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The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
Religious Dancing.

In Abyssinia the duties of priests
consist In reading the prayers, chant
Ing, administering the sacrament, and
dancing; the latter being INDUCED in
during religious professions" That the
dancing is in this case imported into
the quasi-Christian religion by adoption
from some previous religion Ga like
adoption being common with Roman
Catholic misslonarles) is a conclusion
supported by an instance from a remote
regis1. Describing the usages of the
Pueblos, Lummis says:
The cachinas or sacred dances which
were in vogue before Columbus, still
survive; but now they are applied to the
festivals of the church, and are pre-
sumed to be as grateful to Tata Dios as
to the Sun"
But the way in which singing and
dancing before the visible ruler differ
entiate into singing and dancing before
the ruler no longer visible. is best seen
I'm the early records OF civilized races.
To the above illustrations furnished by
Hebrew history may be added various
others. Thus Samuel x, 8. tells of "a
company of prophets coming down from
/, the high place with q psaltery. and q
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
Picking and Packing Apples.

Geo. A. Cochrane CT Massachusetts
saws: In packing barrel select fair
sample OF the contents for the bottom
layer. Place the apples. stems down. in
the form q ring. beginning at the
outside, and having secured this layer
firmly, place the second layer in so az
To fit closely in the interstices. then fill
the barrel quickly and gently and
when One-third full rock It slightly to
settle the apples. Repeat this rocking
when the barrel is about three-fourths
full, and when 1t is filed place a pad
ded board on the top and roc, il while
the board is held down firmly. Then
place in enough more apples to form a
cone at least two inches above the
chime. Now force the head down with
the bGirCl screw I esser nail the chime
hoops, 10th top and bottom, securely
and have the head lining sufficiently
large to lap the presser that forms the
head.
Never pick red apples until they are
OF good color. IT Is al expensive blum
der 70 = he last moment and
then sttip lrUe of all its fruit. II
is also a mistake to pick the apples
faster than tlcy can be packcd = is
a good plan to 30 over IL 're,s NIX
or fortnipht before ".-. oick-
ing and remove the weli-d1r'lf -| nd
well-colOred fruit and IAagAet 1t at
once. Aside from the advantage Of
early marketing, suC.l pickings help
ID fruit which remains, increase its
size, ard improve its color. Apples
should be hsded up at once, and if they
ar1 to be held they should be hurried
into cold storage as near q temper ture
OF thirty-two degrees as possible. They
should never he allowed TO lie on the
ground, ana under no circumstances
should they be exposed to the sun CT
rain after being picked or packed.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
Mai the Horses stomach.

DR.. S. c. Orr, of Kansas, speaking
In a stock breeders meeting, said:
Grain of any kind, IL finely ground
and thef made very wet with cold
water and fed alone, unmixed with any
coarse food, is liable to so chill the
stomach and dilute its liquids as to al
low fermentation of the food to take
place; or IL an animal is given water
to drink too soon after feeding, the
grain will he washed out CT the stom-
ach irto the intestines and the fer
mentaIon will take place there. Over
ripe hay or straw or coarse, woody
corn fodder, IL fed in abundance, with
little or no grain, is almost sure to
become lodged in the large intestinos,
and cause trouble in the form of i'm
FACTION. AS long as there is no vio-
lent pain from the formation of gas
the symptoms may come on so slowly
as to scarcely attract attention. But
the careful observer will Lotice that
his horse has capriclous appetite.
somttimes It will be poor and at other
times ravenous. There will be foul
odo7 from the mouth the hair WI be
lustreless, rough and staring, and the
animal will have a hide-bound appear
anc6; the bowels will be irregular,
generally constipated. but there may
be 5iarrhea.
u these symptoms are noticed in
time, a correction OF the errors in the
die, alone may restore the patient to a
normal condition; but ii is generally
advisable to cleanse the bowels with q
moderate dose of physic. If there is
constipation, a dose of Barbados aloes
from six to eight drachms, accord
ing to the size of the horse-may be
given. But II there is diarrhea, from
ono to two pints of raw linseed oil and
ono drachm of calomel should be given
instead of the aloes. Following the
purgative, a mixture OF equal parts OF
powdered charcoal, bicarbonate OF
sofa and powdered gentian root given
in tablespoonful doses two or three
times day will soon restore the
weakened organs to a healthy action.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
Hall to the Graduate.

From the Advance: II this glorious
country of ours does not get on now. IL
will not be because the college gradu-
ates of the year have not told us how:
and they know. They are too young yet
not to know. Age brings ignorance, UNI
certainty and doubt. But these bright
young spirits look through the clear
lights of intellects over which the con-
fusions of experience and the contradic-
tions of time have cast no shadows.
And they have been walking with the
heroes and sages of the past.
1.-The dead but sceptered great
"Who still rule our spirits from their
urns."
They have been with Homer and Vir-
gil up and down the plains OF Troy.
They have been at Thermopylae. Mara
thon and Leuctra and gotten the in
spiration of ages. They have talked
with Cicero and Caesar. and Horace
They have also been up and down all
the heights OF modern science. They
have gone through the history OF crea-
tion with Darwin and Huxley until they
know all about 1t. They have stood On
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
Racial Degeneration.

When the specific qualities that char
acterize the race cease to be transmitted
by heredity; when the children In a
family cease to resemble their parents
and their brothers and sisters without
recovering an ancestral type, and there
results a defective change in the adap-
tation to the physical and social me-
dunn, we say that the race is degener-
ating. BY degeneration should be I'M
derstood the loss Of the hereditary quail
tiles that have determined and fixed the
characteristics of the race. The charac-
teristlcs of what is called in human
races morbid heredity, which is simply
a degeneration, is an abnormal tendency
to variation In the posterity, which be-
comes, in consequence OF physical, men,
tai and moral faults, progressively ca
pable Of adapting itself. In the artificial
races OF domestic animals the result Of
degeneration is often reversion to n
primitive type of the species with ca
pacity to recover the old adaptations.
The designation race has In this case
been really given to variety, the hered-
itary qualities of which had not the fix
ity that characterlzes a race. No re-
versions are observed in the natural
races.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
1t Was Only n woodpeckcr.

Bradford Torrey. in the June Atlantic
Monthly. describes "A dramatic contest
between n preacher and serpent BY
way Of cooling off. after the fervor of
this conflict, the preacher told him
about a gentleman and his little boy,
who, having come to spend a vacation
on the ridge, started out in the morn
ing for a stroll.
They were quickly back again, and
the boy. quite out Of breath. came run
ming into the garden. "Oh. Mr.. NJ" he
cried, 1--WE saw a rattlesnake and papa
fired off his pistol!'
"A rattlesnake! Where is it? What
did II look like?''
"why. we didn't see it. but we heard
it,"
What was the noise like" asked
Mr. NJ, and he took a pencil from his
pocket and began tapping on a log.
That's it, said the boy. That's
it,
They had heard a woodpecker drill
ing for grubs, or drumming for love.
whereupon the man had fired his pistol.
and for them there was no more walk
ing in the woods!
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cultivatln. Strawberries.


L 8. Johnson of Clear Lake, Iowa.
discussed this subject as follows in his
recent paper before the Northeastern
Iowa Horticultural society at Mason
City, Iowa:
The cultivation should begin as soon
as plants are set and kept up at least
once a week until September. Use the
cultivator drag the first time through
stirring the soil about two inches deep
and close to plants. each succeeding
time be careful and not go near enough
to disturb the roots. Use hoe between
plants. Keep soil free from weeds and
mellow on the surface. Plants should
not be allowed to bear fruit the first
season; with pair of sheep shears the
blossoms may be rapidly cut. Soon
after the blossoms are cut the runners
will start; these should be cut also
until plant has made good growth
which will be about the middle OF
July; then let 1t grow. Distribute the
runners in the row by placing little
dirt on the end to hold in place unit.
II takes root. This can be easily done
while hoeing. Allow runners to set
and make matted rows eighteen inches
across, being careful not to let them
set too thick in the row. as plant &c
bear the best fruit must have room and
plenty of material to develop the
fruit.
In the fall plants should be covered
on new beds use slough hay, putting
on little earth to keep from blowing
Off. On beds that have borne one
crop use coarse manure. and this
answers for covering and also enriches
the ground for second crop. In the
spring take wooden rake and lightly
rake the covering into the path, leav-
Ing the fine chaff and hay remain
around the plants to protect them and
keep the berries clean.
How long should we continue the
bed? There is great difference OF
opinion in regard to this. / have adopt
ed the plan OF raising two crops, then
plowins under, and have often received
the best crop from beds two years old.
My plan OF caring for a bed after the
first crop is TO NOW beds, both plants
and weeds, burn or remove from the
ground; then pillow light furrow on to
rows of plants and let lie day or two,
then drag crossways thoroughly, which
will level the ground and also thin the
plants somewhat, which is all the bet
ter for them; then cultivate and keep
weeds out, and you will have a fine bed
by fall; then mulch with coarse ma
nurc
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
AGE OF THE EARTH.
A skepticaI Writer Asks IL 1t Was Gre
ated for Man.

The anthropocentric view does not APP
platec things without foregone conclu-
sions. When he learns that millions
upon millions OF years passed during
which the Earth was peopled only by in
ferior brutes, and that even now three
fifths Of its surface is occupied by an
ocean basin carpeted with low creatures
which live In darkness, utterly useless
to man and only lately known to him;
and when he learns that of the remain
ing two-ffths, vast Arctic and Antarc-
tic regions, and vast desert areas are
practically uninhabitable, while i'm
mense portions OF the remainder, fever
breeding and swarming with insect
pests, are unfit for comfortable exist
ence; he does not recognize much ad-
justment TO the wants OF mankind
When he discovers that the human body
is the habitat OF thirty different species
Of parasites, which inflict in many cases
great tortures; or, still worse, when he
thinks of the numerous kinds Of mi
crobes. some producing ever-present
diseases and consequent mortality, and
others producing frightful epidemics.
like the plague and the black death.
carrying off hundreds Of thousands or
millions. he sees little ground for as
Stunning that the order of Nature is de-
vised TO suit our needs and satisfac-
tons. The truth which the facts force
upon him is not that the surrounding
world has been arranged TO fit the phys
ical nature of man, but that, conversely,
the physical nature of man has been
nodded to fit the surrounding world, and
that, by implication. the theory Of
things. justified by the evidence, may
not be one which satisfies men moral
needs and yields them emotional salts
factions, but, conversely. is most likely
one to which they have TO mold their
mental wants as well as they can.-Ex.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

tabret. and pipe. and harp before
them;" and, according to some trans
lators, dancing and singing. Again in
1 Chronicles tx, 80. we read OF certain
Levites that these are the singers.
chief Of the fathers OF the Levites."
And In Psalm cxliX, there is the exhor-
tation: Let them praise his name in
the dance; let them sing praises unto
him with the timbrel and harp" wor-
ship which was Joined with the execu-
ton of vengeance upon the heathen."
From Dancer and Musician. by Her.
bert Spencer. in The Popular Science
Monthly.
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Religious.

The Rev. George ii. Emerson OF
Salem, Mass, who Is now 20 years OF
age, has been an editor of the Chris
tian Leader for thirty years.
The West Presbyterian church in
New York, formerly DR.. Paxtons, has
unanimously called the Rev. Anthony
II. Evans OF Lockport. N. Y. to the
pastorate of the church at a salary OF
$4,000 year. He has accepted
The Rev. Peter Havermans OF st.
Marys church, Troy, n. Y, is the oldest
priest in active pastoral service In the
United States, If not in the world. He
is now in his ninetieth year and has
just celebrated the sixty-sixth ami
versary Of his ordination.
The First Congregational church OF
Bridgeport, Conn.,, celebrated its two
hundredth anniversary last week. The
great-great-grandfa of Chauncey
M. Depew was the first pastor, and had
Mr.. Depew been able he would have
been present at the exercises.
The citizens of st. Ignace, Mich.
have decided TO honor the last resting
place of Father Marquette with mon
ument BETTING the courage and enter
prise Of the explorer and missionary,
who in 1870 established his Jesuit coll
lege, military station, and missionary
headquarters there.
Capt. Thomas l.. Henry, the once
noted guerilla of Crittenden county,
Kentucky. has been a church member
fourteen years. The other day he
knelt down in the dust, crying II am
sanctified." He now intends to become
a preacher. Henry was wounded many
times. is a farmer, and fairly we'll off.
Jerome Il. Stllson, who started Mr..
Moody on his evangelistic work, lis
tened TO him the other day in Roches-
ter. Mr.. Stillson was at the time 4
government contractor in Chicago and
found Mr.. Moody giving out tracts
in the lumber yards. He took him to
a mission and got him interested in
active Christian work. Mr.. Moody ct
the time was only Is years OF age.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
Golden Rule Proverbs.

Heart pure. strength sure.
Make sin your guest, become sins
slave.
Prone to passion, by passion placed
prone.
Who weeps for others will be glad in
himself
A deep heart is rather to be desired
than a broad mind.
Better a sentence from the heart than
a sermon from the head.
Evil-doers fear less the resolutions OF
a convention than the revolutions Of a
crank.
Remorse no more insures repentance
than titled ground a harvest.-The
Golden Rule.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

The growth of public libraries in the
United States is one of the remarkable
features of our system of progress.
There are nearly 5000 of them; and a
recent writer points out the significant
fact that with the single exception Of
the county, there is not a single civil
division OF our government that has
not adopted this form of educational
service. The Nation, the States. the
cities and towns have Libraries for gen.
eral use, and the work Of the librarian
has become a regular profession, with
requirements of systematic study and
training.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
A cry of despair has gone up from

A cry of despair has gone up from
the Fife county council, Scotland, on
the subject OF the abuse of the public
highways in that county by cyclists,
and they have adopted the course Of
petitioning Parliament on the subject.
The difficulty is tia cycling offenders
will not copnive at their own capture,
but almost invariably,as the Fife coun-
ell pathetically urge, make off at their
highest possible speed fer d contra
yention or on being challenged.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

The Women's Civic League Of Gin
cinnati he's secured the cooperation Of
the city government in providing piles
OF clean sand For little children to play
in on vacant lots In different parts Of
the city and in a corner of one Of the
parks. They urged that this provision
for the play-instinct of children would
add to the health and happiness Of the
tots" 1t is a wise movement. No
large park is complete without some
such provision for the children.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

Mrs. Mignon Elliott of New York ap-
preciates the affection of having a
pretty face. When she was in book
store one day she found to her horror
that a publisher of sensational litera-
ture had used her photograph to adorn
the front page of a number Of fiashy
French novels. OF course there was
only one thing left for her to do, and
that was to bring suit against the pub
Usher, which SIZE promptly did.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS or INTEREST TO
ACRICULTURISTS.
Some Up-to- Date Hints About CuitIva-
tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture. NIticuIture and FIori-
culture.

o ONE, WE BE-
lieve, denies that
agriculture in the
United States has
a serious problem
to face and to set
tie. 1t is admitted
that the low prices
OF staple farm
products leave lit
tie profit to the
growers, though
even in this respect
we do not know
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

Large numbers of japanese laborers
are arriving at California ports ard
swarming into the labor markets. 1t
is said that during the last year 10000
of them have secured employment to
the exclusion of white laborers. The
Japs car have all the fun they want
with the Chinese, but japanese in
vasion of the United States is goring
another OK altogether.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

An increasing number of tourists go
to Europe every year. The matter OF
cost used to prevent people from doing
this generally. but nov, IL is claimel
that many people spend the summer IN
Europe because they can do it cheaper
than they can remain at home. But 1t
is rather melancholy to meet with so
many people who have Travelled all over
Europe but know but little from per-
sonal experience of their own country.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

1t was unnecessary for DR.. Talmage
TO assure a reporter that he enjoys
good digestion. Everybody knows the
doctor is an optimist, and optimism
and indigestion are never found in
company.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

The ex-Queen Liliuokalani Of Hawaii
is very anxious to know what the news
papers say about her. There Is press
clipping bureau in New York that sends
70 her address in Honolulu everything
that is print2r1 n >tfief press OF the
s Snit ed, state ssiy '1SOi 5 herself and
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
The Armadluo as "a Pet.

In Central America the armadlllo IS
frequently domestlcated to rid houses Of
insect pests. They also make as nice
pets as one could desire; no animal is
cleaner or less Objectionable about the
house. They are as desirable in this re-
spect as well-trained cats or lapdogs.
and there could be no higher praise than
fbte
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

Pacific coast papers assert that 1.-TWO
million dollars worth of wheels from
Eastern manufacturers" mainly Chi
cago, have been brought into California
during the present season.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

A Californian won bride by giving
a young lady his lower berth in
sleeping-car. 1t is not the first time
that love has stopped to one of lower
birth.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

Anatomists, to separate the bones of
a skull, frequently fill it with small
beans and place the whole in a basin
OF water. The beans swell and slowly
split the skull. The force which beans
are capable of exerting under these
conditions is equivalent to the average
pressure in the boiler of a steam en-
CINE.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

Miss Willard asks: why are not
men more beautiful" They really
don't need to be. They do enough
heart-smashing now, ugly as they are.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

Johns Hopkins, young millionaire
or Philadelphia. rode fifteen miles on
a bicycle the other day and died a few
hours later from overexertion. The
bicycle is a good thing. but 1t Is not
wise to push 1t along too hard.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

II Jim Corbett talks as much at home
as he does through the public prints 1t.
is no wonder his wife is suing him for
a divorce.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

Mark Twain has reiterated his state
ment that Americans ought TO do more
kicking. 1t is evidently some time
since Mark has seen an umpire.
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But too often the symptoms OF iIdl~
gestion are either unnoticed or neg
lected until the animal has a sudden
cnd violent attack of collie.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

It Is a singular thing that when a
man goes slow on food he is called
faster.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
THE KINDLY LIGHT.
RELIGION AND REFORM THE
WORLD OVER

wait Upon the Lord" Poem from
Isaiah 40 ; 31-HaiI to the Graduate
"A Cheerful Seryice-General Notes
af Religion.
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Tn. Wedding sea.on.

We seem to be right in the midst of
the quiet" the pretty" and the high"
noon" wedding season.-washington
Post.
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Cranberries are nice made into dump
iings and steamed OF baked like apple
dumplingA
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Alleluta.

For strength withheld and weakness.
For broken ties and heart-strings river
given,
That sent us to the gate of heaven,
Allelula.
For silence when we cry and pray,
For wisdom strong to say us nay.
For grace that keeps us In the way,
Allelula.
-Selected
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To be happy is OF far less conse-
quence to the worshlpers Of fashion
than to appear .so.-Colton.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

A North Dakota prophet gives tho
world just nineteen years yet before
having to hand in its checks.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

A man named Merritt has won a
$950,00O lawsuit. Who says there is
nothing in a name?
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
Pruning Crane Vines.

In an address r. n. Day said: Prur-
ing should commence the first year and
vines cut back To about one foot long
and covered M well with clean soil
The next year the viHc may be allowed
to crow two branches and trimmed
back in fall ~ two or two and one-half
feet with all side branches cut OF. The
third year the vine may be allowed 70
attain its full length, four TO five feet,
and each alternate year C,s sprout
should be allowed to grow from the
roots OF the vine and one of the old
vines cut ont when the renewal vine is
two years old, thereby hat a two and
u four or three and i've years vino
for fruiting each year. In trimming the
side branches to the main vines they
should be cut bacl. % from two TO four
buds, according to the strength of the
vine. BY the above system of renewing
the vines they do not become so stiff
and unyielding and can be easily
brought to the ground for protection OF
covering. which should be done before
the ground freezes.
A Hard Times Story.-An exchange
saws, "a man over in Clay township
HARRISON county, went into his COW
stable the other night and by mistake
mixed her a nice mash in a box full
of saw dust instead of bran. The COW
merely supposed that hard times had
come, and they we're going to econo-
mize. meekly ate her supper, and tbs
man never discovered his mistake un-
til the next morning, when he milke'i
the COW and she let down a gallon Ct
turpentine, a quart of shoe pegs and
a bundle Of lath."
Some Farmers.-There Is much Of
truth and much of salutary suggestion
In this, from the Hampton Recorder:
Eyes, indeed, these are hard times. We
throw away our ashes and grease and
buy soap. We raise dogs and buy hogs.
We let our manure 60 to waste. We
grow weeds aud buy vegetables and
brooms. We catch scent fish with a 81
rod. We build school houses and send
our children of to be educated. And
lastly we send our boys out with $40
gun and a $40 dog to hunt for 10 cent
birds.
The sagacious breeder will this yesr
breed his best mares to the best stall
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The sagacious breeder will this yesr
breed his best mares to the best stall
lions to be found