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Providence That Seemed Dark
fore Becomes Clear.
A despatc froni Washington say
--Rev. Dr. Talmage preached fro.'
the following text J ob xxviii,
.1he crystal cannot equal
Many of the precious stones of tl
Bible have eoine to prompt recogn
tion. But fey the present 1. take u
the less valuable crystal. 3 ob,
my text, compares saving VilSa()
with a speeiinen of topaz. An hill
del chemist or .1nineralogist would
Pronounce the latter wortt, mole
than the former, bat J oh niakes an
intelligent comparison, looks at re-
ligion, and then looks at the erys-
tal and pronounces the former a5 of
far superior value to the latter, ex-
claiming., in the words of my text,
"'The crystal cannot
Now, it is not part of my sermon-
ic design to depreciate the crystal,
whether it be found. in Cornish mine
oe Harz mountain or mannnuth cave
or tinkling among tne pend-
ants of the chandeliers of a
Palace. The crystal is the star of
the mountain ; it is the queen of
cave ; and it is the eardeop of the
hilis it finds its heaven in the dia
mond. AMOng all the pages of nat
ural history there is no page mor
interesting to me than the page o
crystallographic. But I want t
show you that ,Job was right when,
taking religion in one hand and the
crystal in the other, he declared
that the former is of far more value
and beauty than the latter, recom-
mending it to all the people and to
all the ages, declaring The crystal
cannot equal it."
IN THE FIRST F.I.ACE,
I remark that religion is superior to
the crystal in exactness. That
shapeless mass of crystal against
which you accidentally dashed your
foot is laid out with 1110re, exactness
than any earthly city. There are
six styles of crystallization and all
of them divinely ordained. Every
crystal has mathematical precision.
God's geometry reaches through it,
and it is a square, or it is a rec-
tangle, or it is a rhomboid, or in
sonic way it has a mathematical fig-
ure. Now, religion beats that in the
simplefact that spiritual accuracy
is more beautiful than material ac,
-
curacy. God's attributes are, exact,
God's inanagement of the world ex-
act. iqCver counting wrong though
He counts the grass blades and the
stars and the sands and the cycles
His providences never dealing witl
us perpendicularly when those pro.
vidences ought to be oblique, noi
laterally when they ought, to be ver-
tical. Everything in our life cu -rang
ed without any possibility of mis
take. Each life a six -headed prism.
Bern at the',right time ; dying at
the right time. There are no -hap-
pen so's" in our neology. If I
thought this was a slipshod universe
I would be in despair. God is not
an anarchist. Law, order, symme-
try, precision, a perfect square, a
perfect rectangle, a perfect rhom-
boid, a perfect circle. The edge of
God's robe of government never
frays out, there are no loose Screws
in the world's machinery. It did
not just happen that Napoleon was
attacked with indigestion' at Boro-
dino so that he became incompetent
for the day. It did not just happen
that John Thomas, the missionary,
on a heathen island, waiting for an
outfit and orders for another . mis-
sionary tour, received that outfit
and those orders in a box that float-
ed ashore, weile the ship and the
crew that the box were nev-
er heard of. I believe in a partieular
providence. I believe
• sunrises of half a century. Ire has
0 been an early riser. lie has been an
7, ,acinurer of cameos and corals and
all kinds of beautiful things. ASii
03 hhil what he thinks of religion, and
he will tell you : " it is the most
beautiful thing I ever saw. The
crystal cannot equal it."
Ueautiful in its sernantetrY. When
it presents God' character, it does
nat present him as having love like
si great protuberance on one side of
Iltis nature, but makes tititt lave in
harmony with Ills justice -- tl love
that will accept all those
who come to Him, and a
justice that will by no
means clear the guilty. Beautiful re-
ligion in the SClltiiDCflt it imp 1 ante !
Beautiful religion in the hope that
it kindles! Beautiful religion in the
fact that it proposes to garland and
enthrone an(1 cutiparadise an imnaor-
tal
spirit. Solomon says it is a lily.
Paul says it is a crown. The Apoc-
alypse says it -is a fountain kisSed by
the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged
cedar. Christ says it is a bridegroom
_ come to fetch home a bride. While
,- „Job in the text takes up a whol
o VaSO of preeious stones --the "t0IMZ
f and the sapphire and the chrysoprae-
o us—he holds out of this beantiful
11
9
vase just one crystal , and holds it
up until it gleanis in the warm light
of the eastern sky‘,. and he, exelaims,
''The, crystal cannot equal it.''
Again, religion is Superior to the
crystal in its transigranations. The
diainond is only a crystallization.
Qarbonite of Hine vieesuntil it be-
comes calcite or aragonite. Red ox-
ide of 'copper crystallizeinto cubes
and Octahedrons. , Those crystals.
which adorn ourpersons' and Our
homes and oar muSettnis have only
been resurrected front faimis that
were
FAR. FROM T.,USTROUS
Scientists for ageS have been ex
amining these. wonderful transferma
tions. put I tell you in the gospe
of the -Son of God there is a mere_
Woncicifnl tranSforniation. ()vet
souls by reason Of sin black as' teal
and hard as iron God, by his corn -
fatting grace, stoops and. says,
"They shall be mine in the day
when I make Up „thy jewels."
"Whatl" say You. "Wilt Cod wear
jewellery?" It Ile wanted it Ile could
make the stars .of the . heaven,' 1 -lis
belt and have the evening cloud foi
• 'the sal -1041s of IDS feet, but ire does
1, not Want that adornment. He. Will
not have that jewellery. When G od
:Wants jeWellery, he comee clown end
digs it out ofthe depths and dark -
pass of sin. These soulare all tryse
GOD'S GEOMETRY
inay be seen in all outg life more
beautifully than in crystallography.
Job was right. " The crystal can-
not, equal it.''
Again I remark that religion is su-
perior to the crystal in transpar-
ency. We know not when or by
whom glass , was first discovered,
Beads of it have been found in the
tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases
of it are brought up from the ruins
of Herculaneum. There were female
a.dorninents made out of it 3,004
years ago --- those adornments found
now attached to the mummies of
Egypt. A great many commenta-
tors believe that my text means
glass. What wo ul d we cro with ou u,
the crystal ? The crystal in the
window to keep out the storm and
let in the day ; the crystal over
the watch, defending its delicate
machinery, yet allowing us to see
the hour ; the crystal of the tele-
seepe, by which the astronomer
triSgS distant Wer1d8 So near he can
inspect them, Oh, the triumph of
the crystals in the celebrated win-
dows of Rouen and Salisbury ! Bat
there is nothing so transparent in
a crystal as in our holy religion. It
is a tranSparent religion. You can
put it to your eye and you see the
man --his sin, his soul, his destin3r.
You look at Cod and you see SOMC-
thing of the grandeur of 1 -Xis
acter, Tt is a transparent
:Infidels tell us it is ,opaque.
you know why they tell US it is
opaque 1 11 is becausd the,y are
" The nettrral man receiveth
hot the things of God because they
are spiritually cliscernesl.'' There is
no trouble wi LI) the crystal The
trouble is with the eyes which try
to look theough it, We pray for
vision, Lord, that out, eyes may be
opened 1 AVlien the eye ealve cure:4
our blindness, then We fincl ihat re-
ligion is trail spa rent,
:People talk too 1110011 about their
cross and not enough about their
crowne. Do you know that tile Bible
11300 1,10125 a crosa but seventeen
times, wh tie it mentions a. crown
EIGHTY 1-17.i.11ES
Ask that old man what be thinks
of Tel igi 00 He 1., as been n, close
obeerver. He hes been caltivating
3131 aesthetie taste, He has seen the
tallizations of Merey. He 110(5 1110111
en atad IIe, Wears them hi the, pres-
ence of the -whole universe, Ile wears
them. 611 the hand that -100,8' nailed,
over the heart that was pierced,- .011
the temples that were stung. `"They
1.shall be mine;" saith the Lord, "in
the day when I make np any:jewels.''
Wonderful - anSf rinatiOnl. - Where
sin abounded .grace Shall Much MOre
abound. The carbon becemes the Sol-
itaire. "The crystal Cannot ,equal.it,"
:Now, I have no liking., for those
people who.sare always enlarging in
Christian meetings about their early
dissipation. Donot go 'lite the par-
ticidars, my brothers. ' 'Simply say
yoU Were, slok, but Make no, display
of youe ulcers. The chieftsloCk' in
trade Or some Ministers and 0hi-i-
lan
kers seems te be their early
CR IME S AND...DISSIPATIONS.
The number of pockets you picked
an(1 the number of chickens you
stole malec very poor -prayer meeting
rhetoric. Besides that, it, discour-
ages other Christian people who ne-
.
vee got (trunk or stole anytliing. But
it-- is pleasant to know- that those
Who were farthest down have, been
broug-ht highest up. Out of infernal
serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of
darkness into light. From coal to
the solitaire. ''The crystal_ cannot
equal it." /
."011," says some one, ptitting his
hand over his eyee, "can it be that
I whoha,ve been in `so much sin and
trouble will ever come to those crys-
tals?" Yes, it may bee -it will be.
Heaven we lutist have, whatever we
have or have not, and we come here
to get it. "I-Iow muc11 must 1 pa
for it?" you say. You will pay for it
just as- much_ as the coal pays to be-
come the diamond: In other words,
nothing. The same Almighty power
that makes the crystal in the moun-
tain will change youer heart which is
harder than stone, for the promise is, -
"I will take away your stony heart.
and I will give you a heart of flesh."
"011," says some one, "it is just
lite doctrine I want.. God is to do
everything; and I am to do nothing."
My brother, it is not the doctrine
you want. 'Pilo coal 111011e8 no resist-
ance. It hears the resurrection voiee
in the mountain and. 1, COMCS 10
crystallization; but your heart re-
sists, The trouble with you, iny
brother, is the coat wants to stay
de not ask, you to throw Open.
the door and let 'Christ in. I only
ask that you step bolting a,nd bar-
ring it. My friends, We 'will have to
get rid of our sins, 11 'will have to
CET RID OF 11117 SINS,
13210 you will have to p,,•et
rid' of your sins. What will we do
with our sins aniong the three ceyS-
tals? The crystal atmosphere Would
display our polltitiOn. 'Rho eiystal
river ‘vould be befouled with 'our
touch. Transformation Must take
place now Or 110 transfeennition at
all. Give sin ,full chance in your
heart, and the transformation will be
0010111.0/14d inStead Of upward. :In-
stead 02 crYstel.it will be a cinder.
In the days 01 Carthage a Chris,,
thin 011,5 condemned to dic. fer-
her faith, and a boat was bedaubed
w tate and pitCh and. filled ,0/11.11
combustibles end eel; OYi fire, and the
ClIristinn girl Ivae placed in the boat
ancl the wind .111137 offshore and the
boat floated away with its precious.'
treasure. No one can doubt that boat
landed at the shore of heaven. $111
w,ants to Put yolk in a flerY boat and
shove you off in an, opposite diree-
tion—oll from. Peace, off from God,
off from heaven, everlastingly off,
and, the port to tvead which you
would sail would be a port of dark-
ness, and the guns that would greet
You would be the guns of despair,
and the flags that would wave tti,
'your arrival a,ould be the black flage
of death, Oh, MY brother, yoll must
either kill sin or sin will kill poit!
it is, no exaggeration when say
thot any anan or woman that, wants
to be saved May be saved. Tremen-
dous choice! A thousand people are
choosing this moment between salva-
tion and destruction, between light
and darkness, between charred ruin
and glorious crystallization. ‘.
THE S. S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
OCTOBER 27.
Text of the Lesson, Gen. xlv.,
1-15. Golden Text, Rome
xii., 21.
1-3, ''There stood no man with
him while Joseph trulde himself
known unto his brethren.''' The
story as told in the intervening
chapters between'thelast lesson and
this One is most fascinating' in its
detail of joseph's dealings with his
brethren, but especially in its fore-
shadowing of corning events in con-
nection,with - the return of Christ
and Ills revelation to Itis br.etIn•eri.
The first visit of JosePh's ten breth-
ren to buy corn. Benjamin being
carefully kept at home lest, evil
]night befall him. 0 o s eph's recogni-
tion of his brethren, his trying them
by calliag them spies and putting
them in ward three days, their re-
membrance of their sin and- conver-
Sation concerning it int the presence
-of Joseph, whom they supposed did
not undertstand their language, as
he had spoken to them through an
interpreter ; his holding Simeon as
a hos Lege till they should bring
their younger brother, his sending
ths others back with Corn and each
man s money secretly put M. his sack
and Jaco.h's , pitiful Cry when told
that the ruler ',of. Egypt would not
see them again unless Benjamin was
with tiiiineethis is all teld. in chap-
ter. xlii. Their second. .visit, taking
Benjamin and double Money (the
returned money and money to buy
-morc.00131), and: a present' fOr , the
men, Joseph's reception' Of them .and
feast for them in hi S own houset
With his Special'interest in, and favor
to Benjamin, are told in chapter 1
xliii. Joseph's plan,seeniingy, to
retain Benjamin andthe earnest, and
eloquent plea 01 Jl1dah, who .had,be-
come surety .for Benjamin, ltre , the I
topics of chapter xliv. Now folloWS,
'Jesus said in His prayer to His
Father, when speaking of His dis-
ciPles, "The glory which thou gayest
Me I have given them" (john xvii,
22), aud it 15 written in 1 Cpr. 111,
21-23, that all things are ours, DUt
many tire so occupied with their
stuff and the. care of it that' they
neither sec nor enjoy their riches in
Christ. .
12, 13, "Tell my father of all my
glory in Egypt and , of all tlit ye
have seen." They probably found it
difficult to believe their eyes, for it
Must have seemed too good and too
wbnderful to be true. When they ar-
rived home and told their father, he
believed them. 1101 until he saw the
waggons which Joseph had sent.
Then his spirit revived, and Tie said:
'..D, is enough. Joseph, my on, is
yet alive. 3 will go andtsee him be-
fore I die"(verses 26-28). As be-
lievers bearing testimony to Christ,
Ilis.sufferings and kris glory and our
inheeitance in Him, Many will not
believe unless they see some wag-
gons, something in our lives' to
prove the truth of our words. We
are to-loyd and prove our love not
by — words only, but by -,the good
Works which He will work in us.
14., 15. The weeping and kissing
and the communion afterwards make'
us think of the Nvelcome which the
prodigal son received and the feast
that followed., This is the fourth of
the seven weepings of tIoseph, two
of which are in our lesson (verse 2
and here)two 10 chapter 1, and one
each in chapters xlvi.
They are 'worthy of particular study.
Note also the three Weepings of our
Lord. at the grave of Lazarus, over
133050.1 13131 and in Gethsemane, and
consider that by Ilis great
and sacrifice 1 -le has made pro-
vision for the forgiveness and bring-
ing near and everlasting care of 011
wfto come to Irina. `
QUEEN AND PKASANT.
I -ler Womanly Kindness To His
Two Children.
The Naples papers tell a pretty
story of Margherita, now the wid-
owed queen dowager of *Italy. On
one occasion, as she was driving to
the royal 'ivood of Licalo, the coach -
Man MiStOdic the road, and the par-
ty knew not which way to turn. One
of the gentlemen in attendance ask-
ed a. countryman the way. The man
looked at the fine carriages and
hoises, the servants in livery and
the gay company, and thought they
were simply malting fun of him. Ile
therefore refused to take their ques-
tion seriously.
"As if you did not know," he said,
with a broa,d grin.
The queen laughed, and assured
him that they were lost,. Not until
then dici the countryman condescend
to point out the way, after which
ie walked ofs, as if still afraid of
being laughed at.
''Give him twenty francs for his
trouble," said the queen, to one of
ier escort, who at once rode after
the countryman.
"Here, my Man, is a. little 'present
from the Queen of Italy, who thanks
you," said the messenger.
"The queen !" replied the country-
man, and inunediately returned to
the cart -terse.
e'Forgive inc that I did not know
thee," he said. "Thou art as beau-
tiful as a May rose. God bless
thee ! "
The carriage drove off, but the
countryman, having once spoken to
the queen, wanted to see her again.
The following day he presented him-
self at the palace, and asked to see
her.
"I know her," he said mysterious-
ly. spoke to her yesterday, and I
want to speak to her again."
The porter would have had this in-
trnsive countryman arrested for a
madman had it not happened that
the gentleman who had given the
peasant the twenty francs appeared
at that Inoment stud recognized him.
When the queen heard of his arrival
she sent for him.
"Yes, 'tis thou," he said, in a
M our lesson Joseph's revelation of
himself to them.
zt, 5. "And Joseph said unto his
brethren. Come nearer to MC T pray
you." Nothing in his heart but love
and pity and forgiveness for them
as he yearns over them. He would
take them to his heart atd bless
them, bidding thcan not to be
grieved nor angry with themselves
because of their past rnis::oncluct. as-
/ miring them that God had overruled
it all for thc good of ninny. His
words, while comforting, were truly
heart searching. for we cannot know
the cenifort of foigiveness in its
fullness ' till we have seen? and felt
something '• of the enormity of our
sin. 'Po his first words, "I am Jos -
dpi), ''Ile now adds, "I am Joseph,
-our brother whom ye sold into
Egypt" There could be .no -Mistak-
ing this. He „was the very same
Joseph whona they had envied and
hated and sold as a slave to the
Midianites as they said, `'We shall
see what will become of his dreams '
6, 7. "God sent ine.before you to
preserve you a posterity in the
earth and' to save your lives by a
great deliverance.'' We can hardly
suppose that the hand of God was
as plain to Joseph in all the events
of the past'years, in his slavery and
imprisonment, sis it was to Ithn 'now
looking back upon it from the glor'y
to which he had been brought. We
cannot see how 'allathings are work-
ing together for our good as children
of (11od, and we do not always con-
sider -that they wOrk together .ac-
cording to His purpose to conform
us to the image of 1 -lis Son (Rom.
viii, 28, 29); but as truly as Jose,
ePh could look back and see, not his
cruel brethren, but Geod working out
1 -Xis purposes, so we shall find that
'bo real evil 'has ever befallen us and
that alleencenies and all adverse cir-
cumstames have been really for. 'us,
for our goof], under the controlling
hand of Oocl.
8. "So DOW it was not you that
sent me inflict-, but God, and .}:le
bath made me a father to Pharaoh."
Note the threefold "God sent me"
(verses 5, 7, 8). We think of um -
Lord Jesus, who, when suffering so'
much from ITis enemies, saw not
them ; but His Father, and said,
'The cup which My Father hath -
given Me, shall not drink. it
(John xviii, 11.) When Shinier
cursed .David and threw stones at
him, David ' saW not Shinier, but
God, and just left him to God to
inanaL.se (Ii Sam, xvi, 5-13). It is
blessed indeed to see God and not
people or ciremnstauces and believe
that not a, dog ccui move its tohgue
against 115 without Gpd's permission
(Ex. xi, 7), See also Isa. xli, 12,
1.3 • liv, 17,
9-11, "Thussal th thy son, Jos-
eph, God hath made me lord of all
Egypt. Come down unto me : terry
imt.." This was the message to his
dear old father urging him to Caine
quickly with a,11 his' c'.11i1clren and
children's children and flocks and
herds that Joseph might nouvieh end
cure for them. See the verse f011OW-
leg the 1)0111021 0051511e0 f:or our les-
son aild note the interest Pharaoh
took in bringing .Tacob and all that
he had down Lo'P,gypt, Sending weg-
gons for the wives and little ones
and urging thein to regard not their
gtUrf, because_ tho good of all the
land of Egypt, was theirs. Our Lord
tone of great satisfaction, when he
looked agaiii"upon her face. "
thought I had seen -a fairy. Thou
art just rtai angel. I did not tell
hee yesterday that I have two lit -
le ones without a mother. Wilt
thou be their mother ? "
With womanly hi/iciness the queen
accepted the trust.
" Then there's the twenty francs
thou gayest me yesterday," said the
countrynaan. "I thank thee, but I
want no money," and he went away
crying and siniliiig like a little chUd.
The queen adopted the little ones',
and they are in an institution under
her special patronage.
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1.1,.1)'S DISESS.
6 Months to 4 Years,
Painted yokes, with bretelt&
faU-
ing over the. 11]ioulders, are exceed-
ingly becoming -go 1110 little folk, and
inake a charming effect. This dainty,
fee ck. s -ma de 01 shocr P130810 11 1 awn ,
with all-over tUckillg ana trimming
of Valenciennes lac, but the design
is .sitited t() fabrics used for 'wee
children, white 203''occasions of dress
colors for the times of play and
21-0110.
910 cut this dress for a child of
i,wo years of age .21 37i1t.05 of ma-
terial 32 ncliee \vide will be requir-
ed, with yard of tuel;ing end
yards of iii.f„ertion to trini 1174 tiles- ea
tr ate .811
HOW: TO FATTEN CHICKENS
IMPOR'rAl\j'r 13RANCII OP POUL-
TRY PARKING.
Britain :Ras An Inexhaustible De-
mand for Prime Quality
Fowls.
e
The late summer tind fall is the
time when the farmer' disposes of
his fowl. To dispose of these to 'the
very best advantage some attention
should be given to the work of fat-
tening and preparing them for
market. '.Poo many f armor S neglect
this, and at the same time expect
to. reap a large profit out of their
poultry. It is now agreed that the
very best way of fattening poultry
is to inclose a few fowls in a small
compartment and feed them -all they
will eat of good fattening food.
The 1151111 time required to prope
ly fatten a fowl i about thy
weeks. But good-sized, well -condi-
tioned pullets often"make-up" in a
fortnight, whereas very lar,ge-framed
cockerels 11.1311 take four and seine -
times as much as five weeks, before
they are fully Pitted. A fatter, how-
ever, does not care much how long
a bird may take to fatten, provided
that he is putting on flesh tile whole
tune, and that when he is in fit cdn-
dition to kill he will be worth a
good round sum at the finish.
.As a, rule, ratters do not give the
food otherwise than in a cold state
and we think that during the eum-
iner time this is to be preferred.
But we are finally convinced that in
cc loll ‘Ab.ye other greater benefit will ac -
(90
WARMING THE :KILL(
00 water used; and thereby making
the food not hot but nicely warni
when taken by the birds. .The best
way to mix up the food is, to place
what milk or water is• raquireq into
a pail, then add in the ground oats
a little at a time, ansl stir well with
a wooden ladle. Continue to add
more meat until the whole is suffici-
ently thickrmed. Ninety gallon casks
sawn ia half are admirably adapted
for mixing the food, and also mak
capital receptacles for storing mill
A good-sized copper should be er
ected out in the open, not too clos
to the ,dwelling house, as the prep
(11.111,1011 of fat for the fowls is not
pleasant operation to have perforin
ed just under an open window, espe
chilly if the wind happens to b
blowing m that direction. Empty it
0103 01' two hundredweights of rougl
fat (which can be bought from mos.
butchers at about 2c a. pound) ac -
'cording to the size of the copper,
and pow. in sufficient water to cov-
er the whole several inches deep.
After an hour cir two's boiling, the
fat will rise to the top, and should
then be skimmed, and put into a
pail. Have ready in some cool place
a few milk pans, and pour the hot
fat from the pail into one of these,
then, when cooled a little, pour in
a
in winter at half -past seven, then
again in the af tornoon about' five ),
O'clock in summer and four o'clock/
ill w in ter. TI tore are, never th °less',
Some exceptions to this rule. Youn
Spring chickens require an extra feed)
at noon, and and, some, large birds,
quick, at ''emptying," may also with
:advantage be fed theee times a daY-..
But do not follow the plan recom-
mended by some, of feeding fatten-
ing fowls generally "little and of-
ten." They will sicken of their food '
You quickly, and this means a lot
of useless and unnecessary labor.
The usual method adopted for
feecliag the fowls during the firSt
week of the process, is to give what
most falters term "water gruel.','
This COnSiStS of nothing but the
ground oats mixed up With water bi--
to a,rather stoPPY consistency. The
idea is, that during the first week
the bird's system if; 1101. trained to
rich living, and many fatters prefer
to do what they term
0 STEADY AT' FIRST."
We are, however, porsuaded that it
nIilId (,we refer of course to ,either
skim milk or sour pure milk) be
added in proportion of' one-half to
that of water the extra cost is am-
ply repaid by the Impetus thus given
to the fattening process. '
During the second week we inceease
the quality of milk regularly each
clay,' so that by the end of this week
WO have discontinued the uee of wa-
ter entirely, the solid portion of the
food being still the grouad 00(5.1
Twice during 'this and the followbag
weeks the troughs should be filled
at noon with 'some sharp flint grit,
in 'order that the birds niay replen-
ish' their stock of grinders, that are
often by this time becoming rapidly',
used up. Towards the end of this'
week ,a little of the prepared: fat
should be melted and mixed up in'
the food:
Durieg the third week, and for so
long a time as it may prove neces-s
sary, fat, should be added to the
ground oats and milk, in the pro-
portion of about a tablespoonful to
each bird.
Take a flat pieCe of wood about
three inches broad, and 1- inches
thiek, round off the upper portion to
serve as a immlle, and thin off the
e lower end in the shape of a
BROAD FLAT BLADE.'
- This will serve the double purpose
a of mixing up the food and doling the
- proper quantities, out to the birds.
- Having allowed the fowls to fast
e for a sufficient period, as Previously'
iil.eisv
coiliaimoecleniicec11,11110,
efatter should, with
put a little food:
t in the troughs, and as this becomes
cleared up more should be added. A
good fatter will never (anyhow with
"green birds") ,put 111 aU, the food
that he thinks necessary into the
trough at once, but will keep on re-
plenishing with stnall quantities ma -
till he notices the bieds are showing
signs of having had enough, when he
will at once discontinue, anal having
left them for half en hour or se ,to
thoroughly „ clear up what remains
in the troughs, come back and turn
the troughs upside down. This lat-
ter he does for several reasons, one
being, that if the troughs are left
in the ordinary way, the droppings
CUPFUL OF COLD WATE11.
This latter will sink to the bottom
and prevent the fat from sticking to
the same. Continue ,in like mannei
until all the fat has been boiled out
of rough pieces. The next clay these
milk pans maYlpe emptied by sliding
a knife' around the edges of the pan,
when the svhole mass will come
away in one solid block; these -0011
be carefully stored until required.
When milk is given to the young-
sters to drink-, it should never be
allowed to become sour, as in such
condition it often causes diarrhoea
to set up. But We consider that in
the case of fattening fowls it is
quite different. Not only is sour
milk not injurious to fattening fowls
but we, will go further and say tha1
sour milk .is inflni teiy superior to
11010 Milk: for this perpoge:
Not one in a hundred fatters ever
bother themselves about -trying to
Tree their birds of insects, wherr they
are brought home for fattenink.
Nevertheless nothing interferes more
with the centinual process of fatten-
ing than the fact that the.fowls, are
infested witlatheee troublesome crea-
tures. The insect powders sold for
this purpose are tool expensive to,be
used for fattening 'fowls, but great
benefit to the birds will be gained
by giving them a good dusting in
• frbin the fowls are liable to get into
them, and this is most undesira.ble.
Then, too. the birds will often keep
Pecking away at the titoughs,, which
in time become so worn that they
often swallow slivers of wood, whicll
are injurious to them, and again,
should it come on to rain the
troughs become full of Water, and
the -fowls are liable to fill their cropl
with it and thus not take. nearly al
much of their fattening food wheda
placed before -them on the next, meal,
FLOUR OF SULPHUR-,
and the best and quickest way we
know of is to have half of a small
tub filled about one-third full with
the sulphur. Let One' man take the
bird's head in one hand, and the
feet in the other, sincl let someone
else rub '.'the sulphur on, and place
the birds for ten minutes in , some
unused shed, or any handy place
where they can give ethemselves
shake and get ricl of the pests.
The chickens -should be put in a
coop of small round- bars. . They
should be from 1 to 14 inches n.part
and always put long ways, so that
the birds can stand „and eat out of
the troughs. The bars in front of
the "coop should be about two inches
apart. One Coop -three feet long
and about sixteen inches wide is
Large enough for six birds.. It
should be eighteen inches high, The
fattening coops are best in a shed
or Outhouse where it is quiet and a
little dark. After placing the birds
111 the coops they should be left with-
out any food for at least twelve
hours. The exception being when
they have been travelling many
hours before arriving at their des-
tination, when it is advisable to
feed thein :IS 80011 as convenient.
There ale manY farmers 'who would
never thiek of putting the birds in a
coop to fatten, but, shut them in a
pig -pen or ont-building, and giVe
1110111 'a lot of food in. a, trongh, so
that they can run to it when they
'PHIS TS IVR,ONG
WThen fowls are shut up 111 011011
PlaCCS they might to be foci careful-
ly, so that they cau clean up every
paetiele of food. lf proper care and
ettentioe connot oe given to the
I)irde tvhile 114 the fal,r,eiting coops,
1.00 11.,rongl,k,/ it(100c01,0 the principle
of theln their 113er13/.
'Tim proper tames to feed ere as
rly the morilieg as eoavenient,
y, in, summee at six o'clock, and
•
SHILLING- SOBS.
"Do- you see that woman. in black
sitting there ?" said a railway detec-
tive. "Well she possesses the rare gift
of being able to cry naturally and
at will. If slie sees a group of well-
dressed men in 0 station waiting for
,train, she'll sit or stand very near
them and burst out crying. The
story is that she has no money to
buy a ticket to get to her dying
daughter in the' next town. Crying
at will is something I don't under-
stand. I have seen many 1001/1011 cry
on the stage, but this woman's cry
is much nearer the real thing. She
does not hold....a handkerchief to her
eyes tit all. She just keeps her face
well up and sobs freely, her tears
rolling down her cheeks that all may
see thsm. She cam Cry anywhere.
The idea of sending sobbing women
into audiences at theatres as re-
cently been found by London man-
agers of small theatres to be a pay-
ing speculation, and at the present
time dozens of women earn at least
one &Milli% per evenieg by sobbing
at stated intervals in the
TIXE 1VA'rElt WE DRINIK".
Do we didn't- enough Wat,O1 1 The
question is asked by the Sanitary
Engineer, who evidently thinks WO
do not. Says our contemporary : --
"We believe tliat- inucli of the, bene-
fit:that comes from visiting tile inost
noted watering phtces is not eo
much because of any special niedici-
nal property as 13ocause of the free
USC of tlie water itself inclepenclent
of any, real cirle.s,,ecl-anineral PrePs
erties, conibinecl With the rest. Feo- •
pie go :to dr i nk the will er and bathe
in it, and they driiill it niorning,
noon anti night, aild between times,
and clueing the night. A,s a result ,
the stomach, bowels, kidneys, liver,
Pores, arid even the blood vestels
themselves, get a inueli-needed flesh-
ing, -and the over -clogged machinery
of life gets a fresh start, and the
supposed mineral In the water gets
the praise.,
ONLY 'I'llUST;
I often pause to 'illinkeL-
As 1111071511 this Jiro
If :we could only trust,
We needn't worry so!
(Ili, sir, please, 'I have sAvalloweti
pin! exclaimed a siirVaret girl, run-
ning into 1101. etn p (13'e1717)11v.Nc
vet. mind, Mary, Ile replied., deep i13
study, here's another.