Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1891 — Page 7

NEW YEAR SERMON.

FORWARD IS THE RINGING BATTLE CRY. #ftnlst«rs and Christiana Called Upon to j Bailey In aGi and Charge Against Sin —Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached in Brooklyn and New York, Sunday and Sunday night, the following sermon. Text: ILuke xxiv, 49. He said: i for a few months, in the providence !©f God. I have two pulpits, one in Brooklyn and the other in New York, and through the kindness of the press an ever-widening opportunity. To all such hearers and readers I come with ‘an especial message. The time has Arrived for a forward movement, such as the church and the world has never seen. That there is a need for such a religious movement is evident from the ifact that never since world wa3 swung out among the planets lias there been such ah organized and determined es fort to overthrew righteousness and make the ten commandments obsolete aad the whole Bible a derision. Meanwhile alcoholism is taking down its victims by the hundreds of thousands, • and the political parties get dowhjm their knees, practically saying: ‘*o ithou almighty Hum Jug, we bow down Jbefore theeT " Give us the offices, city, State and National, Oh, give us the Offices, and we will enshrine thee for. ever and ever, Amen.” The Christian Sabbath, meanwhile, appointed for physical, mental and spiritual rest, is being secularized and abolished. As if the bad publishing houses of our own country had exhausted their literary filth, the French and Russian sewers have been invited to pour their scurrility and immoral slush into the trough where our American swine are now wallowing. At the same time' there are enough houses of infamy in all our cities, open and unmolested of the law, to invoke the omnipotent wrath which buried Sodom under a deluge of brimstone. The panuemoniac world, 1 think, has massed its troops, , and they are at this moment plying their batteries upon family circles, church circles, social circles, political circles and Natioual circles. Apollyon is ip the saddle and riding at the head of his myrmidons, and would capture this world for darkness and woe. That is one side of the conflict now raging. On the other side we have the most magnificent gospel machinery that the world ever saw or heaven ever Invented, In the first place, in this country more than 80,000 ministers of religion, and, take them as -a class, more consecrated, holier, mere consistent, more self-denying', more faithful men never lived. I know them by the thousands. I have met, them ,in every city. lam told, not by them, but by people outside our profession,, people engaged in Christian and re-j formatory work, that the clergy of America are at the head of all good enterprises, and whoever else faii they may be depended on, The truth of this is demonstrated by the fact that when a minuter does fall it is so exceptional that the newspapers report It as something startling, while a hundred men in other callings may go down without the matter being considered as especially worth mentioning. In addition to their equipment In moral character, the clergy of this; country have ali that the schools can give. All archaeological, rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, literary attainment. So much for the Christian ministry of all denominations. In the next place on our side of the conflict, wo have the grandest churches of all time, and higher style of membership, and more of them, and a host without number of splendid men and women,; who are doing their best to have .this world purified, , elevated, gospelized. But we all feel that something is wanting. Enough hearty songs have been sung, and enough sermons preached within the last six months, to save all the cities of America, and in saving the cities you save the world, for they overfloW all the land, either with iheir religion or their Infamy. But look at some of the startling facts. It is nearly 1,900 years 6ince Jesus Christ came by the way of Bethlehem cax-avansary to save this world, yet the most of the world has been no more touched by this most stupendous fact of all eternity than if on the first Christmas night the beasts of the stall amid the bleatings of their own young, had not hoard the bleatings of the lamb that, was to be slain. Out of the 1,800,000,000 of the human race, 1,400,000,060 are without God and without hope in the world, the camel driver of Arabia, Mohammed, with his nine wives, having half as many disciples as our blessed Christ, and more people are worshipping chunks of painted wood and carved Btone than are worshipping the living and eternal God. Meanwhile, the most of us who are engaged in Christian work —I speak for myself as well ns others —are toiling up to our full capacity of body, mind and soul, harnesqed up to the last buckle, not able td draw a {>ound more than we a|*e drawing, or I t an ounce more than we are lifting. What is the matter? My text lets out the secret. We all need more of the power from on high. Not muscular power, not logical power, not scientific powor. not social power, trot financial power, not brain power, but power from on high. With it we could accomplish more in one week than without it in a hundred years. And I am going to get it, if, in answer to prayer, earnest and long continued, God will grant it to mo, his unworthy servant. Men and women who know how to pray, when you pray for yourself pray for mo, that I may bq endowed with power from on high. I would rather have it than all the diamond fields of Golconda. and all the pearls of the sea, and all the gold of the mountains. Many of the mightiest intellects never ‘ had a touch of it, and many of the less

than ordinary Intellects have been surcharged with it. And every man and woman on earth has a right to aspire to it, a right to pray for it, and, property' persistent, will obtain it. Power from on the level is a good thing, such power as I may give you, or yon may give me, by encouraging words and actions .Tower from on the level when other pulpits are in accord with ours. Power from on the level when the religious .and s’ecular press forward our Christian undertakings. But power from oh the level is not sufficient. Power from on high is what we need to take possesion of us. Power straight from God. Supernatural power. Omnipotent power, all-conquering power. Not more than one out of l,oooof the ministers have it continuously. Not more than one out of 10,000 Christians have it all the time. Given in abundance these last ten years of the nineteenth century would accomplish more for God and the church and the world than the previous ninety years of this century. A few men and women in each age of the world have possessed it. Caroline Fry, the,immortal Quakeress, had it, and 600 of the depraved and suffering of Newgate Prison under her exhortation repented and believed. Jonathan Edwards had it, and Northampton meeting-house heard the outburst of religious emotion as he spoke of righteousness and judgmentto come. Samuel Budgett, the Christian merchant, had it, and his benefactions showered the world. John Newton had it. Bishop Latimer had it. Isabella, Graham had it. Andrew Fuller had it. The great evanglists, Dr. Baker and Dr. Nettleton and Truman Osborn and Charles G. Finney had it. In my boyhood I saw Truman Osborn rise to preach in the village church at Somerville, New Jersey, and before he had given oqt his text or uttered a word, people in the audience sobbed aloud with religious emotion. It was the power from on high. All in greater or less degree may have it. Once get it and nothing can stand before you, Satan goes down. Caricature goes down. Infidelity goes down. Worldliness goes down. All opposition goes down. Several times in the history of the church and the world has this power from on high been demonstrated. In the seventeenth century, after' a great season of moral depression, this power from on high came down upon John Tillotson and Owen and Flavel and Baxter and Bunyan, and there was a deluge of mercy higher than the tops of the highest mountains of sin. Corning to later date, there may be here in this audience am aged man or woman who can remember New York in 1861 when this power from on high descended most wonderously. It came upon pastors and congregations and theaters and commercial establishments. Chatham Street Theater, New York, was the scene of a, most tremendous a wkening. A committee of Christian gentlemen called upon the lessee ■of the theater and said they would like to buy the lease <jf the theater. Ho said. “What do you want it for?” They replied, “for a church.” “For wh-a-a-t?” said the owner. “For a church,” was the reply. The owner said:, “You may have it and I will give you SI,OOO to help you on with the work. 1 ’ Arthur Tappan, a man mightly persecuted in his time, but a man. as l saw him lira his last days, as honest and pure and good, as any man I ever knew, stepped on the stage of old Chatham Theater, as the actors were closing their ramming rehearsal and said’ “There will be preaching here to-night on this stage,” and then gave out and sang, with such people as were there, an old hymn.

The bar-room of the theater was turned into a prayer-room, and 800 persons were present at the first meeting. For seventy successive nights religious services were held in that theater, and such scenes of mercy and salvation as will be subjects of conversation and congratulation among the ransomed glory as long as heaven lasts. But I come to a latter time—--1867 remembered by many who are here. I remembered it especially as I had just entered the office of the ministry. It was a year of hard times. A great panic had flung hundreds of people penniless. Starvations entered habitations that had never before known a want. Domestic life, in garroting.burglary, assassination were rampant. What an awful day that was when the banks went down. There has been nothing like it in thirty years, and I pray God there may not be anything like it in the next thirty centuries. Talk about your Black Fridays! It was Black Saturday, Black Monday. Black Tuesday, Black Wednesday, Black Thursday, as well as Black Friday. This nation in its extremity fell helpless before the Lord and cried for pardon and peace, and upon ministers and laymen the power from on high decended. Engine-houses, warehouses hotel parlors, museums, factories from 12 to 1 o’clock, while the operatives were resting, were opened for prayers and sermons, and inquiry rooms, and Burton's old theater on Chambers street, where our ancestors used to assemble to laugh at the comedies,and all up and down the streets, and out on the docks and on the deck of Bhips lying at the wars people sang. "All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name,” while others cried for mercy. In those dp,ys, what songs, what sprmans what turnings to God, what recital of thrilling experiences, what prodigal brought homo, what burning tidings of souls saved. What serfdom of sin emancipated, what wild rout of forces of .darkness, what victories for the truth! What millions on earth and in heaven, are now thinking Gqsl for 1857. its spiritual triumphs on the heels of its worldly misfortune'' 1 It was what my text calls the power from on high, That was thirty years ago, and

though there have been in various parts of the land many stirring of the Holy Ghost, there has been no general awakening. Docs it not seem to you that w® ought to have and may. have the scenes of power in 1817 eclipsed by the scenes of in 1891? The circumstances are somewhat similar. While wo have not had national panic and universal prostration as in 1857, there has been a stringency in the money market that has put many of our families of the earth to their wit's end. Large commercial interests collapsing have loft multitudes of employe, without means of support. The racked brains of business men have almost or entirely given way. New illustrations all over the land of the fact that riches have not only feet, on which they walk slowly as they come, but wings on which they speed when they go. Eternal God! Thou knowest how cramped, and severe, and solemn aQtime it is with many. And, as the business,ruin of 1858 was followed by the glorious triumphs of grace. Let the awful struggles of 1890 bo followed ,by the hallelujahs of a nation saved in 1891. Brethren in the Gospel ministry? if we spent half as much time in prayer as we do in the preparation of our sersertnons nothing could stand before us. We would have the pjwer from on high as we never hav hid it. Private membership Of all Christendom if we spent half as much time in positive prayer for this influence as we do in thinking about it and talking about it, there would not be secretaries enough to take down the names of those who would want to give in their names for enlistment. We would have hundreds of cases like those recently reported when a man said to an evangelist: * T aril a lost sinner. Pray for me. My wife has been a professor of religion for years,but I knew she did not enjoy religion, and I said if that was all ! here was in religion I did not want it. But for the last few days sho looked and acted in such an elevated spirit that I can not stand it away from God. T want the same religion that inspires her.” Come! Come! all through the United States, 4 and all through Christendom, and all around the world let us join hands of holy pledge that we will call upon God for the power. Oh. for the power from on high, the power that came on Pentecost, yea, for ten thousand Pontecosts. Such times will come, and they will comeinour day if we have the faith and the prayer and the consecration.

Many of my hearers to-day are what the world calls, and I would call splen- ] did fellows, and they seem happy j enough, and are jolly, and obliging, and if I were in trouble I would go to them with as much confidence as I would to my father, if he were alive. Hut whenjhey go into their rooms at aight, or when the excitements of social and business life are off, they are not content, and they want something better than this world can offer. I understand them so well, I would, without any fear of being thought rough, put my right hand on their one shoulder and my left hand on their other shoulder, and push them into the Kingdom of God. But 1 cannot. Power from high, lay hold of them! At the first communion aftiy tho dedication of our former church 328 souls stood up in the aisles and publicly espoused the cause of Christ. At another time time 400 souls; at another time 500; and our 4,500 membership was but a mall part of those who within those sacred walls took upon themselves the vows of the Christian. What turned them? What saved them? Power from the level? No. Power from on high. But greater things are to be seen, if ever these cities and ever this world is to be taken for God. There is one class of men and women in all these assemblages in whom I have especial interest, and that is those who had good fathers and mothers once, but they are dead. What multitudes of us are orphans! Wo may be 40, 50, 80 years old, but wo never get used to having father and mother gone. Oh! how often wo have had troubles that we would like to have told them, and we always felt as long as father and mother were alive we had some one to whom we could go. Now I would like to ask you if you think that all their prayers in our behalf have been answered. you say, “but it is too late, the old folks are gone now.” I must courteously contradict you. It is not too late. I have a friend in the ministry who was attending the last hours of an aged Christian, and my friend said to tho old Christian: “Is there no trouble on your mind?” The old man turned his face to the wall for a few moments and then 6aid; “Only one thing; I hope for the salvation of my ten children, but not one of them is yet saved; yet I am sure they will be. God means to wait until I am gone.” And so he died. When my friend told of the circumstances eight of tho ten had found the Lord, and I have no doubt the other two ere this have found him Oh. that the long postponed answers to prayer for you, my brother, for you. my Bister, might this hoifr descend in power from on high.

Where Every woman Smokes.

Everybody smokes in «fapan. Th< pipes hold a little wad of flne-cut to bacco as big as a pea. It is fired, am the smoker takes oue long whiff, blow lug the smoke in a cloud from hii mouth and The ladies bav< pipes with longer stems than the men and if one of them wishes to show i gentleman a special mdrk of favor shi lights her pipe, takes half a whiff hands it to him and lots him finish on the whiff. A rapid penman cau write thrity words a minute. To do this he must draw his quil through the space of a ro l—l6s feet In forty minutes pen travels a furlong, and in five hours and athiid one mile.

INDIANA STATE NEWS:

There are 121 Chinese in Indiana. ’' The Union City Eagle has entered upon its twenty-ninth volume. ~ Terre Haute is enjoying the luxury of electric street railway service. □ Marion Potts, of Willow Brance, attempted to cross in f rontof an approachin train, and was crushed to death. Michigan City will make a strong effort to wrest the honors of being the county seat of Lsj.crte county from Laporte. fne ’rdi.v.a State Teachers’ Association or. the 31st urged legislation making edu* cation compulsory and providing free texts books for use iu public schools. With the new year a number of saloon me.i in New Albany declined to renew their license and they retired from the business fift celling intoxicants. Terre Ms’.tts saloon keepers continue to defy the la w relative to the sale of intoxicants on Sunday and after 11 p. m., and the feeling against the police is bitter. Ttn Evansville postmaster threw out of the mails one day’s issue of the Evansville Courier because it contained a report of distribution of prizes in a local lottery. Johnny Wonderlich, of South Bend, a juvenile, bled to death from a wound in his mouth, near the root of his tongue, caused by a small whistle. His brother died from a like injury one year ago. Frank Carr and Robert Miesso,juveniles, of Noblesville, secured a can of powder with which to oelebrate the new year, and in u premature explosion both were badly injured and Miesse was blinded for life. John Q. Thomas was fatally burned on the night of the 24th, while playing Santa Claus at the Second M. E. Church at Marion. He approached too close to a gas jet, when his trappings took fire and in a moment he was wrapped in flames. ; Fort Wayne Gazette canvassed the Republican editors of the State on their preference for President in 1892, finding ten favoring Blaine, sixteen voting for Harri son, one each for Gresham, Reed and Sherman, while the others were for the nominee.

While Miss Blanche Cressie, of Crawfordsville, was sitting under an overhanging lamp, the fastenings of the latter gave way and the lamp fell into her lap. The oil was spilled, and, catching fire, she waa practically enveloped in flames. With rare presence of mind, however, she succeeded in smothering the flames by the folds ol her garments, and escaped serious injury. James Kimseyrof Ylgo county, attempt ed to whip his wife in the presence of Mrs, Sarah S. Acton, his mother-in-law, and - Mrs. Acton blacked one of his eyes. Thereupon he knocked the old lady down. She sprang toller feet and knocked him down, I and then she seized a chair and belabored him without mercy, disarmed him of a knife which he attempted to Use, and threw him outside the house. The members of Bear Creek Lodge, Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, near Rome City, held a mass meeting and Uitbdrew the lodge from further membership with the Alliance, claiming that it was being perverted from its original purpose, and asserting that Bear Creek Lodge still stood by the administration, the national banking system, the tariff law, etc., besides favored the force bill. In answer to an [inquiry by the State Superintendent, Attorney General Smith Thursday, gave an opinion that children of school age who are inmates of the State Reformatory and benevolent institutions can not be legally included in the enumers ation which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These children are given especial educational opportunities in the institution which they occupy. “I dreamed of a wedding last night what is that a sign of!” asked Otto Schrieber, Saturday evening, as he stood dispensing drinks behind the bar of a Bowery hotel, New York. “Death,” was the reply of the pat,re ns of j the place. “Well, the bar-tender continued, “I don’t believe I’ll furnish the corpse, for I never felt better in my life.” Four hours later he dropped dead in the street from apo* plexy.

Ft. Wayne draws iti natural gas supply from the Blackford county fields, nearly forty miles away. Recently the management of the company gave notice that, beginning with January 1, manufacturing establishments and the railway shops must resume the consumption of coal. It is explained that this order is promulgated, not because of any diminution of the supply at the base, but because the capacity of the main would be absorbed by manufacturers to the detriment of private cons

sumers. Patents were issued to Hoosier invent* ors, Tuesday, as follows: D. Barkdall, Ins dianapolis, washing machine; A. L. Bess nadin, Evansville, bottle disk; S.F. Bow* ser, Fort Wayne, portable siphon; J. D. Gibbs, Jeffersonville, ticket machine: B. O. Haugh, Indianapolis, tension governor for wire fences; B. H. Holmes, Goshen, type cleaning device for typewriting ma* chines; F. B. Hunt, Richmond, bicycle; C. C. Polk, Richmond, piano attachment; D. Railsback, Indianapolis, machine for making Ice cream, etc.; J. W. Weathers* Indianapolis, sash holder. The Indiana State Teachers! Association elected the following officers to serve the ensuing ye*r: ... ,, 'v. President—E. A. Bryan, of Vincennes. Chairman of Executive Committee—J R. Hart, of Union City. Recording Secretary —Mrs. S. E. Lemon of Bloomington. Permanent Secretary—D. E. Hunter, of Glasgow, Ky. «*• Railroad Secretary -Nelson Yoke, »f Indianapolis. Vice Presidents—Second district, Frank Axtell, Washington; Fourth district, Miss Maggie Malone: Sixth district, T. A. Mott, Dublin;,Eighth district, S. E. liar* wood, Attica; Tenth district, Miss Annie B. Laßose; Twelfth district, W. C. Palmer, Columbia City. Executive Committee—First district, Robert Spear, Evansville ;Third district, D.G. Fenton, Vernon; Fifth district, J. A. Carnsgey, Columbus; Seventh district, T. G. Alford, Indianapolis; Ninth district, A. D. Malsbery, Thorn town; Eleventh district, M. W. Harrison, Wabash; Thirteenth district, O. U Galbraith, Laporte,

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

A special from Topeka, Kas., says; Rev. B. T. Foster, colored, who was a candidate for Auditor of State on the People’s Party ticket, has come from Kansas City with twenty families of colored people from Kemper county, Miss., en route to Hen • nessey. Ok. The families number about 100 people. ~Mr. Foster says: “This is but the beginning of a tremendous exodus of colored people from the South. Tuousands of them wili leave the Southerr States within the next sixty days. At Chicago, Mamie Starr, the domestic who poisoned her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Newland, screamed and fainted away on the afternoon of the 3rd when Judge Driggs overruled the motion of her attorney for a new trial. On being revived, the prisoner was asked if she had anything to say why the sentence of life imprisonment should not now be formally pro*, nounced. The girl shrieked “Have mercy, have mercy.” The judge, greatly affected i spoke the sentener in a low voice and the prisoner, again overcome, fell to the floor rigid. She wa3 carried out into the jail in an unconscious condition.

Senators and Representatives from points in the far West, who have demoncrated their financial capabilities by large accumulations of property, take quite a cheerful view of the business outlook for the new year. They believe that notwithstanding the entanglements in Congress over the proposed financial bill there will be some legislation which will renew commerciaT confidence, make money more plentiful and give vigor to the general condition of the country. They believe that real estate has not reached the apex-of prices, and that there will be more railroad building throughout the country during the new year than there hag been during any year in the past. ' ANOTHER BATTLE. A special from Gordon, Neb., dated tb e 3d, says* A battle is now raging about ten miles northeast of this place. The booming of cannon can be distinctly heard. Everybody under arms and the wildest excitement prevails. A company of State troops is expected to-night. A special from Rushville says: Gordon, Neb., advices say two scouts just arrived confirm the report made last night of a battle north of this place. The fight was between the Indians and a detachment of soldiers sent out by General Miles from Rosebud Indians to bury the dead Indians killed at Wounded Knee battle of the 29th. Tiie hostile Sioux, objecting to the burial o * their dead by their pale-faced foes, opened fire, and after desperate and sharp firing of the Hotchkiss gun, were ferced to return to the protection of the friendly raviues. No deaths are reported. FRENZIED REDSKINS. A special on the 4th to the Chicago Inter Ocean from Pine Uidge agency says: Last night was one of feverish excitement to mauy at the agency. For the first time the squaw men and half breeds were alarmed and remained up all night, fearing that an attack would be made before morning. The agency is too well guarded to permit any large force to approach very close without discovery, but it would be hard to prevent a few daring individuals from creeping up some of the numerous ravines and throwing fire arrows into barns and hay stacks. The friendly spies all say that there are a large number of warriors in the enemy’s camp who have worked themselves up to a condition of fienzy similar to those who commuted suicide at Wounded Knee. They say they want to die and are going to die while killing white men. It is also said that two bucks escaped alive from the Wounded Knee fight who swore that they will set th 3 agency on fire, and kill the agon ts themselves.

General Miles has his troops all around a day and have a tremendous battle, but could not prevent small bands escaping here and there, which would have to be followed up by the soldiers and which would place the lives of many settlers in danger. By holding bis troops until a much larger force can be thrown around the Indians the trouble t3n be confined to the reserve. The end cannot bo reached without one or more battles and bloody ones, ap there are too many of the crazy red skins whowant to follow the example of Big Foot’s relatives. Gen. Miles sent cut, a letter Saturday asking for a hearingThe Indians tore the letter to fragments and threw them into tfio fire, saying, “We want no treaty; we are here to fight.”

Saturday night several shots were fired by our pickets, and a couple of arrows were thrown into the yard. Doctors are constantly arriving, there being no less than fifteen here, with a large corps of assistants. A delegation of “friendlies’’ ask* that a large party be sent out at once to aid those who desire to escape from the hostile camp. They claim that 700 or 800 wan-iors wish to ieturn; that they either fled through drlght at first or were fora d to go with the rest. To let the friendlit s go would undoubtedly precipitate a fight and consume several days of valuable time. No decision in the matter has been made yet. The day is warm and clear, and the wounded who are on their way to tbe railroads will suffer no discomforts. The Indians in the hostile camp number over 4,000 men, women and children, and represent every agency in the two Dakotas.

A large number of yopng warriors of the Standing Hock agency have gone south to join the hostiies in the Had Lands. The discovery was made on issuing rations that many did not come to the agency, and one of the friendlies stated that they had armed themselves and gone to join the “bads” in revolt. Ho..v many have gone is only cons lectured, but,the indications point to at least 1,000 desertions. Grand river Sioux have beon fomenting trouble ever since the killing of Sittiug Hull, and they have not been slow in manifesting their intense anger to Agent McLaughlin.' Most of them re .ard the taking off of the old mediclue mau as murder outright, and it has been commoir talk for three weeks that tha “reds” would accept the first opportunity to massacre the white*. .

FARM NOTES.

Carrots, rutabaga and mangled. , wurtzels, turnips and cabbage refuge niake excellent food for cows and ba-rn-diately increase the milk flow; but ; some who have tried these complain | that the butter and even the milk acj quire a rancid taste. If fed In mOders I ation regularly and immediately after milking there will be no noticable effect Tbe feeding should be begun gradually, and there should, of course, be enough dry food in connection with these items. Fed with discretion they constitute cheap and valuable addition to the feeding ration. Heavy wheat—that is, wheat that will weigh sixty pounds or more a bush- ; el—willj yield more flour in proportion to weight and is consequently more valuable pound for pound than that which will weigh 58,55 and 54 pounds. The first step toward growing uniformly heavy wheat is to exercise proper care in the selection of seed. We wish every farmer who reads this would select by hand a few ounces of heavy, plump seed and plant by itself the coming year and observe jthe results as compared with his ordinary* seeding. We are convinced that such an experiment would finally conduce to greater care in selecting the entire amount of seed, and so to beter yields of grain. There is no question about the wisdom of renewing seed, and especially small grains, from a distance. Grain that has been repeatedly sown in the Bame vincinity will “runout,” that is, have a gradually weaker vitality, and to resist these adverse conditions we must renew the life of the seed: renewals from the same county or parallel of latitude are not sufficient, but the new seed should be brought from a locality that has essentially different climate conditions. The general principle is that we should work from the north toward the south in these renewals, but this rule, of course, has its limitations from natural causes. With wheat and oats the same seed should not be used more that three successive seasons.

I An exchange speaks of the comparative merits from the mercnant’s standpoint, of the cash and credit systems of dealing. It says: "Merchants know that the average man will buy more goods if he has an account than if he pays cash. There is something about the bare fact of paying out hard-earned dollars that makes one pause and consider whether the purchase is a neces* sary one.” There is another point, too, worth [considering from thq buyer’s standpoint a purchaser will not scruntize the prtce so closely when buying on credit as when paying cash and so often pays much more for an article. Farmers, above all people, should avoid store accounts, asasingln crop failure is liable to make such a debt become very burdensome. If ready money is not obtainable the store account can often be avoided by growing something which can be exchanged through the season for such things as. must be bought. A little space time devoted to fruits or vegetables, to chickens, bees, etc., will often prove of much more value thaD the mere amount of money derived from the sale of the products by enabling one to avoid a debt,. These things may bo exchanged at the store each week in small quantities, answering the same purpose as pash, A, ■'one-crop” farmer is almost always in debt for thre®r fourths of the year. By a little attention to small matters of this sort he would he in a much more independent position, and eventually find more profit in his work. The straw produced upon the farm is all of value and should be wholly utilized, either as fobd~ or ag~mahureT~ . While its manurial value alone is not great, it may be the means, by being carefully used as an absorbent, of adding largely to the quantity of good fertilizer. If properly stacked the oat straw especially is an excellent food for winter use. It should not be con-, sidered as a complete food, but it can be heed to good advantage in connect tion with something else. Mixed with a small amount of clover hay and with a little bran added, a ratio can be made which will keep horses, sheep and cattle in good winter condition if they are given good shelter. A good straw* stack properly used will materially lessen the quantity of hay and fodder consumed, and consequently will lighten the expense of winter feeding—always a matter for serious consider*, tion upon the farm. *ln converting the straw into manure enough should be kept in the stalls to fully absorb all liquids before they reach the floor. This cannot be done if there is but a, slight covering. Nothing is to, be, gained by increasing the bulk of the manure pile at expense of quality, buti all the straw that can be used aa an absorbent and left in the stall until it has taken up all the liquids It will hold* will add both to the bulk and quality of the manure. In growing wheat the grain rarely is consumed upon the farm, so that the straw is all that Is left to be returned to the soil, alld the most should be made of it

Lord Astley’s Prayer.

One of the most notable prayers on record is that of Lord Astley before he charged at Edge-hill, “O Lord," said the leader of the Parliamentary force, “thou knowest how busy I am to be this day; if I forget thee, do not forget me.” The historian Hume, who has preserved the most remarks* ble petition, says, • ‘There were certainly much longer prayers in the Parliamentary army, but I doubt if there was as good a one. ” The most expensive legislature in the world is that of France. It costs annually about $3,600,000. The Spaniish Parliament oosts $250,000; the |ltalian $430,000, the Belgian $200,000 [and the Portuguese $150,000.