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SCHO^AND CHURCH.
—Secrot socirtie« at Pinceton Col­
lege hare been abolished, and fewer
jobs are put up on the professors.
—Prof Palmer, of Harvard, finds
that one-third of the students there
spend under $700 a year, one-half un­
der $1,000 and three-fourths under $1,-
200
—The latest statistics give ths
Evangelical Lutheran church in the
United States an aggregate of 950,000
communicants, making it numerically
the third in rank among the Protes­
tants of this country.
—G. W. McCormic, a wealthy citizen
of Thomasville, Ga.,who is not a mem­
ber of any church, surprised the sev­
eral white pastors of the different
churches in that city recently by
presenting each of them with a house
and lot. In executing the deed he
mentioned no other consideration than
that the preachers’ lives had been spent
in “going about doing good.” Savan­
nah News.
•—Captain G. W. Lane has forty Sun­
day-schools of his planting among the
families of fishermen along the coast of
Maine For many of them his visits
are the only reminders of the interest
of Christians in their welfare. Last
year he was obliged to make his jour­
neys in a little boat eighteen foet Jong,
where he cooked, ate and slept. This
year his friends in the Sunday-school
propose to raise tne money to buy him
a new and more suitable boat. —Chicago
Advance.
- The Church Army of the Church
of England, which is at work among
the poor by methods modeled, to some
extent, after those of the Salvation
Army, has brought forward for con­
firmation over three thousand adults,
mostly gathered at the street corners
and from public houses; has one thou­
sand more adults waiting confirma­
tion. and has over siy* thousand adult
cominuuicants, who aro hun^ble speak­
ers and laborers in tlAs cause of CmrisL
— Indianapotlis Journal.
—A funny incident in connection
with the work of women on the New
York school board is told. A janitor
of one of the schools came one day
with a complaint to the principal. He
said that ho had been janitor of that
building for nineteen years, and no
one had ever asked to see the basement
until (»no of the women of the school
board came and said that she wanted
to make an examination, “and that
basement wasn't in a fit condition fur
any one to see,” he added, plaintively.
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RICH
MEN’S SONS.
Victim« ef th* Fopulnr Ides That the
Mole l *e of Money Is Amusement.
A wealthy broker of New York be­
gan life as a farm-hand in New Jer­
sey. He had the craving natural to a
poor boy for fine clothes, a splendid
house, luxury of every kind. To acquire
these, he worked hard with brain and
body. As ha rose in life, he was
thrown in contact with educated men,
great financier*, rulers of commerce^
artiste, teachers, scientific men. His
own intellect, strengthened by its
work, was bold and broad enough to
appreciate them all. By the time he
was fifty, he cared little for the phys­
ical luxuries which his money could
buy for him. His pursuits, apart from
his business, were noble and elevating
those which belong to a many-
sided, enlightened
American, who
keeps abreast of his time in its great
movements.
His son, on the contrary, was born
in the Inp of riches.
Luxuries, the
lack of which urged*his father to inces­
sant activity, were as familiar to him
as the air and daily sunshine. Fine
clothes, rich food, amusements of all
kinds, gave him little pleasure, they
were matters *of course. He knew no
life of which they were not a part. He
did not work at sch<»ol or at college.
Why should he? Other men worked
to make a place for themselves in the
world. Hu place was already mads
for him. He neetkM no more millions
than his father could give him. He
had literally nothing to do but to
amuse himself. Now, there is 1 ut a lim­
ited number of amusements in the
world, and after a certain time the
senses, the nerves, the whole body,
grow jaded with e ich of them. By
the time this young man reached the
age of twenty-five, he was as sated
with pleasure as a gray-haired de­
bauchee. Cards, wine, sport, travel,
bored him; his physical strength was
exaiisted; his mimi though still imma­
ture, was almost imbecile. When a
sudden attack of illness carried him
out of this world, nobody in it was sor­
ry; himself, perhaps, least of all.
The story of this rich man and his
son has been repeated countless times
in the lives of our rich men. The
“gilded youth ” of our great cities
grow weary of 'balls, of steam-yachts,
of even the theaters, gambling and
drink. Their jaded appetite# crave
stronger diet. In the great centers of
riches and follv some of them crowd
in the small hours of the morning to
dens unknown to the police, to see
brutal combats between prize-fighters.
At a recent light between a woman
and a dog the ring was surrounded by
men worth millions. “ The only real
sensation I have enjoyed for years,”
said one of this cla^s lately, “was in
China last July, when I saw the execu­
tioner chop off five ’»eads in an hour.”
At heart those la<'s are made of as
good, manly stuff as others. They are
victims to the popular idea that the
sole use of money is amusement. Even
when weighted by huge fortune, as Na­
poleon Bonaparte once wrote to his
Marshal: “Surely wp should endeavor
to do something; to say that we have
lived; to leave some impress of our
lives upon the sands of Timo.”—FoiUA’s
Ccmuaniun.
—Wet, muddy feet and legs are ful­
ly as injurious to the lower orders of
animal life as they are to men. In-
fStlflrt tvftoht» tka «nhfltaAin a
of
nature to avoid such unwholesome ex­
posures, but man has obliged them to
grovel in such miserable places and is
therefore responsible for the results.—
SI. Louis Republican»
—It is said that in the first ages of
Christianity Satan sought to destroy
the church by persecution and failed,
but that when he joined the church and
patronized it with worldly power and
prosperity, he succeeded in well-nigh
smothering the life out of it. It looks
much as though he had succeeded in
retaining his membership in some of
the churches of the nineteenth cen-
t ury. — II ’ords a nd We apons.
—Dr. Mary Taylor Bissell, sister of
the president of Vassar, who is in
charge of the girls’ gymnasium in New
York City, is interested in the project
of a college of physical training for
girls. Whenever the college is ready
to receive pupils they will be measured
on entering, and an average gain of
two and a half inches about the chest,
five inches about the waist, one and a
half inches about the arm and an inch
above the forearm is what is looked
forward to as the desirable result of the
first year's bodily training and exercise
of the typical slim girl of seventeen.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
-
«-In Russia 255,000 persons are en­
gaged in the tobacco industry.
—The petroleum refiners of the
United States consume about nine mil­
lion pounds of sulphuric acid per
month.
—The subject of premature baldness
is one in which a vast number of per­
sons take a direct and lively interest.
According to the Lancet, there is little
doubt that such baldness is increasing,
and it is difficult to give any satisfac­
tory scientific explanation of the fact.
That journal dues not attribute much
Importance to the suggestion that ti fht
hats are injurious, but it declares that
harm may be done in time by washing
the head every morning, and neglect­
ing to replace the oily material thus re­
moved.— N. T. Leda er.
FREEDOM
FOR
HENS.
tlnw th. Ordinary Farm Crop Is AtTortad
by Ko.ln, Knwli.
uveu greater then the introduction of
fertilizing elements: for although under
the proper conditions the latter will
increase the quantity and value of the
rrops, too much w iter will effectually
prevent us from drawing any crops at
all.
Nothing, therefore, can ever be
done with land anywhere, if it be not
properly drained where there is too
much moisture, or properly irrigated
where the necessary natural water sup­
ply is. not forthcoming.
It is because of the vital importance
of this question that we are thus em­
phatic at this early stage. To ascer­
tain whence an excess of water pro­
ceeds is not by any means a matter of
difficulty; a very damp climate, a
spongy and retentive soil, the existence
of underground springs—all these, or
any of them, may be the causes of dis­
astrous effects, which can be easily
remedied by those possessed of such
knowledge as wo have attempted to
describe. In the first of the cases
named, the evil may be overcome by
ordinary surface drainage, but in the
second it is only after ascertaining the
true composition of the soil that we
can effect such mixtures with other
soil, or combinations with lime or sand,
as may suggest themselves as neces­
sary, while in the third case, the con­
struction of deep under-drains alone
will carry off the water from the sub­
strata without allowing it to reach the
surface.
Wherever there exists a faulty or
careless system of drainage, no correct
estimate of the agricultural value of a
property can possibly be formed; for
although from its excessive dampness
a soil may remain unproductive, it
may, nevertheless, contain all the
necessary elements of fertility.—
Hyatt's Modern High Farming.
Who could live for a number of years
in the country without hearing this re­
frain from the farmer's calendar?
April—••We're sowing oats—shut
up the hens!"
May—"We’re planting corn—shut
up the liens!"
And so on through the long summer
months. Their natural propensity to
scratch for a living makes the hens
seem to do a great deal of damage.
During last spring we either had to
stop and build a poultry-yard fence, oi-
let out the fowls. In this locality farm
help is necessarily scarce, for our near
neighbor gives men one dollar and
seventy-five cents per day in his quar­
ries. So, in self-defense, we let forty
fowls "run the farm” for us all sum­
mer. Unwilling to trust them in the
garden, we made one at a distance
from the house.
The fowls watered themselves at the
spring, and fed themselves from the
field, with t,he except on of a quart of
grain eaoh night They went to the
field as soon as the drill and scratched
away as if determined not to leave one
oat They followed the plow to the
corn lot and ran opposite to the har­
row in pulverizing the so 1. After
planting, they stayed there much of
the time, but the corn came up re­
markably well, the acre near the barns
best of all. No field within range
escaped their notice. They gathered
th&^^l< Ion fruit in the plum orchard,
n ndqL'l iked up all the Red Astrachans
each morning.
appleX 1 by daylight
_ _
They picked the cherries from small
trees, and preserved the currants and
red raspberries, The expense of keep-
ing was slight, All that they really
—The Louisville high school has
destroyed was some fruit Profit
opened a post-graduate com so* for
came when the labor item was left
young womon in typo-writing and
out.
The past season has been a sober one stenography. It will strike a great/
to many farmers A serioi s drought many people that this is more sensiHfi
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Gul in»» «■»>!
rheravrtAsvwry Shing but wee^>. wort al p ­ ,
—How» easily some of the acjnws
most every crop we have has been a „
After being
costly one. Looking forward, it seems members take cold!
that we must increase our income by -.vanned in a good praycr-meoting^hey
increasing productiveness or reducing afterward sit down in a draft of world­
expenses. On a small scale, I have ly conversation, and before they know
done both in my poultry-yard by giving it they are chilled through.— Indianap­
olis Journal.
the hens their liberty.
—The disestablishment of the Ro­
How they did lay! Such a commo­
tion and rivalry among the hens! Such man Catholic State Church at Pondi­
a rejoicing by the Spanish tenors! They cherry is now an accomplished fact,
began to lay early in the season, and and the ecclesiastical affairs of the an­
ronti Hied steadily until the fall fashions cient capital of French India will hence­
came, and they ordered new suits. forth be administered by a foreign mis­
When the berry crop was a partial fail­ sionary society, independent of looal
ure, and the prices way dow n, it was a control and free of cost to the Govern­
little solid comfort to liavo so satisfac­ ment.— Chicago Advance.
—Rev. and Mrs. William H. Gulick,
tory an income front the fowls.
To those who have fancy poultry­ who have for some years been mission­
houses. well-fenced yards and plenty aries of the Americau Board in Spain,
of money, this summer freedom may are attempting, with the approval of
seem a venture; but to the many who the Prudential Committee, to raise
have little time and money to spend, ♦100,000 for the school for higher edu­
it will be satisfactory to know that the cation of girls at San Sebastian, of-
ordinary farm crop is improved rather which they have for some time had
than harmed by the depredations of charge.— United Presbyterian.
the fowls. Strictly fresh eggs are
—The Bureau of Catholic Indian Mis­
easily sold for nr ore than market sions has issued a tabular statement of
prices; a few plump fowls can be dress­ Catholic schools among the Indiana
ed and sent to market any time at a There are twenty day and thirty-five
fair price, and chickens are always in boarding-schools, with 2.190 boarding
demand.
pupils and 870 day pupils. For these
Let us fence in our gardens or find 3.060 scholars the Government allows
new places for them, and when the ♦231,880. besides ♦40,000 for subsis­
warm spring weather comes, and you tence, clothing, etc.— N. F. lndepond-
start whistling for the field, call back ent.
your orders with the new refrain—
—The discovery ot a new gas is a
"Let out your hens!"— Cor. Country
rare and important event to chem­
Gentleman.
ists. Such a discovery has been an­
nounced in Germany by Dr. Theodore
SOIL ASSISTANTS.
Curtius. who has succeeded in prepar­
■Tow to Form a Correct Estimate of the ing the long-sought hydride of nitro­
Value of I.and.
gen. amidogen. diamide or hydrazine,
The acquirement of knowledge will as it is variously called. This remark­
naturally induce ua to seek by art to able body, which has hitherto baffled
assist or even to improve upon nature, all attempts at isolation, is now shown
and well considered preferences will be to bo a gas. perfectly stable up to a very
accorded to certain cultures and breeds high temperature, of a peculiar odor,
of cattle, while into the soil will be in. differing from that of ammonia, exceed­
troduced thoae elements of fertility in ingly soluble in water, and of basio
which it has been proved to be defi­ properties In composition it is nearly
cient. Sufficient attention will be paid identical with amnaorfia, both being
to drainage, the necessity of freeing compounds of nitrogen and hydrogen.
the land from an excess of water being —Public Umnion.