The
Genera! Demand
of the Well-informed of the World hat
always been for a simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; a laxative which physicians could
auction for family use liecniise its com
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome ami truly beneficial in effect,
"ptable to the system and getitle, jrtt
pr upt, in action.
( . supplying that demand with its ex
ec', it combination of Syrup of l-'igs and
Elixir (.f Senna, the California Vt Syrup
Co proceeds -ilong ethical lines and relic
m Mm ni'Tits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of l-'igs and Elixir of Senna is given
the preference by the Well-informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for salo
by all leading dniggists. Trice fifty cent
per bottle.
Thre nre 10 negro banks tn Missis
sippi, and they have organized a
State Bait ken' Association of their
own Mobile Register.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BV
DR. JOHN F. CARSON.
Subject: Signs of Progress.
VVnat Casts Headaditi
Frem October to May. Cold are the most
frequent cause of Headache, Laxative
BrotnO Quiniun removes cause. K. V.
Grove nn box.
One of the largest gas companies
In London has reduced Its price from
"1 cents to fift cents a thousand teet
That Pry Has king Cough
needs attention. Ask your druggist
for Brown's Bronchial Troches, which
will quickly relievo the cough.
The population of New York City.
Including all the territory now em
traced, lias doubled since 18S.'.
There is moil for Garfield Tea when the
akin is sallow, the tongue coated, and when
MBjdachei aie frequent.
Over $12,000,000 was givfv by
the Chureli of England last vear for
philanthropic work.
Mrs. Winslow sSoorhing tsyrup for Children
teething. s- it ens t begums, reducosinflaniiiio
tiftn. allays iKiiu, cures wind colic vcabottla
There are 1,587 walled cities in
China Where there is neither a for
eign nor Chinese pastor.
m:ilon Dollar Grass.
Jlost remarkable (jr.iss of the century.
Oood for three rousing crops annually.
One Iowa farmer on 100 acres sold J3,
SO0.0O worth cf seel ami had 300 tons of
hay bJld . It is immense. Do try it.
ma 10c AM) THIS NOTICE
eend to tha John A. Salter Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis., to pay postage, etc., and
thev will mail VOU toe nnlv nricritinl npi.i
catalog published in America with sam-
ilea of Billion IJollar (ir.iss Macaroni
iVheat. the aty miller mixer. Sainfoin th
dry soil luxunator, Victoria Uape, the S0c
a ton green food producer, Silver King
Barley yielding 173 bu. per acre. etc.. etc .
at.
And if you send M we will add a pack
age of new farm seed never before seen
by you. John A. Salzcr Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wu, A. C. L.
M -.on i School With One Purl'.
Worth County Irs a school distric t !
that we bell, ve cannot 1)3 duplicatid In 1
t. e entire State
It li d sti ict 2,8", 88, Greene Township. '
Th re are onlv ihiee children of solio d
age in tl.e district and only one of hem Is
attending th.- home school, th t li r two I
att udi I e sc w here. Tie teacher is paid
a month tc teach th s one pupil,
and iliere . no doubt about the chi d -gelling
good inst union, A district that
will keep seho 1! open for the bonunrlt of
oaa chid and pay a teac er $ 2 per
month must ceitainly he loyal to tlio
cause 1 f p pu ar education Graut I ity
Times
Inttan t-.-bies Don't Cry.
' Affection for children is an Indian
char.cie. is'ic" sa.s Dr. Charles 8.
Moodv, of Idaho. "I have nevor seen an
Indi in mot er or father punish a child,
oor h iv I ever sceu mi Indian child - ry.
An Ir.d an c lid m ver sobs when huit.
Jus' an extn snap of the blight black
eyes a d a s Uthl (rown is ail to Indicate
to the obuTTer tha: the little fellow is
m!'erinir I have neve- heard even an
Indian baby cry." Now York Pr as.
Taking the Bishop's Adv ce.
"Ethel ha gone over to the church to
piny."
T. pr.vl What for!"
For her husband, of course,"
tt h -lie husn't any !"
I know it." - Smart Set.
.' eeking a Clue
"I wish I kiew wh t mv wife would
aav to ine wi en I come home tonight."
"I iv lata I kucw what my wife wouldn't
say. "Small Set
HAPPY OLD ACR
Most Likely 10 Follow Proper Kilting.
As old age advances, we require
less lood to replace waste, nnd food
that will not overtax the digestive or
gans, while lupplylng true nourish
ment. Such an ideal food Is found in
Orai.e-Nuts, made of whole wheat
and barley by long baking and action
of diastase m the barley which
chnnges 'be starch Into sugar.
The pii..sphates also, placed up un
der the bran-coat ol the wheat, am
Included in drape-Nuts, but left out
of white flour. They are necessary
to the building of brain and nervo
cells.
"I have used Orape-Nuts." wrltea
in Iowa man, "for 8 years and fee. as
tood and am stronger than I was .on
ears ago. I am over 74 years old
-ind attend to my business every day
"Among my customers I meet a
man every day who la 92 years old
and attrlbutea hi good health to the
uaa of Grape-Nuts and Postnm wtilcb
he has uaed for the last f years He
tnlies Grapa-Nuts with Poetum and
aaya they go fine together.
"For many years before I began to
oat Grape-Nuts I could not say that I
enjoyed life or knew wbat It was to
ho abla to say 'I am well.' 1 aufiered
fjreatly with eonatlpatlon, now my
hablta are aa regular aa ever lu my
life.
"Whenever I mako eitra effort I
depend on Orape-Nuta food and It
Juat nils the bill. I can tblnk and
write a great deal easier."
"There's a Reason." Name given
by Poatum Co., Battle Creek, Mich
Road "The Road to Wellrllle," In
pkga.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Sunday the nev.
I Dr. John P, Carson, pastor of the Cen
tral Presbyterian Church, preached
1 a stirring sermon on "Signs of Pro
gress." The text was from I Chron
icles 12:32: "Men that had under
standing of the times." Here are
some of the things ho said:
I Any student or our ago will find In
existing conditions intirb that wars
Against truth and righteousness and
honor, and that threatens manhood
ltd the social order. In the political
world I here Is corruption. Votes are
Ibid to tho highest bidder from the
I Senate to the ward caucus; men,
A hOM only creed Is greed, whose only
patriotism is pelf, band themselves
, together to control political sltua
lona; certain public offlclnls are
growing rich on harvests reaped from
he black fields of vice nnd crime. In
I the commercial world there Is dis
honesty. For personal gain of wealth
or power men sacrifice prluciple. com
: promise conscience, become reckless
orators, unscrupulous gamblers,
audits of banking, highwaymen of
WMea. In the industrial world there
I la unrairness and Injustice. Corpora
j tlons Ignore the Interes. of and op
press their workmen, crush competl
ion, defraud tho people; working
men band themselves together to
force employers to their terms, forbid
men to work except on terms fixed by
union, limit apprentices and so deny
rotlOf men their rights, enforce their
lomands by violence, py homage to
I :rlminal leadership. In the social
I world there are wrongs. The rich
; domineer In their swollen pride and
flounf their extravagance! in the face
if the poor; the poor sin nnd suffer,
localise herded in poverty and
1 squalor. In all our life is the spirit
I of unrest and discontent. Satiety
ind languid weariness in parlor and
I ralon, suffering and sighing In work
shop arid in tenement.
I If you tell me that there are un
. icrupulous men who operate schemes
I f high finance, I would remind you
bar th sentiment of the day is so
Itroni that many of these men find It
?onvonient to seek homes in other
lands. If yoa tell me that there Is
:orporate theft nnd labor intolerance,
would remind you that, as never
before, there I3 a demand for the play
)f justice and equity In al! relations.
I (f you tell me that the rich are defl
intly extravagant and thni the pov
erty of the poor is appalling, I would
-oniind you that there never has been
time when the mot.ey of the rich
was so readily at the services of the
people as it is to-day through schools,
:olIeges, libraries, homes, hospitals
ind Innumerable agencies nnd instttu
ions; and when you call my atten
tion to the condition of the sub
merged, I would remind you of the
line when most people were slaves,
ind I would challenge your thought
;o the fact that there never has been
i time when the middle class was so
well off as It Is to-day. if you coll
my attention to the deplorable hous
ing of the East Side poor, I will call
'.o your mind the report of the Mis
sionary Society for the Poor of New
Vork, issued in 1817, which deplored
'.he existence of small houses, each
srowdod with from four to twelve
families, often two nnd three families
living in a room, and "of all colors."
If you tell me of the saloons and
brothels that are ruining mnnhood
ind ruling in politics, patronized and
protected by political influence, I will
remind you that when the population
of New York was 110,000 there were
1489 licensed retoll liquor dealers
and not less than fiOOO "abandoned
females" added to the vice and shame.
Of course, there is more actual sin
and shame in a city of four millions
of people than there was in a city of a
nunareu tnousand, but I am per- 1
funded that an honest study of condl- '
tlons will disclose that New York City
is proportionately better to-day than
it was a hundred years ago. There
are dark, deadly things .11 our condi
tions, but the moral tone and the eth
ical standard is higher than It ever
was, and our black things appear all
the blacker because they art viewed
in the light of a whiter' background.
There are gigantic evils In our life,
bttt a gigantic battle is being waged
against them. The struggle is bitter, 1
but there are signs that it Is not fruit- '
less. The throes of to-day are the
birth pangs of a belter to-morrow. 1
The light of that to-morrow begins to
dawn, its sun Is piercing the dark- 1
ness. The east is aglow. The gleams 1
of a new radiance begin to illumine
the horizon.
First. 1 call your attention to the
demand for the play of righteousness
in all our life -political, social and
eommaretal. There is a new and
wide ethical awakening In all our
land. Never has the demand been
so insistent that men shall be honest
in the administration of lacrad trusts
committed to them. And tha great -majority
of our financiers are nobly 1
meeting that command. We are llv- j
Ing In a period or investigation and
criticism. It is well. It Is a health- '
ful tone, If men are Bane enough tc 1
discriminate. Hut men are not al- '
ways that tine. In the presence ol I
these Investigations suspicion creep I
into the mind und men are tempted
to think that all men are dishonest
because some men have been proved '
thieves and robber. It Is a fatal mis
take. 1 am persuaded that there is
more honert liber in the life or to-day
than there ever has been. The very
investigations which ure bjing con
ducted to-day are evidence of a fioer
and higher ethical sense than has
heretofore existed.
Second. I call your attention to the
demand for tho abolition of such prac
tices as war against the common weal.
A little while ago that demand was
for the abolition of the lotterv. A
Christian post master put the Louis
iana lottery out of business. Just
now the demand in New York ii for
the abolition of race track gambling.
Third, I call your attention to the
triumphs of the teinperaace move
ment. The change of sentiment on
the temperance question is one of the
most radical that the country has
ever known. Twenty years ago the
demand for the abolition of the sa
loon awakened a smile or proviked
a sneer. To-day that demand U the
fixed purpose of thousands of our fel
low citizens und it 1 being fulfilled.
Five States Maine, Kansas, North
Hakotu, Oklahoma and Oeorgie. are
now prohibition, and in one more
(Alabama) prohibition becomes oper
ative on January 1. 1909. Six States
of the Union prohibit the Bale or man
ufacture of lutoxlcatlng drinko.
The progreia of the temperance
movement In the South If one of the
most significant and Inspiring sign
of our timeg. Two States. Ueorgla
and Alabama, have onacted prohlb -tlon
law. Nfiety-flve per cent, of
North Carolina has declared again.it
the saloon. Mississippi has a prohibi
tion Legislature and a prohibition
Governor, nnd ninety per cent, of the
State has barred liquor. Tennessee
has voted the saloon out of all but
four of Its ninety-six counties. Ken
tucky has nearly a hundred of its 119
counties entirely free from saloons,
nnd seventy-five per cent, of Its pop
ulation are living In prohibition ter
ritory. Two-thirds of Louisiana has
no saloons. In Florida three-fourths
of tho State has voted no llcpnse.
In Texas 148 of tho 246 counties have
wiped out the saloon, while fifty-one
other counties are partially prohibi
tion, so that in only forty-seven coun
ties of the State Is liquor freely sold.
In South Carolina about hair the
counties have voted no license. In
Virginia seventy-two counties out of
118; In West Virginia thirty out of
fifty-five, and In Maryland fourteen
out of twenty-three prohibit the sale
of liquor. Twenty out of twenty
seven millions of people south of the
Mason and Dixon line live In no liquor
territory. There are more drinking
places, legal nnd illegal, in New York
than In the whole South.
Tho temperance movement Is tak
ing hold on the North. By a majority
of 18,000 out of n total vote of a
little over 100,000, the now State of
Oklahoma declared for prohibition.
Maine, Kansas and North Dakota are
enforcing their prohibition laws with
new vigor. Two of the three counties
of Delaware have prohibited the sa
loon. Fifty-two per cent, of the peo
ple of Ohio and Indiana are living In
prohibition territory. Prohibition
claims fifty-eight of the seventy-five
counties of Arkansas. The rapid
progress of the movement may he
learned from the story of Missouri.
On January 1, 1905, there were three
counties which prohibited the sale of
liquor; to-day sixty-four or the 115
counties of the State prohibit the
traffic. In nineteen other States ad
vanced temperance legislation has
been enacted, while there has not
been a single measure adopted by any
State favorable to tho liquor traffic.
An effort is being made In the present
Congress to secure such legislation
as will respect the rights and policy
of the States which see fit to prohibit
the liquor traffic.
There Is not a single case on rec
ord where n county, or city, or town
that closed Its saloons has reported a
decrease of business. Much Is being
said by the liquor interests about the
money which they nnd allied Interests
pay to the city, State and National
Government for taxes nnd licenses
and the Philadelphia Liquor Dealers'
Association recently declared in reso
lution adopted by their convention,
"To eliminate the saloon would be to
undermine the foundation of the
country's revenues." This country
does not depend upon blood money
for its support. The fact Is the coun
try would be better off without the
traffic nnd taxation upon every other
business would be lessened. For
every dollar that the liquor interests
pay to the country it costs the coun
try $20 to maintain the asylums,
homes, almshouses, jails and such in
stitutions as are created by the liquor
habit and to maintain the courts and
prosecuting machinery. The saloon
is a highwayman of the baser sort
and a pirate of the worst type. It ha3
simply been tolerated because It
seemed Impossible to get rid of It.
But now the Issue Is drawn, the battle
is on. The foe is adroit, cunning, re
sourceful, unscrupulous, desperate.
It Is marshalling Its forces for a con
flict, the impact of which will shake
the land. Christian men must mc-?t
this foe with inflexible and deter
mined purpose. In facing the conflict
it should be clearly understood that
the warfare Is not against a legiti
mate business, a business which men
have an Inherent right to pursue.
The traffic is on a status entirely dif
ferent from any business enterprise.
There is no inherent right to sell
liquor.
The Christian men of America, it
they were wise enough, could take
America for any moral issue. The
manhood of America can rule. But it
must put principle above party and
conscience above compromise and
duty above ease. The manhood of
America, united In the effort and in
telligently directed, can, if It will, put
an end to the greatest economic and
moral plague of the age by outlawing
the saloon.
There are signs of progress n rad
ical demand for the play of honesty
in business lire, a new movement for
the rbolltion of gambling in all
places, a determined purpose to abol
ish tho saloon. These movements
me iu skswb; witn me uivine econ
omy and purpose and that is the as
surance of their triumph. God Is in
His world and God Is working. There
never was an age In which so many
people were working for the better
ment of life. With an all-controlling
purpose, begotten of faith in God and
nurtured in love of- man, multitudes
are working to better the conditions
of life, and that Christ, in whom God
Is reconciling the world unto Himself,
Is drawing men into the circle of His
infinite love, into the swuy of His
beneficent purpose and keeping thum
there until He shall come to reign In
all the world.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LISSON COM
MENTS FOR MARCH 2.
(Jetting Hotter of Commonplace.
Steady-going goodness is harder
than spectacular heroism. It calls for
more endurance and more character
to hold to the highest standards ol
life In the commonplaces of every day
routine than to nerve oneself up for a
single and exceptional effort. The
five-mile run is more exhausting than
the 100-yard dasb. Yet this pro.
longed and severer test of every da
living is the only true test, and it It
the one which we must all meet.
Moreover, the best way to be ready
for the emergency test, when It
comes. Is to live through the common
day in the red -letter-day spirit. No
day was common to Christ, nor will
it be to those who make every daj
HI. Sunday-School Times.
Rattle Field Logic.
Among the men who -srved with
Roosevelt's Rough I; In Cuba
was a little Dutch Jew, who, accord
ing to the men in bis wu troop, was
"the very incarnatlo) ef cool, Impu
dent bravado In a fight." He was a
consistent fatalist,
One day he observed a comrade
dodging a spent bullet that had
whistled uncomfortably close to him.
"Vat's de use to todge dem pul
lets?" sang out the little Jew. "Dey'll
hit you sii ust as veil vere you are as
vera you ain't!" Everybody's Haga-slne.
MIGHT BE WORSE.
"What you swearin' about?" In
quired the farmer.
"O!" growled the disgusted mo
torist, between oaths, "this machine J
broke down and I can't get it to go."
"Gosb! you're In luck. Last feller
I seen 'round here got all broke up
'cause he couldn't git his to stop."
Philadelphia Press.
Temperance I,esson, Proverbs 23:2!r
Sfi Oolden Text, Proverbs 2.'1:
32 Commit Verse .11 Com.
mentary.
TIME. All times. PLACE.
Everywhere.
EXPOSITION. I. Six Great Evils
That Result From Indulgence In
Wine, 29, Solomon here gives us
a very vivid picture of six evils that
result from Indulgence In wine. Cen
turies hnve pnssed since 8olonion's
day, but It is as true In our day
as It was in his thot these evils pur
sue the wlneblbber. Note them care
fully. (1) "Woe," literally, "Oh!" L
e., the Intense pain that leads one to
cry "Oh." How many "Ohs" are
nrislng to-dny from tho lips of men
nnd women whose bodies are tortured
with the many Ills thnt arise from the
use of alcoholic stimulants. I can see
still the man thnt I once carried bod
ily through the streets of a city
shrieking "Oh, oh, oh," In indescrib
able agony from drink, nnd I see him
later as I held him down with my
knee upon his chest as they strapped
mm 10 a ucu in the hospital. (2)
"Sorrow," literally, "Alas!" I. e., the
deep seated nnd abiding grief that
causes one to cry "Alas! alas!" This
sorrow of the drunkard I of Innum
erable forms. Sometimes It is the
sorrow of seeing loved wife and chil
dren reduced from plenty to poverty.
Sometimes It Is the sorrow of being
passed upon tho street unnoticed by
old-time friends and associates. Some
limes It Is the sorrow of standing by
the grave of tho once beautiful anil
happy wife who hns died of a broken
heart over her loved one's degrada
tion. (3) "Contentions." Conten
tions at home, contentions In society,
contentions In the place of business
contentions on the street. Alcohol
mothers most of tho broils In this
world. If a man wants a perpetual
war let him drink. (4) "Complain
ing" (R. V.) Wine Injures the stom
ach and breaks down the nerves and
thereby spoils the disposition. The
drinker soon becomos a grumbler,
nnd grumbler Ib rftlsarsble und?r any
circumstances. (5) "Wounds with
out cause." Go to the pollcs court
to-morrow morning and sen the black
eyes, broken noses, crippled arms and
legs, chewed ears and more Hriom
and entirely unnecessary wounds that
have come through drink. (6) "Red
ness of eyes," the sign of distempered
brain and premonition of approach
ing insanity and death. Note thnt
these things come from "wine," not.
merely from the stronger distilled
liquors. "J know, of course, that
there is danger In whisky and rum
and gin and such things," many are
saying, "but what harm is there In
wine?"
II. The Only Wise Attitude To
ward Wine, 81. "Look not thou upon
the wine." This is total abstinence
with a vengeance. Not only "don't
taste," but "don't look." It is good
advice, inspired advice. If a thing
ought to be left alone, leave It alone
utterly. There are many who do not
mean to sin, but they will just look
at the siu. That look Is fatal. Eve '
first looked, then she lusted, then she j
ate, then she died (Gen. 3:6). Many
a man nnd woman has taken the same I
path to the drunkard's grave and the
drunkard's hell.
III. "At the Lust," 88. "At the
last." Three significant worHu 11 I
men could only see the end from the
beginning bow many things they
would leave undone which they now
do. Before entering upon any course
of action wo ought always to ask
where it ends. "There is a way that
seemeth right unto a man. but the
end thereof Is the way of death'
(chap. 14:12). The way of the wins
drinker is undeniably such a way.
The beginning is likely to be pleasant
Indeed. In the beginning it singetb
like a bird, It Is "at the last" ,hat "11
biteth like a soroont ami mint., .it, hl-
an adder." But most of the trains 011
that road are through trains, and II
you get on the train you are not like
ly to get off until you reach the end
of the line.
IV. Tile Wine DrinL-ur'u I . .- .. ...1 '
Heart, 38. "Thine eyes shall behold
Btrango things" ( R. V.) Indeed they
shall. They shall see things ouc ol
all proper proportion, they shall see
oouble, they shall see snakes and
monsters and devils. The drinking
man has perverted vision, physical
mental, moral. Folly looks like wis
dom and wisdom looks like folly
Right appears wrong and wrong ap
pears right. A man who Is truthful
and honest and pure when sober will
lie and steal and commit abomination
when he has drank a little. Wine in
capacitates men for business, for
study, for decent living. If we take
the rendering of the A. V., the verse
is still true, for when the stomach is
full of wine the eyes are full of lust
How many a young man (yes, and
young woman) has taken his first
step In unmentionable il9ness when
all that is bad lu him has been set on
Are by a glass or two of wiue. Wlue
is the seducer's most potent ally. But
not only the eyes are wrong, but
worse yet, the heart Is wrong.
V. The Wine Drinker's Drain, 31,
85. The head of tho drinker reel
and Is stupid. He tosses to and fro
as "he that lleth down lu the midst of
the sea" and sways back and forth as
"he that lleth upon the top of a
mast." It is a graphic picture of a
drunkard's confused and unsteady
mental condition. Furthermore, the
brain Is for the time Insensible to in
juries received and the drinking man
la thus rendered iucapab.e of self
protection. Last of all, tho drinker
Is the complete slave of his enemy.
With full knowledge of the injury
drink does him he cries, "I will seek
it yet again."
Rescue Work For Firemen.
Hoseman Fred Dobratz, of Engine
Compuny 34 of Brighton, Bays that
while his company was fighting a Are
la Allison the other day an old man I
pushed bis way through the crowd j
and grasping a fireman by the Bboul-
dor begged him to go baofc into the !
house and save the old man's glass
eye.
"It's worth $2 0 to me." yelled the
loser, "and 1 can't afford to lose it;
and while you're up there you might
bring dowr. a hot of curls which a
little fellow who lives in tho house
ways were cut off some years ago."
Boston Herald.
OOINO OUT OF HIS WAY.
"His talk disgusts me; it's
coarse. "
"Ob, don't mind It.
gotten Into the habit
spade a spade."
"Yes, but he calls lots of things
spades which are not." Philadelphia
Press.
MARCH TWENTY-NINTH.
Home Mission-:: Progress In the
Philippine. Matt. 13: 31-33.
An I land mission. Acts 13: 412.
A cheering promise. Zeph. 3: 17-20.
A deliverer at hand. Pa. 72: 10 12.
Tho Isles shall listen. Isa. 49: 1-10.
The Isl-s glad. Ps. 97: 1-6.
An Island exile. Rer. 1: 4-9.
Progress In the Philippines depends
not only upon the MM, but also upon
the roll, which was there before we
came.
The seeds of Christianity are rmnll,
a few schools, Sunday schools,
Bibles, Christian Endeavor Societies,
churches; but they produce the great
est of trees.
The birds that lodge In the branch
es are the blessings of a Christian
civilization, comfort, safety, nnd
pence, mw and hereafter.
Chrlstlnnlty Is pervasive llko hea
ven, blessedly Influencing the home,
farm, business, all life, sacred and
secular.
Philippine Notes.
The saloon Is the greatest enemy
of progress In the Phillppinea, as
It Is the greatest foe to missions
everywhere. Break It down at home,
and you will do tho most for missions
abroad.
Christian Endeavor came to the
Philippines In that splendid society
on Dewey's flagship, the Olymola It
speedily spread among the Filipinos,
and It Is destined to be an important
agent In planting Protestant Chris
tianity In those Islands.
There are about 1,725 Islands In
the Philippine nrchlpelngo, with an
area of about 122,000 square mlle3. A
glorious new omplre to win for Christ.
The population of the Islands Is
about eight millions, nearly all of
thorn Catholics, though, fortunately,
three million are Independent Cath
olics. There are 270,000 Mohamme
dans, 75,000 Buddhists and Confuclan-lst-,.
2(50,000 Anlmlsts. A complicated
task for the missionaries!
All the largest denominations, and
several of the smaller ones, hastened
to the Philippines at the close of tho
war with Spain, nnd inaugurated a
second war. with Ignorance, supersti
tion and barbarism
About 18,000 convertfi bavo been
made by our missionaries In the Philippine.--
More than ono hundred lit
tle churches have been built, each a
center of light In much darkness.
Nearly 800.000 of the Filipinos speak
English fairly wall, and this is a great
help toward the spread of the gospel.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
8UNDAY, MARCH 29.
In Washing Animui.
To protect them from parasites,
which either bite or annoy them,
wash them with borax water, when
the dirt and dlsagreenblo odor are
not only removed, but the nnlmnls'
skins are rendered much healthier,
the hair will be soft nnd glossy, nnd
they will bo practically free from
further annoyance by Insects.
Acetylene Waste.
What Is the value of refuse from
! an acetylene gas machine as a fer
1 tlllzer, how best apply It, and to wbat
! land? C. L. M. The lime from ace
tylene plants Is simply lime. It may
be poisonous if applied in too large
quantities, but is as useful as any
other lime If applied In reasonable
quantities. The worst trouble is that
It Is soft and sticky, and therefore
hard to apply. Country Gentleman.
Ripening Cream.
It Is very essential in cream ripen
ing to agitate the cream frequently
to insure uniform ripening. When
cream remains undisturbed for some
time the fat rises in the same way
that It does in milk, though in a less
marked degree. The result Is that
the upper layers are richer than the
lower and will sour less rapidly,
since the action of the lactic acid
germs Ib greater in tbln than In rich
1 cream. This uneven ripening lends
I to a poor bodied cream. Instead of
1 being smooth nnd glossy, it will ap
I pear coarse and curdy when poured
' from a dipper. The Importance of
I stirring frequently during ripening
i should therefore not bo underestimat
ed. Professor John Michels.
and the depletion in the supply of
lumber It behooves every farmer, who
is fortunate enough to own a piece
of forest land, to follow out a defi
nite plnn In practical forestry. At
this time of the year a great deal
can be done in tho way of prolonging
the life of the trees now growing In
the woodland, and morn especially
the life of the young nnd vigorous
ones. The doad, dying and diseased
timber can be cut down nnd convert
ed Into Are wood or sawed Into
lengths for fence posts or logs for
the saw mill. By so doing, the tim
ber that otherwise would go to
waste through decay can be readily
turned to some good purpose. The
thinning out of the dead trees allows
more space for the remaining healthy
and vigorous specimens to grow and
develop to advantage. Whenever It
Is necessary to fell a large, healthy
tree the stump should be left high
enough to insure a growth of vig
orous sproutB. Chestnut, oak and
hickory are examples of tbls class of
trees. Cutting out the under brush
and letting the stronger and more
promising growths of young forest
trees stand to develop Into future
timber material Is always profitable.
Any attention that may be given to
the wood at this time will be certain
to bring In good returns a little later
on. A. G. R., In the Indiana Farmer.
Farm Notes.
One who s tested the matter
compiles tho paying factors In the
following paragraphs, in a very con
cise way:
It takes less fertility out of tho
soli than nny other form of ngricui-
THREE HORSE EVENER.
SO
He's simply
of (.ailing a
The Awakening of China and the Gos
pel Opportunity. Act 11:
19 26; Psa. 2.)
This Is the story of the mission to
Antloch, when the infant church de
finitely accepted Its call to preach to
the Gentiles. At Antloch the disciples
were first called Christians, and it Is
likely that the name was given In
contempt and derision.
This theme has to do with one of
the oldest of the nations. Its civiliza
tion goes back of the time of Moses;
Its literature reached high water mark
beforo David sang. When Homer liv
ed In Greece China had her ancient
heroes. Printing and paper making,
the manufacture of gun powder and
other arts were known a thOOiSnd
yoars ago "A tho -nil years agj
the forefather of the present Ohlneie
Bold silks tx the Romans, and dressed
In these fabrics, when the Inhabitants
of the British Isles wore coats of bluo
paint and fished in willow canoes."
China is a land of old faiths, curi
ously Intermingled nnd confused. The
one moht distinctive is Confucianism,
not to be counted in the strict sonse
a religion, but a system of conduct
and moruls. At Its best It is a great
preparation for Christianity. Budd
hism is an imported faith, largely a
pouter of form, and modified from its
Hindoo characteristics, according to
the genius of the Chinese mind, j
Taoism Is the native religion, a sys
tem of Illimitable Idolatry and terror
ism, with Its dread of evil splrltB and
demonn and Its blind efforts to avert
their vicious influences. All theso
faiths have failed, nnd there Is today
throughout the empire a new con
sciousness of their failure.
We are living In the midst ol
China's most amazing transition.
Things which have been considered
permanent for thousands of years
have changed within the memory ol
the youngest member of the Epwortb
league. Here are some Indications
time-honored examinations In th
Chinese classics for candidates fot
public office have been abolished. An
Interesting article in the Epworth
Herald for October 23, 1907, will show
what Ib taking their p'.ace. There I
a general spirit of educational unrost
The au-long love of he Chinese fot
educutlon Is taking new forms, and
western learning 1 being substituted
for the hoary native literature. The
barbarous system of foot-binding I
V-iiiK discontinued, to the intense re
lief of millions of women. The use
of opium Is being .rapidly restricted,
and will shortly cease to bu a nation
al vice.
Another Japanese Invasion.
A Japanese has obtained a ten-yoat
lease of sixty acres of land in Greeo
Valley, a few miles north of Vallejo,
In which he proposes setting oul
grapes. His example will soon b
followed by other Japanese, and in a
very brief period we may confident!
expect to see another settlement ol
the Mikado's subjects in Solano
County, In the neighborhood of which
white competition cannot endure. It
is a mere question of time, unless
the process is arrested, when these
foreigners will take as full possession
of most of California as they have of
Hawaii, where they are rapidly be
coming the dominant race, with the
willingness and perhaps the ubilisay
to throw out the whites, who once
thought they were going to control
It forever. San Francisco Chron
icle. A remarkable piece of work was
recently shown at a German exhibi
tion In the shape of a well executed
landscape made of colonies of differ
ent colored bacteriu thriving in gela
tin and meat extract. The thing was
shown at au oxhibltlon of eccentric
art. where there were also artistic
compositions lu spinach and egg and
other effects secured by resorting to
the use of spices of different colors a
the media, instead of paint.
THREE HORSE EVENER, TO USE ON TONGUE.
Some one asked for a three horse eveuer to use on a tongue. Here
is one. There must be an offset Iron made In the form of a half circle.
The ends may be bent down so as to hold against the side of the tongue.
The one bolt in eacli end will be enough to hold It In place. It should
A OOOD WAY TO ARRANGE THE LINES.
be made of Iron two Inches wide and one-half inch thick. There should
be twelve Inches from the centre of the tongue to the draw holes in the
Iron. The length of the long evener may be found by placing a single
tree at tho end of a set of whlppletrees. It will be about fifty-four
Inches between the end holes. This would bring the draw hole eighteen
inches from the hole In the short end. This side draft caused by the
offset may be remedied by a strap from the names of the third horse to
the end of the neck-yoke. Care must be taken to hitch the second horse
so that the iron seml-clrcle will not Interfere with his freedom of action
whllo at work.
In using three horses try this way of arranging the lines: Take a
pair of old single harness lines and make two cross liftes a little longer
than the regular ones. Fasten them to the inside bit rings of the out
side horses. Let this run over the hack of the middle horse and buckle
Into the regular buckle. It works fine and gives one full control of his
team. J. U.. In the Indiaea Farmer.
dotting AlfaRa Started.
A subscriber asks which is the
quickest and best way to get a start
of alfalfa uso culture or Inoculate
the soli.
Inoculate by all means. This Is
the surest way and by far the most
practical, and where the soil responds
to the treatment one may get a good
stand from one seeding. It does not
require n large amount of dirt to
sufficiently inoculate a held to in
sure a stand. Soil taken from nn old
clover or alfalfa field Is 'the kind to
use, but If this Is not available, hunt
up some sweet clover along the
roadside and uso this soil. Alfalfa
responds quickly to these tweet clo
ver soils. The best wcy to scatter
dirt is with a manure spreader. Put
only a very thin layer over the en
tire bottom of the spreader box. and
gear It so that the dirt Is red out
slowly. Then disc and cross disc, and
follow with a harrow and sow your
seed. A careful sowor can get pretty
good 1. -Mills by sowing broadcast out
of laud, and then cross sow. But
whatever method Ib used make sure
that tho ground is covered evenly. If
strips are left unseeded weeds soon
appear, and it will take double work
afterwards to get these covered.
Indiana Farmer.
The Farm Wood 1 ..1
A good sized wood lot is Indispens
able to every well regulated farm.
The demands made upon It are many
and various In the course of a sea
son. Here It is that the farmer
comes to lay lu his supply of fuel
for both summer and winter use and
ou M he doponds. for the timber to
repair his buildings, fences, farm
tools and machines. On account of
its great importance In the economy
of agriculture the timber tract should
be one of the best cared for sections
of land on the farm.
In these days of our failing Umber
ture, and hence it is useful in follow
ing a well-regulated system of rota
tion. It can be combined readily with
other forms of agriculture or horti
culture. The dairy provides In winter a
quantity of stable manure in which
the straw from the barn is profitably
utilized.
Tho by-products from the cow,
sklm-mllk, whey and buttermilk, are
a source of income In raising pigs
and calves.
Dairying gives constant and regu
lar employment of a light character
to every member of a farmer's fam
ily. Dairying inculcates habits of punc
tuality, industry, cleanliness and
thrift on the farm.
Cheese and butter are condensed
products, and the cost of carriage, in
comparison with their value, is less
than that of any other farm product.
The demand for good butter and
cheese on the world's markets Is un
limited, and, so long as the quality is
maintained, an all-around, oven and
profitable price can always be se
cured. The monthly check from the fac
tory provides the mainstay in the
household, as against the precarious
returns from yearly crops.
The farmer's household, as a re
sult of dairy work. Is always supplied
with fresh milk and cream, butter,
cheese, pork, bacon and veal.
'Storekeeper, traders, bankers,
financial men and politician all fully
realise, after year of experience,
that wherever dairy tannine 1 con
ducted farmers aro most prosperous,
mortgage are rarely found, and the
value of landed . property become
considerably enhanced. From "Dairy
Farming Pays," in the Indiana Farmer.