Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1889 — Page 5

THE IXDIANA STATE SENTINEll WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1881).

FARM FIRE DE TS Mil. if - ' n i ll ifciTI it

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THE HOWARD LITERARY.

ILLUSIONS DISPELLED. 'Chatterbox Real if That Some Lively Work I Kxpected. Dear Howard Friends I had been thinking how nice that story was going to be and how much I was going to enjoy the fun the rest made, when all such illusions were dispelled by reading this week that "Chatterbox" was exacted to write a love letter. Of all things, "Sappho," how can I, when I never wrote one, never received one, never had a lo (guess lhad best not pay that, for, of course, the girls will not believe it.) but "my giant" ia not bashful, o if I fail to make "Walter" appear so, I ran only do my best, and I feel elated enough to undertake almost anything, pince "Farmer Boy" gave rue such a sendon" that did not send ineoff but brought me back. "F. B.," you are a genius and I am proud of you and am sure all the other members are. "Busy" Kate," you are a darling little tluck. Come often; there is also room for :you. The .Sentinel will pass you every 'time. Of course we all enjoy the niee sensible letters and want murv of them, but just now a little good cheer is what we ! want to make us all fiel at home, and a ';tt!e argument always livens us up. Can't --jr-ie. ore hv something that Is not so gfQ-rirf'to meet the approval of all. "F. I ins set me to dancing. Just to think of such a straight-laced little baptist as I am, dancing. But so long as he crave me the honor of dancing with the "Kd," I'll Dot complain but agree to "dance at his wedding" if he will let me know intime. Howard" is ven generous, don't you think, to invite ua all to see him? I say, "Hoosier Boy," do you remember last Christmas? Who will make biscuits this time? I would like to speak to cverv one of you, but of course that is impossible, so I'll say I am proud of the way most of the rid members have come out on the sa'e side and glad, so glad, to see the old familiar names coming back one by one. Now, I must go and trj to entangle 'Walter" in a confession of his love that will apply to either a harming young girl or an rid maid. ?o forthe present good-bye; the next time I come I am going to make 1 proposition to the members. 'Chatterbox." St. Paris, 0., Nov. nr. CHARLEY SAYS "PUSHr' A Blue-Eyed On Olren Some Energetic AiItIcb. Dear II. L, C. Frienps I will not alpent myself from our new home any longer. I have been watching the pace pretty closelv to see if any of the members would rail fo'r "B E. C." Having come to the conclusion that I have been entirely forgotten, I will notify you that I am yet among the living, the same "Blue-I'ycd Chirley' as of old. Well, dear friends, we have baffled the wind and the waves and brought our vessel safely to the port, if we did lose a part of our crew. Nevertheless, let us not re discouraged, but work together in unity, put our shoulders to the wheel and work with renewed energy, and ere long we can have a larger membership than t ver before. Come all of you old members with your interesting letters. 1-et us make the editor feel that we appreciate his kir.dness in allowing us space in bis valuable paper. I note ä change already; there is a growing interest, and our room Is growing accordingly. Now, altofrther, push! My best wishes to the editor and ever)- member of the II. L. C. Dominus re-hitntm. "Bixe-Kyed Charley." Central Ohio, Nov. 20. "CITY CHAP." Til Birth, Life and Death, With a Sonnet. Charles Howard Lee, alias "City Chap," born March 20, 1ST.Ö, at Cincinnati, (.)., killed Nov. 20, 1S0, at Meadville. Pa., by the E. H. C. edicor was famous the world over as a newspaper correspondent, and was of such a mysterious character as to battle the efforts of the famous Cary detective agency of Cincinnati, O. Mr name I "City ( hap, Tbe uani TU never rteny; 1 bare left the aired Enqnirtw, In sorrrow now, to die. Little did I think Whpn in my youthful bloom. Thai in tbe columns of the eight-page, I wai m soon to read my doom. Now, E. II. C friends, farewell, I Md yon all adieu ; I have gori to join the ae?elj Of thefcETr.vEL who are true. "City Ciup.' Plttuburg. Pa.. Kot. 2. AVreneof the Coneraaogh. Alonj the bank., where the bodies lay, There were sights to be seen that fatal day. A rbili was robbed from it motbt r's siie Warned Into the current, dark and wide. Help:" cried a mother, with mrrow wild; "0"Jp me, oh, friend, to seek my child. Sf e the angry warej In th mnddy foam Help rue to brio; my lost on home." "Why pws ye not alor.g- fme other way; I cannot trouble with sorrow to day. Thia ia no plaee for niiiry or wije Go, wretched mother, in aornw now go." Soon on the man were the shackles placed (For He bad been watchd. in tin deert wasted. And marrhed to a tree, where this woman stood, Wteping, and faying: -Ood Is too good." "What hare yen to say?" The man stood Eyinc the woman in her frightful mood. "It waa I." cried he' In anguish wild; "It waa I, oh, madam, who found your child. I wanted tbe ring from Its tiny hand. So I eered the fingr, to get the gold band. Oh! bell is too god for a man like me; Oh! awinz me oft in eternity." In eternity hi soul took wing; But, oh, it is a fearful thing, In this country, so fine and ao grand. To steal a ring from a babe's cold hand. IFowu PROMINENT PEOPLE. Gov.-elect Campbell of Ohio is an in veterate smoker. Maek Twais's income ia 10,000 a year, Vf tt would not be a "funny man?" J t-MiyisTEB Puelps will locate ia New atn. Conn., soon after Christmas. A. J. Drf.x f.L of Philadelphia has bought the Covington (hy.) stock yards for t0.oou. Mrs. Odgex Goelet of New York ia ill with typhoid fever, and ia being treated by eable by a trench specialist who cared her lister of the SAme malady a year ago io Paris. George Sasd made 1,000.000 francs by her literary labors and gave It all away, except 20, 000, which ihe inrested, in order, as the Mid, that in case she fell eick ber herb tea would not cost her children anything. Florence Marryat has written forty even novels. It ie solemnly asserted that she believes io ghosts. Thia is not atrange. Tbe serves ot a woman who bag written forty-seven novels mo it be in a shattered condition. j. ii- uuktoj or ADiiene, it as., wuo atpirea to succeed Ingalla In tbe senate, is said, to be the best-dressed man in his state. He is in noft respects just the antithesis of Ingalls, and looks more liltt a dub man than a western politician. Cardinal Maxmxo is eighty years old, but till a hard-working, aetive, zealous prelate, It is somewhat remarkable how many old men. especially in Europe, are doing tbe great work of tbe world. Among these may be men' 4ional Pnti T an Iff Tennvaon r!1iinna Bismarck, Cardinal Newman. De Lessens, all of whom are long paat three score, and moet of them are four score and more.

FOIt OUR FARM FRIENDS.

THE MARKET GARDEN BY T. F. BAKER. Proper Soil Early- Vegetables The Fertility of the Ground Fertilizers Flantlug of Seeds Setting of Planta Their CultivationThe Garden Farm Notes. Bridgetox, N. J., Nov. 28. Special. "We market gardeners are compelled to realize sooner or later that there are certain conditions and circumstances for ultimate success in the production of vegetables for profit. They who have failed to discover these features have failed of success, and have too often in contempt stigmatized as "book farming" the wonderful productions of the successful gardener. First among the conditions for s uccesa is the proper soil. Second, mauure, or its equivalent in some form as plant food, and in abundance. Third, good seed, properly planted with constant and thorough but intelligent cultivation, and a sutiicient knowledge of nature's laws to understand the necessities of any emergencies during the varying conditions and atmospheric .changes -f our climate these are among the impf tant requisites for the successful growth of vegetables. In considering the soil, the old proverb, "Not what I have but what I do in my kingdom," is applicable to those whose soil is not suitable, or which has, through continued cropping, been exhausted of their fertility. Generally speaking, soils are much like individual character, good or bad, according to the amount of cultivation b -stowed upon thero. In no occupation d" we receive greater benefits than we do from the judicious management and fertilization of our soils, and without it nothing can be expected. When a selection can be made for gen eral garden crops my preference would bo for a sandy loam, as deep as possible, though this is virtually a matter within the control of the tiller, provided this sur face is underlaid with a good clay suhsoil, w hich acts as a bank, stores up and re tains the soil-water w ith its minded ingredients of plant food which may have been applied from time to time. This subsoil can Im-, by each years cultivation, gradually intermingled with the surface soil without injury, and by oft-repeated operations of this kind your soil w ill become as deep as you can plow. It seems to be the prevailing opinion. in some sections at least, that sandy soils arc indispensable for the growth of early vegetables. Great has been the comment, when visiting my farm, to find a soil, which they term heavv, producing veiMaulea earlier than their sandy soils. This, however, in my experience, is ossible most seasons by proper treatment and tlie appli cation f the right manures, soluble plant food needed by the particular crop under cultivation. Proust and beat are two elements over which the cultivator has no control, though it is within his province to relieve, in a great measure, through proper cultivation. Admitting thi, 1 feel safe in saying the losses incurred by the effect of theee two elements on sandy soils amounts to double that from any other cause, and is of 8uch freuuent occurrence to lead me to say I consider the growing of veer tables in such soils uncertain ami unprofitable. Again we see those who attempt to grow early vegetables on heavy, tenacious clay soils, or cold, wet, sprintry bottom lands. In both cases the operator is obliged to defer his operations in the spring until late from the sticky nature of his soils or surplus of water in the other case. Such soils are cold and impervious to the air which should i-netrate and warm tip. Start into active growth seeds so planted in a more favorable soil, the after-growth is slow and the ellect apparent in an inferior and late crop, which is usually unprofitable if gofnl. It is hardly possible in most localities to select a plot of twenty acres or more upon which you cannot find a diversity of soils so that" the intelligent gardener, one who is possessed with tho keen perceptibilities of the wants and requirements of each class of vegetables he wishes to cultivate, can select in plots here and there such soils as is best adapted to that particular crop, thereby lessening the dancrer of failure. "Where so much depends on heat, cold and drought even tho most careful and wisest sometimes fail. Our next consideration would naturally be the fertility of our soils, and through what applications and of which form of plant-food can we best 6ecure the desired fertility. In the selection of our fertilizing elements a knowledge of the ash ingredients of the plants to be fed aid in tho selection from the various pources at our command. Too few cultivators properly understand the imluenco that is exerted upon the crop growth through tho application of manure or fertilizers to get the best results. The medium in which root grow has been described by Noble, and his experiments have established the factlreyund a doubt "that where fertilizers w ere placed, w hether in horizontal or vertical layers, at one inch in depth, at the center or bottom of a glass cylinder, at that point a mat of fine fibrous roots were found." With this understanding of the instinctive adaptation of roots to material which could furnish them with food, we should apply our manure at euch depths and places as we would wish the development of these feeding roots. It also shows the necessity of rich soils for close planting in our gardens. The farther the roots have to penetrate the soil in search of food the fewer they number, and while a plant may flourish with a great extent of roots, another may equally ag well with short roots, by their being more numerous. The aggregate absorbing surface would amount to about the same in both. Therefore we see the quantity of root development is influenced by the richness of our soils. Hence tho fallacy of applying manure in tho hill with most crops, as is practiced by some, the result of which is to stimulate a vigorous grow th of plant during its early life, which must in the after-growth be supported from some source, and unless the soil is thoroughly euriched over the entire surface that demand is not met and the plant rewnts the stint by refusing to produce its fruits or grain in that proportion. Stable and yard manure is considered by many complete manure, and as euch indispensable for market gardening. In this particular I must beg to be allowed to ditler. A series of trials and experiments which have been most carefully tried and conducted during a period of fifteen continuous years in tho occupation, demonf trato to me, at lexst in their results, that a combination of stable manure and commercial fertilizers have, and do, invariably produce the best, earliest and consequently the most profitable crops. Aside from such a combination, 1 have invariably received most satisfactory results froni the use of fertilizers alone, at a less expense than where stable manure was applied alone on the same plot and crops. With mineral fertilizers, and those fo treated to be soluble, there Is usually sufficient moisture in the soil and from dews

to materially aid in their distribution and render them available as plant food. On the occurrence of a dry atmosphere, hot suns or winds the surface rapidly dries and evaporation begins, the atmosphere robs our soils of its moisture, but through capillarity the displacement of moisture is immediately supplied from the store below. Now; the point in the application of fertilizers is that the portion held in solution (in the water of the soil) is constantly working out, chemically, for us in tho sod, both mineral and perhaps some organic bodies which feed the plant. In the preparation of our soils and the planting of weds require keen perceptions and a thorough understanding of the conditions necessary for the germination of the different varieties. What effect the varying temperature of sxring will produce, what degree of cold is required to kill the einbryo in th-j soil with the different conditions of moisture will be found valuable aid in affording the knowledge that immediate replanting is necessary, which will le a saving of valuable time. The sed bed should be in jn'rfect condition, which mej,ns mellowed deep, all manure thoroughly incorporated with the soil, harrowed and blanked until all clods are reduced fine. The soil should le firmed, though not packed as with a roller, and should present a level, smooth surface. In the sowing of seeds more depends upon the knowledge of the proper depth than is generally accepted. There can m no general rule laid down to follow, as different seeds require to be pressed into the soil without covering. Various soils require different depths as to their predominating characters or of

clay or sand, and again the season of the year or rather the condition- of temperature they may have to contend with; degrees of cold or heat, moisture or drought, lias everything to do with the proper depth you should plant. I have adopted the plan of sowing shallow in the spring that I may have the benefit of the sun to increase the temperature and deeper as the season advances to avoid too high a temperature and secure the proper moisture. All seeds, so far as ossible, should bo sown by drill, of which wo have several excellent makes, the advantages of regularity of depth, even distribution and saving of seed, are matters of great importance,' to say nothing of the amount of ground that can be sown in a day, which is a great saving of time. In the setting of plants a knowledge of how, where and when is indispensable, whether deep, as with cabbage and cauliflower, or shallow as with lettuce and celery ; in a hill, on the level or in a furrow, all contributes to or retracts from the results of the crop. When, must be at whatever time the conditions of the weather and soil indicate. With a proper temjHTature for immediate growth plants will form new rootlets and start in twenty-four hours. When under proper conditions, on the other hand it may stand for a week, a fit subject for the prey of insects when the conditions are unfavorable. Cultivation should begin as soon as the young seedlings are well up, or, in tho cane of plants set, you may begin in a few days. ?After each rain, as soon as sufficiently dry, stir the soil and you will never be troubled with weeds. lYomptness ia this matter is often tho difference between success and fViiure. In preparing vegetables for market much of our success depends upon our talent for the attractive arrangement of our produce, and tho reputation we have gained from previous packages sold. Honesty is tho best policy, in an old proverb. Hut no where better cxampliiied than in the market-place. Jea!ers Boon learn your mark, if they are unacquainted with you. That mark to them is a guarantee of either hon sty or dishonesty, and is branded as such in a short time. A reputation for dishonest packing has been the downfall of many a shipper in fruits and vegetables. Clean new packages are cheapest in the end and increase the value and attractiveness of tho product equal to the cost. A homo market of small near-by towa and villages, I consider the most profitable market in the country to-day lor the gardener. As there lie does not come in competition w ith the whole world as in a market like New York or Thiladelphia, where fruits and vegetables abound in and out of seasons the year round. Select such as hundreds of from one to ten thousand inhabitants and conteut yourself to grow only what is in demand and euch quantities as are needed. Location for the garden should 1o considered also in the matter of economy and profit, and comes next in importance to its adapatbility for tho production oi the various crops. In no branch of husbandry is time and labor required to account more for its out-put than in the garden. All operations are tedious, requiring deft action jmd dilligent application, dumped within the day ci increasing the working force for the occasion. Whereas the competitor who has lorn; hauls lives farther trotn the city and is not surrounded by men and boys and even women, who can be turned to advantage at such times for a few hours, mu?t submit to the conditions of things as he finds them and sell for what he can get. Next to location is the acreage to' bu cultivated, what crops are intended to be grown, and if a speciality of any one crop is to be made, it should not be decided ujon hastily; many tilings arc to lo taken into account, all of which are important, and will show for either profit or loss. Soil, climate, facilities tor marketing, amount of capital to work with, the the amount of labor at command and the character of the labor to be depended upon, all are important factors in the suc cessful accomplishment of our purpot-es A knowledge of the' wants, habits and tendencies of the crops wo cultivate and the means of successfully combating and exterminating its rungoid and insect enemies are more essential to success than a superficial knowledge of many crops. hen the habits and wants of a plant have been made a special duty, and those wants and conditions complied with by an intelligent cultivator, success is about as u'o ij iuuuB ei neu iiuiu auu ijuirn. It has been demonstrated beyond a doubt that the quantity of acres and multiplicity of crops has nothing whatever to do with assured success or profit in market gardening. But on the other hand, the man w ho has confined himself to a line of special crops, and those which by careful experiment he has found best adapted to hw particular soil, ami market, and who has, through diligent application to his business, developed extra large yields and finest specimens, or by his superior intelligence and knowledge produced his crop, one week ahead of hia competitors, is tho man that reaps the reward and pockets the profits. Some Gaod Iteeipes. Tomato Sanne Put into a saucepan an ounce of raw ham, a carrot, an onion, all finely chopped; a sprinkle of thy roe and a crumbled bar leaf, two cloves, a clove of gnrlio and half an ounce of butter, sjiminer for ten minutes, add a can of tomatoes, with an ounce ef flour well mixed in. Jtoil for hulf an hour, season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Strain out the vegetables and serve. Kablit Salad-Cut the rabbit into fillets, remove tbe hone, rob tbe salad hov.l with an onion or garlic and lay in the meat; pour over a puree from half a tin of tomatoes, rubbed through a fcieve, or ose tomato sauce; sprinkle shallot or tarragon vinegar over, and a teaspoonful of spiced vinegar. On the top ar

range lettuce, garden and water cresses, radishes, and, if tbe rabbit was stuffed, cubes of the stuffing. Serve with the .crueta. and a moist sugar for those who like to mix their own salad dressing. S.tvoy Cake Put the yolks of three eg.T into a bowl with a quarter pound of powdered sogar, beat until blended. Add an ounce and a half of flour, an ounce of corn eiarch, a few dropKof vnnilla extract; stir all together lightly. Bent up the white of the egs very still, stir them lieh tly -into the other ingredient. Butter a mold, sprinkle it with Eugar, put in the cake batter. Send to a gentle oven. When it is done, which will be when it ceases to sputter and make little noises, take it out of the oven and the mold. Apples With Rice Butter a broad pie dish and place on it a layer, about an inch thick, of cold boiled rice, in which you have beaten up two tablespoon fuls of apple jelly, quince or any other you hapoen to have, with a trilling bit of butter. Arrange on this bed of rice a clone layer of peeled, cored, halved snd halfetewed apples (so that they have kept their shape, bei ig stewed in water merely.) I'm this into a ßlow oven, sprir.'ile the whole with powdered augur, and when the apples are cooked fill the hollow of each with marmalade. Serve hot. Cooking Veal Among the endless ways of preparing cooked veal is to mix it with nisraroni and gravy in a mold. Chop two cupfuls of cold boiled macaroni line. Mix with a beaten eeg, and line a buttered mold a plain one with the macaroni. Inside of this place the remains of cold veal, chopped small, well seasoned and moiteued with gravy. Spread the macaroni over the top. of the meat, cover the mold tightly, plunge it in a pot of boiling water and boil an hour and a-balf. Turn out in a E latter and pour gravy or drawn butter over it. at hot, with plum sauce. Teach Cups Put a pint of flour into a howl.

rc.b into it two ounce of butter, add a nanteaspoonful oi" snlt and a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, mir, and add sufficient avreet milk to rar.ke a moist dough, knead lijrhüy and quickly roll out into a sheet a hullinch thick, tut into biscuits jast the sire or the top of the cujs. Put a hVd of a preserved or canned peach ia the bottom of the cup, on top of that a teaspoonful of some kind of jelly, then on top of this stand your little biscuit, rincc these cups in a steamer aad steam for fifteen minutes, then run tlum into a quickoven for about five minutes to glaze. Serve hot in the cups with hard evure. Fricafed Rabbits The best way of cooking rabbits ia to fricassee them. Cut them up or disjoint them; tiut them into a stewpan; aeuson them with cayenne pepper, salt and some chopped parsley. Pour in a pint of some warm water a veal broth if you have it and stew it over a slow fire until the rabbits are quite tender, adding, when they are about half done, some bits of butter rolled in flour. Just before you take it from the lire enrich the gravy with a gill or more of thick cream, with some nutmeg grated into it. Stir the gravy well, but take care not to let it boil after the cream is in, lest it curdle. Put the pieces of rabbit on a hot dibh aud pour the gravy over them. Calf's Head, Terrapin Style Cut up a pound of cold boiled calf's head into pieces of enual size, and set them aside. Put half a pound cf butter in a saucepan and let it melt. Beatt ji the yolks of four eggs with a pint of rich cream; season with salt, cf.yenne and a dash of nutmeg. Whisk the butter rapidly, and while doing so gradually add the crenm. Do not let the 6.iuce boil, or it would curdle. Add to half a pint of good sherry a teaspoonful of India noy. Add the sauce to this very gradually, whisking all the time. In this heat the calf's head, but do rot the let the preparation more than heat through. The yolks of hard boiled eggs rubbed to a pate, then worked into little balls, are added as eacu portion is served. 1'arni Notes, During damp weather, especially when northeast storms occur, keen the hena under shelter in order to avoid roup" in the flock. . One good team of heavy horses is better than two teams of ponies. The fewer the number the less work of feeding and managing them is required. -. It Many abandoned farmshave been abandoned because they were too !are to be proStably cultivated. It is seldom that a small farm is abandoned. : Feed'your hena meat and induce thorn to lay. T.zzs will soon be high in price, aad the hens will need es't;-rroducing food if they are expected to lay. Any time after the ground becomes frozen will answer for cutting out the old canes of blackberries. Old canes should be consigned to the flames as a precaution against insects. When breeding any class of stock a selection of the treed is the most important requisite. Some breeds demand better management than others, and a mistake in selecting tbe breed may entail a loss. Experiments show that any portion of the seed from an ear of corn may he used in planting, and there is no advantage possessed by the butt seed over the tip seed, nor is the mid;lo seed better than that from the butts or tips. Pumpkins contain 11 per cent, of solid matter. They are excellent for cows that are changed from pasture to dry food. Many dairy men ad'.se that the need he removed, as they act on the kidneys. Pumpkins should be sliced and a little bran, slightly salted, sprinkled over the pieces. When crossing for improvement of the stock the male should always be pure bred. When a graded male is used the tendency is to retard improvement. It requires but two or three seasons to a'iect a marked improvement on the farm stock if careful consideration is given the selection of males. The Etate board of ngricultura of Now Jersey is fostering the poultry industry of that state by organizing a state poultry association. A convention will he held at Trenton Pec. 4? nil the poultryraen and county board of agriculture being invited. The poultry industry is now one ot the mott profitable in some secteons. One can not learn too much about dairying. There are many details and it is very easy to make a mistake. The best dairyman succeeded only by giving the business close attention and study. Each individual animal required particular management, and success depends upon a faithful obbervance of every requirement. Abandoned lands are given over to sheep, but it is doubtful if it is profitable tokeep sheep in that manner, owing to the, losa from doses and exposure. If the land is cut up into 6mall fields, the sheep frequently changed and the fields plowed, the land will be improved and some kind of crop, such as rye, may be grown for the sheep. Too much land means tnxes on that from which only partial crops cpn be obtained. It is the small plots, well manured, that yield the profitable crops. It is more expensive to attempt to secure large yields from a tract requiring a portion ot the time to be lost in traveling over it than to concentrate all the labor on a small area. If the frost has killed the grass and weeds and the field is dry, it will do no injury to the grass by allowing tire to run over the field, which, however, will clean it completely and give the young grass a better appearance in rrriug. It should be done when the ground is frozen. Strawberry beda will he benefited by burning, and the plants will come out f tronger next season. When the ground is plowed in the fall or early winter the frost goes down and reaches the insects that have sought refuge therein. The clods and lumps are broken by the action of frost, and the soil pui in condition for being easily plowed in the spring. Hard, lumpy manure ia also pulverized by frost, due to expansion and contraction during alternate thawing and freezing, which renders the manure fine when it is spread over the surface at this season. A Cathedral From Two Points of View. Time. Fompano (on the graud tour) "We have nothing lika this in America, Illotterwick. I love these deep-arched doorways; they suggest quiet, contentment and er repose, you know." Blotterwick "Yes, I like them first, rate. Capital places in which to light a cigar." lie Needed omethlnjr Kite. (I'uck.J Colombia Freshman "Aw, bahbah, haven't you some kiud of hJr wenewer that I could put on this mustache?" Barber "Faith, sor, oi think it'a a hair originator that you do be afther wantin'!" To Klerat the Drjtm; rruck. Jack i see that Rosamond Footlights hai added fifty dozen silk stockings to her wardrobe." Dick "Sort of a display add. I suppose."

EX ROUTE TO PALESTINE.

DR. TALMAGE FREACHES AT ATHENS. The Rermn Delivered 'Within Sight of 3Iars Hill, Where St. Paul i" readied to th Ancient Greek Full Text of the Dlacourse. The Kev. T. De AVitt Talmage, D. D., preached in Athens. Greece, last Sunday morning, basinghisdicCOur.se on the following two passages from the Pauline epistle: I Corinthians, ii., 9: "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard," and I Corinthians, xiii., 2 : "For now we see through a glass dark ly." The sermon v as ss follows: Both these sentences were written by the most illustrious merely human being the world ever saw, one who walked these streets and preached from yonder pile of rocks Mars hill. Though more classic associations are connected with this city than with any other city tinder tho sun, because here Socrates, and Tlato, and Aristotle, and Demosthenes, and JAricles, and Herodotus, and Pythagoras, and Xcnophon, and Praxiteles wrote, or chiseled, or taught, or thundered, or sun?, yet in my mind all those men and their teachings were eclipsed by Paul and the gospel he preached in this city and in your nearby-city of Corinth. Yesterday, standing on the old fortress at Corinth, the AcroCorinthus, out from the ruins at its base arose in my imagination the old city, just as Paul saw it. I have beed told that for splendor the world leholds no such wonder to-day as that ancient Corinth standing on an isthmus washed by two seas, the one sea bringing the comme rce of Lurote, the other sea bringing tho commerce of Asia, Front her wharves, in the construction of which w hole kingdoms had been absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded tho navyyards oi all the werld. Huge-handed ma chinery, such as modern invention can not equal, lifted ships from the sea on one side and transported them on trucks across the isthmus and set them down in the sea on the other side. The revenue officers of the city Went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sjorted in her isthmian games and the beauty of all lands eat in her theaters, walked her porticos, and threw itself cn the altar of her stupendous dissipation. Column and statue and temple lwwildered the beholder. There were white marble fountains, into which, from apertures at the side there rushed waters everywhere known for health-giving qualities. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture, while standing, as if to guard the costly display, ws a statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead vases so costlv that Julius Ciesar was not satisfied until be had captured them for Home. Armed officials, tbe corintbarii, paced up and down to seo thai no statue was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no bas-relief touched. From the edge of the city the hill held its magnificent burdens of columns, and towers, and temples, (1,000 slaves waiting at one shrine), and a eiladel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defied tho world. Oh ! it was not to rustics who had never seen auything grand that Paul uttered one of my texts. They had heard the best music that had come from the best instruments in all the world; they had heard songs lloating from morning porticos and melting in evening groves; they hi passed their whole lives among pictures, ami sculpture, and architecture, and Corinthian brass, Vhich had been molded and i shaped until there was no chariot wheel in which it had not been tped, and no tower in which it had not glittered, and no gateway that it had not adorned. Ah.it was a boll thins for Paul to stand there amid all'that and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds that come from the temple of Neptune are not music compared with the harmonies of which I speak. These waters rushing in tho basin of Tyrene are nt pure. These statues of Pacchus and Mercury are not exquisite. Your citadel of Acro-Corinthus is not 6trong compared with that which I ofier to the lioorcst slave that puts down his burden nt that brazen gate. . You Corinthians think thia is a splendid citv; vou think j-ou have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beau tiful sights, but I tell you eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man tho things which God hath prepared for them that love him. lnaecHi, uotn my texts, tne one spoken bv Paul and the one written by Paul, show us that we have very imperfect eyesiaht, and that our day of vision is yet to come. For now we see through a glass darklv, but then face to face. So lnul takes the responsibility of saying that the bible is an indistinct mirror and that its mission shall be finally suspended. I think there may be one bible in heaven fastened to the throne. Just as now, in a museum, we have a lamp exhumed from Herculaneum or Nineveh, and we look at it with great interest iti. l say: "How poor a light it must have given, compared with our modern lamps," so I think that this bible, w hich was a lamp to our feet in this world, may lie near the throne of God, exciting our interest to all eternity by the contrast between its comparatively feeble light and tho illumination of heaven. The bible, now, is the ecatloldin' to the rising temple, but w hen the building is done there will be no use for the scaffolding. The idea I shall develop to-day is that in this world our knowledge is comparatively dim and unsatisfactory, but nevertheless is introductory to grandeur and more complete vision. This is eminently true in regard to our vie' of God. We hear so much about God that we conclude that we understand Him. He is represented as having the tenderness of a father, the firmness of a judge, the pomp of a king, and the love of amother. We hearaboutllim. talk about I I ini, write about Him. Welisp Ilisname in infacy.and it trembles on the tongue of the dying octogenarian. We think that we know very much about Him. Take the attribute of mercy. Do we understand it? The bible blossoms all over with that word mercy. It speaks Again and again of the tender mercies of God; of the sure mercies ; of the great mercies ; of the mercies that endureth forever; of the multitude of His mercies. And yet I know that the views we have of this great being are most indetinite, one-sided and incomplete. When at death the gates shall fly open and wo shall look directly upon I Ii m how new nnd surprising! We see upon canvas a picture pf the morning. Wc etudy the cloud in the sky, the dow upon the grass, and the husbandman on the way to the field. Peautiful picture of the morning! But we rise at daybreak and go ur on a hill to see for ourselves that which was represented to us. While we look, the mountains are transfigured. Tbe burnished gates of heaven swing open and shut, to let pass a host of fiery splendors. The clouds are all a-bloom, and hangpendant from artors of alabaster ami and amethyst. Tho waters make pathway

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of inlaid pearl for the light to walk upon, and there is morning on tbe sea. The crap uncover their scarred visage, and there is morning among the mountains. Now j-ou go home, and how tame your picture of the morning seems in contrast! Greater than that shall be the contrast between this scriptural view of God and that which we shall have when standing face to face. This is a picture of the morning; that will Im the morning itself. Again: My texts are true of the Savior's excellency. By Imago and sweet rhythm of expression and startling antitneses Christ is set forth His love, His compassion, His work. His life, His death. His resurrection. We are challenged to measure it. to compute it, to weigh it. In the hour of our broken enthrallment we mount up into high experience of His love, and shout until the countenance glows, and the blood bounds, and tho whole nature is exhilarated: "I have found Him!" And yet it is through a glass, darkly. "We see not half of that compassionate face. We feel not half the warmth of that loving heart. We wait for death to let us rush into his outspread arms. Then we shall be face to face. Not shadow then, but pul)stance. Not hope then, but the fulfill ing of all prehgurement. I hat will be a magnificent unfolding. Tbe rn.-hing out in view of all hidden excellency; the coming again of a long absent Jesus to meet us not in rags, and penury, aud death, but amidst a light, and pomp, and outbursting of joy such as none but a glorified intelligence could experience. Oh, to gaze full upon the brow that was lacerated, upon the side that was pierced, upon the feet that were nailed; to eland up in the presence of Him w ho prayed for us on tho mountain, and thought of us by the eea, and agonized for us in the garden, and died for us in the horrible crucifixion ; to feelof Him, to embrace Him, to take His hand, to kiss His feet, to run our fingers along the scars of ancient sufierhiz, to sav: "This is mv Jesus! He gave Himself for me. t shall never leave His presence. I shall forever behold His glory. I shall eternally hear His voice. Lord Jesus, now I see thee! I behold where tho blood started, where the tears coursed, where the face was distorted. I have waited for this hour. I shall never turn mv back on the. No more looking through, imperfect glasses. No mere studying thee in the darkness. But as long as thia throne stands, and this everlasting river flows, and these garlands bloom, and these arches of victory remain to greet home heaven's conquerors, so long I shall see thee, Jesus of my choice, Jesus of mv song, Jesus of my triumphforever and forever face to face. The idea of my texts is just as true when applieil to God's providence. Who has not come to some pass in lite thoroughly inexplicable? You say: "What does this mean ? What is God going to do with me now? He tells me that all things wor together for good. This does not look like it." You continue to etudy the dispensation, and after awhile guess about what God mea:.s. "He means to teach me this. I think He means to teach me that. Perhaps it is to humble my pride. Pert ;ps it is to make me moro dependent. Perhaps to teach me the uncertainty of life." But, after all, it is onlv a guess a looking through the glass, darkly. Tho bible assures us there shall be a satisfactory unfolding. "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." You will know whv God took to Himself that only child. Next door there was a household of seven children. Why not take one from that group instead of your only one? Why single out the dwelling in which there was only one heart beating responsive to yours? Why did God give you a child at all if he meant to take it awav ? Whv fill the cup of your gladness brimming if He meant to dash it down? Why allow all the tendrils of your heart to w ind around that object, and then, when every fiber of your own life seen1 ed to be interlocked with the child's life, with strong hand to tear you apart, until you fall bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart broken? Do you suppose that God w ill explain that? Yea. lie will make it plainer than any mathematical problem as plain as that two and two make four. In the light of the throne you will see that it was right all right, "Just and true are all tby ways, thou kins of saints !" I lere is a man who cannot get on in tbe world. He always seems to buy at the wrong time and sell at the worst disadvantage. He tries this enterprise, and fails; that business, and is disappointed. The man next door to him has a lueratie trade, but he lacks customers. A newprospect ope as. His income is increased. But that year his family are sick and the profits are excnded in trying to cure their ailments. He gets a discouraged look. Becomes faithless a3 to success. Begins to expect disasters. Others wait for something to turn up; he waits for it to turn down. Others, w ith only half as much education and character, geton twice as well. He sometimes guesses as to w hat it all mesns. He says: "Perhaps riches would spoil me. Perhaps poverty is necessary to keep me humble. Perhaps I might, if things were otherwise, be tempted into dissipation." But there is no complete solution lo the mystery. He sees through a glass darkly, and must w ait for a higher unfolding. Will there be an explanation? Yes; God will take that man in the light of the throne and say : "Child immortal, hear the explanation. You remember the failing of that great enterprise. This is the explanation." And you wiU answer: "It is all right." I see, every day, profound mysteries of providence. There is no question we ask oftener than Why ? There arc hundreds of graves that need to be explained. Hospitals for the blind and lame, asylums for tlie idiotic and insane, alms-houses for the destitute, and a world of pain and misfortune that demand more than human solution. Ah! God will clear it all up. In the light that pours from the throne no dark mystery ran live. Things now utterly inscrutable will be illumined as plainly as though the answer were written on the jasper wall or sounded in the teraplo anthem, IJartimeus will thank God that he was blind ; and Lazarus that he was covered with sores, and Joseph that he was cast into the pit, and Daniel that he denned with lions, and Paul that ho was humpbacked, and David that he was driven from Jerusalem, and the sewing woman that ehe could get only a few pence for making a garment, and that invalid that for twenty years he could not lift his head from the pillow, and that widow that she had such bard work to earn bread for her children. You know that in a tnrg different voices carry different parts. The

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3 sweet and overwhelming part of the hallelujah of heaven v r.ll not h rarrie! by those who rode in high places and gave sumpiuous entertainments, but paupet children will sing it, begrs will sing it, redeemed hod-carriers will sing it, those who were once the. offsoouring of earth will s;ng it. The halleluiah will be all the grander for earth's weeping eyes, and aching heads, and exhausted hands, and scourged backs, and martyred agonies. Again: The thought of my text is true when applied to the enjoyment of th righteous in heaven. I think we havs but little idea of the number of the righteous in heaven. Infidels sir: "Your heaven will be a very small place compared with the world of the lost; for, according to your teaching, the majority of men will be tiestroyeC' I deny th charge. I suppose that the multitude of the finally lost, as compared with tho mnl. titude of the finally saved, w ill be a handful. I suppose that the few sick people ia the hospitals oi our great cities, as compared with the hundreds of thousands of well people, would not be smaller than the number cf those who shall be cast out in suffering, compared with thoso who shall have upon themthehcalth of heaven. For we are to remember that we are living in only the beginning of the Christian dispensation, and that this whole world is to ba populated and redeemed, and that acres of light and love are to flow on. If this be so, the multitudes of the saved will be in vast majority. Take all the congregations that havo assembled for worship throughout Christendom. Put them together, and they would make but a small audience compared with the thousands and tens of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand that shall stand around the throne. Those flashed up to heaven in martyr fires; those tosed for many vears upon the invalid couch ; those who fought in the armies of liberty, and rose as they fell; those tumbled from high scaffoldings, or slipped from the mast, or were wahed ofT into the sea. They came up from Corinth, Laodjcea, from the Bed sea bank and Geunesaret's wave, from Egyptian brick-yards and Giddeon's thrashing -floor. Those thousands of years ago slept the last sleep, and these are this moment having their ryes closed and their limbs stretched out for the sopulcher. A general expect ing an attack from the enemv stands on a hill and looks through a fieldglass and sees in the gret distance multitudes appioaching, but has no idea of their numbers. He says: "I can not tell anything a1 out them. I merely know that there are a great numWr." And eo John, without attempting to count, Fays: "A gi cat multitude that no man can num. lT." We, are told that heaven is a place of happiness; but what do we know about happiness? Happiness in this world is only a half-fled g"d thing; a flowery path with a serpent hissing across it; a broken pitcher, from which the water has dropped bef.re ve could drink it: a thrill of "exhilaration, followed by disastrous reactions. To help us understand the joy of heaven, the bible takes us to a river. We stand on the grassy bank. We see the waters flow on with ceaseless wave. But the filth of the cities is emptod into it, and the banks are torn, aud unhealthy exhalations spring up from it. and we fail to get an idea of the river of life in heaven. We get very imperfect ideas of tbe reunions of heaven. We think of some festal day on earth when father and mother were yet livincr and the children came home. A good time, that! But it had thus drawback all were not there. That brother went off to sea, and never was heard from; that sister did we not lay her away in the freshness of her young life, nevermore in this world to look upon her? Ah, them was a skeleton at the feast, and tear mingled with our laughter on that Christmas day. Not so with iicaven's reunions. It will be an uninterrupted g'adness. Mamy a Christian parent will look around and find all his children there. "Ah," he eays, "can it be possible that we are all herolife's perils over? Tbe Jordan passed and not one wanting! Why, even the prodieal is here. I almost gave him up. How long he despised my counsels! but grace has triumphed. AH here! all here I Tell tlie mighty joy through the city. Lrt the bells rinn and the angels mention it in their toner. Wave it from the top of the walls. All here!" Many of our friends have entered upon that joy. A few days ago they sat with us studying these gospel themes; but thev only eaw dimly now revelation bath come. Your time w ill also come. God, will not leave you floundering in the darkness. You stand wonderetruck and aruawd. You feel as if all the loveliness, of life were dafched out You stand gazing into the open chiism of the crave. Wait a little. In the presence of your deEar Led and of him who carries them in is bosom you shall soon stand face to face. Oh ! that our last hour may kindle up with this promised joy! May we be able to say, like the Christian not long age departing: "Though a pilgrim walking through the valley, the mountain tops are gleaming from tekk to peak !" or, like my dear friend and brother, Alfred Cookman, who took his flight to the throne of God, saying in his last moment that which has already gone into Christian classics: "I am sweeping through the pearly gate, washed in the blood of the lamb!" arly Another Blonder. Minneapolis Journal. "Elijah." "Yessir." "We had good luck duck hunting." "Yesoir." "We brought home a good many tcora than we can use. Mrs. Harrison has sent a wagon load to the charitable institutions, and there ar s many more left yet." "Yessir." "I was tninkinc, Flijah, that it would be nice thing to do if I should send a brace to each of the cood men who fell outside of tha breastworks this year. You know I have sent them no message of condolence." "Yesbir. But, sir, have yru thought how sending dead ducks to deftatod candidates might b contrufd?" "Good gracious. Elijah, I didn't think of that I guess Mrs. Harrison had better send anotbei load to the charitable institutions. You have a great head, Llijalu" "Yessir." w Tmrb'cS. ITinij.l "It's too had thnt the Blofleits are moving out of the neighborhood, in't it? ' "7'eo bad? Why Klotten was a terrible nuis ance'with his cornet." "Yes, but now that he is leaving, the ren:i will go up." V The best way is to take a pain in time, am. fight it d:ii!y and hourly wiiu Salvation Oil Twenty-five cents.