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r IAKMESSE CHICKEN FARM"4! I TO SUPPLY NEW YORK'S EEEs| <S -*> % LUXURIOUSLY HOUSED HENS. ? N- EW YOIIK is soon to have j in its suburbs the largest chicken ranch in the world, states the Herald. I !A.t Manr.squau. X. J., a company has secured a tract of thro? hunJ ?liHd* r? rri??nf llPIl lUt'U ?<? vvi.u'iiou u < *?v industry, eonduotcd on scientific methods. , Tlio company, say its promoters, in, tends to control the New York market for "guaranteed" fresh laid eggs. They ,"vrill. they say. deliver eggs in boxes. ? each box stamped with the date of laying, and delivered to customer within twenty-four hours after the eggs I are laid. The city of New York last year paid ' $20,000,090 for eggs, most of them ;v more or less stale, the consumption being 100.000.000 dozen. The first year's output of the enormous new chicken ranch now being laid will be thirty million eggs. This will be the product of a laying "herd" of from one hundred and fifty thousand to two I hundred thousand chickens. The establishment is be in? planned to rapidly increase to double that amount, i These tiocks will be herded under the system invented by Mr. J. R. Ben \ESLW?St / A \cony IT WEIGHT |S?al JJ iREQUlRSD /<//;K &IST^^.yft'i n-;n n ??[? vvVv^*!:''/ : l -:' -V^V'-C'v^ , - / '.' ':: : ; \ \ V \?Ai ' ; \ v \ Ma * ? ? * ? \ l.: :? .; : \ \ \ \ \? ; * * % . \ .: ; \ \ \ *%. < m->% \ \ \ PATENT FOOD, DISTEIBUTOB, OPEEATED. BT PRESSING A BUTTON. t -_v? 1 : ' son, an^ttthority on everything pertalning Jo (the hen and its product. Mr. Bensdn is /the general manager of this j gigantic /.concern, which will be the biggest In the world. ^^n a. recent lecture Professor A. A. ; of the Rhode Island College ^^HBriculture. at the Poultry Experi^^^^HStation. Kingston, said: ike an industry of t,>e-?ferrkcn ^^H^Ke*roduct v^Jtrr?~cr question of HnHHIb^t. tvim-fican always be had, MPWTnot the expense of keeping, which Is always low. It is not a question of profit, which, if properly conducted, Is large. It is the question how to reach and conduct on a business scale large herds of hens, the chicken business of to-day being merely a home industry. Something, therefor?, most be done to make hen raising a .national,. business on a business scale." This rt-ill be accomplished, says Mr. Benson, at the Manasquau egg farm. Under his system any number of chickens enn be herded. Instead of allowing them to run at larse and mingle freely, as of old. picking their food from all kinds of refuse, they are to,. be dividod into colonies of u<>t-above I thirty lions, pat h .colony will have j its ovraJToseTvation. kept in hygienic j cleanliness and order, and separate isolated p.t all times from the | (others. ; This makes feeding of each fcv.-l! possible to insure the greatest produetiveness.with. as experience has proved, an average yearly yield of two hundred eggs from each lien. The second advantage of the segregation of the fowls is that should a chicken by any chance become sick or breed vermin, the trouble cannot spread beyond that one reservation before it is de- j teeted: hence there can be none of the epidemics which have sometimes played havoc with the fancy stock fowl on chicken farms. Moreover, the new system permits the immediate ideatl/icatiou ol" any hen failing in productiveness. and her prompt rcplatj meat by one able to keep up to the liigh average. " ? The system includes the extensive j use of several patents, which bring the business of chicken ranching and egg ' producing to a new ptn'fection. One of these is an automatic nest. Without | this it would be impossible, where more than one hen is kept, to guarauIfJCUBATOR MOU5C tee that an egg would bo froe from the taint of incubation. When hens lay in the same nest and from one to a half dozen sit on the nest .vhile laying, ibe process of hatching has actuallj m - * * l*?gun before the eggs are gathered for the market. This is the malu cause why so many eggs spoil. The new system is the only one which prevents eggs from undergoing some degree of incubation, because the egs is taken from the nest immediately after it is laid. The invention consists of n nest with a hole in the bottom suspended immediately over a re' x ? T"" volving disc, which receives the egg as soon as it is laid and moves it away from the nest when released by the rising of the hen. ? The disc is then ready to receive the next egg, and in this way no egg is incobated for an instant The secdnd invention saves the expense of numerous attendants and the lives of the smaller hens. One of thegreatest troubles and trials of poultry faring has been that of feeding. Unless time were taken to scatter the food far an^ wide the larger fowls beat away the smaller from it, and t?e, result was .tfiat tue smaller were imperfectly nourished,' impairing their laying capacity. As sma 11 hens may be as prolific as larger ones, and as overfeeding paroduee^fjj^^d dhninand to la.^ni^ food, is sqttter^^j^^t'UKuu all sections ev^jj^Hmnihe surface of yermln JBsJj front fowl to fowl at lilgbt wen the.Xowls are roosting.and crawl up the "walls of the chicken .house and out upon the perch. Those assaults are-rendered vain by a perch which is set in a cup. in which the vermin are caught and destroyed before they can reach the fowls. he eggs will be collected from the flffet disc several times a day. Packing anft,,8hippl!>g will go on continually, few hour3 will bring tlieiu to New rk in the cars of the company and delivered by their own trains each morning. The fresh laid eggs will be packed and shipped in paper boxes rvmtnln'nr- frnm one-half doZPU to three doaen. *;|Each box will be secured by a seaJfd libel stanii)cd with the date of lajsdag. The extent of this ranch is to be very great IfothiQg like it exists anyINTERIOR Or LATEST IMPROVED BROODING HOUSE FOR CHICXEXS. where. The largest chicken farm today is at Sydney. Ohio. This plant has the capacity of raising oue hundred thousand broilers per year, but it docs not sell the egg product. To accomplish this it has a flock of loss than fifteen thousand hens. Ctidahy. the srreat packer, has a chicken farm of eighteen thousand head near Milwaukee. and this is considered one of the largest in the country. One New Jersey concern is said to bo the largest chicken and egg purchaser in this country, but never have its flocks exceeded eighteen thousand. "Few people know that the insignificant little h *u is one of the greatest profit makers and wealth producers. The revenue from keeping fowls for eggs if tin1 herds can be properly handled, watched and controlled is greater than in any other industry, said J. R. Benson. ' Becoming couvluced years ago that I !...?.? litrr nrniif find room for I I lie IV great iniiii'ovoir.L'iir in poultry raisin?, I I started experiments and study, not ' in methods of breeding, but to devisi proper methods of herding. I foum ! that it is possible on a small area t< , keep an unlimited number of smal Serds. This system caused the greut 7 * ~ v-:- . \ ' " -, r- " - '- 1 I I est production. Two hundred eggs per year per fowl was not a liigli aver- j age, and each hen could be made to j > pay a profit of at least $2.50 per year, j : I started with fifteen hens, then in i creased this to ten families of fifteen j each. The result was the same if not better." Mr. C. II. Wyckoff. of Groton, N. Y., one of the successful small poultry rais ers, keeps about six hundred head oJ ! laying fowls, in small colonies, solelj I for eggs for the market. His total eg? yield was 117,600 eggs for the year ending October 1, 1S9D. His receipts were $4.08 per year for each of the six hundred hens. He figures $1.0$ per year per hen for keep and expenses, showing a net profit of $1800 per yeai ftir this colonized flock of six hundred And this is the profit. sa.Vs Mr. Bon son. on an investment of less tliar $800. Mr. Benson estimates that this mam moth egg ranch will cost, equipped and stocked with 150.000 lieus ready for a daily lay of 80.000 to 100,000 eggs, about $2<K?,000. The yearly expense of running this plant will be, including feed, delivery system, etc., about $210,000. The yearly income is + P OICKEfl ? | " m pi?? J / " I arm I f S IVUUf ,\ <5? m ? \\_Jt R r~ HOWMJMiOSQF^aM) VUL EE DIVIDED TD.KEEP 500 OKEKS/WJlHEVEEf 125CHKK' izQims ssmmTKM . 3HE OXHERC figured at $310,000 for eggs and $73,000 for non-producing fowls sold as broilers, etc.. or a total of S3S3.000. If this large gain is borne out in practice, as these gentlemen confidently believe. the docile little hen will become a bigger money maker and profit bringer than even the biggest of money making inventions and investments. Th? Orange Kelt In California. The orange producing belt of Califor ilia includes the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino. Orange. San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura. Added to this is the foothill region skirting the Sierras. In this principal belt there are now 4S.01X) acres. The bearing trees in Southern California number 2.072,400. the nonbearinf: trees 1.227.300. but as the latter will scou be productive it is easy to see the time when the output will amount to 27.<K>:> carloads, and the Income l>e $10,000,000. The capital invested is already about $44,000.00(1 While oranges wore first grown by the monks at San Gabriel Mission as long ago as 1S04, the present industry is all of recent growth. It was in 1S70 that John WultVkill planted the first orchard in California. Land adapted to the purpose of the orange-orchardist went from a valuation of $30 per acre i to $?>00. and a single tree that once j could lisvp been procured from the nursery for teu cents reached a valuation of SI.GO. Of course, in bt'ing j brought to its present stage of devcl- j opulent, orange-growing was attended j by many costly experiments. For- j tunes have been sunk, but fortunes I have beeu made, and from the lessons i of experience the industry has b^c-c placed on a secure footing. Strortlfisli in Plenty. A busy and lucrative sword fish season has opened, and from now until October visitors at T Wharf will see more big iish than at any other time in the year. Every year, shortly after the Fourth of July, the fieet of fishing j vessels, changing its base of operations i from Georges ana outer leuges, iaiies i a stand * in the vicinity of Minot's Light looking for the fish named. Several cargoes have been brought in, j end the average catch was about seventy-five fish. Their weight averaged about l."t> pounds, although one was landed which tipped the scales at 300 pounds, and several weighed between 300 and ."00 pounds. Many people on the wharf watched the workers ger their catch from the holds of tl\> vessel to the big fish carts and not a few secured one or more of the swords. Some will have the edges sharpened, a point and handle put on. and will keep the sword as a relic. The fish brings six cents a pound.?Koston Transcript. Cecil Klioiles and the Ladle?. It is said by those who know Mr. Ce oil Rhodes, tlio South African magnate, that he has, in common with Lord Kitchener, a strong aversion to the opposite sex. "While on a visit to London before the commencement of the war he dined at the house af a very wealthy lady of title, and later, when he was discussing the affair with his secretary, the latter asked: "And whom did you take to dinner?" ''Oh. I don't know. Some Lady Somebody." was the reply. "But what did you call . her?" "IMdu'r call her anything? p never spoke to her."?Argonaut. .1 Ills Purpose. 0 No man proposes to remain single. 1 When he proposes he expects to get married.?Philadelphia Record. 1 CDBAM liM The Report of Fourth Assistant PostDi*!(4aiu nuclei ?*ylUllt/l UI UlNlUlin SAYS NEELY EMBEZZLED $131,000 Former Director of Posts Rathbon? Charcred With Misappropriating Funds ?He Drew a Per Diem in Addition to Bis Salary Without Authority ?Leaser Officials Also Accused. Washington. D. C. (Special).? Fourth Assistant I'ostmastcr-General Bristow, iu his report to the Postmaster-General on the postal frauds in Cuba, places the amount embezzled by C. F. W. Xecly. chief of tlie Bureau of Finance at Havana headquarters, at from $131,000 to $ 150,000. The report also accuses E. G. Rathbone, who was Director-General of Cuban posts, of misappropriation of funds, and recommends that he be require^, to reimburse the Cuban revenues. The report is the result of an investigation begun May 19 into the entire business of the Cuban uepartmeni 01 rusis. anil sots forth in detail the successive discoveries of the existence of fraud in one department after another. Mr. F.ristow finds a shortage as shown by Xeely's records of $30,GOO and "an excess of credit by destruction of surcharged stamps definitely ascertained" of $101,113. These two items aggregate $131,713,and Mr. Brlstow estimates that Neely credited himself with enough more stamps as "destroyed" which he did not destroy, but sold, to bring the total to $150,000. This. Mr. Bristow says, is a fair estimate of the total of Neely's direct embezzlements, although his. cash book, owing, perhhps, to his loose bookkeeping, shows a cash shortage of $110,278. "Xeely's fraudulent transactions, however," Bays the Bristow report, "are not confined to ombezzlement." It is then asserted that Neely before go ing to uuoa maae a uiuck nuusit-i ui his Muncle* IncL, printing company to a man named Cowan, and tbat Nee- i ly sent a large amount of Cuban postal printing to ti& concern. An instance Is given where Cowan rendered a bill of about $8000 and received in payment more than $10,000. There is nothing to indicate what became of the extra $2000. It is further shown that some of the bills were paid twice. Mr. Bristow makes no attempt to estimate the total amount which Neely fraudulently obtained .through his printing office. Another case of Neely crookedness Is disclosed lo his dealings with the Keyles^Irftek: Company, of Indianapolis. Awarding to the Bristow report. Neely purcbajjfHl $14,000 worth of postal supplies'ENjm the firm and received from them two checks aggregating $3202. These checks Mr. Bristow concludes were paid to Neely as a " 'commission' or bribe." \ c? enrnrn not nnl V linfin X lie I C|/Ul L 1.1 OV . V*v uvv V-V Rathbone, but upon W. H. Reeves.who was appointed assistant auditor for the islands by the War Department, and whose duty it was to audit Neely's accounts. Mr. Neely declares that Rathbono and Reeves, through carelessness or collusion, gave Neely a free hand and that Reeves was a party to the conspiracy to defraud the Cuban Government by falsely reporting the destruction of stamps which were afterward sold by the conspirators. Reeves is said to have confessed that he received $4000 from Neely for concealing this l'raud. Mr. Bristow shows how Rathbone started in at a salary of $4000 a year, nud by constant appeals to the Postmaster-General got It increased to $(5500. with an "official residence" thrown in. At one time a portion of the increase was in the shape of a per diem allowance of $r>. When the salary was raised to SUoOO Rathbone was told that the per diem allowance must ceasc, but notwitnstauoing mis nc continued to draw it. Concerning tliis Mr. Bristow soys: "It appears, therefore, that DirectorGeneral Rathbone drew from August 1, 1S99, to April 30. 1900, the sum of $1303, as a per diem, which was unauthorized. nnd that the drawing, of the same was fraudulent; and I therefore recommend that he be required to reimburse the postal revenues of Cuba in that amount.' Mr. Bristow further accuses Rathbone of unwarrantably including in the expenses of his official residence items for trunks, gloves, dog collars, and clothing for his coachman. It is further shown that Rathbone made several trips to the United States and, without warrant charged to the Ciloan Postal Department the expenses of himself and family. One of these items was a bill of $230 from a New York hotel, whore Rathbone and his ???!?? < *? ilnre o tn lilUIIIJt aiigru LUi t'igtiil, U?i;g u iuu of J529.no a day. Finally It is shown that Rathbonc drew two warrants in 1S!)D for each?one when he started 011 a tour of inspection in Cuba, and the other when he started for the United States ?and that he has never made an accounting for either. "There stands against him. therefore. says the Bristow report, "the charge of unlawfully appropriating $1000 of the Cuban postal fund to his own use." In conclusion Mr. Bristow says: "It is my belief that I was justified in recommending the removal of Director-General Uathbone from office: and I further believe that he should j be required to answer for fraudulently : and unlawfully appropriating to his own use moneys from the postal revj enues of Cuba." Train Kills Three in u C:il>. A caS> carrying Mrs. E. M. Waller. Thomas Barries and William Bosely was struck on a railroad crossing at Mattoon. 111., and all three passengers were killed. Mrs. Waller was a profession:'.! nurse on her way to attend a | patierft. 4 Germany Refune* to Mediate. Germany has refused to attempt mediation between China and the Powers unless further assurances of China's good faith are foriheoming. Deutaclilanrt Beats an Ocean Record. The now Hamburg-American Line ! steamer Deutschland. from New York I City, arrived at Plymouth, on her | maiden1 trip eastward, making a record j run of five days fourteen hours and ! six minutes despite two days of fog. if1,-; Shot Bimieir in Bit Summer Home. Francis H. Tate, of New York City, committed suicide by shooting at his summer residence in Maiden. Mass. The cause of the act is unknown. Mr. Tate was a contractor in New York City. 4 i . j THE NEWS EPITOMIZED^ TViuhlncton Item*. Perry S. Heath tendered Ids resigi nation as First Assistant Postmaster- | | General. ! Captain Benjamin Johnson. Assistant Quartermaster. U. S. V.. haviug tendered his resignation, has been honorably discharged from the service of the Ufcited States. The Postmaster-General denied the 1 application of the managers of the i Charleston Exposition for a Govern- , ment issue of a special stamp com- j | memorative of the Exposition. j The Secretary of the Treasury has ! authorized the appointment of fifty additional inspectors at the port of . New York at $4 per day. The new reciprocity arrangement j ' Trifli Tfolt* tt?oe nnf In hr nrn/>. I Mim AUUjj HUO ?? v.\. wj i'lwv. ; lamation of the President. The report of Commissioner of Patents Duell showed a total of 2C.540 J patents granted during the last flseiil : year. The French Government has asked i the United States to pay the Trans- 1 atlantlc Steamship Company $300,000 damages for the detention of ;he steamships Manobia and Lafayette during the blockade in Cuban waters ' in the early part of the Spanish-American war. i Our Adopted IiUndi. Yellow fever has broken out in the ; First Infantry, at Plnar del Rio, Cuba. ! The customs receipts at Havana for | ;he first sis months of 1000 Were $0,- I 124,565. The Secretaries at Havana were notified that, the election of delegates j to the Cuban Constitutional Conveu tion would take place September 15th. The Administration at Washington ' decided to keep a force of about 5000 men in Cuba for several months. A United States postoffice has been j established at Pago. Tutuila, Samoa, j with Mrs. M. H. Hudson, wife of i Chief Boatswain Hudson, as postmis- ! i tress. I i Domestic. The torpedo boat destroyer Dale was> j launched successfully at the Trigg j shipyard, at Richmond. Ya. Jack I-Iiljsman. a negro, was lynched | near Knoxville, Ga? and his body rid- . died with bullets by a mob. Patrick,Henry Jones, a retired brig- j adier-general, U. S. V.. died at his j home, in Port ..Richmond, Stateu Is!-I and. after an illness of four years. j Judge Robert Pleasant Trlppe, be- | lieveti to be the last surviving member j ! of the Confederate Congress, and at i J one time a Judge of the Supreme i Court of Georgia, died at Atlanta. C. X. Purvis, of Williamsport. Penn., ' ! will settle all the claims against his I j father and grandfather, who failed fu , | a- banking business in Baltimore in j | 1SGS. Sixteen-year-old John Baumann. j while playing baseball at Buffalo, N. i Y.. was struck over the heart by a j pitched ball. He started on a jog for first base, but died before reaching It. Samuel Stevenson was married tc Mary A. Dowie. in Chicago, and was proclaimed heir apparent to "Dr." John Alexander Dowie's Zion. A baby whale weighing 730 pounds was caught in a fish net near Boston Frantic with hydrobhobia. John F. J Bloom tried to bite men and womer i in the streets at Chicago. Forty persons were injured by th? overturning of a street car at Xiles Ohio. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., was fined 51c ] for running his automobile at a speed j greater than the legal limit in Milton, Mass. Snow fell at Marshall, Mich., foi ' a few miutes during the course of a hard wind storm. Mrs. Julia Stone, mother of Mrs. John Hay. the wife of the Secr^ary of State, died at Cleveland, Ohio, ot heart failure. While resisting arrest at Menominee, Mich.. Joseph Mitchell was shot and killed by Policeman Christopher Eck. Alexander Donelson. a prominent j man. was mysteriously assassinated i near Nashville, Tenn. A hand car, with six men on it fell 100 feet from a trestle at Clifton Ariz., and two of the men were killed An engine crashed into an elevated train in Brooklyn, killiug a guard and injuring a passenger. Foreign* President Castro officially pro claimed the ro-cstablishment of peace in Venezuela. Tue agreement regarding rue nounu ; ary line of Nicaragua and Costa Hicj j was signed at Managua. A British War Office return show? j that the total British losses in Soutl Africa thus far have been 34,330. General Santos Zelaya, who foi | twelve years lias been practically dictator of Nicaragua, has been rsnomlI nated for the Presidency. Ilis elecj tion is assured. ; The fishing towns of the Frasei 1 River. B. 0.. are under martial law. j Max Gross, the painter, who is an j American citizen, has been expelled ! from Prussia. William Warrick, n British sailor.' was found alive on a rock on the New- j fouudland coast, after having been, practically without food and watei for twenty days. Eisht hundred excursionists were rescued by lifeboats from the Isle of j Man packet Lily, which went asiiore near Liverpool. Ad earthquake shock occurred at I I Bay Roberts, N. F. The houses shook [ I considerably, resulting in the breaking ! ; of glass windows and fragile thiugs generally. Victoria Crosses have been gazetted j for Captain Meiklejohu and Sergeant- j Major Robinson, of the Gordon High- ' i landers, aud Lieutenant Norwood, of J the Fifth Dragoon Guards. The Colombian revolution has hrok- j en out again between Coluu and Pan- ! j am ! Troops have been ordered to the j Caucasian frontier by the Sultan of I Turkey to restore order in Armenia, j Thirty thousand persous traveled ' on the Metropolitan Underground j Railway at Paris on the day that it : was opened. A dispatch from Tripoli reported a i French victory over natives in tlie j Bornu district of Soudan. The Capo Colony Pallia men t met at j Cape Town. Sir Alfred Milncr pre- 1 dieted an early end of the war. In the House of Commons, at London. Mr. George Wyudhani, Parliamentary Under Secretary of War. stated that 30.75S otlicers and men had fcceu invalided home from South Africa since tiie beginning of the war. In consequence of the atrocities ot' the Alhiuians. who recently raided old Servia. numerous hands of Christians have tied into Servia and Montencsrro. SCHOOL.! jNTERN/frrbNAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 12. Subject: The Forgiving Spirit. Matt. XTlii., 21?3o?Golden Text: Matt, vl.? "2?Memory Verse*, 21, Commentary ou the Day'* Lesson. 21. "Then came Peter." Peter alwaya made himself very prominent. "And I forgive him." He knew it was his duty to forgive, but the question was, How often? "Till seven times." Peter uses the term seven in a strictly literal sense. The teaching of the rabbis was never to forgive more tnan three times. Peter increases this until he supposed he had reached" the limit. Man is naturally a vindictive being, and in consequence nothing is more ditacult to hiin than forgiveness of injuries. 22. "Lntil seven times.'' This would be wholly inadequate. "Seventy times seven." That is, there shoulu be no limit to your forgiveness. The precept is unbounded, and you must never be weary of lorgiving. 23. "Kingdom of heaven likened." The teachings of Christ with respect to forgiveness are fully illustrated in the parable which follows. It shows, 1. The character of man's relation to God. 2. The real meaning, on man's part, of a distinct refusal to forgive. "Which would make a reckoning." (R. V.) lne fundamental moral principle in God's kingdom is righteousness. The great King of heaven and earth will, one day, rcckon with all of His subjects. Every sin is a debt contracted with the justice of God, and soon our Master will settle accounts with us. What an awful time it will be when with multitudes nothing shall be found but sin and insolvency! 24. "Ten thousand talents." An enormous sum. '1 he amount cannot oe reckoned definitely. It has been estimated all the way from ten million to three hundred miilion dollars. This is an expression intended to indicate the infiinite debt incurred, which could never be discharged. 25. "Had not to pay." Our debt to God is so great that we are utterly incapable of making Him any satisfaction whatever. "Commanded him to be sold." An allusion to the Law of Mc^es. See Exod.," 22:3; Lev. 25, 39. 47 ; 2 Kings 4:1. Creditors had power to sell insolvent debtors in several couutries of Europe, as well as Asia, in ancient times. We thus see by this parable what our sins deserve. Captives to sin are captives to wrath. "And Davment be made." The amount ob tained would be wholly inadequate to <?ancel the debt, but as large a payment was to be made as possible. 26. "\Vill pay thee all." The debt is admitted and he comes pleading for mercy. The means which a sinner should use to be saved are, 1. Deep humiliation of heart. 2. Fervent prayer. 3. Coniidence in the mercy of God. 4, A firm purpose to devote nis soul and body to his Maker. 27. "Forgave him the debt." We are debtors of our heavenly King, who has entrusted to us the administration of what is His, and which we have purloined or j misused, incurring an unspeakable debt, which we can never discharge, and of which utter ruin would be the proper se?uence. But, if we cast ourselves at His eet, He is ready in infinite compassion not only to release us from punishment, but to torgive us the debt. 28. "An hundred pence." About fifteen dollars. "Took him by the throat." Thus manifesting a most unkind and base dis- ] position. The sin is greatly aggravated j when we consider his own aebt, ahd the j mercy shown him. What arc my brother's j sins against me compared to my number- i lnu.5 air\* tirraincf firvrl'' " P.-IV mp wllflt tllOll ' owest." 5e was unwilling even to forgive j him a single dollar. He must pay in full j and pay at once. We must be very careful | and not show this same disposition in our treatment of others. 29. "Fell down at his feet." His fellowservant humbled liimself and plead for mercy as he himself had done just before this. 30. "And he would not." Such is man; so harsh and hard against those who are t in every way his equals. Ignorance of his ! own condition makes him unforgiving and j cruel to others. 31. "Were very sorry." An act of this j kind is so dishonorable to all true Chris- | tians, and to the spirit of the gospel, that j through the concern they feel for the prosperity of the cause of Christ, they are j obliged to speak against it. 32. "Thou wicked servant." Unmerci- J fulness is great wickedness. To the unmer- j ciful, God will have no mercy; this is an > eternal purpose of the Lora which can , give not men their trespasses, neither will 1 never be changed. Jesus said, "If ye for- ; your Father forgive your trespasses." | Matt. 6:15. "Because they besought me." (R. V.) When we really beseech Christ j for forgiveness He will answer us and j grant our pardon. No one need despair. We have nothing to pay and nothing is demanded. If we come in humility and faith and in the spirit of obedience God is always ready to hear us. But we must urge our case (Luke IS: 1-S; 1 These. 5:17; Matt, j 7:7,8) and continue tc beseech the Lord ! even when surrounded by discouragements. | 33. "Even as I had pity on thee." The j servant is here shown the obligation he is under to his fe'^ow-servant because of the I mercy that had been shown him. It is | justly expected that those who have re- j ceived mercy shall show mercy. 34. "Delivered him to the tormentors." ! The r>erson who does not have a forgiving - * ' i spirit win De tormeruea, uum iu wn^ i world and in the world to come. A guilty ! conscience, the fear of the judgment dav and tiie tires of God's wrath (Rev. 20:15) will, in turn, act as tormentors. "All that was due." And inasmuch as the amount was so great that he could never pay it. he : must have been delivered over to th$ tor- j mentors forever. The wicked will he ban- j ishad eternally from the presence of God. See Matt. 5:25, 2C, 25:46; ev. 14:11; Matt. | Matt. 18:8. 35. "So likewise." This verse an ap- , plication of the whole parable. The para- | blc is not intended to teach us that G?>d | reverses His pardons to any, but that He denies them to those who are not worthy ; of them. Those who have not forgiven i others their trespasses have never yet truly ; repented, and that which is spoken of as having been taken away is only what they seemed to possess. Luke 8: IS. ''From your hearts." V?'hen we deal with God mere pretensions will not answer. The one who really forgiws the trespasses of j his brother will not be calling them up j n?ain at every provocation. Heart for- j riveness is full and complete. "Every one ( his brother." We will have need to ex- i ercise the ?race of patience and forbearance continually. Let us remember that "to forgive is divine." NEW SURGICAL EXPEDIENT. Chicago Man Says lie Can Neutralize Effect of Shock Under Knifo. Professor Fenton B. Turek started from Chicago for the medical congress at the Paris Exposition, where he will explain a discovery which he says he has maue. After several scries of experiments he believes he has found a way to obviate the dangerous shocks sustained by patients on the operating table. He says: "By my experiments on animals I have found that the insertion of hot-water bags in the stomach and intestines during oper- i ations stimulate^the patient to such a de- j gree that the etteet of the shock is neu- j tralized. I have already been able to save i general lives as a result." I A CITY COINC INTO BUSINESS. | Charleston Starts Out on ? Municipal j Ownership scheme. The City Council of Charleston, S. C.. at ! a special meeting authorized a committee* i to make contracts for a water supply tor Charleston which will cost SI.{>1)0.000. A lighting plant will he instituted in this move in the direction of municipal ownership. The scheme is to have the plant constructed by a private corporation, the city to have the privilege of buying it at a future day. Special legislation will have to be secured before the plans can be put into effect. Water will be brought to Charleston from the Ed is to River, thirty miles distant. Big Sum For Lock of Napoleon's Hair. An authentically genuine loci; of the j first Napoleon's haid, cut from his head on his death bed at St. Helena. !ms just changed hands in Paris, the purchaser | paving S1'250 tor it. I k \ 'v THE GREAT DESTROYER! ! SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Grandfather'* Telescope ? How Alcohol Dmi It* Deadly Work In III Victim** Body?First It Diirken* the Klood. Then It Irritates Every Organ. "He is laying up for the poorhouse now, I can- see it plain as day. If the jail don t catch him before he's oft|/* My grandfather used to aav . When he saw a boy with snort cigar And an air like a circus down Stand oft b*tore the swinging door Of the best saloon in town. You're laying up for the poorhouse row If you never care to try To do your work in a manly way; When you let your evenings fly In mischief mean, when you oft are seen With the roughest clisna there are Who won't take proof that the poorhouse roof Grows out of the licensed bar. There's many a way to the poorhouse, boys, , * But the surest, atraightest road o Is the idler's path thro' the near saloon Where the wild-oat fields are sowed. These grow, a harvest of pain and woe, ' Of poverty, sin and shame In spite of fun and the free lunch bun And the spirit they sport as game. Have a clean design for your life-plan, boys; Live out in the light of day And thank the Lord for the honest toil That is niled along your way. It is grand to pledge yourself to Right, Go bind yourself to tread With the sturdy few who are always true, Who supply the poorhouse bread. Are you laying up on the noorhouse plan, j In gravel instead of gold ? Each oath a wound in a conscience seared j And paralyzed with co'd? i Each drink a receipt for a pauper's bed! ! Each year a thousand miles On a hurrying car from the luring bar To the place where the poorhouse smiles? ?Jessie MacGregor Shaw, in the Temperance Banner. How Alcohol Acts. Physicians tell us precisely how alcohol! acta "on the system. Almost the moment it is swallowed it makes its way through the veins of the stomach into the blood, which it darkens. Its action is immediate, for it has undergone no transformation. It passes away verv slowly through the skin, lungs and kidneys, which are irritated by its passage. Once it has been introduced into the body it performs its deathly work. The digestive apparatus is the first point of attack. The stomach, whether bloated bv beer* drinking or shrunk by brandy drinking, soon becomes ulcerated, causing hemorrhages. Digestion becomes more difficult, for the gastric juices are diminished in quantity by the paralyzing of the glands. The liver be comes congested and swollen, heavy anil painful. This is fatty degeneration of the liver. Then sometimes the liver shrivels up and is covered with a hard, stony tissue. This is cirrhosis. The taste changes very early, leading to all kinds of aberrations." Vlicii an old absinthe drinker was put on a milk dhrt in the hospital he complained that the milk Lyrned -bis-?? ? throat. He managed to get some pure absinthe, which he swallowed, claiming that it rpfrpsheil and cooled his throat wonder fully. Thd circulatory svstem is no less affected. The arteries become hard and brittle. Accidents which would normally affect only the aped seriously, strike down young alcoholized persons. The irritation of the lungs produces a dry cough, tendftie directly toward tuberculosis. The kidneys, worn out by the accumulation of al:ohol, become inflamed, leading to Bright'a disease or other kidney affection. The worst troubles resulting from alcohol's abuse are those of the nervous system, weakening of memory, nightmares, visions of impossible animals, hallucinations, general paralysis, insanity. Delirium trements threatens every alcoholic patient. The finest intelligence is soon destroyed by this poison. Superior talents are drowned in the bottle.?New York Herald. Laboring Men Waking Up. It is especially gratifying to see how' generally the laboring classes of our fellow citizens are appreciating the truth that the burdens of the liquor traffic ar6 borne principally by them, even though they may never enter a saloon; that the terrible waste made by the liquor traffic can be repaired only by production; that the landlord who pays increased taxes for the support of paupers, prisons and police, inevitably adds that cost to the rent charged', to the laboring man, and that the manu- , * * ? ??U.'mahaK frtn Kio in> :aciurer reiniuuiscs muiscn n? ... creased taxation by reduction of wages to his employes. Intelligent mechanics and operatives are learning that increased liquor sales mean reduction of house and furniture building; reduced' demand for shoes, hats, coats, calicoes, silks and flannels, and therefore his employment in building machinery used in such production. The farmer will have less sales of flour, pork, potatoes and other products of his toil in proportion as the saloon thrives. No department of honest industry can escape the devastating influence of the success of the liquor traffic, except possibly that of the undertaker. Tradesmen are learning that their bad debts are made chiefly because the money that really belongs to them is raked into the coffers of the saloon keeper. But the alliance of the slums with mushroom aristocracy in defense of rum-selling shows as yet no signs' of weakness.?Our Paper. Ttip Mint Danserotm Drink of All. Yet another fallacy on which we need to concentrate the lisht until it becomes a burning glass to destroy it is the idea that lager beer, if not harmless, is the least harmful ot alcoholic drinks. It is, in fact, -L 4 ?ll ii.irt.lv because IJIU>1 UlilUVH/Ui> "I > I this fallacy lias made it seem one of the ''little sins" tiiat so many are willingtodo. I once examined the inmates of the Christian Home for intemperate Men. in New York City, as to the way they reached the last ditch of drunkenness, ami 80 per cent, told me that they began with beer.' Yonder is the dark land of intemperance reached by two bridges, wine and beer. Over the wine bridge go 20 per cent.; over the beer bridge SO per cent. The most important temperance work is to stand at the entrance of the seeminc'y harmless beer bridge and warn those "ho are thoughtlessly, entering upon it.?The Presbyterian.' Tlte Cm* "'e III Itrlef. By wholesome food and drink the appetite is satisfied: by alcohol it is excited. There arc few instances of sunstroke among those who do not use alcoholic stimulants. Nervous Britons are worrying again about the quantity of liquor they drink. "Tf drink is doincr mo harm 1 will take none of it for my own sake; if it is doing me no harm, I will take none of it for the the sake of others," should be the motto of every one. i A recent investigation showed that n;ncty-thre'i per cent, of the inmates of the New York House of Industry were sent there tor crimes resulting from the use of intoxicating drinks. A r.ovel scheme has been adopted by the Sharon il'enn.l liijuor dealers. Each week they secure from the local magistrates u list of persons arrested for drunkenness, and then refuse such ones drinks at the bar. Mis* Ilattie Ramparten. of Xew Milford. Conn., has a novel plan for reforming saloons, the scheme is to have the best citizens fretjuent the saloons, not to drink, but to form a social surrounding of a high order. While the political power of the saloon is increasing in <!reat llriiain there are signs that a storm is rising that may break with tcrrilic tone and may overthrow the tratlie in (Sreut Urilan ami other lands as well. Drink dulls the moral sense and is hos-. I tile to all (hat is best in man. and for that; I reason every wise minister regards children's temperance societies as one of the 1110.-1 valuable agencies of his church, when its object is to get every one to say "Xo" j to strong drink.