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F IIS NO DIFFERENCE. * THE WEEKLY CHAPMAN SERMON i Lucid Explanation of One of the flost (Difficult Passages of Scripture to Most People. "Kew York City.?'Hie u>'l.?w4i"j timely i [ ' wad interesting sermon is oar ?>i a series i [ prepared by the fain in.- e\.ingcli?i. the Dr. J. Wil H Bk "No Difference." hf-d text: "For no iliti reii'.-e."' | is one of the most difficult stateH^^rotents to receive in all the Bible, and 1 van well understand how the unregenerate man [ m' would resent its application. 1 can hear r him say, "What! no difference between tlu* L - nan who has fallen to the very lowest I depths of sin and wretchedness, and the I man who, boasting of hi- morality, has I I ewerved only a little from the path ol duty j l ?nd the law of God?" And the answer to I this question is both "yes ' and "no." There is a difference in hciuousness and degradation wide as the poles, but "110 dif ferencc" so far as guilt is concerned, for both have rejected the Jr'on of God. and I this is the sin of sins. If two men were before the court. 011c charged with a great offense and the other with one of less degree, it would profit the latter man but little to say, "But. Your Honor. I am uot so great an offender as I my companion in misery." The judge might well reply. "You are both guilty; in Ithat 'there is no difference.'" and this is the teaching o: my text. God's word declares?"He that offends in one point is guilty of all:" not meaning, of course, that ne has of necessity broken every lav. but he has broken away from God by his transgression. If I am held a 1 " -1 .A. .? tiiumtoori* prisoner uy a euam 11. is wi. that 1 should break every link in the ^^w-chain that I might go tree, but only one and that the very weakest, and so he thai offends in one jwint is guilty of all and nothing less, while he that offends in all points is gtoilty of all and nothing more. "All have sinned and eomc short of llie glory of God."' Three important questions grow out of this text as I have considered it. First. 1 do no;, ask if you are a sinner, for as we ordinarily use this word, we think of one who is lawless, wild and profane. Hut 1 * ask: HAVE YOU OFFENDED IN ONE SINGLE POINT? ^ 1/ so, "There is no difference." Man would not say it. I know, but God *a\> it, and it is written in the book, aud by the book we shall be judged. L Look at the prodigal. He was as truly I a prodigal when he had taken the first step L aver the threshold of his father's house A as when afterward you see him sitting in the midst of fhe swine, and trying to iill his belly with hosks which the swine uid eatKB Ue is more degraded in the second pictare, but not more guilty. Look at the leper. He is just as truly dead when the first sign of the dread riisease appears, small though it may he, as W when afterward you behold him, a loathsome object, sitting outside the city gates, | with bandaged mouth, crying, "Unclean! ' Unclean!" He was a leper, however, from * -- ' ? i? it. i j i tl:. xne ursi. ana oy me mn uvuu. ihia i? v the teaching of the text. If you have rejected the Son of God. whatever your position. "There is no difference"?all are alike lost. It is not even a question of great sin. ^ Many a roan might plead "not guilty" it such a charge were made, but first of all SECRET SINS. 1. There is a text which declares "our secret sins in the light of His countenance," and another reads that "All things ^ ,._*re. naked aud opeu be?ore Him with whom we have to do." In the light of this whs can staid? Not long ago in one of the school buildings of Chicago a picture of an eve was placed upon the blackboard as an illustration, ana in a little time by order of the school board it was painted ou$. for it had been so perfectly painted that whatever position a child might he in in the room ?that eye was upon it. The effect was disastrous. But there is one eye which never lumbers and can never be painted out. "Thou Sod seest me." The sin was at midnight. He saw it. It was in New York or London or Paris. He saw it. Thus to the charge of "secret sin" you must plead guilty, and "there is no differ-enrc." j, sinful thoughts. f *2. But the'charge is even closer. Wc re responsible for the sinful thought which tarries in the mind by tiie consent of our will. Who can stand in the light of this? . A distinguished scientist has made the scaicineni, wnicii wise men in-ciu1, uuu u a man stand* out in the sunlight and acts, his act. good or bad, flashes away to the *uu and a picture which is never !o>t is wade. And if lie speaks, the sound bounds away, up and up. far beyond hi-, reach, and makes its record forever. And it he refuses to step into the i:?Lt. or in the dark ness speak a word, this sci-ntbt do da res that by the very thoughts of his mind certain physical disturbances occur which make a record lasting as iupe. I remember sending,*telegram in a western city, and shortly after realizing that my message had been wrong I made my way to the office to recall it. 'Why.'' said the operator, with a smile, '"it is gone, and is flashing over the wires now. beyond my recall." So with your sinful thoughts. "They bound away, and no man can recall them fvhen once they go. ,??? The answer to this charge must be? ''jpiiity." BEGINNING IX SIN. 3. Some are beginning now. Held by the fascination ef the evil one and lured on by his charms they are rushing on to liell. On one of the busiest streets of the ?y citv of Paris stands a building famous r its oeau y. Over the magniticent doorway you mc y read these words, "Nothing to pay." T ie admission is free, the entertainment within is fascinating, and hun ?" ?Lreds of young men pass through the portals, the rank and file of them taking tneir first or last steD to hell. i All sin xs dearly bought, for it has hell lack of it. It blights the life, wrecks the character, aad blasts the fondest hopes of the soul. And when that awful day comes and situation is gone and character lost, and the hearts of loved ones broken, and you are cast a stranded wreck on the shores of time, you will cry out in terror, f *20 wretched man that I am. who shall deliver rat"-and there will be no deliverance. You will bo more degraded then but not more guilty than now, for the chiefest of sins is unbelief, and that was the cause ? your downfall. "There is no difference." God pity vcu. Do you know the Bible description of ihe cad of a career of sin from the world standpoint? "Weeping, wailing and gnash- I ing of tecta." "Without are dogs, and ?orccr?r* 1 whoremongers, and murder- ! ?rw. and idolaters, and whomever lovoth j and tnak~:;i iic." f;'?>ns >: !i a company. A miuisur could never lead a man to serious thought until he quoted the text: "'The wicked shall be turned into bet), and all the nations tlmt forget God."' Great sin humanly speaking, is not necessary. but only forget Him and "There is no difference." iff roa had read that remarkable book, k "Eobert Falconer," written by Geo. Mack lioaald. you will remember the dream of | A fthe wife of Andrew Falconer. He was a drunkard aad after her death, the dream leiag told iiim, resulted iu his conversion. She said in her letter, which she had writ"I thouglit, Andrew, that the resurrecJHCoj moru had come, and I was looking ^^^fcy^vherefor you>\ Finally in my vran ?l? niics I runtf to a /.re si ibfw. It va? j ?. very wide. hut is v.:- \vi? ?'>' /;> anil ? ?* ;*. ?s ait It 't li'.i* - i:f ''ft* ?'I lee j >-k\. On ttic* other side i ?.i'v you. Alt- . ii:vi.'. 11 III! I i,.t* ? .i sh". i. allr-ii ail ill" | unit. ii.m?: ii r/i.' lo iv.!. Sonic* hui;* made tin1 look around. Tiic.t I >.i\v On-- , coming toward ti,-\ He in.I u J.:"" t\ Mich a face! fail./ than a?l ilie sons o* i men: He had on a carmen! which canto j down His feet, and .is He ^ walked to- , 1 i l? His feet lite joint of | .1 I U IlIC J .-???? ... rlii* nails. Then I knew who He wa?. I ! iell at His feet and cried. (). Lord. An- i , I drew. Andrew.'* "IIaugh'or. would von t 20 to him? I ?.iid. 'Yes. Lord.' And. An- 1 'drew. He took me by the hand and led J 1 out over the abvss. and vw* came nearer J | and nearer, until at last we wen- united. 1 t and then He led us back to be with Hint f I forever."* O. my friends, not in the next world, if not in this, but here and now \v?* may be made one in Hint, one for time and eternity, but bailing here, all hope is gone and there is before us onlv the blackness of darkness of despair. "For there is no difference." The secon' ipiestion is of the greatest importance: 1)0 YOU COME UP TO COD S STAND < ADD? It is- pot enough to be simply a member of the church. "Many will say to Me in that day. Lord. Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy uauie, and in Thy name have cast out devils? and I will profess unto them. I never knew you." We have such a way ot measuring ourselves by ourselves that we mav feel well satisfied with the result. l?ut how about God's standard? Upon my return home at one time my wife placed in my hands a ! piece of paper, written all over, hut only I 1 i? tt tlip ton I IWU nut(19 ?>cu of the page w;i< the won! "carriage" plainlv written, the next word was ihe same, only not so well written. It was my lili.lt* daughter'*. first copyt?ook. The feather had written the word at the top of the line, and sin- had done fairly well so long as she had looked at the copy. But she had fallen inio the serious error of copying the line just above her i work, and the word at the bottom of the page as nearly spelled "men" as "car j riage." Thus people measure themselves by those around them, forgetting that He said?"Look unto Me and he ye saved." You mr.v he better than the members of the church, but what doth it profit ? You may be the best man :n you: community, but that does not save. How about Hod's standard? Her Majesty, the Queen, issue, frequently. 1 am told, an order for soldiers to compose her guard, livery man must be at. least six feet tall. 1 can iroaeine some voung Englishmen measuring themselves by themselves, until at last one man in great delight exclaims. "I will surely get ! in. for T am the tallest man in town." And he is. but when he stands before Tier Majesty's officer he is rejected, for he is thro? -quarters of an inch under the mark. His taller than his friends profited | nothin,.: thcv hail all fallen short: sotnc | more, '.mic less. But "there was no difference " And it you turn my ouestiou in upon uivself. I confess that I do fully come uu to the high standard of Cod; not in myself in way. far from it?but in f'hrist: for "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that belicveth."' and wherein 1 fail. He make* tip. It is no point as 10 whether Adam or Eve were the more sinful; they were botii guilty. j??nl "there is no difference." The ehiefest of all sins is not drunkenness, although that is horrible: it is not licentiousness, although that is vile; it is the rcieetion of God's mercy?or the sin of unbelief. "He that believeth not is eondemued already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." John iii: 18. And whosoever he be among you?sinner, either great or small, if he fail here, he stands with the condemned, and "there is no difference." The third and last important question is thi?: WHAT IS THE REMEDY? There is another "no difference" which answers the ouestion. "For there is no difference * * * for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. lbr whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans x: 12, 13. 1. It is useless to try by any amount of exertion, or feeling, or even prayer, to .bring about faith. I have had mv own experience in this. God says in lli.- word. "Faith cometh bv hearing and hearing by the word of God." This is a sure war. A college student was greatly troubled spiritually, and was in conference with one of tha professors until midnight. Just as he was leaving the house, going out into the darkness, the ! professor placed in his bands a lantern | saying. "Take it. George, it will light you , home a nteo at a time." And this is what j lhe Bible does. That lantern did not light up the for ! i e.-is. nor. make luminous the lands* ape: it j was not meant that it should, but it made j e\cry sup bright. Man was lost l?v hearing Satan. He I can only be saved by hearing God. Plant | your feel tinnlv by faith on one single ' promise. ami. God will begin at once ?<? make clear the wav if voa will ou!y believe lion. 2. To th" Piiilippinn jailor's question, "What must I do to be saved?"' Paul's answer was. "Relieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." And j t litre is no respecting of person#, for "whosoever shall call unoii the name of the Lord shall be saved." A friend of mine told lr.e that when lie climbed the Matterhorn be was besieged by men. waiting at the base of the mountain. ready to guide him up the difficult way, but the most of them would have never brought him down in safety, for they were simply men out of employment. He very easily, however, secured a safe guide when he said, "Show me your papers."' Then the men who were without them stepped back, while-the real guides stepped forward and holding out their papers he read something like this: "We. the undersigned, have climbed the Matterhorn under the care of such a guide (giving his name), and we commend him to our friends"?and then followed the names of people of great renown at home and abroad, a member of Parliament, a member of Congress, and your personal friend, and my friend at once felt secure because others had made the trip in safety. > It is like that when under condemnation you ask. "What must I do?" Infidelity attempts an answer; philoso pny make a vain effort to reply, and Jesus Christ, the Son of God, comes with the rest. Let me suggest to vou the real test. Ask them each, "What have you done?" Demand of each that their papers be shown. Then will He come whose garments are dyed red, whose hands were pierced, end whose heart was broken, who died and rose again that He might become the justifier of all that believe, and on the very palms of His hands you read the names. John Bunvan. John Newton, Jerry McCauley. and brighter than thcr.i all?Charles Haddon Spurgcon. '"He hath saved us, and kept us. and in llis presence wo rejoice with a joy unspeakable and full of g'ory." \?d tlii- i- onoi'vh?I for one will >av, ' Blessed Lord, ii Thou canst save others, and I know that Tbou canst, Thou canst save me; and I will let Thee do it now." Will you join ine in this now? 3. To sum it all up. if you would escapecondemnation you need simply to HAVE A WILLING MIND ABOUT SALVATION. Then by faith accept what He in grace offers you. I have heard Christian workers say to earnest inquirers, "Give your heart to God and you may be saved." But this is unscriptural?at least the order is wrong. Accept first the gift of eternal life, then give yourself, out of gratitude for Ilia i goodness. The first saves you; the second is the ! first fruit of your salvation. ARP ON MATRIMONY The Ph'Iosopiier Writes on a Serious Subject BNTH PARTIES 1ECLRFLY BOUND Arp Says Harriage is the Only Partnership That Cannot Be Dissolved ? Responsibility. .Married and gone. It is the same old story. l,ovo and courtship. Then conies the engagement ring and a blessed interval of fond hopes and happy dreams, and then thr happy day is fixed?th<auspicious day that is never to lie forgotten?a day that brings happiness or misery and heeins a new life. Then ionics the license, the permit of the law which says you may marry, you may enter into bonds. The state approves it and the law allows it. and it will cost you only a dollar and a quarter. Cheap Isn't it? And yet it may he very dear. Then comes the minister, and the happy pair stand up before him and make some solemn vows and listen to a prayer and a benediction, and they are one. In a moment the trusting maid has lost her name and her free will, and is tied fast to a man. Well, he is tied fast. too. so it is all right all round, I reckon, but somehow I always feel more concern about the woman than the man. She is a helpless sort of a creature and takes the most risk, for she risks her all. I was ruminating over this, for there was a marriage going on at our good friend Sam Jones' house, and their pretty daughter. Laura, was changing her name and her home on this the last dav of tha vesr and eniiur off to live with a man she hasn't known very long; but I have diagnosed him from his face and features and am satisfied with her choice. He Is a big-hearted gentl:man, or else the signs fail. I wanted to be present and give them my blessing, but was not well enough to go?I've got the elephanliosis from my toes to my knees, and can hardly meander across the room, but I am always interested in the marriages of our young people. It is the most serious business in this life, and if the peril of it was known befcyeherd rna:;y of t>?e young people would hesitate to make the change. The chains of matrimony and not bonds of marriage are the right words. When men make a partnership they can't get along well if they art unlike in disposition, or in moral principle or in business ways, but they can dissolve and separate at pleasure and try another man. A man and his wife ought to be alike in almost everything. In some things folks like their opposites?their counterparts. A man with blue eyes goes distracted over a pretty girl with hazel eyes?I did. and I'm distractey yet when I look into them, though I've been doing that for fifty-four years. But in mental and emotional qualities and in tastes and habits and politics and religion they should class together. I never made any mistake about ray choice of a partner for the dance of a life, but I've thought of it a thousand times that if Mrs. Arp had known I loved codfish and got up by daybreak every morning, she never would have had me. It was nip and tuck to get her. anyhow, and that would have been ine ieamer to oreaK tne camel s uacK. Well, I'm mortal glad she didn't know it. though I am free to say that if I had known she slept until the second ringing of the first bell for breakfast and was fond of raw oysters, it would have had a dampening effect upon my ardor for a few minutes, only a few. Hut I have seen some mighty clever people cat oysters raw and sleep late in the morning. But still a man and his wife con harmonize and compromise a good many of these things, and it is a beautiful illustration of this to see Mrs. Arp cooking codfish for me and fixing it ail up so nice with eggs aud cream, and it is a touching evidence of my undying devotion to her to see me wandering about the house lon3ly and forelorn every morning for an hour or two. and forbidding even the cat to walk heavily while she sleeps. That codfish business comes to me honestly from my father's side, and my mother put up with it like a good, considerate wife, and we children grew up with an idea that it was good. I've heard of a young couple who got married and went off to Augusta on a tour, and tht lener siuck nis rork into a codfish bal. and took a bite. He choked it down like a hero, and when his beloved asked him what was the matter, replied: "Don't say anything about it. Mandy, but as sure as you are born there is something dead in the bread." Well, we can make compromises about all such things as habits and tastes, but there are some things that won't compromise worth a cent. If a girl has been brought up to have a good deal of freedom, and thinks it no narrn to go waltzing around with every gay, Lothario who loves to dance, and after she gets a feller of her own, wants to keep at it and have polluted arms around her waist, she had just as well sing farewell to conjugal love and domestic peace, for It is against the order of nature for a loving husband to stand it, and he oughtn't. And now another busy year has gone ?gone like the water that has passed over the dam?gone never to return. It has carried many friends along with it and left sad memories in the household, but on the whole it has been a good year to us all and Providence has been kind. Now is the time to look back and review the past, as did old Janus, for whom January was named. He was the porter, the gate keeper, of heaven, and had two faces?one to look back and tbc otber forward into the mysterious future. Numa Pompilius gave him his name and his high office, for he was next in power to Jupitor. He added two months to the calendar and called one January for Janus and the other February for the mother of Mars. Until then there were hut eight months of forty-six days each. Numa added two more, whjch gave them thirty-six days each, and January was the fourth month and remained so for more than two thousand years. April was the first month and remained so until two hundred years ago. Why i cannot understand. for April is much more like the beginning of a new year ihan January. April comes from ape: lo. to open?the time when toe earth oprns and the grass conies tip and the (lowers bloom and the birds sing. But the names of almost eveiytbing seem to comfort that old mythology, ana we conform to that old mythology, and we can't get rid of it. My g:vat-grandfather lived and died under that old calendar when April was the first rt onth of the year. Julius Caesar and ? ncriioHio (''ihcav chtoV in tarn n npr months and made the year of twelve months of thirty days each, hut April remained in the first month and ought to be now. But whether Christmas be in December or in April, we love the old superstition:; that cluster around this season of joy and gladness. I always thought it a pretty idea for a man to be we ghed every Christmas or NewYear?to put his acts and deeds in the balances, the good on one side and the bad on the other, and let him rise to heaven or fall below it as the scales might turn. This is not an orthodox doctrine, for it is said that one bad deed will outweigh a thousand good ones. Nevertheless, Beischazar was weighed, and the scripture abound in such figures of speech. It will take miracles of grace to save us, anyhow, and we must all help one another, for the oevn is doing nis best, navia commuted murder: Solemon worshiped idols; Cain killed his brother: Jacob* cheated Esau out of his birthright: Noah got drt:nk, and Peter denied his Master, but they ail repented and got foregiveness; and if there is any difference between folks now and and folks then. I don't know it. Then let us all love our Maker and be good to our feljow-nicn. ?Bill Arc in Atlanta Constitution. Southern Train Wrecked. Birmingham. Ala.. Special.?Passenger train No. 37. from Atlanta to Birmingham cn the Southern Railway. was wrecked near Weem's station. 17 miles from this city at 11:30 o'clock Saturday night. The details are very meagre. A report reached the superintendent's office at 1:30 o'clock that the engine and four coaches wore turned over and tbit the engineer and fireman were rnis3ing. Several persons are said to have been injured. A relief train was sent to the scene from this city carrying a corps of physicians ?.ul officials of the road. * Counterfeiters Captured. Wilmington. Del.. Special.?Secret Service Agent George F. Foster, of Washington, after a long investigation, succeeded in locating a counterfeiters' den at No. 528 West Second street, this city .and it was raided by the police. Byagnio Maiearoso, better known as "Mike Ross." his wife and Nicola Dipaco. his brother-in-law, were arrested and the plant captured. It was an unusually large one. comprising ten molds, a number of mixing pots, dies, presses and other counterfeiting paraphernalia. Single rien Not Wanted. Norfolk, Va.. Special.?Unmarried I men are excluded from the service cl ' the zreat Williams Railway, of Nor folk. Portsmouth anil Newport News, and it is possible that the same rule will be applied to other roads of the Virginia capitalist. Manager Guun says the plan of employing only married men insures a steadier, soberer more reliable class of men, who art more accommodating to the passec gers and have at heart the interest; of the road more than strangers and wanderers, as a majority of unmar ried men are apt to be. HUMOR IN HORSES. Story of an Animal That Has More Than Its Share. Only those who are unfamiliar with animals doubt that they have a sense of humor. Jimmy is a lively road horse who has ideas of his own ard very original conceptions of wl.at is amusing. One day the children haJ erected a small tent on the lawn, ami uMthm /Irtnhlnir lomnn^rli? SlTuI j Ottt w ItUlU UIIUiwuo *v.4.w^ playing that they wore banditti. Jimmy walked softly up to the side of the tent and slowly inserted his nose through a convenient slit, says Our Dumb Animals. Eyes and ears followed and. his head once within at the back of the unsuspicious revelers. Jimmy gave one tremendous sneeze, of that kind which is half a snort. The banditti fell back in every direction and the horse, withd -awing from the tent, laughed silently to himself before going back to his grasscropping. Jimmy's favorite amusement is that of scattering a flock of sheep. When he is feeding with them in the "pasture he suddenly stops eating and then dashes amiXg them, sending them scudding over the hillside. Then he stands watching them until they again settle to their nibbling and after a short luncheon of his own repeats the pleasing diversion. Although this horse is the gentlest creature in the world it pleases him exceedingly to frighten anyone who has shown timidity in his presence. Jimmy s ivvu wisueasrs iianivjso him without trouble or danger, but be delights in alarming one girl cousin who visits at the house. Sundry fidgetings and nervous starts of her own were enough to show Jimmy of what manner and temperament she was. and he is merciless in taking advantage of that knowledge. If she enters the s:able where he stands accepting the harness in the most docile manner, he opens his month, snowing a wicked row of teeth, and makes a feint of snapping at her. She shrieks, his mistress scolds and reasons with him. and Jimmy apparently is then reI#ntant. Must Have Red Ink. Henry Sienkiewicz. the author of "Quo Vadis," has a somewhat peculiar habit. He invariably uses red ink when writing his manuscripts and can not be induced to use ink of any other color. S t SOUTHERN d?ZZEHII>?< 70/>/CS or INTEREST TO THE PLANTER U?H Onion tirowinjf in the South. 11 Thv onion is :i vegetable that should w be L'rown ii* the South, not only for fi home consumption, but to ship to tl Northern markets. From the phenom- u enal success of a few who are mak- ir ing a specialty of this crop, it seems oi that others could engage in its culti- 0 ration to great advantage, when it tl would finally become quite a commer- oi cinl crop. Onions are yearly shipped t< from the North to Southern States, to T furnish our people with this succulent ? vegetable. What we need in the S&uth o is tnore crops that somebody else n wants; we at least ought to be able 11 to supply our own market. We have n the soil, the climate aud the labor. W7e w should grow such crops tliar help in tl the aggregate to increase the products of our Southern farms. There are three methods of growing onions which we will describe. First o with sets, second by sowing the seed tl in the fall and transplanting early in ti the spring, and third by sowing the h seed in open ground in the spring as a soon as the weather will permit. t< Onions from sets are grown mostly for g hunching, and sold green to supply o our spring market: they are not suit- V able for ripe dry onions, as they will a not keep, although we have kepi the t I'earl variety through the summer for p home use. Sets can he grown in the p South is well as the North, and are s much preferred: the seed should be t sown on very thin soil too poor to s produce weeds, and sown very thick r in the row. so as to proouce very [ small bulbs: they ought not lo be much 1 larger than a pea. Feed sown In L March or April, the sets will be ready i: to pull in July, when they t an be dried 1 and laid by to plant in tJ?e fall for c your spring crop of bunch or green 1; onions, it would be well to apply a J i dressing of the civ? u? ica. 1 fertilisers to. i the soil devoted to growing sets ap- J t plying at the rate of 400 pounds per i c a. ro. and this should be applied some | o time before sowing the seed: this gives i 1 the fertilizers u chanee to become as- \ c. sindlated with the soil. ; I Another good method that Is prae-1 tieed by some is lo sow the seed in I shallow boxes in the hot house, then 1 transfer them to cold frames later, I n then transplant to open ground in the spring as soon as the weather will permit. There Is some work attached to r + Ut.. ?-ry,1 41irt vtavL* ohnitm ho i , 11U.> HU'liiUU, uuu Ulr n VI n ouuuui .yv ( well done, but no more tlinn planting | the sets :iml is lesa costly if you have ; ? buy yo-.r.* sols. Bv following this j uir.tiiod you c::n produce onions that i will grow ly law f=l7.o. and ripen suit-! able to supply home market?, or ship j to more distant seetlnns. j Anothrt* method is to sow the seed In February or early in March in open ground where you expect to mature the crop, but this method requires high culture and well prepared soil, and in fact either method requires this, but the latter method must not want for any condition that is required to force an early growth and grow the crop to maturity. A clay loam of mucky soli is suitable for onions: in 1 *1.. ?II It nlnn-^ut - prt'jjuriuK nit; eui* ii numuu uu |uv? i deep and tine, so as to leave no lumps, 0 finishing with a heavy roller to tirni t the soil; as onions form bulbs on the j surface, only the roots penetrate the a soil. This ruie applies whether you t follow either method. < Onions are planted in rows from f twelve to fourteen inches and aoout four inches in the row in garden culture. whether you plant sets or sow the seed and thin to a stand. On an a extensive scale it might be well to t widen the rows to ndir.it of horse eul- i ture. but with the improved iniple- I moms for hand work. tL'.s crop with high fertilizing will pay for close planting and hand culture. Some growers lay off their land slightly ridged, but We prefer to plant 011 a level, but are careful to firm the soil well before planting. Talcing Cp Barbed Wire. For some time I had considerable 1 difficult}' in taking up barbed wire, but I finally invented a device which ' answered the purpose very nicely. This fits on the running gears of the 1 * * j DEVICE FOB BEELINQ BABBED WIRE. r wagon ami Is represented in the ac- s coinpanying illustration. The frame is i made of 2 x 4s fastened together by c moans of four cross pieces of 1x4 i boards. The notches on the under s: side of the frame lit over the bolsters c aud hold the device in place. The \ I frame should extend about six inches f | beyond the front holster and about \ I four feet beyond the back, so as to I give plenty of room for working the 1 windlaf. The windlass is square so I as to keep the spool steady. The spools t tit over it tightly and are very easily ( held in place. j 1 When th's device is to be used, re-'' Engineer Killed. Roanoke, Va., Special.?The Norfolk & Western passenger train which S left here Monday night at 9 o'clock, v for Hagerstown, Md., over the Shen- b I andoah Valley division, was wrecked a J two hours later near Greenville, 65 o miles north of Roanoke. Engineer I Wesley Bailey, of Roanoke, was in- . a stantly killed. None of the passengers v was hurt. The train was running j e about 40 miles an hour when it e struck a curve, where an angle bar j c had been removed. The train was s thrown down an embankment . r =1* \RM : JlOTES. , STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER. ... .;vr+ love the wagon bed and couple tie 'agons as short as possible, place the rarne upon it and tie the front end to ie front bolster to keep it from tilting p. Provide about live spools for every , lile of wire. Loosen the bottom wire i the fence and let It out straight, no man sitting on the fore part of ie frame drives the team while anther turns the windlass. A very slow* ?am is needed and a careful driver, he wagon is driven astride the down :lre which is taken up as it passes ver. When one wire has been relovcd, take off the next and treat it the satiie manner. I have helped i.v father take up miles and miles of ' rire in this way. Two men ran do all ;ie work.?J. W. Saner. Texas. Clearing Up New Land. rtf /.looplntr nit nnu* lnn/l 1 ur uia %jl vicauu^ up ?tv r land which has beeu out of cuitlvalon for some years, calls for attenion at this season. Lot what Is (lone e well and thoroughly done. Remove 11 stumps and stones and do not have i> plow round these hindrances to ood work for years. Dig them out r blow them to pieces with dynamite. V'bilst left in or on the ground they re uot only a constant source of rouble and cause of many broken i0.* dements. but they arc the breeding ilaces of insect and fungus pests and ure means of spreading weeds and irierg over the land. The stones " liould 1h> hauled away to repair the oads on the farm or the adjoining inbllc road. In this way the labor of muling crops home or to market can ie materially lightened and^tbe aptearanee of the farm be greatly 1mnoved. Let all old fences be straightued and niede good or new ones be >ullt. In doing this work see that the" ields arc so laid out as to fall easily nto a good system of rotation, and hat provision is made for access to uch field without having to cross iver other fields. Have gates hung at he entrance to each field so that crops an be properly protected. ? Southern Mauter. r Local Co-operation. E. E. Miller, of Morrlstown, Tenn., ii occasional correspondent of the Progressive Farmer, writes as follows: "The farmer seldom regards bis' leigbbor as bis competitor, nor does He >ften have occasion to do so. Indeed, t is likely that there is no class of peo>le who take so tnucli interest in each ;ther'? welfare as (lo the farmers of a ommunity, or whose Interests are so losely related. In view of these facta t is surprising: how little co-operation here is among the farmers. It is only easoaalile to consider that if in a teighborliood the farmers would com>Ino in buying their supplies, selling heir produce, laying out plans for their uture crops, assisting each other's la- ' >ors, and in settling aU qnestions vliich are of interest to all or to the ommunity as a whole, that the result.^* vould be beueflclal. Co-operation low a recognized principle ?f success ul busings enterprise. Why should lot the farmer make use of it as do ther classes. There are few localities rat that would be benefited if tjie peo>lo would come together and consider ind act upon all matters of general inerest. and study and discuss methods >f building up and promoting the wel- A are of the community. ' J A DnUiac Box. To dust chickens by wholesale with ! J| ny kind of insect powder, fix n small ?ox with sliding cover, to revolve, as ndicated in the accompanying cut. 'ut three or more chicks in the box. villi a spoonful of powder, close the iHdo and revolve slowly and carefully liree or four times. There will be a rreat fluttering inside and the dust vill fill the chicks' feathers very comiletely. Then replace these chicks vith three others, and more of the inicci powder. Opportunities tn the Sooth. The great need of the South in agrlulture is, as everybody knows, diver- J ideation. More specifically, and as tn aid and adjunct to the raising of >ther crops thau cotton and corn, an mmense multiplication of its live-stock iccms to be the first improvement in trder, accompanied by a wider eulti ation of forage and similar plants, md perhaps, the introduction of now arieties, not merely for the sake of "ceding animals, hut as creators of minus ami gatherers of nitrogen. ioef production, however, can xinques-' ionabiy be carried 011 to a vast extent, md in fact, a considerable beginning ias been made already.?Gilbert M. L'ueker. of Albany. X. Y. Proposed Boer Colonization. Monterey, Mex., Special.?General-, lainuel Pearson, the Boer commander, rho became famous during the war etween the Boers and the English, by ppearing at New Orleans and strenuusly opposing the sale of mules to Inglish agents, is in Monterey, as the gent of thousands of his countrymen, iho propose to establish colonies eith'r in southwestern Texas ftr northrn Mexico. He is now locatjf.g a route iver which he will conductA commis. ^ ion of Boers who are expected to arive sn New Orleans, January 15. ..... ~