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TO ANOTHER ONE. Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches on the Siib= ject, Duty of the One With a Single Talent. Try to Make an Accurate Estimate of Yourself ••The Value of Sympathy. [Copyright 1801.1 , Washington, I). C. —This is a discourse by Dr. Talmage for those given to de preciate themselves and who have an idea that their best attempts amount to lit tle or nothing; text, Matthew xxv, 15, To another one.” Expel first from this parable of the talents the word “usury.” It ought to have been translated “interest.” “Usury” is finding a man in a tight place and com pelling him to pay an unreasonable sum to get out. “Interest” is a righteous pay ment for the use of money. When the capitalist of this parable went off home, he gave to his stewards certain sums of money, wishing to have them profitably invested. Change also your idea as to the value of. one talent. You remember the capitalist gave to one of his men for business purposes five talents, to another two, to another one. What a small amount to last, you think, and how could he be expected to do anything with only one talent? I have to tell you that one talent was about $7200, so that when my text |ays, “To another one,” it implies that those who have the least have much. We bother ourselves a great deal about those who are highly gifted or have large financial resources or exalted official posi tion or wide reaching opportunity. We are anxious that their wealth, their elo quence,. their wit, be employed on the right side. One of them makes a mis t-Jake> and we say, “What an awful disas t®r.’ When one of them devotes all his freat ability to useful purposes, we cele rate it, we enlarge upon it, we speak of it as something for gratitude to God. Meanwhile we give no time at all to con sider what people are doing with their one talent, not realizing that ten people of one talent each are quite as important as one man with ten talents. In the one case the advantage or opportunity is con centrated in a single personality, while in another it is divided among ten in dividuals. Now, what we want to do in this sermon is to waken people of only one talent to appreciation of their duty. Only a few people, have five talents or ten talents, while millions have one. My short text is like a galvanic shock, “To another one.” The most difficult thing in the world is to make an accurate estimate of ourselves. Our friends value us too high, our ene mies too low. To find out what we are worth morally and mentally is almost impossible. We are apt to measure our selves by those around us, but this is not fair, as they may be wiry brilliant or very dull, very good or very bad. In deed there are no human scales that can tell our exact moral and mental weight, nor is there a standard by Which we can measure our exact intellectual height, so the hardest thing to do is to calculate our real stature or heft. But it will be no evidence of egotism in any of us if we say that we have at least one talent. What is it and, finding what it is, what use shall we make of it? The mpst of the people, finding that they have only < one talent, do as the man spoken of lif* the parable, they hide it. But if all of ' the people who have one talent brought it for use before this century is half past correspondents begin to write at the be one of th^otWtt rts of heaven . I ask you again, What i^£™ r °5 e Is it a cheerful look\ wherever you go. It ; \ [OKI S ;erful heart. It is Much we sometimes see flQUlnki irri-(| tetion. In other words, ltmusl be a! light withm us so brivht that, it ugm wunin us so bright that it illiAnines eye, cheek, nostril and mouth. LeT ten men who are accustomed to walking a certain street every day resolve upon a cheerful countenance as' a result of a cheerful heart, and the influence of such V. . * ? facial irradiation would be felt not only m that street, but throughout the town. Cheerfulness is catching. But a cheerful" look is exceptional. Examine the first twenty faces that you meet going through Pennsylvania avenue or Chestnut street or Broadway or State street or La Salle street or Euclid avenue, and nineteen out of the twenty faces have either an anxious i or a vacant look. Here is a missionary i work for those who have trouble. Arm ■ yourself with gospel comfort. Let the God 1 who comforted Mary and Martha at the loss of their brother, the God who soothed i Abraham at the loss of Sarah and the God c of David, who consoled his bereft spirit c at the loss of his bov by saying, ‘'l shall 1 go to him; the God who filled St. John t with doxology when an exile on barren c Patinos and the God who has given hap piness to thousands of tile bankrupted e and persecuted, filling them with heavenlv r jniiovviutcu, umug witu ueavenr riches which were more than the earthli advantages that are wiped out—et thal God help them. If He takes fill pog. session of your nature, then you will g 0 down the street a benediction tos.fl who see you, and those who are in th touo-h places of life and are run upon ambelied and had their homes destroyed, wl sa y. “If that man can be happy, I can hap py. He has been through troubled big as mine, and he goes down the stre w ith a face in every lineament of whicihere are joy and peace and heaven. Wl am I groaning about? From the sam6] ace that man got his cheerfulness I eig e f mine. 'Why are thou cast down, i m y soul, and why art thou disquieted 'C, me? Hope thou in God, for I shaigj praise Him who is the health of my ; n _ tenance and my God.’ ” Again, is your talent that of wi r humor? Use it for God. Much oi e world’s wit is damaging. Most of Sg has a sting in it. Much of earicatuF vitriolic. In order to say smart tfl how many will sacrifice the feelings others! The sword they carry is keen, it is employed to thrust and lacerate. ': few men in all the world and in all | churches realize that if wit is bestowel is given them for useful, for improving,. iO givcu nil uouiui, iui Mupunuga i healthful purposes. If we all had morej it and knew how to use it aright, h fl much it would improve our Christian versation and prayer meeting talk and s jnon! Robert South and Rowland H. and Jeremy Taylor and Dean Swift a;' Lorenzo Dow and George Whitefield us ] their wit and their humor to gather gre audiences and then lead them into t] kingdom of God. Frivolity is repulsive \ religious discussion, but I like the hum of job when hi said to his insolent cr: ies, “No doubt but ye are the people, ar wisdom shall die with you,” and I like ti humor of the prophet Elijah, who told ti Baalites to pray louder, as their god w out hunting or bn an excursion or such loud conversation that he could n hear them. I like the sarcasm of Chri when He told the self-righteous Pha sees that they were so good they needi no help. “Tne whole need not a phy: ' L,,l- -hlro-TT 4-Vir>+- OWQ ciolz- ** V eian, but they that are sick, or wnen m mirthful hyperbole He arraigns the hypo critical teachers of His day who were so particular about little things and care less about big things, saying, “Ye blind guides that strain at a gnat and swallow a camel,” and the Bible is all ablaze with epigram, words surprisingly put and phraseology that must have made the au diences of Paul and Christ nudge each other and exchange glances and smile and then appropriate the tremendous truths of the gospel. There are some evils you can laugh down easier than you can preach down. The question is always being asked, Why do not more people go to church, prayer meeting and other religious meet ings? I will tell you. We of thejJKpit m and the pew are so dull they cannot stand it. But when we ask why people do not go to church we ask a misleading ques tion. More people go now to church than ever in. the world’s history, and the rea son is in all our denominations there is a new race of ministers stepping into the pulpits which are not the apostles of hum drum. Sure enough, we want in the Lord’s army the heavy artillery, but we want also more men who, like Burns, a farmer at Gettysburg, took a musket and went out on his own account to do a little shooting different from the other sol diers. The church of God is dying of the proprieties. Is your talent that of persuasion? Make good use of it. We all have it to some extent, yet none of us think of it as a talent. But it is the mightiest of talents. Do you know that this one talent will fetch the world back to God? Do you know it is the mightiest talent of the high heavens ? . Do you know that it is the one talent chiefly employed by all the angels of God when they descend to our world — the talent of nersuasion? Do you realize that the rough lumber lifted into a cross on the hill back of Jerusalem was in persuasion as well as sacrifice? That is the only, absolutely the only, persuasion that will ever induce the human race to stop its march toward the city of destruction and wheel around and start for the city of light. Now may the Lord this moment show each one of us that to a greater or less extent we have one talent of persuasion and impel us to the right use of it. You say you cannot preach a sermon, but cannot you persuade some one to go and hear a sermon? You say you cannot sing, but cannot you persuade some one to go and hear the choir chant on Christ mas or Easter morning? Send a bunch of flowers to that invalid in the hospital, with a message about the land where the inhabitants never say. “I am sick.” There is a child of the street. Invite him into the mission school. There is a man who has lost his fortune in specula tion. Instead of jeering at his fall go and tell him of riches that never take wings and fly away. Buckle on that one talent of persuasion, O man, 0 woman, and you will do a work that heaven will cele brate 10,000 vears. Among the 114,000 words of Noah Web ster’s vocabulary and the thousands of words since then added to our English vocabulary there is one outmastering word the power of which cannot be es timated, and it reaches so far up and so far down, and that is the word “come.” It has drawn more people away from the wrong and toward the right than any word I now think of. It has at times crowded all the twelve gates of heaven with fresh arrivals. It mil yet rob the path of death of the last pedestrians. It will yet chime so loudly and gladly that all the toiling bells of sorrow will be drowned with the.music. It is piled up in the Bible’s climax and peroration, “And the spirit and the bride say come, and . let him that heareth say come, and let him that is athirst come.” Have it on the point of your nen, have it on the tip of your tongue. Monosyllables are mightier than polysyllables, and that word “come” is the mightiest of monosyllables. Shakes peare says of one of his characters, “She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.” We may say of others, they speak words which are of balm and music, are light and life. Master one of those words, harness one of those words, project one of those prove the full plentitude an"! pow- MUBkf one of those words. the dramatist, said he woRBUHre 100 guineas if he could say “oh’’lßßeouse Whitefield said it. What might give if only we could say “come” said it? Some one has said that sjWHfts govern the world, and kl think thawljJUsyllable might save the Msvorld. But particularize. What- BuA be youfVUH a!ent, cultivate it. furntmAJ"''" ou have some- RMMHMJ 1 ’" eiTfiny enhance heaven and VgwDwXcSmtflffflffflfrtflEL i enj . v:i ; 1 Wflfiam e w& llat is the -creTo swer wl, “mf^° rCe s P pw er?” the an- I? el uas, His power of sympathy ” Anri child to u lf l on cannot restore the to S dl n alvih- K i yoU have not tbe means VZ&ttl cultivate th°t y ' , cned with them. oh| Aftel tt hat ° n ® ta A ent of sympathy! * he resurrection day and all heav ® up : resurrected bodies joined to I i; °. wpf move in different divisions ? tlf ft#** ’ ‘he th &£? ~“ft ?n h Tis were o-tfeLj y Wer f ae h “mble as thev gifted or opulent. They were sTPAf en e Their a sur n ° W th6y eat in Ev ents were all Pas s m / an ,d ma gmficent tal menf A= }l USed f( F world's better- Kfnff'on A tbl hey P ass m review before the the B rea t white throne to higher the n gre '"’ ar , ds 14 makes me think of Nen” P f be °/ th f ta!ent? ' “ To another l ! * ? t v and watch the other divi- 1 sen ?° by > division after divi- t sion, until the largest of all the divisions t I fh^, e „ S JS S i? ht - n ' is a hundred to one. a a thousand to one, ten thousand to one larger than the other divisions. It is’ made up of men who never did anything I put support their families and give "what® b er their limited means they could •pare for the relief of poverty and sick ness and the salvation of the world mo t femDl , e°and 0k g °° d . Care of children by jkample a,nd precept starting them on the ilfh rs mib i° nS j 0f SabbaTh-school <gt& lor The 1 . sacn . ficed , an afternoon’s rl< nrtaV W e hstenmg class of young im •nt homes LP 6 , 1 } who declined the making care ofthemselves that they might the, a hnesses or’ her and mother in the I vas-nel who on Rage, ministers of the mi the backwoodstipend preached not o for long v ea V?, 'gg houses, souls risCvet suffered Witoß\_ hin<! but gu{ _ W-fnce that ltbe t pa- . led! who heard ot UveJesson to mmm git white throne I al ? h e talents and ] woderful test, ‘'To aPo * er mo. especially ot my one’ MARYLAND STATE NEWS. Cream of the Latest Happenings Gath ered From All Sources. WILEY KIRK EXPIATES HIS CRIME. The Pleasant Walk Assault-Died in Convul sions-New Bank In Cmnbridge-Fire al Taneytown-Death of Miss Margaret L. Taylor-L'nited Daughters of Confederacy" Appointments by the Governor. The search for the assailant of Miss Smith at her home in tile Middletown Valley is being kept up, without obtain ing the least clew to the guilty' party. It is the general opinion in the sur rounding county that her assailant lives in the mountain somewhere in the vi cinity of Pleasant Walk and that he was fully aware of the absence of the mem bers of the family from the house at that early hour every day. Many think the man disguised himself and that the sud denness with which he sprang upon his victim and her consequent fright pre vented her from even forming a suspi cion as to his identity. Miss Smith is still in an extremely nervous condition. She is 18 years oid, of medium build and pretty. Sheriff Troxell and State’s Attorney Worthington visited the house but were unable to obtain any informa tion that would lead to an arrest. The sheriff, however, believes the perpetra tor of the crime lives in the neighbor hood. Wiley Kirk (colored), who was found guilty of criminally assaulting Mrs. Barbara Green, wife of Charles Green, keeper of the lighthouse near Spar row’s Point, paid the penalty ■ of his crime Friday on the scaffold at the Towson jail. The. drop fell at 10.20 o’clock. Twenty minutes later, after life had been pronounced extinct by Dr. Massenberg, the body was lowered to the ground. Kirk died from strang ulation. All the morning Father O’- Keefe of St. Francis’ Church. Towson, Father Karap of St. Francis Xavier Church, Baltimore, and Father Vandei Burg, of Delaware were in the cell ol the condemned man. At 10 o’clock the throng of 150 or 200 persons who had gathered to witness the hanging were admitted to an enclosure in the rear of the jail where the scaffold had been erected. Sheriff Schwatka and Deputy Sheriff Heine of Baltimore adjusted the rope to give the condemned man a drop of 4P2 feet. - Governor Smith has appointed Dr. Edward IT. Bartlett judge of the Or phans’ Court for Garrett County in place of Thomas A. Mcßabie, deceased. Dr. Bartlett is appointed for the re mainder of the four years commencing at the November election of 1890. The Governor also appointed the following justices of the peace: Jacob H. Kraft, for Baltimore county, in place of Harry A. Davis, resigned; James R. Weer, for Carroll county, in place of R. S. Barnes, resigned. The Governor has appoint ed as honorary members of the board of women managers to the Pan-Ameri can Exposition Mrs. Elliott, president of the Arundell Club, Baltimore, and Mrs. Albert Sioussat, its secretary, and Mrs. Emma Abbott Gage, of Annapo lis. These ladies were last winter ap pointed members of the board of Mary land Commissioners to the Exposition. nty for the id | J , ackl ng so The^^^nHi * cfer SK ’'■’"”"“•1™ m a™ S died ?Tddcn} CyCle , Works ' Hagersto.wn d Hnll H u m hls a P ar t™ents in the 8 seized Jnh ' ‘“i 3 f d 43 years ' He seized with volent convulsions while e sfoM S fol lffh b brea j f i St - Other convul l 2~° ! owd and he died within an 3 13 r a V c h °A l t t regainin S consciousness, i Ti A ' b ' , J ' lason stated that there was r er e trntat'on of the brain, which ac telnd 6 CO T vulsionS ’ superinduced bv i acute indigestion. : XT Jh ingOl ?T orator . s of ’ the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Cambridge rectors • P e M 1IOW1 c”l andT pWn4h PreS £nt Se J " ator William Ap plegarth, vice-president, Thomas W Bimmons; counsel, P. L. Goldsbor-’ OtlG-h: direrf-orc Til A nr„. w . 1 1 R s directors, Tlios. A. Willis, John R- Tubman, James C. Leonard, E C LakT R gt h' n ' Ed \ vard G - Hopkins, W." roll R° b Tm n V J , ames W ' Waddell, Ze- SamimPr e T d ’ Thomas J- Seward and ertTnT u, Lcc°mpte. Janies M. Rob ertson will be cashier, W. B. Johnson bookkeeper and Brent Waddell runne” About 2 the other morning fire was discovered in the store of S R Narn w.tz, in the Echenrode Building! Taney.' town, Carroll county. The fire was dis by, Dr ' C ' W ' Weaver, who gave the alarm. Mr. ChaHes FlliAn hastened to the scene and with the aid fl m f .s henU f l br£ extin guisher held the names in checic until the arrival of the f re m depar u ment The damage done to building by fire was slight, but the stock was much damaged by water thf gra e dua h te- apeake Cit ,s Hih School tne graduates were: Harold Steele Roger Williams Leroy H rw„ ’ and Mary C. 11. Walters. Dr. Willhm P. Eveland, of Chambe-sburg P a f,, r mer d.rector of the Jacob Tome huh' u e, dehyered the address to the graduT ares. P,!n IS re P° r^ d in Hagerstown that the Pull marl syndicate, which has purchased Mount Fairview, has awarded the con tract for the erection of a four-sto-v hT tel, to cost $70,000, and the erection 30 cottages-for $40,000. The hotel will have a capacity of 400 guests. “ the Harford County Commilnn„ have advertised for bids for improving the public road between Behir m f Churchville. This work will be fo? d sections and when completed will be one °f the finest roads in the State “ ! K,T b V° PeratlOnS 0f tlle United States Fish Commission at Batte-w g-- ] near Havre de Grace, very J united ' this reason because shad were excen I tionally scarce on the flats at spawning * [Tip 1 iti7Pnc AT 1 7-1 , I- he Citizens National Bank of Havre Grace is arranging for the remodel of their recently purchased proper the improvements to include a vault i safe deposit boxes. lc f % Grove , s - a carpenter of Ellicott I h®; Paralyzed while at work at the C ° fe? ut y Court Clerk Wb' a P reca rious condh the Caroline 1 Sarah WrighCWt Denton was 1 fiS.^-8 0 - fet. Frank W ’ the f or / COMMERCIAL REVIEW. General Trade Conditions. New York (Special).—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says;— “While the weather in the East has Tampered distributive trade to a con siderable extent this week, rendering die season in some lines rather unsatis factory, the West and South report unchanged conditions, with operations well up to the recent average. The labor situation is a little brighter. Many strikes have been settled and others are expected to terminate short ly. “Railways are unable to secure suffi cient frieght cars and other supplies, while structural work proceeds briskly with little interruption' from labor con troversies. “Extended holidays abroad and a short one in this country have tended to make the grain markets unusually quiet, while corn has had the added drawback of hesitation among traders who have not yet recovered from the effects of manipulation in the May op tion. Foreign purchasers were driven out of this market by inflated quota tions, as shown by Atlantic exports in five weeks of only 0,436,285 bushels, against 17,341,065 busheis last year. “Misfortune has also overwhelmed cotton plantations, according to the pessimistic views circulated by traders and factors who are endeavoring to sustain prices in the face of heavy re ceipts and unsatisfactory conditions at New England mills, where print cloths have been sjiarply reduced to 2)4 cents in order to dispose of the accumulation, 1 which is said to reach 2,000,000 pieces. “Failures for the week numbered 148 in the United States, against 160 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 20 last year.” LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour.—Best Patent, $4.5034.75; High Grade Extra, $4.0034.25; Minnesota bakers. $2.9033.25. Wheat. —New York, No. 2, red, 83a ] 83)4c; Philadelphia, No. 2, red, 78a 78J4c; Baltimore, 78379J4c. Corn.—New York, No. 2,50 c; Phil adelphia, No. 2, 48a48’<jc; Baltimore, 1 No. 2,47348 c. Oats.—New York, No. 2,33 c; Phila delphia No. 2 white, 34)23350; Balti more, No. 2 white, 33)4a34c. Rye.—New York, No. 2,61 c; Phila delphia, No. 2,60 c; Baltimore, No. 2, ' 5&159C. ; Hay.—The market is easy. We quote: No. 1 timothy, $16.00316.50; No. 2 timothy, $15.50; No. 3 timothy, . $i4.50ai5.00. Green Fruits and Vegetables.—On ions, spring, per 100 bunches, 50a60c; , do, new, Bermuda, per crate, $14031.50; Asparagus, Eastern Shore, per dozen, prime, si.soa2.oo. Cabbage, Charles town and Noijth Carolina, per crate, 60a75c; do, Norfolk, per bbl., 6oa&sC. ; Celery, Florida, per crate, $i.50a2.00. Apples, Green peas, per bushel, Scßp:. Lettuce, native, per , bushel 20a25.c. String beans, Florida,basket, green, $1.0031.25; doldo.jKorida, per basket, wax, si.ooa 1.25. jßawberries, per quart, 3a7c. Powoes.—White, Maryland and Vir ginia* prime, per bushel, 70a75c; do, ; flej#York, prime, per bushel, Boaf3Bk ] Lor/h Carolina, per bbl nrime TTT-T i'?75},3 00 fa v Cy bright . Jerseys, per bbl ar^a,"p e ]Tbi; ,fe.^ ght ’ N ° rth ' -■Jans and Peas .—New York imr Rhl Ch ° ICe hand P icked - $2 3032 $i 74 ey ßo Pea ß", P< i r bUShd ’ Choice Black peas, per bushel ■ choidf-new, $1.70. Green peas per ' bushel, $i.2 S . Nearby white beam L Sut?er ked C PCr bushd ’ ?t.50a e 2 .0o eanS ’ I2an Tmt mety ’ 17al8c l fac tory, c a , 3c ! . citation creamery 143170 ' State dairy, 15318 c. y ’ 14a1 7 c , s Cheese. Fancy, large, colored ioHc E ancy, j , w hite> loHslo £ 1 small, colored, u’Wc 4 "TT ‘ white, iiJic. ■ ’ lancy ’ smad . uf g Wh tate and Penn sylvania, 12a age,’ 1% ’ II3I2C; Western stor- Provisions.—Bulk slioulders 8a c d 0 clear^ides ß^’ 1 b g C ° n shoulders’ gc. faYbacks’ $16.00 MeSS pork - Per bbl, Hides.—Quote: Green, salted 6:Ac d° do, damaged, 6c: green 6c- 1’ damaged, Bull hides’ per 1b green, sJ^a6c: do do, per Ih o- rA .,: salted, 6c. Goatskins. 15325c’ & Calf skins, green salted, 6oaßocT " Sheen skins, 60a75c. emcep- L E f ve oukry - Hens, 10c: old roos 1 If??’ 2 5yoc; spring chickens, 20a Dncks Tor d % 2 - t 02 $ Ibs ’ Ida tßc p 4 ks ’ ° a9c - Spring ducks, 153160. * Geese, apiece, 30345 c. a Live Stock. prime! f^ 90 ’’ Hogs active; prime "heavy, s6os^6'io mediums, Workers, $5.9536.00. Sheep steady W* wethers, $4.3034.35; choice lambs $52! aa.4o, common to good Sa - veal calves, s S . S oa6.oo. g ’ - s ° a s-°S; a6os- Ca n°"~ G P ° d t 0 prime $5 45 aO -°5, poor to medium cows, $2.8534.80; heifers’ tT^T 4 ' 40 ’ bulls, $3.0034.40; tealyes,’ fZX°- ; 1 Hogs.—mixed and butchers’ 8- -nT 1 5.92P2; good to choice heavy, I |?■ Sheep-Good to choice $-..3524.60. Western sheep, $4403360-’ t & J amb V ?4-00a 5 .65; . lambs, $5.0035.65. ” westcrn ARMY A.ND iN’AVY IVOTt'S. cablegram received at the Nav\ epartment from Rear Admiral Kenipi? announced his arrival at Amov PhlT aboard his flagship, the Ihe Navy Department received a cablegram from Admiral an ! nouncmg his departure from Auckland hZ 'ifPSton, New Zealand, aboard l*iST^flag s h i p, tne Brooklyn -bel Th,v?r ry , Jackson ' commanding ' ‘ T d , Cavalry, was placed on the retired list on account of age He is a native of England, and was appointed ' to the army from Illinois. P d < i |P ARRIGULTIIKAL **| A Home-Made Self-Feeder. The self-feeder is simple in construc tion, and may be of any size desired, but for, thirty or forty hens it should be about one foot wide, three feet long and one and a half feet high. The ends, a a, should be cut as shown, then a board as wide as-the ends and as long as the feeder should be nailed hor- SELF-FEEDER FOR POULTRY. izontally between the ends as they stand upright and four inches below the shoulders. Cut the sides, b b, and nail in position, next make a V-shaped trough as long as the feeder and invert between the lower edges of b b to keep the food from running out too much at once. Nail on strips c c, which should be four inches wide, and put on a cover with hinges—P. L. McVey, in New England Homestead. . ' ''if. Paint For Poultry-Houses. ! Nothing will add more beauty to poultry-houses than to have them neatly painted. A great many of them lire not built in the first place with a view of painting them. They are made from any sort of rough lumber that may be at hand, and for that rea son they are not so easily painted. Now Tough buildings could be made to look so much better if they are painted, and the paint need not be very expen sive, either. A very good paint may be made for both outside and inside that will an swer every purpose and at the same time be cheap. It is made by making a thick paste of boiled rice. To this may be added some good fresh white wash, some Spanish whiting and sweet milk. It should be made of a consist ency to spread well with a bfhsh. The whiting gives the paint a metallic gloss. The rice paste gives some body and the milk lends volume and pene trating powers as well as some fatty substance. A very good paint made in this manner will answer very well for both outside and inside purposes, and it is within the reach of all. If it is de sirable to have the color some other than white coloring matter can be added to it so as to make it any shade. Yellow ochre or Venetian red can he used to make the paint a canary or a red color. It may be applied with a whitewash brush or a narrow paint brush.—Poultry Farmer. piH he ™ ain tilin^’^bniidin^n3^^ chestnut wWchwlnTutlastmostfum 1 ly er oi a d Dd wtn e \ CUt fTOm 5325: iy old, well-matured trees. If well seasoned timber there will be 5 ahd at least two feet wider tli-n the sfio walls. Fil, this small stones, and mix enough good ep ( 22 STn t 0 make U and : iiim. lUen ton ovpt* -rrri+n • , f. in en to P over with a mixture of 1, one part cement to two “ "“ f coarse sand. On this foundation the a frame of the silo can be built Such a - flooring will be permanent and not SVe . way until several structures have i ed and Ambled down. With ov>od chestnut staves or lumber fitful* 3 matched snugly togetlmr The Slo Zl be well built and air-tight Th& ? ' tt. ~1„ amu teSntJimZ tight as needed. Tarring the inside of ■ i Of the wood and destroys insects that V live in many woods that C cutTf tt^V 110 the Com s bouM s cut at the glazing period. The ciitfino- h and filling should tbn putting h tnen be carried on as P dly as. possible,' so that the last of the crop will not get too old before it can be harvested. The com fn>. t> silo Should be planted in aboit three feet apart, and one foot apart™ low. If properly planted and replant ed early enough every stalk shoidd ThTTr g °° d size and Produce an ear Sble a?ter°th ** flHed 88 soon as P®* ible after the corn lias reached the Proper stage, and then if rightly bin died not a pound of it should be wast- ■ A good deal of the waste in the silo comes from carelessness. The • ' “ure and air must be ex I i eluded from the silo, but freezing and 1 ' ILZZ ° V Good ensilage Cu”tiva t o J T meS S ' Wi,S ° n ' lD Ame, ' ican Renovate the Old Orchard. diTa 61 ’®, ai ' e many old and some mid dlejiged orchards, once profitable but now sources of loss. At the same time ere are men in New York State who are investing labor and capital in reno i a ting such orchards, and find it a pav ng business. Will it not pay someTf s who have land occupied by neglect ed and unproductive apple trees to give them another and a fair chance? j , Let me outline a course of treatment for such trees for this season. 1. The trees need pruning. Thil should be done at once. First take ou( all the dead, diseased and interfering branches; remove all suckers and sprouts from the bases and trunks oi the trees. Second, scrape off the rough< est of the old hark with an o'u hoe or other suitable tool, being careful not to injure or expose the live parts beneath, 2. The trees need spraying. The first spray should be given before the buds burst. Use Bordeaux mixture, Consult spray calendar. Continue the spraying as directed. 3. The trees need tillage. The sod should be thoroughly pulverized. This m‘ay he accomplished, if the sod is not tough, by using a spring-tooth harrow or disc harrow. If sod is tough and dense, turn it over with a plow and work down fine with a harrow. Plow away from trees and as shallow as pos sible near them. Till at least once in ten days up to the middle of July. 4. The trees need fertilizing. Fertil izers may be furnished through green manures. During the last half of July harrow and drill cow peas at the rate of one and a half bushels per acre. If drilling .is impracticable, broadcast, rolling the ground afterward. The in terest in the experiment may be in creased by using different cover-crops; for instance, cow peas on one part, Canada peas on another and crimson clover on a third. 5. Record your observations. In or der to obtain an accurate idea of the value of the experiment a x>rofit-and loss account should be kept. Charge the field with cost of labor and mate rials used, and credit it with the re turns. An immediate response in the way of a crop of fruit should not ha expected—this should cqme the second year—but the trees will, in the mean time, take on renewed vigor and ap pearance of health.—John Oraig, in the Country Gentleman. . Some Handy Bee Appliances. ' Hei-e are some appliances that I use in my apiary. There may be some bet ter, but I have not seen them. Fig. 1 is the sun strainer for melting down the cappings or broken or old combs. I use five panes of glass twelve by twenty-four, but two small window sash would do perhaps as well. Be neath the glass is a wire screen five inches below, and set at the same an gle, three inches to one foot. The TABLE FOR MELTING BEESWAX. V' sereen is on a movable frame, which I take out and clean once a week by boiling. The boiler is a; wooden box Txrir'h clicof ivnn frvvn -fl-irv cnv> with sheet iron bottom. In the sun strainer I can melt three charges in a Beneath the screen is a tin bo^P^^jgfflillf wim a short taper tube,' MoWSm can, e. four ineiies long to draw off the honey' I JfjHfjjffiMfl* co tight and it is easy aud on. 1 have had this tMUfcZ,.,, had no leak. 4|||s'^' us anCi o My uncapping table is M'n at Fig.' -• Xbe loose top, which pulls apart / a £ ~ ° I Ml $ yj \ AX UXCAPPIXG TABLE. '* - three inches with cleats on under side whth'r t and Set 011 tho ta ble on which I bang the frames to be un capped is Fig 3. The cappings I diop S? iD “ i^ S onto £ y (window screen wire) below b, which is five or six inches deep Be low is a frame three inches'deep with.gutter-shaped tin bottom and tube trainer“T’ T Bame as ‘be nn tiainer. ihe honey from the can. Pings drains down during the night and m the morning I take ,t ouTand Put it in a can with water, and make ether metlieglin or vinegar, the caps or comb going to the sun strainer half inch tube running r" ltb ° de ; corner to { bottom, with a funnel, c, on top-i put TINOAPPIsa THAME AND WAX CANS. In about an inch of water set r. n stove, put in the beeswax fi-om the sun tramer, melt it and skim off anythin-- that rises to the top. When tte waf looks clear and nil iv,^ ax tooks Clear and all melted, or the can is : funnel anTmT Sl ° Wly into the runnel and the wax will rise and at ‘be small spout, d, into the other ' hlch bas been nibbed or smeared with honey as a woman would”™ a bread pan. If the cm arv , * le se I j a*iif cau ls &m ootb and straight the wax will shrink enou-h tn bottom, which must be cut or scraped to tiiitrTr ga,lon Can Wi)l bold thiriy to thn ly-five pounds wax.--E \y dair, in American Agriculturist.