Care of Hen. If liens are confined to the poultry house on cold days see to It that they do not have to stand on the bare floor. Use straw, corn stalks, coin husks or either dry material (or a floor covering. Hens with cold feet will not Jay very many eggs. Farm ers' dome Journal. Average Hen Yield. Statistics show that the annual av erage egg yield per hen In this coun try Is Just about bIx dozen. Quite short of the 200-egg mark. Isn't It? The general run of farm "dunghills" lay seldom above this averuge, while the very poorest layers among thor oughbreds, receiving the same kind 3f attention, would exceed it by half. It costs no more to raise and fee,d Ih'iroughbreds than dunghills, and Hi" added profit In one year would nioi than cover the cost of procuring a start In "fullblooda." Farmers' Home Journal. I Ion In Chicks.. There is a disease that sometimes Of:, irs among chicks, which misleads th poultryman, and Is known as the wl,..e diarrhoea. The discharge Is whitp and similar to mucus. The chicks do not appear roopy at first, and "f-m to respond to treatment, but the result is finally death. Whole breeds have been swept away In some Instances. It Is nothing more or h'ss than roup, which nearly always at tacks chicks In the bowels. The prop er term to use for It. is consumption of the bowels. The only remedy is to cease hatching, destroy all sick liiicka and thoroughly disinfect the premises, ns it is contagious. Week ly Witness. Southern Cranberry Limit. Turkeys ran be grown anywhere; nut cranberries, their necessary ac companiment, are only Northern pro. duced. Nevertheless there are vast bog areas In the middle and southern portions of the country, which if cran berries could be acclimated to them, could be well utilized for this crop. With this Idea In view the Depart ment of Agriculture has prepared a small cranberry bog on Its experi ment farm. This Is perhaps the southernmost plantation of cranb.T-rit.-r' in the United tSates outside of the Allegheny Mountain region. The suec;-.ts or failure of the uiterprisc will have an important bearing on the future use and development of wasie areas, now bringing no return, but so located as to bo adapted to the cultivation of this crop. Farm ers' Home Journal. Forestry n Revenue Producer. Norman CI. Gordon, of Chicago, is deeply Interested In forestry and In an interview stated that while very recently the Btudy of forestry was confined to the care of large areas, there has now come a demand for the study of smaller tracts of wood land. "Every farmer," he said, "has his wood lot, from which he draws a sup ply of fuel that may or may not bo enough for his household needs with out coal. Any sale of the more val uable sorts of wood that he may make Is incidental, the result of chance seeding of maple, white oak, elm or hickory. Now, a white oak or a hickory Is no harder to raise than a red oak or a chestnut. The farmer who looks ahead is asking for infor mation that will tell him how best to develop the neglected wood lot, which, In the next generation, if not In 1 ,.i own time, will prove a source of reveuua not to be despised." ill 11 Y the original cows placed In the Jer sey register, In the Island of Jersey, were without white markings, we will not be surprised when an animal of undoubted pedigree Is presented bear Ing white marks. Do what we can to breed whole colored animals, now and again our very best cows will throw bark and give us calves showing a considerable amount of white. In diana Farmer. A Modern Granary, Some writers tell us that the aver age farmer annually loses one-twentieth of his entire crops from the lack of proper buildings In which to store them and hold them for profita ble prices. While the writer cannot vouch for the uhove statement, he dors know that an Improvement in the usual Morehouse for grain, etc., on the av erage farm Is not. only desirable, but very necessary If the farmer would Front of Granary, save to himself the profits on his pro ducts that now go into the pockets of the grain speculator. The Illustration shows a plan of a granary for corn, wheat, oats and other grain built along practical lines, and wherever built it has proved entirely satisfactory. The main fea ture of this house Is the lower floor. The outer walls are boarded or sided up tight, contrary to the usual man ner of building a corncrib. The house sits about three feet above the ground on oak or cement posts, as the builder may desire. The floor of the crib Is built of one by four inch or six inch slats placed one and a half Inches apart. The Interior wall is built in the same way. This allows a free circulation of air at all times, but keeps out all rain and snow. This, with the elevated floor, makes it entirely rat and weather proof. The driveway walls are boarded solid from the floor down to the ground. This allows the hogs and poultry to pick up rny corn that may fall through. It is said that corn held In such a crib not only brings a better price, but that It does not lose in weight the same as corn held In the usual manner. The crib Is twenty-eight by forty feet on the ground and twelve feet to the caveB. The upper floor will hold several hundred bushels of small A Side View. Flowers 011 the I' arm. The farmer's family Is, as a rule, composed of busy people, who have so many necessary duties that however much they love flowers, find It hard to cultivate them to any extent. Still this plan has been tri;d, and proved very satisfactory to a lady 1 know. She had one flower b"d near her j that lay the eggs must be In prlmo porch, three feet by ten feet, with a condition: not too fat, yet not run low wire trellis next tha porch for j down in flesh or vitality, nasturtiums to grow on. In the mid- If there are some sluggish hens in die was a row of geraniums In front, j the flock, some with combs not up to lly the kitchen windows she planted . color and that seem of a melancholy grain, and the two corncribs, eighty by forty feet, will hold a large amount of corn. Sliding doors are provided at either end, and a large ventilating window in the opposite gable ventilates tin entire building. The driveway is used a part of the season for farm im plements. Farm and Ranch. Farm Notes. To secure good hatches one must do mora than select the nice smooth eggs that are gathered; then hens THE PULPIT. AN EinoUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY Da GURTI3 LEE LAWS. Theme: ISacksliillns. a row of seeds 01 tail castor oeau plants, and in the vegatablu garden next to the front fence, sho had a bed about four feet wide the length of the garden, plaritid with seeds In groups. First, mixed candytuft, then aquilegia, then alyssum (this is beau tiful and sweet), then begonias, then disposition, either sell them at once, or pen them from the nests. Such hens are not liable to be good layers, but occasionally they lay, but one doesn't wish to set eggs from such hens. A sluggish rooster is not to be tol erated at all. The more lively and carnations, then pansles, then hello-j stirring the breeding Hock is the bet trope, tuun phlox, etc., until all the bed was full. She found that it was often convenient for the men to dig the flowerB, being so near the veg tabljs, and th beauty of the (lowers was sc. great that an added interest was given to the rare of the entire garden. She had rich soil and sunny exposure, which she could get In no other place. Correspondence of vn.its and Flowers. ter the hatches will be; all the care In the world won't help the eggs that are poor In vitality. It may possibly secure the hatch but of what worth Is it? One strong chick is worth a half dozen of the don't-care-lf-I-dle sort. Illght now Is the time to in spect the flock closely. Leg weakness sometimes affects the hens through mid-winter, and while not fatal, nor a contagious dis ease, It Axes the hen for the ax, and Color of Hie Modern Jeriey. for nothing else. Their day of use- It is the common error of Judg"s .fulness as egg producers, is done. at dairy shows, and even of some Where correct feed has been given breeders, to pass over Jerseys which j there Is scarcely ever a case of leg- show a great amount of white in the color and more especially owing to the posltlou In which the white patches are placed. Cows' of this class are called grada Jerseys, for as a rule we are accustomed to see any white patches confined to the flank and underneath portions of the body; lu one instanca a Jersey with a large patch of white on the shoulder, a largq star on the fort-head, and a considerable amount of white on t'te right thjgh and flank, won first plaee in competitions of considerable con sequence, was first and champion in tbe Jersey cow classes at the Oxford County show In England and is the property of that well-known breedor, Lord Itothchlld. Here In our own country we have a Jersey cow with a streak of white extending right from underneath the forearm to tbe shoulder, and yet It was tbe Grand Champion In tbe Jersey cow class at tbe United States National Dairy bhow, held recently In Virginia. As a rule one prefer to see whole colored animals winning first place In Jersey classes; but It we bear In find that only about ten per cent, of weakness. High roosts, when one keeps th heavy breeds. Is conducive to bumble foot, and leg-weakness. Don't feed altogether of corn and make the hens work for their feed, by scattering the grain for them Ip deep scratching material. Keej ashes, lime and grit in reach of them all the time. Give them clover bay shatterings; those that possess a feed cutter can prepare the clover for them exactly to the hens' taste. . Warm milk to drink, tablo scraps and an occasional meal of meat will all assist towards the good health ol tbe flock, and Just as certainly, to wards better and stronger hatchet from the eggs. Tbe wonder is, not that there art occasional poor hatches In the aprln but that there are any good hatches at all. Just think of tbe long winter and their enforced Idleness. The high price of poultry and eggs, at compared with other farm prod, ucts, should result In better care o the poultry. From "Pin Feather, la tbe Indiana Farmer. f)roouyn. x. Y. In thj Greene"' Avenue Baptist Church, Sunday, the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Curds Lee Laws, preached a atrang sermon on "Back tliding. Th text was from Proverbs 14:1: -The backslider In heart ihall be filled with his own ways Dr. Laws said: Do yon rrcall your wirly experi ence la the serriee of the Lord? Do vou remember the day and hour when the burden of sin rolled off rour heart, and when you coubi look up for tke first time Into, the face ol rour heavenly Father, relolclni in Ilia presence anil In His love? Do o;i not recall how the whole world mddenly became mjre beautiful and how your heart yearned over your 'riends and enemies as never before? There was on old man converted to Christ, down In W'oahingtin some! :lme ago Hp was a rugged old fel- , low, his esthetic nature had not been , much cultivated, and hi did not have in artist's ye. The mor. Ing after ' bis conversion, when his wits came j lown to breakfast, he was standing j it the dining room window looking )ut at the desolate winter scenery. He turned and said: "Wife, come : here and look, come here and look; I the very trees are dapping their ' hands In praise to God!" Ah, in the ; lays gone by there has been many an ?cho of those words In many a heart bere. j To me after I found God. the whole ' s-orld was more beautiful; the sky sras bluer, the grass was greener, the 1 breezes were rofrer, the sun was warmer and all mankind were dearer to me. What In the meaning of all this? tt means that I had found that which was the complement of my whole be ing. As Augustine said; "O Lord, Thou hast made ns for Thyself, and we are restless till we rest in Thee." tt means that in God I had Ijund the latisfaction which this world had never afforded me, for as the ocean only can till the ocean's bed, so God alone ran satisfy the mind of man. Blessed Is the man who has been rec onciled to his heavenly Father, who has returned like the proJigal to hia Father's love. I turn now to the dark side of the picture. How few of us have kept this early 1oy, and have continued In this blessed pence? Of -course you know the story or the lost chord? A woman. In the shadows of the twi light, when her heart was sad, gently touched the keys of a glorious organ. She did not know or care rvhat Bbe was playing; her fingers lingered Idly but caressingly upon the keys. Sud denly she struck a chord, and Its won drous melody as it filled the room was uplifting and transformlns end beavenly. It flnodrd the crimson twilight, Like the rle of an nneel's pwilra, And it lay on her fevered spirit With the touch of infinite culm. It quieted pain and sorrow. Like Invr overcoming strife. It seemed the hnrmoniom echo From our discordant life. If linked all perplexed meaning Into ooe perfect peace. And trembled wav in silence, As if it were loth to cease. Something disturbed thlB woman ind called her from the organ. As loon as possible she hurried back and began to play, but this divine chord was gone, and though she kept on playing she could not bring it back again. How similar to oor experience as the children of God and yet how op posite! Many of ns have lost our peace, our joy, onr rapture, but bless God, we can all have this heavenly music In our souls again, if we are willing, for God is willing to heal our backsliding, backsliding is so com mon among Christians as to be almost universal. Of tourse, there are dif ferent degrees of backsliding. Some have gone only a little way, while others have gone so far that the re turn will be difficult, but thank God, not Impossible. First of all, let us consider how men become bncksliderB. The word Itself 'Is significant. To go forward requires effort, to go backward re quires no effort at all. In the Chris tian life, if you cease to go forward you will inevitably go backward. This backsliding always begins In the heart. We may go on for a time In the outward performance of duty, lu the ceaseless round of Christian ac tivities, while; In our hearts these things are growing more and more distasteful. The heart may therefore be in wrong relation to a given thing, while our actions may be perfectly ex emplary. But God knows that that man Is a backslider, and he knows It himself. Whether others know It matters very little. But after a time airmen will know It, for the back slider In heart generally becomes the backslider In life. It Is very hard fot men to continue long in hypocrisy. Ordinarily a man's outward life Is the expression of bis Inner life. A man'l character may be better than his rep utation, or a man'B reputation may b better than hia character, but ordi narily reputation and character agree. We call, the uncouth and uncivil "dia monds in the rough." We constantly any of the man whe sins with his tongue, "Well, you know, he la very hasty and Impetuous, and often says things which he doei not mean." But- God says tries things have their origin In the heart, and from the heart flow outward. When our conduct becomes bad, it If because we have already been back sliders In our hearts. Then bad leadf to worse. Like Peter, we begin "tc follow the Lord afar off," and this in' evltably leads to the denial of out Master. You remember that when the Master was taken captive He wai Immediately forsaken by His apostles. Then began tb procession from Geth semane to the Judgment hall. Th Master walked alone Ills weary way lie trod the wine-press alone. Thi shadow of the cross had alreadj fallen athwart His pathway. Bui after a little while two of the apostlei summon up emrage and follow tin company. One of these was John, and he walked as close, to Jesus as hi possibly could. But Peter did no have the courage to do that, so hi lagged behind, or, as the record savs, "be followed afar off." When the company reached the judgment hall, John went la with Jesus, but Peter, straggling In late, dared not go there, but with shamefacednes sat out In the court and warmed himself by the fire. Step by step he had led to hi own undoing. The servants Jeered him and taunted fclm, until he grew profane aad blasphemous, and de clared that he never knew Jesus of Nazareth. Had ne followed close to the Master, the presence of Jesus would have anstalned and strength ened him, la tbe companionship of John. be. woaJ4.Jiava fvuad. courage. and he would have been saved from the influence of the evil company which proved his ruin. Ia not this the proper diagnosis of many sin-sick souls among us? Is not this the exact history of your backsliding? You began by sheer neglect. You did not commit outward positive sins, but you neglected the means of grace. You were startled when you recog nized the growing Indifference in your heart. Bible reading became Irk some, and you no longer delighted In private prayer. In the meantime your devotion to business or pleasure caused you to give up the prayer meeting. Then you became Irregular on Sunday evenings, and gradually you droppeJ out of all church attend ance. In the meantime you were not sustained and cheered by the conscious presence of your Lord nar strengthened by the companionship of your fellow Christiana. Then yon drifted out among unbelievers, and perhaps they have taunted you Into denying your Master In ways which ten years ago vou would not have dreamed of! Ox ccurse you did not start out to make shipwreck of your faith. You were hoodwinked by the devil. Even a fool would shun the first steps toward evil If he could see the end from the beginning. In our city there are tens of thousands of men and women who have drifted into sin and drifted out of the chjirsi. .Mi'.heaxt reamsavir these people, for they belong to God. They have been redeemed by the blood of God's Son. They ought to be eating at their Father's table, but Instead of this thay are spending their all In riotous living, or it may be that the devil has already put them to feeding swine. Now let us consider the result of this backsliding. I do not mean the Influence of backsliding upon others, though this Is far-reaching and bane ful, but the curse of backsliding to the backslider himself. My text says that the "backslider In heart shall be filled with his own ways." "What soever a man soweth that shall he also reap." The law of the harvest Is a universal and unalterable law, but a considerable time generally elapses befcre a man eats the bread of his own sowing, I do not envy the backslldar. By experience I knew something ot the bitterness of the agony which he now suffers or which tbe future holds l.i store for him. Now lt us consider God's, attitude to the backsllaer. He yearns over His wayward and wandering children, and longs for their return. The pic ture of the father in the parable of the prodigal son Is the best descrip tion of God In the whole Bible. And is not the picture ot the prodigal son the best description of the backslider that you know of? In the heart of God there Is an abundant welcome for every returning backslider, nnd the church ot God ought not to be less hospitable than the heart of God. II again I may usj the Apostle Peter as an illustration, we may sure ly learn from his restoration that unworthy Christians may become worthy Christian, that weak Chris tians may become strong Christians, and that our very failings may be come stepping stones to success. After his experience, Peter was too humble a man to praise himself; but all of us know that the Master took him back to His heart and immedi ately Intrusted him with the Interests of His Kingdom. Tl.is weak and halting and backsliding Jian was des tined to become the leader of the apostles In devotion and suffering and success. It thrills ray heart to wat:h the humble and chastened and re stored backslider. I am glad It was Peter who preached the wonderful sermon at Pentecost, for It proves .to me that God can take the weakest of us and make us strong and powerful. If we will only give ourselves to Him. I close with these words ot invita tion from my Master. My first word is to the Christians within the church who have grown cold and neglectful: Our Master Is anxious to forgive us and to have us start afresh. Let us be done with indole ice a id indifference, and serve the Lord with joy and and enthusiasm. My second word is to the Christians who have fallen into sin and drifted out of the church: Your Lord stands with open arms and pleads with you to come back to Him, and the church wants you back. If you will forsake your sins, no onj will remember them against you. Come, and you shall have the gold ring and tbe best robe, and we will kill the fatted calf In our rejoicing, and In ntost of our church? there will not be a single Pharisaical elder brother to begrudge you the welcome you are receiving. My last word Is to tbe men and women who have never yielded their hearts to the love of God, nor sur rendered their wills to the will of God: The Father has a royal wel come for you. It was for your sake that God sent His Son into the world. John 3:16 is the Master's message to you. If you do not remember the beautiful words, hunt them up In your long-neglected Bibles, and then come, come, come. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOB APIUL 11. Joyful Service. BleBsed Is the Chrlstlun who works, cheered by the sure hope of bis Mas ter's final victory. He cares little for the tears now, for he can look forward to the hour when he shall come to the harvest home, bringing his sheaves with him. He bears eas ily the noise and the wounding of the battle, for he hears prophetically the music ot victory, and knows that be follows a Captain who has never known defeat, and that the Joy of vic tory, like the joy of harvest, shall more than compensate for all life's weary toll and all earth's strife and conflict. Great Expectations, We should widen out expectation! to tbe magnificent sweep of Ills prom ise. MacLaren. t lliuhelor Tax. We Joke In this country over the question of imposing a tax on bache lors, but In Germany they have tukan the matter serlouBly. At least that Is what a new scheme being introduced next year will really como to. At present in Germany the Income tax on an Income of 325 amounts to about 15. Next year this sum will be re duced In tbe case of tbe taxpayer who has two children, with further reduc tions for larger families. Relatives tor whoso support a taxpayer ia legal ly responsible will be considered aa "children." Some bachelors might be able to score a point In this respect! London Chronicle. ANOTHER ENTRY. "Have you ever seen an effort to prohibit betting?" "Yes," answered the turfman. "The Legislature out In my State tried It." "And what was the result?" "The bookmakers went to betting on whether or not the law could b enforced."- Washington Star. Subject: Petr Delivered From Prl. son, Acts 12:1-11 Golden Text, Psalm 81.-7 Exposition of the Lesson and Lesson Comments. TIME A. D. 44. PLACE Je rusalem. EXPOSITION . Peter In Prison and the Church Praying Unto God For Him, 1-8. The lull In tL j perse, cutlon was but temporary. It began again with great fierceness. James was killed and Peter arrested, put In prison and about to be killed. Peter seemed to be In a very perilous posi tion securely locked In a Roman prison, bound with two chains be tween two soldiers, guarded by six teen soldiers, keepers before the door guarding the prison. Peter's enemleB seemed to have taken every precau tion, but they made one fatal mis take, they left God out of their calcu lations. There Is "nothing too hard for the Lord," nor for the church that links Itself on to God by prayer. God often withholds His deliverance and answers prayer at the last mo ment. What should the church do? There Is but one thing to do pray. They appealed the case from "Herod tho king'' to God, the King of kings. Peter seemed to have faith that he would be delivered, for he was calm ly and very soundly sleeping. Just as soon as he was thoroughly awake he said: "Now I know of a truth that the Lord did send forth His angel (Just as I have been asking Him to) and delivered me." Verse 5 teaches us Just how to pray. (1) "Unto God." Much so-called prayer Is not unto God. There is no real coning into the presence of God and actually presenting our petition to Him. There are volumes In these two short words, "unto God." 12) "Without ceas ing." The R. V. gives the thought, but not fie full thought. The Gref word means, 1. .erally, "stretched-out-ed-ly." It is a vivid pictorial word that represents the soul on a stretch with intensity of desire (cf. Jer. 29: 13). It is the word used of Christ's prayer in the garden, when In the in tensity of His prayer Ills sweat was as It were great drops of blood fall ing down to the ground (Luke 22: 44; cf. Rom. 15:30; Col. 4:12, 13, R. V.). (3) "Of the church." There Is power In the prayer of the Individ ual, but there Is added power, yes, multiplied power, in united prayer (Matt. 18:19, 20; Acts 1:14; 4:24, 31). (4) "For him." They did not wander all over the world In their prayers that night; they concentrated their prayer on Peter and on getting him out of prison. II. Prayer Answered nnd Peter Free, fl-11. God's angels are most likely to appear in times of greatest need. A heavenly light shlned in the gloomy cell. A prison cell is a dark and dismal place, but no place ia more luminous than a prison cell when the angel of the Lord stands there. God's angels are very uncere monious. "He smote Peter on the side and awoke him." Sharp blows are often more loving than gentle lullabys. It Is frequently necessary to rudely awaken a man before he can be delivered from his peril. God's orders demand prompt obedience (v. 7). Peter could not take his chains off from himself, but he could gird himself and bind on his sandals when tha chains were off (v. 8). What Peter could do for himself he must himself do. Peter had gotten so much into the habit ot obeying God that he did it even in his sleep, or at least when be was only half awake and thought he was asleep. If Peter had been like many of us he would have stopped long before they got to the iron gate and debated with the angel how they were to get through it. But he had more sense and did just as he was told and left the "how" with God. When he got to the gate it "opened of Its own ac cord," but not until they got to It. If we just obey God difficulties will disappear when we get to them. III. Relieving litioda and the Un believing Church, 12-17. The com pany had come together to pray for Peter's deliverance. God, as might be expected, heard their prayer and sent the answer around to the meet ing (cf. Is. 65:24). But they were completely bewildered by the answer when it came. They were sure that It could not be Peter. Rhoda must be crazy. If Rhoda Is not crazy, then It must be his ghost and not Peter himself (v. 15). Perhaps they thought he had been executed In the night. But Rhoda had faith, she seems to have been expecting Peter. As soon as there was a rap at the door she was on her feet and at the door listening. Tbe moment she heard Peter's voice she knew it was he, it was Just what she expected. Even though they told her she was crazy, she stuck to it still. She was only a "maid" (R. V.), but she Is the, only one In that praying company whose name the Holy Spirit has thought worthy to put on record. There were presumably church digni taries there, but none o tbem are mentioned. Rhoda alone" la named. She bad faith and she alone counted. That "Rose" (Rhoda) bad sweet fra grance with God. The unbelief of tbe rest seems all the more unac countable when we remember how Peter bad once before thlB been mir aculously delivered from prison (ch. 5:19). Peter kept right on knock ing. That Is the best way to treat unbelief just keep hammering away. THE PONY AND THV PANTHER. A Btory Is told about a pony that saved a little girl from being torn to pieces by panthers. The girl was twelve years old and she lived In Oklahoma. She nad a small pony, and many a fine gallop over mountain trails she enjoyed upon Its back. Once she was out for a rldd cantering merrily along through a canyon, when auddenly tho pony stopped. Two panthers crouched In the path. They sprang upon the girl, dragged her from the saddle and began to claw her clothing off In strips. But the pony was quick as tbe panthers. Instead ot running away, as any frightened animal might be expected to do, It wheeled and began to kick tbe panthers with all the power of Us strong, hard hoofs. And its blows were so fierce and fast that the panther could not endure them, but slunk growling away, and when tha little girl looked ,ip she saw no panther at all, but just ber pet pony standing quietly beside ber. Oetroit News-Tribune. APRIL ELEVENTH Risen With Christ Col. 3: 1-4 Eas ter Morning. The rising of the soul. Eph. 2: 1-7. A symbol of resurrection. Rom. C: 1-5. Our new life. Col. 2: 8-1 0. Resurrection power In us. ' Enh 1: 17-29. The risen Christ within. Rom. 8: 914. The spiritual uprising. John 6: 24 Our resuirection Is Involved In Christ's; we have His word for that (v. 1). If we belong to the risen life, our affeotlon belongs to It, and we can judge ourselves by what we admire, enjoy, and desire (v. 2). What of us Is dead, if we are risen? The world part only (v. 3). There Is too little looking forward to the glory we are to have with Christ. It should Irradiate all pur living (v. 4). Suggestions. The Christian life Is a risen and a rising lire; everything In it Is rising, nothing depressing. To think ot the dead as In the grave is to deny our faith at its cen tral point. No one can be risen with Christ and be absorbed with the worries and cares of earth. "With Christ" are the Important words; "risen" follows as a matter of course, if we are with Him. Illustrations. When one of a family Is raised to a throne, it means the advance of all. We all join In the rising of our Elder Brother. A bird, for all Its wings, cannot rise If a rock Is tied to Its feet. Our rock is often gold. In one of his queer stories Frank R. Stockton imagined a negative gravity, pulling men upward. Our negative gravity is our Christian faith. The problem of aeronuutics la to make a flying machine that Is heavier than air. Christ takes us up with all our heavy sins. To Think About. Am I living as an Immortal should? Am I living as if I were to be on earth forever? THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK TEMPERANCE RATTLE GATHER) STRENGTH EVERY DAY, EPWDBTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, APRIL 11, Comforted by a Risen Savicur John 20. 11-31 Easter Sunday. The first word Jesus spoke to Mary after she had recognized him on that first Eastern morning was a word of sending. He said to her: "Go tell my brethren." In a sense she was the first missionary of the resurrec tion life. She went to the troubled disciples and told them that she had seen the Lord, and delivered to them his message. Is not that the office of a missionary? On the evening of that first Easter Jesus came Into the room where his disciples were. His first word- was, a word of peace; his second was a word of sending: "As my Father hath sent me, even bo send I you." And thus forever associated with their first vision of their Lord, risen from the dead, was his thrusting them forth to be heralds of his completed salvation. Thev were to be mission aries unto all the world, as he had come to bo the missionary from heaven. The Incident which has Jesus and Thomas for its figures has been given Its larger emphasis as the rebuke of a doubter. There is, however, an other side to it, In what seems to be an Incidental remark. Jesus has a vision of those who dfd not require such evidence as Thomas demanded. There were such, even in the begin ning, but what are they compared to the infinite multitude of people who since then have not seen and yet have believed? A peculiar blessed ness Is theirs, and that word, too, has a missionary value. In a more em phatic sense than Is true or us who live in a Christian civilization tbe peo ple of heathen lands have not seen,, and yet many times they have sham ed us with their fulth. The world Is readier than we realize to believe our message concerning Christ. Its demand for the hearing of that mes sage outruns our readiness to supply It. In everyy mission land today there are those who have not seen but who are yet ready to believe If only the good tidings can be preached to them. So Is not Christ's Easter word to us a word of sending? Ci Bern Financier, 15y A. 11. LEWIS. "Sonny," began the book agerl, "would this be a good time to 8u9 the boss?" "Got yer life Insured?" queried tho Dfilce-boy. "Now, look here, old man," con tinued the fellow, in confidential tones, "you and I must fix this little matter up. Your business Is to keep us fellows out of the office, Isn't It?" "Dat's right." "At the same time, you need a lit tle extra coin for balls and parties and Delmonlco dinners?" "To say nuttln' of grand opera." "Of course. Now, old pal, I'll tell you what we'll do. You get an Inter view for me with the head of th-j firm, and I'll hand you half a dollar before I .leave. Why, I've got a book proposition bore that he'll jump at." "Nuttln' doln'," replied the boy, after a few moments' thought. "But why not?" "Becus a guy as smooth ai you would sell our easy boss so many books he'd be broke for months, an' I'd lose a dollar a week In tips h'l hands me. It's your move, Alger non." And tbe book agent sighed and moved on. From Judge. , Warnings Against Alcohol. Tn Paris they put up a poster ( every public hospital ward, nnd ot every prescription blank of their hoi pltals and dispensaries they print tht following: "Alcoholism: Its Danorrs." 'Alcoholism Is the chronic poison. Ing which results from the habitual use of alcohol, even if not used to th extent of producing drunkenness. "It Is an error to say that alcohol Is necessary to laborers occupied with fatiguing work, that it gives heart for work or renews their strength; the artificial excitement produced bj it rapidly gives place to nervous de pression and weakness. In realltj ui. "imi nag no actual uBe lor any on. '.'The habit of drinking strong I in. itors leads ranldlv to alcoholism: hm the drinks called hygienic (In France) also contain alcohol, the dlf. feience being only In the dose. Tha man who drinks dally an Immoderate quantity of wine, cider or beer be. comes alcoholic also, as well an h wno flrinks the stronger liquors. "The drinks labelled as aperitive (in France), such as absinthe, ver mouth and bitters, and the aromatic liquors are more pernicious because they contain In addition to alcohol essences which are themselves also violent poisons. "The habit of drinking leads to family disaffection, the forgetting of all social obligations, disgust with work, pauperism, theft and crime. "This habit leads ultimately to the hospital, for alcoholism engenders the most various and destructive dis eases paralysis. Insanity, disorders of the stomach and liver and dropsy. It Is one of the most frequent causes of tuberculosis. . Futhermore it com plicates and aggravates acute dis eases; typhoid fever, pneumonia, ery. slpelas, which run benignly in a sober man, quickly kill the drinker. "The faults of the parents fall upon their children. If these live beyond the first months they are menaced with Idiocy, epilepsy or later fall victims to tuberculosis, meningitis or consumption. "For the health ot the Individual, for the existence of the family, for the future of the country, alcoholism is one of the most terrible dangers." Even more brief, writes Dr. Fred erick Peterson, of New York. I have made them for use on my own pre scription blanks, as tollows: "Alcohol Is a poison. "It is claimed by some that alco hol is a food. If so, it is a poisoned food. "The daily regular use of alcohol, even in moderation, often leads to chronic alcoholism. "One Is poisoned less rapidly by the use of beer than by drinking wines, gin, whisky and brandy. "Alcoholism is one of the most common causes ot insanity, epilepsy, paralysis, diseases of the liver and stomach, dropsy and tuberculosis. "A father or mother who drinks poisons the children born to them, so that many die in Infancy, while oth ers grow up as Idiots and epileptics." These go but a little way, to be sure, but If the 132,000 physicians in the United States could be induced to do likewise, they might help a little to persuade some of the 198,669 sa loonkeepers, bartenders, brewers, maltsters, distillers and rectifiers in this country of the harmfulness of their trades. Somewhere in one of his books Maeterlinck observes that If the hu mnn race were to give up meat and alcohol there would no longer be hungry people. At any rate a study of the twelfth census of the United States for 1900 Is an interesting commentary upon Maeterlinck's ' suggestion. I find there among the "industry groups ranked by capital" after iron and steel and their products, the textiles, lumber nnd Its manufacture nnd paper and printing that the indus tries of food and kindred products are capitalized at $938,000,000 and those of liquor and beverages at $534,000,000. It is easy to see that If the S93S, 000,000 capital in the food Industry can supply the greater part of the food necessary for our nation's use. the $534,000,000 of capital worse than wasted on the industries of poi sonouB drinks might well feed all the hungry and still leave a handsome surplus. General Grant's Views. "Long ago the big corporation ban ished the men who drank to excess. Now the great majority of them the leading corporations draw the line still closer. The man occasion ally under the influence of liquor has to go as well. Humau life is too precious, on the one hand, to be at tbe disposition of a man who may be muddled only slightly; business prof its are too valuable to be hazarded in the slightest degree. In these days of keen, incessant and often merciless competition. For equal reasons the tandard of efficiency in the armv, in stead of being lower, should be higher than that required by the most perfectly-organized corporation, aud the evil effects upon discipline of an example of chronic alcoholism in one selected for command are ton great to be tolerated." Such are General Frederick Dent Grant's views of the drinking man as related to the army. Novel Kite Game, The manner in which kites can be 1 manipulated Is well illustrated by the game ot Vakata. This game Is best : played with squads of ten or less a side equipped with ordinary Indian I kites of tissue paper and reals like . dumbbells. Tbe game It to fly your kite so that It cuts the string ot an opponent's kite by pawing It, rescues being ef fected by Red Cross kites so maulpu. lated that tbey get underneath ami pick up the fttlllug kite. The Cap--' Main,, . ;, , I Ruling Out Drunkrnness. . The Medical Society of Philadel phia has prepared a bill, which it will urge the Legislature to enact into law, providing for the forfeit ot his license and expulsion from the pro fession of any physician who stupe fies himself with liquor or drugs. Just Plain "Loaded." Bishop Charles P. Anderson was the author ot a notable witticism while recently discussing the equal I suffrage question. He declared that I when men have an afternoon of leis ure they go to the ball game or cir cus, while the women hie them to the ' Browning club. Then the woman come home "loaded with Ideas" while I the men come home "simply loaded.'" Road to Happy Marriage. I The road to a happy marriage has , no road bouses or wine rooms on the 1 road. . 1 Temperance Notes. State-wide prohibition seems as sured with the next session of South Carolina Legislature. At ber last election twenty-eight additional towns were added to New Hampshire's "no-license" column, while only ten which had been with out saloons voted to let them In. Colonel Richard Pllkington, tbe largest employer of labor In Lanca shire, England, In bis will disposing of $4,000,000, forbade bis belra to Ml or rent any part ot tha estates, to anybody for tbe -purpose of dis pensing Intoxicating liquors.
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