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"'TEARS, I Tears, icile tears, I know 'ea:rs irom the di)th of soi R i.se in t he he.ar: , amci _ati !n looking on thte happ Au And thinking of the days th Fredh as the fir.t beam 1-1 That brin:: our friends up Sad as the la which redden That sinks with all we love So sad, so fresh, the days th Ah, sad and stran_e as in The earliest pipe of half-a To dying ears, when unto d The casement slowly grows So sad, so strange,'the days Dear as remembered kisse And sweet as those by hope] On lips that are for others; Deep as first love. and wild O Death in Life, the days th * * * By B. IIEN my youngest unel came home and told my Wl grandfather that he was en aged to Miss Smnitner soi the lear, old mal was puaailet with dismay, and all the re lations and friends who knew Miss SmIitl:erson were paralyzed. too. and expr':ssed their opinion that my unce had been thwarted through the mach in:tlons of old Snitherson. This was ten years or so before I was born. By that time the lady had quarreled with half her husband's re lations, and by the time I was eighteen she thd quarreied with the other half. only excepting myself, to whom, for sume unaccountable reason, she had conceived a violent and somewhat em barrassing affection. As by this timc my parents were dead and had left their children very illprovided for, we thought it better from prudential mo tives to encourage this affection, my aunt beint one of our few prosperous relations, and our only wealthy one. as, in addition to her own fortune. she ha: caused Iy late uncle to make a will leaving her absolute mnistress of all lie possessed: so when he died she was worth a considerable fortune. Her two sons were entirely dependent on her caprices, and as she had already quarreled violently with the elder, there was every chance that she might leave me a comfortable income. I therefore responded with hypocritical .warmth to her fond overtures. and al ways accepted her frequent and press ing invitations, though I reaped much weariness and not a little irritation from her exacting society. These visits were. however. rendered endurable by the society of my cousin Edgar. the younger anO favorite son, of whom I was really ery fond. and with whom I sometimes 'een fancied myself in love wLen wearied with the excessive ardor of Cyril Cavendish. an impecunious bank clerk, who had fixed his youthful agections upon mae. and whose assurances as to my personal charms were often a great comfort to me wvhen wounded in spirit by the plain speaking of my bmrothers. *'tine day Edgar' came to me with a -greatly perturbed expression, and sa.id he wvanted me to help him out of a difficulty. I said 1 would do my best, antd. after some heating abotut the bush, he informed mte that he was deeply in love with Augusta Denaby. a rather pretty girl who lived in the up t parish. "Augusta Denaby!" I exclaimed. "'Why, you know Aunt Maria detests her and would cut you olT with a -dollar if you venttured to marry bet':" '"Thait's just the difficulty." respond - ed Edgar. "Just because Mr's. Dcen aby offended mother a dlozent years iigo, she hasn't a good wvor'd to say for any of the family. She has hardly spoken to any of them, and. 1 believe, has umr even seen Augusta. I am sure. if she ce- got to, know: bcin. she couin't lp li king her, anad now that Mrs. De::aby. is dead. clher/'s no :-eason the enmity should lbe kept up. But. yo u see, Kitty, mother has m;ule up h:er min d that you anad i areo to marry eac'h ot her, and she is examec t ting me to pr'opose to you while you aire here.," ''But I don't waint to ma rry you." I reinrnted, wvith sonme w,rmth. Cyvril sudinly becoming pree:uis ini my sigh t., "I know you don't." r(-plied! Edgar, "andl I dlon~t want to marrym- you, so we- arc of one mind on that point. But, von see, Kitty, I .-haill get nto peace tiii I ask :;ou: so wvi:it I want you to (10 is to reftuse me, and then I '-an tell mother that you wouldn't have me, and I shall be r'educed to despair and go off and marry Augusta. and mother will throw all the blame upon you. Then 'we shall gradually wvork round, so that mother will get to know and like Atugusta. and all will end happily." SI was filled with indignation at this suggestion. Mlean, s(lflsht fellow!: Why should I be sacrificed, just to further is owvn ends, and be depr'ived of the comfortable p)rovisiont for' the future upiont wich I wais dlependiing at my aunt's death? I resolved upon r'e vene "Vsery well." said I. e<.ldly. "I will do wi-i' I4an for you. BRat you r Ym h sked liet ontly this 'morn ini ha i'rioposed ye:."' lhe replied. , ' then, do so." saidi I. -. K'ity. wvill you oe my dea au::: to ~ who I owe - . o :. i U 1y yo have yae no." -: Iti Ia d0 a mya ant embracedo n:c wvarmly. almost with tears ind I em braced her; wit h et;ual forer. v'ndF her that I cou!d neverdc :::: show my gratirtude. My aunt insisted that we should bt married at once, only allowving time foi the purchase of an elaborate trousseaut with which she intended to providt me. The unfortunate Edgar was nearly distra,cted. To break off his engage ment with me would incense his moth er even more than his refusal to pro pose in; the first p)lace would havc dneo T-T raged and stormed in nri. )LE TEARS.'" not what they nan, r to te Cn ee, it are no inure. t" airg on a sail. +rnm the unlerworid, s over one below the verge; At are no Imore. dirk sinimer dawns wakened birds vi n eyes a alimmering square; t hat are no more. s after death. ess fancy feigned deep as love, yith all regret; at are no more. -Tennyson, "The Princess." IlS MONEY. MIR * * * * F. Paul. . 'ate, declared he would commit suicide rather than marry me, would reject me at the altar, would illtreat me in the most fearful way after r were married. But to all these i''eats I opposed an unruttled sweetness of de meanor and lavished a gri at show of affection upon him in the presence of my aunt, to whom he was unwillingly obliged to respond. Our wedding day drew near, and Ed gar. finding me unmoved by threats. now had recourse to entreaties, and even secretly brought Augusta to add her prayers to his; but to lteir pitiful moans I only responded that nothing would induce inc to disappoint m.hy dear aunt, even if I had to sacrifice my life's happiness in the cause. It may readily be supposed that I had not really the slightrst intention of allo~aig Edgar to marry me. I in tended to drive him into rejecting me, a course which would. I knew, deeply offend my aunt and would probably oust Edgar altogether from her favor, in which I then hoped to rise still higher by the representation that Ed gar's cruelty had broken my heart. However, as the day approached and Edgar showed no signs of open rebel lion, I began to be a little alarmed. What if, after all, I had to reject Ed gar? That would be fatal! My aunt would never speak to me aga in. The morning before the appointed wedding (lay E lgar came to me, pale and fierce. "Are you determinec to keep up this farce to the end?" he inquired. "Farce?" said I, raising my brows. "I intend to obey my beloved aunt, if that is what you mean." "Then take the eonseque::es." lie retorted. as he departed angrily and banged the door. That evening a note was discovered in Edgar's room informing his mother that wvhen she read it all would. be over, that he could not obey her wishes in marrying me, andi, rather than run counter to them, he had resolved to de stroy himself. The dijstrac'ted mother was beside herself with grief. Shie rushed here and there, giving contradictory orders: she ran up and down stairs as if searching for some sign of his pres ence: she dispatched search parties in the hope that lhe might yet be discov ered alive: but nothing could be found, except his coat and hat on the bailk of a river. The conclusion come to was that the unfortunate young man hail drowned himself, though no trace of the body could lbe discovered. - "You are my only hope and comi fort:"' cried my~aunt, weeping on my neck. "You must never leave me, darling:"' W'ith'some misgivings, I promised 1 wonH1 not. The next morning, at an early hour. Mr. D)enaby a ppe'art d in a state of dis traction. Aungusta. it seemed, unable to bear the idea oif resigning Edward to any oth(:r bride, h:ad also drowvned herself. Tier cloak ande hat had breen d;s(coveredl on the' lank of thme river'. which wats being dragged fort the body, but so f:: r without success. The h er'eavedi parents wept toget her, anad so io:ching was thmei r grief t :at I cried. too, although I had net the sligh test appr'ehension that A.\ugusta and( Edgar had really drowned ti:c!m selvyes. However, as months passed on anid nothing was heard of either of themi. I began to feel rather anxious and :o woflnder what had befallen them. Meanwhile a common sorrow had drawn the two unhappy househo!ds together, and, about a year after these startling events, my aunt astounded me one morning by the information that she and Mr. Denaby had resolved to unite their br'oken hearts and seeki consolation in wedlock. Here wvas a nice prospect far me. My aunt had already b)e'omie very favoi'ably disposed toward tier future stepeh'lildren, and would be earmin j to providle handsomely foi' thenm in her w ill. and. instead of being hier' sole heiress I was suddenly confronted w ith sev en rivais-the number of Au utas brtothers and sisters-and m;ighit think~ mys el f fo:tunate if I grit off w!: er'ed my due. The P ma rriage took place, an:d th D ennby 'xs migra ted from their s m;all h ous-e ii amy aunt's hittanse mainsion,. in whliih I nmow felt inyself ana inter' loper. I returned to may forimet' home. whtere nmy 1-ldzst sister wvas sttrumglin: inmake both ends imeet. and wLr' I was not received wv ith mumch enUhu In -n.thes' c'ircuan:stances. I ne ciep d ano:Thm ot mar:ing from a weaiti;v I Zt:t'::ni who: fe:: a viei!m t) ihose Ou- te v ery daymt that I wrote to umy : -m irforn:I her of miy engagement. I *' *-:.m a letter from heir. written :1 g.t e::eitemnt, and incoherently annXour.!g that "Edgar was not in heaven, as she had hoped," but in Can ada. where he and his wife, Augusta, were happily settled and doing ex trermely wel. Having heard of the marriage of their respective parents, they had taken courage to write and inform them that they, i.oo, were mar' ried, and not dead, as was supposed: they hoped they :.hould be forgiven and~ still hold a place in the affections j o itie friends. . e o ii * * * Thusi' all erdcd well. Edar has al :reml} :ttaiied areat eminew:f" in his :diot'l com;:try: Cyril and I are both ]1a:pily marrictd-to sc'nwod cly else and my aunt is so kept inl order by her sec"ond husband. who has proved to be a person of much decision of charaeter. that she has already begged her eldest son's pardon for having discarded him, and has made an equitable will. divid ing her fortune in the most proper and satisfactory manner. I am glad to say that I am not for gotten.-New York Weekly. -If It is said that the $340.000 that An drew Carnegie has given for the es tablishment in Boston of an institute similar to Cooper _nstitute, is to be added to a fund of $270,000. which has grown from $5000. left 100 years ago by Benjamin Friuklin. Herr Mock. of Babenhlausen (Hesse), has been carrying on observations of the humming of both telegraph and telephone wires. The humming of wire running east and west is said to presage a fall of temperature, often ten or more hours in advance of the thermometer: the humming of wires north and south advises a rise in tem perature. several hours in advance of the termometer.--Pail mall Gazette. Upotl investigation by the chemist of an extensive railroad system re arding the best protection of struc tural work from rust, it was found that the value of the various paints used was directly dependent upon the size of the particles of pigment. that is, to the fineness to which it had been ground. It is a common idea among paint users that grinding in oil is pref erable to dry grinding. Experiment, however, showed that dry grinding. especially when combined with floating to remove large particles. was much more eicient than the satme grinding done in oil. In the proceedings of the Philadel phia Academy. Miss A. M. Fie;de re cords three instances of curious traits displayed by anis kept under observa tion in the laboratory at Woods' HIall, Mass. In the :irst case the actions recorded suggested something akin to hypnotism, while from the third there seens a possibility that these insects may be able to r "nember and recognize individuflls of their own kind after a separation of several years. The re actions of ants to vibrations is the subject of anotaer article in whien it is urged that it is misleading to ascribe or deny hearing to these in sects. Snowv will manage to get inside of a window where rain in the severest stom1 cannliot penetrate. I have seen it blown under the putty and arotund the rabbet of the sash on the inside of the pane. So have you. But AT# tralian satnd: Absalom's party nearly died of starvation because sand got into all their provisions even into tins hermetically sealed and bottles securelyF corked. It went through teather, rub er. iron. It buried itself in the skin until a man felt like a piece of emery paper. The scientist of the party got several hollow glass balls and anchored them in a simoon. They wer from three to five inches in diameter, of material an eighth of an inch thick. Restlt-After the blow they were dis (covred to be about a1 third full of Negotiating~ a Loan Te customer was mioodiiy scratch ing a mtatch on the woodwork after inding ott the eigart store man for th i e t second, and1) appearedi'C to be~ itt iter'sted i thet tr1end of even is, s 5that thes itan behin.d the register the coliumins I stilessly, I wim wvaiti ir the next sn,'ker 'l sey. B1:. this is interesting." he remaked, after a inmei's inispectionl 'What" aiked Bill. we.rily. It s,iys hier(e that the b anik clearngs in New York itst week mutouintd to m ore t han .$-'7-)00.K0- which was ani ic:'eO-e of over lifty lier cent. ascoml parrd vwith last yeatr." "Ch, ihed Bill. "Timnes mutst he good dowvn on thie coast cotiied theC cigar store man. "but after all, they haven't got it all t hemselves. H-er'e's 'Frisco w1th a ttal of $32-0O00-0)0- an increase' of seven per cent. Tlha t's a tine showing, --Umph" said Dill. "Here's the news from T.ondonl. sowtig thatt money beeasy. especially in oth Americatn scurities. wvhich appeariti to be dead easy. To judge by this. imes are ntot so shaky its some eope talk abcout, are they, BillH -1 dno,"' muttered Bill. 'iiy, old mani,"' said the cigari mn, suddenly. '"you doff't seem to take any irtei'st int the tinanucial l;"iRessS ordi orl. What's the mta tter wvit you nh west of t sanaa p VT** r'~ ttie tea loan of two1 hiunil aiturdy n ninii. I want to ..v my air eut wh tie it's warm. Just as. I ami ready to ye har- my toucu sp rin untidi* lio s ni m . lot all Am erti. and I go~ a~ ..t a . Iill -ecured tie lban wi:tot seur' it y,.Chiag hroil". Gold. From ttiver Moss. norhern Calioria. av" n1iKii BAyr. erbeiia amtnat of gobi fr4on thle river m lss. Ono coutnity storekeeper at a sall place oni thle river bought, during the season just closed. M4000 worth tri them. lHe says that on the rocks and bedrock along the sides of a chan nel especialiy on riftles and in places where the centt is swift, moss forms in the sumfier months. When the wa ter tises i winter it overflows these plaes andI the moss acts as a gold saver. Whmen the wvater bednsi to fall in summer the miners gather the moss an either put it in the sun to dry, burning it later and panning out the ashes, or they wash it in a tub of .-j. waerm the gold is all washed out. SOUTHERN : TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT Cellars. Much has been written lately about fruit and vegetable cellars, and how best to store the fruits and vegetables to keel) well. Some say that when sweet potatoes are first put in the cel lar they should be kept very warm for about ten days to pass through a sweat in order to keep well. and afterwards kept at an even temperature of fifty to sixty degrees Fahrenheit. But in the Southern Fruit Grower, Mr. J. A. Foreman :.ays that "fruits and vege tables must never be allowed to sweat or get damp at any time." I would like to know which is the correct prin ciple or plan. Mr. Foreman also states that when the temperature fails below forty-five degrees in sweet potato cel lar they will chill and turn black in spots and will soon rot. In my sweet potato cellar the temperature has gone down as low as forty degrees, and they are keeping well so far. Also two writers I have noticed that claim that an app:e cellar should he on the north slope of a hill to be cool. and the door should open from the lop floor down and a window on the side: door and window open at iight to leave hi cold air when necessary. Now it seems to me that a cellar on the nlotthleast or east slope would be cooler in s.Imn;r than on the north slope. as it would receive only the iuorning sun when the air was cool. while the one on the north slope would receive tho evening sun when atmosphere was warm, and in winter the one on the north slope would be more subject to severe cold or changes. And why have a window on the side and door down from the top? I understand that a cel lar ought to be dark to keep vegetables and fruit best. Then why not have the door at the end to enter easily to put in or take out .fruit or vegetables, and an open ventilator through the top floor. which can be closed when very cold? I have a sweet potato cellar and a cel lar for Irish potatoes and fruits. They both face to the east and have double doors at that end and have ventilator through top floor opening to room above under the roof, which makes them convenient to enter, put things in or take them out, as they are only a few steps down from east end door. They are easily ventilated. Have no trouble to keep my fruit and Irish po tato cellar from thirty to forty degrees in winter. If my principle is wrong. I want to know it.-A. J. ULnloLlt. of Johnson County, Ark. What Teosinte Is. _eosinte-is botanically closely related to common corn, and is called a grass, although it grows ten feet high. It is a native of Central America, but has been cultivated in the South. It will hardly produce seed in Alabama, bult it will make a wonderful quantity of feed for stock. At the Georgia Experiment Station it produced 3S,000 pounds of green forage per acre: at Mississippi Expriment Station as high as 44,000O pounds of green feed per acre. The seasons in Alabama are not long enough for teosinte to mature seed. It grows best on rich soils and in hot. rainy seasons. The accompanying illustration shcws mode.It ca bealoe 1t,ro' l theapesarae og the staaks smaln aou fullyero. Itsnsufrmteiy Tosirt salk froml abie planted It maybeama about thref ta,ie eaows sorfeart and ned on e soling each. Iot cn the alowOed toun owf rste tol bsoeda ascre. Culltiatera. Leanut ar ortnng anoal s.al n Tesit wdsould becl aptente inth lbaalbofpautlst f at.ning rows fouraply. Sptandhineduto wi dplwll ach foordiny the w. One pondof sedwlPonte Pare.gra tivtes. ifNearey everydiolre rcultrito moemaaes.~Ftenn ~g It woul aie to apladthn itoi to~ value of theansuar tenn lo A1 woany o saivys a'tl clvni brehin Niaesa elvey diorf. lt n w Aore tenrr ints atryu eh Ito ishoeie tof apoiud sidealk it iset gis iossblohuaw.a ffi Whiske isqsare. aueamota man fumnras a dclovers. ahn ditee a oe ho.rs Abou ~nte minuts tafte dynge anhol snow i seerf you sidgoe.aki e nst im,agietawmncntl onisny isc jsato bcause heldoes.a Aman whoal as makngct nihtrs.i Aee *hns say that dyring aner. It's quite easy to convince some mar ried men that it is good to be alon3. Many a man lives in the marriedl state who isn't permitted to think in itI A RM * / ITESI ER, STOCKMAN i&D yRUCk- GROWER. fertilized. Use from 200 to 400 pounds of acid plhospha - and kainit to the acre. If the lan(l is deficient in lime. the addition to the above fertilizer of 200 pounds of land plaster or lime will make the yiEld much greater. Break up the land and lay off rows two feet and ten Inches apart, planting first of May. The crop is much more easily kept clean if planted with com bination planter, as it is often hard to get a stand. I find it best to plant the shelled peas four or five inches apart. thinning to about twice that distance at first work ing. It is cheaper in the end to use a double quantity of seed and save re planting. as the replanted hills do not make half a crop. The crop should be planted and cul tivated as nearly on a level as possible. For cultivation use a side harrow or small tooth cultivator until the last working. which should be done with a larger plow in order to throw more dirt to the plants. It does not pay to let them get grassy. Fence after laying by. Turn the hogs on when matured. They will not require any other food while the pea nuts last. but should be given plenty of lean water. An occasional feed of charcoal sprinkled with salt serves to keep them in a healthy condition. An acre of good peanuts will fatten from Soo to 1000 pounds of pork. Some prefer to feed corn for a few weeks before killing, but it is not absolutely necessary. The lard is oily when fat tened on peanuts alone, but the meat is finely flavored. I have followed the above plan for a number of years, and find that I not only fatten my meat more cheaply, but the land is improved by leaving the whole crop returned to it.-R. T. Steele. Scotland County, N. C., in Pro;re.+4dr Farmer. Nests and Sitters. "What's in the nest, anyway?' some one may ask. "A nest's a nest." says another; as if there was no distinction in nests. But there is. In the first place, the eggs and the sitter are in the nest, and the number of chickens that may. or may not. come forth from the eggs. depends to no small extent on the character of the nest, and its location. It does not mat ter. even in very cold weather. so much where the nest is placed, as to how it is constructed. Large hens require large nests-nests that will receive the eggs on a comparatively flat. but springy surface. and the hen with her wings dropped about them at the outer edge on either sidle, with also room for her to place her feet on the bottom of the nest without crushing any of the eggs. The sides of the nest for the early sitters should itave a soft, or elastic rolled edge of hay or other ma terial about it, so as to confine the eggs,. and also aid the hen in keeping them in the proper temiperature. The nest should also be in a shallow box. or directly on the ground with a six-inch siding, so that the lhen will not be likely to crush any when returning to her place after feeding. And right here is. perhaps, the most important point of all in securing a good hatch. It is the liberty of the sitter throughout the whole period of incubation. She must, in order to get best results. be so situ Iatd that she can leave the iiest and e-'rn whenever she has the inclina tion! to do so. Otherwise, she is apt to b)ecome feverish, nnd her tempera tre irregular. wh1mich condit ion will surely result in some spoiled eggs. Con fintg the sitter- and taking her~ from the nest-hcx to feed at our own coni veniecee. is a very bad policy. Another thing. which is quite as bad as the above. aind which tends to shorten the hatch. is the exposure of the sitter~ to the annoyance of the L'.yors of the flock crowding in her nrest to lay. T is most n,ot he~ alhwaed. if n'nyth!ng like a full batch is h'sire~d. The best plan is to put lie sitter. 3r several of themi if desire~d. in a pl ee where they will lie shut in fr-om tile outsiers aind yet have plenty of r m to move about in. 'ed in wviihih their food and water shiould lie placed. ns well as a good-siz?d box of dust. But, never should a sitter be shiutrin closc ly on the nest. Such a thing invites dis aster.-II. B. Geer, in Southern Culti vator. Lettuce From Dampening Oft. Where lettuce and cabbhage are started in beds rich with manure there will be a large proportion of the planits that will be affected with a fungus dis case. All such plants should be started in beds where the soil is poor. then they will grow slowly and the stems will hiecome sufficiently hard to resist t:is disease. If truck growvers will al ways appiy German Kainit to the land before planting lettuce seed it will re duce the dampening off or toips from falling over. When a plant has damp (ed off take it out of the bed, also the soil immediately around it, and this may remove the eas and prevent the disease front snreadiung. Reflections of a Bachelor. Eternal vigilance is the price of not getting found out. It's queer how long it takes a mnan't wife to get over the idea that his lap was made to sit in. Just before the mosquito season wo men begin to make open-work clothe: so they can bite through. A girl with pretty ankles would rath er wear laced boots so they can keel coming untied for some man to ti again. Men seh!om speak favorably of politician unlcss they have an axe tC When a man pays a doctor for adviec and the doctor prescribes flaxseed tet and mustard plasters the man feel that he has been cheated. It's easier to begin at the top and slide down than it is to begin at th( bottom and crawl up. A milliner is always suspicious of woman customer who doesn't want t< ry on every hat she has. While the orchestra plays betweel the acts men go out and smile, but the lam.dies mutimply grin and bear it THE Sr? DAY SCO00] INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT FOR APRIL 2. Subject: Jesus. the Good Shepher', Joh X., 7-18-Golden Text. John x., 11 Memory Verses, 17, 18-Commentar on the Day's Lesson. I. The shepherd and the sheep (v 1-6). In these verses Jesus lays th foundation for the discourse which wa to follow. With the external draper; of this narabie the hearers of Jesu were perfectly famiiiar. T1e;:s wa a sheep-growing country: floes wer their main dependence. II Christ the door (vs. 7-9). 1 "Then said Jesus." Jesus was talkin; directly to the men who had excou municated the former blind man, and the application of His word.s was t, them as spiritual thieves and robbers They had r"viled a poor man instead o protecting him. "Verily. verily." Thi emphasized the importance of what H was a1bout to say. Jesus now procerd to expain the iLustration He Lad mad use of in vr :s 1-,;. "I tm the door. The slhe:,;%folds of the East are mer one!osures surrounded by a wall o loose stones with thorn-hushes upoi the top. but utsually an ef eetual har rier against the welves. There is o, one door. "The sheep." Trac Chr:s tials. S. 13fore M.e. " Those who c:1n pr 'ending to be pastors or gui(es t the pcople. The s(ribes :nd 'iaris2e. claime to he iistru(clors of the p:oie 'iaimed the right to regulate the afaiT of riion; witoe olliy :il w: to pC wot' themslVes an opprecs the peo plI:. "Thli:e;es and"hhr. Th fa ' t,one1 r. who reee:ed Christ al who vcre :!cvourIlng the sheep. "D: not hear. 3I any did hear a:n follow tise false pro')hets. bn "the s'ep" - those with true spir itlal ini ght--detected their hypocrs y 1. "Ene n. ihroigh faiit in Ciis we ee:-c: itO the fold-the Visi' churcih. 'Shll ibe saved." Safe fron the 'ohhcrs thai seek to 1(stroy: safl from false hers: safe from the sin: that woult ruin: safe from the tr:)llics dangers and ,emnptation1s of life. " h in and out.' We miust "go il" to trust to res:. to thin-. to pray. before w can "go out" to do ofieetive work fo the Lord. "Find nasture." Satisa tion for every ne^d of the soul. III. Tile thief and the hireling (.S i0-1:i1. 10. "Th:ef." Any opposer of ti! Gost)el. "To steal" e,e. False leach ers steal the h:'arts and affections frou ('-rist. Th'i heresies kill and (desiro. all sniritual life. "Life-abundantly R. 1.i Christ ;.< a)1 to give His peo ie aiiuld:ant life. Mlany are seekin; "m:or:" life: what such need is "life' the Ch:':st lif.the abundant life. 11 See on ye:._. 14, _:). 12. ."An hire ling."Ti:e hireling is the one wh labors sim1plt- for his wa'rs. with tl love or coneern for :the wotk. "Thi wolf." The wolf is the enemy of soua in any of his manifold disguises. suci as persecution. heresy, worldly living or a low standard of morals. 13. "C:ar eth not." To him the welf"re of thi I sheep is nothing: he is chiefly solicito:: for his own safety, his own gain an< worldly honor. IV. Christ the good Shepherd (vs 14-18). 14. "I .nm the goad Shepher'd. Jesus. as tihe good Shephcru, was fort' told1 by Glod in the pr'ophets. His chat acter was that of a divinel.r appoin.te' shephle:d. His purposes. Hi.s teaichinzgs His works. His miracles. B:is method of work, all were those -whLich muns bPlong to a good shepherd of (GOd Ieople. "'KnIow My sheep." In th East -in a flock of hundreds each sheel would have and wvould know its ow: name. So Chrst knows us and love: us as individuals. "Am. known o mine.' There is a multulal affectici lietweenl the shenherd and the sheet There is a multual affection between thl Father andu the Soil: one is .paralir with the other. As the lether knov. the Son, so dlo's the Shepherd kutov the sheep: as tile Son knows til Father, so do the sheep know the Shep: herd. 3. "Lay down My life." The Ori ental shepherd imust face ;iormus, har: ships and dangers for his sheep: i mulst tind them whlen lost antd mulS often light with wild blea'ts :mnd roh bers in prtl'Mint:1 themi;. Our Shepher< gives unl His life f'o:' us5 (-ioon :t:10 Titus 2:14: .ToInn 4:l1A 1. "Othe sheep have I." The GCei'cs whmo wer< 50o1n to be b'rcu-;ht into Hi:s churel'i The good Shepherd sw.eens the worl with 'His thoughZit. Here is the~ -univer s:1l rlttOl io ofTesus to sieners of al one t%eek" 4iR. V.i One thock not il creed or named. , hat in what is far mtor ssetiatl-one0 in Christ. One ill hears oneo in i'prpse, one in he se:'viceo (God and1( man11. 17. "Because I lay down." Not lbe catuse I have laid it down, as thoug the love of the Father were coused b; the earthlly love and sacrifice of Chris: but because I lay it down'. That is. hi cause Chrnist's Spirit is onue of self-sat rificing love, manifested by. but nc( alone embodied in. the incearnation. H is loved by the Father (see Phi!. 2:t Heb. 1:9). "Take it again." His ri: ing from the dead was as necessarya His dying, for by His resurrection H secured the fruits of His death (eon pare Rom. 4:25). Christ died in orde to rise to a more compiete life, and t raise men with Him. This purpos evoked the love of tile Father (compal 2:32: Phil 2:9; Heb. 1:9). L.8. "N man." His death was entirely volm: tary. Men killed Him, but He had fu power to escape from them had B wished. No one imposed upon Him til duty of leaving Heaven, of comingi the world. suffering and dying. E chose to do it, that He migtht sa11 men. "Have I received." While F dd it volutarily. it was in accordan< with His Father's expressed wil This is the divine law of salvation. The Rev. W. Carlile, heal of ti Church Army. and who had a spect audience of King Edward, the oth< day, relates the Argonant in an inte view recalling remarks by tl~e Bish< of London and Ripon to the effect th fashionable marriages where dutit of life are shirked and where mi riage was made a mockery, were-ev' more terrible than those irregul: marriages which the church had n sanctioned, said: "The love of ea and luxury among the upper class is mainly responsible for the natiol decay. The refusal of mothers to cept the responsibilities of mothe Lhood is, in my opinion, nothing le than child murder. I weep to think it ; Lon don becoming anothe r Herc1 aneum, another Pompeii. If we do: mend our ways our fate will be no: the less terrible." An English physician declares th the eating of flesh meat makes a m~ immoral. There is no question b the paying for it makes him. profat deciareS the Washington Post. ~CHRIS IAN ENDEAORSNOTES RIL SECOND. The Makin of a Christian: His Food.-2 im. 3:14-17; John 6: y 47-58. (Co secration meeting.) Bi 5..,.ints. e There is mat rial in the Bible for s many lifetimes of study. What a misfortune. then ot to begin in s early life (2 Tim 3:15). s Observe, and y ou will note this suggestive fact-t t those that know the most about t e Bible, and obey Its precepts most faithfully, are the most certain of i s inspiration, and hold the doctrine i the fullest sense (2 Tim. 3:16). Of no book b t the Bible would ev u an infidel cla m that it furnished a complete guide for living (2 Tim 3:17). One can no mor judge of Ch t without receiving im into the fe than he can judge f bread wi out eating it (John 6:4 ) f Suggestive T ojghts. Can you think of a y othe person in the world's history hat w 'uld have dared to call himsel th( Bread of I life, and the world wot Id gladly admit his claim? The quiet hour fcr spiritual food taking is as necessary as the meal hours for physical foo - You cannot feed the rain with ice cream, nor the muscl s with soda water; no more can yo feed the soul with material things. The wise man will s e where his body is weak, and will at and exer cise to build up the we k part. So will the Christian seel out those Bible portions and that gospel work which will best meet is spiritual needs. Illustrations Physicians say that ost men eat too much, clogging the systef with undigestible food. Ch tians will not eat too much spiritua food if they put in practice at once 11 that they learn from Christ. It has been proved th3 food eaten without an appetite is rly digested or not digested at all. iGet up an appetite for spiritual f Violent exercise is for dden im mediately after meals. S a little - quiet meditation should follow , ception of truth; only, do not wait long before you put it in practice! We all see that physical growth is absolutely dependent upon food. Why should we expect spiritual growth to - come by itself without the taking of - spiritual food? Quotations. - Men are constantly seeking to feed their higher nature upon wrong food, which may satisfy for a time, but in the long run cannot keep back the , pangs of a noble spiritual hunger. Wayland Hoyt. What are pearls to a man who is dying for want of bread?-Arnot. I If you can live without Christ, the Bread of life, I fe.r your soul is not -that of God's people, for they all hunger and thirst after Jesus.-bpul geon. N PORTH tLGUDE LESSOE APRIL SlECOND. The Making of a Christian; His Food. -John 6. 47-48; 2 TIm. 3. 14-17. This lesson is a part of one of the .pubic discourses of Jesus. In the .frst four verses Jesus shows that what the I manna was to the fathers who receiv ed it by eating, himself is to all souls who receive him by faith. Manna was Stemporal life to the Israelites; he is - ternal life to all believers. In the next two verses he goes a L..ep farther -and identifies the bread with his flesh. Then in the latter part of our lesson he adds his blood. The evi dent meaning is that whoever receives Christ by faith bc .:omes a partaker of~the body and blood of Christ; that is, he recives eternal life and the benefits of the resurrection. In Timothy we have the same thought presented under the figure of the Word. We are to feed upon Christ and his Word. In other words, our foodl is spiritual food received by prayer and Bible study. They- are able to make wise unto salvation. The soul must be fed as well as the body. The results of starvation is as apparent in the religious life as In -the physical. Weak, flabby, and lean L souls are as possible, and indeed more common, than lean bodies. As ,a rule, we care for the body better than the soul. We can no more build up a strong spiritual life without soul *t food than we can be strong physically without material food. The making I: of a Christian depends largely on -what he eats. Our scripture suggests s That he eat spiritually of Christ. *' By this we mean an act of faith by which the soul appropriates to itself rChrist as a life within. We also mean ~'that he spend much time in prayer, e by which he receives strength and* grace by personal touch with Jesus. The old manna was found for the body; but this new manna Is for the soul, and is to be spiritually received. It suggests the value of prayer an meditation as a means of spiritu ~growth. No soul can be strong does not pray much. He mus ~partaker of the divine natur Tiat he study the Wo 1. Paui calls Timothy's att fact that it was his k Scriptures which had a character as he e had the power to al salvation. And a rteacher all insp r-profitalgle. The ter was onew furnished." I wvhat is true sthe layman. r- ho prays nBible muc ar exercisea ot feeding th seIsoul? SIn a rec .c female sex r.- the majorit ss the Little of take; we s i. Instead of i't United Sta IlHawail inclu males than fe census of 190jk in evdencg t Simpressioii, b men; they tDistrIct 01 e,, they are tB. no or na de