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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-11-23, Page 7THE CQIING SERMO. DR. TALMAGE'S VIEWS ON THS, $Ell- MONS OF THE FUTURE. THE NEW GOSPEL OF CHRIST, fool He Mien, nollelons Teethe sksuid N Pr seMsee Meister. ought, t. Patsaok *be bixins Chrlat, a■{ Net Ataaslo Teohtgfaaiiefes. Washington, Nov. 19. --In this die - mouse Dr. Talmage addresses all Christian workers and describes what he thinks will be the modes of preaching the gospel in the future; tent, Homans Ilii 7, "Or ministry, La. ua wait on our ministeging." While I was sated on the piazza 41111 a hotel at Lexington, Icy., one summer evening, a gentleman asked in., "What do you think of the commit sermon ?" supposed he wax making me la regard to some new discourse of Dr- Cumming of London, who aometimee preachedstartling esrMosis, Mud I replied, "e have not seen, It." But T found out after- werd that he xaeaut to .aalc what I thought would be the cbaaacterietiea of the touting sermon of the ";world, .hs sermons of site future, the word t'"• Cutnsnin,,' tae a Itoun, pronounced seta .name aa the word coshing as ass adjective. But my mistake suggest- ed to dna a very important and meter - tical theme, "Tire Clamini; Sermon," Before the world is converted the style of religious discourse will have kilo be converted. You might as well go into the modern Sedan or Gettys- burg with bows and arrows, instead of rifles and bonlbsbells and parks of artillery, es to expect to conquer Win world for God by the old styles of exhortation and sermonology. Jonathan Edwards preached the ser- mons most adapted to the age in which he lived, hut if these ser- mons were preached now they would divide as audience tato two classee --tbose sound aeleep, and 'those wanting to go home. Bet there is a discourse et the future. Who will preach it I have ao idea. In what part of the earth it will be born I halve no idea. In which denomination of Christians it will be delivered I cannot guess. That discourse of exhortation may be horn inthe country meeting house on the banks of tho St. Lawrence or the Oregon or the Oltlo or tbo Tom- bigbee or the Alabama. The person who *ball deliver it rimy this mo- ment he in a cradle under the shadow of the Sierra Nevadan or in • New England farmhouse or amid tete rice fields of southern savannas. or this moment there may be some young man in one of our theological a.minaries in the junior or middle or senior cross, shaping that weapon of power, or there may be coming some new baptism of the holy Ghost: as the churches, so that some of us who now stand in the watch towers of Zion, -Taking' to n. realization of our present ince1ieiency, may preach ft ourselves. That t'oming discourse may not bo 50 ,years off. And let us pray God that its arrival may be hastened while x announce to you what I think will lto the chief char- aeteristics of that discourse or ex- hortation when it does arrive, and I want to make my remarks appro- priate and suggestive to all classes et Christ fan workers. First of all, I remark that that future religioue 41i:wowse ' will be full of a living Christ in contradis- tinction to didactic technicalities. A. discourse may he full of Christ %hough hardly mentioning his name, and a sermon nsan bo empty of Christ while every sentence is repeti tions of his titles. The world wants a living Christ, not a Christ stand- ing at the head of a formal system of theology, but- a Chris who means pardon and sympathy and condol- ence and brotherhood and life and heaven, a poor inn reel Christ, a rich man's Christ, an overworked man's Christ, an invalid's Christ, a farm- ar's Christ, a merchant's Christ, an artisan's Christ, an every inan's Christ. That sermon or exhortation of the future will not deal with men in the threadbare illustrations of Jesus >Ohrist. In that coming address there , W' be instances of vicarious suffer - taken right out of everyday life, for there is not a day when some- body is not dying for others—as the physician saving his diphtheritic pa- tient by sacrificing his own life ; as the ship captain going down with his vessel while he is getting his pasOengers into the lifeboat ; as the fireman consuming in the burning building while he is taking a child out of the fourth story window; as in summer the strong swimmer at East Ranipton or Long Branch or Cape May or Lake George himself perished while trying to save the drowning ; as the newspaper boy, One' summer, supporting his mother for some years, his invalid mother, teowhen.offered by a gentleman 50 cents to get some special paper, andhe rot it, and rushed up in his anxiety to deliver it and was crushed un- der the wheels of the train and las en, the grass with only strength enough to say, "Oh, what will be- come of my poor sick mother now?" Vicarious suffering — the world is full;; of It. An engineer. said to me on a locomotive in Dakota "We men Teem to be coming to better appre- elation than we used to. Did you see that account the other day of the engineer who to save his passen- gers stuck to his place, and when he was found deed in the locomotive, which was upside down„ he was found still emiling, his hand on the airbrako ?" And as the engineer said it to me he put his hand on the air - brake c to illustrate .h is meaning, and I looked at him and thought, "You would be just is much a hero in the same crisis:,, A German sculptor made an imarre of Christ, 'and he asked his little child; 2 years old, That it wee, and she Maid, "That must be some very great man,'', The sculptor was dies pleased with the criticism, so he got another block of marble and chiseled away on it two or three years, and then he brought in his little child, 4 or 5 years of age, and said to her, "Who do You think that is ?" She said, "That must be the one who took little children in hisarms and blessed them," Then the sculptor was satisfied. Oh, my friends, what the world wants is nota cold Christ, not an intellectual Christ, not a severely magisterial Christ, but a loving Christ, spread- ing out his arms of sympathy to' press the whole wined to his loving heart The trouble is wo preach audiences: into a Christian frame, and then we preach them out of it. We for- get that every auditor has so ruuch capacity of attention, and when that is exhausted he is restless, That aoeident on the Long Island rail- road years ago carne from the fact that the brakes were out of order, and when they wanted to stop the train they could not stop, and hence the casualty was terrific. In all re- ligious discourse we want locomo- tive power and propulsion. We want at the same time stout brakes to let down atthe right instant. It is a dismal thing, after a bearer bast comprehended the whole subject, to hear a man say, "Now to recapitu- late," and "A few words by way of application," and "Once more," and ""1'loally," and "Now to conclude," Paul preached until midnight. and Eutychus got sound *sleep and fell out of a window and broke his neck. Some would say, "Good for him." I would rather be seen- pa:thetio, like Paul, and resuscitate hien. That accident 1s often quoted now in religious circles as a Warn ing against somnolence in church. It is just as much a warning to ministers against prolixity. Euty=. thus was wrong in hie somnolence, but Vail trade a mistake when ho kept on until midnight. He ought to have stopped at 11 o'clock,. and there would bayo been no accident. If Paul might have gone on to too great length, let all those of us who are now preaching the gospel re- member that there is a lbnit to re- ligious discourse, or ought to be, and that in our time we have no apostolic power of miracles. Napo- leon in an address of seven minutes thrilled his army and thrilled Eu- rope. Christ's sermon on the mount, the model sermon, was less thein 18 minutes long at ordinary anode of delivery. It is not electricity scat- tered all over the sky that strikes, but electricity gathered into fa thun- derbolt and hurled, and it is net re- ligioas troth seattered over and. spread out over a vast reach of time, but religious truth projected in compact foram that flashes light upon the soul and rives its lnditler- once. When the religious discourse of the future arrives, in this land and in the Christian church, the discourse which is to arouse the world and startle the mations and usher in the kingdom, it will be a brief discourse. hear it, all theological students, all yo inen and women who in Sabbath schools and other departments are toiling for Christ and the salvation of immortals—brevity, brevity. But I remark also that the reli- gious discourse of the future of which I speak will bo a popular dis- course. There are those in these times that speak of a popular ser- mon as though there must bo some- thing wrong about it, As these critics aro drill themselves, the world gots the impression that a sermon is good in proportion as it is stupid. Christ was the most popular preach- er the wol+'ld ever saw, and, consid- ering the small number of the world's population, had the largest audience ever gathered. Ile never preached anywhere without making a great sensation. People rushed out in the wilderness to hear him, reck- less of their physical necessities. So great was their anxiety to hear Christ that, taking no food with them, they would have fainted and starved had not Christ performed a miracle and fed them. Why did so many people take the truth at Christ's hands ? Because they all understood it. Re illustrated his sub- ject by a hen and her chickens, by a bushel measure, by a handful of salt, by a bird's flight, and by a lily's aroma. AR the people knew what he meant, and they flocked to him. And when the religious discourse of the future appears it will not be Princetoinian, not Rochesterian, not Andoverian, not Middletonian, but Olivetic — plain, practical, unique, earnest, comprehensive of all the woes, wants, sins and sorrows of an auditory. But when that exhortation or dis- course does come there will be a thousand gleaning scimitcrs to charge on it. There are in so many theological seminaries professors telling young men how to preach, themselves not knowing how, and I am told that if a young man in some of our theological seminaries says anything quaint or thrilling or unique faculty and students fly at him and set him right and straight- en him out and smooth him down and chop him off until ho says every- thing just as everybody else says it. Oh, when the future religious dis- course of the Christian church ar- rives all the Churches of Christ in our great cities will be thronged I A mother with a dead babe in her arms came to the good Siva and asked to have her child restored to life. The good Siva said to her, "You go and get a handful of mus- tard seed from a house in which there' has been no sorrow and in which there has been no death and I will" restore your child to life." So the - mother went out, and she went from house to house and from home to home looking for a place where there had been no sorrow and where there had been no. death, but she found none. She went back to the good -Siva and, said : "My mis- sion is a failure. You see I haven't • brought the mustard seed. I can't find a place whore there has been no. borrow and no death., "Ohl" says theood'S van g i "Understand, your sorrows are no worse than the sor- rows of others. We all have our. griefs, and all have our heart- breaks. Laugh, and the worldlaughs with you ; Weep and you weep felon. ;, For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth; But has trouble enough of its own. We hear a great deal of discussion now all over the land about why people do not go to chureh, Some may it is. because Christianity isdy- ing out, and because people do not believe in the truth of God's word, and all that, They are false rea- sons. The reason is because our ser- mons and exhortations are not inter- esting and practical and helpful. Some one might as well tell the whole truth on this subject, and so I will tell it, The religious discourse of the future, the gospel sermon to come forth and shake the nations and lift people out of darkness, ?will be a popular sermon, just for the simple reason that it will meet the woes and the wants and the anxie- ties of the people. There are in all our denominations. ecclesiastical mummies sitting around to frown upon the fresh young pule pits of .America to try to awe theta down, to cry out ; "Tut, tut, tut Sensational I" They stand to, - day preaehing in churches that hold a thousand people, and there are a hundred persons present, and if they cannot have the world saved in their way it seems as i1 they do not want it saved at all. That religious discourse of the future will be an everyday seruzon, going right clown late every man's life, and it will teach: hien how to vote, haw to bargain, how to plow, how to do any work he is called to do, how to wield trowel and pen and pencil and yardstick and plane. And it will teach, women how to preside over their household and how to educate their children ztud bow to imitate Miriam and Esther and Vasit- ti and Eunice, the mother of Time - thy, and Mary, the mother of Christ, and those women who on northern and southern battlefieldss were this. - taken by the wounded for angels of mercy fresh. from the throne of God. Yes, I have to tell you, the reli- gious discourse of the future will be a reported sermon, If youhave any idea that printing was iaavented sim- ply to print secular hooka and sten- ography and phi uoi;tapliy were eoal- trived merely to set forthsecular ideas" you aro mistaken. The print - Mg press is to be the great agency of gospel proclamation. It is high time that good men, instead of de- nouncing the press, employ it to scatter forth the gospel of Jesus Christ. The vast majority of people in our cities do not come to church, and nothing but the printed seruzon can reaeh them, and call them to pardon and life and peace and heaven. So I cannot understand the ner- vousness of some of my brethern of the ministry. When they see a news- paper man coming in, they say, Alas, there is a reporter I" Every added reporter is 10,000, 50,000 100,000 immortal souls added to the auditory. The time will come when all the village, town and city news- papers will reproduce the gospel of Jesus Christ, and sermons preached on the Sabbath will reverberate all around the world, and, . some by type and some by voice, all nations will be evangelized. The practical bearing of this is upon those who are engaged in Christian work, not only upon theo- logical students and youn ministers, but upon all who preach the gospel a,nd all who exhort in meetings and all of you if you are doing your duty. Do you exhort in prayer meet- ings ? Be short and spirited. Do you teach in Bible class ? Though you have to study every night, be in- teresting. Do you accost people on the subject of religion in their homes or in public places ? Study adroit- ness and common sense, A dying Christian took out his watch and gaveit to a friend and said : "Take that watch. I have no more use for it. Time is at an end for me, and eternity begins." Oh, my friends, when our watch has ticked away for us the last moment and our clock has struck for us the last hour, may it be found we did our work well, that we did it in the very best way, and whether we preached the gospel in public, or taught Sabbath classes, or adminis- tered to the sick as physicians, or bargained as merchants, or pleaded the law as attorneys, or were busy as artisans or husbandmen or as mechanics, or were, like Martha,call- ed to give a meal to a hungry Christ, or like Hannah, to make a coat for a prophet, or like Deborah, to rouse the courage of some timid Barak in the Lord's conflict, we did our work in such a way that it will stand the test of the judgment 1 And in the long procession of the redeemed that march around the throne may, it be found that there are many there brought to God through our instru- mentality, and in whose rescue we exult. But let none of us who are 'still unsaved, wait for that religious discourse of the future. It may come after our obsequies. It may come af- ter the stonecutter has chiseled our name on the slab 50 years before. Do not wait for a great steamer of the Cunard or White Star line 'to take you off the wreck, but hailthe first craft, with however low a mast and however small a hulk and how- ever poor a rudder, and however weak a captain. Better a disabled schooner that comes up in time than a full rigged' brig that comes up af- ter you have sunk. Instead of waiting for that reli- gious discourse of the future (it may be 40, 50 years off), take this plain invitation of a man who to have given youspi#itual eyesight would be glad to be called the spittle by the hand of Christ put on the eyes } of a blind mar and who would con- sider on- id r the highest s e g t compliment of this service if, at the close, .500 men should start from these doors say- ing: "Whether he be a sinner' or no, I know not. This one thing I know --whereas I' was blind, now I, see." . Swifter than shadows over the plain, quicker than birds intheir au- tumnal flight, hastier 'than ,eagles to •th it prey, hie you a sympathetic pathetic Christ. The orchestras of heaven have strung their instruments to cel- ebrate.your rescue. And many were the voices around the throne, Rejoice for the Lord brings back loci own, Tt1i: HOUSFKFEPER TELL TRIED RECIPES. Paste these recipes in a -erapbook eael: • week. ender proper headi yes and in a few nionthsyou will have a.,uust complete Cook Book. Yearn y ••ealtot., Pick the meat from, the bones of cold turkey and chop it fine.. Put a layer of bread crumbs on the bottom of a buttered dish, moisten them with a little milk, then put in a layer of tur- key with some of the filling, and cut small pieces of butter oyer the top; then another layer of bread crumbs, and se on until the dish is nearly fall; add a little hot water to the gravy left over from the turkey and pour over it; then take two eggs, two tea- spoonfuls of milk, oue of melted bate ter., a little salt and cracker crumbs as much as will make it thick enough to spread on with a knife; put bits of butter over it, and cover with a plate. Bake three-quarters of an hour, Ten minutes before sorving, remove the plate and let it brown. Pastry lois. When shall pieces of the pie crust are left from making pies, instead of forming them into tarts, as is usually done, seeuxe soine round hardwood stioks, about four inches long, and, after the pieces of crusts are rolled out thin, cut them into narrow strips, with a jaggered iron, hour the stacks, and roll the strips around them, let- ting oue edge drop over the other. Place these on a tin, and put in et hot oven to bake. When the crust has got partly cool, slide the stick out.. Whoa serving, 1111 the spaces with jelly, whipped cream, or a marmal- ade, and the family will be delighted with a new dish. Fruit Padding'. This pudding is made without cook- ing and is nice prepared the day be- fore used. Stow eurrants or any small fruit, either fresh or dried, sweeten with sugar to taste and pour hot over thin slices of bread with the crust cut off, placed in a suitable dish, first a layer of bread, then the hot stewed fruit, then bread and fruit, then bread leav- ing the fruit last. Put a plate over the top, and, when cool, set it on ice. Serve with sugar and cream. This pudding is very fine made with Boston crackers split open and placed in layers with stewed peaches. The Best Cats for Stews. The neck, shoulder and breast are in the order given the best stew outs, the neck being the juiciest part of the animal, and probably the cheap- est. It may seem almost an affront to some to be assured that a royal meat dish for a fomily may be provided at a cost of 25 or 30 cents. But mole is actually the ease. For a brown stew (brown stews are either fricassees, pot -roasts or braizes if properly named) a cut from the round is herr in beef, while for pot -roasts a thiek ant from the face of the round is near- ly always used. To loreshen Up Pura. Nears when taken out in the fall are often found to have a mussed, crush- ed -out appearance. They can be made to look like new, by following these simple directions: Wet the fur with a hair brush, brushing up the wrong way of the hair. Leave it to dry in the air for about half an hour, and then give it a good beating on the right side with a rattan.. After beating it, comb with a coarse comb, combing the right way of the hair. To Enloe the Pile on Velvet. To raise the pile on 'velvet, put on the table two pieces of wood; place between them, bottom side np, three very hot fiat -irons,. and over them lay a wet cloth; hold the velvet over the cloth, with the wrong side down; when thoroughly steamed, brush the pile with a light whisp, and the vel- vet will look as good as new. Chocolate Icing for Eclairs. Grate two ounces of chocolate and set over hot water until melted. When perfectly smooth, cook together one cupful of granulated sugar and one-half of a cupful of water until it becomes stringy. Pour this in a fine stream over the melted chocolate, stirring and beating until the mixture begins to thicken. Use immediately. Mock Ice. Take about three tablespoonsfnl of some good preserve ; rub it through a sieve with as much cream as will fill a quart mold ; dissolve three-quarters of au ounce of isinglass or gelatine in half a pint of water ; when almost cold, mix it well with the cream;. put it into a'mold, set it in a cool place and turn out next day. Starch Po ish. Take one ounce of spermaceti and one ounce of white wax; melt and run into a thin cake on a plate. A piece the size of a twenty-five cent piece added to a quart of prepared starch gives a beautiful lustre to the clothes and prevents the iron from sticking. To Bleach Cotton Cloth. Take one. large spoonful of sal soda and one pound .of chloride of lime for thirty yards; dissolve in 'clean soft water; rinse-: the cloth thoroughly in cold, soft water so that it may not, rot, This amount of cloth may be bleached in fifteen minutes. To Retrieve 'Fitt. From Cloth, Saturate the spot and rub it well with turpentine, and every trace of the tar will be removed. The Canuck Soldiers. To far.off fields they go Where the gloomy veldt is red, With their kits aback and the Union Jack A -floating overhead. When the good Queen's trumpets sound, When the good Queen's bugles blow, Trach true Canuck will wish them luck, As oar the seas they go. When the widow's bugles blow, When the widow's trumpets sound, Each brave Canuck will show his pluck When, the battlefield is found. To foreign lands they go By patriotism fed s They will not lag for the meteor flag is floating overhead, When the good Queen's trumpets sound, When the good Queen's bugles blow, Each true Canuck will wish them luck, As o'er the seas they go. When the widow's bugles blow, When the widow's trumpets sound, Each brave Canuck will show his pluck When the battlefield is found. Te battle, fields afar, Perhaps to loin the dead! They go with joy for the silken toy That's floating overhead, THE KHAN. AFRICAN DUTCH TONGUE. ,0.14ewSonrgeetion4en How to FrononRee Boer 'Words.. Possibly the best quoted word Aust now of Dutch South--,Afrieau origin is Uitlander, sometimes written "Out- laudQr,', "Newcomer," or "outeld- er," is perhaps the nearest that can be got to this in translation; and the word is pronounced as nearly as possi- ble like eight -lander. The name of the President of the Transvaal Repub- lic is written Kruger (more properly Kruger), but it is neither sounded as Kroojer nor Exowser, but—as near as can be indicated — Kree-ern The ward Transvaal is, literally "across theyel- low" (or yellowish -brownish) river. Band, short for Witwatersrand, ispro- nuonced as if spelt rant. The word veldt the final "t" is sometimes add- ed zaeans field or common, and is pronounced "felt." Eopje--a hillock, or piece of rising ground—is neither kop-jay nor koojee, but koppy. Dr. Leyd's patronymio is pronounced Lides, The Boer Parlia- ment douse is called. the Raadzaal, and the Parliament the Voiksraad, the "v" being sounded like "f." Berg is mountain, the plural being formed by the addition of "en" after the "g." A. drift is a ford, and s dorp a town, or village" Thus we have Krugeredorp, Leydsdrop, etc. Stad also means town; and wlnkel-- pronounced vinkle—a store, where al- most everything is sold. Fontein, as the name implies, means spring, and krantz, a cliff or precipice. Boseltveld (pronounced bushfelt) is an open plain covered with bush. To trek is to travel; voortrekkers meaning pion- eers. A vlei (flay) is a pool of water mostly formed in the rainy season. Booinek is the teem of contempt ap- plied to Britishers, and means "red- neck" ; redneck"; it is not infrequently prefixed by the adjective "verdomde" (fer- domdy). Rooibaatjes is Cape Dutch for "Tommy Atkins," or redcoats. A stoep (pronounced stoop) is a raised platorm in front of a house—some- thing like a 'verandah on which the Boer loves to take his weed. Vrouw—meaning housewife—is pro- nounced "froom." Slim—often applied to Gen. Piet Joubert—is cunning, or artful, or, slangingly, "fly." "Kerel" is chat), or fellow. Baas pronounced so—is master, and baas op, boss np. To inspan is to harness, or tether horses or cattle ; to uitspan is to un- harness. Uitspan is also applied to the resting place of the animals. Oorlog is war. A. Chilly Analrsi., "I understand, " said Miss Cayenne, '"that you remarked recently that I was graceful as a swan." "Yes," answered Willie Wishing - ton. "I merely wished to inquire whether the swan to which you had reference was walking or swim - mine." If the child is restless at night, bas eoated tongua sallow complexion, a dose of Miller's Worm Powders is what is re- quired; eery pleasant and perfectly harm- less. A Masrnlscent Thimble. • The queen of Siam owns a thimble which was a present from her royal husband. It is made in the shape of a lotus bud, of the finest gold, and ie studded with diamonds, which are so arranged that they form their names and the date of their marriage. A new back for 50 cent.. Miller's Kidney Pill. and Plaster. A TRY1NGEXPE1.1ENCE NOVA SCOTIA, FARMER SUE. FEItED FOR FIFTEEN YEARS.. 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With every attack the pains seemed to grow worse, un- til filially I was .confined to the house, and there for live long menthe was bed -ridden, and mach of this time could not move without help, Ify wife required to stay with me con- stantly, and became nearly exhausted. During the time 1 was aufferiug thus 1 was attended by four different doctors. Some of them pronounced my trouble lumbago, others sciatica, but they did not euro me, our did they give mato any relief, save by the injection of morphine. For years I gutfered thus, sometimes confined to bed, at other times able to go about and work, but always suffering from,. the pain, until about three years ago when I received a new lease of life, and a freedom from the pains that had so long tortured me. It was at this time that 1 '-. Williams' Pink Pilin for Pale Pe ;,'.i- were brought to my attention and 1 got two boxes. The effect seemed marvellous and 1 got six boxes more, and before they were all used I was again a healthy man and free from pain. It is about three years since I was cured, and during that tune I have never had an attack of the old trouble, and 3 can therefore strongly testify to the ster- ling quality of I)r. WUUIiams' Pink Pills. Since they did such good -work for me 1 have recommended them to several people for various ailments, and the pills have always been sno- oessful." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by going to the root of the disease. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving disease from the system. Avoid imi- tations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed in a wrapper bearing the full trade Mark, Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Some Advice. to Shippers. Don't fail carefully to inspect your shipment before closing the box. 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