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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-2-8, Page 6wwwmworm 110USEATOLD• A T'E $ S FiD, 8 1000 EARTHLY RESIDENCE FOR CURIST. The Origin and Purpose of the Piles of Stones Called Churches. The Rev. Dr, Tahnage Discourses on the First Sacred Edifice and on the Growth and Ahns of the Church of Christ.. despeteb f one Washington says:— of my text, 'What mean ye by these Tim IteV. Dr, ralmage preaceed from eeeeeeer It is an 04.1131. to build a lumen the followieg text: "What 14eah "I like tble, ocouleyling so much room in by these stones,"—Joshua iv, 6, I a meavded thoroughfare, and with 'You are Wieer than moat people if such vast toll and outlay, uraesa ther Yeel have not mixed in your inind the be some tremendeue rensons for do ng pessage. of the Red Sea and the pas- it; aid "viTitY IfteenteLfuen"Irl y,f;, eege a the Jordan. The scenery is text, and 1 deraand of these truelove different, and the lessons to be learn. and of them elders, and a all who at from than are different. The hem assested in the building of thl Jordan, like the Mississippi, has bluefs structure, " Wbat mean you by thee !stones f" eel the one side, and flats oe the oth- In the first place, we mean that or, Here and there a sycamore they shall be an earthier residenee for Phadowa it; her and there 4 willow Christ, Poor Jesus I He did not have ps into it. In the month of April oh of a home when be was here di 'Vie° and wnere Ls that child crying and May the snows on Mount Lebanon It is Jesus, born In an outhouse. Where thaw and flow down into the valley, Ls that hard breathingl le is Jesus and then Jordan overflows its banks. asleep on a rock. Who le thatkin the Then it is ;wide, deep, raging, and lin- 1:•sIllgr'airstroofut'avfeisrehoinartTrao6wia wlth over petuous. e At tnis season of the year •him? It is Jr us, the worn-out voy- I tear the tramp of forty thousand agar. Oh, jiesue I is it enat Lime armed men coming down to arose the river, You say, "Why do they not go up tearer the rise of the river at the old camel ford?" Ah! my ough for thee. Oh, come in andel:it e friends, it is because it is not safe to lam best seat here! Walk up and go around when the Lord tells us to !down all these aisles. Speak through tbese organ -pipes. Throw thne arm go ahead. The Israelites had been over u.s in tne e ;trams. In th.; flam- going around forty years, and they ilne' of these chandeliers speak to us, had enough of it. I do not know how .8aYing' "I am the light of tbe world." 0 Kingl make this 'thine au Reme- lt is with you, my brethren, but I chamber. Here proclaim righteousness, bare always got into trouble when I and make treaties. We clap our went around, but always got into hands, we uncover our heads, we lift es tbou hadst a housef We give thee tbis. Thou didst glee it to us eirst, but we give it back Lo thee. It is tuo good for us, but not half wood en - safety when I went ahad. our ensigns, we cry with multitudin- 4 °tie acelemation until the place rings, There Weed out the "rtlerit 0 and the heavens' listen, "0 King, live raging torrent, much of it snow-wa- forever!" ter just come down from the moue-. Is it not time that he who was born Min top; and I see sone of the Israe- siiiraansterenger's hnuosuelandave buried inbc. 111.88 shivering. at the idea of plunging ly hogse;88 greaoymeesl. 0aanret.f.it he in, and one soldier says to his oom- corpse of a ',tailed Chrl t, tu a rat:lent rade, 'Joseph, eau you swim?' And and triumphant Jesus, conqueror of another says, "If we get across this earth, and heaven and belle stream we will get there with wet etothes and with damaged arm- our, and the Canaan' Les veill slash us to pieces with their swords before we gest up the other bank." But Bleseed be 1218 glorious name for - it is no time to halt. The great host "er1 marches on. The priests, carrying the Again, if you ask the question of the text, "What mean ye by these ark, go ahead; the hople follow. 1 stones e, t r ep ly 1±251. We men the .hear the tramp of the great muleitude. communion lee saints. DJ you know Tne priests have now come within a ''He lives, all glory to His name, He lives, my Jeeus, still the same; Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives: I know that my Redeemer lives 1" that there is not a single denomina- stone's throw of the water. Yet still tion of t:12e;iein N2 athington hes iotci,ttgaething toward the there is no abatement of the flood. buiLling of this house?, And if ever, Now they have ones within low or standing in his place, there shat be five feet of the stream; but tbere is a man who shall try by any thing he says to stir up bitterness between 220 almtement of the flood. Bad pros- difierent denominations o. Christians, petit I It eeems as if these Israelites may his tongue falter, an.1 his eheek wao have erussed the desert are now blanch, ant his heart stop. ely friends, geng to Lie drowned in sight of Can- if there is any church on earth whore mite 13at "Yorweadli is tne cry. The there ie s mingling of all denendua- oaamend rings all along the line of tions, it is our church. I just wish t4.. mese. orward 1 ' .LsioNY the priests that John Cal. 111 and Armunus, if they hew. cornet waoin step of the rive are not too buey, would come out on 1 ea las time tuey life their feet from the battlemenes anl 880 05. Sometimes the said ground, and put them down in our prayer -meetings I huve heard into the reging stream. No sooner are brethren use phraieS of. a liturgy, and tuar tot there than Jordan flies. Oa we know where they came from; and the right hand, God piles up a great in the same prayer-mee ing I have mountain of Loode; on the left; the heard brethren make audible ejacula- weter flows off toward the sea. The Hon, "Amen I" Praise ye the Lord!" great aver, for hours, halts and rears. and we did not hem to guess twice The backwaters, not being able to flow where they came from. When a man over the pass,ng Israelites, pile wave knocks et our church Goer, if he comes and wave, unte perhaps a sea -bird from a seet where they will not give would find some ditfioulty in sealing him a certificate, we say, "Come in by the water eliff. Now the priests and 300188:e00 o: taith." While Adam - all the people have gone over on dry ram Judson, the Baptist, and John land. The water on the left-haud side Wesley, the Me.horilet, and John Kett e by this time has reached tbe sea; and the glorious old Scotch Preebyterian, now that the miraeulous passage bus are shaking hands in heaven, all been made' stand back and see the cburches on eirth can afford to come stupendouspile of waters. leap. God into 01081 communion. "One Ler], one taxes his hand from. that wall of faith, one Beptiem." Oh, my bre.h- floods, and, like a hundred cataracts. ren, we have Mid enough of Big Beth - they plunge and roar in thunderous el fights—Fourteenth New York Regi- tr.umph to the sea. mot fighting tee Fifteenth Mat, - re they to celebrate this pas- chueette Regiments. Now let all sago? Shall it be with musiol I sup- those who ere for Christ, and stand pose the trumpets and eymbals were on the same eide, go shoulder to shout - all worn out before this. Shall it be der, and the church, insiead of having with banners waving! Oh, no, they te sprinkling of the Divine blabbing, go are all faded and torn. Josh.ua cries clear under tbe wave, in one glorious out, "I will teleyou how to celebrate Immersion, in tbe name of the Father, this; build a monument here to cam- I Sew a. little child once in its dying enemarate the event; and every priest boar, put one arm around its father's puts a heavy atone on his shoulder, nevi>. and the other around o2 111111e. and marches out, and drops that stone er's neck and bring them close Li, the emeely_appeleeea piece, 1 gee to It' dying lips and give a mem 11, 2, the pile growing in height, in breadth, Oh. I said, these two persons will In significance; and in after years men stand very near to each other always went by that spot and saw this monu- alter such en ieterlocking. Tbe de- ment, and cried out one to another, in Mg Christ puts one arm around this fulfilment of this prophesier of the denomination of Christians, and the text, "What mean ye by these other arm around that denomination stns?" j af Christians, and he brings them l3lessed be God, he did not leave.our down to his dying lips, while he gives ehurch—I mean this partioalar chureh them this parting kiss: -My peace I —down in the wilderness! We evainder- leave with you, my peace I give unto ad about for a while, and some people You." said we had better take this route; and, ethers, that route. Some said we bed better go back, and some saki there were 80118 of Anak in the way tient would eat us up; and before the smoke bed eleared away from the sky after ottr Tabernaele had been con - aimed, people st000d on the very site of the elute, and said, " Tbis °hurrah will never again be built." Our ene- mies laughed among themselves, and suite "Aha, atm" Meanwhile the rub- bish was being cleared away, the faun - was being laid, and the pillar Were being lifted; and instead of the temporary strtecture itt which . we worshipped, we have this building, in wb,ieh we hope the people of God will evorable him for hundreds and bun - deeds of years. We mune down to the bank of the Jordan; we looked off mem the watere. Some of the sym- pathy that was expressed turnee out to be snow -water melted from the top be (Lebanon. Some said, " You had bet- ter not go in; you will get your feet (wet." But we waded Meter and people, farther and earther, and le WOO way, the Lord only knows how, twe got throegh ; and to -night 1 go ell around about this great house, er- ected by your prayers end syripethies, ettletterifieee, aed cry out in the seer& Meat° n thousand feext, square in St. "How swift the heavenly couree they run, Whose hearts and faith and hopes are 00225 1" I beard a Baptist minister (Mee say that he thought in the millennium it would be one great Baptist church; and. I heard a Methodist minister stay be thought in the great millenial day it would be ono greet Methodist churoh; and I have known a Presby- terian minister who Lhought that in the =Menial day i1 would be all one great Presbyterian church. Now I think they are all mist.a.ken. I think the Millenial Church will be a orneos- ite church; and just as you may Lake the best pares of five or six tunes, and under the ekilful hands of Handel, a Metteseart, or Beethoven, en- twine them into one grand and over- powering symphony, so, I suppose in the latter days of the world, God will take the best parts of all denomina- tions of Chriseians, and weave them into one great ecclesiastical harroonY, broad as the earth and high as the heavens, and that will be the Churoli of the futures Or, tee Meanie Is made up of jasper arel agate and many pre, clone etones cemented togetba — Meek% er MON/1W 401eled kite Pe105- eel 50111)11.412, ill tit, Sonia—so nun• peso God will make, after a While, Cole great blending of all creeds, awl ell faithe, Pod likewise of di Ohrig. titte ate-die:Lents, tee anletheat and the ittePer and the, tabaleetione Pg, 41 dif- ferent experieneee wad belief, Bement - ed nide by Wdt. in the great mode of the ages; and. vrhile the nations look upon the 0010132125 and arthitraves of thut etupentiou March of the (Mute, and cry.out, "Wliat Meelaye by these SterleSP there :shell Le innumerable voltam to respond, "We mean the Lord God omnipotent retignoth." I remark again, we mean by these et onee the salve Lien of the people. We did net build Leis Pliuroli for Meal) worldly reforms; or fur au eemeatimeal ineeitution, or 85 t piattorm on which tread mat gull -hiatus; but a melee foe that) Ire - o o Arad philosophkal dia. reuloue work or toul-saving, IL I had ra her be the meatus in this church ox haring one soul pruvared for a .10Y- ful eternity than five thoueand Bouts prepared for mere worldly stiecese I All eaurehes alie ha two plasma all communities ii two classes, all the races in two elasees—eel.evere, and un- believers,Thoee 'gong into lite, and those going into darknees, To ail's- inset the number of the one end eub- tweet from Lhe number of the other, we buelt this oLurch ; and toward that supremeand eternal idea we dedicate eet 01.11' omens, all cue songs, all our prayers, itel our Sabeath ba,nd-shak- Legs. We want to threw deeection in- to enemees' ranks. We want to make them either surrender uncondi• tionally to Christ, orelse ily in! rout, sea -tering the wee with canteens, blankets and knap-ocks. We want to poeularlee Christ. We would Ake to tell tee story oe his love bore, until men would feel that they had rather die than live. atiother 'tour withoutles sympathy and love and mores. We want to rouse up an enthusiasm for hen greater than was felt for Nathan- iel Lyon who he rodeo arong the rinks —greater than was exhieitel for Wel- lengLon when he came back from Wat- erloo—greater thao was expressed for Napoleon when he ste,ped ashore from Elba. We really believe in thie place Christ will enact tbe stiMe scenes that. were enactee by him' wean he landed Ln the Orient; and' there wee; be each an opening of blind eyes and unstop- ping of deaf ors, and ea iinge out of unclean eperi e—sueh sil.no ng ber, ememed Geaine-arets, as sna.. Ineke this house memorable five hundred years after you and I are dead and Ica -gotten. Oh, my friends, we want but one revival in this elturch; that beginning pew and running oh to the day when the, chisel of Time, that bringa down even St. Paul's and, the Pyramids, shall bring this house into the due-. We want tbe ho. n esee.- ly-coeverted ecul who a all next eumn.h weaning pass in 102 .15 of this saeramenta, table—we want them only tbe first regiment of ni great army that will take this plane, on their way to glory. But stem there ere so manyi uncer- Lainties ahead, perhaps we bad better begat now the merle nf salvation. On that this day of dedication meeht be the day of emancipation to aJ im- prisoned souls I My friends, do not make the blunder of the elep:carpen- tare in Nell es time, who hapedto build the nark, but did net get into it. God forbid that you who have. been so genereus in bu Ming his Chercia should net get under its saving influ- encel "Come, thou and all thy lame, into the ark." Do you think ce maxi is itoe out of Christ I Not ouiLday, not ane minute, not one Fecond. Thae.e or four years ago, yea remember, a train broke down a bridge on the way to AlLany, and after the, catastrophe they were lookiag around tle emliers of the crushed bridge and the fa:len train, and found the cenductor, He Was dying, and bed' on:y strength to say one thing, and that was, "Heist the flag for the next traeme So there comae up to us' voice.s from the eternal elitism of darkness, and sin, and death, telling up, "You ean not save me, but save those who come after met Litt the warning. Blow the trumpet. Give the alarm. Hest the flag for thei next train." ' WAR: NOTES. The flied raised by British residents in Belgium in aid a the widows and orphans of British troops in the Transvaal now amounts to 6,172 francs. ; Among the ethnic:ants for enrol- I 1 meat in the West Australia contine , gent were several members of Puree- 1 UM 1. Tee Boer Volksstem believes that Mo. lel umbel esekeed disguised as a woman. It reports that tbe last book he borrowed from the Pretoria free II- i brary was "Mel on Liberty." Aceordiag to Sir Wi.litan MacCor-; tuao, there is nothing the wounded in Wyeberg Hospital canno, have for the asikiee, as the townepeople are profuse in their gifts. Kuruman the defenders were placed id a splendid position by tho fact that the eubstacitial school -room was loopholed, the missioaaries who built, it having doubts about their eon_ gregatien 0 .e of the Canadian contingent was °private in the British force that held Potchefstroom. He wants satisfaction Lor those incredible hardships at Pot- cbefstroorn, where Cronje deliberate. ly kept Inc storming garrison for days in ignorance of the armistice. Commenting on the fact that an English company is about to establish matailacture of lyddiLe in Belgium, a Brussels paper says:—."In Moses, time Egypt suffered from ten plagues, If the English had existed then the land of the Pharaohs would have been visited by an eleventh." DANIEL 'WEBSTER'S PAPER CUT- TER, Joseph M. Terry of Peconie, L. I., bee presented a valuable relit of Daniel Webster to the Suffolk County His. tortoni Society. It is 421 ivory 'paper cutter which Mr. Webster used for a nurabee of years In his library at Marshfield, Mass. Webster gave it to Charles Taylor, then a boy, whose father Watt al the thine manager of Mr. 'Webster's farm. Young Taylor preeerved the relic and neveral year's ago while residing near Mr. Terry's houee gave it to him, 7111e BABY'S lileDTIMG, This ia the little one's bedtime, Dimple -thin ellinbe on my knee, With "Muzzer, Is dest 45 feeePY An' Gred as I tan be." So 4 take uP the dear little darling; Aod undresS the weary feet, ',Mat have been making einem daylight A mesio buey and tweet. "Tell me a p'tty 'tory," ahe Meade in a sleepy way; And I ask, as 'cuddle and kiss ler; "What shall 1 MD you, PM'?" "21)soll rinueb"-0:g sticieenpyeheeype_auses "Hew the big pid does to inartet An' ze %tie pids, ell ivy," Then I tell, tie I smooth the tangles Ever at war with the eomb, Dow the big pig wept to market, And the wee onee stayed at home. And 1 coin“ off the pigs I tell of On her rosy Wee, Once More. And ehe laughs al Lite "pitty 'tory,' As it never heard. befere, Then I fold her hands together Upon her breast, and she, In uer lisping, sleepy fashion, Repeats her prayer with me. Beeore ie ie ended, the b.oesoms Of her eyes in slumber close, Li101 the words that are left unuttered Re who loves the childre.n knows. Thenilw, Ielay the bright head on its pil- With a lingering good -night kiss, Thinking how much Cod loved me To give me a utile' like this. And lpdzy, as I turn from the bed- ai He will help me guide aright The feet, of the dear dells darling I leave in His ore to -night. NURSERY NOTES. Colic often makes night hideous for many a feeher and mother, and makes, also, of the child, who ought to be the J0 y of the house, a trouble and a oars, writes Dr. Juiiit Holmes Smith, When a baby apparently in perfect health, tvakes from sleep wieb, wild eries, the. first thought of tbe mother is, surely, baby is.hungry, and her first impulse is to supply needed nourishment. Be- cause a baby eries, that baby is n,ot necessarily hungry; and ordinary wisdom would lead the mother to in- quire what indications there were in the movements of the child to suggest the cause of this ory. Baby may be thirsty; therefore, give him a drink Baby may be cold; warm his feet and bowels. But if these simple remedies do not avail, then unbutton his cloth- ing and look at his abdomen, and if you have a case of colic you will see a swollen and sometimes knotted con-' dition of the intestines underneath the abdominal walls. This knotted pon- dition is due to the accmmulation of gas, caused by imperfect digestion, and as the hand presses on the abdo- Men tbe pain is relieved. Baby na- tueally draws its legs up when in pain; then, because this gives him no com- fort, he sticks them out again; and so kicks and throws himseff about and emits short, sharp, piercing screams, and the liLtle face indicates extreme suffering. Hands and Lest may be very eold, and COMM= Bones would suggestthat an extra heat should be applied; so place the baby on your lap, flat down oa its abdomen, let the toes comeas near its possible to the fire, rub the back gently, placing the tips of the fingers toward the sides, knead- ing the thilomen from behind Inward the naval. A hait-teaspoonful of hot and slight- ly sweetened water will ha a comforb to the little sufferer, and when the child Is tired of lying an Rs face, Will it only toward the right side, but rarely to the left or on its back, bemuse a person lying op the left Nide or on the beak Increases the Len- non of the ablamen. Our grandmothers used eatnip tea and fennel -seed tea, but the real ad- vantages derived from these woo - Lions is really froml the quantity fo heat given internally to the baby to supplement external warmth. CARING FOR GLASSWARE. Every housekeeper admires fine table linen and handsome glass- ware, yet many are not able to afford these dainty articles; but the glass- ware can be sbiningly clean no matter What the' financial circumstances of Lha family may be. The art of wash' ing glues properly is easy to acquire, and not at all difficult to accomplish, and nothing repays 008 00 well for the time spent upon it, as shining glass. There is certainly nothing that adds so much to the appedranee of the table. Every housekeeper should learn the best way of ,aaring fax her glassware; for if she trusts it to the average girl, i1 is often reduced to a wreek. I have found nothing better for mending glass than the cherry gum which we find on cherry trees. The gum is rubbed on ehe broken edges, then the parts erecarefully united and the article set away to dry for several hours. Potato peelings are tee best aids in cleansing earafes, cruets, toilet and similar articles:Let them remainin the glass overnight, and then rinse out with warm water. A cloth wee in hot water and wrapped around the neek of a bottle will remove the glass stop. per, but sometimes it neede more vig- orours treatment, when you may take a twine string and tie once around the neck of the battle and begin to draw it backwards and forwards; int a few minutea the neck of the bottle will get very hot and the stopper may be easi- ly removed. The hardest work about washing the dishes is getting them ready. Then if you laave the necessary accessories to dish -washing, the work isquickly done. Glaseee cannot be wiped ea that they will glisten onlese there are plenty of tewele. There meet alwaye be two 1 nee, one to wipe and the ether te Wish4 and they Meet be perfeetly dry tied °leen to( hegiu with, To wash glatie properly, poar warm water int() the tub enOnalce a aaaa suds. Wash the teble-glassee, width have held Milk in 09111 wider before they arts put into the eude, 11 18 best te weal etith picee eeparatelY, MI avoid ()hippingand rime quiokly through two hot watere. They eaneol, be wipe eni easily, or well whoa cold, and rine. log gete eid of all mule and leaves them hotfor wiping. You sheuld not slight any dishes, but oarteinly don't slight the glassware, for nothing makes the table eo attractive and gives it such au air ef refinement es shining glass. S01113 HEALTHFUL DESSERTS, Baked Apples and Cream—Pare and core large apples, fill the eavities With sugar and bake in a moderate oven, Serve cold with whipped °realm Dates and Cream—Remove tbe atoeem from date, then out the dates ,rather fine and put thein in a glees dish: °over them with whipped cream and steed aside in a 0014 place for thirty minutes before serving it, You will have p dainty and wholesome dessert, that can be eaten by the obit- dren of the family. Baked Quinees.—Six quinees prepar- ed in this way will make sufficient for tsix persons. Wipe the quinces until they shine, remove the blossoms and Lake out the seeds with an apple corer, being careful that the corer does not pierce tbe stem ends, as the holes must not be retitle entirely through the quinces. Fill the cavities with sugar, place a bit of butter on top of 'each quince, and bake for a full hour in a moderate oven, adding a cupful of water to the pan., basting the fruit with IL occasionally, and pouring in more water lf the fruit* becomes too dry. When the quinces are quite tender, remove them one by one to the serving dish, add another cupful of hot water and the same quantity of sugar to the pan, boll until the sugar is entirely dissolved,' stirring all the time'and pour the syrup over the fruit. Serve with cream. Good Bread Pudding—Take six half slices of bread. Beat two eggs with two level tablespoonfuls of sugar, add a little salt and one quart of milk; pour over the bread; grate a little nutmeg on top and set asside for an hour or more.. Bake id a slow oven. It is nice either hot or cold. Whole Wheat Pudding—Take one cup raisins seeded and chopped, one cup molasses, one-half level teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water and stirred into the molasses, one-half teaspoon salt; one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder sifted with two °ups of whole wheat flour; steam three houre. Fruit Pudding—Put three cups of sliced apple or one and one-half cups of canned iruit, in a pudding dish; plam in a steamer over boiling water. Make a batter with one and one-half cups of white flour and one-half cup of corn flour, a little pelt, one heap- ing teaspoon of baking powder and one cup of sweet milk. When the fruit ia hot dip the batter over It as quickly as possible with a teaspoon. Steam twenty minutes. Serve ,warm with cream and sugar. On the Farm. 1411.1/4i leseWisseeeeeteste— —eeetiveeeete WINTER 'EGGS. The great desire of most people who keep( only a few fowls for egg produe- tion' is to get their hens to lay in the winter, when it is almost impossible to buy a really new laid egg. But in the large majority of yards eggs axe conspicuous by their absence. Any bens, both old and young, of all varte- ties, will, if in good health, lay in the spring and summer. But to proclaim eggs during the short, cold, dark days is a very different matter. The high Prices that are paid for sb-called new laid eggs from November to Febru- ary prove that comparatively few poultry keepers have the necessary knowledge or will take suffieient pains toemeet the demand at this season. It is a common idea that only cer- tain breeds of fowli will lay in cold and Wintry weather, and that from most varieties it is useless to expe,et eggs at this time. Without doubt sueh fowls as Langshans, Brahma!, Cochins, and Wyandottes rightly bear a good reputation as winter layers. But Leghorns, Minorco, and other pure breeds, as also most crosses will contribute freely to the egg basket if they are properly treated. One of the chief essentials for obtaining eggs in; the winter is to have young hens Most of the stock, should be composed of pullets hatched in IVeareh and April of the current year, and the remaist. der of hens hatched the previous year. Statements sometimes appear as Lo the wonderful laying powers of old hens. Them, however, if true, are suite the exception, and should lead no one to keep old hens if tbey wish their trevis to be profitable. Hens that are kept in small, con- fined, sheltered runs can often be in- duced to lay more readily at this time than fterm poultry that have it free but exposed range. The hoese in which the birds lay did roost should not be larger than is necessary to comfort- ably accommodate them. As long as tbe house does not smell when visited after the birds have been roosting for ar few hours, it will be large enough. Tt should have a glass window, fac- ing mouth, if possible, se that there may be Amity of light, otherwite tbe birds will hot resort to it in the day- time, even during cad wind or rain. The floor eheuld be cleaned every morning, La bad weather it is tat- ter Sot to let the birds out of the bouse. Some ntraw thrown down and e little grain scattered in it will ate ford the birds exercise and employ - /bent, A collative or tiatingold, hung up by a steing, will Oslo give plenty ag 07000188, Vie (1125t 04111 ie in great eceueet altwaye and eliould be placed where 11 ill out Of Mob Of rale or NOM. • The feWle Moot be fed regularly, the fIrel, feed being given as eon as, It IS light. Tide meet be of hot Meal, mixed into a stiff emote with water ; berley meal end middlings in equal parts are as good as anytialeg, and as ehep. In very cold weather little stimulating spice will do wad, added to the soft load. Any of the apiece ad' Vertised by tee well known firms, will be found eatisfaetory. Should it be de- sired, to make the oonaiment at home, a useful spice may be made of equal parts of aniseed, oummin, gentian, and fenugreek, all in Powder, with the eel- eillon of a little sulphate of oda. About two tablespoonfuls to a dollen hone, three timers a week, will be the quantity to use. Grain must be giv- en the last thing befere the foals ffe to roost. Some chopped meta Is con- ducive to laying, either given with the soft food or at midday. *Wien Young hens, judicious feeding, and dry houses, 11 ought not to be a difficult matter to procure a good supply of winter FEEDING PIGS. Under present conditions it does not pay to feed pigs over the winter, ex- cept the breeding ohmic. The most pro- fitable meellocl is this: ElVe the pigs Mune in in Marcel or April, feed tbe SOWS on waste milk with buokwheat meal, bran, and oats ground together or corn and pea meal,; a,ny of which will make abundant milk for the pigs. Give the young pigs a shallow' trough, in a place by themselves, in weich feed a sufficient quantity of this, making separate plitee in the pen.into which' they may go, but the sow cannot. As soon' as a pasture is ready turn them out to feed. As early as possible sow three pounds of rape per acre on good land that may need summer fal- lowing, and in August .turn in the pigs, reserving parts of the lot for re- covery after feeding, while another lot is fed down. When the time 0012185 for fattening, give them three or four pounds of corn meal, while on the last of the rape or elover, but clover makes much less feed than mete. The p.gs may be slaughtered wh.le on the rape, or they may be finished on the waste grain screenings, or corn, or peas, and oats maxed grown for the purpose. Pigs so fed make tbe most ;profitable pork, If you wish to finish on roots, geow su- gar beets, using six pounds of seed to the aore and SOW in May, in drills thirty inches apart. The feeding value of oats, gem or barley, is not lessen- ed by grinding the grain into meal for feeding two or three months before itt is fed, if the meal Is kept dry and not suffered to heat or .get sour. Grind, the grain whenet is quite dr3', it the meal cool, and store it inthags, in a dry places. Or it may be kept in barrels, or in a heap 111 S011le dry store room. -- SALT FOR STOCR. The salting question comes up con- stantly. As a matter of fact it needs to come frequently to attention as the salting of stook is probably the most neglected of the necessary operations on a stook Rum. This ordinarily comes froru oversight. The intention is good, but the memory is at fault. On many farms it is the theory that stook is salted once a week. Sunday morning frequently being the time selected for that "chore." Some stookialen go to the other eldreme and mix salt daily with the Peed of the oettle. Some farmers erroneously believe that salt is not good for stook end withhold it. The practice varies widely. The safest and the soundest prin- ciple is to keep salt within reach of animals all the time, and allow them to take it at will, as their appetites demand. If sat and water were al- woys at the command of live stock health and thrift Ivould be materially promoted. It is extot always possible or economic -lie to keep water constant- ly before animals, but salt is readily enoug.h. placed NO Cant they moy take it. at Nvill. We mach prefer rock salt for stook. It is more economical in that there is muoh less wasted. More- over, animals are less apt to take too ratieh of it. When deprived of Salt for some time feeding steers Me enolugh get too much if it is sup - p1121 in loose form—so, much that it will set them to .scouxing ; but if 11 10 gut before them in roek form they cermet eat it, but are compelled to scatiessfsy. their appetites by licking it slowly and are not likely to get an ex All polumes should contain boxes of salt. Unless barrel salt is protected under a shed it willwastefrom wash- ing when the rains mine, whereas the rook salt is subeeet to sueh loss only In slight degree. A lump of rook salt should be kept in the feed -boxes for the horses, or better yet, put in a sep- arate box over the manger within their reach. A convenient, but more expen- sive form is touud itt some private and livery stables, consisting of a slab of compressed salt, held en abox that may be nailed to the stall'at a eon - valiant' place, and the exposed end of the Blab is smoothly rounded off. Thin is not at all necessary, as the rock snit will 2201 injure the tongue of horse or cattle. They will soon Bak it as smooth as gleam, The fundamental plenciple Is to keep salt within the reach of live stock. Then the matter 90111 not be forgot ten for weeks at a thane tie frequently hap- pens As between berm] sell nest roth salt the latter is more coevenient to handle and lasts much longer, -- WIVES WRO STUDY. Ilow °Gen a young wife and mother bewails b fa q that eh, huts mi sed her opportunities of sin education. There need be no much thought to bee. She hasher life bailee her, andel lies with her wbether it ehall be in', interest al, happy progress or an aimless giving Way to what she deetins the inevitable, No child is, the worse for its mellow picking up The ends of bee time and devoting them to etudy. No husinted is leo happy that his wire. is a thane ful student as well as a howiekeeper, There is math truth in the theory ilea one finds time for the. -Wrap she redly levee to do. ; Young Folks. SEIWON eN RHYME, if you hare a friend wurth loving, Love him, Yes, nod let him know That you loye elm, ere life's eyeee Tingg e his brow with sunset glow, Wey sbould good words ne'er be geld Of a friend till he is dead? 11 701.1 hear a sone that thrillyou, Sung by any child of song, Praise it.. Do not let, the eing- or. Wait deserved entities long, Why should otae who thrills your heart, Leek the joy you may impart f If you hear a prayer that mom you, 13y its bumble, pleading tone, Join It, Do not let the seeker flow before his God alone. Why sbould not your brother k lore The eirength of "two or three" in prayer I if you see the hat team felling' From a brother's weeping oyes, Share them. And by kincliy sharing Own your kinship with the tides, Why sbould any,One•beoglad When a brother's heart 15 84d ? tf a silvery laugh 'goes rippling Through the sunshine on h.s face, Share it, 'tis the wise men's !saying— For both grlf end joy a place. There's health and goodnees 18 the mirth, In which an honest laugh has birth, IP your work is made more easy By a friendly helping bond, Say so. Speak out brave and truly, Ere the darkness vell the land. Should a brother workmen dear Falter for a word of cheer? Scatter thus your seeds of kindness, All enriching as they go -- Leave them. Trust tbe Harvest Giv- er, He will make each seed to grow. So, until its happy end, Your life shall never lack a friend. JAPAN'S FOXES. In Japan, with its quaint, gentle people and its quainter, gentler be- liefs, even the foxes are not the same as they are in other countries. lien a foe le a plaything, a creature to be harried and torn to pieces by doge for sport. In Japan it is well to address a fax by the most honorable tit les, te treat him kindly, place food for him, and be very glad when he goes. For In Japan foxes have great power, and 11 10 noL well to offend them. elonz are 'the tales the little people whi,per —whisper for fear the foxes wi:l hear and take offense—about the deeds of inert the fox. They are pouter:3" supposed to take up their abce‘e with those whom they fancy—and, alas I also with those wborn they do not Inncy. And some- times it is hard to deoide which is the happier. For the foxes must be fed. And as there are alway9 many in a family, and they do not visit singly, much rice must be consumed for (hi in. Good luek comes from the.r arrome however, but it is liable to be chouged into the direst ill fortune at any: mo- ment. For the foxes are exceedingly eensitive, and a word enrolee:sly spok- en, nay, even a thought sometimes, will serve to send them off Id ti huff, and then all sorts of misfortunes will follow. When a man is seized with a fit in Japan thoy say "He is afflicted with foxes," or "Hehas made an enemy of the foxes." Only halt of the good done by foxes is genuine. A story is bold of a wo- man who kept a little thop where riee was sold. Every night a tall woman entered the shop, bought some rim, laid two coins down upon the counter And left without saying a word. The women would place the coins fn a drawer and think no more of them. One day the women entered tbe shop, bought her rice, but as she turnecl her baek the sbopkeeper saw a leng white tail hanging below her drees. See cried out, and the woman disappeared. Rushing to the drawer where she had placed her money, she found some mins and some dried leaves. Half of Lhe money she had received wee, good; the other half had been bewitched and had turned back to dry leaves. Sometimes housee will be shunned by the villagers becetime it is supposed that foxee have taken up their abode therein. Families supposed to be af- flicted with the friendehip of the foxes are rather left alone by the rest of the peasants, as it is never eertain when the unwelcome guests will transfer their affeetions — and their presence—to others. And tbe villagers do not care to place tempta- tion in their way. Families not hav- ing foxes are not allowed to marry in- to those having them, as when the foxes attach tbemeelves to a family it includes in its affections all its mem- bers, even to those most remote. One of the most famous families in Japan eloims its supremaey to be due to the geed influence of the foxes who have Mime up their Abode in that All erer Japan you 110111 see images of the foxes—old gray foxes, With their noses chipped and their 0408 broken off; older foxes still, tilth a growth of moss on their backs; sly, alert foxes with nOSes perked smartly in air, great foxes and little foxes, sages and elowne, all kinds and degrees—show- Mg the prevalence of this belief in Uta land of the wisteria and the fan, and also showing in what respeot the CoxIt ehienld. ui i 0 us to note that in all come. tries I he fox, above all other animals, Itos been coneidered to exeyt greet in, fluence end power, Al]. nations have legends of which the euneing and ine telligence of the for is the theme. IVIISNOMBRS. Mrs. Brown—Our language is full of misnomets. For !Instance, I met a man ono who was a perfect bear, and they eall him a civil engineer. Me. Smith—To, but that'not 80 ridieulouti as the man they Mill a' tell., ' i it bank, lib won't tell you any- thing. 1 asked one the other day hew, Meth trieney rny husband had 012 dee Posit, and he just laughed at ine, 4 44 w 11; • e fie 4 '11 del ,