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A WONDERFUL WORD. EV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE PREACHES AN ABLE SERMON ON "COME." "Hilii Wnnl May Ho UmmI for Goml or for Evil It Ii I'miml Slimy Time In tlm I Scripture It Hi-cUnii. Ollmr tfiinln 1rlT!. UltooKi.YN, Jan. 18. Dr. Talmnge preached the following sermon this -morning to nn overflowing congregation in the Academy of Music, this city. At alight, when The Christian Herald sor vice was hold in tho Now York Acade my of Music, fully six thousand persons veru massed in tho largo building. A TOarked solemnity pervaded tho ossein Jjly, and at lis close many- perhons in various parts of tho houso roso nt the ... I unvitntioi. of the preacher to asR tor , incintollSOci(ltionsthataro cheer prayers for their 8alvat.on.. Dr. l.-H fI, am, 1U1(1 inspiring;" "Como nuigo chose the following texts for his wilb mo jllto jov mcU iW y0 m,Ver bo sermon; "Come" (Gen. vl, 18); "Como" , foro experienced.'' Rcv. xjii, 17). I With that word which has dotio so Imperial, tender and all persuasive is much for others I approach you todays this word "Come." Six hundred and ' Aro you all right with God? "No," seventy-eight times is it found in tho 1 you say, "I think not; 1 am sometimes Scriptures. It stands at tho front gato nliinnetl when I think of him; I fear I of tlm Bible as in my first text, invit, I "ill not bo ready to nice n n, Jhe ,.. , . v , , , i last day; my heart is not right witn 5nff antediluvians nto Noah s ark, and Come, then, and have it made it stands at tho other gate of tho Bible ; h ho rhr,s(. who (Jio(, t w in my second text, inviting tho post-; J the use in diluvians into the ark of a Saviour h, aucrcy. "Como" is only a word of four mercy. oiire - "."" i (tetter, but it is the queen oi won.. , lS Ji" CT. 1 J"' I 4c is an ocean unci uinuu uiuijui.- i... , tthousand rivers of meaning, utner nvonlH drive, but this beckons. jUl ni(x)ds of feeling hath that word "Coino." Sometimes it weeps and sometimes it laughs. Sometimes it prays, sometimes it tempts and soino Unics it destroys. It sounds front tho -door of church and from tho seraglios of sin, from the gates of heaven and tho gates ot hell. It is confluent and -accrescent of all power. It Is the heiress of uiost of tho past and tho almoner of most of the future. ' "Como!" You amy pronounce It so that all tho heavens will 1m? heard in its cadences, or pro Toounco it so that all the woes of timo auid eternity shall revcrb'orate in its one syllable It is on tho lip of saint and profligate. It is tho mightiest of all jjolicitants either for good or bad. AM.. T11H POWICIt OK CI1UISTIANITY 18 IX THAT WOliI). Today I weigh anchor, and haul in the planks and set sufl on that great word, although I am sure I will not bo able to reach tho farther shore. I will Jet down the fathoming lino into this sea. mid try to measure its depths, and, though I lie together all tho cables and ordage I have on board, I will not bo able to touch bottom. All tho power of the Christian religion is in that word Come." The dictatorial and com mandatory in religion is of no avail. Tlio imporntbo mood is not tho appro priate mood when wo would havo oo jplo savingly impressed. They may be coaxed, but they cannot bo driven. Our hearts aro like our homes; at a friendly knock tho door will bo opened, 3mt an attempt to force open our door would land the assaila it in prison. Our theological seminar;, s, which keep -young men three jc.rs in their currie ilmn before launching them into tho ministry, will do well if in so short a hno they can teach tho candidates for ho holy olllco how to say with right emphasis and intonation and power that one word "Como!" That man who has such eillcieney in Christian work, and that woman who has such power to persuade people to quit tho wrong and begin tho right, went through a series of losses, bereave ments, persecutions, and tho trials of twenty or thirty years before they oould make It a tTlumph of grace every timo they uttered tho word "Como." UAH Hl.AIN II V THAT WOUl) COMIC. 1 You must remember that in many cases our "come" has a mightier coinu" to conquer before it has any .effect at all. Just give mo tho aeeu ;rato census, the statistics, of how many aro down in fraud, In drunkeu neH, In gambling, in impurity or in vico of any sort, and 1 will give you the neoumto census or statistics of how auany havo been slain by tho word como." "Como and click wino glass w with mo at this ivory bar." "Como and see what wo can win at this gam ing table." "Como, enter with mo this .doubtful hpeeulation!" "Come with 3110 and read those iullilel tracts on Christianity." nl.u'it of bad 'Como with mo to a amusement." "Como "with ino in a gay bout through under ground Now York." If in this city there aro twenty thousand who aro down in moral character, then twenty thousand tell under tho power of the word "001110." I was reading of a wife who jo hus band had been overthrown by strong 3rink, and slio wont to tho saloon where ho was ruined and tho said, "CUvo mo back my husband." And tho bartender, po'm ing to a maudlin auid battered man drowsing in tho corner of tho bar room said, "There ho is. Jhn, wake up; hero's your wife jjonio for you. " And tho woman said; ""Do you call that my husband ? What flbavo you ueun doing with hhn? Is that the manly brow? Is that tho ehsu-ayo? Is thai the noble heart that I married I Wmt vile drug have you given him Hint has turned him Into a -Jbnd? Take your tiger claws oil of 3ilm. UncoJI tJiOMj tcroit folds of evil habit that aro crushing him. Give wti bunk my husband, the ouo with -wliom I stood at tho altar ton yearn Ago. GIvfc him buck to mol" VlcUm ... as ...iiiions of others havo been, ! Ttln'JZSr comk WITH rs. though you do not hear or them, they Now we want all the world over to are occurring every hour of every day harness this word for good as others and in all parts of Christendom, havo harnessed it' for evil, and it will , Hut the word "Come" applied to draw the five continents and the seas those who need solace will amount to between them; yea.it will draw the 1 nothing unless it be uttered by some whole earth back to tho God from one who has experienced that solace, which it has wandered. It is that woo- ! That spreads the responsibility of giv ing and persuasive word that will lead lug this gospel call among a great men to give up their sins. Wfis skep- 1 many. Those who havo lost property tieism ever brought into love of tho and been consoled by religion in that truth by an ebullition of hot words trial aro tho ones to invite those who against infidelity? Was over tho bias-I have failed hs biisines. Those who phonier stopped' in his oaths by denun ; have lost their health and been con ciation of blasphemy? Was over a soled by religion are the ones to invite drunkard weaned from his cups by tho those who are in poor health. Those tempcranco lecturer's mimicry of stag- I who have had bereavements and been !..o.niwi uunnuM No. It was. ' ijousolod in those bereavements are the " ... . i. ...1.... .....I church today and hear our singing:" "Come and let mo Introduce you to a Christian man whom tu sum to ndiniro: come m '? Ti ,() ,. vol, wait the fur ' ', V .- (. r ym thor olf vou aro and the deeper you low,; strikeout for heaven! You remember that a few years ago a steam- tlm Princess Alice, with a crowd of excursionists aboard, sank in the Thames, and there was an awful sacriiicoof lire. A boatman from tho shoro put out for the rescue, and ho had a big boat, and he got it so full it would not hold another person, and as he laid hold of the oars to pull for tho shore, leaving hundreds helpless and drowning, ho ried out, "Oil, that 1 had a bigger boat!" Thank God, I am not thus limited, and that 1 can promise room for all in this gospel boat. Get in; get in! And yet there is room. Room in the heart of a par doning God. Room in heaven. Till! STltUCiai.K OK I.IKK. I also apply tho word of my text to those who would like practical comfort. If any over escape the struggle of life, I havo not found them. They aro not certainly among the prosperous classes. In most "cases it was nst niggle all tho' way up till they reached the prosperity, and since they havo reached these heights there have been perplexities, anxieties and elites which were almost enough to shatter the nerves and turn tho brain. It would be hard to tell which havo tho biggest light in this world tho prosperities or the adversities, tho conspicuities or the obscurities. .lust as soon as you have enough success to attract the attention of others, the en vies and jealousies are lot loose from their kennels. Tho greatest crime that you can commit in tho estimation of others is to get, on better than they do. They think your addition is their sub traction. Pive hundred persons start for a certain goal of success; one reaches it, and tho other four hundred and nlnety-uino are mad. It would take volumes to hold tho story of tho wrongs, outrages and defamations that havo como upon you as a result of your success. Tho warm sun of prosperity brings into life a swamp full of annoy ing insects. On the other hand tho unfortunate classes have their struggles for main tenance. To achieve a livelihood by one who had nothing to start with, and after a while for a family as well, and carry this on until children aro reared and educated and fairly started In the world, and to do this amid all tho rivalries of business, and the uncer tainty of crops, and the fickleness of tarffT legislation, with an occasional labor strike, and here and there a finan cial panio thrown in. is a mighty thing to do, and there are hundreds and thousands of such heroes and heroines who live unsung and die unhonor,ed. What wo all need, whether up or down in life or half way between, Is the in finite holaee of the Christian religion. And so we employ tho word "Cornel" It will take all eternity to llud out tho number of business men who have been strengthened by tho promises of God, and the people who havo been fed by the" ravens when other re sources gave out, and tho men and women who, going into this battle armed only with needle or saw or ax or vnrdvtiek or pen or typo or shovel lorhhoelast, have gained a victory that made the heavens rusound, With all the resources of God promised for evory exigency, no ouo need bo loft in tho lurch. A tilMIMMK KAITII. 1 like tho faith displayed ytars ago in Drury lane, London, in a humble li,,it,i wliiir. .tiii- tnrttr.li nf fnivl linil given out, and a kindly soul entered with tea and other table supplies, and found a kettle on the lire ready for tho tea. Tho benevolent lady wild, 'How is it that you havo I ho kettle ready for tho tea when you hud no tea in tho house f" And tho daughter in tho homo said, Mother would have mo . ,1... ,1... II 1 ...I..... I pill llll-' I.I'IUU I'll III" HIV, llllll lltUI I said, 'What is the use of doing so, when mi Imvn untlilii" In tho linnsiW' slid we have nothing in wild: Mvchild.God wlllnrovide. Thirty years ho has already provided for pie through all iny puin and helplessness, and he will not leave inn to starve at last. He will MUid us help though wo do not yetne how.' We have boon waiting all the day for something to come, but until we taw you we know uot how It wait to oomo," Suoh tldugj the world may call coincidence, but I , - I! them almighty deliverances, mul j .,.!fli Hw.. wlio havo lost father or mother or compan ion or child or friend. What multi tudes of us aro alive today, and in good health and buoyant in this journey of life, who would have been broken down or dead long ago but for the sustaining and cheering help of our holy religion! Hr, ui. siiv "floine!" Tho well is not dry. The buckets are not empty. The j supply is not exhausted. There is just as much mercy and condolence and soothing power in God as before the tlrst grave was dug, or the first tear started, or tho first heart broken, or the first accident happened, or tho llrst fortune vanished. Those of us who have felt the consolatory power of re ligion have a right to speak out of our own experiences and say "Como!" HOW TO COMIC. What dismal work of condolcnco tho world makes when it attempts to con dole! The plaster they spread does not stick. Tho broken bones under their bandage do not knit. A farmer was lost in the snow storm on a prairie of tho far west. Night coming on, and after ho was almost frantic from not knowing which way to go, his sleigh struck the rut of another sleigh, and he said, "I will follow this rut, and it will take mo out to safety." He hastened on until ho heard tho bells of tho pre ceding horses, but. coining up. ho found that that man was also lost, and, as is the tendency of those who aro thus confused in tho forest or on the moors, they were both moving in a circle, and the" runner of the one lost sleigh was following the runner of tho other lost sleigh round and round. At last it oc curred to them to loolc at tho north star, which was peering through the night, and by the direction of that star they got home again. Those who fol low tho advice of this world in time of perplexity are in a fearful round; for it is one bewildered soul following anoth er bewildered soul, and only thoso who have in such timo got their eye on tho morning star of our Christian faith can llud their way out, or bo strong enough to lead others with an all persuasivo invitation. "Hut." savs some one. "you Chris tian people keep telling us to 'como,' vet vou do not tell us how to come." That charge shall not bo true on this occasion. Como believing! Come re penting! Como praying! After all that God has been doing for six thou sand years, some time through patri archs and sometimes through prophets, and at last through the culmination of all tragedies on Golgotha, can any one think that God will not welcome your coming? Will a father at vast out lay construct a mansion for his son, aiid lay out parks white with statues and green with foliage, and all a-sparkle with fountains, and then not allow his son to live in the houso or walk in the parks? Has God built this house of gospel mercy, and will ho then refuse entrance to his children? Will a gov ernment at groat expense build life Having stations all along tho coast, and boats that can hover unhurt like a petrel over the wildest surge, and then when tho lifeboat has reached the wreck of a ship in tho oiling not allow the drowning to seize the lifeline or take the boat for tho shore in safety? Shall God provide at tho cost of his only son's assassination escape for a sinking world, and then turn a deaf ear to the cry that conies up from tho breakers? Til UN YOU IIAVK l'ASSKI) l-'UOM DHATII TO I.IKK. "Hut," you say. "thero aro so many things 1 havo to believe, and so many things in the shape of a creed that I havo to adopt, that 1 am kept back," No, no I m need not believe but two things namely, that Jesus Christ came into the world to uivo sinners, and that you are ouo of them. "Hut," i vou niv. "1 do believe both of thete things!" Do you really believe them with all your heart? "Yes." Why. then you havo passed from death into life. Why, then you aro a son or daughter of tho Lord Almighty. Why, then you are an heir or an heiress of an inheritance that will declare divi dends from now until long after tho stars aro dead! Hallelujah I Prince of God, why do yon not como and tako ! your coronet I'rincefcs oi uie i.oru j Almighty, why do you not mount your throne Pa: up into tho light. Your boat is anchored, why do you not go ashore J Juxt plant your foot hard down, and you will feel under them tho i Rock of Ages. I 1 ..1. ..)!., .1... ....1....MO., f, ...... I.. 4 ClIllllUIIU llll.- "III! . I'. .-.7 IUI iuiu .11- ; htance In which a man in the right I Hiilrit annealod for tho salvation of the gospel and did uot got it. .Mm. alive! are you going to lot all the years of your life go away with you without your having this great cuce, this glorious hoiHt, this bright expect ancy Are you going to lot the jxvirl of groat prlcu lie In tho dust at your foot becatuH) you aro too Indolent or too proud To btoop down and pick it up? Will yon wear the chain of evil habit when near by you is tho t a could with one stroke snap the shackle? Will you .stay in tho prison of sin when here is a gospel key that could unlock your incureeitition? No; no! As tho one word "Como" has sometimes brought many souls to Christ, I will try the exp-riniont of piling up into a mountain and then sending down in an f.vjilimchi! of oower manvof these gos pel "Comes." "Come thou and all tiiy house into the ark;" "Como unto me all ye who labor and aro heavy laden mid" I will give you rest;" "Come, for all tilings are now ready;" "Tho Spirit and the Bride say 'Come;' and let him that huarcth say 'Como' and let him that is athirst come llll ir uniii.-v ' The stroke of one bell in a tower may bo sweet, butascoie of bells well tuned, andrighflv lifted, and skillfully swung in ono great chime fill the heavens with " ..... .mm r n iniist. ce estia . And HO 0110 ulio has heard the initrhtv chimes in the towers of Amsterdam or Ghent or Copenhagen can forget them. Now it booms to me that in this Sabbath hour all heaven is chiming, and tho voices of departed friendsand kindred ring do it the sky saying "Come!" Tho angels who never fell, bending from sapphire thrones, Are chanting "Come!" Yea, all the towers of heaven, tower of mar tyrs, tower ot prophets, tower of apos tles, tower of evangelists, tower of tho temple of the Lord God and the Lamb, lUHIIIIl' Ml III"; mini u""" ...... - i aro chiming "Come, come!" Pardon for all, and peaco for all, and heaven for all who will come. I'HACUl When Russia was in ono of her great wars the Kuileric of the soldiers had been long and bitter, and thoy wero waiting for tho end of the strife. Ono day a messenger in great excitement ran among tho tents of the army shout ing "Peaco! Peace!" Tho sentinel on guard asked. "Who says peaco?" And tho sick soldier turned on his hos pital mattress and asked, "Who says peace if" and all up and down tho en campment of tho Russians went tho question, "Who says peaco?" Then tho messenger responded, "The c.ar says peace." That was enough. That meant going home. That meant tho war was over. No more wounds and no more long marches. So today, as ono of the Lord's mes sengers. I move through these great en campments of souls and cry: "Peaco between earth and heaven ! Poaco be tween God and man! Peace between your repenting soul and a pardoning Lord!" If you ask me, "Who says peaco?" 1 answer, "Christ our King declares it." "My peace I give unto you!" "Peaco of God that passe th all understanding!" Everlasting peace! A .MlllliiO Itoiul in till) Vt. A military road was constructed by tho United States government to con nect tho military ponts of the far west with one another. Heginning at Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri river, it mi ssi 'd throuuh Fort Riley at the junc tion of tho forks of tho Kaw, and then, still keeping up tho north side of tho Republican fork, went on to Fort Kearny, still farther west, then to Fort Laramie, wldch in thoso davs was so fnr nn the frontier of our country that few people ever saw it except military men and the emigrants to t aiiiornia. At tho timeof which 1 am writing thero had been a very heavy emigration to California, and companies of emigrants, bound to tho golden land, still occa sionally passed along tho great military road. Interlacing this highway wero innu merable trails and wagon tracks, tho traces of the great migration to tho El dorado of tho Pacific; and hero and llUIilUU v J 1 uiu itniiv , "-u there wero tho narrow trails made by Indians on their hunting expeditions and warlike excursions. Roads, such as our emigrants had been accustomed to in Illinois, thero wero none. First came tho faint traces of human feet and of unshod horses and ponies; then tho well defined trail of hunters, trap nnrs and Indians: then tho wngon track of tho military trains, which in course of timo wero smoothed and formed into the military road kept in repair by tho United States govern ment. Noah H rooks In St. Nicholas. A I'roposfil Hallway lU-roIut Ion. Tho ideal construction for a railway absolutely to avoid derailment would seem to be tubular, with tho cars in side; but as tunnels aro decidedly un popular wo must confine our cars by devices placed entirely below tho win dows. Fortunately tho modern meth- dows. l ortunate y ino inooeni meui i -i -i .... i l ...,i ill..,., ods of bridge truss deMgn lend them selves readily to a trough like construc tion of eonsli'rable depth, with under cut sides that will coniino the wheels, or some other projecting part of a car running in the trough, so that it can - This, too, not escape hi any direction. can be done without much extra ma- ITIUI uv num. . IHUJii. ..... terial beyond that required for tho depth anil consequently strength of tho trusses thenibolves. Such construction .... . i therefore must, in many situations, bo wi-,i, a iiuio - . -- c' elevated upon columns or arches. Oberlin Smith in Forum. D.iktriU'tlM" Sun Wavrii. In IStVJ a revolving btorni passed ovor Calcutta, tho accompanying wave rose ten feet above the highest spring tides, and drowned 15.000 iiersons. Coringa was destroy, l by a storm wave in 17SD. and 20.00J p. .. lo iwrlnhod. A great hurricane blew at Itaratongu In 1S40, an.l n vessel from Tahiti was driven by tho stonn wave over tho palm trees in land. Her captain Informed u mission ary that ho felt the tree tops grating ugidnst hU vessel's bottom us she sped idong with the wave Chambers' Jour nal. " SOCIETY'S BLESSINGS. CONVERSATIONALIST AND THE CLEV ER DINNER GIVER. IMillm-nplilcul Iteflcptloti Un tlm No rr..lti of Pcrfrct Social Surcevi Tlireo Inillipennuble Itcculreiiiont Thrre Opinion. Three young men stood upon the street corner tho other day. Ouo was an "old chappie." the other was an "old man." and the third was a "deah boy.'' They were discussing tho question of what were the greatest blessings on earth. "Old chappie" thought a woman 1 well was the noblest 1 i. rl,t,-. imt Mum lif 5s ii worii Ul iliv iwiJiifca111-. , v vrcnt talker himself, and was speaking entirely from a personal point of view, Tho "old man," being a great eater, declared a man that gave good dinners I . ....... I.. l,i -rrlrl nnil flip was iuu uui. man ... . - ir-ili !nv." who is rich and lazy, thought a" good family servant was the most desirable thing on earth. They wero not far out the way, after all. Now. tho woman who listens well is tho ono that converses well, for conver sation is not monologue. The person that simply listens, although she ap pears to listen well, will eventually be found out. Sho is not bo modest, if she is bright, that bIio is content to hear simply what yon havo to say without having her own say. You are boring her. and you'll find it out. and then your j - - conversation will not havo been pleasant to you. Sho is a Uatterer, tins listener, and nothingclse. She starts yon on your hobby She is wrapt in atteutiidi as you rido the poor brute to death. You pause for an instant and she says a word showing the deepest interest in a subject that is in reality entirely unin teresting to her. and off you go again. But when you finally dismount your Rosinante and take your leave you are painfully conscious that you did all the talking: that your ideas were being ex hibited the whole evening, and if you know that she has ideas of her own yon cannot help the reflection that she might herself have wished to give tlieni a little airing, and yon may come to the conclu sion that tho lady has been practicing a mild amount of lt pocrisy. Old channie" was right when he said a woman that conversed well was a so cial blessing, and thero aro many more blessings of this kind among women than there aro among men. Women, geuerally speaking, havo more leisure than men have; they read more light literiture; they see more company, and they give more attention to tho elegan cies" of life. Unfortunately the men who do nothing in our country, who should be tho ones to cultivate the ornamental side of life, aro not usually capable of cultivating anything but their own per sonal adornment. But if it is impossible to get a good conversationalist out of a fool that does nothing it is equally impossible to ex pect a man to cultivate this luxury of social life when almost all of his time is devoted to his business or his profession. Tho shop should not be lugged into the parlors or tho dining room, but how can it bo expected that it should be excluded from those sacred precincts when men spend so much of their timo in the shop? Thero should bo more leisure, and then thero would be inoro men who aro able to maintain agreeable conversations, ' Where tho conversationalist shines with most luster is at dinner, and this brings us around to tho remark at the beginning of this article of tho "old man," who thought that the giver of good dinners was tho greatest social blessing of all. Perhaps ho is. and he is not only a blessing, but ho is usually a man of intelligence as well. "Cookery is an art," says Rrillat Savarin, "but to roast requires genius." That is a ro mark that applys to cooks and not to tho employers of cooks. Tho latter require talent, not only in ' 1 tho planning of tho menu but also m the se.euuuu i i enss it. A man is uenerally dependent upon tho servants in tho matter of the food and its cooking, and the good mas culino dinner giver is thus nearly al ways a man of means: but tho female dinner giver, wlio is the greatest bless ing of all, need not bo rich. Bad house keepers, careless wives who do not love good eating themselves and arc indiffer ent to tho feelings of othora. always have poor cooks. j But tho woni'in who takes tho trouble I to teach tho cook and to superintend ' her when she is engaged in her dif ! ficult art nay. the elegant, well bred lady who doea not disdain herself to BOinetimes mako a good dish, and who is not ashamed to tell her guests that their praises of it are due to her rather than to her cook this is the woman whom to tn ilino with is a nleasnre. Tho subject of servants is perhaps tne ! , 11 11 ..r , - ' . , ... nf most important household problem of The truth of tho mat- ter is that American life doesn't develop good servants. Tne American would rather do anything else than bo a serv nnt, because the servant is so generally .1 ..,....,'..1 1. 1W1.-. ' uc'qI uui:w mi"., ii miri niv....... w...v .. 1 en .mother man's boots, to help another man to dicss. to run on another man's Ultlll tu un.w( iw .v.. .... ...v.. - . - - - errands, to be obliged to submit without n word to tho humors and iett7 tempers of another man all this is something i that clashos with tho indeiwndeut fifl- i i in.M of tho Americans. Because of tins vnlota and butlers are never Americans, but are usually foreigners, who swnlluw thoir pride. iKJcketing "perquisites" in the mean time. The colored mail likewise, that usi j in tho old times to lw the ideal hou'-o servant, is getting too independent to follow his old calhn-: with humility There is not a bright outlook in tins question of men wrvants. There will bo no change for the better, as indeed it it is unrouioiinble to expect that there should be. If any change- is desirable it is a change on tiietwrt of tho employers. If they would treat their servants less ns uieniiils and more as employes who aro equals, ami ure only biibjeot to reason nolo order which thoy must execute re bpectfully, then there might bo a larger nupply of men who are wluiug to become Uoiuo sen-ant. Washington Star. FARM AND GARDEN. MAMIKIIS I'Olt WHEAT. In nn experiment made by the North Carolina expei inienl station a series of plots was laid out in such manner that one end of each plot should be on land on which cow pens had been previously plowed under and the other end on land without peas. The whole was sown to wheat, and kainit, acid phosphate mid cotton-seed meal were applied 4 to the several plot-, singlv and in combination, two plots being left without any fertil izer. The result was that on the land which had hud no fertilizer tho highest increase of anv of the fertilized over the unfertilized plots was four bushels per acre (for ;-!( 0 poundB cotton-eeed meal), while on the green manured land the f,,,... tlm mm vIiim was from six llltivii-t- liv.l.l ...... I'.- -- - bushels at the least to fifteen bushels per acre, averaging ten bushels. TIIK CIIKSTMIT AS A TIMIir.lt TKHH. The value of the chestnut as a timber tree is increased by the fact that tho stumps of cut trees have unusual jiower of producing shoots, which soon form trunks large enough for posts and rail way ties, so that a forest of chestnut ho i-iit nver everv thirty or forty yean? and continue productive dur ing seveial geneiations, according to Garden im Vurert. The American chest nut j)osscsa('s a great deal of value aa nn ornamental tree. It grows rapidly even in light, orous diift, and soon makes a handsome round-headed specimen. It is very benutiful when it is covered early in July with iis showy yellow (lowers, whose odot some neonle lind. however, extremely disagreeable. Few insects prev upon its handsome glossy foliage, and" the fruit, which grows and ripens in the short period of about two months and a half, possesses even in its unim proved condition considerable money value. DILUTING FKICsIl MII.K. fJeiBoy llulletlii.l Perhaps the most valuable lessons learned in the dairy world during ISilO were taught by the failure of the ice crop of Inst winter. Creameries and many lame dairies had become so accus- . tomed to a plentiful supply of ice that j they had come to think they could not get along without it. Rut experiment and experience have discovered that by (tinning iresn mutt in per a-m. .m either warm or cold water the time of cream raising muv be so much reduced as practically to do away with the neces sity of using ice for creaming milk. The lesson is of great value, and 1ms already been the means of saving many dollars ; and, rightly used, may be the means of savinglnore. We do not know of any carefully conducted experiments bearing upon the point, but from the few obser vations made by ourselves we are in clined to think" tViat those who have mmle really good butter without the use of ice will find that it keeps sweet longer . . . . . . i . ...... , . , . :n. . . f . . and stands up inner wncn exposed io the air thnn butter made with ice. When ice is abundant it is apt to he used too frcelv and the milk, cream and but ter be made too cold. Whether or not diluting the milk has any inlluence on the churnability of the cream remains to Ixs tested so far as we know. SIIKI.TKK I'OH COWS. ISouthweMcrn Cultivator. J " Whv do cows require more shelter now than they did years ago?" This is a question often asked with all confidence in the assumption that it is true. Hut is U tviw? Tlio mivj nf " venrK aim " nrol- ablv required just as much shelter as those of to-day, hut they did not get it. Manv cows to-day require more shelter thnn' they get. 'They would do better and be of more profit" to the owners if they were better sheltered, fed and cared for. Hut it is unreasonable to expect a cow that excels and is the product of better conditions to retain and show her excellence to the same degree under un fiivnmble treatment that she would un der better conditions. She possesses a superior and necessarily a more sensitive and tender organism'; it is therefore more easily deranged and injured. Force her to live" under the conditions f the ....u r.f " v.mra sim" null vnii will liint-e her like tlie cows of " years ago "per haps not quite so tough and rugged, but inferior and scrubby like her. As the rich when reduced to poverty and self help sufl'er more than those wlio are in ured to such hardships and never knew better fare, so tho high-blooded cow of to-day, when subjected to neglect and abuse, suffers more and docs not stand it as well as the scrub that never know a better condition. OKNICUAI. XOTKSi Hatching hens' eggs take twenty-ono days; ducks and turkeys, twenty-eight days; geese, thirty days. Infertile eggs can never lie hatched, and never become rotten. A rotten egg is a sign that there has been a gorm of life. Soapsuds and keroene oil are among the tast exterminators of vermin, whether in the vegetable or aninial kinudom. vegetable" panacea PREPARED FR"M ROOTS Be HERBS, AND ALL OTHER DISEASES ARISINO FROM A DISORDERED STATEofTHE STOMACH OR AN INACTIVE LIVECR. ran saic by auu ORUSGISTS & GENERAL DEALERS. I