Better Fruits-Better Profits J* Mber*!!* ' applied to the soil. To S?"7L?!i cr^?ct!?^ nuaikr. y ,T7,icon V^i'K 114 ltm Potash oar rnrtlol books of ?h?V ?rr *4 .S^SLr!^ ? tyori? ttoo | VvV?*-~M naaaa ?L.?r #?< - fct4? ?. Most people have beard of Uif polyp, that wonderful marine animal which, eut Into a thousand pieces, grows late a thousand new animals. The same thing is true of the polyp tree, a . species of cereiis, which Is abundaui in Paraguay. The minutest piece of this tree, cut from whatever part, crows into a new plant. It is not nec essary to plant it; all you have to do Is to throw It cr. the ground, when it will strike root of Its own accord. These plants, with t!;e!- relatives, the cacti, have the remarkable habit of deriving their sustcnam-c entirely from thy rain and the atmosphere, for they will grow and thrive in cleft < in the naked rock where thcro If not a pirt! clo of earth matter. Their : aecu'.ent fcU-ms are full of a viscona matter which makes an er.eellent Blue. Hid dins; a garden of the weird tree would probably be a dif.!ct:tt business. God's Greatest Gift. CihI pity (hone who know not "touch of hands? Who dwell from all t follows ajart. Who. isolated In unpeopled limits. K :.ow not n Cr>i:d'N communion. lieurt to lioatt* 1'nt pity there? ah. pity Jhw the inore Who of the populous town a deseii make. I 'rut hi a rolltude npcin wliovf shoro The tides of sweet coin passion nevei l-.reak! These are the dread Sahara* we ln>f summer eve. When hiH heart beata restlessly. (Creeping never at peace. Hi craves a kiaa from the drooping pines That list tc his inlnntreJsy. Then the moon (idea out on the blu* above, Hrcasting the cloud-billow* free. Watching the coquetry of the pines Wllh the ever-urgent ssu; Shedding :? beulsou ol' light. As s?h? iuiiwh the while, merrily (llmifiiiK down with silvery smile On li e Initial night of the stately pines And the all-conquering sea. Ah! spicy pines and wide, deep sen. The joy of your love distils for me The fragrance of shores unknown. And the pine-clad height* of poesy. ? Hn?lnn Tnn?rri|?t Mrs. Anderson, a prominent society woman of Jacksonville, Fla., daughter of Recorder of Deeds, West, who witnessed her signature to the following letter, praises Lydia E? Pinkham's Vegetable Compound* tt Dkak Mns. Pinkham : ? There are but few wives and mothers who Lave not at timet) endured agonies and such pain as only women know* I wish such women knew the value of I.?yydla 12. Plnkham** VwetabM < Compound will correct all such trouble at , ?nee by removing the cause and restoring #h?- organs to a healthy and normal condition. If In doubt* write Mm. Pinkham at Lynn, ; Mail, as thousands do. Her advice la freo and helpful. No other medicine for women in the world has received such wide ?pread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a Moord of cures of female troubles. Refuse to buy any substitute. S50TO A PRINCE BEAUTIFUL GUI KI611AR WEEKLY SERMON TbtOfMhMly RtUgMw Life U* to tlM EaHyMMt d IN Otorlw Btyoai Xkw Yak Citt.? Fifth Atcbm Pm? byterian Church, which is ? very hrg* building, mi filled in every uut Sunday morning to hear the Rev. Hugh Black. M.A.. (?ocittc of Dr. White in the Frw Ht. (leotw't Church. Edinburgh. (Scotland. Mr. Black had for hia subject "Jeans Ilia Own Sign and Miracle." The test waa from Matthew xii:38: "Then certain of the MTibea and of the Pharieee* answered, saying: Master, we would sec a sign from Thee. But He answered and said unto them, An evil 'and adulterous generation aseketh after a sign; and there shall no sign he given to it. bat the aign of the pro l>bet Jonas." Mr. Black ssid: We gather from its source, as coming from the Pharisees, that thia question had a malicious purpose to underaiiqe the Au thority of the new Teacher* with thVpio-^ pie by asking from llim what He could not or would not perform, but from the liistorical < on nee t ion in which the evan gelists place it the purpose was not only malicious, but almost lnsultinc. Our F*ord had been in the pursuit of His beneficent. I healing ministry, had cured many suffering 1 mea and women, and the Pharisees' cxpla- { nation was that He had power from ait evil source; He did it, they asserted, by ' virtue of His connection with Beelzebub, 1 the prince of devils. And now. ufter this ? explanation of the signs and wonders < Jesus did among men. tney camc with the ' insulting question, "Master, we would ?*c t a sign from Thee." Wnat sort of a sign did they want, and what sort of evidence ! could convince thein if they could ottrib- I ute llis healing ministry to diabolic art* . The veiled insult of the demand is the J supercilious passing over of all He hud I been and of itil He had done, as if it did j not count and as if He must now begin to i do something of sufficient magnitude t* 1 convince them that His pretensions were j trustworthy. How there is a demand for cvidenee , which is legitimate, evidence which is necessary for the highest faith, hut in this case, apart from the hypocrisy of the que#- J lion, there underlay a wrong conception of revelation and a wrong conception of tlioj nature and the place of miracles. T7icy~: wanted Chrirl to oerfonn rome prodigy, as if a piece ??r wonder-working could be real evidence of spiritual things; her.ee. our lord's rebuke. It is a religious rebuke. Cjlod should be recognized for what He is, and the recognition of Him should not )>e dependent upon external t*igns. which iu tliemsclvca, after nil. have no spiritual sig nificance. Christ's feeling ns regards this is ceen through a graphic touch recorded by St. Mark, who writes that when the Pharisees came seeking u* sign from llim .legus sighed deeply in His spirit. It showed to Him a lamentable dullness of soul, to think that the recognition of the spiritual should be made to nnug on prodi gies and on miraclc-mongeriug of any kind# "There shall no sigu be given unto thi* generation." This attitude of our Lord, notice, is not contradictory to the value He elsewhere pla-.-ed on mirnc!cs as evi dence. He pointed, you remember, to His deeds of inercy to authenticate His claims when, as in the case of John tue Baptist, there was a sincere desire to know the marks of the Messiah, but His miracles were moral acts to educate and to reveal, not to surprise and to astonish. He knew from sud experience that it was possible for men to believe in the reality of miracles and at the same time lose all its true evi dential force, even to useribe it to evil powers hs the Pharisees did. "There shall lie no sign given to curios- j it)- mongers." There can be no sign given | to those who imagine that the spiritual can lie proved by the material. Mere won- ! ?ler working in no evidence of the thin?,-s | whica Jchus came to tench the worhl. Men are not to be led to God. then or now ? I men arc not to be led tq^Uod, in the sense I that Jesus meant? by displays ard conjur- 1 ing trick*. The demand of the Pharisees , showed a radically false idea of the whole ! nature and place of the miracle and the ! same mistake is possible to us, and possi- | ble to us in many ways and forms. We j make the same mistake, for example, when I we think that faith in God would be easier to us if only some fiortent were vouch- ' safed to u?; it" only we could see some phy sical evidence, especially designed to con vince us. We fall into the Pharisees' error and merit their rebuke' when we sigh for the certitude which we imagine would come from a celestial appearance or from a voice from heaven, or if we could put our j linger into the print of the nails. To understand Christ's nt tit udc on this i question we need to "nave our minds dis- | abused of the idea that a mere uiiraclc in j the sense prodigy w ever evidence of . spiritual things. Some miracles are signs j indeed, but only when there is spiritual : evidence in them; that is, when they are | uiorc than mere wonder-working, which I the Pharisee* here desired. For example. | our Lord's healing ministry was a gre.it snd constant sign of the love of God, car- i rying a revelation with af truly as any lov- ! iug word of the Master evtr did. Tbis lets light in upon the true way in which to ? view t!>e whole question. Out fcord'i inir? J ftciefl cannot lie seprt rated ir own (he great revelations of His whole life and teach ing. His words ty?d His works are co-re lated: the miracles are no', to be looked on as, isolated exhibition* of power, but. as themselves contributing to the revelation. They were not signs, but vehicles of teach ing. They are not signs externally at tached to the teaching to give it weight, and therefore to make it creditable; not unexplained occurrences testifying in a mysterious fashion to the possession of di vine power; they did not evidence the teaching, they themselves sre the teach ing. They are parables in action instead of in words, moral and spiritual in their effect, not evidential ot all, except by the way. 1'hey sre an integral fiart of the rev elation of the love of God in Christ Jesut our Lord. They have an essential place in the whole round of the Christian revela tion ns fruits? fruit* of the pity of God. as manifestations of the divir.o love umf I wisdom; they arc part of the manifesta tion of Christ; they sre not guarantee* of] His message an ti e Pharisees here niesnt^ them, but part of the message itself, as i much evidence* of God'a love as His ?ra eioua, tender words are or ever could lie. therefore Christ's miracles are never to be conceived of as mere displays of power. He persistently refused from frst f? Jr.'. to work wonders to make men believe. It ia not that tlic demand for evidence i? tvrwa, it i* A naltiial demand that proof onould l?c je'ven of Ml claims. but we must make sure what really is evidence. A mir acle is in itself no proof of a moral truth. I and a miracle can never iu itself engender | spiritual failh? r.ot 1f ono io?-e f ???;.] i dead would it neci-tc.tti.y tin ply the exist* e.ncc of 0..1 flTul the soui's immortality. Of eourao, it is true that everv miracle wan ' ? ?ign? a sign designed to induce to spi.it | iial result*, to lead men to God. but, lik illsgian? %l the will, could 'feSPicf from hnna ? a anrcsaaioo ot iftettUM the oial and capture the Ml IfVood aaka fir righteousness or ??Tal nhsrtjsBO%rif tholifa to the law of ?fe coold kaytftu malarial generate the moral? There ther. He ia the highmt ngn, and if the (rutcr fail* how ean the leaser convince, ind m a matter of tact Jnuk ha? con rinced the world of God. and is convincing :he world. Through Him we. too, know j>od. By Him we hare aeeeaa to God. In iitu we recognize God. For Him take wts ove God. The vision of Him is tho visiou - 'l. I Tni.> generation thirateth for a sign. We :hink it an evidence of ?ur spirituality that we do so thirst, and so we find many modern versions of the demand of the Pharisee*. Sometime* in the nair.e of icience, sometimes in the name of religion. VYc ean even manufacture aigns when they ?ffm to W lacking. Sometimes by cmulat ng the methods of medievalism, in which Jie so-called lives of the ealnta arc flouted scforc us. and asking as to believe in the rrcat realities of spiritual life l>ccau?o of toice rr atcrial wgn. Answers to prayer, it nay be, providences which, however co tent to the individual concerned, have lit tle moaning to othera. or sometimes Ave lave a recrudescence of the crudest Kpirit jalistu, spirit rapping, table turning, tea nip manipulating, after which the devo tees go home feeling that thry I horns elves lave \>ecn assisting at swne act of pro found worship, as if the melodramatic vul garisms of spiritualism could prove any :hing but the folly of the nee. Or again, .re have the same claims api*r.r in a ir.o"e jretentious garb in Theoaopiiy. or Chris tian Science, or whatever happens to lie the fashionable form of it at the time, where j esoteric mysteries of some kind are prac ticed. The root of all such things is this I same unspiritual thirst for a sign, after thauraaturgical wonders, faith healing and j ithcr things pretty much on (lie level of ; injuring tricks. Ah, me. All this is a sign in its?lf. a lign of tho wearinesa ana -despair and breakdown of the black materialism of our , ? ay to aatisfy the heart of man, but it has 1 the terrible danger of inducing a worse form of materialism atill, deceiving the carnal heart by wearing the drew of spirit i nal religion. How unstable it is we ?e from the constant swing of the pendulum ; ! now from atheism and materialism to the ' | most outrageous supernatural ism an in the i saae of Miv. Beaant and others, and now i in the opposite direction from ultra-mysti- | i jjMin to ultra-ratioqaliam. The cause^ of these seemingly contradictory changes it ia . not far to s?ck, as both are really based on j the same foundation? a wrong conception^ I of what the spiritual ia and I herefore of* ! a-hat is true evidence of the spiritual. T)*m ? . feneration thirsteth for a sign. There shall be no sign given to it. No -sign can lie ( | given to an uuspiritual geneiut.on which : would judge all thinga by mater. tl staq^ij irds. a generation that ia blind to the snir ' itual .signs of which life is already full. [ There can be no voice from heaven to men i who arc deaf to the heavenly voice of ; which the whole world is already full; if the spiritual docs not evidence itself' if i man will not aee God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself; if the sign of the 1 rro?s cannot convince tho stubborn heart and bend it to acknowledge it- divine pow ir. If Jesus Himself ia net m:?ii to Ik* Hid .? a?w? (\r in illl ?wn *ign and miracle. Ilia own oviijtnce ind proof, there ahall be 110 -isn given; (here can lie no sign given. "There shall be no sign given unto this generation." In that tne in-i word? Is (hat the clang of the cloned door in the i face of a necking soul? "Master, we would jc# a sign from Thee." Thi.t. pitiful cry tf iruiy asked, not a* by tlmae Pharisees, ] hut craving tor spiritual enlightenment and spiritual communion, that pitiful cry has ever been anawered. Never turned lie away from earnest, sincere, honest inquiry after light and truth. Ik- condescend# to our weakness when we cry, "Oh. that I knew where I might find Him." He meet* un by tlie way. lie makes our heart* to burn within us a* Wv wall: with Hun, con* vincing us of His love, convincing us of the liath, showing us the path, uiul it *uf ticetn u?. When the heart thirsts v.-ith a deeper thirst than for a xign, when it thirsts after the love of Cod, when the heart and flesh cry' out, lie show* us the *igiu? of His passion, oh with Thomas, "lk hold Mi' hands and My feet." He com fort* n?. He comforts us with the nign of the croiis, and before that wondrous mani festation of the eternal Jcve be fore that revelation of the Father'* heart, we be lieve and worship, and adore and love, and we say in penitence aud in faith. "My Lord and my God." Do we believe 'i RAM'S HORN BLASTS T HE love of money sever yet lived in the Mime bouse with the love of nan. If you buy what you don't want, you tre likely to want, wbat you can't buy. God often says. ?Walt;" but be never says, "Wor ry." No trial comes without a triumph in it gomcwbore. The hands arc apt to thick that tbey make the ctock go. Money can do everything except the things we want it to do. Men must enter Into the eternal for the infinite baa entered into thein. Men may differ on their theories of aun-spots, tout they agree on the sun shine. Keep your faith with Cod and you will not be so likely to lose your faith to man. Sor.e men are like matches. there is nothing in their heads until you strike Chcin. A man who will only be a3 honest as he has to be will be as dishonest as be can be. Some men think they are m'.ghty engines because their leaky boilers makes mucb noise. When a man Is commissioned by God he Is not going to turn back on account of the commands of men. You may build your own fortune, but you will nfted Ood for tho architect. Ballad of Indolence. Some people, like the bee. we And Will toll nil day with patient skill; Or. with tho Industrious ant In mind, will labor un the steepest hill. Homo endlessly will grind a mill Or run n factory or *team?r: Others n fallow field will till ? I'd rather be on Idle dreamer. Some may be of n studious mind. And nil nlsht long, till mornlne chill, At pondorotis, musty tonics they'll grind I'titll from overwork they're 111; They'll analyze {i fish'* pill. Or learn the habits of the lemur. Or trace the platypus' Mil? I'd rather be un Idlo dreamer. ; Some think Mint In their souls enshrined Fair g rived, and remaiaed drank for two daya. "But.- says Opt. Jermann. "tSe call dren were Just as good and well-oe haved aa If they were enjoying the i heat educational chaacea la the world They were aa polite as.the most cul tured people la the outside world, aad were eager to show mo attention* without, however, praaalng them upoa "They never ectered ? house, not even a shop, witnout knocking at the door or the side and obtaining permis sion to come in. After this pemlsrloa was given they always took off their I shoes, which they left outside. * Ducks Lsd by a Pigeon. One of the strangest nights ever seen by spertsmen was witnessed the other day on the duck puss owned by Uri iJiraprey ot St. Paul. Mr. Lamprey and a friend had been shooting for some "me when thsj observed a flock of ducks coming along from the north. The ducks were blue-wtnged teals and at their head was a wh!te bird. "That's queer," said Mr. Lamprey; "I'll take the white blri and see what it is." Both sportsmen fired, both bringing down their bird. Upon examination it was found that the leader of tite ducks was a tame white pigeon. If anyone has ever before seen a flock of ducks led by a white pigeon it is time for him to rise and say so. The great lesson of the Manage* campaign seems to be that this coun | try needs tougher .soldiers. Tbere Is a superabundance of tough citizens that might be made available, the Philadelphia Inquirer declarea. In C?:icwia. New Yorker? "Oli. yer. I'm a thor oughbred Bohemian! My nriislic na ture requires atmosphere. There is so luuci. in thai, you kiiorr." 1 Ccur.In-from-out-of-tomi ? "Yes. I suppose so. 1 never \v;?s l:t but one Bohemian place. ami 1 thought liiere was a good deal in that stinosphere? ? j It was princirally toba ?.?:>i. mi for eaa'.i uud every <;ae ? oi i-VTAUm* that cannot be i-urod l>y the ns^ of lUi.u'.s CATAKBa CCBK. t'BAVk J. t'HKVKT. Sworn to l>sfore*ino and subfcri'i *d in luy presence, thin Cili day ?>.* 1 vkil. J bar, A. 1>.. 18SJ. A.W. tii.r.r.so:,, ' ? v? ? ' iVo.'ftiV/ /'liWi;', Ball's Catarrh (!am in ta':en iuiernally. an t acts dirootly on t ho blood nud inueous .tur faoesot the systoj). Mend for testimonial;, free. F. J. Ciikuky X Co.. Toiodo, O. Hold by ali Druggists, 75.*. Take Hull's Family Pills lor constipation. A Chronic rur. "Oh. fee's never satisfied v;iih a job. lie's kicking about the one lie's got now." "Why, I understood it was a eineli. He told me lie had absolutely nothing to do." "Yes. but he's kicking because he has to do it."'? Philadelphia Press. FITSparmaneatly cured. No tits or nervous, nes* after ff ret day's uiio of Dr. Kline'* Or* a: N?rv?Kefltor?r,tiltrlalbottleaml treatitefree Djr; ?. H. Ri.??^td., WAreh 8t.. Phlln.. Pa. Automobile trains are to bo mn on Wagon road* in German Eaat Africa us feec ters to the railway line*. Tli* Paras* Almanac In 8,000,003 IVouiea. The Peruna Lucky Day Almanac haa become n fixture in over eight million homea. It ran lie obtained from nil drufgiat.' free, lie aure to inquire early. Tbe 1005 Almanac ia already published, and the aupply will aoon be exhausted. Do not put it off. (Jet one to-day. Tn the museum at Turia are some war cartoons 3000 years old. riao'eGuracaunot be too highly spoken o' aaa oough oure.? J. W. O'Baias, S!C Third Avenue, N.. Minneapolis. Minn., Jna.6,t903. Almost seven per cent, of tbe cost of ?operating a railway is for coal. Itch cured in 30 minute* by Woolford'a Fanitary Lotion. Never fail#. Sold by all druggists, fl. Mail order* promptly tilled by l>r. E. Detchon, Crawfordsville, Ind. For aa orchid $3360 was recently paid. ,j Tbe recent campaign la reflected in :he novel by Alden March called "A Darling Traitor" tn Llpptncott's Maga iine'n Chrlptmas number. Mr. March, though new as a novelist, has long 1 een an editor of the Philadelphia Preen. THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME Ire Never Vitheit Pe-n-ia ii the Haas far Catarrhal Diseases. ?'??* CJtivi ? ? JK1HWANDT2! J*anbor?u. Minn. MR and MRS. JNOO.A1TOS0N. Independence. Ho, L'nilrr dal?^ of January 10. 181)7. IV. | llartman received the following letter: "Air wife ha* been a tutlmr )rom a . complication of diseases tor the |>:i>t | twenty-live year*. Her ease has Untile J j the s'cill of some of the ino*t noted ph>- ( NlciaiiM. One of her wcr?t troubles wa* ? tironio constipation Oi several years' I standing. She wa ? also parsing through thai moat critical period in the life ot' a woman? change ot" life. "lit June. 1896. I wrote to you about her (Mre. You ndviaed a course ot lVru- 1 ti.i ami Maiialin, which we at one* eeen ol" twenty-live year*' stand ing. At times I wan almost past i;oiiig. I roniinmrrd to uae Prruna accord ing to I Mmtrncttoni* unit contln ii?(i itmumr for about a yar, a mi it it an comptetrl i? cm fed me. 1'art or in whole, a single spurious testimonial Kveiy one of our testimonials are genutnei nm. in the norda of the one whose nam* is appended. Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1905. Try a Smile. ' If lli* wu M will not tx? cnt)()Ufrfd by h I frown. Try a smile; ! IT your wivuIiik will not raise you wl.t-n 'I ry .1 omile. If a slulul i'o'.u:l?ttuni'r H-i!f ?j??t lioJp voai* rauKf .idvanot. Ilu w .1 bit .iixl tako n cbam-e Ti y .? Miiile. 1 If a 'oi?l don't make your neighborhood 1 J-t'.'.JWCt Villi, Try a oinll*; If mi i< | ? lo d'-fcat you? Try a Kmlle. Muko lilin clearly understand yon don't bear the coward's Iirsnil; Muk? lilm .-iliow bin ftroi..rest liand 'Itoy a smile. 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