St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 11, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 September 1894 — Page 7

TALMAGE’S SERMON. THE GREAT PREACHER'S MESSAGE FROM THE ANTIPODES. flow Zaceheus Was Con verted hu<l Made Restitution—The Conscience Fund of the Treasury Department — Transformation of a Family—ThaMothefs Prayer. The Tax Collector. Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now preparing to leave Australia for India on his round the world tour, selected as ; the subject for last Sunday's sermon i through the press‘‘The Tax Collector’s j Conversion,” the text, being taken from I Luke vix. 9, “This day is salvation come to this house.” Zaceheus was a politician and a tax- : gatherer. He had an honest calling. I but the opportunity for “stealings” i was so large tho temptation was too i much for him. The Bible says he “was a sinner”—that is, in tho public sense. How many tine men have been ruined by official position'. It is an awful thing for anj’ man to seek office under ' government unless his principles of integrity are deeply fixed. Many a man upright in an insignificant position has made shipwreck in a great one As far as 1 can tell, in the city of Jericho i this Zaceheus belonged to wnat might be called the “ring.” They had things their own way, successfully avoiding exposure, if by no other way jerhaps by hiring somebody to break in and steal the vouchers. Notwithstan .ing his bad reputation, there were streak’s of good about him, as there are about almost every man. Gold is found in i quartz, and sometimes in a very small ' percentage. Jesus was coming to town. The people turned out en masse to seo linn. Here He comes, the Lord of glory, on : foot, dust covered and road weary, limping along the way, carrying the! griefs and woes of the world. He io ks to be sixty years of age when He is only about thirty, zaceheus was a short man and could not sea over the people's head-while standing on the ground, so ho got up into a sycamore tree that swung its arm clear over tho road. Jesus advanced amid the wild excitement of the surging crowd. The most honorable and popuhn men of the ■city are looking on and tryiag to gain His attention. Jesus, inst ad of regarding them, looks up at the little man in the tree and says: “Zaceheus. •omo down. I am going «ome with you.” Everyoody was disgusted to think that Christ would go home with so dishonorable a mam Christ and the Publican. I see Christ entering the front door of the house of Zacche.s. The King of Heaven and earth sits down, and as He looks around on tho place and the ■ family He pronounces the benediction of the text. “This day is salvation ■come to this house.” Zaceheus had mounted ths sycamore tree out of mere injuisitivt ness. He wanted to seo how this stranger looked —the color of His eyes, the ength of His hair, the contour of His features, the height of His stature. “Come down,” said Christ. And so many people in thip day get up into the tree of curiosity or speculation to see Christ. They ask a thousand queer questions about His divinity, about God's sovereignty and the eternal decrees. They speculate and criticise and hang onto the outside limb of a great sycamore. But they must come : down from that if they want to be saved. We cannot be saved as philosophers. but as little children. You cannot go to Heaven by way of Athens, but by wav of Bethlehem. Why be perplexed about the way sin came into the world when th" great question is how we shall get sin driven out of our hearts. How many spend their time in criticism and religious speculation: They take the rose of Sharon or the lily of tho valley, pull out the anther, scatter tho coro la and say, “Is that the beautiful Hower of religion that you are talking about?” No Hower is beautiful after yo i have tom it all io pieces. The path to Heaven is so plain that a fool need not make any mistake about it, and yet men stop and cavil. Suppose that, going toward the Pacific slope. 1 had resolved that I would stop until I could kill all the grizzly beats and the, panthers on either side of the way. I would never have got to the Pacific coast. When I went out to : hunt the grizzly bear, the grizzly bear would have come out to hunt me. Here is a plain road to Heaven. Men ; say they will not take a step on it until they can make game of all the theories that bark and growl at them from the thickets. They forget the fact that, as they go out to hunt the theory, i the theory comes out to hunt, them, ! and so they j erish. We must receive the kingdom of Heaven in simplicity. A Statesman’s Example. William Pennington was one of the wisest men of this country aGovernor j of his own State and afterward Speaker I of the House of Representatives. Y et, when God called him to be a Christian, he went in and sat down among some children who were applying for church I membership, and he said to his pastor, j “Talk to me just as you do to these ! ; children for I know nothing aboiltlt.” ' I hero is no need of bothering ourselves about mysteries when th u c tire so many thing that are plain. Dr. 1 Ludlow, my professor in the 1 heologleal sc binary, tought me a lesson "l have never forgotten. While putting i a variety of questions to him that were perplexing he turned upon me, somewhat in sternness, but more in love and said, “Mr. Talmage, you will have to let God know some things that you ! don t. ” A e tear our hands on the spines of the cactus instead of feasting our eye on its tropical bloom. A great company of people now sit swinging themselves on the sycamore tree of their pride, and I cry to you: “Zaccheus, come down! Come down out of your pride, out of your inquisitiveness, out of your speculation. You cannot ride into the gate of Heaven with coach and four, postillion ahead and lackey bphind. ‘Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. Zaceheus, come down, come down!” Restitution a Necessity. I notice that this taxgafYerer accompanied his surrender to Christ with the restoration of property that did not belong to him. He says, “If X have taken anything by false accusa-

tion, I restore fourfold”—that Is, If I ’ : have taxed any man for SIO,OOO when i he had only $5,000 worth of property I an I put in my own pocket the tax for - j the last $5,000, I will restore to him fourfold. If I took from him $lO, I will give him S4O. If I took from him S4O, 1 will give him $1(50. Hundreds of thousands of dollars i , have been sent to Washington during i i the past few years as “conscience i i money. ” I sup; ose that money was; , sent by men who wanted to bo Chrisi tians, but found they could not until they made restitution. There is no ; need of our trying to come to Christ as ; i long as we keep fraudulently a dollar j ora farthing in our possession that belongs to another. Suppose you have not money enough to pay your debts, : I and lor the sake of defrauding your ; creditors you j utyour property in your wife’s name. You might cry until the day of judgment for pardon, but you ; would not get it without first making ; restitution. In times of prosperity it. j is right,: against a rainy day, to assign property to your wife, but if, in time of perplexity and for the sake of defrauding your creditors, you make; such assignment, you become a culprit before God, and you may as well ; stop praying until you have made res- j titution. Or supposing one man loans another money on bond or mortgage, I with the understanding that the mort- : gage can lie quiet for several years, but as soon as the mortgage is given commences foreclosure tho sheriff mounts the auction block, and the I roperty is struck down at half price, and the mortgagee buys it in. Tho mortgagte started to get the property at half price and is a thied ana a robber. Cntil lie makes restitution there is no mercy for hi r. You say: “I cannot make restitution, The parties whom 1 swindled are gone." Dien 1 say, “Tako the money „p to the American Bible Society and consecrate it to God." Zaccheus was wise when be disgorged his unrighteous gains, tin 1 it was his first step m the right direction. Christ in the ll<me. The way being clear, Christ walked into the house of Zaceheus. He be- i comes a different man. his wife a different woman; the children are different. Oh, it makes a great change in any house when Christ comes into it! How many beautiful homes tire represented among vou There arc pictures on the wall, there is music in thedrawingsroom, and luxuries in the wardrobe, and a full supply in tho pin’rv. Even if you were naif as eop there is one word with which I could wake you, and thrill yon through and through, । and that word is ‘•home.” There are also houses of suffering represented in which there are i either piet ue-, nor w rdrobc. nor adornment only one room, and a plain । ot, or a bunk in a corner. Lt, it is the place where your loved ones dwell, ami your w. ice nature tingles with satisfn’-tion when you thnk of it and call it home. Though tho world may scoff a' us and pursue us and all the day we be to-sed about, at eventide we sail into the harbor of home. Though there be no r> for us in tho busy world, and we go trudging about, bearing burdens that well nigh crush us. there is a refuge, and it hath an easy chair n which we may sit, and a lounge wh- re we max lie, and a serenity of peace n, wh ■ h wo may repose, and that refuge is ho e. Tho English -n de-i-. si'tin ■ , on the waLs mound Sc ;,-• .. . < night heard a company ul urmiiamis i playing “Home, Sweet Homo." and it is said the whole array bioke out in sobs and wailing, so great was their homesickness. God pity ihe iH>or, miserable wretch who has no home! Inc Christ lan Mother. Now, suppose ( hrist .-hon'd come into your house. First the wife and the mother would feel His presence. Religion a’mo't alwav- begins lc e. It is easie for women to 1 ecomet 'hristians than for us men. They do not fight -o again-: ( 01. If woim n tempted man originally away from holiness, now -he tempts him ba k. She may no*, make any Lis-al out it. but somehow exery- ; ty iu the house knows ilia’ there is । a change in the w ife and mother. She ' chides the children more gently. Her j face lights up sometimes with an un- : earthly g ow. She goes into some unoccupie i room fora little wide, and the husband goes not after her nor asks herwuy she w.is there He knowwithout asking that s e has I ceil praying. The husband notices that her face is I rig. .ter than on the days when, years ago, they st,uod a' the marriage alt ir. and he knows that Je- : sus has been putt itig upon her brow a wreath sweeter than the o ange blossoms. She puts the children to bod, not satisfied with the formal prayer that they once offered, but she lingers now and tells them of Jesus who blessed little children and of the good place they all hope to 1 e at last. And then she kisses them goo 1 night w th something that the child feels to be a j heavenly benediction a something i that shall hold on to the loy alter he ; Ims lieeome a man 4nors • years of age, I for there is something in a good, lev- ' ing. Chmstian mother’s kiss that 50 years cannot wipe oil the cheek. 1 he Father Overcome. Now the husband is distressed and annoyed and almost vexed. If she ! would only speaa to him, he would ■•blow her up.’’ He does not like to say anything about it, but ho knows that she has a hope that he has not and a peace that ne has not. He , knows that, dying as he now is, he can- ' not yo to tli,. same place. He cannot! ^taml it any longer. Some Sunday night as they sit in i church side by side the Hoods of hA ! soul break forth. He wauls to pray, i ■ but does not know how. He hides his ' lace, lest some of his worldly friends ; see him. but < ,od s spirit arouses him. : melts him. overwhelm-’ him. And they go home husband and wife in silence, until they got to their room, । when he criws out. “Oh, pray for me!” ■ Ard they kneel down. They cannot I speak. Th<? words will not come. But j God does not want any words. He ' 1< oks down and answers sob and groan ; and outgushing tenderness. That j j night they do not sleep any tor talking I of all the years wasted and of tluit ! Saviour who ceased not to call. Before | : morning they have laid their plans for j a new life. Morning comes, bather j and mother doscend from the beuroom. The children do not know what is the matter. They never saw father wth a Bible in his hand before. He says: “Come, children. I want you all to sit down while we read and pray.” The children look at each other and are almo-t disposed to laugh, bat they see ‘ their parents are in deep earnest. It is a short chapter that the father । reads. He is a good reader at other i times, but now he does not get on

much. lie sees so much to linger on. i His voice trembles. Everything is so : strangely new to him. They kneel—i that is, the father and mother do, but ■ the children come down one by one. They do not know that they must. It I is sometime before they all get down. I The sentences are broken. The ! phrases are a little ungrammatical. Tho ; prayer begins abruptly and ends abruptly; but, as far as I can understand what they mean, it is about this: “O Saviour, help us. We do not know how to j ray. Teach us. We cannot live any longer in tho way we have been living. We start to-day for Heaven. Help us to take these children along with us. Forgive us for all the past. Strengthen is for all the future. And when the ourney is over take us where Jesus is and where the little babe is that wo lost. Amen ” It ended very abruptly, but tho angels came out and leaned so far over to listen that they would have fallen off tho battlement but for a stroke of their wings, and cried: “Hark, hark: Behold, he prays!” That night there is a rap at tho bedroom door. “Who is there?” cries the father. It is the o dest child. “What is the matter? Are you sick?” “No; 1 want to bo saved.” Only a Lttlo while, and all three children are brought into tho king lom of God And : there is great _oy in the house. Years pass on. Tho telogrfH>h goes click, click! What is the new< Hying over the country' “Come home. Father is dying." The children all gather. Home come in the la t train. Some, too late for tho train, take a carriage across the country. Thev.-’and around the dying bed of the father. Tho oldest son upholds the mother, and says “Don't cry, mother. 1 will take rare of vou." The parting blessing is given. No long admonition, for ho bus. through years, Iw n sayin r to his childrenall he hid to say to them It is a | him “good by.” and the remark, “1 know you will all lx- kind to your mother.’ and all is over. J its » du! y dotir. an s 1 nk« the ctay, I IRbt frolu itn loud il l' -plot ! ■<•« While if, .'I t> n 11 :th ,•!; ■ l»V. How bion* d tu* r übk<’ u* win u be d.e« A whole fumi’y saved fore-er! If th>' deluge come, they are a I in tho ark fa her. mother, sons, daughtor. Together en earth, together m Heaven. What makes it so' Explain it. Zaecheu* one day took Jesus home with him. 'Dial is nil .■salvation camo to that house. What sound ;- it 1 hearto night it is Jesus knocking at the door of your , house. Boboid a n'rnnK ’r at the door! i He gntiily kuo ke has kn • ked lof re. If you looked out of your window and saw me going up yo r front ste; s. you would not wait, but go vmn -<df to open the door. Will mu keep ivun Landing on the outside. His locks wet with the dews of lhe night' This uay is salxat ion come to thv house. Ihe great want of yo ir hou- > .- not a new cariwt or costlier pict in - or richer furniture it is Jesus < lurm tc^r an Inherit <n< r. I pto for!y ycat -n <m work for t hemthem. Nothing but dollars'' Alas, what an inhrritnnci * it -.more likely U> be si curse than a bio--.ng. Your own .o * mon sense an ! ob-erxation x ne .i . ■> . and you know that they wdi eo m hu<o to < arry their own burdens, our vyvs L'ht is not ho rifMtr&n < i)Cc« Th<\\ win soon have to pi* k out thoir own way. Your arm i** not so as once. They wjl ‘-.m'h have to huht their own <*h. let it not bo aril the rcH^ion of < hri- (jive D, avi !I. tin e!,..<:rcn v, . Oh. let .'e- . omo into y. ir ho.-e! Do not bolt the hall door, orthe beuroom door ugain-t H m. Above ai .■ o not lolt : your heart. I'ail b-eether as u.ai: ■ ofyo o family as may be awake. Head a chapter, and then, if you can think of nothing else besides‘the Lord’s I’rayer. say that. That w 11 do. Heaven will have begun in yo ir house. You can put your head on your pillow, feeling that, whether you wake up in this world or in the next, ail is well In that "reat. ponderous book of the judgment, where sire recorded all the important events of the earth, you will read at last the statement that this was the day when salvation came into your house. Oh, Zaceheus, come down, come down! i Jesus is passing by! The Passing ot fled Brick. In no depart meat of human in-du-try has there been greater evolution of late years than in the business of making bricks. Formerly we had nothing but old-fashioned red brick that reached its climax of perfection at Philadelphia, and was shipped thence at great expense all over the country where a high-grade article was in demand. But the red brick has had its day for arch tectural use. and in its place has come to stay the brick of lighter hue—pink (mil, xcllow, :rhd, in :art, of neuij' every shade. A brick can be made that, is as mottled as a s. agull’s igg or one that »vill show the varying tintsof an autumn leaf. It isdone by adding certain metallic ingredients to the clay after the latter had been ground to the tinest powder, it jthe iron in the clay that gives the . ordinary brick its deep red. In i u ture most ol our cty residences are ; going to be constructed of brick of these pleasing colors They give relief to the eye and variety. What can be more monstrous than a row of red brick houses? Washington d I taking to the new style, and in th clear atmosphere, unspoiled by the soot from soft coal (ombustior. a house of this beautiful material win stand fresh for a century and solid for years after one built of gran Lot^ 1 11' 1 dißiUt ' eurat ' ed '~ Washin £ton । To make boxes which will hold a level bushel slate or boards may |, a used, and they will be found verv convenient. Make each box 141 hv 16 i inches deep. .

HAR^ ESTING FODDER. HOW CO r CUT and CUR E the: r n fodder crop. B» Snro to Iluve n «u ♦Vith, and After ‘ ‘‘“ P Rnlre - *o Begin Have ft Shocked , W “ te “ "• 1 ' i Note*. " Rows—Farm rrbn 1 .. r “ r,n K for Fodder. the of corn fodder should * i rSt CF ° P Take the corn k V \ harvested, and cut the fodder ,’ i'i 1 ' 0 • lt ®h ar Pi size stroi । er and lay it in good"'lt. ‘ben turn Sld'l'f V" , ' ri,<! 'h'r.l day u should be shocked, and this D the *re\iquir OU d ld T d ° ne: Two ha " ds ui> aon i • a et each ma “ gather R/”'d sized armful. Now set h*s fodder with thebuttsdown upon of ’ atHl tiewi ’-ha tight band Os Wllteu corn fodder one third of the way up Now set Loin six to eight armfuls lound this shock, and then tie as Ixjforc. Ea h shock should contain from 300 to 100 ^pounds of fi ddeA Set the rows of shocks in straight lines If the corn fodder is weak and will not stand upright, drive a good size stake where the shock is to stand and shock round it: then tie tightly in ihe middle and near the top This fodder should not be iu?ved, but left in the field until wanted It will keep excellently all winter, and be found just as green and sweet when fed as when first gathered. This is the Baltimore American editor’s favorite method of cur.ng fodder corn lor feeding to milk cows, and after an expenen e of oxer twenty years he knows that it is a good one. If the shacks are properly set, they will not l end down or fall over. If any should fall down they should be immediatciy set up and properly t ed. Corn fodder should never lie placed in the barn unle— set upright, as it is sure to mould under the bands. Always haul it as wanted dm cd fnuu the field. It is one of the very best feeds for cows one can grow. From four to ve ton- can be r.si-e4 to the acre, if cured aa described ab >ve, it can lie grown and harvested ter less than slujer a re, making the cost atxiut 12 per ton, IMiiinfing hh Anl*tis*r« Wrl<ht. The following rule- may be applied toe-timate the we ght of live animais Take a string, put it around the Least, standing souare, ust in • hind the shuuhler Made measure on a !mt rule Ilie feet and inches the animal is in circuuiference; Ibis is called ll.e girth; then with the string ima-ure from the bine of the tail which piumi " the line with the hinder jart <>f the buttock; direct the line along the back to the lore part of the shoulder blade; take the dimensions on the fixvt r de as before, "Wi<h is the length, and work the tiai:--* in the following manner. r i! k fc t l irc-hes: length, 5 fee. I inches which mulfi. plied together, make I -quaie siij .r---tleial fed; that inullijdicd by dd—the number ot pounds allowed to each superficial foot of cattie measuring less than 7 and more than 5 in girth make- 7L! pounds. Where the animal iu asures les- than :• and more than 7 fc : m girth, . 1 is the nuini d of jiounds to each superficial foot Again. s;;pjo-e a jug or any -mail bea-t sh >uld measure 2 leet in girth and 2 feet along the i a k which, multiplied together, make 4 square Let; that, multiplied by ll—the number of joun ls allowed tor each square foot of cattle measuring .ess than 3 feet in girth—makes 44 pounds. Again, suppose a calf or sheep should measure 4 fed • inches in girth and > ted : inches in length, which, multiplied together, makes 10 s juare feet; that multiplied by J*—the number of pounds allowed to all cattle measuring less than and m re than 3 leet in girth—makes 204 p unds Crimson Clover Test. A crop test under the direction of Trof. \ oorhees, of the New . ersey station, wiih crimson clover, showed the green plant when in full bloom to contain 78.42 per cent water, .57 crude fat, 5.89 crude fiber, 3.48 c ude protein, 1.99 trude ash, 5‘.65 carbohydrates, .44 albuminoid nitrogen, .50 nitrogen, . 11 phosphoric acid, .45 potash, and .13 lime. That is 17 per cent, more protein than is in red clover and Mj per cent more than is in green rye. The scarlet clover hay contained 7.22 percent water, 1.49 crude fat, 34. ( J0 crude fiber, 15.06 crude protein. 9.32 crude ash, 32.01 carbo-Hydrates. 2.18 albuminoid nitrogen, 2.41 nitrogen, .71 phosphoric acid, 2.78 potash and 1.77 Dme, This gives it more crude protein and less carbo-hydrates tuan in red-clover hay. In 100 pounds crimson clover hay there is .95 j oipds fat, 14.52 pounds fiber, 9.25 pounds protein, 2(5.2- pounds carbo-hydrates. In HO povnds red clover hay, 1 pound fat, 13.25 pounds fiber, (5.48 pounds protein and 2ii.9 jiounds carbo-hydrates. Os the whole plant, including roots to the depth of (5 inches, 15 per cent, was roots and stubble, or 353 pounds to the ton. A crop of five tons < f green clover plowed under would give 2,:>56 pounds of organic vegetable matter, or as much as that supplied by 7.5 tons of averagestable manure, supplying as much nigtrogen and potash, but considerably less phosphoric acid. Renewing CSrass Rand. ; Fields that are filled with plantain i or other kinds of weeds and yield less than a ton of hay to the acre should be broke i up and Teseeaed. Plow the land up as early in toe fall as it can be plowed. The plowing should be thorough, no skips made, and at ian even depth. The day’s plowing

should be harrowed the following p r a .TJ n ordcr to kee P the soil f,om crusting over. This is important, । and will save a great amount of extra work in the future mellowing of the t-round. After the ground is plowed and harrowed, roll it with a heavy j taller, then cross and harrow the following week, and roll again; then har^w once more. If the ground needs manure, spread it broadcast with the manure spreader, eight loads to the acre of well-rotted manure: now harrow it in. If manure cannot be had. use 300 > pounds of super phosphate and 200 pounds of muriate of potash upon each acre, and harrow it in. Then roll; now seed behind the roller one peck of timothy seed to the acre and follow with a Une tooth harrow and just cover the seed. Don’t roll after the seeding. If you have a great quantity of straw you can not dispose of, spread it quite thin oxer the young timothy during the winter. It will act as a mulch, protecting the young g ass roots from the winter frosts. In the latter part of February sow one peck of clover to the acre upon the snow. During the first season upon soli so prepared you can cut from one to two tuns petacre of choice hay. Don’t pasture the second crop; let it grow up and Jir tect the plant routs. I’jion many a farm this will be found an excellent way to reseed the failing grass fields, instead of following the regular r tation of corn, wheat, and grass, and it wib be found far more profitable, requiring a small outlay for labor and making a larger cash return. Coildling Stock too Much. The general discussion of tuber ulosis and its cau-es w.ll have one go d effect. It will put an end to the idea that it is wise or safe to keep milch cow- in close, darkened stables even when a 1 the ventilation po-sible under such conditions is provided. Ail medical authorities are agreed that not only plenty of tre-h air, but. an abundance of sunlight a- well, is essential for the destruction of the bacilli which produce this disease. Yetit is not more than two year- ago when a leading agricultural writer boasted that he had a covered barn yard, so that when his -tock in winter were given exercise out of their -tallies they took it un dvr cover. We were doubtful at the time whether tin- wou d pruve to the l est heal’h of the cows It has been the mistake of amateur farmers, and tc some extent also of experiment stations, to place cow- under unnatural conditions for tiie sole purpose of increasing yield of milk and butter. B\ too mu h coddling animals as well as people lose the r natural hardiness and capa ity to resist dis ease. The Hc*t Cow* are Cheapest. It is imjos-ible for a dairyman to know what economy really is while be is keeping poor stock. If he is obliged t > keep one-third more cows Ilian should furnish his p.esent supplies of milk, butter, and cheese, any alt mpt to -axe, by reducing the exI fixe of their keep, can tie but a trihi <oinparis<in with what lie nin-t lose by fee ing so many more than should Le needed. It is proba le that with poor cows the attempt at economy in feeding will make them more unprofitable than they now are. The only true economy is to secure cows that will produce the most, and then ke p them up to their best by good < are and feeding, taking care, however, not to overdo the business, and thus destroy good health, which must be the basis of all success. The best milch cows will bear to be fe i highly and increase their |milk t'ow. It this is tried with scrub stock it will only tit them for the butcher. farm Notes. Bad fences very fre tuently ".e the cause of stock becoming breachy. Keep an eye on the fences between the pasture and the corn fields. Be slow to cut off large limbs from fruit trees; prune the young sp outs with the thunio. The less severe the pruning to which the trees are subjected the more likely it is to be ol long Ase. Here is a list of so ds with which British mutton growers vary the rations of sheep on pasture: Turnips, rutabagas, mangolds, vet h, rape, cabbage, beans, peas, linseed cake, barley, and wheat bran. The Lest pork, as well as the cheapest. says an experienced hog raiser, is that made from bogs that have never been wintered. Quick growth and early maturity are essential in securing the largest profit. So great is the interest taken in the abandoned farms of Massachusetts. that the State Board of Agriculture will get out another catalogue on the subject. The demand is from city buye s looking for a home. The fall is an excellent time to use lime. Plow the land, run the cultivatoi over it crosswise, and apply flora thirty to tiftv bushels of lime per acre. It may be left on the surface, no harrowing being required, as it will be curled down by the rain. The Oregon Experiment Station gives the following directions for bringing butter: Take 1 pound of granulated sugar, one tablespo nful of saltpeter and three gallons of brine strong enough to bear an egg. Boil the brine and strain wi en cool. The butter should be w apped in cl Ah before placing in the brine. Mrs. E. Larned of Massachusetts, i writes to “American Gardening” that if you insert a branch of the common pine into the middle of a cur- ! rent or gooseberry bush, tae currant ' worm will not go into it, or, if they are already there, they will leave at once. This remedy, she says, is far better than hellebore. It will also prevent the sceond brood appearing . as they otherwise sometimes do.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. sober or startling, faithfully recorded. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed. lings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes. Condensed State News. bur PHOn> ^ ever s tlll rages at GreensLogansport girls have united to boycott every cigarette dude. The tine new Masonic Temple at ixicnmond has been completed. 1 he waters of the Mississinewa River near Muncie are said to be black as coal. •by,' ols I hvrston. aged farmer near Shelbyville, fell into a pond, and was drowned. . Joe Cowgirl,. G, a mute, was run over and instantly killed by a clover huller at Noblesville. > L’he tenth annual reunion of the , Ninth Indiana Cavalry will be held at t Danville, Tuesday. Oct. !>. r The Polk canning factory at Greenwood put up 12ti,uoO cans of tomatoes tn twelve hours, last week. Little May Lewis, aged 3. Nobles- * ville, while playing in the street in L front of her home, was run over by a wagon and killed. Bartholomew County CommissionI ers have refused to allow a SSO funeral bill for the burial of Patrick O’Flani- ■ gan, an old soldier, by the county. A civilized Indian who lives in Wabash County has posted the following sign on his farm: “Hunt all you plea.-e and when the bell rings, come to dinner.” Ike Levi and his two sons, all noted counterfeiters, were caught in the act of turningout spurious coins in a little hut near Osgood, and were arrested by two detectives. AN employe by the name of Mount was caught by machinery in ths ilour mills at Atlanta, and his arm broken and badly laerated. He is also thought to be injured internally. In the trial cf Mrs. Cordelia Coleman for arson at Lebanon, one witness t -tiffed that the defendant wanted her to buy some dynamite to "b ow her husband to kingdom come.” , Edward Burgess started to go on a freight train to Rushville, and fell in between the ears. He was run over and his body completely severed in ! two, midway. He was an orphan, and 1 his grandparents live in Brookville. He was l(i years old. I A new religious sect has made its ■ appearance in Southern Indiana. They ! are called the "saints ” They profess . to be guided entirely by the Bible and । their services consist in reading ex- । tracts from the good book. The membership is rapidly increasing. Harrison Rowe of Waverly, exhibited seventeen fine pearls at‘ Martinsville. which he found in White River. One of them weighed sixty- ' six grains. The most valuable among the collection weighs thirty-six grains. It is as large as an ordinary rifle bullet. At Kokomo, two boys, 12 years old, sons of John Knote and Irvin Brown, owners of the Jerome mills, were racing in the mill-ra e. .Young Brown’s boat capsized and he was drowned. The Knote boy and several others, in attempting to rescue the lad, had narrow escapes. Allison Anderson, an employe of the Diamond Plate Glass Factory, was helping move a large plate ofglass, when he fell, causing the glass to break and fall squarely on his back, cutting a gash ten inches long on his left side, severing the principal muscles on hi-back. He was injured internally, and he may not recover. Andsrsonians are felicitating themselves over the location of another large manufacturing industry in North Anderson. The Wright Shovel Company began the erection of a factory lor the manafacture of heavy shovels. The com’, any will employ 125 skilled men at the start and announce that 200 will be employed by the close of the year. * At Red Key. a fourteen-!noh pipe in the pumping-station of the OhioIndiana Natural Lias Company burst as the gas was first turned into it as a test, and George Edger, of the Red Key Bank, was fatally injured. A large piece of the pipe struck him and then crashed through a building 100 feet away. His body was hurled iorty feet and stripped of clothing. His t wooden leg was twisted and broken. Two prisoners broke jail at Y'alparaiso and made their escape. One was Dei West, who has already served four ' terms in the penitentiary, and Charles ' Nearhufe, a ias C. Monroe, who was arrested in Chicago about two weeks ago and brought here for burglar! ing . a jewelry store of Max Propp, at Kouts, j They secured a key and. unlocking the . jail door, ran out. The hired girl ‘ grabbed them and called for help, but ■ was knocked down, and the prisoners made their escape. Nearhufe's rela- ! tives live near Wheatfield. Ind. The following Indiana patents have been is-tied: George E. Boots and W. O. Eakright, Butler, wire clamp Cor ! fences: .1. C. Hardesty. Millville, svrinye: Frank Lonjj, Fort Wayne, buggy cushion: Jacob JXedding, New Castle, mechanism for regulating speed of pulleys, etc., Wiltield S. Osbourn, Gilboa, corn harvester: Timothy J. I Mussay, Covington, flag staff; Edward Wilbert. Evansville, station indica1 tor: James O. Miller. Rochester, car coupling: James H. Stiggleman. Wabash, furniture hinge: James J. Wood. Fort Wayne, adjustable machine base: Louis ('. Zollinger and AY’. H. Patee, assignees of one-third, and H. C. Zollinger, Fort YVayne, joint for railway rails trademarks: f rank B. Dearinger and C. J. Niemer. Indianaj olis. tool and implement for making artificial stone and cement pavement. The little town of Eaton, Delaware County, was the scene of a murder the other night. Jacob Persley, a widower, resides near Frank Bell, mo has an attractive xvife. Bell began to grow suspicious that Persley and his wife were on too intimate terms, and he warned the widower to stay away from his house. 1 ersley became intoxicated and went to the Bell home. He asked Mrs. Bell to let him in. The husband awoke and, rushing down stairs, oraered Persley away. The drunken man cut him with a knife and Bell empt ed a shot gun at Persley, ' 1?^ dead. Bell gave himself up.