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% 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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.