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" A SERMON FOR SUNDAI AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED. "GLORIFYING THE FATHER." trwfhwl by the Re*. Dr. Thninnii B. McLeod, of Brooklyn, S. V?We Con Make God Rem), We Can Make the Gospel Sublime. Bmooki.vn*. N. Y.?Upon his return to his pulpit fmm his vacation, the Rev. Dr. Thomas B. McLeod, pastor of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, preached ?n eloquent sermon Sunday morning on "Glorifying the Father." The text was rhoeen from John xv:8: ' Herein ie My Father glorified that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be My disciples." Dr. McLeod said: How vital, dear friends, are all New Txiimpnt renresentationa of religion! Compare the New Testament with the ethical teaching, or religious teaching of ali other bocks in this respect, and you are simply astonished. There is nothing mechanical in them, nothing formal, nothing institutional?every process is a process ot life. It if no use for a man, or for men. to claim that they have Abraham for their father. Iteligion is not a matter of who a man's ancestors were; it is a matter of what a man himself is. Jesus has given us in one pi'.hy sentence His estimate of the worth of the claim that is based on descent, on .heredity, on social prestige, when He says that God could raise up, or make children, unto Abraham out of the very stones of the roadside. The concern that interests God, when it comes to ihe matter of religion, is whether a man is & living plant or a dead stick. The hedge, though it be & hedge of flowers or roses, in which the stake occurs, does not make the stake a living thing. The line of descent iu which1 a man stands, nor the social position he occupies, nor the church of wnieh he is an attendant, or a member, is nothing. The man may after all be nothing . better than a dead stake in a hedge. There was a certain line man, a tine man socially, eligiously, politically?one of the beat of r\en as men went?came, to Jesus 10 make inquiry* on the subject of religion. He was fere rent and devout and respectful and courteous and cultured and learned, a leader and teacher of the people, a lecturer on ethics, but when it came to religion, Jesus said to that man. "Yc must be born agaiq." The vitality of the representation we find in the New Testament religion is its life; "I have come that ye might hare life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." And so of tests. Not simply of the rep' resentations or descriptions of religion, but also of the testa, the New Testament test" of religion. How are we to know that we are living Christians? How are we to know tk at others are living Christians? Why, the New Testament pushes us up to the point of urgent belief, and insists on it. that the test is fruit, not Wves, n</t flowers, but fruit, and that fruittulness is the only essential thing that shall triumph under the-t*st. Jesus may endure barrenness outside of the church, but He cannot endure it inside of the church. A bramble --- ; Ko?,-nkln knf n lirnmhlc in the orchard, that ia intolerable. "Bv their fruits ye shall know them.. Men ao not gather figs of thistles or grapes of thorns." ' The man of God is perfect, fruitful unto 11 good works." How little stress Jesus lays upon 4hose tests that are so universally adopted and applied, and admitted to be sufficiently adequate; attendance upon religious ordinances, subscription to creed ana statement; routine observance of rites and ceremonies; Be makes nothing ?f all that, and He comes t> "?a, friends, just as He eame to the fruitless, leafy fig tree by the wayside, searching for fruit, not for leaves, not for blossom;, not for florescence, not for esthetic delight in sacred music, not for fondness of the literary side of religion, not for a keen appetite for well digested and presented truth, but for fruit?fruit, and He comes up closer to us. friends, than anybody else can come?than our dearest and nearest can come?for, after all. these can . see only outside appearances. He sees realities. They see things that pass for good *works in us, born, it may be. of wicked ambition or of self-conceit. He sees right * down into the centre of the soul, and He is looking for fruit. What shall He find in yon and me? Fruit or leaves, or just bare branches ? The test is fruitfuiness. Now that ought to be aa easy test to apply, and it surely. friends, is a sate test to appiy?ior you ana me to rpply to our own selves. But then, some one may say, "Well, what constitutes fruit fulness? I am ready now to lay bare my sou; before God: I am ready now to go down on my face before God and apply the test; I am ready now for heart-searching, and to measure myself by this standard, but I want to know what constitutes fruitfulness." "What are the fruits that -Jesus expects and that I am to look for and by which I am to measure myself?" "Why, the Bible is simply full of that. It Las set the whole^ thing so plain. , and so fuliy, i.nd so "variously that a wayfaring man though a fool need not mistake as to -what fruitftrtneas in -the Christian life is. Tesua sn.y?, "Blessed are the poor in spirit." Come now, we are examining ourselves About the fruits. "Blessed are the poor in spirit; blessed are -the meek; blessed arc the nnrciful (the good heartedl; blessed are the pure in heart; blessed arc the peaeetrakers; blessed arc they who have not simply a relish now and then, but a hunger and a thirst after righteousness? tightness. These are the fruits that the Christian man i6 expected to grow in his character. An apostle says, the fruits, or the fruit of the spirit, is love. joy. long suffering, jiatien^e, meekness, faith, temperance. The fruit that the Christian is to develop, that will be developed, that Jesus will expect if there be life?love?the heart of all goodness?love to God and love to man. "Who loveth not his brother whom he hath 6ecn, how shall he love God?how can he love (?<xl whom he hath not seen?" Fruit; love ?joy. Joy in fellowship with God; joy in fellowship with believers; joy in service and ministry. Love?joy?peace. Contentment of mind under all circumstances; the harmony of conviction, of thought and affection. Long suffering ? patient endurance not only in affliction, but patient endurance of wrong and provocation; and meekness and temperance and all the rest. What does fmitfulness mean? It means simply the development or achievement of character that will approve itself to God. But this growth of character does not exhaust the expectation of Christ concerning us. It does not exhaust the fruit which he Christian hasj to bear. There is other triut. xou reaa tnat passage again ana von will see that the teror of it has to do with fellowship? fellowship with Jesus, fellowship in His purpose to redeem this world from sin. Jesus is not thinking altogether of the good His disciples are to get through fellowship with Him. hut He is thinking also of the good which His disciples arc to do through fellowship with Him. Not altogether of what His disciples are to receive, but of what His disciples are to achieve. "Except the branch abide in the vine it bringeth forth no fruit. If ye abide ii Mc and My words abide in you, ye shall bring forth much fruit." Oh. friends, we limit the range of the Christian life, and our hearts and minds are so set npon getting, getting, getting? erjoving. enjoying, enjoying?that we are deaf to the words of Christ concerning doing, doing, doing. Apart fron tiie vine the branch can bear no fruit: apart from the branch the vine cannot bear fruit. And here, friends, we come up to something that oueht to bring you and me very lowly ecfore God. Lowly, not so much with the sense of mortification and penitence, but with a kind of exultant joy. It befits us to loofess always our dependence upon Christ, but here we have Christ confessing His dependence on us. Marvelous thing! "The branch cannot bear of itself except it abide in the vine." and the vine cannot bear fruit without the branches. The Apostle Paul puts that thought in another form when he says: "Ye are the body of Christ, and members?each severally?members of that body." Apart from the body the members perish. There is no power in the hand, no vision in the eye, no power in the ear to hear the voice of God apart from the body. We are the body of Christ; we arc the organization through which Christ works; we are the organization by which Christ builds up His kingdom on the earth. We are the hands of Christ. Christ wants, Christ desires to feed the hungry, and clothe the naked, and visit the sick, and build homes for the homeless, and open prison doors for those in captivity, but I supposing the hands of the Lord he pArI alvzed. how can He do these things? We are the voice of Christ. Christ wants to publish a?*-oad to the end of the earth the message of Cod's love and the way of salvation, but if the voice be silent, how can He do it? We talk about the marcv of God having; no limitation. We talk about the boundless pity of Cod. and we do well, but the pity of God and the mercy of God have their limitations. Not according to the distorted Calvinism which our fathers believ- j ed. God's mercy is infinite; God's pity is boundless; His love extends to all men? that we believe; in that declaration we glory; we count it the very flower and coronation of our religion. And yet God's mcrcv is limited. His compassion is bounded, His pity is shortened by us?by us. According as we are willing or unwilling is the limitlessness of the love of God. Let us take a homely illustration. Here is a friend?a man whom you have always known, a classmate it may be in school, an associate in business?and he has fallen upon evil times, and everything that he spent his life in accumulating is gone. You are rich, you are perfectly able to put that man on his feet again: to give him a second chance and another start: you are I God's elected minister for that purpose, j But you don't do it. God is kindly disposed to that man; God would help that man, and He has put you in a position to help him. You are His hands; you ar<God's ministering agency, but you limit God's goodness, don't you? j God is very pitiful, very pitiful. Rich men can feed poor men, but they don't do it. No manna falls from heaven to feed those poor men. They starve. Gou is wondrously pitiful, and there are strong people wno are penecuy amu w> hciji ?im | comfort weak and $ickiv people, but these j sickly people die for lack of help No min| is ter m g angel comes d:>wn to cool their fever and heal their Don't yon see that we. God'* hand. God's voice, the branches and twigs of the vine, limit the fruitfulness of the vine, limit the power of the Almighty? "Hccin is My Father glorified, that ye be-.r much fruit, so shall ye be My disciples." Friends, the thought is appalling; it oppresses me. When I look at that from one side I am terrified to thiuk that the thing that God wanted done yesterday is not done through my neglect. And yet there is encouragement here for us all. Apart from the vine the branch withers: it can do nothing. Abiding in the vine, the branch bringeth forth much fruit, and we mav abide and we may glorify our Father. Glorify Him. Make Him shine with radiance and beauty in the eyes of man. Make God manifest. We can make God real; we can make the gospel sublime in the eyes of those who are living without it. We can so tell the story; we can so live our religion; we can so manifest the grace of .God in our lives; we can so let our light shine that others?our neighbors and friends, our children and relatives-* shall glorify our Father in heaven. God Only Is Perfect. Perfection, in every absolute sense, cannot be found among men?it abides only with God. Man. at his best, is not free. An heir of immortality, he is imprisoned into time. Candidate for sainthood, he has a heritage of sin and corruption from the generations of the past. Called to do all things through God strengthening him, he finds that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Countless perils menace the voyage of the perfectionist. Presumptuous sing often have dominion over him, when he thinks it is not robbery to be equal with God and share with the absolute the attributes of divinity. Spiritual pride leads him to moral ruin when he is persuaded to forget the hour of prayer because of his conceit that with him every breath is a prayer. The Man of Nazareth was so far from this vanity that He sr>cnt whole nights in communion with God on the mountains and in solitary places apart from His companions. The perfectionist, again, is deceived when he materializes the things of God, by asserting for the saints below an earthly empire over disease and death and by claiming a part in the political rrle of the quick-coming Christ in a millenial reign at Jerusalem. Inertulni God's Opportunities. Some one has said .that "each-human life is another opportunity for God to display His grace and power." So it is, aad the thought will grow upon you as you medi tate upon it. Just think, "I am God s opportunity!" Isn't it wonderful? Isu't it glorious? When wc look at others whom God has richly blecced and honored i:i service we can aee how it is. but do we ever think of ourselves as God's opportunity? Every one that responds to God's call, "Come!" gives God a larger place in the world. Every one who obeys Cod's command, "Go!" assists God in gaining a larger piace in the hearts of men. Every regenerated heart and life is a new garden in which God plants His seeds of love and grace, a fountain out of which How constant streams cf healing power. Take it home, dear young friend, and say to yourself, "I an God's opportunity." Be that and your life wiil become unutterably grand and your experience unspeakably sweet.?A. W. Spooner, D. D. One Thing We Can Do. Each one in any given place has a responsible share in every other's good work in that place. In some things we do our part with our hands; in other matters we do our part with our hearts. What the Apostle John said about evil deeds is as true of good deeds: "He that giveth him greeting partaketh in big * # works." By our well wishing we become partakers in what others do. John said the same thing in the next Epistle: "We * * * ought to welcome such, that we may be fellowworkers." What we speed on its way, and wfcat we welcome in our hearts when we ^ ?n n'l fhio tro Imvp .1 flh.lPP. I lira* ui ib?in ? *? * i?v ? How* wide reaching, then, are thcopportunitics of even the most secluded! How great is the work in which even the least can be engaged! As we hail any good incoming, or speed any good outgoing, we enter into the prophet s work, and shall receive a prophet's reward. Let us take heart and do our share. Ever Onward and Upward. We are commanded to be perfect, to love God continually, to rejoice evermore, and in everything to give thanks. And | reason is in accord with revelation in enjoining this duty. Man's.patlnvay is e?*er onward and upward. Larger and seemingly infinite possibilities of future achievement invite him to press on with unwearying footstep. Those on Trial. "Are these masterpieces?" asked a tourist in a Florentine gallery, adding, "l must j admit that I do not see much in them myself." "These pictures, sir," was the an- ! swer, "are not on trial; it is the visitors who are on trial." It is the critics who are on trial, not the Scriptures.?New York Observer. Humors/ Today Persistency. Lives of babies oft remind us That our lives would be less rough, And we'd win our heart's desires, Jf we'd holler loud enough ?Cleveland Leader. Identified. "Fa. what is repartee?" "Oh. merely an insult with its dresa suit ou, my sod."?Puck. I Taking a Straw Vote. Canvasser ? "Who is Mr. Henpeck going to support?" Mrs. Henpeck?"Me."?New York Sun. At the Concert. Ida?"How did your Uncle Hiram enJoy the classical program?" May?"Not at all. Why, I wore out* shoe prompting him when to applaud." ?Chicago News. ... Uoparilo? hie Mrs. Cppson?"Is yonr new neighbor ft society woman?" Mrs. De Swell?"Mercy, no! Why, she actually calls her kitchen maid a hired gil l."?Chicago News. Cat Him Up None Too Soon. First Physician ? "So the operation was just in the nick of time?" Second Physician?"Yes; in another twenty-four hours the patient would have recovered without it."?Harper's Bazar. A Recipe Tor Extravagance. "Old man Growler has found a great scheme for doing away with auy necessity for dying rich." "What is it?" | "He has just married a woman who I isn't a third of his age."?'Cleveland j Plain Denier. Whei? They Quarreled. It's not &1I sweetness?courting. Ce- | cil and Queenie have just had a serious j difference of opinion. He (to wind up)?"If you ever see me again it will be in a dream."' She?"It would be a nightmare."? Philadelphia Bulletin. Sorry He Spoke. Reggy?'"Bah Jove, there are a lot of people who sing songs these days and don't even mean what they sing." Miss Rose?"You are right. Reggy. Last night you sung 'Good-bye, My Lady Love' at 10 o'clock and didn't leave until 12."?Cb'cago News. Appropriate. Rodrick ? "Now they are thinking about bringing out the life of Raisouli." Van Albert?"Well, it would be rathf^er expensive." ^ Rodrick?"How so?" Van Albert?"It would have to be bouud in Morocco."?Chicago News. Then She Sighed. Nervous Youth (to charming girl, who has been trying to set him at his ease) ?"He, he! I always?ha?feel rather shy with pretty girls, y'know, but I'm quite at home with you!"?Punch. - The Turrlble Boy. "Johnny," said young Spoonamore, "your sister must look charming when she lets her hair down." "Yes." said Johnny, with his mouth full of chocolate creams, "but she looks a good deal better when 6be puts It M again."?Chicago Tribune. ? i Her Statue. "Ob, that ray son should wish to marry an actress!" shrrieked the proud, patrician mother. "Now. ma, don't take on so," beseeched the undutiful heir, "she ain't really an actress?she only thinks she is."?Pitsburg Post. . K* i Kiting. "They have come up in the world, have they not?" asks the friend of other days. "Indeed, yes." says the friend who has kept track of them. "Why. they have reached that stage where they correct your pronunciation of their .. T...1? , " name. ?juujsc. The Thlnr to Do. "I don't know what to say to this man," mused the agricultural editor. "He asks: 'What shall I do with my hens? Every moruing I find several of them dead.'" I "That's easy," replied the Snake Editor. "Tell him to bury them."?Philadelphia Ledger. Definition*. Young Hopeful?"Father, what is a 'traitor in politics?' This paper says Congressman Jawweary is one." 1 J Veteran Politician?"A traitor is a | man who leaves our party and goes j1 over to the other one." I! Young Hopeful?"Well, then, what la a mau who leaves the other party and .*omes over to ours?" | Veteran Politician?"A convert, my I ?ou."?Boston Transcript. i SNAKESTONE A MYTH. Muppoieil Medicinal Value M a Polsoa Antidote is False. South Africans, as a rule, trouble themselves but little about snakes, althought it is well known that a few'varieties are particularly deadly. Among the natives the properties of the "snakcstone" have for many generations formed a centre of half super stitious credulity, and, even by people who might be expected to know better, have been supposed to effect the most surprising cures of snake bite. An investigation of its properties by the government bacteriologists of Natal, who submitted an Indian snakestone to the test of applying it to animals infected with snake venom, has shown conclusively that its properties are quite mythical and that it does nothing that is claimed for it. According to tradition the snakestone, which has absorbent qualities, and which there is some reason to believe is frequently artificially prepared, is placed on the wound inflicted by a snake bite. There it is believed to suck out the poison, and It has been said that if afterward placed in a bowl of milk the venom will exude and the milk turn blue. In certain experiments narrated in the British Medical Journal ail these directions were followed. To the two rabbits injected respectively with the venom of a black mamba, a very deadly 8outh African colubrine. and- with puff adder venom, the snakestone was at once applied. The stone, by virtue of its absorbent nature, adhered to the wound, but here its adherence to tra-' dition ended. Both rabbits died, and what was more disappointing, two other rabbits, used as a "control experiment," which were injected with the same amount of venom, recovered. Nor when the stone was placed in milk J1A mill- ahonoo r?nlAP tllAllffll fl U1U IUC JUiia wewe, .. . small quantity of it was absorbed. The amount of absorption that the stone could possibly effect would be no more in bours than ordinary suction by the lips could achieve in a few min- ? Utes; and its only possible usefulness might be that of improving the physical condition of the patient by im- i pressing him with the belief that a valuable remedy was being applied.South Africa. , WORDS OF WISDOM: The way to be nothing is to do noth- 1 ing.?Howe. i Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.?Bacou. , It is always the biggest craven who ; gives the dead dog the heartiest kick. When a man gives to be seen of men 1 he generally has a good deal to hide from the Lord. i For pebple who five happily together I the real secret is that they shall not 1 live too much together.?English Proverb. The darkest hour in the history of 1 any young man is when he sits down 1 to study how to get money without honestly earning it.?Horace Greeley. 1 Never compare thy condition with those above thee; but to secure thy j content, look upon those thousands ( with whom thou wouldst not, for any interest, change thy fortune and con- f dition.?Jeremy Taylor. Let us rightly search our lives that, ] if there be any evil in the day gone, , before the angel closes his book we j may repent, and the fair white page ( of holy deeds and genuine repentances ^ be our only record.?John E. W. Ware. ( Life our battleground, death our re- 1 lease; cares and sorrows upon earth, i repose in heaven?of these we'all have 1 heard. But do we really grasp the 1 thought that in our death and judgment we are confronted with new op? 1 portunity??Isaac Ogden Rankin. 1 Awed by Sight of Wealth. . 'A Southern planter employed a man to work some of his land during the ( ohoMo On account of pusi jreai Vfu ouu>v?. the high price of cotton the employe's half of the proceeds amounted to ?1G00. j The planter knew that it would ruin , any such man to get such a sum of money, and decided that half of it I would be enough. Upon further reflection the conviction grew upon him that $800 would ruin any such man in the world, so he cut the sum in j half again, and, piling up 400 shining silver dollars on his desk, sent for the . negro and brother, and said that he . was ready to settle. The man came in ( and fairly gasped at the amount of wealth in sight. "Land, boss," he said, "is that money all ours?" , "Yes." **t" "Well, then, divide it In two piles , and you take your half aud I'll take ; mine."?Minneapolis Tribune. Oar Willow Ware. In ten years Maryland has jumped from fifth to third place in the willowware industry in *he United States, now ranking next to New York and Pennsylvania. Baltimore is one of the three willow-ware centres which only have shown any actual growth In the " ' T" Vn.rlon^ (ho /ifltltr* of UUSlUt'S?. Ill .uai;mim the willow district lies In Howard County. In the neighbo.hood of Elkridge alone the output of willow exceeds $5000 per annum, while Anne Arundel County contributes $2500. Jap Advertising. The Japanese advance in advertising as in all else. Here Is au illustration: "Our wrapping paper Is as strong as the hide of an elephant. Goods forwarded with the speed of a cannon ball. Our silks and satins are as soft J as the cheeks of a pretty woman, as t beautiful as the rainbow. Our parcels i are packed with as much care as a \ young married woman takes or -ner c lusband." ^ i ] The Hospital states that 2,289.578 pa- ^ L!;nts arc treated annually in London : 5 wpitals and dia^ensaries. I SOUTHERN */ \TOP/CS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT rv Corn and Cotton Seed Meal For Cattle* - L. J. C., Gainesville. Flo.?Please give me the relative value of corn and cotton seed meal for fattening cattle, and also that of cotton seed and cotton seed meal. , in experiments maae on tne lenuessee station farm fo^ several years past a ration consisting of two-thirds of cotton seed meal and one-third of corn meal has been fed with great success to beef cattle after the following method: In the early stages of fattening beef cattle It is desirable to obtain as much growth as possible, therefore the grain ration consisted largely of cotton seed meal, a food stuff rich in protein, or muscle building elements, tending to produce rapid growth. As the feeding period advances the amonnt of cotton seed meal fed was gradually reduced, and at the end of three months the cattle were receiving two-thirds of com meal and one-third of cotton seed meal. This ration was continued for the next sixty days and the cattle made uniform gains throughout the period of five months. The cattle receiving this meal ration made about 2.4 pounds gain per day for the whole period, which Is a very satisfactory gain. When cotton seed meal alone was fed the cattle only made a gain of 2.15 pounds per head per day. It is evident, therefore, that the addition of corn to the ration In the finishing period was a great advantage. Cot.-i ? 1 K?? frt Koaf not. lun StftfU tlit'tti ICU UJ nouu iv vi.v& vu? tie does not make as satisfactory a ration as when combined with a small amount of corn, for the reason that It Is too one-sided a food, and therefore the cattle do not fatten as rapidly as Is desirable. Of course, when cotton seed meal is cheap, say $20 a ton, and corn fifty to sixty cents a bushel, it is better policy to feed a larger amount of cotton seed meal, even though some waste results, than to purchase highpriced corn to go with it. Cotton seed meal cannot be fed with satisfaction to beef cattle for long periods where large amounts are usedsay as much as eight to twelve pounds per head per day?unless it is combined with silage or roots or some other succulent food. If hulls are fed to cattle, the meal and hulls should be mixed in the proportion of about one to five, and tho cattle should not receive more than six to eight pounds of cotton seed meal when on full feed. Where sUcculeht roughness is used, from eight to twelve pounds can be fed with safety. A ration containing cotton seed meal as the only concentrate should be increased very gradually, or else the digestive system of the cattle Is likely to be deranged and they will be thrown off feed. Cotton seed does not make a very satisfactory ration for beef cattle; it contains too much oil, and therefore is too laxative. If you can buy the cotton seed at from $8 to S10 a ton you can nmhnhiv nffrtrd to feed them to beef rattle even with the disadvantage mentioned, provided some; other form of dry roughness is used. If you can obtain as much as $15 a ton for cotton seed and buy cotton seed meal for $20 to $25, it is better to sell the seed to the oil mills and buy the meal. When corn can be purchased for forty cents a bushel it will be profitable to feed a considerable quantity of it with cotton setfl meal. It is impossible to give directions for some time in advance, because the crop season influences the prices of various concentrates, and one in order to be successful in feeding beef cattle must study local conditions very carefully and utilize the food stuff that is cheapest and best suited to his purpose.?Professor Soule. Sitae* aa a Companion Food. One of the best ways to feed alfalfa * 1? A rArrinn bay IS WlUl SlJage, umeao iu a 1C51VJ where alfalfa Is very cheap, a contingency that is not likely,to arise in the Southeastern States, because the crop will hardly grow with the luxuriance characteristic of it in the West. Alfalfa hay in the Southeastern States, by reason of its higher price, is a foodstuff that must be utilized more carefully than in the West, where it can be fed in the most wasteful fashion and still give profitable returns. It is a great advantage to feed alfalfa or any other of the leguminous crops that may be substituted for a portion of the concentrates in a ration of the dairy cow with some such succulent and palatable food as silage. By -* *>? nlfaWu nn ns orac cuuppiuj^ iuc uiiuiii* -r, tlced in our experiments, and sprinkling it over the silage with the meal fed. the whole ration was readily consumed. If the alfalfa hay was fed by itself, eveu in larger quantity, it would not be so completely consumed, and the waste would be much greater and its effectiveness in the ration reduced to that extent. In our judgment the gratifying results following the substitution .of alfalfa and cowpen The News of the Day. Thirty-four years ago France was uled by the government of the nationil defence, which consisted of twelve of he best known members of the Opposiion under the Empire. Among them vere such famous names as Leon Gametta Jules Simon, Jules Favre and Gen. Trochu. Eleven of the twelve are dead sow and most of them are forgotten, ["he last survivor is Henri Rochefort, vho in his time has been journalist, onvict, member of the Government and ioulanglst. _ ^ 'ARM* ^or?. S)-C- ?> 2 ER, STOCK MAM AMD TRUCK GROW EM, r I bay for a certain amount of concentrates were due in a large measure to the feeding of these crops with a fine quality of silage which is generally admitted to be the best form of roughness for the dairy cow. Of course, silage by itself is not so satisfactory as when fed in conjunction with a small amount of dry roughness. Another peculiarity was noticed in these experiments, namely, that the ration containing the largest amount of protein was eaten with the greatest relish. In other words, the best results were obtained in the experiments of 1902 and 1903 when cotton seed meal was fed in conjunction with cowpea and alfalfa hay. It is difficult to giro a satisfactory reason for this peculiarity. unless it is that the larger amount of protein acted as a tonic to the nerves and the system generally, and kept the animals in a more perfect condition of health. The other rations j were altj eaten with relish and the animals were in - good condition'; throughout the experiment, but in both years the best results have been ob? tained from the high protein ration, f Gripe Tine* In the Bade Yard. There has been much interest manifested in the improvement of the back yard. Cleanliness, of course,.jtotnes first and that is a matter of dimy attention. Plants for the back yard ought to be of economic valne. Hedge plants, without thorns, along the fence line or bordering the walk. serve * good purpose dally. The pot, sweet and medicinal herbs, such as parsley, thyme, sage and rosemary. do well, and are convenient, la back yards. Rose bushes as rose vines are^ thorny, and therefore not well suited to the part of the premises nsed for hanging and sunning household linen, riant roses in the front yard. Grape vines need a good foothold.N They will climb freely. It is not the approved method of cultivating grapes, but for shade over the kitchen window or porch, a vigorous Concord or Dels- > ware, or Catawba grape vine, answers ' the dual purpose of shade and of yielding grapes. Plant ou the eastern side and train the vine around to tfie window or porch. The root in a run- _ ny place, the vine will stand a western or northern exposure.* .vi'Jjf Scnppernoug vines cover arbors. An, arbor of roujjft construction, extending from the baftjr dooy. say, toward the garden, with fust one Scnppernong grape vine, will "be green aH.sammer and full of grapes in Septemoer. um vine will spread an indefinite number, of feet, twenty, /forty and more. Grape vines feed on bone greedily. Every bone from th^ kitchen can to utilized by burying at the root of the vine. Sweepings from foe yard make a rich mulch. Waste witer from the kitchen is no longer waste^nrater when applied to the grape vines. Grape vines subjected to thH^ntf1W>tive mode of treatment shonld first be cnt away to two branches, trained op. j oud then two collateral branches allowed to each of the main branches.-* G. T. D., in the Florida. ; Seeding Sorghum''end Cowpeaa. E. A.. Hume, Va., writes^ Please | let me know what kind and how much, sorghum to sow with cowpeas, and how many cowpeas to the acre, and the best time to sow? We believe the Red/Head sorghum to be one of the best varieties to sow for silage purposes. It is best sown in drills'about three feet apart, using about eight to ten pounds of seed per acre. You may sow about a half bushel of peas with the sorghum. The i most satisfactory way to. do this is to use a two horse corn planter, filling one hopper with peas and one with sorghum. The plates for the respective hoppers should be adjusted so as to put the sorghum down ev ry four or five inches and the peas about eight to ten inches apart in the drill row. By reversing on the rows the corn and peas are planted together. , The peas should be planted the same as the sorghum and not later, as the sorghum grows rapidly and will overshadow the cowpeas and prerent their making a very satisfactory growth. We ' have never been able to get a large per cent, of peas in either our corn or sorghum for silage purposes.- Fifteen per cent, is the largest amount ever obtained and the average has been be tween five and sir. If you now the corn and sorghum thinner and in wider drill rows, you will get a latfcer per cent, of peas, but this will so reduce the yield of the silage crop as make the small amount of peas obtained unprofitable. It is better, in our judgment, to sow the cowpeas and soy beans by themselves and make into hay to be fed along with the silage or mired with the crops as they are run J into the silo. The Whippoorwill is undoubtedly one of the best varieties of peas to sow with sorchum for ?ilag? purposes. *dde and Ends. _ The present Secretary of War, whoM dignity equals that of any Judge on th< Supreme Bench, is known as "Bill"Taft to all his intimates. In his cats the nickname would seem to be a token of general good will aud friendly feeling. . -,.r , jj John Welsh, the man who fired the first shot under Dewey in the battle oi Manilla, is at present In Mllwaulpe on recruiting service He was with Orldley in Japan when he died and took his last message to his wife if $rie, Pf. * J