W8m FOR Fiir'ii ly Milk For Hog. Tho greed with which wanned sweet milk is consuniMl by hogs will gratify the owner ami con vince him that It is good for them." A pi? filled up on It Is nn emblem rf solid comfort. Farmer' Home Journal. 9 THa PULPIT. M ELOOUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. C. F. J. WRIGLEY. I Theme: SpliKunl Blindness. Gills For Ilrcciliiiff. frt the gilts for branding from the llltrra of ma' ui e snvs and aged li.a.f, ia they me stronger, more vicomin and will malt'j more satU f.i: toi y brood nms than those from young and ii.im.-tture rarcnlaue. Tanners' Homo Journal. ;: imber of forms a fw kinds have i:e.:i tc"r--'l -hli'li Rive pood prom ise of finailv producing a form V, hleh will All the p.co.nt void. The Mei-ture Limit In Hut d r. Tt"j: ij in ec to an Inquiry, Trof -sor F. M. Partington, of th' t'nlvcrsity of Wisconsin, explains that the per euit. of water ami the per cent, of mois ture In butter are the came thing. Some Hereon a use th" Mivt term and ethers the second. The present law states (hat butter containing over six teen per cent, water must pay a tax tif ten cents per jound, since it is classified as adulterated. It Is quite necessary that bu'te.-makcrs he abso lutely sure that the butter they are making does not exceed the sixteen per cent, limit. For the benefit of those who have not the means of testing their product for percentage of moisture, Profossor Farn'ngton suggests that they need hare no fear of exceeding the sixteen per cent, limit if they will wash tho granules of butter with cold water at about fifty degrees Fahrenheit, al lowing the butter to stand In this water until the granules become hard and firm. Then afxer draining off th! water, wash nnd allow the butter to stntM in the churn some time until It drains rather dry. Sprinkle the salt over this and give it the usual amo'.tt.t of working. Excssslve mois ture Is held in butter that la soft and not thoroughly drained. Wugon Sioop Hoard. This Is my description of a scoop board for a wagon, writes a corre spondent of Farmers' Mail and Breeze: First, got two eight-inch The Scoop Board Closed. boards about two nnd one-half feet lor and taper down on one end about four inches. Tli. n get two two by fours two inches, longer than your wagon box in wide. I'se eight-penny nails in nailing the f! .or to thu two by fours and a'.; or ilght-inch boards The Way It 0;,etis. for the floor of scoop biard. Nail to gether and bore a five-t.iglr.hi-i'.irh bole through the outsido floor board about tight inches from the end for the rods. I'se three-eighths or one-balf-inch mii with one Joint about four inches from thj upper sid boards at the ends nnd nail two clears (in the upper and lower side of the llve-cighths-neli hobs so it won't split out wh.-n scooping from the board. Holt a two by three piece to tho end piece of the w: g in box, using bolts thrcc-elghths by ii:: und oue half inches long, lioro two holts in a pleeo of t.ide hoard iron or thin Iron about one in:ii wide and eight inches long for screws, bending It ns ebown in small end, to fasten tho rods and hold them la place to koep the board closed. Good Fruit Finds Good Market. Although Now England Is the home of the commercial apple, and tho leading variety, tho IJaldwin, has been crown lure for many centuries, yet our furmt-rs have allowed fruit in. terests of other sections to surpass t!i on In applications of tho best methods of culture, harvesting and marketing. It Is pointed out by our leaders in horticulture that Immense profits are being lost through lack of cultivation and general care from planting the trees to marketing the fruit. First rate tipples are never without a good marker, it pays to raise ap ples that are too good to be barreled but good enough to be wrapped In paper and carefully packed In new boxes. Such fruit needs only' to he shipped a few miles and is able to compete with the 1'aclfle Coast fruit that comes 3000 miles. All that is needed is good soil, fertilizing and culture with careful handling and marketing. Our farmers have the market for retail apples all to them selves, yet produce hardly any fruit that can be ranked as first class in tho early part of the season. There Is no reason why farmers Bhould not raise fruit that will sell for as much by the box as most apples now bring by the barrel. Apples at $1 per box in average seasons would be profita ble, while $1 per barrel hardly pays expenses. In some years our farmers would be favored by good crops at a time when there was a shortage la other sections, and the average price of the fruit from year to year would be at a high level. Both the yield per ncre and the price per bushel might be doublrd by careful methods, M. 1). P., in the American Culti vator. Planting Rules. Thoroughly compact the soil about the seeds and so hasten germination. Remember that rows which run north and south allow the sun's rays to reach both sides of the plant a distinct advantage. Plant seeds of string beans every fortnight, so that there will always bo a supply of tender pods. Forget that potatoes were ever planted in hills; level culture is much better. Plant the tubers In deep fur rows. When planting large, flat seeds, set them In the ground edgewise. Ger mination Is more certain. Make sowings once a week of such quick-growing vegetables as lettuce and radishes, to insure a continuous succession. Sow radish sreds In the same row with slow-germinating seeds. They will come up in a few days and mark the rows for cultivation. To get th: earliest cucumbers, mel. ons and summer squashes, sow the setds early on Inverted sods or In small pots in the house or coldframe. Ho not follow your grandfather's custom of planting beets, lettuce, on. ions and sueh vegetable In raised beds. They dry out too quickly, as well as being difficult to cultivate. Da not expect peas to mature well In tho hottest weather. You will be disappointed, nut sow the seeds of an early vnr'Hy In August and you will get a good crop In the fall. Spray with a potassium sulphide solution to keep down mildew. Rotate the crops In the garden. Land that grew any of the cabbage tribe last year should be planted to beans or tome other class of plants this year. Many troubles like club foot will thus be avoided. As a rule, follow root 'crops with those which S.o.v above ground. Suburban Life. Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. C. F. J. Wrlg. ley, rector of Grace Church on the Heights, preached Sunday morning on "Spiritual Blindness." The text was from Luke 4:18: "He hath sent mo to recovering of sight to the i blind." Dr. Wrlgley gald: Tho text Is part of a quotation from IV- prophesy of Isaiah, viz., "The s-r of the Lord Is upon me, be cause Ue anointed me to preach the '"ospel to the noor. He hath sent lue to proclaim release to the cap. ; fives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty them that ' ire bruised." When one studies that passage, says . a modern writer, It I recalls the famous tent of the Arab i chief; when folded It could be car ried in the hand; when opened It sheltered his tribe. The pns.-aae con tains the keynote of the teaching of ' .'cans, and it fhows how unerringly Me selected the very heart of the Jew. i ish system upon which to found His ow n. It shows us the profound truth I "f His statement, that He came not to destroy, but to fulfil the Law. Mnny yrars ngo a modern infidel , philosopher of a shallow kind nointed I I out the fnct that Moses had made j 1 pome mistakes In figures, and also j I that be had not been very well In- structed in science, or he would have ' them do not know their need, all are hopeless, hut that In no reason whv the Christian church should withhold its mercirui ministrations. It Is of tentimes the maa who laughs at re ligion and disbelieves In its power that needs It n.ost. and a religion based nnon tho o mlity of mercy can not refuse to give even that which Is not wanted or asked for. The Sav lotts put clay on this man's eyes and bade him go wash In the pool of Slloam. The man was more humhle than Naaman. He made use of the means which Jesus suggested and re. i celved his sight. He Is a type of the j Sublect hnnnlnaa man A - .-.n iiinii Klllf UUB IlOl UetlCVe that his spiritual blindness fit It Is blindness, because he has never been ! able to see and does not realize what ' spiritual blindness really means), I ran ever be relieved by the simple tbines which Jesus provides, prayer, j worshln and sacrament, and yet In I his willingness to try them makes his i act of faith, and Is ushered out into a new world of glory and beautv of I which, heretofore, he has never been able even to dream. He becomes a partnker of blessines for which he has not asked, and of benefits nro- ' vlded freelv by one whom he has not known. On the other hnnd. the blind ' man of Bethsaida Is not only hope less, but faithless. He is brought to Christ by others, and because Jesus does not want to re.'ect him, and can not cure him. He takes him by the hand and leads him out of the town. He takes him away from his familiar surroundings and daily associations. Ho urts him out of the rut from IN'TEH NATION AT I.FSSON MEXTS FOR MAY 2. COM- MAY SECOND. BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE SOLDIKRS FIGHTING TfllS ClnSB GREATLY CHEKItlil). rnnl'i First Missionary Journey-Cjprus, Acts lit: 1-1 J Golden Text, Mnrlc 10:13 Commit Verses 2, 3 Comments, ! .. Tu,MJ':--43 A' D' I'LACE. An- 1 tloch, Salamls, Paphos. FX POSITION. I. Ramnhas ami . Bnul culled (y the Holy Spirit, set npart by men, sent forth by men and I'jr the Holy Spirit, 1-4. The church at Antloch had five "prophets and teachers" worthy of mention by name. This early Gentile church be : came a fountain of llitht and life to , many other pieces. Tho Holy Ghost I noke to them "as they ministered to the Lord and fasted." If we would i spend more time and strength In : ministering to the Lord and in fast I lng, we would have more frequent nnd clearer leadings of the 3plrlt. A ' Spirit-filled mind rarely accompanies : nn over-filled stomach. Greater sim plicity in our living would be condu cive to a clearer perception of the Iaa. 11: 1-6. which he had been unable to extrl- : L "f.00' " not. 8ald how the rate himself. He takes him into the ?'. ,l Bi,OK: ner in nn audiblo solitude. Just as He takes men now ! !'CG' "r .?llePll'' ln ""w re i constructed a inrrercnt cosmogony , lnto tne R0itU(1e and loneliness of i c ssea 0I,tne npa". but He spoke in from the one found in fnesis This , Tor rouble or ove? v "r un- n unmistakable way. It was no ti.e pregnant fact that th, Law ol solitude ?Hes to bni?d up their faith ! 2,0,n s?,mp" call "the voice of the Mosrt wrs built upon the great ele. RO 'that Vhev mav be healed TMs Is ! Splrlt' He ,s ready t0 Bpoak to-dav, n,e-.tal principle of mercy; that It ?he only miracle of nenUng which I ,f we wl" ""PI" th ProPer condl stocd for liberty and order: that It t"!.. " " ..".I.J , "1"J!n? ?'c? Hons and listen. It w- th wm had taken (as Munger says) a nation ; c.f slaves, Ignorant, barbaric, besotted in mind and degenerate ln body, and by a shrewdlv adapted system oj lfws lifted It steadily and persistently fpward hnrt bore it on to ever better ing condition and always toward freedom. He forgot to mention that from first to last, and from centre to circumference, it was a system of de .. llvcranco from bnntfage, disease, ig I norance. anarchy, superstition and 1espotlstrt. Jesus Christ, with HI keen snintual vision, sees what the other fnlls to see. When He rises in the little synagogue at Nazareth, He quotes the elemental truth of the Mo recovery of health came by detrrees. and this was caused by the man's slow devel opment of the faculty of faith. Jesus touched his eyes, but sight did not come; he saw men as trees walking. It wbb an earnest; however, of what Jesus could do, and It gave the man epirits work to call; it was man's work to recoetilze tho call. nnH ..( the called apart for the woik. Those who ignore ordination by man are as unscrlptural as those who Ignore a call by God. But It was "for the work whereunto" the Spirit called 41 A. At . ' . confidence and his faith became more w"e 10 ue sef !part' To nnrtant T-.. . v... v, ' orten we set men anart for a work- perfect, and Jesus tonched his eyes agatn and he saw things distinctly. It Is the story of the tenderness and gentleness with which Jesus deals wltli the spiritually blind, who pre faithless as well as hopeless. And lastly, there is the story of the Blind Bartlmaeus which carries with , it .n.h a ,ll, . mil. B-.otom nnH ova thl. I ".'. ' " watin OI BUR. .k..i. .1 in ..... 1-j . . 1 PPSt!n lor ourselves. make it the charter of the world' freedom: freedom from ignorance, , ! puner?tltltlon, sensuality, sorrow and p-.in. It is remarkable again that the , raPFUge quoted from Isaiah has a ' '"mible meaning in evevy pnragranh. 1 The poor may be those poor ln pocket ! or poor In soul. The slaves may ba 1 i siivns of a worldly master or slaves of their own uassions. Th blind mav ! i be blind of hodv or blind of spirit. , Which does Christ mean? Undottbt e.tly Ho means both, for the Saviour never emphrslzed suffering without calling attention to the fact that suf- ; ferlng came from sin. He cared for i nodlly wound, but His great sym pathies went out to the sin-sick soul. Now, blindness, like lenrosy, 'was a type of sin. The blind were not ; only disbarred from the priesthood, hut were not allowed to take part ln : the Temple service. Blindness, like leprosy, wns supposed to be incur able, except by the direct act of God. BlIninH-ss was therefore a type of sin, boeauflfl tin con'd only be cured by the direct act of God. Sin was spirit ual blindness, because sinners bad always been marked by dull spiritual apprehension. Abraham in his day bad been able to see Christ, and to It is the Rtnrv of a man who wanted to come and be neateo, and was hindered by others. whereunto the Snlrlt never rnitori I them. Spirit called men are a great i need of our day. We have far too ! many men whom men have called; ! r, worse yet, who have called them j selves. Every step in that early ! church was taken In prayer. It was 1 prayer to which men gave themselves bo heartily that they withdrew thera ; selves even from their necpnnnrv food to pursue it (v. 3). The prompt- unn .n .I... i . . . ' "es wun wnicn in S cntircti nhevprl unci i"Oi IS I I ll-I ,11 1I1UBH WHO ; .U. Bll" ,j , ZC m reallv want to be healed of snirltual BSl,1! Vmmand iB ot Llindness. A man's toes are those of v " e had Remanded the best his own household. Jesus was d th y them ,,p wlthot a wounded In the honse of His frieiTds i murm,urv They would have liked to It is often onlv bv ne?BiRtent : have kept Barnabas and Saul, but the verance ana ny disregarding those who should heln him that a man is healed by the Saviour of his spiritual blindness, as Bartlmaeus waa healed of his physical infirmity. I wonder how many Christians realize the tre mendous responsibility they assume when in any way they stand in the light of the man who is looking for j oH'is v,nri8i. bplrlt called them elsewhere, unit "they sent them away." But. while they sent them back of it all thev were really "sent forth by the Holv Ghost." Wonderfully suggestive anil Inspiring words these. With what confidence a man can go forth when he can confidently affirm, "I have been sent on the errand by the Holv GhoBt!" He may not know Inst Life Lessona for Me from the Book of Isaiah.. Isa. 6: 1-9 (Con secration Meeting.) The service. Ina. 42: 1-7, The sacrifice of the servant. 63. My hope. Isa. 2: 1-6. My King and hlg reign. Isa, 1-9. .My song of salvation. Isa. 12: My desert place. Isa. 35: 1-10, Get a vision of God, If you would know yourself (y. 6.) A live coal from tho altar Is any thing that brings a man really In touch with God, he Is never after ward the samo (v. 6.) "Here am I; send him" this often satisfies us, but it never satisfies God (v. 8.) It Is hard to tell people that they do not see or hear the truth, and the censorious men that find It easy are not the cncB to do It (v. 9.) Teaching from Isaiah. This book 13 the greatest of the wonderful prophetic writings. We have this entire gold field ln which to mine for our consecration meeting. Even a stupid animal, that knows Its owner, g wiser than the wisest man If he does not know his God (1: 3.) "Cease to do evil, learn to do well." Is a comprehensive formula of reli gion on its outward side (1; 1G, 17.) Red Is the color farthest removed from white, and yet the most scarlet coul can be made white as snow (1: IS.) When the world knows God. the most useless thing on earth will be a What Caused the Hard Tlmri? Financial panics and businn.. . presslons are chargeable to the lim,n, interests more than to all th Fmiapa pnmtilnarf .cm . the Government of the United State! first put tax upon the manufae nr. and sale of alcohol and beer, dow, to the present time, there has nev., been a panic ln business that hai not been largely due to the actu waste of money spent for whiik, spirits, beer and other alcoholic drinks. It Is apparent, therefor that the United States Government and the liquor and beer manufactur ers and dealers form the greatest trust, or combination, that this cour, try, or the world, has ever known' Compared with it, those three great combines the Standard Oil Com pany, the United States Steel Corpor atlon, and the Harrlman railroad in. terests are insignificant. This assertion cannot be success, fully contradicted. It can be proven through the Internal Revenue De. partment that the taxes paid upon beer and alcoholic liquors represent a product value to the mannfactur. ers of 11.500,000.000 annually an amount almost beyond the compre hension of the ordinary mind, it represents an amount equal to the debt of the Government at its highest point during the Civil War. It can no longer be questioned from an economic point of view, that this fabulous sum of money ex pended for liquor Is worse than wasted. If spent ln the regular lines a uumuctiB ine proauctton or food, tiuiumg, ana iurniture for tli. - n v.. nit, uc t. i. , - sword; It Is to be transformed Into home8! ,n act tor the development one of the most useful thinira nn 1 uplift of the people in all walks eartn, a ploughshare (2: a To "cease from man" is merely to beeln with God (2: 22.) Every man feels upon his past bitter food or sweet, yet lie must eat It (3: 10.) In Isaiah's day also there was the evil of the buying up of great tracts of land that are not really used (5: 8. ) The sensual man considers music, and art, and literature, nnrhnno k. of life it would bring about such a prosperity as this country has never seen. It would not only give em ployment to every man, woman and youth In the country needing work, but would make necessary the Immli gratlon of millions annually to sup ply the demand for workmen of the mills, mines, spindles, and the nun- areas oi industries operated only In times of proseprity. Panics, as crlbed to over-production, inflation of values, and speculation ln Wall loey (5: 12.) What a man Is In his own eyes never counts; let him learn to see himself with tho eyes of God (5: 21.) EPlRItfinESSaNS The man or woman belonging to . do S TiJTJT .r J" h,at h 8 rh-ioti.n .,.,. j-,,.? ! t0 do. or just what awaits him. No a Christian church who deliberately sets aside the methods of that organ ization for deepening the snirltual life is hindering others from becom ing Christians. What a wonderful opportunity for good we are throwing away when, on the ground of cour tesv to others, we practically abandon our principles and cause our broXher to offend. Blind Bartlmaeus was noaied in spite of hindrances of oth- I ers, and men become Christians In spite of our Inconsistencies, but what eeo the city havinif fonmlptton, Thn ?" "'""uu,ljr WB 8X8 casting asme. - h fin nor c tilritnolly enlightened under the Mo ale dispensation bod been able to see , Christ in the ancient ordinances, and ! the prophets had cried out against tber countrymen. v,-'io were more Btu- j pld vhr.n the ox and tho ns. because i there rreiiturcs knew their masters j and the owner's crib, but tn children i of God did not know their Father nnd entlM l:nl Timl tlinli. Vr.f.,..'u I .... . ... . ...... . ulmi . a iiuuac, St. Paul, when ho had found It im roralble to make his people receive Jesus as the Messiah, declared them to be spiritually blind, and then made somo remarks about spiritual blind ness that npnly very well to the men and women of our own day. Now, It Is to this large class of spiritually blind reople that Jesus ap peals, ln all His miraculous works upon the blind. He heals the blind in body to show that He can heal the blind in splr.it. He heals the tvpe, that man may believe that Heran heal the really blind, vlz..thebllnd in soul. Moreover, It is extremely interestina to note that in every separate instance responsibility we inchr. wiicn we aiuoeraieiy make truth an pear unreal or undesirable. To preach recovering of sight to the blind: to preach the Gospel to the poor and deliverance to the captive, read the Saviour In the Nazareth syn agogue, and as He read men were as- tonisnea. But whv astonished? It was only a quotation. Yes, but He directions Beem to have been given aa to where they were to go; so they made straight for the nearest nort and thence for the old borne of Barna bas (cb. 4:36). II. Triumph of Saul, filled with the Spirit, over fclymas, Full of all Guile and all Villainy, 5-12. They were true to their commission, "they preached the word of God." Many a roan has been sent forth by the Holy Ghost who has afterward forgotten what he was sent to preach; and bo a mission that was divine In its origin has come to nothing in its execution. If there was ever a day ln which their example needed imitation, it Is to day, when men are preaching any thing and everything but "the word of God" (comp. 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Tim. 4:2). Opponents of the gosnel, who make great pretensions and do amaz ing things, are not at all new. One need not be frightened because men SUNDAY, MAY 2. The Revival John SnOKe W tn nnr That la Ul. : words were - n,m, r k , .k. w.no .ni8?e astonishing claims, and i-vaiu iiinu.v uuiuH ueiore. i nev were were the words of truth, you Bay. Surely, nui irutn nas oeen preached through the ages. What then was it Hint b. tonlshed men? We answer, the fact ! that Jesus saw truth in such a wav ! that other men coming in contact I mas of ear v davs with Him kkiiu no. oii . ; raaa OI eariy flays, iu or-a n aiMij, and see It ln Its completeness. We Bee truth, says Mozeley, in a frag mentary way. and fragments of truth are not convincing. Jesus saw it in its comnleteness, and. when a man sees truth ln its completeness he must first days of the church's history, and yet the church went right on, in face of this apparently dangerous opposi tion. The "theosophlsts" and "Chris tian Scientists" of to-day are no more dangerous than the Simons and-Ely-mas of early days. Spirit-filled men were needwd to oppose and confound them then, and Spirit-filled men are needed to oppose and confound them now. The proconsul, Serglus Paulus, gave good proof that he was Indeed "A man of understandine:" "1m i called unto him Barnabas and Saul, , fn nil- It 'CVioro I. nr. ,,. 11,111 jjui UUIJaH HI1U oaill, wnere He ubhs His supernatural j,im to io and remain ano tri ' 8nd BOl"nt to hear the word of God." power to heal th blind. He teaches ?w l,VtaNsfU7nM ! ! Wnatever -'a""s to prudence and :VVT..lP?It'.n5.'S!!!0?.. i 'reahTmermn t see Z"' at ninne. n is not a man oi un- w Tonmtocs Tor Forcing. In the propagating houses of tho Iepartment of Agriculture, the Uu reaj of Plant Industry has been making experiments with a view to procuring an Ideal tomato, which In the language of an official of that bu reau is a fruit without a depression at the stem end; a round fruit with ridges; a fruit with the Interior well formed and compact and a fruit of Biedium size growing in large clus ter. The forcing of tomatoes under glass bas assumed considerable pro portions In the Middle and Northern Slates, and the demand for the green bouse grown crop U steadily Increas ing. Tliia Is d le, It la stated, to the fact that tomatoes when grown utdr Class are superior to those that are grown in the extreme Southern States and which must necessarily be picked partially green and shipped kiC dlstancea before reaching our saarkeu. For special table use, such aa la demanded by large botels, the greenhouse-grown fruit will always k la demand. Wh.'le' number of the varletlos f trait on the market to-day la good, oaa baa all tba characteristics which would randar It ideal. The Bureaa of Plant Industry hat for tba last Urea or (our years been crossing varletlaa with a view to ring types with characteristics ap jraaUmaUin ta Ideal. Oat of Urge Farm Xotes. For hog? rape has proven to be a 1 gr.'nt f.-..d. IJroilers shrink nbout half a pound eaeh w hen dressed. Ha; e U an excellent forage for both bef and dairy cattle. Piune pud spray If you want good fruit. Now is the time. The chell of an egg contains about fifty grains of salt of lime. Forty dressed ducklings are packed in a barrel for shipment. From thirty-five to forty ducks and drakes are allowed ln a pen. The duck averages ten dozen eggi in about seven months' laying. Sheep aUo Ilka rape and thrive when allowed a liberal supply, ftid His chlldreu, and how all men, and believe that His great mission If they will, may be healed of spirit- I .V- h Ind recovery or sight to ual blindness. Notice the first in- 1118 bllna' l wo blind men meet Him at ' stance : Capernaum. They knew their need and cried aloud for help, and Tho Saviour did not appear to notice them, and when He did not notice, they followed Him persistently, fol lowed Him into the house and de manded help. It Is a case like that of Jacob at Penlel. The antagonist of the patriarch would not bless, and, K0(1 this man, and a little good mwciurf, ue wouia not lot him go. 'lu snau we not say, were musl It was a certain faltb, a faith that ! !be one great sea, one central sun ol Brew stronger as tne apparent indif ference of God became more dread ful. It Was a Case Of the Klnirrlnm f The Sonrre of All. When we see the million rain drops of the shower we say, with rea son, there must be one great sea from .which all these drops come. And when we see, as it were, counties! drops and countless rays of goodness scauerea about, ln the world, a little neaven oeing taken by violence. Thes? men give us a picture of those who bave known what It Is to see, and who can appreciate what it means. If anybody can give them the power to see again. They have known me meaning ot goodness, and of splr. An apple grower in Ohio credits hit !tUu' vlBlon' an! nave known the to faithful and persistent spraying. When cultivating the plum or cherry orchard, the work must ba done shallow that no roots will b broken, for broken roots send up shoots that sap the lire of the tree. When we see so many farmers' wive with none of the modern con venlonces of the dairy to lighten her burdens, is It any wonder we hear so many say it does not pay to makf butter? A wound made while removing limb heals best If the cut la mad close to the trunk or branch. A stub a few Inches long doea not heal and becomes a lodging place for sporei of fungi and bacteria which cause de cay and death ot the tree. For soiling purposes, or where rap Is cut and fed to the stock, It should be drilled In rowa wide enough apart to admit of horse cultivation. It will then grow to a large size and la mor convenient to gat at Is cutting. D not cut it closer than five or ala Inchet of the ground, as it grows up agali ao much more quickly than whet cut close. , . m - Iftml out of darkness into light again. If there Is anyone able to accomplish: that miracle. They feel themselves helpless, and ao this faltb, as they hear of the power of Jesus grows and when He apparently neglects' them, it becomes a compelling falthj which gains whatever they wish.' This miracle Is nothing less than an eternal provision to the soul that is separated from God, and knows that It is so separated. It la the divine promise that such a man may havo whatsoever be will. "As yet ye havn r?'" " ni'.bins In My name; ask and shsil recite, toat war ,'oj n.ay L full." The next lnstau?e Is that of the man born blind. It la an entirely different rase and yet a typical one. The man la hopeless. He has never been able to see. He has never beard of a case where a man born blind baa been made to see, and so ba does not consider the question. He settles back Into a grim acceptance ot bis sorrow. He doea not ask to be healed, and because be doea not ask, Christ offers, just because ot the man's hope lessness and Ignorance, Christ Jeaus offers In mercy. Here la the charter for our missionary work among the lannrant and hooaloaa. .-Maav ot goodness, from whence all human goodness comes? And where can that centre ot goodness be, but in th I rushing upon us and taking posses- deratandlng," if he is not deslrous "to hear the word of God." Ely maa did not give up without a fight. The devil never does (2 Tim. 3-8). His chief business is turning men aside from the faith (v. 8; cf. Cor. 4:3, 4; I.uke 8:12). But the opposition of Elymas for all his marvelous powers were vain, for bu had run up against a Spirit-filled man. Paul had been filled with the Holy Spirit Boon after bis conversion (ch. 9:17). But now a new emergency arises, and there is a new filling for the new need. Wo ought not to be content because we have once, or fifty times; known what it was to have the Spirit of God come he does not consider the nna thins Ktn rih. rui i. ....i.. , ' best worth considering, namely, theo- j of by press or people), would be im. I possible. j The sale of liquors produces, It has been stated upon good authority, j a million drunkards annually and is . , oijuiioiun iur an nunutti ueain rate of 100,000 men. And these figures are conservative. What an Incalculable loss in wygei Is represented by these drunkards through loss of time and inability to do a reasonable day's work. This item of labor lost by incanaeltv reaches an appalling figure, ai every employer ot labor knows. And what, may we ask, is the loss to the Nation ln keeping up the courts, Jails, orphans' asylums, In sane asylums, homes for the desti tute, etc., the necessity for which Is directly chargeable to the curse of drink? It may be safely said, I be lieve, that $500,000,000 will not be more than sufficient to cover the loss ln wages and the maintaining of the above-named institutions, making a total of $2,000,000,000 chareeable against this monster trust composed of the liquor Interests and the United States Government. Does the sane man question that, if the facta are as stated, this worse than waate of billions Is responsible for business depression, and Is the promoter of panlcB and hard times? If the money now spent to pauper ize the people and make a nation of drunkards were spent in building uo the family life and the prosperity ot the home, would It ba possible to produce a panic? If an example Is needed, take the town of Portage, In this county (and It is no worse than the average min ing town in Pennsylvania), where ten coal mines are operated. Of the wages annually emended in produc ing coal, fully $150,000 Is paid for liquors and beer to the seven saloons in the town or to the breweries and wholesale dealers whose wagons de liver it to the homes of those in the mining camps. And that Is not the total effect, though it Is the cause. Because of drunkenness among the workmen en gaged at the mines not less than 200,000 days' labor was lost during the past year, the loss ln wages amounting to $400,000, making total loss of over a half million dol lars. And this upon a 5000-arrs tract ln a Email corner of Cambria County. The same conditions prevail in every coal, coke. Iron and steel producing community in the country, excepting, of course, in Prohibition States. We have touched only upon the money Bide of the ouestion, What is to be said of a National Govern ment that permits the misery that is heaped upon the weak, innooent sufferers from this dinbolical traffic! This suffering is beyond the power of man to conceive. From an an thorlzed Interview with John C. Mar tin, of New York City and Portage, Pa., ln the JohnBtown (Pa.) Tribune. Beginning of a 4: 5-42. John 4: 5-42. This interview with the woman at the well and its won derful results has ever beeu the mar vel of the New Testament student. When you think of the characters in the story, Jesus and an obscura and possibly unworthy woman, when you thluk of the revelations which the Master made to this apparently un appreciative hearer, when you think of the effect which her testimony had upon the people of her own town, the whole incident grows into heroic pro portions. And yet It Is but the plain and simple story of a revival, such a revival as ln many respects could be duplicated in a thousand places at th present moment". For when people uYe really sure that Jesus Christ is Messiah, that ho offers living water to all those who are uthirst, and that ho is the Fath er's representative ln declaring God's desire for worshippers, you have at once tho element of a revival. It la needed only thnt personal testimony shall be added to all this, and the re sult which befell in Sychar will hap pen in New York, or Little Rock, or Topeka, or Spring Valley, or in any other Sychar of today's world. The Meaning of tho Theme. Put in plain speech the idea behind the theme Is this: Never miss a chnnce to tell what JeBiis has done for you. That Is always the beginning of a revival. It does not mean often Biveness, nor tactlessness, nor the mere stating of Christ's work without caring whether or not it 13 believed. Even a commercial traveler knows better than to adopt such a course as that. He does not count his duty done when he has shown IiIb samples. He uses every argument, every art. every chance occurrence, to win a fa vorable response to his request for an order. Tho more he travels, if he is tho right sort of a man at his , business, the better ho presents his , case, and the more goods he sells. So i It should be with the Christian. IIo should grow more expert and more successful every day. 'very character of Uod Himself? ' Blon ot our minds, and giving us Rev. Charles Ktngsley. j words of wisdom, boldness and power I to utter. As each new emergency The Stamp of Civilization. j BrlBe should cast ourselves upon Thn marir f ivi'ii,. tir. i. .h. Htm anew.: Paul's words are very ae- dividual man, his rights and his re. 1 'era Andve.7 Be,ri;1,,n'y Tne7 ex suonsibillties. P.sv. Cortland Myera I ot the Yellow Kind. William Allen White is wedded to Emporia, Kan., and the newspaper editorial desk which be there adorns. But about twice a year, Mr. White, out of a bard sense ot duty wrenches up stakes and comes East. "Wby, Mr. White," exclalmod one woman whom he met at luncheon, ."aren't you a little stouter than when I saw you last?" Porbably," said White, "quite probably. 1 usually am." That afternoon he sat ln a bot at a matinee and looked out over the audience with no small degree of ln terest. "It's much darker than the last time I was here," he murmured, "Darker?" repeated his host. "Yes. How fashions ln hair change. Now, only a few year ago this would have been like looking over a bos ot lemons." WELL INFORMED. The Stranger "Do the people who live across the road from you. Raalua, keep chickens?" Rastus Dev k ah'Chrlstlan Advocate. ' j pose the depths ot the Infamy of Ely mas. Plainness and boldness of speech Is a characteristic of a Spirit, filled maa (Acta 4:31: Cub.. 6:18). Has No Diaphragm, A novel telephone receiver without a diaphragm has recently been de vised, for which many advantage are claimed. It consists of a permanent magnet, the pole of which are con nected by a sort core, making a con tinuous magnetic circuit. A coll wound round this core is connected to the transmitter and a suitable bat tery. When the transmitter is spoken Into, say the Scientific American, the undulatory current affect the entire magnetic circuit of the receiver, re producing the voice very distinctly. It I cald that with thl receiver there are no overtones or disturbing sound lue to the vibrating of a diaphragm. In one modification ot thl telephone the sound were produced with such ilearne a to fill large had. Spelling Simplified. Professor Alfred E. Stearns, prln. clpal of the Phillips Andover Acad emy, said at the recent alumni dinner ln New York. "The easiest way In raising funds, as ln other things, Is the wrong way. I remember a man and his easy spell ing rule. In Orango ln my childhood I once complained of the difficulties ot spelling. I said that 'el' and 'le' in such Words as 'believe' and 're ceive' always stumped me. "Then this man patted mo on the bead and smiled and said: " 'My boy, I will give you an infal lible rule for "el" -a rule that In forty-seven year ba never failed mo.' "I expressed my dellg'at and waited. The'man resumed: " 'The rule Is Blmply this: Write your "1" and "e" exactly alike and put your dot exactly between them.' " Washington Star. Others Had Tried It. The police court magistrate of town in southern Kentucky was walk ing down the street one November evening with his friend John Mark ham, a distiller. "Judge, said Mr. Markham, "have you ever trlod my Number One brand of Old Markham?" "No. John." admitted the Judge, "but I tried three mn In court thl morning who had tried it." Every body' Magalzne. TAX DODGING. ' ' Mr. Knlcker "Whnt will you do It they tax the breakfast tabU?" Mr. Bocker "Takte my brakft in bed." New York Sun. The Girl and the lobster. Dorando Pletrl, at one of the many Italian banquet given In hi honor in New York, talked about profes sional athletic. "Only the other night at one ot our gayest Italian restaurants, I over heard a dialogue that illustrated forc ibly the age'a lack of romance. "It was late. At the table next to mine a rich young Italian contractoi was supping with a beautiful young girl. A the young girl played with the stem of her glass, I beard her purmur; 1 . ' " 'la it true, isn't It, that you love me, and me only?' "Yea, ye,' said the young man, though thl lobster l certainly mighty good.' " Temperance Notes. The man who "hits one" usually strike those most dear to bim. Rum has made the bead of a man meet all the requirements insisted upon by the War Department for dirigible balloon. The physicians of Hancock Coun ty, Ohio, wishing to assist in the maintaining ot the prohibition la there, the county medical association ha determined to issue no prescrip tion for whisky except at the bedsld of patient. , Poet have sung In praise of Boon and Booze ha taken toll of tb poet. ' The country I awakening to th fact that reckless expenditure ol money upon strong drink Is having in the affairs of the nation the saroi impoverishing effect which is so fa miliar In connection with individual fortune. Here, ladle and gentlemen, &? Town Topics, jou see that marvelou and fasclnatlaf monster, Boose; II live on the Oieat White Way; burns money, swallows reputation bene the Kalnta Law and the Prohibition Party.
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