YI FARM AND GARDEN.

JANxING UP TREES.

le r aising the level of ground by filling,'qi•: uestion often arises whether trees

are thus covered to a considerablet around the trunk will be killed'

The Country Gentleman says!a trees which have green and tender

may be killed by banking up thearound them, if the soil is of

a character as to hold water for•S time wherever it is drenched by

Zemus; but older trees, with stiff and dryflthick bark, and with the soil about

tr sufficiently dry and porous to.'. o the water to drain away soon, will

jt be injured. Trees which have a;•.rse-furrowed bark will favor this

~ ae better than those with smooth

y k OI EDGE BUTTER.

'The farmer who has good dairy cows.d lo the modern improved dairy ap-

iu s makes the gilt edge butter thatF, gyate customers like to pay fancy prices

74 The factory takes milk or creami neo large herds of cows milked in:iSy stables, and it is impossible tolsake gilt edge butter from such cream.

improved appliances make homedirying pleasant and profitbole. Thepower for churning is furnished by a*r good big calf or steam. The milk is

oled and the cream may be separated-ii fast as milked and the sweet milktetter utilized. With all these ad-

Svantages where the cleanliness is knownto be satisfactory with ice or running•ater in the dairy, the farm dairy withrlew methods can make better butter of

tSer flavor than the creamery. Thebutter is put in neat, attractive packages,wrapped in specially prepares paper, in-stead of white rags that may have served-for other purposes, like the famous littleEnglish cheese that was discovered to beripened in the warm feather bed, the de-

aend soon ceased.-Western Live StockJournal.

VALUE OF APPLE POMACE.

The value of apple pomace for feedingcattle is such that it should not be wastedas it has been. It is easily kept sweetby packing it dow,? solidly in barrels orboxes, and it is eaten with avidity byall the animals of the farm. Cows es-peially desire it and it is good for them.gate horses like it, and sheep, pigs, andpoultry are glad to get it. It is an aidto digestion, and, while it may notc:ontain any great amount of nutriment,it is as agreeable to the live stock, al-'though "fattening food."

We do not eat apples for the nutri-ment they contain, and we riiy notjustly object to the pomace that it is not

Sfattening to the animals. They like it,and if it does no special goozd it does noharm. But it does some good, if onlyindireetly, for when cows are fed apeak of it, with meal sprinkled on it,they will give more milk than if the

eal is given without it. If there areapples to spare, they may be saved forthe cows with advantage, and a peck

,given daily, sliced and with a little-eal added, or alone, will return aprofit in the milk ani butter.--NvYork Times.

CEL RACTERIST1CS OF SHEEP.Individuality in sheep is very distinctly

marked. There are goon oaoe and badones, quiet ones, and nervou3, fidgetyones, some that are always at the front,and others that are.ulways at the hinl1and of the flock tagging along. Thereare family traits of individual merit and

lemerit. By keeping a flock resister itws found there were ewes that neverraised their lambs with any uniformity,if not from one cause, then another wasmare to take them off. Another familywere apt to bring thin, weak lambs, buthey werealways willing to live, and

some attention would bring to healthy,vlgorous sheephood. Still another fam.

1y would bring great big, lusty-lookinglambs that seemed born to die, and dis-appount all reasonable expectations.

are characteristic of some famn-. There is also family resemblances

by which an expert shepbard may readilyM. entify families and members of fam-lr ies. Colonel Mark Cockrell, of Ten-nessee, one of the mostcareful shephards,could pick up an abandoned lamb andidentify its mother by the la:. -

Some sheep ae strong in their likesand dislikes, and will often, display aOad deal of cunning to carry a point.• a• atoraious eaters, ant others

just the oppoiste. The -individual char-Sateristla•o nldental with breeds and va-

ste is often very distinctly marked.,These oharacteristics are very interestingto the studet, and highly important toe'ltivator of sheep.-American Farmer.

S.A mset important man it a cream-reamery as the driver, aysr

mercan reamery. He must be aMf tee Intelligence ad .Adelity;his-judntp 1ss often depends the'

.es te S buiaes. He must be:is~ not cone of those'animated~ikse aand filth, but a mea•

pgsepie in keeping his tansNan i wago. elean. He meus

0o oream, beabl totaI jeeaSoe of- ttainta n

a bo t loth It

we w l e~aatoeak for1cbead plodt oa:c

.*ot in t

lay. If, hoover, one has a choice lotof well developed pallets and m ttad witha vigorous two.year-old cook, do not fearto set the eggs from the:, but do notuse the earliest litters, as they are notlikely to give yo, -a strong chicks at thelater ones.

The best laying hens, all things con,sidered, are those one year old-fowisthat were hatched the previous season inMarch or April-consequently the bestplan for all fowl breeders as to raisechickens every season to be the layers ofthe next year, and to kill the olt stockregularly every fall before moulting oras soon as they cease to lay.

Among our foremost breeders the mat-ing of vigorous twelve months' old pul-lets to a good cock in his - full secondyear has given as good chicks on theaverage as the mating of two-year-oldhens to a young cock. One thing thatmay be depended on as a rule, the mos'reliable breeding birds that can be matedtogether as to age are those of one sexor the other that are a year the oldest.It is only through repeated experimentsthat the breeder can be able to select thebest pointed and finest specimens formating, and when this is accomplishedthe mrst satisfactory results will gen-erally follow.-Connecticut Farmer.

coRN AND MILLET COMSPARED.Experiments have been made at the

Massachusetts Hatch Station for the pur-pose of comparing corn and millet asgrain crops on the basis of the yield.Further experiments are in progress -tocompare meal from millet seed and fromcorn as food for milch cows.

For the present it is simply desired tocall attention to the fact that the millethas enormous cropping capacity. Itgave to the half acre 37.2 bushels of seedweighing 47 pounds to the bushel, whilethe corn gave 30.8 bushels of shell grain.The millet straw weighed 2.191 pounds;the corn stover (by no means as dry),2.100 hounds. The millet straw,chopped,crushed, moistened and sprinkled withmeal is readily eaten by both herses andcattle, but it does not appear to be equalto the corn stover m feeding value.

The millet seed, as shown by the re-suits of foreign analysis, appears to re-semble oats very closely in composition.So far as they have had experiAce infeeding it at the station, the meal fromit appears to equal corn meal in feedingvalue for milk production. The fertil-izers were the same for the two crops,but the labor cost considerably more forthe millet than for the corn. The crop,however, was cultivated in drifts andhand hoed and weeded, while in ordin-ary farm practice it would be possible tosecute good crops by sowing broadcastwithout cultivation and thus bring thelabor cost per acre as low as for corn.It does not thresh easily by hand, but ona large scale the work could doubtless hedone by machine at a much lower cost,

The seed was sown in drills fourteeninches apart, at the rate of about twoquarts per arge. It was planted May 14,cut and stacked September 18, andthreshed October 5 and 7.-New YorkWorld.

FAREI AND GARDEN NOTES.

Clean up for winter.

A squealing pig gives no profit to itsowner.

Start the hog on milk, grow it ongross pd finish it on grain.

Get a supply of sand and small gravelbefore the pit freezes up--better get itto-day.

Road dust makes a better dust baththan ashes. Have you a supply housedfor winter?

Do not crowd the pigs so that whenthey are fed the weak will be troddenupon by the strong.

If you want plenty of lard feel yourpigs on corn; if you desire meat andgrowth feed other food.

Itis stated that in a well-bred hog again of from ten to eleven pounds can bemade from a bushel of corn.

Fowls roosting in trees had better b1bro uut down from their high positionand onen a place with those that roostunder cover.

If eggs are your principal object, useLeghorns to improve your stock. Butfor both eggs and for market fowls, wethink nothing can excel PlymouthBook.

Basswood honey is very desirable.The trees, five or six feet high, may beobtained reasonably from the nursery.-men, and will begin to bloom in aboutfour years.Oqe of the first inducements for keep-

lng bees is that honey is the most health-ful sweet which can be produ3cd. The

farmer who does not keep bees losesmore than he thinks.

Bees are often charged with injuring

grapes by cuattig the skins and suckingout the juice. It is not probable that

this is done, but we are quite sure that

they are able to do it.There-may be no warmth in a coat of

whitewash, but a hen house with a southwindow and well whitened walls will be

more cheerfulnd seem warmer than a

dark and digy one. Lighttis warmth.

Competition in the bee buasiness need

not be feared as pure honey is alwayssalable at a runerative price, and even

the pnsure of having it for the tablewill pay for the trouble and time needed.

Do not forgt the hens when you arearvestig the cabbage crop. Bury some

of the lose headed ones, that you areSthrowlgone side, for thelirspecial ben~mit. , .will take care of them, stumpaa all, Oet winter.

If y•OsUse a godly stock of fowls dosoetaks a ew effort to feed all theal potat-es to the hogs. Boiled,maslhed and mixed with shorts or oat.me l, t? i make a, most excellent break.ft fi' fowls in winter if fed warm.

Wh gtemanats Swaleow One.ran person sinks in quick

swi La Lbeales the latter is composediricaP ag particles of micE mixes

t water. The mica is a`se^tat t.rgme ts pon eaal

ot writhhe greatotis ta ty, so thus

h les1bo4y which displaces thenouw a sd ,ottinue tosink Mtil-s Wseas.5 reaehed1 When particle

S~are .mpacted rint-ans Asad composed of wt ic

of oko

REV. I)R. TALMAGE

IilE IEC('It LUT DIVINE'S SUN

DAY SEIRM)N,

TEXT: "The finger of God."--Exodusviii., 9.

Pharoah was sulking in his marble throne-room at Memphis. Pag;e after plague hadcome, and sometimes the Egyptian monarchwas disposed to do better, but at the liftingof each plague he was as bad as before. Thenecromancers of the palace,. however, werecompelled to recognize the divine movement,and after one of the mcst exasperatingPlagues of all the series they cried out in thewords of my text, "This is the finger ofGo:,"-not the first nor the last time whenbad people said a good thing. An old Phil.adelphia friend visiting me the other dayasked me if I had ever noticed this passageof Scripture from which I to-day speak. Itold him no, and I said right away, "Teatis a rood text for a sermon."

We all recognize the hand of God andknow it isa mighty hand. You have seena man keep two or three rtbber balls flyingin the air, catching anl pitching them sothat none of them fell to the floor, and sothis for several minutes, and you have ad.mired his dexterity. But have you thoughthow the hand of God keeps millions andmillions of round worlds vastly larger thanour world flying for centuries without let.ting one fall? Wondrous power and skillof God's hanuli But about that I am not todiscourse, My text lea Is me to speak ofless than a filth of the divine hand. "Thisis the finger of Gid." O(ly in two otherplaces does the Bible refer ti this divisionof the omnipotent Ian 1. The rocks onMount Sinai are basalt and very bard stone.Do you imagine it was a chisel that cut theten commandments in that basalt? No; inExodus we read that the tables of stonewere "written with the finger of God."Christ says that He cast out devils with "thefinger of Goi."

The only instance that Christ wrote aword He wrote not with pen on parchment,but with HWs finger on the ground. Yetthough si•do:n reference is maie in theBible to a part of God's han], if you and Ikeep our eyes open and our hearts right wewill be compelled often to cry out, "This isthe finger of God l' It is my intention be-fore long to begin a series of sermons on"ihe Astronomy of the Bible, or GodAmong the S:ars;" -Toe Ornithology ofthdeible, or God Among the Birds;" "ThePomology of the Bible, or God Among theOrchards;" "The Ichthyology of theBible, or God Among the Fishes;" "TheGeology of the Bible, or God Among theRocks;" "The Waters of the Bible, orGo i Among the Seas;" "Tee Zoology of theBible, or God Among the Beasts;" "T'hePrc`eous Stones of the Bible, or God Amongthe Amethysts;" "Thl'e Conchology of theBible, or God Among the Shells;" "TheBotany of the Bible, or God Among theFlowers;" "The Chron)logy of the Bible, orGod Among the Centuries," and I want thitcoming winter to get you and get myselfinto the habit of seeing the finger of Goleverywhere an.l in everything; but thismorning I want to induce you to look forthe finger of God in your personal affairs.

The mostof the gesticu'ation is natural.I'a stranuer accost you on the street andask you tThe wt- to some place, it is, asnatural as to breathe tor you to level yourforefinger this way or that. Not one outof a thousand of you would stand with yourhands by your side and make no motion withyour finger. Whatever you may say withyour lips is emplhsized and re-enforced andtranslated by your finger. Now God in thedear old Book says to us innumerable thingsby the way of direction. He plainly tells usthe way. to go. But in every exigencyof our lif}, if we will only look,we will find a providential gestureand a providential pointing, so that we mayconfidently say, ":his is the finger of God."Two or three tihes in my life, when per.p!exed on questions of duty dfter earnestprayer, I have cast lots as to what I shoulddo. In olden times the Lord's people castlots. The land of Canaan was divided bylot. The cities were divided among thepriests and Levites by lot. Matthias waschosen to the apostleship by lot.

Now casting lots is about the most solemnthing you can do. It should never be doneexcept with a solemnity like that of the lastjudgment. It is a direct appeal to the Al-mighty. If after earnest prayer you donot seem to get the divine direction, I thinkyou might without sin writs upon one slipof paper "Yes' and upon another 'No," orsome other decisive words appropriate tothe case, and then obliterating from yourmind the identity of the slips of naper drawthe decision and act upon it. Inthat case Ithink you have a right to take that indico-tion as the finger of God. But do not dothatexcept as the last resort and with a de-voutness that leaves absolutely all withGod.

For much that concerns us we haveno re-sponsibility, and we neel not make appealto the Lord for direction. We are not re-

sponsible for most of our surroundings. Weare not responsible for the country of ourbirth, nor for whether we are Americans orNorwegians or Scotchmen or Irishmen or

Eng;ishmen. We are not responsible forthe age in which we live. We are not re-

sponsible for our temperament, be it ner-vous or palegmatic, bilious or sanguine.We are not responsible for our features, be

they homely or beautiful. We are not re-

sponsible for the height or smallness of ourstature. We are not responsibl6 for thefact that we are mentally dull of brilliant.For the most of our environments we have

no more responsibility than we have for the

moltnus s at the bItto n of the Atlanticocean.

Oh, I am so glad that there are about fvehundred thousand things that we are not re-

sponsible for! D)o not leame us for being in

our manner cold as an iceberg, or nervousas a cat amid a pack of Four t: o' July fire.

crackers. If you are determine I to blame

somebody, blame our great-grandfathers, or

great-granimothers, who died before the

Revolutionary war, and who may have had

habits depressing and ruinous. There are

wrong things about us all, which make me

think that one hundred anl fifty years agothere was some terrible crank in our ances-

tral line. Realize that. and it will be a re-

lief semi-infinite. Let us take ourselves as

we are this moment, and then ask ."Which

way'? Get all the direction you can from

careful and constant study of the Bible, and

then look up and look out and look around,and see if you can find the finger of God.

It is a remarkable thing that sometimesno one can se that finger but yourself. Ayear before Abraham Lincoln signed the

poclamation of emancipation the WhiteHouse was thronged with committees and

associations, ministers and laymen, advising

the president to make that proclamation.

But he waited and waited, amid scoff and

anathema, because he did not himself see

th. finger of Geo.. After awhile and at just

the right time he saw the divine pointing

and signed the proclamation. The distin-

guishd Confederateo, Mason an,Bidel. were taken off an Engis.

vessel by the United State Govern.

ment. "Don't give themse up," shoute:

with England rather than surrender them,"was the almost unanimous cry of the north.

But William I. Seward saw the finger ofGod leading in just the opposite directionand the Confederates were given up, and-weavoided a war with England which at thattime would have been the demolition of theUnited States Government.

In other words, the finger of God as it di-rects you, may be invisible to everybodyelse. Follow the divine pointing, as yousee it, although the world m-y call you afool. hers has never been a mn or awnma4 who amounts-t to anything that

has no sometimes been called a fool.Nearly all the mistakes that you an IIhave made have come from our following

the pointing of sone other finger, instea lI of the finger of God. But, new. supooe3

all forms of disaster close in upon a man.upposoe his business collapses. Suppose

he'-bys goods and cannot sell them. Sup -pose br a new invention others can furnishthe same goods at less price. Suppose a cold

I spring or a late autumn or the coming of an

epidemie corners a man, and his notes come'due and he cannot meet them, and his rentmust be paid and there is nothing with

t pay it, and the wages of theemployes aredue and there is nothing with which to meetthat oblifation, and the bank "ill not dis-

osast. and the business friends to whom he

g tow r or scomzmoiation are in the same

Ipr ekm 1 and he beers up and struggles.. attit awhi crash goes thehoe

n . ;, eejiabH 'I do

and stopped."'

What shoudl that man do nthat case-go to the Scripture; and read thepromise about all things workins togetherfor gool and kindre I passsee? That iswell. But he needs to do somethingbeside reading the Scriptures. He needsto look for the finger of God that ispointing toward better treasures; that ispointing toward eternal release; that isurging him to higher realms. No humanfinger ever pointed to the east or west or

north or south so certainly as the fager ofGod is pointing that troubled man to higherand better spiritual resources than he hasever enjoyed. There are men of vast wealthwho ,r, as ric'h for have.s as they are forthis world, but they are esceptions.

If a man grows in grace it is generallybefore he gets $10.)00) o. after he loses it.If a man bas plenty of railroad securitiesanl has apolied to his banker for more: if

the lots he boueht have gmn) u? fifty percent. in value; if he had hard Work t) getthe door of his fireproof safe shut bwcluseof a new roll of securities he put in therejust before locking uu at night; it he bespeculating into falling market or a risingmarket and things take for him a rightturn, he does not grow in grace very muchthat week. Do you know what made thegreat revival of 1857, when more peoplewere converted to God probably than inany year since Christ was born? It was thedefalcstions and bankruptcy that sweptAmerican prosperity so flat that it could fallno flatter.

1 am speaking of whole souled men. Suchmen as are so broken by calamity that theyare humbled and fly to God for relief. Menwho have no spirit and never expect any-thin - are not much aft coed by financialchanges. They are as apt to go into thekingdom under one set of circumstances asanother. They are deadbeats wherever theyare. The only way to get rid of them is tolend them a dollar and you will never seethem again. I have tried that plan and itworks well. But I am speakingof theeffectof misfortune on high spirited men. Noth-ing but trial will turn such men from earthto heaven. It is only through clouds anddarkness and whirlwind of disaster such aman can see the finger of God.

A most interesting as well as a most use.ful study is to watch the pointing of thefinger of God. In the seventeenth centurySouth Carolina was yielding rosin and tur-entine and tar as her chief productions.ut Thomas Smith noticed that the ground

near his house in Charleston was very muchlike the places in Madagascar where he hadraised rice, and some of the Madagascar ricewas sown there and grew so rapidly thatSouth Carolina was led to make rice her

chief production. Can you not see the fingerof God in that incident?

Rev. John Fletcher, of England, manywill know, was one of the most useful min-isters of the Gospel who ever preached. Be-fore conversion he joined the army and hadbought his ticket on the ship for SouthAmerica. The morning he was to sail someone spilled on him a kettle of water, and hewas so scalded he could not go. He wasvery much disappointed, but the ship he wasgoing to sail on went out and was neverheard of again. Who can doubt that Godwas arranging the life of John Fletcher?Was it merely accidental that RichardRodda, a Cornish miner, who was on hisknees praying, remained unhurt thoughheavy stones fell before him ant behindhim and on either side of him and anotherfell on the top of these so as to make a roofnper him?

A missionary in .Jamaica wosi [1 d a.r

in the night was wandering about, when afirefly flashed and revealed a precipice over it

which in a moment more he would hav&-aeeadashed. F. W. Robertson, the greatpreacher of Brighton, England, had his life

work d~ided by the barking of his dog. A.

neighbot . whose daughter was iU, was dis-turbed by the barking of that dog one night.This brought the neighbor into communlci-tion with Robertson. That acuasintance-

ship kept him from joining the dragoons and

going to India and spending his life in mi i-

tary service, and reserved him for a pulpitthe influence of which for Gospolizition willresound for all time and all eternity.

Why did not Colusmbus sink when in earlymanhood he was afl)at six miles from thebeach with nothing to sustain him till hecould swim to land but a boat's oar? I won- o

der if his preservation had anything to do a

with America. Had the storm that diverted f

the Mayflower from the mouth of the Hu !- ison, for which it was sailing, and sent itashore at Cape Cod, no divine supervisal? f

Does anarchy rule this world, or Go)1?St. Felix escaped martyrdo by crawling 1

through a hole m the wail accoss watich the

spiders immediately afterward wova a web.

His persecutors saw the hole in the wall, but

the spiler's web put them olf the traoo. A

boy was lost by his drunken father an I could

not for years rind his way hon'. Nearly

grown he went into a Fuiton street prayermeeting and asked for prayers that he mightfind his parents. His mother was in the roomand rose and recoghiz - her long lost son.Do you say that these things uonsy hap•i nedso? Tell that to those who do not believe

in a God and have no faith in the Bible. D.not tell it to me.

I said to an aeld minister of much experl-ence: "All the events of my life seem to

have been divinely connected. Do you sup-

o .it iso in all lives?'" He answerd,"Yes,but most people do not notice thedivine leading

.' I stani here this

that the safest thing in all the world to do

is to trust the Lord. 1 never had a mis-

fortune, or a persecotiona, or a trial, or a

disco.ointoiOit. howvsver excrdc.aLing at

the time, that God did iot snake turn out

for my gool. My one wish is to follow thedivine leading. I want to watch the fingerof Go,!.

Nations also would do well to watch for

the finger of GoJl. What does the cholera

scare in America mean? Some say it means

that the plague will sweep our land nextsummer. I do not believe a word of it.There will be no cholera here next summer.Four or five summers ago there were thosewho said it wou'd surely be here the follovw-

ing summer because it was on the wayBut it did not come. The sanitaryprecautions established here w;11 masenext summer unusually healthfu'. Choleranever starts from where it stoppedthe season before, but always stirts in thefilth of Asia. and if it starts next eu n'ner, itwill start there again-it will not start fromNew York quarantine. But it is evident tome that the finer of Go:l is in this cholera`care, and that He is pointing this Nationto something higher an1 better. It hasbeen demonstrate I as never before that weare in the hands of God. He allowed the

plague to come to our very gates and thenhalted it.

The quarantine was right and necessary,but, oh, how easily the plague could haveleaped tle barriers lifted against it! Thankstn the presilent of the United States, andthanks to the health o-fters, and thanksto the Thirteenth regiment, and thanks toall who stool between this evil and ournational health, but more than all, and

higher than all, thanks to God! Out ofthat solemnity we ought to pass up tosomething better than anything that hasever yet characterized us as a nation.We ought to quit our national sing,our Sabbath breaking, and our drunken-ness, and our impuriti•s, and our corrup-tions of all sorts as a people. The teneenryis in self gratulation at our pros.erity to

forget the mercy of God that has kept usfrom being blotted out for our crimes, andthat still multiplies our temporal prosper.ities. Forward and upward ! See you notthe finger of Go i in this protecting mercy?

If welovethe Lord ant trust Him-and

you may all love Him an I trust Him fromthis moment on-we no more understandthe good things abh•a of us than the childat school stuaying his A B C can under-stand what that hes to do with his readingJohn Ruskin's "S yven Lamps of Architec-

ture," or Dante'. "Divina Comnelia." Theiatisfaictions ani jo.s we have as yet had

ire like the mu-(: en toy makes with hisgirst lesson on iie violin compared withwhat was evoked fro n his great orchestra

by my dear and illustrious and transcend-ent but now depar-ed friend, Patrick Gil-

snore, when he lifted his baton and all thestrings vibrated, and all the trumpetspealed forth, and all the flutes caroled, andall the drums rolled, and al the hoofs of thecavalry charge. which he imitated, were infull beat. Look ahead: The finger of Godpoints forward.

"Ob, but," says some one, "I am gettingold, and I have a touch of rheouatise in

that foot. and I believe something is the mat-

ter with my heart, and I cannot stand asmuch as I used to." Well, I congratulateyou for that shows you are geting nearerto dt time when you are going to enter im-mortal youth and be strong enough to hurloff the battlements of heaven any basditwhoiv'unheard of burg;ary might break into the

Golden City. "iut," says some oE, t feelso lonely. The most of y frTidenads are g

and ti•pbersavemeetso e itto have multipIdotati! this world that was once•s• brigh t.tsais ,,ntsaslo ~e~5 ss s f' */ w. E, tls

will be fewer here to hold you back antmore there to pull you in. Look ahead!The finger of Goj is pointiag forwar.l Wesit here in church, and by hymn and prayerand sermon and Christian association wetry to ?et into a frame of mini that will beacceptable to God and p!easant to ourselves.But what a stupid thing it all is com-

pared with what it will be when we havegone beyond psalmbook ani sermon andBible, and we stand, our last inper-fection gone, in the presence of that charmof the universe-the blessed Christ-andhave Him look in our face and say: "I havebeen watching you and sympathizing withyouand he!pnug you all these years, andnow you are here. Go where you please andnever know a sorrow and never shed a tear.There is your mother now-she is coming togreet you-and there is your father, andthere are your chillren. Sit down under

this tree of life, ant on the banks of thisriver talk it all over."

I tell you there will be more joy in oneminute of that than in fifty years of earthlyexultation. Look ahead ! Look at the finesthouse on earth, and know that you will havea finer onein heaven. Look up the healthiestperson you can find, and know you will yetbe healthier. Look up the one who has thebest eyesight of any one you have ever heardof, and know you will have better vision.Listen to the sweetest prima donna thatever trod the platform. and know that inheaven you will lift a more enrapturing songthan ever enchanted earthly au litorium.

My friends, I do not know how we are go-ing to stand it-1 mean the full inrush ofthat splendor. Last summer I saw Mos-

cow, in some respects the most splendid cityunder the sun. The emperor afterwardasked me if I had peen it. for Moscow is the

pride of Russia. I told him yes, and that Ihad seen Moscow burn, I will tell youwhat 1 meant. After examining nine hun-dred brass cannons which were picked outof the snow after Napoleon retreatedfrom Moscow, each cannon deepcut with the letter "N," I ascended a towerof some two hundred and fifty feet just be-fore Sunset, and on each platform there werebells, large and small, ant I climbed upamong the bells, and then as I reached thetop all the beds underneath me began toring, and they were joined by the bells offourteen hundred towers and domes and tur-rets.

rSome of the bells sent out a faint tinkle ofsound, a sweet tintionabulation that seemedto bubble in the air, and others thurtlerelforth boom after boom, boom after ooom,until it seemed to shake the earth and fillthe heavens-sounds so weird, so sweet, soawful, so grand. so charming, so tre-mendous, sa sott, so ripp:ing, so re-verberating-and they seemed to wreatheand whirl and rise and sink andburst and roll ant mount and die.

When Napoleon saw Moscow burn, itcould not have been more brilliant than

when I saw all the tourteen hun ired turretsaflame with the sunset, roofs of gold and

walls of malachite, and -caite:ture of allcolors mingling the brow.fs autunnal for-

ests, and tue bius of summer heavens, andthe conflagration of morning s.k.e, and the

green of rich meadows, and the foam of

tos-Aug sear.The mingling of so many colors with so

many sounids was an entrancement almost

too much for human nerves, or human eyes,or humal ears.

THE WRONG PERSON BLAMED.

"Are you aware," said the man in therear fiercely, "that your umbrella is pok-ing md in the eye?"

"It isn't my umbrella," replied theman in front, with equal fierceness, "it'sa borrowed one. sir. "-FEchanwe.

Every fifth boy in India is at school

but only every fiftieth girl.

To Young Wives.A disappointed bachelor has said that some

time after marriace a man's wife ceases to besupremely attractive to him. Never was a- ter libel. Beanty preserved and gree re-ained can never lose their charm or yield their

empire. The preservation of our boriles in theiroriginal healthy perfection and comeliness is asacred duty. Every young mother who willfaithfully carry out the directions given witheach bottle of "Mother's Friend" will neverlose figure or omplexieon. The dainty bud willmature into the blooming rose, and old age willfind her blessing the day she first. used"Mother's Friend." Bradfeld Reg. Co., At-

lanta, Ga. Sold by all druggists.

The intellieent have a right over theignorant; namely, the right of instruct-in .them.

The Only One Ever Printed,-CAN Yout IND THz woRD?

Thse is a r inch display aelvertisement inthis paper, this week which has no two wordsalixe except one word. The same is true ofeach new one appearing each week. iom TheDr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a"Crescent" on everything they make and pub-lish. Look for ft, send them the name of theword and they will return you BOOK, BIAUTIT5oUL IJTHOOnAFHB or SAMPLES rlta.

T"e more one endleavors to sounc the

depths of his ignorance, the deeper the

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Dr. R. Schiffmann, St. Paul, Minn will maila trial package of Schiifmann'5 Asthma Curefree to any-sufferer. rsivs instant relief inworst xcases and cures where others fail.Name this paper and send address.

A man will gct fat quicker on paid-forboard. b nb_ _0

LAIris needing a to, o r or ohildren whowant building up, should take nrown's ironBitters. It s pleasant to take Lihre MalarinIndigestion. Biliosness and tLiver Com-plaints, makes the Blood rich and pure.

A good deed is better than gold, butnot nearly so neotiable.OR OLD RKLLfLe • Er-WAlTR s cres weak or

inflaned eyes. or granulated lids without pain.Scents. Jo' IP. DlcMcr Drug Co.. Bristol, Va.

Cupid does not care whether he pays

house rent or not.Albert Burch, West Toledo, Ohio, says:

"Hall's Catarrh Cure saved my li'e." Writehim for particulars. Sold by Druggists. 75c.

It is almost as difficult to stay there asto wet there.MAin persons are broken down from over.

work or household cares. Brown's Iron Bit-ters rebut.ds the system, aids digestion, re-moves excess of bile. and cures malaria. Aspendid tonic for women and children.

The United States have more thas500,000 bearing banana pinat, 2 )0,0'0bearing lemon trees, 4,003,00) oraa;etreus and 21,000,000 pineapple trees.

Foe indilestion. constipation, sick head-

ache. weak stomach, disordered liver-takeBeecham'sPia Ii For ale by al druaggists.

Life is a campaign, not a battle, and

hasl its defeats as well as its victories.

WonderfulJacob A. Kunkel, a re-

liable farmer of MouantBoyal, York Co.,Pa.,Ecaythat a wunning eorebrokeout on the leg of his

, nephew, Milton A. uan-l, when he was 5 years

old He could not walk.Milton A. Kunkel. Two years ago they be-san giving him Rood' , Barsapurillti andina hort time the sore healed up, he regainedperfect health, and he Is now, at 13 years, live-y and rugged. Mr. Kunkel says: "We all con-iader his oure little shor) o a amiracle.*

oeed'. Pill* cure habit gal constipation 1b

restoring action of the alimentary canal.

" MOTHERS'FRIEND"

Das cno BIRTH asY,Oolvn, La., Dec. 2, 1886.T-y wife used

IOTMBZ B ?RIEND betoro her thirdeoainesment, and ssys she would not bewithout it for hundreds of dollrs.

A DOVK X Lrfids

SM by tTold reatt ninmnildfret.RauDPik L REQUIJ.AOR 00.,j *s ev. W sTZj . ArMaNr &

The letter that never came was not a

lun. Those always arrive on time.-

somerville Journal.

One Small Bie Bean ever y nigt to! a n eckarouse Torpid Livenr. :Oie. oer hottl.

A photographer says that next to

babies young married coupjes are the

most troublesome, the bride especiallybeing hard to please.

No more old pilli for m!n. maN,'l Biu Beansif you please.

The street surface roads of Ne .v YorkCity carried 226,65),613 passen-crgduring the year 1591, a 'lilly average

of 629,157.

Economical. easy to t a . ,;n ,/n t Ie . .ens.

The man who is hard up can't very

well come down.

ONE ENJOYSBoth the method and results whenSyrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasantCud refreshing to the taste, and actsr,-nly yet promptly on the Kidneys,

Liver and Bowels, c!eanses the ses-:era effectually, dispclc colds, head-aches and fevers nod cures habitualconstipation. Syrup of Figs is thecnly remedy of its kind ever pro-duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-ceptable to the stomach, prompt inits action and truly beneficial in its-F'ects, prepared only from the most:'caithy and agreeable substances, itsmany excellent qualities commend itto all and have made it the mostr ::pular remedy known.

tyrup of Figs is for sale in 50e.nd $1 bottles by all leading drug-

gists. Any reliable druggist whoray not have it on band will pro-cure it promptly for any one whoviJhes to try it. Do not accept any:.hstitute.

CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.SAN FLRANCISCO, CAL.

LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.Y.

"'GermanSyrup"

Two bottles of German Syrupcured me of Hemorrhage of theLungs when other remedies failed.I am a married man and, thirty-sixyears of age, and live with my wifeand two little girls at Durham, Mo.I have stated this brief and plain sothat all may understand. My casewas a bad one, and I shall be gladto tell anyone about it who willwrite me. PHILIP L. SCHENCK, P.O. Bo~s45, April 25, 890. No mancould ask a more honorable, busi-qgss-like statement.

A WOMAN HASvery little desire to enjoy the pleasures of life, and Isentirely unfitted for the cares of housekeeping orsay ordinary duties, if afflicted with

SICK HEADACHEDAY AFTER DAY

and yet there are few diseasep that yield morepromptly to proper medical treatment. It is therefore of the unoct importance that a relltale remedyshould always be at hand. During a period of morethan

SIXTY YEARSthere has been no instance reported where sucheases have not been permanently and

PROMPTLY CUREDBY

the se of a stagle box of the genuine and justlycelebrated

DR. C. McLANE'SLIVER PILLS,

which may be procured at any Drug Store, or will bematted to any addresa on the receipt of 25 cents in

- stampLPurhasers of these Pills should be careful to pro-

cure thegenumlne article. There are several counter-feits on the market, well calculated to deceive. Thesenuine Dr. C. Ibcane's Celebrated Liver Pills are

manufactured ony byILZXING BROTHgEl CO., Pittsburgh, Pa.

TAB-ULESare compounded in accordance with a medical formula

( . known and admitted by all educated physicians to be the

oldest, most standard, most widely used, most frequently

prescribed, and by far the most valuable of any that the

profession have yet discovered. In the Tabules the in-

gredients are presented in a new form that is gaining favorall over the world and becoming the fashion with modern

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r They are compact, easy to carry, easy toswallow, tasteless if taken according to directions,L and the dose is always accurate. Every one ;

enjoys the method and the result. They act <

gently but promptly upon the kidneys, liver. stomach and intestines; cleanse *

the system effectually; dispel colds, headaches and fevers; cure habitual consti-

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A single "'An•LE taken after the evening meal, or just before retiring,

. or, better still, at the moment when the first indication is noted of an

approaching cold, headache, any symptom of indigestion or depression of

. spirits, will, in a large majority of cases, remove the whole difficulty in a

hour, without the patient being conscious of any other than a slightly warmir;

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effect, and that the expected illness failed to materialize or has disappeared. :The Tabules are put up in small bottles, each containing six doses, the

S whole easily carried in the vest pocket or portemonnaie. There is no feat cf

s;pilling or spoiling anything with which they come in contact. ,

Sample Bottle, doses, - 15 cents. Twelve Bottles. % gross, - $1.25

Six Bottles, 4 gross, -75 cents. Twenty-four Bottles (one gross) $2.00Those who buy a gross and divide with neighbors or friends reduce the cost( of the smallest package nearly one-half. The Tabules are not injured by age.

Sent by mail on receipt of price-postage paid-or may be ordered through >.

the nearest druggist.* FOR SALE BY *

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Other VChemicatlsare tia I ina the

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W. BAKER & CO.'s

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