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—m—naa—sm—a VALMAOE’R SERMON. •MnnrTOTHC th*on«" labt SUNDAYS SUBJECT. TmIj "m*r Drew m« Lifted ni|> Oa* *f Ik* PM Md Sold li Ik* bbuSIMC — CteOMla BS A OU cannot keep n •nod man down. Ood haa deeraed for blm a certain point of elevation, He will bring blm to that though It coat blm a thou sand worlds. You sometime* find men fearful they will not ba properly ep psealetid Every nan comes to ba rel oad at jeet what ha le worth. You can art writs blm up, and you cannot writ* Mm Sows. These (nets art powerfully Wartrated la my subject. It would ba — I—it to suppose that you were not art familiar with the Ilia of Joseph. How bis jealous brothers threw blm •rta a pM. but seeing a caravan of Aara Maa merchante trudging along on their animals, with spices and gums that loaded the air with aroma, sold their •father to these merchants, who carried Mm down Into Egypt; Joseph wee there artd to Potlphnr, n man of Influence and add re. How by Joeeph's Integrity he vrtaed himself to n high position In the realm, until under the false charge of a vile wretch ba was burled Into the pent doatlary. How In prleon he command «d respect and confidence. How by the Interpretation of Pharaoh's dream be woe freed and became the chief man la the realm, the filsmarck of his con tary. How In the time of lamina Jo oepti bed the control of a magnificent storehouse which be bad filled during ■even yean of plenty. How when hie brothers, who had thrown him Into the pH and sold him Into captivity, applied for corn, he aent them home with the boasts of burden borne down under the baft of the corn sack* How the Wte against their brother which had so long been bidden came out at last and ■ras returned by that brother's forgive mw and klndoeee-the only revenge be fook. Tow see. In the flret place, that the wN la compelled to honor Christian character, f’otlphar wae only a man of fbo world, yet Joseph rose In hie sstl nation nntll all the affaire of that great boww were committed to his charge, fflnw bis servant no honor or confl uence was withheld. When Joseph wae In prison be soon won the heart of the keeper, and though placed there for being a scoundrel, be eoon con placed the jailer that ha was an Inno esent aad trustworthy man, and re laaaed from close confinement he be aaws general superintendent of prleon affairs. Wherever Joseph woe placed, Whether a servant In the house of I’otl pbar, or a prisoner In the penitentiary, be hooanM the flret man everywhere, •ad Is an Illustration of the truth I bey down, that the world Is compelled to honor Christian character. There are those who effect to despise a re ligious Ufa. They speak of It as a or stem of phlebotomy by which the mam la bled of all his courage and no bDUy. They say be hoe bemeaned bbnaelf. They pretend to have no more aw Aden cs tn him since his conversion than before his conversion. But all tftto la hypocrisy. Tbers Is a great 4eal of hypocrisy In the church and (bare la a great deal of hypocrluy out* aMa tba church. It ta impossible for any man not to admire and confide In a man who show* that ho has really become n child of Ood, and la what bo gref areas to be. You cannot deaplae a aon of the Lord Ood Almighty. Of aowrae we have no admitatlon for the otuun of religion. I wae nt n place a few boura after the ruffians had gone Into the rail-train and demanded that tbo paaaengora throw up their arms, and then these ■wffisna took the pocaetbooiia; and Satan cornea and suggests to a man that ha threw up hla arms In a hypo critical prayer and pretension, and than ha steals his aoul. For (he men prateaelon of religion we has abhor iwaee. Uedwald, the king, after bap tlam, bad an altar of Christian sacrlfltt and aa altar for sacrifice to devlle; and there are many men now atiempilni tbo hm thing half a heart for (lot Hf half a heart for the world -and b •a a dead failure, and It Is a cartes tun a* religion, and Ihe only successful as anal* ever made on Cbrlsiienlty le th< ktwwlnwuT of lie prufeeaora Yot mmy have a oaniempl for prelvnalut ta religion, hut whsn you behold Ihi amaallaaey of Jeoua Christ coins out li the Ills ef ana ef hla disciple*, all ib*r< ta gaud and noble In your aoul rise# u| tote admiration, and you cannot b*i| •L Tboagh that wan b* as fa. beneail paw la estate as tbs Kypttaa slave a where we are diaoooreiug waa beneail %tc rotors, by an Irrsvecabls law o pmm aators. Pottpbar and I'baraol wig always esteem Joseph Wbet Megiula. tba sot press, thraaleaw ffhiiaaaliim with death be mad* tfc mgplpi ‘Tall the empress I tsar noth tag hat ala.'* ds«h a scene ae ihe erenpet* the admlrailua *f lh* world There wae aeaMtblag in Agrlppa nn< FsMi whleh demanded Ibelr respect to Fani the rebel against gurevanitnl no* they would willingly ban lh»'. affi.e and dignity for I pari af that ire* berate* In the vye and beat It af Ihe on. .«*t'i»i*bi* np.«stle no* sower before Fella i Fell) Paul The iaMel ant wwm *IM ta honor l« Bjihgngn they may aw with their He*, n I’bris'i** ffiMB hi parseiimtr~ ihesiful la purer Ipi |myiH |p loess*, triumphant I* osgtli. In And Christian man In all professions and occupations, and I Bad them respected ana honored and auo rassftiI John Frederick Obarlla al» lariating Ignorance and distress; How ard passing from dungeon to lasaretts with healing for tb* body and soul; Elizabeth Fry going to the profligacy of Newgat* Prlaon to abake IU obdur acy as tba angel came to the prison at Philippi, driving open tb* door* and snapping looas tha chain, a* wall aa tha lira* of thousands of follower* of Jesus who bars devoted themselves to tba temporal and aptrltual welfare of tba race, are monument* of tha Chris tian religion that ahall not erwmbl# while tb* world laata. A man said i» roe In tb* oars; "What Is religion? Judging from the character of many profesaora of religion 1 do not ad mire religion," I aald: "Now sup pose w* went to an artist In the city of Rome and while In bis gallery asked him, 'What la the art of painting?’ would he take us out In a low alley and show ua a mere daub of a pre tender at painting? or would he take us down Into the corridor* and abow ua tb* Rubsas and tba Raphaels and tbs Michael Angelo*?' When we asked him, 'What la the aft #f paint ing' he would point to the work* of these great masters and say, 'That Is painting.' Now, you propoa* to And tbs mere caricature of religion, to seek after that which la the mer* preten sion of a holy life, and you call that religion. I point you to tb* splendid man and women whom thla gospel has bleased and lifted and crowned. Look at tb# masterpiece* of Divine grace If you want to know what religion la." W* learn also from this atory of Joseph that the result of persecution I* elevation. Had It not been for his being sold Into Egyptian bondage by Ills malicious wroinwrs, auu ms Imprisonment, Joispti never would have become a governor. Everybody ac cept* the promise, "Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs Is the Kingdom of Heaven," but they do not realise the fact that this principle applies to world ly as wsll ss spiritual success. It Is true in all departments. Men rise to high official positions through mis rsprssentatlon. Public abuse Is all that some of our public men have had to rely upon for their elevation. It has brought to them what talent and ex ecutive force could not have achieved. Many of those who are making great effort for place and powtr will never succeed, just because they are not of enough Importance to bo abused. It le the nature of men—that la of all generous and reasonable m«n-~to gath er about those who are persecuted and defend them, and they are apt to for get the fault of those who are the sub jects of attack while attempting to drive back the slanderers. Persecu tion Is elevation. Helen Btlrk, the fjcotch martyr, standing with her hus band at the place of execution, said: "Husband, let ue rejoice today; we have lived together many happy years; this I* the happiest time of all our life; you see w* are to be happy together for ever. Be brave now, be brave. I will not say ‘Good nlgbt’ to you for we shall soon be in tbe kingdom of our Father together." Persecution shows tbe he roes and heroines. I go Into another department and I find that those great denominations of Christians wblcb hsve been most abused have spread the most rapidly. No good man was ever more violently maltreated than John Wesley—belled and caricatured and slandered until one duy be stood In a pulpit In London, and a man arose In the audience and said: "You were oruilK mil 111*111, sou Jiuiii esiey sail): "Thank God, the whole cata logue la now complete. I have been charged with everything but that!" Hla followers were hooted at and ma ligned aud called by every detestable name that Infernal Ingenuity could In vent, but the hotter the persecution the more rapidly they spread, until you know what a great host they have be come aud what a tremendous force for (Jod and the truth they are wielding all the world over. It was persecution that gave Scotland to Presbyterianism, ft wus persecution that gave our land first to civil liberty und afterward tu religious freedom. Yea. I might go further back and say It was persecu tlon that gave the world the great sal vation of the Gospel. The ribald mm g. ery, the hungering and thirsting. the unjust charge, the Ignominious death when all the force of liell'a fury wsi hurled against the cross, was the tn trwductluu of that rellglun which ta y« to ho the earth's deliverance and oui eternal salvation. The state eurne limes said to the church, "Come takt my hand and 1 wilt help you ‘ Wbai was tha result? The church weir bat h and It lost Ita estate of holiness and II became Ineffective. Al othei 11 tiies the state said tn ths church, ”! will crush you " What was the result1 After the storms have spent their fur] the chunh. so far from having lost au) of Ha farce, has Increased aud Is vuitl tnAultsly mure after the aseault lhai before Head all history and you vstl And that true, Ths church ta far won Indebted tn the opposition of civil gov ersmeai than to Its approval Th< Arse of the v'she have on!y been Ihi lurches which t'hrist held In hts hand by the light of which the church hat marched to her presewt glorious post ll«n lu ths souad ml rash* and Im plant ante of torture I h«nr tha romblio] •*f tha Gospel charted Tha wsfilA ml Martyrdom have heea the stalls hi whlsh the church mounted Isms ulna from oui subject that sit •III nmrn la sspoeuru lss| lent afW had those biothers sold Jssnph In I* hgwpi They had mad# Ih* nl< 1 fniher hellevs that hi* favorite *hlh •a* dead They had suppressed Ih mats, and H was a profound secret wet haft by Iba brvdhsru Hut *uddenl| lb* swerst I* eul The aid father hear that kla aon la la Egypt, baring Wa ■old there by tba malic# of kla own brother*. How tkalr cbaoka muat have burned and their heart* auak at the flaming out of thla long auppraaaod crime. The smalleet Iniquity haa a thousand tongue*, and they will blab out axpoaur*. Saul waa aant to deatroy tha CauaanltM, tkalr abaap and tkalr oaan; but when ba got down there among tba paatureo ba aaw aoma flte abaap and aaan too fat to kill, ao ba thought ba would ataal them. Nobody would know It. Ha drote thaaa atolen abaap and oxen toward homa, but atopped to report to the prophet how be had executed bla mlaalon, whan In tha dletMoe tha aheep began to blaat and tba oxen to bellow. The secret waa out, and Raroual aald to tha bluahlng and oonfuaed Haul: "What meanetb Urn bleating of the aheep that I haar and the bellowing of the cattle?" Ab! ray hearer, you cannot kaep an Iniquity atlll. At Juat tha wrong time the abaap will blaat and tha oxen will bellow. Aohao cannot ataal the Babylonish garment without being atoned to death, nor Arnold betray bla country without having bla neck atritched. Look over the polio# arreeta. Theae thlevaa, tboae burglar#, theae counterfeiter*, thaaa highwaymen, theae aeaaaalna, they all thought they could bury their Iniquity ao deep down. It would never come to reaurreetlon; but there wa* aome shoe that anewrred to the print In tbe noil, aoma falae kaya found In their posses alon, aome bloody knife that whispered of the death, and tbe public Indignation and the anathema of outraged law hurled them Into tha dungeon or holated them on tbe gallowa. Kranda 1., king of Franco, atood counseling with bla of* fleers bow he would take hta army Into Italy, when Amerll, the fool of the court, leaped out from a comer of tbe room and aald: "You bad better be con sulting how you will gat your army t.i/ k'" end it w*a found that Francis I.. and not Atr. Ml, was tba fool. Instead of consulting m to the best way of get ting into sin, you had better consult as to whether you will be able to get out of It. If the world does not expose you, you will tell It yourself. There la an awful power In an aroused conscience. A highwayman plunged out upon Whitefleld as he rode along on horse back, a sack of money on the horse money that he had raised for orphan asylums, and the highwayman put bis band on the gold and Whitefleld turned to him and said: "Touch that If you date—that belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ," And the ruffian slunk Into the forest. Conscience! Conscience! The hufflsn had a pistol, but Whitefleld shook at him the Anger of doom. Do not think you can hide any great and protracted sin In your heart, my brother. In an unguarded moment it will slip off the lip. or some slight action may for the moment set ajar this door that you wanted to keep closed. But suppose that in this life you bide it, and you get along with this trans gression burning In your heart, as a ship on Are within for days binders the flames from bursting out by keeping down the batches, yet at last In the judgment that iniquity will blase '-as before Uod and the universe. Learn also from this subject that there is an inseparable connection be tween all events however remote. The universe Is only one thought of Uod Those things which seemed fragmen tary and Isolated aro only different parts of that great thought. How far apart seemed these two events—Joseph sold to tbe Arabian merchants and hi* rulershlp of Egypt, yet you see in what a mysterious way Uod connected the two into one plan. Bo the events are linked together. You who are aged men Wok back and group together a thousand thlugs in your life that once uftinMl isolated. One chain of undl vhled events reaches from the Garden of Kden to the Cross of Calvary, and thus up to the Kingdom of Heaven. There Is a relation between the smallest Insert that hums In the summer air and the archangel on bis throne. WITH THE WITH. He Trudchen, dear, this kiss tells you all I have to say. Have you under stood me? Hh<< Oh, please, say It again.— Deutsche Warte, "Why do they keep on saying that 'The vllluln still pursued her'?'* "You see, he was a 1‘htladelphla villain and hae never caught up,"- Truth. "Tore up your references! Why, you must have leen cragy," "Hhure, and you wouldn't have thought eo If you had seen the rlfertuces." Life. (rudely What are you golug to he when you are gruwu up, Hobby? Hobby I'm going to be a man What are you going to be? Harper's Hsssr. Miriam lh*n't you tblnk my new hat a poem, Ned? Ned (critically) from It* height, dear. I should Instead com pare It to a ebort etury Judge. Teacher Have you teamed the Hold ; *u Mule. Tommy? Tommy Yearn It Is to do to other people like tkey would do to yog Indianapolis Journal Hpeticwr it indictively i l »• an old 1 at ora to settle with you Htiwu (blithe!)t | knew you hare. Tkat 1 twenty you kato owed me eo tong ' New York Herald Mr* Hheplelgk Is It aay Ireubla to 1 tow to skew goods? Mr I'askmll No. 1 ma am Hut (tea good deal of trurhia la toll Iheat, euwetimeo New York i lleraid rtrfemaa Itkrwugk Ike sneaking tubei Where da you weal Ikat MuR about I 1 ertar pul? Ntgkt Mdllar tyeliiag i back) -ftt (ke Inside, uf sattrwe Chi* • .age Tribute Massif Ltowlet was Nat remarking i la ate tkat all ka la ko awea to ui* I atwik** Uashy Yea. aad t uadesetaad tkat all ka baa ke uwea to kta talker I Moikury tiaoeita I Twsar Wkwa Tm a asaa Cat gotag I la be s soldier Mother W?at' Aad be | killed by Ike eaaaiy? I»aa» t-k i wall, thea | guooa Ml ka tka eaemy,^ i YaJa Newark DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How SnrcMafal Farmer* Operate Thl* Department of the Farm—A Few Hint* a* to the Caro of Lire Finch ■ad Foaltnr. RESIDENT of one of the large cltiee last summer com plained to the writ er that the milk of his milkman soured on his hands after he had had It only a few hours. He saw no reason why thl* should be so, since other milkmen were able to sell milk to their customers that would keep for days In a fresh state. He therefore re solved to change milkmen and get one that would be more honest In his deal ings, for It was very evident to him that the milk he had been getting was old milk, perhaps several day* old. He was answered that the fact that the milk soured In reasonable time un der the Influence of more than usual beat wa* to the credit of the milkman and not against him. It proved that hi* milk was In a normal condition and pot doctored up with boraclc add or Ilk* antiseptic. Thl* lead* to the thought that In our great city milk trade there la alway* a premium being ptit on dis honesty, It take* a very conscientious man to hold to the straight path, when even hi* honesty I* charged up against him, and his pocket Is made to suffer *vr inn wvii-uuiiiK.— r*X. I.onm on f*nor Itorb. The farmers of America lose millions of dollar* In the aggregate by keeping scrub fowls. This I* a proposition that cannot be controverted. And many of them lose? money by keeping no fowl* at all for market purpose* or fowls for revenue. There Is great difference be tween mongrel and scrub fowl. The mongrel may be a large, composite fowl of pure blood -that is, It may be made by a cross of pure bloods upon pure bloods, or a cross of pure bloods upon common stock. In either cose It Is far removed from a scrub, which Is a meas ly little common fowl without a trace of good blood In its composition. Such fowls, even at maturity, do not dress more than from one to two pounds, and It Is a good specimen that will dress the latter weight. A few days ago a year-old hen was dressed at the editor's home which weighed 6V4 pounds when ready for the pot. And It was a mon grel hen, too, a cross of Brown leg horn cock on Plymouth Rock hens. The hen was fat, but we could have put a pound and a half more fat on, making the bird weigh seven pounds. Now, suppose every grower of poul try-all breeder* of fowls—was to put two or more additional pounds of meat on the body of each fowl he raises, would it not make a difference of mil lions of pounds, taking the country over? It would more than double the total of pounds for consumption of food. Where a million pounds of poul try are now raised, two million pounds would be marketed, and thus double the Income of the farmer or grower from this product alone. The estimate Is based on the growing of scrub stock, which is a waste of time and feed. But this scrub stock can be Improved and doubled In size by the Introduction of a few pure bred females and a good male or two, depending on the size of the flock. Besides more eggs would be produced, and of better quality, and these would add to the farmer's profits. Bet farmers everywhere Improve their »__ I — rniw_ i __.1 _ 1— I* P V lun in, » wvi v I«» ftuu'i tuwuv/ ••• change. Mix* xml Nlmpx of UooaU. Roosts tn shape should be round or half round. It Is a question which of these two forms Is best. We have al ways supposed that the nil-round roost was the kind meant by nature, as the feet of all roosting birds are ho con structed that they naturally grasp n round object. An Australian poultry keeper, however, believes that a roost flattened on the under side ts preferred tiy the birds. He put both kinds In his hen house and the fowls left the round ones for the ones that had been partly flattened. He believes that the toes of the birds can grasp the latter ktud of roost much better thau the all round one*. As to the sise of roosts, that must de pend somewhat on the age and site of the bird. Most of our poultry houses have roosts of one else, and the fowls are expected to like them whether they At or not. A chick that weighs one pound must certainly And tome dis comfort In clinging to s roost mads tor a rooster weighing eight pounds Ths roosts of our poultry beeper# vary la diameter all the way from one to three Iuches What Is the heel sl»e? I'roh ably It would be better to have different ,u»d roosts la every P*« *»d let the birds choose for themeeivss MMSIwg VtoeMoee IO »Sew«e»t*. la spite e» the fact that It has been ntaor >**»• **• *ni4 •bt^s'sne# o| ths milking machine la mums forni. w* yet have prm ttcslly only a milking machine in theory, That Is It hs* not |>4lwd beyond tbs sxpcrtmeatal etsge It |e true * f** •* lb*** macblsee si* being seed by the experimental farms sad hy a few htg Onlrymen. hot even In t itu*« , axes the wee Is merely to ,lemon, •irate the peoelWIliy ef using the mg. (Slavs and not be. sum any Stent ad vantage Is gained hy them We nould bo glad to me them a success fur they wuotd remove from dairying mum* sf It* worst foot urea, hut to I he preoent time ths progress has been so slow »h*t lb* eoceoraffemeol for the immediate future t» net gtent farmer* tte vtsw. Poultry Not** For ere production variety of food la desirable, though not absolutely nec essary. e e e Among wild birds the greatest egg producers are those that subsist more largely upon seeds than upon animal food. e e e Egg production generally pays better than the raising of poultry for meat, except where early broilers can be pro duced. e • e To breed poultry for the early mar ket we should select rapidly growing breeds such as the Plymouth Rocks or Leghorns. see We hear a great deal of the common fowl but are of the Impression that most of our flocks have been modified by the introduction of birds of stand ard breeds. e e e You had better not be too ready to dispose of the rooster offer his first season of service. K''cp him. as he will be more valuable for a breeder next year than this. The Country flutter Bayer. We refer to the country grocer who boys for goods tho butter made by his customers. He Is frequently at the mercy of the poorest butter makers 111 his township. They can’t sell their butter to private customers or to ths commission houses; hence it turns up at the grocery. The grocer pays 10 or 12 cents a pound for it, and that Is frequently more than It Is worth, as the same butter If sent to a city would be graded as "grease,'' Does the grocer tell the farmer his butter Is not good? Far from It; he can’t afford to lose a customer. Often he gives tho butler a word or two of praise, which convinces the farmer that Ills wife Is not to bo beaten as a butter maker. It would never do for tho groceryman to set himself up as Judge over the butter of his patrons._ How On« Flo«sk In K#pt. In reply to your request In regard to how my twenty Brown Leghorns were kept and cared for. My house Is Hxl2 feet, is made of matched lumber and sealed Inside with same; there are two full windows on the south side and one half window on the west. I never use any artificial heat and my chickens have only one square rod for a run. I feed In the morning about two quarts of ground corn and oats In form of hot mash, and at noon wheat, and corn or oat* at night, do not feed corn except In cold weather. They also have clam or egg shell* once a day and pounded bones two or three time* a week, and warm fresh water three times a day, and give them raw vegetable* two or three times a week. I received 270 eggs Iq February.—E. Scott Hatch In Farm ers' Review. All Arc IntMMtml. We sometimes hear the assertion that the laws that protect the interest* of the dairymen and even of the general farmer ure class legislation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Class legislation consists in the benefltting of one class at the expense of another. Protecting the dairy Interests benefits all the people, for all the people are either producers or consumers of dairy products.—Ex. Borax In England.—We notice that some of the foreign writers are joining issues In favor of allowing borax to be used In all the small cities for the preservation of milk. One man makes a point, as he thinks. In favor of the preservative. He says that the London milkmen have been using it for twen ty years and It cannot be proved that It has killed anyone. He tells of one family that has used milk thus doc tnriwl tn ttiifh nn thnf #*nrh nor. non got In winter eight grains of borax and In Bummer twelve grains and yet did not die. This Is fur from the point. The chief effects Is on the Infants and Invalids, where the digestibility of food counts for a great deal, often amount ing to a question of life or death. Getting Hack Feed.—When we feed a ton of bran to a fattening steer al ready (till)' grown we get back almost all the mlnerul matter anti nitrogen In the manure. When we feed this same bran to a cow In full How of milk, we get hack about seventy-five per cent of all the mineral matters und nitro gen. Provided. In all eaaes. we save all the liquid excremvut. if these are wasted, most of the nitrogen and pot ash are lost, The phosphoric acid only for the moat port passes off In the solid excrement. l«el no more speak against the great value of manure made from bran or any other food for that mat ter. utftll be baa carefully saved both the solid sud liquid portion*. W. A. Usury. Ktr« from gpontaueou* Combustion — The Pennsylvania sxperimenl station reports n fir* from spontaneous com bustion of sscoud crop ilmolby sud clover. Many ion* wsre charred tkai did ao« lake fire. Ik# taitsr evsai being ! prevented by waisc belug thrown on the i |,„i tost* as soon as II was exposed lu i >k* ___ _ Hulls* Too Much Washed decent. ' |y on* of Ike aI Ik* Farmers He elers was being supplied by a grower with good *r«am*»y boiler li was. huweter, so (avert*#* Ibal H had Ik* Iasi* <d ulsomargatlae, t hemic a I analyst* shewed It to be pure bolt**. It hw4 ec Ideally bee# washed wad worked | to death. Temperature aa a Pv*w*r sails* What is Ik* ws* wf ustaa her a* I* arid pteserratlcs* when hy Wetag the peal fercea *f hsal aad c«td we «*g p«* «*!«* milk a* lung aa It should ha h*pl! | To us* peaarcallvsa of a ehsmteal ga tor* I* 10 endanger the live* of weak I vgddrea and sigg *dwll invalid# Shepharl Dog*. In an Iowa convention, Mr. Cownle ■poke as follows on shepherd dogs: "It would be utterly Impossible to raise sheep In Scotland without dogs. One dog there Is worth fifty men In taking care of sheep. It would be ab solutely Impossible to take sheep away up Into the mountains and tramp them for twenty miles as they do without two or three dogs. A shepherd there will take care of a thousand to three thousand sheep. He will go at the head a whole day, walking along and he will have a dog behind them and perhaps one at each side and they will keep their places and when the sheep come home at night they are yarded down at the foot of the mountain or In some valley. As they go Into the yard the shepherd counts them and It is surpris ing how fast a man when he has had experience will do that. He will count those sheep going Into tho gateway and count them ten, twen ty, forty, sixty. Many a time there will be two or three sheep missing, and the dog Is told to go and get those sheep and he has to go. It may be sunrise next morning, but he doesn’t come back until ho brings the sheep with him. Dut It Is entirely different here. The sheep are kept In fields and there Is probnbly not the necessity for dogs that there Is there. There It would be an Impossibility without dogs. No man edn go over those mountains and Into those recesses ns a dog will do and search for them ns he will do: und where there are, ns In Scotland, moun tains where different shepherds have their flocks of sheep, they sometimes meet and get mixed and the flocks will get together, and no man can separate them. The dogs Invariably do that. I have seen at a fair held at the town where I wns born where there were over twenty thousand sheep for sale, ull kept ^ In small pens, probably one or two or five hundred, where they were to be sold, A storm came up and blew down the fence, or the gates as they were called. They were made like the gates dove-tailed together as you see fences along the railroad, and removed after the fair. A heavy storm blew down all those fences and the sheep became mixed. Those shepherds would have been utterly powerless to separate the sheep without the dogs. Each shep herd—and thore were probably fifty or a hundred of them, that hud come from all parts of the mountatlns with their sheep to be sold at tho fair—each one took his place and called his dogs, and the dogs went Into the great flock, pick ing out the sheep In bunches of ten, twenty and thirty, and brought them out, and the moment they came out they were told to go back and bring out more sheep, and those dogs worked there for hours on a cold November day, with their tongues rolling out as If It were In July, to get those sheep, and there was never a shepherd among them. Over there If you talk to a shepherd and tell him that he could get along without a dog he would think you didn't know anything about the sheep business. Symptom* of Hog Cholera. Symptoms vary much according to the severity of attack, says an Indiana Experiment Station bulletin. Often the hog will be found dead before It Is known to bo ailing, while In chronic cases It may be sick for two or three weeks. The condition of the eyes give early Indications of disease, the mucous membranes become reddened, the lids gummy and glue together. The pigs appear chilly, and He In tho hot sun when they would ordinarily remain In the shade. They will hunt for litter cr bedding under which they can se crete themselves. The appetite is lost and a dlarrohea Is developed. In the earliest stage, constipation may be present, but diarrhea nearly always en sues before tho attack Is over. The attack may be or may not be attended with a cough which may be frequent or only wnon me annual gets up from Its bed. In breathing, the ribs seem to remain quiet, and a quick jerk Is seen In the tlank at each expiration. Lame ness In one or more limbs, stiffness of the back, tblcklng and cracking of the ears, scabs on the skin, purpleness of the belly or patches on the body are all attendant. A common expression from the farmer Is that "No two die alike." In swine plague the respiratory symp toms are early developed and more characteristic than In hug cholera. Uu post mortem, the Intestlues and lungs are fouud to be the poluts of attack. ^ Why I'rumbitad fork. An lustltuie worker says: With re gard to the prohibition against the use of pork by Moses, there are differences of opinion. One writer supposes the law prohibited swlue because of their Allhlueea aud observes that It la well known with what care and precision the law forbtde all Allhlueea and dirt, even tn the Aelde and camp, as well as In the elites. Another stales that the Jewe abstained from It in conse quence of a leprosy, from which they had severely suffered, aud to which lhe hug. In those climates, t* very sub ject, that throughout i‘ale»tiue leprosy Is aa epidemic disease, and, the Israel ites being overrun with It at the pe riod of iholr quitting Kgypt, Muse* fuuad It aocoeaary to enact a variety ot j laws respecting It, gnd prohibiting ms nee of ewtao so aa art lets of food wgg one uf Ikes*. ..— fee Vigor* ua Manta A a oak plant 1 ta a gardea la otpowaive, evea if It suat nothing I'viasi fMwlth eskt away for | sotue of ths beat settings tor hta small * i Irutl patch »aid a hladty neighbor Why dost you get something ch«sp ec r* smith replied I -ant afford it I m too pom lie lotted a moat im portant truth. Owes A later did nut begin hta Ufa aa : a wilier uf sketches When a student | ta Harvard he sea must catty las llaed sad made a good deal of ptugreaa ta the 1 art, wen going to bfutope ta pursue hi* f studies.