L11 II V Milch Cunt. The first annual meeting of tho Connecticut Milch Goaf Keepers' As sociation was held at West Hartford, Conn., on February 2, 1909. Presi dent Smith, to compare cows' and goats' milk, made a demonstration analysis for milk-fat and mllk-sollds, With tho following result: Cows' milk. 4.4 per cent, fat, 14.1 C per cent, iollils; goats' milk. r..S per cent, fat, 16.40 per cent, solids. The society is constantly receiving Inquiries from various partg of the country, Indicat ing tne Increased interest that Is be ing manifested In the milch goat In dustry. Wickly Witness. Heifer vs. Mature Cows. A bulletin of the Connecticut Sta tion given some Interesting and valu able facts about th comparative pro duction of cows and heifers. Tables are given summarizing offi cial records of "i9s 1 lols'.eln-Krle-tans Bnd 4 o cin rnseys, classified ac cording to the aci of the animals. In the HolstcliiH "the- quality of milk Is quite uniform for animals of different ages. The milk or two-years-old heif ers contained 0.2 per cent, less of butter fat than that of cows In the mature five-year-old form." The cal culated butter fat yield In seven days at even age of two ycar.-i Is 9.o5 pounds; at three years, 11 " 1 pounds: at four years, ir,..' pound.2, and at five years, 14. 3) pounds. The aver age yearly yield of butter fat of the Guernseys for tin? two-year-old clas3 was S25.28 pounds; tin? three-year-old class, 403.9 potiinls, and the four, year-old class, .5 pounds. The mature form class five years old and over) averaged 4.".V7 pounds. , Five in One. t find the following arrangement to be the most convenient and useful contrivance of its kind on the farm. Hence I s'l'miit it to the benefit of the public. I will not give any particular lengths, as that depends on size of wagon and the preference of the farmer. No. 1 Is about 5x6 inch light wood. No. 2 Is 2x3 Inch. Sink holes In No. 1 about 1 V4 inch deep by 2x3 for No. 2. This hold3 No. 1 in place. Now if you want to haul logs simply place two bunks (one at each end of wagon) on No. 1 and you are ready. Then If you want to haul 4-foot wood put in standard No. 3. Then perhaps you may want to do some transferring on the farm sim ply place boards on cros3 pieces No. 2 (after putting In about five) and you are ready. Next you may want to haul out manure put in standard to hold sideboards and you are ready. Now you see a rain coming up and you waut to change to getting In hay. Then remove standards and bring out the following which you should have hanging at the side of shed on two pins, place on pieces No. 1 and you are readv. No. I are cross pieces 2x1 inches iO hold boards (No. 5). Put In standards at front find rear end of No. 1, just inside of pieces No. 4, to bold No. 4 and No. " at proper place. When through using either of the above, drive in shed, remove stand ards and hang from No. 5 on pins; have pins on opposite (.-!! of shed for pieces No. 1; then you have every thing in the dry and out of iihe way, without any hard lifting. Levi J. Bhenk, In The EpitomUt. a cow, Just as too many chocolates are bad for daughter Susan, or too much taffy disagrees with young Hill. But a steady diet of a small quantity of molasses Is a great thing for a dairy herd. My cows don't relish their fodder without It. I feed it to them all the yenr round, except In the breeding season. The carbons In It are dangerous then. "I hove had occasion to go rather deeply Into the subject of the rela tion between tho nerves of taste and the nerves of digestion. As a general thing, It Is true of human beings that the things they like are the things that are good for them. Tho same thing Is true of animals. The most profitable feed for the farmer in a 1 general way id the feed his stock 1 likes." j Cultivating Seedless Toinntor. ! Since 1899 Professor Hals'ed, of New .Jersey, has bten giving some at tention to seedless tomatoes. The firs; seedless plant occurred among the progeny of a cross between two standard varieties. At the very s'ert the fruit was large and was called the Giar.'.. The stems of the plant were noted for their long joints and slow growth. The variety seems to be well fixed and the flavor Is excellent. Another hybrid produces seedless tomatoes of a different type. A fair proportion of the fruits in each clus ter do not attain a size larger than peas, but go through the regular stages of ripening and remain seed less. Professor Halsted has also ob tained seedless fruits from several other crosses, showing that this Is quite? a common phenomenon In the breeding of tomatoes. Most of the seedless fruits possess a desirable flavor, but it is not always like that of the other tomatoes; In fact, In somo cases tho flavor has been pro nounced more like that of a straw berry. Recently Professor Sandsten, of Wisconsin, has demonstrated that the use of excessive quantities of fer tilizer exercises a truly remarkable effect upon tomato plants. It ap pears that the plants react differently to overfeeding. Some are dwarfed, some greatly elongated, some lie flat upon the ground, and In many the flowers and fruit are very abnormal. On two different types of plants thus produced seedless tomatoes grew. One type produced a large, solid to mato, while the other bore fruit not larger than a walnut. Both types come true when propagated from cut. tings. Several other plants were ob tained which produced fruits of an In termediate character, with fewer seeds than In normal tomatoes and Irregularly distributed. Professor Sandsten does not consider either type of seedless tomato of any com mercial value at present, but in time they may become so, and in any event it Is important to know that such profound changes in the growth and habits of a plant may be produced in a Eingle generation by changing the amount of the fertilizer, Country Life in America. Partial Cow Hat ion. No one would attempt to run a (team engine that was driving a mod ern threshing outfit with but thirty pounds of steam. Yet many dairy men nt tempt to get profitable re sults from their cows by feeding them a partial ration. They attempt to run thi.ui with bit' "thirty pounds of steam." Cliemis's tell ua that two thirds of what a cow consumes goes to maintain her body. The remainder goes roward miik production. It is evident to all that ths profit must como from tho feed over and above that, which the cow requires for maintenance, and that tho more she eats the great'-r will bi the profit. Thera are many good cows In the country that are not recognized as such and cannot be n:ado profitable unless they receive more feed. There is no profit In feeding partial rations to milch cows. We cannot get profit able results running cows on "thirty pounds o itcam." If there is a food shortage, tne might better feed full rations to bait the number rather than feed the many on half rations. In the latter case there will be much work and little profit. Ia the former the cows are sure to give profitable returns and the labor of caring for the herd would be much lessened. Milk Reporter. Kweets For the Family Cow. H. W. Heard, of LaFarge, Wis., states that when the American farm er's wife, a few years bonce, hands her husband the shopping Hat, there will appear the following: "Chocolates for daughter 8uian, taffy for little BUI, and a gallon of molasses for the cow." "Cows like sweets," be said. "I feed my herd a regular ration of mo lasses every day, and I find tbat they thrive on it. It makes their flesh fat and their skins glossy. It gives test to their appetites and helps their digestion. It Increases the quantity and Improves the quality of their milk, for it puts the cow In a good v humor, and a good-humored cow is the best milker. "Of course, the thing can be over don. Too much molasses la bad for To Gi t I'oitili' Eg?. A great many experiments have been conducted to ascertain, if possi ble, the caus9 of lack of fertility In eggs. Many experts are at sea who have thought the discovery had been made. One plan Is purposed to ascertain strong fertility and when the expert, mcnt 13 made a second time there is a different result. Aguln, there may be strong fertility and low vitality in the chick that Is hatched or in tho embryo which fails to hatch. The best of us are willing to con fess that tbero Is much mystery In the business of Incubation and the catiBes of eggs falling to hatch. Some experiments have been con ducted In tho Canada Kxperlment Station to gain some Information along this line. Different breeds and crcssbreeds were testsd and also egi from hens which were kept in houses that were a3 cold as the ordinary houses where poultry is kept. Fresh air and exercise are important anJ such cannot always be obtained in warm houses. The following is a summary of the results of such ex perlmcnts : The generous and gently stimulat ing rations given to the fowls kept in cold houses did not seem to affect the strength of the germs of the eggf laid by them as similar rations ap parently did In the caso of hens kept in artificially warmed houses. Eggs laid in early Deccmbor bj the hens kept in artificially warmed houses showed a greater percentage of strong germs than did eggs laid by them later in the season. Eggs laid by the same hens ic early spring showed a greater per centage of fertility, but the weakest germs. Tho most striking and gratifying results were obtained from the fowli which, like their parent stock, hac never known warm quarters. From forty-eight eggs laid by these fowli In early spring rafter laying wel! during the winter forty-five strong chickens were hatched. In contrast with this are soventeet chickens from fifty-two eggs laid b hens kept In warmed but compara lively limited quarters. Results were strongly in favor o' the average farm conditions. Oni successful farmer has an open shef attached to his poultry bouse, an to this shed, which Is protected b; a curtain in stormy weather, his fowli have access, so obtaining fresh nil iritl exercise. Tbe latter Is securer1 l throwing grain In Utter, which It always on the floor of the shed. In land Farmor. . THE PULPIT, A SCHOLARLY 8UNDAY SERMON BY DR. ALVAH S. HOBART Theme: The Unlisted Asset.. Brooklyn, S. Hobart, N. Y. The Rev. Dr. A. of Crozpr Seminary, preached Sunday morning in the Em manuel Baptist Church, Lafayette avenue and St. James place. His subject was "The Unlisted Asset," and his text was Matthew 22:4144: "While the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them, saying: 'What think ye of Christ? Whose ! son Is He?" They say unto Him, 'The son of David.' He saith unto them, 'How, then, doth David In spirit call Him Lord, saying the Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy foot- , stool. If David then call Him Lord, how Is He his son?" And no man was able to answer Him a word, neither durst any man from that time ' forth ask Him any questions." Dr. Hobart said: j Sometimes In the summer the ther mometer runs up Into the nineties, 1 and we call it hot weather, but we take oft our coats and attend to oui business and say to our frien'ls: "Thli 1 is summer, but after all I rather like summer. I do not see that the sum mer is to br? so much dreaded." And the next dav the thermometer stands Just as it did the day before, but we are nearly smothered, and we say: "I cannot stand It at nil. I think this , 19 about the worst climate; it i! enough to kill a man." What is the difference? The thermometer does not tell the whole Ftory. To-day there are only sixty dezrers of hu midity, but yeBterday there were nine ty. There Is a certain unlisted ele- , ment In the weather that the thermom- eter does not make any account of, but that unlisted element makes all the difference In tho world. A man Is sick and his doctor tells that he has an Incurable disease and cannot live, because the medical records do not show a single case of recovery from that particular disease. Never theless the man recovers completely, and the only way the astonished doc tor can account for It Is by saving that the man had a great fund of in exhaustible vitality. That vitality is the unlisted asset in the case. This Is tbe Idea I have in mind when I ppeak to you concerning the unlisted asset in Jesus. These people wanted to know certain things and i He wanted them to believe certain things. There seemed to b some doubt as to the Messia'e, and Jesus asked thera what sort of a man they thought the Messiah was going to be. "Whose son will He be when He comes?" and they said. "Why, Da vid's son." Then He said, "Have ye not read the psalm wherein David said. The Lord said unto my Lord?" In the Jewish realm no man would ever call his son "Lord." How was It? They did not know. They found in the Old Testament Scriptures that there was an unlisted asset. Now, , history presents a similar problem, , Things have happened that we cannot j account for in the ordinary way. Be. fore, or soon after, A. D. 300, the pa- : gan kings of Rome ceased to be, and a confessedly Christian king sat in 1 the centre of the Roman Empire. Now the teachers of that gosnel did i not have philosophy like the Romans 1 or literary culture like the people of Rome or Athens. I They suffered persecution and were called "theoff-scourlngof the world." j They had no armies, nor temples, and yet Inside of 150 years they displaced , the Emperor on his throne by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. How are you going to account for that? Somehow these untrained fishermen, and that cast-out Pharisee of the Jewish eccle siastical institution, had gone ahead with tho unlisted power-and won these marvelous victories. Something ; was there besides, something greater than a son of David. A humble peas, ant's son In Palestine prophesied that His name should be above everything and that all the nations of the world should know it and bow down to it. What do we see to-day? Why, the statesmen of the world are being ' guided by the fundamental principles that that peasant taught. To-day the i philosophers of the world are slough- , ing off all tho speculations that are i not in harmony with the fundamental conceptions and the peasant's ideas of God. All are admitting that they ( must come to the recognition of the existence of an Infinite source and 1 personal God who controls all things. ; and this Is the specific statement of Jesus when He said: "Pray, our 1 Father, who art In heaven." . Every i statement and every theory of the sociologists of this time is pre-Btated in the language of the old Jewish peasant's son and every great princl to start 9purgeun clubs In every town In America and vorshlp Spurgeon; or suppose 2omo one wanted us to j start Phillips Brooks clubs and be come jirooKsucH, we woiuq say, "There i9 a ranltarium over there; you had bettor go there." You see that if Jnsu3 were nothing More than a pre-eminent con of David He would be on tho tamo piano with Spurgeon and Brooks. We will honor such men and tako counsel from their wis dom, but never bow down to them. And men would novor bow down to and worship Jesus Christ If He were not something i,,o;e t'mn a son of David. "But," you any, "that hy pothesis does not account for the fact. "We admit the my story, but there Is a certain unlisted clement that we cannot see yet." Lot us yen what His apostles say. Paul had hla own the ory when he said that Ho was "In the form of God, yet Ho nindo Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was found In tho likeness of tho flesh and suf fered death, even the death of tho cross." Thoro Is a notion of pro-ex-lstence. That is Paul's conception of the unlisted asset, that pre-existing glory with God. That does not an swer the Question, but it answers something. Ho did wnat David never did. He took on Him our form and went back to accomplish the finish of the work. In tho Hebrews we rend that He was the "express image" of Cod and "by Him nil things consisted and held together. " So you have the hypothesis of His being larger than David's son, who too if on Him tho form of David's sot'. Then wo find Jesus speaking with authority, "it hath been said by m n o old time, do so and so, but I say unto you tio bo and so." Again, "I ramo down from My Father, and all authority Is given unto Me and all judgment Is given unto Me that men may honor tho Son as they honor the Father," and "he that hath tho Father hath tho Son; he that hath not the Son hath not God." It does not solve nil the mys tery, but it tells lis of a certain ele ment of divinity about Mm which no son of David ever had. Then again Ho says iht whosoever believes and follows Jesus will be with God. That does not solve the mystery, but it telis us that so far as God can teach mankind Ke teaches us by His Son Jesus Chris;. You say: "I am handicapped, be cause peoplo calling themselves Christians have not Christianity enough to distinguish them from the rest of the world." Confine yourself to those whom you will recognize as genuine Christians, those whom you would like to have pray with you when you aro sick. Ask thsso people, "How is it you have managed to over come when others have failed? How is it that you have kept straight for ward with a cheerful spirit where oth ers were discouraged? And they will te'l you this: "Since I believed in Jesur., a strange Inside power has come to me that has changed my af fections, that has opened my eyes, strengthened my courage, nursed my virtues, nerved my will and has kept me steadfastly going toward the Ideal that I regret I have followed so far away." I say that such testimony Is the strongest testimony that this Son of David has an asset of power that He imparta to His peoplo to give them victory. This is the New Testament expla nation: He was the Son of God and had in Himself certain immeasurable assets of divlaenesa tbat belonged to Him, not because Ho was the Son of David, but because He came to bo the Son of David from on high, and because of that ho has a claim to our obedience and worship and confi dence. What sort of a Christ do you went? You need a saviour. What do you want Him to do? First, to forgive you. Second, to purify your tetrt. Third, to give you grace. Can aay body do it except it bo the Son ot David to come In touch with you, and tho Son of God to have power? I hnvo spoken these words to you this morning that you might believe, not only that Jesus is the Christ, but that Christ is tho Son of the Living God, and that believing in Him ye also misht h?.vo life. (Jht INTERNATIONAL LESSOX COM MENTS FOR APRIL 25. APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH. I-.vcry Christian a Worker. Each member of a Christian church should be a worker for Christ. Our Lord has never granted a dispen sation to a single one of us; would any of us desire that He should? His vows are upon us all without excep tion. Are we each obedient to His word, "Occupy till I come?" Are we put ting out our talents to interest? If we are not doing so, we can never enter into rest. Rest Implies prevl qus labor. We are bidden by the Holy Spirit to labor, to enter Into the rest of God; It is the way thereto. J Idlers are unrestful. fidgety, worried and worrying, fretful and fanciful. troubled and troublesome. Thev are pie that guides us is stated better by the happiest who are the most com- Him. Wneu you toon over wo uuu inuieiy consecrated lo ine service OI vnn find that where this Gospel has gone the world has new conceptions of man. Nowhere else do you find the conception of man "In the image of God" und standing in all funda mental essentials on a common plat form. It has given new conceptions of man's attitude toward God, of his God and most fully absorbed In obe dience to His will. Oh, that all our church mem-bers were constrained by Divine grace to do their utmost for tho Lord! C. H. Spurgeon. The New TcUmcnt. It Is an easy thing to tal.-e into Manias Are Epidemics. Manias and delusions arc mental phenomena, but tbey are social. The) are diseases. of tbe mind, but the) are epidemic. Tbey are contagious not as cholera Is contagious, but con tact to others Is essential to them They are mass phenomena. Profe sor W. Q. Sumner, In "Folkways." There are la all thirty-five electrU furnaces In operation In this countrj and Europe for steel production. the New Testament aright? It la colossally subltmo. It has no parallel in human language. It Is the power of God among men. It Is tbe critic of our thoughts. And It is all this because it enshrines the Christ. It exists to perpetuate th Master. Rev. David Gregg. Be Emotional. A man can never move the wcrld who lets the world move him. Mar tin Luther. duty to his fellow man. There was j one g hand tne New Testaraent. and no conception of 1ntern'lt,lona,1la.w,u,n; ; turn Its pages; but do you estimate tu unnauanuy oruusui n. uu m. peasant's son In Palestine prophesied all this recognition of these princi ples 1800 years before. What are we to say about that? Is He more than a peasant's son or Is there some unlisted element there? We must look around to find the cause ot this unaccounted for phe nomenon ot history. We have ex ' bausted the assets ot David's son, and ; we must find something else. Some I things, it Is true, can be accounted for as the son ot David, but not all. Tbe times and the character ot Jesui ' will account for some, but there is i larg residue left that cannot be ac counted for that way. Some say, ' "Jesus Is undoubtedly the pre-eminent teacher ot the world. Nobody 1 ever equaled Him before or since of Is ever likely to, but," they say, I "Shakespeare was undoubtedly th . tlghest genius In his line, and be went so high that nobody aspires to , touch him. Socratea was a pblloso ! pher, and In bis line nobody aspires : to take awar hla crown. And so 1 Jesus in Hla line was the pro '"-" nt Hla day. Ha cam from tbe . .b people, a most pious family. In a time when tot world was trying to be sc wicked, and tie was a spleudld reli gious genius and we bow down to Him pre-eminent In His sphere." Will It do? We will admit that tbe cir cumstances and times did for Jesus about all tbat could be done to make Him pre-eminent as a moral teacher, but wby did not other people tbe martyrs, tbe disciples why didn't Paul rise to the same pre-emlnencef No man could lay a finger on Paul's life and say, "Here Is a moral weak ness tbat accounts for It." If Jesus was no more tbon a peasant's son He sever could, then or since, have com manded' the respect of a. single man such as Hi has now. Suppose a man came from England and wanted us Remarkable .Thermometer, Some curious thermometers were made. Otto deGuericke, burgomaster tit Magdeburg, made one which was twenty feet long and gorgeous with blue paint and gilt stars. It consist ed of a large globe fastened to a tube, both ot copper. Tbe tube was bent Upon Itself to form a very narrow U, In which was placed the requisite imount ot alcohol. One arm of the U waa shorter than the other and 9pen at the top. On the liquid was a float, to which waa attached a cord passing over a pulley. At the other end ot this cord waa hung a gilt an gel, Its finger pointing to a acale on which the degrees were painted. The Writer's Power. Newspaper Influence and power rill widen, Just as newspapers are more and more read, and correspond. Ingly It behooves newspaper men to look weH to every word they write, for they write not as one man to an other, but as one man to multitudes, New Havea Journal and Courier, Subject: Tho Gospel In Antlocli, Acts 11:10-30; 12:2.1 Golden Text, Acts 11:20 Commit Verses 22, U:i Commentary on the Lesson. TIME. A. D. 42, 43. PLACE. Antioch. IMPOSITION. I. Great Revival at Antioch, 10-21. It took years for them to learn that the Gospel was for men of every nation. But while these early Christians had not as yet learned all things, they had learned some things well: (1) what to preach "the Word;" (2) how to preach "speaking the Word" (R. V.). They Just talked the truth in a natural, un stilted, conversational way. (3) Who ought to do the preaching the rank and file of the church, for "tbey that were scattered abroad" were not the apostles (comp. ch. 8:1). God had led on step by step; first, Jews, then Samaritans, then Jewish proselytes, but at last genuine Gentiles. The first missionaries to tho heathen were Just ordinary lay Christians, whi had gotten so full of the truth as it is in Jesus that they could no longer fol low the slow lead of tho authorities in the church, but were forced to lirpnV thn hrniHs nt Jewish tirciudlce and narrowness and speak out to the perishing Gentiles. The movement j was of God and soon carried the I whole church with It. Tho word for preaching In v. 20 is not the same as 1 in v. 19. It means "telling good tld- i ings." Those good tidings which they told are summed up in three words "the Lord Jesus." Tbey did ! not expend their strength in attack- I ing heathen superstitions and immor al practices. They told the good news , of salvation in Jesus Chrl3t. There Is . no proof that these men had the hand ; of bishops, presbytery or council upon them, but tney naa me nuuu ui mo Lord with them." The great secret of success In Christian work is here indicated. The outcome of the hand of the Lord being with them was, "a great number believed and turned unto the Lord." State ments similar to this abound in the Acts (v. 24; 2:47; 4:4; 6:14; 6:7; 9:31, 35, 42; 12:24. etc., etc.). We would do well to ask why the Gospel does not make the same uniform headway to-day. The answer, in part at least, is suggested In Acts 2:42: 6:4; Acts 1:8; 8:4. The faith of those converts In Antioch proved its genuineness by Its effect they "turned unto the Lord." What is meant by turning unto the Lord Is in dicated by 1 Thess. 1:9; Acts 26:18, 20. We have in these verses a very clear setting forth of God's part, the worker's part, and the convert's part, In repentance and conversion. The workers preached the word, the Lord Jesus (vs. 19, 20). II. Barnabas Follows Lp the Work. 22-24. As soon as tidings of the Gentile revival at Antioch reached Jerusalem there was great Interest there. They sent one of their best men to investigate and co-operate. "He was a good man." It Is far more Important that a man be good than tbat he be brilliant If he Is to edify young converts. He was also "full of the Holy Ghost." He was also "full of faith," and no man that Is not need undertake the work of Instructing and developing young converts, espe daily converts from heathenism so dark as that in Annocn. ne wua inw from the love of gold (ch. 4:36, 37). He' was free from personal ambition and Jealousy in his work (vs. 25, 26). He was very sharp-eyed to see the sincerity and promise of a young con vert (ch. 9:27). "When he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad." Barnabas was In sympa thy with G3d and His work. It Is sad to soy that not a few who see the grace of God wrought tnrougn omer hands than their own, are mad. and try to belittle It. Note the character of the working of God's grace In An tioch: it was a grace that could be "seen." We need more of this visi ble grace in our churches to-day. Bar nabas knew Just what to do. Exhor tation was Barnabas' forte (ch. 4:36, R. V.). His exhortation was precise ly that which should be given to all young converts. It Is not enough to "turn unto the Lord," they must "cleave unto the Lord" or continue in the Lord. This must be done with "purpose of heart." There Is always much In the way of persecution or worldly allurements of one kind or another to draw a young convert away from the Lord, and unless they cleave to Him with fixedness of pur pose, there 1b little hope. III. The Ministry of Barnabas nm? Saul at Antioch, 23-30. Barnabas showed his largeness of spirit in still another way. He said to himself, "This is JuBt the place for Saul. I will go get him." For a whole year Barnabas and Saul worked together In Antioch, and their work was great ly blessed. Their ministry consisted largely in teaching, systematic incul cation of revealed truth. The disci ples got at this time the name by which they are best known since Christians. The name was given to them by others (perhaps in contempt, rf. ch. 26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16). "It was a glorious name and they clung to It. The real prophetic gift was mani fested In the church (vs. 27, 28; cf. ch. 21x10, 11). The self-sacrificing love of this young but rapidly grow Ing Gentile church in Antioch to their Jewish brethren in Judea la very touching. No sooner did they hear of the bard times coming than tbey determined to send relief "unto the brethren that dwelt In all Judea." A Considerate Captain. At Portsmouth, N. H., where they were to unveil a atatue to the mem ory ot T. B. Aldrlch, during an autb or'a argument on International copy right, Thomaa Nelson Page broke up a rather acrimonious discussion by deftly Interposing a story. "After all," he said, "there Is nol much real help in tbat Idea. It is such an idea an emanated from tbe mind of a bard, cruel aea captain. "In mid-ocean the cook approached tbe captain timidly. " 'Captain,' be said, 'the men are growlln' about the beef. They say they can't chaw it nohow. They say It's only fit to mend their sea boots with.' " 'How much beef are you glvln' em cookie?' the captala asked. , " 'A pound apiece a day, sir,' said tbe cook. y " 'Well,' said tbe captain, gently, 'give them half a pound apiece from now on. I should be sorry to force 'em to eat what isn't to their, taste" Rochester Herald. 1 - Heroes of African Missions Jer. 1: 6-12. The missionary's passion. 1 Cor. 9: 10-23. The missionary's danger. Ezek. 2: 3-7. The missionary's faith. Isa. 49: 1-6. His reward. Mark 10: 28-31. The missionary's Joy. 2 Tim. 4: C-8. The missionary's triumph. Rev. 7: 1317. God's messenger may be a child, but God Is not a child, and the mes senger Is God's agent (v. 7). If ever a man had an excuse for fear, very often it is the missionary; but he least of all men is afraid, be cause most of all men he Is conscious of God's presence (v. 8). Missionaries are n ' always elo quent; but God's . .rd in their mouth's does God's v ork on human hearts, which Is far U.ter than elo quence (v. 9). Missionaries are reai.y set over na tions, to make thera strong, build them, and change history, as in China, Hawaii, Japan, the Islands (v. 10). Heroes of Africa. What missionary f iat has gone to Africa, the Dark continent, Is not a hero? The "great" missionaries are those of whose heroism we know more than of others. One of these is George Schmidt, pioneer missionary to Africa, who was on his way thither seven days after travelers brought him news or the neglect of the blacks there. He toll ed among them six years, till he was sent back to Europe by the godless colonists. p Sixty-one years later, In 1798, Van derkemp of Holland went to South Africa at the age of fifty. He was a converted Infidel, a learned physician. In thrpe years he himself spent $5,000 to redeem slaves. Robert Moffat, tho Scotchman, fol lowed In 1817. One of hU triumphs was the training of the fierce chief, Africaner, whose conversion is one of tho miracles of missions. David Livingstone followed Moffat, In 1841. His great work was heroic exploration, and he died on his knees, alone in African wilds. Krapf, a German, was the Living stone of northeast Africa, and he a'.do died on his knees In prayer. Cox, first Methodist missionary from the United States, went to Afri ca though he knew he could not live there long; and Indeed he died In five months. Bishop William Taylor tolled to es tablish self-supporting missions in Africa. This heroic man for years carried a stone with him, his only pillow at night. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS ' SUNDAY, APRIL 25. Our Spiritual Birth John 3. 1-13. John 3. 1-13. The truth of a aplr ltual or new birth is fundamental in Christ's method of salvation, and It is therefore given a prominent place here in the Gospel of John, corre sponding somewhat to the position of the Sermon on the Mount in the Cos pel of Matthew. The time Is early In the ministry of our Lord, so that there Is still In part an attitude of honest Inquiry on the part of the Pharisees Into tho new teaching, though there are also already the be ginning of a spirit of hostility, and it is stated concerning some of Jesus's hearers at this feast of the Passover that he "did not trust him self unto them" (John 2. .24). But we are fully warranted In regarding Xicodemus as a sincere Inquirer, while he comes partly as a representative of the Pharisees, Indicated in hia words, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God" (John 3. 2.) Christ's Initial statement. "Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God (3. 3), at once puts In clear light tho great truth that the kingdom requires In everyone who- enters It a radical transforma tion. The new Christian Impress reaches to the very center of person ality, and Is as pervasive and poten tial as that which Is given by one's natural heredity. A little later Jesus says: "Except one be born ot water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (3. 5). By tils use of the term "water" the Master shows that he Is loyal to the mission and ministry of his forerunner, John the Baptist, for "the Pharaslsees . , , rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him" (Luke 7. 30). Christian baptism had not yet been Instituted, and John's baptism was distinctively "the baptism of re pentance" (Mark 1. 4). Also tho term "the Spirit" here stands for the 'work of renewal or splrltuul change, which makes the converted person tike God In nature and character. Thus our spiritual birth or regenera tion embraces the two factors of re pentance and renewal. J CANARY TIP. I think you will be Interested In this letter about my canary, Tip. He was given to me as a Christmas gift from a friend. He Is a very Interest. Ing pet and does some amusing things. When I first saw him, on Christmas morning, he was singing sweetly In the window, only stopping to plunge his head from time to time In 'hla little drinking cup. I lmme. dlately opened. tbe door ot his cage, being careful to close all the windows ot the room. At first Tip seemed frightened at finding himself thus liberated and ceased chirping. Grad ually, however, hla courage returned, and he began an inspection of th room, flying here and there at will. Finally he selcted an old rolltop desk as his permanent - abode. So at Finally he selected an old rolltop desk that I had great difficulty In catching him when tbe time came for Mm to get Into hla cage, as he would hog Into a remote corner of some pigeon hole. Now every time I open his cage hi flies straight to the desk, perching on tbe inkstand, and often ruining fa ther's papera by hopping on then with Ink-atalned feet. Gerald W Lane, In the New York Tribune. I fill ! SI ! Child SforUllty In ew rork. There ia a weekly average of 4 Si deaths In New York City among, oil! drea under five years old. , ' THE GREAT DESTROYER - 1 a ' r SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOtJJ THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE, Who Are Alcohol's Defenders? The discussion as to whether si. cohol is ever a food Is equally lju and evasive ot tbe main issue, . Clares Dr. Frederick Peterson, of Net York. It Is not a food like bread and butter, for it has venom in t As Professor Abels, of Johns Hopkiy University, says: "It is an easily oi. idlzable drag with numerous unto, ward effects, which inevitably appear when a certain minimum dose is ei. ceeded." I have emphasized the word drug because It Is as a drug that alcohol li now regarded by most physicians. a piacea among tne narcotics and an. aesthetics. I should like here to present a very brief summary of what scientific in. vestlgators have recently determined to be the action of this drug: It is no longer considered to be i Biimuiani, dui ratner a depressant. it perverts aigestlon. It depresses and weakens the heart action. It decreases the capacity to do muscular work. It diminishes the intellectual func. tlons by dulling the cveat've faculty Impairing Judgment, v -atlng the correctness of percerlions and bjr generating timidity. tl brings about s!"v, far reaching anatomical changes, such as fatty de generation of the heart, kidney dis ease, diseases of the blood vessels, changes In the muscular tissue and In the cells and fibres of the nervous system. Its habitual use lessens the normal defences of the organism against In fectious diseases, especially tubercu losis. If you find here and there some dls. senting voice, that of some university professor perhaps, you may be sure that is It not that of a person with medical experience or any one famil iar with the material which all may read but rather the voice of some one perversely Interested. You might well question whether such a one Is simply seeking sensational exploita tion of himself or whether he might not even be subsidized by the vast commercial Interests at stake, for you must remember tbat the annual con sumption ot alcoholic drinks in the United States Is over a billion gal lons. I believe that human evolution has now reached the stage when the abo lition of the use of alcohol as a bev erage is expected and required. Ab stinence Is one of tbe principles ot human eugenics, that new science that is just being born. There is no one here present who would feed- alcohol to his dogs, horses, sheep or cattle. These pos sessions are too precious for that He Is too Interested in Improving their breed. He would recall Pro fessor Hodge's experiment with al coholized dogs, in which among twenty-three pups born in four litters to one pair of alcoholized dogs nine were born dead, eight were deformed and only four apparently normal. Our best method ot eradicating the alcoholic evil is that of a campaign ot education. Every man, woman and child should be made familiar la one way or another with what is known by the medical profession of tbe ravages of alcohol. A Strong Argument1. The following card made Into a blotter, signed by a dozen grocery, firms of Delaware, Ohio, has been scattered by the thousands, and has proved very effective In a campaign which, writes Dr. C. W. Barnes, "Is moving splendidly:" "Anyone who drinks three glasses of whisky a day for one year and pays ten cents a drink for it, can have In exchange at any of the firms whose names appear on this card three barrels flour, twenty bushels potatoes, 200 pounds granulated sugar, one barrel Crackers, one pound pepper, two pounds tea, fifty pounds salt, twenty pounds rice, fifty pounds butter, ten pounds cheese, twenty-five pounds coffee, ten pounds candy, three dozen cans tomatoes, ten dozen pickles, ten dozen oranges, ten dozen bananas, two dozen cans corn, eighteen boxes matches, half a bushel beans, 100 cakes soan, and twelve packages rolled oats, for the fame money, and get $13.30 premium for making change in his expendi tures." Western Christian Advo cate. , It Is a Cancer. The liquor traffic Is a cancer In so ciety, eating out its vitals and threat ening destruction; and all attempts to regulate it will not only prove abortive but aggravate the evil. No, there must be no more attempts to regulate tbe cancer: It must be erad icated The most effectual remedv would be the passage of a law altogether abolishing the liquor traffic, except for mechanical, chemi cal, medical and sacramental pur roses. Abraham Lincoln. Just Remind Him. When an adherent of the liquor forces tells you tbat the S45.0OO.O00 now paid for wages in liquor manu facturing would be withdrawn were traffic in intoxicants itopppd. remind him that there would be, without sa loons, an increase in factory wages :f more than $286,000,000. Kivllerland's New Sunday Law. The General Council of Geneva, Switzerland, has Just passed a new Sunday law, which la tar in advance of anything we have In thlj land. Temperance Notes. . "? Booze has made beggars feel like kings and baa dragged kings from tbeir thrones. Massachusetts, last election, showed a "no-license" majority of 18.710 votes; twenty of her thirty three cities are without saloons, and so are J60 of her 321 towns. More than all other causes put to gether. It is repsonsible for the an nual crop of 10,000 murders and tbe 10,000 suicides in this free, prosper ous and Intelligent republic. Tbe last week of the year la the annual holy-week of Booze, when lta friends and victims shout, : "Here's looking at you!" "Happy New Year!" "Skoal!" "Prosit!" or "Whoop-la!" and then go Into a trance. It Is dt well known that alcohol causes a certain receptivity for other diseases. In pointing out this fact, Professor F. Martins, director ot tbe Rostock Medical Clinic, aald at the XXII. Congress ot Internal Medicine In 190B that alcohol affects the gen--rative as wall as other organs of the body, and that this Is the main factor In the degeneration ot the human vacs.
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