St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 January 1892 — Page 7

x HOME AND THE FARM. A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Laving Out the Farm for Convenience and Pro tit What it Costs to Feed i*lgs--Tlie Creamery Fraud—Hayseeds for Chicks— Household and Kitchen. Tile Dan of the Fann,

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crops were grown on any particular field at any given time. Their system of rotation of j crops greatly facilitates the keeping of such a record. In the East, says the American Farmer, the situation of affairs is I probably worse than here. The farms l there are small and badly divided up into small two acre pieces,” “half acre fields,” etc. Here in the Northwest we too often go to the other extreme and have our farms unfenced. We have seen a single farm in the East which had several miles of fences and walls, while we have also traveled several miles in the West without observing a single fence. A fence should be placed around the farm. It is oftentimes the means of saving its cost in keeping away stray cattle from the growing crops, and is a benefit at all times A State may fortify itself with herd laws forever but a fence well made is better than all the statutes on this subject. The pasturage must be divided from the tilled land by a good fence, for obvi- . ous reasons; but as it is unwise to continuously keep a certain part of the farm for pasturage, it is well to plan for this before fencing. A plan can easily be formed bv which the changing of the pasture will necessitate the changing of only two sides of the fence. In laying out the prairie farm, the buildings must be placed in some convenient position Many farmers put their buildings near one corner of the farm; a few moments’ reflection will convince any one that this is a most unwise thing to do. A good plan is to lay out the quarter section into lots of twenty acres each. By doing this you can easily compute how much land you have to any crop, and the total field being given it is then easy to estimate the yield per acre. ..This division of the land into plats nwmot ensile D- <)■■!>.• anivSc, wrej. in tne I majority of farms more attention is' paid to the natural surface contour. A little forethought in locating roads on the farm will prevent much unnec- ' essary labor. The distance around the hemisphere is no greater than the distance over it, and the former course is much the easier for the team. Os course, many circumstances must be considered in laying out the farm. It will probably be impossible to have the artificial divisions always suit the farmer and yet conform to the surface contour. The great thing is to make a beginning, to get to thinking, and then apply that thought in practice. LIVE STOCK. Cost of Keedin^ Pigs. The Wisconsin Experiment Station conducted a series of experiments to ' ascertain whether or not pigs can be I fed as profitably through the dam as after weaning. Four sows were placed in separate pens just before farrowing. The pigs were weighed onthe day they were born, and weekly thereafter until ten weeks old. when I they were weaned. An account was i kept of all the food consumed by the I sow and pigs for seven weeks after I weaning. The feed consumed is ■ charged at the following rates: Cornmeal, 70 cents per hundred weight, or 40 cents per bushel. Skimmilk, 75 cents per hundred weight. Shorts, 70 cents ; er hundred weight. Ground Oats, 00 cents i>er hundred weight, or 29 cents per bushel. Sifted oats, 61.27 per hundred weight. Only summaries of the second and third lots are here given as the feeding was not uniform for the other lots. The following table shows the food consumed to produce 100-pounds of gain:

LOT IT.—SOW AND PIGS BEFOBE WEANING. Cornmeal, 184 lbs. at $.70 per cwt 81 23 Skimmilk, 482 lbs. at .25 per cwt 1 21 Total 82 50 PIGS AVSEB WEANING. Cornmeal, 187 lbs. at S7O per cwt 81 31 Skimmilk, sG2lbsat .25 per cwt 141 Total 82 72 LOT HI. —SOWS AND PIGS BEFOBE WEANING. Cornmeal. 116 lbs. at $.70 per cwt $ 81 Shorts, 232 lbs. at $.70 per cwt 1 62 Total @2 43 PIGS AFTER WEANING. Cornmeal, 115 lbs. at $.70 per cwt $ 81 Shorts, 239 lbs. at $.70 per cwt 1 62 Total 82 42 The combination of cornmeal and skimmilk gave excellent results, and cornmeal with shorts did equally well. Where the sow was fed ground oats poor returns followed, this feed not being very satisfactory when cost is considered. It will be seen that there was little difference in the amount of feed required for a pound of growth with the pigs of Lots II and 111 before and after weaning, and we may conclude that there is no cheaper way of feeding pigs than through the dam. This being true, it is a shortsighted policy to starve a sow with the idea

that her pigs will pay better for their feed after the}’ are weaned. Experiments teach that the sow should be fed as heavily as possible without endangering her young, and that at the same time the pigs should be early taught to eat in a trough by themselves, and should also be fed all they will consume. Sheep Hints. Start in to winter right and feed the flock so it will be a credit to you. There is a difference detween feeding a maintenance ration and one enough larger to net the feeder a profit. The wool and manure will pay for the keep of the sheep, and what the lambs bring is all profit. What will show a larger per cent of profit than this? When a man espects early spring lambs it won’t do for him to be mean with the ewes, cither in board of treatment. There is a charm about wheat oran, oats and linseed meal which no sheep can resist; and the resulting products, whether lambs, wool or mutton, are bound to be first-class. Oil meal must not be fed to ewes in lamb later than four weeks after they are served because of danger from miscarriage. Turnips arc well worth feeding notwithstanding the chemists rank them so low among foods. The beginner in sheep raising will do well to study the cheap production of roots, for nothing, not even ensilage; can taue their place in the economies of winter sheep feeding. Every lamb that can be put on the market before April will pay the owner well. He should make special preparations for warm and comfortable places in cold weather for sheep expected to yean early. Don’t allow the sheep to fall off in flesh as the feed fails. If they come to the barn poor in the fall, they are likely to remain so through the winter. Turn them into the aftermath, or give them a daily fi<m of grain or rowen.

FARMERS of this country will do well to take a lesson from those of Engl an d . Many of them have maps of . their farms, finely executed and absolutely co r - s rect in scale and * form. They also have a year book in which is shown not only the location of the fields, but also what

Gather forest leaves and fill one of the box stalls by pouring them through the floor above. Sheep enjoy them for bedding and will eat many of the bright ones. They like to vary their own diet and it is a hint to the shepherd. THE DAIRY. Look Out for a Crennury Fraud. The-ligntning rod and Bohemian oat swindle have had their day and now the hedge fence and creamery racket are being worked. A creamery supply house is sending out agents to small towns and villages to convince them that a creamery is essential to their future success. These agents have all the facts and figures and give talK and plans free. While a first-class equipped creamery can be put up for 82,000 to $4,000, these shrewd fellows get the towns to put in from $6,000 to $16,000. A Cold storage may be attached and the concern may take some stock in the creamery tn help further thThe company makes Iwo profits: one' by the high price of the building and the other by the equipments furnished. They can afford to lose a few hundred dollars in the stock after they have mad,e twice that in the profits. The creameries art' generally started in places where there are few dairy cows or the people have not enough dairy education to make therf a success. After running a few months they generally clqse up. The sharpers have been working in Wisconsin for the past few weeks, bi^t they should be looked for everywhere and their schemes thwarted—Practical Farmer. A Deni ot Nonsense.

A great deal of the so-called agricultural pabulum found in weekly newspapers is the veriest nonsense. As an instance of this we read the other day ' in a weekly paper that milk in Paris was called pure when it contained one pound of butter and four onces of solids, not fat, in a quart. Normal milk contains from three to four pounds of butter and nine to eleven pounds of other solids in each 100 | pounds, or fifty quarts. Must Study tile Business, One thing should be chalked down ' and remembered by every farmer who is engaged in dairying or thinks of engaging in it. He will never make a profitable success unless he is a close student of the business. Unless he is willing to read, think, and study, and that, too, right hard, but few dollars will get into his pocket through the cow. Look about in every dairy community and you will see that the most money per cow is made by the men who put the most brains into their dairy work. A man may make

some money out of a poor cow, even, by starving his mind and the minds of his family. We suppose rag-pick-ers make some money, but how do they live? The American dairyman ought to live like an American citizen. THE POULTRY-YARD. Hay Seeds lor Chicks. When you have a brood of chicks, try giving them the sweepings of the hayloft in which to scratch, and you will be surprised to notice how busy the little fellows will be, and how industriously, writes a poultry raiser, they will work to secure the seeds. There is nothing that will tempt little chicks like small seeds, and they will scratch from morning until ni^t if they can find them. This sc diing will do more to keep them in .. dth than anything that can be done for them. It makes them keep warm, compels them to feed without tilling their crops too j rapidly, prevents leg weakness, and ' assists them to endure cold. Their ‘ appetites will also be greater and they will eat anything else provided, with avidity. If chicks are fed four

times a day when young, and given hay chaff and leaves to work in, they ; should grow rapidly. They must be kept in a warm place, having plenty of light, and carefully fastened up at ■ night. | A Dreaded Disease. Among the diseases described that come to us from readers, says Farm and Fireside, is one which is very common. The heads of the hens swell, and lumps appear, both on the ! heads and sometimes in the throats, and the eyes are also swollen and closed. The trouble is roup, and the symptoms described are due to exposure to draughts of cold or damp air at night. There are different kinds of roup, but the form of roup mentioned is always the result of exposure^ It is difficult to cure, but the sick birds should be kept in a warm place, and a few drops of a mixture of one part spirits of turpentine and three parts sweet-oil used as an ointment on the face and head. I Feed Must Ue Regulated. When green things disappear the' feeding of poultry must be regulated accordingly. If it has been fed entirely on corn up to that time and has done well, it is not to be wandered at, because there has been an abundance । of grass and insects to balance the ration. To counteract the heating effect of the carbonaceous corn food until the new growth of green things, poulterers who expect the best returns from their fowls will ’ee to it that food rich in nitrogen is supplied in connection with the corn. This should include meat scraps, clover hay cut and steamed, chopped vegetal)' ?s, bran, barley, oats, and cottonseed and hnsee’d meal. THE HOUSEHOLD. Washing Rlankats Made Easy. If one has a suitable place for the purpose, the washing of blankets may become an easy-task, says the January Ladies’ Home Journal. In an , open space, have a line tightly I stretched out of doors. To this fasten the upper edge of the blanket. Have straps of cotton sewed to the bottom at intervals; tie these to j pegs, which drive well into the ground. Now turn on the hose. Cold water, of course, and plenty of it. Drench the blankets well, on both sides. If much soiled, rub | spots with soap and diench again. The force of the stream will do more than wringing. After the article is quite clean, leave it to dry; never mmd if it does rain: if the work has I been thorough it will not streak, but be all the better for it. When the 1 sun has completed its task, you will possess blankets as white, soft and unshrunken as new, and the nap will , not be destroyed. - to Housekeeper*, Camp chairs are now covered with plush and bordered with tiny tassels of silk. Ceilings that have. Lemx The surest test of a frozen orange isitsweight. Hit is heavy in the hand it has not been frozen. Use good snap in the kitchen, as it saves the hands.

When a felon first begins to make i its appearance, take a lemon, cut oil <>ne end. put the finger in. and the ■ longer it is kept there the better. Flour should be kept in a barrel, with a H ur seoop to dip it and a sieve to sift it. Drain pipes and all places that are sour or impure may be cleansed with lime water or carbolic acid. For a cold on the chest, a flannel rag rung out in boiling water and sprinkled with turpentine, laid on the chest, gives the greatest relief. Cold sliced potatoes fry and taste better by sprinkling a teaspoonful of Hour over them while frying. Rub the tea-kettle with kerosene and polish with a dry flannel cloth. Bent whalebone can be restored and used again by soaking in water a few hours, then drying them. To clean Carpets—Go over them once a week with a broom dipped in hot water, to which a little turpentine has been added. Wring a cloth in the hot water and wipe under pieces of furniture too heavy to be moved. THE KI FCHEN. What the Good Cooks Say. Potato Yeast.—Grate six large raw potatoes, and strain over them two quarts of water in which three tablespoonfuls of hops have been boiled. The potatoes and hops are then boiled two minutes, constantly stirred. Afterwards a third of a cupful of’sugar and two tablespoonfuls of salt are added, and when the mixture is lukewarm a cupful of yeast, or a cake of compressed yeast, is added. This potato yeast should be kept in a cool place, well corked. Graham Gems arc made of equal parts of graham flour and water, and baked brown in iron gem pans made hissing hot on top of the stove before the batter is poured in, and then put into a quick oven. The steam generated from the water raises them; so they require no saleratus or yeast. Perfect Buns.—One cup of potato yeast, a cup of sugar and a heaping tablespoonful of butter creamed together: add a pinch of salt and then a quart of milk. Knead Hour into this until the whole forms a sponge the consistency of bread dough. In the morning, after rising all night, half a pound of currants or seeded raisins are rolled into the mixture, which is then cut into rounds and placed in a warm place to rise. In three-quarters of an hour the buns will be puffed up beautifully: then smear the tops with a mixture made of a cupful of sugar to half a cup of milk, and place in a moderate oven to bake brown.

IF YOU AKE IN QUEST OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the WeekCrimes aud Casualties — Suicides— Deaths—Weddings, Etc. Was Ho Innocent? Thomas Callahan died at Valpariso, protesting his innocence of the crime of murder, of which he was adjudged guilty and sentenced to the Penitentiary for life in 1863. He served but twelve years of the imprisonment when pardoned by the late Gov. Hendricks. Callahan was a native of Ireland, and became a subject of the United States at the time of the late war. A draft had been made for men to complete a regiment, and at a meeting, one night, to fill the quota a dispute arose, and, in the melee, a man was stabbed to death. Callahan was arrested for the murder, found guilty and sentenced to Michigan Citv for life. He protested his innocence and on this plea, supplemented by the efforts of influential citizens, he was pardoned, and returned to Vai paraiso. This was in 1875, and until his death Callahan lived the life of a hermit. He selected for his habitation a tumble-down cottage, and though possessed of ample means, preferred to live in complete seclusion. Ho never cut his hair, and at the time of his death hung in long tresses down his back. For seventeen years he has protested his innocence, frequently in his delirium calling aloud for mercy, and pleading with God to spare him the curses of the people who believed him guilty. Among Callahan's personal effects were found several messages to the people, in which he disclaimed any knowledge of the crime. Callahan is believed to have been worth in the neighborhood of 850,000.

The cost of the electric light plant at Marion was 823,415. The Clerk of Wayne County issued 340 marriage licenses during 1891. Typhoid pneumonia carried off the entire family of James L. Vancleave of Livonia, Washington County, within four days. At Valparaiso the grand jury reports condemnation of persons concerned in the management of the County Asylum. It is charged that the inmates are nearly starved. Three Fort Wayne toughs picked a quarrel with Abdalla Salam, an Arabian, and then attacked him with beer bottles, nearly killing him. . They were all arrested. Thomas Townsend. an old veteran, lost his speech by a wound received in the late war. He underwent a surgical operation last week andean talk now for the first time since the war. In the Museatituck 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. John Robison, Callie Gulliford and Clara Pitts, colored folks, weie not invited to a swell dark complexioned party at Marion, but they went anyway, and “busted up de party wid yells an’ hellers.” Now they’re in jail. tramp is touring Northern Indiana "S. hia CQJUhis four-legged friends manage to get enough to eat to keep them alive. Wabash College gets but 640 acres from the estate of Jacob M. Harmon, instead of 1,400 acres, as stated. Tne 1,400 acres were involved in the suit at Chicago, but the college had but 640 acres in contest. This is valued at about §25 per acre. Mullen and McGuire, two timbermen of Farmland, felled a tree that measured seventy-five feet high and twenty feet in circumference, measuring out 3,500 feet oilumber. The tree was on Harrison Collins’ farm, two and a half miles northwest of that city. Mus. Mary Wright of Anderson,who became the wife of a bigamist, has died and bequeathed 85,000 to her husband. The latter only recently finished bis term in the Penitentiary and ran away, fearing further prosecution. He cannot be found and the money is unclaimed. At her home near New Beltsville, Brown County, Mrs. Elizabeth Shultz passed away at the ripe old age of 100 years and 3 days. She was born in North Carolina in 1792, and came to this State in 1539, locating in

Brown County, where she has since lived. Four generations attended her funeral. For the last twenty years she had not been out of Brown County, and never but once in her life did she see a railroad train. About thirty years ago George Preston of Martinsville, was separated from, his mother when he was three years of age. He lias known nothing of her whereabouts since that time until a few weeks ago, when he learned that she was living at Greenup, 111. After some correspondence he started for that place to ascertain whether or not it was actually his mother. lie returned home, bringing her with him. Mrs. Preston is quite aged and will find a home with her son hereafter. The citizens of Columbus are delighted with the change that is taking place there in railroad matters. Since the completion of the old Madison and Indianapolis railroad to this place, in 1844, to the present time there has been a railroad in the very heart of the city, and passenger and freight engines have annoyed the citizen, the stranger and the business man during all this time. Now a great change is taking place. A freight-yard has been put in on lowlands to the south of the city, and the work of removing the tracks from the city will begin in a few days. This change has cost the Pennsylvania Company about 840,000, and was brought about without expense to the city. This has made many friends for this company. The benefit to the city will be hard to estimate. Dan Smith, a liveryman, was badly chewed by a vicious stallion at Sell's stable in Anderson. He would probably have been killed had not some oi the employes rescued him. The village of Whiting^ in Lake County, is in the midst of a reign of terror established by a gang of burglars which has taken possession of the town, battling all the efforts of the officers to capture the marauders. In one night at least a dozen dwellings were either entered or an entrance attempted. A force of twenty extra policemen, reinforced by several Pinkerton men have been put on duty.

Carroll County has a new postoffice named Waiter. ’Tib said that Elwood will have a big boom in the spring. Miss Mattie Snipes of Danville, was badly bitten by a rabid dog. They are having a grand squabble over a new city hall at Tell City. Mrs. Mary- Thomas of Anderson, was probably fatally hurt in a runaway. Jacob Campbell, an old settler living near Fort Wayne, dropped dead of apoplexy. A new bank will soon be opened at Greenstown to be known as the Citizens’ National Bank. Brazil is to have a fuel gas company. Slack coal will be used for the manufacture of the gas. Joseph Leon, a Marion youth, smoked too many cigarettes, and now he is in a sorious condition. The bituminous coal-miners at Clinton have resumed work and trouble in that district is at an end. J. R. Logan had a foot crushed off while attempting to board a train at Cass Junction, near Pera. Harrison W. Harrington Mias been arrested at Frankfort charged with stealing clover seed. Everybody is hunting rabbits. They were never more plentiful in Indiana than they are this winter. Ten men at Round Hill near Crawfordsville went out on a rabbit hunt and killed 464 rabbits in one day. William Stair of Columbus, was given three years in the Penitentiary for cattle stealing in Brown County. Two brothers, Stroud and Charles Van Meter, were blown up in a dynamite explosion in a quarry near English. The citizens of Odon are highly elated over the prospect of obtaining coal in large quantities in their immediate vicinity. Myrtle Brown of Goshen, who was terribly burned in a kerosene explosion, has died, and her mother’s life hangs by ajthread. The general store of William Ott and the drug store of Dr. Brown were burglarized at Eckerty and goods amounting to S6OO stolen. Shadeland people say they have too much natural gas, and that the pressure is strong enough to cook an elephant in two minutes. John Loy, a well-known citizen of Greenfield and Deputy City Marshal, died of lock-jaw, caused by a severely bruised finger. Farmer Taylor of Crawford County, and Mrs. Stillson, a neighbor woman, were given a terrible beating and ducking by White Caps.

Mattie Burnham has been arrested at Winona, Minn., for alleged complicity in the Johnson murder near Waterman, Ind., a few months ago. Michael Radican of Cannelton, who was refused liquor at his brother-in-law’s saloon, poured oil on a pile of straw and attempted to burn the place. Another gusher has been struck by the gas well diggers on the Gooding farm near Greenfield. Said to be the best well ever drilled in that locality. Joseph Clouchek, of Michigan City, was loading a shell for a shot gun in a grocery, when a spark from his pipe made it explode, hurting him badly. ’Tis said that a movement Ison foot to grganiap a band k uapsjL th7 f r cine. Four women of North Grove marched into Jacob Barnhardt’s saloon, and marking four names on the wall, they charged him not to sell liquor to the men because they were habitual drunkarils.

J. M. Yoke, a brakeman on the Lake Erie railroad, was struck on the head by the top of the Dayton bridge near Frankfort, and knocked to the ground, receiving fatal injuries. This was his second trip over the road. A 2-year-old child of Madison Mount and wife, of Finley Township, Scott County, died from the effects of a scald. The mother made an attempt to save the child a fall, and in doing so overturned a pot of toiling coffee upon the little one. The Crawford Couqty people say there isn’t a word of truth in the “White Cap outrage” stories of that county which have been going the rounds in newspapers, and they denounce the correspondent who manufactured the news as a liar. Gov. Chase some weeks ago was invited by the official board of the Christian Church of New Winchester, to dedicate their beautiful new church building, which ceremony took place on last Sunday, under the supervision of the pastor, the Rev. J. K. Speer. The Governor delivered two eloquent sermons and raised a balance or several hundred dollars due on the house. It is the first church in Indiana dedicated by a Governor. Twenty years ago Please Reed, then an infant, was stolen from his mother at Brownsburg, Hendricks County, by his father, who has since resided at Anderson. The parents had experienced some domestic troubles, and the mother has never known of her boy until a few days since, when she learned he was in Muncie, and addressed a letter to him. The son had been in complete ignorance of his mother, and departed immediately to meet her. The young man has gained some notoriety as a light-weight pupilist. and it was a notice he received in this capacity recently, which was shown the-women that led to the happy meeting. Howard Ervin of Scott County, is a young married man and this prevented his enlistment in the Regular Army, although he was anxious to become a soldier. At last he concluded to file his application and claim that he did not possess a wife. He was accepted and he quietly left home without explaining what he had done. Mrs. Ervin became anxious regarding his whereabouts and inquiry at length revealed his location. The matter was reported to Sheriff Rice of Scott County,and steps have been taken with a view of securing Ervin's release from the army ranks. Dan Taylor, a Washington colored man, was put off a train on the Evansville and Richmond road, the conductor claiming his ticket was worthless.* Taylor claims the ticket was all right, and now he wants 85,000 damages from the company. Some time since Mr. Daniel Hatch called on Mrs. Viola Wagner at Goshen, when she chased him from the house with a broom. He grabbed her, pushed her into the smoke-house, and locked her in. She says that she sustained severe internal injuries from which she will never recover, and now sues him for B'.ooo damages.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesson and Where it May Be found—A Learnod and Concise Review of the Same. Hezekiah’s Prayer and Deliverance. The lesson f r Sunday, Jan. 24, may be found in Isaiah 37: 14-21, 33-33. INTRODUCTORY. I was in a Sunday-school some time ago whose exercises took on an added interest because an occasional recitation was thrown in to give variety and emphasit to the service. It would be a capital thing to either close or open this lesson on the destruetii n of Sennacherib’s proud host with the recitatio i by some capable young man or lady of Byron's “The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold.” At the Institute of Sacted Literature at Farwell Hall the other day Prof. Zenos rehearsed the curious Egyptian legend that it was mice gnawing away their tent ropes and bow s'rincs, that drove the Assyrians back. “A ray ■ f darkness” out of Egypt. Compare with the light of the revealed word. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Tl.e letter. The thirty-sixth chapter of Isaiah along with the first of ibis presents the circumstances. The Assyrian general had already been once turned aside by Providence. Now lie renews his threats. Hezekiah renews his prayer. Spread. First meaning to separate, I. e., unfold the letter. Before the Lord. Hebrew: The face of the Lord: Hezekiah. Called Ezechias by Jerome in the Douay. Prayed unto the Lord. One moanin ' of pray is to judge, to discern, i. e. bad recourse to Ged in his perplexity. God was his wisdom. Dwellest between the cherubims. Curiously enough, the King James translators prevailing reduplicate the plural of this word, the ending ini being itself plural, or dual, i. e., signifying a pair. The revision suggests sitteth up m. But there is no preposition in the Hebrew, and inhabitest the cherubim would be more literal. The idea is that God employed thb ancient cherubim for his trysting place with bis people. Reproach. Douay renders, blaspheme. The word originally meant to pluck, as of fruit, hence, to taunt. Living God. The word Jiving is emphatic, as If everliving G< d. All the nations and their countries. Revision: All the countries and their i ds. Douay: Lands and their countries. Xt is really an idiomatic repetition of the sat e word (erets). All lands and their lands, i. e., all nations and their territory. Cast. Hebrew: Given. So the Margin. The word is pictorial and suggestive, an oblat ion of gods. Therefore. And in the Hebrew. But the inferential idea is perhaps to be understood. Destroyed. First meaning, sever or shatter, complete destruction. Broke them in pieces, says the Douay. Departed. A technical term, to break camp. Dwelt, took up his abode.

The land of Armenia. The Revision and Douay agree in rendering this Ararat, which is the literal Hebrew—in fact, a translation, letter for letter. Therefore. Added here also to fill out the sense; and in the Hebrew. Even thou only. One word in the original, alone. The part lying between vs. 22-32 is descriptive of Sennacherib’s arro rance, and should be read over. Concerning. Same word (el) translated against in v. 21 above, thus vindicating Jerome’s rendering. Bank. Revision: Mount. Douay, a trench about It. Hebrew: Anything heaped up. Into this city. The Revision prefers unto, intimating that Sennacherib should not even invest the city. Ihe proposition is again el (vs. 21, 23), with various possible meanings, the simplest being to or toward. Defend. The Douay says protect. The litoral Hehrnw is more WHAT THE LESSOR tk KHES. Hear all the words of Sennacherib. And God does hear. His ears catch the words of ribaldry and blasphemy as well as of penitence and prayer. He sees it all, he hears it all; and the thought might well give the world pause. For every evil word spoken, think of it. an account must be rendered. No speech of man stops with himself or with his neighbor’s ear. It goes up to God. Every oath, every curse files heavenward to be recorded. The other day m the ciowded elevator the foul-mouthed man let loose his tongue in words of the I it. I instinctively laid my hands over the ears of the little innocent that was with me. I could shut the horrid oaths out from there, perhaps, but how about the ears of the holy God? He must hear them, and O how fearful they must sound up there, and O how terrible the estate of those who thus offend! After all we every one pray, pray for salvation or damnation. All lips lift to Sod petitions half unawares. This widow here speaking words of meekness is always praying, though perhaps she knows it not. And God is always hearing, and a book of remembrance is kept. Does this man with his mouth filled with vile vocables, because, to be sure, his heart is full of vile thoughts, know that the same God marks his speech, bis unwitting petition for wrath? Remember Sennacherib. Therefore they have destroyed them. And is the Hebrew. But shall we understand therefore? God’s “therefore.” They did not know it. The Assyrian was simply carrying out his policy of conquest, contending for himself. But all the time it was for God and ultimately against the powers of the air. This therefore interprets to me all history. “The wrath of men shall praise thee.” Man's wrath goes forth, and Babylon is des royed. It was lifted against God. Therefore was it destroyed. Man’s wrath lays Egypt waste. It would have idols instead of God: therefore was it destroyed. Man's wrath came down in fearful rapine upon imperial Heme. Ihe proud city vaunted itse f against God; therefore it was destroyed. I may make this matter more personal, it is a sentence from individual experience. The buffeting wind ; nd wave cast down this darling fabric or design. It was not for God, theres eit was destroyed. I thought to go thither; I started with high ambition and desire. The bridges were down. Why was it? Is it possible they were not for God, therefore they were destroyed? Whatever is toward idolatry, is marked for destruction; and God's good hand is in it. Thus do we know that we are the people of the Most High. Guard us, guide us still, Oh, Lord, in the heavenward way. For mine own sake and for my servant David’s sake. There are two of us, let me not forget it I must always act for God when I act for myself. I cannot do for myself alone. We have, many of us, keen rereading in the periodical press the details of the fearful Custer massacre. What was the occasion of it? Underestimate of numbers, no doubt: an impetuosity all too courageous, perhaps. And yet if, taking the risk of battle, Custer’s lieutenant and Ins men had kept themselves on the aggressive instead of putting themselves instantly on the defensive, had they fought their way to the point where they were expected to be. the brave General and iiis gallant men might not have been caught in the trap they were, and .there ruthlessly slain. In the great battle with the powers of evil God has assigned to his militant church a ] art; that part he expects us to execute, or the whole will 1 e deranged. “Curse ye, Meroz,” says the vord. Why? “Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lori against the mighty.” And what is our part in the help of the Lord? What but this? A vigorous open faith that declines to yield in any degree to worldly compromise, but pushes on to link itself with God. May the church of God be found In the conflict just where God would have it—nowhere else. Next Lesson—The Gracious Call.” LuJ 5: 1-13- " $