Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 September 1897 — Page 3
TUB DALLY BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA
TA LMAKK’S SKKMON.
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VERY man has a thousand roots and a thousand branches. His roots rear h down through all the earth: his branches spread through all the heavens. He speaks with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot.
soen<. often is loud as thunder, his life is a dirge or p doxology. There no such thing as negative influeme. We are all positive in the plate »e occupy, making the world better or making it worse, on the Lord s side or on the devil’s, making up reasons fur our blessedness or bau-f.-hrnent: and we have already done work in peopling heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what they are going to d' A man who lias burned down a city might as well talk of some evil that be .-X pouts to do, or a man who has saved an empire might as well talk of some good that he expects to do. By the force of your evil influence you have already consumed infinite values; or you have by the power of a right Influet't. won whole kingdoms for
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It would be absurd lor me, by elaborate argument, to prove that the world is off the track. You might as well stand at the foot of an embankraent amid the wreck of a capsized ral’-train. proving by elaborate argument that something is out of order. Adam tumbled" over the embankment sixty centuries ago. and the whole race, in one long train, lias gone on tumbling :r. the same direction. Crash! crash! The only question now is, by what leverage can the crushed thing lie lifted? By what hammer may the fragments lie reconstructed? I want to sl ow you how we may turn, many to righteousness, and what will he our future pay for so doing. Kir?:. \Yc may turn them by the charm of a right example. A child coming from a filthy homo was taught at school to wash its face, it went homo so much improved in appearance that da mother washed her face. And when the father of the household came homo and saw the improvement in domestic appearance, lie washed his face Tbi neighbors, happening in, saw the change, and tried the f ame experiment. until all that street was purified. and the next street copied its example. and the whole city felt the re•ult ot one schoolboy washing his face. That is » fable, by which we set forth that the best way to get the world washed of its sins and pollution is to have our own heart and life cleansed and purified. A man wfith grace in his heart and Christian cheerfulness in his face and holy consistency in his behavior ;s a perpetual sermnn; and the •ernHUi differs from others in that it has hut one head, and the longer it runs the better. Ag&ji:: We may turn many to righteousness by prayer. There is no such detective as prayer, for no one can hide away from it. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a man ten thousand miles off. It alights on a ship midAt’.anfi The little child cannot uuderstatod the law of electricity, or how the telegraph operator, by touching the Instrament here, may dart a message tinder the sea to another continent; nor an we, with our small intellect, understand how the touch of a Christian's prayer shall instantly strike a soul on the other side of tin* earth. You take ship and go to some other country, and g«t there at eleven o’clock in the morning You telegraph to lAmerica and the message gets here at six o’clock the same morning. In other words it seems to arrive here five hours before it started. Like that is prayer. God says: ’’Before they call, I will hear.” To overtake a loved one on the road, you may spur up a lathered steed until ire shall outrace the one that brought the news to Ghent; but a prayer shall catcli it at one gallop. A boy running away from home may take the midnight train from the country village and reach the seaport in time to gain the ship that sails on the morrow, but a mother's prayer will lis on the deck to meet him, and in the hammock before lie swings into it. and at the capstan before he winds the rope around, and on the sea. against the sky as the vessel ploughs on toward A. There is a mightiness in prayet. George Muller prayed a company of poor boys together, and then he prayed up an asylum in which they might >e sheltered. Ho turned his face toward Edinburgh and prayed and ther< . ame a thousand pounds. He turned his face toward Dublin and prayed, and there came a thousand pounds. The breath of Elijah's prayer blew all the clouds off the sky, and it was diy weather. The breatli of Elijah’s prayer blew all the clouds togethor. and it was wet weather. Prayer, la Daniel’s time, walked the cave ss a iion-tamer. It reached up, and took the sun by its golden bit, and stopped it, and the moon by its silver bit. and stopped it. We have all yet to try the full power of prayer. The time will come when the American Church will pray with Its face toward the West and all the praK-ies and inland cities will surrender to Qcd; and will pray with face toward the sea, and all the islands find ships will become Christian. Parents who have wayward sons will get down on their knees anil say: "Lord, tend my boy home,” and the boy in Canter shall get right up from the
gaming-table, and go down to find out which ship starts first for America. Not one of us yet knows how to pray. All we have done as yet has only been pottering. A boy gets hold of his father’s saw and hammer, and tries to make something, but it is a poor affair that he makes. The father comes and takes the same saw and hammer, and builds the house or the ship. In the childhood of our Christian faith, we make but poor work with these weapons of prayer, hut when we come to the stature of men in Christ Jesus, then, under these implements, the temple of (Jod will rise, and the world’s redemption will be launched. God cares not for the length of our prayers; or the number of our prayers, or the beauty of our prayers, or the place of our prayers; hut it is the faith in them that tells. Believing prayer soars higher than the lark ever sang; plunges deeper than diving-bell ever sank; darts quicker titan lightning ever flashed. Though we have used only the back of this weapon instead of the edge, what marvels have been wrought! if saved, we ate all the rap-
ing still. The chamois hunter has to fly to ca’ch his urcy, but not so swift is his game as that which the scientist tries to shoot through the tower of observatory. I.lks petrels mid-Atlantic, that seem to came from no shore, and be bound to no landing place -flying, flying -so these great flocks of worlds rest not as they go—wing and wingage after age - for ever and ever. The eagle hastes to its prey, but we shall In speed beat the ewgies. You have noticed the velocity of the swift horse under whose feet the miles slip like a smooth ribbon, and. as he passes, the four hoofs strike the earth in such quick boat, your pulses take the same vibration. But all these things are not swift in comparison with the motion of which I speak. The moon moves 54,000 miles In a day. Yonder, Neptune flashes on 11,000 miles in an hour. Yonder. Mercury goes 109,000 miles in an hour. So like the stars the Christian shall shine in swiftness of motion. You hoar now of father or mother or child sick LOGO miles away, and it takes you two days to get to them. You hear of some case of suffering that demands
ui some case oi sutrering mat aemanas
lives of some earnest prayer. Would your immoil i a te attention, but it takes
God that, in desire for the rescue of souls, we might in prayer lay hold of the resources of the Lord Omnipotent! We may Mini many to righteousness by Christian admonition. Do not wait until you can make a formal speech. Address the one next to you. You will not go home alone to-day. Between this and your place of stopping you may decide the eternal destiny of an immortal spirit. Just one sentence may do the vverk. Just one question. Just one look. The formal talk that begins with a sigh, and ends with a
you an hour to get there. Oh. the joy when you shall,in fulfilment of the text, take starry speed,and be equal to 100.000 miles an hour! Having on earth got used to Christian work, you will not quit when death strikes you. You will only take on more velocity. There is a dying child in London and its spirit must lie taken up to God; you are there in an instant to do it. There is a >oung man in New York to he arrested from going into that gate of sin; you are tin re in an instant to arrest him.
Whether w 1 • h spring of foot, or stroke
canting snuffle, is not what is wanted, , 0 f wing, or by the force of some new but the heart throb of a man in dead ! aw that shall hurl you
earnest. There is not a soul on earth that you may not bring to God if you rightly go at it. They said Gibraltar could not lie taken, it is a rock, sixteen hundred feet high, and three miles long. But the English and Dutch did take It. Artillery, and sappers and miners, ami fleets pouring out volleys of death, and thousands of men reckless of danger, can do anything. The stoutest heart of sin. though it be rock, and surrounded by an ocean of transgression, under Christian bombardment may hoist the flag of redemption. Again: Christian workers shall lie like the stars in the fact that they have a light independent of each other. Look up at the night, and sec each world show its distinct glory, it is not like the conflagration, in which you cannot tell where one flame stops and another begins. Neptune, Herschel, ami Mercury are as distinct as if each one of them were the only star; so our individualism will not lie lost in heaven.
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where you would go. 1 know not; but my text suggests velocity. All space open before you with nothing to hinder you in mission of light and love and joy, you shall shine in swiftness of motion as the stars for ever and ever. Again: Christian workers, like the stars, shine in magnitude. The most illiterate man knows that th°se things in the sky, looking like gilt buttons, are great masses of matter. To weigh them, one would think that it would require scales with a pillar hundreds of thousands of miles high, and chains hundreds of thousands of miles long, and at the bottom the chains basins on either side hundreds of thousands of miles wide, and that then omnipotence alone could put the mountains into the ccales and the hills into the balance. But puny man h; s been equal to the undertaking, and lias set a Mi tie balance on his geometry, and weighed world against world. Yea, lie lias pull-
Jl IKiK JOHN' JACKSON.
A JURIST FAMOUS FOR INJUNCTIONS.
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i| HE central figure in the great miners’ strike is United States Judge John Jay Jackson. He has gained a national reputation from his versatility of accommodation in the matter of injuXctlons. The judge is the oldest
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John Jay Jackson, eldest son of General John J. Jackson, was horn at Parkersburg, W. Vu., Aug. 4, 1S24; was graduated from Princeton college in 1845; was a law student under IBs father and John .1. Allen, president of the supreme court of Virginia; was admitted to the bar the following year and elected the first prosecuting attorney of Wirt county in 1848, and the same year was appointed to the same office in Ritchie county. In 1852 and again in 1853 he was elected to the Virginia legislature from Wood county. During this time ho acquired a reputation as a speaker and debater. In 1852, ’56 and ’60 he was an elector on the whig ticket. In the political campaigns in which he took part lie was justly distinguished as a speaker, and by his efforts in the region of the state where he lived contributed largely to the success of the Bell and Everett ticket in carrying Virginia in I860. In August, 1SG1, he was appointed United States district judge for the district of West Virginia, which office he now holds. Taking sides with the union when the war broke out. lie naturally drifted into the Republican party, and served it faithfully. When peace was declared lie co-operated with the Democratic party and lias been in sympathy with that political (irga-~-’zatlon since that time.
THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN. I. Slip Who I ollow, tllP Writ ItiMtru rath, of l.lfp. Edward W. Bok, writing on the theme "On Being Old-Fashioned” in tlie Ladles* Home Journal, contends that much of the so-called progress of to-day is not progressive; in fact, that "old-fashioned” women who follow well-beaten paths, adhere to old customs, and accept well-established tenchings, are the really progressiveones, for the reason that their efforts meet with no interruptions, nor is there possibility of collapse in whatever engages their attention. "In domestic life the ’progressive’ woman has had a very busy time,” says Mr. Bok. "She began by upsetting the old sewingbasket. It was narrowing to a woman, she discovered one dark morning. Likewise was cooking and the care of children. A woman who stayed at home and looked after the comfort of her husband and children was 'wishywashy'; site cramped her life, dwarfed her intellect, narrowed her horizon. Clubs by the score, societies by the hundred, schemes and plans by the thousand were started, organized and devised to rid 'poor woman’ of her 'thraldom.' And these ’progressive' women were so busy for the elevation of their sex! But there were a few hundred thousand women who kept right on being busy elevating their i children, helping their husbands, and believing that the sex in general was perfectly able to take care of itself. And these women are still busy sewing. cooking and caring for their children. And, gradually, they have .seen sewing classes introduced in college and seminary course, domestic science : branches attached to nearly every educational institution which girls attend, while the care of children lias received tlie indorsement of state and the specific attention of the national government. And what of the ‘progressive’ woman? Truly, tlie places that knew her on 'o know her no more!"
CurliiiiH Fuel, About tlie Toml. Tlie toad lives from ten to forty years, says the Galveston News, and it can lay over 1.000 eggs a yea.', it has llvoi: two years without fc.i.l. but can no; live long under water, it never takes dead or motionless fml. It taker i:s food by means o;' i;; tongue
SLECPLE5S TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, I av'i.vwv*vvvav-,vw\v*v%v\w»
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lieen Awoke F\er Slnee.
John ('. Static, carpenter and builder, has been awake tw enty-five years. His last slumoer came so many years ago that he has forgotton what it is like to lie down at night and awake refreshed and rejuvenated. Sleep is an unknown quantity with Stutte, and while others are buried in a deep somnolency he either lies upon his bed and gazes on the stars, or if in a restless wood takes long walks out into tlie country, returning at daybreak to begin work in his little shop just north of tlie house. An old man walking w itii a cane is a very familiar sight in Stutte’s neighborhood. Ho widely known lias his insomnia became that all the residents thereabouts call him ‘‘The man who never sleeps." Stutte attributes IBs sleeplessness to a noise which continually roars in ins head like a cataract. At times it sounds like the buzz and whirr of wheels sawing their w ay through heavy timber. Again the sounds resemble escaping steam, and at times they mingle in a horrible, deafening roar. Owing to the noises in his head Stutte
does not hear readily.
He says that tne ringing in his oars was caused by mi overdose of quinine which was administered to him in 1H72. He took fifty-two grains at one dose, and when he woke up the next day lie heard a noise in his head which has remained there ever since, keeping him awake every day and night for twenty-
five years.
‘•The Man Who Never Sleeps" is seventy years old. He carries his age gracefully and does not look tlie worse for his long siege of wakefulness. He is a strong, powerfully built man, and
ed out his measuring line, and an-
A great multitude >p: each one ns ob- nou ncod that Herschel is 36,000 miles servahle. as distinctly recognized, as dian)0ll . r , Saturn 79.000 miles in greatly celebrated, as if in all the diatneteri aml j up i ler 89,000 miles in
space, from gate to gate, and from hill ! dlalnote r ll!ld that th
to hill, he were the only inhabitant: no mixing u|>- 110 mol) no indiscriminate > rush; each Christian worker standing i out illustrious ail the story of earthly 1 achievement adhering to each one; his | self-denials and pains and services and ' victories published. Before men went ! out to the last war, the orators told I them that they would all be remember- 1 ed by their country, and their names | be commemorated in poetry and in song; but go to tlie graveyard in Richmond, and you will find there six thousand graves, over each of which is the inscription, ’’Unknown.” The world j does not remember its heroes; but 1 there will be no unrecognized Christian ! worker in heaven. Each one known by | all; grandly known; known by acclamation: all tlie past story of work for God gleaming in cheek and brow and foot and palm. They shall shine with distinct light as the stars, forever and i
ever.
Again: Christian workers shall -
shine like the stars in clusters. In looking ui). you find the worlds in family circles. Brothers and sisters they take hold of each other's hands and danco in group Orion in a group. The Pleiades in a group. The solar | system is only a company of children, with bright faces, gathered around one j great fireplace. The worlds do not straggle off. They go in squadrons and fleets, sailing through immensity. So , Christian workers in heaven will dwell
in neighborhoods and dusters. I am sure some people I will like I
in heaven a great deal better than others. Yonder is 1 constellation of stately Christians. They lived on
smallest pearl
on the beach of heaven is immense beyond all imagination. So all they who have toiled for Christ on earth shall rise up to a magnitude of privilege, and a nagnltude of strength, and a magnitude of holiness, and a magnitude of joy; and the weakest saint in glory become greater tlian all that we cau imagine of an archangel. Brethren, "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." Wisdom that shall know everything; wealth that shall possess everything; strength tnat shall do everything; glory that shall circumscribe evrything! We shall not be like a taper set in a sick man's window, or a bundle of sticks kindled on the beach to warm a shivering crew; but you must take tlie diameter and the circumference of the world if you would get any idea of tlie greatness of our estate when we shall shine as the stars
for ever md ever.
Lastly and coming to this point my mind almost breaks down under the ; contemplation like the stars, all i Christian workers shall shine in durui tion. The same stars that look down upon us looked down upon the Christian shepherds. The meteor that I saw ' flashing across the sky the other night, I. wonder if it was not the same one that pointed down to where Jesus lay In the manger, and If. having pointed out his birthplace, it has ever since been wandering through the'heavens, watching to see how the world would treat him! When Adam awoke in the garden in tlie cool of tlie day. lie saw coming out through the dusk of tlie
The time of the year for holding ihe annual fairs is here and farmers should attend. For this there art* many and good reasons, in the first place the fair is an educator of great value, and one too that is bound to become more efficient as the years gv» by. Here come together the best agriculturists of the region round. To the fair are brought the best products of the fields- and of the flocks and herds. A written deaerlptlon of a thing can impart but little of th* truth. The actual presence of th* Ideal is an inspiration to the ambitious worker. The educational value of the fair has been demonstrated in the past. Whole states have been given a new energy by these annual shows. The young man from the farm lias gone to some fair and has seen some animal of line type. He has returned to the old home filled with a new ambition. He is no longer satisfied with the old scrub slock that he lias been acquainted with from childhood, lie wants something better. and often he gets it and the old farm takes on a renewed life. The dairyman lias gone to the fair and seer cows that will give more milk ami make more butter than any two of his old cows. He has listened to the deni onstratlon of the greater profits in tb« better cow; otid gone home determtn \ ed that there* shall lie a change in his methods. As a result in a tittle whll« there has come over IBs herd a great change. Obi cows are sold off and u lasser number of better cows have takes their places. This lesser number
“c 1 '' lull ing me i las gi V( . n more profit than the others
Mexican Mar he served under Colonel and tho re8ult is tla pp inPSS for htnl
self and family. The wife and the daughter have gone to the fair and been infused with new ambition. Henceforth the old routine of family life is changed and a brighter day dawns for tho whole household. The
Jefferson Davis as a drummer, in tlie I Civil War lie fought gallantly under
the stars and bars.
Stutte is a church member, ami is ] said to be truthful. His claim that he has not slept for twenty-five years is
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evening the same worlds that greeted
earth by rigid rule. They never laugh- us last night
ed. They walked every hour anxious lest they should lose their dignity. They loved God, and yonder they shine In brilliant constellat Yet 1 iho ild not long to get into that partieular group. Yonder is a constellation of
In Independence hull is an old cracked hell that sounded the signature of tlie Declaration of Independence. You cannot ring it now; but this great chime of silver bells that strike in tlie dome of night, ring out in as sweet a tone as
Tennis and Flepliantv.
When a crowd of young people in this country want to fix up a tennis court they rush around and get a steam roller if they have the necessary money—and if they have not it is quite probable they get a smaller roller and push it themselves. Over in India they simply hitch an amiable elephant to
small-hearted Christians asteroids in when God swung them at the Creation.
Look up at night, and know that the white lilies that bloom in all the hanging gardens of our King are century plants not blooming once in a hundred
the eternal astronomy. While some souls go up front Christian battle, and blaze like Mars these asteroids dart a feeble ray like Vesta. Yonder is a
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constellation of martyrs, of apostles, ot V ears, but through all the centuries
patriarchs. Our souls, as they go up to heaven, will seek out tlie most con- j
genial society.
Yonder is a constellation almost mer- , ry with tlie play of light. On earth they were full of sympathies and songs i and tears and raptures and congratulations. When they prayed their words 1 took Ore: when they sang, the tune ; could not hold them; when they wept over a world's woes, they -sobbed as if heart-broken; when they worked for | Christ, they flamed with enthusiasm.
The star at which tlie mariner looks tonight ’.ve the light by which the ships of I’arshish were guided across the Mediterranean, and tlie Venetian flotilla found its way into Lepanto. Their armor is as bright tonight as when, in ancient battle, the stars in their courses fought against Siscra.
('erkee! IKottfcH at Keu.
Numbers of experiments have been made to test tlie speed and destination of corked bottles thrown into the sea
alone, and it operates this tv. rapidly that the eye can not follow its motions. 11 captures and devours bees, wasps, yi how-jackets, ants, beetles, worms, rpidi rs, snails, bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, weevils, caterpillar... moths, etc. The stomach that does not flinch at yellow jackets, wasps, blister beetle!) and click beetles or pinch bugs, would seem to be prep irc-1 for anything in the insect line, .in I it doubtless is. In twenty-four hours th° toad con nines enough food to till its stomach four times. A single toad will in three month., devour over 10,000 insect.-. If every tea of these would have done one cent dam ig 1 , th.- toa i I1.1; saved $10. Evident’y tlie toad is ! a vaitiable friend of th" farmer, garI ilener, and fruit grower, and cau 1)3 ! made especially useful 111 the greou1 house, garden and berry patch.
I.oilgcut ill I'nMlr Office.
Reuben Beavers of Campbell conn ty. Georgia, is the champion long dis-
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ROLLING \ TENNIS COURT.
j the roller and the work is done in a j trice. These gentle giants are used for all kinds of work which would be ai-
; most impossible- without their aid. Hat- | tanPe offl( .e holder of the United State,
nessed to huge teak logs the elephants drag them wherever they are required: or with their tusks they roll heavy logs and stones Into position. The drivers anoint the huge animals' heads with cocoanut oil to keep them cool I in the burning sun and decorate them
louder they are circle of light! con- aJ var | 0U8 portions of the world. Tlie stellation of joy! galaxy of fire! Oh, most remarkable example ever heard of that you and I, by that grace which can was t ,, af ln which a bott | 0 traveleCl transform the worst into tlie best. (5 p,)!, miles in about two years and a might at last sail in tlie wa.te of that i la )f i roughly, at tlie rate of six and a fleet, and wheel in that glorious group, | ln i( es • l du y ii traveled from Off
Hi' lias been holding office since he was 21 years old. and as lie is now 95, has a lecord almost three-quarters of a ceu
tury as a public officer.
“Uncle Reuben,” as lie is called by all residents of the county, secured the position of clerk of the first court held in that part of Georgia. After two years the legislature established an in- | ferior court in Campbell county, and Mr. Beavers decided that lie would like
I'rof. Stanislas Meunier, of the 1’ji s • to | )P clerk of that court. His ambition
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it, because they are always aslee)) ilurBig the time tlie old man says that he is awake. The craving for uncon- ! scionsnoss has entirely disappeared, j and he finds refreshment in simply | closing his eyes and lying still as long 1 as possible in a cal in repose. St. Louis
Republic.
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A peculiar natural wonder lias been discovered about three miles north of the fainons wind cave in Fall River flounty, South Dakota, - ays the Chicago Chronicle. Three men, a short time ago, formed ^a company to develop some uiiiiing claims, and selected sites for two shalt'. Mr. Cramer selected a location that had the appearance of internal disturbance, as bowlders werejying about in a manner that indicated their having been thrown up by an upheaval, and a shaft was commenced. Blasting was started, and when down about ten feet, rock was taken out that assayed seven dollars in gold. They went down but a short distance turther, when they broke through into a natural chimney, which was about three feet across and extended to China, so far as their ability to sound it has determined. One of the men climbed down about forty feet, and found no evidences of any bottom. The walls are spiral-shaped, like an auger, and are blackened ns llioitgh by internal tires. The most curious varieties of mineral-bearing rock have been found there, and speci- ! mens now awaiting close examination and selection for assay. The most ! curious of all is a black stone that pul- j verizes readily in the fingers, leaving ! a black oily stain like plumbago. Tho ! natural chimney w ill afford the pros- ' peetors a most excellent opportunity to find out what there is in the earth ! there, and is a lucky discovery. The | average prospector is obliged to go to | an endless amount of work and ex- i peuse with diamond drills or shaft to determine the character of the rock underground, but in this instance tlie ; prospectors have a shalt that is tho
work of nature.
\\ liy Fooil i* Cooked. Speaking of cooking in its relation to health the Home Doctor says: “Food is cooked to render it more agreeable to sense of taste and smell. Cooking develops flavors and odors not present in the raw state, and it ^ facilitates the process of mastication. Some foods are tough and hard and can neither be finely divided nor well , mixed with saliva. Again, it is often j desirable that the food be chemically changed; thus some foods or portions of them are absolutely indigestible in the uncooked state. A fourth reason for cooking food is that the warmth which is thus imparted promotes digestion by causing an increased flow blood to the digestive apparatus, and hence a more copious secretion of the digestive fluids. Finally, cooking destroys any parasites that may be present in the food. Of these trichinie in pork and the seolex or eneisted head of the tapeworm, in what is known as measly beef, are the most common."
Wonderful Natural Kecords.
as the stars for ever and ever!
Again: Christian workers will shine like the stars in swiftness of motion. The worlds do not stop to shine. There are no fixed stars save as to relative position. The star apparently most fixed flies thousands of inilos a minute. The astronomer, using his telescope for an alpenstock, leaps from world-crag to world-crag, ami finds no star staud-
deg. south latitude and CO deg. west longtitudo to Western Australia. Hitvo 11 KiVipp’* limine** Card. Baron Kru; p. the great German ironmuster uscj for visiting cards very tbiu sheets of rolled iron. The ri<- . fool frowns on one half lh« world, and envies the other half.
! .Museum of Natural History, recently ! called attention to the surprising va1 riety of the records which the rocks of the earth contain, relating to the simple daily occurrences of millions gf , : years ago. Among such recor Is are ! ! to be found, not only the tracks of | j extinct animals ami tlie impressions of ‘ rain drops left in wet sand or 'lay. but j also distinct traces of the effects of i wind and of sunshine upon the sea beaches. Professor Meunier illiis- j trated, by means of experiments, the manner in which these records had
been preserved by nature.
was gratified, and when, a few years later, the court of ordinary was established, he was elected the clerk of that court. He lias held that office almost continuously ever since.
A Outot Krenlnif.
X. Peck—-I think I shall stay home this evening and enjoy a good, quiet, home like evening- soimAhing I have
not done homelike
A Ouuil 011 I In* Cow-Cati’hpr. Wedged fast in the cow-catcher ot the big engine which pulled the Uuion Pacific train from the West into the Union Depot was a full-grown quail, which had attempted to cross the track of the engine while it was rushing across the plains at the rate of forty
miles an hour.
“I have never before seen so many quail in Kansas at this season of the year,” said the grimy engineer as his attention was called to the engine's catch. “We pass through great coveys of them every morning, and it is no unusnal thing for us to knock outhalf a dozen or more between Lawrence
1" ■ omr time. V. tiu; S and Kansas City. It is not often, howI thought your over, that they remain on the pilot."—
only of more land, more corn and mom •logs, has gone to the fair and felt himself rebuked for his selfish ways. He has returned home and entered on more liberal ways. The farmer that thinks only of his farm as a workshop lias gone to the fair and returned home witli a new idea in his brain, namely that the farm should not be a workshop, but a home. Afterward the neighbors have noticed the clutteredup front yard give way to a beautiful green-sward, rimmed with shrubbery ami flowers. The old unpninted barn! have been repaired and repainted. Thu house has been adorned and improved In many ways, and people have begun to say that Old So-and-So is really getting some style about him. And all of this has made his family happier. and instead of being ashamed ot the head of the house they have tiecome proud to own his relationship So the story might be lengthened. Th« fair is and has been a revolutionist. 11 is the demonstration of progress. Every farmer should take an interest lu it. Every housewife should take an interest in it, and urge the man ol the house to attend and take hi*
family.
Another reason why the fair should be attended is that it is a point ol contact between farmers. One reason why the farmers have not been aid* to secure for themselves the advantages that are rightly theirs is that they cannot be brought to organiz* ami stick together. This is largely du« to the fact that living far apart they are virtual strangers. They have nu "esprit-dii-corps.” The fair bring! them together from districts far remote. Family gets acquainted with family, often to the lasting advantage of all. As a means for g'reater social intercourse the fair should lie supported, not only by the presence of the family but by exhibits and participation in the work necessary to develop
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There is one duty that the farmers owe tlie fair, ami that is the duty of looking after It to tlie extent of seeing that no objectionable features b« allowed that can poison the minds 01 imagination of those that attend it. Too often to get money enough to come out even on expenses, fair managers admit to the grounds side-shows and exhibitions that are not for the improvement of public morals. This can be stopped only by a public expression of disapproval. If every farmer. and better, every farmer’s wife, takes ibis matter tip. there is no doubt of the result. Tlie citizens of each county must lie responsible for the moral of such public shows, ami when they are not what they should bo it is a reflection on the stamina of the people dwelling in such counties. For this reason it is absolutely essential tnat all farmers should attend the fairs to know what is going on. We hope that every reader of the Farmers’ Review will feel his duty in this matter, and not only do what lie can himself, but urge his neighbor to do likewise. Hitch up the horses and pack tlie whole family into the big wagon. Make it a neighborhood picnic.
Salt Cellars.—Sait cellars first came into use iu medieval times. There was only one on tho table, and it held from two to three quarts. The salt was placed in about tlie middle of the table's length. At the upper end sat the lord of the castle or palace and his intimates. and the salt cellar marked the dividing line between the associates of the nobleman and his dependents, to that to "sit below the salt” meant social inferiority.
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Salt In the oven under baking tins will prevent their scorching on the bottom.