THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1000. TRAINING THE VIOLET. Experts Make It Climb or Grow Tree Fashion. Tho vlolot Is ono of those sweot garden llowora which Is everywhere found, dispelling Its frngrance in all directions, but when under cultivation it often resents the extra care given It. There are, however, many im proved and highly bred typos, which are more amcnnble to the dictates of tho llowcr gardener. Soino special methods of growing it that mny be unknown to the majority of readers, are nevertheless Interest ing. Tho violet is a universal favor ite, nnd It Is trained In various ways. It produces naturally every year a certain number of runners, like those by which tho strawberry Is propa gated, and when a plant is established In a pot these runners may be attach- Showing Trained Violets, ed to a trellis, and the turfs In which each runner terminates will bloom, and when over other runners will come out, which should also be at tached, arranging each ono so that space Is left lor further growths. As they increase the older oues will gradually become nearly woody in texture, and during winter, accoidlng to treatment, will produco a profusion of bloom. One is iiilonned t'int the plants un der good tieatim nt will last for sev eral years. Then there is a method of growing them as standards by rooting the stem end of tho runner and tying it up to a stick in a pot. Lot the top growth go until tho desired length of stem is reached, keeping all lower growths cut away. Then let it fall over a wood trellis, and train tho runners on it. 'rlieso forms prove sources of interest and pleasure, and it Is hoped tho sketches indicate clearly how the plants are to bo trained. The Garden. People can live without gardens. Vegetables are not necessary to the support of life, but they come in handy once a day in a well regulated family. Dread and water will keep one going, but It is a pretty weak mo tive power for the human body, even when meat and coffee are added. Vari ety is tho spice of life, and it is cer tain that variety in' food promotes healthful, vigorous life. Only a few leading vegetables are required by the ordinary family and they are eas ily raised. Deans, beets, lettuco cab- , bage. tomatoes, o'tra and turnips aro I all easily raised, and the garden that j is abundantly applied with these will 1 add much to tho table. Then the gar- 1 doner can tie.1, as many others as ho ' has time nnd ppneo for. Tho man is a shabby sort of fellow who does not I prolde for a good vegetable garden. Plant bemir every two or three weeks, so as to hae a succession of crops. If beets r-.ro too thick, transplant them. They boar that well. Money In Farm Animals. Live stock of all kinds Is now on a high basi; uid no doubt will continue so for borne time 10 coma. There Is money In giow mi; farm animals, both for tho anin.als themselves and for the good troy do in producing fertil izer at h'ue. Keep all young stock growing cm pasture, and do not bo afraid o l "d a. littlo grain to supple ment tin v rii i s ration. A Good Rotation. I A good rotation for mixed farming is wheat, c lover, meadow ono year, cow pasture for ono year, corn tind oats one yuar. This makos a six-year rotation. Where thero are permanent pa- t ires on Uio farm ono year can , ho ut cuit by not pasturing tho clov er tho second year, I Do you know tho sizo of your vari ous fields, or do you merely guess at it? You ought to know exactly, not 1 nnlv Hint vnu mnv ncr.nrntolv null, i tnato fertilizer needed for tho land, out, uiai you uiuy jiuuw wiu crop 4. L For o Theme: DO WE PRAY? t- By Rev. George Wainwright. Text: Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my Buppllcatlon. Psalm lv., 1. Recent months havo in some re spects disappointed the hopes of the people of God. and tho revival, so greatly needed, nnd so earnestly de sired and sought by many, has not yet begun. In other parts of the world the lire Is breaking out; and workers Bend homo news that gladdens while It humbles us, telling of tho working of tho living, present, though unseen, Spirit; convicting and quickening Christians, and leading tho unsaved to Christ. Dut for the most part, this houutry remains untouched. Nat urally tho problem still engages the attention of our leaders, and many are asking why so littlo has been urliloveil. And we confess to a feel in;; of disappointment when wo ilnd so.no eiicouiabii. taeiasolves to hope for improvement iMvauso (lie churches tire shoeing a disposition to abandon past methods of work or to modify such mcihodj so as to suit present requirements. I'or v. hat are melh ocV.' They (io not oteate life, but rather aie Hie loiins in which life ex presses Itself, (irauteu that old meth ods are lotained when tho life that called them Into bolus at the first has gone from them, yel now forms do not necessarily mum new life. "i'ls life whereoi our nerves aro scant, Jlore life and fuller that wo want. Is theie it known condition on which this fuller life dopuiulo? There is, and we till Know k; jet it is to bo feared that we are not booking to ful fill the condition. For that reason wo suggest the question: Uo we pray? We know that v. e sl.Mttlii pray. The presence and poior of the Spirit, the "u-retiter works" t.mn .le.sus did, the miracles in tho spun realm as great as tlni.se wrought by our Lord upon the bodies of iw- all these are prom ised; all depend on one condition the prayer of faith in the name of Jesus. Tho conviction is literally hold that if tho Church gave herself to the word of prayer, beaihif, on her heart tho needs of the world, exercising prayer as a iigatiiig fence against the forces of evil, failtaes .oulu soon be turned to victories. "Yo havo noi" not because your organisations aro not sufficiently nutiic.oiu, or jour methods not wis-e, but because ye tusk not." "Ask and ye shall receive" is specially true v. lion our n.-'Uiii is for tho power of the Spirit. "1 will pour water on him that Is thirsty, and Hoods upon the dry grounds." The great promise in 1'zok. :L : :17. GS is Cod's contribution to the great question of the day. An increase of the best sort Is possible on only one condition: "I will yet be inquiiod of by the house of Israel lo do it for them." Is there, then, a nioro pert!, nent question than this: To wo pi ay? Wo shall be reminded that other conditions are needed. True, but it is a question whether all are not includ ed in true prayer. Theie aro strifes and divisions and contentions anions the people of God, and these render prevailing prayer impossible. This Is sadly true; and wo are persuaded that the continuum e of such condi tions as render .jtrifo necessary is a triumph of tao great enemy of souls. Dut is it not true prayer tho condi tion on which alouc- we may know how to conduct our warfare in the right spirit? Personal ".'ellug Is exposed and condemned when wo draw near to God in prayer. "If thou bring thy gift to the altar and thero romeui berost that thy brother hath aught against thee" why "there romem berost?" Decauso coming to the altar is coming near to Cod, and God is Light, and Light sctrches and the sin of wrong rclaticm.-.liip towards others appears there as it Is not eeon anywhere else. The attempt to pray and prevail will discover tho true hindrances to prayer. Tho purpose of this message will not fall If those who lead It will put the question to the in selves. Lot each one answer for himself, and recognize how great or how small a part prayer has in his life. I Jr. Torrey created some stir, awhile ago. by assorting that Christians generally do not spend more than five or ten infinite' a day in prayer. Many condemned him Un making such a statement; but was ho far from the truth? Andrew Murray, in Ills book on "Tho Ministry of Intercession," tolls of attending many uiinentlons on the subject of pn. yev, in every ono of which the coi;fe.:io:i was made by ministers, nilssloi.n.'ii's, and Chrlatlnn workers In every station: "Wo pray too little." Ho also quotes from an address giv en to ministers by Dr. Alex. Whyto, of Edinburgh, in which ho said that "as a young man ho had thought that ho ought to spend as much as possi ble with his hooks. Dut ho had now learned that prayer was of more Importance than study. Uo folt ns if It was almost too lato to regain what he has lost, and urged his breth fan tn nrav morn " THE POWER OF WATER. A Stream from a Fireman's Hose Will Knock a Man Dawn. When a man gooa in r "l:x:'z.z r.t tho seashore and slaps t..o v uer for cibly with his hand, or i'..cs a bails dive from a pier tuid la ds s.; i.tro'y on his back, he realizes ih.it u.c i.i stable liquid offers not a little resist' ance. Yet, saj3 a writer in the Now York Tribune, it would surprise almost anybody to see what water will do un der certain conditions. A stream from a fireman's hose will knock a mnn down. The jet trom a nozzle used In placer-mining in tho West eats away a large piece of land in a day, toys with great boulders as if they were pebbles, and would shoot a man over the country ns though he were a projectile from a cannon. There is a story of an Eastern blacksmith who wont West and made a bet that ho could knock a holo through the jet of ono of these noz zles with a sledge-hammer. He lifted his arms, swung the sledge, and came down on tho ten-inch stream with a force that would have dented an anvil. Dut the jet, never penetrated, whisked tho massive hammer out of tho black smith's hands, nnd tossed it several hundred foot away into the debris of gold-bearing gravel beneath a crum bling cliff. After this the blacksmith left out Iron when he spoke of hard Bubstanccs. There Is also a power plant near Durango, Colorado, where a United States cavalryman one day thought ho had an easy job in cutting a two-inch stream with his sword. He niado a valiant attack. The result was Hint his sword was shivered in two and his wrist broken. A little thinner Jet of water descend ing sixteen hundred foot to a manu factory at (irenobk . Spain, and travel ing at Uio moderate speed of ono hun dred yards a second, fractures tho bctt blades of Toledo. Of course sn:i o peoplo will not be lieve such stories without having seen the thing, and one may think it a proof of tho scientific imagination to cay that an incii-thlck sheet of w.Mev, provided it li.u'. sufficient volodt;-, would ward off bombshells as well a-3 ste'd plate. Nove'h.'lc5.-;, many perrons, wh'lo tra cling, have seen a hrakeman put a small hydraulic jack under one end of a Pullman car and lift twenty tom or so by a few leisure ly strokes of tin pump hai'dle, ami the experience of riding every ! in a hydraulic eleva tor tends to remove doubts of tin magic power ro'-i.c. t.ccl by water uitcl. cd to a machine. Children's Gsylnss. Wordsworth's lines of tho child at play, "as if his whole vocation warn endless imitation," wore recently re called by a conversation overheard in the children's waid at the John Hop kins Hospital. A little girl of mine, whoso role was that of nurse, rang an imaginary tele phone on tho wall to talk to her com panion at the farther end of the room, who played the part of doctor. "Hollo!" said the nurse. "Is this tho doctor?" "Yes," answered a deep voice; "this is the doctor." "This lady is very sick," he was in formed. "Well, what seems to bo tho trou ble?" a bit gruffly. "She litis swallowed a whole bottle of ink!" said tho nurse. Tho doctor, not Hurried, inquired what had been done for the patient; but the nurse, too, was ready in emer gencies. She answered, "I gave her two largo pads of blot ting paper!" Deri, aged 5, was inolined last au tumn to dispute the fact, as taught him by his father, that God gave him all he had. After an incredulous "Even those peanuts from the store?" he yielded to an older mind, and, screw ing his eyes tight shut, continued his evening prayer. After asking a blessing for each member of the family, he said, "Thank God for the peanuts and my express wagon," adding after a slight pause, "but, o'i. Lord, you certainly did send baby some wormy chestnuts," Cost of Railroad Ties. The railroads of this country aro each year calling for more crossties, nnd they are rapidly shrinking in number and lin'reaslng In cost. Tho total number of ties purchased in 1007 was 1.".:!,0!in,t;20, an increase of G0,S0r,i"7S over HrOH. Tho total cost of the ciossties purchased in 1007 was t57S,ti5S, S0.1, an average of 51 cents a tie. The iiic:vt"-e in total cost was, therefore, SfSf.l 3f."7 1. or C1.7 per cent. For 1007 the hivimst averngo cost, 59 cen's, was reporicd tor redwood tio3. Many experiments have been mtido With metal tics, with a low of finding n substitute for wood, but nothing satisfactory has yet boon produced. Several of the leading roads have largo tracts of trees growing, and man in a dozen years of more may be able to supply the'r own wants. Growing trees on railroad lands seems to bo tho most practical way to provldo for tho future. Conservation. Tho resources or tho earth are the basis of our national wealth. Dy means of them alone, in material things, eomi leadership among tho nations. Tae coiu,uration movement now fully under way embraces tho for est movement as ono of its sources nnd great divisions. Thus the cause of forest conservation throughout tho country has won a powerful ally and a more effectlvo support for tho work thnt lies Just beforo us. Gifford Pin chot In Now F.ncland Mntrnztnn. DAIRY- ft "CREAMERY THE DAIRY PASTURE. How It May Be Fertilized to Get the Best Results. Fertilizer Is expensive to the dairy man. Dy tho old method of distribut ing It there was usually enough wast ed to represent a pretty penny. Then came along a Virginia man and In vented the hand fertilizer dropper. This device consists of an odd-shaped bucket, running to a point at the bot tom and having a small opening there, I Eliminate the Waste, ti. rough which the contents filters. A h hired valve, operated by a rod that lei'ds to the hnntllo of the bucket, ton t.'ols the How. The top of the rod Is connected to a cross-bar, which runs under the handle of the bucket. Tills liar is in close reach, and. when rest ing on the top of the bucket, tho nlvo is open. To closy the valve the operator merely extends a linger and lifts tho liui-, thus shutting off thu flow of the fertilizer. The valve Ihues tit tho bottom, spreading the fertilizer in a broad, fine stream. For MiiaU farms, gardens and lawns this device is of giv.t convenience, nnd Is a money-saver. Profit In Butter. There is a goed piolit In making butter at home. If you can make a high grade product and havo a good market for it. The creamery pays you only for tin exact 1 omul of batter fat, with two or three pounds of milk thrown in for nothing. Churning the cream at home. joti save the cost of churning which the creamery charges for; you gain about 1G per cent, in weight of the butter; and you gain tho buttermilk. These com bined gains amount to about 25 per cent., or one pound in every four. In other words, you make about -."1 cents on every dollar's worth of butter; and you gain the buttermilk. Thosq combined gains amount to about 25 per cent., or one pound in every lour. In other words, you make about 25 cents on every dollar's worth of but ter, if you make as good butter as the creamery product. Dy the use of the hand separator it is possible to make the highest grade of butter at home, j lovhled the cream Is properly handled and churned. Dy the use of the separator you aro not only able to make a higher grade of butter and sell It for a higher price, but you will be able to extract more cream from the milk and bonce make more butter. Also, the warm sweet skim milk will havo a higher food value either for human use or for ani mal feeding. If you keep more than three or four cows, by all means buy a separator. It will soon pay for it self. Valuable By-Product. Manure Is ono of the by-products of the dairy which should bo figured In, in estimating the profits. As farm ing land becomes more scarce and high-priced, armors In general are coming to realize the importance of making their land as fertile and pro ductive as possible. The large, final profit of the dairy to the man who owns his own land Is the manure by which ho is not only able to grow larger crops, hut to increase the fer tility and actual money value of hla farm. Transmitting Milk Ouai 'les. The influence of the male 1 trans mitting milk qualities to his olfspring Is a point in which dairymen glvo too littlo heed. Who is there but has not been disappointed in his hoifets from his best cows by tho use of some un worthy bull, or, If he has been so for tunate as to secure a hull of some ex tra milking strain, baa not found his heifers from cows good or bad excell ing their dams in yield and quality of milk? Look well to tho bull, for in hit. choice lies success or failure. Coloring Cutter. Thero is no moral wrong In color ing winter butter judiciously. Almost anyono would prefer to eat butter that pleases tho eye as woll as the palate. A strain of Jersey or Guern sey blood in your cows will help you out on the coloring. Provide Green Food. Do ready for tho dry i-pcll when it comes in summer and havo green food for your cows bj planting a spe cial patch for theia now. Guessing Unsatisfactory. The only way to accurately judge a cow Is by weighing and testing her milk. Guess methods will prove most unsatisfactorily. JUOU SATURDAY NIGHT TALKS Q By REV. F. E. DAVISON 8 Rutland, Vt. ScoccoaxccocccooccocccccS A FAREWELL SERMON. International Bible Lesson for Sept. s, '09 ( Acts 20: 2-38). Our lesson to day It, about a farewell sermon that Paul preach ed to the church at Ephesus. On his way to Jeru salem ho ap pointed a moot ing with the of ficial board of tho church ho had served so long, at the sea port of Miletus. Tender-Hearted Preacher. Paul declares, and is nut ashamed of it either, that he had been a tender hearted pastor, that ae had warned them even "with tears." Heroic fear lessness and tearful tenderness tiro twin attributes in all truly great souls. Tiiis great apostle had gone forth "weeping, bearing precious seed and thus had often returned rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him." lie wtis not ono of your "soft" men, ills miMltig with fielr constant How of lachrymal Haiti. G... tear on I'niil'.t cheek an ant more than streams iiom other eyes. He nut only had ti mas sive head, but a retit tender heart, and that teiuu rues nave him a mighty Influence a:i.o:r-i men. Fearless Preacher. Dut Paul was 110 thue-.-'ervor. "Ho kept back nothing that was profita hie." lie did net prophecy "smooth things." if i.e h .1! l.eeii a coward, a ii.uii-plon.4c r. a ttme-i-erver. If he had been afraid ot provoking men he would hne kept back disagreeable truth. The test of truth is not what is palatable, popular, pleasing, but what is pi editable and permanent. It in r.o di.sparaseiuent to a preacher to be cordially haled, soundly berated, la.mevl and persecuted. Such tveil ii.ciit 1.1a be tue finest compliment to 1 eal worth thai heyveit c;m bestow. No man should murmur when that comes In the way of duly. The reason why some preachers get. along so smoothly is because of the lacllity with which they straddle t'-o fence, appear to take both sides ot (lie same subject, blow hot and i old at tho same time, and die at last h the questionable epitaph, "He r.e0i- had an enemy!" Such a tomb stone could be erected in a field of cabbage heads, but doesn't look well ovr the grave of a soldier. That eou'id never have been said of Paul, tl.e model preacher, no more than it ceiild have been said of his Master. All truly groat preachers have been g.'iut lighters, and the devil enjoys laiiiiing nicne than to get his spear bo tni en tho joints of such a man's har !.e.,s. Heroic Preacher. l'uul said in tills tarewell sermon, "I .o bound in the spirit to Jerusa lem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there." lie was not cow ardly Hoeing from trouble, ho was go ing heroically, where ho was sure he would get worse, and more of it. He did not know what form it would take, but lie felt sure that It was Inevitable. Many a man in his circumstances would either have "had a call" in some other direction, or would havo gone on his miserable way full of la mentations and gioans, but this great hero was as calm as if lie was going to his coronation. And ho was. Paul was ono of the most abused men that ever lived, and his troubles generally came upon him unexpected ly, like lightning out of a clear sky, but he was heioic. It was woll tor him, as it is for us. that it was 20. Had ho known in advance how many times he was to bo beaten, and stoned and shipwrecked and imprisoned, and how much he was- to suffer from hun ger and thirst, and cold and weari ness, and painfulnoss and watcliings it would have added greatly to his burdens, it Is hard enu'ua to bear those thiii 1 s which come as tlioy come, without anticipating them. None of us know tne reverses that shall befall us in this life, tho In justice, tho oppression, tho bloody cross of sacrifice. Dut the true child of God sing3, albeit with quivering lip and streaming eyo: "So I go on not knowing; I would not If I might; I'd rather walk In tho dark with God, Than go alone In the light, I'd rather walk with Him by faith Than go alone by sight." "N'cno of these things inovo 1110," he saya. Marl; you, he does not say none of these things hurt him. Paul was not a stoic, ho wan not thick skinned nnd Indifferent. As gentle as a woman, as finely strung ns a harp. Mights and insults struck tho nerve of his keenest tot lings. Ho felt it to iho very core or his being. Dut U did not sweno him from the line of duty. Tho hero is no iho man who has no fear, ho is the can who goes 011 en hesitatingly in t' c path of duty though facing the batteries of his oneirics, and shot In tho back by his supposed friends. With Paul It was duty Hist, and lifo second. 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