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Iloooooooooooooooooooo Tin Tinn ? nmiimTm $ TflUHMIII III III III III I III | SB OF MCDLTOBEI HBeHBSTUDYING 5AHPLE SOILS. ? H^BflflbOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGCQOOOSGO BHGHrhe Department of Agriculture in H^^flBishington has been wise in retainduring several successive adminflfljHHrations its able Chief of the Division Chemistry. The result has been, ^^^HUclares the Scientific American, from B^^Kvhich this article is taken, that dur^HHing the years cf his tenure of office, I^^^Dr. Harvey W.Wiley has been able to plan and complete several valuable aeries of experiments. None of these, perhaps, has occupied his closer inRV. terest and atteiltion more than those MB "which have had for their object the study of the growth of various plants EV under similar conditions but with vary- j ;f ll-gpi I. i / fLs y Y$1 ^ DR. H. W. WILEY WEIGH ing soils. In fdct, the investigation may be designated as a study of typical soils, and is perhaps the first attempt ever made in this country to study any number of soils under like conditions. In a way the work is an extension of that most excellent series of studies that have been carried on at the celebrated Experiment Station in Rothamsted, England, under the direction of 8ir John Henry Gilbert and Sir John fsiL T 3 TEGETATION POT CONTAINING GROWING OATS. Bennett Lawes, who for more than half a century have had charge of the scientific work in that place. * Typical soils from between thirty and forty places scattered throughout the United States were procured through the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, and a direct comparison was instituted with samples of . ' I ^ ? THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE - TIOS\ HOUSE AND CARS OP THE STUD In. OF SOILS. V soils o! kno\v<8 constituents obtained from Rothams^d. - - A plot of ground in tlie rear of the , ; ' main bnilding of the Agricultural Department at Washington was set aside W-:- i .v : . ? for these experiments, which were be- pr gun in 1892, and a small green-house un erected in which the plants are kept m< during the night and in rainy weather, th but at other times they are rolled out wi into the air. This is easily accom- of plished, as the pots are all on trucks ge tttViimow mnrorl of. will nlnn<r f.ViA foi tracks, as shown in the illustrations. co For a portion of the season oats and tie beans were grown in duplicate samples Tt of typical soils. After the crops from on these plants had been harvested, the gr soil in the pots was again prepared for in planting, and a crop of buckwheat tic grown. By this means two crops are co secured during each season, so that mi the value of the experiment is largely ga increased, in consequence of duplicating the data obtained. tic Very careful attention is naturally di given to the water supplied to the D pots, and formerly at proper intervals cu a known amount of distilled water wa3 fa added to the soil by means of glass tb measuring vessels, but as the work of has progressed, these have been dis- w] carded and a number of tin vessels, it each holding two pounds of distilled ac water, have been substituted. As the fa ci -i n | i -i-? is ' ' ^ ' ' ' 0/ two vv.ar.tattok pots. wL tin amount of water added to every pot tra must be known (so that the conditions may be identical), this improved meth- 13 od makes it possible to add one portion of water to each of the pots in, k*s the course of two hours. This is ac- Pai complished by inserting the tin fun- tat nels containing water in the funnel D0 holder on the side of the pot, as shown the in the illustration. * SP< Next perhaps in importance to the addition of water to the soil is the de- . termination of the amount of moisture ? contained in the pot at any given fi.. period. For a long time this factor Vr was determined chiefly by an inspec- ^ tion of the surface, with an occasional l,j weighing of the pot. This method, |i while capable of yielding excellent re- l| suits when under the immediate suDervision of an expert, was freauently interrupted, owing to the absence of Dr. Wiley, -who was liable to be called elsewhere by other duties. Accordingly, it was deemed advantageous to have a more rigid control of the quantity of moisture present. Consequently, weekly weighings of the pots are now made, so that the quantity of moisture which has been evaporated during the seven days may be directly . determined. Knowing the quantity nol necessary to produce complete satura- wo tion of the soil, a simple calculation sio will show the quantity to be added in pie order that the amount of moisture in doi the soil shall be between sixty and mi; seventy per cent, of the total quantity wo necessary for its complete saturation, wh For a time the weighing of each in- rui dividual pot not only consumed a large "w amount of time, but also proved a ma very arduous undertaking for the at- liki tendant in charge of the pots. Accordingly, the method of weighing was improved by an ingenious me- chanical device which renders it pos- Ch sible for oue person, without assist- uec ance and without uudue physical ex- his ertion in the way of lifting the pots, ^ to weigU the entire lot of 176 in about jail four hours. Thi3 is shown in one of sur the accompanying illustrations, which wit is also of special interest as showing lav Dr. Wiley himself in the act of writing eve down the weights. bac The single-column illustration shows Th the screen or hood that has been de- ant vised for the purpose of protecting the chs plants from the action of the wind and Re from the attacks of birds. ter The laboratory work includes deter- to ; minalions of the total amount of dry san Dii i sec r| wa brs ma " ba , WASHINGTON, D. C.-THE VEGETA- un: DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY FOR THE SI " < ha matter produced in each pot, together ah with the amounts of nitrogen, phos- gri phoric acid, and potash removed from ho the soil by each crop. The data from sei seven seasons is now at hand, and the Lo it eparation of a preliminary report is ider way. It will contain stateants in regard to the composition of e soils, their physical character, their iter-holding capacity, their contents humus, and the percentage of nitron, phosphoric acid, and potash con mea merein, Dotn as regards total ntent and in respect of the quanti:s removed by different solvents, lis report will be illustrated, not ly by analytical tables, but also apbicallv in such a way as to show the most evident manner the rela?n which exists between the physical mposition of the soil, its contents of Disture, and the quantity of dry ornic matter produced. This is but one of several investiga>ns now being conducted under the lection of the Chief of the Chemical ivision of the Department of Agri.lture. The great value to the rmer is obvious, for as a result of is investigation a chemical analysis a given soil will at once determine aat olant foods inav be deficient in for the production of a given crop id at the same time it will show the rmer how to supply these deficienes when practicable by the judicious (plication of fertilizers or by a sdit>le rotation of crops. Thus in the id it will demonstrate what crops own on a given soil will yield the eatest amount of profit to the farmer. The slow and even tedious work jcessary for the satisfactory compledu of investigations carried on in the ientific bureaus of our Government not always appreciated by the genal public, but when the results that e jcsure to ensue are so far-reachg in effects as those of the investigajn which has just been so briefly outled, then, indeed, does the wisdom the work become clearly manifest. A TREADMILL DOC. Wisconsin Establishment. A dog which runs a press is a curiity in Plymouth, Wis., and is probily the only animal in the world dog this kind of service. "Gyp," as e dog* is known, is owned by the ymouth Review Company, and not tly runs off the edition of the paper ice a week, but is also employed to n a large job press. The dog is an English mastiff, jighing 150 pounds, and formerly longed to a showman who became randed there and left the animal at e of the hotels. The proprietors of e Review secured him, and his cks of operating a wheel were deloped. A wooden wheel, eight feet in dileter and four feet wide, was con ucted and balanced on a shaft on a end of which was placed a pully to ive a main shaft. This shaft was anected with a niue-columivpower ess, capable of carrying the forms a six-column quarto paper, in tne leel Gyp was piacecl aud in a short ie taught to tread. Though usually ictable, there are two things which ow the dog into a rage. The first to have any one turn the wheel, ich Gyp has come to look upon as i own, and second the sight of a rticular cat. The latter fact is ;en advantage of when the dog does t tread fast enough. A glimpse of > cat is sufficient to increase the ;ed of the wheel, and if the cat is THIS DOG PRINTS A NEWSPAPER. t taken away after a time the dog uld work himself into such a pasn that the press would be toru to ce3 by the speed. Gyp has been .ng the work for two years, never ssing a day, aud seems to enjoy the rk, frequently gettiug into the eel in the middle of the night and iniug half an hour or more just to arm up," as it were. When comnded, the dog will start up or stop e a horse. Went to Jail For a Dor. Hark A. Diamond, who died at the arity Hospital here recently, had some locally famous on account of love for liis dog. Phree times Diamond had been to to save the dog's life, and the dog vives his master. It "was not a dog h a pedigree upon which Diamond ished his affection, bat a plain jryday cur with a bad temper. This 1 temper caused all the trouble, e dog bit a child about a year ago i Diamond was arrested on the trge of keeping a vicious canine, corder Finnegan gave him the alnative of killing the brute or going jail. Diamond went to jail. The ae thiag happened over again when imond had served out his first The second term having expired, he a again with his dog, which celeited his release by biting a young u ten days ago. Diamond's health s poor and the case against him was itinued two or three times, the ac?ed saying he would suffer impriscnent again rather than have his pet t to death. On his way from the urt House several days ago he fell coDscions in the street and was :en to the Charity Hospital, where ith came this morning. The case s aroused much sympathy.?New leans Dispatch to Baltimore Sun. Man's Ingratitude to His Home. Spokane, the horse that beat Proc Knott in one of the finest Derbys it was ever run, winning his owner 0,000 and the fleeting but bright rewn of the turf, has been brought ck to the scene of his former triit>1is and sold at auction for a paltry 70. Once a horse that kings would ve been proud to own, now he mds the chance of becoming a miser le hack in a road-wagon. The inititude that men who own racerses show to the animals which ved them so well is an old story.? uisrille Courier-Journal. & v.* SIMM HAPPENIWGS. Some Uncommon Incidents of Poverty, Law, Crime and Accident. AN AUCTIONED WOMAN'S BID. A Panper Woman Sold at Anotion For Board Bids In Herself? Feudal Fallman Totrn to Bo Free?Committed Suicide at Wife's Orders?A Mountain Falls in Canada After a Thavr. MiLFoaD, Penn. (Special).?An unfortunate old woman, poor, her usefulness gone, her friends driven from her by peculiarities incident to old age, has just been sold at auction to the lowest bidder by the overseers of the poor of Lackawaxen Township, Pike County. Despite her age, how ever, ner mina is acute, ana sne siarueu the auctioneers by bidding in herself. The women who was put on the block was Mrs. Elmira Quick. She is seventy, seven years old, and has resided nearly the whole of her life in Lackawaxen Township. Her sale at auction was in.pursuance of a custom which long has prevailed in that township. It has been customary with the various poormasters to sell the poor of the township each year to the lowest bidder in preference to being annoyed with the care themselves, and about the beginning of the year a large sign with the glaring headline, "A Woman for Sale," can be sean nosted about tho township, for it seldom befalls a man to become dependent apon the district. When the bidders assembled at Warren K. Rutan's Hotel, at Rowland Station, the Overseer of tho Poor, Mr. Rosencrance, a former Pike County Commissioner, and Warren Rutan, who also actod as auctioneers, took the floor and announced that a woman was to be "sold to the lowest bidder for keep for the year." The bidding started at 64 a week and was very spirited. The auctioneers were about to "knock down" the woman to a back woodsman for SI.50 a week for board, clothing, medical attendance, etc., when Mrs. Quick, who had been a silent listener to the proceedings, arose from her chair and in quiet tones said: "I will bid $5 a month. I will have no trouble to maintain myself on that amount." This turn in the proceedings was wholly unanticipated, and created general surprise. For how was the aged woman to live on sixteen cents a day? No one seemed willing to go below Mrs. Quick's bid, and the auctioneers saw no alternative but to sell the woman to herself, and the papers were accordingly drawn up. PULLMAN TO BE A FREE CITY. Tho Town "Will Be Absorbed by Chicago and Its Baildlnzs Sold. Chicago, 111. (Special).?The dream of George M, Pullman's life has been shattered. The fenced in model town of Pullman is become a free community. Tho anomaly of a city within a city is at an end. Tho Pullman Palace Car Company lias accepted the decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois sustaining the contention of Attorney-General 31. T. Maloney. The Pullman company lias instructed its attorneys to close the suit. The terms of the decree are now being prepared. The decree will divorce the great corporation from everything save the business for which it was incorporated. Thus will end, as a feudal institution, the town of Pullman. Itf churches and schools, its hotel. Its magnificent arcade hall, the market bouse, the public library and two thousand brick residences, will be sold to the highest bidder. The Pullmarl Iron and Steel Uomnany will f>9 reorganized. The brick works will pass from tho control of the company. The streets of Pullman will be given over to tho authorities of tho city of Chicaco, and the waterworks will also pass into the control of the city. Pullman will cease to bea^hedged in municipality. AN EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. A Wife Orders Hor Husband to Kill Himself so She Can Have Money. London fBy Cable).?Tho Vienna correspondent of the Mail telegraphs: "An extraordinary story of cold-blooded crime is published in Monday's papers. John and Anna Braunewero a middle-class couple with three children, a private income and a prosperous business. Braune squanderer! his monev, let the business go to ruin and became a bankrupt. One even inj; his wile said to Mm: *Jonn, i urn starving. 8boot yourself, so that I can get the insurance on your life.' "The husband went into the next room and shot himself, but, although desperately wounded, eventually he roooyored. " "Soon after his recovery his wife said to him: "'John, you were too stupid to shoot yourself properly. Go and hang yourself somewhere.' "The next morning the obedient husband was found hanging from a ratter, this time dead. "Anna Braune then tried to get rid of her mother, whose sole heir she was. She hired a workman to murder her, explained to him hovr he could got into hor mother's house; where he could find a hammer, with which to do the deed; where lie could hide the body, and other horrible details. She promised the workman generous payment for murdering her mother, but he reported the matter to the police, aad the inhuman daughter was arrested on- Saturday." A CANADA MOUNTAIN FALLS. Great Chunk of Earth Dams a Eiver, Causing a Flood. Vancouver, E. C. (8pecial).?The recent tliaw had the otiector loosening tue sides of a small nountaln which overhangs the Fraser River, near Spencer Bridge. Shortly after midnight a few days ago with a roar that could be heard over a mile, fully a hundred acres of tlio hill, anywhere from twenty to flftv feet in depth, crashed into the Fraser, damming it completely and sending the water in torrents over tbo fertile Nicola Valley. The course of tbe river wa3 changed completely. Now the Frazer, which, owing to the flat nature of the country, has grown into a broad, majestic, but shallow stream, is fully half a mile out of its former course. The district is sparsely settled, and no lives were lost. Barns and houses, however, were carried away and thousands of acros of valuable land will never be reclaimed from the waters of the Fraser in its new course. Kentucky Mountaineers Go Into the Army Thn armv recruitine station at Lexlng ton, Ky., i3 doing more work than all the other Western stations combined. The trountaln boys aro pouring in at such a rate that the examiners aro kept busy. A row days ago a large consignment was <aippod to For: Sneliing, and others will 'oilow. Britain Support! Pcace Proposal. Lord Salisbury has replied to th* Cz ir's disarmament proposal, assuring him of the ordial sympathy of the Engli-iii tieople iuil promisiug tho support or taeiirinsu loverntneut. Sent to Prison For Life. Colonel JUltson sua .uiuuu, wuu u jo 111 command of the Spanish garrison at Ponce Porto Rico, when the United States troof s' under General Miles landed in the island, and who abandoned the plica without ( sistunce, has been sentenced to imprisonient for life at Madrid, Spain. He'will be -Hreerated at Ceuta, the Spanish penal jtony in Morocco, opposite Gibraltar. Volunteers to Be Mustered Out. The Secretary of War, Washington, has irdered the muster out of the First Wes| 7irglnia, Second Ohio and First Terrltor al Rtffiments, all Tolunteera. / A TEMPEEANCE COLUMNr THI DRINK ?ViL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. Take u Drink??What Alcohol Does to the User?It is Foolish to Bay an Onnce of Present Pleasure With a Pound of future Pain?Abstinence is Saiest. Take a drink? No, not I! Reason's taught me better Than to bind my very soul With a galling fetter. Water, sweet and cool and free, Has no cruel chains for me. "Clteth Like a Serpent." Few things are so much dreaded as serpents. They are so stealthy, and, except the rattlesnake, so silent, and some of them, at least, are so deadlv. Thera Is no I cure known for the bite of some snakes; the only chance is to cut out the piece of flesh which has been bitten or to burn it out with a red-hot iron, and even this will be of no use unless it is done directly after the bite is received. Now, this is very like wbat alcohol does to the drinker, who has only a very faint chance of getting rid of his thirst for drink when that thirst has once been formed In him. His only chance is to get the drink out, and keep it out of his body. He caDnot cut it out or burn it out; he has patiently to abstain from it until he has ceased to long for it. Some- , times it is many years before this can be done, and sometimes the thirst comes back time after time for the whole of a man's life, and keeps him in danger and anxiety. What goodjeeason we have to avoid being bitten by this serpent of strong drink. The mischief comes at last like many other bad things, the drink comes to us with a smiling face; it is pretty to look at as it sparkles in the glass; we see some of our friends taking it; we know that many good people not only take it, but even praise it. if we were to take soma, very likely at first it would seem to be doing us good, and we might think it a useful thing to take. But it would all be a mistake; every kind of strong drink is "a mocker," and soon after we had got into the habit of taking it we should flud that we had more or less difficulty in leaving it'off. .The first prick of the serpent's tooth would be feit, and if we had wisdom enough left we should cast the habit away from us in fear and horror. If we did not the tooth would enter more deeply and the poison would flow through our'veins; we should become the prey of the serpent. Wise men look well ahead, and so do wise boy3 and girls; they do not ask whether a thing is pleasant or unpleasant just now; they want to know how It will be in the end. They know better than to buy an ounce of present pleasure with a pound of future pain. It is because the worst of drink comes at the last instead of at the first that we so hate and fear it. It must be terrible to feel the poison spreading through one's body after the bite of a snake. In some cases In about a quart-fir of Jin hmir It <9 nil nvnr An(t*ri?nt-h hn<i come. But It is worse still to live the living death of a drunkard, to feel one good thing after another going out of you, that you love those about you less and have less of their love: that your good name is going, that you are in every way getting worse and "worse, further and further from God and goodness and everything thnt is beautiful and pleasant, that you are surely dying not only in your body, but your soul as well. Better by far be killed by a serpent than endure such a fate as this. But if you neglect the warniiag of the motto, if you break your pledge, such a fate may be yours.?Father Mathew Herald. Beer and Wine and Intemperance. It should not be forgotten that the use of malt liquors and light wines has not been found in Europe to be a means of. checking intemperance. The French for generations have used light wines in large quantities, and within the last two or three decades have been considerable consumers of malt liquors; but in spite of this, since 1870 they have developed|a taste for distilled spirits which threatens', if continued, to convert those who were formerly considered, in the absence of intoxication, a temperate people, into a nation of drunkards. Tbe same statement holds true of Switzerland, where the people have for a long time past used both beer and light wines, but are now finding the inducement to resort to distilled spirits almost irresistible. Even in Germany, the home of beer and also light wines, the official reports announce that there is a material growth in the average consumption of distilled liquors?a statement which we believe also holds true ot the kingdom of Belgium. Felt He "Wag Strong. A brilliant young man, thirty years ago, was beginning to form the habit of indulgence in the wine cup. He knew that other men were drunkards, but he felt that he himself was strong, and would never be anything but clear-eyed and strong of nerve and firm of flesh. The years went by. He has had honor and position. He has become a drunkard, with it all, and bis honors have been lor nothing. Whisky and wine, have done for him what t&ey have done for all the rest, and what they* will do for all who are foolish enough to be deceived by them. If he could he would deter young men from following in his . footsteps, but he will not influence them. They will think of him simply hs an old drunkard, and say that he was a fool not to have controlled himself a little. And they will follow him on to death.?Herald and Pre9bvter. A Toast That Touched Their Hearts. Colonel Thomas W. Higginson said that at a dinner at Beaufort, 8. C., where wine flowed freely and ribald jest3 were bandied, L?r. Miner, a slight, .boyish fellow, who did not drink, was told that he could not go until he had drunk a toast, told a story or ! sung a song. He replied: "I cannot sing, but I will give you a toast, although I must drink it In water. It is, 'Our Mothers.'" The men were so affected and ashamed that some took him by the hand and thanked him for displaying courage greater than that required to walk up to the mouth of a cannoD. This. Colonel Higginson says, was the bravest act he witnes?ed during the Civil War. Bismarck Denounced Beer. Thoso people who have been looking with favor upon the increased consumption of beer in this country as an indication that that drink is dbplacing whisky will hardly be comforted'by a remark of Prince Bismarck, related by his phyaiclan, Dr. Buscb, in his recently published book, "Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of His History." Dr. Busch tells how some one at table once lamented the absence of beer, and the Iron Chancellor replied: "That Is do loss! The excessive consumption of beer is deplorable. It makes men stupid, lazy and useiess." Note* of the Crusnde. There were 19,000 arrests for intoxication in New TJork City last year. Eradicate every dive to-day and the saloon will creute new dives.^ The dive , will always exist as Ion# as Its cause, the j liquor tra'flle, exists. Drunkenness darkons the hpmes of the i people, and is one of the greatest enemies : of "peace on earth." ] Magistrate Henry Brlstow, of Brooklyn. 1 recently said: ">Ve have in the police 1 courts every grade of wrongdoing, from the nursery squabble up to murder, but ' niuety per cent, o' all the cases are the 1 outgrowth of intoxication. Rum is re- ] sponsible for all this crime." (a fV>? nrinr?in.il entrance ~ i r , into the mammoth cave of drunkenness, through which the majority of the youtli of each generation pass. While som* go but a short distance, a very lar^e number go more or less rapidly toward th.i river Styx, the way getting darker and daiker asthey go. A movement, headed by the Bishop or Hereford, has bean started iu England to secure the nrohibitiou of the rum business in the Soudan, recently opened up by Lord Kitchener's army. The Parliament of New South Wales is sitting up nights to devise soma amendments to their present excise law that will check drunkenness. The old restrictive law has been a conspicuous failure as a tempcrance measure. A teacher inaXewl'ork school recently made complaint to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children that one of her pupils, a little boy, only six years old. frequently came to school., drunk. An investigation shows that his , mother bad been giving him whisky, , under the delusion that it would "mak>> mm strons. i / L'.s* v* J.': v v ' ..... i THE SABBATH SCHOOL. G INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS P COD UMIItDV 0 O Lesnon Text: "Chrlat at Jacob'# Well,*' Q John ir? 5-15?Golden Text: Jobn lv? 14? Commentary on the JDaj'* Leuou bj the Rev. D. M. Stearns. 5. "Then cometh He toacityo* Samaria, ,? which is called Syciiar, near to the parcel of ground' that Jacob gave to his son F Joseph." He is anointed with the Holy 1 Ghost and with power and goes about do- T ins good, seeking never His own will, but always the will of His Father, and all His p steps us well as all His words and actions ure ordered by the Father (Acts x., 3S; t~i? _.i no. ?j.. in. tj? oo\ T/? fUUil VI*, OOf Alt., XV) X a. AAA?iI., 4W/. XV/ Q liye such a life is the business of the Christian, and Christ in us will live that life if ^ we yield fully to Him. 6. "Now Jacob's well was there. Josus, T( therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour." As we said in a previous lesson, probably G a. m., according to John's way of counting. He would be journeying gi early, so as to avoid tthe heat of the day. He is weary, for'He is truly man and in all jj points tempted like as we are. We have not a high priest who cannot be touched with j)( a feeling of our infirmities. He knoweth our frame; He remembers that we are but ^ dust. t. "There cometh a womau of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." For our sakes He put Himself in the limitations of a mortal bodv, liable to weariness, hunger, thirst, suffering and death. He who made all things |r< and upholds all things made Himself de- pt pendent upon the ministry of others for the es necessities of life. He led millions with of manna for nearly forty years and brought tl< water from the rock at His pleasdre. er 8. "For His disciples were gone away ot unto the city to buy meat." He who said, isi Come, buy wine and milk without money bl and without price (Isa. lv., 1) sends His dis- til ciples to buy with money things necessary N< for the body. It is very difficult for us to ci believe the extent of His humiliation. We p< cannot understand how rich He was nor fii hrtw nnr?r TT? hnr?r?m? fnr nnrcnbpQ fTT Pnr IcL vlli., 9), but we can look up gratefully and 01 say, Lord., I thank Thee lor bearing it for te me! cfc 'J. "How is it that Thou, being a Jew, ai askest drink of me, which am a woman of fr Samaria? For tbe Jews have no dealings dc with the Samaritans." Thus answered trie. n< woman Samaria. How different from Beb- tta ekah when Ellezer said, Let me drink, I CI praytlrte (Gen. xxiv., 45,46). See in II ct Kings, 17, the origin of these Samaritans, en Do good unto all, especially to the house- ia bold otfaith, and give to him that a.sketh t0 thee are good precepts to remember and oi practice, for,not only is it more blessed to dl give than receive, but not e.ven a cup of be cold water given in the name of a disciple yrl shall lose its reward (Acts xx., 35; Math. Ti x., 42). ' ev 10. "Jesus answered and said unto her, uc If thou knewest the gift of God and who It gc is that salth to thee, Give M6 drink, thou Wj wouldst have asked of Him, and He would af have given theo living water." The gift of to God Is tbe Son of God, as we saw in Jast 0f losson (3*16). If the woman had ever at learned what we call Isa. lv., she might m now have thought of the words, "Ho, every p( one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!" be and have said, Art Tbou He of whom Isaiah te, wrote? i If ahe had knofrn Jer. ii, 13, she to might have asked, Art Thou a fountain of ju living water? But she knew not these ;0 things; she was not living unto God, yet jn her soul was pr9cious In God's slgbt. as 11. "The woman saith unto Him, Sir, us Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the f0 well is deep. From whence, then, bast Thou that living water?" Whether it be rlcb, religious flesh, as in Nicodemus, or poor, slntol flesh, as in this woman, It.is 1 in either case ignorant of spiritual things, sh The well 13 too deep, and the natural man re has nothing to draw with. The woman Ac unwittingly described her own condition nc in her words to our Lord. She thought only hi of natural water, a rope and a bucket, yc She did not know the words of lsa. xli., 3, w< "With joy shall ye draw water out of the W wells of salvation." He testified what sa He knew and had seen. Those who be* be lieve His testimony proclaim Him as the tei Truth, but those who receive not His tea- all tlmony make Him- a liar. Let us as faith- a till Witnesses proclaim wuat wo nave neara tu and seen (I John i., 3). od 12. "Art Thou greater than our father of Jacob, who gave us the well and drank be thereof himself and his children and his 'T cattle?" In chapter viii., 53, the rulers on ask Him, "Art Thou greater than our T1 father Abraham? Greater than Solomon tu or Jonah (Math. xH., 41. 42), greater than of prophets or patriarchs, greater than angels Oi or archangel, one with God tbe Father, to God manifest in tbe flesh, bow meekly He tvr bore it all, to be so unknown, so misun- m< derstood! Are you, for His sake, willing m< to hare some one far beneath you socially da or intellectually spoken of as better than lo1 you, and can you keep still? Can you bear lip to hear some other land or city "honored i above yours and be meetly quiet Because your city Is New Jerusalem? 13. "Jesus answered and said, unto her. Whosoever drinketh of this water shall j thirst again." Both lltefally and figura- , tlvely true. The first the woman could grasp, for she came often to draw water, But the second she understood not. But few have yet learned that the waters of this world cannot satisfy, and the multi- wl tudes seek the pleasures of sin, which th satisfy but for a season. They hew them- Th selves out cisterns that can hold no water so: (Heb. xl., 25; Jer. U., 13). yo 14. "But whosoover drinketh of the a_ water that I shall give him shall never yc thirst, but the water that I shall give him j3 shall be in him a well of water, springing t j ud into everlasting life." Christ in us, the ac hope of glory is a well that not only * abundantly satisfies, but is ever springing ,,J up to refresh others. It is possible to be v satisfied with favor and full with the bless- ' ing of the Lord (Deut. xxx., 23), so occu- j: pled with Ood tnat the pleasures of this world have no power over us. In chapter , 1 we have water in connection with the forgiveness of sins, in chapter 2 water in connection with the wine of the kingdom ' ac me muriate oi mo uaiuu, m uuayvci ? water In connection with the first step toward the kingdom. Here we have an advance, for every believer may be a well of ^ water if only willing. th( 15. "The woman saith unto Him, Sir, saj give me this water, that I thirst not, ? neither come hither to draw." She still thought only of natural water, but soon, as His love and wisdom continued to deal with her,/he began to see herself a sin- j ner. Then she saw Him as the Messiah of and her Saviour, she received Him as suth, olt and joy so filled her that she forgot all TL else but Him and ran to beur the glad uo tidings to others.?Lesaon Helo?r. > an A QUADRUPLE WEDDING. Tn gii Fonr Brothers Court and Marry Four jn( Slaters In a Village in Ohio. en, In Trail, a little place ten miles north of ne Canal Dover, Ohio, four brothers married Rri four sisters on New Year's Day. bil James Hochstottler has long been re- to [ arded as one of the most prosperous 8ic farmers in Coshocton County, and is re- to puted to be wealthy. He has four daugh- hit rers?Amanda, Ethel,. Helen and Arabelle, tei "" 'In" 'n #cn from thlrtv to t wantv vears. tt? John Summers, a neighbor of Hocbstet- th( tier, 1ms four sons?Jonn, Harry, Howard mu ind Frank. John la thirty-flve, and Frank du ao'c yet twenty-two years old. They occa- Pe; ilonally called on the Hocbstettler girls, jut excited no comment, us there were no j jther girls to visit. jje Frank Summers and Arabelle Hocbstet- c0l :ler set their elder3 an example by beoom- q0 inc engaged,bringing tbe others into closer nm icquniataaceship. Gradually it leaked out :bat Howard Summers and Helen Hoch- |.a( itettler were engaged. Frank and Howard q0 lecided to be married on New Year's Day. ma "If two brothers can marry two sisters, vhy can't four brothers marry four sisers?" Howard remarked in a jest one night hl it the family table. John Summers began o think about it, and soon Amanda's on- a < cagement to him was announced. That - i e* - -j tt.-u 1UXT1CU citirry ouiliiuits uuu biuci nuyu< itettier into an engagement. J Every one in tbe neighborhood was in- ?? rited to the weddings on New Year's Day. "< Che full Episcopal service was used, and it tl0 equired the greater part of the afternoon 901 o solemnize tho four weddings. An olab- Ka' >rate supper was served. The four broth- l)0' srs will continue to live in Trail, |?*J Ifp npHiusn raperi ccaso rnbiication. ]on The papers at Santatldor, Spain, have cia eased publication, owing to thesevority rec )f the censorship. ?xl lnt \ a ' * ' ; v . .* " vr *< . \;t A lOD'S MESSAGE TO MAM RECNANT THOUCHTS FROM TUT j WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS* Irdod of God?How the Bleh and C*B tured Are "Won?Look to the' Oiveiw Tlie Soul'i Immortality?The Old Teai tament Standard?Faith Like Granltaw o be plrded of God? Oh, divine preparation *.?! or conttiot, for sorrow, For work daily done! o be flttedwith strength? 'w Oh, blest separation rom weakness, from failure, To victoria won! God! for such girding My heart pleads with aching; , 3 3 stand more than conqueror When pressed by the foe; o Jean on Thy strength, Yes, Thy strength my shield making, ould rob earth of anguish . And life of its woe. ich strength from the Master My poor self unfolding us*t make my way perfect, Aye, perfect in fiim. ear Lord, give Thyself; Take myself for the molding vessel perfected\ Without and within. ?Mrs. E. F. A. Drate, in Advance. '#?29 How the Rich and Cultured Are Won. Not by any novel methods of effort, nor \)f # . .3 eating them as If they were formed of ra- ' srior clay can they be won to Christ.* la i \ sentials tbeir human nature is like that any. others. Their joys, griefs, tempt* ins, ambitions and moral hilstorles in gen> - ' -U al are similar in principle to those of 1 hers. The differences, so far as any ex* t, lie mostly in things external. It is# under not to appreciate their subetaiv il likeness to all other men and womeo< or are they to be won. by the seveX * Iticism and harsh condemnation so oftev jured upon them, aslf they were necessar* j corroded by selfishness, recklessly lndif* rent to tbe needs of others, or. supereillisly contemptuous of the intellectual or rial attainments of all outside of their ow* . tarmed cirale. This may be true of somt nong them. It is not true of all, and th? oquent denunclaticns which they receive .j ? mA?ia Kaxm Tfl fKnW * > special aim to bo kept in view, 1 en, in striving to win them - to*. the iristlHu Iffe? None moro than oagbjt-wbc s. :y'' lerlshed in tho case of others. In any one'f = iso a wise Christian workersoeks to use ct, to study obaracter and conditions, and adapt the timo and Aanner of argument J appeal as closely ns possible tq the Invidual in view. There are circumstances to i borne In mind in the case of a rich man lilchdonotoxlstinthe case of a poor man. >: lis is just as true of tho poor man, how- s > er as of the rioh. The one will be repelled > more than the other if it be (disregarded. - k > in regard to a cultured mind as compared fcK Itb its opposite. Each mast be sought ter the manner most likely to be a< sptable him and influential with him. The secret success in the cases of the rlOb id cultured, as in those of all other en, is genuine and thoughtful sympathy. , ' jrfunctory zeal Always repels. A warm art, provided that good.^ense and coursy control Its "manltestations, seldom fall? win Influence. The rich and cultured, aw st men or women 89 others?hoping, re* "' .-a icing, striving, falling, regretting, desparg even, like their fellows. To treat them j if they occupied pedestals is foolish and eless. Yet thoir peculiar temptations and Ibles need to be borne in mind. > Look to<the Giver. There Is never a joy which la not a day of adows in some homes.' Death is abroad aping his harvests. If he reaps, he moat id victims somewhere. Now this home, >w that one, must contribute a sheaf to s tireless sickle. Has he recently visited iurs? And are you saying, hoW can j bo thankful and sing songs of praise?, < Ith homes so desollte, and hearts so d, how can we make melody? Dear reaved ones, look up through yoor, ars and trust in the great Giver of I life. He has only taken^'our treasure to safe retreat He has onif protected your ved ones from earth's rude blasts. He bas Jy called your darling^ a little in advance yourselves. Were th6re no death for you >w dreadful, then, would death be lor any! is only a little while ere we shall follow i. Tbe present order Is the best order; le living bury the dead, and we are In rn burled by other living. The passing the generations is a gradual process. lr turn will como. Sorrow is helping flt us for the change. As the charms a being removed, otir hearts are becoming ire reconciled to this our inevitable rejval. Heaven brightens a3 earth grows rk. Loved ones on high attract us from red things below, liy ana?oy our wiiwig >ti will take up the ecstatic song;? 4 ' The earth recedes; it disappears; Heaven opens on my sight,.^ny ears With sounds seraphic rinjt Lend, lend thy wings, I meant, I fly; 0 grave, where Is thy vlctorV? D death, where is thy sting? ' The Soul's Immortality. Wo board tbe vessel for a trial trip. Her lite sails waft us by tbe forts and through s Narrows and around the lightship. ten she comes back and is anchored la me convenient place. Suppose- we tell u that her whole mission is accomplished d thare is nothing more for her to da >u ask, in wonder, "Why build her, then? . it not folly to take so mnch pains for ial trip, and then leave her at her onchor:e to rot and sink?" The same ay be said of the soul. This brief , e is only the trial trip. We doss a few buoys in the harbor of eternal life, ) stem the ebb or flood tide for a few turs, we just get a glimpse of the ocean at spreads beyond our vision, and then aat we call death intervenes. With the eat Atlantic of immortality ahead of ua, all w<j come to anchor in the grave? It nnot bo true. We were raade for eternity, ri. d the great ambitions which throb in oat t-- V... -ITKa HIS Cannot uo anuria uj uwvu. . ral procession leaves ua at the mouth of ^ 3 harbor, and when our friends return to sir homes we spread invisible canvas and il on and on toward the throne of Go<L? v. George H. Hepworth. The Old Testament Standard. k great deal is said about giving a tenth our income to God's cause. That is tha 1 testament standard, but not the new. le now testament teaching is that we are tour own; we belong to God. All that wo 3 and all that we have are God's to use is len He needs it. Some men will never swer the demands of the Word by dng a tenth. Suppose one man has aa :ome of $50 0 and another of 4500; the one invs manv luxuries and things not at all cessary. the ' ther can scarcely with th? ^ aatest sacrifice pay the rent, the grocory 1 and the coal bill. Is the law tho samo the.se two men? $500 to one Is nply dispensing with a few luxuries: 350 the other is a sacrifice that often sends n into his Got'usemnno. Tho rule of oneith adopted by a Christian may be better in no plan of giving at all, but it is noe j i highest. Some arc not bound to givo so - .^J ich; others have not performed theic ^ ty when they have giv^n only that.? ainsula Mothodist. raith is like the primitive granite of our w England. Dig down deep, ar.d you . ne to it, below all superimposod strata. to the summit of the highest mountains 1 you find it, on the lofJett elevations. itli begins as the basis of the infant's jwledge: it ends in leading us to know a. i.iiriss una immorwuuy.?juiups xreeu Clarke. ISBAND'S R1CHT TO W1FE:3 ESTATE. Judge Hold* That the Common-Law Theory >'o Longer Exists. rudgo Wood. In the Circuit Court at St. uis, Mo.,hns reversed the ruling or th? jbate Court in regard fo the adminisiran of the estate of Airs. Mary B. MoPherl, holding that the common law, that re tho husband absolute right over th? rscnal estate of his wife, has cea3?d to ^t. In his deoision Judj?e Wood said; he common-law theory of marriage has ig since ceased to exist everywhere, espe? .lly in this State; the law has long since iOgnized the wife as having a separata stence and separate rights aad separata erests." ^ * . , vi . "* v x.. > .