HOPE FOIf THE , siokJ A VICTIM Uh LAUKIPPE. Mrs. Henrietta A. S. Mamh. 701 W. Bth St., l im Baptist Church Suadir noniat the minister, ths R sr. CoroeHus Woslfkin, iKMtkJ the Miiaon. Mr, Woelfkin's test ill from Deuteronomy xxix:29: 'Ike se ?Nt tkiaa bcloai unto the Lord, oar God, ?t the tilfi that are revealed belong un to us ud to oar children, that we may do ?ail the words of thie law." He mid: A noted astronomer once said: "I hare searched the stars, hot I find no God." A ioted philosopher said, "If there is an infi nite, personal God. Hie is unknowable." Materialistic science and rational phil sophy have formulated the creed of ajr losticism. vis.: that God is unknown aid' nknowsble. It sounds conservative, mod* M?. Omly a few of that* may ba aaocatcd. Wo mar Wow tba fortltiaw of oor mm. Wo ara mad* conaciona of oor ainfulncaa tbnafli the exerciae of nmr eonacicnco and oor inability to overtake what ^fo know to be the Sd?a1. Ikt when we accept the ovations of divine grace and yield to the incoming and inworkin* of God'a Holy Snirit, we experiencs a pence and power which ara the snbjective evi denaaa of ow being loaned fram aor aina. ? THIa la the fiiat thins In Chriatlan kaovl* ^Not "w Wow that wa ha to paeaed from death onto life." Serb a transition la mode am all planaa of Mfe. A new ell mat* help* some man to nam from death to lifr in body. Education enahlea man to pnaa?frq^ daath to life mat\tal)r. Society eowatlaita eauaa* men to pnaa'frem death to life morally. The development of latent SHSSSf-aacSS tW lore of a spiritual society cridencca a pasture fram death unto life. "We Wow tlyii all things work tocather lfir?nd fo them that: lawe (God." TWo le not adf-evident. aa we take a narrow view of mortal life. Bat when we ace the wider ranees wa learn it it ao. There may be ex paricncea which darken the aceno and plunge the judgment into panic. Joaeph whlla being led a alave to Kcmt could not understand this. Jfor could .Ifnaes. Dan iel and "the pronbeta'in the day of trial. But afterward they aaw it to be ao. The glory which Mo*ca aaw waa not aome lua troua foqn. .bat gather - that all the past hiatory wss transfigured with God'a 'pre*-' once and favor. It is the backward look that gives na this assursnc*. "Wa know that if our earthly houae of thia bodv be dissolved we have a building of God ? ? ? eternal n the heavens." That is, we know that rrc hare an immortal destinv of eter nal life. Subjectively we know that every appetite has its satisfsction. Hunger sue gests food and thirst argues for water. If God createa a fin on the fiah He makes an element for it to swim in. If He fashions n wing. He supplies the sir for it to By in. Surely tbeee lower appetitca are not gratr> fied only that the deeper and nobler may be disappointed. And objectively, "Chriat hath brought life and immortality to light through the (gospel." Hie resurrection sat iafies our dcsirea and becomes prophetic of our destinv. Let us study earnestly the truth of God with a view to doing His win. and wc shall know in part now and more perfectly by and by. RAM'S HORN BUSTS T HERB art So swordlcss saints. No guise Is too good for aln to ap propriate. Prudery if the foe of nurity. *ost iiaeda] a , ere. made of wood. Communion must go before a com mission. Theology bothers nobody but the theologians. A principle in the heavens is a poor thins to pray to. Yesterday** remedies cannot work today s reforms. It la the sifts we use and not the ones we have that make us. Gingerbread on the fcousfe is not as sood os coal in the furnacq. When a man brass of his virtues the devil is the first to applaud. Davld'a brlshtest thoughts came to him in hla darkest days. You might as well hope to live in the plana of a houae aa to satisfy the soul with outlines of theology. A man flnda as much good in people* as he looks for. When a man's gold breaks his back It Is not likely to bless his heart. The man with a crooked creed can live a straight life? but he doesn't. Faith is a telescope; the vision come; frpm looking through it, not at it. Prayer la simply our expression when we become conscious of God's presence. The man who abuts his eyes to G?d fa t ha blade of grass is not likely tc tad Him la the eatfcadral. NEWS OP THE PA 11 EAST. All the Russian warships have sailed eastward from Tangier. Another Hussion cruiser was report ed to have been blown up Uncommonly heavy cannonading was reported ahout Lone Tree Hill Kuropatkin n.'ed searchlights for the first time in repelling a night attack. General SakliawfT reported the Kns ?Ian Ions of a village, hut no important action. Nogi's second son was hilled at 203 Metre Ilill and the General is now childless. General RennenkampfT* pursuit of tlin Japanese on General Kuropatkiu's left ended after two days. Russia plans to have 4.r?0.000 men in the field in Manchuria for the spring 'campaigns in three armies . Nogi continued to shell the aunken Russian warships at fort Arthur and to search for the torpedo craft Japan's heavy guns were turned from ? the destroyed Port Arthur squadron to the town and did great damage. All the Hussions at Port Arthur re treated to I,aoti*han except the troops left to hold ssouie of the forts u while longer Russia is planning to send a third squadron from the Baltic to '.he Par Er.st, instead of dispatching the lilac* Sea fleet. It was reported from St. Petersburg that the Emperor had ordered the dis 'patch of seven battleships, five cruis ers and forty destroyers to the East. Having destroyed Wircu's squadron and prevented him' from cooperating, with Uo jest ven sky. tiu> Japanese will undertake to sturvc out the garrison. A dispatch from Uukden said that the heavy cannonade along the Sbaktte bad resulted In no important changes la the positions of the opposing armies. Cattle en a Orunk. Cattle belonging to Cbarlea R. Graver became Intoxicated from eat ing apples which had fallen from trees In tbelr pasture and had de cayed and fermented on tbe ground. The animals staggered around the field and showed other symptoms of drunkenness, so that a veterinarian had to be called to treat them. He diagnosed the case ss a "full fledged drunk" and administered tbe necessary remedies. Owing to the thousands of bushels of apples rotting on the ground In this neighborhood, other cattle have been affected In a similar way. ? Pine grove (Pi.) Cor. Philadelphia Nortb American. Maxatlan Is to have a flrst-clasi, up to-dats life saving station SOUTHERN FARM fiOTES. TOPICS OT fKTBSBT TO TUk PL AM TEX, STOCK MAM AMO TRUCK OMWEA. A ImII F.X mf % fnkltnt W. H. H. writes: "Please tell me the most profitable nj to fatten a three-year-old steer with the follow ing foods: Clover hay, mixed clover and timothy hay, con, bran, pump kins, and clover and eye pasture.** Answer? It will not ha possible to do more than make suggestions to our correspondent relative tb tbp fatten ing of his three-year-old steer. If he had given the weight and present con dition of .the animal it would have been > better. A three-year-old steer might weirh anywhere from*" 800 to 1200 pounds, depending en how he has been handled, and his present condi tion will have a ninsMmahle Influence on the method of feeding to secure the largest gains in the shortest possible time and at the least expense. If the animal is in good condition, a shorter feeding period will anllce, and a com paratively heavy grain ration should be nsed, and thla ration should be more fattening In nature than where an animal Is thin and poor, aud must I first be brought into proper condition for fattening. Clover hay furnishes an excellent roughness for beef cattle and will be preferable to mixed hflf. The aleer should have practlcalJyall of thla he will eat, which will vary from fifteen to twenty pounda per day in the be ginning, depending somewhat on his appetite. Aa the fattening progresses the amfeunt of clover hay consumed will decrease and less should be placed before him so aa to prevent cloying the appetite. It la alao not advisable to atuff an animal av|th all the rough neaa he will posalbly consume. Some Judgment must be exercised In order to keep the appetite on edge all the time. Where you feed clover hay it la hardly necessary to feed much bran. Tbe corn may be fed whole unless it la .old corn, when it would be beat to grind It with the cob, making corn and cob meal. To commence with, the ateer should probably not have more .than alx to eight pounda of meal per day with clever bay, later on the meal ahould be increased at the rate of half ? a pound to a pound a week until from twefte'to fifteen pounda per -bend* per day is being fed. If an animal ia thin, It will take 180 daya to properly finish him, if he is in good condition, 150 days will probably suffice. If you have a pair of acales convenient, and if you find that at the end of ICO days, he Is not making satlafactory gains, if he Is in prime condition, well and uniformly fleshed, probably it would be better for you to dispose of him at that time, than to bold him for a long er period. ( A pound of bran might be fed with the corn each day, aa it wiH tend to keep tbe dlgeatlon in better condition, and improve .the quality of the hair. Give a fair supply of pumpkins as long as they laat, from ten to thirty pounds chopped up and mixed with the hay and corn will not b,o too much. The ateer might properly have the run of the clover and rye until cold weather sets in. Under these conditions ho will not need very mhcU hay.? Andrew M. Soule. Tfc* "Why" of lianas. If a farmer understands that humus or vegetable matter is essential to fer tility, that just In proportion as tbe soil possesses it it is capable of yield ing large crops that ia about as much as he needs to know as a practical farmer. It Is not necessary that be 6hould know exactly why It is so. It Is well to know, however, when any vegetable matter, whether green or dry as wben peas and other crops are allowed to die on tbe land, is turned under tbe soil and becomes decom posed it is known as bumus. Until tbe vegetable matter Las become de composed It has no effect beyond keep ing tbe soil more open absorbing and holding somo moisture that otherwiso would pass Into tbe subsoil. This in Itself is helpful, but tbe res! manurlal effects are obtained after it becomos bumus. Whatever nitrogen and pot ash and phosphorus was contained in the vegetable matter Is then released and can bo used by n growing crop. A soli fully supplied with humus is kept porous and does pot run together and bake. It retains more moisture and allows the carbonic acid of the at mosphere to enter free!y the soil and from there be absorbed by tbe root lets of tbe plant. No doubt there Is a large proportion of worn land In the South that bos plenty of potash and phosphorus easily made available If only plenty of humus could be given to It. Humlc acid is a solvent of those minerals. When lands aro first cleared they are more or less rich in both bumus and undecomposed veg etable matter. Hammock lands where tbe original growth was oak, hickory or other bard woods are always richer and have a more lasting fertility than pi no lands. The former have accumu lated much more humus than tbe lat ter owing to their position and the na ture of tbe foliage of the bardwtDds. These soils are rarely worn oat com pletely by culture wliere they are pro tected from washing. They are capable of being brought back to the highest state of fertility by a system of farming that restores their lost Yegetable matter. In earlier times It was the practice when land became badly worn to turn them out to grow up In weed, briars, and whatever els* might sprtug op on the land. New land was opened up and in its turn worn oat and turned out. And thu? it went on. It is well enough to allow a certain part of our worn lands to go back into forest from time to time, but the part most capable of being re stored should be devoted to pastoral farming where pasture and meadow take the place of - crops requiring clean culture, where beef, pork, mut ton, wool take the place of cotton, corn to a great extent if not exclusively. Under this system there Is a whole sale Improvement secured In no other way and there is every reason to be lieve that before many years a large part of Southern lands will be de voted to this system of farming.? Flor ida Agriculturist. Abmt artltlac. Of course this Is not the season for grafting, but It is a good time to talk about it Anybody can graft, and if farm fruit growers would but think so and do It, great Improvement could ba made In all old orchards. In top grafting I never maka a square cut. I always cut at an angle of forty-live degrees and put in one scion. 1 never cut a branch so big that one aclon would not be sufficient. Even If it is two and one-half Inchca in diameter I just put in one scion. I just begin at the top and saw it right down at a sharp angle, and then with my knife 1 cut off the top and put my scion on there. Many times you can set a graft without ever making a crack. Cleft grafting is the best way. I use one part of tallow, two parts of beeswax, and four parts of resin for my grafting wax. That will make a wax that will work in almost any weather when you arc able to do grafting. In grafting a tree it depends upon the tree itself. If it is a small tree, I might cut the whole thing off and just put on one sciofl and have e straight scion of It, but, cs a rule, I would rather go up to where I had several scions to put In and make them small er. ' Rather than cut a great, large limb like my arm I would go higher. Never cut off closer to the fork than about four Inches, because if you happen to fail you can let a few sprouts grow on that, and the next year you have room to make another cut a tittle farther back.? H. E. V.-D., in Southern Fruit Grower. Tall Oat Graai. E. P., KnoxvlHe, Tenn., writes: "Will you kindly advise me what kind of grass seed would be best to sow with winter wheat on a thin, sandy, upland soil. I want pasture. Can I get a stand of tall oat grass by sowing with wheat? Probably one of the hardiest' and best varieties of gross you could sow for pasture on a thin, sandy, upland soil is tall oat grass. Tali oat grass might be seeded on the wheat land early in the spring. It Is now too late to sow tall oat grass this fall. Your chances of success with tail oat grass will be better without a nurse crop. You will need to seed at the rate of at least twenty pounds per acre. Tall oftt grass gives results some what in proportion to the richness of the land on which It is grown, how ever, it is much hardier than many of the tame grasses, and does better on thin, sandy lands than almost any other cultivated grass that grows sat isfactorily In the State. It grows vig orously and furnishes a considerable amount of excellent pasture: on rich lands it furnishes an abundance of pasture. You will not make any mis take in utilizing tall oat grass as far as possible for grazing purposes on the conditions mentioned iu your letter.? Professor Soule. Art I eh ok**. The following Item from the Farm er's Voice treats of a species of stock food that has not been tested in Flor ida so far a's we have known. It is a tuberous rooted species of sunflower. There it no doubt that it would yield large crops of good feed with very little labor. ' At LeRoy a farmer has planted an acre of artichokes as an experiment for feeding hogs and is gratified at the result. Tlio land has made an Im mense yield, and the swine devour greedily both stalk and root. If ap pearances justify a judgment, It would be difficult to find anything that bet ter ministers to hog growth. The farmer assured tue Hint the yield of the acre of land is worth to hiin for feed irj purposes $73. N?wt of ?ht Day. In thli a?e of mental tension, high pressure and overstrain, tea la felt to bo doing ma eh to orcretoek our lun atic asylums, Bays the Family Doctor. There can be little doubt that tea drinking is a form or Intemperance In tbese days?* national and famale in toxication second only to that of strong drink and In some respects per haps oven more Injurious. A New York Herald cable dispatch says that Devonshire House, Piccadil ly, has been sold. For some tlmo past thoro have been certain rumors about the disposal of this magnificent property, but while nothing can be Bald yet a* to when the Duke of Dev onshire will relinquish possession, it Is understood that a quarter of a mil lion sterling ($1,860,000) will bo paid down at once for it. and another quar ter of a million on the death of the present owner. Owing to the good result-i of tho Anglesey sales the trus tees have decided to Increase the Marquis's allowance from ?2,000 910, ? 000 to $2,500 ($12,500) a year ?harps and Flat*. Pride over the things we have not done does not procure pardon (or thoee we have. The new thought will be worth heed ing when it wipes out our old thought of tin. Temptation has gold In her teeth; hut men always get tbe teeth Instead of the gold. People who throw out flattery always look for it to grow before they catch It on the rebound The following Is quoted from a let ter of Thackeray by James Grant Wil son: "I hereby give notlco that I shall strike for wag oh (he wrote to the proprietors of Fraser's Magazine.) You pay more to others, 1 find, than to me, and so I Intend to make somo fresh conditions about Ye^lowpIuRh. I Rhall write no more of that gentle man's remark* except at twelve guin eas a sheet, and with a drawing for such number In which his story ap pears ? two guineas for the drawing. Pray do not be angry at this decision on my part; It is simply a bargain, which It Is my duty to make. A ??????? ni Cm Vw rtiw. JRAiat, Blind. Blwiini or Protr* been immortalized by an epigram. Tm Mxk Wmr mtwu 1 bachelor one day set the Ubt* fti his lonely abode with plate* for bla* ?elf atid an Imaginary wife and children. He then sat down to diee, and a* be helped himself to food ho put the Mine quantity on each of the other plates and mirrejed the pros pect. at the same time computing the cost. He Ik still a bnchelor. CatarrH Camni lie CiireA With lOCiL AT IXICATIO**. MS they CSOnOt rrwh th? ?e*t of the diXKista, prl<-e, 75e Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation Ta?utlit by Eiparltacr. "My experience with slgus." says Farmer Singletree, "is that lu gene ral they're either lultOendlu' er super* flu's. When I was 'to the exposition 1 see sigus readin*. 'Look out for pick* pockets/ After a few days' truck with 'em I came to the conclusion that they was fully able to look out for them* selves." -Cle vela ud Lender. T* Cora m Cotil la On* Dae Take Laxative Rromo Quinine Tablets. All druxgist* refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on box. 25c. Paris, like London, is deserting the thee? trcs for the music halls. Grateful Change. Clara ? 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