Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 18S9.

THE SALVATION OF SOULS.

SAVING THE PRESENT GENERATION. The Ttav. lr. Talmas: Freache i Sermon on Helpfulness An Appeal For the Moral ana Physical Wnnts of Men and Women. Dr. Talmasre preached a sermon ou helpfulness last Sundaj, and a eonprcpation that filled tho tabernacle to tho doors eagerly listened. His text was: "David, after he had served hiä own generation, by the will of God fell on sleep," from the Acta via, :i3. And upon this the preacher discoursed upon the work of saving this feneration, saying these among other things: Now let us look around this mornin?, prayerfully and in a common-sense way, and see how we can serve our own generation. And in the first place, I remark, by peeing that they have enough to eat. The human body is bo constructed that three times a day it needs food, as a lamp needs oil or a locomotive needs fuel. To meet that want God has girdled the earth with apple orchards and orange groves and wheat fields and oceans full of fish and prairies full of cattle, and yet I have to tell you that the vast majority of the human race lack for food, or lack the right kind of food. Our civilization is awfully askew ou this subject. God only can correct it. Many of the mightiest fortunes of our day have Kvn made out of the blood and bones of unrequited toil. To build a tower in olden time, a Memaud was made for 70,000 human skulls fron Ispahan and for JlO.OlO skulls from Bagdad, and that number of people had to b slain in order to furnish the human skulls for that tower. But that number of human skulls was a small number compared with the demand which is made in order to build up the tower of the world's wealth and magnificence, in which there are wrought the skeletons of uncounted multitudes of the underfed population of the earth. Millions of skulls! Do not, therefore, sit at your table with five or six courses of abundant supply and think nothingof the family on the Kick street, who, if tr:ey had any one of these courses between soup and almond nuts, would feel that they were in heaven. A great deal of the drunkenness of the lay comes from a lack of food, or a lack of the right kind of food. Many oi tho laboring classes, after drinking what pome of the grocers call coffee, sweetened with something that many of the grocers call sugar, and chewing what some of the butchers call meat, and swallowing something that some ot the bakers call bread, feel bo miserable that they are tempted to fill their nasty pipes with something that the tobacconist calls tobacco, or go into a low restaurant for something which the rumseller calls beer! Good corlee would extirpate a vast amount of American drunkenness. It is high time that all doctors, all ministers of religion, all philanthropists, all Christians put themselves in battle array against the adulteration of food. But now, how are we to serve our own generation by getting the right kind of food? By sitting down with embroidered slippers and lounging in an arm chair, our mouth puckered around a Havana of the best brand, and through the luxuriant smoke reading about political . economy and the philosophy of strikes? No. But by finding out some family that have nothing better than gristle and sending them a first rate tenderloin beefsteak. Let us quit surfeiting ourselves until we cannot choke down another crumb of cake and give supply to the necessities of the suffering. Oh, how often we see on a small scale what the great warrior expressed on a large scale when his RtatT otlicers were attempting to dissuade him from a certain campaign because it would sacrifice 2H,000 lives, and he replied with a diatiolism that can never be forgotten: "What are 1200,000 lives to me?" o far from appeasing human hunger, there are those described by Isaiah as grinding the faces of the poor. You see a mechanic, or a farmer, put an ax or scythe on a grindstone, while some one turns the crank around and around, the water dripping on the ground and harder and harder the woodman presses the ax on the grindstone, until from being round and dull, it becomes keen and keener and the farmer lifts the ax and runs his finger cautiously along the edge to test it very cautiously, lest he cut his finger to the bone. So I have seen a man put down on the grindstono of hardship and one man would turn the crank and another man press down harder and harder until the man's life was being ground away his comfort thinner, his prospects thinner, his hopes thinner, and Isaiah shrieks out, "What mean ye, that ye grind the faces of the poor?" Oh, it is an awful thing to be hungry. It is easy enough to be in good humor when we have full supply, but let hunger take full possession of us and we would all be barbarians and cannibals and devils. Thank God the day is coming the Ixrd hasten it when every family will sit down at a full table, and it will bo only a question between lamb and venison, between partridge and quail on toast, and from spoon made out of Nevada silver or California gold, the pastries will drop on the tongue with thrills of thankfulness because th?v have enough. Meanwhile, instead of the elaborate discussion on the subject of bread, let us all go to work in some way toalleviate human hunger. I have read that the greatest battle in all the world's history greatest for the number of troops engaged was the battle of Leipsic because Napoleon had 100,000 men and Schwarzenberg had 2.V),000. No! No! The greatest battle in the world's history is now being fought, and there are more troops in it than any other battle in all the World's history. It is the struggle for bread. The ground tone of one of the great masterpieces oi music, the artist says, was suggested to him by the cry of the hungry iiopttlace of Vienna as the king rode through the streets and they cried: "Bread, give us bread !" And through all the great harmonies of musical academy and great cathedral I hear the pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy of an uncounted multitude who with streaming eyes and wan cheeks and breaking hearts, ia behalf of themselves and their families are pleading for bread. Well, now, let us take another look and see how we can serve our generation by seeing that they have enough to wear. God knows just how many people there are in the world. In civilized lands we take the census and we tell quite accurately how many people there are in England and the United Htates; but he who tells how many people there are in Asia or Africa makes a wild guess. But (iod knows exactly how many people there are in the world and He provides enough food, rightly distributed, if pa a there be fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand fifteen hundred and fifteen peo- ; pie. then God provides for fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen people, and He provides apparel for them, if it is rightly distributed. Two suits a year winter suit and summer suit. A pair of shoes for every mortal with two feet, a coat, a hat, a bonnet, a shawl an entire masculine and feminine outfit cf apparel a wardrobe suited to the climate, and not a string, or a button, or a pin, or a hook and eye wanting. Alas, then, who geta the pood clothes for three-fourths of the people? The other one-fourth appropriate.? them. And there needs to be a distribution, and will be. Not by anarchistic violence.

Outlawry, if it had its way, would rend and tear and destroy, and instead of three-fourths of the people not having the apparel they ought to have, there would be four-fourths in rags. I will tell you how the distribution will be made. By increased generosity on the part of those who have supplies by increased industry and sobriety on the part of those who have suffering and deficit Not all, but the vast majority of the cases of poverty are the result either of idleness or drunkenness on tho part of the present sufferers, or their ancestors. Not all, but the majority of the cases. Tho rum jug is the maelstrom that swallowed down the livelihood of the vast multitudes who are in rags. Now, there is going to be a change, and by increased generosity on the part of the crowded wardrobes, and increased industry and sobriety on the part of the empty wardrobes, there will be enough to wear for all. God did His part toward dressing this world. He grows an extra amount of warmth on the sheep's back, and the flock that roam the mountains and the valleys with a superabundance of warmth that was intended to be transferred to the human race when the shuttles of the factories all the way between the Chattahoochie and the Merrimac shall have spun and woven it. And here comes the Kockv Mountain goat and the cashmere and the beaver, and here comes the merino sheep, its origin traced clear back to Abrahamitic and Davidic time. God writing in white letters of snowy ileece for thousands of years His wish that the whole human race may have warmth and enough clothing. Now, who will do the most toward settling this question of apparel? That man who idly sits down to discuss a low tarilf, or no tariff at all on wool, or yon, the Christian woman who will go forth, having examined first your own wardrobe, to see if there is any spare apparel, and take a lad from the street to a clothing store and give him a full outfit? Abstraction never did anything never clothed a back, never shod a foot, never fed a hungry man. Abstraction. For do not 1' deceived by this mild January and February weather, and think that God has forgotten tlie ice and the snow. We shall have deep snows, and so much frost on the window-pane you cannot see through it, and whole flocks of blizzards. For I iod has not forgotten the promise He made at the beginning that winter as well as summer shall not cease, and be-

tween this and the springtime crocus you and 1 will again be led to cry out with tho psalmist: "Who can stand before His cold ?" Ixt us take another look and see how we can serve our own generation. We Mould be very short-sighted certainly if we were anxious, that there should be food and clothing and shelter for the most insignificant part of a nianhis body while we cared nothing about feeding and clothing his mmortal soul. Time is only a little piece broken off a great eternity. What are you and I doing for the sou's of our generation? Let me say that this is a generation worth saving. We talk about the improvements in navigation and locomotion and art and machinery, and we make a great ado about the telegraph and the telephone and the stethoscope, and we say, "What a wonderful advance between the electric light and the tallow candle." But all that advancement is insignificant compared with the advancement of the human race. We put a halo around the people of the past. In olden times, once in a while there would come forth ngood and a great man, or a good and a great woman, and the world would make a great fuss about it; but there are so many such men and women now we do not speak of it. I tell you that this generation is more worth saving than any of the In generations that have ptssed. Well, now how are we going to begin? With ourselves. That is the pillar from which we must start. We will never save anybody else until we ourselves are saved. Have you ever noticed how strong a man is when he is in the right? At the time of the centennial exhibition at Philadelphia the directors assembled to settle whether they should open the exhibition on .Sunday. A man of the world from Nevada, who was a member of the board of direction, arose in tho midst of the discussion and said: "Weil, I feel as if I was a prodigal got home again. I went far west twenty years ago, where we had no Sabbath, and I haven't been as good a man as I ought to have lieen, but to-d:iy I am thinking about my glorified mother and what she taught me about the Sabbath day, and I feel just now as if I were kneeling by her side saying my evening prayer. Gentlemen, I vote for the observance of the Christian Sabbath." Well, the wholo thing went by ttorm, and when the question was put: "Shall the exhibition be opened on the Sabbath day?" It was an almost unanimous "No, no, no." One man in the right boldly in the right, magnificently in the right. My friends, we will successfully talk no more religion, we will successfully preach no more religion than we have ourselves. We will never lift anybody on the rock until we get both our feet planted on the eternal rock. How to be saved? People have been saved in less time than I have been talking about it. What? Without a prayer? Yes. Without time for much deliberation? Yes. Without a tear? Yes. Believe and you will be saved. Believe what? That Jesus Christ died to save your soul from sin and death and hell. Will you believe? Do vou believe? Yon do. I see it in many of 3-our faces. Welcome, Welcome ! Hail, hail! Saved yourself, how are you going to save others? By testimony. Tell it to your families, tell it to your business associates, tell it evervwhere. Oh, what a grand thing it woufd be to save this whole generation. What Mik'lit He Done. Zion's Herald. This thought o:ten impresses one with mingled inspiration and condemnation. If each soul claiming to have entered into the grace of Christ but used that grace to acquaint some other with the same blessing, how quickly the kingdom of our Lord would come! If the assumed disciple of our Lord were indeed Christian at toil, in social intimacies and at the home, how large an increment daily wouid be added to such as should be saved ! If the love of Christ but constrained us to interest ourselves perpetually in the conversion of others as we have in special seasons been moved; what results would follow ! If the Christian acted as if he believed his own tenets true, what marvelous transformations would be seen ! Abirnr From Church. Congrcgationalhit. Long-continued absence from church, even of resident members in good health, does not nece-sarily, though it may usually, mean spiritual decline. In one of the cities of the interior a church-member became somewhat troubled because a frominent fellow member had staid away rom the sanctuary for several months and, on remonstrating with him, learned that the supposed renegade had been so engrossed on Sunday with a mission on the outskirts of the city as to have absolutely no time left for the stated services of the church. Such enthusiasm, if it became general, might leave our churches empty; but if it should happen, say once, it might not prove such a deplorably harmful thing. The Touch of Christ. Presbyterian Observer. Je3us is now in heaven, yet his hand is stretched out still, and is ready everywhere w ith its gentle touch to "cool the heart's fever, or heal the soul's diseases, or rest in benediction on the bowed head of

strong men, or crushed sufferer, or little child. Wherever the holy word goes the hand of Christ, unseen, is reached out. Wherever the Spirit lingers over a life the hand that was wounded waits ready with its efficacious touch to give blessing. Besting upon the mourner, in the bitterness of grief, it gives deep and rich comfort. Touching the brow of care, it smooths out the lines of anxiety. It brings rest to the weary, strength to the weak, courage to the faint-hearted, hope to the despairing. We need only faith and prayer to have this healing, "cleansing, renewing, lifegiving touch rest in ail its blessed power upon our hearts and live3. The Gospel of Despair. The Univcrsallst. Pessimism is scientifically defined as the gospel of despair, which teaches that the pains of life outweigh its pleasures; that the fate of man is to struggle laboriously by paths that aro distressing to ends that are unsatisfying, and that it is the unhappy constitution of humanity to be unconscious of its happiness, but keenly alive to its misery. It points to no land of promise, the pro-pect of whoso milk and honey may inspirit the weary travelers through the wilderness ; it sings no p;eans over a coming era of freedom, plenty, enlightenment, and peace; it bluntly informs humanity that its lot is evil; 'that its best efforts will never achieve aught but some trilling mitigation of its sufferings, and that there is hope neither in the future of the race nor bevond the grave.

Itellcions Notes. Omaha has 101 churches and 2" saloons. SL Louis has twenty-two methodist churches, worth $.KS,6i0. The Czar of Russia wears a ring in which is imbedded a piece of the true cross. The "monthly concert" originated with an association of baptist ministers at Nottingham, Bn'land. about 1(X) years ago. Queen Victoria has handed over to St. Catharine's hospital the um of 70,0ii, as the surplus of the women's jubilee offering. Japan legally recognizes the Christian Sabbath and it is observed as a day of rest by all government offices, public school?, bank, etc. Eighty-five per cent, of the whole number of churches in the state of New York now use unfermented wine, an advance of 15 per cent, over last year. The Salle llivole, long notorious as a wicked den, in the very heart of Paris, has been transformed by, the McAll mission into a gospel temple where religious services are held every night. A learned Brahmin has Faid of India: "Of one thing I am convinced do what we will, oppose it ns we may, it is the Christian's bible that will sooner or later work the regeneration of this land." The Mid-Continent. There is being issued in Milan in half penny numbers the entire bible in the Italian language; and tliis is meeting with larce success, öO.ouO copies being taken. A similar attempt is about to be made in Barcelona, Spain. 1 he Ch m rch of To D-a y. Stoddard county, Missouri, has a boy preacher only six years of ase. He never went to school a day in his life and can neither read nor write. It is said that his sermons are very able; he is a sound reasoner. a deep thinker, and he preaches like a veteran. He quotes from the bible from memory. It was stated at the recent convention of colored catholics in Washington that there are twenty colored catholic churches in this country, each one of these having a school annexed ; besides sixty-five colored catholic schools, eight orphan asylums, and three reformatories. The catholic hospitals, homes for the poor, etc., are open to both colored and white children. About f00 children arc taucht in the schools, and JC0 children cared lor in the asylums. There is but one catholic priest, but there are seven colored students. Pledge-giving promotes growth in grace. A pledge made to our Lord in secret is a continual well-spring of help in Christian living. We all have movements of inspiration, of spiritual uplifts, and it is oneof our saddest recrets that these experiences are so fleeting. Kvery consecrated, prayerful gift is a round in the ladder on which angelsare nscendinrand descending, and at the top of which stands our Lord himself, making the place to be to ns the house of God the very "gate to heaven." Life and Light. Gen. Harrison is reported, says the Advance "to have said that he never appreciated the value of the Sabbath as he has during the last six or seven months. He has had a harbor at the end of each six working days into which he could sail behind an impassable breakwater, and it is quite probable that this lias saved his life for it would require a constitution of iron to stand a continuous strain of the kind. Office-seekers will find that there are two walls to scale an outer wall of the civil-service rules and an inner wall of the Sabbath and the seclusion of the family." MOORE IN MONTREAL. The Mysterious Lady With Him Is His Daughter Julia. Montreal, Que., Feb. 12. Special. Joseph A. Moore and his daughter Julia, recently of Indianapolis, are undoubtedly still in this city, though they keep themselves completely secluded. Private Detective Kellert, who says he has kept a watch on them for the past ten days, says that the defaulter has not been out of his boarding place but ouce in that time, and that was during the storming of the ice palace during the carnival festivities last week. He Jives under an assumed name and his daughter gets his letters at the postoSice general delivery. Kellert will not tell the assumed name. A man describing himself as Georgo V. Hall of Indianapolis, and one of Moore's former friends und present creditor, arrived here today for the purpose of attempting to get something out of Moore. Your correspondent endeavored to get at Mr. Hall three or four times to-dny, but he avoids all reporters, refusing even to say whether he knows Moore or not. Kellert says Mr. Hall is trying to ellect some kind of a compromise. CORTEZ EWING ELECTED. Republican Hoodie Used Hut it Fnlls to Have Carpenter. Shelbyville, Feb. 11 Special. The election for a joint senator of Shelby and Pecatur counties passed off quietly here to-day and reports from fourteen out of twentj-one precincts indicate a majority for Ewing (dem.) over Carpenter (rep.) of about 4.'V. F.wing's majority in the district is estimated at 150. The republicans used money at every precinct in the county. One of the surprises of the vote to-day is the result in Washington township, a republican stronghold, which gave fifty-two republican majority in November and only six to-day. Mr. Matson Kemembered. "WAsniXGTON'. Feb. 15. Representative Matson of Indiana, chairman of the house committee ou invalid pensions, was to-day the recipient of two handsome tokens of friendship and regard from his colleagues on the committee. These were a magnificent clock and a large double cigar case of solid silver. The presentation was made by Representative flallinger of New Hampshire, who spoke at length on the uniform kindness.atid courtesy shown by Mr. Matson in his. dealing with his colleagues, both democrats and republicans. No, Indeed I 1o the Editor Sir: In speaking of the school book question, is it proposed to pass measure that the state shall publish the test-books and furnish thera free of cost to tho pupils attending' tho public schools, and for this purpose levy a taa od a nrc.it many of our citizens who prefer to send th-Mr children to some sectarian or private school, without receiving any benefit whatever from such proposed legislation ? ü. Prookville, Feb. 14. Nothing of the kind has been proposed by aoybody that we know of. Editor Sk.nti.sku Prohibition a Failure. Pbovtdksce, R. I., Feb. 1?. In the house of representatives to-day a petition with 602 signers was presented, reciting that the petitioners, tax-payers and business men of tho state, feeling that the amendment to the constitution prohibiting tho manufacture and sale of intoxicating liqrwrs as a beverage Is Injurious to the best interests of the state as well as incapable of enforcement, and that it has placed the liuuor business txyond control and supervision, and has depreciated the prira of real estate, petition for an amendment abrogating the prohibitory amendment.

HINTS ABOUT . ENSILAGE.

OTHER INTERESTING FARM TOPICS. Mntton Sheep Advice to Farmers The Alexander Apple III pen In g Cream . Household Uinta And. RecipesAll Around, the Farm, Five years ago many of our most experienced farmers, aa well as some of the scientific investigators, violently attacked ensilage, claiming that it added nothing to the availahle supply of food in winter, was lacking in nutriment and came out of the silo in an acid condition. That there were good grounds for this opposition is now made apparent, as the causes of failure have been discovered, but that ensilage is now considered as an indispensable, article on the dairy or .stock farm, is no longer denied by any one. It has forced its way wherever dairying exists, , and with our cheap corn-fodder, which gives the American farmer an advantage, the failure to use ensilage is to sacrifice opportunities. The mistake made by those who first built silos and stored green fodder therein was in supposing that immature green material was more suitable than that in the advanced stage of growth. Corn Mas broadcasted and tiie fodder cut when bnt two or three feet high. Such material contained an excess of water in its composition, and was lacking in food elements. . Its keeping quality was also deficient, and, though highly relished by stock when fresh, proved unsatisfactory as ensilage. It is now known that the only proper modo of securing ensilage from the corn plant is to grow it in rows, so as to cultivate it until it produce ears. It is cut just when the ears begin to glaze and stored in the silo. By allowing tbe corn to reach this stage of growth before cutting it there is stored in the stalks and leaves (also the ears) an amount of valuable nutrition (and of a different chaJactor) that dees not exist in the plants that does not exist in the plants when they are cut down in the immature state. Clover and other grass crops, if intended for the silo, should be cut when the seed heads are forming. By cutting the crops when they are nearly matured a larger amount of ensilage is secured, and the quality is much superior to that obtained at other stages of growth. Experiments show that if the entire stalks of corn be laid across each other lengthwise, with the butts exposed to the weather only, and protected by a canvas, or some suitable covering, the cornfodder, if cut when the ears have formed, can be kept in tho fields with , but a trilling lots, Silos, however, may be buiit above ground in acorner of the barn, or in the open field, provided they are made air-tight, and also 6trong enough to resist the pressure. The Alexander Apple. For beauty on tho tree perhaps the variety called the Alexander will bear away the palm. It is as large as a pound' sweeting and a deep red in color. The tree bears well, but a larger one than the last the second year. The apples are so large that they easily fall to the ground in a wind and become bruised in that way. They are not remarkable for good flavor, although they are fair to eat out of hand, but they are so large that a couple ot them will make a large pie si ujtara dt sirable to dry, setting aside the lack of flavor, for the reason that they work up so fast. They are a fall apple and not particularly good for keeping, decaying quickly, sometimes on tiie tree. Mutton Sheep. If dairymen who fail to derive a fair profit from cow s will devote their pastures to the large breeds of mutton 6heep, confining the sheep on limited areas, they will find that sheep will pay larger profits than any other stock. Y ool should not be the object however. The aim should be to produce carcasses weighing not less than 150 pounds each, and to have a choice quality of meat. This is not difficult to do with the use of rams of the Shropshire, Hampshire or Oxford breeds. Begin on the common flock and grade up. Ripening; Cream. The term "ripening," as applied to cream, is not properly understood and is liable to mislead. It was first used to indicate a condition of the cream in which it is in the best state for churning for the production ot ttie largest quantity and the best quality of butter. I$y common consent of all expert dairymen, this condition of the cream is produced by a certain degree of acidity. Household Hints, Sally I.nnn One pint of flour, butter half the size of an egg, one teacup of milk, one cgi:, two tablespoontuls of sugar, one teaspooufu) of creHtn of tartar, one-half tenspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt. Bake twenty minu'es. Oyster Pie Fill a shallow pudding dish with oysters, cream, popper, salt and butter. Let them stand on the top of the ranire or stove until just broiling; then cover the top of the dish with a rich crust, about half an inch thick, bake until the crust is browned delicately. Serve hot. This is a delicious side dKh. Soft (iineer Bread One cup of rnoiassef, one cup of brown Biigar, one cup of sonr milk, one-half cup of butter, two egg.s. one tablof poonful of ginger, four tcaspoonfuls of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar. Make it ns stW with the flour as yon enn stir it, spread it on a dripping pan an inch thick and bake slowly. Apple Cream Peel and core six large apples, boil them in a little water, with two ounces of rasius und the grated rind of a lemon, till quite soft; when cold add a elnss of sherry. Lay the mixture in a pie-dish,' beat up the whites of three esfirs with a little sugar to stilf froth, spread it over the apples, and hake in a slow oven. Lemon Pie The juice ' and rind ' of one lemon, one cup of sugar, the yelks of two eg?, three tablepoonfuls of flour, milk to fill the plate; line tbe plate with paste; pour in this custard and bake it until it is done; beat the whites of two egis. add four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, spread over the pie and brown lightly in the oven. Open Apple Tart Stew some apples till quite soft; take out any hard picceB, heat them to a pulp, and to one-half pound of pulp allow six ounces of sugar, five egs and the grated rind of a lemon. Heat all these well together, and then add gradually five ounces of melted butter. Line a dish with putf paste, pour in the mixture, and bake it at once. Bread Griddle Cakes Soak, a small howl of bread over night in milk. In the jnorning mix half n cupful of flour, into which is put cut and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, with one quart of milk, three well-beaten eges nnd a little salt. Beat up the bread with this batter until it is very light, and fry a delicate Lrown. The hatter should be thick. Patty Crusts Boll out the dough to a thickness of a quarter of an inch in square shapes; cut out the patties with the cake-cut-ter. place them on a cake pan, which must not be too thin and must be wetted with water. Take oic ecg well whipped and a few drops of milk. With a brush color the tops without touching the sides; then with a smaller cutter mark the patties, but not too deeply in the center, and put in an oven hot enough to roast a chicken. When cooked take out the centers with, a knife and use them as covers. A PJch Baked Apple Pudding Stew some, apples with sugar to taste, a few currants, some chopMd up almonds, a little mixed peel cut fine, and a pinch of ground cinnamon. Make a crust as for an ordinary pudding, grease the pudding basin, and sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon, line it with some of the paste, rut some of the fruit t the bottom, then a layer of paste, then another of fruit, and so on till the basin is full, finishing off with tbe paste: sprinkle the top with sugar &u l cinnamon and bake it It will turn out

of the basin when baked. A simpler method is to peel and cut the apples in small piece nnd lay them on the paste with the other ingredients and the addition of a little water. To Clean The Pots The natural color of iron is trray. and a little care will keep iron vessels this color. If they are black, it is because they are dirty. It is a good plan, occasionally, if you must use iron-ware instead of lighter vessels, to plunge such articles as baking-pans, spiders, griddles, etc., in water, with one tablespoonful of soda to each gallon of water, cover close, and cook them for two hours. Then remove one at a time and wash each piece before it dries. You will he amazed at the changed condition of your wares the first time you do it, unless you are one among 10,000 of our housekeepers. Muffins Beat one teacup of butter and one of sugar to a stiff cream; beat four eggs very licht (yelks and whites separately); then beat them into the sugar and butter until quite liprht. To four quarts of flour put a cup of good yeast, or as much as you take for four quarts of flour, and a half-teaspoonful of salt; then stir in the suear, butter and eirt;s, with two ouarts of sweet milk; let it rise overnight and bake in wellbuttered muffin rings in the morning. If wanted for tea, set to rise in the morning. This recipe makes a larpe quantity of muflins, and may be divided easily, making one-half or onefourth the quantity as desired. All Around the Farm. Burn over the fields that are covered with Btubbles and dried grass. If you have a warm place, and well sheltered, you can set out lettuce plants now, if you have them. Nothing is so clean as dry dirt sprinkled on the floors of poultry houses and in the stalls of the stables and cattle sheds. Haul out your manure now and get it ont of the way before spring. By so doing, the manure will be in better condition for the crops. When the spring rains come do not allow any of the water to flow into the well. Grade up around the well so as to turn the surface water oil". Salt is Faid to he an excellent fertilizer in peach orchards. A better fertilizer would be twenty parts wood ashes to one of salt, applied of dollars' worth of grain is destroyed annually by mice, rats and other vermin, that may be saved by using half-inch wire netting under the floors of stables and barns. Moist, damp soil is sometimes the most vainable. Celery, and in 6onie sections onions, do beet on such soils. If the soil is sandy, strawberries will thrive better on damp soils that are not too wet. Early in the season the fowls on the farm can be made to do good service if allowed on newly plowed land. Chickens will scratch industriously for worms, and the number of insects eaten by a large flock daily is very large. The horses should be exercised daily. If kept standing in tbe stable they become chanced in disposition. The gentlest of horses become shy if confined too lone. Exercise hardens the muscles and keeps the horse in good condition for the spring work. Paint is an important substance on the farm. It preserves the buildings and adds to their appearance. Farmers who neglect to ue paint are not economical. It adds much to the value of every i hing on the farm, stops holes and cracks, and saves its cost in a single season. It costs less to raise a colt than may be supposed. The colt requires attention, however, as it must be curried and properly stabled, but with plenty of pasture but little food is required, except an allowance of grain daily. If well bred the colt should bring a cood price when three ycar3 old. Changeable weather is not favorable to bees in winter. It will not do to keep the hive too warm, as the bees generate animal heat, and it will not assist the bees to have the hive in an exposed location. The bee-keeper is compelled to trust to his judgment, and to move the hives should necessity so require. Radish is a hardy vegetable and can be grown on nearly all soils, but prefers a light, sandy loam. To get them crisp and tender they should be forced to crow as rapidly as possible. The longer the time required for growth the tougher the radish. Crispiness is the most important quality with them. The safest mode of preventinsj rot in grapes is to trim the vines now and burn the wood. Then spray the vines with the Bordeaux mixture (sulphate of copper and lime water.) Begin early, so as to kill the disease before the warm weather begins. Early work will do much to prevent the spread oi the disease. The gizzard of the fowl masticates the food, but this can only be done with the aid of sharp, gritty material. A hen can eat powdered glass with' benefit. Many of the ailments of poultry in winter are due to the lack of gritty substances, the birds being compelled to disprest unmasticated food, which results in indigestion. If you want early greens make a piece of ground very fine, use good, well-rotted manure, and sow kale seed as early as the warming of the ground will permit. Kale is hardy, grows very rapidly, and is one of the best plants crown for early use. L'6e plenty of seed to avoid bare places, and sow it either broadcast or in rows. The hot-bed should come in for more attention than anything else this month. It requires watching, and if the plants do not thrive or grow rapidly they must be sprinkled with solutions of commercial fertilizers. A tablespoonful each of guano and superphosphate in two gallons of water is excellent, and may be applied three times a week. THE BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS.

.Some Suggestion About a rending Bill For Their Taxation. To thk Editor Sir: From your report, in last Saturday's Skxtin el, of a meeting ot the Single Tax league, the object of Senator Barrett's bill in regard to taxing building as(jci:itioni would be simply to compel non-born in ptoekhohb-re to pay taxes. Now, it would probably accomplish that, but it would also make it very oppressive to building associations and defeat their principal objc -t, viz. : enabling those of moderate means to invest their savings safely and profitably, auJ als to secure homes of their own. Having been secretary of building associations here far nearly fourteen years, I can fully Indorse the position taken by Mr. Custer at that ineeetinjr, the hi.tturr of these organizations in this state, being: That up to 1S37 their receipts were entirely inadequate to the demand of borrowers, and thoso who fccured loans were compelled to pay high premiums atid a high rate of interest for the same. Since the passage of the a"t of 1SS7, which is very defective In its phraeology. though in purpose anil spirit in tue interest of building associations and the man of moderate means, tho receipts of t!.cc associations have been equal to and oftpn in excels of the demana. premiums nnd rate of Interest paid are rapidly diminishing and building associations are flourishinc as ther never did before. The only ditlerenee between the art of liW7and Senator I.arrctt's bill appears to be that while the former requires the association to pay taxes on loans not ecured by niortgace on renl estate, the latter requires the non-borrow ing stockholder and those borrowers who gave other thr.n real estate security to pay the-taxen. The real difference, however, is so great that the passage of Senator Barrett' bill would place building as ciations in a worse condition than they were prior to HS7. In short, if tbe result of such a bill were understood, it could not possibly puss. If the only object of this bill is to compel non-borrowing stockholders to par taxes, why not amend the act of 17 so as to require the association to pay taxes on the money in the treasury, and also on the repaying value of all loans not secured by mortgage on real estate, and provide that auch taxes paid by the association be charged to and become a lien upon the shares cd stock on which no loans secured by mortgage upon real estate have leen awarded according to their value, in favor of (aid association, and collected as the by-laws may direct? Bkntlky Masslich. Union City, Ind., Feb. 11. Chilly ll.iptism. Dasvillk, 111., Feb. 11. Fannie Mann, Annie Lee, Douglas Cole, Jacob Grimes and wife, Charles Grimes and wife of Blount township, this county, were baptized by Immersion yesterday a few miles west of this city. The Kev. Mr. Hodge of Catlin and John Lee of this city performed the ceremony. A large hole had been cut in the ice, and tho minister took the thinly-clad and shivering converts, one of whom is a chronic invalid, and another a young mother, one at a time, into the water, which was live b'ct deep. A blizzard and snow storm was raging, nnd it was so cold that the ice formed on top of the pool and stiffened their garments as on as they came out of I he water. On completion of the ceremony, thev walked, in their stocking feet, a quarter of a mile through 'he fields to the nearest residence to change garments, A Ghastly I lud. Colcmbus, Feb. 12. Special. In the northeastern part of this county is a neighborhood known as the dark corner that has furnished many sensations heretofore. Saturday last Thomas Thurston, a prosperous farmer of that section, went to his farm and found the doors oien and the stock running loose in tbe yard. In looking around he found blood spattered about the building and a bloody piece of the. cajp of a human being as large as bis hand, with the hair on it, lying in the mule stable. A party has been organized and a thorough search of the woods and thickets is progressing. The supposition is that thiercs were after the muies and one of the leaders was killed or eriuusly lüjurtd by a kick from a mule.

HE STÜCK IN TIIE TUNNEL

FUNNY EXPERIENCE OF TWO BOYS. Other Stories For Young Folks A Com position' on Trees Anecdotes of the Kids Sharp Talks and Knotty Problems. One day the horticultural society met at our house. Hobby came; he was just as big as I, only fatter, and I was four and a half. Iiobby's papa made a speech; it was not a nice story at all, so Robby and I went out to dig a well. The ground was o hard we could not dig a very deep well. We rolled some big sewer pipes down that were just as tall as I was, and very big round. Hobby said: "Come on, Oscar, let's put them in a line and play tunnel?" There were six of them. I went into the tunnel first; but it was not so much fun as I thought. I tried to back out, but couldn't. Somehow, when I drew my elbow up to push, I was too big. It was dark in there, and I cried ; but I coul J not wipe my eyes, 'cause there wasn't room. I believed I'd never gel out, it was so long and so dark and so tight. I yelled, too, but I guess nobody heard me. When I got out I hallooed I tell you. And then I looked for Hobby. He was not getting along very fast, lie was in the very first piece of the tunnel and could not get out. He was too fat. I rolled the next piece of the tunnel away, and scratched Hobby's face, for he had just trot his head into it. When I asked him why be didn't come out, he screamed out that he was "stuck." When I took hold of his feet and pulled, be hallooed so I got scared, and ran in to call Iiis mother. Hobby's papa was still reading, but I did not care. I just called as loud as 1 could : "Come out here. Hobby's stuck in the tunnel! ' Hobby's mother just gave one scream and ran out. My mamma ran out, too. When we got there Hobby was still yelling, lie looked just like a turtle, with his face all red and black and spotty, sticking out at one end, and his muddy feet, kicking as much as they could, at the other. Iiis mother just cried; but my ma got down and pulled oil his dirty boots. My! what faces she made! And then he slid through just as easy! He was so dirty he had to have on one of my suits; and it was so tight for him I thought the buttons would burst off. His face kept getting redder all the time. I wanted to take him to my play-room to play blocks and things, but they made us sit in the parlor till the folks went home. It was so hot there that I fell asleep, and that is all I can remember. Lit era Scripta JIanet. UlustriU; Well. Max aud Moritz were the only male youngsters in the family. The first named one day brought a dog home a horrid, n?ly creature, to the great disgust of the female portion of the household. A length the oldest of tbe sisters persuaded little Max to take the dow back where he found it, or give it away, and gave him threepence for his trouble. Max strutted otl with the cur, and returned in half an hour munching the remains of the last of the nuts he had bought with his sister's monev. "Well, what have yon done with that ugly brute?" the latter inquired. "Gav it to Moritz," was the reply. A Composition on Trees. The following is a composition handed by a boy to his teacher: Trees Some use them to build houses, some use them as fuel, but the rest of them are used in the manufacture of pipes. Most of the trees die some time, especially the apple, that is the reason that the small boy lives loncer, there are no green apples. Some of the trees grow on tbe prairies; but most of them grow on the banks of Kihnore creek. Trees are nice for little boys and girls to fall out of and kill their selves. Keciprocity. Kingston Freeman. A good story illustrating the rights of children to get in a question or two in reply to interrogatories by their elders was told by a prominent physician here to a lady patient a day or two ago. "Whose boy are you?" said tbe doctor to a bright looking youngster who was playing in a patient's graden. "Mr. Jim 's. Whose are you?" was the was tbe unexpected rejoinder. Located. London (Ont.) Tick Me L'p. Frank, aged eight, is trying to explain to his little sister Hilda what the soul is. "You know, Hilda, your body doesn't go to heaven it's vour soul." Hilda "What is the soul?" Frank "Well, it's something inside you; not your heart it's something you feel, but can't see." Hilda "Oh, I know you meanhe dinner." lly's Definition. Petroit Tribune. Our bright little Nelly overheard some one sneaking of the beatitudes, and on going to bed she said: "I know, mamma, what the beatitoes mean." Her mother aked her what, und counting off her rosy, dimpled toes, she replied: "Ainy merry raony tni, Kiss a toy and make hiui ki." Forethought. fYonkers Statesman. "Will you have a piece of nie mince pie, Tommy?" said Tommy's aunt, with whom he w as taking his dinner. "Please, ma'ain," replied the little fellow, holding his plate, "but you mi.ht put two pieces on now; mamma has taught me never to pass my plate back tor a second piece." A Sharp Pip. Youth's Companion. Little Flora, three years old, lives in the country, where pigs are numerous and are in the habit of rubbing or scratching themselves acainst the fence or anything convenient. Flora saw one indulging in this one day, when she said: "Oh, mamma, there is another pi; sharpening himself." Those Demoralizing Ptctnre. Terre Uante Express. The teacher announced that she wished the Fupils to write short essay on "The Cigarette labit." And little Johnny, after much patient labor, handed in this: "The habits which is worn by the cigarrette girls is nnich to lite for Winter, this is All i no about The 'Cigarette Habit.' " Grandmother's Laws. Geneva Courier. A fond grandmother tells the following story of a grandchild: "An aunt was talking to her of God's laws and of obeying them, when the child surprised her by sayintr, 'We'd, it is a great deal easier to obey God's luws than it is grandma's she has so many.' " Ilobhy'ii Mix. Bingham ton Republican. "Mamma," queried little Bobby, pokinsj his head from the nursery door one bright Sabbath morning, "I'm a little mixed in my Sundayschool lesson. What tribe was it that made a gold-plated calf the Israelites or the Choctaws?" And Quite Kight, Too. London (Ont.) Pick Me Up. The assembled guests in the drawing-room hear Tommy's voice oubside, and this is what be says: t. - "I don't care if there is tumpany; I won't have my face washed with spit!" Appropriate Slosir. Time. Emma "What are you crying about, Tom?" Tom "Ma alapned me because I wouldn't stop Bingins.', Emma "What were you singing?" Tom "Always take mother's advice." Th Fad of th Jay. Rurlington Free Tress. Johnny Dumpsey "Say, Willie, come ont and play won't you?" Willie Pppinjay "Go way, Johnny, and stop bothering me. I'm making out a cabinet for Qen. Harrison." Johnny Demand the Best. Boston Deacon. They took tbe small boy Into a china shop and to keep him quiet while bis elders were examining dinner sets somebody showed him

a collection of statuettes of little boys. "Il'mra'.'' said Johnny, ungratefully, after awhile; "Hoys is nothing! iShow us som little girls." An Coiuceessf til Experiment. Chicago Xes. "Say, ma," remarked the small hoy. "isn't it funny that everybody calls my little brother bouncing baby?" "Why do you think it is funny, William?" returned the mother. "Because, when I dropped him on the floor thia morning be didn't bounce a bit." KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Oar readers are Invit -d to furnish orlclnal n!g. ma. charades, riddles, rebuses, and other "Knotty Problems," ad lresiti7 all communications relativ to this department Ui 11 lt. CUadbura, Lewiston, iL, No. 2631 Tlio Poet' Dream. (METAGKtM.) A poet fP.iru bering on a grassy knoll. Across hibuy brain wh:tt fancies Mole! He thought, as the mossy mound be slept. That on his privacy c'lesiials crept. Who each in turn lock ml his sleepy head, And. smiliug, put another on instead ' (Ju er scon s creating, silly or sublime, LiLe irausioriudtiuus in a pantomime. First Queen Titania of the coMn rod Produced a nymph ol-edient to her rod; Thea gorgeous Ph-fbus illumines all tbe same And conjures from tb.j bard a beam of light ser-ne; Next ept..nn, drio 'inff from the watery maiO) l'ispl.ued a portion of bis deep domain; Ami teres, i;utii-liKc, inici tne yellow grain. The fragrant produce of the grassy plain; Then t'l.,ra ca'.ie lierijirjle ro spanned To show a sexson sacred to her bauL A Father Time was frisky as an elf About to show a portion oY tiiiuelf. In tottered niro, apparently incensed, Lepl ic-d the ruluiui h ad an t thus commeneeii "lichold hat I as once in lovhood blythe, Ie this grim autocrat with glass and scythe, My vi-ae wrinkled with his lingers deit. My body palsf d with his touch, and left My t row n loc ks hiteivd with his icy breath lliie for the sirklu or tho rcawp ftoaih None seetiie l inclined the wordy war to was (lo gods like maiden drea l the touch of age?) ' The troupe d.ssolved in mist across the plain, Aud, waking, 'Jliehard is hiiusclt aeain." W. WlLSOX. No. 2G.2 How Many? Some men engiped to do a work, And raise a building fair; Thev stood, to help, all at their posts, now many were mejr mere: On man in front of two stands firm. One lhind two is seen : One in the tu.Jst next takes hi place. And all are tixed, I ween. A. I No. 26.".t A Square. 1. A Turkish iaveün. 2. A Wet India island. 3. Corrected. 4. I!oi-terous preachers, ft. ?mail mounds of earth. C. A rush of ice. 7. Father ia cautious t,scateuce). Q. Bkbs. To market one morning I lelsurelT strolled. And what there occurred is bre briefly told: What you seek was the sum the market-man took J Bcheaie 1. I boujht it, an 1 tied it to cook; Beheaded again, 'twa sent home in a cart: "nee more, and I mixed it with tea a third part When, behold, there was left, by this latter inten tion. Other thin -s, and so forth, too numerous to mmtion. tn No. 2G55-Kiddles. i. To doi-hU yon vp is the firrt thing I do; Then cast you into a ricr, 'tis true; Then only" totjeuthtrs are left to my view. IL I went into a trnt, AndifA-T staid ou!de. tVh' n suddenly the v h le thing changed. And a rU jH-moii 1 t.-ni d. Artib-s LiVREirrirs. No. 650 A Klioruboid. Across f 1) Act of havln? an order paid at a bank. f2) Made a short visit 3i To Ioti; for a thing. (4) Transported. (5) A sculptor, tti) A fringe. i'owx (I) A letter. i2) An abbreviation. ( A vehicle. (41 Ii:tu!t. (i To inflee. (C A hypocrite. (71 An ex-g ivernor of Michigan. tSi A euicio. ) a prououu. A vuj a mcKuauie. (11; A letter. "at IUot. No. 2057 A Spanish TTero. A cmtral I stand and on my left band live hundred extend a Greeting, Y hi !e agile arid dett a hundred is left To herald forth our meeting. Farther to explain, 1 was blessed in Spain, Hr champion aud her.i; In history my fam unmixed with blame, 2urpases that of Nero. Be. No. 2C58 An Anagram. Then must the airy tales of yore, Of forest field and fcniht. At present se- til a f-Mdih lor; Its scenes and visions bricht. Hut vain deception's giddy trance To "cram our' 4"" brnins aud make them daoca A measure very light. XCi A Pr?rr.tt Knot, Progenia' 3lÄn nag. IMena Rot thinks No. 2.7 was the barde-t problem she ever tried; and No. 2.dy is declared by k! (iisler to be "a good one equal to several wordhiitns." Another particularly pieainz tane'e contributors will do well to notice whs No. Th older of the solvers will not fail to appreciate th bcautv of Nos. 'ISi'A and 1,A 1. H. L. Hall writes: 'America Illustrated reached, me by mail recently. Am much pleased with It. Many thanks to lirandlather Younuhcart."' Aiiowrrs. 2V1.1. Swine, island, hammock, crsscr. 'Winais a r.iocker." 2'iM. A hnndkprchief. I'iiV Carrier-pigeon. 2i,lö. U 11 i r A n ; e 1 P i t II o p U Sri lToniC O I i y i A h j e c T DecafjoNdphthA Impost nUyrdtioN Chroni cd Luxuria nT AbhorrencLcunicni caL Li ghtheade Despond en el Cr.47.The nec lle of the mariner's compass, "'.ls. 'I vros. siorv. rvots. 2-".4:. : vi'". 2oia Paleontology. Fixinc l'p a Jnbon the Court. To the F.MTOR Sir: The republican managers ot this locality are makine a desperate efl'ort to raiM funds for the defense, or escape from Justice of eererai individuals who have recently been indicted br the federal grand jurv for criminal violation of th election laws. And the leaders of the party here, who would have these öfters condoned, are supplying themselves with li-ts of the venire from which, jurors are tole selected, and, in advance of the dar iet for trial, are compiling thes- jurors .n blocks ot twelve trutty men." wuotn they lan rely upon and con-ider best for their purpose to retain upon the trial jury. We are also informed that these political workers are in rctive correspondence w ith men of their own kin 1 i:i tlio evfr:.l localities of th slat whence the proioe i jurymen hail, to ascertain with as much certain! v as possible the character and politico' bias ot said prooovd jurvmen, their usoeptibUitv to influences, the stiffness of their backlone, etc. " V.'e think it is proper that tbe district attorney an! all other perous who are desirous of seeing thes ollciiilers broutht to justice, thjt these ehernes b ventilated aml.th parti' who are leading in them exti-d, so that if needs lie such parties who ar striving to Mock the w heels of justice, in contempt of eon it. mav be han'.ilcd as thev justly deserre. Fowler, Ind., Feb. li Jait.so. A 'Winter L veiling. Good-bye, dear; I thought down the street to-night When I saw how weary the faces met. How theold street-lamps shed trliromering light. And the convent bell had a sound of regret O, I thought of the sweet summer nights gone by. The words that were spoken, the row pledged for vow; And when sunset and nionnnse met in the sky We tuet where? no matter, 'tis lonely there mwl I thought how yon said O, so true we would be When winter brought charges and tempest and snow. For in place of a tryst 'neath a whispering tree, The d ! s'ory we'd tell in the firelight's glow. But to-niifht I am here, by the hearth alone. And the wind at the casement creeps in with a sigh, And I try to hs happy, but, dear, I will own That I cannot but miss you. (iood-bye! tSood-byaJ Men Kivp Ogah. Indianapolis, Teh. 8, ISS!. "The Sentinel" Indorsed. To the Editor Sir: Give the school book trust an airing, and all the other trnsta. Your course meets with general approval in southern Indiana. Vnin on in tht rufet orlr. and 1 predict a Korinua future for Tue ::nEL and the democratic party Ol iDUiana. . v. r. Lynnville, Ind., Feb. 14. A V. S. Senator Appointed. Exeter, N. II.. Feb. 15. Gen. Gilmaa Marsttu has been tendered and accepted the appointment et U. S. senator by Gov. rViwjer, from the 4th of March, until the legislature in Jooe provide for the next six veara. 11 h.a.3 been a republican btadea lor years.