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NAIUREI'S QOTENING T0UuCHS: Yet u:! the winIn lo-wver. , eid blow The oiden ieave, woulid il.. Te :,ons come. the seaons 't And (od be good to all. Above the gra.ves the hackherry hung In i-3otma and green its wreath. - An:' h :A wung a if they rung The ,!;':nc 4,f pcace beneath. The beauty nature loves to share, The zift4 she hath for all. The common light. the <onunon air, O'ererapt the graveyard's wall. It knew the glow df eventide, Te sunr;.e and the noon, And glorified and sanctitlied It Alepz beneath the moon. Vith Bower or snowfakes for its sod, Around the seasons ran. And evermore the love of God Rebuked the fear of man. Ser-ure on God's all tender heart, Alike rcst great and smial: Why fear to lose our little part, When He is pledged for all? 0 :earful heart and troubled brain. Takc hope and ,trencth from this That nature never hints in vain, Nor prophesies amiss. Ji- w bd birds sing the same sweet stave Her liuhts and airs are given Alihe to plix :rand and the grave, And over both is Heaven. -John G. Whittier. THE HOLE IN THE WALL. Xn- S neighbors called old Sit Giles Travis a misanthrope H a-d a miser. Not that they knew him, for he never left &le~liiE the high wvalls which sur rounded his estate. and on nO account was any one aliowed to en ter his domain. save the necessary ser vants and tradesmen. One warm summer's afternoon Sir Giles was being drawn in his bath chair acrcss the lawn, thence along a narrow p:athway until the wall was reached. Under the tree there was a comfortable lounge chair, in which, with the help of his footman, Sir Giles took his seat. -Push me a little nearer the wall," he cried. irritably. "Now you can go. Come back at 4 o'clock." The baronet gazed after the footman until he disappeared among the trees. He then proceeded to displace a stone near the bottom of the wall. His tin gers groped around, and he gave a sigh of deep sgtisfaction. "No letter. They will come, then." A -juarter of an hour passed, and he tapped his fingers impatiently on the nagazine which lay in his lap. "That's the boy." he muttered. as there came a soft rustling of dried leaves. "She is late." The voice was ;nipatient. Sir Giles chuckled softly. "The impatience of youth." A glad cry was heard, the sound of a Miss, then another kiss. "The girl now,'' the old man said :softly. Twenty years of solitude had left 'their marks on his face. As he listened to the love chatter of the young couple on the other side ot' the wall his face .gradually softened. Not always had he been the recluse and misanthrope. There w"as no proud er and happier man than Sir Giles had been some twenty years ago. His life and hopes were cenitered in his son Jack, a fine,. manly young fellow, such as would gladden any father's heart. A 1'he quarrel was a sudden one. The Teason-a woman. Hard words were exchianged, for they were bo0th Ipos se::sed of the Travis temlper. A part in; in anger and two months after' ward news came11 of Jack's deatth. Not a line~ or message had beeni left for lis fat her. The 1)low was a terrible one to Sir Giles. Hie close'd his heart to all hui tman symupatl'y antd retired to the' seelut sian of '1Tavis Towers. A few monaths after'war'd ie wras 'liken wtith para lysi s, antd thle iong yea hd uiv e1 vweariasome with suffer intr and enuuit. F~or the las~ two or three months a new intere't: !atd come into his life, Thbe w~ihl p're'y love cometdy seemedt to hiave bren played wtin 0 'artshiot. When lirst the'y met t're w;as the differenuce of youth. Their voices at tirst wvere louder, but as their love it -erensed their seats otn the fallen tree without the wall grew~ e'loser together. anmd their voices w"ere lowvered when they began to exchange sweet loving not hinags. A wveek ago the boy had declared his passion. T1he old man's heart seenmedl to unfreeze and grow human again as he listened to the passionate pleading of tihe lov'er, the shy. timid answer, anid the frenzied kisses that were ex chanuged. On~ly twice since that day had they mt. and a cloud had appeared on love's horizon. "W\hat (lid he say?" she asked, eagerly. "Hie refused absolutely." he an "What r'easotn did he give, JTack?" she dematnded. itndignantly. /"Your' guardiani told tme that I was a pentniless adventurer, and that it was your money I wvas after," he replied, moodily. "The wvretch: But it doesn't matter. We can mtarry without him." - "1 did not knTow y'ou had( so much motley, dear on~e. You are rich and I "Butt w'e have love." , ''We c'at live on1 that. It is true I hlave my~ profession. but I have only just beCcomeI a doctor'. and it is an uphill game unmess one has miotney to buy a -raice. I hav none111." ''Did be tnot htold out any hope?' shle aiske'i. tr'enmiousiy. "Yes, Hie said that if I could prove tc hinm that I had a practice wvhich woul bring~ in nyve hudred a y'ear he wou:d give his consent. I mulist say that he is reasonale, but-' ''Will ittake you very long to gain IL ,'- tmarfl ry at enect'.' sht- cried. looked i:-:;bly att the hle. -i am going away at once-to-mor row. You must forget me. It is not fair to you. There was a sound of sobbing. "Don't cry, darling," he said, plead ingly. "The fol" tile baronet mutte'ed.. "I can't let you go:" she cried, miser ahl) v. "I will work hard-an-in time, per haps- , The boy's voice broke. "Don't go to-morrow. Stay till Sat urday. It is only four days," she asked, pleadinigly. There was the sound of a passionate farewell. the rustle of leaves, and all was silence. Saturday afternoon came, and Sir Giles looked anxiously at the hole in the wall. He took a large envelope and placed it in the hole. They came at last. Their words were few and their voices tremulous. "The last time. Jack, that we shall meet here," she said, brokenly. "In the future, perhaps-" "And I shall have no more use for that dear little hole in the wall, where I have found so many love messages from my darling." She leaned down as she spoke. "Jack, there is a letter here." she cried, excitedly. "To Jack and Joan, with a lonely old man's love." she read in wonder. "Open it at once." With trembling fingers he broke the seal. From lhe other side of the wall there came a hoarse but gleeful chuckle. Jack drew a legal looking document from the envelope, which he began to read. "Good Heavens!" he cried at last. "Am I mad*": "What is it?" "01d Dr. Rutherford has sold his practice to me." "To youY' "Yes. and the money has been paid -1200o." "Jack, whltt does it mean?" Again they heard the hoarse chuckle. There was even more glee in it. * * * * * * Two years have passed. Jack's most valuable patient is Sir Giles Travis. and once or twice a week the old man sits in his chair near the hole in the wall, while a fair and happy girl plays with her baby on the lawn beside the old barouet.-E. Platt, in Illustrated Bits. Can't Resist 'Em. "Childrern are sometimes more cun ning than we think, and when I say 'we.' 1 am speaking of the men who lave a right to know something of chil dren because of the parental responsi bilities they wear," said the man with a couple of youngsters. ''Close ob servation and experience lhave taught we that disobedience. so far from being offensive, is sometimes a virtue. a virtue because of its cleverness and because of the evident good nature of the breach. It would, in my judgment, be decidedly brutal in some circum stances ac scold a child for disobedi eniee. Disobedience should be offensive only when intended as an offense. when it is a wilful and purposeful defiance of the parental injunction. I have a ease in point which will illustrate per fectly what I mean. My little girl is very fond of sausage. I thought she had consumed enough for one sitting and told her so. In a few seconds she had slipped around behind me, and shoved her head up under my arm. 'Papa.' she said, with a mischievous twinkle in her eye, 'let's play dog" and as she said it she threw~ out a chubby liand and grabbed a piece of sausage and dashed away with it, laughmng as if she thought it the finest jolke of thle season. What c'ould I do? Stop the laughter by scolding. and suppress the evidlent good natture of it all? She fianked me and got away with the goods, 'and since it was ev'ident she meant no offense. no0 disrespcct by her' disobedien'e. there wvas nothing for mec to do but accept the situation and augh and frolic in~ her (logs game with her. .\id so I did. Wouldn't you net in the same way when disobedienc'e s put for'th in such ~tsimsbnv zarbY' INew Orleanus Time's-D)emocr'at. Sirht Through Erick W':~ll. Dr. Paul Salliier. director of the San 'aioriuii for Nervous Diseases at Bou lognie-stur-Seinie. tells a r'emiiarle story' of sight thirouagh bick walhls and artoundi~ earners which lie is studyin~g in oiie of his patients. The aman. whose nervous tr'.uble began as the result of f'llin" from a train, is a good hypnotic st.aject, and is being treated by suge gestioin. In the course of treatment Dr. Sollier accidentally discovercd that when hypnotized the man could see him when his back was turned. In or der to test this remarkable "eyeless sight" the doctor made the following experiment: "Having as before plunged the man into a state of deep hypnosis, in the course of cerebral awakening. I went into a closet separ ated from the laboratory by a hall staircase over sixteen feet wide, a w~all lifteen and one-half inches thick, and preceded by a small vestibule having access to a gallery shut off by a glass door. W~hen inside the closet I mnade a movement with my hand as if to draw him toward me, and immediately lie rushed to the door of the laboratoi'y. The noise lie made because he was not allowed to go out at once apprised me of thie success of the experiment." New York Glohe. p Somnething to Think About. H-ow~ to live comfortably with one's nieighbor-that is the problem: to avoid the kiiocks and frictions whlich draw linies to mn's faces and too often ('oin tract their souls. It is paradoxical, but tine, that the larger the soul becomies the more room it creates for itself a margin of quietness in which it re mafinls untouched by petty jealouies' anid hurts. B~y te practice of charity anid unse.lfishnuess a life builds for it self ''more stately mansions" wherein it may dwell in peace. A song in one's heart, a smile upon one's lips. c-he'ry, a wholesome mlessaige of 'aood wtill on one's tongue are won 'er1fu'l helps to all kinds of people. 'here ar 'ie so' many hur'dens of'sorrow and 'are and poverty and sin; so many do uting. discouraged, tempted hearts. To 0 onfort and to make strong. to lift up and to bless-are these not mis ion worth while? Try it, friend. and1( pro h''0.ow truly your own heart and mindl are cheered and made brave by your vecry endeavor to cargv sunshine jt ark nlhaces FACTS LIKE FICTION A Truly Wonderful Story of Progress in Prosperous Southland DEVELOPMENT ALONG EVERY LINi High Percentage of increase in thi Production of Staple Commercia Articles-Great Increase in Manu factures-What a Quarter Centur: Will Show. F. GOODYEAR, of Brunswici Ga., in a recent communication to the Atlanta Constitution sa:.s: "The genius who shall tel the marvelous story of the sta tistics of Southern development fo: the past twenty-five years, whi shall relate the story of cour ageous struggle and of hope de ferred; of despair which created a great party and of revival of faith; o: earnest men, taught by past failures achieving victory under adverse condi tic:s apparently insurmountable shall write a book the world will glad ly buy and read, and shall have thi material for many books demonstrat ipg in e.ch truth stranger and inorc *.-rvelous than fiction. "What American, native born or nat uralized. can do otherwise than glor: in Americen achievement in this twen ty-five years. What Southern man native or adopted citizen, but wil glory in such achievement of this por tion of a united country. "Farm values throughout the entirE ecuntry increased from 1880 to 1900 67 per cent; for the South 82 per cent Farm products for the same period cnti-e country. 56 per cent, for th< South 92 per cent. Farm productE 1890 to 1900, in the South, average yearly in'crease, $61,000,000; 1900 tc 1904, average yearly increase, $1'15, 000,000. Money invested in manufac tures, entire country, increase 1880 t< 1900 252 per cent; in the South 346 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,D0( bales; in 1900, 1,597,000 bales; in 1904 over 2,000,000 bales. Assessed prop erty values, 1880 to 1900, in the South increase 80 per cent. Increased rail roads 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 in dustry more capital was invested it 1900 than for the entire country it 1880, the value of its products in creasing 371 per cent. ' "The output of pig iron in the Soutt increased from 1880 to 1900 700 per ent. In the entire country for the same period 250 per cent. The coal utput increased from 1880 to 1904 rr the entire country, 390 per cent; Lhe South, 1,000 per cent, or from 6,. 100,000 to 66,000,000 tons. ".Let such percentages of increase .ontinue for the next twenty-five years. and who can measure the ieath and prosperity of the South, s the South in financial condition for :uch development? Let the following gures answer: 1892 to 1903, increase :n bank deposits, entire country, 100 per cent; in the South from $333,000, 300O to $745,000,000, a per cent of in ~rease of about 125 per cent in eleven iears. -The totalof the South's mineral pro fcts, in 1880, $18,000,000 ; 190I0, $115, 00,000-640 per cent increas3. (The ercent age not yet available for the atire country.) -In 1904 the South had 80 per cent. ,' the entire population of the country n 1860. The bank deposits are three imes as great as for the entire coun ry for that :-ear. Her railroad mile :ge wvice as great: her pigiron output re times greater; coal output four 'imes greater; corn 80 per cent of the otai cr'p of the entire country for 860: cotton spindles 3.500,000 more; 'ports $226.000,000 more, and total f true values of property within 4I or cent of equalling the value of the ntr country in 1860, and it was oIght that the entire United States w:s a pretty good country in 1860. Ie stock has increased in the South rm 1880 to 1900 90 per cent "Thesec comparisons surely should be ost gratifying to every Southern Irizn-should stimulate to renewed afor. The opportunity,. the capital, 're all at hand for a new twenty-five war campaign of progress which shall n 1930 seem to those living then more w\od(erful than any. of the marvels of ~hich Jules Verne wrote. The min 'ral wealth, the agricultural and man a'facturing possibilties of the South :ve been barely touched, are in the 'fan:-v of their development. By 193C we will not only clothe the naked, but assist largely froni our surplus to feed he hungry." RAM'S HORN BLASTS HE stone without ~ T cutting is without place in the build ing. A man's ability must be measured by his utility. S People who gel green with -envy -also get blue with \ ' regret. Autun'slim'bi eladen boecausc of Spring's pruning than it is to str-.:le out. Forbearcnce with the wrong is no1 the ame. as its forziVeness5. The rebellicus mastieate the m'e'li rinle they should swallow whole. It takes less labor to analyze Got than it doeo to obey Himr. Mny may buy new glove:<. but i c::nrlct make clean hands. Grhi is mor" likely to btecak the haei than o) bless the heart. Peonie w-ho most ni'ce d - ou hae :ncst to ';ivc a'.ay. S::'e muen who wate- , their milh rvry day~ cannot unde:Crand w~hy th prayer-meetings seenm so thin. The g:reatness of a man is not evi dced by his findo~n5 faults, but by hi~ fixing them. A man wh~o feels like apologizing fe his :eligien needs to apologizc- for wha I i. easy to preach ecolness whe: you Ihe nothing to do but to sit on refriggrato~r. T devil may steel the setting. bu' the jewel of life you cannot lose un less ou give it away. Th~ impure thought is easily crushe: before it is spoken. but who can cur< itsc mtaginn afterwards? ITHE SUNDAY SCH00 INTERNATiONAL LESSON COMMENT FOR JUNE II. Subject. The M1essaze of the Risen Chris Rev. i., 10-.o-Goiden Text, Rev. !.. 1 -'Memory Vers'es, 17, 18-Commentar on the Day's Lesson. 1. John receives a message (vs. D' 11). 1). "In the Spirit." Under th influence of the Spirit. and tilled an< qui(ckened by the Spirit. "The Lord* I day." The day made sacred to al Christians for all time -y the resurre tionl of Jesus from the dead. It wa: the diy of light and salvation. Johl arrived ii Patmos late &iturdy evei ing,. spent t-ie night in prayer, and wit] the opening Sunday morning the glori ied Saviour oper.cd heaven to his vis ion. Why is our Sabbath the first dai of the week? We see here the apos ties kept the first day and. because o: its sanctity, called it the Lord's day -"Behind me," etc. This was his tirs intimation of the presence of Christ who spoke with a voice like a trumpet 11. "Alpha and Omega." Omitte in It V. These are the first and las letterspf the Greek alphabet. This i: a tigurative expression. used to shov that Christ was the "source and the consummation" of all things. He0 i! from eternity to eternity. "What thoi seest." The prophetic vision that was revealed to hin on iat Lord's day "Writo.' * What if Jo.in had not writ ten?* Thf, eommni'd to write is givei twelve times in the Apocalypse. -. book-' A parchment roll. Anien books wie imade of papyrus, or fron the pre-pared skins of animals. and( rolled upon a roller. "Seven ciurches. "Seven" denotes perfection. Doubtles there were hundreds of churches it Asia Minor at that time. The rensor why seven only are mentioned is he caiise the church is the bride of Christ and seven is the sanctified nniber al ways representing Christ. "In Asia. A siall province in Asia Minor called Asia. of which Ephe:.us was the capi tal. Ephesus.' Mentioned firzt be cause the church here was the largest II. A vision of the glorified Redeem er (vs. 12-1G). 12. "The voice." H( turned to see who it was that spoke, the word "voice" being used to signif5 the person speaking. "Golden candle sticks." Comp-.re Zec'h. 4:2-11. Lamp staiin(s would be a better term. Not one 'andlestick with seven branches, but seven eandLesticks. The independ enee of the churches of Christ is con sistent with the unity of the church of Christ. 13. "In the midst." Showing Christ's presence among His people. "The Son of Man." Compare Daniel 7:13. This term is used here because His gl'y might hide from view His oneness of sympathy with His people. "A gar ment." This is a description of the Ion1g robe worn by the high priest. Jesus is our high priest in heaven. "(irt-golden girdle." He was girt around the breast (R. V.) as "a sign of kingly repose." It represented "the breastplate of I-te high priest. on which the names of His peopl 'ire engraven. 14. "White like wool." Wool is sup posed to be an emblem of eternity. The w%'hiiteness sigunitied antiquity, purity and glory. With Christ His honry head was no sign of decay. Compare Dan. 7:9; lo:;. The whiteness. three times mentioned (white, white wool, snowJ, is gr'eatly initensitled, and denotes un limited age, even eternity. "His eyes.' etc. This certhies His omniseience. The eve is the receptaele of knowledge andl symbolizes all the senses. 15. ~urnished brass" fR. V.) This denotes His stability and strength. His feet are like brass when in tihe furnace and subjected to a very great heat. His feet were "strong and stead fast, supporting His own interest. sub. duing His- enemies and treading them to powvder.." His voice." Described the same in Ezek. 43:2.. He will make Himself hear'd; it is :t commniding~ voice that must be obeyedt it is terri' ble in its deminciation of sin. 16;. "In His righ t ha nd.~ The "rigitt hand" is an emblem of power. "Seven stars." These stars are the faithful preachers- of the gcospeL "A sharni two-edgedc sword." His word whichn both wvounds and heais and str'ikes at sin on the ight luend arid oin the left. This wonderful swvord has two edges, sharp as God's Eghtning -the edge that saives antd the edge that deUstr'ovs. C'ompare He'>. -! :12: E'h. i;:17. The sharpness of the sw.*ord retpr'esenfts the Seauingii power' of th:e word. "As thbe 'un.'' Weh kow~ of nhing brightcer I IlL W\or i f comfori i't andi :'xplamn: ion ers. 17''h 17. "As d"ed.L' Is 'c'unten''meue w'a to I bria' .ht andi daz :ling for mortil eves to lehoid. 0 ml Johln was. comph-Iiely overp'low'eredJL witih the 'lor in wh.ich Ch'rist iipiernredh C ompiare Ez'k. 1 ::: Dan. 5:17. "Rhiht hnd upon me." His hand of' p~ow;e andl protection. in wnichl the c'hurc'hes w'ere held. -Fear' not.l There is no o(ccasion to fear when in tihe presence of Christ. 18. "Tihe Living One" (R. V.) The source of all life-the One who possesses absolute life in Himself. "Was dead." I became a mian andl died :as a man: I am the same one y-oi sayw expirz on thne cross. "I am aliv~e. Having broken the bands of death. I am alive "for evermore." "The keys.' An emblem of p~owver and authority. "Of death and of hades" (R. V.) Hades is a cor.1pounmd G'reek word. meaning the unseen world, andl includi ing i)oth heaven anid hell. Gehenna is the Greek word which alwvays means hell, and nothing else. Christ has power over life. death and the grave He is able to des:troy the living arnd to raise the deadl. II. "H-ast seen." The visions He has just seen. "Which are. The ac'tual conditions of the sever churches. See chapters 2 and :E "Which shall be." In the future of the church. 20. "The nmystery:." Write the myvs tAios-the "secret a nd sacred" meaun ing of what vou have seen. "The an gels." The ministers and pastors. MADE PETS OF RATTLERS. Tennessee Farmer's Odd Liking fon VenomoUS Snakes. Joshua Fleener, aged 80 years. keep a den of rattlesnakes at his home neai Richards postoffice. this county. H has made pets of snakes ever sime he was a boy. He has eleven rattlesnakes in hi den, and experienlcedl some difficuity in caring for the serpenits duinifg thn cold weather. Fleener lhves in an olai fashioned 'souse with the back wall 01 the fireplace on the outside of thi building. The den. built of stones. wa: made with the chimney place as on~ of the -.'alls. The reptiles were place( in this dien during the cold weather and on -;one died this winter as a re suit of :he cold. Som..imes. when the ch'imney mad' the den too warm. the serpents woub become angry and fight one another The snakes were all captured by Flee ner in the woods near his home. an' ~hey are all timber rattlers, a specie which is becoming rare in this state -Nashville Correspondence Indianap JUNE ELEVENTH. Not Ashamed of the Gospel. Rom. - 1: 13-17. Paul was in debt to Christ. in debt Y for his life; but he was proud of the d'ebt. if Paul had been ashamed of the gospel he would have co.nsidered that shame the most shamful thing of his whole life. We are not ashamed of powerful things. but of weak things. We shall i not be ashamed of the gospel if we ( recognize It as the mighty, world conquering agency which it really is. When Paul was proud of the gos- 1 pcl. it was not his own righteous ness he )vas proud of, but God's. Suggestions. "Not ashamed"-that is the empha sis of under-statement. Really, there t was nothing of which Paul was so tre-mendously proud. The pride in Christ is exclusive t of all other prides. "God forbid." said Paul, "that I should glory in t anyihing else." The testimony we give in these I prayer meetings is always of what Christ has done for us. not of what wh have done for ourselves. Chris tian testimony is always modest. When we are very proud of any hing-as of sonic great victory of our political party, or some great triumph of our country-we talk about it a great deal. Illustrations. When mcn are proud of their achievements they make a world's L exposition to place them on show. So the Christian will be glad to exhibit Christ in his life. There is no more beautiful joy on carth than the pride which a younger brother takes in his noble older brother. Now Christ is our Elder Brother. No army wins victories unless it is proud of its general. The Christian is like a mirror re- 1 flecting a lovely face. How absurd it would be if fhe mirror grew vain of the face, as if it wcre his own! Questions. An I always eager for a chance to shng Christ's praises? Am I giving Christ good reason to t be ashamed of me? Is my life. on the whole, a satisfac ton to Christ? Quotations. Is the seal upon my brow so un- t mistakable that always and 'every where I am known to be Christ's sub ject?-liavergal. . Loyalty to Christ means carrying forward in our century the work He began i'n His; not only worshipping t Him on our knees, but working with Him on our feet.-Parkhurst. There can be no beautifully sym metrical unfolding of the new life, without constant acknowledgment to Him who is that Life.-Francis E. Clark. t 1 P ORTH LEACtE LESSOES : , SUNDAY, JUNE ELEVENTH. Not Ashamed of the Gospel.--Rom. I 1. 13-1'7. t Patti had purposed to go to Rome. but was hindered. He went at last, but only as a prisoner. He had an ambition to save the Roman as well! as the Jew. This evidences the thor oughness of the remarkable change in his spirit. He recognized that he was "dcbtor" to all men: that is, that the responsibility was on him to give -to all the opportunity to hear and ac cept the gospel. The reason for all this was that he was not "ashamed .1 of the gospel." kAtd the cause of his confidence in that which all other meni d espised was in that it "was the power of God unto salvation." it takes courage to champion an un popular cause. When that cause is maligned and misrepresented, wheni it means social ostracism and peril to Ie and liberty, it takes a hero to preach it. Such was Paul. and so was the gospel in his' (lay. There must le a great reason for the~ aggressive chmionship of a dangerous doctrine. To Paul the fact that the gospel was the power of Cod unto salvation made it not only a reason why he should ac cept it. but a further reason why hei should preach it and piush it. It oght to be the same with us. Let us ask and answer two or three ques tions:, What Is the Gospel that We Should Not Be- Ashamed of It? It.I has revolutionized the nafflons. It 1 has abolished slavery and supersti- I1 tion. It has saved uncotunted millions. It has reached us. It has brought!t peace and pardon to our hearts. It has brought life and immortality to light. It has given us a worthy ideal for which to live. It ha.s banished t~he1 fear of death. It lightens the gloom of the grave. It lights up the path way of the poor and the needy. I has brought only blessings where curses abounded. It has done all that is good, and nothing evil, for hu- I nanity. It is the power of God to our own personal salvation. There - is every reason to be satisfied with it; there is no reason to be ashamed of There Are Reasons Why Christ Might Be Ashamed of Us. How slow of faith were we, how reluctant to leave all and follow him! How negli gent of duty, and prone to grieve him, have we been! How little glory weI have reflected upon his cause, how often silent when we should have testified for him, how careless of speech when we should have been careful: If the Master is not ashamed of us, what possible reason can there c be in any company or condition to be asharad of him or his gospel? Blind People Use Most Gas. n"When it comes to consuming gas inlrequantities blind people cn beat their seeing brethren all hollow." said an inspctor- of the Consolidated ! Gas Company. "Il know two familiesa where both husband and wife are blind. Every .jet is turned on full tilt C in their homes at night and is kept: going at that rate clear up to 12I o'clock. Light and darkness are all the same to the afflicted ones, but they insist upon illumination brill:ant Ienough foir a reception. -And that partiaiity for light is not a whim peculiar to those two couples. All blind people feel that way. They -demand the light and in all private homes and institutions where the blind are eared for the gas bills vouch for their strange fancy."-New IVnrk Pr-ess. SOUTHERN : q1 -- - Cc TOPICS OF INTEREST TO TI5PL ANTA Strong Healthy Chicks. Last week we devoted most of our pace to growing and feeding young hicks. But the subject is by no aeans exhausted. Thousands of chick ns are hatched every year. only to roop and die before they are a month id. -In a multitude of counselors here is a safety." We hope by giving be experience of many poultry keep rs to show that much of the loss is voidable and unnecessary. The fol >wing is from The Successf;ul Poul ry Journal: The breeding stock and the incuba or are often wrongly blamed for the hicks being weak and puny, many of hem dying the first few reeks when a fact the trouble is due to the im roper care of the eggs during the pe iod of incubation. If you want good trong. lusty chicks that will go rough to maturity, scratching for a ving, always in the very pink of con ition, study well the conditions that ou surround them with, while the ender germs are sprouting into life. )o not 1illow the temperature of your neubator room to run below sixty de rees, keep the ventilators wide open om the start. lower the upper sash f the south window all the way down Luring the day. except when raining or rindy, close window at night and open door leading into an adjoining room r hall, give them all the pure fresh .ir possible, but guard against drafts. [old temperature of egg chamber at 003. mark eggs and turn them half ver twice daily. bring the eggs from he outer sides of the trays to the cen re each time, in order to equalize the eat, air them down to the same tem erature as your hand; they should not 'eel cool to the touch; test out on the leventh day. discard all clear eggs and hose having streaks running through hem. The eggs do not develop uni ormly; most of the eggs you have left rill be very opaque. a few will be oubtful: these are only somewhat tar y; mark them plainly, give them ex ra heat by placing them on top of the thers in the warmest part of the ma hine, and they will soon catch up with heir neighbors. After the eleventh Lay prolong the airing, gradually in reasing the tim2. allow your machine o stand open five minutes with the ggs, exercise the eggs at each time of iring by rolling them under the palms f the hands, give them plenty of air nd exercise: action is the very life of nimal growth. Test a second time on ixteenth day; notice your tardies; if ou have given them a little extra care hey will be up with the crowd. They rill pip at the close of the nineteenth ay. Close the ventilators. run at 03 to 104, do not open the machine mnder any circumstances, and in ten or! welve hours they will clean you up a' catch of big strong chicks, that will ve through thick and thin.. AU this ik about weak breeding stock is osh. It's only an excuse used for the. orthless incubators. If the spark of !e is present in the egg surround it ritti proper conditions and it will de elop into a vigorous organism. The sct that the tardy eggs can be hurried l'ong. is proof of this. * Wood Ashes and Kainrt For Potatoes. R., N. H... Evington. writes: "'I would e 'some in formation as to the value of vood eshes and kainft for potatoes." Kainit, as you probably know, is tashi in its crude form. It is a Iow :rade of potash. as only12% per cent. ; actually available for plant food, .nd as it is mixed with considerable nntities of salt and chlorides it is lot as satisfactory a potato fertilizer .s the sulphate. Besides that, it is a low in available plant food that it sone of the most c-ostly forms in vhih potash can be used becatrse you il obiserve that a large amount of ntually waste material is shipped in very ten. Therefore the~ cost Ot pot sli in kainit is relai:vely higher than: a the mdre concentrated forms. Wood ashes make a satisfacetory fer lizer for- gardens and for the potato rop as well Their value depends a :ood d'al on tihe source fromn which hey are derived and the treatmenit hey have received. Ashes also con considerable amounts of lime and very small amflounlt of phosphoric iid. so that they are. useful in pro 'iding other forms of plant food. The Lverage analysis of commercial wood ishes shows them to contain about S 7 per cent. of potash.-1 to 2 per cent. if phosphoric acid and from 25 to 30 ir cent. of lime. This, of course, is *or the unleached form. Leached ashes frequently contain only 1 per cent. of otas. 1% per cent. of phosphoric cid and 23 to 30 per cent, of lime. Vhere ashes that have been protect dI from the water can be purchased tt a low cost they provide potash in satisfactory form and should be util zed on gardens and in orchards. should one desire to proylde fifty ounds of available potash for each tere of land, it would be necessary to se about 500 pounds of wood ashes oo the acre. Jets and Flashes. When a man gets in debt he has~ a ance to get out by dying. With the aid of dressmakers a wo 'n can have a 'fgure without Being good is mostly an accident of bre being no chance for the other t is hardly ever worth while to pre end to be as sure of a thing you know s of one you don't.I It's pretty exciting to think how fond f a woman you could be if you were arried to her. A husband is sometimes landed by a aaiden effort-and sometimes by the fort of the maiden's mother. No indeed, Cornelia, a pickpocket and reporter are not in the same class ut because both take notes. When a man wants money or as itance the world is charitable nugh to let him keep right on want Noah was a great ball player. He ttched the ark without and within nna later put the drove out on a "Il. ARM Ts IOTESD R, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GRWER, As to the amount that should. be paid for wood ashes, it is only necessary to state that potash can be bought 'in the form of muriate at about 4% to 5 cents per pound for available plant food. Therefore 100 pounds of wood ashes are not worth more than thirty five cents at the outside. If they can be bought at 15 to 25 cents they can be used to advantage as a fertilizer. It is for these reasons that in previous communications relative to Irish pota toes the use of sulphate of potash has been suggested, because it provides plant food in a more concentrated form and also is better suited to the production of an Irish potato of high cooking quality. There is no -objec tion to using wood ashes for potatoes. The objection to kainit is not serious, and any 'of these forms of potassic fertilizers can be used to advantage in the production of general garden erops.-Andrew W. Soule. Preparina Land For Alfalfa. .T. K., Far zville. writes: "T "have read and heard much about alfalfa, but have never seen any. is there is none raised here. I want to try it, and would like some information as'-todioW to prepare the land, and when is the best time to sow? Also wherecan the material be obtained for !nocdating the land? Does the soil have to be in oculated for cowpeasy' Land for alfalfa should be very care fully prepared. It is well to start * year in advance to get the land ready, nd unless it is naturally very deep and porous It should be subsolled. and sub soiling is best done in the fall of the year. It is also well-to enrich the land by growing a crop of- cowpeas and plowing them down before seeding to alfalfa. The seeding may be done ap propriately about the firs$eof Septem ber; not latel- thar. this.-'the alfalfa will not make a strong enoiigh growth to withstand the freee of winter. Spring seeding may#b4 piacticed about the first to the fifteenth of March, de pending a good deal on climatic con ditions. It is geierally best to wait until danger of hard freezing is past. It is well -to inoculateyour alfalfa be fore seeding. This may be done by; btaining some of the re put up by the experiment, tatagigsent at a very smalIeosittheldaets of the State upon aplication. 9As a rule, it is not necessary inoculate land in Tennessee for cowpeas or red clover. Sometimes soy beans do much better when iioculated, and the station hopes to be in position to furnish the farmers of the State with the necessary germs for inoculating soy beans.-Knoxville Journal. Value of Lime For Corn. W. E. G., Charlottesville, Va.. 15rites: Please tell me how to test~lafi~ liee if lime is needed. Do you tfnL* e would benefit Iand for corn? It is an easy matter to test land so as to tell whether it is acid or not Purchase from your nearest drug store a package of blue litimus 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 eup 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 acid. In either case lime should be applied. If it is very acid a heavy application would be ad visable,. say fifty bushels, applied inh the caustic form. Purchase it when freshly burned and distribute in heaps in the field at suitable distances and cover Iightly with earth and allow to slake. When thoroughly slaked, scat ter it over the surface of the ground uniformly and incorpo~rate with a har row. Lime is not a' fertilizer but is a stimulant and a correctivc of' certain obbtionable conditions in the soIl. It also sets free plant food which is held in unavailable fosms. and m:ay there fore injure the land if used to excess An applicatiorn of lime once in three to five years is ample as a rule. Laud intended for corn will be benefited by an application of lime. The test indi ated is very easily made and it wilt pay you to ascertain whether your soil is acid or not. and if it is,. to make an application of lime. M'akin: a Lawn. # Four things are required to make at good lawn: Time, soil, climate and in telligent 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 we 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 i 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 last A girl is never satisfied with her newest dress until she discovers that her worst girid friend doesn't like it. If there is anything calculated to drive a woman to drink it is her fail ure to interest some one in other peo ule'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 board jug-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 excurston boat than paddle his own canoe?.