wbolly Impracticable to make this ap- pucauon on account of the excessive nrlnu rains 1 In iiiLt iim,1v ...n,., mil- - phAte ater the leaves ate out. The oecond application, and the most Im portant, is that of Ikirdeatix mixture and paris green, which should be ap- before the flower buds expand. This aolution Is lH'St prepared liy dissolving mix mounds of cornier siihihatc in a hni? - of coarse cloth hung in a vessel holding air M'ttmu: et ii' n f . . t- t! , i rliur f liu lia.v V ftHVUD 1 ' 1 .11111 1, 1.1 1 I 1111 1 111' 1 1 1 1 la. Juat covered. Slack four pounds of tt Utue lu one to two gallons of water. "STben mix the two above solutions, and after atraining add forty gallons of water. In case of peach foliage two pounds of time should be added to JtttkVti !) caustic effect of the copper sulphate. To this solution should be titled four ounces of paris green for Jfach fifty gallons for the purpose ff de stroying the larvae of the bud moth and f tbe cod 11 n moth, which may have made their appearance. The third application watch, with respect to the eodlin moth, t the most tmjiortant one, should lie made as soon as the blossoms have fallen. For this application use Bor deaux mixture with paris green added bore. If these three applications are made to fruit trees promptly and thor oughly by far the most important ene mies to our fruits will lie kept in check." Wood Afhts for I'otatoes. For a good many years farmers have believed wood ashes to le an excellent Application for potatoes. Scientific men held the same opinion. Within a abort time the Rhode Island experiment station has reached a different eondu lon. It is said that "potatoes have aometlrues produced a slightly greater total yield from liming, and usually a much greater percentage of merchanta ble tubers; but owitig to the fact that wood ashes and water or air-slacked lime tnot gypsum or land plaster) in crease the virulence of the potato scab to 1 serious degree, lime in these forms, If used at all ou potato fields, should be applied in small quantities, seldom ex ceeding half a ton per acre. The need tubers should also be treated with cor rosive sublimate solution, "or with for malin, the new remedy tried success fully by the Indiana experiment na tion In imv The advice is, on ac count of the tendency of lime to In crease the virulence of potaio scab, not to apply it to potato ground, and also Hot to apply wood ashes on account of tbe lime they contain. Wood ashes contain potash in a valuable form for potatoes, but their application to the ground and some other crop a year be fore potatoes are planted Is now rec ommended. Varieties of Smnt. There are several varieties of smut, fcsotrn as the "stinking" smut, or frant. attacking the kernels of wheat. While the variety known as "loose" mot attacks the whole held, convert ing it into a mass of loose, dusty pores. The loose smut of oats is also Dottier variety, and Is very similar to that of wheat. Barley is attacked by two smuts and rye by one. Corn smut 4oes not do as much damage as the oth r kinds, but Is more widespread. There is no known remedy for corn ftmut. Experiments made in treating the aeeds of wheat, oats, barley, etc., how that by preventing smut the yield mt mips Is greater, even when the dis- Is light, thus demonstrating that there Is an effect exerted on the pro 4nctng capacity of the plants when mot Is not apparently present suf fldently to do some damage. AH .the mots except that which attacks corn CM be prevented by the farmer if he mV& carefully treat his seed In some manner to destroy the snores, but. un fortunately, the majority of farmers 4 not use precautionary measures, ad thus the negligence of .only one or two persons In a community may neu tralize the effort of many. It should fee the aim of erery farmer to do his put In the matter of ridding the coai- unity of pests. HoraeahoelnK, Erery country blacksmith Include toreshoelng as a part of his business, tat many of them do not understand fjM conformation of the foot of a horse. au4 frequently do harm. Each foot MJT require a special shoe, and there r peculiarities and Individual trait atf bone which must lie considered. Ctortwhoelng Is really a mattet requlf faf kill, and In some States the qua tlM to being agitated In favor of rom gMftltg all btackamltba and horseafto w t pajai an examination and work a license before tny cu put Aaiwi for Cold Cllasatea. -tt ubect of a bulletin of tht C3M cjrfcoHiira! at perl awn t sta n KasN af ceraaf nl appto col- -rt-m ttm motiar sSMdfl aortav j crrf Cm Ik occopauo ia z to tU prrxw kra lull to pointing . iutroduciioii of th- Uusslnu varlotl. and especially the selection of uatlvi hardy seedling and the adoption o better orchard practice. Any given va ricty, more or less scna.tlve to cokl, cat be grown from & to liVi miles north o Its natural limit by rea tunable preca tfous, such as tuc following: 1. I'liiin ou land sloping south ot southeast amf "furuikh gissl wln breaks to the north. 2. Secure thorough atmospheric drainage by choosing moderately higt and sloping land. 3. Secure thorough atmospheric drainage. If the subsoil is not isirom enough to carry off all extra water i must be underdraineil. 4. Buy trees ou hardy stocks, lr most grafted or budded trees the char acter ol the stock Is wholly unknown but to grow a given variety at Its north ernmost limit a perfectly hardy stocl is required. 5. (iraft the chosen variety in tht tops of very hardy treeR. Varieties recommended for plant Inj where hardiness is a principal consul eration are Yellow Transparent, Ke Astrachan, Longflold. Oldenburg Fameuse, Mcintosh, Wealthy, Scot Winter, I'ewaukee, Arctic. American Pqnaabcein Kngland. The squash is a vegetable whicl caunot be successfully growu In tht ojen air in England, ami its vines take up too much room to make It profitable to grow in hothouse. I'nlike other ten der vegetables, the squash will beai long transportation. Therefore. Mr James J. H. Gregory of Marblclu :td who is the originator of the Hubbard and Marblebead squashes, tried an ex periment a few years ago. He senl aliout a ton and a half of fine Huhlmrd squashes to the London market to b sold on commission. When the returns, were in Mr. Gregory found that he bad tsoinewhat more money than tht squashes would have sold for at home. But it did not educate English taste iv like the squash, for Instead of making the squash into pies, as Mr. (Jregory gave directions, the Iondon sliopkeep ers exhilrired the squasbt in thelt w!ndown as curiosities. Maybe aftet one or more trials of the excellence ol the Ilubtiard squash our English neigh ors may find It better to eat than re look at. Mr. Gregory tells In the Trib une bow be later tried to repeat this experiment. But a mistake was made, some poor squashes were sent, which arrived lu bad condition, and the result was a loss. Tomatoes. Thorp is no garden, vegetable thnt will resjsHid more markedly to ri l land and good cultivation than toma toes. A tomato plant will grow- on it manure pile and nourish all seasoi there, and in planting them It pays ti take some pains to have them stand on a very rich soil. Make the ploi where tbe tomatoes are to stand vcr? rich with manure, and then dig a bob and dump two or three shovelfuls ol fine manure in the bottom of it, and set the plants above this. Iirive a stake by each plant as soon as it b transplanted, and keep the plant tiet' j to it with strips of cloth, and the frulti will not rot when they tegln to ripen The tomato is one of the plants thai . does better for transplanting, and, 11 j thev are transplanted two or thre. j times, they only grow more stocky and j produce better. There Is not a bit ol I danger of losing tomato plants b;, transplanting, as they will grow from a slip almost as well ns from a rooted plant. Keep them well cultivated, and. if the weather comes off dry, give them plenty of water, and the crop is certain and largeFarmers' Voice. Money from Herba. A great deal of money can be made from common garden herbs. Page thyme, marjoram and even catnip al. have their devotees. Mowt caj cat? very rarely see catnip, except as a rn"k.-ige. If it Is purchased done up in a closed and sewed bag, ami given tbem to play with, the antics they will per form with this plaything are eitreme ly amusing. In the country cats find enough catnip growing around houses. If farmers' boys would gatbet sou.; of tbe leaves and sew them up in ball they could make some money out ot the business. There Is nearly alwa a good demand for herbs used In mak ing the dressing for fowls and othei baked meat. Modern Jlethoda. Farthers have for hundreds of years heeuingaged In opposing every attempt to improve them In tbelr methods of farmlug. Hundreds of farmers' wives work daily at churning in a manner that Is most laborious, taking an hour or more to do what could be performed in a few minutes If they were not too prejudiced against "fancy farming" tb use a thermometer. They hare no faith In "book farming," and pay dearly for refusing to be convinced. The Quality of Pasture. All the grass roots which root near the surface make the beat early pas ture, for tbee only get much warmth m tbe early spring moiiths. June rts, red top ami timothy pasture are best in the order named. Clover Is very poor. Innutrltlous feed until il begin to blossom. Then It very rap klly Increases In value, but should be cot for soiling rather than pastured, a took w4U tramble down clover In bios mm wrf y.c toot than rbey eat. PrssU la Karl 7 Sprlnc Baarts. For an eually grown crop early string beam are almost always profitable. Tho hill abock? lie protected while tbe plant are email, and there la danger that freaks wlU rdp them. Common card beua placed orer tbe bills bottom np eaa be very cheaply prwrured. They wttt keep eff froat aa well a more ex psmatre coreringe, a ad can be kept; freea blowing away by potting a stone ar ftBttla earth orer tbem at alfht. IF ople understood n-liglon to lie the praetital rv-elif'reeuii ut that l r. Tol nuife vavK it is in this seruitm. the ntitnlM-r of Cliristlnn t!isciile would l" irrwiily multiplied; text, I's.ilnni xx., U, "Send thee help from the Kiim-tuary." ' If ymi slunilil ask fifty men what tbe church is. they would give you fifty dif ferent answers. One man would say, "It is a convention of hyiocritt'it." Another, "It is an assembly of people who feel themselves a treat ileal Itetler tltau oth ers." Another, "It is a place for gossip, where wolverene distoiitioii devour eac'i other." Another, "It is a place for the cultivation of suK-rstilion and cant." An other, "It is a n arsenal where theologians eo to get pikes and muskets anil shot." Another, "it is an art gallery, where men ? U admire Krinol arches ami exquisite fresco ami musictil warble and lb" l)nt.; fsque in gloomy imauery." Another man would say; "It is the Ix-st place on earth except my own home. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." Now, whatever the church is, my text tells you what it ought to ltea great, practical, homely, omtiiKtcit help. "S'aj thee help from the sanctuary." The ten ought to yield restfnluess for the InjJv, the color of the upholstery ought to yield pleasure to the eye, the enti"- service ought to yield strength for the nei'l l.n I struggle of everyday life, the Sablmtli ought to be harnessed to all the six days of the week, drawing them in the i;u'M direction: the church ought to lie u iiiac net, visibly and mightily h (Tit-ting all I lie homes of the worshiior. Kvery man gets roughly jostled, gctg abused, gets cut, gets insulted, gets slighted, gets ex asperated. By the time the Sabbath cohik be has an accumulation of six i1."..vh of an noyance, ami that Is a starveling church service which has not streugth enough to take that accumulated annoyance ami hurl ft into perdition. The business man sits down in church headachy from the week's engagements. I'erhap be w ishes he had tarried at home on the lounge with the 'newspapers and the slipts-rs. Thai man wants to le cooled off ami graciously diverted. The tirst wale of the religious service otlulit to dash clear over the hurri cane dit ks and leave him dripping with holy ami glad and heavenly emotion. "Send thee help from the sanctuary." The Help of Mn.ic. S In the firs! place, sanctuary help ou4 to come from (he music. A woman thing in Kugiand is-rsisted in singing to the last Diouienf. The attendants tried to per suade her to stop, saying it would exhaust her and make her disease worse. She a:i swered: "I must sing. I am only prac ticing for the heavenly choir." Music oo earth is a rehearsal for music in heaven. If you and I are going to take part in that great orchestra, it is high time that we were stringing and thrumming otir harps. They tell us that Thallterg and (lottschalk never would go into a concert until they had first in private rehearsed, although (hey were such masters of the instrument. And can it he that we expect to take part in the great oratorio of beaveu if we do not rehearse here? Kut 1 am not spcnkitig of the uext world. Sabbath song ought to set all tbe week to music. We want not more har mony, not more artistic expression, but more volume iu our church music. The Knglish dissenting churches far surpass our mericsu churches iu this respect. An Knglish audience of 1,M people will give more volume of sacred song than nn American rudieiice of ",'KKJ peip!e. I do not know what the rensou is. Oh, you ought to have heard them sing in Surrey hasO! I had the opportunity of preaching the anniversary I think the ninetieth anniversary-sermon in Jlow land Hill's old chais-l. and when they lift ed their voices in sacred song it w as sim ply overwhelming, and then in tbe even ing of the same y iu Agricultural Hall many thousand voices lifted iu doxology. It was like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of many thundering!, anH like the voice of heaven. The blessing thrilled through all the la boring throng, And heaven waa won by violence of song. Now, I am no worshier of noise, but I believe that if our American churches would with full heartiness of soul and full emphasis of voice sing the songs of Zion this part of sacred worship would have tenfold more power thau it has now. Why not take this part of the sacred service and lift it to wbere it ought to be? All the annoyance of life might lie drowned out by that sacred song. Do you tell me that it is not fashionable to sing very loadly? Then, I sny, away with the fash Ion. We dam back the guest Mississippi of'congregatiotial singing and let a few drop of melody trickle through tbe dam. I say take away the dam and let the bil lows roar on their way to tbe oceanic heart of God. Whether It is fashionable to sing loudly or not, let us sing with all possible emphasis. We hear a great deal of the art of sing ing, of music as an entertainment, of mu sic a a recreation. It is high time we heard something of nitride as a help, a practical help. Id order to do tbia we most have only a few hymns. New tunes and new hymns every Sunday make poor congregational singing. Fifty hymns are enough for fifty yeara. Tbe Episcopal Church prays the same prayers every Sabbath and year after year and century after century. For that reason thay bar the hearty responses. Let us take a hint from that fact and let ua aing the aame songs Sabbath after Rabbath. Only fas that way can we come to tbe foil force of this exercise. Twenty thousand year will not wear out the hymn of William Cowprr, Charles Wesley and Isaac Watte. Suppose, now, each person In an andl eaea baa brought al tbe aaaoyaacea of ! last olio days. Fill the room to the ceiling with sucred song, and you would drown out all those annoyances of the last 3i5 days, and you would drown them out for ever. Organ and cornet are only to mar shal the voice. Let the voice fall into line, and lu companies and in battalions by storm take the obduracy ami in of the world. If you cannot cing for your self, sing for others. By trying to give others gisui cheer you will bring good cheer to your own heart. Ilinh and Dry on the Kocka. When Ioiiiluiiderry. England, was lie sieged many years ago. the H.plc inside the city were famishing. and a vessel came "l with provisions, but the vessel ran ou the river bank and stuck fast. The en emy went down with laughter and deris. ion to Isiard the vowel, when the vessel giive a broadside lire against the enemy ami by the shock was turned back into the stream, and all was well. ( lh, ye who are high nnd dry on the rocks of melan choly, give a broadside tire of song against your spiritual enemies, and hy holy re tioiiiifl you will come out injo' the calm waters. If we want to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy. Again. I remark thnt sanctuary help ought to come from the sermon. Of l.tMl people in any audience, how many want sympathetic help? I0 yon guess 1ki? Iu you guess .V)Z You have guessed wrong. I will tell you just the proportion. Out of 1, mk.) people in any audience there are just l.tttm who need sympathetic help. These young people WHnt it just as much ns the old. The old people sometimes seem to think they have a inoiisi!y of the rheumatisms, nnd the neuralgia, and the headaches, and the physical disorders of the world, but I tell you there are no worse heartaches than are felt by some of the young people. lo you know that much of the work is done by the young? Knpluiel died t .'7. Itichelieu at 31. Kus tavus Adolphus died at lis. Innocent III. came to his mightiest 'influence at 37. Cortes conquered Mexico at 80, Ion John won Lepaiito at 'Si, Crotius was Attor ney General at 24. aud I have noticed iimiil nil classes of men that some of the severest battles ami the toughest work comes before ,",tt. Therefore we must have our sermons and our exhortations in pray er meeting all sympathetic with the young. And so with these people further on in life. What do these doctors and lawyers and merchants ami mechanics care alsiut the abstractions of religion'; What they want is help to bear the whim sicalities of patients, (he brow lieating of legal opponents, tin- unfairness of cus tomers who have plenty of fault finding for every imperfection of handiwork, but no praise for twenty excellences. What docs the drain racked, hand blistered man care for Cwingli's 'iioctrine of Original Sin." or Augustine's "Itetrnctions?" You might as well go to a man who has the pleurisy and put on his side a plaster made out of I)r. Parr's "Treatise ou Med ical Jurisprudence." Help for livery One. While all of a sermon may not ic help ful alike to ail, if it be a Christian sermon l'r,"'u,'', l " "hristiau man there will Im help for every one somewhere. We go into an ttsitlie ary's store. We see others ls-ing wailed ou. We do not complain be cause we do not immediately get tbe med icine. We know our turn will come alter awhile. And so while all parts of a ser mon may not be appropriate to our case If we wa;jt prayerfully la-fore the sermon is through we shall have the divine pre script ion. I sny to young men w ho are going to preach the gosiel. we want in our sermons not inure metaphysics, nor more imagination, nor more logic, nor more profundity. What we want in our serruens and Christian exhortations is more sympathy. When Father Taylor preached iu the Sailors' Itethel at Hus ton, the Jack Tars felt they had help for their duties among the ratlines and the forecastles. When Kit-hard Weaver preached to the o.eriitive in Oldham, Kngliind, all the workmen felt they had more grace for the spindles. When Zr. South preached to kings and princes and princesses, all the mighty men and women who heard him felt preparation for their high station. Fells-ions Humdrum, I say to the youug men who are enter ing the ministry, we must put ou more force, more energy and into our religious services more vivacity if we want the peo ple to come. You look into a church court of any denomination of Christians. First, you will find the meu of large common sense aud earnest look. Tbe education of their minds, the piety of their hearts, the holiness of their lives qualify them for their work. Then you wlU find in every vliurcb court of every denomination a group of men who utterly amnio you with the fact that such semi-imbecility can get any pulpits to preach In! Those are tbe men who give forlorn statistics about church decadence. Frogs never croak in running water; always in stagnant. But I say to all Christian workers, to all Sun day school teachers, to all evangelists, to all ministers of tbe gospel, if we wnut our Sunday schools and our prayer meetings and our churches to gather the people we must freshen up. The simple fact is the eop!e are tired of the h mud rum of religionists. Heligious humdrum Is tbe worst of all humdrum. You say over and over again, "Come to Jesus," until the phrase means absolutely nothing. Why do you not tell them a story which will make them come to Jesus io five minutes? You say that all Sunday school teachers, snd all evangelists, and all ministers must bring their illustrations from the Bible, Christ did not wben.be preached. The most of the Bible was written before Christ's time, but wbere did be get his illustrations? He drew them from the lilies; fron the ravens, from salt, from a candle, from a bushel, from long faced hypocrites, from gnata, from moths, from large gates and small gates, from a camel, from the needle's eye, from yeast In tbe dough of bread, from a mustard seed, from a fishing net, from debtors and creditors. That la the reason multitudes followed Christ His lllustrationa were so easy and so under standable. Therefore, my brother Chris tian worker, if you and I find two Illustra tions for a religious subject, and the one I a Bible Illustration and the other la oatald tbe Bible, I will take the latter because I want to be like my Master. Illaatratloa Near a Hamd. What la tbe aae af onr going away off to fad aa Illustration In past age when dur iag tbe great foreet trea la Mlehlgi a mail carrier ou horse On, a, riding on, pur sued hy those fisuies which had swept over lUO fvilcs, saw sn old mau by the roadside, dismounted, helNil the old mau ou the horse, laying, "Now, whip up and get awsy'r" The old man got away, but the mail carrier (sTished. Just like Christ dismounting from the glories of heaven to put us on tne way of deliverance, then falling back into the flames of ucritice for others. Pang for others. Woe for others, l'eath for others. Vicarious suffering.' Again, I remark that sanctuary help ought to come through the prayers of all the fieopic. The door of the eternal store house is hung on one binge, a gold hinge, the hinge of prayer, and when the whole audience lay hold of that disir it must come open. There are many people send ing their first Sabbath after some great bereavement. What will your prayer do for them? How will it help the tomb in that man's heart? Here are people who have not lieen in church U-fore for ten years. What will your prayer do for them by rolling over their soul holy mem ories? Here are people in crises of awful temptation. They sre on the verge of de spair or wild blundering or theft or sui cide. What will your prayer do for them in the way of giving them strength to re sist? Will you l chiefly anxious slsmt the fit of the glove that you put to your forehead while you prayed? WiTI you be chiefly critical of the rhetoric of the pus tor's "tit ion ? No. No. A thousand peo ple will feel. "That prayer is for me," and at every step of the prayer chains ought to drop off, aud temples of sin ought to crash into dust, and jubilees of deliver ance ought to brandish their truniets. In most of our churches we have three prayers the eiiing prayer, what is call ed the "long prayer" and the closing pray er. There ure many people who spend their first prayer in arranging their ap parel afier ciurame and siiend the sec ond prayer, th- "long prayer." in w ishing il were through and spend the last pray er iu preparing to start for hoiu. The most inxigniticciit part of every religious service is the sermon. The more impor tant parts are the Scripture lesson and the prayer. The seruion is only a man talking to a man. The Scripture lesson is (lod talking to man. Prayer is man talk ing to iod. Oh, if we understood the grandeur and the pathos of this exercise of prayer, instead of ls-ing a dull exercise we would imagine thnt the room was full of divine and angelic pH-nraiiccs. The Old Mylc of Church. Ilul, my friends, the old style of chnr-'.i will not do the work. We might as well row try to take r.ll the passengers from Wflshiiigloii to New York by stage coach or all tiie passengers from Albany to Buf falo by lamilhoat or do all the buttling of the world with how and arrow ns with lie? old style of chun h to meet the exiget s of this day. I nless the church in nir day til adapt itself to the time it w ill become extinct. The people reading ticwpHM-rs and liook all the week, in alert, pictur esque and resounding style, will have no paticm-e with Sablmth humdrum. We have no objection to bands ami surplice and all the paraphernalia of clerical life, but these things make no impression make no more impression on the great masses of the sop!e than the ordinary business suit that you wear on Pennsyl vania avenue or Wall stn-et. A tailor can not make a minister. Some of the pisirest preachers wear the best clothes, and many a biickwooilsniHii hns dismounted from the saddlebags, and in his linen duster pivnclied a sermon thst shook earth and heaven with its Christian eloquence. No new gospel, only the old gosjs-l iu a way suited to the time. No new church, but a church to be the asylum, the inspiration, the practical sympathy and the eternal help of the people. ISul while half of the doors of 1he church Hie to be set open toward this world the other half of the doors of the church must be set chm-ii toward the next. You and I tarry here only a brief spm-e. We want somebody to teach ns how to get out of this lire at the right time and iu the right way. Some full out of life, some go stumbling out of life, some go groaning out of life, some go cursing out of life. We want to go singing, rising, re joicing, triumphing. We want half the disirs of the church set iu that direction. We want half the prayers that way. half the sermons that way. We want to know how to get ashore fron; the tumult of this world into the hind of everlasting peace. We do not want to stand doubting and shivering when we go away from this world. We want our anticipations arous ed to the highest pitch. We want to have the exhilaration of n dylnir child in Kng iu lid. tbe father telling me the story. When be said to her, "Is the path nar row?" she answered, "Tbe path is nar row; It is so narrow that I cannot walk arm in arm with Christ, so Jesus goes ahead, and be says, 'Mary, follow.'" Through tbe Cburcb gates set heavenward how many of four friends and mine have gone ? The last time they were out of the house they came to church. Tbe earthly pil grimage ended at the pillar of public wor ship, and then they marched out to a big ger and brighter assemblage. Some of them were so old they could not walk without a cane or two crutches. Now tbey have eternal juvenesceuce. Or they were so young they could not walk ex cept as tbe maternal hand guided them. Now they bound with the hilarities celes tial. Tbe last time we saw them they were wasted with malarial or pulmonic disorder, but now they buve no fatigue and no difficulty of respiration in the pur air of heaven. How I wonder wbcu you and I will cross over! Home of you have had about enough of the thumping and flailing of this lira. A draft from th fountains of heaven would do you good. Complete release you could stand very well. If you got on tbe other side and had permission tb come back, you would not come. Though you were invited to come back and join your friends on earth, you would say: "No, let me tarry here until they come. 1 shall not rink going back. If a man reaches heaven, be had better stay here." Ob, I join bands with you in that up lifted splendor: When the shore Is won at last, Who will count the billows past? Copyright. I8U8. Oneness. Christ baaed his plea for tbe winning of the world upon the one ness of hi disciples. The oneness la suffering of and obedience to Christ was arrayed against the budding de nominational division In the Christian Cburcb. Ho long to-day a dlvlalon among those who lor tbe Lord are fo tared, no long will the evangelisation of tba hearth, homo and heathen world be delayed and Christ blush to ae hi own work hindered. Ber. 0. L. Tbttr goad, DUcipJe ntuburg, Pa, CARS MADE CLEAN WITH WINO. Pneumatic Device l ard la Va Yard In Chimuo. If the average housekeeper who he had more or less unpleasant experience with tbe old-fashioned broom could drop down into the Sunta Fe 5"rda, at 17th street, almost any morn,bg she would Ishold a sight that would et her wild w lib envy. She would be as tonished by a performance that -be might think little short of miraculous. She would see a man walking up And down a strip of carpet at the side t a Pullman palace car and accompllablna; a feat apparently far beyond tbe maav terpleee of the greatest prestldlglta tour, to her way of thinking. The maa might point out whut tbe woman wo Id call "a long stick w it h a broad end" at the carpet and straightway dust would fly from the surface Jn immense cloud at least It would If there was any dust In the carjet. This peculiar and interesting opera tion lias Iss-u going ou down In the Santa Fe yanfs for nearly two years, but it Is nevertheless almost unknown. What the housekeeper would call a long stick with a broad end Is an Iron pipe with a spreading brass nozzle through wblch compressed air rushe under a pressure of seventy pounds to (he square Inch. Tbe upper end of tb pipe is Inserted In rubber hose which leads from an n I r-coni pressing ma chine. The workman takes In band the p!H which la lietvveen four and five feet In length, and. placing the brasa nozzle within an Inch of the surface of the carpet, he walks down Its length passing the instrument over every square Inch of the carpet, Tbe brass nozzle is about three Inches wide, and a narrow n-rture through which the air escapes extends from one side to the other. This ai-rture Is almost as-long as tbe mizzle is wide, but it is only about one-fourth of nn Inch in width. TIm air escapes with such force that wherever It strikes the carpet the dust Is blown out so cleanly that a profes sional carpet Is-aler would find It Im possible to extract another particle. The unique device is used not only to clean tbe carpets outside of tbe cars, but to clean the entire Interiors of the cars as well. For the Interiors a small ;r plje and nozzle are used and a long er hose Is attached. The workman passes around the Inside of the car pointing the nozzle at every spot which e wishes to cleanse, lie doesn't have to point It long at any one s(st before ilie air has efTii-tunlly cleared tbe sur face of all dirt that Is loose. There w no patent on the Invention, which si-ems to have been perfected by a process of evolution. Anylsvly who has the desire and the money (o pay for the machinery has the contrivance at his disposal. It Is now iisiil In several of the railroad yards of tbe city and has proved universally satisfactory. The device Is especially excellent for -the removal ot dust nnd d!rt from corners and crevices which cannot well tie reached with a broom. The air can, of course. ln thrown Into any place Into which dust can drift and the dirt he blown out without the least difficulty. In sleeping cars there are many places In which the compressed air system ! found to lie a great Improvement over old methods. The cleaning of the ti-m-r ls-rlhs whs always accomplished with much trouble until the air con trivance was adopted, lmt since then the work has lon done with ease and dispatch. Tbe workman simply pulls down tbe lKrth, and, reaching in with his pipe, be isikes atioiit In every nook snd corner until lie can no longer blow any dust from the berth. Then he knows It Is clean and he passes to th next one. Al! of the upholstery, as well no the floor, ceiling, etc.. Is of course, cleaned more easily than the berths. The cleaning itta lie done at practical ly any distance from the air-compress:-Ing machine. A long line of hose leads from the machine, or. perhaps, more often the compressed air Is carried In 'ton pipes to th" va-totN p'drts where the cars a'te brought to lie cleaned. The rubber boe Is then attached to the pipe line near the car ami the atr turned on. A stop cock on the pipe line controls the passage of the alt Into the bos and another at the top of the four-foot pipe controls Its exit from the nozzle. The hose is always long enough to per mit a workman to walk tbe entire length of a palace car. Chicago Chron icle. Th IHlquette of It. An escaped criminal who had killed a friend lu a quarrel wrote home from a distant city: "Dear Tom-Tell the guvner ef he'll pardon me I'll come home an' surren der." The "Tom" referred to was bis broth er, who replied as follows: "Dear Bill I understand that the governor Is on a visit to your city at this writiu'. You'd better tall on him, send up yer card an' Interview him yerself." Tba above brought this unique re sponse by postal card: "Dear Tom I ain't callin' this year. It wouldn't lie etiquette, seeln' as I'm In mournln' for tbe friend I killed!" Chicago Times-Herald. Pall or an Aerolite. At Delhi, N. Y., an aerolite recently fell aa a ball of fire and penetrated th earth six feet. Bteaui poured from th hole In volume. The aerolite la In th shape of a ball. It weigh two pound and fourteen ounce and meaaurc a foot and three Inches in circumference. It la composed of white and yellow stones, varying In size. All tbe stone are square, with a smooth surface, and aa clearly cut aa If made by workmen. They are of various color and reaem Me diamond. America' Oyster ProdsMt, Of the 30.000,000 buabela of y stern consumed throughout tba world every year, thla country upplla mjmjm