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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-6-28, Page 6THE QUEEN OF WOMEN. REV. DR, TALMAGE DISCUSSES A QU ES - TION OF UNIVERSAL INTEFiEST. Ile Favors vvornato Suffrage, hut Sap' Ills Chief Anxiety le Not For This, but Inuit• 'Woman should Appreciate the Olorioue ItIght She Already Pessesses. 'B. Louis, June 17.-4n his sermoa yes- terday, Rev. Dr. Telruage, who lute reach- ed this city on his western tont., discussed a subject of universal in terest—viz . "Wo- man's Opportunity"—his text being, "She shall be called woman," Genesis U,2 God, who can make no mistake; made man and woman for a specific work and to more in particular spheres—man to be regnant in his realm; woman to he domin- , ant in hers. The boundary line between Italy and Switzerland, between England and Scotbuid, is not more thoroughly marked than this distinction between the empire masculine and the empire femin- ine. So entirely dissimilar are the fields to which God called them that you can no more compare them than you can oxygen and hydrogen, water and grass, trees and stars. All this talk about the superiority of one sex to the other sex is an everlast- ing waste of ink end speech. sa jeweler may have a scale so delicate that he can weigh the dust of diamonds, but where lite thescalesso delicate that you can weigh in them attection against affection, sentiment a,gaiust sentiment. thought against thought, soul against soul, a man's world ,against a woman's world? You. come out with Your stereotyped. remark that man is superior to woman inintellect, and then I open on my desk the swarthy, iron typed, thunderbolted writings of Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Brown- ing and George Eliot. You come on with your stereotyped remark about woman's superiority to man in the item of affection, but I ask you. where was there more capacity to love than in John, the disci- ple, and Matthew Simpson, the bishop, and Henry Martyn, the missionary? The heart of either of those men was so large that after you had rolled. into it two hemispheres there was room still left to mar- shal the hosts of heaven and set up the throne of the eternal Jehovah. I deny to man the throne intellectual. I deny to woman the throue affectional. No human phraseology will ever define the spheres, while there is an intuition by which we know when a man is in his realm, and when a woman is in her realm and when either of them is out of it. NO bungling legislature ought to attempt to make a definition or to say, "This is the line and that is the line." My theory is that if a woman wants to vote she ought to vote, and that if a man wants to embroider and keep house he ought to be allowed to em- broider and keep house. There are mascu- line women -and there are effeminate men. My theory is that you haven°. right to interfere with any one's doing anything that is righteous, Albany and Washing - tion might as well decree by legislation how high a brown thrasher should fly or how deep a trout should plunge as to try to seek out the height and depth of wom- an's duty. The question of capacity will settle finally the whole questionthe whole subject. When a woman is prepared to preach, she will preach and neither con- ference nor presbytery can hinder her. When a woman is prepared to move in highest commercial spheres, she will have great influenca cm the exchange, and no boards of trade ectio hinder her. I want woman to understand that heart and brain can careralar any barrier that politi- cians may setop, aid that nothing can keep her back or keep her down but the. question of incapacity. I was in New Zealand last year just after the opportunity of suffrage had been con- ferred upon women. The plan.:worked well. There had never been suclogood or- der at the polls, and righteousness tri- umphed. Men have not made such a won- derfnl moral success of the ballot box that they need fear women will corrupt it. In all our cities man has so nearly made the ballot box a failure, suppose we let wom- an try, But there are some women, I know, of most undesirable nature, who wander up and down the country—having no homes of their own or forsaking their own homes—talking about their rights, and we know very well that they them- selves are fit neither to vote nor to keep house. Their mission seems merely to 'humiliate the two sexes at the thought of what any of us might become. No one would want to live under the laws that .such women would enact or to have cast -upon society the childreo that such women would raise. But I shall show you thet the best rights that woman can own she already has in her pos ,ession; that her position in this country at this time is not one of commiseration, but one of congrat- ulation; that the grandeur and power of her realm have never yet been appreciated; that she sits to -day on a throne so high that all the thrones of earth piled on top of each other would not make for her a footetool. Here is the platform on which she stands. Away down below it are the ballot box, and the congressional assem- blage, and the legislative hall. Woman always has voted and always will vote. Our great. grandfathers thought they were by their votes putting Washington• into the presidential chair. No. Hie mother, by the principles she taught him and by, the habits she inculcated, made him presi- dent, It was a Christian mother's( hand dropping the ballot .when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton philosophized„ and Alfred the Great governed, and Jona- than Edwards thundered of judgment to come. How many men there have been in high pelitical station who would have been in- sufficient to stand the test to which their moral principle was put had it not been for a wife's voice tbat eneonraged them to do right and a wife's prayer that sound- ed Ioncier than the clamor of partisanship? The right of saffrage,asvve men exercise it, seems to be a ,feeble thing. You, a Christian man, come up to the ballot box, and you drop your vote. Right after you ecanes a libertine or a sot—the offscoaring' of the street—attd he sdeops his vote, and his vote eountereets padre. But if in the gniet of home 'life a daughter by her Christian demeanor, a wife • by her Indus- try, a mother by her faithfulness, casts a vote in the right direction then nothing eau resist it, and the inflisence of that /eta will throb through the 'eternities. My thief anxieby, then, is not that wont - an have othearighte accerded her, but that she, by the, grace Of God, rise up to the appreciationof the glierhias rights she al- ready possesses. First, She has the right to make home happy. That realm no one has ever clisputedswiths her. Men May come florae at neon or at night arid than tarry a comparatively little vvtille, but she ittIdaselorig goVerbs. it; .beautifies it, sane. - titles it It',N her power to make it the 'nest attraetive piece on earth. It is the only calert harbor In this world, YOtt inloW as well aa I do that thia outside world and the Imeiness worldare a long scene of jostle and contentions The man who has a dollar struggles to keep it. The man who has it not struggles to get tt. Prices up. Print+ down. Losses. Gains. Misrepresentations. Underselling. Buys ers depreciating; salesmen exaggerating. Tenants seeltime less rent; landlords dee Pleading- more. Struggles about office. Men who are trying to keep in; men out trying to get in. Slips, Tumbles,' De- faleations— Panics, Catastroplies, Oh, woman, thank God you have a home, and that you may be queen in it! Better be there than wear Victoria's coronet, Bet- ter be there than carry the purse of a princess. Your abode may be humble,but you nu, by your faith in God and your cheerfulness of demeanor, gild It with splendors sucb as an upholsterer's hand never yet kinclled, There are abodes in every city—humble, two stories; four patio, unpapered rooms, undesirable neighborhood, and yet there is a man who would die on the threshold rather than surrender. Why? It is home. Whenever he thinks of it, he sees angels of God hovering around it. The leaders of heaven are let down to that house. Over the child's rough crlb there are the chantings of angels as those that broke over Bethleheth. It is home. These children may come up after awhile, and they may win high position, and they may have an affluent residence, but they will no until their dying dayforget that hum- ble roof under which their Father rested, and their mother sang, and their sisters played. Oh, if you Wbuld gather up nil tender memories, all the lights and shades of the heart, all banquetings and reunions, all filial, fraternelepaternal and cenjugal affections, and you, had only just four let- ters with which to spell out that height and depth and length and breadth and magnitude and eternity of meaning you would, with streaming eyes, and trembling voice, and. agitated hand, write it out in those four living capitals, What right does woman want that is grander than to be a queen in such a realm? Wby, the eagles of heaven cannot fly across that dominion. Horses, pant- ing and with lathered flanks, arenot swift enough to run to the outpost of that realm. They say that the sun never sets upon the English empire, but I have to tell you that on this realm of woman's influence eternity never marks any bound. Isabella fled from the Spanish throne, pur-, stied by the nation's anathema, but she who is queen in a home will never lose her throne, and death itself will only be the annexation of heavenly principal- ities. When you want to get your grandest idea of a queen, you. do not think of Cath- erine of Russia, or of Anne of England, or Marie Theresa of Germany, but when you want to get your grandest idea of a queen you think of the plain woman who sat opposite your father at the table or walk- ed with him arm in arm down life's path- way; sometimes to the -Thanksgiving ban- quet, sometimes to the grave but always together—soothing your petty griefs, cor- recting your childish waywardness, join- ing in your infantile sports, listening to your evening prayers, toiling for you with needle or at the spinning wheel and on cold nights wrapping you up snug and warm. And then at last on that day when she lay in the back room dying and you saw her take those 'thin hands with which she had toiled for yon so long, and put them together in a dying prayer that commended you to the God whom she had taught you to trust—oh, she was the queen! The chariots of God came down to fetch her, and as she went in all heaven rose up. You cannot think of her now without a rush of tenderness that stirs the deep foundations of your soul, and you feel as much a child again as when you cried on her lap, and if you could bring her back again to speak just once more your hame as tenderly as she used to speak it, you would be willing to throw yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers her,. crying: "Mother! Moth- er!" Ah, she was the queen! She was the queen! Now, can you tell me .how many thousand miles a woman like that would have to travel down before she got to the ballot box. Compared with this work of training kings and queens tor God. ,and eternity, how insionificant 'seems all this work of voting °for aldermen and common councilmen and sheriffs and con- stables and mayors and presidents? To make one such grand woman as I have described, how many thousands would you want of those people who go in the round of fashion and dissipation, going as far toward disgraceful apparel as they dare go, so as not to be arrested by the police— their behavior a sorrow to the good and a caricature of the vicious, and an insult to that God who made them women and not gorgons, and tramping on down throtigh a frivolous and dissipated life to tempor- al and eternal damnation? 0 woman, with the lightning of your soul, strike dead at your feet all these al- lurements to dissipation and to fashion! Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon such garbage. God calls you to empire and dominion. Will you have it? Oh, give to God your heart; give to God all your best energies; give to God all your culture; give to God all your refinement; give yourself to him, for this world and the next. Soon all these bright eyes will be quenched, and these voices will be hushed. For the last time you will look upon this fair earth. Father's hand, mother's hand, sister's hand, child's hand, will no more be in yours:. It will be night, ami the ae will come uparcofd ,;winclatione the Jordan, and you Must start. Will it bo a lone woman on a trackless inoor? Ah, nol Jesus will come up in that hour and offer his band and he will say, "You stood by me when you were well; now I will not desert you when you are sick." One wave of his hand, and the storm will drop, and another wave of his hand, and midnight shall break into mid. noon, and another wave of his hand, and She chamberlains of God will coine down from the treaearehouses Of heaven, with robes lustrous, blood washed and heaven glinted, in which yoit will array yourself for the marriage supper of the Lamb. And then with Miriam, who struck the tunbral of the Red sea, and with Deborah, who led the Lord's host into the light, and with Hannah, who gave her Samuel to the Lord, and with Mary, who rocked Jesus to sleep while there were angels singing in the air, and with sisters of charity, who bound up the battle wounds of the Crimea, you will, from the ehalice of God, drink to the soul's eternal reecue. Your dominion is home, 0 woman! What a brave fight for home the women of 'Ohio made„ some ten or fifteen years ago, when they banded together and in many of the tovves add cities of that State marched in precession and by prayer end Chtistitin scents shut up more places of dissipatioe than We ever counted. Were they opened again? Gh„ yes. But is it not a good thing to shut up the gates of hell for twe Oe three tnonthe? eeemed that men efigaged the business at destroying othera did not know bow to cope with this kind of ware fare, They knew how to fight the Maine lignor law, and tbey knew how to fight the National Temperance Societyand they knew how to fight the Sous ot Temperance and Good Semaritaus, but when Deborah appeared upou the scene Sisera toek 50 bis feet aud got to the mountains, It seema that they did not know how to contend against "Coronation" end "Old Hundred" ad "Ilra'alta 'Street" and "Bethany"— they were so very intangible. These men found that they could not accomplish m itch against that kind of warfare and in one of the cities a regiment wits brought out all armed to disperse the women. They came down in battle array, but, oh, what poor success! For that regiment was made up of gentlemen, and gentlemen do not like to shoot women with hymnbooks in their hands. Oh, they found that gunning for female prayer meetings was a very poor business! No real damage was done, al- though there was threat of violetme after threat of violence all over the land. I real- ly think if the women of the east had as much faith in God as their sisters of the west had, and the same recklessness of hu- man criticism, I really believe that in one month three-fourths of the grogshope of our cities would be closed, and there would be running through the gutters of the streets burgundy and cognac and heidsick and old port and schiedam schnapps and lager beer, and you would save your fa- thers, and your husbands,' and your sons, first, from a dminkned's grave and, sec- ondly, from a drunkard's hell! To this battle for home let all women rouse them- selves. Thank God for our early home. Thank God for our present home. Thank , God for the coming home in heaven.., One twilight, after1 had been playing with the children for some time, 1 Tiny down on the lounge to rest. The child- ren said play more. Children always want to play more. And, half asleep and half awake, I seemed to dream this dream; It seemed to me that I WAS in a far distant land—not Persia, although more than ori- ental luxuriance crowned the citiesanor the tropics, although more than tropical fruitfulness filled the gardens; nor Italy, although more than Italian softness filled the air—and I wandered around, looking for thorns and nettles, but I found none of them grow there, and I walked forth, and I saw the sun rise, and I said, "When will it set again?" and the sun sank not. And I saw all the people in holiday ap- parel, and I said, "When do they put on workingmau's garb again and delve in the mine and swelter at the forge?" but neither the garments nor the robes did they put off. And I wandered in the sub- urbs, and I said, "Where do they bury the dead of this great city?" and I looked along by the hills where it would be most beautiful for the dead to sleep, and I saw castles and towns and battlements, but not a mausoleum, nor monument, nor white slat, could I see. And I went into the great chapel of the town' and I said: "Where do the poor worship?Where are the benches on, witichothey..sit?" and. .a voice "anateeratiS "We have ad Poor in 'this great city." And I wandered out,seeking to find the place where were the hovels of the destitute, and I found mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but no tear did I see or sigh hear. I was bewildered, and I sat undea the shadow of a great tree, and I said, "What am I, and whence comes all this?" And at that moment there came from among the leaves, skipping up the flowery paths and across the sparkling waters, a very bright and sparkling group, and when I saw their step I knew it, and When ,heard their voices I thought I khew them, but their apparel was so different from anything I had ever seen I bowed, a stranger to strangers. But after awhile, when they clapped their hands and shout- ed; "Welcome! Welcome!" the mystery was solved, and I saw that time had pas- sed, and that eternity had come, and that God bad gathered us ,up into a higher home, and I said "Are we all here?" And the voices of innumerable generations ans- wered, "All here!" And while tears of gladness were raining down our cheeks, and the branches of Lebanon cedars were clapping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their wel- come, we began to laugh and sing and leap and shout, "Home, home, home!" Then I felt a child's hand on my face, and it woke me. The children wanted to play more. Children always want to play more. Douglaa Jerrold and Leigh Hunt. Douglas Jerrold's soul seemed to abhor every trace of study slovenliness. A oozy room was his in his home at West Lodge, Lower Putney Common, and his son's pen has given the world a welcome peep at the interior: "The furniture is simple solid o ik. The desk has not a speck upon it. The marble shell upon which the ink- stand rests has no litter in it. Curious notes lie in a veva between clips on the ta- ble. The paper basket stands near the armchair, prepared for answered letters and rejected contributions. The little dog follows his master into his study and lies at his feet." And there were no books maltreated in Douglas Jerrold's study. It gave him pain to see tnem in any way miss used. Longfellow had the ,saine sympa- thies with neatness and exactitude. Method in all things was his rule. He did not care to evolve fine thoughts and poetic images at a desk fixed like the one stable rock in an ocean or muddle. But other distinguished writers have been as careless as these were careful. Carlyle gives us a curious sketch of Leigh slatinttentenage.soln-onaroom—thiafainalni apartment—a dusty "fable and araaged carpet. On the floor "books, paper, egg- shells, scissors, and last night when I was there the torn heart of a half quarter loaf." And above in the Workshop of talent -- something cleaner—only two chairs, a bookcase and a writing table."— Chambers' Journal. Hunger le the Best sauce. The edible qualities of horeefiesh were being discussed by a company gathered in a down town office in Portland, says The Oregonian. After a number had expressed their opinion a gentleman said that never oaten horse meat or mule meat, but he knew that mule meat was good. When wiled how he knew, he said his mother told him so. His parents came to ' this 'coast by way of the isthmus in 1849 and were 119 days corning up from Panama to San Francisco on a sailing vessel. Of course provisions became scarce, and final- ly the passengers were reduced to a cup of rice eriCh one clay and a cup of beans each the next, and some ot them grew hungry. Mrheri the vessel reacned Monterey, a mule Was purchased and killed for the passen- gers, and his mother ate some of it—as nittch as she could get—and she maintaies to this day that it was the best meat . shp ever ate in her life, All that horseflesh needs to make it liked Is hunger. sauce. Horeeflegh is not often found on tables it" this eountty, but in European couhtries it eatensieety used, especially by the poor-. er classes. THE FARM 1 AND GARDEN. The good qualities of the gradearo VI"' able only in the animal showing thein. There is no oortaint that they will be ' HINTS AND NEWS NOTES Fir City and Country—Clippings and Original Artletes WhIelt Have Been Prepared for Our Readers. Weights and Measures. Plastering hair, 8lbs: 'to the bushel, Orchard grass seed, 14 lbs, to the bush- el. Red Top, 14 lbs. to the bushel. Blue (Kentucky), 14 lbs. to the bushel. Blue (English), 24 lbs. to the bushel. Dried apples, 22 lbs. to the bushel. Charnel, 22 lbs. to the bushel. Bran, 20 lbs. to the bushel. • Dried peaches, 28 lbs. to the bushel. Oats 34 lbs. to the bushel, Malt, 86 lbs. to the bushel, Cranberries, 40 lbs. to the hushel, Castor beans, 40 lbs. to the bushel. Hemp seed, 44 lbs. to the bushel. Timothy seed, 48 lbs. to the bushel. Barley, 48 lbs. to the bushel. Apples (undated) 48 lbs. to the bushel. Buckwheat, 48 lbs. to the bushel. Canary seed, 50 lbs. to the bushel. Cornmeal, 50 lbs. to the bushel. Hungarian grass seed, 48 lbs. to the bushel. Rape seed, 50 lbs, to the bushel. Coarse salt, 50 lbs, to the busbel. Flax seed, 50 lbs.to the bushel. Indian corn (shelled), 56 lbs. to the bushel. Rye, 56 lbs. to the bushel. Fine salt, 56 lbs, to the bushel. Wheat,, 60 lbs. to the bushel. Pease, '6talbs. to the bushel. Red clover seed, 60 lbs. to the bushel. Beans, 60 lbs. to the bushel. Onions, 60 lbs. to the bushel. Parsnips (heap'g meas.), 60 lbs. to the bushel. Potatoes (heap'g meas.), 60 lbs. to the bushel. Turnips (heap'g meas.), 60 lbs. to the bushel. Beets (heap'g meas.), 60 lbs. to the bushel. Carrots (heap'g meas.), 60 lbs. tis the b u s hoI. Corn (on cob), 72 lbs, to the bushel. Coal (bituminous), 70 lbs. to the bush- el. Coal (anthraoite), 80 lbs. to the bushel. Horticultural Notes. Burn all rubbish and scatter the ashes among the small fruits. There is often a wide difference in the time of ripening of fruit on trees of the same variety grown a few miles apart. Those who garden for home use will do well to fall into the growing practice of starting their se ds in the house; and at the proper thne transplant them to the cold frame, where security may be given against frost. The cost is not large and the season is made longer for vegetables by this method. . The growing of all small fruits is in- creasing annually through the state and deserves encouragement until every table shall be bountifully supplied with these soil products, the daily use of which con tributes more largely to the general health of our families than any other food that can be supplied. W. J. Green told how to grow a large amount of celery upon a small plot of ground. He would take a plot of ground five feet wide and any desired length, and throw out the upper five inches of soil on either side. Then spade the ground one foot deep and mix a large amount of fine manure. In this plant the dwarf varieties of celery, with plant six inches apart and rows eight inches. Late, large kinds should be planted 6x12. The self -blanching var- ieties planted the smaller distance will not need earthing up, but the large, late kinds will, by putting earth between the rows. Where celery is planted thickly this way it should have one inch of water per week. If it does not fall from the clouds it should be supplied artificially. The sinking of the bed five inches below the surfan aids in artificial irrigetion. The business of cutting sod to be trans- planted is not so common since most peo- ple, even in the cities, have learned how much cheaper and eager it is to get a bet- ter lawn wit a little fertilizer and gra s a ed. A good, rich seed bed is required to make tho transplanted sod take root, and although for a few days it may look well, when dry weather comes the sodded land presents a very shabby appearance. A seeded land will in a few weeks show a lovely green, and it requires much less watering in dry weather than does the sod. Besides, s,vith a good seed bed, the house- holder who makes his lawn can select the kinds of grasses that he wants. Some sweet -scented vernal grass should always be sown. It is rarely or never found in sods cut for transplanting, as they are usually gathered by the roadside. Budding consists in'taking from one tree or plant a bud, with a portion of bark attached to it, and inserting it in some other one. The best buds to use are those near the middle of the shoot. These are neither too weak nor too gross. Theblades of the leaves should be cut away at once. The operation includes making a longi- tudinal incision through the bark of the stock,and at the upper end of this incision a cross cut is made thus:, T. This is done when the sap is most active, and the cor- ners of the cut b irk can be readily separ- ated from the wood,and raised far enough to allow the insertion of the bark attached to the prepared bud. The, Raffia, bait, or waxed Cloth bandage Witte vIdand upon the stock, both above and below the bud. The abundance of sap furnished by the stock affords the nourishment the bud re- quires and its growth is almost a cer- tainty, unless the bud is allowed to be- come dried before being inserted. Live Stook Note#1. In raising early broilers for market it is very necessary to force the growth from the steanrtt When he calves aro raise d by hand they are less trouble, all things considered, if they are dropped in the fall rather than in the spring. A cow is not, as a rule, a very intellec- tual annual, but ho has a Way of getting even for bad treatment that Is just as effectual as it tyould be if conceived and earriedant by a deliberate course of reason- ing. Hoes hayi g free range at this sea- son shouldhave some g od sound grain night and inorning. Much of their pick- ed -up food is deoldedly stioeulent and 1111- Ingbut is lacking in eutriment. Unless you give the poultry house a careful overhauling before warm weather, the lice will suddenly surprise you with their numbers when you /east expect to find them, and the work of extermination will then be more difficult. The . Way to destroy' lioe is net to wait Until they plit In an aPpearepee, Mit to do it when tiniy are tht.ra, 'in the cracks atid creyioes, and they can be reached by vigorous actiOn and the free use of coal oil, • transmitted. A grade female bred to a thoroughbred male of her own kind will generally breed true to the male. But lf to a male of another breed, even though a thoroughbred, this prepotency of the male is loss certain. The result is almost sure to be a mongrel, inferior to either of its parents, • It' is not neeespary," says The Horse- man, "to ,depiet the methods of the blun • daring blacksmith; he is, alas, far too munition a IldidanOtt His conlaetltion forties skilful men to accept inadequate compensation for their work, and gener- ally lower the average of skiltulness in the craft to a very marked degree. Every day of his life the horseshoer is called upon to act in the capacity of veterinarian, as well as medieine, and it is this very Net that put it in the power of every skill -less operator to do an unlimited amount of harm. The laws of most States require that veterinary surgeons and medi- cal practitioners must that obtain a diplo- ma before the State boards will issue li- censes permitting them to practice, and why should not farriery be accorded recog- nition, if not exactly similar at least com- mensurate with the deinands of the day and hour?" Watson, a writer for the Stockman and Farmer, of long experience with markets in Chicago, says that for several years past fanoY cattle, prepared especially for the holiday trade, have not been appreciated ftS they were in years gone by. From present indloatione the demand for this class of beeves will never again be what it has been. This change, while it may be dieeppointiag to some, o nnot be regertied as a great calamity to other's. Fancy beeves as a rule have not been profitable to producer or consumer. As it rule they cannot be classed among the useful grades of cattle. Butchers have paid high prices for them more for the advertisement there was in it than for the hope of profit in handling them. Feeders have spent more time and feed in producing these fancy, animals than they ever got paid for, even at the high prices which have ruled in the past. The surplus flesh and tallow on cattle that are "fully ripe" is always put on at it sacrifice, and those wbo persist in carrying their stook beyond a certain point In preparing them for market generally do it as a fad or for the pleasure of satisfying a curiosity. Farm Notes. Sprouting potatoes before planting gives about 10 days earlier new potat es. Sow clover with the grain whether you intend to lay the land down for hay or not. Green clover is valuable to plow in at any time. You may place over your door in raised letters "Na Smoking Allowed" yet around the stove, these cold mornings, will come men and boys whose every article of cloth- ing, whose every pore, whose every breath, taints the air and every drop of milk and every poundSof batter-in:the room. For. this reason alone our wives and daughters are better. The condition of the hop -growing in- dustry for the past few years shows very plainly that with an average yield in the hop -growing countries of the world, the production will exceed the consumption, and when the world's crop is above the average, prices will necessarily rule low. The greater portion of the crop which has been moved, has gone at prices ranging from 7 cents to 10 cents per pound, a fig- ure so low that even the stiectest econnny cannot meet or protect from loss. Indica- tions point to quite a reduction for the coming year. Exhaustion of soil with crops that pay but a pittance for the labor bestowed on their production is a serious menace to the future of our agricultural interests, and already calls for thoroughgoing and sys- tematic efforts at correction. The pitiful average of about 13 bushels per acre in it good wheat year is it disgrace to our agri- culture, and a humiliation when we read of England's average of over 30 bushels Is it utterly impossible for us to learn that our wheat crop reduced to some extent and grown on two thirds or loss of area would give us more value with less cost, and make it possible. to restore the lost - iertility of our fields? It is one of the anninalies of our times that potatoes aro Imported from the con- tinent of Europe in important quantities. We have been accustomed to look upon America as the great food -selling nation, of the globe. Such imports of a watery and by the pound cheap selling crop rather startle us and renew the fears that the tendency of the times is toward. increased imports. It is all wrong, how- to sell wheat at 50 cents a bushel containing 54 ponnds of day matter, while buying back potatoes at a greater price containing but 15 pounds of dry matter. It will relieve our agriculture to some ex- tent by growing the few inli ions of bush- els of potatoes that we purchase and sell- ing that much loss of wheat. Some of our potato -growers have been frightened at the extending area devoted to potatoes. As well have our people grow them, even at a reduction of price, as to receive this re- duction by foreign competition. Harrowing stubble ground in spring ought always to precede plowing it, by several days if possible. The effectof the harrow is to loosen the soli for two or three inches, and albw more free ciroulation of air. The soil at the surface arms very early, and by mixing it with that one or two inches beneathat is brought into con- tact with soil thatehas been only slightly influenc.ed by freezing and thawing. This early mixing of this soil and introduction of warm air rapldly increases its supply of nitrogen. When the plow comes a few days later, turning this prepared soil four or five incluee deep, Itis quickly made to the whole depth a rich mellow seed bed. If the plowing Is done without a previous harrowing it is difficult to make it good sed bed of the soil that is urned up from the bottom of the furrow. The increase of nitrifleation by harrowing the surface in spring is so important that pastures and meadows should be dragged over early in the season. This will break up the clads et manure, and though a few surface roots may be out by the drag the stirring of the soil will make more grow again, and tho pasture and the meadow will ab- sorb water from Slight rains that could do no good if the harrow had. not prepared the surface to receive them. An Observing itentlib, Teaoher--Now, Willie Jenkins, hove inany seconds make it niinute? Willie --Male or female? Teacher—Male or female? What do you OilD? • , Willie—There's et big alfference. When 'Pa say he'll be downiia a nibente it takes hiin six secoads, bet ma's minutes isre about six huhdted, 'specially when she's putting on her lust, EMILY FAITUFITIG. A. Noble Woman Who Is Now at Rest. A noble woman has gone, England has to -day few women snore worthy o, waver- snsiiw ir°YeolzreT Ihnaldvert affe:ctiPvedn. Bul'ilotrfr siEgnualg. li tokens of peculiar esteem from Queen Vie - torte than Miss Emily Faithful. And this was as nitt h to the credit of , tho one as the other. laot Eluily chief, distinotton is that she made her name a synonym of a praetioal form of helpfulness for women intent upon heiplog them- selves. A daughter of a clergymen of the %. !lurch of England, her own social ad- vantages were of the best, but her heart WAS too big, her sympathies too sincere and practical and her perceptions too clear as to what ought and might be done to make any selfish mode 01111e tolerable, Whether or not she had prophetic vision, she had clear insight and free outlook. She saw She condition of working women and the Ondition, too, of women who nhoded but the chance to wotk and were ready for the next things in the way of leigitimate op- portunities for self-support, but were in palnail perplexity as to what they could do, In this respect Miss Emily Faithfull was among the earliest to discern the in- evitabe industrial social transition of the time, especially as it so vitally concerned such a vast increasing number of women. Conspicuous among the first and foremost, ehe sensed the situation, To do what she could to help somewhat, at lo 55 to point the way for the honest womanhood a her time in seeking timely adjustment to the new conditions—as inevitable as des- tiny itself—came to be with her the very life of her life, the soul of her religion. She was no fanatic ; she ,was not averse'to social distinction or insensible to social enjoyments. She appreciated as genuinely as any one the friendship of the Queen, as of other people of note, but she loved most of all to be of use to those who chiefly or peculiarly needed her. As she wrote in the album of Mrs. Fernando Jones when in this country some twenty years ago: "It is only the imbecile, or those brought up in complete lazyhood, who can encoun- ter successfully the monotony of 'nothing to do' and can slumber away their livel unheard among the dead weeds and flowers." There was no "lazyhood" in her idea of true tnomanhood. She enjoy- ed keenly, profoundly, social advantages, and whatever other advantages come with superior physical and mental enuowinents and spiritual gifts fitly set off by the graces of high culture; and yet she loved most of all to "be neighbor" to those women about her who most of all re eded such lead- ership, such companionship and helping as she was best fitted to give. And then Emily Faithfull saw things in the time of it. She saw the thing to do and did it, For English women, and somewhat for women in America also, Miss Faithfull was the "Miss Greatheart" of hor genera- tion. Bears History on Its Back. di:boo-City', Fla., Jairin'87—A turtle oi the Loggerhead variety, weighing 700 pounds, was caught on the beach here this week. It is a remarkable specimen, not only because of its great size, but because of three Inscription, on its shell, which show that it is nearing the century mark, and has been quite a traveller. The first inscription was dated, "St. Augustine, Fla., April 24, 1821," and reads: On October 20, 182,0, Spain ceded Flor- ida to the United State. Hurrah for Uncle Sam! The second inscription was made at "Key West, Fla., April 26, 1861," and is as follows: A schooner brings the news that General Beauregard flied on Port Sumter April 12, 1816. I shall stick to my state. The third inscription was dated "Jupi- ter Inlet, Fla., March 4, 1894," and te as follows: May you r e ser get in the soup, but if you do, may Chauncey M. Dopew be pres- ent to enjoy you. When caught here the turtle had just left lts nest and was makiag for the water. It was released after the following inscrip- tion had been added: Grove City. Fla., June 1, 1895—This country needs free silver and a strong foreign policy. The turtle made at once for deep water. This cholonlan is the first evidence of the Dopew presidential boom seen in this part of the country. A Monument to an Apple. The Rumford Historical society of Wo- burn, Del. will erect a monuinent, where 100 years ago was discovered the kind of apples now known as Baldwins. Samuel Thompson of Woburn, while surveying a route of the Middlesex canal, discovered this apple. His attention had been drawn to it by the number of wood -peckers which gathered about the trees on account of the apples. Mr. Thomp-on thought it a new variety, and as it pleased his taste he call- ed the attention of his neighbors, and he and his brother hastened to graft from it many trees on their own estates. It was first called the "pecker" apple, then the "Butters" apple, from the owher of the land where the tree was found. The brothers Thompson were constant in their efforts to scatter it far and wide, and tor miles around the people secured branches of it and grafted their trees. The neighbor and friend of the Thompsons,Col.Loarnml Baldwin, the eminent engineer, showed the fruit to hie many guests, who came from distant parts of the country,and this did much for the spread of the apple's fame, which ii a'few 'ears came to be known as the "Baldwin." The granite shaft which is to be erected by the Rumford Histerical association of Woburn is seven feet high, and is surmounted by a repro:. sentation of a Baldwin apple. The shaft will be placed in position within a month. They Mistook Her Mission. Some years ago a delegation went from a certain city to Washington to work a great appropriation for the benefit of Mobile's harbor. Among the party was it genial major, who was well pehned with facts. He longed, moreover, to see the inside of senatorial poker. Soon the occasion presented itself. The genial rnan dropped his evening's pile and stniled himself out, Next night he came again. Fickle for- tune still frowned. Once more the genial Alabamian's pito grew small rapidly and hideously less. Finally a pat flueh swept his last dollar, and ho rose from the table a trifle hasty. "Don't go," cried the winning senator, chirpily; "sit in again ahd try it over," "Gentlemen, you mistake my mission entirely," retorted the Alabamian, back- ing to the door; "I wish you to understand that I came to Washington to get an ap- propriation—snot to make Ono It' ' No at any Other. This Was the tempting hotice lately ez. hibited by a dealer in cheap shirts: "They Won't last long at this price I" s Sae