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A TALK TO THE CHILDREN Message to Every Boy and Girl and to the Parents Also. KEntared according to Act o! the_ rar- Thousand Nine Hundred and Three, by Wm. Baily, of Toronto, at trie Deportment of Agriculture, Ottawa.) A despatch from Chicago says: Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preached from the following text: Matthew xix, 14, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me." This is Children's day. This is the morning when the Sunday schools of America, headed by their . superintendents and teachers, have made a grand charge and captured the pulpits and pews and choir lofts of all Protestant churches for their own sacred service. This is the day when the church auditoriums are, for the most part, fragrant with two kinds of flowers. Here are the flow-«rs which were produced iu the greenhouses and the back yards and the front yards and the wild country killsides and the meadow lands. Here are also the human buds which were gathered out of the nurseries of many homes. Here they are, these human flowers, in clusters of many classes. My, my! Did you ever see so many beautiful flowers abloom all in one garden? We know not which to admire most--the pale lilies in the cheeks; the red roses in the lips, the goldenrod dancing among the yellow curls or the roguish glances of these "black eyed Susans." If any one should ask me what I considered the most important day in the church yea.r, without we an hesitation I would answer, Child- of one ren's day. This is the Sabbath Christ morning when parents not only One day his bring their children to the churches him. Then, reached, but when But, children, though I may have been able to guard and shield and properly protect my little girl while she was at home, there came a momentous day when she went beyond my direct care and guiding influence. That day first came when we sent her to school. It was a sad time for ^the parental heart when our oldest child had to pack her little school books and leave home. Her mother took her up to a great big room filled with little boys and girls and left her there. In that school we knew that there were bad girls as well as good girls, bad boys as well as good boys, and she had to sit there and associate to some extent with them all. Now, who is going to look after my little girl when she goes to meet the temptations of school unless Christ, who loves little children, goes along and takes her by the hand? Who is going to tell her what to do when the bad girl tells her to disobey her teacher and whispers in her ear the naughty story if Christ is not. there? iiothcr cannot do it. Her fa- ("• ri it. We i iughts, ward God when his sing ng her Saviour's pr holy sanctuary, his hear be her guide and her shield. TEMPTATIONS. Some grown .up people do not think that little children have any big temptations. But I know that eome of the greatest temptations we ever have in life come to us when aing, very young. I knew tie boy who did not take long with him to school, laymates were teasing because he did not ith him, he lost what she would do. Perhaps she would get down on her knees and put her arms about you and then and , there consecrate her life and yours anew to the Saviour. Oh, children! Oh, little children, that is one reason why I want you to respond to Christ's invitation, "Suffer the little children to come unto me." I want you to come to Christ to-day to be saved, that you may also ask your big brothers and sisters, your fathers and" mothers and all your little playmates to come along by your side. PARENTAL LOVE. Having talked perhaps already far too long to the children, I would like to speak a few words in closing directly to the parents and the grown up people here assembled. Fathers and mothers, are you to Kit an opportunity for your own salvation like this go amiss? When your • Chr.'s- ling 1 • liv hrew it out. Thi 1 grew tid picked up a stone and at the boys, and he hit yne of the boys and put ; little boy, who be blinded. I knew of another little | boy who, because he did not have >uld I Christ with him, wanted to frighten hileja playmate, as bad boys sometimes in ; do. He pushed him from a bank -'--r and the little boy 3IDER THE CHILDREN, in the crowd surround: there was also a lot of i hetic men and women. Ti d to that great class of p ) think that children are that they shot I saw it was taker: little know that the strongest ties we have on earth are those which bind us to our children. Are we to he a spiritual stumbling block in their way? A beautiful incident lately recounted in the German papers sets forth in strongest terms what tho parental love might not only be in the hovel, but also in the palace. Em-peeor William II. was inspecting some of the famous industrial establishments of his kingdom. In one the most expensive kind of thin luce dresses were being made. The proprietors, desiring to give the emperor a present in recognition of the honor his visit had conferred upon them, wished to send the empress one of the most delicate and expensive of gowns. The emperor looked at it a moment and then laughed. "Oh," he said, "that gown is not appropriate for my wife. It is too thin and delicate. It would not last a day. My wife never moves unless sho has two or three babies pulling at her skirts, and they would tear that gauze all to pieces." Beautiful picture that! And yet it is the picture whiah is seen in every true parent's life. We always should have our babies hanging upon tho way Jesus Chri j the kingdom of 1 often decide the vill follow. Fathers > grei ;tle schoolma pocket-book miot afford th i i jail young, his taught him it of his moth, children, go to school imptations of tho less you take Christ livine protector, while, you must go l you must go o irld tirely away from home. You must be like'your father and mother and do not. have Jesus by your side, which will beset you and trip you up. Are you now going to drive Christ away from your heart and hildren and mothers, will you start lor heaven to-day as a grand climax t0 this children's day festival? Standing amid this beautiful human ilow-ir garden of little children, I have ono more word to speak. I congratulate this church because it places its chief emphasis in the place whore it belongs. Next to the prayer meiting the most important of services is the Sunday school secsi;< May God bless the Sunday sch) superintendents of America. God bless the teachers i other Sunday school officers. God bless the scholars, anc •y Sabbath be a children Sunday should be allowed seek Christ^ the'one ihiir'n...* loved and always will Iov children. THE SALESSC 6, T. Ahd Sannuel prayed the Lord, and the Lord said Samjuel, Hearken unto tho vc the people in all that they say uny to thee, for they have not rcjecte* thee, but they have rejected Me th|j> I should not reign over them. '£ Their conduct was no surprise i Sjt God. He had foreseen it all . *y knew from the beginning their,t hearts and how they would fj Him (Deut. xvii., 14), yet Hew them with an everlasting love, or_ them when they cried unto Hifany gave them and delivered the%ftor them propb jjjm them backjon as it His ow they -FOR FARMERS f prophet to wi and finally their "Messiah, rejected nad e have no king ! He loves them His promises to Abraha' ^ the Jacob for His own nary ghall look -- will come When knvictod of , fulfill deeply -!p iri!"'J. and rejoice i before all upon Him, be long looked for Me: in Him and nations (Zoch. vvrt' Y'a&. 88). When 1>-Xnl',' IjUk0 ' gainst Moses, Israel murmuret k ™ they murmured against Him w art Moses; whf Poople reject messengers of rod, they reject G Himself. , , Now *erefore, hearken ut their voice-; 'b/wbeit yet protest -emnly unto tie"1 tanner of th» Kl The Lord a isconduci ot Seasonable and Profitable j Hints for the Busy Tillers * of the Soil. £ (^^^♦^^.^.^.•^••^••^ THE NO-PURPOSE COW. This animial is in evidence on a great many farms and has done tow-arid injuring the dairy anld cattle business than anything else. The no-pjurpose cow is much like the mongrel dog or the barnyard fowl. Neither has any particular breed, possibilities or capabilities. They exist because they are the products of a lazy, careless system. They do not help their owners much, but tend to discourage them. The rso-purpose cow is the product of an indifferent system of farrowing, and it is an animal which is neither good for milk nor beef. She is usually a good feeder, an excellent feeder in fact, but, not much of a producer. It is astonishing scrubbing^ makers, they one they had reduced- no trouble, and the use of well as of soda has bce»i BUILD SILOS. Because-Less waste of fodder thai/ drying. Three times parity as is^s milk flow. Ensilage* is estimated, Keeps cows much storage 3d in mows, feod keeps up thai and shew them the beef and dairy ty ug that shall reign stires Samuel that this j . Israel is nothing new, ,ce they left Egypt they have acted thus toward Him and that Samuel must not feel slighted 11 red, but accept it all as fel-> with God Himself. It would reat victory for every believer was continually practiced and n anything is said or done to B would remember that He as done to Himself and He g to it (Acts ix., 4, 5). God cheerful, willing service, the love of Christ constraining. He does love that which is done grudg- in.^- ,tt' '-."ix., 7). But when determined to have their"own way He sometimes gives them their request, though '+ leanness in 15 ; (Ps. ren is good enough for my friends There were some men that day, j went and called his disciples. They kn -v how precious every word | he uttered was and how many sick and blind and deaf people he was curing, and they did not want his time taken up with little children. So these disciples told the fathers ; life? 1 j protectci CHILD SHALL 1 chil- should e arid l with ask a blessing that you can father and mother, big I sisters along with you Oh, how many children did re rhey i by the 1 put ! life of e heard that thes and let the chile ed the sweet words i the kingdom of hca- niller and have mie and knelt at the Saviour's Little children, do you not that you perhaps better that ne else can lead your fathers mothers and brothers and sis-md uncles and aunts and big md big women to Christ? ~ ot realize, boys and girls, he Bible describes the di the t when "the Christ gave this sweeping inv tion to all children to be brought his arms. Therefore I shall children, in a few plain, sirr words to tell why it is import;:, very important--for you to come Christ while you arc\ young, i when I show you that it is im[ ant for you to come to Chris would also try to show you t ill dwell with the iamb, and the little child shall lead them,' the greatest gospel messengers who ever lived are the little children who are leading the grown up people to the foot of the cross? Boys and girls, if you have a father who never goes to church, what a good thing it would be if you could bring him! Suppose should go home from this s and clamber up into his lap say: "Papa, why do not you come to church? Why do not you love I Jesus?" How good a thing it would Text of the Lesson, I. Sam. 1-10. Golden Text, I. Sai vii., 3. 1-3. And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made sons judges over Israel. * * * And his sons walked not in his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment, After the defeat of the Philistines, recorded in the previous chap-] ter, which we had as a lesson six months ago, they were subdrued,, and the hand of the Lord was against them all the days of San* uel. Samuel was the Lord's reprel seartative in their midst and evef sought their true welftn sight of God. Ho was faithful not i 10. And Samuel told all th< orcis of the Lord unto the reoph asked of him a king. just as when a child he told Fl every whit of the Lord's messag. (chapter Hi.. 18) even though rt wa, a message oi judgment so now h declares faithfully all tho words o the Lord concerning the manner o the king whom God will give Uiem Then 9*f the people insist not .withstanding, on having this king "Samuel heard all the words of people, and he rehearsed them the ears of the Lord" (verse 21). He 'e tw man pleaser; he speaks the will not let His people rushf ^ ruin blindly, nor will He overthrow His enemies without offering then rCV ^LHevdid to the People" o: trine before the flood and al-Pharaoh and his people tlways precedes judgment. A KISS DEFINED. Some one has taken pains to think eut the following apposite description* of osculation: A kiss is an insipid and te uviSr1' ,which becomes delicio orerj^th j" proportion as Jt ' Tho sweetest fruit on the tr j^e- The oftener plucked the A tiling of use ' to no one, muckJM-izod by two. TMpjaby's right, the lover's vilegc-Vhe parent's benison al hypoeif.e's mask. 3 Lord's The 3 gave his ' b of his --loel. Jehovah is God Jehovah, ray Father. But beauttfu n , icit ier indicate the ci ractei nor change the heart. Righteous ness is not hereditary, and manj good parens 'nave bad children Consider Eli and David and Htezej kiah, and, stranger still, listen to" Jehovah Himself in Isa. l, 2, 1 have nourished aifd brought up! ^ children, and they rebelled ogaxnstl inevitably me." Truly the < ~ niity against God ; old, anol Noah's Mercy t )w where the food goes which she eats, for it is converted into neither fat, flesh nor milk. It must make bone, muscle or sinevy, for the flesh of such an animal is generally tough when eaten. Now the general-purpose cow is a cross ^ +„r,» intermediate between the This animal, ictly speaking, is the product oi careful and good breeding, and is not the outcome of chance or accident. She has been bred for a dual purpose and if she comes up ticipations she is a good milker and a good beef producer. While not as good as the beef animial or the finest dairy cows in producing beef or milk, she nevertheless possesses the ability to partake of each to a considerable degree. She is eminently adapted to the general farmer who wishes milk arid later a fat cow for the shambles, with calves which will produce good veal short time from birth. It may not be generally known but it is more difficult to raise such an animal than a typical beef or dairy cow. SHEEP NOTES. There are no animals more unprofitable than poor sheep. Sheep prefer short fres* grass to that which is tall and fresh-Fattening sheep should i more grain than they w eat up clean. Even after being turned the ewes with lambs can be given a little grain with benefit. No matter whether lambs raised for mutton or wool, they should be kept growing steadily. The fleece cannot be too well cared for, both while in a state of growth and after it has left the sheep'~ back. Feeding the lamhs will pay, especially if they are not doing well. By iidi/jious management amd be' be made by sheep.8°° lui It is always best to ti ™ed "Jeep into pastur good shade in them. The sheep that will meet mand of the future, *3ro^ good safe place to store it and keep good ex«( authority, as twati 3 cheap as roots. i a healthy condition* better than dry feed and gives good appetite. It helps save late crops? in bad weather. It helps out old pasturage. I Twice as many cattle can be kepla on the average farm. f No sudden change from green t«t,r dry food, arid the reverse. THE SCARLET TUNIC. Story of Its Power Told in r Rocky Mountain Train. Miss Pauline Johnson tells thi* incident, related while the passengers, on the Imperial Limited were tied upj in the Rockies during the recent) washout: When the American passengers; learned we were "tied up" in th« heart of the Blackfoots they shud* dered--but they did not know thfl meaning of the scarlet tunic of th« N W M. Police. We had to tellt tham that old, old story we never* tire of telling a Yankee, of the daysi subsequent to our 1885 rebellion,) readily hundred Canadian Indian^ invited themselves to sojourn acrost; the border, and found scant welconu; in a country that had, according t«, ■ the "great white father at Washings Jton," "ftuite enough Indians of theit; Ottawa and Washington held at, :onclave, and arrived at the decisions, that "Canada would care for her; if Yankeeland would! please escort them to the border.".. Yankeeland did--gladly. Six hun<: dred not too friendly, discontented, quietly wild Indians were escorted to line by a bunch ol 'airy, 300 strong. Atj the boundary were two British sol-, diers, astride two handsome horses* a corporal and a private of thfl Northwest Mounted Police. Tni, American colonel and the Canadian :orporal held speech. "Where," demanded with t have fleece the Americaif : escort for thes hundred ugly redskins?" "We are here," replied the coipor< . "Canuck." ---the answer,. poral "Camic "But there are only two of you/', gasped tho American colonel. , "Yes, but we wear the BritisF scarlet," said corporal "Canuck." It was enough. The six hundred .unruly Indiana -died silently across the border.! The The f0(i love is ?d. ' '•«■*-" "<j The oivy known "smack" tl calm a A t,:l.g.un tQ thc h JEW V uses the "sou *^5W\vided between tw -„ t„.c»»u* for one, just , ii I*1*6 *i°Jn*uch„for three' ■X . -. i i r ..-.t[ ;,, \'y r ally ugre- al-i, under the sun, c drv. The pect is due laij sheep, the 3 the r polic . fel • flavo' locality in which it is treatment. very easi- It i '!!!<< 1 Sheep may be fattened ly and cheaply, when lifted :ident tji- labial of the i thy ways if he I put and should say, "Yes, darling, and learn be doing , ove Jesus." He would as that great lawyer of Philadelphia did ago. He was home i Washington for : ^ shield r| Lrud.p Hi! I - "Oh, papa, I have learned Would you like to hear me Then she went and got irchimrenr-"I^ish |Uttle fingers used for a guide sne with that slowly read the sixteenth verse of we^e with this^ mom-I ^e third chapter of St. John, '-'For ; ono of my little girls God so loved the world that he gave Why, papa?" I would ^ only begotten Son, that whoso-lo not think he is a evcr believeth in him should not r. i" heard his mother perish, but have everlasting life." 3-day to come into the Before the little girl had finished her u ne answered, 'I won't reading the father's heart melted come?' And when his mother went Kith repentance am? he was crying after him he lay right down in the llke a httle child. Boys and girls, street and began to kick and what do you think your mother scream and bite. Now, no good would do if you would climb up into little boy will ever act like that, her lap and put your arms about her and I do not want you to go with j neck and ask her why she did not him,"* have family prayers? I tell you for I have i little boy y ing." And should say, call to hin they Behold, thou thy soms walk no Now, make us a king to juc "ke all tihe nations. God had chosen Israel tha tight be unto Him a peculiar ui are above all people, a kingdom priests, a holy nation, separateaj from all other people, dwelling alone, not reckoned among the nations, delighting to say: 'he Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king. ft« J fsav, us" (Erx. xrx, 5 ( xxx.u It;- Num. xxiii, 9; Isa. xxxm, --)■ His power was their strength and His presence their glory. The very thing that God chose them for they turned their backs upon and wanted to be like other people. they chose the earthly and visible preference to the heavenly ami visible and deliberately rejectee the high position to which God had called them and in which tie placed them. It is just iU~ i h/iiehes and of Chi' We are called out of the worl". h"" have nothing more to do witn it but glorify God people fit ' seen God Everything that | igh standard or »" ----- trov these distinctive features of the Christian life by sa and do like others, sin repeated. [moon, eit The swecV language. A woman' ment, wheth husband, „ ■hildhood. OSoIe the griefs The thunder A follP' the hps, which the eyes the lightning A report at hear Ever.yl o<h's actiV'ters. !eo and Juliet. Ifrtion of Ro-What the child rec^ ^ the young wa wool, not inferior wool Host one'cLtm-' ^ " good than it dols ™he°pooVaiSe th° To make the best mutton th I sheep must be made to grow and to I manure as young as possible. Iho best, sheep for keep is the kind that Stable to him, and breed depends upon ings. officer in commend airy three hundred strong e and swore. The i orded and discussed at ington, D. C. The cost of the affair to Uncle Sam was the pay and; living of three hundred men and officers. The. cost to Canada was $J ■ee days for tw LIVE STOCK FARMING cr^Je stpck farming i fast fell i ' Bri "Yes, And ike Khildn.-n, well ing that Corporal Adams ai eight Yukon men would "Keep the peace of the peopl And the honor of British lat MALE BEAUTY SHOW. of the improved breeds M- \ Halliwell say Whether liv old ! i buys, e stock il were designed by the C go hand in hand or not a pretty well settled fact that V, Srain growing nor ,-ange stock flc Appollos Chiefly Notable for a Display of Muscle. " "' ~'j The Vienna Athletic !mge ofl1^ ncld a male beai ' " very fair sp ■ Club i The s f Etogia, is s PROOF POSITl A commercial traveller, as somewhat remarkalfe face gliness, recently found hi\ its ittle country town._ \n a s proceeding quietlhe ' He ' the- st- - <oiirron.leel by two large looking men, apparently to the jilace.. The more aggressi gave the traveller shoulder like the bar very fertile because of the PTmv tion of these two forces C°mhl^ thorough tillage. It j to see that in time r, away a much greater' beef and mutton ii. be grown on ft growing on the ranges ing away. Stock gr0y land, while so much g with it. And while i have largely decreased is very easy > not very far proportion of I this country is fast pas-, ing enrichi creased be grow ■ animals . numbers, I consume them for many yea people had been trying" i„ the breed of cattle, horses, He s i the aid o ho ally i o that perhaps '(? the audience would with the award when iin-as the jurv would not? 3 mto account a Well-turned musJ 'edeargtn°?hCy0S' feaUjrcs which1 . aeai to the opposite sex iei competitors were then led out hreo batches of thirty. They scantily clad in bathing draw. caltd \°nf °n his number be-population.""" L"e '^easing! exhibited\St0Cpped ,to the from Most emphatically the easy wayfe^A^Wt were e£ richness of our I ^t„cd.?ould he I u ifu] foi 3 aneHy ^iis^rf0t^0Vlr^n ricb(ness of our' ^bitcd could be called beautiful, ta ^ 4S me^ofoJ JSc^S «S ^ ™- was pleSy^f mu^le ^f"* of thefe ""fir*11*; make ™ ™ey feWt of ^ e«ofw^syS oi em, out of their farms- than +u.'y metrically built. 3 farms- than they ca°n met"cally built, ■verage by any form of "clean cuf- LElANlNG MILK UTENSILS. APPROPRIATE. cleaning agent 1 3 just Israel' is the favorit to-date Danish ,t it is an exception when steamed. All wooden in ^^ed^and scrubbed fj and then they -'. thick slacked twenty nrin-churns or other d with lime and lost -aftor wfcich they are m warm water, and V hot 4er ten or tw ro>ter the chur; I.:/, scrubbed wit '---.vhich enlu^to^aSj ^e^S^ "What's that?" "He calls them 'engagement rings for summer girls ' " ^ Camels are limals that ca If a working said to be the < ai an had to liv egg, he subs<*