St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 November 1891 — Page 3

e—— ITIS RIGHT IN LINE, _-—\_ S THIS COLUMN OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS. ——“————_n A Large Number of Accidenty—A Few Sui. cides and Deaihs—And Other Important Neows, Cur Crops, Hon. William A. Peele, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, has compiled the tables relating to the cereal crops for the year 1891, and, in discussing the results, declares that the several crop vields are the best that have been known for years. “Hardly in the history of Indiana,” says he, ‘“‘and certainly not since the Indiana Bureau of Statistics wis organized, has there been such a generally prolific yield of the cereal corps as that ! which characterized the present year. While the conditions were at times unfavorable and there were strong proba- | bilities that the growing crops would be more or less injured, the changes in cli- ‘ matic conditions came in time to over- - come, or,"at-least, greatly ameliorate the _threatencd damage, and the results show === crop year which may properly be calied

phenomenal. Indiana has harvested some magnificent crops of wheat, [some excellent crcps of corn and has grown some exceptionally large crops of clover and timethy hay, cats, barley and rye, but it is seldom that all of these crops have been asabundantasinin 1891, when each outstripped ¢he average of former years.” The following summary shows the acreage, average yield per acre and total product of the several crops: | WHEAT. DUERNDOFOEROPOM. .« ov o «coviennvesace . 2:801,099 | ‘ Average yield peracre . ............ 20,00 Total product in bushels.... ... .... 58,305,766 CORN, RN O MR- ..o SERTOY Averuge yield per acre................ 3423 Total product in bu5he15............. 125 092,640 1 OATS, R O SOPOE. ... .. e (-{)’.‘,‘.)'»2‘ Average yield per acre................ 2375 | Total product in bu5he15............. 23,123,180 | BARLEY. | RNI BN, 21,388 Average yield WU WD 21.87 Total product in bu5he15............. 467,773 RYE. BRSOt aeee, . ... .. ... 44,810 Average yield per aeve................ 1802 Totel product in bu5he15............. 805,148 BUCKWHEAT. PR OO ROROE . ... e 9,541 Average vield peracre............... 15,86 Total product in bu5he15............. 151,450 FLAX-SLED, bRI WaaE. . 14,116 Average vield per acre................ 8,24 Total product in bu5he15............. 116,460 CLOVER HAY, SEEher of BeTes. . ...........5...... 1908869 Average yield per acre................ 1.75 Total product in t0n5...... ....,...., 3,109,814 TIMOTHY HAY. DRSOI MOOR. ... ... o 1,257,758 Amageyieldyiwer Rot i 1.81 Tolal product int0n5................. 2,084,242 IRISH POTATOES, iinmb&;)itficres 85,921 verege yie R 91 Total product s‘: Dushele......cooio.. - 1,885,701 , SWEET POTATOES. R O RBrOr. . ... 3,320 ,g;}%wyiold B OIS i 74 product in bu5he15.............. 247,085 SR TOBACCO, L OARROE OF BOY6B. (i .. ciivniiinaranns 13,818 | Average ymdfer BOFO. ... ciivasanins 823.5 - Tots W IS s 10T 30 L e s 7o Minor State Iteme. . Terge HavTe street workers continue ‘ %o unearth graveyard treasures. . A LAE ERiE AND WESTERN freight broke in two and was wrecked at Albany. | . ! AxtToN ERNsT. of Danville, lost his mind because of the death of three of his children. | . Dr. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, one of the best-known merchants of Evansville, 1 died suddenly of hemorrhage of the lungs. Miss Rose GirTy saved her father's books and helped to remove the goods from his store during a flre at Knightstown. | THE Boone County Detective Aasociation, which has been prosecuting Hugh M. Bercaw, for alleged purjury, has been | beaten. | Mgs. LENA Mogris, Seymour, fell from | a second story window in a hotel a vear ago. She wants SIO,OOO from Louis Schmeck the proprietor. | AT Linwood, James Martin found his | drunken step-father, Dr. E. C. Riggs, | beating his wife, whereupon the boy as- | saulted the man, crackiong his skull with | & stone. i MRs. GEorRGE FRANKE, of Fort Wayne, | stepped on & rusty nail in her kitchen | floor last week, lockjaw resuited, and she died after intense suffering of forty- | ¢ight hours. .’ T. L. LITER, driving across the Monon | tracks, at Crawfordsville, was dumped | into a ravine by a passenger engine that | struck the tail-end of his wagon. The man escaped serious injury. : HaymirToy Braxtoy, while driving | across a railroad west of Martinsville, | with a load of hay, was run into by a freight train. The team was ruined and | Blanton is thought to be fatally injured. - A @IFTED young writer of Hanever _motes that catfish were found on the | * streets there after the rain the other | night, and it is his opinion that they | were drawn from the Ohio River by the

sun’s rays. ! A DISTRESSING accident of a peculiar nature occurred a half mile from Hunt- | ingburg. illiam Halsacher, about 30 | vears old, was engaged in unloading logs | at Kerner & Co.’s saw-mill. His head ‘ caught between two logs, mashing it al- | most flat. Assistance was immediately i called, but when he was released from | his awful position he was, of course, un- | conscious. By the time medical aid ur-l. rived the man had lost a gallon of blood. | He cannot recover, | Crrizens of Ripley County are greatly i, excited over the discovery of a large vein | of the finest quality of coal on what is known as Laughley Hill, four and a half miles from Batesville. The stratum, according to reports received, is a thick one, and was discovered by boring through ten feet of limestone, four inches

of granite, two feet one inch of soap-| stone, four feet of cannel coal and sixfil jnches of soapstone. Ripley County, in | the opinion of experts, is to be a great !l mining district. Several companies for | boring are being organized. | Mrs. CHARLES WILLIAMS, two mih-s‘ west of Monrovia, swallowed a pin a ! week ago. The pin has worked through from the inside, so that the point is exposed. The head of the pin prevents its coming out altogether, and her phy-| sicians fear cutting the wind-pipe if they | attempt to remove it ] Four young lads stole a ride from North Vernon toGreencastle on a freight ‘ train, clinging to the long rods und(;-r-“ neath the cars. Enroute the son of C. H. Kutchback of North Vernon was struck by a cattle guard, dragging him off his perch and breaking his back. He cannot recover. |

0 S R T R S P R [ DiPHTHERIA rampant at Linden. VALPARAISO has a new $30,000 Luthern church. ' THE pie-eating contest at Sheibyville was hoggish. Mux~cie will have a labor paper called | the Tribune. DirarHEßrlA among adults is reported | at Martinsville. Jesse Towernrn, aged 72, of Orange County, is dead. ol Two Mmore-good oil wells have been drilled at Portland. CRAWFORDSVILLE schools closed because of diphtheria. TuERE are a great many wild ducks in the river at Evansville. DrrrcTlvVE gas mains cause cxplosions and fires at Knightstown. Corumßrs' German newspaper, the Volksblatt, has suspended. J W. B. SworMmsTEDT, Madison, cannot | speak. His tongue is paralyzed. ( JouN HarrierLp, a Knightstown mer- ! chant, dropped dead on the street. Koxomo is building a 190-room, S3O,- ! 000 hotel, to be known as the Columbian. James L. Joxes, while working near English, found a Spanish doubloon of 1703. Lurtuer WARD was dragged 300 yards e s Vi R ei, T SR iR SR L - I b s A eSISSR E L iP R S RS Lt

|| In arunawayat Seymour,and badly hurt. ;! A sTOoCK company with SIO,OOO has been organized at Liberty to build a can- l ning factory. Two rreiGurs came together at Marion on the Pan Handle road doing a great | deal of damage. JAMes C. STANFIELD, of Columbus.l gets $1,750 for being injured bya P., C., ! C. & St. L. train. ‘ Joux G. Harrierp, a wealthy retired | lmerchant at Greenfield, dropped dead | with heart disecase. l ARTHUR SHADLEY, a 3-year-old child, l at Brazil, fell against a red-hot stove and was badly burned. l JonN T. Ween, farmer near Paoli, shot and killed from ambush. A sensa- l tion likely to erop out. l GrorGe EDEN, a young farmer on the | pike near Lawrenceburg, was kiclked to | death by a vicious mule. ! AFTER four weeks' work on the Frank | Dice lynching case, at Spencer, the grand | | Jury found no indictments. ’ CHRISTOPHER STUCK escaped from | County Infirmary at Laporte and was | | found dead in Kankakee River. i " THIEVES burglarized O’ Bonnell's store | | at New Albany, and overicoked a box | ,i containing a large quantity of coin. 'i RuUsseLL GILMORE has been gathered | :! in at Zanesville to answer the charge of | | & murderous assault on the Marshal of | Miltonsburg. ! | SuERMAN CALE, of Valparaiso, has | sued the Pennsylvania railvoad for 810,- | 000 damages for the loss of his hand | while coupling cars. ! Tur Jasper Courier has a heading. l *What is a dollar?” A dollar is a round | piece of silver and is very useful. They are made in the United States, ‘ GERMAN carp weighing eight pounds | l!}ave 'tjx;;:n flcolpmred in the river at Frank- | n. The fish come to the ! e b nnaui!s.fbfif%%imtmc?&c:?fly m’;« RS Vate phas Slviae Mo sciuow osl b starch factory. SoME time ago Rev. S. D. Miller fell | down stairs at Fort Wayne and was burt. | lie held an accident pohicy and colleeted ; tor his injuries. He died and his wife | brought suit against the company for | £B,OOO. An autopsy was held on the ! | body and a compromise was made for | 34,000 : I MiscrEANTS made an attempt to wreek 5 | one of the trains on the Muncle street | { railway. Boulders were wedged between | i the guara and track rail on a sharp { curve on East Main street. The steam | motor car was derailed, but the un- { usually slow rate of speed saved the | twenty or more passengers: The car | was badly smashed up. i TaE Y. P. S. C. E. State officers elected gtn serve the ensuing vear are: Presi- { dent, V. J. Lewis, of Evansville; First ,[\'im President, Rev. A. C. Hathaway, | i Richmond; Second Viee President, Rev. | i C. E. Morgan, Wabash: Third Vice Presi- | dent, C. E. Stanton, Madison; Secretary, f Miss E. M. Wishard, ludianapolis, Treasurer, V. C. Kendall, Indianapolis. | t A saDp aceldent ocenrred on the E. & | {T. H. road at Evansville in which | } William H. Thorn, a young man em- { ployed as brakeman was literally ground | ,' to pieces. He was engaged in making'a | | coupling and was in some way thrown | !on the track. several cars passed over | { him, cutting his right leg off at the knee {and cutting his head squarely in two. | { He was 20 years of age. I | Tue Y. P.S C. E. State Convention ' | was held in Kokomo. Theoflicers elected | ; to serve the ensuing year are: President, | - W. J. Lewis, of Evansville; First Vico | ' President, Rev. A. C. Hathaway, Rich- | mound; Second Vice President, Rev. C. E. | Morgan, Wabash; Third Vice President, 5 Rev. C. E. Stanton, Madison; Secretary, Miss E. M. Wishard, Indianapolis; Treas- { | arer, V. C. Kendali, Indiarapolis,. The | convention next year will be at Fort | ‘Wayne. i ; Every Moox, living near Bowling |

Green, while out hur\l\nu met wnh:).% serious aceldent. He treed a squirrel, | and after he had used all the ammuni- | tion he had with him for his shotgun, | climbed the tree and began shooting at | the squirrel with a thirty-two calibre | ; revolver without success. He then concluded to vacate the premises, and | ‘ proceeded to descend from the tree. The | | revolver was accidentally discharged, | | sending a bullet through his left cheek, | \ coming out just betow his right eye. le ‘ is in a critical condition. | i ‘Buxkrr Hinr, a small town In the { soutkern part of Miami County, is much | | < g f { elated from the fact of having in its | § midst the parents of four children, all ghnrn tie other night. Mrs. Edgar | \(}(l())'g1‘, the mother who gave birth te | ‘ this quartet of little ones, is progressing | { nicely. The children are all girls and |

weigh on an average of four pounds ' cach. With the exception of one that 'l died three hours after birth, all are do- ' ing well and give promise of living. Mr. ‘ George is a prosperous farmer living | near the town mentioned. ! WILLIiAM SPARKS, employed in a tunnel at Brady’s cement-mills, near Sellersburg, was probably fatally iniured by a Lheavy rock falling and striking him on the head, crushing it into the carth. . Mnr. AND Mns. Josiad IRAZIER, of | ITillsboro, Fountain County, desire in- ‘ formation as to the whercabouts of their 1 18-year-old son, William J. Frazier, who has “ed from the Feeble-minded school |at Fort Wayne. He is hght-complex- ‘ ionedc with blue eyes and tair skin. He is subject to epilepsy. Mr. and Mrs. Frazier will pay all expenses of housing the boy and notifying thein of his whereabouts.

A B SA TS T SRR et —.~ ———- -«_—_______—_.__—-———-——-——-—‘_*'?- [ |HOME AND THE FARM. | A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Good Seed, Good Scil and Good Cultiva. tion Requisites to Success—Live Stoock Notes—A Datry Well— Household and Kitchen. LS - | Throo Hequisites, | { OOD seed, good ' soil, and good l cultivation are aL the three requis

WaiW WASA W & W T sites toward attaining success in agriculture, All three of these are largely within our own control, and if we neglect, any of them we have no right to Complain_ at the result. Tt iseasy to determine whether seed iß] good by testing a small auantity

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before planting. A small box of) moist earth placed in a warm corner will tell the story quickly. The seeds | should be coun ed before they are placed in the soil, and if at least per cent. do not germinate the seed | should be discarded. Good soil is aiso within reach of all, to at least some extent. However poor the farm may be as a whole, we can find some portion that we shall be able to bring up to a good | state of fertility; then upon this portion it would pay to expend our major effart, practicing intensive cultivation hereon until we could find means and opportunity for improving the balance. And good enltivation is within thye reach of any able bodied man, for a good, short, and simple rule for the farm is to not attempt to cultivate more than you can cultivate wellWhether it shall be a large farm halftilled, or a small farm well-tilled, is the question before the great majority of our farmers to-day. We believe ! time wild prove the latter to be the | best.—Farm Journal. A Cheap Slio, “Youmay build a small silo in the basement of a barn at a iittle expense,” says The Country Gentle. man. | “The inner wall, separating it| from the rest of the basement, should be a stiff frame or studding to which the boards may ve pailed; and if the rest of the basement is but little exposed to the frost, a single thickness of boards would be sufticient, pro. vided it is made air-tight by mateh:i:g, or by a good cover of tar build‘W*—MW ) o safe way would be to apply twothick. nesses of boards with the building paper between, which would afford protection from frost in all ordinary instances, The boards would last longer if a heavy coat of petroleum {8 applied to them on both sides. The bottom of the silo must be well Arained; and it should be on a level with the adjoining cow stables as a matter of convenience in feeding. Any good fairly durable lumber will answer, and the contents may rest on a dry, well-drained and \wll‘lm‘v;'lml‘ and beaten hottom, or the bodtom may be of hydraulic cement.” LIVE STOCK. Warm arns for Fattening Stoek, fn an experiment made in feeding two lots of pigs of equal age and weight, one being in pens in a warm barn, and theother being in open pens out of doors, the following results were obtained: From Nov. 27 to Febh. 5, in the warm barn one pouna of pork cost 4.78 pounds of corn, and in the outside pens one pound of pork cost 5.92 pounds of corn, a difference of about 25 per cent. But during the very severest weather for four weeks, in the warm barn one pound of pork cost 5.71 pounds of corn, and in the outside pens it cost 11.32 pounds of| corn, or nearly double the amount. é Experienced feeders say that th effect of cold weather upon !:nwning stock is more marked upon other animals than it is upon swine, and if it takes twice as many pounds of cor to make a pound of pork out of doo as it does in the barn, it will certainl require as much mere, and perha twice as much, to make a pound of, beef in a stable where water wili§ freeze as it will in one where fl\(‘ru" is & moderate temperature, not ]n\\‘l"’ than 50 degrees, and also that thf; same amount of feed given before tiu weather is very cold will make muel! more fat than it will later in the ses | SOOI, i Good lor Sheep. I Sweet ensilage and roots in moder | ate quantities are good for sheep ¢ | cattle. But give them just as muc | sweet, early cut hay or clover in :u.-i dition twice a day as they can v:gs with justas much provender as though | they had no ensilace. Green corn n clover ensilage, like turnips, is a godl ! appetizer if feé in warm barns, i;" when the weather is mild out & doors. As for feeding it to any stotg entirely and making a success, I B. lieve it is impessible. Don’t thinKl condemn ensilaee. T donot any moe than turnips, but do not put too muh confidence in and expect too mmh% from ensilage Tt is impossible to g 4, | any more out of a jug than is put img | it or to have your check honored I@l the bank for more than you depost, Sheep shoulé never be pastured on tye same land more than three successye seasons, unliss they are pastured wth cattle. Th;better way to malye sheep in thy; summer is, unless Yur pasture is eatirely free from coarst or water grasses and bushes, to let aew 1 young cattie run with them. HMive the pastare so arranged that youpan give: the sheep a fresh pasturd at i longest every third year. Letthe

: ; tle, or the plow, follow the sheep, “ d 50 keep up the rotation. —JL. € ¢ rleigh, in ¥arm and Home, S 4 ) Some Morse Don'ts, s : ‘Some one has compiled the follow- . regarding the care of horses | Bder the supposition that if 4 horse L fuld talk he would say to his haster: Don't hitch me to an iron post or | Ailing when the mercury is below‘ p Pezing. 1 need the skin on my | fhgue. l bon't leave me hitched in my stall A Bight with a big cob right where . ?mwt lie down. 1 am tied and @t select a smooth place. ‘ | -'Ff&ln’t compel me to eat more salt ") I wan't by mixing it with my “; 1 know better than any other Himal how much 1 need. *don't think because Igo free under *¢ whip 1 don't get tired. You z&h 1d move up if under the whip. “Don’t think because 1 am a horse ! aedron, weeds and briars won't MR 0y hay. - %t whip me when I get frightL#nßt along the road, or T will expect ALAext time, and maybe make touble. fifinn't trot me up hill, for I have tofarry you and the buggy and myBel§ too. 'Try it yourself some time. Ruf up hill with a big load. S bn't keep my stable very dark, forvhen 1 go out into the light my eye are injured, especially if snow be on axc ground. i THE DAIRY. t * A Dairy Woll, fin e R S e S Lol W Rt 11 . A

T ordinary use, the well should | be mg six feet by four square, with a guter or groove down one side eightectinches square. It should contain tweor three feet of lasting water. It hodd be in easy reach of the Kiteh- | en,ind attached to the house if pos. | sibk. The curbing should be no| h\% than the well. A platform, | whih fits inside of the well, slides | lli&ddown between two timbers, | w rest on the bottom of the well, | angare long enough to reach up three feerabove vhe curb. These two tim- | , ber should be planed. | he framework of the platform has a bard nailed on each side of it, | foming a groove which fits on the | upight timbers at each end of the ‘ wel. This makes it rigid and Keeps | !t}\'t‘l. The circular black spots Hn | | the platform represent openings for | vesels. The piece that holds the | whel, over which the rope passes to! th. windlass, is prolonged »o that : wkn the platform is just even withg thi top of the curve, an iron pin is | serted through it and the top bar | ofthe platform frame, and holds n{ | eTI dsgnother rope and two Ch s AU | £3R e : % & o ; bt o t /, - ‘Qw_.g _{&«;é; ! 2 2 P As, : ‘“' N e . d e. ¥ : ; ~ w'{' B g 2 i Al 11 | £ 21 iil % ’j f’::ff:‘:\ o {Z; t ePR e’ | S 8 g . i . i I~ R hr = i ' ,_:}\\\ ‘ o < OPy oy % oM E R : Ll T i i = ¢ freight attached to assist in raising khe platform from the bottom of the well with heavy loads. These weights | o down into a box formed of four wide planks, which occupy the gutger, or grove. One lid opens up figainst the weight-box, and fastens with a thumb-button. The other is ‘hinged so as to hang down by the side iof the curb when open. —Gleanings in ‘Bee Culture. ;’ Dalry Notes, - Ir you have no pigs, no poultry. no ‘calves on the farm feed the sKkim milk back to the cows. L Dox't fall to get in some early corn | pear the feeding place. When the bpasture fails you will find use for it. * Urox the premises of the success“!.:l dairyman will be found thrifty e suitably bred and adapted for the work required of them. A CANADIAN farmer, who lost a small pig, after long search found him drowned in the cream can. “‘Se.” ' he said, ‘poor piggy's ecreamated.” | Hoarp's Dairyman says: Creamery ' butter is that made from the milk or' i eream of two or more herds of cows | Dairy butter is that made from the ; milk or cream of a single herd. | THE income from the cows furnishes | the farmer cash receipts steadily iflll‘nll',:‘h-)\l'. the entire year, which | cannot be said of any other branch of i farming, excepting perhaps the { poultry. IHE POULTRY-YARD. Two Breedsin a i'en, It is a fact that the great number —millions—of fowls in this country ; may be found in small flacks, ]H;l?ll}_\.. | from ten to fifty in number, says ! Poultry World. To he sure, there l are large establishments where fowls may be counted by the thousands; but the villagers and small farmers, { each keeping a small number, make l the aggregate poultry census swell to | large figures. Many of these smali-scale poultry breeders, having limited room at command, desire to keep one of the nonsitting breeds—l.eghorns or Spanish —for eges; but cannot raise chickens with these, and are somewhat troubled about getting sitters. 1t is

e e ot e e ee B T fan easy matter to manage this affair. | There need be only one apartment and one flock. Obtain a sufficient number of Brahmas or Cochins for sitting and let them run with the Leghorn hens and cocks. The eggs of these sitters being brown, may be i readily sorted out from the whit { ones and used for cooking. The pure ' white eggs of the Leghorns or Spanish may be used for incubation when the instinct moves the Asiatics to sit —and that will surely come to pass. These sitters may, preferably, be of smalil size for the breed; large hens { being more clumsy and more liable to break ‘the eggs. Plymouth Rocks hardly ever lay eggs so white as not [to be distinguished from Leghorn [ egus, and they may serve the purpose {of sitters; only they do not come to [ time quite as surely as Asiatics; but they are faithful and careful. A Cochin mother has the very best intentions, yet. she may trample out | e TEE OF NET Y OUD bt pullets are best for this purpose, on | account of their small size. THE HOUSEHOLD, [ Clder Without Apples. { The National Druggist gives the ' following formula for Imitating apple | cider as closely as possible: I Powdered catechu.......... 3 parts, BEEEE «viiiiivnii i aiiaves 5 parts, ! TUAED 92 parts, ; BT oo ibeicaniicnniisios G4O parts, WEBEIEL o oo ions s osnssaninrnss SEIOD DOFEE ! Let ferment for fifteen days in the | sun (or other warm place,) then add , Bitteor a1m0nd5......c.....-sesx» BDoxts | Cloves. .., sinissserres asvans BIS i “ul’lll("n!!;.'ltl',. sisesuesins sansse DU PATES,

Good Bourbon whi5ky......... 384 parts, Let stand a day or two, and rack off. If 1t be too sour, add honey, and if too sweet, add acetic or citrie acid to suit. The above makes a “‘cider” ';dim('ult. to tell from that made g naturally from apples. A good cheap gimit:uinn may be made as follows: Twenty-five gallons of soft water, two pounds tartaric acid twenty-five - pounds of brown sugar and one pint, yeast are allowed to stand in a warm ' place, in a clean cask with the bung out, for twensy-four hours. Then - bung up the cask, after adding three gallons of whisky, and let stand for forty-eight hours, after which the lihquor is ready for use. ‘ "lu(-:o Housekeopers, - Tne oftener flour is sifted for sponge cake the lighter the cake will be, A sMALL plece of sulphur placed in the cupboard or drawer will drive away ants. . Tur flesh of fresh fish should be flrm, the gills should be light red,and [ the scales silvery. i Ix making a mustard plaster for a patient with adelicate skin, use white

Was mirrors wit ‘ dust with whiting from a muslin bag, and polish with chamois sKin. Haup soap lasts much longer it dried for several weeks before using it It is also less hurtful to the skin. ' To rrEVENT the smell of cabbage | permeating the house while boiling, | place on the stove a dish containing | vinegar. I Brooxs dipped for a few minutes in boiling suds once a week will last 'much longer than they otherwise wonld. THE KITCHEN. ' How 1o Cook Water, | The late Charles Delmonico used to i talk about the new hot-water cure. - He said the Delmonicoes were the Cirst to recommend it to guests who compldined of having no appetite. L “Take a cup of hot water and lemon land you will feel better,” was the formula adopted. The lemon juice takes away the insipidity of hot "water. For this antibilious remedy ! the caterers charged the price of a drink of their best liquors (25 cents or ~more), and it ecertainly was a wiser ~way to spend small change than in “aleohol. “Few people know how to Ceook water” Charles used te affirm. CThe secret is putting good fresh | water into a neat Kkettle already ’iwarm. and seiting the water to boil L quickly, and then taking it right off | to use in tea, coffee or other drinks | before it is spoiled. To let it steam | and simmer «nd evaporate until the ‘good water is all’in the atmospher Cand the lime and iron dregs only left in the kettle, hah! that is what makes a great many people sick, and is worse than no water at all.” Every lady . who reads this valuable recipe of a great and careful cook should never ‘ forget how to cook water.

" Mental Kitchen Scales. ‘ | Tex common-sized eggs weigh one ' pound. | SOFT buiter the sitze of an egy 1 y weighs one ounce, | ONE pint of coffee A sugar weighs | twelve ounces. ' I ONE quart of sifted flour (well | heaped) one pound. ] | ONE pint of best brown sugar | weighs thirteen ounces. g 1 Two TeACUPS (well heaped) of ' | cotfee weigh one pound. : i [ Two ®PeAcuPs (level) of granulated i sugar weigh one pound. ’ E Two reAcUps of soft. butter (well | packed: weigh one pound. 1 Oxp and one-third pints of pow—’ : ! dered yugar weigh one pound. | Twa TABLESPOONS of powdered ' ) : sugar or.flour weigh one ounce. | | Oxm tablespoon (well rounded) of ' | soft butter weighs one ounce. ' OxE pint. (heaped) of granulated l | sugar weighs fourteen ounces. : ; Foun teaspoons are equal to one tablespoon. r; "{'wo AND one-half teacups (level) | of powdered sugar weighs one pound. - "TEASPOONS vary in size, and the L | new ones hold about twice as much s | asan oldfashioned spoon of thirty ,iyeurs ago. A medium-sized teaspoon l y | contains about a dram

R R TR T e S STRTR OVR MRS ——— THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesscn and Where It May Be found—A Learnod and Concise Review of the Same. Christ Betore Pllate. The lesson for Sunday, Nov. 29, may be found in John 19: 1-16. INTRODUCTORY. The lesson on the trial of Christ gives abundant opportunity for ihat personal appeal which the teacher should ever feel himself or herself, by the terms of the po=ition held, frece to make. The far AWAY condemnation of Jesus by his unjust and self-criminating judges is to be brought close home to the human heart to-day. And this is the question which puts itselt persistently into the mouth of each and all, “What shall T do then with Jesus which is called Christ?» WHAT THE LESFON SAYS. ‘ Then. The preliminary Joewish examination and a s R OO enue. ivh | mo tmplication here of force in the taking. ——SBcourged. Here, however, all 1s violence. Crown of thorns. Rather, a crown from thorns or out of thorns (ex.).——Put on him a purpie robe. The Revision here is more exact: arrayed him in a purple garment | (imation). , And sald. Tischendorf throws in the words, they came tu him. The more accurate and expressive rendering would be, they kept coming to him and saying. (Imperfect tense.)——Smote him with their hands. The Greek is, They gave him slaps or cuffs. The Bible Union gives the hap- | pler translation here. See Variations. Went forth. Better, to suit the dramatic center of action, came forth.——Forth, a strong word out (exo.). That Is, away from the tribunal proper. He desires to let him go.——No fault in him. One word,

| expressive enough, in the Greek: aitian, | meaning crime, or cause for indictment. Then came. Same word loosely rendered went in the verse before.——Crown of thorns. Slightly different from that used In verse 2. Here it is thorny crown or thorn-crown, corresponding precisely with purple robe which follows.——Behold the man, Our King James rendering, omitting the comma, is plainiy wrong. The word man is not the object of the verb. See Variations. So the Greek of Tischendorf. Oflicers. Better, attendants, 1. e., in the temple. Not as much military as ministerinl. Same as appear at the arrest, John 18: J.——Crled out. A strong onomatopoetic term, krauga!—~Crucify L.m. Rather, Crucify. Or, as meaniug the same, the cross! the cross!——Take ye him. The strong accent is on the ye. The Revision is preferable: Take him yourselves; precisely as In the Greek. We have. The we is emphatic.——The Son of God. Better, Bon of God, the omitted. Not in the original. That saying. Rather, this word (touton ton logon).——More afraid. Not at the fact or clalm of Christ's Sonship, but over the existence of a Jewish law, for which, so long as 1t did not interfere with Roman statute, he was bound according to the liberal policy of the empire to have some respect. i Speakest thou not unto me? Or, Converseth thou not with me? Indicating a willingness to assist him in escaping what, he no doubt, counted a mere provincial charge. —Power. Better, authority——To crucify. Placed second in Tischendorf: re-

him. 'Thorvfnrt-"wo‘}‘,gosm‘:;; :lrgea find fn him 70 rww just been saying. Why, then, ing. %“Not this man, but Barabbas!” the people had cried in answer to Pilate’s proposition of release. Then agaln, why scourge Christ, unless it were in preparation for the crueler inflictions of the cross? But Pllate's subsequent query Indicates another purpose. It is evidently an Intentional compromise. Pilate had, at least, a forenslc consclence. He does not wish to go down on the court records as condemning an innocent man. But it Is the case rather than the person that here troubles him. He does indignity to the man to save ~ himself. e cares more for his reputation than for Chri.t. There are others like him. ~ No faultin him. It i{s the judgment of Christ’s own day. 1t s the sentence of all men to-day, even the enemies of the church. The strictest searchiug in Pilate’s court revealed no transgression of the laws of nations and no infiingement of the rights ot men. He was guiltless. The closest resurvey of character and career to-day re-echc the word, ianccent! But it is not the perception of Christ's sinlessness that saves Otherwise Pilate would have been saved, and Rousseau and Renan would speak the mind of Christ. It Is the acceptance and appropriaticn of that sinlessness, the putting on of Christ’s spotless robe of righteousness—this only avails. Alas, Pilate, there is fault in thee. Behold, the man. There he stands clear and distinet. Ie s thrust out upon the background of Jewish hate, of Roman seifishness, of human depravity. Conspicuous he stands in the full arc of the world’s vision, placed there, as it were, unwittingly by a heathen ruler. True it is that all life, all higtory, all events of nature and soclety have but availed to bring the Christ into prominence. The projection of the man of Nazareth! Now what will you do with him? Behold him, now, “the man;” to te accepted or rejeeted. To-morrow the judge! Then what will he do with you? The pavement. It Is the basal rock of human depravity. Here men must come, or else to the rcck of refuge. They must take their stand either as friends or enemies of Christ. They either crown or cru- | cify. Pilate was a long time coming to it. | In common with mankind, he resisted self- | commitment. But he came. The Jews said, «we have a law, aud by our law he ought to die.” Tbhat did not move Pilate. He bade Christ speak for !imself, and was heard in silence. Yet cven this does not

bring bhim to the fatal judgment-chair. But, at last, the wily Jews«uzmgm . art not Ceesar’s friend.” And now h —— brought to the full avowal of himself, and has drawn on the judge's cap. Selfseeking; here we all fall, save grace abound. e have no king but Casar. Terrible |wnrds! Terrible for their truthfulness. | Since that day the Jew has literally bad no | king ™it Caesar. And a tyrannical and | cruvel king he has proven. Here was a | choice sadder indeed than that of old { which displaced the benign Samuel and | took the haughty Saul. «He will take your ! ficlds and your vineyards * * * the tenth of yourseed * * * your men-ser- | vants and your mald-servants and your | goodliest young men * * * and ye shall | be his servants, and ®e shall ery out in ! that lay because of your King which ya | shall have chosen you.” Even so, O Israel. { 1t has been a sad bondage for the sons of ! Jacobh through the centuries. When shail | Zion return and the Lamb agzain reign? | Hasten it, O Lord, for that day is cur day! | — 2 Next lesson—¢Christ cruclfied.” Johkn | 19: 17-30. i How They Began. 3 | Hexry CLEWS’ carly life was spent as a porter in a woslen house at 53 a week. I GEN. RussrLnn A. ALGER .earned his ' first meney doing odd jobs for the neighbors. JousE NoAH DAVIS was born on & farm and he rcalized his tirst ccin selling | eZgs. CALVIN S. Brior’s first labor was over law Dbooks in a country law oifice in Ohio. . RusseELL SAGE wasaclerk. He learned frugality in his brother's grocery store at Troy. :