Ilnom For Chirks. See tbat the chicks have ample quarters In which not only to roost, lint to stay In stormy days. It Is rruel to keep chicks In crowded quar ters, either day or night, and It Is the owner's fault If they do not do well under such circumstances. Give llii-Di plenty of room and keep their quarters clean and wall ventilated. It will pay. Farmers" Home Jour-mi!. Cutaway Harrow. A cutaway harrow is a good thing for an orchard. Next to this pigs are the best. Mulch your trees and apply .ouiniirclal fertilizer. Old trees re quire ten pounds of thin fertiliser, while young ones will need much less. Thiu out your fruit. Five bushel:) of first-class apples from a tree are touch oetter than ten bushels of little ones. Professor K. I- Hitching, Andros ;o6!", Me. Molstcu the KkK". Tp replying to a correspondent, i. M., whose eggs are hatching bad ly (in the Incubator we presume), Mr. CUpp gives the following ad ;.;?: Without doubt your eggs required additionul moisture. Carefully re move the eggs from the nest and molten with lnke wurm water. The eggs can be moistened each day from the eighteenth day of Incubation. Moisture is a Lenefit to ess during incubation In a majority of, iu ttauces. Indiana Farmer. A Corn Harvester. Our Illustration tsliows tin? drtails of a one row corn cutter, which will 1o good (service. It Is not iliflicult to make ami will do an astonishing Mr self. It la often said that laziness won't work well In the poultry yard. This probably Is true In the abstract, but laziness la this particular case apparently worked all right. The man simply took advantage of the hen's activity, and upplled them with material to work off their aur plus energy. Kpllomlst. THE PULPIT. BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. ED. M. PARROTT, JR. Tlienie: Friendliness. Advantage f the Silo. The Missouri Station summarise re tne everlasting arms. Brooklyn, N. Y. The Rev. . Ed ward M. Parrott, Jr., of Lake George, N. Y., occupied the pulpit In Holy Trinity P. E. Church, Sunday morn ing. The subject of bis discourse was "Friendliness," and for a text be took the passage of Scripture, Deuteronomy 13:27: "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath He said INTERNATIONAL LESSOJf COM MEXTS FOB At'Gt'ST 2. AUGUST TWENTY-NINTH Good One-Row Harvester. T..;i!nn.itiiii: Tlie guiding arm cello: U Hie ulk on the platform ,i.jin which they re thrown ct interval),. amount of work where It is handled right. Of course, the harvesters you can buy wiU do more and quicker work und are what you want if you have much corn to cut, but the home made affair we show herewith fills a place with the small farmer und is comparatively Inexpensive. The Wild Onion. L. W. .1. asks if there is any way to get rid of wild onions, lie says he is setting theai prelfy bad on his farm, and that corning the Ian J does not seem to g':t rid of them. There Is no easy way to get rid of (he wild onion or garlic unless you can turn them under, harrow the ground and sow ii in buckwheat or some other vigorous growing plant. If they are not too widely spread, buy a spud, a narrow hladcd spade, and hire the children to dig them cut one by one. Indiana Farmer, Air and Wulcr. Air is Juki as necessary an clement In the soil as the water, bat both must be there In proper quantities. If there Is too much ulr and too little moisture nitrification cuusus. If there la too much moisture und too little ulr the effect Is the same. From ten years' experience and observation we have concluded that a certain chemi cal action must be . radically contin uous in the soil during thu growing season if we are to grow the largest crops. This chemical action is un questionably dependent upon Just a certain ideal or perfect condition of the noil a physical couditluu that will curry In the ttoll Just the Ideal quantity of both air and water and then as son as the soil becomes suf ficiently warm nature's .v.;:L begins. Campbell's Farmer. Animals Thai Aid Forestry. L'vury farmer is thoroughly con versant with the (net thai, if the land along fences s tlot carefully at tended, it dors i:;,i ni, for hedge of briers und young forest trees to appear. This is so for sev eral reasons: The forest tree seeds, and as they are borne by the winds, are brought to a Ktiddeu stoo by the fence and are dropped upon the ground to sprout and lake root. The fence makes un excellent resting place for birds as they move about from phce to plate, and to thu struc ture they brlns fruit, berries and seeds for their dully feubts. when such foods will again contain very valuable timber. The bird and ro dent mammal citizens of the wood lauds will have contributed a great deal toward this promlsltiK outlook. H. 8. C, In the lndlaua Farmer. A Side-Hill Poultry House. A man who had a small farm sM up on edge so he could work both tldei. couldn't find a level place big enough to set up a poultry house, bo he built It. on a side hill sloping to tho south. Because the upper end was nearest the barn he put a door la the north end of the poultry house, no by could put straw lu easily. He round that It wasn't neccscary to scatter the straw arouud. He dis covered tbat the hens would scratch tho straw down hill tho wholo length f tho house, and by the time It got to the bottom It was pretty well worn to bits, so all he had to do was to pitch It out and call It manure, and pretty good manure It was. lie called the house bis automatic poultry houae, and It eanie about as near being automatic a anything In the poiiiujr Hue, except the b-tfl It- the value of the silo as follows: 1. Silage keeps young stock thrif ty and growing all winter. 2. It produces fat beef more cheap ly than dots dry feed. 3. It enables cows to produce milk and butter more economically. 4. Silage is more conveniently handled than dry fodder. : J. The silo prevents waste of corn stalks, which contain about one-third ' the food value of the entire crop. j C. There are no aggravating corn- ' stalks In the manure when siluge Is ! fed. There Is an Instinct In humanity. which may almost be called uni versal, toward friendliness. We have a tendency from our earliest recollection to make friends with something or somebody; oftentimes with things. It may be a doll, a toy, a post by tho wayside, or a chicken coop. We find In that thing a cer tain kind of homeliness. There Is a tendency all the time In us toward becoming friendly with our surround ings that answers to a yearning In our heartB and which makes us feel that the world in which we live Is lovable, and for us a home; and It is one of the evidences of the knowl- 7. The silo will make palatable edBe which God has meant us to at food of stuff that would not otherwise be eaten. 8. It enables a larger number of animals to be maintained on a given number of acres. 9. It enables the farmer to pre serve food which matures at a rainy time of the year, when drying would be next to Impossible. 10. It is the most economical tain here. He has meant us to feel that friendly feeling toward our sur roundings; to havo it as a part of our education and part of our pre paration for whatever of life there may be In store for ua when we have passed Into tho more glorious radi ance of knowledge of God. As this Is true of things, It is even more true of faces and people. For the faces we see, although we know but little Subject: rul on Christian Love, 1 Cor. 13:l-13-Jolden Texts 1 Cor. 13:13 Corn nit Verse 8 Commentary. TIMK A. D. 67 (Spring). PLACE. Ephesu. KXPOS1TION. I. We Exaltvd, 1-a. Paul brings forward in rapid accession five things that were held la great esteem In Corinth and shows the pre-eminence of love over them til. If love be lacking, these all count for nothing. ( 1 ) The gift of tongues. The saints in Corinth seem to have been peculiarly gifted In this direc tion, and to have been very proud of their gifts (ch. 14:2-23). Each was eager to outstrip the other In the dis play of the gift (ch. 14:23, 20, 27, 28). Paul tells them that their much boasted gift amounts to little. That the grace of love is so far "a more ex cellent way" than theglft of tongues; that. If love be lacking, speaking with the tongues not only of men hut even of angels would leave them only sounding braBS or a clanging cymbal. (2) The gift of prophecy. In its very highest potency. Surely that Is some thing to be greatly coveted and much admired. The man of great theolog ical and spiritual Insight must oe- Home Missions Our Cosmopolitan Population Luke 13: 22-30. Our invitation to the world. Isa. 8: C-. Justice for all. Deut. 1: 1813. Kindness to all. Deut. 24: 17-22. Christ for all. Tit. 2: 11-15. . All for Christ. 1 John 2: 1, 2. The Bible our bulwark. Deut. 4: S. It l the same narrow door for all, rich and poor, high and low, Ameri can or alien (v. 24). Jesus taught In the streets of cities; and how seldom, oven after all these centuries, do His disciples follow His example! (r. 26.) From all points of the compass the men of other lands are pressing Into our country. Would that they might all find here the Kingdom of heaver! v. 29.) Let no one dare to sneer at the least of these foreign dwellers among us. Many of them may enter the Kingdom before many of the proudest native birth (v. 30). From the Ends of the Earth. More than a million immigrants come to the Vnlted States every year. We have no greater national problem than to educate, nationalize and Chris tianize them. In 1905 the Immigrants that could neither read nor write numbered 21)0, .SS2. Such people are very difficult to reach, and are at the mercy of design ing men. Of the million Immigrants received THE GREAT DESTROYER fSOMK STARTLING FACTS A ROUT TUB VICK OP INTKMPEKANCE. method of supplying food for the ' Personality behind them we stock dorlnB the hat. dry period. In ' fnd when' we SSfVn'S. summer, when the pasture Is short. ; the 8ame app,e vomaBnoftyn. Dud Weeds SpreaiNii;;. In my travels this year, correspondent, 1 notice mora horn, Bindweed and Sow than I havo ever seen before. rays a Each Been the face, we have acquired a sort of affectionate Interest In the welfare of this and that person; and It is only when some change comet that we realize how strong hag been olio of these weeds is a wry bad on?; nnd it will take som very vigorous vcrlt to keep thorn in '-hoirk. Buck- born ha3 spread the furthest -probably due to ltc genei-il preenco in clover seed. It is a perennial becomes very troublesome in tnrcs and meadows. The best way to overcome It 1? to plow up tho field and put it into a crop which may be frequently cultivated during the sea son. Bindweed resembles the wild i able love morning glory, it is one of tho most , difficult to kill, as simply cutting it' off does not check it. it grows from j spring till fall, and forms a great j network of roots. About the only way to kill It Is to keep cutting off its leaves until its roots are exhaust- j cd. Sow Thistle Is another extreme- ' ly pernicious weed. It Is also u per- i ennial and Is becoming much more of j a menace than ever. Only by thor- ; otigh cultivation and constant vigi- j lance can one expect to kill it and prevent further spreading. yet, it be has not love, he is "noth Ing." (4) Beneficence. You can I give all you have, and that for the ; most philanthropic purpose to feed j the poor but, if you have not. love, 1 you will gain by It Just "nothing." How many false hopes that annihl- ! the influence of the personalities of "siHaHm t( i Li.. ' 'tV' whom we know very little. t Hie t Vh LVnui Ji.5 .V 5 bd,y Aealn n thla la ..., f ,. ' to dle nt tne stake. that will surely whom, thomrh v. think wo ww l.' ' ki. uie m, ana only cupy a very high place in the mind of God. If he has love, yes: if not he ia Just "nothing." (3) Miracle worklne ! In 1905. nearly one-half 430.000 were faith: A man can have that in the ! unskilled laborers, whose support Is most powerful form conceivable, and great deal, we know little, and with wnom we may have had sweet Inter- nnd i course, but yet have not attained to pas- ! anything like Intimacy, und as this is po oi tntngs ana people and of God, It Is surely to be part of that life which we are to live forever, and the eternal God Is showing us a path by which we may uttain immeasur- more or less precarious, manv of them becoming paupers and a burden upon the community. One of the mischievous tendencies Is the gathering of Immigrants of va rious nationalities In pluces by them selves, where their 'own languages prevail, nnd their customs, and it Is very difficult feir American Ideas to permeate. During the fourteen years between 1892 and 1905 the Immigration ofllcers turned away G9.24S Immigrants be cause they had loathsome or dauger- II. Ixve DescrilH-d, 4-7. Love has fifteen marks that are never want ing: (1) It "suffereth long," it en dures Injury after injury. Insult nfter Insult, and still lovea on. It wastes Itself In vainly trying to help the un worthy, and still it loves on, and helps on (comp. Gal 5:22; Eph. 4:2; Col. 1:11). (2) It "Is kind." It knows no harshness. Even Its neces- thlng, Is love, j 0us diseases, were convicts, were as sisted to come over, were Insane or Idiots, were tinder contract to work, or were paupers or likely to become public charges. Tha 1. , . 1 I we can-carry tb.V frdlln 1 TG." G'Vv "r "tLr.: s i- i nL'-tvVthGot.''-' -&wRr.iT (,is .v. ........ ..uo i.uoi .a uui, n mem n0t another's EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 ory, nnd to-day we are not being as friendly bb we would like to be. The universe now Is such a big place. Our childhood world, when this feeling of friendliness became strong, Z& I another's gess' good as Dleasant to love as our own? Do you ever se cretly grieve over and try to discount another's progress, temporal or spir itual (Jas. 3:1-16, R. V.)? Love never does. (4) "Vaunteth not It- Is as Poultry Fvperiments. The Canadian Experiment Station rcecntly made some tests with og;;s in the incubator from unhcated and from warmed bouses In March, April and May. The largest percentage of eggs which hatched was noted from those with the incubator filled in May, and In general use the eggs from unheated houses hatched bet ter than those from warmed houses. According to the report received by the Department of Agriculture the "results emphasize ihe advice given to farmers and other poultry keep, crs not to select eggs for hatching by Incubator or hen until the fowls have had opportunity in spring timo to run outside ami recuperate from their long term of winter life aud treatment." Warm versus old houses were compared In work undertaken in connection with the founding of hardy and prolific egg-laying strains of fowls. In a warm house the av erage e gg yield per year of 12 Barred Plymouth Rock he::s was CU.75 eggs per hen, and of a simllur lot In au unhealed house 7(i eggs per hen. In a housa of the same sort with a cot ton front scratching shed, the average egg production of 13 Whito Wyan dotte hens was 74.5 eggs per lion, of 9 Buff Orpington pullets In a warmed house 5S esgs per hen and of 12 White Leghorn pullets In a warmed house 77.17 eggs per hen. As regards tho record of Individ uals of good and poor strains us shown by trap nests, 5 White Leg horn puller of good strain averaged 101.4 eggs per hen in a vear ami r. outgrow the toy and the chicken coop ; una mere cornea tne climcult prob- , lem of how to become friendly with ; things afterwards. It is not so I ! easy to become friendly with the j ! office desk, and, moreover, the I I jVrZ I U"UVS .P33-"- "It is not puffed up." It we love, we ! I brjng ng to us a greater difficulty wm be so occupied with the excellen- i.. uijuerBiaoaing wnat U Is to love cles Of the othera. that thpr. m h hen we are youne nn thnn.hi h.ino . precious to us as our own, how is It that we talk so much of our own. and are so anxious that others see it and appreciate it? There is no surer mark of the absence of love and pres ence of selfishness than this. (5) mankind among our friends, we come to un derstand what God mean3 by "love ull men;" but when we see all classes ! of men coming here and Jostling us j aud pushing us, it la harder for us ! to realize that we are to keep upon ' a friendly relationship with all, and we have not fathomed the meaning ; of the brotherhood of man. But ' when we do realize the greatness of ! the demand of human sympathy, we ! see that, as Urlerly tells us, the uni verse is much vaster than our fathers ! thought it. We find that the sun and moon and the light were not np- i pointed for our sole benefit. We j have discovered that we are an In finitesimal sperk in the universe ! amidst vast consellations. and that 1 our sun is only one of many and our planet u tiny one iu the Immensity of space. We have learned that the way to discover the distance of dis tant stars Is to measure the time which It takes for the light to truvel. We move 180,000,000 of miles be. tween January and June, but the slurs do not change their position to us by a hair's breadth, and so we see how small we are in the whole heavens. When the microscope hasi I brought us a great realization of the ii. -i . ... iiiu uuoui. us, oi tne vast interests conveying all around us. When we discover these things we see that this universe is fur greater than meu of a generation ago ever dreamed. Are we, then, less friendly? Have we moved God afar off, and cannot thluk of Him as sitting Intent upon us and our prayers, but as all the own (Phil. 2:3, 4). (6) "Doth not behave Itself unseemly." Love Is too considerate of the feelings of others to do indecorous things. Nothing else will teach us what la "good form" so well as love. Those Chris tians who take a rude delight In I r trampling all conventionalities under foot and playing the boor would do Relief In Sorrow John 11: 1-46. We do not appreciate the full mean ing of Christ's comfort for sorrow un til we consider the greatness of the need for that comfort. Take the sor rows that are like that of Mary and Martha sorrows because of bereave ment. Do you know the meaning of such sorrow when It comes Into your own home? You will know, for this Is an experience that is universal. And when your grief seems to cloud all life, remember that there are at least a hundred thousnnd graves made every day. A hundred thousand peo ple pass from earth every twenty-tour hours. That means four thousand every hour, or sixty-six every minute. Listen to the big clock. Every tick some soul goes forth, and the shadows full upon some home, and some hearts are broken. How ei-pnt tii wnrMu j need of relief In sorrow ihen there are sorrows that come from disappointments, those that pnlleu of poor strain 77.4 eggs hen. time doing something to carry out ! His eternal nature. Our best knowl Ilutio of Butter Fat. Professo:- E. H. Farrington. the dairy writer, touching many matten; of dairy Interest, explains the ratio ot und maintain these magnificent powers and forces all around us? Are wo less friendly when we think of the vastness of our surroundings? 1 think if wo go along certain lines of thought we shall not loss our I friendliness. j Let us try to maintain tho open j heart of childhood and keep In our i selves that frlendllt:eBs that uiav be in danger of escaping. The first ; thin;? Is thla: that friendly r. latlon- uutter fat in Hoard's Dclryman. He r'i''J Jut's not consist of anvthluc in sajs: trinslc. It consists In tho first place ihe difference b-tween butter fit 1 "''"nan neart. We lire friend- unu me overrun Is the water. Bait und curd in the butter. ' Butter is not ' the pure butter fat. The substance ' mixed with butter fat vary from ten 1 io eignteen per cent, with each churning of butter. Butter, as a rule, contains about eighty-two per cent butter fat, the rest is water, salt and eurd, as already mentioned. "The overrun means tho excess in weight of tho butter over the bultei fat In milk or cream from which the butter is made. "If 100 pounds of cream tested forty per cent. fat. this means that there was forty pounds of butter fat In thu cream. If the weight of the butter was fifty-five pounds, then the increase Is the dlfforenco between flfy-flve and forty, which is fifteen pounds. The per cent, overrun is then obtained by dividing fifteen by forty and multiplying by 100, which Is about thirty-seven per cent. This Is an abnormal overrun und show that the butter must have had a lurge quantity of water mixed with It. It would be called Illegal butter, as gen uine butter according to the rnltod States standard, must not contain over sixteen per cent, water. The usual overrun from cream la about twenty per cent., aud thirty-seven per cent. Is way beyond the ordinary practice and It would be a fraud for a person to make such butter aud plae It on tho general marfc t." ly 'otiiause Cod mad us frienolv. and If that Is so, what do things mutter ? Ii things pass away an Ion;; m we have the spring iu or.rsulven the water will bubble forth. Yho thing 1.4 to look to t Ji-s thing inside ourselves and not to tho tbiug outside. As that Is so It Is true also that I thin friendliness can never disuppour really uj long as man lives, and If we havu lost uny of It, It Is hacuuse, to some extent, we have ceased to live. . It is possible to have soma part of us die the thing3 behind us, ocd yet have them revive. It Is quite pcisilble for us to feel that there la be ond us soiuethiug which we can bring back to ourselves if we nre per sistent enough lu our search. The relation between us and the thinn we have learned to be friendly to is ba ieci, not upon knowledge, but upon foeling. Wo cannot increase knowledge ton much If only we keep growing with our knowledge. There U another thing: we have still direct and vital connection with things, though our Ufa does change and tho things chunge. Though some things be destroyed, we have still direct access to the things that do not change. Does It matter that there have been a dozon years be fore this one? This year is to us a source of Joy and glory because this year unfolds i;aio the marvelous way that God brings the spring to life. Does It matter that It Is the se.mo star that Kiiouj ou Mcjet? It la Mi luuiu st' . Zrti r.r.r; I''8.. .me because of Bin. sorrows because mi. duhui iu ui muse wnom we love, sorrows from many other sources. Here, then, Is the world with Its sin, its sickness, its weariness, Its heartache, its grief. And over against all this Is God'a comfort, abundant, di vine, eternal. And between these two stands the blessed Christ. He is our relief In sorrow, for God Is able to 'supply all your needs according to his riches In glory by Christ Jesus." Inland Cities For Ballooulng, New York is too near the seacoaet for good ballooning. Generally speak ing, it Isn't safe to make an ascen sion near the seacoast unless the wind Is blowing Inland. The sea la one great menace to ballooning, because unless you keep vory near tho earth It Is possible tbat a shift of wind may carry the balloon out where a dry land descent can not be made. It la for that reason that Inland point like North Adams, Plttafteld, Spring field, Mass., Indianapolis, St. Louis and Milwaukee have been selected for Inflating stations when the large bal loons are to be used. The longest time one ot these balloons has re mained In the air Is seventy-three hours, the winning balloon In the In ternational race of 1908 establishing this record. The contraction and ex pansion regulated by the air condi tions in which a balloon travels have much to do with the length of time It stays aloft and the distance It Is capable of traveling. New York Sun. will mnke a perfect gentleman. (7) "Seeketh not her own." That needs exemplification more than it does comment (cf. ch. 10:24, 33; 1 Jno. 3:16. 17. It. V.; 2 Tim. 2:10). (8) "is not provoked." It. may be often grieved, but never Irritated. (9) "Taketh not account of evil." Love never puts the wrong done It down In Its books nor In Its memory. (10) "Rejolceth not In unrighteousness." Why Is It we are so fond of dwelling I upon the evil that exists In church ! and Btate? (11) "Rejolceth with the ' truth." Oh, if we love, how are hearts will bound whenever we dis cover truth In others! How gladly we will call attontion to It! (12) "Beareth all things." (13) "Bellev eth all things." How proud we are of our ability to see through men and the impossibility of gulling us. (14) "Hopeth all things." No boy Is so bad but a mother's love, with eyes of hope, sees in him a future angel. (15) "Endureth all things." Let Jesus and Stephen stand as Illustration (Luke 23:34; Acts 7:60). III. The I'emiuiiciicy of Love, 8. 1.1. Prophecies, tongues, knowledge, have their day. Love has eternity. "God Is love," and love partakes of edge Is only partial, and the divinely inspired propnecy tens but part ol whut is to be. When the perfect knowledge comes In, our partial knowledge will become idle and be laid aside. When the event comes to pass ot which prophecy gave us only outlines, prophecy will be ren dered useless by fulfillment. We are now, tho wisest of us, but children; but a day Is coming when we shall be men knowing all things. In a com parative sense we are some of us men now, and If vn are we should have laid away childish things. Our clearest vision now is but us in a mirror, as "In a riddle" (R. V. Marg.). But a time Is coming when we are going- to see "face to face" (cf. 1 Jno. 3:2). We now know "In part," but a time Is coming when we shall know even as we have been known, I. e., we shall know God as perfectly as God new knows ua. Literature and Journalism. Journalism is, and must be, In a hurry; literature Is not. Literature dials with the permanent elements of human things. A Journalist has to take the moods and occasions of the hour and make the best of tbem. But literature more or less describes the attitude of a Judge; the Journalist dealing with what are railed live is sues, has to be more or loss of an advocate. Literature deals- with Ideals, the Journalist is a man of ac tion. He Is not a student, but a man of action, and he Is concerned with Ihe real. Lord Morley, on Literature nnd Journalism, at Imperial Press Confercnco, London. TEMPERED WITH ENVY. Wlfey (after church) " particu larly enjoyed the close of tb ser mon." Hub "And the rest of the time you enjoyed the clothe of the con gregation." Boston Traiuerlpt Polishing a Diamond. The polishing of a diun-.ond is a very slow process, bocause of the great hardness ot tho material; be sides this, tho work muut be fre- I quoutly interrupted to allow tho disk io cooi out arter it nas become over heated by friction. Each time a new facet Is to be cut the diamond must bo removed from the dop and reset at another anglo, and the diamond cut ter trusts to his eyo alone to guide him In 'this delicate adjustment, al though lu the case of very small dia monds a magnifying glass is i.occs iiary. The skill U shown In placing the htone in tho heated metal, gome times with the bare hand. Is surpris ing. The regular brllliunt has hfty. alx facets, besides the tablo and the collet; thirty-two above tho glrdl aud twenty-tour below; but us eight facets aro first formed, both above and below, each of these bulns rccut Into three or four smallor ones, there are considerably more than flfty-slx separate surfaces to be cut. From Dr. Geo. Frederick Kunx' "The Two Largest Diamonds," In tfr Century. The Hog, or the Wife and Children. Hueber had drawn his wage for the week, now $8 50; formerly It was 30. But. Hueber had fallen Into evil way and gone down gradually, until he was unfit for anything but the commonest and most unskilled labor. He had moved from his former comfortable home to a wretched little shanty on the out skirts of the city. Saturday meant a half-holiday to Hueber, a great spree, and the wasting of all his wages. It meant dread and grief to hi family. It was March, a cold, pitiless day, with the biting wind from the north west. After drawing his $8.50 Hue ber made a bee-line for the saloon, paid up for last week' drink and then filled up full on the poison they willingly gave him. With a few pen. nles In his pocket, he started for the butcher'. His brain was beginning to whirl and his feet to stagger. He asked for ten cents' worth of soup bone. Three small pieces of the poorest and cheapest were given him, being wrapped In a piece of brown paper, but not tied. Then Hueber started home, growing colder and more bewildered at each and every step. He tried hard to hold on to the three small pieces of soup bone, but his hands were very cold. He had no mittens, no overcoat, a wretched old hat, shoes badly worn. Just as he passed the church that stands for all that Is good and ele vating In the community, his legs gave out and he fell to the pavement. The pieces of soup bone went with him, one piece In front of him. one on each side of the cement walk In the dirt. He tried and tried again to rise, but for a long time he couid not. Then a beautiful child, a little boy about four years old came to where he was, stood and looked at him a minute, while the man looked up at the child. Finally the dear lit tle fellow took In the situation, evi dently thinking the man was niclt. I and so he gathered up the pieces of soup bone, while the man staggered I desperately to regain his footing. when he had done so, the child handed him the pieces of soup bone and tripped merrily on. Hueber blundered forward two blocks far ther and again fell to tho cement sidewalk. Again the meat was scat tered here and there. This time not a child, but a large dog came upon the scene, and thinking, no doubt, that he had more right to the bone than the prostrate man, he seized the largest piece and trotted off. while poor Hueber looked o:i In helnlesa confusion. Some time later Hueber managed to regain his feet and his remaining two pieces of soup bone and reached home, where the wife and children had been anxiously waiting for him many hours. When the wife saw the two tiny pieces, with not enough meat upon them for one person, her heart sank and she fell into a chair sob bing, j "O John! John! is this nil we are to have from now until Monday morn ing? What have you done with tho paper that was wrapped about the meat?" "I I dun know. Guess It blowed away, an' an' the cur he took the biggest piece. I seed him rnu off with It but but I couldn't catch him!" And so the poor Hueber family had to manage on less than five cents' worth of meat for their Sunday meals. That same afternoon the saloon keeper's wife went downtown with six dollars of the wages of Huebor In her pocket. She purchased a nice roast for eighty-five cents and a bet ter soup bone for her yellow dog than John Hueber had bought for his wife and children. ' Somebody had voted to give the sa loonkeeper the right to rob John Hueber and his wife and children Somebody had voted to make it pos sible for John Hueber to get so drunk that he could not walk and for the dog to run away with his soup bone, and somebody in a little while will have to help support the Htiebef wife and children, for John will not last long at this rate. Someone is help ing to kill hfm. Nobody arrested the dog for Bteallng the meat, for every body waa sure the dog was not to blame. But somebody was to blame and I have been asking who It was. Can any one tell? C. W. Stephenson our A MORXixq rn.WKlt. That through the Iw.um of this 'nnj Our humble awelltr,g pU V J last clced to .11 UespouJe "Mhin' find in entrance l1(.re To fill our han. -"'"-"'"i uoperuineaa. Strengthen our hand, and help k, Ki The fountain thu rafrmh K. . And nay th. faith b? whi.h'wf Have fragrance such a. ro.. "tc. Help ua, dear God, thii diy, oml m.L New muiio in our .oul, J. mk Coinniunicable songi thit .how Ihe glad oompaniouhip we know -fetephen Tracy Livingston, " Th, r gregationalut. ln Unfinished Picture,. I had laid myself down n , as I closed my eyes my mlnrl . dered back to the words I had w tionieiit, ,rel, m " me great refiner readlne in the nihia . .. a :. . .. " Saloon Is Doomed. The official organ of the National Liquor League of America, which is published under the name. Bever ages, unites with Bonfort's, another periodical in the service of alcohol, lu expressing the opinion that the sa loon is doomed. It writes editorially as follows: "The result In Georgia presents no pleasant outlook for any section of the business. Tbat State in Its judg ment has treated all alike, and no false notion that beer la a temper ance beverage and should be allowed to hold on has been brought for ward. "We dislike to acknowledge it, but we really believe the entire business all over has overstayed Its opportuni ty to protect Itself against the on ward march of Prohibition, which lu some sections of the country is ad vancing like a prairie fire and not a hand raised to stop Its progress. "Five years ago a united industry might have kept back the situation that now confronts it, but to-day it is too late. "Might as well try to keep out the Hudson River with a whisk broom " remembered also, the process nf J fining silver, how the metal w.L. sldered unfinished until a t the refiner'. Iir.nr. 'nectej Thus thinking. I fell asleep in was led Into "dreamland," wh'er. i thought myself In a studio, i tJZA around wondering, for it did I 2 seem like anything I had eve iZ before. There were many eawl. standing about, holding unflnirtrt pictures; and pieces of canvas with imple outlines, were resting aiali,. the wall on all sides of tho room fait leaving a corner, where an old nu with silvery hair and softened let ture sat slowly painting. in u moments I noticed that he BtoDDed and put aside his brush and paietV when only the very last touch seemed wanting to complete his labor I was puzzled with the scene b(. fore me; and, eager to have it M. plained, I said: "Sir. will you tm me why there are so many plcturet unfinished, and what all these out lines are for?" He replied, "I am the artist ot tin King of kings, and He bids me paint the pictures of His children. I can only paint them as they grow like Him in their character, and. alas! it is very slow work. Sometimes there are years In which I cannot touch j picture already begun, for the chat acters do not grow, they are ever asleep. Others grow quite rapidly and suddenly stop, as U they were wearied, and so the pictures must re main as I left them. The outllnet that you see are those who bear out Lord's name, but have never shown any likeness to Him, and I am watch. Ing each day, hoping to fill them In." I thought to myself, is there t picture here for me, or am I one of thoBe simple outlines? but I will ask, for I ought to know where I stand. So trembling, I said: "Is there any thing here for me?" The artist moved to a corner I had " " - uu.4i.bu, uuu til on u Mill ii a lie- ture just commenced. There vu something more than an outline, and there were touches that looked quite iresh, as if they had been put on late ly. I looked at It with eyes scam able to distinguish, they were so fnll of tears, as I saw how little vu painted; and yet, hardly expectins anything, I was glad and grateful. The old man seemed touched t; my emotion and said to me, "Ton have , been growing more this last year; you have been working lot others - as our Lord commanded. Many times you have not pleased yourself, and we are told In nolr Scripture that that was part ot our Saviour's life; 'for He pleased not Himaelf.' Take courage! and lettni paint diligently. When you become like unto Him; the picture will be done." Then I understood why there were so many unfinished portralu in this quaint old studio, and whr the dear, gray-haired artist stopped Just as his work seemed completed. It was because our Lord's disciple stopped In the way of their duty. And with these thoughts I awoke from my strange dream. But I felt as if I had looked be yond the veil. The studio and IB uncompleted pictures and bare out lines, were all plain before me; tne gentle face and touching tones of the artist were with rne, too, all were stamped on my memory. The par tial picture of myself I felt I could never forget, and yet I was hiimblr thankful that it was not a simple outline. It had begun to be some thing. Let us not be content pntll we rt full pictures of Him "who paints our everyday lives." Let us not be wesrc and pause In our duty, but, with Hit grace, go steadily, lovingly on until tho lust touch la added to the can vas, when It will leave the studio earth for the walls of Heaven. Zlon's Watchman. Swapping Siittku.i, Fifty-one snakes from the roolts! cal park. In New York City, have been oxported to England to be ex changed for varieties of snake at theg London coo which are not among th etblbita over here. The rept'llo ar rived In good condition, apparently enjoying t;e voyage, Harper' We.kl. Prescrllx No Alcohol. Professor Max Kussowltz, M D., of Vienna University Medical School, Austria, says: "I have not pre scribed alcohol to my patients for more than fifteen years, and can af firm positively tbat they have fared well under this change ot treatment. Since 1 formerly followed the uni versal practice, I am competent to make comparisons, and these speak unconditionally iu favor of treatment without alcohol." A Hateful Thing. Search through the history of this hateful thing, and read one page over which some mother can bow her grateful head and thank God for all the saloon did for her boy. Theie la no such record. All Its his tory Is written In tears and blood, with smears ot shame and stain of crime and dark blot of disgrace. "Bob" Burdette. Not many years ago of the twenty, four aldermen lu- New York City teu were Jleiuor dealers and two other had been such. , . Give Yourself. Someone ha aptly defined ordlnar! charity as "giving something that 1" don't want to somebody else." And scientific charity as "giving some thing that you don't want to some body that doesn't want it." And or ganized scientific charity ,as "gKliI something that you don't 'want to u institution that it may give It somebody that doesn't want it." But Christian charity as "giving ("n; thing that you want to somebody tl"' wants It more." He might have to' on to add that Christian love Is l"' Ing yourself to somebody that W" you: giving your sympathy, your W" lowshlp, to somebody that needa It holding out the friendly hand some feeble grasp that must have It or else sink into the Slough of r spond. Bishop Williams. The Pious Fraud. The wealth of the pious fraud. ll" wolf In sheep's clothing, whose tol fortunes should be denounced; the meu who help to build the churrb but at the same time exact their usurious return from the tumble down, ramshackle, tenement hotw Rev. T. Schanfarber. Confidence Needed. Confidence is what we present-d' Christians need.- Kev. Edward Yt Hill. ;f A LITERARY MOTIVE. , Sociologist Student ''Will J"" confide to me your motive In robbim the country postofflce?" Stealthy Sam "Ye, lady; me Jj Ject was purely literary. I waa1" to write a magazine r-rtlcle about n experience." Chicago News. , OBSERVED A FALLING OFF O'Beese "I'va taken four bottW ot anti-fat. Do you notice any d"' forenceT" friend (looking him over)-' "Well. I do think your hair Is tH'"' nr!" Boston Transcript.
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