THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SEDMON BY THE REV. F. BOYO EDWARDS. Subject: Personality. F. of Wllllnmstown. Mnss. TTip Rev Boyd Edwards, assistant pastor the South Congregational Churrh, Brooklyn, who grndunted from tho college hero seven years ago, was the college prparhpr Sunday. His sub ject was: "Pprsonallty Its Influ ence and Secret." TIip text was from I Thesaaloninns, 5:23: "And the very flod of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray Ood your whole plrlt and soul and body be pre served blameless unto the coming of our t.ord Jesus Christ." Mr. Ed wards said Huxley declared thnt If some grt-Ht power would gutrantoe to enable bini always to speak what Is true and do what Is right, on condition of his be ing turned Into a sort of clock and wo n 1 up every morning, he would Instantly close with the ofTpr. Would you? I think not one man In a hun drpd would. Why not? Because we havo instinctive aversion to doing Violence to the greatest thing In the world. And what is that? Drum mond said "Lore." Let us look at It a little. Consider Helen Kellar. born to Im prisonment In the dungeon of her own mere selfhood deaf, blind, inutp. Miss Sullivan, by patient and inspired service, released her from that imprisonment, led her slowly out Into the light and glory of life. The something which made Miss Sul livan eager and able to render this beautiful service was love. But In point ot greatness even thnt high and beneficent quality Is absolutely in comparable with Helen Kellar her elf. The greatest thing In the world is personality. Love is but a part of it. supplementing and crowning Its other parts, all beauty and majesty of physique, all vigor and grit anil courage, all mental keenness, reach, grasp and decision, all the subtle graces of mind and heart, high spirit ual vision and deep Insight, all puri ty, dignity and serene poise of spirit. These combine to make what we name personality. I.ook about you in a railway car riage, a hotel lobby, a great college grandstand. Your eye passes llghtlv over 100 men. The one hundred and flrrt holds it. You may not know who he is, nor ever have seen him be fore, but straightway you say to yourself, he is somebody. Something about him distinguishes him. gives him a manifest significance, like the evident value of a gold coin. That something is personality and ;t is self-revealing. Take Webster, for Instance. They raid when he walked in Beacon street the houses looked smaller. Sidney Smith called him the greatest living lie. because no body could possibly be so great as he looked. Edward Everett declared that when he was earnestly speaking sparks of fire leaped In his eyes. A bust of him, exhibited by a European sculptor, was mistaken for a head of Jove. Or note how Emerson says that "William of Orange won a sub ject away from the King of France every time he put off his hat," so no ble was his bearing. A Boston news paper reported that on a certain day Washington street was dark and gloomy, until Phillips Brooks passed, whereupon the brightness returned. One might have profited almost as much by a look Irto Emerson's face as by reading' his books. Just a glimpse of Napoleon f tho hour of battle doubled the fighting force of those who saw him. Often one can tell by the author's likeness in frontispiece ot a book whether it's worth while to go any further. The halo in art is far fuore than a me chanical contrivance to denote saint- I hood. It witnesses to the fact that j true men carry an atmosphere; they are fairly luminous. The captain of ' an athlotlc team, if well chosen, takes rank not by virtue of superior play- ! ing or technical knowledge of the i game, hut because there Is about him a quality which makes his vim and spirit contagious. Church committees looking for a new minister pass by a score of pos- slble ellgibles and choose the twenty- I first. The others were as good I preachers, as thorough scholars, as I faithful pastors, but the elect one possesses this rare and compelling something we call magnetism, which I is but a vague term Indicating per- j sonallty. The speaker who possesses It often Influences his audience al most as much, while he stands silent before theui for a moment, as during the hour of his speaking. This is the quality which accounts for the say ing; "You have to like Mr. Roosevelt after you have met him " Person ality! no other creation equals or approaches It. Indeed, when Jeho vah accerdited Moses as His ambas sador to the court of Pharaoh, He commanded as the chief authority: "Tell him f Am sent you." Now, then, since personality Is the greatest thing In the world, what is the chief duty of man? I answer, deliberately: To honor, develop, ex press and Invest that personality. This Is not egotistic and selfish. God guve man thin personality as his tool, the finest, nooleat. chief Implement with which to make his mark on the world, serve his kind and honor his Maker When the old bishop of the Methodist Church was examining a group of candidates tor the ministry, he aBked them: "Are you billing to be a nobody in Christ's service?" And every last one of thorn piously (as he thought) answered yes.1 "Then you're a poor lot!" exclaimed, the bishop. And so they were. That if a kind of humility which is not' Christian, because It is not only un productive, but contemptible. Christ's man khould be willing to take any humble station, but wherever he may be, always determined by Uod's grace to to live, to lal'or, to fight, and to pray ihat as the servant of the Mos: Hbj he shall weigh every ounce he 'can, strike blows that hit hard, and mean to his time all thnt he can pos ibly signify. B-in..; a Christian man is being all a niun can be. Holiness is near kin to haltuess. which nisans health, and I huleness closw kin to wholeness, which ptcani Integrity, soundness, couipl-'lenetw. Christian life is not giving up, but growing up, not ,op plng off, but looming up, Its true note Is not ascetic, but athletic, and when Christ announced that He came that men might have life more abun dantly, He did not mean longer life, but life overflowing, rich in content and extent, with far horizons and Vide outlook. Just this Browning emphasizes when he says: Ood given ruch man one life, like t, Isinn, Then give that lamp due measure of oil; Lamp lighted, hold high, wave wide AH very fine, you say, for the man who happens to have been endowed with personality: But how about the hundred men who do not strlko an observer as being somebody, who havpn't the gift of personal m.igno tlsm? Well, my answer Is that per sonality is not all endowment; It may be acquired, or more accurately yet, developed. When the spring comes and the sun's rays fall more warmly, the grass and leaves begin to grow. There are seeds In the ground and life-dormant and waiting to be stirred. The sun might shine a mil lion years, hot as midsummer, and without, those seeds lying there wnlt Ing, no fair garment of verdure would ever clothe the bare, brown body of earth. And vice versa. Just so, wo notice now and again n former stenographer and private secretary to presidents becomes a Cabinet offi cer. Partly it Is from native endow ment, and partly from the wakening Influence of association with great men. Character Is not taught, but caught; not fully Inborn, nor spring ing, full armed, like Mlnorva from Jove's head, but. wakened, roused, kindled by the contagious touch of another of a little longer develop ment, and maybe, of larger growth. Yet after all. this Is the fine funda mental truth of life. Every man Is of unlqu" value, has a rare gleam of virtue for hlr own, his point of view, his individual work and message, which no other man ran have had. Ills business in life is to live that out, build It up, utter It. make It ef fective. How shall ho do It? By getting out where the sun can strike down to those seeds that are waiting In him; that means: make helpful friendships, listen to wise teachers, j keep high company with men who have deeps and heights about them. Head Paul's prayer written to the i men in Thessalonlca: The very God of peace sanctify you wholly (set you apart, distinguish you In every great way), nnd I pray God your whole , body, soul nnd spirit be kept without blemish even In the presence of Christ. Faithful Is he who hath 1 promised, who also will do It." Just to this point was Emerson speaking when he said: "Fellow God. nnd where you go men shall think they walk In hallowed cathedrals." Phil lips Brooks puts it: "The Influence of a man whose heart God hath touched Is like a breeze of fresh air let Into a heated and stifling room." You are a lamp of three wicks body, soul (mind) and snlrlt. Let Ood light them (most lilely He has alrcnny); i now you turn them up; keen them trimmed, let them blaze wherever : you are. throwing out your cheer, your light, your beacon message in your time. Then, "ns one flame kln dleth another nor groweth less there by," so shall your life kindle, waken, rouso others. ' In every-day terms, what does It mean? My body: honor It, build It up. keep It undishonored. By noble uses, make It to become u sanctuary. Build then more Stately mansions, oh my soul. While the swift SSSSOflS roll, , Leave thy low-vaulted past. , Let ench new temple nobler than the Inst, Shut thee from heaven by a dome more vast. Till thou at lenjth art free, i Leaving thine outgrown shell lty life's unresting sea. My mind; meditate, store It with I true thoughts, pure thoughts, thoughts fit to treasure up; let It keep company with the noblest men of the nges, whose wisdom, vision and proUtable experience may be I made my own by an hour's reading every day; let me prepare myself to I recognize, appreciate, respond to and i j succeed fhe truest, most devoted and 1 helpful spirits of all tho days past ' and present, nnd finally keep my eyes on the stainless peaks where Christ Is. My spirit; how great a word it Is! i All generous impulses, all chivalrous i motives, all noble aspirations, all I love of beriutv nnd truth nnd JnMm J'8 I r.ess; every hatred of weakness and i wrong, every fine portrait of mem j ory and Ideal! Oh, match this spirit with all the best about you; open It to mm who knows what is In man, and who alone has grace to bestow :.nd loving power of mastery to de velop your unawakened best. And always remember how He reckons In the : earnings, the unuttered and un utunible aspirations there: All instincts immature, all purposes un sure. That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount, Thoughts hardly to be packed into a single moil AUGUST FOURTH. The consecration of our bodies. 1 Cor. 6: 19, 20; Rom. 12: 1, 2. Po not mar the body. Lev. 10: 25-28. The body for God. 1 Cor. 6: 12. 13. Temples of the Spirit. 1 Cor. 3: IB. 17. To bo kept clean. 2 Cor. 6: IB-IS. To be glorified. 1 Cor. 15: 3.'. tl. To bear God's Imago. 1 John 3: 1-3. How prerlous Is the home In which our dear ones dwell, or Stfytbfng mad" by their hands! And our Father In heaven made our bodies and would dwell in them ( 1 Cor. 0: 13). Think of Christ's body tortured on the cross, nnd then the very thought of annulling In your own body that great sacrifice for you will fill you with shame (1 Cor. fi: BO), In return for Christ's sacrificed body, oursarrlfloed body! Reasonable, certainly, though Infinitely less! (Rom. 12: 1.) All sins of the body are first sins of the mind, and the hodv Is to he kept, pure only by transforming th" mind to purity (Horn 12: 2). All possible health Is n Christian duty, because all other Christian du ties depend upon thnt. A healthful body helps to make a healthful mind, and a healthful mind helps to make a healthful Irody. No Christian Is safe while there Is any part of his body, In Its condition nnd use, that Is not consecrated to God. A consecrated fare Is the only beau tiful face; all else Is but blood ami tissue. Illustrations. The soul is the painting and the body is the frame; but we use the best frames for tho best pictures. A bei utlful body is like a globe of Favrlle glass, which needs within It the electric light of a lovely soul, to disclose Its beauties. The more nearly perfect the statue, the more It Is spoiled by any Imper fection. So with God's highest work In nature, the human lrody. Vacation times ure meaningless un less they look forward to times of toil. The fallow field is a mere deso lation unless It is in preparation for a harvest iJ III ICICIIC LL flOUL SUNDAY, AUCU3T 4. -Matl. 5: 6. act: Fancies that broke through language and es caned. All I could never be, all men ignored in me, This 1 was worth to him. Whose WnasJ the pitcher shaped. Special Anointings. If Jesus was anointed to preach the gospel, how much more do we In these modern times need a special touch of the Spirit of Qod for this work! I believe one ought not to .each a Sunday-school Usson, or sing i song, much less preach a sermon, without waltlnc for a sneclal anolnt- 1 Ing of the Holy Spirit of God. It Is this experience which has made men and women great in the past. It was the secret of Finney's power, and it will be the secret of the power of anyone who lives to-day. Each day'B needs, writes J. Wilbur Chapman, re quire the dally infilling which the quiet hour supplies. When Every Man Must Stand Alone. Whosoever will go to heaven must have faith of his own. In Gideon's camp every soldier had his own pit cher; among Solomon's men of valor every one wore his own sword; and these were they that got the victor ies. The five wlsa virgins had every one oil In her lamp; and only these went In with the bridegroom. An other's eating of dainty meat makes ..hee none the fatter. T. Adams. As it Was (Type-)Wrltten. . the SUNDAY SCHOOL. Soil Formation. All soils are formed from disinte grated rocks and organic matter. Ot the latter, soils contain from one to more than seventy per cent.; It is, however, only In bogs or bods of peat that the amount last named Is ever present. The best wheat lands con tain only from four to six per cent, of organic matter: oats and rye will grow in soils containing only, one or two. The Intelligent farmer should endeavor to ascertain what Is want ing In the soil and supply It, remem bering that he can make no possible mistake with barnyard manure. Do Justice to Poultry. Poultry should now be fllllwr the egg basket, and will, If they have Justice done them. It is not enough j thnt they are well fed; other condi tions are required. Their houses should be well cleansed, their nest boxes thoroughly washed and a little quicklime sprinkled In them. The floors of their houseB should nlso be j well sprinkled with quicklime, and the roosting poles whitewashed. All these are necessary to purify the at mosphere and destroy the vermin thnt infest these places. The clean ing process should nlso be applied to the horse, cow and sheep stables. The Increase in Silos. According to figures published by the Department of Agriculture, there were In 1S9S but ninety-one farmers In the United States so far as known who wore using the silo as an adjunct to th?lr agricultural operations. Now they number nearly 500,000. While the first Silos were only used by men engaged In the dairy business on a large scale, they are to-day prized Just as highly by those who are en gaged In stock raising of any kind. In fact, wherever corn will grow and stork in any kind is raised there is a place for the silo. Deciring Righteousness- Passages for reference: Psa 42: 1, 2; S4: 2: lsa.. 6$: 1; John. 4: 13, 14; C: 35; Rev. 21: 5; 22: 17. Every heart has the deep hunger to do right. The normal man hangs his head after wrongdoing, as does a flower after the blighting touch of the frost. No man Is proud of meanness of spirit, ugliness of action, or immor ality of life. Many a man rushes to drink or to deeper sin to forget hU shame or to deaden his desire for I goodness. It is even more difficult to grow a beautiful character than It lg to bring a rose to rarest bloom. Wo I must eagerly desire It. The promise then, is plain. We will be so filled 1 with God thnt the outcomlng words and deeds will be approved by the I word M righteous. Cultivate the desire for righteous ness. Listen to its voice. Answer Its needs. Build on Its rock foundations. It Is capable of growth. As it In creases bad Impulses, lacking food, die. Evil hungers if allowed root and air Wit thrive like worthless weeds. Their life Is as short and useless. Free powers, full growth, finest man hood, are the products of righteous ness. Happiness, hearty living, help ful words and deeds, grow on Its branches as naturally as the luscious Jonathan apple on Colorado trees when watered and sunned by God. 'Godliness is profitable for all things." He will stumble In darkness who does not store up God's truths, lie Indeed Is wealthy who Is rich In OOd works. Convince yourself of the value, the lndl.spensablenes3. the joy hringhig power of righteousness Then desire it as the money-seeker does ma terial riches, the miner does gold, or the politician oHlee. Folk driven by these ambitions seek for the means of attaining their ends. Do the same with righteousness. Long for It; let the heart pant after it; make tho brain to search for It; train the will to demand It. Then ways and means 'or attaining it will open. If the de sire for righteousness dominates. God will see to It that you will not go far wrong In doctrine. Such a desire he ?an and will fill, until the heart and life are "blessed." Don't Overcrowd the Hens. Filling a poultry house with hens, nnd crowding them together, will not conduce to tggs production. It is not the one with the largest flocks who derives the best results, but the one who manages properly. Food may be given bountifully and liber ally, but it will not make the hens lay If the other conditions are not observed. It requires more capital to provide plenty of room for a flock, but the capital will be better Invested than If buildings are used in which the hens are too nnmerous and in which they do not thrive. You Cannot Afford It. No farmer can afford to do without a good garden. It Is not to be ex pected that every one will be a fancy gardener, but every one should give sufficient attention to the subject so as to produce all staple vegetables earlier than can be produced In the field. It Is not only essential to the health and proper enjoyment of the family, but it is actually a matter of profit. Could your whole farm be made as smooth, dry, rich and as well cultivated as a good garden, the In creased product would pay a large per cent, of profit upon the outlay. In the garden, or In a separate upart ment, may be cultivated strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, curraos, grapes and dwarf pears. They can all be had at a very small cost of money or labor, and will add Im mensely to the enjoyment of the household. Johnny Was u Sport. It happened In Sunday-school None of the children had studied their lessons, apparently, and as for lohnny, the new boy, he wasn't sup Hosed to know much about It, any how. "Now, Willie," said the teacher, "who was it swallowed Jonah?" "I diin'no ," giggled Willie. "Bobble, can you tell me who swallowed Jonah?" continued the teacher. "You can search me," said Bobble. "Tommy, who swallowed Jonah?" asked the teacher, a little severely thtB time. "Please, ma'am," whimpered Tom my, "It wasn't me." "Well, 1 declare!" ejaculated the teacher. Then turning to the new boy, she asked, "Johnny, who swal lowed Jonah?" "I'll bite," said Johnny. "What's the uuswer?" Harper's Weekly, Major Charles IS. Woodruff, sur geon, U. S A . Is promulgating again his celebrated theory that sunsbliu Is unhealthful. GEESE IN SHOES. They shoe geese In the country round about Warsaw, In the VUna district, because the geese have a long annual Journey to make a journey to the goose market. You see, In the late fall and early winter, a gooso market Is held at Warsaw, and geose to the number of 5,000,000 congregate In the town. The geese march to market on foot. Some come from 100 and 150 miles away. The average distance they come from Is sixty miles, and to pro tect the feet on this long Journey they are shod. To shoe the geese the geoseherd first makes them walk back and forth In melted tar. With a coat of tar on tholr feet they then walk through fine sand. The result Is that they are shod with a good, strong shoe ot mixed tar and sand, that protects them well on their journey to the Warsaw goose market. Philippine Gossip. The Turkey's Ileal Name. The original name of the turkey was oocoocoo, by which It wa3 known by the native Cherokee Indians. It is supposed that our i.llgrlm fathers, roaming through the woods In search of game for their first Thanksghlng spread, heard the oocoocoo calling in the familiar tones of our domesti cated fowl. "Turk, turk. turk" These first Yankee huntsmen, mistak ing this frightened cry of tho bird for Its real song. Immediately labeled It "turkey." and turkey it is to this day. Much more beautiful and musi cal was the Indian name oocoocoo, the notes peculiar to ihe flock when sunning themselves In peifett con tent on the river beaches. Good Males Demand Good Care. We should not "give a rap," as the saying Is, for a "rooster" that Is not gallant enough to give his mates first privileges when It comes to eat ing. The rooster that Is always ready to "lick" another one that happens to cross his path, the rooster that does not hesitate to show his vocal capabilities by frequently crowing, and the rooster that ts courteous enough to believe In "ladles first," and stands and calls his mates and then steps aside while they eat the dainty morsel he haB found that rooster is one after our own heart. Show us that kind of a rooster and we will show you a rooster that Is capable of strongly fertilizing eggs from a maximum number of females. But here, dear friend, Is often the "rub" a male bird of this kind must secure In some way Just as much If not a little more to eat than does his less gallant brother and, un less fed separately, he will become so run down In condition In two or three weeks of breeding service that he will begin to be seriously lacking In sexual strength; therefore, It be comes necessary to remove him from the females every day or two and give him a generous feed of corn and meat of some kind, that Is, green cut hone or ground beef scraps. That Is tho only gallant way for you to treat a gallant rooster, and you will find at the same time that It Is the only profitable way. Poultry Editor, 'in Tht Epitomlst. are higher than In the outlying sec tions. Where mixed hay retails for $8 to $9 per ton, corn for fifty cents and oats thirty-five cents per bushel, it is safe to say that the average work horse, weighing 1400 or less, can be fed the entire year and kept in good flesh for $40. In the first estimate made nbove It will be noticed that the price on glu ten feed Is quoted. It has been found that this material can be fed to horses with excellent results, especially fta the spring, when the animals need a 1 variety. A ration composed of one I part gluten feed, one part oats and j two parts corn make almost the Idsal mixture for the work horse. The an lmnl should have enough ot mixture ' to maintain his condition, however. About one pound per day for oach 100 pounds the animal weighs Is con- I sidered the proper amount. Fertile vs. Infertile Kggs. The Country Gentleman referring to the statement of a Montreal wom an In a poultry Journal that she has been able to distinguish between eggs that will produce males and those producing females by locating the air cells, those having the cell directly across the large and hatching cocke rels, while those having the cells slanting slightly contributed pullets, thinks scientists might well devote some time to experimenting to de vise some easy method of distin guishing fertile from Infertile eggs before they are placed In the incuba tor or placed under the hen In fact before they leave tho hands of the seller If they are boughten. This would save a lot of disappointment. The common custom is to test eggs after four or live days, removing those not showing indications of fer tility. These are not In the least In jured by the few days' heating. But this latter business, while It saves a part of the hatch, does not do away with the disappointment nt paying well for vnlunblo eggs only to have too large a percentage prove infer tile. Incidentally It Is worth men tion that even the experimenting Montreal dame" dies not explain how she arrives at the conclusion that the straight across air cell produces the cockerel, since tho hatch of four teen simply showed them equally di vided in sex as the air cells indicated they would be. Variety and Profit. The farmers should make stock raising more profitable by growing a variety of crops. Instead of depend ing mostly upon grain and hay, for variety gives the farmer more ad vantages. If he grows turnips he secures them late in the season (usu ally after llabllty of dry weather has passed), and a large supply ot roots will enable him to economize with the grain and hay. He can also grow late corn fodder, cow peas and rape, the latter affording excellent pas turage for Bheep and swine when grass may not be abundant. But it 1b not so much the growing of various crops for use at all seasons that the farmer should cousider so much as the full bins and storehouses of suc culent food for winter use.. It is In the winter season that the farmer has the advantage of using the crops he has grown, and Increasing their value by adding thereto his labor. Many farmers object to certain meth ods of feeding because they claim that the thorough preparations of foods are too laborious, but if all farmers will consider that tho more labor they can sell In the form of some product the greater their In crease, they will not hesitate to give more attention to food preparation. Lost, time Is really lo6t labor, and the farmer who Is not employed every day Is losing something. If he can save food and make larger profits he will be more than recompensed tot his labor, and the best time when one can be well paid for the work -It in the winter, as the foods, th man- ,ure heap, the repairs of buildings and Implements and other Indoor work are then the moBt Important matters. By J. V. M. "Tho Becret of success, Miss Rob inson," said Mr. Bllvers to his sten ographer one morning, "Is to keep nbrcast of the times. Now, the phon ograph Is certain, soother or later, to oome In general use for business dic tation purposes, and I propose to adopt It. The phonograph company have sent me n machine on trial and I shall begin nt once. I am going to dictate a letter Into It now nnd you will typewrite It directly from tho machine, just as you hear It every word you can make It repeat as slowly as you want to and bring It to me to sign or correct It If neces sary. You see, It avoids all mistakes in reading your shorthand notes." Miss .Robinson welcomed the idea with enthusiasm and Mr. Bllvers re tired Into his Inner office and with his new nnd beautiful Instrument on the desk before hltn began his dictation. His office bnv and head clerk were obliged t.j interrupt him occasionally, but in a comparatively short time he had finished his letter and soon afterward Miss Robinson laid tho type-written copy on his desk. This Is what he read: "Brlggs & Brlggs Co., Rlverdale, Michigan: "Dear 8irs Um! Urn! Er Yours of the 14th Inst, received and con tents noted. Come In! Hold on a moment till I shut this machine oft received and contents noted. In regard to your claim for allowance for goods damaged Come In! No, I won't see him! I've told you I don't want any 'Libraries of Litera ture.' Well, you ought to know Clear out! er-er goods damaged Oh, the devil! Come In! Make him the same price as the last. Yes to those Brlggs & Brlggs peopie. They're trying to skin us, of course, but I've got to Gee! I haven't stopped it Er Umph! Claims for damaged goods Come in! Hullo, Charlie! Glad to see you! Yes, It's a phonograph Bure enough Sure! Well, I guess It does work! Tho salesman said By urn! It's going now! Wait till I shut Leave out that last when Mr. Smithers came in, MIbs Robinson, if you please. Now we're off! In regard to your claims for goods damaged In transit, we shall of course mako the proper Come in! What the deuce do you mean by butting In here all the time? You want to go to the ball game? Well, you can't! Durn it! I didn't shut We shall of course allow you n proper Dn Come In! Yes, of course! Hold on till I shut Hello! Hello! Are you there. Miss Robinson? Ha! ha! I was thinking It was a telephone. Leave that out. Well um Wasn't that all? Any how, we can add anything after wards leave a space Yours very truly bring it to me to sign, of course. Now, how did he say to take it out? Oh! I haven't stop " "Miss Robinson," said Mr. Bllvers, "I have no doubt we shall do admira ble after a little practice, but for the present have you your shorthand book with you? Well, take this let ter: "Brlggs & Brlggs Co., From Puck WORDS OF WISDOM. When you fight a man you watch his eye, noUhis hands or his feet. Ram's Horn. i Conscience Is the main shaft of mind, and love is the gear that belts us to the eternal. Ram's Horn. To do our true duty In life, It must ever be done with the aid of all that Is highest in our sopls, highest in the truth that Is ours. Maeterlinck. Life Is a long lesson In humility. Every day Is a teacher of the lesson. Ask yourself each night whether you have learned It. J. M. Burrle. Good manners Is the art of making those people easy with whom we con verse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. Swift. Feeding a Horse. The Journal of Agriculture giveB some figures of the cost of feeding a horse In the West. How do they compare with the cost of keeping one in- this State? What does it cost to feed the work horse during the year? It Is claimed that when timothy Is worth $18 per ton; wheat bran, 117.50; corn, $22; dried brewers' grass, $17, and gluten meal, $2 per ton, that a horse can be fed during the six months when the hardest work is done for $31. During the remaining six months the cost of feed is put at $24.70. It will be noticed that the cost of timothy If figured at about double Ihe price It sells for on the average fju-m. This Is because the authorities Who made th estimates live near the large centres, where prices ot feeds Dry Foods. In winter many animals are com pelled to subsist largely on dry ra tions, the sameness of diet being such as to some times cause loss of ap petite. In fact, in many cases of live stock being "off their feed," as It is termed, the cause is due to lack ot sufficient food, or Insufficient variety from the regular routine. With the supply of ensilage this difficulty Is not so largely met, but some farmers will not build siloB, preferring to adhere closely to old methods. A few acres ot beets, carrots or turnipB will not fall to be ot valuable assistance, not because such articles are highly nu tritious (which is not the case, as they are composed largely of water), but rather because they contain a large per cent, of water, are easily digested, and provide an agreeable change of diet from dry food to some thing more palatable thereby increasing the flow of milk because they stimulate the appetite, promote digestion and Induce the animals to eat more. Invention has also less ened the cost of preparing foods, as cutters and sllcers rapidly reduce carrots and other root to a condition In which they can bo fed to the ani mals without danger of choking them. The corn fodder supply, If well cuj-ed, and cut down in the field at the proper time, will also be more highly relished if cut Into shorts lengths. Farmers depend upon hay, but they use too much hay, because they either waste other uluable foods, or do not prepare such for the stock. If a bushel ot carrots can be reduced almost as fast us they can be ted Into the chopper, as may be done, the labor ot cutting them is very Inexpensive, and the benefit ot reeding a variety will be very nuiicv-able. I can conceive no difference com parable to that between a smooth and rough sea, except that which Is between a mind calmed by the love of God and one torn up by the storms of earthly passions. John Wesley. Fill your memory with "words of eternal life." You will need them in tho dark and lonesomo hours of life. Then they will shine out like stars. They will speak In the solitudes with infinite sweetness and power. Guthrie. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR AITO. 4 BY THE UKV. I. W. HENDERSON. "As a man thlnkotb in bi3 heart, so he Is," and the more his vital un dertakings are hitched to the second hand of temporary clockwork, the more feebly he goeB and the more liable he Is to get out of order. Homo Herald. Very sincere people are always ac cused of standing on their heads and things of that kind -ot talking for effect. I have come to the conclusion ,that people who never Btand on tnelr headi are the people who have no heads to stand on. O. K. Chester-tou. Subject: The Tabernacle, Ex. 40:1. 18, 3J-;8 Golden Text, Ex. DO: 84 Memory Verses, I -:.-. Commentary. The tabernacle that Moses set up In the midst of the journeying peo ple of Israel after the commands of Jehovah concretely and vividly ex presses and exemplifies tho concep tion of the relation between Ood and Israel that was dominant at. the time. It may perhaps be difficult for many to become very acutely Inter ested In tho study of the fashion of the tent and Its furnishings. But that will be largely because we fall to grasp the underlying and uni versal religious needs and expe riences of which the structure In all Its parts is an objective representa tion. The tabernacle represents In outward fashion the central and con trolling relivious fact of all the ages that God Is in the midst of His peo ple. It represents the outworking of subjective religious experiences into outward and material expressions. It symbolizes in its furnishings many lasting and precious spiritual truths. We shall be foolish it we do not learn spiritual lessons and per ceive spiritual meanings and secure spiritual instruction and comfort as we study this Scripture. .The ark, the vail, the Incense, the burnt offering, the oil, the consecration of the priest, surely the mention of each should supply us with suggestive thought. In verso 2 In the authorized ver sion the Scripture Is translated "tent l of the congregation." The revised version properly translates these words) "tent of the meeting." And the change Is as suggestive as It Is corrective. Here Indeed In a word Is given the reason for the taber nacle; here In a word Is described the use to which It was to be put and was put by the chosen people of God. "Meeting." Hero they met Jehovah In that peculiarly sacred manner that was a distinguishing feature of their religious expression. Here they met Jehovah in the holiest and moBt satisfying manner. Here they met God. It was Indeed a place of meeting. A tent dedicated to meeting from time to time with Ood Himself. It was also the plac9 where they gathered in the expression of their common religious longings and for the exercise in an especial manner of their spiritual Inclinations. Everything within and about the tabernacle was to be holy. All that went Into the servlceof God was holy. And It was wise that such an emphasis should be laid. The Isrnelltes hart I long been living In the midst of a people whose religion was not what it might have been. There was every danger as we have seen in previous lessons that they would get to have u shallow conception of religious truth and that they would place a light valuation upon those things that are religiously most essential to humanity. The tabernacle simply exemplified to them what should be the hallowedness of their own lives. It kept constantly before them the value and the beauty of holiness. It emphasized in no uncertain fashion that only that which was pure and undefiled was ot highest use to God. It stood as a constant rebuke to personal or national um leanness and unworthiness of mind or heart or soul. They met the hallowed al tar of sacrifice as they approached the sacred precincts of the taber nacle. The sacrifice enforced the les son of personal responsibility before God and the need for personal con fession of sin as tho primal requisite for entrance into the presence of God. As with the altar of sacrifice so with every other bit of material in and about the tabernacle. By a process ot association all was exem plary. We note also that the priest who was to officiate in the services of the temple was to be washed and anointed and sanctified. And that was a valuable regulation. The priesthood of the surrounding na tions were not always men of the deepest spiritual experience or the most consecrated. Judging from the previous lessons Aaron needed the washing and the anointing and the sanctifying to make him properly ap preciative of the high office to which in God's providence he had been called. A clean priesthood is as necessary to God as a clean people and u clean and holy temple. It Is also noticeable that as soon as God's commands were complied wlkh Israel enterea Into a new ex perience of God. Verse 33 tells us fhat "Moses finished the work." Verse 34 relates that "then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the taber nacle." Further comment Is unnec essary. All that the tabernacle was we ought to be ourselves. All that It symbolized we as living temples ought to exemplify. God should find in us the sacrifice of a clean heart and of a contrite spirit and should be able out of ub to construct a tem ple holy to Himself. All that the tab ernacle was Christ Is to us. May God give as all the vision to sec; many precious and helpful truths in the lesson for the day. For In that which is usually considered pretty dry reading we may discover much that. Is helpful and Instructive and suggestive. Under the guidance of the Spirit of God we may have un thought ot beauties tevealed to us. Farms of Several Stories. Not long ago, the writer vlsitod a poultry farm in Attleboro, Mass., where the poultry had the run of a large orchard, and blackberries were grown extensively among the trees, thus giving three distinct products of tho poultry, blackberries and the trees. The owners call It a three story farm. But a Missouri farmer, according to all accounts, goes one better with a four story farm. He has a One clover field; beneath the clover is one of tho richest beds of coal and below the coal Is a fine bed of shale, from which excellent build ing brick Is made. In and above the clover is an apple orchard from which there is an abundant crop of fruit. This makes a fodr story farm, coal, shale, clover and apples. For the sake ot making a record, he might keep poultry and raise cane fruits on the same lot, adding a couple of stories to the farm. Boston Cultivator. Rest and Work. While the Master says, "Come and rest, ".He is sure to also say, "0-0 and work. BUSYBODIES. "I never saw such a rubber-neck," sneered Mrs. Gabble. "Just because the doctor stopped at our house yes terday she Immediately wanted to know what was the matter." "Yes," replied Mrs. Naybor; "I wonder how sho'd like the rest of ns to be that curious about her. You know the doctor stopped at her house to-day, too." "You dou't say? I wonder wliat'a the matter there?'' Cacholio Stand ard and Times. THE PROPER LOCATION. Hojax- "I haven't seen you for nearly a year. Where are you locat ed now?" " Tomdlx "In New York Cltr." "What are you doing" "Trying to make an honest living." "Well, you ought to succeed there. You have 110 ntHlOHiHnn m-.it-tl. man. tionlng." Chicago N
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