Note. ~The following article
been widely published and is one of
the most remarkable illustrations of
the value of careful marshalling and
analysis of facts in presenting a sub
Ject to the publie.
LEVELERS.,
of Whisky,
Coffee.
The. Mission Tobacco
The Creator made all things. we be
lieve,
If so, He must have made these,
We know what He made food
water for, and alr and sunshine,
why Whisky, Tobaceo and Coffee?
They here sure enough and each
performing its work
There be great
hind it the thoughtful
to nuderstand something of
and
but
are
some be
seenks
plan
man
that
to judge these articles
worth.
all;
pian
and thereby for
i ir ts 3
their true
when
ttions
casual observ:
‘ireums-
fect of
oment bene-
ument against
s one find
whisky, cof-
sands of
throng!
drinking
that more
coffee
the two firs
and more |
effect on
organs, an
til much
done,
Now, Reader,
as to the real use the Creator has
these gs? Take a look at the ques-
tion from this point of view.
There is a law of Nature and of Na-
ture's God that things slowly
from lower planes to higher, a sturdy,
steady and dignified advance toward
more perfect things in both the Phy-
gical and Spiritual world. The pon-
derous tread of evolutionary develop-
ment is fixed by the Infinite and will
not be quickened ont of natural law
by any of man's methods
Therefore we see many filustrations
showing how nature checks too rapid
advance. Illinois raises phenomenal
crops of corn for two or three years,
If she continued to do so every year
her farmers would advance in wealth
far beyond those of sections or
countries. So Nature interposes a bar
every three or four years anid brings
on a “bad year."
Here we see the leveling influence
at work.
A man Is prosperous in his business
for a number of years and grows rich.
Then Nature sets the “leveling influ.
ence” at work on him. Some of his
fnvestiments lose, becomes luxuri-
ons and lazy. Perhaps it is whisky, to-
bacco, coffee, women, gambling, or
gome other form. The intent and pur.
pose is to level him. Keep bim from
evolving too far ahead of the inasses,
| A nation becomes prosperous and
great like ancient Rome. 1f no leveling
influence set in she would dominate
the world perhaps for all time. But
Dame Nature sets her army of “levels
ers” nt work. Luxury, over eating and
drinking, Jicentionsness, waste and ex-
Aravagance, Indulgences of all kinds,
Aben comes the wreck. Sure, Bure,
I —-
Bure,
"Ine law of the unit Is the law of the
mass. Man goes through the same
rocess. Weakness (in childhood),
gradual growth of strength, energy,
thrift, probity, prosperity, wealth,
‘comfort, ease, relaxation, self-indul-
and tobacco §
the dang
what is your
evolve
other
hie
gence, luxury, idleness, waste, de
bauchery, disease, and the wreck fol-
The “ievelers'” are in the bushes
along the pathway of every successful
lows.
man and woman and they bag tue wu-
Jority.
Only now and then can a man stand
out against these hold
his fortune, fame the
end.
So the Creator Whisky,
Tobacco and Coffee to level down the
successful who
signs of and
them back in the race, so that the great
‘fleld"” (the masses) left
tao far behind,
And yet we must admit that same all
wise Creator has placed it In the pow-
nd clothed in
an cut, steady mind
Hine to ex-
of
and
health to
“lovelers”
and
has use tor
ones and those show
being successiul, keep
may not be
er of man to sia
the ar
upright
4 mess
wenk-
and keep n
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POST.
ASPARAGUS LONG A FAVORITE
Records Date Back Almost to Hegin
ning of Authentic History.
all food plant there
Of
which
ne
} no
so long known or beer
possessed 80
the
back
distinguished a line
ords
rinning
and it is men
poet gy nus
Cc The Ro
in high es
ite a work
Rustica,’
virtues
Age AS Asparagus
reach alm
of authentic hi
tioned by the
who died
mans held
teem. The elder Cato
which is scl] extant, “De r
and it treats
and proper « paragus
Piiny, In his natural history, written
about 60 A. D., has much to say about
it. He feclingly observes: Of all
the products of your garden your chief
care should be asparagus,” and he de
votes several chapters to many
good qualities and the best methods
of raising it. He asserts that the soll
about Ravenna was so favorable to
its production that three heads grown
in that district had been known to
weigh a Roman pound. pound
seems to have been about equal to
eleven ounces in our day, so it would
apparently have taken four of the
stalks to have reached a pound of our
weight.
The asparagus being essentially a
southern plant, it is possible that the
stock growing in Italy was of a more
vigorous growth than that of our
northern clime. It is found all around
the shores of the Mediterranean and
branches off into four or five distinct
species besides the one ordinarily
used for edible purposes,
about
the
Wie
at length of the
uitivation of a
its
"his
Many Striwberries from an Acre.
H. P. Woodworth of Westfield, Vt,
has picked this year from a bed of
jess than an acre, 4,000 quarts of
strawberries. The picking soasgn
lasted from June 20 uutll Ayg. 1.
A FEW PIGEON NOTES.
The Homer pigeon is more
with squab raisers than any
variety, It stands confinement Ww
and ia a large, well-built bird The
squaba are large dark
sed
other
%
and never turn
when dre
pigeons
their
quabs are
sed.
ge
the r
an fill
the
gap that no amo
: ’ .
Instead OW fmucs
boy costa a great deal
anves . we
Farm Journal.
bot te Ww Imig
Farmer Via T
SELECTION
The
intel
be made from early
OF THE
now at hand
of the sow
litters,
carded
feeders
points Can
BROOD SOW.
when an
can
to replace
The
and
now
be
time ia
ligent selection
those that she
fastest
those having the best
There may.
good growers that are of too lazy and
sluggish a habit make good
mothers, ben must be
that the hearing is perfect, as
of this quality is one of the
of overlaying and killing the
young, aad, furthermore, this defect
is likely transmitted to the off
spring. Always select with a view to
paiformity of size, ag an even bunch
of hogs appeals the strongest to the
buyer. In svlecting bear in mind the
records of the dams ‘as prolific and
good mothers, for this quality Is
pasaad along from one geniration to
Then, too, always select
those that come nearest to conform.
ing to your view of the type, provid.
ing always that the animal is not
lacking in the qualities pointed out
above. The selection of the sow has
much te do with the uniformity of
bunches of feeders from year to year.
After the young sowa are aolected
separate them from the ones designed
for market, and when keeping om
grow host
be sien however
to ever
too, you
gure
lack
Causes
to he
RODEN
“&y
10t neglect to glve
ve them
grain
bring
of
make
years’
11 aod
suffici
ration to
development
but do
esult of a
{about the greatest
and
fat,
judicious
bone muscle
The r
tion
i not
them t fow
wil
who haz never
Bele prove surpris
ing
0 Any on«
in ti}
Home
had any
ysiem Stock
and
1{8 matter Farm,
IMPROVING THE BREEDS
of im
8 and
3
ind that
sil “
B « th
as
dam
the mother of
bull bas
of good
A good milch
good mil
not also belongs
This
dos
milkers
of breeding
tion than has
it Unfortunately,
been waning
time to collect
a herd
pare the
geny of a
that Orves mo
Tye
hitherto
gifatintics
hitherto: it
the necessary
ome size
and
to com:
the pro-
with the
descendants
8%, This has been don
K
data
of order
in
sil} nt ly J
11k yields of cows
particular bull
yields of other cows, the
of other bul by
inhoff-Papian
made with 153
Herr Schrew
The experiments
COWS
of
descendants
of
three to
relation
their richneas
i ter and butter The
sively demonstrate the
the bulls on the milk
female descendants”
ar,
four
their yield milk within a pe
six yoars,
the quanti
in fatty
results concln-
influence of
yields of their
Indiana Farm
varving
merely
but also
from
in to
Cougar Killed in Coon Hunt,
A coon hunt that ended in a cougm
killing was the experience of C: J.
i Oglesby on Fall Creek a few days
isinee, The dogs took up the trail of
the coons and had run but a short dis-
tance when they came upon the moun
tain lon, which they treed. The beast
{had hardly crawled beyond the reach
of the snarling pack when the hunter
{came up and brought down the big
cat with one shot, The hide, when
ew redehed, measured 6 1.2 feet by 8 1.2
foot,
The conn are suposed to have met
| the cougar before the hunter came up,
and to have suffered for it.—Portiand
| Oregrmian.
i
A cupful of
invaluable addition
0% i 1
pecially soot
jaded nerve
wo
yet that is much to
All of which drawhs
us-—-thoge of u
ot mi
est
lionaires—tha
3
nistaK %
ff their k
to ave
nd
The cleaning aad tur
an unsatisfactory
it is far wiser
but
to have fewer
and wear them out straight away
RICH WOMEN'S COSTLY RIGS
Mra, Safford Baratow, the New York
woman who her time
simply designing on paper new crea
¥
spends entire
in
fons the garb of American woman-
hood, was asked if the siatement made
in the dressmakers’ convention
some women apend as much az $25,000
on their clothes in a year an ex
aggeration “That is merely a falr
average.” she said. ‘Far from being
distorted, the figure named is very con-
Mrs. John Astor, 1
admitted to the best.
dressed woman in New York. [I am
certain that she apends all of $5
a year on her dre
Vanderbilt is a
dresamaking bill
$40,000, while Mrs Stuyvesant Fish
and Mrs, Joseph Widener, for in
stance, are ia a big class that easily
part their fnmbands from upward
$35,000 each year for benefit
the dressmakers, shoemakers,
ers, ete”
that
was
servative
think. is
Jacob
be
ond
RBER,
CIOs
Her
over
second.
certainly runs
the
of
glov-
WOMEN AS WHALERS,
The London Field describes a whale
hunt in Shetland when several hun
dred of the animals appeared in the
bay while all of the men and most of
the women ware away herring fishing.
Several boats, however, went out,
one of them being that of the school
mistress, who was accompanied by
some of her pupils. The boats
ceeded In driving a large number of
whales ashore. “I had nothing but an
old bayonet,” says the writer, "and
getting it, the work of apearing was
entered upon tll no fewer than eighty-
+ Lag
way
A lady with
but
up, and 1
haustion,
HAVE
time,
on, though you
ii that the instrument
rith soot nor too
temperature the finger
good
FASHION HI
mire Ww has
3
i ia
it in both
ave
panne velve
street and in
A very smart velvet for tal gowns
iz in small cheek spherd’s plaid in
black and white. This has always an
especially neat effect, and costs only
from one and a half to two dollars
in white or black are
oft black and colored vwvelvels
Some show spots in three graduating
5
EER
Or
sh
Coin spots
Oriental velvets show rich patterns
in Persian coloring, with a preponder
ance of copper colored and other me-
tallic effects, or with iridescent sur-
face.
Plushes have returned in two-tone
effect, and are intended for cloaks
quite as much as for gowns. The
zebra plush is, of course, decorated
with striping of black. Metallic and
changeable plushes are seen, some in
dainty evening shades.
Begides the rows of bebe ribbon
wesd through beading to draw up the
neck of corset covers, the tops of the
arn voles and the fronts are now fur
ther embellished by goodly-sized bows
of wide ribbon. — abort
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