The Wahpeton times. [volume], October 24, 1889, Image 7

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The nanvieript oi
tijNijspi
'iiia kuM to the nv
lopoo Ber.T.DeWlti
D»v TBISMM Said it
*1fce4iseo*me he Intended tp^dSim this
•offing, and requested thattt lwfciated
itt*lAM«xplaa»tion:
sermon wii "The Saving
-ns=iW» w*Bait not go slip
nf wap wM not mad* for us to
,r Iv nHK#u|W«tt1M around
Btmta ofeomeeity, hr fata* the seen* of
ttta tnrtitiaa conflict, between the first
j****11* weenliet under the banner
'Mt moment in which we
II there never will be astogie
tfltart^tawhleh wewill hare aright to be off
:aA8P*l Paul throws all around tbii Christinn
of the old Roman and
gnlM^-thoeegolnee tbat aent a man
of nerre and
tra cam* up to
exhausted. In
:4^4ggB#^J»istoiy tellathat there wereeasee where
npandonly hid strength just to.
apostle, making.
allusion .to those very
are
ta
f&fN
:WM
-fei
•"to P"» the race, but not to
not to walk it—bnt "ran the race
I®*.**"*'looking: unto Jews." andjust
SNfe? i?
.olden times. a nan wonld stand at
eBd ofthe
«»ad with a beautiful garland
Bt
aroundtbe head or brow
WfcW of the
successful racer,
so the Lord JesnsChrjet
igsBXftitiidi at the end of the Christian race with
the garland or eternal life, and may God
grant that by his holy spirit we may so ran
as to obtain.
The distinguished WelHston, the chemist,
asked where his laboratory wns, and the
Iwjnirers expected to be shown some large
apartment filled with very expensive apara
tuj but Welliston ordered his servant to
bring on at ray a few glasses and a retort,
and tte said to the inquirer*: "That is all my
laboratory. I make all
my
experiments with
those." Now,
1 know that there area great
!WArhS "braw to e*press
tn^'ogr- They have sotaany theories
on 10,000 thinjp bntlhave to say that all
my theology iseompaasedin these three
words: "Looking onto Jesus and when
we can understand the height and the depth
and the length and the Meadth and the in
Snity and the imensity of that passage we
can understand alL
Imuark in the lint place, we must look to
Christ as our personal7 Savior. Now, yon
know as well as I that man is only a blasted
rula^of what he once was. There is not so
much
diSerence between a vessel coming out of
Liverpool harbor, with pennants flying and
the deck crowded with good cheer, and tlie
guns booming, and that same vessel driving
against Long Island coast, the drowning
passenger* ground to pieces amidthetimbers
ofthe broken up steamer, as there is between
man as ha came from the hands of God,
equipped for a grand and glorious voya
but afterward, through the pilotaire of 1
devil, tossed §£d driven and crushed, the
erward, through the pilotaire of the
ossed ud driven and crushc
coast of tk« new future litreWn witkthe frag
ments of an awftal and eternal shipwreck. Onr
.body is wrong. How easily il is ransacked
of disease. Our mind'Is wrong. How hard
it is to remember, and how easy to forget.
The whole nature disordered, from the crown
ofthe head to the sole of the foot—wounds,
braises, putrefying sores. "All have sinned
and come shot of the glory of God," "B
one man sin entered into the world and deal
by sin, and so death has passed upon all
men for that all have sinned." There is in
Brazil a plant they call the ''murderer," for
the simple renson that it is so poisonous it
kills almost everything jt touches. It begins
to wind aronnd the roots of the tree, and
coming up to the branches reaches out to the
ends of the brjjehes. killing the tree as it
goes along. Wken It baectfme to thetip end
of the branch the tree is dead. Ite seeds fall
to the ground and start other plants just as
murderous.
And so it is with sin. It is a poisonous plant
that was planted in our soul a long while
ago, and it comes winding about the body
and the mind and soul poisoning, poisoning,
poisoning—killing, killing, killing as it goes.
Now, there would be no need of my discoura
ing upon this if there were no way of pluck
ing out that plant. It is a moHt inconsider
-t ate thing for me to come to an
financial trouble and enlarge upon bis trou
ble if I have no alleviation to offer. It is an
nnfair thipg for me to come to a man who is
sick and enlarge upon his diseaseif I liareno
nmedy to offier. But I have aright to come
to a man in financial distress or physical dis
tress if I have financial reinforcement to offer
or a sure cure to propose. Blessed be God that
among the mountains of our sin there rolls
and reverberates a song of salvation.
Louder than all the voices of bondage is
the trumpet of God's deliverance, sounding:
''.Oh, Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself,
wit in me is thy help." At the barred gates
of our dungeon, the conqueror knocks, and
the binges creak and grind at the swiMjig
open. The famine struck pick up the msobl
that falls in the wjld'ernees» and the flood!"
clanttheir hrtnde, saying:'-"iflBHfck, oh thifcty
soul, and live foiever," and the feet that
were torn and deep cut on wi rocky bridle
path of sin now come into a smooth plaee,
andthe diy alders crackle as 'the panting
heart breaks -through to the water brooks
-and the dark nightjof the soul begins to grow
gray with the morning, yea to purple, yea to
flame, from norison to horizon. The batten
gslesof temi
A
Irt.
on°nr
orison to horizon.
tation silenced. Troubles that
it us captured and made to fight
le. Not as a result ot any toil or
trouble ott our part, but only as a reselt ol
"Lookingknto Jesus." "But what do vou
mean by 'Looking unto Jesus?' someone in
quires. I mean faith. "What do you meaii'
by faith?" I mean believing. "What do you
mean by believing?" I mean this: If you
promise to do a certain thing for me, and
I have confidence in your veracity—tf j&ou
say you will give me such a thing and rjeed
it vary much, I come in confidence thavyou
are an honest man and will do what yon Say,
Now, the Lord Jesns Christ says: "'Ton are
in need of pardon and lire and heaven, you
ran have them if you come and get tbem."
You say "I Mh't come and ask first. I am
afraid yon wW't give it to me." Then you
say: will come and fuk. I know, Lord Je
ans, thou art in earnest about this matter. I
come asking for pardon. Thou hast prom
ised to give it to me, thon wilt give it to me,
thou hast given it to m«»," Thfe is faith. Do
you see it yet? "Oh," said some one. *4
can't understand it." No mitn ever did,
without divinehelp. Faith istbe gift or God.
Ton say: "That throws the responsability
of my shoulders." No~ Faith is the gift of
God, but it co|£(N in aoswer to prayer.
All Over gib
be
t,'
is my Lord,
He mnst be loved and yet adored
His worth ifaH the nations knew.
Sure the whole earth would love Him too
I remark again, that we must look to
Jesus as'an example. Now, a mere copvi
you know is always a failure. If a pain
go to a"Yortfolio or a gallery of art, fao#i
ever exquisite, to get this idea of the natural
world from these pictures, he will not succeed
£1 as the artist who etarts' out and
the dew from the grosa and seos the
Sng just as God built it iii'the clouds, or
poured it upon the mountain, or kindled
upon the sea. People wondered
ner, the famous English painter, succeeded
ssS so well in sketching a storm upon the ocean.
It remained a wonder until it
was found out tlurt sevenl times be had been
X-r. lashed to the deck in the midst iff a tempest
and thon looked out upon the wrath or the
oea, and coming home to his studio, he pic
tured the tempest. His not the copyist wno
succeeds, but the man who confronts thenat
rMk' oral world. So if a man in literary compost
tion resolves that he will imitate the smooth
riess of Addison, or the ruggid vigor of Car-
U-v lyle, or the weirdnees of Spenser, or the epi
"|f grattmatic style of Ralph Waldo Efflerson,
he will not succeed as well as that man who
0^4 cultures his own natural style. What is true
I
',n thi*
K*pcct is true in respect to charac-
gj ter. There were men who were fas.
cinated with Lord Byron. He was
lame and wore a very large collar.
W, Then there were tens of thousands of men
~'f who resolved that they wonld be jnst like
Lord Bnron, and they limped and wore large
collars, but they 'did not have any u^his
fe1 genius, Ton cannot successfully copy a
,v" man whether heis bad or good. You may
take the very best man that ever lived and
try and live like him, and you will make
I'ure. There never was abetter man than
'#HlSsfe
Iwa'llii.rttrtmt ocean. T4«
and may luava the Savior's aarmpatJur*
ttla way. 1 see your
Sf*.!1 y°° out body,-aad mind,
yw »ul. I cotoe on no foors errand
MW' J!0.!?*!
11
ye?-
like
Oh, the contrast between this world,where
we struggle with temptation that will not be
conquered, and that world whereit is perfect
joy, perfect holiness and perfect rest! Said a
little blind child: "Mamma, will I be blind in
heaven?" "Oh, no, my dear," replied the
mother, "you won't be blind in heaven."
A little lame child suid: "Mamma, will I be
lame in heaven?" "No," sbe replied,
"you won't be lame in heaven." Why,
when the plainest Christian pilgrim arrives
at the heavtnl% gati it opens to bim, and as
the angels come down to escort him in, and
they spread the banquet and they keep festi
val over the august arrival, and Jesuscomes
with a-crown and says, "Wear this," and
with a palm and says, "Wave this," and
points to a throne and says, "Mount this."
Then the old citizens of heaven come around
to hear the newcomer's recital of deliverence
wrought lor him, and as the ne.wly arrived
soul tells of the grace that pardoned and the
ed him, all the inhabitants
"Praise
mercy that savi
shout the praise of the King, crying,
Him! Praise Him!"
Quaint John Bunyan caught a glfcnpse ol
that consummation when he aoid: "Just as
thegates were opened to let inVhe man, 1
1 in after them, and behold the city
like the sun the streets were ^algo
with gold, and in. tbem waited many
mlipth crowns on their beads, and goldtn
harpS 'to sing praises/ withal. And aft*#
that they ifcut up jhe gates, which when I
had seen, I wished ityaHf among them."
Bought Ancestor. I,:
The Washington correspondent of
The I'Eiladelphia Record writes:
"Theft is a noble old manor house
on an estate not far from Washing
ton, recently purchased by a rich
Washingtonian. The other day he
asked a party of friends down to see
it, and proudly displayed its attrac
tions till they all exclaimed with de
light—delight all the more keen be
cause evercrjbing was more or lees
dilapidated^ When he had exhaust
ed'the hou6t|and garden, he said to
his guests: 'I bought an anc&tor
with this place. Come and let me
introduce you to him.' So they all
followed Inm to a secluded spot in
the grounds, where thejr found a fine
old marble vault4uilt into the hill
side. The host opened the rusty
iron door, and they all passed into
the cobwebby darkness: Presently
they made out on the left hand shelf
a skeleton lying at full lengtlG with
a tiny snake's nest in thetireaifc bone.
'That's Col. Plantagenet,' said the
host, 'who built the house and this
tomb.'"
Birotlier» are Barred, .f
Botiton Courier.
"Now then, Jennie," said the bride
groom to the bride after they re.
from church
knot had jnst been tied, "how many
brothers have you?"
"Brothers!" exclaimed the bride in
astonishment, ''you know I haven't
any brothers. I'm the only child of
my parents."
"Oh, I know that, but how many
young men did you promise to be a
sister to before you accepted me?
Those are the brothers Iwant to
know about."
"Well," replied the bride, smiling,
"I think I must have about half a
dozen of brothers."
"All right. You just drop a note
to each of tbem and tell tnem the
brother and sister business is all off
now as you have got a husband. If
they want sisters tell them to look
around, among the girls that are
sirfgle. I'm all the brother you need
now."
Jfaathn fe
taMatment,
btlm. Iwal
MJ wound. Are you sick? Jans waa
y«w *enryT Jesus was ireary.
•Ws you persecuted? Jeaas was persecuted.'
gyir ?T.„ DW.not faii* weep
u?w.'
ft roe ou the
•mountains of Bet her, Jensus comes bound
i!SL ?"0S5*£it0
(lBy-
Tbere is one pas-
KSf lwlP^'*rcry which is a
heart throb. Come unto me, all ye who are
Sit* T21 thll laden
t?nd
1 wifi
™, ii another paniureraBt em
U»t tkjr burdea oSSTlord and
0h•
""el*
are
fjreen
.pastures where tlie heavenly shepherd leads
fw^ooHded and sick of the flock.
„™™n ?JGod stands by the tomb or Lac
S
w'll
gloriously break it open at the
J.§?nPmr®t
cannot toss its wuves
so high.that Christ cannot walk them. The
0il^i11
®n,tiPly into an illimitable
supply. Aftfr the orchard seems to have
J*6",fobbed or all its fiuit, «ie Lord has one
tree left, lull or golden and ripe supply. The
requiem may wail with gloom and with'
death but there cometli altera while song,
0 c. ant, an anthem, a battle marcji, a jubilee,
do
y°u »o.t fas) the breath
oil tnrist sympathy no%. you wounded
ones, you troubled ones? .If you do not I
would Mkai to tell-you ol the chaplain in the
army who was wounded so he could not
walk, but he' heard a distance among the
dying a man who said: 0, my God!" He
said to himseir, 'il must help that man
though I can walk."
So he rolled 6ver and rolled through his
own blood and rolled on over many of the
slain, until he came where this poor fellow
was suffering and he preached to him the
comfort of the gospel, and with his own
wound he seemed to soothe that man's
wourtd. It was sympathy going out to
wards an object most neceSiitous, and one
that he could easily understand. And so it
*ith Christ, though wounded all over him
self, he hears the cry of onr repentance, the
cry of our bereavement, the cry of
oif poverty, the cry of our
wretchedness, and he says: "i
must go and help tbat soul," and he rolls
over with wounds in his head, wounds in his
hands, wounds in his feet, toward us, until
he comes just where we are weltering in onr
own blood, and he puts bis' arm over us—
and I see it is a wounded arm audit Waa a
wounded hand—and as he throws his1 arm
over us I hear him say: "I have loved thee
with an everlasting love."
Again, we must look to Christ as our final
rescue. We cannot with these eyes, however
good our sight may be, catch a glimpse of
the heavenly land for which our souls long.
But I have no more doubt that beyond the
cold river there is a placa of glory and ofrest,
that we have that acroes the Atlantie
oceim there is another continent. Bnt
the heavenly land and this land stand in
mighty contrast. This is barrenness and
that verdure. These shallow streams of
earth which a thirsty ox might drink dry, or
a muWs hoor trample into mire, compared
with the'bright crystalline river from under
the throne, on the banks of which river the
armies or heaven may rest, and into whote
clear flood the trees or life dip their branches.
These instrument or earthly music, FO
easily racked into" discord, compared with
the harps that thrill with eternal raptures,
and the trumpets that are so musical that
they wake the dead. These streets along
which we go panting insummer, and the poor
man carries his burden and the vagrant asks
lor alms, jgd along which shuffle the feet of
pain and w|intand woe, compared withthoce
streets that,sound forever with thfgfcet o/jty
and holiness, and those walls made out of
all manner ot precious stones, the light inter
shot with reflections from jasper and chryso
lite and topas and sardonyx and beryl and
emerald and chryaoprosus.
to
the siiM'. ai'-iiay otter,
monarch, polttfciiw 6r |tob1ic jiifol
The SbaVsTather wMMramed Shah^
and his mother the daughter of a
Kadjar chief. When h* WAS seven
teen years old hs wasmade Governor
of Azerbeidjn, a north
western prot
ince of Persia. His father died Octo
ber 15,1848, when Nusr-ed-Deen Was
eighteen years old. Opposition to
his succession was sternly put down.
£arlv years of the Shah's reign were
characterised by reforms under the
administration of Ameer MirsaTaghi
the Grand Vizier, who after three
years' service was driven into exile
and murdered by the yonng ruler.
The reign of Nusr-ed-Deen has been a
bloody one. Wars against Afghan
istan, against the Imaum of Mascot
and against England, have not
added to the wealth or territory ol
the country, but left it worse offthan
before. The Shah has five sons, three
of whom are grown up, and many
daughters. Mouzaffer-ed-Deen, the
second son, is heir-apparent. He is
now Govenor of Azerbeidjn, and re
sides at Tabriz, which is the largest
and richest city in Persia. The pres
ent is the Shah's third trip to
Europe.
Lersl Contracts.
Don't make a contract on Sunday.
Don't make a contract with a man
who is under the influence of liquor.
Don't refuse a contract made on
Sunday if it was ratified on a week
day.
Don't qualify your acceptance of a
contract unless you mean to make a
new proposition.
*Don't refuse a contract because no
time .is specified for its performances.
Don't charge interest on account
for goods sold until the credit%given
has expired:
Don fail to ask for interest in an
action for default on contract to pay
money.
Don't tender a sum due on a con
tract unless the exact amount is ia
current funds.
Don't attempt to revoke or nullify
a contract under seal except by an
instrument executed under seal.
Don't try to enforce a contract
against a man's estate unless he.
bound his legal representatives.
Don't try to put a forced construc
tion upon a contract look for the
intent of the parties.
Don't think that compound inter
est will render a contract usurious.
Don't think that usurious note or
contract may be freed from its taint
by simply executing anew one of like
tenor.
Don't fail in executing a new con
tract in place of one tainted with
fraud, usury, etc., specifically to re
pudiate the blemish.
Don't forget that there is an im
plied guaranty in selling goods by
sample.—Lawyer Lockwooa.
He Didnt Pronounce It That Way,
An old fellow from the country, who
has plenty of money invested, some
of it in an uptown hotel of the fam
ily sort, was approached On the first
day of opening it by a natty young
man with a debonair smile.
"Have you any rooms en suite?"
he asked.
"Any what?" inquired the new
landlord.
"Rooms en suite."
"See herty young mon, how many
of them are^on?" asked the granger.
"Just mqtand Mamie—I mean my
wife. We—we haven't been married
long. She sent me around to see it
you had any suites."
"Well, you go home and tell her to
come right along. We've arot plenty
of rooms, and wnen you and she are
in them they'll be too sweet for any
thing. If we haven't got rooms in
sweets we'll have sweets in rooms.
Come again, young feller."—Nev
York News.
Pslitting Of The Aacleata
PhiladetpiTiaXcdger.
A remarkable discovery has been
made in Egypt of tablets, or letters,
which compose a literary correspon
dence of 3,500 to 4,000 years ago,
carried ou between Egyptians and
Asiatics. The tables now in Vienna
represent letters and dispatches sent
to Egypt by the governors and
kings of Palestine, Syria, Babylonia,
and other countries of western Asia.
The find is remarkable in every way,
and opens the people of that age to
us with freshness an| familiaraity.
It is. cigar that the literary spirit is
ancient, and Prof. Sayce surmises
we shall yet find libraries of clay
books. One town in Judah was call
ed "Book Town," or "Libray Town."
The momentum of this discovery will
be marked.
•uses,
UBPDiO OOOP STOCK.
farmers fail tram attempting
i^,v
too ttuoh in stock without saffioient
experience than from., aiy other one
T,iey »aintkin
altogethelr too
many, animals of poor to medium qtinl
tyy* Is. better to have only one good
than to have two or three medium
Ooea The one animal will leave the
farmer a chance to devote his time an
land to some more profitable pnrp
while the man overstocked win
animals finds that they absorb asd'esi1
•vorytlng he grows. ,•
WEED SEEDS IJJ 80BEENINQS.
In cleaning up grain for market, if
is done
Pl'°P91'1y there will
ttfMhlng left in the screenings but
the flHds of weeds. These should be
®ven if there ore a few im
perfect grains among the screenings,
farmers cannot afford to feed the Whole
to stock, and thus get Weed seeds Into'
their manure heaps. Screenings are'
mostly given to poultry. This is an
other cause of loss, for they will eat'
many weed seeds which are injurious,
and often stop them from laying at
this season.
SUWHIOWEB SEED FOR CHICKEN FEED.
In the Fall, when suuflowers ripen
their seed, it requires some practice
and perhaps some starvation to make
fowls eat it. But after becoming used
to this new diet, nnd especially in cold
weather, fowls are very fond of it The
•eed of sunflowers has much oil in it,
which makes it a belter feed for cold
weather. By this time too the acrid
juices of the green stalk have evaporat
ed. It is better therefore to put tho
sunflower heads away for winter use,
nothing doubting that they will b4l
wanted.
8ENSB OF SMELL IN INSECTS.
It is an undoubted fact that most
noxious insects aro guided by their
sense of smell to the places proper for
them to feed or depos't their eggs. It
is to this peculiarity that many
odoriferous substances bwe their
supposed repellant powers. The insect
is not, strictly speaking, repelled, but
the stronger foreign odor disguises
that of its proper food and therefore it
cannot find it. Thus any cheap but
strong-smelling substance may chcck
insects ravages just- as efficaciously
as something much more expensive.
SHELTER FOB COWS FKOM COLD.
It may seem to some strange to
advise giving some shelter to cows at
night thus early in the season. In clear
weather even in July and August cows
in fields will get under trees to lie down,
so that there may be less radiation of
their own warmth into spaco. If any
one tries sleeping out of doof| in
summer, as campers sometimes do, he
will be apt to feel a chilly sensation
towards. morning. Of course when
cold storms prevail, as they aro liable
to from now onward, the necessity for
shelter is greatly increased.
SWEET AND 80DR CBKAH.
Uniformity in cream is one secret of
getting a large amount of butter from
it This is one of the great advantages
of the creamery system which, in
changeable weather, it is difficult.to get
without it If sweet and sour cream
are mixed together nearly all the sweet
cream goes into tho buttermilk. In
some cases where the amount of butter
was not nearly what it ought to be,
farmers wives have churned the butter
milk and got enough more butter to pay
for the er.tra labor. But a creamery*
would cost 1 ttle, and in many places
pay itself in one season by the increased
butter product
TIME TO OCT COBN.
Owing to the great amount of heat
the past Summer much corn will be
ready to cut early. Some farmers have
a habit of leaving corn just as long as
they safely can, and as everybody is
liable to make a wrong guess, they
generally have mqjre or less corn cut
by frost This is a serious misfortune
not idone for the fodder, which is badly
injured, but for the damage to the im
mature grain. It is safer to err in cut
ting too early than in delaying until
after frost When well glazed the corn
may be cut and if well put up will
ripen enough to grow, yet the grains
will be diminished in size^ making the
rows wide apart on the cob.
18 BUTTER DIGFCSTIBTFCL^
Some agricultural papers are discuss
ing the comparative digestibility of
butter! The old-fashioned idea taught
in the books many years .sgo wa% that
pure butter was whollyV-lndigestible,
that in large masses it was melted by
the warmth of tho stomach und operated
as so much oil until it passes off with
other food.. That, however, was main
ly theory. In practice it is found that
a piece of bread with butter is to most
palates so much better relished than
one without that it digests more quick
ly. The digestibility depends entirely
on the increased saliva that good butter
is supposed to create. That butter then
is therefore m^ttigeslijtfe tliat is best
liked. Very biul &utter iSSlfilla the old
idea, and is not d'gestible at all.
TWO KINDS OF O&TS.
Many farmers find this year that they
have some of both light and heavy oats
ripening on different p$tt$ ol the
head according to tlw /ifaather
at the different times of matur
ing. The heavier oats are m^i. the
more profitable for feeding bnt some
times hotel-keepers and horse-boarding
stable keepers purposely buy the light
Weight They purchase by weigh(and
deal out oats to patrons' horso by
measure. It is, therefore their gain
when they buy oats weighing less than
thirty-two pounds per bushel and
their loss when extra heavy oats are
fed. But the horse feeder up to this
trick is not the man to lose in any
event If the oats are heavy he will
take bis profit in stinting the measure.
ws^^rtgwiei other
time* espeefadatjr When wdrking with
team* good .long nooning1 is not an
impediment Iwt rather a help. Not
only should Ufe team rest while eating
at noon, bnt Its harness should be re
morved, and' the animals placed in
darkened stalls, where fiios will not
annoy them. .. At this time the* farmer
IfcnseU m^r indulge in a littlo reading,
fits will bi:Jess tired md^ fagged out
than .at.'nifiMt and y&^'Shange from
thought tattatuai labor and vies versa
Will rolqvij{orato both fio&y and mind.
There-are no evenings for farmers
until/quite late in the Fall, and the
neoessary reading,to keep up with the
news Of the day can be better dono at
noon than at any other time in the day.
GARDENING BT THE BARREL.
The agricultural editor of the Phila
delphia Btcord mentions a Jerseyman's
practice which ouables him with very
littlo.extra outlay to secure better re
sults, especially in a season of drought,
than from three times as much space
devoted to the vegetablo growing in the
old way. He procures old soap-boxes,
floiir-batrels, kegs, or anything that
will hold earth or manure, and if the
boxes or barrels bo somewhat rickety,
so much the batter. In planting mel
ons, cucumbers, tomatoes, squashes, or
lima beams ho places a box on the
middle of the hill, which should be six
feet across, fill it half full of fresh ma
nure, and over the ifianure a half pock
of a mixture of wood aslies and super
phosphate is placed. Tho seeds of the
melons aro planted around the box,
four plants being allowed to tho hill,
'the distance of tho seeds from the box
being about two feqt, ns too close con
tact with the box is not desirable.
When the young plants are up soap
suds are poured over the contents of
the bor. In a few weeks the roots of
the plants will have reached the box,
and they are then freely and liberally
supplied with all tho moisture and liq
uid manure they may need, as water is
poured in the box as often as may bo
desired. In dqy weather a bucket of
water in the box causes the matter in
the manure to loach out, and it soaks
info the ground around the box, where
the plants appropriate it.
OAT STBAW FOB STOCK.
In along sories of experiments con*
cerning the feeding value of oat straw.
Prof. Sanborn of Missouri says that
this strfw is mainly valuable as a heat,
and fat produa^ It does not produce"
much fat, because cattle will not cat
enough of it It contains but 1.4 per
cent of digestible albumenoids, or
flesh formers, and forty per ccnt of
digestible carbohydrates, or fat form
ers. Hence to use it with advantage
and get the full benefit of it, it must be
fed with a food of directly tho opposite
kind, such as oil meal or cotton-seed
meal. The professor found that thirty
ty-four pounds of oat straw and six
pounds of cotton-seed meal gave the
same results as fifty pounds of ha)*, be
cause cotton-seed meal has 8S.2 per
cent of albumenoids and but 17.6 per
cent, of carbohydrates, thus forming,
with a straw, a well-balanced ration.
Oil meal contains 27.6 per cent of
albumenoids and twenty-seven per
mt of carbohydrates, so that a pound
iore of oil meal than cotton-seed meal
should be fed. Thofost of tills feed as
compared with hay at $5 a ton, or one
fourth of a cent per pound, is an im
portant question. It is said to take
twenty-five pounds of it to make a steer
gain a pound 'a day, or 6| cents daily
to keep him in good growing cond!
tioii But if by feeding four pounds of
oil meal, worth 1£ cents per pound,
tlie same gain can be mad* and by
feeding a proportionately tbss amount
we can keep up the weight, itjirill help
out a short crop of hay. ''Bit to the
farmer who has not and can not get
oil meal the following facts will be of
value: Clover hay contains about nine
per cent, of albumenoids, timothy
tains 5.8, and oat straw L4 per
therefore ii.will be seen that a ton of
clover hay fed with a ton of oat straw
will be equal in value to two tons of
timothy, because clover hay contains
an excess of albnjnenoids, and it is
waste to feed it by itself, as it is waste
to feed out straw alono. A steer feed
on the straw long enough would starve,
but when fed with clover it is a well
balanced ration, and makes a poor hay
crop go much further. It is clearly es
tablisbe&gjtliat the food value of oat
straw mnae obtained-only by feeding
with something that has an excess of
albumenoids and a deficiency of carbo
hydrates. The farmer's food of this
class is clover hay. .,«u-
Nature's Alchemir.
How does the silver find its way.
Into the daisies' petals, prayfl'
That In each nodding, Bhlm'rlng face
A falrj's features one may trace?
'Tie hat the moonbeam's beauty shed,
Like gossamer each silken thread
When day opes wide his yellow gatcs
Upon all flow'rs the moonlight waits.
How finds the buttercup her gold!
The bee his secret never toldt
How In her heart does she-enchain
The wealth ol sunset's golden fane!
'Tis from the blase of noon-sun darts,
Imprisoned In the flow'rjr hearts
Glory that comes from sunshine's gold
In springtide plouzhed into the mold!
—Dexter Smith, Xtm York World. 4i
A Verdict That Seemed to Fit.
A man in a Western town hanged
himself to a bed-post by his saspend
ers. Tho Coroner's jury were some
time in coming to a decision in the
case, but the foreman, who was a na
tive of Erin, finally announced that
the "deceased oame to his death by
coming home drunk and mistaking
himself for his pants.''—Wtuhtnglon
Critic.
'.cf
I
have.1'
S-JSSV^
women woo*
ic male drugglfti wp
"In whatwaydoyou meanf'
"In ievwiL* For instanoe, women
ate quiokoc ^than men, learn mor*?
easily, aud are loss jipt to be deceived
in reading prescriptions. They are
infinitely neater about their work, audi
can do up small parcels, mix pre-,
scriptions and wait o» customers with a*
grace that the' male clerk may envy,
but can never hopo to rival Fancy
the difference between a "pretty female
clerk at the soda water fountain 'and
the stupid and clumsy boy! There is
no comparison^1"
"Why are not more women engaged,
in this business?"
"Principally because it is anew idea.
The first woman druggist I know of
started in New Orleans less, than ten
years aga All new ideas are of slow
growth. I am sure that before long we
will find as many female drug clerks
as we do saleswomen in dry good
stores. You see, drug clerks are com
pelled to pass rigid examinations before
thoy are allowed to compound, pre
scriptions. This usually necessitates a
short coutfte in medicine, knowledge of
Latin and a thorough study of chemistry
at a collego of pharmacy or several
years of cxperieneo in driig store.
The former study is too expensive for
most young women, and the latter has
been closed to them, as a rule, on ao
count of the prejudice of druggists
agAinst female clerks. This will all be
changed in time ftiougli. The work is
healthy, easy and well paid, and I
think women will have-equal chances
in it with meu."
"Wouldn't you be afraid to trust them
with an important prescription?"
"Not in the least," answered the
professor. 'On the contrary," he ad
ded in conclusion, "they never have
heads' on them from over-drinking.
They don't keep late hours. They al
ways have their wits about them. No,
give mo the famalo drug clerk for both
ornament and utilitv." ^4
Five little Chiokena
8ald the first little chicken.
With a queer little squirm
"Oh I wish I'could find
A fat little worm!"
Said the next llttleicblcken,
With an odd little Shrug,
"Ob, I wish I could find
A fat little bug!"
Said the third little chicken,
With a aharu little squeal,
"Oh, I wish 1 could find
Some nice yellow meal!"
:.Said
the fourth little chicken,'
With a small sigh of grief,
"I wish I could find
A green little leaf I"
8aid the fifth little chicken,
With a faint little moan,
"Ob, I wish 1 could find'
A wee gravel stone 1"
••••. "Now, see here," said the 'mother,
From the green garden patch,
"If you want any breakfast,
You Just come and scratch!"
—Exchange.
He Khows This Trick Now.
"Have any of you found a bank
note?'! inquired a man in wild-eyed ex
citement as he hurridly approached a
knot of loungers at the Union Depot
yesterday morning.
"Have you lost one?" asked an eld
erly stranger of bland and sedate ap
pearance.
"Yes, yes, have you found it?"
"Wait a moment What was its
denomination?"
"It was a $50 bill—National bank
note."
The stranger leisurely drew a roll of
bills froip bis,pocket, looked them over,
took one out, and passed it over .to the
excited (individual, remarking' with
much urbanity as he did so:
"It is well for yott, my friend, that
it was found by an honest man. I
picked it up a few minutes ago, and
take pleasure in giving it back to you
what I am satisfied is your property."
"Thank you, sir thank yon. it is
my turn tpow to do fhe fair thing.
Here's a ton-dollar bill. You shan't
refuse it. Take it, sir take it, or I
shall feel hurt."
The stranger thus urged, took the
money, and the grateful individual
walked off with his $50. He was con
siderably surprised to llarn, a few
hours later, that the bill was not Jhe
one he had lost at all but a counterfeit
He is now looking for the bland
and elderly stftinger, bul there aro
reasons for doubling his success in find
ing him.—Chicago Tribum
Who Wrote Shakspeare?
"A Sad Doubter" writes' to the editor
of The World: Hamlet overheard
Julius Caesar tell King Lear on th«
Twelfth Night after the Temp&st that
Antony and Cleopatra, had! told
Coriokpus that Two Gentlemen of
Verona were the authors of Shak
speare's pTays. Lear said: You may
take it As You Like It, but I don't be
lieve"lt, for I heard Borneo and Juliet
say Love's Labor was lost when Troilus
and Cressida stole' the Comedy of
Errors and Sold it to the Merchant of
Venice for a cup of sack and a dish of
caraways. Timon of Athens and
Cymbaline were parties to the theft, and
after drinking Measure for Measure
with the Merry Wives of Windsor, told
King John all about it B:chard III.,
competent critic, said Bacon could
not write even a Winter's Tale, and
Henry VIIL said that settles it So
wliy make so Much Ado About Noth
ing? Othello was. busy discussing a
point of honor with Henrys IV., V.,
and VL, and as Richard II. was absent
Taming the Shrew I could get no
further evidence as to who wrote
bhakspeare, but All's Weil that Ends
Well
4
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bvernhi
Htwto
M.«Otjftl
Farmers have^i
taii* as other
someof thereby
ings, others-bv at
iif»tersii .tbroflgpi
jcalves., I bad way of
All, and Iff woifted toiifir
iSvery tffiie When g&S
morning, aftee«tayihg all:
a farmer, I gofcOffaomeihing
,!©ws:
"I "had a very ciiiious dreanrP
fcight, I dretuned Was d!
out behind your barpyjftst ena
with a big knot-hoj$ & th$ s&tK.^
board from the west end, ithd I 'nn-'^
earthed a tin box containii)g#^000
in greenbacks." The dream was so
vivid thatlaJmoatfeel tbeboxln my
hands. -Thew's jnothing In. dreams,
of course, but I never had onejrbich
seemed BO red!.'
"Mind yon^ I bad'taken
1
!~notic«
of
the knothole the evening -before.
Sometimes -Lfixed.tha .place behind
the, barn, and. sometimes near a
stump, or so many paces from a cer
tain tree Or straw stack, but it
was settled otf'beforehand. It wasn't
one time in twenty that a farmer
would charge me for my lodgings
after giving nim this dream. I hit
'em plumb center, and they were only
too anxiousto get me outof the way
so they could begin digging."
"Go on," said several voices, as he
made along pause.
"Weill" one morning, after lodging.
with a farmer all night and getting
his note for $50 for a hayfork. I re
lated the UBual dream In the usual
way. This time it was buried treasure
beneath a stump near his barn. I
saw that be was hard hit at once,
and he left me eating breakfast and
went down to dig. was chuckling
over his greenness when he came
walking in with a tin
arm."
"You don't say!"
"Bute I do, and it was a box he
bad dug out a foot or
so below the surface, It
was broken open right then and
there, and may I be drowned for a
yeller dog if the contents didn't pan
out f4,625 in just as good green
backs as you ever .saw."
"But—but
"There was no buts about it. He
found the money and kept it, as was
niB right, and no one ever came,to
claim it. This $2 bill was a part of
it. He gave it to me as a reward
for my dream, and I'm keeping it as
a relic to show what a fool a man
can make of himself. That's all,
gentlemen—all except that I want
some of you to kick me as soon as
convenient."—New York Sun.
Time for a Change,
A girl typewriter—what would the
newspapers do if they didn't have
fker to write about?—told a reporter
On The Sun, "I /have never seen a
man in whose company I have not
thought it bes.t .never to relax my
guard over myself." See here, if that
young woman has any friends, they
ought to introduce her to a lew men
outside of the crowd she seems td b&
training with. That girl has fallen
in with thfwrong ktbaofmen. Once
in awhile brethren, you will hear a
man talk in a' similar
strain about "all women/'
that there are no good,, pure* vir
tuous women, but that.kind of a
man never associated with that class
of women. When any one tells me
that ull the people in the world are
wicked and wholly bad, impure, and
treacherous, I don't believe it not a
word of it. But I do believethat the
person who tells me such stuff may
be living in sort of a world that he
associates only with people of that
class and sort, and believes that all
the world Id like his BiirrnmkMnpry,«
just as amdble may believe that-top
sky is black and the grass grows
from it,.aroots downward. But we
know tne sky is blue.—Burdette ia
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Old CommodorS*
Commodore VanderUlt made
$100,000,000, beginning with no
jhoney and very little education.
He could write his name, and that
was about the extent of his scholastic
acquirements. His name* wnieh was
good for any amount on a 'checks
sh 1
wan not mucn to look a,t.
not pronounce the letter V, and al
ways called' himself"Wanderbilt.
new clerk at the post-oSce
annoyed him by lookincrfor His
ters under the W's. '^Don't^X.
among the 'W's look among
Wees," said the millionaire. At the
age' of 80, the Commodore was a
match for the whole street. He
opened all his tiWn lettera, dictated
his answers, on the margin spent
an hour in transacting business in
volving many millions, and tbenL
went tqehis stables. He-was
proud of his horses, and liked to
lead the road—and he geneerttllydid.
Keeelvsd $18,001.
Christopher Oonld, the assistants
of the Philadelphia and Beading
who resldee at (i9 North, atrpet,
bjirg, lost Wednesday received 915,000,1
t|» Louieiana State Lottery, at
riL
i$!
box under his
$8^
v/rrfr.
if
•$*§
New
mheld one-twentieth of iidMt Ho."S,11
which drew the first capital prise rf.'f
000, in the drawing or the lOth ii
llonday of last week, Mr. Qonld deUf
ticket to Albert Leeds, ot StteKon,
the United States Express eomt
forwarded said ticket. On I
Leeds received the full amount of
inn, in readjeash money, namely
He at once sent for Mr. Gonld, to
was delivered, that same day:
We are happy to say that this s*
wealth has not nllen into the •haMji:-.
Coal Oil Johnny man, who •qnandsnM
reckless manner. Baton the C'—
come into the hands of a' dii
worthy man, who will ma
To be Bare he may pooeibly
elated, as he has good rMies to
he waa handed over this forwis, !,
cool and reticent as a jad|aWhMi h«v
sentence. Thli anm eerUuily coassi i'
niccjaa he had littlesaore thantdl r~
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