I ill 11 Y Fun gnu Growth Cnrrd. It has been pretty thoroughly dem onstrated that potato spraying Is a algh grade Insurance. You may grow potatoes one year successfully wlth 3ut spraying, but you never know what year to select for your experi ment. If fungus growths happen to be bad thnt year you would lose heavily Farmers' Home Journal. Pruning Is Important. Pruning Is one of the most Impor tant factors In the production of first .-lass fruit. While there are many methods for pruning trees, some right end some wrong, yet most of the g'n fral principles aim at the feme thin? to remove the surplus wood, devel op a strong frame and keep the tree within the bounds of the grower. Farmers' I Ionic Journal. floes Liberal Feding Pay? It has been a mooted question, whether liberal feeding Increases ihe iercentape of fat In milk or merely :ho quantity. It is popularly Fup josed th.it It does Increase the per vntuge of fat, but some experiments it experiment stations leave the mat :er In doubt. Some of the rlrhest Jillk ever analyzed was from a cow .hat had only straw to eat, but she rave mighty little of it. At the New Vork station. In the case of a herd )f poorly fed cows, an abundant ra .lon, easily digested and nitrogenous n character, and rontlnued through .wo years, resulted In an average In :rease of one-fourth to one per cent. f fat In the milk (or a percentage ncrease of about six per cent.). This was accompanied by an increase of ibout fifty per cent. In total amounts )f milk and fat produced. Weekly rVitness. i ance In one of the samples cut by the Judges. This Is caused by the une qiTal distribution of the salt, and can he overcome by a second working of the butter. Add the proper amount of salt to the butter, work It about a third as much as you would If the working was to be done at once, then set aside for a few hours until the salt has dissolved thoroughly and then com; lete th" working. This will overcome the trouble, but nc'-s- sitatos a little extra labor. Urine salting will be found effective !n overcoming this defect, but only a mild saltina can be given to butter by this method. THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. DE WITT L. PELTON. Tlicme: The Habit and Kindness and Consideration For Others. Ventilation of the Tinm. The ventilation of barns is a rent ier which deserves more attention .han It receives, but I will not take .Ime to go Into details. There are .'requently cracks and open spaces which serve the purpose of ventila :lon, but which often cause drafts, resulting in colds, rheumatism and Mher aliments. In like manner the drainage around the barns should be "xamlned, as bad results often come !rom Imperfect drainage. Then there is the watering arrangements. All Horses ought to be watered before and not after feeding. The horse's atom ach Is comparatively small; It only tontains from seven to nine gallons, 10 if yon feed him heavily and then water him, the result will be that i certain amount of the food will be washed down Into the Intestines fn an andigested condition. This Is a fre quent cause of colic and other trou bles, and can easily be obviated by watering the horse when his stomach Is comparatively empty. Weekly Witness. At Some Hutter Defects. a recent butter contest nhre butter was entered as much to find out its faults and how to remedy them as to compete for the prizes that were offered for different classes of dairy butter, there were found lome very good examples of common defects in butter, 'writes Professor J. C. Kendall In Practical Farmer. One Jtherwlse very1 line sample of butter entered in the farm dairy class, when cut down through the middle of the rake by the judges was found to be streaked. Light streaks running crosswiso and ettendlng about two thirds of the width of the cake, give lo the exposed surface a very bad ap pearance. This is a common occur rence with farm butter, and results from the method of manufacture em ployed on the farm. It is caused by the action of the salt on the c:isein of the buttermilk left In the butter. The salt precipitates the casein, and then when the butter is worked It Is rollej out in layers of white streaks as was found In the above sample. Buttermilk must be thoroughly re moved from the butter, and ran be accomplished best by stopping churn ing when the butter grains are about the size of a half pea, and allowing the buttermilk to thoroughly dr:i!n from the butter. Then wash the l.ut- Inevpensive Filters For Farm Water. One of the problems on the fiirm ' is how to obtain an ample suppl of pood, clear water. It Is not so easy I to provide well or spring water with a flit or, but cistern water may be easily purified by means of one or more simple devices which may bo of homo construction. Much dirt in the way of soot, leaves, dead insects, droppings from birds and pollen from ' irees is wasnea Into tne cistern un less some m;ins are taken to pre vent it. The simplest arrangement is to have a movable section in the leader which can be turned to let the rain wash the dirt onto the ground. Thn after the roof Is N IT f Mr Fig. 1 A Simple ISrlck Filter. cleaned the balance of the rain can go into the cistern. This Is objec tionable In that it needs to be looked after during every rain, and fre quently all the water will be lost. The simplest form of filter is to build a partition through the cistern, laying up a soft brick wall In cement, as shown In Fig. 1. This will or dinarily give satisfaction If the Im purities which collect on the receiv ing side of the wall are removed oc casionally. Another and better form of filter is shown In Fig. 2. In this case the cut Is supposed to repre sent a hundred barrel cistern and a filter of twenty-five barrels capacity. They are built of either concrete or brick, well cemented on the Inside. The filter is flat bottomed and Is half filled with charcoal, sand and gravel In layers, the charcoal being placed In the bottom. The leader which comes from the roof should enter the filter on only a slight angle. The material In the filter will need to be removed occasionally and re place! with fresh charcoal, sand and gravel. When a cistern Is built It should be water tight so as to prevent co:i- .r,.v.v-::rgA4.f;-:: Who went nbout doing good and healing all that were oppressed. Acts, 10:38. The tendency of business life Is to make men calculating, selfish, limited In their sympathies. This disposition, stressed pach work day and empha sized by competition, becomes a habit of the soul, which takes control of life. The tendency of the life of plensure Is the same. Those whose eyes are single to their own enjoyment., who are Intent upon every opportunity for amusement, become superficial, cold and limited In sympathy. Selfishness with them likewise becomes a habit. Qualities that we admire, nobility, kindness, sympathy, service, are to be secured like the practical qualities of life by making them habits of the soul. They will not come as the re sult of spasmodic action or sentimen tal day dreams. Acts performed dally ripen into habits. Do you want to keep from being the mean and selfish Individual the practical life of busi ness would make you? Plan to do some deed of kindness every day, some act which has no relation to your business, your own happiness or success. Do your own work faithfully and well, but see If there Is not an oppor tunity to lend a helping hand to an other, to say a kind word, do an en couraging deed. In the midst of the hurly-burly of life, in the dally con tact with men, take time for a look now and again for the weaker man, for the man fighting bravely against great odds, for the wounded and bruised In the battle of life. Culti vate the habit of kindness, of consld eratlon for others with whom you come In contact. But not only for those with whom you come in contact, but others you do not see, a countless host In this great city, who daily stare with what courage they can muster, but with dread as well, into the raging eyes of the wolf of Poverty. Our cltyabounds In distress and Buffering and misery which men might see if they would step otit of their selfish routine. Do some deed of kindness each day until It sets Into a habit of the soul. This Is practical Christianity. A good way to create such a habit Is to commit one's self to some form of Christian or altruistic service. One of the objections urged by our pleas ure loving natures against definite1 service of any kind Is that It ties us down. This is really one of its ad vantages. When you commit your- ' self to the service of others, or make engagements with yourself to per- . form some duty, your good intentions do not dissipate Into thin air, but are harnessed Into practical work, and the disposition to be of use to your fellow-men becomes yours at last as the result of the habit of definite1 Christian activity. Moody's Testimony. Two months before his death, Mr, Moody, while at Central Church, at Brooklyn, gave the following testi mony: "I know If I should be asked to bo a witness In a court my testimony would be taken; and I want you to take my testimony as to what It Is to be filled with the Spirit. There are two epochs in my life which stand out clear. One is when I was be tween sliteen and seventeen, I was born of the Spirit. There can never come a greater blessing to any man on this earth than to be born again born from above to have the God nature planted In him. God has been good to me. He has showered bless ing after blessing upon me, but tho greatest blessing next to being born of the Spirit came sixteen years af- : terwards, when I was filled with the ! 8plrlt: and He has never left me to this day. He Is for all women as j well as men. When Pentecost was fully come, the whole church was qualified for work In God's cause." : It. A. Torrey. OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. REPORTS OP PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE AGAINST RUM. Fig. 2 Charcoal and Gravel Filter. lamination from ground water during the wet season, as well as to prevent leakage of water that runs Into It from the roof, and if a well Is to ba dug or drilled, It should be located upon higher ground than the house, liuni and outbuildings and some dis tance from the latter. The principal ter only enough to rinse off what but- troubles that may be traced to an lm termilk still adheres to the butter pure or contaminated water supply grains. Cure should be taken not to are, as a rule, Intestinal troubles, tho UBe too larpH an amount of water, nor permit the nutter to stand In the wash wa'er, as It tends to produce a tasteless butter. If this is pursued there will be no trouble from treake.1 butter. most dangerous being typhoid fever. j The most common as well as the most dangerous contamination of the drinking water conies from the cess pool. Every precaution should be taken In locating the well to place it Another and more common trouble " a to prevent as nearly as may bo with country butter Is to find Irresu lar white specks distributed all through the butter. This trouble is usually accompanied by Its strong taste and the butter very soon goes "off flavor." This unsightly condi tion Is caused by the cream becoming too rfpe or not keeping the cream well mixed during ripening. The dry particles of cream or casein, which tave become hard by the action of too much acid, appear mixed with the butler fat as little angular white pieces. This trouble Is more common during warm weather when the cream ripens so quickly, and perhaps canning days or some other days in terfere with the churning day, with the usual result that the churning has to wait. If this Is the case then bold the cream at a low temperature to retard tne ripening and there will be no 111 effects. When the cream Is too sour It should be carefully trained through cheese cloth. This will remove part of the trouble. Stop ping the churn when the grains are mall will permit some more of those little white pieces to be washed out, but the best and purest way to avoid this trouble Is to prevent the cream from passing beyond th "danger point," which Is that stage of ripen ing when the whey or water begins to separate front the cream. For mildly acid, good flavored butter, do not let it pass beyond the point where the cream bai a smooth, glistening appearance, and is of a uniformly thickened condition. Another trouble often found tn butter, and a good example of which was shown at this batter contest, was rt or lets evenly mottled apptar- any possibility of contamination There are as many, If not more, of the germ diseases that may be trans- ' mltted by water as by any other means, and some of the diseases are so uniformly transmitted by the water supply that they aro known as water borne dUease. Typhoid fever Is such a disease, as well as some of the other forms of intestinal troubles. I( disease may be carried by water, it Is of the greatest Importance that every precaution should be taken to Insure a pure water supply. A hasty examination of a water If of very little benefit and may often 1 be entirely misleading. A water may be clear, free from any sediment or odor and may taste good, and still be dangerous for drinking purposes. A chemical analysis, supplemented when necessary by a bacteriological exam-. inatlon, Is needed to determine the quality of a given sample of water for j domestic purposes. One examination Is not always sufficient to decide the fitness of the water, as contamination j is more likely to take place at out ! time of the year than another. I The amount of rainfall will Infiu. I ence very considerably the bacterial ' contents of water from shallow wclli or poorly constructed cisterns. Dur- j lug the heavy spring rains the num ber of bacteria reaches an enormoui figure and decreases again as the drj season progresses. All of the bacteria 1 that are found In the water are not ' dangerous, but if drainage and othei i conditions allow contamination from j outside sources there is always an ! opportunity for the Introduction ol disease producing germs. Wookl) Witness. , . Home Herald Aphorisms. The Christian who feels no Interest tn fallen men Boon falls himself. Hold fast that which la good and then get some more of the same kind. Getting out of bed backward isn't half as unlucky as getting off a mov ing car that way. The pocket which contains a bad man's pistol Is utilized by a gentle man for a notebook. The Bible Is so plain that every body understands It but a fool, and he need not err therein, but somehow he always does. Some men are bachelors because they think marriage is a failure, and some because their attempt to get married was a failure. It Is a mean man who after stick ing his head out of the coach window wants to sue the railroad company for getting a cinder in his eye. The rich hustle to get richer or, to get away from where they are. The poor hustle Just as much to keep from getting poorer or, stay where they are. Adjustment. If the strings of a piano were tuned exactly right you could only plav in one key. Only by dropping a little the perfect pitch of every conviction can you get along with folks. Rev. Frank Crane. The Worldly Man. The man who permits himself to j Hi mo viemn oi nig sense is wnat tne Scriptures truly denominate the worldly man. Rev. E. L. Powell. Framing God. God Is too big to be shut up in any sot of definitions; for definition nec essarily means limitation. The mo ment you define you confine. No one can frame God. Rev. Geo. Thomas Dowllng. . Honest Doubters, Thomas was an honest doubter; therefore the Master was anxious to help blm. Honest doubters are treated in like manner to-day. Rev. Orville A. Petty. Cnconscioua Deterioration. First the mining, then the explo sion! First the moral muscles grow flabby, then the helpless weakness be fore temptation. First the gray batri here and there sprinkled upon him, and bo knows it not; finally the splr Itoal senility and swift oblivion. This Is the course of unconscious deterior ation. Rev. Charles F. Aked. Impossible Ideals. Impossible ideais make for lawless ness rather than for rlghteousnesi and the betterment of life. Rev. H. Martin. The Woman Who Drinks. Man's ideal of what women ought to be Is based upon his belief of what she normally Is better than him self. His own selfish desire Is the rhief factor In dragging her down from the pedestal upon which he him self has placed her, and yet with that strange Inconsistency which characterizes him, he will idolize her If she resists. If sin seems blacker In woman than In man it Is simply because she Is by nature purer and has further to fall. If man seems to condemn sin In the woman more than In the man he is paying to her for that reason his highest compliment. Intoxicants are dangerous enough to men, to women they are especially so. The virtue of the woman with the drink habit Is always in danger. Romulus sentenced women to death for Intoxication as the beginning of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. j The effect of alcohol upon woman's I will power and sense of moral re sponsibility Is well known and util ized by the man of the world. The lack of moral balance and de fective will produced in the woman by drink are more marked than In the man. Woman's emotional organiza tion Is more susceptible than that of man, hence the special danger of drink to the woman. The disastrous results of tippling among women are already too well known to the physicians, and experi ence shows that, while men who drink often reform, women who be come victims of drink seldom do. That women drink as freely and as frequently as the men is a sight that you can see for yourself In the fash ionable cafes of our cities, where wealth abounds and beauty smiles. j I speak from what I have seen as I have mingled In society. I dare not trust myself to describe the things I j have seen among women, young and I tender, upon whose more Impression- I nl temperament and finer organlia- j tlon the destroyer had taken firm ! hold, and among women no longer j young but whose souls and sense : were dead long before their eyes were I flos-d. I Did dellcacay permit, I could detail , at length heart-rending stories coming from the homes of the out- i wardly respectable and rich of , ruined homes, broken hearts, hopes destroyed, affections crushed, reputa tions blasted, prayers silenced, grief sitting on the vacant seats of pa ternal care, tormented souls, cheer- ' less graves, dishonored lives, untold Borrow and drink did it all. I could, if I had the heart, detail at length cases which have come under my own observation and in which my advice has been sought during i my long experience in New York 1 which would make your hair rise, your breath catch, your blood chill, and which would call forth your I deepest commiseration on behalf of the victims, and rouse your Just In- ! dlgnatlon against the social custom which produces such misery. The doctors. If they dared tell 1 their story. In the words of Shakes- ; peare might say: "But that I am forbidden to tell the secrets of the : prison house, I could a tale unfold ' whose lightest word would harrow up your soul!" ' Exaggerate? Impossible! As there are grand, bold, beautiful scenes In. the physical world which no flight of fancy, no stroke of brush, no 1 graphic powers of language can ade- i quately describe, so, in the moral world, there are scenes of sorrow, vice, cruelty, disease and death of which we can give no adequate idea. Dr. Madison C. Peters, in the New York Evening World. t Saloon in Politics. "Saloon-keepers have degraded ! American citizens and American civ- ; lllzation, as can only be expected. 1 "Men selling liquor ally themselves I with semi-criminal characters and combine with them to degrade city 1 governments. This is especially true ! in Pittsburg, San Francisco and New I York, where In many cases saloon- ' keepers combine with capitalists who want franchises to dominate munlcl- . nal affairs. ThtiB the liquor men and I their allies are allowed to violate the laws and are granted special privl- . leges and the result is that the peo ple are given a saloon government. "The movement against liquor Is not temporary. It Is gathering In force and will continue. I find In traveling over the country that the , liquor question Is one of the two con- j solcuous issues now In existence. , The other Is municipal government." ; S. S. McClure, In an Interview. ; i Liquor's Resources. I Some folks talk of the "resources"' : of the liquor power Its billions of : dollars of Investments and capital, i etc. All well enough, but they 1 should not overlook the liquor traf fic's greatest resource the constant i support and countenance of near six teen million American voters. That is the part of the outfit that is most formidable, in fact, the only one that is. Arclnlenron Farrar. Men talk of veated Interests yes, vested Interests in men's ruinous temptations, vested interests in the destruction of flesh and blood and souls and bodies. They use the proud name of liberty, and declare that she demands the liberty of every human being to destroy himself and to be a curse to bis neighbor and to his land, deriding all legislation which alma at the restriction of evil weakness. Temperance Notes. In CeorgU the closing of the sa loons, which were the chief venders of cigars, has so diminished the sale of tobacco products that many cigar manufactories have been compelled to shut down. A Cathollo temperance primer, which Is likely to be used in all the Catholic schools nf this country. Is In preparation by Bishop Canevln, of Pittsburg. The Total Abstinence Union of America is promoting the project. Intemperance is the greatest evil now remaining among men. A number of the business men of Nashville, Tenn., have taken definite steps and perfected an organisation for the purpose of aiding in a prac tical way the employes of saloons. Thousands of these men will be thrown out' of employment when tho Hew law goes Into effect. County local option laws have been enacted tn Arlsona, Arkansas, Dela ware, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas, and in most of tbem tested in the highest court of the State, and wherever so tested Utay have been upheld. - Tat INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR JUNE 20. Review of tho Weekly Topics For the Second, Quarter of the Year Golden Text, Acts 4:8.1 One. tlons For Individual Review. Golden Text "With great power gave the apostles witness of the res urrection of the Lord Jesus." Acts 4.33. The lessons of the quarter are very rich in truth. We classify some of the teachings: I. The Holy Spirit. In Acts 10: 19 we havethe guidance of the Holy Spirit. In Acts 9:17 we have the filling with the Holy Spirit as a preparation for service. In Acts 11:24 we have the fulness of the Holy Spirit. In Acts 13:2, 4, we have the Holy Spirit guiding the church and calling men and sending them forth to definite work. In 13: 9-11 we have the Holy Spirit impart ing spiritual discernment and bold ness. In 15:28 we have the presiden cy of the Holy Spirit In the council of the church, bringing It Into unity and sound conclusions concerning ques tions under debate. II. Jesus Christ, The lessons of the quarter also con tain much precious truth concerning Jesus Christ. Indeed, He Is the cen tre of all the teaching. In Acts 9:3-6 we have Jesus Christ In the glory, shining with a glory above that of the noontime sun. In verses 15 and 16 we have the Lord Jesus as the head of the church to be witnessed to before Gentiles, kings and children of Israel. Acts 11:20 we have the Lord Jesus as the centre of true preaching, and verse 21 we see the power of His hand. In Acts 13:38, 39, we see Jesus as the One through whom forgiveness of sin Is preached and in whom all who be lieve are Justified from all things. In Acts 14:1-3 we see Him as the Mighty Deliverer from sickness. In Acts 16: 1-29 we see Him as the One who ful fills and brings to an end the law of Moses. III. Prayer. The lessons of the quarter are rich in teaching about thepower of prayer. In Acts 10:1-4 the prayer of Cor nelius for light and leading Is an swered, and in verse 9 the prayer of Peter is also answered. In Acts 12: 1-11 prayer opens the doors of a Ro man prison, strikes .the chains from the hands of a helpless captive and overthrows the skilfully laid plans of a powerful king. In Acts 9: 11 prayer is seen as the proof of the genuineness of Saul's conversion. In Acts 13:2-4 nraver hrtnva tho n . . i .j . . Hn V Gnl.U .1 . i . 1 ouu luepurauon ior mis sionary service. For Individual Review of the Quarter. The questions given below are for personal testing of what you have learned during the past quarter. Lesson I. What was the vision of Cornelius? What was Peter's vision? What was the result of these vis ions? Lesson II. What was the occasion of the death of James? Why was Peter imprisoned? What were the circumstances of hlB deliverance? Lesson III. To what extent did Saul persecute the disciples? What occurred on his way to Dam ascus? What service did Ananias render? Lesson IV. How did the church at Antloch originate? What services did Barnabas render at Antioch? Why do Barnabas and Saul visit Jerusalem? Lesson V. What two public meet ings were held at Antloch? How did the apoBtles begin their missionary work? What occurred at Paphos? Lesson VI. Where did the Gala tlan ministry begin? What appeal did Paul make to the Jews? What were the results of his ap peal to the Gentiles? Lesson VII. Bywhat route did the apostles journey to Lystra? What unique experience did they have there? What was the purport of Paul's ser mon there? Lesson VIII. What occasioned the council at Jerusalem? What occurred at the council? What kind of letter was sent to An tioch? Lesson IX. Why Is mere theoret ical belief without value? What kind of faith does God re quire? What was the merit of Abraham's faith? Lesson X. For what reasons should the tongue be controlled? How does self-control differ from silence? What metaphors are used to illus trate the perils of the tongue? Lesson XL What is the nature of faith? What examples can you give of per sonal trust In God? What example of moral heroism due to faith? Lesson XIIL What duties does love prompt Christians to perform? What is the relation of love to the law? What special motive does Paul ap peal to? God hides some Ideal in every hu man soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds Its noblest spring of excellence In this bidden impulse to do our best. Rob ert Collyer. . Religious Reading FOR THE QVIET 1IOVU. niE SPLENDOR OF THE STARS. L'p to the splendor of the stars I lift my eyes to-night, Stnrs that have shone for countless years And still are just as bright. The "Mighty Hunter" lends his dogs Across the Southern sky; While in the North the Oreat Bear lifts Hia massive form on high. And higher yet from East to West To-night how bright, how clesr, Tht portion of the Milky Way. Which lights our hemisphere. Upon that filmv path of light I gaze with deep'ning awe, These thousand, thousand stars of light Obey our Ixird one law. He tells their nnmes, appoints their path; For His delight they shine, lie willed, He spake, it was enough; Fulfilled was His design. Yet He who made those mighty suns And counts them one by one, For this perverse, rebellious world. Hoi sent His only Son. He enme a workman's life to live, A felon's death to die; For this, that we might be forgiven This was the reason why. For this the Holiest gave His life. For this endured the shame; That every contrite soul might know Forgiveness through His name. Oh. silent stars, ye still look down On hearts that turn away, And to the strong appeal of Love Give ope swift answer, "Nay." How much depends upon that word They little care to guess; Xor all the joy which waits for those Who gliully answer, "Yes." -E. E. Trusted, in London Christian. No Unnecessary Trials. Not many years ago a young man graduated from one of our theologi cal seminaries whose life seemed specially full of promise. He was a fine student and a convincing speaker; he was an enthusiast In his work, and he had married a girl whose hopes and Ideals were as high as his own. Together they began their labors in a field which called for all their seal and consecration. Then suddenly the young minister was stricken with a strange throat disease which entirely destroyed his voice. He consulted specialists, but the verdict was always the same he never could preach again. For a time the blackness of dark ness settled over him. What good were all the years spent In prepara tion for what he believed his life work, if all was to 1 ended thus? He eould not he reconciled. His wife, braver than he. strove in every possible way to instill hope and cour age into his heart, but In vain. One night he had a vision. He saw the face of Christ, full of tender reproach. "Child," said the Pres ence, "do you deem I know naught of Buffering? When on earth I was oftn weary, that I might sympathize with tired ones; I was lonely, that I might have tender thought for the desolate: I have suffered pala and agony, far beyond what you could have comprehended, so that I am a brother In very deed to all who suf fer. ' Bear your load, knowing that it was sent In truest love and wis dom. If not now, you shall under strnd hereafter." Th vision lifted him from despair to faith and hope. He found a use for all his natural and acquired gifts, and through the power of bis pen he reached and swayed multitudes which never would have come under the sound of his voice. Sunday-School Illustrator, Keeping Time in Holland. "Railroad time, as we generally un derstand the phrase In the UnLnd States, Is a little ahead of the 'tewn' time, but in The Hague, the quaint old capital of Holland, all private nd unofliclal clocks and watches are kpt twenty minutes fast," said Carald Walthall. "When it is noon in the railway station, postofnc and othar Govern ment buildings cf The Hague, the timepieces in tho shops and the watches of the sturdy burghers show 12.20 p. m. Just what rtasan there Is for this I don't kuow, although I atked enlightenment in many quar ters. It seems a custom that has been handed down for generations, and the Dutch are too conservative? to change the ways of their progenitors without some mighty inducement-" Baltimore American. St. Petersburg is to have modem systems of drainage and water sup ply by compulsory construction undac goveraiient supervision, Escorting the Devil to Church. We read In the Bible of one occa sion at least when the people of the Lord came up to worshln and the Devil came also. Perhaos he was not visible, hut the invisible powers of the world are its real forces. The Devil still en.Ioys going to a church service. Most frequentlv he Is es corted to Mie house of God. If a man goes to the service, letting swear words and all other mean things have free course In his heart, he is taking the Devil along. If one goes bent on murder, as did Gulsepne Alia in Den ver, the case is even more pro nounced. There are variations In the extent to which neople are possessed of ths Devil. At home, in the open air. in the rhurch service, that they are not entirely given over to doing the will of Satan Is not kin fault. That Satan Is crowded out of their mind and hparts In any measure Is greatly to their credit. To be fllle-l. with ths Sritrlt and keen filled continually, rs nelres constant devotion to the Lnrl and a heart which lives In the spirit of prayer. This Is the kind of cif munon God desires, both for His plery and for man's growth. A con scious yielding In any degree to the Tevll is o backward stei. Man Fhonld set his face like a flint, and should declare wl'h the psalmist, "Thy word have I hid In mv heart, that I might not sin a&ainst Thee." Religious Telescope. Continuity of Progress, Between the Here and the Here after there Is no gap nor chasm nor gulf, but continuity of progress and perfect sequence. There is no end to life. Life changes its form. Its em bodiment, the location of Its resi dence; but life is the breath of God, and when once breathed into the uni verse, and It has taken form and made for Itself eipresslon, who may annihilate It? who may strike It out of existence? No, there is no end to Ufa. Death is an enlightenment and a discovery. W, H. H. Murray. ! ."TT". ....vff;fjt The Ideal. - The deeds attained by great souls become the Ideals towards which lesser souls strive, In fact, the great est thing that a bero does for the world is to be a hero, and thereby in spire others to heroic living. H. R. Alger. The Requisite. No mere effort to do one's duty can fill the measure of love, and nothlug else in human relationship can take lu place. Forward. NOTHINQ OF THE SORT The boarder at the foot of the table, although be bad not taken a hit of bis stc for several minutes, bad not been entirely Idle. - , "What are you rfolng, Mr. McGln nls?" asked the landlady. "Philos ophizing?" "No, ma'am," he said. "Fletcher izlng." Chicago Tribute. To, Enjoy the full confidence of the Well-lnfom of the World and the Commendation o the most eminent physicians it was es0 tial that the component parts 0f g- of Figs and Elixir of Senna should be known to and approved by them; the fore, the California Fig Syrup Co. lishes a full statement with every patUgj The perfect purity and uniformity of p. duct, which they demand in a laxative ' remedy of an ethical character, arc assured by the Company's original method o( man. ufacture known to the Company only. The figs of California are used in the production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir o( Senna to promote the pleasant taste, but the medicinal principles are obtained from plants known to act most beneficially. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine manufactured by the Caii. fornia Fig Syrup Co. only, and for tt, by all leading druggists. The big trees of California are th oldest living things in the world. Es tlmates made from cross sections of some of those which have fallen ahow that the mature trees are more than 4,000 years old. No Fscnpe. Her Husband Well, it takes two to make a quarrel, so I'll shut up His Wife That's Just like a con. temptlble man! You'll sit there anl think mean things. Chicago News. A Pennsylvantan has patented i stand that may be clamped to a table to prevent a housewife's flatiroai from falling. The Department of Agriculture ex pects this year's sugar beet crop to total more than a million tons, the greatest on record. An emergency rope tire that can be packed in small compass has been invented to replace a damaged rub ber one for an automobile. The Persian gulf region holds the record for heat. For HKiDtCHK-Hl'k 'Ait'DIl Whether from Colds, Heat, Stormed x Nervous TroublM. Cayuiltne will rellwe roo. It's liquid pleasant to take aru Immedi ately. Try It, 10o., 25c. and 60c. tt druf tores. A Pirate. "What do you think of Miss Call hope's voice?" whispered the tall girl with the mountainous pompa dour. "She sings like a pirate," growled the rude man In the starry vest. "Like a pirate? Gracious! And what .is the resemblance?" "She's rough on the high C's." Chicago Dally News. Fastidiousness. A traveling salesman stopping ati hotel In a country town on circus day refused to use the wet and soiled crash towel In the lobby. The colored porter said deprecat lngly: v "Boss, 75 men has wiped dere han's on dat tow'l dis mornln' an' you is de fust ter complain." Circle. Well Meaning, Rut Vivian So you don't like Mr. Smith? Violet No, he Is very clumsy, es pecially when dancing. Vivian But he means well. Violet Yes. He Is one of those people who think it doesn't matter how much damage they do if they say "Excuse me." He Knew. The Historian Another genera tion will have to pass before a true and Impartial history of the Civil War can be written. The Publisher And by that time there won't be enough Interest In the subject to warrant the expense of publishing the history. Time's Changes. The captain was receiving the new middy. "Well, boy, the old story, I suppose fool of the family sent to sea!" "Oh, no, sir," piped the boy; "that's all altered since your day." Williams College Purple Cow. Never Tells Truth. A boy always brags of what be NI do when he's a man. And when he becomes a man hi always boasts of what he did when he was a bov. Plck-Me-Up. Tie highest suicide) rat of' any , aivMmi s that of Denmark- PRESSUD HARD Coffee's Weight on Old Age. When prominent men realize the injurious effects of coffee and the change In health that Postum can bring, they are glad to lend their tes timony for the benefit of others. A superintendent of public school In one of the southern states says: "My mother, since her early child hood, was an Inveterate coffee drln er, had been troubled with her heart for a number of years and complained of that 'weak all over' feeling sad sick stomach. "Some time ago I was making official visit to a distant part of the country and took dinner with ons of the merchants of the place. I noticed somewhat peculiar flavour of the coffee, and BBked him concerning H He replied that It was Postum. "I was so pleased with It, that after the meal was over, I bought a pack age to carry home with me, and bd wife prepare some for the next meal The whole family were so well pleased with it, that we dlscontlnned coffee and used Postum entirely. I had really been at times rerf anxious concerning my mother's con dition, but we noticed that after us ing Postum for a short time, she f" so much better than she did prior to Us use, and had little trouble wltn her heart and no sick stomach; Uurt the headaches were not so frequent, and her general condition much im proved. This continued until she nt well and hearty as the rest of n. "I know Postum has benefited Df elf and the other members of the family, but not tn so marked degre as In the case of my mother, as was a victim of long standing." Red "The Road to Wellvllle, la Ps "Thera't ft Reason." , Ever read Use above fetter? A on appears from time) to time. Thrf are genuine, trna. aad full of born latere. I
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