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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-2-24, Page 3Agricultural* 14. DADAILINIAPDAPIWUUMUOARADAMWMAAJIMPICy. FRB. 24, 1999. VOLOIfE, OF UHRIBT'S HAIR, REV. DR TALMAGE SPEAKS OF THE LIVING JESUS. *820 eorrew, Beauty and Antiquity - Enough Sorrow to ovation $11s glair - Remo la the t'eueltision -Gray !Hair Is Crown or Glory -Dr. Tilitilege PoJiilo Out the Ivey Through Christ. A despatch trona Washington 0078: - Dr. Talmage preached from the fotlowe Ing text:-"Iiis head and, his hairs were white like wool, as white tie enow."-Revelation 1.14. Tradition and an ancsiont document tell us that the hair of Christ, when he WRS upon earth, was chestnut col- our to the ears, and then flowe4t down in golden curls uponl the neck. My text tinys that his hairs were white; that is, et course, a figurative repte- sentalion. As Jesus' idled at thirty- three years of age, we are apt to think of him as a young man; but her is liv- ing now. That makes him more than an octogenarian, more than a eenten- arian-aye, eighteen hundred and seventy-two years ot age. But the Bible tells us that he was present: at the creation of the world; that makes him six thousand yeare old. A•Ye, Jesus says 'of himself., "I was set up • from everlasting, from thdboginning or ever the world was; so that it makes him aa old ate eternity. You wear 0 suit of clothes for a little while, then put it oft not; Lo put it on again!. an11 so the Lord ,Jesus put on the raiment of our humanity for a lit- tle while, and then doffed it for ever. Ile is an aged Christ; his hairs are white like wool, white like snow. It God will help me this morning, I will tell you of the sorrow, the beauty, and the anLiquity of Jesus. There is nothing thee so moo changes the oolour of the hair as trouble. You see some nun ..to -clay with his hair jet-blaok; if you11 see him five years from now, his hair will be white. Meantime, his property gone, or he has been bereft of his fanny, arta that sorrow amounts for it. Marie Antoloette came to Paris greeted by a shout, the mightiest Frenehmen her escort The populace actually triedi to unharness the horses from her car- riage, that they themselves might draw it. Beautiful in, person, beauti- ful in heart:, the whole Frettott nation worshipped her. A littIe time paseed on, and I behold her on a hurdle, or sloe, drawn toward the place of ex- ' caution, her arras pinioned behind her, one eye entirely put out, the glory of her facia extinguialted. Oh, the, changei llistory says of this woman that, im- prisoned, her husband executed, her embraoe, the knife of the guillotine sharpening for her neek-in, 0118 night her hair turned white. Well, surely, jestis my Lord had en- ough sorrow to whiten his hair. He had dwelt in the paltoma ot eternity - the archangel one of his body guard, the unfallen ones of heeven glad to draw his chariot. Methinke, when he tame out on the baleony of heaven, there was a waving of palm branches and ahouting. But hero you see him drawn on the hurdle of our litimanitY, toward. the plaoe of execration. Castles by the sea, and Roman palaoes, in which. king's children were born; but this 8011 ot a King borli in the euthome of a tavern; Potentates with luxuriant tables, and sueround- ed by rap -bearers; but this Ring the disoiples find one morning on the • beach; frying his own Deb and tome:- ing his own bread for breakfast; his feet shod with ordinary sandlils-a sole of leather fastened with thongs; his head baled under the hot .Tudean sun, seated on the welbouth thirety; his coat gambled tor by the roughs who wog:ed. it ; the police after him for blasphemy; the Cathy villainerhawking . Mg up the phlegm from their throats and spitting it on his clean cheek; pur- sued es though he were a tiger; his dying drink vinegar suoked eut of a sponoma 'Every thing seemed leaving him, even the light of clay running away, anti leaving him in 1 he hands of Night -the black nurse that bent over him; forsaken by every thing but Heads, executioners, and the darkness -oh 1 methinks that was the night in which his heir turned white. We would have thought that some of the Roman soldiers would hese hart wool, as white as the tinow." Sorrow and anguish. have leaned it. My text sets forth the beauty a 1'11601. Whimaioel fashion °henget' its aged verY 08 10 width Is the best eolour for the hair. 'nu itontami speinkled theirs with silver and gold. Our anoestors powdered theirs white. Ilumen eustom deeldee this and de - vides that; but God deoluree ilea ho he trosteeolor beet velum he says, "The'lioary heed is 12 (1l'00011 oe glory, if 11 (12 found in the way of righteous- ness," indeed, Is there any thing 01.re beautiful 1 This is the way God has of saying to a man, at the end of an tioright OM; "You have been hon- orable." Alas! for those who do not take the adornment, and who swear by all the dies of the apothecary, that t hey will not have it. Nevertheless, gray hair is a mown of glory. It ie eettutiful in the Church, it is Umati- lla in the home, it is botiuGful at the wedding, it Is Itenutitul at the burial. Waiting for the door of one of my pariShioners to open, I :stand at the front steps, ana, looking through the window, see grandfather with a child on eitber knee -his face beaming with benedictions. Ile is almost; through with his journey, but he has an in- terest in those wao are startbag. The raoket is almost too much for the old man's head, but he says nothing,. The granddaughter, hall grown, stands be- hind the chair and runs her hand tha•ouga his locks. As grandfather stoops down to kiss the children good- night, it is sunset embracing sunrise; it is the spring crocuses around about the edge of the snow -bank; it is the white locks, beautiful in the domestic carols. Grandfather is in church. Hie oom- rades are gone. His sons and daughters, though grown to be men and women, will never be any thing but boys and girls to him. Ha looks around. the audience and 0058 so many strange faces, and he wonders why people don't talk as loud as they used to. As some old hymn eomes throttgh his soul, his memory brings back the revival scenes of a halfecentury. He wonders where all the old people are. His second. sight has ocane, and he rarely uses specs- tacles. With a cane in both hands, heesits at the end di the pew. Don't crowd him, he will 'soon pass over the river and sae the Ring in his beauty. White locks beautiful in the Lord's tem,ple. Two hearts bave been affianced. Against the marriage altar there dashes a wave of orange blossoms. The two fanailies, in a serai-oirele, steed about the altar. Father and mother, come, of course, and give the first congratulations; but let them not tarry too long, for grandfather is ooraing up, with trembling step. "God be good to you both, my obildren;" he wet as he takes their hands. Then he seals his word with an old man's kiss, The bridal veil was graceful, but I know something more graceful than that. The vase of flowers on the altar was beautiful, but I know something more beautiful than that. The light thet dewed in the socket was bright, but I know something brighter than that. It is the long, white locks of grandfather at the wedding. Pull the door -bell very gently; it Is wrapped with the black and the white -the signals of mourning. The throngs have come in. There is weeping in the hall, weeping in the parlor, and weeping in the nursery. The grand- child was a great pet with grandpa; but he says, "I must (ninth)]. myself for the sake of others; so he goes all through the house a comforter. He says, "The Lord has taken the ehild-it is well with it, it is well with it." Grandfather may some- times have been a little queruloue, but it is a great favor to have him now. The song, the prayer, the al - mon,. may have been comforting, but more oomfoeting than any thing that could be said. aro the white looks of grandfather at the burial. 011 I are you not ready to admit that my text means the beauty. of Christ, fthen it says, "His hairs Were •white like the wool, white like the snow I" Have you not seen him? Through the dark night of your sin has he not flashed upon your vision? Beauti- ful' when he conies to pasdon, beauti- ful when he conaes to comfort, beauti- ful when he cornea to KM. A. little nhuld.was trying very much during the time 'of au eclipse. It got so dark at noon she was afraid, and she kept sobbing and "could not be sil- enced until, after a while, the sun came out again, and she dapped her hands and' said "Oh. the sun! the sun I" Some of us neva been in the darkness of our sin; ealime atter eelime has passed over our soul; but after a while 111e Son of Righteous - 11822 poured his beams upon our hearts, and we cried, "The son I the sun I" Beautiful down in the straw of the Bethlehem khan. Beautitul in his mother's shawl, a fugitive to Egypt .Beautiful with hie feet; in the Gali- lean surf Beautiful with the child- ren hanging about his neek Heauta- ful in the home thole of Bethany! inteutity anti magerianinuty enough to letterer titan the sons of men ; dire- stap out from the ranks and say, Wring from on high; light for those "Stop this butcher I" Qua Scorn would who sit in darkness; rose of Sharon ; have uncurled i te 1 i p rind said, lily of the valley -altogether lovely. "Enough I" the t: Revenge would haveI As the sheep from the washing go up acted nut, "1 am satisIiedi" Chat Pain the bank, their fleece makes you veould have said, "I have done my think of the rising °toed, because of worst 1" that themums wouid hav,1 its brightness; but makes you think snapped oft al the hilt, and the lanoes more Of him whose hair is as while broken in twain. 011, no 1 no 1, eel creel as the wool; and 011 the morning alt.. world wanted blood; and as long 800 120' 0 now -storm you look out of the single globule remained in the arteries' , wi<l0 bef'ete the wheel er the 119d or the veins of Christ, the anguish , has passed, and the whiteness is mi- mes!: go on, and the wine -press keep Meat, trieliffereble, and makes you crushing the purple Muster until the think of hint whose hair is "white last drop was out. 1 like the snow." Oh, freezing horror 1 the guillotine, 31gain, my text; presents the anti - was tourey °maimed with it 1 Bang I unity cif :testis. It is no new Christ of nail 1 Pang of spear 2 Pang of that. has eeme, It is nei ,now e00001 - thirst I Pang of betrayal! Pang of ,menter coming to the crucible. The vicarious suftering 2 I hear the alanal telegrath don't 2011=0109. thb 'arrival sure tinging through thedarkness. I'd it strimgCsr• 11 an aged Chalet. loud and . throe thunanl thump I If 1 ahoula tell You thatlis was a thump) against the erase. But tim thousand million years old, it vimuld give you no Wee ef his entigotty. Ito rennee down through 1110 1)80111<10 when there Were no worlds, before light had struck it Hest; spark, or the first angelic wing was spread for flight. Ile saw the first star beam on the dark - 00004, the first wave swing to its place, mot he heard the first reek jar down to as .plaite in the mountain' seeket, "Rio hate is white es the W001, White , as the ellOte-all aged Cliriat. Oh 1 that glees mo So much confideeett 11 is the Satila ;2ea218 that, heard DaSlit'S prayer, the 501110 g,Oltlen curls haVe gone front his lla ell Whose breala John leaned, ottettle- ded 'the :where has faded from ft Is the mane one wive tithed in the his brow, :lad `nis heir is while 58 Malil5ritilM2 dUnge011 With NW, Whe work ts done 1 the groaning has (leas- ed, the last Emma regiment hits marched down the hill, the victim is telteti from the tree, hie dead weight down on the heeds of those who carry him, hie hand falling where it will his head falling back or sidowiae, as they allow it, Let the thunder toll at Ibis funeral of a God, and the organ of the winds weep this requiem: "Ile was dtii,spised and rejected of Men; wounded for our tateagressione. Itchold where ther lutve laid him 1" Alt, methinke the THE B RUSSELS POST. watched the ashes of Wickliffe when they were thrown into the rlyer, and stood by Ifugh Latimer in the firo, lle comes down bearing the pains and the agonies of Chrtstendom. After six thoueand years of sin -pardoning, bur- ilen-hearing, and wound -healing, he knows how to do it. You can not bring him a neW 01811, Re hag ten thousamil "aims just Bice 11 before, Ile 18 all aged Christ. There aro timen when wo want chief- IY the young end (he gay about us; but When 1 tirn in deep trouble, give me a fatherly old man or a motherly old wormin, Moro than orate, in Ow black night of morrow, have I hailed the gray dawn of an old men's bair. Grandmother's hand may tremble too much to hold the phial in the stoic - room, and her eye be too diet to count the drops, but surely you bave fell that theta is no hand. 80 etrapelent to pour out the utedieine of Christian coneolatiou as an aged hand. When 1 want courage for life, J love to think of Christ as youug and ardent; when I feel:the need, of sympathy and condolence. I bring before me the pio- tura of an old 3e8115, his hairs as white as the WOM, OA white Eta the MOW, Ts there not a, balm ht this for the aged? Mythology tells us of one who got aged, and they tried to make him youneagain. And so they took herbs and fragments of owls and wolves, and put them in a ealdron and stirred them up, and gave some to the man, and inetantly his hair was blackened, his eyes brightened, his forehead smooth- ed, and his foot bounded like the roe. But the Gospel intimates tharit email knows J.8.81111 Christ in his soul, he shall never get old ; or, having got old. be- fore he came to Jesus, he shall be made young again. I pluck some of these herbs from the 11111 of Zion, and I put them in it caldron and stir them up, and I take out life and health tor the sour. One drop shall make everlast- ing youth flash through your veins. Jesus of the white looks 18 sympathe- tic with all those who have white looks. 11 you get weary of life, here is an DM to lean upon. If your eye gets dim, he will pick out the, way for you. He will never leave you. He will nev- er forsake those who put their trust In him. SOMt3 of us, in our own fam- ilies, have had instances where Christ has been very kind and loving to the aged. My mother's hair had turn- ed white, until there was not one dark thread in it -the typo of her eharae- ter, out of which every thing had fad- ed but the light. After a useful and blameless,' life she came to Iter end in peace. No beggar ever came to her door anti was turned away, No wor- ried soul ever came to her and wag not pointed to Jesus. When the angel of life came to a ueighbour's dwelling she was there to rejoice at the incar- nation. And when the angel of death flapped its wings, she was there to robe the departed for the burial. We had often heard her, while kneeling among her children at family pray - era, when father was abeent, say, "I ask not for my children wealth or hon - aur; but I do ask that they may all become the subjects of thy converting grace." Buying seen her eleven chil- dren in the Kingdom of God, she had 'only one more desire before she. died, and that was that the eon on mission- ary ground might come back, that she might eee hiin once alive. And when the ship from China anchored in New York harbour, and the long -absent son stepped over the threshold. she said: "Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation 1" We gathered from afar to see only the house from which the, 501<1 had departed. Iler folded hand e appeared just as when they were employed in kindnesses for her chil- dren, Standing there, we saicl: "Don't she took beautiful ?" It was a cloud- less sky when We carried her out to the last resting -Nave, The withered leaves crumbled under the wheel and hoof as we passed, and the setting min, shining upon the river, made it look like fire. But more calm and peaceful was the setting sun at this aged pil- grim's life. No more tears, no more stekriess, no mote death 1 Dear moth- er, beautiful mother I Do you wonder that I think gray hairs are beautiful? May her Saviour be the guide, the com- forter, and the joy of all the aged I To the Jesus o11 the auburn looks, as the Jews saw him to the Jesus of the white hair, as John described him, I commend the young and the Old, if you are in trouble, go to him for com- fort. fl 'you are guilty, go to him for pardon. Take hia yoke, 11 10 aasy-his burden, it is light. I etiev in Oxford( England a picture. of St. Christopher, bringing to mind a won'derfui legend that , some of you' may know about. Ile had been in the habil of fording a stream and taking people across it. Ile heard tt child crying. The child wanted to pese that sermon, so he took the child on his thoulders aud started to ford the stream; but the child grew heavier and heavier, and beifore he got to the other bank he found he had it giant on his ehoulders, and was almost borne down 1 lithe flood, the legend anye he found it was Jesus whom 118 wee Oori7in, Ahl my friends, that is snit iny Religion, teethed of: get- ting heavier 1111(1 heavier, gets" lighter and lighter; and that whieh wee 01.005, heavy enough 81101001, to break the back, becomes twe hands instred of pushing UM down, lifting us up the steep of heaven, where the blitok shall be exchanged for the tvhite - white robes waelual le the blood of the Lamb -white horses in the procession of eternal viotory-white flasks, 'follow-, ing the good Shepherd over the hea-1 verily pastures -while presiding over all the scene, and seated ori a great white throne, is the Oiler whose "hairs are white as the wool, as white its tho snow." MET! EOROLOGILIA L P11 ENOMENON. , The Miran, 017 snow ,hurrioano of the Pamirs, is 0 meteorlogical phenomen- on of greal. intereat. Even in Intestine - mer the temperature during a snow buran frequently falls to 14 degrees Fahrenheit, while in the whiter a 1892-93 it dropped te IS degrees be. low /ero at the end of Janeary. The buret cornea With startling sudden- ness, the atmosphere growing dark with whirling Snowflakes where seareely a minute before the eke, was perfectly clear. • HIS MASON', I knew one Man at least who ia a*rtin- firmed woman hator, Beeause he couldn't get One te mar- ry him? Nit, because he did. About the House. *lee THE LITTLE TYRANT. Why ie my hair strung tip in knots You never (maid hay( /noosed it; Look at my sitirt--d'you Lae those epots I There baby's fingere messed it. 'Twee she who rumpled up my hair - What father could ferbid it 1 Elisafriende will only ',tile nor oars If romping baby dia Perhaps I wish to leave the house - 1111 heaped up In a corner I find a quiet little mutts% Like erstwhile Jaelcie Horner ; Then papa says: "Whore is ray hat? I wonder who has hid it 4" I firid her sitting on it flat, Bub then -the baby did it. The mining elf, with wond'ring eyes, May som,etiroes break the letter, 'Twill really be a sad surprise When age shall teach laer better, Then let the baby have her way, Her pleasure -why forbid it? You rimy be proud that you can Say: "hIy little baby did it," A CHANCE FOR BOYS. One of the great trials of mothers and of others of the family as well, is the restless boy. It is impossible for the boy to be otherwise than rest- less, apparently. It is not enough that he is in active motion 0001 -01 - doors, he must make the Motion per- petual motion by eontinuing it. within - doors. It is generally understood that the effort after perpetual motion am- ong inventors ,ends in tnsanity, and there are few of the older people m the household who do not feel that the boy's effort is going to bring insanity to them it cannot be checked. Bat there has always been a chorus of advisors who maintain that nothing must be done to curtail a boy's activity that those muscles of his need all the work they feel inclined to take, end that it is highly injurious to restrain them. Dear mother, do nol believe thew+ ad- visers! Let the boy be as free as he wilt out-of-doors, as much of an athlete there or in the gymnasium as he knows how to bet but in the house let him be a gentleman, and demand i1 of himt One of the best means to this end is to ocoupy at once uts mind and his energies, and when lie la tired of his necossany books and his studies, give him something elae that shall be as engaging, or possibly more so. There are very few boys who nave not 50010 dexterity with their fingers, who are not more ori ess handy, This handiness of theirs, moreover, has been greatly stimulated in all those schools whore natural training or Sloyd has been made part of the exercises; and the gift ot a set of tools will urge them to qmet usefulness in numberless ways. Every boy loves a lathe; give him one, and he will turn you out pretty boxes and various odd objects for Ins sister to paint or otherwiae ornament, and be delighted with the Person ',vim flatters him by aocepting them. With O soroll-saw what: quantities of brack- ets and shelves and little cabinets will he torture into shape, learning on the way the beauty of line and curve 1 and trith his carving -tools what heads ot animate for umbrella -tops and for the bosses on furniture will he oreate I what deeorated trays and panels anit shields( what really beautiful aeolian-harps to string and set in the windows and make "moody musio augural of woe," as Browning has it ! 01. give the boy a lYPe-writer, and he has it in his power to be as useful as he has been annoying, or give him a anemia suoh Ila 'mythology, and he will make his shells serve purposes of comfort and beauty, 'while • they teach him with- out his ,while of it, much of the atory of creation. Once get the boy into the way of any of this -and it is not difficult -he looks forward to the quietwork as eagerly as to las play, and silence and oharni reign where before were oonfueion and tried nerves, not to say despair, Often vrhen the girls of the family are busy oval: 113810 gift -making for the spring and winter festivals, the boy bemoans hinuelt thnt he can do nothing but _hoard Ms pennies. And when they are getting up tables of fancy -work for their Wears it would be a pleasure to him to be helpful also. Here, then, is his chance, for his boxes, his braelcele, his carvings, los print- ings, his shell -work, are all of them as saleable as his sisters'bags and baskets and pin-enehitnie. Mid it give Mtn real pleasure, and the rest of the house rent 0050, w7he01 he is set at work providing there, Half of the time a hoy's noise is mere idleness, and he would much rather he busy than idle; he is a dear, warm-bearted little creature, and merely a little planning will provide him with this mike: sort et content, and at the SaMe time give the family a rest and remis- sion of trouble, --- BAncurN auvrrtiG, Many women, living reraote from largo cities, reed the alluring -advertise- ments in the Sunday papers and sigh for the opportunity to buy at the ad- vantage offense by bargain sales. Con- cerning these tempting induceinents the "Gehtlewoman" says; The plireuse "Marked down" has great fascination for women. This Is not discreditable to their hearts, for while ono -tenth may hunt bargains, hoping to shine thereby in finery they owed not afford at first wen, the other stine-tenthe aro merely straining their nerved a little more in tho effort to make their husband's earttings go even bertha, and provide yet more liberty fee hina liteno and the children. Bat weraenei hearts often play sorry trielts with their heads, Alerolninta ara human and therofere fallible. They are in buSiiiesa to make money 100 thomsolvos, not tor your benefit or mine. &tut remember thie whoa you go bargain hating. Take advantage of the mark down on goods you need that aro worth buY- Ing. Let all (Altera alone, if you truly wish to be economical, The greatest roduellons in price generally are on pronounoed styles that aro rapidly go- ing 0111 of fashion and 'will aeon be no- tieably odd and out of dale, When a "tremendous mark down" SMITS 7011 101 the Moe be sure there 10 80Me exeellent reason 101 the drop in pnees. Perhaps the reasion does not prevent the article being a good bur, - gain for y.ou. Often the reason of the reduction Isom that makes the article no bargain for any ono. A GRAVE MISTAKE. A mother makes the most grave mis- take when she speaks of the Mutts of one oE ber ithildren to another. It is disloyalty in the first place, and In the second, the ohild to whom the com- plaint is made, must naturally think that in her absenoe her own faults aro complained of to the others says the Philadelphia Press, Children resent treatmeht of this kind, and it helps to shake the trust and confidence they have in their mother, and al the same time damages their own self-respect. Another mistake is often made in al- lowing the children to tell their tales of each other. It is a most oontempt- ible habit to allow a childto get into, and immediate. steps should be taken to check the little mischief maker, The surest way to do this is to pun- ish the tale -bearer every time he car- ries tales of another's wrong -doing, ex- plaining to the child at the time why you punish him. Mothers often create this fault themselves by askIng the children questions as to eaoh other's doings. It should never be done, 11 18 not fair, either to the one who tells Or the one of whom the tale is told, nano dhlld,ooon is the moomoti hsuonreorway to destroy Publicly rebuking a child is anoth- er great mistake. When he is doing wrong he may be °hooked in public, but the wise mother will reserve the scolding and threat of punishment till she gets the little sinner in private. 'there he wilt listen to her and ponder over weai she says; but rebuked in the presenee of others, he is apt to be defiant and harden his little heart. It is by little mistakes of this kind that mothers lose the love and reapecit c1 their children. ro CLEAN GLASSWARE. Glassware will last longer and. look better if the following hints as to its eare and preservation are regarded: Tepid water, the best mettle or oth- er pure soap and a stiff brush are the Gest essentials. After washing and rinsing Nam the out glass in a boxwood sawdust. This will absorb the moisture M the (settings. Next remove the sawdust front the pieta surface with a soft cloth. By following these directions the original etearnese and sparkle of the glass will be maintained. Shot should not be usea in carafes, cruets, toilet articles and similar ves- sels. It is very apt to scratch the glass and thus mar its beauty. Prosaic potato peelings are (he best aids. Let (hem remain in the glass- ware over night, and then rinse out with a little tepid water. A very important point is to avoid sudden changes from extreme heat to extreme cold and rite versa. A pitcher or tumbler which hes been filled with ice water a tray that has been used for ice cream, if plunged at 0000 into hot water will be apt to crack. Use tepid water and the risk of breakage is avoided. The sudden change from bent to Dad is just as dangerous. Glassware should never be eemoved from tt closed riablet where it has become Inuits':Land brought Immediately into oontraot With a oold substanoe. Cool the glass for a time in water before subjecting it to the extreme temperature. AliTLFICAL COAL, There is in Langeriburg, Pomerania, an artificial ooal manufactory that , • turni out eighty beiquet les a minute, or thirty-five tons a day, the average output mounting up to some 12,775 English tons yearly. The demend is, indeed, far greater than the supply. This is said to be due to the remark- able cheapness of the artime, the custo- mary pries being only 13 tents for 130 briquettes, or say, a the rate of some- tbing like two briquet' es for one - filth ot a Gent retail. That these burn slowly mid give a fairly good heet Is shown by the feet Unit in a domed overt one briquette will remain in a glowing state for twenty-four hours, while in an open grate, though burn- ing more quickly, i1 retuains alight for geonger time than any ooal, giv- rig a good red hone The emit 1(1 100111- 1115 is comparatively light, only a Mw hands being required to ettend to: the machinery. CONSTITUENTS OF A HUMAN BODY. All the oonstituents of a lean weighing 150 lbnem oontained in 1,- 200 ordinary eggs. There ie enough gas in nian to fill a gasioineter of 8,649 cubic+ feet, enough hydrogen to fill a balloon that would lift hire- eell ; enough iron to make seven tacks; enough fat to make three to seven pounds of candles as well as a good take of soap; enough carbon to make sixty-five gross of lead pencils, and enotigh phosphorous to make 8,- 004 boxes of. matches, Six salteeel- lire full of seta a good bowlful of sugae, Mid a 91-2 gallon cask of wa- ter are Other component parts. Sho knoW hinx.-Agra. Potts -It was rather lute when yott rtellie home Iasi night, 'Where Were you? Mr, Potts - Why, mi dear, Wednesday nighi is the regular weekly lodge meeting night, you knew, Mrs, Pella- Vett 01 ectittee. 1 know; but did yeti Will oe Matt WHEN SHALL MANURE BE SPREAD V On the queetion of the advisability ot spreading manure in whiter on frozen ground, opinions expreased dif- fer HO radically that it seems as if the experience of 811018 of our manure specialists might be of interest, writes B. AL Vuugen. Or perhaps it would be still better to have the opinione of practical farrners on the subject, and have eael one, in addition to his Opinion, answer the following questions about the lauct on which his manure was spread and give other attendant circuit:it:dances, upon which his opinion Is based; Upon what kind of soil did you spread your manure in winter; was it elaY, send, gravelly or blank prairie loam? What was the aharaeter of the :subsoil and; how far down from the surface is the water Level in this aoil 1 Wits the land steep, gently slop- ing or neerly level/ Was your land in sod or not? if the soluble parts of your =nuns we:shed out, would it wash beyond the limits of your own farm? What kind of manure did you spread upon frozen ground-coatse or fine? How deep wee your ground free - en? Was there snow blanket enough on during that winter to permit the ground. to thaw out first from below? What cad you intend to use your land for in the spring? Some or all of the facts) and condi- tions culled out in the answers to the above questions may furnish reason Lor the opinion of the farm -'r in each case, whereas another farmer sur- rouaded by different conditione might be justified by experience in adopting O different course. Our own farm con - taints a great variety of soils, ranging from sticky clay to light sand, mixed with gravel, and also has several beds of muck. Parts of it, toe, are quite steep, others gently rolling, while oth- er parts aro quite level. On the sticky clay and muck we would not spread manure in winter, because It greatly impedes the drying out of the soil in spring, and also forms a amnia which keeps the frost; in the ground far later than i1 would otherwise remain. Nor would we spread a thick coat of manure in the winter on any soil which we desired to work early in tbe spring for the same reesou. Ancl this is spe- cially true of coarse Manure. We have ofteu known it tu nuke two weeks' difference in the time of working lands in the spring. One tract of our sandy sou has a gravelly sand for a subeoll, from five to eight feet deep. Below this is a shoot of clay and flowing along this layer of clay is a oonstant sheet of water several inches deep. Whore this water Howe within four or five feet of the surttiee we would not spread minure in the winter, on frozen gihund, as we 51notad exeunt that, when the ground thawed in the :tiring 00010 of the strength , of the manure Would set Ile in the low places, and being there so convent rated, would teach to the underground water and he lost. Our 1:beery:it ion indikatee that, in our soil at least, it would not teach through eight feat of soil. Before it had gone thi•ough so muih, the soil would have absorbed practioally all at the fertility from (hi surface water. On our steeper lands, experience has shown us that winter spreading man- ure itt not advisable, and this is espe- cially true, as the teachings enn into ditches bloat open into a river, so that wane of the soluble pens of the man- ure would be Met. On sod lands one Our stately spread manure in the win- ter, when, it not in end, mueh would be lost. So on fall plowing, manure may be stireag with little or no less; when on smooth land withoet sod, thongh otherwise the wile, much would flow away 10 the diainege water. The above are a few of the fame that our experienee bears out. Let us hear the experienee of others, keeping in view the emu questione, and Sliggesting any others that may have a bearing on winter manuring of frozen ground. It is of mush interest ;hug 11000. l'OTAT—o oririrtrILE. The Cornel1 experiment 1310 11110 made 00108 studies on potato mitten' lato season and a recent bulletin says: To expiate the uniformly high yield we meet thou make a study ot the treat: - meet which all plats have received. 11 le probable lhah frequent and deep plowing boa done natiell to bring and keep the land meditative. The land has been tamed front LW() 10 three Mom eaeh year, and the pulverizing which has resulted therefrom has lib- erated teuttioient plant food to =tore large crops. In addition to the plow- ing the land has been frequently her - rowed and eultivitted, and the intett- sive culture whi011 1100 been given has liberated all the plant food that could be used by the growing crops with the amount of moisture that was pre- sent. Seeds shoilld not be out for any considerable tiine before Nettling. If it, becomee necessary to delay plantieg for tome considerable time after po- Lathes are out the out pieces sliould be dusted with plaster and spread out in 11 moderately moist, noel place. At least they should itot be allowed to beemne dry. 11 plantlort is done very early in the spring the ridges may be permitted to remain ten day's or two weeks be- fore herrowIng down. Tf planting 15 done somewhat late the ridges should be harrowed within a week after pleating.. In the case of the early planting there is too:tally 1210011511 mois- 11lre present ao that the ridging, eney temporarily peeve 112 benefit by enala ling the solt to liethme warm. In the ease of late planting till the mole ellould be conserved, and this 134 11, clone by leveling the ridges. Whets, the soil le suturallytoo wel the rielgole ma' be beneficial in that they hasteta evaporation end the romequent drYe Ing of the soil. ... TIM FA MI GARDA:IC 14II011L; BE. The garden should never contain lose, than hall an acre, end better be lave acres, A garden of this size WM Kam ila be werked with a 1(0050, eaving nmeh hand labor, which 18 required in smaller Nots, 11 more is grown lhan required for home use it ean usually, Ite disposed of at some nearby market or to some neighbor who will not: have a garden. Or the area van be devote art to potatoes, or roots for stook can be increased. Being near the houe0, it is of easy 1100e88, and the farmer ran spend many half hours working his garden, when he would not think of going to the field PM that length of time, The garden should contain all the small traits, suoh 28 berries, eurrante, ole. Plant these In single rows, and far enough apart so that they ban be easily cultivated. The spaise between ean be devoted to some vegetable, which will compel working amulet the shrub. If the market gardener, upon lands ranging in prioe from V300 to IILOOD per acre, can upon a half dozen acres eon more dollars' worth of pro - dace than are sold off maey large farras why mey not the farmer grow in hie own garden articles for food that will talcs the place of meoh of the more expensive eommodities bought in town? The garden cannot be had with- out labor, bub with less, considering the amount produced, than is required for general farm crepe. Two and some- times three crops can be grown upon the Seine ground in the season. With the addition of a few hotbed, sash the garden can be made to produce Irene vegetables for the table all the year round. REPORT OF FARMERS' INSTITUTES. a gemk er eao rage—s, lientalining Detailed Information lauon !every Subject Con, nettled Wlih 1.111.8111$ Of Farming. The Ontario Government has never, • issued a more instructive and useful document than the report of the Sup- erintendent of Farmers' Institutes for the year 1897-8 just received. It is a book of about 500 pages containing numerous illustrations and embracing the Latest arid most detailed informa- tion upon every subject connected with the pursuit of farming. The Farmers" Institutes are in a flourishing condi- tion, their total membership having increased from 115,707 in December 1897 to 15351 on July 31st, 1898. During the year 65$ Institute meetings were held, attended by an aggregate of 126,- 094 persons and 3,e70 addresses dear- med. Some 90,000 excursionists also visited the Guelph College Farza un- der the auspiees of the Farmers' butt- tutes. A, Women's Institute has been organized. in Saltfleet Township, Went- worth County, with 86 members, which: it is hoped may be the. pioneer Of a new movement for organizing women in the country districts as the men are now organized in the Institutes. for the 1118012551011 02 a large mass of domestic, social and economical prob- lems in whielt farmers' eaves are in- tents Led. ale report comprises selected papers and addresses delivered before the In- stitues, all of practical value in their bearieg upon farm industry. The In- stitutes have secured the services of O large number of experts and lead- ing men throughout the country who have freely plaeed their special know- ledge at the disposal of the membere. The topics treated of cover an exceed- ingly wide :range, including every phase of fanning industry and many scien- tificor economicquestions which have an important bearing upon 'the eon - clition of the farmer. A. paper bye Charles W. Nash, on the birds of On- tario in their relation to agriculture. is a spatial feature of much interest, as it comprises 82 fine illiastratious. ot Cue:Whin birds with information voneerning them, which sbows the use- ful part they ploy in connection with tarin ennorny. In another appendix to the volume the reunite of recent. scientitic experi- ments in Europe and the United Si DMA in lhe leading branches of agriculture are given with much fullnees of do - tail. This will be found pertioularly useful and instrwitive to the progres- sive farmer who desires to . touch with the latest discoveries and avail himself of the results of the re- searches of experts in a prttoboa,1 way by adopting new eecaleraie tomeessee and inventions. Such 'investigations have In the past done much to im- prove the inanition of the fanner, lay bringing the knowledge thus aarour- ed in distant countries in an accessible , form before the fanners of Ontario. the 31'ernie013 Institutes are doing a useful and much needett work and fully juelifying the encouragement judie- iously afforded them by the Ontario administration. The volurde before us Is an extremely eretlitable and grati- fying evidence of the advanced Coll. , dition 01 agrieulture in this Provitioal and the intelligence and enterprise a the Caroling community, ho less than of the energy and pregressivenette shown by the Department of 'Agrionl. tura in odticational work, OUTSIDE AIM IN. Willie, having taken a bite of it fair, hut very bitter apple-Graeious I what an awfully nice bad apple thee The railroad engineer, said the smart 1002 ,71181, MOM: be a happy man, Ile whistle at his work. Begging, your pardon said the ollearful 'diet, p11121211112to ernsh ail possildo rivalry, he works at 'his whistle,