ttt ff f r SliMMV SERMON A -choirly Di.couras 'Sy Rv L. L Taylor. a It 4X.SXilk Brooklyn, N. Y. Sunday evening, i In Puritaa Congre national Church, ! the pastor, the Itev. Livingston L. Taylor, preached a sermon lu antlel pation of Anniversary Day, on "Chil dren' (lights." The text was from Mark 10:14: "Suffer the little chil dren to com iin'i M, and forbid them not: for of Much is the kingdom of (iod." Among other things, Mr. Taylor said: Mere U the Magna Charta, the great charter of children's rights. The kingdom la their kingdom. The Christ is their Christ. He recognizes their tight to be; their right to be rhlldren; their right to a blessed life as children. The kingdom can not riiiun etcept a. children have their rights. Could we save the chll drn of but one generation, the king dom would he here. God does not work in Just 'hat way; but the king dom will never come unless we keep -our hearts wl'h the children nnd our t'a'es toward the unborn. The world iintat become better by being born again. That I the way the kingdom lias been coming. The human race makes progress by being better born each time. The right to be well bi!ti should be secured to every child and from birth on ail lis rights as a child should b safe-guarded. Christ's blessing rests upon every plea for children's tights, upon every la enacted for their protection from Inhuman parents, guardians and em ployers; upon every provision for their welfare when orphaned, or de serted, or sick, or feeble minded, or crippled, or In any way dependent, defective or delinquent. But the children who are thus afflicted, tho children who are beaten and sent out to beg and steal, the children who are compelled to work long hours and under unwholesome con ditions, the children whose parents are dead or unuble to provide for them, are not the only children who need to have their rights examined. In what we call the best homes cer tain rights of the children are In danger of being overlooked, are rn need of being declared, championed ! and secured. First and foremost, I would nut i the right of children to be children. They have as good a right to be children as we have to be grown tip folks: a better right, probably. Childhood Is as much a part of the framework of this universe as earth or sky or sea. The right to a child hood Is Inalienable. Your child has a right not only to live but to live as a child. We are not to Infer that Paul was ashamed of his childhood because he said: "When I became a man I put away childish things." We are not to think the less of childhood because we were meant to outgrow it. Such real men as Paul was are generally discovered to have had a real childhood. He certainly had had a childhood sufficiently marked to be well remembered. Some men and women are not so fortunate. They seem to have for gotten that thev ever were or v.ere mount to be children. But Paul said: "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought (or reasoned) as a child." And there seems to have been no body to Interfere with him. "Child hood and youth are vanity," said the preacher. Uut perhaps he was simply lamenting their brevity. "Mike the most of childhood and youtn for they are soon gone." But if we are to understand him as pro nouncing vain and profitless the golden days of all our life, he is sadly out of tune with all the rest of the Bible. Vanity! Emptiness! The fulness of life's worth and meaning ' Is nowhere writ so large as In the soul of youth. Is it Just a lie writ I large? Oh, no. for Cod wrote it thus: I The men who retain childhood's sense of the reality and eagerness of ! life are the nn-n who never grow old anl never get through learning. "There is no substitute," says the bright woiian from whose charming hooK of nursery 1-jgie I have bor rowed the lit.:.- of this discourse, ! "for a geuuin'-, free, serene, healthy, , bn-ad-and-butter childhood. A fine nanbood or womanhood can be built i: no oth"r foundation." Cod says the foundation shall be childhood. Why, then, should we be Impatient? Why should we fear to trust what 1 He puts nethermost for all the rest to stand upon? It is well enough to think of the manhood and the wo manhood we want our children to attaiu and to give to the world. But I am persuaded that we think less than we should of the childhood which It Is our first duty to give them. The second right of childhood ' which I shall mention Is the right . to be governed. By a real childhood 1 I do not mean an unrestrained child hood. A chilj left to itself will not 1 have a natural childhood. That , which Is most distinctive and beauti- ' ful In childhood Is contributed to It, ; or developed la It, by wise and lov ing restraint. The street Arab Is not the Ideal child. Nor Is the child j who grows up la a home where the I political maxim that "governments j derive their lust powers from the consent of the governed" Is accepted as applying to parent. authority. The authority of father and moth er Is derived from the Fifth Com mandment and from the constitution of nature which Hcb back of that commandment. There Is no author ity more august, more sacred, more God-givei than parental authority. We abdicate It to our shame and sor row, to the shame and sorrow of the church, to the shame and sorrow of our children themselves. But, having said tbij, let me make haste to say that In the endeavor to maintain the control of our children our steadfast aim should be to put them at last In control of themselves. Our control should be the scaffolding ot self-control. A child has a right, 1 say, to an Intelligent, flrui, consist ent government that shall represent In a way, adapted to Its years, the conditions under which some day it will hav to shift for itself. In a sense, we cannot begin too early to put child In control of himself; that is, to teach him vlf-control. We have no right to gratify a child's every wish. The child has a right to be denied some things; to be re strained; to learn from us, In love, something of the Inexorable condi tions of mature life. We have no right to interfere with the law of cause and effect to such an extent as to send our children out Into the world unprepared for real life. The third of the inalienable rights ot children is the right to be taught, involving the right to be Ignorant. A child has a right to be ignorant and to ba keut in ignorance of many things. It is a tleTuult right to maintain In thes days, esueeitilly nfter a child has learned t rad Hut I question whether our children do not learn more of the dark and sinister facts of life from our own careless conversation than from what they read. And I speak not only of con versation relating to gross crimes of lust and violence, but of unkind criticism, of ordinary gossip, of dis trust, insinuation and ridicule. Many of us, I fear, are in no position to complain of the newspapers, nor even of the unwholesome books from which our children lenrn so many things they might better never know. If only this right of our children to be spared for a time the dis closure of certain aspects of life were more clearly recognized and at the same time the safe-guardlug of their Innocence more carefully distinguished from the foolish with holding of necessary knowledge! Let me say with all deliberation that It. should be counted as one of the most sacred of the obligations or parents to give to their children, or to provide for them, that physi ological Instruction, the withholding of which, entirely or too long, through our utterly false sens" of propriety, has been for many gener ations, and Is to-day, on of the chief causes ot human sin and wretched ness. The right of children to be taut.ht has never been so fully recognized as It Is In our day. It Is felt to be a wrong and a disgrace if one child is left without a seat lu a school, or kept out of it. There never were so many people Interested in education al methods and institutions. There never was such u wid-spreiid appre ciation of the value of educition. There never was belter teaching not more of It. Hut the right to be taught 0 -mands more than the privilege of going to school. No school eim re. lieve parents from their responsibili ty for their children. If shortcom ings In their own education cut hum off from giving the kind of asistunce they would like best to give, ihey can give that which is. after nil. most valuable, the help and inspir ation of loving appreciation, of sym pathetic interest. In tho religious Instruction of children there can be no substitute for father and mother. Sacred his tory and religfous truth may be taught by others. relationships with others may be established which will greatly promote spiritual life. But nothing can lake the place of a religious parentage acd of par ental instruction, In the religious de velopment of a human life. The fundamental truth of our religion is the Fatherhood of Cod. The only natural medium for the realization of that truth Is a godly parentage. We concede tho right of every child to he well born. Is it too much to say that every child has a right to be born of religious parents? What is this hut saying- that no parents are in a position to do the best that might be done for their children uu less they are truly religious persona, unless they know (led anil serve Him and represent His Fatherhood to their children? Among the rights of a child which should he considered in connection with the right to h? taught, and bearing particularly upon his relig ious training, are the rights of childhood's faith. How simple if is! How ready to conceive what we teach! In childhood, faith has its golden opportunity to establish it self for all life's pilgrimage. We have no right to discourage a child's faith. It Is wicked to make light of it to ridicule it, to eniburrass it in any way. Hut we have no right, on the other hand, to impose upon it, to trine, with it, to burden it. it is the supreme right of children under the royal charter of their Christ to come to Him. Their faith and their spirit, are exactly what He wants. "Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of Buch is the kingdom of (iod." I believe that the threshold of life is meant to be tho threshold of the kingdom and that our children have a right to receive the sign and the seal of their citizenship in holy bap tism. And can it be that the Lord Jesus Christ, will deny them a place at His table when thev come to un derstand what It means to sit. down with Him there, and desire to come? "Forbid them not! Forbid them not; For of such is the king dom ! " He Was the Other Fellow. A shrewd worldy agnostic and n Christian clergyman dressed in a modest clerical suit, says Ell Per kins, sat at tho same table lu thn Pullman dining-car. Tney er! waiting for the first course at t!.: dinner, delicious Hudson Hiver ahad. Eyeing his companion coldly for a moment. , the agnostic re marked : "I Judge you are a clergyman, sir!" ' Yes. sir; I am lu my Master'.? service. " "Yes, you look it. Preach out ol the Bible, don't you?" "Oh, yes; of course." "Find a good many things lu thi old Boole that you don't understand --eh?" "Oh, yes; some things." "Well, . at do you do then?" "Why, my dear frleud, I simply do Just as we do while eating this de licious shad. If I come to a bone I quietly lay It on one side and go on enjoying the shad, and let some fool Insist ou choking himself with the bones." Then the agnostic wound up l is watch and went Into the Bmoker. Evangelical Messenger. Tlx- Three Colonies. Thn New Haven Colony was found ed (I 62) by a number of wealthy Loudon families. They took the Bible for law, and only church mem bers could vote. (2) The Connecti cut Colony, proper, comprising Hart ford, Wetherslleld and Windsor, adopted a written constitution in which it agreed to give the right to vote to all free men. This was the first instance in all history of a writ ten constitution framed by the peo ple. (3) Tho Saybrook Colony was as first governed by the proprietors, but was afterwards sold to the Con necticut colony. This reduced the three colonies to two, NOT! 1 1 NO ItADlCAL. Languid Lamilguu (with paper)- "It take nil sorts uv crunks ter make a world, u II right. Now, here's a near wise guy wot guys dat six hours sleep a day Is ernuff fer anybody." Torpid Thomas "Well, I seldom ex ceeds dat. Au' wot's he say U de proper number uv hour ter slumber nt Might?" I'uck. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12. Public Worship and Spiritual Refresh ing. Heb. 10. 23-25. Our Lord had much to complain of tn Hip church of his day. He did not hesitate to criticize and condemn, in a manner, we have no authority to do, yet the Sabbath day found him regu larly In the place of worship as his custom was." "Let us not underes timate the power of r i evil habit. It Is o fetter very hard I i break, whether It be a custom of ci u met, of thought or imagination. "Habit," said Dr. Parkhurst. of New York. ''Is simply a polished channel that out anterior acts have grooved for us to slip In." Ami again. "Habit Is momentum, accumulated from the doing ot past deeds, and becomes an Instant push." Weighty words! They Illuminate the subject of the difficulty found In attempting the reformation of (hose long habituated to sin. The sinner Is "bound by the cords of his sins." But let us think gratefully of the other side of the question. For, good, habits also are grooves, very blessed grooves "for us to slip In." a glori ous momentum In righteousness which -cecotnes an Instant push" al the moment when temptation assalla us. Th habit of church al tendance has saved many thousands from 'go ing with the multitude lo do evil." And so this good habit Is a "safe guard against nposi.-isy,'' as our ililly reading stiggesls. first for the negative reason Just given, and second because of the positive good received from lis tening to the Word and pnrtlcipatiti'i in the activities of the sanctuary. While God Is everywhere. In somf special sense "the Lord Is In his lioly temple," and Is always on the giving hand where two or three are met to gether in his name. Having tasted the sweets of Sabbath worship in the) house of God, and fed on the bread of heaven, and slaked the souls thirst from the wnler of the wells of salva tion, how the heart cries out when deprived of these "chaste, spiritual delights" for a season; longing there fore, "as t lie privilege Is again ours, and our feet stand within tne gates, how the heart leaps up and pours it self out In benedictions upon Jerusa lem, and In ardent good wishes for the peace and prosperity of Zlon! However, not the least of the ad vantages of going to the house ol Ood is the clarified vision which re sults. When the mind Is tossed aliout with doubts and fears, and the feel have wellnlgh slipped, then rescu often comes by a visit to 'the sanct ary. That which was perplexing even to painful labor, becomes clear, and the soul gratefully exclaims, "Then understood I." AUGUST TWELFTH. My Favorite Parable, and How It Hels Me. Matt 13: 10-17; Ps. 119. 97-104. In His use of parables, as in all else, our I.otd set us an example, to be followed when we a fi in like cir cumstances. Christ's parables seem simple lie cause they are so profound; only the thoughtless will attempt to under stand them without lone, thought. The paiables are truth dramatized, and not to be und-Tstund until we act l hem out. The itre.it parah'e for non-Christians Is I hat of the prodigal son. It teaches that no one is too bad to go to the Father, and that the Father, will go to meet him. The great parable for Christians Is the parable of the sower. Are our lives bringing forth tho hundred fold? The great, parable for the church !s that of the tares. Is the wheal crowding out the weeds and I'mih-1 forming them to wheat? The parable of Hie pearl Is I he parable for our busy days, lest we should forget our chief business, which Is "our Father's business." The parable of the growing seed Is (he story for our times -f discour agement, when we forget that seeds must hyve their hidden time, when the farmi r's work seems '.'Itogether lost. The parable of the wicked husband men is a warning for church-members, lest they forget that they are not the owners of their blessings, but only their stewards. The parable of the mustard seed Is the story for the Insignificant, who need to learn that everything becomes of Infinite significance as soon as It Is given tot Coil. The parable of the vineyard labor ers Is the statement of Clod's sover--l.liily, that He will do what He will wiih His own, and that what Ho does is rlghi. The parable of the two foundations ?s the story for the young, that they may not have to begin their lives all over again some dav. Frog to a Frog's Item-lie. One day a couple of my friends were sitting on the river bunk when they heard the cry of a frog In dis tress. Following the direction from which the sound came, they discov ered a snake In the act of swallowing a frog. Just then another frog, evi dently attracted by the distressing cries of Its mate in Jeopardy, hopped up to the sce..e of action. For a mo ment It sat. blinking at the enemy; then leaped forward, seized the snake by the neck and tugged it Into the river. The water quickly poured between the snake's distended Jaws and It was of course compelled to release its victim In order to escape drowning. This It promptly did, and the liberated frog swam away with Its plucky mate, while the baffled snake wriggled as best It could to the shore. Woman's Home Compan ion. FULL. "Are you going to run In Colonel Bluecork's speech he made at the banquet last night?" asked the anx ious caller in the editorial rooms. "We certainly are,". replied the ed itor. "But are you sure it will be Ms full spe9ch?" "Am I sure? Why, wo have 'hie' molded on one type to avt time."- Coluubus Dispatch. Keep Sheep In Condition. When your sheep are In good con dition make effort to keep them so. It Is an awful hard Job to get run down sheep in prime condition again. Stick lo the Sheep. A writer hits the nail squarely on the h"ad by saying: "To make the moRt nut of sheep they must be kept for a series of years. Some years they will return a much better profit Ihn n In others, but It Is hard to' sell out and buy In at the right time." Those "Kicky" Cows. It Is rather poor policy lo have a kicking cow in the dairy, and un less she proves to be something ex traordinary in th- way of a "milk machine," the cow stab!e would be much belter off without her, and the Duiker's temper would certainly be greatly relieved. The dairy needs cows, not mules. Apply it Good Feci ilizer. The value of vegetables depends largely upon quid: growth, and If crops are not growing well some quick-acting fertilizer like nitrate of soda, guano or poultry droppings, should h' worked Into the soil close to the toots. Frequent cultivation of the soil with the cultivator, rake or hoe will often lie all that Is neces sary. (round (lie Whole Corn. At the Wis.'otisiu station experl incnis were held to determine the comparative :ilu-; of whole and ground corn for laiteniiig pigs. On nn average 10.', pigs required 5.16 pounds of feed per pound of gain on a ration of dry sliell-d corn and l iiiidlings. as compared with 4.8 I ounds required l y an eqr.al nuniber on a ration of corn meal and mid dlings. In oilier words, there was ".i saving of thirty-six pounds ot l'"d for each loo pounds of gain Made by the hogs. This siiows n gain by grinding Hie corn to meal of 9.S per cenl., or. say, seven per cent, in round numbers. While the direct advantage from grinding corn to meal was about sjven per cent., in thes" experiments thci" was a second advantage secured 111 that the hogs gelling corn meal made more rapid gains than those fed shelled corn." Vines in the Barnyard. The barn should never be built near the house, and wherev.T it Is, j it should be kept as sanitary as the house Itself. A country barnyard should be as neat and tidy as the doorytird. There Is no reason why vines should not grow over the walls and fences, and trees shade the in closed animals. U '.a possible to have lilacs and mock oranges growing around the barn as freely as about the shrubbery. The animals are not any less happy, and one can pick great hunches for oneself and friends. The DilVecence in Hogs. Ato:n of the western llislitiiles n speaker. In dwelling upon the sub ject of how little difference there was in the breeds of hog nowudays, said: "So many people want to know what Is the best breed of hogs. There Is no quarrel now upon this subject because when the hog Is dead and the head and ears are laken off, you can hardly tell one breed from another. There is really little difference between better known pure bred hogs, hut there Is u great, difference between the pure bred hogs and the lazorback. l)o not. make friends with the razor back. " I'se of Coul Ashes. AVhile coal ashes contain no fer tilizing value they are certainly use ful on the farm and should be saved. They are not. entirely alueless in the soil, for Ihey will materially i sist in making a si iff clay soil more workable if well mixed with It. The best use for coai ashes, however, is In the filling in of wet. n.ots, sifting them aud using '.lie line ashes in tho dust boxes in the poultry houses and the coarser porlions for the making of walks alono or inl :ed with gravel. They may be used to advantage as a mulch around trees mainly for the purpose of keeping the t,oll moist and keeping Hie gras from growing around them. Ciooil Tonics For Swine. In one of lis bulletins the Arkan sas station says that it. Is necessary to keep accessible to hogs some material thai supplies lime and salt to aid In bone-biilldlug, as an appe tizer, and to reinuve Intestinal para sites. This mixture should be kept 111 a strong box protected from rain, und ihe quantity and frequency with which pigs will visit, and eat of the mixture will often be surprising. The following is Hie mixture that was used: Charcoal, one nnd one-half oushels; common salt, four pounds; hard wood ashes, ten pounds; slacked lime, four pounds; fresh water, shade lu summer, grain food when on grass, and diy bed free from dust: shelter iu wiulei, and when confined un area Kuflicleuily large so thut It will not bom foul wilh droppings und mud bugs. These are essenlluls for successful hos raising. Iirly Dairy Conditions in Winter, In addressing the members of the Vermont Dairymen's Association, J, T. Coiiiuern in speaking upon the filthy conditions uuder which cows are kept during winter . upon some farms, said that very f,sw of the barns are provided with 'any means for ventilation, and consequently the air is impure, espec'ally during the cold winter months. The cows' quarters are not kept clean, or, at least, not au clean as they should be. During the winter months, when the .ows of necessity must be kept iu the burn, iiuiny farmers pay little KBtiun to Uepiug them clean, which results In a condition of affairs bet ter Imagined than expressed In words. The manure Is often piled In such places and In such quantities that the inevitable results Is the contamination of the air in the cows quarters. The barn yards ore often quaking quagmires that can not be crossed unless one wears high rubber hoots or is on a raft. Look Out For Weak Fowls. At this season of the year it pays to look the flock over carefully and to weed out any hens or chicks that are not promising. One will find many that are not sick, hut are of a nature that grows slowly and are not at all likely to amount to much at the next laying season. See to it that such birds are not sick, but If they ore in good health get them by themselves and prepare them for market in the manner that will land them there at the smallest ex pense, yet in the heat ; ossible con dition. They may need a HI tie grain, but it. will pay to feed It and In enough variety to feive them a good appe tite for the corn which is to fallen them off. Too many of these birds which will not amount to anything are raised yearly, and the worst of the plan is that their eggs are used, to a greater or less extetit, for breed ing, and a race of undesirable birds perpetuated. Indianapolis News. Cnre of Sheep. Sheep should be turned out t.-.uy pleasunt day for exercise aud Iresh air. Do not expect them to get a living from the frost -bitten grass I hat they may Unci, as a little of it will nr.; hurt them and may do them good, but It cannot be a nourishing food. A few on'.s, a little bran, and If their roughage is of inferior qual ity a little corniueal every day will do them good, helping them to bring better lambs and grow more wool. Plenty of water where they can go to It as they please, for when on dry feed they like to drink little atjd of ten, and they want It always clean. A sheep will go long without wator rather than to drink that which is not clean. (live them b'.ddlng enough to keep their sheds dry and clean, and plenty of pure air. Cold does not hurt them when they have ou their winter coals, but ketp thorn dry, with the fleece free f.-om rain or snow. If there are nny weakly ones separate them and give better feed for a time. Allow no crowding through narrow gates or doors. American Cultivator. Culture of Vines. The first- point to notice iu vine culture is the difference between permanent and temporary vines. The woody ones like ampelopsis, Virginia creeper and wistaria, which ought lo last a lifetime, are natu rally slow to" start. They tire, in fact, comparable to Irees In this respect us well as ill cost nnd the thoroughness with which the Hoil should be prepared for them. Since their roots are to go twenty or thir ty feet deep or more, the poor soil to a depth of four feet should be thrown away and replaced by good soil, and the ground should he liber ally provided with well-rotted ma nure or with commercial fertilizers. . If properly planted the permanent vines will require no attention for the llrr.t two years except a little pruning. After that time the strong growers must be kept within proper bounds, it is usually easy to keep vines in good condition by cutting l hem back a few feet every year. Nearly all ot the permanent vineu will stand any amount of pruning except wistaria which does be3t if allowed to grow year after year without pruning. The commonest mistake In prun ing vines is to allow them to grow for five or six years without any pruning whatsoever. This is why you nee on porches everywhere vines that, are top-heavy, i. e., which have a muss of foliage at the top and scuroely any at the base. This is, of course, absurd, for the purpose of growing vines is to screen un sightly buildings and It also has the disadvantage on a porch of furnish ing a hiding place for mosquitoes and of littering the porch with leaves which fall before their time, If vines are headed back from one to four feet every year from the second to the eighth year, it should be entirely unnecessary to sweep the porch every morning so far as fallen leaves are concerned. The reason why these leaves full iu July and August is that a top-heavy vine is so crowded that the sunshine can not enter the muss of foliage and ripen tho leaves. The vines hour more leaves than they can ripen and it is those Imperfectly ripened' leaves that full prematurely. . The nett most important points iu vine culture ure to determine whether tho vine needs artificial sup port or not, and, if so, of what kind; whether you want a foliage effect or a flowering effect, how high you want tho vines to grow, and whether there Is any danger of damaging your property in any way. For example, ampelosls requires no support on any surface whatever. It will grow u hundred feet high, but its flowers ure inconspicuous, und since one usually wants color on the porch it is not so good for a veranda us a flowering vine which does not grow so tall. Moreover, auy vine that grows twenty feet high or more may cause some trouble if it Is grown directly on a frame house. You may want to remove the vines in order to paint the house. You can do this easily with any vine that requires artifi cial support, but it is Impossible or difficult wilh anything that is self supporting like ampelopsis.- In dlanapolis News. Asa Dekluge, who has been chosen chief of the Apache Indians to suc ceed Qeroiilmc, is a graduate of the Indian school at Carlisle, and bas great Influence with his tribe. Two women. In lighting a picnic fire on tho slopo of Waterman moun tain. Sun Bernardino County, Cali fornia, lh other day, discovered as phaltum deposits. A rush followed, 20,000 acres have been located nnd an oil boom Is in progress. Matrimonial tickets are supplied by the Canadian Pacific Rallwav to those settlers In the Northwest Ter ritory who wish to make a Journey iu order to get married, and on pre senting tho return coupon and a ninr rla?" certificate a man Is entitled to free transportation for his bride. The world's yearly rise of post cards is enormous. Germany uses 1,161.000,000, the United States 75, 000,000, Greut Brltnln 613,000,000. As to letters, however, the United States is far ahead of all other coftn tries. Tha total number of letters posted here during 1903 was 4.109, 000,000. A curious phenomena has been no ticed In the tropics that can never be seen at higher latitudes. A min ing shaft nt Sombrorete. Mexico. Is almost exactly on the Tropin of Cun cer, and at noon on June 21, the sun shines to the bottom, lighting up the well for a vertical depth of 1100 feet or more. There are at present only 10,000, 000,000 tons of Iron available, and c ! this Germany has twice i s many tons as this country, while Russia and France each have 400.000,000 tons more than the United States. This country has at present, workable de posits of 1,100,000,000 tons, with an annual output and consumption of 35,000,000 tons. A septuagenarian farmer, residing near Harrogate, England, boasts that durin;; his life he has never worn an overcoat, never even possesed one. He drives his cart dally over a bleak moorland, and, despite the fact that he has been drenchei" numerous times, is free from rheumatism 'and from colds. For the last few years he has not slept In bed, but, has '.aken his rest in un old armchair. Some fine speclnients of Chinese sounding stones have been described ly a late visitor at Ch'ufu, the birth place and burial-place of Confucius. An incense dish of stone rang with the bell-like tone of bronze on being struck with a stick, two pillars gave out a musical note on being struck at any point, and a large tablet three by five feet. In area and six inches thick emitted a note varying with the point struck. These "stone gongs" are found throughout the country, having lien known for cen turies. The material Is a grayish oolitii limestone, and it is said to come only from occasional veins at a quarry a few miles from Ch'ufu. "Black Maria." Is a famTliar term, with an origin more or less mysteri ous. It has been suggested that "Maria" really represents the old word "marinated," which meant transported, or "married," a slan' expression formerly applied to per sons chained or handcuffed together on the way to jail. But. more at tractive is the story that, in the old colonial days r. giguntlc and brawny negress kept a sailors' boarding house at Boston and frequently lent her strength to the cause of law and order. Once she took three sallovs to the lockup unassisted. "Send for Black Maria," It is said, became a regular way of hinting that a man ought to be jailed. Origin of Fear In Wild Animals. Can a fear hatch out of an egg? If a fear can hatch out of an egg, what Is to hinder a thought or an Idea from hatching out of an. egg? If a thought and an emotion can hatch out au egg, why may not a vo lition hatch out of an egg? Why, then, may not a complete character hatch out of an egg; and where Is the need of experience, training and edu cation? After about teu years of careful observation and experiment, with a number of different Bpecles, I am prepared to maintain the thesis that a specific fear cannot hatch out of a bird's egg. Given the physical con ditions necessary to the life and com fort of the specleB, hatch the eggs, and one species Is as tame as any other, and will not show fear of man or anything else until It has learned by actual instruction, experience or natural inference that the object in question is dangerous. The fact remains, all the popular statements to the contrary notwith standing, that a grouse chick hatched, in an incubator or under a hen, from an egg taken from a nest In the woods, is every whit as "tame" as a chick of the domestic fowl; and it remains so until It experiences some thing to make It "wild." A powerful motive In choosing the ruffed grouse for experiment Is the fact that a myth has seemingly spread over the entire country to the effect that this species is untamable, Country Life in America. How Long Wluiles Live. "As to the age to which whales live," says Dr. True, curator of bio logy of the National 'Museum, "there Is no accurate data, but I am in clined to the opinion that some of them live to an age In excess of forty years. This theory is borne out by the finding In a whale In 1890 of a harpoon which had belonged to a ship that was sunk during the Civil War. Ten years before the ship bad cruised' as 4 whaler. The estimates that whales to be a thousand years old are fanciful, aud not based ou authentic Information." THE SlNlrAY fcCIIOOl INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT? FOR AUGUST 12. Subject: The Parable of the Tw, Soiim, Luke xv., 11-.J2 Oolden Text. Mat. Hi., 7 Menior, Verses 17. 18. I. Leaving home (vs. 11-13). H "A certain man." The simple, un pretentious beginning of the most beautiful of all parables. The man Is here the Image of God the Father. "Two sons." The two sons may b said to bo representatives of man kind, for we have in them example of two great phases of alienation from God the elder Is blinded bj seir-tighteousness, the younger de graded by his unrighteousness. 12 "The younger." He represents open ly wicked persons, such as the pub licans and sinners. He also repre sents the thoughtless, careless youth. 13. "Not many days." He had decided upon his course and hast ened to he gone. This shadows forth the rapidity (1) of national and (2) individual degeneracy. "Gathered all together." Sinners who go astray from God venture their all. "Took his -Journey ' Ho was weary of his father's government and desired greater Ilbertv. The Journey the prodigal took represents the sinner In his departure from Clod. He went into a "Tar country," far from truth. 1.1. In deep distress (vs. 14-16). 14. "Spent all " Ho did not stop until his last dollar was gone. "A mighty famine." Tho soul living at a distance from God., nnd shut out from intercourse with Him, will very soon feel its titter emptiness. A mighty famine will follow. "In want." Heal want Is soul want. T. "Joined himself to a citizen." The same wicked life that before was represented by riotous living is here represented by servile living, for sin ners are perfect slaves. The devil is the citizen of that country; he is both in city and country. "To feed swine." This was doubly degrading, and especially bo to a Jew. 10. "With tha husks." The husks were not the pods of some other fruit, but "the fruit of the carob-tree, used for feeding swine." Ho was driven to the extremity of trying to satisfy his hunger with the food that was fit only for swine. So sinners endeavor to satisfy the soul with earthly and sensual delights. III. The decision to return home (vs. 17-19). 17. ' He enme to himself." Sin dethrones the reason. A state of sin is a state of folly and madness, but the madness is in the heart (Eccl. 9:3 1. "Bread enough and to spare." The lowest In my father's house has bread to give to the poor. God's people are abundantly supplied with good things. "I perish." Sinners will not come to Christ until they see themselves ready to perish. 18. "I will arise." He had left home of his own free will, and he must return in the sume way. God compels no one to do right. "And go." Follow ing the decision there must be an ef fort put forth. In returning to God there Is something to do. "I have sinned." The first thing to do is to make a full confession of our sins (1 John 1:9; Job 33:27, 28). "Against heaven." Against God. Every sin is a sin against God. 19. "No more worthy." He is ready to humble himself. He knows that in Justice his father could shut the door against him; he pleads for mercy. IV. The return and the welcome (vs. 20-24). 20. "He aroso." He Immediately did all ot these things that he had decided upon. "Great way ofT." He was coming slowly, in rags. In dis grace, questioning about hla wel come. "Father saw him." The father was ever watching for his re turn. So God knows when we start toward Him. "And ran," etc. This represents the readiness with which God receives returning sinners. 21. "The sonsaid." He makes his con: fession; he abases himself. 22. "But the father." The fath er did not wait until he had finished his confession. In this we see the great affection of the futher and his willingness to forgive. "Said to his servants." The father's joy Is full and he instantly issues orders to celebrate his return: "Bring1 forth quickly." (R. V.) Let us show at once by our actions that tho wander er is fully forgiven and reinstated. "Put a ring on his hand." A sign ot affection. 23. "Be merry." Be joyful and happy. The Bible gives the children of God license to shout for joy. 24. "Was dead." Lost to all good, given up to all evil. '.'Is alive again." Here was special cause for rejoicing. Who would not be a partaker of this Joy? V. The elder brother (vs. 25-32). 28. "Ho was angry." Our Lord now holds up to the murmuring Pharisees a likeness of themselves. As the elder brother is angry at the Joy which welcomes the prodigal home from his wanderings, so have these men murmured at the mercy with which Jesus has received the publican and the sinner. "Intreated him." As JeBus was then entreating the captious Pharisees not to spurn the repenting outcasts. 29, 30. In these verses Jesus gives, In parable, the substance of the Pharisaic mur murlngs: We are better than others and should have great respect and deference paid us; but you have left us and Interested yourself in these publicans and sinners. 31. "All thine." All is within thy reach. It you do not enjoy my bounty it is be cause you will ot.v Notice that the parable leaves the elder brother on the outside, stubbornly refusing to enter. Celluloid Articles. A manufacturer of celluloid arti cles says that the danger of these articles exploding into flame when near a fire is greatly exaggerated. Nevertheless he adds this long list of "don'ts:" "Don't place hot curling Irons near your celluloid hair comb; don't drop a match on the celluloid hack of a hair brush or hand glass after you have lighted the gas In your dresselng room; don't use tha celluloid handle of your paper cut ter to press down the tobacco la your lighted pipe; don't put your cel luloid beads near a light; don't hang a celluloid bead curtain where there is air- unprotected light; don't keep loose matches in the same pocket with your celluloid cardcase or diary." It would be simpler not to use celluloid at all, as a matter of fact. , The International Association of Auctioneers, at Its convention In Chi cago, adopted a resolution allowing women to become member of the aaso-ciatloa
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