The lion's Work.
Tlie ht-u gathers, mixes nnd puts
together In organic form, 650 grains
of water, 120 grains of fat, lOfi grains
lime, eighty grains of albumen, twenty-Fit
grains of sugar, nnd ten grains
of ash. With her marvelous inside
fixtures she puts her humble grist to
gether and shells out the most mirac
ulous of animal products the egg.
Farm Journal.
The seeds we planted under glass
failed to s;rout. Wo expect to try
some In the open ground.
Ilrrctling Hurley.
Tor a number of years seed Im
provement has been under way at tho
different agricultural experiment Bta
tlons. Last year the agronomy de
partment of the l.'nivei-.-ity of Mich
igan secured a superior type of ped
igreed barley. Fifty ucrea were
grown nnd small amounts of Seed
arc being di: l:'ibul' J. Breeding ex
periments are l ing conducted vi;!i
many other small grains and some
forage crops.
CJiiMiline Knuiiip on Farm.
t have a three horse p:r.ver :a:- en
cine with which I run n creau s pa
rator, puni water, run my grind
stone, a two holo corn sii II' r. a feed
grinder and a post drill. I have the
rnsine mounted on a :-; i 1 1 gear
made from iin old mower so that I
can move It from one phuc to anoth
er, making It better adapted for the
different kinds of wo;-:. I believe
that an engine Pent- every form of
power upon the farm. When not In
use It costs nothing to keep it. Mine
earns a good man's wages right
along. Williari Woodall, in Kim
ball's Farmer.
Combating Lire in Chick.
If fowls are healthy, the premises
kept rlnnn. and a dust bath or ashes
provided, lice rarely pet the upper
hand, It being through the brood
hens, transmitting them to the chick
ens, that most harm ensues, A hen
with many or few lice on her when
sitting transmits them to the chick
ens immediately they are hatched.
They are to be found stationary on
the chicken')) head, above the beak
and eyes, and In a few days when
they get more plentiful, nre to be
found behind nnd on top of head and
throat. A simple and effective treat
ment adopted by the government sta
tion In New South Wales, is to place
a small quantity of olive oil in a
saucer, and the day after hatching
dip the finger In the oil and thorough
ly rub It Into the fluff of the chicken's
head and under the throat. This
will kill the lice if present nnd If re
peated the second or third day there
will be little fear of any escaping.
When a week or ten days old the
chickens should be examined again
and if any of the vermin are found at
this age a little kerosene can be add
ed to tho olive oil. It Is best to an
oint all chickens with the oil imme
diately after they nre hatched, such
being a sure preventive of tho
scourge. Indiana Farmer.
Vnlue of Sheep to Soil.
There Is no farm animal that bet
ter conserves soil fertility than sheep.
It Is true that wherever considerable
Bocks are kept the soil baa constant
ly Improved in productiveness. This,
added to their value for wool and
mutton, make sheep most desirable.
Every farm of any considerable s!;-.o
can be made better by keeping a flock
on It. An experienced sheep grower
reeentlv wrote of his own experiences
as to cheep, saying that the valuable
characteristic of sheep over other
kinds of domestic live stock is their
ready adaptability to almost T.ny con
ditions of soil and climate under
which successful agriculture can be
profitably carried on. In this coun
try there nre lnded but few locali
ties that nre suitable for crop produc
tion and live stock husbandry where
Bheep cannot be maintained. There
are to-day thousands upon thousands
of acres over our broad land that
could profitably graze sheep, and In
stead of reducing Its available fer
tility, as Is the result of present
methods of handling this land could
be made to absorb millions of pounds
of manuriiil fertilizer that would be
come more available from year to
year for the production of pasture
for grazing purposes and also store
up In the soil large quantities of sol
uble plant food for future genera
tions. A potent factor In restoring
lands low in available fertility sheep
pre-eminently lead all other kiuds of
live slock. Indiana Farmer.
More Silo Needed.
More silos are being built every
year, but they ate not being built
fast enough.
There were In the Stale of Iowa
last year about 210.000 farms, and
there were about 4 000 silos at the be
ginning of tin? year.
The silo is growing In popularity
In Iowa and many now ones have
been put tip since this estimate was
made, but at that there are probably
not ."en' In the State at this time.
Thi means that there are not more
than live for each county.
In all probability there nre
many barns ns there are farms. This
is as It should be. We cannot have
in., good barns, but we must begin
to realize that the silo is as Important
as any other building. There is no
reason why every barn should not lie
accompanied by a silo. In fact,
farm without live? stock Is surely on
the road to depletion. The fIIo
makes live stock profitable checks
the farm In Its downward course and
starts It back toward its original con
dition of fertility. The silo is about
the most Important building around
the barnyard.
Most farmers could keep more
stock and would do so If they had
!ior- feed. The silo doesn't Increase
the amount of feed that the farm pro
duces, but It prevents waste, which Is
just about as good. Corn packs away
so closely In a silo that It costs less
to house corn In this wny than in
r.ny other. In fact, It Is tho onlv
possible wny to preserve green corn,
and that Is the condition in which it
contains the greatest feeding value.
Kpitomlst.
THE PULPIT,
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON Bv
THE REV. H. G. GREENSMITH.
Hit
Stmbati-fecfwc-f
Theme: l imiting Jesus Christ.
I INTrn ITION 1. l rcni i mi.
MKXTS FOR JULY i
The WonderlKTry.
Speaking of this much advertised
fruit a writer In the Rural New
Yorker says:
"If the berries are no better than
those produced by the 'Garden
"huckleberry" otherwise plain black
nightshade Solanum nigrum tho
Wonderberry will not long remain In
cultivation. Although the names
fiolanum Gulneense and S. vlllosum
stand for distinct speclef In some of
the moBt authoritative botanical pub
lications, It Is said herbarium speci
mens show tbem to be only forms of
8. nigrum, which Is a widely dis
persed wild plant. No less credit is
due to Mr. Durbank If he has pro
duced a useful novelty by crossing
the two geographical forms of a sin
gle, variable species than if It had
bred a true bt-speclflc hybrid. The
main question remains: Will the
Wonderberry make good as a garden
fruit any considerable part of the
claims put forth by its dlsietnlnators?
A signed statement by Mr. Burbank
reads thus:
" 'The Bunberry. or Wonderberry,
Is a new fruiting plant which origin
ated la my grounds three years sgo.
This new fruit was not in existence
anywhere on this planet four years
ago. It Is unlike any fruit ever
befeje known, but most reserablos
the low-bush blueberry, Vacclnlum
Pennsylvanlcum of the Eastern
States.'
"It the resemblance extends to
quality also, the Wonderberry may b
rightly named. The low-bush blue
berry la everywhere regarded as the
most agreeably flavored as well as the
earliest of wild huckleberries. Few
tncaltlTSted !ruts are better liked."
Protecting: Squash Plants.
The most difficult matter about 1
growing squashes is to protect the
vines from the various insects that '
prey upon them. This is especially
true In the homo garden and small !
plots near buildings or near where .
squashes or other vine crops were
grown the previous year, because the
Insects hibernate In the buildings and i
In the ground near the vines they fed
upon, for the winter. For the striped
cucumber-beetle there Is no poison or
repellent that will prove effective and
satisfactory at all times. We make
a box 12x12 inches and six Inches '
high, covered with wire Bcreen,
which 13 set over the hill when the
seeds are planted and left on until
the plants get too large. They may
be made of an old pine box or other 1
odd3 and ends, and need not cost over
five cents even if the lumber must be
purchased. Another style is made en- i
tlrely of wire Bcreen by cutting a
circular piece of wire screen twenty
four inches In diameter and then
folding over a section, amounting to
one-fourth to one-third of the cir
cumference, and fastening with short
pieces of small wire pushed through
the meshes and the ends twisted to
gether. At retail prices the protec
tors made this way will cost eight '
cent3 each, but they have this ajlvan- 1
tage over the box style: the light nnd
air have full access to the plants.
Another advantage of this style is
that the protectors may be nested to
gether and stored easily when no
longer needed. If given a coating of
coal tar or sdme weather-proof paint
occasionally these protectors should
last for years. Some of the smallest
beetles can crawl through the meshes
of wire screen, but one can easily
kill the very few that get Inside.
For the large brown bug (stink
bug) hand picking Is the best reme
dy. Place shingle or pieces of boards
near the hills, and then enrly in the
morning kill the bugs that have col
lected on the under Bide during the
night. The bugs do this because the :
board affords them protection from i
the cool night air. Quito a lot of the
striped beetles nre caught In the same
way and at the pame time. Later the
young bugs or nymphs may be killed
with a spray of kerosene emulsion,
while huddled together In the
bunches. !
For the squash borer we must have
a trap crop of bush squashes, which
are to be planted two or three weeks
before the kind to bo protected is :
planted, and which the borers seem '
to prefer to the other kinds of
squashes. Beside drawing the borers
the bush squaHh vines interest a lot
of the other pests also, thus .making
the fight to protect the other vines, ;
where no screens are used, much j
nnulaii Tlin lmuli np cummer Knnnshc9 '
If taken when tender and cooked like
eggplant are much superior to thai
well known vegetable. Of course,
where tho bush squashes are about
mature and before the borers leave
the stems to hibernate In the soil the
vines should be pulled and destroyed
to kill the borer. This should be
done about August 1 here in south'
ern Ohio, and the time varies with
the latitude. Spraying the first tout
or five Joints of the squash vine (not
the leaves) with kerosene emulsion
Is a good plan, as also is catching and
killing the adult moth, which is very
conspicuous and easily found when
once known. However, the trap
crop plan will be found to be the most
practical and satisfactory method ol '
dealing with the squash borer. In j
using the above-described screen pro
tectors It Is well to remember thai
the soli should be drawn up about th
edges of the box or wire screen and
firmed down, so as to be sure that
none of the bugs can crawl under the
sides. These screens afford the planti
protection during the most critical
time in their existence and prevent
their becoming stunted, enabling
them to make a vigorous growth.
W. E. D., In Rural New Yorker.
Cats as Art Models.
The strange Inscrutability of the
cat In her calmer moods, her thou
sand and one humors and motloni
and expressions differing always, to
careful observation, from the thou
sand and one humors, etc., of otbet
cats have defied the painter or bro
ken bit heart. London Dally Gra
phic. -
Oswego, N. Y. In the First Bap
tist Church here, Sunday morning,
tho minister, .the Rev. Harry Glad
stone GreenBmlth, preached on "Lim
iting Jesus Christ." Tho sermon
touched upon what he declared to be
the limitations of the Emmanuel I
Movement. Ho also spoke of Chris- I
tian Science. Tho text was from Mat-
thew 13:68: "And He did not many i
mighty works there because of theit !
unbelief." Mr. Greensmlth said, i
among other things:
Even the Holy One of God, seem- j
ingly, had limitations. He was a I
prophet without honor in His own
land. In Christ wo find tho wisdom
of tho ages, tho skill of the universe, i
He was the "vis medlcatrlx'' of all j
science, religion and medicine. Pre
eminent over all, and yet limited.
In Capernaum, per contrary to Naz
areth, there seems to have been no
limit to the "powers" of Jesus. There !
and In adjacent places He had 1
wrought the mightiest miracle!
known to the ages. No other man J
has turned water into wine, or healed ;
a nobleman's son of palsy. None but
Jesus has cleaned out devils out ol t
the temple of man's soul, or out ol !
the visible temple of God's Kingdom
on earth.
Entering Into Jerusalem. His be
loved city, the city which caused the '
very nerve centres of Ills being to I
leap with joy, or travail in anguish, '
He saw a man Impotent for thirty- 1
eight years. By a word from the lipi ;
of this "rejected Nazarcne" the man ;
takes up his bed and goes away re- i
Jolting. Even here we find limlta- :
tlons. Christ could do nothing ol '
Himself. "I am come in My Father'!
name and ye receive Me not." "The ,
Scriptures testify of Me, and yet ye !
will not come unto Me." And here
we see forthcoming "isms." "If an- '
other come in his own name, him ye i
will receive." And how wild th I
world has gone over Dowle and Mrs.
Eddy. They set forth a religion in j
their own name, and people have gon j
wild, and Christ instead of being ex- j
alted has been bowed from Hit j
throne. Eddylstn, falsely called ;
"Christian Science," as there Is sc j
little of Christ in it, is nothing short i
of idolatry, worse than Mariolatry,
and Uowieism, Is fast "going unto it! i
own to its founder. Christ s pow
er Is limited by these two fads.
' Entering the temple one Sabbath,
Jesus meets a man whose right hand
is withered. "What will He do?"
cries the Scribes. "Will Ho heal
him?" the Pharisees ask. And Id
Bpite of them, Jesus shows forth Ills
power and commands the man to
stand forth. Then after a quiet talk !
on His sovereignty, He orders the I
man to stretch forth his hand, and he i
was immediately healed. This In- j
creased the anger of His adversaries
to madness, and they plotted how '
they might destroy Him, thus limiting
again His powers.
Thus far we have seen Christ'!
power over the lower limbs, In that
He caused a man to walk for the first !
time In thirty-eight years; to another j
He gives the use of an arm that was
useless; others who on the point ol
death He restores to strength. These
exemplify His powers over life, but,
entering the City of Naln, He shows
His power over death. The only Bon
of a widowed mother Is being carried
to the grave. Jesus commands him !
to arise. And the young man sits up '
and speaks. To another born blind
He gives sight. Surely such miracu- 1
lous deeds ought to have removed all
unbelief. lint, sad to relate, He could j
not do In His own city any mighty 1
works because of their unbelief. Even
His own disciples at times manifested I
this unbelief, or lack of explicit trust, j
John In -prison shows this spirit In his i
last message, Christ's answer was j
not sufficient to remove all doubt, I
even when He said: "Co, tell John !
what ye have seen and heard: The !
blind receive their Bight, lame walk,
deaf hear, and the dead are raised,"
etc. And all these doubts limited the
Son of God.
In the calling of the twelve we see
Christ's limitations. Ho was sub
servient to His Father's will, and He
must have helpers with Him. Every
step He took He counseled with the
Father before taking It. "And He
continued all night In prayer to God.
And when it was day He appointed
twelve, that they might be with Him,
and that He might Bend them forth
to preach, and to have authority to
heal," cast out demons. "And as He
came down from the mount a great
number of people from all sections
came to hear Him and to be healed
of their diseases. And the multitude
sought to touch Him, for power came
forth from Him, and He healed them
all." Now, this power of healing was
given to these new "Chrlsts," or, as
they were afterwards called, "Chris
tian?," at Antloch. These men re
ceived their new power and went out
under orders. How well they obeyed
is recorded.
They were to be voices of God,
"For it Is not ye that Bpeak, but the
Spirit of your Father that spenkcth
in you." "I will give you u mouth
and wisdom, which all your adver
saries shall not be able to withstand
or to galutay." And they went
preached, cast out devils, anointed
with oil those that were sick, healed
them all.
All power was given to them which
Christ had. "I have given you au
thority," He said to the seventy.
Peter was rebuked for not using au
thority over the waves upon which he
attempted to walk. "Ob, thou of lit
tle faith wherefore didst thou
doubt?"
The disciples were also rebuked be
cause their little Yalth prevented their
healing tho demoniac boy.v-
Power bad been given them, and
they were rebuked for their failure
to use It, Just as much as the one
talent man was rebuked.
These brlof suggestions lead to the
question: When did the authority
given to the disciples end? Why
should there not be direct manifesta
tions of the miraculous saving powei
over diseases to-day among the disci
ples of Christ as in the apostolic days?
The closing of the canon certaluly
did not close the door of healing.
Another question arises: Why
should we limit the power of the
Spirit? Surely the psychical nature
is not greater than the physical?
I am In great sympathy with the
Emmanuel movement. I am reading
all I can get my hands on about It,
but when I read the wonderful
changes wrought In so many lives, I
ask. Why could not we cast blm out?
Why cannot the game mighty works
be wrought In boston, as were
wrought In Capernaum? Is this not
putting a limitation on the work of
Christ? And Is not this limitation
simply because our faltb Is so "little,"
and Christ cannot do many mighty,
WQkf tier feecAUfa of our unJieUyM '.
JULY FOURTH.
Subject: Paul's Second Missionary
Journey Antloch to PliillppJ,
Acts 15:30.1(1: 13 Golden Tct,
Acts 1 (I : Commit Verses 1) 10.
TIME. A. D. 0-. PLACE. - -
Troas, Phlllppl.
EXPOSITION I. Paul Forbidden
to Preach in Asln, -S. "Asia" here
does not mean our modern Asln, nor
even Asia .Minor, but a part of Asia ;
Minor, the Roman Province of Asia, j
The time for Paul to speak the Word
In Asia had not yet come. So the
Holy Spirit snid to rani, you must
not speak the word In Asia. This I
probably seemed strange to Paul, but I
he wisely obeyed and asked no quep-
Hons. If wo would speak tho right, j
word, in the right place, r.t the light 1
time, we must look to the Holy Spirit t
for His guidance, and He will give it.
The time came later for Paul to speak
"the word of the Lord Jesus" In Asia, 1
nnd wonderful results followed (ch. :
19:1, S, 10, 2C, 27). If he had dls- ;
obeyed the Spirit nnd followed his i
own Inclination and Judgment there !
would have been no such results. But !
though Paul obeyed the Spirit and 1
did not speak the Word In Asia, ho
did not give u; preaching. As tho
Spirit would not suffer him to'spealt !
In one place, he went to another. Tho j
Word was a fire in Paul's bones, find
he must speak somewhere. If Paul !
had been like many of us. ho would ;
have taken tho Holy Spirit's prohibi
tion of his preaching in Asia as an j
excellent warrant for taking a vaca- j
tion. Paul's labors In Phrygia and
Galatla at this time were greatly
hleesed. There Is no description of
them here, but we learn from later al
lusions to them that there were many
conversions and a number or churches
organized (ch. 1S:23; Gal. 1:2). It
Is well to note that Paul did not need
the guidance of the Spirit to set him
to preaching, but to keep him from it
(comp. v. 7). If it had not been for
the express prohibition of the Spirit
he would have gone to preaching in
the place nearest at hand. The Word
of God tells us to preach, and so we
need no special revelation for that
(Matt. 28:19, 20; Mk. 16:15). As
Bithynla was the nearest country at
hand, they Immediately attempted an
entrance to conquer It for Christ. But
here again the Holy Spirit blocks the
way. How strange It all must havo
appeared at the lime. But God had
larger tilnns for His faithful Bervant.
II. Paul Called to French In Mace
donia, O, 10; vs. H-12. Step by step
God leads His servunt on. The means
God used for his guidance are va
rious; the direct guidance of the Holy
Spirit, a vision (comp. ch. 9:10-12;
10:10-17, 30; 18:9. 10; 22:17-21;
27:23, 24; 2 Cor. 12:1-4, 7; Acts 2:
17), his own Judgment (v. 10. R. V. ).
The promptness with which Paul re
sponded to the guidance of God, no
matter how It came, is worthy not
only of spe"lal note, but of careful
lmitntlon. This is one of the greatest
secrets not only of a happy, but an
efficient life. If we respond at once
to God's leading, It becomes clearer
and clearer. If we falter, the guiding
light grows dimmer until It goes out j
In thick darkness, and we are left to" j
grope our way as best we ran. "Come !
over Into Macedonia and help us." j
What! an outcast, wandering Jew
help proud and potent Macedonians, j
especially people of the distinguished
colony at Phlllppl? Yes. for he was
the bearer of that In which alone Is
help for man the Gospel. When
Paul heard that cry he knew It was
the preaching of the Gospel that was
called for (v. 10).
III. The First Convert In Europe,
11-1.". Paul lost no time In starting
for tho field to which the Lord had
railed him. There had been no su- !
pernaturnl direction as to what part i
of Macedonia he was to begin at. So !
Paul used his common sense and went i
straight for the first city of tho dis
trict (R. V.). Paul and his compan- ;
ions did not begin preaching at once. '
(v. 12, R. V.). They waited and
watched, and doubtless prayed for a
favorable time and place to strike thu
first blow (comp. ch. 13:14; 17:2; i
18:4). They began at last, in a very
quiet and humble way. They did not
advertise largely nnd pot a great
crowd Into the largest public build
ing. They Just spoke to an obscure
but earnest comnany of praying wom
en. Some one has said the "man of
Macedonia" turned out to be a wom
en; it may have been the Phlllppian
Jailer. Be thnt as it may, the work of
European evangelization began with
a handful of praying women. That
was one of the most notable gather
ings of all history. The word spoken
resulted In the conversion of a prom
inent and pious woman, Lydla,
"Whose heart the Lordopcned." That
was the turning point. There Is no
hope for any woman, or man either,
unless the Lord opens their heart
(Jno. 6:44, 45: Eph. 1:17, 18; Luke
24:45 ). But this Ho Is more than
willing to do. The steps In Lydla's
conversion are very plainly marked
and typical. (1) She went out to
pray (v. IS). (2) She heard tho
Word (vs. 13, 14: comp. Jno. 5:24).
(3) The Lord opened her heart. (4)
She gave heed unto the thing? which
were spoken (v. 14 R. V.). (6) Shu
was baptized (v. 15; comp. ch. 2:41;
Mark 16:16). Lydla carried her
whole household with h'er (vs. 31,
33; 1 Cor. 1:16). Lydla's heart went
out In gratitude toward those whom
God had used as Instruments In her
conversion and she constrained them
to come into her house and abide
U?rs.
I i
Clock That Tells Much.
One of the most wonderful clocks
In etlstence Is now In the possession
of Louis Desoutter, who has had the
honor of. taking It to Buckingham
Palace for lnsnect!on by the Queen.
Her Majesty showed great Interest In
Us beautiful mechanism.
The clock Is fixed on a Louis Seize
stand and has four 'faces. Besides
marking the hours, It shows the tides
at sis different parts of the world, the
mean time and the solar time, the
tie of the moon, the movements of
tr?e planets, all eclipses, and Is a per
,tuul calendar. It was made by Jan
vier, of Paris, In 1789 for the French
Academy, and took eleven years to
manufacture; the workmanship Is
r-anIEcent. London Evening Stan.
Cii-d.
Topic Patriotism That Counts, Neh.
4: 6, 12-18.
Passion for home. Ps. 137; 1-0.
A patriot's faith. Isa. 7: 1-9.
A patriot's tears. Lam. 1: 1-12.
A patriot's struggle. Judg. 7: 15
23. ,
Higher patriotism. Acts 10: 28, 34,
35.
The ablddlng country. Heb. 11: 10,
13-1G.
The "mind to work" Is soon follow
ed by the work Itself.
"We are not able" Is always heard
when n great task Is proposed. That
saying is the signboard of cowardice.
We are to fight for our dear ones,
but remember not them, but the
Lord, for our encouragement,
A trowel or a hod, and a sword or
a spear. It Is not enough to build
our liberties; we must defend them.
Suggestions.
Patriotism that counts first counts
In God, nnd knows that He will tri
umph. Patriotism thnt counts does not
work alone, but realizes that ten men
are more than ten times stronger than
one man.
Patrltotlsm that counts keeps the
largest alms In view, nnd nccepts a
hillock only as a step to a mountain
top. Patriotism (hat counts Is based on
knowledge; it knows Just what It
wants nnd why It wants it.
A Few Illustrations.
4'Hltch your wagon to a star," but
noj: to a falling star. Never say,
"My country, right or wrong."
Nations are prosperous as their
commerce knits them with all the
world, nnd wisely governed as their
sympathies knit them with all the
world.
White ants eat out the Inside of
furniture till an apparently solid
table will fall to dust. The white
ants of a nation are selfish public
servants.
National life Is a pond, whose sur
face Is equally high everywhere; no
higher' in public morality than In private.
THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK
TEMPERANCE BATTLK GATIIER9
STRENGTH EVERY DAY.
EflHTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY JULY 4.
Godless Commercialism Mark 5. 1-20.
The Theme and the Scriptures.
This incident is one of peculiar dif
ficulty. It must have happened, for It
li told by ecah of the synoptics. It is
instructive to compare the accounts of
the same event in Matt. 8. 28-34, and
Luke S. 2C-39. The difficulties of the
narrative are threefold. Tho man was
evidently violently insane. Neither
the church nor physicians believe, as
a rule, that Insanity da demoniac pos
session. It is taught by spiritualists,
and may be true, but it its difficult
to accept. There has been no change
In humanity which would Justify the
beMef that demoniac possession exist
ed then and not today.
A legion consisted of six thousand
men, and in the narrative was symbol
ical of a large number. Mark men
tions two thousand swine, presuming
two thousand evil spirits. If evil Bpir
ilts could dwell In men they might,
possibly, also dwell in BWiuo, but it is
difficult to understand, nnd tho num
ber seems excessive. One hesitates
also ut the unnecessary destruction of
animal life and property by the Sav
iour. For two thousand animals to
suffer and for thousands of dollars'
worth or property to be destroyed
without cuuse, is contrary to the spir
it of Christ. It Is not sufficient to
say that these animals were swine,
Tor that was a Jewish prejudice,
thrown over by Saint Paul a little
later, and now disregarded.
It seems to the w.Mter that we must
recognize that Christ did go to the
country of the Gadarenes, that the In
sane man was cured In a notable way,
and that the swine were drowned, but
that we are free to believe or not to
believe that two thousand devils dwelt
In one man, and that they entered In
to tho swine by tho permission of
Christ. It may have been a stamiedo
of the herd caused by tho excitement
Incident to the vlolenco of the Insane
man, nnd the agltution of the specta
tors. The picture of the demoniac in
his right mind Is tender nnd beautiful.
WISE WORDS.
PROSE VS. POETRT.
The Sentimental Olrl "April Is
my favorite month. I wish It would
last forever!"
The Practical Man "Same here.
I have a note coming due on the 1st
of May." Judge.
Death but entombs the body, life
the soul. Young.
Dangers breed fears, and feara
more dangers bring. R. Baxter.
Custom Is the pillar round which
opinion twines, and Interest Is the
tie that binds it. T. L. Peacock.
Curses, like young chickens, come
home to roost. Soutbey.
Courage from hearts, and not from
numbers, grows. Dryden.
He only la a well made -man who
has a good determination. Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
With an habitual sense of the di
vine presence the trials of life are
lightened. E. Peabody.
Choose an author as you choose a
friend. Roscommon.
Character must be kept bright as
well as clean. Lord Chesterfield.
Blood only serves to wash ambi
tion's hands. Byron.
' It Is better ends should, go first
than last. Walpole.
Age glides steadily on and begulfes
Ut as it flies. Ovid.
Dfflculties are things that show
what men are. Eplctetus.
A liar ends with making truth ap.
pear like falsehood. Bheustone.
A man should be upright, not be
kept upright. Marcus Aurellus.
Men do less than they ought un
less they do all that they can. Car
lyle. Peace bath higher tests of man
hood than battle ever knew. Welt
tier. I had rather men should ask why
my statue Is not set up than wby It
Is. -Cato, i
The desire of glory clings even to
the best men longer than any other
passion. Tacitus.
Moral good Is a practical stimulus;
It Is no sooner seen than It Inspires
an Impulse to practice. Plutarch.
Europe has cine museums for ex
hibiting the dangerous parts of nia-
lilnery, - " - !,
The Wrong Face In tho Rogue's
Gallery,
Prohibition is coming. Already
half the territory of the Unltud States
Is dry, and the gains In recent years
have been rapid. And yet we must
admit that certain parts of our coun
try (notably the large cities) will
have saloons for many years to come.
As long as these saloons remain, the
questions of saloon regulation and
responsibility will be Important.
To an outsider It would seem as If
the keeppr of the saloon had no re
sponsibilities , except paying his
license, closing his front door at 1
o'clock and (this In a whisper) keep
ing the police captain sweetened.
They Beem to be above the law, or
perhaps, below the law.
For instance, suppose you own a
little fox terrier whose canine soul Is
Btlrred by the sight of the moon to
such a pitch that ho Just cannot re
strain his voice. You find that you
are maintaining a nuisance nnd that
you and your pocketbook are respons
ible. But you can hear the strident
piano thumping and the maudlin
shouts from the saloon four blocks
away long after midnight. Is this a
nuisance? It Is still going on at any
rate.
Some day a neighbor's child tor
ments your terrier until it nips him
with his teeth. Then a fat police
man calls upon you to shoot the dog
and the tongue-twisted lawyers servo
notice that you are guilty of trespass,
although you had always supposed
that trespass was Invading someone
else's land. And yet the same night
the saloonkeeper may let loose a wild
ly drunken maniac with a revolver to
make night hideous and, Incidentally,
to put a bullet through the shoulder
of a passerby. Is the saloonkeeper
responsible? Why, he Isn't even men
tioned in the case.
Perhaps you left a small wooden
box out in front of your store. Some
one stumbled over it and you were
responsible for neglect. But do you
know what kind of pictures they
have In saloons, what sort of games
they play In the back rooms, what
kind of places they keep above them?
If stumbling blocks are actionable,
why not these?
You have read of drunken assaults,
drunken fights and drunken murders.
Your morning paper tells you of the
trials of the drunkards. What do
you hear of the responsibilities of the
drunkard maker? Home Herald.
Noble Response of. Illinois.
Illinois has responded nobly to the
call of temperance. With a large
foreign population, she has difficulties
In the way of prohibiting that many
States, whose populations are more
native, do not meet. Of great encour
agement to her workers should be the
ringing address which Abraham Lin
coln delivered In 1842, February 22,
on the occasion of Washington's birth
day. First of all, he naturally spoke
of the glorious Revolution of '76,
Then, with the tongue of prophecy,
he spoke of a still greater revolution.
"Turn now to the temperance revo
lution. In it we shall find a stronger
bondage broken, a viler slavery manu
mitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in
It more of want supplied, more dis
ease healed, more sorrow assuaged.
By It no orphans starving, no widows
weeping. By it none wounded in feel
ing, none injured in interest; even
the dram-maker and the dram-seller
will have glided into other occupa
tions so gradually as never to have
felt the change, and will stand ready
to join all others in the universal
song of gladness. And what a noble
ally this is to the cause of political
freedom; and with such an aid Its
march cannot fall to be .on and on,
till every son of earth shall drink in
rich fruition the sorrow-quenching
draught of perfect liberty. Happy
day when all appetites controlled,
all poisons subdued, all matter sub
jected mind, all conquering mind,
shall live and move, the monarch of
the world. Glorious consummation!
Hall, fall of Fury! Reign of Reason,
all hall!"
Abraham Lincoln lived to see the
day when slavery was no longer per
mitted. Is It too much to hope that
his own son may live to see fulfilled
the father's prophecy In regard to
temperance? The work that Illinois
Is now doing Is a worthy sequence to
those eloquent words of her most
Illustrious son.
1 Religious Truths
From the Writings of Great
Preacher.
KEST FROM TIIE BURDEN,
For Then hnrt been a strength to th
poor, a strength to the needy in his dis
tress, n refuge from the storm, a shadu
from the heat. Isa. 25:4.
Qod sends sometimes a stillness in our
life
The bivouac, the sleep,
When on the silent battlefield the strife
is hushed in slumber deep.
When wearied hearts exhausted sink to
rest,
Remembering not the struggle nor tha
quest.
We know such hours, when the dim, dcw
night, '
Rids day's hot turmoil cease;
When star by star steals noiselessly a
sight.
With silent smiles of peace;
When we lay down our load, and hill
forgot.
The morrow comet and we must bear it
yet.
We know such hflurs, when after days ol
pain
And nifflits when sleep was not
God gives us ease, and peace and caltn
again. ' '
Till, nil the past foriot.
We say, in rent and thankfulness most
deep.
E'en so "He giveth His beloved sleep."
When some strong chain that bound us
by God's strength '
is loosed or torn apart;
Or when, beloved and longed for, come at
length,
' (Some friend makes fflad our heart;
We know the calm that follows on euch
blis,
That looks no farther, satisfied with this,
God docs not always loose the chain, nor
give
The loved ones back to us;
Sometimes 'mid strife and tumult we must
live,
Learning His silence thus:
There is a rest for those who bear His will,
A peacefuluess, than freedom sweeter still.
He giveth rest, more perfect, pure and
true.
While we His burden bear;
It springeth not from parted pain, but
through
The accepted blessing there;
The lesson pondered o'er with tearful oyM,
The faith that sees in all a meaning wise.
Deep in the heart af pain God's hand hath
4 set
'' A hidden rest nnd bliss:
Take as His gift the pain, the gift brinij
yet
A truer happiness:
God s voice speaks, through it all. the high
behest
That bids His people enter into rest.
Lucy Fletcher, in London S. S. Times.
Hard on Women Drinkers.
Society women who are addicted
to an immoderate use of intoxicants
are less susceptible than men to
treatment of hypnotic suggestion, ac
cording to tb view expressed by Dr.
J. D. Quackenbos, of New York City,
before the American Society for the
Study of Alcohol and Other Drug
Narcotics. They do not wish to bo
cured in most instances, he asserted,
and are prompted to indulge to ex
cess too frequently by the added
sense of pleasure they feel In the
flattery of their admirers. Dr. Quack
enbos emphasized this point in giv
ing the small percentage of women
drinkers who are possessed of powers
of resistance.
Say the Right Thing at the Right
Time.
When you come to the choice of a
profession or trade, how important It
is for you to say the right word and
to do the right thing. If you make a
mistake It is often very difficult to
right It. And the issues may be most
serious. More serious still Is it when
you come to make your choice of a
life partner.
If you are a parent, there is a
message to be delivered to children
at every stage as long as they are
with you. If you miss giving them
what they need up to the age of ten,
you can never give it later on. Many
parents give the devil too many years
start, and they never quite overtake
bis work.
Never was better counsel given
than this: "As ye go, preach;" don't
pass a station In the hope of coming
back to it. "Redeem the time," or,
as Luther translates, "Buy up the op
portunity;" an opportunity lost never
precisely recurs. This line of reflec
tion has to most of us its gloomy
side. We look back, and, oh, how
many blunders we have made! Well,
go back we cannot; we cannot be
now as if those mistakes had not
been uade. What then? Shall we
despair? No;we must rise to a
manly and brave life, to make the
best of the present, and turn the fu
ture to good account. If now we
have learned a message, let us de
liver it with fidelity.
And surely we have not come so
Tar without learning something, and
something of Importance. We have
failed much; but from failures, too.
If we take them rightly, we may learn
much much of man and life and
God. Upon what we have learned,
let us live; turn It into practical wis
dom, and give the good of it to those
about us. T. Rhondda Williams, In
the Divine Artist.
Milwaukee Under Fire.
The applause at the second Rose
Dickie debate showed that the au
dience, composed largely of Chicago's
business men, was fully half in sym
pathy with the Prohibition side.
The marked Usue of veracity over
Professor Dickie's assertion concern
ing the policy of Milwaukee police
men in not arresting drunks Is not to
rest. Court records will be produced
to condemn Mayor Rose's position. .
Temperance Notes.
Mexico bas a new temperance In
struction law, reaching 70,000 school
children.
Prohibition Is not only to be the
rule at the Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc Ex
position, opened June 1, but the tale
of liquor Is prohibited within two
miles of the grounds.
The Supreme Court of Kansas on
May 8 decided that no brewer, dis
tiller or wholesale wine maker can
invoke the aid of the courts In col
lecting a bill for liquor ta Kansas.
A table giving the statistics of the
medical, law and theological schools
for the United States shows that the
Investments on ground, buildings and
endowments are far heavier for theo
logical schools than for lay, medi
cine, dentistry, pharmacy and veter
inary medicine combined. ,
The liquor men, to bead off the
growing sentiment against their busi
ness In Michigan, have secured the
passage of a law providing for high
license, no saloon within 4 04' feet of
a church, abolishing liquor advertis
ing outside the saloons and limiting
the number of licenses to one tor
sen 600 of population. ,.
Ruslness nnd the Cross.
I The law of the cross, by the sweet
j and strong compulsion of love, will
compel captains of Industry to con
duct business, not simply for gain,
but for the good of those who practi
cally are their partners In the labor
of life. The talent for organization
and for the conduct of a great busi
ness will be regarded as a talent to
be used in human service quite at
much as the talent for teaching or for
the practice of medicine Is now re
garded. Hitherto In the sphere of business
the talent necessary for eminent suc
cess therein bas been regarded as en
tirely free to be used wholly for the
gain of its possessor; henceforth the
talent for business leadership must
be regarded as a natural qualification
for serving other men by combining
and directing them to do what they
could not do for themselves. And the
man Inspired by the heart of love and
dominated by the law of the cross,
will take as much Interest In his busi
ness and In Its success when be feell
himself to be the leader of men for
their good as ever the man who
worked wholly for himself has done.
Homlletlc Review.
The Source of Spiritual Tower.
The sympathy which opens op
fountains of penitent tears, the burn
ing love which wtns andvconstralnf
the soul, the unwearying patience
with the slow of heart to believe, un
tiring diligence in seeking the lost
and ruined of the world, constant
hopefulness In the face of sin and
despair, unflinching -courage In tb
presence of arrogant opposition a"
these are found in Jesus, the highest
revelation of gift as weU as of graca
v-Rev. J. D. Robertson.
OUR FUNNY'LANQUAGB.
Teacher "What are antonymf"
Pupil "Word which ar dlrectl
opposite In meaning."
Teacher "Give an example."
Pupil" 'Up' and 'down. "
Teacher "That Is correct. No
compose a sentence making use ol
them."
' Pupil "Being the light ahead, th
engineer was sorely pusxled wbetbet
to slow np or alow, dof a."-St. Lout
poit-DUpatch. J "