St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 January 1892 — Page 7

FROM LAKE TO RIVER. A BIG BATCH OF INTERESTING INDIANA NEWS. Fresh Intelligence from Every Fart of the State— Nothing of Interest to Our Headers Heft Out. Minor State Items. Washington is going to bore for gas.~ Burglars are walking away with everything at Memphis. Elkhart is now in with the Indiana Trotting and Pacing Circuit. The roar of the new gas well at Noblesville is said to be terrific. Columbus will have a fuel-gas plant. The people say coal costs to blamed much. James Lewis, a prosperous farmer and stock buyer, of Pendleton, died from the effects of a cancer. John Leach, a Bartholomew County farmer, was crushed beneath a load of wood and cannot recover. Frank Aerhart, living near Markle, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his shot gun. Rev. M. Swadener, »f Marion, is conducting a series of meetings in the M. E. Church in Crawfordsville. Harriet Bennett was killed by a locomotive at the Big Four crossing on Washington street, Indianapolis. An 8-year-old son of Dr. Isgregg, of Pendleton, was kicked on the face by a horse. His face was badly disfigured. Henry Bollinger's store at Blue Lick was entered and robbed of goods to the amount of §IOO and §3B in money Samuel Powell, of Harrisburg, accidentally discharged his shot gun while climbing a fence and was instantly killed. Louis Wagner, a workman with the electric company at New Albany, was struck by a broken electric wire and instantly killed. Five boys near Mitchell was scared nearly to death by seeing a ghost “sure ’n 'gh.” Two of the lads are seriously ill as a result. Mrs. Kiphart, of Whiteland, thought she was being carried past her station. She stepped from the moving train and was fatally injured. Rowe & Harding's large livery stable at Osgood was burned last week, with a loss of §5,000. There was insurance in the Phcenix for §2,000. At Nlollie Station, four miles south of Montpelier, John Butterworths store and the postoffice were destroyed by lire. The loss was §SOO. No insurance. Near Branchville, Perry County, the 7-year-old daughter of Amos May fell from a wagon, the wheels of which passed over one of her legs, severing it below the knee. A military company was organized at Elwood, with the following officers: Captain. Charles S. Tariton; First Lieu tenant, G. V. Newcomer; First Sergeant, D. F. Dayhuff. In the Muscatituck River. Thursday, near Seymour, a young man named Busch, from near Salem, was drowned together with his team, while trying to cross the swollen stream. The body was not recovered. T. A. Armstrong, of Montgomery Vuunty, attw e with a beautiful widow, Mrs. Lulu Edgerton. of Cooper, Mich., won her heart, and left to be married recently r.t the home of the prospective bride. William H. Johnson, of Goshen, who isaconfirmed drunkard, cards himself in papers as such, and asks help in reformation, also instructing all friends and officers in case he takes a drink to jail him as a man unsafe to be at large. “Nitsy” Shuter, an Osgood tough, attended a country ball near Milan, and when Miss Maggie Pate, of Napoleon, refused to dance with him. he drew a knife and stabbed her in the back and arms. Ho escaped, and the girl is in a serious condition.

After the death of Henry Sachs, the old man who was found drowned in a small branch one mile north of New Albany, a handsome sum of money was found at the house, on the Mooresville Knobs, where he had lived a reeluse for many 5 ears. Sam Coryell, a convict in the Prison South who is undergoing a ten-year sentence for killing Arthur Beable, his brother-in-law, in a fight for the possession of Coryell’s body, will be taken to Brownstown, Jackson County, by Warden Patten, where he is to be retried, the Supreme Court having granted him a new trial. Coryell expects to be acquitted. Farmland is now in the midst of a general boom. Four factories have located there, and a contract was closed recently with the St. Mary’s (O.) Tow Company for a plant, which will employ many hands. Business men are running a full force of clerks, and say that business was never l etter. The gas supply is stronger than ever, with ten wells to take from, and men are now at work drilling another. Dwellings are in great demand, and the town is full of speculators ready to invest their capital. A glass factory is talxed of, and laboring men are flocking in by hundreds. William Shaffer, a young man employed at the American wire nail mill, Anderson, engaged in a friendly scuffle with a fellow workman. During the scuffle Shaffer received a blow on the nose that caused it to bleed violently. It ceased after a time, and he went home. He was there but a short time when the hemorrhage began again. Local remedies were of no avail, and the life-cur-rent gushed on and on, while young Shaffer grew weaker and weaker. A spiritualist physician named Hibbard was then called, and, after working a day, gave it up with the patient scarcely alive. A regular physician was called, but the sufferer was at death’s door am? died shortly after his arrival. His parents are simple people and are almost crazed with grief. The attending surgeon thinks a blood vessel was ruptured during the scuffle. The remains of J. C. Kolly, of Altoona, Pa., were found strewn along the line of the Fort Wayne railroad at a point near 'Wheeler Station. Kolly was beating his way from Chicago, East. The remains will be taken home by friends who were with him. Jackson Garver is the most innocently ridiculed man in Dolson Township, Park County, just now. A few days ago Mr. Garver’s favorite brood mare gave birth to twin colts. Shortly afterward a cow on the place dropped twin calves, and now comes the intelligence that his wife has given birth to healthy twin babies.

Mrs. John Beggs, of Clark County/ died suddenly of appoplexy. South Bend has erected nearly 60^ buildings within the last year. There’s a panther loose near Washington. Escaped from a circus. Tis said that a farmer near Elwood is allowing his live stock to literally starve to death. The water works building at Washington City was destroyed by fire. The loss is §25,000. The skeleton unearthed by workmen at Tipton is believed to be that of a murdered man. Otto lleuse, leading Madison leather mei chant for forty years, died of pneumonia, aged 75. The oldest school-house in the State is a log cabin in the city of Richmond, erected in 1810, Frank Smith, a rolling-mill hand, and Charles Deal were both nearly killed in a saloon fight at Brazil. A cow belonging to a farmer near Nappanee was bitten by a mad dog and went stark mad. Had to be shot. W Hile in a fit Mrs. Frank Gerrett, of Franklin, fell on a hot stove and was badly burned. She will die. Not a single suit has been filed fortrial during the January term of the Scott Circuit Court at Jeffersonville. Wiley Elrod, of New Providence, accidentally discharged his gun and the contents lodged in his left arm. Mrs. Joseph P. Kapi*, wife of a wealthy German farmer living pear Vincennes, suddenly dropped dead. Mrs. Frank Gerrett fell on a hot stove at Franklin, during a fit, and was so badly burned that she will die. The people of Crawfordsville at last have natural gas. Now run along little boys, and don’t talk about it any more. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brown and family were all poisoned at Fort Wayne eating canned fruit. They will recover. A freight train was wrecked on the Chicago and Indiana coal road near West Union. A broken frog was the cause. Twelve-years-old son of WiJiam Flagg, of Terre Haute, had his foot crushed by a freight car. Amputation necessary. John Briggs, shoemaker, at Newburg, got full of liquor and fell on a lamp. It set tire to his clothes and he was burned nearly to death. Frederick Schweitzer, who cut Peter Fisher’s ear in a Crawfordsville saloon last week, has been sued by the latter for §2OO damages. The First Ward in New Albany,which has a population of 10,000, and covers nearly one-third of the city, is to be divided into three wards. Isaac Taylor, who ran the engine in McCoy's saw-mill, near Richmond, was hurled through the building and instantly killed when the boiler exploded. Morgan County erected a jail and sheriff's residence in Martinsville a tew years ago at a co*t of §20,000. The jail is now, for the first time since its occupancy, without a prisoner. Frank Simmons, the well-known trot-ting-horse trainer, was to have married Lillie Kennison, of Madison, but while the guests waited he did not arrive, and the 16-year-old intended bride is inconsolable. Burglars entered the grocery store of J. L. Dille & Co., of Greensburg, and Bveurod sninU svtlv•»iil*t. monov goods. They also cut through the door | of Lanham’s gun-shop, but did not get inside. Frank Taylor, of Brown County, who was bitten by a copperhead snake twenty years ago and became insane, and who after years of treatment at the asylum was sent home as an incurable, lias become so violent recen ly as to necessitate incarceration again.

The residence of Elmer Com er, four miles west of Roann, was destroyed by fire, with nearly all its contents. Mrs. Conner had gone to Peru and Mr. Conner was husking corn near by when he discovered the fire, which he thinks started by a spark from the stove. Frank Michaels, and his family, living near Anderson, were out driving when their horse became frightened ami plunged over an embankment seventyfive feet high. The carriage was upset and all its occupants rolled to the bottom, but strange to say no one was seriously hurt. While Samuel Boger, of Springfield Township, Alien County, with two hired men, was sawing wood he beheld a strange animal in the top of a tree near by. It made a leap through the air a distance of seventy feet, and nearly knocked one of the men down. It took seven bullets to kill the beast When stretched out it measured six feet. No one seems able to tell what it is. Gov. Chase has pardoned William Gant, sent from Princeton to the southern prison for seven years for stealing a pair of boots. He has served five years of the sentence. The Governor also pardoned Barton S. Hill, sent from Frankfort for three years for larceny. Hill is 19 years old. He has become weakminded and has consumption. His time would not have expired until March. Last week Thomas Hand, Sr., removed from the family burying ground, on the homestead near New Albany to the Mount Tabor cemetery, six members of his family, some of whom were buried forty years ago. Mr. Hand’s second wife, who was buried forty years ago, was one of the number. Her hair and silk dress in which she was buried were in a perfect state of preservation. At Crothersville, at the residence of Mitchell Lett, Mr. Lett and his brother Branham were loading shells. In taking some charges from shells that had missed fire one of them exploded in Mitchel’s face, burning his mustache and hair, and setting fire to a plate of powder which exploded and lirightfully burned the little child of Branham and set the house on fire. By the presence of mind of Mrs. Mitchel! Lett the fire was put out before it reached a package containing several pounds of powder, her husband being blinded for the time being, although he was not badly hurt. The child is yet in a critical condition. The workmen near Tipton who were frightened by a “ghost,” while drilling for natural gas, believe it to be the ghost of Alex Yoho, an old farmer who always opposed searching for the new fuel. He committed suicide over a year ago. Du. 11. W. Taylor, a Farmers’ Alliance talker, has prepared a bill entitled “An Act for the Relief of the People of Indiana,” and sent it to Senator Peffer to be introduced in the United States Senate. The bill requests the loan of $150,000,000 to be made to the people of Indiana for twenty years at 1 per cent, per annum.

; agricultural topics. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Good Results from Thoroughly Dried Seml -Ilow to Shoot a Beef—Value of Corn Meal for Feeding—l’oultry Notes Household and Kitchen. Thoroughly Dried Seed Corn.

LL seeds have l ^to be thoroughly "dried in order to germinate well. We have known seasons wh c n much rain prevailed before harvest, giving the wheat grain k a soft, moist 5 berry when it possessed comparatively poor germin a ti n g powers, and in such seasons wheat of the

previous year’s growth yielded best. Corn more than almost any other | grain is liable to be poorly dried at planting. It is a large grain, matures I late, and sometimes only dries as the j moisture freezes out of the grain, ' which almost always injures the germ. Sweet corn and the large | Western Dent corn, that have long. ' deep grains and heavy cobs, are most । difficult to dry out thoroughly, and from these come most complaints of , poor seed. All these complaints । could be avoided by hanging the ears । intended for seed by the chimney, i where it comes in contact with ■ warmed brick whenever a tire is ; lighted. Some farmers who have ' smokehouses put the corn in a loft above the bacon, and they claim that corn thus smoked grows better than j any other. It islikely that the extra drying such corn gets rather than the smoking it receives accounts for its superiority. Some years ago we grew ! sweet corn for seed for a practical seedsman. It was a large variety, and the season being cold and wet at I harvest-time, we suggested drying it l in an evaporating house. Itwa'skept at a temperature of 110 to 120 de--1 grees above zero for two days, and in j that timeevery bit of moisture seemed 'to have dried out of it. This corn, ' the seedsman informed us, made the " most satisfactory evergreen seed corn : he had ever had. We understand that kiln-drying seed corn in evaporators is now commonly practised by seed growers, and it deserves to come । into general use, if the heat, is not | kept too high. It is better to take a day or two longer thaji to have the seed-room above 140 degrees.—American Cultivator.

Shooting a Beef. Manv will tell you to shoot “right between the eyes.” A correspondent Vl till Prm-t i. :il t’armor CIVS, I)oWever, that this is a mistake, and linT

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Get in position with gun cocked, Unger on trigger, and muzzle elevated, and wait for your opportunity. Then glance over the sights, and shoot quick at the point where the two lines drawn from eyes to horns cross. Groundless Fenm. Since the days of Malthus 'rears that the world’s population would increase beyond the capacity of the earth to support have been common. The latest scare of this kind is by Mr. Ravenstein. a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He computes that in 182 years the earth's population will increase to 5,850,000,000, and this would give 207 to each square mile of the 28.000,000 of fertile lands. It is quite likely in light of recent agricultural improvements that much land new counted as desert will be cultivated and improved long before the era of short rations predicted for earth’s inhabitants. Besides, no account is made of food from the sea, which has as yet been scarcely drawn upon for sustenance. Nobody has yet found out the possible productive capacity of a single acre of land. In all tropical countries bananas will furnish food for a human being for a year from an extremely small amount of land. So far in the world's history the increase of population has always been accompanied by increase of human sustenance, which is the basis of improved civilization. What has been will probably continue to be for an indefinite future. LIVE STOCK. Corn Meal for Feeding, A correspondent asks for the comparative value of corn and cob meal feeding, that is the corn ground in the ear. We have before published the experiments made with feeding meal of this kind in New York and Connecticut, and have published the experiments made in feeding it was found that corn and cob meal proved at the Kansas Experiment Station. In these instances of feeding, it is equal to pure corn meal. The reason generally understood for this is that pure corn meal fed alone, lies too compact in the stomach to be well utilized by the fluids, and that loss comes in this way, while mixed with spongy cob meal, it is more nearly utilized, digested, and assimilated. There is general agreement with all that the meal should be ground very line—both that of the corn and cob. The finer the hard woody liber is broken down,

the more easily and more nearly it is digested. While experiments with feeding cob meal above have shown but a moderate per cent of nutrition in it, yet mixed by grinding with corn, it has been found as stated, and for the reasons given. Experiments have shown that the fevered and unhealthy conditions of the stomach when feeding corn meal justifies this conclusion. For this reason it is advised to mix wheat bran and cut hay with puie corn meal. This reaches about the same end that cob meal does when mixed with it. But it has been deemed that the 21 to 3 per cent, of nutrition in the cob meal is justification for grinding it with the corn, and especially so when hay and bran bring good prices. Horses Slicsldlng Their Coats. The time when a horse is exchanging the Covering of hair he has worn a year for a new one is critical. While no apparent evil result may be seen, it necessarily follows that the animal must appropriate a considerable share of the food it eats for supplying the draft that nature makes at this time. Horses will shed their coats much more quickly if well fed, and with somewhat laxative food, in order to prevent the horse from becoming constipated, as it is apt to do on hay or other dry feed. It used to be common for farmers to have the moulting season to continue all the spring, and finally finish their new coat after grass comes, so that they can be given some green feed. A much better method is to feed liberally, and if only dry feed is given add a little oil meal to the ration. This makes a glossy coat, and the oil meal gives more strength to horses at work than feeding corn, which will make a glossy coat, but one that will not stand hard work. Feeding corn is indeed the reason for the common prejudice against getting the old coat off too quickly. A liberal supply of oats must be given horses which are working while shedding their coat. About. I)t)horning« Farmer Ilaaff says: “No man consults his pocket or the welfare of the cattle, who uses shears for dehorning. Just as well use shears on cord-wood and expect no splinters ।ason a cow's horn. No man living ! ever did or will shear off a horn three : or more years old without crushing : the bones, and if sore heads do not follow crushed bones then lam nut an authority on dehorning.” THE DAIRY.

Herefords ns Dairy Cows. “A novice” inquires if Herefords are fairly good for the dairy. The milk of the Hereford cow is very rich in quality but the quantity is small. She is not intended for dairy purposes. That is to say, if the object is principally milk and its products, it would be better to select some of the dis-ti-Mttely dairy breeds. If we wish beef, and the milk is of uii port a nee,’ Tim iTeWToT-ff is as good as any cow if not better. Y“t it is but fair to say that not long ago a man who is engaged largely in the dairy, said that lie wanted no better cow than tiie Hereford. But we repeat, the Hereford is a beef breed, and as long as we keep hat fact in view and act accordingly, we shall not be disappointed. The Holstein-Friesian or the Jersey would give better satisfaction as a dairy cow.—Western Rural. Cream from Many Pans. “He that would get milk in the pail and butter in the churn must first put them into the mouth of the cow.” is an old and true proverb and will not admit of any variation. It is not advisable to use sour buttermilk as a starter, for any fault in the butter will not only be perpetuated but increased by this system. The same applies to sour cream not especially ripened by itself from day to day. Balancing of the nutritive value is the great principle of food composition for cows, but Prof. Robertson, of Canada, says he has found palatability of the feed of more importance than a strict adherence to the balancing of the nutritive ratio. The average specific gravity of milk is about 1030. The difference between this and 985 brings the cream to the surface; it is so little that the cret in makes haste very slowly. The globules never all come to the surface. Other circumstances being the sama, the largest ones rise quickest. THE POULTRY-YARD. Feeding Hens on the Farm. It costs the farmer less to produce eggs than it does one living on the suburbs of a town or village, as the hen on the farm can pick up about one-third of her food. A bushel of wheat or corn for a hen one year should be sufficient, provided she has opportunities for securing grass, seeds, etc. She will lay, under fair conditions, ten dozen eggs a year. As to how much profit to e-xpect, says Farm and Fireside, it will depend on the cost of the wheat and the price of the eggs. The bushel of wheat will cost the Eastern farmer about sl, but in some portions of the West the cost may not be over 50 cents. At the same prices for eggs the Western farmer has the advantage of cheaper cost, hut as the Eastern fanner has the advantage of prices, his opportunities are better. Each section possesses advantages and disadvantages, and when the farmer sells his eggs he should be prepared to know exactly how much expense was incurred. If eggs sell for only 10 cents a dozen, when wheat is 50 cents a bushel, he secures a higher, price for his wheat by converting the wheat into eggs through the agency of the hens. Eggs have the advantage of calling for cash in the

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markets, and they can be ip the winter season, giving immediate returns, which is very different from being compelled W wait from one season to the next. Feeding the hens on the farm is to take possession of the waste places with the hens. There is food to be secured tnat is not in the grain-bin. Every clod turned over by the plow affords a little, and the young grass and weeds, the seeds of grass, the Takings of the farm, the scattered grain of the barn-yard, the stubble in the fields, the scraps from the table, and the manure heap, all afford the hens privileges, and the eggs laid by them during the summer season cost the farmer little or nothing. The low cost of summer should be considered and the average made. Poultry Note*. Get several boxes and barrels and put them neaPthe poultry coop in a dry place, where the droppings can be stored for use. They are worth $1 a barrel to a gardener. Hens like coarsely ground oats mixed with bran or middlings as a soft feed in the morning. It should always be scalded and fed comfortably warm, but not hot. Nothing is more nutritious. Geese feathers sell as high as 50 cents per pound when clean and sorted. If more would keep geese they would soon realize the profits actually to be had from a flock. Fall is a good time to buy them cheap. Gravel or sand can be placed in barrels for use in winter when grit is hard to find and dig. Place it in a suitable receptacle where the chickens may obtain enough to keep them in good condition. The moment you attempt to cross a Houdan and a Polish to improve the former you miss the mark. Houdan s are one of the oldest and most accurately bred fowls and require no crossing from outside blood. Cochins, notwithstanding their excessive size, are good layers. With a comfortable coop they may be depended on for eggs during cold weather. They’ are hardy and less subject to severe sickness than many other breeds. Grain foods are more or less lacking in lime and mineral matter. On the other hand, nitrogen, carbon and mineral matter are abundant in bran. There is no better food than bran in a mixture, ground with oats. It makes bens lay. THE HOUSEHOLD. The Family Doctor. Coughs and Colds. —An oldfashioned remedy for a cold: A warm “stew,” getting into bed with cover- ! ing well tucked in, hot brick to feet, I and drinking abundantly of hot teas ; until there is a dripping perspiratjon, I to tie kept up an hour or two more । Hnti 1 the system is relieved, and I then to cool off very gradually in the hiiwcus-ditiaivelx. j styled “an old woman’s remedy;” but j for all that it will break up any cold ! taken within thirty-six hours; it will promptly relieve many of the most I painful forms of sudden disease, with the advantage of being without dan- • ger, gives no shock to the system, nor I wastes its strength. | Mumps.—Keep the face and neck warm, and avoid taking cold. Drink warm herb teas, and, if the symptoms are severe, four to six grains of Dover's powders; or, if there is costiveness, a slight physic, and observe a very simple diet. If the disease is aggravated by taking cold, and is very severe, or is translated to other glands, physic must be used freely, leeches applied to the swelling, cc cooling poultices. Sweating must be resorted to in this case.

Erysipelas.—We have found sour milk, buttermilk, or whey therefrom, an excellent remedy to apply for the erysipelas as a wash. Also to apply glycerine twice or three times a day; it has a soothing effect. We have many times applied the milk hot, and found it allayed the inflammation better than cold applications, and far less troublesome than poultices. Maxims lor Housekeepers. Every bee’s honey is sweet. The house showeth the owner. He that is at ease seeks dainties. Anger at a feast betrays the boor. In a good house all is quickly read A Everything is of use to a housekeeper. As the year is so must your pot seethe. Many a good dish is spoiled by an ill sauce. The biggest calf makes not the sweetest veal. Never haggle about the basket if you get the fruit. He that saveth his dinner will have the more supper. There is winter enough for the snipe and woodcock too. Squeeze not the orange too hard, lest you have a bitter juice. When the stomach chimes the dinner hour don't wait for the clock. They who have little butter must be content to spread thin their bread. THE KITCHEN. Cakes ami Cookies. Ginger Snaps.—One cupful of molasses, one egg. one-half cup sugar, one cupful lard, one small spoonful of ginger and one of soda, and flour to work up quite stiff. Roll thin, and bake in a moderate oven. Cinnamon Cookies.—One egg, one cupful of sugar, one cupful molasses, one-half cup lard, one spoonful each of soda, vinegar, and cinnamon. Roll thin, and bake quickly. Always salt any article where lard is used in place of butter. Water is better than milk in most cooky recipes. Hickory nut meats are nice for the top of sugar cookies.

THE SUNDAY SCIE THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CAlSfe^ REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesson and Where It May Be found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. A Song of Salvation. The lesson for Sunday, Jan. 10, may be found in Isa ah 26: 2-10. INTRODUCTORY. A song for the New Year. Ours is a singing religion. The angels who chanted their hymns at Bethlehem te 1 us of the spirit of tiiat i art of the triumphant host of God who are above. Why should not we who are below, yet more greatly ble-Sid than these “mini tering spirits,” lift our voices in jo ous chorus? It is an old s ng, but always new, new w th the continuing mercies of an ever watchful God. If as teachers in the Sunday school we can get some new harps strung to day to these swe t measures, happy are we, happier than angels. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. In that day. The day of God’s vengeance on his enemies and deliverance of his people prophesied in the chapter preceding, A strong city. Hebrew, a city of strength for us. Salvation. See the peculiar translation of the Douay here. It is in large part a direct transliteration of the Hebrew. The King James version, however, seems on the whole preferable. Righteous nation Literally, nation of righteousness or justice. The truth. Plural in the Hebrew. Truths, i. e , the principles of truth; in other words, practicing truth in all the life. In perfect peace. Hebrew, peace, peace. A difficult nassage. The margin is more literal. See Variations. Word for word it is: a frame sustained, thou framest peace, peace, i. e., the mind that leans on God grows in God s p ace Forever. A peculiar Hebrew idiom, duration and duration. Like our ever and ever. On and on accurately and, graphically renders it Lord Jehovah. Hebrew, Jah Jehovah, the keeping God. This word comes from the verb for being, living; cf. Supreme Being Everlasting strength. Literally, ro k of eternities. brom this the expression, ro k of ages. Bringeth down. Literally, returneth, reduceth, i. e., to their native dust, all are by nature. To the dust. Earth's destination apart from God. Will he deal unjustly? k minding of the solemn declaration at Rev. 22: 11. Will not behold. The Douay uses it as a threat: He shall not see the glory of the Lord. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks That is what the servant of the prophet saw when tie Lord opened his eyes and let him behold the mountain around about “ful of hor.-es and of chariots.” Salvation for a wall. Hew bless d the encompassment! It is what Davi I is thinking of when he says in lordly boldness: “I will not be afraid of tt n thousands of people that have set themse ves against me round about!” Why? Because of the defense that is his; for he has just said: “But thou. Lord, art a shield about me.” (Margin.) Salvation for a bulwark. Why should he be afraid? Beset behind and before, rearward and foreward; God everyivljeye, _“As the mountains are around about Jerusalem so the I-ord is ipu U i.^nt m g from . h^gy^rth even I forever. ” Open ye the gates. Penteco tl At last the gates are open! And even then it was not Israel that threw the door wide open to the world; it was the Spirit, and yet other overwhelm ng visitations mast he make before even she apost'es of our Lord have learned to open them wide and leave them open for Gen'ile as well as Jew. They were a long while coming to the truth of a free salvation. So are we. Fut you say the gates are all wide open. No; there are shut gates all about us to-day. Bars and hindrances there are that keep the world back—■ social bars, ecclesiastical bars, creedal bars. Why not try God's way and make his the only condit ; on cf entrance? “Open ye the gates that the righteous nat on which keepeth t .e truth may enter in. ”

Perfect peace. What is “perfect peace?” It is just peace. “Peace, peace,” says the record, as if nothing better could be said. It reminds me of that tit of meaningful tauto'ogy at the opening of Psalm 91: “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." As much as to say, he that would abide must —just abide That is al 1 , and t at is much, low shall I rest when I ay me down upon the couch? By struggling for it, thinking about it, tossing about se king for it? No, by simply resting. 3 here the child ceased fretting and turning, the eyes have closed, the limbs lie unconstra’ned, the spirit resigned, the chi d is at last asleep. I know of no other way to get peace, Ged's peace. There, pillow jour head, your poor tired heart, on Cod. Now whatever is God's is yours—his peace. V> hen thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn 1 ighteousness. I have just been reading over again that beautiful prophecy of Isaiah at the forty second chapter; “Behold my fer ant whom I upho’d ” I ha\e always been so del gi ted with the first part of Ihe passage, w.th its accents of gentleness and fori earance, that I cou’d get no further. This: “He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the str et A bruised reed shall he not break,” etc. So beautiful, so true. But read on: “I have been still and refrained myself; now will I cr >• like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. ” So fearful, so true. I leieve it —if a people persistently scorn Gol’s goodne-s and mercy they pres ntly bring down upon themselves the wrath of Cod against sin. And then indeed there are schooling days for men. There may be such times ah'ad for this scoffing nation: and f or many a blasphemous communit \ many a careless soul within the boid *rs. Next Les on.—“ Overcome with Wine. ” Isa. 23: 1-13. A base-ball glove has been invented having in the palm a pocket containing an air-cus’iii n or pad, which can be removed and inflate 1. it is made in compartments, between which are free but restr’eted passages, and it surrounds a central portion, which is unpaddei as “dead.” The cushion thus serves to protect the han I witho :t receiving too violent an impact from the ball. Lena: “I had a dreaifully dull time with Mr. S illyma 1 last evening. ” Emma: “Did you have to d > all the talking?” “No; I had to listen to him.”