DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS TOR OUR RURAL READERS. flow Suosssful psrniera Operate Till* Department of the l«r.n A flima M to the for* of live "tort and Pooltry. RKAMEKY butter Is more highly val ued than that made In a iibihH w*y. because the condi tions of Its manu facture are better understood, the machinery more perfect, and the cream used In bet ter condition. In this way a butter Is secured of a pleas ant color and agreeable flavor In respect to chem/e»i and physical composition, a good butter should pre sent tbe following characteristics, v!/.: 1, The percentage of water should not exceed twelve. In most of the samples examined It was less, 2. The percentage of salt may vary within large limits. In fact, many persons prefer butter perfectly fresh, while ulliers like a large amount of •alt. It is doubtful whether the small percentage of salt added ordinarily to butter acts as a preservative. Its only use seems to be one of loste. Judging from the table, 3 per cent appears to be tha amount of salt In American butter, the variation being from « minimum of 1.22 per cent to a maximum of 6.K> The percentage of salt, therefore. Is not to he much regarded In making our es timate of purity. It would probably have to go above X per cent before It could be regarded as an adulteration. (uru. 3. Mow miich Curd run a good butter have? This la a difficult queatlon. If a butler ahould have no ca*elu In It at all, It would be a strong presumption In proof of adulteration. If It haa too much, It* keeping properties are Im paired. One per cent of curd cannot be regarded aa an excessive quantity. The beat butter, however, ahould con tain leaa than Ibis amount. On ac count of (he great difficulty of estimat ing the percentage of curd, It would not be safe to nae common fata aa adulter ants, The specific gravity of butter fai Is about 912. water being taken at 1,000. On the other hand, tallow and lard have a relative weight of only 9'ki or less. Thla Is a alight difference, and yet It la a valuable one when the quea tlon of adulteration la raised. But the difference la so small that only the most careful work In determining the specific gravity with strict attention to temperature and manipulation, given It any value. Inasmuch aa moat of tb< fata which are used aa butter surro gates are liquid at 40 degrees C. (104 degrees F.) This temperature of de termination lias been used In the fore going analyses. The number* given were not obtained by calculation, but by direct compari son with distilled water at the same temperature. While this method Is not absolutely correct, owing to slight dif ferences in the rates of expansion of water and olla, It yet gives the com parative differences, and these are of great importance In such analyses. A butter affording a fat whose specific gravity, taken as above, falls below 910, would have its genuineness sub jected to doubt Harvey W. Wiley. •trtiialog Id ihe He!urns. The Poultry Keeper says: There Is no reason why the farmer should not have something for sale from his poul try yard every week In the year. Ther* are tlmea when the hens will not lay Is-cause they are In the moulting stage, which takes away about three montha In the year, mostly during July, Au gust and September, or perhaps begin ning and ending later. A* eggs will then not be so plentiful the chicka should be made fat and sent to the mar kets. The poultry business permits of something coming In all the time, which provides the capital for operating the business- After one baa become estab lished In the poultry business the re ceipts should exceed the expenses every month In the year, and chicks may be hatched early and late, or as Ions as the hens will become broody and sit, but they ahould be sold before the win ter sets In. aa by that time the hen* ebould have finished the moulting pro ceea aud be ready for laying again, and will need the room that la occu pied by the chicks. Hy selling chicks during the latter part of the year there -will uot be the usual Intervals between she profits that com* lu Milk a Germicide Milk absorbs the germs aud poisons of disease more readily than anything elae A writer lu the KugiUh World of ttcleuce Hud* that sheet* awaked la fresh waim row's or goal's milk svery four buura absorb tha poison in such cases a* small pox and scarlet fever, and curs tbs patient affording prompt relief, end leave no st-ara or pita Milk is •owlhlng end grateful lo the fever |h Gent end ahould he mure widely wand in dine nee qualities That fount An Ignuiant Iasi shift!*** person la out of hta el* oettl tn the held of dallying Ural**, mtlvliy. ytgitattve unremitting alien Huu to detail* n natural prtdw to ex cal, n goodi* dvgiee of ionh'y sure, re gafittaw of h#i I i'M«.** and iuw price* iSd avm* prudo ion Kx The sang of lb- fsglwn mat. any lark is beat when tb female la upon l|r Nltt* Al eUv’k iliwea he hoi* to treat heights nhd SUM* > uplurwwaly fcgg-Katlng Kens. A correspondent writes: "It seems 1 that too much cannot be said or done to prevent this worst of evil* a hen can fall heir to. It la very disgusting to any poulterer, or even any person who keeps poultry. When I built my hen nery I put In Just a few nest boxes for the time being, until I had time to get more, and would not believe It took only two or three days to learn the habit of 'egg-eating.' They would quar rel over the nest and break the eggs, | then all would run to have a piece, until at last niy two largest pens were full of good-looking egg-fbirsty hen*, and were. | thought, entirely ruined, for when I did give them more boxes they would pick a hole In the shell quite leisurely and eat the contents. What was to he done was more than I could think of for a while; then I devised a plan which I thought would break some at least of the habit. I made nest boxes as follows: Might feet long, fourteen Inches deep, and eleven Inches wide, then divided It Into eight nests, with one side of the box six Inches high, so that when It was covered they had eight Inches left to enter the nest; then I set them one foot from the floor. In there It was dark, the space covered by a lid over the box to remove the eggs. In this secluded spot they would deposit lheir eggs, and only one hen could occupy each nest, and she hadn't room or light enough to do much dam age This was six weeks ago and to day I don't think I have a hen that will eat an egg. If some poulterer who la troubled In like manner will give this a trial I am quite confident he will be amply repaid."- Poultry Chum. Poultry • Ctirup (.usury. Just ».i> poultry should be regarded as one of the luxuries to he reserved for special occasions In so many farm ers' families It would he rather hard to decide. A pound of poultry can lie pro duced by the farmer a* cheaply as a pound of beef, mutton or pork, says the Genesee Farmer, and there Is no good reason why poultry should not be found very often on tbe farmer’s table, It Is J Just as profitable to eat the poultry anu sell the pork, and a great deal more wholesome, for as a nation, we eat en tirely too much pork for the general good. The most if the pork eaten is principally fat, and this does not add to the health or strength of the con sumer nearly as much as the consump tion of an equal amount of poultry would. With a supply of chicken*, ducks, turkeys, and geese, the farmer could have a variety In the way of meat food that makes It possible for tbe cook to add much to tbe attraction of tbe table. Pork Is hard to digest, and this makes It so much the more unfit for use when uard work Is pushing the farmer, for all the energy uselessly wasted In digesting food Is lost In the amount of work one Is able to perform. Poultry of all kinds Is easily digested and has less tendency to create heat than fat pork, and the farmer who has care for the health of his family will use more poultry than pork.—Texas Farm Jour nal. rolnt* on Duilift. A duck raiser, giving his experience In the Rural New Yorker, says ducks are easily hatched, and If properly managed are easily raised much more so than chickens or turkeys. Proba bly the worst thing for ducklings is the first thing they usually receive, and that Is unlimited range and water to swim In. The little things are, In a measure, nude, and should be kept In pens with dry soil floors or stone pave ment that can be washed down dally. No kind of poultry will succeed on bare boards All the water they need Ib best furnished by burying an old pot in the ground and laying a round piece of board on top the water, with room for the ducks to put their heads In and flsh out the corn that is put In the water. This amuses them, and does no harm, while If allowed to go to ponds or streams, they are very liable to fall a prey to vermin in some shape, or to get Ihelr bodies wet and chilled from remaining too long in the water. Transmission of Color—Mr. Wilckeus of Vienna has found that two pure hlooded English horses transmitted the color of their coat to the progeny In 5H8 cares out of one thousand. When the pareuts are of different colors, the offspring are almost always of the color of the mother. With Arabian horses the facts are more striking still. The white color of the coat of the mare was found to be dearly transmitted In Tit esses out of one thousand. In other cases there was a more or less marked mixture Ex Why rreatneriea Kail, 'Creameries are bound to continue in fail as lung as they are planted In sectluus of the I country where the people ere not edu ■ rated tn dairying When the people understand and appreciate the value of ■ iiHul cows, and to learn to discriminate in the cere uf theta then thet neighbor hood has reached a point Where It la I ready to do lie part toward sustaining I a creamery whuae business shall be j profitable to Itself and Its patrons alike Nebraska farmer A *oud tool. Well ventilated With j house ts one of the essentials of stye i «culul dairying dm h a buns*mat j he mad* of wood stone or , It properl, constructed the kind of HUtfllA) M WtfUlUl iSiti 4k* tUM* 4ft% rtHivi Wlllk «t i u*t»4# tfccH will 4r* i»4m4* If i|« I || iluwM b %4*$l«4 i«If 44*4 4tt*4 Will { 4 * U d ft 4 Wtt*l I* ft* llvHtiy ■ flltr**!* shfarlng In Xem Month Waif*. Part of tbe shearing in New South Wales is done In large sheda, another part In smaller and less pretentious buildings, and a portion In the open air. Some, however. Is now conducted In sheds with every modern facility, and Is carried through with despatch and business-like methods, approach ing somewhat the regular working of a large factory. Its occurrence being only once a year, and then only for a short, period, the formality of engaging the hand is gone through before the work commences and is usually effected the day previous to starting, when the roll Is called and the men sign on, after wards obtaining their shears, oil stones and bottles of oil. Preference is shown In regard to choice of shears, each man having his own particular fancy for a pair of shears, suited to his wrist power, the stones being more a matter of spec ulation. The general practice Is to start at the end of the week—the rams or stud sheep being frequently the first shorn- allowing for the slow work, en abling the men to get Into the cutting without straining their wrlsta. This method, It la needless to say, benefits both the owner and the shearer. Perhaps the most striking sound to catch tbe ear of the onlooker after the work starts In real earnest Is the order “tar," often given In a deep voice as "tar here, ' while shouts of "wool away,’’ as the ringers cut out their sheep. In termingled with the ocraslonsi bleating of the sheep, add to the babel, to say nothing of the constant click of the shears or the whirl of the machinery. From the stands the boys secure the fleeces, taking care to lift them in the orthodox fashion, and throw them out on tbe skirters' tables, at the same Urn* skilfully spreading them out. The sklrter. working under special Instruc tions, hands them on to the cUMser.who grades and places the fleeces In the bins, after which the pressers, waiting near the back of the bins, are ready to finish off the work.—Dalgety's Monthly Re view. Artli hokf* for llo|«. This tuber na* ueen repeatedly brought to notice a* a good feed for hog*. The Htate University baa for several years furnished the tubers to any who wished to try them, and we have had the subject under discus sion In our column* several times. Theoretically the subject seems very Inviting, but practically the plunt ha* not come Into the wide use which ha* been foretold. We would like to have the experience of our readers who have tried artichokes so that the general standing of the plant for the use* In dicated may be determined. We And In the latke County Inde pendent a paragraph like several pub lished in previous years, and we give it to Induce discussion of the subject. Headers will notice that it speak* glowingly of the plant, but does not show that It* availability for hogs ha* been actually demonstrated. That Is what we wish to bring out with the aid of all who know from actual trial. We quote as follow*: Jerusalem articnuae* have been used for yeurs as a food for hogs, being su perior to potatoes for that purpose; they will even fallen hogs or give them a good start. There Is nothing better for breeding or stock hogs, as the arti chokes come In after the acorns have gone, and All the gap until green feed gets good again. It has been general ly supposed It requires Irrigation to successfully raise them, Mr. William P, Kilmer, on his ranch near Middle town, has proved that In Lake county, at least they can be raised on the red soil of the hill lands without irriga tion. This is but one, hut perhaps the most valuable, of the many experi ments he has made. Mr. Kilmer started witn one pounc of tubers two years ago. He has re planted the increase and this year has quite a lurge patch, which is doing Ane ly. Last year they averaged six pounds lli IUC J «»• ' Iinuanj piuill' li 111 drills three feet apart, and one foot apart in the drill, one tuber to the hill. This would make 14,256 hills to the acre, and at a yield of six pounds per hill would amount to 85,536 pounds, or a little over 42',4 tons. Paclflc Kura! Press. Lambs and Grain Habit la atrongei with the lamb than with any animal that we try to feed. The digestive pow ers are also more delicate. It Is a say ing among tauih feeders that "two grains of corn wfll kill a lamb." 1 am not sure hut It is true Two grains of undigested corn might set up a dis turbance in the alimentary canal that would result In the dreaded lutlamma • Ion of the bowels, and death sure aa strychnine Getting lambs to eat grain la of necessity a slow, gradual process. It la well to put out the troughs In the pasture and merely put tall In them a few times until the lambs all learn to run to them when they are called. Then a little brau scattered along la tha troughs for a few times will teach them to eat there U> not give more tbau e taste of grain until you are sure that they have nearly all learned lo e«t 1 it, and lo come <|uickly when called Ki push the 1‘lge ff II Todd, uf Ohio, •ays, March plge can be made tu weigh I 3?*, pounds by November If the ana la hrpt In condition up to and after far i rowing, in order «** make b»r both aa eavrlleat feeder and afford plenty of mtlh fur the ptge. He soy* he fed her ! liberally with or. | «rt of eld pro, »>• m»rl. »'» pali* of .» . | three j 'imum i»! t*uu mil**! • •(to *»4Miug • 4fetM dftAf (to# Wilt Ml* fa *4 HurmI ■ itiuit Ni tu tfa« 49ttutmi I mi||Vf d I tut* (t«i4^Httt!it| *1 JM11 |K i« t uttif A (to* «l*vt ! (dir* 4 utMiuiu|4 d(i4 i bell ■ id<*. «uil At ill t<* | dl «»H tutu l*« (to* to* u! fib# |Hv |t‘d« Is % TALMAtiE'S SERMON. **THB PETTY ANNOYANCES OP LIPB** THE SUBJECT. Ooldsa Tsstl “Moreorer the lei* Thy Ood Will hand tha Horns! Among Them Until Them Tbnt Hlda Thau astro* freu Thsa Are Destroyed" A8HINOTON, D C,. Dec. 15. 1855. —Dr. Tel mage to day chose for his discourse a theme that will appeal to most people, viz.: The petty annoy ances of life. It seems as If the I nsec tile world were determined to extirpate the human race. ]i bombards the grain fields and the orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper, the Nee Jersey locust, the universal potato-bug, I seem to carry on the work which was begun ages ago when the insecta buzzed out of Noah's Ark aa the door was < opened. In my text, the hornet flies out on Its mleelon. It Is a species of wasp, swift In its motion and violent In Its sting. Its touch le torture to man or i beast. We have all seen the cattle run bellowing under the cut of It* lancet. In boyhood we used to stand cautiously i looking at the globular nest bung from the tree branch, and while we were i looking at the wonderful covering we i were struck with something that sent : < us shrieking away. The hornet goes ! I In swurms. It has captains over bun- | ‘ dreds, and twenty of them alighting on one man will produce death. : i The Persians attempted to conquer a i Christian city, hut the elephants and I the beasts on which the Persians rode were assaulted by the hornet, so that the whole army was broken up, and the besieged city was rescued. This burning and noxious Insect stung out i the lllttltes and the C'anaanlte* from i tbelr country. What gleaming sword and chariot of war could not accomplish i was done by the puncture of an Insect. i The Tx)rd sent the hornet. m ' My friends, when we are assaulted i by great behemoths of trouble, we be come chlvalrlc, and we assault them; i we get on the high-mettled steed of our I courage, and we make a cavalry charge i St them, and. If God be with us, we come out stronger and better than when i we went In. But, alas, for these lnsec- ] tile annoyances of llfe—these foes too i small to shoot—these things without I any avoirdupois weight—the gnats and | the midges and the flies and the wasps i and the hornets! In other words, It Is i the small stinging annoyances of our i life which drive us out and use us up. In the best-conditioned life, for some i grand and glorious purpose God has sent the hornet. 1 I remark, In the first place, that these 1 small stinging annoyances may come i In the shape of a nervous organization, t People who are prostrated under 1 typhoid fevers or with broken bones i get plenty of sympathy; but who pities anybody that Is nervous? The doctors i say, and the family say, and everybody < says, “Oh, she’s only a little nervous; i that's all!" The sound of a heavy foot, i the harsh clearing of a throat, a dis cord In music, a want of harmony be- < tween shawl and the glove on the same | person, a curt answer, a passing slight, | the wind from the east, any one of ten < thousand annoyances opens the door | r tVin hnrnnl TVw> f:wG la that fha vast majority of the people In this coun- < try are overworked, and their nerves i are the first to give out. A great mul- ] tltude are under the strain of Leyden, who, when he was told by his physician i that If he did not stop working while he was In such poor physical health he i would die. responded, “Doctor, whether I live or die, the wheel must keep going ; round.” These sensitive persons of ) whom I speak have a bleeding sensitive- ■ , ness. The flies love to light on any- ! thing raw, and these people are like I the Canaanltcs spoken of In the text or In the context—they have a very thin ' covering, and are vulnerable at all [ points. “And the Lord sent the hor net " Again, the small Insect annoyances may come to us In the shape of friends and acquaintances who are always say ing disagreeable things. There are gome people you cannot be with for half an hour but you feel cheered and coni furled. Then there are other people you cannot be with for live minutes be fore you feel miserable. Tbay do not mean to disturb you. but they sting you to the bone They gather up all the yarn which the gossips spin, amt re tall It. They gather up all the adverse criticisms about your person, about your business about your horns, about your church and thev make your ear the funnel Into which they pour It They laugh heartily when they tell you ga though It were a good Joke, and you laugh too nut side These people are brought to our at tentluu In the Bible la the Kook uf Noth Naomi went forth beautiful aud With the flneel of worldly prospects, aud Into another land, but after awhile •he cams back widowed and sick and poor What dl.l ker friend* do when •He came to (he city t They all wont out, ond, Instead of giving her common *cn*e consolation. wkat did they do* t< ad the Ito.ig of Huth and hud out They threw up their hand* and told, “I* this Naum!*” as much at to nay, 'Ttoo awful bad you do looh*” When I entered the ministry 1 looked very pals for yearn, aud every year, for four or Use years, a hundred times a year, 1 was asked If I had not the consumption! a«d. peeving through tho room I would t->o.elh**« Sear promts sigh and any, t ah' not long for tfeto world?* I r« •elved lh those time* that f never. Ih aoy aohvartattoo would say anything depressing, and by the help of Ood I bar* kept the resolution. These peo ple of whom I speak reap and bind In the great harvest-field of dlscourage ment. Home day you greet them with in hilarious "good-morning." and they 'ome buszing at you with some depress ing Information. "The Lf the greatest questions of the coun try. Sometimes It may be the arro tancy and Inconstderatenese of employ ire, but, whatever be the fact, we all kdmtt there are these Insect annoy inces winging their way out from the military department. If the grace of )od be not In the heart of the house ceeper, she cannot maintain her equlll jrlum. The men come home at night ilid hear the story of these annoyances, iud say, "Oh, these home troubles are i’ery little things!" They are small, imall as wasps, but they sting. Martha's lerves were all unstrung when she ushed In, asking Christ to scold Mary, ind there are tens of thousands of wom •n who are dying, stung to death by hese pestiferous domestic annoyances. 'The Ixird sent the hornet." These small InMect disturbances may ilso come In the shape of business Irrl atlons. There are men here who went Illl/'lftll 1 Ol/ I Him I IM 1/1 >>■ f/" III l/ri , Sti!*, without losing their balance, who ire every day unhorsed by little an joyarjres a clerk's III manners, or a dot of Ink on a bill of lading, or tba ixtravagance of a partner who over Iraws his account, or the underselling >y a business rival, or the whispering >f store confidences In the street, or ha making of some little bad debt vhlch was against your judgment, just « please somebody else. It Is not the panics that kill the uerchunta. Panics come only one# In en or twenty years. It Is ths constant lln of these every-day annoyances vhlch Is sending so many of our best nsrebants Into nervous dyspepsia and isralysls and the grave. When our na lonal commerce fell flat on Its face, hese men atood up and felt almost de lant; but their life Is going away now inder the swarm of these pestiferous mnoysnees. ‘‘The Ixjrd sent the hor iet.“ These annoyances are sent on ua, I hlnk, to wake us up from our lethargy, rhere la nothing that makes a man so lvely as a nest of "yellow jackets," and think that these annoyances are In ended to persuade us of the fact that bit la not a world for us to stop In. f we bad a bed of everything that was ittractive and soft and easy, what vould we want of heaven? We think hat the hollow tree sends the hornet, *r we may think that the devil sends he hornet. I want to correct your iplnion. "The Lord sent the hornet.” Then I think these annoyances cotne >n us to culture our patience. In the symnaslutn, you find upright parallel >ars—upright bars,with holes over each >ther for pegs to be put In. Then the ;yrnnast takes a peg In each hand and te begins to climb, one inch at a time, >r two inches, and getting his strength lultured, reaches after awhile the cell ng. And it seems to me that these an toyances in life are a moral gymna ilum, each worriment a peg with which a- II —V. t. I 1 U 1 U I _ on mi n ivj iu Christian attainment. We all love to tee patience , but it cannot be cultured n fair weather. Patience la a child of lie storm. If you had everything de drable, and there was nothing more to ;et, what would you want with pa dence? The only time to culture It is when you are lied about, and sick and mlf dead. "Oh." you say, "If I only had the clr ;umstances of some well-to-do man I would be patient, too." You might as well suv, "If It were not for this water [ would *wiiu." or. "I could shoot this gun If It were not for the charge." When you stand chin-deep In annoy ances is the time for you to swim out loward th great headlands of Christian attainment, so as to know Christ and the power of his resurrection, and to have fellowship with his sufferings. Nothing hut the furnace will ever burn out of us the clinker and the ilag, I have formed this theory In re tard to small annoyances and vextt [ious It lakes just so much iroubls to flt its for usefulness and for heaven. The inly (juration Is. whether we shell lake It In the bulk or pulverised and granu lated. Here Is one tuan who lakes It lu the hulk ills hack Is broken, or his •yesight |>ut out. or some other awful laUiuity befalls him, while the vael majority uf people lake the thing piece meal. Which way would you rather have It? Of course in piecemeal Hot • ter have live aching teeth than one broken jaw ; tieller tea ft» blisters than an amjiutatlun. better twenty wjualls than one cyclone There may lie a dif ference of opinion aa tu allopathy and homeopathy i hut in thta matter of troublo I like homeopathic dooee • small pellets of annoyance rather than some knock down dose of calamity In etood of the Ihundrt u»it give Us the hornet. Sf you have n hank* you would n groat deal roiher that fMtv men would coins to with chek* l» * than a hundred dollars than to have two 4* poet lot* come tn the * woe day eat h wanting lea thousand dollars lu Ihla batter vase you reogiy and look d>-ea ta the floor and you I.*»h up at the lllsg, kvlufe yen look tat# tho aaie Now, my friends, would you not rather have thee# stnsll draffs of annoyance on your bank of faith than aos-e »!• staggering demand upon your endur ance? Hut remember that little aa well aa great annoyances equally re quire you to truet in Christ for succor, and for deliverance from Impatience and Irritability. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whoso mind Is stsyed on thee." In the vlllsgo of Hsmelln, tradition ssys, there wss an Invasion of rsts, snd these small creatures almost devoured the town, and theatened the lives of the population; and the story Is that s piper came out one day snd played a very sweet tune, and all the vermin followed him followed him to the banks of the Wnser; then he blew a blast and then they dropped In and disappeared forever. Of course this la a fable; but I wish I could, on the sweet flute of the Onspel, draw forth all the nibbling and burrowing annoyance* of your life, and play them down lnt» the depths forever, • • • You know that a large fortune may be spent In small change, and a vast amount of moral character may go away In small depletions. It I* the little troubles of life that are having more effect upon you than great ones. A swarm of locusts will kill a grain Held sooner than the Incursion of three or four cattle. You say, "fllnce I lost my child, since I lost my property, I have been a different man." Hut you do not recognise the architecture of little annoyances, that are hewing, dig ging. cutting, shaping, apllttlng and In terjolnlng your moral qualities. Rate may sink a ship One luclfer match may send destruction through a block of store-house*. Catherine de Medlcla got her death from smelling a poison ous rose, t'olunihiis, by stopping and asking for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan convent, was i. led to the discovery of a new world. And mere l* an innmaie connection between trifles and Immensities, be tween nothings and everything*. Now, be careful to let none of those annoyances go through your soul un arralgned. Compel them to administer to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of ■ sixpenny nail sometimes produces lock-jaw, and the clip of a most In finitesimal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or perplexity come across your soul with out Its making you better. Our Government does not think It belittling to put a tax on small articles. The Individual taxes do not amount to much, but In the aggregate to millions and millions of dollars. And I would have you, oh Christian man, put a high tariff on every annoyance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much In single cases, but In the aggregate It would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey even out of a nettle; and If you have the grace of God In your heart, you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise Irritate and annoy. I’olycarp was condemned to ba burned to death. The stake waa planted. He waa fastened to It. Tba ( faggots were placed around him, tho fires kindled, hut history tells us that the flames bent outward like the can vas of a ship In a stout breeze, so that the flames. Instead of destroying Poly carp, were only a wall between him and his enemies. They had actually to de stroy him with the poniard; the flame* would not touch him. Well, my hear er, I want you to understand that by God's grace the flames of trial, Instead of consuming your soul, are only going to be a wall of defense, and a canopy of blessing. God is going to fulfill to you the blessing and the promise, as he did to Polycarp. "When thou walk est through the Are thou shalt not be burned.” Now you do not understand; you shall know hereafter. In heaven vou will bless God even for the hornet. Not • llorurtl tlrin Ins respectability in any kind of a ainT §itva the d*>il S moflgdgs on Iks young Ham s Horn, riats •»*•><•* «• Ik, MeeSs, M It la no* ptepo* 4 that the routs si •ehaolhouses In No* lurk City should ha utilised as playgrounds, and ia tits J pleas of a Be* school la mm |*#i *4 1 space ia allotted Una on the tow. tm this purpose at an added aapeodi tor s if It deO