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    HOPE OF THE WORLD.
TURN TOWARD CHRIST IN OUR
ADVERSITIES.
■This R.r.n Alik* t* IWlfMnll aad
Valltu-Ckrltlawllil. Sermon hr Or.
TalA Buatlfal Plater* mt Ut
B*S*«m*r._
ASHINOTON. DC.,
Dec. 22.- -Id hi*
sermon to-day, Dr.
Talmage cbosa tba
universal thsms of
the season — t b *
Christmas - tide.
Thu last selected
was, "Now when
Jesus ws* born In
Bethlehem.” Matt.
II, 1.
At midnight from one of the galleries
mt the sky n chant broke. To an ordl
mary observer there was no reason for
euob n oeleetlal demonstration A poor
man and wife—travelers, Joseph and
Mary by name had lodged In an out
house of an unimportant village. Tbe
aupreme hour of solemnity bad pa**ed.
and upon the pallid forehead and cheek
•f Mary, Oed had set the dignity, tbe
grandeur, tbe tenderness, the everlast
ing and divine significance of mother
hood.
But such scene* bad often occurred In
Bethlehem, yet never before bad a star
been unflsed, or had * baton of light
marshalled over the hill* winged or
chestra. If there bad been such a bril
liant and mighty recognition at an ad
vent In the bouse of I'haraoh, or at an
advent In the bouse of Caesar, or the
house of Hapsburg. or the house of
Stuart, we would not so much have
wondered; but • barn aeema too poor a
•enter for sorb a delicate and aivban
gellc circumference The stage seems
too email for eo great an act, tbo music
too grand for Hitch unappreciative au
ditor*, the window* of the stablt loo
rud* to be serenaded by other worlds.
It la my Joy to tell you what was horn
tbat nlgbt In tbo village barn; and as I
want to make my dlecourae accumula
tive and climacteric, I begin, In the first
place by telling you that tbat nlgbt in
the Bethlehem manger waa born en
couragement for all the poorly etarted.
Ha had only two friend* they hie par
ent*. No aatln-llned cradle, no dell
eate attention*, but straw, and tho cat
tle, and the coarse Joke and bantar of
the camel driver*. No wondar the
mediaeval painter* represent the oxen
as kneeling before the Infant Jesus, for
•bare wore no men there nt that time to
worship. From the depths of that pov
erty ha rose until to-day he Is honored
In all Chrlatendom, and alts on tbo Im
perial throne In heaven.
| Wbat name Is mightiest to-day In
Chrlatendom? Jesus. Who has mors
friends on earth than any other being?
lesus. Before whom do the most thou
sands kneel In chapel and church and
cathedral this hour? Jesus. From
what depths of poverty to wbat height
•f renown! And so let all thoae who
•re poorly started remember tbat they
cannot bo more poorly born, or more
Slsadvantageoualy, than tbla Cbrlat.
Let them look up to hla example while
they have time and eternity to Imitate
ft.
Do you know tbat the vast majority
•f tha world's deliverers had barnltke
Birthplace*? Luther, the emancipator
•f rellglod, born among the mines.
Shakespeare, the emancipator of litera
ture, born In an humble home nt Strat
ford-on-Avon. Columbus, the discov
erer of a world, born In poverty at Ge
•oa. Hogarth, the discoverer of how
to make art accumulative and adminis
trative of virtue, born In an humble
Borne In Westmoreland. Kltto and
Prtdeaux, whose keys unlocked new
•jrn( kuicuva iu vuu *>vi/ wvi ipiu* vb
Which bad never been entered, born In
want. Yea, I have to tell you that nine
•ut of ten of the world's deliverer* were
Pom In want.
I etlr your holy ambitions to-day.
•ad I want to tell you, though the whole
world may be opposed to you. and ln
alde and outside of your occupations or
professions there may be those who
Would hinder your ascent, on your side
•nd enlisted in your behalf are the sym
pathetic heart and the almighty arm
of One who one Christmas night about
eighteen hundred and ninety-live years
•go was wrapped lb swaddling clotbss
•nd laid la a mauger. Ob, what mag
•lBesnt sncoursgemsnt for ths poorly
•Carted!
Again. I have to tell you that la that
Village barn that nlgbt was born good
Will to man. whether you call It kind
•tea. or forbearance, or forgiveness, or
gealality, or affection, or love. It was
•o sport of high heaven to send Its fa
tartts lb that humiliation It was sac
ftBc* far a reballious world After the
salamtty la Paradis*, nut only did the
•x be*\m t* gore, aad the adder to sting,
•ad the elephant to amlta with bis tusk,
•nd the Hon to put to bad usa tooth
•ad paw, but under the very tr*« from
•bub tke forbidden fruit waa plucked
•era hatched aut war aad revaag* aad
wallas aad aavy aad jsaleeav aad th*
Whale bread of cockatrices
Hut against teat man# t set th* Hath
fabsm manger, which says “Hleas
path** tbaa sura# sadurs rather thaa
fsaaalt." aad that Christmas sight puts
PM Walletlv***— It sat* '•heaths
peer award, dtamaual yaue gua*. dl*
■wall* rear batteries, tura ths warship
Onset- * rattan, that rants* shut aad
Shall, lata a grata ship to take food ta
fast tab, eg Irstsad, booh yaut eavalry
human ta the plow, eaa your deadly pea
pander la blasting rush* aad ta pain
•Ue eeisbrattua stop your lawsuits,
■alt wrtttag asneymoue letter* esttact
Bits atlng (taw rear eareasau 1st year
•H ear mat* hut as*** hura, drew all
|h« harfc ward# mi hi* imf twnbaUin
»Bes> a 111 la wan *
**<*•,** yatt way, “I >** I ssstvlas It, I
•su t t'l ’rvtee It uatll they apologia* I
waa 1 fcrgtvs them uatit they ask m*
HHEKM&c r.a.tot j?
■ to forgtv* them." You ere no Chrla
tlan then—I say jrou are no Chrlatlan,
•r you are a very Inconilatent Chrlatlan.
If you forgive not men their treapaaaea,
how can you expect your Heavenly
Father to forgive you? Forgive them
If they ask your forgiveness, and for
give them anyhow. Shake bands all
around. "Good will to men."
Oh, my I,ord Jeaue, drop that aplrlt
Into all our hearts thla Christmas time.
I tell you what the world wants more
than anything else more helping
hands, more aympathetlc hearts, more
kind words that never die, more dispo
sition to give ether people a ride, and
to carry the heavy end of the load and
give other people the light end, and to
ascribe good motives Instead of bad.
and to And our happiness In making
ethers happy.
Out of that Bethlehem crib let the
bear and lion eat straw like an ox.
"Good will to men." That principle
will yet settle all controversies, and
under It the world will keep on Improv
ing until there wilt be only two antago
nists la all the earth, and they will side
by side take the Jubilant alelgh-rtde In
timated by the prophet when he said,
“Holiness shall be on the belle of the
horses."
Again, I remark that born tbat
Christmas night In the village burn waa
sympathetic union with other worlds.
From tbat supernatural grouping of the
cloud bank over Bethlehem, and from
the especial tralna tuat ran down to
the scene I And that our world Is beau
tifully and gloriously and magnlAcently
surrounded. The meteors are with us,
for one of them rsn to point down to
the blrth-plaee. The heavens are with
ua, because at tba thought of our re
demption they roll hosannas out of the
rmunigni *»y.
Ob, yea. 1 do not know but our world
may b« better surrounded than we have
sometime* Imagined, and when a child
In born angel* bring It. and when It dies
another takes It, Hnd when an old man
benda under the weight of years angels
uphold him. and when a heart breaks
angela soothe it. Angela In the hospi
tal to take ears of the alck. Angel*
In the cemetery to watch our dead.
Angela In the church ready to fly hea
venward with the newa of repentant
aoula. Angela above the world. An
gela under the world. Angels all
around the world.
Hub the dust of human imperfection*
out of your eyes, and look Into the heav
ens and aee angela of pity, angela of
mercy, angels of pardon, angela of help,
angel* crowned, angela charioted. The
world defended by angela, girdled by
angels, cohorted by angels—clouds of
angels. Hear David cry out, "Th#
chariots of Ood are twenty thouaand.
Evejj thousand* of angela." But the
mlghtest angel stood not that night In
the cloud* over Bethlehem; the might
iest angel that night lay among the cat
tle—the Angel of the new covenant.
Aa the clean white linen waa being
wrapped around that little form of that
Child Emperor, not a cherub, not a ser
aph, not an angel, not a world but wept
and thrilled and shouted Ob. yes.
our world has plenty of sympathizers'
Our world Is only a silver rung of a
great ladder at the top of which la our
Father's bouse. No more stellar soli
tariness for our world, no other friend
less planets sput out Into space to
freeze, but a world In the bosom of di
vine maternity. A star harnessed to a
manger
Again, I remark that that night born
In that village barn was the offender’s
hope. Some sarmonlzers may say I
ought to haul projected this thought
at the beginning of the aermon. Oh,
no! I wanted you to rise toward It.
I wanted you to examine the cornelians
and the Jasper* and the crystals before
I showed you the Kohlnoor—the crown
Jewel of the ages. Oh, that Jewel had
a very poor setting! The cub of bear
Is born amid the grand old pillars of tbs
forest, the whelp of lion takes Its first
step from the Jungle of luxuriant leaf
and wild flower, the kid of goat Is born
In cavern chandellered with stalactite
and pillared with stalagmite. Christ
was born In a bare barn.
Yet that nativity was the offender's
hope. Over the door of heaven are
written these words: "None but the
sinless may enter here." “Oh, horror,"
you say, "that shuts us all out!" No
Christ came to the world In one door,
and he departed through another door.
Me came through the door of the man
ger, and he departed through the door
of the eepulrbre, snd hie one busi
ness was so to wssh away our sin that
after we are dead there wilt be no more
aln shout us thsn shout the eternal Ood
I know that W putting It strongly, but
that Is wbst 1 understand by full re
mission All erased all waabed away,
all acoured out, all goue. That un
dergtrdling and nverarehlna and Ir
radiating and Imparadtatng possibility
for you, and for me. and (or the whole
race, that waa given that Chris'mas
night
l*i you wonder w« bring flower* to
day to celebrate »u< t> on event’ Us
you wonder that w* take ornan aod
youthful vok* aad queenly selolst t*
celebrate It* Ita you wonder that
Raphael and Ruhena aad Tttlan and
tllotto and Uhirloadajo. and all tha eld
Italian and tieiman painters gave ike
might!**! ttrun* of thetr genius to
sketch the Madonna. Mary and hor
hoy ?
US' now I see what the manger waa
Not oo high Iho glided aod Jeweled and
embroidered cradle of the Henry* of
Mngload. or in* laruls of t reat* at the
freder • k* of Crusata Now I dad out
that that M*tat*h*m cvtb tod not «o
much the oa*n of the elalt ss the white
her*** of Apocalyptic rtetoo Now I
And the twaddling clolheo *alara‘ni
and embiatoaiag into an tmpettol row*
for a conqueror Now I And that the
•tor oI that t'hrtetmao eight one >roty
ihe diamonded medal of him who both
the aynot under his feet Now I come
to oodeitiend that the mo*!* et that
night was not a completed song, but
only the stringing of the Instruments
for a great chorus of two worlds, the
bass to be carried by earthly nations 1
saved, and the soprano by kingdoms of
glory won.
Oh, heaven, heaven, heaven' I shall ,
meet you there. After all our Imper
fections are gone, I shall meet you
there. I look out to-day. through the
mists of years, through the fog that
rises from the cold Jordan, through the
wide open door of solid pearl to that re
union. I expect to see you there as cer
tainly as i see you here. What a time
we shall have In high converse, talking
over sins pardoned, and sorrows com
forted, and battles triumphant!
Home of your children have already
gone, and though people passing along
the street and seeing white crape on the
doorbell may have said "It Is only a >
child," yet when the broken-hearted
father came to solicit my service, he
said; ‘Tome around and comfort us.
for we loved her so much.”
Wbat a Christmas morning It will
make when those with whom you used
to keep the holidays are all around you
la heaven! Silver-haired old father
young again, and mother who had so
many aches and pains and decrepitudes
well again, and all your brothers and
elbtcrs and the little ones. How glad
they will be to see you' They have
bean waiting The last time they saw
your face It was covered with tears and (
distress, and pallid from long watch- i
Ing, and one of them I ran Imagine to- ]
day. with one hand holding fast the
shining gate, and the other hand
swung out toward you. saying: i
Steer this way, father, steer straight I
for mo; | <
Here safe In heaven I am waiting for ; i
tbee.
Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when 1
they went back after the concert that
night over the hills, forgot to shut the ■ 1
door' All the secret Is out. No more | '
use of trying to bide from us the glories j
to come It Is too late to shut the guts. 1
It Is blocked wide open with hosannas ‘
marching this way. and hallelujahs
marching that way In the splendor of (
the anticipation I feel as If I was dying (
not physically, for I never was more (
well- but In the transport of the Christ* j
nms transfiguration.
What almost unmans me Is the (
thought that It Is provided for such sin- t
ners as you and I have been If It had <
been provided only for those who had 1
always thought right, and spoken right, I
and acted right, you and I would have t
had no interest In It, had no share In It; 1
you and I would have stuck to the raft t
mid-ocean, and let the ship sail by car- t
rying perfect passengers from s perfect >
life on earth to a perfect life In heaven. I
But I have heard the Commander of f
that ship Is the same great and glorious I
and sympathetic One who hushed the I
tempest around the boat on Galilee, and I
I have heard that all the passengers on
the ship are sinners saved by grace. I
And so we hail the ship, and it bears '
down this way, and we come by ths ’
side of It and ask the captain two ques- r
tlons: "Who art thou? and whence?" ‘
and ho fays: "I am captain of Balva- ’
tlon, and I am from the manger." Oh, 1
bright Christmas morning of my soul's 1
delight! Chime all the bells. Merry 1
Christmas!
Merry with the thought of sins for- "
given, merry with the Idea of sor- j
rows comforted, merry with the rap- j
tures to come. Oh. lift that Christ from
the manger and lay him down In all our {
hearts! We may not bring to him as H
costly a present as the Magi brought, ,j
Lut we bring to his feet and to the j
manger to-day the frankincense of our j
Joy. the prostration of our worship c
Down at His feet, all churches, all (
ages. All eArth. all heaven Down at t
His feet the four-and-twenty elders on r
their faces. Down the "great multi- f
tude that no man can number." Down t
Michael, the arch-angel! Down all t
worlds st Hla feet and worship. "Glory t
to God In the highest, and on earth f
peace, good-will to men!"
WOMEN OF NOTE.
Mrs John Joues. ona of Chicago's
colored people, M worth >300,000.
The wife of President Cleveland haa
s most mellifluous voice, and an ad- 1
mlrer says "Her speech Is a continual
song without words." .
On) of the richest heiresses In the >(
world Is l-adv Mary Hamilton Douglas,
the U-yenr-old daughter of the late
Duke of Hamilton, whoae Income la
now about 1 Idu.OOO a year.
Prinresa Waldemar. wife ef the
youngest brother of the Princess of
Wales. Is a courageous woman At
Copenhagen recently, when a Are .
started In a building adjoining bar res
idence. abe borrowed a fireman's hel
met. mounted a wall and aaelalsd In aa
ilagutahlna the flame,;
The ea Kmpreaa Krederlch of tier
many In her early married Hfo. em
broidered a piece of tapestry. on whlah
all her shlldren hnelt when euahrmed,
the lata Kutperor a eolhu rested apon It.
the present Hermes Kmperor and the
pria . sees Charlulta Hop hi* *»d Vic
toria. were married standing on it
Mrs Hetae) Itereato a plsoaaal
(seed uselle«ted woman see horn in
•tooth Aft'>« af Kbglish perentege
lUNtMAI CAROM NO? hit.
Printers al Toruato are aatoaiatag ,
the town. ,
The a»w btcfite ear bare uatoh at ana |
ant with l two member*.
All state prtall a *» Nsvada lours
the arlaters uatoo label
A |aoo Ootl Iron mill b*a been see, tad
hr re operate*# el Riilahurgh. As lssl
A aaitonel anti ■smiiri le«ges he«
boas harmed at Msitmurao. Vie,, N >
W
Aa effort to he ap made to ■embus
the foot sehttal tahor bed tee .1 tap
«age ,
FArtM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Rowe Ip-to-Hat* Hint. A limit Cultiva
tion of the Soil anil Yields Thereof—
Horticulture, Viticulture end Vn.rl
rultore.
OW LONO 8EBD8
will retain their vi
tality *o as to ger
minate and grow
Into plnnta la a dis
puted question
among men of sci
ence. Many persons
still believe that
wheat has been
grown from seed
found In Egyptian
tiumtny cases, and that grain could
is made to sprout from seed found
n Pompeii and Herculaneum. An
daborate and interesting series of
■xperlments made by Professor
talo Qiglloll of the royal high
ichool of agriculture, at Portlet, near
Maples, as communicated to Nature,
brows considerable light on the mat
er. The seeds used were put away In
he fall of 1877 and spring of 1878 and
vere tested In August, 1894, the long
ist time that any had been kept being
i few days less than seventeen years,
md the shortest fifteen years, nine
nonths and a few days; the average
va» about sixteen years and. a half,
-ucerne seed was chiefly used and the
'esults really apply only to that plant,
or the wheat, vetch, corlnder and oth
it seeds tried happened to be put Into
tolutlons that proved fatal to lucerne
nn Th* mi* Inin umnll
>ulbed tubes, Into which dry grass
vas passed, and the tubes were then
ealod and kept In the dark; others
vere put Into alcohol, ether, chloroform
ind other liquids, but the alcoholic so
utions alone could be tested, as the
'ther liquids evaporated.
Out of 320 seed* kept In nitrogen,
81 germinated; of 502 kept In arsenl
iretted hydrogen, 851 germinated, as
lid 224 out of 268 kept In carbon mon
aide; 40 out of 60 lived that had been
;ept In strong alcohol, originally abao
ute. Seeds kept In chloroform, In hy
Irogen, In alcoholic solution of phenol,
nd In carbon dioxide all died. With
ther gases and solutions the results
rere not so decisive; only 2 out of 293
n oxygen lived; 33 out of 609 In cblo
Ine and hydrochloric acid; 1 out of
01 lucerne seeds and none out of 60
rheat seeds In sulphuretted hydrogen;
out of 609 in nitric oxide. In alco
ollc solutions. 16 seeds out of 79 kept
n a solution of corrosive sublimate
ermlnated; 1 out of 646 In that of sul
hur dloxlde;41 out of 683 in that of sul
ihuretted hydrogen, and 12 out of 288
n that of nltro oxide.
Many of the germinating plants were
ut Into flower pots, where they grew
rell, flowered and seeded normally.
Vhen the seeds were put away Pro
esaor Olglioli was not aware of the evil
ffect of even small proportions of
lolsture; he thinks if he had taken
lore care in excluding moisture from
he seeds and from the gases, a much
rrger number of seeds would have re
ilned their vitality. There Is no rea
on apparent why the seeds planted
ould not have been kept Indefinitely
i the solutions without further change,
le has established that, for some seeds,
t least, respiration or exchange with
he surrounding medium is not neces
ary for the preservation of germ life,
'here Is reason for believing that
Iving matter may exist in a complete
1 passive state, without any chemical
hange, and may maintain its special
roperties for an indefinite time, as 1b
he case with mineral and all lifelesu
latter. In experimenting with seeds
rom Pompeii and Herculaneum, he
as not yet found any living grain;
hey are too much carbonized to ad
lit of much hope, especially those
•om roiupeii, which nave uetn cx
osed to the Blow action of moisture,
r the seeds found In the granaries of
ae "Casa d'Argo” at Herculaneum in
828 had been planted at once, a fair
sst might have been bad, as they bad
een preserved under favorable condl- !
ions; it is too late now, hb they have ;
een so long exposed to light and air. i
Kail Plowing Sod Ground.—Where j
here Is a heavy old sod of natural i
rasses the soil beneath It is to a great !
(tent protected from freeiing. When
nee frozen It Is equally protected from
tawing until warm weather comes In
prlng. In this condition the grass
>ots remain uninjured, and when the
id Is turned under In spring they are
nady to grow. Hut If the sod Is fall
lowed with an open soil surface II
feezes and thaws with the slightest
Itaiigr In the weather. Before spring
line the soli to the depth of the furrow
[III be thoroughly mellowed sud many
the grass roots will be destroysd. It
akr* s grsst deal of difference to the
iltlvstlon whether the sod Is turned
tder In fall or spring There may bs
uis loss front blowing or washing the
irfsce of tall plowed sod. but this Is
ore than balanced by the esse of cul
ration and the greater availability of
tat fertility Iks soil possesses. Hi
ff'araa Teaching The New Mamp
Mrs Agricultural college has devised !
|ilsn tor diffusing agricultural tutor <
rttun that la worihy of nolle* a* s j
g In th* onward march of farm sdu
ton Th* faculty represent tag the 1
Mt.es related to sgritullur* hats nr
»U*d a hind of lecture bureau to give j
11 esses before grange*, farmer*
bs. horticultural i >etelle* and other
,l nut organisations the organisation j
•anting th# tatlutlon paying mil*
i| i meat* and lodgings no charge he
q 114*44* fur Him* nr tcttiv#* *1 Ik* I**
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KtNrlinf »n Orchnnl.
The ground for an orchard should
be well and deeply cultivated, and free
from weeds, well drained, If the soil
requires It, and most soils are better
for draining,except sandy or light grav
elly soils with a light subsoil, Such
land may not require draining, but In
every case It should be well worked
and pulverized and enriched before
planting. The work of preparation
must be done during the summer, so
as to be ready for fall or spring plant
ing. Planting In the spring Is pre
ferred, which will enable the trees to
take Arm hold of the earth and to re
sist the frost of next winter, but plant
ing may be done successfully In the
autumn by protecting the trees so ns to
prevent the frost from heaving or mis
placing them.
Select young, healthy and vlglrous
trees, and from a reliable nurseryman,
and If possible from a soil similar to
that In which you Intend to plant your
orchard. The different kinds of ap
ples will depend upon your own choice
and the suitability of soil and climate.
I should advise that the selection be
made from the old, tried and reliable i
kinds.
The distance apart should not be less
than thirty feet, so as to allow the trees
room to spread their branches and to
form a low and spreading head. Close
planting has a tendency to force the
trees to run up, and preventing the |
fruit from obtaining Its proper color
ing from the sun, and making It more
dlfAcult to gather the fruit. At the dis
tance of thirty feet apart It will require
twenty-nine trees to the acre. Befor
planting the tree, remove all bruised :
and broken roots by cutting clean with !
a sharp knife. Lay out your ground In
straight lines, so that your trees will
be In line each way and at equal dis
tances, thirty feet apnrt. Wm. Gray.
Thayer's Harry llullrlln.
For December, 1895.
Any Intelligent farmer can grow ripe,
luscious strawberries, ready for pick- \
Ing, at two cents per quart.
With good cultivation, at least 100
bushels per acre should be grown.
Two hundred bushels per acre Is not
an unusual yield anil 300 Is often pro- -
duced.
Fruit that can be grown so cheaply j
and will yield so much, should he con- j
sldered a necessity In every family. No
one can so well afford to have straw- j
berries, every day In the season, as the
farmer.
No one can have them ho fresh front ;
the vlneH, ho ripe, ho delicious, and at
bo little cost, as the furmcr, and yet
as a class none have so few.
The cost of placing berries on the
market depends somewhat on locations
and the manner in which It Is done.
For good berries, carefully picked In
clean new boxes, well packed and hon- |
estly measured, It may be estimated by ;
tbe quart as follows:
Cents per Qt. ;
Cost of growing ready for picking..2
Picking.1V4 i
Boxes.1
Cases, packing and delivery.1
Freight or express charges.1*4 .
CommiHHiou for selling.1
Actual cost on market.8
The commercial grower must receive |
his profit, after all these expenses arc
paid.
The farmer rnay have his berries at ,
first cost. He saves expense of picking
nnd provides a pleasure for his wife j
and children.
lie saves boxes, cases, packing. 1
freight, express and commission.
Every farmer In the country and :
every owner of a house in the village :
should grow “big berries and lots of
them” for family use.
He may thus have them fresh from
the vines In summer, and canned, dried
or preserved for winter.
There Is no better food than ripe
There is none more healthful, and at !
two or three cents per quart there Is
none cheaper.
A berry garden for next season
should bo decided upon at once.
The best preparation for It Is the
reading of good books and papers.
Subscribe for them now and thus pro
vide the greatest pleasure for long win
ter evenings.
M. A. Thayei
Sparta, WIs.
(ieorgla I'each Orchard.—The foun
dation of the orchard of the
Hale, (ieorgia, Orehard Co.. Fort Valley.
:ia.. was an old cotton plantation of
lull acres, purchased In the summer of
ISH‘>, and Quo ncrt*s were planted with
» little over I0H.000 peach trees In the j
winter of 1X91-112 It Is all laid out In
blocks 1.000 feet long, and BOO feet
wide, with avenues ruuiitug north and
•oiuh .named after the peach growing
•tales of Iht union, and streets running
•ant and west, named after leading s
Horticulturists of th« country. A resi
dent superintendent, thirty or forty i
i**gi o aaalatanta and sixteen mules have
kept up moat thorough culture for the
past three years. There was a full |
bloom on the orchard la the aprlug of i
I sot. but a heavy frost the last of i
March destroyed all Ihe fruit pros pec la j
Ihis year, ihe fourth summer after
planting, nil tha trees aet a full amount
if fruit, and during April and May, ,
forty to ttfty bands were employed In
burning out the eurplu*. Kv
Heine Improvement tn Teens. The 1
hog breeders of Texan are entitled le I
i areal deal af the credit for the tw j 1
proved charade* of our Texas same
fhey have educated the farmers lo xp
predate geod bugs I have sees guile
I stir made ta the netgkberhoed by the
idvent of a pair of bee pigs It ta a i
Itaguattng light to seo a Texas farmer |
lo to the grocery store and gtva up hta
lood cottas money foe a slug of tote*
ihly hard looking bacon and I am eorty i
a way that it ta a eight altogether too
otMMioM Hut even ta Western Texaa I
ha number* oho do out raise their oats I
•even are growing gradually tee* —
itarldge fleet Falsest I
Shaheepear* mention* perfume* w
s eommog u*e in bt* time.
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON I, FOR SUNDAY, JANU.
ARY 8—LUKE, 1:8-17.
Golden Teill “Thou Shalt Go Itefor*
tho Face of Hi* f,ord lo Prepare HI*
Way"—Lika I Stitt The Foremans*
of .leant Chrlat.
NTKODL'OTORTl To
day* a.c lion Inrludea
the whole chapter,
Luke, 1: I no, hut th*
portion* referring to
Mary rattier belong
to th* n*«t Inaaon.
Time, October, # U. 0.
to M A. n. Plane, th*
angel vain* to Zacb
arlaa In tli* tempi* at
J*ni»al*tu. Th* birth
of John waa nine
where In tha hill
country of Judea,
where the hymns, tha
Magnificat of Mary and the llenedlotua of
Zacharies, were uttered. Th# plan for the**
laaaona la somewhai different from that pur
aued when we eiudled Luke In 1 W*o. It re
quire* less of detailed eKposttton of veraea, but
more of complete view of the auhjcct an a
distinct portion of Ih* wonderful Life of
Christ. It will he a aerla* of twenty-four car
toon*. after the manner of the "Impreealonlet"
alyl* of palming picture*, Kadi will exhibit
a dlailnd phax- or development of Chrlat'* Ilf*.
1. Tha Flrxt Sign of the linwri The Pre
paration of the World for tha Advent of
Chrlat.- When Adam waa created Hod spoko
to him, revealed himself to him, so that
through their greal ancestor all peoples had
•uni* knowledge of th# true (lod, Ihe Cre
ator of all things. To till* wltneae Is horn#
by every great religion, by the lately discov
ered atone libraries of Aaayrla, and Ih#
tombs of Fgypt, '1. Th* ftecond dlgn of lb#
Lawn. A Holy Family and Other Parson*
Watching and Praying for the Coming of tho
Redeemer. Vs. fi-7, A group of holy por
soiis Is given by Luke. Anna, Mlmeoii, Joe
eph. Mary, Insides Zacharlas and F.ll/abeth,
whose eyes were Inward the dawn, and whoa*
heart* were ready to receive the light, ft.i
There was In Ihe day* of Herod. <Herod IlieA
Oreat. Ihe founder of tile Herodlan family
and Ihe father of mo*l of Ihe Herod* men
tlofll-fl In lll« \'nw Tar will llndll liftaap iIih In*
fancy of Jesus.) A certain priest named Zaeh
arlaa. (Th* Greek form of the Hebrew Zach
arlah, the Maine um Zecharlah.) Of the course
uf Abla. (Greek for Abljah.) And his wife
was of t)i<* daughters of Aaron (and there
fore In the line of Hie priesthood. The priests
were the descendants of Aurop of the trloe
of Levi. Itoth John's parents were of priest
ly rank.) And her name wan Elisabeth. (Ho
named after her ancestress. Kllsheba. Aaron's
Wife.| *i. And they were both righteous be
for God. (Not In appearance only, but In
(he Inmost depths of (heir hearts, where
[Jod's eye alone could see.; The fountain of
action was pure. Walking Is a Hebrew meta
phor for "living," "conducting oneself," In
the various relations of men to each other and
to God. Commandments. The moral law.
Ordinance*. J’robably the ceremonial law,
md the outward religious duties and rules
>f living. Thus they were blameless toward
Jod and man. Neither would find fault with
them.
7. And they had no child, because that
Elisabeth was barren; and they both were
now well stricken In years.
8. And It came to pass, that, while he exe
cuted the priest's office before God In the
>rder of his course.
'.*• According to the custom of the priest's
»fflce, hi* lot was to burn Incense when he
went Into the temple of the Ix>rd.
10. And the whole multitude of the people
were praying without, at Hie time of Incense.
11. And there apepared unto him an angel
if the I»rd, standing on the right side of the
tltar of Incense.
12. And when Zachurlas saw him, he was
troubled, and fear fell upon him.
13. Hut the angel said unto him, Fear not, ^
Sacharlas for thy prayer Is heard; and thy
wife Klfsubeth shall hear thee a son, and
hou shalt call his name John.
14. And thou shalt have Joy and gladness,
tnd many shall rejoice at his birth.
16. And many of the children of Israel shall
1* turn to the Lord »ht*lr God.
17. And he shall go before him In the spirit
tnd power of Kilns, to turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children, and Hie disobedient
lo the wisdom of the Just; to make ready a
people prepared for the Lord,
Ifi. For he shall be great In the sight of the
,ord. ami shall drink neither wine nor strong
Irlnk. and he shall be (Hied with the Holy
3host, even from his mother's womb.
Verse 17 Explained: He shall go before
Him. before the Lord, to herald Ills advent
md to prepare the way for Ills coming In the
;»erson of his Son. In the spirit and power
if Ellas. Greek for Klljah. He wus not to
)e Klljah restored to life, but one In Elijah's
lali (lid. and with a similar power. Such Is
ho promise In Malaehl, 3: 1; 4; 4-6. Rx
dalned hy Christ In Matthew. 11; 14; 17:
10-13. To turn the hearts of (the) fathers to
the) children. The reformation was to be
'elt first tn the home, binding all together
n love and peace. The Hebrew adds "the
■hildren to their fslher." The hope uf the
srorld Is In the Christian family. "Convert
m adult, and you convert a unit; convert a
hild. and you convert a multiplication table."
I'ho star of Uethleheui rests over the home,
rhe disobedient, the great mass of the peo
ile who have turned away from Clod. To
he, rather In, as H. V.. to walk In the wls
lom of the Just. Itelng good Is the only
•eal wisdom. Only her ways "are ways of
deasautnesa and her paths are peace." IMs
ibedteuce and sin are always folly. To make
■eady (continue os In H. V\> for the Lord s
people prepared for film. Hy his call to te
’ entance, by Ills denunciation of sin, by his
portrayal of the consequences of sin. he was
:o make ready people who would be wise T
•nough to receive the Savior.
Ills llusy Hay.
irate Manufacturer See here! I sent
rou an advertisement saying my pianos
vere "Inferior to uotie."
Kditor Yes, sir.
"You prluted it luferlor In toue."
"Ob. well, uever mind; that's easily
Ixed."
"Kb? Kastly fixed?''
"Certainly Change the name of yam
ttanoa and send me another advertise
ueut. Haro's a card showing our rate*
loud-day. air."
1‘wt.l In M»y Ho o I **»«.
"It seems to me John, that you might
ah* the wars fur a in tie while now,"
No. my dear, the new man ought
iot to attempt lo perform the arduous
luty uf a woman ttreide# I don't want
u get my nuee freckled" Harper's
tigHlgT
IOHH Mil t INU» HiltttgUPIIV,
•t
There tan t a mure thank lose task I*
hte world than trtetng to ketp the Iw
ires ideal
Wttumiu are etegant kreaturea. hut I
hum saw one yet who could expect*
wta gracefully
I know ov men whuse word la baiter
ban tker bund These fellows I call
bs knight erranta la huaewty
I am mare In teres ted tn the visas as
nankm I than I am la tbetr vtrtew*
fhrtr vuew newd ckarity. (belt vlrtaaa
sill tabs bare uv tkvm«> If*