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Wash ingt on. I March 3. --In this
discouise De. /Talmage calls for a.
worm friezelithip between those who
preach the i gospel and those who
=Wee newspapers, the spoken word
Anted the printed word to go side by
side; text. Luke low te -The child-
ren uf this world are in their gen-
oration wiser than the children cd
ligitt."
teaered stupidity and solenut in-
eoneletence and sanctified laZ Mess
are litre rebutted by Christ. lie says
woridlings axe wider awake for op-
portunities than are Christians. Men
of the world grab occasions. while
Cbrisfian people let the niost valu-
able iweasions (WWI I.y unimproved.
That is the mewling of our Lord
when he says. "Tee thildren of this
world are in tie ir generation wiser
than the children of eget.-
A. marked inusi,74:ien of the truth
of that manna ie in the slowness of
the Christian rc La.:.011 141 telee pos-
eiession of the ea aer priming press.
The opportunity i- I'pen atai has
been for some t ie. • upon but, the ec-
clesiastical mune. anti the churches,
and the ministers i 1 reigion are for
the, most. part eilewieg the golden
opportunity to pess unimproved.
That the opportimity is open I de-
clare from the Met that ail the se -
velar reetvezeipers ars., glad of any re-
ligious fin ts or stxttisties that you
pyteent them. Any aniniated and
al Wring art icle a lating to religious
theme, they witeilii gladly print.
They thankyou for ay infonealion
in regard to churelies. If a wrong
has len. done to :my Christ ian
or Chriet :a n instill:I. ion you
deuhl go into any newepite o of the
land and have tee real *rel. wa:eil.
Dedication serviees. :Millet.: iet {kr-
dinet ions and I a ••-t teal ill-,t;311at itNIS.
cernerstone Lang ef a, eluireit, anni-
Nrersarete of a elm:Italie siwiety. will
hanee reasonable epaee in eny saltier
lotirria.1 if it have previous notiee
given. If 1 had some great ineistiee
done me. there is not en valin.eial or
4 reportorial room hi the Wnited
States into 'width I could sot go
and get myself set right, and that
fli true of any well known Christian
man. Why, then, does not our glor-
leus Christianity einerao. Ghee ntrig-
nificent opPortunities? 1 have before
me a subject of first and last im-
portance: How shall we secure the
secular pros ae a, mighty re-inforce-
erient to religion and the pulpit?
The first thing toward this result
IS cessation of iudiscriminate bostil-
ity against newspaperdoin. You
might as well denounce the legal,
profession because of the shysters,
or the medical profession, because of
the quacks, or inerehandise because
el the - --
swindling 1-arguin makers as
,....-
slarabarig newspapers !tetanal
there are recreant editors and un-
fair reporters and unclean velum/is.
Gutenberg, the inventor of the art
of printing, was about to destroy
hie types and extinguielt the art be-
causeit was suggested to hint that
printing might be suborned into
the service of the devil. but after-
ward he bethought himself that the
right use of the art might more
than overconte the evil use of it,
and so he spared the type and the in-
telligence of all following ag(•s. But
there are lfattny to -day in the depress-
ed mood of Gutenberg, with uplifted
hammer, wanting to pound to pieces
the type, who• bave not reached his
better raood, in which he saw the art
of printing to be the rising sun of
the world's illumination.
If, instead of fighting newspapers,
we spend the same length of time
and the same vehemence in marshal-
ing their help in religious directions
we would be as much wiser as the
mon who gets consent of the rail-
road superintendent to fasten a car
to the end of a rail train, shows bet-
ter sense than he who runs his
whet...lb9w up the track to meet
needdrive back the Chicago limited
(we:press. The silliest thing that a
man ever does is to fight a news-
paper, for you may have the floor
for utterance perhaps for one day
in the week, while the newspaper has
the floor every day in the week.
I know what I am talking about,
for I can draw on my own experi-
eoce. All the respectable newspapers,.
as far as I know, are my friends
now. But many of you remember
thetime when I was the most con-
tinuously and, meanly attacked man
in this country. God gave me grace
not to answer back, and I kept sil-
ence for ten years, and much grace
was required. What I said was per-
ieerted and twisted into just the op-
posite ef what I did say. There
were millions of people who believed
-ed)hat there was a large sofa in my
pulpit, although we never had any-
thing but a chair, and that during
the singing by the congregation I
was accustomed to lie down on that
sofa and dangle my feet over the
ond. Lying New. York correspondents
ten years misrepresented our
•
ohurch services; but we waited and
people frora every neighborhood of
. Ghristendom came there to nne the
megeitude of the falsehoods cone
ceening the church antl concerning
reageelf. A reaction set in, and soma
we had justice, full justice, more
le justice, ' and as' much over-
celiewe had under-apPee-
eintion, anti no onan that 4iver lived
wee to much inclelited to the newse
palter press for opportunity to pyeateit
'elle gospel as I am. Young Ine30. tu
,'dif Illi nis tl 3,,,' . youlig mext ha all ',pel-
f ethale and (Declaim -does, Wait 'dere
c. afford to wait. enake rough mese
teeresentatieee as a Turielele toiell
teeeetert up• your letiegead eiretilatiox,
ot -a, leyettere et massage or lelweiletet
MP Zit IdlaptIC pines soul
the world arab
*ems zat the
ens be entail
a tiel'etes tkrttl ttfatultu.`
Weide-recut. There is only one persoll
you need to manage, and that is
'
yourself. Reap your dispositions
1 swtet he' eouninitiion with Christ,
who answered noi again, get society
Iof genial people arid walk out in the
sunshine with your hat off, and you
will come out all right. And doeet
loin the crowd otePeople in our day
who spend muck ebf their time in
damning newspapers.
' Again, if you would secure the sec-
ular press as a. mightier re-inforce-
meta of religion and the pulpitex-
tend widest and highest Christian
courtesies to the representatives Of
journalism. Give them easy chairs
and plenty of room whexz they come
to report occasions. For the most
part they are gentlemen of educe, -
Lien and refinement, graduates et
" colleges, with families to support
, by their literary craft, many of them
weary with the push of 0., business
that is precarious and fluctuating,
! each one of thein the n.veaue of
formation to thousands of readere,
; their inipreseion of the services to be
the impr, ssion adopted by retai-
1 tudes. They are connecting links be-
tween a sermon, or a song, Or it
' pray, r, and this great population
• that tramp up and down the streets
day by day and year I.y year with
otheir sorrows uncomforted and their
i sins impardoned. Oh, the hundred.s
! of t housands of people in our cities
who never attencl churches! Our
cif its are not so much preached to
by ministers of religion as by re-
porters. Put all tournalists into
. our prayers and sermons. Of all the
. hundred thoweind eermons preached
t (tele y there will not be tltree
Tweaeliti-d to journalists and probab-
ly not one. Of ell the eveyers Meer-
.,
. ed for classes of men innumerable the
prayers offerid for tlie most potentiel
. clats will be so few and rare that
they will be thought a preacher's
idiosyncrasy. There are many jour -
r alio( s in our pintail memberships.
( but this world will never Ile brought
' 10 God until some revival of toll-
; gion swi.eps over the land and 'dikes
: into the eingdont of Clod all editors,
?reporters, compositors, pressmen and
newsboys. And if you have Pot
fah .nough to pray for that mad
' toil for that you had better get out
• of our ranes and join the other eide,
for you are the unbelievers who
main the wheels of the Lord's cher-
hit drag heavily. Tee great 3.n4
na-lit, tatween truth and error. the
Armageddon. , I thine, will rot be
feeteht with swords and seene and
glow, but with I/tele—quill pens.
"t101 retie, gold rens, fountain pens.
end tefore tiett the pens iimet be
converted. Tile raost divinele lion
-
oriel weapon of the Past eas been
the pen, and the most divinely hon-
ored we:wen of the future will be
the pen; prephet's PM arid (evangel-
ist's pen and apiettle's pen, followed
" by editor's pen and author's pen and
' reporter's pen. God SONO the pent
Tile wings of the Apocalyptie angel
will be the printed page. The print-
ing pries will roll ahead of Christ'a
i chariot to clear the way.
"But," some one raight ask,
l "would exet make Sunday newepa-
' pers also a re-inforcement?" I have
learned to take things us they are.
•; 2 would Wee to 'see the muck scoffed
at cdd Puritan eiabliallei come baele
again. I do riot think the modern
Sunday will turn out any better
men and women than were your
.. grandfathers and grandmothers tux -
der the old faeltioned Sunday. To
• say nothing of other results. Sunday
newspapers are killing editors, re-
porters, composit ors and pressmen.
i Every man, woman and child is en-
titled to :Id hotfax of nothing' to do.
. If the newspapers put on another set
Ief hands, that does not relieve the
i editorial and reportorial room of
1 its (.ares and re sponsibilities. Our
: literary men die fast enough with-
out killing them with Sunday work.
All things are possible with God,
and my faith is up until nothing in
the way of religious victory would
surpriee me. All the newspaper
printing presses of the earth are go-
ing to be the Lord's, and telegraph
and telephone and type will yet an-
nounce nations horn in a day. The
first book ever printed was the Bible,
by Faust and his son-in-law, Schoef-
fer, in 1460, and that consecration
of type to the Holy Scriptures was
a prophecy of the great mission of
printing for the evangelization of
ail the nations. The father of the
American printing press was a
clergyman, Rev. Jesse Glover, and
that was a. prophecy of the religious
use that the gospel ministry in this
country were to make of the types.
Now, as you all have something to
do with the newspaper press, either
in issuing a paper or in reading it,
either as producers or patrons, either
as sellers or purchasers of the print-
ed . sheet, I propose on this Lord's
day a treaty to be signed between
the church. and the printing press.
a treaty to be ratified by millions of
good people if we rightly fashion it,
a treaty promising that we will helpe
each other he our work of trying to
illumine and felicitate the world,
we by voice, you by pen, we by
speaking only that which is worth
printing, you by printing only that
which is fit to speak. You help us,
and we will help you. Side by side
be these two potent agencies until
the judgment day, when we must
both be scrutinized for our work,
healthful or blasting. The two
worst off men in that day will be
the minister of religion and the ed-
itor if they wasted their opportun-
ity. Both of us are the engineers of
long express trains of influence, and
we will run them into •a. depot of
light or tumble them off the . em-
bankments. •
What a useful life and what a glor-
ious departure was that of the
mostternous of all American print -
era, Benjamin. Franklin, whom in -
Adds, in the penury of their resourees
ewe often fraudulently claimed as
Wee own, bet tee printer whip
;mewed that the Philadelphia eine
vention be waned. with prayer, tile
eteettrtieeit lost beeettme the majoriey
Itintegle,
payer onmeeeseary, end,
who wrote at tee time he was ile,•
louder attadted, 'qjlity - ntle it to gei
slimiest forward In 'doing what oip-
,peares to me ,to be aight., " loalleg
*he elellSeguelagas to Vrovidenes," mud.
,tillEe 'wrirte Offsteztkeitlit'aIrtr-
. . ..
•,...,.2.4CLUmpt.MtVOMJCIMa{.3.11044-WYCs
ing his hope of resurrection, an elite THE SUNDAY SCHOOL vvisoom OF THE HEN.
taph thet I hundreds of times read •
while living in Philadelphia:
-"The body of lieniamin Franklin,
printer (like the cover of 'an old.
book, its contents :torn out and
stripped of its lettering and gildiug),
lies here food for worms. Yet tbe
work itself shall not be lost, for it
will (as he believed) appear once
moni in a new and znore beautiful
edition, corrected and amended by
the Author."
That Providence intends the pro -
elision of reporters to have o. mighty
share in the world's redemption. is
suggeeted be, the fact that Peed and
Christ took a, reporter along with
them, and he reported their ad-
dresses and their acts. Luke was a
reporter, and he wrote not only the
book of Luke, but the Acts of the
Apostles, and without that report-
er's work we would have known no-,
thing of the Pentecost and nothing
ei Stephen's martyrdom., and no-
thing of Tabitha's resurrection, wed
nothing of the jailing and unjailing
of Paul and Silas. and nothing of the
shipwreck at Melita. Strike out
the reporter's work from the Bible
and you kill a, large part of the New
Testament. It mattes me think that
in the future of the kingdom of God
Lie reporters are to bear a, raighty
part.
And the men of that profession are
going to come in 31 body throughout
the country. 1 know hundreds ot
them, and a more genial or highly
as
educated cls of men it would be
hard to find, and, though the ten-
dency of their profession may be to-
ward skepticism, an organized:. cotte
mon sense gospel invitittion would
, fetch them to the front of all Chris-
tian endeavor.
Men of the perwil and pea in all
• departments. you need the help el
the Christian religion. In the day
when 'people want to get their news.
papers at '2 cents and are hoping for
the time when they can get any of
them at 1 tont end as a rousequeeee
the attaches of the priuting press
are by the thousand grouud under
the cylinders you want God to take a
care of you nd your families. .Some
of your best work is as much un-
appreciated as was Milton's "Para-
(1Use Lost," for weich the author re-
ceived Seel, and the hamortal peon
Il
"ebetilinden" ef Teoreas Campbell
'teem he fest offered it for publica-
tion awl in the column called "No-
ticee Correspendents" appeared
the words: "To T. Lines
etdiddeileing. 'On Litelen when the
sun vete low.' are not up to our
standard. Peetry iii not T. C.Ng
tPr0le/-3;11 ei the pencil and pen, oroid
your unapprecianol work you need
encouragenient, and pou can ha,ve tt
Printers of all Christetaloni, editors,
reporters, compositere, pressmen,
puttee -here end readers of that which
is printed, resolve that you will not
write, set up. issue or read
anything that dellaFes body, mind or
soul. In the name of God, by the
laying on el the kande, of faith and
4, tweeter. ordain. the printing pr.ss for
righteousness and liberty and salva-
tion. Ali of us with some influence
that will help 3.11 the right direction,
let us put our bonds 10 the •tvorlz.
imploring God to hasten the con-
summation. In a ship with hun-
dreds of paseengers itietreachinee the
South American c•oast the man on
the lookout neglected his work, and
in a few minutes the ship would have
been dashed to ruin Oh 1.110 roam
But a ericket on board the vessel,
that had made no sound till the voy-
age, 'set up a shrill call at the
emell of land, and, the captain know-
ing that habit of the insect, the ves-
sel 3.3.343.5 stopped in time to avoid an
awful wreck. And so insignificant
metals now may do wonders. and the
&width of a pen may save the ship-
wreck of a soul.
Are you ready for the signing of
the contraet, the league, the sole=
treaty proposed between journalism
and evangelism'? Let is be a Christ-
ian inturiage of the pulpit and the
printing press. The ordination of
the former -Oh my head, the pen of
the latter in my hand, it is appro-
priate that I publish the banns of
such a marriage, Let them from thisday be one in the magnificent work
of the world's redemption.
t.
speeeiation mut Thom
Some statistician, in emulation of
Lombroso perhaps, has been figuring
out the habitual employment of con-
victs. He concludes that more men
and women whose employers are the
national, state or municipal govern-
ments fall into evil ways and come
to untoward ends than those who
work for private individuals or cor-
porations. A very large proportion.
of the men and women who have
been handlers of public moneys seem
to yield to the constant temptation.
and begin to peculate, and some
cynic avers that peculation is the
corollary on speculation. As a mat-
ter of fact, most of the big and
little thieves who confess how they
were led to take mooey that did not
belong to there declare that specula-
tions of one sort or another brought
them eventually behind the bars.
Sixteen to T's -o.
An instance of the humor which.
the civil war called forth, says
Youth's Companion, is found in a
story told of old Parson Helton., a
Bap; ist pro. eler i Tenuessee.
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evb o. Nw • • rJ.c my and
two ir.
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Urn,
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The \3.ltItkci, its
place in hist y. thtWiled at 20
minutes poet two on the morning of
past six on the evening men Lunt mat
Wtuae 20, 1837, and closed at' kale -
22, 1241, flays St. James' Ellett .
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LeSSON X, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
( NATIONAL SERIES, MAROH
Text of the Lesson, eineb. =en 07-0S.
; Wemoro Verses, Genoa -Golden Tees,
wo
ath. vi, 10—commentary rrepar.
ed by OM Wee. re, et. steams.
• tdowenht, Me, by limerim eras Asscelatioal
57. "And they that bail laid hold on Je-
sus led aim away to Calaphas, the high
Priest." They were eyidently expecting
IIim, for the scribes autl elders were as
scudded at the high priest's house (Luke
54). 'We are so fmniliar with the
story that it does uot t- liold of us as it
sheltie; so we Must 4. - • 1U0St humbly
and relying upon the thee Spirit to make
it real to us. Let us always remember
that Jesus was "God manifest itt the
flesh," the Creator of all things, the Re-
deeneer of brace, who brought :fel things
into being by a word, who divided the -
Red sea. and the Jordau and fed Israel
with bread from heaven through all their
wilderness lourney. And now Ile had
come to them fulfilliag the prophecies
concerning the confiug of their Messiah
lu humiliation, that He might also fulell
the prophecies concerning the kingdom
and gleree but they would uot receive
Rhin (John 1. W. 11). He now comes to
us by HiseApirit, in His word inviting RS
to accept Hine and in Hine redemption,
that we may is due time share His glory,
end meantime be His witnesses; but the
majority care p03. for Hen.
5S. "But Peter followed Bina afar ea
mita the liege priest's palace awl. went in
and eat with the servants to see the end."
John also followed anti, being known. to
the high priest. went into the palace; but
l'eter first stem) without until John
spoil.° to her that hept the door and
brought in Peter tJohn xylii. 15. 10). One
has said that Peter and John appear to
have been witnesses of Ills sufferings
throughout, and. after the women. were
the iirst at the sepulcher. and they wore
efterwaril the Most forward ill declaring
the with respectiog the crucified and
oeeended Redeemer. We may imitate
John, who tept close to Him, but be
warned by Peter uot to follow afar off or
be warmed at the enemy's ere.
59. 60. "Though many false wituessas
came, yet found they wale." Math say
"their witness agreed not together"
(Merit site 50). Thus dill Jezebel to Nce
bath witen she wanted his vineyard ter
Alieb (I Kluge rel. 0-13). It is written
in the Peelras that they would treat the
Meeslith thus: "False exhumes are risen
up ogninet Me and such as breathe out
eruelty." "Poise whey:es:es did rise up
they laid to My (taw- ;adage tbat
hem' not" (Ps. =mil. 12; =xis. 11).
This basica, been UN experience, we
must Walt it strange if we us His disci-
ples hniesai
ave the sa. for Ile d, "It the
world hate you, ye !maw that it hated
.Me before it hated you. It they have
ueeee sectitTIM, they will also persecute
you W 0)
on xv, IS, .. It is the fellow
-
ship of His suffea
(IL "At the last came two false wit -
limes end said. Ills fellow said, 1 ore
able to &stole the temple of God and to
build it in MIK. days." Mari; adds,
"Neither did thi:r winless ageee togetle
cr." What Jona bail eald was that If
men destroyed the temple of Ills bo(1y,
Ile would raise it up again in three days
IJohn 11, 1(1-21). Either from this say.
WM or some other :einem* saying, some
of the priests understood Him to say that
Ile would rise front the dead the third
day telath. xxvii, 3.13, 64). It we are by
others quoted as seeing things we sever
('513.1, 1103.'illtP1IIIPit to say, this also is fel-
lowship with Hine Just. tell Him and
leave k. It is not always worth while to
try and make it riglit.
62. "Auswerest Thou nothing? What
is it which these witness against Mee?"
Thus the high priest spoke to Him after
these false and dieagreemg witnesses had
testified. But, as they hail proved noth-
ing. there was nothing to reply to.
Priests were chosen to have companion
upon their fellows and to offer suerifices
for them and obtain for them forgiveness
from God Mel. a 1, 21, but here is a
priest with a seemingly helpless prisoner
before ltim, whom he is determined to
condemn, even though there be nothing
against Min. What a work of the evil
one it all was—the work or the slanderer
and destroyer!
63, 64. "Hereafter shall ye see the Son
of Man sitting on the right hand of pow-
er and coining in the clouds. of heaven."
When the false witnesses testified, Ile
held His peace and answered nothing. It
is very erten the very hest thing not to
say a word—to be as a deaf 53.511 who
hears not, and as a dumb man unable to
speak. 'When He was reviled, He re-
viled not again. When He suffered, He
threatened not. He opened not His
mouth (Ps. xxxriii. 13; Ise. life 7; I Pet.
ii, 22). His grace is sufficient to enable
us to do likewise.
65, 60. "Ye have heard his blasphemy.
What think ye? They answered and
said, He is guilty of death." Long be-
fore this they would have stoned Him be-
cause He said He was the Son of God
(John x, 33-36), but His Meer had not
come. But now, as He said, it was their
hour and the power of darkness. They
bad made up their minds to kill Hine
and the time had come for Him to let
them, for they could not take His life
until He was willing (John x, 17, 181.
Professing to be the people of God, they
were by word and deed the enemies of
God. What shall we say of preachers to-
day who teach that we cannot know in
this life whether our sins are forgiven or
not, that Jesus will never come again to
fulfill prophecy. that Israel will nerer be
a righteous people in their own land giv-
en to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and
that those who teach these things are
presumptuous and false teachers?
67, 68. "Then did they spit in His face
and buffeted Him." They blindfolded
Him, they struck Elimon the !ace, and
the servants did strike Him with the
palms of their hands. And He mealy
bore it al! that we might learn of Him to
te meek and lowly and submissive even
"
1, a froward. When we consider that
w. Itotild walk eeen as He walked (I
. • 11, 6), how far short we come of be-
iee -.hat He would like us to be! When
,ink of how little we are willing to
bow for His sake, and that people aro
eel "ted to see Him in us, we might Well
be eiscouraged didue not know that.He
le not disconragee with us, and that He
knoweth our frame and Is touched with a
feeling of our infirmities end pitieth us.
But we must aim at nothing less than He
wants us to be, and, howeyer unworthy,
we must appropriate to ourselves that
Which is true of an In Christ, and, having
58 zinnere truly accepted Him, we must
say, "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth
'in nue" "Thine, 0 Lord, Is the power"
(Gal. ii, 20; 1 Chiron. xxix, 11), and trust
Hint to live tile life •
is
Sontethin- More Than were Sitting Ina
spared to notch .Ont the
Little0)0013.8.
. A fresh egg hasethe yolk perfectly
balanced in the middle of the white.
'Wril,es, it remains thus balanced the
chances are . decidedly against its
hetaing. Breeding hens understand
that. When filling the nest a ben
turns over all the eggs in 'it before
she quits it after laying o uew one.
• See knows, too. that in hot weathe
er WM sun will addle her eggs, so•
the chooeee a shady nest -spot. But
in winter, nest is often made where
the fullest sunshine streams into it.
Brooding is throughout full03.
quaint surprises. Eggs will hatch it
kept at blood heat -98 degrees. But
they hatch more cexteenly and turn
out stronger chicks if the tempera-
ture is kept continuoesly after the.
hrst week at from 102* to 103 dee
gre 5. Just how it is done nobody
keows, but mother hens some way
centrive to raise the normal heat
of their bodies to the requisite path.
Further, they strip tile weole breast
of feathers. so the eggs may have the
• lanefit of full heat. Twice a day they
turn over every egg in the nest. OW -
ming them separately up under,-
neietb their Leaks, making little soft.
half !retell eluetz14ng3 noises the
weila
H' -us are most uncalcultaing egg
stealers. All eggs in sightwill be'
'drawn into the nest, though the
tuna stolen eggs crowd out those le-
gitimately there. Still. in a way,
• eens tiler stoat of what they brood.
With few eggs they sit -prim, with.
trimly folded wings. With too many
„they sprawl all over the ;wet, wings
loose enough to let light between
the feathers, and frequently turn
therasems about reaching for uneov-
- end eggs, and drawing them under-
' ;tenth the breast.
A hen of average size cannot PM.'
fitatey cover mole, than 15 eggs. In,
cold weather 13 ie a. betters Heat,
although in midsummer the same hen
might brood and hatch 20. Left to
then:sena; the uncheceed instinct of
' egg -stealing with hens is apt to re-
• suit. be a mat full of spoiled eggs,
with maybe one or two feeble
chicks.
Twiniteefour beers •of nrooding
hardly' a perceptible change
;,n, egg. Honietirows in warm
weetier. there ie the least reddish
• *3.8.31.retitle the whitish clot la
widen the germ leo. After 30 hours
the clot shows a, well defined drop
yw, eyea blood. In two days the
blood ,drqi has spread to veins and
•• 51(03.1(5.s. At. the end of ten days the
, head is 1.3.103.3.'le- well formed, though
the trunk is Mill rugged. In two
wcas the cluck is recognvable as 31
and if lite shell envelope is
loolzen Will quiver all through and
• feebly move the head. It has, how -
no vestige of the fine down
coat it will wear a little later. Tho
coat forms wither rapidly.
The r10011.11 of incubation for a
' 'chicken is 21 'tlayee and for two days
before leaving the Anil the young
foWl is practically perfect. Yet it
would not live were the shell forci-
ble! removed, It imende the last two
' days gathering vital force to make13.5 tam wetly out into the world. It
lies snug within the shell. the head
lant upon the breast, in Shell it posi-
tion as brings the Leak, full against
the shell.
The Leak is armed with a tiny de-
' taceable piece of horn. Ilint-hard and
. set upon the very tip of the upper
mandible. At fume ll hatching tithe
dila' presses this triangle against
the brittle shell, and brevets a trie
angular hole in it, possibly a. guar -
ter 15(11 across. An hour later the
chick, having turned itself slightly,
preests the beak against a. 110W spot
1 and makes a fresh break. As more
I air contes in the little creature grows
z stronger. It writhes still 21100412110041 strongly ill its prison, turning al-.
1 ways from left to right. In two
hours or ten it breaks the shell in
two, and slips out into the nest, a.
I wet and weary sprawler.
I Egg production varies enormously,
{ A hen's capacity is about 400 eggs„
•dividell pretty equally through the
first three years of her existence.
Death of a Peculiar Character.
A peculiar old man has died at
Vienna in his seventy-third year,
says The London Express. He died
with the reputation of being the
most exact man on record.
From his twenty-seventh year he
kept accurate account of all he
bought, and what he paid for it. In
the twenty-seven years of his conviv-
ial life he consumed 28,786 glasees
of beer.
Ire gave up drinking in his forty-
fourth year, but he continued to
emoke constantly, even during his
last sickness, raising the number of
his cigars to 628,713, or an average
of 13,667 a year. Of the whole
number some 43,500 were given to
him; he bought the rest for £2,500,
or about a penny each.
Swallows as Despatch Carriers.
The question of employing ewal-
lows instead of pigeons to carry de-
spatchei is *being considered_ in
France. The aptitude of the swal-
low ear the work is by many held
'to be even greater than that of the
pigeon. They fly to a greater height.
and are therefore less exposed to be-
ing shot, and they travel faster,
making good nearier 80 miles an
hour, where a pigeon. would only get
over• 50. It is also claimed that
they are • more faithful, intelligent,
and have not, on long journeys, to
stop to feed, as the pigeonhas. •
Order Garden Seed s
Garden seeds • should be ordered
now, in order to avoid delay in th,e
spring, as seedsnien find it, difficult
to fill orders' promptly after the win-
ter is past. The catalogues contain
a great many varieties that could be
•culled out, but they also contain the
latest and newest improved. It is
well to try the improved kinds, bet
Where one • has a variety that he
been tested and found adapted to the
son, it should be retained until the
new varieties have been tested au
alkali state.
QUYING PURE BREEDS.
reraa That Are Perfect in. ltvery Itespect AB
COUntland Rig Price$,.
• If you desire birets that -will eilable.
you to compete at fetes, do not en-
pect to buy them at a small price.
If you wish to breed Arst-class exhi-
bition stock next season, do not be
afraid of the expense. It costs time,
moeere and skill to breed up flocks
to a high Average, end the Prices
usually asked are always extortion-
ate. ef you are not particular about
xhibaing, and desire s.omo strong',
vigorous birds that Imo° no faults
eeeePt 'a twist of the comb or some
slight defect, for "crossing on come
mon stock, let the breeder know xt
when e Oil write and. he will try to
accommodate you. IlemeMber, 310
breeler generally has two birds at
the saute price. They -are sold..ae-
cording to quality. Therefore, be
Pertieular 10 deicribe your wants,
and do not expect the breeder to
know your desires. A fair batch
from 13 eggs is seven—or over one-
half—though scene are satisfied with
five, No breeder can guarantee every
egg to hatch. lee knows no more
about them than the buyer, but be
should endeavor to eend eggs from
vigorous stock. A customer would
be, fottunate 3.1 3.10 gat a pair of Arete
class standard birds trout a, sitting
on eggs. Some breeders do not get
such a pair fro ra a dozen sittings.
The customer is responsible for the
hen that sits on the eggs, tend her
management while on the. nest. SQUIn
.evstamers do ilot know good birde
when they see them, and often 00111 -
plain ignorantly. The breeder meet.
depend .on any statement sent hinn
without being (tide to verify or deuy
it. Pefore complaining ask yourself
at whon prwe you will sell the
chick's should you receive an order
for them, and make a comparison
between their velue and their cost.—
and Fireside.
THE COLONEL SNEEZED,
The General's Teatime men to nun a water
wheel.
One day the Confederate army was
hurried oft upon a, tarred march to
intercept Grant. At tine close of the
day the soldiers were without. ra-
tions. and Colonel Wessell seized a
flour mill. width WilS rtin by a little
stream onipining into the Teillh'SSee
River. The mill ground away for an
hour or two, and then the water in
the creek was exhausted. At this
juncture (leneral Wheeler arrived
upon the Mlle.
"What's the trouble?" said Wheel-
er.
"No Water," mid Colonel Ruesell.
General Wheeler (lanced around in
his nervous 'fashion. "Colonel." he
said. "why don't you establish a
line or mea with budgets, as they do
tat a, lire, and have them pass Water
U1 from the stream below and throw
it upon the whiel?"
Colonel Russell dial not laugh. Ho
drew himself up, saluted his super-
ior in military fashion, and sneezed.
If the phonograph had eauglit tho
sneeze there would have been evi-
dence that the Colonel swore. —
Washington Post.
at niece or tho Wing.
The Centrism of all the 'Hussies is
the daughter el the Grand nuke of
Ile,se-Inumstadt, and the greed -
daughter of Queen Victoria. Before
her marriage with the Czar, she was
one of the most spirited Princesses
in Europe. Barely 20 years old
when the Cearowitch saw her and
fell in love with her, 5110 was light-
hearted and happy, lively, graceful,
sympathetic, impulsive, sensitive and
for a Prinee.ss, even witty. The heir
to the great Russian throne had over ,
been fond of her and, when he re-
turned from his trip around the
world, he announced his intention of
asking her hand in niarriage. Pretty
Princes Alb( shrank from the lofti-
ness of the position thus held out to
her. As truly royal as any woman
in Europe, the unapproachable height
that towered before her awed her,
and, from the very moment when it
became certain that she was to be
the Empress of Russia, her buoyancy
and gaiety of spirit left her. No
story of lost happiness is more pa-
thetically told than that revealed in
her saddened face. In the. coming
of the. immeasurably sad _Czarina
was the passing of the sunny Prin-
cess Atha To be mistress of the
largest Empire on earth and wife of
the most powerful monarch is a con-
dition that brings its own trials,
and the trials of the Czarina axeese-
vere indeed. The humblest serf in all
her domain is not. so burdened as
she.
S LUTE
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FOR RILICiti$RESS*
FOR 'FORM LIVER.
FOR CONSTIPATION.
FOR SALLOW SKIN.
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Ii
Hurt
•
The pain, nausea and dis-
tress that ,.Dyspeptics suffer
after every meal can all be
permanently removed by Bur-
dock Blood Bitters.
It tones up aml restores the
stomach to normal condition so
that it digests fOad wi:hout
causing discomfort
Here's proof positive:
Mine efattede Splude, Dalhousie, XX.,
wrote the following:: "I Irece Ig•Pa a
sufferer from Lira. Complaint fund !3.,vs-
1 pepela for the past two rote vile fele
ivery neer:alike I voted not tee& unfelt
food as it. hint me to vat. My Weeds
Said, ' Wive don't you try 11.11.1t.' I did
80, tibias -t tete bottles, wheel made with a
complete ewe that 1 ewe vow eat any -
Oho( I like without it causing nie dieown-
fort."
STRONG AND VIGOROUS.
!Every Organ of the Body To
up and invigorated by
liens t in Sera t ch
When fowls have the run of the
farm they exercise principally by
walking and scratching. Even then
the hens spend much of their Wine
in places where they find scratching
easy. That they will do the same
thing more readily in confinement is
obvious, if the opportunity be given
them. That this opportunity ehould
be supplied is taught by the experi-
ence of every man that makes poul-
try raising a business and a success.
Scratching has been termed the vice
of a hen, and it certainly takes on
this form when the attempt is made
to raise her and garden truck on the
same plot, of ground. This so7called.
vice may be turned to great a.dvan-
taget in the acre ichitig "yard, and
this has - been done by thousands
that successfully keep hens in eon-
finement.—Farmere' Review..
Buzzards as City Scavengers.
. Charlestown, South Carolina, •en-
lists the .co-operation of a colony of
buzzards in the scavenging of the
town. In Order to insure that the
birds are allowed to continue their
humane work unmolested n. fine of
five dollars is imposed for killing or
permanently. disabling any member
of this active auxiliary scavenging
• department. Their favorite resort is
-the old marleet house, on Meeting
street.
Sunlight is a bundle of rays of
light—red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo and violet all mixed to-
gether. The mixture of all colors is
white light, the absence of all colors
lei !hex Onekineetee .
Mr. P. W. Meyers, King St. E., Berlin,
Ont., stays: "I suffered for five years
with palpitation, shortness of breath,
sleeplessness and pa'm in the heart, but
one box of Milburn's Heart and Nerve
Pills completely removed all these dis-
tressing symptoras. I have not suffered
since taking them, and now sleep well
and feel strong and wigorous."
Milburn s Heart and Nerve Pills cure
all diseases arising from weak heart,
worn out nerve 'Wailes, or watery blood.
-WATCH
face, Polished
Nickel {Vetch. Ameri. -
can Lever Morement
tor selling only 2 doz.
packages of Sweet Pea
Seed atlee. upackago. Each pack-
age containsasplendid naixturo of the
most frsgrant anriotie.s of all colors.
You can earn this line Watch in an
aftemoon by setting to work at once.
Manus this adiertisement and we will forward 3.11, 10,4.,
Sell think return the money. and we guarantee safe deliv-
ery of your Vfatch at once. 'write to dayas the seaSon for
selling seedls short. seed dandy Ce., Toronto
^ y
13efore. After. Totes Phosphodine,
The area Bnglish Remedy,
Sold and recommended by all
druggists in Canada. Only reli-
able medicine oiscovered. 81z
forms of Sexual Wkaeagkens eguss,araar eefideettos a:1 raabualsel
or excess, Mental 'Worry, Excessive use of To-
bacco, Opium or Stimulants. Mailed on receipt
of price, one package $1, six, $5. One wilt please,
ete will cure. Pamphlets free to any address,
Wood'se h pe h'wo sopohdoed iomp
ne is
nyso, Windsor, iinnd sEo rn
x, etne
tiP J. W. Browning, druggist •
Wo give this beautiful
Solid Gold Ring, 303.
with Pear/S, for selling
• only 15 packages of .
Sweet reasiieatite.vot. Each
packagecontaimmoplendidmix-
ture (Atha most fragrant vatic.
ties, °fail colors. liad us tido
advertisement and wo will for-
warWthe Seeds. Sellthem, re.
tont the money, and this beau
tiful,SolidGold,Pearlset Ring
• willbesentyon.caitullY.Pauk.
od in a Yolvetlluedbox. Write today. The Season for sell-
ing seedsis short, seed supply co., Teronto,caa.
Allan S. MacLean, eldest son of M.
Y. eirteLenn of the Seatorth Exposi-
tor, who has been for a cOesidera.ble
period on the editorial staff of the
London (England) Financial Times, .
has been obliged .to give up his posi-
tion 030114 to 1 complete breakdown
in heattle At preeentlie is spending
the winter in South a van, and ex-
pects to seil for Canad(3. Nvi,th his family
early in April.
Mrs. William Wilson of Clinton.
as passed to I lie great beyond, aged
89. She ead lived 30 yeari in Clinton