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4 9 GROWTH OF THE ARMY WOR1 L. O. HOWARD SClKNTIFICALiL DISCUSSKS TUB PKSTS. ln(ll(ennu!i to Certain Parts of tb United States?Why They Kmlgrato to Kat Fields and Pastures Green?Drugs That Will Kill Them. Rlaee the appearance of tho army worm it West Tennessee. Arkansas and Noith Mississippi tills spring there has boon much discussion among scientific farmer- ? * - *" ami h?--? IU ino origin uiccnods of preventing a spread of .those posts. In 18!)t t,. <). Howard, outomologist of the Agricultural Department at Washington, prepared the following dissertation. which covers the subject ontlrely: In the months of May and June, and sometime late as July, wheat, onts and other small Krain, corn, timothy, blue grass and other grosses, but seldom or nover clover, uro occasionally overrun by multitudes of naked striped cuterpillarsnooutan inch and n quarter long Hnd a quarter of un inch in diameter, when full grown, rather dark in appearance. They usually travel in ono direction from one field to another, destroying the crop as they go. They have a habit of eltmiug the seed stalks and cutting off tho heuds of timothy grass and of the small grains. Tho army worm seemB to be an ingenious North American Insect, and ou this continent is most abundant in the United States east of tho Hooky mountains. Isolated specimens have !>een found iu Englnud and South Amerioa, ' and the moth has been captured In India, Java, Austrnlia and New /"laud. It is no- , where kuowu as an especially destructive * spocies. however, outside of the United c States. The region in which it especially Q flourishes extends from Knsteru Iowa to i Maine and from Northern Texas to Northern Alabama. East of the Blue Kijge mountains '' its southerly range as nu injurious species V extends only us far as Northern ft, North Cnrollna Tho moth is often captured outside these limits, und fre- P' qucntly in considerable numbers, but tho L caterpillar does not seem elsewhere to be jjti a factor in agriculture. Tho adult in-ect is po a brown moth with a white spot on tho center of each fore wing. Tho eggs urc very '10 minute and whito in color, round ? laid in strlm'- - tor ot the uSff nrn Polled y tT to 'I'lwn I ?' n?r bn.se of ti, ,nol'? <!o?-n uLo ov'Posi- I nc< ffnsses or grain! tuFml'?*l leaf ?i? tl,v'? ,tlc was, 001 the thick^T^ ftr? Mfd m^'? to con. / 'J1,1 J,y.8i?rfi]/f up^tSof?r??s which'UuU,,nt,y iu / li,? bav?Xi0DrftUr"H 0 n C;i8to?'?r- '1 fodder stacks ?h the v, Pot3 ntt; coru stacks 7. ?"?ve bt*?n 7 8? how'-/ wl.? "^oaven ?nd5riV,,rV8t u?d? th? lud 1Q i i the ocm >?r,. , r hark or ?i1 *shenth I lUfo ss ,T.'?po5 "n?",Vioro" "?? STrw,,"~govo UtderordinnSUm,I,,JP''tiM h.^W,|1,rraPidJy / Stnte "otpre^r in"ryt"h^'???n'or',,S- . eat V *o2th*ialynt Aitht tlu,mb?r*,' / Dani? 55?"ft'?* Kruwu i"1"'''1 cuuwori ""-v t"&ntblo tiio I Soutl the moth again up pours. but w The number of generation each year varies ?d,in < with the climate and seuson. There are la the more Northern States, two or three gen- Uft,"0 erations, aad perhaps six in the more South- cal pi ern States. ^jr REMEDIES AND PBEVENTIVE8. COgni There ore certain old-time measures which liisto may bo adopted to protect certain Held* from advancing armies, like the plowing of a P0"" furrow with its perpendicular side toward I,u'0( the field to be protected and the subsequent Caro dragging of a log through the furrow to sat u keep the earth friable and kill the worms which have accumulated iu the ditch and Pr08< .another la the sprinkling of a strip of pus- us cl tu *}f lu'd crop in advance of an army soph with 1 aria green or Loudon purple in solu- ;n *1, ti?n. In Ileitis which the catterpillars hav< already entered there is little can be done for wa8 their destruction which does not involve tho taort destruction of the crop. The Ileitis may be iH 1 sprinkled by means of a broadcast sprayer with an arsenical solution, or they may be eP?.C rolled with u heavy roller where one is at polif hand and the ground is level, or a lloek of man ...... '"'"'" "'l.i wl.lt.li will result ln crushing out most of the worms by trump- " "p lioK. r In oases where the worms bnvo already en- ucie tered a vaiuahlu Held of wheat before tho Con ,farmer has become aware of their presence, who and too late to render ditching of any avail, . some little good may be accomplished If tho * majority of worms aro full grown, or idet nearly full grown, by the old method Ootl of darglug tho rope." rJVo men, each ()j having hold of the end of a long rope, are sent through the Hold ami the rope is c'ou dragged over the heads of the graiu. Tho tho the: backward jerk of tho stalks jars thocaterpil- Tin '.lars to the ground, ami they are unable to 'ascend to the heads again for some little . time. This is a laborious process, however, *,otJ and has to bo repeated almost Immediately, to It is only to be undertaken where the num- jret) t>or of worms in a Held Is comparatively , small and where these arc, as before stated, P* full grown or nearly full grown, since in thin hfc ease they will stop feeding und enter the icnl ground In a day or two. HO N ATOKA I. ENEMIES. fej] There Is almost no prominent injurious In- cuf sect in whose economy natural enemies play v,. a more important part than tho army worm. "This is hecauso of the fact that generally not more than one worm out of a thousand es- < ott capost death from parasitic or predaoeous insects. Where the ariny worm follows Its | normal habit nn<l foods only at night. re- w,r raaining hidden during the day under the sol surface of the ground ut the base of soino 1'jj tuft of rank-growing grass, it is protected f , from these natural enoinios but when tlio . ndgratory instinct drives it forth and per- ' *! verts its normal habit, causing it to march tin unprotected during the day, the swift-breedtug tachina Hies attack it at once, multiply most rapidly, and in connection with its othor parasites and with the predatory ground ill) beetles reduce its numbers once more to the jU< Jion-iujurlous point. It Is Important, however, for the farmer to bo able to r< cognize the ap- ne penranco of "a pnrisitized worm, as in in ? this way Ids coulldeiico in the future may ,)n l>o restored. Tim eggs are while, oval, 1 le.*s than a sixteenth of an Inch long, and 0,1 are glued fa?-t to the skin of the caterpillar, 1 1>\ usually ou the back of the front sCg- t.|l meats. From half n dozen to fifty or more I j0 oftheseeggs may be attached to a singlet . caterpillar, and from each hatches a mag- I got. which pern trates the body of the army ' la Worm and ultimately destroy* it, unless ' BL. the caterpillar should east its skin so soon after the eggs arc laid that they do not have time to hatch. The adult tachina-lly resemble* a rather Isrge house-lly, except tnat It has a red tip to its abdomen. Hundreds m . and thousnt.ds of these tiles are usually j seen buzzing about a Held infested by tilt' | army worm, and their presence shoul 1 bo j tli welcome to Hie farmer. The extent of tho 1'arisitlsm of the injurious brood of the army I worm moy be indicated by two instances ! from otir personal experience. In IHtw wo | Ti visited a large tract of land planted In tlin- i tl I otby grass, In the vicinity of Portrmout Va. A search for hours during the hot pa of the day failed to show a single von whloh did not bear taohlna eggs. In 1M a visited wheat flvldi In the vicinity of liunt< Ivllle, Ala., wbloh were then being overro by this insect. Here, although a number o worms were noticed whieh did not baa taohlna eggs, they were destroyed by grounc beetles to suoh an extent that when we at Y tempted to catoh an adult moth a little latei In toe season by means of trap lanterns and sugar, wo were unable to secure a single specimen. The entire army had been annihilated, and it is worthy of remark that in c neither of theae localities has the army worm ever been seen since lu injurious numbers, although fourteen years hnvo elapsed in one case and twelve In the othor. L. O. Howaud. Entomologist. Approved?J. Btkhlino Morton, Secretary. Washington, D. C., June 10, 189. i CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. ( PROF. SNYOKR APPROVES AN ? ARTICLE UY MR. W. D. I WALLACE, I a b Of Newberry, an Alumnus of WofTord, a on the ConstltutlonHl Convea- 8< tlon of 1805. 8 T Prof, Henry N. Snyder, of Spar- ^ tanburg, in a communication in the b? News and Courier, says: <1 "In the last number of the Sewanee *Review, published by the University if the South, is a paper on the South p Carolina Constitutional Convention of H 895, by Mr. D. D. Wallace, of Now- '' erry. Mr. Wallace is a graduate of > 7oll'ord College, of tho class of '94, ' id for tho past two years has lioen a ist-graduate student at Vanderbilt , niversity. For a clear and judicial i itomout of tlm "ditioi. ?M ?ooj?l |, n? 'or a aiiccient i Conven- I ' "ut of what the C "nPrtrtieaii nc- / ' ^plisUed, nml for^Qt'on actual) J' DtH ou ita civ, "OgRcativo com- I ?w. J, J"? "?"?1 -iguiK. , rfohtlhot?ee tbJj;?Pd historical l towZtiyi oS/? nation wo must ' fbo ,rt<? ' 11 tho united whif P'U W,tlx Ifi7G 1 ' ? tlio negro and I,0?P,? over- * r\thutetnd7or c?JbT bae ?ov. f rned, robbed and Su y?ara mia' y From this v.. grico() jj, , 'oiilical ? , VVo,rs'"r PN , <? <>f Ai Carolina politics, though not ot k1 or importance to l>o called an t, was in instituted in 1890 by the nich lias since unuur ttie icailer- Spi jf B. R. Tillman born that othor 8,'u so much better suited to politi- i,V-v jrposes, 'Reform .' " i . Wallace in his method also re- i; zea what so few recognize, the rical continuity of social and ( ical condition in South Carolina. l> ed, the political evolution of South 0 Una, from the days when darkness ^ pon her as upon a throne to the p int movement, is as interesting, p eorly distinguished and as philo- [ ically harmonious ns can be found , ie history of any State, and, as remarked above, only one step 3 ^which seems a logical necessity) acking to complete tho present h and niako way for one for which tics, education, commerce and ufnehures have been accumulating conditions. o K i... ? vttrrn r<l olinr- The res UO lUllUtllU^ * u ?w r of tlio men who made up the ventiou, coining from u Htndcnt resi,ntn i is trying simply to express the contest h, niuy help to soften the partisnu rented, i that some may have of the new tll?001 istitution: "The membership was ,s good material as South Carolina maiuly Id collect in one civic body. Al- tiou eu ugh nmny politicians were among Six tew in, it was not a body of politicians, jJwnoc ) people recognized the dignity jty in i importance inherent in such a roaebe ly and such occasion, aud strove send their best fellow citi- , (Th* s to represent them. Men were co^,^ scut who had reached middlo resum i without ever having sought a polit- The d< 1 olllce; others who hud seldom done and only at the solicitation of their for ,'10 low citizens; still others were pres- Mr. r ; who h?.d begun to despair of the ""d C ito on account of its recent history, 1 would not enter public life in any conim ter capacity that that of a constitu- tions < nal delegate, aud the honor was de- ducnu ed by others who were far above f-seekiog and political chicanery, o Convention proved to be a body In patriots, which, by tlio dignity, ruess aud excellence of its delibera- fU||y , ns commanded the respect of every porte roliniau." eonte Mr* Wullaco also has some interest? and suggestivo commouts on the that t rely incidental benefits of the Con- tain 1 ntion?the softening of the bitterS8 of partisan politics, the elevation the intellectual plane of the news- ows < tiers in their discussions, the siguiti- Newt lit repudiation of tlio party but-Main Jj'"," ' tlio Convention ami tho unifying euro feet upon all elussoH of white people Uoiijj I elo.se this note by Having again that r brevity ami anility of treatment Th ia article ol Mr. Wallneea iaquite the [J""* at thing on the subject I have the j en. thee pens ITnolc Shui Says Watt. * The State Department at Washington gave it tho following Wednesday: "InthoCom- on i ititor ease It can bo authoritatively stated |?'lh I he I int at the request of tho United States tho . panish government will postpone execution ,iSOi I the death sentences upon American eitl- : ns until the views of tho United States J." spooling tho application to their enses of 10 treaty of 1795 and tho protocol of 1877 ,2" in bo prcM&ted and considered. i_ ATE NESS ITEMS. rVKCHASING LIQUORS. ' 8UU BottrU Orders Its Next 1 Month's Supply. ^ i he Stele Board of Control, in see re , el Colombia, gavo out contraotc be following firms for their next I ith'a supply: r be Lire Oak Distilling company, of 1 j< -innati, famishing u gooil deal over " " of the whiskey ordered. [ J, ntbam & Sons, of Baltimore, i a see Kelly A Co., cf Wilmington, ?- and Clifton Springs, of Kenp , received orders for remaining n ey that was bought iu the bulk. 'I re were about 500 barrels orderI* cn the above firms. t Valters & Co , of Baltimore, were t. an order, it is said, for 20 cases b whiskey. I ?' Acme Browing Co., of Macon. o Christian Moor loin Co., of in inati, were given the orders for 01 hing all the beer for the next p. n, V. Qarrott & Co., proprietors of b adoo Vineyards in North Carotf )re given an order for all the r iat will be needed. There will r a car load of it. i solution was passed requiring all c dispensers to give a $3,000each ,( .arautee security company, and t> rks a $1,000 bond each in the ind of a company. ? ROYAL. AXO L.IVKRPOOL. 'lrst Passenger Steamer of the for This Season Sails May 20. B. Hutchenson, tho soliciting of tho Port Royal and Augusta in Charleston, announces thut ay 20 tho Yucatan, tho first pas?r steamer of the Port Royal and -pool Trans-Atlantic Line for thia n, will sail from Port Royal. She o followed on $bo same- date of by the Texan, her sister ship, ifucatnn will carry a miscellaneous . of Cotton, rrruiii ??'! " - ' 0 1IUU1 1U HUj to hor list of passengers. The and tlour of her cargo havo bcou ed in tho West by Mr H. St. J. . the export agent of tho line. ) the pUHsenger line from Port 1 to Liverpool was first started has worked with great energy success for its development, ai d Torts have met with great enconrent both at home and abroad, ino oilers ample and excellent nodation for a limited number of ngers, and last summer it was very lar with visitors to Europe from ection o'110 country. PROMPTLY ACQUITTED. 31. White Found Not Guilty by a T lorldu Jury. 'illiam M. White, a newspaper well known in.this Stato, who has og Robert Mytchei, a Negro hackin February, was acquitted sday. At tho time of tho killing e was drinking, and hired the Neo drive him home. Twenty-five was the legal fare, and when ho ed home White offered that sum kT - 1 1 -1 A J i>L'gru. xuu uiiuhiuitu ut'uiuuu* a cents cents more. A quarrel red and White shot the Negro In his statement to the jury o said the Negro applied u vile opto him, reilccting on his mother, >cgan to beat him with the whip. White used his pistol. The jury ned a verdict of acquittal in a nnutes. White is a native of ston, and prominent. Stato r Buist, of South Carolina, is ^rother-in-law, and was in attend* co on the trial. lay in ino nuiino Representative Sk. reduced a bill to pay tho war clnlm 01 Unprecedented Increase. ?Th? ??"J, ?<??s<?'? \ ug Jno. W. Mnddox, Democrat, to be Hospital, held their regular monthly I to the scat occupied by him us Rep- meeting in Columbia Thursday. Tho tive from the 7thdistrict of Georgia, boi tJ found the population to ho 8P>0. ed by \V. H. Felton, fusion, were pre- mi ? .. ? and being the uunnimous report of This figure is unprecedented in tho nmRtee, were agreed to. history of the institution. Although tckhdat. the board discharged 20 patients on session of the House Tuesday was trial, between th? hours of 8 and 10 a. devoted to a discussion of the elec- m jjve applications for tho admission so of Riuaker vs. Downing from the _-' \F . . . tl ,. ith illiuois district, the elections com- of new patients came in. After disfavoring tho unseating of Downing, posing of tho ordinary routine busi:rat. One Republican joins the minor- xiesa the board instructed Dr. Babcock ^their report. No conclusion was httVe tl e work on the new public wedxkbuav. road commenced not later than MonHouse mainly occupied Wednesday in day. It also ordered tho work of nsideration of the Rinaker-D- wning creoting the Avails around tho Wallace ted elected case, Mr. Cooke, of Illnols, property to be commenced immediately and Dr. Babcock was asked to has nmir WHS <11 17 ?m. , _ _ . fiois, in favor of Downing, and Mr. ten the work on tho bouses on the I. ?>f Pennsylvania, who gave reasons Wallace property bo that they could, t assenting to tho report for unseating j)e UH0(j for wkito female patients l>v owning. Messrs. Hepburn, ol Iowa. .... ... j r ? '* louuolly, of Illinois, strongly favored kha tlme the wal1 1B ready. In a Bbort ating of Mr. ltinakor. The Houeo by a timo now tho appearance of the liospitt 130 to 85 re-committed the case tothe al groundB will bo entirely trau?itteo on elections No. 1. with iustruc- formed to recount such parts of tho vote as it ' d proper. Killing at Clemson. P. N. Liudsay shot and fatally thcbsday. wounded W. D. James, foreman of the the House Thursday Representative form at Clemson Collego Thursday, er introduced a bill to payback #187 . , . , , It. Fowle; of Washington, for wrong- 1 he shooting occurred nt tho stockade, collected customs on salt. Mr. l'rlnce re- whero the convicts, of whom Lindsey d from elections oouimittee No. 2, the is jo charge, are domiciled. There haw sted case of Cheatham, Republican, vs. Been Bad feeling between the two meu [ward. Democrat, from the Second dis- , n , .. . . , nf North Caroliun, recommending that ^or eo,n^ time, occasioned, it IB said, lie sitting member (Mr. Woodward) re- by a difference of opinion in regard to Us scat. Tho report was agreed to. the management and diBiiositiou of the three pension bills woro acted upon )oi. ably and reported to tho House for pas- oonv1^ "toor. ^ among the iH-nenciarieai being the wid- The nnunal in.eting of tho Stab >f ( ol. Orlando M. l'oe. General John J. JT , _ ... ,- , . , ,, . on. Brigadier Oonerul Ohns. I>. Jnme- Gf*nd Lodge of tho K nights of I ythias nd Brigadier Oeneral and ex-Senator will be held at itock lli.l fuesdny an< go E. Spencer and Hoht. Smalls of Mouth Wednesday. IlocU llili has made prs linn, the famous colored pilot ami ex- parntiou to give the Knights a roiu ;rcssman. . raiD.vY. reception. 0 House Friday proceeded to rem v kid ' ^ ... . ' the private pen.-ion Vills favorably #?>d Three Colored Itlsliors. 1 by the committee of the whole i ,'.y<tg At Mobile, Ala., Thursday 1{>^v. Ooorge v= iftst w*ek, thero being about 180 in /'.?n I ,,,, . ... u. >: ? . . .. '.in ..i... u? I V. 1 Clinton, editor of the Star of /ion, of (tun Hirudin*, mini in? ? ?? wim i? m r w i ion the widow of tho Into Sec / ;*ry lotto, N. C.; Uov. J. B. Small, presidinK clde ham, at tho ruto of $100 per ni?th. of the liahiinoio and 1 hlhidelnhin district! Tulhort, Democrat, of South ai/iina, uf York, Pa., and Rev. John llollidiiy, Ren e the point that no quorum hml '/oted oral hook aRent, of I'ittsburR, l'a., were ele< ts pasMURO, and the Speaker was com- ted bishop* by the African Methodist Episer ;d to count a quorum. Tho vote by which pal Zlon General Conference, now in m-ssio tdll was passed was 120'to 5. Mr. Tailrert in that city. They will be consecrated dm endeavored to sec ire a recommittal of |hr the session of tho Conloreuce. The 1)111 RrantlnR a pension of $75 a month were elected on the Orst ballot. io widow of the lato Oen. Thomas Ew\hr, mm with instructions to reduce the arnotni An,, nn 'Ao'.il." c '.icaTtTlOtS n< 50 a monthr but tile motion failed-55 to- Arfe* *" nn, .fi< k ' 11 fcurt 'Jte nu uvliinu tooth. > ' 1 I 1 'f.SOUTBXCIUf 8TATK9 RXPUSITION. She Will Fill the Largest. RuUding That Can be Secured. Tho organisation of the exhiblta for the Southern State* Exposition at Chicago is proceeding rapidly. The following genoral exhibits have been decided upon, to.show the products of the entire South: * 4 I Forest Produots?In charge of Prof.' Fernow. chief of division of forestry, .United States agricultural department. Mineral Products?In charge of Dr. David! T. Day, United States geological survey., t Fibers?Probably la charge of C. It. Dodgeot the United States agricultural depart' m?nt Each of the foregoing will oooupy at least 10,000 square feet. A great feature will be made of cotton, cotton produots and processes of manufacture, which will require about 30,000 square feet.. It will oomprlae the earliest and most Improved muchinery uud every variety of cotton fabric. It Is (expected that this department will be under the direction of a widely, known expert and {prominent inventor of cotton mochiuery. . The tobacco section will be planned under 'the sdviceof Dr. H. I*. Battle, director of :the United States experiment Nation,Raleigh, 1N. C., and Prof. C. F. .Vauderford, secretary Jot the United States experiment station, Knoxvllle, Tenn., both of whom ara eminent authorities on tobacco oulture. Prof. W. C. Stnbbs,. director United States sugar experiment station,.Newt Orleans, has been requested to supervise the sugar exhibit. With these gentlemen wit) be associated Prof. J. A. Holmes,.State geologist of .North Carolina, who has the best existing Southern 'colleotlon of mlnerals-and forest productions; Prof. Yates, State geologist of Georgia; Mosjsrs. Roche, Nesbitt,. Lane and 8tone, commissioners of agriculture of South Carolina, Qoorgla, Alabama and Mississippi. COTTON KKPOUT FOR MAY. What the Monthly Statement or the Agricultural Department Shows. The cotton report to the department of agriculture for May relates to the progress of planting and tho proposed or contemplated acreage. The proportion of the contemplated area already planted on tho flrst of May was S7.9 per cent, which approximates very closely tho breadth usually planted at that date, which Is estimated at 88v2 per cent. The estimates for tho several States arc as follows: Virginia. 20; North Carolina. 80. cumuli v urouun, no; Georgia 96; Florida, 100Alabama. 1)3; Mississippi, 921 Loulsinuu, 95; ' Toxas, 85; Arkansas, 84; Tcuuossee, 73. The returns of corresponding agents in reKurd to eoutomplated acreage indicate u conslilerable inereaso over the area planted last year. The percentages of States are as follows; Virginia, 107; North Cnroliua. 117; South Carolina, 111; Georgia, 118; Alabama, 111; Louisiana, 101); Arkansas, 123; Floridu, 145; Mississippi, 110; Texas, 115; Tennessee, 127; Indian Territory, 151); Missouri, 141. The average of the country is 114. l'lauting has been earlier than usunl in most of the cotton States, but much complaint is mude of drouth in a large aren in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, retarding tho germination of the seed. In a few counties in Texas tho Mexican weevil is reported as doing considerable dnrnage. Asa general thing tho plant is said to be in good condition with favorablu season. THERE IS TROL'BLEAIIEAD Between Great tlrltari and China oi In response for information in regard to the recent cession by China to tho Russian Steam Navigation Company of a portion ot the foresltoro at Che Foo, whtch was claimed by an English company, Mr. George N. Curzon, under secretary lor foreign affairs stated in tho bouse of commons Thursday that her majesty's minister at Pekin had sent a cable dispatch to tho governor at London saying that aconoession had been granted by China to a Russian firm at Che Foo, by which Rritish vest* <1 rights wero Infringed. The minister's dispateh also said that he had Informed the Chinese government that it would bo held answerable for all injury to Rritish | interests resulting irom granting tun concession. One of the surprises of the next decennial census inny be the discovery that the national center of population has moved eastward for the first time since tho government was formed. The State censuses taken last year indicate that the East is growing more rapidly than the West In tho five years since 1S1K1 Massachusetts gained in population 202,000, or 11.7 per cent. The gain of New Jersey In the same period was 313,000, or 15.7 imw cent. Iowa's corresponding gain was 140,000, or 7.0 per cent. Kansas reports a loss since 1300, ami Oregon's Increase In tho five years Is not quite S per cent. YOU MUST SAY " FIERCE." Latest Slam-, and It A ppllcn to Everything and Everybody, It Is now about time for tho outlying region of the English language, known as slang, to recognize a newcomer within its vagrant boundaries. The recruit in the glories and expressive ranks of slang is the word "tierce." Tho word In its extended ' field of usefulness is young, but It has gained a firm hold in New York and Brooklyn. In order to be up to tho times, we nuut iia Inmrnn tollf nf fi linn W mill "lUOi "V Vk *"'* * ? r but of a fierce raiu. A blizzard is a fierce snowstorm. A keen wind is a fierce one, and so is a boisterous. When a man lias a pronounced attack of drunkenness, it is a fierce Jap. A winner of poker lias played a fierce game. 1 i A desperate misfortune is fierce. A ' groat stroke of good luck is fierce. The enforcement of the excise law is fierce. ? It is fierce to be married, twins in the ? family are fierce, and its is fierce to die, whether naturally or by accident. , A President's proclamation or message is fierce. Anything that is exj j travagnut is fierce. Anything that is . exceedingly mild is fierce. An extra j liberal crop of cotton or of corn is fierce, and so (such Is the elasticity of the world) is an extra poor one. To have a toothache Is fierce, and to receive an unexpected legacy is fierce. Ilard! times are fierce. So are prosperous times. We must no lougcr say of a misfortune or of an unexpected an1 , iiouiiceinent: '"It broke me all up," - but "It was fierce." ? | That the ferocity (if nil human events, grave or gay, lively or severe, y should at least be recognized. Is a tribute to the growing, or should wt! say fierce, intelligence of the English speaking portion of the tierce popula tion of this fierce world. -V - ^ABBilHSCHOOL" INTERN,YKION At* LESSON FOflb . MAT 24. f iMinn Textv " Jmm Teuhlnv UtkA \ Temple,'* V-wlte xx., 9-1W? Golden Text: Liuhe xx., 11 -CoanenlMT. ^ * ' 9: "A ceriaiirms& planted a vineyard ui let it forth to husbandmen and went into ? far country for a long tune." Our last leaeon seemed to-have a special reference to the { resent ago or the time' between Israel's reaction ot their King and His return to take tho kingdom) Tnls parable seems rather to oover the whote history of Isr&sl, Including their treatment of the prophets and their rejection of the King. 10-12. This account of tho troatment of Ills servants will coyer the whole period of the prophets. The fruit He desired was righteousness, aud that Israel should maka Him n-name among the Nations of the earth, that all Nations might know Him for their good. Hut rood the story in Isa. v., 7-25, and in Ezok. xlil., and see what they gavw Hlun Instead ot righteousness. An to their beating and shamefully treating the servants, just listen to a few testimonies: "Asa was wrought with the senr and put him In a prison house." "Zedekl&h came near and smote Mlcaiah upon tbeoheek." "And thaw conspired against him (Zsohariah) and. stoned htm with stones at the commandment of the king in tho court of the house of thn Lord." "Then Poshur smote Jeremiah, thn prophet, nnd put him In the stooka." "Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon" (11 Chron. xvl.. 10: xvltl., 28; xxlv., 21; Jor. xx., 2; xxxvlii., 6). No wondor th*r 0 uijitvj oy me Uplrlt writes, "Take May brethren, the prophets who have spoken in the name of tho Lord, for an example of suffering affliction and of patience (Jan toy. The Lord Is now looking for the fruit af the Spirit In those who have become branches lr. Him who Is the True Vine, and through whom He desires to bear muoh fruit to the glory of God. Doos Ho find it? If not, wnv? Let cnch answer for hlmseif unto the Lord. 13. ''Then said tho lord of the vineyard* What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be they will revereneo him. when they sen him." In Isn. v.. 4, He asks. What could have been done more to My vineyard tbnt I have not dono in It? And hora ut a much further stage Ho asks, What shall 1 do? Then dotormiu^s to s?nd His Beloved Son, not to punish, as well Ho might, but to save and bless oveir such rebellious onee. God, who once spoke'.by the prophots, hath at last spoken by Ills Bglovod Son. to whom He. gave this title both at His baptism and at His transilguratiou. Behold what manner of loye, what long suffering, what forbearance, what yearning over tho erring and rebellious ones. Hear Him, oven through tho prophots, "How shall I give thco up, l'phraim? How shall I deliver then, Israel? (Hos. xi., 8.) 14. "This Ls the lieir; come, let us kill him, ihnt the inheritance may be ours." Joseph's brethren said: "This dreamer comcth. Com? uow, thcroforo, and let us slay him and oast blm iuiosomo mt" (Gen. xxxvii., 19, 20). It seems impossible that human nature could bo guilty of the baseness of Joseph's brethren, and of tho brethren of our Lord, thu lows, who treated Him as Ho here describes. Think of men enjoying property that cost thorn nothing, then of their refusing to hank tho owner by rendering them soma truit, then of their actually conspiring to till tho owner and take the property into Ihelr own bauds. 15. "3o tboy cast him out of tho vineyard tnd killed him. What, therefore, shall tho ord of tho vineyard do unto them?" Our Lord describes what He knew they would (dually do. tor Ho had often foretold it. Vhnt an Illustration of the fact that the enr_ V], But, belever. tei us app?j lli ,ul ? ?tug huawful picture. Tho Lord Jesus baa jought us in His pooullnr proijrty that H? U IUO IiUilU II1UI nu UIU uvu^iti awa <?I uiiclf, or is Ho as good as <a.st out? Lost we _>e u guilty or inoro guilty thau the Jews, let as givo Him cheerfully the vriioio being for His pleasure (Rom. xll., 1, 2). , 16. "He shall conn and destroy thesehas-' bnndmen and shall give the vlnoyarJ to others." In Math., xxl., 43, tho words are, "Tho kingdom of God shall be taken from you and give to a Nation bringing forth the fruits thereof Israel, having failed to receive her King, has boon for tho present net aside ns a Nation, while God is gathering out of all Nations a people for His name who shall be joinod to Christ and return with Him when He shall come in glory for the restoration of Isntol and of all thlo~s spoken of by the prophets Tin groat question for tho church aud for every individual believer is, Ami bearing fruit uato Goi? 17. "What is this, thou, that is written, the stono which tho builders rojeoted, tho same is be?.C~C th* head of tho cornctT* This is from Vs. cxvUl., 22 ar 1 r rants to tho tlnr.o when the Nation shall say, "Blessod He that cometh in the name of the Cord" (Math, xxlli., 39, Vs. exvili., SO). "It shell bo said in that day: Lo, this is our Godi Wo have waited for Him. and He will save us. This is tho Lord. We have waited for Him. Wc will be glad and rejoice iu His salvation'* (Isa. XXV., il). Our Lord was always calling attention to what was written. He had Implicit confidence in the Scriptures. He always appealed to them. lie made peoplo answer their own questions by ills. "What written? How roadest thou?" 18. "Whosoover shall fa ) upon that stono shall bo broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder." This takes us back to Isa. viti., 14, 16, w en wo read that Ho shall be to some n sanctuary, but to others a stono of stumbllug aud a rook of offenso. In Inn. xxvlli., 16, wo read that He la a sure and tried foundation stone as welt as a precious corner. T.<ew ole is summed up in I Pet. II., 4-8. 1 he grJn ling to powder probably rofere to Daa II., 35. and the tins? of His coming to judge the Nations. He fat ^ now a place of refuge and a sure foundation * to all who receive Him. Ho is a rook of offenso to nil who will not luivo Him, but when. He comas in glory Ho wil surely orush all ill* enemies. 19. "Aud tho chief priests nn t the seriben the same hour sought to lay hands on Him." They had long before determined to kill Him, but now their hour ts drawing nigh, nnd yet they cannot lay a finger on Him until God's appointed time. Then He will let them take lli^r*, thr.t their wicked hands may accomplish that which tho counsel of God determined before to be dono (Acts iv., 27, 28). Not even sntan himself can touch a child of God without God's i emission, and there must be a needs be lor all that cornea to every child of God ?"/,-k. xiv., 2UJ.?JLesson Hole*** Distinction with a DifTercnc?. "It's rather disuppoiutmg," said tb? Cuban insurgent, "that we can't b? recognized as belligerents." "Never ntlud," was tliu reply. "W? art* all right. You've noticed that when a young man gets through a medical college he puts out an elegant gilt sign, 1 i.. -,u ? i.livoti.lnn ' 14,iV JUKI 13 IV1H>M u ti.l tt |?.Vo.% .nil, whenever anybody in the neighborhood gets sick they send for the old-fashioned fellow that everybody's been call: ing plain 'doctor* for years." "That's true." "And some of these people who sit In the office and write pieces about us are , Journalists. Hut the one who gets tho i real facts is simply known ns? a 'newsi paper man.'" "Yes." J "Well, we aren't any T>elllgercuta.^ We're fighters." . J ' ',1