The Exeter Times, 1895-11-28, Page 3,
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• Washington. Nov, 17.—Rev. Dr. Tale
• nag e tone for the .subject of to-y's
•sermoo "A Word, 'With Women," the
text for the occasion beteg the fon
lowing letter reiceived by the distio-
gaished preacher :
Beeerend Sir.—You delivered a die-
coureeinansvver to a letter• from aiX
• young meal a Fayette, 0„ requesting
you to preaelt a sermon, on, "Advice to
• Yourag Men." Are we jos:Oiled in ask-
ing you to preach a eormon on "Advice
• to Young Womeur
Letter Signed by Six Young Women.
• -Christ, who took his text from a
• fie* of birdflying overhead, saying
"Behold' the fowls a the air 1" and from
• the flowers in the valley saying "Con-
• sider the lilies of the field," and frora
t1te. clucking of a barnyard fowl, say-
ing, " As a ben gathereth her chick-
ens under her wing," and from a crys-
tal of salt picked up by the roadside,
aaYilig- "Salt is good," will grant us
blessing, if, instead. of taking a text
• from the Bible, I take for my text this
letter form Cincinnati, which •is only
one of -many letters, evbich I have re-
• ceived from young women in New
York, • New Orleans, San Francisco,
London, Edinburgh and from the ends
of the earth, all iraplying that, having
some months "ago preached the ser -
man on "Advice to Young Men," I
could not, without neglect of• duty,
Wee° to preath a sermon on
• 4 vice to Young Women."
It is the more important that the pul-
pit be heard on this subject at this
time when we are having such an illian-
!table discussion about what is called
the "new woman," as though some
new ereature of God had arrived on
earth or were about to arrive. One
theory is that she will be an athlete
• and boxing glove and football and
pugilistic encounter will characterize
her. Another theory is that she will
superintend ballot boxes, sit in con-
gressional hall and tiara -age inaproved
politics bring the millennium by the
e evil she wili extirpate and the good
; she will instill. Another theory is that
she will adopt masculine attire and
make sacred a vulgarism positively
horrific. Another theory is that she
will be so aesthetic that broom handle
s and rolling pin and coal scuttle will be
• penesegelizeol with tints from soft skies
• ••or suggestions of Rembrandt and Ra-
phael.
Heaven deliver the church and the
aworld from any one of these styles Of
new woman! She will never come. I
have so much faith in the evangelistic
triumph and. in, the progress of all
-things le the .Tight direction that I
—,en,ogOatesioS that style of new woman will
never arrive. She would hand over this
world to diabolism, and from being, as
she is now, the mightiest agency for
the world's uplifting she would be the
mightest force for its down thrust. I
will tell you who tbe new woman will
be. She will be the good woman of
all the ages past. Here and there a
difference of attire as the temporary
custom may command, but the same
good, honest, lovely Christian, all in-
fluential being that your mother and
mine was. Of that lsind of woman
was Christian Eddy who, talking to a
man who was so much of an unbeliever
he had named his two children Vol-
taire and Tom Paine,nevertheless saw
him converted, he breaking down with
emotion as he said to her: "1 cannot
stand you. You talk like my mother."
And telling the story of his conversion
to twelve companions who had been
blatant opposers ol religion they asked
leer to come and see them also and
tell them of Christ, and four of them
were converted and all the others
greatly changed,' and the leader of the
band, departing for heaven shouted:
" joyful 1 j oyful 1 .Toyful !"
If eau know any better style of wo-
man than that, where is she? The
world cannot improve on that kind.
The new Woman may have more knoore
ledge, because she will- have more
books, but she will ha.ve no more com-
mon sense than that which tried to
manage and discipline and educate us
and did as well as she could with such
uncompromising nusterial. She may
have more health than the woman of
s ether days, for the sewing machine
and the sanitary regulations and add-
• ed intelligence on the subjects of diet,
s ventilationand exercise end rescue
from many forms of drudgery may
allow her more longevity, but she will
/ have the same characteristics which
God gave her in paradise, with the
exception of the nervous shook and
morel jolt of the fall she got that day
when not noticing where she stepped
s she looked up into the branches of the
fruit tree.
s re But I must be specific. This letter
le eteSiefore me wants advice to young wo-
• en --Leen.
•* Advice the first: Get your soul right
• witie God,, and you will be in the best
attitude for everything that comes.
New ways of voya rbag at sea, new
ways of travelling by land, new ways
N., of threshing the hatveste, new, ways
• of printing books—and the patent of-
fice as enough to enchant a man who
•has mechanital ingenuity and knows
a good deal of levers and wheels—and
a we hardly do anythtine as it used to
be done; invention after invention, in-
• vention on top of invention. But m
the matter of getting right with God
• • there bas not been an invention for
• . .
•
e 6,000 years. It is on the same line of
repentioace that David exercised about
his sins, and the setae old style of
prayer that the publican used vehen, he
• emphesized it by an inward stoke of
both hands, and the game faith in
• Christ that Paul suggested to the jail-
er the night • the penitentia,ry broke
down.
Aye, that is the reaeon I have more
confidence in it. • It bas been tried
by more taillione than I date to state
nest I, come far short of the brilliant,
fade. All who through slihrist eatn-
• eetly triea to get right 'with God are
right ana alsvaye Will he right. • That
glees the young women esleo gets tbat
position Superiority over 611 rivalries,
all jealouseee, all miatertunes, all
health lailines, all swift,' disasterand
ell the corabnied troubles of 80 years
if the shall live to be an octogenarian.
If the world (ails to appreciate her,
• she says, "God levee me, the ane ole in
ieaven are in eympetby with Me, and
ay Waxen the •imperial ohariot Shall
. can afford to be patient until the
•
4it
wbeel to My door to teke Ose UP to MO
eoronation," If health goese she aYs,
can endure the present destireess, for
Imo on the way to a olimete the nest
breeth ot whiele wile mane Me • Proof
against even the eliglitest discomfort."
If she lac jostled with perturbations
eocasel life, she ease say, "Well, whoa • I
begin my We assweg the throues of
heaven and ti e kluge and cineerie unto.
God shall be My esesoeiatee, et will not
make much dtfference • who on Wirth
forgot me wheel, the invitations to nee
reception were made out," All right
with God, you are all right with every-
thing.
Martin Luther, writing a letter 01
condolences to one of his friends who
lead lost his daughter, began by say-
ing, "Tins is a herd world far girls."
It is'for those who are dependeast uPon
their own its and the wlaims of the
world and the preferences of buman
favor, but these who take the Eternal
God for their portion not later than
15 years of age, and that, is ten Years
later than it ought to be, will find that
while Martin Luther's letter of Oon-
dolence was true in regard to many
if not most; with respect to those who
bare the wisdom and promptitude and
the earnestness to get right with God,
I deelere that this is a good world fee
t ' e! FOIORI
Advice the second: Make it 'a mat-
ter of religion to take care of !your
physical health. I do not wonder that
the Greeks deified health and bailed
Hygoia, sus a goddess. I rejoice that
there have been so menY Inedes of
maintaining and restoring young iwo-
manly health invented n our time.
They may have been known a long time
back, but they have been popolarized
in our day—lawn tennis, croquet, and
golf and the bicyinscrutable
It always seem-
ed strange and that our'
human race should be so slow of loco-
motion, when creatures of less import-
ance have powers of velocity, wing of
bird or foot of antelope, leaving. us far
behind, and 'while it seems so unp.ort-
ant that we be in many places in a
short while we are weighed down with
incapacities, and most men, if they run
a mile, are exhausted or dead from
the exhaustion. It was left until the
last decade of the nineteenth century
to give the speed whiele we see whirl-
ing through all oar cities and along
the country roads, and with that speed
comes health. The women of the next
decade will be healthier than at any
time since the world was created.
while the invalidism which has se often
characterized womanhood will pass
over to maehood, which, by its pos-
ture on the wbeel, is coming to canved
spine and cramped chest and a deform-
ity which for another 50 years will not
have power to make rescue. Young
man, sit up straight when •you ride.
Darwin says the human race is des-
cended from the monkey, but the bi-
cycle will turn a hundred thousand
men of the present generation in physi-
cal' condition • from xnan to monkey.
For good womanhood, I thank God
that this mode of recreation has been
invented. Use it wisely, modestly,
Christianly. No good woman needs to
be told what attire is proper and what
behavior is right. If anything be
doubtful, reject it. .A hoydenish, bois-
terons, masculine woman is the detes-
tation of- all, and. every revolution of
the wheel she rides is toward deprecia-
tion and downfall. Take care of your
health. 0 woman; of your nerves in
not reading the trash which makes up
99 out of 100 novels, or by eating too
many.cornucopias of confectionery,
Take care o fyour eyes by not reading
at hours when you onght to be sleep -
beg. Take care of your ears by stop-
ping them against tlae tides of gossip
that surge through every neighbor-
hood.
Health 1 Only those know its value
• who have lost it. The earth is girdled
with pain, and a vast proportion of it
is the price paid for early- recklessness.
I close this, though, with the salutation
in Macbeth:
Now good digestion wait on appetite
And health on both.
Advice the third: Appreciate your
mother while you have her. It is the
almost universal testimony of young
women who have lost mother that they
did not realize whet she was to them
until after her exit from this life. In-
deed mother is in the appreciation of
many a young lady a hindrance. The
maternal inepection is often considered
an obstacle. Mother has so many no-
tions about that which is proper and.
that which" is improper. It is astound-
ing how much more many girls know
at 18 than their motliers at 45. With
what an elaborate argument, perhaps
spiced with some temper, the 'young -
ling tries to reverse the opinion of the
oldling. The sprinkle of gray hairs on
the maternal forehead is rather an in-
dication to the recent graduate of the
female seminary that the eirciun-
seances of to -day or to -night are not
fully appreciated. What a wise board -
bag school that would be if the moth-
ers were the pupils and the daughters
the teachers1 How well the teens
could chaperon the fifties! Then moth-
ers do not amount to much anyhow.
They are in the way, and are always
asking questions about postage marks
of letters and asking, Who is that
Mary D.?" and Where did you form
that acquaintance, Flora ?' and Where
did you get that ring, Myra ?" For
mothers have such unprecedented
means of knowing everything. They sey
"it was a bird in the air", that told them.
Alas, for that bird in the air! Will not
some one lift his gun and. shoot it? It
would take whole libraries to hold the
wisdom which the daughter knows
more than her mother. "Why cannot
I have this?" "Why cannot I do that?"
And the question in many a group
has been, although not plainly stated,
"What shall we do with the mothers,
anybow ? They are so far behind the
them." Permit me to suggest Motif
tlae mother had. given more time to
looking after herself and less time to
looking after yoe she would. have been
as fully up to date as you in music,
in style of gait, in aesthetic taste and
in all sorts of • information. I' expect
that while you were studying botany
and chemistry and embroidery and the
new opera she was studying bousehold
economies. But one day, from over-
work, or sitting up of nights with a
neighbor's sick olohl, or a blast • of
the east wind, on which pneumonias
are horsed,mother is sick. Yet the
family think she will soon be well, for
the has been sick So often and always
has got well, and the physician comes
three times a day, and there is a con-
sultation of the dootors, and the news
is grecauallyObreken that recovery is
impossible, given in the words, " Wbile
there is We there is hope." And the
white pillow over whith are strewn
the locks a little tinted with snow, 'be-
comes the point around which all the
family gather, some standing, some
kneeling, and the sense beats the lett
ihreb, and. the bosom trembles with
the last breath, and the question is
askerl• are a whisper by ,all the group,
"Is she gene?" And ell is over,
Now donae the regrets. • Ns the
daughter reidowe her former criticism.
<1 Maternal supeevision. Ear the first
time she realizes what it is to have
a mother and whet it ie to lose a mo-
ther, Tell me, Men and woriatin, young
end old, did ally of us appreciate how
much Mallet was to us utital the Was
1r a EUTBR TIES:
gone? Young vvomae, you prebe
abler aseVer hove a mere diemterested
friend than yew: Motlier, Wben
eve anythiaig is missile, oz.' imprudent,
you had better believe it is Unsafe or
imprudent, When site declares it iS
something- you heel better do 'you maglii,
to do it. She hes seen more of the
world than you haese, Do you, think she
could have aoy meeeenery o eenteMP-
tan* motive sn what she edvises you?
She would. give her life for, Yoq if it
were tented for. Do you know of anY
oue else who ermine do moth than that
Lor Yoa? Do you know of any the
who would do as eauen? Again and
again, she has alreasle endaeg.ered that
during six weeks ef dipbtberia ot
scarlet fever, and she never °nee
brought up the geestien of whetber
she aesi better stay, breathing day and
night the coetegioe.
Oale graveyards are full of neotbere
who died taking mere ef their children.
Better appreoiate your mother before
your appreciatiou of her will be no
kiednees to her, ana tile post nmethea
reeeete will be neore arid more of an
agony as the years pose on. Big head -
atones of polished Aberdeen and the
best epitaphs which the family put
together could comPose and a garland
of 'whitest roses from the conservatory
are often the attempt to atone for the
things we ought to have uttered in liv-
ing ears and. the kind:words that would
have done more good t/aaa all the cella
lilies ever :piled up on the silerd
mounds of the cemeteries, The world
makes applauditory ado ovet the work
of mothers who raised boys to be great
men, and I meld turo to my book-
shelves and find the names of 50 dis-
tinguished raen who had great motto
ers--Cuvier's mother, Walter- Scott's
mother, St. Bernard's mother, Benja-
min West's mother. But who praises
mothers for what they do for daugh-
ters who make the homes of Ameraca ?
I do not know of an instance of such
recognition. I declare to you that I
believe I am uttering the first word
that ha,s ever been uttered in apprecia-
'tion of the self denial, of the fatigues
and good sense and prayers winch
those mothers go through who navi-
gate a family of girls from the edge
of the cradle to the schoolhouse door
and from the school hcluse door up to
• the marriage altar. That is an achieve-
ment which the eternal God, celebrates
• high up in the heavens, though for it
human hands so seldom clap the faint-
est applause. My 1 My 1 What a tune
that mother had with those young-
sters, and if she had relaxed care and
work and advice and solicitation of
heavenly help that next generation
would have landed in the poorhouse,
idiot asylum or penitentiary.It is
while she is living, islet never while she
is dead, that some girls call their 3110-
ther "maternal ancestor" or "the old
woman."
• And if you have a grief ahready—and
some of the keenest sorrows of a wo-
man's life come early—roll it over on
Christ, and you will find him more
sympathetic than was Queen Victoria,
who, when her children, the princes
and princesses,came out of the school-
room after the morning lesson had
been given up by their governess and
told how her voice had trembled in the
morning prayer because it was the an-
niversary of her mother's •death, and
that she had put her -head. down on
the desk and sobbed, "lVfother 1 Mo-
ther!" the Queen went in and said to
the governess: "My poor child( I an
sorrythe children disturbed you this
morning. I will hear their lessons to-
day, and to show you. that I have not
forgotten the sad anniversary- I bring
• youthie gift." And the Queen clasped
on the girl's wrist a mourning bracelet
with a lock of her mother's hair. All
you young women the world around
who mourn. a like sorrow, and some-
times in your loneliness and sor-
row and loss burst Out crying, "Mo-
ther 1 Mother 1" put on your wrist
this golden clasp of divine syeapatlay,
"As one -whom his mother comforteth
so will I comfort you."
Advice the fourth: Allow leo time to
pass without brightening some one's
life. ' Within five minutes' of you there
-is some one in tragedy compared with
which Shakespeare's Klieg Leae or Vic-
tor Hugo's Jean Valjean has no power.
Go out .and brighten somebody's life
with a cheering word or smile or a
flower. Take a good book and read a
chapter to that blind man. Go up that
dark alley and make that invalid wo-
man laugh with some good story. Go
to that house from which that child
has been taken by death and tell the
father and mother what an escape the
child has had from the winter of earth
into the springtime of heaven. For
God's sake make some one happy for
ten minutes if for no longer a, time.
A. young woman bound on such a
mission, what might she not accom-
plish. Oh, there are thousands of these
manufacturers of sunshine! They are
King's Daughters, whether inside or
outside that delightful organization.
They do more good befere they are 20
years of age than selfish women who
live 9, and they are sO- happy just be-
cause they make others happy. Com-
pare such a young woman who feels
she has such a mission 'with ones who
lives a round of vanities, cardcase in
hand, calling on people for whom she
does not care, except for some social
advantage, and insufferably bored
when the call is returned, and trying
to look young after she is old, and liv-
ing a life of insincerity and hollowness
rend dramatization and sham. Young
women, live to make others happy, and
you. will be happy! Live for yourself,
and you will be miserable! There never
has been an exception to the rule; there
never will be an exception.
I have noticed on many of the rail-
roads that the porter will go around
and light the lamps while it is broad
day light, and I am at first surprised,
but I afterwards find that we are about
to meter a tunnel, and its darkness is
thus illuminated. Oh, kindle a light
for those who are plunging into finan-
cial or domestic or spiritual midnight 1
Advice the fifth: Plan out your life
on a big scale, whether you are a
farnaern daughter or a shepherdess
among the hills, or the fla,ttered.pet of
drawing -room filled with statuary
and pietures and bric-a-brac. Stop
Whole yon are and make a plan for
your lifetime. Yen cannot be satisfied
with a life of frivolity and giggle and
indirection. Trust the world, and it
will cheat you if it does not destroy
you. Tho Redoubtable was the name
of an enemy's ship that Lord Nelson
spared.twice from demolition, but that
killeO him, and the worla on whicla
you smile may aim at you xis &genies
weapon.
Be a Gedn woinan. This moment
make as naighty a ohmage as did a con
lege etudent in England, Ile had ne-
glected hie stutlie.s, rioting at night
with diesipatea companions and sleep-
ing in the class -room when he ought
to neve been listening, A, fellow eye
dent caftan into his room, me morning
before the ;Name num 1 ani speakmg
bt had arison from his pillow and seed
to hitn: "Paley, you are a fool. Von
are wasting your oppeetuanties. Do
not throw sievay your life." Paley said:
" t was so struck with svItat be said
that I lay in bed until I bad. termed
key plan for litef ordered my fire to
be alsvaye laid over xiiobt. I CIT08(; at
5 arid read steadily all day—a) totted
to each portion of the day its proper
ea ele al tu4y. and booanie the senior
wrangler." What an aour that was,
wheal a reeoletion, • definitely plaeed,
changed a yeteag Mao from a reckless
and time wastloa etudent to a own
eat-ratedMan who stopped not mini all
time end all eternity ellen be debtor
to his pen and cialneeeel „
Yonrig woman, draw pat; and dOdae
what yea Will be and do, God helping.
Write it out in a plain hand, not like
the letters 'wraithJosepathe received
from Nepolgon in Italy, in writing so
sores:sling and seattered taut it was
sometimes mistaken as a men of the
• seat ot war. Put the plan on the wall
of your recall or write it in tile open-
ing of a blaals laook or put it where
you, will be eempelled often to eee it,
A themeand questems ot your cooling
life yo o: cannot settle now, but tbere
is one (1120:itien You earl settle lode
-
pendent at maxi, woman, exigel and.
,devil, and that is that you will be a
God's svotaan now, latheeforth and fore
ever. Clasp bands with the Almight
Pytletooras repeeeented life by tile le
ter Y, because it' early divides into two
Ways. Leek out for ePportunities ot
theerine, inspiring, rescuing and sav-
ing all the people you can. Make a
league with the eteroities. I seek your
present and everlasting safety.
Devid Brewster said that a eomet,
belonging to our eyetern called Lex -
ell's comet, is lost as it ought to have
appeared 13 times arid has not appear-
ed et alL Alas, it is eat only the lost
comets, but the loet stiles, and what
were considered fixed, stars. Some of
the mot brilliant and steady souls
Oave disappeared. The world wonders
nt the eharge of the Light Brigadenne
naortalized by Tenny-soie Only a few
of the 600 got back front the °barge,
under Lord Cardigan, of the ltfusecrvite
guns, and all the ha,voci was done in 25
minutes, the charge beginning at 10
minutee past 11 o'clock and closin' at
35 minutes past 11, and yet noting
left. on the fielcl but dying seed dead
men, dying and. dead horses. But a
eraallex- proportion of the men and wo-
n:ten who go into the battle field of life
come put unwounded. The slaughter
has beett end will be terrific, and we
all need God, and we need him now,
and we need bim all the time. And
let nae say there is a new woman, as
there is a pew man, and that is the re-
generated woman made such by the
• xensacking, transforming, unbuilding,
triumphant power of the Spirit who te
so superior to all other smelts that He
had. been called for ages the Holy
Spirit. Quicker than wheel ever turn-
ed on Use geieker than fleetest
hoef 'ever etruok the pavement ; quicker
than ,zigzag lightning ever dropped
down the sky, the raessonaing powee.I
speak of will revolutionize your entire
nature. • Then you can start out on a
voyage of life, defying both calm and
cyclone, saying, evith Dean Alford:
One who has known in storms to sail
• Ihave on board; -
Above the roaring of the gale
I hear the Lord.
He holds me when the billows medic;
I shall not fall;
If short 'tis sharp, if long 'tis light;
He tempers all,
MERRY MOMENTS.
Will .somebody please tell me why
our lawmakers are never .rrested for
passing worthless bills?
• "Tell me, guide; why so few people
ascend that magnificent mountain."
"Because no one has ever fallen off
• " Wasn't the bride delightfelly
timid?" "Very. She was even shy
ten years when it came to giving her
age.',
"Do you think you can read my
mind?" asked the youth. "Not unless
some one discovers it for nae," was her
answer.
" Why, professor, you have two um-
tboreilolLs.o"oe"oTfhtaiiteims right. I expect
"'Tis 10 p. m." the maid exclaimed
But useless did it prove;
He didn't seem to understand
That p. m. means "please move."
"Henry," said Infos. Peck, "I am going
to get e bicycle." "Dear me," said Mr.
yoeieekt'ormiiin
idlY' over"is?n"'t one man enou.gh for
•
A mine is like a woro.e,n's dress;
011 when you hunt arouse],
It takes a year or two before
` The pocket can be found.
By Jove, I left my pocketbook under
my pillow !" " Ob, well, your servant
is honest, isn't she ?” " That's just it—
she'll take it right up to my wife!"
Marriage, we own, is a lottery,
Yet here a great difference lies;
There are times when We do not envy
The man with the capital prize.
Bacon—" Does that young mao who is
paying attention to your daughter leave
at a seasonable hour at night?" Eg-
bert—"Yes ; I have no reason to kick."
— Skinnuin—"Remember, if anybody
calls I am in to nobody." Servant
(sotto voce) "Wells this is the first time
I ever sasv you when you weren't into
somebody."
Young wife at the fancy ball)—
" You're improving wonderfully as a
dancer. Don't you remember how you
tbushaeeondd7t,onyte-aer-srmy Idwreasssneat?" bYuyoinongO htesras-
" I can see no reason," said the S.P.P.
A. boarder, "whir it should be thought
advisable to dock a horse's tail," "Prob-
ably," suggested the 'Cheerful. Idiot,
'"they are docked for being behind."
When he asked for her hand the re-
plied, "No, Geotge ; any heart is quite
at your service; but I thittle I.had bet-
ter keep my hand myself. It might
be useful to me in case you couldn't sup-
port me, you know."
Miss Antique—"People ate always
talking of self-made meal. I wonder
why they never speak of a self-made
woman ?" Miss Austrere—"Because a
self-made woman •generally doesn't like
to have it known.'
Grandpa—"Don't get scared, Willie;
the tiger is about to be fed; that's what
makes him lump and roar so." Willie
(easily)—"Oh, 1 ain't afraul of ham,
grandpa. Papa's the same way when
/ais meals ain't ready,"
He --"..1. come, here so frequently that
I'm beginning to think that you look
upon me as a sort of chesteat —a roasted
chestiest, as it were." She—"No, not a
roasted chestnut. When a chestnut is
roasted, it pops,"
Honeeleeeper—"You don't look as if
you bad washed yourself for a month."
Tra,rep--"Pleftee, muni, th' doctors say
th' proper tittle to bathe is two holies
after a meal, and 1 hevenn had any-
thieg you. dell a meal in six weeks."
"1 wonder," said the Man who had
been out for the evening, "why some
bright women me,mer auch insignifi-
ca,nt husbands She said
admiringly, "you are really toornodeet;
you nearly de youreelfn an hijnetice,"
"Tf. I give Irpur friend a elitee," said
the banker, he willhave to give a
been T suppose you will go ot ?"
"Pond ?" exelearned the other man.
"'Why, he can be ettuetea with eneount-
ed nultions. "es but all the StioneY
we bave is counted:"
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ItACTICAL FARIVilliG.
Storing Vegetables fOr Winter,
"We often leave queries as to the best
method, of storing vegetables and fruit
during evioter, and they ere questions
we deligbt to enewer, as t4ay show a
growing tericleaeY far healthful and de-
lioious food at all times of the yeae. Not
only that, but it is a move in the rigid
Pdailen°t1;14°UsayferoGmard4e4ninege;°13"lie41 131:411a -
"La order to preserve in a prectioallY
fresh state 405` vegetable or fruit, the
oonditione under which it eves grown
Most be duly eonsidered, When the
objets have ,reaelied perfection all vi-
tal action moat be suspended, and the
epeeimens kept in a dormant state am-
en they are to be used. Let us take,
for instance, 1h48. crops, theY are
grown underground, cool moiet ;
these must not be exposed to the air
during winter, for their mdisture and
juice soon evaporate and their delicious
properties are lost. To keep them in
dry sand, as is a common custom in eome
places, is nearly as had as full exposure
because the dry ,sand will absorb their
jeuv i acp oe sr. na te iaorn1 as' q,uiekly as would air by
"Most, farmers and gardeners are in
the habit of putting away for winter's
,eise such few vegetables as they find
in the garden upon the approach of frost;
but very few grow vegetablee express-
ly for storage, as they should. do. In
due ,time we shall urge the necessity
of this, and show how it can be done
profitably. This haphazard storage is
done by taking ap in a careless manner,
and usually throwing into some vacant
corner of theeeellar, just Whatever Ls
at band, and in this situation the fruits
or vegetables remain until used or
spoiled. The more cousiderate put
ein in boxes or barrels, and cover
them with sand; this is good in inten-
tion, and that is all that can be said for
the method, as it does not accomplish
the purpose intended. If the cellar be
dry and light, the vegetables will soon
dry up, and they will commence to
grow, as nature well exhaust every
effort in order to reproduce the speeles•
If the cellar be moist and warm, the
vegetables will • make eteentliee aeosaili
because the conditions are favorable.
On the other hand if the cel-
lar be moist and cool the vege-
tables will invariably mold and rot.
Either of these conditions ruins the veg-
etable for the table, but what is still
worse, the products of the decaying
mass will fill the house and possibly
make the doctor's visit a necessity, and
under certain conditions scarlatin.e or
diphtheria may even be harbored. It
is far better not_to have vegetables in
under such conditions.
winter, than to have them in the house
Compelling* the Hens to Seek Food.
There can be Opportunity to save ex-
penses by allowing the hens to seek
raost- of their food on the range.' 11: is
not advisable to compel tleem to secure
the whole of their food, az they may not
always be able to find sufficiency,
but it is beet to induce them to seek as
inuph food as possible.
just what should, be allowed -a flock
in the ?slimmer season depends as much
on the location as anything else. Give
the flock free access to a grass -plot on
which a large proportion of clover
grows, and the hens will find a great
variety and in large quantity. There
are many different kinds of insects, and
they attack nearly all plants. No mat-
ter how small they may be, the- hens
will consume a large number. They
svill also keep thtraselves busy scratch-
ing wherever they can find a worm of
any kind. This means that the hens not
only save the farmer from loss of crops,
but also save the food that would be re-
quired if the hens did not satisfy them-
sevles when on the range. There is also
a greater variety of food .on the range,
'and the exercise and freedom in the
open air keeps the hens in good health.
It is more often the case that the hens
are overfed than underfed, and if the
farmers will give one meal only in sum-
mer, on the evening of -each day, the
hens will thrive well. They will need
but little help if they are given an op-
portunity to assist themselves.
Eggs are always more plentiful in
summer than winter, and this is due to
the advantages possessed by the hens on
the range, as well as the warmth of the
season. The cost of eggs is rauch less
in summer, and yet -the cost can be
made to, exceed the receipt,s if the hens
are overfed, as they will lay fewer eggs
and consume t more food than they re-
quire. There may be some who .keep
their fowls confined, but even then
they will thrbie much better if made
to work and scratch for all they re-
ceive.
Care of Young Pigs.
For the first few weeke of the pig's
life it is to be feed wholly through the
dam, and it must always be rigidly
borne in mind by the feeder that when
he is feeding the dam he is feeding the
pig's. It is very often a, thoughtless in-
difference upon this point that is the
cense of • come of the most vexations
troubles with young pigs. Scours is
not considered a very dangerous ail-
ment, but , it is a much more costly
thing to the farmer than all the other
ailments combined, as it goes through
the litter The trouble does not arise,
perhaps, from getting too strong a flovv
,of milk over an extended period of
time, but rather from too muois at one
time and too little at another, caused
by spurts teeding or by sudden
changes in the oha,racter of the milk
caused by feeding the wrong thing.
However, the worst phase of the mat-
ter is not siraplyethat the pigs are af-
flicted with a disorder somewhat, diffi-
cule to cure, but that it stunts growth
permanently. The pig thee has the
scours never will nsake the animal that
it might have made had it escaped the
trouble. The fact may as well be set
down as settled. Hence the man who
would make the most on his page must
avoid seotire. This he can do only by
properlsr feeding the dam while the pigs
are yoting,
Steele. NOtes,
Clover as hog pasture leads the pee -
(session, ,
• Cooking corn fot hogs is of doubt-
ful utility.
• The process of chopping or orushing
corn for cattle is in high favor among
feeders.
Gre,in feeding of yonrig spears eood
peature is the right thing. to the eight
Sated
Pure bred hogs are -the fellows to top
the market for quality aid price ecer
pound.
a'bo ruluag preens* aMeeig the Most
• intenigeot feeclere eaght to he aceept-
ed as tbe best.
Faranere exercise re diffeeeneeof
opinioe rio to tile valne of graio feedieg
of pige during the stammer.
• IngleirY has developed the feet OO
weaderfal ditferenee ot opinior as Le tIle
value of frequeet feeding for cattle.
• Farmers' institatles ere tbe hest, plaee
zzi tbe, 'world for revolving practical
live stock questions tbrough the gener-
al mind,
A PREVENTION OF CHOLERA,
Dr, ifairkine fins-ToVer reoea
e it ar tAv
lie the ioreast otsease.
As it is probable that cholera Will
u'li:alYaPl.eaisdaram1E:84°111i:WeoEurop, ad:I10
continent, le is important to know that
• a PrOP11718eti0 bas been diseovere
Tbe Dublin Warder draws attention to
the work and discovery of Dr. Half.
,kine, wno leas been style& " The Jen-
ner of India," and who, there j8 good
reason to 'believe, has discovered
preventive of the dread dizease— as
certain in its effeots as vaccine:en/A,
when properly performed, iS in the
case of smallpox. All intelligent per-
sons are aware that before jennerls
time smallpox was one of the greatest
scourges of the human race, but that
since veceinatiou leas been generally
adopted the deaths from it have been
comparatively few. The rule M the
London Smallpox hospital is to engage
such nurses only as have been vac-
cinated, and before tlaey are allowed.
consequence has been that,
teaogbioeng,in their duties to vaccinate them
again, The
although constantly exposed to con -
NOT A SINGLE NURSE
has ever had the (beeves.
Three years ago Dr. Haffkine, then
in India, corameneed his method of in-
oculating for cholera, and over 42,000
persons have been inoculated by his
system at a cost to himself of about
$14,000. Practically he gave almost his
whoie time and means to the subJect.
Owing to a variety of causes—notably
the imenotto 0' the water and. bad
of the large fndian
°hies are rarely free from cholera,.
His mode of procedure is by two
stages. The runt time he inoculates
with a weak virus, which enables the
system to receive a second inoculation
of a much stronger nature. It is
stated that he develops the weak virus
by passing air and oxygen over a
cultivation oe the common bacilli at a
high temperature. The second virus is
of such strength that a small quanti-
ty killed a guinea pig in eight hours,
but which when injected into the bu-
man system five days after the pre-
paratory inoculation causes only a
slight local disturbance; and the symp-
toms subside in five days after such
disturbance has reached its maximum.
Out of 42,445 cages of inoculation there
was not a single instance of injury to
health. In one of the unhealthiest dis-
tricts in Calcutta, cholera occurred in
36 houses containing 516 inmates, some
of whom were treated by Dr. Haffkine's
system. About one-seventh of those
not treated had the disease, and four
out of every five attacked died. Among
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EXTRAORDINABY TORT93
•BE EXPLAMAU
,
Needwtaow*4/1rIOU 1(0ml* 0„,,tril*
Oody--Ear Torso *corCriteY Ike" "0"4
oat Oat ortter ' ono Dore Arc 'tet to,
From the bed/ nt Melvin& 'Ziort011 ;'
e nineteen -year-old girl
Sharon, Pa.,, phyeicians neVe eXtreeted
within the past three Tee4's ev" e4/4131
hundred needles and fragments
• eeedles. How many ere still imbedfleA
in her flesh they do not pretend to04`,
but operations to remove OM $PAVP
PieMS of steel are still going on.
• Tlue story is true in every detaan
The surgeons say it i vjbout preeeden
for the extraordinary nnmber at need',
lea her body has contained. There are
several well-in:mown cases of Dvveroe'e
carrying a needle in her body for yearS,
and the needle has kept
moving from one limb to tbe
When, r,ot long ago, the surgeons cut
out from twenty to, forty more needlee •
they thought their task was finished.
Bat it seems not.
If, as some surgeons contend, time tr
08'55 le °Ile of voluntary self -torture,
e •
and consequently no deaths. Dr. Simp-
son, the Health Officer of Calcutta,
speaks very highly of Dr. Haffkine's
system. In another locality in Cal-
cutta visited by the fell disease he suc-
ceeded in arresting its progress. -There
i
were 200 persons living n the group
of infected houses • 116 submitted. to
be operated upon, and 81 refused. Of
the latter 10 were attacked, 7 of whom
died. Among the 116 inoculated no
further eases occurred. The system
has also been successfully tried in the
• 13exigal prespien and also at the tea
plantations, which are liable to be visit-
ed by the disease. Dr. Simpson's con-
clusion is that "inoculated persons liv-
ing in infected houses in Calcutta are
twenty times safer than those who are
uninoculated."
Owing to his having over -exerted
himself, Dr. Haffkinen health succumb-
ed, and he was unable to be present
at the meeting convened in his honor
by the Medical Society of Calcutta ere
he sailed for Europe. The president of
the society said, "His memory is as
magnificent as it is unique in the
history of meclicuse, and he has car-
ried out his undertaking single-hand-
ed, and in the face of difficulties and
discouragernents which only a man of
indomitable purpose could have effect-
ed: As his discovery has been thus
endorsed by all his fellow practitioners
in a city which is rarely quite free
from cholera, it may he accepted as be-
ing of value.
HAD REARS FOR VISITORS:
Arctic Explorers in au Eneontrortable
Situation.
The documents brought frora the ex-
plorer Jackson, which were brought back
by the Windward after leaving Franz
Josef Land, and which were kept sealed
Up in one of the cabins of the Windward
during her return trip, were opened the
other day, and the papers were found
to record that the expedition landed at
Cape Flora on September 7, 1894
where they erected log houses. All the
members were given certain duties to
insure regular exercise. Bears ,soon ap-
peared to the number of 30, and, to-
gether with eight walruses, were killed
and added to the winter's provisions.
The only man who died of scurvy refus-
ed to eat bear's meat. The winter was
very tempestuous, and the Arctic bears
prowled around the log cabins, and even
looked in at the windows. The winter
darkness ended on February 23, .Taok-
son and two others started north on
March 10, with two ponies and two
sledges. The temperature was some-
times 45 deg. below zero. The ponies
proved to be invaluable fOr clambering
over huirtraocks in the ice. The coun-
try generally was at a height of 2,500
feet, and was covered, with ico sheets,
which were interrupted along tlie coast
by high besaltie cliffs, on whiele eyex.e
found mosses' and Arctic flosvers.
The joueney revealed many inaccura-
cies in the chart. The land was found
00 the Austria Sound coast line to be
very different thari is shown by the
maps ofhe tAustrian expedition. Sea
islands were found where the mainland
was supposed to exist. The furtheet
point witioh was resiebed. WAS latitude 81
deg. 20 min. earth, where two boats
were left toe use later iri the summer,
Three depots evere ease established en
'mute, Many geolognal specimens Were
taken, Which show that the forntatiort
of the hula is /nanny baseltics, The
seoond journey beeen 111 April and ma-
ul in the middle at May. It Was attesed-
ad With stoeme weather, and frospient-
le the tenaperettare was 50 deg. below
zero, Progress was diffieult on steeotinO
of the deep trevaaSes amid the Moraseee of
innsi
then the patient, a fragile young girl,
possesses vvonderful endurance and a ,
stoical indifference to pain whieh far
surpasses that of the New Mexican ,
Indian priests, who, once a year, in tbe
perforraance of a religious penance, flag- ,^
ellate themselves witla sharp cacti
brancbes, filling their backs with =
thorns, )vhich are afterwards drawn
Tile girl, however, strenuously deniee
that she fills her akin with needles. -
She says that she bas no idea where
they come from. Her pareots corrobor-
ate her. They have even kept close e
watch over her movements to detee,t,
51 Possible, whether tbe PhYsidanni..
theories are correct, but they say they
have learned nothing. -
The operatioes for the removel of the
•
steel pieces xis
EXCEEDINGLY PAINFUL
and cause the girl to writla under the •
•
cut of the surgeon's 'knife. She ies me_ -
fact, unusually sensitive to Pain'
-This is the story the parents tell:
In Jelly, 1891, when the girl was fif-
teen years of age, she was playing vvith
some companioes around the house -
when she etepped on a paper of needles,
a nember of whiclipeeetrated tier flesh. ,
She ran to her another, who found one
of the needles protruding from the foot.
This was extracted, and. nothing fur-
ther was thceight about the inat,ter
until two months la.ter, when the girl
began to suffer severe pains in the celf
of the right lege ;
An examination showed that two n
eed-
isa were working through the ekin,
and in time they were pulled out with-
out much trouble. The needles were
both soinewhat rusted. The faMilY
agreed thet the needles had svorked -
their way from the feet. upward, and
did not report the case to a playsi-
clan.
e
In the spring of 1892, while Olt
tathee' ann. daugliter .were vim U1 f
Alph
Iran pain
before the skin healed over. Since
under the skin. Seven were taken out
that time the girl has never been free
Yasiel:nevweraesp::at 2
and to his intense surprise be found.
what appeared to be a snags of needles
M
In Deceber, 1893, the case was gi.ven
thope conapletel. ,
y inoculatea e gir eve ope a
THERE WERE NO CASES thritjasidle
1
to Dr. F. L. A.. Burrows, of Sharon.
He estimates that he has removed from
the girl's flesh over eight benedsed need -
i, many of them of large saze, and,
all rusted and corroded., showing that
they had been in the girl's body for
long time. The doctor says the opera-
tions have averaged about
since he has had large of tne case.
ONE A MONTH
The greater number of needles laave
been drawn from the girl's right arm,
just below the elbow. The a,rna is
scarred from the frequent cutting, and,
as the needles are often imbedded more
than an incb under' the surface, it re-
quires considerable force to extract
them. They appear in bunches, and
their position is such that it seems im-
possible that they have been forced
into the flesh from the outside. The
highest number ever removed at one
time was fifty-seven, and this was in
the presence of several Sharon pixy-
eiciaias and citizets, who were called
in to verify what had been previously
regarded as an incredible story.
'The doctors put the girl through a
severe examination, hoping to catch
her in a falsehood and thus to forc,e a
confession from her. They failed, bow -
ever,
ever, to confuse her in the least. One
of the physicians noticed that the
operation had been. performed on the
right arm and, quickly asked the
patient whether she was right or
left handed. "Right -banded" was the
reply.
The doctor rea,soned that a right-
handed person would eraploy that mem-
ber in attempting to posh a tharp in -
strument through thc slue, and the lelt
arm, therefore, would be mutilated. ese • e
the left arm was perfectly .smooth, and
as the physicians agreed. world be
impossible to get the needles so far into
the flesh with the unpracticed left hand.;:
this theory Was aban.doned,
The needles have recently commenced •
to come through the skin Tan the eight
hand, which strengthens the girl's state- •
meat, that she does not herself mash
them in. In the operations the, girl
does not take an anaesthetic, and con-
sequently undergoes what the, docters
PIJRL' TORTURE.
She appears to be in normal strength
and performs her there of botasehold
duties ie her father's horae. The :fam-
ily are in humble earourastenees.
The physicians say that the corroded
appearanee 01 sonie of the needles 1$
an indication that the3r haVES been In
the body for viontlis before being ex-
tracted. It seems impossible the girl
deliberately fills leer skin with them, f
as the pain would be too groat. She
says herself that the ()petitions she
undergoes at times :requite all the forti-
tude she poseeeses, and that She would
not voluntarily add to else setae by
doing anything to increase the work of
the surgeons,
This girl is not morbid. Sbe ess stp-
Pavateragu3Imaasicilelti".pybinetuflani.:171:11i8iisatosalehtee
veale no case.s of meetal aberre.tidti,
a.nd the ease, theeefote, becotetes an the
more mysterious. , It Might have been
iibltba tasbow ef ebh;1e6lle$vlllel
hcr boat
Y6;stg(haa
seiedtlroule8biiteeoae
did the reratuideee seven or eight bole'
dred come from ? Th Shrie etthe giti 18 e,
believed by some to have supeenateral
.D°Ts*r *doctors are still tokinfa larP
nenlies from the gieln flesb, and the •
nsatioMdistoerlevkiel,s fear to Nome Ptese tht tholv
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