Ilncterla In Milk. Milk may be heated and tho bac teria contents killed In this way, hut tbc pasteurizing temperature does not kill nil the bacteria and a higher tem perature necessary to sterilize ren ders It more or less indigestible. .Not all forms of bacteria are harmful. In fart, some of them are necessary. The trouble Is they are so small It Is Im possible to Ret personally acquainted with them, so cannot tell our friends from our enemies. Epltomlst. Dairying N'ot Overdone. There are so many by-products from the dairy that the business of dairying ran never be overdone. Be sides milk, butter anil cheese, we have powdered n.llk. which may be shipped at little expense and kept for weeks In cool rendition, and other constituents of milk which are belns exploited In commercial ways for the manufacture of artificial Ivory, paints and a pood many other commodities that until rer.-ntly have never 1 'en associated witU dairy work. Kpito-ruist. I'ii't AVnlklnt; lli-c. It Is claimed by those wlio have trainrd many horses that, taking the colt when training first begins, they can 1" trained to walk m-.-r lour miles per hour. The walking c.Vt Is the most Important one to the farm and road horse. The mi.-tii!:" with many In training young horses Is, that they nre too soon put to trotting, which Is n gait they more readily learn than fast walking. A farmer who has long trained his own colts to fa:-:t walking tells us that his horses with the corn cultivator do one-half more work In the rorn field than the horses of his neighbor that wre never trained to n rapid walk.' In these times of scarce help on the firm that Is an Important consideration. It Is only a question of a little pa tience and persistence in training rolts or young horses to walk fast, if they are well bred. Good breedl:!--! comes In here as well as In other things, as a well bred her?" ran bo trained In any gait better than others. -Indiana Farmer. Selling Soil Fertility. Everything we sell from the fyrrn represents a certain amount of soil fertility. The one exception, perhaps, Is butter. It Is difficult to trace but ter fat as a direct drain on the soil. It Is said that n ton of wheat re moves between right and ton dollars' worth of soil fertility, and t'nut the farmer never Rets It back. Of course, there are ways or placing It by the proper rotation and stock rnls;ii;, but the dairy farmer who sells butter or cream, stoi'3 the leak before It hap pens. The difference Is the wheat far-nor sells the raw material, while the dairy farmer sells only the finished product In the shape of butter, and pork, if he feeds hogs, or cattle, If he raises calves with the skim milk. If part of the skim milk 13 fed to chickens, so that eggs and poultry are sold, the manufacturing process Is carried still further and the ma terial sold off the farm carries a very small percentage of fertility with It, in fact, the raisin? of the poultry sup plies more fertility than is sold a good 1 tuuny times over. Epltomist. Tr.t end Partially Fat Sheep. It Is altogether probable that many stockmen will teed sheep this fall lor the first time, and they may not be acqua!:.u?d with all the conditions leading to the best and most promis ing situation in feeding lines. The first thing, to determine will be v hnt to buy, say3 the Homestead. Will it be thin sheep, or those ihnt carry more flesh? Thin sheep will gain more than fat ones, the general thrift ff the two classes being equal. Thin ewes will t,aln from one-fourth to one-third more than those In pood flesh, and this probably explains why the thin, good-mouthed ewes are sought more than those In better con dition. It is n well-known fact among sheen feeders that females finish much more quickly than males, although U.I11 two or three-year-old wetin-n win make rapid gains. We have said that thin sheep will take on t'.esh faster than the sheep that Is in good order, and we may say that it. will require more time to fin ish them than those that are purtlally fat. Yo.ir.g lambs usually require more time to finish than older sheep, because they grow considerably under fatt nir.s c:indk!o:;s br fcre they Lenin to finish. Old Western fheep are hardier than lambs, and thU will hold true in the fl Id as well us in the feed lot. Older sheep nre not nearly so liable t,, g,,ige them selves cn green lei d or so liable to over-eat while Ir. the fvd lot. The feeder should make up Ms mind that when he is feeuins thin fiheop It will be necessary to feed theru a lonp time. It tshrep are to be fed only a thort time, they should be partially fat when purchased. Thin ewes can b- started by turning them In corn fields, grazing them 0:1 good pasture and by feeding fodder. 1 arm - leaves t'f there coffee trees ran bo found very small nertar-serretlnf? glands. The ants soon discovered this and sipped the ticrtcr. Then the Idea scorned to occur to some clever nnt that these nectar glands would be the best place In the world for the mealy bugs to llva and grow fat aad In ronsequence secrete a great deal more nectar than they would if left on other rarts nf the leaves. Hut the nectar glands on the coffee tree leaves were each too small to ac. commodate even one mealy hurt. So the word was passed around and the nntg gnawed the edgeg of the glands and enlarged them so that earn would support a good-sized mealy bug, which the pnt3 then carried to It. The mealy bus throve exceedingly. The gland was enlarged still further nnd a whole family of mealy biigq was raised in the same hole. Thin a custom grew tip nnd many rich greatly enlarged glands were found In a few months, the ants reaping a plentiful supply of their beloved nec tar. Here then, said I)r. Howard, was an ant apparently taking advan tage of an opportunity which was new not only to the experience of the individual but new to the experience of the rare, nnd If we adopt the most reasonable of the definitions of In stinct, there seems to have been dis played Intelligence of a high order. Indiana Farmer. The Xow Straw berry Bo1. Considering the ease with which a small bed of strawberries can bo grown we wonder why more farmer? do not grow them. Wo read of renewing old straw berry beds, which Is all right, If it Is the best one can do, but owing to In sert enemies and other causes I would not recommend the renewal of an old bed for the ordinary farmer. We change the ben from year to year, here and there over the garden, trying to get as far away from Insect pests and fungus diseases as possible. As soon ns we plow for garden truck we plow enough for the new bed. We lay off the bed In rows four feet apart with the garden hand cul tivator; In this way we back up a lose spot every three feet, as we would for n cabbage plant, only Iar:;er. We then go to last year's bed, which by the way Is young and has never fruited, and dig up good hardy plant?, and when we can find enough of them, w" d'g those that aro not eolng to bloom, for they will nt once produce runners Instead of the bloom. We like to have a hunk of dirt to en"h plant. If conditions are favor able we do not water when setting, if otherwise we water them ns set. We use a pan or shallow box to enrry the plants from the old to new bed. If for some reason we delay our bed until the fruit is S"t on plants, we clip off runners and fruit stems. We cultivate frequently with hand hoe nnd one-horse cultivators: good cultivation means much towards suc cess. We throw the runners around for awhile, then nllow them to set, be tween the rows, and widen rs the sea son advances. When severnl run ners pet set, It will necessitate pull ing out by band some of the weeds. We experimented some with va rieties, but soon found two varieties which suited us and t:taed with them. One of these deserves especial atten tion: It Is a seedling w hich originated rear here, pud was named by the originator, "Hoosier " It has very heavy foliage, Is hardy, runners free ly, very large berries, abundant bearer, the berries are of excellent quality, but are strictly a "homo use" berry as they are not firm enough to ship. One season, four square rod3 yielded fifty-three gallons. Abraram Bro3., in the Indiana Farmer. Farm Notes, Why Is it that so many farmers neglect to provide water for their hogs? Hogs need a drink occasion ally when they want it. Just the same as anybody else. An entire grain ration Is not so desirable as a mixed ration of vege tables, meat food and grains, the lat ter both whole and ground. The scratching shed does not re quire t.n bo anything elaborate. Any old building may be utilized for this purpi.so Just so there is plenty of sunshine, no winds, nnd a dry floor. Give hens an. extra allowance of grain nt night, scratching It amongst the Utter, so that the fowU can bo ltiduc?d to exercise before they get their regular breakfast. Give the mother sheep tho most nourishing ration you fan. They need it for milk. Wheat bran is KoL'd; clover hay Is nice. Plenty of water and some roots now and then will help out. The best preventive of .larne Is clean, careful milking and a vigorous rubbing and kneading of tie affected part of the udder at tho first sign of trouble. Three or four days of such treatment will usually ward oft th ill sec it). B The PuioJK A SERMON Theme: Regeneration. John 3: "Ve must be horn again." , This is fundamental In the teaching of Jesus. It lies at the root of all Christian experience. It Is as truo ns it Is terse, as philosophic as it la pungent, as timely as It is Insistent. No man can know the Joy of the Christian Ufa until he has been born anew. This statement of Jesus to Nlcode mus was startling. It was both a challenge and a rebuke, a bit of sage counsel and a quiet though terrible arraignment. Nlcodenius came In the name of the class whose representative his torically he has been and Immediate ly ho was. In their own eyes they held tho essence of wisdom unto life eternal. "We know that Thou art a teacher come from God." "We know." In their opinion it was nec essary for all the world to become regenerated In the bonds of Judlasm before the world could enjoy a sav ing knowledge of the only true God. They were God's people, His chosen, the sons of Abraham. They 'were quite familiar with the idea of a new birth, for they declared that the world would have to be born to a knowledge of their spiritual posses sions before the world could possess the gift of the divine favor. No doubt Nlcodenius thought he could instruct Christ. In all likeli hood he had little prescience of the reception he would receive. It Is quite probable that he considered himself a fit challenger of Christ, liehold the challenged is the challen ger, the representative of the wisdom of Israel a pupil of a despised Naza rene. It is not to be wondered that Nlcodemus was amazed. Jesu3 declared strong doctrine. "Ye must be born again." "Ye," the leaders and righteous of Israel! "Ye," teachers and priests and pre lates, learned nnd Intellectual, who have tithed mint and cummin and anise and forgotten the weightier matters of tho law, "ye" must be born anew! If He had said that the Greeks and Romans, barbarians and foreigners. Gentiles, without the pale, had to be born again, there would have been no "How can these thlng3 be?" But "ye!" And yet It was quite correct teach. Ing and most sublimated thought. As truly as It is necessary that a man must be born to enjoy the exercise of physical faculties in a physical world so truly Is It requisite that in the world of tho Spirit ho shall undergo a process of spiritual bornlng. It la necessary that a man shall enter the world before he ran experience the varied activities of physical life. Ha must become alive to the Intellectual environment of humanity before he can have experience therein. Not otherwise Is it with the world of the Spirit. We must be horn. Born to another and a larger ns a higher piano of living: born again. There is nothing permissive about It. Ye "must." It Is the law of the spiritual kingdom. It is the law of all life. If you nre alive to one world end dead to the consciousness of another you "must" bo born Into It, Into a consciousness of Its reality, before you may eniov its experiences, its prerogatives and Its enlargements. What Jesus said to Nlcodemus He rays to the world to-day. It is the summons of God to the world. "Ye must bo born npain." Horn to the sense of a larger life. Born to the consciousness of a fuller and a bet ter life. Born to the spiritual life of Cod In Jesus Christ our Lord. Uon no other terms is It possible fnr men tn enter the kingdom of God or to Fe? it. And the wonder Is that they so rbel. It Is not an Invitation or command to self destruction, but to i !a-";e" se'f rsrx'.I'atlon. It is not n rail to sin, but a promise of spirit ual growth. H Is not irksome, but distinctly 1 rofitabl". Humanity has nothing to lose and everything to gain. Begone-atlon is the need of this as or every time. Mpn never needed to be born anew more than they do to day, porn to the better things, born to tha larger world, born to the en joyment of the spiritual kingdom of the all-wise God. 3e3ldo the Jov of the spiritual life the plensn-cs of the world are vain. Th canarltles of men are limited bv tie physical environment in which thev live. Only In the world of the s.i'.rlt can the faculties of man be ad equately exercised and his powers In finitely enlarged. But to know rnd to enjoy this kingdom and its life we must, as Nlcodemus, be born enow. Hlii!5 born i"to it we mav live therein; a Inrge life, a full and fr"e and varied and soul-Invigorating lif. Th- ufe of God flooding and rejuvenating the life of man. God give us the desire for regeneration cud the grace to will to bo bora again. The Model Woman. A woman may be model, married or single, but not Ideal. The Ideal women Is the wlfo and mother. The nodel wife reigns ns a queen In her home, exerting atremendous Influence by comforting and Inspiring her hus l"ipd in life's battle. Ilev. William M. Carr. Jht UJTEI? NATION A I, I. rem COM MKXTS FOR JUXK 0. Intelligence i.t A lit. If Dr. Howard, the thief of tho Bu reau of Entomology of tho Depart ment of Agriculture, wero not well known over at least two continents as an eminently practical scientist, whose Intelligent and aggressive work has saved from bug ravages millions of dollars' worth of agricul tural produce, bis story of the Intelli gence of ants, as observed tn the greenhouses of the department, were certainly consigned to the "nature faking" class. But knowing the doc tor's hard-beaded successes the pout, tie imputation falls to the ground. As th story goes, one of the green houses of the department Is fre quented tn considerable numbers by a medium sid black ant, attracted by the present of mealy bugs and plant lice 00 the hot-house plants. As Is well known ants are especially fond cf the nectar secreted br those Insects. Some years ago colony of Llberlan coffee trees were strfM In the greenhouse. At tbe bases of the Salubrious Tonil.atone. Nobody , ever dies In Tombstcnu, unless they brought It "wlth'm" or fall Into 'a six hundred foot vertical shaft, or buy an automobile, or "bbss" tbelr mother-in-law. or try to thaw out powder, or mUtaki cyanide of potassium for sugar, or start oft a county seat removal racket. Some dlo of old age, some old partners of Daniel Boone, but none have ever been known to die from physical ir regularities contracted In Tombstone, aside .rom the above mentioned causes, and occasionally au abuormal tightness about the tbroat, superin duced by a coll of manlla rope, of from a cold caught through a boU made by a .43. Tombstone Epitaph. Choosing an Automobile'. "You want aspoedycar.of course?" "You bet." "How about a nll'-cllmber?" "Ob, I don't keer to go after pedes, trlans to that extent. Just gimme a machine tst will get.'eia on tbe flat," 1'lttsburg Po.t. ( Perils of I'lay. The perils of pluy lurk In our lack of self-control, In our failure to re qulro more of ourselves than friends r.nd custom do, and In our refusal to discriminate. Rev. Orville A. Petty. I'nsecn Forces. How despairing we grow of the fu ture! We ask, "What of to-morrow?" We Bee the menace of great evils in society and In the State, and we grow discouraged. But that is because while evil Is so conspicuous the forces that are set fnr Its over throw are Invisible Rev. James Avery Norrls. The Stamp of Civilization. The mark of civilization Is tbe In dividual man, his rights and bis re sponsibilities. Rev. Cortland Myers. God In tbe World. W have more of Ood In the world row than In Bible days. Then Ood had to break through nature by a miracle) In order to be recognised; now we realise that nature la Ood. Than He was over us, Ood, transcend ent; now Ha la God immanent, lm inanuel, Cod with us. Rev. Frank Crane. Cod's Companionship. There I no other happiness In this wo. Id t!iau ti'at cbtaluid by corapan 1 iniiiiy wl;b CjU. Ktv. Dr. Dural. Subject: The Tower of the Tongue, Jnmes .1:t-12 Golden Texl, Frov. 21:2.1 Commit Verses 8 10 Commentary on Lesson. TIMK A. D. 60. PLACE. Jerusalem. K. POSITION. I. He Xot Many Teachers. 1-3. James does not say that no Christian should be a teach er, but that the body of believers should not be a multitude of teach ers, every one desiring to teach oth ers and no one willing to learn from others. On the contrary every man should be swift to hear, slow to speak (rh. 1:19). God sets teachers In tho church (1 Cor. 12:28). Teach ers are one of the gifts of the ascend ed Christ to His church (Eph. 4:11) The Holy Spirit bestows the gift of teaching upon whomsoever Ho will (1 Cor. 12:8-11). The position of the teacher is one no man has a right to take upon himself. If the Holy Spirit bestows that gift upon us we are to exercise it, but even then in I ..... ,..,1.,,, buu oe more swift to le.irn irom others than to Instruct others. The true church of Christ will be a multitude of larners (dis ciples) rather than a multitude of teacher?, ready, it is true, to share with others what the- have them selves been taught, of God. but even more eaer in all teachableness to learn from others what God has taught them (Phil. 2:3). There was perhaps never a day in the history of vho church when this word of James was more needed than to-day. This man, according to tradition, was one who snent so much time in prayer titat his knees were found to be cal loused like thoue of a camel by his much kneeling, yet this God-taught and holy man puts himself right alongside the rest of us and says "In many things we all stumble." How tinlike the utterances of many to day who call themselves "holy," but who. while they are quite ready to maintain that the most of believers stumble grievously, are not willing to confess that they themselves stum ble In anything much less "in many things. Thev do stumble all the same "we all" do (cf. 1 Kings S: 46; Rom. 3:10; 1 John 2:10). This however, is not saying that It Is nec essary for us to go on day after dav sinning In the sense of consciously doing that which we know when do l"g, 11 . be contrary to thy will of God. This none of us need do and none horn of God will do (1 John 3: ,u "S tnKue Is the hardest part of the body to bring under control and the last to yield to the pon. straining grace of Ood. When that member is brought Into complete ac cord with the will of God we mav rest assured that the grace of God has finished its work. A man's w m. "0t mere.'V hl 8et "Poshes, but his unpremeditated utterances as So;MaU.T2:aSoe 'S ,BmMt II. The Tongue N a Fire, n World of Iniquity. U.12. The tongue Is in deed a Are It inflames anger, and fam lies and societies and nations are set In a conflagration In consequence of an untimely word (see Prov lu ll J,;,(IfT 12:1-c: 2 Sam. 19:43; 2o! Th- '0:13-1: cf. 13:17).. The tongue Inflames lust and withers the purity of the maiden and con sumes the strong man nhv3lcnllv mentallv and moallv PiV; nn i'T!10 ,onKue Inflames Jealousv Mn.T. rtc:stro;v,3 tl,e leautiful tie that binds together man and wife and ?VC3 ,l ,e, homo ln "''"ns. The tongue kindles unbelief (Tit I'll Gen 3:l-fl, and thus burn's away the foundations of individual charac ter, of commercial integrity, of social purity nnd of national security The tongue, indeed Is a fire, "a world of niqulty among our members." There Is nothing mischievous and vile that Lm. 'm6 cannot d0- A "'tie fire a 11... le a vasc nmmt of wood. A little fire in a broken lamp set all a m,".?0 ab,a.zL and lbtt 11 " 'ulna. Mti "l8.wor(11hAs ft many a home, city and nation ablaze, and often times tnnt lire will burn on through I 1 t7n.lty' The flres of "ell are kindled by the idle words that set. men thinking wrong about God and Christ and Pin and the Bible. The destructive critics to-day by their professedly scholarly but really per verse and subversive words are kind ling fires of unbelief and sin. Men are usually careful how they handle fire, but most of us are careless about how we use our tongues. James tells us plalrly the origin of this fire. It Is set "on fire cf hell." Whence come the words that inflame the Im agination and passions, from French iterature? No, hell. Whence come the words that are undermining the faith In tue credibility of the Bible narrative', of those who do not think for themselves, but bow nt the shrine of culture, from German scholarship? Jo, hell. If any one questions James statement that the "tongue can no man tamo," he has evidently never tried It himself. But while no man can i.'.raa the tongue, God can. Tho bet thing any of us can do with hh own ton-ruo is to bring it to God ind surrender Its control to Him. How James hsaps up illustrations to enow tho misc'airf-worklng power of tho tonguo (v. 8. R. v.). But is there auy doubt that- he Is right? Has not a sharp tongue poisoned the life of many a husband, wife or child? Has not the obtcene tongue polscncd the imagination of many a boy nnd man? Has not the Infidel tongue pol&oned the waters of llfT "it dtflleUi the whole body," r.lbllcal Teaching. Prof. Charles Zueblln. of the Uni versity of Chicago, was discussing at a dinner the Easter myths and le gends of the world. "Tbe legends that are beautiful and Immortal," be said, "have In them truths that we all, according to our kind, take borne. That Is true likewise of Immortal works of art pictures, poems, songs. For different people they have different niessagos." "For instance," said a young girl. "For Instance," smiled Prof. Zueb lln, "In my native Pendleton some of tbe mothers used to cut the children's balr. They did It with shears and a bowl. Tbe operation was often pain ful.' and tbe result was never ele gant. "In Sunday school a Pendleton teacher once told bar pupils tbe tragic story of Sampson and Delilah. Then be turned to a little boy. " 'What do you learn, Joe, aba said, 'from tbe Bamson story T" - u don't never pay,' piped Joe, 'to bare a woman cut a fellsr's hair.'" Philadelphia Record. EPWQRTH LEAGUE LESSONS JtTZ SUNDAY, JUNE 6. -Mark 12: r238 mi fjp& god rs oun rkfvge STRENGTH. Our Legal Obligations 28-34. Our legal obligations! How harsh and stera It sounds! What does it suggest? Contracts which must be met, duties which must be fullllled, obligations from which there can be no escape without a resulting penalty. Is this what we mean when we spak of our obligations ns Christians? What Is it Ood asks of us, of you, of me? Does he nsk beyond our strength, beyond our knowledge? Let us study his will In his world. What Is It Ood asks of the flower? 81mply to bear Its blossom, to distill sunshine and shower and dank earth mold Into perfume and beautv. To ask anything else of It would bring failnre. Those are the thlnira (tn n. ture fits It to give. God never asks Alwy, 'wv" where we linger. a. nnnsv n nnn. tn topnma on nni, n. m1"- "'"c, AND When the dnrl:ncs hnngeth o'er us, And the night Hides the built, God will go before us. When the rinnger near 11s presseth, Hope has fniled, Fear prevailed, God the weak heart blemetn. When the trouble is the strongest, ', And the nearest To our dearest, f God's great love is longest. When the eyes grow tired with weeping, Nor relief Cures our grief, God our joy is keeping. " l'"t7 mural iu ueiuiUB nil UHK, or i T, a blade of grass to bring forth a lily, j Guide, us wfth IIU ' ua is a reasonaoie KUier. ifod nsks 1 within the strength of his creatures. Vet how hard we make his way! j What Is It 'thnt God asks of tis? 1 Simply wholehearted love. But does he not say what I must and must not 1 do? My amusements, my ambitions, , my use of any talents? No; theso things are all- met by his test of love. ! Would you know whether you nre a 1 true Christian? Try his test. Would 1 you know whether you have met your finger. For Ilia goodness 'mid our blindness, Let us praise, All our days, God's great loving-kindness. Marianne Farningham, in London S. S. Times, The Outlook of the Upright. Apart from God and righteous ness there Is no bright future. This Is God's world. He made it, and all 11 ,1 - , - - to .ana mo iiaiucu it, it in WHO obligations? Ask yourself in tho light ! the eternal principles of His King of these two great commands. And ; dom. The universe is built after the iu.-y uepeou .- isot upon wnat my pattern of truth and righteousness, hands can do or my lips can say. j and cannot possibly favor wickedness. They depend upon something In me 1 Injustice and oppression may triumph a life of unselfish love. 1 for a time, but "truth crushed to Let us pray that God will help us earth will rise again." "Unto the to overcome all selfishness in our llv- ; upright there arlseth light ln dark- Ing for him. We cannot love God un- 1 ness." "Light Is sown for the-right- reservedly, or man as ourself, until eus and gladness for the upright ln Alt Who Would Ertfoy Mflil t.AA1,U .'.U I. 1.1 1 ,wv in-uiLiiwiiu no uiussings, must Un, lerstand, quite clearly, that it Involves the luestion of right living with oil the term mplics. With proper knowledge of what s best, each hour of recreation, of enjoy, nent, of contemplation and of effort may e made to contribute to living aright, Then the use of medicines may be dis. (ensed with to advantage, but under or, Unary conditions in many instance) a imple, wholesome remedy may be invalu. ible if taken at tho proper time and tbe California Fig Syrup Co. holds that it i, dike important to present the subject wthfully and to supply the one perfect axative to those desiring it. Consequently, the Company's Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna gives general latisfaction. To get its beneficial effect! suy the genuine, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for tale oy all leading druggists. every selfish wish and every preju- aice has been banished from our hearts. Selfishness will be sure to cloud the heart or tempt the soul or deceive the mind or weaken the strength of our loving toward God and man. JUNE SIXTH. Life Lessons Per Me From the Gos pel of Luke. Luke 6:. 20-28 (Consecration Meeting.) My Father's love. Luke 15: 11-32. My Savior's search. Luke 15: 1-7. I Need of compassion. Luke 10: 30- 37. Which am I.? Luke 18: 914. My pounds. Luke 19: 11-27. rCnmest In prayer. Luke 18: 1-8. Woe to the rich only when their riches are their all. There are some whose approval !a our condemnation, and yet we covet universal popularity. The Golden Rule !s made leaden If we do good to others Just because heart." The God who made the universe made also the human soul, and In the soul there is an instinctive feeling that wickedness leads downward to darkness. This Is the reason why the disobedient are despondent. Their own hearts will not let them hope. They may work up an arti ficial cheerfulness, but In the depths of their souls they are hopeless. To hope would be to mock nature and God. In the case of the disobedient the end Is not better than the begin ning. The foolish virgins started out with as bright a hope as the wise, but the end was confusion and Bhame. I The Indolent and unfaithful servant j ln the parable of the talents had as j good start as his neighbor, but the one talent which he had received was taken away from him and he was cast Into outer darkness, while the diligent and faithful servant saw his one talent multiplied ten times and entered Into the Joy of his Lord. In this teaching the Bible Is In fullest accord with nature. A recent writer tells of two poor men who sold books ln a small way in a great city fifty years ago. Thirty years elapsed, and one of them owned a fine pub lishing house which was known and patronized throughout the whole country, while the other still trun- PIIOTOUK APII. AKTISTIC DKVKUllMNO AM) PKlNTINu the kind ullticull loohtaln eluwhere- Our specialty. Tiy h and be convinced sn. kifaclfon yours or money back. Price alwtn the lowest consistent with bmt work, Wn ar oroirnlred Kodak and Photo headquarter i wuwrii w iHuiK-riy inu promptly .ataloir and Price List on application. THE 3. GALLWKI OPTICAL CO., Klchmond, Vj In a sawmill on a portion of the oattlefield at Spottsylvania Court aouse, Va., a few days ago the saw :ame in contact with a solid cannon Jhot, which had been fired into 1 arge pine tree, evidently on the day 0 the battle, May 12. 1864. The aw was shattered into atoms and me mm-wrecKea. For IIRADACHE Ulrica :A Pl'DIN Whether from Colds. Heat, Stomach or enroll Troubles. Capudlne will relieve you. It's lluuld-pleasant to take acta Immedl. ately. Try It. inc.. 25c, and 50c, at dru Lost Wife And Child At Cards. Jack Dan today owns John McCash'a wife and child, as well as all his property, as the result of a card game engaged ln by the two several days ago. I The cards were played fairly. I McCash lost first his little ranch. ( then his wife and then his child. He I gave possession without a word, and ail appears to be serene tn the little Indian settlement of Quartz Valley, where the game was played. San Francisco Call. we want them to do good to us We may have the spirit and power died his little barrow ln the streets of Elijah, or any other great man and sold books in as small a way as at we choose. !f we will only know enough, Riid Imitate him enough (1: 17.) The highest glory to God! Are we satis-fled with less than our best praises? Christ's way still needs preparing. perhaps His way to the heart of some child. Have you yet made a foot of it first. One piercing November night he stopned with his little barrow under the walls of the great store of his former rival, and said: "Ah, thirty years ago he and I had a book stall near each other In the same street, and I sold as many books as he, and perhaps more: but every penny I got I squandered, while he studied, tolled, planned and saved Th parable of the tale its over again. That parable has been enacted ln real life thousands of times. How can the indolent, profligate and the disobedient etnect nrosperltv? The laws of the universe sav, No. The cua of the drunkard does not grow sweeter "s he drinks deer.er and longer. He has tho best'of the wine at the heelnnlne of the feast, and af terward that which I. worse. But the outlook of the unright U glorious. "Tne nath of the Just Is as the shining light that, shlneth more nnd more unto the perfect, nay." The righteous soul, the l?htenu family, the rlcbteons rtlon. hsl1 tow strTiTcr nnd hn"nlor. "Weaning n.av endure for a nigM, but Jov cirretb 1" tho morning." Christian Advocate. Some of those that wondered at His ! there he hare gracious words yet tried to kill Him at His first rebuke. Shall we ac cept ChrUt's comfort and not His warning? How do we spend our wakeful hours at night? May they not be sent us on purpose for praver? The tests of Himself that Christ of fered, those are the tests that He ap plies to His followers. We are to bring forth fruit with pa tlence. Patience is the sun for the seed (S: 15.) Do not despise a bad man till you are sure that, if he had your advan tage, he would not be a better man than you (10: 13). Xot greater barns but greater hearts makes greater wealth (12; IS). Big Bands and Little Noise, IJy CHARLES C. MCLLIX. Did you ever take notice, while watching a big parade, that a partic ular brass band of thirty or forty members didn't make more not3e than another but smaller one In the same procession? Perhaps you did. But did It occur to you, then, that this larger collection of musicians blew out a volume of tone woefully weak ln proportion to the number of men in It? More likely not. The reason for this disparity of volume Is dt.e, ln many cases, to the fact that some bandmasters take ad vantage of these special occasions to pad their bands with dummies. These leaders, however scrupulous and conscientious they may be at other times, accept orders for fur. nlshing more active musicians for the big parades than they can supply. To meet this Increased demand, therefore, they split up their original organizations Into as many sections as there are bands to be sont out. Then they add whntever floating players they find available, "ring ln" the dummlOK to fill out, and send these padded bands off to the parade. These dummies, a bandsman told tho writer, are musicians; but un fortunately, their familiar Instru ments, being the violin, tbe double has?, the viola, or, perhaps, the bas soon, they cannot utilize these har mony makers In a street band. Nev ertheless, these dummies are as well quallnod to hold up a cornet, a tuba, an alto, or even a trombone, and blow out their cheeks till they are red Id the face, as are the artists on these particular Instruments. The essen tial difference Is, of course, that the dummies make no noise. They sim ply mark time. Moreover, this deception Is rarely penetrated by the listeners In the street, and at the same time, musi cians, who otherwise would be idle, draw tbelr pay when the parade li over, and everybody Is satisfied. From Judge. In connection with the recent trial of Chatham (Eng.) dockyard men for theft of old metal, tbt auditors' report on tbe navy says: ''Soma of tbe conspirators obtained leave of ab sence from tbe dockyard In order ac tively to carry out tbt thefts." Rare Gift. A friend of the late Lord Gran ville, noted for his baldness and avarice, was speaking one day about a mutual friend who was going to be married. "I would like to glvn him, my lord," said he, "something rare, but not expensive." "Present him with a lock of your hair," Granville whispered, sweetly. Argonaut. Same Locality. Aboard the stage coach in the Vlrcrlnln mnuntnlna nn ftlH man and an old woman were fellow-passengers. The old woman kept staring at blm as if trying to remember. At last she said: "Stranger, 'pears to me I seen you somew'har." The old man eyed her reflectively and scratched his head. " 'Spec' you have," said he. "Ah been thar." Pittsburg Dispatch. Ho Knew. "Do you know how to use a chafing-dish?" "Yes," answered Mr. Slrlus Bark er. "I have some novel Ideas on the subject." "What are they?" "The best way I know of to use a chafing-dish is to punch a hole In the bottom of it, paint It green, and plant flowers ln It." Washing ton Star. Out of Our Sphere. Some men are never willing to do the work for which thev are fitted, hut what they cannot do seems ta have irresistible attractions for them. The man who cannot sing is continu. ally fretting unless he is allowed to sing; the woman who cannot pen a 1 decent line spoils a ream of paner in proving to the public what she cannot do. So in church work we sometime find individuals who are never con tent until they are out of their place. By some strange perversion of idea? the man who does not understand children is determined to teach in the Sunday-school: the man whose voice is a croak Is determined to sins In the choir, and the man whose head hardly holds two Ideas believes thai he is called to preach. Atd the dlffl. ctilty Is that, ln most cases, If theii choice for work is refused them, they will not work at all. Probably the only remedy for sucb cases Is enough religion to make them willing to d. whatever the chnrch's Judgment and thdr own ob servatlon show they can do best. It Is well for us all to remember thai God never closes one door without opening mother, and the rlr-d doot Is as real a providence as the orien one. Tt Is foolish to spend a lifetime knocking pt a closed door while the onen door Is ever bidding us enter. Christian Guardian. At Xight School. Teacher Give me an example of what Is meant by "masterly Inac tivity." . Boy with the Prognathous Face A baseball pitcher's delayln' a game so It'll have to be called on account of darkness. Chicago Tribune. Rett Evidence, The best evidence of Christianity is a Chrlst-llke life, and the best evi dence of the Inspiration of the Word of God Is found ln tho Word Itself: when studied, loved, obeyed and trusted. It never disappoints, nevei misleads, never falls. J. Hudson Taylor. Not Becoming. Eager Inbuilt nee dues not become, those who triut ln God, Alexander Mrclnren, A Postal Tip. , "Most people don't now :iow to put a stamp on a letter," said a post office official. "They moisten the stamp, taking off a certain amount of th.i mucilage by the process and making It hard to stick. Tbe proper way I to moliten tbe tip or the en velope where tte stamp Is to go, then press on tbe staisn. Tbe paper iould not be soaked. Just oioiktened on tb surface, however. That stamp ill never drop off In the mall bag." 1 rush hours. Detroit Free Press. OVER THE FENCE Neighbor Says Something. Tbe front yard fence Is a famoni council place on pleasant days. May be to chat with some one along the street, or for' friendly gossip with next door neighbor. Sometimes It 1 only small talk, but other timet neighbor has something really good to offer. An old resident of Balrd, Tesai, got some mighty good advice tbli vay once. He says: "Drinking coffee left me nearly dead with dyspepsia, kidney disease and bowel trouble, with constant pains in my stomach, back and side, and so weak I could scarcely walk. "One day I was chatting with one of my neighbors about my trouble and told her I believed coffee burt me. Neighbor said sho knew lots of people to whom- coffee was poison and she pleaded with me to quit It and give Postum a trial. 1 did not take her advlco right away, bu'. tried a change of climate, which did not do me any good. Then I dropped coffue and took up Postum. "My Improvement began Immedi ately and I got better every day I used Postum. "My bowels became regular and l two weeks all my pains were gone. Now I am well and strong and can eat anything I want to without dis tress. All of this Is due to my bat ing Quit coffee, andt to the use ol Postum regularly, "My son, who was troubled with Indigestion, thought that If PostuB helped me so, It might help blm. I did, too, and be Is now well bJ strong again. "Wa Ilka Postum as well as ever liked the coffee and use It alto gether In my family In place of coff and all keep well." "There's R son." Read "Thej Road to Wei , Ever read the above letter? A f j one appear from time to time. T"c' are genuine, true, and fall of bum Juterrau
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