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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-8-20, Page 3AS THE TREE FALLS. NO MATTER IN WHAT DIRECTION, THERE IT SHALL LIE. Rev. Dr. Talmage Evaluates An Earnest Sermon, Warning the Impeni tent Against Waiting for the Next World Before Cor- recting the letistakes of This, , Washingtien, D.C., Aug. 16.—Dr. Tal - 'mage to -day disousses a question that everybody sometimes discusses. It is one of tremendous import. Shall we have another chance? The text is, Ecol. xi., 8: "If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be." • There is a hovering hope in the minds of a vast multitude of people that there will be an opportunity in the next world of correcting the mistakes of this; that however complete a shipwreck we may make of our earthly life, it will be on a beach up which we may walk to a palace; that as the defendant may lose his case in a circuit court and appeal it and have it go up to the supreme court or court of chancery and all the costs thrown over on the other party, so a man may lose his ease in this world, but in the higher jurisdiction of eternity have the decision of the earthly case set aside, all the costs remitted and the de- fendant be triumphant forever. The object of my sermon is to show you that common sense declares with the text that such an expectation is chimeri- cal "If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be." There are those who say that if the impenitent and =forgiven man enters the next world and sees the disaster, as a result of that disaster he will turn, the distress the cause of his reformation; but we have ten thousand instances all around about us of people who have done wrong and disaster suddenly came upon them—did the disaster heal them? No, they went on, There is a man flung of dissipations. The doctor says to him "Now, my friend, if you don't stop drinking and don't stop this fast life you are living, you will die." The patient thanks the physician for his warning and gets bet- ter; he begins to sit up, begins to walk around the room, begins to go to busi- ness1and takes the same round of grog shops where he got his morning dram and his evening dram and the drams 1 between. Down again. Same dootor. . Same physical anguish. Same medical warning. But now the sickness is more protracted, the liver more obstinate, the stomach more irritable, the digestive or- gans more rebellious. But still, under medical skill, he gets better, goes forth, commits the same sacrilege against his physical health. Sometimes he wakes up to see what he is doing, and he realizes he is cleetroyang his family and that his life is a perpetual perjury against his marriage vows, and that broken-hearted won= is so different from the roseate wife he married that her old schoolmates do not recognize her on the street, and that his sons are going out in life under the taunt of a father's drunkenness, and that his daughters are going out in life under the scarification of a disreput- able ancestry. His nerves are all a jangle. From crown of head to sole of foot he is one aching rasping, crucifying, damning torture. Where is he? He is in hell on earth. Does it stop him? Ah! no. After awhile delirium tremens pours out upon his pillow a whole jungle of hissing reptiles. Ms screams horrify the neigh- bors as he dashes out of hod crying: "Take these things off mel" He is drinking down the comfort of his fam- ily, the education of his children, their prospects for this life, and perhaps their prospects -for the life to come. Pale and convalescent, he sits up. Physician says to him: "Nesse my good fellow, I am going to have a plain talk with you. If you ever have an attack of this kind again you will die, I can't save you, and all the doctors in creation can't save you." The patient gets up, etarts out, ,goes the same round est, dissipation and is down again; but this'atitne medicines do not touch his case. Consultations of phyeieiens say there is no hope. Death ends the scene. That process of inearia- tion and physical suffering and medical warning and dissolution le taking place within a stone's throw of where you sit and in every neighborhood of Christen- dom. Pain does not reform. Suffering does not once. What is true in regard to one Ain is true in regard to all sins, anti yet men are expecting in the next life there will be opportunity for purgatorial regeneration. Take up the printed re• ports of the prisons of the United States . aarnidmilinnadl at hwa te rtehe t hvairi. es t before,tnajor itysomofe tfilore I two times, three times, four times, six tunes, Punished again and again, but they go right on. Millions of incidents Iand instances working the other way, i and yet men think that in the next world [punishment will work out for them sal- vable effects. Why you and I cannot . I world, tahnadn 'imagine any worse torture from another withoutanyaSneeyn smallientartyn hclo thisconse- Iciaequence. - ncreth lauermore, the prospect of reforms., don in another world is more'Improbable s l than ,here. Do you not realize the fact that man starts in this world with the i innocence of infancy. In the other case iIstarting in the other world, he starts I with the accumulated bad habits of a !lifetime. Is it not to be expected that you : could build a better ship out, of new timber than out of an old hulk that has sar ; been ground up in the breakers? If start- ling with comparative innocency the man ! does not become godly, is it possible that • starting with sin a seraph can be ovo- luted? Is there not more prospect that a sculptor will make a finer Statue out of • a block of pure, white Parian marble than out of a black rock that has been cracked and twisted and split and scarred with the storms of a half cen- tury? Could you not write a last will and testatment, or write a deed, or write an important document on a pure white sheet of . paper easier than you could write it upon a sheet scribbled all over with infamy and blottted and torn from , top to bottom? And yet there are those Who are so uncommon-sensioal as to be have that though a man starts in this world with infancy and its innocence and turns out badly, in the next world he can startwith a dead failure and turn out well, "But," say some people, "me ought to have another chance in the next world because our life here is so very -brag; we scarcely have room to turn around between the cradle suid the grave, the wood of the one almost strik- ing ttgainst the marble of the other. We ought to have another chance because of the brevity of this life." My friends, do you Isnon, What made the ancient deluge a necessity? It was the longevity of the antediluvians. They were worse in the second century that in the first, and worse when they got three hundred years old, and worse at four hundred, and worse at five hundred, and worse at six hundred, and worse at eight hundred; and the world had to be washed and scoured and scrubbed and soaked and sunk and anchored a whole•month'under water before it was fit for decent people to live in.. I have seen many pictures of old Time with his scythe to out, but I never saw any pasture of Time with a oheet of medicines to heal. Seneca said that in the first few years of his pub.11 life Nero was set up as an exampl of clemency and kindness, but he got worse and worse, the path descending, until at sixty-eight years of age he was the suicide, if eight hundred years of life- time could not cure the antediluvians of their iniquity, Iundertaketo say that all ages of eternity would be only pro- longation of depravity. "But," says some one, "in the next life the evil sur- roundings will be withdrawn and good influences will be substituted, and hence, expurgation, sublimation, glorification." But you must remember that the righteous, all their sins forgiven, pass right up into a beatific state, and then having passed up into the beatific state, not needing any other chance, that will leave all those who have never been for- given, and who were impeuitent alone— alone! and where are the salvable influ- ences to come from? Can it be expected, that Dr. Duff, who spent his whole life in pointing the Hindoos to heaven, and Dr. Abeel, who spent his life in evange- lizing China, and that Judson, who spent his life in preaching the gospel to Burmah—can it be expected that they will be sent down from some celestial missionary society to educate and to save those who wasted their earthly existence? No. We are told distinotly that all mai- sionary and evangelistic influences will be ended forever, and the good, having passed up to their'beatific state, all the Morally bankrupt will he together, and where are the salvable influences to come from? Will a specked or bad apple put in a barrel of diseased apples make the other apples good? Will one who is down be able to lift others up? WM those who have miserably failed in the business of this life be able to pat the debts of other spiritual insolveuts? Will a million wrong; make one right? isoneropolis was the city where King linfue of Threcia put all bad people of his kimadoin and whenever there were Mai:tie:us people found in any part of the land they were all sent to Poneropolis. It was the great capital of wickedness. Suppose a man or a woman had opened a primary school in Pelneropolls, would the parents of other cities have sent their children there to he educated and reformed': If a man in this world was surrounded with temptetion, in the next world, all the righteous having passed up into the beatific state, the association will be more deteriorating, depreciating and down. You would not send to a cholera or a yellow fever hospital a man for • his bealth; and the great lazaretto of the future, in which are gathered the diseased and the plaguesstruck, will be a poor piece' for moral recovery, The Count of Chntermbriand, in order to make his child courageous, made him sleep In the turrets of the castle, where the winds howled and snenters were said to haunt the place. The mother and the sisters at. most died of fright, but the sou after- wards gives his amount, anti he says: "That gave me nerves of steel, and gave me courage that has never faltered." But, my friends, I do not think the tur- ret of darkness or the spectral world eseept by siroceo and euroelydon, will prepare it soul for the eternal land of sunshine. I wander what is the curricu- lum in the College Inferno, where a man havitig been prepared by enough sin, enters and goes up from freshman of iniquity to sophomore of abominetion, and on up, from sophomore to junior, and from junior s to senior, and flay "of graduation comes, anti the diploma it signed by Satan, the president, and all the professional demonlace attest the fact that the eamildate has been a sufficient time under their drill, and then enters heaven. Pandemonium, a preparatory school for celestial atimission! Al), my friends, while Satan and hist:cohorts have fitted a vast multitude for ruin; they have never fitted one soul for happiness —never Again, I wish you further to notice that another chance in another world means the ruin of this. Now, suppose a wicked man is assured that after a life- time of wickednesahe can fix it all right up in the future. That would be the demoralization of society, that would be the demolition of the human race. There are men who are now kept on the limits of sin by their fear. The fear that if we ere bad and =forgiven here it will not be well with us in the next existence, is the chief influence that keeps civilization from rushing back into semi -barbarism, and keeps semi -barbarism from rushing back into midnight savagery, and keeps midnight savagery from marching back into extinction. Now, the man is kept on the limits of sin. But th.s idea coin- ing into his soul, this idea of another chance, he says: "Go th, now; I'll get out of this world all there is in it Come glutteay and revenge and uncleanness find all sensualitles, and wait upon rue It may abbreviate my earthly life by dissoluteness, but that will only give me heavenly indulgence on a larger scale in a shorter length of time. I will overtake the righteous before long, I will only come in heaven a little late, end I will he a little more fortunate than those who have behaved themselves on earth and then went straight to the lmsom of God, because I will see more and have wider excursion, and I will come into heaven via Gehenna, via Sheol !" Hearers Readers! Another chalice in the next world meane free license and the detnoli- tion of this. Suppose you had a chance in court, and all the judges anti all the ;irtorneys agreed in telling you the flrst trial of it—at would be, tried twice—the first trial would not be of very meal] ire- porta/the, hat the second trial would decide everything. On which trial would you put the most expenaiture? On which trial would you employ the ablest coon - eel? on which trial would you be most anxious to have the attendance of an the witnessed? "Oh, ' you would say, "if there are to be two trials, and the first trial does not amount to much, the seeond trial being everything, evetything depending upon that, I must have the most eloquent attorney, until must have ;di amy withesses present, and I will exa peed my money on that." If thea men who ere impenitent and who are wicked felt there were two trials and the firet was Of no very rPat importance, and the senand trial was tho one of vast and (tulle invortance, all the preparations fIf eternity Would be post-mortem, poste Iinc iii, post sepulchral this world would he jerked off into impenitency and godlessness. • Another chance in an- other world means the deniolition of this world. •• Iturthefanore, my friends—for I am preaching to myself as well as to you we are on the same level, and though the platform be a little higher than the. pew, it is only for convenience, and that We may the better speak to the people; we are all on the same platform, and I am talking to my soul While I talk to yours—my friends, why another chance in another world when we have declined so many &lances in this? Suppose you spread a banquet and you invite a vast number of friends and among others you send an invitation to a man who disregards it, or treats it in an obnoxious way. During twenty years you give 1 twenty banquets, a banquet a year; and you invite your friends, and every time you invite this man, who disregards your invitation or sends back some Indignity. After a while you move into a larger house and amid more luxuriant surroundings, and you invite your friends, but you do not invite that man to whom twenty times you sent an inVi- tation to the smaller house. Are you to blame? You would only make yourself absurd before God and man to send that man another invitation. For twenty years he has been declining your offers , and sending insult for yourkindness and i courtesy, and can he blame you? Can he come up to your house on the night of the banquet? Looking up and seeing it ' Is a finer house, will he have any right' to say: "Let me in. I declined all those I offers, but this a larger house a brighter house, a more luxuriant abode. Let mei In. Give me another chance?" God has spread a banquet of his grace before us I For three hundred and sixty-five days of every year, since we knew the difference between our right hand aadour left, he has invited us by His Providence and His Spirit. Suppose we dee line ail these offers and all this kindness. Now the banquet is spread in a larger place, in the heavenly palace. Invitations are sent out, but no Invitation is sent to us. Why? Beoause we declined all those other banquets. Will God be to blame? I A dream. I am in the burnished judg- silent hall on the last day. Time great ! white throne is lifted, but the Judge has not yet taken it. While we are waiting I for his arrival I hear the immortals in conversation, "What are you waiting for?" says a soul that went up from Madagascar to a soul that went up from America. The lather responds: •`I was in America 40 years ago, and I heard the gospel reached, and I had plenty of Bibles in my house, and from the time that I knelt at my mother's knee in prayer until ray last hour, I had great opportunities; but I did not improve them, and I am here to -day waiting for another chane.'' "Strange, strange," says the soul just come up from Mada- gascar. "Strange. Why, I nevar heard the <mewl call but once in all my life, and''I accepted it, and I don't want an- other. chance." "What are you waiting for?" says one who on earth had veins feeble intellect to one who had great brain and whose voice was silvery, and who had scepters of power. The latter replies: "I had great power on earth, I racist admit; and I masterca languages and I mastered libraries, anti colleges conferred upon me learned titles, and my name was a eynoym for eloquence and power; bat somehow I neglected the matters of my soul, and I mast con- fess to you I am here to -day waiting for =other (Mance." Now, the ground trembles with the advancing chariot. The great folding doors of the btunished hall of judgment are thrown open, "Stand back," cry the ushers, "and let the Judge of quick and dead pass through." He takes the throne. He looks off upon the throngs of nations come to the last judgment, come to the only judgment, and one flash from the throne reveals each man's history to himself, and reveals it to all the others. And then the Judge says, "Divide!" and the burnished walls echo it, "Di- vide!" and the guides angelic answer, "Divide:" and the lainsortals are rush- ing this way and that, until there is an aisle between them, a great aisle; and than a vacuum, widening. and widening and widening, until the Judge looks to one side. of the vacuum, and addresses the throng and says: "Let him that is righteous be righteous still, and let him thetas holy he holy still." And then, turniaig to the throng on the other side of the vacuum, he says: "Let him that is unjust be unjust still, and let him that is filthy he filthy still." And then be stretches out both bands, one toward the throng on each side the vacuum, and says: "If the tree fall toward the south, nr toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be!' And then I hear something jar with a great :mind. It is the closing of the Book of auagment. The Judge ascends the stairs bciiina the throne. The hall of the last :assize is cleared and shut. The High Court of Eternity adjourned forever. "Only a Cold." A person in good health, with fair play, easily resists cold, but when the health ilags a little and liberties are taken with the stomeen or with the par- ous system, a chill is easily taken, and, enameling to the weak spot of the individ- ual, assumes the form of a cold or pneu- monia, or it nuty be jaundice. Of all "tures of "cold" probably fatigue is one of the most efficient. A jaded man, com- ing home at night from a long day's ,rock, a growing youth losing two hours' sleep over evening parties two or three times a week, or a young lady heavily *wing time season," young children over- fal and with short allowance of sleep Ira 'weenier' instances of the victims of ••colu." Luxury is favorable to chill -taking; very hot rooms, featherbeds, soft chairs. Team a sensitiveness, that leads to ca- tarrhs., It is nor, after all, the "cold" Item is so much to be feared as the an- eecedent conditions that give the attack a cadence of doing harm. Some of the ,sorst "colds" happen to those who do not leave the house or even their beds, ined those who are most invulnerable are erten those who are most exposed to esaumete of teniperatute, and who by good e, p, cold bathing and regular habits pre- serve ths tone of their nervous system and circulation. Probebly many chills are contracted met, night or at the fag end of the day, when area people get the equilibrium of their oiremation disturbed by either overheated sitting -rooms or underheated bedrooms and beds. This is especially the case with eldesiy people, In such cases the mis- chief is not always done instantaneously, or in a single night It often takes place IPI,Itii.011S1y, extending over days or even weeks. --London Lancet. The Bicycle Jump. tic it do you think oe the bicycle raesa' "Great thing! I never took so much scod eeereise before in my life." ,i(„11u.e,g.e.:(: I didn't know that you were lII:11 111 a 1riONtv,bbillite.„Ihave to cross th.‘ streets „a CROPS IN ONTARIO. REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Increased Acreage in Fall Whet --Sprig Wheat on the teeeline-aerult Yield the Greatest for Years—The Elow of seesaey Itaiberal—Sueplus of Warm Labor ---Statis- tics of Live Stock. The crop report of the Ontario Bureau of Industries for the season has just been issued. The fall wheat is reported to have been ploughed up in considerable area in all parts of Ontario, the two counties most noticeable in this respect being Prince Edward and Haldimand. The reports of the final outcome of the crop are variable and conflicting, but on the Whole rather under than above the average. In Essex and Kent, where har- vesting began as early as. June 26th, the reports are rather poor. There are numer- ous complaints of damage by "Hessian fly," thought some say also, "or some other insect." In Eigtn and Lincoln the condition was fair. In Haldinaand the situation is summed up thus: "The worst failure for many years." Welland gives yields from five to twelve bushels pr acre, Lambton sends good reports, Huron fair, Bruce poor, Grey variable, Simcoe good. In the West Midland counties, from Middlesex to Dufferin, the situation may be summed up as fair yield with good quality. Winter -killing, drouth, and grasshoppers were causes in various localities for decreasing the yield below what was expected In the east most of the crop was harvested from ,Inla 10th to 20th, There are many re- ports of injury, yet on the whole the crop turned out well, the quality being very good; while from the east, where the acreage is much less than in the west, there are some reports of complete loss, there are others of extraordinary yield. SPRING WHEAT. This crop is still on the decline. Re- ports are no mare encouraging than they have been for several years. The prin- cipal complaints are as to inferior qual- ity, though a few sections in the east give good yields and first-class quality. Most reports are of moderate yield. RYE. In the met there are a few reports, some fair, but most are good. In the west the crop is quite up to the average for quality. OATS. The condition of oats in the west was fair. Some injury by rust, and here and , there the army worm, is reported. From the east we get reports of a large acreage and good condition. BA RLE Y. Along Lake Erie there is a fair yield, but the late rains have discolored a large portion. In the west the loss by insects Is no greater than usual. In the east the indications point to a crop above the average in quality. PEAS Late sowing "to avoid the bug" Is more common than ever, and as a con- sequence there has been little harvesting done by August 8th. There are very few reports; many report a heavy growth of straw. Mildew has been found here and there. BEANS. The late rains in the southwestern part of Ontario injured the beans on low land; otherwise the crop is in good con- dition, although it is a little early yet to report definitely. CORN. An increased area is reported. Grubs and grasshoppers did some injury, and a few correspondents feared the army worm, but the crop was not seriously affected by insect pests. In many sec- tions, more particularly in the Lake Erie 'district, considerable damage was done by rain, but the splendid corn weather of the last two or three weeks has brought the plant along gradually; and although a considerable portion of the seed was put in late, to supplement the anticipated poor crop of hay, the main crop of corn was spoken of as caring in a most satisfactory manner. HAY AND CLOVER. The reports regarding red clover are, on the whole, not very favorable. The drouth of the previous summer, and the freezing of the past winter, were both destructive. Alsike is somewhat better, but still hardly up to the average. Sev- eral speak very favorably of mammoth red clover. Timothy has turned out bet- ter than in 1895. In Essex and Kent the reports are from one to two tons per acre. Elgin and Norfolk also had fairly good crops. Haldimand and Welland had very light crops, in some townships a failure. Lam bton was fair. Huron and Bruce were under the average. Grey was light; dronth and grasshoppers both ba- ng injurious. Simcoe rather light. Middlesex, Brant, Oxford, -Wellington, Waterloo and Dafferin gave varying yields—from one to two tons. In the west the rainfall varied much as to time and quantity. As a rule old meadows were light, through the lack of rain in the summer of 1895. Throughout the Niagara peninsula the crop was short. From East; York along Lake Ontario the yield increased, and the crop was well saved. Along the St. Lawrence the yield Is very good. Carleton good. Prescott good. Russell extra good. In Lanark and Victoria the yield is up to the aver- age. In the northern districts the crop was fair. The Rainy River country has probably the heaviest yield per acre in Ontario. POTATOES. While reports regarding potatoes sic, not fully agree, it looks as if there will be a fair yield in most sections. Early planted are small in size, owing to the drouth, but those put in later promise a better return. Rot was reported in low lying places in the Lake Erie countries, but other districts have so far been comparatively free from it. The bug was reported as numerous by some corres- pondents, while others stated that this pest was not nearly so bad as usual. ROOTS. Reports regarding the root crops are somewhat contradictory, even in the seine townships. The seed in many quarters failed to fully "catch," owing to the (limit)); but that which came up was doing remarkably well where the grasshoppers were not attacking it. However, the prospect on the whole for roots is eimouraging, and at present turnips promise better, than mangold or carrots. FRUIT. Not for many years has there been so great a yield of apples as in the ptesent season. Such terms as. "An extraordin- ary crop," "An enormous yield," and "Largest ever known," ' are frequent in our returns, these expressions applying more especially to summer and fall sorts. The fruit is also remarkably free from 'worm and scab. Pears give a fair yield, but many trees are suffering from blight. Peaches are also abundant, and plums are up to the average, although in one or two sections a tendency to rot is re- ported. Cherries were rather small, but of good quality. Grapes promise a large return in most localities, and small fruits have been abundant. Taken alto- gether, the summer of 1896 has made one of the best records in the way of fruit supply. PASTURES AND LIVE STOCK. Between the drouth of June and grass- hoppers pastures were rather brown and bare until the more showery weather of the last fortnight enabled the fields to pick up. Live stock generally are in a healthy condition although perhaps a little on the lean Ade, But little disease has been reported, and nothing of an epidemic nature. The horn fly has not yet disappeared; but, except In Perth and a few other western counties, it has caused Out small annoyance this sum- mer. The milk supply has fallen off greatly, and a number of factories have closed up for lack of patronage, while the low price of cheese has had a de- pressing effect upon patrons. Hay will be scarce, but such supplementary fodder as corn and straw will be abundant; and live stock, from present appear- ances, can be easily carried through the winter. THE APIARY. Not for many years have beekeepers had so much to encourage them. There has been an abundance of nectar, and I the flow of honey has been liberal. While a few correspondents mention only 10 to 20 pounds of honey per hive, a number speak of extracting fully 100 pounds. The average yield is about 551 pounds, end this will likely be aug- mented as buckwheat was in bloom as the correspondents wrote. Colonies have been about doubled by swarming and no disease is complained of. LABOR AND WAGES. There is a surplus of farm laborers, and wages have been lower than usual. Farmers are trying to do without hired help, and are relying more upon im- proved machinery for help. Harvest hands have got 75 cents to $1 a day, and from $13 to $20 per month. SUMMARY OF CROPS. Time total area under crop is 8, e11,444 acres, as compared with 8,321,173 acres, in 1895. The area devoted to pasture is 2,619,744 acres. Time estimated area in orchard, garden, and vineyard is 820.- 122. The number of apple trees of bearing ago is placed at 5,913,900, while there are 5.548.008 young apple trees planted in orchards. Of miscellaneous crops 21,724 acres are devoted to the cultivation of rape, 18,498 acres to flax, 3,016 acres to hops, 667 acres to tobacco, and 1,375 acres to sorghum. STATISTICS OF LIVE STOCK. The number of live stock sold or slaughtered during the year ending -lune 30th, 1896, are as follows: Horses, 44,- 458; cattle, 486,451; sheep, 766,896; hogs, 1,304,359; poultry, 2,711,771. The wool clip was 5,081,3e7 pounds, as compered with 6,214,811 pounds in 1895. The number of colonies of bees on hand decreased from 173,173 in 1895, to 1119,0711 in 1890. CROPS IN GENERAL. From the table of statistics accom- panying this bulletin, which it must be remembered are estimates of probable yields at harvesting, time, and are not based on threshing results (except in the case of hay, whioli is the final estimate of actual yield), the following comments may be made:— Pall wheat shows a large increase in acreage, ae stilted in the two previous bulletins, although 85,000 acres were !soughed up in the spring; the yield is only 16.6 bushels per acre, making the total yield a little larger than last year. Spring wheat, with a slight increase in acreage, owing to ;the partial failure of fall wheat, gives, with decreased yield per acre, about the same total yield as in 1895. Barley has mm smaller acreage, but larger yield per acre than in 1895, and thereby gives about time same total yield. Oats, with an increased area and slightly lower yield per acre, give but a small increase over 1895. Eaye has an increased acreage, and a yield per acre exactly thosame as in 1895. Peas, with an increased area of 30,000 acres, and all increased yield of nearly three bushels per acre, give a crop of 3,000,000 bushels over that or 1895. Beans are somewhat less in yield than in 1895. • Hay and clover promise a crop of nearly one ton per acre, giving 400,000 tots inure than In 1895, lint still 1,000,- 000 tons below the average. The area of corn shows an increase of nearly ten per cent, over that of 1895, and is now more than double the average of the previous fourteen years. Buckwheat shows an increase in area, potatoes a slight decrease, and field roots a drop from 199,191 acres, to 196,668 acres. THE CLEVELAND STRIKE. The Trouble in the Brown Works—Three llfen Shot and One Badly Hurt. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 16s -sabre° men were shot and one badly hurt in a con • fiat on Friday night between a party of the BrOwn Company strikers and several non-union men who were going home from the works. Two of the wounded men are non -unionists, the third is a striker, and the fourth a spectator. Late In the evening the police arrested R. J. Whitlanci, a striking machinist, formerly employed by the Brown company. He was seen to throW a revolver, with all the careridges fired,through an open door into a barber shop. The Brown.own- pany's Strike has been extended to Pitts- burg. 'Port Dover 'News. Port Dover, Aug. 15.—The collections at the Onstonis office here during the year ended June 80th amounted to $52,- 668. For the month of July the amount was $6,155, Since the opening of the car ferry line, about a year ago, Sbenangos 1 and a have landed at this port 6,939 cars, laden principally with coal, iron ore, coke, fire-briek, and copper. The total amount of freight was 155,166 tons. Wet weather is interfering considerably with the harvesting of oats in this sec- tion. Cutting is completed, but there is very little stored owing to time frequent rains. Threshing reports thus far place the average wheat yield at eight bushels per mire.Mr. Harry Shaw has taken charge of -the Port Dover flouring milk, which have been operated for a number of years by his father, the late Mr, John Shaw. The new Grand Trunk rail- way bridge over, the Lynn river Was epened for traffic last week. D3CT01;:; (TAX E EER UP ItE31.1. I Li RIX EX1>EJIENOIi OF tist1.01S, OF $T. PIE. rat Grippe, Followed by inflammation of the Lit gs, Left Rerun the Verge of the terave--iler Whole Body Racked With Pain ---Her uusband Brought Bier HOMO to Die, but She is Again in Good Meath. In the pretty little town of St Pie, Begot county, is one of the happiest homes in the whole province of Quebec. and the Cause of much of this happiness is the inestimable boon Of health can- ' ferred through the use of Dr. Williams' t Pink Pills, Mrs. Eva &dots is the per- son thus restored, and she tells her story as follows: Like a great many other Canadians, my husband and myself left Canada for the States, in hope that we might better our condition, and located in Lowell, Mese. About a year ago I gave birth to a*, bright little boy, but while yet on rny sick bad I vas attacked with la grippe, s.nich des .moped into inflatti- niation of the lungs. I. had the very best of care, and the best of eioneal treat- ment, and although the infl onmatien left lute I dui not get better, but. contin- ually grew weaker and weaker. I could not gawp at night, and I became so ner- vous that, the least noise would make me tremble and cry. I could not eat, and was redueed almost to a skeleton. My whole body seemed racked with pain to such an extent that it is impossible for 33:10 to describe it. I got so low that the doctor who was attending me lost hope, but suggested calling in another doctor for consultation. I beggedlliem to give ne soMPtiling to deaden the terrible pain enethrod, but all things done for me seemed unavailing. After the consulta- tion was ended my doctor said to me, you are a great sufferer, but it will not be for long. We have tried everything; we can do no more. I had therefore to prepare myself for death, and would have welcomed it as a relief to my suffer- ing, were it not for the thought of leav- ing my husband and child. When my husband heard what the doctors said, he replied; then we will at once go back to Camelia, and weak and suffering as I was We returned to our old home. Friends here urged that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills be tried, and my husband proenred them. After taking them for some weeks I rallied, and from that on I constantly improved in health. I am now entirely free from pain. I can eat well and sleep well, and am almost as strong as ever I was in may life, and this renewed health and strength I owe to the inarvellnus powers of Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills and in gratitnde I urge all sick people to try them Dr. Williams' Pink Pills create new blood, build. up the nerves, and thus drive disease from ti system. In hun- dreds of cases they Ve cured after all other medicines hal failed, thus estab- lishing the claim tl ,t they are a mar- vel among the trims' tits of modern tned- ical scionee. The ermine Pink Pills are sold only in bra a bearing the full trade mark, "Dr. W dams' Pink Pills for Pale Peejae." areteet yourself from impoeition by ternshas any pill that does not hear the registered trade -mark around the box. Care of House Plants. A lady writes to Farm News that, plants in small or medium sized pots, which have been growing and blooming freely, will coon show by paler colored leavt s and fewer and smaller balms that they have exhausted all the nourishment there is in the soil and need something in the line of toot. If any of the prepared: fon& are use', they, of course, are used according to the. directions that come with them, but if these are not to ba bad, then we must look for sonic good substitute. Those who have a barnyard will not have any trouble, but for others th4re are several plant -foods that. are easily obtained and are both easy and clean to use. There are two which I like so well that I seldom use any others. For fibrous -rooted plants there is no food that Is better than common glue. A piece an inch square dissolved in a teacupfnl of warm water is sufficient for a Meet in' an eieht or teu-inch pot, if given once In two or three weeks Nitrate ef soda is also good, but it is more of a stitnii- lent than a food, and the result is not so lasting. It is one of tee best timings for sick plants that I ever knew of "Work up the surface of the soil with a fork, and water with the solution as deearibed later on, and a plant is far gone that will not take on a new lease of life. A teaspoonful (It the nitmte of soda to a quert of water and applied twice a week is about the right treataiont for either sick plants or bulholi.:-rooted plants that are coming into bud. Bo a little careful about giving this to bulbs before they show buds, or the result may be a lux- uriant growth of foliage at the expease of the bloesome, but after the buds are formed it will make them fairly "hus- tle." Nitrate of soda is extremely solu, Me and so is quickly taken, up by the. plants, and onto must be. used that t00, sic nob is not given and, the plants stimu- lated beyond wbat is natural and healthy growth. The looks of time plant will tell When enough has been given, and then wait until the plants show signs of need- ing more. ess. Meekness is love at school; love at the Savior's feet. It is Christian lowlihood. It is the disciple learni»g to know lam - self; learning to fear arid distrust and , abhor himself. It is the disciple prac- lasing time sweet, but self -emptying hes- ; son of putting on the Loraellesets Christ It Is the dieciple learning ho defects of his own character It is the disciple pray- ing .4ind watching for the mellowing of ' his, temper and the amelioration of his character. It is the living Christian at his Savior's feet, learning of Rim who is meek and lowly, and finding rest for his leoul.---Dr. Jame.; Hamilton.