Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1888 — Page 3

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r THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 183a

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TALMAGE TALKS ABOÖT NEWSPAPERS IIow Twenty- Millions of Religions Dls. courses Get to the People Brokers and Merchants as Tract Distributors. K I OT being on duty at the tabernacle, IM Brooklyn, the Rev. T. Da Witt I i Talmage, D. D., geneb a vacation letter in the place of the report of his Friday night talk. The subject for the date, Aug. 24, is "The Newspaper Habit of Publishing Sermons," on which he says : Recently there has been much said about the Monday newspaper reports of sermons, which is now becoming the rule in all the great cities. Some ministers and some ecclesiastical associations have deplored the promulgation of error in the same paper with the promulgation of truth. Broad churchism, and narrow churchism, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, infidelity and evangelism. It has recently been called in editorial and reportorial columns "newspaper theology." "We open our Monday morning or Monday evening papers and find great prominence given to pulpit utterances of the previous day One newspaper gives six columns of sermons, another three, another one. By the time the latter part of the week arrive, in all our great reading rooms, from Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago, you will find newspapers containing from one to six columns of sermons. Sermonic publication in newspapers is a characteristic of the times and fraught with weal or woe to uncounted multitudes. It is time that the church and God awakened to vehement condemnation of the practice or of grateful and unmistakable approval. The habit of sermonic reporting in secular papers began in this wiso: First, there wer accounts of church dedications and pastoral installations accounts occupying a quarter of a ccJnmn, then half a column, then a whole column. Then there came sketches of crmches, and sketches of ministers, and skou'hes of penns attendant upon church services. But in May, 1S0G, the New York Iff raid hepan the systematic sermon reporting. I lay it down as a proposition capable of demonstration that sermonic publication in secular newspapers is doing a vast good. It is estimated that each paper is read, by five people. It is then within the' bounds to say that the Monday morning and Monday evening papers of the American cities put into the hands of thi3 nation 20,000,000 religious treatises; 20,X)0,GO0 religious discourses about (loci and the ßonl, and the eternal world; 20,00,000 attacks upon infidelity, upon fraud, upon vice; iO.UOO.000 defenses of the truth. "What a stupendous achievement, which has not yet had the first acknowledgment on the part of any church court in the United States. Our general ecclesiastical court3 pass resolutions commendatory of some sectarian organ with a circulation of 5,000 or 10,000 or 10,000 copies, but where? is the public ecclesiastical recognition of this twcnfy-million-utterance every Monday which, during the course cf the year, and multiplied by fifty-two, becomes a one billion, forty-million utterance? I say that man does not take an intelligent account of the moral progress of the day that does not take this f.'ct into conEideratioa. The very objection made to it is the argument in favor of such publication. It is said that this newspaper habit mixes wordiy business and religion. One column a sermon, the next a horserace; the one a defense of tho family institution, the next a divorce case. My friends, what ve most want is more mixing of religion and business. If the btock dealers of this country had mixed more religion and less water with their Btock there would not have been so many impoverished people. What will cure this epidemic of frauds, forgeries and failures is the religion of Jesus Christ. "Oh," you say, "some of tbera M ere elders and trustees and vestrymen in churches." Yes; but they Btood their religion in one place and their business in another f lace. They ought to have mixed them, t is not religion standing on the spire of Trinity church at the bead of Wall-st. that will send the right kind of influence through that main artery of American finance; but nligion ttärting from the foot of that architectural pile, walking the whole length of VVall-t-t., from Trinity church to the ferry, going down on one side and going back on the other. It is not religion worshiping in Grace church, but religion starting from the shadow of the cathedral, and goinjz to the battery, down one side of Broadway and up the other. Do the Monday morning and Monday evening newspapers of New York and Erooklyn mix religion and business! Then I say. let them mix away. It is high time this delusion is scattered that a man may 6ervj the lxrd so well on .Sunday that he can serve the devil all the rest of the week. What is that in the pocket of those bankers and brokers and merchants, and in all the hotel readinz-rooms of our great cities? It is . immens tract distribution. Let the professional distributor of tracts in her heavenly mission, and package in hand, attempt to enter these places in business hours, and she would meet with cold reception, or be roughly treated. But these business men not only take the tracts in newspaper form, but pay for them. Last Monday there were sermons on the desk of every intelligent man in New York, and Boston, and Philadelphia, and Chicago, and America. lie is a bat who has not eyes to see this. The business man may have only 8"en the text of scripture, but one text6aved Martin Luther, and one text saved Jonathan Kd wards, and I can pick out fifty texts, any one of which is enough to save a world. Toward night the business man says. "Well, I ruess it's time to go home," ana be locks the fireproof safe, he puts his newspaper tracts in his pocket, takes a car at the ferry and goes home, and in that way lecorues a tract distributor. Wife ana children get hold of the newspaper, and after the family have retired the servants get bold of it anil rvnd the sermons, and the next day a bundlo is sent out and wrapping paper is needed, and the errand boy reads the sermon on the bundle while he is carrying it, and after awhile the person to whom tho bundle is delivered takes it up and reads it. So every week our newsboys and our bankers and brokers and merchants ir turned into tract distributors. But you insist that there is something ircoheient in having that which is bad in tbe paper right beside the gospel of Jesus Christ. I answer, give the gopd and sin & fair fight, and the gospel will always come out ahead. Sin is an old hag and pets out of breath, while righteousness has stout lungs and swarthy anus, and the etep of a morning coming out of a clear eky. I put the column of pspel in any newspaper against the column of sin. With the poison send the antidote. Besides that, it gives two Sundays every -week. What chance have we with six secular days massed in battle ngainst the one sacred day ? This Monday publication of sermons surrenders another day to the church of God, and it comes over onto

cmr side, and so we have more prospect of the world's evangelization. Instead of one against six, it is two against five. Besides that, it helps to make ministers of religion more honest in the preparation of sermons. Plagiarism will curse any pulpit. It is as dishonest to steal a sermon as to steal a ham. Ministers are put on their guard, and there is not bo much preaching of other people's sermons now. It is unsafe to take a sermon from Jeremy Taylor or John Wesley, for on Monday night somebody will take down from the library a discourse and compare it with the one in the newspaper and find it is the same. Besides that, it helps .to keep ministers from being dulL The minister who consents to be duil makes the people take the dose on Sunday, but on Monday the papers make him take his own medicine. You may complain that the reporters did not do you justice, but the probability is that if thoy did not pick up anything worth reporting there was nothing to pick up. It is their professional business to see a point, and, if they cannot see it with their drilled eye, how can you expect the untrained eye to see it Y The world is hungry for the bread of eternal life, and I do not care much how the slices are cut if they only get the bread. Again, this sermonic publication in daily newspapers gives tho people wide choice of pulpit ministration. In country villages there may bo but one church, and the services may not be edifying, or in tho city circumstances mav make it best to attend a church where the pulpit service is not edifying. Here comes your Monday newspaper, which gives you a choice "of twenty pulpit ministrations. You pick up the paper and see a sermon ; it does not suit you. You look at another sermon ; you do not like it. You keep on looking until you lind one that does suit you. Unless you are an infidel or a fool, vor. will find something for your soul to feed on in every faithful sermonic publication in the weekly papers. Then such publication gives yon a symmetrical presentation of the truth. One minister is full of soft sentimentality, aid his religion is as a jellv-fish. Another fives you nothing but the rigors of the bible, and his religion is a javelin. The one man's sermon is all heart; the other's all backbone. But put them together in the same column, tho heart in its place, and the backbone in its place, and you have a healthy organization. Morality is all that one man preaches. Faith is. all that another man preaches. Put them side by side, and let the one tell you that you are saved by faith, and the other man tell you "faith, if it hath not works, is dead", being alone." Then you will have the whole truth ; you will have a complete temple of truth öne man laying the solid foundation; another setting up the fluted columns; another springing the groined arch, and another ringing the gospel chimes, inviting ail to come and worship. So all together we shall complete the architecture of the temple. Now, let us be frank in the church of God and acknowledge that the printing press is a mighty auxiliary of the christian pulpit. Go teach cH nations. IIow will you teach them? n every way possible. Sometimes byjmusic, sometimes by tract, sometimes by newspaper. Who cares which way the people get tha gopel, if they only get it? Instead, therefore, of harsh criticism by the religious press of the secular press, "and instead' of great indifference on the part of good people sometimes they sneer at sermonic reporting in the secular press let God be praised that tho eospel is carried every week on the wings of the secular press to those who would otherwip never see or hear the mes.saere. This is the telephone which God has pet up to make all the churches and at! he earth one great aufüence'vLfctthe'cylinder of the printing pre roll, and the compositor continue to setup his 6,000 "ems" a day. Let the stereotyper hasten through his work, and Hoe's cylinder press strike ofTa miraculous number of copies an hour. Place thein all in line, the 6ecular and religious press of the country and of Christendom, and at the command of God's providence, rush these battering-rams against the walls of Jericho, thundered down by the Lord God of Joshua.

Religions Notes. The congrf sationalists in England are organizing guildj for youc-j people. There are .V5 Miration army officers in Canada and 677 in the colonies of Australia.. Whf n Christ abides in a human heart, He is in it a an immortal hope. President Cutroe. The wesleyan metropolitan chapel building fund has given $1,0U0,QUU to church building in London. London reliirions papers are discussing the probability of Mr. fpurcon goiDg over to the Presbyterians. Out of 109 candidate for admission to the Wesleyan ministry ia England feity-five were rejected recently. Evangelist Moody advises yonna; men rrishSnsj to become evangelists to start out as Look. agents and 6tudy human nature. Houses of worship are multiplying faster than the population in lioston. fn 1820 there was one evangelical church to 3,42$ inhabitants; in 1SS0, one to 2,G0C. Kaiser Wilhelm has jiven orders to the committee nominated by hi father to dispatch the project of a new Protestant cathedral (DomLircbe) in tbe center of Berlin. The Army aid association, 82 Nassan-et, New York, h raising $10,(XW for the support of evangelists, bible readers and tract distributors at military post ou the frontier. Christ is ofl'cred, end offered freely. Not to the elect, as nch; not to convinced, to ill umin:itcd, to penitent, to serious, to feeling sinners as such ; tint to sinners, born foolish', guilty, unholy aa such. I're&byterianism in New England has steadily increased during the last live years. Since lKs't the number of churches has increased from eihUen to thirty-one, and the membership from 2, $75 to 4,566. Man shall be turned inside out; and amongst 11 sinners that shall then be brought before the judgment sent, the most deformed sight shall be an u masked hypocrite, and the heaviest sentence shall be his portion. Le.ighton. The receipts of the American board for eleven months of the present year have exceeded those of the previous year in the sum of ?S2,1IM. The contributions of the lioston churches have been $i,7uG less than last year. The Shopper ntil the Item nan t. Arlo Bates In Providence Journal. She went into a biir dry goods honse the other day to buy material for a town. She selected, after a good deal ef fussine, a ginjf liam cottine 12 cents a yard. "How many yards are there in this niece?" she asked. There are eleven." the clerk answered, alter counting. "I will take tea," she said. lie sueested that she should take the whole piece, hut she insisted that b should ent oil' ten yards, and this was accordingly done. That is a remnant, I suppose?'' she Bail interrogatively, taking up the odd yard as be folded the goods. "Yes. ma'am." "Yen sell remnant cheaper, don't your" "Semetimes," the elerk said laconically. "What will y..u take for this?" "Twelve cents." "But that was jnst what I paid for the piece." "Vis, but 1 haven't any authority to mark Eoods down." "Couldn't you send the cashoy to find the man that does mark them down, so as to see what he would ake?" the CQStomer asked anxiously. "Jnst . Vir," the clerk replied, "he's at his dinner, and , don't think he'll be in to-day." "And you conldu't mark it down yourself and tell him about it?" "Ho," the cleric said, smiling ngsravatingly, "I conldn't really." "Well," the woman said, with a sih, "then I am dreadfully sorry I had it cut, for 1 11 bave to have that yard anyway, even if I do bave to pay 12 cents for it. Tea yards wouldn't possibly do. But I ain't used to paying full price for remnants." Force of Uabit. . (Judge. Tie "J eot your letter. Gertrode. Am I to understand that vour refusal is final?" Hht "Certainly. That is yon read the postcript on the other side, of courser" "Good heavens I Nol Why, you don't mean to sy " (Geti her after all)

OF INTEREST TO THE YOUNG

A WHITE CAT SURPRISES THEM. Bessie Forbids the Banns Quick WitSuperior Knowledge-The IVhy and the Wherefore A Literary Tot Knotty Problems. 5 HERE are many stories, Bays the Christian Register, told of strange tricks and manners among cats, but our white cat is a constant surprise to all the members of the family. She is a very beautiful kitten, and has only been a few weeks with us, but in that ticae she has developed a great liking for the best chairs and places in the house. Tho other kittens about the place are content to lie in the kitchen or woodshed, but the white cat, as the children have always called her, must stay in the parlor. She has all the playful ways of other cats of her age and size, but what makes her remarkable is her choice of playmates. "We have a pair of white rats, in a large catre, with two rooms in it. The rats are very tame, and seem to have an unusual degree of intelligence. One day the white cat was 6een to be sitting before the cage and looking intently at the rats. After a while one of the rats climbed the wire on the inside, and the cat did the same on the outside of the cage. After some time one of the servants opened the door of the cage and the cat walked in and began to play with tue rats' tails, and soon they were having a fine fro'.ic together, the rats appearing to have no fear, and the cat being as gentle as a cat can be. Now they are fast friends. One of the rats will go to sleep curled up beside the white kitten, and it i3 hard to tell one from the other. The man on the place lets the rats run up his arm to his shoulder, where the cat will follow them. Sometimes they will go to sleep there. It is truly a curious sight to see them; and, oa we have cats of all aces about the house and stable, it seems that the white cat must in some way have been attracted by the white, coats of the rats, he scorns plaviug with the other kittens, and never notices the older cats ia anyway; and none of the.a have ever been seen to take any notice of the rats. Bessie Forbids the Banns. Philadelphia Tiroes. Bessie is the one little tot in an otherwise grown-up family, and consequently a grent pet and accustomed to much attention. Her oldest sister, Margaret, M as about to be married, and the family were all occupied in preparations for the wedding, liessie came one day bearing tenderly in her arms a naked forlorn-looking rag doll and asked, her sister to dress it for her. "Go away. Bessie," said her mother, "Margaret is busy. Besides, 6he is goin5 to be married and go away; so she cannot dress any more dolls for you." The evening of the inarriage arrived and Bessie was seated in a front pew at church with her parents. Presently the minister asked if anyone in the church had any cause to forbid the marriage. To the utter consternation of all the people, Bessie got up on the seat, raised herself to the dignity of her full night, and 6aid distinctly. "Me does, "Tause me wants Märtet to tay at home and dwess my dolly." Then ehe gravely sat down and the ceremonies proceeded,amid the erniles of the bridal party and g tests.' A day or two after tho wedding Bessie received by express from her new brother a most beautiful doll, and with it came an elaborate wardrobe." A SmMl Biy's Victory. LewUtown Jourual.) A ten-year-old Randolph boy wanted to Bee a game of base ball on the new ground the other day, but th.3 state of his finances Bcemed to forbid. He bethought himself that he had a quarter given him to have an aching tooth out Here was his chance! He first prot hU brother and cousin to try their skill as dentists, but neither could start the offending rinlr. But not discouraged, he, like the old lark in the fable, took the matter into his own hands, attached a piece of twinö to tha tooth, pave one mighty pull, and held both tooth and quarter in his hands. He had earned the money for his afternoon's enjoyment. Tho TVliy &nl lThrfore. Youth's Companion. A noted Sunday-tchool worker, living in Kansas, was once asked to talk to the children of a Sundav-school on the subject of temperance, lie is very earnest in the cause, and wears a bit of blue ribbon as a badge ol his principles. Rising"before the school, he pointed to his bit of blue ribbon ami said: "Now, can any of you children give me a reason why I am not a drunkard?" There was no reply for a moment; then a childish little voice, in the rear of the room, piped out: " 'Cause this is a prohibition town." Superior Knowledge. The World. 1 Mr. Sousa, the conductor of tho Marine band, has a little daughter who cauie breathlessly into the houso a-few Sundays ago, exclaiming: "isn't it a sin to jump a rope on Sunday, papa?" "Certainly, my dear." "Well, Birdie Wilson is out front jumping rope and says it is not a sin, but 1 told her it is, and isn't it, papa?" "Yes, darling." Then, with great deliberation : "Course it's a bin. Birdie is seven and I'm only five, but I know more 'bout sin than she does." A Literary Tot. IThs World.1 Little two-year-old Maggie was often entertained by her mother showing her the illustrations in Harptrr's Magazins, and was pleased with any mention of the arrival of that publication. One day she was looking up at a table and reaching tor somethinj, and when asked what 6he was looking for, said: "I want my 'zine." Several things were offered her, as no one understood what she meant, but she refused all, reiterating, "1 want my 'zine," and, finally climbing on a chair, she f rasped the Harper's, exclaiming: "Now, 'be got Mag;ie' 'rino !" A TTlt in the Bad. Boston Journal. 1 A email boy sojourning on the coast of Maine sent the following clipping to his father iu Boston: Examiner "What would you do in the caso of a man with clammv sweats?" Budding Sawbones "Advise him to give up clams." Tho boy appended the following: "Dear papa, I thought you would appreciate the above, as you are having the sweat and I am having the clams." Martyn's Quick Wit. (The World.1 A three-year-old comes running in the house with his apron covered with dirt from playing in tbe vard. Mother "Why, ifartyn, look at your apron ! " Martyn ""Well, mamma, the dirt wouldn't bo careful." Little Folks' Chat. Snnday-school Teacher "Now tell me what in duty?" Uttle West-ender (inst back from Europe) "It's something you don't pay unless you have io."rhda-ieJpkia Jiecord. "Now Tommy," said the teacher, "if there are seven peaches on the table gad yoar little

sister eat. three and you eat four what will be left?" "The stones," replied Tommy. Sew York Sun. I asked a boy one day, inst as the hens were rooming, "Why do hens liite to roost on one lesj?" T'I s'pos'e 'cause they have one more chance not to be stolen," he said," protoundly. JJabihcod. Children who had been cautioned not to tease their littie brother Elmer aa he was cutting a tooth, waited expectantly for a few minutes. Then Ned spoke up: "I say, auntie, has he cut it jttV'UarptYM Youtvj rcoptc. A Yankee urchin of three and a half years, who is sojounnnp in Paris with his mother, came running to her the other day, fall of unutterable wrath at something a Gallic playmate had said to him, and demanded: "Please, mamma, what ia French for damnonsense?" Crü:c "Ma," remonstrated Bobby, "when I was at cmndma's 6he let me have two pieces of pie." "Well, she ought not to have done so, Bobby," said his mother. "I think two pieces of pie are too much for little boys. The order you grow, Bobby, the more wisdom you will gain." Bobby was silenced, but only for a moment. "Well, ma," he said, "grandma is a good deal older than you are." Christian Advocate. The unfortunate little girl at the blind a.ylum in Boston who was born deaf, dumb and blind, but has" been taught to convey her thoushts by taking her teacher's hand in hers and making signs, was playin with a big Newfoundland doe the other day and for some moments held one of his paw!- "Are you trying to talk with hira?" asked her teacher. "What a funny idea," she answered. "Of course he can't talk, he hasn't got any hands." There is almost as much pathos as humor in the following story of au Albany boy of tender years: Shortly after his mothers death with his father he visited her grave, beinsr carried there by a horse which had recently been bought by the father. The husband, standing apart, was naturally in a contemplative frame ot mind, and the boy, when unable to stand the oppressive silence any longer, lifted his childish voice in an interrogative tone and said: "Ma, we've got a new horse." Albany Journal. . KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readers sre iniwu to furnish original enljmas, charades, riJdle, rebuses, anj other Knotty Problems," addreuiog all coniiuuuicütions rrlative to this department to E.H. Chadbourn, Lewis ton, Me.l "o. 2,475. Modest Worth. When perfect I am free as air . That tioats about mc everywhere; I stand before your eyes unseen, What though against me jrou saay lean. I give you vl?rs on erery sid, Nor this, nor that is iu:guioVd; I oQly.eck to uiake tbiugi clear. That no distorliuii may appear. Like some pure souls that bless the earth, Unconscious of their prioele worth. Through wlioiu tbe liuhtof heaven shines clear, And all about tbeiu leel iu cheer. S. No. 2,470 Decapitation, The brightest side is dark enough; The smoothest way is souiewhst rough; Lite hat too uiucb ot di Ktie drear For us to liM a touoa ot cheer. Then let us all where'er ws may To cheer the Uu'$ oi life's path-wty, 1 heu when we reach our jourupy 's end, "A Veil doue," Üia verdict will descend. I'i'aAKZA. No. 3,477. An Arithmetical Paradox. From the Knotty .Problems awarded $20. A boy boa;ht throe pies for ten cents and a quarter, which ws all he had, and ottered them for nale at five cents apiece. At tue close of sales he was astouisbed to and mat be bad buy-tire cent aud a quarter on hand. Mow much uionjy did be make ia tbe pie bukincesr 11 W. iiAa&lS. Vo. S,47S. Asacramt. The N. E. States onoe held some fairs To which eauu brought its choicest wares. Froia Maine, doubtless you kuow it well, As sound doth 'rmiUile,' "this we olV New Hampshire says:" You may nut wish us to Stop, At 'Us oufy in rar that we briny In our crop." Vermont says: "In sweetness 1 think I'm the cainiT, For lis ' Um Rag Palm' I Inscribe on my banner." Ma-taaubuKctts aas:"io you think tb'ls will doT 'A iche4 ci.xi a tot' we bring to you.' Connecticut al.-o will proudly sin : '" a it 'a oob eoiU' not -le mays' this year ire brln." While little Rhode Island flolh'loo'llT sav: "TU 'yoJ mi corf,' that w WFicrj to-day'." ' Now when you discover what each ötate has brought, I think you will find their ' ItcU apples rot." Alice u Uakkis. Xo. 2, 479 Charade. Scmd are tbe eyes of my darling, little prim, fiaucy are her ro?y lips b,irtiuj uto rhyme, Little print?, Kvery tnua. I essay a war of wiu euch my daily crime. Sometimes I brln; her o.'tf nuts; my saucy prim Ieciarea to nie they are pttiu tributes to yrtme; Kvery time. My foolish ciime. I repeat, I make penaace to her In a rhyme. l Waldemar. Mo. 2,480 Serea Letters Words. From a word ot only seven letters the following ntty-öve wordscan be firmd. No letter is used twice In the or giuivl word. What is the ward: Lmit, emu, 1, imp, imput, is.it, tad, mot, mis. mist, mit, mite, miter, tune, nius, uniet, teilet, pest, pet, pi, pie, piet, pise, pints, pit., pus, put, bet, bit, site, mint, smite, smut, suit, spite, spume, atem, step, btipe, stum, stump, stupe, sue, suet, suit, sum, sup, supe, tie, time, tip, us, use, up. F. H. Joh.ssox. No. 2,481-Klddle. From the $;0 lot of Knotty rroblems. What's in the stream where littlies swim ; W bat's iu the ocean broad and blue; What's In your garden neat and trim ; What's in the mine concealed from view; To what bad boys are oftn ioroed ; From what (air daiusots are oft divorced? What Idle stands the live-lone day, And is employed when you're asleep; What yo-i'd dislike to give away. Vet what you can't ailord to keep; And what, I'll venture now to say, Vour mother made for you to-day? Mount Itorau No. 2,482 Transposition. I am the result of a stealthy force, 1 grow wl t h t he passl ng years ; TV' lien in the right place i make men rejoice, Iu tbe wronjj I cause thsm tears. Sometimes I'm useful man's bread I win From a sun-baked, biircu soil; And sonici i mis too, hav 1 buried deep The fruits of his hardest toil. Transpose me now so that my third Shafl till m v second's space; With my form you'll find my meaning changed, And I fit in a ia aller place. No longer am I of mnch account No Inn, 'er wake I fears; Although years a?o(and with savages now) 1 souistiines hurt men's ears. Kk.u, Whtti ah b Blc The Prixes. Two fine vrlr.es will be swarded for the best twe lots of answers to the knotty problems published during tptemler. The solutions should bo forwarded weekly, snd full credit will be firta eaca solver at the end of the month. heven prixes one of tea dollars, one five dollars, and five of two dollars each one to be presented fur thobext seven lots of three orlgtual knotty problems each received before the cloe of Try early, specimens of the wiuning puzdes in the last competition have been given. Cannot they be beaten? Answers. -Tiano-playlnsr. -L, P, S, e plea, leap, peal. - 8CAST11NO 2,461. 2,4o2 2,t''i STAUEPLAY SAN DÖLAUS SAGAMORES STAGARITE SEAS N AILS . . SALTATOKY ;. 2.463 Let ns corns in (1 ttuoe, cumin.) ,. .. 2.464 1. Finder. 2. Friend. 3. Fiend. ' 2,450 PLACE LANES , ANNAS CEASE ESSEX 2,406 Hand-saw. Careless the Wrons Way, . Life. Superintendent of bob-tail horse-car line "The driver of No. 75 ran over an old lady to-day and broke her arm." President "Well, people ought to bo more careful." Superintendent "And the omonnt of money in the box indicates that he is careless about fares." President ,rWha-at? Discharge him at once!" A Philosophical View. w York World.1 "Ma," said Hobby, in a slightly injured tone of voice, "there were lota of thiugsyoa let me do before the btby came that you don't let me, do now." "Do yod think so, Bobby?" "Yes," asserted Dohby. ''Still," be went on with more philosophy, "I can't expect you to be eo pood a mother with two children as you were when you only had one."

FARM TALK FOR SEPTEMBER.

PEAR ELIGHT AND PEACH YELLOWS. A Fortune In Frog Value of Lime on Soil ext Year's Sends Yonn Chicks Household ninta Farm Note. Tho treatment of young pear and peach orchards is about the Same on many fruit farms, and they are often joined in the same field, given the same calti ration and fertilized alike. They do not thrive under the same condition, however, as the pear tree will bear harder usage than tho peach. Ilut for the blight the pear tree would last as long as the apple, and its crop would be equally as sure. Blight will not attack the pear orchard except when the condition of the trees is favorable to its ravases, and it will then make the rork of destruction short and complete. Forced growth is detrimental to all the improved varieties of pears. Where young orchards have been kept in excellent condition by the soil being well manured, and hoed crops grow between the rows of trees, the ground being thereby always clean, the result has been luxuriant growth of the pear trees ; but blight would make its appearance later on, while pear trees on adjoining fields, upon the ground of which crops of grass had been grown, though of slower growth, escaped the blight It may therefore be possible that if the pear tree be given ample time for growth, and not forced to bear too early, it may not be so liable to attack. Stable manure has also been detrimental, but wood ashes and superphosphate have been tried with benefit. While the trees should not be impoverished, yet they should not be forced. Grafted peach trees cannot be made to last for a long time under any conditions, but in the course of time some new variety may be introduced that will live as long as the aople tree; but trees grown from the pit, ou the locations intended for them, do better, the dilhculty being, however, that their quality cannot b known until they bear a crop. Ashos will always benefit young peach trees, bat highly nitrogenous fertilizers are injurious if applied during the first three years. While the pear trees will permit of alight crop of srrass being crown in the orchard, the peach trees prefer clean cultivation, and if the grouna is occupied by another crop the trees make but slow progress. They also thrive best when they are carefully trimmed every season, and will quickly renew growth if the dead wood is cut away, but if starved out will die of yellows. As the pear and peach should not be cultivated alike they should be grown on separate locations. Both demand vigilance from the grower in guarding against the borer, and both will be free from disease for a longer period if not allowed to overbear until the trees are well developed and matured. Fortunes In Fros. "Any man who has a pond on his farm," says the Boston Journal, "can try the experiment of raising his own frogs. First, let him buy six pairs of fine New Jersey breeders and dump them into the water. With these for a starter, you may select a quantity of batrachia. and then yon will have the nucleus of a fortune. Don't interfere with your water investment for a year, any mora than to keep prowing stock well supplied with food. They require an abundance, but, as they are not very d.iinty in their taste, the expense account will be light. For a young farm two barrels a day of hotel scraps will keep the frojrs in splendid shape, so that at the end of twelve months you can begin marketing all that you cm iish out at the tame price as spring chickens. Give me the time and facilities and I will wager that at the end of two years I will be living on an income of $5,000, and my frogs will pay all my expenses. Talne of Lime on Soli. Lime may not show its beneficial effects on the soil for a year or two, as the character of the soil must be considered. Lime add but very little valuable plant food to the soil, as all soils contain lime, but its chemical action on the inert matter of the soil liberals other substances that would not be otherwise available. It should be applied as regularly as manure in order to secure its assistance in decomposing the plant food already existing in the soil. ext Year's Soed. Every stalk of corn should be carefully cxamiued in order to select for next year s seed. An examination at this time will how the fetal ks which have made the more vigorous growth and developed sooner than the others in the field. While the grain and shape of tho cob as well as the number of ears on the stalk should be noticed, yet the main object should be to eecure seed from the earliest and most vigorous stalks, and this is the proper time to examine. Tonn; Chicks. It costs about 1 cent per week up to the age of ten weeks to feed a young chick, at which age, if properly cared for, it should weigh two pounds. This is equivalent to 5 cents as the cost of food for each pound of chick. The costs are increased, however, by the value of eggs used for incubationlabor, warmth and interest on investment. Land for Wheat. Land for wheat should be prepared now by plowing it deep and harrowing it döwn fine. Later on, just before seeding to wheat, the lande should be again plowed and harrowed until the soil is as fine as that of a garden. The preparation of the seed-bed for wheat is the most important matter iu connection with the growing crop. Household Filets. Boiled Squash Peel and slice the squash, removing the seeds. Lay in cold water half an hour, then put on the stove ia enough boiling water, slightly salted, to cover it. Boil for aa hour, dram iu a colander. To P.emeveCake From Tins Supposing It to be a loaf of cake in a deep tin. . First, you must butter the tin all around the sides and bottom, then butter the paper as well, cuttinc it to fit the tin exactly. Now, when the cake is baked, don't try to take it from the tin while hot; set it away until perfectly cold, then return it t the fire long enousrh to wann the tin through, then turn it upside dowo on your hand, and tap the edcre of the tin on the table, and it will slip from the tin all right, and you can take the rake off the paper without any injury to the cake. Almond Paste One pennd sweet alnsends, six bitter almonds, one pounds finely sifted eujrar, whites of two eges. Illanch the almonds ana dry them thoroughly; put them into a mortar and pound them well, wetting them gradually with the whites of two etrgg. When well pounded put thein into a small preservingpan; add the su?r and place the pan ou a email but clear fire (a hot plate is better), keep stirring until the paste is dry, then take it out of the pan and put it between two dishes until cold. To Hake Soft Soap. -Dissolve three pounds of potash In three Quarts of water. Put the potash (in the lum) in an old saucepan, pour the boilintr water on it, set it on the stove and leave it till it is dissolved; it may take several hours. Stir it about with a stick now and then, taking care not to splash it on you; put three pounds of clean fat io a tub or small barrel; when the potush i dissolved, pour on the fat, stir well with tb Mck and leave it. Nest day pour a kettle (h ) tng at least a gallon) of boiling water slowly i the potash and fat, stirring

thoroughly. Do this every meni'in till the oap is made, which you will know by its befjinning to look like srifl jelly when cold, and osing all appearance of grease: then try it. If it seems too strong, or makes the hands rouch, add more boiling water. The soap will be ready to use in about nine days after it is started. Apple Fritters Make a smooth bstter of ne-ntlf pound of flour, three eggs and a half pint of sweet milk; salt to taste. Cut one dozen large, juicy apples into slices, after peelinjr and corin them. Put the slices into the batter. Have readv a pan of equal parts of lard and butter boiling hot. Take the batter up in a ladle, allowing a slice of npp'e to each fritter, and drop into the hot lard. Fry brown, drain a moment, and serve with powdered sc par and nutmeg. Velvet Puddin? Five eg?s beaten separately, one enp of white sugar; bnt well together, then stir in four tablespoonfuls oi cornstarch dlsso'vcd in a little sweet milk; three pints of sweet mitk, let it come to a boiling point, then stir in briskly tbe other ingredients, then let it boil until it becomes quite thick, remove it from the fire, pour into your bakin di6h. When nearly done take the white of ecTRS. beaten to a froth with one cup of lugar, and pour over the top of the pudding. Curds and Cream Put two quarts of the previous day's rui'.k into a cool Ten snd let it remain till a firm curd is formed; when quite cold strain it through muslin; tie it up tikt and put it under a heavy weight to press out the whey; let it remain for two hours. Two hours before it is required put it on a glass dish and pour over it three-quarters of a pint of good sweet cream. This will be found a nice dioh to serve with stewed fruit of any kind. The whey drained from the curd is an excellent drink for invalids. Curds and Whey Take a small piece of rennet about two inches square, wah it very clean in cold water to get all the Bait o.T, and wipe it dry; put in a teacup, and pour on it just enough lukewarm water to cover it Let remain all night, or for several hours; then take out the rennet, and stir the water in which it was soaked into a quart of milk, which should be in a broad dish, t the milk in a warm place till it becomes a firm curd. As soon as the curd is completely made set it in a cool E lace, or on ice if in summer, for two or three ours before you want to use it. Eat it with wine, sugar, cinnamon or nutmeg. Farm 'ote. The first half hour after milk leaves the cow has much to do with its excellence. Of the seven prize-winners at the New York dairy show nix set the milk deep, and the seventh used a separator. Maj. Alvord ranks crops for ensilage as fob lows: Millet, sorghum, Japanese beans, corn, peas and oats, cow peas, grasses, rye and clover. Adianhnns or maiden-hair ferns succeed finite readily in the win do with the same care tnat any ferns need. They require no direct sunshine. In Denmark a dairyman who keep? 2"0 cows requires the milkers to wash th"ir hands after milking two cows, and the result is that he pets a quarter of a cent a pound more for the butter than others do. The greet preponderance of testimony shows that soft food is better for cattle than dry feed, and that in the dairy it is uo troubie.with plenty of ensilage, to keep up a summer üow of milk all the year. Hens like to roost hih. The roosts should, therefore, be all on the same level to prevent crowding. At least one foot of space on the roost should be allowed for each full growa fowl, and the roosts should be eighteen inches apart. Vegetables and fruit, as much as the grain crops, require deep working of the soil. A moderately heavy 6oil that has been underdrained and subsoiled, and then careiuily worked, ü capable of producing the heaviest crops. No danger aeed be feared from eating mature apples that were poisoned when the size of peas, for chemical analysis has shown that the extremely small amount of poison that lodges on the fruit is dissipated long before the crop matures. It is surprising how many Insects a flock of turkeys or guineas will destroy in a day. If given a large range they will be industriously at work alithe time, and will need no feeding at the barnyard at thu season of the year. Bees will find but little to work on at this season, but they may be assisted if a crop of buckwheat has been sown. Any attempt to supply the bees with sugar or other material will result in an inferior grade of honey. When a cow dries off and is expected to calve soon, the food should consist of but little grain, as the feeding of grain induces milk fever. Grass and hay should be the priucipal food until the cow comes in aa a milker. It is now time to be making the preparations for coupling the sheep. Only rams ol the best breods should be used. A cross-bred male cannot be relied upon for producing uniform oilspring. In a trial with several varieties of strawberries the Sharpies irave more berries on old beds than other kinds. This is a valuable quality, as it avoids planting new beds frequently. In one instance the erop from a bed three years old was larger than from a youneer bed. It is claimed that 500 ponnds if onion seed can be sewn on an acre of ground, the price varying from SO cents to $1 per pound. The receipts from an acre of onion seed are usually large, but tht erop calls for quite in expense ia labor, much of which is hand-weoding. One of the evils of breeding is that if exchanging males between neighbors. It is only a KTxtetn of in-breedin cr, and no improvement can be made by it. The males should come from the best stock and should in no manner be related to the females. In England the ratio is about two lambs to every two ewes. This has be n accomplished by carefully selecting the most prolific ewes (and males from prolific dam) for many years. The result is the gradual increase in the number of lambs. All surplus fruit should be dried or evaporated. It is a waste of land and fertility to allow fruit to drop and rot. It is expensive feeding for hogs, considering the value of the land occupied by trees, and, unless all fruit grown can be sold or applied to family use, it will pay to cut down the trees and devote the land to some ether crop. Whr Are th Bad Buried? A little fellow who had been reading the inscriptions on the tombstones in the churchyard, turned to his father, and artlestly inauired: "But, papa, where do they bury all ie bad people?"

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Hundreds of su'it-iü maladies an floating around as ready to attack waorever there U a w-ak point. W may wa;e many a fatal siiaft by keeping ourselves weil fortiiied with pure bUod and a properly nourished frsme." Civil iScrvice (jaeite. Made simply with boiiin$ wster or milk. Soil oclv in halt-iionnd tins, by Orocem, iabe led thus: J AMij Ll l'a i. CO., Homoeopathic Chemi ta. j Loudon. England, riEHIFPS SALS. By virtne of an eiecuti.in to me directed from tnS) Clerk of the Marion Mipenur Court of Marion coon ty, Indiana, 1 will excise at public sale to the Ughst bidder, on THURSDAY, THE 13th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, i between the hours of 10 o'clock a. ra. and 4 e'elocki p. in. of said day, at the l'.r of thtj court house la Marion county, Ind an.i, the rents snd nrofiw for a term not cxo-e.litg nert-n years, if the lollowj.g described real etat to-wit: The undivided one-th r l part of l"t cumber three htindrt?d and eifrht v-eiht (:Um in Fletcher, ßtone, Witt, Tavl.ir and ilovt"s ruIkI ;ri-doa of outlots 96, 07, S, and th aoutb half of VI, iu lit city ot Inaianato:i, Marion countv, Indiana. And on failure ti real is the full smsent of Judf. went, Iniereot and vxts, I will at the same time and place, expose at public sale tUe fee simple oi said real estate. Taken s the property f Joseph W. Wharton at tbe suit o(Wi!liani h. MVndenhall. e-aui sale will ho made without say relief what ever frotn valuation or appraisement laws. ISAAC KIXO, Sheriff Marloa eeunty. Angnst 2i. A D. It. STATE OF INDIANA, MARION COUNTY, M.t In the Superior Court of Marion countv. In tb but of Ind ana. Boomt X. U 4j4. Com plains for divoroc. Jahn T. Buden vs. Dors I Undent. Be it known that on tl.e I'th day of Anfust. l&SS, the slxjve-naiued pluiutii!, bv his attorney, filed 1st thsorbcsof the Clerk of the Superior Court ef Mtrio county, in the .'Mats of InVaiia. his eorov,juD acalnKt tht above-name i d!cii Jsnt, and the said plaintiff baring a!eo tild in sai l Clerk's efflce the affidavit ef a comiet.'Pt pcrvn showing that said da fendant, Pors I. lituk'n, is not a resident of the Stats ol Indiana and that said action is fordivoroe. and wlicrra sid ptaintu!, having by Indorsement oa said cxii'daint required said defendant to sr pr in su Id court and answer or demur tLereto oa the 13th d iy of Octolwr, lo. Now, therefore, ;uii defendant last shove-asmed Is hereby notified of the tiling and pendency 6f said complaint sa:nt her, and that unless she sppeat and answer or demur th-reto, at the calliag of said came on the J-Mh diy of Octoler. 1, the same bein the thirteenth judicial day of a term of said court, to b bf-iriiri snd held st the eourt house ta tbe city of Ind ampolis. on the firt Xlondar la Oo tober, said c-tn pKmi and th matters and thinfs therein eontained and a;ig?d wlil be heard and determined in h-r abenre. JOUNE.6ULUVAV.ners:. Ayres, Brown A Harvey, Attorney (cr PlaiBtilT. HEADQUARTERS FOR TWE JE?SEY YELLOW and Nansemond Sweet Potato Planta. (l.0 1,000 tn May sAd $1 la Juas. Freedmaa Hux trwsdaaa boro, K. J. .

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