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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-10-14, Page 3COF��T~°HUSKING TIME. DR. TALMAGE DRAWS INSPIRA- TION FROM THE CORNFIELD. 'Vivid Pau Picture of the $Making Bee -- Death the Blessing Of Blessings to the Good EIan—Tile Chill of the Frosts *al- lowed by Gladness. [Copyright etas, by American Press AssocIa- tione Washington, Oct. 10.—This sermon by Dr. Talmage is peculiarly seasonable at the present time, when the teeming har- vests all over the land are awaiting the husbanclnlan. His test is Job v, 26, "As a shook•of corn cometh in in his season." Going at the rate of 40 miles the hour a few days ago, I caught this sermon. If you have recently been in the fields of Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, or New York, or New :England, or any of the country districts, you know that the corn is nearly all out. The sharp knife struck • through the stalks and left them all along the fields until a man came with a bundle of straw and twisted a few of these wisps of straw into a band, and then gathering up as much of the corn as he could compass with Ms arms he bound it with this wisp of straw, and then stood it in the field in what is called a shock. It is estimated that there are now sev- eral billion bushels of Dorn standing in the shriek, waiting to bo husked, Seine time during the Utter part of nest month the fanners will gather, ono day on one farm, another day on another farm, and they will put on their rough husking apron, and will take the husking peg, which is a piece of iron with a lea- ther loop fastened to the hand; and with it uneheath the corn from the husk and toss it into the golden heap. Then the wagons will come along and take it to the corncrib. How vividly to all those of us who were born in the country comes the re- membrance of husking time! We waited for it as for a gala day of the year. It was called a frolic. The trees having for the most part shed their foliage, the farmers waded through the fallen leaves and carte through the keen morning air to the gleeful company. The frosts, which had silvered everything during the night, began to melt off of the top of the corn shocks. While the farmers were waiting for others, they stood blowing their breath through their fingers or thrashing their arms around their bodies to keep up warmth of circulation. Husking the Corn, Roaring mirth greeted the late farmer as he crawled over the fence. Joke and repartee and rustic salutation abounded. All ready, now! The men take hold the shook of corn and hurl itnrostrate, while the moles and mice which have secreted themselves there for warmth attempt escape. The withe of straw is unwound from the corn shock; and the stalks, heavy with the wealth of grain, are rolled into two bundles, between which the husker sits down. The busking peg is thrust in until it strikes the cornand then the fingers rip off the sheathing ot the ear and there is a crank as the root of the corn is snapped off from the busk, and the grain, disimprisoned, is hurled up into the sunlight. Tho air is so tonic, the work is so very exhilarating, the company is so blithe. that some laugh, and some shout, and Sonia sing, and some banter, and some tease a neighbor for a romantic ride along the edge of the woods in an even tide, in a carriage that holds but two, and thine prophesy as to the number of bushels to the field, and others go into competition as to which shall rifle the most corn shooks before sundown. After awhile the dinner horn sounds from the farmhouse, and the table is surrounded by a group of jolly and hun- gry men. Froni all the pantries and the cellars and the perches 'of fowl on the place the richest dainties. -come, and there are carnival and neighborhood re- union and a scene which fills our mein- ory, part with smiles, but more with tears, as we remember that the farm be- longs now to other owners, and other hands gather in the fields, and many of those who mingled in that merry husk- ing scene have themselves been reaped "like as a shook of corn cometh in in his season " There is a difference of opinion as to whether the orientals knew anything about the Dorn as it stands in our fields, but recent discoveries have found out that the Hebrew knew all about Indian maize, for there have been grains of the Dorn picked up out of ancient orypts and exhumed from hiding places where they were put down many centuries ago, and they have been planted in our time and have wine up just such Indian maize as we raise in New York and Ohio. So I am right when I say that my text may refer to a shook of corn just as you and I bound it, just as you and I threw it, just as you and I husked it. There may come some practical and useful and comforting lessons to all our souls while we think of ooming in at last "like a shock of corn coming in in his season." Death the Blessing of Blessings. - It is high time that the king of terrors were thrown out of the Christian vocab- ulary. A vast multitude of people talk of death as though it were the•disaster of disasters instead of being to a good man the blessing of blessings. It is mov- ing out of a oold vestibule into a warm. temple. It is migrating into groves of redolence and perpetual fruitage. It is a changefrom bleak March to roseate. June. It is a change of manacles for garlands. It is'the transmuting of the iron handcuffs of early incarceration into the 'dialnonded wristlets of a bridal party, or, to use• the suggestion of my text; it is only husking time:: It is the tearing off of , the rough .sheath of the body that the bright and the beautiful soul may go free. Coming in "like a shock of corn cometh in in his season" Christ broke up a funeral procession at the gate of Nein by snaking a resurrec- tion day for a young man and his mo- ther. And . I would that I could break up your sadnesses and halt the long fun- eral procession of the world's grief by some cheering and cheerful view of the last transition. We all know that husking thne was a time of frost.Frost on the fence. Frost on the stubble. Frost on, the ground. Frost on the bare branches ' of the trees. Frost in the air. Frost on the hands of the huskers You remember we used to -.hide behind the corn stalks so as to keep off the wind, but still you remember how: shivering etas the body and bow painful was the cheek and liowbenumbed were the hands. But after asvhile the sun was high up and ` all the frosts ]vent out of the air, and hilarities awakened the echoes and joy from one Dorn shook went up, "Abe, aha" and was answered by joy from another corn shook, "Aha, aha !,, So we all realize that the death. of our friends is the nipping of many expecta- tions, the freezing, the chilling, the frost- ing of snarly of our hopes. It is far from being a south wind It Domes from the frigid north, and when they go away from us we stand benumbed in body and bonumbed in mind and benumbed in soul. We stand among our dead neigh- bors, our dead .families, and we say, "Will we ever get over it?" Yes. we will get over it amid the shootings of heaven- ly reunion, and we will look bank to all these distresses of bereavement only as the temporary distresses of husking time,. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy oometh in the morning." "Light, and but for a moment," said the apostle as he clapped his hands, "light, and but for a moment." The chill of the frosts followed by the gladness that cometh in "like as a shook of corn cometh in in his season-'' God's Way of parting. Of course the husking time made rough work with the ear of corn. Tho husking peg had to be thrust in and the hard thumb of the husker bad to come down on the swathing of the ear, and then there was a full and a ruthless tear- ing and then a complete snapping off before the corn was free, and if the husk could have spoken it would have said: "Why do you lacerate mel Why do you wrench me?" Ah, my friends, that is the way God has arranged that the ear and the husk shall part, and that is the way he has arranged that the body and soul shall separate. You can afford to have your physical distresses when you know that they are only forwarding the soul's liberation. Every rheumatic pain is only a plunge of the husking peg. Every neur- algia twinge is only a twist by the husker, There is gold in you that must O01110 out. Solve way the shackle must be broken. Some way tho ship must be launched for heavenly voyage. You roust let the heavenly Husbandman husk off the mortality from the immortality. There ought to be great consolation in this for all who have chronic ailments, since the Lord is gradually and more mildly taking away from you that which hinders your soul's liberation, doing gradually for you what for many of us in robust health perhaps he will do in ono loll blow at the last. At the close of every illness, at the close of every par- oxysm, you ought to say: "Thank God, Vett is all past now. Thank God, I will never have to suffer that again. Thank God, I am so much nearer the boor of liberation." You will never suffer the salve pain twice. You raay have a new pain in an old place, but never the same pain twice. Tho pain dons its work and then it dies Just so many plunges of the prows bar to free the quarry stone for the building. Just so many strokes of tho chisel to complete the statue., Just so many pangs to separate the soul from the body.- You who have chronic ail- ments and disorders are only paying in installments that which some of us will have to pay in one payment when we pay the debt ot nature. Thank God, therefore, ye who have chronic disorders, that you have so much loss suffering at the last. Thank God that you will have so much less to feel in the way of pain at the hands of the heavenly Husband- man when "the shock of corn cometh in in his season." Perhaps now this may be an answer to a question which I asked one Sabbath morning, but did not answer, Why is it that so many really good people have so dreadfully to suffer? You often find a good man with enough pains and aches and distresses, you would think, to disci pima a whole colony, while you will find a tette who is . perfectly useless going around with easy digestion and steal. nerves and shining health and his exit from the world is comparatively painless. How do you explain that? Well, Inoticaed in the husking time that the husking peg was thrust into the corn and then there must be a stout pull before the sweathing was taken off of the ear and the,full, round, healthy, luxuriant corn was developed, while on the other hand there was corn that hardly seemed worth husking We threw that into a place all by itself and we called it "nubbins." Corn Not Worth Husking. Some of it was mildewed and some of it wag mice nibbled and some of it was great promise and no fulfillment. All cobs and no corn, Nubbins! After the good corn had been driven up to the barn we came around with the corn bas- ket and we picked up these nubbins. They were worth saving, but not worth much. So all around us there are people who amount to nothing. They develop into no kind of usefulness. They are nibbled on one side by the world and nibbled on the other side by the devil and mildewed all over. Great promise and no fullfilrnent. All cob and no torn. Nubbins! They are worth saving. I suppose many of them will get to heaven, but they are not worthy to be mentioned in the same day with those who went through great tribulation into the king- dom of our God. Who would not rather have the pains of this life, the, misfor- tunes of this life—who wdduld not rather be torn, and wounded, and lacerated, ancl wrenohed, and husked, and at last go in amid the very best grain of the granary, than to be pronounced not worth husking at all? Nubbins! In other words, I want to say to you people who have distress of body and distress in business and distress of all sorts, the Lord has not any grudge against you. It is not derogatory; it is complimeutary. "Whom the Lord loveth be obasteneth," and it is proof positive that there is something valuable in you, or the Lord would not bave husked you. The God Fashioned Grain. You remember also that in the time of husking it was a neighboring reunion. By the great fireplace in the winter, the fires roaring around the. glorified back- logs on an old fashioned hearth, of which the modern stoves and registers ere only the degenerate descendants, the farmers used to gather and spend the evening, and there would be much sociality, but it was not anything like the joy of the husking time, for then all the farmers Dame, and they came in the very best humor, and —bimetal—me from beyond the meadow, and they came from beyond the brook; and they came 'from regions two and three miles around. Goodspirit reigned'supreme, and there were great htandshalkings, and .there, was carnival, and ,there was the recital of the brightest. experiences in all their lives, : and there was a neighborhood. reunion the memory of which` makes all the nerves of my body trenijile with emotion as the, strings of at harp when the lingers of a player have swept'the chords. The busking time was the time of neighborhood reunion, and so heaven will be just. that. There they, come iqi s They slept in the old village churchyard. There they come up. They reclined amid the fountains and the sculpture. and the parterres of a city oelnetery. There they Dome ups They went down rem the ship foundered off Cape Hat- teras. They come up from all sides—from potter's field and out of the solid masonry of Westminster abbey, They come ups They come up! All the hindrances to their better nature husked off. All their physical ailments husked off. Ail their epiritual desponcienoies husked off.- All their hindrances to usefulness husked off. The grain, the golden grain, the God fashioned grain, visible and von- spiouous. Some of them on earth were such disagreeable Christians you could hardly stand it ie their presence. Now in heaven they are so radiant you hardly know then]. The fact is all their imper- fections have been husked off They did not mean on earth to bo disagreeable. They meant well enough, but they told you how sick you looked, and they told you how many hard thine:: they had heard about you, and they told you how often they had to stand up for you in some battles until you wished almost that they had been slain in some of the battles. Good pious, consecrated, well meaning disagreeables. At the Gate of the Granary. Now, in ]leaven all their offensiveness has been husked off. Each one is at; happy as he can be, (";very one he sneeze as happy as he can be. Heaven one great neighborhood reunion. All. kings and queens, all songsters, all millionaires, all baallqueters. God, the father, with his ohildren all around him. No "goodby" in all the air. No grave cut in all the hills. • Iiiver of crystal rolling over bed of pearl, under arch of ehrysoprasus, into the sea of glass mingled with fire. Stand at the gate of the granary and see the grain come in, out of the frosts into the sunshine, out of the darkness into the right, out of the tearing and the rippl- ing, and the twisting, and tho wrench- ing, and the lacerating, and the husking tune of earth into the wide open door of the king's granary, "like as a shock of corn cometh in in hi, season." Yes, heaven, a great sociable, with joy like the joy of the husking time. No ane there feeling so big he declines to speak to some one who is not sa large. Arch- angel willing to listen to smallest cherub. No bolting of the door of caste at one heavenly mansion to keep out the citizens of a smaller mansion. No clique in one corner whispering about a clique in another corner. David taking none of the airs of a giant killer. Joshua making no one halt until he passes because he made the sun and moon halt. Paul mak- ing no assumptions over the most ordin- ary preacher of righteousness Naaman, captain of the Syrissu host, no more hon ored than the captive maid who' told him where he could get a good doctor. 0 my soul, what a country: The humblest man a king. The poorest woman a queen. The meanest house a palace. The shortest lifetime eternity. And what is more strange about it all is, we may all get there. "'Not I," says some one stand- ing back under the galleries, ' Yes, you. "Not I," says some one who has not been in ohuroh in 15 years before. Yes, you. "Not I," says some ono who has been for 60 years filling up his life with all kinds of wickedness. Yes, you. No Monopoly of Religion. There are monopolies on earth, mon- opolistic railroads, monopolistic tele- graph companies and monopolistic grain dealers, but no monopoly in religion. All who want to be saved may be saved, "without money and without price." Solvation by the Lord Jesus Christ for all the people. Of course, use common sense in this ]natter. You cannot expect to get to Charleston by taking ship for Portland, and you cannot expect to get to heaven by going in an opposite direc- tion. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ rand thou shalt be saved. Through that one gate of pardon and peace all the race ]nay go in. "But," says some one, "do you really think I would be at home in that super- nal society if I should reach it?" I think you would. I know you would. I remember that in the husking time there was a great equality of feeling aanlong the neighbors. There at ono corn shock a farmer would be at work who owned 200 acres of ground. Tile man tvhoni he was talking with at the next cora] shock owned but 30 acres of around, and per- haps all covered by a mortgage. That evening, at the close of the husking day. one man drove home a roan span so frisky, so full of life, they got their feet over the traces. The other man walked home. Great difference in education, great difference in worldly means, but I noticed at the husking time they all seemed to enjoy each other's society. They did not ask any man how much property be owned or what his education bad been. They all seemed to be happy together in those good times. And so it will be in heaven. Our Father will gather his children around -him, and the neighbors will come in, and the past will be rehearsed. And some one will tell of victory and we will MI celebrate it. And some one will tell of great struggle, and we will all praise the grace that fetched him out of it. Arid some one will say: "Here is my old father that I put away with heart- break. Just look at him, he is as young as any of us!" And some one will say: "Here is my darling child thatl buried in Greenwood, and all the after years of my life wore shadowed with desolation. Just look at her! She doesn't seem as if she had been sick a minute." Great soci- ality. Great neighborhood kindness. What though John Milton sit down on one side and John Howard sit down on the other side. Nu embarrassment. What though Charlotte Elizabeth sit down on one side and Hannah More sit down on the other side? No embarrassment, A monarch yourself. why be embarrassed among monarohs? A songster yourself, why be embarrassed amid glorified song- sters? Go in and dine. All the shocks coming in in their sea- son. Ob, yes, ill their season. Not one of you having died too soon, too late, or having died at haphazard. Planted at just the right time. Plowed at just the right time. Husked at just the right time. Garnered at just the right time. Coming in in your season. The Song of the Busker. • Oh, I Wish that the billions of bushels of corn now in the fieldsor on the way to the seaboard might be a type of the grand. -yieldof honor and glory and im- mortality, .when all the shooks come in. I do not know htiw you are consti- tuted, but I am so constituted that there is nothing that so awakens reminiscences in me as the odors of a oornfield when I cross it at this time of year after the corn' has been cutand it stands :in shooks. And so:I have thought it mightbe prac- tically useful for us 'to -clay to cross the cornfield, and I have thought perhaps there might be some reminiscence roused in our soul that might be salutary and might be saving. In Sweden, a prima donna, while her house in the city was being repaired, took a house in the coun- try for temporary residence, and she brought out her great array of jewels ro show a friend who wished to see thein. One night after displaying these 1ewels and leaving theta on the table, and all her friends had gone, and the servants bad gone—one summer night --she sat thinking and looking into. a mirror just it front of her chair, when she saw in that mirror the face of a robber lookin" in at the window behind her and gazing at those jewels. She was in great fright, but sat still, and hardly knowing why shedidso she began to sing an old nurs- ery song, her fears making the pathos of the song more telliug. Suddenly sbe noticed while 'looking at the mirror that the robber's face had gone from the window and it did not wine back, A few days after the prima donna received a letter from the robber, saying, "I heard that the jewels were to be out that night and 1 came to take them at whatever hazard, but when I heard you sing that nursery song with which my mother so often sang mo to sleep, I could not stand it and I fled, and I have resolved upon a new and an honest life." Oh, my friends, there are jewels in peril richer than those which lays upon the table that night. Thoy aro jewels of the immortal soul. Would God that some song rolling up out of the deserted nurs- ery of your childhood or some song roll- ing up out of the cornfields, the song of the huskers 20 or 40 years ago, alight turn all our feet out of the paths of sin into the paths of righteousness. Would God that them memories wafted in on odor or song might start us this moment with swift feet toward that blessed place where so many of our loved ones have already preceded us, "as a shock of corn cometh in in his season." Abort Bulbs, Bullis should be planted as early in the fall as possible. They should be put into the ground as soon as received. Never take bulbs out of the package in which the florist sends them and leave theta exposed to the action of light and air. If you do this, they will part rapidly with the 1noieture in thew, and the loss of this moisture is a loss of vitality. The scales of lilies often become soft and flabby when left in the light. They have wilted because of evaporation of the sap, whiub is the lifeblood of the plant. Such bulbs have become so weakened that they are hardly worth planting. If it is not possible to set out your bulbs as soon as received, put them in the cellar or some other dark, cool place. it is a good plan to prepare your beds for them while you are waiting for the dealer to 1111 your order. Dig up the soil to the depth of at least a foot. Add to it a liberal quantity of old manure. 'cbat from the cowyard is better than any other. But finely ground bonemeal Ban also be used with very good results. A pound to each 12 square feet of soil will be about the right quantity to use. Work the bed over until it is find and mellow, The best soil for bulbs is a sandy loans. If your soil is rather heavy, light- en it by adding sharp sand and turfy matter. Always choose a well drained location for your bulb bed. If not nat- urally so, put et least six inches of some material like old °rookery, brick. and the like in the bottom cf the bed. Here is a hint for those who bave an accumulation of old cans, boots and shoes and other refuse to act on. You can dispose of them to the benefit of your bulbs as well as of the back yard, —Harper's Bazaar. Murder Statistics. American newspaper readers are ex- cusable if they have received of late an impression that next to the wheat crop the most notable product of this country this year has been bomicido. The coun- try is big and it accords with reasonable expectation that in one part or another of it killing should be in progress all the time. But this year, and especially this summer, there certainly seems to have been much more than the usual amount of it, and it will be interesting, when the returns are all in and some one has tabulated them, to learn whether this impression is well founded or not. For ten years past the Chicago Tribune has kept the run of murders and homi- cides so far as it could and has made an annual report of then]. According to a table based on thesee reports, there were 1,449 hoimcides in the country in 1886, and•7,900 in 189:,. The tables show a great but irregular annual increase. The Tribune's estimate of the murder of lynchings is interesting. It gives 133 in 1856, 286 in 1892 and 160 in 1895. It shows 2'2.20 executions to every 100 homicides, Tho statistics of murders in Europe, as given in The 'World Almanac, show that Italians kill most readily, the aver- age annual number of murders in Italy being .2,470, or 29.4 to every 10,000 deaths. Spain follows with a ratio of 23,8. Austria's ratio is 8.8; France's, 8.0, and England's 7.1. These European figures, however, apply to murders alone, and do not include, like the tables for the United States, all sorts of man - slaughters, justifiable or otherwise.—Har- per's Weekly. , The Green Turtle. • The green turtle is a sea animal and swims hundreds of miles in a day. It bas an aversion to mud and quickly de- parts from unclean water. It has a much lighter shell than the ordinary turtle, which, reducing its weight, adds to its swimmiug powers. It has no claws and its .flippers resemble those•of seals. Its beak is powerful and it can easily orush an oar or bite a leg through bone and flesh at the ankle. The turtle's temper is aggressive. Two males that were found with their maws locked in a viselike grip were sent here from Florida. Thoy did not release one another, even after they were killed. The turtles are caught asleep on the surface of the sea or when they make their way ashore on the scores of small islands i, i the gulf of Mexico. Tha turtle hunters usually are negroes. They anchor their vessels off a key at night, row sil- entlyashore and make a tour of the beach. Numbers of the slow moving turtles are seen clumsily crawling out of the turf. They are turned on their banks, collected and taken to the vessel, from which they aro, transferred to a steamship bound for New York, It may not be exciting sport; but it is a laborious task to capture a 400 pound turtle and drag it into a boatperhaps one half the size of the prisoner.—New York Commercial. Ovation was once applied to a triumph, in which sheep, intead of bullocks, were sacrificed to the gods, s HORSE EDUCATION. Colts lianat serve an Apiprentioeship, One Step at a Time. The education of the colt should 'be- gin when it is but a few days old. The first lesson to be taught is that it is not going to be hurt when handled, and the next that it is no use to rebel when it is once caught. 1f these lessons are learned thoroughly, the colt loses all fear of being handled and has im- plicit confidence in its teacher. There is little clanger of petting a colt too muobso long as we avoid teasing or teaching it bad habits. Kindness and firmuess go ]land in hand in all success- ful colt training. It is the worst sort of folly to attempt to whip a colt into sub- mission. First in order is halter breaking. We do not consider this lesson complete when the colt allows itself to be led slowly across the lot. Let it understand that it is impossible for it to get away from you. It should learn to come to you rather than fly away when excited or scared. This it will soon do when it learns that you want to protect rather than abuse it. It is a good idea to lead it into unfamiliar places and accustom it to all sorts of strange sights and sounds as it is able to bear them. It is sure to meet with exciting causes some time, and it is a part of its training to learn to control itself and to rely on your directions at such times, The trainer should bear in mind that the colt is not capable of grasping a dozen new things at once. What you say and want done is as Greek to the colt, If you give it too big doses it will get con- fused, rattled and become uumanage- able. The volt mast settle down ter a comfortable acceptance of the inevitable before anything farther is required of it. Then comes the harness. Our colts are broken to harness when in their yearling form. A neat fitting harness is buckled on them securely. The check- rein is allowed to hang quite loosely at first, and they are left in a roomy box stall for an hour or two at a time for several days, or until they cease to fret and have become thoroughly accus- tomed to the harness and bridle bit. Tho next step is to take them out for a quiet walk. Run the lines through the shaft holders instead of the rings at the saddle and let the trainer walk behind. and very quietly teach the youngster just `chat is wanted. No whip is al- lowed, for we have found that there is no need for one, and much harm may be done to the colt, causing it to kink or become sullen by the injudicious use of the same. We advocate breaking the colts with an open bridle, and never allow the blind bridle to be put on them. We are confident that a colt is less liable to be- come frightened at objects where be oan see them and by so doing will learn that there is, nothing that will injure him. After the colt has been handled and drigen until it is bridlewise it is then hooked to the breaking Dart. If all the lessons so far have been well learned, there is very little trouble here, as there is nothing new for them but the shafts. In a few days they go along nicely. The driver is then sent with them to the public road. He now rides on level ground, but walks up and down bills. One mile at a time is sufficient for quite awhile, but gradually the dis- tance is increased until the colts seem to improve more rapidly if driven three or four miles at a lesson than when less exeroise is given. One of the greatest troubles we have is to get the driver to understand that the colt should not be driven too fast. To be sure, some of the yearling record breakers of today go ab What a few years since would have seemed a race horse gait, but as we have uo scientific colt trainer we think it better to go "slow and sure." If the colts learn readily and take to their work kindly, they can by the time they are lee years old be hooked double with an old steady horse, and with a few lessons they will trot out at a lively gait, and if the colt is well developed and strong a little track work will not hurt him. Some persons advise the breaking of colts to double harness first, but Gleason, the famous horse trainer, says always break them singly first, and since adopting this method we have had much better success.—Mrs. W. W. Stevens in National Stockman. Manager John A. Logan, Jr. We understand from a reliable source that the Illinois state board of agricul- ture has arranged with Mr. John A. Logan, Jr., Youngstown, 0., to un- dertake the management of the harness and saddle classes at the Chicago horse show at the Coliseum, Nov. 2-13. This insures the greatest horse show ever held on this continent,. The Illi- nois .state board of agriculture needs no aid or instruction in cencl•uoting a show of breeding stook, When it comes to the modern horse show, with its heavy harness horses and appointments classes, the board simply holds up its hands and admits that it is a game at which it has never played. Wisely enough it secures assistance, and if it had raked the country with a curry- comb it could not have found a man so admirably qualified to conduct this feature of its show as is Mr. Logan. Indeed the board may count itself very fortunate that it has been able to com- mand the services of such a man. Mr. Logan possesses to a ranch greater ex- tent than any other man the two requi- sites to a successful manager of a Chi- cago show -au acquaintance with the sooiety folk of this city and a thorough knowledge of every detail connected with the conduot of such a show.— Breeder's Gazette. Fillies should be bred when 2 years old. A •young mare with ber first Dolt would be carefully watched, groomed and exercised. JAPAN'S GREAT ENTERPRISE IN' AMERICA. Large Appropriation by Imperial Diet. Severat months ago, the Japanese Tea. Guild sent to this country a special com- mission,composed of Mr. S. Mitsubashl, President of Shizuoka Prefectural As- sembly, and Mr. J. Ohara, member of Japanese Parliament, to investigate, the conditions of the Japanese tea trade In the United States anti Canada and to co-operate with Dir. T. Furuya and Mr. T. Miztuany; the ;American represents s tivesof the Japanese Tea Guild,in giving publicity to the merits of Japanese Teat and the method of preparing them for drinking which would insure the best results. DTr, Furuya and Dist. Mizutany are planning to open Tea Bazars in many of the principal cities in the United States and Canada, where ladies can enjoy a cup of fine Japanese tea made by., ex- perts, and at the salve time receive' in- structions which will enable them to: make it equally well athome. More than half the Tea consumed in the United States and Canada is of .Iapanmee growth, yet the majority of Americans apparent- ly do not understand clow to 'prepare it so as to develop the delicious qualities which it contains. It is believed by tbese gefitlemen that, when Americans are in possession of rhe secret of making good tea, the consumption in this coun- try will fully equal that of ituropo in proportion. The Japanese (ioverllnlent has appropriated a large fund to aid the Japanese Tee growers and Taxi merchants in prosecuting this educational work, nand it is hoped that Amerieen ladies will be apt students. The main Bureau, of the Japanese 'lea Guild hes issued an official recipe for making .lapapnee Tea, she translation of which is as follows:— First--Use a small, dry and thorough- ly Olean porcelain teapot. Second—Taut in one teaspoonful of tea leaves for each cup of tea desired. Third—When using Japanese teas, pour on the required quantity of fresh boiled water, and Iet stand with closed lid from 2 to 3 minttes. Never boil the leaves. In order to retain the natural flavor, Japanese tea leaves should be kept in tight eau or jar, free from mois- ture, Note, --To thoroughly may the natur- al, delfeate and sweet flavor of Japanese Teas, neither sugar nor cream should be used. Lessons of Obedience. The hardest lesson of ail is that of obedience. Obedience is an unsavory word to the great majority. If we want to save our souls, if we want to be good citizens, we must practice obedience. Everyone in authority over us spiritu- ally or temporarily demands our obedi- ence. Tbis obedience is not rendered to individuals in their personal capacity bat to God through them. No elan owes allegiance to any other, save in so far as that other is God's delegate. GOOD WOMAN—BAD HEART. • r when Could the Life of a Loved One be Mora 'Uncertain Than When Attacked by Heart Disro t :'—if You Have a ll int of it Have Ar, Agnew's Cure for the Heart Al. ways at band ---It is the Only Remedy Which Can Believe You in 30 Minutes and Cure' Tou permanently. "This is to certify tont my wife has been a sufferer from heart disease for over twenty years. After having tried doctors and remedies innumerable with- out benefit I procured two bottles of Dr. Agnew's Cure for the heart, and she has received more benefit from it than from all the doctors and all the cures used heretofore. I am pleased to certify to the excellence of this wonderful remedy. "AARON NICHOLS, "Peterboro', Smith Tp." Disastrous Conflagration. 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Hall's Catarrh Cure to taken internally, acting direct- , ly spun the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destloyin„ the foundation of Me disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting na- ture its doing its work. The proprietors Have so ranch Mith in its curative powers, that they otter :One Hundred Dollars for iiti case that it lads to cure. Rend tor list: of testan,oniala. Address je 3. f'HENl Y h Co. 5S, Sold by Druggists, The, Toledo 0, Please n t Occasi on. "Did you have a good time at the Fitz Browns?" "Yes; we talked about our trip and made' chem wish they had gone. to the mountains; ;and then they talked about theirtrip and made us wish we had gone to ,the seashore."