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' And as their happiness grew and
throve apace so did Alan Stacey's star
of none grow more and more brilliant.
There bad been at the time of his first
great success croakers, who had foretold
that the star of•Alan Stacey's brilliancy
wortid wane in a little time, but these
prognoeticatione bad proved to be
Wrong • With every book that hadcome
out lies genius was seen to be more in-
tense and more brilliant He had the
magic touch, the subtle insight the
grace, the freshness, the romance and
the poetry which are needed to wake a
really „great and lasting success. To
seine of us -to most of as, I should
have said -the refining fires of sorrow
are necessary, but how and again there
shines upon the world a great mind
which feeds on the sunlight Alan
Stacey was one of these, and the more
the happiness of his life increased the
more brilliant did his work become.
Theuntold satisfaction of his daily life,
'so far from cramping or etultifying
• him, seemed as if it but fed the fires of
his genius, and it was a comnion thing
in the set in which Alan Stacey moved
for their union to be cited as an excuse,
a reason, a justification, of the great
and old fashioned institution of mar-
riage
"Marriage a failure!" cried a great
painter one day when some theorist
propounded the idea that marriage was
frequently a failure because of the in-
equalities of intellect and attainments
in those who were indissolubly bound
I wish you to continue precisely as you
hare always done."
together "Marriage a failure for that
' reason ! Nonsense I Look at Alan Stacey,
the wost brilliant chap that ever sat at
a dinner table, the most gifted speaker,
a writer whose sway stretches all over
the world Little Mrs. Stacey .has no
attainments She does nothing. A pret-
ty little woman manages the house and
Stacey admirably -an ordinary, quiet,
sensible. dignified littlewoman, who
never mak-es herself cheap, who never
gives herself away and who keeps Sta-
cey as straight as a die. How does she
do it? Not because her intellect is equal
to Stacey's. Not a bit of it, no, but
simply because, she's the right woman
for him She is the woman he ought to
have married, and, luckily for him,
when) he did marry She is a wise little
woman -not intellectual, no; that is a
seery different thing -but wise, wise in
her management of Stacey I don't
,know.'' the great man went on reflect-
ively, "that she even has a temper. and
yet I fancy she could dust Stacey's
jacket for him if need be.
"And you don't consider their mar-
riage a failure. Sir John?"
"Stacey's marriage a failure! Good
God, madam, what are you talking
about Stacey's twice the man he was
before he married that little woman. I
always regard her as the pivot around
which all the brilliant gems Of Stacey's
intellect revolve And it is necessary,
madam. for gems of intellect to have a
pivot that they can safely and rational-
ly revolve round. And between our-
selves -and not between ourselves for
the matter of that -1 have always look-
ed upon it as a very lucky thing for
.Alan Stacey that he happened to meet
with the very woman who could -make
all the difference in the world to him."
CHAPTER XII,
AN ITEM OF NEWS.
It was just three years after her mar-
riage with Alan Stacey that Mary came
down stairs one morning into the long,
low celled dining room where breakfast
was awaiting her She received the
noisy greeting of the rough haired ter-
rier with a kindly pat on the head,
etooped and ruffled the fur of the great
• Angora cat as he lay before the cheerful
fire She turned to the manservant
when he came in.
"Oh, John. Mr Stacey has a head-
ache this morning, the worst he has
had for months. He says he will take no
more than a cup of tea and two bits of
du toast '
"Indeed, ma'am, I'ne sorry to hear
that, saidJohn in a sympathetic tone,
"It's a long time since the master has
had a real bad headache. Thank you,
• ma'am, •as she poured out the large
cup of tea.
Mary sat down in her place and
poured out her own tea. She was not
worried or upset at her husband's in-
disposition, because be wee a man who
had all his life suffered oceasionally
from violent headaches, and he declared
that since his Merriage they had been
Much less frequent than formerly, She
helped herself to some kedgeree and
opened one by one the pile of lettere
beside her plate, • smiling over their
contents now and then, as if she found
the tievvs they contained pleasant,
• Then. thee disposed of, he took a sec-
ond helping of the kedgeree, which was
Unusually good, and opened the news-
paper, kietting it tap against the teapot
for the greater convenience of being
able to eat and read` at the same time,
Like all women, he read the first col-
umn to begini With, then turned the pa-
ter over to ,,the middle shoet ./n Mee
moment the whole atmosphere and at-
titude of be life was changed, for
there, in etaring letters before her, was
the heading "Survivors. Of the A.rikha-
ma.
She caught the paper up from its po-
sition against the teapot and thrust' it
down between the table and her knee,
going on mechanically eating her break'
fast, as if by so doing she could keep
the suspicious announcement at arm's
length. Then Iihe found that, although
she had gone on eating, sho would not
swallow the food that was in her
mouth, and, as she came to a realization
of the fact, she choked the mouthful
down and pushed her plate evyay.
"Survivors of the Arilthania I" Good
heavens! What did these four words
insPlY? "Survivors of the Arikhama
"Oh, niy God, not that, not that 1'' she
moaned out, putting her hands up to
her bead and staring hard at the oppo-
site wall. "Not that, not that
"Survivors of the Ar.ikhania," The
trend of thoughts which the words
called up was laideoes-hideous---laid-
eons. Perhaps, after all, he was alivel
She passed her hands over her face to
clear her eyes from the mist that danced
before them. Her blood ran cold; her
flesh seemed to turn chill; her heart to
liave stopped its motion; only her terri-
ble thoughts went whirling, whirling,
whirling on -to what? To the fact that
Edward Conway might be one of the
survivors of the Arikhama
She looked down at the paper crushed
upon her knee.. "1 daren't read it; 1
daren't read it.- I will put it in the fire
as it is. It will be better not to know.
Oh, my God, what shall I do?" The
survivors of the Arikhama I Where had
they been? Years had gone byl
"Oh, this is folly -folly I Pull your-
self together, Mary Stacey; pull your-
self together Nerve yourself, woman!
Don't be a coward! Face the Nvorst;
know the worst, and get it over! Any-
thing is better than suspicions, and the
paper will tell you."
So she took up the paper with nerve-
less, shaking fingers, smoothed it out
and bent her eyes upon it. They refused
their office. Merciful nature spread a
curtain between her palpitating heart,
her dazed brain and the cruel news
which the printed columns brought.
She could see nothing.
She shook herself together. "This is
foolish, " her heart said. "You are un-
nerved, Mary Stacey. Rub your eyes
hard, and don't be a coward. Read the
notice."
Slowly the printed 'words appeared
through the mist -the merciful mist---
"Servivors of the Arikhama." And
then the paragraph went on to tell this,
wondrous tale of the sea. How a sailing
brig, under stress of weather, had found
herself driven -upon a rocky islet in the
far Pacific. It was not an unknown is-
land, but an uninhabited one, being too
far out of the ordinary track of vessels
and too small and poor in quality of
land to make it worth while for any one
to settle there. The sailing vessel, find-
ing herself driven very near, put in to
renew her stores of water and, to the
astonishment of the captain and crew,
discovered three men and a dog in pos-
session of the island: These were the
captain and two of the crew of the ill
fated steamship Arikhama, who, after
drifting about in an open boat for many
weeks and suflerine unheard of priva-
tions, had found thmselves tossed upon
this faroff strand, which had been to
them so long a living grave.
Captain Conway and the two seamen
were the only three men out of nine
who had survived the hardships and pri-
vations of that long and terrible voyage
and the cruel life of isolation which fol-
lowed. Then came a description of how
the rescued men bad lived. Penguins'
eggs, occasional fish and roots of vari-
ous kinds had formed their chief suste-
nance. The whole account ended with
details of how the three men had wept
like madmen On meeting their rescuers,
and the concluding sentences said
"When we tell our readers that Cap-
tain Conway had only been married a
few months when he set out on the
Arikliama's last ill fated voyage, it will
easily be understood that his anxiety to
have news of his wife was overpower-
ing. The captain and crew of the Live-
ly Jeanie, however, were not able to
satisfy lien on this point, but they sail-
ed the follewing day for Melbourne, and
Captain Conway will set sail for home
immediately on arrival at that port."
So she knew the worst, and worse
than the worst could not be. So all her
new found happiness had fallen about
her ears like a house of cards. • All was
at an end.
• She sat there, still holding the paper,
staring with wild eyes round the luxu-
rious room So leer happiness had all
come to an end. • Her radiant life was
over She who had been for three bless-
ed years Alan Stacey's honored and de-
voted wife must be outcast--outcastl
She repeated the word over and over
again to herself, as if to try by repeti-
tion to din its meaning into her bewil-
dered brain Could it be true? Yes.
That beading still stared at her -"Sur-
vivors of the Arikhania:" She had read
the account There was Edward Con -
way's name. It wae"all true -too true.
And up stairs. 111 and prostrate, lay the
man who had come to be all the world
to her, the man who had taken her,
poor and alone as she was. and made
her the mistrese of his heart and' of his
home 'Ana he was ignorant! She would
have to tell him -to tell him that she
was not hie wife, to tell him that she
was the wife and not the widow of the
man who had bertight her with a price,
who had ontraged her, who had struck
her. •
And he bad told that story of how he
had been only a few months married to
a young wife! She wondered bitterly
whether he had told them that he had
so far forgotten his marriage vows that
he had struck the young wife in those
eatly days of their marriage? Three
years -three years --three wholly bless-
ed years withent one sad thought, with,
out one hareb word, without one regret;
three 'years of pure and ttnalloVed hen-
piness. Well, lie would alwaYs bait,
that to look back to. Perhaps she ought
not to gru3n ble or to be surprised that
fate had been minded to bring her hap-
piness to an end. rt Was like the regis-
tration of sunShine in London, Some
people got a little happiness filtered out
in driblets over a long life of great dull.
ness She had bad three blessed years
of glory, and now the time would be all
gray, like a London fog. She had regis•
tered three years of sunshine, and, like
poor London, she aniSt put in the aver-
age of mist and fog.
She sat for some little time lorrYer,
indeed until John came to clear the ta-
ble. Then, from some woman's instinct
of hiding the tragedy through which
she was passing, she rose and carried
the paper to the fire and stood there
reading an account of the fancy dress
ball given by the lady mayoress of Lon-
don -aye, and reading it attentively.
They had been present thereat. Her
dress was described -her dress and
Alan's -almost side. by side with the
weeds which told of the rescue of the
survivors of the Arikhama.
Then John betook himself away, and
she was once more left alone. She form-
ed no plans, her dazed brain refused to
take in anything more than the stall
and bare facts Edward Conway was
alive -cin his way home -eager and
anxious to find her And she was here, "
in the old Fulham house, masquerad.
lug to the world as Alan Stacey's hon-
ored wife!
And Alan would have to be told l He
would have to see the papers; he would
have to decide where she was" to go,
vyniat she was to do, how she could best
hide herself from the monster who had
legal right over her.
She was still sitting there, when 11
strokes of the clock warned her that the
morning was passing -- when they
should have warned her. for Mary did
not wove from her place beside the fire
Then a smart housemaid came in with
a message,
"Please, ma'am, master is much bet-
ter, and if you have quite done with
the paper he would be glad if you would
send it up stairs to him."
CHAPTER XIII.
THE BURNED NEWSPAPER.
Mary's first instinct was to carry the
paper up stairs to Alan Stacey her,self
• to break the news to him there and then
But hard upon the heels of this thought
came another -that he was but jest
over a very violent headache. and it
would be cruel to tell him that moment.
She therefore whisked out the middle
page and gave the rest of the paper to
the maid.
"Tell Mr. Stacey that I will come up
in a few minutes," she said.
When the servant had left the room,
her first thought was how elle could
best conceal that part of the paper from
Alan. Then she ran to the door.
"Alice, Alice, come back!" she call-
ed. "Give me the paper. I will go mp.
to Mr. Stacey myself."
But she did not go up at once. •She
turned baclr into the dining room and
deliberately tore the sheet containing
the telegram across, so that the corner
where the account of the rescue of the
survivors of the Arikhania had been
was gone. This she threw into the fire.
Then she went up the wide shallow
stairs and turned in at her bedroom
door.
"My dear boy," she said in a tone as
much like her natural voice as supreme
effort could urake •it, "I really don't
think that you ought to be reading the
newspaper, particularly lying down in
bed. Let me read to you."
She sat down by the fire with her
back to the light Alan Stacey lay back
among his pillows idly enough.
"I don't care about reading, so long
as you'll sit there and talk to rue," he
said lazily "Is there anything in the
paper ?"
"No -o; an account of the ball last
night, with our noble names in the
paragraph. All the rest is pretty much
as usual."
She glanced down the day by day
column, gave him a list of all the
items of news that might in any way
serve to interest him, and after that
they talked for a little while, and then
Alan Stacey said that he might as well
get up as lie idling there, and Mary
went down stairs again, carrying the
paper in her hand: carrying also her
burden with her; carrying with her
the knowledge and the conviction that
he would have to be told; that she must
be the one to break the news to him;
that there must be no shirking it, no
getting out of it; that it was a task
which lay right in front of her. a task
which she must accomplish -and the
sooner the better
Then she reniembered that if she told
him Alan would naturally ask to see
the paper containing the news But she
had burned itl She felt-scnstrangely
are we moved by trifles in times of
great difficulty -that she could not en-
dure to let him know that her first
thought had been to hide the truth
from him Then how was she to ac-
count to him for having destroyed that
part of the paper? Should she send out
and get another copy? She did not like
to do that, nor did she like to go her-
self -it would look so strange.
[To BE CONTINUED.]
• Bow It Ilappened.
"How (lid you come to sever your en-
gagement with ivIlss Dashleigh, the heir-
ess?" the poet's friend asked.
"I will tell you," the bard sadly replied.
"I wrote a sonnet to her and had it pub-
lished. In one of the lines I made use of
the words 'her plaint.' The printer made
it 'her paint.' So you see how little
things continue to upset our fondest "cal-
enlations."-Chicago Times -Herald.
No Palliation.
"1 don't like Mrs, Tompkins. I bowed
to her across the street today, and she did
not bow to me."
"Perhape she is nenrsightecl and did
not see you."
"Perhaps so, but t don't like her for it
anywae."-Chicago Record.
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a small, strong rope and tie each end
to the cultivator in surds a way that
'the trough will be kept a little in a`d-
vance of the shovels.
It is best to leave this rope to play
loosely through th tromeh as it would
otherwise upset turning at the end
of the rows. The illustration shows
the construction exactly.
Corn. Clover and Hoits.
The inan who raises corn, clover and
hogs need adopt no other line of farm-
ing. • He has his hands full, and the
three go together so well that he need
not add a thircl crop to them, remarks
the Boston Cultivator. Even the fertili-
ty of the soil can be kept up with these
three products, so there will be little
or no degeneration in it. By euriug
plenty of clover hay for winter use we
secure at the same time a cheap food
and one that keeps up the health of the
hogs better than if they had corn alone.
A liberal supply of • this clover hay
stacked away for winter use will ena-
ble a farmer to winter his hogs at a
cost much lower than another who de-
pends chiefly upon corn and scraps.
The leaves and chaff of the clover
bay formerly made a considerable item
of waste. These today are fed to the
hogs by mixing- them up with a small
amount of bran and middlings and
then soaking them overnight in water.
Let the water be hot where poured in,
and then feed when cold. The hogs
relish this ruixture and eat it greedily
the next morning. When all the loose
leaves and chaff have been used up in
this way, the clover hay can be mit up
and soaked and mixed with middlings,
bran or cracked corn.
Selecting Corn with a...Large Germ.
Chemical analysis of' the several
parts of the COI'D kernel has shown
that the germ is richest in proteids.
Therefore choosing a corn in which
the genii is in large proportion is all,
that is necessary to insure getting that'
which is richer in proteids. Selecting
'corn with a large germ is not as
ditfl-
eult as might be supposed. Take a few.
grains from the ear, neglecting the
butt and tip, where they are more or
less distorted in form, with a sharp
pocketknife, begin at the tip of a ker-
nel where It was attached to the cob
and make several erose sections front
one thirty-second to one -sixteenth of an
Inch In thickness and observe the rela-
tive proportion of germ that the ,see -
tion shows. Repeat this on a number
of kernels and Make longitudinal sec-
tions of other kernels also. These sec-
tions can be made in less time than it
takes to tell how to make them, and by
means of them a very us'eftfl judgment
can he onssed upon the corn, says J. T.
\Villa:el of 'Kansas.
Among native legmrdnous forge
plants the Metcalfe beau of New Alexi-
co has given good results under' culti-
vatien on the Pacific coast and It is
teikeel of as a veluable plant for dry
lauds le 0-e west,
HATCHING WEATHER.
The Worst Possible Day Is the “Mug
gy”—Mr. Campbell's Experiment.
J. L. Cambpell says in "Artificial
Hatching and Itroodiug;" "The 'worst
possible day to get out a good hatch is
a very hot one, because the chick
smother so easily at euch a time, so
that the smallest possible amount of
moisture that will answer should be
used on a hot day. I prefer above any
other kind of Weather a cool, pleasant
day, especially if 0 nice breeze Is blow-
ing. On such a day as that chicks seem
to be and are much strouger than on a
hot day. The Worst of all days is one
that is called ""in common parlance
`muggy' --that is, hot day with air
saturated with moisture. Chicks will
die (smotherr on such a day as that
without the slightest provocation that
you cast see. When I have. a hatch,
coming off on such a day or night, I
stay with them. lAthen the day is cool
and pleasant, they can hoe their own
row pretty much ae they like, a.nd they
will get out all right, but the all im-
portant thing is to keep the heat just
right and suPply enough air so they
Will not pant any before they get per-
fectly dry."
Mr. Campbell also gives an interest-
ing account of the difference between
hot and cold weather heat, 1 -le says:
"There is one very curious point about
temperature which has caused me a
great amount of study, and even yet
I am not absolutely sure that I have
reached the proper solution of this
problem. It would naturally be sup-
posed that it was easier to overheat
eggs o0 a hot day than a cold one, and
so it is, but the rather curious fact
remaius that sometimes on a hot day
chicks will stand heat which would
kill every chick.on a cold day, and it
appears to do them no harm wbatover.
I have experimented a good bit along
that line, and I am not satisfied that I
know all I want to know about it yet.
A case in point will illustrate what I
mean. The lamp pn one of my incu-
bators was accidentally left in such
shape that the regulator could not
shut it off. The day was very hot,
and only a very small flame was burn-
ing at best, but the heat went to 112
aud must have been that high for at
least two hours, quite long enough to
heat the chicks to that point. This
was the eighteenth day of Maubation,
and I decided that the chicks were
clone for, as they appeared to be dead
on examination. The temperature of
the room was 96 at that time. so I
opened the incubator and left them for
several hours, and 133 chicks hatched
out of 147 eggs, and these chicks are
early all alive and doing well at near -
y 2 months old. I have purposely
heated incubators to 112 on a cold day,
with the result of killing nearly every
hick inside of one hour. I think the
difference lies in the fact that on a
old day the extra heat is all incubator
heat, while on a hot day a good part
of it is animal heat, or, in other words,
the same amount of incubator heat ap-
plied on the hot day that is applied on
the ,cold day would run it up perhaps
130, and the chicks would all be dead
before they became that hot. The sot
lution, I think, is somewhat like the
reason that a person who is acclimaied
can stand a beat which would kill a
person who is not."
One of the Opportunities.
Once in awhile a man, even a chick-,
en man, makes a clean pick up. Late
last winter W. A. Irvin of Tecumseh,
Neb., well known as a breeder of ex-
hibition Barred Rocks, sent a trio to
the writer to have photographs taken
for illustrating„ purposes. It will be
remembered that half tone cuts of this
trio were published in our April num-
ber. The weather was stormy during
two weeks or more after these birds
reached us. Furthermore, the photog-
rapher on whom we depended fell
sick, a fact which, of course, we much
regretted. Still every cloud has a
Bryan lining (these were Nebraska
chickens), and we jealously saved up
no less than 13 eggs (a lucky number)
that were laid by those two excellent
pullets. Our man smiled broader and
broader each day as he reported the
number of eggs on hand. Filially from
the 13 eggs he hatched ten chicks, and
as we look at those chicks, now that
they are S or 9 weeks old,' we cap but
reflect' that if the photographer in
question had not been taken sick he
might have been run over by a street
car or someehing, and that would have
been lots 'worse.
We shall not say how good some of
those ten chicks promise to be, but
will go far enough to hereby release
Mr. Irvin from paying any board bill
for the trio during their stay at our
fa rill. We would not trade them
"sights unseen" for a carload of jack-
knives. If several of these chicks do
not stop "hanging out the bars" -the
clear and distinct kind -we shall be
tempted to buy a photographer out-
right and open up confining yards,
with a picture gallenteannex, and make
a business of having breeders send
birds to us to be photographed. Pos-
sibly we could arrange matters satis-
factorily with the weather clerk. Clear-
ly, brethren, this chicken business is
full of opportunities. -Reliable Poultry
,Journal -
Rens In tile molt.
Hens molt every fall, beginning usu-
ally ,in August, depending on the lath
tude. No Special treatment Is neces-
sary, provided the fowls are well cared
for, generally Speaking, but some 90111-
trymen aim to enrich the food in oils
during this period by feeding sunflower
seed or linseed meal, the latter being
more conaripmly used. It Is no doubt
a good plan to sow a patch of sun-
flowers for the use of the fowls as
elifide and in order that they may have
coeds in the fall during molting time.
At this season of the year they seem to
be extra fond of sunflower seed, which
would Indicate that sunflowers are
good for them and that they know It. -
Reliable POtillre Journal.
THE SUN.DAY SCHOOL
--
LESSON itt, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 16.
Text Of th.c Lesson. Mark v, 22 -24,35-
43 -memory Verses, 39-42--Goidea
Text. Mark v, 30-Doemmentary Pre-
pared by the Iter. D. 1$1. Stearns.
(Copyright, 1000, by D. M. Stearns.] ,
We are given the choice ofan Raster
lesson, but as the regular lesson happens
• to be a resurrection lesson anti brings
before' us hi the not of raising the dead
Elini who is the Resurrection and the
Life, we will be content with it. '-
22. "Jairus, when he saw aim, fell at
1 -lis feet." According te the harmonies, %
this incelmit took place not in the order
in which we have it here, but oder near-
ly every ether 1on 01 this quarter. As
we have saki before, the order of events
ie not the main thing, but to see 1 -lint and
know Bin' as truly God findtruly man,
God nittnifest in the flesh, Israel's Mes-
siah, the world's Ifedeetner. After Fie
had healed the demoniac at Gatlara and
had commissioned him to tell his friends.
at home how great things the Lord had
done for him, thc' Gadareues having be-
sought Jf'sus to 10115e thetn, Ile recrossed
the- sea and found the people all Nvaiting
for 1-11111 tVertiOS 18-21; Lulcci viii. 40).
If a door of usefulness seems fer any or
Lot' no reason closed, another surely
23, 24. He states his peed and his re-
quest briefly and earnestly,and Jesus
went with him. So 'did Llis disciples and
much people. The sick child was an only
daughter about 12 years of age, and she
was dying (1 ) viii 49' Math ix 19)
Our Lord might have said to Jairus as
He said at Cana to the nobleman frona
Capernaum, "Go thy way, thy child liv-
&le" (John iv, 50), but for some reason
Flo went with Jaisus: We must not '
think that our I.ord has but one way of
doing things and that because one has
been limped or has had prayeganswered
•in a certain way we must expect the
SaLne, but With perfect coufidence iu Elim
leave it all to Eliin. How gracious is our
Lord; bow ready in listen to the ery of
distress!
35. "While Ile yet spake there came
from the ' ruler of the synagogue's house
certain which said: Thy daughter is
dead. Why troublest thou the Master
any further?,, He was speaking to a
'poor woman, who, as He walked toward
the ruler's house, had pressed through
the crowd behind Him and had touched
the hem of His garment and been made
whole. She was poor physically, for she
had a disease which for 12 years had
been sapping her life. She was poor
financially, for She hacl spent all her liv-
ing upon physicians who did her no good.
Her living was gone and her life almost
gone, but one touch of the garment of
Him who is the Resurrection and the
Life made her whole. She was timid
and weak, but had perfect confidence in
His power and willingness to heal her,
and not only was she not disapnointed,
but I -Ie called her out and surprised and
comforted her with the beautiful words:
"r)aughter, be of goad comfort. Thy
faith bath made thee whole. Go in
peace" (Luke viii, 4S). It was the only
time, as far as we know, when Ele ad-
dressed any one as "daughter."
30. "Be not afraid, only believe." As
soon as Jesus heard the people give Jairus
the sad news this is what He said to him.
I'recious words for every troubled soul.
What a comfort they have been to me!
Compare II Chron. xx, 20, and John ti,
40; ex, 29; Luke i, 45. Luke says that
our Lord also, added, "And she shall be
made whole" (Luke viii, 50). Jaime
therefore had the assurance that his de-
sire was or was about to be granted.
However impossible the thing may seerci,
faith says, "I believe God that it shall
be even as it was told me" (Acts xxvii,
25) and is fully persuaded that what God
has- promised He is able to perform
(Rom. iv, 21); He that coraeth to God
must believe. Without faith it is impos-
sible to please Him (Heb. ii, 6). '
37. The favored three who were also
with Him on the Mount of Transfigure -
tion and in the garden are here the only
witnesses among the disciples. We may
live as near to Iiim as we are willing to,
but it is a narrow way, and few there be
that find it. The risen life with. Christ is
costly, for it means deadness to this pres-
cut evil world, and but few believers
think they cau get along without a good
deal of that which we are told to love
not (I John ii, 15-17). Yet the command
of Coe iii. 1-3, is very plain.
3S, 39. "The dainsel is not dead, but
sleepeth." Thus Tie said to those who
wept and wailed. and in like words He
spoke of Lazarus (John xi, 11.13). Death
the sleep of the body. The soul sleeps
-not, bei is in conscious existeuce between
death and resurrection, as is plainly
tatiglit in II Cor. v, 8: Phil. i, 23; Luke
xvi. 22, 23; xxiii. 43, and a comparison of
Acts xis, 10, with 11 (Inc. xii, 1-4. He
who keeps us in our natural sleep and
wakens us morning by morning can just
as easily waken the body from the sleep,
of death. ' •
40. "And they laughed Ilim to scorn."
Man laughing in unbelief at his Maker,
the creature laughing at the Creatorebut
they knew not what they were doing.
Even Sarah was guilty of an unbelieving
laugh, and so also was Abraham (Gen.
xvii. 17; xviii, 12-15). The disciples them-
selves, when they heard that Christ was
risen, did not believe it, for it seemed to
them, an idle tale (Mark xvi, 11, 13; Luke
xxiv, 11). Contrast' the laugh of faith in
(len. xxi, l's. exxvi, 2.
41, 42. "Ienmsel, I say Onto thee arise. ,
And straightway the damsel arose and
walked." What a word is this! It is the
smile word and power by which the
worlds. were made, by which the sea was
divided, tne storni stilled, the lepers heal-
ed, the demons cast out. The Sittne word
is still giving life to dead souls and shall
yet bring all the dead from their graves
and from the depths of the sea and from
wherever the ashes of the dead have
been scattered. Ilelievest thou this? If
not, it may be that thou alt, perhaps un-
consciously, laughing at His worde. Life
and health are given in a moment at His
mighty word so calmly epoken. IsIe is the
very saene Jesus, and whatever may be
your trouble or difliculty 1 -le le saying to
YOU es He said to Jaime, "Be not afraid,
°11143Y, b'e'lliiceve.e'o' inn -landed that something
should be given her to eat." When Ile
would prove to His diseiples the reality
of His Own re.sursection, He took broiled
fieh ;tin] honeycomb and did eat it bAfore
them (Luke xxiv, 42, 43). To see one
Who has been sick enjoying food is very
encournging. Who can tell the joy and
gratittele Of these parents? What would
those who laughed to scorn say
now? What will the unbelievers say
when they have to meet Ilitn? It Is
written in Rev. vi, 15-17, what they will
iaxaud doe
HOMEMADEIMP.LEMENTS.
A rbree ',tank
Shield
To prepare
..ceding or for
1 three plank
;tieli as is 'shown
nit. is OC1.0E
ma erfovore,
nake. The planks
1 chain and bolts
widen pass through
.• •
parent seattete.....-.--agmestmatt
.
for grass
Planting,
clod crusher,
accompanying
convenient ,
and easy to
together by
washers
links. 'The
Leveler—Cultivator
For Corn,
lancl properly
corn or potato
leveler and
in the
VerY u6eful,
it iS simple
aro held
with large
the
57
a
ne
a
t
.
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LLVELEN AND CLOD CRUSHER.
loles in the rear plank are for attach-
ag short pieces of heavy chain, which
vill mark sufficiently plain for either
orn or potato planting.
Te foregoing is described in the
)hio Farmer, in which a corsespondent
iso tells of a good shield for a culti-
ator. He says:
In cultivating corn when it is small,
: requires the greatest care not to coy -
r up or roll bard lumps of dirt on the
mcler sprouts. The shields that come
eth cultivators are very uncertain and
nsatisfactory in their work. For sev-
ral years we have tried this trough
ncl find it a most satisfactory device.
'eke two hard wood inch boards eight
iches wide and about five feet long
nd fashion the forward end of each
1 the shape .of a sleigh runner. Then
Ike a 2 by 4 the same length as
ie boards and bevel the edges in such
way that when the boards are nailed
a they will speead out at the bottom
util they are about eight inches apart.
his trough is to pass, inverted, over
le corn row between the shovels of
ie cultivator, its sloping, sides catch-
tg the loose soil and leaving it lying
,osely next the corn, but never on it.
o fasten this trough to the cultivator,
Jre an inch bole through the 'sides
Jar the front end and just beneath
10 top 2 by 4. Through these run
. -tedT::-.F ' seeeresere-et ,
-,,
-
i
COEN snreen. •
a small, strong rope and tie each end
to the cultivator in surds a way that
'the trough will be kept a little in a`d-
vance of the shovels.
It is best to leave this rope to play
loosely through th tromeh as it would
otherwise upset turning at the end
of the rows. The illustration shows
the construction exactly.
Corn. Clover and Hoits.
The inan who raises corn, clover and
hogs need adopt no other line of farm-
ing. • He has his hands full, and the
three go together so well that he need
not add a thircl crop to them, remarks
the Boston Cultivator. Even the fertili-
ty of the soil can be kept up with these
three products, so there will be little
or no degeneration in it. By euriug
plenty of clover hay for winter use we
secure at the same time a cheap food
and one that keeps up the health of the
hogs better than if they had corn alone.
A liberal supply of • this clover hay
stacked away for winter use will ena-
ble a farmer to winter his hogs at a
cost much lower than another who de-
pends chiefly upon corn and scraps.
The leaves and chaff of the clover
bay formerly made a considerable item
of waste. These today are fed to the
hogs by mixing- them up with a small
amount of bran and middlings and
then soaking them overnight in water.
Let the water be hot where poured in,
and then feed when cold. The hogs
relish this ruixture and eat it greedily
the next morning. When all the loose
leaves and chaff have been used up in
this way, the clover hay can be mit up
and soaked and mixed with middlings,
bran or cracked corn.
Selecting Corn with a...Large Germ.
Chemical analysis of' the several
parts of the COI'D kernel has shown
that the germ is richest in proteids.
Therefore choosing a corn in which
the genii is in large proportion is all,
that is necessary to insure getting that'
which is richer in proteids. Selecting
'corn with a large germ is not as
ditfl-
eult as might be supposed. Take a few.
grains from the ear, neglecting the
butt and tip, where they are more or
less distorted in form, with a sharp
pocketknife, begin at the tip of a ker-
nel where It was attached to the cob
and make several erose sections front
one thirty-second to one -sixteenth of an
Inch In thickness and observe the rela-
tive proportion of germ that the ,see -
tion shows. Repeat this on a number
of kernels and Make longitudinal sec-
tions of other kernels also. These sec-
tions can be made in less time than it
takes to tell how to make them, and by
means of them a very us'eftfl judgment
can he onssed upon the corn, says J. T.
\Villa:el of 'Kansas.
Among native legmrdnous forge
plants the Metcalfe beau of New Alexi-
co has given good results under' culti-
vatien on the Pacific coast and It is
teikeel of as a veluable plant for dry
lauds le 0-e west,
HATCHING WEATHER.
The Worst Possible Day Is the “Mug
gy”—Mr. Campbell's Experiment.
J. L. Cambpell says in "Artificial
Hatching and Itroodiug;" "The 'worst
possible day to get out a good hatch is
a very hot one, because the chick
smother so easily at euch a time, so
that the smallest possible amount of
moisture that will answer should be
used on a hot day. I prefer above any
other kind of Weather a cool, pleasant
day, especially if 0 nice breeze Is blow-
ing. On such a day as that chicks seem
to be and are much strouger than on a
hot day. The Worst of all days is one
that is called ""in common parlance
`muggy' --that is, hot day with air
saturated with moisture. Chicks will
die (smotherr on such a day as that
without the slightest provocation that
you cast see. When I have. a hatch,
coming off on such a day or night, I
stay with them. lAthen the day is cool
and pleasant, they can hoe their own
row pretty much ae they like, a.nd they
will get out all right, but the all im-
portant thing is to keep the heat just
right and suPply enough air so they
Will not pant any before they get per-
fectly dry."
Mr. Campbell also gives an interest-
ing account of the difference between
hot and cold weather heat, 1 -le says:
"There is one very curious point about
temperature which has caused me a
great amount of study, and even yet
I am not absolutely sure that I have
reached the proper solution of this
problem. It would naturally be sup-
posed that it was easier to overheat
eggs o0 a hot day than a cold one, and
so it is, but the rather curious fact
remaius that sometimes on a hot day
chicks will stand heat which would
kill every chick.on a cold day, and it
appears to do them no harm wbatover.
I have experimented a good bit along
that line, and I am not satisfied that I
know all I want to know about it yet.
A case in point will illustrate what I
mean. The lamp pn one of my incu-
bators was accidentally left in such
shape that the regulator could not
shut it off. The day was very hot,
and only a very small flame was burn-
ing at best, but the heat went to 112
aud must have been that high for at
least two hours, quite long enough to
heat the chicks to that point. This
was the eighteenth day of Maubation,
and I decided that the chicks were
clone for, as they appeared to be dead
on examination. The temperature of
the room was 96 at that time. so I
opened the incubator and left them for
several hours, and 133 chicks hatched
out of 147 eggs, and these chicks are
early all alive and doing well at near -
y 2 months old. I have purposely
heated incubators to 112 on a cold day,
with the result of killing nearly every
hick inside of one hour. I think the
difference lies in the fact that on a
old day the extra heat is all incubator
heat, while on a hot day a good part
of it is animal heat, or, in other words,
the same amount of incubator heat ap-
plied on the hot day that is applied on
the ,cold day would run it up perhaps
130, and the chicks would all be dead
before they became that hot. The sot
lution, I think, is somewhat like the
reason that a person who is acclimaied
can stand a beat which would kill a
person who is not."
One of the Opportunities.
Once in awhile a man, even a chick-,
en man, makes a clean pick up. Late
last winter W. A. Irvin of Tecumseh,
Neb., well known as a breeder of ex-
hibition Barred Rocks, sent a trio to
the writer to have photographs taken
for illustrating„ purposes. It will be
remembered that half tone cuts of this
trio were published in our April num-
ber. The weather was stormy during
two weeks or more after these birds
reached us. Furthermore, the photog-
rapher on whom we depended fell
sick, a fact which, of course, we much
regretted. Still every cloud has a
Bryan lining (these were Nebraska
chickens), and we jealously saved up
no less than 13 eggs (a lucky number)
that were laid by those two excellent
pullets. Our man smiled broader and
broader each day as he reported the
number of eggs on hand. Filially from
the 13 eggs he hatched ten chicks, and
as we look at those chicks, now that
they are S or 9 weeks old,' we cap but
reflect' that if the photographer in
question had not been taken sick he
might have been run over by a street
car or someehing, and that would have
been lots 'worse.
We shall not say how good some of
those ten chicks promise to be, but
will go far enough to hereby release
Mr. Irvin from paying any board bill
for the trio during their stay at our
fa rill. We would not trade them
"sights unseen" for a carload of jack-
knives. If several of these chicks do
not stop "hanging out the bars" -the
clear and distinct kind -we shall be
tempted to buy a photographer out-
right and open up confining yards,
with a picture gallenteannex, and make
a business of having breeders send
birds to us to be photographed. Pos-
sibly we could arrange matters satis-
factorily with the weather clerk. Clear-
ly, brethren, this chicken business is
full of opportunities. -Reliable Poultry
,Journal -
Rens In tile molt.
Hens molt every fall, beginning usu-
ally ,in August, depending on the lath
tude. No Special treatment Is neces-
sary, provided the fowls are well cared
for, generally Speaking, but some 90111-
trymen aim to enrich the food in oils
during this period by feeding sunflower
seed or linseed meal, the latter being
more conaripmly used. It Is no doubt
a good plan to sow a patch of sun-
flowers for the use of the fowls as
elifide and in order that they may have
coeds in the fall during molting time.
At this season of the year they seem to
be extra fond of sunflower seed, which
would Indicate that sunflowers are
good for them and that they know It. -
Reliable POtillre Journal.
THE SUN.DAY SCHOOL
--
LESSON itt, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 16.
Text Of th.c Lesson. Mark v, 22 -24,35-
43 -memory Verses, 39-42--Goidea
Text. Mark v, 30-Doemmentary Pre-
pared by the Iter. D. 1$1. Stearns.
(Copyright, 1000, by D. M. Stearns.] ,
We are given the choice ofan Raster
lesson, but as the regular lesson happens
• to be a resurrection lesson anti brings
before' us hi the not of raising the dead
Elini who is the Resurrection and the
Life, we will be content with it. '-
22. "Jairus, when he saw aim, fell at
1 -lis feet." According te the harmonies, %
this incelmit took place not in the order
in which we have it here, but oder near-
ly every ether 1on 01 this quarter. As
we have saki before, the order of events
ie not the main thing, but to see 1 -lint and
know Bin' as truly God findtruly man,
God nittnifest in the flesh, Israel's Mes-
siah, the world's Ifedeetner. After Fie
had healed the demoniac at Gatlara and
had commissioned him to tell his friends.
at home how great things the Lord had
done for him, thc' Gadareues having be-
sought Jf'sus to 10115e thetn, Ile recrossed
the- sea and found the people all Nvaiting
for 1-11111 tVertiOS 18-21; Lulcci viii. 40).
If a door of usefulness seems fer any or
Lot' no reason closed, another surely
23, 24. He states his peed and his re-
quest briefly and earnestly,and Jesus
went with him. So 'did Llis disciples and
much people. The sick child was an only
daughter about 12 years of age, and she
was dying (1 ) viii 49' Math ix 19)
Our Lord might have said to Jairus as
He said at Cana to the nobleman frona
Capernaum, "Go thy way, thy child liv-
&le" (John iv, 50), but for some reason
Flo went with Jaisus: We must not '
think that our I.ord has but one way of
doing things and that because one has
been limped or has had prayeganswered
•in a certain way we must expect the
SaLne, but With perfect coufidence iu Elim
leave it all to Eliin. How gracious is our
Lord; bow ready in listen to the ery of
distress!
35. "While Ile yet spake there came
from the ' ruler of the synagogue's house
certain which said: Thy daughter is
dead. Why troublest thou the Master
any further?,, He was speaking to a
'poor woman, who, as He walked toward
the ruler's house, had pressed through
the crowd behind Him and had touched
the hem of His garment and been made
whole. She was poor physically, for she
had a disease which for 12 years had
been sapping her life. She was poor
financially, for She hacl spent all her liv-
ing upon physicians who did her no good.
Her living was gone and her life almost
gone, but one touch of the garment of
Him who is the Resurrection and the
Life made her whole. She was timid
and weak, but had perfect confidence in
His power and willingness to heal her,
and not only was she not disapnointed,
but I -Ie called her out and surprised and
comforted her with the beautiful words:
"r)aughter, be of goad comfort. Thy
faith bath made thee whole. Go in
peace" (Luke viii, 4S). It was the only
time, as far as we know, when Ele ad-
dressed any one as "daughter."
30. "Be not afraid, only believe." As
soon as Jesus heard the people give Jairus
the sad news this is what He said to him.
I'recious words for every troubled soul.
What a comfort they have been to me!
Compare II Chron. xx, 20, and John ti,
40; ex, 29; Luke i, 45. Luke says that
our Lord also, added, "And she shall be
made whole" (Luke viii, 50). Jaime
therefore had the assurance that his de-
sire was or was about to be granted.
However impossible the thing may seerci,
faith says, "I believe God that it shall
be even as it was told me" (Acts xxvii,
25) and is fully persuaded that what God
has- promised He is able to perform
(Rom. iv, 21); He that coraeth to God
must believe. Without faith it is impos-
sible to please Him (Heb. ii, 6). '
37. The favored three who were also
with Him on the Mount of Transfigure -
tion and in the garden are here the only
witnesses among the disciples. We may
live as near to Iiim as we are willing to,
but it is a narrow way, and few there be
that find it. The risen life with. Christ is
costly, for it means deadness to this pres-
cut evil world, and but few believers
think they cau get along without a good
deal of that which we are told to love
not (I John ii, 15-17). Yet the command
of Coe iii. 1-3, is very plain.
3S, 39. "The dainsel is not dead, but
sleepeth." Thus Tie said to those who
wept and wailed. and in like words He
spoke of Lazarus (John xi, 11.13). Death
the sleep of the body. The soul sleeps
-not, bei is in conscious existeuce between
death and resurrection, as is plainly
tatiglit in II Cor. v, 8: Phil. i, 23; Luke
xvi. 22, 23; xxiii. 43, and a comparison of
Acts xis, 10, with 11 (Inc. xii, 1-4. He
who keeps us in our natural sleep and
wakens us morning by morning can just
as easily waken the body from the sleep,
of death. ' •
40. "And they laughed Ilim to scorn."
Man laughing in unbelief at his Maker,
the creature laughing at the Creatorebut
they knew not what they were doing.
Even Sarah was guilty of an unbelieving
laugh, and so also was Abraham (Gen.
xvii. 17; xviii, 12-15). The disciples them-
selves, when they heard that Christ was
risen, did not believe it, for it seemed to
them, an idle tale (Mark xvi, 11, 13; Luke
xxiv, 11). Contrast' the laugh of faith in
(len. xxi, l's. exxvi, 2.
41, 42. "Ienmsel, I say Onto thee arise. ,
And straightway the damsel arose and
walked." What a word is this! It is the
smile word and power by which the
worlds. were made, by which the sea was
divided, tne storni stilled, the lepers heal-
ed, the demons cast out. The Sittne word
is still giving life to dead souls and shall
yet bring all the dead from their graves
and from the depths of the sea and from
wherever the ashes of the dead have
been scattered. Ilelievest thou this? If
not, it may be that thou alt, perhaps un-
consciously, laughing at His worde. Life
and health are given in a moment at His
mighty word so calmly epoken. IsIe is the
very saene Jesus, and whatever may be
your trouble or difliculty 1 -le le saying to
YOU es He said to Jaime, "Be not afraid,
°11143Y, b'e'lliiceve.e'o' inn -landed that something
should be given her to eat." When Ile
would prove to His diseiples the reality
of His Own re.sursection, He took broiled
fieh ;tin] honeycomb and did eat it bAfore
them (Luke xxiv, 42, 43). To see one
Who has been sick enjoying food is very
encournging. Who can tell the joy and
gratittele Of these parents? What would
those who laughed to scorn say
now? What will the unbelievers say
when they have to meet Ilitn? It Is
written in Rev. vi, 15-17, what they will
iaxaud doe