AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
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Subject: The Gospel of Tears.
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New York City. The famous head
of the Christian Alliance, the Rev. A.
B. Simpson, on Sunday preached a
notable sermon, having for Its subject
The Gospel of Tears." The texts
were :
Jesus wept. John 11:35.
And when He was come near He
beheld the city, and wept over It
Luke 19 41.
Who In the dayR of Ills flesh, when
He had offered up prayers and sup
plications with strong crying: and
tears unto Him that was nble to save
Him from death, and was heard In
trat He feared Heb 5:7.
who has not wept? Weeping we
begin life as helpless babes and. amid
the tears of mourning friends, we
pass oat to the grave. Tears are the
badges of sorrow. How ran they bo
the expression of the Gospel, the glad
tidings of great Joy and divine love?
And yet redemption has trans
formed the curse into a blessing and
made a rainbow of our tears.
"Jesus wept." This little phrase,
the shortest In the Bible, has more In
It than all the books that man has
written. A single drop of ink could
write it, but all the world could not
contain Its depths of love.
It tells me that my Redeemer Is
human. Tears are human and the
tears of Jesus proclaim Him my
Brother ar.i my Friend. He is the
great heroic Head of our fallen race.
One has come to us who Is "bone of
our bone" and "flesh of our flesh" and
has the right to represent us; who Is
able to right our wrongs and recover
our lost heritage of happiness and
blessing.
When God determined to save this
fallen world, He did not send some
mighty angel. He did not come In
His own awful deity; but He stooped
to become a nan that He might meet
us In a gentle human form of which
we should not be afraid. How the
Roman Catholic clings to the tender
sympathy of the virgin mother, but
we do not need even woman's tender
ness to Introduce us to the Father's
heart; for Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
has a hear' both of woman and of .
man. He has been an infant child
like us. He has traversed every stn;
of the pilgrimage of man from the
cradle to the grave. He has been
everywhere that we have been. He
has felt everything that we can feel.
He knows our nature. He bears our
name. He wears our humanity. And
for evermore the Head of this uni
verse, the King of Kings, the Lord
of angels shall be a Man like us, our
Friend "that stlcketh closer than a
brother."
Oh, what a gospel of comfort we
And in the humanity of Christ. You
can come to Him to-night as you
would to the gentlest friend, the most
intelligent father, the noblest man
you ever knew; and though we have
sinned and gone far astray, "He is
not ashamed to ra'.l us brethren."
They tell us that He Is able to sym
pathize with our sorrows. He wept
those tears for others. He saw
two breaking hearts before Him. He
felt their agony! He groaned in spirit
and was troubled and at last He
broke down altogether and burst Into
a flood of tears. How we think Him
for those tears.
This salvation is not all for the
pearly gate.', the streets of gold and
the glorious Heaven that is coming
tore and bye. We need a lot of It
' down here in this broken-hearted
world amid our poverty and puin, our
Ickness and death, our broken friend
ships, our wrecked home-j, our wrong;!
and sorrows and, thank God, He has
It for us. He has experienced it and
He has not forgotten It and still In
His heavenly home we are told "He
is able to be touched with the feeling
of our Infirmities."
He was a child and ha.-i felt every
childish sorrow. He had the hard
struggle to support His mother at
Nazareth and He knows all about
hard work and hard times. Hw was
despised and scorned and He under
stands the sense of wrong and sting
of Insult. He was deceived, betraye I
and murdered and there Is no wronf
or insult can come to us that He ha
not borne and is still ready to bear
for us. Yes, He has felt the awful
weight of sin, for there was an hour
When He sank under His Father''
wrath in puniBhment for the sins ol
men. He knows the cloud of spir
itual darkness. Ho knows the weak
ness and agony of death and He Is
with us in it all. Blessed Friend,
how we thank God for Christ and
what a gospel of love and sympathy
and help speaks to us through the
tcafo of Bethany.
The tears of Jesus tell tis that He
understands our danger, our destiny
and our estate. He shed those tears
over the grave of Lazarus' They
meant much more than a sense of be
reavement. He was not weeping be
cause He had lost Lazarus. He na
not weeping because the sisters at
Bethany had lost their brother. He
knew that Lazarus was coming forth
again in a little while and that the
sorrow would be forgotten in the glad
reunion. Oh, no, He saw deeper than
that. He saw In the grave of Lazarus
every grave that had been opened
and filled through earth's forty cen
turies and tha. would be filled in the
twenty centuries that have passed
since then. He saw all the horrors
ud agonies of the battlefield, the
ocean wreck, the lingering deathbed,
the scourge of famine and pestilence
nd the ravages of the king of terrors
with the millions and billions of vic
tims that he has smitten In the past
Six thousand yearB; and as He saw It
all, realized it all, and the vision
loomed In iurld horror before His
Omniscient eye, He realized the fear
ful curse of sin and His heart broke
down in agony and sorrow.
Nay more, He saw a sadder sight.
He saw a deeper grave. He saw the
eternal grave beyond all, that we be
held In death. He saw the death that
never dies; the Are that never Is
f touched; the yawning gulf of end
ess woe Into which the sinful soul
must sink forever. It was the sight
of that horror that had brought Him
from Heaven to earth. It was the
thought of man perishing in ever
lasting darkness that had made Hlra
glad to live and suffer and die, and
as It all rose before Him as through
a glass In the tomb of Lazarus "Jesus
wept. "
Oh, that we might realize It as He
did.
Did Christ o'er sinner weep
And shall our tears be dry
Christ never thought or spake of
eternal punishment In cold, hard
words. He did It with a breaking
heart He did it with tenderness and
tears, but none the less He did It;
(or none .u.iw so well as He that
uternal sin must bring eteimtl hell
And that all we know and fear of
death Is but a paradise compared
with that Jacond durh
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Oh. What eterrs
Around the second itth
The tears of Jesus tell us of His
atonement. He did not come down
to earth to weep In helpless sorrow
but to rise In almighty strength
against our doom and rescue us
from It.
When Hercules came to the place
where the helpless virgin lay bound
upon the rock and the dragon was
coming to devour her, her parents
and all around were frantic with
tears, but Hercules cried, "This Is no
time for tears; this hour Is for res
cue," and he slew the dragon and
saved the maiden.
So Jesus came, not merely to weep
but to help, and by His own tears and
His own agony and His own blood to
meet our peril and our penalty and
save us from eternal sorrow.
And so we read of another Instance
of His tears In Heb. 5:7. These were
the tears of Gethsemane and the an
guish of His passion. These were the
tears that we deserved to shed. These
were the pains that we deserved to
suffer. But as our groat Substitute
and Sacrifice, He bore our sins In His
own body on the tree, and having
paid the penalty and satisfied the
claims of Justice. He comes In the
glad message of the Gospel to an
nounce our pardon and salvation.
O Chrit, what burdens bowed Thy bead;
Our load wan laid on Thee;
Thou etoodest in the sinner's stead,
Didnt bear nil sin for me;
Jehovah lifted up His rod,
O Christ, it fell on Thee;
Thou wast sore stricken of Thy God,
Thy bruising healcth me.
Hindu mythology has a strange
tale typical of the atonement, the
story of a dove pursued by a hawk
until in desperation It flung Itself
Into the bosom of Vishnu, one of their
deities. But the hawk demanded sat
isfaction, declaring that the dove was
her lawful prey and that Vishnu muBt
not only be merciful to the dove but
lust to Its claims. Then Vishnu, hold
ing the trembling dove In her boaom,
bared her breast and bade the hawk
devour of her own living flesh as
much as would compensate for the
dove, while all the time the dove lay
fluttering there and knowing the fear
ful cost of her deliverance. Yes, wo
ire safe within His bosom, but oh,
the cost to Him. "He saved ub, Hlm
ielf He could not save." He wipes
tway our tears, but In order to do
"his He had to weep when there was
no eye to pity and no arm to save.
Don't you think the least that you
could do would be to thank Him and
give Him your heart, your love, your
grateful team?
We hnve yet one more picture,
Luke 19:41. He was entering Jeru
salem from Olivet. He had Just
turned that point where the whole
city suddenly bursts upon the trav
eler's view. As He gazed upon it in
its singular beauty, there arose be
Hnd the scone another vision that a
few years later was to 1111 all that
valley: a city besieged, cruel Roman
lesions around on every hill top, the
narrowing cordon of destruction, a
breach nt lsst In the walls of defense,
the breaking- In of the brutal con
queror, the streets running with
bleod, the Temple rising In smoke
and flames, the shrieks of mothers,
maiiL-ns atid little children In the
cruel grasp of the conqueror, and
, a Ion': tvoin of captives going
forth to distant lands while behind
them lay a plowed field of desolation
bars once their beautiful city had
ben.
And as He saw It all and how it
th't have been prevented if they
1 only received Him, He cried, "If
u hadst known even now In this
day the thlr.ss that belong to thy
, hut now thev are hid from
''Ire eyes." It war. too lato; but
n yet He had for them His tears.
These tears tell 01 of Christ's com
passion. They tell us how H longs
to save.
They tell us that Ho lc here to
night with infinite pity and power to
wipe away your tears, to wash away
your sins r.nd make you happy and
holy through His love.
Eut they tell us also that If you re
fuse and reject Him, there may come
a time, tliere will come I time, when
He can do nothlnc for you but weep.
They tell of a judge before whom
was brought for punishment his old
est friend. As he stood up to pro
nounce the sentence upon him, the
memory of their boyhood Cays io-
: gether came upon the Judge's heart
with overwhelming force and he
broke out In floods of weeping. "My
friend," he Bald, "how can L by a
single word. conBlgn you to a felon's
cell and n life of banishment from
home and friends and all that earth
holds dear? But ! am a Judge and
must be just. Why did you force ine
to do thlB thing?" And they wept to-
' gether, but It was too late to save
i him from his fate. From thrt scene
of weeping, he went forth a doomed,
I ruined man to spend hlB days In fruit-
1 less tears.
Oh, sinner, beware! lest some d.y
on the Throne of Judgment you look
in the face of a weeping Saviour and
hoar Him say: "How often would I
hive gathered you even as hen doth
gather her brood under her wings
I and ye vould not. Oh, that thou
hadst knewn the things that belong
' to thy peace, but now they are bid
i from thine eyes."
EPM III LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.
Liberal Toward God Mark 12: 41 44.
Pasages for reference: Exod. 2,":
2: 3, r fi: Prov. til 24, 25; 2 Cor,
R: 15, 12; : -12.
Gifts show the strenelh of our love
to dear ones. We fit their needs and
sacrifice time and conveniences, If
not necessities, to get them. Ex
travagance gmwlng out of a lov for
display Is to be condemned. Some
times a costlv box of ointment brok
en over weary feet does more good
than many gifts rn the poor Pity
the young fellow who Is not willing
to miss his lunch for davs. to walk
home Instead of paving car fare, to
press his own clothing, to save at
everv possible place In order to buv
a fine diamond to bind promises with
his sweetheart. Let the careless son
or danchter at once plan to sun
mother's heart with caresses, with
surprise, fancy, or useful articles
made bv ronblng sleep, with gifts that
are usable and mean going without
some coveted thing yourself. At all
costs, cultivate love. God save us
from an economy that leads to stingi
ness' If the great love of ChrlRt will
not move us to liberality toward him.
then we will be "close" every place
rise. Let love dictate the gifts to
his cause. Sho who loved much
iMnry Magdalene) saved and sacri
ficed to give him a cosily anointing.
He Is our KIder Brother. Will our
gifts to his body, the church, his
flesh, the poor, spell weak, bloodless,
shabby love? Let us Imitate tho
widow, going without needed things,
trusting him for future care that we
may help fill the church collection
boxes.
Jesus had been severely and pr
slstently abused by the Jewish offi
cials. He clearly condemned their
hypocrisy, but at once cried out in
love, ''O Jerusalem, Jerusalem"
(Matt. 23: 37). There was no anger
roughness. Indignation brought In
no harshness. He was tender and
alert to the obscure act of the widow.
It Is not easy to always keep a,
touchable heart and n gentle hand.
Though some temple nuth',iritles were
dishonest, the widow did not abuso
and refuse all. God. not the prlest3,
tested her heart and falthfulnebs.
Heavy Weight Seeds.
According to the Canadian experi
mental farms' report the selection of
plump and well-rlpened seed for sow
ing Is a great advantage. In each
seed Is laid up a store of food to be
used by the young plant In the early
stages of Its growth. In a shrivelled
seed the store which can be drawn
oa Is very meagre and the growth un
der such circumstances Is slow, but
In a well-developed and plump kernel
the supply Is abundant and the plant
.starts out with a degree of vigor
which Is usually maintained and the
resulting crop, all other conditions
being equal, is usually satisfactory.
The Morgan Horse.
Frequent reference has in thi Inst
year been made to the plans of the
Department of Agriculture to rescuo
the Morgan horse type. Referring
again to the matter one of our con
temporaries says:
Our Government has at last made
a modest beginning, and has placed
the Morgan at the head of the stud.
This is practically the original Ameri
can trotting roadster, with much of
the Individual beauty and action of
the Hackney, so much so that he has
been called the American Hackney
If these horses are bred to tho right
kind of mares and scrupulous atten
tion is paid to reproducing and, if
possible, Intensifying the best points
of the Morgan type, while at the same
time keeping the size up to a well
proportioned horse of about 15.2
hands high, the department will do
good work and will lay broad and
deep the foundation for a great Gov
ernment stud, which will be a con
stantly Increasing source of wealth
to the country. Indianapolis Farmer.
SEPTEMBER TWENTY-NINTH.
Home missions: Religious progres3
In our cities. Jonah 1: 1-3;
3: 1-10; 4: 9-11.
Prayer for a city. Gen. 18: 23-33.
One household saved. Josh. 2: 14
21. A city purged. 1 Kings 18: 40-4G.
A city wept over. Luke 19- 41-44.
A city evangelized. Acts 19: 13-20.
The Ideal city. Rev. 21: 1-4.
Whoever cries against the wicked
ness of a city Is not crying against
the city, but for it (Jonah 1: 2).
Nothing will save a city not
museums or sanitation or parks or
free schools until It has repented of
Its sin and turned to the Lord.
What our cities need is not tho
proclamation of law, but the offer of
mercy; though the law must be pro
claimed first.
Our fathers had foreign missions
and home evangelization; we have
these, and also we have foreign mis
sions at home, for the antipodes has
risen up at our back doors.
Cities bring human sin and suffer
ing where ail can see it. and be
moved to relievo it. London citizens
alone give away pome twenty million
dollars every year.
New York city had In 1830 one
place of worship for every 1,833 of
its people; in 1SS3, one for every 2,
254. If a great revival should break
out, the people would bo obliged to
take turns going to church.
Every Christian Endeavor Sodety
should be In close touch with some
city mission, helping its meetings
with singing If In the city, sending
flowers and clothing if In the coun
try, and In each case praying for it
and giving to It.
Sixty languages are spoken In Chi
cago, and 90 per cent of the people
are foreign by birth or parentage.
Chicago Is the second German city
of the world, and the first Polish
city.
Of 1,280 families visited once In a
single section of Chicago, 1,220 did
BOt possess a copy of the Bible.
Dry Soil as a Deodorizer.
We do not use any board floors
and have no need of them. With dry
soil, a tight roof and good ve ltllatlon
no deodorizer is needed In this cli
mate. If you must have a board
floor, by all means put it up trom
tho ground so th:it there will no bo
a harbor for rats or other vermin.
The following from Poultry Life In
America gives the ideas of a corre
spondent of that paper, and they 'are
the same as those given in nuuit other
poultry journals:
Don't let your poultry houses get
to smelling bad. If you nro In n
damp location a board floor is an ab
solute necessity, and while you are
making the floor you might an well
raise it three feet and let the ht.is
play under it In bad weather. Then
when you clean the house, or the
boards rather, sprinkle a Utile dry
soli and there will be no bad odor.
The soil mixed with the droppings
makes an elegant top dressing for
the melon, berry or potato patch. It
Is always best 'to keep some dry soil
under cover to use in bad weather.
When the weather is dry your chicks
do not need protection from the rain,
but when It Is wet it is too late to
prepare It, so remember they need
sheltered feeding grounds. An open
' M will answer It.
Cheapness,
After all that may be said on the
subject of advertising, the fact re
mains that the most powerful argu
ment that can be used is that of
cheapness. People will buy things
because they are cheap, where the
consideration of quality would have
no effect whatever. People have come
to look upon advertisements as a
means of finding where they can buy
goods the cheapest. An advertise-'
ment should always contain the price
of the article advertised. In fact,
unless you can offer an article
cheaper than it can be purchased any
where else, there is not much use ad
vertising it. Tho people who are in
fluenced by advertisements are the
great middle class, whose Incomes are
limited and whose constant study is
to adjust their purchases to fit them.
Advertising.
TWO CURLS MIST FIVE BEARS.
Miss Carolina S. Barnes, of Wat
kins, N. Y , and Miss Isabel M. Chan
dler, of Ithaca, N. Y., were much
startled wbllo walking down the
mountain trom Mount Elllo.t Springs,
in Virginia, to coma upon two old
bears and three cubs feeding in a
Held. Not realizing the nature of the
anioials at first tbe young women ap
proached, and one of the old animals,
evidently thinking the Intruders were
after their cubs, showed light The
young women ran screaming back to
the hotel. Miss Humes was com
pletely overcome and required the
iorvlc.es of a physician.
HIS OWN KNEW HIM.
One of the occupations In Austra
lia Is sheep-raising. There are large
ranches upon which many sheep and
lambs find food, uud the shepherds
guard their own.
One day a man was arrested for
stealing a sheep. The man claimed
that the aheap was his own, that he
had bean missing from the flock for
some days, but, as soon as he bsw
the animal he knew him.
The other man claimed the sheep
and sr.ld be had owned him since he
was a lamb, and that he had usver
been away from tho flock.
The Judge was puzzled how to de
cide the matter. At last he Bent for
the sheep. He fl;r;t took the man In
whose possession the sheep was
toind to the courtyard, and told him
to call the sheep.
The animal made no response, only
to raise his head and look fright
ened as if in a strunge place and
among strangers.
Bidding tbe ofllcers to take the
man back to the court-room, be told
them to bring down the defendant.
Tho accused man did not wait until
he entered tbe yard, but at the gate,
and where tho sheep could not see
him, he began a peculiar call. At
once the sheep bounded toward the
gate, and by his actions showed that
a familiar voice was calling. 1
"His own knows him," said the
Judge. Tno Sunday Companion.
A Cokl Dairy Without Ice.
An ingenious woman has devised
a plan for having good, cold milk
and butter all Bummer without ice.
It is a home-made dairy, is so cheap,
easily taken care of, and Is successful.
I will give the plan, and any house
wife can have It with very little work.
Get four pieces of scantling 2x4
Inches, six feet long, and nail pieces
two feet long each way, about 2
feet from the ground, and nail pieces
of the same at the top. Then board
over top and also lay a floor at bot
tom. Now put a shelf on each side
and cover all around and on top with
nice tlean bran sacks or burlap. Leave
one side open and put loops on It,
and nails on the side to fasten It.
Put a tub on top and fill it with
water, and put woolen strips of cloth
two and three Inches wide in it, so
that they feed the water down and
keep the sacking wet all the time.
The air blowing through the wet
sacks keeps everything almost as cool
as if It were in a refrigerator, and
the butter and milk tastes better than
If it were shut from the air, and will
keep fresh much longer iu this dairy.
An old blanket makes the best feed
ing strips; put in enough to have
three or four to each side.
This dairy was kept In the yard
under a shade tree, but the back
porch Is equally as good a place and
more convenient. Any one who tries
this plan, I am sure, will be delighted
with it H. E. K., in the American
Cultivator.
A BIG LOSER.
Mrs. My lea "I see the twenty-four-year-old
son of a London dry
goods man Is a bankrupt, having
managed to get rid of 12,100,000
vines he came of age."
Mrs. Style "Oh, well, boys will
be boys!"
Mrs. Myles "Well, this looks as
If a boy had an ambition to be a
bridge whist player." Yonker
Statesman.
Pointers For Milkers.
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v-uh snouia ue milked In a com
fortable, clean, thoroughly drained
and well-lighted place.
Every time you tbuse and Mghter
a cow, you throw her milk and butter
machinery out of gear.
Tho value of a cow should be fixed
by the amount of fat there is In ner
milk, and what It costs to produce
The udder should be carefully
cleaned before commenclnr to milk
and the last drop of milk should be
drawn from the udder.
Heavy milkers are often rough
boned cowb with large frames, but
Joint and ill-shapes are not essential
In the make-up of a good cow.
To allow a certain quantity of
food to each cow in the herd alike
may result in an insufficient quantity
for some and teo much food for
otners.
To realize tbe greatest profit, the
dairyman should have cows bred dis
tinctly for milk. To combine milk
and boef In one animal is a sure fail
ure for either or both.
If your cow has a sore teat, try
to get the sore spot in the palm of
your hand. Yon will dad that she
will make less fuss about the jc J
of milking If you do this.
In buying a dairy cow look well
to the udder. It should be well up
in front and high up In tbe rear,
teats of good size, and well placed,
and far enough apart so that the
animal can be milked without con
stantly hitting the knuckles.
The Composition of Eggs.
Jf the poultry keeper knows the
composition of eggs he will better
understand how to feed to furnish the
proper food elements needed to pro
duce them. Scientists have found,
aft j- many analyses, that eggs con
tain nbout five per cent, water, sev
enteen per cent, protein and thirty
three per cent, carbohydrates.
There is only about twice as much
carbohydrates as protein, while In
most grain there are from six to ten
times as much. Wheat bran, which is
considered very rich In protein, con
tains more than three times as much
carbohydrates as protein. Wheat
contains nearly seven times as much;
oats, five times; corn, nine times, and
barley, eight times. Oil meal, on the
other hand, contains nearly as much
protein as carbohydrates; gluten
meal, one and one-third times as
much carbohydrates as protein; cot
tonseed meal, twice as much; cow's
milk, nearly as much; dried blood,
fifty-two times as much; meat meal,
nearly thirty times as much.
When It Is desired to make a ration
of any of the grains for the produc
tion of eggs, it can be seen that
It ,1s necessary to mix with any of
them some of the concentrated feeds,
which contain a great deal of pro
tein. Thus, if wheat is fed, meat
meal should be taken into the ration.
If corn Is made tho bulk of the grain
ration, a liberal amount of dried
blood should also be fed. Since wa
ter makes up a half of tho composi
tion of eggs, it is essential that the
laying hens have an abundance of
clean water at all times of tho dy.
Colmau's Rural World.
An Old Hunter's Memories THE SUNDAlF SCHOOL
New York Egg Rules.
Several changes have been made
lately In the egg rules of the New
York Mercantile Exchange. The gen
eral requirements for the leading
grades are now as follow:
Extras Free from dirty eggs, of
good uniform Blze, eighty per cent,
fresh, reasonably full, strong-bodied,
sweet eggs; maximum loss permitted,
1V4 dozen to the case.
Eltrg Fir3ts Reasonably clean
and of good average size; fifty per
c;nt. fresh, reasonably full, strong
bodied, sweet eggs; balance other
than tho Iobs may be defective in
strength or fullness but must be
sweet; maximum total loss, threo
dozen to case.
Firsts Same as extra firsts except
forty per cent, maximum fresh, etc.,
and four dozen maximum lo3B.
Seconds Reasonably clean and of
fair average size; thirty per cent,
fresh, reasonably full eggs; maximum
total loss, five dozen to case.
It Is Important to shippers to know
what "loss" means In this connection,
and especially In view of the recent
activity of the Health Board in pre
venting the sale of very inferior re
jections; the rules provide:
"19. 'Loss,' as used in these rules,
shall comprise all rotten, spotted,
broken (leaking), broken yelked,
hatched (blood-veined) and sour
eggs. V ery small, very dirty, cracked
(not leaking), badly heated, badly
shrunken and salt eggs shall be
counted as half loss In all grades ex
cepting dirties and checks."
Any egg containing a considerable
quantity of the rejections classed
above as full loss are now very ob
jectionable to buyers, and shippers
are advised to candle out all such
before shipment. From the Country
Gentleman.
Farm Notes.
Don't allow the hogs to become
lousy, when a very light spraying
with some of the prepared insecti
cides will rid the animals of these
pests.
Barley makes a fine feed for hogs.
Grow some this year. The cheapest
lot of pigs the writer has ever brought
up to 150 pounds bad barley as their
main ration.
An Iowa man has provided a ce
ment swimming tank for his pigs.
He keeps It filled with freBh, flowing
water all the time, and claims that his
pigs thrive in it better than In mud.
In California tho experiment will
be made of crossing the Merino and
Persian breeds of sheep, with the ob
ject of producing a breed with a
large fleece of wool and superior car
cass for mutton.
Sometimes hogs will not thrive, al
though they have au abundance of
pasture and grain. There is such a
thing as keeping hogs too long on
clover and the system demands some
thing else. Cut down the rations for
u while and feed some charcoal, salt
and copperas. This frequently will
start a hog on the up-grade.
A correspondent asks whether it
pays to "hog down" corn. Many do
not think it a good practice to allow
hogs the run of a large field. But if
any five acres can be fenced off, and
the hogs are turned in early, they will
harvest It without much waste. Some
sow cow peas on a few acres, and
turn their hogs in about September
15. Indiana Farmer.
A correspondent asks whether It
would be feasible to fatten hogs close
to creameries or cheese factories,
something after the manner In which
steers are fattened at distilleries. No
doubt with proper care bogs could be
fattened off on whey and giain with
profit. The finishing or fattening
period would have to run over ten or
twelve weeks. Indiana Farmer.
By It. K. MUNKITTRICK.
The way train was dragging Its
low, monotonous length through
a densely wooded part of New Jersey,
when a passenger who had been gaz
ing vacantly out of the window, Bald
to the stranger who sat beside him:
"I'm glad some of the woods are
left. I tell you, these fine houses with
cupolas, and cast-Iron animals on
the grass, are the things that give
these regions a set-back."
"How so?" Inquired the other,
with a look of surprise.
"Why, because they spoil the hunt
ing. There used to be a time that
the game was so plentiful around
here that there really wasn't any fun
In shooting It. It seemed cruel.
Sometimes I have seen two part
ridges sitting on a rail fence, but 1
would't shoot at th9m direct, because
It didn't seem sportsmanlike. I'would
put a bullet In the gun and fire at a
rock and try to carrom on the birds.
Sometimes I would fire against a
rock and have tne hall come back
and kl a bird behind me. It took
some practice, of course, but I finally
got so I could do It without much
chance of missing. Thoso draw
shots I was always proud of."
"The game must have been abund
ant," said theother.
"Indeed It was. I have r.een quail
sitting in strings on the pump
handle, and once a hawk swooped
down on the brass rooster on the
weather-vnne, nnd was split as for
the grill. Why, it got so that the
cats "would not kill tho birds, and I
have frequently set rat-traps for
woodcock because they became a
nuisance, but made fine fertilizer.
Sometimes they would fly into tha
rooms, like June-bugs, and we had to
keep tennis rackets handy to knock
them down with. All kinds of birds
became so monotonous on the table
that corned beef was developed Into
a real luxury. One day I was out
driving when a big thunder storm
came up, and a great cloud of birds
was moving over me and in the same
direction. They kept the rnin off,
and not a drop touched me, while
many of the birds dropped to the
earth, drowned."
The man of hunting reminiscences
paused for breath nnd wiped away a
tear of regret regret for the changed
condition of things when the other
said:
"You must notice the change
greatly."
"Indeed I do," replied the hunter.
"It Is getting so that it all you can do
to find game In the market. I keep
a retriever now, but he doesn't know
what his mission on earth Is. We
use him to retrieve the tennis balls
that are knocked beyond the bound
ary line. In the oldon days my re
triever would watch the birds skim
ming close to the grass In circles, and
he would'circle In the same way until
the birds thenight he was only play
ing, like themcelvcs. "Then he would
reverse suddenly, meet a bird and
capture It on the fly."
"Did you have any other game be
sides birds?" asked the ft ranger.
"We did; we had wild cats that
used to destroy overytbing. But they
made fine sport. We used to stalk
them. We would sit In the dining
room in eaBy chairs, and put the tiger
nkln rug out on the grass. The wild
cats would be attracted to It, and
then we would blaze away. 1 But now
these fine houses and roads and
things have driven all the game away,
and that's why I am dowu on pro
gress. In order to keep the birds
out of the garden I used a number
of stuffed snakes. You see, the birds
were afraid of being charmed and
eaten, so they kept away, and gave
me a chance to go shooting without
Bitting down to it on the back stoop.
Now one day when tho stuffed snake
had frightened a plover into hyster
ics, I looked and happened to notice
the leopard skin rug, and what do
you think? One of the sheep that
had strayed in went scampering off,
terror strloken. and I noticed then
that the leopard rug was changing
its spots."
The hunter paused for a moment,
and the stranger, feeling that he must
say somothlng to fill the gap,' asked,
"What did you do then?"
"I Just sat and watched," replied
the old hunter; "and what do you
think the spots began to change
Into stripes, and then Into checks,
and from one to the other, till 11
looked like a kaleidoscopic tiger, and
I got frightened and fled. I tell you,
this building and improving ain't no
good when it Interferes with hunt
ing, and there ought to be a game
lav to stop it." Harper's Magazine.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MKNTS FOR SKIT. 20 BY THE
HEV. I. Hr. IIKNDKItSOV
2.
8.
4.
5.
2.
3.
4.
6.
6.
America has a golden calf.
ii is not a dream cair.
America needs to recognize
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Review of the Lessons Prom July 7
to September 22, Inclusive
Golden Text, Ps. 103:8 An
Epitome Helpful to Students.
July 7.
1. The charm of Israel's history
lies In its humanness.
2. Israel sighing for slavery.
3. The wonderful providence of
Ood.
4. Israel in the wilderness only an
example.
5. Israel's experience has pro
found spiritual significance.
6. We are all human like Israol.
July 14.
1. The ten commandments eternal.
The first commandment.
The second commandment
The third commandment.
The fourth commandment.
July 21.
1. The fifth commandment
The sixth commandment.
The seventh commandment.
Tho eighth commandment.
The ninth commandment.
The tenth commandment
July 28.
t. Moses on the mount pleading'
for Israel
2. The golden calf a lesson and a
warning to America.
3. God's providence has made
America possible.
4. Some would seem to lay it to
men.
5.
C.
7.
God.
August 4.
1. The tabernacle
The place of meeting.
The tabernacle holy.
A clean priesthood.
God's presence.
Men as tabernacles.
August 11.
1. The drunkenness of Nadab and
Ablhu.
2. Liquor a snare.
3. To be let alone.
4. Nothing gained by lta use.
5. The liquor traffic should be
abolished.
August 18.
1. Tho fact of sin.
2. Confession of sin.
5. Forgiveness of Fin
4. Forgetting of sin.
August 25.
X. The preparation.
2. Israel prepared.
3. Hobab Invited.
4. The invitation of the church.
September L
1. Israel's attempt to enterCunaan
u failure.
2. God allows the splos to be sont.
3. The spies report.
4. The land was what God de
clared It to be.
6. Two men saw success.
7. We Bhould DO like Joshua and
Caleb.
September S.
1. Doubting Israel Is confounded.
2. The brazen serpent Is sugges
Mve. 3. Results of sin bring Israel to
her senses.
4. Salvation was limply effective.
5. So Is Christ's salvation to-day.
C. Israel and wo make a mistake
to progress without God.
September 15.
1. Moses' address a masterpiece.
2. Book of Deuteronomy majestic.
8. Love for God.
4. Teaching children.
5. God'B gifts.
September 22.
1, Moses' death pathetic.
Death sad but joyous.
God's promise fulfilled.
Moses work finished.
Joshua called.
Moses' exemplary manhood.
2.
3.
4.
5.
C.
Work With Hope.
To work without hope la discour
aging. Wo need the sense of pro
gress to cheer and sustain us. To go
round and .round on a treadmill of
mere drudgery takeB our spirit out
of us. Therefore, wo need a deeper
and larger hope. We need to have
faith in mental, moral aud spiritual
progress, In the growth of tho soul,
In the unfolding of its higher pow
ers, Its larger faculties. We need to
have faith that the yoars, as they
:ome and go, may give us a deeper
experience, may lift us to a large
vision, may enable ua to come nearer
to Ood In faith, nearer to man In
human sympathy and love. James
Freeman Clarke.
An Important Decision.
Under- a recent decision of the
Michigan Supreme Court, announces
The Inland Printer, a newspaper pub
lisher can collect from an advertiser
who breaks his contract only the dif
ference between the amount of the
contract and the amount secured for
the space which would have been occu
pied by the advertiser. The publisher
must make every reasonable effort to
diBtose of the space which the adver
tiser refuses to take, and if he is
able to secure the same price as the
advertiser contracted to pay, the in
ference would be that there are no
damages. Unless a contract speci
fies a certain location It would ap
pear to be extremely difficult under
this ruling to prove damages, ;s any
new order, for spare after the re
nouncing of the contract might be
construed as a sale of the space which
tbe advertiser would have taken.
Saving by Relieving.
The Christian lifts others by be
lieving In them. He sees In each
the subject of redemption. "Accord
ing to thy faith be it unto thee"
means not only " You can be saved
if you believe;" it means also, "You
can save others" save them by be
lieving in them and In God; Bave
them, not according to your foolish
desires, but In accordance with God's
Intention for them, with the original
law of their being. Charles Oore.
D.D.
Growing Like God.
When we allow our best life to un
fold and express Itself In word or
deed, or to go out from ua as pure
Influence, we grow ltko God, whose
utterance creation is. And always
we find it more blessed to give than
to receive. We are ourselves served
best by serving others. C. G. Ames.
Must Ride the Ass' Colt.
To-day is the ass' colt upon which
every son of man must ride into His
kingdom.
Wireless For Clocks.
The regulation of clocks by wire
less telegraphy seems to have been
quite successful. In tho experiments
at Vienna pf Helthoffer and Mora
wets the clock was controlled by
wireless Impulses from a regulator
three and three-quarter miles away,
and It kept pe-fect time, with no In
terference from stray currents.
Pittsburg Post-Dispatch.
A Caesar Vindicated.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
"Followed Coney Island's ex
ample," he explained briefly.
Herewith history was dlspcsed to
take a kinder view of the matter,
New York 8un,
PERHAPS.
'I vent to a fortune teller yester
day," she suld, with a cunning little
giggle, "and what do you suppose she
told me?"
He confessed that be was a poor
guesser.
"Well, she said it would not be
long before I would pass most of my
time within the walls of a marble
palace."
"Perhaps," he suggested, "you are
going to become a clerk In one of oar
big department stores. " Chicago
Record-Herald.
ANOTHER SEA YARN.
Mr. Flatdweli (hi first Atlantic
voyage) "i0 you know, Mary, that
this ship burn 400 tons of coal every
day?"
Mi FhttiwelJ "William Heury,
have you been letting tho janitor
tuff you with any such fairy tale as
that?" Pock.