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BRUSSELS Fos T.
MARcir 17, 1899
'.011118 OF GREAT BEAUTY,
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REV. DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS ON THE
MOST BEAUTIFUL JEWEL.
leavens roe Jewels on the Shores or cotton
-Deeper the eVacee the lamer See Pearl
The Lord's Jewels were once i(m'ld-
10 and Stu -The Gospel of
hinest ateoneite Them to Light.
• A despateh from Washington, Kays: -
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from tbe
to/lowing text: -"They shall be mine,
salth the Lord of hosts, to that day
when I make up my jewels."-Malach
lia 1.7.
Far enough down in t he mountains
to make 118 dig, and deep enough in
the sea to make us dive, are gems of
exquisite beauty. The kings or the
earth gather them together, end set
them in the bilts of swords, in crowns,
and vases, and eareanets. Queen
Charlotte and Marie Antoinette boast-
ed of these. Leo owned a pearl worth
eighty thousand mesons. Philip of
Skean bought a gem worth] fifteen
thousand ducats. The white topaz tif
Portugal had an untold value. The
King of Persia bought a gem worth
one million six hanci,red thousand Gy-
res. The diamond belonging to the
Austrian ooronet, lost in the battle of
Grauson, bad a whole fortune tu it.
Spain, 'ranee, Britain, boast of their
jewels, aud on coronation day are
proud of the crown set un the brow
of the en throned potent at e. The
mighty nations of the eerily Lave all
boasted of their Costly gems, have
guarded them with extreme vieilanee
have rung them in the chime of their
poets • laureate, and have handed them
down from age to age as an evidence
of national wealth.
"Well, the Lord Jesus Christ, our
Ring, has been galhering up his trans -
tires for a good while, and en the
great coronation day of the judgment
he will, in the presence ul the assem-
bled universe, show that the good rif
all ages are his crown -jewels. "They
steal be mine, saitti the Lord of hosts,
in that day where I make up my
jewels,"
I speak to you of the jewel -finding,
the jewel -grinding, and the jewel-em-
tiug. It is a rare thing that a jewel
18 found on the surface of the earth,
The heart of the mountains is rut out
to find it. Boring, blasting, and huge -
handed machinery, make the rock tepee
tee fist and drop the jewel. There are
thoueands of people who may be seen
on the shores of Ceylon and Coroner -In-
cite watching the divers who go out to
get pearls, eit the tiring of a
gun the boats are lowered off
and the divers go down forts
or fifty ft into the. water,
find the shells oontaining, the pearls,
then rap on the side et the diving -
bell as a signal that they are ready
to return, and than the men at the
top haul swiftly to the surface.
It; is a rare thing that you rind
gold on the surfaoe; it is as thorough_
ly hidden as the, pearls are, The
miner must dig, and! blast, and sweat,
before he comes to it. Se the Lerd'S
jewels ,are hidden. Once they were
far clown in the darkness, hurled. in
trespasses aud in sins. No human in-
ventiun could reach them. No pearl
was ever so far clown in the water, no
geld was ever so far down in the
earth, but .the grace of God came
to the work. Tbst is.14 miner, and it
can blast the rook, There is a driver,
and it can tOttCh the bottom of the
sea. The Gospel of Jesus Christ went
me crushing down through this pride,
and that sin, and this prejtxdiee, pound-
ing, and breaking, and washing, and
sifting, until one day the gold flashed
in the light of the Sun of Itighteona-
nese.
I have been told that deeper the wa-
ter the larger the pearl. I don't
know how that is, but I do know that
from the greatest depths of sin the
Lord Jeeus Christ sometimes gathers
rap bis brightest jewels. Paul was a
persecutor, Bunyan was a blasplitimee.
Sohn Newton was a libertine, the Earl
of Rochester wee an infidel ; and yet
the graoe of God went plunging
through the fathom of their abomina-
time until it found them and brought
them up to the light. Oh, there is
no depth that grace cennot tomb the
bottom. All over the .Dead Sea of sin
covering the nations, God's diving -bells
are busy; nil through the mountains of
death, God's netners are blasting,
Where sin abounded, grace than much
more abound.
The geologist tells you thnt the
brightest diamond Is only crydalitzed
carbon, or, as I might nail it, charcoal
glorified 1 and so it le with souls that
were coal -bleak in the defilements of
sin -by the power of God's gratis they
are made his jewels for ever.
You have nuticed the great differ-
ence between jewels. Let not a Chris.
Nan men envy another Christian mates
experience. You open the king's eas-
ket, and ,you 800 ,j1110018 of all sizes
shapes, and colors. The king says to
the Sullen, who has roma to visit hien:
"That is a topaz 1 That is an stmethysti
That is a maid; That is e. koh-i-noorl"
So God's jewels are very different-dif-
ferent10 taste, different in education,
different in preferences. Do not worry
because you don't have the faith of
that man, or the praying qualities of
this, or the singing .quatitiee of anoth-
er. It were as unwise as for a oarne-
Ilan to blush deeper betimes It is not
o diamond or a japonica to fret alt the
stator out of its °hooks because it is
not a rose. God intended you to be
different,
The trouble is that you; are not Will-
ing to be ordinary gold; you Want to
be gold of twenty-four clarets. You see
some extraorclinaree Christian Man,
and Yoe sate "If I could only he such
o mart as that I" Yon dont know Ids
history, Sarno dirassigre below Nil,
gala the water la plaoldi It says no-
thing about the rapids writhing among
the rooks and the fail of one hundred
and eixty-four feet. So there are
Christians experieneee floating placidly
berme yoe. You envy this experience
but you don't realize the tad that that
men has gone through many rapids of
temptations, and may have had many
a violent fall.
It seems easy to be a general on some
triwambel oceitaime. Tho arches are
sprung, the flowers are scattered, the
brass bands play, and the people buzsa,
as he cones Wok from the war. Oh I
what an easy thing to be a peered.
nut
you forgot the nighte of peril -you
forget the earntige, Lim third, and the
g
hen or the wounds, and the long
` march, and that he plucked the gar-
land of victory out of the stilt aand of
death, And. so there are Christians
now going on in the triumph of exPeri-
ence, and you may envy them, forget-
ful of the fad that there was many a
Waterloo of temptation and trial they
were obligee to Bleat. Be content
with such Christian experience as Clod
rattly see fit to give you.
History tells us that in the Middle
Ages the precious stems were symbols
of the apostlee. In those Middle Ages,
for iastance, the jasper was nonsidered
I the symbol of St. Peter, the sapphire
la St. Andrew, the emerald of St, John,
the chalcedony of St. James, the sar-
donyx of St. Philip. Those stones
I,s7Lehinotthmore different
• em•luel. 'IC ari'seelyi you, (IS
74cent zCteohd;t4hesat:Inv\ne:irlielP•1:171;slitil
degree of brightness, I would not have
y000 complain that you 0-00 not like
somebody else, or think it strange he -
cause chrysolite, and topaz, andtune-
thysl, and emerald don't all shine alike.
Be content to be 0110 of God's jewels,
although yon may not have as much
lustre as some one else. Concerning
you it has been said, as well as 4,00-
0erning the most sparkling Christian
character, "They shall be mine in the
day when I make up my jewele."
The jewel -grinning, That Is the
sawing and the splitting process by
whish the gean is token from its tough
state and changed into any thing that
the lapidary ehooses. Sapphire, corun-
dum, and tapaz powder are used for
grinding diamonds, The rose diamond
is so flat that it would have no attrac-
tion at all, unless it passed through
some such operation. New (3`00.'s
jewels all go through that process.
Affliction 18 the wheel ?Ind the sharp
instrumand that grinds the character
inro shape. Yon may think that con-
version givea character to the soul.
It does not. Conversion is only the
digging tett of the jewel 1 God after -
is
;110VIeniiii.e?" Ct.rilst.fasteWmiL
nilows
his children to foie but they fall for-
ward, not backward. Chrysolite, to
be cleare(1 of its iraperfections, muse
gmeietitu. 1110:(ainr,e.faunidbui3trealimia0nefteonpti
1111191 he eubmitted to the fire hefitre
they get their lustre. Christian char-
acter, like black spots at an amethyst,
1111181 sometimes be cleared out by the
Game.; in other words, you must go
through the furnace.
God's children, in time of prosperity,
when the sun shines warmly upon
them,unbuckle the robe of their
Christian graces and let them hong
loosely about- theta; but when trouble
Wows a north -easter, then they writ)
around theta their Christian grates,
and tighten the girdle. Troubles may
come to us, thick as the loousts and
frogs of Egypt, but they will only
make eln-that old Pharaoh -let God's
people go.
The dark cloud may hover over us,
but the cross of Christ will be the
lightning rod that will lake the bolt
out of it. You have seen people in-
valids, and after awhile, under some
tremendous stroke of disease, their
ant i re tesflparamexii seemed
:
Changed, and they came out olfoial th
sadder, sickness strong men. So it is
with many of those who are going
along' invalids in the Christian life -
eery weak in the serviee of God. After
they have passed through some great
disaster, that disaster having been.
sanctified to their soots, they become
strong men in Christ Jesus. These
Christians, who are swarthy now -do
you know how they got their swarthi-
ness? It was by sweltering at the
forge of affliction. Their battle axe
was dull enough Until it was sherpen-
ed ou a grave stone.
Nearly all of God's jewels are (ley-
stallized tears, You ask nee, "Why is
it that yonder man does not have trou-
ble -he gets along without any miefor-
1 11110." For the 8111310 reason that the
lapidary does not put the delicate in-
drument upon a otimmon pebble. It
does not seam as if God thought that
some men were not worth process of
tribulation. The Dutch eall ditemoutis
that are not fie 10 be eloveu divot
seeene-(her is, devil stonee.
There are those here who are almost
('00113 f01' the kingdom ; one more (urn
of the wheel, one more shove of the
harsh file, and they will be treaty, God
is testing in the presence of men and
angels, whether you are poets die -
monde or real diamonds. You know
there is au artificial ruby, an artifi-
cial sapphire, an artificial emerald,
Strauss, of Stertsburgh, discovered
that by taking 01101, 11011 potash, and
borax and red -lead, be coutti inaire•
very good imitation of some jewels;
but before that, Satan found out that
he could imitate the Lord's jewels. A
composition of orthodox faith and
of rod works hes made many a t(111(111o
he devil look like a thild of the
Lord, Nevertheless, borax, potaide
silex, and red -ted aro not jewels.
There le a way in which the lapidary
tells whether n diamond is genuine or
net. Ile breathes en it, and if the
breath linger there it is a false dia-
mond; if the breath immediately ven-
ial), it is a real dirunond. Then he has
the grinding process Afterward if the
first fall. So you can tell God's jowl.
If the breath of temptation eomes on
it, and soon vattlehes, it is a real dia-
mond; if that breath lingers, and orate
tinues to blur it, it is a false diamond.
But better than all this Is the grind-
ing nutehitie of affliction. 15 a, soul
can go through that and keep bright,
it is one of God's jewel& Egyptian
topaz., brought up from the ruins of
Herculaneum and Pompeii, shows the
same ineetiaguishable dolour to -day,
after it has been buried litendrede and
hundreds of years. And so Godet
d)001 come ap met of the ruins of ints-
foiriarne andf :disaster as (night as
when they wenit doWn.
Tilt' jewel setting. The Wilde ry gets
the genet in lbe right hape, gathers
them on his table, and then puts them
into headeliands, or ittite of swords, or
loth orowne. The opening clay comes,
and the people wane lo, and the work
is displeyed before tbem. 'Weil, the
Lord Jesus will gather up his peopl°'
and before the nesembleci universe
their splendor shall ehine forth. That
will be, the groat jewel-settiug. (lariat -
taus often tremble at the thought of
that day. it Is to be a day 01 1700 and
thunder, and mountain crash; and yet
not terrifying to God's dear children.
Amidst the multitudes of the re-
do emea there will not be oho pale
eltAek, not one fluttering heart. The
thunders that. pound the hills will be
no more frightful than the beating of
a gong that calls you to a banquet.
The soul, rising up on that day, will
wrap around 11 the resurrection -robe,
and the rocking of the earth, in its
death -Convulsion, will seem as gentle
to it as the swaying of a bough from
which a robin springs into the heal.
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0111 11 will be the wedding day -the
Church ou earth married to the Church
in breaven; but instead ot human lips
to solemnize the ceremony, the exch-
angers tetunp will proclaim the banns.
Instead of orange-blossonas, there will
be the fragrance of burning spice-
delier and candlabra, there will be the
bonfire of the con:nulling world. What
a clay that will be 1 the marriage ot
the leing's son, when God the Father
will take this deg of a world, and set
the sparkling gem on his Snia's right
scarvipisgt, a"htaThlisstiespthoeuticifnrgomdomthl"
\Vbonbeavens and take by the hand the:
Church, which is the Lamb's wife, tha
will be "the day in which he makes
up his jewels."
You know the lapidary arranges jew-
els according to their size and. colour.
This one will do beet for that plate;
another wils do bes1 for another place.
So it will bo in heaven. I suppose John
and Peter will be just as different in
heaven ae when they were on earth, 1
suppose that if a gentle spirit were de-
parting on earth the soul nf Tolue
would be the very one to come and
take It up to glory. I suppose that i
a martyr were torn by the rack, the
soul of Pain 1.0001(1 be the very one te
fetch him to heaven. I suppose that
if a wanderer of, tee street were dying
penitent in a prison the soul of Eliz-
abeth Fry would be the very Due to
bring her up to the light.
If a lapidary bad an especial gam
whose velour he wishes especially set
forth -he takes the minor genas, -those
of loss • value and beauty,. -garnets,
rubies, and so on -and sets them
around the great central wealth of
beauty. And so it will be on the last
day; Christ surrounded by the redeem-
ed -the 10980,1. jewels of ease h surround-
ing the pearl, the Pearl of great price.
Christ Will look off upon the redeemed;
upon the troubled who were, comfort-
ed -upon the tempted who were dellv-
ered-upon the guilty wile were par-
doned, Methinks Um sweetest son,g 111
heaven will be the chime of the jewels,
08 they praise God for the trials that
sawed them and ground them for the
kingdom? Who are those? you ask. T
answer. "These are they who eagle out
of great tribulations, and had. their
robee washed and made white in the
blood of the Demi)."
In the latter part of the last cen-
tury Mer, Roemer and Bessange,
the most celebrated jewellers of the
world, revolved that they would fashion
a diamond necklace such as the world
never saw. They sent out their agents
In all iambi to gather up the most
costly gem. They stopped not for any
expense. En the year 1 782 the neck-
lace was done; there were in it eight
huadreci diamonds, swinging rerouna in
nine rows, waving up to Ibe thmak,
dropping over the (4104 and shoulders,
•pendent in crosses and erowne and
lies-swioging s very blaze 05 100171),
resteens end clusters. Ohl what a clay
it must have been when Louis XVI,
presented that to the queen, and, in
the presence of the Court, Marie An-
toinotte put on the neeklate 1 But the
Court could not pey for it, and there
were robber hands that longed for it;
and, before that diamond necklace had
done its work, it bad disgraced one
countess, dishonored a cardinal, brand-
ed with red-hot iron a favourite of the
Court, and blackened a, pege of his-
tory otready infamous, Not so
when my Lord matters up his
jewels, They 5001 rome from the
root, and from the west, and from the
north, and from the south, Ile will
sand out his messenger angels, and
tell them to gather them up from
all the land, and gather them ttp
from all the eon. Golconda and Ceylon,
and C'oronaandel will send their best
treasures; the whole universe will
make contrihietions to it; and T. think
the brightest gems in the palace will
In he gems that come up from the
earth. They will flash in swaying
scapi re, and in gleaming mown, and
in ball of imperial beauty, and in All
ths vases of eternity, "in the day
when the Lord of hosts makee up his
jewels,'
Ohl that Clod's divi»g-bells 011011
his morning bring you up out of Gee
digitise of your sins, and that God.'s
wheel might grind you for the king-
dom, that you may a1. last be pre-
pared for the great jewel -setting.
In Golconda, if a slave find a dia-
mond of extraordinary value, he takes
it up to the Government, and the
Government gives him his liberty. If
80)110 of thoee who are this morning
the slaves of sin, while they are seek-
ing for God, would Died this Pearl of
great priee, the hour of Iheir eman-
cipation would come, and the king
would make prochimation from the
throne, saying, "Go free,' You have
foiled the Pearl! De one of my jewels,
HATEFUL WRETCH.
Mrs. Seeondtrip. You are just the
,meariest man alive?
Mr. Secundtrip, Well, there is one
consolation; 5 presume 5 may infer
that the late 1(1(11001511 was meaner
then T. Am,
t THOSE LOVING WOMEN.
Ethel. I've beets engaged. siX times,
and now going to OMITS' Charlie
Simpson. elow rouny timee, have you eo
been mega gad?
Mande demurely. Only twice -- to in
Charlie Simpson.
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A LULLABY.
flush -a -by, little one, mother 15 11502',
Willie she is watching there's nothing
to fear' •
Spirits of evilshall trouble thee not,
Angels aro hovering over thy oot.
Roekea-by, rook -a- by,
Sleep, baby, sleep,
Watch by thy cradle thy
Mother shall keep.
Sweet little cherub, so snugly at rest,
Thou bast the love that is clearest and
beet ;
Smile on thy pillow, a stranger to care,
Harm may no( dime to thee slumbering
there.
Dimplsepserairke; fluttering over thy oheek,
Innoceat nt signa thof happiness
Long may thy guardians grant thee
that boon;
Sorrow may come to thee only too
soon.
CHILDREN AND CLOTHING.
Little children sometimes suffer se-
verely in winter from improper cloth-
ing and close, air. What has always
been called the , indement season is
more merciful to them, however, than
the heat of summer, the season of
"ethereal mildness." The majority of
deaths among children, it is well
known, says a writer in an exchange,
owner not in winter, but In mummer.
Winter weather may be keen, but the
air is pure. It has been purified by
the frost, and the miasmatic poisons
that infect the summer atmosphere
are laid under the snosv. If children
are properly protected by warm cloth-
ing in winter and are not housed too
closely, 50 they sulfur from the bn..
pure air of the house, they are health-
ier in winter than at any other season
a the year.
Sensible mothers dress their child
Ten in under-flennele night and clay.
The day flannels aro aired during the
night, and replaced by night flannels
that are aired during the day. All
children tender five or six years old
should wear flannel nightgowns with
feel, and should be carefully covered
at night with warm, light bed oloth-
Mg. Such bed covering does not 0P -
gross the little sleeper with its weight,
end 11 is not its likely to be thrown
off as heavy bed covers, like comfort-
ables of cotton. Wool comfortables
are easily made, They are light, and
are in every way preferable to cotton
bedquiles or comfortables,
A woo1 comfortable can be washed.
The filling is easily washed and put
back in place, while the filling of a
cotton comfortable is practically use-
less after washing. Wherever it is
possible to use bed covers of wool they
should be used on children's beds in
preference to heavy cotton comforl-
obles. The German peasant is often
ridiculed for sleeping under a feather
bad instead of over it, but his ar-
rangement is infinitely a more hygien-
ic one, than oues. Comfortables of
down or even of feathers make the
warmest and lightest of bed cover-
ings.
It is as essential that children
should breathe pure, fresh air when
they are asleep as it is that they
should bo kept warm. Abundant oxy-
gen must reach the lungs, and through
the lungs the blood, to keep the mys-
terious fires of life burning at full
force. Pure air helps to keep the
body warm by keeping it in health,
Do not be afraid of admitting fresh,
colcl air to the sleeping -room of a child;
there is far more danger in keeping
the air stale than In admitting the
cold. Sixty-eight degrees is generally
given as the proper temperature for a
sleeping -room in winter, but there is
less danger even for e child in main-
taining a temperature much below 68
degrees in the sleeping -room than in
sleeping in a close room. A chila
from the first few days after its birth
may be aceustomed to sleeping in a
well -aired and quite cold room. It will
sleep better and be a healthier child
for the habit.
As a rule, very young children in
the country do not take as much ex-
ernise in the winter as children of
the same age in the city. Children who
do not go to school in the country' are
likely to lark itn airing, and infant
children are often housei1 so earefully
that they suffer from it. It has be-
come quite the gement custom in the
city to se,nr1 all children outdoors for
about an hour's airing in the middle of
the den the baby In he carriage or
little delete and the tiny toddlers well
wrapped in warm coats, leggins a.nd
hoods. The value of this period of
freslt air, taken on a sunny side of
the street or in snme protected place,
is not: to be easily estimated. juet
as soon 05 children aro able to go out-
doors and trudge about with a sled
11 13 best to Id theta go. Buy moth -
ere find scarcely time to take an air-
ing with little children, hut there is
no better way for a mother with lit-
tle children to spend the midday hour.
Tho outing is almost as valuable for
her an for the children. A fretful baby
after this winter airing will often
clown at ones into a nap when brought
into the house. One thing should be
avoided-thet is a wintry breeze.
Windy weather is more dangermur to
the lungs than rein or mom. Children
enjoy A. dry snowstorm, and there is
little clanger in them catching cold
from a frolic in it.
IT IS A MISTAKE.
TIN sleep exposed to a (11S00t drought
et any searsom
To work when you ere not in tt tit
sedition to do: so.
To conclude thet the smallest room
the house ie large enough to sleep
AIISTR Al JAN A BORIC] NES.
The aboriginal population of il,tls-
trsba 18 out so rapidly that it
has been proposed to establish reser-
vation:, wheri, the rerenanle can he
Mal rue! ed 15 a grin tura! labor and
Oared for,
To think Ma the more 0 person enter
the healthier and stronger he will bee
0()M6,
To imagine that is It little work or
exercise is good, violent and prolonged
exercise 10 better.
To take off heavy underolothing out
'et eeaaon simply bemoan you have be -
'sloe overheated.
To think any, nodrue or patent inedi-
eine is a specific for all the climate)
that t lesb is heir to,
To go to bed late at night and ries
at daybreak, and imagine thet every
hour teken from sleep is an hour
gained.
To believe that (Mildew oan do es
mech work as grown peopte and that
the more they study the more they
To give unnecessary time to a c011 -
talo established routine of 11001)8-
keeping wben it could be much move
profitably spent in rest or recrea-
tion.
To imagine that whatever remedy
causes ono to feel immediately better
-as alooholic stimulaute-is good for
the system, without regard to the af-
ter effects.
To eat as if you had only a minute
in which to finish the meal, or to eat
without an appetite, or to oontinue
after it has been satisfied merely to
gratify the testa.
To °meet a girl or woman to be,
handsome when the action of her lungs
is dependent on the expansive nature
of a cent's worth of tape.
LOT CHILDREN SLEEP.
So many mothers do not seem to real-
ize how necessary it is for young peo-
ple to have plenty of sleep. They re-
quire much more sleep Gaon grown
persons for the reason laid they are
usually very impressionable ana their
nervous systems cannot endure the
strain of long waking bottle.
Then, too, they require more sleep
because while they are sleeping all
their vital Dowel's are concentrated on
building them up instead of being di-
verted to muscular movements and
other influences which would interfere
with this concentration.
If children do not rest easily but are
restless and wakeful it is an unfailing
indication that something is wrong;
and the mother should endeavor to get
at the seat of the trouble and not ad-
ministee 00010 quieting, soothing r(i)5-
Imre that will stupify them for the
time being and leave them worse off
in tho end.
The 0(11100 may often be traced to im-
proper or excessive feeding or too
tight or too warm clothing, Pftan the
air in the room is impure and if the
room is ventilated they will soon drop
into an easy slumber. Try and have a
regular hour, as near as possible, a1
which to put the little ones to sleep.
Children seen learn to conform to re-
gular habits and are all the better for
them.
WENT ABOUT LIKE A BEGGAR.
xecentole Mewls at Count Aoraxia, (OH'
04(hoKnown Mures In St.
eie
Reference has already beant made to
the death of a notable figure in St.
Petersburg, Count A. CA Apraxin, the
millionaire owner or vase Properties tn
the capital, one of the largest markets
of which bears hie ,name.
The deceased nobleman was what is
popularly called a "diameter," Origin-
elity marked his everyday life to such
an extent that people were never tired
relating anecdotes and stories about
him. The most eontradletory opinions,
however, prevailed on his behalf, IMMO
declaring him to be a miser, others
lauding him 40 the skies as a most
noble and kind hearted friend to all
Who were in need.
The "Grazhdanin" devotes ea article
to the subject which settles the ques-
lion. ft says: -
"Count Apraxin was over eighty
years of age. The whole oily knew
him, for every one was pretty certain
at ono time or another to meet the
old man, bent with age, poorly clad,
going everywhere 011 coot, looking like
a baggae to whom out felt il101100Ci to
give alms, or a miser, whom one felt
like reproaching tor his thrift while
pitying Min for his bodily infirmities
pTihei.seaestheeming beggar. miser and crip-
wOWNER OF MANY MILLIONS,
and was neither beggar, miser nor
ick,
"He had an absolute contempt for
all display, and could find no enjoy-
men0 ih the 11811/11 pleasures that
wealth can provide, judged from the
outside he Wile a miner, and yet IL is
certain that he loved to ma.ve money
solely for the purpose of bestowing it
LA secret celerities, abstdedutY forbid-
ding those whom he aided to breathe a
word about him. And as he gave bromi-
c:est to every 0R0 who was in need it
()rime to pass that while one section
denatinoed him as a miser the other
seetion, the thounande whom he suc-
cored proclaimed his righteousness,
"Not long ago the following inci-
dent occurred: -Count Apraxin was
walking along the Fontanka with an
old sohoolfellow, when they met a re-
tired officer who had also been to
school with them. Aftee greeting
the latter they went on, The Count's
friend said, 'You kuossil our old com-
rade is in such straits his old age
that he has to live on cleriese. The
Count; aeoned not to hear, but a few
minutes Inter asked casually for the
address,
"Some days later, happening to dine
with Count Apraxin, the nihoolfellow
Sound the destetute schoolfellow there
dreteedand cheerful. One the ramm-
ing afthe their meeting in the street
the COMA hod gone on foot to the dis-
trait address indicated, climbed six
'flights of stairs once ,given him 1,100
rubles on oondition that ha would not
say 0 word about it,"
A GREAT CAT TOWN,
There are said to be 40,000 eats in
London, of which half are " unhatch-
ed," and live largely on refuse. 10 0010
district near a very large and fitm-
ent! brewery number of ownerless
eats go rogulegly as seen MI the gates
are epee to tient for Mier in the brew-
ery Metes,
cpsysoeis.- 19§1,11Whi"§,te
On the Farm. ij
HOW TO KnEP HILA =AN..
Wishing to keep my milk as elt)
as possible, says Samuel Gray, I got
110,101' to make 000061' tor the p
which I have found renewers
purpose very well. The cover fits
pall elosely, so ne not to bo easily j
red oft, has a slightly coneeX 0171
surfaee and bas two albeit about
inele and a halt in diameter and th
or four inches high extending
ward. Tee tubes are plated alio
two hushes and hall apart; and abo
the same distance front the edge alt
cover.
The tuilkmau Made the pail I
tenon his knees, with tubes of 1
cover on the oppeeite side front hi
and milks with teeth hand direo
into the tubes. The hands should
directly over the tops of the tubes a
as Mose to them us possible, 00 th
the hand may protect the (mean
from falling partioles While milking
If still greater (11511()1i05)45 desir
a piece of strainer cloth can be us
to clover the top of milk pail, and 1.
cover pudica down on 10 Le making
oomplete strainer, but it would be d
Hirable to strain again when the p
s emptied.. The meat n3ileanaici w-
ften attends to this last straining NV
be pleased to find no black sedime
a the bottom of the pail as she ent
ies it and none in the cloth of t
trainer.
11 I were ordering palls made eo
fete with clovers, I should have the
tnade with straight eldes instead
laring and have the ears for the pa
.61 down tow enough or out from t
dge of the pail far enough to allow
ho flange of the eover going on t
utside of the pail. With flange
he inside and the edge of the coy
nly evea with the outside of the pa
milk that. is splashed, on eite top of t
over in milking will run off the co
r into the bucket, carrying some di
lith it.
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GARDEN AND ORCHARD HELPS.
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Virgin soil and a lice well applie
witially produce good results i
arden or orchard providing good se.
ad good stook have been used.
Continual cropping with the sane
ariety of plants or trees will axhau
oil.
Though a head hoe can not be e
lied for some kinds of work there ar
mplements, both hand and horse, tha
ill do so much more work so muc
:dee that it is often economy to la
side the boo and use something els
Partners and gardeners are begin
ed
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ning to realize thaL it pays better to
keep up the fertility or the soil than
to itt•store it after beteg lost, hence the
more oommon 1150 05 manure in some
eedions and the raising of crops to be
tttirtneed hu
uonhdetrrygreen in other seetions
ah
Besides the use of hem yard manure
and green crops for enriching purposes
the ousotm of employing special far
-
Mixers for specifics 000110 is becoming
more and more general ;Among garden-
ers and orchardists and if wisely pur-
chased and judieiously used u profit
may be derived from the custom These
speeial fertilizers may be called helps
to successful gardening and profitable
orellarding.
There are Xaaay who think barn yard
.manure good enough for their garden
and orchard that would have much
more success with these two adjuncts
to profitable farming if they would use
more tools than a spade, rake and hoe
!After plowing and harrowing the land.
Them are garden drills, wheel hoes,
and hand etiltivatore, and the same
tools on a larger scale adapted tor use
with a. horse.
'We think the farmer spends too
much money for machinery but if he
!vent more for some or, the little big
helps and cared for them properly he
would be a happier, more prosperous
Individuate
PRUNING APPLE TREES.
When to Prune, -If an apple =h-
ard could be properly pruned eveey
season, so little cutting of hove limbs
would. be required that it would
make but little difference at what sea -
eon the nruntng 9508 done. June is
the mouth in whip]) it is best for the
tree to out large Ihnbe, 15 11 must be
done et all ; but with farmers this is
e busy reason of the year, and it is
apt to be neglected, and I would much
prefer that an orchard of mine should
be pruned in fail or winter than not
at all, Prune whenever time and op-
portunity will allow, whatever the
seasot.
llow to Preece -In the first, earn to
secure some certain, definite torm of
the tree. Deferenl, trees will require
diffeeent treatment. My preference
is foe a tree with a low spreading top.
Different varieties grow difterently in;
form, earl while Glow which are nate-
rally of meet growth require trita-
ming out front the center, others of
more spreading growth need to be I i
trimmed up more from the bottom I
and outeirte of the tree. Out off the
limbs elose to rho body of the tree,
and With 801110111111g that 111111 101100
the wounds as smooth a 5 possilite.
Cover the wounds made in eutteng
large limbs with something that will
exclude air and writer. A good wax
for Ulla purpose and which lo equally
good also for graftieg, Mee is teethe of
four parts resin, ono part tallow and
ono part beeswax, m elted togothee
and worked thoroughly.
HOW TO SECURE LARGE POTATOES
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field to some extent, There Is no pro-
fit in growing a large vrop a potatoes
unless they are of merchantable Mee.
The largest potatoes are always found
where the largest awl strongest stalks
grow, and the small ones whore they
are small and weak, It le a mistake,
in ray judgment, to plant Hmall ruled,
or to out the large ones to ona or two
eyes to save seed and to reduee tbe
number of plants, as the common prac-
tice is, It le rauoh better to plant
whole pole toes of good sirse, coif large,
to eta them at most only in halves. Of
oouraa it will oust more to seed n field
but with good seed properly thinned,
much better results lean be obtained.
if one desires to raise the largest
quantity possible from a few seed,
great results can be obtained by take
mg off the shoots and transptanting
but the potatoes will not grow large.
When the Early Rose was first intro,
clueed, I bought a pound of seed, fot'
which I paid §B, and But them in
halves and planted them In a oold
frame, As fast as the planta grew
large enough to transplant I took them
off and sot them in a field. 1 oontinu-
ed to do this until too late to set out
more, I obtained from that pound of
seed over 11-2 bus. potatoes. The
first taken off produced the largest
potatoes. The later growths made
weaker plants, and from them were
tubers proportionately smaller. It
may not be. known to some people that
each eye in a. potato is capable of pro-
ducing a large number of shoots; as
fast as taken off others will grow.
Casually not more than two or three to
each eye will start when planted, but
that number is tar too many to be
left to grow.
SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOATS.
Vevenee liones lo 0010 nrent LtrItnin /1111g
the World With Them.
As as 055501 10 Great Belittle's great
naval supeemeoy. France proposes to
build a submarine navy. According
toosff.leial reports received, the French
government has obtained a type of
submarine boat which is declared Lo be
rfectly practical and neaworthy and
well adapted for coast defence pur-
imse
pe
The chataciter a the boat, its man-
ner of operation and the details ef its
mechanism are profound secrete, but
practice! test has demonstrated the
ability of the operator to terpedo
battle ship at anchor or Cinder way and
for the vessel to proceed awash or sub-
eimenieege.d for a distance at least sixty
The infermation in the possession of
the Navy Department is meagre, but
it showy that thlt French government
places so much faith le the success of
the type of bout that it: bas made pro-
vision in the recoil naval budget for
the consLeuction of six vessels of Lilo
same charztoter, all of wldels are to be
laid down during the present year. It
is stated that they can be quickly built
ett small cost, and that in the Myer,
tion France poseesses a weapon whielt
will rause a hostile. fleet to hesitate
before approaching her shores.
Tim development of the French sub-
marine boat Is it result of a competi-
tion opened by the :French government
,stoisiatiebuitimireli:gtoorfpo,,rdothiembtos. t Ttlebseigoneoe.f
tate Zede met with the approval 1)5 the
French officiate, and It has since been
put through exhaustive trials. By
directions of the French Minister of
afarine the battle ship Magenta WWI
directed to participate in the trials, In
Lho manoeuvres which followed the
Ude sacceeded is twice torpedoing her
tonp
pnoinoetinotnthe bottle ship
was at anther and again when IL was
THE SPEED Off THE ZEDE,
wes, of course, below that of Lite Mag.
entre and in the seeend manoeuvre it
wits necessary for her to await the
passage of the battle ship, The Zed°
under water is peroeptible when she
comes within a &dame of ilifteen*hune
deed yards owing to the swells pro-
duce.d on elm surfuee by her Passe go
through the water, so that it is admit -
her wily. Still, the results obtained,
atemd sathiliattothbee laivgelssItyel sartluvring out itesfoak.oetdoryty.olultlett
have a chance of manoeof
ability 01 1110 'Zeds to make a long voYe
age. 10118 demonstrated by her passage
from Toulon to Marseilles in a rough
sea. The di01111100 101/8 covered in nine
hohltit.4rhhsot.litit elle wire accompanied by the
g
ir; ciotsidered, the teede'e ehief
advantage lies in the fact that those
manoeuvring her can sau their way
without trouble, This le aaeomplishod
by Means of tin invention made by two
French navel officers, details of which
are kept secret,
la•vo vessels of the sem 13'Pe no the
&tie are under coustruction, They
are the Gynanote and the (three, The
turow.r is almost ready end the hater
will be completed within three months,
A. third boa t -the Eery et -w hi eh they
bbeoluiie,gve: to he an improvement on the
Ache le under oonstructum at, Chee-
k will he after this type that the RIX
1)011111 (1llihOriZefl 15111 be 1)11(1 1101Vn dur,
lug the present year. The Nereid, it
8 said, wilt be, Ole to steam twenty
rive miles at eta& knote or seventy
miles of lave king 5, belOW mulatto. It
desired 11 can 80010 011 the surface like
-
an ordinary vessel and in this ease ea»
3Irry sufficient nal to proceed 253
oaten at twelve knots. These wilt ha
t(it. icliMdteinmsniognsuitoit ptlheeobhoat tyseator :Lie la el
Disphieement. , ; , 101. tone
Length „ 1 11.0 feet
licoM . . 15.3 foot
It is proposed to supply flats engines
with steam from a Weider holler, A.
horse power of 21/ will he developed,
which will give an estimated sped of
twelve knob. Itseb ship will 13(00 0)10
3)00610. They Will, have no weapons
other than four fervent° launching op-
Paratuses and will be manned pooh by-
e ntdre of two official's and nine 10011,
The (lost is fixed at 010,0105. for molt'
vessel.
Ilis setanical majesty never gets
tired jollying people W110 boast of holog
so15.lus4o.
I am convinced from my experiments
that it will pay Lo thin potatoes to one
stalk In a place and so give all the
strength and moisture of the land to
those that remain, writes 0. 15. Amine.
It might be well to out out all eyes
of the potatoes when planted, except
such as are (105500d, to grow, and so
save the trouble of thinning out the