Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1893 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, -WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

OLD TIMES ARE RECALLED.

DR. TALMAfiC DELIVERS A DISCOUISE OX ItEMISISCE.NCE. It Is Appropriate Sometime to Contemplate the l'u norn mn of Oar Llvrn fit a Spirit of Gratitude to God for Ills UlrMlns. BROOKLYN. Aug. 6. The Rev. Dr. Talmae ha3 chosen a3 the topic for today a panorama of reminiscences appropriate to the season, the text being Tsalm xxxix, 2 "While I was musing the fire burned." Here is David, the psalmist, with the forefinger of his "right hand against his temple, the door shut against the world, engaged In contemplation. And It would be well for us to take the same posture often, closing the door against the world, while we sit In sweet solitude to contemplate. In a small Island off the coast I once passed a Sabbath In delightful solitude, for I had resolved that I would have one day of entire quiet before I entered upon' autumnal work. I thought to have spent the day in laying out plans for Christian work, but instead of that it became a day of tender reminiscence. I reviewed my pastorate. I shook hands with an old departed friend, whom I shall greet again when the curtains of life are lifted. The days of my boyhood came back, and I was ten years of age, and I was eight, and I was five. There was but one house on the island, and yet from Sabbath daybreak, when the bird chant woke me, until the evening melted into the bay, from shore to shore, there were ten thousand memories, and the groves were a-hum with voices that had long ago ceased. An tlelpnt tonn of Youth. Youth is apt too much to spend all its time In looking forward. Old age is apt too much to spend all of Its time in looking backward. People In midlife and on the apex look both ways. It would be well for us, I think, however, tf spend more time in reminiscence. I?y the constitution of our nature we spend most of the time looking forward. And the vast majority of the people live not so much in the present as in the future. I find that you mean to make a reputation, you mean to establish yourself, and the advantages that you expect to achieve absorb a gTeat deal of your time. But I see no harm In this if It does irot make you discontented with the present or disqualify you for existing duties. It is a useful thing sometimes to look back and see the dangers we have escaped, and to see the sorrows we have suffered, and the trials and wanderings of our earthly pilgrimage, and to sum up our enjoyments. I mean today, so far as God may help me, to stir up your memory of the past so that in the review you may be encouraged and humbled and urged to pray. There 13 a chapel in Florence with a fresco by Guido. It was covered up with two inches of stucco until our American and European artists went there and after long toil removed the covering and retraced the fresco. And I am aware that the memory of the past with many of you is covered up with ten thousand obliterations, and I propose this morning, so far as the Lord may help me, to take away the covering that the old picture may shine out again. I want to bind in one sheaf al! your past advantages, and I want to bind In another sheaf all your past adversities. It Is a precious harvest, and I must be cautious how I swing the scythe. Home Influences. Among the great advantages of your past life was an early home and its surroundings. The bad man of the day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an unhappy home. "We are not surprised that Byron's heart was a concentration: of sin when we hear his mother was abandoned, and that she made sportv of his infirmity and often called him "the lame brat." He who has vicious parents has to fight, every inch of his way if he would maintain his integrity and at last reach the home cf the good In heaven. Perhaps your early home was in the city. It may have been In the days when Canal-st., New York, was far up town. That old house in the city may have been demolished or changed into stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to you. for there was more meaning In that plain house, In that small house, than there is in a granite mansion or a turreted cathedral. Looking back this morning, you see it as though it were yesterday the sitting room, where the loved one3 sat by the plain lamplight, the mother at the evening stand, the brothers and sifters perhaps long ago gathered into the skies then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table; your father, with a firm voice, commanding silence that lasted half a minute. Oh, those were good days! If you had your foot hurt, your mother always had a Foothing salve to heal it. If you were wronged in th street, your father was always rc-ady to protect you. The year was one round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest trouble was an April shower, more sunshine than shower. The heart had not been ransacked by troubles, nor had sickness broken in. and no lamb had a warmer sheepfold than the home in which your childhood nestled. Perhaps you were brought up In the country. You stand now today In memory under the old tree. You clubbed It for fruit that was not quite ripe, because you could not wait any longer. You hear the brook rumbling along the lobbies. You step again Into the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. You frighten the swallows from the rafters of the barn and take Just one egg and silence your conscience by eaying they will not miss lt. You take a drink again out of the very bucket that the old well fetched up. You go tor the cows at night and find them wagging their hf-ads through the bars. Ofttimes In the dusty and busy streets you wish you were home again on that cool gras, or in the hall of the farm house, through which there was the breath of new mown hay or the blossom of buckwheat. You may have In your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought from across the seas, but not one of them stirs In your soul so much charm and memory as the old ivy and the yellow sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden walk and the forgetmenots playing hide and seek mid the long grass. The father who used to come in sunburned from the fields and sit down on the doors,! and wipe the sweat from his brow mjy have gone to his everlasting rest The mother who used to sit at the door a little bent over, cap and spectacles on her face, mellowing with the vicissitudes of many years, may have put down her gray head on the püiow in the valley, but forget that home you never will. Are Yon Crntefnlf Have you thanked God for It? Have you rehearsed all these blessed reminiscences? Oh, thank God for a Christian father. Thank God for a Christian mother. Thank GM for an early Christian altar at which you were taught to kneel. Thank God for an early Christian home. I bring to mind another

passage In the history of your life. The day came when you set up your own household. The days passed along- in quiet blessedness. You twain sat at the table morning and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignificant affair in your life became the subject of mutual consultation and advisement. You were so happy you felt you never could be any happier. One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling and it got darker and darker. But out of that cloud the shining messenger of God descended to incarnate an immortal spirit. Two little feet started on an eternal journey, and you were to lead them. A gem to flash in heaven's coronet, and you to polish it, eternal ages of light and darkness watching the starting out of a newly created being. You rejoiced and you trembled at the responsibility that in your possession an immortal treasure was placed. You prayed and rejoiced and wept and wondered; you were earnest in supplication that you might lead it through life into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness; there was a double Interest about that home; there was an additional Interest why you should stay there and be faithful, and when in a few months your house was filled with the music of the child's laughter you were struck through with the fact that you had a stupendous mission. Have you kept that vow? Have you neglected any of these duties? Is your home as much to you as It used to be? Have those anticipations been gratified? God help you today in your solemn reminiscence and let His mercy fall upon j-our soul if your kindness has been ill requited. God have mercy on the parent on the wrinkles of whose face is written the story of a child's sin. God have mercy on the mother who, in addition to her other pangs, has the pang of a child's Iniquity. Oh. there are many, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a mother's heart. Are there any here who remember that in that home they were unfaithful? Are there those who wandered off from that early home and left the mother to die with a broken heart? Oh, I stir that reminiscence today. Ilt-peatnnce. I find another point In your life history. You found one day you were in the wrong road; you could not sleep at night. There was just one word that seemed to sob through your banking house, or through your office, or your shop, or your bedroom, and that word was "eternity." You said: "I am not ready for it. O God, have mercy!" The Lord heard. Feace came to your heart. You remember how your hand trembled as you took the cup of the holy communion. You remember the old minister who consecrated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through the aisle. You remember the old people who at the close of the service took your hand in theirs in congratulating sympathy, as much as to say, "Welcome home, you lost prodigal." and though those hands have nil withered away that communion Sabbath is resurrected today; it is resurrected with all its prayers and songs and tears and sermons and transfiguration. Have you kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help you. This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for heaven. Start today as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. But I must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life. I just put them all In one great sheaf, and I bind them up in your memory with one loud harvest song, such as reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood-bought mortals on earth! Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of heaven! But some of you have not always had a smooth life. Some of you are now in the shadow. Others had their troubles years ago you are a more wreck of what you once were. I must gather up the sorrows of your past life. But how shall I do it? You say that is impossible, as you have had so many troubles and adversities. Then I will take two, the first trouble and the last trouble. As when you are walking along the street end there has been music in the distance you unconsciously find yourselves keeping step to the music, so when you started life your very life was a musical timebeat. The air was full of joy and hilarity. With the bright, clear oar you made the boat skip. You went on, and life grew brighter, until, after awhile, suddenly a voice from heaven said, "Halt!" and you halted. You grew pale. Fou confronted your first sorrow. You had no idea that the flush on your child's cheek was an unhealthy flush. You said it cannot be anything serious. Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. You did not hear the tread, but after awhile the truth flashed on you. You walked the floor. Oh, if you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched the child from the destroyer. You went to your room, and you said: "God. save my child! God. save my child!" The world seemed going out in darkness. You said, "I cannot bear it, I cannot bear it." You felt as if you could not put the lashes over the bright eyes, never to see them again sparkle. Oh, if you could have taken that little one in your arms and with It leaped into the grave, how gladly you would have done It! Oh, If you could let your property go, your houses go, your land and your storehouse go, how gladly you would have allowed them to depart if you could only have kept that one treasure! Light In Darkness. But one day there arose from the heavens a chill blast that swept over the bedroom, and instantly all the light went out, and there was darkness thick, murky, impenetrable, shuddering darkness. But God did not leave you there. Mercy spoke. As you were about to put that cup to your Hps God said, "Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, another cup was put Into your hands. It was the cup of God's consolation. And as you have sometimes lifted the head of a wounded soldier and poured wine into his lips, so (Jod puts His left arm under your head, and with His right hand lie pours into your lips the wine of His comfort and His consolation, and you looked Into the empty cradle and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord's chastisement, and you said. "Even so. Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight." Ah, It Is your first trouble. How did you get over it? God comforted you. You have been a better man ever since. You have been a better woman ever since. In the Jar of the closing gate of the sepulcher you heard the clanging of the opening gate of heaven, and you felt an irresistible drawing heavenward. You have been purer and holier of heart ever since that night when the little one for the last time put Its arms around your neck and said: "Good night, papa; good night, mamma. Meet me in heaven." But I must come down to your later sorrow. What was It? Terhaps it was sickness. The child's tread on the stairs or the tick of the watch on the stand disturbs you. Through the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or the flowers in the wall paper. Oh, the weariness and exhaustion! Oh, the burning pangs! Would God It were morning, would God it were night, were your, frequent cry. But you are better, perhaps even well. Have you thanked God that today you can come out in the fresh air; that you are in this place to hear God's name and to sing God's praise and to Implore Owl's help and to ask God' J forgiveness? Bless the Lord who healeth all our diseases and redeemeth our lives from destruction. Perhaps your last sorrow was a financial embarrassment. I congratulate some of you on your lucrative profession or occupation, on ornate, apparel, on a commodious residence everything you put your hands to seems to turn to gold. But there are others of you who are like the ship on which Paul sailed where two Bfas met, and you are broken by the violence of the waves. By an unadvised indorsement, or bv a conjunction of un

foreseen events, or by fire or storm, or a senseless panic, you have been flung headlong, and where you once dispensed great charities now you have hard work to make the two end3 meet. Have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity, and that through your trials some of you have made investments which will continue after the last bank of thir. world has exploded and the silver and gold are molten in fires of a burning world? Have you, amid all your losses and discouragements, forgot that there was bread on your table this morning, and that there shall be a shelter for your head from the storm, and there is air for your lungs, and blood for your heart, and light for your eye, and a glad and glorious and triumphant religion for your so"l? ' Bereavement. Perhaps your last trouble was a bereavement. That heart which in childhood was your refuge, the parental heart, and which has been a source of the quickest sympathy ever since, has suddenly become silent forever. And now sometimes, whenever In sudden annoyance and without deliberation you say, "I will go and tell mother," the thought flashes on you. "I have no mother." Or the father, with voice less tender, but at heart as earnest and loving watchful of all your ways, exultant over your success without saying much, although the old people do talk It over by themselves is taken away forever. Or there was your companion In life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the heart an old ruin, where the ill winds blow over a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driving across the place which once bloomed like the garden of God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at the cave of Machpeiah. Going along your path In life, suddenly right before you was an open grave. People looked down, and they saw it was only a few feet deep and a few feet wide, but to you it was a chasm down which went all your hopes and all your expectations. But cheer up in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He is not going to forsake you. Did the Iord take that child out of your arms? Why, He is going to shelter it better than you could. Heis going to array it in a white robe and give it a palm branch and have it all ready to greet you at your coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals. Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus compassionates. Blessed the weeping eye from which the soft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear. Some years ago I was sailing down the St. John river, which H the Rhine and the Hudson commingled in one scene of beauty and grandeur, and while I was on the deck of the steamer a gentleman pointed out to me the places of interest, and he said, "All this is interval land, and it is the richest land in all the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." "What." said I, "do you mean by Interval land?" "Well." he said, "this land is submerged for a part of the year. Spring freshets come down, and all these plains are overflowed with the water, and when the waters are gone the harvest spruigs up, and there Is the grandest harvest that was ever reaped." And I Instantly thought, "It Is not the heights of the church and it is not the heights of this world that are the scenes of the greatest prosperity, but the soul over which the floods of sorrow have gone, the soul over which the freshets of tribulation have torn their way, that yields Uie greatest fruits of righteousness, and the largest harvest for time, and the richest harvest for eternity." Bless God that your soul is interval land. The Final Reminiscence. But these reminiscences reach only to this morning. There is one more point of tremendous reminiscence, an.! that i3 the last hours of life when we have to look over all our past existence. What a moment that will be! I place Napoleon's dying reminiscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence in the harbor of St. Helena, the same island, twenty years after. Napoleon's dying reminiscence was one of delirium as he exclaimed: "Head of the army!" Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence, as she came home from her missionary toil and her life of self sacrifice for God, dying in the cabin of the ship in the harbor of St. Helena, was: "I always did love the Lord Jesus Christ." And then the historian says she fell Into a sound sleep for an hour and woke amid the songs of angels. I place the dying reminiscence of Augustus Caesar against the dying reminiscence of Apostle Paul. The dying reminiscence of Augustus Caesar was, addressing his attendants: "Have I played my part well on the stage of life?" and they answered In the affirmative, and then he said, "Why, then, don't you applaud me?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the Apostle was: "I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me In that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love His appearing." Augustus Caesar died among pomp and great surroundings. Paul uttered his dying reminiscence looking up through the roof of a dungeon. God grant that our dying pillow may be the closing of a useful life and the opening of a glorious eternity. A GREEX GOODS STORY.

Western Man's Experience In Wicked Sur York. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. The wave of financial depression swept over Crete, Neb., several weeks ago and caused a scarcity of currency. J. A. Derse, the city marshal of that town, who owns a' big store where every thir g that country' folks usually require Is sold, was affected by the dearth of cash. He had received a typewritten letter from a New York firm of green goods merchants and he decided to come and dupe the metropollr tan fakirs. He arrived here yesterday morning and put up at the Cosmopolitan hotel, paying for his room in advance. He "flew light" which. In the vernacular of the hotel clerk, means that he had no baggage. In the afternoon he met two men, one tall and muscular-looking and the other small and wiry, in a saloon at 3 ltoosevelt-st., just off Park Row. The muscular man was the senior partner of the green goods firm. He carried a japanned box. about twelve inches long, nine wide and six deep. The city marshal of Crete was permitted to look Into the box. He saw three packages of what appeared to be five-dollar and ten-dollar bills. There were two five-doll? r bills snd $1 visible. The marshal did not know it, but all beneath the visible $11 were slips of green paper just the size of the bills. The New York merchant.- seemed to be convinced that they had a sucker in tow, and the country buyer from Crete on his part felt pretty sure that he was coming out ahead of the game. The man from Crete Is big and plucky, and he had a big gun in his hip pocket. The New York merchants said that there were $3,000 in good money in the box, and that the marshal of Cre.e could have it for $1.000. The man from Crete grabbed for the box and yelled police. He got both, but when the box was forced open at headquarters the $5.000 he expected he had found was just $1,8S9 short of that amount. The marshal will have to pay $10 for- carrying a concealed weapon. The green-goods men are short $11 and a tin box. The marshal has $4.09 to carry him back to Crete. To Cleanse th System , Effectively yet gently, when costive or bullous, or when the blood is Impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to. awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without Irritating or weakening them, to dispel headaches, colds or fevers use Syrup of Figs.

FARM AND HOME AFFAIRS.

A DISCISSION ABOUT THE ADULTERATIOX OP. FOOD. Farmers Directly Interested In the Mntter The Consumers SomfnhAt to ninme The Apple Crop Tlmothy IIa The Poultry InduRlrr-Ciport. luir HayThe Average Clip of Wool Rnpttl Grovrth of Yonne Animals A Collection of Recipes for Summer Drinks. The case Is stated none too strongly when we say that this is an era of food adulteration. The ingenuity of man has been directed toward counterfeiting the work of nature, and the counterfeits are In some - cases worthless and in many harmful. Farmers being both producers and consumers of food, are more deeply Interested In the character and extent of the frauds being perpetrated than are. any other classes. They not only have to run the risk of buying harmful adulterations and counterfeits, but as producers they find competitors in the field who can, put articles on the market cheaper than than they can. and prices are demoralized by the presence of cheap substitutes for pure food. The dairy interests have suffered greatly from the presence of oleomargarine on the market. If this product was not a counterfeit, if it sailed under its own colors. If it was sold as only a substitute for butter, "the farmers would have no ground for complaint. They might suffer from the competition, but such competition is legitimate. Our complaint is that a counterfeit Is placed upon the market used to supply the demand for buiter, and In this way the farmer is wronged. By skillful counterfeiting consumers are lead to buy one thing when they want another. If oleomargarine can be sold upon its merits, well and good. Let It be put up in some such form that no one can be deceived, and then it will have a right in the markets of the world. As it Is, it is just such a fraud as any other counterfeit. The maker of maple sugar and sirup knows that there is a nearly universal taste for his products, and If people could get them pure, the demand would make prices good.. But In steps a counterfeiter who makes a so-called maple sirup that has not one iota of honest maple In it. It is a fraud, unsatisfactory to the palate and often injurious to the stomach. The people know how difficult it is to get honest maple sirup, and so they do without. The counterfeit is cheap, and honest sirup must be sold below its worth. Injurious chemicals are widely used in the manufacture of alleged "cider vinegar." The markets are flooded with the stuff. Orchardists who should have a good income from the manufacture of honest cider vinegar find the prices low by reason of the abundance of a counterfeit that is shipped to nearly every hamlet in the land. Health is undermined by its use, and the public is robbed, but the business goes on. So it is with scores of articles, the farmer finding that adulterations and counterfeits have robbed him of his market. Even eggs are now successfully made by machinery. We have viewed this matter from the standpoint of the producer, but the farmer is a consumer as well. The coffee he buys Is often badly adulterated. There are factories that manufacture coffee grains out of beans, grooving them nicely and coloring the correct shade. We know that ground goods are usually adulterated, but others may be as bad. Lately a gentleman showed The Sentinel a sample of coffee grains made of rye flour, colored and flavored with chicory. It could be sold for 2 or 3 cents a pound. Spices are adulterated. Drugs are notoriously unreliable. The family physician lately said that one brand of glycerine had not a particle of gly.erine in it. The deaths due to the unwitting use of adulterated drugs doubtless number thousands in a year. Matters are bad enough when the farmers see their markets taken from them by the manufacturers of harmful counterfeits and they are compelled to buy harmful adulterants in their table supplies and medicines. Our lawmakers have given some protection, but more Is needed. No penalty Is too severe for the counterfeiter if he persists in a work that undermines the public health. Public sentiment must be aroused to a higher pitch. Our public officials must protect the people. There is somewhat of blame attaching to the consumer. This desire to buy low-priced goods tempts men to furnish them. We want our supplies reasonably cheap, but not necessarily lowpriced. The best Is the cheapest, as a rule. When dealers offer the goods below the cost of an honest article there is evidence that they are handling counterfeits, and we should leave them alone. Let merchants have a fair profit. Demand only pure goods. When the price is a fair one and the goods prove to be low grade cease to patronize such a dealer. The merchant who offers a maple sirup for 50 or 75 cents a gallon is a good man to leave alone. If he charges a fair price for an honest article, and the quality is lacking, again leave him alone. We can help to put down frauds by refusing low-grade goods at any price. Then agitate the question. Uphold all officers in enforcing pure-food laws. Give back to the farmer his market and see that counterfeits are driven to the wall.- Every true interest demands this. - Observer's Xotes. I believe in paint. It is very human to hide defects, and when we can do this and make a virtue of It at the same time it is strange that the process is not In greater demand. Nothing adds to the appearance of machinery more and preserves it better than paint. To learn to like to paint get a good brush, or rather several of them. They cost very little. Many a farmer Is deterred from painting by the memory of his trials with an old stub brush. It was formerly my custom to pay $12 or $13 to have my buggy painted, but I do not find It a paying investment. For $1.75 I can get enough prepared paint to go over two buggies, and can apply it in less than two days. All rough places should be sand-papered and the paint appliM rather thin to prevent a smeared appearance. It Is true that this paint does not make a buggy look as well as regular shop work, but It is neat enough. The virtue is that we keep the wood protected all the time, while the temptation Is to make these fifteen-dollar paintings . as far apart as possible, to the serious inJury of our conveyances. The wagon should be painted every year, and it will pay in money to paint the wheels twice a year. The tires can be set with boiling oil. Some will dispute this, but I believe It is because the work is not always done in the right way. When dry weather is beginning to loosen them the felloes should be soaked ln water to swell the wood, and then in boiling linseed oil. The oil takes the place of water and the tires remain tight. A semi-annual coat of paint preserves the wood, excluding air and moisture, and tires can be made to remain tight until they are worn thin. A little experience I had years ago may help others who may be as thoughtless as I was. I had a pan four inches wide and three feet long, with curved bottom made of tin. The tinsmith used solder in making it. and after the oil In It began to boll and we were revolving the wheel above it so that the rim was immersed, the pan suddenly parted, and the fire was soon In excess of all requirements. It may cost the tinner

a little more trouble to make it without solder, but It Is the only safe way. It Is often possible to pick up an Iron vessel that answers the purpose fairly welL

The Apple Crop. The prospective crop of apples, commercially considered, as indicated by returns far July, will be light, and In many sections a complete failure. The high returns in June from districts then In bloom have materially lowered for July, the set has been poor and the drop, still continuing, severe. Thus in Maine and New York the percentages are lowered 22 and 19 points, respectively. These states are by far the most Important of the eastern apple district. and failure there makes the sustained j percentages of New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut of little s'gnificance. In the Ohio valley and the Missouri fruit belt things have gone from bad to worse. The frequency of the word "failure" in the notes of the correspondents throughout these sections ominously emphasizes the exceed ingly low condition, as shown by the , percentages. Michigan ahs declined w points since June report. The high condition of apples In the Pacific coast region still continues, and a good crop is confidently expected. The fruit is dropring some In Oregon, where the decline since June, though slight, has been greater than In Washington and California, Timothy liny. The condition of this crop falls considerably below the exceptionally high one of a year ago, but is rather better than that for the corresponding date in 1S91. The figures which express the general average for the country for each of the three dates indicated are as follows: 1893. S9.S; 1892. 96.8; 1S91, 87.4. Among the larger hay-producing states Iowa has the highest average, her present figures on condition being 97, while Pennsylvania, with an average of only 80, ranks lowest. In localities where the condition is far below the normal one. the fact, where explanation is furnished, is In most cases attributed to drought, either during the past month or at an earlier period. In the states bothering the lakes from Michigan westward, a number of counties report severe drought in June. Other causes, such as freezing during the past winter, cold rains in spring, weeds, and Insect pests figure to some extent in the returns. Among insects the only one mentioned with any degree of frequency is the army worm, from which a number of counties In Illinois and a few in Indiana and Missouri have suffered considerably. The Poultry Industry. The noted poultryman, P. H. Jacobs, says that it is not necessary to attempt to give figures In order to show how great the poultry industry may be, for no reliable estimates can be made, owing to the difficulty of taking a census of poultry and eggs; but if we allow only $1 per year as the value of the eggs consumed in the United States by each person, we have the laige sum of $60,000,000, while the poultry consumed is perhaps equally as large. We believe that $1 per individual la much too low an estimate, but it is sufficient to give some indication of the egg industry. Nor do we produce enough for home consumption. Derpite the tariff of 5 cents per dcen on eggs, they are still imported, and the supply has at no time been too great. As long as there is a great demand, and at the prices received this season. It is safe to claim that the poultry industry holds out as great inducements as any other. It is true that all who attempt to succeed do not accomplish the object desired, but no business is certain to pay well unless under the management of an experienced person. The fact is plain, however, that eggs increase in price each year, and that there is a ready market for ioultry and eggs during every season of the year. There are no dull times for the poultry and egg business, for there is not a month in the year that a ready sale cannot be made for all that may be offered, and as eggs are always sold for cash, which lessens the liability of loss, it is a claim in favor of the poultry Industi which does not apply to all othe. branches of business. We doubt if anything raised on the farm pays better than poultry, or offers a greater certainty of allowing a profit to be secured. Eipurtlng liny. The extremely short crop of hay In parts of Europe led to much talk of exporting, but the Ohio Farmer says that the difficulties In the way of exporting hay to Europe are coming to the surface, and they seem sufficient to prevent the demand from enchancing prices to any great extent. Ordinarily, no hay Is sent from this country, and there is no provision for taking care of It at the ports of arrival no places of storage. It must be removed at once. If shipments could be distributed to all ports of entry and limited to the demand at these ports. It could be made a profitable business, though high freight rates, owing to the bulky nature, must necessarily keep the profits down materially. Only good hay is wanted. Western prairie, mixed course or poorly cured hay will bring no profit to shippers. Avernsre Clip of Wool. The correspondents of the agricultural department were requested to send with their July returns of condition of crops an estimate of the average weight per fleece of wool as shorn during the present year. In 1879 the census returns made the average weight per fleece a littlo more than 4H pounds. The present returns have been carefully examined and consolidated, and the average weight per fleece of this year's wool clip fa shown to be 5 8-10 pounds an Increase of about three-quarters of a pound per fleece. The range is from 2 8-10 pounds in North Carolina and the different gulf states, excepting Texas, to eight pounds In Wyoming. Different climatic conditions and the difference In weight per fleece between high grade blooded stock that Is well cared for and the common native sheep that are left to take care of themselves as best they can, are the chief causes that bring about this considerable variation. rtnpld Growth of Young Animals. Precept upon precept is needed to get some farmers to treat young animals in such a way as to make good profits possible. We indorse every word said by the writer of the following from the Country Gentleman: No greater mistake can be possibly made by one who wishes the most profit out of his live stock than by allowing them to become stunted while young through injudicious feeding. Any growing animal needs plenty of good nourishing food to sustain a thrifty growth. A calf or colt once checked or "stunted" in its growth will never make so fine an animal as it would otherwise have made. From the time a colt is four weeks old It will begin to nibble at its mother's feed box. I say "at its mother's feed box," for no matter how well she may be fed with other food, hay or pasture, she needs a grain feeding regularly while suckling her colt In order to keep up the flow of milk necessary for the colt's well doing. As soon as the colt can be coaxed to eat a little ground oats let It have its own box and be fed at the same time as Its mother. Nothing is better than ground oats for the formation of bone and muscle. Keep the animal growing from the time of its birth and it will develop younger and better for it. and a few bushels of grain may make all the difference between a finely developed.

sleek-coated animal and the under-sized, ill-shaped one which will not bring anywhere nearly as much In tfer market as it might have been made to. The same principle applies to .calves pigs and even chickens. The object is at least with those desirable to dispose of to get to marketable size as easily and as cheaply as possible. There is no economy in feeding a pig only half what it needs. Let him make his growth as rapidly as possible, and It will be done upon much less feed than if he were scrimped with only half as much. In raising chickens a week's delay at marketing time because the? chicks are not quite large enough, may mean several cents less on a pound, that might have been realized If they had been fed heavier. It takes a certain quantity of food to produce a pound of flesh, and the sooner that food is consumed without cloying the appetite the sooner the flesh is made. . It is no place for stinginess at the feed bin with any kind of animals.

Summer Drinks. Tisane This is a favorite beverage in France. Chop fine a cupful of dried fruit, such as figs, dates or prunes, and steep for an hour in one quart of water. Strain and sweeten to taste. Currantade Mash one pint of ripe currants, and press out all the juice. Mash and strain the same quantity of raspberries. Add to them about two quarts of cold water. Sweeten to taste. Apple Toast Water Toast a slice of bread very brown and crumble into large pieces. Mix these with two or three baked apples, and over them pour a quart of boiling water. Sugar to taste, and strain. Lemon Squash To a third cf a stone bottleful of apollinaris water add one juice from half a lemon; stir in a des?ert spoonful of caster sugar. Drink immediately. A bottle of apollinaris water makes three soda water glassful: of lemon squash. Summer Lemonade Slice four lemons and two white oranges over a cupful of white sugar. Add two tablespoonfuls of strawberries, raspberries or cherries, and half a dozen slices of pineapple. Let the fruit stand for an hour, then add one quart of cold water. Lemon and Orange Drink Boil two pounds of lump sugar, add a pint of lemon juice and the juice of an orange; bottle the mixture and cork carefully. Put a tablespoonful of the syrup into a glass three-parts full of cold water, add a quarter of a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, and drink at once. Nectar Put half a pound of loaf sugar into a large porcelain jug; add-one pint of cold water; stir the sugar till it Is dissolved. Pour over it half a bottle of hock and one bottle of sherry wine. Mix them well together, and grate in haif a nutmeg with two drops of essence of lemon; then set the jug in a bucket of ice for one hour. Gingerette One gallon of water, cne pound of white sugar, one-half ounce of best ginger root, two sliced lemons, onefourth ounce of cream tartar. Boil the ginger and lemon ten minutes in part of the water; dissolve the sugar and cream tartar In cold water; add one gill of good yeast. Let it stand over night and strain and bottle in the morning. Portable Effervescent In a blue paper place one-half drachm of bicarbonate of soda with two grains of finely ground ginger, and one-fourth ounce of caster sugar; then put twenty-one grains of tartaric acid into a white paper. When both packages are emptied into a glass of water they make a most cooling drink. Russian Tea This is simply tea served without cream, using instead a slice of lemon. The following is an old Russian recipe: To one-half pound of tea add a large lump of sugar, crush as finely as possible with a rolling pin, add the boiling water very gradually. Russian tea, poured on finely-chopped ice, and served in tall, thin glasses set upon small glass plates, is acceptable and dainty for the summer "tea." A lump or two of sugar should be placed upon each saucer or plate. Home-made Porter Two gallons of water, one-half pound of hops, one quart of barley (burned and ground for coffee), one tablespoonful of ginger, one pint of West India molasses. H.il the hops and barley together two hours, so as to get th strength all out. then strain and add a cup of hot yeast. When almost cold put in the molasses, stir up well and strain again; let it work sufficiently, and when the foam has covered the entire top of the liquid, bottle, cork tight and keep in a cool place. It is ready for use in a few days. Ginger Drink Ginger, as a rule, agrees with the stomach, especially in warm weather. Dissolve two and threequarter pounds of sugar In two gallons of soft water; then add the well-beaten whites of three eggs and two ounces of Jamaica ginger. It Is well to moisten the ginger in a little cold water before adding it to the whole amount of water. Bring all this slowly to boiling point, skim, and stand aside to cool. 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SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a certified copy of a decre to me directed from the cl-rk of the Suf,erior Court of Marion county, Indiana, n Cause No. 43,401, wherein Sarah L. Morris is plaintiff and the Indianapolis Lumber Company, Jame? Shea et. al. are defendants requiring me to make the rum of two thousand on hundred nnd tilna dollars and ninety-one cent3 (JlluS.Ul). as provided for in said decree, with interest and costs. I will expose at public sale tj the highest bidder, on THURSDAY, THE :iTII DAY OF AUGUST. between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day. at the !oor of the court house of Marion county. Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding sevn yars, of the following rl estate In Marion county. Indiana: Lot numbered two (2) in leori;e W. Itncaster's Helmont avenue addition to West Indianapolis. If such rents and profits will not for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, with interest and costs. I will, at the sama tim. and place, expose to public tale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree. Said sale will be mad without relief from valuation or nppraissnwot laws. TtOHKKT F. EMM i "IT. Sheriff of Marion County. August 2, K. I-ucius B. Swift, attorney for pUiiUirr. SHERIFF'S SAIE. By virtue of a certified copy of a decra to me directed from the Clerk of th Superior Court of Marion County. Indian, in cause No. -S."', wheroin Sydney S. Iecker is plaintiff and the Indianapolis Lumber Company. James Shea et al. are defendants requiring me to make the sum of one thonsind and eipht dollars and nix cents $1,0"S... as provided f.r in sail decree with interest and costs. I will xpose at public sale to the highest bid!' r, on THURSDAY. THi: 2 ITH DAY OF AUGUST. IMC. between the hours of 1 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the cmirt house of Mari.jn county. Indiana, the rents and proiits for a irm nt exceeding seven years, of th-. ftl!vin real estate in Marion county, Indiana: Lot numbered llfty rm in G-oree V. I an easterns IJelmont addition to Wnt Indianapolis. If sui h rents and profits vcV.l not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, with interest and costs, 1 will, at the same time and place, expose t. public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or sornuih thereof as may be sufficient to discharge .said decree. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. r.nr.KKT F. L'MMKTT. Sheriff of Marion County. August 2, K';;. Lucius 1:. Swift, attorney for plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed from the clerk of the Sü-

i iv.-ri-- f Mt.io county. Indiana, in ccuse I Xo. 4.",.r,!S, wherein J soph T. Cones i plaintii an J Cnarles Ferrer, James Sht et al. iie defendants, requiring me to make the sum of on4 thousand and fifty-one dollars and nineteen cents (Jl.i'M.lin, as provided for in said decree, with interest and coats, I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, ON THURSDAY. THE 24TH DAY OF AUGUST, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day. at the door nf ; th-i court house of Marion county, In- ; diana, the rents and prorus tor a term not exceeding- seven years, of the following real estate in Marion county, Indiana: lxt numbered twenty-one (.-i.). in Georga AY. Lancaster's I'.Imont av:nue addition, to West Indianapolis. If such rents and profits wl'l not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, with interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to UischarKe said decree. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or anpraisemt-nt laws. ROliKKT F. L.MMKTT. Sheriff of Marion County. Aug-ust 2nd. Lucius B. Swift, Attorney for Plaintiff. S II Ell IF I-"" S SALE. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed frra the clerk of the Superior court of Marion county, Indiana, in cause No. 43.:;ST, wherein Christina liberherr is plaintiff and John H. Kmrich, Christian Koch. James Shea et al. are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of nine hundred and seventy-six dollars and lifty-six cents ($'.i7ij.."t;), as provided for in said decree, with interest and costs, I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, OX THURSDAY, TUB 2 ITH DAY OF AUGUST, 1:5. between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. ani 4 o'clock p. m. of sail day, at the door of the court hou-e of Marion county, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the f. ill using real estate in Marion county. Indiana: I-K3t numbered forty-edght (10. in George Y. Lancaster's Belmont avenue addition to West Indianapolis. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sutlicient sum to satisfy said decree, with interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so m'ch thereof as may be sufficient to discharge Faid decree. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. ROLE KT F. EMM EXT. sheriff of Marion County. August 2nd. 13. Lucius li. swift. Attorney for Plaintiff. Notice to Gravel Road Contractors. Notice is hereby given that scaled bids will be received by the Board of Commissioners of Jackson county, Indiana, at their court room, in the town of lirownstown, until 1 o'clock p. m. on Friday, the 2-r.th day of August, 1SV, for the construction of the following gravel and macadamized roads, viz: The Vernon township. Grassy Fork township and Brownstown township macadamized and gravel road. Said road is 20.3:5 miles in length and to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor's office, and to be completed bv the l."th day of December, 1M"4. Also the Yallonia and Brownstown grav1 road. Said road is about four miles In ) length and is to b constructed according to plans and speculations on nie in me Auditor's office and to be completed by ihe 1st day of December, lS'S. Also the Brownstown and Clearsprln? gravel road. Said road Is 6.R6 miles la length, to be constructed according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor's oltice and to be completed by Uie 1st day of March. l!d. Also the Brownstown and Freetown gravel road. Said road Is about 5 miles in length, to be constructed according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor's office, and to be completed by th 1st day of December. ISM. Also the Seymour. Keddinpton and Hayden gravel road. Said road is 5 miles nd 8,000 feet long, to be constructed according to the plans and specifications on file In the Auditor's office, and to l completed by the 1st day of December. 1?.4. Also the Seymour, Brnwnstown and Tampleo gravel road. Said road is 5 miles and 6:) feet in length, to be constructed according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor's odlce, and to be completed bv the 1st day of December. 1V4. Also the Seymour. Dudleytown and Newry gravel road. Said road is 4 miles and 2.0S' feet In length, to be constructed according to p'ans and specifications on file in the Auditor's office, and to be completed bv the 1st day of December, 1K4. Also the Seymour and Four Corners gravel road. Said road Is 4 miles and 4.430 feet In lenprth, to be constructed according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor's office, nnd to be completed by December 1st. lSTtt. Also the Yallonia and Millport gravel road. Said road is 2 miles and 3.92' feet in length, to be constructed according to plans and specifications on file In the Auditor's office, and to be completed by the 1st day of December. 1S3. The construction of said roads means ditching, tiling, bridging, graveling or macadamizing, as specified In the reports of the engineers and viewers, now on file in the Auditor's office at Brownstown, Jackson county, Indiana. Each bidder will be required to give bond, according to law. Bids will be received on each road separately, but no bid will be entertaii ed for an amount greater than the estimates of the viewers, and the Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. JOEL H. MATH CK. Auditor of Jackson County, Indiana. AIM'LICATIOVS FOR LICENSE. "IsxmETiTE give notice to the voters of Wayne township that he will apply to the board of commissioners of Marion county, state of Indiana, at their September term, 1S33, for a license to sell Intoxicating, vinous, malt and spiritous liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time, with the privilege to allow the same to be drank on the premises. My place of business whereon tald liquors are to ne sold and drank Is known as lot No. 6, Harris addition to Mt. Jack-8-n. Wayne township. Marion county. Indiana. DA YE SPRINKLE. A irtim f ntitMul nprudrnr, caMlnr Prwi D-r, KrrToMa I-MIiit . I..t Manlion-t. frr , Irc ' la vai rrry kioti v, baa H m ain la m-aa of rnra,M-iWTilla.illMaM rHKi. to hia - l aaa-rara, Arfdraa. 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