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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-5-3, Page 3VICTORY IN DE .T1L iE10101Y DT RAY. T, DE W ITT TAA- ]Ius l , D.D. eereaohed: at the Academe- of Nude and the 'tlrest Preebytoriau Churches to Crowded Audiences -His Text Taken Froin 1, Con, 15-54.. B•tov. Dr. Talmage preached twice in New York -at the Academy ox Music and the West Presbyterian church—on both occasions to crowded audiences. One o •ofthe sermons was on the subject, of "Eas- ter Jubilee," the text being taken from I. Cor. 15.54, "Death ;is s swallowed up in victory," About eighteen hundred and sixty-one Easter mornings have awakened the .earth. In France for three centuries the almanacs made the year begin at Easter until Charles IX. made the year begin at •Janu try 1st. In the Tower of London there i3 a royal pay -roll of Edward I., on which there is an entry of eighteen pence for four hundred colored and pictured Easter siege, with which the people sport- ed, In Russia slaves were fed and alpis were distributed on Easter, E:lelesiattitical councils met at Pontus, �at Gaul, at Rome, at Aehaia, to decide the particular day, and. after a centro- vorsy more animated than gracious, de- eided it, and. now through all Christen- dom in some way, the first Sunday after 'the full moors which happens upon or vnext after March 21 is filled with Easter rejoicing, The royal court; of the Sab- baths is made up of fifty-two. Fifty-one are princes in the royal household ; but Easter ie queen. She wears a richer diadem, and sways a more jeweled seep - ter, and in her smile nations are irridiat- ed. We welcome this queenly day, hold- ing high up in her right hand the wrenched -off bolt of Christ's sepulchre, and holding high up in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries, in Chris- tendom. My text is an ejaculation. It is spun out of hallelujahs. Paul wrote right on in his argument about the resurrection, and observed all the laws of logic, but when ha came to write the words of the text his fingers and his pen and the parchment on which he wrote took fire, and he cried out : "Death is swallowed up in victory !" It is a dreadful sight to see -an army routed and flying. They scat- ter everything valuable on the track. Unwheeled artillery. Hoof of horse on breast of wounded and dying man. You have read of the French falling back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track of ninety thousand corpses in the snowy banks of Russia, or of the five kings tumbling over the rocks of Bethoram with their armies, white the hail storms of heaven and the swords of Joshua's hosts struck them with their fury. But in my text is •a worse discomfiture. It seems that a black giant proposed to conquer the earth He gathered for his host all the aches and pains and maladies and dis- tempers and epidemics of the ages. He marched them. down, drilling them in. the northeast wind, amid the slush of tempests. He hrew up barricades of grave mound. He pitched tents of char- nel -houses. Some of the troops mar'hed with slow tread. commanded byconsump- tion ; some in double-quick, commanded by pneumonia. Some he took by long besiegement of evil habits, and some by one stroke of the battle-ax of casualty. With beney hand he pounded at the .doors of hospitals and sick -rooms and won all the victories in all the great ,battle fields of all the five continents. '`Forward, march l the conqueror of con- •querors, and all the generals and nom - m enders in -chief, and all presidents and kings and sultans and czars drop under the feet of his war charger, But one Christmas night his antagon- ist was born. As most of the plagues and sicknesses ant despotisms came out of the East, it was appropriate that the new conqueror should come out of the same -quarter. Po wer is given him to awaken all the fallen .tall "the eenturies and of all lands and marshal them against the black giant. Fields have already been won, but the last day will see the deci- sive battle. When Christ shall lead forth His two brigades, the brigade of the risen dead ani. tbe brigade of the celestial host, the black giant will fall back, and the brigade from the riven sepulchres will taka him from beneath. and the brigade of descending immortals will take him from above, and "deathshall be swallow- ed up in victory." The old braggart that threatened the conquest and demolition of the ]dant has lost his throne, has lost his sceptle. has lost his palace, has lost his prestige, and the one word written over all the gates of mausoleum and cata- comb and necropolis, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the lonely cairn of the Arctic explorer and on the catafalque of great cattle iral, . written in capitals of azalea and calla lily, written in musical cadence; written in doxology of great assemblages, written on the seulptured door of the family vault, is "Victory." Coronal word, embannered word, apo - maypole word, chief word of triumphal -arch under which conquerors return. Victory ! Word shouted at Colloden and Balaktava and Blenheim: at Megiddo and 'Solferino; at Marathon. where the Athen- ians drove back the Medes; at Poietiers. where Charles Martel broke the ranks of 'the Saracens ; at Salamis, where Themis- tocles in the great sea fight confounded the Persians, and at the door of the East- ern cavern of chiselled rook, whore Christ came out through a recess and throttled the King of Terrors and put him back in the niche fr tm whieh the celestial Con- quoroe had just emerged. Ah L when the jaws of the Eastern mausoleum took down the black giant, ° death : was swallowed up in victory." I proclaim the abolition of death. The old antagonistic . is driven back into .mythology with all the lore about Sty- gian ferry and Charon with oar and boat, We shall have no more to do with death than we have with a cloak room at a 'Governor's or President's levee. We stop at such cloak room and leave in charge of the servant our overcoat, our overshoes, our outward apparel, that we may not be impeded in the brilliant round of the drawing -room. Well, my friends, when we go out of this world we are going to a King's banquet, and to a reception of monarchs, and at the door of the tomb we leave the cloak of flesh and the wrappings with which we meet the stoves of the world. At the close of our earthly reception, under the brush and broom. of the porter, the coat, or hat may be handed to us better than when we re- signed it, and tbe cloak of humanity will finally be -returned to ne im- proved and brightened and puri- fied and lglorified, 'You and I do n it want our bodies returned to us as they are now. We want to git rid of all rt oir;weaknesses, azid all their suscepti- bilities to fatigue, and all their slowness of locomotion. They /will be put through a ehem.stry of soil and heat and cold and changing seasons out of which God will reconstruct them as 'much better than they are now asthe boar of the rosiest and healthiest child that bounds over the lawn is better than the sickest patios in the hospital. But as to our soul we will cross right over, not waiting for obsequies, indepen- dent of obituary, into a state in every way better, with wider room and veloci- ties beyond computation; the dullest of us into the companionship of the very best spirits in their very best moods, in the very best room of the universe, the four walls furnished and, panelled and pictured and glorified with all the splen- dors that the infinite God in all ages has been able to invent. victory. This view, of course, makes it of little importance whether we are cremated or sepultures, At least a hundred thousand of Christ's disciples were cremated, and there can be ne doubt about the resurrects tion of their bodies. If the world lasts as much longer as ithas already been built, there perhaps may be no room for the large acreage set apart for resting -places, but that time has not come Plenty of room yet, and the race need not pass that bridge of $re until it comes to it. The most of us prefer the old way. Bat whether out of natural disintegration or cremation we shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome, transcendent, magmas ficeut, inexplicable structure called the resurrection body, you will have it. I will have it. I say to you to -day, as Paul said to Agrippa, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" Things all a' ound us suggest it. Out of what grew all these flowers? Out of the mould and earth. Resurrected. Re- surrected, The radiant butterfly, where did it come from ? The loathsome cater- pillar. That albatross that smites the tempest with its wing, where did it come from ? A senseless shell. Near Bergerac, .Crane, in a Celtic tomb, under a block, were found flower seeds that had been buried two thousand years. The explor- er took the flower seed and planted it and it came up, it bloomed into bluebells and heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried, yet resurrected. A traveller says he found in a mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that had been buried there tnree thousand years ago. He brought them out, and on July 4, 1844, he plant- ed them, and in thirty days they sprang up. Buried three thousand years, yet resurrected. "Why should it be a thing in- credible with you that God should raise the dead?" The insects flew and the worms crawled last autumn feebler and feebler and• then stopped. They have taken no food, they went none. They lie dormant and insensible, but soon the south wind will blow the resurrection trumpet, and the air and the earth will be full of them. Do you not think that God can do as much for our bodies as he does for the wasps, and the spiders, and the snails ? This morning at half -past 4 o'clock there was a resurreetion Out of the night, the day. In a few weeks there will be a resurrection in all our gardens. Why not some day a resur- rection amid all the graves ? Ever and anon there are instances of men and wo- men entranced. A trance is death, fol- lowed by resurrection after a few days. Total suspension of mental power and voluntary action. Rev. William Ten- naut—a great evangelist of the last generation, of whom,Dr. Arehibald Alex- ander, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms—Rev. Wil- liam Tennant seemed to die. His spirit seemed to have departed. People came in day after day and said : "He is dead; he is dead." Bat the soul return- ed, and William Tennant lived to write out experiences of what he had seen while his soul was gone. It may be found seme time that what is called sus- pended animation or .comatose state is brief death, giving the soul an excursion into the next world, from which it comes back—a furlough of a few hours granted from the conflict of life to which it must return. Do not this waking up of men from trance, and this waking up of grains buried three thousand years ago, make it easier for you to believe that your body and mind, after the vacation of the grave, shall rouse and rally, . though there be three thousand years between our last breath and the sounding of the arch angelic reveille? Physiologists tell us that while the most of our bodies are built with such wonderful economy that we can spare nothing, and the loss of a finger is a hindrance, and the injury of a toe joint makes us lame, still we have two or three apparently useless physical apparati, and no anatomist or physiolo- gist has ever been able to tell what they are good for. Perhaps they are the foundation of the resurrection body, worth nothing to us in this state, to be indispensibly valuable in the next state. The Jewish rabbis appear to have had a hint of this suggestion when they said that in the human frame there was a small bone which was to be the basis of the resurreetion body. That may have been a delusion. But this thing is cer- tain, the Christian scientists of our day have found out that there are two or three superfluities of the body that are something gloriously suggestive of ano- ther state. I called at my friend's house one sum- mer day. I found the yard all piled up with rubbish of carpenter's and mason's work. The door was off. The plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof was be- ing lifted in cupola. All the pictures were gone and the paperhangers were do- ing their work. All the modern im- provements were being introduced into that dwelling, There was not a room in the house fit to live in at that time, al- though a month before when I visited that house everything was so beautiful I could not have suggested an improve- ment. My friend had gone .with his family to the Holy Land, expecting to come back at the end of six months, when the building was to be done. And oh ! what was his joy when at the end of six months he returned and the old house was enlarged and improved and glorified. That is your body. It looks Well now. All the roonis filled with health, and we could hardly make a sug- gestion. But after a while your soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you ate gone the old house of your taber- nacle will be entirely reconstructed from cellar to attio every nerve, muscle, and bone and tissue and artery must be haul- ed over, and the old structure will be burnished and adorned, and raised and eupaloed and enlarged, and all the im- provements of heaven intro limed, and jrou will move into it on Resurrection Day. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the hea- vens," Oh,' what a day when and soul meat again ! They very fond of each tither, Des ., body ever has a pain and SOW, not re-echo it? Or, e. bag the question, (lit your soul ever any trouble and your body not thine with .it, growing wan a under the depressing., your soul ever he : body celebrate cheek and el never intender very long sep world's last E the soul will d':. ray body?" and. saying, "Where is Lord of the resurreetion together, and it will be a per e perfect body, introduced by a pe Christ into a perfect heaven. Victory HOW PEANCIS GROW, 'Choy Start in the Air and Afterward Borrow into the Ground. Most residents of the north Kaye wholly erroneous ideas about the way in which peanuts grow. If questioned on the subject nine persons out of ten would probably declare with confidence that this favorite luxury of circus going youth is a root development, much as potatoes are. That peanuts, when ripe are dug out of the earth is true, but they begin operations in the air an i never have anything to do with the roots of their parent vine. From a bulletin issued by the department of agriculture is gleaned the following information on this inter- esting subject : "The blossom of the peanut is at the end of a long, pedicellike calyx tube, the ovary being at the base. After the fall of the flower, the peduncle, or " spike," elongates and bends downward, pushing several inches into bhe ground, where the ovary at its extremity begins to enlarge and develope into a pale, yellowish, wrin- kled, slightly curved pod, often contract- ed in the middle, containing from one to three seeds. should the ' spike' by acci- dents not be enabled to thrust efts point in the ground within a few hours after thefall of the flower it withers and dies. "More or less abundantly scattered over the roots of the peanut plants are warts of about the size of a pinhole, or larger. These tubercles, as they are usually called, 'play a very important part in the life history of the plant. Within them, while in a fresh or grow- ing state, may be scent by the aid of a good microscope, myriads of very minute organisms. The bacteria -like bodies live partly on the substance supplied from the roots,but at the same time they take from the air and elaborate for the use of the plant considerable quantities of nitrogen. Nitrogen is the most expensive element shat must be supplied to plants in fer- tilizers. The organisms living in these porous tubercles take it abundantly from the air, of which it comprises about five - fifths, and supply it to the plants with- out any cost. In this way a total amount of nitrogen is often acquired by the plant far in excess of the amount analyses show to be present and avail- able in the soil. "Like many other extensively culti- vated plants, the peanuthas not been found in a truly wild state, and hence it it difficult to fix upon its habitat. So widely has it been cultivated in eastern countries that some botanists have attempted to trace its spread from China and Japan, thence through the East Indian Islands to India, and thence to Africa, where in the seventeenth century it was so extensively cultivated and had become such an important article of native food that the slavedealers loaded their vessels with it, using it as fool for their cargoes of daptives. But the weight of authority seems to be in favor of accept- ing it as a native of Brazil. thus adding the peanut to the four other plants of commercial importance that America has contributed to the agriculture of the world—namely, cotton, Indian corn, po- tato and tobacco. Though it may be a native of the western continent, it early Weenie a largely cultivated plant in the warmer portions of the old•world, teen- pying a distinct place in the agriculture of those countries long before its merits were recognized in the land of its origin." CARE OF THE PIANO. The Better the Instrnnient is Treated the More Melodious It Is. A musical instrament may be regarded in the light of an exotic. costly and re- quiring constant and careful attention. It is also like a race -horse; the better its treatment the more it responds to the hand, and even in the evening of its old age is a thing of beauty with a past re- cord of great things accomplished. Frequently, though, a costly and beau- tiful piano grows worthless and tuneless because it has been neglected. Like a race -horse, also, it needs to be kept covered after use. In frosty weather, especially, always close it when not in use, and, if possible, throw a cover over it. Keep it in a mod- erately warm room, not too near the source of heat, and let the temperature be even. Not cold one day and hot the next, but warm all the time—say sixty or seventy degrees the year round. Always place the piano against an in- side wall, and a little out from it. Shun the itinerant tuner who comes unrecommended, and of whom you have no previous knowledge. As soon intrust your own ills to a quack as your delicate high-strung instrument to an ignoramus who had much better be shoeing horses or sawing wood than meddling with pianos. Do not allow children to drum on it. True, Prof. Banghard may expend a like amount of strength upon his keyboard— I doubt if it thoroughly enjoys either treatment, But if the right keys are struck it will not affect it nor you so seri- ously as where children amuse them- selves and wreck the Christian tempers of all listeners, but of those of their fond mammas, by their soul -distracting sounds. Resolutely avoid littering the tops with bric-a-brae, for it unquestionably affeets the tone. A well known maker recommends fre- quent wiping off of the case with chamois skin wrung out of tepid water, and. where the case is veryhighly polished and dark this is not only necessary but productive of good results and little else will answer to remove the dust that settles resolutely in the rightly named fret work. But if you are afraid to try this and you want to remove finger marks and blue mold, take salad oil and vinegar, andrub on a very little of this mixture with a soft rag and with vast persever- ance, mighty muscle and a soft woolen rag—rub until your arm threatens to drop from the socket; then survey your work with a critic's eye, and you wilt doubtless pronounce the result good. armer as for many diverse e that the most n's nervous dice al diseases and sick eeled boots. auses of impure milk thmilking pe; water in ande filth ; anlacd as. auses readilycontrolled they are insable, The farmer who ex- poses his cows to such cuuditions has no right to complain of low priess and laek of customers. On the contrary, he should. be fined for imperilling the public health by attempting to place on the market a tainted article which is liable to spread disease. If farmers would only unite and bind themselves to observe scrupul- ous cleanliness in all the branches of milk production they might readily double its consumption. The "cowy" odor and the black sediment are the greatest hindrances to the rapid develop- ment of the industry. Farmers have a tendency to get into ruts in farming, and in nothing is this tendon sy more marked than in seeding down to grass either for pasture or mea- dow. Timothy and red clover are the standbys that old-fashioned farmers al- ways sow, But for pasture, especially, a mixture of several other grasses or clovers with thews will grow more in quantity and of better quality than without them. Comparatively few farm ers have ever sown the sweat -scented. vernal grass. It is a grass good for either pasture or meadow, and a sprinkl- ing of itthruugh the hay makes a groat difference in the relish with which all kinds of animals eat it. The amateur farmers are those who have heretofore sown most of the sweets3ented vernal grass. But they have shown that every termer can grow it if they will so w the seed. Now that the fragrance of pasture and feed is found to be important in mak- ing good butter, it is to be hpped that more of the sweet scented vernal will be sown as feed intended for cows, In bulletin No. 21 of the Iowa station it is said that while the grain is the chief article of food of the corn crop in Miss- issippi, the stalks also form valuable fodder that must be considered in the fu- ture by the farmers. It says that the plants first make the food that fattens animals and then use it for forming the grains. The stalks are consequently rich in nutriment before the ears have , been formed, but nevertheless a certain per- centage always remains in the blades and stalks. It is well to wait until the grain is thoroughly ripe before cutting, but then the corn needs cutting rapidly,. and if done in five days from the time the blades and husks begin to dry there will be more fo.;d saved in the stalks. Every day the corn is left growing after this there will be a loss of nutritious food in the plants. Farmers to get the ad- vantages of highest nutriment in corn and stalks, must watch the stage of ripening carefully and then cut in time. All good farmers should thoroughly understand that the potato patch is just the place where manure applications and good culture will give the most satisfac- tory results. The foundation, of course, should be soil that is well supplied with vegetable matter (humus), and it is no w generally conceded that the best prepara- tory treatment to fit a piece for produc- ing a good potato crop is growing clover on it, and by letting the roots and stubble of the turned -over sod loosen and enrich the soil. Manure, ashes or other mineral plant foods should always be given to the clover in generous rations. First, feed the clover, and then let the clover feed the potatoes. On some soils direct appli- cations of commercial concentrated fer- tilizers, especially of the specialvegetable or potato manures offered by leading fer- tilizing manufacturers, s now remarkably good results, and growers working such soils should never odiiit to use at least a moderate quantity, say 600 pounds per acre, when these manures can be obtain- ed at anything like a reasonable price. On the whole, I say it is not profitable to neglect the potato crop, or accord to it onlythe indifferent care and management so commonly bestowed upon our ordinary grain crops. An acre of potatoes should bringin as much money as eight or ten acres of wheat. :HORTICUIJTURAL NOTES. Old canes should be cut out and burned as soon as done bearing. Making a hot bed is not a very great task, and it advances the season weeks sometimes, when thespring happens to be late. The tree secret of successful watering can be summed up in this rule of twenty words : Whenever plants are thirsty, give water to reach the bottom of the pot,. then wait until they are thirsty again. Unless the orchardist has had years of experience in observing the habits of growth of different varieties and of not- ing the quality and market values of dif- ferent sorts, he should give early atten- tion to this subject, for on proper selec- tion of varieties hinges the question of success or failure in fruit growing. Onions will stand more fertilizing than any other crop we know of. They are rank feeders and pay well for extra care. They do best on a loose, friable soil that will not bake after a rain, though any land that will grow corn will produce a crop. The heading back of large trees is the first step to rapid decay. If large trees have grown too tall to be of the service originally intended, it will save time to cut them out altogether and plant new ones rather than to trifle with them by heading them back. A lady who has travelled considerable suggests that this heading back of large trees is peculiarly a Philadelphia practice. If this be so, it must come from the fact that people ignorantly plant the silver maple as a shade tree, simply because it happens to grow fast when young. Its peculiar habit of growth soon deprives it of b the utility expected from a shade tree—it is this failure to supply the original want which suggests the heading back pro- cess. "Some of the produce we get sells it- self, and we hardly know that we have had it," said a prominent commission merchant the other day. "It comes from mon who have been sending us goods for years ,; their product is al ways good and oomss in excellent shape, and for Infants and Children. THIRTY rutted observation of Castoria with the patronage of millions of persons, permit ns to speak fit tvithont ass p �p o guessing. � It is unquestionably Ole best remedy for Infants and Children the world has ever know. rt is harmless, Children like it. It gives them health. It will save their lives. in it Mothers have something which 3s absolutely safe and.iraotioallgyerfeot as r► child's medicine. Castoria destroys Worms. Castoria allays Feverishness, Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Cnrd. Castoria antras D.iarrrhara and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves Teething Troubles. Castoria cures Constiiatiou end Flatnleneq Castoria neutralizes the effects of earbonio acidgals or poisonous air. Castoria does not containmorphine, opium, or other nareotio property. Castoria assimilates the food? regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is put up in one -size bottles only. It is not sold in' bulk. Don't allow ani one to sell you anything else on the plea or promise that ft is "just as rood" and "will answer every purpose." See that you gat C-A.-rs-T-O-R -A. The fan -simile signature of is an every wrapper: Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. i.'!KGs!?"iv$iuil4tie+r�.:��•,'tly�iYr.� ;r,,w:;er;� ... we have • customers all ready to take it. Such shippers get prices that satisfy them, and they have made money. Bat there are others who send stuff that it takes mighty hard work by a good sales- man to sell. Such are not suited, don't make much money, and no one cares to receive their shipments." To which class do you belong? It is easy to -get out of your class" isn't it? "Yes," to go down, but "not" to get up. At a recent horticultural meeting at Rochester there was a long discussion of the qualities of various kinds of pears. S. D. Willard thought that appearance rather than quality was desirable in a market pear. Mr. Hooker said that for Western New York the most desirable standard pear is the Bartlett among the standards, the Duchess among the dwarfs. The Anjou is also a good var- iety. The Keitfsr., said Mr. Hooker, is doubtful. It has done remarkably well in the south. The Clairgeau is dropping off. President Barry said his list would have at the head the Winter Nelms, which is a great bearer, one of the greatest bear- ers among the pears; it bears every year, and in fact is inclined to overbear. It is one of the favorite pears of California. The Beurie Bose is next in Mr. Barry's estimation. Mr. Barry is inclined to view the pear question in lunch the same light as does Mr. Willard. He believes that the appearance of the fruit in market causes' it to sell, rather than the quality. For this reason Mr. Barry would place the Clairgeau next in his lief. This var- iety, said he, is very showy. And a Clairgeau loaded with fruit is as hand- some a sight as a fruit tree can present. The tree is perfect in form. Mr. Barry would add the Anjou, making a. list of the best four varieties he can name. LIVE -STOCK NOTES. It does not pay to keep two animals on food only sufficient for one. Poultry must have constant every -day Dare, and judgment must be exercised in the management. If you have just started in the business of winter dairying it isn't to be supposed that you can make as much money out of it as you can next winter, or the win- ter after that. Are your cows doing as well as you ex- pected ? If not, you have either expect- ed too much, or else you have forgotten to tighten all the screws to your dairy sys- tem. There is only one main goal to aim at, and that is, to make the caws give you back more than they cost you in food and care. Poor horses are not profitable. There are thousands of them in the West that are not worth their keeping, and these animals go begging, demoralizing the whole market. kine west -bred animals can find two purchasers where the infer- ior ones are looking for one who is will- ing to invest in him. Farmers who are raising good horses from good. stock need not fear that purehaserscannotbe found. The rule holds good in every kind of business that honest work, though it may be for a time poorly compensated, never fails to be rewarded. There is a double loss in the feeding of young stock in winter if they are not kept in thrifty growth. Not only is the food wasted, but the animal's digestion is injured and it is permanently stunted, never attaining the size that it would had growth continued uninterrupted from the first. To feed young animals well there should be not only nourishing food, but it must be easily digestible. Some degree of succulence is important to prevent constipation. Either roots or ensilage should be part of the food ration every day. The winter feed of dry hay is extremely constipating, Corn stalks and straw are less eonstipating than hay. but they are also less nutritious.' In a partial summary of the different causes of farm waste we find where tows snaking an extra journey of 60 rods for water, they shrank 10 per cent., and, be- ing deprived of salt for five days, 9 per cent., while improper ventilation costs us i3j per cent. less milk. We have in these alone 22 per cent, When 6 per cent. ruins many men, what think you of such figures, which come from these errors, which are acommon oeeurrenea in al- most everyday farm life, leaving out the question of 20 per out, as a result of im- proper feeding, and also the 14 per cone caused from improper skimming and churlting? It would be natural to think, though wastes do exist, they may not all occur at one time with the same individ- nal, but a thorough investigation in this line will greatly surprise the deepest thinker. A great many sheep will suffer this winter because of their low value. There is no other animal which is so persistent- ly regarded from a purely cash basis by its owner. When at its highest price, care and consideration are given grudg- ingly, owing t > the ingraihed belief that neither is really required ; but when the value sinks neglc et is sore to. follow. While this may harden the animal even- tually, it will, meantime, cheek its thrift, which is not merely a loss of flesh, but in the ease of young sheep a loss of bone and muscle development which can never be regained. When sheep are hardened and tough- ened by exposure and scanty feed, both the quality of the wool and of the flesh are affected and deteriorate in quality. Asthese are the very products for which these animals are kept, a little thought should convince the .beep owner that there is no place in profitable sheep•hus- bandry for roughing it, and that success can only be obtained by caring for the flecks, by feeding and sheltering them properly, and, by so 'doing, laying the foundation, a healthy, vigorous constitu- tion, without which no animal is fitted to serve in the highest capacity for profit and usefulness. 'The experienced poulterer always watches the comb of his fowls. They tell mach of the vigor and productive ca- pacity of each bird. Fowls whieh have large, bright combs, if hens, are sure to be good layers. If cocks, they have vi- gorous sexual power, and Rill produce strong, vigorous chicks. When teens or cocks decline in vigor their eggs should not be set, the chicks from such eggs will be weakly, and the hens will be apt to be poor layers. Much of the improvement in breeding in all animals must be the result of getting their progeny when they are at their best. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Alias, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria Raw Eggs for Women. It is said the latest fad with woman is the consumption of eggs. Instead of ioe cream sodas, when the inner woman needs refreshment, they swallow an egg, and the hens throughout the country are feeling very unc.smfortable about it. For there are so many women you see, and a hen can't lay more than one egg a day to save her life. The need of a "pick me - up" is no longer confined to the male creature, and as a raw egg is an excellent tonic it is conceded as harmless aform on one as the restauranter's °sentry affords, if the customer is not of a bilious habit. YHE MOST SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR MAN OR BEAST. Certain 60Reaedffpecs andelnowe:r blisters. KENDALL S SPAV1U CURE BrAntrosrr, L. I., ICY., Tau.15,1804. Dr. B. J. KENDAL, CO. (J t,ttlun,ea•-I bought a splendid barbetse ROMs time S owith a S twin. igot him for . 80. I Used 11endasti's Spavin COre. The t pav iu 18 gone now and I have been offered $150 for the Rattle beret I only had hint nine weeks, so I get $120 for using $2 worth of Kenilall's Spavin Ouro. Yours truly, • W. S. MAnsnnN. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE Dr. B. J. rCtrrmara, Co.SeaLDY' ralsun, lea 16, 1a93. Sirs—I have used yens Kendall's Spavlu Oure with good 8,teces5 01• burbs On two l,orrtes 584 it is the b st L1n1lnent I have ever treed. Yours truly, Amain raentsnxoa I'.tre *1f per 7totttc. Poe SSle bi• alt Drugglsins, 05 address. Dr. 13. eT. IC711VDAJ Z COMPAN tat 0saukali FA. r - Y'r.