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.