At this time Emperor Wilhelm must find it particularly annoying to be pointed out by Bismarck’s epithet as ‘‘somebody’s son’s son.” In the next seven years, it is now stated, Russin will spend $255,000,000 on her navy, for which she will get eight battleships, sixteen cruisers, one submarine mine transport, one torpedo transport, twenty destroyers, and thirty torpedo boats. Because of the high prices for meat German peasants are compelled to cross the border into Russia to get such food. The butchers, unable to make profits under the strict gov- ernment restrictions, have made em- phatic protest against the present laws. With such conditions it would seem that Germany threw a boomer- ang when it struck a blow at Ameri- can meat. Printing is the second greatest in- dustry in New York city, as shown by United States census returns. Cloth- ing leads, with a production of $138,- 000,000; bookmaking, printing and publishing are lumped at $91,000,000, and slaughtering and meat-packing follow with a total of $50,000,000. Engraving and are grouped together as the nineteenth in- “dustry in the city, with a production of $9,000,000. : lithographing According to the London Lancet, the ever-present microbe has the best of opportunities to attack the cyclst who rides along a dusty road with his mouth open. Often after such a ride there are unpleasant sensations, and the symptoms are described as a feel- ing of dryness in the throat, followed by its sore and inflamed condition,and frequently resulting in headache and depression similar to that experienced in poisoning cases. Road dust con- varieties of bacteria, and among the more dangerous of the pathogenic microbes that have been found and isolated are those of pus, tains numerous malignant cedema, tetanus, tubercle, and septicemia. The injurious effect of these organisms would forthe most part be averted if the mouth were kept closed and respiration confined to the nose, as few of the microbes pass be- yond the extreme end of the nasal passage and consequently reach the larynx or bronchial surfaces. In ad- dition to breathing exclusively through the nostrils, it is recommended that after a dusty ride or walk the nose should be douched slightly warm solution of some harm- with a weak and less antiseptic. The report of the director of physi- cal public of Washington has lately been published. training in schools According to this report, the Dbenefi- cial results of systematic daily exer- cise have been marked; but, as the writer of the paper truly remarks, “It is impossible to test the full measure of success or failure of our efforts. It with school days long past, that the lasting influ- ence of such work will be felt by the individual child.” one thing seems certain, viz., that the in- troduction of physical training into the public schools of America is a step in the right direction, and, if intelli- gently carried out, should result in producing a stronger race mentally and physically, thinks the Scientific The fact should not be forgotten though, that physical train- "ing may be abused. Gymnastics should not be permitted to take the place of play, but rather the two should go hand in hand. —Medical Record. is in the remote future, However, American, The recently published statement of the United States treasury department as to the imports and exports of iron and steel and their manufactures is a very striking one. In round numbers, the United States in 1880 imported $74,000,000 worth of these articles and exported less than $13,- 000,000 worth. In the last fiscal year these figures were exactly reversed. The imports were a little over $12,- 000,000, the exports were about $75,- 000,000. When we consider the marked fall in the prfcesof many vari- eties of the manufactures of iron and steel the change is more significant. It is still more so when we recall the very large increase in the population of the United States. This in 1880 was a little over 50,000,000. By the latest estimate of the bureau of stg- tistics it is now a little less than 75,- 000,000. It follows, therefore, that in 1880, when we had to import $74,- 000,000 worth of iron and steel and their manufactures, we consumed not only all our own product, but an av- erage of $1.50 worth of imports. In 1898 our own product not only sup- plied the needs of a population of 75,000,000, but enabled us to send abroad an average per capita of $1 worth, QEY. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: “Enemies Overthrown''—In the Church of God and in All Styles of Reformatory Work What is Needed Most is a Battle Cry. Text: “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered.”—Psalms Ixviii., 1. A procession was formed to carry the ark, or sacred box, which, though only three feet nine inches in height and depth, was the symbol of God’s presence. As the leaders ¢f the procession lifed this orna- mented and brilliant box by two golden poles run through four golden rings, and started for Mount Zion, all the people chanted the battle hymn of my text, “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered.” The Cameronians of Scotland, outraged by James I., who fdrced upon them relig- {ous forms that were| offensive, and by the terrible persecntion ¢f Drummond, Dalziel and Turner, and by the oppressive laws of Charles I. and Charles II., were driven to proclaim war against tyrants, and went forth to fight for religious liberty; and the mountain heather became red with car- page, and at Bothwell Bridge and Aird’s Moss and Drumeclog the battle hymn and the battle shout of those glorious old Scotchmen was the text I have chosen: “Let God arise, let His enemies be scat- tered.” What a whirlwind of power was Oliver Cromwell, and how - with his soldiers, named the ‘‘Ironsides,” he went from vic- tory to victory! Opposing enemies melted as he looked at them. He dismissed Parlia- ment as easily as a schoolmaster a school. He pointed his finger at Berkeley Castle, and it was taken. He ordered Sir Ralph Hopton, the general, to dismount, and he dismounted. See Cromwell marching on with Iris army, and hear the battle-cry of “Ironsides,” loud as a storm and solemn as a death-knell, standards reeling before it, and cavalry horses going back on their haunches, and armies flying at Marston Moor, at Winceby Field, .at Naseby, at Bridgewater and Dartmouth—“"Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered!” So you see my text is not like a compli- mentary and tasselled sword that you sometimes see hung up in a parlor, a sword that was never in battle, and only to be used on general traicing day, but more like some weapon carefully hung up in your home, telling its story of battles, for my text hangs in the Scripture armory, telling of the holy wars of three thousand years in which it has been carried, but still as keen and mighty as when David first unsheathed it. It seems to me that in the Church of God, and in all styles of re- formatory work, what we most need is now a battle-cry. We raise our little stan- dard, and put on it the name of some man who only a few years ago began to live and in a few years will cease to live. We go into conquest against the armies of iniquity, depending too much on human agencies. We use for a battle-cry the name of some brave Christian reformer, but after awhile that reformer dies, or gets old, or loses his courage, and ‘then we take an- nther battle-cry, and this time perhaps we put the name of someone who betrays the cause and sells out to the enemy. What we want for a battle-cry is the name of come leader who will never betray us, and will never surrender, and will never die. All respect have I for brave men and women, but if we are to get the victory all along the line we must take the hint of the Gideonites, who wiped out the Bedouin Arabs, commonly called Midianites. These Gideonites had a glorious leader in Gideon, but what was the battle-cry with which they flung their enemies into the worst de- feat into which any army was ever tumbled? It was “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.” Put God first, whoever you put second. If the army of the Americanrevo- lutionis to free: America, it must be “The sword of the Lord and of Washington.” If the Germans want to winthe day at Sedan, it must be ‘The sword of the Lord and Von Moltke.” Waterloo was won for the English, because not only the armed men at the front, but the worshipers in the cathedrals at the rear, were crying “The sword of the Lord and of Wellington.” The Methodists have gone in triumph across nalion after nation with tho cry, “The sword of the Lord and of Wesley.” The Presbyterians have gone from victory to victory with the cry, “The sword of the Lord and of John Knox.” The Baptistahave conquered millions after millions for Christ with the ery, ‘“I'he sword of the Lord and of Judson.” The American Episcopalians have won their mighty way with theery, “The sword of the Lord and of Bishop M'Ilvaine.”” The victory 1s to those who put God first. But as we want a battle-cry suited to all sects of religion- ists, and to all lands I nominate as the battle-cry of Christendom in the approach- ing Armageddon the words of my text, sounded before theark as it was carried to Mount Zion: “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered.” As far as our finite mind can judge, it seems about time for God to rise. Does it pot seem to you ‘that the abominations of this earth have gone far enough? Was there ever a time when sin was s¢ deflant? Was there ever before so many {ists lifted toward God telling Him to come on if He dare? Look at the blasphemy abroad! What towering profanity! Would it be possible for anyone to calculate the num- bers of times that the name of the Almighty God and of Jesus Christ are. every day taken irreverently on the lips? Profane swearing is as much forbidden by the law as theft, or arson, or murder, vet who executes it? Profanity is worse than theft, or arson, or murder, for these crimes are attacks on humanity—that is an attack on God. This country is pre-eminent for blas- pbemy. Aman traveling in Russia was sup- posed to be a clergyman. “Why do you take me tobe a clergyman?’ said the man. “Ob,” said the Russian, ‘“‘all other Amcricans swear.” Thecrimeis multiplying in inten- gity. God very oftenshows what He thinks of it, but for the most part the fatality is hushed up. Among the Adirondacks I met the funeral procession of a man who two days before had fallen under a flash of lightning, while boasting, after a Sunday of work in the flelds, that he had cheated God out of one day anyhow, and the man who worked with him on the samme Sabbath is still living, but a helpless invalid, under the same flash. Years ago, ina Pittsburg prison, two men were talking about the Bible and Christi- anity, and one of them, Thompson by name, applied to Jesus Christ a very low and vil- lainous epithet, and, as he was uttering it, he fell. A physian was called, but no help could be given. After a day lying with distended pupils and palsied tongue, he passed out of this world. Ina vemetery in Sullivan County in New York State are eight headstones in a lineand all alike, and these are the facts: In 1861 diphtheria raged ably successful in curing his patients. So confldent did he become that he boasted that no case of diphtheria could stand be- fore him, and flnally defiled Almighty God to produce a case of diphtheria that he could not cure. His ycungest child soon after tock the disease and died, and one child after another, until all the eight had died of diphtheria. The blasphemer chal-* lenged Almighty God, and God accepted the challenge. Do not think that because God has been silent in your case, O pro- fape sweurer! that He is dead. Isthere nothing now in the peculiar feeling of your tongue, or nothing in the numbness of your brain, tbat indicates that Godgmay come to avenge your blasphemies, or is already avenging them? But these ‘cases I have noticed. I believe, are only a few cases where there are hundreds. Families keep them quiet toavoid the horrible conspicuity. Physicians suppress them through profes- sional confidence. Itis a very, very long roll that contains the names of those who died with blasphemies on their lips. Still the crime rolls on. up through par- in the village and a physician was remark- | Jars, up through chandeliers with lights all ablaze, and through picturea corridors of olub-rooms, out through busy exchanges, where oath meets oath, and down through all the haunts of sin, mingling with the rattling dice and crackling billiard-balls, and the laughter of her who hath forgotten the covenant of her God; and round the city, and round the continent, and round the earth a seething, boiling surge flings its hot spray into the face of a long-suffer- ing God. And the ship-captain curses his crew, and the master-builder his men, and the hack-driver his horse; and the traveler the stone that bruises his foot, or the mud that soils his shoes, or the defective time- piecethat gets him too late to therail train. I arraign profane swearing aud blasphemy, two names for the same thing, as being one of the gigantic crimes of this land, and for its extirpation it does seem as if it were about time for God to arise. Then look for a moment at the evil of drunkenness. Whether you live in Wash- ington, or New York, or Chicago, or Cin- cinnati, or Savannah, or Boston, or in any of the cities of this land, count up the sa- loons on that street as compared with the saloons flve years ago, and see thoy are growing far out of proportion to the in- crease of the population. Yon people who are so precise and particular lest there should be some imprudence and rashness in attacking the rum traffic will have your son some night pitched into your front door dead drunk, or your daughter will come home with her children because hor husband has, by strong drink, been turned into a demoniac. The drink has despoiled whole streets of good homes in all our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on the funeral pyre of strong drink! Fasten tighter the victims! Stir up the flames! Pile on the corpses! More men, women and children for the sacrifice! Let us have whole generations on fire of evil habit, and at the sound of the cornet, flute, harp,sack- put, psaltery, and duleimer let all the peo- ple fall down and worship King Alcohol, or you shall be cast into the flery furnace un- der some political platform! <<a I indict this evil as the regilcide, the fratricide, the patricide. the matricide, the uxoricide of the century. Yet under what innocent and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism deceives the people! It is a “cordial.” It is “bitters.”” It is an ‘‘eye- opener.” It is an “appetizer.” It is a “digester.” It is an “‘invigorator.” It is a ‘“‘settler.” It is a ‘‘night-cap.” Why don’t they put on the right labels—‘Es- sence of Perdition,” ‘‘Consclence Stupe- fler,” ‘Five Drachms of Heart-ache,” “Tears of Orphanage,” “Blood of Souls,” «“Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy,” “Venom of the Worm that Never Dies?” Only once in a while is there anything in the title of liq- uors to even hint their atrocity, as in the case of ‘“‘sour mash.” That I see adver- tised all over. It is an honest name, and anyone can understand it. ‘‘Sour mash!” That is, it makes a man’s disposition sour, and his associations sour and his prospects sour; and then it is good to mash his-body, and mash his soul, and mash his business, and mash his family. “Sour mash!” One honest name at last for an intoxicant! But through lying labels of many of the apothecaries’ shops, good people, who are only a little under tone fn health, and wanting some invigoration, have unwit- tingly got on their tongue the fangs of this cobra, that stings to death so large a ratio of the human race, Others are ruined by the common and all-destructive habit of treating customers. And it is a treat on their coming to town, and a treat while the bargaining progresses, and a treat when the purchase is made, and a treat as he leaves town. Others, to drown their troubles, submerge themselves with this worse trouble. Ob, the world is battered and bruised and blasted with this growing evil! It is more and more en- trenched and fortifiel. They have millions of dollars subscribed to marshal and ad- vance the alcoholic forces. They nominate, and elect, and govern the vast majority of the officeholders of this country. On their side they have enlisted the mightiest political power of the centuries. And be- hind them stand all the myrmidon$ of the nether world, Sataaic, Apollyonic Diabolic. It is beyond all human effort to overthrow this DBastile of decanters or capture this Gibraltar of ram jugs. And while I approve of all human agencies ot reform, 1 would utterly despair if we had nothing else. But what cheers me is that our best troops are yet to come. Our chief artillery is in reserve. Our greatest com- mander has not yot fully taken the fleld. It all Hell is on their side, all Heaven is on our side. Now “Let God arise, and let His enemies he scattered.” Then jook at the impurities of these great cities. Xver and anon there are in the newspapers cxplosions of social iife that make the story of Sodom quite re- spectable; “for such things,” Christ says, “were more tolerable for Sodom and Go- morrah’ than for the Chorazins and Beth- caidas of greater light. It is no unusual thing in our cities to see men in high po- sitions with two or three families, or re- fined ladies willing solemuly to marry the very swine of society, if they be wealthy. The Bible all aflame with denunciation against an impure life, but many of the American ministry uttering not one point- blank word against this iniquity lest some old libertine throw up his church pew. Machinery organized in all the cities of the United States and Canada by which to put yearly in the grinding-mill of this iniquity thousands of the unsuspecting of the country farm-houses, one procuress con- fessing in the court that she had supplied the infernal market with -one hundred and fifty vietims in six months. Ob! for five hundred newspapers in America to swing open the door of this lazar-house of social corruption! Exposuro must come before extirpation. = While thecity vanecarties the scum of this sin from the prison to the police court morning by morning, it is full time, if we do not want high American life to become like that of the conrt of Louis XV., to put millionaire Lotbarios and the Pompadours of your brown-stone palaces into a van of popular indignation, and drive them out of respectable associations. What prospect of social purification can thers be, as long as dt summer watering places it is usual to sée a young woman of excellent rearing stand and simper and giggle and roll up her eyes sideways before one of those flrat- class satyrs of fashionable life, and on the ballroom floor join him in thg dance, the maternal chaperon meanwhile beaming from the window on the scene? Matches are made in Heaven, they say. Not such matches; for the brimstone indicates the opposite region. The evil is overshadowing all our cities. By some these immoralties are called pee- cadilloes, gallantries, eccentricitizs, and are relegated to the realms of jocularity, and few efforts are being made against them. @od bless the “White Cross’ move- ment, as it is called—an organization mak- ing ua mighty assault onthisevil! God for- ward the tract societies of the land! God help the parents in the great work they are doing, in trying to start their children with pure principles! God help all legislators in their attempt to nrohibit this crime! But is this all? Then it is only a question of time when the last vestige of purity and home will vanish out of sight. Human arms, human pens, human voices, human talents are not suflicient. I begin to look up. I listen for artillery rumbling down the sapphire boulevards of Heaven. I watch to see if in the .norning light thero be not the flash of descending scimitars. Oh, for God! Doesit not seem time for His appearance? Isit not time forall lands to cry out: ‘“‘Let God arise, and let His en- emies be scattered?” Largest Steel Hull on the Mississippi. The largest steel hull ever floated on ti 0 Missizsippi was launched wt the shipyardo the Iowa Iron Works at Dubuque, Iowa. The boat is 303 feet long, fifty-six feet bean and eighty-seven feet over all. She covers a spaces of 23,000 square feet, or about five- eighths of an acre. She was built for the Texas & Pacific Railway. Company, and will be used at New Orleans in transferring . cars. andy REYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED PRISCNER RETURNED. William Hollar Leaves Jail ani ‘Bupporta Kis Wife ile Awaiting Trial. True to his promise, William Hollar, who about a month ago escaped from the Columbia County jail, and after- ward wrote to Sheriff Black that he would return in time for trial, turned up at the prison last Friday. The Sheriff was greatly surprised. Hollar nonchalantly remarked: “I said I would be back, and here IT am.” Hol- lar is charged with robbing the Nur- emburg store and postottica. He broke jail with Stephen Mensinger, another prisoner. Then he wrote back to the Sheriff that his wife was sick and needed his support, but that he would put in an appearance for the Septem- ber term of Court. A posse sent out failed to find track of him. The following pensions were granted last week: Madison A. Timblin, Penfield, $6; George W. Cift, Etna, $6; Issac Rich- ardson, Altoona $8; Levi Buchman, last Branch, Warren, $6; Michael S. Schryer, Selins Grove, $6; Mason J. I.conard, Queenstown, Armstrong, $6; Demas Crumrine, Zollarsville, Wash- ington, $6 to $8; Samuel C. Compton, Williamsport, $6 to $8; William W. Perry, Ringgold, $30 to $50; Henry Hoffmaster, Spring Mills, Center, $6 to $8; Leonard M. Bromley, Oil City, $6 to $8; George W. Kiefer, Pittsburg, $8 to $10; George F. Norris, Simpsons Store, Washington, $6 to $8; Harvey Kinder, West Brownsville, $8 to $12; Mary E. Conrad, Gallitzin, Cambria, $5; Clara S. Ballantyne, Huntingdon, $8: Isabella CC. Decker, Huntingdon, $i2; John D. Richardson, Clearfield, $8; John Cornish, Elliottsville, $12; Sidney B. Armour, Spartansburg, $10; William G. Meyers, Clearfleld, $6; Thomas Clark, Carrs, $6;- Conrad B. Walter, Tillie, $6; Peter Updegraf, dead, Lewisburg, $12; Henry E. Romig, Rotes, $6; William Mull, Wash- ington, $6; Andrew Edinger, dead, St. Petersburg, $17; Shartel Crow, White Ash, $2 to $8; [Elizabeth TUpdegraft, I.ewisburg, $8; Emma Elinger, St. Petersburg, $12; Elizabeth Hensel, Levansville, Somerset, $8; Elizabeth I. Hamilton, Pittsburg, $8; Mary Williams, Mench, Bedford, $12; Lewis Coleyeau, Bradford, $8; Jos. Hawk, I.eechburg, $8; Jacob W. Palmer, Al- toona, $6; James 8. McElroy, Pitts- burg, $6; Adam Richter, Blossburg, $$: Edward S. Steck, dead, Greens- burg. $17 to $24; J. C. ‘Evans, Ebens- burg, $8 to $12; John B. Phillips, Clar- ion, $8 to $12; Mollie Steck, Greens- burg, $8: Barbara Lang, Allegheny, $8; Sarah J. Pierson, Deep Valley, Greene, SN. s E. P. Myers a few days ago took possession of a house at Garrett left to him by his mother, Mrs. Christley Myers, who died five months ago. The deed was not signed by his father, who had a life tenure in the property. When Christley Myers arrived he found the house barricaded, his son re- fusing him entrance. He at once went to Somerset, swore a warrant for forcible entry and detainer, and on his return here secured service for the writ. Young Myers fired at the ap- proaching constable, fatally wounding Michael Kearney. Then he fled to his boarding house, immediately adjoin- ing, where Constable Nelson Lenhart, and his brother, John Lenhart, fol- lowed him. He fired again, killing John Lenhart instantly. Sheriff Martin Hartzell, of Somerset, in a short time arrived with @ posse. Myers was finally overpowered, and while being taken down the steps of the house was struck by a gun in the hands of some- body in the crowd. He was knocked unconscious, but later recovered and was removed to Somerset. Michael Kearney died and John Lenhart, the other victim, was scarcely recogniz- able when found, the entire front of his face being blown off. The other morning as J. W. McIntire and wife, of Geneva, driving singie and leading another horse, they were held up by a gang of highwaymen. The hus- kand thought of a sum of money he bend thought of some money he carr'el. jumped from the buggy and ran. His wife gave rein and whip to the horse and dashed through the gang, bring- ing shots from three revolvers. She was untouched, but the horse she was leading received a bullet in its ilank. A hundred thousand dollars’ worth of farms and private residences be- longing formerly to the directors of the Taylor Manufacturing Company, and the big engine works of the com- pany were sold at Chambersburg, re- cently by United States Marshal Reilly, of Philadelphia. The property had before been sold by the Sheriff of Franklin county, and a clash between State and national authorities in the court is likely. While preparing to attend the funeral of his father who was killed on the railroad at Easton last week, John Bogart became incensed at his step- son, John Burns, and stabbed him on the head with a knife, inflicting an ugly wound, which may result fatally. Bogart then attempted to make his es- cape, but was captured by an officer and committed to jail to await the result of Burns’ injuries. John O'Neil and James veterans gray in crime, cracksmen, were sentenced by Judge Hemphill at Media to terms of ten vears each in the Eastern penitenti- ary. They pleaded guilty to an at- tempt to break in the house of Mrs. George Mitchell, at Lansdowne. They did not get anything and were caught by Officer Rementer when trying to enter at the kitchen window. The construction and repairs of country roads by contract system was strongly advocated by Harman D. Addis at a meeting of the Northamp- ton Farmers’ Club at Doylestown a few days ago. He would have the reads properly put in order by see- tions, and would throw out the super- visors’ gang altogether. The George M. Neville fcund dead in a freight car at Blairsville last week was a resident of t. Union. His body was satisfactorily identified. H: was going west in search of work. He leaves a widow and one child. George Bartlett, who snot and ki'led James Moffitt and mortally wounded Warren Richmond at Pittsten the cth- er night and fled, was arrested at his home, having hidden in a corn field all night. He says he has no recollection of the shooting. George Ewing of Sugar Grove town- ship, near Greenville, shot a bald eagle that measured 81% feet from tip to tip. A valuable horse and buggy, stolen from Jaccb Freshly, of Springtown, N. J.. were recovered at Euston, where they had been sold to William Sausser for $20. Norman Smith, aged 18, son of Adam J. Smith,"a prominent Jefferson county man, was killed a few days ago while making a coupling on the Pittsburg and Rochester railroad extension at Punxsutawney. Miss Grace Plant, of Jamestown, while driving with her father, kill>cd a rattlesnake three feet long that had six rattlers. Lockjaw caused by a splinter, which a 99-year-old son of A. G. Zarger, of Chambersburg, ran in his foot, result- ed in death. > Clark, two and notorious (HE SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 2, Lesson Text: “Reformation Under Asa,’ II Chronicles xiv., 2-12~Golden Text: JL Chronicles xiv.,, 1l—Commentary by the Rev. D. M, Stearns. 2. ‘“And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God,” Last quarter was spent chiefly with the prophets Elijah and Elisha, men of God, and now we are to have several lessons on kings who were men of God. Asa was the third king of Judah after the kingdom was divided at the death of Solo- mon, and the first to do right in the sight of the Lord. This statement is made con- cerning seven other kings of Judah, but not once concerning any of the kings of the ten tribes. The throne was called the throne of the Lord, or the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel, and the king was said to be king for the Lord his God (I Chron. xxix., 28; xxviil., 5; II Chron.. ix., 8). 8. ‘““He took away the altars of the strange gods.” Although the law of God said, “Thou shalt have no “other gods be- fore Me” (Ex. xx., 3), "yet Solomon intro- duced many strange gods to please his wives, and both Rehoboam and Abijah continued the idol worship. It is difficult to go against the customs of your father and grandfather, but Asa feared God rather than man and was determined to do right before Him. 4. “And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers.” In verses 3 and 4 of the next ohapter we read that Israel had been for a long season without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, but when they turned to the Lord and sought Him He was found of them. In verses 12 and 15 we read that they sought Him with all their heart and soul, even with their whole desire, and He gave them rest rotind about. The Lord takes heed to our hearts rather than our words, and will fulfill the the desire of them that fear Him. 5. “The kingdom was quiet before him.”’ Verse 1 says, ‘In his days the land was quiet ten years.” Quietness is one of the great gifts of God which shall yet be fully enjoyed not only by all Israel but by 40 the world, when ‘‘the work of righteous- ness shall be peace, and the effect (or service) of righteousness shall be quietness and assurance forever” (Isa. xxxii., 17). In quietness and in confidence is strength, and the ornament of a meek and quiet Bird is in the sight of God of great price (Isa. xxx., 15; I Pet. {il., 4). 6. “The land had rest, because the Lord had given him rest.” In Joshua xxiiif., 1, it is written that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemieg. In I Chron. xxif., 9, the Lord had told David that his son Solomon {posasable) would be a man of rest and that Israel would enjoy peace and quiet- ness in his days. Lamech said concerning his son, *‘This shall comfort us concerning our work,” and so he called him Noah— i. e., rest or eomfort. The earliest rest is that of Gen. ii., 3, which was broken by the devil doubting God’s word and God’s love, and thus he still seeks to break all rest. 7. “Because we have sought the Lord our God He hath given us rest on every side.”” When Solomon was about to build the temple, he said to Hiram, ‘“The Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent” (I Kings v., 4). The rest of the kingdom that is coming will be glori- ous (Isa. xi., 10), or, as in ths margin, glory. Even now He says, “Come unto Me, and I will give you rest,” and ‘When He giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?” (Math. xi., 28; Job vxxiv., 29.) When, even in our ordinary daily affairs, we allow the government to be upon His shoulder and the peace of God to rule (Isa. ix., 7; Col. iii,, 15), we will have a glorious foretaste of the rest of the king- dom. Some say that they seek Him yet do not seem to find Him as their rest, but it must be that they do not seek Him with the whole heart (Jer. xxix., 13). 8-10. The adversary will not allow us to rest if he can help it, so here we have over a million of Ethiopians gathered against Asa in battle, and he has but little over half as many with which to meet them. Wars will not wholly cease from the earth until the devil is cast into the lake of fire at the end of the thousand years (Rev. xx., 7-10), for, while the millennium will be a time of peace, it will end with a great war. Israel had no reason to fear her enemies, however numerous, for the promise of God was that one should ohase a thousand and two put 10,000 to flight. The deliverance from Egypt and the conquest of the Canaanites, with the many deliverances and victories in the days of the Judges and in the time of David, would strengthen the hands of any one who feared God. David could say, “I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people that have set them- selves against me round about.” “Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not f@ar” (Ps. iil, 6; xxvii., 3: xlvi., 2 11. “And Asa cried unto the Lord his God and said, Lord, it is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many or with them that have no power.” Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “It nuay be that the Lord will work for us, for there is no re- straint to the Lord to save by many or by few” (I Sam. xiv., 6). The greatest hin- drance to the Lord’s work is generally our fancied strength or wisdom, and there is no proverb much more unscriptural than this, that God helps those wkto help them- selves. In the matter of salvation it is only the lost and helpless and ungodly for whom it is provided, and it has been provided wholly by our Lord Jesus Christ and is given freely to every penitent sin- per. In the daily life for God it is God who works all our works in us and for us (Isa. xxvi., 12). He delivers the needy, the poor also and him that hath no helper (Ps. Ixxii., 12). When Gideon had only 32,000 men against aninnumerable host, the Lord said to him, ‘The people that are with thee are too many, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me” (Judg. vii., 2). God must be glorified in all things, and no flesh dare presume to glory in His presence (I Cor. i., 29, 81; Isa. ii., 11, 17, 22). - If we are living in the name of the Lord and seeking only His glory, no man or demon can pre- vail against us or even touch us without God’s permission. 12. ““So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judab.” They were destroyed before the Lord and before His host (verse 13). Yet when the king of Is- rael came against Asa in the thirty-sixth vear of his reign he forgot this great de- liverance and relied on the king of Syria rather than upon God, and when rebuked for it he grew angry with the Lord’s serv- ant and put him in prison (chapter xvi.). So prone are we to forget God and to lean upon an arm of flesh instead of putting our whole trust in the Lord! Blessed are all they that thrust in Him (Ps. ii., 12).— Lesson Helper. 5 A large part of the plate and mirror glass consumed in Russia has to be imported. It is only recently that the manufacture of plate glass has been taken up on a large scale by the Nor- dische Glass Industrie Gesellschaft, which started its large factories at Kolistshi, on the Baltic Sea, January 1, 1898. he factory is said to be fully the equal of the best appointed and largest factories of Western Europe or the United States. It possesses a ca- pacity of about 1,000,000 square feet per year, but suitable provision was made in its erection so that the output can be doubled or trebled without necessi- tating new buildimgs or considerable expense. ACRICULTURAL TOPICS Potatoes and Apples. Where farmers are fortunate enough to have large apple orchards, itis cus- tomary to limit the planting of pota- toes in the year when the apple trees blossom freely. The present year, however, in many localities the show of apple blossoms was large, but the set of fruit was small. Each of these crops makes extra work in l.arvesting, and in both it comes abeut the same time and will not admit delay. It is not often, therefore, that a great apple orop and a large yield of potatoes hap- pen the same year. Lime As a Milk Preservative. Some of the Chicago papers com- plain, and with reason, against the practice of a few farmers in putting lime 1n their milk cans inorder to keep the milk from souring. Salt also is used by some for the same purpose. Both lime and salt are alkaline, and will therefore help to prevent acidity. But in just the proportion they do this they make the milk indigestible. When put in the stomach milk becomes acid as the first step towards digestion. All alkaline substances are, for this- rea- son, injurious when combined with food products. Skim Milk for Growing Chickens. As a summary of experiments made at Purdue University Agricultural Ex- periment station on the use of skim milk as food for young growing chick- ens, it is stated: 1. If skim milk is added to the ra- tion fed to young chickens it will in- crease the consumption of the other foods given. 2. The great increase in average gain was coincident with the periods when the greatest amount of skim milk was consumed. 3. Skim milk is especially valuable as a food for young chickens during the hot dry weather; and becomes of less importance as the chicken grows older and the weather becomes cooler. Fall Seed-Sowing. There is no good reason why the portion of the farm devoted to vegeta- ble garden, be it large or small, should be permitted to grow up to weeds as soon as the summer-ripening crops are gone. The garden can be made to look as attractive in August and September as in midsummer, to say nothing of the additional profit to be 8btained from the space at a mini- mum of expense. Something may be grown, if only a little rape for sheep or poultry; radishes, turnips, spinach, lettuce, and soon, may all be grown. Most of it will mature before frost and be very palatable. Any portion of it likely to go to waste or not to mature can be utilized as food for stock or poultry, or, if not enough for that purpose, it may be plowed under and add to the fertility of the scil, making it ail the better for crops to be put in next spring. Bare late fallowing is no more necessary in the vegetable garden than on the farm generally, and the time spent in cultivating late crops will save just so much time next summer in pulling out or cutting down weeds. Wet Grain in Mows. During the rains which have lately fallen, much grain has been put in mow and stack in much too wet a con- dition to keep well. While the grain itself is in not much danger, because it is surrounded by chaff, which being always dryer helps to take up its su- perfluous moisture, there is danger that the straw, especially where the bands enclose the bundles, will rot, and this, may extend before checked all through the bundle, and may even affect the grain. It is a great deal of work to turn over a mow and relay it again, especially if this is done when the air is nearly saturated with mois- ture, so that exposure to it dries it out very little. ‘The best remedy we know is to thoroughly dry some bricks or tile in an oven, and after digging down into the stack, deposit a few of these through it. A well dried brick or tile will absorb nearly or quite its own weight in water. In other words, weigh it when you put it in and when it is taken out, and any one will be surprised at the increase in weight after a few weeks exposure to damp grain. Care is needed when thresh- ing such grain not to put the brick or tile through the threshing ma- chine. The remedy for damp graiv is applied without this danger if brick or tile is put among grain in the bin. Vermin on Trees. Fruit growers have to contend not only with the various insects ‘that at- tack foliage and fruit, but with ver- min and insects that atlack the bark. These are usually the borer and the mice. Many remedies have been recommended, all more or less valu- able, but the following is known to be good. Itis simply a mixture of water lime (hydraulic cement) and sweet gskim-milk made to about the con- sistency of thick whitewash. The albumen of the milk unites with the cement and forms an insoluble com- pound, not at all injurious to trees, nor washing off, but effectually keep- ing off all gnawing vermin or insects. When borers have been at work on the tree, dig away the earth to the roots, dig out the borers if any, and apply this wash from the roots np- ward for two feet or more from the surface of the ground. Cover the bark thoroughly, filliug all crevices, giving a second coating if necessary to do the work thoroughly. When the wash is dry, replace the soil re: moved. For protection against mice and other vermin, apply the wash from the surface of the ground ug three or four feet, being sure that al’ grass or sod aboui the base of the tree is removed so that the trunk wil be completely covered to the gronad. As the tree grows this coat of milk cement will crack, but two applica- tions a year on young trees will insure perfect protec#on.—Atlanta Journal
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