Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — Page 3

A YEAR’S HISTORY.

Chronological Record of Twelve Months. FULL RECORD OF 1895. An Epitome of All Events of Importance. 'The Usual Admixture of Disaster, Crime, Political Changes, Commercial Achievements, and International Complications—Atrocities of Turks in Armenia the Most Shocking Page in Modern History—Powers of Europe Unite in Demanding Reform—Cuban Devolution Next in Public Interest, • With but two exceptions, the nature of the events which go to make up the history of the past year is not startling. The butchery of thousands of Armenians by Turks has aroused the European powers, and at the close of the year active preparations were in progress which suggested the probable dismemberment of the Ottoman empire. The revolt of Cubans against Spanish rule was the next most important affair, and that, too, was in full sway at the close of the year. Spain seems to fruitlessly bend every energy toward its suppression. Popular sympathy is largely with the Cubans, and their success seems not improbable. In American politics the year has been exciting, and one of the great parties has suffered such reverses as to leave the chief executive unsupported in political faith by a majority in either house of Congress. A chronological record of events follows: January. 1. Michigan's first public Installation of State officers... .Gov. Morton, of New York, sworn In. .. .Belgium bars American beef. .. Toni Blair lynched at Mount Sterling. Ky. .. Five perish in an incendiary fire at Lancaster, Ky. 2. Death of Col. Edwaid M. Heyl, inspector general Department of the Missouri, at Chicago. .. .Carnegie's Homestead men strike against reduction of wages. 3. Fires: $75,000 at Springfield, Ohio; $105,000'at Coffeyville, Kan.; SIOO,OOO at Cleveland; $300,000 at the Southern Illinois Insane Asylum, at Anna. .. .Cleveland entertains Hill at a Cabinet dinner. 4. Scores of villages and cities unite In sending aid to destitute people in Nebraska ... .$100,(100 fire in Milwaukee. 5. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, publicly degraded for selling war secrets. 6. $1,000,000 fire at Toronto; two lives lost. 7. Explosion on steamer in Rio harbor kills 120. .. . High water In Ohio River towns. 8. Starving men pillage stores at St. John's, N. F. 9. W. W. Taylor, ex-Treasurer of South Dakota, embezzles $350,000; his bank at Redfield closes. 10. Two lives lost In a Toronto fire; property loss, $(>00,000. 11. Coldest day of the season in Chicago; 12 be10w.... Storms In the East. 1— Train field up near Ottumwa, lowa. 13. One hundred firemen frost-bitten at Bradford, Pa.; $130,000 damages. .. .Several vessels lost on England's coast; fifteen sailors drown. 14. Hundred miners trapped by rising water In North Staffordshire, Eng. ;*2O drowned. 15. Giant powder horror at Butte, Mont.; 60 people killed, 100 hurt. .. .French President resigns; Royalists awake. 17. M. Felix Faure elected President of France. 18. News of rebellion in Hawaii. .. .Death of Mary. Vice President Stevenson’s daughter... .Militia ordered out to protect Brooklyn trolleys. 19. Body of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill, Neb., defaulter, found In the river, with rope around his neck. ..'.Sinking of steamer State of Missouri in the Ohio; forty lives lost.

21. Chicago has a thunder and rain storm, with temperature of 54 degrees and a spring breeze, followed by a hurricane blowing 64 miles an hour, temperature falling to 10 def ;rees above zero; many people hurt by fallug timbers, blown from new buildings. 23. Steamer Chicora and 25 people lost off South Haven Mich.; financial loss, SIBS,(MX) ....Death of Lord Randolph Churchill at London. 25. Seven killed by Mendota, 111., boiler explosion. .. .Guatemala concedes Mexico's boundary claim Fearful wind and snow storm In the West. 26. Thirteen sailors drowned off Point Ju■dlth. Conn, 27. Mercury below zero all day In Chicago ... .Snow blockades many Western roads. 28. One killed, 43 hurt. In Vandalia wreck at Coatsvllle, Ind... .President Cleveland’s currency message sent to Congress 29. Receivers named for the whisky trust. 30. Steamer Elbe sunk in collision with the Cratbie, In North Sea; 314 lives lost 31. Death of Ward McAllister, leader of New York’s society. February. 3. News of kidnaping of ofiicers from United states gunboat Concord, by Chinese for accidental shooting of a native... .Chicago temperature 13 below. 4. Three drowned by Milwaukee street car running into an open draw... .Thirty French miners killed by explosion... .Chicago temperature 17 below. .. .Queen Lil abdicates Hawaii s throne. 6. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest Alarm for the overdue French liner La Ga'scogne. 7. Whole country suffers extreme cold; 20 below at Chicago... .Niue men lost In open boats at Milwaukee... .Report of annihilation of Chinese fleet at Wel-Hal-Wel... .Administration's currency measure and Reed and ('ox substitutes defeated In the House. 8. President announces the sale of $62,400.000 in bonds... .Coldest day of the year In Chicago. 10. Schooner Clara and 15 men lost off Liverpool, N. S. . 11. La Gascogne, eight days overdue, makes New York harbor with disabled machinery; great rejoicing. 12. $200,000 street-car barn fire at Chicago 13. Five firemen killed, 16 hurt, at Lynn Mass. 19. Death of Isaac P. Gray, Minister to Mexico... .New Orleans has ten Inches of snow. 20. Death of Fred Douglass, the colored orator, at Washington... .Quick sale of late bond issue. 26. Riot at Savannah, Ga., because of exFriest Slattery’s lecture; troops called 2L ¥400,000 fire at Chicago; $1,000,000 at Halifax. .. .Scores of miners killed in New Mexico... .Postmaster General Bissell resigns. March. 1. Mexican train wreck costs 104 lives Five killed, 19 hurt, by falling walls at New York. .. .Rebellion gains ground in Cuba 2. $1,000,000 tire In Toronto; $350,000 at Salina. Kan. 3. Chicago Times Issues Its last number before consolidation with the Herald... .Terrific snowstorm in Northwest. 4. Fifty-third Congress adjourns. 5. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt divorced at New York. 6. One robber killed, one captured, and four citizens • wounded during raid on the Odell, lowa, bank. ■*’ 8. Harry Hayward ('Obviated of muixlering Catherine Ging at Minneapolis... .Steamer Longfellow sinks at Cincinnati; twelve drowned, 10. Spanish war vessel 'Reina Regente founders; 400 lost. 11. Six men killed In. New Orleans riots. 12. Seven Italians lynched by miners for murder in Colorado. 13. Western Newspaper Union plant burns at Kansas City. .. .Two more Italians lynched in Colorado. 16. Five killed In round-house fire at Toledo; Kellogg ready-print plant at Cleveland burns; $200,000 fire at St. Louis... .Report of sinking of American schooner and crew of 16 by Spanish gunboat. 20. Mine explosion In Wyoming kills 60 miners SIOO,OOO fire in Peoria, 111. 21. $400,000 fire at Sioux City; $309,000 at New Orleans. 24. LI Hung Chang shot by fanatic Japanese; not fatally. .. .$1,000,000 fire at Kansas City. Kan., packing-house. 25. Furious dust storm over Central and Western States. 26. $1,000,000 fire In Milwaukee. 27, Three train robbers killed on Queen and Crescent route. 29. Japan declares armistice... .Hottest March day ever known In Chicago; temperature 78 degrees. 30. Death of A. 0. Heslng, editor of Illinois Siaats-Zeltung. April. 1. Boiler explosion kills six at Woburn, Maes... .Five die In Kentucky forest fires. 2. Republicans successful in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Chicago. ■ 3. Death of Mrs; Paran Stevens, society queen of New York... .Grand Pacific Hotel of Chicago closed .. .Fifteen killed by explosion in New Orleans.

S. Supreme Court makes changes In Income tax law ...Train wrecks In Ohio and Illinois kill eight. 8. Discovery of counterfeiting of postage stamps....2l miners killed at New Whatcom. Wash... .Collapse of six-story brick at Wheeling, W. Va; 6 killed; loss $200,000.... Blizzard of sand and snow in the West. 13. Crude oil sells at $2 in Pittsburg. ...Caban rebels whip Spanish troops. 14. Death by apoplexy of James W. Scott, of Chicago Times-Herald, in New York.... $1,000,000 hotel fire at Pasadena, Cal. 15. Conclusion of peace in the Orient.... Cuban rebellion crushed... .Cattle admitted free from Mexico. 19. Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago shipyards. 20. H. H. Kohlsaat buys Chicago TimesHerald... .May wheat sells at 60 cents.... All grain advances strongly... .Oil goes higher. 21. Five negroes lynched at Butler Springs, Ala... .15 inches of snow in Colorado. ■23. Supreme Court decides in favor of Debs in the famous contempt of court case. May. 1. Ten persons killed by a Kansas cyclone ....Bandits kill an Alton engineer... .Big Ohio coal strike on. 3. Awful death roll in lowa and Wisconsin storms. ...Five killed by powder mill explosion at South Acton, Mass... .Hottest 3d of May on record in Chicago; temperature 88 degrees; one man sunstruck. 8. South Chicago and Joliet steel workers strike... .Oriental peace assured. 10. Steamers Cayuga and Hurd sunk off Mackinaw, Mich., by colliding; one man lost; pecuniary loss, $400,000... .Temperature at Chicago drops from 86 to 43... .Twelve people hurt by gas explosion at Chicago; four die. 13. Killing frosts from Nebraska to the Atlantic. .. .Snow stops the Chicago-New York ball game at Chicago... .Eighteen Ilves and twelve vessels lost in storms on Lake Michigan. 18. Great flurry in corn and wheat. 19. $1,000,000 fire at St. Albans. Vt... .Terrible earthquakes in Italy. .. .Killing frost in fifteen States. 20. Income tax declared invalid... .Wheat sells at 74% cents. 21. Jose Marte, President Cuban insurgents, ki11ed....14 killed in San Francisco powder house explosion. 25. Two men lynched for assault at Danville, lll....Wheat reaches 82 cents. 27. Supreme Court against Debs. 28. Death of Gresham, Secretary of State. 29. Remarkable military reunion at Chicago. 30. Funeral of Gresham at Chicago... .Dedication at Chicago of Confederate monument. 31. Cloudbursts In Texas, parching droughts in middle Western States, 99 degrees in the shade in Dakota, six inches of snow in Colorado. balmy weather on the Pacific coast, and 96 degrees in New York City. June. 1, 2. 3. Unprecedented heat in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Indianapolis; many deaths from heat prostration. 4. Drop at Chicago of 40 degrees temperature. 5. Silver convention at Springfield, 111. 7. Olney appointed Secretary of State, Harmon Attorney General. 8. $200,000 fire at Kalamazoo. 9. $750,000 fire at Milwaukee. 13. Whisky trust declared Illegal. 16. Greenville, Ohio, has a $225,000 fire. 17. H. J. Aldrich fails for $1,000,000 at Denver... .Deadly storms sweep the Missouri Valley... .Opening of Harlem ship canal.

20. Opening of Kiel ship canal. 21. Rosebery’s ministry defeated... .Two fatally, ten badly hurt, by explosion on whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Columbus at Chicago. 26. Six firemen killed at Minneapolis; SIOO,000 loss. .. .$2,000,000 fire at San Francisco. 29. Death of Prof. Thos. Huxley at London. July. 3. Daughter born to the Clevelands. 7. Terrific storm at Chicago. .. .Six drowned at Lake Geneva, Wls. .. .Michigan swept by forest fires. 10. Christian Endeavor assembles at Boston. 14. Destructive storm in North Dakota.. Three drown at South Haven, Mich... .Seven accidental fatalities at Chicago. .. .Nine killed by storm in New York and New Jersey. 16. Beginning of Horr-Harvey debate at Chicago. 17. First appearance of bloomers at a ball, in Chicago... .Three Cincinnati firemen killed. 18. Nine miners Imprisoned by cave-in at Iron Mountain. Mich. .. .British ship Prince Oscar and .unknown vessel sink in collision; 40 perish. 19. Rescue of Iron Mountain miners.... Cleveland baby named Marlon. 21. Drowning of 148 Italians, by sinking in collision of steamer Marla 1’....F0ur killed at grade crossing at Williamston, Mass. .. .$400,000 fire in National Linseed Oil Company’s Chicago warehouse. 22. Report of killing of seventeen Indians near Jackson’s Hole, Wyoming; grave trouble imminent. 23. Furious storm in Pennsylvania coke region.. ..L. S. & M. 8. train held up in Ohio; $7,000 stolen. 25. Thirty-two miners killed by explosion in Westphalia. 31. Sixteen perish in a cloudburst in Colorado and Wyoming.... Menominee, Mich., has a $500,000 fire. AllßllSt. 4. False report of race war at Spring Valley, 111., between Italian and negro miners... Murder of British missionaries In China... . $1,000,000 fire at Sprague, Wash. 7. Death of George F. Root, the famous composer. 8. Thirteen killed and many injured by falling building in New York. .Death of Supreme Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee. 10. $200,000 fire at Lockport, 111. 11. $500,000 fire at Newark, N. J......F0ur killed In a wreck at Bainbridge, Ohio. 13. $300,000 fire at Philadelphia. 18. Holocaust in Denver hotel; 25 killed.... Seven drown at Ocean City, Md. 20. Trains held up on the C. & W. M., near Fennville, Mich., and on the Union Pacific near North Platte, Neb.... Eight killed and eight injured by explosion at Braddock, Pa. 22. Milwaukee loses $382,000 by fire.... Gentry loses stallion pacing championship to Patchen. 26-7-8. Heavy rains In corn belt; severe storms accompanied by fatalities in Illinois and Ohio. 29. Fifteen miners drown at Central City, Col. September. 2. One hundred people hurt on the Sea Beach road, Long Island. 3. Furious storm in central Northern States. 4. $300,000 fire at Boston. 6. Triple murder In Sullivan County, Ind. 7. Forty-two miners perish in a burning mine at Calumet, Mich. .. .Defender defeats Valkyrie In first cup contest by nine minutes. 8. Five killed by dynamite near Dubuque, lowa. 9. Opening of G A. R. encampment at Louisville. 10. Valkyrie fouls Defender at the start, and wins second heat of yacht race by 47 seconds; race given to Defender ou protest ....Temperature 97 degrees at Chicago. 11. Seven killed by exploding caisson at Louisville... .Six killed in collision on Great Northern. 12. America cup goes to Defender, Valkyrie refusing to sail... .Seventy-five hurt by fall of a grand stand at Louisville, Ky.... News of death of 300 by earthquake in Honduras. .. .Ex-Queen LUluokalanl pardoned by Hawaiian Government. 16. Six killed In a wreck at Lynchtfurg, Va. 17. Atlanta Exposition opened... .Phenomenal beat In Kansas; 107 degrees. 18. Dedication of Chickamauga-Chatta-nooga National Military Park. 19. Spanish cruiser and 46 men lost In collision off Cuba.. .Steamship Edam sunk In collision; all saved... .Six die of heat In Chicago. 23. Great losses on upper lakes by storm. 28. Death of Pasteur at Paris. 29. Twenty-four lake vessels meet disaster In a storm... .Retirement of Gen. Schofield. 30. Continued gales on the lakes; schooner Elma and eight people lost on Pictured Rocks. .. .Mammoth mass meeting at Chicago declares sympathy for Cuba. .. .National League season closed, Baltimore winning. October. 1. Destructive gales on British coast.... Cuba declares her independence. 2. Texas special Legislature prohibits pugilism. 3. Million dollar fire at Warren, R. I. 7. Seven killed by explosion in a Wilkesbarre, Pa., mine... .Masked bandits successfully hold up a Chicago electric car. 9. Anniversary of big Chicago fire... .Five die by fire in Cincinnati. .. .Steamer Africa and crew of eleven lost In Owen Sound.... Geotgla father kills his nine children... .Six children burned to death at Snider, Ont. 12. SIOO,OOO fire loss at Duluth. 13. Four killed, twelve hurt, on a Pittsburg trolley car... .Five burn to death In a Manitoba prairie fire; immense property loss. 19. $150,000 saw-mill fire at Minneapolis. 20. Half-million dollar Are at New Orleans; 1,000 people homeless. .. .First snowstorm of season at Chicago; Erie, Pa., has a fall of ten inches. 22. President Cleveland welcomed to Atlanta... .$175,000 linseed oil mill fire at Chicago. 21. Lake Shore train runs from Chicago to Buffalo, 510 miles, in 7 hours 50 minutes 20 seconds, running time, beating world’s record. 26. Three killed by explosion of tug boiler at Chicago... .Sheriff and posse at Tiffin, Ohio, kill two of a lynching mob,.. .Burning of Virginia’s State University. 29. Negro criminal burned at the stake In Texas. ...$200,000 fire in Springfield, Ohio ....Two killed, three fatally hurt, in a collision In St. Louis. 31. Earthquake throughout the central belt of the United Statesfno fatalities, little damage. November. 1. Earthquake at Rome... .Durrant found guilty of murder at San Francisco. 2. H. H. Holmes found guilty of murder of Benjamin Pitxel at Philadelphia. 3. Four killed in B. & O. wreck near Wheel-

ing, W. Va... .Four burned to death in New York tenement house fire. 5. Death of Eugene Field at Chicago....* $300,000 fire at Decatur, Hl. 5. Republican landslide. .. .$1,500,000 fire in New York. 6. Forty killed by boiler explosion in Detroit, Mich., Journal building... .Ryan family of six die in their burning nouse at Brooklyn. 11. Chicago dailies reduce to latent. 16. Twenty killed in a street car accident at Cleveland. 0hi0... .Death of Dr. 8. F. Smith, author of “America," at 805t0n.... News of another massacre by Turks in Armenia; 800 slain... .Consolidation of Chicago Journal and Press. 19. Furious snow and wind storm In Northwest.... Lowell. Mass.; Dallas, Texas; and Purcell. I. T„ have big fires. 21. $600,000 fire in Springer Building, Chicago... .Eugene V. Debs released from Woodstock, 111., jail... .Sultan of Turkey forced to a peace policy by the powers, after be had countenanced many Armenian massacres. 22. Five firemen lose life in a $500,000 Chicago blase... .Release from Jail and enthusiastic reception of E. V. Debs, labor leader, at Chicago... .Foreign fleets rendezvous in the Dardanelles. 25. Tremendous damage at Chicago by storm of snow, sleet and rain; all car lines blocked, wires down... .Fire at Chicago does $200,000 damage.,. .Seventy killed by explosion In cartridge factory at Palma, Island of Majorca. 26. Three vessels go ashore at Glencoe, Ill.| crews of 26 men saved ...Riot in Jackson, Mich., prison. 27. Death of Alexandre Dumas, Jr., at Paris. 28. Day of doom for the turkey... .Football games: Michigan beats Chicago; Boston and Chicago, tie; Pennsylvania defeats Cornell; Purdue defeats Illinois: Louisville wins from De Pauw; Columbia Athletic dowus Columbia University; Brown defeats Dartmouth. December. 2. Assembling of Fifty-fourth Congress: Reed elected Speaker of the House. .. .Zero weather tn Northwest. Further massacres fa Armenia. 7. $350,000 fire in San Francisco.., .Europe storm-swept; British boat and twenty-seven sailors lost off Scotland. 8. s6oo,ooofires In Chicago... .Death ofGe.o A. Sala. London Journalist... .Tug Campbell and seven men lost In Lake Superior. 9. Chilton, Wls., razed by tire. 10. St. Louis gets next National Republican Convention... .Sultan permits guard ships to pass Dardanelles... .Harry Hayward hanged at Minneapolis. 11. Burning of Catholic Orphan Asylum at Milwaukee; 200 children rescued. .. .Steamer Germanic sinks the Cambrae, at London; no lives 105t....M0b threatens Kansas Medical College at Topeka, because of grave-robbing. 12. Death of Allen G. Thurman at Columbus, Ohio. 15. German ship Athena with a cargo of naphtha explodes off Cape May; 14 lives lost. 17. Cleveland's Venezuelan message arouses great enthusiasm at home aud astounds Great Britain. .. .Philadelphia In the hands of a mob during a strike. 18. Explosion on liner St. Paul killed six men and injured five... .House passes SIOO,000 appropriation for Venezuela commission ....Rioting In Philadelphia; entire street railway service suspended... .Death of Capt. Isaac Bassett, doorkeeper of the Senate. 19. Thirty-six lives lost In Newfoundland fishing fleet by storm. .. .Forty-three killed in a North Carolina mine... .Tremendous rainfall at Chicago. 20. Panic on Wall street... .Senate unanimously passes House bill for Venezuelan commission... .Cleveland sends financial message to Congress. .. .Twenty-four miners at Dayton, Tenn., killed... .Unprecedented flood at Chicago.

PUFFING THE PLAY.

“A New York Success’’—Abuse of Press Courtesy. The United States is a broad aud busy country, and it is well supplied with excellent journals, says the Forum. As is natural and unavoidable, these generally take their tone in treating dramatic affairs from those of the metropolis. What is said and done iu New York about plays and actors is published all over the union as quickly as the wires and press can spread the news. Consequently the theatrical business of the entire country is managed from New York. That is why actors, managers and the minor personages of stage life flock to New York. That is why for many years past it has been possible for the wily speculator in rotten dramatic lumber io set up a flimsy stage structure, held together only by the adhesive qualities of paint and printers’ ink, and—by keeping a New York theater open and empty for its exhibition for a stated term of weeks at the expense of $3,000 or $4,000 a week, and by a continual pestering of the good-natured journalist—to obtain a sufficient amount of notice of his “great New York success!” to enable him to travel throughout the country with his “show,” and gather a rich harvest from those who are eager to see What sort of plays please the people of the great city. Of course the “show” soon falls to pieces from the weight of its own worthlessness, am} the seeds of general contempt for New York's good taste in theatrical matters are sown broadcast. But no matter. The enterprising speculator, now well in funds, returns to New York and is soon upon the full tide of another like venture. Year after year this sort of thing goes on. But the people of the East, South and West are becoming wise and wary. The “business” Is not so good now as it once was in those often-deluded sections. One of the roots of our theatrical troubles upon which the ax should fall quickly and Sharply is this abuse of the press courtesy—first extended in good nature toward the struggling artist, but now demanded as a right by the brass-band “show boomer.”

Swiss Advertising.

The practical Swiss have hit upon an original method of advertising which it Is sincerely to be hoped will not become universal. Visitors staying at the lake of Geneva this summer have been astonished to behold the surface of the water ornamented with the name of a certain paper sparkling in golden beams upon the waves. How this miracle was contrived was at first a mystery, but the explanation is very simple. Large black lacquered placards, with raised gilt letters coated with some varnish which resists wet, are sunk and fastened securely to the ground, and, of course, the rays of the sun striking up on them brings the reflection to th* surface. Some of the finest views in Switzerland are already sufficiently disfigured by advertisements—the majority, be It said with sorrow, generally setting forth the superlative excellence of some article of English ture; but the tastelessness of this latest Idea would surely be difficult to surpass. and happily It cannot be placed to our discredit.—The Lady’s Pictorial.

Game.

The Yorkshire gamekeepers have an ingenious way of protecting their hares from poachers. They net the hflres at the various gates and stiles through which they pass, and then let them go again. The result is the hares are so frightened that they will never go through a gate again, and when the poacher sets his net there for them ha is surprised to see them jump over the fence. | i “Hail to the Chief” Is a- song in the second canto of Scott’s “Lady of the Lake.” It is a boat song, designed to imitate those of the Scottish boatmen. The melody was written by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop. Our hardest battles are those we fight with ourselves.

REAL RURAL READING

WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. The Farm ae an Investment Brings Better Returns than Many Business Transactions—A Serviceable Hoisting Device—Farm Notes. A Hoisting Device. The accompanying illustration represents a simple device which is of great service when butchering. The uprights a and b are 4x4’s, or ordinary post Unifier 10 to 12 feet long. They are set into the ground two or three feet, five feet apart. To the tops of these fasten e f with bolts or spikes. Place c and d In position, secure the upper ends at e *and f, and set the lower ends firmly In

HOISTING DEVICE.

the ground. For h use an old shaft or a piece of hard wood and fasten It to c aud d as indicated in the Illustration. Attach one end of the two ropes x and y to h and run them through the pulleys attached to the crosspiece e f. Fasten these ropes to the hind legs of the animal to be lifted. If one rope and a gambrel is preferred, attach It to the middle of h and run through a pulley at m. Two ropes are preferable. By this apparatus one man can lift the heaviest carcass. A wagon box bottom side up may be placed between a and b for a platform.—American Agriculturist. Entrance to a Walk. Many homes are approached by sidewalks across the lawn or yard to the Side or back door. Where these walks enter the grounds It Is possible to arrange shrubbery In a way to make the entrance artistically effective. The

ARTISTIC GATEWAY.

chief point to be borne in mind is that the gateway should be flanked on either side by shrubbery or small trees. Tlie path should also curve as it enters one’s grounds, and If the shrubbery is carried along a little way on the outer side of the path, the entrance will be hidden entirely from the grounds—a very attractive feature. The Farm ae an Investment. Those who complain that the farm doesn’t pay would often find that after summing up the situation that the showing is not so bad after all, as compared with business in the city, says the Massachusetts Ploughman. Secretary Morton, In his annual report, Illustrates the point by supposing a transfer of $4,000 agriculturally Invented In each average farm of 137 acres, with stock, tools, etc., to be the choicest Wall street Investment. Risk that money in railroad first mortgage bonds, In bank stocks, or In any other alleged safe security which may be found a favorite among shylocks, brokers, plutocrats, monopolists, money-power manipulators and multi-mlllfonalres, and if It returns 6 per cent, it Is a remarkably profitable Investment In the eyes of capitalists. Therefore, $240 is the annual income. Follow the transfer of the farm money with that of the farm family to urban residence. Now, with the same labor in the city or village, asks the Secretary, can they attain by hard work every day In the year, adding their wages to the $240 Income, as much of Independence, wholesome living and real comfort as the same amount of money in the land and the same heads and hands‘working on the so?! generously and healthfully bestowed upon them, In the sweet quiet of a home, amid flowers, trees, fruits and abundance, on the farm?

Hedges as Crop Destroyers. The Hedge is not so popular as it used to be, and is destined to be less so as land becomes scarcer and more valuable. Even when closely trimmed the hedge destroys the crops for several feet on either side. In England hedges are much more common than here, but it is mainly because England lacks other fencing material. The English hedges are, however, carefully trimmed and the parts pruned off have the advantage of being worth more as kindlings for coal than the cost of the labor required to secure them. Storing Onions. Onions, like other bulbs, can be easily preserved if kept dry, and although, if this is observed, they will stand a considerable range of temperature, it is desirable that they have a temperature of from thirty-five to forty-five degrees. When In a damp room they start readily, especially if at high temperature, and as spring approaches the buds start even if kept comparatively cool. Care should be taken not to store onions in too large bulk, and to prevent heating they should be in shallow blns or in crates. The Value of the Silo. The next thing we had to learn was how to grow what was to be put Into ft. We had the corn In drills, using two and one-half bushels of seed to the acre, and getting weakly, sickly stalks that a storm would knock flat, says the Philadelphia Ledger. This, as I have said, we at first cut green, but the second year we let it get a little more mature, and we found we had done well, as it was better. Our next lesson was that a half bushel of seed was better than the five times as much we had been using, and, with more space between the rows and hills, it gave us more product. Then we improved it still more by letting it get riper before cutting.

It took many doltais and much expert* menting and study to find out all .that is known now—more than those who are now being benefited by the results of the experience realize. Anyone with a dairy of ten cows and upwards should have a silo. Nothing can be grown upon an acre of ground that will give as great return as corn for the silo. No other kind of corn fodder haa given us anything like the sams satisfaction as ensilage. It is a milkgiving food, but wheat bran is necessary to give the balanced ration. Now we cut the corn when the ears begin ta glaze, cutting all of It, cars, blade and I stalk, and putting it in. Another lea. son we learned was that pressure is not necessary. One Way to Save Money. During the winter many convenlencea and necessary farm tools and implements can be made in the home workhouse, says the Agriculturist. Hayracks, wagon beds, swing gates, water troughs and tanks, sleds, tool racks, stalk rakes, chicken coops, shipping crates and berry boxes are simple in construction. Any bright farmer, with the assistance of a blacksmith, can make all of these and more. The expense will be much less than if bought in town or hired made. The tools which every well-regulated farm ought to possess will answer. We have«in mind a young farmer who does all this kind of work, and he is prospering in spite of hard times, cheap products, etc. He raises as much grain and stock as his neighbors who buy everything “ready” made, and has much more “ready” cash. Try your hand at it when the jveather prevents outside work. Many kitchen things are also easily made. Home-Made Sausages. The sausages that come on the farmer’s table ought always to be home made. Those which are purchased in the butcher shops are almost always made of meat that Is nearly ready to decay, and the high seasoning they get with spices is for the purpose of concealing their unwholesomeness. A wellmade sausage is not at all unwholesome, though it is usually harder to digest than meat not so highly spiced. The home-made sausage ought to have not more than one-fourth of its meat fat. Most boughten sausages contain more fat than this, the sausage being used to get rid of fat meat that would not be otherwise salable. Care in Keeping Apples. There are greater difllculties in marketing fruit successfully than in marketing any other farm product. Even the best keeping apples will waste enough under ordinary care between fall and spring to more than offset their Increased price at the latter season. Most farm cellars are too warm to store fruit successfully, and if ventilated to keep them cool, it makes the living rooms above too cold. A cellar built by Itself half above ground and half below is best for storing fruit This can be ventilated, and in the very coldist weather a stove can be heated to prevent danger of the fruit freezing.

Feeding Cora in the Ear. The Western Dent corn does not dry out so quickly as the Flint varieties. It has more weight per bushel of ears, especially if the kernels are well filled out. In cold weather or on poor soil the Dent corn will much of it be light and chaffy, especially toward the tip end. The Flint corn is less likely to be chaffy, but if the season Is unfavorable, more or less of it will not be filled out to the end. Where the pollenizatlou is deficient the corn wllj bo scattering on the cob, though the kernels will bo larger and better than when they are compressed in an ear where there is not a missing grain. Keeping Cabbage. Most people bury cabbage for winter use, says l'da Keys, In the Agriculturist, and, if properly done, It is the very best way to keep them. They are, however, not easily got at when the ground is frozen or covered with snow. A part of the crop may be satisfactorily kept as follows: Trim the heads very closely, wrap in newspapers and pack in barrels. Set In a cool cellar and use as needed. They will not dry out or decay as when placed In the cellar without protection. If this process is followed, a quantity can be taken from the ground at one time. Keeping Hogs in Barnyards. We know many farmers who make a practice of wintering their hogs in the barnyard, letting them gather refuse that would otherwise be wasted. It is a good plan where the other animals are stabled and fed, so that the hogs will not annoy them by soiling their feed. If cattle are fed whole grain a few hogs will get much of their living by eating grain voldfed in an undigestible state. In such cases the hogs often get quite is much benefit from grain so fed as do the animals to which it is given.—American Cultivator. Selecting Garden Seeds. The question whether farmers should grow or purchase garden seeds must depend on circumstances. They never should grow seeds for use that will be less pure and true to name than those which they can purchase. Nor should they grow seeds from the later settings of peas, beans, corn and other vegetables of which the first have been used on the table. Nothing deteriorates seeds so much as this practice, and if continued the plants will quickly become not worth growing. Xce-Honses for Farmers. Every farmer who lives where ice can be conveniently cut should own an ice house. It will probably pay as large a profit every year as any investment of like cost he can make. Besides, it is (always convenient to have ice for the refrigerator so as to preserve meats and fruits Uh At wotild otherwise 'go 1 td waste, tn the dairy ice is essential to making good butter in hot weather, and also to keep it in good condition. • V, j , Drive Good Stock. We hare for a long time judged the farmer fly the horse he drives. This animal, more than all others, indicates the condition of the farm. Show us a man with a fat, sleek span of spirited animals, and we will show you a farin in good tilth, neat Improvements and everything wearing a prosperous look.

Explained at Last.

Theory: Tommy—Paw, why is it the good die young? Mr. Figg—They don*t die young because tW are good, but they stay good because they die young.—lndianapolis Journal.

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

THE PREACHER DISCOURSES ON CHRIST S MISSION. The World’eGreat Emancipators Were All of Lowly Birth—The Offender’s Hope—The Season of Forbearance and Forgiveness—Good Will to Men. A Christmas Carol. In his sermon Sunday Dr. Talmage chose the universal theme of the season — the Christmastide. The text selected was, “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem.’’—Matthew ii., 1. At miduight from one of the galleries of the sky a chant broke. To an ordinary observer there was no reason for such a celestial demonstration. A poor man and wife—travelers, Joseph and Mary by name —had lodged in au outhouse of au unimportant village. The supreme hour of solemnity had passed, and upon the pallid forehead and cheek of Mary God had set the dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness, the everlasting and divine significance of motherhood. But such scenes had often occurred in Bethlehem, yet never before had a star been unfixed or had a baton of light marshaled over the hills winged orchestra. If there had been such brilliant nnd mighty recognition at an advent in the house of Pharaoh, or at an advent in the house of Caesar, or the house of Hapsburg, or the house of Stuart, we would not so much have wondered, but a barn seems too poor a center for such a delicate aud archangelic circumference. The stage seems too small for so great an act, the music too grand for such unappreciative auditors, the window of the stable too rude to be serenaded by other worlds. It is my joy to tell you what was born that night in the village barn, and as I want to make my discourse accumulative and climacteric I begin in the first place by telling you that that night in the Bethlehem manger was horn encouragement for all the poorly started. He had only two friends—they his parents. No satin lined cradle, no delicate attentions, but straw, and the cattle, and the coarse joke and banter of the camel drivers. No wonder the mediaeval painters represent the oxen kneeling before the infant Jesus, for there were no men there nt that time to worship. From the depths of that poverty ho rose until to-day ho is honored iu nil Christendom and sits on the imperial throne in heaven. Miglitest Name in Christendom. What name is mightiest to-day in Christendom? Jesus. Who has more friends on earth than any other being? Jesus. Before whom do the most thousands kneel in chapel and church and cathedral this hour? Jesus. From what depths of poverty to what height of renown! And so let all those who are poorly started remember that they' cannot be more poorly born or more disadvantngcously than this Christ. Let them look up to his example while they have time and eternity to imitate it. Do yon know that the vast majority of the world’s deliverers had barniiko birthplaces? Luther, the emancipator of religion. born among the mines. Shakspeare, the emancipator of literature, born in an humble home at Stratford-on-Avon. Columbus, the discoverer of a world, born in poverty at Genoa. Hogarth, the discoverer of how to make art accumulative nnd administrative of virtue, born in a humble home in Westmoreland. Kitto and I’ridenux, whose keys unlocked new apartments in the Holy Scriptures which had never been entered, born in want. Yes, 1 have to tell you that nine out of ten of the world’s deliverers were born in want.

I stir your holy ambitions to-day, and I want to tell you, although the whole world may be opposed to you, und inside nnd outside of your occupations or professions there may be those who would hinder your ascent, on your side nnd enlisted in your behalf are the smypathctic heart and tho almighty arm of one who one Christmas night about eighteen hundred and ninety-five years ago was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. Oh, what magnificent encouragement for the poorly started. Sacrifice for the World. Again, I have to tell you that iu that village barn that night was born good will to men, whether you call It kindness, or forbearance, pr forgiveness, or geniality, or affection, or love. It was no sport of high heaven to send its favorite to that humiliation. It wns sacrifice for a rebellious world. After tho calamity iu paradise, not only did the ox begin to gore, and the adder to sting, nnd the elephant to smite with his tusk, nnd the lion to put to bad use tooth and paw, but under the very tree from which the forbidden fruit wns plucked were hatched out war and revenge and malice and envy aud jealousy and the whole brood of cockatrices. But against that scene I set the Bethlehem manger, which says, “Bless rather than curse, endure rather than assault," and that Christmas night puts out vindictiveness. It says, “Sheathe your sword, dismount your guns, dismantle your batteries, turn the warship Constellation, that carries shot and shell, into a grain ship to take food to famishing Ireland, hook your cavalry horses to the plow, use your deadly gunpowder in blasting rocks and in patriotic celebration, stop your lawsuits, quit writing anonymous letters, extract the sting from your sarcasm, let your wit coruscate but nev<£ burn, drop all the harsh words out of your vocabulary—‘Good will to men.’ ” “Oh," you say, “I can’t exercise it. I won’t exercise it until they apologize. I won’t forgive them until they ask me to forgive them.” You are no Christian then —I say you are no Christian, or you are a very inconsistent Christian. If you forgive not men their trespasses, how can you expect your heavenly Father to forgive you? Forgive them if they ask your forgiveness, and forgive them anyhow. Shake hands all around. **Good will to men."

O my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into all our hearts this Christmas time! I tell you what the world wants more than anything else—more helping hands, more sympathetic hearts, more kind words that never die, more disposition to give other 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 find our happiness in making others happy. ' Good Will to Men. Out of that Bethlehem crib let the bear and the lipn cat straw like an ox. “Good vyill to men.” That principle will yet settle all controversies, and under it the world will keep on improving until there will be ou)y two antagonists in all the earth, and they will side by side take the jubilant sleigh ride intimated by the prophet when he said, “Holiness shall be on the be|]s of the horses.” Again, I remark that born that Christmas night in the village barn was sympathetic union with other worlds. From that supernatural grouping of the cloud banks over Bethlehem and from the especial trains that ran down to the scene I find that our world is beautifully and gloriously and magnificently surrounded. The meteors are with us, for one of them ran to point down to the birthplace. The heavens are with us, because at the thought of our redemption they roll hosan-< nas out of the midnight sky. Oh, yes, I do not know ,but our world may be better surrounded than we have sometimes imagined, and when a child is born angels bring it, and when it dies Angela take it, and when an old man

trtitrtr the weight of >eara angel* uphold him, and when a heart break* angels soothe it. Angels in the hospital to take care of the sick. Angels in the cemetery to watch our dead. Angels it) the church ready to fly heavenward with the hews - of repentant seuts. Angela above the world. Angels under the world. An. gels all around the world. Human Imperfection. Rub the dust of human imperfection out of your eyes and look into the heavens and see angels of pity, angels of mercy, angels of pardon, angels of help, angels crowned, angels charioted. The work) defended by angels, girdled by angelsj cohorted by angels—clouds of angels. Hear David cry out, “The chariots of God' are 20,000, even thousands of angels.” But the mightiest angel stood not that night in the clouds over Bethlehem} the mightiest angel that night Hy among the cattle—the angel of the new covenant. As the clean white linen was being wraped around the little form of that child emperor, not a clierob, not a seraph, not an angel, not a world but wept and thrilled and shouted. Oh, yes, our world has plenty of sympathizers! Our world is only a silver rung of a great ladder at the top of which is our Father’s house. Na more stellar solitariness for our world, no other friendless planets spun out into space to freeze, but a world in the bosom of divine maternity, a star harnessed to a manger. Again, I remark that that night born in that village barn was the offender’s hope. Some sermonizers may say I ought to have projected this thought at the beginning of the sermon. Oh, no! I wanted you to rise toward it. I wanted you to examine the carnelians and the jaspers and the crystals before I showed you the Kohinoor—the crown jewel of the nges. Oh, that jewel had a very poor setting! The cub of bear is born amid the grand old pillars of the forest, the whelp of lion takes its first step from the junglo of luxuriant leaf and wild flower, the kid of gout is born in cavern chandellered with stalactite and pillared with stalagmite. Christ wns born in a bare barn. Chrlat’a Mission. Yet that nativity wns the offender's hope. Over the door of heaven are written these words, “None but the sinlesa may enter here." “Oh, horror,” you say, "that shuts us all out." No. Christ camo to tlie world in one door and he departed through another door. He came through the door of the manger, and he departed through the door of the sepulcher, and his one business was so to wash away our sin that after we are dead there will be no more sin about us than about the eternal God, I know that is putting it strongly, but that is what I understand by full remission. All erased, all washed away, all scoured out, all gone. That undergirdling and overarching and irradiating aud Imparadising possibility for you, and for me, und for the whole race—that wns given that Christmas night. Do you wonder we bring flowers to-day to celebrate such nn event? Do you wonder that we take organ and youthful voice nnd queenly soloist to celebrate it? Do you wonder that Raphael nnd Rubens nnd Titinn and Giotto nnd Ghirlandnjo, nnd all the old Italian nnd German painters gave the mightiest stroke of their genius to sketch tho Madonna, Mary nnd her boy?

The Rtur of Christmas, Oh! now I see what tho manger was. Not so high the gilded and jeweled and embroidered cradle of tho Henry* of England, or the Louis of France, or the Fredericks of Prussia. Now I find out that that Bethlehem crib fed not so much the oxen of the stall us the white horses of Apocalyptic vislpn. Now I find ths swaddling clothes enlarging and emblazoning into on imperial robe for a conqueror. Now I find that the star of that Christinas night was only the diamonded sandal of him who hath the moon under his feet. Now I come to understand that the music of that night was not a completed song, but only the stringing of the Instruments for a great chorus of two worlds, tho bass to be carried by earthly nations saved, and tho soprano by kingdoms of glory wo*. Oh, heaven, heaven, heaven! I shall meet you there. After all our imperfections 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 reunion. 1 expect to see you thero as certainly as I see you here. 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, “Come around and comfort us, for we loved her so much.” Reason of Rejoicing* What a Christmas morning it will make when those with whom you used to keep the holidays are all around you in heaven! Silver-hnired old father young again, and mother who had so many aches and pains and decrepitudes well again, and all your brothers and sisters and the little ones. How glad they will be to see you! They have been waiting. The last time they saw your face it was covered with tears and distress, and pallid from long watching, and one of them I can Imagine to-day, with one hand holding fast the shining gate, and the other hand swung out toward you, saying: Steer this way, father, steer straight for me, Here safe in heaven I am waiting for thee.

Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when they went back after the concert that night over the hills, forgot to shut the doorl ’ All the secret is out. No more use of trying to hide from us the glories to come. It is too late to shut the gate. 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 Christmas transfiguration. What almost unmans me is the thought that it is provided for such sinners as you and I huve been. If it had been provided only for those who had always thought right, and spoken right, and acted right, you and I would have had no interest in it, had no share in it. You and I would have stuck to the raft in midocean and let the ship sail by carrying perfect passengers from a perfect life on earth to a perfect life in heaven. But I have heard the commander of that ship is the same great and glorlbus and sympathetic one who hushcd<the tempest around the boat on Galilee, and I have heard that all the passengers on thp ship are sinners saved by grace. And so we hail the Ship, and it bears down this way, and, we conie by the side of it and ask the captain two questions: “Who art thou? And whence?” And he says, “I am Captain of salvation, and !am from the manger:’’ Oh, bright Christmas morning of my soul’s delight I Chime all the bells. Merft ’Christmas! Merry with the thought of sftis forgiven, merry with the idea of sorrows comforted, merry with the raptures tOj come. Oh, lift that Christ from the manger and Jay him down in all our hearts! We may not bring to him as costly a present as the Magi brought, but we bring to his feet and to the manger to-day the frankincense of onr joy, the prostration of our worship. Down at his feet, all churches, all ages, all earth, all heaven. Down at his feet, the four and twenty elders on their faces. Down, the. “great multitude that no man can number.”' Down, Michael, the archangpl! Down, all worlds at his feet and worship. “Glory to God in the highest* and on earth peace, good will to menf*