; THE PULPIT. BRILUANT SUNDAY 6ERM0N THE REV. SPENCER S. ROCHE. BY Thome J Andrew, the Middle Man. - Index to Klnvor. The rolor of tho egg shell la no Index to the flavor, nutriment or other qualities of the egg Itself, ac cording to Government expert ments. This does not mean that all fresh eggs taste alike or are equally nutritious. These qualities are de termined by the feed and conditions under which the fowls live. The age of th? "h-ll has also something to do with tin.' case. Farmers' IIomi Journal. Vitality of Plant. The vitality of many plants seems largely a matter of moisture. A plant that cannot endure frost, and which, of course, would be killed by a heat many degrees below tho boil ing point of water, ran rut off its seedy, each of which contains a plant like its parent, and after these ar thoroughly dried, they may be sub jected to heat above tho boiling point or exposed to the greatest degree of cold that can be produced and escape unharmed. Give the 3 seeds water, however, and they art etactly like the parent plant In their relations to heat and cold. The change in the seed, which enables it to endure ex tremes of heat and cold, while due largely to lack of water, la also due to other causes, for the protoplasm becomes harder, more granulose and denser, and changes somewhat In chemical composition. American Botanist. Tripod liny Fork Derrick. Three poles thirty-five feet long are required to make the hay derrick Shown in the illustration. They are mated possibly several million tana of high-grade rock and several times thla amount of twenty-five per cent, to fifty per cent, rock, which is now considered too lr .? grade to mine. It Is to be hoped that even this guess will proveconservatlve.for the United States Is exhausting phosphoric acid from her farm lands at the rate, ac cording to President Van Hlse, of Wisconsin University, of approxi mately 8,000,000 pounds a year or the equivalent of 12,000,000 tons of hlgh-grado rock phosphate, and every ton of available phosphate, both of high and low grade rock, will be needed for American soils. G. E. M., In the Indiana Farmer. Tripod Derrick For Hay Forlc. fastened together at the top in the manner Indicated at A and can be raised with a team, fastening a ropo to the end of the single pole and passing It out between the two poles on the opposito Bide, which have been placed In holes. Draw steadily until the desired height 13 reached. Al most any size or shape of stack can be built under these poles. Disinfectantc. There are three or four words which are used by farmers as practi cally synonymous, but which have a distinct difference In meaning dis infectant, antiseptic, deodorant, germicide. Every good disinfectant must he a germicide; tint it must kill germs. An antiseptic prevents the growth of the germ, but does not kill it. A deodorizer simply deadens had smells, and may not be a disin fectant at all. The hK'h-smelllng disinfectants are generally deodor ants and often of little value r.s germicides. Professor Ross, of the Wisconsin Experiment Station regards corrosive sublimate, which is a most excellent germlcMe, as dangerous, on account of the deadllness of the poison, and sometimes useless, on account of forming chemical combinations. He regards a good, strong solution of copperas as a good disinfectant. One of tho best and cheapest is six ounces of chloride of lime to a gal lon of water; and provided the llrae Is strictly fresh, whitewash is still better. Wallace's Farmer. More Phosphate Facts. In connection with the President's withdrawal from entry and location of some 7500 square miles of West ern public lands, underlaid with phosphate deposits, It ij significant to note the fact of the lucorporatlon last week of the International Fertil izer Company, with a '.pltaIixation of S50.000.000. The Western phosphate fields afford one of the most promising factors in the continuation of American farm supremacy. Nitrogen can be cap tured from the air by tho use of clov ers, cow peas, etc., and also by a new electrical process; potash, while now largely imported, yet exists in entire mountain ranges in the United States ia low gri.de form; but phosphorus it extremely limited In supply and is by far the least in quantity of the three principal essentials of plant food. The Western phosphates, re cently discovered, are of vast extent. A preliminary geologic reconnais sance baa show a that they extend over an area as great as that of the State of Massachusetts, or nearly one-fourth that of Indiana a vast, prehistoric inland ocean bed where, when the world was young the re mains of millions of antediluvian an imals and low forms of life were de posited In great quantities. Some of the beds or seams are five to alt feet thick ot solid sixty to eighty per cent, phosphate rock. A careful geo logic investigation, which It I pro posed the Geological Survey shall make nex. year, is expected to de termine a much great tonnage of phosphate than Is at present wU- Growiiiff I,ow-l leaded Trees. Until within the past few years everybody who grew fruit trees wanted groat, tall, "long-legged" ones, so that a team might be driven beneath the lowest limbs. Most of the Eastern fruit growers still live In the past In this respect. In the Far West the warm sun of mild win ter days caused sun scald on the tall tree trunks and the fruit growers learned that a low-headed tree shaded tho short trunk enough to protect If, and the practice of growing low headed trees followed. Tho East Is slow to adopt this improved method, but it is gaining ground. Compared with hlgh-headod trees the low-headed ones have the ad vantage of being easier to prune, spray, graft or bud, gather fruit from, and are as easy to cultivate. Thus a saving in expense In caring for tho trees is made. Falling fruit Is not Injured as it Is when falling from a high-headed tree. Nurserymen ought to take the lead In advocating low-headed trees and thoBO who propagate, advertise and push the sale of such trees will reap the reward. A nursery tree should have only those limbs within one foot of the ground removed, Instead of being mutilated and "bean voled" four feet from the ground. If the tree remains in the nursery the sec ond year the "leader" should be topped at about two and one-half feet and the side branches be cut back to perhaps four Inches; this I3 the proper way to form foundation branches for apple, pear and plum trees. With poach trees which we always dug when one year old or less, the side branches should never be taken off In the nursery. They should bo left for the fruit grower to develop Into low-headed trees. Maryland Station Bulletin Xo. 130. Feeding Value of Leguminous Crops. As forage plant3 the legumes are far superior to the grasses In real feeding value. Besides being very rich and healthful feed, leguminous hays instead of removing large quan tities of the costly nitrogen (that Is, costly when bought), they add to the stock already in the soli. They leave the soil richer In nitro gen than It was before they were grown. Leguminous hays are very good to use with straw, stover, a'nd other farm wastes, to mal;e up a bal anced ration. For this purpose grass is not the best, and the farmer who does not grow legumes must buy con centrated feeds, if the best results are expected from the feeding. When considering tho great value of the legumes as feed and how they Improve the soil, it Is often wondered why more people do not grow them. As a green manure, there Is noth ing that is equal to the legumes, and there are enough different legumes that are specially adapted to differ ent climates that all may grow some kind. Legumes may be fed to all classes of animals. They should form a larger part of tho ration of young animals, and pregnant animals should never be allowed to go with out a liberal supply of leguminous forage. They are just as useful for the feeding of older animals. , In fact, they are about the best all round feed that can be had. Alfalfa is by far the most valuable forage plant, while it Is not grown bo extensively as the clovers, yet where It has been tried properly it seldom falls to show Its high value as a feed and soil improver. Wh'le leguminous crops are hardy, and can feed upon atmospheric nitrogen, they require feeding with mineral plant foods. Potash and Irme are the chief elements required, though they should have phosphoric acid. The special value of cow peas as a catch crop for summer growth is usually understood by many farmers. In case of failure of any early crop or after some of the early crops ar harvested, the land may be sown to cow peas, and a good crop of excel lent forage secured. All legumes are great drouth registers. Cow peas grow and do well when the land is so dry that almost everything else suffers." During the winter season it Is best in feeding dry cowa to always add a liberal quantity ot some leguminous forage to the ration of silage. They relish it and it Is good to keep their system in good condition, while it Is a great milk producer. Land that will not produce a prof itable crop of corn, wheat, oats, or In fact any grain, will under favorable season conditions produce a good crop of some leguminous crop, and In this way the land is benefited, while tome of, the very best feed Is secured. It all farmers give thla matter the attention that It Justly deserves, the farms all over the country would be made better, and more money would be made from the feeding of the ani mals. Therefore two profits are made at the same time the profit on feeding and the Improvement of the land. And the Improvement of the land must not be neglected If you are after the greatest profit. . R. E. Kushlny, la the Indiana Farmer, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Rev. Spencei S. Roche, rector of St. Martt's Church, Adelphl street, had for bis subject Sunday morning, "Andrew, the Mid dle Man." His text was from John 1:41, "He flndeth first his owt brother Simon, and aalth unto him, We have found the Mesalah." Mr Roche said; Hera Is mention of three men. . II Is as though you were looking at a picture In which Jesus of Nazareth stands on the extreme right, His fig ure glowing with celestial light. To ward the centre, where the bright ness fades, stands a man clasping th right han4 of the Christ. To the left all is dim, but you make out the form I needed of a third man who cannot see Christ, car. onlv darkly behold the middle man. This mysterious person ii hlmon. The man In the middle li Andrew, whom the text represents at a great discoverer. First he finds the Christ; then he finds the man in the cark. I shall regard this mediating char acter as personating all later genera tions of believers. Study Andrew, In his experience and privilege and re sponsibility. His left hand is in Christ's, but his right hand is out stretched. It Is of that n.lghty right arm that I am to speak. Surely no subject ran be more timely for a Sun fiay In this beautiful season of Epi phany when we ought to think of the manifestation of Christ to all peoples cf ttia etrtb. Hew rich Is this first chapter of John's gospel In i's tribute to the only begotten Son of Got' ! It is like those gold mires cf which we read, 1 that are full of ntiggfta; like those ; pearl fisheries where every shell con tains a fortune; Ilk? those Persian rose gardecs, whence the perfume ex hales everywhere. "Behold the Lamb 1 of God that taketh away the sin ot the world." In all the Bible there is no sentence which In Itself Is so full the woman of Samaria had" to go straight Into the village and tell the people all the things Christ had told her. The next thought shall be one of boundless encouragement. One thing that Andrew did outweighed a thou- ' sand times all the other good accom. pushed ry his whole life his hand jaught Simon, and brought about that change of name at which all the an gels in heaven are still rejoicing. "Jesus looked upon him and said: 'Thou art Simon, the listener, the wanderer, the useless. Thou shalt be called Cephas, Peter, the rock, and upon this rscV f will build My church, and the gates o lull s'tII not prevail against It.' " Jesus retd the charac ter nt Peter by divine wisdom, per ceiving all his strength and his In firmity. To Peter there must have been, in the simple words, something like lightning and the thunderbolt, for he recognized one who had put the finger on the weak spot ot hla nature, and had pointed him to the method of securing the one quality he nrmness like tne rock, gran ite consistency. Of the Twelve, Peter stands fore most. However different bodies of Christians may be opposed in their Ideas cf Peter's dignity, nothing less can be said of him than that on the foundation of his faith and courage the. fabric of. Christendom, rests,jwhlle every believer on earth to-day is In a sense bis child. But the great tact is that Christ did not directly draw Peter, but that Andrew found him and brought him to Jesus. What a Joy had Anlrew all his life, and what a Joy has he to-day, and what a Joy will he have to all eternity! Christ could have secured Peter in a thou sand other ways, but Andrew was allowed the honor, in part, no doubt, to encourage all the weak and the poorly qualified to labor with an abundant hope. Often Andrew Is a woman. You remember Monica's prayers and tears at last drew her mighty son, whom the church of all later ages reveres as St. Augustln, to the ChrUt she had herself already found. And thera was another woman, keeping a coun try tavern In England, believing that her son possessed the power to be useful for Christ, and cramping her self to send him to a classical school ES FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIRST. II. 69: The Pilgrim's Progress Series. 8lough of Despond. Pa 1-4, 13-18; 40! 1-3. Elijah in despair. 1 Kings 19: 1-8. Three bitter days. v Acts 9; 1-11. The soul cast down. Pa. 42: 1-C. The way out of despair. Ps. 91. Faith's triumph. Rom. 5: 1-5. The peace that never falls. Phil. 4: 4-7. Man Is- safe in the water until the water gets Into him, and safe also In sorrow until sorrow geta Into him! (Ps. 69: 1.) We plead God's love more than our need, for He knows our need (Ps. 69: 16). Our longest waiting for God will some day seem no waiting at all. How long ten minutes seems to a child or ten years to a child-man! (Ps. 40: 1.) God's help should mean our singing ever new help, so ever new song (Pa 40: 3). 8uggeslona. Beginners In the Christian life meet many trials, and among them despon dency, which Is a natural reaction from the exhilaration of beginning the Christian life. Those that, like Pliable, begin the Christian life from imitation rather than conviction are easily turned back. All have their Sloughs of Despond; but one will get out on the backward Bide and another on the forward "side, and that makes all the difference in life. I Monv a Heln la rmriv fnr tho h. ginning Christian, and never more than now, a Christian friend, pastor, teacner, a Bioie verse, a sermon, a INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR FEBRUARY 21. Subject: Stephen, the First Christian Martyr, Acta 6:l."j 3 Golden Text : Acta 7 : 591 ummlt Verses 7:83, 66 Commentary. TIME. 35-37 A. D. PLACE. Jerusalem. EXPOSITION. I. Stephen, the Pall Man, 8-15. The character of Stephen presents a rare combination f strength and beauty, robustness and grace. He was a remarkably full man. "Full of faith," v. 6; "grace," v. 8, R. V.; "power." v. 8; the Word Jt God, ch. 7:2-54; "the Holy Ghost," 6:6; 7:55; love, 7:60; c 1 trage, 7:61; trust, 7:69. He was : ..3 a notable man of prayer, 7:64-6". Among the men of the Bible he s-- -01s to occupy the nett place to-Chi : it in beauty, ymmetry and completeness of char acter. Like his Master, he was hated nd maligned and ultimately mur Jered. What a revelation of the bad aess of the natural heirt! The lie sworn to against him ) ud an element 5f truth in it. The w .rst lies gener ally do have a grain of truth In them. Because he wos full of the Holy Ghost '.hey were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he poke (cf. Luke 21:15, R. V.). As they could not silence htm by argu ment they undertook to silence him by violence, but they only gave him a wider hearing by murderine him. of meanir.g and vhlch In relation tof aQd then to Pembroke College, Ox What a contrast between men's treat. good book, a Sunday sohool, a Chris- I ment and God's treatment of a Splrlt- tian Endeavor society. i nilea man! They marred his face We are sure to fall into the Slough I Rltn bruises and blood; God made it the gospel is so absolutely accurate as this description. The I.tml of God taketh away the sins of thj world. St. John has noth ing to Kay about the r.rlgin of sin, nothing to say tbout why God leaves the loathsome fact with us. Christ's purpose, KIs opening, His abiding, His ultima? purpose is to take sin away. According to Jesus, ir.an has no ns3 for sin. Sit is blairance, dis turbance, clog, poison. It was not God that sect sin; God's relation to sin is a s?nder of One to tako It away. Thi.ik what you please of tha doc trin9 of the Atonement, but look at the cross. I know full well that In me, an offender, sin works suffering; In the cro3S I see that to tha spotless Son of God evil brings Buffariiig too. Let us accept the cro33 as a revela tion of Love, of Love Eternal and Infinite making sacrifice, dying like the lamb cn the Jewish altar, to free the bjuIs that had enslaved them selves to prlc5? and ehaaie. He who hangs on ; eerier cross. In that He has suffered, la that He has narked out the way of the parfect life, in that Hs touches our poor endeavors with res urrection pewer, purges away my stalr.s and leads me into the freedom of a child of God. But the grand thing taught by JesuB Is that in each heart sin must be abolished, must be taken away. But in us come to Andrew.' Who was he? He was son to Jonas, and appears in the narrative as the com panion of John, who was the son of Zebedee. These men were fishers, with Bome possessions In the form ol nets and boats. Thv were associated as partners and had servants at.d dwelt oa the north shors of the Lak tf Galilee. Andrew would not appear to have besn a very brilliant man, not much cf a talker. There was cne glorious thing about him be had found Christ. But the main thought is thlB disciple's typal character. What I desire to say abeve all other things Is, my Christian brother, that Andrew Is yourself. Two spiritual facts ought to stand cut In your con sciousness. Tho one U that you have found tha Christ. God is more to vou than the blind force that rules the universe. God in Christ has come ford, and at last giving the world the renowneu evangelist, George White field. Andrew had only to touch one who sat next him at the family board. Your hand may have to stretch very far to find the man who Is waiting for you. At a great missionary meet ing I met those whom love for Christ had sent to the heart of Africa, tj th great cities of China, "to India's coral strand." Sometimes the arm gathers strength as it stretches and makes wider and wider sweeps. There was Dr. Grecfell, the medical student In London, who became convinced that his religious life had been a humbug. As he reached out he found some ragged, lawless boys In the alums. Them he brought to the Master. The arm reached farther and embraced i the deep sea fishermen around the I English coast. Then the arm stretched all the way across the At- 1 lantlc and took In the seamen and j their families in Newfoundland and Labrador. Let me add two general counsels. In leading others to Christ, begin with those dearest to you. When Je3us commanded His disciples to go to all nations. He added, "beginning at Jerusalem." "Return to thine own house and show how great things God uum none unto i nee. ; There is one argument you can al- ' ways use with immense power. Say ! to the careless, to the men and the women who reject the Gospel without 1 really knowing anything about it, say to them, "Give Christ a fair trial.", To Andrew and John following Him, 1 Jesus said, "What seek ye?". And I when they replied, "Rabbi, where I dwellest Thou?" He answered, "Come I and see." In that same spirit of con- fldence, He meets an inquiring world to-day. , He welcomes all who will come. ' The honest inquirer who rould know i His claims and on what rests the sal vation He bestows, is cordially In. vlted. The Nazarene does not now travel along dusty roads; He treadi the sapphire pavements, yet still it He tender and sympathetic towaro the darkened and inquiring spirits at when He walked on the beach at Galilee. His cry still Is. "If anv man of Despond at some time; so look for the steps in advance, and become fa miliar with them. Good instructions cannot fill up the Slough of Despond. Despondency Is more a matter of the heart than of the head. The steps through the Sloughs ot Despond are God's commands, God's love, communion with God, and God's work for men. They will carry us through any slough. Pliable gets no credit among world lings or saints. He has nothing upon which to bang credit; he is a nothingness. j :o shine like an angel'a. They said. i He speaketh blasphemous words tgalnst Moses and against God," but ! 3od made his face to shine even as i :hat of Moses had (Ex. 34:29-35). ! If. Stephen's Sight into Heaven, I 54-156. Stephen's word laid open the heart ot Israel in all ages and the j heart of his bearers, but alas! convlc i '.Ion Is not conversion. When men ire convicted ot fin they do one ot ; ;wo things they repent or they get i mad at the preacher. Stephen's ser- Bon and prayer were apparently , ivithout fruit, but they were not ; :eaJly so they gave the Apostle Paul j to the church, but Stephen did not , Ive to see It. A Splrlt-fi;ied roan will j be a calm man under tny clrcum : itances (2 Tim. 1:7). The expres ilon "full of the Holy Spirit" has a different significance from "filled I with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:4; 4: j ?, 31). The latter describes the Holy 1 3pirlt coming upon one at a definite The Condition of Our Disclpleshlp i nrlod of time and filling one for the John '5- 1-8 i llme be,n witn Hls glorious presence ... . , ; jnd power; the former describes an We are not unmindful that the fruit abiding condition. Being full of the of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- j Spirit Involved Stephen In inevitable suffering, kindness, and kindred ! ;onfllct with men who were full ot graces. But very evidently the fruit ! 3atan. It led him to look up rather of which Jesus speaks in this passage ! than around. In this hour of trial is of a different sort. Our Lord ex- 1 there came to him a wonderful vision pects his followers to manifest all the : -o sustain him. The sight was granted EPWOHTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21. into our worldly conditions and has thirst, let him come unto Me." t'mnatKUail'ii.i.h .... .. - u . . Tt, n-nl I. . . . sympathized with us a:id has been not ccly racier but Brother. So you ran say, i rnov Him whom I have bs- The Gospel has nothing to cnnrpal It courts Investigation; it asks for the most rigid scrutiny. "Come and see.' nevea. at.u me next fact Is, that if oo tne Deiiever to-day says, "One the finding has been ral. It has fillad i thing I know, that whereas I wai vou with gladness. You tray not care i blind, now I see:" one thine T Vnnw uer ways are ways ot pleasantness. Jesus Christ has given attraction tc life, elevation to my alms, sweetness to my experience, peace to my soul. Come see if He will not be as much for you. Give the Gospel, man of ex periments, fair trial, and see what II will accomplish. to speak of that blessed train of cir euniKtancea that made you a child ol i God, even as this Andrew has told tha world r.othlng of that rapturous i conference when with John he sp?nt 1 the night with Jesus and talked of j the matters that lay deepest in their , souls there are supreme rellglojs experiences about which the reverent ' heart may not love to speak. But one thing Is certain, if Christ has 1 brought the good tiding3 Into your 1 heart, you will desire to tell it abroad. A real conversion opens a new world. It rolls from the con science a load ot guilt; it calms the ravings of remorse; it excites the purest affections; it cleanses the life; it washes out all stains; It overcomes , all dlmculties; it annihilates selfish nes,s; it crushes passclin. It develops new faculties; it clothes the soul with new powers; it awakens new forces, even a force which achieves lmposi bllltles, because It feels with St. Paul that In Christ we can do all things. It gives new theories of life and new powers for success; It works such a transformation in heart and In life, in inward thought and in outward ac tion, that we truly speak ot the same Individual as a new creature. All this conies about because you know Christ. But we are forgetting Simon. Who Is he? Simon is just any one who Is not In Christ. He is the man in the dark, the man at a distance. Simon is a mystery. The very word sug gests the pathos of bis life. Simon means the listening one. Think of the Christies soul off In the night, conscious of his perplexities and doubts, and listening .for any voice that can give consolation. There Is this terrible thing about every Simon he ia far from Christ. But there is also this encouraging thing some brother man stands near. Each ot us knows at Wast one soul listening with the ear of an Impassioned spirit, for some voice to speak peace. Simon may be your brother, or your husband, or your partner, or your fellow clerk, or your most inti mate friend, or your classmate. It you have any great joy you must tell Simon. Simon 1 so near you, so dear to you, such a large part ot your life. If you read a good book, you lend It to him; U you sea a good play, you tell bltn about it; It you get new light on any subject, you talk, it over with him. Joseph finds happiness and honor In Egypt, but the moment he has an opportunity be aays: "Ye thall haste and go up and tell my father ut ail my &Joxy in Rgypt." So One Thing Needful. The first necessity of a Christian church Is not that it should have s building to worship In. or a mlnlstm 1 to preach to It, or an organ to lead Its singing. These things may all be dispensed with. The one thing need ful is that It should have such a vis ion of the glory of God aa will make peace and Joy impossible unless it li doing its best to declare to others the things which It has seen and heard. Rev. H. Arnold Thomas. The Consolatory Side. When my reason Is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God aa firmly as in any other tjuth whatever; In short, a thousand motives draw ma to the consolatory side, and add tne weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason, Rousseau. graces of holy character, but he is pleading here for an Increase in his kingdom. What he wants is converts. His kingdom must grow until It fills the whole earth. But to do that mul titudes of new disciples must be won. The task of winning them he commits to the little company that has follow ed his fortunes with such patient loy alty. Now, as he returns to the Fath er, he expects them to complete his great unfinished task, conquering stubborn hearts end bringing the world Into allegiance to himself. Nor is it simply the little group that stands around him as he speaks, to whom he gives the message. Ho expects every disciple down through all the ages to tell the story of a Savior's love until there Is not one left who does not know the richness of grace In Jesus ChrlBt. To do that to win converts thus to the heaven ly kingdom and to do it aboundant ly, Jesus says Is the way to glorify the Father and to prove our allegiance to the Son. For us to live at a poor dying rate, making no Inroads into the ranks of sin, and adding none to the number of the redeemed, la to discount our disclpleshlp and do dis honor him whom we profess to love and serve. It therefore becomes a question of consuming Interest to know how we may bear fruit In the conversion of men. And Jesus tells us very clearly: "He that abtdcth In me, and I In him, the same beareth much fruit." The thing, then, that concerns us, if we would be fruit-bearers, is to see to it that we are really abiding In Christ. Unless we are fulfilling this condi tion no amount of activity will avail us anything. Neglect here Is the secret of our past failures. We have concerned ourselves with doing things, and have forgotten that abid ing In our Lord Is the indispensable condition of success. Peach Growing in Colorado. Peach orchards In good bearing in Colorado, are worth 11600 to $3000 and even more, per acre. The raw land suitable for peach growing ranges from 1100 to 8300 per acre. The cost cf growing an orchard up to the full bearing age will vary from $100 to $150 an acre. -Peach trees begin to bear when they are three years old, and they produce large crops at the age of six years. For ln'ance, tour and one-halt acrea ot ' -ta peaobes brought a gross re- . 4 of $280 an acre the third aeason after planting. An average sot In come from the orchards ot the beat fruit districts run from $300 to $500 an acre at full bearing age. Indiana Farmer. Count Von Zeppelln'fc airship, which holds the distance and'speed record ot 68.35 mlljs In two houn seventeen minutes, la 420 feet loag, thirty-eight feet 1 diameter, and has a rigid aluminum frame cental ling sixteen hydrogen balloous. Two thirty-five horse power gasoline uotorif drive four propfllors. Potsdam vs. Berlin. Berlin is strictly business to the Hohenzollerns; but they do r.ot let that grim affair spoil the sweetness ot Potsdam. The people seem human and sympathetic, the martial statuary gentle and amateurish after the feroc ity ot Berlin. Even the four Romans about one ot the fountains who are hurrying away with the four Sablnes are doing It like gentlemen, and the frowns of the ladles are palpably as sumed. A Hon and a tiger, both on the verge ot purring, watch you as you climb toward an arch Surmounted by the most genial eagle In the world. Beside the main fountain there la a statue ot Mara shying a little Javelin. His dog-like wolt la Joyously on the bound to retrieve It, and you fancy that the man ot might Is about to wink at Mercury, who Is placidly tying his winged shoes over beyond the goldfishes, and at Diana, who Is taking a roguish ride on an Inimitable dragon. Robert Haven Scbauffier's PolBdam the Playground ot tha Iloheniollerns," In the Century. By a German patented process atarch la made Insoluble in hot water by treating It, In the cold, with form aldehyde and a moderately atrong acid. The product la distinguished from that obtained from starch and formaldehyde at a high temperature by the fact that the starch grrlna re main unaltered and quite permanent. It Is not only Insoluble in boiling water, but it is not attacked by aodx lye or other strop alklllea. K may bo employed as a fl'ier In plaatlo com p sltlons. ' t a a dressing for fabrlce and la lb" manufacture ot paper. Stephen to strengthen him for the suffering and witnessing. Christ had already been seen after His resurrec tion. He had been seen as He as rended, but now He Is seen In heaven Itself at the right hand of God. We can no longer doubt Hia divinity nor our security. Jesus left heaven aa God only, but He became man In Hla incarnation (John 1:14; 1 Tim. 2:5), and when He went back to heaven He went back as the "Son of Man" aa well as the "Son of God." There la now a Man In the glory. III. Stephen's Entrance into Heav en, S7-AO. They "Btopped their ears." How many are doing that to day! He went the same path that Jesus went to die, "without the gate" (Heb. 13:12). Once outside the city, the stones began to crush In upon him. There was one delighted snec tator of the pitiless fury of the mob Saul ot Tarsus. He will never forget the sight. Stephen's bearing and words were pricking like a goad In his secret heart (Acts 26:14), and he, too, will become a Christian. Ste phen simply prayed aa the atones fell. He prayed as Jesus Himself had prayed to the Father in dying, "Into Thy hands I commend My spirit." So Stephen now says to Jesus, "Receive my spirit." We cannot question that the. Brazsr, waa.ite.ar4. and whila. Ste phen's body died and ultimately crumbled Into duBt, Stephen's spirit was taken by Jesus to be with Him self in conscious blessedness (cf. Phil. 1:23). But Stephen prayed another prayer for those that killed him. He had lived as his Master had lived and died as his Master died (cf. Luke 23: 34). His last two utterances were prayers and prayers formed after the pattern of the dying prayers of Jesus (Luke 23:46. 34). He had seen Jesus at the right hand of God, and did not hesitate to address his pray ers to One so clearly proven to bo di vine. Love shone out wonderfully in the last moments. His prayer was heard in heaven, and Saul the perse cutor became Paul the apostle. Hav ing offered thla prayer he gently fell asleep, he did not die. I V. Stephen Ruried, t he Good Seed Scattered Broadcast, ch. 8:1-13. The devil overreached himself. The wind of persecution simply scattered the seed broadcast (cf. cb. 11:19-21). Though from five to seven years seems to have passed since Pentecost, the church up to tbta time appears to have been largely confined to Jerusa lem, but the storm that broke on Stephen's death carried out the pur pose of Christ. During this awful time the apostles bravely stayed at their post In Jerusalem, but the rank and file ot the church went every where preaching the Word. Gates' Games. This atory la being told ot John W. Cates: Hla varied financial Interests had called blm to a Texas city and the news ot hia arrival was bruited long before the event. " The good livers of the city assem bled In order to Inaugurate a poker game. After much energy and dis cussion a fund of $20,000 waa gath ered. The plan was to invite Gatea Into the game. The Tuxana felt that they had a very large, not to aay an appalling capital. A committee wait ed upon the financier to Inform him that such a game waa In progress and that they were ready tor him. "Gentlemen," aald he, "I have no time." It waa urged with great eloquence that a treasury of $20,000 waa In per fect readlneaa. Again Gates refused and again tha nrging waa resumed. Finally Gatea lost patience. He pro duced a quarter. "Gentlemen." he aald, "I'll tosa you for tha $20,000-7 The cqmmlttee melted away. Philadelphia Record. THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK PROGRESS MADE BY CTIAMPIONS FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON. Only One of Millions. In.manly beauty unxurpnugod he stood, , tl. ""dest specimen of mnnhood there. Where er he went, all round him found it good To feast their eyes on form and face so fair. Of princely mien he wag, all honors seemed ,.,Hf.h, t.he n"ht of heritage, of birth: ' With kingly step he walked aa if he deemed Himself the peer of any king on earth. In manly sports he led; none might excel 1 Tha ease with which the hardest fight he won. A fleet of foot aa Atahel, and as well j Endowed with strength and courage. There was none ThJ?' '"lowed him in any contest feared 1 hat he might fail to win the victory. 1 A leader bom; wherever he appeared H followers strove aa hojiefully aa he. In JoNfB he shone; his brilliant mind uiu group wun ease tte truth that many there Must labor long and arduoinly to find. He seemed a magic charm-touched key to bear That opened at his touch all patca that led Into the fields of learnin- vast, whose soil The grandest thoughts of living men and dead Yields to the honest, can--: sons of toil. And so it was, he won wit l.ikc each prize Awarded for the hight neliularship; And atood the admiration of all eyes, The one whose piaioe rang forth from every lip. One wondered that so much of power and grace, n i j)fauty' Phy'cal nl mental too, Could be possessed by one man of the race Unless God meant he some great work should do. But ah, the fairest fl owor oft droops and dies Because some little worm has found its way Into ita very heart, and saps and dries Ihe fount of life, and laaves it to decay.' Alas! that form so fair and mind so fine, Ihe noblest thing in all creation'a plao, The crowning workmanship of hand Divine Should fall beneath the luring wihe-cup'a ban. In gatherings he learned to look With longing eyes upon the sparklina wine. He dallied with temptation oft, then took The fatal cup, and felt its serpent twine Around his qiuckened heart, his conscience, will, ' And writhe its burning way through all hia brain. Though bitten oft, he sought the serpent still, And strove at length to break its power in vain. A few years aped away, and then at last This being, formed to reach all keight sublime . All beauty, strength, and glory gone was cast Amid the wreckage on the shores of Time. Oh. Alcohol, worst foe of all our race, ' Thou foulest minion of the Evil One, When shall the work! refuse to give thee place? When ahall thy fearful work at last be done? So long the world has groaned beneat)' thy away, So long have ruined lives proclaimed thy power, So long through blood and tears thy awful way Has led, that now the clock in Time's old tower Should strike thy knell, and thou at length' should 'at be Buried ao deep from mortal sight thai none In anv land or clime henceforth should see Such awful work as thou ao long hast done. Thank God that longed-for time is draw ing nigh. The armies rally for the Inst great blow; And all along the liuee we heart the cry, . 'King Alcohol ia doomed, and be muni Emily Btiinrt Lawrence, in the York Witness. New That Sobered Me. A gentleman high In commercial circles In a Western city was relating some of his experiences to a group oi friends. "I think," said he, "the most sin gular thing that ever happened to me was in Hawaii. "My father was a missionary lo those Islands, and I was born there, I came away at an early age, however and most of my life has been spent in this country; but when I was a young man and a rather tougb young young man, too, I may say J I want back there once on a visit. "The first thing I did was to drlnW more than I should have done. While. I was In this condition an old man, a native, persuaded me to go horn with him. He took me into his house, bathed my head, gave me some strong coffee, and talked soothingly and kindly to me. " 'Old man,' I said, 'what are you doing all this to me for?' " 'Well,' he answered me, 'I'll tell you. The best friend I ever had was a white mau and an American. 1 was a poor drunkard. He made i man of me, and, I hope, a Christian, All I am or ever hope to be I owe to him. Whenever I see an Amerlcaq In your condition I feel like doing all I can for him, on account of what that man did for me.' "This is a little better English than he used, but It is the substance of It. " 'What waa the name of the man?' I asked him. " "Mr. Blank, a missionary.' " 'God of mercy!' I said. 'He waa my father!' "Gentlemen, that sobered me and. I hoDe. murla at mnn nt mm it certain that whatever I am to-day I OWe to thnt nnnr nlH SnnHn.is.1, ander." Youth'a Companion. . Isl- Exit the Publican. The Journal's Votera Directory again thia year reveals the interest' ing fact that neither the Republican nor the Democratic party has nom inated for either branch of the City Council a man who makea his living from the liquor business. Ia there any other city of 200,000 population In the United States where neither party baa nominated a brewer, saloon keeper, or bartender for public office? For aeveral years at least this haa been true in thia city. Providence Journal. Treason Against the People, Tha license system, declares Dr,' Aked. la treason against the people; It la the typical crime of the universe the ermine which consists In seek' Ing one'a own pleasure or one'a own profit with absolute Indifference tn the cost of the pleasure or profit tn other people. Ita cost la human auf faring. The price of It la the price of blood. Ohio Farmers Want to Be "Dry Resolutions calling for State pro hlbltlon were adopted amid a storm of applause at the last aesslon ot tha Ohio State Omega.
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