TALMAGE’S SEKMON.! — "CHANT TO THE STARS.” SUN- j DAY’S SUBJECT. VroB the Text: "Who I.ald the Corner ■toee Thereof, When lha Morning •ten Pzzm Together" Rook of Job, Chap* 31, Tone# I and 1. K have all Men the ceremony at the lay of the corner-aton# of church, aaylum, or Masonic temple. Into the hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of history and Import ant documents, to be suggestive If, one or two hun dred year* after, the building should be destroyed by lire or torn down. We remember the silver trowel or Iron j hammer that smote the square place of granite Into sanctity. We remember some venerable man who presided . wielding the trowel or hammer. We remember also the music an the choir atood on the scattered stones and tlm her of the building about to be con itrucled. The leaves of the note-books fluttered In the wind, and were turned over with a great mailing, and we re- | member how the baas, baritone, tenor, contralto, and soprana voices com mingled. They tiad for many days been rehearsing the special programme, that It might be worthy of tbe corner stone laying. In my text the poet of U« calls us to g grander ceremony—tho laying of the foundation of this great temple of a world. The corner-stone was a block of light and the trowel was of celestial * x[rystal. All about and on the embank oients of clouds stood the angelic i Choristers unrolling, their librettos of overture, ami other world* dapped shining cymbals while tho ceremony , . went on, and God tho architect, by stroke of light after stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of a worid, with mountains for pillars, and sky for frescoed celling, and flowering fields for a floor, and sunrise and mid night aurora for upholstery, "Who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together?" Tho fact le that tho whole universe was a complete cudencs, an unbroken dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The great sfrsot of immensity had been spread out, and written on It were the stars, the smaller of them minims, tho larger of them sustained notes. The meteors marked the staccato pas sages, the whole heavens a gamut with all sounds, Intonations, modulations, the space between the worlds a musical Interval, trembling of stellar light a quaver, the thunder a bass clef, the wind among trees a treble clef. That :■ Is the way God made all things a per fect harmony. The human intellect out of tune; the Judgment wrongly swervsd or the memory leaky or the will weak or the temper Inflammable, tho well-balanced mind exceptional. y Domestic life out of tune; only here and there a conjugal outbreak of In compatibility of temper through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak about a father’s will through the sur rogate’s court, or a case of wlfe-beatlng or husband-poisoning through the L criminal courta, but thousands of fam ilies with June outside and January L within. f Society out of tune: labor and capi tal, their hands on each other's throat. Spirit of caste keeping those down In the social scale who are struggling to get up, and putting those who are up Ill anxiety ie»l luey nave to cuiuc nun u. No wonder the old pianoforte of society Is all oaf of tune, when hypocrisy ami lying, and subterfuge, and double-deal ing, and sycophancy, and charlatanism and revenge, have for hIx thousand years been banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all aides there Is a shipwreck of harmonies. Nations In discord with out realizing It; so wrong is the feeling of nation for nation that symbols chosen are fierce und destructive. In thlB country, where our skies are full of rdhins and doves ami morning larks, we have our national symbol the fierce and filthy esgle, as cruel a bird as cuu be found In all the ornithological cata logues. In Great Britain, where they have lambs and fullow deer, their sym bol la the mercllesa lion. In Itusala sphere from between her frozen north nud blooming aouth all kindly beuais dwell, they choso the growling bear ; and In the world's heraldry a favorite figure ta the dragon, the fabled winged serpent. ferocious uiid dreadful Amt j to fond la the world of contention ihai zrn climb out through the heavens and baptize one of the other planets with Idle spirit of liatlle ami eall II Mars after the god of war, ami we give It the eighth alga of lha zodiac the nam< of the scorpion, n creature which l> chiefly celebrated for tie deadly etlng But. after all. these symbols are ex l-reaelve of the way aatlon feels to v, r l nation Ida ard eid^y;- the con Hi rat and bridging th* sell Tart ml. lha great musical composei Interned ear night that ha atade a con tract with kiixx, the latter to ha ever ta the ayaipoest s ter vice- But an night he baudsd to tiatea a violin, an which thxhulua pi tyetl each sweet wuate that the cempoaer was awaheutd hr *h* etaetiau and trt*4 ta raprwgu- * the sounds sad therefrom was written . T|y xlx most famoua piece, "The Ba« 11 e Moaau, a drsaax ixmMit hat faulty, far all ate led r descend* fram haaxew, sad euly dis*»rd» ascend treat hell All hatreds, feuds, coal re , vet* «e. bach ht tinge. wad tavaagaa at lha daxtla senate. are dtahuMe fugue ana deaa> ala* phaataay. ara grand «ear*h at therm, ara allagra at perdi Vet the ear at at all diaewrg la m»r«l discord. If society and the world arc painfully discordant to Imperfect man what must they be to a perfect Ood! Peoplo try to define what sin Is. It seems to me that sla is getting out of harmony with Ood. a disagreement with bis holiness, with bis purity, with his love, with bis commands, our win clashing with his will, the finite dash- I Ing against the Infinite, the frail against the puissant, ths created against the Creator. If a thousand mu sicians. with fluts and cornet a piston, , and trumpet, sod violoncello, the haut boy, and trombons, and all ths wind and stringed Instruments that ever gathered In a Duseldorf Jubilee should resolve that they would play out of tune, and put concord to the rack, and make the place wild with shrieking and grating and rasping sounds, they could not make such a pandemonium as that which rages In a sinful sou! | when Ood listens to the play of Its thoughts, passions, and emotion dls- t cord, lifelong discord, maddening dls* j cord. • • • In olden the choristers had a tun ing fork with two prongs, and they would strike It. on the back of pew or music rack, and put It to the ear, and then start the tune, and all the other voices would Join. In modern orches tra the leader has a complete Instru ment rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and all the other performers tune the keys of their Instruments to make them correspond, and draw the bow over the string and listen, anil sound It over again, until all the keys are screwed to concert pitch, and the dis cords melt Into one great, symphony, and the curtain hoists, and the baton taps, and audiences are raptured with Schumann's "Paradise and the Perl," or Rossini s "Mahal Mater," or Mach's "Magnificat" In I). ..i .1 h<.iias list nJtiinp/l . by an Imperfect Instrument. Kven a i Cremona would not do. Heaven lias ordained the only Instrument, and It Is made out of the wood of the cross, and the voices that accompany It are Imported voices, eantairlee# of the first Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the earth with "(llory to (iod In the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men.” Heat we start too far off and get lost lu generalities, we had better begin with ourselves, get our own hearts and lives In burmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for his Almighty Spirit, to attune us, to chord our will with his will, to modulate our life with his life, and bring us Into unison with all that Is pure, and self-sacrificing, and heaven ly! The strings our nature are all broken and twisted, and the bow Is so slack It cannot evoke anything mellifluous. The Instrument made for heaven to play on ban been roughly twanged and struck by Influences worldly and demoniac. O master hand of Christ, restore this split, and frac tured, and despoiled, and unstrung na ture, until first it shall wall out for our sin and then thrill with Divine pardon! The whole world must also be al iened by the same power. I was In the Fairbanks Weighing Seale Manu factory, of Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they have never had a strike. Complete harmony between labor and capital, the operatives of scores of years In their beautiful homes near by the mansions of the manu facturers, whose Invention and Chris tian behavior made the great enter prise: Ho, all the world over, labor and capital will be brought Into euphony. You may have heard what Is called the “Anvil Chorus," composed by Verdi, a tune playod by hammers, great and small, now with mighty stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beating great iron anvil. Thut is what the world h?is got to eome to anvil chorus, yard stick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel chorus, crowbar cnorus, picsaxe chorus, gold-mine chorus, rail-track chorus, locomotive chorus. It can be done, and It will be done. So all social life will be attuned by Gospel harp. There will be as many clnsses In so ciety as now, but the classes will not be regulated by birth, nor wealih, nor ac cident, but by the scale of virtue und benevolence, and people wtll be as signed to their places as good, or very good, or most excellent. So, also, com mercial life will be attuned, and there will he twelve In every doten, and six teen ounces In every pound, und ap ples at the bottom of the barrel will be as sound ss those on the top, and silk goods will nut lie cotton, und sell er* will uot have to churge honest people more than the right price be cause others wilt not pay, and good* will cam* to you eorrespoadlng wit! ! th< sample by which you purchased ,1 mi, a .a t-oure will not be chleorlf-d. 11.it sugar will not be suudetl, nud milk ■ will not be chalked, aud adulteration j if food will be u State prison offense ; Aye, all things shall be attuned. Klee tlons In Kugland and the t'alted States will no more he a grand carnival of defamation uud scurrility, but the ele vation of righteous ui*u In a righteous i way, • • • Heaven ta to have a new song, an an- • tlrcly uew song, hut I would not wonder If,as soiiHtini* on earth a mu* Is fash- i tuned out of maay tunes, or It ts one tine with tne varlattana, so smite of the songs of th* redeemed may have play lag through them th* * nig* >*f earth: and how thrilling- o* coming through the great anthem iff th* saved, teeutnpanted by harper* with tk*U harpa, and tyviutp*i*ra with th*ti ti limpets, if wa should h*a* M*s of the attain* of Anttaeh and Mount h*1 j ■ah, and iWcssIIms aad l#s*t and tit Martin'*, *«d fountain. and Ariel, and tint Hundred* How th*y »«ilf bring to wind th* praying «t«*t**. and •ummaato* day* aad th* t'hrbstma* (Mirth, and tha *hw««h worahtg II which ** *anh wa mmghsd* I hava a* idea that * baa w* btd tarvwalt va aarth wa ara ta btd farawatl la all tbaaa grand aid ttoa»*l hyrna* whkh m*it*4 aad ragtoxd *u« wu* fa* *a many year*. Now, tf sin is discord, and righteousness is harmony, let ui get out of the one and enter the other After our dreadful civil war wa* over In the summer of I860,, a great nation al peace jubilee was held In Boston, and as an elder of my church had been honored by the selection of eome of hli music, to be rendered on that occasion, I accompanied him to the Jubilee. For ty thousand people sat and stood In the great Coliseum erected for that pur pose. Thousands of wind and stringed Instruments. Twelve thousand train ed voices. The masterpieces of all agea rendered, hour after hour, and day after day- Handel'* "Judaa Macca baeua," Bphor'a "l^aust Judgment," Bee thoven’s "Mount of Olivet,” Hadyn'a “Creation," “Mendelssohn’# "Elijah," Meyerbeer’s "Coronation March,” roll ing on and up In surges that billowed against the heaven*. The mighty ca dences within were accompanied on the outside by the ringing of bells of the city and cannon on the commons, discharged by electricity, In exact tlmo with the music, thundering tbelr aw ful bars of a harmony that astounded all nations. Sometimes I bowed my h been #3ld In the heat of an ger. The memory of a beloved mother will urm the heart and sway the life of a strong man, as her presence never did when, as a hoy, she yearned over him. We must ourselves ascend If we I would lift others, and In this very up ward climbing we are making the first and roost essential step In soclnl im provement. When the whites of cgps are used and the yelks are not required at the same time, drop the yelkr. into a small cup or glass, cover the surface with a little cold water and keep in a cool place. If corned beef, tongue or ham la left to cocl lu the water In which it is bolle•••» must see to It in the spring that the hole in the soil by the trunk, caused by i he wind swaying the tree, is not al lowed to remain. Q.—How can the Insects troublesome to the apple be overeome? A.—The round-beaded borer can be kept from tho trees by placing tt cylin der of wire netting around the base of each tree. The damage done by the larvae of the codling moth can be less ened by spraying the trees just after the blossoms fall, with a solution of purls green, one pound of the green to two hundred gallons of water. A sec ond, snd If heavy ruins come, a third, spraying should ' be given before the weight of the apple bends the blossom end downward. No spraying should be done before the blossoms fall, for fear of poisoning bees and honey. If too stroug a solution of parts green Is used. It will kill the foliage, Q.~ When la the time to prune trees? A If to make a tree grow, prune while It la dormant. I'runlng when the tree Is growing will cheek growth When setting out tma, rut link tho 1 tup to halaU'* tho roots. a w—. latsr- . »iai i • »j**f* lu *#<4 Im t»hu*. t'intifarstlifiv Hut* of this year's cheat crop in tthb» waa thmhul ar j he used before the rains set m snd in I ouMniutsci th* grain which was poor ;s quality to begin with, has tu»n fur ther lajured by sprouting tg the nboib. \ »y. g bukstia of lbs Obi* *yp< iHMvni j , Multan T bs »iatlot !> msk>M y«iuun .idss testa, bo'h wttb wheat grown «a { ibs slaitun faint and with sample* ' | sent to from other parts of tbs |, state In saw of tbsoo loll a compart- l son Wtut made bslW* u i test of ibis 1 I ywoi't crop, which has stood fa tk» j sboek through nt tbs sst spall, and similar tana si grata grown tn IM IiM , tad IMM 1 h* wo«at as* p anted in j | wtrefully prepared gmten rott tg i >ug. 17, and warm, showery weather ollowed. Within five days 80 per j cnt of the seed of thlg year had ger ninated and was growing nicely, and hree days later 3 per cent more had ppearod above ground. The old wheat II started a little more quickly than ho new, and Just 80 per cent of that ilanted was above ground on the fifth lay; only one more plant had appeared n the eighth day, the percentage of termination on that day being 81 for be wheat of 1893, 79 for 18?4, 81 fo» 896 and 88 for 1896. Apparently, there ore. It is safe to use wheat of this ear's growth for seed, except where he condition Is exceptionally bad; but n view of the less vigorous growth hown at first In this test the station rotild advise the u*e of a larger qusn Ity of seed than ordinary. It should •e observed that this test was madu inder exceptionally favorable condl lons, and In unfavorable weather It vould be reasonable to expect that a arger proportion of the seed would all to grow. Hum junl Manure. In a farmers' bulletin Issued by the department of Agriculture, I’rof. W. II. Ileal says that barnyard manure Is probably the most efficient means at ho disposal of the farmer to perma icntly Improve bis soil. No other fer lllzer possesses to so great a degree die power of restoring worn soils to productiveness and giving them last tig fertility, it accomplishes this re mit, however, not so much by the actu tl fertilizing constituents which It sup plies as by Improving the physical properties of the soil, lncreasltig the imotlBt of humus, which Is generally leflctsnt In worn soils, Improving Its :exiure and Increasing Its wnter ab mrblng and water holding power. Ex periments have shown that the Influ ■nce of manure may bo perceptible twenty years after application. Ob icrvatlons at Rotharasted, England, luring forty years on barley unman ned, manured continuously, and man ned during the first twenty years, only •bowed thut there was gradual exhaus — ~ • vuiiviivu vi |/i uu'ii »» »»»«■»» aut muiture, and gradual accumu lation and Increase of produce with the annual application of barnyard man ure. But when the application was •topped, although the elTect of the resi due from tho previous applications was very marked, It somewhat rapidly di minished, notwithstanding that calcu lation showed an enormous accumula tion of nitrogen us well as other con •tlluenls. Trentof Need Mitral for Himif. Bulletin C4 of the Ohio Experiment Ballon reports the results of a series of experiments made on the station farm it Wooster In 1895 In the treatment of lats for tho prevention of smut, In which It was shown that from duplicate (ample# of seed, taken from the same lack, the untreated seed produced as lilgh uh 40 per cent of smutted heads, while the treated seed produced a con ildcrably larger crop entirely free from imut. These experiments have been repeated with the same result In 1886,a rear when the smut of outs has been exceptionally prevalent. It has also ieen demonstrated that, with a very illgbt modification, the same treatment will absolutely prevent the stinking mint, of wheat, and the bulletin named jives full directions for this treatment, noth for oats and wheat. Krom the re port# which have come to tho station It teems probable that the farmers of 3hlo have this year lost not less thun naif a million dollars from oats smut Bone. Eating Apple# at Night.—Dr. Searls says in the Bulletin of Pharmacy: "Everybody ought to know that tho very best thing he can do is to eat ap ples just before going to bed. The apple has remarkably efficacious medicinal properties, it Is an excellent brain food, becuuso it has more phosphoric acid in easily digests?shape than other fruits. It excites the action of the liver, pro motes sound and healthy sleep, and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. It helps me Kiuurj scticuun* ttiiu pre vent* calculQits growths, while It re lieves Indigestion und Is one of the best preventives known for diseases of the throat. No harm can come to even a delicate system by the eating of ripe and Juicy upplcs before retiring for the night.” This Is strong language from an acknowledged authority, and our life experience fully favora the use of ripe fruits lute lit the evening, espe cially In winter. Ilreedlng True Qualities. A writer au dairy subjects says: We want milk - sra, with milking qualities, and a breeding out, or Into latency, of every thing (hat antagonise* milking, or milking with feeding qualities In at tendance If called for, something found now In moat of the milking breeds ot til countries; the exceptions to this 'ombluatlan of mllklug and feeding being found only In the smaller dairy breeder*, like the ('bsuuel-Island cat tle and Kerry*. that have so many gen Bratlona been scantily fed that the lay ug on of fat was uulatde the ponttblll tie*, and »« And that the quality of 'S«lual*e milk giving I* well Impressed m these breeds even uuder heavy feed ag. .f A Krco> h »• mii>iut»t has been Bg-.r I ng up the numWr of dairy vow* in the ending eountriea of the world. He HD a that there ore SJoo.uoo cows In • tame, producing sotwowoo gallon* e1 nitk In the t ailed Kingdom. about i,ngn.inm. t« tin many, koAT.guu, p,t . ok l,oo».uoo tud in Awatrl*. I lit. wi la the failed dial#* the auatbst >( •«< hi* eimoet doubled slate UT*. MBtgg n«w set down at u buu.woo, and n A tetialt* over It'.tW KM tin round rear fence and .tgMen It m before the tattle breeb In and torn •el von in da It. Qwnd fence# esnbi neiibbms THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VII. NOV. IS — COD’S BLESSINC TO SOLOMON. linlrisn Taxi: ’’The messing of the l.orH It Melteth Hleh end He Addcth n« •arrow will. It” — I’ror. 10:1*— The Two Weft. A VINO traced Solo mon'a count through hie great worlte and hla reltg loua prlvllogea arid labors, and coma to the culmination of hla career.we ee« the danger* to which he was exposed and the need o f repeated warnlnga. N o one la safe from tempta tion, and often th« winds blow moat fiercely and the r<.|d la moat benumbing on the heights of success. » elsewhere thla 3- The fear of the evil consequence* of »in I* not the ha*l* of character. It »» net the mainspring of a true life. It i* mil) a help to the partially good, and a motive to thewe w ho have not yet rh«»« u the right and aafe way. IteliePva* Waadwivtie*. A aandwbh that In oicellent with Iced tea or lemonade in made with a rataln HIIHig Kernov* th« seed* from halved raisin*, and lay the ralaint clnaely together upon very thin slices of b titered bread. Ha mi wUhe* «f brown bread, with a niling of #•»*!' • mliped eh****. t*> Which baa been add ed a Hill* miwiatd. are delightful t UHIOUh tOMHNsAtlllht The hi» oiU wartet coat of the Brit i«h Infantry la donated. w the atvrry go*#. la disappear tn favor of the bine •erg* Jacket Mure gaht watch** are were b* mb mm and laboring men In the l uted mater than in ant two other rouatru» tn Ih* world HU« should in t**U.* only be thrown hy married ladle* at a »*dt>ng, a* t atgntfl** a nelenm* lot the new rev rati tt thalr tanks