I The Puiot A SERMON &Y tAe heV Subject: Pro.'aafty, Rrooklyn. N. Y.- Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg avenue and Weirfteld street, on the theme "Profanity,' the Rev. Trn W Wemmel Henderson, I . pator, took us his text Exodus 20:7, "Thou salt not take the name of the , E Lord thy God In vain." He said: If there Is anything that Is disgust ing It Is unbridled profanity. And the prevalence of useless, pointless, unjustified swearing merits the atten tion not alone of the Church hut al so of the civil authorities whose dutj It Is to keep the moral atmosphere of this and every other community free of verbal pollution. The com mand ought to be obeyed and th civil law on the point ought to be enforced. The slllv fool who spreads the germs of diphtheria or typhoid ot smallpox broadcast throughout th community will soon feel the Iron hand of the law laid heavy on his shoulders and he ought very properly be put under lock and key until san ity has returned; but any man with out a sense of moral respectability ot even elementary decency may satu rate the moral atmosphere, In which we have to live and to rear our youth, with all manner of verbal disease and the average policeman will but smile or perhaps add to the sum total of uncleanness. The man who has such poverty of language and such an ab solute lack of common sense that profanity Is to him the one way to dignify and emphasize the expres sion of Ideas, should he Jailed with that Other man who onrinnvora mm physical henlth. The third command- 1 sounds worse. ment has, we know from experience, a very practical and forcible applica tion to this day. Nowhere may we escape the man of unwholesome speech. Men with gray locks and bovs Just out of kilts, men who should know better and boys who must learn the disgrace of profligate language ' If they are ever to amount to much In 1 life, both anil all are guilty of the i most shameful depravities of speech. I As things stand to-day. no man can 1 rear a child with a pare mind. We walk our streets and curses every- I where till the air and fall upon out ! ears. Does a bona balk the Alnilghtj i Is Invoked to move him. Is the dray man delayed a moment he curses the fellow Just ahead. It is impossible to sit by an open window on any prom inent thoroughfare without belnj morally poisoned. Does the boss In the shop wish to hurry up th men the vilest of language Is the meani 1 he uses to set speed to hand and mind. Not once but hundreds ol : times I have seen foul mouthed In- j spectors, overseers and gang bosses Invoke the maledictions of heaven and hell upon poor dumb t brutes made in CnftMOratM irom start to finish and ind-cncy marks It as her own Out one of the two worst things about profanity Is that It Is Immo ral, root, branch, tree nnl fruit. Ca tering as It does to all that Is low In man. hand and bond servant as It Is to all the hosts of sin, profanity dis integrates the unity of Individual personality. No man can be prolan-' without dishonoring Hod and dam aging himself. We cannot give vent In word to the evil that Is In us without sr-readlng contamination not only through our own lives but also through the lives of men and women all nhout us. Profanttv Is unclean. It strikes at the foundations of mor ality. It undermines the sense of I onor and destroys the faculty of cool, deliberate Judgment: under no Circumstances Is It suscentlble of Justification and Its immorality is un questionably a fact. But the last and the worst r'virgo that may be upheld against profanity Is that It Is ungodly. "Thou shall love the Lord Thy Ood with all thy heart and mind and soul." says our Father . The curse is heartless and II destroys our finer faculties no we give It time. Cndcr Its blighting In fluence the power of mental annre- i elation of the glories of God will be i lost. It Is soulless to the last ex : treme. How ran a man be godly : while cursing the children of Cod ' In the name of the Father who has ' given them life How can a man i be godly when the springs of sin are rushing from his mouth? Ah. no! j Profanity Is ungodly. It shames Cod I nnd disgraces man. It reviles the I Father and degrades His sons. God J Is good but profanity is evil. Col Is ' kind but the curse is verbal murder. I Cod is truth but the curse cares not for truth. Unnecessary, unmanly, Indecent, ' Immoral and ungodly profanity Is I the most frequent as the most Insidi ous of the sins of the tongue. And I yet bad as it Is when used by men, it Is most abhorrent when coming from the lips of a woman. Not that It Is morally any worse, but that It If you really want to become positively assured of the borridness of profamity you need but hear a woman curse. We need to-day a strl"t Insistence upon cleanliness of language. No man can be a friend of Jesus who Is ungodly in his talk. Christ proved divinely the possibility of forceful speaking without the use of profan ity. A:id to-day men aj'e most force ful, most manly, most eonvlnclug when they do not swear. tPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, JUNE 30. Pull Your Deal l' Stream. To drift with the current or to pull against It this Is the problem which Is born anew with each new day. Some of our daily duties are easy to perform. We turn to them as easily and naturally as water seeks a level. There Is no conscious ex penditure of will-power. There Is no resistance in our nature that must be overcome. But these are the du ties of the day in whose performance there Is found the least merit. Fortunately tor us we canr.r.t, or at least dare not, always drift. Each Hav bna ftq tasks which test the will uriven , an(j trv ,i,e heart. Their perfovm- The Evils of Commercialism Mark 5. 1-17.. Passages for Reference: Jer. 44. 15-18; Acts 19. 20. I Deut 11. 26-28; Prov. 29. 2. In the story of the demoniac who saj healed, and the attitude of the owners of the swine that were lost la the sea, we have a sad revelation Of human nature, and an exemplifi cation of our subject. It shows us that human nature Is the same in all ages, and that the commercia lism that we are alarmed about In these days had Its beginning far back In hUtory. They had no objec tion to the demoniac being healed, but they did not want It at their ex pense. If the coming of Jesus to their borders meant any loss of money to them they wanted him to go, no matter how many men were put In their right minds by his com ing. The same thing is found in the story In Acts. The sllvorsmlths made their living out of the manu facture of idols Images of Great Diana of the Epheslans. When Paul preached the vanity of Idols, and men forsook their Idol worship, It meant no sale for their goods. Their business would be affected. Accordingly they became angry with the one who proclaimed the gospel. Commercialism is the spirit of the age. It Is the spirit that measures everything with a money standard. It la the money-mad spirit of the times which measures success In dollars and cents. The great aim of men In these days Is to make money. It Is not money that Is wrong. It Is not Itself an evil. But tho "live of money" Is the root of evil. The passion for money seems to hold some men In Its grip a3 firmly as other men are bound by the appe tite for strong drink. This spirit is at the basis of most of the evils of our day. We know how men are willing to traffic in the bodlea ot men through the saloon nnd the bro thel In order that they may fill their coffers with money. Little do they care that by doing it they are con signing their victims to eternal de struction. Such a spirit in The community ennnot help being a menace to the welfare of men. Commercialism does not "seek first the kingdom of God," but seeks first for money. Not In the form of the calf, as In olden times, but In the form of money, gold be comes men's god. It is too desir able for anything to stand In the way. Principles of the kingdom are if no account when this passion seizes upon men. Ensilage. Is It proper to feed enstlago to poultry in winter? S. W. E., Phila delphia. Answer: Chickens will eat ensilage to a certain extent dur ing tho winter months; they love to scratch among It, and eat a little, but waste more than tbey eat. Corn en stlago Is not considered a valuable food for poultry. Whon enstlago Is recommended for fowls, the writers usually refer to that made from grass, clover, rye or other like green etuff. Formerly they used to store away ensilage of this kind to feed to poultry and other stock. Very short-cut clover or alfalfa hay Is much better than ensilage of any k kind. Cut this in half-Inch lengths I and throw It In the houses, and they will consume nil except stems and wood fiber Mangel-wurzel, the largo sweet beet, Is often grown, cut and fed to poultry In winter. Country Gentleman. A Fountain For Clilclcs. Thn accompanying Illustration shows the kind I use, and which an swers the purpose admirably, Take a tin can any size required, punch a large sized nail-bole near the top and Invert Into some shallow vessel that will serve as a saucer. I use earthen flower pot saucers. Fill can with water, place saucer on top, bottom side up, then Invert. Care should be taken to have hold In can a little lower than edge of saucer, and tho water will rise In saucer only to level of hole, If can Is airtight above water. me image ot tne , . . ,i.,0,mioi!nn Tuta?0til "Jey 'stralShten l They afford the test discipline nnd m.n ;. V ( 1 develop the latent powers of the soul ' I Inclination Is nut always In fact, no tuuioc luvse eiy llltll will le you that they have no desire to dis honor God nor to offend our moral sensibilities. They lay it to habit thoughtlessness and a hundred othet causes. I am convinced myself thai much of the Swearing of the day Is due to thoughtlessness rather than to wilful sin. And yet I have seen the same men take more libertle? with the name of Almighty God than I would allow them to take or they would dare to take with my name either thoughtlessly or wilfully. Thoughtlessness is no excuse. God gave us brains and tongues, und It is our duty to exercise our wills and to use our tongues for the expres sion of worthy thpught alone. Of course men don't think, that is to say, the most of them do not, for if they did swearing would go by the board to a short and sure death. To plead thoughtlessness In extenuation of sin is to play the baby-act. Men should think and cm the cursing out. Th e third commandment has solid sense behind it, as have all of God's commands. The misuse of the name of God, or of the name of our Lord, profanity, swearing, cursing, all should be abhorred for several good and sufficient reasons. Profanity is unnecessary, unmr-nly, Indecent, immoral, ungodly. Thtra are five good reasons why It should be put aside. Profanity is unnecessary. A curse never prove a point. It rather dem onstrated the paucity of thought of the swearer. Oaths never convince a person of tne validity or strength of an argument, but tbey do show up the poverty of language of the man who uses them. Curses never made any workman do better work; they have, however, been the excuse for many a murder. Sense and no swear words will unravel many a perplex ing problem. The name ot God Is to bo hallowed not hooted on the streets. The name of Jesus is wor thy ot reverence and adoration; its misuse damns not the man who is maligned but the curser. There is no problem In life that can not bo solved without curses. Sense, indus try, wise reasoning and good Judg ment will settle any difficulty. Pro fanity is useless, unnecessary and wholly unprofitable. Then, too, profanity Is unmanly. Mnny boys seem to have the Idea that the one sure sign of manliness is to be able to swear with vigor, pro ficiency and volume. There never was u greater mistake in the world. Instead of being a sign of manliness it Is a sure mark of moral instability and bad manners. It reflects small credit either upon the youth himself or upon the family whom he repre sents. For an educated youth it is a denial of the value of education and mental growth. In any man, ed ucated or ignorant, It is degrading and altogether unmanly. Manliness la purity, efficiency, power, forceful ness. The curse Is Impure, inef ficient either for expression or proof, powerless to do productive work, forceful in no way. By these tests It Is unmanly. Profanity Is indecent. That which is decent U befitting, becoming, hon orable. I will leave It to the Judg not often a true test of the thing we ought to do first. Sometimes it has b??n a source of wonder to find a preacher very . eady In the use of language, and yet mak ing no headway In his chosen profes sion. In more than one case the ex planation has been found In a dislike of study and reading on his part. Tj talk has been with him as easy as to drift. To study well, he has been unwilling to pull against the current, and be has failed. To pull against the current devel ops mtiBcle. lung and nerve. It In creases the power of resistance and endurance. To do the thing we dis like because we ought to do It, Is to give the will the place It deserves to occupy. H Is to make conscience a master, and make us conscious of our own powe . The hills of God are up -..ream, not down. The mount of victory !s never reached by drifting. The ay of success lies In the "pull;" not th vulgar "pull" of the financier and politician, but the pull against the current. Pittsburg Christian Advocate. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVQR NOTES JUNE THIRTIETH. To Obtain a Dairy Herd. Professor Erf, of Kansas Station, tells how to obtain n profitable dairy heid, as follows: Dy keeping n yenr ly record, weighing the milk and making a fat test every seventh week, it will not be long before you have an Idea which cow you should sell. Reduce the herd down to those that pay. Improve the conditions that surround the cows; make their milk making condition comfortable; venti late and lighten the stable. Study the principles of scientific feeding; don't be scared at the Idea of doing a little hard reading and study. Learn the principles of right feeding for milk. Get a bull of some decided dairy breed; buy n good one; com mence to raise well-bred dairy heifers and develop them Into good profit making cows. Half of the cows were not born to produce milk profitably. They are the product of tho uncow like Ideas of the men who produced them. There was no thought or brain work put into their breeding. How can they do any better? Any man who will travel the road we have In dicated will In a short time see a wonderful difference In the profit of his dairy labor and then he will see that It is mighty Important to know his cows and what their butter costs. Device For Binding Fodder. A. H. Denison, Kansas, writes In one of our exchanges and suggests a plan for binding fodder. He uses a lever between two small uprights, A and B, as shotfn In Illustration. The loose fodder Is pressed Into the open ing between A and B und by down ward movement of levor Is pressed Helped by Our Company. There are some men and mm . women In whose company we are al ! ways at our best. While with them I we cannot think mean thoughts ot j speak ungenerous words. Thjir mere presence is elevation, purification, j sanctity. All the best stops in our 1 nature are drawn out by their In I tercourse, and we find a music in our soul that was never there I e I fore. If to live with men diluted to the millionth degree with the Wrtue of the Highest can exalt and purify the nature, what bounds can be set j to the Influence of Christ? Profes ' sor Drummond. Care of Human Prodigals. Whatever retribution God has for I men on the other side of the grave I means lpvc, not hate; it means re- form, discipline, redemption, not l damnation. God is a shepherd. No sheep will wander from His fold In any world that He will not seek, and eooner or later find and bring back. I God is a Father. We may trust Him I forever, sure that He will watch and I wait with deathless love, until the ! last prodigal among His human chil dren comes home. J. T. Sunderland. Heights of Prosperity. Believer, remember, heights of prosperity are safe, If only God be with you. and the vale of adversity is healthful to tho soul. If God talcs ycu down Into it. Gordon Hall. Cliikl Offenders In France. Sociologists In France are begin ning somewhat late In the day to In terest themselves In the question of child dellnquence. There Is a child prisoners' paternal society, which owes its origin to the humanity of an lnspector-gvneral of prisons, but Its effectiveness Is limited by many1 clr curnstaiu tat, nad at last the organized unnlf., frtr Ilia V.CVVW.t Inn r.9 ...l.nn ment of the citizens of this or any I ,,, ,. nll ,...,... i . city to dwido b much swearing , llen,ttn(1 for raa,ca, eh.nnm ln .,, treatment of Juvenile offenders. They do not quite go the length of calling for special tribunals, but, short of that, special sessions for dealing with such cases and atringent precautions for guarding the young prisoner from contamination, especially by adults, are claimed. London Globe. befits a norma rational human bo ing. urentures or reason mi we are. we find thut the curse tiles In the face of sober thought. Used as we are to logical processes we find the curse devoid of logic. Profanity 'reeks with sulphur and sends Satuit to our hearts. It Is utterly unbe fitting and unbecoming, i To say that It 1b dishonorable Is Just to begin the damning count against profanity. The curse Is with out honor for it Is used only to spread dishonor. It looks never toward God but rather' uses His name to lnvok the aid of the powers of hell. It la There Is not a single English peer among the Law Lords. The final Court of Appeal is composed at pres I eut entirely of Irishmen and Soots-men. The sons of Ham. Gen. 10: 1-9. Woe on Ethiopia. Isa. 18: 1-6. A fulfilled prophecy. Ezek. 29: 814. A query. Jer. 13: 23-25. A kind African. Jer. 38: 7-13. . Africa's future. Ps. 68; 31-35. Foreign missions: Christ in Africa. Isa. 43: 1-13. God is calling each separate Afri can to Himself; and He Is calling us ! to repeat the call. Missionaries to Africa have had to : pass through fire and water; no I other mission fields have so many martyrs to disease. What event Is happier than the ! homecoming? And the missionary brlng's God's sons and daughters from the ends of the earth. Among all the lordly offices of ) earth there Is none more lordly than ' to be a Witness for Jehovah. Africa has now 2,470 missionaries, ' with 13,089 native assistants. Thero ' are 4.7S9 places of regulur worship, 221,156 church members and 327,790 professing Christians. There are ln Africa 3,937 mission ary schools, with 202,390 pupils. Thero are 95 hospitals and dispensar ies, 16 publishing houses and print ing establishments. In Africa north of the equator Egypt has more missionaries than any other region; the West Coast countries come next. ln South Africa Cape Colony has the largest number of missionaries, though Transvaal and Uganda have the largest number of native assist ants. Fifty years ago Krapf, the mission ary, was laughed at for his dream of a chain ot missions across Central Africa from ocean to ocean. Now his dream has some true. Thirty yoarB ago Uganda was a pagan state where savagery was ram pant. Now, as tho result of a most heroic struggle, of its 700,000 inhabi tants, 376,000 are strong Christians. In Cape Colony, where Moravian missionaries tried to work nearly two centuries ago, they were treated as criminals for attempting to teach the blacks. Now Cape Colony alone has 700,000 Protestant Christians, and 200, 000 of these are colored. Strange Russian II' nil. Probably the most extraordinary band on earth is that which Is sta tioned ln the Imperial Palace at Mos cow, says Tlt-Blts. A famous composer was recently taken Into a darkened room to hear one of his new compositions played by this band. The composer was mystified until the lights were raised, when 200 soldiers were revealed, each with a horn or trumpet In his hand, varying in size from one and one-half Inches to twenty feel. Esch Instrument mid eac'.i performer pro duct only a single note, but the playing was so perfect thut the sound was just as if from one grand instru niant played upon by a master. bund. HUMAN NATURE. "Why are guests so habitually dis contented?" asked the landlord. "They're not really discontented," answered the clerk. "They merely wunt to convey a favorable impres sion about what they are used to at ' inne." Washington Star. A SAFE PRpPOSITIOM. Caller "I'd think that your fain er'a dutlea as building inspector would be awfully dangerous, going round unsafe buildings-" Small Son of the House "Oh, no; be doesn't go near 'em till after they fall down." Life. L-J'' ,-TT! ; The Fodder Binder. Into a small compass. The band is then readily adjusted. The whole de vice is supported by the square piece, C, so that it may be moved from place to place. We do not know to what extent this will prove entirely practi cal, but It is possible that It will sug gest a useful Idea to some of our readers. Feeding Grain in Shenf. There Is quite a saving of labor when the hens can be made to do a portion of the work for themselves. A poultryman who has excellent suc cess finds It more profitable to feed sheaf oats and sheaf wheat than to thrash the grain for the hens. He states that when ho' throws one or two sheafs on the floor the hens are compelled to work to get the grain. They do not cease their operations when they have secured all ot the grain, but continue to get more if they can, and work the straw over and over. He always cuts the bands and mixes the sheafs. Now, that is an Idea that is not new to some and it is not known to all. It shows how easily ono may provide work for the hens and also save labor to a certain extent. Tho fowls are always willing to work for the food received If not given to them in a manner which requires no effort on their part. It is not inferred that such a mode of feeding Is the best, as the hens should have something more than grain. Where one must purchase grain, let It be thrown In cut straw, so that each hen can work and get her share, instead of one domineering hen se curing the larger portlou. Weekly Witnoaa, Coltl or Catarrh. This complaint is one of the com monest and Is very frequent among young stock. Although not serious, If taken early, It Is a great nulsante and retards growth. Late hatched chickens are more subject to It than early and more hardy stock, u generally goes through the majority of the young birds, and Is very catch ing, but if the first bird affected can be killed at once the complaint. If nipped ln the bud. The symptoms are a slight watery discharge from the nostrils, which, If neglected, be comes thicker, and ln course of time develops Into roup. The eyes are often Inclined to be watery and puffy. All affected birds should be removed to the "hospital pen," and there fed chiefly on good, nourishing, soft food, but little grain, and pleuty of green Huff. Add to the drinking water aconita or sulphate of Iron. Each bird should l,o handled daily and the noBtrlls washed out with some antl heptlc phi nyle und water -always taking care to thoroughly dry off all molsturf. Under this treatment birds improve rapidly, but with some It If Impossible to get rid of tie- affection qulokly. A thin, watery fluid con tinues to exude from the nostrils. The birds that get worse and develop roup might as well be killed off at once. Journal ot Agriculture. Another Important and desirable fea ture Is to have a platform on which to place the fountain, elevated four or five inches above floor, and to which the chicks ascend by moans of foot boards, as shown In rut. They read ily learn to go up for their water, and seem to enjoy It. Some advantages of such an arrangement are clearly foreseen. The chicks are not ln dan ger of drowning, cannot get lata tho water so easily or otherwise foul It, and so are supplied with pure, clean water with less labor than is ordinar ily required. J. Cotterman, In The Epltomlst. Poultry ns a Huslncss. Very few keep poult ly as a busi ness. And of those who have large flocks, not many go at It In a busl-ness-Uke manner. Writing on this subject to tho Poultry Standard, Mr. James Shack leton says: Heretofore, poultry have not gen erally been kepV In a buslness-ltke way, etcept ln a sense so by fanciers and breeders of standard birds for sale. Generally the rest of poultry keepers do not ln any sense keep fowls ln a business way. It is up to everybody to do this, and It means the stoppage of all leakages, taking advantage of every possible improve ment, working in all ways for the most there is in fowls. That cannot be done by considering any hen as good as any other hen, nor by hap hazard matings, nor by hatching every egg because it is an egg, nor by rearing chicks so half of them die and the rest are not more than half the ultimate worth they might be. But all over the United States men are taking up poultry, at least as a side line, men who have learned that to succeed well ln any business needs strenuously open mlpds, active minds and absolute attention to details. They know well enough that go-as-you-please poultry keeping must be about as silly as go-as-you-pjease in any business. To my mind these men, or some of them, are likely to supply striking object lessons that others cannot well Ignore. But these men are not tho kind that will take any trouble at all to tell others how they succeed when they succeed; their point to view is that the other fellow must struggle up as they have done. That 1b the modern way of finding the men that can and will do things, and no better, way 1b possible, for that they look on such work as writings like this as a ridiculous waste of time, for they say the aver age person Is asleep or half asleep and remains so. Do you want to be of the class of whom this may prop erly be said? Do you want to keep hens so they cannot lay more than half of what they should? Do you want to keep hens that cannot be made to lay as much as others? Do you want to hatch eggs that, even If fertile, cannot produce thrifty chicks? If you wIbIi to get started on the road to business poultry keeping, you have to consider the hen as a valua ble bird, potentially capable of mak ing more money for you from the same Investment than any other le gitimate investment; there 1b more than Is possible from any investment ln dairy cows, however well tho cows be kept, however good as milkers the cows may be. Better than sheep or hogs, or any crop. This does not mean that the hen Is to displace any thing, but Just that she shall be con sidered and treated as a valuable as set that It Is beneath nobody's dignity to handle well. You will have to get trap-nests, and use them. You will have to act Intelligently ln all that trap-nests will show to you. You will have to learn what constitutes a good bird, male or female, and breed only from such. There is no other way than this, there cannot be any other way. Then you have to revise all your ideas about housing fowls. They need fresh air, all there is, and not to be shut up In tight bouses, winter or summer. With Oats and Fens. If I Bhould sow a field this Bprlng with oats, peas, grasB seed and clover, und should cut the oats and peas early and cure them for hay, could I yxpect to secure a crop ot hay (tim othy and clover) the same season by top-dressing this field with manure after the oats and peas wore cut off? Would the peas crowd out and kill the grass seed? J. H. G., Benning ton, Vt. Answer: When the season Is moist and the oats und peas do well, they completely shade the ground and the grass seed would hardly do well In the dark. As a matter of fact, oats and peas are sometimes used to kill weeds because of the density of the growth. It may be that on some fields, in some years, the seeding woull eaten all right and give pasture after the oats und peaa were harvested, but It would bo the exception rather than the rule. Bet ter get the peas and outs In early, harvest them for hay when the peaa are over the bloasom and uot quite big enough for cooking, then sow the field with millet, selecting Hungarian grass It after July 4, common mlllat if between the middle of June and July 1, and German or golden millet It before the middle ot June. The Country Centlemao- WORDS OF WISDOM. No doctor can cure what alls you if you have a mean ('.Isposition. No, Alonzo, a swollen head doesn't necessarily cover a broad mind. A man Is never too ousy to listen when the lady on the dollar talks. Trouble seldom troubles a man that is able to keep his mouth shut. Nature never made a mistake not even when a woman was created. While man wants but little here below, he never gets quite enough. Vanity will continue to flourish as long as it Is able to feed on itself. Our idea of a selfish person is one who is unable to remember a tavor. One way to acquire popularity Is by keeping your troubles to yourself. It Isn't always the people who Jolly you most that are your best friends. After a fool has cut off his nose to spite his face he doesn't blow .bout It. It keeps tho Lord busy snatching us from dangers we are too blind to see. Somo lawyers have the knack of converting poo:' advice into good coin. Occasionally opportunity looks a man up for the purpose ot downing him. The sorest disappointment of an airship inventor is his Inability to soar. Some men make It their business to Interfere with the business uf others. Even the man who Is looking for a soft thing draws the line at a padded cell. Men wish they didn't nave any harder times than boys think tbey are having. At the age of twenty-one most men are too young to realize that they don't know it all. Bakers' Helper. They Looked Queer. John Sharp Wlllinnia once ran afoul of Tom Reed. This Is the way be tells the story of himself: "I met Mr. Reed coming out of the cloak room, and be said to mo in that pe culiar drawl of his: 'Williams, what ever makes you such a bitter parti san?' 'Well, Mr. Speaker, that's pret ty good, coming from you, isn't it?' I replied. 'Never mind me,' ho re plied. 'But why are you such a bit ter partisan? 'Well, I'll tell you,' I said. 'You know I never saw a Re publican until I was thirty-eight years old, and I can't get used to them, somehow.' Ha looked at me reproachfully, and walked away with out another word." Kansas City Star. Vital Forces of Civic Betterment i Hy the Editor of American Homes nnd Gardens. Civic betterment, municipal embel lishment, public art call It what you wlll--ls the newest and latest form of artistic endeavor. And It might truthfully be called 'the most popular, for such It seems to be in many senses. Certainly It Is the form of art most now talked about, and if the results achieved to dato have not been ln direct proportion to the discussion It has caused, that has boon more due to the brief period under which It hns been discussed and the many practical difficulties that attend realization than for any other reasons. The agencies which are now in terested In civic betterment are rtry numerous. Many of them have no art Interest whatever, but are cdu cerncd with practical matters ot health and sanitation which are ob viously of greater Importance than nny questions of beauty or pure em beii' ament. Transportation Inter ests are also vitally Interested in civic betterment, Interested not only for the Improvement of existing facil ities, but Interested aleo ln the future growth ot the localities they are serving, whoae own future will de pend so largely upon them. Tho artistic aspect of civic better ment Is, as a matter of course, its least important side, the side least needed, which ministers lenst to tho citizens' necessities, and which, never having been very prominent in con temporary life, seems the one aspect that can be most easily spared. Yet this is the aspect that has been most prominently brought forward and has been most insisted upon. On the whole this has been a very fortunate circumstance. It Is the artistic, the visible aspect of civic betterment that has won Its greater number of sup porters. People who could not see the value of a certain kind of sewage disposal which they would never see could Immediately recognize the merits of a public work of art which they could see stood up for the edification of all beholders. There has been no loss ln the Insist ence of the art point of view ln the betterment campaigns. It has added a host of Interested supporters to the movement, and given It a distinction It might otherwise never have had. Historically the artistic elements stand easily first, for the whole agi tation began ln urging the claims of a better outward appearance and In setting forth the merits of certain works of art which were desired for certain localities. It was-very early seen that the setting up ot a single monument, the purchase of a paint ing, the plea for more beautiful flower gardens, and other like sug gestions, were not sufficient. Public betterment, It was found, must be general betterment. Those Interest ed ln public health urged the greater importance of their own specialty which they Justly thought should be developed before any funds, public or private, were expended on orna mental and artistic matters. The movement for civic betterment has, therefore, taken on a very much broader view than at first seemed possible. It Is now concerned, prac tically, with every public aspect of civic life. And what Is yery much more valuable, most of the vital forces which are related to this work are now more or less closely Joined ln it. The beginnings of a great work have been well started ln ur effective way. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM. MI'NTS FOR JUNE .10. HY THE kiiv. I. w. NNDKRSOlf. Subject: Temponinre Lesson, 1 Cor. I0:23-8a Oolden Text: Rom. 14:21 Memory Verse, .It Commentary on Day's Lesson. The Oolden Text says: "It Is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth." And this Is the key note of the lesson. It Is the true Christian principle. It Is the law of life which makes us enquire not what are our rights, but what aro our du ties. Everything in this life that God has created Is for tho use and the culture of the Christian when It Is kept In Its proper place. But If In tho providence of God it Is neces sary for us to give up our prerog atives ln order that some brothop may be saved from the abuse of that which ln Itself is harmless we are admonished by the scripture and by nil the evidence of worthy experience as Christian men and women that we act wisest when we renounce our rights In order that men may be kept from sin. Tho only safe rule for the Indi vidual ln America with its rush and Its hurry and Its tendency to go to extremes. Is total abstinence for the Individual and total abolition of the legalized saloon. For under present conditions the danger too sadly Is that men shall be led out of moderate drinking into Immoderation. As our social system 1b constituted to-day we cannot gainsay the fact that the liquor business ln this country is a positive danger to the commonwealth. Granted for the sake of argument that liquor hns Its proper place in the world and we must still admit that it has proven itself to be a treacherous enemy of the man who Is most careful and painstaking ln Its use. Granted that It Is a busi ness that has a proper place In the economic system of this or any other day and wo are bound to admit if we are careful thinkers that as it is run to-day It Is a real menace to the character of multitudes of men and the source of Individual and so cial wickednesses that are as unspeak able in many of their phases as they are multifarious. The curse of strong drink must be uprooted by modern civilization or It will Itself undo the mighty and glori ous progress of this age. No civili zation that Is not sober can long ex ist. No Individual that, is sodden with strong drink can maintain his integ rity and his value to the society of which he is a part. No nation can forget its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of Its citizens and long retain a place among the (lowers. Righteousness exalteth both nations and Individuals. But drunkenness Is the death of individual nnd national honor and prosperity. The only way ln which we can hope to battle successfully against the drink habit and the saloon is by edu cating our youth. Many agencies are at work in the effort to consummate this meritorious achievement. Per haps there is none other that is so well fitted to accomplish this very thing as Is the Youth's Temperance Alliance of America, an Institution of the conservative National Temper ance Society, under the guidance of the Rev. Alexander Alison, D. D., of which the writer became informed the other day. It is peculiarly happy ln its name, its leader and Its plan of operation. It is distinctly a work for the Sunday Schools. As such It may be of interest to the Sunday School reader. The labors of this institution are to be confined entirely to the educa tion of boys and girls before the age of twouty-one. An article in the Christian Work recently published by Dr. Alison has this In part to say: "If we are to solve this Jlquor prob lem 'and secure total abstinence ln the Individual as. well as ln the State we must do it by votes. There Is only one way of getting these votes; -that way Is God's way. In the high moral field of temperance activity the ways of the politician will not avail. You cannot secure by purchase the votes that are the outcome of con science. The motion toward the poll ing booth which Is born of the sense of 'ought' and 'ought not' Is the mo tion, that, in its action, Is decided and permanent, because It is born of prin ciple. It is built upon the solid rock of character. To secure conscientious exercise ot the franchise we must begin with the child. The boy must be trained. Tho culture must not be spasmodic; It must be steady; It must be persistent. We must Btay by the youth at every step until he be j "m. an American citizen." Space will not permit to describe ln full the modus operandi. A per usal of the article ln the issue of the Christian Work for April G, page 450, might be valuable. It Is strictly ln line with the lesson for to-day and It Is eminently the method of the church. The high ground of the Christian church must always be, on every thing else bb well as on the sub ject ot temperance, that It will re fuse to lend its sanction in any fash ion to anything that la destructive to the morals and minds ot humanity, or that tends to defraud men ot their blrtbrlghtB as the sons ot God. The church cannot afford to put a stum bling block ln the way of any man. And It must teach Its youth that this Is the will of God for private aa well as for organized life. Far bet ter Is it that we should deny our selves than that any man should suf fer through our unworthlness. It religion Is not for all of a man It Is not for aught ln man. Great Cat Fanciers. A French writer who has been de voting considerable time to tbe study ot the cat as a pet has discovered in the course of his- researches that among great Frenchmen who bad a particular fondness for pussy were Richelieu, who kept' a score oi tha graceful little creatures; BauoWlalre, Chuuteaubriand, Beranger and Victor Hugo. Tasso had a fondness tor them, while Petrarch, ufter so far departing from the spiritual tons of his sonnets to Laura as to half-cherish the thought of suicide at her death, finally found consolation ln the treacherous caresses of a cat, whose skeleton Is still on exhibition at the Mjesum of Padua. Discovery. QUITE ENOUGH. Mrs. Crlmsonbuak "Don't you think a man ought to tell hla wlfa rerythingt Mr. Crlmsonbeak "No; only as much as ha thluka the natxhburi ought to know." Yonkera States-man.
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