tttitftfttMttf ftft9ft : SUNDAY SERMON : 5 3 J A Scholarly Ditoouro By JJ Rv. WlrjOeld Scott Batr. m Brooklyn, N. Y.-Tlie Kev. Wlntleld Scott Baer, who came from (irace Church. Sandusky. O.. to assume tin rectorship of St. George's Church, si it man of attractive pel -sonnllty nnd an excellent speaker. His subject Sunday morning wns Christian Life." 1 1 is text was from Psalms cxxil:l-2: "I will lift tip til i no eyes tinto tlin hills from whence coineth my help. My help cotnetli from the Lord, who made lienven and earth." Mr. Bner said: It is from the height that we gain our widest vision. It Is from the heights of human attainment that we tee life most truly. To gain these heights we need to go where Christ has climbed. 'I here are certain Inci dents in His life which preserve to us the Intimate connection between the truth of His life and the place where it was revealed In Its fullness. Let us lift up our eyes unto the hills, from whence comeih our help. I'p into a mount, with a few chosen disciples, He went by night to pray. In the darkness of the night those who accompanied Ilim beheld a vision. Before them was the Son of Man, transfigured, with shining face and garments all aglow. Then there crine a voice from Cod, "This is my beloved Son. hear Him." How often lu the days to come must they have recalled that vision with joy. llow often in the night of their perplexily. when they questioned what to do, must they have heard the voice, "This is my Son. hear Ilim." Their brethren saw not the vision, heard not the voice. In the valley below they slept. They had not been nsked to go with their Master, and they did right to rest their wearied frames for the work of the morrow. But those who went with Him saw the vision and heard the voice which declared to them that whatever other teachers were, or had taught, the perfect now was come, and the Imperfect was done away. The glory of the morning star is swallowed tip in the light of the sun. which it foretells. So. day by lay. these men saw In Him the trans figuration of humanity, the glory of n Jife lived with the rather; they heard the voice of that Father saying. "This is my Son. hear Him," and knew in j Christ the peiiection of sonship as Hod intended it to be. Is this a vision of p.it history? A page torn from the biography of Jesus of Nazareth? Is this a day when there is no vision, and no prophet; Is this the mount of (iod far away, aud must one journey to the Holy Laud to see it? Nay; since lie trod the earth, nil lands are holy, nnd we may go into the mount, may gain a vision and hear a voice. For the glory of Christ is not dimmed, nor the voice of (iod stilled. As one looks back through the vista of centuries nnd asks for the force which has uplifted niau, therj dawns upon him for an swer the vision of th? transfigured Christ. As one seeks for the highest Inspiration of brush and chisel, again, clearer or dimmer, as he may see, there stands before him the vision of the transfigured man. As he gazes at glorious cathedrals, wondering at tho greatness of the work an I the beauty of the art. again the Son of Man ap pears ns the Alpha and Omega, the beginning of the iuspiratlrn, the eud of all the faith. Ah. yec, and on? neivl int go ta mr-'ei pieces of art to discern the transfigured man. Closer and nearer Is He to us in li.e than in canvas or in stone. Wherever man kneels down in prayer, wherever in thought he lifts np his heart to (.iod. wherever lu time of meditation he goes apart to be with the Father, there comes a vision of transfigured man. glowing with the glory of did. The young man looking out into .ne world, the old man wait ing his summons home, each may have his vision and must have It." If lie would do his work aright. How sad j our life ns Christians would be if all j we did was daily rouiui of duty on the treadmill of existence. How long the days -rould be; how j yless the task, with our song at best a stoic chant. How glad when weary work was done, and weary eyes were closed, and weary hands were folded on the tuvast. But that is not the Christian lite. It is life and more abundnut. with ts outlook and Its hope. In study of the Scrip tures, ti musings when the heart is too full for speech, in hours oi worship when hearts and voices are upraised to (iod. there may come to us a vision of strength, of truth, of the better man to bp. the answer to all our pant ing and throbbing desires to come Into the fullness of life. It may hj dim. because our eyes are doll. Hut as our eyes grow brighter, the Indistinctness fades away into the glory of the transfigured man Christ Jesus. The vision of man is given to us in Him. We long, too, for knowledge or (iod; as we creep up "the great altar st.tirc which slope through darkness up to Cod," far. far above us we see the light of the eternal glory. And as we dixw nearer, the light re.olve? itself into the face of the transfigured One. "We have the knowledge of the glory cf Cod in the face of .Testis Christ," In whom (iod graciously veiled II is brightness that our weak eves might see. Our fullest vision of (iod and our clearest vision of man are had in Him. We may see Him in life of nobleman nnd pure woman ns we walk through the streets. We may suddenly be brightened In the daikness ()r home of sin by a glimpse of Christ shining through the life of one who lives with Him. Let us ever seek for tin t vision of Christ ill the life of our fellows, and if we seek, we shall find, lint let us remember that it Is well to take time with Him lu worship, in family prayer, where two or three are gathered' to gether, in our own communing with the Father, us we go apart In the mount of pvayer. which is the mount of vision, the mount of glory. Another vision, not now on mountain high, apart from others, with veil of Bight drawn down, but in light of day on little knoll by side of road where throngs from the city pass. Three crosses reared black against the sky, and the form of Him In the midst Is as the form of Uim who was transfigured on the mount. When He came down from the mount of transfiguration He net His disciples at ithe foot of the hill surrounded by a carious nnd disputing crowd. There was a strife of tougues there wn need and sorrow of miiuj there -,.-as weakness of Ills followers. The call wts made on '11m, and the duuiou wis expelled, sorrow was dona way. the distressed through ills strength was restored to peace. This was the epitome of His life. Then He set His face steadfastly to go to Jerusalem. From vision to service; from communion with God to service of man; from transfiguration to cruci fixion. His life was a life of service. He cam not to be ministered unto, bat to minister; He was a teacher, preacher, a setter forth of God and la word and Ufa. He ministered to men s bodies: lie enlightened their minds; He cleansed their souls; IIo strengthened them to realize the Ideal which His whole life was pouring out for man in sacrltlclal love, ns He hum bled Himself and became poor that we ml:xht become eternally rich; He gave Himself up to death for us miserable sinners that we might have eternal life. The depth of sin shows tho height of His love. The Cross of Cal vary Is the offering up of self for others. As we know well there Is wondrous strife of tongues. From every quarter there are questionings. Old forms of belief are losing power, but the old be lief, we know, is not. It still Inspires and uplifts, because It Is life In Clod. Change Is on the face of the earth; new and strange things are taught, sometimes even as the gospel of Christ; tho seething waters of life ruh to nnd fro, and at times one Is tempted to be lieve that there Is n reversion to chaos In spiritual things. We pass from this church, where we are gathered to wor ship (iod with the voice of thanksgiv ing nnd melody, the sound of prayer ml prahe, or we go from the quiet silence of our meditation, which was nil filled with field's voice. Into our life with other men. They may have no In terest In these things, or best it may bo au Intellectual or speculative Inter est. They are very critical In that babel to whom shall we listen, what voice will still tho deep and make a great calm? What but the old voice of the Transfiguration: "This is my Son. hear Ilim." Study His words to ascertain the truth to i meet the inquiries of man's mind. But with all the study that we can give It we can never come to he truth of that which -Ie taught until In our life wo live the l fe of sonice, as He; He served; therefore Is Ho great. It Is a blessed privilege to he on the mount with (iod. but the vision must pass into service, as we go down, and by words and life declare the vision which we have had of truth and love. It will mean cost. If He found tluit service of others meant cost, bitter trial and weariness of body and mind, can we expect that es His followers we shall j have naught to endure? .May thero not be for us misunderstandings, temptations from fortune and power end ambition? May there not be hard- ! ships for us, does service cost naught? j It cost Him the cross. And the dis ciple is not above his Master. The ! nearer we come ta realizing the vision of the perfect man the closer we draw to Calvary in the offering up of self for others. This mount of service and sacrifice is not far away, inaccessible peak capped with the everlasting snow. The service is here, where throngs of men pass to and fro; it is a lowly mount, the mount of service; In the turmoil and dust of the streets, amous busy men thronging the city of man, which should be the city of (iod. It is lowly, yea. but hard to climb. Easier far to go up on mount of prayer and gain the vision of what we ought to be than in life of service to be what we ought. Hut thanks be to 111m who Is with ns .on Calvary ns on Trans figuration. His spirit strengthens and helps us and enables us to offer our selves a living sacrifice, holy, accept able unto God. "My help cometh from the Lord." Is this nil vision, service, death? Nay, Christianity Is not a law of death, but a law of life. Buddhism may hope to escape life, but Christ j came that we might have life, and J have it more abundantly. Christianity I is life, not death. A few weeks after l the crucifixion., on another mount, was I a gathering of men with loving eyes ' fixed on Him who was the centre of the ! group; and His form was as the form I of Him who had been nailed to the j cross, the same, yet changed. Giving them His command, nnd His benedic i tion. He ascended Into heaven. Vision, i service, life not vision, sacrifice. I death. Thr nigh His obedience to . what He knew to t: right, through ! His translation into a life of service ; of the perfect visiou, which Ho had, i He had come into the higher life, nnd , Is seated on the throne with (iod. It i was the tltting end and glorious con- summation of such a lite, the crowning with the glory of manhood, fulfilled and ennobled to Its greatest height. The law of sacrifice Is not the law of death, but the law of spiritual life. He that loseth his life for My sake, aniloth It. He that bur.ibloth himself Is exalted. He that beudeth down in love, ascendeth up In glory. For the truth of the Mount cf Ascen sion Is n higher lifo for man Into which he conies through vision and through service. Is it wrong to wish to use aright those powers which we feel within; Is it wrong to long for a fuller life than that which now we have; must we be content with what we are in spiritual attainment, in character? Nay. if we be Christians, we cannot be content, ns we behold the hills of Transfiguration and Calvary, of vision nnd sacrifice, and on the hill of Ascen sion belio id manhood crowned by (Iod in a fuller and larger life than that which earih affords, with clearer range :if vision, with larger realm of service, with richer glory if the man. as He :oi.ies more and more into the likeness of His Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I. OTP. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing broader, nothing better, either in heaven or earth; beinuse love is born of God, nnd. rising above all created things, can find its rest ill Him alone. Thomas a Kcmpis. Do I really love Jpsus? Have I ever told Ilim that I love Him? Let me tell Him now. Do I know Ilim as un friend to whom 1 can always go? When I am weak, do I think of His strenjjth? When I am sinful, do I think of Ills purity? When I nm in doubt, do I think of His wisdom? When I urn .lied, do I go to Uim for rest? Floyd W, TotnUius. Sent Quarter Through Mail. The must peculiar piece of mall that has ever como to an Alabama postofiice, so far as known, reached the New Decatur postoffice to-day. It was a silver quarter of a dollar with a small piece of pnper pasted on each side. On one side was written the address and on the other a few words. The quarter was tied In the center of a bundle of letters when it arrived. It had traveled many miles and was delivered safely to the one for whom It was Intended. Decatur correspondence Nashville American. Famlnt In India Prophesied. A circular ('Istributed among the villagers In India prophesies that this year, Burmese year 1267, Is to bring famine, sickness, pestilence and dis tress to the people. All Buddhists or urged to raise In their towns a pagoda of sand and make offerings after the manner of the old kings of Burmah to ward off the impending disaster. The residents of a certain section of Ran goon are now busy coHecUajf the re quired aand and funds. EPWOflTii LEAGUE LESSONS MARCH 25 AFRICA, Program by the Mission Study Class. Josh. 1. 1-9. Africa la, of all the continents, most Interesting to the student of missions. He sees It as it was not many years ago forgotten, neglected, suffering In the dark. He sees lis missionary pi oncers men tho echo of whose vplcea has hardly died away. Ho Bees the struggle between the powers of heath enism and tho gospel complicated by tho greed and cruelty of men from Christian landB. He sees, at last, the Joining of hands by which missions ami commerce work together to bring light to Africa. The work whic h baa licen done there has given the lie to the cheap Jests about missionaries. , Missionaries to Africa have been hard-headed, ready handed men and women, who could wield tools of the farm and shop and home as well as the sword of the Spir it. There have boen constructive statesmen among them, no less worthy of praise because the kings they have counseled were black savages. Africa is tho oldest of the mission fields of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In pant years it has been one of tho least productive. Doubtless some mistakes have been made, some efforts wasted. Rut tho African field is ready now for larger things. Tho great powers of Europe are planning colossal enterprlzes In Africa. It will shortly bo the homo of millions of white people. Its greatest need is that whatever industrial and pollitlial pro gress it may make, it shall be pre empted for the gospel. The growth of the to-morrow may be greater than we have yet dared to dream. Africa was claimed for (Joil in the lifo and death of Melville Cox. our Methodism's lirst foreign missionary. It Is "the coming continent." Wars have desolated it In almost every mile of its vast extent, but now there is bright prospects of lasting peace. U has been the scene of the unlmagined horrors of the slave trade, but that ghastly traffic is disappearing in the face of the unceasing opposition o the Christian nations. Bountiful Sowing: Our Gifts to Christ's Cause. Luke 6:38; 2 Cor. 9:1-15. Every one likes "good measure," heaped up high. Must not God like it also? No gift is at its best till it Is given in gratitude for the Best Gift, u you want to give only a dime and yet do give a dollar, God counts it only a dime. Is your harvest of happiness scanty? i..at is proof of a scanty eowlng. Proportionate and systematic giv ing may be generous or stingy. What Is needed is a generous system and proportion. "Ho gives twice who gives quickly" applies to missions as well as to char ity. Full sowing avails not unless fol lowed by full tending. "A prayer and a penny" soon be comes a prayer and a dollar. Sowing seems to be throwing away 3eed. One of the chief graces of our giving Is that it Is done In faith. It Is not giving when we place our money in the savlgs bank, or when we expect a money return from God. Generally the larger the Interest the iess safe the investment. It is the op posite in lending to the Lord. What merchant would know how his business stood unless he kept ac counts: How can we know how well or poorly we give unless we keep ac counts? It is possible to sow too much seed tn a farmer's field, but It not possible to sow too much gospel seed. Do I use my possessions as a trust from God? Questions. Do I hold my money as if I should hold it forever? Am I living for myself or for the kingdom of God? HYPNOTIZED OVER THE PHONE. Remarkable Performance Vouched for by Medical Men. Some remarkable experiments In the way of hypnotizing by telephone have just been carried out In the Savoy Hotel by Mr. F. F. Abbott. The experiments were conducted In the presence of a considerable number of medical men. Mr. Abbott Introduced a young Scotsman, whom he had hyp notized seven times during the previ ous fortnight. After passing his hand over the face of the subject, Mr. Ab bott soon reduced the man to a pas sive state, and then, accompanied by one of the medical men, he left the building, and from a distance of two miles telephoned to the hotel In which the seance hud been held. When the bell In the hotel room rang the young Scotsman went to the telephone, and, with a shudder, fell back quite uncon scious. Mr. Abbott had commanded him over the telephone to go to sleep, nnd the subject remained In a hyno tlzed stato until Mr. Abbott returned and awakened him. London Tit-Bits. Daring Railway Building. The work of constructing a railroad to the summit of Mount Blanc has been begun with enthusiasm and the engineers tn charge of the undertak ing will push the construction with all possible speed. The line will be built like the Jungfrau line in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. It will have a total length of nineteen kilometers (eleven and four-fifths miles) and wilt, It la hoped, be completed within five or six years. The carriages will be heated and lighted by electricity, and the train will be composed of an elec trical engine and two saloon cars, made to accommodate about eighty people. A special arrangement of the windows will permit all travelers in discriminately to enjoy the scenery. Three klnda of powerful brakes, Inde pendent of each other, will be attach ed to the cars, thus reuderlng alt ac cident Impossible. The telephone will be established along the tine and will connect any point thereof with the bead stations. CilSTilMfiilES ! MARCH TWENTY-FIFTH. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 29; Temperance Lesion. Pro, zilll., 89 9S Golden Text, Prov. UI 38) Memory Vrree, 81 Topic: Drink's Chamber of Hnrrori I. Strong drink destroys happiness (vs. 29, 30.). 29. "Who." A tllvlne commission to very man to investi gate tho prevailing onus of woe nnd sorrow nnd strife, and thus be deterred from taking the wrong course In life. Robinson cull this lesson the drunk ard's looking glass, set before those whose face is toward the drunkard's habits, so that they may e what they will be If they go on. "Woe." Direful distress; both the condemnation for a sin committed, and a certain awful con dition of suffering. Sin of all kinds brings It own punishment, but there is no sin which so speedily nnd relent lessly pursues its victim as tho sin of drunkenness. "Who hath sorrow." The Hebrew word menus, llrst, poverty and then misery. Tuo cup contains more than one woe; a single sorrow is not all. These nro go numerous as to call forth n constant and long continued cry of r.ngulsh. "Who hath, contentions." Nine-tenths of all the brawls and fights, quarrels nnd mlsunderstntuUngs ore traceable to drink. "Who hath bab bling." This refers to the tendency of strong drink to foolish nntl incessant talking, revealing secrets, vllo conver sation and noisy demonstrations, which are common In different stages of elrunkeuuess. Nothing goes right with tho drinker, lie complains of Ood, of society, of his family, of hi circum stances, of everything. Nothing can lie right to one who Is thus wrong. "Wounds without cause." Wounds re ceived in wholly unprofitable disputes, such us. come of the brawls of drunken men. Drinkers are especially exposed to accidents nud diseases which tem perance would have proventud. "Red ness of eyes." Bloodshot, blurred or bleared eyes (Gon. 49:12). Alcohol in duces n paralysis of the nerves control ling the minute blood vessels, the ca pillaries, which results lu a dilation that speedily shows Itself lu the eye. ?M. "Ihey that tarry long." This answers the above questions. lie who begins to drink continues to drink, tar rying often a whole night, and from that to day and night, "'i'hay that go." To places or among people where in toxicating drinks nre made or stored or used. "Mixed " wine." Spiced, drugged, medlcnted wine. II. Strong drink prohibited (vs. 31, 32). 31. "Look not." This prohibits even moderate drinking. It is our duty to avoid temptation. See Prov. 4:14, 15. The person who enters into temp tation is almost certain to fall. "Iled." The bright color of the win gives it an nttrnctlve look. "His color In the cup." Literally, Its eye. the clear brightness, or the beaded bubbles, on which the wine drinker looks with, pleasure. "Goeth down smoothly" (It. V.) This verse pictures the attractive side of wine, when it seems perfectly harmless to sip a little, when it is bright . and Inspiring, thrilling the nerves with delight, promising all joy nud freedom. It is the shining sfdo of evil that Is so dangerous Oils flowery entrance to the path that leads to death. At such a time, beware! 32. "At tho last it blteth." The pleasure will be attended at last with intoler able pnins, when It works like so much poison lu thy veins and casta thoe Into diseases as hard to cure as the biting of a serpent. "Adder." In the Geneva Bible this word Is translated "cocka trice." It was n very venomous ser pent. But the picture eunnot be over drawn. The curse of i-irong drink Is worse than the bite of a thousand ser pents. III. Strong drink ruinous to charac ter (v. a')). 33. "Kyes shnll behold," etc. "Thlno ryes shall behold strange things." 11. V. Some think there is a reference here to tho elellrium tremens. But the rendering in the Authorized Version, which lit retained In the margin of the Revised Version, is, according to the Cambridge Bible, "iu keeping with tho usage of the word In the Book of Trov orbs, and with the undoubted connec tion between excess of wino and lust." Tho "lust of the eyes" cause3 tho downfall of many. We should hasten to closo our eyes to that which we ought not to see. "Heart shall utter." When men or women indulge In the use of strong drink they let down tho bars to every sin that follow In the train. IV. Strong drink lends to folly (vs. 84. 35). 34. "In tho midst of tho sea." To make one's bed on the waves of tho sen would be to Tie swallowed up iu death. So Is the drunken man. Or as a pilot who has gone to sleep when hl ship was In the troughs of the sea, al lowing the tiller to slip out of his hand. ana nts snip to De swamped with the waves which he might have outridden. Stupefied, besotted uion know not where they are or what they nre doing, and when they He down they are as if tossed by the rolling waves of the sea, or upon the top of a mast. Their heads swim. Their sleep Is disquiet, and troublesome dreams mako sleep unre freshing. "Top of a most." The drunkard Is utterly regardless of life. 33. "Have stricken not hurt" (R. V.) With conscience seared and self respect gone, the drunkard boasts of the things which should mako him blush with shame. "Have beaten felt It not." "Angry companions have done their worst to end my life, says he, but their blows did not affect me." "Will eeo again." Bather, when I shall nwnke I will seek It ngaln. Self-control Is all gone. Tho drunkard Is a slave to nppetlte. He Is as Insensible to the pleadings and warnings of those who seek his salvation ns lie Is to the beatings of his comrades when he Is delirious. The Horseless Age. A Yankee down East thus sizes up. the horseless age. ''1 pity the man who says the automobile will drive out the horse. There Is all the differ ence In the world between the horse and tho machine. The difference be tween the living and dead; between the game, resolute, door-die spirit of the horse that compels ndmiratlon, and the Inanimate machine that does not. Take a clock that has stopped forever, even a faithful clock, and you can't wring a tear out of the chil dren with a force pump; but they'll cry as If their hearts were broken over a St. Bernard that's passed on to the animal heaven. The steam engine and the trolley haven't put horses out of commission and the automobile won't; still. I hope for their sake, that It'll take a few of them out ot the hands of the brutal and Ignorant who don't know how to use them." Providence Journal. Unaeiortmt tock. Go Into any bnrnynrd or poultry ynrd and tho chances nre that the stock will be found of all grades, shapes, colors and sizes. Among the lot will be found some excellent layers, but the whole lot will prove unprofitable, owing to too much "rubbish." Yet there nre hundreds who annually winter over and feed scrubs thnt show no signs of thrift, nnd which give the flock tho nppenrnnce of being mixed to such an extent ns to destroy even the prospect of better results In the future. This Is due to the failure of farmers to secure uniformity in the flock. There is no excuse for having a little of everything good and bad ns the use ot pure-bred mates will overcome all such obstacles. We do not mean to claim that the farmer should use pure-bred fowls only, for the crosses nre excellent, but if crosses nre to be used, let some judgment be. used In securing such crosses. Breed for just what you wnnt, using certain males ntnl females for that purpose, nnd not turn out the whole flock together, nnd then trttt-t to chance for the character of the offspring. There Is too much useless material In nearly nil flocks, but It can be bred out. Prairie Farmer. Counting; Copt ol Fnrmlnir. When tho harvest Is over farmers nre In a position to know pretty well if the operations ot the Inst year have been profitable. In some sections crops may have been partial failures; In others, some crops may have been so good that prices rule exceedingly low. If the year has not been prosperous, what has been the trouble? One thing worthy of sprlous thought Is whether one Is wearing out his fnrm. This is quite likely to bo the case In the older States. If tho crops hnve been satis factory, hnve we, in growing them, furnished to the soil enough fertility to grow the crop and still return to the soil the plnnt food which it contained before the seed was sown? If not, we may consider thnt just so much we have taken from the vitality ot the soil, and that, in consequence, the next crop will be correspondingly smaller. While old-time fanners thoroughly believe In the old rule of making the farm grow everything needed for the living of the family and stock before planning to sell any part of tho crops, conditions may change this rule slight ly. One would not be justified In rais ing hny for one or two animals, when the soli would bring him a much better return if it grew strawberries, for ex ample. At this season of rest each of us should carefully look over the pnst and search for the mistakes quite as earnestly ns for tho successes. In dianapolis News. To OWe Medicine to a Honp. In giving liquid medicines to n hors-', says the Horse World, have the medi cine in a stout bottle with a sloping shoulder nn ordinary "pop" bottle does very well and do not add any more water to It than Is necessary to prop erly dilute It, ns a very lnrge drench Is difficult to administer. Next get the horse In a good position, so that be has to tako his medicine. If tho construc tion of the stable permits it, back him into a single stall, throw a rope over tho beam at the back, mnke a noose od the end ot It, pass It under the nose baud of the halter and place it in tho horse's mouth below the upper jaw. Now raise the horse's head until the medicine will run back In the mouth. Doift pull it too high or the horse will have difficulty tn swallowing nnd there Is danger of the medicine going the wrong way. You enn easily keep the head In this position by holding the rope In one hand while you pour in the drench with the other. 1'ulling out the tongue and squeezing and thumping on the throat are quite useless as induce meats to the horse to swallow, and may cause coughing. Should coughing oc cur. the head should be relensed at enco, even If the medicine is lost, ns otherwise It might get Into the lungs. This Is a much better nnd more nu niano way thnn putting up the bend with a twitch, and a drench is usually given without any difficulty. PrepnrliiB For (ne. Oati Crop. In this section farmers grow princl pally the spring onts. The winter oats has not met with much favor, on ac count of Its winter killing. Usually the spring is late and the preparation for the out sowing conies when the breaking for corn Is In order. This danger of the work doubling up causes the- oat crop to suffer. The land Is often broken wet, worked down wet and the seed sown while the land Is very cold. The work of preparing a seed bed for oats Is hurriedly done. Frequently old corn land Is disked, the seed sown broadcast in the loose trash and cornstalks, and the land run over with a straight-toothed harrow, and the work is done. Only rich or fresh land can produce n paying crop under such conditions. The oat is sown In the spring, and two or three weeks after wheat harvest oat harvest ! hero. It must grow u good straw nnd mature seed within less than five months' time. Oftentimes not more than four months lapses from seeding time to harvest. Hence, the oat crop works rapidly, draws heavily upon the plant food lu the top soil and requires n large supply ot moisture. If It fulls to get available plant food at once, or fails in getting sufficient moisture it cannot wait, but must adjust Itself to the conditions nnd produce a stunted straw and a very small grain yield. The oat plant is n rnpld grower If given plenty ot food aud moisture. It demands a well-worked seed bed, free from clods and-young growing weeds. It needs even more thorough prepara tion than wheat, because It must com- plett) Its work In much less time. W. B. Anderson, in the Indianapolis News. Bojrins Store Feed, In general It will pay the farmer who has ear corn to have it ground Into corn aud cob meal and buy some of tho cheaper, more nitrogenous con centrates to supplement It. Cottonseed meal is richest In protein,. but Is high In price when total digestible matter Is considered. Buckwheat middlings tad dried di tiller's grnlns are comparatively rich In protein, nnd are also among the lowest In price. Where they can bo bad ot the prices given, their use Is to be recommended for a part of the ration at least. Since they both tend to produce ft soft, oily butter fnt It might be advisable to feed a llttlo cottnnsoed meal to counteract this ten dency. Whent bran, often fed for the protein tt contains, Is rather low In tills constituent, nnd Is also among tho highest In price when digestibility Is considered. It nud oil meal or linseed meal are valuable, however, for their general effect upon the condition of the animal. Alfalfa meal, just now being widely advertised, proves to lie one or the most expensive reeding stuffs on the market, if we assume thnt Its digestibility is the same as that of alfalfa hay. There seems to be no reason for assuming that lis digesti bility would be any greater, and it might possibly be loss. Kncli year n number of new brands of stock food Is put on the market. In the majority of Instances the bnse of each of these Is a by-product of the manufacture of some more valuable article. These by-products nro some times sold alone and sometimes mixed with some of the staple feeding stuffs. They are often sold under fancy nnmen which give no clew to their composi tion, nnd nre frequently on the market some time before an official examina tion can be made and the results an nounced. It Is always best to buy these In small .quantities nnd test them before laying in a supply. This, however, is not nhvnys practicable, nnd the next best thing is to rely upon tho testimony or the experience of some responsible party. Even this mny be misleading, ns conditions nre not always the same nnd some nre not so readily apparent. In case nothing definite can be learned concerning the new feed except through tho manufacturer or agent, it Is wise to slick to the standard known brand of articles. T. I. Malrs, In tho American Cultivator. Soil AnnlyplH Deceptive, The first question that RUggests it self to the average mind Is thnt of plant food. Is there plenty of avail able plant food? It is supposed by many thnt this question can be readily answered by a chemical analysis; but ns yet the chemists do not feel that their analysis gives a satisfactory an swer to the question. The plant food in n soil may be di vided into that portion which becomes dissolved during the growth of the crop, nnd that which does not. The principal problem lu soil analysis has been to find a solvent which will dis solve the materials in the proportion in which they ore dissolved by the plants. It is comparatively ensy to make a complete analysis of the soil; but such nn nnnlysls gives but little information ns to the amount of materials that a plant can take from the soil; and while mnny solvents have been tried with the hope that the amounts of food shown would correspond with tho growth of crops on the soil a satisfac tory solvent has not yet been found. Another reason for this unsatisfac tory condition is that tho weight of material removed from an acre of foil by one crop is so smnl! In comparison with the weight of the soil on nn nere to a depth of two or three fept ns to Ho within the limits of error of nnnly sls. Of two soils one might contain enough soluble for, gny a crop of wheat, nnd the other not enough, and yet tho analysis be practically the same. Even the amounts of potnsh, phos phoric ncld or nitrogen which are us ually added per acre in fertilizers If disseminated through the first two feet of the soil would scarcely show on analysis, and yet we know that they show a marked effect on the yield of the crop. J. D. Tltisley, in the Amer ican Cultivator. Too Biht to Work. The luxury of physical Inactivity ap pears to bo fully appreciated iu the South, writes Mr. Bradford Torrey lu Nature's Invitation; and as nn Illus tration, ho te'.ls of a walk ho took nenr Miami, Florida, and of a conversation ho overheard. I was walking awny from the city at n rather brisk pnea one moling, when I passed a lonenome shanty. A white man sat upon the rude piazza, and another man and a boy stood near. "Are j-ou going to work to-day?" nsked the boy of the occupant of tho piazza. ( "No," was the answer, quick nnd pithy. "Why not?" "I nlu't got time." I do not expect to hear the philos ophy of Indolence more s uinctly and pointedly stated if I ll.-e'a thousauJ years. Cheering Tllm Up. "Yo-es," Mr. Billings snlil, reluct antly, iu reply to bis friend's remark that Mrs. Joyce was "nn awfully sweety little woman." "So cheerful! Al ways sunny; always looking on the bright side!" Billings' friend contin ued, enthusiastically. ' "There's such a thing as overdoing that 'bright side' business," said Bill ings. "Tho other night I was up there and Joyce you know how absent minded he is? put the lighted eud of his cigar In his mouth. He jumped three feet, and was a little noisy for a minute. Itlght'lu tho midst of it all Mrs. Joyce smiled blandly, aud said: " 'How fortunate you were, dear, to discover it at once:'" An lugenloae Apparatus. The stroboscope is au ingenious ap paratus for making visible "rapid move ments, like those ot macuinery. The moving, object Is illuminated by a rapid succession of olectrl? sparks, 'which cause the machine to appears station try when their period coincides with the revolutions, but shov the move ment much retarded wheu tiiey arj made to lag behind. The formation of a sowing machine stitch or the working of au eug'.utj and many other machine movemvuts, can thus be atudled, al though, ttelr actual speed Is much to? rapid :c vision. ' , SCIENCE a Airship travel seem to be nlrcnilj popular. W. do Fonilellu estimates that seven or eight rundred balloon voyages nre now madB annually, and States that the members of the French Aero Club nlone made more than two hundred Inst yenr. The forms and colors of the clouds, tho brightness, and the now views of the earth give a won. derful charm to sky automoblllng. Julius Rosenbr-rr: considers ultro-vlo. let rays remedial agents of the greatest vnlue, especially for the relief of pain, says the Baltimore Sun. He employs n thlrty-flve-nmpere arc, with mirror reflectors, and attaches Importance to the use of Iron-cnrbldo electrodes. He concludes that the ultra-violet rays ob tained In this way nre a specific rem edy In acute muscular pain, such at lumbago. Professor W. E. Ayrton points out that the common expression "buying electricity" and "consuming electric current" nre misleading. No electricity Is used up In lighting buildings, driv ing machinery, and propelling cars and trains. "Just as much electricity flows away per minute, through tho return conductor, from your electrically light ed house ns flows to It through tlii coming conductor. The pomelo, sometimes called th Chinese breadfruit, n citrus-fruit which may bo described as a cross between the orange and the grapefruit, combin ing the good points of both, Is the subject of nn Interesting report by Mr, Anderson, the United States Consul at Hangcbow. Mr. Anderson regards it ns the finest fruit grown In the Far East. Ho believes that It might be in troduced with profit Into the Souths' United States. The gigantic nnimnls of the so-called age of reptiles, whose remains nre es pecially abundant In some of the Inndi bordering 4he Rocky Mountnlns, ap peal so powerfully to the Imagination thnt nn exaggerated notion of thelt size nnd weight Is frequently enter tained. It has more than once been pointed out thnt. ns far ns paleontology shows, the earth never contained mort bulky creatures thnn the whales of to-day. The construction of an ordinary tel egraph line between Limn, on the Tn ciftc side of tho Andes In Peru, nnd Iqiiitos, near the Amazon, being nil but impossible, btcnuse of the density of the forests nnd the nnlmoslty of thf Ignorant nntlves, the wireless method is to be employed. Already communi cntlon by wireless telegraphy exists between Lima and Tuerto Bermuda, nnd this line will be extended to Iqultos, a distance of about COO miles, with three intermediate stations. One on the Conductor. Colonel Sanders was a passenger on one of tlu Montana railroads at one time. He had the annual pass on the roud, but on this occasion he had left tt at ht-ine. IIo had '.raveled the same route many times before and was well known to the conductor. When thnt oftioi.'.l came uround for the tickets, the Colonel, told him of his forgetf illness. The conductor, however, was obdurate; be must have ticket or money. The Colonel, rather than have n scene, finally pulled out a five dollar bill. which fas ample to cover the expenses ot his trip. It was a very ragged af fairall torn and pasted. "That's a One looKlng bill to givj me," gro.-. led the conductor. Colonel Sanders was by this time thoroughly nettled. "Well.' he cried In a voice thnt could be hoard all otvr the .ar, "if you don't like it, turn It In to the company." The laugh that wont up was nt tin Spense of the conductor. Plttsbur;; Dispatch. Wild Beaete of India. Tear by year records are. published of the destruction of human nud cnt tie lifo by the wild beast and snnke of British India. Last year 24,5? human beings nnd 00,220 cattle wer- killed, nud of the people. 21.827 deatt were attributed to snakes, while A the cattle, 815,000 were killed by beasts, panthers being charged wltti 10,000. and tigers with 30,000 of tu; total; snakes accounted for 1(1.00' And this Is but a trifling percentage oi tho actual annual mortality, as It et- eludes the feudatory States, with tlielt 700,000 square miles und 00,000,000 in habitants, where no records are obtalt able. Nor do the fatalities grow nu terlally less, notwithstanding tho ' forts of sportsmen and rewards h! Government, because the developing of railways nnd roads, as the jungle ' reclaimed for agriculture, means cor llnuous Invasion of the snake and tlgc Infested territory. Caspar Whitney, I. 'The Trail of tho Tiger," iu Outlug. Irrigation in China. The question of modern Irrigation '' me of the grentest lmportnuce to Nori Chlnu, und one w-hlch the Chinese t!' irnment appears never to have couoi1 tred. Year after year the crops U Irani lack of rain, Immense tracts l' touutry are laid waste, the pooplo W: !er and become retiless. There is a: Ie water to Irrigate the greater p:l if this territory, but to do so reuulM i large capital nnd a wait of two ! hree years for returns. The returr loweve'r, would bo great and tho see ty nmplo for any foreign eapH- China might wish to borrow for tn lurpoae. 1'he Frofauor's Fuaelloa. An Oxford professor, dlntlugulifr' '.or scholarly habits of the most Pr' oounced description, remarked to M companion at table that be bad ' cepted the Invitation of a well kw; eer for a week's shooting lu'8cotlj "Why, Professor Blank," exclaiwj Ills companion, ''I didn't know l' were a gun!" I "I'm not, my dear," said the pro'" sor. "I in a knife and fork." i Jowleh Banker m Pr9 t Sir Herbert de Stem, who wai cently made a peer, la Jewish b1 er lu Loudon, and Is a son of B"r Hermann de Btera, whose tltl f Portuguese, j
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