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NATURE'S SCFTENINC TOUCHES. _ ,, , r Ye' still the wilding: flower* wouel b.ow, jThe golden leaves would fall. The seasons conic, the seasons ? >, Aad God be good to all. Above the graves the blackberry hung In bloom and green its wreath. And harebells swung as if they rung The chimes of peace beneath. a The beauty nature loves to share, , The gifts she hath for all. The common light, the common air, O'ererept the graveyard's wall. It knew the glow of eventide, 1 t The sunrise and the noon. I ? And jjjlorified and sanctified It slept beneath the moon. ( fWitlj flowers or snowflakes for its sod, 1 \rnnn^ t??*? enrw ran And evermore the love of God ( Rebuked the fear of man. t Ednre on God's all tender heart. J . Alike rest great and small: W hv fear to lose our little part, 1 When He is pledged for all ? | O tearful heart and troubled brain. 1 Take hope and strength from thia? ' That nature never hints ia vain, Nor prophesies amiss. ^ H?r wi'd birds sins the same svreet stave, 1 Her lights and airs are given | Al'ke to playground and the grave, And over both is Heaven. ?John G. Whittier. ( J THE HOLE ' r. } IX THE J | * WALL, j | |l?IOIOtG(OK^IS neighbors called olu Sir -4 C* | Giles Travis a misanthrope X |?| U and a miser. Not that they knew him. for he never left the high walls which surrounded his estate, and on no account was any one allowed to enter his domain, save the necessary servants and tradesmen. On? warm summer's afternoon Sir Giles was being drawn in his bath chair across the lawn, thence along a narrow pathway until the v ail was reached. Under the tree there was a comfortable lounge chair, in which, with the help of his footiuan. Sir Giles took his seat. "Push me a little nearer the vail." he cried, irritably. "Now you can go. Come back at 4 o'clock." The baronet gazed after the footman nnui ne disappeared among trie trees. He then proceeded to displace a stone , near the bottom of the wall. His tin- . gers groped around, and he gave a sigh j of deep satisfaction. ^ "No letter. They will come, then.*' ^ A quarter of an hour passed, and he a tapped his fingers impatiently on the s magazine which lay in his lap. r "That's the boy." he inutteivd. as c there came a soft rustling of dried v Jeaves. I, "She is late." t The voice was impatient. ^ Sir Giles chuckled softly. s ""The impatience of youth." e A glad cry was heard, the sound of a 0 "kiss, then another kiss. p "The girl now," the old man said 0 ; softly. (. Twenty years of solitude had left f their marks on Ids face. As he listened v to the love chatter of the young couple ^ on the other side of the wall h:s face a gradually softened. j, Not always had he been the recluse s and misanthrope. There was no proud- .] er and happier man than fcir Giles had t, . been some twenty years ago. His life * and hopes were centered in liis son ^ Jack, a tine, manly young fellow, such a ns would gladden any father's heart. jf \The quarrel was a sudden one. The s v-reason?a woman. Hard words were j. - exchanged, for they were both pos- p -sessed of the Travis temper. A part- jj jp.g in auger and two months after- ? ward news caiue of .Tack's death. Not a li:?e or message had been left for his (father. ? The blow was a terrible one io Sir ], Giles. He closed his heart to all hu- jj man sympathy and retired to the seelu- j, sion of Travis Towers. A few months afterward lie was \ stricken with paralysis, and the long years bad been wearisome with suffering and ennui. For the last two or three months a j a new interest had come into his life, li The whole pretty love comedy seemed s to nave oeen piayeu mmiu esusum. ?i When tirs-t ibey met there was the o difference of youth. Their voices at r lirst were louiler. but as tlieir love in- f creased their seats on the fallen tree s without the wall grew closer together, s and their voices were lowered when I they began to exchange sweet loving v nothings. li A week ago the boy had declared his <] passion. The old man's heart seemed s to unfreeze and grow human again as e he listened to the passionate pleading f of the lover, the shy. timid answer, I and the frenzied kisses that were ex- u changed. a Only twice since that day had they s rtnet, and a cloud had appeared on love's i horizon. 2 ? "What did he say?" she asked, j eagerly. i / 4.IT-. ? KA aa r- nt? rciusca uusuiuicij, uc ?u- y awered, mournfully. c l^z-< "What reason did he give, Jack?" l she demanded, indignantly. I "Your guardian told me that I was ; a penniless adventurer, and that it was < your money I was after," he replied, ; moodily. "The wretch! But it doesn't matter. We can marry without him." "I did not know you had so much J money, dear one. You are rich and I 1 have nothing." r 1 "But we have love." t "Wo can't live on that. It is true I ' have my profession, but I have only t Just become a doctor, and it is an uphill game unless one has money to buy a i practice. I have none." "Did he not hold out any hope?" she : asked, tremulously. s "Yes. He said that if I could prove i tc him that I had a practice which would bring in live hundred a year < he would give his consent. I must < say that he is reasonable, but?" < "Will it hike you very long to gain such a pri^jtice?" "Years." < | "Let us marry at or.ce." she cried. impulsively. "I don't mind being 1 poor." s There was a silence and Sir (iile3 ] t ' looked irritably at the hole. "I have made up my mind, dear." ; i : Ea & "I am going away at once?to-mopow. You must forgot me. It is not air to you." There was a sound of sobbing. "Don't cry, darling," be said, pleadngly. "The fool!" the baronet muttered. "I can't let you go!" she cried, miseribly. "I will work bard?an?in time, per- j laps " The boy's voice broke. "Don't go to-morrow. Stay till Satirday. It is only four days," she asked, i ileadingly. There was the sound of a passionate I arewell, the rustle of leaves, and all ' ?vas silence. Saturday afternoon came, and Sir ^iles looked anxiously at the hole in he wall. He took a large envelope and >laced it in the hole. They came at last. Their words were 'ew and their voices tremulous. "The last time, Jack, that we shall i neet here," she said, brokenly. "In the future, perhaps " "And I shall have no more use for hat dear little hole in the wall, where [ have found so many love messages Irom my darling." She leaned down as she spoke. "Jack, there is a letter here." she ?ried, excitedly. "To Jack and Joan, with a lonely old nan's love," she read in wonder. 'Open it at once." With trembling fingers he broke the i seal. Wnm 'liA aHicCi1 kiiln r\f tlin will fhnvA 1 ?ame a hoarse but gleeful chuckle. Jack drew a legal looking document ! from the envelope, which he began M J ead. ^ "(lood Heavens!" he cried at last.* 'Am I mad?" "What is it?" "Old Dr. Rutherford has sold his Practice to me." "To you?" "Yes. and the money has been paid -?2000." "Jack, what does it mean?" Again they heard the hoarse chuckle, i rhere was even more glee in it. ? ? * * Two years have passed. Jack's most valuable patient Is Sir !?iles Travis, and onee or twice a week Jie old man sits in his chair near the lole in the wall, while a fair and happy > tirl plays with her baby on the lawn jeside the old baronet.?E. Piatt, in Jlustrated Bits. Can't Ketlit 'Kin. "Children are sometimes more ounling than we think, and when I say we.' I am speaking of the men who lave a right to know something of chilIren because of the parental responsililities they wear." said the man with i couple of youngsters. "Close obervation and experience have taught on thof /lfgnhcrliAtw'A ca for fvnm linSnr* >fleas!ve, is sometimes a virtue, a irtue because of its cleverness and realise of the evident good nature of he breach. It would, in my judgment, >e decidedly brutal in some circmn- j tances to scold a child for disobedi- ! nee. Disobedience should be offensive nly when intended as an offense, when t is a wilful and purposeful defiance f the parental injunction. I have a ase in point which will illustrate per- { ectly what I mean. My little girl is ! ery fond of sausage. I thought she ! ad consumed enough for one sitting nd told her so. In a few seconds she j ad slipped around behind me, and | hoved her head up under my arm. \ Papa,' she said, with a mischievous i winkle in her eye, 'let's play dog!' and j s she said it she threw out a chubby | and and grabbed a piece of sausage j nd dashed away with it, laughing as ! ' she thought it the finest joke of the i eason. What could I do? Stop the luchter by scolding, and suppress the vulent good nature of it all? She 1 auked nie and got away with the oods, and since it was evident she leant ip offense, no disrespect by her isobedience, there was nothing for le to do but accept the situation and ; lugh and frolic in her dog's game with er. And so I did. Wouldn't you act l the same way when disobedience > put forth in such sunshiny garb?"? tew Orleans Times-Democrat. Sight Through Brick Wells. Dr. Paul Sollier. director of the Santoriuin for Nervous Diseases at Bouigne-sur-Seiue, tells a remarkable tory of sight through brick walls and round corners which he is studying in no of his patients. The man. whose lervous trouble began as the result of ailing from a train, is a good hypnotic ubject, and is being treated by sug- ; :estion. In the course of treatment )r. Sollier accidentally discovered that , ehen hypnotized the uiau eouh^ see ' urn when his back was turned. In or lor to test tins remarKaoie "cyeiess j ight" the doctor made tlie following xperiment: "Having as before dunged the mun into a state of deep j lypnosis, in the course of cerebral [wakening, I went into a closet separited from the laboratory by a hall taircaso over six-teen feet wide* a wall ifteen and one-half inches thick, and (receded by a small vestibule having j iceess to a gallery shut off by a glass ! loor. When inside the closet I made ! t movement with my hand as if to ; Iraw him toward me, and immediately le rushed to the door of the laboratory, rhe noise he made because he was not illowed to go out at once apprised me >f the success of the experiment."? N'ew York Globe. *7j Something to Think About. How to live comfortably with one's leighbor?that is the problem; to avoid he knocks and frictions which draw ines to men's faces and too often eonract their souls. It is paradoxical, but ?+l?r? lo rrrnr tlln CAIll hnf'AniOU >1 UCj (lltll lUC i((i Uic OVUI wW4Mvw I he more room it creates for itself? 1 margin of quietness in which it renains untouched by petty jealousies \nd hurts. By the practice of charity unl unselfishness a life builds for it<olf "more stately mansions" wherein t may dwell in peace. A song in one's heart, a smile upon me's lips, cheery, a wholesome message jf good will on one's tongue are wor.lerful helps to all kinds of people. There are so many burdens of sorrow ind care and poverty and sin; so many loubting, discouraged, tempted hearts. To comfort and to make strong, to lift up and to bless?are these not missions worth while? Try it, friend, and prove how truly your own heart and mind are cheered and made brave by your very endeavor to carry sunghlue into dark places. FACTS LIKE FICDN ? . A Truly Wonderful Story of Progress in Prosperous Southland DEVELOPMENT ALONG EVERY LINE High Percentage of Increase in the Production of Staple Commercial Articles?Great Increase in Manu factures?What a Quarter Century Will Show. CF. GOODYEAR, of Brunswick Ga.. in a recent communication to the Atlanta Constitution, says: "The genius who shall tell the marvelous story of the statistics of Southern development for tfce past twenty-five years, who shall relate the story of courageous struggle and of hope deferred; of despair which created a great party and of revival of faith; of earnest men. taught by past failures, achieving victory under adverse eruditions apparently insurmountable, shall write a book the world will giadly buy and read, and shall have the material for many books demonstrate , irg in each truth stranger and more marvelous than fiction. , "What American, native born or naturalized. can do otherwise than glory in America achievement in this twenty-five years. What Southern man, native or adopted citizen, but will .glory in such achievement of this porlitiAn ltnit A/1 AA?nti?t? age twice as great: her pigiron output throe times greater; coal output four times greater: corn 80 per cent of the total crop of the entire country for 1860: cotton spindles 3.500,000 more; exports $226.CC0.C00 more, and total of true values of property within 4 per cent of equalling the value of the entire country in 1860. and it was thought that the entire United States was a pretty good country in 1860. l.ive stock has increased in the South front 1880 to 19C0 90 per cent "These comparisons surely should be most gratifying to every Southern citizen?should stimulate to renewed effort. The opportunity, the capital, are ail at hand for a new twenty-five ocn < r.nmnoiartt r\# ?\t?Aot'fiee nrVtioh chilli ?< ".! v ?in}/?ti vjl j;ivp,ivoo nmvu in 1930 seem to those living then more wonderful than any of the marvels of which Jules Verne wrote. The mineral wealth, the agricultural and manufacturing possibiities of the South have been barely touched, are in the infancy of their development. By 1930 we will not e.nlv clothe the naked, but assist largely from our surplus to feed the hungry." ram'shorn blasts ^T\ HE stone without I cutting is without [A^ place in the build wlyS? A man's ability must be measured People who get ?i\ VwMfa green with envy \\ \V62jSf also got blue with Autumn's limbs ace laden because * J* of Spring's pruning. It !.? cosier 1x stay out of the snare thr.a it is to struggle out. F::t:;.r(n,c v:".h :'io wrong is not the zzz.c its ior;l.:ncas. The rebellious masticate the medieire ihcv should swallow whole. It takes less labor to analyze God then it dees to obey Him. Money may br.v neve gloves, but it tr.r.nct make clean hands, j Grid is more likely to break the back i than uj bless the heart. | People who meat need advice usually | have most to give away. The chinch that brags of its social I lire may lose its savins power. Pcrue men who water their milk every day cannot understand why the prayer-meetings seem so thin. The greatness of^a man is net evidenced by his findi* faults, but by his fixing them. g A man who feewlike apologizing for his religion ncedpto apologize for what he has. I It is easy to^wch coolness when j you have nothing t^lo but to sit on a ; refrigerator. The devil may steel the setting, but j ihe jewel of life you cannot lose un- j less you give it away. The impure thought is easily crushed j before it is spoken, but "who can cure j its contagion afterwards? THE SWDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE II. I Subject. The of the Risen Christ, K*t. I., 10'.iO?Golden Text, Rev. I., 18 ?Memory Verses, 17, 18? Commentary , on the Day's Lesson. I. John receives a message (vs. 10, 11). 10. "In the Spirit." Under the . Influence of the Spirit, and filled and quickened by the Spirit. "The Lord's ^ day." The day made sacred to ale Christians for all time by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. It was the day of light and salvation. John arrived in Patrnos late Saturday evening. spent the night in prayer, and with the opening Sunday morning the gloritied Saviour opened heaven to hi* vision. Why is our Sabbath the first day of the week? We see here the apostles kept the first day and, because of its sanctity, called it the Lord's day. "Behind me," etc. This was his first intimation of the presence of Christ, who spoke with a voice like a trumpet. 11. "Alpha and Omega." Omitted in It. V. These are the first and last letters of the Oreek alphabet. This is a figurative expression, used to show that Christ was the "source and the consummation" of all things. He is from eternity to eternity. "What thou seest." The prophetic vision that was revealed to him on that Lord's >lav. "Write." What if Jolip had not written? The command to write is given twelve limes in the Apocalypse. "A book." A parchment roll. Ancient books wore made of papyrus, or from the prepared skins of animals, and rolled upon a roller. "Seven churches." "Seven" denotes perfection. Doubtless there Avere hundreds of churches in Asia^inor at that time. The reason wlndrseven only are mentioned is becaiwo the church is the bride of Christ, and seven is the sanctified number always representing Christ. "In Asia." A small province in Asia Minor called Asia, of which Kphesus was the capi- | tal. "Ephesus." Mentioned first be- j cause the church here was the largest, j II. A vision of the glorified Redeemer (vs. i:MG?. 1 2. "The voice." He turned to see who it was that spoke, the word "voice" being used to signify the person speaking. "Golden candlesticks." Compare Zeoli. 4:2-11. Lampstands would be a better term. Not one candlestick with seven branches, but seven candlesticks. The independence of the churches of Christ is con ii vi a uimvu \ viuiu v ^ 'Tarm values throughout the entire country increased from 1880 to 1900 67 per cent; for the South 82 per cent Farm products for the same period, entire country, 56 per cent, for the South 92 per cent. Farm products 1890 to 1900, in the South, average yearly increase, $61,000,000; 1900 to 1904, average yearly increase, $115,000,000. Money Invested in manufactures, entire ccuntry, increase 1880 to 1900 252 per cent; in the South 348 per cent. Cotton spindles increase 1891 to 1900, 6,400,000; for the South, 4,450,000. Cotton consumed in the South in 1880 in her mills 234,000 bales; in 1900, 1,597,000 bales; in 1904 over 2,000,000 bales. Assessed property values. 1880 to 1900, in the South, increase 80 pef cent. Increased railroads for the entire country, mileage, 1880 to 1900, 100 per cent; for the South in same period 160 per cent. Increased exports. 1880 to 1900, 67 per cent; for the South same period, 77 per cent. In the Southern lumber industry more capital was invested in 1900 than for the entire country in 1880. the value of its products increasing 371 per cent. "The output of pig iron in the South increased from 1880 to 1900 700 per cent. In the entire country for the same period 250 per cent* The coal output increased from 1880 to 1904, for the entire country, 390 per cent; the South. 1,000 per cent, or from 6,000.000 to 66,000,000 tons. "Let such percentages of increase continue for the next twenty-flve years, and who can measure the wealth and prosperity of the South. Is the South in financial condition for such development? Let the following figures answer: 1892 to 1903, increase in bank deposits, entire country, 100 per cent; in the South from $333,000,COO to $745,000,000. a per cent of * increase of about 125 per cent in eleven years. "The totalofthe South's mineral products. in 1880, $18,000,000; 1900, $115,C00.000?640 per cent increase. (The percentage not yet available for the entire country.) "In 1904 the South had 80 per cent, of the entire population of the country in 1860. The bank deposits are three timAP oo cr??An t e f/M. tliA An t i ro nAitn. sistent with tlie uuity of the church or Christ. t 33. "In the midst." Showing Christ's presence anion? His people. "The Son of Man." Compare Daniel 7:13. This term is used here because His glory might hide from view His oneness of sympathy with His people. "A garment." This is a description of the long robe worn by the high priest. Jeans is our high priest in heaven. "Cirt?golden girdle." He was girt around the breast lit. V.) as "a sign of kingly repose." It represented "the breastplate of the high priest, on which the names of His people are engraven." 14. "White like wool." Wool is supposed to he an emblem of eternity. The whiteness signified antiquity, purity and glory. With Christ His hoary head . was no sign of decay. Compare Dan. | 7:f>llO:ti. The whiteness, three times J mentioned (white, white wooi. snow), is greatly intensified, and denotes unlimited age, even eternity. "His eyes," etc. This certiiies His omniscience. The eye is the receptacle of knowledge and symbolizes all the senses. I 15. "Burnished brass" (R. V.) This denotes His stability and strength. His feet are like brass when in the furnace and subjected to a very great I heat. His feet were "strong and stead- l fast, supporting His own interest, sub- j duing His enemies and treading them j to powder." His voice." Described < the same in Ezek. 43:1'. Ho will make j Himself heard: it is a commanding , voice that must be obeyed: it is terrl- ( hie in its denunciation of sin. . Id. "In His right hand." The 'Tight ( hand" is an emblem of power. "Seven j . stars." These stare are the faithful preachers of I the gospel. "A sharp two-edged sword." His word which ( both wounds and heals and strikes at ( sin on the right hand and on the left. ' This wonderful sword lias two edge1, sharp as (lod's lightning ? the edge I that saves and the edge that destroys. 1 Compare Heb. 4:12: Eph. 0:17. The * sharpness of the sword represents the 1 searching power of the word. "As the I sun." We know of nothing brighter t than the snn shining in his strength. 1 III. Words of comfort and explana- c tion (vs. 17-20). 17. "As dead." Ilis r countenance was too bright and daz- t zling for mortal eyes to behold, and i John was completely overpowered with < the glory in which Christ appeared. < Com par o Kzek. 1:28: Dan. S: 17. "Right hand upon mo." His band of power and protection, in which the churches were held. "Fear not." There is no occasion to tear when in the presence of Christ. IS. "The Living One" (R. V.) The source of all life?the One who possesses absolute life in Himself. "Was dead." I became a man and died as a man: I am the same one von saw expire o:i the cross. "I am alive." Having broken the bands of death. I am alive "for evermore." "The keys." .An emblem of power and authority. "Of death, and of hades" <R. V.) Hades is a compound Greek word, meaning the unseen world, and including both heaven and hell. Gehenna Is the Greek word which always means liell. and nothing else. Christ has power ovat life, death and the grave. He is abl^to destroy the liviug and to raise the dead. 11). "Hast seen." The visions He has just seen. "Which are." The actual conditions of the seven churches. See chapters 2 and 3. "Which shall be." Iu the future of the church. 20. "The mystery." Write the mys tjb'lOUS?uit." atrtritrt iiuu jjlivii-u tuvmr j ins of what you liave seen. "The an- j gels." The ministers and pastors. MADE PETS~OF~ RATTLERS. < t Tennessee Farmer's Odd Liking for s Venomous Snakes. ( Joshua Fleener, aged 80 years, keeps c a den of rattlesnakes at his home near ^ Richards postofflce, this county. He has made pets of snakes ever since 1 he was a boy. He has eleven rattlesnakes in his , den, and experienced some difficulty , in caring for the serpents during the cold weather. Fleener lives in an old- ( fashioned house with the back wall of , the fireplace on the outside of the , building. The den, built of stones, was , mad-* with the chimney place as one of tl walls. The reptiles were placed in t. s den during the cold weather, , and ( ily one died this winter as a re- ( suit ( i the cold. , Sometimes, when the chimney made the den too warm, the serpents would become angry and fight one -another. The snakes were all captured by Flee- i J ner In the woods near his home, and j they are all timber rattlers, a species ^ which is becoming rare in this state. , ?Nashville Correspondence Indianap- . oils News. * , f / 1 JUNE ELEVENTH. Yot Ashamed of the Gospel. Rom1: 13-17. Paul was in debt to Christ, in debt or his life; but he was proud of the lebt. If Paul had been ashamed of the gospel he would have considered that shame the most shameful thing of his vhole life. We are not ashamed of powerful hings. but of weak things. We shall lot be ashamed of the gospel if we eeognize it as the mighty, world.'onquering agency which it really Is. When Paul was proud of the gos -1 Mo mim rlffhtpmiS. ptl, It was iiw; mo vnu legs he was proud of. but God's. Suggestions. "Not ashamed"?that is the emphasis of under-statement. Really, there svas nothing of which Paul was so remendously proud. The pride in Christ is exclusive if all other prides. "God forbid." said Paul, "that 1 should glory iri inything else." The testimony we give in these irayer meetings is always of what Christ has done for us, not of what ve have done for ourselves. Chrisian testimony is always modest. When we are very proud of anyhing?as of some great victory of iur political party, or some great :rlumph of our country?we talk ibout it a great deal. Illustrations. When men are proud of their ichievements they make a world's ?xposition to place them on show. So he Christian will be glad to exhibit Thrist in his life. There is no more beautiful joy on :arth than the pride which a younger irother takes in his noble older jrother. Now Christ is our Elder Brother. No army wins victories unless it is iroud of its general. The Christian is like a mirror re lecting a lovely face. How aosura t would be If the mirror grew vain )f the face, hs if K were his own! Questions. Am I always eager for a chance to >:ng Christ's praises? Am I giving Christ good reason to je ashamed of me? Is my life, on the whole, a satisfacon to Christ? Quotations. Is the seal upon my brow so unnistakable that always and everywhere I am known to be Christ's subect ??Havergal. Loyalty to Christ means carrying 'orward in our century the work He jegan in His; not only worshipping rtim on our knees, but working with 4im on our feet.?Parkhurst. There can be no beautifully symnetrical unfolding of the new life, vlthout constant acknowledgment to ^im who is that Life.?Francis E. :iaTk. 1 EllDRMlMSSOIIS SUNDAY, JUNE ELEVENTH. Slot Ashamed of the Gospei.?Rom. : 1. 13-17. Paul had purposed to go to Rome, >ut was hindered. He went at last, jut only as a prisoner. He had an tmbition to save the Roman as well is the Jew. This evidences the thornighness of the remarkable change n nis spini. ne recognized mm ue vas "debtor" to all men; that is, that he responsibility was on him to give o all the opportunity to hear and ac- i :ept the gospel. The reason for all | his was that he was not "ashamed f the gospel." And the cause of his confidence in that which all other men lespised was in that it "was the lower of God unto salvation." It takes courage to champion an unpopular cause. When that cause is naligned and misrepresented, whtm t means social ostracism and peril to ifc and liberty. It takes a hero to ireach it. Such was Paul, and so was j he gospel in his day. There must >e a great reason for the aggressive | :hdmpionship of a dangerous doctrine, j ro Paul the fact that the gospel was he power of God unto salvation made t not only a reason why he should ac:ept It, but a further reason why he should preach it and push it. It night to be the same with us. Let is ask and answer two or three ques :ions:, What Is the Gospel that We Should Not Be Ashamed of It? It las revolutionized the natfons." It las abolished slavery and superstiion. It has saved uncounted millions, j [t has reached us. It has brought ' >eace and pardon to our hearts. It las brought life and immortality to lght. It has given us a worthy ideal 'or which to live. It has banished the 'ear of death. It lightens the gloom >f the grave. It lights up the pathway of the poor and the needy. It las brought only blessings where rnrses abounded. It has done all hat is good, and nothing evil, for hunanity. It is the power of God to )ur own personal salvation. There ; s every reason to be satisfied with it; here Is no reason to be ashamed of t. There Are Reasons Why Christ dight Be Ashamed of Us. How slow )I Iclllll we It? we, liuw iciuuiaui IV eave all and follow him! How negligent of duty, and prone to grieve him, lave we been! How little glory we lave reflected upca his cause, how >ften silent when we should have estifled for him, how careless of ipeech when we should have been | :areful! If the Master is not ashamed j >f us, what possible reason can there >e in any company or condition to I je ashan:?d of him or his gospel? j Blind People Use Most Gas. "When it comes to consuming gas ' In large quantities blind people can ! beat their seeing brethren all hollow," ; said an inspector of the Consolidated 3as Company. "I know two families where both husband and wife are blind. Every jet is turned on full tilt In their homes at night and is kept going at that rate clear up to 12 D'clock. Light and darkness are all the same to the afflicted ones, but they Insist upon illumination brilliant snough for a reception. "And that partiality for !ight is not i whim peculiar to those two couples. All blind people feel that way. They lemand the light and in all private tiomes and institutions where the blind are cared for the gas bills vouch for their strange fancy."?New York Press. . i .* w * 1 : SOUTHERN * / a? ft-ft 70/VCS OF INTEREST TO THE PL ANTi Jv. Strong Healthy thick*. Last week we devoted most of our apace to growing and feeding young chicks. But the subject is by no means exhausted. Thousands of chickens are hatched every year, only to droop and die before they are a month Af oAiincolnri UiU. 1II a 11JU1UIUUC VA VVUUOV.v.w there Is a safety." We hope by giving the experience of many poultry keepers to show that much of the loss is avoidable and unnecessary. The following is from The Successful Poultry Journal: The "breeding stock and the incubator are often wrongly blamed for the chicks being weak and puny, many of them dying the first few weeks when in fact the trouble is due to the improper care of the eggs during the period of incubation. If you want good strong, lusty chicks that will go through to maturity, scratching for a living, always in the very pink of condition. study well the conditions that you surround them with, while the tender germs are sprouting into life. Do not allow the temperature of your incubator room to run below sixty degrees, keep the ventilators wide open from the start, lower the upper sash of the south window all the way down during the day. except when raining or wind}, close window at night and open a door leading into an adjoining room or hall, give them all the pure fresh air possible, but guard against drafts. Hold temperature of egg chamber at 103, mark og^ and turn them half over twice aauy, unng me eggs nuiu the outer sides of the trays to the centre each time, in order to equalize the heat, air them down to the same temperature as your hand; they should not feel cool to the touch; test out on the eleventh day, discard all clear eggs and those having streaks running through them. The eggs do not develop uniformly; most of the eggs you have left will be very opaque, a few will be doubtful; these are only somewhat tardy; mark them plainly, give them extra heat by placing them on top of the others in the warmest part of the machine, and they will soon catch up with their neighbors. After the eleventh day prolong the airing, gradually increasing the tim?, allow your machine to stand open five minutes with the eggs, exercise the eggs at each time of airing by rolling them under the palms of the hands, give them plenty of air and exercise; action is the very life of animal growth. Test a second time on sixteenth day; notice your tardies; if yon have given them a little extra care they will be up with the crowd. They will pin at the close of the nineteenth day. Close the ventilators, run at IO314 to 104, do not open the machine under any circumstances, and in ten or twelve hours they will clean you up a hatch of big-strong chicks, that will live through thick and thin. All this talk about weak breeding stock is bosh. It's only an excuse used for the worthless incubators. If the spark of life is present in the egg surround It with proper conditions and It will develop into a vigorous organism. The fact that the tardy eggs can be hurried along is proof of this. AVorxl Aihn and Kalnlt For Potato*!. R. X. H.. Evington, writes: "I would like some information as to the value of wood ashes and kainlt for potatoes." Kainit, as you probably know, is potash in its crude form. It is a low grade of potash, as onlyl2V4 per cent, is actually available for plant food, and as it is mixed with considerable quantities of salt and chlorides it is not as satisfactory a potato fertilizer as the sulphate. Besides that, it is so low in available plant food that it is one of the most costly forms in which potash can be used because you will observe that a large amount of virtually waste material is shipped in every ten. Therefore the cost of potash in kainit is relatively higher thai: in the more concentrated forms. 1 Wood ashes make a satisfactory fertilizer for gardens and for the potato crop as won. xueir miui- uqicmw pood deal 011 the source from which they are derived and the treatment they have received. Ashes also contain considerable amounts of lime and a very small amount of phosphoric acid, so that they are useful in providing other forms of plant food. The average analysis of commercial wood ashes shows them to contain about 3 to 7 per cent, of potash, 1 to 2 per cent, of phosphoric acid and from 25 to 30 per cent, of lime. This, of course, is for the unleached form. Leached ashes frequently contain only 1 per cent, of potash, 1% per cent, of phosphoric acid and 23 tp 30 per cent, of lime. Where ashes that have been protected from the water can be purchased at a low cost they provide potash in a satisfactory form and should be utilized on gardens and in orchards. Should one desire to provide fifty pounds of available potash for each nrr? of bind it would be necessary to use about 500 pounds of wootl ashes to the acre. Jeta and Flashes. When a man gets in debt he has a chance to get out by dying. With the aid of dressmakers a woman can have a figure without shape. Being good is mostly an accident of there being no chance for the other thing. It is hardly ever worth while to pretend to be as sure of a thing you know as of one you don't It's pretty exciting to think how fond of a woman you could be if you were married to her. A husband is sometimes landed by a maiden effort?and sometimes by the affort of the maiden's mother. No indeed, Cornelia, a pickpocket and a reporter are not in the same class just because both take notes. When a man wants money or assistance the world is charitable enough to let him keep right on wanta great ball player. He ark without and within afea lata^Lt the drove out on a fly. ARM fioWM D<3-??0STOCK HAM AMDTRUCK As to th? amount that shonl^^^^^^^^H for wood ashes, only state that potash can be the form of muriate at aboat^^^^^^^H cents per pound for availabk^^^^^^H food. Therefore 100 pounds ashes are not worth more than'S^^^^H live cents at the outside. If the^^^^^^H be bought art 15 to 25 cents the/^^^^^H be used to advantage as a fertili^^^^^B It is for these reasons that in prev^^^^^H communications relative to Irish toes the use of sulphate of pota^Pl^HH been suggested, because it provldeff^^B plant food in a more concentrated form and also is better suited to the production of an Irish potato of hig^t cooking quality, mere is no oDjection to using wood nsbes for potatoes* The objection to fcainit is not serious* and any of these forms of potassic fertilizers can be used to advantage in the production of general garden crops.?Andrew W. Soule. Preparing Land For Alfalfa. I J. K., Farmviile, writes: "I have ' * I read and beard much about alfalfa* | but have never seen any, as there Is none raised here. I want to try it, and would like some information as to how to prepare the land, and when Is the best time to sow': Also where can the material be obtained for inoculating the land? Does the soil have to be Inoculated for cowpeas?" Land for alfalfa should be Tery carefully prepared. It is well to start 8 year In advance to get the land ready* and unless it is naturally very deep and porous it should be snbsolled, and sub- ^ soiling is best done in the fall of the year. It is also well to enrich the land i** by growing a crop of cowpeas and V nlnnVlnr* fhnm /lnrrn hmVirO SPedinff to i yiyj n lutui ?v.?? Q ? alfalfa. The seeding may be done appropriately about the first of September not later than this, or the alfalfa will not make a strong enough growth 'to withstand the freezes of winter.. Spring seeding may be practiced about the first to the fifteenth of March, depending a good deal on climatic conditions. It is generally best to wait until danger of hard freezing is past. It is well to inoculate your alfalfa before seeding. This may be done by; obtaining some of the culture put up by the experiment station and sent at a very small cost to the farmers of the State upon application. As a rule, it is not necessary to inoculate land in Tennessee for eowpeas or red clover, Sometimes soy beans do much better when Inoculated, and the station hopes to be In position to furnish the farmers of the State with the necessary germs . for inoculating soy beans.?Knoxvills Journal. Value of Lime For Corn. W. E. G., Charlottesville, Va.. wrltest o/v *ai1 mA Hnn- in tnut 1 o n/1 fn saa l iraec iru mc uutv iv ivov %w if lime is Deeded. Do you think lime would benefit land for corn? It is an easy matter to rest land so as to tell whether it Is acid or not. Purchase from your nearest drug store a package of blue lltimus paper which you should be able to get for five cents. Take a handful of the soil to be tested and moisten with rainwater .in a tin cup and insert a strip of the litimus paper. If it turns red quickly, ^ it is an evidence that your land is quite acid; if it turns red slowly, that it is only slightly ackl. In either case . lime should be applied. If it Is very acid a heavy application would be advisable, say fifty bushels, applied in . the caustic form. Purchase it when freshly burned and distribute in heaps in the field at suitable distances and cover lightly with earth and allow to slake. When thoroughly slaked, scatter it over the surface of the ground uniformly and incorporate with a harrow. I,ime is not a fertilizer but is a ' stimulant and a corrective of certain objectionable conditions In the soil. It also sets free plant food which is heldin unavailable forms, and may there- '. fore ininre the land if used to excess. An application of lime once in three to five years is ample as a rule. Land intended for corn will be benefited t>y an application of lime. The test indicated is very easily made and it will pay you to ascertain whether your soil is acid or not. and if it is, to make an application of lime. Maklus a Lawn. Four things are required to make a good lawn: Time, soil, climate and intelligent labor. In England they have a saying that it requires 100 years to make a lawn, and 200 years to make a good lawn. In this country, where wo are trying to make suburban homes while you wait, and where a month or two seems a very long time, people are too Impatient. It speaks well for their ambition that they want lawns as soon as they move into their houses, but they are really exacting too much. At the very best, it requires no less than three years to make a presentable lawn, and five or ten years to make what we uncritical Americans call a good lawn. ?The Garden Magazine. Pointed Paragraphs. The reason it takes two women so long to say good-bye is that they are both determined to have the laat word. A girl Is never satisfied with her newest dress until she discovers that her worst girld friend doesn't like it If there is anything calculated to drive a woman to drink it is her failure to interest some one in other people's troubles. It takes a strong' minded married woman to resist the temptation to have her picture taken with her first baby in her lap. When the husband of a jealous wo- ' man kisses her just before starting down town she imagines that he does it because he is glad to get away. How unhappy the lot of the boarding-house landlady. Strawberries no sooner get cheap than boarders begin to kick for peaches and watermelon. ' That charity which begins at home would rather patronize an excursion boat than paddle his own canoe? ^ 1