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A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE
BEV. ‘A. B..SIMPSON.
Eubject : The Maniféstation of the King—
The, Recognition—=Lord of the Temple
—The Children’s King—Curse of the
King=The Sceptre of the Kingdom.
New Yorg City.—The folowing ser-
mon was predched :Sddday by! the world-
famous head of the Christian and Mission-
ary Alliance, the Rev. A. B. Simpson. His
subject was “The Manifestation of the
King,” and his ‘text was: Tell ye the
daughter of Zion, Behold thy King cometh:
unto thee meek, and, sitting upon an ass, |
21d a colt, the.foal of an ass.—Mattaew
The time had now come when the Lord
Jesus was to be publicly manifested ‘as the
son of Davidiand the King of Israel. Hith-
erto He had refused the demands of the
multitude, who, after His Galilean mira-
cles, had tried’ “to take Him by force and
make Him a king;” but now as the end
draws near it is proper that He should lit-
erally fulfil the announcements of ancient
prophecy, and far.a brief moment, at least,
appear as the heir to David’s throne and
the answer to all the Messianic hopes of
Israel, sod fg! st feftyvilia
I. The Recognition of the King. Tt was
strange that the first to recognize Him as
Israel's King should be two blind beggars.
That which the rulers of Israelavith all
their wisdom, failed to comprehend, was
discovered by moor old Bartimeus and his
blind companion: Celling Him by His Mes-
sianic name, they cried, as the.procession
pressed by, ‘‘Jesus, Thon Son of. David,
have mercy on*us!” When Jesus heard
that. name He instantly’ ordered the. pro-
cession to halt, and, calling them to Him,
granted their, petition like a king, bidding
them! receive their sight and follow Him
in the way. ais we "
Sg: still it. is. eyer, true, “Thou hast hid
these things from the wise and prudent and
revealed them unto babes.” The wisdom
of the world andreven- the culture of theo-.
logical science have blinded men to the
vision of God, and it'is the lowly and often
illiterate to whom the Holy Ghost reveals
“the. mysteries of. the kingdom of heaven”
and the blessed hopes of the coming once
more of our glorious King. : et
How did these blind -men know that
Jesus was the Son of David? With their
inner senses they felt after Him until they
found Him. .It is so-still that the hungry.
heart finds the Saviour, Reaching out in
our darkness and sense of need, groping
for One who we feel can meet and satisfy
our need, we press our way. toward the
light even as the blind man, who, while he
cannot discern the objects before him, can
see vaguely atleast the glare of the light
ard press closer to it. Even. so we can
prass toward ‘God, and He will meet the
seaking soul and reveal Himself in the vis-
ion of light and love even as He did to
them. §
Seeker for Christ, follow the light you
have and He will give more as you follow
on, and you, too, will héar Him say, ‘“‘Re-
ceive thy sight, thy faith hath made thee
whole.” .
II. The Manifestation of the King. An-
cient prophecy had foretold the coming of
the King of meekness, truth and love, and
His triumphal entry into Jerusalem was a
striking fulfillment. Zechariah especially
had literally described the scenes por-
traved in this chapter. ‘Rejoice greatly.
O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem, behold thy King cometh unto
thee. He is just and having salvation, low-
ly and riding upon an ass and upon a colt
the foal of an ass.” (Zechariah 9:9).
For the first time in His earthly minis-
try, our Lord permits Himsélf to be borne
by the beast of burden, which had always
been recognized as the bearer of kings.
Riding upon a little colt never ridden be-
fore, draped with the garments of His dis-
ciples as they walked beside, and accom-
panied by the mighty multitude surging
up from the city at this, the Passover time,
when the "population of Jerusalem was
multiplied tenfold, He slowly descended
from Bethany toward the city. At every
step the enthusiasm of the crowd grew
higher. Cutting down branches from the
palm trees they strewed them in the way,
and even their garments they flung in hom-
age at His feet, while their voices rose to a
mighty shout as they cried in the language
of an old prophetic Psalm, “Hosannah to
the Son of David, Hosannah in the high-
est hirom =:
But His own demeanor was in strange
contrast to all these scenes of tumultuous
excitement. Truly, He came as the King
of meekness, lowliness and love. This be-
came still more apparent when the city
suddenly burst upon their view, and the
sight of it drew from Him an outburst of
sorrow and compassion, and amid all that
pageant of popular acclamation He gave
way to bitter tears and lamentations over
the certain doom which He saw impending
upon the scenes that lay spread before Him
in all their glorious beauty. But the pro-
cession swept on, and in ‘a little while He
entered the city and the Temple.
His triumphal entry into Jerusalem was
the foreshadowing of that glorious time
when He shall come again as Israel's long
expected Messiah and take His place upon
the throne of David, never again to leave
it. :
It is also typical ‘of His entrance upon
the throne of the individual heart when
we receive Him as our Lord and King.
The little foal on whom no man had sat
before is the exquisite type of the heart
that gives Him its exclusive affection. He
comes to reign, not as tyrant, but as a
King of gentleness and love in all the at-
tractive attributes so finely set forth in
the ancient picture that we are consider-
ing. He does not come te repress, but to
satisfy. He does not dominate us asa des-
pot, but He meets all the needs and long-
ings of our being, and so blends with our
nature and our will that we become His
willing subjects and the very partners ot
His kingdom and His throne. Have we
thus received Him and known Him as our
King?
{1I. The King of Zion and the Lord of
the Temple. Immediately upon entering
the city He passed through the gates of
the Temple, and repeated the miracle of
its cleansing which had formed the first
chapter of His early Judean ministry. The
difference between this miracle and the
former is that then He called it His Fath-
er’s house; now “My house.” He was now
taking the position of being Himself the
Lord of the Temple and the true theocra-
tic Head of the kingdom. A little later
the phrase was changed again. As He left
that Temple after His solemn warnings
and judgments pronounced against the
false rulers and leaders of Israel, He de-
clared “Your house,” Mine no longer,
“your house is left unto you desolate and
ye shall not see Me again until he shall say
blessed is He that cometh in the name of
the Lord.”
The cleansing of the Temple was occa-
sioned by the abuse which was made of its
courts by a class of money brokers and
cheap traders, who took advantage of the
people’s desire for silver change in order to
pay the half shekel offering which was re-
quired of every one entering the Temple,
‘and out of this there grew up a regular
business and a large class of men who, at
exorbitant rates of usury, supplied the sil-
ver exchange to the worshipers as they
crowded into the courts without having
provided themselves with the requisite
coin.
Another class of tradesmen in like man-,
ner filled up another part of the court with
their filthy stalls for the supply of doves
and other animals for the sin offerings and
burnt offerings of the daily sacrifices.
These also were sold at exorbitant prices
for the convenience of the worshipers, but
really for the gain of the dealers.
"he same high place He still claims in
qld have,.alas, been more than-,pamle!
in the history of Christendom. It vas the
sale of indhilgehees in the thde of Lither
for the enrichment: of the ecclesiastical par-T
ties that brouzht about the Reformation.. .
The kind of sin here described is not sec- |
ular business in its own place, but the
doing of things in the name of religion
' which are prempted by mercenary motives..
The preaching of the gospel for the,sake of
ing the ‘ church, the “desécrating of the
house of God by social and sedular enter
tainments-and methods of raising nianey
which appeal to the selfishness and frivol:
in-any way as a cloak of covetousness, as
heart. The abuse of the Temple epurts of:
\
ity of man, and the using of Christianity {
gain, wrong. financial methods in support, .
i
The Milk Veins.
an advertisement of business, as a’ means
are things which are so common. .on every
side of tis that une hearts of many of God’s
children ‘have been filled with humiliation
and sorrow, and moved .to earnest prayer
for the coming of the King.once more to
cleanse His Temple and purge from His
church these shameful profanations.
The second cleansing ‘of the Temple
would seem to suggest that before: the
Lord’s coming there is to. be a profound
work of sanctification among the people
of God answering to that first cleansing
of which we, read so fully in the early
chapters of the Acts of the Apestles.
Still more fully does it apply to the in.
dividual experience of the Christian.
Here, ‘too, there is a second cleansing
"which the Lord comes to bring when He
Himself enters the consecrated. heart, not
only saving. but sanctifying and separating
us unto Himself in a deeper sense -than
joy of conversion. Have we received: this
second cleansing?
IV. The Children’s King. . This was not
an ordinary .crowd, where the children,
always love to be in front, but it was a
genuine outburst of heaven inspired love
and loyalty that made them cry, “Hosan-
nah in the highest.” For the -Liord :Jesus
Himself bore testimony to the genuineness,
est place over all others as He poted "the
ancient Scripture, “Out of the mouths of
babes and sucklings Thou has perfected
praise.” Others might join in the accla-
matioris because of the contagious influ-
ence of an excited multitude, but'theirs
was “perfect praise.” As usual-the Pharix
sees were ready to scorn their juvedile en-
thusiasm, but the Lord Jesus yas alsp
ready to vindicate them as He had ‘once’
before. ~ 3 : #4
Let ‘us: never forget that Jesus isthe
children’s King. By and by, when we wel-
come Him to His heavenly throne, we shall
find that a vast proportion of that ran
somed crowd will i
—
consist of little ‘chil-
dren. Let us train our little jones to know
Him and crown Him as their: King: Fhe.
word used here in their childish praise is
the Hebrew word ‘“‘Hosannah.” fe is mot’
quite the ‘same as Hallelujah, the usual ex-
pression for worship and praise. Literally
it means “Lord save us.” Our .Hallelu-
hs must begin in Hosannahs. Even the
children, too, must learn that they are’
sinful children, and that they also require
is cleansing blood, and only as they ac-
eept it and honor it will their Hosannahs
become Hallelujahs, and the XT.ord pro-
nounce their homage “‘perfect praise.”
~ V. The Blessing of the King. Immedi-
ately after Christ's triumphal entry into
Jerusalem and His cleansing of the Tem-
ple, we read these significant words, “and
the blind and the lame came to Him in the
Temple and He healed them.” Purifica-
tion always leads on to power. The ¢leans-
ing of the Temple was followed by the
healing of the sick and the revelation of
the great and good Physician. So, still, it
will be found in our personal experience.
This was not a momentary gleam of divine
beneficence over a dark and suffering
world, but Jesus Christ is the same yes-
terday, to-day and forever:
“And warm, sweet, tender even yet
A present help is He
And love has still its Olivet
And faith its Galilee.
The healing of His seamless robe
Is by our beds of pain,
We touch Him ’mid life’s pain and strife
And we are whole again.”
But, of course, all this awaits its perfect
fulfilment in that happier time when the
King shall come to His own again “and
the ransomed of the Lord shall return and
come to Zion with songs and everlasting
‘joy ‘upon their heads; they shall obtain
joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing
shall flee away.”
Then, when this earth is purged of all
iniquity, will it be also true the inhabitant
shall no more say, “I am sick, and the
people that dwell therein shall be forgiven
their iniquity.”
VI. The Curse of the King. But'the
King has not only blessing, but also judg-
ment in His mighty hand. TLe only mira-
cle of judgment recorded in all the life of
Jesus Christ immediately followed : these
incidents. It was the cursing of the bar-
ren fig tree, to which He came seeking
fruit and encouraged to expect it by the
luxuriant leaves tLat covered (ts branches;
but lo! there was “nothing but leaves,”
and He pronounced upon it: the svithering
words t at left it leafless and dead. 2
This as, of course, a type of the fruit-
Jess nation that He had already referred
to under the parable of the Barren Fig
Tree, and it forecasts the solemn judgment
that awaits every professed foliower of
Christ who shall meet Him ‘at’ last with
empty hands and fruitless life. 3
But there is a beneficent aspect, even in
the curse of the King. It tells us of One
that has the power to consume and destroy
the things which we are unable to cast ouf
of our lives. There are fig trees of sinful
habit and physical disease which our hu-
man strength cannot throw off alone. Oh,
how glad we are sometimes to have a God
who is ““a consuming fire,” and from whose
presence Satan, sin and sickness. flee atvay.
He tells us we may eater. into His de-
structive power against these things and
hand over to His flaming sword ‘adver-
saries and obstacles too great for us to
overcome.
“I am so glad,” said a little child once,
“that I have a God that can shake the
world.” Our Christ is not all soft and
easy benevolence. Back of His gentleness
is an arm of might and a holiness as
inexorable as the lightnings of the sky.
Oh! sinner, whatever else you dare, be-
ware of ‘“‘the wrath of the Lamb.”
VII. The Sceptre of the Kingdom. In
the closing verses of our lesson, chapter
21, verses 20 to 22, the Lord reveals the
secret of His own power and tells the
disciples how they may share it also,
The secret. of :it is faith. ‘If ye have
faith and doubt not, ye shall not only do
this which is done to the fig tree, but,
also, if ve shall say unto this mountain,
be thou removed and be thou cast into
the sea, it shall be done; and all things
whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believ-
ing, ye shall receive.” And so He passes
over to us His sceptre, and tells us that
we may exercise the same omnipotence
of faith through which’ He wrought His
mighty works. It was by faith that He
overcame and became for us “the Author
and Finisher of our f-i'¥7 Totten wiry
exercise the same faith, too. Some time
in that coming kingdom we shal] be like
Him and exercise a power over the uni-
verse of God, 8f which, could we fully
realize it now, we would be amazed and
appalled. But He is training us now in the
use of this mystic sceptre, and teaching
us the lessons of that faith of which He
once said, ‘“All things are possible with
God, all things are possible unto him
that believeth.”
We have but touched its borderland,
beloved. There are great continents of
faith and power and prayer for vet to
explore. “Lord, teach us to pray,” help
our unbelief and give us ‘“‘the faith of
Tl 5 hi
the Church of God and the individual
God.
we can possibly know, even in ‘the eirly |
of their praise and indeed gave it the high-.|
\ . The milk veins found along “fhe
of social preferment or secular gain—these .-stomach of ‘the'cow should be: vefy tor-
‘tuous.: They wind about on the belly
‘and. pass into the body through orifices
.in the rear of the fore flank. Théir
duty is to ccnvey the venus blood “to
the lungs for purification. Hence, ‘the
larger the vein and the greater ‘its’ ram-
ifications, the better indication it is
that the circulation ‘of the’ blood’
through the udder is very large; and’
naturally, the larger the circulation of
|'the blood the greater will be the milk
production; bécause milk after all is
-really a product of the blood. —Ameri-
‘can Cultivator.” =’ ’ o ie
'“* "The ‘Southdown Sheep.” "* -*-
The Southdown sheep still stands’ at
the head .of all the mutton breeds for
quality of fiesh, but some breeders fa-
vor Shropshire, because it is larger
than the Southdown and shears more
wool. The matter of wcol should not
be considered at all in the mutton
breeds. While the Shropshire is a
breed that is not easily, excelled, .yet
the Southdown can subsist where the
Shropshire would not thrive, and they
can also be kept in larger flocks than
For improving the mutton qualities of
common . flocks the Southdown ‘is
claimed .to be, superior to all others.
= Improving the Meadow. is
There are .many...meadows, yearly.
turned into. pastures whicn might be
saved for hay yields several years
Jonger with a,little.care at-the right
time: .One, of the best ways of doing
meadow. early in August after manur-
ing it. well, and here. is a way of util-
izing manure one is storing under. the
shed, and which-is going. to waste, and
sow rye in early.September at the rate
of two bushels an acre. , Sot sin onieh
In April-or as. early. as possible, plow
under the .rye, .smqoth. and sow. with
excellent .in most sections, and will
not contain enough clover tQ injure it
for sale as prime mixed hay.—Indian-
apolis.News.. bei pret ap
. The Colt the Coming Horse.
It should be remembered that if the
colt is neglected in food or manage-
ment there wiil be no good coming
horse. Sometimes the mare is not a
good nurse, and which case the milk
may be supplemented with warm
fresh cows’ milk, diluted one-third
with water. And ra small amount of
bran or oil, meal may be added occa-
sionally to keep the digestive organs
in a healthier condition, supply more
bone, and muscle-forming food, and
give a sleeker finish to.the colt. Oats
should be added to the ration as soon
as the fcal is old enough to eat them.
By teaching the foal to eat grain ear-
ly it can be weaned much more easily.
Plenty of good clean water should be
at hand at all times. A little attention
in these things will make a horse
twice as valuable .when .put on the
market. or in the field. —Indiana Farm-
er.
Exhibiting :Grons.
Any farmer who will religiously fol-
low his county fairs from year to year
will observe the opportunities there to
make a reputation if he can grow- one
particular crop better than another.
As everyone knows, one soil worker
raises prize swine, another understands
eorn better than other crops, and So
on.’ i J
Let each one take a specimen of
that which he can grow best to the
county fair and exhibit. Possibly he
may not win a prize, but he will have
a chance to see what others are dc-
ing and thus ascertain his own short-
comings. Again, his exhibit may at-
tract the attenticn of some one who
wants just the produet he produces and
a profitable business is worked up.
The educational advantages of the
county fair ought nct to be overlooked
and t ehfamily should be taken to ev-
ery ong that can be reached at a mod-
erate cost. Get out into the world and
see what other farmers are doing; one
will find them willing to talk and one
may ‘get enough gecd ideas at a single
fair to pay for the expense of attend-
ance 20 times over. Bear this item
in mind as the fairs begin next month
and in September.
Give the Boys Poultry.
As usual there is loud complaint
from farmers that the children brought
up on the farm are getting uneasy and
want to try their wings elsewhere.
This is not to’ be wondered at when
these young people hear and read of
what is going on in the world. The
monotony of country life seems un-
bearable to them, especially when
from the farm they obtain only plenty
of bard work, the food they eat and
the clothes they wear. True, one may
say that is about all any one gets out
of life, but if we can plan some way
by which the younger people can make
a start for themselves they will be
much more contented.
Poultry offers a way of trying out
the feeling of the young folks at small
expense. Give them a chance to raise
poultry and have the proceeds for their
own use and in a year or two they will
hawe become reconciled to couuntry life
y
.any of the breeds except the Merinos.
this at small expense is to plow the}
F this disaster would be avoided.
grass seed, using a mixture best suited. i
to, your section or using a mixture of.
timothy, red top and clover, which is |.
is an expert potato grcwer, another.
and be willing to make it their future
or they will have shown théir utter
lack of adaptation: for it, in which: case
the best thing for them .and for the
parent is to let them leave the farm
and take up the work for which they
are better fitted, but don’t lose your
first giving them a chance to do for
themselves on the farm and show what
is in them.
The Seeds Readily Take Root.
On nearly every farm there ‘are Sev-
worth reclaiming, yet much of this 8oil
pense. One hardly. realizes how 'read-
‘grasp on the young people without:
“is sufficiently strong to make a fair’
"growth of trees with little or no ex-
ily thé native trees grow until ‘some-
thing calls his attention ‘to’ it. The
writer has had ‘much ‘to‘do with grow-
ing trees in the nursery, vet until this
summer did not realize how readily the
seed of the well known sugar maple
sprouts. A number of pods were blown
from a nearby maple and ‘broken apart
by a small boy of an investigating turn
of mind. After satisfying his curiosi-
ty, the pods were thrown lightly ‘aside.
Some of the seed came in contact
with the soil and last week four minia-
ture maple trees some five inches high’
were found growing nicely.
In sections ‘of the country are locat-
“ed nurserymen who" make a business
"of supplying small séedlings of native
trees and at a price’ so low it“is a
shame that there is not a grove of
trees ‘on every farm in this country.
The time is not far distant when there
will be a ‘gredt cry over the forestless
sections of the country and we will
“probably import the lumber nécessary
to build houses and make furniture
when by a little planting éach year
Do
your share, readér, in increasing the
wood supply of the country; even the
farm wood lot will help in the grand
aggregate.
Wheat for Fattening Pigs.
There are a number of states, nota-
bly in the west, where corn cannot be
grown, but where wheat thrives. Con-
' sidering the comparatively low price
that prevails and has prevailed for a
number of years for wheat, can this
grain be successfully fed hogs? A
number of farmers have asked this
question, and recently an experiment
was performed at the Oregon experi-
ment station for the purpose of ascer-
taining the value of wheat as a pig
feed. Oregon is a state where corn
cannot be grown except in favored
sections, and I have seen corn thrown
to hogs there and the swine would run
from it. It was indeed like ‘‘casting
pearls before swine.” But wheat.
Well, the results of the experiment
was such as to settle fully the ques-
tion of whether wheat could produce
pork equal in quality to corn-fed pork.
The fat of wheat-fed’ hogs is very
heavy and thick, and firm in texture.
The lean meat is very juicy, and light
in color. As to the rates of grain pro-
duced, the results will compare very
favorably with any experiment ever
performed by corn feeding. Some
farmers mix oats, with wheat, chop-
ping the two, and feeding it to the
pigs in this way. It has been found
that it is not advisable to do this. Pigs
do not like the coarse hulls which are
present in such abundance in chopped
oats. Chopped wheat alone proves to
be a splendid feed for hogs. On an av-
erage, and when ‘fed judiciously there
are 13 pounds of gain for each bushel
of wheat fed. From this it can easily
be seen that the western farmer who
is obliged to sell his wheat for 38 or
even 55 cents a bushel, could much
better feed it to his hogs. Pigs should
be fed slops from the kitchen for a
while previous to the beginning of
the wheat ration. They should not
be allowed to run at large, but should
be confined to a pen connected with a
small lot, to which the pigs can have
daily ‘access. Each ration should be
weighed out and allowed to soak tiil
the next time for feeding. A handful
of salt should be added each feed, and
a double handful of charcoal fed twice
each week. The breed of pigs used in
the particular experiment referred to
above, were Poland Chinas and Berk-
shires, the Berkshires predominating.
The hogs were slaughtered when they
reached the age of 11 months. Dennis
H. Stcvall, the Epitomist.
The Wise Cat.
“Labor saving inventions never do
any real harm to laboring men and
women,” d Professor S. P. Langley,
the. scientist and aeronaut, “They
who bemoan the apnearance of labor
saving devices are unwise.”
Professor L.angley smiled.
“Such unphilosophical persons,” he
resumed, “should learn a lesson from
the stable cat. Have you heard of the
stable cat? It sat on the horse’s back.
‘“ ‘Dear, dear,’ the horse wailed. ‘Now
that automobiles are coming into such
favor, I fear I shan’t be wanted.’
‘“ ‘Nonsense, said the stable cat.
‘Don’t carry on s0, brother. The
mouse trap didn’t do away with me,
did it?’ ”’—New York Tribune.
Se.
Quinine in India.
The inhabitants of malarious regions
in India can now purchase quinine at
practically cost price. It is put up in
small packages by the government and
sold at the rate of one cent for ten
grains.
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GLOVES FROM RAT SKINS.
Only One PafFr"Was Ever Made and
It Was Very Small.
A report comes from Copenhagen
that a great rat .hunt has been or-
ganizeéd''there and that the skins of
many thousands of the victims are to
be used in making gloves. If the rat
hunters in the Danish capital cherish
any such hopes they .are doomed to
disappointment.
Rat skins cannot be made into
gloves fit for commerce. The belief
that a valuable raw material is being
neglected here survives only in the
minds of the inexpert. The glove mak-
er Knows much better. A Norwegian
merchant once came to England and
informed a well-known glove maker
that he had collected over 100,000 rat
skias and was prepared ito receive
offers : for them. He was fully con-
were suitable
for glove making. But the manufac-
turer found that the largest skin was
only some six inches long, and he held
up a kid-skin for:the smallest size of
glwre, a child’s, which was eight inch-
es long, and asked how he was to cut
such a glove out of a rat skin.
Then he, took up the smallest kid
skin for a lady's A eleven inches
long, and when he asked how that was
to be ‘cut:out of a rat skin the Nor-
wegian merchant laughed at the idea
and went away disappointed. The
best ‘offer he got for those skins,
which he had collected with so much
care, was five shillingocs a hundred-
weight from a man who was willing
to boil them down for glue.
‘A famous glove making firm has a
: collection iof curiosities relating to
he trade, and one of them is the larg:
est pair of gloves ever made out of
a rat skin. .The belief that such skins
could be made into gloves was laid
before the managers so confidently
that they resolved to put it to the
trial, and they ordered a number of
the skins of the largest rats which
could be found in Grimsby. But the
rat is :a_fighting animal, and bears
the marks of many battles on his body
and it was found that the skins were
so scarred and torn ‘that it was with
the utmost difficulty that perfect
pieces large enough for the purpose
could be obtained. In the end, after
ten skins had been used, -a pair of
gloves was cut and made, and they
are retained in the collection to this
day.” But they are so small that they
would not fit the smallest of small
boys. Thus it was shown that, how-
ever cheaply rat skins might be ob-
tained, they would offer no advantages
to the glove maker. The rabbit skin
is eaually useless for this purpose,
and humane people may also dismiss
from their minds the fear that the
skins of pet dogs are made into gloves.
The dog skin glove of which we used
to hear is made of nothing but the
skin of the Cape goat.—Pall Mall
Gazette.
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A New Genius.
“A mere girl has just won the much
coveted Sully Prudhomme prize for
the best poem of the year in the con-
test organized by the Societe des Gens
de Lettres—to fulfill the conditions of
thie Sully Prudhomme donation; the
poet himself having won the Nobel
prize, thus desired to consecrate a
part of it to encouraging poetic pro-
duction.
“The winner of the prize is a tele-
phone girl and lives in a sixth floor
garrét in a tiny room, with an apolo-
gy for a window, and eats when and
where she can. Thus she is a com-
plete refutation of the assertion that
there are no more poets to be found in
the garrets.
“Her name is well known in France,
for itis. that ‘of :-several prominent
statesmen—it is Marthe - Dupuy, and
she is the daughter of a sculptor. She
could’ not read at ten yars of age, and
later was left a penniless orphan.
“Like all true poets, her poems are
in the minor key, a pronounced vein
of sadness running through them. The
collection sent in to the eompetitjon is
entitled ‘Idylle en Fleurs,’ and is
plaintive in character, in the style of
Theocritus and Virgil. When she re:
ceived the telegram announcing that
she had received the prize she could
hardly believe her eyes, for the snug
little sum of money accompanying it
is quite a fortune for her.”
Cupid Breaks Up Art School.
Prof. Hubert Herkimer, the noted
painter, has closed his well-known art
school at Bushey, near London, be-
cause of the irrepressible love making
of the students. The school was es-
tablished by the professor 21 years
ago, and has been conducted without
any gain to himself, but merely out of
love for art.
The students work together. Of
late, especially, they have contrected
the habit of falling in love with each
other. Eighteen couples out of 35 are
now engaged.
TL.ove making, the professor says, is
far more seriously pursued than the
study of art. So he has withdrawn
his patronage from the school, which
accordingly comes to an end.
The students indignantly contend
that they are at liberty to court when
the day's work is over, and that
nothing contributes more .to develop-
ing artistic capabilities than love.—
New York News.
A Winner.
“May not be new, but I just heard
it,” said the man at the head of the
table.
“Give it to us.’
“Man from California said
raised cabbages out the
tub. Man
they didn’t brag
had been in Ka
n three policems
t.”—Detroit Frc
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that
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SCIENCE NOTES.
A convenient pyremeter is said to
‘be a series of alloys of silver, lead
‘and copper.
A composition of nine
parts of lead and one of silver melts
at 400 dergees C; three of lead and
one of silver at 500 degrees; six of
lead and four of silver at 600 degrees,
and eight of silver and two of copper
at 850 degmees.
A remarkable paca-like rodent de-
scribed by ‘Prof. C. Peters, in 1870,
under the name of Dinomys. branicki,
has been known by a single specimen
found near a house in Lima, and this
lone animal has represented not only
a species, butta genus; and even a
family by itself. Other .specimens are
now reported to be living in a Para
wT la. : 3
During an early morning thunder-
storm in April a fire-ball descended at
Earl's Fee, in Essex, England, with a
blinding flash and a terrific explosion.
After dawn’ “three distinct sets of
holes, ranging from mine inches down
to one inch, were found in the stiff,
yellow clay of an oat field, these holes
being perfectly circular, as clean cut
as though bored with an augur, and
tapering downward to the rounded ‘bot-
tomg®>
The influence of the depth of the
sea ‘on’ the speed of ships: has been
tested by the German navy ‘in the
Baltic, torpedo boats being used for
og experiments, and the results are
curious and interesting. At 12 knots
no influénce was shown. At 15 to 21
knots shallow water acted as a serious
check, but while in four fathoms of
water the horse-power needed to main-
tain 20 knots was double that required
for the same speed in 10 fathoms or
more, .the worst results at 22 to 26
knots were obtained in 10 to 12
fathoms,» and the shoals of four
fathoms gave the least resistance.
A rémarkable property of aluminum
and tin alloys has been described by
Hector Pechaux to the Paris academy.
When freshly filed surfaces of four
different mixtures of these two metals
were plunged into cold distilled water,
bubbles of oxygen and hydrogen were
given off for two or three minutes, but
neither of the metals nor an unfiled
surface of the alloys gave any such
effect. It is supposed that tempering
in casting separated the two metals
into ‘juxtaposed molecules, Which"
formed a thermo-electric couple and
generated an electric current until
cooled to the temperature of tha
water.
RAPID BRIDGE BUILDING.
A Business in Which the Engineer
Must Make the Earth Fit
His Purpose.
Wherever the demand is made, the
engineer must make the face of the
earth fit his purpose. In the wilds of
the Andes he must throw his struc-
ture of steel across a torrential ravine
from a precipice on one side to the
mouth of a tunnel on the other. At
distances of thousands of miles from
the place of manufacture the parts of
the bridge must fit like watchworks
when put together in the finished
structure.
Five years ago the Pencoyd Bridge
company of Philadelphia manufactur-
ed for the English government the
famous Atbara bridge in sevefi Spang
of one hundred. and fifty each, weigh-
ing one and one-half million pounds,
in 29 working days. The metal was
shipped to Egypt, and carried more -
than 1000 miles up the Nile valley.
into the Soudan. After arriving at
its destination it was ‘put together
on its piers, ready for raflway traffic
within 60 days, "without using any
timber staging and with absolute ac-
curacy of fit [in all its parts, This
bridge was imperative for the sutcess
of the plans of Lord Kitchener in the
campaign that made his fame and for-
tune. : -
In 1900 the Pennsylvania Steel com-
pany built the Gokteik deuble-track
railroad viaduct to ‘cross a ravine in
Burma. This viaduct ‘is nearly half a
mile long and nearly 325 feet high in
its highest portion, and the weight of
manufactured metal was about three
and one half million pounds. This
structure was shipped from the place
of manufacture just about half way
around the globe, and then transport-
ed several hundred miles inland, and
rapidly erected, with every bolt and
rivet fitted accurately in its place.—
Woman's Home Companion.
An Unrhistoric Landmark.
When Mr. Justin H. Smith visited
the-towns along the Kennebee river
in endeavoring to trace exactly Arn-
old’s march from Cambridge to. Que-
bec, he inquired everywhere for tradi-
tions and especially for relics. In his
book he gives this incident as a re-
sult of one such inquiry:
Near the point where the army laft
the Kennebec are four or five acres
of cleared ground and two small farm-
houses. Mr. Smith inquired of the
venerable proprietor. of one of these
places if there were any evidences in
the vicinity of Arnold’s march through
the country. .
“Oh, replied the old man,
“there used to be a big rock in my
mowing field, with ‘B. D. A’ on it; but
the old thing was in the way, and I
blasted it out.”
“What did those letters mean, ‘B.
ves,”
D. A’? asked Mr. Smith.
“Why, Bennie Dick Arnold; of
course.”—Youth's
Companion.
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