Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1894 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY; MORNING. SEPTEMBER 26. 1891.

OW FOR THE POULTRY.

IX UP TIIC HOUSES FOR THE COM ING AVIXTEU. Other Mnttrri for Ibe Conalderatlon of the Fnrnirr-IlarvrillnK I'otatoca Crimson Clover In Southern nol Short Talk for Farmer limine Method Enjoined Useful Household Hints Valuable lleclpes. Fix up the houses now for winter, make leaky roofs tight; cover the sides with tarred paper and batten it on closely; replace the broken glass in the windows; take everything movable (we take it for granted your roosts and nest boxe3 are not made fast) out of the houses, and give them a cleansing. If there are lie in the cracks, give the whole interior, sides, roof, and floor, too, if it is of wood or cement, a good soaking with kerosene emulsion, using a pump for this purpose. After this has well dried out. go over it again with whitewash, with carbolic acid enough added to give it a strong smell of the acid; use the pump for this, also, and put In elbow-grease enough to drive toth washes well into every crack and crevice. If the floor 13 of earth, take out three ur inches of it. spread it on the grass, and replace with fresh, clean soil. Turn the nest boxes bottom eide up. straw and all, put brick or stone under one side, touch a match to the straw, and burn that up, e'eaning the boxes of lice at the same time. If a box catches fire It will do no harm; a bucket of water handy will take care of that. The easiest way to whitewash a no-: box Is to have the wash in a barrel and dip the box in. To clean the perches, pour a little crude petroleum the entire, length of them, touch a match to it, and that ends the lice and nits. If there is dirt to get off, a hoe is a handy tool for that purpose. Now everything is cCean. and when nests and perches are replaced the house is ready for winter. The moulting hens, if they have not been marketed which we advice should have nearly all their new fi-athers by this time, and by the last of the month be ready to lay again. If any are slow in shedding, separate them .ind give them a spoonful of linseed meal two or three times a week with their other feed. Pu7.ets of the lighter breeds should be laying now, and if the houses are warm enough so that their comls will not freeze, they can be mad? to lay all winter. There is no Imtrer any question ah-ut the Leghorn being a fair winter layer, provided the. conditions are right. Keep all mal away from th:- females until next breeding s-.ason. Unless you have a very choice specimen which you wish to breed from next sprinsr. it is best to sell all males in the fall, and save their feed and room. When you house the chicks for winter, do not put too many in one house. Eight lor ten feet floor space for each one is none too much for health and vigor. frlmsnii Clover In Southern Illinois. I sowed about ha;f an acre oa my farm and one-fourth acre on my neigh- ; "bor'r. in August. '93. Gra?:-'aopper3 and dry weather entirely ruined the latter last fall. Xearly all plants on my own field were also killed: what little remained was frozen, killed to the ground, the latter part of March. It was a long time before it got well started again. It stooled out well, riper.ed cor. iderably earlier 'than the common red clover, but was not so tall. In order to test it on poor soil and hardpan I gave a little of the seed to two friends living about ten miles south of my home. This was sown about Oct. 15. af;er showers had fallen. It came up in a very short time. On a patch where red variety had never taken the leas't hold crimson clover did exceedingly well. Large, well-filled seed heads were produced. The result was a complete surprise to old farmers who had lived there more than fifty years. On soil like my own and where red clover generally does well. I do not think crimson clover is very valuable. But it may prove a great boon to hardpan or marly clay localities. F. Helms, St. Clair County, Illinois. Harvesting Potator. For home use the early varieties of potatoes should be dug bf.fore cool weather sets in, and to add to their keeping qualities they should be stored in a dark room above ground until freezing weather comes, when they should be removed to-the cellar, or stored in pits, the cellar being preferable if entirely frostproof. Storing early potatoes in a cellar before cold weather should be avoided, any shelter above ground being preferable. By this plan decayed or partly decayed tubers can be thrown out when removing to the cellar. They may als'o be piled in larger quantities than they were earlier In the season. The short potato crop this season should insure good prices. Hence it is well to look very closely after every detail of the harvest. In gathering, the small unmarketable one3 should be saved, as ths chances are that they will have a good market value at planting time. American Agriculturist. SHORT TALKS FOR FARMERS. Bnatnesa Methods Xeoeasary to Sucre Fruit .Note. It Is tx often the case that a farmer will object t- the difference of half a dollar in railroad freight, coming over a distance of 500 miles, yet contentedly rpend a whole day on. a bad turnpike road In hauling a load only five miles, preferring the poor road to an increase In taxes. How many farmers know how, when and where to ship in order to dispose of their products? The merchant is careful to learn whre to buy and sell, and keeps himself posted on prices. He also knows from whom to procure goods at the lowest cost and where to find the best markets. The farmr should be a business man whn it comes to selling and buying. To succeed he should read and learn, and be prepared before the crops mature. Growing sugar beets i3 hard work and knowledge is essential to success, but tett growing has paid wherever it has been tried by experienced growers. Well-cured corn fodder is more fully digested than timothy hay, and is nu- ' trltious and palatable. It Is roastca, however. Lf left in the fields to be exposed to rains, winds and frost3 durir.,; the winter. The greatest aid to success in farming Is cheaper production. Thi3 means that th - crops should be Increased by the use of f rtilizers in order to decrease the co.; of the labor. The larger the rop the lower the 'expense and the greater the profit. , In Albemarle county, Virginia, where 1 apples are a special crop, one grower thinned off nearly three-quarters of the fruit from his trees last year. He got Just as many apples in bushels, as complied with previous years, and also received double the market price, as th" fruit was superior to any ever before,; grown in that section, both in size and quality. j The best yields of wheat are on lands I that have a grass crop in the rotation, j 'especially of Clover. The growing of wheat and corn in succession, with no 1 change from them for a number of years, will lead to exhaustion unless fertilizers ; are applied in sufllcl-:n.t proportion to yrevent loss or fertility. Grass, however, la a crop of itself, and als bene.lts the oil by shading It and by securing nitrogen from the atmosphere. . Uvy wir 1 fetJ material for

They're going? bQth women who fn PiprPQ Th' and tjlc1thi,n?s lu l lciwCo that are washed, in the old-fashioned way. That constant rub, rub, rub, over the washboard does the business. Hard rubbing is hard work. Hard rubbinr

wears out the

the women. There's nothing of the kind, if you'll let Pearline do the washing. All you'll have to do, then, is to look after it. It'll save all this work and rubbing that does so much harm. But,

because Pearline makes washing easy, you needn't be afraid that it isn't safe. That idea is worn out. Just as your clothes will be, unless

you use Pearline. readier nd VTT V" ' this is as ''C VV CL1 FALSE you an imitation, be honest send it beuk. supporting Lima beans s.nd other runrdng vines. A four-inch wire mess, such as may be used for hen yards, answers well for supports. The fall i3 the time to use th scales. Weigh everything that goes into the barn and also that comes out. By so doing you wf.1 always know how much has been consumed and also how much remains on hand. Those who raise late crop3 of onions spread nnnurc in the fall, plow it under with a one-horse plow, and. if the weather permits during the winter, the land is cross-plowed, which incorporates the manure with the soil. The rains and frost pulverize th? manure, and when early spring arrives the plant food is ready for the crop. Th? plot for onions should be made ready now, instead of waiting until the time for plinting the seed or setting; out the sets. Hay miy be profitably grown as a crop for market, but the land should receive an application of fertilizer every year. It is better to feed hay to stock if posslbL but if preferred as a market crop it will pay better than grain. Th- recent rains have started rrass on lawn?. When the lawn-mower is used rake up the short grass and put it away f)i- the use of laying hen?, as they will ae:pt it readily. lie careful when setting out new strawberry beds in the fall to have every fourth row of th staminate variety, or thero will be no fruit at th? proper tim?. Sonr are staminate and pistilate, while others are pi'ti'ate only. The former will produce crop?, but the latter must have staminat? varieties growing near them. Among the varieties of ptvrs the Lawrence hoi. Is a high place. It is not so subject to blight as some varieties, and is late, giving a crop after the bulk of the pears have been marketed. Sow pansy seeds now and when they are up and cold weather begins cover thfiu over. They will come out with early flowers in th? spring. Aftr a pear tree is badly blighted it is useless to attempt to save it, and the soorer the ax is used the less liability of danger to other trees. 1 sefnl Ifouftcholil Hints. Cold meat or fish may be hashed fine and mixed with potato, rice or hominy and a sauce, and made into croquettes. Gravies. saucc3 and soups, no matter how small the quantity, should be saved to use In warming over moat, firh or vegetables. Tough pieces of meat and bones may be used In making little stews or a little soup stock. All kinds of meat can be combined in making a stew or soup. Pieces of bread may be used for puddings and griddle cakes, and in the lorm of dried crumbs for breaking. Pieces of cake and gingerbread may be used in puddings. A few spoonful of almost any kind of meat, fish or vegetable may be .heated in a sauce and spread over a plain omelet just before rolling it up, thus giving a change in this dish of eggs. The odds and ends left over from a meal should not be thrown away. The careful housekeeper can find many ways of turning them into dainty and healthful dishes. Pieces of cold meat or fish may be divided into small pieces and warmed In a white or brown sauce, or the sauce and meat or fish may be put in a small baking dish, covered with grated bread crumbs and then browned in the oven. A mixture which is excellent for removing grease spots and stains from carpets and clothing i3 made of two ounces of ammonia, two ounces of white castile soap, one ounce of glycerine, one ounce of ether. Cut the soap In small pieces and dissolve it in one pinf of water ever the fire, then add two quarts of water. This should then be mixed with more water, in the proportion of a teacupful to one ordinary sized pail of water. The soded articles are then washed thoroughly In this. If grease or oil Is spilled on a carpet, sprinkle flour or fine meal over the spot as soon as poss'ble: let it remain for several hour?, and it will absorb the grease. To remove oil stains from the pages of a book without destroying the printing gently warm the stained part with a hot flat-Iron (so a3 to take out as much of the oil as possible) on blotting paper, then dip a brush In rectified spirits of turpentine and draw it gently over the sides of the paper, which must be kept warm during the whole process. Repeat the operation as many times as the thickness of the paper may require. When the oil i3 completely removed, to restore the paper to Its usual whiteness, dip another brush in highly rectified spirits of wine, and draw it In like manner over the staind place, particularly around the edge3. By adopting this plan the spots will entirely vanish and the paper assume Its ordinary whltenes. Valuable Recipes. , Lemon Snaps Two small lemons, juice of two and grated rind of one, one teacup of sugar, half a cup of butter, one egg, three teaspoonfuls of milk, half a teacupful of soda, one teaspoonful of cream tartar. Mix rather stiff. White Onion Tickles Take white onions and pour boiling salt water over them. Let stand three days and pour off. Scald a gallon of strong vinegar, add ten ounces of turmeric, pour over the onions and let stand ten days. Drain and cover with vinegar seasoned with red pepper, horseradish, celery seed, mustard, cloves and allspice. Plum Butter Plum butter is a pleasant accompaniment to cold meats, and is made as follows: Cook together until soft four quarts of plums, previously scalded In soda water and four quarts of crab-apples with sufficient water to cover them. Press through a colander and allow one quart of sugar to three pints of th pulp. Add a Ublespoonful of cinnamon, a saltspoonful of cloves and half a teacupful of good elder vinegar. Cook until thick and rich, stirring often to prevent Its scorching. Apple Ginger (for dessert) One and a half ounces whole ginger, one-fourth pint brandy, three pounds apples, two pounds sugar, two lemons, slices of preserved ginger. Bruise the whole ginger, put In a small Jar, pour over it the brandy and let stand three days; peel the app!e3. core them and cut In thin Flices, add the sugar and the Juice of the lemons; add the brandy and simmer all Well together till the apples are transparent, whidh will be in about threefourths of an hour. Serve cold and garnish with slices of preserved ginger. Tomatoes aux Champignons Remove the stalks and pips from some tomatoes, wash dry and chop finely fix or eight mus'hrooms, and fry these for ten minutes wKh one and a half ounces of butter, pepper, salt and half a hallet, or some chives minced finely. Now mix in two tablespoonfula of freshly-made white breadcrumbs, and let it all stand at the side of the stove for five or six minutes; then fill up the tomatoes with -this mixture, arlßkl each with a few brown-

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some unscrupulous grocers will tell yon. rood as" or "the same as Pearline ITS sends Pearline is tievcr peddled, if your crocer s 8S5 JAM Co Y L., ,ew 1 ort. breadcrumbs, put a morsel of butter on each, and set them in the oven on a buttered tin for twelve minutes. Peach Jelly Dissolve in sufficient water one ounce of isinglass; strain It; halve one dozen large peaches and pare them; make a sirup of one pound of fruit sugar and half a pint of water. Into this put the peaches and ' kernels; boil gently fifteen minutes, then place the fruit on a plate and cook the sirup ten minutes longer; add to it the juice cf three lemons and the isinjrlass. A pyramid mold is very pretty for this. Fill part full of Jelly, and when set, put In one-quarter of the peaches. Place on ice and ht it harden; add more jelly, harden, etc., until full. Let the base of the moll be Jelly. Apple Island Two pounds apples, eight ounces sugar, four cloves, on? lemon, two glasses of sherry, four egs3, onefourth ounce gelatine, one pint of milk, ten drops essence of. almonds. Peel and core the apples, cut them In slices, put them in a stewpan with the cloves, the juice ( f a lemon and the rir.d, finely minced, and stew a3 for apple sauce; when cooked add four ounces of s-.igar and the .sherry. Put the whites of four eggs onto a plate and beat with a knife to a strong froth, then put them in a basin and beat again; add th3 .cream and g:latir.e dissolved in a little water, beat it up well, take off the froth with a spoon and lay it on an inverted sieve. When sufficient froth is made beat the remainder with the apples till light and frothy; pile the apples high in a glass d:sa, pour a cu?:ard round it made of the yolks of four egg.-. four ounces of sugar, one pint of milk, stirred together over a slow fire till thick enough and flavored with the almond essence; take off the froth and place It on the top of the arplcs. Peach Preserves Select fine cling3lone peaches, or any other variety that will rot easily cook to pieces, pare them carefully and remove the pits. Allow a pound of sugar to a pound of pes dies (or onlv three-quarters of a pound of sugar if self-sealing Jar3 arc" to be used), and half a pint of water for each pound of sugar. Boil the pits in the water till all the pulp is disengaged, adding more water If It evaporates, to maintain the proportion. Remove the pits, add the sugar, clarify, and when the scum ceases to rise adJ the fruit, only a small quantity at a time, and let it cook slowly about ten minutes. Skim the fruit out and put it into a crook, and add another quantity to the sirup, repeating the operation until all is cooked; then pour the boiling sirup over all. Let this etand until the next day, then drain off the sirup, boll it a few moments only, and pour it again over the fruit, repeating the process daily until the fruit looks clear. It will seldom need to be done more than two or three timeJ. The last time, put the preserves into mall jars, and secure them closely by any preferred method. If patent jars are used, the first boiling will usually be al! that it required, and they can be put into the jars and Immedately sealed. By this latter method the natural flavor of the fruit is better retained. Legumes a la, Jardiniere Peel, wash and cut up two pounds of turnips, and put them into a pan with a pinch of salt, and enough cold water to cover them: let this come to a boil, then strain off the water, and put the turnips on in clean, boiling, slightly salter water, and let them cook for fifteen to twenty minutes till they are tender; then strain the turnips from the water, press the moisture out of them and rub them through a wire sieve into a stewpan, stirring into it a tablespoonful of flour, one and a half ounce3 of butter, a pinch of caster sugar and white pepper and half a gill of cream; stir it all together till it boils, then turn it out onto a hot dish, and form it into a border with a well in the center. Fill this up with a macedoine of plainly-boiled vegetables of various kinds, strained and tossed in one ounce of warmed butter, with a pinch of sugar and four large tablespoonfuls of thick soubise sauce, made as follows: Blanch and slice three onion3 and cook them in a half-pint of milk, with one-half ounce Of butter, pepper, salt, a bouquet of herbs and a half-pint of thick bechamel; they will take about three-quarters of an hour; then lift out the bouquet, rub t'he onions, etc., through a tammy or hajr ?Ieve. stir in two tablespoonfuls of cream and use. Green Gage Flan Tart Choose fine ripe green gages, cut them open with a silver knife, and. without dividing them entirely, remove the stones, and boil them in sirup as for a compote, and when doing this be careful not to cook too imxny at once, because If the gages are pressed they will not cook evenly. As the gages become tender, lift them up gently with a skimmer, and boll the sirup quickly for a few minutes; then pour Lt into a basin to get cold. Break a few of the stones, blanch the kernels, and cover them with cold water. Make half a pound of flour into good puff paste in the usual way, give lt six turns and roll it out til It Is a good long piece. Trim the edges quite evenly, and cut a strip an inch wide from the whole length. Slant both ends, so that when brought together they will not overlap. (By making a long strip thus there is only one join in the border of the tart.) Gather the remainder of the pastry together, give it one more turn, and form it into a round nine inches In diameter. Lay this piece of paslry on a greased baking tin, moisten Its top edge all round, and stick the strip evenly on it, pressing the two pastes lightly together. Prick the round of paste with the point of a small knife to prevent the formation of air bubbles during ,the baking; place a round of buttered paper on It, and put some fmall tin molds, or patty pans, on tha paper to keep the rounl in shape. Bake in a moderately heated oven, a:ld when the) crust is nearly done lift away the molds and the paper, and dredge fine sugar over the? crust. Put it back in the oven, and glaze toy holding a red-hot shovel over it for a moment, then takit out and let It get cold. When wanted, arrange the gages in row3 on the shape, put the blanched kernels on the tcp, pour the thickened sirup over the fruit, and serve cold. Green gage tartlets are also delicious. Choose fine and sound, but not overdone, gages, and take out the stones without entirely dividing the fruit; 'et them simmer in sirup for about five minutes to cook them partially, and afterward let them get cold. Make some good short paltry, roll lt out very thinly, stamp it into rounds with a fluted cutter Which lS half an Inch larger in diameter tha.n the tartlet mold; then line the molds with the round3. Drain the gage3, -set tiiem closely together In the mold3, and bake in a well-heated oven. When baked, brush the edge of the pastry with, sirup, and let them dry in the oven for a minute. Boll the sirup In which the gages were cooked 1C1 it la thick. When cold pour a little into each tartlet and serve. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Pbwdcr World' Fair HLzhst Mda) aod Dlplam.

THE TAX COLLECTOR.

DR. TALMAGirS MESSAGE FROM THE AXTH'ODCS. How Znccbpu Wm Converted nnd Made Restitution The Cnmrlrorv Fund of the Treasury Department Transformation of a I'muily The 3Iother' Trayer. BROOKLYN. Sept. 22. The Rev. Dr. Talmage, who Is npw preparing to leave Australia for India on his round-the-world tour, has selected as his subject for today's sermon through the press "The Tax Collector's Conversion." the txt being taken from Luke xlx, 9, "This day i3 salvation come to this house." Zaccheus was a politician and a taxgatherer. He had an honest calling, but the opportunity for "stealings" was so large the temptation was too much fc-r him. Tihe tlble eays he "was a sinner" that 13, in the public sense. How many fine m.?n have been ruined by official position! rt is an awful thing for any man to seek office under government unle his principles of integrity are deeply fixed. Many a man upright in, an insignificant position has made shipwreck in a great one. As far as I can tell, In the city of Jericho this Zaccheus belonged to what might be called the "ring." They had things their own way, successfully avoiding exposure, if by no other way, perhaps by hiring somebody to break in and steal the vouchers. Notwithstanding his bad reputation, there were streaks of good about him, as there are about almost every man. Gold i3 found in quartz, and sometimes in a very small percentage. Jesus was coming to town. The people turned out en masse to see him. Here He comes, the Lord of glory, on foot, dust-covered and road-weary, limping along the way, carrying the griefs and woes of the world. He looks to be sixty years cf age when He Is only about thirty. Zaccheus was a short man and could not see over the people's heads while standing on the ground, so he got up into a sycamore tree that swung its arm clear over the road. Jesus advanced amid the wild excitement of the surging crowd. The most honorable and popular men of the city are looking on and trying to gain His attention. Jesus, instead of regarding them, looks up at the little man in the tree and says: "Zaccheus, come down. I am going home with you." Everybody was disgusted to think that Christ would g) home with so dishonorable a man. Christ nnil tlio Publican. I sec Christ entering the front door of the house of Zaccheus. The king of heaven and earth sits down, and as he looks around on the place and the family he pronounces the benediction of the text, "This day is salvation come to this house." Zaccheus had mounted the sycamore tree out of more inquLsitlveness. He wanted to see how this stranger looked the color of hl3 eyes, the length of his hair, the contour of his features, the hie-ht of his stature. "Come down," said Christ. And so many people in this day get up into the tree of curiosity or speculation to see Christ. They ask a thousand queer questions about His divinity, about God'3 sovereignty and the eternal decrees. They speculate and criticise and hang onto the outside limb of a great sycamore. But they must come down from that If they want to be saved. We cannot be saved as philosophers, bat as little children. You cannot go toieaven by way of Athens, but by way of Bethlehem. Why be perplexed about the way sin came into the world when the great question 1$ how we shall get sin driven out of our hearts. How many spend their time in criticism and religious speculation! They take the rose of Sharon or the lily of the valley, pull out the anther, scatter the corolla and say, "la that the beautiful flower of religion that you are talking about?" Xo flower Is beautiful after you have torn lt all to pieces. The path to heaven is so plain that a fool need not make any mistake about it, and yet rn?n stop and cavil. Suppose that, goInp toward the Pacific slope. I had resolved that I would stop until I could kill all the grizzly beirs and the panthers on either side of the way. I would never have got to the Pacific coast. When I went out to hunt the grizzly bear, the grizzly bear would have come out to hunt me. Here Is a plain road to heaven. Men say they will not take a step on it until they can make game of all the theorio3 that bark and growl at them from the thickets. They forget the fact that, as they go out to hunt the theory, the theory comes out to hunt them, and so they perish. We must receive the kingdom of heaven in simplicity. A Statesman's Example. William Pennington was one of the wisest men of this country a governor of hl3 own state and afterward speaker of the house of representatives. Yet, when God called him to be a Christian, he went in and sat down among some children who were applying for church membership, and he said to his pastor, "Talk to me just as you do to these children, for I know nothing about it." There is no need of bothering our??lves about the mysteries when there are so many things that are plain. Dr. Ludlow, my professor in the theological seminary, taught me a lesson I have never forgotten. While putting a variety of questions to him that were perplexing he turned upon me, somewhat in sternness, but more In love, and said, "Mr. Talmage, you will have to let God know some things that you don't." We tear our hand3 on the spines of the cactus Instead of feasting our eye on its tropical bloom. A great company of people now sit swinging themselves on the sycamore tree of their pride, and I cry to yout "Zaccheus. come down! Come down out of your pride, out of your inquisltiveness, out of your speculation. You cannot ride into the gate of heaven with coach and four, postilion ahead and lackey behind. 'Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.' God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. Zaccheus, come down, come down!" ncstitntion a Necessity. I notice that this tax-gatherer accompanied his surrender to Christ with the restoration of property that did not belong to him. He says, "If I have taken anything by false accusation, I restore fourfold" that is, if I have taxed any man for $10.000 when he had only J5.000 worth of property and put in my own pocket the tax for the last $5,000, I will restore to him fourfold. If I took from him $10, I will give him $40. If I took from him $40, I will give him $160. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been sent to Washington during the past few years a3 "conscience money." I suppose thit money was sent by men who wanted ty be Christians, but found they could not until they made restitution; Th?r3 Is no need of our trying to come to Christ as long as we keep fraudulently a dollar or a farthing in our possession that belong3 to another. Suppose you have not money enough to pay your debts and I'Jf the sake of defrauding your creditors you put your property in your wife's name. You might cry until the diy of judgment for pardon, but you would not get it without first making restitution. In times of prosperity it is right, against a rainy day, to assign property to your wife, but lf, In tim5 of perplexity and for the sake of defrauding your creditors, you make such assignment, you become a culprit before God. and you may as well stop praying until you have made restitution. Or suppose one ' man loans another money on bond or mortgage, with th3 understanding that the mortgage can lie quiet for several years, but as soon a3 the mortgaga is given commences foreclosure the sheriff mounts the auction block, and the property la struck down ut half price, and the mortgagee buy 3 It in. The mortgagee started to get the property at half price and U a thief and a robber. Until he makes . restitution thcrs i3 no msrey for him. You tay: "J can ast. mais. restitution.

The parties whm x swindled an tone." Then I say, "Take the mmey up t the American bible society and consecrat; it to clod." Zaccheus was wise when he disgorged his unrighteous pains, and lt was h;3 first step in the right direction. Christ In the Home. The way being clear. Christ .walked Into the house of Zaccheus. He becomes a different man; his wife a different woman; the children are different. Oh, it mikes a great change in any house when Christ conies into it! How many beautiful homes Aere represented cmang you! There are pictures on the wall, there is music in the drawing room, and luxuries in the wardrobe, and a full supply in the pantry. Even if you were half asleep there is one word with which I could wake you, and thrill you through and through, and that word is "home!" There are also houses of suffering represented in which there are neither pictures nor wordrobe nor adornment only one room, and a plain cot. or a bunk In a corner. Yet it is the place where your loved ones dwell, and your whole nature tingles with satisfaction when you think of it and call lt heme. Thou .eh the world may scon at us and pursue us and all the day we be tossed about at eventide, we sail into the harbor of home. Though there be no rest for us in th? busy world and we go trudging about, bearing burdens that well nigh crush us, there is a refuge, and lt hath an easy thair in which we may sit, and a. lounge where we may lie, and a serenity of peace in which we may repose, and that refuge Is home. The English soldiers, sitting on the walls around Sevastopol, one night heard a company of musicians playing "Home, Sweet Home," and it is säid that the whole army broke out in sobs and walling, so great was their homesickness. God pity the poor, miserable wretch who has no home! The Christian Mother. Now, suppose Christ should come into your house. First the wife and the mother would feel His presence. Religion almost always begins there. It is easier for women to become Christians than for us men. They do not fight so against God. If woman tempted man originally away from holiness, now she tempts him back. She may not make any fuss about It, but somehow everybody in the house knows that there is a change in the wife and mother. She chides the children more gently. Her face sometimes light 3 up with an unearthly glow. She goes int: some unoccupied room for a little while, and the husband goes not after her nor asks her why f'na was there. He knows without asking that she has been praying. The husband notices that her face is brighter than on the day when, years ago. they stood at the marriage altar, and he knows that Jesus has been putting upon her brow a wreath sweeter than the orange blossoms. She puts the children to bed. not satisfied with the formal prayer that they once offered, but she lingers now and tells them of Jesus who blessed little children and of the good place where they all hope to oe at last. And then she kisses them good-night with something that the child feels to be a heavenly benediction a something that shall hold on tc the boy after he has become a man forty or fifty years of age, for there 13 something in a good, loving. Christian mother's kiss that fifty years cannot wipe off the cheek. The Father Overcome. NowVhe husband is distressed and annoyed and almost vexed. If she would only speak to him, he would "blow her up." He does not like to say anything about it, but he knows that she has a hope that he has l.ot and a peace that he has not. He knows that, dying as he now is, he cannot go to the same place. He cannot stand it any longer. Some Sunday night a3 they sit In church side by side the floods of his soul break forth. He wants to pray, but d-es not know how. H? hiäe3 his face, lest some of his worldly friends see him, but God's spirit arouses him, melts him, overwhelms him. And they gD Inme husband and wife in silence, until they pet to their room, when ho cries out, "Oh. pray for me!" And they kneel down. They cannot speak. The words will not come. But God d-e3 nt want any words. He l5ks dswn and answers sob and groan and outgushing tenderness. That night they do not sleep any for talking of all the years wasted and of that Savnr who ceased not ti call. Before morning they htva laid th?ir plans for a new life. Morning cDmes. Father and mother descend from the bedroom. The children do not knjw what is the matter. Thvy never saw father with a bible in his hand before. He says, "Come, children, I want you all to sit d5wn while we read and pray." The children look at each other and are almost disposed to laugh, but they see their parents are in dead earnest. It is a short chapter that the father reads. lie is a good reader at other times, but now he does not get on much. He sees so mich to linger on. His voice tremble?. Everything is so strangely new to him. They kneel that 13, the father and mother do, but the children come d5wn one by one. They do not know that they must. It is some time before they all get down. The sentences are broken. The phrases are a little ungrammatical. The prayer begins abruptly and ends abruptly; but. as far &3 I can understand what they mean, it 13 about this: "Ch, Savior, help us! We do not know how to pray. Teach U3. We can not live any longer in the way we have been living. We start today for heaven. Help us to take the3e children along with us. Forgive us for the past. Strengthen us for all the future. And when the journey is over take us where Jesus is and whfre the little babe is that we lost. Amen!" It ended very abruptly, but the angels came out and leaned so far over to listen they would have fallen off the battlement but for a stroke of their wings, and cried: "Hark, hark! Behold, he prays!" That night there is a rap at the bedroom door. "Who is there?" cries the father. It 13 the oldest child. "What is the matter? Are you sick?" "No; I 'want to be saved." Only a little while, and all three children are brought into the kingdom of God. And there i3 great Joy In the house. Years pass on. The telegraph goes click, click! What is the new3 flying over the country? "Come home. Father 13 dying!" The children all gather. Some come In the last train. Some, too late for the train, take a carriage across the country. They stind around the dying bed of the father. The oldest son upholds the mother, and says: "Don't cry, mother. I will take care of you." The parting blessing is given. No long admonition, for he has, through years, been saying to hl3 children all he had to say to them. It is a plain"goodbye," and the remark. "I know you will all be kind to your mother," and all is over. Life's duty done, as sinks the clay. IJght from its load, the spirit Hies. While heaven and earth cofnb"ne tD say. How bless'd the righteous when he dies. A whole family saved forever! If the deluge come, they are all In the ark father, mother, sons, daughter. Together on earth, together in heaven. What makes it so? Explain it. Zaccheus one day took Jesus home with him. That is all. Salvation came to that house. : What sound Is It I hear tonight? It is Jesus knocking at the door of your house. Behold a stranger at the door! He gently knocks, has knocked before. If you looked out of your window and saw me going up your front steps, you would not wait, but go yourself to open the door. Will you keep Jesus standing on the outside, hi3 locks Vet with the dews of the night? This day is salvation cem; to thy house. The great want of ycur house 13 not a new carpet or costlier pictures or richer furniture it U Jesus! Character of an Inheritance. ' Up to forty years men work for themselves; after that, for their children. Now, what do you propose to leave them. Nothing but dollars? Alas, what an inheritance! It is more likely to be a curse than a blessing. Your own commonsense and observation tell you that money, without the divine ble5s!ng. Is a curse. You must soon leave your children. Your shoulders are not strong as they were, and you know that they will

poon be hard to carry their own burdens. Ycur eyesight Is not bo clear as once. They will soon have to pick out their own way. Your arm Is not so mighty a? once. They will soon have to fight their own battles. Oh. let it not be to'.d on judgment day that you let your family start without the only safeguard the religion of Christ! Give yourself no rest until your children are . the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Your son does just as you do. He tries to wa.'.k like you and talk like you. The daughter imitates the mother. Alas, if father and mother miss heaven, the children will! Oh. let Jesus come into your house! Pi not bolt the hall door, or the parlor door, or the kitchen door, or the bedroom door against Him. Above all. do not bolt your heart. Build your altar tonight. Take the family bible lying on the parlor table. Call together as many of your family as may be awake. Read a chapter, and then. If you can think of nothing else beside the Lord's prayer, say that. That will do. Heaven will have begun In your house. You can put your head on your pillow, feeling that, whether you wake up in this world or the next, all is well. In that great, ponderous book of the Judgment, where are recorded all the important events of the earth, you will read at last the statement that this was the day when salvation came Into your house. Oh. Zaccheus. come down, come down! Jesus is passing by!

HENRIETTA CLOTH. "Will Not Wear Oat and Is Ilamlaome and Stylish. A good quality of henrletta cloth Is by far the most durable, reliable and satisfactory of all materials. There is practically no wear out to it. and it Is always handsome and stylish. With a little trimming of good mohair braid, this makes a dress that has more uses and gives better satisfaction than anything in the market. There is another advantage in this fabric, which is a great point in its favor. It can always be matched, and even though there are but two breadths left these two can be put with new without quarreling. MOURNING COSTUME. In old times it was the custom for a woman to buy a good black silk at stated intervals. When the new one was made, the last one was taken for 6econd best, and whatever remained of older ons made an afternoon dress or something that would combine with or trim goods of another sort, and the same may be done with a henrletta, only on an even more extensive scale. There is nothing in the whole catalogue of fabrics that makes euch an admirable stormy day dress as a high grade filk warp henrletta. The last stage of a good material may be used In this way and lined with some fabric that will not shrink, faced with goods that has seen Ferviee and will pucker in around the foot like a drawstring. Finished with a black silk dust ruffle, this makes a skirt that one may go out in in all weathers and come home with the assurance of not looking like a fright. Cheap goods are worthless for rough weather, and any woman who owns a good henrietta and a fine, close-woven storm serge Is equipped for a battle with the elements, no matter what their fury may be. The sketch shows a mourning gown of black henrletta trimmed with crape. The collar and tight part of the sleeves are of crape, and four crape-covered buttons trim the flgaro Jacket, while lengthwise bands of crape mark the plaits of the skirt. JUDIC CHOLLET. Thousands of new patrons have taken Hood's Sarsapanlla this season and realized its benefit in blood purified and strength restored. HER CQfclMON REPLY: ' I DON'T FEEL TE1IY TTELL." Ton Hear These Words Every Day Spoken Br Women Too KnoiT. CSrECIAL TO OCB I.ADT BEADEBS. It's in their mind all the time. It weighs upon them, it crushes them. They are utterly miserable. 1 Hon t you '. know the rea- , son ? 1 Don't you know that the cause of nearly all your trouble was discovered by a woman twenty years ago? Don't you know that from that day tothis, thousands have been cured of the same lifekilling tortures that now afflict i' i you ? " The words "Women's Complaints " represent misery untold, and have shortened thousands of beautiful lives. Lydia E. riulhanCs Vegetable Compound conies to you with physical salvation; nothing like it ever came into the lives of women. It relieves at once, and cures all the miseries that result from displacement and derangement of the womb. Hear what this woman who once suffered and is now well says. Can proof bo greater ? " All I have to say is, any woman who continues to suffer with any of those trying diseases peculiar to our sex is largely responsible for lier own sufferinfr, for if she Will only rpply to Mrs. rinkham, relief will follow at once. This I know ab solutely from my own personal experience. Her Vegetable Compound is a miracle. I have seen it cure womb troubles when all ,5n the wisest doctors Cm failed. 44 My sisters, don't hesitate. Write at once; relief is waiting for you." Mr.s. Jexxie Stkeet, San Francisco, Cal. Get Lydia E. TinkliAm's Vegetable Compound from your druggist. It will save you. Twenty years of unparalleled success confirms its power. 1

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I.ESSOV XIV. THIRD QfAIlTEn, IXTKRXATIOXALi SEIUE9, SEPT. 30. A roniiirrhriolvr Rfvlfw of thr I.r-m (in of (he Third Quarter Golden Text. Murk I. 1R Commentary by the Itei-, D. M. Stearna. Lo?on I. The Birth of Jesus .(Luke 1!, 1-1C). Golden Text. Luke il. 11. "Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord." The greatest event that ever occurred In this world up to that time the incarnation" of God, the Creator of all thingscame to pass when the fullness of the time had come (Gal. iv, 4). There is an ap;ointed time for every even4, and God in all things is never too soon nor too late. The great things of God are nothV ing to the world lying in the wicked on,: and so the great event is made known not to the mighty ones of earth either in church or s:ate, but to the humble chepherds cn the plains of Bethlehem "(I Cor." 1. 25-29). Lesson II. The Presentation In th Temple (Luke il, 25-3S). Golden Text. Luke ii, 32, "A light to lighten the gentiles and the glery of thy people, Israel." It Is to the Simeons and Annas that th Lord reveals Himself, while lie pas.cby the great and wise of this w..rid. 11h looks to the poor and contrite spirit wiitreirbie at His word, who love and v,ut for His salvation and are sejarate from this present evil world. Not to righteous Lots who live in Sodom, but to the Abrahams who live at Hebron in f ilowship with God. does He reveal Himself and His ways. Lesson III. The Visit of the "Wise Men (Math, ii, 1-121. Golden Text. Math, ii. 11, "They saw the young child witn Mary, His mother, and fell l".vn and worshiped Him." These wise men are another illustration of the unknown 0: earth, but well known in heaven, to whom the Lord reveals His secrets. T.wy were wise in the things eternal. Lsson IV. The Flight Inn lleyyt (Math. ii. 13-23). G:ld.-n T?xt. IV. exxx.!, 8. "Thi Lord shall pr?s?rve thy gr ingout and thy coming In." The three ör.-ann of this l?sson, in which God revealed Iii will to Joseph, along with th? fourth in verse 20, suggest the many dreams of scriptur? in onnectim with J:b six::;, 14-17. Th? command, "13? thMt thre t.ll I bring thee wrd." (verso 13). makes in think of th?1 Wilderness lif?, when every m vement of Israel was direct ed by th. pillar of cloud (Num. lx. i:.-23). The wondrous fulhlling of Hos. xl. 1 (s?e verse 1,") shows how literally and fully we may, expect all prophecy to be fuLllld. L?ss-n V. The Youth of Jesus (Luke ii. 40-.r2). Goldt-n Text. Luke II. 52. "And Jesus Incr?a3?d in wisdom and statun and infavor with God and man." Tho leading thoughts in this lesson seem to be His knowledge of who He was and what Ha came for, even at the age of , twelve years, when He sail, "I must be about' my Father's business." Lesson VI. Th? Baptism of Jesus (Mark i, 1-11). Golden Text, Mark i. 11, "Thou are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." We have here the hT-i aid foretold by Isaiah and Malachl, wh was content to b? heard and not seen, only a voice crying in the wilderness glad to cry, "Behold Xhs Lamb of God," and to see his own followers forsake him to follow Jesus. Then we have th opened heavens and the Spirit descending upon Jesus as a dove and abiding on Him. Lesson VII The Temptation of Jesua (Math, iv, 1-11). Golden text. Heb. iv, 10. "In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." "While absolutely perfect in Himself, yet as our High Friest and Savior He is made perfect through suffering (Heb. ii. 10). I have often been g'.ad that In this conflict with the devil Jesus did not conquer him in any miraculous way, but simply by the use cf tha same sword (Eph. vi, 17) which He has left to us and taught us how to use. Let us cling to it like the man in H Sam xxiii. 10. ; Lesion VIII The First Disciples cf Je Sua (John i, 35-40). Golden texa. John !,' 41. "We have found the Messiah, which is. being interpreted, the Christ." Tha way to make disciple? of Jesus is to point Him out as the Lamb of God who taketh away sin. for He said Himself that when, lifted up lie would draw men unto Illm. Lesson IX The First Miracle of Jesus (John II. 1-11). Golden text. John II. 11, "This' beginning of miracles did Jesus In Cana of Galilee and manifested forth His glory." That the bib'.e should begin with the marriage of Adam and Eve and end with the marriage of the Lamh. the last Adam and Eve. and that Jesus, the Lamb of God. the last Adam, should perform His first miracle at a marriage feast is. to say the least, very interesting. And that He should show forth His glory by turning water Into wine makes us think of His words In Luke xxii. IS. concerning the kingdom. Le.son X Jesus Cleansing the Tempi (John Ii. 13-25). Golden Text, John IL, 16, "Make not my Father's house ahousa of merchandise." I: is man's way, instigated by the devil, to defile holv thlns anl places. Since Adam defiled Eden by his disobedience lt has been the story all the way down. Thank Gol for the New Jerusalem into which no defllement can1 cn;er (lie v. xxi, 27). Lessen XI Jesus and Nicodcmus (John iii. 1-16). Golden Text. John Iii. 16. "Gol so loved the worM that Ife gave Ills only' begatten S:n." Iteadirg the hearts of all men and knowing what was in man. Jesus tells this good moral man. a ruierofi the Jews, that his great need is to bet f-ycrn from above, and that unless he U b rn from above he can ne-ver siee norl enterer;:er the kingdom of God. If we. mis the kingdom of God. we must ba phut out Into the kingdom of darkness, where are weeping and gnashing of teeth., How all important, therefore. Is this birth from above, which I tried to make plain in the notes cn this lesion! ; Lesson XII Jesus at Jacob's Well (John iv. 9-2C). Go'.den Text, John U, 14, "Whosoever drinketh of the water' that I shall give him shall never thirst."' The seeking Savior, the Good Shepherd, finds this lost one by th1 well and tells her of a well which she might have within her and ever carry with her. From the water with which she was familiar He leads her to the water of which she knew not by. convincing her of sin and then revealing Himself to her, after which she became a bearer of thl living water to others. Lesson XIII Christ's IVaceful Reign (Isa. xl ,1-9). Golden Text. La. xl, 9.' "The earth shail be full of the knowledge of the Lord." The time will trureljr c.:ne when the long rejected Jesus who, was brf'Jh in Bethlehem, lived at Xaza-! reth, was crucified 011 Cavalry and roes . from the dead will come again to the air for His people and after the great, tribulation to the earth with His saints to tit on David's throne in Jerusalemand execute Justice and Judgment in all the ear:h. The AVeat and the Soatb. The West may look with equanimity and encouragement upon all efforts to build up the South in wealth, population and consuming power. If the South were a great producer of corn and wheat and live stock and its people were industrial rivals with the West this might not be the case. But as lt is with the South the great customer of this section, the buyer of our surplus grains and provisions, every industry started within its borders Is a direct benefit to the farmer of the West. Sioux City Tribune. Fnrmem nI the Xew Tariff. The first and greatest benefit tht farmer will reap will be cheaper clothing and carpets, due to the untaxing rt raw wool. To this may be added cheaper lumber. The new free list will heir him In many other ways. The cost of blndipg twine wi.i be reduced. Burlaps and bags for grain go upon the free list, and so does hoop and band iron. Bochester Herald.