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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1899)
AMI a ,m?U APPROPRIATE to the exit of one year and the. entrance of another year are the practical suggestions which Dr. Talmage puts in thii discourse, which propose a different mode of meas uring time from that ordinarily employed; teit, Genesis xivii., 8, "How old art thou?" The Egyptian capital was the focus of the world's wealth. In ships and barges there had been brought to it from India frankincense and cinnamon and ivory and diamonds; from the north, marble and Iron; from Syria, purple and sillf: from Greece, some of the finest horses of the world and some of the most brilliant char iots, and from all the earth that which could best please the eye and charm" the ear and gratify the taste. There were temples a.lame ith.red sandstone, en tered by the gateways that were guarded by pillars bewildering with hieroglyphics and wound with brazen serpents and adorned with winged creatures their eyes and beaks and pinions glittering with pre cious stones. There were marble columns blooming into white flower beds. There were sjone pillars, at the top bursting into the shape of the lotus when in full bloom. Along the avenues, lined with sphinx and fane and obelisk, there were princes who came in gorgeously upholstered palanquins, carried by servants in scarlet or else where drawn by vehicles, the snow White horses, golden bitted and six abreast, dashing at full run. On the floors of mosaic the glories of Pharaob were pelled out in letters of porphyry and beryl and flaiue. There were ornaments twisted from the wood of tamarisk, em bossed with silver breaking into foam. There were footstools made out of a single precious wtone. There were beds fashion ed out of a crouched lion in bronze. There were chairs spotted with the sleek hides of leopards. There were sofa footed with the claws of wild beasts and armed with the beaks of birds. As you stnnd on the level beach of the sea on a summer day and look either way, and there are miles of breakers, white with the ocean foam, dashing shoreward, so it seemed as if the sea of the world's pomp and wealth in the Egyptian capital for miles nd miles flung itself up into white break ers of marble temple, mausoleum and obe lisk. It was to this capital and the palace of Pharoah that Jacob the plain shepherd, came to meet his son Joseph, who had be come prime minister, in the royal apart ment. Pharaoh and Jacob met, dignity ana rusticity, the gracefulness of the court and the plain manners of the field. The king, wanting to make the old coun tryman at ease and seeing how white his beard is and how feeble his step, looks fa miliarly into his face and says to the aged pian, "How old art thou?" ; Way of Measuring Time, Last night the gate of eternity opened to let in, amid the great throng of depart ed centuries, the soul of the dying year. iL'nder the twelfth stroke of the brazen brimmer of the city clock the patriarch fell dead, and the stars of the night were the funeral torches. It is most fortunate that on this road of life there are so many mile stones, on which we can read just bow fast we are going toward the journey's end, I feel that it is not an inappropriate Question thai I ask to-d wh.cn I look Into your faces and say. as Pharaoh did to Jacob, the patriarch, "How old art thou?" People who are truthful on every other gnbject lie about their ages, so that I do not solicit from you any literal response to the question I have asked. I would put no one under temptation; but I simply want this morning to see by what rod it is we are measuring our earthly existence. There is a right way and a wrong way of measuring our earthly existence. There is . right way and a wrong way of measur ing a'door, or a wall, or an arch, or a tow er, and so there is a right way and a wrong way of measuring our earthly ex istence. It is with reference to this high er meaning that I confront yon this morn ing with the stupendous question of the text, and ask, "How old art thou?" There are many who estimate their life by mere worldly gratification. When Lord jinndas was wished a happy new year, he said, "If will hare to be a happier year than -the past, for I hadn't one happy mo ment in all the twelve months that have gone. But that has not been the experi ence of most of us. We have found that though the world is blasted with sin it is eerf bright and beautiful place to reside In. We have bad joys innnmerable. There no hostility between the gospel and the merriments and the festivities of life. I do not think that we fully enough appre ciate the Worldly pleasures God give ns. When yw recount your enjoyments, yoa do not go far enongh back. Why do ooa not go bark to the time wben you were an Infant in yonr mother's arms, looking up Into the heaven of her smile; to those days when yoti filled the house with the uproar f boisterous merriment: when you shout tk as you pitched the ball on the play ground; when, oo the cold, sharp winter Bight, mnflled Bp, on skate yon shot over the mounding Ice of the pond? Have too forgotten all those good days that the Lard gave yoo? 1 Were yon never boy? Wet yoa never girt? Between those timer and into how many mercies the Lard haa beetowed npo you! How many for bare breathed up to you from the (ewers and abonc down to yon from the jars, and ehaated to yen with the voice afaoarrag bird aad tumbling cascade aad teawlaf at aad thunder that with bayo atHa at Ira charged dowa the atouataia aUet Jwt Joy! Joy I taere ta any wj via ban a rb to the aay meat, of TZu u u raw Christian, for Oed baa f - -A" nra yawp. , afcatte bia tf , Mr jlr awre war ff-??. a game of chess. It Is not a dance in i their whole life in the right direction, con lighted hall, to quick music. It is not the centrating all their wit and Ingenuity and froth of an ale pitcher. It is not the set- j mental acumen and physical fnrce and tlings of a wine cup. It is not a banquet, j enthusiasm for Christ They climbed the with intoxication and roistering. It is the mountain and delved into the B.lne and first step on a ladder that mqunts into the crossed the sea and trudged the desert and skies, or the first step on a road that dropped at last into martyrs' grave wait plungea into a horrible abyss. "How old ;ne or the resurrection of the imt They art thou?" Toward what destiny are you tending, and how fast are you getting on toward it? The Measure of Life. Again. I remark that there are many who estimate their life on earth by their sorrows and misfortunes. Through a great many of your lives the plowshare hath pone very deep, turning up a terrific furrow. You have been betrayed and misrepresented and set upon and slapped of impertinence and pounded of misfor tune. The brightest life must have it shadows and the smoothest path its thorns. On the happiest brood the bawk pounces. No escape from trouble of some kind. While glorious John Milton was losing his eyesight he heard that Salma sius was glad of it. While Sheridan's com edy was being enacted in Drury Lone Theater, London, his enemy sat growling at it in the stage box. While Bishop Cooper was surrounded by the favor of learned men, his wife took bis lexicon manuscript, the result of a long life of anxiety and toil, and threw it into the fire. Misfortune, trial, vexation for almost ev ery one. Pope, applauded of all the world, has a stoop in the shoulder that an noys hiiu'so much that he bag a tunnel dug so that he may go unobserved from garden to grotto and from grotto to gar den. Cano, the famous Spanish artist, is disgusted with the crucifix that the priest holds before him because it is such a poor specimen of sculpture. And so, sometimes through taste and sometimes through learned menace and sometimes through physical distresses aye, in 10.LKM) ways troubles come to harass and annoy. And yet it is unfair to measure a man's life by his misfortunes, because where there is one stalk of nightshade there are fifty marigolds and harebells; where there is one cloud thunder charged there are hundreds that stray across the heavens, the glory of laud and sky keep in their bosom. Because death came and took your child away, did you immediately forget all the five years, or the ten years, or the fifteen years, in which she came every night for a kiss, all the tones of your heart pealing forth at the sound of her voice or the soft touch of her hand? Because in some financial Ettroclydon your fortune went into the breakers, did yon forget all those years in which the luxuries and ex traaganecs of life showered on your pathway? Alas, that is an unwise man, an ungrateful ma::, an unfair man, an un phiiosophie man, and, most of all, an un christian man, who measures his life on earth by groans and tears and dyspeptic fit and abuse and scorn and terror and neuralgic thrust. Wasted Year. Again, I remark that there are many people who estimate their life on earth by the amount of money they have accumu lated. They say, "The year IMiG, or 1.S7U, or LS'JS, was wasted." Why? "Made no money." Now, it is all cant and insincer ity to talk against money, as though it had no value. It may represent refinement and education and lO.OW blessed sur roundings. It is the spreading of the table that feeds the children's hunger. It is the lighting of the furnace that keeps you warm. It is the making of the bed on which you rest from care and anxiety. It is the carrying of you out at last to decent sepulcher and the putting up of the slab on which is chiseled the story of yonr Christian hope. It is simpiy hypocrisy, this tirade in pulpit and lecture hall against money. But while all this is so, he who uses money or think of money as anything but a means to an end will find out his mistake when the glittering treasures slip out of his nerveless grasp and he goes out of this world without a shilling of money or a certificate f slock. He uiieht better have been the Christian porter that open- j ed his gate, or the begrimed workman who last night heaved the coal into bis cellar. Bonds and mortgages and leases have their ose, but they make a poor yardstick with which to measure life. "They that boast themselves in their wealth and trust in the multitude of their riches, none of tbera can, by any means, redeem bis brother or give to God a ransom for him that he should not see corruption." But I remark, there are many I wish there were more who estimate their fife' by their mora! and spiritual development It is not sinful egotism for a Christine man to say, "I am purer than I used to be. I am more consecrated to Christ than I used to be. I have got over a great many of the bad habits in wbieh I used to indulge. I am a great deal better man than I used to be." There is no sinful egotism in that It is not base egotism for a soldier to say, "I know more about military tactic than I used to be fore I took a musket in my band and learned to 'present arms,' and when I was a pest to the drill officer." It is not base egotism for a sailor to say, "I know bet ter bow to clew down the mizzen topsail than I used to before I had ever aeen a ship." And there is no sinful egotism when a Christian man, fighting the battle of the Lord, or, if you will have it, voy aging toward a haven of eternal rest, ays, "I know more about spiritual tactics and about voyaging toward heaven than I used to." Why, there are those In tbl presence who have measured lances with niany a foe and unhorsed it! There are Christian men here who have become wartby by hammering at the forge of calamity. They tand on an entirely different plana of character from that which they one occu rred. They are measuring their Ufe on earth by golden gated Babbatba, by Pente costal prayer meeting, by communion ta ble, by baptismal font, by halleluiah in the temple. They have stood on Binai aad beard It thunder. They hava stood oa Piacah and looked over lata the proatiaed land. They bar stood a Calvary aad seen th cross bleed. Thay can. Ilka Paul th atmctle. writ eat their beavleet trou ble "light" aad "bat for a ssoaseat" Tha darkest night their aoel la Irradiated, aa waa tha night over Bethkh, by tha fane of thoa who hav eoate to prodaiai aad anad eboer. The an ealj wait- lag for tha fata la nnep aad tha afcaJaa) la tal a aad tha giary ta Bam. Jo afBataaj CTal t wish there were more who are eat i mat ing life by the good they can do. John Bradford said he counted that day nothing at all in which be hid nt, by pea or tongue, dune some good. If a man be gin right, I cannot tell how maar tear ha mr.y wipe away, how many burdens he may lift, how many orphans he may com fort, how many outcasts he may reclaim. There have been men who have eiven measured their live by the chains they broke off, by the garments they put upon nakedness, by the miles they traveled to alleviate every kind of suffering. They felt in the thrill of every nerve, in the mo tion of every muscle, in every throb of their heart, in every respiration of their lungs the magnificent truth, "No man liveth nnto himself." They went through cold and through heat, foot blistered, cheek smitten, back scourged, temest lashed, to do their whole duty. That is the way they measured life by the amount of good they could do. Io you want to know how old Luther was; how old Richard Baxter was; how old Thilip Iksldridge was? Why, you cannot calculate the length of their lives by any human arithmetic! Add to their lives 10,OfH) times 10,0)0 years and you have not expressed it what they have lived or will live. Oh, what a standard that is to measure a man's life by! There are those in this house who think they have only lived thirty years. They will have lived l.OtXV-tbey have lived 1.00. There are those who think they are ,V) years of age. They have not even entered upon their infancy, for one must become a babe in Christ to begin at all. A ttrisht View of Life. Now.. I do not know what your advau tages or disadvantages are; I donot know what your tact or talent is; I do not know what may be the f jciuation of your man ners or the repulfiivcM ss of them; but I know this there is for you, my hearer, a field to culture, a harvest to reap, a tear to wipe away, a soul to save. If yon have worldly mean, consecrate them to Christ. If you have eloquence, use it on the side that Paul and Wilberforce used theirs. If you have learning, put it all into the poor box of the world's suffering. But if you have umie of these neither wealth, pur eloquence, nor learning yon, at any rate, have a smile with which you can encour age the disheartened: a frown with which you may blast injustice; a voice witb which you may call the wanderer back to God. "Ob," yon say, "that is a very sanc timonious view of life!" It is not. It is the only bright view of ifcc, and it is the only bright view of death. Contrast the death scene of a man who has measured life by the worldly standard with the death scene of a man who has measured life by the Christian standard. Quin, tiie actor, in his last moments, said, "I hnjve this tragic scene will soon be over, and I hope to keep my dignity to the last" Malesherbes said in his last moments to the confessor: "Hold your tongue! Your miserable style puts me out of conceit willi heaven." Lord Chesterfield" in Lis last moments, when he ought to have been ta v - im -u hill! s jf r.K.m fii fiodr, praying for his soul, bothered about the proprieties of the sick room said, "(jive Daybole a chair Kneller spent bis last hours on earth iu drawing a diagram of his on monument Compare the silly and horrible departure of such men with the seraphic glow on the face of Kdward I'ayson, as he said in his last moment: "The breezes of heaven fan me. I float in a sea of glory." Or with Paul the apostle, who said in bis last hour, "I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give m."' Or compare it witb the Christian deathbed that you witnessed in your own house hold. Oh, my friends, this world is a false god! It will consume you with the blaze ta which it accepts your sacrifice, while the righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance, and when the thrones have fallen and the monuments hve crumbled nod the world has perished they shail ban quet witb the conquerors of earth and the bierarchs of heaven. Kesin To-dav, This is a good day in which to begin a new style of measurement. How old art thoit? i'on see the Christina way ot measuring life and the worldly, way of measuring it. 1 leave it to )u to say which is the wisest and best way. The wheel of time has turned very swiftly, and it has hurled us on. The old year has gone. Xne ucw year nas come, rorwnat you aod I have been launched upon it God only knows. Now let me ask you all. have you made any preparation for the future? You have made pri'igiration for time, aiy dear brother; havywii made any preparation for eternity? Do you wonder that when that man on the Hud son river, in indignation, tore up the tract which was handed to him and Just one word landed on bis coat sleeve the rest of the tract being pitched into the river that one word aroused hi soul? It wa that one word, so long, so broad, so high, so deep "eternity !" A dying wuman ia her last moment said, "Call it back." They said, "What do yon want?" "Time,' she said, call it back! On, it cannot be called back! We might lose our fortuu and call them back, we might lose oor health and, perhaps, recover it we might lose our good name and get that back, bat time gone is gone forever. Rome of yon during the past year made preparation for eternity, and it make no difference to you really, as to the matter of afety. whether yoo go now or go ome other year whether this year or the next year. Itotb your feet oo the rock, the wave mty dnsn around you. lou can say, "God Is our refuge and strength a very preent help." in are on tne rocK, and yon may defy all earth aad hell to overthrow you. I coafratulat yon. I give yoo great joy. It ia a happy aew year to you. I can tee DO aorrow at all in the fact that our yeara are going. Von bear tome people say, "I wlab I could go back again to boyhood." I would aot want to go back again to boyhood. I an afraid I might make a worse Ufa out of it tliaa I have made. Yoo cotrld not afford to go back to boyhood if It were possible. Yon might do a treat deal worse than yoo have done. Tha past Is gone! Look oat for the fa tare! To all Christian It Is a time of gladaeaa. I am glad tha yeara are goiag. Yoa era coming oa nearer home. Let roar eoaateaaaee UffM a wttk tat rseswfct. Nearer aaaaat Caaaftgat, THE FA KM AND H021K MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE. Favorable t-ho wine of the ftoathera Corn Crop-Value of Artificial Lakes on the Farm-Plan for Rlgalng a Good Wrll-Notea. The Southern Farm Magazine, af Baltimore, baa compiled from official report the total production of corn by States In the South in lS'.'S, ibowing a Ifala. a compared with 18'J7, of over 114,000,(xi(J bushels. In the South the average price for com run from 40 cents to 50 cents or more, as estimated by the Culled States Agricultural Ue parttnent. On the basi of 40 cent, this mean an increase of nearly $50, OUO.fJOO lu the corn crop of the South, as compared with bit year. Compared with 18'J7. most of the Southern States show a small gain in acreage, running from I per cent. In Georgia, to 8 per cent. In Texas, though Maryland, Tennessee and Kentucky show a decreased acreage of from 2 to 5 per cent The gain lu the average yield per acre was very marked In nearly, all Southern States except In Georgia, in which there was a decline lu the average of two Impels ior acre. The total crop by States, jig com piled by the Southern Farm Magazine from advance government rejxirta, and as compared with was as follow: 1MI7. liS. j States. (Bushels.) (Bushels.) Kentneky (i-UMVKK) f-5.177.iKNl ' West Virginia... 17.iMH.mKi L'n.rs.txx) ' Tennessee (m!.(J7.'!.imi(i 7.'.r.J0.(Hiil J Arkansas 35.:h1.!iI M.-fJSK) ' Texas 72.J i.M"t lur.JCI.iMKI ! IxMisinna '.'1 .570,1 Hh) 27.71X.iKXti Mississippi 3.i,:M(5.hmi 3!l.:',l.fXX Alabama 3n.rcM.iKK) SiUWl.) . Florida S Ml.tMr) i..0)77.iKK'l j Georgia K.n.'J.ii'Ht SD.r.So.ikH) South Carolina. . 13,.1iS.sKl 1 7.5 K ),( H x) North Carolina.. 31 .T-M .r, I 34.17n.iKK) Virginia 31.552.ixn) 3S.5t;3.(MX) Maryland 2l),:i54.ixx) 15, KXi.dlX) Totals 4b"0.W.(rx) 5,K3.127.KK) total mm m,i of the United The Stages for 1W was l.!C'i;,i).XK) busli els. against 1.!MI2,'X)0,(MX) hushed in J!,7. a gain of only 2t.iXX)xx) bushels, whereas the gain In !he South alone was lH.ctHUM' biishcls. Oiiiltiing the South, the figures would show a larjre decrease for the rest of tho country. This is a very gratifying exhibit as a partial offset to the low price of cot ton this year, but before the South con graitilatcs Itself too l,artil.v upon iliyse figures ns evidence of the growth of the Idea of the diversification of crops It should remember that thp Ontral Southern Stites have In this bis corn crop just a little more than caught up with the eoni crop of I'siJO, allowing nothing for the fact that In the mean time the population has doubled. Artiflcl 1 takes on VurrnH. XV it have noticed in some pans of Illi nois a number of small artificial lakes constructed In tlx pastures where the soil Is suitable. Recently we saw not lest than half a dozen of the on a sin pie iargi" farm. So far as we could . they supplied the only water ava lable for the stock, and the latter not only drank the water, bat bathed in It. There was no outlet, and the supply was gath ered mostly from the ral.'i. The result of such conditions Is thar the water 1h comes stagnant and foul. Water weeds and water life multiply rapidly, and the possibilities of diabase are greatly Increased. It would 1 in-tier 10 build fewer artificial ponds, and hav.- them f more sanitary lu conai ruction. The desideratum Is to produce a pond la which there will 1m a current of water. In such farms as, we refer to it will be found Impossible to produce such ponds wit boot going outside of the ! natural resources of the pasture. In many townships there are uo brooks that run throughout the year. The de pendence In such case must be placed in a windmill, and this is the reason why fewer and better ponds should be constructed. A windmill will no.t give much of a stream. It la true, but 1t will be enough to prevent the water from becoming entirely ataguaut, It will take some study to make the water run through the whole potid, but this can be accomplished by placing obstructions In the way or the current, continually deflecting it Where there are low swale It will not require much ill a lift to get the water to the top of tint ground. This will . Increase the amount of water that can be pumped. If gravel and sand be near and plenti ful. It might be advisable to use some of It for the bottom and sides, as that would probably have some influence on keeping down the growth of slime In the ponds. It would le also well to suggest that the bogs be not allowed to divide the possession of this pond with the other stock. The hogs seem to do more than any other animals to keep aura place In an unwholesome state. tjaymaker. t Dfaalna a Well. I submit the following plan for dig ging a good welL L)lp six feot deep In the usual manner and wall with stone, laying them In mortar made of hydrau lic cement and sand. Continue the ex cavation all feet further, making this one thirty-two Inches In diameter. Tut on a coat of this cement nltout pne Inch th ck and connect It with the stone wall. Leave the lower three feet un cemented. ' Excavate three feet more and then cement to within three feet of the bottom a before, and continue un til the water Is reached. If this work Is properly done, a Orst class well will he the result The water will be a free from drainage aa the driven well, angle worm tight if yon pleaae. Objection may be raised that a wall of thla kind casjaot be pat down tbroogb quick sand af Other loose digging. Some four teef yeara ago a pioneer friend bad oo weS aa aaaaasjt af taa abaaaea of atone fur waiiiug. I pruposeO iu aUote piau airept tha upper all feet of wall wat anada af grout. At fifteen fe4 On sane waa atmck. and the eicavator, whe waa a miner, said that It wa unsafe ti fo further. I auggested a whltewast made of cement wblcb waa applied and held the sand securely until eacl three feet wa finished, and ao an fortj feet deep t water. Here wa genulni quicksand. A tube was made of 2x4 sharpened on the inside lower end. and lowered four feet Into the water, ani the well ha been apparently Inex haustlld ever since. It wa mad twelve year ago. and aeveral hav been put down since, one over fifty feet and hav been perfectly aucceasful. ) examined the first well about a yeai ago, and as far as I could discern ti wa in as good condition ns when flra made. American Agriculturist How to Clean a New Churn. Never should a churn be employe for making butter until It has beei aoaked several day. Furthermore, ll It la perfectly tight v. lien the soaklnf occurs, the IkiIik ought to be loosened more or less, so as to prevent It front warping and getting out of shape, sayi Ohio Farmer. Some manufacturer! stencil this Instruction right on thi churn. Despite this, however, many an the butter-makers who neglect the pre caution. What are the: results? Gcner ally the butter la not good. It bavinj for the first few churning a decidedlj woody tiistp. Many are the ways recommended foi soaking a new churn, but far will on go to find anything that equals wate-i fur absorbing most flavors, and espe dally If it Is used in the following man tier: Have It clear and cold for the fir t wfiify-fotir hours, but change It twe or three times; next, churn for an houi with a solution of some weak nlkal (powdered Ire or lime), then rinse wilt boiling hot water, and if convenient soak for twenty-four hours longer will clean flavored buttermilk or sour skltn uied milk, repeating this should It s"ert necessary. This process over, wash th( (burn as usual that is. by first rlnslnf It with cold water, then churning foi ten minutes with that which Is Imilinp j ' ' " I-vailal.l.. areamlmt. sou.eonu.v ... oi;l.e ' warm chough to dry lis. If. Tims it if that almost any new churn may be ren d red absolutely deau ami sweet. ttce on rn'trv. In a lef'er from our ve-cran friend .Tames J. H. Cngory, of Maruichi ad be avows Ids belief that liimiflicieu fiisllng is the reason why poultry be: come troubled with Ibe. In bis tnanj years' evperleiico with fowls he tint never but once had occasion to us any of the popular vermin destroyers Tliin Is good testimony to the iloctritK that lice never breed except when there have recently been lire to bree from. In other words. Hie notion ol tipontnneotts pi neratlou Is a humbug It Is undoubtedly true, also, that l!e will not live on fat poultry. But thcr are times, as when hens of the brood lug varieties are tleteruiltiod to sit, ant then the steadiness with which the bet will keep to her nest will make her tblr in Ilesh. no matter how well fed fsb( may be. Mr. Gregory probably reinetn !x-rs the story of the anxious mothei whose sun had ruu away. "Hear Joint come Inline. You km.w that a rolling stone gathers lit) moss." The son wrot back: "Hear mother, I don't want any moss. You must remember that a sit ting hen never gets fat." So there It use somclinii s for reme iles for hen lb e as they cannot always lie prevented by pood fading. American Cultivator. Hoot Prownlnic. "It Is difficult to get people to under stand," says Median's Monthly, "thai trees can die from root drowning. A Boston correspondent refer to tw large borsechestniits which were movei last spring with the gre atest skill, btr. they died. In tbe fall nu examination was made, and the holes found to b full of water within one foot of thi surface of tho ground. The holes wer really flower pots, without the neces snry boles' It) the bottom to allow tin water to escape. There can be no bet ter lesson In gardening than to be con tinually remembering why it Is neces sary to have a hole in a flower pot" Touttry Pointers. Never give fowls medicines In metal lic vessels. Chemical combination! might be Injurious. Ducks and geese should never bt kept with chickens. They are sure tc breed disease lu tbe flock. Tbe earlier bens shed their old coat! tbe sooner they will begin to make a winter egg record. - The Poultry Messenger advises put ting away some second growth clovet for fedlng hens In winter. Freedom from lice and plenty ol range will make tbe growing chlcki 'bump" themselves these days. Tbe sooner you are rid of the old stock, except those Intended for next season's breeders, tbe better. A writer declares that while old fowli can stand corn meal and bran, thej never should be fed to cblcka. Be careful how the new grain Is fed. It Is liable lo produce raaeo of what you will probably call cholera. I'ure bred fowls first, last and all th time. The breed doea not matter ac much, provided yon are aatladed with It 0ve aa much of a variety aa posilble Young thicks soon tire of tbe beat of feed If confined to H for any length ol time. Hens that are permitted to range al aummer will not lay a many agga a tboae In reasonable confinement and properly fed. That soft feed that atanda arar frots morning till night Is not Joet tbo thing for tbe nett feed. It wra't hart taa IkOga, aowarer. AN OlO-FASHrOHIP RKMIO Oaa old Bor Wao Waa Cured kr Mick of Peppermint Candy. They wera two old loya with acaatjr aUver locka, and they had nauy other thing In common, rueiuorle aad host of chestnutty old torlea, frasj which ibey brushed the mold whenever they met , - Their Joke also had an ancient fla vor, but they never wearied of telling tbrm. While there were a few thlnga they acknowledged aa superior to tbo Inventions of the olden time, for tha most part they bewailed the decadence of the world and human nature. Then one of them became IU. Aod nothing pleased him not even the beat doctor in the country when he came to gee him. He wanted old fashioned rem edies that had not been beard of In two generations, and lamented the good old practice of phlebotomy and other pnssed away specific of materia meV Ica. When he wa at his lowest his old chum called, bringing a small, roysterV oils looking package, which the alck man put under his pillow. "Where did you find It?" ha asked feebly. "In a little old-fashioned place on a back street, where some nice peopla have a little shop. It's the very saraa we used to buy when we were boys. I felt that It would cure you as ooa'a aa ever I saw It." ' "I've got stacks of things I don't want," said the sick man. "but nothing that'll set me up like this," and ha greedily mumbled something between bis lips, not forgetting to say: "Have a bite, too. Maylte you need It a muchaa I do." "1 got some for myself.' 'said the old ehtim, "and It look me right back to when I was a boy and " Here the nurse sent him away, but from that hour the sick man revived, and In a few days was tip and about "I'd like to know what that other old chap brought him." the doctor ald to the nurse. "Nothing but some pink and white sticks of old fashioned peppermint .,,,. ,,,, i.;,vi. i,,.,,,,, hliu ,.;. .,;,,,,,, ,,, ,., looking j affably ovtT her jrJan. All. shewn too young to know.- Chicago Tltncs Herald. Mrs. MnnniiiRton CnfTyn ("Iota") has settled at Suulb-ea. I'nglinil, where she is busy on a fresh work of fiction. has in the press a novel entitled "George Murkbam." which will bo published at once In London. The Maciiilllaus will noon Issue "The Philippine Islands and Their People," a book by Professor Jieaii C. Worcester of the University of Michigan. It baa been written from personal observe tiou. George Meredith has written a new novel of modern journalism, but with holds It from publication because of Ita use of the personality of men now 1!t ing, whom it will not do to sl forth In print Just as they are. Some further adventures of tho he roes of "Slaves of the Lamp" are iM'Ing prepared by Rudyard Kipling. Thla (tory originally appeared In Cosniopo 11s, and in the continuation Mr. Kipling deals with life at an English public school. , The new novol upon which Maria Corelll was engaged when the. death of her step brother interrupted her work a short time ago, is to be a longer and more serious bonk than any which aha lias yet written. In It she has taken up questions connected with the inner workings of the Catholic Church at Home. Khe has just completed con tracts for Ita simultaneous publication in Kngland and America. Jean Ingclow, when a child, used to write poems on the Inside of her bed room shutters. Her mother discovered these accidentally, and some of the ef forts were printed. The poet and her brothors and sisters conducted a little magazine, the type being set by their schoolmates on a private printing ma -chine. A peculiarity of Miss Ingclow'e life was that she never enlered a the ater, It is claimed that she could ro membcr events from tho time she waa 17 months old. - According to the New York Trllmne, Bret Harte's story, "Tennessee's Part ner," Is said to have been suggested to the author by the touching and beautiful friendship which binds to gether two old men who have llred more than forty years In tho mountains on the route Into the Yoscmlte. They have a little gold mine, which yields an ocaxlonal fifty dollars, an orchard and a garden. One of the two baa not seen Kan Francisco since 1856. With all tbelr hermitage, however, the twa old men read a groat deal, and; know what la going on In the outside world. tlndne Consideration. -A physician waa arwuacd aboai aid night by repeated gentle tapping; at liiaa Afxm 1 rwl .ea iwanOatJ it im aaa at asm f esveju vu Ubuug Wa AWUaHl M H Irishman living 'n tbe neighborhood who solicited bis Immediate attend ance for bis sick wife. "Have you been here long 7" aeked the doctor. , "Indade, an' If a a half boor Offw been try In' to arouse yon," waa the reply- . . "Bot why la tbo world daAt faaj ring the night bell 7" Tatta, an' 01 did think a? ft, nwt 01 wan afraid It motgbt diets orb raej" . A eharltaWa girl aarar flra tgf livstfaMnawaf. '" -ft K 1j t i
