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