St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 May 1891 — Page 3

JUST TEN MINUTES WITH THE NEWS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA. Henry Ke'ler Suici<lo<l at I- ort Wayne — Henry Albright Killed by Vandalia Limited Express at Rcolsviile —Indiana Patents—State Hoard or Health to Enforce the L«w—Deaths, Accidents, Etc. Patriarchs Militant Meeting. At a meeting of the Patriarchs Militant in the Statoat Warsaw, called and ■ pr sidt'd overby Charles W. Grnesboek, ; asst taut Adjutant-General of the De-1 partment, the following elections were । made: First Regiment—Colonel, F. H. Fes- j ter, Pierceton; Lieutenant-Col.mel, G. i NV. Dowswell. Fort Wayne: Major’ Second Battalion. Freman Crosby, Vai- ; para iso. Second Regiment—Colonel, J. E. [ Beiline, Indianapolis: Lieutenant-j Colonel, George I'. Graft. Knightstown: ! Major First Battalion. M. 11. Chappel. ! Knightstown. Third Regiment—Colonel. W. M. Canader, Winchester; Major Third Bat- , taiion, Daniel Meyers. Columbia City; Major Second Battalion, J. G. Stober. Wabash. Fourth Regiment—Major Second Battalion, W. 11, Northeut, New Albany. Minor State items, —An unknown man was killed by the ears at Galveston. —The Salvation Army Corps has ad- j vaneed on Seymour. —Terry Owens, of Westport, was killed ■ by a fall from a wagon. —Alfred Farrington, jr., of Jerome, j drank concentrated lye and died. —Tlie delinquent taxes of Montgomery ; County amount to nearly sgi.ooo. —The residence of William Bales, near Martinsville, was destroyed by fire. —New men have taken the places of the striking DePauw glass-workers. —The Jeffersonville town council has adopted standard time for that city.

—Mrs. Sally Matson aged 93 years, died of physical exhaustion at Am ■. —The Seymour Street-ear Company will employ steam as a motor power. —Redkey is to have an Ornamental tile-works which will employ 500 men. —An unknown man was killed at Osceola, by a Lake Shore fast mail train. —II. S. Winters, of Terre Haute was drowned while fishing near Martinsville, 111. —The new breeders' association at Greencastle, will build a mile track at once. —The citv High-school of Crawfordsville will hold field-day exercises on May 21. —lsaac Kunerine, engineer, was killed in a wreck on the Cloverleaf Railroad at Kokomo. —Michigan City’s fairlv frothing at tin* __ —ii ■ nr-' —HV.TT —Ahmresl ville, was fatally injured by a falling apple-tree limb. —George W. Bennett, Lafayette's a! leged double murderer, is said to It feigning insanity. —M estfiekl citizens have organized a stock company with £20.000 and will manufacture furniture. —Levi Kessinger, of Galveston, was caught by a Pan Handle train on a trestle, struck and killed. —Charles I). Tiilo. of Fort AVavm*. has been appointed a memberof Gov, Hovey's staff with, the rank- of Major. —A red-oak log at a saw-mill near Edinburg was split and found to contain 127 bla.clesnakes hidden in the hollow. —Enumeration of school-children in Montgomery County shows a large increase in all townships excepting Wayne. —John Edwards, a boarding-house-keeper. at Crawfordsville, lays claim to $1,000,090 of the Ed wards £200.1 iO.OOOestate in New York. —Geo. Hynes, James Hynes, Joe Hynes, James Gordon, and Bill Gordon, all arrested at Kentland, charged with robbing freight cars. —John Cripe arrested in Lafayette, is said to have executed tho cleverest piece of swindling in the way of forgery ever prepetrated in the State. —Six tramps in jail at Crawfordsville, refuse to work on tin- stone pile until 'ed with potatoes and cake for dinner. ! Their regular fare is bread and water. : —Josep'h Combs broke jail at Browns- 1 town, fled, fell through a trestle, sustained severe injuries, returned to give himself up to the Brownstown authori- ' ties.‘was fried at once and acquitted. —Two industrious peddlers have been ; selling pounded charcoal. done up in little bags, to La Porte housewives, with the explanation that no lamp containing one such sack would ever need refilling. —The cheese and butter factory at Wilkinson is now receiving 3,O<M pounds of milk per day. Thus far the company has not been able to keep up with tho orders from various places for their giltedged butter and tine cheese. —The Jay County Agricultural Society has let the contract for building an art hall on the'fair grounds. The officers are determined that the annual fair shall continue to be the best county fair in the State if anything they can do will assist it. —Mrs. Anna Borkenheim, of New Albany, ageci S 3 years, is dead. She had resided in Jiat city for more than a half century and was greatly respected. — At the examination of applicants for a teacher’s license, at Crawfordsville, eight young ladies wore detected secreting books from which to get the answers. The superintendent at once marked their papers “not passed,’' and did not even examine them. At the previous examination forty-four person failed to pass out of seventy applicants.

—John Schmidt, of LaPorte, was killed by his horse taking fright at a runaway team and falling on him. —Mrs. Meredith, the esteemed wife of the minister of the Friends' Church, of Mooresv’lle, fell into the fire while suffering from an epileptic fit. None of the family was near enough to rescue her, and she received burns from which, it is thought she cannot recover. —Three miles from Muncie resides A farmer, .Marion Wilson, with his family. Their U-ycar-old daughter had her infant sister in her arms, when she acci- : dentally dropped the baby to the floor. ; Its skull was fractured, and the child I has since died of its injuries. j —Recently one of the small bones in I the leg of Andrew T. Conner, of New ! Albany, snapped as he was walking along . the street, and Letove that reunited anJ other one was broken. Mr. Conner then ; discovered that he was afflicted wRh I chalky deterioration of tiie lones. J —Harrison Taskell, who was sentenced ! in ISSti for criminally assaulting a German ' girl of Indianapolis to twenty-one years 1 in the Penitentiary, was pardoned out by i Gov. Hovey. The representations which : influenced the pardon are the ill-health ; ami good behavior of the prisoner. —A large barn belonging to Arch. Martin, on his farm near Crawfordsville, was set on tire by unknown parties, and thi> building and contents were destroyed. Several calves, hay, corn, and | implements were burned, making the I total loss at least 52,000. No insurance. —John O'Donnell, a miner, was found I dead in shaft No. S. ’ ehmging to the i Brazil Blockcoal Company. It is sup- ! posed he was caught between a l ank ! car, loaded with coal, and the roof. His 1 neck was found to have been broken. * The deceased was unmarried anil lived । at Perth. —Henry Keller, an old citizen of Fort i Wayne, arose from the supper-table, I walked into an adjoining room and tired ' a bullet through his brain. He died in- ' stantiy. leaving no word to explain the ' cause of his suicide. Deceased had a ; large family, and was in comfortable

j circumstances. I —Perry Owens, aged 71 years, while at , work on his farm, near West port, ' met with a fatal accident. lie was 'on a lead of rails and in crossing a | i small ravine was thrown backward to । ' the ground, breaking his neck. He was a prominent Mason and a much-respect-s ed citizen. He leaves a widow and numerous other relatives. —Sohn Schneirer, a young man 22 t ' years old, attempted to board a freight : train on the Wabash railroad near i Delphi, and missed his hold. He was - thrown under the train and so badly in- ) jured that both legs have been amputated. There is little hope of his reJ coxery. He was a miller, living two .1 miles east of the city. — Henry Albright, a farmer near o Reelsvilhn was kidyd by the Vandalia ;- ’ eggs’, on his way to market, and did not g . seem to hear the usual danger signals, sounded repeatedly. When picked up I- his faithful dog was standing guard over e his mangled and almost unrecognizable . remains. !l —Patents have* been granted Hoosier 1 , inventors as follows: Hiram Brooking. > assignor of one-half to J. Fiery, North s Manchester, spark arrester: Charles E. 3 Darrow. Kokomo, nut for axle spindles: : Franklin Fulkerson. Russiaville, fence; s John Jones, Elkhart, railway crossing s (reissue): Samuel McDonald. Dunkirk, holdback for vehicles; Sevmonr Rouse, - Indianapolis, pump cylinder: Nathaniel । G. Stader, Columbus, nmldir.g flask. —Circuh rsare I eing sent from the i office of the State Board of Health to | ■ : leading phvsieians in the various c um- ■ tic's of tho State, calling attetui n to the ■recent law enacted for the purpose* of I ' ' faeili.- ting the work of gall, -ring com- I plete statistics in this line. The circular contains a copv of that law, and the purpose is to convey to the phvsieians of Indiana the idea that the penalty for failure to report births, deaths, ami other such statistics will be enforced. ■ - —Mrs. Thomas Longley, an old resident of St. Joseph County, was accidently killed. She and I,er husland , were driving to church, having to pass through South Bond on the way. Unss- . ing the street car track the king bolt ■ broke, letting down the buggy and I throwing tho occupants out. Mrs. Longley's neck was broken and sho died in a few minutes. Mr. Longley, however, received only a few bruises, from which he will recover. At the outbreak of the rebellion Van ltei'--selaer Morgan was serving in the federal navy, but enlisted in the rebel navy. Ho owned a residence in AVabash and a tine farm of eight acres north of that place. During the war his property was confiscated by the government and sold at United States Marshal's sale, Miles Morgan bidding in the town property and T. F. Payne becoming owner of the valuable farm. A late decision of the United States Supreme Court holds that property sold under the confiscation act can be held by the purchaser only as long as the parties from whom it was confiscated live, and the heirs of Van Renesselacr Morgan, who died at Washington, recently, have begun proceedings for the property valued at $6,000. —Matthew Barnes and James Woodruff, burglars in Richmond jail, knocked the jailer down with a club and broke out but were promptly recaptured. —John Zeitler, night watchman in Bissell’s plow work's, South Bend, discovered a burglar in the building a few nights ago, and rushed off to sound the alarm. When he got back the burglar was gone. He was so chargrilled over the. scoop that he went right home and beat his wife beyond recognition. Fined $39.50.

DOMESTIC ECONOMYTOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Some Valuable Information for the Wo* man, Stockman, Poulterer, man, and Everybody Connected Farm. _ THE FARM.

A Valuable Fertilizer. i O HOD farming ( a If doesn’t stop at the IT#/ |4 door of the poultry , LI house. It goes .

inside and gives tho fowls as rational care as is bestowed upon tho rest of tho farm I stock. It also takes I special pains to preserve e vory particle of the valuable fertilizer that is made there. It should be remembered that no stock upon the farm is fed such concentrated fitful that consumfod

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by fowls, that are properly > fXy. The natural result is that their ilr^^l pings contain more valuable t°'! mentsthau any other manure mad^^ the place. I have never realized thl%" forcibly as during the past season I used it in mv garden side by side *ith commercial fertilizer. The fact, that the poultry manure gave better satisfaction than the artificial compound was probably due to the care which had been taken to properly preserve it. I believe

it Is an exception to the general rule when proper eare is given to this dressing by farmers. It is either allowed to collect in heaps under the roosts, where it may remain for months rendering the air impure, or it is thrown out of doors to be wasted bv rains, and its nitrogen (the specially strong and valuable ]>olnt in this fertilizer) dissipated in the air. My own method is to remove the droppings frequently from the pens and place them in barrels, with a generous supply of dry absorbent, such as road dust, but never wood ashes or lime. Such a plan involves rather more labor perhaps than most farmers would think they could give to the matter, and so 1 am of the opinion that the. verv best general plan that can be adopted is to clean out the pens thoroughly, and then cover the floor to the depth of at least six inches with perfectly dry road dust, which can nl- | ways be obtained during a dry time in the summer, fall, and spring. All the droppings that full into this dust will he quickly covered and their moisture absorbed by the constant scratching over the whole room, particularly if oats and wheat are thrown down occasionally. By this arrangement there will be no heaps formed beneath Hie roosts, bej cause the scratching of the fowls will , level all, and keep an even mixture over I the whole floor. The finest dust will fill every crack and cranny, and provide a bath each day for the fowls, so that vermin will 'be unknown. In this wav I think the pens need not be cleaned out more than twi<y a year—in the fall and ipritig^,'^^ - *w-vt>eni-i^i~nn 1 coueentrated this form, and so will not be likely to !> injudiciously used as frequently bappenF with the undiluted article, and vet not u particle of its value will be lost, while the pens will be kept sweet throughout the year, and the fowls kept free from the common pest of vermin. Care should be taken if this plan j* followed that the drinking water is not spilled, for when road dust under cover becomes wet, it dries very slowly, and dampness in the poultry house is especially to be avoided, | —II ebb Donnell, in I'mcthnl Former. THE GARDEN. Outlook for OardcncrH. When one has discovered which kinds of crops he can best produce. It is imi portant to hold steadily to raising them, , and not on account of fluctuations in the j ■ market to shift from one thing to anoth rl | from year to year. This is the regular ! movement, ebb and flow, of the great | I mass of cultivators, ami the result is that । i some crops are always overproduce I or ’ underproduced. The onion is a notable , example of this sort. Among fruits the strawberry is constantly subject to this shifting movement. Only the steady cultivator g ts any benefit by a short crop, while the mass of growers are nearly always met with a full and lowpriced market. Unusual success in any particular crop, by reason of superior local advantages, will often induct' many others to undertake similar production, and often with the effect of finding sale with little or no profit at most, or perhaps worst*, with an actual loss. Celery growing the past year has been widely extended, and in many east's far beyond the needs of local consumption, leaving heavy stocks to be thrown into the great markets, where but little is realized from them. A notable instance among fruits in tha. Northern States at the present time is ' grape growing. Certain localities favor- , able to the prod net ion of grapes of line * quality, having established a profitable ' industry after many years of trial and difficulty, now find that their success has encouraged many persons to plant vineyards on grounds with no particular adaptation to them, and with the result of producing a large mass of fruit of inferior grade. The result is not that the good fruit brings the best price, but the price of the fruit of poor quality determines that of thi' whole, without distinction. Such is the fact. — Tick's Magazine. A Clever Garden Help. Do not plant a seed unless you wish it to grow, and thou remember that plants and pigs are alike in habits, feeding and : growth and req re the same care. To refuse both food would be to put the pig soonest out of his misery. The plant might survive a few days. Use the best ! cultivator. One implement of great 1 i - !

utility to gardeners is a cheap hand roller, which is run on the row after it is planted and which may follow the plow as pulverizer. A simple contrivance is a heavy block off an elm or oak log sixteen inches in diameter and twelve to fourteen inches long. It may have a light

frame work by which to propel it like a a wheel barrow. For transplanting boro holes thodesired distances apart, and insert pins of proper length to punch holes to receive the plants. Push the roller in a straight line, follow with the plants, water them and fill the place with fresh earth at once, leaving it without pressing. The operation is quick and if well done not one in 1,000 plants will die. — Charles Deland, in Farm and Fireside. THE POULTRY YARD.

Potato Parings tor Chickens. Mrs. J. M. Wetherell, Alameda County, California, writes: “Since 1 have kept poultry, 1 have pared my potatoes thicker than formerly, and find a balm for my wounded conscience in the thought that what is lost by the family is gained by the poultry. I boil the potato parings, and when they are cooked I put them । through a meat grinder. 1 then mix । bran with the ground potatoes until the . mass is dry and crumbling, when 1 feed it to my young chicks while still warm, j Sometimes I add before grinding one or two raw onions and a little salt and black pepper. The chicks not only enjoy it. but it is a very nutritious food for them.” Chops Tor Sitting Hens. As a precaution against storms and severe cold, all the coops for sitting hens should be placed in the poultry-house or under a shed. When the hens come off £«vith their broods the coops should be I carried into the barn during the stormy I weather, and they should be so conrsariictod ns to permit of carrying the hens ainl chicks in the coops. No matter how closely a hen* may hover her chicks, she cannot protect them in winter when they are exposed to severe cold, and the chicks will sometimes become chilled during tho day when they are picking up bits outside of the coop. Ali

coops for hens with broods should be I well littered with cut hay, and every care used to have them as warm as can be. When the hen is sitting, her nest should be in a warm place and her food placed where she can reach it without being compelled to go very far from the nest. THE HOUSEHOLD. How to Wash Flnnneh. Flannel underwear and woolen stockings would last two or three times longer than they ordinarily do if they were properly washed. Many people put them in the general wash, and let them go ■ through the same as any other piece of clothing from hot water into cold. This la ail wrong; one such wash will shrink and stiffen woolens so that they will be very much smaller, and also harsh and thick. If properly washed, there is no necessity for woolen under' -ar or stockings becoming hard or discolored at all; they should be a- soft when worn out as they were when new. White flannels often assume a saffron tint after one bad washing, while with proper care they should remain white till they turn yellow with age. Tho first tiling to do is to make a lather of lukewarm water and some pure white soap (Castile or borax soap is best); a little borax mav be also added, or ammonia, two tablespoon I ills to a pail of water. This will loosen the dirt, and also tend to keep the flannels soft. Put your woolens in this, and rinse up and down a great number of times until the flannels seem clean. Soap should never be rubbetion them, as it leaves a mark

soiled streaks around the wrists or necks of the shirts, rub between the hands, if the dirt will not move without soap, rub the soap on the palms of the hands (not on the flannels), and then rub the flannels between them. When the flannels are thoroughly clean, squeeze them out carefully and put them into the rinse water. This 'houki be lukewarm (never hot! about the same temperature a- the water in which they have been washed. Rinse up and down until they are free from suds; then squeeze between the hands until you get them as dry as posible: never use a wringer, and try to do without even wringing with the hands. Hang up at once, and never let them lie in the clothesbasket. Hang shirts by the shoulder- at first, drawers by the belts, and skirts by the waistbands. When they are half dry, reverse the position, and let them finish drying. Scarlet flannels, if they are of good quality, will keep their color if washed as above and each detail carefully attended tO. Some old housekeepers. howcver. prefer to take the following precaution iu regard to red flannels in order to be sure of their not fading: Mix a half cupful of flour with a quart of cold water, place over the lire, and let it boil for fifteen minutes, stir this into the warm suds in which the flannels are to be washed, and then proceed as above. Salt is Sometimes used in washing colored woolen stockings in order to keep them from fading, but we have found it rather harsh, and prefer to wash them, as well as other woolens, as we have just described. In winter the flannels should be washed first before touching the other clothes, so that they may have plenty of time to dry. AA e prefer not to iron flannels. as they can be smoothed out with the hands and laid into shape. If you prefer to iron them, be sure and use a *" arm iron (never hot), and press them bn the wrong side. ’ THE DAIKL Dairy Notes. Don't let a dairy meeting in your neighborhood get away from you. w hether you know much or little about the science of dairying. Several correspondents have incidentally said recently that they arc warming the water, this winter, for their cows are pleased with the result. We are not surprised. Every pound of oleomargarine that is sold takes the place of a pound of genuine butter, and for that reason, if for no other, hotels, and board-ing-houses should be forbidden by law. to feed it to their patrons without knowledge. Once in awhile, andoftener, somebody gives the public the benefit of his belief about abortion in the herd, and when we get through reading it, we know just as much as we did before. The butterine makers kick like a “bay 1 steer,” at the idea of preventing them by legislation, from cramming their dirty products d ame throats of those who eat at public eating houses, but they must be made to be decent. The practice of the golden rule toward

the herd is just as important as its practice towardour fellowmen. Do unto the cow as you would be done by, if you were in her place, is about all there is to the proper management of the herd. One of the leading Hve stock papers of ; the West tells it readers, says an ex- ।

ch-ange, that stunted calves will certainly 1 make, as far as appearance goes, “scrub” ' animals, and that this will be tho case I without the slightest regard to the breed I which they represent or to tho quality of their breeding. This is sound doctrine which all live stock owners will do well to heed. By good care and skillful feeding they can improve the appearance and increase tho value of a low' grade of stock at its present degree of excellence if tho young animals are not well fed or are not given proper attention.

THE KITCHEN. Kitchen Helps. In many houses tho cause of poor bread can be traced to the, broad being set to raise where a draught from a door will strike it, or insufficient steady warmth. In a bakery all this is guarded I against, the raising-room never being al- ; lowed below a certain temperature. The accompanying cut, whi^h we take ; from an exchange, could be made very j easily at home, from light timber. It is twenty-three inches square and twentyeight inches high. The shelves are of wire, and a lamp placed in the lower part ) / | 11 - '

makes the warmth. This must not bo one that has too large a flame, or it would cook it. On the shelf above the lamp place a piece of heavy sheet-iron. This will insure your bread an even temperature. The other cut is a convenience for drying tins. Did you ever try ticking for dish-tow-els? Get a light-weight quality and make them a half a yard wide, and use the original width for the length of the towel. For dish-cloths, Turkish toweling is good, or cheese-cloth taken double and j basted. In these days of cheap material it doesn't pay to use a dish-cloth too long. When its days of usefulness are over, I urn it. With greasy dishes, it is best to rub them off with paper and use it to kindle tires with. This saves your dish-cloths and towels, and the dish-water does not clog up the waste-pipes so much. If you

X unxaintvXTlhiUiii' Ui i' iff) rife ; In the early ilays of spring, every bit j of litter about the yard should be Aaked ’ ■ together and burned; the articles that will not burn should be carted away. ■ Nothing spoils a place like litter. Christie Irving. Recipes. Pt mpkin Ct stard Cut a pumpkin into . squares, stew slowly until well cooked, then press through a colander or sieve. To every pint of pumpkin add a piece of butter about twice the size of a walnut, ' half a teaspoonful of salt (scant,) one ■ pint <>f good milk, half a teaspoon each of mace and cinnamon, one teaspoon of ginger, one cup of sugar, and four wellbeaten eggs. Bake in a pudding-dish, without crust, or in pie-tins with a light crust. Graham Biscuits.—Put one quart of graham fl ur into a bow). Rub into it two oune -of butter. Add a teaspoonful of ; salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix and rub again, until thoroughly | blended, then add sufficient milk, about a half-pint, to make a soft dough. Turn j out on the board, knead lightly, roll it into a sheet about three-quarters of an inch thick. Cut into biscuits. Place in greased pans and bake in a quick oven twenty minutes. General Notes. No plant needs more water than it ’ can drink. | Mixed barnyard manure is better than clear horse manure for most garden crops. It is always better to let somebody else test the value of novelties in herb culture. Don't pile up trash from the garden and trimmings from the bushes and vines. I Burn them. A little nitrate of soda placed about ; the tomato plant before hoeing will in- ! crease the yield. It is better to plant vegetable seed pretty thick, and thin out. It is more profitable to thin than it is to replant. Will cabbage grow on new land? asks “an amateur.” Yes. Manure the land well. Guano in the hill is first-rate for cabbage. An orchard of 800 acres has recently been set in Osage County, Kansas, by a man who already has one of nearly 450 acres. When drawing out the manure do not forget that the garden will repay for a liberal top dressing of that that is well rotted. The worst thing that can be impressed upon the mind of a farmer is that a complete education is of no advantage to the pursuit of agriculture. On the other hand, the best thing for him is to be thoroughly imbued with the idea and belief that a farmer should be a well informed man, with a well trained mind able to perceive the close connection there is between his practice and the physical science; the value ol habits of thought, a retentive memory, and a fa- I cility for the perception of the relation I of facts to one another. He should be able to use all his mental faculties, well developed by training as well as his * hands and muscular strength. He should be taught that the hoped-for-regenera-tion of his vocation and the most profitable pursuit of the business are to come from the foundation of better rural schools and the better education of his ' children. j ■

I THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating Character— Wholesome Food for Thought — Study* Ing the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently and Profitably. foniJa \ ess ? n for Sunday, May 10, may be found In Amos 8: 1-14.

th x j ’NTBODVCTORY. vnin.°o he ? dman preacher . Amos, with this volume of sermons of his, can not fail to leax ea strong impression on the mind. His homiletics, as embraced in this book, Is his own. He is sharp, direct, intrepid. His plain, blunt figures of speech, the sign usually of a brief but effective vocabulary, go straight to the mark, and there is a sturdy force to his full-armed, honest blows that tells every time. We have in mind the picture of a plain-spoken, hard-hitting country parson some one has recently been sketching. He interrupts his exposition of the parable of the sower at the words, u Some fell among thorns and the thorns sprang up and choked them,” to step down to the door of the school-house and unceremoniously expel a couple of obstreperous youths, and then the next moment is back in his place saying, “But, brethren, others fell into good good ground and brought forth fruit, some an hundred-folii, some fifty-fold, some thirty-fold. Who hath the ears to hear, let him hear.” We can fairly see this hardfisted herdman of Tekoa striking his swift blows right and left, and leaving the ground about him covered with his slain of the Lord. And yet he was tender-hearted: —— Who, in tho end, are more tender-hearted than they that speak the absolute truth? WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Thu®. A frequent introductory with the prophets. The Book of Amos is but a series < f sermons to the people. This is one of these distinct discourses. Saith the Lord. Said to occur in this prophecy forty times. Basket. Amos abounds in parables and Illustrations, largely drawn from farm life. Tire word basket may also be translated net-

work, possibly the cages in which the fruit was caught Summer fruit. Or full-ripe, harvest fruits, i. e., iu season. The word literally means cutting. Rowlings, or wallings. In keeping with Oriental demonstrativeness of grief. The Hebrew is yalel, a mimetic work. It stands fifst in the original of this verse. Temple, or palace. Dead bodies. Our word corpses. They shall cast them forth with silence. Seven English words for two in the Hebrew; cast forth, silence. Swallow up. First meaning pant after, as of a hound on the trail. To make the poor of the land to fail. Nine words in the English for three in the Hebrew; to reduce the poor of the land. Be gone. Literally pass over.— —Sell corn. Verb and noun, same word in the Hebrew, like corn, the corn. Set forth wheat. Hebrew, open the wheat, as if it were the wheat market: probably the wheat sack. Making the ephah small. Hebrew, cutting short the ephah. Falsifying. First meaning, bending or making crooked, 1. e., the balances. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. A basket of summer fruit. It is a husbandman's own illustration, and an effective one. Amos, like our Lord, finds a text fi r his sermon from nature. What is the significance of a basket of fruit, fully ripe? It means, harvest, ingathering, the outcome of the season's toil and patience. God had planted and nurtured and tended Israel. Through harsh winter, budding spring and the flowering of early summer he liad watched and cared for his chosen seed. Now he comes to gather in the fruit of it all, and what does it amount to? Sin upon sin. heaped and crowded, and nothing n.ore. He has sowed mercy and reaped cruelty, has solved tenderness and reaped blood, has sowed truth and reaped deceit. Tho basket is full, the fruit is ripe, and it is very bad. So looks many a kind father on the outcome of love and labor bestowed 1 through *

-boasted civilization a tor an the suns of prosperity had beamed upon it through the centuries. Alas, shall the similitude hold with reference to our own God-blessed civilization? What shall be the character of our basket of summer fruit? When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn. The difference between our oppression and theirs is this, that we scruple not to crtish and kill on new moons and Sabbeths as well as on the commonest of days. Os course for the majority of men the chamber of commerce and the marketfl a. :e is closed on the Lord’s day and the holiday, but the murderous work goes cn. Possibly as some of us sit in the Lord’s house with a calm and pious exterior we are in mind shouting on ’Change and plotting how we may down our neighbor and throttle our mercantile competitor. We are verylike those ancient Jews. If our ephah of commerce is small our ephah of worship is likewise small; if our shekel of cupidity and selfishness is large u on ’Change” it will be exceedingly large in the sanctuary, and our sacrifice will be an abomination. God will none of it. AVhen we go to the Lord in prayer or worship let it be with cleansed spirit. For “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” The refuse of the wheat. Amos knows farm life. He is himself a herdsman. But that d es not prevent him fr. m aiming a shaft or two at his old companion of in- । dustry. He is not partial or unfair, and when he charges the merchant for selling the needy a pair of shoes, he follows it right up with an instance of deceit that belongs to the granary and barn. Refuse of । the wheat. It is so easy to put it in with the lump. It will not be seen in the great mass; it will make no difference. But it is seen of GoJ, and it does make a difference in the s ate of the heart, a great difference. Farmers and all may well remember it. In this matter of deceit ‘-a little leaven leaveneth up the whole lump.” In God’s pure sight it Is all leaven; it is all refuse. O, to be honest all the way through, thoroughly sound. -It is the little rift within the lute, . That by and by will make the music mute. And, ever widening, slowly silence all: ! Jhe little rift within the lover's lute, j Or little pitte 1 speck in garnered fruit, I That rotting inward slowly moulders all.” I A famine in the land. AVe may well fear It. Not hunger so” bread nor thirst for water, but a linked hunger and thirst for the words of the Lord. And this is not that hunger and thirst spoken of in the beati- • tudes as having great reward, but rather the settled sort, the ultimate of sin, that cries out of darkness for the cooling touch of Abraham’s finger on the parched tongue. A thirst that comes too late, a hunger that shall be left lamenting. It is always possible. This land may yet know it. A’our own s ml may experience it. Indeed, the famine may be upon you now, though the tongue to-day be speechless and the worldly heart deceive. Some time Satan’s famine will smite you in your fair land, and the cry of want be wrung from your unwilling lips. To-day It may be effectual, but not then. O friend, that you would see where sin is leading you. “Use it,” as said the old divine. -as it will use you. It is your murderer and the murderer of the world. Kill it, or it will kill you.” Next Lesson—“ Sin the Cause of Sorrow ” . Hosea 10: 1-15. The body of every spider contains four little masses pierced with a multitude of mper<‘eptible hoies, each hole permitting the passage of a single thread; all the threads, to the amount of 1,000 to each mass, join together where they come out, and make the single thread with which the spider spins its web; so that what we call the spider's thread consists of more than 4,000 united. t T- lIE a large river in British India, with a descent of 12,000 feet in 180 miles, is the fastest flowing river in the world.