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1 Warmth u Important Factor. I iWarmth is to Important factor in .securing a larger product. Cows that re kept warm win five more miu, tad on less food than those exposed. DMtroylag tb? Pm ICmtU. ' Seed peas may be dipped In hot water for a few minutes, or exposed to the gases of bisulphide of earbcn in order to destroy the pea weerlL The late peas are not so subject to attack as those sown early. TIm DwtractlT* Cwtwarm. (The cutworm often destroys whole fields of corn, compelling replanting. Which makes the crop late and less | able to stand dry weather. td? corn i I land should be plowed deep and left foogh. so as to permit the frost to enter. When cutworms are exposed to alternate thawlngand freezing weather any will be destroyed, though cold 'Without dampness may not Injure them.' CtlUi Foods# In the selection of cattle foods the farmer should keep in view the r*> / tults to be expected. 8ome foods are * -a j more valuable. pounu ror pounu. iuu ; ethers. because tbej differ In tbe rela1 -tire proportion of dry subntance con. tabled. In tbe digestibility of that dry t pnbstance. and in Its composition. ' . The digestive capacity of each animal should be known to the farmer, and he should ecdearor to supply its Wants. CltaAtte lilww ? Cr?p?. The climate has much to do with the quality of the product Tears ago I It was noticed that wheat from Trance, when cultivated in Canada, had to be acclimated before It gave ?mm Ptlmtt* also hmi Simavivi/ v?vj/w. . , an important influence on the proportion of gluten and starch in wheat the wheat grown in a warm climate 'Containing more gluten, proportion* ately. which la eqolralent to a larger amount of nitrogen. Wheat contains the largest amount of gluten in proportion when it la ripe. In an experiment made with a variety it was found that i When wheat waa cut eighteen days before it was ripe it contained only tx per cent of gluten, but when fully ripe It contained twelve per cent: but as gluten is not quite as white as March it will follow that when wheat * - ** 1 - ? ?* 14 If cat a little before it u aeaa ripe it jrfil make a whiter flour than when It la cot at a later period, bat It will be leea nutrition# and less In quantity. These conditions are. however, abject to the variety of wheat and the climate and soil. L' _ Tkt Dairy InproTlag tb? Farm. The change from wheat tj batter farming has produced a wonderful increase in fertility, so that to-day | splendid crops of grain, corn and k grass are grown. For every ton of L wheat the farmer sold they took oat ' of the soil |7 worth of fertilizer. For very ton of batter sold, only 50 cents' worth of fertility is disposed or. sucn ft change effect on soil of two methods of farming mnst. in the very nature ?f things, show for Itself, i On hundreds of farms that we know Of It la becoming a matter of some difficulty to grow oats on account of the falling down or "lodging." aa U is ' commonly called, of the grain before U Li fit to cut. This effect is due to the large per cent, of nitrogen in the Boil, and is especially noticeable on the farms whose owners have been large buyers of bran and gluten for years past. Carrying a stock of cows, young cattle and hogs, and buying bran, has done this work. Not only Has this policy made the farms rich, but It has made the farmers rich.? I board's Dairyman. K?o Thrifty. The hog seems to need some earthy or mineral matter to enalls It to digest Its food well. For this purpose many give salt, wood ashes and charcoal, allowing them to eat it as they please, and they usually ore pleased to eat it pretty freely, especially the breeding ptock kept over winter, and it has been found by test that fattening bogs put on flesh more readily when they can resort to this mixture as they please. It prevents the gravel eating, which sometimes seems to- keep them from mowins. The Bureau of Animal In (hutry. Department of Agriculture, ends out the following recipe, which pre are not sure is any better than the' one we gire above. Charcoal, sulphur and black antimony, of each one pound, mixed with common salt, baking soda, sulphate of soda, hyposulphite of soda, of each two pounds. If . given in the feed, one teaMpoonful is 1 allowed daily to each bog. The hogs also need in winter, especially the I breeding sows, either roots or green feed of some kind. We think raw roots are better than cooked ones, but I If tbey are not at band jive every day | a look of clover bay. Tbey will always eat It greedily.?The Cultivator. Poultry Hobm Far Earl; Chicks. Thla house is used by Mrs. J. W11| son. of Iowa, for raising winter chicks. In It she ran put three hens with about forty chirks. Take a box ? about G ft. wide. 2H ft. hisjli in front, with sloping roof, cover with tarred I A HOTBED POCLTBT H0U8K. paper and bare a sliding window in \ front near the top. as shown. Dig ft bole in the ground Just the sixe of the box, as for a botbed. FiU it with horse manure, cover wltb dry earth and over thll pui soft straw, chaff and bayseed from the barn floor. Place the box over this and put tbe bens land chicks in. Throw an old carpet lover all and they are easily cared for. ) I> a home life this It Is surprising bow fsit th^f will grow, a small J door near the bottom may be opened on warm day* to let them bare a lit tie son. bnt they will soon scampei back.?American Agriculturist Bala* Hon Poaltry. One time a rich farmer told me that the best time to go Into stock or grate was when everybody wanted to quit He didn't own all the land that joined him, bnt be did own several hundred acres of good farming land and b< held a first mortgage on a lot more Outside of this particular notion of hli be was just like other people. The in dications are good tiiat those who raise poultry the coming season, and lota of it will get a good price. On account of the drouth throughout the corn belt the past season, thousands of fanners gathered up and sold ererytmng uai wouiu ear corn mu was salable, and the hens did not ea cape the sacrifice. An extensive poultry buyer told me recently that his business paid better than ever, although he had to com twice as much territory to get a carload. This indicates a shortage is poultry and to such an extent that the poultry raisers will be fortunate until the demand Is supplied, which will take at least two years cf our best ?U U TAhnmn In Nav Enff land Homestead. laldai Voth?rl?M Plr. few years slncc I lost a fine sow that left a dozen motherless pl&s about two days old. Thinking it would be more trouble to raise them than thej would be worth I gave several of them away to neighbors. We fed the little pigs with new milk. wh!le yet warm from the cow. or else warmed It fot them on the stove. After trying to teach them to suck a quill with a soft rag around It with no success, we fed them with a teaspoon from a small cup. After being fed two or three times ?h<rr ipnmpd tn drink, and the second day they were eating from a small trough at well, and better than some pigs that I hare bought when four weeks old. The neighbors to whom we had given some of the pigs were all successful In raising them to be good hogs above the average. We gave them new milk. and. In fact they would eat anything that la usually fed to a pig four weeks old. I know of several Instances where pigs a few days old were raised by artificial means with little trouble.?3. C. A., in Rural New Yorker. TM Bpnag LU1CKIU. Torn the chickens out where they can have a good wide range fir scratching as early as poaslhle in the spring, but avoid wet weather, especially for the high-bred chickens. Wet. damp weather in early spring is responsible for ^be loss of a great many chickens and old fowls. If the day is cold and rainy keep them in their winter quarters, but if it is a warm rain it may not do them much harm. Even so It does not improve their health any to get soaking wet They need to scratch for their food more in spring than ever. It Is much like giving them a liver tonic, some thing we all need at this season, mo : best liver tonle Is bard work in the j open air. So It Is for the chickens. , If th?y can get a few worms and green blades of grass In their forage. w> much tfafc better for them. It will tend to Improve their laying qualities later. When the chickens have foraged all day they will come to the feeding yard hnngry and eager for food at night, and the appetite they display will be gratifying to the owner. It means something more than the mere con* sumption of food. It protends for the owner good health and a One crop of eggs. One should never begrudge plenty of food when the chicken Is a good layer, for then every pound of grain is converted Into salable meat or proOtable eggs.?Annie C. Webster, in American Cultivator. A Slmpla Way of Grafting. In grafting a seedling one or two years old tiie gran is put on just t\oove , the ground and but one cutting is used, i To graft a tree to change the fruit la ! another matter and Instead of cutting I the tree off below the limbs three or four of the lower lhnbs are cut off eight or ten inches from the trunk or the main branch and two cuttings ! THE 8C10S AUD STOCK. or grafts are placed lo each limb.. Should the operation prove successful the following year all the branches above the grafts may be removed witli little danger of losing the tree. A tree of most any age may be grafted in this way and in a few years be In good bearing. The grafting outfit is simple, ! comprising a jacknife, small saw and | a dish of grafting wax. In selecting grafts only the last year's growth of ; new w?od should be chosen. Figure A shows how to make the scion. They may l?e several laches long and contain two or three bud* each. The bottom eud which Is to be Inserted into the limb should be wedge *ha|H>. Figure B gives an idea how the limb appears with a split top In which the grafts are set Two catting* should be placed lu each limb to be sure of a good Maud. After they are placed in position some orchardists bind them in place with cord or twine to make them secure before the grafting wax is applied. This answers as a safeguard, but 18 not aosoiuteiy necessary. Id placing the scion It is Important to bare tbe inner bark of scion and stock come together so that tbe sap will flow from tbe tree to tbe catting. After tbis is done tbe wax sbonld be applied so, tbat tbe Joint or splice is well covered, tbus keeping out tbe air and water. Should all tbe grafts live the weaker ones sboultl be pruned away.?New Engbint) Homestead. "If" Is a mighty small word t? causa racb a lot of trouble. - * I)E. TALMAGES SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. vfcjwt: Til* ChrliUM TUw *f D*tkI Tha Cham of tb? Black OlMUBoat of Ik* Kii| of Terror*?Everyday BoH?mW? The Final Victory. Wasiukotov, D. C. ? The Christian view of death u the entrance to a fuller life is presented in this Easter discourse bjr Dr. Talma ge from tbe text I Cor. xr, 04, "Death is swallowed up in victory." About 1870 Easter mornings have wakened I the earth. In France for three centuries the almanacs made the year begin at East; er until Charles IX. made the year begin | at January 1. In the Tower of London there ii a royal pay roll of Edward I., on whi?h there is an entry of eighteen pence for 400 colored and pictured eggs, with I which the people sported. In Russia slaves I were fed ana alms were distributed on | Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met in Pontus, in Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to ! decide the particular day and after a conI troveriy more animated than gracious decided it, and now through ail Christen! Hnm in some war the first Sunday after th* fail moon which happens upon or next after March 21 ia filled with Eaater rejoicroral court of the Sabbaths ia nude op of fifty-two. Fifty-one are princes in the royal household, rat Baster is queen. 6hc wears richer diadem, ahe sways a more jeweled seep tor*, and in her smile nations are irradiated. How welcome she is when, after a harsh winter and late sprint, ahe seems to step out of the snowbank j rather than the conservatory, to come oat of the north instead of the south, out of I the arctic rather than the tropics, dismounting from the icy equinox, but welcome this queenly day, holding high in her vight hand the wrenched off bolt of Christ's sepulcher, and holding high in her left hand tbe key to all the cemeteries in Chris| tendom. ' My text is an ejaculation. It ia spun out I of ballehiiahs. Paul wrote right on in his argument about the resurrection, and observed all the laws of logic, but when he came to write the word* of the text hie flayers and hie pen and the parchment on which be wrote took fire, ana be cried out, ""Death ie swallowed up in victor/!" It it an exciting thing to eee an army routed and flying. They run each other down. They scatter everything valuable in the tttck. Unwheeled artillery; hoof of horse on breast of wounded and dying man. You hare read of the French falling back from Sedan, of Napoleon's track of 90,000 corpses in the snowbank') of Russia, of the retreat Of our armies from Msnsisas or of the fire kings tumbling over the rock* of Beth horan with their armies while the nt k***an and the awards of Joshua's host struck them with their forr. In my text >s a worse discomfiture. It teems that a black giant proposed to conquer the earth. He gathered for hia hoat all the achea aad pains and malarias and cancers aad distempers aad epidemics of the ages. He marched them down, drilling them in the northweat wind and amid the aloah of tempests. He threw up barricades of nave mound. He pitched tent of eharaal house. Some of the troops starched with slow tread commanded 67 consumptions, some in double auick commanded by pneumonias. Some ne took by long besiegement of evil habit aad some by oae stroke of the battleaxe of casualty. With bony hand he pounded at the back door of hospitals and sickrooms and won all the victories ia all the great battlefielda of all the five continents. Forward, march! ordered the conoueror of conquerors, and all the generals and commandersin-chief and all presidents and kings aad ?/! mrara drnnnatl nnHn1 (h# ff>#t of bin war charger, fiut one Christ ma* .light hia antagonist was born. Aa most of the plagues and sicknesses aud despotisms come out of the east, it was appropriate that the new conqueror should come out of the same quarter. Power is given Him to awaken all the fallen of all the centuries and of all lands and marshal them against the black giant. Fields have already been won, but the last day of the world s existence will see the decisive battle. When Christ shall lead forth His two brigades, the brigade of the risen dead and the brigade of the celestial host, the black giant will fall back, and the brigade from the riven sepulcbers win take him from beneath, and tne brigade of descending immortals will take htm from above, ana death shall be swallowed up in victory. The old braggart that threatened the conquest and demolition of the planet has lost his throne, has lost his scepter, has lost his palace, has lost his prestige, and the one word written over all the gates of mausoleum and catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaoh and aarconhaous. on the lone Ij khan of the arctic explorer and on the catafalque of preat cathedral, written in capital* of azalia and calia lilly. written in musical cadence, written in doxology of great assemblages, written on the sculptured door of the family vault, iu "Victory." Coronal word, embannered word, apocalyptic word, chief word of triumphal arch under which conquerors return. Victory! Word shouted at Culloden and Balaklava and Blenheim, at Mcciddo and Solferino, at Marathon, where tn? Athenians drove back the Medea; at Poitiers, where Charles Martel broke the ranks of the Saracens; at Salamis. where Thenustocics in the great sea fight confounded the Persians, and at the door of the eastern cavern of chiseled rock, where Christ came out through a recess and throttled the king of terrors and put him back in the niche irom wnicn toe celestial conqueror bad just emerged. Aha! When the jaw? of the eastern mausoleum took down the black giant "death was swallowed up in victory." I proclaim the abolition of death. t 'ihe old antagonist is driven back into mythology with all the lore about Stygian ferry ana Charon with oar and boat. Melroso abbey and Kenilworth castle are no more in ruins than ia the sepulcher. We shall have no more to do with death than we have with the cloakroom at a governor's or a president's levee. We stop at such cloakroom and leave in charge of a servant our overcoat, our overshoes, our outward apparel, that we may not be impeded in the brilliant round of the drawing room. Well, my friends, when we go out of this world we are going to a King's banquet and to a reception of monarchs. and at the door of the tomb we leave the cloak of flesh and the wrappings with I which we meet the storms of this world. At the close of an earthly reception, under the brush and broom of the porter, the coat or hat may be handed to us better than when we resigned it, and the cloak of humanity will Anally be returned to u* improved and brightened and puritied and glorified. You and I do not want our bodies returned as they are now. We want to get rid of all their weaknesses and all their susceptibilities to fatigue and all their slowness of locomotion. We want them put through a chemistry of soil and heat and cold and changing seasons, out of | which God will reconstruct them as much better than they are now as the body of t' 3 rosiest and healthiest child that bounds over the lawn in Central Park is better I than the sickest nitirat in Mlcriii" kiuni. tal. But as to ouv soul, we trill cro*? rijiit over, not waiting for obsequies, independent of obituary, into a state in every way better, with wider room and velocities beyond computation, the dullest of as into companionship with the very best spirits in their very best mood, in the very parlor of the anivene.the four walls burnished and paneled and pictured and glorified with all the splendors that the infinite God in all the ages has been able to invent. Victiirr1 This riew. of course, make* it of but little importance whether we are cremated or iiepultured. If the latter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any prefer incineration, let them have it without cavil or protest. The world may become so crowded that cremation may be universally adopted by law as well as by general consent. Many of the mightiest and beat spirits have gone through this process. Thousands and tens of thousands of God's children have been cremated?P. P. Bliss and wife, the evangelistic singers, cremated by accident at Ashtabula bridge; John Rodgers. cremated by persecution; Latimer and Ridley, cremated at Oxford; Pothinus and Blandina. a s'.tve, and Alexander, a physician, and their comrades cremated at the order of lCarew Am 1 lias; at least a hundred thousand ol Christ's disciples cremated, and there caa be no doubt about the resurrection ol their bodies. If the world lasts as much longer aa it has thus far, there perhaps may be no room for the large acreage set apart for resting places, but there is plentr of room yet, and the race need not pass that bridge of fire until it comes to it. The most of us prefer the old way. But whether out ol natural disintegration or cremation we shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome, transcendent, magnificent, inexplicable structure called tne resurrection body. You will have it; I will have it. I say to you to-day, as Paul said to Agrippa. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the.dead?" That far up cloud, higher than the hawk flies, higher than the eagle flies, what is it made of? Drops of water from a river, other drops from S lake, still other drops from a stagnant pool, but now embodied in a cloud and kindled by the sun. If God can make such a la* -''" J ?" itmni minv of bivua uuuu www w? ^^ ? them toiled and impure and fetched from mile* away, can He not tmuport the fragment* of a human body from the earth and oat of them build a radiant body? Cannot Ood, who own* all the material oat of which boaes, mnacle and flesh are made, act them op again if they have fallen? If a manufacturer of telescopes drop* a telescope on the floor and it breaks, can he not mend it again so you can sec through it? And if Ood drop* the human ere into the dust, the eye which He origin* ally fashioned, can He not restore it? Aye, if the manufacturer of the tele* scope, by the use of a new glass and a change of material, can qufr* * better instrument than that which was originally constructed and actually improve it, do you not think the fashioner of the human ere may improve its sight and multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold additional forces of the resurrection eye? Do you not think that God can do as much for our bodies as He does for the wasps and *-he spiders and the snails? This morning at half just 4 o'clock there was a resurrection. Out of the night tb? day. Id a few weeks there will be a resurrection in ell oar gardens. Why not some day a resurrection amid the graves? Ever and anon there are instances of men and women entranced. A trance is death followed JF resurrection after a few days: total siffrosion of mental power and voluntary action. Rev. William Tennent, s great evangelist of the last generation, ol whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms?Rev. William Tennent seemed to die. His spirit apparently left the body. People came in day after day and said, "He is dead, he is dead." But the soul that fled returned, and Will Tennent lived to write what he bad seen whils his soul was pone. It may be found some time that what is called suspended animation or comatose state is brief death, giving the soul an excursion into the next world, from which it comes back, a furlough of a few hour* granted from the conflict of life to which it must return. Do not this waking up ol men from trance and this waking up of in ?-* ?'#.1 w -I J aL*. sects I rem winter iiiciessnesa, ana lau waking up of grains buried 3000 fan ago make it eaaier (or too to believe that your body and mine after the vacation of the crave shall rouse and rally, though there be 3009 year* between our lait breath and the sounding of the archanflelic reveille! Physiologist* tell us that while the most of our bodies are built with saeh wonder ful economy that we can spare nothing, and the lot* of a finger is a hinderment, and the injury of a toe joint make* us lame, still that we have two or three useless physical apparatuses, and no anatomist ot physiologist ha* ever been able to tell what they are good for. They may be th< foundation of the resurrection body, worth nothing to us in this state to be indispensably valuable in the next state. The Jewish rabbis and the scientists of out day hare found out that there arf two ot three superfluities of body that are som? thing gloriously suggestive ot another state. I called at my friend'* house one summer day. I found the yard all piled up with the rubbish of carpenter's and mason's work. The door wss off. Th? plumbers bad torn up the floor. The rool was being lifted in cupola. All the pictures were gone, and the paper banaeri were doing their work. All the modem improvements were being introduced into that dwelling. There wss not a room in the house fit to live in at that time, although a month before when 1 visited that house everything was so beautiful 1 could not have suggested an improvement My friend had gone with his family to the Holy Laud, expecting to come back at ths end of six months, when the building wai to be done. And. oh, what wss his joy when at the end of six months he returned snd found the old house had been enlarged and improved and glorified. That is your bodv. It looks well now?oil the rooms filled with health, and we could hardly make a suggestion. But after awhile your soul will go to the Holy Land, and wnile you are gone the old house oj your tabernacle will be entirely reconn true ted from cellar to attic, and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and artery must be hauled over{ and the old siruciurc wui Da ournisnea ana aaorneo and raised and eupolacd and enlarged, and all the improvements of heaven intro duced, and yon will move into it on resun rection day. "For we know that if on earthly house of thia tabernacle wera dissolved we have a building of God, a houst not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Oh, what a day when body and soul meet again! They are very fond of each other. Did your body ever nave a pain and youi soul not pity it, or your body have a joy and your soul not re-echo it, or, changing the question, did your soul ever have any trouble and your body not sympathize with it, growing wan and weak under the depressing influence? Or did youi soul ever nave a gladness but your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step? Surely God never intended two such good friends to be very long separated. And so when the world's last Easter morning shall come the soul will descend, crying, "Where is my body?" And the body will ascend, saying, "*Vhere is my soul?" And the Lord ot the resurrection will bring them together, and it will be a periect aoul in a parted body, introduced bjr a perfect Chriat into a perfect heaven. \ ictory! Do you wonder that on Easter day we swathe our churches with garlands? Do you wonder we celebrate it with the moat consecrated voice of song that we can invite, with the deftest fingers on organ and cornet and with doxologics that beat these arches with the billows of sound as the sea smites the basalt at Giant's Causeway? Only the bad disapprove of the resurrection. A cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. Moffatt, the missionary, preach about the resurrection, and he said to the missionary, "Will my father rise in the last day?" "Yes," said the missionary. "Will all the dead in battle rise?" said the cruel chieftain. "Yes," said the missionary. Then aaid the warrior: "Let me besr no more about the resurrection. There can be no resurrection; there shall be no resurrection. I have slaiu thousands in battie. WUI they rise?" Ah. there will be more to rise on that day than those whose crimes have never been repented of will want to see! But for all others who allowed Christ to be their pardon and their life and their resurrection it will be a day of victory. The thunders of the last day will be the salvo that greets you into harbor. The lightnings will be only the torches of triumphal profession marching down to escort you home. The burning worlds Hashing through immensity will be the rockets celebrating your coronation on thrones where you will reign forever and forever and forever. Where is death? What have we to do with death? As vour reunited body and soul swing off from tbia planet on that laat day you will see deep gashes all up and down the hills, deep gashes all through the ralleys, and they will b? the emptied graves, they will be the abandoned aepuTchers, with rough ground tossed on each side of them, and slab* will he uneveu on the rent hillocks, and ther? will be fallen monuments and cenotaphs, and then for the first time you will appreciate the full exhilaration of the tut, "Death is swallowed up in victory." (Copyright, l*>*. L. UepscM L * '' " -rim ^ THE GREAT DESTBOYEB SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Ckaikla Monro, of Ik* Tombs, K#w York City, Tells How the SaJoooe Do tbe DerU'i Work?The Bead to Bota ? m PromlilBg Young College Moo. I bare wondered more than once how toy man who is familiar with the annals of crime in this city can say one word in defense of the saloon abomination, sines it has become a well-known fact that th? gin mills make tbe criminals. During 19)1, the first year of the twentieth century, there are said to hare been 223 cases ol homicide in this city. Nine-tenths of these can be charged, directly and indirectly, to strone drink: not to speak of several thou ! sand com* of felonious assault, robbery, burglary, grand larceny and acorn oi other crimes that can be laid at the door of the modern gin mill. It is also a fact that often under the same roof the saloon fosters the brothel, the gambling hell, the dive and the poolroom. I cite here only a few cases from my own personal experience showing the ravages of the saloon daring the past few month*. Bat these are only a tithe of the case* 1 meet in my work among criminals. They show that aO classes of the community are affected more or less by this monstrous system. A short time sm a young man, a graduate of one of the leading New England colleges, was found on the street helplessly drunk. An ambulance was called aad the case diagnosed by the doctor aa aloohdlism! His' fond parents had given this young man a classical and legal training. It cost them a small fortune to do so. During the six years which be spent within the walls of a Connecticut university he, unknown to them, lived a dissipated life. It was startling discoverv they made, and, apparently it was too late to apply any remedy. He fcad formed drinking habits "at college with chums who were wild young men like himaelf. On the day of his graduation he was a full fledged confirmed drunkard! He promiaed his people that he would reform, but this is always easier aaid than done. His promises were made only to be broken. They found a position for him in a large law firm in this city. Hera he met dissipated, irreligious companions like himself. He drank with them to excess, lost his position and soon became a homeless prodigal. He tried to secure employment elsewhere, but nobody would ha re him. The last tew months of his downward career he played rag music on an old piano nightly in a Tenderloin gin mill and dance hall for "drinks" and ten cents for lodging ticket. After his arrest be was sent to jail for a brief time and then to the city hospi tai for treatment. He wu a physical, 1 Dental and moral wreck. Strong drink had ruined him. All that was left of him was a waited life and a rained character. The only proepect he had for eternity was a drunkard's bell. Do you ask how be became a drunkard? I will tell you. He began drinking cider in his father's cellar. His father and mother countenanced this in the old homestead. They saw nothing wrong in it. After a while the boy began to drink cider like hia father. Many a pitcher of cider he stole out of the cellar and drank with the hired man. He formed a love for strong drink, and <!> <?? kia m11?M VMM hia ru?tit* in. UU? >U0 uia VWIIWV /?? > ? -rr""""" creased beyond nis control till ne became a drunkard. How potent if the example of a parent foraooa or eril. There U a young man in Sing Sing prison at the present time serving a twelve-year sentence for a awful crime committed while ?n a state of beastly intoxication. How did be become a drunkard? That boy's father was a drunkard, and manv a time he came home to his wife and children in a helpless condition. When the bov was eighteen years of age he was a drunkard also. He followed in his father's footsteps. He thought if his father i could get drunk he had the same right, and he did so.?Chaolain Munro, of the Tomba Prison, New York City. Plain Talk to British Workmen. I j Few men would dare to talk to a mafl I meeting of Workingmen u John Burns? himself a workingman?talked to one in London recently. His speech is being reprinted all around the English-speaking world, and seems to condense in a few forceful sentences more juit criticism and sound advice than have been given to tha British "working classes" in a long time. "Think more and drink less," was hii Met to the tenants of the densely packed ! East End district. "Drinking, betting and j gambling have got to be put down?' he ' told them, or the British working people would never rise above their present conditions. "Is slavery still in your blood?" he asked. "H not, why, with an overwhelming majority of votes in your hands, did you send only ten members to the I House of Commons?" "Three out of five in this room," said I Burns, "will, before they die, land in the 1 -1-1 ins^UiftiAn " i worfciiuusc ur suiuc uijjutcrva I His hearer* murmured at this, but be re* j minded them that it was only "the cold | statistical fact." "Faithful," indeed, "are the wound* ol j a friend."?New York World. Wont Kind of Idiocy; It it becoming fashionable these days t<J I apeak of the bright aid? of the modeni saj loon, where the toiler can refresh himself, get a cheap lunch with a pUs* of beer or i use the lavatory if he wishes. We have bad occasion several times on tours of investigation to visit tuloons and found the atmosphere to be putnd with nrofanity, our beer and rude joke*. To call the gin mill a workingman's club is the worst kind of idiocy. The proper name for such a place is hell-hole. It is proper to call the I aaloons workinjrmen'* club* i! yoa qualify i your language. They are club* used to beat out the brain* of those who natronize i them. They arc the toilers' deadliest foes I and always have been. j Do you for a moment doubt this? Visit 1 our police court* on Sunday morning, or indeed any morning, and see the scores ol men and women with broken and bruised beads, the result of a few hours spent in a citv gin mill?the so-called "workingman's club*' Close the Salooaa. One of the fint acts of Mavor Hinch* cliffe. of I'aterson. on the breaking out of the disastrous tiro that laid a large portion of that city in ashes. wa* to issue an order to the police to close the saloons, and that order was promptly obeyed, and be it remembered that Mayor Hinchclitfe is a brewer. If the saloon u the "poor man's club," why order it closed at such a time, when hundreds of poor men are rendered homeless DJ* me destruction 01 iiwu houses? Over 20J dwelling* were burned.? Temperance Banner. Tb? Growing Drink Trade ot England. The revenue from drink has increased from $173,000,000 in ly>J tj $215,000,CiM in 1001, while during late years there lias been a marked consolidation ot breweries. In 1882 there were 13,744 breweries and in 1901 but 6110. Cantlnnona Perforroaac* In B*tt. The liquor traffic is America'* mo4 deadly foe, says a New York prison chaplain. I hate the traffic from the crown ot my head to the sole* of mv feet. I hate it when I get up in the morning; 1 hate it when I go to bed at night; f hate it on Sundays and dejpiae it on Mondays. Captured by Whisky. A German paper telis the story of a (Jer man officer, who. in command of some Boers, managed to surprise a British train at mime small wayside station. There woi some excellent whisky on board, and the Boers soon sampled it, with the re suit that the good British spirit did iu 1?? lncin<? *Kam. ah^ ntlonn nn fhi* uul V u/ l?; llt? ?uvhi vw? ??.?. platform. Here they were found and raptured by some English troops, who, in thru turn, took a little froin a half-empty with the result that acting on halt-starved men, the whisky sent tliem to sleep to their turn. When the Boors woke up they recaptured their capturcr*, and thus in a few hours there was one British victory tad two Boer rictori?s a J Jed to the record, GOD'S MESSAGE TO HAN PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS* Poem: The Lot* of God?A FtnkU D? l*a?<l to Ulaitrau That Mm Cuooi Vmj Too Hl|h a Prtco For Ktaraal Li* ?Common Maa and tbo BJblf. God's boundleM love and arching sky Above us when we wake or sleep, Above us when we smite or weep, Above us wbeu we live or die. God's tireless love! Beside the cot. Of her sick child the mother sleepy The Heavenly Father ever keeps Unweary watcfi?He slumbers not. God's patient love! Misunderstood oy nearu inai luacr m me aigai. Doubted?yet waiting till heaven's light Shall show bow *11 things work for good. God's changeless lore! The wandering one Forsakes, forgets, dishonors, jet, Repenting, going home, is met With no reproach?"Welcome, Mjr son." God's endless lore! What will it be When earthly shadows flee away. For all eternity's bright day. The unfolding of that love to see? ?Maltbie D. Bebcock. Ika Psisblsi. To the Editor?Please explain Matthew 13: 45. Who is the merchantman, and who spa t)i?i njtipla^P*sH*r The parable of the merchantman tad the pearl of great price and the parable of the treasure hid in a field were both designed to illustrate the teaching that man cannot pay too high a price for eternal life. It is the same troth that Jesus taught in a still more pointed way when a very rich young man?who was also a very good young man, up to the measure of his understanding of life'* obligations?kneeled before Hun on the public road and asked what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus said, "Sell whatsoever thou hast, and gire to the poor, and thou ahalt hare treasure in hearen; and come, take up the cross and follow Me." (Mark 10: 21). And He taught it again when He aaid, "If thine eye cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is good for thee to enter the kingdom of God with one eye rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell." It is not worth while to debate over the symbols used in our Lord's parablec. One man mignt iiuca one nwning w ww w> the symbols and another another, and jet thej might be both right or both wrong in their interpretation of the parable aa a whole. The important thing in each caae ia to get at the troth whicn the parable waa intended to aet forth, and that ia uaui ally quite easy if we look directlj and aimplj at the picture presented bj ear Lord and do not trj to exercise our ingenuity in thinking op hidden or unlikely meanings to try and make the parable agree with our ideaa of troth. The parables of our Lord were not intended to be interpreted literallj or to have a meaning attached to each sentence. Each parable ia designed to aet forth some - ? - 1-J a 1 peat trutn in regara to toe mngaom at nessren which Jesus had come to aft op on earth, and the whole parable should be read in ita relation to tnat truth. Otherwise very falae ideas with regard to the character and manner of the kingdom will inevitably be fonnd in the parables. For instance, it is easy to make the parable of Dives and Lazarus teach that bell, or purgatory, is a place purification: for | the rich man, who was utterly selfish on earth, is represented as having developed a missionary spirit in hades. In like manner, the parable of the "Unjust Steward" might be made to teach that righteousness is not so important as shrewdness; for it is written that "his lord commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely"?although his ! wisdom consisted in swindling his lord. Op n cm in the narable of tne "Imoortu ; nate Wfrdow" might be used to teach that God grants prayers only to get rid of the petitioners without anj regard to the quality of the prayer. ? ? And the parable of the "Laborers in the i Vineyard" might easily be used to prove that it would make no difference to a man i in the end whether he had served God all his life or had only begun in old age. Common sense must always be used in ' the interpretation of the Bible if we want > to have an intelligent comprehension of its 1 teaching. The Bible was intended principally for simple-minded folk; not to give 1 ingenious people an opportunity to display [ their ingenuity. Some religious teachers get great credit for knowledge and under1 standing of the 6criptures, because they ' bring new idea* out or them. And there is - nMt>!? irhn *1* alwaVI A VIOW V* I v. u^tvwv |rw|?.? ~ ?? _ running after such teaching, and who whenever they get a new thought which f leases them My the}* have "get such a leasing" from the sermon or address to which they hare been listening. These people hare an altogether erroneous idea ! of the religion of Cnrist, which does not consist in running after new ideas, but in doing new works.?New York Witness. L*t Tear Hearts Be Opened. Take a stone, dash it orer a vessel of water; then with a sledge break open that stone. How much moisture will you find within? Is it not as dry as though the i sun had spent his hottest beams upon it for a century? And when our Lord's fingers are still moist from the shower of blessings He has poured upon us and His i word still rings in our ears how much has * -1 ??J fftr our neart aosorucu mm ipinviiimM 1 itit own salvation? We are rich in spiritual things not in proportion to the seed that has Keen sown, hut proportion to that I need that has found a hiding place in the > soil of the human soul, where it can be * nourished and finally wave in harvests of Christlike character.?Rev. C- P. Wilet-. Lutheran. Pittsburg. 1 Why W? Fall of HapplnMS. The Christian who fail* of happiness and joy in this present world meet* with such J failure only because he h.is never by faith laid hold upon this sublime assurance. It is true that few of us ever reach the height of perfect confidence in iJod's manipulation of every event to bring about blessing to the believer, but our real comfort will always be a direct ratio to the completeness of our abandon of triut to Him who gnve Himself for us.?Bishop Charles Edward Cheney, Reformed Episcopalian, Chicago. No Soul Favoritism. Christ'* gospel of democracy knows no soul favoritism. All men, as sinners. > stand in need of God's mercy. All must repent. There is no irospel for a class, no nni-'shteouincrts because ' of hizh position. The rirh man who steal* i* .n thief a* *ureiy 1.1 th? poor man.?Rev. E. L. I'oxvc!!, Christian Church. Louisville. The Cms of Adversity. A fflirtsoriH develop new grace* of character .in?i jr. ike as near like Christ, who is the perfect jran. Why should we not be content to suffer with faith and hope in Christ tli.:; we nuy it'.in th*? crown of righteous- i fs* that fadelh not away??Re*'. Dr. J. H. j Munro. Presbyterian, Philadelphia. The Two VTorldi. Tht?? are the two worMs in juxtaposition. j They overlap each other. Eternity and j time are so mingled that we cannot tell j where the one ends and the other begins, i ?Rer. Dr. George H. Henwnrth, Congrc- I rationalist. New York'. VTicil-Driven NotqallMl. One of the New Jersey scientist* who has been studying the mosauito problem, Kuys that the iiwecti travel long ustancei from where they breed, and cften rue in a swarm at night, and drift with the wind. Swarina are <juite common five miles at i M-a. and they have been foum' fifteen mile*. Ho regard* the migration of the pests with tiie aid of the winds as a matter to be soriousiy considered in the effort# that are making to abate the nuinanco. In otter words, lie look* on it as an interstate rather than a local matter. He says, bv the tray, thai the anopheles mo&iuit) continues to breed long after frost ha.i set in. j and that even a thin coat of ;ca _n poada , u not fatal to them I ?pi? ? THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 2a litjMti Ptter m4 CarMliw. Asts ShH> O-OoMm Tnt: Act* *., tl Miiity V?mi, ?l-44.CowMMtvr on Ik* D*?'* Lessen. 34. "Opened his mouth." Thu sanest! s raj-ilir discourse, ss distinguished from s simple conversation. See Matt. 0: 1 "I perceive." What had always bee* trot though through Jewish prejudice he haa never before realised iC ' "That Ood." Who knoweth the hearts of man, snd concerning whom decision there can be no discussion. ' No respecter of persons." That is, Hs shews no furor to ooe above u* other on account of his outward condition of rank, wealth, poverty, nationality, race, color, edacation. His only test is what a person really u in moral character. All most be saved in the same way, on the some conditions, subject to the same penalties if they refuse, and open to the hum blessings if they repent and believe. Pre- * vious to his vision (vs. 0-16), Peter had be-' lieved no one could be saved but they of the eucumcision?.Jews and proselytes. Contrary to his former opinion be now ad* nuts there is no favoritism with Ood. He does not esteem a Jew because be is a Jew, no." detest a Gentile because be is ft Gentile. God has respect only for character and state. National and ecclesiastical distinctions are of no account. 35. "in every nation.'* Jew or Gentile. "That fetreth Him." Not a slavish, or selfish, bat a filial fear. Job. 28: 28: Prov. 9: 10; Psa. 3: 11; Eecl. 13: 13; Ma). 4: 3. "Worked righteousness." Abstains from all evil and doas good. These two particulars include man's duty to. God, and to his fellow-man. He keeps all the law. Cornebns was accepted because he measured up to tbe lieht given him. He watehed, fasted, prayed and gave alms. He evidenced Ids sincerity by accepting Christ as soon aa He was preached. "Is accepted." He was not accepted became of his good deeds, but because he had an honest heart, and ----- m a that led bun to perform gooa aeeaa. 36. "The word." The nxwr of the gospel. The record of the work of Jena of Nazareth. "Unto Iarael." The deacendanta of Jacob, the choaen people of God. To them it waa first preached, and through them aalration came to the net. John 4: 22; Rom. 1: 10. "Preachina peace." Preaching the mod tidings of air ration. Thia included toe whole of fpepel troth. 1. Peace with God. 2. reace with men. 3. Peace of conacience. 4. Place filling the tool. Bom. 14: 17. "By Jesua Chriat." He ia the aathoc, nrer ana medium of peaee. Lake 2: 14; John 14: 27; Eph. 2: 14; Col. 1: 20. "Lord of all." Peter here annooncea Chriat'a "universal lordship" over every man in erm nation. 37. "That word?ye know." They wero nAf tiniMiia ntwl with H>i? nmifi ei peace. It had been proclaimed through- , out all Judea and Galilee, from the time John began to preach. Luke 4: 14, 37. 44; 9: 6; 23: 6. They in Caeearea had heard of its being preached to Ianel by the preaching of Philip the evangelist. Acta 8: 40. 38. "Anointed Jesus of Nasareth." This inaugurated Him into His office as the Apostle and High Priest of the Christian profession. Heb. 1: 9; 3: 1. According to the prophets the Messiah was to worik miracle* as proof of His Msssisbehip. "Holy Ghost and with power." This proclaimed Him to be the Christ (Lake 4: 18> 21), and in res ted Him with the insignia a! His Messianic office. When the Holy Ghost is mentioned a word is generally added to emphasise his adaptation to no special circumstances. 39. "We are witnesses." Because Peter and the other apostles bad been with Jesus from the beginning of His ministerial Me. Luke 24 : 48. They were not objects of superstitious reverence, but simply witnesses to the great historical facts on which the goipel is founded. "Land of the Jews." The countries of Judea, Galilee and Perea. 40. "Raised up." According to the repeated predictions of the prophets and ot Christ Himself. The resurrection of Christ was the seal of His Messishship. ' ci a ? Sm p v TK# ovidMUM VUVWVU 41MM. ?^vv , . mm mm? .. .... of the reaurrection of Chriat are iodispatable. By many proofs it vu nude clear to thfcae who u* Him that it vu the aame > body, eren though now |loriM, which j had been wounded on the ctom. 41. "Witneeaea chosen." Thoae selected j for the purpose. 1 Cor. 15: 4-8. Had He afcowo Himself to all the people He might hare had a aecond rejection. We hare no evidence that Jeans ahowed Himeelf after His reaurrection to any but Hie parno ail followers. "Did eat/' etc. S^e Luke 24 : 43, 43. 42. "Commanded." He ahows Corne! liua hia commiaaion from Chriat. Matt. ' 28: 19. "Preach?testify." They were not only to expound the truth concerning | these fundamental facta, but alao to bear witneaa to what they had seen, heard and i experienced. 1 John 1: 1-3; 2 Peter 1: 18> ! 18. God's true ministers both teach and j testify. "Judge of quick and dead." 01 I the liring and dead. By this we are to nai demand that Chriat would judge all who | bad lived, or were men living, or who ! would live. 43. "To Him," ete. Not any particular , prophet, but all directly or indirectly bore testimony to Chriat aa the 8aviour of all I men. Iaa. 9: 6; 53: 5, 6; Jer. 31: 34: Dfca. 9: 14; Micah 7: 18; Zech. 13: 1. "Herniation of aina." The taking away ftot only the guilt, but alao the power, nature ana conaequencea of ain. Tnia ia man's great* eat need. 44. "The Holy Ghoat fell." They wen , endowed with miraculoua powera, and enj able to apeak in language* which they had ! never learned. Compare chap. 11: 15 with I 2: 1-13. At thia time their hearta were puI rifled by faith: aee chap. 15: 9 where PeUr ( himaelf aaya distinctly that auch waa the case. The church needs the same baptirn j to-day. 43. "They of the circumcision." The 1 six Jewa who had accompanied Peter from Joppa. "Were aatoniabed." Wero i amazed that Gentiles should be admitted j to the same favor aa themselves. 46. "Magnify God." Praiae and glorify I fl/\A 47. "Forbid water," etc. Though iht gift of the Spirit had been made so apparent. yet tit. Peter did not omit the out* ward sign. 49. "Commanded." It seems that Peter did not perform the baptism himself, bat ! cave direction* that the Christiana who | nad come with hiiu from Joppa should at* | tend to it. It was not the practice of the I apostles themselves to baptize very exj tenaive. "Prayed them him." Ther enI treated Peter. "To tarry." No doubt h? | remained to more fully indoctrinate them < in the new faith, and to show them that ha ! was ready to act according to the teaching* ! given him in the rision (7s. 9. 16). and eat , with Gentiles, i ???. Water la th* Libyan Dsaart. j There are places in the great Libyam I Desert that have an abundant supply of water, obtained from an underground bed of sandstone. The water comes to the sur, face through wells from 450 to 500 feet ia | depth, and ungates broad areas ol cultiI vr.ted land*. interspersed with palm i grove*. The oasia of Dakhla, particularly, ; is in a fine mate of cultivation as a result of this irrigation. The subject is of special interest in the United States because thert are great regions in our Western country where it is known that water lies under I arid plain* and \-arioui projects arc on | foot tor making it available for irngatioa [ purpose 4. Xmm fso For th* TFlralasa. On tue summit of Mount Zugspitze. in th? Bavarian Alps, more than 9000 feet ah >ve sea level, there is an important meteT???g:cal observatory, whieh is occupied all the year, but in winter is cut off from communicition with the lower earth became storms destroy the telegraph and telephone wires. A wireless installation ha? b<e?n made there now. connected with in tliA filior tnriM milfU .1 WaT. and the ob<erver i* thm mide independent of the atom.*. j* th" wind ha* no effect on the ether wavej that carry hia moaoJies. , Smvmdm Hu Pciiloun. The State in which there are the leaat number c f Government p*naioDera is Nevada. in ub:;h incy number only 275. ii _imi