.1 il 'iTi'rrr jalsLi aruv The llroocl Mure. Caring for the brnod mare Is no hard task If a grnln of common sense k) ummI. The mare should not be worked too hnrd, although ti daily useful exercise is advisable. She will be butter off If she Is glvm pomcthlng to do during the period that she Is carrying the colt. Farmers' Home Journal. Xt Idle Cioiind. It Is a good plan never to hnve any Idle ground In tho garden. As soon none crop is harvested spade up tho ground and plant sonx thins els In the i. lace of it. Keen the ground at work. You know the old saying, "Satan always finds seme work for ldk' bunds to do." If is about tho same with tho ground in the garden na with the hands. If It Is not grow ing something useful it will be grow ing something harmful. Better seed It yourself than he content with what will come spontaneously. Farmers' Home Journal. Ilain Crows and tlie Potato Hug. V. T. Maize, of Dickson. Tenn., who Is an experienced gardener and potato grower, says that, the rain crow h the only bird In the country which will destroy tho potato bug. This bird somewhat resembles the common dove, both in size nnd color. Unfortunately, Mr. Maize says, this bird Is becoming extinct, nnd unless protected by rigidly enforced laws, will disappear, he fears, within tho next few years. A pair of them nest ing about his garden the present year has devoured thousands of the Color ado beetle, while nil other birds have corned the potato patch menu with a vengeance. Separating the Sexe. ' A great deal is said of the neces sity for KP;.'ti'iting the hexes, some Insisting that it should be done as soon as S" can be determined. In Aslatlrs it is not often necessary until the chicks are pretty well grown. In fowls of the Mediterranean varieties separation must be made quite early. In American varieties It depends upon the stock and the stage of develop ment of the individual cockerels. Frequently the removal of a few of tie cockerels disposed ti- annoy the pullets makes It possible to keep males and females peaceably togeth er until well along in the season. In many cases the separation can be made early as well as later, the chicks being divided into small lots anyway, and it being just as easy to neparate by sex. Farmers' Home Journal. Black Log. ' Dr. David Roberts, Wisconsin State Veterinarian, says: "Black leg is a disease that very tnuch resembles anthrax, incurable swd fatal. The symptoms are very much the same as those of anthrax excepting the nnlmals may live a few days longer with anthrax than with black leg. "Black leg only affects younger an imals, while anthrax affects both. Perhaps the strongest symptoms of black leg is a gathering of air or swelling underneath the skin of the affortcd animals. This usually takes place f few hourr after the animal becomes Infected and in tapping upon the swelling it sounds as if there was air underneath the skin. "This swelling may be located on thft thighs, neck, shoulders, breast, hock joints, flank or rump. There Is D treatment for black leg excepting a prevei.tive. This Is done by vac cinating the balance of tho herd with black leg vaccine, which Is a very successful method of preventingsamc." upon somewhat askanco by the but ter makers, but they soon found that we were helping them nnd helping t'.lso to establish confidence between the butter maker and tho butter mer chant. During tho past year a thou sand creameries have been assisted In this manner, many of them to their material advantage. The Dairy Di vision lins also Introduced a method of easily determining the water con tent in butter. Such determination Is a matter of Importance: to tho mak er and the dealer, but the old method was expensive, difficult nnd required several hours. The new method Is very cheap and takes only about twenty minutes of the time of a man of average Intelligence. "Wo think we have made consider able progress in demonstrating '.he feasibility of making high price;'!, im ported types of cheese in thi3 coun try. In showing what ran bo done in k 'eplng milk for long periods with out preservatives, In Investigating the work of milking machine, which is now a practical institution and in working out plans for various dairy, creamery, refrigerating and other farm buildings which we are glad to furnish upon application and In enforcing the regulations requlrin" sanitary renovated butter." Figure the Cost of Production. My opinion Ir that there are few THE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON CY DR. CORTLAND MYERS. Tlicnics Sent From God. Drooklyn, N. V. The Rev. Cort land Myers, D. D., prenched his fare well sermon Sunday night In tho Bap tist Temple, and brought to an end a sixteen-year pastorate of that church. Dr. Myers will nssutne the pastorate of the Tremont Baptist Temple, in Boston, Mass., In tbe falL Dr. Myers said: I nm going to preach to you to night from the very text that I preached upon when I preached my first sermon, nearly sixteen years niio, in this city. (Not the same sermon, Ik cause I have not seen it since, and I only care to remember the siate nient of Scripture as nn introduction for this bit of truth). John 1:6: "There was a man sent from God." That statement was made concerning ono of the greatest preachers of Christ this world ever saw, and one who de serves to bo pre-eminently the pat tern for every other man who stands In the holy place of a minister of Jcbus Christ. That statement was made concerning a man who said thnt he must decrease, but Christ muni, in crease; that he was not worthy to unloose the shoe lntchets of his Lord, nnd who said: "Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the Bin of tho world." That Etatemont ought to bo mado concerning every ministry, and I am very sure that It can truthfully bo made concerning this ministry. I have never had one Interrogation mark thrust against me all these years In that relation, and so I stand farmers who know what It costs to-night, at this sacred moment of them to produce a bushel of corn, wheat, oats, barley, potatoes or other farm crops. It would bo an advantage to the farmer if he did know Just what a bushel of these various products cost him to produce, and deliver In his local market. Why does not the farmer make a greater effort to learn what his crops cost him to produce, the same as a manufacturer learns what it costs to manufacture a hoe, shovel, plow, carpet or piece of cloth? Many farmers have never spent time In thinking or planning about this subject Of the cost on produc tion. The principal reason why farmers do not pay greater attention to tho cost of growing a bushel of corn or potatoes, is that they seem to think that they are producing it at the low The Sunday "School INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM ME NTS FOB SEPTEMI1FK 12. my life, and In my ministry, to say to i you once more that there was a man i j sent from God to the life of this ! church. The result of scientific re search as to whether other heavenly bodies are inhabited has been to j prove that this world is the ono world ; where Almighty God chose to work out. tho problem of human destiny and human life, of the creature made in His own imago and likeness; and we are turning to-day even on scien tific pages toward the Garden of Kden, where God walked in the cool of the clay with a man as companion Vi holiest fellowship. I might have a beautiful house full of luxury, and comfort, and artistic taste, but one great, element In the life of tho home U lacking. What Is it? Tho great feature of a home Is not tho furnishings or the comfort; the I frreat demand Is a man to enter tho home, to use It, to live in it and to i be made better by it and to find est possible cost in any event, and I there 1,is of Joy and happl- that It would he folly In trying to learn the actual cost of production. This Is not good reasoning, for If tho farmer knew what It cost him to pro duce these products, and he found that ho was producing them at a loss, he could stop growing those particu lar crops, that paid him no profit, and confine himself to those crops which do pay him a profit. But there are other reasons why farmers do not give this subject more attention. Ono is this: The farmer finds that the cost of producing a certain crop one year might vary greatly the next year. Excessive ness and comfort and rest and peace, When God made this beautiful world it did not fulfill His idea until man came to live In it. The one supreme element essential was the man, who wns tho one factor, the one element by which that which God had planned should be accomplished. Man was the agency through which the gospel of Jesus Christ should accomplish Its purpose In the world. That Is the great statement to be made concern ing' the man who stands In the king dom of God as a leader in the minis try to hiB fellow men. He must be first, last and always a man; a man with every mark of the nobility and loyalty of manhood about him; a drouth one year or excessive rains j , tne ,e of h,9 fcllow men and T unother year, frosts or tho variations i should not consider thnt this mlnis- of prices, would make such changes ono year from another that it would discourage the farmer from attempt ing to learn precisely what It cost him to produce any certain crop. It is my opinion and the opinion of many, that larger profits could ba made by farmers If they would make a grentei effort to get a larger yield per acre by enriching the soil, by giv ing extraordinary cultivation, by drainage and other Improved meth ods, rather than to attempt, as many do, to make up for a small yield per acre by cultivating a larger territory. Fruit Grower. Experience With Alfalfa. I have Ween an interested observer of the efforts of some of our farmers to establish alfalfa in a forage crop In our county. Sometimes It has promised well, and then again men have given it up with one or two trials. To-day I saw a small piece of ground that Is well set, and promises a good crop. It Is on Frank Bundy's farm, a half mile north of Splceland, on first bottom fandy loam land. It has been cut regularly about three crops each season for the last seven or eight years. It was established by Jason Newby, a farmer and at present a citizen of Kansas or Okla homa, lie farmed here for several years. I dug up a good thrifty bunch of this clover about three inches across, and found a root about three quarters of n inch in diameter, thrco Inches under ground with six divis ions, oi separate steins or branches at the top of the ground. I don't think It will produce as heavy a crop this year as common, but it has car ried a crop about equal to three crops of red clover, and from appearance I can't tell how much longer it may yield a paying crop If tlu roots are generally established tut firmly as the one I dug up. It has boon pastured Tery Utile. I don't remember JuBt what preparation the soil had, but nothing, I suppose, unusual. India na Farmer. Stringy Cream unci Milk. Excessive bacteria is, of court:?, the real cause of the stringy cream and milk frequently complained about. Touching this matter Hoard's Dairyman says: Tho books say but little about stringy cream, but a good deal about stringy or ropy milk. If the milk when first drawn shows no ropiness or stringiness, but after standing twelve to thlrty-slt hours, develops a thickening and stringy appearance, there is no question but what bacte ria are tho cause of the trouble. There are many kinds of bacteria which produce this condition, but It is enough for our present purpose to say bacteria without going Into tho special forms which tho bacteriolo gists have discovered. try had found Its fulfillment unless that statement could be mado with absolute truth concerning it. I would not want to feel that any part of 'my life had been separated from any part of your life. All that, there Is of man at his best, a natural, nor mal, God-marked man, should be at the centre of this Christian ministry. Every sermon ought to have running through its veins the rich, red blood that runs through the veins .of the minister who preaches it. There Is one requisite above all others, if we are to be victorious, and that is God felt nobility of Christian manhood In the ministry of Jesus Christ. "There was a man sent." It is a great moment In any human life when we come to the recognition of our supreme mission; when every thing else In life comes to be second ary to that which holds the first place as the purpose and mission of lliej Paul, Chrysostum, Savonarola, Luther, John Knox, all felt the mighty Impulse of the mighty mis sions on which they were sent when following the holy command. Oh, what splendid achievements would take place In this part of God's king dom If the members of this great church would walk' right up to the llglit In recognition of their divine mission to save this lost world. God Is waiting for you. He has waited for some of you half a century, but Ho is emphatically waiting for your young manhood and womanhood to reckon with the "sent" element in human life. The one holy mission for every man and woman In the kingdom of Christ 1b never lest than f ..a 1 .. . V, . 111. .1 J with these bacteria from the water V? wleen. Work of the Dairy Pivlxion. Prof. Webster, chief of the dairy division of the National Department of Agriculture, says that bis division baa conducted an experiment In mak ing some 6000 pounds of butter un der varying conditions, and carrying it for storage for several months at different temperature. The couclu-' Ion reached Is that light salting and loir temperature with the use of weet cream give much the best re ulU for storage butter. Further ex periments with an additional 2000 pounds of butter are now In progress. Suggesting that the butter makers hcald take kindly to the work of the government. Prof. Webstei replied: , "Yes, they do as a rule. We bare 'butted In,' as the saying goes, be tween some of the butter makers and tbe creamery owners on the one band and the markets to which they ship on the other. The butter as It comes Id the large cities Is being studied and the results reported to the mak ers. At frit this work was looked ) used in washing and rinsing the palls cans nnd other milking vessels. This ! suggests at once that these milking : veswls should be thoroughly steril ized before being used. To do tills they should be subjected for some minutes to live steam or to absolutely boiling water simply hot water I not enough, It must be boiling. Pour Into the can and then cover and allow tho steam to kill everything that has life that may be in the seams or on the Bides of tho vessel. Another source is In tho stagnant pools in which cows lovo to wade and the grass and weeds through which they travel. In this care, bacteria gets upon the legs and upon tho ud der and flanks of the cows and during tho process of milking some of them are dislodged and fall Into the milk, where they rapidly multiply and In time produce a stringy character of the milk or cream. Still anothi source may be In the dust of the stable, which falling Into the milk palls seeds the milk with these offensive bacteria. In either of these caserthe remedy Is, of course, to avoid tho cause. Brush the udders and flanks of the cows before milking and then damp en them so tbat the loose hair and clinging dirt will not fall Into the pall. It is sometimes the case that only one cow in the herd produces milk of this objectionable character, but mix ing It with the herd milk seeds the wbolo mess with these bacteria. It would therefore bo an excellent plan to keep each cow's milk separate for day or two and thus ascertain whether one or two or more of the cows are responsible for the trouble, and If they are take special pains to prevent anything falling from their udders pr flanks Into the milk palls. ' - ear without a single exception, the one supreme purpose of these years tf my ministry among you k na oen nobbing less than to fulfill the mis sion of Jesus Christ In this world and to seek and to save the lost. "If any man has not the spirit of Christ he Is none of His." The spirit of ChrlBt pushed Its way against every broken heart, every battered life, every bruised soul; against the leper, the blind, and the lame; the spirit of Christ took hold of Mary Magdalene and the Woman of Sa maria, nnd grasped that wonderful lift) of I'eter and lifted him up Info tho kingllness and glory of his man hood; and that Divine Spirit of our Lord went out In every direction. for the saving of His fellowmen. Now, mark you, If His spirit is to be mine and yours, then we must In the coming days and years fulfill His mission "to seek and to save that which was lost" nothing less than that. I am expecting It of yon. I would have the disappointment of an en tire life it you fall In this holy mission. I The purpose of this great church j of Jesus Christ Is to save men, to help our Lord to redeem His lost ! world; to bring the Oospel to bear on I the sin-stricken lives of our fellow j men. If you lower the standard I shall be disappointed. I shall think my teaching and my ministry have par tially full-id. "There was a man sent from God." It that climax Is not placed on the sermon and on the life then all must be a failure. At this hour, with so many impressions on my heart this one is uppermost: For every fractlou of success In these years, for every note of victory In all the music of this church life, for everything that may be to-night to your credit and your glory as a church, I want to stand In your presence and say tbat It all be longs to Almighty God. Subject! (lose of Pant's Third Mis sionary Journey, Acts 21 :1-I7 Golden Text: Acts 21:11 Tom. mlt Verses 13, 14 Commentary, TIME. A. D. 68. PLACES. Tyre, Caesarea. EXIfJSITIOX. I. Seven Days nt Tyre, . When Paul reached a city he at once looked up the disclplei in It. He longed to Impart to them some spiritual gift (Rom. 1:11), and to be comforted In them (Rom. 1:12. B. V.). Any one who was a disciple of his Lord Jesus was. because of that fact, an object of Paul's tender affec tlon and interest. Do all Christians to-day in their travels keep a sharp lookout for the disciples of Christ In the cities they visit, and hunt them up, with eager love and desire to help them? A seven days' stay seems to have been quite the customary thing with Paul (ch. 20:6, 7; 28:14). Paul did set foot in Jerusalem. Was the Spirit, then, mistaken? (v. 4). Not In the least. These men spoke "through the Spirit," I. e., it was what the Spirit said to them that led them to speak to Paul. But thev were not wise interpreters of the Holv Spirit's teaching. Doubtless what the Holy Spirit testified to them was what Ho testified In every city, viz., that bonds and afflictions awaited Paul (ch. 20: 23: cf. vs. 10-12). They could not endure the thought, and so they put their own construction on the Splrlt'B teaching, and put It Into their own words and said "he should not set foot in Jerusalem" (R. V.). There are those to-day who would have us believe that this is the kind of Inspir ation we have In the Bible that the Spirit gives "the concept," but apos tles and prophets put this Splrlt-glv-en "concept" Into their own words. We see from this passage how unre liable a revelation thp Bible would be If this were the mode of Its Inspira tion. It la not (1 Cor. 2:13, R. V.. Am. App.). When the Spirit teaches us, we need to bo careful to give out precisely what the Spirit gives us, nnd not our Inferences from It, or we also "through the Snlrlt," will teach error. Paul had won the heart of every man, woman nnd child in the church of Tyre. We are apt to lose sight, of tho exceeding lovahleness of this man Paul. Ho was so much else that was great that we lose sight of his gentlo wlnsomeness (cf. ch. 20:37, 38). One can almost see that compnny of men, women and children grouned about Paul, All kneeling and all praying. It was no emnty prayer. That united prayer doubtless got what It sought. It brought down from God blessing for Paul and blessing for the church of Tyre. It always means much when a company of true disciples kneel to gether In believing, simple and defi nite prayer. This was a model leave taking (cf. ch. 20:36). The sixth verso gives us a suggestive sentence. Our earthly guides and helpers are separated from us, hut there are two heavenly guides who always abide with us (Matt. 28:20; Jno. 14:16, 17). Happy Is the man whose trust is In them and not in man. II. Many Days In Caesarea, 7-14. TheBe verses give us a glimpse of sev eral very gifted persons In the early church: Philip, his four daughters, all prophetesses, and Agabus. The church had mado Philip a deacon (Acts 6:1-6). God bad made Philip an evangelist. God only can make a true evangelist (Eph. 4:11). Philip had come to Caesarea In his tours from city to city, some years before (ch. 8:26, 39, 40). He seems to have made it, from that time, a base of operations. He was greatly blessed In bis domestic lite. He not only had four daughters which would of It self be a blessing (Ps. 127:3-5; 128: 3) but these daughters were all spiritually gifted. Some might think that these children, being women, ought to keep silence In the church, but God evidently thought otherwise. He made them prophets (cf. 2:17). Paul In the very epistle In which he, under the Inspiration of the Spirit, forbids women speaking under cer tain circumstances In the assembly (1 Cor. 14:34), also gives directions how women shall prophesy (1 Cor. 11:5). Agabus not only spake "through the Spirit," but he took pains to give the very words of the Spirit, and bo he got things exactly right. When a man can truly say, "Thus salth the Holy Ghost," we may depend upon the literal accuracy of bis words. But many in our day pre sumptuously dare to say it when it not true, and their prophecies come to naught. We do well to be slow In accepting any man's claim to be the mouthpiece of the Holy Spirit. The hlotory of the church tells of hosts of pretendors of that sort. One single failure In their prophecies is enough to discredit their claims, for the Holy Spirit never errs. Agabus did not tell Paul not to go to Jerusa lem, but simply forewarned him of what awaited him there. Paul's friends, however, sought with ear nest Importunities to dissuade him from going where God was leading hlra. It was the Spirit who was lead ing Paul to Jerusalem. Paul had plainly declared that fact (ch. 20: 22). Yet these foolish friends would dissuade Paul from going, as there was suffering on the way. Many think tbat the path whure suffering lies cannot be tho right path, but not so the Lord (Matt, 16:24; 2 Tim. 2: 12; 3:12). Paul's last Journey to .Jerusalem was much like his Mas ter's. The same clear vision of afflic tion awaiting him, the same dissua sion on thj part of friends. Most nays Are "Padded." 'A play Is rarely produced tbat would not be Improved, from a dra matic and artistic standpoint. It It were shortened from a third to a half. Many 'dramas that have succeeded would be far better condensed to one act. For Instance, "The Wolf," by Eugene Walter, would be muoh stronger In this tabloid form. "The Fighting Chance," by W. J. Hurlburt, In which Blanche Bates Is starring, bears all the earmarks of having been a one-act play stretched Into three. It has material for about three-quarters of an hour at the most of exciting drama. Not even the wonderful skill of David Belasco, nor the- acting of Blanche Bates and John Cope, can relieve the tedium of the whole first act and most of the second. Hartley Davis, in Everybody's. OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. 8UNDAY7'rjCPT!71BSr 12, Connecting With the Source of Pow er (Mark 5. 25-34.) The question Is not of solvency but it application, not of power, but of the release of power, not of capital but of the Investment of capital, not of bullion but of coinage, the mint, the clearing house, the counter. We are accustomed to associating the work of Christ with the sea, the mountains, the rivers, tho synagogues, the temple, Naturally, we like to set his deeds In good perspective, and temperament has much to do with choice; but for this lesson we must see him In the "madding throng" and hear him in the streets. Most of us live not by the deep mysterious sea, nor In heights of holy solitude and grandeur, nor yet by tho living river, but In tho streets, marked by the signs of toll and crowded and thronged by ambitious, where greed and selfish ness unashamed assert themselves. In this maddened throng can we expect the Christ-mind and the Chrlst-llfe to live, to prevail? It is In the street where competition blights with Its hot breath the early moral standards of the youth; It Is In the street thnt men see the margin between business standards and ethical standards; It I Is In the street that men enter tho ways of death. Christianity can never heal and make happy this thro: t until the life of Christ la car ried into Its very channel, until sim ply In crowding they shall touch him. Jesus feared not any environment. Ho . ..a the Master of living and was hap,,y among the people. Christi anity Is 'capitalized for the conquest of the world every cor ner and condition of It. The Ep worth League can do the greatest work of Christianity in a thousand years by teaching the young hosts how to carry the battle into streets. We often hear a cry for a consti tuency. A wall goes up that the people of this community are peculiar they do not go to church. On the part of both laymen and ministers there Is a tinge of resentment to men In their complaint. We Bhow our vexation by the baits we put out to catch the unchurched crowd. Many think they are a yellow crowd and re sort to mark-down methods of dally advertisers to get their attention. Jesus made a vital sugcestion In this matter. His Incarnation Itself de monstrates that God wants us to go where tho throng is. We are really equipped to bring Christ to the world. If we want to see a .manifestation of the power of Christ, bring him to the unsaved wherever they are. reports of progress of tiih battle against rum. SEPTEMBER TWELFTH Topi mperance 1 Cor. 9: In All Things. 23-27. Self-repres.slon. Rom. 13: 11-14. Dental of lawful things. Matt. 5: 29, 30. Excess Is slavery. 1 Cor. C: 9-20. Dangers of excess. Jude 10-16. Sober advice. Tit. 2: 2-12. UBlng, not abusing. 1 Cor. 7: 22 24, 29. There la satisfaction even In striv ing toward a noble goal; but it Is a half-spoiled satisfaction unless one reaches It (v. 24.) Temperateness Is consistent with strenuousness; Indeed, any excess la at the expense of efficiency (v. 25.) Uncertainty of movements and frantic beating the air mark all those that are Immoderate In the satisfac tion of their desires, whatever those desires may be (v. 20.) Keeping the body under is the same as keeping the soul on top (v. 27.) Suggestions. If the drunkard turned from alcohol without banishing from his soul the spirit of Intemperance he would be a drunkard In something else cocaine, perhaps. ' Intemperance In food Is the cause of untold misery. Eat no more than la needed. Overwork kills thousands every year, and overplay renders thousands useless. There Is Intemperance even in read ing, as the newspapers or the novola. There Is no virtue In reading unless to some worthy end. Illustrations. Mr. Horace Fletcher, though over sixty, passes finer strength tests than the average young man of half his age, and attributes It all to modera tion and .thoroughness In eating. It has been proved by actual expert ments and measuring of results that workmen employed seven days In the week accomplish far less than those employed only elx days and resting on the seventh. Alcohol Is like fire It may be use ful, If kept at a distance from the body! Alcohol to a set trap, and the silly mouse' attempts a moderate use of It! A Ringing Pttarance. An titterance which has the right ring, and which finds a response In the hearts of thousands of good citi zens who might not have had the courage to make it, or the grace of speech to put It so well, Is the reply which Bishop IIoss, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, made to tome politicians and newspapers In Tennessee friendly to the liquor Inter ests, when they Intimated that the Bishop had no right to say what he had been saying about the traffic, and that It would be to his advantage and to the profit and credit of the church If the Bishop should leave off med dling with politics. These are the words In which the Bishop made an swer to the suggestion: "My citizenship Is a part of my In heritance. It came to me from hon est and stout-hearted men who helped to build this mighty commonwealth. For tho proper use of It I am re sponsible to no man or set of men and will not surrender It on the clam orous demand of subsidized news papers or Impertinent politicians . Crack your whips, gentle men, as loudly as you please, but be sure to crack them over the heads of men who desire somo favor that you know, or dread some penalty that you can inflict; but do not make the rash and foolish experiment of try ing to crack them over the heads of free Tennesseeans who want nothing tbat you have, and fear nothing tbat you can do." Possibly tho liquor war has en tered upon a new phase by the United States Brewers' Association having bound Its members to sell no beer to dealers whom any brewer has placed under a ban. But we shall sound no dirge for the Anti-Saloon League until more is, known about the ban and the placing of it. Doubtless, a systematic and general weeding out of undesirable patrons Is one of the moves needed to rehabilitate malt liquors and all who traffic In them. Certainly, the gravest evils of alco hol, direct nnd indirect, are those of cheap, spirituous beverages, "red eye," "Black Joe," and less euphon ious valiants of fusel oil. Those brewers see clearly who have advo cated separate licenses for the two classes of beverages, and also the is suing of but one sort of license to each saloon. Even with this arrange ment, however, the beer saloon will not vindicate itself so long as the blacklisting of disreputable bars Is left to Individual brewers, as the As sociation seemingly leaves it. Free compeltiton will operate in the future as In the past; each brewer, fighting hard for profits, will turn a lenient eye upon his own bartenders and cus tomers. But once let a National or a State committee sit as moral judge, with power to restrict the sales of all Association members, and th "model saloon" would materialize, if It ever can at all. Evening Post. Intemperance nnd Poverty In Albany County. Few Albanians would lllto to be lieve that there Is more drunkenness In .this county than In other counties of New York State similarly situated. There seems no good reason why such should be the case; neither would thoy like to believe that there is a grsater amount of poverty in this county than in such other cout ties. The report of the State Board oi Charities for the year ending Sep tember 30, 1907, sets forth facts rel ative to intemperance and pauper ism In our city and county which seem to indicate that we are In a much worse condition In these re spects than .the other counties of the State containing second class cities. Beginning October 1, 1907, and end ing September 30, 1908, 466S per sons received aid from the publia charities department in the county of Albany because of Intemperance; 889 of those helped were children whose parents were Intemperate; 15S0 were women whose husbands were intemperate, and 2208 were persons who had become paupers through their own Intemperance. From the Albany Citizen, May, 1909. Result of Blind Pigs. Recsnt Investigations from Little Rock showed that there are more blind pigs In Little Rock and Argon ta, tho two most strongly license cities In Arkansas, than lu any other community in the State. There are seventy-nine saloons and flfty-alx blind pigs In these two towns. In 1908 there were 312 convicts In the Arkansas penitentiary, who came from seventeen license counties, and only 252 from tho fifty-eight dry counties. In proportion to the pop ular vote for Governor In 1906 only twenty-seven per cent, should have come from tho wet counties, but the per cent. Is actually fifty-five. At a meeting of the Academy ot Sciences In Paris it was establlslioc" recently that ultra-vlolont rayi passed through milk will complete!) sterilize the liquid and effectually rid it of all microbes. Publishers Should Protest. Newspapers all over the country are protesting against Uncle Sam's "Mail Order Business," and the Wins low (Ark.) American Is among them. Through the postofflce departmeut, which, we are told. Is so overtaxed that a parcels post law is entirely im practicable, says the American, Uncle Sam is circulating advertising mat ter, urging people to buy government printed envelopos. The prices made on this printing puts competition en tirely out of the way. The Govern ment can deliver printed matter to your door cheaper than we can buy our stock at wholesale. In the same way the Government can, It It will, deliver our groceries, clothing and household necessities to us at prices that would make our local merchants mile, all over, If they were coming bis way. But what Is the meaning of this? is It a move on the part ol cr" Government to take over the boss aess ot the country, beginning with the printing business? Or Is it only svidence that the 'printer has not tho Influence that other business men Tave with the powers that bet. .Come, brothers, let us not have things too nucb on one slde. ' Divided the Wedding Presents. The following advertisement ap peared In a Hungarian journal: "lima Rok and Frans Sltoll have great pleasure In Informing their friends that t'w engagement Is broke aff, and that they have amicably agreed to divide the wedding ptesents re ceived instead ot returning them to the donor." , The Powerful Saloon. Theodore Roosevelt, when Police Commissioner of the city of New York, said: "The most powerful sa loonkeeper controlled the politicians and the police, whilo the latter In turn terrorized and blackmailed all other saloonkeepers. If the Ameri can people do not control It, it will control thorn." Testimony of a Mc-rcluint. One of tho oldest dry goods estab lishments In Xenia, Ohio, recently gave out the statement, that their buBlncrs during the pust three months was better than In tho forty years of their existence, nnd they attribute this Increase to there bclcg no sa loons in the city. Temperance Notcw. A saloonkeeper was recently ap pointed by Mayor ot Pittsburg ai head, of the Department of Public Bafety. A liquor lobby at Albany at one time acknowledged before a commit tee of the Legislature that It had ex pended 1100,000 to influence legis lation. The Prohibitionists of Iowa are en deavoring to raise a campaign fund of twenty-five thousapd dollars for 1909-10, and have reached the first fifteen hundred. Don't be too severe on those who vote "wet" In their city or couuty If you are regularly doing the same thing in regard to the whole United States of America. Mayor Rose says that the liquor question Is bigger than that of slav ery. And yet there are those, who expect to settle It off to the' side. without disturbing the even tenor of party politics. , i The distiller rides In a steam yacht, the wholesaler In an automobile, the retail dealer In a carriage, but the consumer ot the liquor Is pulled around by the hair ot the head .by a tolttemau. AtcUUoa Globe. . ; ffELIGlOUS JEADING VOIt TUB QVIET HO VU. PIONEERS. Oh, crow snd crown of thorns, ths worto'. reward lu Of i:)irit-like service! God's divine sons Must walk alway the nigged path 0.. runs Steep to Golgotha; theirs the facea manti by tears, theirs loving hands moat deeSw And for their ears the mob'a blood that atuns Witworirali,,,nb.ttmei ltng the ThB K,mb"r?idrr8reM by thcir tl Vet wrong not such with pityl-aoul. ,0h. In vast achievement must o toil, ann.t The life of ngea measured hy their ow? Their ahame bears fruit of honor for all time; Their dungeon's taper guidea the feet thi climb; They make the scaffold glorioua liU . throne. HtoUeley S. Fiahar, Moral Power. Endued with power from on hhrii Luke 24:49. gx Power Is something every man wants. We are all struggling to get out of the rank of the nobodies into the rank of the somebodies. Money is power, and In Its pursuit men tear open mountains and sail wide seas and toll early and late Knowledge is power, and to posseBi it men read books and excavate bur led cities and make experiments In the laboratory and exhaust the brain with perplexing thought. Social no. sltlon gives power also, and there are those who will make any sacrifice and endure any humiliation to sue their mines printed in some exclusive list of first citizens. The struggle for power Is as old ai the race. Man is inferior In physical strength to many of the animals, but holds dominion over them all. He won his position by annexing power which he found al! about him In abundance. From humble begin nings he has multiplied power almost Infinitely. His achievements witn expanding steam and flashing light nlng and magnetic currents surpass the dreams of Aladdin. The earth has an inexhaustible en. dowment of material force. In ths beginning God equipped it with ex haustless energy. We have learned to command this force. We have taught this energy to serve us. The result is our material civilization. But man Is a spirit. His higher life demands something more than millions of horse power. He needs to wield a moral force surpassing all material force. He 1b called to the task ot annihilating weakness and sin as he has annihilated time and space. The earth is full of moral energy. There has been manifested through the ages a power which makes for righteousness, which Impels tali world from darkness Into light. It li the power from on high. It Is tha spirit of holiness. All the currents ot life are moving In one direction. Ths universe goes on to perfection. As we have annexed the material, so we may annex the moral power. In both cases knowledge and obe dience are the keys which unlock ths storehouses of energy. We have dis covered the laws which govern the forces of nature. We work in har mony with these laws, and nature is our servant. If we oppose them they crush us. So we must learn the laws of God and obey them. We must bring ourselves into harmony with the forces of righteousness. The power from on high enters the heart of the good man. Then he is invincible. He can stand like Atba naslus against the world. He is free from doubt. He knows not fear. He draws strength from the Inexhausti ble fountain of strength. In every controversy he can say, "They that are for us are more than they that are against us." He knows that one with Ood is a majority. Thomas Reed Bridges, D. D., South Church, New York, in Sunday Herald. The Blessings of Salvation. It is an appreciable and enjoyable thing to have the blessings which the sun gives. There is such a thing a) possessing salvation, and the blesslnc of salvation, but the best of all Is to have the Blesser in whom all these are found. "He that spared not HU own Son, but delivered Him up for ns all, how shall not He with Him also freely give us all things?" The great er always Includes the lesser; if you have tho Son, you have also His ben edictions. It Is Important to enjoy the streams that fertilize the land, but better still to have the fountain from whence they enanate. As the streams are dependent upon the fountain for supply, to also the tem poral blessings resulting therefrom are dependent upon the fountain more than upon the streams. So the means ot grace and tho blessings of salvation are wholly and absolutely dependent upon Christ for efficiency and perpetuity. In the Pluce of Quiet. Mark tells us that "without a par able" Josus did not speak, at one pe riod at least, unto the Jews, and that "when they were alone, He expound ed all things to His disciples." There are great advantages at times In soli tude. The soul aloof from mankind that it may be alone with Ood Is in the way to receive great and Inspir ing revelations. But the solitude with Ood is meant to prepare for tM service for men, and the things wnlctt Jesus Christ expounds to His own la tho retiracy of the inner circle are matters which concern active duty in society as well as individual culture of soul. Christianity the Foundation. A cupola or a lightning rod yo may have, but a foundation you nm have, and that foundation Is Cnw tianlty. Christianity furnishes us foundation, and no man can get on, well without it. Rev. T. E. Bartletu Plain Dealings. Only by plain dealing can Pren.t and teachers be able to influence tne life ot a boy toward the things tor which a boy was made. Rev. n. jiusselinan. To Feauit'an a Fst Uiahop. ! Bishop Goodsell, of tha MetbodlJ Episcopal Churoh, weighs ovr t bundred pounds. It was wlth.tn gled emotions, therefore, that b !" the following W Zlon's Herald torn time ago: "The announcement tbat our N, England bishop, Daniel A. Goods" has promised .to preach at the Willi mantle camp meeting, will give Vef pleasure to the hosts of Israel who are looking forward to tbat feast o lat things.1 Everybody's Msea"1 I
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