K. TALMAGE in his discourse
takes M with him on a journey to
tb Pacific and find "the footstep
the Creator" everywhere, as 11 ash
teller found them in the old red sand-
tum; testa, Isaiah xxxt., 6. "Streams in
2 desert"; Psalms civ.. 32. Ue toac&etn
hills, and they smoke."
kXy first text means irrigation. It means
Cy waters of the Himalaya or the Pyre
r or the Sierra Nevsdas poured
t 'roach cans Is and aqueducts for the fer
al aatioo of the valley s. It means the pro
ses by which the last mile of American
Eyres ceee will be made an apple orchard,
asfaa orange grove, or a wheat field, or a
saftloa plantation, or a vineyard "streams
ft, the desert." My second text means a
volcano like Vesuvius or Ootopaxi. or it
- xt.. m . T 1- A-
Fua uir a-j arr ui leiwwsiunc
California. Yon aee a hiD calm and
and for ages immovable, bat the
oat of the heavens puts bis finger
top of it, and from it rise thick and im-
rive vapors, "He toucheth the hills,
they smokeT
Although, my journey across the conti
sjsrat this summer waa for the eighth time,
3 'are and more am I impressed with the
vise hand in its construction and with
I greatness and grandeur, and more ana
art am I thrilled with the fact that it is
to be irrigated, glorified and EdeDiied.
it a change from the time when Dan-
W Webster on yonder Capitol ;ne bill said
a the American Senate in regard to the
iter of this continent and to the regions
sat the Pacific coast: ''What do yoa want
anth this vast, worthless area, this region
as? savages and wHd beasts, of deserts and
4cta, of shifting sands and prairie dogs?
what use could we ever pat these great
tints or these great mountains, impene
trable and covered with eternal snow?
what can we ever hope to do with the
Western coast, rock bound, cheerless and
saiinviting and not a harbor on it ? I will
Tver vote one cent from the public treas
mtf to place the Pacific coast one inch
asiartr Boston than it now is." What a
snlstake the great statesman made when
fee said that! All who have crossed the
aontineivt realize that the States on the
sTaeitie ocean will have quite as grand op
portunities as the States on the Atlantic,
auad all this realm from sea to sea to be
Ike Lord's cultivated possesion.
: f A CroM oat the Mountain.
Do yon know what in some respect is
we most remarkable thing between the
Atlantic and Pacific? It is the figure of a
aross on a mountain in Colorado. It is
called the "Mount of the Holy Cross."
A horizontal crevice- filled with perpetual
SBow and a perpendicular crevice filled
with snow, but both the horizontal line
and the perpendicular line so marked, bo
bold, so significant, so unmistakable, that
sUl who pass in the daytime within many
Biles are compelled to see it. There are
some figures, some contour, some moun
tain appearances, that yon gradually make
Out after your attention is called to them.
So a man's face on the rooks iu the White
Mountains. So a maiden's form cut in
the granite of the Adirondacks. So a city tain. Mountains flanked by mountains,
tat the moving clouds. Yet you have to Mountains split. Mountains ground,
look under the pointing ot your friend or Mountains fallen. Mountains triumphant,
guide for some time before you can see As though Mont Blanc and the Adlroti
the similarity. But the first instant you I ducks and Mount Washington were hcie
glance at this side of the mountain in j ottering themselves in one magnificent
Colorado, you cry out: "A cross! A ; chorus of rock and precipice aud waterfall.
Do you my that this geological ,
Inscription just happens so? No! That
cross on the Colorado mountain is tint n
human device or an accident of nature
the freak of an earthquake. The hai .! ..
Cod cut it there and set it up for the na
tion to look at Whether set tip in rock
pefore the cross of wood was set up on the
klnff back of Jerusalem or set tip at some
me since that assassination, I believe the
Creator meant it to guggeit the most nota
ftte event in all the history of this planet,
fed he hung it there over the heart of this
,-asmtinent to indicate that the only hope
fnr this nation is in the cross on which
our Immannel died. The clouds were
wjcal at our Saviour's birth, the rocks
tent at his martyrdom, why not the walls
f Colorado bear the record of the cruci
ftsion? A Vast Domain,
I supposed in my boyhood, from its sire
sat the map, that California was a few
yards serosa, a ridge of land on which one
saust walk cautiously lest be hit his bead
gainst the Sierra Nevada on one side or
lip off into the Pacific waters on the
.Other. California, the thin slice of kind,
M I supposed it to be in boyhood. I have
tsand to be larger than all the States of
Jfew England and all New York State and
D Pennsylvania added together, and if
JTsa add them together their square miles
J for short of California. And then all
r newborn States of the Union. North
Booth Dakota, Washington, Mon-
Idaho and Wyoming. Each State
- am esspire In sise.
. "Bat," says some one, "In calculating
; tlfct Immensity of our continental acreage
OT public domain are uncultivated heaps
-A- v- - M - a j i T i t . .
SfJ naau, sua me nu uanus oi nion-
, JsS) and the Great American Iesert." 1
- gad on mentioned that. Within
- jl , im.f-ir years there will not be be
I Kite Atlantic and Pacific coasts 100
V Tkse4 a reclaimed either by farm-
crowbar. By Irriga-
t j wsm vi tor rivrra ana me
4
mm of heaven, la what are called the
J aWsMt, will be gathered into great
JTslrs aad through aqueducts let down
" nsrf when the people want tbetn.
st M stjsct learon. Home parts of
1 t-'JfT which were s barren thnt
til f eecU net nave been rsis
.tftl JfMff are Mrw rich as Lan
v' J fktaan f Pennsylvania or
tC 9 XWw York or Rom
" Z Kew Jersey. Ei
"imX Cast tea trm ef
. . mmm gathered hi
much as fifty acres from the downpour
of rain as sees in our regions. We have
our freshets and oar droughts, but in those
land which are to be scientifically irri
gated there will be neither freshets nor
droughts. As you take a pitcher and get
it full of water, and then set it on a table
and take a drink out of it when you are
thirsty and never think or drinking a
pitcherful all at once, so Montana and
Wyoming and Idaho will catch the rains
of their rainy season and take up all the
waters of their rivers in grcst pitchers of
reservoirs and refresh their land when
ever tbey will.
The work has already been grandly be
gun by the United States Government
Over 400 lakes have already been officially
taken possession of by the nation for the
great enterprise of irrigation. Rivera that
have been rolling idly through these re
gions, doing nothing on their way to the
sea, will be lassoed and corralled and pen
ned up until such time as the farmers need
them. Under the same process the Ohio,
the Mississippi and all the other rivers
will be taught to behave themselves bet
ter, and great basins will be made to
catch the surplus of waters In times of
freshet and keep them for times of
drought. The irrigating process by which
all the arid lands between the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans are to be fertilised is
no new experiment
Jehovah's Throne.
It has been going on successfully hun
dred of years in Spain, in China, in In
dia, in Russia, in Egypt About 800,000.
000 of people of the earth to-day are kept
alive by food raised on irrigated land.
And here we have allowed to lie waste,
given up to rattlesnake and bat and prai
rie dog, lands enough to support whole
nations of industrious population. The
work begun will be consummated. Here
and there exceptional lands may be stub
born and refuse to yield any wheat or
corn from their hard fists, but if the hoe
fail to make an impression the miner's
pickax will discover the reason for it and
bring up from beneath those unproductive
surfaces coal and iron and lead and copper
and silver and gold. Godspeed the geolo
gists and the surveyors, the engineers
and the senatorial commissions, and the
capitalists, and the new settlers, and the
husbandmen, who put their brain and
hand and heart to this transfiguration of
the American continent '"Streams in the
desert!"
But while I apeak of the immensity of
the continent I must remark it is not an
immensity of monotone or tameneas. The
larger some countries are the worse for
the world. This continent is not more
remarkable for its magnitude than for its
wonders of construction. Yosemite and
Ihe adjoining California regions! Who
that has seen them can think of them
without having his blood tingle? Trees
now standing there that were old when
Christ lived! These monarchs of foliage
reigned before Caesar or Alexander, and
the next 1,000 years will not shatter their
scepter. They are the masts of the conti
nent, their cs.nvaa spread on the winds,
while the old ship bears on Its way
through the ages.
That valley of the Y'osemite Is eiclit
miles long and a half mile wide and 3.iw
feet deep. It seems as if it had been the
meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into as
small a pace as possible some of the most
stupendous scenery of the world. Soaie
of the cliffs you do not stop to measure by
feet, for they are literally a niile high.
Steep so that neither the foot of man
beast ever scaled them, they stand in ever
lasting defiance.
He Toucheth the Hills.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place
for the mind. Mountains hurled on moun
tains. Mountains in the wake of moun-
Sifting and dashing through the rocks the
waters come down. 1 he Jtiriu.il eil fal's
-i thin you can fee the face of the moun
.In behind it Yonder is Y'osemite falls.
Jropplng 2.IV54 feet, sixteen times greater
descent than that of Niagara. These wat
ers dashed to death on the rocks, so that
the white spirit of these slain waters as
cending in robe of mist seeks the heavens.
Yonder is Nevada falls, plunging 700 feet,
the water in arrows, the water in rocks,
the water in pearls, the water in ame
thysts, the water in diamonds. That cas
cade flings down the rocks enough jewels
lo array all the earth in beauiy and rushes
on until it drops into a very bell of wat
ers, the smoke of their torment ascending
forever and ever.
But the most wonderful part of this
American continent is the Yellowstone
park. My two visits there made upon me
an impression that last forever. Co
in by the Moueida route as we did this
summer and save 2Ti0 miles of railroading,
your stage coach taking you through a
day of scenery as captivating and sublime
as the Yellowstone park itself. After all
poetry has exhausted iiseif concerning
S'elioustone park, and all the Morn us snd
Bierstadts and the olber enchanting art
ists have completed their canvas, there
will be other revelations to make and oth
er stories of its beauty and wrath, splen
dor and agony, to be recited. The Y'ellow
slone park is the geologist's paradise. By
cheapening of travel It became the na
tion's play ground! In some portions of it
there seems to be the anarchy of the ele
ments. Fire and water, and the vapor
bom of that marriage, terrific. Geyser
rones or hills of crystal that have tx-en
over 6,1 KM years growing! In places the
earth, throbbing, sobbing, groaning, quak
ing with aqueous paroxysm. At the ex
piration of every sixty-five minutes one
of the geysers tossing its boiling wster
lN'i feet in the air and then descending
Into swinging rainbows. "lie toncbetb
the bills and tbey smoke."
lan rise and Haaset.
Wide reaches ot stone and Intermingled
colors, blue aa the sky, green as the foli
age, crimson as the dahlia, white as the
snow, spotted as the leopard, Iswny as
the lion, gristly the bear, In circles. In
angles, in stars, 1a coronets, in stalactites.
In sUlsgmites, Here sud there are petri
fied growths, or the dead trees and vege
tables of ether ages, kept through pro
cess of natural embalmment la some
nines waters as Innocent and smiling as
a child making a first attempt to wslk
from Ita mother's lap, and not for ot as
aad fmaiai as aagyrsfaaM
as a maniac In struggle with his
Rut after you hare wsndi-red along the
geyserite enchantment for days snd begin
to feel that there can be nothing n:ore of
interest to see you suddenly come Bpon
the peroration of all majesty and gran
deur, the Grand canyon. It . here that It
seems to me snd 1 speak it with rever
ence Jehovah seems to have surpassed
himself. It seems a great gulch let down
into the eternities. Here, hung up and let
down and spread abroad, are all the colors
, of land and sea and sky. Upholstering of
, the I-ord God Almighty. Best work of
i the Architect of worlds. Sculpturing by
the Infinite. Masonry by an Omnipotent
I trowel. Y'ellow! You never saw yellow
unles you saw it there. Bed! You never
saw red unless vou saw it there. Violetl
You never saw violet unless you saw it
there. Triumphant banners of color. In
s cathedral of basalt sunrise and sunset
married by the setting of rainbow ring.
Hanging over one of the cliffs, I looked
off until I could not get my breath; then,
retreating to a less exposed place. I looked
down again. Down there is a pillar of
rock that in certain conditions of the au
mosphere looks like a pillar of blood. Yon
der are fifty feet of emerald on a base of
COO feet of opaL Wall of chalk resting
on pedestsls of beryL Turrets of light
trembling on floors of dsrknesa. The
brown brightening into golden. Snow of
crystsl melting Into fire of carbuncle.
Flaming red cooling into russet Cold
blue wsrmlng into saffron. Dull gray
kindling Into solferino. Morning twilight
flushing midnight shadowa. Auroras
crouching among rocks.
Standing there In the Grand canyon of
the Yellowstone park for the most part
we held our peace, but after awhile it
flashed upon me with such power 1 could
not help but sy to my comrades, "What
a hall this would be for the last judg
ment!" See that mighty cascade with the
rainbows at the foot of it Those waters
congealed and transfixed with the agita
tions of that day, what a place they would
make for the shining feet of a Judge of
quick and dead! And those rainbows look
now like the crowns to be east at his feet
At the bottom of this great canyon is a
floor on which the nations of the earth
might stand, and all up and down these
galleries of rock the nations of heaven
might sit And what reverberation of
archangels' trumpet there would be
through all these gorges and from these
caverns and over ail these heights. Wrhy
should not the greatest of all the flays
the world shall ever see close amid the
grandest scenery Omnipotence ever built?
Christ's Dominion.
Oh, the sweep of the American conti
nent! Sailing np Pnget sound, its shores
so bold that for 1,500 miles a ship's prow
would touch the shore before its keel
touched the bottom! On one of my visits
I said, "This is the Mediterranean of
America." Visiting Portland and Tacoma
and Seattle and Victoria and Port Towns
bend and Vancouver and other cities of
the Northwest region I thought to myself.
"These are the Bostons, New Yorks,
Charlestons and Savannahs of the Pacific
coast" But after all this summer's jour
neying and my other journeys westward
in other summers, I found that I had seen
only a part of the American continent for
Alaska is as far west of San Francisco as
the coast of Maine is east of it, so that the
centra! city of the American continent is
San Francisco.
I have said these things about the mag
nitude of the continent and given you a
few specimens of some of its wonders to
let you know the comprehensiveness of
Christ's dominion when be takes posses
sion of this continent. Besides that, the
salvation of this continent means the al
vation of Asia, for we are only thirty-six
miles from Asia at the nonwewl. Only
Bering straits separates us ffSBi Asia, and
these will be spanned by a great bridge.
The thirty-six miles of water between
these two continents are not ail deep sea,
but have three islands, and there are also
sImhIk which will allow piers for bridges,
and for the most of the way the water is
only about twemy fathoms deep.
The Americo-Asnafic bridge which will
yet spun those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent
So. yon see. America evangelised, Asia
will be evangelised, Kurope taking A.'a
from one side and America tjiklng it from
the other side. Your children will cross
that bridge. America and Asia and Ku
rope all one, what subtraction from the
pangs of seasickness and Ihe prophecies
in Revelation will be fulfilled, "there
shall be no more sea." But do I mean lit
erary tnnt this Anii-rlt-au outiaent is gc
ing lo be all goepelized? I do. Christo
pher Columbus, when be went ashute
from the Santa Maria, and hia second
brother AIonzo, when he went ashore
from the Pints, and his third brother Vin
cent, when be went ashore from the Nina,
took posseksion of this country in the
name f the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost.-
On the Columbia river saw the
salmon jump clear out of the water in
d.fferent places, I suppose for the purpose
of getting the insects. And if when we
want to fish for men we could only have
the right kind of bait they will spring out
above the flood of their sins and sorrows
to reach it The Young Men's Christian
association of America will also do part
of the work. They are going lo take the
young men of this nation for God. These
institutions seem in better favor with God
aud man than evw before. Businew men
and capitalists are awaking to the fact
that they run do nothing belter In the
way of living beneficence or in last will
and testament than to do what Mr. Mjir
quand did for Brooklyn when he made
the Young Men's Christian palace possi
ble. These institutions w ill get our young
men all over the land into ft stampede for
heaven. Thus we will all In some way
help on the work, you with your ten tal
ents, I with five, somebody else with
three. It Is estimated that to irrigate
the arid and desert lands or America as
they ought to be irrigated it will cost
about $100,000,000 to gather the waters
into reservoirs. As much contribution
and effort as that would irrigate with
gospel influences all the waste places of
this continent. Let us by prayer snd con
tribution and right living all help to fill the
reservoirs. You will tarry s bucket, snd
yoa a cup, snd even a thimbleful would
help. And after awhile God will send
the floods of merry so gstbered pouring
down over sll the land, snd some of ns on
earth snd some of us in besven will sing
with Isaiah, "In the wilderness wslers
have broken ont and streams in the des
ert," snd with David. "There Is s rivet
the streams whereof shall make glad the
sight of Uod." Oh, fill np tb easervoim.
America for God!
Copyright Use.
When we are rat ef yastky with
the young, then I think oar work la tbia
world Is over.CL MaMowaJJ
TOPICS FOR FAR11EBS
A Department prepared for
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
Haw to Keep tha Children on the
Farna-Kest War of Making Corn
fctooks-Wtatu to Harvest Heans
Po intra FonHry Ticking.
To Keep Children on the Fnrns.
We often bear it deplored that so
many farmers' boy and girls leave the
form so early, but It is all in their
bringing up, sod nibe times out of ten
the parents are responsible. Tbey do
not make farm life attractive enough.
I beard a young man of twenty three
aa; that be wouldn't leave home for
anything that be considered It the
prettieal spot on earth. Come to find
out, that boy never had to gi up at 3
o'clock in the morning and work until
sunset lie was blessed with parents
who considered their children of more
Unportan e than overwork or money.
Pleasures were furnished at home to
keep tbc boys out of danger. Even
Fourth of July waa celebrated so
splendidly at home that the boys had
no desire to go anywhere. I went to
one of those farm entertainments, aud
there as a pk-ule ail diy In the or
chard, with swings and boat-r!de on
the mill pond, ice cream and fireworks.
The farmer was not a rich man, either;
be only looked out for the good and
tnjoynieDt of bis boys.
. Some farmers and their wives take
time to ink-rest their children In beau
tiea around them, and set tbetu to
work making collections of flowens,
leaves and grasses. They let them
bring mosses and stones Into the bouse
and form little cabinets of their own.
They encourage them to draw and
paint plcluil i of ail the birds and In
sects they see, to learn their name
and become acquainted with their hab
its. Such children will not want to
leave the farm. But the average farm
la so dreary mid monotonous, with Its
tndless routine of duties, of tentlnu-g ac
companied with hurry and harsh
words, no wonder the young people
want to leave the farm and bunt up
something more cheerful.
There is nothing lo the world so
sweet, so healthful, as farm life when
carried on right, and "there's love at
home." Let parents look to It that
their children are entertained, and so
many of them will not want to leave
the farm, but will be satisfied to re
main at home. New York Tribune.
Making Good Corn Mooka.
(Something about the best way of
making the corn stook may be of inter
sat. We never used the so-called
"horse" which some used to advise for
building the stook around, which waa
to be withdrawn after the top of the
stock had been firmly bound. A good
stiff bill of Btalka, ail the better If it
had three to five ears to lean the cut
jforn against, was always chosen for
the center or the stook. Then we cut
hills on each side, standing tbetn up
opposite to each other find leaning
slightly against the center bill. In this
way the center become of 13 Import
ance and could be cut away after the
atook was finished without making It
sag to either side. Where we were,
storms mostly come from the west, so
we piled up rather more stalks on the
east side In order to prevent It from
Wow ing over that way. For tying the
top we usually bad corn sialkg cut
three or four days before, and allowed
to wilt Most of these would bend read
ily, and by taking two to each stook
the top could be bound bo that it would
not break. If the top baud breaks the
stook la sure soon to lean over or fall
to pieces, which means falling on ev
ery side. An Immense amount of corn
Is every year lost by defective stook
Uig. The best of all bauds Jt made
from osier willow, and we think every
farmer who grows much torn oubt
also lo grow the osier willow for this
purpose. One band can be lkiiiml
around the top, and another a foot
lower down, banding It so tight that
the stock may be hauled by H when it
Is necessary to load It on a wagon.
American Cultivator.
Harvesting I'eans.
When the pods turn yellow and most
of the green ones have nearly full
sized beans In them, it Is time to bar
vest the crop. Pull the beans and put
them In small-sized stacks. Drive two
stakes down where the stack Is to be
made, aud lay ont or two stonea, or a
bunch of grass, between the stakes;
tben put tbe beans ns pulled between
the stakes, the roots out; press the
beans down closely. Tbe beans should
be dried out before being hauled In.
When dry haul iu during tbe bent of
the day aud spread over the top of the
mow. Beans gotten In free from rain
will be free from spots, and can le sold
for su extra price. The bean ground
should be given a thorough harrowing
and drilled to wheat. The bean crop Is
a very profitable one, as Ibc demand Is
constant, and. the price ranges from
11.40 to 1.80 per bushel. The beans
can be 'hreshed, cleaned and assorted
during tne rough days of winter. Tbe
bean straw Is excellent for sheep.
Baltimore American.
Feed i r st Apples to tows,
We do not wonder that there Is strong
prejudice against allowing cows, and
especially milch cows, to eat apple.
For tbe most part It la well grounded.
While It Is possible to give a milking
tow a few ripe apples without drying
np ber milk perceptibly, that Is not tbe
kind of apples aba usually gets. If the
sow la in an orchard where apples art
falling, she runs every time she hears
cc drop and eats It greedily, bowerer
wormy, sour, green and bittsr It may
W. All apples bsvo soma malic add la
them evec Including those that w call
"sweet" This malic acid, together wltft
ti taaala ttet hi tmuA la tk appM
peel, and tameclally la green, aiaall a
plea, contracts Use cow stomach. If
she eat muck of suck fruit it flveg
her tbe colic Just aa surely as It doe
the small boy. Tbe cow's stomach
wasn't made to digest such stuff, and
an sure aa It is put Into her stomach,
there Is riot and rebellion. Every one
knows that giving vinegar to cows, and
rubbing ber udder with vinegar, will
dry her off. We believe that allowing
cows to eat many apples, even If they
are ripe, has a bad effect on their milk
production, Exchange.
Why Yonns Meat Is Beat
Almost everybody likes best the meat
or young animals. But the reason why
does not appear to le so generally un
derstood. It will be said, of course,
that (be young t hicken is more tender
and delicate, and has a sweeter flavor
than the old fowl, and the same also
of (be young pig or lamb aa compared
with (he old one of tbe same specie.
The truth seems to be that the young
animals' meat Is best because It
has never been either pinched and
starved, nor been surfeited by over
feeding. As proof of this we have seen
runt pigs killed which had been stunt
ed still more by overfeeding with corn,
as every farmer knows Is liable to hap
pen. The pigs were sickly, or at least
bad so poor appetites that tbey would
eat very little, and were at last killed,
aa It seemed Impossible to make them
grow. There was fat enough In such
pigs, but It never seemed to us whole
some fat. and we would much prefer a
cut from a thrifty pig that weighed
150 to 200 pounds. It Is a lesson that
all feeders have to learn, that only
by keeping the digestive organs In
good condition and making the animal
fatten rapidly can gain be profitably
made or the meat thus produced be
wholesome and of the beat quality.
American Cultivation.
Horses' Teeth.
When a horse does not appear to
thrive, as he should, on bis food, and
tbe most careful oliservarton fails to
account for his condition, It is wise to
have his teeth carefully examined, es
pecially tbe backjaw teetb or molars.
An Irregularity of those Is often the
unsuspected source of the evil. The
moLarx occasionally wear Irregularly;
sometimes the upper border overlap
ping tbe external surface of tbe lower,
while the internal surf-ace of the lower
rises to a corresponding height wltWn
tlfe mouth. In such cases sharp points
are found where the wear baa been
sJightest, and these roughnesses lacer
ate the Inside of the cheeks and curt
tbe sides of the tongue, so that masti
cation Is performed not only with dif
ficulty, but with pain. The conse
quence is that the food Is not properly
prepared for the stomach, and passes
through h without assimilating to a
full extent Its nutritive principles.
Germautown Telegraph.
t lippinir Wina-a.
The most convenient way to keep
fowls from flying over fences Is to
clip one of their wings, but If this is
not prop?rly done the clipping disfig
ures the bird. Tbe proper way to clip
a fowl Is to spread one of lis wings as
widely ns possible and clip off tbe wide
side of the primary or pinion fenthen
close to the shaft. Do this with one
wing only, and when the bird tries to
fly Its wings will not balance and It can
not lly over an ordinary fence. By
clipping off the wide side of the feath
ers only the clipping does not show
when the wing la folded In Its natural
position against the side. Clipping
notches In the wing feathers Is also a
good way to mark a fowl If Identifica
tion Is only to be desired for a short
time. It will not do for a permanent
mark, as the feathers are renewed ev
ery year. Farmer's Voice.
A pa ra kiis-G ro w i ti ir.
The Missouri experiment station has
been experimenting for the past two j
ycrs v.'ith siiparajius growing, and hiis
successfully grown anparagus in the j
open field iu mid-winter by running ;
steam Into shallow funnels between tbe
asparagus rows. The asparagus field
was first covered with six or seven
Inches of heating horse manure, and !
the steam forced Into the soil from the
green house boiler. By this means a
large yield of fine asparagus was ob
tained throughout the months of De
cember, January and February; the
finest quality being gotten In the mid
dle of January, when the weather waa
coldest
Poultry I'lcklnita.
Too much corn will give young ducks
the cramps.
Tobacco dust Is excellent for dusting
lousy fowls.
Beans are a good feed because they
are nitrogenous.
Eggs sell belter when sent to market
In regular cases.
The laying hen consumes more food
than one not laying.
The early pullwi ar the profitable
winter egg producer a
Ten weeks from shell to market I
the time allotted a chick.
Ten hens with one mala make about
the proper proportion.
Ten flocks, each consisting of ten
bens, are enough for an acr.
Scatter the grain at noon among Ut
ter, so the fowls must exercise.
Egg shells ground to a powder mak
a good addition to the mash.
Green bone I a valuable food for
growing chick and matortd fowla.
Ground oata, cornmeal and bras con
stitute proper foods for poultry.
Steeped clover, mixed with tbe morn
log bash, I a great egg producer.
Keep cabbage hanging In th boom
within tbe roach of tha fowla.
Attar th second year tha han'a vain
aa winter agf -producer 1 ,.
jtfMkj qoartara prod no Mhh
WW Mt
AMERICAN BATTLE CRIES.
fninons Words that latklrril Osr Ss
dlcra and Bailor In Victory.
"nememlier tbe MaJue" Is not tha
Irst battle t ry tb.it Inspired American
ilillers in their b.i tiles. Tbe last word
it Lawrence, "Don't give up the 1ilp,"
a b n be fought the fin ,is-ke against
tbe Mianiiou are historic, and these
words Ilulterel from the flagship of
ferry in the famous battle of Lake
File, when he dereati-l the British
tnd prolmhly bad much to doiwlth rhs
winning of the victory.
Capt. Jack Philip's call to prayers on
the Texas after the naval Imttle of
Santiago was paralleled by Omimo
Jore Macdonougb's action In the battle
3f Lake Cliampinln, except that tlss
bitter call was lie-fore and not after
the conflict Macdoiiald ran np a sig
nal for prayer, and he led on his ship,
kneeling among bis men. In the fight
which followed, a British shot struck
a hen coop, which was on our Saratoga,
liberating a game cock, which flew Into
the rlggitig and crowed like all pos
sessed during the remainder of tha
fight At this the crew cheered and
fought harder than ever.
There have been only two American
battle cries in which the Injunction
"Kemomber" figure. One, and tha
earlier, was the cry, "B metnlier th
Raisin." In the war of 1M2, Harrison
was surprised at the River Ilnsin In
tbe Northwest Territory on the morn
ing of Jan. 22, 1813, and he surrendered
to a body of British anfl Indians.
Many of tbe prisoners were abandoned
to the Indians and outraged and tor
tured before being released by death.
But this was fully avenged In the fall,
when Harrison won the battle of the
Thames Strongly re-cnfircpcj h
pressed forward to the watchword,
"Remember the River IUsln." In
the fight Tecumeeb was killed and the
Indian power In tbe northwest waa
broken.
The other "rome-mlier" war cry was
"remenilHT the Alamo," and It Inspired
Hie Texans In their struggle for inde
pendence from Mexico.
Madcap Anthony Wayne iibhI a sin
gular battle cry at the taking of Stony
Point, up the llurition. The fort bad
been captured from us, and Washing
ton was exceedingly anxious to regain
it. Wayne had said to him once, "I'll
slorm hell. If you'll only plan It, gen
end," to which Washington replied
with ft mnlle, "Hadn't we belter try
Btony Point first?" Wayne did try.
He advanced at midnight of June IS,
1771), his troop In two columns. It
was arranged that at the Instant Ibat
the British saw them Ihe Americans
should cry ail together, 'Tin? fort Is
ours." The cries, aud the cheers, and
the determined assault won.
An Intcreatccl Kpectilor.
A doff was once the cause of a repre
sentation of King Lear coming to a
precipitate end. In Gitrrii k's time dogs
were nit rigorously excluded frvm the
theater, as they are now; and on tlris
particular ulgbt there happened to be
a fat beadle accompanied by bis bull
dog, sitting close to tbe stage. The
licsidle bud sat through four acts and
two scenes of the fifth, arid, being mors
affected by Ihe heat (ban by Gurrick's
nrliug. had fallen Into a peaceful slum
ber. The point In the third scene bad
been reached where I-ciir enters with
(Wdelia lu his arms and exclaims:
"Howl, ltowl, bowl, howl; oh, you are
men of stone," etc. Gurrlck li.id de
posited the prostrate Cordelia on a
couch, aud was proceeding with bis la
ment, when the Duke of Albany wus
perceived to be clicking with laughter;
a moment later the Karl of Kent was
similarly affected. At the .imc time
all the bystanders In-gan to giggle, and
even King Ienr was observed lo suille.
.Meantime the dead Cordelia opened ber
eyi-s to sec- what was happening, and
immediately was so overcome by what
she tmv that slu; iucoiuliieiitly rosa
from ncr couch and left the stage, rinse
ly folluwcd by the I'liite of Albany and
the Karl of Kent Vtt all that hud hap
pened was merely tbl: The bulldog
had become interested In the play, and
bad stood up on his master's chair and
placed bis foreparts on the orchestra
rail. There he stood gravely winching;
Garrlck. Meanwhile tbe beadle, feel
ing the beat, had taken off his w i, and,
still half asleep, bail placef it on the
nearest supiwrt withlu risicb-liU dog's
bead. Tbe dog, fjuite undisturbed,
continued to concentrate bis attention
on King Lear and Cordelia. The ap
pearance of tills canine spectator ill tlm
beadle's wig u)wt the uetors ui a criti
cal moment and turned a tragedy Into
a comedy.
Fashions In Dolls' I lyes.
The majority of Knglish dolls' eyes
are blue. Like everything tins; tbey
are ruled by fashion, and the reason of
tbe preponderance Is that when tha
(Juceu aaceuded the throne slnj was
very fair and bad blue eyes. Coiihij
Uucutly every doll -maker in the country
began to tend blue-eyed dolls from their
factories, and during the reign have
continued to do so. Every nation ha
Its own standard of doll beauty. For
Instance, In Italy and Kpaln, where ail
the celebrated beauties have dark eyes
aud olive skins, a fair haired, blue-eyed
doll of native manufacture Is practical
ly unknown. In Japan the eyes of th
dolls are small and are set aslant Ilk
tbe natives.
Mother.in-law In Abyalnla.
Abyssinia' social code provides for
a fair chance to young married couples
by forbidding tbe bride's mother to
visit her daughter till a year after th
marriage.
The Karth's Curvainro.
Careful measurements pro? that th
average curvature of th earth la 0 09
Incbea to the statute mile.
Talk aa men shoot: mak everything
tUt you aay hM tb mark, or doti I
vrMto your axamoniUon.