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London City Mission,

Correspondence Central Christian Advocate.
The London City Mission, one of the best
Christian organizations in this country, has just
completed the celebration of its jubilee year.
Commenced fifty years ago in a small house in
Hackney, by Dasmith and a few godly men, it
has grown TO be a means of blessing to millions,
but nothing in comparison to the needs Of the
METROPOLIS Nearly 800 missionaries are daily
employed in visiting from house to house, down
to the lowest and poorest, carrying the gospel
and other relief where they can; but the society
has only about fifty more agents EN- ployed than
1T had twenty years ago, for want of funds. A
jubilee fund was commenced a year ago for ex-
tending and consolidating; some thought they
should raise $3.50, 600, but at the end of the Year
only $86, coo had been received. 1t is hoped Jet
that 800, 900 will be reached.
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A Mission for Miss Cleveland,

N6W Mum NHIIhIdIH ANNUCaIt.
The President of the United States, off on a
fishing expedition in the woods on Sunday, with
telegraph wires specially extended to the sport
ing grounds in order that the death of the wife
to him ir case it should occurduring his absence.
This is not an edifying spectacle to the American
people. If the President has no reverence for
Gods law himself, he ought to remember that
he is at the head of a Christian Nation, and be
careful not to outrage the consciences of the
best people of the country by his bold defiance
of the divine commands. Ever ready to com
mend all the acts of our chief officials deserving
approval, we do not feel at liberty to withhold
rebuke when the feelings of decency and pro
priety are outraged. If the President would
but take counsel of his godly sister he would be
saved from conduct so unworthy.
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De Watermillin.

Oh, de gloyus w~atermiliin, it hab come,
Bring out de fife, boys, fetch out de drum,
An less gin er sar made to dis old frien'
Dat sorter makes bruiders outen all niger men.
Yer may talk Ell bout de eaten dat lie great men take
Yer may talk er bout it all, but den whut's de uscl
Fer der amt nuthin' sweeter den de waterlnillin
juice.
Oh, er hi, no. Aunt Indy,
Fetch out de butcher knife, de butcher
knife, de buteher-knife,
Oh. er hi, oh, Aunt Cindy,
Fetch out &c co'n-cob han'le ole carver
carver, fetch out de co'n-cob hanle
ole carver.
Oh, good John de Baptist eat up de locus,
Fur on dat grub he had drawed down er focus,
But Ill bet yer my hat dat he'd been mighty
willin'
Ter turn loose de bug an grab de watermillin.
Oh, bacon it am fine, an de hoecakc mighty good,
De stuff de pusson wants when he haster to chop de
wood,
But when.he takes de happiness O settin' in de
shade
De milin am de best chuck dat ever wuz made.
Oh, er hi, oh, Aunt Lindy,
Fetch out de butcher-knife, de butcher
knife, de butcher-knife,
Oh, err hi, Aunt Cindy,
Fetch cut de co'n-cob han'le ole carver.
carver. fetch out de co'n.cob han'le
ole carver.
-Arkansas Traveller.
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Leopold and the Baptists.

The Baptists so far have been the most active
md enterprising of all the Protestant bodies in
the valley of the Congo. They have had court
eous treatment, as they have abundant.y testi
fed, from Mr.. Stanley, and Mr.. Stanley's kind
ness has been sanctioned and approved by King
Leopold. BY way of giving evidence Of their
gratitude, the committee of the BAPTIST Mission
airy Society has sent its secretary, Mr.. A. III.
Baynes, to Brussels with an address to the King
The address recounts the blessings conferred
upon central Africa by the Kings enlightened
policy, congratulates him upon the noble work
accomplished in the interests of humanity and
true civilization by the creation of the Congo
Free State, and acknowledges the obligations
under which he has laid the society by the
interest he has taken in their work. The address
is illuminated on yelIum and Enclosed in ar
elegant casket.
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O and More,

Rev. c. III. Sturgeon.
Iconceive that when a man is so good in his
own esteem that he cannot be better, he is even
then no better than he should be, and is either
cracked in his head or his honesty. However, |
leave him to his own master; but as for you and
for me, let us be certain that if we have been
taught of the spirit, there is more light yet for
the spirit to give to us; if we have been quick
ened of the spirit there is more light yet for the
spirit to impart to us; if we have been comforted,
there are greater consultations yet which the
spirit of God can apply to our hearts; if we have
been made strong, we can be stronger yet to do
greater exploits; if we have had communion with
Christ, we can have closer communion yet, and
enter more thoroughly into the secret place of
the tabernacle of the most high. If it can be,
why then should it not be so? Does not every
man or woman here that is a Christian say, Il
mean to realize al the possibilities of true relig-
ien?" A little religion is a miserable thing. He
that has just enough to save him at last, may
not have enough to comfort him for the present.
he that has much grace, and is filed with the
spirit of God, shall have the heavens-a heaven
here and a heaven hereafter.
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A Hint to Husbands.
Boston Transcript.


Mr.. W, is quite an elderly, wealthy gentleman,
having for his second wife a lady many years
his junior and much petted. Any expressed wish
of hers he has at once gratifed, if money could
be the medium. One evening she remarked in
her charming way: II saw today, at store.
a lovely camels hair shawl that want ever SO
much. Would you bring home. tomorrow a
check It's only $500" Yes, dear" he re-
piled, Il will bring the money, and the next
evening, with the assistance of his porter, he
did bring home and placed on the parlor table
fifteen hundred silver dollars. AT the sight of
this pile of metal, weighing nearly a hundred
pounds, the wife exclaimed, What are you 60
ing to do with all that money!" why. love, It's
the money you wanted for the new shawl"
Good gracious! Does it take all that to make
81, 800! Why! had no idea it meant so much.
l will do without the shawl, and will put it all in
the savings bank if you will let me-" and she did
Sc, and has since added several sums to the de-
post. Mr.. w. afirms, on his honor, that since
that event she has not asked for a quarter part
so much money as before the incident. The
above is not a fancy sketch. 1t all really hap
pened.
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THE ENGLIsHMAN N HIS BAGGAGE
Why the American System of Checks Is Not
Adopted Abroad.

why the American System of Checks Is Mo-
Adopted Abroad.
Harper's Magazine for August.
Probably there is nothing that so much i'm
presses the American on the English railroad AS
the apparently defective baggage system. For
all that, there is another side to the question,
and a brief experience of English life and habits
serves to show that the baggage check system, if
established in England: would be established for
the benefit of travelling Americans alone.
The English people do not want it. The
Englishman is welded to his luggage and his cab.
When he arrives at a station he waits, invari-
ably, to take his luggage along with him to his
house, or his hotel. He will not be divorced
from it for a moment. No brass check will
ever be a legal tender for a trunk in his
eyes. The assurance that it is iii the same
train with him, that where he goes it goes.
that when he arrives it arrives, and that it is
there on the top of his cab. or in the cab with
him, is to him the essential thing in all his
iourneying. He has no express" such Ns we
know in America. Express companies are not n
possible adjunct of railway corporations in Eng
land. He has his cab, his -four wheeler" built
especially to carry his heavy luggage on top of
ia vehicle that the American hackman would
look down on with lordly contempt, but a pow-
erful engine of economy, industry, and public
convenience. His luggage would 90 through the
roof of a New York hack, crush it like a paper
bandbox, but on the roof of an English cab his
traps, including his bath tub, are rallied in and
secured, ana are Ill MS apartments as soon as he
is there himself.
But" you say to the English railway manager,
''you have been in America, and you have stud.
led the system there, and you cannot but be ia
vorably impressed with itF
Undoubtedly l was" he replies. II was
struck with its completeness and the extent of
its organization and details. Your style of We
hicle enables you to carry out such a system
with perfect ease. 1t forms a kind of natural
offshoot of the railway system in America; but it
appears to flourish only in your country. 1t is
not and would not be appreciated here. You
complain that at the English terminus any one
can claim your luggage and disappear with it.
No doubt, if you are slow and they are sharp.
such may he the case, and the company NAV
have to pay the penalty; but the English travel
Ter prefers the freedom of the present practice,
and would, | fancy, wish the check system at a
warmer place than the United States when any
delay arose in dealing with his luggage at the
stations owing to the adoption of the check
system. The English travellers idea of luggage
checking is to have his portmanteau safely
slowed under his carriage seat, and his smaller
articles placed in the rack over his head. do
not see any insuperable difficulty in adopting the
check system in this country, but none of the
partial attempts that have been made in that
direction have proved successful or popular"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-25
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Enough.

Oh, I nave teased the angels white
For many things, thro' many years
l ask for nothing more tonight.
Yet stay. o Seraph, near the throne.
The one Jehovah ever hears,
Pray him that l may keep my own
My own my sweet, my whole of bliss!
/ claim not his stores divine,
If he will only cave me this.
Tell him I may for naught ;mplore;
Tell him eartn's sweetest joy is mine,
An all is well forevermore.
No greater gift has he to give
In all his great infnitude-
Let him forget me while live!
! am not graceless. Though 7 say,
Go to the hungry heart with food,
Give Pain and Grief a place to pray.
Lucia Il. Jefrries, in Boston Transcript
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A Morning Call.

When she spied him coming.
She wore a kerchief round her head
Her apered curl to hide,
The iounces on her skirt were torn,
Her slippers were united,
Her jacket wanted buttons, and
Twas not exactly clean,
And through her worn out sleeves quite plain
Her elbows could be seen.
When she receiUed him.
Upon her brow her fluffy hair
Like tangled sunshine lay,
Her pretty Mother Hubbard gown
Was rich in ribbons gay,
Her little SHOES were decked with bows;
Some meadow flowers chung
Near her fair throat, and from her side
A small scent-bottlc hung.
And IT'S q sure thing.
That never yet for conjurer
Did quicker change befal
Than that young man evoked who came
To make a morning call.
-Harper's Bazaar.
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les" His greatest feat, of eating six birds of
paradise, was also recorded, and after that came
these words:
TO our most gluttonous King Gorbustes, who
died suddenly of Indigestion"
Tartmore married the princess. They might
nave oeen very, very happy, had they not both
been martyrs to dyspepsia.
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Love and Death.

When I am dead, I pray thee. sweet.
Mourn not above the windinc-sheet,
But rather smile, and say: 'At last
The not and thorny way is passed.
The dew of heaven shall cool his feet"
Yet proftless and incomplete
Lifes journey, should [ fail to meet
One heart with woe to be ~o'ercast
When l am dead.
But thou-whose joyance is the seat
And throne of life-I thee entreat.
Bend not before the cruel blast
Which snaps my life; nor stand aghast.
List'ning in vain for one heartbeat
When | am dead!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-25

land, Ore.-a foreign missionary in a home field.
Such a state of things could be found nowhere
out of America. The peculiar condition of
things is further illustrated by the fact that a
church wholly composed of Japanese members
has been organized by the Presbytery of San
Francisco. Quite recently, also, the Cumberland
Assembly authorized the organization of a pres
bytery in Japan. Evidently the Presbyterians
are not neglecting mission work.
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MAUD LILLEY-We are thankful for the list
Of answers. Please come often.
PsEUDo-We thank you for the puzzle. Let
US receive frequent calls from you.
EVE LINwooD contributes four good puzzles
and writes: Il hope the summer weather will
not be the cause of any further absence among
our puzZleistic friends"
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No. 1927. Slump. 2. Mace. 8. Main.
Original Puzzles.
NO. l~648-CHARADE.
(To Eagle Eye.')
At my first in olden times,
The travelling public pause to rest;
known by another name to-day
The weary traveller is still its guest:
The alphabet would be incomplete
If my second were out of line;
What sad havoc twOuld make with us,
We could not doZe, nor drink, nor dine.
My third is "mightisr than the sword"
A mighty power at the present day;
Fourth describes an impenetrable wood;
On total day-patriotic display.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. EVE LINWOOD.
NO. 1649-TWO WORD S~YLLABLES.
!. By nature 1 am cover called,
BY metaphor | mean ito fay"
{. !, as a useful rock, am hauled,
l initiate the sun of day.
We, both so useful when apart,
And full OF good intent,
Together form a mere upstart,
y miser upon silver bent.
NOBLESVILLE Ind. PSEUDO.
NO. ~lGj0-LETTER ENIGMA.
First is in rug, but not in mat;
Second Is in mouse, but not III rat;
Third is in fate, but not in end;
Fourth is in tear, but not in rend;
Fifth is in great. but not in small;
Sixth is in autumn, but not in fall;
Seventh is in lake, but not in pond;
Eighth is in loving, but not in fond;
Ninth is i'll panacea, also III arnica.
Total, a republic of Central America.
UNCLE WILL.
NO. 1G01-A MEXICAN BATTLEFIELD.
Go ''Solver.')
Have You heard Of the comet we look for soon,
Unfolding a prophecy as old as the moon,
Announcing plirn h4ttlnfel1S b1oOIilv Ctrayp2
Moreover the locusts are singing their song,
Airing wings, strongly marked with the initial Of
wrong,
Naming war as a horror to come before long.
place where the Mexicans fought their last fight
Look well at these lines, It's here in plain sight,
A place where submission was won by our might.
EvE TTNyg0On
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BY Eagle Eye, Walnut Hill, Mass; Nos
1926, 1927, 1929, 1880.
By Maud Lilley, Michigan City. Mich: Nos
1926, 1927, 1929. 1880, 1851.
We award a pack of address cards to the above
solver.
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THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT,

Everything relating to this department must
be addressed to W. Fl. GRAHAM, West Scarbor-
ough, Cumberland county, Maine. Original
contributions and answers to each weeks puz-
zles are solicited from ALL
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NO.

l. Behead and curtail a course and leave a
proposition. 2. Long delayed, and leave a prepo-
sition. 3. A cut, and leave a conjunction, 4. A
narrow passage, and leave an adjective. 5. Be
ginning, and leave a veil. 6. a small person, and
leave a man. UNCLE WILL.
ANSWERS in three weeks.
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The Rev. w. S. Holt, late a Presbyterian mis-
sionary in Shanghai, is now laboring among the
Eonr thousand or FIVE thousand Chinese in Port
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100 Doses One Dollar is true only of Hoods
Sarsaparilla, and it is an unanswerable argu-
ment as to strength an economy.
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Send Your
Puzzles Answered.

We offer a book for the best set of answers
this week. Send your answers.
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Answers to Puzzles.

NO. i626-The G. A. r. encampment at Port
land, Maine.
No. 1921 y
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20
GOOD DISINFECTANTS.

The following list of disinfectants
and deodorizers taken from a printed
circular issued by the Maine hoard
of health, will be of value both to
individuals and town and village au-
thorities sf ~..-s<t ''s ~-- .te'ssts
One of the best deodorizers for
stables is dry earth, and that is with
in the reach of every one. Dust
from the highway, finely comminuted
by constant travel upon it when
thoroughly dry, has immense absorb
ing capacity, and a small quantity
thrown occasionally into the vaults
will destroy all offensive odors. In
cases of contagious sickness, and for
other disinfecting purposes there are
several chemical substances which
can always be found at the druggists,
and are cheap and effective. The
more common are, carbOlic acid.
chloride of zinc, chloride of lime,
perchloride Of iron and sulphate of
iron. Crude carbolic acid in liquid
form. will be found convenient; a
tablespoonful of this occasionally
thrown down the sink pipe will be
found effective. Four ounces of
carbolic acid to a gallon of water /;
one, quart of chloride of zinc in three
quarts of water; solution of two
pounds of sulphate of iron Common
copperas) to gallon of water; OF
a solution of one quart of strong So
luton of perchloride of iron in gal
lon of water, is about the proportion
of these disinfectants to be used. A
pound or two of sulphate of iron
thrown into the sink and allowed tc
dissolve gradually, is of great lbene-
fit. aCesspools may be disinfectec
by the use ofdlarge quantities of sui
plate of iron. 81 Sewers and sinI
spouts may he treated in the SAM
manner. Where there are offensiv
odors which cannot Immediately be re
moved, chloride Of lime moistene
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20
and placed in open dishes around the
premises will be found beneficial.
Much profit is missed by feedin


Much profit is missed by feeding
young chickens too long. The early
brood should be ready for feeding.
1t is better TO have them already fed,
for then the cockerels will be ready
for sale, and the pullets will be SO
far forward as to be ready to begin
laying in the fall. But if the chickens
have not been fully fed, the cockerels
should be separated now and the old
cocks turned in with them. At any
rate the cocks should be separated
from the hens at once, as they are a
worry and a nuisance to the hens,
and more eggs will be laid without
them. Probably no more hens will
set, but as the eggs will be good for
two weeks after the separation, this
may be made at once. The best of
the young cockerels should be select
ed for use next year, and the rest
should be forced for market and dis
posed of at once. They will bring
more now than at any time later.
An excellent feed for them is corn
meal moistened with boiling hot
sweet skinned milk. This gives the
A writer in the Country Gentlemaa,
says: ITO obtain choice, large pam
sizes use very rich soil in somewhat
sheltered location. A bed which has
been used as hot bed the previous
season and left over makes an ex-
cellent place for them. Sow the
seed in box of rich soil about the
first of April, and set in south
sunny window. About the middle
of May transplant them into the bed
where they are to blossom. Another
way is to SOW the seeds in a bed
where they are TO blossom, about the
first OF September, and on the APP
proach of freezing weather cover the
bed with strawy manure. Or they
may be sown in any bed of good soil
and treated in the same manner.
They will come out fresh and strong
in the spring and can be left to grow
or may be transplanted to any desir
ed location. Good seed, rich soil
and good care bring fine blossoms.
flesh fine flavor and a white and
clear appearance, which adds to the
market value. The feeding should
not be continued over two weeks,
and if the fowls have had all they
will eat, they will be as fat as they
can be made. Longer feeding will
not add to their weight, as it is apt
to produce disease. american Agri-
cultuTist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20

To destroy bugs on squash and Gu
cumber vines dissolve tablespoon
full of saltpetre in pailful of water,
put pint of this around each hill,
shaping the earth so that it will not
spread much, and the thing is done.
The more saltpetre the better for the
vegetables, but the surer death to
animal life. The bugs burrow in
the earth at night, but fail to rise in
the morning. No danger of killing
any vegetables with it a concentrat-
ed solution applied to beans make
them grow wonderfully.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20

An Ohio correspondent says that
in his experience plants watered with
warm water will make far more Wig
orous growth than those given cold,
other conditions being the same.
Water a few degrees warmer than
the temperature seems to be best.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20
A TEMPERANCE RECITATION
FOR OUR BOYS.

Friends: 1t is my pleasant duty to
explain to you the object of our com
ing together and banding ourselves
into society called s'The Band of
Hope" First of all, we are volun-
teers, and they are always the happi-
est and readiest soldiers. One brave
willing recruit is worth ten pressed
men. We do not wear any uniform,
except the uniform desire to do good.
our bands are not of brass, but al
ways of hope. Our music is not par
ticularly martial, but when we stand
to sing in martial order the melodies
are more heartily and earnestly rem
dered than those performed at mill
tary reviews and sham fights. The
oath of allegiance is our pledge. We
have no regulations about height or
age. Nothing disqualifies for service
except desertlon.
Our warfare is against no man but
for the benefit of all men. We fight
the foes of disease and crime, of
poverty and wretchedness. The only
arms we use are the weapon of facts
and truth, and arguments for sobrie-
ty, economy, health and happiness
We neither kill nor wound any; we
only seek to annihilate the foes that
STAY our countrymen by thousands,
and fill our hospitals with the sick
and wounded. We contend for peace.
Our victory brings blessedness and
prosperity as surely as the morning
sunshine banishes the darkness of
night. Is not ours glorious war;
fare? Will you enlist with us to car
ry it still further on?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20

Currant and gooseberry bushes
should be pruned every year. If
they are pruned in tree form they
will bear larger and finer fruit, and it
will not be SO apt to mildew.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20

Entertainment which is given with
genuine hospitality and heartlness
more than mere feeding of the body,
means royal interchange of the gifts
of the soul. This is the highest COM
pensation which the intelligent mind
can possibly bestow or receive.
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