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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
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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.
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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.
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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*
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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