Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Fordwich Record, 1901-10-24, Page 2_VW A TRANSPARENT BIBLE. Providence That Seemed Dark Be- fore Becomes Clear. A despatch from Washington says: —Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text : Job xxviii, 17, "The crystal cannot equal it." Many of the precious stones of the Bible have come to prompt recogni- tion. But for the present I take up the less valuable crystal. Job, in ray text. compares saving wisdom with a specimen of topaz., An infi- del chemist or mineralogist would pronounce the latter worth more than the former, but Job makes an intelligent comparison, looks at re- ligion, and then looks at the crys- tal and,pronounces the former as of far superior value to the latter, ex- claiming, in the words of my text, "The crystal cannot equal it." Now, it is not part of my sernaln- ic design to depreciate the crystal, whether it be found in Cornish mine or Harz mountain or mammoth cave or tinkling among the Pend- ants of the chandeliers of a palace. The crystal is the star of the mountain ; it is the queen of cave;. and it is the cardrop of the hills ; it..finds its heaven in the dia- miand. Among all the pages of uat- oral history titers is no page more interesting to me than the page of crystallographic. But I w nt to show you that Job was right when, taking religion in one ham& and the crystal in the other, he declared that the former is of far snore value and beauty than the latter, recom- mending it to all the people and to all the ages, declaring "The crystal cannot equal it." 15 THE FIRST PLACE, 1 remark that religion is superior to the crystal in exactness. That shapeless mass of crystal against which you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out with more exactness than any earthly city. There ore six styles of crystallization and all of them divinely ordained. Every crystal has mathematical precision. God's geometry reaches through it, and it is a square, or it is a rec- tangle, or it is a rhomboid, or in some way it has a mathematical fig- ure. Now, religion beats that in the simple fact that spiritual accuracy is more beautiful than material ac- curacy. God's attributes are exact, God's management of the world ex- act. Never counting wrong though He counts the grass blades and the stars and the sands and the cycles. His providences never dealing with us perpendicularly when those pro- vidences ought to be oblique, nor laterally when they ought to be ver- tical. Everything in our life arrang- ed without any possibility of mis- take. Each life a six-headed prism. Born at the right time ; dying at the right time. There are no "hap- pen so's" in our theology. If I thought this was a slipshod universe I would be in despair.' God is not an anarchist. Law, order, symme- try, precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhom- boid, a perfect circle. The edge of Gears robe of . government never frays out, there are no loose screws in, the world's machinery. It did not just happen that Napoleon was attacked with indigestion at Boro- dino so that he became incompetent for the day. It did not just happen that John Thomas, the missionary, on a heathen island, waiting for an outfit and orders for another mis- sionary thins received that outfit and thote orders in a box that float- ed ashora, while the ship and the crew that carried the box were nev- er heard of. I believe in a particular providence. .I believe GOD'S GEOMETRY may be seen in all our life more beautifully than in crystallography. Job was right. " The crystal can- rot equal it." Again I remark that religion is su- perior to the crystal in transpar- ency. We know not when or by whom glass was first discovered. Beads of it have been found in the tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases of it are brought up from the ruins of Herculaneum. There were female adornments made out of it 8,004 years ago — those adornments found now aItached to the mummies of Egypt. A great many commenta- tors believe that my text- means glans. What would we do without the crystal ? The crystal in the window to keep out the storm and let in the day ; the crystal over the watch, defending its delicate machinery, yet allowing us to see the' hour ; the crystal of the tele- scope, by which the astronomer brings distant worlds so near he can inspect them. Oh, the triumph of the crystals in the -celebrated win- dows of Heiden and Salisbury ! But there. is nothing so transparent in a crystal as in our holy religion. It la a transparent religion. You can Oa it to your eye and yob see the man—his sin, his shul, his destiny. YOO look at God and you see 'some- thing "of the grandeur .of His char- acter. It is a transparent religion. Infidels tell us it is opaque. Do you know why they_ tell us it Is opaque ? It is because they aro blind . " The natural man receiveth not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned." There is no trouble -with the crystal. The trouble is with the eyes which try to look' through it. We pray for vision, Lord, that our eyes may be opened ! When the eye salve cures our blindness, then we find that re- ligion is transparent. People talk too much about their cross and not enough about their crowns. Do you know that the Bible mentions a cross but seventeen times, while it mentions a crown EIGHTY TIMES ? Ask that old man what he thinks of religion. He has been a close obserVer. Ho has been cultivating an aesthetic taste. He has seen the sunrises of half a century. He has been an early riser. He has been an admirer of cameos and corals and all kinds of beautiful things. Ask him what he thinks of religion, and he will tell you.: " It is the most beautiful thing I ever saw. The crystal cannot equal it. k Beautiful in, its symmetry. When it presents God's character, it does not present him as having love like a great protuberance on one side of His nature, but makes that love in harmony with His justice — a love that will accept all those who come to Him, and a Justice that will by ' no means clear the guilty. Beautiful re- ligion in the sentiment It implants! Beautiful religion in the hope that it kindles! Beautiful religion in the fact that it proposes to garland and enthrone and emparadise an immor- tal spirit. Solomon says it is a lily. Paul says it is a crown. The Apoc- alypse says it is a fountain kissed by the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged Cedar. Christ says it is a bridegroom come to. fetch home a bride. While Job in the text takes up a whole vase of precious atones--the topaz and the sapphire and the chrysopras- us—he holds out of this beautiful vase just one crystal and holds it up until it gleams in the warm light of the eastern sky, and he exclaims, "The crystal cannot equal It." Again', religion is superior to the crystal in its transformations. The diamond is only a crystallization. Carbonite of lime rises until it be- comes calcite or aragonite. .Red ox- ide of tamper crystallizes into cubes and octahedrons. Those crystals which adorn our persons and our homes and our museums have only been resurrected from forms that Were FAR FROM Lusulous Scientists for ages have been ex- amining these wonderful transforma- tions. But -I tell you in the gospel of the Son of God there is a more wonderful transformation. Over souls by reason of sill black as coal and hard as Roil God, by his com- forting grace, '"'stoops and says, "They shall• be mine in the day when I make up my jewels." "What!" say you. "Will Cod wear jewellery?" If He wanted it He could make the stars of the heaven His belt and have the evening cloud foe the sandals of His feet, but He does not want that adornment. He will apt have that jewellery. When God wants jewellery, he collies down and digs it out of the depths mid dark- ness of sin. These souls are all crys- tallizations of mercy. The puts them on and He wears them in the pres- ence of the whole universe. He wears them on the hand that was nailed, over the heart that was pierced, on the temples that were stung. "They shall be mine," saith the Lord, "in the day when I make up my jewels." Wonderful transformation! Where sin abounded grace shall much snore abound. The carbon becomes' the sol- itaire. "The crystal cannot equal it." Now, I have no liking for those people who are always entargiug in Christian meetings about their early dissipation. Do not go into the par- ticulars, my brothers. Shanty say you- were shit, Nit make no display of your ulcers. The chief stock in trade of sonde ministers and Chris- tian workers seems to be their early CRIMES AND DISSIPATIONS. The number of pockets you picked and the number of chickens you stole make very poor prayer meeting rhetoric. Besides that, it discour- ages other Christian people who ne- ver got drunk or stole anything. But it is pleasant to know that those who were farthest down have, been brought highest up. Out of infernal serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of darkness into light. From coal to the solitaire. "The crystal cannot equal it." "Oh," says some one, putting his hand over his eyes, "can it be that I who have been in so much sin and trouble will ever come to those crys- tals?" Yes, it may be—it will be. Heaven we mutt have, whatever we have or nave not, and we come here to get it. "How much must I pay for it?" you say. You will pay for it just as much is the coal pays to be- come the diamond. In other words, nothing. The same Almighty power that makes the crystal in the moun- tain will change your heart which is harder than stone, for the promise is, "I will take away your stony heart. and I will give you a heart Sf flesh." "Oh," says some one, "it is just the doctrine I want. mod is to do everything and I am to do nothing." My brother, it is not the doctrine you want. The coal snakes no resist- ance. It hears the resurrection voice in the mountain and it comes to Crystallization; but your heart res siste. The trouble with you, my brother, is the coal wants to stay !Mal. I do not ask you to throw open the door and let Christ in. I only ask that you stop bolting and bar- ring it. My friends, we will have to get rid of our sins. I will have to GET RID OF MY SINS, and you will have to get rid of your sins. What will we do with our sins among the three crys- tals? The crystal atmosphere would display our pollution. The crystal river would be befouled with our touch. Transformation must take place now or no transformation at all. Give sin full chance in your heart and the transformation will be downward instead of upward. In- stead of crystal it will be a cinder. In the days of Carthage a, Chris- tian girl seas condemned to die for her faith, and a boat wax bedaubed with tar and pitch and filled with combustibles and set on fire, and the Christian girl was placed in the boat and the wind nos Offshore and the boat floated away with its preciov treasure: No one can doubt that boat landed at the shore of heaven. Sin wants to put you in a fiery boat and shove you Off in an opposite direc- tion—off from peace, off from God, off from heaven, everlastingly off, and the port toward which you would sail would be a poll of dark- ness, and the guns that would greet you would be the guns of_ despair, and the flags that would wave at your arrival would be the black flags of death. Oh, my brother, you must either kill sin or sin will kill you! It. is no exaggeration when I say that any man or woman that wants to be saved may be saved. Tremen- dous choice! A thousand people are choosing this moment between salva- tion and destruction, between light and darkness, between charred ruin and glorious crystallization. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON d'CTOBER 27. Jesus said in His prayer to His Father, when speaking of His die- ciplos, "The glory which thou gayest Me I have given them" (John xvii, 22), and it is written in I Cor. 21-23, that all things arc ours, but many are so occupied , with their stuff and the care of it that they neither see nor enjoy their riches in Christ. 12, 18. "Tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that ye have seen." They probably found it difficult to believe their eyes, for it must have seemed too good and too wonderful to be true. When they ar- rived home and told their father, he believed them not until he saw the waggons which Joseph had sent. Then his spirit revived, and fie said: "It is enough. Joseph, my son, is yet alive. I will go and see him be- fore I die"(verses 26-28). As be- lievers bearing testimony to Christ, His sufferings and His glory and our inheritance in Him many will not 'believe unlees they - see some wag- gons, —something in our lives to prove the truth of our words. We are to love and prove our love not by words -only, but by the good works which He will work in us. 14, 15. The weeping and kissing and the communion afterwards make us think of the welcome which the prodigal son received and the feast that followed. This is the fourth of the navels weepings of Joseph, two of which are in our lesson (verse 2 and here). two in chapter 1, and one each in chapters xlvi. They are worthy of particular study. Note also the three weepings of our Lord, at the grave of Lazarus, over Jerusalem and in Gethsemane, and consider that by His great humilia- tion and sacrifice He has made pro- ision for the forgiveness and bring- ing near and everlasting care of all who come to Him. QUEEN- AND PEASANT. Her Womanly Kindness To His Two Children. man mistook the road, and the par- ty knew not which way to turn. One of the gentlemen in attendance ask- ed a countryman the _way. The man !coked at the fine carriages and boo-es, the servants in livery and the gay company, and thought they were simply snaking fun of him. He therefore refused to take their ques- tion serronsly. "As if you did not know, " he said, with a broad grin. The queen laughed, and assured him that they were lost. Not until then did the countryman condescend to point out the way, after which he walked off, as if still afraid of being laughed at. "Give hint twenty francs for his trouble," said the queen to one of her escort, who at once rode after the countryman. "Here, my man, is a little present from the Queen of Italy, who thanks you," said the messenger. "The queen !" replied the country- man, and immediately returned to the carriage. "Forgive me that I did not know thee," 'he said. "Thou art as beau- tiful as a May rose. Cod bless the" The carriage drove off, but the countryman, having once spoken to the queen, wanted to see her again. The following day he presented him- self at the palace, and asked to see her. "I know her," he said mysterious- ly. I spoke to her: -yesterday, and I want to speak to her again." The porter would have had this in- trusive countryman arrested for a madman had it not happened that the gentleman who had given the peasantUse twenty francs appeared at that moment and recognized him. When the queen heard of his arrival she sent for him. "Yes, 'tis thou," he said, in a tone of great satisfaction, when he looked again upon her face. " I thought I had seen a fairy. Thou art just an angel. I did not tell thee yesterday that I have two lit- tle ones without a mother. Wilt thou be their mother ? " With womanly kindness the queen accepted the trust. " Then there's the twenty francs thou gayest me yesterday," said the countryman. "I thank thee, but I want no money," and he went away crying and smiling like a little child. -The" queen adopted -the little ones, and they are in an institution under her specialp—atranage. — + CHILD'S DRESS. HOW TO FATTEN RIMS This latter will sink to the bottom, and prevent the fat from sticking to the same. Continue in like manner until all the fat has been boiled out of rough piec,es. The next day these milk pans may be emptied by sliding a knife aroual 'the edges of the pan, when the whole mass will come away in one solid block; these can be carefully stored until required. When milk is given to the young- sters to drink,. it should never be allowed to become sour, as in such condition it often causes diarrhoea to set up. But we consider that in the case of fattening fowls it is quite -different. Not only is sour milk not injurious to fattening fowls but we will go further and say that sour -milk is infinitely superior . to new milk for this purpose. Not one in a hundred fatters ever bother themselves about trying to free their birds of insects, when they are brought home for fattenina. Nevertheless nothing interim:ea more with the continual process of fatten- ing than the fact that the fowls are infested with these troublesome crea- tures. The insect powders sold for this purpose are too expensive to be used for fattening fowls, but great benefit to the birds will be gained by giving them a good dusting in FLOUR OF SULPHUR, • and the best and quickest way we know of is to have half of a small tub filled about one-third full with the sulphur. Let one man take the bird's head in one hand, and the feet in the other, and let someone else rub the sulphur on, and place the birds for ten minutes in some unused sised, or any handy place where they can give themselves a shake and get rid of the pests. The chickens should be put in a coop of small round bars. They should be from 1 to if inches apart and always put long ways, so that the birds can stand and eat out of the troughs. The bars in front of the coop should be about two inches apart. One coop three feet long and ; about sixteen inches wide is large enough for six birds. It should be eighteed inches high. The latteniiig coops are besb in a shed or outhouse where it is quiet and a little dark. !After placing the birds in the coops they should be left with- out any food for at least twelve hours. The exception being when they have been travelling many hour's before arriving at their dea- n ...Ron, when it is advisable to feed them as soon as convenient. There are many farmers who would never think of putting the birds in a coop to fatten, but shut -them in a pig-pen or out-building, and 'give them a let of food in a trough, so that they can run to it when they like, . THIS IS WRONG. When fowls are shut up in such places they ought to be fed careful- ly, so that they can clean up every particle of food. If proper care and attention cannot be given to the birds while in the fattening. coops; we strongly advocate the principle of allowing them their liberty. The proper times to feed acre as early in the morning as convenient, say, in swamies at six o'clock, and in winter at half-past seven, then ' again in the afternoon about five' o'clock in summer and four o'cloclel in winter. There are; nevertheless, some exceptions to this rule. Young rearing chickens require an extra feed's at noon, and and some,, large birds; quick at "emptying," may also with advantage be fed three times a day., But do not follow the plan recdm- mended by semi, of feeding fatten- ing fowls generally "little and of-, ten." They will sicken of their food very quickly, and this means a lot of useless and unnecessary labor. The usual mathod adopted for feeding the fowls during the first week of the process, Is to give what most Patters term, "Water gruel." This consists of nothing but the ground oats mixed up with water in- to a rather sloppy consistency. The idea is, that during the first week the bird's system is not trained to rich living, and many tatters prefer to do what they term - " GO STEADY AT FIRST." We are, however, persuaded that it milk (we refer of • course to either skim milk or sour pure milk) be added in proportion of one-half to that of water the extra cost is am- ply repaid by the Impetus . thus given to therfattening process. "During the -second week we increase the quality of milk regularly each day, so that by the end of this week we have discontinued the use of sea- ter-entirely, the solid portion of the food being still the ground oats. Twice during this and 'the following weeks the troughs should be filled at noon with some sharp flint grit. in order that the birds may replen- ish their stock of grinders, that aro often by this time becoming rapidly, used up. Towards the end of this, week a little of the -prepared fat' should be melted and mixed up in the food. . . During the third week, and for -so long a time as it may prove neces- sary, fat should be' added to the ground oats and milk, in the pro- portion of about a tablespoonful to each bird. Take a flat piece of wood about three inches broad, and 14 inched thick, round off the upper portion to serve as a handle, and thin off the lower end in the shape of a BROAD FLAT BLADE. This will serve the double purpose of mixing up the food and doling the proper quantities out to the birds. Having allowed the fowls to fast for a sufficient period, an previously, recommended, the fatter should, with his wooden ladle, put a little foods in the troughs, and as this becomes cleared up more should be added. A good fatter will never (anyhow with "green birds") put in all the food that he thinks necessary into the trough at once, but will keep on re- plenishing with small quantities un- till he notices the birds are. showing signs of having had enough, when ho will at once discontinue, and having left them for half an hour or so to thoroughly clear up what remains in the troughs, come back and turn the troughs upside down., This lats ter he does for several reasons, mss being, that if the troughs are left in the ordinary way, the droppings from the fowls are liable to get into them; add this is most undesirable. Then, too, the birds will often keep pecking away at the troughs, which in time become so worn that they often swallow slivers of wood, which are injurious to them, and again, should it come on to rain the troughs become full of water, and the fowls are liable to fill their crops with' it' and thus not take nearly ad much of their fattening food when placed before them on the next meal. ##' # SHILAING SOBS. "Do you see that woman in black sitting there ?" sold a railway detec- tive. "Well shb possesses the rare gift of being able to cry naturally and at will. If she sees a group of well- dressed men in a station waiting for a train, she'll sit or stand very near them and burst out crying. The story is that she has no money' to buy a ticket to got, to her dying daughter in the next town. Crying at will is something I don't under- stand. I have seen many women cry on ,the stage, .but this woman's cry is much nearer the real thing. She does not hold a handkerchief to her eyes at all. She just keeps her face well up and .sobs freely, her tears rolling down her cheeks that all may see them. She can cry anywhere. The idea of sending sobbing women into audiences at theatres has re- cently been found by London mad- ogees. of small theatres to be a pay- ing speculation, and at the present time dozens of women earn at least one shilling per evening by sobbiag at stated intervals in the play." THE WATER WE DRINK. Do we drink enough water ? The question is asked by the Sanitary. Engineer, who evidently thinks we do not. Says our contemporary — "We believe that much of the bene- fit that comes from visiting the most noted watering places is not so much because of any special medici- nal property as because of the free use of the water itself independent of any real or alleged mineral prop- erties, combined xvith •the rest. Peo-' pie go to drink the water and bathe in it, and they drink it morning„ noon and night, and between times, and during the night. As a reseiLt the stomach, bowel's,, kidneys,. pores, and even the blood vessels theniselves, get a -much-needed flush- ing, and the over-clogged machinery of life gets a fresh start, and the supposed mineral In the water gets, the praise. a — .• ONLY TRUST. I often' pause to think,— As through this life we gO, if we could only trust, We mydn't worry so! Oh, sir, please, I have swallowed a pin! exclaimed a servant girl, run-- ning into her employer's study. Ne-, ver mind, Mary, he replied., deep in study, here's another. Text of the Lesson, Gen. xlv., 1-15:" Golden Text, Rom. Xii. j 21. 1-3. "There stood no man with him while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren." The story as told in the intervening Chapters between the last lessen and this one is most fascinating in .its detail of Joseph's dealings with his brethren, but especially in its fore- shadowing of coming events in con- nection with thg return of. Christ and His revelation to His brethren. The first, visit of Joseph's ten breth- ren to buy corn, Benjamin being carefully kept at home lest evil might befall him. Joseph's recogni- tion of his brethren, his trying them by calling them spies and putting them in ward three days, their re- membrance of their sin and conver- sation concerning it in the presence of Joseph, whom they supposed did not undertstand their language, as he had spoken to them through an interpreter ; his holding Simeon as n hostage till they shoula bring their younger brother, his sending the others back with corn and each man's money secretly put in his sack and Jacob's pitiful cry when told that the ruler of Egypt ;would not see them again unless Benjamin was with them—this is all told in chap- ter xlii. Their second visit, taking Benjamin and double money (the returned money and money to buy more corn) and a present for the man, Joseph's reception of thorn and feast for them in his own house, with Isis special interest in and favor to Benjamin, are told in chapter xliii. Joseph's plan, seemingly, to retain Benjamin and the earnest and eloquent' plea of Judah, who had be- come surety for Benjamin, are the topics of chapter xliv. Now follows in our lesson Joseph's revelation of himself to them. 4, 5. "And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come nearer to me I pray You." Nothing in his heart' but love arid pity and forgiveness for them its lie yearns over then. He would take them to his heart and bless them, bidding thorn not to be grieved nor angry with themselves because of their past mis-iondect, as- suring them that God had overruled it all for the good of maser. His Words. while comforting, were truly heart searching, for we cannot know the comfort of forgiveness in its fullness till we, have seen and felt something of the enormity of our sin. To his first words, "I am Jos-• eph,"he now adds, "I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold , into Egypt.", There could be no mistak- ing this. He was the very :Mete Joseph whom they had envied and hated and sold as a slave to the Midianites as they said, "We shall see what will become of his dreams.' 6, '7. "God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your. lives by a great deliverance. We can hardly suppose that the hand of God :vas as plain to Joseph in all the events of the past years, in his slavery and imprisonment, as it was to him now looking back upon it from the glory to which he had been brought. We cannot see how all things are work- ing together for our good as children of God, and we do not always con, sider, that they work together ac- cording to His purpose to conform us to the image of His Son atom. viii, 28, 29), but as truly as Jos- eph could loqk 'back and see, not his cruel -brethren, but God working out His purposes, so we shall find that no real evil has ever befallen us and that all enemies and all adverse cir- cumstances have been really for us, for our good, unde,r the controlling hand of God. 8. "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God, and He bath made me a father to Pharaoh," Note the threefold "God Sent rue" (verses 5, 7, 8). We think of mar Lord Jesus, who; when suffering so much from His enemies, saw not them ;-`but His Father, and said. "The cup which My Father bath given Me, shall I not drink it ?" (John xviii, 11.) When Shimer cursed David and threw stones at him, David saw not Shinier, but Cod, and just left him to God to manage (II Sam, xvi, 5-13). It is blessed indeed to see God and not people or circumstances and believe that not a dog can move its, tongue against us without God's permission (Ex. xi, 7). See also Isa. xli, 12, 18 ; liv, 17. 9-11. "Thus saith thy son Jos- eph, God lath made me lord of all Egypt. Come down unto me ; tarry not." This was the message to his dear old father urging him to come quickly with all his children and children's children and flocks - and herds that Joseph might nourish and care for them. See the verse follow-` ieg the portion assigned for our lee, son and note the interest Pharaoh took in bringing Jacob and all that he had down to Egypt, sending wag- gons for the wives and little ones and urging them to regard not their Stuff, because the good of till the land of Egypt was theirs. Our Lord • 6 Months to 4. Years. Pointed yokes, with bretelles fall- ing over the shoulders, are exceed- ingly becoming to- the little folk, and make a charming effect. This dainty frock is made of sheer Persian lawn, with all-over tucking and trimming of Valeirciennes lace, but the design is suited to all fabrics used for wee children:white for occasions of dress colors for the times of play and frolic. i Tocut this dress fora child of two years of age 2-j- yards of ma- terial 82-inches wide will be requir- ed, with f yard of tucking and 32 yards of insertion to trim as illus- trated. IMPORTANT BRANCH OF_ POUL- TRY FARMING. Britain Has An Inexhaustible De- mand for Prime Quality Fowls. The late summer and fall is Use time when the farmer disposes of his fowl. To dispose of these to the very best advantage some attention should be given to the work of fat- tening and preparing them for market. Too many farmers neglect this, and at the same time expect to reap a large orient out of their poultry. -It is now agreed that the very best way of fattening poultry is to inclose a few fowls in a small compartment and feed them all they will eat of good fattening food. The usual time required to proper ly fatten a fowl is about three weeks. But good-sized, well-condi- tioned pullets often"make-up" in a fortnight, whereas very large-framed cockerels will take four and some- times as much as five weeks, before they are fully fatted. A fatter, how- ever, does not care much how long a bird :may take to fatten, provided that he is putting on flesh the whole time, and that when he is in fit con- dition to kill he will be worth a good round sum at the finish. As a rule, fetters do not give the food otherwise than in a coldotate and we think that during the sum- mer time this is to be preferred. But we are finally convinced that in cold weather greater benefit will ao- cruet by . WARMING THE MILK or water used, and thereby making the food not hot' but nicely warm when taken by the birds. The best way to mix up the food is, to place what Milk or water is required into a pail, then add in the ground oats a little at a time, and stir well with a wooden ladle. Continue to add The Naples papers tell, a pr8hty more meal until the whole is suffici- story of Margherita, now the win- ently thickened. Ninety gallon casks owed queen dowager of Italy. On sawn in half are admirably adapted one occasion, as she was driving to for wiling the food, and also make the royal wood of Licalo, the conch- capital receptacles for storing milk. A good-Sized copper should be er- ected out-in the open, not too close to the dwelling house, as the Prep- aration of fat for the fowls is not a pleasant operation to have perform- ed just under an open window, espe- cially if flue wind happens to be blowing in that direction. Empty in one or two hundredweights of rough fat (which can Le bought from most butchers at about 2c a pound) ac- cording to the size of the copper, amt pour in sufficient water to cov- er the whole several inches deep. After an hour or two's boiling, the fat will rise to the top, and should then be skimmed, and put into a pail. Have ready in some cool place a few milk pans, and pour the hot fat from the pail into one of these, then, when cooled a little. pour in a - CUPFUL OF ,COLD WATER.