St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 May 1891 — Page 3

BUDS AND BLOSSOMS BLOOM IN INDIANA’S FIELD OF FRESH NEWS. Fatal Accident at Eaton-Howard County Murderer Pardoned — Ancient French Coin Unearthed —Au Old War Horse Dead—Deaths, Accidents* and Suicides. Grand Army Appointments. Col. Ivan N. Walker, Department Commander for Indiana of the Grand Army of the Republic, has issued his first official orders in making the following appointments: Assistant Adjutant General—lrvin Bobbins, Indianapolis. Assistant Quartermaster General — O. R. Weaver, Indianapolis. Department Inspector—W. F. Daly, Peru. Judge Advocate-B. F. Williams, Wabash. Chief Mustering Officer—George W. Miller, Terre Haute. Color Bearer—John A. C. F. Myer, Indianapolis. , i Department Board of Visitors to the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, Knightstown— James B. Black, Indianapolis; Thomas E.Boyd, Noblesville; Benjamin Starr, Richmond; Alexander Hess, Wabash; Charles M. Butler, ■ Knightstown; A. O. Marsh, Winchester; ", K. Howard, South Bend; Thomas W. Little, Connersville ; K. M. Smock, Indianapolis. Soldiers’ Monument Committee— George J. Langsville, Greencastle; George W. Johnson, Indianapolis; D. C. McCollum, LaPorte; Thomas W. Bonnett, Richmond; Mahlon D. Manson, Crawfordsville; James R. < arnahan, Indianapolis; John L. McMaster, Indianapolis; Charles A. Zollinger, Fort Way no; Benjamin F. Havens, Terre Haute; Isaac B. McDonald, Columbia City; John Coburn, Indianapolis; James T. Layman, Indianapolis. Minor State Items. —LaPorte's going to have a fine new court house. —Bush County claims to be banner . temperance county of the State. —A heavy hail storm did great damage to fruit trees at Fort Wayne. i —Mrs. Dr. Marsh fell on the street at Logansport and broke both legs. —Nine prisoners burrowed out of i Lawrenceburg jail the other night. । —Kokomo made a gain of 104 per ■cent, in population in the past ten years, —Mrs. Burnett’s residence at Franklin was destroyed by an incendiary fire. —Fort Wayne Lutherans will build three new churches this summer, costing §IOO,OOO. —Montgomery County Fair will have a building devoted to exhibits made by children. —Charles Franzeman, foreman of the Romana Stone Company, was dangerously crushed by a planer. —Andrew Arnold’s barn near Rensselaer was struck by lightning and burned with three horses and a quantity of grain. —Maud Webber, 9 years old, fell from a railroad trestle, fifteen feet, near Columbus t fractured her skull and may die. —Peter Carroll, of Clark County, who died recently, kept a coffin in his house for twenty years. He was buried in it. —Burglars entered the hardware store _ of Campbell & Ludlum, at Marion, and

Carried away -godtrs to me-amount of $l5O. —Calvin Shrader, a section man on the Nickel Plato road at Peabody, was run over by a work-train and instantly killed. —While at work at McKendry’s heading factory, at Muncie, William Kilbo, colored, had his left hand torn off by a circular saw. Z —Witchcraft is said to prevail in the northwest part of Dearborn Conntv. As a consequence, Mrs. Fink has been declared insane. —Henry Patrick, a bank boss at the Nickle-Plate, n ine, Brazil, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. He leaves a wife and four children. —J. W. Jacobs and Abraham Carr, riding in a funeral procession at Bennettsville, horses ran off and both seriously if not fatally injured. —Miss Della Keesling. 17. Avondale, given up to die by her physicians, was restored to health by the prayers of friends—at least, so the story goes. —Henry Moran, aged II years, while attempting to get on a moving Big Four freight train at Crawfordsville, fell to the ground and his skull was crushed in. —Mrs. Mary Rutherford, of Vernon, is said to have become insane upon reading letters written to her twenty years ago by the lover who deserted her at the I altar. —The temperance people of Steuben County have been so successful in their work that wholesale liquor dealers no longer find it profitable to visit that section of the State. —An adjourned meeting of the Crawfordsville Presbytery will bo held at Crawfordsville on May 19, to ordain and install J. R. Inglas over the First Presbyterian Church. —A minister in Montgomery County, during his remarks at the funeral of a man who had killed himself while drunk, said that “a man dying in intoxication went straight to hell.’’ —A cave near Yountsville was explored by a party of hunters—they found a collection of queer arrow heads, bows, clay pots, kettles, etc., which will be of great interest to antiquarians. —Robert Thompson, a miner, was killed in Watson's shaft, two miles south of Brazil, by a stone weighing four hundred pounds falling on him. He was aged 35 and has a family. Two of his brothers were killed in the Coil mine in Arkansas about one year ago. —Fred C. Crane, of La Porte, was thrown from a bicycle, cutting an artery in the head, and sustaining injuries that it is thought will prove fatal. —Muncie now has fifteen churches and will soon have two additions. They will be a new M. E. Church at Avondale and a new Presbyterian church building at West Side, suburbs that have gained such population that the buildings are demanded, and will be erected at once. Muncie's church property is now valued at $220,000.

—Washington Frick, a farmer near Waterloo, drank nearly a pint of camphor. He died in twenty-four hours. —-Thomas Hamblin, while preparing a dynamite charge to bo exploded in a stream to kill fish, caused the charge to be accidentally exploded, tearing off his hand at the wrist and knocking him some ten feet upon the ground, where he remained unconscious for several hours. —Charles Genz and William Weihl, of Elkhart, have made an agreement that the one losing his bet as to the outcome of the approaching city election shall wheel the other from Elkhart to Goshen, a distance of eleven miles, in a wheelbarrow. —During May a reunion will bo held at Shawnee Mound of the jurors, attorneys and witnesses in the murder case of W. F. Pettit. While one of the main actors in the events occurring at that place is serving a life sentence in the penitentiary, the other will probably be a guest of this assembly. —“Old Archie,” a war-horse owned by Martin Kendall, of Liberty Township, Tipton County, is dead. The horse was 34 years old. In the fall of 1862 he went to the front with his owner and served Uncle Sam until the close of the war. He was one of the oldest horses in the State. —Thomas Ruse, who was sent from Howard County in .January, 1889, to the , Northern Prison for eleven years for manslaughter, has been pardoned by the Governor. Ruse shot and killed a man named Marks who had seduced his wife. He also shot the woman, but not fatally. Hundreds of citizens of Kokomo,together with the judge, jury, and county officials, joined in with the recommendation for his pardon. —An accident occurred in South Peru, in which Clint Kiser, a young man aged 17 years, and living with his parents, lost his life. Kiser had been out hunting, having gone before breakfast, and on his return home, and while setting his gun down in a corner of the room, it was discharged, tho shot tearing awav almost half his head. He died almost instantly. —Mrs. Samuel Hardesty, living ten miles southeast of Muncie, was burned to deatii. While temporarily absent the natural gas blew out, the escaping gas filling the room. When she returned she lighted a match, and this caused a terrible explosion, knocking her senseless. Her clothing caught tire, and when she recovered consciousness she was so badly burned that she lived but a few hours. She was alone in the house at the time. —Thirty years ago Company G, Tenth Indiana Regiment, was raised at Crawfordsville. At the head of the list was the name of Gen. M. D. Manson, and t^e company consisted of sixty-one c jers. Os this number twenty-eight are now dead. This date was four days after Fort Sumter was fired upon, and on April 19, Sunday, the ladies made

tents for the company, and on the foi- i lowing day the company started, via > Greencastle, for Indianapolis, where they pitched the first tents in Camp Morton. —Patents have been granted to the following Hoosier inventors: Franklin B. Hunt. Richmond, a guor of one-half to L. C. Allen. Washington. D. C., bicycle; Edmund Kuhn, New Albany, assignor to E. Scanlan, Louisville, a device for casting hooks; Samuel IL Petro and Ed. Darnell, assignors of one-third to W. Hunt, Darlington, hay-rack: Thus. J. Sausaman, Hooversburg, swinging gate; William B. Stover, South Bend two-wheeled vehicle: David E. Vanhorn, Elkhart, wrench. —While making an excavation at Mooresville, Floyd County, G. W. Atkins unearthed an old French coin bearing bearing date of 1701. The coin was found three feet under the ground at a place where there had not been an excavation of any kind within the memory of the oldest resident of that vicinity. That part of Indiana was traveled over by the earlv French settlers going from Vincennes, Ind., to Fort DuQuesne, now Pittsburgh, ami the coin is believed to have been b ,ried by one of them. —The boiler at the excelsior-works of Philip Klein, in the center of Evansville. I exploded, causing damage to the amount of SI,OOO. Tne boiler itself ton* through the building, and it was only stopped by the heavy timbers in the front end. The front plate of the boiler flew across the street and partially demolished two dwellings, the occupants of wl ich had narrow escapes. Other buildings in the vicinity were shaken up by the concussion. James Campbell, the engineer, and ■ Philip Klein, Jr., were badly scalded. —A fatality occurred near Eaton, in which David H. Edwards. residing near that place, lost his life. Mr. Edwards was in the woods cutting down a tree, which fell and lodged in another close by. The man succeeded in dislodging the tree, but was caught under the trunk and. it is supposed, was almost instantly killed. His little boy, 12 years old, was with him, and seeing his father's helpless condition, and being unable to render any aid himself, ran to the nearest house and told of the accident. They accompanied him withall speed, but found the unforI tunate man dead when they arrived. Mr. Edwards was one of Miama County’s prominent farmers, 35 years of age, and leaves a wife and three little children. —A stylishly dressed elderly woman I succeeded in passing several SIOO counterfeit bills on farmers in the vicinity of North Vernon. —Rev. 11. M. Middleton, presiding elder of the Crawfordsville district of the Northwest I ndiana Methodist Conference, has moved to Greencastle. —At Crawfordsville, Thomas Dobson, 76years old, while drawing water from a cistern, fell headlong into the water and was drowned before assistance could bo rendered him.

HOME AND THE EARM. - — I A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. pome New Appliance# for the FarmerWell Selected Suggestion# for the Housewife. tlie Stockman, the Dairy.nan, the Poulterer, anil the Horticulturist Notes. THE FARM. i Corn-Listing. Ilf E list the corn In Hr ' IAI rows three feet $/v UV apartr hills one m " foot apart; one kernel to the hill.

This is quite thick, but some will get covered up in culi tivating. which is I begun when the ' corn gets weedy. ' We use a common shoveled cultlva- | lor, sometimes taking the inside ' shovels off and at ‘ other times using them. To keep from covering up ; the corn first time through, we use

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an inverted V-trough attached as shown ’ in the illustration herewith. To make , it, tuko a 2x4 inch scantling six feet . long, chamfer off one edge on each side , until the boards fit snug, leaving about ( six inches of the scantling unehamfered USTER CULTIVATOR DEVICE. by which to hitch it to the cultivator. Through the end of this bore a holo and fasten, crossways, by bolt, 2xlß inch piece of wood as indicated so the Vtrough will stay In the ditch and not bob out. A small hole is bored in each end of the cross stick, through which wires, ropes or small chains are secured and left long enough to fasten to the inside shanks of the cultivator; thus holding the trough, in the ditch, and the trough in turn keeping the shovels out of the ditch, lengthen or shorten the wires, ropes or chains used, according to size ' of the corn and tin* amount ol dirt you want in the ditch. We h< id the shovels j in the ground their full depth and throw ■ dirt all over the trough, covering up ns ■ much or as little of tlie corn as dosin-d; i all weeds not extirpated by the shovels' are.buried under the overthrow. By this । method the work is not hard; in fact, it ■ is easier than plowing, planting, etc., by , "old style;" and, it is much faster, for । von can goon the run if desired. Make ; the trough strong but light. Theseeoud ’ time through we use shields and four big 1 shovels, for third time the same as for j regularly planted corn—Orunye Judd j Farmer. »te —j^-^ome-made laU tohna-M * I • - •* -w 0 " a made and ran be added to most gates r;-* * being used is worth having, especially if j its construction takes but a L w minutes ; and its operation is automatic and sure. About 1 ft. from the end of the gate nail a cleat on each side, so the latch can ■ slide between these and on the upper ; edge of a board. Next cut off a 2’ 4 ft. piece of furring and slide it in for a - —~~ l C " I ft / latch. Drive a light staple in its upper I edge and another in the top board ami connect the two by a waste piece of bale ' wire, raising the inner end of the latch lan inch or two. The upper staple must ■ be placed at least 1 ft. nearer the end of the gate than its mate in the latch. Then when the latch is forced toward the gate's hinges its inner end is lifted and its own weight forces it back into position. A smooth slot of sufficient size must be cut in the ]x>st to receive the latch. —Form and Home. About stock. Do not force the cows to stand in filth or to lie in it. Keep the stable clean. The horse needs succulent food as well as the cow. A few roots do the horses great good. The man who breaks his colts and the politicians as they ought to be broken, is in the ri-zh t xv a y. The time has come when there is scarcely an excuse for using scrub sires. Male animals of all kinds can be purchased cheap. Do not use a scrub stallion, if you can help it, and remember that every horse that is represented as a thoroughbred is not one by a long shot. When the weather is pleasant, the horse is bettor outside, than inside the stable. Let him out to get the benefit of the sunshine, the pure air and exercise. A correspondent asks us why a certain brand of bacon is always quoted higher than other kinds. The answer to all such questions, as a rule, is because it is a better article. A man was pretty nearly kicked to death the other day by a vicious horse. He had bought the horse for $25 knowing it was vicious. Now the account ’ stands about thus: Dorsi*. §25; doctor’s bill, §165, loss of time, at least §6O; making a total of §2lO. That would buy a pretty good horse, eh? THE I*o LLT Ri - YAK D. Feeding for Fggs. There is much to learn in feeding fowls for egg production in the season when eggs are in demand, for then and only then does the profit justify the extra attention necessary to accomplish this. A good hen should average 120

Uid fJon/isn \ Somolwill admit have' . lat^ to 170 ’ bllt 1 aln Oll, y * althe inex? avera 8O» so as not to scare Nearer th Cr enCCd P oultr y ’nan, it’ being "e™ tn, * avora & e Production. Did you I over stop to consider that 120 ergs repro- I tri'mm t ^Sregate weight of luff, of nntument i n lts mogt cond( , nsod furnb and ? ♦ ? gS an aggregate of 20 tb? ()netenm of this, or perhaps a trifle more, is 1 « W vi su , r Pl u s of material as well as energy i n t h o Becro tt vo organs is necessary. so it | s a faet that t)1|1 )noro f c ,> d j llg foods will not besuffii lent. 1 should be borne in mind that vitalD e «af r ° d !l etivo eg S s aro 0110 and 110 u>o lSed f° ot * another. If it, were possible to control the production of the I he hre I po!lcy to P ur »u« would cause i ♦vn rhi 1 1,,K Stock t 0 produce but one or | ^hiSl ^o ns - Th(, y would bo more apt I ^llv nm and tl)0 chicks constitution- I n v a ? i ea,thy and Vigorous. Usustarts laying at 8 or 10 "o °L d ‘ Sho does not *ay as constantly and as well at first as she will tho ^ooond Yeari but shc win demand more food for development the first, season fHUjdiiring the period of molting, say from Aiigust, untH ^7 JV( ., nb( . 1 11. 1 sho wiH n . j|y at all. If the winter is oxces- . V , «, c °ld> unless very warm and comlortallo quarters are provided as well as gOOdlpod, she w m seldom favor you with* 11 ‘’gg. InA'oding for eggs we mu«tu#e proper jud^Bl 3n ^ and not gravitate to either exall know or should know thaw** k en overfed will not lay well. Thj fat accumulates about the ovaries, means a loss of action in the egg orOTns. Feed well, avoiding such foods as llrodueo fat. Corn is one food of this kinX and sometimes warm cooked food without exercise moans the building up of a fatty element foreign to the make-up of a good layer. Do not understand that I mean that corn should never be fed, nor warm feed, but only sparingly. Wheat and bran are egg-producing foods when used in moderation. Rice is also good, as is meat chopped up finely. It matters but little whether tin* meat contains much fat or not. Ground bone and milk in the morning and evening are excellent for old fowls that lay. Egg shells broken up tine can be fed to them and also lime in tin* form of old mortar. An excellent mixture for shell material for general digestive properties is made up of 10 parts of ground new oyster shells, 2 of cayenne pepper ami 1 of powdered sulphur. Place two full tablespoonsful in soft feed three times a week, w hich is sufficient for a dozen liens. J. W. Cavohev. “II hrn I* a Hen Too 1 at ? A hen is too fat w hen she is appar- ! entiy very heavy behind, when >he is lazy and cares nothing for work, seeking only to have the owner feed her. She cannot easily fly, soon I m onies tired from exertion when chased, does not lay, though in good health, ami is very heavy when held in the hands. We do not state that any one of the above causes indicates a fat hen, but to observe her in | all of them. Os course, the surest method is to lift her ami the weight will be there. Examination of the rear of the body will also show the fat under the . skin by its color. to what should be the character i and quantity Os the food required to keep I them in a healthv condition, cannot be i c irn < tlv stated, as no two liens are : aliks. leghorns and Brahmas |or other Ia ‘e breeds should not be kept toIf hens are in good condition, < mi in , —Lay - ^A-pped <'>f an inch in length and ^.ildedh ail they will eat in the morn- ; ing, a tablespoon!u! of ground meat mixed witli mashed potatoes; and scatter wheat for them to pick up before going I to roost THE HOI sEHOLD. IIInf« tn lloti«rkr»j»er<To prevent layer cake from -ticking. I grease the till- ami dust in a Httle flour. li t nt siioen usually re-ton - color- that । have btien taken out by acids of any • kind. Salt sprinkled on any substance that ! Is burning on the stove will stop the j smoke and smell. A LITT! E turpentine mixed with the j starch will give a finer gios- to shirt । bosom-, collars and cuffs. I Hot milk is a simple means of comfort, • and is most reviving to one who is falil gmsl by overexertion. By .rubbing with a flannel dipp'>d in j whiting, the brown discoloration may be j taken off cups which have been used for baking. Disinfectants are useful po-t —ions in al! houx holds. Even tlie most sanitary plumbing may need the occasional purification of disinfectants. It is -alii that to drink sweet milk after eating onions wil! purify tlie breath so that no odor will remain. A cupful of strong coffee- is also recommended. A german prescription for preventing cold-son*- and boils from coming to a head is to paint them live or ten tim< - dailv with equal parts of boracic acid and water. Sponge carpet- oc- a-ionally with hot water in which either common -alt or powdered alum ha- been d>-'dv<-U. This not only brightens the carpet but prevents moth-. Lay a piece of thick t anton ilanm*! under your tablecloth. Even coarse na^H-rv will look a much Letter qualitv w :Ah a sub-coxer than if -pn-ad directly ov *r the bare table top. applying a little of the best carriaA# oil varnish carefully with a camel's hair brush to the edges of broken china, the parts being neatly joined together, the fracture will, when thoroughly dry, be hardly perceptible, and the china will stand tire and water. THE KITCHEN. Practical Recipes. Egg Sofi*.—Boil four eggs for twenty minutes, let them cool, open them, and grate the yolks, and chop the w’hites. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour in a saucepan, and stir over the fire until they are thoroughly incorporated; then add one quart each of hot water and milk. Season with pepper, salt and a little nutmeg; add the whites and serve. Fish with Cheese.—Cut up togetlmr a few mushrooms, some parsley and a j small onion, and fry them in butter: season highly with salt and pepper. Butter a baking dish and put the fried vegetables on the bottom; then put in a layer of cold cooked flounder or any other fish with large flaky meat. Sprinkle bread crumbs on top, moisten xvith stock and bake. Serve slices of lemon with this dish. Larded Liver.—Lard a calf’s liver with slices of fat bacon. Prepare some vinegar as follows; Take sufficient vinegar to cover the meat, and add thereto a slice of onion, some sage, pepper and

water in the pan Baste nft - * ? ,ttle I with brown gravy. U and Scrvo Fried Onions ax-,. I two large tabffispXul^^ | the fire, and when very hot n m ♦ small sliced onions; and put a cover over them; when thev aa\o cooked ten minutes put in six .rood 7 sized potatoes that have been pooled and eutmto dice. Stir all together th.m add salt, and pepper; cover the pan again and let them cook until brown on the bottom, shaking the pan occasionally but not mixing the potatoes and onions’. I Chocolate Cm* Custard.—To a quart !of milk add the beaten yolks of five or I Six Oggs and two heaping tablespoonfuls of chocolate, vanilla, sugar to taste, and a very little salt. Melt the chocolate j n a little hot milk before adding to the other ingredients. Fill cups with this and set them in a pan of water to bake* they will need about fifteen minutes’ Serve cold. Cocoanut Cakes.—One cup powdered sugar, two cupfuls desiccated cocoanut, two tablespoonfuls flour, whites of two eggs. Mix well, roll into a sheet, cut into small cakes, and bake a light brown. “the aFilkl" Some kinds of very thick honey wl

not granulate. It looks now as though alfalfa honey Is to lead the world. Mice will eat bees and pollen and when they get into a hive they usually keep the colony in an uproar and may even eventually cause their death. The Convention of the Eastern lowa Bee-Keepers, will be held in the Dobson Town Clock Building, Maquoketa, lowa, Feb. 11, 12. Frank Coverdale, Sec., Welton, lowa. In painting hives do not use dark colors for in extreme hot weather the combs in dark colored hives will melt down, while in a hive which is painted white, no damage will be done. Do not be alarmed if you find a number of dead bees about the entrance of the hive. In summer time you do not notice so many because tlie colony carry their dead away in their daily flight. The bees will take care of the empty brood combs in the summer season better than you can do it. In winter they should be boxed up tightly, after being thoroughly fumigated with sulphur, if they have any moth-germs in them. lx all large apiaries a record of each colony should be kept in a book, as well ias on the piece of section under the hive cover. The book may bo studied evening- or wh<*n it rains and the necessary work systematically planned. It seem- as if a successful bee keeper must be a very careful, thoughtful man. His constant attention to little things must discipline his mind and make him a useful member of society. It seep*.s alsc ! as if his experience- should lead him to communicate with the papers frequently in a gei.erous manner, feeling that he would have others learn at little expense what has cost himself so much effort. Temperature ot Hee Cellarn. It is important that the temperatureol the cellars should be looked after carefully. The temperature of the bee cellar- bears such an important relation tc the health of the bees that it must be kept in mind constantly. In the jour nals the advice is continually given tc lx-ware of the moisture in the.cellars, 'l iiis has been counted as one of the mos* fatal conditions of such a cellar. The moisture of the air bears an irnportan* relation to the temperature, and if tlie latter is kept right nodanger may be ex peeted from the former. Moisture, ol course, is continually passing off frorr i the bee-, the same a-from human bodies, and this must be absorbed by the air. ; Should the air be saturated with moist- : ure, -o that it can contain no more, thei j this av< nue of escape of moisture fruit : the bees will bo closed. The air of a las cellar that is warm and damp would b< ' jn-t as injurious as a moist air without । the warmth. A warm air does not thus • aii-wi*r the purpose. The degree oi . moi-tare in tin-air should be ascertained. ■ and a complete record of it kept every | day. A wet bulb thermometer can bf ; obtained for a -mall -un . and one shonlc ; be kept, in the bee cellar all of the time. It is not so much, then, the tempera ■ ture of the cellar as it is the degree o! ; -a’ nation. A large colony, well prot< < t« d and in good condition, can stand I more moi-ture than a -mall, sicklv one. Mold in tlu* cellar is a pretty sure in ■ d : . ation of a moisture-laden atmosphere, ilt- presence may not bo injurious to the In e- oi t it indicate- the beginning o‘ con .tion- which may result unfavorably’ * But damp cellars need not be the rule । j for there are ea-y methods to preven 1 i -uch condition-. One bushel of unslakec ' lime will absorb twenty-eight pounds oi r 1 water In the process of slaking. If i i ‘ quantity of unslaked limo is thus kep -. in the cellar continually, it will absorl I tin* moisture and create a d’ v atmos 1 [diere. .limn d'lbxtcr, in America/ t । Cultivatur. Mr. Richard A. Proctor, the well- ’ ; known lecturer on astronomy, once > tried the experiment of xvearing a eor- , ! set. and tints describes the result. , ‘‘When the subject of corset-xvearing . ' was under discussion in the pages oi , the Emjli.sh M''fhanir, I was struck," he says, “with the apparent weight ol evidence in favor of tight lacing. I i was in particular struck by the evidence of some as to its use in reducing cor- , juilence. I was corpulent. I also was , disjiosed. as lam still, to take an inter--1 ost in scientific experiment. 1 thought I would give this matter a fair trial. I read all the instructions, carefully followed them, and varied the time of applying pressure xvith that ‘perfectly ; stiff busk’ about which correspondents i were so enthusiastic. I xvas foolish • enough to try the thing for a matter of r | four weeks. Then I laughed at mvself 1 as a hopeless idiot, and determined to ' give up the attempt to reduce by arti--1 cial means that superabundance of fat * on which only starvation and much ex--1 ercise, or the air of America, has ever had any real reducing influence. But I ! was reckoning without my host. As the 1 Chinese lady suffers, lam l old, when r I her feet-bindings are taken off, and as ‘ tlie flat-headed baby howls when his r head-boards are removed, so for a xvhilo j was it xvith me. I found myself mani--1 festly better in stays. I laughed at ; myself no longer. I was too angry : with myself to laugh. I would as soon have condemned myself to using r crutches all the time as to wearing alj ways a busk. But for my one month of - folly I had to endure three months of J discomfort. At the end of about that 1 time I was my own man agaia ’

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the Wessonhoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection— Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures Time Well Spent. <oSS l fa.*;7j?x d «. 1 ”• introductory. cau s d°l i fur, . ,lel ' P r °P het > !l man edutrees Go<l 1 " tl,e ^ Ocks and l,ie sycamore age SJ?: 4 "onderfnlly blest such tutelnature rlwl ii U ° bet,,er divinity school than and mos 8tU A di,,d ’ of our best word have n yniPal ,etlc ex P°unders of the in "of f m re Ji. red amontthesurroundcaUie on 11 u he fleld ’ tl,e °P en alr ’ th « chai -iX s' ® hll , ls ’ the ‘J uiet '^od, the nlus^t > "ti !, ave given earliest stimmorn th- 1 “nd reflection. There are hZ.. t °. nOOr twos nch men whom we si, ,1 l ' er b ecn able to divorce from such simple environments. Meij thev are of strong grasp of their themes, of profound and searching thought. Their study and their pulpit are alike in tin* country, and _ lle writer can think < f nothing more reiresliing than to tarry with these royal souls a season near to nature’s heart, or rather near to the heart of God. If Amos’ language seems to us strong, let us remember his communinas Ho was not so well acwILH fmid convunXlon a..-* witli Clod. WHAT THIS UKSSOX SAYS

Come. Addressed to Israel; a series of picturesque and strongly ipiwiiXli SjijMalfh—i Bethel. Literally, house of God. Where Jacob met God (Gen. 28: 19). Now made a place of idolatrous worship (1 Kings 12: 28. 29). GUgal. The first camp of Israel after crossing tlie Jordan, the scene of their first sacrifice in the land of promise (Josh, 5: 10), afterward Samuel's seat of judgment (I Samuel 11: 14, 15). Multiply transgressions. Multiply is from the root meaning many (rav). Transgressions. Signifying. first of all. to rebel, or be refractory. After three years. Better, as in revision, every three days. This, the Hebrew; strongly sarcastic. Thanksgiving. Douay, praise. Rendered also confession at Josh. 7: 13. in the account of Aehan, I. e., acknowledged. A method of approach to God. Leaven. Unleavened bread nlone fitting in such offerings (Lev. 7: 13. 14). Lange suggests that this implies excess of worship. We rattier incline to think that it refers to mock worship. Le.. assume to worship thus if you will. Thus liketh you. Or. thus itpleaseth you. Man-made ritual. And I also. The also is emphatic, standing first in the Hebrew. Douay, whereupon.——Cleanness of teeth. A strong figure of speech, suggestive of famine.—• Places, i. e.. dwelling-places. Famine imminent in days of prosperity. Returned, or turned. They hid turned to the world rather than to God. Three months to the harvest. When rain was most needed. God using retributive providences to call the people to thoughts of him, and their covenant with him.—— I'pon one city. God's discriminating providences; always with a meaning, though xve may not always read aright. Wandered. Pictorial word. Literally, to reel. > r stagger, as in the last stages of w ant. This same word is found at Ps. 107: 57 i-stegger like a drunken man”). But they were not satisfied, or tilled (Douay). WHAT THE. LESSON TE U HKt Come to Bethel, and transgress. There is deep meaning in everv word, and inthecol-hx-ation of tlie words. Thinkot Bethel, home of God. as a place of transgression. And Gilgal, scene of thefirst passover inCana an, a place to multiply transgression. What a picture of hypocrisy! What a commentary on the fashionable piety of all ages! The very altar is made a ] lace for greater sinning. and the golden calf is set up where the Lord Jehovah should be alone adored. The house of worship is made a place for the tinselry of pride. , Worship is turned into display. Look at some of our religious customs. Study the manner of some of those who come to the Lord’s house, and then imagine some man whom God has called from his flocks standing up in the pulpit yonder, after the operatic overture, and crying out in deepest sarcasm. “Come to Bethel and t ra nsgress. ” Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven. Yes, we can believe it, Amos was not a popular preacher. He applied the gosptd too closely to men's lives, he told too much of the naked truth. It was leavened thanksgiving that men were rendering, and he told them So. Their worship was mixed with the world. The leaven’of sin was given a religious turn, forsooth, and men tried to persuade themselves that they xvere pious in their impiety. We have a little of it to-day. Men will cheat and ^;it throats on ’Change, lie and deceive in politics, and then come up with that sort of leaven in their Sabbath day offerings and call it a sacrifice of thanksgiving. Ami there are preachers to humor t<ie mood. But O for an Amos to call the thing by the right name, and to put the tell-tale stamp upon the leaven! One piece was rained upon. Just one. here and there one. The rest withered and dead. And xve sing: ' u Lord. I hear of showers of blessing Thou art scattering rich and free. Showers the thirsty land refreshing. Let some dropping-; fa’ll on me.” And yet how fe v and far between are the showers, how meager are the droppings. Once in a while there has lieen a great outixmring in a particular community, and then literally ‘-two or tiiree cities wandered unto one city, to drink water.” Why not the same refreshing everywhere? The supply is sufficient. Th? Lord's arm is not shortened. “But your iniquities haveseparated between you and your God. and your -ins have hid his face from you that iie will not hear. ” Put away sin. Have faith. Return unto God. And then with a sanctified heart ami a genuine faith, not one or two favored places but all the land can look up and sing: “There shall be showers of blessing. Send them upon us, O Lord; Grant to us now a refreshing. Come, and now honor thy word.” Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. He i- i ome; doubt not. By his providence, the swyet and the bitter together, he has been calling us and saying. -Yet have ye not returned unto me.” But whether we return or not. he will find us. If we svill not come in penitence to him, he will come with strong chastisings upon us. Let this nineI teenth century hear the voice front the heavens: “Prepare to meet thy God.” Past history informs us that when men have ' grown high-minded, heady, as has this generation, repeatedly refus ng to hear God's call t > abasement, God suddenly stands across the way as with a drawn sword. “Prepare to meet thy God;” let the warning be uttered in the ear of young and old today. The age is drifting fast toward forgetfulness of God. Rut God is not to be forgotten. He is as mindful of this age as of any other age and as close at band. We aie not yet out of the sight of Sodom. At any moment on the wicked land the jud smmts of God may descend. Prepare, prepare! Next Lesson—lsrael's Overthrow Foretold.” Amos 8: 1-14. 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