Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1886 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1886.

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For tbeskin, Complexion, Kruptocs Chapping, Kouuhnes. i. of druggists. LIKBIG CO.'S Genuine Syrnp of Sarsapiriila is guaranteed as the best carsapariila in the market. N. Y. DEPOT, 3S MURRAY ST. Yalne of Hoot Crop. The director of the Massachusetts agrieultTiral eiperirnental station savs in his ana aal recrt; The importance quite generally onceded to the introduction of a liberal cultiTation of root crops in a mixed farm management, w herever a deep soil and the general character of the climate favors their normal development, rests mainly on the following considerations: They furnish, if properly manured and cultivated, an exceptionally larjre quantity of valuable vegetable matter tit for fodder for various kinds of farm live stock, competing in this direction favorably with our Lest green fodder crops-; and they pay well, on account of lare returns for the" necessary care bestowed upon them by a thorough, leep cultivation to Keet success. The physical conditiousof the foil, however favorable they may have been for tie production of crops of a similar c'anra:tT, will suii'er if year after year the same system of cultivation is carried out. Diversity in the mechanical treatment of the soil, and change of season for such treatment, can ot ... otherwise but atlect advantageously its mechanical condition and degree of its chemical disintegration, promoting thereby its fitness for retaining inherent plant food, as well as its power of turning to account atmospheric resources of pi tut prowth. The roots of the same plants abstract their food, year after year, from the time layer of soil, while a change of crops with reference to a different root system renders it possible to make all parts of the agricultural soil contribute in a desirable succession toward an economical production of the crops to be raised. Deep-rooting plants, like our prominent root crops, for this reason, deserve a particular consideration in the planning of a rational system of rotation of crops. The fodder supplied by roots, although somewhat peculiar in its. composition when compared with that ootamed from many of our prominent fodder plants, where the upper part of the plants furnishes the main Lnlk, maj', nevertheless, serve as a very val nable constituent in the diet of various kinds -of farm live stock, when properly supplemented by oil cakes, grain, bran, hay, etc. The various kinds of roots usually raised on farms for feeding pui poses differ essentially in regard to the amount of dry vegetable matter they contain. Turnips contain from 7 to 8 per cent.; ordinary mangolds, from 11 to 12 per cent ; improved beets, Vi per cent. ; carrots, from 15 to Vi per cent. ; sugar beets, from IS to JO per cent, of solids, or, in other words, one ton of improved sugar beets is equal to from two to two and eue-haif tons of ordinary turnips, so far as the amount of riry matter is concerned. Garden Work far April. New lawns can be seeded all through this month, says Vick's Magazine, but the earlier the better. About four bushels of mixed lawn gra.3 seed to the acre is needed, or the eame quantity of Kentucky blue grass, or from three to four bushels of red top. Asa rule, the best results will follow the use of the mised Jawn grass seed. Sow the teed when the soil is dry, having the surface freshly raked, mellow and tine, taking advantage of a time when there is no wind, and sowing the seed as evenly as it can be distributed with the hand; afterward rake it lightly, and then roll the ground. All lawns should now have any bits of rubbish on them removed, and le faked well to remove dead grass and leaves, and be well rolled as soon as the ground has settled after the frost is out. From three to six pounds to the square rod of good 8Uerphostate is a frood dressing to give the grass a start. This is the time in all the northern region to prur.e roses, which should always be done while the plants are dormant. If grape vines were not pruned last month, as they should have been, they should not be lonter neglected. Transplanting of all kinds of hardy plants will occupy much of the gardener's attention this month. It should not be done when the soil is wet. but . only when in a friable condition. I) j not slight the work in setting plants of any kind, from strawberries to apple trees sa that holes large enovgu are prepared, an 1 the roots spread out, and then fittel in with line soil all about them which is firmly pressed home, with the hands in the case of the small plant!, and larger ones, such as trees and shrubs, with the foot. Get in peas early, , and make successive plantings of them. If the ground should freeze after sowiEg them no harm will be done. Sow seed of celery, cauliflower, cabbage, and kohl rati in cold frames or in the open ground in awarnpot. Saw lettuce, radish and onion seed. Lo not delay to sow tomato and eggplant seed in cold fiame or gentle hot-bed if it ha.? not already been done. Delay planting beans, corn and melons until the ground is warm and there is no longer fear of frost, tow sweet peas, and start .seeds of annuals of all those kinds that can be transplanted to advantage. Cultivating lilarkberries. In an essay published in the transactions of the American I'omolojncal Society, Mr. (!. Cowing writes: "A rich and well drained clay soil i3 most favorable to the blackberry. On such a soil I have never known some of the most hardy sorts to be injured by the most intense cold, while I have seen them much injured or killed in more sterile jKrotad, Thjs docs, not acccii with the be

lief of many, who claim that a rich soil canses a rank growth which is easily winter killed. Cultivation late in autumn should be avoided, and the plants should be allowed to rest and mature their wood. A deep and rich soil is necessary to the production of large and luscious .fruit. To prevent the effects of drought, I regard ä heavy mulch of leaves or straw as better than cultivation. The best wHd blackberries are always found near brush heaps or rotten logs. In planting the rows should be seven or eight feet apart. The plants should be two feet apart in the row, and I have found strong sucker plants to be quite as satisfactory as those from root cuttings. I recently pruned some rows of tbe Taylor kind from sucker plants, transplanted sixteen months before; they were generally three and a half feet high, three xeet across the top, and presented the dense and compact appearance of a well kept Lede. For pruuiug such a line of plants a grass book or sickle is the best. To save time and labor, it has often been my practice when planting blackberries to p'.ant strawberries in rows with them and m rows midway between them. Some of my best strawberries this season were from plants set last year along with blackberries. All blackberry plants, when three feet high, should have their terminal buds Hipped, to force them to throw out lateral shoots. A. severe nipping is often necessary 1o produce a compact and sturdy growth capable of resisting strong wind. The berries should not be picked until sweet nor oftener than twice a week if intended for a home market, nor after being picked should they be exposed to a burning sun, as such exposure will change their Color from black to red. and give them a bitter flavor. But few varieties of blackberry worthy of general cultivation have yet been tested. The I.awton, introduced about twenty-nine years ago, was the lirst generally cultivated. Kittatinny followed it, and proved slightly hardier and of better ilavor, but very liable to rust, and not sufficiently hardy to be reliable in the West. Snyder, Taylor and Wallace, all originating in Indiana, and Stone, from Wisconsin, have since been introduced and found to be the only sorts that can be profitably planted west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. Thev are ah remarkably productive, vigor

ous, free from disease, and of the most lu3ciou iiavor. Miyder is the first to ripen, and its earliness is a strong point in its favor; when crown on rich ground its berries are above medium size. The berries of Taylor and Wallace are larger than those of Snyder, and are hardly equaled in their exquisite flavor by those of any other variety, and I can think of no reason why they should not prove profitable in the South. Strawberry Culture. A Kentucky correspondent of the Com mercial a.ette, oi Cincinnati, writes: ror the matted row system, mark the rows from three and a half to four feet apart, and set the plants one foot apart in the rows, and train the runners along the rows as they grow out, and let them form thick matted rows from fourteen to eighteen inches in widtii. Keep the cultivator going through them, nariowing it down as the plants widen. Cultivate them thoroughly just before they bein to bloom, and as soon as the fruiting season is gone by, as soon as they are done bearing, cultivate between the row's and turn the eddies of the rows under, leaving them onlv about six inches wide, and remove some of the plants that is, thin them out if thay are matted too thickly to grow well, and level the ground down nicely, and scatter fertilizers amongst them, if needed. It is possible to get the ground too rich (old fruit-growers to contrary notwith standing), or you may use a fertilizer that is unsuitable, and then, perchance, they will grow all plants and no berries, if carefully set m straight rows they will be more easily cultivated. If c.vered with hay or straw, something light that will not exclf.de the air, as soon as the groun il freezes, they will produce liner fruit and moro of it the following spring thin they wiil if left bare- through the winter. To lind the tiuniler of plants required to set an acre, multiply the width by the breadth, and see how many times this number is contained in J.",V0 the number of square feet in an acre. To set an acre, two feet by three, you should have T.L'W plants. Twice three are six, and 5o,."uD divided by six gives tlie number stated. . I like t' e hill system (not raised hills) when all the circumstances are favorable. though we can find objections. Some vari eties of the plant throw out all their new roots above the old ones, and also all the way down the old root, and they will do better in hills. You can tell the difference be examining a root of the plant a month or : after bearing season. Growing Unions. Manure without stint. Apply from twenty-rive to one hundred two-horse wagon loads of stable manure, or one thousand to two thousand pounds of ammoniated suierphospliate of lime per acre. The land süould be deeply and finely plowed. It is well to do thi3 in the fall, and throw the land up in ridges so that it may be subjected to freezing in winter, thereby becoming thoroughly pul verized. - In the Southern States planting may be done either in August and .September, or in February and March. In the North, plant only in early spring, after frosts are over. Level and smooth the land over nicely and roll it. Lay off rill half-inch deep, eighteen inches apart, m which sow the seed thinly, about four pounds per acre; cover one-half inch deep, press down firmly or roll lightly. When the plants are well up, thin out three to live inches apart ; keep cleanly hoed, but throw no earth to the plants. Fine onions may be grown as above from the seed. If the object be to grow sets, then select rather thin soil, as free from grass and weed seeds as possible. Use ammoniated superphosphates, about six hundred pounds per acre; stable manure contains too many seeds of grass and foul Meeds. Sow seeds about June first thickly in drills, ten to twelve inches apart, or broadcast, as may suit your convenience. In this way small onions are produced, called "sets," which when transplanted, produce large onions, sets or buttons Early Peas How to Grow Tlietn. iCorrejqonient of American Agriculturist. I There is not much that is new to be said as to how to get peas earliest, h know of no royal road. We can only plant, and cultivate and wait. Dy agisting nature at the start though, we can sometimes hurry her up a little. 1 have found two ways of doing thid. One is to ridge the ground in the fall, before it freezes, to make it dry oil earlier in the spring, and the other is to start the seeds b lore the ground is dry enough to be worked. The first ned3 no further explanation. For the second I place my seed peas in moist sand, about the ljst week in March, and set the box containing the sand in a warm place until the peas Lave formed sprouts about half an inch long. Then, if the soil in the garden is r.ot yet sulliciently dry for planting, I set the box in the cellar, cover it with a board if mice are troublesome, and leave it there until we can plant. I have left the sprouted seeds in this condition for a fortnight without any apparent harm resulting. "When the ground is dry enough to plant, I pick the peas carefully out of the sand, place them in the drill about two inches apart, and cover lightly with line soil. I have gained as much as eight days in earliness by thus starting the seed beforehand, though the difference is usually notco much. The eaaliness may also be increased some by planting in a sheltered location, particularly if it is one that receives reflected neat from the sun, as the south side of a building or high, tight board fence. Iiflrent Kind of Partisans (New York Sun.l The country perfectly understand sthat an offensive offensive partisan Is a ltepubiican. The Democrats are all inoffensive offensive partisans. This is the best season in which to purify tbe blood, and Hood's Sarsaparillais the best blood jpuxier, One Jjundxei doses f i.

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HOUSEKEEPING TRIALS. ThirtMith Sermon en "The Marriage Ring" by Dr. Tilmage. The Light Estimate Which the World Pots on tlie Innnmerable Carea of the Household, and tbe Crushing Weight on Woman Which Only Religion Can Fully Sustain. Brooklyn, April 4. After going as far as St Louis and Kansas City, and lecturing and preaching in sixteen cities, and speaking at the Missouri University and Central College, Kev. Dr. De Witt Tal mace preached to-day in the Erooklyn Tabernacle the thirteenth of the series of sermons on "The Marriage King," entitled "The Trials of Housekeeping." The hymn sung was: "Glory to God ou high. Let beaven and earth rejoice." After expounding an appropriate chapter of scripture, the preacher took for his text, Luke I., 40: "Lord, dost Thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her, therefore that she help me." Following is the sermon in full : MARTHA ASD ?4AKY. Yonder is a beautiful village homestead. The man of the Louse is dead, and his widow is takiug charge of the premises. This is the widow Martha, of Bethany. Ye, 1 will show you a?H theptt of the household. This is Mary, the younger sister, with a. book unde: her arm and her face bavin no appearanci of anxiety or perturbation. Company has come. Christ stands outside the door, and, of course, there is a good deal of excitement inside the door. The disarranged furniture is hastily put aside and the hair is brushed back and the dresses are adjusted as well as, in short a time, Mary and Mertha can attend to these matters. They did not keep Christ standing at the door until they were newly appareled, or until they had elaboretely arranged their tresses, then coming out with their affected surprise, as though they had not heard the two or three previous knocking-?, saying: "Why, is that you.'"' No. They were ladies, and were always presentable, although they may not have always had on their best, lor none of us always "have on our best; if we did, our best would not be worth having on. They throw open the door and greet Christ. They say: "Good-morning, Master; come in, and be seated.'' Christ did not come alone; He hed a group of friends with him, and such an influx of city visitors would throw any country home into ierturbation. I suppose also the walk from the city had been a good appetizer. The kitchen department that day was a very important department, and 1 suppose that Martha had no sooner greeted the guests than she lied to that room. Mary had no anxiety about household affairs. She was confident that Martha could get up the best dinner in Uethany. She seems to say: "Now let us have a division of labor. Martha, you cook aDd I'll sit down and be good." So you have often seen a great differerce between two sisters. There is Martha, hard working, painstaking, a good manager, ever inventive of some new pastry, or discovering something in the art of cooking and housekeepins. There is Mary, also, fond of conversation, literary, so engaged in deep questions of ethics, she has no time to attend to the questions of houseld welfare. It is noon. Mary is in the parlor with Christ, Martha is in the kitchen. It would have been better if they bad divided the work, and then they could have divided the opportunity of listening to Jesus; but Mary iuonopoji.es Christ while Martha swelters at the lire. It was a very important thing that they should have a pood dinner that day. Christ was hungry, and he did not often have a luxurious entertainment. Alas, me! if tbe duty had devolved upon Mary, what a repast that would have been. But something went wrorg in tbe kitchen. Perhaps the fire would not burn, or tbe bread would not bake or Martha scalded her hand, or something was burned black that ought only to have been made brown, and Martha lost her patience, and forgetting the proprieties of the occasion, with besweated brow and perhaps with pitcher in one hand and tongs in the other, she rushes out of the kitchen into the presence of Christ saying: "Lord, dost Thou not care that ray sister hath left me to serve 8lone?" Christ scolded not a word. If it were scolding, I should rather have His scolding than anybodv else's blessing. There was noihing acerb. He knew Martha had almost worked herself to death to get Him something to eat, and so He throws a world of tenderness into His intonation as He seems to say: "My dear woman do not worry. lA't the dirner go. Sit down on this ottonian beside Mary, your younger sister. Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful." A Martha throws open that kitchen door, I look in and see a great many household perplexities and anxieties. First, there is THE TRIAL OF NOX-AITEECIATIOX. That is what made Martha so mad with Mary. The younger, sister had no estimate of the older sister's fatigues. As now, men bothered with the anxieties of the store, and office, and shop, or, coming from the Stock Exchange, they say when they get home: "Oh, you ought to be in our factory a little while; you ought to have to manage eight, or ten, or twenty subordinates, and then you would know what trouble and anxiety are!" Oh. sir! the wife and mother has to conduct at the same times university, a clolbing establishment, a restaurant, a laundry, a library while shei health officer, police and president of her realm! She must do a thousand things, and do them well in order to keep thing- going smoothly; and so her brain and her nerves are taxed to the utmost. I know there are housekeepers who are so fortunate that they can sit in an aim-chair in the library, or lie on the belated pillow, and throw off a'll the care on subordinates, who, having large wages and great expensts can attend to ail of the aöairs of the household. These are the exception. I am speaking this morning of the great mass of housekeepers the women to whom life is a struggle, and who, at thirty years of age, look as though they were forty, and at forty as though they were fifty, and at fifty as though they were sixty." The fallen at Chalons, and Austerlitz, and Gettysburg and Waterloo, are a small number compared with the slain in the great Armagedden of the kitchen. You go out to the cemetery and you will see that the tombstones all read beautifully poetic; but if those tombstones would speaK the truth, thousands of them would say: "Here lies a woman killed by too much mending, and sewing and baking, and scouring; the weapon with which sue was slain was a broom, or a sewing machine, ora ladle." You think, oh! man of the world, that you have all the cares and anxieties. I f the cares and anxieties of the household should come UKn you for one week, you would be a fit candidate for Bloommtrda'le I mean insane asylum. The half-rested housekeeper arises in the morning. She must have the morning repast prepared at an irrevocjhle hour. What if the lire will not light ; what if the marketing did not come; what if the clock has stopped no matter, she must have the morning repast at an irrevocable hour. Then the children must be got oil' to school. What if their garments were torn; what if they do not know their lessens; what if they have lost a sa3h they must be read)'. Theu you have all the diet of the day, and perhaps of several days, to plan ; lut what if the batcher has sent meat unmasticable, or the grocer has sent articles of food adulterated, and what if some piece of silver be gone, or some favorite chalice be cracked, or the roof leak, or the plumbing fail, or any one of a thousand things occur yen must be ready. Spring weather comes, and there must be a revolution in the family wardrobe; or autumn comes, and yon must shut out the northern blast; but what if the mo'h has' preceded you to the cbst; what

if, duri the year, the children have out! grown the app&iel of last yar; what -if .tb fashions have changed? Your houwmuot be an apothecary's shop; it must be a dispensary; there must be medicine for all sorts of ailments something to loosen the croop, something to cool the burn, something to poultice the inflammation, something to silence the jumping . tooth, something to soothe the earache. You must be in half a dozen places at the same time, or yon must attempt to be.. If, under all this wear and tear of life, Martha makes an important rnsh upon the library or drawingroom, be patient, be lenient. 0! woman, though I may fail to stir up an appreciation in the souls of others in regard to your household toils, let me as-uxe you, from the kindliness with which Jesus met Martha, that he appreciates all the work from garret to cellar; and that the God of Deborah and Hannah, and Abigail, and Grandmother Lois,and Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah Moore is the God of the housekeeper. Jesus was aever married that he might be the especial friend and confidante of a whole world of troubled womanhood. I blunder; Christ was married. The Bible -ays that the Church is the Lanib' wife, and that all Christian women Lave a right to go to Christ and tell him of their annoyances and troubles, since by his oath of congual fidelity He is sworn to sympathize. . George Herbert, the Christian poet, wrote two or three verses on this subject:The servant by this cianse Makes drudgerv divine; YYbo sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, es this and the action fine. Again, there is the Trial of severe economt." Nine hundred and ninety-nine households out of the thousand are subject to it some under more, and some under less stress of circumstances. Especially if a man smoke very expensive cigars, and take very costly dinners at the restaurants, he will be severe in demanding domestic economies.. Thiä is what kills tens of thousands of women attempting to make do the work of 7. How the bills come in! The woman 13 the banker of the household; she is the president, the cashier, the teller, the discount clerk; and there is a panic every few weeks! This thirty year's war against high prices, this perpetual studies of economies, this lifelong attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income.exhausts mil lions of houskeepers. O! my sister, this is a part of the Divine discipline. If it were best for you, all you would have to do would be to open the front windows and the ravens would rly in with food; and after you had baked fifty times from the barrel in the pantry, the barrel, like tbe one of Xarepath, would be full; and the shoes of the children would last as long as the shoes of the Israelites in the wilderness forty years. Beside that, this is going to make tbe heaven more attractive in the contrast. They never hunger there, and consequently there will be nne of the nuisances of catering for appetites. And in the land of the white robe they never have to mend anything, and the air in that hid country makes everybody well. There are no rents to pay; every man owns his own house, and a mansion at that. It will not be so great a change for you to have a chariot in heaven if you have been in the habit of ridiDg in this world. I: will not be so great a change for you to sit down on the banks of the river of life, if in this world you had a country seat; but if you have walked with tired feet in this world, what a glorious change to mount celestial equipage; and if your life on earth was domestic martyrduui. O! the joy of an eternity in which you shall have nothing to do except what you choose to do. Martha has had no drudgery for eighteen centuries. I quarrel with the theologians who want to distribute all the thronfsof heaven among the John Knoxes, and the Hugh Latimers, and the Theban Legion. Some of the brightest thrones of heaven will be kept for Christian housekeepers. ! what a change from here to there from the time when they put down the roll-ing-tin to when they take up the scepter. If Chatsworth Park and the anderbiit mansion, on Fifth Avenue, were to be lifted into the Celestial City, they would be considered uninhabitable rookeries, and glorified Lazarus would be ashamed to be going in and out of either of them. There are many housekeepers who could get along with thei'r toils if it were not for sickness and trouble. The fact is, one-half of the women in the land are more or less invalids. The mountain lass, who has never had an ache or pain, may consider household toil inconsiderable, and toward evening she may skip away miles to the fields and drive home the cattle, and she may until 10 o'clock at night fill the house with laughing racket; butO! to do the work of life with a wornout constitution, when whooping-cough ha been raging for six weeks in the household, making the night as sleepless as the day that is not so easy, l'erhaps this comes after the nerves have been shattered by some bereavement that has left desolation in every room of the house, and sat the crib in the garret, because the occupant has been hushed into a slumber which needs no mother's lullaby. Oh! she could provide for the whole group a great deal better than she can for a part of the group now the rest is gone. Though you may tell her God is taking care of those who are gone, it is mother-like to brood both Hocks; and one wing she puts over the riock in the house, the other wing she puts oyer the flock in the grave. - THE NEED OF Ol.D-FAsHIONED RE1.K. ION. There is nothing but the old-fashioned religion of Jesus Christ that will take a woman through tbe trials of home life. At first, there may be a romance or a novelty that will do for a substitute. The marriage hour has just past, and the perplexities of the household are more than atoned by the joy of being together, and by the fact that when it is late they do not have to discuss the question as to whether it is time to go! The mishaps of the household, instead ot being a matter of anxiety and reprehension, are a matter of merriment the loaf of bread turned into a geological specimen ; the slushy custards; the jaundiced or measly biscuits. It is a very bright sunlight that falls on the cutlery and the mantel ornaments of a new home. But after awhile'the romance is all gone, and then there is something to be prepared for the table that t he book called "Cookery Taught in Twelve Lessons" will not teach. Tbe receipt for making it is not a handful of this, a cup of that, and a spoonful of something else. It is not something sweetened with ordinary condiments, or flavored with ordinary flavors, or baked in ordinary ovens. It is the loaf of domestic happiness; and all the ingredients come down from heaven, and the fruits are plucked from tbe tree of life, and it is sweetened with the new wine of the kingdom, and it is baked in the oven of home trial. Solomon wrote out his own experience. He had a wretched home. A man can not be happy with two wives, much less six hundred; and he says, writing out of his own experience; "Detter a dinner of herbf where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. TUE r.ESrOXSIBII.lTIE.S OF HOrSEKEEPEKs-. How great are the responsibilities of housekeper-. Sometimes an indigestible article of lood, by its effects on a commander or king, has defeated an army and overthrown an empire. Housekeepers by the food they provide, by the couches they spread, by the books they introduce, by the influences they bring around their home, aie deciding the physical, intellectual, moral, eternal destiny of the race. You Bay your life is one of sacrifice. I know it, but, my sister, that is the only life worth living. That was Florence Nightingale's life; that was Payson's life; that was Christ's life. We admire it in others; but how very hard it is for 113 to cultivate ourselves. When in this city, young Doctor Hutchinson, having spent a whole night in a diphtheretic room for the relief of a patient became saturated with the poison and died, we all felt as if we would like to put garlands on his grave; everybody appreciates that. When in the burning hotel at St. Louis, a young man on the fifth story, broke open the door where his mother was sleeping, and plunged lx amid

smoke and fire, crying: "Mother bere are you?? and. pever axpe oüVour hearts applauded that yoang man. But how few of us have the Christlile ppirit a willingness to suffer for others. A rough teacher in a school called -apor poor; half-starved lad, who had offended against the laws of the school, and said : "Takeoff your coat directly, sir." The boy refused to take it off. Whereupon the teacher said again: "Take off your coat, sir," as he swung the whip through the air. The boy refused. It was not because he was afraid of the lash he was used to that at home but it was from shame, he had no undergarment, and at the third command be pullea slowly off his coat, there went a sob through the school. They saw then why he did not want to remove his coat, and they saw the shoulder blades bad almost cut through the skin, and a stout, healthy boy rose up and went to the teacher of the school and said: "Ob, sir, please don't hurt this poor fellow; whip me; see, he's rothing but a poor chap; don't hurt him, he's poor; whip me." "Well," said the teacher: "It's going to be a severe whipping; I am willing to take you as a substitute. "Well," said the bov: "I don't care; yon whip me, if you will let this poor fellow go." The stout healthy boy took the scourging without an outcry. "Bray!" says every man "Bravo!" How many of us are willing to take the scourging, and the suffering, and the toil, and the anxiety for other people? Beautiful thing to admire, but how little we have of that spirit. God give us that selfdenying spirit," so that whether we are in humble spheres or in conspicuous spheres,

we may perform our whole duty lor this struggle will soon be over. . yoOne of the most AFFECTIStS REMINISCENCES of my mother is my remembrancr of her as a Christian housekeeper. She worked very haid, and .when we would come in from summer play, and sit down at the table at nocn, I remember how she used to come in with beads of prespiration along the line of gray hair, and how sometimes she would sit down at the table, and put her head against her wrinkled hand and say; "Well, the fact is, I'm too tired to eat." Long after she might have delegated this duty to others, she wouLd not be satisfied unless she attended to the matter, herself. In fact, we all preferred to have her do so, for somehow things tasted better when she prepared them. Some time ago in an express train, I shot past that old homestead. I looked out of the window and tried to peep through the darkness. WThile 1 was doing so, one of my old schoolmates, whom I had not seen for many years, tapped me on the shoulder, and said: "De Witt, I see you arelooking out at the scenes of your boyhood. "O, yes," I replied, "I was looking out at the old place wheru my mother lived and died." That night, in the cars, the whole scene came back to me. There was the country home. There was the noonday table. There was the children on either side ot the table, most of them gone never to come back. At one end of tbe - table, my father, with a smile that neyer left his countenance even when he lay in his colSn. It wtan eighty-six years' smile not the smile of inanimation, but of Christian courage and Christian hope. At the other end of the table was a beautiful, benignant, hard-working, aged Christian housekeeper, my mother. She was very tired. 1 am glad she has so good a place to rest in. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord ; they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." WONDERFUL BOY. lie Sees Through Solid Substances and Talks languages He Has Not Heen Tauglit. I Middleport ( .) Special.l Your correspondent ' to-day visited the home of Presley Forrest, son of Burr Forrest, nine miles from this place, who, within the past two months, has developed such extraordinary spiritual manifestations and wonderful sightseeing phenomena, and which have created the greatest sensation and astonishment among those of spiritualistic belief, and among the entire neighborhood of that section, the people Hocking for miles to see, her and witness his talk and performances while under the influence of w hat is commonly known as spirit control. The young man belongs to one of the most respected families in Rutland Township, is twenty-eight years old, slender build, and is an invalid and deformed, being crippled in both hands and feet from his birth; is very quiet, inoffensive and non-communicative, except when in a trance, at which time he converses with the spirits of well-known deceased persons, often stiangers to himself, speaking to them in the language and characteristic way in which they were accustomed to do, either in Herman or other foreign languages, and he also, while under the same influence, gives examples of their particular habits and individual actions the same as they did when alive, so that friends readily distinguish the spirits of those they were formerly accustomed to see or associate with. Forrest also reads and translates German into English and English into German with great rapidity, which is not tbe less strange since he never studied or was taught German, being but an inferior scholar, and having few or no advantages of schooling. Persons who have gone there have been told a great many things relative to their diseases, infirmities, etc., which he readily discovered by looking at them, and which they fully believed no one elee knew of, supposing they were profound secrets to all except themselves. Instances of this kind have been numerous and astonishing. He also seems to poisess the power of seeing directly through solid substances as if they were only glass, and has many times told the position of the bands of a watch when shifted purposely to deceive him, apparently being able to sea or divine through metal. Also, it is claimed by bis relatives, friends, neighbors and many strangers of the most influential and substantial character that he readily observes objects through solid wood, walls of a house or other like substances while in the state of trance. Parties of the highest standing and unquestioned veracity attest to these facts. Cut Low and Interesting. I.Philadelphia Carpet Trade. "So, Major, your son has gone into the carpet business, I as he? I should think that it would be an awfully interesting occupation, and so profitable, too. "Ob, it's not so profitable as it was once. You see, Miss Ethel, prices are very much like your dress cut away, way down, but then, "of course, as you say, it is very interesting." Young Men About Town in Chicago. (Chicago Herald. llalph Stanton, but four years old, was picked up on State street, Wednesday, in a condition of stupor that at first alarmed the officer. The child seemed paraljzjd, as if suilering from epilepsy or exhaustion, and was U ken to the Armory in a patrol wagn, where a close examination revealed the fact that he was in an unconscious state of drunkenness. Modesty in the Blue Grass llegion. Louisville Commercial. A story that Jacob Twaddle, who has been blind from birth, can tell the color of a horse by the sense, comes from Steubenville, Ohio, and is marked "reliable" by the newspapers which print it. A blind citizen of Ilart county can tell the color of a man's nose by smelling the cork to tbe family jug, but a Kentuckian never thinks of rushing into print with thee little things. Every prisoner in the Massachusetts reformatory at Concord has had his allowance of tobacco cut off. This is the beginning of a crusade against the weed. The healing and soothing properties of road's Extract have met with universal and unqualified commendation from all using it. Ladies who have never used it will find it to their advantage to try it If thev once do so they will never be without it again. Send to Pond's Extract Co.. 7 Fifth avenue, New York, for a copy of our pamphlet,

THOMAS H. Kl GEH, FKOMOTF.P -FROM COLONEL TO HE RRK.ADIER .LNEKAI.. - Colonel Thomas II. Kuger, promoted by 1'residcnt CleveIahd to be Brigadier General, is a native of Wisconsin, and was made a Cadet from that State in July, 1S50. After graduating with very high honors from West Point, he was brevetted Second Lieutenant on July I, 1S54, and resigned April 1, 1SÖÖ, He next practiced law in his native State WThen the war troke out he enlisted, and became Lieutenant Colonel of Third Wisconsin Volunteers, June 2! lSil. He was made Colonel in August of the same year, Brigadier General of Volunteers November, 1502. and was brevetted Major General for "gallant and merritorious services at the battle of Fianklin, Tenn." General Iluger was mustered out of the volunteer service June 15, lstflG, made Colonel of the Thirty-third Infantry in July of the same year, and brevetted Brigadier General lor "gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gettysburg." He served in South Carolina in 177. A? Superintendent of the Military Academy and in command of the School of Application at Fort Iavenwortb, General linger added to bis reputation. Brigadier Generals in the Army are limited by law to six. Their pay for tbts first five years of service is S-ö.ö'aj a year, afterwards periodically increased oy a percentage 10 ier cent, after five years' service, '2 after ten, CO after fifteen, and 40 per cen. more than $-",5iX) a year after twenty years' service. FA KM NOTES, The value of clover for manure is the return to the soil of all plant food, such aa ammonia, nitrogen, carbon, and the constituents of water absorbed during growth. The gradual decomposition of this vegetable matter gives a constant and steady supply of manure to the soil, which renders the effect more lasting than such as is obtained from the barnyard. The clover is better for this purpose after it has produced one heavy crop of hay and has been allowed to stand for seed. A paper on ensilage was read at the Darlington, England, Chamber of Agriculture meeting, by Mr. T. Easdale, agent to Mr. Stobart, of Tepper Arden. He "said "that, their experience on the estate be manage! had now extended over four years, and that Mr. Stobart continued to hold the same favorable opinion of the system as at the first. Since the enlargement of his silos he had made 200 tons of silage in 18si and the same quantity in lsso. In the two pastwintershe had fed forty fattening beasts, from sixteen to twenty milking cows and upward of sixty store cattle, all of them receiving a share of ensilage, but not entirely fed cn it. He specially alluded to the advantage of feeding milch cows on silage in winter, and maintained that of about (100 persons whose opinions had been obtained Jj-S per cent, were favorable to silage as food for cattle. The herse Is more dainty about his food than anv other farm animal excepting a sheep. No uneaten refuse should be left in the feeding boxes to sour under the animal's nose. In warm weather the danger of this is greater, especially when meal with wet, cut hay is given. This is the best possible feed for a working horse, but if left to many hired men, it will be unsatisfactory from overfeeding. Some people seem to think that all there is in feeding a horse is to stutr his manger full with hay all the time, and give him large amounts of grain or meal. I'nder such management a horse will grow poor and his appetite w ill fail, and with no appetite he can not do efficient work. Old milkers frequently give milk which has a bitter taste. The milk glands of such cows are gradually losing their activity, and it is quite natural that they should fail to produce normal milk. Bitter milk gives rise to serious troubles, for it imparts its taste to all its products, as cream, cheese and. butter. Immediately after milking nothing suspicious can be noticed, but after standing a short time the abnormal taste is developed, fat separates out and bubbles of gas are noticed to rise in the milk. Nothing definite is known about this difficulty, though it never occurs in dairies where cleanliness is strictly practiced. The presence of bubbles of gas'indicates decomposition, and it may be that this abnormal milk is only a variety of milk which decomposes rapidly. The history ol sorghum with us, says an exchange, dates back only to ItsV. Before that time sorghum was entirely unknown. In the above year a little seed was brought over from Paris which had been sent from China by some Frenchmen visiting there. From this little bundle of seed has sprung wkat bids fair to be one of the greatest iri dostries of this country, and Kansas is especially adapted to its successful growth. At first it was only regarded as a good fodder for Btock, but later years have proven its merits as a sugar producing plant, and it is now an established fact that good sugar can be made from sorghum cheaper than from any other variety of sugar plant. The different departments of agriculture have made it a careful study and have always retrarded it with favor. No. ishclbyville Democrat. Canada's rule of excluding American fishermen from her ports unless they enter for shelter, repairs or to buy wood or water, may be found to work both ways. Is there any reason why Canadian vessels should have any better privileges in our port? One of Those Vnk Notions. A man in Chapinvi.ie is said to have put in Use a crank attachment to one axle of hjs wagon so arranged that as he drives along it works the dasher in a chum in the wagon and saves no end of hard labor at home.

Vnnecessary Violence, Tor w hich outraged nature exacts heavy penalties, b done to the bowels by persons who, with drastic, drenching purgatives make war on those organs la order to relieve their constriction. Conitipation is not one of those desperate diseases ghat require desperate remedies. In fact, it is not a disease at all, but the Incomplete discharge of a function, to the healthful removal of which Hostetter's stomach Bitters is far better adapted than drtips. whose action is excessive, and consequently debilitating and injurious. Disorder of the liver, contamination o the blood with bile, sick headaches and dyspeptic symptoms are the attendants of eontiveness, and are likew ise remedied by the Bitters. Its action is not limited to relieving the bowels naturally and without pain. Used w ith persistence, aad as directed, it perpetuates regularity In the habit ol body, and in the operations of the digestive orasns and liver. Fever" and aitne. rheumatism and kidney troubles are rivYfnW4Kd cured pyftf

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