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' . lj The Abbeville Press and Banner.1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1904. ESTABLISHED 1^4^^ Tbe Whole Thing; a Meu. Sawianburg HeraldSome one has aaid?or if not, some one ou^ht to have said?that in every miATTpl one D&rtv is wrooffi and generally both. When the State House Investigating Committee made its report to the State Legislature a few weeks ago we said, in effect, thai tliev showed up a very bad situation with respect to the State House "completion," and we expressed the belief that their conclusions with respect to the character of the work done on the State House were probably correct. As to the blame for the "shoddy" work, which is patent to all we "reserved our judgement" until the State House commission which had charge of the work had been given an opportunity or expuumug. On another page today we publish the bulk of this commission's rejoinder. Now, after having read all the reports, replies, explanations, charges / and counter-charges available, and , j having ourselves seen ipuch of the t work on the State House, it is our J deliberate conclusion that the whole f businefs is a mess, including the origioal commission, tiw architect, the , ' contractors, Senator Marshall, the , Investigating committee, and the , Legislature. The Legislature had no ( business, in the first instance, to ex- , pect a million dollar job for $175,000; , the commission put In charge of the < work erred in their selection of an ( ' architect, and were guilty of neglect , when they failed to draw their contract , ar\ nnonlflf anH nmnlfttakable in detail , that there ooald have been no question j about it, to which contract in every f detail the contracting oompany should , have been strictly held, without ( regard to whether or not they would . come out even, would lose money J or make it; the architect misled the , members of the commission, apparent- ? f )y he misrepresented thlhgs to them; | the contracting oompany bit off more f, than it could chaw, made promises it ( oould not fulfiU, then trusted to 6 . Milburn and the lenienoy of the com- t mission to let it off easy; finally, c Senator Marshall and?the Investiga- t ting committee havt been entirely too intemperate in their expressions, put- , ting undue stress on things of minor \ importance, exaggerating losses to v the State, and the investigating com- { mittee has been decidedly one-Bided ? in its finding and unfair to the members, of the former commission, t So, there ! we have hit 'em ail, and . they all deserve it, bat in the words of ? the commission, repeated by Senator j Aldrich of tbe other side, there is Id j oar remarks "nothing extenuate and c naught set down in malice." I . As it appears to us, and as we said c at first, tbe State House commission in charge of the work had a bard and | thankless task. We are satisfied they , did their work conscientiously and ^ honestly. They made mistakes?very j naturally. We have yet to hear of a c public building oommittee that bat not made mistakes. When we consid- , er how proverbial it Is that a man t Krill^l fKpoo roalHon/iao Kafnro qtaL UiUOV VUIIU VUiVV J VU4UVUWO MWVAV O g ting one to suit him, it is not to be expected that a public committee iu charge of a buildingcan satisfy themselves, much less satisfy every one in ' the State. So, while still we maintain that the work has been abominably done and the commission is not by any means blameless, yet they should j not be too severly censured, as we, think the Investigating committee bat. done. We do not admire the manner in; which leading members of this Invea-j tigating committee have acted since; making their report. ; In spite of la^-| guage in their report which it is bard; to ooostrue into anything lets than the; severest censure of the State Houstj commission, they have declared on the> floors of the Legislature that they had| no intention of reflecting upon tht| commission. Moreover, they have; apparently been very active in their! efforts to prevent the censured commission from securing a bearing before the Legislature. This conduct * seems to us of questionable taste, to say the least of it. I Crime and Lawleuneu. Chester Lantern. This article was inadvertently omitted from last issue : Senator Tillman is troubled about i tbe newspapers besmirching the name < I of the state by calling attention to the i fearful recora of crime, in their effort to bring about a better state of affairs. We suppose be wants a monoply of the besmirching business. He does not appear to be worried about the { carnival of crime in tbe state or con> cerned about putting a check upon it. It is well known that he has been ca- , reering over other sections of the country defending and encouraging orime in its worst form. Viewed by strangers, in connection with bis position, his words are calculated to do us great harm, besides misrepresenting the sentiment of our best people. By exposing crime and demanding reform tne newspapers create respect and confidence abroad. As Senator Tillman gets bo much praise for bis utterances and the papers get nothing but the consciousness -of haying performed their simple duty, he no doubt thinks that ihey can afford to be silent. The senator is perhaps a little sensitive in regard to the increase of crime in the state. He admits?or rather boasts?that he is largely responsible for the liquor traffic in the state, and he probably regards mention of the resulting crimes as a reflection upon him. If he will just lend bis influence to the effort to suppress crime instead of an attempt to suppress the facts about crime be will find less reason to be ashamed of the record. Whatever he may do or pay, however, every decent newspaper in the state will continue to expose and condemn the prevailing lawlessness. DANGER IN COLD WEATHER. Tbere Is danger In cold wealber because It produces conditions favorable to tbe development ot tbose germ diseases known as Lagrippe, Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Consomptlon, etc. Tbese diseases are coutraoled while tbe mucous membrane of ibe tbroat and lungs Is weakened by Inflammation resulting from a dangerous cold. It l? dangerous to neglect even a slight cold. Help nature to w*rd off disease by using Kydales Elixir. Tbls modern scientific remedy can always be relied on in all diseased copdlilona of tbe tbroat and lungB. C. A. MUford. SENTIMENT IN BUSINESS. Tbe Right Way Help Baltimore. "There is do sentiment iu business" is one of tbe false proverbs which Js constantly heard everywhere. On the contrary, much of the world's business is based on sentiment. Everywhere men will go out of their way to help on business interests from sentiment ' alone. Kinship is not more real in its { effect UDon business interests than sen- , timent. Sometimes in the hurry of , life, in the struggle for success, dor- ( mant sentiment is not waked into ac- ( tivity, but when some great event stirs a community or a country, sentiment becomes an irresistible power. The world stand* amazed at the ap- ] palling disaster which has come upon { Baltimore, and from every section, as well as from Europe, have come offers of financial assistance. But Baltimore ( with a full realization of the staggering j blow, knowing full well that with t 1150,000,000 of property burned, with thousands of people out of employment and the vast machinery of trade t built up during a hundred years tem- a porarily destroyed, appreciating the c magnitude of the problem which :it j faces, believes that it can meet the sit- j nation without calling for outside con- j tributions from the millions whoee a jharity would prompt them to pour a c rast stream of gifts into our city. 8 With every power, mental and pbysi- , sal, quickened with a grim determioa- 8 :ion to conquer every obstacle, Balti- 0 sore does not ask for alms, but it does t isk that the sentiment which has suob n ?strong power in ruling business inter- j ists shall make itself felt in not per- h nitting her trade to be taken away be- ^ iause of the temporary inability to v promptly meet all requirements. The t nerchants and the manufacturers j, vho, through many years of honor- j tble dealings have built up a far-reach- ^ ug trade North and West as well as ^ South, have a right, in this time of g calamity, to ask their customers to be Q i little patient, and if the necessities of b heir trade require the quick filling of j irders elsewhere, to be ready to come a >ack to their Baltimore friends with a nlarged orders just as soon as our p >eople are prepared to handle them, j iVith the immense increase in the 0 veaith of the South by reason of high p >rice of cotton and the subsequent ? mormus expansion of trade through- 8, ?ut that section, the merchants of the 0 kiuth could not only arrange to make 0 >rompt payment to Baltimore mer- p ihaDts or every outstanding bill, even g f not technically due, and every dol- c. ar otjut tu xuuuujuro iiuwm pajrmeut q if accounts is worth a hundred dol- g are given in charity; but that section ^ sould, by a generous realization of the n )ower of sentiment in business, send ^ nto this city a volume of business p vbich would go a long way toward ^ lelping our people to recoup their oases. Every salesman from Balimore has a right to asfc his custom>rs, and to ask those in his territory vho have not heretofore been his cus- b omers, for the most favorable consider* ition and the largest orders. When amid the wreck and ruin of d var the South took up its overwhelm- r ng burdens, it had a right to ask for ^ svery ligitimate aid and consideration ? hat the business men of America * ;ould give its merchants, and Balti- i* nore, identified by geographical lines is well as by closer kin, did its full F ihare to the utmost of its ability in helping the South to weather the u itorm. Ever since then its moneyj . ias freely gone into the South for in- r vestment in railroads, in industrial enterprises. in municipal securities, in. ? rade and in building operations, u rheties between Baltimore aud tbe! South have yearly grown stronger,| j ind because the Manufacturers' Record; t, s not a local paper, but a Southern! ? paper?a paper that has for1 nearly at quarter of a century sought to speak t or the whole South and Dot for Balimore alone, it can say to the South, ? is no Baltimore paper could, that now d s the Soutb's supreme opportunity to ihow that with its people at least sen- . .imentdoes control business, and based a )n that pour into this city such a trade is will tax the ability ofour merchants to handle. Baltimore aaks no charity,: t but for the people of Baltimore, that Lbeir losses may the more quickly be j recouped and that the thousands of ^ lucLi luiunu uut 1/1 cuApiujruxeui UJaj the sooner be saved from dire want, the Manufacturers' Record, the exponent of the whole South, does make this plea to the oouth, as well as to ill other sections. 1 System la Hatching. It takes a longer period to mature a seven to ten pound chicken than it does one of four to seven pounds, with this fact before us, we should naturally start the larger breeds the first from the nest in the springtime. Breeders ofsuoh large breeds as Light Brabamas, Cochins, Langehans, and the like, should get them out just as early as possible. The Barred and White Plymouth Rocks and the Wyandottes, and similar varieties which are knowu as the American breeds, should also be orntton nut nrattv o?rlu if Invars am wanted early in tbe fall. The lighter, * or tbe so-called non-sitting varieties, ] like the Leghorns, the Hamburgs, and 1 the Mlnorcas, may come later. We say may, if because, one has but one i breed, it is well enough to get it out i early in the season as possible, but the I idea is, that if one should fail to start : with latter named breeds in February and March, they may be setfand raised to maturity quite as sucessfully in April i and May, and make early layers too; because it takes the pullets or tbe Leghorn and similar varieties, only about five months to reach the laying age. Early chickens of any breed are the most desirable, there is no question about that; but, if you have both the large and tbe smaller varieties, get tbe chicks of the first named out first and get tbem to growing with tbe season while it is still cool and invigorating. Tbe lesser kinds are more hot-bloodea. ?n. a. ueer id soutnem cultivator. LOST HIS GRIP. When a man has lost his grip on tbe affairs of life, feels Incapable of performing tbe ordinary duties that boolDecs requires. Body languid, brain drill. His liver Is oat of order. Rydales Liver Tablets are what he needs. One dose usually will, two always will re? | store normal condition of body and mind, and fit a man for the duties and pleasures of life again. Rydales Liver Tablets are easy to take, pleasant effeot, satisfactory In results, economical, 60 chocolate coated tablets In a convenient box, 25 cents. C. A. Milford. Gardening si a Nerve Tonic. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the celebrated authoress, expresses the j opinion that "gardens are the salvation of tired nerves, that there is nothAl. A m/vnl /j ?? ^nnAtriAlinry on f r\ IUK 1U LUC? wuuu ow idDViiiaiiu^ no iaj make a garden and nothing more refreshing thau to work in one" Mrs. j Burnett is not the first literary person- t age to make this discovery. Many ^ great writers and thinkers soothed j their nerves and rested their brains by v working in the garden. They found v that to get dowu and dig in the warm a earth, just to smell it, is to feel new {, strength; and the seeds and bulbs one 0 plants revivify?they are so full of 8, promise of life to come. No- such D oanacea for tired nerves as a garden, g rt is worth all the patent medicines 4 ind "guides to health" in the world. a Doctors called on to perecribe for t( wealthy women, rendered anaemic by iissipation and "all worn out" with 7 tate suppers and parties, Bhould order ^ hem into the gardens to dig awhile, 5 nake beds and pull up weeds. n The old Romans were very wise in n his respect, ranking agriculture above n ill pursuits and being especially fond g >f the branch called horticulture. In 0 act these names themselves come t] rom the Latin language and some of n be choicest literature ofthe Augustan w ige was devoted to the delights of ountry life and the cultivation of the oil. Virgil, the greatest of the poets, vas especially enthusiastic in this repect.and left posterity a lovely legacy 0] >f delightful pastorals and disqulsi- Ql ions on farm subjects. He was fond u' Tdescribing the bees, the playful g| ambs, the lowing herds and the hum- a ile lives and loves of the shepherds ^ nd shepherdesses. In one of his t. rollings Virgi! expressed the opinion ? bat farmers were the happiest people eJ u the world?If they only knew it. f0 le owned a beautiful villa pome dis- w ance out from the great city and there m e loved to retreat to work in his ja ower patches and garden beds, V( leantime singing those songs which ^ ave immortalized his name while ^ elighting so many succeeding genertions. |The Greek classics also m bound in tributes to the health-giving ^ roperties of out-door callings, and re 'heocritus especially never wearied fr f singing the Beauties of pastoral em- ri loyment and woodland scenes. In 0j ur times, the great Darwin was con- rj> picuous as a botanist and spent much D, f his time in digging and delving ?. ver the breast of Mother Earth. ^ 'rom thebe sources be gathered at |0 rst hand much of the information ^ ontained in his epoch-making books <r n plant life ana the "Origin of ra pecies." The "late Herbert Spencer ^ ad similar taste and all really wise ien find out sooner or later that the 0> est resultb in life are obtained by rfl radical pursuits of agriculture in cc ime of its varied forms. n 01 Tbe Minister's Dor. CC . tn y Kev. Dr. Frlme, Editor of CbrUtlan w Observer. r p< My father brd a small and beautiful gt og who rejoiced in the name of 0) fidelity. Hs differed from othpr good hi ogs only in being better than others, u. nd in manifesting something that d< eemed like religious sensibility, or ^ peculiar attachment to religious ^ ilaoes, people, and services. He at- p< ended family wo. dhip with a punctu- ^ lity and regularity that other mem- aj ?rs of the household might well have 0f mltated, and certainly did not surpass. b< f a stranger were present?and much n, ompany visited our house?the dog's ^ ttention to him was regulated oy tt lis taking the lead, or not, in the h< eligious worship of the household, tt f the visitor at my father's request a onducted the worship, the dog at to nee attached himself to bis person, tt ,nd when he departed the dog escorted di kim 1 Aufc f\9 tho villoffo anmoHmoc ;oing home with him to a neighboring g( own and making him a visit of a few ^ lays. If the visitor did not perform ,ny religious services in the house the u log took no notice of him while there, m ,nd suffered him to depart unattended a md evidently unregretted. in Such a dog was, of course, an ^ labitual attendant on the public ^ ervices of the church on the Sabbath. ^ :t required extraordinary oare to ^ :eep blm at home. Shut up In a oom be dashed through a window, 3, md was at church before the femily. g( He was once shut up in an outhouse g] hat had no floor. He dug out under tt he sill of the door and was at church ^ >efore the first psalm. In church he te >ccupled the upper step of the pulpit d, vithln which his master ministered. h tie lay quiet during the sermon unless y >tber dogs below misbehaved, in g( vhich case he leit his seat, and after niieting the disturbance, resumed it. ft bLe was equally devoted to the weekly a jrayer meeting which was held from h nouse to bouse, the appointment aeing announced ou the Sabbath. ^ Fie remembered the evening and the t? place, and was always present. As it b was not agreeable to have a dog at an n evening meeting In a private house he 0 svaa confined at home. The next Q iveek be went early, before the family had thought to shut him up, and waited for the hour and the people. He knew the names of the families where the meetings were held and e where they lived, and could have gone ? to any of them on an errand as easily f< and correctly as a child, and the only ? knowledge be bad of the place of g, meeting he got as the others did. by h bearing the notice on Sunday. These habits of the dog were not the fruit of I education. On the contrary, pains fi were taken to prevent him from c indulging his religious preferences. j He did not manifest a fondness for n other meetiDgs or for any individuals Jj out of the family circle, except those whom he recognized by their habit of praying, as the people in whom he was specially interested. t My father was wont to relate many I other anecdotes of tbis remarkable 1 animal, and tbe relation of them ' alwayB caused his eyes to fill with tears. He had a strong Impression < that there was something very mys- 1 terioua about this propensity of the ? dog, and being himself a sternly i orthodox divine be never ventured to < express the opinion that the dog had S moral perceptions?but I always 1 thought be believed so. 1 I * 1 ? \ Most of ub have a hard row to hoe because we dlBllke hoeing What a man sows be >?hall reap unless he la an amatear gardener. BACHELOR EDITORS. Problem for Next Meeting of the Preaa Association. Greenville Mountaineer. . Bachelor editors are far too common n this State, and the number ouerbt o be reduced in some way. Hugh Vij8on, of the Abbeville Press and tanner, is at the top of the columns ritn John W. Holmes, of the Barnwell People, in the next best position longside of reading matter or immeditely following poetry; James T. Baon, of the Edgefield Chronicle, is tanding matter in the musical departlent. and Zacb McGhee, of the partanburg Herald, is quite surrouned by the millinery and dre.^8 goods dvertisements, while Charlie Langs* >n, of the Anderson Intelligencer, is jaded bourgeois in the local columns, 'here are others in the like category, ut the quintet already named bave eeu on tbe "copy hook" for lo, these lany years, and somehow they do ot ''take." ;In lieu of discussing techical affairs next summer at White tone, it would be more profitable to rganize a court of inquiry to ascertain tie reason that there is so much sweet* ess wasting on the desert air, as it 'ere. , Good Boiida In the Sooth. No movement calling for popular aid r co-operative assistance on the part f legislative and commercial bodies as made such rapid progress in so iort a time as the good-roads movetent in the South. While this moveiect is general throughout the county and seems to be attracting all elelents to itBupport,in the South,where reat natural resources are being deve* inorl af. an nn nrpocHnnfpH mtp. And fiere facilities f&r transportation are a tatter of immediate, pressing concern, rgely made so during the past three ears, this subject of improved country ighways in taking deeper root with le people than in most other sections. The commerce of the world comes prilarily from the ground, and, as a rule, lecost of transporting a product is ilatively higher in the initial stage? om the field or mine to the railroad, ver or canal?than in any other part 'its journey to the world's markets he most expensive,and the most opressive kind of transportation is wagon asportation, where it is accomplishl over bad roads, but this fact is often et sight of by communities which adress themselves to the work of correctig alleged inequalties in the freight ktes charged by railroad and steamrat companies. A village in the West, which had its vn peculiar grievance touching freight ttes, was so situated that all the in taiing freight delivered by the local Jlroad hadto be hauled up a steep ill in wagons, on which only half an 'dinary load could be drawn. This tndition was complacently submitted; . tr\r a nnmhar nf vnara whon It rwmr? id to somebody to suggest that the1 >int of attack might be profitably lifted from the railroad, or its attitude" 1 the sutyect of freight rates, to this 111. When this suggestion was acted E>on finally, resulting in the cutting jwn of the grade, the reduction iD tet of local cartage one-half and a ^responding saving in cost of transirtation greater than could possiblyi lye rsulted had the railroad granted 1 that was asked, the business men ' this village realized that they had ?en guilty of an error of omission in 3t having figured, at an earlier day,' le cost of transportation to and from te doors of their stores and wareDuses instead of between stations on. le railroad, and that it is possible for. short piece of negleeted wagon road i be an important adverse factor in te relations of their community with istant markets. The encouragement given to the lodroads movement in the South by te Southern railway, beginning in 101, when it co-operated with the nited States Agricultural Depart-. ient and the National Good-Boads ssociation in an expedition for buildig object-lesson roads in the Southtstern sections of the country, is a msistent part of the policy which ms at the development of its terriirv. < In recent years so much has been :>ne to perfect traffic relations between authern Railway points and all the reat commercial centers, not only of >is country, bnt of the world, that is simply logical to extend the sys>m of economical distribution of proucts to the home of the farmer, and ie way to accomplish this is through le improvement of the country waan roads. One of the most promising and grati,'ing features of Southern developlent today is the activity displayed y commercial bodies in promoting 3ad-building in the country, assumig part of the burden in many insinces, and thus recognizing what has een so long largely ignored?the lutual interest and interdependence r town ana country in one or tne lost important movements of the time HONORED AT HOME. Rev. Parker Holmes, Pastor of the 1st M. I. Church Houth, Hickory. N. C., says: "I ave used Rydales8tomaoh Tablets for Indlestlon and regard them as a perfect remedy irthls disease, I take pleasure la recomlendlng them to all sutlerers from lndlgeson. Use Rydales Stomacn Tablets for your Lomacb trouble and you will Join Dr. [olmes In Ibis strong endorsement. These tablets will digest tbe food your reak stomach cannot, and thus nourish the ody and prevent tbe partial starvation, rom which all dyspeptics suffer and wblch auses tbe loss In flesh and strength all dysleptlcs experience. Tbese tablets relieve all ilsagreeable symptoms At once. They will ncrease your strength and flesh, almost from he first day's use, and will sooa restore you o perfeot health. C. A. Mil ford. Bice should be substituted for pota" oes often er than it generally is on STorthern tables. There are many svaye of cooking it besides tbe plain soiling. spanisn rice is almost a meal in iteelr, ?nd will be relished by all who love piquant dishes. Wash the rice through jeveral waters, dry, and brown it ,n hot drippings, in which a chopped >nion and a clove of garlic is frying. Season with salt and pepper and add a few tablespoonfule of canned tomatoes, Cover the whole with hot water and cook without touching it until the rice Is soft. Add hot water as it boils away. Every gossiper exists because there are pleDty of listeners. JLoainff and.FlndlngLtfeBefore we cab understand Christ's meaning in bis apparent paradox, we must, find out what he meant by the word, life. What is it that we seek and losing, find? The word life, even in humanity, is manifold in its meaning. We say that a man has lost his life, when he is run over in the street | ana his bod v is crushed under the ; wheels of a wagon. That is the pbyslcal life which sooner or later we must lose. There is intellectual life that may be lost. But ills the loss of spiritual life that is most-disastrous. A man who gives his life to business, or to politics, or to pleasure., and gives no thought to God and has no desire to receive from him the blessings he is ready to impart, is flinging his life away. Thus there are many senses in which life may be lost.. But Christ seta a new principle be* fore us. There iaa sense in which he that loseth his life shall flnd it. He compares life to a grain of corn. There, are two ways or dealing with corn. One is to store it or eat it, thus getting present or future gratifl&tion from it. The other is to put it in the ground, where it is lost to'sight' and' will die, but from its death will come new life, in great abundance. If it is possible to lose our lives as the corn is lost, that loss is gain. It waa Christ's method ' Ui/. Amn lift* XT J ci 1/MTTora ATVlH Willi LIIOUTV 11 illCi 1 1 in lUllUH V&o ?vi/v? to make him a temporal king, but. even if he had attained the grandeur of Solomonr, his glory Would have been infinitely less than he reached by the way he chose. Through his deatih multitudes, in ever-increasing progression, have come to new life. Hia followers are to tread in his steps. They may not go to a violent and premature death, but they must hold their lives' less dear than their service. We know that this principle applies in national and social life. A man may so pat his energies in to enterprises ana movements that we say he puts 1b life into them, and these movements may go on growing long after his physical life has been extinguished. Looking at Cooper Union in New York, and seeing now young men and women tolling through the day for their daily bread, go to that institution in the evening and find there the books and appliances and teachers that they need for their mental development, we see how Peter Cooper's life is perpetuated. The institution which was his darling project, on which he lavished his best thought, bis'money and his labor, lives on/ and in its beneficence perpetuates the essence of its founder's life. It is so with books. It does not seem that Thomas Carlyle is i dead,. when his thrilling words are I forming the characters of men. It is c so in national affairs. The Pilgrim t Fathers, and later, Washington and t his colleagues, started influences which \ pulfiate in our national veins to this c day. Their lives are still extending, c So it was with religious leaders. Who t can say that Luther and Knox and Wesley and Beecher and Philllpe e Brooks and Detrummond are dead, t wh?n thfl work into which thev DUt t their lives ia operating still, 'f'he t world's benefaotors won their laurels by ' aelfaacrifice. They gave up ease and f luxury 'and peace and quiet, that they 1 might make life better for future gene- t rations. They loat their lives, in ao I far as their enjoyment of them con- ' sisted, but they won an immortality c which will endure while the world ( lasts. This principle of losing life to find it, la familiar to us. I The same principle may be applied a in the moat numbie apherea. He who | la ready to render aervice, who ia ready I to give up enjoyment that he may help t some one who needa it, will lose his c life in this glorious fashion. Opportu- t ? /v all TKA /JunnKtAH OTKA f liltjr uuiuo iu Oil. J.UC uoujjuioi nuv ? gives up her pleasure to help her tired mother with her work ; the mao who leaves bis comfortable home in the evening that he may speak a word for Christ to the castaway ; the Christian who in any way denies himself and' sacrifices his own inclinations that he may help another, is losing his life, but will find it to life eternal..? Christian Endeaver. . Two Slandered Bird*. While all other birds have their friends or admirers, the hawks and owls have by a general consensus been set AniriA. like nirates. as enemies of the human race. They were to be shot on sight, like a mad wolf, and extermi- ' pated in every possible way. Liter- i ature followed the general custom and voiced the common prejudice. There have been odes innumerable to the nightingale, the skylark, the bluebird, the robin and every other songster, but whomever saw a complimentary allusion in poem or novel to a hawk or an owl? If mentioned it was to be anathematized; if alluded to at all, it wae with a view to exciting hatred and persecution of these li'ghtwinged inhabitants of the solitudes. But as every dog has his day so these libeled birds have at last found defenders. A scientist of the Department of Agriculture has demonstated that hawks and owls are the friends not the :? eiUOLLiies ui imaicio* aiici opcuuiu^ iuu greater part of ten years in examining the conten ts of the stomachs of hawks and owls, this scientist announces that these birds belong to the category of beneficial and not harmfulspecies, He scrutinized the food in tbe stomachs of thousands of owls and hawks. It was found that while the hawk will occasionally pick up a young chicken, it depends largely for food on the animals which are known to be highly injurious to farm crops. As to the owl, he lives almost entirely on field mice, which are great pests in certain sections. It is true that he craves a little quail on toast once in a while and is not averse to occasional indulgence in chicken , frickassee. But in this be is only imitating man who wearies of home fare, however bounteous and good, and longs for game of the woods as a change of diet. As long as the lords of creation insist on killing everything their appetite craves aud range the whole world 1 for new delicacies, they should not begrudge the socalled birds of prey a like privilege 01 cnauge. in consiaerauon 1 of the number of mice,reptile8and other harmful vermin they destroy, the far1 mer may well share an occasional chick ; to the swift-winged hawk asd a duckling to solace the loneliness of Mr. Owl 1 in the gloom of his midday retreat. > Shun no divinely appointed cross. 8 et up no self-appointea cross. ' . . . ' ' ' COWS CAUSE CONSUMPTION Dr. Behrlnir of Berlin, Has Carefall Delved Iatolmpertaat Problem ? Calls for Conscription ot Co*tan loated Klne. Oilier Emloeal Do< tors Agree With His Oplulop. Berlin, Feb. 20?Whether consumj lion is hereditary and can be acquire by inhalation, or whether these cond tiona do not count In spreading tb dread disease, is the question at issu between two noted scientists, each < whom is famous for curing consumj tion. Prof. Fraenkel and Prof. Bagii sky , on the one aide, and Prof. Behrin 3D the otner. American readers learned the sat 'tauce of Prof.Behriug's oontentioi running counter against the old h< reditary and inhalation theories froc the cable dispatches, but on accouo if the importance of the subject t millions of sufferers and to million more, that will be sufferers unless tb Jisease is hemmed in, a couplete out line of the scientific facts on hau hould be given. . Your correspondent asked Pro Behrlng to adduce for the benefit c ;he readers of the Chronicle snch c ;he 42 "theses" on consumption kVhich he submlted to the Medics society, and preceding complianc with the request, the professor sun narked his investigation on. coo jupption as follows: ... 1 ABOUT CONSUMPTION The majority of consumptives con ract the disease from the milk o uberoulous cows. The possibility, c hereditary disposition I deny. Th )hlld of consumptive parents (row up a healthy man. or woman,: i reated right from his Infancy. I do not believe that consumptloi san be contracted by inhalation. 0 course, vitiated air in houses ant >therwlse predisposes to maladies o ill sorts. The lungs must have fresl dr?if they do not get it, illness wil esult. "Infants Infected by consumptioi nay not become consumptives for i lumber of years, for consumption ha t tendency to remain latent in th< roung. "The government should' kill an< Lea troy consumptive cows whereve ound, reimbursing the proprietors inless culpable neglect Is shown >w's milk can be improved by add ng to it quahities of formalin lp doses me to five thousand.". THESES SUBMITTED TO SCIENTISTS. Thesis I?Long continued expei ments have settled beyond doub hat consumption of the lungs 1 isused by food containing turberculou >acilli. The longs are attacked bj ite bacilli taken Into the body vay of the tnroat. Tuberculous ba iilli do not enter the longs in anj tther way, particularly not by Inhala ion. Thesis II?It is very likely that ii ivery well-peopled community moe nen and women suffer infection fron uberculosis a( one or another time o heir Uvee. Whether the infectioi 'takes," resulting In temporary o atal malady, depends Upon the qual ty and quanity of the bacilli, ana a be same time, upop the physical ant )bysiological condition of the person Whether the infection is merely acci lental or permanent is also decisive >ne way or the other. Thesis XII?I deuy that there ii jroof beyond reasonable doubt for as am AAn^anftAn tTiaf o fffAorr IUUipiUU| Ul WUICUUUU, VUI4V n 5?VTT A >ersoD ever contracted corisumptioi >y mere inhalation, neither cofisump ion, pneumonia nor hrbnohial con lumption, nor consumption of th< broat, etc., was ever proven to hav< jeen contracted in such manner, un ess tbe person was previously infect :d aod therefore supersensitive to th< ,udercuIou? poison. ' ' Thesis XIII?Home scientists holt ;hat bacilli swept into the intestina channels may produce consumption out my investigations show that th iigestive fluids and the nature of th swoons and pitultous tuniolee in i sound person are able to throw ol these poisons. As a matter of fact these apparatuses act as nature! pro hectors against consumption. Thesis XIV?Where intestinal con sumption develops in grown persont It is safe to assume that it was carrle Into the body by food-staffs contain ing the poisonous bacilli. . Thesis XV?Primary condition fo the development of intestinal ,oot sumption is previous infection bv bs cilli. Such may it be ever so alighii makes tbe human body super-sensitiv to tbe poison, predisposing it for th dread malady. Thesis XXII?Persons of all asrc are liable to contract consumptio from food containing bacilli, tboug it i9 a fact that consumption very fr< quently slumbers in the young, read to develop at tbe provocation descrit ed. Primary infection may tab place at the following periods of lift First, in infants; secondly, at the ag of puberty; thirdly, at the age of viri nnH fnnrthlv af. (ha aaro nf BAr ||/J , auu ?WU*?U4^) *?V V ility. Thesis XXIII?Infantile infeotio with tuberculosis, produced by mot! r'smilk or cow's milk containin the dangerous bacilli, predisposes ma or woman primarily to consumptio of the lungs. Henceforth, careagaini consumption must begin in the crt die, or before. No child should t suckled by a consumptive mother c wet-nurse, and the greatest possibl care should be exercised to procui good, pure milk, that is, milk frot healthy non-tuberculous cows. mi 1- wvrv 1 Ileum AAA1A IU BIAJJJ wuduuij tion or at least reduce the ravages < the malady, it is absolutely necessar that the state take a band in conflsa ting and destroying cows affected wit tuberculosis. Secondly?That all persons sufferin of the disease must be excluded froi factories, work shops, stores, stable every place where food is prepared f< the market. A person employing consumptive servant, particularly cook, lays himself and family open 1 infection direct. Thirdly?As an additional precai tion against infected cow's milk substance paralyzing tbe effects of tt bacilli should be added to tbe mil given to babes. Such a substance known in medicines as formalin. Thesis XLI?To sum up, the grei majority of people contract consum] tion as infants. At that age tbe hi man organism is naturally sensith to poisons, and tuberculous poison Introduced, in Quantities sometimes by infected mijk. Generally these ^ consumptive germs remain inactive js^| J for a number of veafs, being reawak- ,'^j d ened by. other bacilli entering the . uyujr (A3LI9 uittuu, UJB/UU rr<^^m B* or forty years later. . ^ I THE REMEDY PROPOSED. 1 J I beg to submit to my colleagues -.^pM 1 I io tbe United States and other parts r-|w *' of the world that formalin is probably ^vJB : not tbe only substance for making J milk Immune. Let all men of,the .7^ J medical profession go to work and. im- . / Ml prove on formallri, or find something j '" better. All medfcal men shoold join g bands to help eradicate consumption, . and it ought to be eradicated at the j *" rnnf In InfanKn ! 1 ? Secondly?Everybody. Improving v.sSH ' tbe milk for theyonng confers a last-? "J ing benefit, on mankind. The foll/ow-' ' ^ ing improvemets have been fully vJl-j ? tested and should be adopted by all !"^H | ? governments as a necessary preventive measure against consumption: ] 1 A?'Eradicate consumption in milk- - Tw -1 producing oattie. Tot bis end calves ;V|g -] . should be inoculated with human ta- | ; berculous bacilli below; the age- of 1 . thee months. This makes them mume and frees their milk from the '{ poison. The remedy can be easily ^ applied, it la cheap fend'its control lies. -}i ? within the power'ofeVery health ;/tfjM -j l" B?All milk should be disinfected 'J| .with formalin (or a better substance --fj If discovered). It will kill ofF the ba- AmH i- cilll and at the same time preserve < >f the milk so. that it can be kept longer f jfthd transported more safely. . e Dr. Behring. ',&M A Strange VH for ftklznmod Vtlk. I 'A.use to which skim-milk, sour , j milk, buttermilk, or even whole sweet \ milk is not often put is paintmaking, . yet this product of the dairy makes i| j possible one of the most enduring, -J preservative, respectable, and inexpen- $5 . pive paints for barxnrand outbuildings. ?*3 j It costs little more than, whitewash, -?bB a provided no great value is^ttacbed to :M e the milk, and it is p question wjiej&er m for all kinds.of rough work it does not / saja j serve all the purposes, ihd "more, of ^he : r ready-mixed painLoreven prime lead a x and paint mix&i ipthe beat IinBeed oiL '-'wSj ' It is made thus','and no more shtfdld 1 be mixed than feto be used that day: , Stir into a gallon of milk about three ' pounds of Portland cement and add -.Ma sufficient Venetian red ..paint powder ,-v] (costing three cents per. pound) to im- ; ' , part a good color. Any other colored ; paint powder may be as Well used.. ; Themilk will ho\d the paint in aha- %fll " pension-, but the oemetit, being very heavy, will sink to the bottom, so that ^^9 ? it becomes necessary to keep the mix- '|J99 7 tore well stirred with ft.paddle. The feature of the stirring is tne.onJy dmw- -'' fffii ' back to the paint, and as its efficiency j | depends upon administering a good ooatlng of cement, it is not safe to leave ',;M f its application to untrustworthy or p" * careless heltf. " ' * Six hours after'painting this paint J will be as immovable ana unaffected ' by water as month old paint. I have ^311 r heard of buildings twenty yean old \i$m ' painted in this manner in which the : wood was well preserved. My own 1 experience dates back nine years, when ' T painted a small barn with this mix* ture, and the wood to-day?seootad ^ 3 growth Virginia yellow pine?shows ? no sign whatever of decay or dry-rot'. 3 The effect of such a ooating seems to be to petrify the surface of the wood. 1 Whole milk is better than buttermilk >3 V or skim milk, as it contains more oil, '^88 * and this is the cpnstltuent which sets * ' the cement. If mixed with water in- ;r B stead of milk the wash rubs and soaks off readily. This mixture, wfth a little ' " extra of the cement from the bottom of r; the bucket daubed on, makes the best possible paint :tor trees where large limbs have been pruned or sawed off. j ?Scientific American. .. q Sympathy's Lifting Power, i ? A world without 8/mpathy would * be a eruel abiding place. Those who <? have suffered ana received expressions " of true sympathy from friends would hardly dare we require to watch over p mange .ourthiak what their suffering i. would have been without a spoken 3 word of domfort from a living soul. * we are often tempted to feel that any word of sympathy we may speak or ,r write to another, at a time or special >* trial, is not worth the doind; that so many, sqoh words will be spoken to ? t. that one that; our own will count for e uo hing. The prompting to. keep ? silent in another's time ;of sorrow-is a - ? ,y false one. Spoken sympathy is as a s mantle of love; it comforts, strtpgQ tbens and inspires. Our Lord JfeSus b Christ longed for sympathy. There is i-J do more affecting passage in the record y of His life than that whice tells of the >- failure of His chosen and dearest frie ends to watch and sympathise with e: him in the hour when HisaouJ was :e "exceeding sorrowful." There, has 1- never been a word too much of symi pathy spoken to a sorrowing one. Sympathy's very cumulation forms a Q great force that uplifts and strengthen. i- It is needed by weak; it is still more g needed by the strong. It is witin d every one's power to give it. And n God, who is iove, will bless it always. ?t ?Sunday School Times. ie The delicatessen and dakery cbar,r lotte russe is a delupion and a snare, ? and yet the average flat dweller has B forgotton that there ever was any other 11 kind. With the homemade stsawberry shortcake, it has gone where *1 the old moons go. Yet charlottes are easy to make, and are healthful and y delicious. Line a round of oblong dish with lady fingers, split and trimmed to 11 fit closely together. Slices of sponge cake may also be used. Whip cream 8 very stiff, sweeten and flavor, and pour 11 in the mixture. Set aside to harden, 8? and unmould carefully at the last mo)r ment. It is a saving of patience, and a sometimes of desserts, to buy moulds a that open at one side with a binge. Lo They are expensive, it is true, but they last almost a life time, with care* i 1 a ie It is no use praying for the things ,k you will not pay for. 18 Men call their own carelessness and t inactivity fate. p. Duty and to-day are ours; results j. and futurity belong to God. re Well begun is half done; but only is half done is all undone. v \ ' ;.-jg V - V." v, l? 1 . ... . '*.> . v