Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — Page 7

DIVISION OF SPOILS.

REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A JOYOUS SERMON. (The Earth Will Be Made to Bloeeom and the World Will Be Evangelized— Wealth Will Be Equalized and Poverty Be Unknown in God’s Kingdom. Our Washington Pulpit. This sermon of Dr. Talmage is radiant With coming rewards tor all well-doers." Many of the disheartened will rally after reading it. He chose for his subject “The Division of Spoils,” the text selected being Isaiah liii., 12 r “He shall divide the spoil with the strong.” In'the Coliseum aTTtotnO, where cutors ’ used to let out the half-starved lions to eat up. Christians, there is now planted the figure of a cross. And I rejoice to know that the upright piece of wood nailed to a transverse piece has become the symbol not more of suffering than of victory. It is of Christ, the conqueror, that my text speaks. As a kingly warrior, having subdued an empire, might divide the palaces and mansions and cities and valleys and mountains among iliis officers, so Christ is going to divide tip all the earth and all the heavens among his people, and you and I will have to take our share if we are strong in faith arid strong in our Christian loyalty, for my text declares if, “He shall divide the spoil with the strong.” The capture of this round planet for Christ is not so much of a job as you might imagine, when the church takes off its coat and rolls up its sleeves for the work, as it will. There are 1.600,000,000 Of people now in the worlcT, and 430,000,000 are Christians. Subtract 450,000,000 who arc Christians from the 1,600.000.000, and there are 1,150,000,000 left. Divide the 1-,150,000,001) who are not Christians by the 450,000,000 who are Christians, and you will find that we shall have to average less than three souls each, brought by us into the kingdom of God, to hrft'e the whole world redeemed. Certainly, with the church rising up to its full duty, no Christian will be willing to bring less than three souls into the kingdom of God', I hope and pray Almighty God that. I may bring more than thrqe. I know evangelists who hav" already brought 50,000 each for the kingdom of God.‘ There are 200,000 people wh< :e one and only absorbing business in the world is to save souls. When you fate these things into" consideration and that the Christians will have to average the bringing of only three souls each into the kingdom of our T/ord, all impossibil.ty vanishes from this omnipotent crusade. Why, I know a Sabbath school teacher who for many years has been engaged in training the young, and she has had five different classes, and they averaged seven to a class, “and they were all converted, and five times seven are thirty-five, as near as I can' calculate. So that she brought her three into tne kingdom of God and had thirty-two to spare. My grandmother prayed he,r children into the kingdom of' Christ, and .her grandchildren, and I hope all her great-grandchildren, for God remembers a prayer seventy-five years old as though it were only a minute old, and so she brought her three into the kingdom of God and had more than 100 to spare. Besides that, through the telephone and the telegraph, this whole world, within a few years, will be brought within compass of ten minutes. Besides that, omnipotence. omnipresence and omniscience are presiding in this matter of the world’s betterment, and that takes the question of the world’s salvation out of the impossibilities into the possibilities, and then out of the possibilities iqto the probabilities. and then out of the probabilities into the certainties. The building of the Union Pacific Railroad from ocean to ocean was a greater undertaking than the girding of the earth with the gospel, for one enterprise depended upon the human arm, wink- the other depends -upon - al mightiness.:-, ... ’ .

The World Will Be Kvangelized. Do I really mean all the earth will surrender to Christ? Yes. How about the uninviting portions? Will'Greenland be~ evangelized ? The possibility tr that after a few more hundred brave lives are dashed out among the icebergs that great refrigerator, the polar region, will be given up to the wulrus and bear, and that the inhabitants will come down by invitation into tolerable .climates, or . those climates may soften, and as it has been positively demonstrated thut the aretie region- was one.' a blooming garden and a fruitful field those .regions may change climate and , again be ii blooming garden and a fruitful field. It is proved beyond controversy by German and American scientists that the arctic regions were the first portions of this world inhabitable. The world hot beyond human endurance, those regions were of course the first to be cool enough for human foot and human lung. It was positively proved that the arctic region was a tropical climate!. Prof. Heer of Zurich says the remains of flowers have been found in the arctic region, showing it was like Mexico for climate, ap’d it is found that the arctic was the mother re gion from which all the flowers descended. Prof. Wallace sayj the remains of all styles of animal life are found in the arctic regions, including those animals that can live only in warm climates. Now thnt arctic region, which has been demonstrated by flora and fauna and geological argument to have been as full of vegetation and life as onr Florida, may be turned back to its original bloom and glory, or it will be shut up as a museum of crystals for curiosity seekers once in awhile to visit. But arctic and antarctic, in some’ shape, will belong to the Redeemer’s realm. What about other unproductive or repulsive regions? All the deserts will be irrigated, the waters will be forced up to the great American desert between here and the Pacific by machinery now known or yet to be invented, and, as great Salt Lake City has no r in and could not raise an apple or a bushel of wheat in a hundred years without artificial help, but is now through such means one great garden, so all the unproductive parts of all the continents will be turned into harvest fields and orchard . A half dozen De Lesseps will furn.sh the world with all the canals needed and will change the course of rivers and open new lakes, and the great Sahara desert will be cut up into farms with an astounding yield of bushels to the acre. The marsh will be drained of its waters and cured of its malaria. I saw what was for many years called the Black swamp of Ohio, its chief crop chills ami fevers, but now, by the tiles put into the ground to carry off the surplus moisture. transformed into the richest and healthiest of regions. The God who wnstep nothing, l think, means thnt this world, from pole to pole, has come to perfect ion of foliage uud fruitage. For that reason ho keeps the earth running through space, though so many fires are blazing down in its timbers and so many meteoric terrors have threatened to dash it to pieces. As soon as the earth is completed ■Christ will divide it up amdiig the good. The reason he dods not divide it now is because it iB not done. A kind father will not divide tie apple among his children until the apple is ripe. In fulfillment of the New Testament promise, “The meek •hall inherit the earth," and the promise of the Old Testament, “He shall divide the •poll with the strong," the world will be

apportioned to those worthy to possess It. It is pot so, now. In this country, capable of holding, feeding, clothing and sheltering 1,200,000,09 J people and where we have only 60,006,000 inhabitants, we have 2,000,000 whc cannot get honest work, and with their fanSflies an aggregation of 5,(5X),000 that are on the verge of starvation. Something wrong, most certainly. In some way there will be a new apportionment. Many of the millionaire estates will crack to pieces 6n the* dissipations of grandchildren and then dissolve into the possession of the masses, who now have an insufficiency. - What, you say, will become of the expensive , and elaborate buildings now devoted to debasing amusements? They will become schoo' , art galleries, museums, gynmasinms and churches. The world is already getting disgusted with many of these and no woo* der. What- an importation of unclean theatrical stuff we have within the last few years had brought to our shores! And professors of religion patronizing such things! Having sold out to the devil, why don’t yon deliver the goods and go over to him publicly, body, mind and soul, and withdraw your name from Christian churches and say, “Know all the world *by these presents that I am a patron of uncleanness and a child of hell!” Sworn to be the Lord’s, you are perjurers,— If you thipk these offenses are to go on forever, you do not know who the Lord is. God will not wait for the day of judgment. All those palaces of sin will become palaces of righteousness. They will come into the possession of those strong for virtue and strong for God. “He shall, divide the spoil with th? strong.” The Eternal Troth. If my text be not a deception, but the eternal truth, then the time is coming when all the farms will be owned by Christian farmers, and all the commerce controlled by Christian merchants, and all the authority held by Christian officials, and all the - ships commanded' by Christian captains, and all the universities under the instruction of Christian professors; Christian kings, Christian presidents, Christian governors, Christian mayors, Christiun common council. Yet what n scouring out! What an upturning! What a demolition! What a resurrection must precede this new apportionment!

I do not underrate the enemy. Julius Caesar got his greatest victories by fully estimating the vastness of his foes and prepared his men for their greatest triumph by saying, ’’To-morrow King Juba will be here with 30,000 horses, 100,000 skirmishers and 300 elephants.” I do not underrate the v st forces of sin and death, but do you know who commands us? Jehovahjirch. And the reserve corps behind us nre all the armie-, of heaven and earth, with hurricane and thunderbolt. The good work of the world’s' redemption is going on every minute. Never so many splendid men and glorious women on the side of right ns to-day. Never so many good people as now. Diogenes has been spoken of as a wise man because he went with a lantern at noonday, saying he was looking for an honest man. If he had turned his lantern toward himself he might have discovered a crank. Honest men by the ten thousand! Through the international series of Sunday school lessons th: next generation all through Christendom are going to be wiser than any generation since the world stood. The kingdom is coming. God oan do it. No housewife with a chamois cloth ever polished a silver teaspoon with more ease than Christ will rub off from this world the tarnisli and brighten it up till it glows like heaven, and then the glorious apportionment! for my text is re-enforced by a score of other texts, when it says of Christ, “He shall divide the spoil with the strong.”

“But,” you say, “this is pleasant to think of for others, but before that time I shall have passed up into another existence, and I shall get.no advantage from that utw apportionment." Ah, you have only driven me to the other more exciting and transporting consideration, and that i| that Christ is going to divide up heaven in the same way. There aro old estates in the celestial world .that have been in the possession of the inhabitants for thousands of years, and they shall remain as they are. There are old family mansions in heaven filled with whole generations of kindred, and they shall never be driven out. Many of the victors from earth have already got their palaces, and they are pointed out to those newly arrived. Soon after our getting there we will ask to be Bhown the apostolic residences and ask where doeslive and John, and shown the residences and shall say, “Where does Abraham live or Jacob?" and shown the martyr residences and say, “Where does John Huss live and Ridley?” h e will want to see the boulevards where the chariots of conquerors roll. I will want to see the garden where the princes walk. We will want to see Music row, where Handel and Haydn and Mozart and Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury have their homes, out of their windows, ever and anon, rolling some snatch of an earthly oratorio or hymn transported with the composer. We will want to see Revival terrace, where Whitefield and Nettlcton and Payson and Rowland Hiii and Charles FiaKcy rad other giants of soul reaping are resting from their almost supernatural labors, their doors thronged with converts just arrived, coming to report themselves. Distribution of Spoils. But brilliant as the sunset and like the leaves for number are the celestial homes yet to be awarded- when Christ to you and millions of others shall divide the spoil. What do you want there? You shall have it. An orchard? There it is—twelve manner of fruits, and fruit every month. Do you want river scenery? Take your choice on the banks of the river, in longer, wider, deeper roll than Danube or Amazon or Mississippi, if mingled in one, and emptying into the sea of mingled with fire. Do yon want your kindred back again? Go out and meet your father and mother, without the staff or the stoop, and your children in a dance pf immortal glee. Do you want a throne? Select it from the 1,000,000 burnished elevations. Do yoa Want a crown? Pick it out of that mountain of diamonded coronets. Do you want your old church friends of earth around you? Begin to hum an old revival tune, and they will flock from an quarters to revel with you in sacred reminiscence. All the earth for those who are here pn earth at the time of continental and planetary distribution, s and all the heavens for those who are there. That heavenly distribution of spoils will be a surprise to many. Here enters heaven the soul of a man who took up a great deal of room in the'ebureb on earth, but sacrificed little, and among his good works selfishness was evident. He just cnowds through the shining gate, but it’s n very tight squeeze, so that the doorkeeper has to pull hard to get him in, and this man expects half of heaven for his • shore of- trophies, atm he would like U monopoly of all its splendor, and to purchase lota in the suburbs, so that he could get advantage of the growth of the city. Well, little by little he gets grace of heart, just enough to get him through, and to him is given a second-hand crown, which one of the saints wore at the start, but exchanged for a brighter one as he went on from glory to glory. And he is put in an old house once occupied by au angel who was hit Med out of heaven at the time of satnn’s rebellion. Right after him comes a soul that makes a great: stir among the celestials

and the angels fusil to. the scene, each bridging fb ner a dazzling coronet. Who is she? Over what realm on earth was she queen ? In . what great Dusseldorf festival was she the cantratrice? Neither. She was an invalid who never left her room for twenty years, but. she was strong in prayer and she prayed down revival after revival and pentecost after pentecost upon>tbe churches and with her pale hands she knit many a mitten or tippet for tfee poor, and with her contrivances she added joy to many a holiday festival, and now, with those thin hands so strong for kindness and with those white, lips so strong for supplication she has won coronation and inthronement and jubilee. And Christ said tw the angels who have brought each a crown fqr the'glorified individual: “No, opt these; they are not good enough. But iflthe jeweled vase at the right hand side of my throne there is one that 1 have been preparing for her many a year and for her every pang I have set an amethyst and for her every good deed I ha we set a pearl. Fetch it now and fulfill the promise I gave her long ago in the sick 500 m, ‘Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown.’ ” Bnt notice that there is only one Being in the universe who can and will distribute the trophies of earth and heaven. It is the Divine Warrior, the Commander-in-Chlef of the Centuries, the Champion of Ages, the Universal Gonqueror, the Son of God, Jest You will take the spoils from his hand, or never take them at all. Have his friendship and you may defy all time and all eternity, but without it you are a pauper, though you had a Universe at. your command. * We are told in Revelation that Jacob’s twelve sons were so honored as to have theVtwelve , gates of heaven named after t^pm —over one gate of heaven Naphtha, over-another gate of heaven Issachar. over Dan, over another Gad, over another Zebulon, over another Judah, and £O,OO. But Christ’s name is written over ftltjtlHj and on every pa ner of the gates, and have his help, his pardon, his intercession, hi* atonement, I must or be a forlorn"'wretch forever. My Lord and my God, make me and all who hear me this day and all to whom these words shall come, thy repentant, believing, sworn, consecrated and ransomed followers forever. A Day of Triumph. What a day it will be! This entire assemblage would rise to its feet if you could realize it, the day in which Christ shall, in fulfillment of my text, divide the spoil. It was a great day when Queen Victoria, in the mid't of the Crimean war, distributed medals to the soldiers who had come home sick and wounded. At the Horse Guards, in presence of the royal family, the injured men were carried in or came on crutches—Col. Trowbridge, who lost both feet at Inkermann, 1 and Capt. Sayer, who had the ankle joint of his right leg shot off at Alma, and Capt, Curre, his disabled limb supported by a soldier, and others maimed and disfigured and exhausted—and with her own hand the queen gave each the Crimean medal. And what triumphant days for those soldiers when, further on, they received the French niedal with the imperial eagle, and the Turkish medal with its representation of four flags—France, Turkey, England and Sardinia —and beneath it a map of the Crimea spread over a gun wheel. And what rewards are suggested to all readers of history by mere mention of the ' Waterloo medal, and the Cape taedal, and the Gold Cross medal, and the medals struck for bravery in our American wars. But how insignificant all these compared with the day when the gotbd soldiers of Jesus Christ shall come jn out of the battles of this world, and, in the presence of ail the piled up galleries of the redeemed and the unfallen, Jesuß, our King, shall divide the spoil! The more wounds the* greater the inheritance. The longer the forced march the brighter the trophy. The more terrible the exhaustion the more glorious the transport. Not' the gift of a brilliant ribbon or a medal of brass or silver or gold, but a kingdom in which we are to reign forever and ever. Mansions on the eternal hills. Dominions of unfading power. . Empires of unending love. Continents of everlasting light. Atlantic and Pacific oceans of billowy j%\

It was a great day when Aureliap, the Roman emperor, came back from bis victories. In the front of the procession were wild beasts from all lands, 1,600 gladiators, richly clad; wagon loads of crowns and trophies presented by conquered cities, among the captives Syrians, Egyptians, Goths, Vandals, Samaritans, Franks and Zenobia, the beautiful captive queen, on foot in chains i of gold that a slave had to help her carry, and jewels under the weight of which she almost faintod. and then came The chariot of Aurelian drawn by four elephants in gorgeous caparison anu followed by the Roman Senate and the Roman army, apd from dawn till durk the procession was passing. Rome in all her history never saw anything more magnificent. But how much greater the day when our Conqueror, Jesus, shall ride under the triumphal arches of heaven, his captives, not on foot, but in chariots, all the kingdoms of earth and heaven in procession, the armies celestial on white horses. Rumbling artillery of thunderbolts never again to be unlind*-*'?.* in line, centuries in line, saintly, cherubic, seraphic, archangollc splendors in line, uud Christ seated on one great rolling hosanna, made out of ail halleluiahs of all worlds, shall cry halt to the procession. And not forgetting even the humblest in all thejteach of his omnipresence he shall rise, ana'.then and there, his work done and his glory consummat-'d, proceed, amid an ecstasy such as neither mortal nor immortal pver Imagined, to divide the spoil.

On the Wedding Day.

A new Species of “family tree” has appeared in England. When the Duke of York was married, a loyal subject planted an acorn. The loyal subject assiduously cultivated the tiny sprig which presently appeared above ground. When the son of the Duke of York bad his advent, the local subject presented his tiny oak to the Infant prince, In behalf of whom it was received nlost graciously. It was planted at Sandringham and Is the chief pride and care of the head gardener. No doubt the acorns of Prince Edward’s tiny oak will be treasured up as souvenirs several hundred years after Prince Edward has been gathered to his fathers. The new idea is certain to be no less popular In America than in England; it is a pretty way of commemorating adversaries about which most family sentiment attaches, the date of marriages and'of the birth of the first heir, and it carries on In the future, in a way which is pleasant to fancy, its story of a double happiness. To plant the acorn on the date of the wedding, to transplant anil present tjie tree on the day the first baby is born, that Is the stmpto method of the new fad.

Torpedo Boat by Rail.

JL v/i »» A torpedo .boat was successfully transferred by fall from St. Petersburg to Sebastopol a little while ago, and a number of others will now be sent in the same way to the Biaek Sea fleet Effort Is the fire; success Is the warmth that comes from It

THE FARM AND HOME.

MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Economics to Be Practiced in Erectins and-Maintaining a Hot HouseCaustic Potash the Best Chemical Detiorner—How to Test ButterConcerning; a Hothouse., A hothouse need not be an expensive affair to be useful. It is economy to make It so tight by battening cracks and a layer of building paper that no wind can get through. I find that a building simply wide enough to accommodate a seven-foot sash does very well, says Howard B. Cannon, in'the Grange Visitor. Such a building may be heated inexpensively by a stove, sunk well down and delivering its smoke into a flue made of sewer-pipes. The stove should be placed at the end .where you enter, and the chimney should rise from the far end. A house to start onion or tomato plants can be constructed for perhaps cents a square foot of glass area, by one doing his own wo*. When your spring crop of plants is out, if you are a small farmer, you may find your house useful to store some flats, etc., under the benches. I should advise putting on a temporary roof, that the sash be not warped by the heat of summer. When fall comes one finds a hothouse handy for curing seed corn, onion sets, etc. I used mine to ripen tomatoes in after frosts came, and followed these by bushels of seed corn. The last use of the year for the sash, however, will please many who perhaps have not seen such. We built rough sheds Into which our henhouses open, and left an opening at the south end in each shed seven by six feet. Across these openings “chicken wire” was stretched. On the approach of blustering weather two sashes were slipped into each opening, one above the other, and secured in place. This gives a sheltered and warm place for the hens to scratch. I hope we will find our scratching sheds to be egg-fac-tories during the cold weather. .

How Long Cows Shall Be Kept. Unless a coW has a remarkable individual value as-a milk and butter producer, and has shown ability to perpetuate these qualities in her progeny, ten to twelve years old is long enough to keep her, says an exchange. A good many cows condemn themselves long before that time. We have known cows to breed up to eighteen or nineteen years old, but they had to be fed ground grain and bran, mixed with moistened cut hay. There was no profit In milk and butter made this way, for the old cow gradually lessened her yield. The* object was to produce calves from this cow to be used for breeding. But as the cow decreased in value, so also did her calves. Those last born were feeble and not very good milkers, either. A cow whose milk production has been artificially forced for two or three years is apt never thereafter to come up to the standards she had before, as the production pf an excessive amount of milk impairs the animal’s constitutional vigor. To Teat Rutter. A possible way to test butter is to get a clean piece of white paper, smear it with the suspected article, then roll it up and set it on lira. If the butter is good, the smell of burning will be decidedly pleasant, but If there is artificial animal fat in the composition, there is no mistake about the tallowy odor. About Plowing;; Plowing is hard work for the team, but it is comparatively easy work for the plowman, except on rocky or stumpy land, where the plow has frequently to be pulled back and lifted up to avoid some obstruction. For these reasons a strong, active team that will walk right along with a good furrow behind it should always be secured if possible. It is not easy to make good work with a poor team, and if it is not equal to its task there is much unnecessary waiting at the end of the furrow and resting— of holding the plow Is so dasy on level land free from stone, that even a child can do it, while holding the handles makes it easier work to walk in the furrow than to follow the same team With a drag over plowed grpund. That is hard, dragging work for both man and teams, and it needs an able-bodied man instead of tho young boy who is usually put at this Jol», while the man takes as his part the far easier tas'k of boldin’#* me plow, which on level, clean land is no task at all.

Ashes with Stable Manure, Whoever has ever mixed fresh caustic ashes with manure from the stable knows how quickly a strong odor of ammonia Is given off. It Is wasteful of the fertilizer to«do this while the manure Is exposed to the air, but when It is to be plowed under very soon the loss is not great. In the soil the ashes will not only make the manure ferment more rapidly, but they will themselves become a much more valuable fertilizer through absorption of the ammonia. This will quickly convert caustic potash into the nitrate of potash, which is the most powerful fertilizer known, and is good for any kind of crop. We have sometimes applied hen ' manure In hills for melons and cucumbers, mixing It with the earth, and after mixing sprinkling a few hard-wood ashes in the bed and covering with earth before planting the seeds. Vines thus treated did better than with any other kind of manure we ever used. Feeding Value of Manure. Concerning the feeding value of raw potatoes for milch cows, John Gould, the well-known Western dairyman, says: “Compared with ordinary foods at present prices they are worth from 6to 7 cents per bushel. When fed raw to a cow the potato influences her milk. The tnllk will not cream so well, and the butter will lack In grain and texture. I would not feed more than a peck per day To a cbW. A creamery In' Clinton County Tost their entire tra<\e because the patrons fed ,gn except) of raw potatoes to their cows. Some of |tbem fed a bushel or more per day to a cow. The New York expert butter men who handled the gutter wrote the patrons, telling them they were feeding potatoes in too large quantities, and If their trade was recovered potatoes must be abandoned. When cooked And 1 mixed with some nitrogenous grains they are a good rajion, If not fed lircoo

large quantities. They are best as a fattening ration for pigs or other fattening animals. Pruning Trees Before Transplanting. *Tn ordering trees from a nursery it should be remembered that the pruning is never completed as it should be when the trees are put into the ground. There is usually a quantity of top with perhaps 50 to IiJO buds, eaeb of which if left to grow will produce a feeble shoot. Cut the top back to three or four buds and leave these to grow into the future branches of the tree. Thus started tlk tree will begin to make its top the first season after setting out. The roots also will need to be cut back- as well as the tops. In most eases, if the trees have been sent far and have beeh long on their journey, the small feeding roots will be dried up and of no use. Cut the large roots with a knife that will make a clean cut, and the new roots will spring from those. Feeding Pig« for Growth, Not Fat. Except for the pigs that aTe to be kept for breeding purposes, liberal feeding, sb as to keep the animals constantly in a thrifty condition, should be the rule. As an old farmer used to say, he could go to his pen at any time and find most, if not all, Its occupants fit to make good, marketable pork. Care should be taken not to overfeed, and especially with corn, which is too fattening and does not promote growth as do milk and other grains. If oats and peas are ground together, they will make with water an excellent subi stitute for milk. The breeding sow should have milk If possible; and little other feed except in winter some roots, and In summer what they can get at pasture or in orchard. (i - ■ The Expensivenesa of Pasturing. Wherever land Is dear the pasture provides for stock that, considering Its nutritive value, Is much dearer than that grown by cultivation. In the first place, the grass, even if undisturbed, does not yield as heavy a crop as will most of the grains and corn drilled for fodder. In the pasture the constant trampling of stock lessens the yield still further. What the stock waste In a clover field will in most places pay for the labor of cuttlDg and carrying the clover to them, provided the field Is near where the stock is kept, and the cutting of the clover can be done by horse power. Yet there are many places where cultivation is Impossible, apd using these as permanent pastures Is the only way to make the land useful and profitable.

Selling Ability Necessary. The American Dairyman remark! that selling ability is just now more desirable to farmers than producing ability, and that the place to display it is in packing. The farmer must lead the consumer Into temptation, which may be contrary to Scripture, but is necessary to sell goods. Even a cabbage is trimmed up by the skillful salesman to attract the customer- The Dairyman Illustrates by the sale of a large consignment of California fresh fruit which was beautifully packed, and brought prices to delight the owner’s soul, while other fruit, not opening up well, went for a song. Best Chemical Dehorncr. The best chemical dehorner, according to Hoard’s Dairyman, is caustic pot> ash, to be had In sticks for a few cents at any druggist’s. When the calf is a few days old, clip off the hair over the horn button, moisten one end of the caustic (hold the other end wrapped in paper) and rub it on the button until the skin Is very red and highly Inflamed. When the scab comes off, if the least trace of the horn nut remains, repeat the application. Put the caustic only on the nut button, as it burns intensely. Wheat Bran for Cows. No kind of feed la so handy for feeding milch cows as wheat bran; it Is light and bulky In proportion to Its nutrition, and it has the elements needed to make a largo milk flow. But It does not make rich milk, and needs to be supplemented with grain meal, or the cow will give so much from her own fat that she will become thin In flesh, and be of little use for butter-making the following season. • Testing a Thermometer. Before purchasing a thermometer invert the instrument; the mercury should fall to the end In a solid “stick.” If it separates Into several small columns, the tube contains air, and will not register Nine persons out, of ten think the mercurial' column Is round, but this Is not the case; It Is flat, and the opening in the tube Is as small as the finest thread. Farm Notes. The way that hogs have been going in the face of the low rates fot* cattle, sheep and horses has been very cheering to swine producers. The price compared with the price of grain is one of profitable production. Never be satisfied with what the farm does, but endeavor to still further improve It. The farmer who concludes that be has reached the best that can be obtained from bis farm will find himself going' backward. Successful farmers are those who are striving to obtain more. Farm, Stock and Home holds that under present conditions the sum paid for hired help must be the smallest possible, and only concentrated products—butter, beef, pork, wool, poultry, etc.—should be shipped by rail. Along these lines lay large doses of agricultural salvation. It Is much easier to feed whole grain than to grind it. but It is better to put the labor to It than to lose in the feed. Ground grain can be more Intimately mixed with coarse food, and In that respect it not only serves to balance the ration, but the combination of foods cheapens the whole and more perfect digestion results. Here is a point on asparagus. A great many persons who grow it do so with flat culture. The proper mode for the best results Is to hill up the rows. Apply fertilizer on the rows now while they are flat, and then turn a furrow on the row from each side. If the row is hilled up- ( two feet it Is all the better. Cut the stalks Just as they are peeping out of the ground. They will then be tender from the tips to the butts, and as white as wlery. If allowed ttr gfow out of the ground the tips will be tender and the butts tough

TANNER AT THE TOP.

HEADS THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN TICKET. Clay County Man Gets a Unanimous Vote—Northcott la Selected soy the Second Place—Convention- Declares for Protection and "Sound” Money, Stand by McKinley. John Riley Tanner was nominated for Governor of Illinois by the Republican State convention at Springfield. William Allen Northcott of Bond County was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, and instructions for William McKinley for President were carried through at the seo- ■ and: day’s, session, after >vhat js said to have been the bitterest struggle ever held on the floor of a Republican convention in the State. It was a few minutes past high noon when Dr. T. N. Jamieson, chairman of the. State Central Committee, called the convention to order. Every delegate was in his seat and the galleries and aisles outside the space reserved for the delegates and alternates were thronged and visitors outiide the hall were struggling to get in. Aid. Martin B. Madden of Chicago was named temporary chairman. Long before the hour for calling the convention to order the vast auditorium of the building which attracted so much attention at the World’s Fair was full. There was not much excitement at the beginning, only a sort of somber hush. Occasionally some enthusiast would break out with a shout for his favorite, but the shouting was not contagious. The vast throng seemed to be in a serious mood. It seemed to consider that there was serious business to be transacted. It was not a trivial thing. *fTlmois was to decide as to whether it would support William McKinley" 7>T“t)hin for President of the United States, or whether its delegates should be instructed for Shelby M. Cullom. While the gubernatorial candidate was, being nofhinated. the committee cn resolutions frnmed a platform for the consideration of the convention. Two of the most important planks, covering the currency and the tariff are given. The money plank is as follows: The Republicans of Illinois are unyielding and emphatic in their demand for honest money. We are opposed, as we ever have beeu, to any and every scheme that will give to this country a currency in any way depreciated or debased or in any respect inferior to the money of the most advanced and intelligent nations of the earth. We fnvor the use of sliver as currency, but to the extent only and tinder such restrictions that parity with gold cah be maintained. This is what the tariff plank says: The Republican party from the time of Lincoln has been devoted irrevocably to the doctrine of protection of home industries, and we hereby renew and reaffirm our faith in this fundamental principle. We believe in a tariff that will produce revenue sufficient to meet the wants of the government honestly and economically administered, and high enough to insure to home labor regular and remunerative employment. We advocate the unrestricted exchange of noncompetitive articles. We believe in reciprocity, the reciprocity of James - G. Blaine, re-enforced by experience and an earnest wish to extend our foreign commerce to the fullest extent consistent with the control of our own market in the sale of articles that can he profitably produced at home. The convention then adjourned until Thursday morning, when the ticket was completed and the delegates instructed. Other names on the ticket are: For Secretary of State, James, A. Rose; for State Auditor, .Tames S. McCullough: for State Treasurer. Henry L. Hertz: for Attorney General. E. C. Akin; Delegates at Large, It. W. Patterson. Wm. Penn Nixon, Richard J, Oglesby, Joseph W. Fifer; for University Trustees, Capt. T, J. Smith, F. F, McKay, Mrs. Mary T. Carriel.

HENRY CLAY EVANS.

Man Who Tennessee Republicans Back for Vice President. Henry Clay Evans, of Chattanooga, who is being backed by the Republicans of Tennessee for Vice-President, is not a Southern man by birth. He is a native of Juniata County, Pennsylvania, and

H. CLAY EVANS.

is just 53 years old. He received a solid school and academic education and is interested in manufacturing lines in the South. When he ran for Congress iu 1890 he had a strong Democrat, opposed to him in the Third district. It was a close race, but Evans was elected with 18,041 votes against 18,353 for Bates.

News of Minor Note.

The Italian cabinet ha* decided against reopening the campaign of Abyssinia in the autumn on the ground that such a course would be disastrous to Italy. The trunks, wardrobe, hordes, and carriages belonging to Mrs. Tom Thumb were attached at Washington for a debt of $730 said tp be due A. J. Drexel, Jr., of Philadelphia, for printing. The conference at San Franqiseo voted to suspend _ r. Brown, the pastor recently acquitted of a serious charge, by a vote 0f.43 to 32, until he could prove his innocence. Leo Hetlpern. who was S3O short in his accounts with an insurance company, committed suicide at Winona, Minn. He had been out of the i>enitcntiury a year on good behavior. The. German Iteichstag unanimously adopted Herr Adt-’s motion calling upon the Federal Government to energetically combat with all the means in its power the illegal practice of dueling. Mr. an,d Mrs. Barney Cullen were, burned to death in their home near Caster, Orange Csufny. 7f.~T.’ They perished together in the sitting room, where Cullen had dragged his wife from their bed in his effort to save her. Morris Cullen, a son, fractured a leg in jumping from a secondstory window. . " ’■? With; the object of breaking up a trust recently formed by wooden ware manufacturers of the Mississippi valley, the big packing companies of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City have placed orders on the Pneifi.’ eoast. ehtefljl with Tacoma factories, for 201) carloads ,ief lard pails, butter tub< and ayrnp and jells AJkil&

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THI PAST WEEK. * W/'' . Two Anderson Pupil* Hart in • Stampede Free Fnel for Hettloc at Wa bus h-B ru tal Burglar. Choke and Rob Mis. Goldcnat Port Waome. School Children Are Panic Stricken. Miss Matrie Reed, * teacher in the Anierson higFschool, fainted while at work 'hursday, and the girls In the room began to cry and halloo, The school building is heated by hot air and the noise was easily communicated to the other room, through the hot air pipes. The pupils mistook the shouting for fire and began to yell. A stampede followed, 400 rushing out into the hall and 4 own the stairway. In the crush that followed Misses Knte Chi pm an and Hedrick fainted, fell nnd were trampled to the ground. They were seriously injured; The pupils hare been drilled for the- test two years for emergencies of this.kind, but panic seemed to seize them and they became confused. Miss 9 Reed is not seriously ill. Generosity of a Gas Company. The Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Company,' of Wabash, the corporation which is controlled by the Dietrich syndicate, announced that through the summer the company would furnish natural gas for heating purposes free of charge. Where gas is used in n heating stove, grate or fhrnace it will be supplied gratuitously, the consumer paying for the cooking stove or range in his residence only, at the rate 0f,530 pen year. The action of the company is due to the competition of the Wabash .Fuel Company. which last year piped the fuel inta Wabash arid supplied consumers at a 10 per cent reduction from the old company's rate. T,,0 latter then cut the rates DO I*er cent, and follows this up by supplying gas free for heating until Nov. L Choketl by Masked Burglars. At dayiight Friday morning two masked men entered- the home *of Patrick Golden at Fort Wayne and began searching for money. Miss Anna, sister of Mr. Golden, was the only occupant of the house. She heard the men and leaped from her bed to give the alarm. One of the men seized her and nearly choked her to death, while the other burglar sen relied the house and secured about $”00 worth of plunder. The man escaped. Miss Golden is in a serious condition from the effects of wounds on her throat and nervous prostration. Her brother is a Pennsylvania Railway conductor nnd the crooks secured his pocket-; hook, which contained SSB. All Over the State. Elijah Maniiun, a prosperous farmer, aged till years, committed suicide al his home near Eminence by shooting. He had been ill and was despondent. The Hartford City Glass Company's box factory and blacksmith shop burned. Loss, SIO,OOO, covered by insurance. Fire started in Lariaux’s bakery. t Loss, sl,000. also insured. Frank Dniley, ag -d 34, and Joseph Bevard, aged 50, while attempting to cross the St. Joseph river near Leo, nine miles north of Fort Wayne, were carried over the dam and drowned. The bodies were found. Two business failures occurred in Ashley. The Ashley Furniture Company, William Kitnsey appointed receiver, and the Daisy Implement Company, Theodore Gary appointed receiver. Liabilities and assets unknown. The action of the Indiana bituminous coal operators in reducing the wage schedule from »K> to 55 cents bore fruit Wednesday in a strike of the miners at various points in the coal belt. The officers of the Island Coal Company, which has headquarters in Indianapolis, received -yorU by telegraph tfabt all of ttorig-mtaww, . 400-in, number, bad struck. The Island company operates at Linton. The miners are confident that all of the miners in the State, fully -1,000, will quit work, and that nil of the mines will close down. , Joseph Gallagher, an iron worker from Chicago, is in jail at Mnncie, with one charge of murder hanging over him and with another probable. On Saturday night Gallagher met five men who were assaulting James Cunningham, an old man. and started in to help him. In the fight that followed Gallagher stabbed* Joseph Reid, aged 19, in the left side and James Dugan, aged 20, in the head, driving his knife, through Dugan’s skull, Reid died, ami Dugan is unconscious and dying. Gallagher ’•» .12 years old and says his home is near Halsted street and Ar : ehcr avenue, Chicago. He came from there seven months ago. - r A general alarm called out Muncie’s entire tire department Tuesday, and when the apparatus was pulled into the court house yard thousands of citizens crowded around the large stone, building. The firemen hurried into the building and -‘fowfl doors to make their way to the garret and dome, where it was thought the tire was located. County officials and other people commenced to carry out documents, and for fifteen minutes excitement ran high. Finally the firemen made a complete investigation, and then the mystery was sol veil. A number of people had noticed that whiefc; resembled a volume of smoke issuing from the dome of the building, and, thinking there was a tire, turned in an alarm. That which looked like a volume of smoke proved to t>e a dense swarm of small bugs that had congregated about the dome and In the shutters. There were so many of them that if required thirty minutes for them all to leave, nnd they could be seen moving through the air in dense throngs. The firemen were quite indignant to think that they had elimbed to the top of the building only to find a swarm of bugs, and they sought revenge by turning the hose on the rsimaining insects and washed the dome clean of them. F. M, Brown, of Shelby township, Ripley Ouiity, while plowing in his field, unearthed a quantity of Mexican, Spanish. English and American coins. Some of them bearing date of 1794 and none of them of a coinage of leas than seventy years ago. Among the collection were a number of rare coins, worth many times their face value. Altogether the values foot up in ekeess of SI,OOO, but Mr. Brown has deposited them In the bank at Versailles for sale to antiquarians. Thin is the fifth time within ten years that buried treasure has been found in that immediate neighborhood.

The bituminous coal operators issued a statement from Indianapolis in effect that the .mines would, close, as the minors were firm in demanding the Ohio scale, which the operators could hoi pay sive where Indiana coal came in competition with Ohio coal, and that they could only pay 3"> cents where Indiana and Illinois coal coni|»etod for tae same market, this being 3 cents higher than the Grape Creek. lit. schedule. The shut-down Is to be general in the bituminous region. The miners regard the new situation with, much apprehension. They were crippled by the strike of two years ago, and mining has not been profitable since then. .