YTbe PutpTFl
A SERMON
jRAVrtftNDEIo:
(Subject : Murder.
Brooklyn. N. Y. Preaching at ti
frying Square Presbyterian Church
on the above theme, the pastor, Roy.
Ira Wemmell Henderson, took as his
text. Exodus 20:13, "Thou shalt not
kill." He said:
The extent and force of the admon
ition to recognize the Inalienable
right of all men to life Is not widely
recognized In our day. In view of the
professed love of our forefathers and
J sending ot any noui to his taut rest.
The criminal ha the right to a death
not of the State's making. The prln
' rlple of capital punishment Is as vie
I long nt bottom as Is private murder
I by the Individual, and is unwhole
i some In that It disregards the very
law of inalienable right to life that
If essays to protect "Thou shalt not
kill," says the State, "for If you do,
an! we can prove the cane ngalnst
you, we will slay you." The Incon
sistency of the situation should ap
peal to everyone, but queerly enough
the very disciples of that Christ who
said, "Father, forgive," are among
the loudest elamorers for the life of
the murderer.
But the greatest etnmpl? of the
violation of this commandment Is to
be found In the actions of the Chris
tian nations of to-day. Theoretically
Christian! w are, as segregated peo
ples, largely pagan. Praising Cod
as Individuals and despising, most of
us, In our private lives un-Chrlstlan
conduct nnd un-Chrlstllke acts, we
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, MAY 3.
ua for Clod and the Christ. With no I 'stand ready a3 members of a great
circumlocution and no wavering of ' social body to sustain and to serve
the voice, Moses speaks out for God
a principle that the modern world,
aa the nations of all ages have done,
itsregards. To be sure the civiliza
tion of to-day la better In general
than the manner of life thousands of j
years ago. We do not kill our neigh- !
bors out In the open to gain our
food. The settlement of private
wrongs by "wild Justice" Is, In this
country at least, limited largely to
the mountain whites. No man of i
enlighteament grants the right of a I
ruler anywhere to stamp out a hu- j
man life arbitrarily as of old. Fhys- !
leal disability In a babe to-day merits I
more our sympathy than slaughter. !
Gradually we are coming to recog- i
nlze the rights and privileges of the 1
children who are yet unborn. Ven- j
dettas are unpopular, and the mere i
threat to kill Is, very properly, suffi
cient to put a man under bonds to I
keep the peace. Nowhere Is the 1
murderer safe from the clutches of I
outraged law. Does he slay his vic
tim here, then whither shall he flee?
The minions who upholds the law
In Mohammedan Turkey will hound
him to the earth to return him to the
scene of his fortal sin In the borders
of Christian America. Here and there
a few far-seeing souls declare that
even the State has no business to ex-
Mt an eye for an eye, a life for a
life, and they say that society has no
more right to cut short a human
career than has that unit of society
the Individual. Yes, tho recognition
by "he world of the wisdom of this
commandment Is greater to-day than
ever before, but ft Is not yet what
It should be.
To kill a man Is to deprive him of
life. But the process may be varied
a id the length of time consumed
In stifling the light of life nay be
greater or less, according to the
means employed. "Thou ehalt not
kill," says the commandment, and
Instinctively we picture the quarrel,
the hot fight, the hand quick to slay.
"Thou shalt not kill," and we see
the gun, the axe, the poison, tho
bludgeon. "Thou shalt not kill,"
and the vision of a sharp, keen con
flict, man to man, or of the silent,
sudden blow flashes Into the mind's
view. Yes, each photograph Is true
to some scene In life. To these the
law refers! But Is this all? Is It
always the axe or the poison or the
gun that fells a soul Into eternity?
Must the murderer be the man with
the instrument of immediate death'.'
Are the murders which are the re
sult of overt crime the only killings
that take place? I think not. Slow
work Is not so fast, but it is just as
sure. The breaking of a human heart
by Ill-treatment, either in word or
act, Is murder, though the papers
never hear of It. Constant abuse
may end a life, though the body show
never a scar.
The man who hounds his family
to an early grave with physical
abuse Is u murderer. The smooth
and careless youth who breaks his
mother's heart Is no less guilty than
the man who brains me with a maul.
The scurrilous and unscrupulous
measures that nre wholly corrupt and
corrupting. Professing a love for
I pearefulness nnd for the Prince of
iv.tr.-. we pay without a grumble our
military tithes. Indepd, we may often
j ice the spectacle of two mighty po
! pies, each paying homage to the MOM
God, clutching each at the other's
! thront, the meanwhile each Is asking
I God to give the enemy defeat. All
too often we may see the armies and
i the navies of a wealthy Christian
I nation full of power, menacing a
' weaker sister to collect a money dent.
1 The nations of this dav descend to
the decision by fisticuffs which al'
worthy men deny t.i be manly, or to
lie of value to decide an issue.
The situation would he ludicrous
were It not so lamentable.
Christian men nnd Christian na
I tlons have no communion with dls
I loyalty to the Father. Tho Individ
' ual. the church, the peoples have no
I rail to kill. Cod gave us brnins with
1 which to settle our difficulties in
i ober thoughtfulness. He gave ui
: ciur hands to help ourselves, not to
harm each other. The mre money
I you may possess, the more must you
rare for the men below and about
! you. Financiering that makes Its
chief profits through the exploitation
Of the man with small means, or
through the financial wrecking of the
1 moneyed man, has no place In a
I Christian economy, for Its fruit Is all
I too often death. Many are the vic
tims of unscrupulous Napoleons ot
! finance. The easier you make the
task of the toller 1ft your shop, or
mine, or mill, or field, the more do
I you serve your God. Tho oftener we
j settle disputes botween Individuals
, or among nations, by the courts of
' arbitration, the more do we glorify
j our Lord end manifest our manhood.
Immense armaments merely prove
t national weakness of will and lack
1 of mental poise. Wars often bring
i victory to those who are In the right,
' and they should. But no war has
1 ever proven the validity of the case
i of any victor no matter how well
' founded the argument of that wln
1 nlng party may have been.
The crushing of little children at
meu's tasks Is a short-sighted policy
to Bcore It very little. The system
which wrecks and destroys the youth
i of a land, prepares a heritage of
wrecked humanity for the worrlment
of future generations. Gain at any
J price la a poor business proposition,
and is morally unjustifiable.
My friends, the need of the hour
in this matter la for an honest rocog
! nltlon, by Individuals and nations, of
! the force which the words of Jesus
Christ add to the command "thou
shalt not kill." We need a qulck
, ened consclanco that t-hall always
counsel for the right. We need a
j holy manhood that shall Insist that
no form of murder, be It brutal or
I refined, shall soil the private or the
! public record. The call is for Christ
! men who dare to do good and to be
upright, no matter how much the
I dividends may suiter, no matter how
'. much humanity may re:usiln unap-
preclattve of klndnejf, charily and
writers who hold honest men un to I love. The call is for men of high and
men of low estate who snail ever rec
ognize that war Is hell, and that God
Is honored, not Dy the smoke and din
of battle, but by the exercise of hu
man self-coutrol.
Let us, then, be mer., and be sure
to keep our hands from Kood-sulltl-ness.
Let not the death ci our broth
ers be upon us. Let us live aud let
live. Let us serve and save. Lei us
not destroy.
un
obllquy and shatter sensitive souls
till the hand of death draws them out
Into the other life, are guilty of a
mortal crime. The man who grinds
the men who labor till they welcome
death with Joy Is soiled with blood.
The company of respectable and mon
eyed men who use their reputable
names to float financial schemes and
then ruin those who. trusting them,
have put their all Into their keeping,
are guilty of robbery least of all.
The record of the starved, the broken-hearted,
the Insane, the suicides,
is but the corollary of their greed.
The man who sells his neighbor
poison, be that poison arsenic or
whisky, is accessory before the fact
to a suicide. The employment of
children In factory end mining work
before their time 13 almost murder
In the first degree.
My friends, anything that tends to
destroy or prematurely to curtail
human life Is a means to murder,
and the men who set Into motion the
forces of unrighteousness that deal
and hasten death are criminals In
the slight of God, though the law may
never touch them. Far be It from
me to say that many of the men who
commit these Indirect murders have
any real Intention to cause misery
or to commit crime. But the truth
is that they are none the less cul
pable. The one thing that Is needed
Is a clear-cut vision of the meaning
of the commandment which frames
our text. The need Is for sharp and
unmistakenhle definition of what It
Is to kill. Tbo eyes of men must lie
opened to their personal responsibil
ity for tho outcome of their acts. A
new realization of tho fullness of the
command of Christ must Infill every
human heart. Moral laziness must
give the way to moral clarity of vis
Ion. Spiritual Indlfferenc must yield
the road to spiritual Insight. The
Christ must come Into all men's
hearts, not In small measure, but
with a fullness that shall leave no
room for unrighteousness. We must
train our minds to thoughtfuluess
for others, and not to satisfaction of
salt. The money in our purses ought
to burn our very souls If we see upon
It any tinge of blood. Tho health
and happiness of the man who tolls,
and bends a weary back that we may
live tu luxury, must bo our care. The
f. melioration and betterment of the
Ife of all the world Bhould be our
constant aim. As Christian Individ
uals we should guard the life of
very human toul.
As the right ot the Individual to
siay nis brother li denied by the
commandment, so also implicitly tho
right of society to take human life
Is questioned. The murderer Is an
enemy to society, and for the best
welfare ot the many It Is wisest to
keep htni under guard. But tbo prin
ciple of the lex tallonls, the life ex
acted for the life destroyed, is un
christian, and In the light of the I
teachings of Jesus Is unwarranted.
The Slate lowers Itself and commits
real sin when It wreaks the penalty
of death upon the modern Cain. Ven
geance Is the business of the Lord,
It Indeed there be any such thing.
The auw dm nothing to gain by the
The Gates of Pearl.
In his sermon, "On the Twelve
Gates," Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman
savs, "I am sure that there Is some
meanlni; In the fact that the gates
are of pearl. Do you know the his
tory of pearls? Humanly speaking,
it is the history of suffering. When
discovered it Is at the risk of the
pearl fisher's life. It Is said that
pearls are formed by the Intrusion of
some foreign substance between the
mantle of thu mollusk and Its shell.
This Is a source of irritation, suffer
ing and pain, and a substance is
thrown around about that which la
Intruded to prevent suffering, and
iub pearls are formed."
Counting the Cost. Luke 14.25-33.
Passages for reference: Matt. 19.
21, 22; Luke !t. 5ft, 60, 62; Matt. 6. 19
23: Mark S. 34-38.
The sight of the multitudes follow
ing Christ from place to place, called
forth an expression from him as to
what It meant to be his follower. If
any bad had a light conception of
what It meant before this his words
must certainly have convinced them
differently. No earthly friendship can
be suffered to come between the man
and the Master; even life Itself must
be secondary to his will. Neither Is
It something that Is taken up as a kind
of fad or fancy, because some one else
does It, when It Is convenient, but laid
aside when It does not suit. On the
contrary, It Is a life that means sacri
fice, self-denial; It means the will sub
ject to Christ all the time. He al
ludes to tho fact that. If a man wishes
to build, he first counts the cost, to
sc whether he will be nble to carry
the project through; and that a king
going to war first compares the
strength of his army with that of the
enemy, to see whether his chances of
victory are enough to warrant him In
going to war.
If he cannot he makes terms of
peace before he Is defeated. Tho com
plete surrender Is what Christ de
mands. When the test was applied to the
crowd that followed Christ many of
them went no more after him. Men
and women of some temperaments are
easily persuaded to take the step that
Introduces Into the Christian life.
They are not to blame for making this
decision, but they are at fault In not
recognizing the fact that loyalty will
be called for when It will moan some
thing to be true. Not having thought
of that, and the Idoa of self-denial hav"
lng so far no place In their creed, they
stagger at the sternness of the life,
and bo withdraw from the association
of him and his friends.
It does not take us long to say that
It requires the giving up of all sin; a
man must stop being dishonest, he
must be truthful, and not breathe the
He. The world In Its wickedness must
be surrendered. It means the giving
up of those things that are question
able In our own lives. It menns the
severing of all tho ties that bind us to
a worldly life. In short. It requires
the self-surrendered life.
The Treacher Needs Help,
i Aa long as tho winning of souls Is
considered to be the work ot one
; man, he and the believers to whom he
I ministers must 3uffer loss. They are
; kept from the spiritual exercise and
activity which Is essential to a
j healthy lite. Lo is robbed of the
J support which their witness and their
i prayers could give. Andrew Murray.
Paying For Sin.
Evrry sin must bo paid for; every
e;usual Indulgence Is a harvest, the
price of which Is so much ruin for
the soul. Robertson,
Shoes Hurt; Urlde Wed in Stockings,
i From the classic regions known as
; "Barefoot Nation," near Falrheld,
1 ill., there appeared In that town an
unsophisticated bride and groom, and
; were married at the court house by
Squire Dickey, sayB the St. Louis
Globe-bemocrat.
The couple had arrived early In
town, and the groom had bought his
I prospective bride a new pair of shoos,
, and tbey hurt her feet woefully. She
wore them about an hour or so while
shopping, but her feet hurt her eo
badly she pulled off the shoes and
! went In her stocking feet to the court
; house, where. In the presence of the
' entire court bouse delegation and a
score or more of lookers on, she stood
j In a pair of striped stockings and
said the vows. He wore a pair ol
i blue striped overalls.
She was Mrs. Martin Jane Green
and he was John Green, both ot Gold
en Gate. She was the widow of her
new husband's deceased brother,
Frank Green, who was drowned a
few mouths since while rafting logs.
A honeymoon back home was
taken in a tumbledown wagon.
MAY FIFTH
The Power of a ContenteO Life. Phil.
4:10-20. (Consecration Meeting.)
A contented king. Ps. 16: 1-11.
Goodness satisfies. Prov. 14: 1-14.
Content with little. Eccl. 4: 1-6.
Content with wages. Luke 3: 1-14.
Content with our work. 1 Cor. 7:
17-80.
Content with Godliness. 1 Tim. 6:
1-S.
Contentment Is not a natural grace;
it U something to be learned.
Moat etiquette deals with ncenes of
nlenty nnd luxruy; but the Christian
Is taught also how to bear himself In
poverty nnd barrenness.
This trarse Is worthy to be taken as
the keynote -of Christian Endeavor.
"1 can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me."
Of coure one can be contented with
nil one's needs supplied! And that is
the condition of the Christian.
Suggestions.
If you would be strong, be con
tented; every discontent is a weak
ness. To gain contentment, remember
what you have, and forget what oth
ers have.
A contented life Is not necessarily
a r.atisfled life. Move ever forward,
but with unruffled brow.
A contented life Is based on God's
will; a discontented life on self-will.
Illustrations.
Contentment Is like a teloscope
tube; It shuts out the lights of earth
so that one can see the stars.
Contentment Is the poor man's
bank: and It never falls.
Contentment Is the only philoso
pher's stone; It turns to gold every
thing that It touches.
Contentmont Is the language of
heaven, and everything becomes me
lodious that Is translated to It.
Quotations.
Contentment Is natural wealth; lux
ury, artificial poverty. Socrates.
Our content Is our best having.
Shakespeare.
If two angels were "t down from
heaven one .to oon'jc? an empire,
tho other to sweep a street they
would feel no Inclination to change
employments. John Newton.
Contentment conslsteth not In ad
ding more fuel, but In taking away
some fire Fuller.
Patriotic Endeavors.
One of the best ways of . holding
young men In Christian Endeavor
work Is by establishing some patriot
ic service In connection with the soci
ety. Germany leads to-day In the manu
facture and use of alcohol for light
and power. In that country pota
toes aro tho chief source from which
alcohol Is produced. The potato
crop last year reached the astound
ing proportions of 1,775,679,000
bushels, or more than 53,000,000
standard tons. Of this amount near
ly one-half was used In tho manufac
ture of alcohol and starch. One
eighth of all the tillable land In Ger
many Is planted to potatoes, which
show an average production of 217
bushels an acre, which sold at an
average ot 27.6 cents a bushel, or
about $G0 an acre. In Franco alco
hol for manufacturing purposes Is
made chiefly from molasses and
sugar beets.
One Secret She Kept.
It was the same old story of a man
who refused to tell his wife the out
come of a business transaction, In
which, naturally, she tools a deep in
terest. "No," he aneered, "I won't tell
you. If 1 did you'd repeat It. You
wumea can never keep a secret."
"John," said the wouian, qulotly,
"have 1 ever told the secret about tho
solitaire engagement ring you gave
uie eighteen years ago being paste?"
Tlt-Blts.
Two Ways of Pruning Grapevines.
In all grape growing localities the
Knl ff en system Is the best and cheap
est for srrong growing varieties, such
as Niagara. It Is best because It re
quires less care and work, and It Is
cheap. It saves money In time and
labor. Only two wires. Instead of
three or four, are required for the
trellis. Slow growing varieties, such
as Delaware, aro better trained on
the fan system, as they must be re
newed from a point nearer the
ground. When following tho fan
system the pruner can always cut to
good wood; when following a more
definite system, as tho Knlffen, some
times he r-,st cut at a loss.
The fan stem Is briefly as fol
lows: When planting, cut the vine
bhek to two buds; next spring, again
cut back to two buds; second spring
after plnntlng, If vine is strong, leave
one cane about two or three feet long,
and tie up to trellis wires. When
growth on this Is about six Inches
long, rub off all sprouts below the
point on the upright whore It Is de
sired to start the fan. Third spring,
prune back to six or eight buds the
strongest canes that arise from near
a central point below the first wire;
tie about three ot these fan-shaped
to tho wires and remove all the rest.
The following seasons, renew the
wood from as near the trunk as pos
sible and Increase the number of
arms to five or more If growth Is
strong.
A vine trained by the Knlffen sys
tem consists of an upright trunk or
standard and four arms. To produce
this result the young vine Is treated
similar to the fan system for two
seasons. The second spring after
planting, select tho strongest cane
a'jd tie It straight and firmly to the
top wire, cutting everything else
away. The third spring, select four
arms, two on opposite sides of the
standard near the lower wire and two
similarly placed near the upper wire,
cut these back to six or eight buds, ac
cording to the length of the points
on the cane, tie them to tho wires,
and remove all other canes. The
fourth and subsequent years renew
the arms with wood that arises from
a point as near to the central stand
ard aB possible. Canadian Horticulturist.
Sweet Potnto Hotbed.
The most convenient size for a
sweet potato hotbed is one thnt will
hold three barrels of potato seed.
Take for the back a board sixteen
feet long and one foot wide and for
the front a board the same length,
eight Inches wide, the end boards
twenty-six Inches long, to como even
with the front and back boards,
nailed to a solid stake at each corner,
also a stake In the middle of each
sixteen-foot board. Then take a
spade and dig the dirt out bo as to
make the bed twenty Inches deep
from the top of frame boards; tho
same all over tho bed. Then fill In
with fresh stable manure and tramp
down to ten Inches In thickness. Tho
manure should have considerable
bedding In It and stay heaped up at
least twenty-four hours before It Is
packed In the pit, when It should be
shaken well and thoroughly mixed, as
some of the manure will heat eooner
than other parts nnd will cause an
uneven temperature and consequent
uneven sprouting.
After the manure has been placed
nnd well tramped so that It slopes
to the south, put in four inches of
loose earth evenly all over tho bed.
Let this stay until the dirt becomes
warm, then place tho potatoes on so
as not to touch each other and then
cover two Inches deep with fine loose
earth. If you find in a few days that
your bed is too hot, make a sharp
Htlrk and -tin It to the bottom of the
bed and leave several holes through
the centre nnd the hent will soon es
cape; then fill the holes again. As
for sprinkling or wetting them. It is
not required, nor should they be
rained on until plants nre well up;
the steam from the manure furnishes
all moisture that Is needed. The bed
should be kept covered until sprouts
are well up, but the top may be re
moved to give the plants air and light
when tho temperature is not so cold
as to Injure the plants. The Eplto-mlst.
Raising Carrots.
It has always stemed strange to
the writer that carrots were not more
universally grown, for not only are
thoy remunerative commercially, but
they are most excellent for feeding
live Btock, specially horsea. It Is a
well-knowu fact that carrots when
fod to horsos Improve their wind
greatly.
Tho gross profit from an acre ol
well-grown enrrots should be about
1300. A light loam or sandy soil
suits them best, with but a moderate
application of manure. For general
cultivation, tho writer prefers the
Rubicon, DanverB and Long Orange-,
for if grown In excess of the market,
they can be profitably fed to tho live
stock.
It requires from three to-four
pounds of seed per acre, depending on
the distance between tbje rows. The
plants should be from throe to six
inches apart In the rows, und the
rows wide enough apart for a horse
cultivator to be used. A good bit ot
hand thinning can be saved by going
through the rows first with a boe
and cutting out a hoe's width, leav
ing about three or tour plums be
tween the first hoe's width aud the
next. Carrots are free from insect
or other enemies, as a rule, and de
maud no extra attention.
There Is no farm-raised animal
that doesn't relish carrots, from the
fowls up. The writer still believes,
at the risk of being called old fash
ioned, that we would have healthier
and more contented lire stock It wo
fad more roots and leas mill feed;
also that our farms would pay better
It we didn't put all our eggs In one
basket. For example, If a man goes
In for dairying exclusively and is by
chance unfortunate enough to have
to kill all hlB herd on account ot
tuberculosis, he faces temporary em
bnrrassment, to say the least; where
as, If ho had fewer cows, and other
crops to depend on, such as beets,
carrots, strawberries, potatoes, etc.,
he would feel the loss so much less.
A Farmer, In the Country Gentleman.
Beginner In Horse Brooding.
In an article of caution to begin
ners In this line of work, the English
Live Stock Journal concludes as fol
lows:
As a general rule It Is not desira
ble for a commencement to be made
with more than one breed, even
though the soil and climatic condi
tions may favor tho course. The be
ginner, no matter how extended his
theoretical knowledge may be, will
have much to learn when It comes to
a question of practice, and although
the experienced man may succeed
with several varieties In his stud at
the same time, tho prospects ot the
newcomer will not be advanced by
adopting thlB course. He may re
member, too, that, if making money
be his object, he will probably suc
ceed bettor by taking up a breed that
Is In demand In his district, as by
doing so he will probably bo able to
dispose of his misfits more easily and
upon more advantageous terms.
When he has made his name, pur
chasers will come from all parts for
his good horses, and therefore dis
tance Is practically no object. Tho
misfit, however, will always be with
him, and, though the number ot these
undesirables may be limited, they
will continually be making their ex
istence felt. There is no royal road
for extinguishing the misfit, but tho
best way to limit his appearance is
to breed only from the best and beBt
brod stock, following out the linos
upon which the most famous families
of the Stud Book have been produced,
and by avoiding all fantastic experi
ments. By adopting a policy such as
the above the horse breeder may rest
practically assured that success will
ultimately attend him; though possi
bly ho may be called upon meanwhile
to exorcise the golden gift of patience.
How to Foretell the Weather.
The Farmers' Club of the American
Institute has Issued the following
rules for forecasting the weather:
1. The wind never blows unless
rain or snow Is falling within 1000
miles of you.
2. When cirrus cloudB are rapidly
moving from the north or northenst
there will be rain within twenty-four
hours, no matter how cold it Is.
3. Cumulus clouds always move
from a region of fair weather to a
region where a storm Is forming.
4. Tho wind always blows from
a region of fair weather to a region
where a storm is forming.
5. When the temperature sudden
ly falls there Is a storm forming
south of you.
C. When the temperature sudden
ly rises there is a storm forming
north of you.
. 7. Cirrus clouds always movo
from a region where a storm Is in
progress to a region of fair w'eather.
8. It Is said when the cumulous
clouds aro moving from the south or
southeast, there will be a cold rain
storm on the morrow, if it Is in sum
mer; If It Is In winter there will be a
snowstorm.
9. Whenever heavy, white frost
occurs, a storm 1b forming within
1000 miles north or northwest of
you.
10. The wind always blows In a
circle around a storm, and when It
blows from the north the heaviest
rnin Is east of you; If It blows from
tho south, tho heaviest rain Is west
of you; If It blows from the eaat, the
heaviest rain is south of you; If It
blows from the west, the "aviost
rain Is north of you.
Stumbling Horses.
Some horses are addicted to
stumbling, others acquire the fault,
and still others have the stumbling
habit thrust upon them. In tho first,
it is almost Incurable, but the second
aud third causes can be remedied by
tho rider or driver. If tho ground is
rough or uneven, hoiBes with a low
action are prune to stumble. Other
horses which are naturally slipshod,
genernlly stumble because they do
not lift their feet high enough from
the ground. Laziness is another
cause for stumbling, and horses that
irre heavy in front, or whoso forelegs
nre weak or unsound, have the same
fault. Very often careless ness on the
part of the driver causes a horse to
stumble. This makes it necessary al
ways to bear in mind the value of
keeping the horses well In hand and
sufficiently collected. If the habit Is
duo to lazlneflB, It can olten bo cured
by riding or driving the horae over
rough ground until he has been
broken of tho fault. But In all cases
tho cure rests with the rider or
driver. The most surefooted of
horses Is bound to stumble at times,
hut this can lie reduced to a minimum
by keeping a tight rein. A slack
rein la ofton the sole cause tor
stumbling. If fatigue la tho cause,
cixtra care must be taken to koep
tho hut - well .up to the bit. No
good horseman will erar take chancea
ot his horse stumbling by allowing a
slack rein. Stumbling Is not only an
annoying habit, but It often results in
serious injury and many times In the
total disability ot the animal. Whlla
ua habitual tendency to stumble often
does not admit of a cure, the average
case can be prevented by the methods
su3ated absre. Indiana Farmer.
A Tale of the Rail.
By HORATIO WIN8LOW.
"Well," said the President of the
Railroad Board ot Director, "we
won't put In any safety system be
cause It's cheaper without."
"O. K.," said the Board.
"All right." muttered General Pub
lic; "you Just wait and seo If you
aren't taught a lesson."
So the President and the Board of
Directors waltel until the next meet
ing, but as no one had taught them
a lesson they concluded the O. P.
must havo been mlstakeu.
"This year," said tho Vlce-FresI-dent
of the Board, "we might as well
mnke these telegraph operators un
derstand that forty is about the right
alio for fhelr monthly envelopes. Of
course, this means that we'll havo to
hire a lot of kids, but what's the
odds?"
"O. K.," snickered the Board ot
Directors.
"All right," the O. P. nodded
wisely; "but you Just wall aud see
If you aren't taught a lesson. '
So tho President and the Vlce
PraaktoUt and the Board of Directors
waited until next dividend time, but
ns no one came around with any
school books they concludod the O
P. muBt have been mistaken.
"Seems to me," urged the Secre
tary of tho Board," that we're spend
ing too much money on extra shifts
of men. If a man can't stay at his
post sixteen hours a '.ay, he ought to
bo fined." 1
"O. K.," chuckled the Directors.
"All right," growled the Public;
"but you Just wait and eee If you
aren't taught a lesson. You Just
wait."
So the President and the Vice
President and the Secretary and all
the rest of them waited for some
time, but as nobody with a teacher's
certificate or other credential came
around they decided to start out In a
private car and find out what the
General Public meant.
About this time, along about the
end of his sixtoon-hour day, a seventeen-year-old
boy at $40 per month,
and no cuts In pay for overtime, fell
asleep over his telegraph Instrument.
There was no safety system and a
few moments later two trains tried to
pass hurriedly on the same track.
Unhappily the President and the
Vice-President and the Secretary and
tho Board generally had had their
car unhitched at the last station up
tho line to enjoy a champagne sup
per, tendered by prominent citizens,
so that nobody was killed except 25 0
Immigrants who couldn't vote and
didn't count, and an engineer, fire
man, and brakeman or two. Moral
Tho General Public Is generally mis
taken. Puck.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
ME NTS FOR MAY ft BY THE
HKX. t W. HENDERSON.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
There has been a lot of happiness
mlsBad In this world by worrying
about getting It. Florida Times
Union. Humility Is not servility, by whole
dictionaries of meaning. The word
Is from humus, the ground. The
humble man 1b a man of position. He
makes tracks, ho can be followed, he
can be found. Homo Herald.
No man Is more miserable than ho
who hath no adversity; that man la
not tried whether he be good or not;
and God never, crowns those virtues
which are only faculties and dispo
sitions; but every act of virtue is an
ingredient into reward. God so
I dresses us for heaven. Jeremy Tay
lor.
Let us cultivate and reverently
cherish the honest Indignations of
our nature, for they are the life and
fire that Is In us. Gou has given
them; and the man is most happy
who has them the warmest, the
truest, the least wrenched by preju
dice, the least dulled by sense and
sin. Phillips Brooks.
The time will come when techni
cal education will become the strong
est link In the great chain that Is be
ing forged for the evolution of the
farmer and It will be brought about
by tho co-operation of children with i was clarified.
parents and parents with teachers,
and so reaching on uutil we have the
universal co-operation of the level
headed, far-seeing common people,
tho American farmers. Fanui'
Beocher White.
Edison's Tnste in Timepieces.
Some years ago Thomas A. Edison,
tho great American Inventor, was
presented with a beautiful 8wlse
watch by a European scientific so
ciety. That the gttt was really a
magnificent timepiece may be judged
from Its value, whtch was $2700.
After some time the makers began
Inquiry to find out of the watch was
giving satisfaction. This Interroga
tion brought to light the fact that Mr.
EdiBon makes little use of the valu
able gift. Instead ho buys a stem herds, as God would have him to do.
Subject: .To.eph the Wise Ruler In
Egypt, Oen. 41:38-49 Golden
Text, James Memory
Versos, 88-40.
Two years have passed, as we are
told In Oen. 41:1, between the events
which are chronicled In the 8crlpture
that we studied last week and those
that are recorded In our lesson for
to-day. With Joseph they have been
years of confinement In an Egyptian
prison. To be sure, he was a man of
Importance above the men who were
Jailed with him, he was a favorite
and trusted lieutenant of the warders
of the dungeons; but ho was never
theless a prisoner. A good life In a
prison Is still a prison life. Joseph
was a prisoner under the dominion of
Phnraoh. He was also a prisoner for
Ood. He could unlto to-day with
Paul In the declaration. "I am In
chains for Ood." Joseph's only crime
had been his desire to serve Ood and
be faithful to the social obligation!
of his surroundings and his man
hood. He went to prison because he
would rather be obedient to the vision
and the call of Ood than to barter
his character and the favor ot the
Almighty for a mess of pottage.
That which appeared to man, per
haps, to be disadvantageous to the
future success and prosperity of Jos
eph, however. In the providence of
God was working and did work out
most splendidly and marvellously for
his enduring fame. His wisdom as a
diviner to the baker and the butler of
Pharaoh In the prison leads him di
rectly Into the court of the emperor.
His explanation of the meaning and
application of the queer dreams the
Pharaoh had had about the cows and
the ears made him a marked man In
the estimation of the king. It was
the means, for him, of entrance Into
vice-regal power.
One thing noticeable about Joseph,
first, is this, that he gave substantial
evidence of his nearness to Ood. Of
course In those days among the
nobles of the Egyptian court a man
would perhaps be noted as a com
panion of God for different reasons,
so far as outward expression Is con
cerned, than would Impress us of
this day and generation. The court
and the emperor were Impressed with
tho godliness of Joseph because he
was an Informing oracle of God.
"Can we," says Pharaoh, "find such
a one as this Is, a man In whom the
Spirit of God Is?" Pharaoh saw In
Joseph the lineaments and the min
ings of the Spirit of 'Gad because
Joseph declared the Implications of
his dreams with courage, with sense,
with tonvlctlon. He was impressed
with the soothsaying powers of Jos
eph. His gift for accurate divination
caught his fancy and fixed his atten
tion. That which Pharaoh saw In Joseph
and honored with vice-regal favor
the captain of the guard had dis
cerned from quite another point of
I view, iiiat which attracted the at
i tentlon of Potlphar and gave him
confidence In Joseph also Influenced
the minds of tho keepers of the prison
and led them lighten the burdens of
j Joseph and to Install him In a place
; of responsibility and authority among
; the men with whom he was Incarcer
ated. And that which they all saw
we, too, seo to-day as wt gazo down
tho perspective of the centuries.
Joseph was faithful to Potlphar be
cause he was the child of God. ,Ve
was trustworthy In prison boc-use
he was In right relations constancy
with God. Ho was able to Interpret
dreams and to unfold them with
prophetic power and more than com
mon accuracy because- he kept his
senses alert and his wholv manhood
alive to the ministrations of the liv
ing God. Pharaoh was right. Jos
eph was a man In whom the Spirit of
God abode with power. If God had
not been with him he would have
been overwhelmed with the insistency
of tho importunate invitations of Pot
iphar's wife. Ht God had not given
him grace ho might have used his lib
erty In the prison to have escaped to
a more hospitable soil. If Jehovah
had not vouchsafed to him a more
than common ability to understand
the mind of God he never would have
been able to have predicted the fam
ine that with such oxactness came to
pass.
The power that came to Joseph In
a material way wbb a tribute not to
him, but to the God through whom
he was strengthened and his vision
Pharaoh was no fool.
I H Rfiw with nroialfin lie. rinA I., ,1.1... 1
the man. And so he says, with a
philosophy that is beyond question
and an Insight that Is altogether eom
mendable, "None so discreet and wise
as thou." For God had given Joseph
tho vision.
Another thing that is noticeable la
that Joseph was not unduly puffed
up by the unexpected and unprece
dented Influence that was so suddenly
thrust Into his grasp. It might easily
havo turned his hoad. But the Im
petuous dreamy youth of yesterday
Is now a man. He haa seen much
of the world and he Is cautious.
Called to a special work ho keeps to
that work. He offends none by any
exhibition of pride of position. He
uses his Immense authority for tho
future welfare of the people. In the
days of prosperity he prepares for tho
coming days of adversity. He shep-
winder, costing a dollar and a halt
breaks the chain ring off and thruBts
It In his trousers pocket. It It be
comes clogged with dirt, he squirts a
little oil Into it by way of encour
agement, aud If It proves obstinate
after this treatment he smashes It
with a hammer and buys a new one.
Philadelphia Press.
In Terms of Pig.
The Ingenuity of the Chinese In
surmounting difficulties Is well Illus
trated by tho following dialogue,
which recently took place on the Im
perial Chinese Railway:
Travelor "I wish to ship these
two dogs to Pekln. What is the
rate?"
Railway Official "No got any rate
for dog; one dog all same ona sheep;
one sheep all same two pig; can book
four pig."
"But one dog Is only a puppy; ha
ought to go for half fare."
"Can do, all right." Then, turning
to his clerk, "Write three pig," ho
said. Llpplncott'a.
The town of Paofi, Ind., la named
tot Ueueial Paoll of Corsica, who de
feuded that island against tha
French In favor of the British. Ho
dtifi In Eug.and and haa a moaa
ment In Westminster Abbey.
the people under his rule.
The lesson ought to teach us that
nothing Is Impossible to the man who
lives near to God. It ahould make us
humble, regardless ot tho heights to
which we may gradually or suddenly
attain.
There Is said to be an Increasing de
mand for dredging In Egypt, on ac
count of the drainage works con
templated by tho Egyptian Public
Works department. Machines suited
for use on tho small canals will be
chiefly In request, and manufacturers
of theso are recommended to bring
them forward. A steam water-weed
cutter would also sell well.
1 declare that tho joy of a perfect
abiding love is the greatest this world
contains, and yet, If you Und not this
love, naught will bo lost ot all you
have dona to deserve it; for this
will go to doepen the peace of your
heart, and roudor atlll truer aud
purer tho calm of tho rest of your
days. Maotorliuck.
Just to be true to ono's own prin
ciples, from day to day election day
no less than other days being opou
Blnded always aud hospitable to
new facta, Is lu tho very highest
sense, to live "the life of faith. "
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