Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 December 1892 — Page 4

ts of autumn making1 the mfortablo “With the first cool preparations are tropical animals ui during our hard winter. A curious cage on wheels is brought out, and into this the animal is coaxed by the kindly persuasion of a carrot or other favorite article of food, and then drawn comfortably to its winter quarters. This is always an exciting time for tho childrens they run along by the aide of the rage and watch with the greatest eagerness the process of placing the box in position* and when the of the door liberates tho final opening frightened beast the yells nnd shrieks whieh, greet its entrance to its winter lodging are enough to giro it nervous fidgets. The gnu, although it has many winters and summers in tho garden, grows very much excited at such times; and if it could get out I think it wonld make great havoc among its small tormentors. I do not think that the lions and tigers notice much difference between Bummer and winter. Of course they do not have tho summer cages with their rocks and trees to range in; but their house is warm, and plants and running fountain do. their best to hide the dismal fact that it is winter. Sometimes a tiger will sit motionless for a long time gazing Intently through tho windows at the snow landscape. Do you think,he ever wonders what can change the color of the outer world so completely?—St. Nicholas. A QUEEN’S REBUKE. The Late Duchess of Suthorlnmt by Iler Majesty of Great Britain. Upon one occasion Queen Victoria was ready and had entered the carriage, when it was observed that the mistress of the robes, the late duchess of Sutherland, was not in her place opposite the qneen. The royal lady tapped her little foot impatiently on the floor of the carriage nnd looked the annoyance which she too evidently felt at being kept waiting. A dozen people ran off in search of the absent one, who presently appeared not walking, hut positively running, while the perspiration streamed down her handsome face. She leaped into the carriage with agility of a young fawn, scarcely daring to look into her royal mistress’ face and expecting a verbal explosion, such as will sometimes issue from the royal lips. The queen, however, kept her temper, or, rather recovered it, and with a smile of forgiveness remarked: "My dear duchess, I think your watch must he a very bad time-keeper. Let me give you a better one.” And so saying Ijer majesty took off her own "ticker” and gave it to the duchess, ilio could hardly restrain her tears at The kindly reproof, and who, it is needless to add, was invariably up to time ever after, Tho story goes that she placed her resignation in her majesty’s hands the next day; if she did so it was not accepted, for she remained in her ’enviable position many years after the incident.—Philadelphia Times.

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Tribute to Female Heroism. rho Greater the Need the Greater the Courage Displayed by Woman— Every Age Has Produced Its Notable Heroines. The following sermon was delivered by Rev. T. DoWitt Talmage in the Brooklyn Tabernacle from the text: And R'apah, the daughter of Alah, took sackcloth and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of Heaven, and suffered neither the birds of tho air to rest on thsm by day, nor the beasts of the field at night.—II Samuel ixi.,10. Tragedy tlyit heats anything Sbakspearean, or Victor Hugoian. After returning from the Holy Land I briefly touched upon It, but I must have a whole sermon for that scene. The explosion and flash of gunpowder have driven nearly all the beasts and birds of prey from those regions, and now the shriek of the locomotive whistle which is daily heard at Jerusalem will for many miles around clear Palestine of cruel claw and beak. Ilut in the time of the text those regions were populous with multitudes of jackals and lions- Seven sons of Saul had been crucified on a hill. Rizpah was mother to two, f,nd relative to five of the boys. What hud these boys done that they should t>e crucified? Nothing exceptto have a bad father, and grandfather. But now that tho boys were dead why not take them down from the gibbets. No. They are sentenced to hang there. So Rizpah takes the sackcloth, a rough shawl with which in mourning for her dead she had wrapped herself, and spreads the sackcloth upon the rocks near the gibbets, and uets the part of a sentinel watching and defending the dead. Yet every other sentinal is relieved, and after being on guard for a few hours someone else takes his plaee. But Rizpah is on guard both day and night and for half a year. One hundred and eighty days and nights of obsequies. What nerves she must have had to stand that. Ah! do you not know that a mother can stand anything, Oh! if she might be allowed to hollow a plaee in the side of the hill and lay the bodies of her children to quiet rest! If in some cavern of the mountains she might find for them Christian sepulture. Oh! if she might take them from the gibbet of disgrace and carry them still, further away from the haunts of men and then lie beside them in 'the last long sleep! Exhausted nature ever and anon falls into slumber, but in a moment she breaks the snare, and chides herself as though she had been cruel and leaps up on the rock shouting at wild beast glaring from the thicket and at vulturous brood wheeling in the sky.{ The thrilling story of Rizpah rcaehes David and he comes forth to hide the indecency. The corpses had been chained to the trees. Tho chains are unlocked with, horrid clank and the skeletons are let clown. All the soven are buried. And the story ends.

What a hard thing that those seven boys should suffer for the crimes of a father and grandfather! Yes. But it is always so. Let everyone who does wrong know that he wore not only as in this ,ease against two generations, children and grandchildren, but against all the generations of coining time. That is what makes dissipation and uncleanness so awful. It reverberates in other times. It may skip one geenration, but it is apt to come up in the third generation, as is suggested in the ten commandments, which say: “Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.” Mind you, it says nothing about the second generation but mentions the third and the fourth. That accounts for what you sometimes see, very good parents with very bad children. Go far enough back in the ancestral lino and you find the source of all tho turpitude. “Visiting the iniquities of the fa the:-s upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation.” Ifowhen Saul died, the consequences of his iniquity could have died with him, it would not have been so sad. Alas, no! Look on that hill a tew miles out from Jerusalem and see the ghastly burdens of those seven gibbets, and the wan and wasted Rizpah watching them. Go to-day through the wards and alms-houses, and the reformatory institutions where unfortunate children are kept, and you will find that nine out of ten had drunken or vicious parents. Yea, day by day on tho streets of o*r cities you find men and woipen wrecked of evil parentage. They are moral corpses. Like the seven sons of Saul, though dead, unburied. Alas for Rizpih, who, not for six months, but for years and years has watched them. She can not keep tho vultures and the jackals off. * Furthermore, this strange incident in Bible story shows that attractiveness of person and elevation of position are no security against trouble. Who is this Rizpah sitting in desolation? One of Saul’s favorites. Her personal attractions had won his heart. She had been caressed of fortune. With a mother’s pride she looked on her princely children. But the scene changes. Behold her in banishment and bereavement. Rizpah on the rock.

Some of the worst distresses have come to scenes of royalty and wealth. What porter at the mansion’s gate has not let in champing and lathered steed bringing evil dispatch? On what tesselated hall has there not stood the solemn bier? Under what exquisite fresco has there not bees enacted a tragedy of disaster? What curtained couch hath heard no cry of pain? What harp hath never trilled with sorrow? What lordly nature hath never leaned against carved pillar and mado utterance of woe? Gall is hot less bitter when quaffed from a golden chalice than when taken from a pewter mug. Sorrow is often attended by running footmen, and laced lackeys mounted behind. Queen Anne Boleyn is desolate in the palace of Henry VIII. Adolphus wept in German castles, over the hypocrisy of friends. Pedro I., among Brazilian diamonds, shivered with fear1 of massacre. Stephen, of England, sat on a rooking throne. And eveiy mast of pride has bent in the storm, and the highest mountains of honor and fame are covered with perpetual snow. Sickness will frost the rosiest cheek, wrinkle the smoothest bro w and stiffen the sprightliest step. Riz]>ah quits the courtly circle and sits on the rock. Perhaps you look back upon scenes different, from those in which now from day today you mingle. You have exchanged the plenty and luxuriance of your father’s house for privation and trials known to God and your own heart The morning of life is flushed with promise. Troops of calamities since then have made desperate charge upon you. Darkness has come. Sorrows have swooped like; carrion birds from the sky, and barked like jackals from the thicket You" stand amid your slain, anguished and woe-struck. Rizpah on the rock. So it has been in all

flattery and ignominious death in the castle Fotheringay. The wheel of fortune ps turning, and mansions and huts nge, and he who rode the chariot pushes the barrow, and instead of the glare of festal lights is the simmering of the peatfire, and in plauc of Saul’s palace is the rock. The cold rock, the desolate rock. But that is the place to which God cornea Jacob with his head on a stone saw the shining ladder. Israel in the desert beheld the marshalling of the fiery baton. John on barren Patinos heard trumpeting and the clapping of wings, and the stroke of seraphic fingers on goldcfi harps, and nothing but Heavenly strength nerved Rizpah for her appalling mission amid the scream of wild birds and the stealthy tread of hungry monsters.' The grand* est visions of glory, the most rapturous experiences of Christian love, the greatest triumphs of grace have come to the tried and the hard-pressed and the betrayed and the crushed. God stooping down from Heaven to comfort Rizpah on the rock. Again the tragedy of the text displays the courage of woman amid great emergencies. What mother or sister or daughter woubj-daro to go out to fight the cormorant pnd jackel? Rizpah did it, And so wo\hd_y°u if an emergency demanded. Woman is naturally timid, and shrinks from exposure and depends on stronger arms for the achievement, of great enterprises. And she is often troubled lest there might be occasions de manding fortitude when she would fait Not so. Some of those Who are afraid to look out of door after nightfall, and who quake in the darkness at the least uncertain sound, and wKosfeirt at the slam of the door, and turn pale in a thunder storm, if the day of trial came would be heroic anil invulnerable. God has arranged it it so that woman needs the trumpet of some great contest of principle or affection to rouse up her slumbering courage. Then she will stand under the crossfire of opposing hosts at Chalons to givo wine to tho wounded. Then she will carry into prison and dark lane the message of salvation. Then she will brave the pestilence. Deborah goes out to sound terror into the heart of God’s enemies. Abigail throws herself between a raiding party of infuriated men, and her husband's vineyards. Rizpah fights back the vulture? from the rock. Among the Orfcnoy islands an eagle swooped and lifted a child to its eyrie far up in the mountains. With the spring of a panther the mother mounts hill above hill, eraigabove ernig, height above height; the fire of her own eye outflashing tho glare of tho eagle’s, and than with the unmailed hand, stronger iron beak and the terrible claw, she hurled the wild bird down the rocks. In the French revolution Cazore was brought out to be executed when his daughter threw herself on the body of her father and said:

‘Strike, barbarians! You can not reach my father but through my heart!” The crowd parted, and, linking' arms, father and daughter walked out free. During the siege of Saragossa, Augustina. carried refreshments to the ga tes. Arriving at the battery of Portillo she found that all the garrison had been killed. She snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman and fired a twenty-six pounder, then leaped on it and vowed she would not leave it alive. The soldiers looked in and saw her daring, and' rushed up and opened’ another tremendous fire on the enemy. Tho life of James I. of Scotland was threatened. Poets have sung those times, and able pens have lingered upon tho story of manly endurance, but how few to tell the story of Catherine Douglas, one of the queen’s maids, who ran to bolt the door, but found the bar had been taken away so ns to facilitate the entrance of tho assassin. She thrust her arm into the staple. The murderers rushing against it, her arm was shattered. Yet how many have since lived and died, who never heard the touching, selfsacrificing heroic story of Catherine Douglas and her poor, shattered arm You know how calmly Mine. Boland went to execution and how cheerfully Joanna of Naples walked to the castle of Muro, and how fearlessly Mine. Grimaldi listened to her condemnation, and how Charlotte Cdrday smiled upon the. frantic mob that pursued her to tho guillotine. And there would be no end to the recital if I attempted to present all the historical incidents which show that woman’s courage will rouse itself for great emergency. But 1 need not go so far. You have known some one who was considered a mere butterfly in society. Her hand had known no toil. Her cyy had wept no tear over misfortune. She moved among obsequious admirers as careless as an insect in a field of blossoming .buckwheat. But in 1876 financial tempest struck the husband’s estate. Before ho had time to reef sail and make things snug the ship capsized and went down. Enemies cheered at the misfortune and wondered what would becomo of tho butterfly. Good men pitied and said she would die of a broken heart. “She will not work,” they say, “and she is too proud to beg.” But the propheeies havo failed. Disister has transformed the shining sluggard into a practical worker. Happy as a princess, though corapeled to hush her own child to sleep and spread her own table and answer the ringing of her own door bell. Her arm had been muscled for the conflict against misfortune, hunger and poverty and want and all the other jackals Rizpah scares from the rock.

X BiftW UUC ill a» VIvQUlw tv llUUIvt HCi merciless companion had pawned even the children’s shoes for ram. From honorable ancestry'she had come down to this. The cruse of oil was empty and the last candle gone out. Her faded frock was patched with fragments of antique silk that she had worn on the bright marriago day. Confident in God she had a strong heart, to which her children ran when they trembled at the staggering step and quailed under a father’s curse. Though the heavens wore filled with Scree wings and the thickets gnashed with rage, Kizpah watched faithfully day after day and year after year, and wolf and cormorant by her God-strengthened arm were hurled down the rock. Yon pass day by day along streets where there are heroines greater than Joan of Arc. Upon that cellar floor there are conflicts as fierce as Sedan, and Heaven and hell mingle in the fight. Lifted in that garret there are tribunals whore more fortitude is demanded than was exhibited by Lady Jane Gray or Mary, Queen of Scotts. Now I ask if mere natural courage can do so much, what may w.e not expect from women who have gazed on the great sacrifice, and who are urged forward by all the voices of grace that sound from the Bible, and all the notes • of victory that speak from the sky. • Many years ago the Forfarshire ! steamer started from Hull bound for j Dundee. After the vessel had been out J a little while, the winds began to 1 rave and billows rise until a tem- ' pest was upon them. The vessel leaked and the fires went out, and though the sails were hoisted fore and aft she went speedily toward thebreakwith her bows fore

— clung to wreck on the bench. Sleeping that night in Langstane lighthouse was a girl of gentle spirit and comely countenance. As the morning dawns, I *ee that girl standing amid the spray and tumult of contending elements looking through a glass upon the | i wreck and the nine wretched sufferers. She proposes to her father to take boot and put out across the wild sea to rescue them. The father says: "It can not be done! Just look at the tumbling surf!" But she persisted, and with her father bounds into the boat. Though never accustomed to plying the ore, she takes one and her father the other. Steady, now! Pull away! Pull away! The sea tossed up the boot os though it were a bubble, but amid the foam and the wrath of the sea the wreck was reached, the exhausted people picked up and saved. Humane societies tendered their thanks. Wealth poured into the lap of the poor girl. Visitors from all lands came to look on her sweet face, and when soon after she launched forth on a dark sea and death was the onr&man, dukes and duchesses and mighty men sat down in tears in Alnwick castle to think they never again might sec the face of Grace Darling. No such deeds of daring will probably bo asked of yon, but hear you not the howl of that awful storm of trouble and sin that has tossed ten shivered hulks into the Know you that the whole earth is strewn with the shipwrecked? That there are wounds to be healed and broken hearts to be bound and drowning souls to bo rescued? Some have gone down and you caine too late, but others are clinging to the wreck, are shivering with the cold, (Ire strangling in the wave, are crying to you for deliverance. Will you not, oar in hand, put out to-day from the lighthouse? When the last ship's timber shall have been rent and-the last Longstone beacon shall havo been thundered down in the hurricane, and the last tempest shall have folded its wings, and the sea itself shall have been licked up by the tongue of all-consuming fire, tho crowns of eternal reward shall be kindlinginto brighter glory on the brow of the faithful. And Christ, pointing to the inebriate that yon reformed, and the dying sinner whom you taught to pray, and the outcast whom yon pointed to God for shelter, will say: “Von did it to them! You did it to me!" Again: the scene of the text impressed upon us the strength of maternal attachment. Not many men would have had courage or endurance for the awful mission of Rispah. To dare the rage of wild beasts and sit from May to October unsheltered, and watch the corpses of unburied children, was a work that nothing but the maternal heart eould have accomplished. It needed more strength than to stand before opened batteries or to walk in calmness the deck of floundering steamer. thousand breakers?

Oh, dcspiso not a mother s love: 11 heretofore you have been negligent of such an one, and you have still an opportunity for reparation, make haste. If you could only just look in for an hour’s visit to her you would rouse up 1n the aged one a whole world of blissful memories. What if she does it without talking much; she watched you for many months when you knew not how to talk at all. "What if she has many ailments to tell about- During fifteen years you ran to her with every little scratch and bruise, and she doctored your little finger as carefully as a surgeon would bind the worst fracture. You say that she is childish now; I wonder if she ever saw you when you-were childish. You have no patience to walk with her on the street, she moves so slowly. I wonder if she remembers the time when you were glad enough to go slowly. You complain at the expense of providing for her now. I wonder what your financial income was from one to ten years of age. Do not begrudge what you do for the old folks. I eare not how much you did for them, they have done more for yon. But from this weird text of the morning comes rushing in upon my soul a thought that overpowers me. This watching by Rizpah was an after-death watching. I wonder if now there is an after-death watching. I think there is There are Rizpahs who have passed death* and whoare still watching. They look down from their supernal and glorified state upon us, and is not that an after-death watching? I can not believe that those who before their death were interested in us have since their death become indifferent as to what happens to us. Not one hour of the six months during which Rizpah watched, seated upon the rocks, was she more alert or diligent, or armed for us, than our mother, if glorified, is alert and i diligent and armed for ns. It is not now Rizpah upon a rock, but Rizpah upon a throne. How long has your mother been dead? Do yon think she has been dead;long enough to forget you? My mother has been dead twentynine years. I believe she knows more about me now than she did when I stood in her presence, and I am no Spiritualist either. The Bible says: “Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to them that shall be heirs to salvation.” Young man! Better look out what yon do and where yon go, for your gloried mother is looking at you. You sometimes say to yourself: “What would mother say if she knew this?” She does know. You might cheat her once, but you can not cheat her now. Does it embarrass us to think she knows all about us? If she had put up'with so much when she was here, surely she will not be the loss n&t.imnt or excusatorv now.

Oh, this tremendous thought of my text, this after-death watching! What an uplifting consideration. And what a comforting thought. Young mother, you who have just lost your babe, and who feels the need of a nearer solace than that which comes from ordinary sympathy, your mother knows all about it. You can not run in and talk it all over with her as yon would if she were still a terrestrial resident, but it will comfort you some, 1 think, yea, it will comfort you a good deal, to know that she understands it all. You see that the velocities of the heavenly conditions are so great that it would not take her a half second to come to your bereft heart. Oh, .these mothors in Heaven! They can do more for us now than before they went away. The bridge between this world and tho next is not broken down. They approach the bridge from both ways, departing spirits, and coming spirits, disimprisoned spirits, and sympathizing spirits. And so let us walk as to be worthy of the supernal companionships, and if to any of us life on earth is a hard grind, let ns understand that if we watch faithfully and trust fully our blessed Lord, there will bo a corresponding reward in the Land of Peace, and that Rizpah who once wept on a rock now reigns on a throne. —The new Irish Viceroy is a filial son. His father was an old reprobate who wasted time and money in collecting literary and artistic indelicacies— the bric-a-brac of sheol. These the son has committed to puritanical flames. of America was hft> iva.

----JDISSTON'S INVESTMENT. twenty Tit inmnd Uullan For Protection That Compel* loierievii to I "a/ lllghei Price* For Ooodt than F»reI*Mor*. Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia, ,vho paid $10.00Jic 1SSS to the republican campaign corruption fnml to have the duty on saws increased, and who foolishly invested HO,003 more this year for the same purpose, is the largest manufacturer of saws in the world. IIis saws, files aid tools goeverpwhere. This seems strange. If he cannot pay American wages and compete with the "pauper goods” of Europe in rur own markets without protection, how can he compete without protection in South America, Australia and Europe? The answer is simple enough— he oould compete here without protection but "he l don’t have to.” Without protection his profits from American sales would be about the same as from foreign sales; now they are much greater. Without protection he might have been a millionaire or a two or three-millionaire but he could not have been a ten-mil-lionaire as now. The facts are that Mr. Disston puts his prices down in the open markets, down far below what he charge s# foi the same articles in the United States, where he says ho has to have protec* tion in order to keep up the pay of hia workmen, down even below the prices fixed by the Sheffield and other foreign manufacturers, driving them out of tho market and practically monopolising the saw trade of the .world. The faet that he is constantly reaching out after more of that foreign trade proves conclusively that he finds it not entirely unprofitable. Spear & Jackson, of Sheffield, England, are perhaps the next largest manufacturers of saws and files, and are the'^Disston’s principal competitors in the markets of the world, but they find it very uphill work trying to undersell them in foreign markets. Copies of Henry Disston & Sons’ wholesale price list, with discounts, for use in the United States, and copies of their price list and discounts for tho foreign markets tell an interesting tale. For instance, they show that a 21-inch solid-tooth circular saw, which sells at retail in the United States for $12, and is sold to tho hardware dealers at 43 per cent, and 10 per cent, off, or $5.94, is sold to the dealer at the other side of the .world for $5.40, or 10 per cent less. A similar saw. 50 inches in diameter, is wholesaled at home at $39.60, and in foreign countries for $33. Another article, one that every carpenter in the world uses, is a hand-saw. Disston & Sons make a great many ol them, but they have one, a 26-ineh saw, which they describe in their American catalogue as “the finest hand-saw manufactured.” This saw is put down to the home trade dealer at $30 a dozen, with 20 per cent and 10 per cent off, or $21.60. while abroad it is sold at the' same price with 45 per cent off, or for $16.50.

Quite a difference, that, in the price of a dozen hand-saws—$5.10, nearly 50 cents a saw. What is the result? The hardware dealer in Rio Janeiroor Auckland can sell that saw for $3 in American money and makq$7.50 a dozen, or 90 cents a dozen less than the American hardware dealer makes selling the same saw at $3.50 each. The foreign prices quoted are the prices packed and delivered on board ship. The articles mentioned were taken at random from the long list of goods sold by Disston & Sons. Compared article by article the lists show a difference of from 10 to 35 per cent in favor of the foreign purchaser. Can any carpenter in this protected land tell why he should be compelled to pay $3.50 for a hand-saw made here at his own door when tho same articlo may he sold at an almost equal profit in South America or far-off Australia for $3? And if ttese saws can be sold at a markets of the world, why cannot it he done here at home? A FARMER’S EXPERIENCE. A New Jersey Farmer -aves 35 Per Cent. By liuyl' { His Plows lu England. Every day brings fresh proof to the farmer" of the fact that the framers of the McKinley tariff had much in their minds while they were piling up the taxes on everything from A to Z. Ho must be about ready to make up his mind that nothing under the sun which he has a use for and must buy has been slighted in the now customs law. Now comes a New Jersey farmer back from a visit to his old home in England announcing that he has bought for the use of himself and friends a quantity of farm machinery of American make—bought it abroad because he could get it abroad for about half what he would have paid in this country for the same goods. The man’s name is E. W. Stout, and his farm is situated a few miles out of Trenton. Speaking to a Times reporter, Mr. Stout said: “I have always taken a homo paper ever since I came to this country and have read it, of course. Well, a couple of months ago I made up spy mind to take a run home to see my father. Just before I started I happened to see in my paper the advertisement of a farm machinery house that quoted prices. I talked with some of my neighbors about it, and we agreed that if I found on getting on the other side that I could buy some plows and other things and get them out to Trenton so that we could save 10 per cent. I should do it. “Well, I’ve done it, and in the course of a few days the things will arrive, and I reckon that I shall save considerably more than 10 per cent On the plows the saving will be fully 95 per cent, I think, for the prices for Ameri-can-made plows on the other side are just about half the prices charged for tho same things in this country. I bought hay rakes, cultivators, feed cutters and plows, and everything will come back to this country in the same packing that was on it when it was shipped from the factory. dozen in the open

“Whether it will have been improved by its sea voyages is more than I know,” continued Mr. Stout, ‘winking his other eye.’ “Sea trips do wines and brandies good, but I don’t know how it is with farm machinery. But, however that may be, I consider that I’ve done a good thing for myself and friends, and now I’m going home to vote the democratic tioket and see if I can’t help put an end to such a state of affairs as this, in which foreigners can buy American goods a good deal cheaper than we can get them in this country. “ ‘Protection,’ the republicans call it •Robbery’ is my name for it It’s nothing short of robbory when taxes make me pay $10 for a piece of farm machinery that the manufacturer sends abrood feu- sale at about half that sum, in spite of the extra expenses of packing and freightage I’d have staid on the other side another fortnight if I hadn’t thought it my duty to come home and voto for tariff reform and get my neighbors to do the same."—N. Y. Times, —The farmer has loarned that he is taxed on everything he must buy and protected in nothing that he produces; and he knows that the first and most important industry of the nation is not prosperous, because ho must now sell his wheat for less than it costs to produce it even under the most frugal management, and because he knpws that during the last twenty years of high tariff taxes the market value of his farm has decreased quite Wpw eeuh —Philadelphia Tim**. ft

AGRICULTURAL HINTS, STORED GRAIN INSECTS. Description null Habits of the PanaltM and How to Destroj Them. Bulletin No. 17, Mississippi experiment station, fives a detailed report on tlie most common and destructive insects affecting grain in the bin or crib, with a list of remedial measures which have Jjeen tried with more or less success. " The bulletin says: Among the insects injurious to grain is the Angoumois grain moth (Fig. 1.) It attacks wheat and corn principally. The larva, a, is light in color, and measures about one-fourth of an inch in length when full grown. The pupa, b, is nearly onefourth of an inch long. The mature insect, c, is a small moth; d is a wing of a paler variety; e, egg; f, corn, showing damage by larva; g, labial palpus of male moth; h, anal segment of pupa. The eggs are either laid on the standing grain in the field or after it has been stored in the bin. When deposited on corn they are generally placed under the thin membrane at the l>a'se of the seed. They are also laid in grooves or depressions in the seed, singly ns a rule, bnt sometimes in clusters. The number of annual generations vary according to temperature. In warm weather it takes but a month to pass from the egg to the moth. The insects reproduce so rapidly, it takes hut a short time to destroy grain when stored. The nutritious portion of the Seed is eaten and only the shell remains. Fig. 2 represents an ear of corn, showing damage done —by the Angoumois grain moth. Fig. S is a parasite of the Angoumois moth (Pteromalis gelechioo), which attacks the larva of this moth and does immense good in keeping it in check. The parasite is a small, black, fly-like insect, with four transparent wings. The male, a, is shorter than tho female; is less than one-tenth of an inch long; b shows posterior leg with dusky femora. Fig. 1 is the corn sap-beetle, (Carpophilns pallipennis.) It gets its name from the fact that it enters fruit which has been previously injured by other insects. The larva, a, is abont one-seventh of an inch long

flC3 , 'It 4 STOKED GRAIN INSECTS. The hectic, b, the same length and is a brownish-black color, elub-sliapcd antenna; and light reddish-brown wing cases which do not fuily cover the abdomen. This beetle is very common late in summer and autumn, and especially attacks the cars of corn which have been previously injured, it is most common in the field but is also found in stored corn during winter. So far it has not proved very injurious as it generally feeds upon the dry decaying kernels at the outer extremity of the ear. The best remedy for grain insects that has yet been discovered is bisulphide of carbon. This can be applied several ways, and should be done when the grain is put in the bins. It can be placed on top of the bin and be allowed to evaporate. Being heavier than air it will go dbwn through the grain. Another method is to tie cotton on a stick of such length that it cau be plunged into the middle of the bin. Pour the bisulphide on the cotton and push it into the grain. Still .another method is by means of a long tube or piece of pipe in which is a tight fitting rod. Push one end of the tube into the center of the grain, withdraw the rod, pour the bisulphide down the tube, after which the tube may be withdrawn. If a tight fitting rod cannot be obtained a plug can be put into one end of the tube and after this end has been pushed into the grain the plug can be loosened with a rod or stick. The bisulphide is then poured in as before. The object of getting it in the center is to secure as even a distribution as possible. In wheat, opts and shelled corn, the last two methods of treatment are excellent, as the ball of cotton containing the charge of bisulphide or the tube can be very readily placed near the center of the grain. Corn not shelled however is best treated by putting the bisulphide in an open dish or sprinkling it over the top of the heap. The amount of bisulphide used will vary with the tightness of bin. As a rule one ounce to one hundred pounds of grain is sufficient. The cost of the bisulphide when bought direct from the manufacturer is ten cents per pound for fifty-pound cans. It can bo obtained at drug stores for flora twenty to twenty-five cents per pound, but, as it should be kept on hand, obtaining it direct from the manufacturer will be much cheaper. To destroy insects in grain in mills, quantities of the bisulphide can be placed in dishes in various elevated places. Bisulphide being highly explosive it is essential that no matches, lamps or fire be around until the fumes pass away, as they soon da In spring the insects in the empty or nearly empty granaries should be ‘killed by means of the bisulphide or kerosene applied with a force pump or watering can, which will decreaso the damage the following autumn and winter.—Orange Judd Farmer. SORTING POTATOES. How to Divide the Tubers la Three Grades Without Much Trouble. A correspondent of the Practical Farmer says this operation may be made easy by constructing “a box 12

feet long and 4 feet wide, like the illustrut ion, with throe partitions. The back piece should be about 4 feet high, the next S feet, and the next 1% feet high. Nail piekets on for screens. Put them rather close together on the first incline, and further apart on the second. This sorts them in three grades. Shovel them on the top or first incline and poke them down, and you hare then, sorted in three grades.” Potash is a special fertilizer for the orchard. Not only are trees benefited by i\ but all kinds of small fruits nlso. It may be used in tbe form of wuod ashes, or as a muriate or sulphate. On heavy soils wood ashes may be advantageously applied in the fall, but for light soils the spring season should be preferred' . IMiSSlSi

—A circular was recently received by the collector of the {tort, from the treasury department, fixing the value ot the Austrian florin at two crowns, or 40 6-10 cents. This is about the rate at which the Austrian paper florin was valued formerly. The silver florin was rated at S3 cents and the gold at 43 3-10 cents. The Austrian monetary system hah undergone some changes, and the present ruling applies to the florin of every kind, whether paper, gold or silver. The customs authorities used to be annoyed l>y goods that were purchased for a certain number of gold florins being entered at the valuation of a certain number of silver florins.—If. Y. Tribune. Messrs. Editors: Knowing how many expectant Mothers in the land will appreciate the information, aud desiring to save all the anguish and pain of the trying hour, I wish to give my experience i 1 used two bottles of Mothers? 1* riend with great relief, suffered hut little pain, and was not sick over twenty minutes. 1 did not experience that weakness usual in such cases, ar.d looked aud felt bo well afterwards that my friends wondered at it; as on previous occas'ons of this kind 1 suffered greatly. I need the remedy on my breasts and did not have the least trouble with them. 1 passed through the rrists with so little trouble that even my physician was astonished, and after I told ltirn that it was the result of the use of Mothers’ Friend, he advised his daughter to use the remedy, and slto saye,fChe cannot praise it enough. I have known many ladies to use Mothers’ Friend, and they all pronounce it a great blessing to expectant mothers. Mrs. Sam Hamilton, Eureka Springs, Ark. .“An,” she murmured, as her fattier hustled two would-be visitors from the front door, “I think I hear the rustling of the leaves.’*'—Washington Star. A Mammoth Competition, $6,300 In prizes for the best seven storie3 was what The Tvufh's Companion offered; $3,000 for the best Serials, and $1,500 for tiic best Folk-lore tales. No less than 2,903 stories competed for theso prizes. The successful stories are just announced to appear in Tile Companion during 1893. By sending $1.75 at once you wilt obtain the paper fki.k to January and for a fall rear, to January, ’94. Address The Youth's 'Companion, Boston, Muss. Natcre is on the road along with the other fall travelers. Her samples of colors are auusually beautiful.—Boston Globe. She’s Off l Who or what? Why the good ship-, and if there is a pas enger on board of her unprovided with that grand preventive of sea sickness and all disorders of the stomach, liver aud bowels, Hosletter's Stomach Bi,tters. all we have to say is, he or she is very unthoughtful. There is nothing comparable to this medicine in cases of malarial fever, rheumatism, nervous2ess and loss of strength. How Mccn easier it is to sit in the shade and tell our friends what wo intend to do, than it is to go out in the suu and do it

A Child Enjoys The pleasant flavor, gentlo net ion anti soothinsr effect of Svrun of Figs, when In need of a laxat ve, and if the father or mother be costive or bilious, the most gratifying results follow its use; so that It is the best family remedy known and every family should hare a bottle. --——• Advice to husbands—never talk In your sleep unless you’re sure what you are going to say.—Drake’s Magazine. J. S. Parker, Fredouist, N.Yajays: “Shall not call on you for tho $100 reward, for I believo Hull’s Catarrh Cure will cure any ease of catarrh. Was very bad.” Write him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, 15c. A mas who gets choleric over his collar button has not necessarily got any commashaped bacilli about him.—Boston Transcript. The only loan folks yon can find in this world are those who try to keep all they can get.—Hum s Horn, t “That unrivalled coiuplexlon,’V said a prominent New Yorker, al udinj^Hp a lady acquaintance, “was the rosult of using Garfield Ten.” Send for free sample to 31l> West 45tli Street, York City. 3 -<_-OTns lazy laundress, as well as the flannel shirt, shrinks from washing.—Puck. The Throat.—“Brown'sBronchial Troches" act directly on the organs of the voice. They have an extraordinary effect iu all disorders of the throat.__ It is all right to have tho rart before the horse when you are hacking. Expeosioxs of Coughing are stopped by Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothaoho Drops Cure ia one minute. There is generally music in the heirwhen he wake; at midnight Who suffers with his liver, constipation, bilious ills, poor blood or dizziness-take Beechatn’s Pills. Of druggists. 25 cents. A campaign lie may bo nailed, bat caucuses are bolted.—Somerville Journal.

THE MARKETS. Jew York, Dec. 8. 1893. CATTLE—Native Steers. .... COTTON—Middling.. FLOUR —Winter Wheat. WHEAT—No. 3 Bad.. CORN-No. 2... OATS—Western Mixot. PORK—New Mess. ST. LOUIS. COTTON-Middling.... BEEVES—Choice Steers. Medium. HOOS-Fair to Select. SHEEP—Fair to Choice-FLOUR-Pateuts .. Fancy to Extra Do.. WHEAT—No. 2Red Winter... CORN-No. 3 Mixed .... . OATS—No. 3...... RYE-No. 2. .. TOBACCO—Loss. . lieaf Burley. KAY—Clear Timothy. BUTTER-Choice Dairy. EGGS-Fresh. PORK—Standard Mess (new) BACON—Clear Rib..... LARD—Prim's Steam.. Vi OOL—Choice Tnb. CHICAGO. S 3 80 ® 600 .... a 9% 8 00 ® 4 30 . 77*4*9 79*4 5 3«9 6U4 3 la® 38 15 CO ® 15 50 .... ® 9% 4 90 ® 5 59 3 00 a 4 85 5 40 a 6 10 4 5 ® 4 75 3 35 « 3 55 2 50 ® 3 15 08*9 38 ® ES\t :0>a® 31 47*4® 43 1 to a 5 la 4 50 « 7 10 10 00 ® 12 00 o*i a 26 .... a £3 ... a is uo .... a #'e .... ® 9>a 33 a £3 CATTLE—Shipping. 8 HOGS—Fair to Choice-..... 5 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 3 FLOUR—Winter Patents. 3 Spring Patents. 8 WHEAT-No. 3 Spring. CORN-No. 2.. OATS—No. 2-jr,.... PORK—Mesa (New)..... KANSAS CITY. 30 600 6 30 500 3 93 4 10 71*4 411a 3014 u so CATTLE—Shipping Steers— 3 1 Grad HOGS—All WHEAT-No. 3 Red . OATS—No. 2. CORN-No. 3....... NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade.. 3 CORN—No. 8.. OATS—Western. HAY-Choice.15 PORK—New Mess... BACON—Sides .. . . COTTON—Middling. CINCINNATI WHEAT-No. 2 Bad. CORN-No. 3 Mixed... OATS—No. 2 Mixed... PORK-New Meas..^.... ..... . BACON—Clear Rib...... COTTON—Middling... ® a ® 29 *9® 5 25. 605 31 a l-O 3112 03 ffl .. ® 83b» 3 75 49*9 35*9 16 0019 34 62 9% 9*9 .. ® .. a a 9»i® .. a 70 43I9 3. 11 25 9*8 0’S ALWAYS THUS. Pilot Knob, Mo. Suffered Mr. “ Henry P. QA Travers, formerly (UU of this place, sufYoars. fered with chronic rheumatism for 20 years, and was treated at times by several doctors. 6T. JACOBS Oil. cured him. No No Return return of pain ^ Years. in 3 years. G. A. Farrar.

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lie Beat Cough Syrup.* iTastes Good. Use in Umo.1 Isold by Druggists. Abm^j ta-ra'mAaflrci seven years ago I had Bronchitis, which finally drifted into Consumption, so the doctors said, and they had about given me up. I was confined to my bed. One day my husband went for the doctor, but he was not in his office. The druggist sent me a bottle of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. I took two doses of it, and was greatly relieved before the doctor came. He told me to continue its use as long as it helped me. I did so, and the result is, I am now sound and well— entirely cured of Consumption.—Mrs. P. E. BAKER, Harrisburg, HUnois. February 20, 1891.

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