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A WONDERFUL HERITAGE.

The more man is buteted and wounded.
disappointed and humi!iated. wronged and
prosecuted in this lite, the more be comes to
fall back upon the sovereign power. OF God.
God is just, loving, omniscient aud almighty.
The reins of the world never slip nor
slacken in His hand. He is never mistaken,
never forgetful nor negligent, never defeated
and nothing eventuates contrary to his
will. Though He tolerates wrongs tenn
porarily, He will right them, Though He
permits suffering, He sees clearly the path
along which it will find elimination in peace
and joy.
God'is as good as He is strong, benevo-
ent as He is wise, true as He is great. We
can trust in Him, rest in Him, and we can
assure ourselves that all that there is of Him
in power, wisdom. love, is ours. The
weakest of lis is in Him stronger than all the
powers of time, circumstance, or enemies
that may be arrayed against US. God IS our
Father, and no earthly fathers love is so
pure and true as His love. But for suffer-
ing and danger and disaster we should never
know how wondrous heritage we have in
od.-[EXchange.
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HOW TO FIND REST.

If anyone is restless there is cause for it.
There is no use Of reading books or Of long
ing for rest in order to get it. Christ says:
Learn of Me. and We shall find rest" II
we learn of Him we shall find rest at once;
If we accept Him as our teacher and take
lessons of Him how to live we will obtain
rest. 1t is the same thing He meant when
He said: ''Take my yoke upon you''-not q
burden, remember. What is collar to
horse? Is the yoke of the horse the bur-
den? No, the collar is what helps him to
bear the burden easily Christ saw men
borne down with burdens. He said: ''Try
life as I live. My yoke is easy. and there
fore My burden is light" Instead Of Chris
tianity adding to the burden, it is the secret
Of the amelioration of life. 1t enables one
to take the burdens Of life without finding
their weight. He actually goes on to specify
what We are mainly to learn OF Him: "For
am meek and lowly in heart.' Do you see
the connection between being meek and
having rest? Most are not meek and lowly
IN heart. 0Iany worry, thinking they are
not in their right place, that they have been
looked down on; and at night they are bitter
and lose their rest for wounded pride, and
from imagining people are sighting them.
These things would be impossible for US, if
we learned of Christ and were meek aud
lowly in heart.-[Professor Drummond.
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WHAT IS DEATH?

There is this difference between Johns
view OF denth and ours. He saw What souls
20 to. We nre so apt to see only what souls
20 from. When our friend dies, we think
Of all tho warm desires Of life, all the sweet
friendships. all the interesting occupations,
all the splrndor of the sunlight which he
leaves behind. If we could only know some
what az John must have known after his
vision, the presence of God into which our
friend enters on the other side, the higher
standards, the larger fellowship with all his
race, and the new assurance Of personal inn
mortality in Cod: If We could know all this,
how our poor comfortless efforts Of comfort
when Our friends depart, our feeble rakinS
over Of the ashes of memory, our desperate
struggles to think that the inevitable must be
all right; how this would all give way to
something almost like burst OF triumph, as
the soul which we loved went forth to such
vast enlargement. to such glorious consum-
nation of its life. We should be able to
forget our own sorrow, or at least to bear 1t
gladly, in our thunkfulness for him, AS the
generous farmer-boy might see his brother
taken from his side to be made q king, and
toll on himself all the more checrfully at his
humble and solitary labor, thinking OF the
glory to which bis brothers life had come.
It is WELL then, with those to whom johns
vision is fulfilled. Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord and stand immortal before
Him !-GPhillips Brooks.
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PRINCIPLE AND FEELING.

"Religion is matter Of principle" Yes,
50 it is; but principle ought to be set on fire
with love. There may be extrava2ances
connected with revivals of religion. Wesley
was calm. self.possessed kind of man, and
vet under his quiet preaching, it is said,
Strong men would sometimes fall to the floor
as though they were shot. He tried to check
all undue demonstrations. but did he stop
preaching the vital doctrines Of Methodism
because the movement had few drawbacksr
If he had done 80, God would have raised
up some one else to preach His Gospel Of
new era. God was not willing to stay this
tidal wave of salvation because it may have
had q little foam upon its crest. Even q
fanatic with heart full Of love is thou
sand miles nearer heaven than cold
hearted Journalist.
The Gospel is not merely cold, abstract
creed, nor code Of iron laws, nor system
of forms and ceremonies-wbat does God
care for the frippery of forms and the child's
play OF empty ceremonies?-but it is the
bower OF God unto salvation, enabling be.
levers to say, The love Of God is shed
abroad in our hearts," and this indwelling
love lights up the whole life, making 1t saint
ly and lovely and beautiful-[Rev' III
Griffith.
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H0ney-Dew.

Honey-dew is viscid saccharins
matter found on the leaves and stems of
plants, occurring on both trees aud
herbaceous plants. Its flow is orten
induced by punctures Of aphides, cocci
and other insects that feed on the juices
of plants. BUTT seems also to be induced
by any rupture of the tissue OF the plant;
and warm, dry weather appears neces-
sary for the production in the sap OF
that abundance of sugar which ia thus
thrown off. Honey-dew is often 30
abundant as to fall in drops from one
leaf to another, sometimes even falling
from the trees as copious shower. Gar
deners dread its appearance, because,
drying on the surface of the leaves, it
coats them with clammy, filmy sub
stance to which everything brought by
the atmosphere adhercs, thus clogging
the plant and forming bed for mold
and fungi. Orange and lemon groves
suffer great injury from superabuudancs
of 'honey-dew, as also do coffee planta-
tions.-Courier.Journal.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
PALM STREMINa.

PALM STREwINd.
The rocky path still climbs the glowing steep
OF Olivet;
Though rains of two millenniums wear it
deep,
Men tread it yet.
These ways were strewed with garments
once and palm,
Which We tread thus:
Here through Thy triumph, on Thou
passedst calm,
On to Thy cross.
Man has not changed them in that slumber-
ing land,
Nor time effaced;
Where Thy feet trod to bless we still may
stand
All can be traced.
Yet we have traces of Thy footsteps far
Truer than these;
Where'er the poor and tried and suffering
are,
Thy steps faith sees.
And now whenever meets Thy lowliest
band,
In praise and prayer,
There is Thy presence, there Thy Holy
Hand,
Thou, Lord, art there.
bishop Huntington, In Christian AdVo-
cate.
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The Unrest of Man.

Ransack the world, says one, and
show me one man who has been made
happy by temporal success. You cannot
find one out OF the millions and hundreds
of millions of instances-not one. First
man wants to get living. Having
obtained this he wants competency
This won, he straightway desires q
superhuity, and then he wants-morea
The husks of this wilderness can never
satisfy the hunger of the soul. Tha
lion is carnivorous and wants meat; tha
OK is graminivorous and wants grass
but man is omniverous and wants every
thing.-St. Louis Republic. !.
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A Monster Vine.

There is a curiosity at the rooms Of
the State Board of Trade on Market
street, that looks more like the SCARED
trunk of an oak tree than anything else.
It is grape vine cut day or 80 ago
at General Bidwell's vineyard in Chico.
The body of what was once slender,
twinning plant IS now fully sixteen feet
tall and as large around as stoVe-pipe
hat. II is full of deep seams, some OF
them almost reaching the center of the
trunk, aud there is bark upon it that Is
rough and ragged.
Arms, larger than mans, start out
from the body, and there are seven OF
them in all. Some of the runners were
200 feet in length, and the vine when
bearing bore hundreds of pounds of
grapes every year.-San Francisco Eram-
liner
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THE GOOD SEIGuBOR.

"There," said neighbor, pointing to a
village carpenter, "there is man who has
done more good. I really believe, in this COM
munity than any other person who ever
lived In it. :,
HE cannot talk very much in public, and
be does not try. He is not worth $4,000, and
It is very little he can put down on subscrip-
ton papers.
"But new family never moves into the
village that he does not fad it out and give
them neighborly welcome and otter them
some service. He is on the look out to give
strangers seat in his pew at church. He is
always ready to watch with a sick neighbor
aud look after his affairs for bin. believe
he and his wife keep house-plants in winter
mainly that they may be able to send little
bouquets to friends and invalids. He finds
time for q peasant word to every child be
meets, and you'll always see. them climbing
into his one-horse wagon when he has no
other load. He has genius for helping
folks, and it does me good to meet him in
the streets."-[Western Recorder.
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RENEWING ORCHARDS.

Farmers who havc apple orchards that
are beginning to deteriorate, recon-
mends a West Virginia fruit grower,
should lose no time in preparing to
plant new ones. It takes many years to
get an orchard into good bearing condi-
tion, and the new one should become
available before the old one has become
Improbable. The practice of gradual
renewal on the same ground by planting
a young tree here and there to replace q
falling one, as is sometimes done, Us one
to be condemned rather than recon-
mended. One orchard on the same
ground is enough during the lifetime
of any individual, and there are just as
good reasons for including the orchard
in a rotation of crops as can be given for
applying it to any other plants raised on
the farm. When the new orchard has
reached good bearing stage, clear the
ground of what is left of the old ones,
unless it may be a few favorite trees OF
exceptionally good varieties, and devote
the land to other crops. 1t is quite a
common mistake in planting apple trees
to set them too close together. On good
soil, where the trees are expected to at
tain large size, distance of forty feet
from tree to tree is better than lesser
one, as will fully appear when they reach
maturity. In the early stage OF the orch
ard often see what appears to be use
less space planted with peach trees which
often bear good crops and are out of the
way before the ground they occupy Is
needed by the apple trees. In planting
apple trees on thin soil the holes should
be made large and the filing should,
partly at least, be of richer earth or veg
etable mould from another field; other
wise that taken out should be we'll mixed
with manure that the young trees may
take vigorous start.-Nsw York World.
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Florida COcOanut5.

A new industry is likely to be de7el-
oped in Florida in growing cocoanuts, to
which the lower half of the State is well
adapted. After planting the nut to the
depth of three feet, aud gradually filing
around the shoot as it comes to the sur
face, the cocoanut requires no further
care. In from five to eight years it be-
gins to bear, and will thereafter yield
yearly one hundred to two hundred nuts
per year for half century or more.
Owing to the depth to which it IS
planted the cocoauut tree is never up
rooted, but in violent storms. which
often prevail in tropical regions, its
trunk is gnarled and twisted, killing the
tree.-Boston Cultivator
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WORDS. OF WISDOM.
.ove never gives any small gifts.

Love never gives any small gifts.
What the baby learns it never forgets.
A man is old twice as long as he il
young.
Love can be misunderstood, but neve,
overestimated.
Uncharitable criticism is throwing mud
at everything you don't like.
The sluggard usually prefers going to
the dogs rather than the ant.
One of the hardest things on earth to
do is to tell miser that he is one.
You can tell by the looks of a mans
ears how much he knows about music.
A woman can say more with few
tears than man can express in book.
When you want hard master, work
for beggar who has just become rich.
People will forgive anything sooner
than forgetfulness Of their own import.
ance.
Oh, what bitter thing it is to look
Into happiness through another mans
eyesl
The way to enjoy the blessings of this
life is to earn them. They seldom come
otherwise.
A slim waist isn't an unfailing sign of
effeminacy. Consider the audacious,
virile wasp.
If you would please woman, praise
her children; if you would please a man,
praise him.
Whole years Of joy glide unperceived
away, while sorrow counts the minutes
as they pass.
It's the busy bee among mortals who
fully appreciates the chaste harmony oi
sHone, Sweet Home"
It is astonishing bow much you can
find out about human nature by charg.
ing ten cents admission.
The thing that is the most dangerous
to every man is that which does the
most to make him selfish.
The fly is quaint humorist. He can
tickle man in more places at once than
the best paid funny man going.
The spiders hospitality is unques-
tionable. So long as a guest remains her
table is always bountifully supplied.
The man who knows he was one kind
of fool yesterday often has suspicion
be is some other kind of fool to-day.
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MAMMOTH CLOVER FOR BEES.

In 1889 had large field Of mammoth
clover within a few feet of the hives.
The first growth did not attract the
bees, as they were busy with the white
clover, for all will remember how abund-
ant the white clover was that year. But
later, when the second growth blossomed,
the bees focked to it in great numbers.
OF course, that was an exceptional fall
for clover. But think the bees gath
cred about as much honey from the
mammoth clover as they did from the
white during the summer. Our bees,
which are Italians, had, I noticed, gath
cred considerable honey from the ordin-
ary red variety, but they prefer themam-
moth. I think the mammoth clover de-
serves to be sown more extensively than
it is, for it not only affords abundant
pastursge, but the stalks form a matted
covering upon the ground, which is very
benefcial.-NationG Stoekman.
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Nicknames OF Authors.

Some one gives the following as the
nicknames of authors: Emerson, The
Sphinx. Schiller, The Republican Poet.
Goethe, The Poet of Pantheism. Shell
ley, The Eternal Child. Keats, The
Resurrectionized Greek. Byron, The
Poet of Passion. Moore, The Butterfly.
Jeremy Taylor, The Shakespeare OF
Divlnes. Coleridge, The Insulated Son
of Reverie. Bunyan, Sponsor of the
People. Shakespeare, The Myriad
Minded. Ben Jonson, The Divine Bully
Of the Old English Parnassus. spenser,
The Poets Poet. Chaucer, The Well OF
English Undefiled, or the Morning Star
of English Poetry. Caedmon, The
Milton of the Forefathers.-New York
Tribune.
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OATMEAL FOR REFRESHING DRINK.

OAlmGhh Con 1s6C 3s2sShA&se OAsAAs<A~
During the severe labors of the hay
and harvest field it used to be common
practice to serve liquid stimulants to men
hard at work. These probably did less
harm then than they would at other
times, as the stimulation was generally
worked off in muscular force with
out much effect on the brain. Cold
water, though good rs beverage, IS
alone not enough for men at severe
labor. Milk and water is somewhat
better, but does not agree with all
stomachs, as milk is difficult to digest.
One of the best harvest-feld drinks is
made by putting a small quantity OF fine
oatmeal in cold water. It gives nourish-
ment in so easily digestible form that it
acts almost as quickly as stimulant.
We have often given it to horses while
they were at work blowing or drawing
reaper or mower, and with excellent
effect in enabling them to do good
days work even in the hottest weather.
Where oatmeal is stirred in water for
horses the pals used should be carefully
cleaned afterwards, as they will get sour
and become offensive. Oats have more
nourishment in proportion to weight
than any other grain, and especially of
the kind that makes bone and muscle,
and a small quantity taken in drink
gives better results, in enabling those
taking it to Withstand fatigue than any.
thing else that can be given.-Raston
Culiuator.
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Two OF the German Emperor's favor
tie dogs recently ran away from the
stables at Potsdnm without leave and
without their muzzles, which is nee
essary article of dogs attire in Ber-
lin and its neighborhood. Elk and
aSchnurchen," after days enjoyment,
were taken up by the police, but were
eventually restored to the royal stables
after payment of fine of three marks
for each by the Emperor.
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THREE California lions were recently
killed by hunter in Fresno County,
One of them measured fully eight feel
from tip to tip, and is being stuffed.
The other two were nearly as large.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
REARING PET LAMBS.

Lambs cannot live on custards alone.
Eggs aud milk may do very well for q
fey days, but when lamb gets to be a
month old some vegetable food is need
ed. A little bread may be given at first,
and then bran and crushed oats, which
may be gradually increased in quantity.
A month-old lamb will eat grass, and
this with the bran and oats and quart
of fresh cows milk daily will afford am
pie and perfect nutriment.-Neo York
Times.
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New MEXICO has clergyman named
the Rev. Innocent Wolf. The name is
horribly suggestive of sleeps clothing
but vie are assured that there is alb
solutely nothing in name.
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BREEDING DUCKS.

It is too late to hatch duckings with
profit, and as soon as the old stock have
ceased to lay, the flock should be re-
duced to minimum. We believe old
ducks to be much better than those that
are young, if intended fol-. breeding pur-
poses, as they will lay more eggs and
produce stronger young than the
younger ducks, but the brakes may be
not over one year old. Hence, send all
the old brakes to market as soon as
it can be proftably done.-Farm and
Fires;ds.
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the foot. To prevent contagion to =
flock or pasture newly purchased sheep
should be kept strictly quarantined for al
least two weeks. If foot-rot appears
the healthy animals must be at once sep,
arated from the diseased and from thosa
having suspicious appearance. Put the
healthy animals through trough cont
tanning mixture of about three inches
deep Of one part of carbolic acid to zoo
parts of water As fast as the diseased
animals become convalescent they should
be placed in separate pen until all dam
ger has passed.-Meao York Voics. i3s;.
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Az Ionia (GIioh.,) barber broke tha
record by shaving a man In twenty-six
seconds. Wonder if the man broke any
Of the commandments
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An adult 1aboring man wastes nve
ounces of muscle In the course OF h1s
daily labor, g.. 81,
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SEASIDE landlords are preparing to
get your surplus money, if it takes all
summer,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08
uMr. Barnes of New York"

Mr.. Frank w. Sanger, of the Broadway
Theatre, New York, will present his COM
pany in A. G. Gunter's interesting comedy
drama, "Mr. Barnes of New York, !" at Albaugh's
the current week, beginning tomorrow (Mon-
day. night, March g. The wide popularity of
the narrative, from which Mr. Gunter takes his
play, together'with the splendid manner in which
Mr.. Sanger presented "Mr. Barnes Of New
York; in this city the past season, combine to
make its second advent unusually interesting,
and "Mr. Barnes'' will make O strong bid for
first place among the attractions Of the week.
The story has been 30 widely read that but
brief restatement OF plot and special features
need be given at this time. Barnes of NeD
York, the hero of Mr.. Gunter's narrative, and
also of the play-while perhaps a trife more
AmericaniZed-isa rich, handsome New Yorker,
with nothing to do but enjoy himself, and is
travelling abroad for pleasure. His good and
bad luck brings him into contact with
duel between a young Englishman and
Corsican. The Ccrsican is slain, and his sister
takes the oath of the vendetta A railroad
journey from Paris to Nice is described, during
which he sees, falls in love, and succeeds in
making the acquaintance of an English girl,
whom he afterward marries. Barnes meets
again at Monte Carlo with the Corscan girl,
who is in search of her brothers. murderer.
Here he learns of her love for young English
man, which lever he afterward uses successfully
in inducing her to forego her VOW and love
rather than hate. The play is the novel repro
duced in dramatic form and retains all the
strong situations and climaxes described
therein. Miss May Wheeler as Marina, Mr..
James Neill as Mr.. Barnes, Miss Emma Field as
Evid A1,Struther, Miss AnniesBlancki as Maud
ChartinS, Miss Effie Germon as Lady ChdrtinS,
Mr.. Sheridan Block as Count DaveUc, and Mr..
Horace Lewis as Old TdndSSO constitute the
principals of Mr.. Sanger's company, many
of whom have been seen in these respective
characterizations in which they showed special
qualifications The railroad scene is now ma
nipulated by steam and thus made more than
ever realistic
1.-THE Crystal Slipper at the National.
''rhe Crystal Slipper or, Prince Prettiwitz
and Little Cinderella which was one of the
most artistic successes of all the spectacular
eXtravaganzas sent out by the Chicago Opera
House, will be presented by the American
Extravaganza Company tthe National Theatre
tomorrow night The piece as it will be pre-
sented here is almost entirely new, and quite
different from that shown here before. The
music, costumes, scenery, and ballets are quite
new, and the piece throughout has been re-
newed and improved to such an extent that
those who remember the previous production
will hardly recognize this one, it is said. Promi
nent among the new scenes is one entitled
''The Glade of Golden Ferns, which represents
a wooded glen on the shores of the ocean, and
which is remarkable example of harmonious
coloring and realistic perceptive. The final
transformation scene is undoubtedly one of the