Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 August 1892 — Page 4

Christ for the Mankind. vr»« »n Object Lw<m that In All the entartra that Have Elapsed has Wot Lost Its Potency as a Test of Divine Dove. i following discourse, selected by . T. DeWltt Talmage from those dedoring his European tour, is 1 for perusal this week by his Amer—i readers. The text is: It behooved Christ to suffer.—Luke nlv , 44 There have been scholars who have ventured the assertion than the pains of our Lord were unnecessuy. . Indeed, It was a shocking waste of tears and blood and agony, unless some great end were to be reached. .If men can prove that no good result comes of it, then the character of God is impeached,and the universe must stand abhorrent and denunciatory at the fact that the Father allowed the butchery of His only begotten Son. We all admire the brave six hundred described by Tennyson as dashing into the conflict when they knew they must die, and knew at the same time that “some one f^h»d blunder'd;” hut we are abhorrent ■'—Swie man who made the blunder and who caused the sacrifice of these brave men for no use. But I shall show you, if the Lord will help me this morning, that for good reasons Christ went through the torture. In other words, “it behooved Christ to suffer.” ' X. In the first place I remark, that Christ’s lacerations were necessary, because man’s rescue was an impossi-. bility except by the payment of some great sacrifice. Outraged law had thundered against iniquity. Man must die unless a substitute can intercept that death. Let Gabriel step forth. He refuses. Let Michael, the arch"A angel, step forth. He refuses. No Soman citizen, no Athenian, no Corinthian, no reformer, no angel volunteered. Christ then bared His heart to the pang. He paid for our redemption in tears and blood, and wounded feet, and scourged shoulders, and torn brow. “It is done.” Heaven and earth heard the ' snap of the prison bar. Sinai ceased to quake with wrath the moment that Calvary began to rock in crucifiction. Christ had suffered. “Oh!” says some man, “I don’t like that doctrine of subititution; let every man bear his own burdens, and weep his own tears, and fight his own battles.” Why, my brother, there is vicarious suffering all over the world. Did not your parents suffer for you? Do you not suffer sometimes for your children? Does not the patriot suffer for his eountry? Did not Grace Darling suffer for the drowning sailors? Vicarious suffering on all sides! Bnt how insignificant compared with this scene of vicarious suffering!

wu it (or crimes tost t ua i done He groaned upon tbe tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown. And love beyond degree. Christ must suffer to pay the price of »ur redemption. - - * But I remark again: The sufferings of Christ were necessary in order that the world’s sympathies might be ' aroused. Men arc won to.the right and good through their sympathies. The world must feel aright before it can act aright. So the cross was allowed to be lifted that the world's sympathies might be aroused. Men who drateo by the cruelties they have enacted, by the massacres they have inflicted, by the horrors of which they have been guilty, have become little children in the presence of this dying Saviour. What the sword could not do, what Juggernauts could not subdue, the wounded hand of Christ has accomplished. There are this moment millions of people held under the spell of that one sacrifice. The hammers that struck the spikes into the cross have broken the rocky heart of the world. Nothing but the agonies of a Saviour's death throe could rouse the world’s sympathies.

I remark again: “It behooved Christ to suffer,” that the strength and persistence of the Divine love might be -. demonstrated. Was it the applause of the world that Induced Christ on that crusade from Heaven? Why, and the universe at His feet. Could the conquest of this insignificant planet have paid Him for His career of pain, if it had been a mere matter of applause? ■ AH the honors of Heaven surging at His feet Would your queen give up her throne that she might rule a miserable tribe in Africa? Would the Lord Jesus Christ, on the throne of the universe, come down to • our planet if it were a mere matter of applause and acclamation? Nor was it an expedition undertaken for the accumulation of vast wealth. What could all the harvests and the diamonds of our little world do for Him whose are the glories of the infinitude ' and eternity? Nor was it an experiment— an attempt to show what He could do with a hard-hearted race. He who wheels the stars in their courses and holds the pillars of the universe on the Ups of His fingers needed to make no experiment to find what He could da Oh! I will tell you, my friends, what it was. It was undisguised, unlimited, all-conquering, all

consuming, in fin tie, eternal, omnipo- : tent love tliat opened the gate; that started the star in the east, with ■ linger of light pointing down to the manger; that arrrayed the Christmas choir above Bethlehem; that opened the stable door where Christ was horn; that lifted Him on the cross. Love thirsty at the well Love at the sick man's couch. Love at the cripple’s crotch. Love sweating in the garden. Love dying on the cross. Love wrapped in the grave. Ton can not mistake it The blinded eyes must see it The hardest heart heart must feel it The deafest ear uffcst hear it Parable and miracle, wayside talk and seaside interview, all the scenes of His life, all the sufferings of His death, proving beyond controversy that for-onr ingrate earth God has yearned with stupendous and inextinguishable love. Bnt I remark again: “It behooved §hrist to suffer” that the nature of human guilt might be demonstrated. There is not a common-sense man in the house to-day that will not admit that the-machinery of society if out of gear, that the human mind and the human heart are disorganized, that some- ' thing ought to be done, and done right iy for its repair and readjustment, height, and depth, and length, and breadth, and hate, and recklessness, and infernal energy of the human heart for sin would not have been if against the holy and One of the Cross it hnried in one bolt Christ was not the first had been put to death, many before Him put had their whims, sins, their ineonsistthe •way Butt

blind. Whose child had He None; but He restored the dead eel to her mother. What law had He broken? None; bat He had inculated obedience to government What foal plot had He enacted against the happiness of the race? None; He had come to save a world. The only cruelty He eyer enacted was to heal the sick. The only ostentation He ever displayed was to sit with publicans and sinners, and wash the'disciples' feet The only selfishness he ever exhibited was to give His life for His enemies. And yet, all the wrath of the world surged against His holy heart Hear the red-hot scorns of the world hissing in the pools of a Saviour's blood! And standing there to-day, let us see what an unreasonable, loathsome, hateful, blasting, damning thing is the iniquity of- the human heart Unloosed, what will not sin do? It will scale any height, it will fathom the very depth of hell, it will revel in all lasciviousness. There is no blasphemy it will ,not utter, there are no cruelties on which it will not gorge itself. It will wallow in filth, it will breathe the air of charnel houses of corruption, and call them aroma; it will quaif the blood of immortal souls and call it nectar. When sin murdered Christ on the cross, it showed what it would do ' with the Lord God Almighty if it Cbuld get at Him. The prophet had declared—I think it was Jeremiah—had declared centuries before, the truth, but not until sin shot out its forked tongue at. the crucifixion and tossed its sting into the soul of a martyred Jesus was it illustrated that ‘‘the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” Again; “It behooves Christ to buffer” that our affections might be excited Chrlstward. Why, sirs, the behavior of our Lord has stirred the affections of all those who have ever heard of it It has hung the art galleries of the world with such pictures asGhirlandajo’s “Worship of the Magi,” Giotto’s “Baptism of Christ” Holmad Hunt’s “Christ in the Temple,” Tintoret’s “Agony in the Garden,” Angelo's “Crucifixion,” and it has called out Handel’s “Messiah,” and rung sweetest chimes in Young’s “Night Thoughts,” and filled the psalmody of the world with the penitential notes 6f sorrow and the hosannas of Christian triumph. Show me any other king who has so many subjects. What is the most potent name to-day in the United States, in France, in England, in Scotland, in Ireland? Jesus. Other kings have had many subjects,' but where is the king who has so many admiring subjects as Christ? Show me a regiment of a thousand men in their

army, and I will show you a battalion of ten thousand men in Christ’s army. Show me in history where one man has given his property and his life for anyone else, and I will show you in history hundreds and thousands of men who have cheerfully died that Christ might reign. Aye, there are a hundred men in this house who, if need were, would step out and die for Jesus. Their faith may now seem to be faint, and sometimes they may be inconsistent; but let the flreB of martyrdom be kindled, throw them into the pit, cover them with poisonous serpents, pound them, flail them, crush them, and I will tell you what their last cry would be: “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!”

Oh, yes: the Lord Jesus has won tne affections of many of us. There are some of us can sav this morning: “Lord J esus, my light and my song; my hope for time, my expectation for eternity.” Altogether lovely Thou art My soul is ravished with the vision. Thou art mine. Come, let me clasp Thee. Crane life, come death, come scorn and pain, come whirling wind and darkness, Lord Jesus, I ean not give Thee up. I have heard Thy voice. I have seen Thy bleeding side. Lord Jesus, if I had some garl&nd plucked f rom heavenly gardens, 1.would wreathe it few Thy brow. If I had some gem worthy of the place, I would set it in Thy crown. If I had seraphic harp, I would strike it in Thy praise. But I come lost and ruined and undone, to throw myself at Thy ieet. No prl« I bring Simply to Tby Cross I cling. Thou knowest all things. Thou knortest that I love Thee. . But I remark again; “It behooved Christ to suffer” that the world might learn how to suffer. Sometimes people suffer because they can not help themselves; but Christ had in His hands all the weapons to punish His enemies,and yet in quiescence He endured all outrage. He might have hurled the rooks of Golgotha upon His pursuers, he might have cleft the earth until it swallowed up His assailants; He might have called in re-enforcement or taken any thunderbolt from the armory of God Omnipotent and hurled it seething and fiery among His foes; but he answered not again. O, my hearers! has there ever been in the history of the world such an example of enduring patience as we find in the cross? Some of you suffer physical distresses, some of you have lifelong ailments, and they make you fretful. Sometimes you think that God has given you a cup too deep and too brimming. Sometimes you see the world laughing and romping on the highways of life, and you look out of the window while seated in invalid’s chair. *

I want to show yon this morning one who had worse pains in the head than yon have ever had, whose hack was scourged, who was wounded in the hands and wounded in the feet, and suffered-all over; and 1 want that example to make you more enduring in your suffering, and to make you say: “Father, not my will, but Thine be done.” You never have had any bodily pain that equaled Christ’s torture. “It behooved Christ to suffer,” that He might show you how physically to suffer. Some of you are persecuted. There are those who hate you. They criticise you. They would be glad to see you stumble and fall. They have done unaccountable meannesses toward you. Sometimes you feel angry. You feel as if yo« would like to retort Stop! Look at the closed lips, look at the still hand, look at the beautiful demeanor of your Lord. Struck, not. striking back again. Oh! if you could only appreciate what He endured in the way of persecution you never would complain of persecution. The words of Christ would be your words: "Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me! but if not Thy will be done.” “It behooved Christ to suffer” persecution that He might show you how to endure persecution. Some of you are bereft It is no random remark, because there is hardly a that has not passed under You have been bereft Isa different place from

CORRECTING CHILDREN. Whether by Bod or by Suasion It Should Bo .Done Early and Carefully. “Spare the rod and spoil the child” is one of the most venerable of maxims, and, if true, some one has a great deal to answer for? in the way of spoiled children. There has of late been a good deal of discussion in the publie prints upon the subject of punishing -children. To spank or not to spank, to apply the switch or to use moral suasion, to wield the slipper or to dissolve into tears and to plead with unruly offspring, to hang them up until their courage has died out, so to speak, and has left them docile, oigto shut them in cellars, attics or dark closets—these and scoies of other methods have been discussed until it would seem that the entire subject must be worn threadbare. And yet the infant disobeys, is rebellious, restive, defiant, perhaps violent, and something must be done. As a rule in these cases, the long-suffer-ing parent endures and waits, hopes the child will do better and postpones punishment until, alarmed at some new outbreak, patience gives way; and whether it be switch, rattan, shingle, slipper or dusting-cloth, it matters little, the blows fall like rain on the offender, and continue, as a rule, until the whipper stops from sheer exhaustion of body and spirit And because there is no improvement in the child's conduct it is taken for granted that punishment is a failure. And so it is when administered in this fashion. A child should never be corrected when the parent is angry. This is one of the fundamental principles of good government It is claimed by many disciplinarians that a child should never know what a blow means. This is all very well for some children, but there are natures which can not be controled in this way. There is occasionally .a disposition which nothing but force will subdue, and even then it must be so forceful as to awe and terrify the spirit of insubordination into unquestioning obedience. There is little use in parleying with such natures. The struggle usually comes early, and must be met without the least hesitation. Once give w«y to the child’s will, and it may rouse a spirit of resistance which long months, perhaps years, of subsequent

trammer will fail to conquer. By teaching a child that its present and its future welfare depend on its own actions you foster a true and noble independence that is sure to have its own reward. Let the bonds of restraint fit very easily; if the child never feels them so much the better; hut let them be strong enough to control. Good laws are absolute freedom for good spirits, and right is beypnd all law and has no need of it, for It is the living embodiment of all law. Obed ience should begin with life; indeed, should be an inheritance. Whether parents are to govern by the rod or by firm and gentle means, they must begin early and do their correcting carefully, and never attempt to enforce rules unless theii own nerves are steady and their heads and tempers are under perfect control.— N. Y. Ledger. A Power Tor Goqd. The recent great convention, th. largest ever held anywhere by any body, will boom the Christian Endeavor movement. The secretary reported a present membership of 1,370,000, with 21.000 societies, a gain since last year of 370.000 members. Whatever the agnratics and unbelievers may think or say, the evangelical church is going to hold the next generation. These young Endeavors represent to-morrow in to-day. In bolding them the church holds the future. Christianity b a rising, not a setting-, sun. Strange Scenes In Gotham. V The scene in Madison Square garden. New Y ork, during the Christian Endeavor convention was memorable—eighteen thousand under one roof, all young, all clean, all self-respecting, all on fire with seal. At the same time half a dozen other places only less spacious than the garden were thronged with overflowers. And it was sing and cheer and pray and exhort, here, there and yonder, until the whole city seemed transformed into a camp-meeting. —On a recent visit to a dry-goods house on Twenty-third street, New York, at the close of a busy day, within fifteen minutes of the closing hour, a gratifying sight met the eyes of'a belated shopper. Nearly every girl on the busy second fleor was comfortably seated in a chair. Her face was pale with weariness, but 6he was at ease, and did not look asff expecting a reprimand for the moment of respite from care. In so many large establishments of this and other cities girls arc not allowed to sit for a moment, save at lnnch, and no seats, or else a few very uncom fortable ones, arc provided, that the shopper concluded that this example was peculiarly worthy of commendation. _

—The restoration of one of the oldest church edifices on this continent is in progress at Smithfleld, Isle of Wight county, Va. It is in a picturesque and historical locality, ten miles diagonally across from Newport News and fifteen from Fortress Monroe, 'and is connected closely with many memories that are famous in the early history of America. It is an unique example of church architecture, haring been constructed of brick, with a massive Norman tower fifty feet in height at the west end. The walls of the tower are nearly three feet in thickness at the base, tapering slightly toward the top. That it was built in 1033 is proved by written records. —If Invisible ourselves, we could follow a single human being through one day of his life and know all his secret thoughts and hopes and anxieties, his prayers and tears and good resolves, his delights and woes and struggles, we should have poetry enough to fill a volume.—Drift Wood.' -Tis a sinister statistic this which the W. C. T. U. sends out, vis., that *80 per cent of the inmates of onr penal institutions have at some time been Sunday-school scholars, and that 75 per cent of these attribnte their downfall to the nse of intoxicating drink.” —It is a pleasant sight to see anybody thanking God, for the air is heavy with the hum of murmuring, and the roads with complaints and laments

from the consumer bud toexploit labor. Single handed the steel mills in and near Pittsburgh were not able to cope with the Amalgamated Association ol Iron and Steel Workers. They could and did make reductions in wages in some of the mills, but they dare not attempt to take the life of the Amalgamated association. The frequency of the reductions since April 1 last is evidence that the mills around Pittsburgh that now compose the Carnegie Steel Co. were already working in harmony on the labor question and jpl^pning to strike the death blow to the Amalgamated association. Here are some of the reductions reported: . April 7, 1803—Two hundred blacksmiths in the axle department of Carnegie’s Twenty-ninth street mill in Pittsburgh struck on Saturday against a 10 per cent, reduction in wages. April 10, 1803.—Fifty of the best paid workmen at the Edgar Thompson steel works of Andrew Carnegie, at Braddock, Pa, were discharged this week. >. April 10, 1893.—The Keystone iron mill, of Pittsburgh, Pa., employing 400 men, shut down a week ago to-day for an indefinite period. April 10, 1893.—The axle-hammer men in Pittsburgh, Pa, are on a strike at present against a reduction In wages amounting from 7 to 9 per ceht The wages of the blacksmiths at this mill (Edgar Thompson steel works) were at the same time reduced from 18.50 to $3.75 a day and their “helpers” from $1.80 to $1.60. May 1,1893.—'There has been a reduction in the wages of 150 employes of Andrew Carnegie at his Lower Union mills in Pittsburgh. Seventy-five blacksmiths accepted the cut of< about 20 per cent without munqjpr, but seventy-five hammer men struck. The Btrike was over in a few days, as it is b hard thing to get work when a man is blacklisted because he went on a strike. On June 2, 1893, the Iron Age announced the formation of a new concern to be known as the Carnegie Steel Co., Limited, the consolidation to become operative on July 1. next “The new organization will own and operate the following plants: Edgar Thomson steel works and blast furnaces at Bessemer, Pa., and Allegheny Bessemer steel works at Duquesne, Pa., both now controlled by Carnegie Bros. & Co., Limited; the Upper and Lower Union mills and-Lucy furnaces at Pittsburgh; the Homestead steel works, at Homestead, Pa., and the Beaver Falls mills, at Beaver Falls, Pa,, all now controlled by Carnegie, Phipps & Ca, Limited, and also the plant of the Keystone Bridge Ca, at Pitlib.trgh, which has always been a Carn.^fiy interest” As often happens, the s»«v' journal that

recorus a new euxuimw uuuuuuuoa ** forthcoming1 reduction of wages. Editorially in the same number of the Iron Age a warning is given to the Amalgamated Asssociation of Iron and Steel Workers, who will meet next week, that they must propose to accept a wage scale ‘‘which will show a material reduction over the one that expires the last day of this month.” The Iron Age knew the meaning of what was occurring. It knew that the new trust had designs on the life of the association, and it continued to discuss in June the ‘“precarious labor situation.” It knew that Henry W. Olliver and the other big iron and steel men who practically made the iron and steel schedule of the McKinley bill And who announced later that they were well suited with the new tariff schedule, must have had a purpose in reducing voluntarily the duty on steel billets, though they were careful to leave it above the prohibitory point This purpose began to be manifest when the consolidation of these great companies, representing about $30,000,030 in steel properties, was followed by the fortification of the Homestead works, where steel billets are produced largely and where the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers is strongest The Bhabby treatment of this association’s officers at the conferences held previous to July 1, and the promptness with which Pinkerton “watchmen” appeared at Homestead with arms, ammunition and provisions, makes it rea sonably certain that ever since the making of the McKinley bill schedule, these manufacturers have been deliberately planning the present dastardly raid on honest labor. The intention being to make the reduction heavy enough to compel a strike which, would offer an excuse for refusing to treat in any way with organized labor, and then to continue on the aggressive until their former employes would forswear their union and return to beg for their former places not already'filled by imported and non-union labor. Routed in this stronghold it would be easy to follow up the association in the other mills of the company, or trust, and soon there would be no Amalgamated association and no organization of labor to offer resistance to wage reductions. The election of Henry Clay Frick as “chairman” of this trust, the man who bad had greater success than any other man in protected Pennsylvania in “handling” labor, and who. as Rev. Mclllyar, of Homestead, said a few days ago, was the one man in Pennsylvania most hated by laborers, is significant as is also the disappearance from Homestead of those two great friends of labor, Messrs. Carnegie and Phipps. In short, this trust, like hundreds of others, is a conspiracy to “cow” the workingmen and to defraud the consumer. -

HIGH TARIFF. air—"n* mtow.n iepublioan friends have you tried Ion* enough This tariff, high tariff, high tariff! Don’t it look to you now like a big gamo of bluff, This tariff, high tariff, high tariff? Can you see where It’s helped you to sell or to buy? T: * IS it truth which they’ve told you, or is it a Uef And will you oontinue to vote till you die For tariff, high tariff, high tariff? The workingmen now have just opened their eyes £ To tariff, high tariff, high tariff. Republican pledges they’ve learned to despise On tariff, high tariff, high tariff. McKinley's loud talk has turned out mighty thin; It amounts to the same as American tin: It’s varnished outside, btft it’s rotten within, Like tariff, high tariff, high tariff. Monopolists cry for protection, you know. And tariff high tariff, high tariff. We’re taxed to protect them—you all know it’s A SO— •? . - WU^jtarlff, high tariff, high tariff. They urge us to vote, ana, with prom ses flne. Inform us we’ll have a more prosperous time: They gobble the fat and then throw us the rind— That’s tariff, high tariff, high tariff. The force bill yon know, Is another rank fraud, W1 h tariff, high tariff, high tarlt. Hew can any party suoh measures applaud. With tariff, high tariff, high tariff. It's a blot on the nation snob hills to put * through, But republican schemes of that sort are not We’ll change the whole plot If roum only puB true Against tariff, high tariff, high tariff. With tariff reform we will swamp the whole crow, And tariff, high tariff high tariff: With republican ohaff honest men have got through. And tariff, high tariff, lugu tariff: For Cleveland and Stevenson now dearths wav, We see through the mist the bright dawning «

GATE POSTS. tlons Relating to Propar Conatractian. Posts of moderate size, set three feet or more in depth, aie commonly rendered more firm by placing a broad or large stone against the yielding side before the hole is filled. 'This increases the stiffness of its position only so mncb as the size of the stone is broader than the post. A fiat stone will prove more efficient when placed fiat in the ground with one edge firmly against the post than ii its fist side rests against it, as commonly adopted, because the stone will yield more readily under simple pressure than it will slide in a compact soil, especially if the earth has been beaten or rammed compactly around it. Fig. 1 represents the stone with its flat side against the post, and Fig. 8 lying flat with its edge against the post A single heavy obstruction against the post is not sufficient Another should be placed on the opposite side to a A ii

W U <SSJ nos. l. 2 and 8. prevent the reversed yielding. In this case one should be half way np or near the fop and Ihe other at th* bottom— the upper one on the side towards which the post is inclined and the bottom one in the opposite position. Fig. 8 shows the posts thus set, and the dotted lines indicate the position which the post would take when the stiffening is insufficient. " It is not needful that stones should be used for this purpose; durable timber is better in many cases, because larger masses of it can be more conveniently employed. Dig . the post holeadn an oblong shape, long enough to receive the piece of wood at the whole depth on the one side, and half way down on the gate side. Deposit the timbers in snug position, beat the earth firmly about them, and the post will be firmly set. Bough or knotty pieces of wood will be better than if straight and smooth, because it cannot be pushed so freely through the soil; and it will be more efficient as a stiffener with its end against the post than with its side. If the most durable timber cannot be procured, that which is

no. *■ less so will answer a good purpose, be cause being well buried in compact earth it is shielded from the decaying influence of exposure to the air. When several posts stand in a row, as in a continuous fence, iron rods may be used for braces, attached to the bottom of one post and to the top of the next one, as shown in Fig. 4. The bottom of the first being nearly immovable, prevents the yielding of the top of the next one; and where gates are in the line of a post fence,they may be thus held immovable. When no pains are taken to set the posts of board or

no. S. rail fences firmly, with fnll and sufficient depth, a few years of exposure will too ofteh reduce them to the condition represented hy Fig. 5. A buried wooden frame, made of horisontal rails, a foot or two below the surface, is sometimes employed to render gates firm in their position, and occasionally answers a good purposes,but VL requires more labor in construction ''than some other modes. There are positions where living trees may be used as gate posts, which, after becoming large enough, will not yield

net. 8to any external pressure. Single trees alone may be made to answer the purpose, if the draft on them is not too great while they are young. But if the weight of the gate slightly bends the tree, it will in time become permanently inclined. This may be prevented b7 using long horizontal limbs to extend over the gate and meet, as represented in Fig. 8. Years are of course required to render such a contrivance permanent. If the trees are already large enough, they may be used at once on which to hang the gate. Among the kinds which may be employed for such supports are beech, white oak and American elm. Trees may be employed in the continuous line of a fence, where barb wire is used, by placing vertically strips of inch plank as facing between the wire and the bark pf the trees. This prevents the wire from sinking into the bark of the trees during their continuous growth.—Country Gentleman.

An Expensive H» Pen. Probably the most expensive pi* pen ever made was recently completed at the Harmonist community, at Economy, Pa. A local paper there describ;* it “The cost of ttys pen or nursery, up to date, is {8,000. It is constructed not only on sanitary principles, but with special regard to comfort of each and every porker which finds a place within its walls. It is heated by two large stoves, and the entire pen is covered with a glass roof with proper ventilators. The eating room is separated from the rest of the pen, and everything is kept scrupulously clean by two attendants, whose sole duty is to take care of the pigs and look after the heating and ventilating of the building. At present the pen contains 300 as fine young porkers as ean be seen anywhere. They seem to thrive in their well-kept home, and appear to realize their superiority over newcomers, which they eye with disdain.” Bye cnClover Sod. Plantain is the great pest of clover fields. After the first crop of clover is ripened, the plantain forces itself up, and a drop of seed is ready to befoul the lead. The mowing machine cannot keep the seed from forming, even If continual mowing was desirable. If the clover sod is turned for com or potatoes before the plantain ripens, and the ground left bare daring fall and winter, plant food is lost to the soil Better sow rye broadcast on the inverted sod and harrow it in. This will give a big growth to turn under in spring, adding much to the stock or available plant food furnished by the clover. Such a practice kills out the plantain and builds up the fertility oi the soil faster than clover alone, when the Amt crop is removed for hay and from it left to leach under ' * ' aa is too commonly

. a marine biological station, to dished near Kingston, the capital of the island. According to a Chicago paper the sculptors Daniel C. Trench and Edward C. Potter will design for the Colombian fair a group representing Columbus in a chariot drawn by horses, with, symbolical female figures leading the steeds. A designer of manikins proposes to do his part at the world's fair by fabricating a Columbus with a flesh-colored face of india rubber and an interior Which will deliver an address of 1,000 words in a more natural voice than the phonograph manages to use. SAID BY THE SCIENTISTS. A German scientist holds that all diamonds come from meteors. A German biologist says that the two sides of the face are never alike. A Roman scientist, Dr. Fornesari, has demonstrated that tobacco smoke kills nearly all kinds of germs. A German geologist estimates that the Dead sea will be one mass of solid salt within less than five hundred years. In speakingepf the solidification of a body by cooling. Prof. Dewar says that water can be made to become solid by the evaporation of a quarter of its weight. Few are aware that the human body falls asleep by degrees. A French physiologist conceives lhat the sense of sight sleeps first, then the sense of taste, next the souse of smell, next that of hearing and lastly that of touch. MILL AND FACTORY. Chinese control almost the entire shoemaking business in California. More than 8150,000 was received by Maine shoe peg factories last year for goods. . Thirty sardine factories in Maine are closed because there is no run of suit-able-sized fish to pack. Reports from manufacturers show the pig iron production for the year ending June SO to have been 9,710,8t9 gross tons, an increase cf 508,116 gross tons over 1S90. Hand-woven tapestries are now reproduced in such a perfect manner as to mako a most satisfactory substitute for the real and vastly more expensive fabric, and constituting, in fact, an industrial art of positive importance.

THE POSTAL SERVICE. The American < people spend $43,000,000 a year for letter postage. Mall-bag locks in the United States are changed every eight years. A postage stamp worth $5,000 has been discovered in New York. It is estimated that there are now 8,335 postmistresses in this country. It is barely fifty years sirae the postal stamp was introducec^ into the United States. . What is now North Berwick, Me., was known as Doughty’s Falls thirty j'ears ago. A postal clerk says that ^Occasionally letters are even now aduressed to Doughty’s Falls, and that he has had one such in his hands within the last month. FISH FACTS AND FANCIES. In California they catch fish by wheels. A dog at Yardley, Pa., saw a bass in the river, and, leaping in, frightened the fish so that it Jied to the shore, where it was grabbed by the dog’s master. A farmer near Martinsburg, Mo., plowfid up a perch in his field some time ago, and when he placed it in a tub of water it revived and swam about as lively as any fish. In India a huge fnnnel of wickerwork is planted in a Stream below a waterfall, and every fish coming down drops into it, the water straining out and leaving the flapping prey in the receptacle all ready to be gathered in. FACTS ABOUT FEATHERS. The nightjar has a cry like one lamenting in distress. The diving apparatus is one of the latest objects to which the telephone has been applied. A species of crow in India has a note which exactly resembles the human voice in loud laughing. *» THE MARKETS. New York, Aug. 1#, 1898. 5 09 5 00 84% 81 41) 5 10 4 fiO 5 75 5 09 385 49>2 61 5 10 7 10 ® 14 00 ® no ® 12 ® 13 37*4 9 7»t 31 CATTLE—Native Steers . ..* 3 25 ® COTTON —Middling. 7^3® FLOUR-Winter Wheat. 2 10 ® WHEAT-No. 2 Bed . 82h® CORN—No. 2... 83 « OATS—Western Mixed.. SO ® PORK-New Mesa. 14 25 ® 14 75 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling........... 7 BEEVES—(JhoieeStcars. 4 6> Median). 4 35 HOQS-F»irto Select .. ...... 5 49, SHEEP-Fair to Choice... 4 10 FLOUR—Patents 3 it) Fancy to Extra Do 3 00 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter. .. 73 COHN—No. 2 Mixed. 49 OATS-No. 2.. 33 RYK-No. 2. » TOBACCO—Logs.. 1 _ Leaf Bnrley. 4 50 HAY-Clear Timothy.......... 10 00 BUTTER—Choios Dairy. 17 EGGS—Fresh. PORK—Standard Mess (New). 13 15 BACON-ClearRib. 8=8 LARD—Prime Steam.. WOOL—Choice Tnh.— CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 3 20 HOGS—Fair to Choice.. o 10 8HEEP—Fair to Choice. 4 5J FLOUR-Winter Patents. 4 00 Soring Patents ..... 4 00 WHEAT—No. 2 Spring.... CORN—Na 2... PORK-Mess (Now). 12 29 '® 12 25 KANSAS CITY. OATTLE-Shipping Steers.... 2 75 HOGS—All Grades. 4 2o WHEAT-No. 2 Red. .*. 87 OATS-No. 2. *7 CORN-No. 2 . NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade.. 3 75 CORN-No. 2 . ... . OATS-Western. .... HAY—Choice . 16 i.0 PORK—New Mess... BACON-Sidea. COTTON—Middling. CINCINNATI. WHEAT-No. 2 Red .... « H COHN-No. 2 Mixed.... ® 54 COTTON—Middling....... ".! T»b 4 76 5 83 5 75 4 25 4 60 78 53Li ® 4 15 ® 5 86 ® C9Hr ® 27\ ® 43»s ® ® 4 25 60 41 17 (» 13 5) 9=) 7

markable in its effects that it can be eold on this plan is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Disco vary. As a blood-cleanser, strength-re-storer, and flesh-builder, there’s nothing like it known to medical- science. In every disease where the fault is in the liver or the l;lood, as Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Biliousness, and tbs most stubborn Skin, Scalp, and Scrofulous affections, it is guaranteed in every case to benefit or cure, or you have your money back. To every sufferer from Catarrh, no matter how bad. the ease or of how long stand, tag, the proprietors of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy say this: “If wo can’t cure it, permanently, we’ll pay you gold by «£ druggist*. C 38 . iS1 v-1'" .

by an mtunerenv nr aw um-, »r.u there is not one which can not do much to win it. Too many Christians have the ferryboat conception instead of the racing shell conception of the church. ' A .few are left to d<v ail the work, and the many regard themselves as mere passengers. Ail shonld pull- end must in order to succeed.—St. Lonis Republic. —The cheat cheats himself—the deceiver is self-deceived and grits his own teeth. “Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.”—Proverbs, xx., IT. —Exercise common sense in your charity and payments. “Say not unto thy neighbor: Go anil come again, and to-morrow 1 will give, when thou hast it by thee.”—Proverbs, Hi., 28. UulUon Is attractive, its line in the skin aud eyeballs is repulsive, aud indicates biliousness, a malady, however, easily remediable with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Nausea, sick headache, pai r,8 through t he right side and shoulder blade are raunifestatioiis or liver complaint, dismissaldo with the Bitters, which also banishes malarial, rheumatic and kidney complaints, nervoasness and constipation. Thehb Is something wrong with the man’s head who falls 'down on the same banana skin twice. ; Puro and Wholesome Quality . Cbmmends to public approval the California liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Pigs. It is pleasant to the taste end by acting gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels to cleanse the system effeotuaDy, it promotes the health and comfort of all who use it, and with millions It is the best and only remedy. No matter how little a man gets here below ho never gets quite all of it—Dallas News. Dtspepsia, impaired digestion, weak stomach, ami constipation Will be instantly relieved by Beecham’s Pills. 2a ceuts a box. A max's days are numbered, but ha cannot recover any of the back numbers.— Puck.

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RHEUMATISM _ farmers and others who pursue out door avocations suffer severely from rheumatism. The reason Is very plain if they will stop to think a moment. They get over heated and then sit in a draught. They lie at nightwith insufficient clothing, and when working in'the field they ar£ exposed to showers and get wet. The result in either case is the same. They check the perspiration, and the poison that has been thrown out through the pores of the skin is thrown back on the kidneys. They become inactive and fail to separate the uric acid from the blood and the whole life current is poisoned. The urate of soda is deposited in the joints and produces rheumatism. Now if, when first attacked the sufferer will take REID’S GERMAN COUGH AND KIDNEY CURE he will soon be relieved from any trouble of this sort. This great remedy contains nothing deleterious but if will at once incite the kidneys to action, and when they are in their normal Condition rheumatism is im* possible. Get this great remedy of any dealer. It comes at 25 and 50 cents a bottle. SYLVAN REMEDY CO., Peoria, 111.

“German Syrup” Boschee’s German. Jsyrup is more successful in the treatment of Consumption than any other remedy prescribed. It has been tried under every variety of climate. In the bleak, bitter North, in damp New England, in the fickle Middle States, in the hot, moist South—everywhere. It has been in demand by every nationality. It has been employed in every stage of Consumption. In brief it has been used by millions and its the only true and reliable Consumption Remedy. ®

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