Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1889 — Page 7

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THE FOES OF OUR HOMES.

REVERSES, DISEASES AND DEATH. Dr. Tslmage'i Lesson From the Destruction of Ziklag Amalekitish Misfortunes 'Which Descend I'pon FamU lies la m Variet of Forms. Tbc Ker. Pr. Talniage announced last Funday morning to as many people as could be comfortably stowed away in-the big tabernacle that the revival service conducted by Dr. Munhall would be continued with the exception of Monday and Saturday evening?. Monday evening the annual pew sales took place and the usual spirited time occcured. Dr. Tal mage preached from the story of the destruction of Ziklag by Amalekites who were subsequently pursued and dettoyed by David and his men, found in I Samuel, xxx. The preacher said these things in the course of the sermon: ThisAvhole scene impresses me most mightily. Thank God the day has pone by when our homes can be devastated. A nian may leave home and be gone for weeks anil months, aud when he comes back there is no 6ign of incendiary torch and his family are on the doorstep to greet him if by telegraph he has foretold the moment of his arrival. But, nevertheless, there are Amalekitish disat-ters and Araalekitish diseases which would come down upon the families of the world, and there are scores of such families represented in every audience. The home has been upturned. The home ha3 been despoiled. It was not a battering ram that smote down the door. It was rot the tlanie leaping from curtain to curtain. It was not the iconocla-st crumbling the statue. Oh, no. Uut Amalekitish death and AmalekitUh misfortune have come down upon many a home. Armed di.eascs scarlet fevers, neuralgias, fneuiuonia.s, consumption; and they iave carried away the loved ones. Ziklag in ashes. And there are many of you in every a.?emblage who go about mourning and "weeping because of their desolated homes, and whereas they look for loveline and beauty coming over the hills, they find nothing but devastation and wretchedness and woe. Ziklag in ashes. Some of you went oil from home and how you courted the days, and every day of vour absence was as long as a week. And how glad you w ere when the time came for your return home. You got aboard the steamer or rail car. You arrived. You went up the street where your family dwelt, and in the night you put your hand on the door bell, and lo ! it was wrapped with the signals of mourning and woe. Araalekitish death that had destroyed thousands of households had destroyed j ours. Oh, the long story of silent voices and still feet and devastated homes, and how many of you have done as the bible describes" David and his men as doing you have wept until you had no more power to weep. Ziklag in ashes. I have a friend in the city of Washington to whom a gentleman came and asked his intercession that he might get a consulshin in some foreign port. My friend said to bim: "I am astonished at you, George. What do you want to go away from home for? Si on have a beautiful home. I am surprised that you want to go to a foreign port. "Oh," he replied, 'my home is gone. My six children are lead. I want to get out of this countrv. I an stand it no longer." Ziklag in ashes. IVhy is it that over any assembly that jathers any time of the year there are inch long shadows of mourning? Why Is it that in almost every assemblage the predominating color of apparel is black? Oh, do you not appreciate violet and eaf'ron and other colors just as much V you used to? You say, "Yes, but the world isn't as bright to mo as it usad to be; it is more of a Mit lued world, and I subdue my apparel that it may be brought in accord. "' Ziklag in ahes. In Ulster county, NewYork, a village church was decorated with flowers until the fragrance of the flowers was almost oppressive. The maidens of the village had brought out these trarlands. One of their number had been aliianeed to a minister of Christ and he had come to take horn;; his bride, and amid a congratulatory assemblage the hands were joined and the v ows were taken. Three days after he who had stood at the altar was transferred from earth to heaven, and now there were hardly any flowers left in the village for the casket, because they had ill been pat upon the bridal altar." The wed'äng march struck down in the funeral requiem. Then the silent fornr was taken to the other village and the villagers name out to meet it, and in the "village church a great procession passed around and the little children were lifted up to look at the still face that once had been abeam with messages of salvation, and the crowd passed around and the weeping was dreadful to hear. Flowers again, but flowers in crosses to signalize his triumph. A hundred, aye, a thousand bright lights blown out by ono strong gust from the open door of a sepuleher. Ziklag in ashes. I am preaching this sermon today because I want to rally you as David rallied his men for the recovery of the departed, the loved and the lost." I have two ambitions. One, to get to heaven myself; the other, to take this whole congregation with me. I somehow feel somewhat responsible for your arrival at the shining gate. On other Sabbaths I have brought forth other inducements. To-day I bring another inducement. Would you like to join the companionship of your friends in heaven? Are you as anxious to ioin with those loved ones as David and his men were to join their departed families? If so. I am here, and now in the name of God to say that you may, and to tell you how. I notice that these captains went up a certain way the families of David and his men and then I notice that David and his men followed in th parr e way. No sooner had David and his men resuscitated that half dead J-'izyptain and He had pointed out the way, than David and his men followed right tip that way. And if ye are to join otir departed friends on the hills of heaven we will have to take the same way. They repented; we must repent. They prayed; we must pray. They trusted in Christ; we must trust in Christ. Thy lived religious lives ; we must live religious lives. 1 know that in some respects they were just like us. Now that they are gone we put a halo around them. Hut they had their faults. They sail and did things they ought never to Lave said and done. Sometimes they were disheartened and f ometimcs discouraged and sometime broken-hearted. You and I have been. Hut they trusted in God. Christ confront' d them. He said "This is the way," and they took it. And as they resembled us in our destinies let uj resemble them in talcing the supernal Christ to make up our deficits. Can we expect to reach the companionship of our friends on the hills of heaven unless we travel up the same way? Hut I notice it was a troubled way and a hard way that these friends went, and no sooner had they started than they cried: "Oh, I am so sick. I am so tired. Oh, I am so broken-hearted. Oh. I am so hungry." Hut the captors said: "Stop this weeping. Go on. Go on." David and bis men came along the same hard way, and our departed friends in glory traveled a very rough pathway, and it is through much tribulation we are to inter into the Kingdom of God, Oh, how their hearts ached! Oh, how some of them had to tusslo for bread. In our

childhood we could not understand why there were so many wrinkles oa the old faces. We did not understand what are commonly called crow's feet on the temples were only the marks of the black ravens of trouble. Did you ever hear the old people by the evening stand talking over early hardhips, early misfortunes, disappointments, burials, the empty Hour barrel when there were so many hungry ones to feed, the sickness almost unto death where the next dose of morphine decided letween ghastly bereavement and an unbroken home circle? Oh.it was trouble that whitened the hair, it was trouble that shook the cup in the hand, it was trouble that washed the luster from the eyes with the rain of tears and made spectacles necessary ! Do you not remember your old mother, seated at the window looking out on a rainy day, her elbow on the window sill, her hand to her forehead, and as she was looking out you knew she was not seeing the falling shower, but she was looking into the distant past, until after a while the apron came to her eves, for the memory was too much for her? Oft the big. nnbid-leo tear, Stealing' down the furrowed cheek, Told in eloquence sincere Tales of oc that could not speak. Put thi scene of wiping o'er, lat. this soene of toil and pain.

Thy shall frei distress no more, Never, never weep attain. One of the most vivid memories I have of my mother is that she looked so tired. Sometimes, in the country home, she would sit at the noonday meal and she would say: "Well, 1 don't know what is the matter with me ; I have no appetite. I can't eat." She was so tired. She never got much rest until she lay down in the cemetery near Somerville. One of the most vivid memories of my father is that he looked so tired coming in from the harvest-iield, sitting down on the doorsill and fainting dead away, my mother resuscitating him, and then he saying: "Now, don't be worried ; it is nothing; I am only a little tired, that's ail ; a little tired. The sun was hot to-day." Ah, many of them traveled a very troubled way. The Bible asks the question: "Who are these under the altar?" and the answer comes back, "These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made w hite in the blood of the lamb." Pathway of tears thev trod, and what wonder it our path should be a path of tear tears over the dead, tears over persecution, tears over misfortune, tears over broken friendship. What is a tear? S ientistä have tried to analyze it and they say a tear has so much of this, so much of that and so much of the other element. I will tell you what a tear is. It is agony in solution. I remark also, taking the suggestion from the text, if we want to join our friends on the hills of heaven, we have to fight for it. These men of David never needed a sharper sword, never needed a stouter breastplate, than at the moment when they went in against the Amalekites to get their families the families that had been taken captive. And between us and joining our friends and our families on the hills of heaven there may be Sedans, there may be Gettysburg, there may be Austerlitzes, there may be Waterloos. War with the world, war with the flesh and war with the devil. That is the way with Paul. We are no letter than Paul not half as good. If I read my Bible right, then this life is a conflict. I "do not know any one w ho does not have a con flict. Put is it not worth a strife, joining the companionship of our loved ones on the hills of heaven? Look at them. There they are; those who sat at vour tables, the chairs now vacant. There thev are. those whom you rocked in the cradle, or hushed in your arms to sleep. There they are, those with whose dotiny your life was bound up. Put their powers are radiant, more radiant than you ever saw them before, and their lips are waiting for the kiss of heavenly reunion, and their cheek is roseate with the health of eternal summer, and their hands are beckoning you up the steep, and their feet bound w ith the mirth of heaven. All the pallor has gone out of the cheek, and they shall never eolith again, and they shall never suiler again, and they shall never get old again, and they shall never weep again. And they are w atching you in the light. They know how much depends on the success of this battle. Oh, charge up the steep. Make a brave fight. Kvt-ry inch further on brings you one inch nearer the heavenly home. Ileligloii Note. The will of Mrs. Miry P. Cutler of South Framingliam bequeath her estate on Chcrrybt., valued ai some !f"J,"iiX'. ami .f 1..vh in eadi additional, to tlie American missionary association and the New West commission. The. number of convert in the Japan mission of ttie American hoard has increased in fifteen months front -1,2"J' f T!'.', a gain of 2..VH. 'I his is the most remarkable record in any missiou of the board, except the Sandw ich Islands. A medical missionary society has been in successful operation in New York for seven years. The society is unsectarian, as is evidenced by the fact that the forty-three students in training during belonged to nine diflerent denominations. In the United States alone there are now about 10,000 Women's Christian temperance unions, comprising a membership of 1.30,000. In addition there is the World's Women's Christian temperance union, and all the foreign interests in other countries, Hinnen pol is Journaf. Anything that God takes the pains to create is worthy of the reverent attention of us, his rational creatures. True science i.s the handmaid of true religion. Those who assume that there is antagonism between them need more knowledge on the one hand and more humility on the other. ntiH A-lcoraie. The beautiful hymn, "God be with you," which was translated tuto the Chinese language by Ir. Henry W. Porter, was sung by his church when parting with hirn on his return to this couutry. The author ot the hymn. Dr. J. H. I'ankin, D. D., has a parisli world-wide, and his sougs will be 6ung down the ages. The third professorship endowment in the Pacific theological seminary, Sa.ii Francisco (Prof. I. K. Dwinell's) has at length been completed 'V'. Mr. C. P. Huntington, the raiiroad magnate, has paid 10,tt. Mr. Charles Crocker .Io,im, and Mr. Moses Hopkins, who has before given ÄXt.OUO to Hopkins academy, has pledged $.in'A The true life is not thinking or dreamincr, but doing. To wait for great opportunities, w hich may never come, is to miss the little within our reach. For a unrely as the house is built brick upon brick and stone upon stone, mi the little deeds, the daily triiles, the apparently ordinary actions, comprise in their aggregate human life and human achievement. Jarih Jfctscngcr. In the seven rears in which the Hew J. H. Harrow, I). D., has been pastor of the First tireshytcrian church, Chicago, 111., 41S have been added to the church, and Sic have come into the membership of the mission chapel tinder its care. The reported benevolent contributions nmount to $1!) l,(Cfi, and unregistered (rifts would bring the Mini up to nearly a million dollars. I'rcshytrriayh Ohne n ' t: There is a field of usefulness for the religious press which is almost entirely unoccupied. It is the field of truly independent religious journalism. What we need is a journal that is broad enough to treat religious issues on a plane that is broader than the limitations of the divergent denominations. Fverybody would need to take such a paper, and the daily press furnishes iu its treatment of public questions in their religious phases the only specimens at present of this type of journalism. Motion Herat J. The church is not a great collection of men and women for rest, or amusement, but the army of the living God to conquer the world. The Christian lite is not a state of ease, but a condition of earnest conflict. To sing songs of victory is well, but the battle must be fought first. The heart is to be kept; the graces of the spirit are to be nurtured ; temptations are to be met ami overcome ; the worl 1, the flesh and th? devil are to be conquered; the salvation of the perishing around us and in the remotest parts of the earth is to be sought; and God alone is to be exulted. J'ret!(criaii Manner. i

A MOUSE STOPS A TRAIX.

TWO STORIES ABOUT THE MONKEYS And a Hudget of Kntertaining Anecdotes For the Little reople What tli Kid Ar Saying- and Some Knotty Problems. Did any one ever imagine a mouse could stop a railroad train? Nevertheless, it was done recently near Modena, in Italy. On the Italian railroads anelectrical apparatus, upon the departure of a train from any station, rings six strokes upon a gong in the next station. The station-master at Capri, hearing las gong ring three where there 6hould be six, immediately suspected something wrong, and ordered up the electric signals of warning. The train, by this time under full headway, came to a dead stop. Then began a transfer of telegraphic messages, the passengers anxious to know what was the matter. Everything was right on the line, and the train, after considerable delay, was ordered forward. The station "master thought it might be well to look into his gong, and there found, stuck fast between the cogs of the electrical apparatus, a poor little mouse. The unhappy animal happening to be in the interior of "the clock when it "struck one," attempted to run dow n, but Avas caught between the murderous wheels. His little lxjdy was big enough to stop the whole apparatus, and consequently the train as well. As To lireatliini;. Washington Star. A boy fourteen years old, recently imported from Kentucky, handed the following in asa composition on 'Breathing." The instruction was: "Tell all you can about breathing." lie said: "Breath is made of air. We breaths with our lungs, our lights, our liver and kidneys. If it wasn't for our breath we would die when we slept. Our breath keeps life a-going through the nose when w;e are asleep. Poys that stay in a room all day should not breathe. " They should wait till they get out of doors. Poys in a room make bail, unwholesome air. They make carbonieide. t'arhonicide is poisoner than mad doers. A heap of soldiers was iu a black hole in India, and a carbonieide got iu that there hole and killed nearly every one afore morning. Girls kill the breathe with corsits that squeeze the diagram, (iirls can't holler or run like boys becaue their diagram is squeezed too much. If I was a girl I would ruther be a boy, so I can holler and run and have a great big diagram." Getting; Into Deep Water. Detroit Sun. 1 heard a pretty good story Tuesday. It was one of George Slawson's" lie said that a friend of his has a bright ray of sunshine in the shape of a pretty little daughter who, like most children, says some funny things. Not long ago the little one, after having been very quiet for a few minutes, asked her mother if God knew all thing. "Yes, He docs," was the reply. "Ivcs He know all that you or me does?" "Yes, I think He does." "Ma, does He know all that I am going to think?" "Every thought, my dear." "How does He know it afore I think it?" And the little one looked up innocently and terribly in earnest. It is not stated whether the mother answered the poser or not. A Piano-Playing Monkey. London Court-Journal. J The latest prodigy at the piano is reported to be quadrumanous a monkey that executes nioreeaux brillian'ly with all four hands at once, while he gracefully turns over the leaves of the music with the tip of his prehensile tail. It is not stated whether or not the music has lecn specially written for him a quatre mains; perhaps he simply duplicates what has been written for ordinary two-handed performers of the Rubinstein order. The achievements of this wonderful ape surely maik a new and most itnIoi tant epoch in the arrangement of the orchestra. A Ounlilleil Substitute. ! Stroit Tree Press. "Say, sis," he said to a ten-year-old girl who answered his ring at the door, "is vour mother in?" "Xo, sir." "That's too bad." "Want to eee her on particular business?" "Yes." "Can't you wait?" "I suppose I'll have to." "If it's very particular, and if you can't wait, you can tell it to me." I ain't mother, but I m engaged to be married, you know." A Monkey at a Fire. Pittsbiirg Dispatch. The members of the Eureka engine company, of Allegheny, have a pet monkey which makes its bed in the hose carriage. When the gong is sounded the animal springs from its perch. Yesterday afternoon a still alarm was sounded by telephone, and the monkey not having received the accustomed signal to dismount remained on the carriage and was taken to the fire. He attracted considerable attention along the route. Joe" lied-Letter Day. Chicago Herald. Little Joe, who lives next door to me, is n. nneer rli:in. about three ve;irs obi. Tin. other morning my door-bell rang, and as 1 i was in the iront nan l opened the ooor. There stood Joe, his eyes blazing, and out of breath, and before I could think twice he yelled, "I've got my llannel drawers on!" I told him i was glad to hear it, and inquired after his health with so much kindness that he promised to call again. Co-Ope rat ion, London stur. Little Parling "That was a white sugar almond I gave oo, Mr. Squeams. Does oo like it?" Crusty O'd Pachelor (who is tryinghard to swallow the dainty in question) " Verbrauch, indeed, thank -ou." Little Parling "It was pink once.' Itostou Schoolboy's Definition, Itoston Transcript.) "What is a volcano?" "A volcano is a burning mountain which vomits forth lire, smoke and red lavender." TVIiat tli Kids Ar Kn)iu. Mother "Charley, whut's little Willie crying so about?" Charley "Oh, I was just a-thumpin Li head to see whether it was sound or not. ' Yemncine't Sttn. IVlle was asked where her little brothers, aged two and four. were. Sh replied: "They are sitting ou the door-step talking about old times." 1 'out h'l Coixiniyn. Mother "Johnny, I'm shocked to hear you swear. Do you learn that at school?" Johnnv "Learn that at school! Why, it's me what teaches the other boys." Ttjra Sijtiti'j. Mr. Feathcrly "You seem to have a nice, rich color this evening, Bobby?" "Yes, sister bad to step around to the dressmaker's a moment before supper aud I got hold of some of hers." Epoch. Two little brothers of four and sii yenrs were playing together a few days since. The si-year-old corrected his younger brother. Said he; "Mother told you not to do that, and

mother is toss." "Xo, Mr," said the four-yea'-old, promptly, "mother ain't boss God' bos.' liotston Traute ripe. Tommy "I wouldn't want to be the preacher's little boy." Aunt '"Why?" Tommy -Oh. lie's got hundreds and hundreds of slippers. They arc scattered all over the house." Tcrrr iLwtr Hspwx. A friend who U in the habit of boring me with anecdote of juvenile precocity gives mc thU speech of a four-year old youngster: "I'll take a piece of pie, please; 1 think it's better loa me than that rich bread." Toronto GlA. First Small Hoy "Come to the circus with me to-night, I've got fro tickets." Second S. R "Couldn't think of it. Sister Nellie's beau's coming to-ninlit, onl I'm going to hide under the piano. It's better than any circus." To ich Tonic. Sicm papa (hiding a stout cane behind hi baek, under a tree on which his youns hopeful has been foraging among the apples) "Charlie, dear, come dwa: it is beginning to thunder." Charley "All ri-ht, pa; I can listen to it up here." Kf'idJnci'l'Wch. m Amateur Photographer (who has heeu showing some of hi attempts at portraiture) "I should like to take your little girl if you wouldn't mind." Little Girl (who has seen the specimens) "Oh, no mamma, don't let hiui take me; I'll be good.' Moomhine. A funny incident convulsed an entire audience at the People's at a recent matinee. A little four-year-old pirl, accompanied by her parents, was among the most interested of the spectators, following the progress of "Michael Strogofi'" with close attention. The ballet, led by Lloise, was a revelation to her, and her little eyes fairly bulged out of her head. After it was all over she leaned over to her mother and said in a distinct childNh treble: "Mamma, I don't think it was very nice of her to show her bare legs." Laughter, bludie and confusion prevailed for the space of a minute or two. V. J.'ntis Kcpi'Uir.

KNOTTY PROBLEMS. Our r.vlorare invited ti furn!h 0ri4in.1l eaijma. i-hara.l.'s, ri.Uiei, rebuses, and oth r "Knrntr Problem," aMrvsin all cuninvintcations relative to this (Kpai ttnent ta L. U. Ciudburn, Li wiiiun, Me. No. 202 A Kealui of Mystery, All th race of bny mortals iathorat niy open jMrtali; Stilly, süently tiify ntiiiirV, S ine in pairs ami mue ernue ing'.p ; Moil :ire taken unawart s, i'.tit kly caught ithr.i my n.ire. I-rave aurl mictity h re surrender, With tin- ilelicatc ami tender, l'.aoh aliUc oicy my oiW, Wlirn tboy I'onir within niy Imitier; All I b-a.l to (k ptlit irolmml. H itliuut one protolin sound. N'oii i-.'.r.y jrreot a fcllnir stransT. Pii-in tiir ii;rti those hours ot danger. I'aiih aiintcnt'h one must fcally, r t!i tu Mtntain, through the valley. All will pi in separate ways, Atd no Mops of ieaJi'rs tr.ee. When at lat my scll is broken. And t h-ave the word is sp.ke :i, Sinie return my ways fircotiiti; (.'th.Ts leave with fund resrettiii N i-liin thi-y micht en r sl.'y In niy realm ot myMery. ; Xo. g;jrt Trauopositinn. l-nntj I watched her little Sue A her firti she deftly drew In her netting, through anil through. 4 admired her, and I knew There uld never be a io Of auction uow so true. Ys, I loved her, and wilh thltif .'ever could by h:trt be stirred : Mich a thought would be absurd. (Am vi.. Xo. gC:I Two 1'lctitres. On a wild and stormy nL'ht a boy sat in a lii?hthoii al.ne. tath'-r, tho ki'cner of the liijut-hoii-e, had cone away early in tho iill. rnoon. exi!etin to return before "niht, but a storm had arisen, and the hoy knew that it would be impossible fur his father to ret urn befi-re the next day. "I must take my lather's place." sai I tie, "or vessels rill im wreeked." Me stood nobly at his post all through that stormy uvht, and no "vessels were lost. v- v . -.i i v v On the outskirts of a village, in a email eott.iae, sat Abel S. and Miry .1. oneevenin?. A'x l lia 1 Im en courting Mary for a Ions time, bui was U bashful to a-k her to l his wife. B it on this eveuin he summoned 11 j some con race, and at lasisrid; "Mary, do yon think yon could make up vour mind to love me'.'"' Mary blu-hed, but did not answer, and A' el asked her ana in. and said: "Mary, 1 nant yon to toil int." M.iry Milled, looked up. and." Why was she like the l-oy in the lighthouse? .Moknixi; Ol.ORV. No. gG.JI. The Tree Tiizds. Wlnt's a tree, that's a tish? The nee thai era wis? The tree thai is painted red? The condiment tree." the pungent tree? The tree where the i'.ro is dead.' What's th'j tree thnt fastens? the tree with a lid? The tree that ran i'nrtii!i a drink? Th" smoothest tn e the straiifhtest tree? The trej near the ocean's brink? What's the tree that barks? Th tree that mourns? Th tree for winter preferred? The seented tree, tho pudding tree? 1 he tree cut in slices and served? What's the tree that's double? The vue used iu cement? Tie t:ee that is always svte.'t ? The ins-et tree? The ol.?e?t tree? The tree for weary feet ? What' the tree laat will float? The one that s'itcs ease? The tree the sehoolboys dread? The bristling treu? The level tree? The tree with a sheltered head? What is tle tree tint is trim? The tree that ox-nd-? The tree that can furnish the clothes? The soi row ful tre? the healing tree" The tallest tree that gnw'.' What is the tree that bleats? the tree that's a cat? The tree each cro.-er run boast? The metal tree. the scouring tree? The tree tnat's neartst th wiV.? The tree that's a flower? The tre that's a fruit ? Tie1 tree that can furnish tiv shoes? Tho fisherman's tree? tiie traitor Ir-f ? The tree tond lovars would choose? The furniture tree? the stalwart tree? The tree that's art ot the hand? Tho tre with an eye? the one that gives oil. And grows In the Holy Land? (M. VkTau Xo, gti:t.T. Aiingram. Io these men wi.s'i to dissemble? ."some say "our '(?," some say two; 'Ti 01101:311 to make o;ie tremble To hear them till their story through. Aias: this member! 'tis unruly; It curbed fur parents Adaiii and To; It never relly serves us truly When trusted mostlv it uiay deceive! ' lt. K. A. Pixij. Xo. 303 I. Star. 1. A leuer. ?. An Italian river. .1. A small lish. A. A garland. Ö. Turkish .ins. . A sehoolmaster. T. liturbs. h. A verb. t. A loiter. Pi. No. 203.. Charade, T1-0 it a color: ' is U'liiiMl : JI'W Is relatives, 1 opine. It : 1 1' r. k SwKtr. Answers. CVJJ Bark. Jti-'ö s t r. V. I, 1 x r. to N V O I, v K . t R A X . l r. S T I N I I. V k 1 ; r 1 j K sj e r V. K c 11 v X T K I. I. I O . s if n I 1. r. r. k M I rt N O M K R ST K K W ISO 'Ji'i. t l'ree-ji.1 . JiVjö On the yiird stiek she measured ofT Si inehos by mciMisi.f the small Miek. She then laid oft' the lillerenee l liiielies on the mall I i lc. Tbisgave a distance of ten i indies, which she led ai led from the K inches on th- yard stick. She now had w distamsjot three inches. hich sh: laid on" twice on the short stick, thus biaiuiui; the leqaired length of 4 inches. '; :S Tnno-worn. 'i;7 Indian e.rn. (T'tlk is found iu i'aV. ; fhi'ky is the enemy meant.) 2oJS Merchandise. Its Value l ell Suddenly. ft hicar Tribune. J Auctio-iccr (at close of church festivnl) "Hero we have another fine cuke. How mneh am 1 offered for it? JStart it along lively. How much?" Mr. Grindstone "One dollar." Mrs. Grindstone (whispering delightedly "That's good of you, Jonas. 1 made that cake myself." Auctioneer "One dollar dollar dollar goingat a lollar do I hear the " Mr. Grindstone (loudly) "I dhln't say one dollar. I said one dime." (The hardened wretch.) 1 Complimentary to Itrnwntnc. Turliiipton Tree Press. Miss Travis "Did the ISrowning society meet last night?" Miss He Smith "Yes: but we didn't Ulk much Browning. Crazy quilts took up most of the evening." Mibs Travis "Pretty much th same thing."

A BUDGET OF FARM TOPICS

ORCHARDS CANNOT BE TOO RICH. Feed For IMg Keep tli Cow Comforts able Seeding Down Fighting Chinch Hugs A Rat-Proof Crib Household Hints Anil Farm Notes. As with a garden, pays Ir. IIo?kina in r.Vfc' Magazine, 50 with an orchard I have never seen ono too rich for profit. I have never epch one upon which the last loads of manure dil not pay the most profit. The most profitable orcharl ot the Williams favorito apple in tho vicinity of -Boston is kept ':as rich as a barnyard." Tho fruit is double what might le called the normal eize of the variety; every apple is handled ike an egg,"anl is got into the market just at the point of its perfection. This orchard is profitable, though small. The only orchard to rival this that I have peen iain Montreal, where I saw, some seven years ago, thirty-six trees of the Fameuse the fruit of which was" sold ungathered tor JsOO. They were very large and perfectly healthy trees, which had, all to themselves, about an acre of rich land. It is well to know that the Fameuse is liable to fungoid spotting-. I spent some time examining the fruit, but was unable to find a single sjeciinen not perfectly fair. The trees had been so pruned that all the fruit was on the outside, where the branches lapel over one amjther like bhingles on a roof. A Kat-I'roor Crib. A Crawford county farmer, in speaking of corn-cribs, says: "A crib for ear-corn should be so constructed as to allow a free passage of air through it, otherwise the grcin is liable to mold before it is properly dried out. The best way I know ot to place a slatted or partly open crib is to set it on upright blocks, ten inches square and lour feet high, with the upper t-nis trimmed down lo hk inches square; on these ends nail sheets oi tin wide enough to project beyond the sills, which are fo be laid on thee tin" covered blocks, so that w hen a rat climbs up the foundation block he is met by the projecting tin, which he cannot get over. The crib may then be finished in any form desired, either open work for ear corn, or entirely tight, according to the use it is wanted for, and no mouso or rat can enter it, unless by some carelessness or neglect on the owner's part. Nothing niu.-t be left set up ngaiiibt it to furnish a ladder for the vermin, and the 6teps should be movable so they can be set aside or suspenled w hen not in use." Nitrogenous Feed For Figs. Experiment appears to have proven the benefit of isuppiying such a proportion of nitrogenous lood with maize for pigs as will rentier the feeding fully nutritious and healthful. The ellectsof euch feeUng have been that the growth of bone was larger, the vital organs the heart, lungs, liver and spleen were heavier anil more vigorous; while, as might be expected from this better development of these organs, the carcass was hvavier and the proportion of lean meat to fat was larger than on exclusive maize feeding. It may be sufficient only to point out these facts mentioned to load feeders of pigs to make use of such nitrogenous food as bran, milk and linseed cake meal along with maize, so as to avoid disease and sec ure moreand better meat, greater profit in feeding and exemption from losses by disease. Feed 1'or MilcH Cows. "Wheat bran," says a New Jersey fanner, "should enter largely into the rations of milch cows. It is a'very easy matter to feed them too much cornmeal. For a little while at first it v.ill increase the llo'.v of milk, but if continued too long it gs to fat-making instead of milk. A fair proportion of roots may he used to make up a variety, but not enough of ar.y kiml to impart its own flavor to the milk. As stover for milch cows I rank fut the leaves of eorn-fxlder and clover hay next. If pumpkins are fed tho seeds should be all first cleaned out. Contrary to the reported experience of some, I have never reeeive! any leneiit f.xm apples or pomace. On the contrary, if fed at all liberally, I think the tendency is to drying up." Seeling Iown, Says a writer in tlie A" ' wi o.' ltri,u r: "Two years ago I ploughed for the first time a very wet piece ot ground ami pi;iiitel corn on these.. It was so wet that bunches of grass grew in spite of us, and last year it grew quite high before we could work it. About the last of June it was heavily manure!, well pulverized and planted in corn. When tho corn was one foot high grass seed was sown, and a weeder run through it. 1 never saw a letter catch, and this year I cut my best grass on this piece. It was estimated that it cut two tons to the acre for the second cr p. This year I seeded about three acres the same way and have a line catch. I am much pleased with this way of seeding." Fighting the Chinch. Hug. Says J. M. of Des Moines, la.: "Where chinch bugs are infecting a wheat-field, and before they have left it to enter an adjacent field of corn, their migration should be prevented, by plowing several rows around each, as they travel with great difficulty over plowed ground, when left in ridges or furrows. Where bugs can be plowel under to the depth of four or five inches, and the ground rolled, they cannot dig their way out, and millions may be killed in tbat way. All the debris and trash in the lence-corners and about a fartn should lie raked out and burned. If farmers are to escape this pest they should light it in everv possible wav." At the Making f the Hay. When th v;!)ip-poor-wil!i nr callio-,', Ami tlie apple i-lossoias arc failing, Willi a ti'tiii r tint forestalling Mi minor' Mush npvn the -iros. Where the litt 'o -tar ar kw-ini Watch tlnivc the iiit'iidow slipping. Ami iho jairtii' lantern's jM'i'io, 1 "i:l mci t niy honni': x. I will s,U hör, I ill Cud her, I will slyly Mral behind hrr. And is h "kiscs I will hind her Till sin; soi the hapr day! Ami when th barley s hi'jdiii-'. And the stimiiitT rose is slcMing, Oh. there'll he a incrrr weddinc At the uwiking oi the hay ! I s.m t ei. W. I'l l K. Keep the Cows Comfortable. K. C. Ridse.l The comfort of cows is indispensable for success in dairying. My cows are mostly put in for the winter, ami are watered in the stable. In mild weather they are turned out to water iu lots of about ten at a time, and are left out only long enough to drink. Hy actual test my cows shrink more by standing out in tho storm for a few hours than by remaining in the barn and going without a feed. Keep half your cows in a warm (stable and turn out the other half and noto the result. Household Hints. Sjionge Cake One doen eggs with the whites and yolks beaten separately, one pint of sugar, one pint of flour, and the juice of two lemons. Have a moderate oven. Molasses Cookies Two cups of molasses, one cup each of sugar and shortening, eight tablespoonfuls of hot water, one tablespoontul each of vinegar, soda nd ginger, and flour to roll. Flannel Cakes Cut dry light bread in pieces, put over it enouch sour milk to cover it, let it stand over night, in the morning wash it well, and to every quart of bread add one

egg well Leaten, a teaspoonfn!I of soda, a pinch of silt and flour to make a moderately thin batter; hake on a griddle. Rye Fritters One anl one-half cup3 flour, one egg, onedialf cup rye meal, one table.iopii SUfjar, a little calt, tiro teaspoon cream tartar mix with milk aud drop from a fpoon into hot lard. Ilaisin Pudding Onedialf cup of molares, one cup of milk, one cup or raisins, onr-hali cup of butter, two ere, two cuj of tiour, two teapoonfuls of baking jowtier. .teaui one hour. Graham Cake One cup of brown sugar, or.e cup of sour cream, two 02cs, two cui" ot (iraham Hour, oue tespoonful of sodn, a little salt and cinnamon if liked. If the cremu ioot sour use less soda. Do not Mir too i-tiil". Cornstarch Cake Two cup of pulverized sugar, three-fourths of a cup of butter, stir to a cream ; one cup of milk, the whites of seven egirs beaten to a stiff' froth, two cups of Hour, one of cornstarch and two teapoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor with lemon or orange. Cream Pie One pint of sweet milk, white of one egg and yolks of three; two taldcpo-.n-fuls of sugar, two of cornstarch; beat ell tgether; let it cool and flavor. Make a rich crust, and bake separate and fill; beat the whites of two epijs to a froth, spread over the top and set in the oven to brown. Table decorations of maiden-hair fern, softened by the feathcrly pink grass t lift has suddenly come to the fore, are the fashion at present, mixed occasionally with white chrysanthemums. This pink gras, sold in bunches, is to be seen alone, or mixed with other kinds, ia suitable receptacles. dowers are s-aree ,int now, foliajre is not always obtainable, ; that grasses reiti supreme in the tallvaes. For table decoration, vine leaves. dieoiored by winters hand, but very enec.ive, are in vofjue. They can be pressed and tied niie than once. They look well with fruit. Stewed Duck As ducks waste in roasting, clean and divide one e? for a fricassee. Put into a saucepau with several sliecof bnil-d lean ham or boiled suit pork, minced line and stew slowly, closely covered, for one hour. Then stir in a laree choppd onion, half a teapoonful of powlerei saee, as much parsley, M tablespoontul of catsup, a sprinkle of black pepper. Cook until tender, then udd one teaspoonful of brown sugar ami 11 tablespoonful of brown flour mixed to pasto in cold water. loil up once m"re and serve in a deep covered dish, with either erven yc.'.s (canned) or boiled nco as an accompaniment. ."Small Rich Fruit Cake Three-quarters of .1 pound of butter, three-quarters of a pound of sifted su?ar, three-quarters of a. pound sinel llur, ten esitrs, white and yolks b:iteu separately; half a uutmet;, grated; one teaspoonful powderei mace, three-quarters f a pound best raisins, seede! andcroj ped: three-iuarters of a pound of currant", picked, wrung in a floured cloth, washed and heated: hah' a pound of citrons or candied lemon peel, a win. qlas ot brandy. This, with the fruit cake, is to t in last, and the eggs before the flour: the .-11 cur ai d butter and 6pices are mixed the first thia. Bake two hours. How to Cook a Potato The i-ooking of a potato is a test of the cook's ski!!, she, or he, may make pastry that will melt in the mouth, salads that inspire verse, and brown gravies, that are the envy of all, but if the potato eonies to the table a heavy, sodden ball, or a nasty, discolored mass, we know that the education f the cook is not complete. In the first place the potatoes should be carefully peeleil. and the khape that nature pave them preserved, instead of chipping ofTthe outside until they look like objects with which to illustrate some geometrical problem. Those that must be cut because of imperfections can be cooked and laid aside for warniiwj up. After they are peeled they should lie for a while in col. I water, and when put to boil, which should be just half an hour before they are to be served, should be put into lxiiling water: after boiling about fifteen or twenty minutes a hauif ill of salt should be sprinkled over them. There should not be too much water, just enouch ti cover them, and it should not boil too rapidly, as the outside will tlake oiT. '1 he dish in which they are to be served should be well warmed and a folded napkin laid in the bottom. As soon as the potflto-s are diie, carefully lift them from the boiiim,' water into the dish by placing a kitchen fork under them, and at once put a warm napkin over them and let them stand two or three or tivc minutes,

then remove the top napkin and serve them, and you have a delicious, white, mealy ball that is an ornament to any dinner table, mid a guet will be sure to ask: "Where ! you buy such delicious potatoes?"' ' -inyrictl llrpr 'hIhan. Nor Fur the Kärrner. The leghorn fowl is an excellent winter layer it kept warm and eomfortaMe. l'ost-hoies for fencine may be dug while the ground is warm. It saves time in spring. Get vour ground ready for peas. They must be planted early, and can t:tud the late frosts. The pouhrymen are tryinr to p-t "eis for breeding purposes" sent by mail under the pareels pot law. A Texas ladv produced 0.000 pounds of honev last year with forty colonies of bees, unending to them and doing all the work herself. liran is now considered the best of all dairy foods. It has not been many years since the larie flouring mills dumped their brau into the river. There is always a good sale for home-made ceuntry lard, and it is in dematet. It pays to eenvert com into fat for the lard alone, as larl brings a hicher price than pork. Corn-fodder should be cut in sonic kind of cutter tbat crushes the pieces while cutting them. This breaks th hard linirtjr and renders the food more acceptable to stock. Dairy butler is superior in quality to that made a few years as:o, due to the competition with creameries. The quality has raised prices, and has been of advantage to the dairymen. Stock should be kept in good condition from birth until marketed. F.very pound of flesh lost by an animal is a loss to the owner. It is a safe rule to hold on to every pound gained. Mistakes do not always result in los?. It is just as important to know how to avoid mistakes as it is to be successful. Many improvements have resulted from the teachings oi mistakes. Very early lambs will begin to come this month, and they will prove profitable if given attention and forced in growth. A lamb born not later than February will be worth two born in April. It is claimed that a good Jersey or butter cow should averaee one pound ot butter a day for the entire year, making 30" pounds. This is not a large yield, but is better than is usually obtained. Early spring pigs will make fat and lsr?e hogs by Christmas, but unless there exct llent accommodations tor the early piss they will not be as large at the end of the year as those farrowed in April or May. Hotbeds are now in order. If you want early cabbage and tomatoes the beds should be ready by February, aud the seed sown before the middle of ttiat month. A small hotbed will produce all the peppers, cnbhae, tomatoes and ecc-plants wanted for a family. The largest, best and smoothest, potatoes should be selected for seed. "Liko produces like," and this rule holds (rood with potatoes more so than with, many other crops. The bin should lie evamineii occasionally 111 oidr to observe if the potatoes are keeping well, and it will pay to assort the tubers for the purpose of selecting the seed. If this plan is puruc the quality of the crop will be improved each each year. The potato now has another enmy, called the flea beetle. It is a very small insect, moving in large numlers, like cloud., and attacks Hie vines by piercing the leaves full of small holes from the under side. Poison fails t destroy them thus fur, and the beetle is an enemy that is dangerous. A sirong solution of toinieco has been recommended as the most efficacious preventive yet tried, but it i not a sure destroyer of the pests. Fvery farmer should experiment in order to learn by practical experience the kind of crops and mode of cultivation best adapted to bis farm. Soils vary, and the experience of one farmer is not always a guide for another. Y.xperiments on small plots cost very little, and may leal to an improvement that is eriiianent. Well tried varieties and systems that have before given good results should never be abandoned for those that are newer until carefully conducted experiments prove them inferior to those that have been tested in comparison with them. Character t'ndoubted. Time. Anxious Mother "I see Mr. Xicefellnw is paying marked Attention lo you. I do not know his family and I have never seen him at church. Have you reason to suppose he is a man of good moral character?" naujjhter "He can draw his check for a million." Mother "Ask him to dinner." Courtship's Convenience. I.ifc.1 "So you proposed to F-lenora?" "Yes." "Well, did she kick?" "So. her father did."

FOUGHT A CLEVER BATTLE.

WHIPPED HIS MAN IN FIVE ROUNDS. Harry Walton of Philadelphia Knxk4 Out by Cat McCarthy of Jrrj City Uoth Feather. YTeights The Quaker City Man Severely Punished. New York, Jan. 25. The great battle between Harry Walton of Philadelphia and Cal McCarthy of Jersey City, to decide the American champiouship in the bantam-weight class, took place at Gloucester, Burlington county, New Jersey, to-niht. Seventy-five of the best known sport from New York and fifty from " Philadelphia were at the ring aide, which wm pitched in the attic of a Tacant raanion on the outskirts of the city of Gloucester. There was no money wagered because of the slight difference iu the weight of the men. The conditions of the contest called for a fight to a finish, accc rding to Marquis of Queensbury rules, with skin gloves, for the bantam weicht champiouship of America and a purse of f750. The tickets sold for 10 each and every man present had one. McCarthy fought a clever battle and knocked Walton out in the fifth round. Tho knock-out was one of the strangest ever witnessed. Walton dived from one end tlie rius to the other, and then ended by rolling all over the floor. McCarthy showed himself to be a general at his business. He is twenty-one years of aje, tan live feet two and one-half inches tall, and weighed 114 pounds. Iiis last battle waa with the late Gcortre Youec, whom he defeated in nine rounds. His longest fijrht was last fall when it took him nearly an hour to knock out Luuenc Hornbacher. W alton had fuueht a draw with Tommy Warren and defeated Jimmy Hägen. He li twenty-fcix years of asre. live feet and four iiiohcs tall and weighs to-day 110,' pounds. A well-known sportinir man from New York, afted s referee. At V:M time waa called to th" men to tight. First Hound black kid gloves were worn by both men. McCarthy was first to lead, 01 the utomach, and as he landed both went down. MeCaithy scraped bis right knee on the rosined board and the blood began to run down his shin. Walton landed several blows and looked well. Cal always sent in a return blow and acted on the defensive. Walto vaa down nt the close of the round. 'cond Hound Clever exchanges were the order. McCarthy was now aimine for the liftk knd Iii sent in many stinging blows with his left hand. He escaped some heavy leads by 'lucking. Both were fighting hard at the eud of the round. Third Hound Both came together in a clinch. Mci.'arthv pounded slowly but heavily on Walton's neck, which had become raw and bloody. Walto kept away, but couid not stop McCarthys left that landed sharply and with great force every time. Walton was a little in the rear and looked as though he was waiting. Fourth Hound McCarthy went at his maa and slashed him all over the ring. Walton'a left eye was badly cut and almost closed and his face was a mats of cuss and bruises. Odd of $100 to 10 were offtred against Walton, but they went begiring. Fifth Round and Last Walton came forward a horrible looking sight, and at once received a heavy blow on the left eye. He staggered, and, after receiving several more aunging punches on the head, became Tery weak. McCarthy went at him with both hands and caught him on the jaw. Walton made a dive ami rolled on the floor for two minutes. McCarthy was declared the winner. Time Eighteen minutes. WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. State of Trade Unusually Perplexing aa4 Ceneral Complaint of Dullness, New Yokk, Jan. 2".. R. G. Dun & Co.'a weekly review of trade says: The state of trade is unusually perplexing, for, with general complaint of dullnes", there are evidence that the volume of transactions is large. The payments through banks last week were 25 per cent, larger th&u for the corresponding week last year nt New York and 1G per cent, larger at all other cities. IIa il road earnings also show tbat traffic is large. The demand for money is sufficiently active at nearly all interior points, moreover, to indicate that a larce business is in progress. Yet it is undeniable that the prevailing temper is one of disappointment at the result of business since the new year began, and this is not wholly explained by the steadily declining prices of products. At southern poiats, after some depression, trade appears to be improving. In the North west trade is fully equal to that of last year, and at some points clearly larcer. The supply of money seems to be everywhere ample for legitimate demand. There are no indications of general unsoundness or over-straining of commercial credits. In tiie preat iron industry, consumption for 11 other than raiiroad purposes appears to be larger than ever; but there is serious disturbance. In consequence, the Jro. Ajt reports a "general weakening which there is no use ia blinking nt," and holds that furnaces which cannot face without serious loss a decline of fuliy 1 from present prices may wisely suspend production. At western points southern iron is otiered at prices equivalent to $12 at Birmingham, which is considered equal to $17 for Pennsylvania iron; and larger sa! es are reported at prices below published quotations. A decline in the price of coke is considered probable and the anthracite coal market continues weak. The decline in wheat continues, the price having fallen 2;ac. for the week. As the prices reached this week 93c to P3;c., there has been some buying for export, though not as yet for Great Britain. Corn has fallen a cent and oats are lower. Pork product have also declined, mess about 50c per bbl, lard 20c and hogs 10c per 100 lbs. Cotton is a shade lower with sales of 421.000 bales, and coffee ?sC higher with sales of 2l,000 baes. There is little activity in groceries but th sugar market favors holders. The general average of prices has fallen offl per cent, for the week. The supply of money here increases both by remittances from the interior and by excess of treasury disbursements over receipts, which reached $1,7 O.O.'O for the week. Tne export of merchandise from New York show a gain of 11 per cent, for three weeks. The stock market is, nevertheless, so firmly sustained that the Average decline in prices has been enly 60 cents per S-loO for the week. The business failures number 342, against a total of 3S7 last week and 31 the week previous. For the corresponding week of hut year the figures were 2j.'. Modesty's Triumph. ILife.l IOver "I love your daughter, Mr. Boodles! Mr. B. "Indeed! Have you any money, young man?" Ijover "Not a cent, sir." Mr. B. "Aha! Any prospects?" Ixiver "My prospects will be Tery bai if you refuse, sir." Mr. I'. "t)h, ho! Any vices?" Iaivci- "All I know of, sir: if yon can teach me nnv more I'll learn them. ' Mr. "il ."Well, by Gad! you are frank at any rate. Take her, my son, and may you both be supremely unhappy!" jm r ''Thank, para. Now will you plesse introduce nie? I don't know her yet," An Fasjr Itemed;. ll.lfe.l Gifted Amateur (in the maff:.ine line) "Oh, as far as ideas go, Miss Maude, I assure you I have all the ider.s I could possibly need. It'a the trouble of writing them out, that is all." Miss Maude "Perhaps you mii;ht find it easier. Mr. r-krybble, if you were to try some new ideas, then ; some other man's for instance, that were already written out, and have theia copied by a typewriter." A Warmer. ToF-n Topics. Husband "What was that noise I heard as I was coming up stairs?" Wife "1 vas arming your slippers, my dear." Husband "Very thoughtful wife. Kis me, mv dear." Tommy "What's the matter with kissing rue, too? She vanned 'em on me." Pegrartation's Depths. "The fellow renlly has no nrwe nse of decency than a cat." "Less, my dar fellow. A eat washes itself now and then."