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THE WORDS J a rA. vo:, r:y tongue has ut-erei IIlbrUd:~t ! me (I:ro:t event(de. And1 I h:e;e arived with a griev!: biu e Ov er Spech oI aII'r tnd orni and r :wyr a -Vw (d ini mv heart rememb I--r . -i~ i: v t myself at the close o d.t: i' ,ie rcei wkh repentance more unava:1 :n;: Thanl have the words I d1d no: say. T.e vwoni of -,:cr that I night have whis pered To a heart that was brealng with weicht of woe, The word of hope that I might have given To one whose courage was ebbing low. The word of warning I should have spoken In the ear of one who walked astray Oh. how they come r ith a sad rebuking Tiose helpful words that I did not -ay; THE RAID OF -1 THE By Count S {An out-of-the-way adventure which A Frirca. On their wav'to the river a herd the author's camp, whereupon they what happened when the Laiuriated mi My'love of big game shooting has led me to all parts of the world in search of it. amongst other places to the coun try around th-e Waso Nyiro River, in East Africa. where rhinoceroses abound. After a long march through a more than desolate country, inhab ited by superstitious natives who tell blood curdling stories about witches, vampires, and such like pleasant folk, we camped one evening on a slope near some trees. Two friends of mine who had accom panied me on my race round the Dark Continent-Monsieur de Rubempre and Bevis O'Sullivan, both of them splendid sportsmen-shared one small fire with me. while our carriers and other at tendants made merry a little distance away. 1 was sleeping the sleep of the just after a meal off a delicious rhinoceros tongue when I was suddenly awakened by a hideous yell. Sitting up, I saw De Rubempre and O'Sullivan come dashing along in very scanty attire. running as if they were competing for a championship. As they passed me they shouted something-what I could not gather. Astounded, I gazed round in a dazed, half-sleepy fashion, and presently saw my flying friends take refuge behind the sycamore trees which shaded the camp. Looking in the op posite direction. I was horrified to see a huge rhino'eros moving briskly about at :he other end of the camp. Need less to say. I hurriedly got out of bed. I was too sleepy and dazed to think of weapons. and was about to join my friends among the trees when the rhinoceros. with an odd little jump, disappearedl in the bushes. leaving one of our tires stamped out and some of th:> packs knocked as fint as pan .ca kes. The excitement gradually subsided -aftor the departure of th6 huge ani mail. and once more slumber fell upon the camp. But it was apparently dhe creed that our~ peace wias to be dis turbed conminually during that night. for I bad just gone to sleep again and was dreamuing of shooting rh'noceroses with one shot each, like pheasants. wvhen I heard my iname pronounced in af ghostly wvhisp~ar. Opening my eyes. I saw De Ruhtmpre being over me " What's the m~atter?" I asked. sleep "Look, m.an!" he murmurod, exclted ly: "the rhinoceros is returninig, with his -whole familyv" "Oh. bot her t he r-hinoceros:" I said. turning over la-ziy; but the Frenehman shook me until I sat up-with very had grace. Not far off, clearly visible in the bright moonight. I beheid a whole herd of rhinoceroses. apparently mx.:n ining the camp. Their looks did not please me. and, rising to my feet. 1 snatched up my gun. I discovered. lhowever, that with the deceptive light it was impossible to aim with any cer tainty. Moreover. I reflec-ted that if once the gr-eat brutes beeame infuriat ed and charged down on the camp. the Zulu saying. '-You shall be stamped flat," would not only be tiguratively. but literally, exemplified. I dont think I have ever been so un easy as at that moment. for I felt helpless be-fore this mighty avalanche of flesh and bone. which the least acci dent might send roiling irresistibly to wards us. De Rubempre saw the dan. ger. too: and although he has proved his bra very over and over again, lie paled, and anxiously looked at the trees. O'Suilivan only, with his in. fectious Irish gaiety, did not for a minute think of the danger. Presently we detected a movement amongst the herd: the huge brutes seemued to be lining up ini some sort of order. "Loohs as though they were going to reproduce the ceharae of Ih-laclava:" caserved the irrepressible O'Sullivan, and I was inclined to agree with him. For- half an hour the rhinoceroses cm not .:arer. although they mxoved round .;md~ r'ountd us in clumsy c~rcles 'Thle scenei was strikingly~ weixrd-thos: hulkinig grey bodies tiittinig through tht darkIiss all :aibout us. Suddenlyi there was a shriek of "IFrru:" fromt ur natives. -md with onc accord they made for 11.^ trees. ThE pondrus aimalsa were charging dowr: towards5 tiie ei mp: "'Ilere comne tic 'n!ant o six hundred" ol s.'.ed ('Sullivan. and iatrrioilt swurz' htimself imto a tree. The F'ren-h matn and I al.so clambered up and :'v our hteavy guns ready. O'Sullivan was liternily hubbin;g over wvith gaiety. in spite of the seri ousnecss of the situatiou. "~iioorOO: he yeilel.steC Zren bruites enmte tarng hrobugh: he brush wood, leaving, a eleeur spaxce behtim thtem. "Icere comue the road-makers' "And here goes the grave-maker,' sl e bi1 1:1ha eme. cor' y t aking aimt w thx hiis ritie resting on a branch. O1 en me tne monsters at a lumbering gal lop. A shot rang out and down wen a teavy mass. raising a thick cloud o: grrey (lust and shaking the ground. "Bra vo: Good. snot:" shouted O'Sul livan. "-Your tturn. Schembeck." 1 had been aiming already, and whet he spoke I pressed the trigger, but as: fired the brute I was aiming a stumbled over a fallen trunk and cami down on his knees, so that my bulle onyir nried il in. the hmead back. DID NOT SA So many and swveet: If I harl but said thei 1iov a! mi heart thri wou~d ha' What J v of hieNosing wouzhl fall non it A the day's rememrnace ;aher' in: BuIt 1 Sa id them10 not aad. the chance o: I. ,one with the oxmeat of yeozterdal And T Sit alone vith a spi:it burdened by ail the words that 1 did no- :ay. The mIorrow;v will come with its new b< )innl itg. GIad and _rand, through the mormng gate Shall I not then with this thought besid Me Go bravelv forth to the work that waits Giving a message of cheer ani kindness To all I meet on the world's highway, So that I never will grieve at twilight Over the words that I did not say. -L. N1. 3Montgo:ncry, in Ram's Horr RHINOCEROSES, tanislaus Schembeck. eiell a party of big-game hunters in Eas of rhinoceroses found their route blocked b Ittacked it. Count Schembeck describe ansters charged down upon his party.] "B:a.d luck!" cried Bevis. "'My turi now. Here's for the leader!" The Irishman's bullet brought dowi a giant animal,which lay on the groun< strugling, kicking, and making an aw ful uproar. The scene was now a verl table pandemonium. Stamping rhinoc eroses, screaming natives in trees Bevis shouting out mad jokes, and th< rapid reports of the rifles combined ti produce a bewildering uproar. Cloud had by this time hidden the moon, an< we could hardly see to shoot. The in truding animals were row in amon the campfires. and in the twinkling o an eye the flames to the last embe were trodden out. Dimly we could se our beds being stamped under foot ain scattered, and the packs hurled thi way and that. Then for a few minute 'we fired a little more surely, for th moon showed itself again, and fiv dead animals soon lay stiff on th ground, -while not a few others wer badly wounded. Having vented their rage on inian mate things, the great brutes begai to thinir of the men. One of the natives, paralyzed wit] fear, had been unable to climb a tree and was now staring at the rhinocer oses over the top of a thick prickl bush. Our attention was drawn to thi man for it. first time by one of thi animals stopping short and sniffin; round. It did not see the man, bu scented him, and with a bellow of fur: it went for the bush like a hurricane We yelled out to the native to sav himself, and, roused from his stupor lie sprang to his feet and raced away with the animal after him. I slippe( a little farther down the tree r.nd calic< to him, whereupon lhe swerved rapidl: from his course and came towards mec while the leviathan stopped shot plowing up the ground with its hexv: feet. Finally it turned, for all th1 world like a clumsy mastiff puppy and resumed the chase. The screaming native ran towarrds m: tree, and I held out my hand an< dragged him up, telling him to clint up higher. He did not reed. to be to! twice. and went up as high as he could Luckily for him, as the sequel wil showv. it was not a tall tree. Thie great animal, with ponderner tread, came on after him. Arrived a the foot of the tree, it stood still.:: parently astonished at the native's lisi appearance, and then- aimed a viciou: blow at the tree trunk with its shatix horn. I did not intend to let it de mnois~h my perch so en:,ily, so I slippet down to the bottom branch, and lear ing forward. held my rifie point blani at its car and presscd the trigger. Suel a shot is fatal, and I had the satisfac tion of seeing it waver, take a fev steps, and then fall with a crash, it whole weight resting against the trec which bent like a cane. I clutche< wildly at the branch to prevent mxysel falling, and nearly dropped my rific while a crashing, rending noise, foi lowed by a shriek from above. tol that some one had been dislr,dged b: the shock. Branich after branch wa snapped by the falling of some heav; body. until finally it hit the stronge boughbs and bounced off to the groui I realized then that the native in hi terror had climbed too high up. wher the branches could hardly bear lhiii and the suden jerk had hurled hir down. - For a minute I thought a'nothe rhinoceros would come and crush lhii before lie could get up again, hutt my astonishment he rose to his fec and limped away at a good rate int the bushes. Evidently he did not ii tenxd to trust to tree-tops again. For a short while longer the rhino< eroses wandered about the camp., an tha:n their interest shiftedf to on wagon, which they surrounded wit the evident intention of upsettirngi They had not sufticient sensc, howevel to realize that if they rushed on bot sides at once it would not go down, they did not succeed in overturningi All this time we fired at intervals int the mass of animuals, meanwhile speci ating among ourselves as to why sue. a large number of rhinoceroses ha banded themselves together. Pr'esently. to our great relief, the tired of their sport and moved c farthecr into theC wilderness. D Itub emp're and O'Sullivan followe themir for sonie distaxnce to see whlo theyv would do next. while I orderet enamed. or hullied time frightened ix ives inxto descending from their loft roostitng places. whetre they much r< sembled ax flock of crows. Oneo by one they cante dowin ar gthered round mie, shivering withr er! ad ter'ror'. anid eastimng apprehentsii lances in the direction whence 11i inarauding animals had disappeared. After a time, however, I iniduce ther to relight the fires, and then few of them went to fetch the wagol oxen. These hy a lucky chance ha been picketed at a distaneo in chiarg of five men, because of the more plent ful pasture there. The damage to or amip was not so great as it mrigi have beetn, although the low tents u der which we had been sleeping, or beds, and all the cooking utensils he: outside the wagons, besides a fe packs thrown down by the carrier had been so trampled out of shape tin knt n~k certain amound of divinatic and a vivid limagination to guess whal they were. a When De Rubempre and O'Sullivan e ame in they reported that they had fol lowed the herd for some distance. The animlnxIs sc'emed to form a fairly regu lar phalanx, following a given road. Th;-y had gone down to the river, drunk iand bathed. and theqn crossed by a ford and d sappeared at a rapid pace on the other side. Having hauled lie wagons to a fresh Is cping place--for the old one was trampled into mud by the huge feet we lit great fires and got to sleep at - hist. with our bones aching from the nocturnal gymnastics we had been comipelled to indulge in. Next morning we discovered a sort of path leading through the country which we had not hitherto noticed be cause of the spring growth covering the roughly made way, trampled out by the feet of many wild animals dur - g countless ages. It was apparently an animal trail leading to the river. That was as much of the secret of the huge beasts as we could fathom. We had camped across their pathway, bar ring their way to the water. and they naturally resented our conduct. And so ended our adventure.-Thc Wide World Magazine. SCIEIICE NI C S A Berlin physician says that out of J000 girls who played the piano before the age of twelve years he found 600 cases of nervous diseases; whereas, out of the same number who did not play the instrument he found but 100 cases. The author of these experi ments states that the piano should never be used by a child before the age of sixteen years. and only two hours a day at the maximum. In the treatment or fractures, gaivi. nism, faradism and static electricity have all been used, both in rabbits and in man, by Francesco Blasi. In all cases the limb was made immovable. In rabbits the galvanie current reduced dropsical swelling very rapidly. there were no signs of suffeiing. and the ani .mals walked and ran at once on re moval of the apparatus. One of the four human patients. with a fracture that had shown no tendency to unite after four weeks, was cured in three -weeks, while the other cases did well. The conclusions were reached that gal vanism is beneficial in all fractures, it -ivors the formation of callus, it re duces to a. minimum the time of dis ablement. and only a temporary splint and bandage are needed to keep the limb in place. An important advance in deep-sea surveying, saving much of the labor of present methods, is claimed for the acoustic' sounding of H. Berggraff, a Norwegian engineer. The depth is estimated from the time taken by sound to travel to the bottom and back, the echo from two thousand feet being received in one second, and the appara tus consists of a transmitter, an acous tic receiver and a chronometer. The transmitter is a slowly revolving disc. w,~hich at each revolution clioses an electric circuit atnd energizes a magnet 1opeerating a vibrating armature. At each contact a sound is sent to the bot tom of the sea, and the vibrations are tred to the only pitch to which the specially constructed receiving micro phne will respond. In accurate work, te time of contact and that of the re -turn of thme sonud are registere'd with Igreat precisionl on the revolving drum of a chronograph. Pioneers in science often fix more -than one set of standards to the in lnite embarratssment of their success os. Just now chemists are seeking to decide upon the important matter of a unit of atomic weights, and after much scontroversy, have agreed to disagree. P'rimitive chemistry was satisfied to . ive hydrogen the atomic weight ot fone and oxygen sixteen. This is not suiciently exact for mnodern require' ments, for if hydrogen be fixed at one i oxygeni will really be only 15.SS, and ii - )xygeni be rated at sixteen, then by s drogen will rise to 1.00.~. This small - diference has become important. After : its years of deliberation, the Interna .. tional Committee on Atomic Weightt Ssstill finds chemists about equally di vided between the two standards. and .. so, instead of selecting one, they havt a published two lists of carefully revised atomic weights of all elements nlow r known, one list placing oxygen at six a teen, and the other based upon hydro C) gen at one. It is interesting to note itthat while the report was being printed > the German Chemical Society decided - - ephatically in favor of oxygen at six teen. * I Dr. H~enner,. a German chemist, has r been experimientinig with cocoa nut hoil and finds that it makes a very sat .. isfatory article of butter, It contains seven per cent. of soluble acids, name ly.l 'utvric acid and capric or decycli 0aci. which give's the butter a pleasani . aroma and savor. making it taste sonme 0thag like hazelnut. This butter will - keep fifteen or twenty days befort isoing any acid reaction, sustains my of the tests of true butter, fo; which it is a better substitute thar y ol~margarine. and can be produced a much more cheaply. Posterity will C face a scarcity of nailk and the buttei Smade therefrom. sc: rapid is the in i;crease of populatiors and so restricted ~-in comparison the available area foi - paturge, and perl aps the cor-oa tre6 ma nwvcome iln as the most useful auxil acy of the cow anywhemre to he found Minch may be hoped fr-om Dir. Hleuneri 1~ experiments, as leading the way t 1 others, and possily to tinatl success e ts utilizing a substance which ca1. C l produced practically without limit and which is of known1 wholesome 1 ness and purity. "To Tutor a Tooter to Toot. d "What would you tell the policemr e if you got lost?" asked a mother of hel .four-year-old daughter. r -'d tell him to take me to my papa, it nswered the tiny tot. -'-But suppose the policeman did no rr know 'where your papa was," tt "Then I'd show- him," quickly an wsered the little one.-Little Chronicle itOver one-fortieth of China's popua n I tin of 400 000O.000 is slave. ' p CONVERSATION. Conversation is but carving, Cive no more to every guest Than he's able to digest; Give hin always of the prine, And but a littie at a time: Give to all but just enough. Let them neither starve nor stuff. And that each m1ay have his due. Let your neighbor carve tor you. -Sir Walter Scott. NEW MALADY. "What's the matter? TonsilitiS?" "No. Tunnelitis."-Brooklyn Life. ITS DEWINESS. "I see Ihat the Easter bonnet is to be as gorgeous :1S the early da1wn." "Yes. and I fancy there'll be a little due on it."-Cievehnd ilin Dealer. THE FATE'FUL MESSAGE. Ilubby-'-DiiIn' I telegvaph you not to bring your mother- with you' 1Wifey-"I coul. not help it. Frank she insisted on coin;-:fte- she's r!ad your telegrm.-New Yoker SELF-.iPPROVING. "Do you feel that you did :mything for the good of your country'" asked the serious citizn. -I dont know about that." answcred I the Congr.ssiian. -But I feel that I have a better record than some in not doing any damage."--Washirgtoi Stir. THE ANVIL CHORUS. Grayce--*Edythe was born with a silver spoon in her mouth." Gladys-".Tudging by the size of the aperture one would say it was a ladle." Doreas--If you've ever noticed her table manners you'd swear it was a knife." ACCORDING TO LAW. / . Haroid-"Given up your automobile, have youY' tReginald-"Taas had to. All the Ichaufeurs are in jail."-Brooklyn Life. BY DEGREES Chesterfield Chauncey--Could you spre me an oi pair of trousers, Mrs. Winrow--"Yes; do you want anything else?" Chesterfield Chauncey--"Oh, yes. I'd like about fifty millions and. a seat in the Senate-but dat kin wiait!"-Puek. EXPLAINEZ. "You are a poor barber," growled the angry patron. "What you talk?" retorted the for igner in the white jacket. "I am one count by blood." "Oh, I see. You think you are fight. ig a duel with that razor."-ChicaigC News. FATHER K~NEW WHT. "Pop." "What is it, Johnny?"' "Why is the head of a bedstead al ways higher than the foot?" "For the same reason tl-at the rent Iwheels of a wagon are always bigger than the front ones. JTohnny." "Thanks, pop."-K~ansas City Times. NO RETURN. "Take my advice. don't lend .Bor rouhs any more money." "Wl1y, you used to, I'm sure, for No; I used to think I was lending it to him. but I. soon discovered it was u ely a gift."-Catholic Standard and ITimes. .. I AN, POOR M1AN: "Is my hat en straight?" "Yes-urry or we'll ls hlte-" Are you sureC it's on perfectly ~Yes, I tell you-you couldn't get it straighter." 'Ten I'll have. to go haet:i nan, Toh. You know it isn't stylish to wvear th iis k:ind of a hat stagt'-lvln Leade. LOGICAL THIEORlY. I~o wYilVi obserlve." said( the prOfCS sor. "te higher the altitude attuniued theC colder the temtperatulre beenmles. "ut int it w rmetir near the top of the mount::ins than it is in the valley': asked the youth at the foot of the elass. "Whv do you think it wvoubil he?" "O. answ'ered the yoniflpt'1. "I hou't. perhiaps the atmnospher~e wats eated by the mountain ranges."--Cin enti Enquirer. IHas Seven Grandparent. Tw- grandchildren of Samuel Ed gar. rk in the coroner's office. are less with seven grandparents. They hve .ving two grandfathers, two grndothers. two great-grandmoth rs and a great-grandfather. The great grandfather is William K~ropp. who is -ninety-five years old. H~e is a farmer and lives near Quakertown, where he has a ten acre farm which he runs alone. Edgar's grand-children are thr.e year and eight months old, re E140OTH L[AIE LEM1ONS SUNDAY, MAY 21. Growing Up For God.-Eph. 4:11-1G. Union meeting with the Juniors. In our Scripture Paul does not make the gifts consist of oflices be ocowed, but of the officers themselves. Men are more than positions. One of the best gifts the Master cz-a give the church is inspired officers and lead ers. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors. teachers, are all necessary for the perfecting of the church. So we might say of Sunday school superin tendents, Epworth League presidents, and Junior superintendents, as no doubt Paul would have mentioned them If they had existed in his day. Then Paul goes c-a to picture a growth into churchly manhood con tr:isted in the next verse by a picture of doctrinal childhood. The Junior de veloping into the Sonicr Leaguer, and the Leaguer coming into full-fledged official church rcspc-sibility, is the thing typified in our lesson. And it will be well to emphasize the fact that neglect of Junior work will be felt in League and chrirch life. Every Christian ought to recognize that there must be a growth or death. There is no standing still in morals. We are growaig in grace or declining in spiritual life. It is grow or die. And v-hat is true In the personal life is true in the church. We must be growing up the material for future leaders. There is no place better adapted to this than in the Junior League. We can never grow into grace; we must grow when in grace. It is not religion by development, but the de velopment of religion. It is becoming more Christlike. more teachable, more effective in service, and better ac quainted with God. It is a natural process-first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. It is becoming proficient in the church just as men become proficient in trade, in profession or In business. It is the development of Christian work and of Christian workers. There must be certain conditions met in grace as in nature. There must be soil, food, air, and sunshine in nature. So in religion. Environ ment has something to do with the problem. Just as in the physical growth there are seen increase An height, maturity of judgment, a .ealthy appetite and strength for greoter duties, so fn the religious life there will be certain marks of growth. More helpfulness to .others and more earnest efforts for personal holiness will be the result of growth. We will become willing workers and church burden-bearers If we are really growing in grace. CHISIIAN[ND O NOTES MAY TWENTY-FIRST. Growing up for God. Eph. 4: 11-16. (Union meeting with the Juniors.) We are growing all the time-grow ing in evil or growing In gooa. The question of questions is the direction of our growth. It is not enough to grow partly to ward Christ and partly toward the world. The result is that we never reach Christ at all, while the world is reached all too easily. Suggestions. Change is one of the laws of life. If you are not growing--in one direc tion or another-you are dead. Whence, but from God, came our my rv-ellous possibilities of develop ni -it? Then we should use them for God. E;-erything is prized acording to Its associations. You would value any trivial object if it had belonged to John Milton or George Washington. So a very staall life is great if it be longs to God. Unless you'r life is given to God. how ca-n you expect God to give His life for you? llustrations. It is an old. unbased idea that a growing child has "growing pains." Right growth is easy and delightful, whether of the body or the soul. God would be a very unkind gard ener if He never pruned His trees, or tied His vines to restraining stakes. A building grows up by first grow ing down. There is no true growth without deep foundations. The gardener sets his flowers in an attractive pattern. If a single flower fails to grow, the pattern Is spoiled. Every little child is such a flower i-n God's garden. Questions. Am I really growing more Christ like every day? Does my inspiration to growth come from the highest sources? Am I satisfied with less than the best things possible for~ me? Quotations. If the amount of energy lost In try ing to grow were sp~ent l'a fulfilling Irather the conditions of growth, we should have many more cubits to show for our stature.-Drummond. Looking forward every day, Sunshine on our faces: Pressing onward every day Toward the heavenly places. Advantages cf Infirmity. Senator Depew says that the most Interesting instance of true optimisn: that ever canm- to his notice was that afforded by an old man jiving nea! Pceskill. New York. This old chap, who could give Marls Taley- points on how to be cheerfu: uner~adverse condlitions, w-as a char cter iiiNhis way. and nearly every one in Peeikskill cnj-oyed drawing hir He suffered from a combination c! paisy and Sr. Vitus dance: and wher ie would painfully duck his head fron side to side in the manner peculiar tC his comnplaint the effect was most dis tressing. One day a sympa-tnetic person saic to the old fellow: "I must be dread ful to be afflicted in this wvay." "Oh. I dion't know." blithely respond ed the Peekskill man. "'It has its ad vantages. Now. it's just the thing when I go to a two-ringed circus. The Sunday M1agazine. Town Free from Many Pests. A Sumner, Me.,- correspondent boasts that his happy and prosperous town has neither saloon, pauper, town ebt nor lawyer. 70WUCS Han:1 N . iy ter-rier. ::n Peac-tee. Derry hiping time is :erc, and I think of .! subject of grc:iter tmpor tance to il r. l,% rower than tha1 Of packing in g~ig "ruit. Wo c:'i: cover t:> whol> g:otnd. but hal touch on im tlhin:;s tha t have conie under their own observato:. First. we. have uoticed that the ma' kets are denmanding hetter fruits and that it must be letter )acked and graded. Berry growers are jearning that it pays. an:d that it pays well. to grade the berries, and that .otling brings a greater r-atio than by making a reputi:ition on a certain grade of b ties. Commissioll Imen tell us that I-hen a customer gets a good crate of berries trat he will take particular no tice as to how it is marked. and the next day he will look through the stack of crates to lind that same mark. No doubt if a customer gets a bad crate he watches in order that he may not get another of the same pack. Do you know, brother grower, we are making a record on our pack. and we are known much better to commis sion men by our pack than we even suppose? We are aware that there are many difficulties all along the pathway, and we are also aware that the grow ers must be educated up to it, and that it can't be done in one year. Have some kind of a r:del in your mind and keep constantly working tovard it. Every individual should try to make some progress in his packing each and every year, and co-oper'tions should keep this in view at all times. Inspection .at the shed always creates an effort on the part of the growers to be more careful in grading and pack ing. Some seem to think that inspection is a failure, but we have always found by careful consideration that every ef fort along the line has a a tendency to make the grade better. It is a great educator. Every packer has more or less pride. It's perfectly natural for us to try to excel in all things. This crops out early in life, when we notice the boy at play does not want to be beaten at any game, and he does not like to stand foot of his class, and he will not if he has proper encourage ment and the necessary amount of grit. Honesty in packing and grading should be the very foundation stone upon which to build. Facing a poor grade of berries with large, well co: ored specimens will put any grower's shipment away down below par. Not filling the boxes is another way to ruin the sale of fruits. A customer pur chases a box, and he wants what he pays for. Poor fruit, poorly packed, is instrumental in ruining the market, while good fruit, well packed, has an opposite influence on the market. It takes quite a while to get familiar with all the best methods of packing, only those who make a success of it are those who are willing to make a study of it, and are willing to be careful. 3ost all the methods that bring suc cess in packing and grading berries can be used successfully in packing peaches. The time will come wvhen none but the very best grades of ber ries, peaches or apples will go. and the sooner we prepare for it the better. Nothing looks worse to us than to see a basket of peaches, all faced up with large, line, well colored specimens. and when on inspection you find the lower part of the basket full of knotty fruit of small size. Nothing spoils a grower's reputation quicker than a poor pack. Then again it takes a man of experience to know just when to pick fruit. Some will pick too green, while others will make the mistake in allowing the fruit to get soft. If you will keep your eyes open and watch you will soon catch on when the berry or peach is ready. You must bear in mind that the fruit grower has something to study. Also, remember that the fellow that studies the mar ket and tries so to pack his fruit is soon going to create a demand for his brand. Isn't it right that every grower should be proud of his fruit. He will be if it's good fruit and nicely packed. A young fruit grower in Eastern Georgia has asked me for a few points on how to succeed in the peach indus try. Well, a man must be a worker and be in earnest. He must bear in mind that "dhe weakest must go to the wal," and that in peach growing, as in other things, a man must "fish. cut bait or jump ashore." Plant the proper va rieties in the right soil and in the right manner. He must care for each tree as the shepherd cares for the sheep of his fiock. Work hard against the assaults of the enemy. All orchard work must be well done: done to a iinish. In fruit growing it is a race between negligence and ig norance as to which is the greater curse. The peach growver must unite with fellow growers for educationl: and business purposes. No waste is to be allowed. By-products must be con sidered. The grower must be in love with his work. "No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken," and "the labor we delight in physics pain." Jets and Flashes. Levi D. Barr, the minister of the Quakers in Los Angeles, married two divorced persons the other day and had to mak~e a public confession and sk forgivness at the meeting the next First Day. With nearly every acre of plowed land in the county promising a big rop. San Diego, Cal., is suffering from a labor famine. There are not half enough men in the county to handle: the crops. On April 22 the real estate men of Oakland, Cal. to the number of over 50 called business off for two or three days. and with their families and friends, enjoyed an excursion to the Santa Clara Valley fruit farms. Capt. John B. Aulin was employed as pilot at Port Arthur when the war broke out and the Russians detained him. His wife In Oakland, Cal., who did not hear from him for a year, be lieved he had deserted her and got a di vrce. The other day he returned with $5,000 that he had earned piloting dur Ing tesiee and now there will be a 7, S TOCKMA N AND TRUCK 0W O-ER, Mith such powers the forecast for the ruvre would be most inspiring.-A. ML Lithaim, in Home and Farm. Trow to Mrc Corn. ns I made a good crop of corn last ear. I will try to give -ou sonie of my xperience. for I realixe the necessity f the Southern farner growing more orn: in fact, all the corn used on the arm should be grown at home, for nore corn means more hogs and cattle, if the stalks are shredded, and that is thc proper way to manage a corn crop. Why burn the stalks when they will make such valuabie feed? Stock will at the most of it, and the waste makes the best of bedding, as it absorbs the moisture, but the crop must be grown first, so we will talk about that now We always turn the land in the fall with a No. 30 steel oam plow, as deep as three mules can pull, and do not object to plowing up the clay either, for it will freeze and pulverize during the winter, and can be harrowed and ixed with the soil in the spring. We usually cover with a thin coat of manure before we start the harrows. After harrowing over several times more the better-plant on or a little below the level, using from 150 to 200 pounds of high-grade fertilizer to the cre and then run over tha field with a weeder just before i m 'r r, leaving the field level, and when the corn has two or three leaves it can be barrowed with the weeder without covering the little stalks. In a few days after this we start the riding cultivator and keep t going after every rain or every ten or tivelve days, always on a level until the corn gets too tall to plow with the cultivator, and finish with twenty-four inch sweeps, with a two-inch scooter in front, being careful to plow very shallow, and we have never failed to make a crop, provided it was planted early enough, and I think that one of the greatest mistakes a farmer can make on upland is trying to get all the cotton planted before the corn land is touched, for it seems as though we are making too much cotton anyhow. Young Farmer, in Southern Cultivator. The Peach Grower's Creed. Under this title we find the follow ng in the Peach Grower: We believe in budding on vigorous, known good qualities. We believe in pruning, thinning, spraying, cover crops, and that the each trees should have eitire posses sion of the land. We believe that an orchard must be fed as well as its owner. We believe in high tillage. No soil is so rich that it does not need work We believe in "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt" against San ose scale, yellows, leaf-curl and bor We belie've that pests are grind stones and whetstones to sharpen the peach grower's wits. Without them my fool could grow peaches. We believe in "A merry life and a short one" for the peach tree. Better that a tree should -wear out than rust We believe that quality and not bulk measures the fitness of a peach to eat and therefore the value of a variety. We believe in good fruit, good grad ing and good packages. There is only change of one letter between cheap and cheat. We believe in advertising our wareS. "He that bloweth not his own born, for hinm shall no horn be blown." We believe in smaller orchards and better care. Large orcharding is n~ot always the best orcharding, and small rcharding is often the largest. Lastly, we believe in every man prov ing all things for himself, and in his holding fast to that which he finds. Opposes Mixing Them. A. J. U., Arkansas: I do not favor planting peach trees and apple trees at the same time, mixing them in the rchard, for the following reasons: First, they need different care and c tivation after they are old enough bear well, according to the best au ity. A peach orchard needs yearly tivation, while an apple orchar profitably be kept in grass mowed and left as a mulch a izer. They need pruning at seasons of the year and lim would have to' be cleaned They need spraying at duff and would take more t' mixed; also more time t The peach trees in th' about as long as apple to be thirty or more would be no object t with apple t'rees to ta until the apple trees n at which time the pe only in their prime an them down; and I thin rotting peach roots wo benet to the apple trees. High prices continue to be aris for snuff-boxes of the eigh :entury. News of the Day. What is thought to be a record clip of mohair from Angora goats has just been sold by a company which last year started a goat ranch near Taco ma. The goats yielded from four to nine pounds of hair each, a total of 4,50 pounds. Fifty Iggorotes from Luzon, en route to the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, held a dog feast near Seat tle on April 23, to celebrate a safe trip across the ocean. They ate four boiled doas and had a dance. So fond was he of fast dring tna: oseph Byrne, ambulance driver for the German hospital, San Francico~, used to send in false calls from the stable at which the ambulance was kept. He had already killed two horses by his driving when he was caught telephoning and confessed. A log raft 700 feet long, drawing twenty-five feet and containing 8,000, 000 feet or lumber, is to be towed from Seattle to San Francisco. The ship ping men are afraid it may break up en route and cover the sea 'with dan eous floatn.. timbers.