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SOUTHERN : ?ar icS OP ii TERES TO L NPi-E Helpful Chate. A former of the PiedtoM1:t euntIltry CarI- about forty -l.ickS7 and tu r keys through the winter. If he so cur'd from that number tifty pounds of :ne it was not visible. The manure for that number -f hens should be worth $10 a yeat. He carried tive or six cattle through the year. He did inot have two onds of manure to show. He Icst $20 there. He bought two tons of guano for $41. He applied that to poorly prepared land ant, the grass in the first two weeks of June used up half the plant food. There le lost S22. That is, a smnall two-horse farmer. through carelessness and aziness. lost $2. besides the loss in (onsquience of pooriy cultivated crop. There are iundreds of farmers in the land that lose ily one or the other of tlhse leaks. A dozen or more imn with families have said to the writer that they would not r-lant Irish potatoes. They had no luck with them and they did not care 1 for them any way after the first mess cor two. The man who depends on luck inl farm: ing ought to hile out 10 sohlae :ood nVhite ail for wage. Ite is not onua!!ied to conduet a farm. There is Im inkc eveni ill this sectioll of the country in raisilg tihe wvhite potatoes. as h'y .1rt Calld up North. Good soil-. ll prepaired and fertiliz ?d. aind eni "ated rapi.dly will insureL :1 fa ir (-ep p 'id the hu~gs are kept off by Paris green. It is said that if the p o aItcl is covered with pl)ne need -s he hugs vill not trouble them. Eve g pine tops l)aced arouid the nis will keep Th-I off. according to rcports. There is no trouble in rais ig w oet zotatoes. Thv bring a dol ra ht iiel now. .and the crop is profimble at thirty-five cents. if sold fron the field. Som@ people who do mot depend on1 luck always keep pota toes till planting time. What one man does any other man can do if he tries. Mar-y of the oats sown broadcast last faull were killed. Some sown with a wheat drill were much injured. Those sown with the ont drill came througih the severe wintr foii e style. The farmers trying tha. -'-: say that they will never sow another bushel broadI-ast in the fall. This plan en ablles theta to sow the heavy. produe tire varieties. which are always bet ter thua the late kinds that make much straw a ad light grain. In sowing small -rain the nost work shiouie. be put on the preparation of the land. After it is breken with a two-horse or dise plow and well harrowed. it is an easy mat ter fI' a hand to put in two to two and a half acres a day. He lays off. dis tributes the fertilizrr. plants the oats and covers them at the same run. with at fie-inch shovel: the rows will be about fifteen inchtes apart. A smaller plow will not leave the open furrow -deep enough. Farmers who have harrowed wheat -and oats M1arch 25 to April 20. claim that the yield is greatly increased. If the soil is in fair conditih a weeder is better than a smoothing harrow. This implement pulverizes the soil .abom: one inich deep. A hand with one horse can run over fifteen acres in a day. A second cultivation. provided ai roin fellows the first. will he bene Ii.-ia1. The farmers in this section who have tried this plan believe that it adds teni to twenty per cent. to the yield. Cihas. Petty, Spartanburg. S. C. Arroblem in Irishl Potato Culture. -Mr v, A. T. writes: "Would you ad vise fntinfg potatoes oni land thtat yleidS fifty tO seventy-five bushels of corn ner aere? It is upland, but very tine and easy to cultivate. Potatoes b'rin:: from forty to fifty cents a bushel !here :r the fall. Please give me aL good ietlizer and state how to apply it for alea uiy soil vith a clay subhsoil .A::ter.Lan~d thatt wiii binlg from fiirty to se;enty-live bushels of corn in your seiltion of the State should growv a fairly satisfactory crop of Irish po0 tatoes. In a favorable season :and with proper- fertilizationl. you should get 200 h~ushels or more to the acre, which at from for-ty 1o sixty cents will paty you very well. Of course. the~ ptto crop isa n'more haborious crop) t o harvest and -eae fr :ancorn. Potatoes give their hes e-alts on land of a loamy nature wel sppled with vegetablde matter. 1 T v do ex ceedingly well as a rule after aclovecr sod. or the plowing under ot any leguminous crop) which will add ni'tcen: and vegetable matter to the soil Farimyard manture is not a satis r et:- fertil izer for Irish potatoes- as it Co''n (auses them to become scabby, anda thereore interferes ser-iously with their -'ppearan1ce when placed on the maket. iLnd for- potatoes shotuld be -ei brke an'f :d carefuilly preLpared so :- -. tire a tine seed bed t:-sieuld be ithnted in shallow furow tsiches deep in rows three fe.: art nd eighteen inches apatt in & ili.The best practice favors p::i:: meium!1 sized whole potatoes rat~e. tianto it the seAd. using only one' (- 7w eyes to tile piece.' Where th r: i ut it should he sprinlkled li- - sithgypsumn er ilme, which -o wounds~ aLnd keeps the News of the Day. A. Swanson and Lieut.-Go'r. Jos. E. Wiliard addressed a large body of voters at Heathsville yesterday in the interest of their respective candidacies. Sernator Martin ,and Judgc Mann speke in Lexington yesterday in the county courthouse to a large audi en ce. The grand jury of Aiexandria city is investigating the reports of illegal sale cif liquor and gambling and has summecned all the policemnen and nearly 100 citizens, A cormitteCe representing the Lynch bur-g Eard of Trade went to Roanoke Monday, saw President Johnson, cf the Nerfolk & Western Railroad. an"- -resented to him the needs of htiier passenger station facilities in Lynec'burg. y'rn a storm at Ivor the tele grapb office was struck by lightning and tv.o sets of instrumnents bur-ned out. The operator was badly shocked :and was unconcious for some time. The i.nited Grand Grove of t''.e Anetent Order of Druids. which has been in session in Petersburg. :d journed to meet next in Newport -4M FA R, SfOCKMIN .N!; 6RC V'. EFP j:ostur in the pelato. C that the seed does not dry up id fail to ger initaie. It akes more seed when wviole pot:lcoes are sed. bit tle yields are generaily const lered to be more satisfactory. As to a fertilizer for Irish potatoes one of the best would be four per cent. nitrogen. eight per cent. phosphorie acid and twelve per cent. of potash. Use the sulphate of potashl and not the mturiate. as the muriate has an in jurious effect on the formation of starch and results in the produetion of a soggy. wet potato. If the sutphate is used the potatoes will as a rule be more mealy in texture when cooked. The fertilizer may be made up by using cottonseed meal. which contains about seven and one-half per cent. of organic nitrogen. or nitrate of soda with acid phophazitte' and sulphate of pt)tashb. To obtain the above percentages mix about 250 pounds of nitrate of soda. 50") pounds, of sixteen per cent. acid pliosphate and 250, pounds !f sulphate of potash together. and apply at the rate of :100 to (;(O -polin(ds per aere. The fertilizer may be applied broadcast or un1.der the drill rows SO as Hot to coile in contact with the seed. and this is particularly important if you should use cottonseed mnea to supily the nitro :en. The nitrate of soda is best ap pliel separiately. part whien the pota toes co:ne up and part in four to six weeks thereafter.-Andrew M. Soule. Grass ard Dairyilng in the South. Less capital and fewer acres of land are needed to go into truck farming tian is needed for a dairy farm. The hitter has many iavnutages. however: the produmet is not so likely to strike a gluttedI market. Butter and cheese need not 1: sold at once. but may be stored unti! prices are more sat isfaetory. While -I severe droutli will ::ffect the feed of dairy Cattle the ef feet may be more easily remedied than is possible in trucking ur.less you are prepared to irrigate. We have fre( quently recommetided dairy farmin oil a beef cattle ranch as ploi.tia)le business for Florida farmers. Good grass is a necessity in citheLr case. There is a very widespread opin ion throughout the North 'and West that we cannot grow grass in this Stat-e. It is true tirt "bluegrass" does not grow in Florida. Thus far timothy and clover have never been grown sue cessfully on a large scale. As to clover, we have heard o ' some good clover be ing grown in littl? patches. If it cl be grown on a city lot. it can be grown lso on a field o? many acres if tihe same conditions are insured. We feel very con$.dent that experiments will show that on moist 'oil well enriched and inculated with the proper bae teria red clover will do well in Florida. On drier land pro oably alfalfa may be grown in its place. We know positively from personal servation that on flatwoods land white clover will grow without care or cultivation, spreading gradually and smothering out tise native grasses. All things considered, we see not reason why the cattle business in any of its branches will not prove imore rofitable in Florida than in the North ern Sta tes.-Florida Agriculturis i. Corn and Cob~ Meal For sheep. R. L. 0.. Hinkle, writes: Will cornl or crtushed corn and cob mixed with wheat bran hurt to feed sheep? It will not liur: sheep to feed them corn or crushed corn andI colb mlel mixed with wvhcat bran, provided o: course you do ntoi feed too much. Yom ewes should not recetve a heavy grair ration for some time before parturi tion and for several days thereafter What gram is fed at the. period men. tioned should coasist chiefly of wheni bran. Ewecs which are reeiving fair amount of shredded corn stovel with clover~ or 1:0o hay will not nee a large amounit of grain. say fron one to two pouunis per dlay. dependinl on the roughness fed. You may fee( a mixture of one-half corn or corn anm cob meal with wheat bran to advant age. Wheat bran is much mare ex pensive tihan cotton seed meal whe1 the protein content is considered Wheat bran contains abioult twelve pel cent. of digestibie matter as comlparel with 37.2 per cent. in cotton seed meal and yotu should be able to buy the cot ton seed meal ini small lots at aboul $25.00 per ton. Do not feed more that a quarter plounid of cotton seed meal t< your sheep. As much as a half potund of courses enn he fed when the ewe! are well accustomed to it without iln jry. Cotton seed mieal is nort nearl; as satisfactory for young lambs a: wheat bran. but the small amount the: eat while runting with their mother: should not injte them. Owing to thi much higher protein content of cottol seed meal. it is mucit cheaper at thi rie mentioned that the wheat bran. Prof. Soule. The recent birth rate for St. George's in-the-East. Londoti. tihe headquarter; Iof th" alien inivasion. is at the rate o G(X.S per 1000. Jets and Flashes. If some wives would hand their bus bands a few more smiles at home the: wouldn't purchase so many a saloons. A man thinks he is mtghty charita ble when he gets somebody else t< give $10 to his favorite charity. A married man says the easiest wa: to manage a wife is to let her hav' her own way. Nothing is more popular than Hom< Missions on Foreign-Mission Sunday. Better the hands that ache from toil than the heart that aches from trouble The Fredericksburg Star states tha Congressman 3. F. Rixey has ap pointed Chancellor 1~ailey Colemanl son of Dr. W. J. Coleman, of Loulist county, as midsbipman at Annapolis and Joseph M. Blackwell, of Fauquie: county, as alternate. Mr. Mason. of the firm of H. Masot & Co., merchants, five miles fron Jarratts. Sussex county, was struci by lightning and killed instantly. H' was found lying on a counter of thi store. A bunch of keys in Mr. Mason' pockets had been melted and his c thin was adgiy burned. /ORTIKULTURE TREE LICE. For ihe tree liee. the New H-ampshire Station successfully dips the infested twigs of young trees in a we-ak solution of tree soap. Probably kerosene eliul. sion would answer the same purpose. TWO SPRAYINGS IN ONE. Recent tests at -he Geneva (N. Y.) experiment station suggest that the thorough spraying of scale infected trees with a sulphur wash may take the place of the first one of the com bined treatment with bordeaux mix ture and paris green for scale and scab. It is found that the sulphur washes kill many other insects besides the scale and result in considerable benefit to the tree. On the other hand. it was noticed that in spraying old orchards some of the buds were killed on the lower branches, by the large quantity of the spray which they re ceived. The effect was to thin the fruit and decrease its number, while improving the size and quality. The lime and sulphur washes proved ef ficient scale destroyers on all treated trees. DUST SPRAYING. This method of spraying fruit trees has been practiced for several years by Western orchardists with sucets. This season an apple orchard in Ba tavia. N. Y.. has been treated by the application of dry sand and the usual chemicals with remarkable success. The apples of various kinds are re markably free from fungus or other defects. This so-called spray is com posed of sand. with the same ingredi ents used in water. The sand- is thrown by a current of air upon the foliage of the trees when they are wet with dew. My opinion is that this method would be more successful in a dry season than a wet one,, and in a dry State like Missouri than a wet State like New York.- The opinion is that it would wasit off sooncr than the usual water spray. but there is no proof of this.-Indianapolis News. PLANTING FRUIT TREES. The broken or mutilated portions of the roots must be cut off, so as to leave the ends smooth and sound. and the ends of all the other roots should be pruned. From these ends the new fibrous roots usually start. The hole must- be large enough to' receive the roots freely, without eramp ing or bending them from their natural position: the larger the better. Let the, tree be the same depth it stood in the nursery (the old mark cana be readily, discerned) and not deeper. except in cases of dwarf trees. These latter should be set so that the point of union should come two or three inches below the surface of the ground. The tree being held upright, the finest and best earth from the surface should be care fully worked among the roots with the fngers, filling every space and bring ing every root in contact with it. Set the tree as firm as a post. but leave the surface filling light and loose. Thisis oneby placing a laye o coarse manure fothetosxinches deep. extending one or two feet further in each direction than the roots. This protects the earth about the roots against drying or baking with wind or sun, retains to it the requisite mois ture, and obviates all occasion for a practice (generally of injurious effects) -the watering newly planted trees. The stems should now he put in con dition for- the for-mat ion of the top by removing all the limbs to the~ point where it is desired to have the top: then cut bac-k each remaining limbh. leaving from four- to six inches.-Hl. S. Wiley, in Massachusetts Ploughman. SETTING STRAWBERRIES., As a far-mer that is fond of straw herries, and anxious co see this most handsome and delicious fruit grown on all farms. I will have to. take ex: cept ions to di. W. Henry's ar-ticle in Famrin regard to the use of the sade in setting strawberry plants. Too many farmers imagine that straw herrie's are hard to grow, without being *discouraged by being advised to obtain special tools, and then have to "-crawl along on the groun:I" to set the plants. I sometimes imagine Jhat steh advice is given by comnmetcial gr-owers in order to discourage others. Nowv. I am not going to claim that a spade is the best implemeiyt with which to set plants. but it' is somettilng that i?, available (or should be) on all farms. it is speedy and reasonably sure. I have used one for years and expect to continue doing so. The \vor-st failure *with plants and the poorest berries that ever I grew happened several' years ago when. as a heginner. I uni dertook to follow directions given in 1an arti-e in a fatrm piaper-. and two of us worked the gr-eater par-t of a day in setting out 700 plants. Since then.~ I have been a "-lazy man" and used thbe Ispade, and have always had berries. -and most of the time more than we could possibly use. Of corse. if the farmenr goes out in the spr-ing with a Irusty spade and with some of the dirt f-om the last job on which lie used it the fall before sticking to it, lie must not exp~ect to do good work. But if he has a bright spafde, and will stretch a line across the ground as a guide to go by, and then with a small boy to hand him the plants. lie can soon set (or "pt in the ground") enough plants to supply is family with berries.--F. S. Girard, in Indiana Farmer. -His Admiration. The admiration whiichi Bob felt for huis Aunt Margaret included all her attributes and even possessions which the aunt herself was not wont to con sider desirable. "I dont care much for plain teeth like mine. Aunt Margaret." said Bob one day, after a long silence during which he had watched her in a laugh ing conversation with his mother. "I wish I had some copper-toed ones. like yours."--Youth's Companion. "Can't I go out in the back yard and play in the garden. mammra': "Cer -tainly not, child. You must stay in and study rnnr nature honks.--Life Taxeq and Farms. H E %Vme ill ask. "Ilow iich would the tax be on lly farm to have good riad':" This is :1 vital qle'stilon. :11(1 it goes to the htoart of the whole matter. As the an swer to the question depends on the ize of the farm. its value, the assessed value of the township. and the county. and its location, no aniswer e:1i lit iven that will tit every case. The following exampli. which is based on :-onditiors that represent the average ituation in Illinois. as stated. will fur nish an approximate answer: Let us issume that John Jones owns a quar ter section in a township in Central Il linois. where the county is made up of sixteen townships. The records of the State Board of Equalization show that %1'00 is an average assessed valua tion of such a farm. The assessed ':aluation of a farming township is $300.000 or over. but we take $300.000 as the basis. Then the a:ssessed valt tion of the county would be $4.800.000. :antd under a State and county aid road law (which seems to be most equita ble). the cost of hard roads is divided in three parts,. ebarging same to State, county antd township. The State's portion of the 'o5t would be paid in cash fron the one mill tax levy. The county and townlship paid by isuiing holds. pyable in twienty :1nnu11:l instalments. -witl tlree and a half or four per cent. intere'st. To neet these bonds with the inter est tle county and townishi) lust raise., upon an average. $121-0 a year for twenty years. The township tax must he spre'al over $3O0.00o0 valuation. which wil make the rate four mills. The county tax must be spread over $4.800.l valuation, which makes the county tax one - fourth of a miiil. So. upon the farm in question the annual tax bill will be: State tax, one mill............ . 1.80 County tax. oie-quarter mill. 45 Township tax, four mills........ 7.20 Total...................... $ 9. 4 5 The above is based up~on only one of the sixteen townships in the county building hard roads; for every other township where 0.000 is expended for hard roads the county tax will be increased one-quarter of a mill. equal to forty-five cents a quarter section. wyhich would have to be added to the above. If every township in the coun-i ty should undertake at once the build ing of a similarsystem of hard roads. the county tax on the farm would be four mills, or $7.20, which. -with $7.20 township and $1.80 for State tax. would bring the total up to $1G.20. Suppose the farm in question is uestion is planted in corn and yields an average of forty bushels to the are, the tax then will represent one fourth of a cent: a bushel on the crop. Experience shows, and I believe every ne will admit, that a wideawake farm er, having at all seasons of the year good, hard roads, can, by watching the market and selling his corn under the most favorable conditions, get at least one cent, and often five cents, a bushel more than he can under present condi tions. With hard roads he can take advantage of the market: with mud roads the markets often take advan tage of him. And if our friend on the farm will sit down, take his pencil andi .figure out the saving lie can make by hauling twice the load in half the time ly reason of the hard roads, and the saving of wear and tear upon his teams, he will see that, in fact, no mat ter how he figures, he can save the cost of hard roads many times over every year. The building of hard roads on thle main thoroughfares will reduce the present road and bridge tax at least ore-alf: so the cost of hard roads is so evenly distributed that it does not become a burden. Usually fifteen, or. at muost. eighteen. miles will cover the maina roads inI any township; these can be nmaeadamized or gravelled, making a permaneut hard road, at a cost not exceeding $(W,.Ll00 in any prart of the State, and usually for $5,000. In localities having material close at hand the exp-ense (an -be cut to $35.000 or S40.000. With modern road machinery the remining dirt roads can be graded. crowned and drained, greatly improving the same. and the whole cost wvill niot increase the present road tax over ten cents an acre a year. The whole question is: Are hard roads and good roads worth $1i a year for a quarter section? Generally the cheapest and most ac cessible material should be used. In about half of the State gravel can be had: in tihe southern part of the State a very good material, known as Nova culite. is found: in the vicinity of JToliet and Chicago there is an abundance of all road materials. gravel, limestone and furnace slag, while Chicago's great drainage canal has upon its banks millions of cubic yards of good road material, and at the south end of thuis stone pile is the Joliet peniten tiar.-Chic'ago Tribune. No Pension Yet. "Well, to be ihonest with you."~ said the tramp, "I can't exactly say that 'm a veteran andl~ have witnessed the borrors or war. hut I think I deserve a pension, though." "For what?" "Well. I was once locked in a freight car for a week, with the weather at zero. and nothing but a frozen tuirip to eat. antd nothing but blocks of build in stoencs to keep mne warm, and if I anm not entitled to a pension nobody else ought to have one. The horrors of that old turnip beat the horrors of a battlefield all to pieces."--New York News. Women's Good Looks. Accor. :g to an English special ist who :ts made a careful study of the sub: :t, tihe reason why 'women are better looking than men is because they are more indolent, and are not called upon to use their brains as much as men are, Hard intellectual work and assidious attention to busi-aess. he says, are harmful so far as physical beauty is concerned.-Idiana~polis MOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS - | PEAR. HONEY. Pick over and core fully ripe pcars and cook with a little water until soft: strain through a jolly bag and then simmer slowly until reduced about one tiird of the original amount. It should h) pale. clear and sweet, with a fraity rlavor. This is excellent for use with delicate griddle cakes. SPICE LOAF CAKE. Cream one and one-half cups of but ter, add two cups of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of milk. four well beaten eggs, one level teaspoon of ground cloves, one and one-half tea spoon of cinnamon, cne-qrarter of a Al grated nutmeg, live cups of flour in which sir level teasp,,ons of baking powder a'-e sifted, ai.d two cups of raisins. Bake in two loaves slowly DATE CAKE. Cream one-half cup of butter. add one and one-half cups of sugar. beat well, add the beaten yolks of four eggs, beat again, add one cup of milk, two and one-quarter cups of tlour with four level teaspoon: of baking powder sifted in it, then add one-half pound of dates chopped and one-half teaspoon of at almoud flavoring. Bake in thin sheets, cever with a thick icing and decorate vith stoned dates. Serve iii small squares. APPLE- GINGER. tI: Pare and core apples and to four pounds allow four pounds of light brown sugar, the juice and grated rind of three lemons and an ounce of white ginger pounded flat. Cook all together threc or four hours over a slow fire until the apple looks clear. Sal th small jars. The ginger can be bought in any drug store. and the pieces should be taken out before sealing the pre serve or at any time when the flavor of ginger becomes too strong. Cc SHEPHERD'S PIE. 01 Cut up enough cold roast beef to sI make a quart of small. thin slices. Season the meat with salt and pepper, and after putting it into a deep earthen dish pour over it It sauce made as fol- ti lows: Put two tablespoonfuls of but ter into a frying pad. and when it has become hot add two scant tablespoon- ni fuls of flour. Stir until this is dark hI brown. and- then add a pint of water. Seascon with salt and pepper and boil for three minutes. Pare, boil and mash eight good-sized potatoes; then add to ti them a cupful of boiling milk. a tabie- ei spoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to suit the taste. Spread this prepara- M tion over the meat and sauce, begin- b, ning at the side of the dish and work ing toward the centre. Bake for thirty minutes, Other meats beside roast beet may be used in a shephierd's pie if desired. Never put warm tood of any kind away in a covered dish if you want it to keep well. When peeling oniot's begin at the roo: end and peel upwards. and the on>.: will searcely affect your eyes at If :: piece of furniture is ink-stained. six dr:>ps of nitre in a teaspoonful of wter :appiled with a feather will re ~ove it. 1 (>a3ware should be washed in hot c ):ouus and rinsed in cold water. A y e a:: glass towel does the rest. Use a brs:m for Cut g~ass. 13 Do not use a sponge: it no :onger fillsC a l-mg-lelt want~ on the& toilet table. he ('a'se it is apt to become tilled withl germs poisonous to -the skin. Use a bit of antiseptic ('loth or the hands. A snonzte or face tlannel which has l heomne shimy through constant use of 50:11 should be well rubbed with salt m:d then rinsed in cold water. By this p:-ocess it becomes practically new. Rust on steel may bA' removed thus: o Cover the steel with sweet oil, rub it t< Iin well, and let it stand for forty-eight h~ours: then rub the steel with unslaked lime, finely powdered, till all the marks have disappeared. In addition to the weckiy scrubbing n of the refrigerator, it is a good pman b to occasionally take out the shelves and boil them with a handful of wash sing soda. Tihe wash boiler may be used u for this purpose.c Orange fr-osting for cake is made by rating the rind of ani orange and sqezing the juice and a tablespoonful of 1imon juice over it. Gradually beat e: into the mixture confectioners' sugar t: until tihe proper consistency is reached. n, A diet of young carrots is said to he -xcellnt for the skin and all its ap- ii nondages of hair anod nails. This is ~ .ttrbutd to its anit:-scorbutic salts, iu is ily mantter- and the iron which ex-- e Ist in al red-colored vegetables and f rits. A girl who develops her cwn photo-r graphic plates tried many experiments be~fore shie solved the problem of keep- ~ -1.:he hands. especially her finger nals clean. She found that lemon Ijuic. if u-sed quickly after the hands hd been in the developer and tihe hypo.h removed stains from underneath the nails. __ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ I A Valuable Psalter. A Psalter. which belonged to Bos well, was sold at Sotheby's in Londo)n I recently for ?l5. It containedl the inl scription: "James Boswell. 176:3. I bought this for 2d at Greenwich, when I was walking there with Mr. Samuel , Johnson" Whitechapel Changed. Whitechapel. London. thec district where so many crimes were committed I several years ago, including the notor ious "-Jack-the-Rlipper" murders. has ~een transformed by the police into a fairly respectable district. Music boxes and blue light are two of the latest things in the line of au aehetics. HISNENRLl NOTES SUNDAY, JULY 2. The Making of a Christian: His Dez tiny. I. John 2: 15-17; 3: 1-3. It makes a great difference, even to an indestructible gem, whether it belongs to a crown cr a junk heap. Lcok around and see how the world is treating God. --nd if you are the child of God. do not expect to be treated any better. Could you explain to a caterpillar what it is to be a buterfly? No 'more could God explain to us what we shall be. We become like whatever we truly see, as the sunlight lightens up whatever it falls upon, and covers the roughest stone that receives it with the brilliancy of the King of day. Suggestions. Our destiny is not to be measured by our accomplishments, but by our purposes; not by time, but by etern ity. If you want to glorify your earth, think great thoughts of heaven. True thoughts of the hereafter con tribute to the present; weak and dreamy thoughts only weaken the present. Half of Napoleon's power was his consciousness of a splendid destiny. When one loses that consciousness, he loses his power. Illustrations. Every Christian is a king traveflag through a foreign land incognito. That your life is of pure marble does not make it a lovely statue. Take it to the Sculptor. The sky begins on the earth; so does your heavenly destiny begin with the duties of to-day. Questions. Am I living as one with an immor ,al destiny? Am I consciously prcparing for my endless future? Quotations. Without a belief in personal .Im mortality, religion is surely like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.-Max Mil ler. I feel my immortality oversweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears. -Byron. As often as I hear of some unde served wretchedness, my thoughts rest on that world where all will be made straight.-Fichte. THE NATIONAL GAME. Clarkson is winning right along for Jersey City. Devlin is making great strides in the first class of base-stealers. Ulnglaub is proving a clever utility man for Boston, after all. Beaumont was the first Nat.ional League player to make fifty hits. Manager McGraw began to play at fifteen and was a manager at thirty. Elberfeld has been laid off by New York without pay until he can get into, shape. The Clevelands are being heavily touted for the American League cham pionship this season. Stone is leading the St. Louis Browns in hitting and run getting, and is ahead of Burkett on all counts. Veteran Jack Boyle has .succeeded Jack Doyle as first baseman for the Toledo American Association .team. ClevelandI critics now claim for .Joss the distinction of being the best field ing pitchi r in the American League: JIoss. of the Cleveland team, is piteh ing great ball. He has twice held clubs dLown to three hits, once to four and twice to five. . The St. Paul Club has suspended pitcher R~oy Evans, indefinitely, with out salary, for deriliction in the per formance of his duties. New York critics are tossing- boquets at Dobbs for his great fielding with the Brooklyns. If he could only hit and throw he would be a star. Young "Cy'' Young. of the Boston Nationals, is the .boss shut-out pitcher, with five such victories to his credit. Killian leads in theo American League with three. "I don't know that it is possible to legislate the new style of delivery out of the game altogether, but I do know that it is possible to help the batting by returning to the old rule regarding fouls," says President Ban Johnson. RAMWS H ORN B LASTS THE cause that has virtue does not need violence. When prejudice begins to convince obstinacy 'tis the BIE] abeginning of a long argument. He who rises against God is sure to fall. Great triumphs are the fruitage of many trials. Love's wealth costs least to get and lasts longest. Many a man bites off his head to feed his face. No worship ascends where nothing is given up. Few things are more precious than well-won praise. Obedience is our obligation, the bles ing is His. Men who want to be spirit-filled must be self-emptied. Those who live with us have the greatest power to lift us. God knows His servants by their souls and not by their salaries. Go ~lived as man that man might Th saoo bar is Satan's bargain counter. It is hard work seeking the Savior and serving self. He builds well the house who lays aright the first brick. The more the pruning the greater the promise of fruit. HIS AFFECTIONS SHIPWRECKED. "Nellie," spoke the youth, with an air of confidence, "only say the word and you and I will sail together on the .rough sea of life, bravely buf feting its waves, trimming our sails to meet tlie adverse winds that-". - "Leave me, Harry, leave me," in terrupted the maiden. "The man - who takes me on that journey must offer me a firsf-class passage on a steamer.--ettle Post-Intelligencer. With the Funny Fellotv4' Observe the Lovely Rhiymc. tere once was a poet of Domiinique, ho never had written a limerick. And the people all cried: *If he has never tried. r heaven': :ake.give him a medal quick." -Somerville .Journadl. W1, e It Gets It. 'But don't you believe that virtue ways gets its reward in the end?" Nope: sometiiles it gets it in the k."-Houston Post: Unattainable W'.'nlth. 'Loatley says being married to an iress is not :1 sucess." -No?' -No. Says it's just like working in bank."-Houstoil Chronicle. "Uugratesul Truth." -She has taken very great care of rself. you know." -Yes. But her age i: telling on her hlast." -What ingratitude!"-London Punch. The niiss of Ignorance. hlie-"Soime )eoPledoI't know what's od for them in this world!" Re-"Yes. but they're better off than e people that know and haven't the ice to get it!"-Detroit Free Press. Place to Acquire Knowledge. Greene-"Would you call Briggs an lucated man' White--Well, I think he knows more an he did when lie first ventured into e stock narket."-Boston Transcript. Trouble Ahead. "Here's a man what say de worl' ni'n' ter a end next July." -MIy. niy En ter think. I done buyed o lighlltnin' rods en a eight-day clock i de installment plan."-Atlanta Con itution. Must Have Been Absent. "MIs. Qaintly wasn't at the reception is afternoon, was she?" "What makes you think she wasn't?" "Since you got back you've done thing but tell me things you've !ard about her."-Judge. Sarcasm. Mrs. Knox-"Well. I was in pienty of me for the wedding. after all; and I ijoyed it immensely." Mr. Knox-"Really? What was the atter? Didn't the bride look her st?"-Philadelphia Ledger. M(enagerie Pleasures. Fa rmhi naiefrs-re .Teosinswt eat o l Far rmhs tv Apporetinr. Mrs. May-"'Tm glad men don't wear c and ribbons and things on their othes the way women do, aren't Mrs. Kay-"Oh. I don't know! Think W convenient it would be for us if ise we wanted something of the sort a hurry!:"-Detroit Free Press. The Higher Education. "Do you expetct youlr son) to become :oficient in the classies while at col "Football ?" "No. All I want is for 'em to give n a good hazin, an' mebbe take somec the conceit out of .him."-Washing n Star. Proud Moment. . . Mike-"Oi hear yez wor foined foive yllars fer assaultin' McDooley-" Pat-"Oi' wo: an' it wor a proud mo iinn whin 01 hun-rd th' sintince, 'gorry." Mike-"Pfwhats th' rayson a'- thot?" Pat-Faith, an' it show'd which av s had th' best av th' contist."-Chi igo News. Talent Rewarded. Feminine Art Student--"What be tine of Mr. Hilight, who showed such ilent here last term? None of his ork has been published, has it?" Masculine Art Student-"Oh. yes' but isn't signed. Hilight's on The Even igSaffron. Hie dratws those crosses phtgah wvhic'h show wvhere the ime was committed."-Puck. Disappointed. "Luck never manages things just gght," said the irritable man who dis kes music. "It mighlt just as well ave been the other way around, but w asn't." "What is the trouble now?" "My daughter. who plays the piano, as a sore throat. and the one who ings has a sore finger."-Washington Woman's Way. "Yes. indeed, wve had a falling out. Ee lives within a block of my house, u I never see him." "Never?" "Well, once when I was placing omne fowers in the parlor window I aught sight of his long overcoat." "And that was all?" "es except-er-when I passed his .ouse he was at the window." "And you looked up ?" "Only glanced, dear. Really-" "Then you smiled?" "II-I-er-no--yes-" "And spoke?" "Well-er-ust to--but I never see Liim. Honestly, we had a falling out."