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J?1? SOUTHERN f 0 ?~^~l>(c JWCS Of- INTEREST TO THE PLANT, X ?j?????A Pis Hospital. A correspondent of Tlie Southern Ruralist tell his methods with pigs as follows* With a large herd of Berksliires it is necessary to have a hospital where you car, place those that get hurt or need treatment for scours, whooping COUgl). COllSlipailon auu Oilier auiurms that pigs are subject to just as are members of the human family. The hospital should have several wards so that each trouble can be trea'ed after its kind, but in each ward "here should be a low. tint box kept supplied with charcoal, ashes, salt and i little lime, for more pigs are troubled with indigestion just as people, then with any other trouble and the above prescription is a fine alterative and does more to strengthen and improve the digestive organs than anything I have ever . tried. Pigs, like some people, will sometimes gorge their stomachs and thereby thwart digestion and be "off their feed" for weeks, hence it is very important to feed a pig only as much as he will clean up at oucp. but he should be fed four to six times a day according to the age and digestion. Never, under any circumstances, feed pigs under ten weeks of age sour milk. oViAnlil ihcJf /I'l mc hnVii if for if is iiUl CIiUll 1VI IUVU UUIU0 *?%%? V %. --- certain to briny ou seours. After they are three mouths old there is nothing better for them than milk with white shorts. Bran is fine for cows and matured hogs, but not fit for pigs. An old doctor, and a mighty good oue. who had retired to his farm, and lived adjacent to me. told me thirty-five years ago that he had found out what gave pigs the bbnd staggers, set them crazy and often killed them, and that it was nothing more than jimpson seed that they would eat in the fall of the year after they had finished up the wheat stubble and succulent b'tes of clover, then why let the miserable weed go to seed? Pull it up by the roots when the ground is moist, do this every season for two years and you are done with it. Pigs are sometimes farrowed with but one opening in rear and that intend; (1 for the discharge of water but strange to say that one opening acts for the discharge of both liquid and T 1....... ?i?e ... |,? 9uuu. <iuu i iia % v iiiiu ky'h-" 4" "v l the finest and most thrifty of the litter, but of course they are only fit for the pork barrel and should never be allowed mate with the boar. The first case I ever had of this I shipped the pfg. which was a very handsome *>ce. to a doctor, and his clos-- observance of such things soon brought to light the trouble which ho reported very promptly and to which I responded at once with another pis:, and told him to eat the first oue at 1 my expense. I have a case of this kind now. from an imported sow. by an imported boar, bi the fattening pen. and he. sLe or it is the most voracious "growingist" thing you ever saw. It is a common thing for one testicle i only to be visible. I had a case lately | where neitbec. was visible and a docid- i od depression occurred where there should have been just the reverse, hut < when he was butchered they both were formed and fully two inches from < th"ir natural position. Sows are nearly 1 always bred entirely too young, this 4^arly breeding diminishes the size of 1 1be dam and also of her progeny. A i sow should never be bred under teu ] , months of age. and it is much better to wait until she is twelve months old i and well matured, then, and only then, can you expect to get best results. This talk about practically starving a sow for one. two or three weeks ; Just after farrowing is all wrong: ' there is none of them that would not 1 , be improved, and their pigs too. by moderate feeding of shorts and bran mixed with greasy water, commencing eighteen or twenty-four hours after farrowing. A sow would become so nervous and ravenous as to trample to death and possibly eat her young if starved as some recommended. Of course you should commence with onefourth feed first three days and then gradually increase it for ten days, after which time give her all she will clean up four times a day. After just two weeks, in cold weather, you can let her have a moderate ration of com night and morning. About the third week her pigs will begin to nibble at this. I write this from thirty-five years' experience. I have told you before in this paper how to get the pigs :o eat mush at about four weeks of age. Cholera or Sirine Fever. During these times when science is bending a fast-moving procession or advancement, and unexplored subjects being made paramount issues among the leading scientists of our country, it is well that the Southern breeders get into the "band "wagon" and accept those discoveries that will tend to keep down diseases and thus save their herds. Along the medical line, especially. lias the advancement been very noticable. Of coarse these discoveries Pointed Paragraph!. Politics is making others believe what you don't believe yourself. The way to make a woman think you love her is to get mad about a gown Bhe wears because she thinks other men will admire it. A gir! is awful smart when she goes to chun h to be able all at the same ?ime to make her mother believe she is reading the service and some man ioat jftr j- jOOKing ai mm. Sudufn riches spoil many a good ! workman. Bargiarproof safes and fireproof buildings seldom are. Radium will never make a good substitute for the gold brick. It's difficult for a man to love his neighbor as they love themselves. Better the tends that ache from toil than the heart that aches from trouble. When a man telephones his wife he has to stay downtown late with the president of his company, it is a sign she knows he is going to lose a lot ' * * ARM /0J?S. DO- o I E7?.. 5 J OCX MAN ANO TRUCK GHO Af-R, \ I arc largely for the benefit of the human ami not the hog. This is a rule which works only one way?some people are like the hog, but the hog is not like some neonle. Some few prae tical discoveries I have made in regard to diseases of the hog which may be of value to the Southern breeders, are as follows: I Several years ago when a hog was taken sick the people rapidly came to | the conclusion that the disease was cholera, now it is swine fever or pneu| monia. If you will study the disease you will find they are the same. Swine fever or pneumonia is just a forerunner of the dreaded cholera. Hogs are affected in a dozen different ways. The disease very seldom comes in the summer, the first symptoms appearing generally with the first cold spell in the fall, and is caused by the hog first taking cold. They sometimes run nit the nose, while others will refuse to eat. Others will swell up in the joints and get down so they can't walk, some will have such high fevers that the hair will come out and they will simply dry up on foot: some will have blind staggers end die wit 1: fits and some will lose their ears. This can^ all be avoided if you will begin right and at the proper time. Your herd should be given your attention at all times. You should have a nice, warm *' A* ?"* of xx'i 11 on/1 clonn piuvrt" tvi nxi-iii iv ??? but be sure you do not let too many bed together. During my experiences along this line a large number of fartners have called 0:1 me for assistance when the disease broke out in their herds. In each instance. I have found the fault to be with the owners, in not having suitable accommodations for their stock. Most of them have their hogs in a large lot with only the ''pale blue" ' sky for shelter. Keep them clear of vermin, give them good food and the profits you will reap will be surprising. I Several years ago our country abounded with thick forest trees which furnished shelter for our Siock. but the woodman's axe has robbed the lazy brefdci of this commodity and he must seek shelter or suffer the consequences. A hog that has a good, warm shelter, with nice clean bed- j ding of straw, will live md thrive off just half the food that would be required to keep tie hog which runs at large and goes to sleep when the sun goes down, and is forced to back up against a cold. Northern blizard. I have often been asked the question how I made my hogs grow so fast. The secret of my success is simply the above remedy. No man can have a nice herd and see them about once a week. I have had hop* to dip just adjoining my promises and would never have a sick one. I do not deny that swine fever or pneumonia has not appeared in my herd: it has. but by elose attention I have been very suecessful. losing only a few small pigs. I doctor my small 1 pigs throngh their dams. A sow that 1 is in pig at the time she has swine i fever or pneumonia will stand the dis- I rase better than the other hogs, but ; their pigs will nearly always eome 1 lead, with no hair; she will carry j them, however, to the full tim<. Every breeder has a remedy, which ! he rightfully thinks is the best. The j remedy, however, is not the most im- j portant. "An ounce of prevention is I worth a pound of cure." Study this j and make it practical: you will profit. ' More hogs die to-day from lack of at- ; tention than any other cause. I 1 trust what I have written will be of practical benefit to some breeders.? Thomas B. Carney, Murfreesboro, Tcnn. Mark Orange on Home Grounds. What sort of a home is it that does not have a mock orange or syringa I bush? Lilacs and mock orange are the i two flowers- that do most to fill the I whole world with fragrance and make June the most intoxicating month in J the year. If you want the most fragrant variety of mock orange get the old-fashioned kind. A much showier, but less fragrant kind, has flowers an inch and three-quarters across, and of a purer white. It is also a more ] graceful bush; the old kind is rather i stiff. Pruning Grapevines. The pruning of grapevines consists in cutting back the right amount of the current season's growth?the amount which experience says a grape of a certain habit of growth and certain amount of individual vigor should re- j spond to properly. The prtfning of grapes is a simple matter when their habit of growth is understood. We prune either to check or stimulate vigor, to encourage fruit production, or, on the other hand, to discourage it.? The Garden Magazine. ...... A portion of the wall which was j built around old London by the Romans is now being destroyed by builders. Jets and Flashes. The best offering we can make is that of our obedience. Cross-grained men do not make the best timber in the church. There is nothing more persuasive than all-pervasive piety. Every pang of parting males faster our ties to those who remain. Raising a row is always easier than raising the revenue. Christ does not offer to bear the burdens of our greed. He always finds riches in the Gospel who takes it to the poor. The offense of the adversary is the best defence of the Cross. It is always easier to talk of the weather than of the Way of Life. Heaven knows nothing of the bended knee until the heart is bowed also. If the beasts go to Heaven some men will be shut out on their testimony. Things are always looking up for you when you are looking out for others. Bring personalities into the pulpit and you leave all power out of preaching. ! ?-< yjliP^E THE SEEDLESS APPLE. A Utah nurseryman reports in the Country (lentleman that he has finally i gotten hold of specimens of the much j talked about seedless apple, and he j says that the fruit is verv inferior, j and "certainly not such as wmild have 1 a ghost of a chance of a showing in the market with any of the standard varieties." It is evident that it is the j same old seedless apple that was j known in Virginia a generation ago. 1 Those who want a poor apple merely | because it may be seedless are welcome f *?.?* ? > 1. thrt fvnnc ?Tmlitin. ! ;?i>olis News. ENJOY THE ROSES. I A queer fallacy Induces some people i lo leave the roses unpicked with the i idea of encouraging the plant. As a i matter of fact, roses should not only ; be picked as freely as possible, but with as long stems as the growth will , permit* merely observing the preeaui tion to leave an outward growing eye, or perhaps two for safety, on the stem below the cut. Where it has been found impossible to pick all the roses for us, then the ; plants should be gone over dally and i all faded flowers removed to a point at ib'ast two eyes below the flowers. A jugular practice of this precaution is t% only means of assuring some autumnal bloom in our climate, from "hybrid porpetuals." \ CAUSTIC SODA FOR SCALE* A Maryland orchardist sflves the press the following experience with ( caustic soda as a spray for scale: "One application of soda has about 1 cleared them up. It has been used here in many orchards that had not been sprayed before, and the results were all that could be desired. It not only ! killed the scale, but cleaned the bark ' and gave it a nice, clean appearance, j Ot^ trees never looked better. We j thinK we know a good thing when we J see it. and want our neighbors to know I it. as it may do them good. We know I 1 lit' value of lime, sulphur and salt wash. also. We are satisfied with caustic soda. Eight pounds of crushed caustic soda to fifty gallons of water is the proportion we use. Put the soda in your spray barrel: fill the barrel with water: stir a few minutes, and you are ready for work. It should be applied before leaves put out. Simple, inexpensive and effectual has been our experience. We have had only one year's experience with it. but feel encouraged ; to continue it* in preference of anything else, even at the same cost."? I'p-to-Date Farming. FIRST SPRAYING. As h.rir the battle against insect and fungus foes is to catch them before they do any harm, all sprayers are warned to prepare for their campaign j in late winter. As the first move in a tussle against many of them is spray- j ins. jnst as the buds are swelling, that ? is the time to get together materials, uiplcments and experiment station btil- ; letins containing recipes and directions ! for making and using insecticides and fungicides. The trees are examined for San Jose scale, and if found infested, treated to the lime-sulphur wash, j "Cankers" of pear and apple trees must he cut out and the places painted, j as they are sources of certain fruit | decays. Fire-blight of the pear and j black-knot of plum and cherry needs to be pruned and burnt. The diseased canes of blackberries and raspberries can be cut out more easily now than when the spring work is pressing. Be sure and burn tliem. The burrows of borers are easy to find now. and a flexible wire run into them will kill the insects. men just as me nuus are Hwemug comes the first application of a combination of Bordeaux mixture with some arsenite to help control the spread and ravages of the scab and bud niotb of the apple and pear: the leaf curl, rot. scab, shot-hole fungus and bud moth of the peach: the brown rot and plum pockets of the plum: the quince leaf spot, and the rot and curculios on the cherry. A BRIEF PRIMER FOR SPRAYING, i For fungous diseases and for chew- j ing insects, such as beetles and cater- ' pillars, use Bordeaux mixture and Paris green or a similar arsenite. For fruit trees of all kinds spray with the above mixture just before the buds open. In most cases, and especially in the case of the apple, pear, plum and cherry make a second application within a week after the fruit has set. Repeat within two weeks, if the season ; is favorable for the insects or diseases, or if the variety is especially subject to attack. In the case of winter varieties of apples it is highly imjiortant that a thorough spray of Bordeaux mixture and an arsenite be given about the ' first of August for the second brood of codlin moths and for apple scab. At I that time the amount of lime and copj per sulphate may be reduced about one half. I When the trees are attacked by suckj ing insects such as plant lice and the j various scales, the use of tobacco water for the former when they first appear, and sulphur, lime And salt for the latter during the winter or early spring j will generally hold them in check. The kerosene-limoid may l>e used during j the summer for the scale and is use! fill upon the apple to supplement the j sulphur, lime and salt in he spring. J as the latter does not always kill all of the scales upon the woolly young \ growths.?National Fruit Grower. Getting Solid. A young married man of Higginsville ingratiated himself with his newly acquired relatives last week by knocking his fa^er-in-law down with a brickbat, anm the justice of tlx? peace, before muom he was tried for the offense?pJssibly the one who married him-lialded down a verdict of not guilty.?Kan^ City Journal. Don't live to eat, but eat to live. Many of our ills are due to overeating, to eating the wrong things and to irregular eating. In the United States, with a population of about 75.000,000, there are 120, 000 iibjsieiaug. f With the Funny \ wf Collect Ilnmor. "Willie saw some dynamite. Couldn't understand it quite; Curiosity never pay#; It rained Willie seven days. / ?Princeton Tijjer. In Chicago. Cholly?"Is she unmarried?" Willy?"Sure! She's been unmarried four times."?Judge. Bill'* Fate. "Didn't I tell you that Bill was too slow to live?" "Why, what's 'e bin and done now?" "He's gorn and got run over by a hearse!"?Chicago Journal. Naughty Girl. Gussie?"Girls. what kind of stock! ings do you prefer?" Gladys?"Those that are clocked. I | say." * - v Grayce?"Those that are watched for I me!" IProltMlnnal Criticijnii. j renins?"Scribbles showed me the I hie now nlnv this niorninc." I""1#' " I"" InKerton?"So? What is it like?" Pennibs?"It looks to me like n plot ! to swindle the public.*'?Columbus Dispatch. I - ' * - AOut of the Mouth* of Bahe*. Little Bobby (looking at a big sky! scraper)?"Say. papa?" Papa?"Well, what is it. Bobby?" ! Little Bobby?"Why don't they build t the cities in the country, where there is more room?" Puzzled. Native?"You find it hard to understhnd our language?" Foreigner?"Yes. a girl just told me she was going in fof outdoor games, but indoor games were going out."? New York Sun. Not the Hit of the Year. ' You once wrote a book entitled 'How I Clot Rich,' did you not?" "Yes." "Well, you don't look very rich now." "No; I got poor trying to bribe the public to buy it."?Houston Post, So Nice of Him. "Young Mr. Kadley-Biuegoro tells me he is going in for literature," said Mrs. Toadley. "Yes?" queried the plain person, " es. Isn't it good of him to honor literature so?"?Philadelphia Press. Friendly Tip. Tramp?"Is there any chance for work in this town':** Lady?"Xo." Tramp?"T'anks. I puess I'll summer here, mum."?Boston Post. Kthlo*. The Heiress?"What is your idea of a man of honor?" The Count \throwinp out his chest) ?"Eet is von who vill pay hees vine beel ami card debts even eef he 'as to marry in order to get zee money." -Life. A Believer. "Do you believe in p-emonitions?" "Yes." "I had a premonition that you wore going to loan me $10." "I only believe my own premonitions; I had a premonition I wasn't."?Houston Tost. Hum. "My dear." said the facetious cannibal, "I've brought home a ham for dinner." "That's what I call adding insult to injury," murmured the shipwrecked actor, sotto voce.?Louisville CourierJournal. k Explained Fully. Mother?"How did you come to be teasing that little Jones girl? Her mother was just complaining to me about it." Willie Hardcase?"Well, she wanted somebody to tease her, I wanted to tease somebody, and we were both nccommodating. That's all."?Baltimore American. The Xeceuury Experience. ; Hewitt?"My fortune is made, old man; I have bad a story published." Jewett?"You don't expect to make your fortune out of one story, do you?" ' Hewitt?"Well, yes, indirectly; I am ! now in a position to give advice to -~11??? cfnrt n SehOOl Of young nuuiws ui on... ? journalism or any other old thing in that line."?Woman's Home Companion. Flnlnlinl the Job. Excited Gentleman?"It's all through 1 your wretched paper." Editor (who is used to it)?"What's the matter now?" Exciti 1 Gentleman?"You stated the day be: -e yesterday that a thief had entered ay room, broken open my desk, ai ' stolen a sum of money, but that fo:- unately he had overlooked the gold watch which usually lies in the bottom drawer." Editor?"Well, I believe the facts are stated correctly." Ecited Gentleman?"They're correct enough. But what is the result? That infamous man came again last night and carried off the watch!"?Chicago Journal. % : EPMH LEHEIIE LESSONS SUNDAY, JULY, NINTH. The Indwelling Christ: Col. 2; 6-10; 3: 8-16. In this lesson Paul exhorts the Colossian Christians to stalwart living. based upon their experience of salvation. As they had received Christ so they were to walk, to be rooted, to grow and to be built up. They were to avoid being "spoiled" by worldly philosophy. This they were to do by being possessed by the "indwelling Christ," who was the Godhead. Possesed by him, they were to be complete in all the plent'itude of his gracious gifts. In the second selection from the same epistle they were to demonstrate this "completeness" by putting away certain sins very common at that day. The fact of an indwelling Christ was to be evidenced by the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new. And this new man was to be a renewed man bearing the image of Christ. The Christian is to incarnate Christ, even as incarnated the Father. Jesus taught that the kingdom of God was within us; that it was a subjective kingdom of righteousness, - _ J V,T-Irtl,. r.hnst ptratT, ?iiu in iuc nuij umv^v. The kingdom set up in the heart of man Is a personal indwelling of a personal Christ. Christ is "formed in us the hope of glory." He abides in us and we are one with him. Other systems of religion aie content to preach precepts; but Christinsists that we possess his life and ?nirir. No man is a "Christian" in he scriptural sense until he incarnates the spirit and life of Jesus. The tongue is an index of the heart. The spech manifests the spirit. Lying is to give place to truthfulness, filthy communications to cleanliness and purity, blasphemy to prayer, and anger to kindness and charity. The most careful watchfulness of our language will be one characteristic of a new heart. There will be a radical change in the life of a man who has been converted. He will go to different places: he will asociafe in different company: he breaks off some habits and forms others. He ceases to do evil and learns to do wrtl. He is not cniv negatively one who does not do evil things, but he is positively one who does good. He imitates his Master in going about doing good. He is not content to stop sinning; he lip?ins to nerform srood works. Behind the words and .notions lie the motives, the spirit of the life Here will the indwelling Christ manifest his presence. The spirit will become gentle and sweet and pure. The unseen influence of the life will be wholesome and healthful. Constant companionshin with the Christ within will transform the man into Christlikeness of spirit. Others will be impressed with the fact that he has bepn with Jesus and learned of him. This blessed presence and indwelling is the privilege and duty of every soul.# CHRiSTIAfllElDEAVORNOTES SUNDAY, JULY 9. The Indwelling Christ. Cot. 2: 6-10; 3: 8-1G. For Christ to dwell in us mchns that much else must not dwell in us I ?whatever would displace Christ. If we would receive the Christ, we must first receive the Bible through the Spirit, who will take these things of Christ and show them to us. There is no such thing as an indwelling Christ without an out-welling Christ. Whatever you lack, whatever with a godly mind you want, you will find in Christ as certainly as you find oxygen in fresh air. Suggestion*. This one thought, fully apprehended and followed out. would make a perfect Christian: I must make my life fit for the indwelling of Christ. If Christ lives in us, we shall be pleasant for others to live with. Let us make our hearts not only places where Christ will endure to live, but places where He wllf de light to live. Do not try to understand how we can dwell In Christ and He In us. Live each truth out, and you will readily understand it. Illustrations. No king will remain in a house where he is not the chief guest. And Christ is the King of kings. Some guests are a constraint upon the household, but Christ in our hearts introduces us to ourselves and to one another. We have "company behavior" and "home manners." Christ recognizes only the latter. Where heat is, cold cannot dwell; where you would have Christ, you must banish sin. Out-Door Work. It is a beautiful custom to hold an occasional prayer meeting out of doors. A sunrise or sunset meeting on a hill-top is especially impressive. Our societies do not as often as they should hold their socials outdoors. with outdoor games. Some societies have organized Endeavor cycle clubs, that travel on their wheels and hold evangelistic services in neglected places. . Christian Endeavor flower gardens have been made in many places to furnish all the flowers needed for the church. 1 An Endeavor field-day might be held once a year, with a series of athletic contests carefully planned and carried out with spirit. Fix it for some patriotic holiday. Christian Endeavor walking clubs will strengthen the body, develop delightful companionships, and bring the society into all the most beautiful and interesting spots of the community. Acid from Sweets. That was a very fair retort of a pretty girl annoyed by the impertinence of a conceited beau at a wedding party. "Do you know what I was thinking of all the time during the ceremony" he asked. "No, sir; how should I?" "Why, I was blessing my stars i was not the bridegroom." "And I have no doubt the bride was doing the same thing," said the girl, and left him to think It over again.? Chicago Journal. I INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT FOR JULY 9. Subject: Hezeklnh's Prayer, Iu. xxxtIII, 1-8?Golden Text, Pea. xlvl., 1? Mem I nrr Veraes. 4-6?CominentirT on th Lesion. 1. Isaiah warns Hezekiah of up proaching death (v. 1). "In tkosi days." This may only mean in tin days of Hezekiah. That this was ii the fourteenth year of his reign is evi dent when we consider that lifteei years were added to his life (v. 5), am yet he only reigned twenty-nine year; (2 Kings 18: 2). It must have been be fore the invasion by Sennacherib front the fact that God promised to delivei them out of the hand of the King ol I Assyria and to defend Jerusalem "Sick unto death." Sick of a maladj which, in the natural course of things would have proved fatal. From i Kings 20: 7 we learn that the disease was probably a carbuncle. God send: illness upon the good, not in punish ment for sins past, but as a trial ol their faith and patience (Rom. 5: 3? "Isaiah." Isaiah's character stands before us as one of almost superhumar elevation. "Came unto him." There is no species of cruelty greater than te suffer a friend to lie on a dying bed under a delusion. And there is evi dently no danger to be apprehended from communicating to the sick theii true condition. It should be gone ten deriy and with affection, but it should be done faithfully. "Set thine house ir order." Arrange your affairs so thai I they will go on without you; referring to his family, his plaus, his successot and his kingdom. "Thou shalt die." Death was the natural result of his sickness. II. Hezekiali prays in great distress (vs. 2, 3). 2. "Face toward the wall." He turned away from those who were present so that he might pray more freely and eoIleCTediy. 3. "Itemember now." The old covenant promised temporal prosperity, including length ot days, to the righteous. "Walked." Life is a journey: Cod's people walk with Him (Gen. 5: 24: 1 Kings 9: 4), "A perfect heart." Literally, "with a whole heart," one absolutely devoted to Jehovah. The king pleads his uprightness and holy conduct before (Jod, He could not have done this. In the face of death, had he not felt in his heart the truthfulness of his state ments. His influence had been wholly on the side of true religion; he had not forsaken the ways of the Lord. "Wept sore." Literally, "with a great weeping." The great sorrow of Hezekiah at the approach of death was only natural. The desire to live one's full term of years is right. Hezekiah felt that his work was unfinished. III. Clod's promises to, Hezekiah (vs. 4-U?. -1. "Then came." etc. (iod spake to Isaiah immediately (3 Kings 20:4). f>. "(iod of David thy father." (Iod remembers the covenant with the father to the children (Kxod. "Heard thy prayer." (iod still hears prayer. It is His will that we pray (Matt. 7: 711: John 13: 7?. Why then are there so many unanswered petitions? Because there Is so much aimless praying (James 4: 3). "Seen thy tears." Affectionate prayers are especially pleasing to (iod. Cold, lifeless prayers are not answered. David refers to his tears iPsa. 56: S) as though Cod bottled them and,kept an exact account of them in His "book." "Add nr.lo thy days." In Kings tli? promise is. "I will heal thee: on Hie third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord." The Lord still heals people, sometimes by directing the sufferer to the proper remedy and sometimes without the use of a remedy. In this case (see 2 Kings 20: 7) the cord told Hezekiah to make a poultice of figs and put it?on the boil, or carbuncle. "Fifteen years." Hezekiah Is the only man who was ever informed of the terra of his life. God in mercy lias hidden the time of our death from our eyes. We should be always ready and should work as though each .day was our last. G. "Will deliver." The Assyrians were a powerful enemy and were constantly to be feared. IV. The sign given Hezekiah (vs. 7. 8). T. "A sign." Hezekiah asked for a sign (2 Kings 20: 8>. Asking for a sign is a pious or a wicked act according to the spirit in which it is done. Hezekiah is given his choice of two signs, and he chose what appeared to him to be the more difficult. 1 8. "Shadow of the degrees." "The shadow on the steps." R. V. Many opinions are held with regard to this miracle. The older commentators believed that the earth's motion was actually reversed around its axis. It has been urged with a good deal of force , that the true cause of the phenomenon was a solar eclipse, in which the moon obscured the upper limb of the sun, which wonld have the effect of lengthening all shadows and thus causing the appearance of going backward on the dial of the stairs. But the opinion generally held at present is that it was a miraculous use of the laws of refraction. "Dial of Ahnz." "Steps of Ahaz." R. margin. The dial which Abaz set up, and which he probably obtained from Babylon, for he appears to have been fond of foreign objects of art (2 Kings 1G: 10). The Assyrians were tbe first to divide the day Into twenty-four hours. Herodotus states that the Greeks obtained their knowledge of the dial and tbe division of the day into twelve parts from the Babylonians, who were in constant intercourse with the Assyrians. "Returned ten steps" <R. V.) ' We ninst suppose that the "steps." whatever they were, could be seen from the sick chamber of Hezekiah, to whose iniud the sign was significant. The retreating shadow meant added years to his life. What kind of apparatus is denoted by the "steps of Ahaz" we have no means of determining. Music. The Jews have an old tradition that when the world was done. And God from His work was resting. He called to Him, one by one. The shining troops of' the angels, and showing the wonder wrought. The Master asked of His servants what they of the vision thought. Then one white angel, dreaming o'er the marvel before him spread. | Bent low in humble obeisance, lifted his voice, and said: "One thing only is lacking?praise from the new-born tongue. The sound of a hallelujah by the great creation sung." So God created music?the voices of land and sea. And the song of the stars revolving in one vast harmony. Out of the deep uprising, out from the ether sent. The song of the destined ages thrl"ed through the firmament. So the rivers among the valleys, the murmur of wind-swept hill. The seas and the bird-thrilled woodlands utter their voices still; Songs of stars and of waters, echoes of vale and shore? The voice of primeval nature praising Him evermore. And the instruments men have fashioned since time and the world were young, With gifted fingers giving the metal and wood a tongue, F'ith the human voice translating the soul's wild joy and pain, ave swelled the undying paean, have raised the immortal strain! -Ruble T. Weyburn. | Women Obtain Mrs. Advice and Hclp.^B I ! She Hu Guided Tbuuutndi to How Ljdli Plnkhi>.m'.4 tof pound Cared Mr*. Fred Ncydrl. 1 NPk/!Tcvd5X patny lor ner J sick sisters, and * > above all, a woman who has had i more experience in treating femhle Ilia than any living person, f Over one hundred thousand casas of female diseases come before Mrs. Pfnkj ham every year, some personally, i others by mail, and this has been go>^ $ ing on for twenty years, day after day.\ > Surely women are wise in seeking V * [ ! advice from a woman of such expert- \ . ence, especially when it is absolutely \ I | free. \ Mrs. Pinkham never violates the con- ^ fidence of women, and every testimo[ 1 nial letter published is done so with i j the written consent or request of the t j writer, in order that other sick women , ! may be benefited as they have been. ? * ] Mrs. Fred Seydel. of 412 North 54th 1 | Street, West Philadelphia, Pa., writes: I '< Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? " Over a year ago I wrote you a letter asking advice, as I had female ills and could not ' carry a child to maturity. I received your kind letter of instruction's and followed your ' advice. I am not onlv a well woman in consequence, but have a beautiful baby girl. I , > wish every suffering woman in the land would **" write you for advice, as you have done so much for me." ,v - Just as surely as Mrs. Seydel was cured, will Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure every r woman suffering from any form of ?f female ills. Kr, r?th?r Tnedieino in all the world . ' has such a reccfrd of c.^cs of female j troubles as has Lydia E. Pinkham's i l Vegetable Compound. Therefore no i prudent woman will accept any subeti* tute which a druggist may offer. If you are sick, write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn. Mass , for special advice. It la free and always helpful. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. TUIANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA.. It* advantages for practical Instruction, both In arr.rle laboratory* end abundant hospital material* arc unequalled. Free acces* Is given to the great Charity Hospital with 500 beds and 20.000 patients annually. Special instruction ts given daily at the bedside of the sick. Tha next session begin* October 19tU. 191)3. For catalogue and Information address PKOF. ?. E. OH All,'.E. M O., Drts. P. O. Drawer 261. NEW OULEANn. LA. BOYS AND GIRLS wanted to erery locality In the United ritatas to Uk* subscriptions for I iberal caah commissions to ADAMS'S MAGAZINE (A whole year for 10 cents) ffes vert and cbsapest monthly borne magaxina Is tba world, containing 33 pages. lOxltincbss, of selected reading matter of unusual interest In every bnase. Liberal com mission to solicitors. Send postal eard_ for full particulars and subscription blank book ATOK(3L ADAMS'S MAGAZINE. 131 W. 24th St.. X. Y. City 8o. 27. How to Dose a Dog. (In July Outing.) A dose of castor oil is as disagree- v able to the ailing dog as it is to the ailing human being. He kicks against it, and does right, when he is grabbed by the back of the neck, and with s his jaws yanked apart with a towel awaits the nasty dose. This is poured down his neck?on the outside. n is usaany iuuu?cu ujr a uiwio doses, all of which go the same way ?which is the wrong way. The Jaws are in a vise, the dog is in torture, and he is ready to condemn his very best friend for thus treating him shabbily. If they were only sensible enough to know how any dog, from the meanest car to the bluest-blooded canine, on earth was in the habit of taking his oil, it would be different. But they are all at sea on the sub-^* ~ ject, and poor doggie is about dead when a friend utters: 'Humph! All chumps on dogs, I see. Pour the stuff over the fellow's paws.' Lo, and behold! The wise few who thought they knew all about dogs and dogs things learned something to their credit when they saw how carefully Towser licked his paws, cleaned them and thus took his oil without fuss and in the proper way. In hiring a herdic, coupe, or other carriage, never forget to look at tiie horses and hire those that look the j best and have no docked tails, admonishes Our Dumb Animals. When we take & herdic we pick out one drawn by a good horse, tell the driver not to hurry, but take it easy, and give him five or ten cents over his fare for being kind to bis horse. We never ride behind a dock-tailed horse. IN COLONEL'S TOWN. Tblnxa II a p pea. From the home of the famous "ICeyhnel Keeyartab, of Cartersville," away down South, comes an enthusiastic letter about Postum. "I was in very delicate health, suffering from indigestion and a nervous trouble so severe that I could hardly sleep. The doctor ordered me to discontinue the use of the old kind of coffee, which was like poison to me, prodncing such extreme disturbance that I could not control myself. But such was my love for it that I could not get my own consent to give it up for some 1 time, and continued to suffer till my I father one day brought home a pack [ age of Postum Food Coffee. "I had the new food drink carefully ' prepared according to directions, and | gare it a fair trial. It proved to have | a rich flavor and made a healthy,'* wholesome and delightful drink. To* my taste the addition of cream greatly./ improves it. V, "My health began to improve as soon as the drug effect of the old coffee was removed and the Postum Coffee had ; time to make its influence felt. My i nervous troubles were speedily relieved I and the sleep which the old coffee drove from my pillow always came to < J soothe and strengthen me after I had ,1 drunk Postnm?in a very short time I began to sleep better than I had foe years before. I have now used Postum Coffee for several years and like it better and find it more beneficial than ! when I first began. It is an unspeakable Joy to be relieved of the old distress and sickness." Name given by Postum Company, Battle Creek, Micb. There's a reason, i Read the little book, "The Road to I WeUyUle," in each pk&