The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 08, 1905, Image 6
NATURE'S SCFTENINC TOUCHES.
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Ye' still the wilding: flower* wouel b.ow, jThe
golden leaves would fall.
The seasons conic, the seasons ? >,
Aad God be good to all.
Above the graves the blackberry hung
In bloom and green its wreath.
And harebells swung as if they rung
The chimes of peace beneath. a
The beauty nature loves to share, ,
The gifts she hath for all.
The common light, the common air,
O'ererept the graveyard's wall.
It knew the glow of eventide, 1
t The sunrise and the noon. I
? And jjjlorified and sanctified
It slept beneath the moon. (
fWitlj flowers or snowflakes for its sod, 1
\rnnn^ t??*? enrw ran
And evermore the love of God (
Rebuked the fear of man. t
Ednre on God's all tender heart. J
. Alike rest great and small:
W hv fear to lose our little part, 1
When He is pledged for all ?
|
O tearful heart and troubled brain. 1
Take hope and strength from thia?
' That nature never hints ia vain,
Nor prophesies amiss. ^
H?r wi'd birds sins the same svreet stave, 1
Her lights and airs are given |
Al'ke to playground and the grave,
And over both is Heaven.
?John G. Whittier.
(
J THE HOLE '
r. } IX THE J |
* WALL, j |
|l?IOIOtG(OK^IS neighbors called olu Sir -4
C* | Giles Travis a misanthrope
X |?| U and a miser. Not that they
knew him. for he never left
the high walls which surrounded
his estate, and on
no account was any one allowed to enter
his domain, save the necessary servants
and tradesmen.
On? warm summer's afternoon Sir Giles
was being drawn in his bath
chair across the lawn, thence along a
narrow pathway until the v ail was
reached. Under the tree there was a
comfortable lounge chair, in which,
with the help of his footiuan. Sir Giles
took his seat.
"Push me a little nearer the vail." he
cried, irritably. "Now you can go.
Come back at 4 o'clock."
The baronet gazed after the footman
nnui ne disappeared among trie trees.
He then proceeded to displace a stone ,
near the bottom of the wall. His tin- .
gers groped around, and he gave a sigh j
of deep satisfaction. ^
"No letter. They will come, then.*' ^
A quarter of an hour passed, and he a
tapped his fingers impatiently on the s
magazine which lay in his lap. r
"That's the boy." he inutteivd. as c
there came a soft rustling of dried v
Jeaves. I,
"She is late." t
The voice was impatient. ^
Sir Giles chuckled softly. s
""The impatience of youth." e
A glad cry was heard, the sound of a 0
"kiss, then another kiss. p
"The girl now," the old man said 0
; softly. (.
Twenty years of solitude had left f
their marks on Ids face. As he listened v
to the love chatter of the young couple ^
on the other side of the wall h:s face a
gradually softened. j,
Not always had he been the recluse s
and misanthrope. There was no proud- .]
er and happier man than fcir Giles had t,
. been some twenty years ago. His life *
and hopes were centered in liis son ^
Jack, a tine, manly young fellow, such a
ns would gladden any father's heart. jf
\The quarrel was a sudden one. The s
v-reason?a woman. Hard words were j.
- exchanged, for they were both pos- p
-sessed of the Travis temper. A part- jj
jp.g in auger and two months after- ?
ward news caiue of .Tack's death. Not
a li:?e or message had been left for his (father.
?
The blow was a terrible one io Sir ],
Giles. He closed his heart to all hu- jj
man sympathy and retired to the seelu- j,
sion of Travis Towers.
A few months afterward lie was \
stricken with paralysis, and the long
years bad been wearisome with suffering
and ennui.
For the last two or three months a j a
new interest had come into his life, li
The whole pretty love comedy seemed s
to nave oeen piayeu mmiu esusum. ?i
When tirs-t ibey met there was the o
difference of youth. Their voices at r
lirst were louiler. but as tlieir love in- f
creased their seats on the fallen tree s
without the wall grew closer together, s
and their voices were lowered when I
they began to exchange sweet loving v
nothings. li
A week ago the boy had declared his <]
passion. The old man's heart seemed s
to unfreeze and grow human again as e
he listened to the passionate pleading f
of the lover, the shy. timid answer, I
and the frenzied kisses that were ex- u
changed. a
Only twice since that day had they s
rtnet, and a cloud had appeared on love's i
horizon. 2
? "What did he say?" she asked, j
eagerly. i
/ 4.IT-. ? KA aa
r- nt? rciusca uusuiuicij, uc ?u- y
awered, mournfully. c
l^z-< "What reason did he give, Jack?" l
she demanded, indignantly.
I "Your guardian told me that I was ;
a penniless adventurer, and that it was <
your money I was after," he replied, ;
moodily.
"The wretch! But it doesn't matter.
We can marry without him."
"I did not know you had so much J
money, dear one. You are rich and I 1
have nothing." r 1
"But we have love." t
"Wo can't live on that. It is true I '
have my profession, but I have only t
Just become a doctor, and it is an uphill
game unless one has money to buy a i
practice. I have none."
"Did he not hold out any hope?" she :
asked, tremulously. s
"Yes. He said that if I could prove i
tc him that I had a practice which
would bring in live hundred a year <
he would give his consent. I must <
say that he is reasonable, but?" <
"Will it hike you very long to gain
such a pri^jtice?"
"Years." <
| "Let us marry at or.ce." she cried.
impulsively. "I don't mind being 1
poor." s
There was a silence and Sir (iile3 ]
t ' looked irritably at the hole.
"I have made up my mind, dear." ;
i
:
Ea &
"I am going away at once?to-mopow.
You must forgot me. It is not
air to you."
There was a sound of sobbing.
"Don't cry, darling," be said, pleadngly.
"The fool!" the baronet muttered.
"I can't let you go!" she cried, miseribly.
"I will work bard?an?in time, per- j
laps "
The boy's voice broke.
"Don't go to-morrow. Stay till Satirday.
It is only four days," she asked, i
ileadingly.
There was the sound of a passionate I
arewell, the rustle of leaves, and all '
?vas silence.
Saturday afternoon came, and Sir
^iles looked anxiously at the hole in
he wall. He took a large envelope and
>laced it in the hole.
They came at last. Their words were
'ew and their voices tremulous.
"The last time, Jack, that we shall i
neet here," she said, brokenly.
"In the future, perhaps "
"And I shall have no more use for
hat dear little hole in the wall, where
[ have found so many love messages
Irom my darling."
She leaned down as she spoke.
"Jack, there is a letter here." she
?ried, excitedly.
"To Jack and Joan, with a lonely old
nan's love," she read in wonder.
'Open it at once."
With trembling fingers he broke the i
seal.
Wnm 'liA aHicCi1 kiiln r\f tlin will fhnvA 1
?ame a hoarse but gleeful chuckle.
Jack drew a legal looking document !
from the envelope, which he began M J
ead. ^
"(lood Heavens!" he cried at last.*
'Am I mad?"
"What is it?"
"Old Dr. Rutherford has sold his
Practice to me."
"To you?"
"Yes. and the money has been paid
-?2000."
"Jack, what does it mean?"
Again they heard the hoarse chuckle, i
rhere was even more glee in it.
? ? * *
Two years have passed.
Jack's most valuable patient Is Sir
!?iles Travis, and onee or twice a week
Jie old man sits in his chair near the
lole in the wall, while a fair and happy >
tirl plays with her baby on the lawn
jeside the old baronet.?E. Piatt, in
Jlustrated Bits.
Can't Ketlit 'Kin.
"Children are sometimes more ounling
than we think, and when I say
we.' I am speaking of the men who
lave a right to know something of chilIren
because of the parental responsililities
they wear." said the man with
i couple of youngsters. "Close obervation
and experience have taught
on thof /lfgnhcrliAtw'A ca for fvnm linSnr*
>fleas!ve, is sometimes a virtue, a
irtue because of its cleverness and
realise of the evident good nature of
he breach. It would, in my judgment,
>e decidedly brutal in some circmn- j
tances to scold a child for disobedi- !
nee. Disobedience should be offensive
nly when intended as an offense, when
t is a wilful and purposeful defiance
f the parental injunction. I have a
ase in point which will illustrate per- {
ectly what I mean. My little girl is !
ery fond of sausage. I thought she !
ad consumed enough for one sitting
nd told her so. In a few seconds she j
ad slipped around behind me, and |
hoved her head up under my arm. \
Papa,' she said, with a mischievous i
winkle in her eye, 'let's play dog!' and j
s she said it she threw out a chubby |
and and grabbed a piece of sausage j
nd dashed away with it, laughing as !
' she thought it the finest joke of the i
eason. What could I do? Stop the
luchter by scolding, and suppress the
vulent good nature of it all? She 1
auked nie and got away with the
oods, and since it was evident she
leant ip offense, no disrespect by her
isobedience, there was nothing for
le to do but accept the situation and ;
lugh and frolic in her dog's game with
er. And so I did. Wouldn't you act
l the same way when disobedience
> put forth in such sunshiny garb?"?
tew Orleans Times-Democrat.
Sight Through Brick Wells.
Dr. Paul Sollier. director of the Santoriuin
for Nervous Diseases at Bouigne-sur-Seiue,
tells a remarkable
tory of sight through brick walls and
round corners which he is studying in
no of his patients. The man. whose
lervous trouble began as the result of
ailing from a train, is a good hypnotic
ubject, and is being treated by sug- ;
:estion. In the course of treatment
)r. Sollier accidentally discovered that ,
ehen hypnotized the uiau eouh^ see '
urn when his back was turned. In or
lor to test tins remarKaoie "cyeiess j
ight" the doctor made tlie following
xperiment: "Having as before
dunged the mun into a state of deep j
lypnosis, in the course of cerebral
[wakening, I went into a closet separited
from the laboratory by a hall
taircaso over six-teen feet wide* a wall
ifteen and one-half inches thick, and
(receded by a small vestibule having j
iceess to a gallery shut off by a glass !
loor. When inside the closet I made !
t movement with my hand as if to ;
Iraw him toward me, and immediately
le rushed to the door of the laboratory,
rhe noise he made because he was not
illowed to go out at once apprised me
>f the success of the experiment."?
N'ew York Globe. *7j
Something to Think About.
How to live comfortably with one's
leighbor?that is the problem; to avoid
he knocks and frictions which draw
ines to men's faces and too often eonract
their souls. It is paradoxical, but
?+l?r? lo rrrnr tlln CAIll hnf'AniOU
>1 UCj (lltll lUC i((i Uic OVUI wW4Mvw I
he more room it creates for itself?
1 margin of quietness in which it renains
untouched by petty jealousies
\nd hurts. By the practice of charity
unl unselfishness a life builds for it<olf
"more stately mansions" wherein
t may dwell in peace.
A song in one's heart, a smile upon
me's lips, cheery, a wholesome message
jf good will on one's tongue are wor.lerful
helps to all kinds of people.
There are so many burdens of sorrow
ind care and poverty and sin; so many
loubting, discouraged, tempted hearts.
To comfort and to make strong, to
lift up and to bless?are these not missions
worth while? Try it, friend, and
prove how truly your own heart and
mind are cheered and made brave by
your very endeavor to carry sunghlue
into dark places.
FACTS LIKE FICDN
? .
A Truly Wonderful Story of Progress
in Prosperous Southland
DEVELOPMENT ALONG EVERY LINE
High Percentage of Increase in the
Production of Staple Commercial
Articles?Great Increase in Manu
factures?What a Quarter Century
Will Show.
CF. GOODYEAR, of Brunswick
Ga.. in a recent communication
to the Atlanta Constitution,
says: "The genius who shall tell
the marvelous story of the statistics
of Southern development for
tfce past twenty-five years, who
shall relate the story of courageous
struggle and of hope deferred;
of despair which created a
great party and of revival of faith; of
earnest men. taught by past failures,
achieving victory under adverse eruditions
apparently insurmountable,
shall write a book the world will giadly
buy and read, and shall have the
material for many books demonstrate
, irg in each truth stranger and more
marvelous than fiction. ,
"What American, native born or naturalized.
can do otherwise than glory
in America achievement in this twenty-five
years. What Southern man,
native or adopted citizen, but will
.glory in such achievement of this porlitiAn
ltnit A/1 AA?nti?t?
age twice as great: her pigiron output
throe times greater; coal output four
times greater: corn 80 per cent of the
total crop of the entire country for
1860: cotton spindles 3.500,000 more;
exports $226.CC0.C00 more, and total
of true values of property within 4
per cent of equalling the value of the
entire country in 1860. and it was
thought that the entire United States
was a pretty good country in 1860.
l.ive stock has increased in the South
front 1880 to 19C0 90 per cent
"These comparisons surely should be
most gratifying to every Southern
citizen?should stimulate to renewed
effort. The opportunity, the capital,
are ail at hand for a new twenty-five
ocn < r.nmnoiartt r\# ?\t?Aot'fiee nrVtioh chilli
?< ".! v ?in}/?ti vjl j;ivp,ivoo nmvu
in 1930 seem to those living then more
wonderful than any of the marvels of
which Jules Verne wrote. The mineral
wealth, the agricultural and manufacturing
possibiities of the South
have been barely touched, are in the
infancy of their development. By 1930
we will not e.nlv clothe the naked, but
assist largely from our surplus to feed
the hungry."
ram'shorn blasts
^T\ HE stone without
I cutting is without
[A^ place in the build
wlyS? A man's ability
must be measured
People who get
?i\ VwMfa green with envy
\\ \V62jSf also got blue with
Autumn's limbs
ace laden because
* J* of Spring's pruning.
It !.? cosier 1x stay out of the snare
thr.a it is to struggle out.
F::t:;.r(n,c v:".h :'io wrong is not
the zzz.c its ior;l.:ncas.
The rebellious masticate the medieire
ihcv should swallow whole.
It takes less labor to analyze God
then it dees to obey Him.
Money may br.v neve gloves, but it
tr.r.nct make clean hands,
j Grid is more likely to break the back i
than uj bless the heart.
| People who meat need advice usually
| have most to give away.
The chinch that brags of its social
I lire may lose its savins power.
Pcrue men who water their milk
every day cannot understand why the
prayer-meetings seem so thin.
The greatness of^a man is net evidenced
by his findi* faults, but by his
fixing them. g
A man who feewlike apologizing for
his religion ncedpto apologize for what
he has. I
It is easy to^wch coolness when j
you have nothing t^lo but to sit on a ;
refrigerator.
The devil may steel the setting, but j
ihe jewel of life you cannot lose un- j
less you give it away.
The impure thought is easily crushed j
before it is spoken, but "who can cure j
its contagion afterwards?
THE SWDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE II.
I
Subject. The of the Risen Christ,
K*t. I., 10'.iO?Golden Text, Rev. I., 18
?Memory Verses, 17, 18? Commentary ,
on the Day's Lesson.
I. John receives a message (vs. 10,
11). 10. "In the Spirit." Under the .
Influence of the Spirit, and filled and
quickened by the Spirit. "The Lord's ^
day." The day made sacred to ale
Christians for all time by the resurrection
of Jesus from the dead. It was
the day of light and salvation. John
arrived in Patrnos late Saturday evening.
spent the night in prayer, and with
the opening Sunday morning the gloritied
Saviour opened heaven to hi* vision.
Why is our Sabbath the first day
of the week? We see here the apostles
kept the first day and, because of
its sanctity, called it the Lord's day.
"Behind me," etc. This was his first
intimation of the presence of Christ,
who spoke with a voice like a trumpet.
11. "Alpha and Omega." Omitted
in It. V. These are the first and last
letters of the Oreek alphabet. This is
a figurative expression, used to show
that Christ was the "source and the
consummation" of all things. He is
from eternity to eternity. "What thou
seest." The prophetic vision that was
revealed to him on that Lord's >lav.
"Write." What if Jolip had not written?
The command to write is given
twelve limes in the Apocalypse. "A
book." A parchment roll. Ancient
books wore made of papyrus, or from
the prepared skins of animals, and
rolled upon a roller. "Seven churches."
"Seven" denotes perfection. Doubtless
there Avere hundreds of churches in
Asia^inor at that time. The reason
wlndrseven only are mentioned is becaiwo
the church is the bride of Christ,
and seven is the sanctified number always
representing Christ. "In Asia."
A small province in Asia Minor called
Asia, of which Kphesus was the capi- |
tal. "Ephesus." Mentioned first be- j
cause the church here was the largest, j
II. A vision of the glorified Redeemer
(vs. i:MG?. 1 2. "The voice." He
turned to see who it was that spoke,
the word "voice" being used to signify
the person speaking. "Golden candlesticks."
Compare Zeoli. 4:2-11. Lampstands
would be a better term. Not
one candlestick with seven branches,
but seven candlesticks. The independence
of the churches of Christ is con
ii vi a uimvu \ viuiu v
^ 'Tarm values throughout the entire
country increased from 1880 to 1900 67
per cent; for the South 82 per cent
Farm products for the same period,
entire country, 56 per cent, for the
South 92 per cent. Farm products
1890 to 1900, in the South, average
yearly increase, $61,000,000; 1900 to
1904, average yearly increase, $115,000,000.
Money Invested in manufactures,
entire ccuntry, increase 1880 to
1900 252 per cent; in the South 348
per cent. Cotton spindles increase
1891 to 1900, 6,400,000; for the South,
4,450,000. Cotton consumed in the
South in 1880 in her mills 234,000
bales; in 1900, 1,597,000 bales; in 1904
over 2,000,000 bales. Assessed property
values. 1880 to 1900, in the South,
increase 80 pef cent. Increased railroads
for the entire country, mileage,
1880 to 1900, 100 per cent; for the
South in same period 160 per cent.
Increased exports. 1880 to 1900, 67 per
cent; for the South same period, 77
per cent. In the Southern lumber industry
more capital was invested in
1900 than for the entire country in
1880. the value of its products increasing
371 per cent.
"The output of pig iron in the South
increased from 1880 to 1900 700 per
cent. In the entire country for the
same period 250 per cent* The coal
output increased from 1880 to 1904,
for the entire country, 390 per cent;
the South. 1,000 per cent, or from 6,000.000
to 66,000,000 tons.
"Let such percentages of increase
continue for the next twenty-flve
years, and who can measure the
wealth and prosperity of the South.
Is the South in financial condition for
such development? Let the following
figures answer: 1892 to 1903, increase
in bank deposits, entire country, 100
per cent; in the South from $333,000,COO
to $745,000,000. a per cent of * increase
of about 125 per cent in eleven
years.
"The totalofthe South's mineral products.
in 1880, $18,000,000; 1900, $115,C00.000?640
per cent increase. (The
percentage not yet available for the
entire country.)
"In 1904 the South had 80 per cent,
of the entire population of the country
in 1860. The bank deposits are three
timAP oo cr??An t e f/M. tliA An t i ro nAitn.
sistent with tlie uuity of the church or
Christ. t
33. "In the midst." Showing Christ's
presence anion? His people. "The Son
of Man." Compare Daniel 7:13. This
term is used here because His glory
might hide from view His oneness of
sympathy with His people. "A garment."
This is a description of the
long robe worn by the high priest.
Jeans is our high priest in heaven.
"Cirt?golden girdle." He was girt
around the breast lit. V.) as "a sign of
kingly repose." It represented "the
breastplate of the high priest, on which
the names of His people are engraven."
14. "White like wool." Wool is supposed
to he an emblem of eternity. The
whiteness signified antiquity, purity
and glory. With Christ His hoary head .
was no sign of decay. Compare Dan. |
7:f>llO:ti. The whiteness, three times J
mentioned (white, white wooi. snow),
is greatly intensified, and denotes unlimited
age, even eternity. "His eyes,"
etc. This certiiies His omniscience.
The eye is the receptacle of knowledge
and symbolizes all the senses. I
15. "Burnished brass" (R. V.) This
denotes His stability and strength.
His feet are like brass when in the
furnace and subjected to a very great I
heat. His feet were "strong and stead- l
fast, supporting His own interest, sub- j
duing His enemies and treading them j
to powder." His voice." Described <
the same in Ezek. 43:1'. Ho will make j
Himself heard: it is a commanding ,
voice that must be obeyed: it is terrl- (
hie in its denunciation of sin. .
Id. "In His right hand." The 'Tight (
hand" is an emblem of power. "Seven j .
stars." These stare are the faithful
preachers of I the gospel. "A sharp
two-edged sword." His word which (
both wounds and heals and strikes at (
sin on the right hand and on the left. '
This wonderful sword lias two edge1,
sharp as (lod's lightning ? the edge I
that saves and the edge that destroys. 1
Compare Heb. 4:12: Eph. 0:17. The *
sharpness of the sword represents the 1
searching power of the word. "As the I
sun." We know of nothing brighter t
than the snn shining in his strength. 1
III. Words of comfort and explana- c
tion (vs. 17-20). 17. "As dead." Ilis r
countenance was too bright and daz- t
zling for mortal eyes to behold, and i
John was completely overpowered with <
the glory in which Christ appeared. <
Com par o Kzek. 1:28: Dan. S: 17. "Right
hand upon mo." His band of power
and protection, in which the churches
were held. "Fear not." There is no
occasion to tear when in the presence
of Christ. IS. "The Living One" (R.
V.) The source of all life?the One
who possesses absolute life in Himself.
"Was dead." I became a man and
died as a man: I am the same one von
saw expire o:i the cross. "I am alive."
Having broken the bands of death. I
am alive "for evermore." "The keys."
.An emblem of power and authority.
"Of death, and of hades" <R. V.)
Hades is a compound Greek word,
meaning the unseen world, and including
both heaven and hell. Gehenna Is
the Greek word which always means
liell. and nothing else. Christ has
power ovat life, death and the grave.
He is abl^to destroy the liviug and to
raise the dead. 11). "Hast seen." The
visions He has just seen. "Which are."
The actual conditions of the seven
churches. See chapters 2 and 3.
"Which shall be." Iu the future of
the church.
20. "The mystery." Write the mys
tjb'lOUS?uit." atrtritrt iiuu jjlivii-u tuvmr j
ins of what you liave seen. "The an- j
gels." The ministers and pastors.
MADE PETS~OF~ RATTLERS. <
t
Tennessee Farmer's Odd Liking for s
Venomous Snakes. (
Joshua Fleener, aged 80 years, keeps c
a den of rattlesnakes at his home near ^
Richards postofflce, this county. He
has made pets of snakes ever since 1
he was a boy.
He has eleven rattlesnakes in his ,
den, and experienced some difficulty ,
in caring for the serpents during the
cold weather. Fleener lives in an old- (
fashioned house with the back wall of ,
the fireplace on the outside of the ,
building. The den, built of stones, was ,
mad-* with the chimney place as one
of tl walls. The reptiles were placed
in t. s den during the cold weather, ,
and ( ily one died this winter as a re- (
suit ( i the cold. ,
Sometimes, when the chimney made
the den too warm, the serpents would
become angry and fight one -another.
The snakes were all captured by Flee- i J
ner In the woods near his home, and j
they are all timber rattlers, a species ^
which is becoming rare in this state. ,
?Nashville Correspondence Indianap- .
oils News. * ,
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JUNE ELEVENTH.
Yot Ashamed of the Gospel. Rom1:
13-17.
Paul was in debt to Christ, in debt
or his life; but he was proud of the
lebt.
If Paul had been ashamed of the
gospel he would have considered that
shame the most shameful thing of his
vhole life.
We are not ashamed of powerful
hings. but of weak things. We shall
lot be ashamed of the gospel if we
eeognize it as the mighty, world.'onquering
agency which it really Is.
When Paul was proud of the gos
-1 Mo mim rlffhtpmiS.
ptl, It was iiw; mo vnu
legs he was proud of. but God's.
Suggestions.
"Not ashamed"?that is the emphasis
of under-statement. Really, there
svas nothing of which Paul was so
remendously proud.
The pride in Christ is exclusive
if all other prides. "God forbid."
said Paul, "that 1 should glory iri
inything else."
The testimony we give in these
irayer meetings is always of what
Christ has done for us, not of what
ve have done for ourselves. Chrisian
testimony is always modest.
When we are very proud of anyhing?as
of some great victory of
iur political party, or some great
:rlumph of our country?we talk
ibout it a great deal.
Illustrations.
When men are proud of their
ichievements they make a world's
?xposition to place them on show. So
he Christian will be glad to exhibit
Thrist in his life.
There is no more beautiful joy on
:arth than the pride which a younger
irother takes in his noble older
jrother. Now Christ is our Elder
Brother.
No army wins victories unless it is
iroud of its general.
The Christian is like a mirror re
lecting a lovely face. How aosura
t would be If the mirror grew vain
)f the face, hs if K were his own!
Questions.
Am I always eager for a chance to
>:ng Christ's praises?
Am I giving Christ good reason to
je ashamed of me?
Is my life, on the whole, a satisfacon
to Christ?
Quotations.
Is the seal upon my brow so unnistakable
that always and everywhere
I am known to be Christ's subect
??Havergal.
Loyalty to Christ means carrying
'orward in our century the work He
jegan in His; not only worshipping
rtim on our knees, but working with
4im on our feet.?Parkhurst.
There can be no beautifully symnetrical
unfolding of the new life,
vlthout constant acknowledgment to
^im who is that Life.?Francis E.
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EllDRMlMSSOIIS
SUNDAY, JUNE ELEVENTH.
Slot Ashamed of the Gospei.?Rom. :
1. 13-17.
Paul had purposed to go to Rome,
>ut was hindered. He went at last,
jut only as a prisoner. He had an
tmbition to save the Roman as well
is the Jew. This evidences the thornighness
of the remarkable change
n nis spini. ne recognized mm ue
vas "debtor" to all men; that is, that
he responsibility was on him to give
o all the opportunity to hear and ac- i
:ept the gospel. The reason for all |
his was that he was not "ashamed
f the gospel." And the cause of his
confidence in that which all other men
lespised was in that it "was the
lower of God unto salvation."
It takes courage to champion an unpopular
cause. When that cause is
naligned and misrepresented, whtm
t means social ostracism and peril to
ifc and liberty. It takes a hero to
ireach it. Such was Paul, and so was j
he gospel in his day. There must
>e a great reason for the aggressive |
:hdmpionship of a dangerous doctrine, j
ro Paul the fact that the gospel was
he power of God unto salvation made
t not only a reason why he should ac:ept
It, but a further reason why he
should preach it and push it. It
night to be the same with us. Let
is ask and answer two or three ques
:ions:,
What Is the Gospel that We
Should Not Be Ashamed of It? It
las revolutionized the natfons." It
las abolished slavery and superstiion.
It has saved uncounted millions, j
[t has reached us. It has brought '
>eace and pardon to our hearts. It
las brought life and immortality to
lght. It has given us a worthy ideal
'or which to live. It has banished the
'ear of death. It lightens the gloom
>f the grave. It lights up the pathway
of the poor and the needy. It
las brought only blessings where
rnrses abounded. It has done all
hat is good, and nothing evil, for hunanity.
It is the power of God to
)ur own personal salvation. There ;
s every reason to be satisfied with it;
here Is no reason to be ashamed of
t.
There Are Reasons Why Christ
dight Be Ashamed of Us. How slow
)I Iclllll we It? we, liuw iciuuiaui IV
eave all and follow him! How negligent
of duty, and prone to grieve him,
lave we been! How little glory we
lave reflected upca his cause, how
>ften silent when we should have
estifled for him, how careless of
ipeech when we should have been |
:areful! If the Master is not ashamed j
>f us, what possible reason can there >e
in any company or condition to I
je ashan:?d of him or his gospel? j
Blind People Use Most Gas.
"When it comes to consuming gas '
In large quantities blind people can !
beat their seeing brethren all hollow," ;
said an inspector of the Consolidated
3as Company. "I know two families
where both husband and wife are
blind. Every jet is turned on full tilt
In their homes at night and is kept
going at that rate clear up to 12
D'clock. Light and darkness are all
the same to the afflicted ones, but
they Insist upon illumination brilliant
snough for a reception.
"And that partiality for !ight is not
i whim peculiar to those two couples.
All blind people feel that way. They
lemand the light and in all private
tiomes and institutions where the
blind are cared for the gas bills
vouch for their strange fancy."?New
York Press.
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Strong Healthy thick*.
Last week we devoted most of our
apace to growing and feeding young
chicks. But the subject is by no
means exhausted. Thousands of chickens
are hatched every year, only to
droop and die before they are a month
Af oAiincolnri
UiU. 1II a 11JU1UIUUC VA VVUUOV.v.w
there Is a safety." We hope by giving
the experience of many poultry keepers
to show that much of the loss is
avoidable and unnecessary. The following
is from The Successful Poultry
Journal:
The "breeding stock and the incubator
are often wrongly blamed for the
chicks being weak and puny, many of
them dying the first few weeks when
in fact the trouble is due to the improper
care of the eggs during the period
of incubation. If you want good
strong, lusty chicks that will go
through to maturity, scratching for a
living, always in the very pink of condition.
study well the conditions that
you surround them with, while the
tender germs are sprouting into life.
Do not allow the temperature of your
incubator room to run below sixty degrees,
keep the ventilators wide open
from the start, lower the upper sash
of the south window all the way down
during the day. except when raining or
wind}, close window at night and open
a door leading into an adjoining room
or hall, give them all the pure fresh
air possible, but guard against drafts.
Hold temperature of egg chamber at
103, mark og^ and turn them half
over twice aauy, unng me eggs nuiu
the outer sides of the trays to the centre
each time, in order to equalize the
heat, air them down to the same temperature
as your hand; they should not
feel cool to the touch; test out on the
eleventh day, discard all clear eggs and
those having streaks running through
them. The eggs do not develop uniformly;
most of the eggs you have left
will be very opaque, a few will be
doubtful; these are only somewhat tardy;
mark them plainly, give them extra
heat by placing them on top of the
others in the warmest part of the machine,
and they will soon catch up with
their neighbors. After the eleventh
day prolong the airing, gradually increasing
the tim?, allow your machine
to stand open five minutes with the
eggs, exercise the eggs at each time of
airing by rolling them under the palms
of the hands, give them plenty of air
and exercise; action is the very life of
animal growth. Test a second time on
sixteenth day; notice your tardies; if
yon have given them a little extra care
they will be up with the crowd. They
will pin at the close of the nineteenth
day. Close the ventilators, run at
IO314 to 104, do not open the machine
under any circumstances, and in ten or
twelve hours they will clean you up a
hatch of big-strong chicks, that will
live through thick and thin. All this
talk about weak breeding stock is
bosh. It's only an excuse used for the
worthless incubators. If the spark of
life is present in the egg surround It
with proper conditions and It will develop
into a vigorous organism. The
fact that the tardy eggs can be hurried
along is proof of this.
AVorxl Aihn and Kalnlt For Potato*!.
R. X. H.. Evington, writes: "I would
like some information as to the value of
wood ashes and kainlt for potatoes."
Kainit, as you probably know, is
potash in its crude form. It is a low
grade of potash, as onlyl2V4 per cent,
is actually available for plant food,
and as it is mixed with considerable
quantities of salt and chlorides it is
not as satisfactory a potato fertilizer
as the sulphate. Besides that, it is
so low in available plant food that it
is one of the most costly forms in
which potash can be used because you
will observe that a large amount of
virtually waste material is shipped in
every ten. Therefore the cost of potash
in kainit is relatively higher thai:
in the more concentrated forms.
1 Wood ashes make a satisfactory fertilizer
for gardens and for the potato
crop as won. xueir miui- uqicmw
pood deal 011 the source from which
they are derived and the treatment
they have received. Ashes also contain
considerable amounts of lime and
a very small amount of phosphoric
acid, so that they are useful in providing
other forms of plant food. The
average analysis of commercial wood
ashes shows them to contain about 3
to 7 per cent, of potash, 1 to 2 per cent,
of phosphoric acid and from 25 to 30
per cent, of lime. This, of course, is
for the unleached form. Leached ashes
frequently contain only 1 per cent, of
potash, 1% per cent, of phosphoric
acid and 23 tp 30 per cent, of lime.
Where ashes that have been protected
from the water can be purchased
at a low cost they provide potash in
a satisfactory form and should be utilized
on gardens and in orchards.
Should one desire to provide fifty
pounds of available potash for each
nrr? of bind it would be necessary to
use about 500 pounds of wootl ashes
to the acre.
Jeta and Flashes.
When a man gets in debt he has a
chance to get out by dying.
With the aid of dressmakers a woman
can have a figure without
shape.
Being good is mostly an accident of
there being no chance for the other
thing.
It is hardly ever worth while to pretend
to be as sure of a thing you know
as of one you don't
It's pretty exciting to think how fond
of a woman you could be if you were
married to her.
A husband is sometimes landed by a
maiden effort?and sometimes by the
affort of the maiden's mother.
No indeed, Cornelia, a pickpocket and
a reporter are not in the same class
just because both take notes.
When a man wants money or assistance
the world is charitable
enough to let him keep right on wanta
great ball player. He
ark without and within
afea lata^Lt the drove out on a fly.
ARM fioWM
D<3-??0STOCK
HAM AMDTRUCK
As to th? amount that shonl^^^^^^^^H
for wood ashes, only
state that potash can be
the form of muriate at aboat^^^^^^^H
cents per pound for availabk^^^^^^H
food. Therefore 100 pounds
ashes are not worth more than'S^^^^H
live cents at the outside. If the^^^^^^H
be bought art 15 to 25 cents the/^^^^^H
be used to advantage as a fertili^^^^^B
It is for these reasons that in prev^^^^^H
communications relative to Irish
toes the use of sulphate of pota^Pl^HH
been suggested, because it provldeff^^B
plant food in a more concentrated
form and also is better suited to the
production of an Irish potato of hig^t
cooking quality, mere is no oDjection
to using wood nsbes for potatoes*
The objection to fcainit is not serious*
and any of these forms of potassic
fertilizers can be used to advantage
in the production of general garden
crops.?Andrew W. Soule.
Preparing Land For Alfalfa.
I J. K., Farmviile, writes: "I have ' *
I read and beard much about alfalfa*
| but have never seen any, as there Is
none raised here. I want to try it, and
would like some information as to how
to prepare the land, and when Is the
best time to sow': Also where can the
material be obtained for inoculating
the land? Does the soil have to be Inoculated
for cowpeas?"
Land for alfalfa should be Tery carefully
prepared. It is well to start 8
year In advance to get the land ready*
and unless it is naturally very deep and
porous it should be snbsolled, and sub- ^
soiling is best done in the fall of the
year. It is also well to enrich the land i**
by growing a crop of cowpeas and V
nlnnVlnr* fhnm /lnrrn hmVirO SPedinff to i
yiyj n lutui ?v.?? Q ?
alfalfa. The seeding may be done appropriately
about the first of September
not later than this, or the alfalfa
will not make a strong enough growth
'to withstand the freezes of winter..
Spring seeding may be practiced about
the first to the fifteenth of March, depending
a good deal on climatic conditions.
It is generally best to wait
until danger of hard freezing is past.
It is well to inoculate your alfalfa before
seeding. This may be done by;
obtaining some of the culture put up
by the experiment station and sent at
a very small cost to the farmers of the
State upon application. As a rule, it
is not necessary to inoculate land in
Tennessee for eowpeas or red clover,
Sometimes soy beans do much better
when Inoculated, and the station hopes
to be In position to furnish the farmers
of the State with the necessary germs .
for inoculating soy beans.?Knoxvills
Journal.
Value of Lime For Corn.
W. E. G., Charlottesville, Va.. wrltest
o/v *ai1 mA Hnn- in tnut 1 o n/1 fn saa
l iraec iru mc uutv iv ivov %w
if lime is Deeded. Do you think lime
would benefit land for corn?
It is an easy matter to rest land so
as to tell whether it Is acid or not.
Purchase from your nearest drug store
a package of blue lltimus paper which
you should be able to get for five
cents. Take a handful of the soil to
be tested and moisten with rainwater
.in a tin cup and insert a strip of the
litimus paper. If it turns red quickly, ^
it is an evidence that your land is quite
acid; if it turns red slowly, that it is
only slightly ackl. In either case .
lime should be applied. If it Is very
acid a heavy application would be advisable,
say fifty bushels, applied in .
the caustic form. Purchase it when
freshly burned and distribute in heaps
in the field at suitable distances and
cover lightly with earth and allow to
slake. When thoroughly slaked, scatter
it over the surface of the ground
uniformly and incorporate with a harrow.
I,ime is not a fertilizer but is a '
stimulant and a corrective of certain
objectionable conditions In the soil. It
also sets free plant food which is heldin
unavailable forms, and may there- '.
fore ininre the land if used to excess.
An application of lime once in three
to five years is ample as a rule. Land
intended for corn will be benefited t>y
an application of lime. The test indicated
is very easily made and it will
pay you to ascertain whether your
soil is acid or not. and if it is, to make
an application of lime.
Maklus a Lawn.
Four things are required to make a
good lawn: Time, soil, climate and intelligent
labor. In England they have
a saying that it requires 100 years to
make a lawn, and 200 years to make a
good lawn. In this country, where wo
are trying to make suburban homes
while you wait, and where a month or
two seems a very long time, people are
too Impatient. It speaks well for their
ambition that they want lawns as soon
as they move into their houses, but
they are really exacting too much. At
the very best, it requires no less than
three years to make a presentable lawn,
and five or ten years to make what we
uncritical Americans call a good lawn.
?The Garden Magazine.
Pointed Paragraphs.
The reason it takes two women so
long to say good-bye is that they are
both determined to have the laat
word.
A girl Is never satisfied with her
newest dress until she discovers that
her worst girld friend doesn't like it
If there is anything calculated to
drive a woman to drink it is her failure
to interest some one in other people's
troubles.
It takes a strong' minded married
woman to resist the temptation to
have her picture taken with her first
baby in her lap.
When the husband of a jealous wo- '
man kisses her just before starting
down town she imagines that he does
it because he is glad to get away.
How unhappy the lot of the boarding-house
landlady. Strawberries no
sooner get cheap than boarders begin
to kick for peaches and watermelon.
' That charity which begins at home
would rather patronize an excursion
boat than paddle his own canoe? ^
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