Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1893 — Page 9

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SUNDAY THOUGHTS HOI IW MORA LS iP MAN N E RS

H 1 CLERQTM A,!t. The French Archoro!ocical icstitute unearthed from amongst the Christian tombs in upper Egypt, at Akhroin, not long ago, end has just published in the ninth volume of its proceedings, a papyrus containIn?, with other matter, portions of an alleged gospel of reter. Its intrinsic value is email, yet its discovery means a crest deal. Why? How? Because it confirms in a general way the synoptical gospels, "which itself embellished with extravagancies, and testifies to the prior existence of the gospel of John, Because, too, it anewers affirmatively the quaetion often asked by critics as to whether any accounts of or reforenco to Jesus were to be found outside of the Xow Testament. For these reasons this new "find" is of first rata value, Schclars are substantially agreed that the date of the apocryphal gospel of Peter U either the second or third quarter of the second century. One eminent textual expert holds that it goes back to A. D. 125. If the gospel of John antedates this we must place its date not later than the last quarter of the tir.t century; in which case its true Johannine authorship would be avouched beyond a nrad venture. 'Tis significant that just as far as these exhumed records apoear and speak, they always confirm and never impeach the inerrancy of the aacred scripture. One after another up they come from the buried past they take the witness stand they testily and ever in one way. Ftrange, is it not, that these resurrected witnesses should all be so soundly orthodox? A writer in the current number of the JlmiiiUtic AVi iVu; wisely remarks that every Sermon should be timed, not by the clock, but by the pew. When the preacher has lost the retention of the hearers' attention detention is a violation of iho right of iab-as corpus. Kestlessneas in the pew ehould be construed aa a signal tor re6t in the pulpit. The time to apply the brakes is not when the stef.ra is giving out in the engine, hut just before the passengers have reached the p ace where thev want to get out of the cars. They are righteously indignant if they ara carried beyond their desired station. We advise the preachers today to let the Jews alone and hit current ein, and to strike out from tho shoulder. Tnis course may cause tbera trouble, but it will keep the congregation awake. It is truly affirmed by a contemporary that there u no other such power on earth as the Christian church. There is no other such force in our civilization as the banded Christian pastorate. Let the ministry but determine to do their utmost pecifically and directlv for the abolition of any existing evil and this century would not close without seeing that work far advanced. The world itself never Ion? despises what the chnrch devotedly maintain. If the church, with tho splendid ta'ent, learning and eloquence of her ministiy, will ret any righteous cause high among the objecH for which she prays and battles, she can put that cause as far above a sneer or patronising contempt as ehe has put the cause of missions since Carey's tune. If power is the measure of obligation the dsLt of the church to righteousness la great indeed. A man came one day to the late arl of Shaftesbury, a philanthropist, although a nobleman, bringing a note from the governor of Manchester jail, saying that the bearer was incorrigib e and had spent twenty years in prison. Shaftesbury talked kindly to the fellow and then said: "John Spiers, shall I make a man of you?" "Yer can try, but yer can't do it." was the discouraging reply. Finally ho agreed to enter a reformatory where the discipline wa strict but kind. After a few days' the earl called and eaid: "Weil, John Spiers, ehail we go on?" "Ye-," be replied, "but yer've tackled a tjugh job." "By God's help I'll go on, and 1'il suefeed, too," replied the earl. At the end of two years the mc. was jnet bv a friend of Shaltsbnry's. Ho was well-clad, healthv ar.d held a good poaition in London. "Ah," said he, "it was the ear .'a Jdnd word did it. That was a new way. 1 never ha I a Lind word or a loving look piven me in mv life before, or I might tare acted verv differently." What a testimony ! What a salvation! Keep your eyes up, cot down. reter talked safely on the very waves and Scan 1 them hke a siiid pavement under bid f-et until Le looked down, then he went drvwo. So rejoiced is the German kaiser over the advent of his new daughter that he bas ordered that all German female prisoners now undergoing punbthmeut for a rst crime committed through distress or in anger shall he pardoned in honor of the littU princess. 'Tis a graceful act, this connecting of the royal Lab with a !tcreo of mercy. The "uetite lady was baptized in water brought from the river Jordan, and named Victor! Iomse Adalaide Matilda Charlotte. It is to be hoped that so many names may not craothcr the baby. A New Yor sciety beile has just joined the Salvation army and is a fu 1fledged and uniformed soldier. Sho is a Miss Emm Van Norden, eldest daughter of the president of the bank of North America, Mr. Warren Van Norden, who is also superintendent ot the Madisonave. reformed church. She ia a handsome young ladr and highly accomplished. No wonder she tired of the gilded toys of fashion and left her decorated world for a more earnest life. 'Tis Surprising that the nalvadoaitts do not in more recruits of the same sort. The list ff prominent mortals who have recently become immortals (whether prominent or not over the line, who on arth can tell?) is significantly large. In the church. Cardinal Manning and 1'hi lips 15 rooks. In education al lines. Noah Porter of Yale and Theodore Dwight of Columbia. In letters or journalism, John G. "Whittler. Tennyson and George William Curtis. In the English aristocracy, the duke of Clarence, heir presumptive to the throne, and Lord Lytton. In medical science, Sir Morrell Mackenzie of London nd Daniel lis es Ague w of Philadelphia,

In business, Cyrus W. Field, John Knox, ex-comptrollr"of the United States, Sidney Dillon and Jay Gould. What a Jacobin death is. He levels with an impartial stroke. The defalcations of the past year are set down at $3.000.0000. 'lis a heavy aggregate, and sad as heavy. But we put over against it the gifts to educational and religious objects, which amounted to S2, -OOO.OUO more than three times better. There is a hallelujah chorus in the clank of these dol.ars of mercy. The man who takes large views, who

engages in great works, is almost sure to ' accomplish great things in lite ; ne manes himself ; while the man whose views sre narrow only undertakes small things and thus dwarfs his own powers. Kmm. Truo fel gion, unliko human science, was given to man in a finished form, and is to be learned, not improved. Isaac Tw'-r. All great work gets impulse from the unseen. Prof. A. D. Hoy'. Whatever is truly great in ths poets is universal. lb. Let all churches beware of crushing dissent by force. Plows aimed at our neighbors recoil upon ourselves. Findlay. The scriptures in our hands and their words in our hearts this is the best reparation for our tarry here and for our journey heavenward. Prof. C. L'rnxt Luthardt of Ldi'sig. The book of the Acts of the Apostles is largely the narration of apostolic labors with individual soul. One immortal soul is always a tremendous audience. Theodor f. L. Cuijler. Men are ambitious of saying grand things that is, of being grandiloquent. Eloquence is speaking out, a quality few esteem and fewer aiu at. Uar The reason of man is a beam of the eternal reason. Prrf. C'ocvr. If Jesus had done nothing in his earthlv ministry but to teach men to say "Our Father which art in heaveu," that would have been abundant compensation for the vast outlay involved in his dwelling among men. Mine, ds (jatuar'm. Christianity i an infallible revelation, but it is not committed to an infallible church. James C. I'crmhl. Christianity can only vindicate its claims by a development equal to all the exigencies of society. l)dim. Religion does not come out of the bible. The bible comes out of religion. Burrovgh. The following inscription was carved upon the tombstone of a little Irish boy: "I want to be a missionary when I grow up to be a man ; but if I should die before I am old enough, I want this wish put on my tombstone so that somebody else may ee it and go in my place." We agree with one of the St. Louis clergymen that just now there is room for men of ths Patroclus type, as Homer describes him: AthI (traikjht Putroclu ro, Thgenisl c"iiir'le. who amil the strife km;, n J wr of nry utt ranc.. Heltl even la neo, to his ouir ee l frivol )leart-tm. Tit vor siruv-s wiiu kindly words To hmii to jtrriu d.eor J, urgiog ptace. Modern charity, according to A. ll. Kimball, is developing along two lines the line of personal contact, and the line of scientific method. The liret of these is obvious to all who take any interest in charitable work. The idea behind it is linding expression on every hand the idea that a check sent to the treasurer of some missionary r benevolent organization does not dichargo the duty owed to "the submerged tenth," but that there must bo alo an individual attempt to get at wretchedness and an individual effort to raise the wretched to better ideas and aims. Less machinery, more personal work, a humanizing experiment by the simple elementary method of submitting to the earns conditions and yet maintaining the higher life, and a oractical demonstration of what is possible under hard conditioaa these ideas are the animating parpowe behind Taynbeo hall. University settlement, the College settlement (foryoung women)in New York; the Hull house, Chicago; the Andover house, Boston, and the various other organization of a like character. Modern charity, also, continues Mr. Kimball, accepts tho necessity of intelligent direction, of ecicntilic method, as the only hope of permanent success. The apparent haphazard nature ot the new attempts to get at misery by living in it and alleviating it as there is opportunity is only on the surface. The coe personal study of the raj?ts and condition1) of .crime and poverty in individuals and communities, has led and ia leading to discoveries of isolated facts which, when put together, will form a rovised ayFtem of treatment, at once intelligent and effective, .uch, a system will stop waste effort, and will make all ellort tail for the most that is possible. KNOTTY PROBLEM3. fOnr resiWrs ara Invited to furnlih orijinsl n'R ran, ebaral rid lies, rebunei, and other "Knotty rroblm,"addrelngtkll communication rtlatite to tUUdnrtaent tu U. B. fha lbourn, LewUton, M.J No. 4,111 Tr.-inpoltlon. ' Varletif of Ver No. The Hettlna 1 l bo (liotiog stars that woke at teoiog's clots Now shld'J trarialucrntljr abort tha bar, In all th glory of their virgin light, Tha iclntiilatinK diamond of the sky, And wheel in ceait-Uti orbits on tbelr round To ball tha U)u.,hli) beauty of th Jay. Through all the ont of hours, from dr to day, The sentinels of hcavbu netr cloia Tbair qiWaring yc, but watchful, round by round. Their faithful vigil kep from bar ti bar t'nii: tha (badoma lencthtn Id tba ky. And all tha world la fluthrd with azure light. Tba weary wan !err bU their welconia light, Thst ner tiro, bat gtil ln hira to thadsy; Thir sparkling apian lor floods tha ature aky T'ntll tiia gotdan rate of morn aneloao And purpling twilight thrn acroa tha bar, Abd s;reada 13 rapturous beauty all arouad. Like hlt'rlngowr that cluster fondly 'round Thi beauty tiat they thi:d, with friendly lii;ht Theie han abora tha sleeping world and bar ' The dark'nint; ahaJs away until tho day r.eiga once ugIo, and night, drawn to it ol ose, Reveal the glory of a sunlit sky. lcep In the blue expanse of vaulted sky, Their glory guards with aileat round The fate of nameless worlds beyond the clot Of rsrth's remotest boundaries of light. An 1 to whose night th grsndeur of the day May Derer pierce the dark horison's bar. Thee larora of Got above the kindled lar. lbese bcac.in lights ot heaven's enduring sky. Are but the guides of an etornal day. When, far beyond the veil that spreads around, Tbe dazzling glory of ectestial light t-hsll welcomed be by eyes that nerer c'.oe. The flooding light of morn fit through tbe ky Tbegoldea bar of heaven gleams around, And draws to close the eveuiog of our day. II fciKKRUS. No. 1,t i'i- fltilKiii.i. I'm clothed In beaming, aliv'ry light And abow tbe bjft ysea dark'a tba nfbtj

Then if I'm out I can be eeen And often I am round I ween. I'm rather partial to tbe l ast, For there I always rise, at least; And wbea I t tie down to resv 1 arer choose the distant Vest, I'm full, then qaarterci, and oa time. And overhead high up I climb; My brilliant faco tbe stars can fade, Vet with niy light I cast a shade. Mazr Maskeb. No. 4,413 An Kndlesa Chain. I Much instructive aranseraent msy be bad from tho forming of word chains. In these the word must be of two syllables each, the econd syllabi of the first word to be the fimtof the second, and so on. If the chain is to he endle-s, tho second sr. labte of tbe last word must be the first syllable of the first word. Tho iorln ol a perfect endless chain o( this kind is a more difficult waiter than at first appears. 1. Falling into error. 2. A morbid growth on or between certain bons f horses. 3. A medicinal plant. 4. (Arch.) Offset. 5. Writing of a. certain slope. 6. A loosa priot-'d stiftet for distribution hy band. 7. A booked knife for pruning beiges, etc. 8. A Dutch vessal with two meats. Uohkbv. Xo. 4,41 1. Charnde. Tu o little face was ene and fair, tlrr eyes were blue, and bright ber hair, She bad a sweet, confiding air Herfrt'i thought hr beautiful

Sho had a book, a pail, a slate, And shyly trudged alonj in state. 1 hough tauch she feared she might be late, This little maid, just tent to school. BiTrxa Swbt. No. 4.415.-A Wont Defined. A booth or an arbor, Vlus-clad in green gnrb, or A tangle where spiders and snails lore to harbor; la old times, they say, "Twas a room, where all day Ladle sat and embroidered they didn't croohtt. An anchor, we learn, That i nover astern, But is cast overboard when the frothy waves ehnrn. Two good card eat euchre. But though you're a duke or A prinoe. let us hope you do not play for lucre. When you've read tnie quite through, As I hope you will do, Will you come to tha one I have shale! for you? M. C. S. No. 4,4U1-Stnr. 1. A letter. 2. A termination. 3. Tertalnlng to succession. 4. f-hut in. 5. To subside. C. Certain painful diseases. 7. On ot an order of mammals deficient in teeth, 8. A stato (abbr). 0. A letter. I. T. a. No. 4,417 I'nltndrom. A Portuguese lal of adventure. Went down to the harbor one day. Where, riding at anchor before htm, A n7io c in the Tagus did lay. The boy to himself ask-d the question, "Will (athrr arid mother rebuke If I get a pass n the u Um now tightly laden 'La Puke.' " He let g unanswered the question, Tie manage t to climb upon dck, t'oucral, d himself away with tbe cargo, Hut won it by only a ceck. or just as his body was hidden, Tha crew of tbe a i cams on board. They little did know of the ur :liin, Yb lu with the car.-o was store. 1. The aoelmr was freed from its moorings, The sails were unfurled to the brce.e, And after a moment, tbe total Was sailing upon tho high sees. iTotjMY ITawkk. "o. 1,118 Numerical. 1. 2 In yon blue arch (.1 nms througti the leafless larch A 3, 4, ft, 6 on its mighty march. The 4, 8, 6 at sea Beholds, and pleased Is be To see it shine, lrom logs and valors free. What is tue lovely hing? And wherefore doe it swing hver through it unseen, ana', ring? A 4, .,7 1 Would give if 1 could fly. Or ha 1 tbe 5, fi, 7 toreacn tha iky. lUiloons are common-plao); Tber ri e a little space, And then the crew grow purple in the face With cold; but were It given To me to scale tbe heaven, I'd be an I, 2, 3, 4, S. 6, 7, IM. f. S. No. 1,4 1 ! Curtailment. "An honrst man Is Col. Brown:" declared the good folks of the town ; And everybody, high or low, I elt gratified to kuow A person of such great renown Ai honest, upright Col. Brown. And w hen one day good Col. Brown l'aiuied it nc time to tuo tl.e t iwn, And oil' to au.nl 31. 1 Uo With half a million in his grip, Hi luckless victims all ngreui lie was a noa est man indeed. Mixnik Mcmm. A usurers, 4,::rr2 Kate's, kcats, ttsk. takes, skate, stsks, t-ak. 4,U'.'3- C t O C O it R E 5 T O N S O R Y K N T K U S O L II S T F. M SONS P E M R I N A COR 8 I C A N C ) SO N A N T CONSONANTS O L M R E Y 4,:!!-4 Hallow, hallo, ball, Hal, ha, h. 4.:;V Har-pain. 4,:t'j'i. 1. Liverpool, lirer, pool. 2. Cambridge, ram, bridge. 3. I'uodse, iluu, I'.-f. 4. Ilartord, hart, ford. &. Lawrence, wren, lace, C Waierlown, water, town. 4,3!'?. t. New Year'a resolves. 2. Scowbound travelers. 4.3'. Ma-k, ask. 4,8.'.l T COD C A V V. I) M Oll VES SOLKC I 8TS DELINEATION TENANT IN"i B I T T I N I. 1: R O Y D I N C 4.4W. 1. Inr.rm. 2. Firm in. STAMBOUL'S RECORD DOUBTED. lohn S. Kearney, One of tho Judges, Hjn It Is No netter Than 2:10. Sacramento, Gal., Feb. 1. The Evening JIk today publishes aa article to tbe elTect that tba etallioa Stambonl nerer trotted a mile in 2 :07 on the kite-shaped track at Stockton, and in fact that he did not go a second faster than 2:1(1. On Dec. 20, in leas than a month after the alleged record inaahinar at Stockton, Stamboul was cold in New York to l. II. Hamraon for$t l.OOO. John S. Kearney, who was one of the judges lit Stockton when Stamboul trotted, buys that he never signed the judges' books and positively denies he ever authorized J. II. Larue, the eecretary of the association, to do eo. Kearney save that a man named Ed Smith, a driver at Stockton, will swear that the time mad I bv Stamboul was not lees than 2:1Ü. STocKToy. Ca!., Feb. 4. President Shippee of the the Stockton trotting association says there is no truth in the story from Sacramento that Stamboo.ru record of 2:07$ made here, was false, and that he trotted no better" than 2:16. Shippee says Campbell win not in tbe timers' stand nnj til after Stamboul passed the first quarter ana could not bare caught the mile, as the official timers did. For any case of nervousness, sleeplessnMS.weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia, relief is eure ia Carter's Little Liver I'll to.

RUSHING AND IDLENESS.

A CRITICISM ON A CERTAIN CLASS OF FARMERS. VThat Is Meant hj Wnmlrhurk rarmera bservers' Notes No. 4 Something About Farmer' Institute Snow I'rotectlon Tltf? Dnlry Cow Burley Ashes Rapid tirouth Going Into Ielt Care of ?Iachinery Keepinc Cloa to Shore. "The Woodchuck Farmer" is the name given by a leading specialist to a great mass of farmers whoso crops and other farm arrangements are euch that they are compelled to rush things during the eumaier, and are popularly supposed to ppend the entire winter in idleness. This critic eees in their methods the ways of the woodchuck, and so names them. It is very easy to criticise even when there is no foundation for criticism. There is just a little too much of a tendency anion? other classes to criticise our ways in a wholesale manner. Yet no one sees the needs of improvement more thsn the writer, and tries to preach and practice better methods all tho time, but it is unnecessary to hunt up matters for unjustifiable criticism. In very many sections of our country there ia no longer heavy winter work like clearing, rail-splittins, etc., and we ara glad that this is true, but the fact that our farmers are not slashing through the mud, rain and enow all winter long does not prove that the time ia unimproved. Tho summer's work is always hard. Crops require more rultivatidn than formerly, and, with smaller profits, the average farmer does more than a fair day's work each summer day. Continuous labor of the kind he is engaged in for ten years, with no reft except on the Sabbath, would make nine men out of every ten old. We ptifh our work nhen it needd pushing. From early pprin untd lato fall this strain is undergone. Then now about the winter? Seven days in the week the stock are fed, watered nnd otherwise cared for. It is the peneon of repairs. Tools are overhauled and repaired. Harneaa is mended and greaeed. On many farms fepecial care is given to cows and poultry, from which a nire income is re ceived. Scores of little things nre done that makes little public show, but are aids to future success. When the weather permits outdoor work is done a swamp in drained, fences are built, or a thed added to the present buihlingc. Tha man who does all these thing?, feeding wisely, making and saving and applying all the manure potible und preparing for another season's rush is not in' the "woodchuck" line. It is true that he has some leisure, but be has earned and needs it, and tbe time need not he lo.)t. We must have time for reading and social intercourse. Tho business roan reads his paper in the morning and thinks he is very busy, and po he may be. The farmer is in the fiald from morning until night and usually is too tired to read a word iu the evening. No winter day is lost that affords a change from manual labor, if it is improved as many can and do improve it. When spring opens we want to bo ready for good work. Sow ia the time to prepare for it. With everything in order, including a bndv and mind rested from the routine of field work, we can perform in its season a 1 the hard, manual labor anyone should havo to do within the year. Some of us are just a little tired of the criticism of the farmers' winter vacation whea the critics do not know of all the winter's duties and the severity of the summer's work. Obrvf r'a Noti, No. 4. The value of corn fodder ia becoming better understood every year. Some of our large farmers do not think that it pays them to cut the corn and leave the fodder, but on .email farms I am very sure that the practice does pay well. I visited one farmer who had large basement barn and kept the usual number of horses end cows for a tilled farm of loO ceres. His hornes were very fat and everything indicated thrift. In front of the houo stood n horse-power and just within the barn was a cutting-box. The fodder wnj run through this and fell through a trip into tho basement be!cw. Here was a tight box in which the fodder was dampened and mixed with ground grain. The grain ration wa not a heavy one, but when fd with bulky fodder it did more good probably than h 50 per cont. greater amount fed alone. I3ut what struck me most forcibly was this: "The mows were full of choice hay that was being held for the market, the fodder was keeping the stock through the winter and the bay would be converted into cash. While cot advocating the Edling of hay under ail circumstances, it surely waa better to fi-eu tho fodder and eil the hay than to let the fodder waste, as it is often dune, and feed the hay." Tbe surface of this farm was uneven and liable to wash, and yet it was tilled to a considerable extent. The gullying was prevented by deep plowing, and a wise rotation of crops that kept the boil full of plant roots. Tha deep plowing iucreafccd tbe absorbing capacity of tho soil, eo much that lets water ran oil the surface. Light inches of loose earth can Absorb twice as much water as four inches, and so he found that decpplowing was a safeguard. A sod was turned for a plowed crop, and thia was followed by email grain and gras. This iarmer was successful, and when I looked for tho cause I f .und that it was greatiy due to saving. The crops were carefully saved, the stock warmly housed, the manure returned to the fialds, the fertility of the fields jealously guarded, and there were no leaks. He had a naturally rich soil and is near a good market, two advantages some of us do not possess, and it does not follow that all could succeed just in this line. I mention this instance as typical of a certain class of successful farmers. So far as is practical, we will do well to copy his methods, Farmers' Institute. In all new undertakings some improve menta in the managament can be suggested after a fair trial, and our institutes are probably no exception. A present fault is that these schools are not reaching the ones who need the most help. The progressive, wide-awake farmers who read and stand at the front in their occupation attend, while the ones who do nrjt believe in "book farming" remain at home. These men should be reached and their interest excited. They know things that others need to know, and they may need to know things that others know. How shall a more general interest be aroused? In tbe first place many institutes ara held ia large towns TfhejeJiri?

ers are not free to take their families unless they pay livery and hotel bills. As a ru'e no pnrely agricultural meeting does well in a large town. Other buinees distracts the attention of manv who attend, and the ones least inclined to go are deterred by the expense. It would be better to keep in the emaller towns and villages. Ina thickly settled community where there is a hall or church no better place can be found. in the second place the county or central institutes, held at considerable expense, cannot pet ns near the people as local meetings would do. Instead of having two speakers for two days or more it would be better to hold neveral township institutes wilh only one speaker, and possible for one day onlv. in thu way the institutes would be within the reach of tho mtfeea, end would appeal to local pride for their support and eucces. In most neighborhoods an institute could be held without any foreign help, but, as it seems to need s.otno ono from a distance to start tbe ball rolling, township institutes would often be held two days if a speaker could attend tho first day, leaving only local epeakers for the fifcond day's program. In some euch way the institute should be brought near the majority of the people, and thus arouse general interest. The institute managers in many states hare done a noble work and deserve much praise and encouragement, and they doubtless appreciate tho need of improvement along tbefcft linee, but they cannot act until there is more general domand for local meetings. The progressive farmers in every community ehould take this matter in hand and mako the institute a means of improvement lor every township throughout the countr. Mi'jw Protection. Growing wheat went into winter in rather bnd condition. The chief damage done to this crop is usually in late winter or earl' spring when the trying winds strike the exposed roots that have been lifted well out of tho ground by action of the frost, and so no confident prediction can now be made, but it is a pleasure to note the extent of the snow protection aHorded this sea-ton. Kven in the nioro southerly latitudes, where enow rare)' fal.s, tio what has had this shield from the repoated freezes! and thaws. Snow forms the perfect mulch, perrtiittiiig wheat and meadow grasses to root more deeply and even to make growth top when otherwise the plants would be lo Ing vitaüty. So long as our snows continue the outlook for this yyar'e harvest

improves. The D.-nrj (oir. Secretary Window of the American breeders' association thus describes a perfect cow: The iirct thing for the breeder to do is to educate himself to a standard, for his herd iseirnply hi own idea of a cow, nnd the herd will gradually shape itself to his idea of oliat a cow should be. There is iu every breed of cattle a variation of type, and an incliuation to one or the other gf the opposite types of beef or dairy, and a close observer will find in his own herd thiii same variation. The pail is the actual test of the dairy cow, but there are makes of temperament, mental and physical, which in the absence of the pail are very sure guides to the close observer, and in the two tvpes above mentioned they are exactly opposite. In the perfect dairy cow the head is small and bony, the muzzle large, the nostrils wide, eye full and bright, ret with a bright look in them; the neck strong at its junction with tho head, but falling away quickly to a thin neck, nearly straight from head to shoulders, shoulders thin, with backbone prominent to touch, and nearly straight from shoulders to tail, and full ot indentations at some point between shoulders and hips, giving thu appearance to the touch of being loosely put together. There shou'd be large barrel room beginning immediately irom the tdioulders, for you must have large power of luns to run the machine; then, too, the receptacle for food should be roomv, hvr hindquarters should bo large, with hip bonea wide epread ; the hams should be thin, to give plenty of room for tho udder, which ehould extend well forward and back, having teat wide epread on the four corners of the udder; the milk veins should be large and crooked, entering the belly through large holes; the veins on tho sides and rear ehould also be large. There are various styles of escutcheons, and which ever the cow may have should be wide and perfect of its kind. The skin ehould be soft and mellow, tho hair thick, short and line, the tail long aud slim, legs slim and beny. The disposition of the cow should be highly nervous with no uglines. Most of these extreme characteristics of the dairy cow are exactly opposite to the beet characteristics, and the cow is usually a good dairy cow in proportion to her läck of beef marks. ItarW-y. The variation iu price of agricultural products, caused dy distance from market or local scarcity and plenty, is very great within the United States. A good illustration of this fact is found in the case of barley in the two states of Maryland and Dakota. The average yield of this cereal in Maryland for the past ten vears has been 20 buahels per acre, and the average value per acre has been ?0.47. Dakota's yield haa been over 21 buihels, but the average yield value per acre has been only I'.KtyS. While barley sold for 80 cents per bushel in one sUte it was worth only 40 cents in another. The roads are great equalizers of prices, but eo ing ai inch a difference as is indicated by these prices exists there ia great preference in location in raisinz of special crops. The transportation is one of viUl Importance to farmers, and especially to those in the West. Iiarley has the highest value per acre of all the cereals, ranging from $20.47 in Maryland to $7.57 in Nebraska. We import about 10,000,000 worth from Canada every year. Auhe. The fruit-grower can find no cheaper fertilizer than hard wood ashes, especially unleached. They should be applied as a top dressing to apple, cherrv and other orchards. Jt is true that they are not a complete fertilizer in themselves, but they ripply the present needs of soils adapted to fruit culture. The leached ashes are more valuable than is often supposed, especially for fruit. While any one buying ashes ehould know that the potash' remains in thorn, still all leachad ones may be used with profit rather than thrown away as is the case on some farms. ' Knpid Growth. The profitable pig is one that takes a fatt gait at birth and keeps it up. It should do all its growing in six or eight months, and should weigh one pound for every day of its life. Better results than this are gotten by some, but the nig that weighs 130 pounds at six months is a debti twins fellow, lie will not da this with

out great care. If we could quit making corn the basis of our ration for hoz, using this grain chiefly for the last six weeks' feeding, and using more muscle-forming food, results would be better. Clover, milk, bran and tats make growth, while corn or corn-meal 'makes fat. Going Into Debt. It is a rory dillicult matter to tell just what a larmer can a lord in the form of improvements. He knows that good stock

pays, that good implements, good bams and well drained fie da are profitable to him wiio has the capital to iuvest. Ten why does it not pay to borrow ruoney to get these things, ask one. It ehould pay, and will t ay some to do thit way. but it is not safe to go into debt too deep. Some caution is necessary, or just when we nre readv to live the indebtedness; mav ba eo great that it is not ho easily carried as t was anticipated. Tnere is a danger line, an our ju Igment may at timea be at fault, and we find that we are beyond our depth. ( are of Machinery. The life of farm machinery can often be doubled by proper care, the expense thus being greatly lessened. Theost of machinery is a heavy item, eatiug into profits sadly, and good care pays big profits. The draft upon horses i made unnecessarily great too often by a fai'ure to keeD everything in good running order. Many of us err bv failing to take time to adjust everything properly. It is my observation that ew fail to use oil enouch on bearings, but Ihfre is a popular tendency to act as if tntchines bad the faculty in common with camels r-f storing up supplies when abundant agauit future periods of dearth. A less amount of u. and more frequent applications would be more eitective. Kcepiiiu Clone to Short. There are two kinds of debt. One is contracted for maintenance an J is the forerunner of disaster. The other is a mark of prosperity, being contracted in the acquirement cd more property, and with the confident expectation of paying it oil" within a reaHonable length of time. There is now more debt ol tho former kind among the farmers than w as the case twenty years ago. and much less (d the latter kin. I. This condition produced tho unrest that has le i to great chauges in tho political sentiment of the masses. Wo believe that there are many hopeful signs for tho future, but these should onlv encourage economy and the practices of the best methods of farming, keeping close to the shore until the storms cf the pabt decade have paused away. Household Hints. The following directions for removing stain?, spots, etc., must be used with exceeding caution. Chiorolorm, benzine, turpentine, kerosene and gasoline are all dangerous substance unless handled with extreme care: Sponge a grease ppot with four tablespoonfuls of alcohol to one of salt. Jprinkle salt over the toot on a carpet and sweep all up together. Hub finger marks from furniture with a little sweet oil. Tut a lumn of camphor in an air-tight case with silverware to keep it from discoloration. lle'nove paint soo'e from a window by rubbing a copper cent over them. Sprinkle salt over fresh claret stains. Waah ink stains in strong brine and then sponge with lemon juice. Hold a fruit stained article over a bowl and pour boiling water through the cloth. Kub egg stains on silver with salt on a damp cloth. 1'b9 wood ashee on discolored tableware. Clean tteel knivea wilh raw potato dipped in line brick dust. Kub bra-s with hot vinegar and eilt and scour with fine ashes. Clean a carpet with a broom dipped in a very weak solution of tuipentine in hot water. Cleanse grained woodwork with cold tea. Scour ironware wilh finely sifted coal ast.es. Soak mildewed clothes in buttermilk and epread on the grass in the sun. Wash oil cloth with a Uannel and warm water, dry thoroughly and tub with a little skim milk. Purify jars by Boaking them in strong soda water. Wash blackened ceilings with tsoda water. Kub white spots on furniture with camphor. Kub a stove zinc with kerosene. Cleanse bottles with hot water and fine coals. Komove fruit stains from the hands with weak oxalic acid. Clean jewelry with prepared chalk. Wash hair-brushes in weak ammonia water. Kub stained hands with salt and lemon juice. Kemove ink from wood with muriatic acid, after rinsing with water. Wash japanned ware with a little lukewarm suds. Kub mirrors with spirits of wine. Apply spirits of alt to ink-stained mahogany. Use'sulphurie acid, wash olT with euds, for medicine edaius ou siiver. Kemove oil stains from wall paper by powdered pipe clay moiateneJ. Use gasoline for removing paint. Use jeweler's rouge and lard for rubbing nickel plating. Kemove writing from books by a solution of tartaric acid. Wah willowware with saltwater. Clean hard finished walls with ammonia water. Kab whitewash spots with strong vinegar. Kub soft grease over tar and then wash in warm soda water. Dip a soft cloth in vinegar and rub on smoky mica. Sponge faded plush with chloroform. Take paint out of clothing by equal parts of ammonia and turpentine. To remove machine oil from eatin use benzine. Be careful about having a light in the room, a it is very explosive. Valuable Kei ipcs. Brown Ketties To a heaping cupful of rye meal, which must be thoroughly sifted, add one cup of flour, sifted with threequarters of a teaspoonful of sait and tbe same quantity of baking soda. Stiring two tablespoonfuls of molasses, and. last one cupful and a third of sour milk. Mix very thoroughly and stir till perfectly smooth. Drop with a teaspoon into very hot lard, and fry a dark brown. Kye Drop Cakes One pint of rye meal and a half pint of flour, measured before sifting. When both are silted, add the flour to the meal, then a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful of brown sugar, aud one tablespoonful of melted butter ; then add gradually, a pint anu a half of milk, stirring well ; three eggs, well beaten, are put in last, and all mixed thoroughly. Have a gem pan cup-shaped, if possible well buttered and very hot, on top of stove ; fid with the batter without removing from btove. Bake in a hot oven. Rye Bread Sift thoroughly one cup and a half ol rye meal; add to it. after siitia

well together, one pint oi rye flour, on quart of wheat Hour, and one heaping teaspoonful of salt. Then rub in two-thirda of a tablespuonful of butter, and a half a tableepoouful of lard. Dissolve half a taolespoonfiil cf baking so la in a half-cupful of molasses, t;nd add this next; then three-quartera of a cupful of lukewarm milk into which you hare put half a yeastcake. Mix all thoroughly, and knead well for twenty minutes. Cover closely, and leave over nicht to rise. In the morning; it will be ready to be made into one very Ir.rge loaf, or to small ones. Let it rise weil in tbe pan before baking. Valuable Iti-rijien. Turkey Sa'a l Take the white meat and lightest hits of brown an 1 Mired with the fingers into inch-long bits, rather fine. Have an equal quantity of celery, cat about throe-quarters of an inch long and torn into slendjr bit. Mix these together and season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle over it a tabletpoonful of purest olive oil and as much Vinegar; tos the whole up lightly and mound up in a salad bowl which you hav lintd vitli crisp lettuce leaves. Mank the whole with mavonnaiae dressing and keep in a cold place till 6erved. Turkey Tie Prepare tin turkey a above, and heat in its own gravy, or in lieu of this, a smiii quantity o: stock. Make a rich. Liscuit-liko crust, and lin3 with it a deep baking dish Have ready a pint of raw oystor, and minge theai with the turkev as you lid up the dish. Cse some of the oyster liquor if mere moisture is needed. ome people like a bit of bay leaf or a soupooa of mace for seasoning; but tastes difi'er cri-atly in this respect. I'ut on a top crust and bake in a quick oen. Cold veal or lamb is very nice prepared in this way. Southern Batter Bread--Beat three eggs till light and stir into two and a half cuptU of sweet milk. I'ut a pinch of baking soda and a teaspoonful of salt into two cupfuis of Indian m-nl and eift ad together: add one tablespoon ful of rr.elted butter, then stir into the milk and eggs gradually; when thoroughly mixed add a cupful of cold boiled rice, which should have been first spread upon a cloth iiifhtlr, to drv.

so that the kernels will bu separate and rather mcaiv, not a glutinous mass. Beat up well from the bottom for two or three minutes before pouring into a round, Bhallow pan, and bake quickly in a hot oven. Boston Brown Bread Hare ready a pint of milkj sweet or sour. If sweet be used, put a half-teaspoonful of cream of tartar and a tahlespoonful of soda into two-thirds of a tahlespoonful Of wheat llour, and sift these very thoroughly toKther. If the milk be sour, omit the cream of tartar. 1 ut a teaspoonful of salt into a heaping half-pint of Indian meal,and eift these together. After s.ftiog a pint of rye meal thoroughly, mix all the meal and Hour well together; then s'.ir in three-quarters of a cupful of molasses, and add the milk gradually, stirring all the time. Ae thia is to be steamed, one ci the tin brown bread pans with cover ia needed, or a covered pail can be used. Butter the tin well, not forgetting the cover, and pour in the batter, leaving considerable space for it to rise. It must steam three hours and a half. Creat care must be used to have a steady fire and to keep the vater boiling hard from the moment the bread is pus in the pot till it is done. Have ready boillrg water to fill up the pot as needed. I'ut a muffin ring or something under the tin to keep it from touching the bottom oi the pot, and keep the latter covered cloiely. Delicious Ways of Cooking Celery Although we are familiar with celery aa a salad, it is not ofun cooked. Vet it makes a nice and novel vegetable dish served ia this way. Select two large heads of fin whito celery. The other heads which, come in the bunch may b set aside for other purposes. Bare oil' all the green leaves of the selected heads, wash and scrape tbe stalks, after separating them. Cut them into lengths of about two inches and pour boiling salted water over them. When they have boiled in this water for ten minutes, drain it otf and pour over them a pint of rich brown stock, in which let them cook for about twenty minutes longer. Some cooks uae Kapagnole sauce in place of ordinary brown stock. 1 f Biir. ply a good brown stock it used it should be thickened with a teaspoonful of llour and a teaspoonful of butter, mixed together in a hot saucepan before the celery is put in. Kspagnol sauco is already thickened, and would be ruined by any euch addition. When the celery is done dish it up on a hot platter or vegetable dihh, add about six or eight slices of marrow cut about half an inch, thick to the sauce, and let it boil up for one moment after they are added. Then turn it carefully over . tha celery and serve it at once. Celery may also be blanched in the same way, and cooked in brown stock, without any thickening, for twenty minutes rather rapidly. When this ia done the dUh must be drawn to the back part of the fire and the celery taken up. The yolks of two eggs beaten into three tablespoonfuls of cream or rich milk added to a little of the hot stock may now be mixed into tho remainder of the stock in the saucepan. On no account should the stock be allowed to boil after tbe yolks ot the eggs are added, or it would certainly curdle. It muet be stirred thoroughly and turned over at once on tha ceiery, JOHN HUNTINGTON'S WILL The Dead Millionaire Bequeathed. Over $1,000,000 to Charity. Cleveland, Feb. 4. Tbe will of tbe late millionaire, John Huntington, who died recaii tlr in London while on his way home, provides for the founding oi an art and polytechnique school in Cleveland. Mr. Huntington bequeathed a cash endowment of $S00,000 to the school and added his valuable art collections. Other provisions for the school increase the endowment to Sl.Wd.OOO, the homeopathic medical college dispensary receives $15,000, the Western reserve medical college dispensary $'J3,000 and tbe Bethel charity association $20,000. The reat of the estate goes to his w ife and children. The estate is eetimated as worth more than $3,000,000, more than half ot which is given to education and charity. The PavU AVill. Detroit, Feb. 4. The will of tbe lata Catherine B. Davis, widow of Benjamia M. Davis, was filed for probate this afternoon. The estimated value of the estate ia between 150,000 and "200.00t). It is divided among a number of Mrs. Daria friends and relatives, the episcopal church also comiog in for a large share of it. Among the special bequests are those ot S 10,000 each to tho church associations ot Michigan. Every day increases the popularity and sale of Carter's little Liver Bills. The reason is that when once used relief iu luro to follow. Doa'i (orget thia.