Isolate the CnlvMi It Is really beyond comprehension that every great rattle farmer, who Is the owner of a valuable herd and knows it to be. Infected, do-s not take the simple precaution of Isolat ing his calves from '.he full-grown animals of his stork and feeding them on uninfected milk. Dr. Bang. Lnbor-Saving Discovery. A Massachusetts man hua made n great labor-saving discovery or rather, he Is practicing one. He tells tlurnl renders about it. "We used to load our six by three foot coops upon the wh-elharrow and crane our necks to loTk over the toop to see whore we were going. N'ow we pull tlv wheelbarrow behind us and hav no trouble. For years when we wished to move chickens or pullets into winter quarters or other 100pp. I call -d cut the whole family to hel;i. earii taking three or four cirris at .t im". Lately I found out that with a zood-alzed crate n the wheelbarrow I can move Ihei.i no mtu-li easier and do It my.-"lf." More About Alfalfa. The value of alfalf.i Is seen in nome such facts as the following: An acre In hay brings $2.' to C " 5 a ye n-, .i cording to yield, for feeding purposes. There Is always a good market for alfalfa hay, which yhids more than Jouble that of timothy. Hogs, cows and slice are fond of alfalfa grazing and pastures and they thrive greatly on it. Land that will grow alfalfa lux uriantly Is worth double that of land that will gixw only timothy hay. Four times cutting a year of alfalfa hay, which is usual on good land, means five to seven tons per acre. Alfalfa is not only great for live stork feeding, but as a legume gath ers nitrogen from the air and greatly enriches the soil. Great is alfalfa: Indiana Farmer, Success in Dairying. To succeed well In dairying. It Is necessary to have good butter produc ing cows not. some good and some are to live. This does not mean not teaching all the subjects heretofore taught, but teaching them In a new way, a reorganization of the school work. "I believe In the rural schools. But like other social Institutions In the country they are In a state of arrest ed development, as compared with like Institutions in the city. With the telephone, the multiplied mean? of transportation, 'the country Is not going to tumble headlong Into the city, but the city Is going to move out In the country, forming sma!' suburban centres. "1 would like to see on the opposite four corners in every country com munity tour institutions; an adequate and an attractive assembly hall, a reorganized and attractive rural school, not afraid to teach of the soil on which it stands, an historical museum, showing the old forms of farm tools, and fostering local pride by the preservation of biographies, and portraits of members of that com munity, and containing also a display of the local products, and on the other corner a rural church that is In close touch with the life of the commit nlty. "There Is going to be more diftl culty in getting a living from farm land hereafter. The problems the farmer will have to face are twenty times more numerous and more com plex than fifty years ago. So we ere brought to the absolute necessity of developing a nsw point of view to wards agricultural life and Industry. If you believe that there arc possibil- Ities of making a good living on the 1 land, that life on the land is highly 1 honorable, stick to it. If th city life gets the best young men and i women who are brought up In the ) country. It will be tho city's glory and tho country's fault, for not de veloping this new point of view, the appreciation of the science of agrl culture, and for not keeping in touch with social Instructions of our age In the rural districts as well as In the city. And this reorganization of the rural school is going to be a great part in this development of the rural life and community. "The farm labor problem wlli not TbePuioJr A SERMON & Subject: The Klonients of Success. LLnJllil I i.M.'i V ' if. 'APPLE TREES BEFORE TOPPING AND TWO YEARS AFTER poor ones and these cows must have good 1. utter cow feed and cara. One bad butter cow will eat up the profit of several good ones, and. therefore, ail unprofitable cows should be tested out and sold to the butcher; a farmer who wants to produce butter can not afford to keep them. The cows must be treated in accordanca with, their importance as a factor of success, and the milk and cream must be handled properly from cow to churn, and those who do not know just how it should ue done should not bo In trusted with the duties. There Is absolutely no profit In any but the best grade, because people don't want bad butter at any price. Good but ter, being made at the loast possible cost, must be properly presented to the market. It must not only bs Kood. but look good. It will pay any tanner to send some one of lils fam ily to an experiment station for In junctions in the art of butter diall ing. Epitomist. ('row Potatoes. The potato crop of the l uiid States does not equal the demand. To many this will be a revelation and too one statement should be sufficient to start many a farmer thinking along lines that lead to increased acreage. Official figures of crop values show that the potato is a crop worthy of the roost careful attention. The av erage revenue per acre In Illinois in 1907 was $62, in Kansas it wa $57, and in the United States as a whole, $58; the same year oats in Illinois brought 19.85, Kansas 19. 0J, iu the I'nited States $10.12 per acre. Potatoes cannot be stored and kept Indefinitely, as grains, for they are perishable.. The fall and winter of 109 roust be supplied with the 19Q'J crop. Progressive growers will dou ble their crop in 1903 If they would obtain the greatest revenue from I heir land. It is a well known fact that the wise potato grower never has a mortgage on his farm. Any crop not equal to the demand is an excellent one to grow. Of course, the intelligent grower must realize, and it Is m fact, that those who work by hand cannot hope to compete with those using machinery especially de signed tor planting, spraying, digging and sorting the potatoes. With their equipment the crop can be raised and marketed at nice profit and with ease and comfort to the grower. Kpitcnilst. New J,Jfe on I he Farm. Professor L. M. Bailey, of Cornell University, at a farmers' meeting, re cently made the following remarks: "There is a fundamental necessity of putting the school thoroughly In touch wltL. the affairs of life, and this Is Just as essential In the country ai in the city, where It U already be ing done. The affairs of common lire can be so organized as to be af fective in the training of men's minds J put as snre'y as the old aeadmln subject.!. Too many ot us go through school with the Idea that . common , affairs of life are not to; scientific tndy. We must put t boot tbor-' uhiy In touch with th life people bo settled until you train up farm artisans who have pride In their work, as the shot) u.iisaii ha.; In his work." Side Bones. Look out for side bones c: the draft horse. Foreign buyers have been more particular than Americans on ths question of side bones, and it i.i only a few years since some of our best judges in America have been looking out for side bones at all. It is said that only a few years ngo a judge, who has considerable repu tation as a horseman in this country, was Judging at a Western State fair. An exhibitor whose horso had been turned down to second place objected that the judge had put th3 first prize upon a horse with side bone?, ani it Is said that the judge went over to the first prize horse and began to feel along his ribs, and he said, "This hors3 has no side bones." I saw another judge who was called down in the same way by placing the first prize on a horse that had side bones, and iie went to feeling for the splints just below the knee on the insldj of the leg, and he found none. Tho aide bono is just abova th3 heel of the horse; It is a mere carti lage; it is put into the heel, we be lieve, to give springiness to the heel, to save inflammation there when the horse works and travels. Now, on low heels, and especially on heavy horses, they put a good deal of weight on tho heels, they get feverish there, and Inflammation sets in. These cartilages harden and become bone in the effort of nature to mend up the little strain, or make good the work of inflammation th,ere, and when they are boney and hardy you have a horse that to some extent will got sore as he works. You ran see It in the gait, end you can find It when you take hold of those cartilages and try to move them. Do not confound this side bone with a ring bone, or a partial ring bone. King bone Is supposed to go clear around, though not always. I have seen people confound a side bone with a ring bone. Another thing I should have men tioned In relation to this Is the hock JolnOlt is the Joint that throws out three-quarters of the troubles on the limbs of our horses. If it is loosely made the chances are there is a sprain, and nature in mending that sprain produces what Is called a bone spavin, or It may be an enlargement of those sacs that bold the oil to lubricate the Joint, and we usually call it a wind puff, but It comes from a loose Joint as a rule, and a sprain upon the loose Joint, and gives ui tnoroughpin and bog spavin. Geo. McKerrow, in the American Cultl-vator. High Stakes. . "Well, Where's that cook?" de manded bis wife. "Don't tell me she wasn't on the train." "She was on the train," timidly explained the com muter, "but I got to playing cards and a Lonleyville man woo ber at whkt." Text, II Tim. 4:7: "I hare fought the good fight; I have finished my course; l have kept the faith." Paul draws us a picture here of a man who has been fighting with the cestus and who, full of honors and glory, with the laurels of victory on his brow, lays down his Instruments of hostility. He pictures a runner who has gone the course, who has run the race and has won, and who has received the palm of victory. He depicts a man who in the affairs of the spiritual life has been true to his Maker and his God and is upon ! the threshold of entering Into tho vie tor of the life eternal. I This assertion of Paul that he has 1 fought a good fight, has finished the j course, has kept the faith, is the as- i mirance of a man who was successful In all that to which he laid his hands. : Paul was a man who had attained, who had reached his reward, who had gained success. . He had put Into effect certain plans that he had for ; tho ordering of his own life and the betterment of the men and women with whom he had come In contact. 1 He had executed arrangements for j the preaching of the blessed news of i Jesus Christ, and he had his eyes ' fixed not so much on what he had i accomplished as upon the victory j which he had achieved, upon the j crown which was awaiting him when he should go Into tho presence of the ' Lord his God. j St. Paul was a man who accom plished. He not, only put tasks In ! motion; he fulfilled them. He was : a man who achieved much. In a world where so many of us do things j in a small way, ho did things might- I lly and Insplrlngly. He was a man ' whose achievements were like unto : the mighty victories won by Christ. This success of Paul is the ideal of ' every man and every wiman. This j victory and success which crowned his efforts Is the desire of every hu- ' man heart that is normal. There is j not one of us but has dreamed of ! mighty things, but has longed for ! ability and power to accomplish great j things for God and man; none of us 1 but who. In our youth, and perhapa in later days, has reached unto great er things than any we have yet ac complished, for this power of Paul to execute and effect. This ability to affect the whole history of the lives of the men with whom lie comes In contact Is the de sire and the ideal of every human bouI. But our great question Is, how shall we achieve? how shall we ac complish that to which we lay our bands? bow shall we execute the task which under God Is given us to do? I How shall we attain, how shall we j achieve, each In our peculiar sphere, I according to our peculiar ability, that j we may do something either small or great for the weal of men and for the glorious peopling of the kingdom j of Jesus Christ? It seems to me that there are four ' elements that enter Into success, four ! things that are necessary that we shall be able .to do a work for God that shall count, a work that shall : amount to something for the weal of j men, for the betterment of lives i about us, for the satisfaction of our own ideals. A man cannot do very much unless first of all he has some self-appreciation. That is not to say he should have egotism; that Is not to say that he disdains others, not that he wiilghs himself in the scales to the disparagement of other men; but it Is to say that he has placed himself objectively over against his own per sonality and has sized himself up so that he has a first-class and first hand Idea of his own ability. It is a good thing to have an appreciation of our own abilities, a batter to have a comprehension of our own limita tions; but, while It is a good thing to know our own limitations, I am a profound believer that we know .too many times the extent of our limita tions and not of our abilities. We seem to think that what other men have done we cannot do; that what men of equal brains and ability have done we cannot do; we are afraid to lay our hands to the work of God because we fear perchance we cannot do that to which we have laid our hand. To many a man tho apprecia tion of his own divine power is in the terms of limitation rather than In the terms of real ability. How many men we meet will tell us what they cannot do, who would do thus or so if they were able; who are sc taken up with the consideration of those things which God hath not given them the ability to do that they forget the potentialities divine and eternal which God hath placed within their own grasps and personalities. St. Paul wail a man who had meas ured his abilities and knew what he could do, -who had no mean apprecia tion of what he could do. When he met Jesus face to face there was no hesitation as to whether he was a man who was divinely called, as to whether bo was the man who was called to do the work. The knowl edge that God had called him was suiTtcitnt knowledge that he had the ability, that he was of some worth for the bringing of the good news of the Gospel to those who were in sin. Paul was a man who had some ap preciation of himself, he knew what he should do and the way be should do It. We do not have direction. We beat against the wind, we waste our time with futile beatings against tbe air, we spread ourselves out too thin. How many men there are who have not achieved because they have tried too many, things, who have not bad enough self-appreciation to' know wherein their abilities lie atrbngest. As Paul was a man who gave the right emphasis to bl life; so, con trariwise, there are men In the world who with mediocre abilities bave not had the sense to see tbe leadings of their own powers, the guidance of Providence In their own lives, who have lata tbe emphasis in -th'i wrong place and given their whole time and ai-deavor to tbe working of things fo whlch tbey were never mud. we see that all over the world!; men In the pulpit who ought to be at the plow, men plowing the fields who ought to be proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, msn who are out of place In the great mechanism of God's eter nal plan, men who have never tie to mo fitted for and bave never gotten luto their proper places, who have never reached tbe point at which their energies should be applied and bave never seen the guidance of God In tbelr lives. I believe the secret of tbe success of every man who has Influenced tbe world Is to be found In tbea?5asJ . whlci he Jtldu;on :hat whfch be was able to do. Called for serious things, he did not attempt lo be the buffoon. Summoned to bring men to the knowledge of the glorious Gospel of Christ, he did not attempt to be a jester for a friend. Bidden enliven life for those around him by the appreciation of the things which ore humorous, he would stick :o that, one thing, and that alone and In that would achieve success. You and I might never have heard of Martin Luther unless he had placed Ihe emphasis aright. We might never have heard of Jesus Christ If He had taken the taunts of the offl :ers and those in high places and had given all that was best In Him over to their whim and will, if He had subverted His holy power because they laughed Him to scorn, because they Informed Him that He was scan ilalously wrong when He claimed to oe the Son of God. We might never have heard of Him unless He had placed the emphasis of His whole life correctly. It Is a rule In the law of mechanics that a man to achieve success must tllrect his power to the right place. There Is only one place where he can achieve most by the application of power, and that Is where .the power needs most to be applied. And so, If we are to run our course and in herit a crown, we must flrct of all find out what our abilities are and then lay our efforts where God leads us. While there are many men who have appreciation of their own ability md have measurable success in lay ing their abilities In the lint of least resistance, there have been men who Have not accomplished anything be ;ause they had no tenacity, who were to anxious for attainment all at once that they would constantly shift themselves and lose their direction. In the desire to accomplish many :hlngs they have never accomplished anything at all. A man may appreciate his own powers and size himself up well; he may direct his powers In the right way and be tenacious, but unless he has a clean heart and a conscience undented before God and man he cannot accomplish much In this world. One of the worst things with which we have to deal la an accusing conscience, a soul which is constantly calling unto us that we are hamper ing it. We cannot accomplish much if we are hampering our souls against the achievement which might be ours. A clean heart fits a man for life's labors; It is a mighty power. No man can do the work which God hath given unto him to do save as his own life Is pure in Ood's sight, in the sight of his neighbor and in his own eyes. Many a man who might have done something has done noth ing because, first of all, he has stulti fied and strangled his soul, because ho has forgotten that the secret of all success unto good work is a happy heart. A happy heart cannot come save as a man is right before God. These are the elements which un derlie the life of Jesus Christ and of Paul. As they underlie these two lives, they spell success for you and me. How many there are who never achieve In the spiritual lire because they have no understanding of their own divinity. How many do not achieve because they have never con sidered the soul from an understand. Ing point of view. How many men we meet who are built physically by the plans of God, but whose souls are small and shrivelled and mean because they have never given the same attention to the erection and understanding of the soul life which they have given to the building up of their physical beings. How many there are who have understood the power of tha mind, but whose souls are misshapen and warped because they have never grasped the divine powers of their souls. We need to consider soul forces ns much as physical. We need to un derstand the soul and the laws of Its actions even as we understand the human animal. No man can achieve in the physical world save as be has studied his soul objectively to see In what manner he was made. A man cannot understand what his soul Is until first of all he gets near to Jesus Christ. He must bave gotten a full knowledge of the nature and dignity of the human soul. It behooves us to get hold of some real appreciation of our Innate divinity, of the ele ments of personal purity and right eouEness which are ours before God, and then to address our llveB to at tainment in spiritual things, unto the building up of our souls in righteous ness and purity and perfectness. And above all, to keep at it. The trouble with the church and the indi vidual Christian is too much that we work by fits and starts. We are care ful that we get three meals a day end eight hours of sleep, to get money to supply the body's needs. We manage to keep out of Jail, to have a bouse over our heads to pro tect us against the weather. We labor assiduously and continuously toward these things. But we nur ture the soul by fits and starts; we give God the Sabbath or one night a week or two minutes and a half when we retire to rest. We are not con tinuous but spasmodic servants. If men by marvelous tenacity bave achieved miraculous success in the physical life, so you and I may achieve majestic spiritual success it we will lay our omphasls upon spirit ual things; and, getting a good grasp upon the things which are eternal and upon God Himself, stand fast, fight the good fight, finish the course, keep the faith. The Full Life. Deep streams run still and why? Not because there are no obstruc tions, but because they altogether overflow those stones or rocks round which the shallow stream has to make Its noisy way; 'tis the full life that saves us from tbe little noisy j troubles of life. Scottish Reformer, i 3ht &Lsnfca:j-&cl70of INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR MARCH 11. 1 EAGLn ATTACKS A CHILD. Joslah Olmtrae. a farmer residing ou the cy.-) of the Adirondacks in tbe town c Pitcalrn, N. Y.. barely laved h.. five-year-old daughter from boing carried off by an eagle on a recent afternoon. Olmtree for sevn eral days had noticed a bit; eagle In the vicinity of hia horns, and oach evening as he ted bis Cock ct cheep the bird would swoop down among the animals and gorg itsel on the feod prepared for the herd. Several times he tried to get a s'ao ct tbe bird, but without aval!. During the afternoon b'.t lltllo girl was about the barnyard when luddon ly tho father was attracted by ber screams, Hasteniaj froru t'.ie barn Olmtree was bo:rifled to see b?r in tho clutchss of tte bird. The out cries of both tho parcat and child evidently frlght:n;4 the enslo and It dropped tha child unhurt oa the roof of a building near tbe barn. Quickly getting bis sun tho father took a cbanec shot, but outside of the lo.-is of a few fer.ttiii L'ue bird flew away uninjured. i Subject: Aeneas nnd Dorcas, Acts 0: 32-13 Golden Tet, Acts 0:31 Commit Verses 40, 41 Com mentary on the Lesson. TIME 40 A. D. (?) PLACES. Lydda, Joppa. EXPOSITION. I. A Orent Revl vnl In Lydda and Slinron, 33-35. Step by step God was leading Peter on to ward the opening of the door to the uentnes Lydda, Joppa, Caesarea. Aeneas Is the only citizen of Lydda whose name Is mentioned in the Bi ble. The only great thing about him, ; apparently, was his great need. But I there Is nothing more likely to attract ( God s notice than need (Luke 1:63). ! Aeneas was apparently not even a i disciple when Peter met him. He is j spoken of as "a certain man" (comp. I v. 26; ch. 3:2; 10:1; 14:8; 9:10). j There did not appear to be much hope I for this man. That day opened as all , others had for eight years. It closed i differently from all others, because the day he met a man who knew ChrlRt and brought the mighty power i of Jesus Christ Into his life. Doubt l less Peter had met with many afflict . ed ones In his journeys from place to place, but God had not spoken the 1 word to him and so he had not spo ken it to them. But now God did ' speak It to Peter'sever-llstenlng heart ; and with unhesitating faith. "Peter i said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ ; maketh thee whole." Wonderful words. Words that might be spoken to many a palsied man to-day. Pet , er's pity was not of the sentimental, i but active kind. He saw the man's ; dire need. He knew one who could help him. He brought the two to- gether. Peter was an apt scholar ! (comp. Jno. 5:8; comp., also, v. 40 with Luke 8:54). It Is noteworthy how Peter keeps himself In the back ground. He fixes the attention of Aeneas on JeBus Christ. His perfect confidence Is also noteworthy. He saw very clearly that he was only an instrument. He saw, with equal clearness, that Jesus Christ could and would use even him. Aeneas' faith responds to the word of power; be arises straightway. The miracle sim ply opened the way for the Word. There is a wide gulf between Peter and many modern so-called "healers." II. Great Revival in Joppa, 36-43. Joppa was no Insignificant town. There were people of wealth and in fluence there. But the name of only a single person In that place has come down to ns, the name of a hum ble woman. Her name shines very brightly on the pages of history, and her story has been an inspiration to many. Why? "This woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did." That Is real greatness, and it is open to all. Note that she was "full" of these good works and alms deeds. She was a disciple indeed (Jno. 15:8; comp. also, Jas. 1:27; 1 Jno. 3:14. 16, 17; Tit. 2:14; 3:8; Col. 1:10). Note, also, that she was not full of good works which she Intend ed to do, but was full of good works "which she did." She seems to have had no relatives, but Instead of mur - muring about her lonely lot she made herself sister and mother to all, and so she had many friends. Being "full of good works and almsdeeds" (fid not exempt her from sickness, sick ness even unto death. God evidently has other purposes in sickness than the chastisement of our sin and the humbling of our pride (comp. Jno. 9:3; Jno. 11:3. 4; 2 K. 13:14). It won't do to decide too hastily that the one who falls sick, or even dies, has In some way wandered away from God. These disciples had a mighty faith. There had been no cases of resurrection, so far as we know, in the ten years that had elapsed since the resurrection of Christ. Yet those humble disciples believed In a living God and a living Christ, and that, now that there was need of a resur rection from the dead. God would grant it, and He did. "Showing the coats and garments Dorcas made." It was a most worthy monument that Dorcas bad built with a needle. Many have gazed at it and been inspired to acts of love and sacrifice. Note that she made these garments "while she was with them." "Peter puts tbem all fortn." Peter was following very closely In the footsteps of his Master (Luke 8:62, 64). In such a supreme moment as this one wants no specta tors; he must be alone with God. He "prayed." Ah, what power there is in prayer! It can raise the dead. Have you a dead minister, try It on him. Have you a dead church, try it on it. Have you a friend "dead in trespasses and sins," try It on him. If Peter had spent his time grumb ling at that corpse It would never bave come to life. Praying, not grumbling, la wbat we want to-day. He first turned to- Ood, then to the corpse. Here is- a lesson for Chris tian workers. 'When you have laid bold of God by prayer as Peter did, then you can lay bold of corpses by word as Peter did also, and tbey will rise. Turning to the sleeping one, he said: "Tabltha, arise." Those eyes, , so long closed, open. Oh, some bright day Jesus Himself will say it to all our sleeping loved ones, and their eyes shall open, and they, too, shall arise, never to sleep again (Jno. 5:28, 29). Peter gave her his hand and raised ber up Just as he bad seen Jesus do to bis own mother-in-law (Mark 1:31). The wonder tbat bad been done soon spread throughout Joppa. It was a conclusive proof ot tbe power ot Jesus' name. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES MARCH FOURTEENTH. Topic What Are Our Liquor Laws, and How Are They Enforced? Deut. 4: 1-9. An old liquor law. Num. 6: 1-4. A temperance society. Jer. 35- 6 14, 19. A principle for legislators. Rom. 13: 8. How to treat the liquor ox. Ex. 21: 28-32. Drink, the foe of Justice. Isa. S: 20-24. Affinity of drink and fools. Prov. 20: 1. We do not really possess our fair land until we possess it In righteous ness (v. 1). A law that Is not observed, or that is observed In a sense different from what was Intended, Is worse than no law; It Is, Indeed, lawless ness (v. 2). God Is over all law, and greater than all. If laws are not enforced, there Is a law of God that will re quire and obtain the penalty (v. 7). "Lest we forget." we are to remind ourselves continually of the fate of nations that have not kept God's law. They perished, though they were as rich and powerful as we are (v. 9). Suggestive Thoughts. Every citizen should know the laws. If "ignorance of the law is no excuse" to the lawbreaker, can It be excused the law-abiding? Temperance laws differ widely In different states, and we should know what laws the other states have and Jiow they work In order that we may have the best In our own state. We should know the laws, or we cannot tell whether they are being enforced by the officers chosen to perform that duty. If the laws are not enforced, the officers whose duty It is to enforce them' should be made to enforce nieiu, ana not tne private citizens. Illustrations. No temperance law, however strict, will enforce itself, any more than a trap, however strong, will set lteslf A law is a good too. If it Is kept sharp by civic vigilance. To stop with getting god laws !?ft!8?d1,8, llke bu'ln & engine but building no Are under the boiler and hitching on no horses. 1.Don't get into the shafU yourself, ir the horse Is not pulling the load urge the horse on, or get another horse. THOUGHTS S3 COONIE. . i nave a pet cax auu ois uu p Coonle, In front of bis nock be nas a white spot which looks like a white shirt, and little white paws, and the other part Is gray. He can sit up like a squirrel and calls "meow," which sounds to us like "ma," because be is very fond of mamma. He some times goes away from borne for days, and when be comes home he Is very glad to see us. And when be catches a mouse he goes Into the parlor to eat It. When he was a little kitten about five Inches long we had a sick chicken which we bad to bring Into the bouse, and Coonle and be would sleep together in a basket under a feather duster tbat my mother gave lo the chicken. When they woke up they would play and tumble about the floor. Tbey also used to eat and drink together. Now Coonle is a big torn cat, and we bave a lot of c'uick enr, but be won't notice auy of them. Pauline Nor d man n, la tbe New York Tribune. ' SUNDAY, MARCH 14. Our Pattern Matt. 11: 29; 20: 23; Mark 10: 43-45; Luke 22: 26. 27 John 13: 13-16; 17: 4. Every religion or philosophy must stand or fall by Its results. "By their fruits." How does It work out? What can It do? The professed aim of Christianity Is a perfected life and a perfected world. The world must therefore get its eyes upon a perfect man. There is power in an exam ple. That God has given to the world one radiant figure who' rises above his times, his environment, his race, and who presents us with the universal, ideal man, a shining, per fect figure that Is the standing mi racle of Christianity. "It has been reserved for Christianity," says Icky, "to present to the world an Ideal character." We ought never to apologize be cause Abraham, David and Peter were lmperrect. The Bible was the first to tell us so. Not the saints of the Old Testament or the New; np. nor the saints of yesterday or today, were ever Intended by God to be "our pat tern." "Wo have this treasure In earthen vessels." Only one is a pat tern. His name is Jesus. The voices of his contemporaries, of the poets, philosophers, moralists of the ages since, have echoed. "We find no fault In him." Two thousand years of undreamed-of progress but lifts htm higher In the world's regard. We do not forget the emphasis made by the Bible on the Life of Jesus as a revelation to us of God and of ideal humanity. Latin theology, which has dwelt almost exclusively on the value of the actual death of hri8t, must not mislead us here "His life the light." God expects us to believe in bis Son, but he expects us also to take him as a pattern, as did Saint Paul and Saint Francis. It is to be hoped that the lesson will leave a deep im pression In this particular. "How far may I hope to become like Jesus?" "Till we all come unto B perfect man. unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." To show that Jesus In his earthly life was given as a pattern of the Ideal humanity, and as such Is to be kept ever before our eyes and to be followed from day to day. It is im portant that Christians realize how Imltable are the qualities of Jesus in everyday life. t&. ANATOMY. , A More or Less Helpful Lesson For ' Ilcglnnen. Proceeding in a southerly direction from the torso, we have the hips, useful for padding, and tbe legs. The legs hold up tbe body and are some times used in walking, but when rid ing in automobiles they take up valu able space which otherwise might be employed to better advantage. Attacbed to the logs are the feet. Soma varieties of feet are cold. Some people are born with oold feet, others acquire cold feet,, and still others have cold feet thrust upon them. Tbe surface of tbe body is covered with cuticle, which either hangs in graceful loops or Is stretched tightly from bono to bono. On" tbe face It Is known as com plexlon and is usel extensively for commercial purposes by dermatogo gists, painters and dscorator.. between the cuticle and tbe bono are tbe muscles, which hold the bones together . and prevent them from falling out and Uttering up tho sidewalk as we ralk along. Packed neatly and yet compactly Inside the body is tbe hearty the liver and the lungs; also the gall, which lu American! ls abnormally large. . These organs are used occasionally by tbe people !:o own tbem, but 'their real purpose Is to furnish sur geons a living. Thomas L. Maton, in Lippincott's. ' f ". our. I .WONDER WHY? There's Joy and gladness everywhere Like gentle tnowHakes in tho air; I wonder why? The angels sang good will to men; Sweet tiding are proclaimed again, And that it why. Christ came to earth a little one; bo lowly, vet lie was Und's Son; 1 wonder why? Ood gave Hia Son from Heaven abovt That we might live; for God is love; And that is why. Wm. Harvey Erb. A Lover of Ood. No matter what the calendar said, the month ended uniformly on a Sat urday night at Saints' Rest. This was because the mine operators counted on two or three days' Idle ness after pay-day, and thought it well that Sunday should be among them. They had experimented once or twice, paying all the men In new one dollar bills. There were about two hundred men, and the average was fifty dollars to a man. Before the bank closed on Monday afternoon the numerous saloons had deposited more than six hundred ot those new bills. But the monthly wage ot Theophllus Lloyd was not among them. Yet when he had lived near Scran ton, there was not a wilder man in the mines than he, nor one who drained a deeper glass, till the Sal vation Army got hold of him, and helped htm on his feet. But he fell again and again, for his companions in evil were many, and the habit was strong upon him. And so one day he came home with a month's pay in his pocket, gave half of it to his mother, and with the rest paid his way to the new Saints' Rest mine in East Tennessee; for he was deter mined to make one last effort to re form. And before he went he gave his testimony In the Army meeting tbat he was leaving home sober and in the fear of God, and he asked the prayers of all his friends that he might be faithful to the end. His mother encouraged his going, yet wept In his arms. He was all she bad. Some one had told her that the name Theophllus, which she found in her Testament, meant "Lovsr of God." She had given her boy that name her only boy, born after his father's death. Somehow she lived through the years ot his childhood, and till he was big and strong, and could dig as many tons of coal a day as tbe best ot tbem. And he was true to his name till he got to earning money, and drinking. After tbat came bit ter years, but years of hope, for she never could bring herself to believe that some day he would not be what she had named him. Once a month from tho Saints' Rest mine came the surplus ot his wage, and It left no margin for 'bad habits. The letters were full ot hope, and written with Increasing strength, of will. From the day of his arrival, Theophllus had taken bis stand as a sober man and a Christian, and that made it not so hard. At Scranton they all knew his past, but here It was as if he had always been .sober. Tbe superintendent encouraged him;i the mine "boss" befriended him; the best men were his associates. It was not always easy to go by the saloons, but It was not Impossible, and he did it. Two years went by, and the time was in sight when Theophllus would return home. Pay-day was to come next Saturday. He would collect his last month's pay and return to bis mother. Then out of a clear sky camo the message to his mother, Theophllus bad been killed in a drunken fight. "O God," cried the agonized moth er, "is this the answer to my pray ers?" Theophllus was shot on Saturday night and burled on Sunday after noon. While tho minister preached above his grave, a group ot drunken miners near by quarreled over a keg of beer, until they came to a light, and the defeated portion of the com pany took refuge from pursuit in the assembly, and so augmented the fu neral company. And one bullet struck the tree which stood at the minister's back. If the conditions were not favorable to pulpit oratory, they gave added point to the temper ance sermon. And back in Scranton a mother wept, and said, "O God, I could give him up willingly, almost gladly, if he bad not fallen!" But in the quiet of tbe Sabbath evening, as abe prayed, there came a strange peace, and a conviction which brought comfort. Her boy had not fallen. She would not believe it. He bad remained true these two years; she would not believe that he bad failed at the last moment. It was Wednesday before she knew the whole Btory. The minister wrote It out and sent it to her, and the su perintendent of the mine added a let ter confirming it. Theophllus had collected his month's wages, nearly seventy dollars, and had the money in his pocket. He was returning to his boarding-place when a fight occurred, and he attempted to make peace, and was shot. He played the part of a brave man to the end, and left a clean record behind him. Tbe superintendent sent the money, and the minister forwarded a letter, sealed and ready for the mull, which they found in his pocket, He had intended that it should precede him by a few hours, and assure bis mother that he was -on his way. Just what it contained, only the mother knew; but it brought ber comfort, and she knew that her boy had Jled. as during the years of trial he had lived, a lover of Qod. Youth's Com panion. Turn to the Cross. Tbe cross Is the great centre of God's moral universe! To this cen tre God ever pointed, and the eye of faith ever looked forward, until the Saviour came. And now we must ever turn to that cross as the centre ot all our blessing, and tbe basis of all our blessing, both on earth and In Heaven In time and throughout all etrnlty. D. L. Moody. Grows as It Gives. The light ot love always grows as It gives Itself away. THE GIFT IDEA:,' "There it ratber a lutx-op la tbe outlook before Christmas times." "How so?" "Because the principal thought of the future It the present." Balti more American. V ii i ii ii " NOTHING FASHIONABLE. She suffers In silence." 'VWell, she never has any save com monplace ailments. Can't expect her to crow over tbem." Washington Herald. ,
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