Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 June 1889 — Page 4

There In ■ Well l« Krrrr Desert end ('brut Stand* nt 1U Itrlnb. that AU Who Will May H—A Kew Ail relory. Dr. Talmage, In a recent sermon in tbe Brooklyn Taberuac e, talked to backsliders. or “People Who Have Least Their Way.” Ilia text wat: And Ood opened her nye* and the »aw a well at wairr: and »be went, and Ulled the bottle with water, >ad rare the lad drink.—Gen., lit.. IS. Morning breaks upon Beer-sheba. There is an early *tii* in the house of old Abraham. There has been trouble among the domestics llagar, an assistant in the household,jtnd lq* son, a brisk • lad of sixteen yeart^mave Scorae impudent ond insolent, and Sarah, tlio mis»Irese of the household, puts her foot down very hard and says that they will •have to leave the premises. They are packing up now. Abraham, knowing that Ihe journey beforo his servant and her ton will be very long'and across desolate places, in the kindness of bis heart sets about putting up some brend and a bottle with water iu it. It is a very plain lunch ■ that Abraham provides, but 1 warraut you there would have been enough of it bad they not lpst their way. “Ood be with you said old Abraham, as he gave tbe lunch to Hagar, and n good mauy charges as to . how she should conduct the journey, Ishmael, the boy. 1 suppose bounded away in the morning light. Boys always like a change. Poor Ishmael! He has n« idea of tbe disasters that are ahead of him. Hagar gives one long, lingering look on Ihe familiar place where she had spent »o many hjppy days, each scene associated with the pride and joy of her heart—young Ishmael. The scorchiug noon comes on. The air is stifling and moves across the desert with iusujferable suffocation. 1-hmael, the boy, begins to complain, and lies dowu,' but Hagar rouses him up, saying nothing ab-ut her own wearing* or the swelteriug heat; for mothers ran endure any thing. Trudge, trudge, trudge. Crossing tl»e dead level sf the desert, how wearilv and slowly the miles slip. A tamarind that seemed hours ago to stand only just a little thead, inviting the travelers to come jnder it* shadow, now is as far off as »ver, or seemingly so." Night drops npAn the desert, and the travelers au^^^owless. Ishmael, veryweary, I 'nit)V tails asleep. Hsgar, as the" shadows of Ihe night begiu • • lap over each other— linger, hugs her weary boy to her bosom aud thinks of the ’act that it is her fuult that they arejn. :he desert. A stur looks out, aud 'every 'ailing tear It kisses with a sparkle. A wing of wind comes over the hot earth sad lifts the. locks from'the fevered brow >t the boy. Hagar sleeps fitfully, aud in her dreaut's travels over the weary day, xhd half awakes her son by crying out in ’ler sleep: “Ishmaell Ishmael!” And to they go on day after day and night sfter night, for they have lost their way. No pa^h in the shift lug sands, no sign iu the burning sky. 'The sack empty of the (lottt.'lhe water gone from the bottle. What shall she dof As she puts her 'alniing lrhmael under a stputed shrub »f the arid plain she setts the bloodshot *ye, end feels the hot baud, and watches the blood bursting from the cracked longue, and there is a shriek iu the desert if Beer-Rheba: “We shall die! We thelVdie

Now, no mother *i n* ever made strong snnugft to hear her son cry in vain for a irink. Heretofore she hail cheered her '• boj by promising a speedy end of the tourney—oven smiled upon him when he felt desperately enough. . Now there is nothing to do htii plrnce him under the shrub and let hint die. (the; had .tnouglit that she would sit there and watch until the spirit of her boy wmild go away forever. and then she n»WI breathe out her ,t>wn life on the .silent heart; hut as the Vioy begins to claw his tongue in agony of tbir-t, and struggle in distortion, and beg his mother to slay him. she ran not en- “ lure the spectacle. She puts him under a shrub and goes off n bow shot, and be- *; gins to weep nutii all the de-ert seems sobbing, and her cry strides clear through the heavens; and au angel of ftod comes out on a cloud and looks 'down upon the appalling grief, and cries: I •Hagar,' what aileth Ihee*” j Bhi' looks 1 op, and she sees the angel pointing to a well of water, where she fills a bottle for I the lad. Thank tlod! Thank God! I learu from this Uriental scene, la the I first place, what a sad thing it is when people do not know their place, and get too proud for their business. Hagar w as an assistant in that household, but she wanted to rule there. She ridiculed and peered until her son, Isbmael, go; the same trick*.. She dashed out her own happiness and threw Sarah-into a great fret; and if she had stayed much longer la that household she would have upset ralm Abraham’s equilibrium. My friends, ohe-half of the trouble in the world to-day comes from the /act that { people do not kuow their place, or., find- j lug their place, will not stay in It. When we come iuto the world, there is always n place ready for us. A place for Abraham I A place for Sarah. A place for Hagar. | A place for !shiuaeJ._A place for , you and a place for me. J Our first duty Is to find our sphere; our second is to keep it. We may be born in a sphere far off from the one for which God finally intends us. Sextus V. wabora bu the ground and was a swineherd; God called him up to wave a scepter. Ferguson spent his early days iu looking after the sheep; God called him up to look after stars, and be a shepherd watching the flocks of light on the hill- | sides of Heaven. Hogarth began by en- I graving pew ter pots; G«h1 raised him to stand in the euehanted reaim of a painter. The shoemaker’s bench held Bloomfield for a little while; but Ood called him to sit in the chair of a philosopher aud Christian scholar. The soap boiler of London could not keep his son in that business, for God had decided that llawley was to be one of tbe greatest astronomers of England. On the other hand, we may'be born in a sphere a little higher than that for which God intends us. , | We may be born iu a castle, and play in a costly conservatory, and feed high-bred pointers, and angle for gold fish in artificial ponds, and be familiar with Princes; g, got God way hare fitted us for a carpen- - ter1* shop, or dentist’s forceps or a weaver's shuttle, or a blacksmith’s forge. Hie great thing is to find just the sphere for which God intended us. and then to . occupy that sphere aud occupy it forever. Here is a man God fashioned to make a plow. There Is a man God fashioned to gaake a constitution. The man who makes t the plow is just as honorable as the than who makes the constitution, provided he makes the plow as well as the other man makes the constitution. There is a woman who was made to fashion a robe, and yonder is one intended to be a yi^eu and wear It. It seems to me that in tbe one case as ia the other, God appoints the sphere, and the-needle is just a* respectable in His sight as the acepter. 1 do not know bat that the world would loug ago have been saved if some of the men out of the ministry were in it, aud some of those who are in it were out of it. 1 really think that one-half of tbe world may bo divided into two-quarters —those who have not found their sphere, and those who. having found it. are not willing to stay there. How many are struggling for a position a little higher than that for- wnich God intended them. Tbs bondswoman wants to be mistress. ■'* Hagar keep* crowding Sarah. The small , .wheel of a watch, which beautifully went treading Its golden pathway, wants to be the balance wheel, and the sparrow, with shngvin. drops iato the brook, because it can not. tike the eagle, rat n circle nnder the son. In tbs Lord’s army wo all want to be Brigadier-Generals. The sloop sags; “More mast; more tonnage; more canvas. U that 1 wore a topsail schooner, ar n fall-rigged brig, or a Canard steamer." And so the world is with cries of discontent, Decease not willing to stay in the place odput us and Intended us to be. to* not fc» pmd to

of * right deposition ia world i* strewn with •ad Ishmaela. God ha* given of a* a work to do. Yob carry a scuttle dt coal up that dark alley. You distribute that Christian, traot. Yon fire ten thousand dollars to the missionary cause. You, for fifteen years, sit with chronic rheumatism, displaying the beauty of Christian submission. Whatever God calls you to, whether it win hissing or huzxa; whether to walk under triumphal arch,or lift the sot out of the ditch; whether It be to preach on a Pentecost, or to \ell some wanderer of the street of the mercy of the Christ of M^ry Magdalcue; whether it be to weave a garland for a laughing child on a spring morning, and call her a May queen, or to comb out the tanglod locks of a waif of the street anti cut up oup of your old dresses to fit her out for the'sanctuary—do it. and do it right away. Whether it be a crown or a yoke, do not fidget. Everlasting honors upon those who do their work, and do their whole work, and are contented in the sphere in which Uod has put them; while there is only waadering, and exile, and desolation, and wilderness fof discontented linear and Ishmael. Again, I fiud in this Oriental scene a lesson of sympathy with woman when she goes forth trudging in the desert. What a great change it was for this Uagar. There was the tent and all the surroundings of Abraham's liouse, beautiful ami luxurious, no doubt. Sow she is going out into the hot sands of the desert. O, what a change it was! And iu opr day we often see the wheel of fortune turn. Here is some one who lived in the very bright home of her father. j>She had every thing possible to administer to her happiness. Plenty at the table. Music in the drawing-room. Welcome at the door. She is led forth Into life by some one who can not appreciate her. A dissipated soul comes and takes he%out iu the desert. Iniquities blot out all the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spirits. The high hope that shown out over the marriage altar while the ring was being set aud the vows given and the benediction pronounced, have all faded with the orange blossoms, and there she is to-day, broken-hearted, thinking of past Joy and present desolation aud comiug anguish. Hagar in the wilderness 1 Here is a beautiful home. Y on can not think .of anything that can be added to it. For years there has nof been the suggestion <>f a single trouble. Bright aud happy children fill the house with laughter ani song. Books to read. Pictures to look at. Louuges to rest on. Cup (>f domestic joy full and running over. Dark night drops. Pillow hot. Pulses flutter. Eyes close. And the foot whose well-known step ou the door-Sill brought the whole household out at eventide crying, “father’s coining!” will never sound on the door-sill again. A long, deep grief plowed through all that lightness of domestic life. Paradise lost! Widowhood! Hagar in the wilderness! How often it is we see ttie weak arm of woman conscripted for this bailie with the rough world. Who is she, going down the street in the.carly light of the tuoruiug. pale with exhausting work, not half slept out with the slumbers of last night, tragedies of snllering written all over her face, her lusterless eyes looking far ahead as though for the coming of some other trouble? l^r parents called her Mary, or llertha. >^Pgces on the day when they held her up to the loot, and the Christian minister sprinkled on the infaut’s face the washings of a holy baptism. Her name i> rhnuged now. I hear it iu tint shuffle of the worn-out shoes. 1 see St in •he figure of thefaded calico. 1 find it iu the lineaments pf tho woe-begone countenance. Not Mary, nor Bertha, nor Agues, bnt Hagar in the wilderness. May (Io,l have mercy ui«>a woman in her toils, her struggles, her hxrdihipsjjier desolation, and may the great heart of Divine sympathy inclose her forover. Again: 1 find in this Oriental scene the fact that every mother leads forth tremendous destinies. You say: “That isn’t au unusual scene, a mother leading her child by the hand.” Who Is it that she 1* leading? Ishmael, you say. Who is Ishmael? A great nation is to be founded; a nation so strong that it is to stand for thousands of years against all the armies of the world. Egypt aud Assyria thundered against it; but ia vain. Oaulus brings up bis army; and his army is smitten. Alexander decides ujHin a campaign, brings up his hosts, and dies. For a long while that nation monopolises the learning of the world. It is the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilderness. Hhe had no idea that she was lending forth such destinies^ Neither does any mother. You pass along the street and see boys and girls who will yet make the earth quake with their influence. Who is that boy at Sutton Pool, Plymouth, England, barefooted, wading down into slush and slime, until bis bare foot comes upon a piece of glass aud he lifts it, bleeding and pain struck? That wound ia the foot decides that he be sedentary iu bis life, llerides that he be a stuHenk That wound by the glass in the food derides that he shall he John Kitto, who shall provide the best religious encyclopedia the world has ever had provided, aud, with his other writings ns well, throwing a light upon the Word of Ood sueh as Bos come from no other man in this century. O mother, mother, that little hand that wanders over your face may yet l>e lifted to harl thunderbolts of war or drop benedictions. That little voice may blaspheme Uod in the grog shop or cry “Forward!” to the Lord’s hosts as they go out for their lad victory.

Mr mlml to-day Imps thirty year* *h'‘ail. ami 1 -e - a merchant prince of New York. Oac stroke of his pen bring* a ship out of Canton. Another stroke of his pen bring* a ship into Madras. He is mi;htyinall the money markets of the world. Who is he? He sits to.day beside you in the tabernacle. My miud leapt thirty year* forward from this litue, and I find myself in a relief association. A great multitude of Christiau wonieu hare met together for a generous purpose. There is one womau In that crowd who seems to hare the conQdence of all the others, and they all look up to her counsel and for her prayers. Who is she! To-dsy you will Hud her in the Sabbath-school, while the teacher to*;* her of that Christ who clothed the naked and fed the hungry and healed the sick. My mind leaps forward thirty years now, and 1 find myself in au African jungle; and there is a missionary of the cross addressing the natives, and their dusky countenances are irradiated *ith the glad tidings of great joy and salvation. Who Is he! Did you not hear his voice to-day in the first song of the service! My minih leaps forward thirty years from now, and 1 find myself looking tbfough the wickets of a prison. 1 see a face scarred with every crime. HU chin on his open palm, his elbow' oa hU knee—a picture of despair. As 1 open the wicket he starts, and I bear hit chaia clank. The jail-keeper tells me that he has been in there now three times. First for theft, then for arson, now for murder. He steps upon the trap-door, the rope is fastened to his neck, the plank falls, his body swings into the air, his soul swings into eternity. Who is he, and where is he? To-day playing kite oa the city commons. Mother, yon are to-day hoisting a throne or forgnut a chain-yon are kindling a st ar or digging a dungeon. , A good many years ago a Christian mother sat teaching lessons of religion to her child, and he drank la those lessons. She never knew that^Lamphier would come forth sad establish the Fulton street prayer meeting, and by one meeting revolutionise the devotions of the whole earth and thrill the eternities w ith his Christian iafinencc. Lamphier said it was his mother who brought him to Jesus Christ. She never had an idea that she was leading forth such destines. But, oh. when 1 see a mother reckless of her influence, rattling on toward destruction, garlanded for the sacrifice with unseemly mirth and godleesaesn, gayly tripping on down to rain, taking her children In the same direction, 1 can not help bat say: "there they go, there they go— Hager aadlshmaet!" I toll you there are wilder deeerts than Beer-thebe in many of the domestic circles of this day. DU- ■ fnaltd Birtiti Imllny diMinitd ohil«

children. They go through every street, up awry dark alley, into every cellar, along every highway. Hajrar and lahinaal! and while 1 pronounce their names. It aeema Ilka the moaning of the death wind—Bagur and Ishmael! I learn one more lesson from this oriental scene, and that la that every wilderness haa a well In it Hagar and lahmaal gave up to die. Hagar’a heart sank within her as she heard her child crying: “Water 1 water! water!” “Ah,” she says, “my darling, there is no water. This ts a desert” And then God's angel said fi*om the clond: “What alleth thee. Hag nr? And she looked up and saw him point: ng to a well of water, where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed he God that there is ia every wilderness s well. If you only know hob' to fiud it—fountains for all these thirsty sonls to-day. “On that last day, on that great day of the feast. Jesus stood and cried: “If any man thirst, let him eome to me and drink.” AH these other fount.sins yonjlnd are mere mirages ot the desert. ’’Paracelsus, you know, spent his time in trying to find out the elixir of lHa —s liquid which, if taken, would keep one perpetually young ia this world, and would change the aged back again to yonth. Of coarse, he was disappointed; be found not the elixir. Bat here I tell you to-day of the elixir of everlasting life barsting from the “Bock of Ages,” and that drinking that water you shall never get old, and you will never be sick, and you will never die. “Ho. every one that thirsteth, coins ye to the waters. ” Ah. here is a mair who says: “1 have been looking for .that fountain a great while, but can’t find it.” And here is some one else who says: “I believe all you say, hut I have been trudging along in the wilderness. and can’t find the fountain.” Do you know the reason? 1 will tell yon. You neter looked in the right direction. “O,” you say, 1 have looked everywhere. I have looked north, south, east and west, and 1 haven’t found the fountain.” Why, you are not looking in the right direction at all. Look up. where Hagar Ipoked. She never would have found the fountain at all, but when she heard the voice of the angel she looked up, and ehe saw the finger pointing to the supply. Aud (I, soul, if to-day. with one earnest, intense prayer, you would only look up to Christ, He would point you down to the supply in the wilderness. “Look unto me all ye ends of the earth and be ye saved, for I am God, and there is hone else.” Look! look! as Hagar looked. J Yes, there is a well for every desert of bereavement. Looking over tbe audience to-day 1 notice signs of mourning. Have, you found consolation? O. man bereft! 0,"woman bereft? have you found consolation? llcarse after hears*. We step from one grave hillock to another grave hillock. We follow coroses, ourselves soon be tike them. The world is in mourning for its dead. Every heart has become the sepulcher of some buried joy. But sing ye to Gisl, every wilderness has a well in ft; aud 1 come to that well to-day, aud 1 begin to draw water from that well. If you have lived in the country, you have sometimes takeu hold of the rope of the old well sweep and you know h^ the bucket came up dripping with bright cool water. And I lay hold of the rope of God’s mercy to-day, aud 1 begin tjg p.*u! I bedraw on that Gospel well sweep, gin to see the buckets coming op. Thirsty souls here is one bucket of life! com* and drink of it: “Whosoever wilt, let him come aud take of the water of life freely." 1 pull away again at the rope, and another bucket comes up. It is this' promise: “Weeping may endure f»r a night, hut • joy Cometh in the morning.” 1 lay hold of the rope again, aud 1 pnll away with all my strength, and ihe bucket comes up bright, and beautiful, aud cool. Here is the promise: “Come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest.” The old astrologers used to cheat the people with the idea that they could tell from the position of the stars what would occur in the future, and if a cluster of stars stood in one relation, that would Wa prophesy of evil; if a cluster of stars stood iu another relation, that would Wn prophesy of , good. What superstition! But here is a new astrology in which I put all my faith. By looking up to the star of Jacob, the morning star of the Redeemer, 1 can make tnis prophesy in regard to those who put their trust iu Uod: “All things work together for good to those who love God.” l read it out on Ihe sky. 1 read It out in the Bible. 1 read It oat in ail thiags. “All things work together for good to those who love God.” Do yon love Him? Have you seen the Nvetaothes? It is a beautiful flower, but it gives very little fragrance until after sun«et. Then it pours it* riskiness on th« air. And this grace of the Gospel that 1 commend to you this day, wliileit may be very sweet during the day of prosperity, it pours forth its richest aroma after snnduwn, aud it will be sundown with you and me after awhile. When yon come to go out of this world, will it be a desert march or will It be a fouutaia for your sool? A Christian Hindoo was dying, and his heathen comrades came around him and tried to comfort him by reading some of the pages ot their theology, bat he waved hU hand as much as to say: “I don’t want to hear it” Then they called in a heathen priest and he said: “If yon will onty recite the Numtra it will deliver you.” He waved his hand as much as to say: “1 don’t want to hear that” Then they said: •■Call on Juggernaut” He shook his head as much as to say: “1 can’t do that." Then they though perhaps he was too weary to speak, and they said: "Now, if you can’t say ‘Juggernaut’ think of that God." He shook his head again, as mnah as to say: “No, no, no.” They then bent down to his pillow, and they said: “In what will you true!?” His face lighted op with the very glories of the celestial sphere as he cried out rallying all his dying euergies, “Jesus.” O come to-day to the fountain—the fountain open for sin and nncieanness. 1 will tell you the whole story ia two or three sentences. Pardon for all sin. Comfort for all trouble. Light for alt darkness. And every wilderness has a well in it

BABY'S AFFLICTION. A nud Nearly ttiliei by Uu Smoke from Her rilktr1! C1(»n. “Whan they an talking ao much about the enla of tobacco and the perils of cigar. - etna Hooking," said a pretty young mother to me the other day. “they better put in something about the Injury dona to those who don't smoke by those who da” "What do you mean?” 1 asked “I mean that mT,Uttle girl has been neat ly killed by her lather's smoking. You see when I married, I determined to be eery liberal and advanced, and to do what t could to make home as attractive to Tom a« his dub. Mother would never allow amok, lag in her house except in the smokingroom, but I made sage reflections upon the tactlessness of women in managing men and determined that Tom should enjoy me and Me cigar together whenever he pleased. When my daughter LUUaa ttrst began to be brought out of the nursery she was as round and rosy a baby as aver yon saw, but wa bad not been having her with us much an vra sat together until she began to grow listless and pale and lose her appetite I culled In our doctor, but nothing did her any good; she seemed to be just dwindling away, and she continued to dwindle until hsr father was called away on business for a month. "Then it picked op and was quite bright again by the time ha came home That happened several times, until 1 said io myself one daj as the was frolicking with me: 'Her father never saw her like this.' Then it suddenly flashed on me that there was something queer shoot this The upshot was that we found out beyond a perailventure that it was living in her father's tobacco vmoke that was killing the child 1 don’t feel an much wtsar than my mother now as I need Vo. and smoking at our house is wraln practiced'on ancestral prlncipleel a, the smoking-room above. " X. I Tn youth who always does Us best, and even in the smallest duties, will grow into turn of faithfo nous and sMMsucy. into far as ha come* short of that wUl he f^U os NWH "VWH natujrWfWA.

flHmt and germicide, and it is said (Hat one part in, a hundred thousand of water kills roa*3hee. / —Soap-suds nre better than water for washing purposes, because the soap forms a chemical combination with the greasy matter* present, and renders them soluble In water. Without this help, the wager could not dissolve them. ft • —Soda should always be dissolved in a cold liquid.—preferably water—because dissolving it in hot water causes an effervescence, and the immediate liberation of the carbonic acid gas. Dissolving in cold water preserves all of its “lightening" power. —Prink for an invalid: Beat well the yelk of one egg. plaice it in a glass, add white sugar and lemon or vanilla to tajte: fill up the^lass with milk. Take t&e white of an' egg and beat to a stiff froth and add sugar and Savoring. Place on the top of the glass. —To wash draperies or curtains of art muslin successfully lay them in cold water to soak out the worst of the dirt; then wash in- tepid water with good soap, but no soda; rinse through cold water with a little salt if the colors aim not perfectly fast, and dry quickly; fold before they are quite dry and iron lightly with a not too hot iron. —The credit system too often promotes extravagance. When a woman* is allowed to run up an account wherever she deals she is very apt to bo far more ex to-avagnnt than she would un-j der a system of cash payments. It D j so easy to buy unnecessary thiugs when all one has to do is to hare them charged Ho the husband's or father s account, *>nly, unfortunately, a day of reckoning must come. Keep house on ! a cash basks—that is a brief but most excellent rule for the domestic finances. —Rural N sw Yorker. —Manufacturers of kerosene oil say that all lamps are safe with good oil, and that the quality of oil can bo ascertained by the following test: Take a pint tin cup. dll it nearly full of water warmed so that an ordinary thermometer immersed in it will show one hundred and twenty degrees, pour a small quantity of oil on the water, stir it n little, then pass a lighted match over I the surface of the oil once. If it ignites the oil is unsafe. - If purchases be made of from three to five gallons at a time, and this tost be made, people can protoot thornstlves.— Housewife, "W • — POTATO CULTURE. Thf N*c«Mit]r of Keeping the Tubers Free From Weeds and Grass. Potatoes will not do well on very poor land. They want a rich light soil. If the soil is not so by nature it must bo made so by cultivation. With potatoes, as with other crops, the weeds and grass must be kept out to get the best results. Some fail in securing satisfactory results by completing their work too soon. They will have them cleaned out and hilled up nicely and then leave them to work in their corn before the tops got large enough to receive the final hoeing, and in consequence they are Injured by tho grass and woods, which, in case of a dry spell take the moisture and- tho potato is a failure. Cultivate tiie potato as long as it will do, and not disturb the young tubers. Usually the tops fnlltfi^n by this time. At planting cut the potatoes to one or two eyes, commencing at tho root eud and cut downwards. 1 prefer largo potatoes and then cut to one eye. I suppose there is very little difference as to the yield, whether you plant in hills or, drills, but good cultivation is very essential. As to food properties the potato stands far below the grains. It is estimated that 100 parts of flour contain as much actual nutriment as 613 parts of potato. The potato contains from 70 to 80 per eent. of water. 13 to 20 of starch, 3 to 7 of fiber, (or woody matter) 3 to 4 of gum. dextrine or sugar, and 2 of albumen, gluten and casein. There is quite a difference in different varieties, and in different seasons. 1 need not say any thing about tho quantity that can bo raised from au acre, but one man said that on the same extent of land that it would take to raise 30 pounds of wheat you could raise 1,000 pounds of potatoes. This. I think, would not hold good for this country. It would bo 88 H times as i much, or 1,000 bushels to the acre. 1 , should think 230 to 300 bushels per acre 1 would be a good yield. If they yield 6 i times as much they are a profitable crop to raise to feed stock. Cattle need something of the kind in winter, and I think there should be more raised for this purpose. The potato is quite j liable to dry rot wet rot and scab, ; There is a good deal of discussion about the different causes of these different diseases. The seasons and weather, J think, have a good deal to do with the rot, but long planting of the same kind f in the same soil without change of seed will cause it to run out and therefore j ; become more susceptible to disease. I Tho practice of changing seed and 1 I planting in different soils should be i kept up for the health of the potato. 1 The scab is said by some to be caused i by too high manuring; some say the i potato beetle; and others fish worms ; and some the blight I should be inclined to attribute it to manures net well rotted. If what I.have said about planting, tilling and disease of the potato does not meet with your minds, let us investigate the subject and find out if possible what will give us the be.rf potato, which stands among the first | necessities of the table,— H. E. Wood- ! ford, in Ohio Farmer.

j wriwmg water rrom ime niie. Nov. I wil try to explain the proems j | ef drawing water from the Nila Fin»t * ' there are from two to six peasants lo- j j rated on the hank of the river, their ■ • number depending on the height of the * bank. The first man raises the water in a bucket from ten to fifteen feet and empties it into a ditch previously cut and the water runs usually twenty feet to the end. where there is a depression or artificial well large enough to aocommodate the leather bucket of the man above, who also raises, the wator in the same way ssSal In the cane of No. a the ditch may run along the side of the honk some distance to the well-hole of No. 8. who raises as previously represented to the fourth, and so on to the top of the bank, where it it conducted in small ditches over a largo tract of country. They have this to console them: That if they give the land water it will repay in an abundant harvest of from eighteen to twenty-fivo bushels of grain to the acre. I waf permitted to see the crops, so uniform in growth and color that not a yellow spot could be found in fifty acres of wheat, barley, millet, or white clover, which grows to the height of two or oven i thraa feet—Con Buffalo 1

from linen rub the ttliow tin! throw Soft In new pens rosy preserve the “green’1 thereof, butit is death and ruination tor the looked-for flavor. A 6-xa> test of n professing 1 first-class oookV» lability is to request the uunediate menu fae turn of an egg omelet. STetitnxnxT Savcb.—Beat hal t » enpot butteir «nd one cup of sugar to a cream; add tho well-beaten white of one egg and a large cupful of ripe strawberries thoroughly crushed. Ami PcDDtsa.~Two cups of cracker crumbs, six apples stewed and sweetened, t wo e pgs> a small piece of butter uid a little grated nutmeg; mix all together and bake one-halt hour. A low, broad shoo heel is best for children.’s wear, in the opinion of tto Shoe and Leather Reporter. “Spring heels flatten and lengthen the foot, and mothers are •wakening to that fact.’* > lr it is necessary to take charcoal medicinally, 4 good way is to put. it to n widenccked bottle, pour in an inch of water, cork it j»nd giro it a good shake. A few moments wiii suffice to mix the charcoal and water thoroughly. Wats a patient is suffering from fever and thb skin is hot and dry, a saloratus bath is often found to giro nt least temporary relief. This bath can be given to the patient to tho bed, without removing the bedclothes, or his own clothing. Babies cry for water and arc crammed to l-epictiou with milk instead, and cry the more, for which they get paregoric, naunecas oil, etc. They need water as much ns older people, both physiologically and feelingly, »nd should bo regularly supplied with all they wUl drink. To rttEPAKs Umo water for use in rniik put a lump about tlio size of an egg in a glass bottle (a fruit jar is convenient); add water (until the lime is slacked nnd of the consistency of cream. Tho lime settles to the bottom, leaving tho water clear. Three or four teaspoonfuls of this may bo added to a goblet of milk. SvnytEK mince tie—One cupful of chopped raising, one cupful of rolled crackers, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of brown sugar«ouo-half of n cupful of vitiegar, onehalf of a tcaspoonfut of cinnamon, onc-half of a teaspoonful each of allspice and cloves, or,e-half of a nutmeg, one-four, h of a cupful of melted butter. Boko in two crusts. One of the most satisfactory wax finishes for wtiod is made by boiling n quarter of n pound! of while wax with one ounce of pearl ash abd one quart of water. It is to bo stirrefl while boiling, the stirring being afterward continued until cold. The composition is to be applied with a paint brush, after Which the surface is rubbed until dry with Velvet plush. Fo« sand tarts use two cups of sugar, one eupof butter, three eggs (leaving out tho white of one to glaze tho tarts with), three cups of flour and a little baking powder. Work the butter, sugar, yolks of eggs, two whites and tho flour alll together. Roll out thin spread on tho white of egg beaten to a /roth. Sprinkle over this ground cinnamon and granulated sugar. Cut in squares with a knife aril bako in a moderate oven. The easiest and best way to wash carpets is to sweep and pound out nil the dust possible! then sew a strong loop to each corner, stretch out on the grass and hold to place with pegs driven into the ground, nnd clean with[a broom same as floor; (first sweep with cleau water on both sides, then scrub with warm soapsuds on both sides tiU all 1 he dirt is out; then go over it with clear -water till thoroughly rinsed, nnd stretch on n clean spot and leave till dry. it dries much quicker than on a line, nnd no dancer of being streaked. If cleaned right after breakfast on a clear day it will be dry by night._ IN ROYAL CIRCLES. Toe Duchess of Cambridge used to pay Signor Tosti fifteen hundred dollars a year to entertain her with music an hour every dfiyi , Toe Queen of England seldom drinks more than one small glass of wine at dinner, and afterward takes a tew drops of got*} Scotch whisky. TRe Czar and Czarina are setting all Russia jan example in modest housekeeping. There aro only 6St) gentlemen in service, v.*iU)i 900 ladies of rank. Aleaandeu III.,of Russia, is anything but n soldier Emperor and very littlo in sympathy with the army, especially thj younger generation of officers. Wz value everything in this world by comparison. Water and air have no intrinsic value, and yet Jay Gould. if famishing in the desert, would give all hi* wealth for • pint of tho former, and think it cArop; hence, life and health are tho standard of all values. If your system is full of Malaria you will be very miserable; a few- doses of Shailenberger's Antidote wilt make vou well and happy. Is one dollar a high pries* to pay I BZTTEtt to die at the post of duty than to live else where. Those who wi«h to practice economy should buy Carter's Little Liver Piilv Forty pills tn a vial; only oue pill a dose. EN'ot.isn fakirs paint sparrows yellow and tell them for canaries. THE MARKETS. New Youk, June IT, i860. CAtTlJi-SiUte Steers.I 4 00 • 4 *6 COTTON—Middling. a It* t'LOl’K-Winter Wheat. 3 « « 5 T3 WHSEAY-No, 3 Red. « lit *5 COHN—No. *. It HR «*i O ATS-Western Mixed. VS u *> PORK—Mess mewl. 13 » u 13 30 ST LOUIS. COTTON—Middling .. 10*0 10* BEEVES—Export Steen. 4 1» U 4 35 Shipping ** . tto it 4 35 HOfiS—Common to Select_ 4 00 t» ,4 SSH ’.El’—Fair to Choice. i 00 (t 4 to UR—Patents. 4 *>'0 4 SS XXX to Choice. * 50 it 3 35 WHEAT—No. 3 Rtd Winter... l>> it M CORN—So. 8 M zed. SVH » «l» OATS—No. 3.atilt S3 RYE-No,*. 40 9 4U-, TORACCO—Lugs iMisSourt).. 1 to 9 3 so Leaf. Barley. 5 30 R ? 80 HAY-Choice Timothy. 10 «• <113 50 BUTTER—Choice Dairy.. 10 a 13 EGGS- Fresh.,. ttftR IIH ItiRK—Standard Mess (new). 13 M 9 13 Mt It AWN- Clear Rib.... Wffi' SR LARI'-Pna» Steam. »«9 «* WOOL—Choice T»b. 9 3T CHICAGO CATTLE—Shipping... 3 « Q 4 50 HOGS—Good lo Choice. 4 I S Its 4 45 SHEEP—Good to Choice. 3 »o O IU FLOCR-W nter. 4 10 9 4 85 Patents .. 4 to 9 5 45 WHKAT-No. * Spring..t» SO* HORN-No *...... O l»h OAts-So. * White. run-* wts PORK-Kew Mess. 1150 0 1143 KANSAS (TTY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... 13. ROUS—Sales at. 5 8T> WHEAT—No, 3.... 75 JaTS-No. 9.:. 19 CORN—No, *. » NEW ORLEANS FLOUR—Hgb Grade.. -4*0 9 5 00 :ORN-Wmte. - UATs—Choice Western. 33 BAiY—Choice.... ... __ _ PORK—New Me-s .. SALON—Clear Rib.. T _ JOTTON—Middling.. 10 % » LOUISVILLE. WREST—No 2 Kid.. *0 iR 01 ORN-No. S Mixed. 33 4k 33 OATS—So. 8 Mixed.... . St a 35 PORK-Mess.. . 18 » R 18 V) RACON—Clear Rib.. «*<* 7 OTTON—Middling. R 10* I 4 10 4 15 ;« IO STH « «'» «s 18C0 a is » 9 tv - lOH A Fair Trial 5t Hoods Sarsuperil'a will convince any reason able person that IS does posseaa great medicinal merit. Wa do aot claim that every bculowtu ae-l-mpH-h a miracle, bat wo do kaow that nearly er>rj bottle.taken according to directions, does protect positive benefit. Its pecohar cataMre power Is -'.own by many remarkable core*. *1 waaraa down from etoee application to work, tat was told 1 had malaria and was doaed with lahtlae. ete^ which wan OMlcea t decided to take Hood's Sarsaparilla and am now feeftm: strong and SMerfuL 1 feel ■attsdwl It wilt bene It say WOO pee it a fair trtaL'* 1 H I Iteeeit. New York CTy. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by aU druggists. Ms eu for to. Prepared only tyC.l-HOOK* A Ct>.. Apothecaries LoireU. Rasa. IOO Doses One Dollar

A lady “I want to It costs them an v'thing—this won't cost them a cent. I suffered a Httog death for nearly two years with headaches, backactos, in pain standing or walking, was being lft- | I trytn; medicine, Dr. Pierce’s favonte Prescription, and it restored me to the blessedness of sound health 1 honor the physician who, when he knows he can cure, has the moral courage to advertise the fact.” The medicine mentioned is guaranteed to cure those delicate diseases peculiar to females. Read printed guarantcTon bottle-wrapper. For all derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels? take Dr. Pierce’s Pellets. One a dose. Is Finland’s system of public schools manual training is universal. Bovs learn to sew as well as girls, and girls also loara carpentry. A Stout Backbone _a'ism, and disorders of the kidueys, the tonic and dietetic action of Hostetter*s Stomach Bitters is the one thing needful. The stomach is Vho mainstay of every other LHUttt U to ^ .. , organ, and by invigorating the digestion enth ' -*v“ — with this preparation, the spinal column, and all its dependencies, are sympathetically strengthened The dyspeptic and biiious will ilud it a pure vegetable stimulant and tonic. Teach bovs and girls the actual facts of life as soon as they are old enough to understand them, and give them the sense of responsibility without saddening them. - Oregon, the PstsJlw of Farmers. Mild, cquableclimate, certain and abundant drops. Bestfruit, grain, grass, stock country intheworld. Fullinformationfree. Address OregoulmmigrationBoard.Portland,Oregon Tua telephone is used on the continent of Europe to enable the guard of a train detained between am^a^m^mmm^a stations to communicate lot the nearest point for assistance. Mvst not be confounded wit h common cathartic or purgative pills. Carter's Little Liver Pills are entirely unlike them iu every respect. Due trial will prove their superiority. Tuts is “English as she is spoked” in Parliament! “Don’t interrupt mo until I cm done.” Can the sale of au inferior article coolant lv increase for 24 years! Dobbins’ Electric Soap has been on the market ever -luce 1865, and is to-day tele best unit parent family soap made. Try it. Tour grocer has it. Tits man who finds trout in town that have been twenty-four hours on ice palatable will never be a conspicuous epicure. No srsctric for local skin troubles equate tleun’a Snlohur Soap. . Hill’s Uair and Whisker Dye, SO cents. Lkatb your business unduly and your business will leave you. 5UACOBS OH FOR STRAINS AND SPRAINS, NEW AND STRONG CASES, A Surprise, BW.33.1Usx, Juse 13.1139. 1 wuhte iafrnnyooof *Iut I consider most woodsrfuh ynlf.-iiy 1 sprained my aakls on a enrb•toa* aad at ui&H could only step oa my fool r.tk tnxKtl paia; cot a bottl* of St. Jacobs OU and spp?ic* it freely, to-day 1 am about my bimaws ti uauai without Lttluig say inccavsnie&ce. F A GATLOKD. Strained AnkV. Cere land. 0, June 25. 1*33. Vm in bed with itraiced ankle; <u«d cant; completely cured by St. Jacobs OU Ho return et pa a. L. HAN LIT. At PnVGGISTS AND DEALERS. THE CHAflLCS A. VOGELER CO.. BaKlmow, Kd Gained 15 Foils. ••I have been a great sufferer from ■- -la. Evtry ntlll Torpid Liver and lljriprnsi thing 1 ate disagreed with: began takiug Ms Pills I ran now digest aay hind of food> never tins e a hendae!ie.aud have gained fifteen pounds in weight.” W. C. St'U i m£, Columbia, S. C. SOLD EVERYWHERE. In ISSS i contracte d Ptocxl Pofsoo of bad type. ai.d was Leak'd with, mercury, potash and sarsaparilla mixture s,c;ro\vi:.£; worse all the ttarsw 1 took 7 small bottles* 8.8 8. which cured me entirely, and no ryn of the dreadful disease has returned. J. C. Nash; Jaa. 10, 'SO. Uobbyville, la?. m M By )Ml!e niece tad white rwefflng to >uch an extent that the was confined to the bed lor a long time. Morothsn 10 pi-.-ees of bone cr-m, outef her teg. ted the doctors nikl amputation w as the only remedy to eaveher tire. 1 refused the I'l-eniti-a sod put her on S.S.8. and she is bow upard active and iuascood health as snv child. Jliss AxsisGrtst^m. Feb. 11. ’89. Cotuulbus, Oil. iBook on Uiood Diseases sent free. Swirr heroine Co. Drawer 8, AtLnta, Oa MOTHERS’ FRIENil MAKES CHILD BIRTH easy IF USSO BEFORE CONFINEMENT. Boo* to “Mothkbs" MAiurntFark. ntnrian reui u- roit «■«., atlah'm. «a Folk hy> all Drcguists. LIVE STOCKIf jolt mil -H16HE3T M AlUkKTTKtOEsTorciSJroSrSrTiSffi or Sheep. •I»p to C. C. DALY * CO.. Live-Stock Commission Mrnbar.tR. Nstkmnl Stock Yards. East St. Loris. IlAKXPKKT Ssieomcn from Ion* *x per* nee. ESTAllLIMI Kl> SEY KXTEEN TE ARS. Prompt sales u4 returns. W1UTK FOR FK&K MARKET RKPORT3. Inquiries by Uiur or wire iuvuoi nt WR !Ptoo‘» Remedy for Catarrh to Urn Cnt, Evitst to Car, and cheapart. CATARRH I Also . _ for Cold in tbo Head. Hay Favor, Ac. 50 cent*. MB U OOCA A MOXTUrtn bomadeworkpi V W Osww mafor us. Aaent*preferrt dwbo ’sa furnish*hors* and aivV* their whole time to he busioeas. Spare moments may be proOtably emliOTei ai-os. A few vnauK—i in towns and cttien. if.JoH.vmxJitX II __ Mala St.. f|,ietimo»Kt.\ a. .V ft - ftfp'w sf»lc ops saui ^wsomw* trtV •lad afod •rmUmt ***** fur regtig. k f. / d Lb E 6YPTtAK ROSE-BLOOM, Z, fMfw. LamttiiluaUitiloktDMdprMi ‘ ‘ Trial *»« «•! * AO MWt*. UTWSiL nuildl to., Ml au, WAJUUMW, A C. xmx vats rots *e«! um>m «ii» lecnslte par montlTanT'R SAURY. t,»7LgST mM DETECTIVES fu el ia rvwry ©owns*. Fbr**4 sea to ae4 as4*e twairaciion. • MfSKmSmW. E«po»iBBgws«>ia»cwTy.liB»4ap.>fsw>e Bn—tn0etnrtto«aortiiiCo.44Arca4«eCtociaa«tiA VyANTED a^rafn‘ Newest, Choi— _ _Fonts, itesttree**.terms,plan. BesUmlRt fr*e. MO.NCKSSR YCp.,LouU^ua.kto. ONANZA to AGENTS ECU. A. OCtfTT, Sw Tart Cay. IS TOSS A DAY. Samplea woitliSS.il FREE. Uw k»s under harm' feet. Wen* ucwsTik iimi uu EDUCATIONAL. 3RYAKT t STMTTOI SSMISrff jOuis, Mo. Has fl rOUIB tee. A,idre»» Valbs T-v* Bnu»„ Jauosv.U*. Wia A. N. K. R 1244.

JOHN HAMMOND. -m N R W GOODS o:f. every kind, To which hAlncts attention. HI* DEV GOOM are «rat clasa, and the stock la targe Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes and Notions. Glee him o call utljM will be convinced that ho Is glTtag KAEUA1NS on hla entire stock. SOLID GOODS AT LOW PlilCKS.

EUGENE HACK. ASTON SIMON. 9 t -Proprietors ofTHE EAGLE BREWERY, VINCENNES, INDIANA, Furnish the Best Article of Beer the Market Affords AND SOICIT ORDERS FROM ALL DEALERS ■ ' i DOTTLE OR KEG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Sal© at A.11 Saloons. ————immmi I i»

% 100-1. TEtB OSBORN BROTHERS % ! ! . : - Have removed to tlie.r elegant New limiting on Main street, where they hare a large and splendid line of BOOTS AND SHOES, * .* For Men. Women ami Children. We keep R. U Stevens* anti Emmerson*t brands 1 • of Fine Shoes. Petersburg. Indiana.

C. A. BUEGEE & BRO., FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, Petersbnrg, IntUm, Ban Butty Tlit Large Slock of Late Styles of Piece Goods, Consisting of the very best Suitings and Broadcloths. Perfect Fi s and Snies* Guaranteed. Prices as low as Elsewhere. '--—^=-—,- BOOK-KEFIRS, SKQRT-HAND, TELEGRAPHY, PENMANSHIP, ETC. Every Young Man and Woman Who denim s to hotter his or her condition la We, should write for tho Catalogue of the BRYAWIT & STRATTON NO. 403 THIRD STREET. LOUISVILLE, KY.

Is 1*b oMa*t -'iiiRi l »oat popular teltattfte artf meciwn'eal papwr pubttsVo-a and l»»* eirculation of fll:n;i paper of Its eUM i* tliswethl. t'ttll; lUunrsti t B«st eiaas of KYooJi Bcj;ra»« In**, hiblUK d wetlly. Send for optcimeo cope. l*rH» H i ’snr. Four months* Uwl. IL liLH.N & I'Om IX BLIBBUtB, HI ftrvimwaj. iN.t. A rmat bmb^ihi EaeH IpM r^ntslns f*h»r«4 lithographic p ;il «i of country au4 eit» rv*M*ntea or public Ihui Idlng*. Mwr.effns eoaraeior* m4 full plans mrd riscc^tffcativns for tha u«e of cwch hs contem ;di »• boUrtinir. £kit* 50 a year, to eta. a copy. A CO* I t buiutut. vr*y t-e w<*nf» «4 IT SPP' fl:»B to Mi DE MARKS. MCSN 4c ARG!HT!: JT§ & BOILBERO rf Edition $1 Scrsitiiflc American. O I \ (<>. who »•«»• . r«rlcnc« and l.atre ma.lo .•*» [ 1.J&UI app oittaas tor ^ n:r’;can *..h ?.-or1 W paten • Send for Handbook. wrespokdecce a;rlo 1." eoeSdentiat. I* nw yonr u rk h m registered In I be Men» oruoe. err r to sirs v a etc, mud procuie uumediat* n» r: Uoo. scad for itaadbook. COPYR1C It' r^ fnr^ t><»fc^ charts, sap*. , rttirut Solicitor*. Gutman. ii stnrtsl *- Gauansrar. s. T REAL ESTATE AGENCY. P. W. CHAPPELL, PETERSBUICI, - . Ut DIANA All lands an lands for sale t OrncK—Ujn 1 \mm 1

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PATENTS, f'aveais and Trade-Marks obtained, and a Pat■nt bus ness conducted Cor Modern-• Per*. Our office is opposite U. S. Patent OOlee, and we can secure patents in less time thau those remote from Washington. Send model, draw na or photo, with description. We advise if patentable or not free of ctiarse. Oar fees not due till patent is secured. A pamptilet. "How to Obtain Patents." with nnines of actual ell-nts in your State, oounty or town, sent free. Address C. A. SNOW & CO., Opposite Patent Offic?, Washington, D. 0. DR. HARTLEY’S CATARRH REMEDY Is the beat remedy known for the cure of Catarrh and its attendant ailments; it is safe, painless, and never fails to r ve relief. This remedy cleanses the nose, head and throat ot all unhealthy socretinrs, and soothes and heals the inflamed parts. Wueii the remedy is once tr.ed the betn-Ucial re.-uHs are so prompt amt sat sf ictory that tne sufferer never fails to continue the treatment uni 1 pocmune.it relief I* obtained. DO NOT NEGLECT A BAD COLD. so Hartley’s Catarrh Remedy Tor Its In nuil ate Cure. ,USE - . eclipse. ; ■ -UN 1'MEfdJ.. -Kivvt RS-; \'t .* ”,.YhE1 k-'i " ■'.ECLIPSE LiVER PILLSs- : tfuvic :?■» i'r<P*+\c H'tn* <•' r ;-rYc v * ■ ECLIPSE ULRViMiL-; # •• - c,-. .'sVty' - » C>&] •* ECLIPSE SAFS^PjiP !Jt ^ EC Li PS k UirrE'f's - • : t MlR ■ A WISE WOMAN Bought the Splendid HIGH ARM JUNE SINGER SEWING MACHINE BECAUSE »T WAS THE BIST*

13W THEY ILL MKT IT For UdmantehbcaTtUfal work. Saapti Mashlae at Fac'ry Prloa, ETERI liQUSli IfiMUftEB TCS 5TB4ES. wmmmvL P«lvibem. im.