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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-2-6, Page 7HOW TO TAKE A CITY ABIMELECH WAS A RASCAL, BUT HE KNEW HOW TO FIGHT. Hay. Dr. Talmage Shows How God Some- times Drives a, Straight Npi1 With a Poor Hammer--Theleseiged City of Shoehorn and Its Lesson, • Washington, Jan. 26.—In his sermon for to -day Rev. Dr. Tahnage took for his lubjeot "The Power of Example." The text selected was Judges ix, 48: "And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bough from the trees and took 1t and laid it on his shoulder and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do snake haste and do as I have done. And all the people likewise out down every man his bough," Abirneleoh is a name malodorous in bible history and yet full of profitable suggestion. Buoys are black and un - comely, but they tell where the rooks are. The snake's rattle is hideous, but lb gives timely warning. From the piazza of my summer home, night by night, I saw a lighthouse fifteen miles away, not placed there for adornment, but to tell mariners to stand off from that dangerous point. So all the iron bound coast of moral danger is marked with Saul and Herod and lehoboam and Jezebel and Abimelech. These bad people are mentioned in the bible not only as warnings, but because there were sometimes flashes of good con- duct in their lives worthy of imitation. God sometimes drives a very straight nail with a very poor hammer. The city of Shoehorn had to be taken, and Abimelech and .his men wore to do it. I see the dust rolling up from their excited march. I hear the shouting of the captains ns and the yell of the best e o r s. The swords clack sharply on the parry- ing .shields and the vociferation station aY two armies in death grapple is horrible to bear, The battle goes on all day, and as the sun is setting Abimelech and his army cry, "Surrender!" to the beaten foe, and, unable longer to resist, the city of Shechem falls, and there are pools of blood and dissevered limbs, and glazed oyes, looking up begging for moray that War never shows, and dying soldiers,with their heads on the lap of mother or wife or sister, who have come out for the last offices of kindness and affection, and a groan rolls across the city, stopping not, because there is no spot for it to rest, so full is the place of other groans. A city Wounded! A city dying! A city dead! Wail for Shechem, all ye who know the horrors of a sacked town. As I look over the city I can find only ono building standing, and that is the temple of the god Borith. Some soldiers outside of the city in a tower, finding that they can no longer defend Sheohetn now begin to leek out for their own per- sonal safety, and they fly to this temple of Bertth. They go within the door, shut it, and they say, "Now we are safe. Abimoleols has taken the whole oily, but be cannot take this temple of Berith. Here we shall be under the protection of the gods." 0 Berith, the god, do your best now for these refugees! If you have eyes, pity them; if you have hands, help them ; if you have thunderbolts, strike for them. But how shall Abhuelech and his army take this temple of Borith and the men who are there fortified? Will they do it with sword;? Nay! Will they do it with spear? Nay! With battering ram, rolled up by hundred armed strength, crashing against the walls? Nay! Abimelech marches his men to a wood in Zalmon. With His ax he hews off a limb of a tree and puts that limb upon his own shoulder, and then he says to his men, "You do the same." They are obedient to their commander. There is a struggle as to who shall have axes. The whole wood is full of bending boughs, and the crackling, and the hack- ing, and the cutting, until every one of the host has a limb of a tree cut down, and not only that, but has put It on his shoulder just as Abimelech showed him bow. ' Are these men all armed with the tree branches? The reply comes, "All armed!" And they march on. Oh, what a strange army, with that strange equipment! They come up to the foot of the temple of Berith, and Abimeleoh takes his limb of a tree and throws it down, and the first platoon of soldiers come up, and they throw down their branches, and the second platoon, and the third, until all around about the temple of Berith there is a pile of tree branches. The Sheehemitos look out from the window of the temple upon what seems to them childish play on the part of their enemies. But soon the flints are struck, and the spark begins to kindle the brush, and the flame comes up all through the pile, and the red elements leap to the casement, and the woodwork begins to blaze, and one arm of flame is thrown up on the right side of the temple. and another arm of flame is thrown up on the left side of the temple, until they clasp their lurid palms under the wild night sky, and the cry of "Fire!" within and "Fire!" without announces the ter- ror, and the strangulation, and the doom of the Sheohemites, and the complete overthrow of the temple of the god Ber- ith. Then there went up a shout, long and loud, from the stout lungs and swarthy chests of Abimelech and his men• as they stood amid the ashes and the dust crying, "Victory victory l" Now I learn first from this subject the folly of depending upon any one form of tactics in anything we have to do for this world or for God. Look over the weaponry of olden times—javelins, battle axes, habergeons—and show me a single weapon with which Abimelech and his men could have gained such complete triumph. It is no easy thing to take a temple thus armed, I have seen a house where, during revolutionary times, a man and his wife kept back a wbole regi Mont hour after boor because they were inside the house and the assaulting sold- iers were outside the house. Yet here Abimelech and his army come up, they surround this temple, and they capture it without the loss of a singe man on the part of Abimelech, athough I suppose some of the old Israelitish heroes told Abimelech, "You are only going up there to be out to pieces." Yet you are willing to testify to -day that by no other mode— certainly not by ordinary modes -could,. that temple' so easily, so thoroughly, have been taken, Fathers and mothers, breth- ren and sisters in Jeuss Christ, what the church Most wants to learn thio day is that any plan is right, is lawful, is best, which helps us to overthrow the temple of sin and capture this world for. God. We are very apt to stick to the old modes of attack. We put on the old 'style coat of mail, We come up with the sharp, keen, glittering steel spear of argument, 'ex- pecting in expectingin that way to, take the castle, but they have 1,000 spears where we have 10'. And so the castle of sin • stands, Oh, ,my friends, we will never capture this • world for: God, by any keen saber of sarcaSm'by any glittering lances of rhetoric, by any sapping and mining of profound Omuta - Won, by any gunpowdory explosions of indignation, by sharpshootings of wit, by howitzers of mental strength made to swing shell five miles, by oavalry horses gorgeously caparisoned pawing t the air. In vain all the attempts on the part of these ecclesiastical foot soldiers, light horsemen and grenadiers. My friends, I propose a different style of tactics. Let each one go to, the forest of God's promise and inv'taticn and how down a branch and put Won his shoulder, and let us all come around these obstinate iniquities, and then, with this pile kind- led by the fires of a holy zeal and the flames of a consecrated life, we will burn them out. What steel cannot do fire may. And I announce myself in favor of any plan of religious attack that succeeds —any plan of religious attack, however radical, however odd, however unpopular, however hostile to all the conventionalit- ies of church apd state. If one style of prayer does not do the work, let us try another style. If the church music of to- day does not get the victor, then let us make the assault with a backwoods' chorus. If a prayer meeting at half past seven in the evening does not succeed, let us have one as early in the morning as when the angel found wrestling Jacob too much for him. If a sermon with the three authorized heads does not do the work, then let us have a sermon with twenty heads, or no heads at all. We want more heart in our song, more heart in our almsgiving, more heart in our prayers, snore heart in our preaching. Oh, for less of Abimelech's sword and more of Abimolech's conflagration! I had oftm hoard There is a fountain filled with blood sung artistically by four birds perched on their Sunday roost in the gallery until I thought of Jenny Lind and Nilsson and Sontag,and all the other � rbl r wa e but u there came not one tear to my eye, nor one ma; er t emotion to my finest But ono night I wont down to the African Methodist meeting house in Philadelphia, and at the close of the service a black woman in the middle of the audience began to sing that hymn and all the au- dience joined in, and we were floated some three or four miles nearer heaven than I have over been since. I saw with my own eyes that "fountain filled With blood"—red, agonizing, sacrificial, re demptive—and I heard the crimson plash of the wave as we all went down under it. For sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains. Oh, my friends, the gospel is not a syl- logism; it is noteausistry; it is -not polem ies or the science of squabbles! It is blood red fact; it is warm hearted invita- tion; it is leaping, bounding, flying good news; itis efflorescent with all light; it is rubescent with all summery glow; it is arborescent with all sweet shade, I have seen the sun rise on Mount Washing- ton, and from the Tiptop House, but there was no beauty in that compared with the day -spring from on high when Christ gives light to a soul. I have heard Parepa sing, but there was no music in tt.at oompared with the voice of Christ when he said, "Thy sins are forgiven thee; go in pence." Good news! Let every one cut down a branch of this tree of life and wave it. Lot all the way from Mount Zalmon to Shoehorn be filled with the tossing joy. Good news! This bonfire of the gospel shall consume the last temple of sin and will illumine the sky with apocalyptic joy, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Any new plan that snakes a man quit his sin and that prostrates a wrong Imo as much in favor of as though all the doctors, and the bishops, and the archbishops, and the synods, and the academical gownsmen of Christianity sanctioned it. The temple of Berith must come down, and I do not mare how it comes Still further, I learn from this subject the power of example. If Abimelech had sac down on the grass and told his men to go and get the boughs and go out to the battle, they would never have gone at all, or if they had, it would have been with- out any spirit or effective result, but when Abimelech goes with his own ax and hews down a branch, and with Abimelech's arm puts it on Abimelech's shoulder, and marches on, then, my text says, all the people did the same. How natural that was! What made Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic commanders of this century? They always rode ahead. Oh, the overwhelm- ing power of example! Pere is a father on the wrong road. All his boys go on the wrong road. Here is a father who enlists for Chris. His children enlist. I saw in some of the picture galleries of Europe that before many of the great works of the masters—the old masters— there would be sometimes four or five artists taking copies of the pictures. These copies they were going to carry with them, perhaps to distant lands, and I have thought that your life and character area masterpieoe,and it is being copied, and long after you are gone it will bloom or blast in the homes of those who knew you,and be a Gorgon or a Madonna. Look out what you say. Look out what you do, Eternity will hear the echo. The best sermon ever.preached is a holy life. The best music ever chanted is a con- sistent walk. If you want others to serve God, serve him yourself. If you want others to shoulder their duty, shoulder yours. Where Abimelech goes his troops go. Oh, start out for heaven to -day, and your family will come after you, and your business associates will come after yon, and your social friends will join you. With one branch of the tree of life for a baton, marshal just as many as you can gather. Oh, the infinite, the semi -omnipotent power of a good or bad examnle 1 I saw last summer, near the beach, a wrecker's. machine, It was a cylinder, with some holes at the side, made for the thrusting in of some long poles with strong leverage, and when there is any vessel in trouble or going to pieces in the offing the wreckers ' shoot a rope out to the suffering men, They grasp it, and the wreckers turn the cylinder, and' the rope' winds • around the cylinder, and those who are shipwrecked are saved. So at your feet to -day there is an influence with a tremendous leverage, The rope attached to it swings far out into the billowy future. Your chi;dren, your children's children, and all the genera- tions that are to follow will grip that influence and feel the long reaching pull long after the figures on your tombstone are so near worn out that the visitor can- not tall whether it was 1896 or 1796 or 1696 -that you, died. Still further, I learn from this subject the advantage ofconcerted action. If Abimelech had.nnerely gone mut with a tree branch, the • work would ,'not' have been accomplished, • or if 10, 20, or 30 imen had gone, but when all the aces are lifted, and all the, sharp edges fall, and all ,these Men carry each his tree branch down and throw it, about the temple, the 'Viet tory gained—the, temple fails. .My, friends, where there is one man i'n''the' ohureh of God at this day shouldering his whole duty there are a great many wh never lift an ax or swing a bough. seems to me as if there were 10 drones I every hive' to one busy bee, as thoug there were twenty sailors sound asleep 1 the ship's hammocks to four men on th stormy deck. It seems as if there ; we 50,000 men belonging to the reserve corp and only' 1,000 active combatants, 0 we all want our boats to get over to th golden sands, but the most of us are sea ed either in the prow or in the stern wrapped in our striped shawl, bolding big handled sunshade, while others ar blistered in the heat and pull until th oarlocks groan and the blades bend ti. they snap; Oh, you religious sleepy heads, wake up! You have lain so Ion in one plane that the ants and caterpillar have begun to crawl over you! What d you 'know, my brother, about a livin gospel made to storm the world? Now my idea of a Christian is a man on fir with zeal for God, and if your pulse or dinarily beats sixty times a minut when you think of other themes and tal about other themes,if your pulse does no go up to 75 or 80 when you come to tal about Christ and heaven, it is beaus you do not know the one and have a poo chance of getting to the other In a former oharge,one Sabbath, I too into the pulpit the church records, and laid them on the pulpit and opened them and said: "Brethren, here are the churn records, I find a groat many of you whos names are down here are off duty.' Some wore afraid I would read th names, for at that time some of them were deep in the worst kind of oil stook and were idle as to Christian work. Bu if ministers of Christ today should brin the church records Into the pulpit anc road, oh, what a flutter there would be There would not be fans enough i church to keep the cheeks cool. I do no knowbuti• t would he a good thingif th minister once in a while shouldbring th church records in the pulpit and call th roll, for that is what I consider ovary church record to be—merely a muster rol of the Lord's army, and the reading of i should reveal whore every soldier is an what he is doing. Suppose iu military circles on th morning of battle the roll is called, an out of a thousand men only a bundre men in the regiment answered, Wha excitement there would be in the camp What would the colonel say? What high talking there would be among the cap tains, and majors and the adjutants Suppose word canto to headquarters tha these delinquents excused thomseves on the ground that they had overslept them selves, or the morning was damp ant they were afraid of getting their feat wet or that they were busy cooking rations My friends, this is thin morning of th day of God Almighty's battle! Do you not see the troops? Hear ye not all th trumpets of heaven and all the drums o hell? Which side are you on? If you ar on the right side, to what cavalry troop, to what artillery service, to what garri son duty do you belong? In other words in what Sabbath school do you teach? In what prayer meeting do you exhort? To what penitentiary do you declare sterna liberty? To what almshouse do you an pounce the globes of heaven? Wha broken bone of sorrow have you ever set Are yuu doing nothing? Is it possible that a man or woman sworn to be a fol- lower of Jesus Christ is doing nothing? Then hido the horrible secret from the angels. Keep it away from the book o judgment, If you are doing nothing, do not let the world find it out, lest they charge your religion with being a false face, Do not let your cowardice and treason be heard among the martyrs about the throne, lost they forget the sanctity of the place and denounce your betrayal of that cause for which they agonized and died. The temple of Berith is very broad, and it is very high. It has been going up by the hands of men and devils, and no human engineering can demolish it, but if the 70,000 ministers of Christ in this country should each take a branch of the tree of life, and all their congregations should do the same, and we should march on and throw these branches around the groat temple of sin and world- liness and folly, it would need no match or coal or torch of ours to touch off the pile, for, as in the days of Elijah, fire would fall from heaven and kindle the bonfire of Christian victory over demol- ished sin. Still further, I learn from this subject the danger of false refuges. As soon as these Shechemites got into the temple they thought they were safe. They said: "Berith will take care of us. Abimeleoh may batter down everything else. He cannot batter down this temple where we are now hid." But very soon they heard the timbers crackling, and they were smothered with smoke, and they miser- ably died. I suppose every person in this audience this moment is stepping into some kind of refuge. Here you step in the tower of good works. You say, "I shall be safe in this refuge." The battle- ments are adorned, the steps are varnish- ed, on the wall are pictures of the suffer- ing yon have alleviated, and all the schools you have established, and all the fine things you have ever done. Up in that tower you feel you are safe. But hear you not the tramp of your unpardon- ed sins all around the tower? They each have a match. You are kindling the com- bustible material: You feel the heat and the suffocation. "Well," you say, "I have been driven out of that tower. Where shall I go?" Step into this tower of indifference. You say, "If this tower is attacked, it will be a great while before it Is taken." Yon feel at ease. But there is an Abimelech with ruthless assault coming on. Death and his forces are gathering around, and they demand that you surrender every- thing, and they clamor for your over- throw, and they throw their skeleton arms in the window, •and with their iron fists they beat against the door, and while you are trying to keep them out you see the torches of judgment' kindling, and every forest is a torch, and every moun- tain a torch, and every sea a torch, and while the Alps and Pyrenees and Himal- ayas turn into a live coal, blown redder and redder by the whirlwind breath of a God omnipotent, what will become of your refuge of lies? "But," says some one, "you are engag- ed in a very mean business, driving' us from tower to tower." Oh, no'! I want to tell you of a Gibral- tar that never has been and never will be taken, of a wall that no satanic assault ,can scale, of a bulwark that the judgment earthquakes cannot budge. The bible refers to it when it says, "In.Gud is thy refuge, and underneath'thee are the ever- lasting arms," Oh fling yourself mnto it!. Tread down uncerehrtoniously every- thing that intercepts you. Wedge your way there. There are enough hounds of death and peril after you to make you hurry, Itfany a man has perished just outside the t'Ower, with his font on the step, with his hand on the !atoll, Oh, 'get inside! Not one•surplus'second'have you to spare, Quiok, quick, quick! •. FRUIT INSECTS, The burning of fallen leaves or other. Ra . any rubbish in or near fruitmany plantationps ofte hind will prevent insect as DICKINSON MERINO SHEEP. The accompanying engraving portrays Wonderful, No. 700, which is today the most remarkable sheep in America. If the sheep were present, the reader would look him over carefully and continually ask himself, "Isnot this the hest sheep I ever saws" Thousands saw Wonderful at the World's Fair, and went away satis- fied that America, like France, had a mutton Merino sheep in every sense worthy of the name, The Dickinson sheep is a thoroughbred from the Humphrey importation of 1802, a full cousin to the world -wide -famous Atwood Merino sheep of Vermont, which as a wool sheep will forever remain without a rival It is be. lieved that Wonderful will remain the champion of a mutton and wool sheep, as "Sweepstakes" has long been as a breeder of wool -bearing sheep. The name Dick- inson was proudly and generously given by Mr. James McDowell, who for sixty - /l! ,04,14,",�j1 r IF. 'mi '1 P alb t t z � ti � 1 �1 ar l) "WONDERFUL," THE CHAMPION SHEEP OF THE 'WORLD. four years gave his time and bust abilities to its development—first, as Mr. Makin - son's trained and confidential shepherd, and later on as the proprietor of a wisely selected flock, at Mr. Dickinson's kindly suggestion some time before his death. This fine strain of Merino sheep has been bred carefully, never going outside of the hook for a ram for 72 years, and being al- ways under the direction of a McDowell. This is indeed a proud record, and Mr. H. G. McDowell is in every way a worthy Successor to a wise and patriarchal shep- herd father. It is no empty claim that the Diokinson Morino is a mutton sheep. Wonderful at his best, before he was three years old, weighed 250 lbs, and sheared 411 Ms of wool at three years old that was good enough to capture the prize as a single fleece at Chicago, at the World's Fair, in 1898. Ewes of this broad at two years old weigh 175 lbs and rams 200 lbs, often much more, as in the case of Wonderful, The reader will notice the width of carcass indicated by the dis- tance between both fore and hind legs; also the short legs and sprung rib, the square quarters, and the vigorous style indicated all over. It is not necessary to tell the experienced sheep raiser that these sheep can live out of doors like other Merino sheep, that they are prolific an! have flock qualities of the very best order. There is a charming uniformity in these sheep which have sot the pattern most ad- mirably for the mutton Merino sheep of the future, and it is claimed there is no better dolaine wool grower in existence. —R. M. Bell. Comparative Merits of Bees. The pure Italian bee (Apis Ligustioa) does more work and lives 10 to 15 days longer than the German black bee (Apis mellifica). But don't use the highly praised golden, Eno banded Italians, be- cause they are bred for color and are de- cidedly apt to be weak in constitutional vitality. The true Italians are more of a leather color than yellow; they show two distinct bands around the abdomen up next to the throat (the part to which the wings and legs are attached). The real superiority of the Italians is a tongue four one -hundredths of an inch longer than the black bees have. They are more persistent workers and they cling to the combs closer when being handled, also protect their combs from the ravages of the bee moth more completely.—H. L. Jeffrey. To Ventilate a Warm Cellar. The majority of cellars, perhaps, need provision for keeping out the cold rather than letting it in. Still there are many that are* much too warm for the proper keeping of fruit through the winter, and" where such is the case ventilation must be had. The diagram shows an excel- lent way to secure this. The usual deep window casing has a sash on the inside, hinged at the tap so that it can be opened or closed at will. Over the outside of the casing coarse cotton cloth is drawn and tacked. This keeps out snow and any animals that might otherwise enter, but permits some circulation of air. With this arrangement the temperature of a naturally warm cellar can be easily controlled during the winter, and fruit kept fresh and free from shriveling. About the Farm. Soil, location and management have a marked influence on same variety. What farmers are looking for today is something that will yield an income out- side of the,r farm. Bees would make quite an item in the income of the farm- er, and would be received from what is going to waste every year. Do not • start on a large scale, but let your apiary grow. Start with about four or six swarms the first season. You may lose some skein, but you must expect loss. Bees will die as well as horses or cattle,but•perhaps not so often, and then, there is not such a large sum invested. Take some reliable bee paper if you intend going into it very strong. Many a farmer,'s wife is in the bee business to stay. They find it a light employment, and many a little article has been.. purchased with the bees' money;' Use the frame hives, as more money can be got,from them thou any other. Use one pound section, as they look neater and. are.. more in demand, as those who buy the . sweet nectar like to have the combs so they can place them on the table and not out them. from obtaining winter shelter near their food -plants and those pests already in hibernation will be killed. Many of our worst insect pests, as the plum .cumuli() thus hibernate in rubbish. It is a good practice to scrape off the rough bark from the trunks and branch- es of fruit trees, for many caterpillars of the codlin moth (then in theirlittle co- coons of silk), the hibernating adults of the pear psylla,and the hibernating eggs under the scales of the oyster -shell bark- louse and the scurvy bark -louse, will be dislodged or killed. A coating of white- wash or some similar wash will ' tend to keep the bark clean, thus rendering it. less attractive as a hibernating place for insects. If fruit trees are pruned at any time during their dormant period the pruning should always be burned. These prun- logs will often bear the wintering eggs of the different kinds of plant lice (as the apple and the cherry aphides, and the hop aphis, whose eggs are laid on plum trees) that appear in such great numbers on the trees in the spring and summer. The half-grown caterpillars of the cigar -case -bearer (Colabphora flet- cherella) are also then snugly tucked away in their little curved eases attach- ed to the bark of the twigs and many thus pariah on the prunings This insect has recently come to be a serious apple pest in Western New York Trees infested with the oyster -shell bark -louse, the scurvy bark -louse, the San Jose scale (now practically confin- ed to Long Island in New York state, but which has been widely disseminated since its spread from California) or any other scale insect, should be thoroughly washed with t whale -oil soap, using one o e or twones ou to a gallon P g 11 n of water. Remember that the wash must come in contact with the insects to kill them. With this wash, or with a strong ker- osene emulsion, many of the adults of that dreaded pest, time pear psylla, then in hibernation in sheltered places on the bark, can be killed. The New York plum scale, which has recently wrought such great destruction in Western New York plum orchards, can be fought to the best advantage only when the trees are dormant, as the scales are then young,tender,and lie ex. posed on the bark. Badly infested trees should receive a thorough spraying with kerosene emulsion (Hubbard -Riley for- mula diluted four times) in the fall, in the winter, if possi ble, and another very thorough application early in the spring before the buds swell. Why Rain and Snow injures Highways. The two cross sections of country roads shown herewith are in the nature of ob- ject lessons that tell their own story. The first (Fig. 1) is that of hundreds of country highways—ditches at the sides, a high grass -grown edge or "shoulder" on either side of time wheel track, and a con- cave roadbed. When the rain falls on such a highway how can it do otherwise than ran along the center of the road. washing away all loose soil in its course, until it finds a chance to escape into one of the side ditches? Where such a road is FIGI- EROLY St•tRPEO RORDwRY FIG 2 -PROPERLY SHAPED ROADWAY upon rising or falling ground, the wash- ing is especially severe, because of the force of the water, which on steep hills often becomes a perfect torrent, pouring i down the middle of the highway. The proper form of a roadway is shown in ' Fig. 2. The "shoulders" have been moved and parried into the middle of the road, the whole surface being nicely rounded from one side to the other. Rain falling upon such a road will run off at once.into the ditches, leaving the roadbed firm and dry. Feeding Hogs. There is always considerable difference between the best and the poorest pigs of a litter. This shows itself at birth, and al- most invariably the pig that is largest and best then will, other things being equal, make the best hog. It is some- times said that the runt pigs can be made better by better feeding. This is true to a certain extent. But the reason the pig Is a runt is usually because digestion is poor. Feeding a runt pig ton much in- jures its digestion still more, or if the food is digested it goes to make fat rather than growth. For this reason the poorest pigs in a lot should be put up for early fattening, giving longer feeding to thabv that will best pay for it. Wintering Hens. I winter 200 hens; they are kept in warns but ventilated houses, and do well. For the morning meal I feed hot corn and a pudding made of corn meal season- ed with salt and pepper. They have plenty of straw, all kinds of small grain, which they must scratch for, and all the fresh water they can drink. My bens are fat in winter, and I keep them so and have eggs in plenty at the same time. I keop the lice from interfering with my busi- ness by using Carbolineum Avenarius. It also prevents disease.—Mrs. M. S. Ful- ler, Eaton County, Michigan. Make the shelter sufficiently warm. so that the hogs will not bed too closely to- gether, American Sheep Breeder says they have compulsory sheep dipping in South Au- stralia for lice and Molts as well as for scab. It also says that drouth in New South Wales has enhanced 'the price of meat in Seethes,. The Red Poll, formerly called the Suffolk Dun, comes from the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk on the east coast of England. This breed is one for which its friends especially claim good merit as both beef and milk production, or as a double purpose cow. It is of medium sizes, some specimens` being quite large. Solid red in color, of coarse hornless. The breeders in the home counties have had decidedly different ideas in mind, and specimens of the breed frequently differ much in form, size and dairy quality. As a breed the cows give a good quantity of milk above the average••in percentage of fat. Many men have credit for wisdom when the quality they possess is nothing more than "cuteness," which has no re- gard foe right and utterly ignores the. thoug✓e of doing unto others as timer would have them do to them. BRIGHT'S DISEASE. THE DANGER OF BUSINESS MEN AND MENTAL :WORKERS. The Daily Press, a Record ofits Fatalitet —Not a Day But Hae its Victim -The Prominent Men of ,all Countries an Especial Troy—Dodd'a Kidney Pills Always Cure. Bright's Disease, at any stage, is sim- ply an inflamed condition of the kidn lye. Men whose work is indoor, men whose habits are sedentary, and women, espec- ially,, are subject to Bright'&Disease. Not a day but the sudden death of some man of.note is wired to the public press. • - W'e all of us have in mind the death of some splendid specimen of robust manhoodin the apparent flush of health. An impression is made on our memory by the death of the public men of all. lands. Yet nineteen out of every twenty of such deaths are due to Bright's or some other form of kidney disease, During four years' experience with Dodd's Kidney Pills we have never heard of a single failure to cure in any case of Bright's Disease. Many of those cures were at such a stage of this deadly disease that doctors and friends have given the victims up to die. Such a ease was that of Dv. A. G. McCormick, of Richmond, Quebec. Such, also, was the case 'of f#. H. Kent, of Ottawa. These mon and hundreds of 'others whose names have been published by us are still living to tell their own story in their own words; all anyonehas' to do is to write, enclosing a stamp for reply, and any them will verify fy their testi- mony as from a sense of duty, DID NOT HEED THE WARNING. The Plain. Reason Why Heart Disease Claims litany Victims. If the many who, in some degree, are troubled with affection of the heart would but keep near them a remedy which would ease trouble before it as- sumes more serious conditions, life would many a time be saved. This is one of the most striking elements of Dr. Ag- new's Cure for the Heart. When palpi- tation, dizziness, that terrible smother- ing feeling, shows itself, a single dose of this medicine taken promptly will remove the immediate trouble, and a little perseverance in the continuation of the medicine will banish the disease. It Seemed Too Bad. Miss Provincial—You say that this is a loan exhibit of portraits. Gothamito—Yes" Miss Provincial—Doesn't it seem awful that wealthy people are obliged to raise money on their family portraits like this? MINISTER FOSTER'S SECRETARY Has Successfully "Used Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder Personally and in His Family. Mr. J. J. Jenkins, private seoretary to Hon. Geo. E. Poster, Minister of Finance, has found in Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder a successful remedy for the removal of catarrhal troubles. He has not confined its use to himself, but states that it has been used with the most pleasing and successful results by other members of his family. One short puff of the breath through the blower, supplied with each bottle of Dr.Agnow's Catarrhal Powder,diff us- es this powder over the surface of the nasal passages. Paiules; and delightful to use, it relieves in 10 minutes, and permanently cures Catarrh, Hay Fever, Colds,Headache, Sore Throat, Tonsilitis and Deafness. At druggists. Just Like a Club. Mrs. Gotham—Mario, do you think it right that a married woman like you. should receive steady company from so• many men? Mrs. Poreson (of Chicago) --Oh, they are on my waiting-list, jun know. KEEP THE KIDNEYS HEALTHY. The Avenue Through Which lunch of' the Disease of the Day Travels. When the sanitary conditions of a town are in first-class working order• there is little doubt but that such a community will be a healthy one in which to lire. The kidneys constitute the sanitary machinery of the system. Keep these clean, pure and in healthful working condition and 90 per cent of the serious diseases of the day would be banished. In South American Kidney Cure is found a remedy that removes quickly and effectively the obstructions that constantly arise in the kidneys, and that puts them in proper working shape immediately. It relieves In six hours. New Music. Managing editor—If I could only find a new headline for the birth column, Horse editor—Why not try "New Music?" .."Within 12 Hours After First Dose the Pain Left lice"—Rheumatism of Seven Years' Standing. • I have been a victim of rheumatism for seven years, being confined to bed for months at a time, unable to turn myself. I have been treated by many physicians in this part, of the ,country, none of whom benefited me. 1 had no faith in rheumatism cures advertised, but my wife induced me to get a bottle of South American Rheumatic Cure from Mr.Taylox, druggist, of Owen. Sound. At. the time I was suffering agonizing pain, but inside of twelve hours after I took the first dose the pain left use, I' con- tinued until I took three betties, and I considered I am completely cured. Signed, J. D. McLeod, Leith P.O., Out. A six-year-old girl made the journey across the continent, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, all alone two weeks ago. She was placed in the care of the conduc- tor at Philadelphia, and very soon women travellers in the cars learned all about her and she had lots of friends to take charge of her during the 'long trip. No onetravelled all the, distance with her; but _ she was passed from one woman to another as one left the train and another came aboard. Some of the New Tablecloths. Some of the new tablecloths have deep bands of drawn°world set at intervals from the hems to a distance of twelve inches from the center,' Others are simply hemstitched and have no orna- mentation except the monogram, placed a little distance from the center.