1 The Puip7F A SERMON ' by tAe ren- ,jRAV-p.NDEft$o Subject : Representing Christ. Brooklyn, N. Y. Preaching at thp 1 vtng Square Presbyterian Church i the theme, "Representing Christ," e pastor, the Rev. Ira Wommell nderson. took as his text. John 13: 1-35, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as ( have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another." He said: This, to my mind, Is one of the broadest, most far reaching, most widely Inclusive of the moral duties that our Lord has made obligatory upon those who wish to enter Into the Christian life. The tlmp and the scene are famil iar to us all. The Supper is over; Christ has washed the feet of Ills dis ciples; the betrayer is named and de parted upon his errand of shame. The end Is very near. A few hours ami Calvary. With the knowledge of His ap proaching suffering weighing heavily on His heart, the Saviour with a more than kingly courage speaks His words of comfort and command. Only eleven men, and they soon sorely to be tried, hear the melody of His voice; but to our hearts He speaks to-day, with those same kindly yet authoritatively tones with which He swept the faithful, fickle, strangely human souls of that little bund to whose ministry we owe so muca. This "new commandment" that our Master enjoins upon the disciples demands equal obedience from us. In It is embodied the essence of the whole moral law. To be true sons of the Father we must exemplify In our own lives those very qualities of love and of loveliness that are the secret of the Saviour to draw men, every where and at all times, unto Himself. With our every thought and word and act must we represent the Christ. With all our moral and spiritual forces, given to us of God and dedi cated to His service, must we re-pr -Bent the message of salvation. Let us look for a moment at the Character of the love which Christ demands of us who would serve Him truest. With Him there is no letting down either in degree or in kind. Christ asks of us the same ideal love that He spread wide about Him whithersoever He went. "Even ns I have loved you." go shall ye love one another. "Not a simple comparison, but a conformity; the love is to bo of the same nature, " the commanta tors tell us. Thus we see, that, in short, we are, in our love, to be Chrlstlike. No mere sentimentality, no passing fancy or passion, is this love of which the Christ Is typal. It transcends and Includes all our personal passions. All the heart's emotions are at their best when, the love of Christ reigning within us, they are expressions of that altur latlc, world-Including affection wnlch the Nazarene calls foith. The influ ence of the Christ makes for greater beauty in all the gardens of the soul. Everywhere In life we find it to be so. The gentle light that glances from the mother's eye becomes a holy, teadfast glow when once the power of the loving, living Christ is felt within the soul. All love '.hat is worthy of the name Is beautified, en nobled, sanctified by the incoming of the Spirit of Almighty God. the Com forter from Christ. The Christ life without the Christ love cannot be. The life Implies the love. The In coming Christ compels an outgoing love; and only in the measure that we pour out our love upon our fellow men do we live truest for Christ and closest to His side. Thus, we see that, in essence und in sum, our love as Christian men a"nd women must measure true to the character of the love whic', was in Jesus Christ Him self. A cursory examination of these words of the Master would lead the reader, perhaps, to conclude that this love that the Saviour showered upon His disciples anil to which He bade the eleven to conform was to be con fined in Its application to themselves only, or at best to those who would accept the Gospel and its messenger. To be sure, there is a mighty element of truth contained even in this limit ed, Bhort-sighted. rather self-centred view. Christ did mean and does mean that Christians should prac tice all the arts of love within the circle of those who have heard the call aid have answered It. Perhaps It would be better, no not perhaps, dui certainty it would be best, for theyChrlstlan household of faith, In dividually and collectively, to make effective In their lives the highest principles of ideal love laid down by Christ. But as we read closer and enter more tully into the mind of the Master we see a de:per and a grand er message In these part lug com mands. Listen once again to His words: "Even as I have loved you." Do you not see the great, world-wide principle lying Just Within the shad ow of the sentence? "Even as I have loved you." And how had He loved them? MoBeB, you know, brought the children of Israel up from the torrid lands of bondage, up to the confines of the land of ' Jehovah's promise. And the name of Moses Is held In reverent memory by the host of that scattered people of God every where to-day. But this Christ, this despised Nazarene, had found these men struggling not only with un wholesome economic and ecclesiasti cal conditions, but with Inner and spiritual distress. True to the pur pose and motive of His life Christ had given them the way unto spirit ual salvation and, with it, the means to the cleansing of the entire civil life of the world. He had come down from the Father's house beyond the Immeasurable blue and, taking upon Himself the burdena and the sins of human kind, had Btarted these men out upon the sure highway that leads to spiritual perfectness and all tem poral Joy. He had found them In deep darknesi and had shown them the light. There was no question In Cbrlet'B mind au to the depth of their philosophy, or as to the bulk of their purses, or as to the fit of tbelr clothes. He did not Inquire, so ' as we have record. Into their ances try, so to be sure that they were wor thy to be in the social set of one who was of the line of David. Ah, no! Christ took them, one and all, ut their face value as men and sinners. He saw in them only men waiting and longing for the touch of a loving hand and the comfort of a sunt sal vation. He called them anil they left their work, tliei families and their friends, and they followed where He led. And, as they followed. He .aught them, and Ho showed their, how, by the power that He alone could give, thev might work social t and spiritual miracles and transfor mations In their own lives and also In the lives of other men and of na tions. And, withal. He loved them with that mighty, godly love where with none other had ever loved them before. Such wns the love of Christ to His disciples. Such was the char acter of the affection, In the broadest Interpretation, that He lavished upon them. Such was the love which, in Us fullest application, He wished them to manifest to all men. He had loved them as sinners. They must, love other BU In sin. He had dealt kindly and patiently and with nil forebeuranee with them. They must do the same with their fellows. To be sure, they were to strive for har mony among themselves at all times that they might he known and read of all men ns His disciples. Only thus could their teachings gain or rptnln n merited resnecf. Hut the wider expression of the love of Christ I that was spread abroad in their hearts demanded, as It demands to day, that they look upon all men In sin, ns well as upon nil Christians, as brothers and love them. But, I hear some one ask, suppose Christian meu to-dny do love, spe cifically and generleally, as Christ commanded that the disciples should love, what then? That is Just the point that I wish to consider. This command of Christ, In Its application both to the relation of the Christian to the other faithful and to the world of men In sin about him, Is just ns Imperative upon us as It was upon any of the eleven. And the outworking of that Christ principle In all the depart ments of human activity will ensure the final solution of all difficulties that now perplex and distress us and the OO Bat! CD nation of the Kingdom of our Lord. It Is so perfectly ensv and so very simple that the ease anil sim plicity of it all astonishes ,12. Wo have become so accustomed to think of our problems as exceptionally hard to solve. We seem to take much Joy to assure ours.Mves of the almost In surmountable difficulty to set th; world right with the eternal plan of God. We would much rather, so It would seem, that the whole matter remain complex. We think, perhaps, that God will be easy or. us If we fall In a difilcult task. Beloved. It is difficult. It is well nlght, yea actually. Insurmountable, this sin in the world, when squared to the possibilities of our own un aided powers. But did we open our hearts wide toward Heaven once, and let the power of the Spirit of the liv ing Father fill us to the full; did we but empty out our Spirit-filled hearts in love upon our fellow men: did we but put into action once this simple plan of God toward the rehabilitation of the world, we WOttld learn, and that quickly, what are the possibilities of the power that cometh from on high. And the only way to rectify the results of the spiritual, moral, economic and political sins of toil world, individual and social, Is to let the love of God fill you and through ou the world of men about you. This done, the task is light, for our basis of action ll changed. We no longer rely upon the wisdom oi! the philosophies of men and their theories, but we clutch tightly to the power arm of that Ruler of us all to whom all things are possible and we seize the first thing first. Now this command of Christ to love one another even a.s He has loved us, Is imperative. It Is mandatory and not permissive. If we would bo good Christians of full and regular standing in the household of faith we must obey. It is not for us to decide whether or no in our case the law shall be valid. Christ commands, and only by obedience, to His demand do we so live that all men shall know that we are His disci ples. The test of fidelity Is In obodi ence. Lip testimony is Judged by fealty In service. Some one has said: "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." It Is this central fact that Christ recognizes when He commands a loving order ing of our outward life. We are Christians, but do we live the life of love? These word3 of Christ should come home to each of us with more than usual force at this season of the year. Christmas is over; shortly we shall be face to face with those sad der days which are so full of mem ories of Him who, for our sakeB, suf fered even ignoblest death. It Is fitting that we should re-dedicate our selves to the work that He so dearly loved. In His own good Providence Uod has soen proper to make use of us to redeem the world. It remains for us to decide to "o-operate with Him and to do good work for the kingdom. Shall we put our shoul ders to the wheel or shall we add weight to the load? Shall wc not drink deep at the fountain of God's love; shall we not be messengers of His healing love unto this weary, sin crushed world? Only as we breathe the Spirit of His love do we represent Him. Let us open then our hearts both God-ward and man-ward; and fill tho world with Christ's uplifting, sancti fying love. "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, If ye have love one to another." EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24. Convincing the Word John 17 20 23. Passages for reference: John 9. 35 31; 10, 37, 38; Phil. 2. 15; 1 Pet. 2. 12. Men are convinced by argument, but not always wordy arguments. We depend too much on these. Word? call out words. Arguments draw out argument. Facts have no answer. They okise the lips of our opponents. The Scriptures do not try to prove that IM exifits. They call attention to facts that speak louder than words The bono should not be too flne- The True Church. There are some few churches left to show the type to which all churches must return. Next to the home und the family the true church represents to Its memburs helpful ness, Bympathy and every gracious and homelike virtue. Heavenly activity is fruitless with out heavenly attributes. ' THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS EOR FEBRUARY 34, BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Grind the Dry Bone. The green cut bone should always bo preferred, but the hard, dry bones should be ground nnd utilized also. f his existence. God lets his work? speak for him. H Is our part to cnl) attention to his works and let them convince. Jesus said. "And I. if I be lifted up from the. earth, will draw all men unto ine." We point them to Christ, nnd he does tho convinc Ing. "If I do not the works of my Kill her. believe me not. But If I do, j though ye believe not me, believe the works." When John sent from the prison to Inquire of e.Isus whether he was the Christ, or If they were to look for another, he told John's dWelples to tell him what they saw, and lot the works answer his qties Hon. about the size of peas is correct and may be placed In a box and left for the fowls to eat at will. If the pieces are too sharp they will serve as grit, besides providing lime for the shells, because they are animal food, and digestible, their action being mechnnlcul. Farmers' Home Journal. Cement For Barns. A prominent Iowa farmer was ready to build a big barn this spring, but the estimates on the ?timber scared hrtn out. Tho other duy he Henred with n man owning concrete l'.very man needs to know God, oi mX(!I. antj n cement block machine his life Is a failure Christians are i and foum, that the barn cou)d nc. In touch with both God nnd man. I tuallv be bullt of concrete blocks foi ls our business 10 BITO1 mem wr L-eiher. Gratitude to God should less than of lumber. And, besides, it prompt us, nnd Interest in our fellow men should make us doubly eager, to bilng this about. would be almost entirely fireproof, aside from the roof. A sand and gravel pit Is only a mile distant, and A physician may Insert his card in the plan Is to have the mixer and block mnchlne brought to the farm and the blocks made there. Root Crops For rows. Roots can form to advantage a part of many rations, particularly KkTS Toftat h. hi ! 19 " Pliable. They BU do, thS men are convinced, ant' contain too much water to lorm the I he newspaper. telling or nis skill in curing certain maladies Men read It and nre skeptical A man steps forth nnd says, ''I had that trouble, nnd he cured me. See, there Is no trace of it left." When . , , , i. one anil another stanu lonn mm ui II If he never fails the proof is com enure ration. rswnm nswu me plete. The blind man whose sight largest amount of digestible matter, was given him, and who was quest- but are not readily oaten unless loned by the rulers of the Jews, did cooked. Mangels are the heaviest not hnvo any question In his own i yielders, but contain so large a per mlnd that one who could give sigh' centage of water that they are rather was divine. His sight was an argu j e)(pen3ve to handle. Sugar beets ment too strong to be resisted. I contaln much less water, but are I ll right In themselves mil y be mor(? dlnlcult to Krow and ,i0 not completely neutralized. Much effort duce gQ ne a vlp,d Artlrnokc9 la rendered useless because of the i . . ,,.,.. hn ,ar.A .suit-It In which It is done. .les prayed for his dUciples on that event fill night In the upper room, "That 'hey all may be one; as thou, Father, art In me, and I In thee, that they al so may be one In us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." Oneness of believers convinces the world that God sent Christ Into th wot Id By this shall all men know that yi are my disciples, that ye have lovt one toward another." The spirit oi the world Is selfishness, and conten tion and strife abound, but all such It out of place among the disciples of th Muster. How often the whole worl f a church or League Is nullified b; ... I often make a profitable hog feed wnere ine nogs arc pormutea 10 ao the harvesting. To Cure Scaly Leg. Scaly leg is a filth disease. If It can be called n disease, It being caused by a tiny mite which burrows under the scnles of tho lens and Again In John, Jesus says t0(?s It lives nnd breeds there. The remedy Is very simple and easy. It is only necessary to grease the legs with any kind of grease. An Dlntment of a third kerosene oil and two-thirds lard Is easily applied, and If well rubbed on nnd in half a dozen . . I , , . ,.. . ..... 1. P ...... I , I, ..,,1,1 the contention and nicnering oi im i iimeo, a wupm ui au r.ibers. kill the mites, and the scales will ?ome off. Don't pull off the scales that havo become large. That hurts the birds, something as pulling off your finger nails would hurt you. Poultry and Pets. Fnts ns Milk Feeds. It was formerly believed that the fat in the food was the main sourco of the fat in the milk. A good cow, however, will produce In A year a much larger amount of fat in the milk than she consumes in the food, showing that the fa', l are In part produced from other nutriments. In vestigations that have been made show thnt It Is not possible to in crease either the percentage or tho Christian islands sing, for their oil' total amount of fat In the milk for songs were but waitings. any appreciable time by the feeding Haw Inadequate we are to praisi of fats or oils. Where fats have God for all Be has done for us! Wf been fed to cows, even at the rate of need the help of the islands, und si! 1 two pounds or more per day of tal- (listant lanns. in tins gnat work oi , low cotton-seed oil. or other fats. FEBRUARY TWENTY-FOURTH. Foreign Missions: The Kingdom In the islands. Isa. 42:10-13, 16, 17. The Islands are Christ's. Ps. 72:1-10 All rejoice In Him. Ps. 97:1-12. They shall glorify Htm. Isa. 24 13-15. They shall see His mercy. Isa. 41: 1-9. They wait for His law. Isa. 42:1-4 Judging the Isles. Kzek. 119:1-7. It is a new song indeed that thf A Test of vim-. In Laos, an undeveloped region of French Indo-Chlna. there Is some thing out of the way In the shape of a village of lunatics. The most com mon form of madness there Is belief among the lunatics that buffaloes are inside them When these madmen Ret too troublesome they aro at once removed to the village. But previously they aro tested for mildness by being bound hand and foot and 'hrown into a river. If they manage to swim that Is a Blgn of their being of sound mind. If they sink to the bottom, as Is most often the case, isolation In the village Is the sentence in the event of their being rescued alive. South China Post. the fat content of the milk was not permanently increased. American Cultivator. How to Feed n Dairy Cow. A practical dairyman writes the Jersey Bulletin on feeding his cows. He says: "Our herd numbers In all fifteen head. Our cows are grained the year 'round, have the run of pas ture in Bummer, and are well housed In winter. Our summer ration for praising God. Darkness light there Is no gveatei transforation in all nature. It fitlj represents the transformation fron heathenism to Christianity. The worship of Images made bj one's own hand seems the most ab surd folly; but how about thevwor ship of those little Idols called coins' Notes from the Islands. Leka, king of Nukuor. the Carollnt Islands, has taken a year's training has returned to his own cotintrv to Ik a dairy cow Is barley chop, about four a Christian preacher us well as kins pounds per diem. In winter we use over bis people. j shredded fodder for roughage; grain More than two hundred of the na 1 ration, eight pounds per day per cow tlve mUslon workers of the Fiji Is- . of a mixture of cornmeal, barley lands were convened li. the BloH meal, malt sprouts and cotton-seed alone, with no help from tho mission ( meal, mixed in the required propor arles, I t0n8 to produce a feed which would In Sumatra there are now more than i anayze one part of protein to six of sixty thousand Christians These are , carbohydrates. Our cows are not the people who ll, 1S.I1 killed the plo ; to ,,, alongslne a atraw neers. Miinson and Lyinan. 8tack for ghpUer wh(?n tnermom John Williams Ml 'four' other mis fer !bowai something a little less lonarles became martyrs', a Martyrs tnan zero' hut are kept in the stable, Memorial Church has been dodl I even watered there. cated, the son of the ruurd I calves. Fed mostly on milk, they arc easily managed In barn or shed. When spring comes tho fall calf Is large enough to make good use of tho pasture, nnd so of the dry food when the next winter arrives. Take the calves away from the cows when they are two or three days old. At first give them warm, fresh milk. Afterwards feed them sweet sklmmllk. to which may be added a little boiled linseed oil cake. Keep before them a little bright, sweet clover hay until grass comes. Disease and no end of germs lurk In the feed bucket. Look there If your calves are not doing well. They should be washed and scalded every day. Boston Cultivator. Some Facts About the Dairy. In a recent address by Prof. Hills, of the Vermont Station, he said that we should be open-minded nbout a good many dairy topics and accept what proves to be wise. Late de velopments he says show that the German standard, which requires ap proximately two and one-half pounds of protein per cow, per day, is sub ject to considerable modification. He had seen good results from cows ca pable of producing 2 50 pounds of butler or more a yenr, on a ration containing one nnd one-half pounds of digestible protein. Protein occu pies too prominent a place in the German standard. He has found that very heavy feeding does not give good financial returns. A cow with all the clover hay she will eat, a good ration of silage and six pounds of grain gives better returns than one with eight to twelve pounds of grain. The grain fed in excess of eight, pounds does not return proportionate results. Concerning the milking-machine, he considers It a labor-saver, easily cleaned, a close milker, better than the average milker. II has been in use for over three years. He believes that for the dairyman having thirty cows or more it will bo a good Investment. The earliest known directory la that of London, published In 1677. Subject: Ood's Covenant With Abram, Oen. Mil, B-lfl Golden Text: Oen. 15:0 Memory Verses: 8, 6. The lenson Is full of promise. It has also a fulness of textual per plexities. Two stories of the events are, evidently. Interwoven. Other stories of a remarkably similar char acter nre to be found In Genesis 13 and 17. The record we aro to study, and the others also, tells a single tele. The apparent differences are minor. They do not affect the cen tral, controlling promise-story: as a consequence of and as a reward for righteousness Jehovah covcnantswlth Abram that his descendants shall be beyond compute. The lesson Is replete with prom- Ises. They are obvious. A single reading will reveal them. We shall I concern ourselves, however, not with I the multiplicity of divine assurances, Snlvador, the smallest of Central but with the single promise which Among all the translations of Homer, that of Alexander Pope re mains the most popular. Marrying a girl against the wishes of her parents is, next to murder, the most severely punlshablo crime In Lapland. A man who falls to raise his hat when a funeral Is passing la Chester, England, Is liable to a fine and im prison tie American republics, has issued forty different kinds of stamps, more than any other country. In Sweden the depot waiting rooms nre provided with beds for passen gers, and porters call the travelers ten minutes before the arrival of trains. An American perlodlrnl Is respon sible for the suggestion that the nu merous consumptives in Colorado should bo compelled to wear bells round their necks. Spades and shovels, together with scoops, are found depicted on the walls of Egyptian catacomba, and all three are frequently mentioned by Roman and Greek agricultural writers. Chile has one of the oldest locomo tives in the world to be still in work ing condition. It was built by Nor ms, of Philadelphia, in 1850. This locomotive was .at work on the Co paipo line In 1851, Bomo years be fore the Buenos Ayres Western was built. R. L. Halstead Bay that he saw tho old relic under steam and in service a year or two ago, when he was in Chile. In Its out-reach and Implicates, con cerns humanity for all time. This promise was given by a pro ven God to a man of faith. The God who, as an expression of His Joy In and love for His trusting servant, de clared His Intention to make him the father of a multitude of nations was not a God whose word had never yet been validated in experience. Abram had tried God nnd had found Him true. In Ur and Haran and Canaan and Egypt, at home and abroad, In prosperity and In adversity, Abram had found God to be as good as His word, and to be sollcltlousi for his welfare. And the Almighty had found Abram to be a man of faith and of religious tenacity. He bad found him to be a man above his generation, fit to become the medium of a larger gospel and to assume a commanding position In his own time. The promise, in the face of the age and childlessness of Abram, was one that called for the largest faith In or der to believing acceptance upon Abram's part. It was, from his point of view, a thing unthinkable. The tremendousnesa of the promise was such that we should have been aston ished had he not asked, rather than that he did ask, Jehovah for a sign. It was a big promise even to a man of surpassing faith. And, after all, Abram, student of divine things as he was, was yet a man. The promise was a logical one. It was perfectly possible, however stu- Capes In Chickens. There are many theories among poultry raisers as to the cause of the gape worm getting Into the chicken's throat. Some claim that the chicken louse causes gapes, but this theory is not a reasonable one, since chicken lice and gape worms are two entirely different species of pests which trouble the potiltryman. The gener ally accepted theory of late years is that gape worms after they get a start on a farm or in a poultry yard live over winter as a parasite of the angle worm und that the chickens get them from eating the worms or else pick up the eggs from the soil. The best plan of fighting the gape worm is to put the chickens on new ground each year, but this is often not practical, and a liberal applica tion of quicklime to the poultry yard will greatly aid in destroying the gape worm. If the chickens are kept from the earth which is Infested with the gape worm until they are large enough to escape the gapes, they may be avoided in this way: It If generally thought that old chip yards give the chicks tho gapes, but I have one of the oldest chip yards In this part of the country, and the chicks run over It, but do not take the gapes, so It is not In the chip yard unless the yard is Infested with the gape worm. Not all angle worms are breeders of the gape worm, as the gape worm Is a parasite, and unless they get a start in the poultry yards the angle worms aro as free from them In that soil as the chicks are. Likely the old theory that lice are responsible for gape worms had Ita origin' In the noticeable fact that lousy chicks are more likely to suc cumb to the gapes than ones that are not lousy. Lice and gapes work ing together will kill any young chicken, and either alone Is bad enough. A. J. Legg, Albion, W. Va. ' pendous It was. The eternal laws of An astronomical wedding gift, says j God, controlling In heaven and upon the Weltall, has been presented to earth, were a guarantee of Its fulflll Klng Alfonso of Spain by the Repub- I ment. The word of Christ, seek ye lie of Peru. It is an artistic table clock designed by tho French sculp tor Carrlen Belleuse, and Is held by the Muse of Astronomy. The zodiac, stars, figures, etc., aro made of lap tslauzull, gold and precious metals. The clock received the "grand prix" first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, was aB valid before and In the day of Abraham as It Is In our own time. A vital faith In God Is the first need and the surety of a prosperous, constantly enlarging, tlme-transcendlng life. The sort of faith that Abram had, the sort of life erers of John Williams tak ing part in the impressive ceremony. Seven different missionary bodies are working as a united force In the New Hebrides. - In the first five years of mission ary work in the Philippines, ntatlons have In en pkuittd In most of the pro vinces of Luzon, and work has been begun iu the islands of Panay, Sa mur, Negros, OebU. anil Ieyte. The first Protestant Filipino clergy man la the son of a man whom the Humanists banished because he had a copy of the lllble. OR BILLHEAKST? "I'm slclci of all these ElmhurBts and Lyudhursts and Swamphursts." "So?" "Yes. Why doesn't somebody get original and name a subdivision Parkhurst?" Courier-Journal. A Merciful Motonnan. The passengers on a crowded cross town car In Brooklyn one day last week felt the brakes applied with such suddenness that only a few of those who were standing withstood the Jar. Then they saw the motor- man Jump from the platform and kneel in front of the car. Several of the passengers made their way out and were surprised to see tho motor man stroking the feathers or a moth er dove that sat on one of the rails with a little one under her wing. "I'va never taken a life yet," he explained as he placed them on the curb out of harm's way, "and I don't propose to start with a tame dove." Third Rail. In many of tho oltiee of Holland and Germany baths are now provided once a week or ottener tor all school children. Doubling the Product. Secretary Wilson certainly takes a hopeful view of what may be done In tho way of Increasing the pro ductive capacity of land by more scientific farming. "No miracle would be required," he says, "to double or even treble the production of cotton per acre. The corn crop can be increased by one-half per acre within the fourth of a century, and yet without reaching the limit, and the same may bo said of wheat and other crops. One-fourth of the dairy sows of the country do not pay for their feed, and more than one-ha'f of them pay no profit. The egg pro duction per heu will be Increased by at least a dozen a year within a gen eration, while some poultrymeu fore tell double that increase. It the hens of this year had each laid a dozen eggs more than they did, the In creased value of thlB production would havo possibly aggregated fifty millions of dollars." The Winter Calf. Calves dropped In the fall are more easily raised and pushed. Spring calves do not receive much benefit from grass the first season, because for some time after birth the rumi nating stomach Is undeveloped, not to mention the effect of files and the summer heat. When getting a good start, winter and dry food come, sid the growth Is checked. In the fall there 1 more time to be given Age Limit of Dairy Cows. A bulletin from the Wisconsin sta tion states that a cow is at her best during her -fifth and sixth years, up to which tlmo the production of milk and butter fat by cows In normal condition Increases each year. Tho length of time the cow will maintain her maximum production depends on her constitution, strength and tho care with which she 1b fed and man aged. A good dairy cow should not show any marked falling oft until after ten years of age. Many ex cellent records have been made by cows older than this. The quality of the milk p.oduccd by heifers Is somewhat better than that of older cows, for a decrease has been noted of one-tenth to two-tenths of one per cent. In the average fat content for each year until the cows have reached the full age. ThlB is caused by the Increase in the weight of the cowb with advancing age. At any rate, there seems to be a parallelism between the two sets of figures for the same cowt. Young animals use a portion of their food for the for mation of body tissue, and It la to be expected, therefore, that heifers will require a larger portion of nu triments for the production of milk or butter fat than do other cow. After a certain age has been reached, ou the average seven years of ago, the food required for the production of a unit of milk or butler fat again increases, both as regards dry matter und the digestible components of the food, a good milk cow of except tlonal strength, kept under favorable conditions, whose digestive system has not been impaired by overfeed ing or crowdlug for high resulte, should continue to be a profitable producer until her twelfth year, al though the economy of her produc tion Is apt to be aomewhat reduced before this aajM Is leuched. Balti more Sun. nt tho prio lrhihttinn nf inn nnrt ' that Abram lived, the sort of concen cost $16 000 I t,on of Jehovah that Abram enjoyed, ' carried to itB logical conclusions " " must of necessity eventuate In the Avoiding the Commonplace. world-wide power that God predicted. A younE reporter was given an If faith In God and righteousness are assignment to write the obituary oi j the essentials which underlie all suc- - I ..,..! . 1 r ... ... i., . 41. , . a nrom ncnt Western nionenr. u, i.ui mo ui ui unxwu, auiuuiii wrote as follows: "Citizens of this State will be vnrj much grieved to learn that Uncle Jos eph Hawley has been gathered to his fathers. He had been confined tc hie bed for throe months with a serioui ailment, and while hope was enter tained that he would recover, his death was not altogether unexpected. "Thus Is another well-known pio neer the victim of the grim reaper, and another sturdy spirit has crossed the range." The city editor remonstrated, with more than ordinary patience, "You better write this over again, my boy,' he said. "Don't uso ao many old ex pressions. Try to keep everything new and up to date. Don't use so many hackneyed phrases. Original ity is what we went." The young reporter seized upon his task with avidity. Presently he ap proached tho city editor's desk, and breathlessly laid his second effort upon It. This Is what he had written: "Everybody will shed tears w.lien they hear that 'Josh' Hawloy has joined his ancestors. He has been about nil In for nearly three months, and while a good many people kept kidding themselves with the Idea that he would got well, it was a cinch he had to go. , "Thus Is another of the old boys mowed down, and another soul has bored a tunnel thioush the great di vide." Puck. Window.! That Catch Buyers. Picnic camp scenes are always in order as window exhibits during pic nic weather. The great point to be borne in mind iu making such exhib its Is that the appeal Is made not only to picnickers but the general public, the camp scene merely afford ing an opportunity for the exhibition of certain food products In a way to create an appetite for the goods and a desire to buy. We always prefer the exhibit that holds the buying stimulus. The window display that amai:3, startles or charms tho spec tator, without making him say, "That looks temptln;.;! I'd like to havo some right now!" Is a display that we have little U30 for. It has Its uses, no doub; but we know of better exhibits. As every week in tho year ought to be made an "eat ing week" i n- the grocer, so alBo should every exhibit in the window be a make-yoii-buy oxhlblt. The Merchant and General Storekeeper. A Nibbl T. A nlbbler is a man who enters the grocery store, runs his fiugera into a liugar barrel and laps up u couple of ounces; eats a handful of nuts, then goes over to the cheese case and cuts off a slice for a tuste; then, aa a mut ter of course, must havo a few crack ers, and perhaps before he has his mind made up to purchase twenty live cents' worth of something, he has eaten the profits on 92 worth of groceries. To end it H up, arter getting trusted for the purchase on which the merchant realise a profit of pei hapr. five cents, he leaves the store munching u couple of apples; and maybe the collection of small debts Costa the merchant almost or quite lis full yalue. Did you ever see an illustration of this? Dallas Re tail Morvhnnt. faith had to be rewarded after the faBhion that God promised. Individ ual and national lasting prosperity is founded on morals. A righteous na tion is a people assured of advance ment. A godly man is one whose In fluence never dleB. "Thou shalt be burled In a good old age," sayB Jehovah to Abram. And there never was a falser adage than this, "the good die young." A good man never dies. And If he lives in accordance with all the laws of God, natural as well us spiritual. It Is a certainty that, all things being equal, 1)0 will be the last man to be translated out of this life. Let us learn from this story of the career' of Abram to have faith, to be godly; let us learn of the surpassing faithfulness of our Father. Thus may we be influential forever, thus shall we learn the secret of longev ity, thus shall we, too, see visions. Vs. 1. "Word." This iB the usual language of the Old Testament In prefacing theBe visions. "Vision." This was a characteristic method of revelation in those days. "Shield." The Psalms so speak of God fre quently. "Reward." Better, "Thy reward Is exceedingly great." The reward evidently comes because of the acts of Abram that precede the lesson. The acts are summed up In two words at the forepart of the verso: "these things." Abram had, we remember, erected altars, obeyed Jehovah, done well by Lot. Vs. 6. "Delleved." Paul In Rom. 4:3; Gnl. 3:6, bases bis doctrine of justification on this. In Jas. 2:21 24, we see another use of this Scrip ture. Here it is used to support a contention for the saving value of good works. Vs. 12. "Sun." It was night in verses 1 anil 5. There 1b nothing to show that a day has intervened. Likewise there is nothing to show that a day has not intervened. It is possible that the material here set forth Is the result of a compilation of two stories of the same event, But such a supposition 1b not at all necessary in order to get sense out of the verses, and some sequence. "Sleep." Tho &ort that came on Adam. Vs. 15. "Age." One hundred and sixty-live years. Vs. 16. "Fourth." One hundred and twenty years. This does not co incide with 400 years. It is likely that two Btories are Interwoven. A generation may have been 100 years in that day. In that event the diffi culty unravels1 itself. WOLVES DEVOUR TWO MEN. With the appearance of snow In Roumanla, wolves, those grim terrors of western Europe, claim their vic tims every year. Their first in the present year were a Paris priest and his msn-servant, who went a few days ago on a sledge from tho village of Ludestl to Torgovestl. For days the snow had lain thick on the ground. On their return Jour ney the travelers were overtaken by the dusk iu a forest near Ludestl and a pack of wolves attacked them. The terrified horses overturned the sledge and broke the traces, leaving the men end sledge behind nnd not Btopplng until Uiey reached the first village on the outskirts of the forest A searching party followed the tracks of the horses end at last found pew marks in the snow, splaahes of blood and tatters of what had onoe been clothing, which told with hor rible vividness what had happened. An English windmill at Retails Heath ha been turned into a church.
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