Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 August 1890 — Page 4

BREAD OF THE GOSPEL. Sermon by Rev. T. BeWitt Talmago et Long Branch, N. J. The Brant*'of the DntMItet an 1 ttio Bread of the finupel Compare I—IHvin© Help In Rmercenee.*—Saetwaacd That N»t«t falls. The following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DoWitt Talmago at Lon? ltriuich, N. J., from ttio test: Amt the manna IvuseU on the morr.iv after they imU eaten ot the old corn of the land.—Josliti t ▼..‘IS. Only those who have had something to do- with the commissariat of an army know whi.a job it Is to feed and clothe five or six hundred thousand roon. Woll, tbero is sncli a host as that marching across the desert They are cutoff- from ail army supplies. There are no rail trains bringing down fool or blankets. Shall they all perish? No. The Lord comes from- Heaven to the rescue, and He touches ttio shoss and the coats which in a year or two'would havo been worn to rags and tatters, and they become storm proof and timeproof, so that, after forty years of wearing, the coats and the shoos are as goo.l as new. Resides that every morning there is a shower of * broal—not sour and soggy, for the rist lg of that bread is made in Heaven, tnd celestial fingers have mixed it and lolled it into halls light flaky and sweet, as though they were the crumbs thrown out from a Heavenly banquet Two batch as of bread inado every day is the upper mansion, ono for those who «it at the table with the King, and the other for the marching Israelites in tho wilderness. I do not very much pity the Israelites for the fact that they had only manna to eat It was, I suppose, the host food ever provided. I know that the ravens brought fool to Elijah; hut 1 should not so well have liked those black waiters. Rather would I have the faro that came down every morning in buckets of dew—clean, sweet Hod-provided edibles Rut now the Israelites have taken their Jast hit of it in their fingers, and put tho lastdolicate morsel of it to their lins They look out, and there is noi manna. Why this cessation of heavenly supply? It whs because the Israelites had arrivod in Canaan, anl they smelled the breath of the harvestfields and tho crowded barns of the country were thrown open to them. All tho inhabitants had fled, and in tho name of the Lord of Hosts the Israelites took possession of every thing. Well, the threshing floor is cleared, tho corn ( is scattered over it, tho oxen are brought around in lazy and perpetual circuit until tho corn is trampled loose; then it is winnowed with a fan, and it is ground and it is baked, and lo! there is enough bread for all the worn outhost. “And the manna ceased on tho morrow after they had eaton of the old corn of the land.” From among the mummies of Egypt and Canaan have been brought grains of com exactly like our Indian com. and, recently planted, they havo produced the samo kind of corn with which wo are familiar. So 1 am not ■ sure which kind of grain my text refers to. but all the samo in the meaning. The bisection of this subject leads me, first, to speak of especial relief for especial emergency; and, secondly, ot the old corn of the Gospel for ordinary circumstances

If these Israelites crossing tuo wilderness had not received bread from the heavenly bakeries, there would, first, have been a long line of dead children - half buried in the sand; then, there would have been a long line of dead women waiting for tbo jackals: then, there would have been a long line of dead. mon unhurried, becauso tbero would haiwe been no one to bury them. It would have been told in the history of the world that a groat company of good people started out from'Egypt for Canaan, and were novor heard of; as thoroughly lost in the wilderness of sand as the City of Boston and the r President were lost in the wildernotfs of waters. . What use was it to them that there was plenty of corn in Canaan, or plenty of corn in Egypt ? What they wanted was something to eat right there, where t ere was not so much as a gtass-blade. In other words, an especial supply for an especial emergency. _ That is what some of you want. The ordinary comfort, tho ordinary direction, tho ordinary counsel, do not seem to meet your case. Thcro are those who feet that they must have an Omnipotent and immediate supply, and you shall have it. Is it pain and physical distress Jesus know ail about pain? Did lie not suffer it in tho mod sensitive part of head and hand and foot? lie lias a mixture of remfort, cue drop of which shall cure the worst ;paraxysm. It is the same graco that soothed Bobort ilall when, after writhing on tho carpet is physical tortures, bo criod out: rtOh! 1 suffered terribly, but I didn’t cry but while 1 was suffering, did I? Did I cry out?” There is no such nurse as Jo;us—His hand tho gentlest. His foot tbo lightest. His arm the strongest. For especial pang especial help.

in h iuo" is ii apprunuiiHg sum shadowing bereavement that you know is rowing, because the breath is short, and the voice is faint, and the cheek is pale? Have you been circulating your capacity or incapacity toonduro widowhood or childlessness or a disbanded home, and cried: “I can not endure it?” Oh, worriod soul, you will wake up amidst all your troubles, and find around about you tho sweet consolation of the Gospel as thickly strewed as was the manna around about the israeiitish encampment! Especial solace for especial distress. Or is it a trouble past, yet present? A silent nurs ry? A vacant ebair opposite" you at tbe table? A musing upon a bYoken family circle never again to be reunited? A choking sense of lonliness? A bfot of grief so large tha(t it extinguishes tho light of the sun, and puts out .‘bloom of flower, and makes you reckles < as to wboiber you live or j die? Especial comfort for tijat especial [ trial. Your appetite has failed for! every thing else. Oh, try a'little of | Ibis wilderness manna: “I will never leave thee, 1 will never forsake tliee.” “Like a< a father piticth his children, so the Lord piticth then) that fear Him.' “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the -son of her womb? yea, they may get, yet will 1 not forget thee.” Or is it the grief of n dissipated companion? There are those hire who have it, so I am not speaking Hi the abstract, bat to the point. You have not whispered it, perhaps, to your most intimate friend; but you see yonr home’ going away gradually from you. and unless things change soon it will been.tirelv destroyed. Your grief was well depicted by a woman, presiding at a woman’s meeting in Ohio, when her intoxicated husband staggered up to the platform, to her overwhelming mlgrtification and the disturbance' of the audience, and she palled n protruding bottle .from her husband’s pocket, and held it up before the audience, and cried oolt: “There is the canss of my woe!' Thor* are the tears and the life-blood of a drunkard's wife!” And then, looking up to ffenven, she 0 Urtl JfefT

ami then, look ing down to tho audience, cried: “Do you wonder 1 feel strongly on this subject? Sisters, will you help me?1’ And hundreds of voices responded: “Yes, yes, wo well help you.” You stand, some of you, in such a tragedy to-dn,v. You can not even ask him to stop drinking. It makes him cross, and he tells yon to mind yoiir own business. Is there any relief in such a case? i>»ot such as is found in the rigtmarolo of comfort ordinarily given in such casos. But there is a relief that drops in manna from the throne of God. 'Oh, lift up votir lacerated soul in p-avor, and you will get Oinns potent comfort! I dp not know in what words the soothing influence may come, hut 1 know that for especial grief there is especial deliverance. I give you two or tliroo passages; try them on; Hike that which best fits your soul: “Whom the Lord lovoth llo ehasteneth.” “All things work together for good to those who love God.” “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometb in the morning.”' 1 know there aro thoso who, when thoy try IP com fort people, always bring the same stale sentiment about the usefulness of trial. Instead of bringing up,a new plaster for a new wound, and frosh manna for fresh bungeri they ruuhuago thoir havorsuck to find some crumb of old consolation, when from horizon to horizon the ground Is white with tho new-fallen manna of God’s help not five minutes old! But aftor fourteen thousand six hundred consecu ti. vc days Of falling manna — Sundays excepted—the manna ceased, taomo of them were glad of it You know they had complained to their leader.and wondered 'hat they had toeat manna instead of onions. Now the fare is changed. Those people in that army under forty years of age had never seen a corn-field, and now, when they hoar tho leaves riastiing and see the tassels waving and the billows of green flowing over tho plain as the wind touched them, it mu- t have been a new- and lively sensation. “Corn!” cried the old man, as bo opened an ear “Corn!” cried the children, as they counted the shining grain. “Corn!” shouted the vanguard of the host, as they burst open the granaries of tho affrighted ‘population, tho granaries that had beon left in the possession of tho victorious Israelites. Then, tho fire was kindled, and the oars of corn were thrust into it, and, fresh and crisp and tender, were devoured by the hungry victors; and bread was prepared, and many things that can ho made out of flour regales the appetites that had been sharpened by the long mareh. “And tho manna ceased on tho morrow after they had eaten Pf tho old cpru of tho land.” Blessed b> God, wo stand in just such a field Lp-day, tho luxuriant grain coming aliove the girdle, tho air full of the odbrs of the ripe old corn of tho Gospel Canaan. “Oh!” you say, “the fare is too plain.” Then I remember you will soon get tired of a fanciful die t. While I was in Paris 1 liked for awhile the rare and exquisite cookery, but I soon wished I was homo again and had the pla n fare of my native land. So it is a fact that wo soon weary of the sirups ahTcustards and the whipped foam of fanciful roligionists, and wo cry: “Give tis plain jbread, made out of the old com pf the Gospel Canaan.” This is tho only food that can quell tho soul’s hunger. There are then here who hardly know what is the matter with them. They have tried to get together a fortuno and larger account at the "bank, and to get investments yielding larger percentages. They arc trying to satisfy their soul with a diet of mortgages and stocks. There are others hero who havo been trying to got famous, and have succeeded to a greater or less extent; and they have been trying to satisfy tbeir soul with the chopped feed of magazines and newspapers. All these men are no more happy now than before they made the first thou: and dollars: bo more bap

py now tlian when for the first time they saw their names favorably mentioned. They can not analyze or define their feelings; but 1 will toll them what is the matter—they aro hungry for the old corn of the Gospel. That you must have, or be pinched, and wan, and wasted, and hollow-eyed, and shriveled up with an eternity of famine. The infidel scientists of this day aro offering us a different kind of soul food; but they are, of all men, the roost miserable. I have known many of them; but I never knew one , of them who came within a thousand miles of being happy. The great John Stuart Mill provided for himself a new kind of porridge; but ret, when he comes to die, ho acknowledges that his philosophy never gave him any comfort in days of bereavement, and in a roundabout way ho admits that bis life was a failure. So it is with all infidel scientistis. They are trying to live on tele copes, and crucibles, and protoplasms, and they charge us with cant, not realizing that there is no such intolerable cant in all the world as this perpetual talk we arc bearing about "positive philosophy,” and “tho absolute,” and “the great to1 be,” and the everlasting no.” and “the higher unity,” and "the latent potentialities,” and “the cathedral of tho immensities.” I have been translating what those men have been writing, and I have been translating what they have been doing, and 1 will tell you what it all means— it means that they want to kill God! And my only wonder is that God has not killed them- 1 have, in other days, tasted of their confections, and I come hack and tell you to-day that there is no nutriment or life or health in aiyr thing but the bread made of the old corn of the Gospel. What do I mean by that? 1 mean that Christ is the bread of life, and taking Him, you live and live forever.

Hut, 7011 say. corn isof but littleprac tical use unless it is threshed and ground and baked. J answer, this Gospel corn has gone through that process. When on Calvary all the hoofs of human scorn came down on the heart of Christ, and all the flails of Satanic fury beat Him long and fast, was not tho corn threshed? When the mills of God's indignation against sin caught Christ between the upper and nether rollers, wa% not the corn ground? When Jesui descended into hell, and the flames of the lost world wrapped Him all about, was not the corn baked? Oh. yes! Christ is ready, llis pardon all ready; llis peace all ready; every thing ready in Christ. Are you ready for Him? You say: “That is such a simple Gospel!” I know it is. You say you thought religion was a strange mixture of elaborate compounds. No; it is so plain that any abecedarian may tinder* stand it. In its simplicity is its power. If you could t his Morning realise that Christ died to save from sin and death and hell, not only your minister and your neighbor, and yonr father and your child, but you, it would make this hour like the judgment day for agitations, and, no longer able to keep your seat, yon would leap up, crying: “For mo'. For roe!”' God grant that you, my brother, may see this Gospel with your owheyos, and hear it with - your own ears, and feel with your own heart that you are a losit soul, but that Christ Comes for your extrication. Can you *ot take that truth and digest it, and ittake i t a part of your Immortal life? It is only bread. You have noticed that invalid* can not take all kinds of food. The food m will to for W>« for as- : .

other. There are kinds of food which will produce, in cases of invalidism, very speedy death. But yon have noticed that all persons, however weak they may be, can take bread. Oh, soul sick with sin, invalid in your transgressions, 1 think this Gospel will agree With yon! I think if you can not take any thing else, you can take this. Lest —fopnd! Sunken—raised! Condemned— pardoned! Cast out—invited in! That is the old corn of the Gospel. You have often seen a wheel with spokes of different colors, and when the wheel was rapidly turned all the colors blended into a rainbow of exquisite beauty. 1 wish 1 could to-day take the peace and the life and the joy and glory of Christ and turn them before your soul with such speed and such strength that you would he enchanted with the revolving splendors of that name which is above every name—the name written once with tears of exilo and in blood of martyrdom, but writton now in burnished crown and lifted scepter and transangelic throne. There is another characteristic about bread, and that is, you never get tired o( it. There are people here seventyyears or age who And it just as appropriate for their appetite as they did when, in boyhood, their mother cut a "slice of it clear around the loaf. You jiave hot got tired of bread, and that is 4t characteristic of the Gospel. Old Christian man, are you tired of Jesus? If so let us take His name out ol our Bible, and let us .with pen and ink erase that name wherever we see it Let us cast it out of hymnology. and lot “There is .a Fountain * and “Rock of Ages” go into forgotfulness. Let us tear down the communion table v^iero we celebrate His love. Let us dash down the baptismal-bowl where we were consecrated to Him. Let us hurl Jesus from our heart and ask some other hero to come in. Let us say: “Go away Jesus! I want another companion, another friend, than Thou art” Could you do it? The years of your past life, aged man, would uttei a protest against it and the graves of your Christian dead would charge you with being an ingrate, and your little grandchildren would say: "Grandfather, don’t de that.” Josu; is the One to whom we say our prayers at night and who is to open Heaven when wo die. “Grandfather, don't do that” Tired of Jesus? The Burgundy rose you pluck from the garden is not so fresh and fair and beautiful.’ Tired of Jesus? As well get weary of the spring morning, and the voices of the mountain runnel, and the qit et of your own home, and the gladness of your own children. Jesus is Di-ead.and the appetite for that is never obliterated. I notice, in regard to this article of food, you take it three times a:day. It is on your tablo morning, noon and night; and if it is forgotten, you say. “Where is the bread?” J ust so certainly you noed Jesus three times a day. Oh, do not start out without Him; do not dare to go off the front-steps without having first communed with Him! Before noon there may be perils that will destroy body, mind and soul forever. You can not afford to do without Him. You will, duriMt the day, be amidst sharp hoofs ahd swift wheels and dangerous scaffoldings threatening the body, and traps for tho soul who have taken some who are more wily then you. When they launch a ship they break against the side of it a bottle of wine. That is a sort of superstition among sailors. But oh, on the launching of every day, that we might strike against it at least one ournost prayer for Divine protection! That would not he superstition; that would bo Christian.

This is tho nutriment and life of the plain Gospel that I recommend to you. I do not know how some of our ministers make it so intricate, and elaborate, and mystifying a thin". It seems as if they bad a sort of mongrelism in re-ligion-part liumanitarianism, part spiritualism, part nothingarianism; and sometimes you think they are building their temple out of tho "Rock of Ages,” but you find there is no rock in it at all. It is stuccoL The Gospel is plain. It is bread. Thfero are no fogs hovering over this River of Life. All tho fogs hover over the Marsh of Human Speculation. If you can not- tell when you hoar .a ,man preach, whether or no* he believes in the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures, it is because he does1' not believe in it. If, when you hear a man preach, yon can not tell whether or not he believes that sin is inborn, it is because be does not think it is congenital. If. when you hear a roan talk in pulpit or prayer-meeting, you can not make up your mind whether or not he belioves in regenoration.it it because ho dobs not boliovo in it If, when you hear a man speak on religion; themes, you can not make up your mind whether or not he thinks tho righteous and tho wicked will come out at tho same place, then it is bccad^o he really believes their destinies arcTconterminous. Do not talk to me about a man boing doubtful about the doctrines of grace. He is not doubtful to me at all. Dread is bread, and I know it the moment I soe it. I had a cjrn-field which 1 cultured with my own hand. 1 did not ask once in the whole summer; “Is this corp?” I did not hunt up the Agriculturist to get a picture of corn. I was horn in sight of a corn-field and 1 know all about it When these Israelites came to Canaan and looked off upon the fields, the cry was: “Corn! Corn!” And if a man has once tasted of this heavenly bread be knows it right away. lie can tell this corn of the Gospel Canaan from “the chaff which the wind driveth away.” I bless God so many havo found this Gospel corn. It is the bread of which if a man eats he shall never htfnger. I sat 1 he gladness of your soul to tbe tunes of "Ariel” and “Antioch.” • J ring tho wedding bells, for Christ and ,your soul are married, and there is no power on earth or in hell to get out letters of divorcement

I rode some thirteen miles to see the Alexander, a large steamship that was beached near Southampton, Long Island. It was a splendid vessel. As I walked up and down the decks and in the cabins I said; “What a pity ti at this vessel should go to pieces, or le lying here idle!” The coast-wreckers bad spent thirty thousand dollars trying to get her off,and they succeeded once; but she came back, again to the old place. While I was walking on deck every part of the vessel trembled with the heating of the surf on one side. Since then I heard that that vessel, which was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, was sold for thirty-live hundred dollars and knocked to pieces. They had given up the idea of getting her to sail again. How suggestive all that is to met There are those here who are aground in religious things. Once you started for Heaven, but you are now aground. Several times it was thought you bad started again heavenward, but yon soon got hack to the old place, and there it not much prospect you will ever reach the harbors of the blessed. God’s wreckers, I fear, will pronounce you a hopeless case. Jieached for eternity! And then it will be written in Heaven concerning some one of your sis'1, and odmplexion, and age, and name, that lie was invited to be saved, hut tefuaod Kho otter, and starved to dea th within night of tho fields and graimr^l full ol ne old cwt «l

STILL PULLING WOOL. k New Vnr't Merchant Shows Senator l'lumb the Fully of McKinley’* Unties on Carpet UVot*—favorable Reply Front the Senator-How the Sen te «ommlttee Fielded to the “Ihanwl" of the Wool Growers—The Shoddy Mon Clamor foe McKinley’s High Wool Duties. Mr. Louis Windmneller, a large wool importer of New York, wrote recently to Senator Plumb protesting against a inty on Russian camel’shair and against increased rates on coarse and mixed wooL such as are used in carpet making. It was shown by Mr. AVindmuelter that, as we have no camels, it would be foolish to place protective duties on camel’s hair to build up a new industry, and (hat the same is true of coarse carpet wool; s nee next to none iis produced in America. The* only effect of these ‘iutios, therefore, would lie to increase the price of carpets lo our own people. In reply to this letter Mr. Windmueller received the following letter from the Kansas Senator: Csited States Senate, I Washington, U. Jutv 11. 1893. ( Louis Windmneller, Esq., New York: Dear Sir: I have read what yon any about the duty on Russian camol'shafr. Will give this matter full consideration, and except for some hing which I do not now foresee trill support the position.which yon tahe. I do not object lo the rertillc ition of the Inequaldies of the tar ff but 1 hare not been able to ernvinoe myself, nor have I been convinced by tme reasoning of others, that there should be any general Increase of the dut ies now imposed, especial ly upon articles which go into general contumption among ’ oar people. You-s tru y, Fbeston B. Plumb. It was Senator Plumb who introduced the resolution in the Senate to require the Finance Committee to give reasons for changes in the tariff. But this resolution called out such a rigmarole of glittering generalities about “creating new industries,” “protecting American interests.” “meeting increased competition abroad,” and so on, that it would have been as well if Senator Plumb had never introduced the resolution at all. With regard to the wool duties, for example, the committee said: “The demand from the representative woolgrowers of the country that the rates upon wool should be largely increased, has led the committee to recommend the adoption of the classification herein suggested, which it is hoped will result .n a uniform and honest classification of wooL” *

mat is lunny. me wooi-growcra uemanded” largely increased rates upon wool, and the committee gave them “a new clasification.” But this was by no means giving a stone instead of bread, for the “new classification” results ina large increase of duties, though ‘the committee neglected to assign any reason for that increase beyond the “demand from the representative woolgrowers of the country.” This affords another example of how the protected-interest of the country are allowed to write their “demands” intoour tariff-laws. The theory of protection is that the law-makers examine the condition of the country and then decide that “protection” is needed, and this is accordingly given. In point of fact, the thing is never done in this way; but the hungry interests come flocking to Congress to impose their “demands” upon a committee that usually knows very little abou t trade and industry and is only too willing to have its action guided by men who know what they wank This is the way tariff bills to defend “American interests” are concocted. It is the men who want to fill their.own pockets who rush before committees of Congress and prate about “protecting American labor irom disastrous foreign competition.” An the Scnato committee had no reason to give Senator Plumb further than “the demand of the representative wool growers of the country,” Mr. Windmueller undertook to show tho Senator that' there was no good reason to increase the duties on camel's hair and coarse wool; and ho undertook to show dp also the iniquity of the “uniform and honest class ficatiom” which the committee said it had given at the “demand of the representative wool-grow-ers of the country.”

The present rates and the increases arc as follows on coarse wools: OitVool valued at 13 cents a pound or less the duty is 3% cents a pound, which is equivalent to 34.60 per cent, ad valorem, and this is changed by the committee to 33 per cent for wools val ued at 13 cents a pound or less; on coarse wool worth more than 13 cents a pound the duty is 5 cents, which is equivalent to 30.45 per cent, ii1’8 being raised in the present bill to 50 per cent on wool above 13 cents a pound. So much for the dut'es; but here is where the “uniform and honest classification” comes in and effects a doubling up of duties in a way to delight the political shepherds of Ohio who made the “demand.” The bill provides that if any bale of wool of one class contains any portion of wool of a higher class the whole bale must pay the duty of that - higher class; and further, that if any sorting of the wool has taken place the duty shall be doubled. Th s is what the political shepherds “demanded” and what they got. Mr. Windnjjieller shows that, inasmuch as all carpet wools are sorted before importation, the rates put down in the bill will have to he doubled;, that is to say, on wools worth 13 cents ;>r less the duty will be 64 per cent; on the higher grades 100 per cent. Our political shepherds know bow to make “demands” for their own interests. The plea that the political shepherds make is, not they have any carpet wools to sell, but that these imported carpet wools are sometimes used to make cloth four the people’s clothing—which, from the shepherds’ standpoint, is a thing to be stamped out by the iron heel of a McKinley Tariff bill. Carpet wools must be made so expensive that the wicked manufacturers shall not he able to put them into our clothing, in order that the political shepherds may get higher prices for their wool. This will mean dearer carpets for the people; but what do the shepherds care for that? They are looking out for number one! Meanwhile it is highly instructive to note that shoddy men are clamoring for the McKinley wool duties. They want to feather their neats itoo. They see that high prices on wool will cause a larger demand for their humbug stuff, and therefore they have taken a great liking to McKinley, and nobody is now support.ng the McKinley bill with more ardor than the shoddy men. The Tarter a Tax In South Ameriea. Mr. Blaine admits frankly the high duties imposed by South American Countries upon our products place them beyond the means of the people there and make them “luxuries which only the wealthy can enjoy.” That is in South America. It is a good thing to have Blaine admit that the tariff is a tax—even though it ho away off in South America. —They say that when Speaker Bead came into the House the dey after Blaine’f letter was published he looked gloomy. He sees in Blaine's reciprocity scheme a fire-brand which may start a serious conflagration on the Republican side and jeopardize the Tariff bill—ceirtainly delaying action on it—and so deferring action on it unt 1 it will he impossible to pass the Force bill. —There is one saving feature about the McKinley bill. It is so consistently and uniformly oppressive that it will sot he a difficult Mil to repeal when once the people have learned It* i*h tftitiM through hard experience.

FARM AND GARDEN. BARN PLAN.

It Should Come Pretty Neat Bela* What the Average Farmer realm . As will be seen-by the illustration, this plan will give good lij lit and ventilation and enable us to i se the barn floor for a feed-room, and w ill bring the siloes convenient to both s sables. The two silo pits are each 20 feel; square with a depth of 34 feet, ami when full will bold over 19,000 cubic feet of ensij lage, or enough to feed foriy cows one 1 and a half cubic feet each i day for 320 , days. I believe it is conceaed that it is best to feed some dry food •» i th ensilage, | and that‘one cubic foot a l iy is enough | for a cow, but oven if two >?et per day 1 was fed to each of fort r cows these I siloes would hold enough lor 340 days’ • feed. I do not fully show ill the draw- : ing the arrangement of doors and j windows, as the farmer who builds will ! know best where he wants them. | I should locate the ban yards at the i right, and they can be covered or projected as desired. If whesit or other ; grain is grown on the fi rm it can be ! stored either in the silo pits-one at least of which would probably not be in | use at that season—or over the horse stable where there would be a large space for storage, and the loft above the 1 cow stable at the end of she ba,rn floor. ' can be filled with straw. It will be seen that this is not a basement barn. The main barn is 40x00 feet, and each wing is 24x&>. It A represents the two., silo pits, each 30 feet square. BBB and B BH are the box stalls for cows, or three or four calves can I be wintered ineach of them. C 0 are the cow stables, each with stalls for 30 cows, and the manure ditch and walk: behind the cows and the wide marger between them. The feed boxes far grain are spiked to the partitions between the cows, and are a foot above the floor of the manger and project half their width over the manger and half over the stall floor. D is the barn floor or driveway, wbich is also used as a feed room. E is | the horse stable made like the cow stable with a wide manger for both •rows of horses to eat from; it contains six single stalls, each 5 fee I; wide in the clear, and two box stalls each 7 feet I wide inside measure; stables are 11 feet wide from manger back to wall. 1 have used a stable of this width for five years, and find it ample. The manger is five feet wideband its floor, as well as that of the cow manger, should be about a foot higher t han that on which the stock stands. F F F, are for

BARS PLAS. storing oats and ground feed, the larger bin being eight by twelve feet, and the two smaller ones each six by eight feet: P is a passage six feet wide, to enable us to run a truck from the barn floor into the manger with ensilage or other feed. GG ar.e the driveways, which are used as manure sheds, and which have double doors at each end so the team can be driven through them. I have not figured on the cost of material for this building, but from experience in building barns 1 should expect to put this up complete, of first-class material, for about $2,00(1, with lumber worth on an average $17 per M and shingles $4 per M. I should floor the siloes and stables with concrete, as it would cost little if any more than good two-inch plank, ana would . be fat cheaper, in the long run. If any one can show a plan by which the feed can be handled more conveniently than in this, I hope we shall hear from them.— Waldo F. Brown, in County Gentleman. HORTICULTURAL HINTS. Do kot let the weeds overrun the garden. Do not let the weeds overrun anything. If you wish stocky can es for bearing fruit next year on your blackberries and raspberries, pinch back the shoots. If plants are to he set in summer great care must be taken. It is always better to set them just before a rain commences. If the apples are not pi cked until they are dead ripe they are not fit to send to market. Summer apples should be picked before getting too ripe. Why do not people grow Kohl Rabi more? asks a correspond >nt We do not know. Everybody who las it likes it, and it is hot difficult to | tow. Feed all the useless t iples, or apples that can not he Bold ate profit for any reason, to stock. Horst > cattle, sheep and hogs will relish the n. Is answer to a correspondent who asks how much summer pruning we would give a weak grot ring grape vine, we would say that we rould not summer prune it at alL Using Snip! I or. The principal value tf sulphur is to fumigate. Put some in .pan with some grease, turn out all the poultry, fasten all the windows and doe rs tight and set fire; let it remain dost d three or four hours at least. Not on! y will this aid materially to rid the qu .-ters of vermin, bat also to kill out the germs of disease. It is of little benefit to he as a powder, either scattering in thr nests or on the roosts, or other parte of the building. The other plan of usiii f is to feed. It will help if this is done carefully. But good care muet be ; iken or more barm will be done than ‘e enefite derived. There is no harm in feed ing it kept dry, bnt if they get wet there is a considerable risk of loss. After feeding keep dry for a tew days; two or three doses should be given in order to secure the best results. Generally taking all risks into consideration, it will be best to use something else when it can be secured. There are a number of materials that will answei fully as well as sulphur with less risk, unless it is used for fumigating. It it more valuable for this purpose than anj other in using among the pouitryRwml Kansan- v

Tama and good reputation consists in doing the right thing in the right way at the right time. Generals are famous who led the way to victory. Orators are famous Who touched the heart of the people. Smith’s Tonic Syrup is famous because it has ever accomplished correct results. Usqd in the right way at the right time it invariably does tiie right thing. It never makes a failure. It never brings disappointment It was invented by the eminent Dr. John Bull, of Louisriile, Ky., as a substitute for quinine. It does its work even better than was expected. It has all the good qualities of quinine and none of its evil tendencies. It cures chills and fever, colds, influenza, la grippe, etc., even when quinine fails. It is pleasant to lake and children like it It builds up a broken down constitution and fortifies it against the insidious attacks of malarial influences. It is not alwmrs proper to address the young man behind the soda fountain as doctor, even though be is a fizzlcian. West Brook, North Carolina CAROLINA, Sept 6,1886. DB. A. T. Shallenberger. Rochester, Fa. Dear Sir.-—The two boxes of pills you sent mo did every thing you said they would. * My son was the victim of Malaria, deep-set, by living in Florida two years, and the Antidote has done more than five hundred dollars’ worth of other medicines could have done for him. I have had one of my neighbors try the medicine, and it cured him immediately. I now recommend it to every one suffering from Malaria. Respectfully yours, W. w. Monro*. Unless she sails under false colors, the brunette should never be as light-headed as tha blonde—Munsey’s Weekly.

That Unfortunate Urer of Yours, Billions reader, will never resume its functions with regularity and vigor if you persist in pestering it with blue pill and calom*;L Don't you know that these are equally objectionable forms of the cumulative poi-son-mercury? We presume you do, and ye* you go on using them. Desist, and repair damages, regulate the abused organ, and invigorate it with Hpstetter’s Stomach Bitters, incomparable, also, for dyspepsia; ne rvousness and kidney complaints. A who can not keep his own knife minutes generally can keep a borrowed blude ten years.—Ashland Press. i xvAniDS, aged people, nursing mothers, overworked, wearied out fathers, Will find th ] happiest results from a judicious use of Di. Sherman’s Prickly Ash Bitters. Where thi liver or kidneys are affected, prompt ac ion is necessary to change the tide toward heaith, ere the disease becomes chronic essibly incurable, and there is nothing be ter to be found in the whole range of mttcria medico. Sold every where. ' Thet*re a canny lot” “Who?” “The lol eter-factory people in Newfoundland.”— Je iter. I Setter to gaze upon bare walls than plotnr » unpaid for. Lave no equal as a prompt and positive cu -e for sick headache, biliousness. conStipa ion, pain in the side, and all liver troubles Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Try them. 1 .'he light that never was on sea or land m ist he a sky light -•tnghamton Kepublic. i 1 A. Rood, Toledo, O., says: “Hall’s Cats rh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen ye ars ago and she has had.no return of it It’ i a sure cure.” Sold by Druggists, 755. .is after-dinner speech—Waiter, bring m the toothpricks.—Texas Siftings. . ; {others, don’t let your children suffer wi h ill health. Try Dr. Bull’s Worm Dost! oyere—dainty candy lozenges. It will d« th :m no barm and may be just the remedy th <y need. ' ’axes at stations along the way are not fo railroad stock watering. J HAn thills and fever; less than one bottle of Smith’s Tonic Syrup perfectly cured mt.—C. D. Clarke, Frankford, Mo. .. report of an earthquake can hardly be ca led groundless. S ea air roughens the skin. Use Glenn’s Sn phur Soap. 1 Dll’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50cents. ’J he fascination of a-name is not always in ts spell.—Puck. j eople do net discover it until too late, thi t the so-called washing powders not only eat up their clothes, but ruin theirskin, and ca ;se rheumatism Use noth ny but Dobbin’s El etric Soap. Have your grocer keep it. I Ivert hard drinker is a Kttlesoft—Texas Si t tings. I 'oonJOHT'FLASHKs—Diamond buckles.— Ju ige. F its in the side nearly always comes from a disordered liver and is promptly relieved by Ct rter’s Little Liver Pills. Don’t forget this. Oct with the hoys—Elbows and knees.— Drake’s Magazine. I ---

Hat* you seen the Barn’s Horn! If not, ; write to E. P. Brown, 66>% North Penn. St., Indianapolis, Ind. A cokrespondent desires to make it known that the compensation for fiction is a storied earn.—W ashington Post THE MARKETS. 93H4I 471,4® 3914® New York, Aug. ll, CATTLE—Native Steers. .....$ 3 23 « COTTON—Middling. « FtOUB-Winter Wheat. 2 85 a WHEAT—No. 2 Red.. 98 a CORN—No. 2... 5444® OATS—Western Mixed. 41 ® PORK—Mess. 13 00 ® ST. LOUIS, COTTON—Middling. ® BEEVES—Export Steers.. 4 40 0 Shipping...,,.. 3 60 ® HOGS—Common to Select... 3 50 ® SHEEP—Fair to Choice ...... 3 50 a FLOUR—Patents. 4 80 ® XXX to Choice. _ 2 5> ® WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter.. CORN-No. 2 Mixed.-s.. OATS—No.2... . ...'...... RYE-No, X.. 38 ® TOBACCO-Lugs (Missouri).. 2 01 ® Leaf, Burley..... 3 15 a HAT—Clear Timothy.. 10 00 ® BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 14 a EGGS—Fresh... lift a PORK—Standard Mess. a BACON-Clear Bib. 1 6 « LARD—Prime Steam. a WOOL-Choice Tub. a CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping .. 3 00 a HOGS-Good to Choice.. 3 70 a SHEEP—Good to Choice. 3 50 a FLOUR—Winter Patents. 4 85 a Spring Patents. 5 20 a WHEAT—No, 2 Spring. a CORN—No.2 . 48 • OATS—No. 2 White. 38 » PORK—Standard Mess.. • KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers... 3 21 a HOGS—Sales at. 3 30 a WHEAT—No. 2 Red. ® OATS—No. 2. a CORN—No. 2. 47 a NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. .. 4 01 CORN—White. ® OATS—Choice Western. a HAY-Choice. 16 50 a PORK—New Mess..•. a BACON—Clear Rib... a COTTON—Middling. .... • LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red. a CORN—No. 2 Mixed.. a OATS—No. 2 Mixed.. a FORK—Mess. 13 00 a BACON—Clear Rib.*. 6 a COTTON—Middling. 1144® 189a 4 75 1214 6 75 1 0015 57 47 14 00 1144 4 75 4 00 3 75 4 75 4 95 3 25 9344 4744 3944 61 9 09 » 00 14 50 16 12 11 50 6% 5% ?» 4 85 3 95 5 90 5 45 5 50 9344 4844 3812 11 50 4 25 3 80 90 38 48 a 5 25 51 17 00 12 25 644 1144 51 39 13 50 614 12 PRICKLY ASH BITTERS OmoI the mos» important organ ol IM i body is tha LIVER. When it fails to firm Us Inactions the eatira tits deranged. The BRAIN, KIDNEYS, STOMACH, MWELMM ■ to aarfoua their work. DYSPEPSIA, STtPATION, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY vStAJZ In iLuuulm cttM iaparittosowned by the ineaHcn af a TORPID LIVER. This aMiitanee M will be (bond In IEY DllPrickly Ash Bitten! N cals directly aa the LIVER, STOMACH aad MONEYS, and By its mild and cathartic i organs tc a soond, hcclihy « a all diseases arising Ire* these It PURIFIES THE BL000. tenet a, the system, and restores perfect health. M year draggle! docs col Meg it ash Mate order It for yM. Send Zei PRICKLY ASH BITTIM CO.,

IBs best cfflEgb. Ptso’s {hue for Consumption. SoM! orirywbera. 25c. TJsdsmeaxt.k-. ussi&efc ate rwwrtod to In order to get too upper bsad.- ©site* (’Pax.) Hews. _ _________ It was Ben Johnson, we be* lieve, who, when asked Mailock’s question, “ Is life worth living ? ” replied “ That depends on the /war." And Ben Johnson doubtless saw the double point to the pun. The liver active—quick— life rosy, everything bright,, mountains of trouble melt like mountains of snow. The liver sluggish- life dull, everything blue, molehills of worry rise into mountains of anxiety, and as a result—sick headache, dizziness, constipation. Two ways are open. Cure permanently, or relieve temporarily. Take a pill and suffer, or take a pill and get well. Shock the system by an overdose, or coax it by a mild, pleasant way. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the mild means. They work effectively, without pain, and leave the system strong. One, little, sugar-coated pellet is enough, although a whole vial costs but 25 cents. Mild, gentle, soothing and healing is Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Only 50 cents.

OXU BMJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually , dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the onlv remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly henencial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs la for sale in 50o and $1 bottles hy all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept anysubstitute. CALIFORNIA FIS SYRUP CO. SAK FKAmSCO, CAL LOUISVILLE. XT. HEW YORK. H.t. MOTHERS’ FRiEWII HUES GUILD BI8TIJM! IF U3BD BEFORE CONFIWgMVUT. Book to “Motkebs'’ MAiUi) Fas*. BR.UOTIELD EEBilUTOB CO., ATI^TST/L, QA Solo aT all Dbcqoists. •vi m* tiua an ?*. THE BRE&T SrfBUSH REMEOY, BEECHAM'S PILLS For Mots sad Honeis BMte1, "Worth % 6oia<» t Bax” Imt Kid for 25 Cents, BT AI.1t BHVtieiSTS.'

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