I The ftutpH 1
SERMON
Brooklyn. N. Y. The shocking
and alarming social conditions re-j
ealed by the testimony In the Thaw
trial and by the statistics of divorce I
recently given out by the United
States Census Bureau, over one mill- ,
Ion having been granted in the past
nineteen years, furnish the text for 1
the following sermon written by the j
Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pas
tor of the Irving Square Presbyter-
lan Church:
Ex. 20:14, "Thou shalt not commit 1
adultery."
It Is my intention to broaden the
cope of the word which Is the ob
ject of this sentence, and to cause
It to cover, as I am certain God
meaus It, to-day. to cover, all that ;
field of human uncleanneas which
strikes at the very core of our com
mon life. The command hits hard ,
and swift against the social crime
f marital Infidelity; but also In the
light of the messages of Christ, It j
condemns, with no uncertain sound,
all those men and women In whose 1
hearts and actions lust receives free
rein.
The Gospel of our Lord Insists on
cleanness of act and mind ; It censures ;
unsparingly and irathingly the viola
tion by any nnd all men, married or :
single, of God's law of purity.
The seventh word, with our Lord
behind It, forbids three sins, and the
three are these: first, the nullification
of the marriage bond by Infidelity,
with all Its attendant evils. Second
ly, the pollution of the purity of per
sonal atid public life by men and wo- 1
men who are without restraint or
lawful tie. Thirdly, the degradation
and destruction of the spiritual and
physical elements in man through un- !
bridled lust in the heart.
And now let us to the points. The I
covenant by and between two human
beings one man and one woman '
to live together In the holy estate I
of matrimony, is the most sacred '
contract man may make. Rest- ;
Ing as It should always rest be
It not unholy and the child of lust
upon a growing and a gracious love
one for the other It Is the grandest
of lnter-human agreements. Upon
Its sanctity and preservation, as the
pledges of two people t;' life-long
faith, done and given In the presence
of Almighty God, the glory rf our
Father and the happiness of two
souls depend. As a civil contract It
la the basis of sound political and '
social life. Upon the inviolability of
the marriage contract the health of
the state, the Integrity of the home, ;
entirely depend. Marriage may, be
fore God, and should, throughout this j
land and our world, be Invalidated !
only upon full and sufficient proof of
Infidelity by either party. They who
are In guilt should be denied further
rights to marry. The granting of ab- j
solute divorce with permission to re
marry, for any cause other than proved
unfaithfulness, is unwise, unsafe, un-
Justifiable and un-Chrlstian. Legal
separation and legalized immorality
are two very different things. Two
people of such uncongenial disposi
tions, as preclude a happy common 1
life, had much better pursue Inde
pendent careers. But the dignity, '
the Importance, the sanctity of the 1
wedding vow demand that It shall not
be permitted to be used as a cloak 1
for licentiousness. The disgrace of j
divorce Is a menace to the perpetuity
Of our Institutions. The ease with j
which absolute release may be pro
rani does small credit to our brains,
Of to our righteousness as n nation.
The sin and the shame that are
bound up in our system of licensed
polygamy will tend to our own undo- 1
ing, do we not watch out. The wrong
Of Mormonlsm is a great one; but
If contemporaneous cohabitation be
a bad thing and '.It is what must
be our judgment upon that consecu
tive polygamy which pleads personal
convenience rather than religious con
viction as Its best excuse? It an
elder of the Mormon church Is to be
kept from the halls of Congress be- j
cause the civil law forbids polygamy,
what should be our attitude toward
that other leader In our national af- j
fairs whose whole life contravenes
God's moral law? Yes, my friends,
Mormon polygamy Is vicious In prin
ciple and fact, but not more so than
that system of legalized vice that the
laws of our country now permit. The
sacredness of the marriage covenant
must be protected. That marriage,
should he the crowning of clean love,
and that it hlndB till death, cannot be
overemphasized. The seal of ;ure af
fection is of as much account to those
who will go through life together aud
to society at large, as the legal seal
of the state Fundamentally love
should be tue motive of a life
union of two souls. Of this the
state takes no notice. The bureau
of vital statistics has mot-e Inter
est, as a law enforcing body, In the
question of how old Is the woman,
than In the motives that lead the man
to wed her. But God looks at the
matter with a different eye; and In
His sight no marriage Is of good re
port that la not. based on the union
of two souls In holy love. The
courts may declare the other mar
riage legal, but the hand of Jehovah
will stamp It as unclean. "Thou
shalt not commit adultery" rings
the Messianic message and the law
puts God to shame. Here and there,
everywhere In America, we may see
the sorrow of It all. Children In the
midst of wrecked unhappy homes,
born and reared to a heritage of em
barrassment to say the ler.st, and In
to immoral family conditions to say
the most. Unrestrained divorce is
wicked and It should be prohibited.
We must not put license at a premi
um, nor make vice easy.
No loss guilty in the eyes of God
Is the man who yields bis life to sin.
There is need to-day for a clear,
strong' note from the church calling
men to purity in living. Men must be
made to see, to know and to feel that
chasteness is as essential for men as
for women. Away with that godless
I Uieery that what is fundamentally
wrong in morals for women may be
conveniently right for men. God has
no two systems of morality the ona
for the men, the other for the women.!
In His sight there is neither male nor'
female, for the law Is equally unto
.both. The degradation of man by
men himself Is untalr to God and
utterly without honor. And the sad
thing of all is that men will do with
out thought or care the evil that they
do
But Jesus has shown us clearly
that in the Christian econo.ny that
man is guilty of our stated sin who
harbcrs lust wltntn his heart. Anu
although in the last analysis the
rami who commits overt sin Is guilty
of sinning to a greater degree than
the man who but pollutes bis mind
tWitb evil desires and unholy thoughts.
yet both are directly disobedient to
the will of God and the way of each
Is the highroad unto death. And I
am not sure but that more of us are
guilty of the latter Infringement of
the law than of the former. Many a
man and many a woman who would
not dare to go the full length of open
evil, will do themselves real damage
and endanger the safety of their Im
mortal souls through the harboring
of ungodly, sensual thoughts. And
of two things I am very positive of
which the first Is this: that It Is hard
er to keep the mind clean than to re
frain from outward evil; and the sec
ond Is this, that pure thoughts will
Induce and produce uprightness of
act. If as James Bald, It Is easier to
control a horse than the tongue, I am
sure that It Is easier to control the
tongue than the mind. And the truth
of God Is this, that steadfast endeav
or for purity of heart and mind will
meet with sure success and will as
sure nobility of action.
We need a sanctified purity rf
life. I am disgusted and would
be disheartened, did I not trust In
God, over the amount Of unblushing
criminality I see and meet In my per
sonal experiences. Men who are sure
that Immorality Is fair for men but
woefully wrong for the wives of men.
Women who boast that the men they
know have seen the seamy side of
life and who love them better for it.
Mere girls who think that the only
way to reap wheat Is to sow wild oats
a theory that only works In the
seeding and harvesting of sin. Moth
ers and fathers who are so Hst to
shame that thoy desire their sons to
Indulge themselves In a little of all
sorts of evil that they may be men of
real experience. Such nonsense as It
Is. and oh! the folly of It all. For
sooth the only way to cleanliness of
heart is through the depth of sin I
they would have us think. The only
way to Christ is through the depths
of hell.
it Is not so. I know Ignorance is
not necessarily virtue. And con
trariwise, I am heartily In favor
of the proper and godly Instruc
tion of our youth of both sexes upon
the mighty and central truths and
mysteries of human life. But the
true way to wisdom is not through
vicious and degrading personal ex
perience with sin, but rather at our
mother's knees. The right way to
knowledge is through the true and
noble teachings of men and women
whose experience Is untouched with
sin. No man Is a better man because
he has drunk the cup of sin to the
dregs. The only exoerlecce that Is
eternally worth while js the experi
ence that Is good, upright, inspiring.
Resistance to temptation Is of much
value to give power; but a fall iuto
sin does no man the highest good.
. We want to Insist that morals
are most of Importance In this
world. No unclean man deserves the
hand and the loyalty of a pure wom
an. None but the clean deserve the
fair. The man of unchaste life- de
serves ostracism as much If not more
than the woman who has sinned.
Those flagrant polygamists who
flaunt their sin before our faces un
der the guise of legal marriage de
serve our scorn no less than does the
polygamy of Mormonlsm. The man
of unclean life has no right to the
hearts of the true womanhood of this
country, and for my part were 1 a
woman I would rather live and dla
unmarried and earn my bread by the
sweat of my brow than to risk my
earthly happiness Into the hands of
any man of Immoral life, no matter
what his wealth, position or ability
might be. The womanhood of this
country should preserve the virtue of
this land and should ptit a premium
upon nobility of character and saLcti
ty of life.
The need to-day is not so much
for schools for the culture of
the Intellect and for Instruction
in the arts and sciences the
need Is rather for colleges where
the art of pure living and the practice
of virtue may be taught. The world
wants not more brains first, but more
character. The importance of clean
living and high thinking must be
taught and preached as paramount
and fundamental for they are the
centre and the clrcuniferenc of all
'life. The integrity of the marriage
delation must be maintained. The
demand for a moral manhood as es
sential to any and all success must
be enforced. Men must be made to
understand that purity Is the stand
ard of true worth, and that clean
manhood Is real might.
We must educate our youth to the
value of goodness. We must teach
our girls that character Is more of ac
count than nny material acquirement
or possession. We must tell our boys
that manliness Is not recklessness,
but rectitude; that only the pure Ufa
pays. And tell them why!
MARCH TWENTY-FOURTH.
How to LoS Ground.
God hath a thousand keys to open
a thousand doors for the deliverance
of His owu when It has come to the
greatest extremity. Let us be faith
ful and care for our own port, which
'is to do and suffer for Him, and lay
God's part on Himself, and leave it
there; duties are ours, events an
the Lord's.
When our faith goeth to meddle
with events, and to hold a court tif 1
may so speak) upon God's provi
dence, and beglnneth to say, "How
wilt Thou do this or that?" we lose
ground. We have nothing to do
there; It Is our part to let the Al
mighty exerrlBe His own office aud
;steer His own helm. Rutherford.
Your Opportunity.
God has made you after Ills own
! 'plan, and He places you just where
: He wishes you to work with Him to
bring about the highest results for
yourself. He has given you every
I opportunity. Make yourself what
' you will remember It lies with you.
! God can make no mistakes' Alice
Freeman Palmer.
An Aztec Oynx Quarry.
A geologist at Cueruavaca, Mexico,
has rediscovered an ancient Aztec
I onyx quarry on the slope of a hill
near that place. It shows evldance of
' having been worked for hundreds of
j years, although other centuries have
j passed since It was abandoned. The
; deposit of onyx was not exhausted by
j the original quarrymeu, and the stone
I Is said to be very beautiful, a white,
yellowish or violet core being sur
rounded by concentric layers of a
brilliant led or brown color. When
sawed In slabs the stone exhibits very
striking designs of varied hues.
Things You Hsve Learned from Noble
Men snd Women Outside the
Bible. I Thess. 1:2 8.
Noble Abraham. Gen. lS:l-8.
Noble Moses. Ex. 4:18-23.
Noble David 1 8am. 17:33-37.
Noble Ruth Ruth 1:14-18.
Noble Mary. Luke 1:39-45.
Noble Saul. Acts 9:1-9.
Nothing, besldog Christ and the
Bible. Is better worth thanking God
for than n good man. Let us praise
God for men more than things.
The seven elements In the spectrum
of a noble man: work and faith, labor
nnd love, patience nnd hope, and com
munion with Christ.
God's elect should be men's elect;
whom God chooses let us choose also.
The way to be a man worth Imitat
ing Is to be an Imitative man, follow
ing the highest examples.
Human Examples.
Gladstone's determination. Having
planned one day to take a long walk,
he took It, though It rained hard,
rather than break through his habit of
accomplishing whatever he had under
taken. George Midler's faith. He depended
entirely, for ntre than half a cent
ury, upon answers to prayer, for his
own support and the support of hund
reds of orphans,
Washington's punctuality. Having
arranged to visit Salem, and to start
from Boston at eight, he started alone
at that hour, the military company
which was to be his escort paruding
the street at the time. He was far
on the way before the mortified troops
overtook him.
Henry Clny's patriotism. He pro
POOed I plan which, as his friends told
him. would ruin his chances for the
presidency. But he persevered, say
ing. 'I would rather be right than be
president."
Spurgeon's faithfulness. A boy was
attending him to a strange church
when he asked whether the lad loved
Christ. '-For years," said tho boy, ''I
have showed ministers the way to the
chapel, but you are tho first to ask
mo that." The result was a soul won
to tho Saviour.
Luther's courage. a cardinal's
minion once asked the reformer where
he would find a shelter If the elector
of Saxony should desert him. "Under
the shield of heaven!" was the un
flinching reply.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, MARCH 24.
The Resurrection. 1 Cor. 15. 35-58.
Passages for reference: 1 Thess. 4.
13-18; Rev. 20. 11 to 21. 8.
Perhaps there Is no one theme more
often referred to In the Acts and the
epistles than the resurrection. It was
the subject of testimony on tho part
of the early church. It was the key
note of the apostles' arguments. It
was that which brought bitter perse
cution upon them. It was the com
fort of believers, as shown In the ref
erence to Thessalonlans. It enters In
to our conceptions of the future world.
It v. as so Important to the church that
Christ spent forty days after his res
urrection confirming It to his follow
ers with many infallible proofs. Jesus
foretold his resurrection as he also
foretold his death, but they did not
understand till after It had taken
place. The resurrection Is the third
Btep In the complete redemption of
man. The first Is the conversion of
the soul, which must still live in a
dying body; tho second step is the
separation of the saved soul from the
mortal body that we call death; the
third step Is the reuniting of the soul
with the resurrected, Immortal body
Which completes the work.
Jesus well knew the necessity for
the perfect confirmation of his resur
rection. Therefore he made many ap
pearances to them, convincing even
the hesitating Thomas by the over
whelming evidence of his hands and
his side. He partook of food with
them at the lakeside and fully estab
lished his Identity. We are not told
all the proofs that he gave, but for
forty days he so lived In their com
pany that no amount of threatening
could ever drive the truth from their
minds.
Jesus In his resurrection does not
stand alone as one exceptional being,
like Elijah, In his translation, but he
was '-the first fruits of them that
slept." He was the first to come
forth, but his coming Is the surety of
our resurrection. Hence It became
the basis for the preaching of tho doc
trine of the resurrection of the dead.
This angered the Sadducees, who did
not believe In nny resurrection, be
cause they were materialists. Perse
cutions urose. "Because of the resur
rection of the dead they were often
called In question."
Paul Bald, "If Christ be not risen,
then is our preaching vain, and our
faith Is vain also. Ye axe yet In your
sins; but now is Christ risen from the
dead." Wherever he went, whether
among Jews or Gentiles, be had to
make this the center of his teaching,
and maintain It in the face of per
secution of the bitterest kind.
Danger of Milk Bottles.
Beware of milk delivered In glan
bottles. This Is the warning of Mr.
W. Lucas, a well-known Weot End
analytical chemist. Mr. Lucas .ays
that the growing custom of dellverlug
milk in bottles constitutes a new and
serious danger to the public, as the
bottles are not easily sterilized.-
Westminster QaaetU
In deep borings a serious difficulty
fa often encountered with water
logged strata. This obstacle was sur
mounted lately In some mining op
erations In Goalar, in Germany. A'
shaft was being excavated some 550
feet deep, and It had to paBs through
a layer of sand that was soaked with
water. The engineer forced down
thirty-four freezing tubes, placed in
two concentric circles, and this
turned the stratum Into solid, work
able rock. Excavation was then conv
Oarattvely easy.
A Desire of France.
France wants the New Hebrides,
and has wanted them ever since
1850, when she anueied their neigh
bor, New Caledonia. We want them,
partly because they are a valuable
aaset In themselves; mainly, however,
because they are no .nore than lour
days' steam from Sydney, and possess
the only good naval harbors for thou
sands of miles. London Windsor
Magazine.
Tbe New Orleans Board or Health
has officially recognized the mosquito
(stegomyia fasclata) as the true aud
only disseminator of yellow fever.
' Why Eggs Fall to Hatch.
In her natural or wild state the
un lays In the spring and summer,
when the conditions for success are
'avorable. She Is the companion
f a vigorous male. The eggs from
inch a ben always hatch and produce
itrong and hardy chicks. When the
lomestlc hen lays in the spring, the
ggs usually hatch well. In the fall
ind winter, when the hen is stlmu
ated to egg production, has just
passed through the molting period. Is
jverfed and confined, and Is mated
A-lth some worthless male, the condl
.lons are not so favorable, and to
lecuro good hatches from her eggs
;s a matter of chance to a certain
xtent. The seasons effect both lay
.ng and hatching.
The Desirable Sliccp.
Cull ewes should never be pur
hased with which to Btart n flock.
Such a Btart will never produce a
lock which will get to the front In
rleld and profit. Start with the best
'.o be had of the kind you want.
Kvery sire should be pure bred, as
this 1b tho way to Improve. When
we Improve our flock we are adding
to lta usefulness and to our capital.
A small sum extra Invested will
Joublo the value of the whole flock
oftentimes. The sire must be care
fully selected as to form, constitu
tional vigor, fleece and style. A sheep
jf perfect form always attracts the
ye and tbe purse. We must aim at
:ompleteness in all there Is with our
sheep. Long-legged sheep do not
look desirable, and tbey are gener
ally weak In constitution. A flat
lided sheep and one with thin hams
: not good form for a sire.
Milking Machines.
The Kansas Agricultural College
and Experiment Station was among
tbe first to install milking machines.
Kor several months the collego farm
has been milking 500 cows with a
machine, and In a recent address at
the annual meeting of Nebraska
dairymen, Prof. Erf, of the Kansas
station, Btated the experiences with
tbe machine, in which he said:
"The milking machine will be a
success when operated by a careful
man, but, like hand-mllklng, one man
can get a great deal more milk and
better results from a cow than an
other. Tbe milking machine will save
thirty per cent, to forty per cent, of
tho labor. One machine will success
fully milk ten cows an hour aud one
man can operato four machines.
Cows will hold up on their milk flow
as well as by hand-mllklng and, If
care be taken In keeping the milker
clean, even more sanitary milk can be
produced."
Care of Work Horses.
Many persons after driving their
teams In the slush nnd mud in win
ter, think If they dash a few pails of
water over the horses' limbs upon re
turning they have left the poor brutes
in the best possible condition until
morning. Tbe fact is it would be far
better to turn the animals Into the
stable and leave them, mud and all,
until their legs are fully dry. There
would be less danger of scratches,
mud fevers nud grease heels than by
the plan of washing. If the legs are
washed they should be rubbed quite
dry, which Is no easy task. If left
partially dry the most serious conse
quences are likely to follow. When
a team Is left with the hair partially
dry a chill is sure to ensue. It Is not
unlikely the animals, especially If ex
hausted, will be found the next morn
ing stiff, with the limbs swollen, since
the exhaustion of the system prevents
healthy reaction nt the swollen ex
tremities. The Epltomist.
Is to make the Improved management
pay from the start, and tbe best land
Is most likely to do this. On the
one, two or three acres put the crops
requiring most labor, for that should
always go where the land Is heavily
manured. Get the rest of the farm
In grass, seeding with clover and only
plowing when the clover runs out.
In this way the part of tho farm that
gets least manure will be growing
richer rather than poorer, and after
n few years of such treatment It can
also bo brought under the Improved
system. It will not do to plant onions
or the more henvlly feeding garden
crops on the laud that has been
heavily manured only one season.
A crop of potatoes the first year will
help clear out surplus weeds, and this
can bo followed by late cabbage or
celery, either of which, when the
land Is In good condition for produc
ing them, will pay much larger profits
than ordinary farm crops.
HUMAN BEAUTY.
Separating Creniu.
Purduo' University Dairy Depart
ment has Just Issued a very interest
ing bulletin on the "Hnnd-Separntor
and the Gravity Systems of Cream
ing," giving careful results In testing
all systems of cream separating. We
give the following extract aud sum
mary of the results:
The thickness of cream obtained
from centrifugal separators is regu- 1
lated by the cream screw. It is af
fected, too, to a greater or less ex- i
tent by most, If not all of the condl- I
Hons which Influence the per cent, of
fat In the skim milk, and which have
been above referred to. While most
of the standard makes of separators
wjll do good skimming If cream Is
produced that tests from twenty per
cent, to fifty per cent, of fat, there Is
a considerable difference In th be
havior of different machines. Some
separators skim as closely when fifty
per cent, cream Is produced as when
set for thirty per cent, cream. Oth
ers aro at their best when set for
thirty per cent, cream or thereabout,
and their skimming efficiency de
creases as the per cent, of fat in tho
ream Increases. Still others clog
when an attempt is made to produce
rich cream.
Summary of the experiment:
1. The use of the hand separator
in the place of the gravity systems
of creaming will effect a saving of
$3.50 to $7 worth of butter fat from
one cow In one year.
With the hand separator n richer
cream and a better quality of cream
and skim milk can be produced than
with the gravity system.
2. Of the gravity methods the deep
setting system Is the least objection
able. It produces a more complete
separation, and a better quality of
cream than either the shallow pan or
tho water dilution systems.
3. Any neglect to thoroughly clean
the separator after each separation
reduces the skimming efficiency of
the machine and lowers the quality of
the cream and butter produced.
Wash the separator after each sep
aration. 4. A trembling machine, Insuffi
cient speed, sour, curdled, Bllmy or
cold milk, and over-feeding the sep
arator caused a loss of butter fat In
the skim milk amounting to from
eight to twelve pounds of butter per
cow In one year.
5. Other things being equal, high
speed and a small rate of Inflow tend
to produce a thick cream. Insuffi
cient speed, a trembling machine and
a large rate of Inflow result In a tb1'
tier cream.
When to Dehorn.
Buyers of feeding cattle give pref
erence to dehorned animals. There
1b no question about their being gen
tler and quieter. It takes lesa shed
room, they eat from the bunks with
out crowding or horning away the
more timid ones. In fact, dehorning
seems to take all the fighting Instinct
out of tbe animals, and they become
docile. Many dairymen practice de
horning every cow brought into the
herd, and aside from a little bunting
no harm is done even under the
crowded sheds or barns. Early spring
is the best time to do this work, for
this gives tbo wound ample time to
heal before Hies come. 1 have seen
this work put off until May aud even
June, but this Is always hazardous.
Do the work In February or March,
give the animals strong, nourishing
food for two or three weeks, and
keep them well sheltered, and there
will not be much cause for trouble.
I have seen feeding steers dehorned
In midwinter, without losing appetite
and apparently not shrinking one
pound. With young animals the clip
pers are best to use. When aged
animals are dehorned a sharp saw is
best. Care should be taken to cut
the horn close enough so that no stub
will show, and still not cut ao close
as to Injure the skull. Better still,
stop horn-growing In calfhood.
Manure One Acre Well.
Farmers sometimes do not gener
ally appreciate whut may be done
with small areas of land. They are
accustomed to spread labor, cultiva
tion and thought over a large farm, and
It dots not seem possible to give this
any better culture or manuring than
they now do. The way to begin is
not to attempt a little better culture
all around, but to try experiments
with a unit) laud, and see what its
capabilities aro. In such experiments
tbe farmers should begin with their
best land, if thoy were making ex
periments merely to see what could
be done, and somebody else were
paying tbe bill, a trial of manures ou
tbe poorest soil might best serve to
Ohow their effects. What la wanted
Farm Notes.
Up-to-date methods In the home
and on the farm saves ten times
more than It costs to learn them.
If tho farm doesn't pay, the most
common-sense remedy Is to look at
things us they really are. Make every
crop and every animal give an ac
count of Itself, Hud what pays and
what doesu't pay and act accord
ingly. One of our farm readers says that
he has a young cow a little over a
year old which n t triplet calves, and
that her grunddam this spring had
three calves also, all doing well. At
that rate one can soon grow a herd.
Indlaua Farmer.
The same amount of feed that will
produce a pound of beef or pork will
produce a pound of dressed chicken.
Four and one-fourth pounds of ordi
nary grain properly fed will make a
pound of dressed duck. Prof. G. M.
Gowell, Ormo, Me.
Many a dairyman, 'after exercising
great care In securing the products,
gets the blame of much carelessness
wun me prouuets alter tneir delivery.
W. H. Caldwell, Peterboro, N. H.
Regular feediug Is necessary to In
sure a regular supply of eggs.
Chickens enjoy sunshine, and It la
one of the best tonics nature ever
provided. Provide your poultry
houses with plenty of this cheap
remedy. Place the windows down
low so that the sunshine will fall up
on tbe floor, and always have them
on tbe south aide where tbe sun can
shine In all day.
If you can't save money without
making kitchen slaves of the women
folks, better be contented with a
mere living; let the hired men go
and enjoy home life and a contented
household. Dollars made at the ex
pense of a woman's health, bapplnesa
aud long life, are not boneat dollars.
The prlceB of grain cattle feeds aro
fixed without reference to the fertll-
Izlng value. This shows that most!
feeders do not figure upon the valuo
of grain after it becomes manure. I
Yet upon tho quality and quantity of .
manure sometlmea depends tho
dairyman's success. Rich food make
rich manure, makes heavy crope,
niakea prosperous farmers. Study
tbe analysis. The Cultivator.
Individual Taste and Racial Tradi
tion Determine ft.
They aay that a man of science on
the Confident has discovered the ba
cillus of beauty. All you have to do
is to get inoculated, or Infected, and
then But the suggestion Is per
haps not polite. It Is kind to assume
that you are already sick of this dis
ease, and to express a hope that you
will never recover. There Is some
humor in the notion; imagine the
conversation: "Oh, have you heard?
Mary is ill again." "Good gracious,
what Is It?" "Oh, another attack of
beauty." "Terribly catching, Isn't It?
How did she get It this time? I hope
ahe'll get over It safely."
But fancies of such fascinating
conversation must not bogulle us
from a sternly scientific treatment
of the subject. It la difficult to be
lieve that beauty Is one with only
one bacillus. "Tho crlmeB of Clap
ham," as Mr. Kipling has Informed
us, are "chaste In Martaban," and
similarly the beauties of Clapham
would be howled at by the Martaban
smart set. The beauty of China has
feet on wi!cb she cannot walk. The
hot lt of the Orient is apt to weigh
twenty stone. Not to proceed to
horrid details concerning the nose
ii.i'.' and chlgnoiiB n la bone of
African Venuses, we have only to
look at home to see that one man's
beauty Is anothor man's caricature.
The typical English fair Is made In a
different mould from the beauty of
France, and the charms of Orctchen
are of another pattern still. Can one
poor bacillus produce such different
effects?
Beauty, In fact, Is not a definite
quality at all. When Paris under
took to decide which of the three
goddesses was the tfiost beautiful he
wns fatuous beyond a reasonable al
lowance for young men. No person
of sanity, even male, would under
take to arrnuge beauty In an order of
merit. So many marks for the nose,
so many for the mouth, and points
deducted for a smirk to that sort of
thing no one could be expected to
submit with any self-respect. God
desses in a fairy tale are, of course,
allowed conduct which would be Im
possible to mortals In a world of sin
and strife and Influenza. We, who
are not goddesses, and lack alike- abil
ity and inclination for the part, may
do well to remember that there aro
a thousand and one ways of being
beautiful and that there Is sure to be
some misguided creature who thinks
the ugliest of us Is Helen of Troy.
Beauty Is just as much In tho eye
as In the object. There was Brown
ing, who professed that from any
Venus of the sculptor "we turn to
yonder girl that fords the burn," and
my Lord Byron, being of the same
mind, professed to have seen "much
finer women ripe and real than all
their nonsense of a stone Ideal;" but
then a man of letters of our own
day hasjiubllcly proclaimed his belief
that tho Psyche In the museum at
Naples Is more beautiful than any
walking woman. It Is not only a
question of statues, either. How
many of us have been permitted a
vIbIou of loveliness only to wonder
"what In the world people can see In
her."
These things are a mystery, but
they are a mystery of a comfortable
kind. If beauty were a quality which ,
could be estimated exactly like our
weight, some of us would be very
miserable. And the beautiful heavy
weights would be abominably con
ceited. As It is, everybody is per
mitted If she so please to consider
herself a heavyweight, and think
lightly of everyone else. There gen
erally are people, not always women,
who think lightly of the great beau
ties. If wo had contemporary docu
ments, we should probably find that
Andromache thought Helen of Troy
had a big mouth and a humpback.
We know that there were those who
Bneered at Mary Queen of Scots and
Margot of Navarre. Just as one per
son at least thought Mrs. Samuel
Johnson beautiful. So no tone need
be discouraged.
All these questions of beauty are
like the application of coudlmcntB,
questions for the Individual. And.
of course, all Individuals make dif
ferent answers. What is the use of
being an Individual if you agree with
somebody else? London Telegraph.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR MARCH 24 BY
THE RKV.I. W.HENDERSON.
Paying His Debt.
Several years ago an affray in a
Western mining town resulted In
murder, but Senator Thurston, ol
Nebraska, bolievlng the man who was
accused to have had an innocent In
tention, took up bis case and had
the punishment lightened. 81x
months afterward, a man armed to
the teeth appeared In the Senator's
office.
"Are you 'Squire Thurston?" he
roared.
"Yes," said the Sena'or.
"Are you the fel'jw that holped
Jack Harley at cortT"
The Senator, thinking his time had
come, again answered, "Yes."
"Well," said the man with the guns
and bowle knives, "I'm Jack Harley's
partner and I've come to pay you.
I haven't any money, but I'm a man
of honor. Anybody In town you don't
like?"
The Senator assured him there was
not, but tbe man looked Incredulous
and said:
"Put on your hat, 'Squire, and take
a walk down the street with me. See
anybody you don't like, Just throw up
your thumb an' I'll nor him."
Kansas City Post.
How to Sleep In u Blanket. -There
are a great many very com
petent treatises telling you how to
build your fire, pitch your tent, and
all the reat of It. I have never seen
described the woodman's method of
using a blanket, however. Lie flat
on your back. Spread tbe blanket
over you. Now raise your legs rigid
from the hips, the blanket, of course,
draping over them. In two Bwitt ino
tlons tuck first one edge under your
legs from right to left, then the sec
ond edge uuder from left to right,
and over tho first edge. Lower your
legs, wrap up your shoulders and go
to sleep. If yon roll over one edge
will unwind, but the other will
tighten. Outing
Snbjectt Woes of Drunkenness,
Isaiah 3M:7-18 Golden Text,
Hos. I-1 1 Memory Verse, 7
Commentary.
It la not nt all necessary to go to
the Scrplture to find matter applica
ble to a lesson on the woes of drunk
enness. All too sadly we have but
to look right around us In order to
find examples, Illustrations and texts
for a lesson upon this theme.
Isaiah draws ua a thrilling, awful
picture of the effects of drunkenness
upon the people of Jerusalem, and
especially upon their priests and
prophets. He predicts that If they
do not cease from wantonness and the
following of drunken Iniquity the
Lord will punish them in the persona
of the Assyrian hosts, men "with an
other tongue." He clearly sota forth
what are tho effects of drunkenness
on tho minds of men, leading them
to defy even God Himself, and, with
out fear, to flout His chosen prophetic
lnessengors.
The picture that Isaiah paints for
us, In words that blaze and burn, is
not more awful than the picture any
prophet of God might draw. If he so
desired, of the conditions of modern
life. To be sure It would not be pos
sible to say that the ministry, as a
class, are given to the vice of Intem
perance. It would not be possible to
Bay that those who, In any departure
of life, believe themselves blessed of
God with a prophetic message to men,
are, as a class, under the dominion of
that particular sin. The day long
since hns passed when It was consid
ered "the thing" for ministers to
drink and no great disgrace for them,
now and then, to become over-Indulgent.
The priest of God who drinks
1b not the rulo but tho exception in
this moro enlightened age. But al
though the cup has come Into dis
favor among tho cloth. It Is all too
sad a fact that, in the world at large,
it Is altogether too popular, both for
tho welfare of Individuals aud of so
ciety as a whole.
There seems to be an opinion
abroad, In some very estimable quar
ters, that when these lessons on In
temperance are taught we should, as
far as possible, avoid telling the
youth of our Sabbath schools tho
plain, hard, appalling facts of the
wooa of intemperance. The woes of
intemperance are only to bo spoken
of in the title head. They are to be
forgotten as we proceed to the study
of the lesson. Frankly the writer is
not of that same mind. Nothing Is to
be gained by dodging the enormity of
the sin of intemperance as, to-day.
Its lecherous hand stretches over our
land with eager desire to grasp our
young men and maidens, our old men
and matrons. Everything is to bo
lost by refusing to look tho evil in
the face and to paint it to the world
in its proper colors. It cannot be
passed by in alienee If we are the fol
lowers of Christ that we should be;
its baneful effect up on thousands di
rectly and upon the whole nation In
directly cannot be gainsaid. Its grip
must be broken, Its influence must be
nullified, it must be annihilated.
The woes of drunkenness descend
upon women as woll as men; upon
the Innocent as well as upon the
guilty; upon society as upon the In
dividual. The amount of drinking
that Is prevalent among women to
day Is almost past belief. Aud even
as men cannot escape tho effects of
strong drink, so women do not. And
awful as are the consequences of in
temperance upon the lives of men,
they are unspeakably moro so upon
tho lives of women. For a moral and
sober motherhood is tho base upon
which all society rests. And anything
that destroys the purity and the beau
ty of our womanhood strikes at the
very vitals of all human life. Its ef
fect upon men Is so widely spread and
so generally rocognlzed that we
should be arrayed solidly as a Chris
tian host against it. Wrecked busi
ness .enterprises, ruined reputations,
forfeited positions of truth and re
sponsibility and Troflt, blasted homos,
disgraced lives, are tho frequent con
comitants of drunkenness among
men. And the worst of it all is this,
that the men and women guilty of tho
vice of intemperance do not always
reap the most distressing conse
quences. Upon the Innocent, the
fathers and mothers, the wives and
husbands and children, all too often
the direful consequences of tho indi
vidual's sins are visited. Further,
the 8tato suffers immeasurably
through the moral downfall of her
members through drink. Society hag
flu Interest In every member of Its
ranks. The weal of one Is the wel
fare of nil and conversely the woe
of one has an evil Influence upon
tho moral health of the whole com
munity. The woes of drunkenness. Half a
century ago Harriet Beecher Stowo
portrayed the woes of slavery, and
her name Is famous and tho slave Is
free. Imperishable memory awaits
the man who, with prevision. Insight
nd precision, can depict to the world
the horrors of Intemperance unto the
emancipation of a host now enmeshed
In the tolls of this iniquity.
Vs. 7, 8. Picture of the drunken
ness of the priests.
Vs. ft, 10. The drunkards mock
Isatab. "Knowledge," prophetic
teaching. "Tidings." "Revelations."
"Weaied." "They protoat they are
not children."
Vs. 11, IS. Isaiah retorts to them
with their own words. "Stammer
ings." A foreign tongue. "Anoth
er." Assyrian.
The paint of pride Is not the same
as the robe of righteousness.
Taxable Income In Prussia.
Thb Prussian Income tax returns
the largeat Increase registered In any
of the past thirteen years. These
returns, covering all lucomea of 45
($218) and more, indicate a gain of
35,250,000 ($170,448,100) In the
'people's iucomes fqr 1905 over 1904.
Since the income tax law was Intro
duct tl, fourteen years ago, tbe uutu
Im of persqu taxed haa risen from
1,440,000 to 4,680,000, and their ag
gregate Income from 298,000,000
;($1, 441,800,000) to 536,000,000
! i($2, 608,444,000). Department Bui
letia.
The new alloy called invar, consist
ing of steel mixed with about thirty,
six per cent, of nickel, which is invarl.
able in volume with ordinary changea
of temperature, has recently been
adopted by Swiss watchmakers for
making balances in the majority of
their best timepieces. Tbe compen
sation for tempevalure thus obtained
la superior to any hitherto known.