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
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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
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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.. ,
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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, !
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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
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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
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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.
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; 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
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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
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.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,
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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
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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-
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terial beyond that required for tho
depth anil consequently strength of tho
trusses thenibolves. Such construction
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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
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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
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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
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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 !
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- ' . , ... 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
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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.
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