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We man. is entitled to a serious largo shipper that (multi not be done
henring on the subject, of farming an- by the small farniew. lie can go,
lefie be proves his faith by his works without the loss 01 a, momenta; time,
to the genertsl freight agent or other
o you run a farm yourself and do railroad official, and nega/tiate di -
yon make it pay?" aro the quostions rectly and pereonolly for special fa -
to be put to every man who has any ellitios out of reach of the mon on
advice to offer about farming, writes tha farm. All these things count
Mr. S. W. Allerton io Saturcluy Ev-
ening Post. If be can't answer yes
to both, these questions his talk in
mere theory and not worth listen -
for the ,household the farmer is free
to sell the surplus. The wives *tad
children of the men . who run these
farms are given all the poultry they
raise. These privileges are apOreei-
cited, and go to make the foreman,
the Murals and the tenants, together
with their Surnailies, contented with
their lot and eager to keep . their
places. ,
Orchards am p1ant-0 on, these
farms, together with smolt fruit%
and thereis every encouragement to
have large gordons and 1.0 keelathaln
In 'good conditiOn, afen who ore
well fed, having a tempting variety
of the delicacies of the season, will
thrive and work well where a plain
and inenot01101114 bill 01 fare •would
produce grumbling, distiontent, end a
constant change of help,
Them is not a foam M the' .whole
'when the balance h, st/ tit .. syetem, that Mimi t 0110115"
the system 1 have outlinedwent an .extension -top buggy, and
makes possible large mononilea iti.Some have Mum than one, according
bOying. It stands to reason that to the number of young Meo en,
the roan who huys binding twine Ter ployed. The horses which Inc driv-
the barveating machines on nay en behind these carriages are equal
farms eats secure a lower figure than, to the ones °tined by the sons of
one purchasing for a single fennel neighboring fanners who work their
This :applies to every kiud of suppiy,: places instead of being in the em-
usecl in farm operations. I ploy of a "tlhicago capitalist." Here
One of the biggest problems of .15 another instance ill Which .small
farm management is, of course, the expense and little ,thoughtfuloess
distribution of crops. Whenever this ' work large results in loyalty and
question Comes up amoug farmers ; contentment.
there is always a great -deal of wise : Quite as haPortant to the welfare
talk about "crop rotation." Sift ' of the employees cold the tenants of
this down to the bottom and it will the 'farms as orchards, g•ardens,
be found, in twist cases, that farm-! dairies, poultry and top buggies, are
ers understand this term to mean good district schools. 11 there is
sowing a field for oats one year and not a "little red schoolhouse" on oa
wheat the next—alternating these 'Very near a farm that comes into My
crops indefinitely year after year. possessioa 1 see to it. that the auth-
Here is where the chief mistake is mattes are offered a gilt of 61111)10
nde They do not make provision • ground on which to build one. On
for giving their ground a ehance for
rest and enrichment. They do not
plan to return anything to the soil.
Ing If theorizing would raise
crops we shoUld have to go to col-
lege class -rooms instead of to the
fields for [gala on which to feed the
world; but it, won't, and there is 010e
use, in giving FeriOus attention to
any talk on this subject that is not
boated. up by sound moults, of a
broad, practical sort, whites have
been peisonally obtained by the man
snaking the suggestions.
First, then, I shall give a reason
for the faith that Is in sue, and
shall state somethiog of my export -
ewe as a farther, before I ask any
rnaaei' to accent sny statement. and
give *them any weight (0. practical
consideration. Ofy system of forms
c001110,1115 so/nothing snore than 40,-
000 acres under careful cultivation
and an equal amount in grass. These
not ranches, but farms. The farmEvery field used for wheat, corn and
one occasion, after repeato y p
ing an offer of this kind, my foreman
ams asked:
- "Why is that capitalist boss of
it should be clearly understood, are
bowies eovered by insurance number oats should have a srasoif s rest once yours so anxious to build a brick
about seventy. While these farms every three or four years. Clive each schoolhouse'? it will simply 10-
4 ,. one sense, munagecl at long field a chonce to servo as pasture crease his own taxes, and he will get
range, they axe "personally eon- land as frequently as this, and it no benefit from the improvement,
ducted," as the tourists say. 'The I will pay big returns in rich and having no children here to attend
entire system centre); right here sit I wavy yielcls. Managod 1,1118e lan school.''
my Chicago office, and every crop is I by a Man who has any knock as a As the foreman was a bright Irish -
as much under my personal diree- corn raiser, ans• average Illinois or , man he bad a ready answer: "Be -
tion as if I followed the plow, seed- 1 Nebraska field should yield front.' cause he thinks more of your ' chil-
ed the land and went into the bar- seventy-five to one hundred bushels dren and their chances in life than
of corn to the acre. you do yourself 1"
The schoolhouse was put up onthe
strength of that argument, and is
now well filled and helping to make
in New York. ln three years I say- g°aa' intelligent citizens of the-chil-
ed $3,200 from the Mem and had a dren who live in that region. There
Now about the results. Does my
farming pay? Yes. And well, too. good living besides. It, was there isn't a more important building on
For the ake of definituess I can
that I demonstrated the principle of any farm than the little red school-
s
that in one year, from a farm of say
the rotatioa plan. which I have since house! Better get along with one
'
followed on a larger seam. From less barn or corn -crib than leave this
3000 acres, I have made a net profit
that thue until the present I have hit of architecture out, of the lend-
er $37 000. This tract of land cost scene.
The district school is the salvation
of this country. It gives the chil-
dren 81 the common people a chance
for a, good education, and that coun-
try which takes care of this class
will keep at the front among the na-
tions.
vest field myself.
So much foe the question of prac-
tical per:tonal experience lo arming
on a large scale.
FARMING THAT PAYS.
About thirty years ago I began
farming on a tract of one hundred
acres on the banks of Seneca Lake,
been constantly buying farms and
operating them, and have yet to
make the first unprofitable invest-
ment. This is why 1 have little pa-
tience with the man who, under ev-
erage conditions, declares that there
. nee but 870,000. it was bought at
a time when faith la farm values was
• low, and when the young mon of
that regiou at least, were in a hurry
to get away from the farms into the
big citiem where they would bave o.
fair chance to make thew fortunes. Is "nothing in farming." Men who
Whether there is a good, big Suture talk in this strain aro those who
in farming—enough to satisfy ally aro satisfied to get a yield of thirty -
young ntan with a healthy ambition five bushels of corn or oats to the
to get to the front and have a for- acre, when they should know that
tune—is well answered by the fact their management is ea fault if they
that quite recently three farmers in fail 10 produce an average of less
Centrist Illinois left, at their death than seventy bushels of either to the
acre.
fortunes of more than three million
s dollars each. This wealth was made TILE PROPER ALLOTMENT.
in farming.
PERFUMES AND THE VOICE,
French scientists have been mak-
ing experiments in regard to the ef-
fect of certain perfumes upon the
voice. Many of the most successful
teachers in singing have cautioned
their pupils stringently against the
se of erfomes or the proximity of
Iu the same general region I can Here is any allotment for a farm
find scores of farmers who are worth of 100 acres; Ten acres for build- odorous flowers. Mme. Richard goes
so far as to forbid her pupils the
from. 8100,000 to 3500,000. These singe, garden peteli and a field of
se of any perfumes at all, and if
are the straws which go to show that I mangel-wurzel beets; sixty acres for u
w
one of them is detected svearing
farming can be made to pay on a big i pasture; sixty acres for corn; thirty a
bunch of violets the lesson is post -
as well a small scale, :Oat that it acres for oats. In the second year
as
poned. -The perfume of the violet
effete) a satisfactory fielcl of opera- these crops should be shifted,pas-
ture and grass lands being turned laryngoscope to be particularly in -'has been found by the use of the
tion for the millionaire as well as
tits thrifty immigrant. over for cereals. The beets should
jurious, producing in sensitive sub -
How can a large system of farms, be fed to sheep and hogs, and as jects a tumefaction of the vocal
scattered over three Statee, be man- much svill be realized from the sale
aged from an office in a hig city? cords.
of wool, lambs and hogs, under this
' 13y system. Lack of system is the system, as would otherwise be so -
curse of :the avarage farmer. He cured from the entire prods:at of the
may, and generally does, practice farm.
all incomer of petty and exacting The showing made by an intelli-
mconomies, but he will never de gent following of this plan should be
things on a largo scale until he sys- fully as good as this:
. Unnatizes his entire scheme of opert,
Front sale of '*5001.........$ 100
tion. Title means that he puts his
economies and his activities on an "
" " lambs 500
,,
automatic baSis. Once established,
hogs 500
1,1(13'• go on with their work in a corn me- 000
chemical way, leaving the man at the
•" " oats 200
head free to do the thinking for tho --
enterprise in a big way—if he is cap- 32200
able of it. ' This allows for feeding 1500 bush -
One of the most important things els of corn out of a crop of 4500
in running 0, string of farms is the a 1 1 .
us le s, the corn being figured at
lonesdistence telephone. lt would thirty cents a bushel, tool the yield
be almost impossible to do farming at sevehly-five bushels au acre. The
on Use syndicate plan without this number of ltunbs in tads estimate is
means of quick communication. Sup-
pose there is a stolden bulge in the
market for corn, wheat, hogs, sheep,
or cattle. Tly the telephone I can
instantly discuss shipments with the
foreman of every one of .the farms.
This ability to move produce into
the inarket on quick notice and thus
gel, the benefit of a high figure means:
• thousands of dollars in additional
profits each year to the man who is this: 1800 acres in corn, 000
has a largo number of farms -under acres in rye or 0111.S, and Use remain -
his eontrol. der in pasture. We keep 3.50 cattle,
Chicago is the centre of the grain aud sell from 38000 to $10,000
and live -stock trade of this country,
and the advanttige of being situated worth of hogs.
right here when, the world's prices Each farm has its foreman, whose
are made is great. Of merge s
se u a• ons a s
(1 1 C i 't in seeing 'Out the =-
have a men who is at the stockyrtrds
all the Hine, keoping a close eyo on
the prices, anti buying or gelling as
our needs and advantage dictate.
FIVE FEET NOTH.LNG.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
Is What the French Soldier of the
Future Is to Be.
The lase reducing the accepted
height for service in the French
army to only an inch. or so above
five feet 'is already being put into
practice, and will probably result in
five feet is already being rput into
the ranks per anman.
In France, as in England, doctors
claim that short men, if sturdy o.nd
In good health, will prove as good
and capable soldiers nowadays as
their taller brethren. There seems
no reason why this should not be se;
but ludging from the experience of
one hundred, and hogs fifty. Phse- the recruiting committee with con-
ing the farmer's outlay for expenses scripts ordered up to join the col -
at 370o, this leaves him 31 000 clear, ours this year, the average French
I believe this to be a very conserve- Youth is a ve17 poor speeirnen of
tive estimate of what any good farm humanity, despite the increased at -
may be made to Pea'. for I have gen- tention paid to athletics and the ra-
entity exceeded this figure in the net ypelsairfict
atension of sports in recen
results of 1113' farming.
On the 3000 -acre farm to which I M. Gaston Mery, an ultra -patriot
bave alluded, the allotment followed of the new Nationalist order, tag'
consequently not likely to overdraw
the picture, makes melancholy re-
flections upon what he saw recently
when acting as examiner of several
hundred young fellows called for ser-
vice in Paris.
They were all country -bred. and,
coming front all parts of France,
may be considered fairly representa-
tive of the notices.
NO WONDER THE CHEMIST WAS
*WORRIED.
A chemist was a good deal wor-
ried the other day, and it must be
adinitted not a I together without
cause. The first be know about it
wes 1 emu a regular customer, who
popped his head its tenet nodding ap-
pi*ovingly, said, with a chuckle;
wish I could say the same.
The chemist was mystified, but
smiled back benignly.
Then someone else called out to
hbre You've got rid of your care,
you know the value of them! Anil
last rushed madly out of the shop
the 1 i Ice laconic ohservati one went
eriotseep
Happy mani And for souse time
came a fusillesle of: agree with you
old man: Quite right, too! Ah,
on until the bewildered chemist at
and., seizing 0110 of his pereecutors,
demanded to know what it all
ael
Moe sold nothing, but snal-
Mg grimly ho pointed up to the shop
front, where the legend ran : Pre-
scriptions aispensed With.
Some ',procLical Joker had painted
out tho concluding word care.
LESSON X1111 SECOND QUARTER, Ita.
TERNAT10NAL Mies, JUNE 30.
Tex* of the Leemon, coo/probe/wive
fanarterly Paiview—Oothen 'teat,
Cor. 14--Ootanie1111er5' Prepared
by tho Itev. ateamte,
Lassos I.—The resurrection et Jesus
(Lulte xxiv, 1-12), Golden Text, 1 Gor,
xv, 20, "Now is Christ rine from the
dead," The only way of peace and joy
and vietory N faith in God, believiog
Jest sthat Ho says and that lie niectua
what Ile soya 11 the women bad be-
lieved His words, they would not have
brought eplees to onolut a deaa body on
the third dos', but would bate looked for
a risen °Inlet. If the apostles bad be-
lieved Ills words, the report brought to
Item of His resurrection would not have
seemed 011 Idle tale
Lassos 1L—Jesus appears to MarY
(John xx; 11-18), Golden Text, Rey. i,
18, "Behold, I an alive for evermore."
Unbelief brings sorrow and tears' and
blindness and keeps us front recognizing
the presence of tho Lord and makes us
think that 14. 45 another when it is Him-
self. Yet He loves His Isom uubelieving
(Meg and takes them to Ills heart and
says as He points them to heaven, "aly
Father and you,: Father, zny God ana
yeer
Losaox III.—The walk to Emmaus
(Luke xxiv, 13-35), Golden Text, Luke
Exit., 82, "Did not our heart burn within
us while Ile talked with us by the was?"
Here are stilt other sorrowful Mel blind-
ed ones because they 'were slow to be-
lieve all that was written, but Jesus felt
sorry for them, and out of the Serialises
told them of Himself and revealed Him-
self to them in the breaking of bread,
and they also became filled with comfort
and a desire to tell others as Ile talked
with them.
Lassos IV.—Jesus appears to the apos-
tles (John xx, 19-20). Golden Text,
John xx, 29, "Blessed are they that have
not seen and yet have believed." Saved
ones gathered in unbelief concerning His
resurrection, but loved by Him and pit-
ied, and He suddenly appears in their
midst, with the words, "Peace be unto
you." A week later Thomas, still unbe-
lieving, is present also, and when he sees
he, too, believes, and the words et the
golden text are addressed to bim and
through him to all doubting, unbelieving
ones. Faith honors God, but unbelief
greatly grieves Him.
LESSON' V.—Jesus and Peter (John xxl,
15-22). Golden Text, John sal, 17, "Lov-
est then Me?" Sometimes the great
trouhlesis unbelief, and sometimes it is
sell confidence which often develops Into
cowardice. Peter's threefold denial need-
ed the Lord's threefold question and
command and exhortation not to think of
nor see others, but just to follow Jesus,
never afar of/ any more, but heneeforth
ahvays fully.
Loss= VL—The great eoinmission
(Math. xxviii, 10-20). Golden Text,
Math. xxvili, 20, "Lo, I am with you al-
ways, even unto the end of the world."
Unless we are grateful enough to Him
for His love to us as to desire above all
things to make Him kuown to others,
specially to those who never heard of
Him, *we are not loving Him as we
should. All who have received the gospel
have been put in trust with the gospel
for the benefit of those who never heard
it, and we are to speak it not as pleasing
men, but God who teeth our hearts (I
Thess. ii, 4).
LESSON VII.—jesus ascends into heav-
en (Luke xxiv, 44-53; Acts I, 1-11). Gold-
en Text, Luke xxiv, 51, "While He bless-
ed them He was parted from them and
carried up into heaven." He had ap-
peared unto tbern many times, at least 3.0
or 12, establishing His resurrection by
many infallible proofs and speaking of
the kingdom of God yet to be set up on
the earth, and now He visibly ascends
from the Mount of Olives, blessing them
as He goes, having told them that they
are to be.His wituesses, but they must
tarry in Jerusaleni until He shall have
eudued them with power from heaven,
even with the Floly Spirit.
Lossos Vitt —The Holy Spirit given
(Acte (i, 1-11). Golden Text, Jahn xvi,
33, "When He, the Spirit of Truth, is
come, He will guide you Into all truth."
While they were gathered together ex-
pecting from day to day, after ten days
the Spirit came as tongues ot Ore and
filled each of them and spoke through
them the wonderful works of God, and as
Peter spoke to them the Spirit convincefl
them of their sin in crucifying Christ and
led 3,000 of them to accept Him as the
dlessiah and their Saviour.
LESSON IX.—Zestis our High Priest in
heaven (Heb. ix, 11-14, 24-28). Golden
Text, Ileb. vii, 25, "He ever liveth to
make iatercession." He gave evidence
by the descent of the Spirit that He was
in heavou, and by the two men in white
appave4 He had assured thein that He
would come again, and in this lesson and
in nem. viil, 34, we are told what Ile is
doing in heaven, while His redeemed aro
His witnesses on the earth. He is caring
for us and keeping us and is ever before
God for us, and sve may continue in qui-
etness Intoning that we are accepted in
/aim and He is seeing to all that con-
caves us. llo in heaven for us, we on
meth tor Hint.
LESSON X.—Jesus appears to Saul
(Acts xxii, 6-10). Golden Text, Acts
arta, 10, "I was not disobedient unto the
beavenly vision." Lle was seen by three
men atter His ascension—Stephen rind
Saul and Sohn. Saul, cooverted by see-
ing :Jesus in glory and hearing His voice,
as all Israel will be converted at His
coming in glory, became the gloat apos-
tle to the gentiles, as Israel. saved will
lie Ins messengers to all nations by and
by.
LESSON XL—Jesus appears to John
(Rev. 1, 9.20), Golden Text, Holt xiii, 8,
"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and
today and forever." Mthough this was
60 years or more after His ascension, Ile
lays the same loving hand upon His
dear servant and has the same kind
"Fear not" with which to comfort him,
and to this day He has not changed, but
is the very same Jostle. Perhaps when we
see Him it will bo as He appeared to
:1011n. •
ANOTHER END SERVED
by this quick communication frern
one central metropolitan Wilco is
that of having a means of meeting
crop exigencies due to the sudden
and radical changes of weather. The
man in Chiengo, only a bloek or two
distant from the Auditorium tower,
is closer to the Source of tile weather
supply then the man out on the
farm. The letter knows only whe-
ther it is locally foul or fair for the
moment; but here there is a chance
to chat with 01(1 Probabilities and
Otto to eccure a bettor guess as to
the future conditions of drought or
roan, wind or calm. The difference
Of a day in putting in 0 crop some-
tlines determines the suceess or fail-
ure of tho yield. NO ns to the thine
for harvesting..
Then tide controlizniion of control
in an oilite in a big market city
gives a clistlact advantage seeur-
ing quick ohipping facilities. When it
heethriee necessary to get, n. large
amoont of produce into the market
On Short netice, in' order to secure
the asoofit of teMporary high prices.
izal office le alwaivs intelligently in-
formed of all local conditions and
affairs and that orders are prompt-
ly and efficiently carried out. All
the expenses ere paid by draft
through the local bank. This trans-
fers the detail book-keeping to tho
central office and relieve» the head
farmer of clerical burdens. Ills
only care in this particular is to see
that he had a proper votichei
for every item of expense and that
this voucher is forwarded in the re-
gUlar routine of business.
HOW TO GET WORKERS.
There is no difficulty in getting
good foresnen and good hands so
long as they are given the right kind
of a chance to make something for
themselves • and to live in comfort.
The foreman. of my largest, farrn is
worth 316,000, and livos in a degree
of comfort that souse city men who
Imam almost, that mount every year
can't. provide from their incomes.
First of ell, the houses aro kept in
good repair and especial attention is
paid to tho kitchens. Everyrhing
within human reason that can be
dono to make the houses convenient
for the wives of the farmers is done.
Then each family is furnished with a
certain number of CoWEI, If these
thing; erA1 410 necomplished by tho yield more butter than 15 required
ALWC A LIVE C
111,e Rev. Dr. Talmage Makes a Few
Sensible Suggestions.
despateh from Washington says: • f we Muhl littim all these eitffering
•—itov..0r. Talmage preached from
the fallowing texts— "Unto the an-
gel of the church in SInvina write:
Those things smith the first and tho
last, whicIl was dead auci is alive.
I know thy works and tribalation,
and PeVertY, but thou &set rich"—
Rev, 11. 8, 0,
Smyrna. was a great'city of the an -
(dents, bouudea • on thtee sides by
mcmatalus. It was the ceatral ens-
pOrium of the Levantine trade. Ls
that prosperous and Militant city
there woe 15. Christian chinch esteb-
lished. After it had exieted for a
while it was rocked down by an
earthgattko. It was rebuilt. Then
it wise consumed by a conflagration
that swept: over the entire. city. That
church went through flro and trouble
and disaster, but kept on to groat
spiritual prosperity. The fact was,
that church heel the grace of God,
an over active principle. Had .it
beets othorteiso, all the grandeur of
architecture, and all the pomp of
surroundings would only have been
the ornament of death, the garlands
of a coffin, the plumes of a hearse.
Tonight, preaching my anniversary
sermon as your pastor, it may be
profitable to consider what are the
elements of a live chureh.
I remark, in the first place, that
one characteristic of Mich a church
is pitrictuality in meeting its engage-
ments. All ecclesiastical thstitu-
tions have financial relnalons, and
they Ought to meet their obligations
just as certainly as men meet their
obligations at the bank. When a
church of God is not as faithful in
its promises as the Bank of England
it ceases to be a church of Clod. It
ought to bo understood that prayers
cannot paint a church, and prayers
cannot pay a winter's coal bill, and
prayers cannot meet the itesurance,
and that while prayers can do a
thousand things, there are a thou-
sand things that prayers caanot do.
Prayer for any particular (burets svill
never reach heaven -high unless it
goes down pocket -deep, • el we pray
for the advancement of the church
and do not, out of our means, con-
tribute for its advaneement, our
prayer is only mockery, Let the
church of God then meet ite obligee
tions on the outside, and let tho
members of the congregation meet
the obligations inside and the
church will be financielly prosper-
ous.
Let me say also that there must
be punctuality in the attendance tic
the house of the 'Lord. If the ser-
vice begins at half -past ten in the
morning, the regular cotgregation
of a live chums will nos Caine at a
quarter to eleven. If the service is
to begin al; half -past seveu in the
evening, the regular congrcsation of
a live church will not °eine at a
quarter to eight. In some churches
I have noticed the' people are always
tardy. There are some people who
are always late. They were born
too late, and the probability is that
they will die too late.
TETE RUSTLING OF SILK
•E;soN Xit—A. new heaven MA a
new mirth (Roy. xxi, 1-7,22'27). Golden
Text, Rev. xxi, 7, "Ile that overcometh
shall inherit all things, nnd I will halite
God, and be hell be Itly son." All the
millennial glory and all the gdory of the
new' heaven and emelt, all the glory that
the Father has given tn the Son—all 10
ours in Ulm (John xvli, 22; I Cbr. 111, 1511,
bet we do not seem to believe it. If we
did, wold we not be more wraaed from
these present things and more wholly
givou hit to Ulm 100 Ma BerVice awl the the great multitilde of the 01111l101;1t • ntost
afters oi Ills kingdomof the abandoned and the lost, Olt, roily till be MVOs."
little ono* gathered togethet, w 10
a scene of Sanger and wretchedness
and rags and On and traubla and
darknosel If We could sea those lit-
tle foot on the broad road to death,
which tlaough Christian charity
ought to 00 pressiog tbe narrow
path of life; if sve could Mier their
voices in blasphemy, which' ought to
be Pinging tile praiees of Clod; if w
could seo these little hearts which
at that ago ought not to bo soiled
with one unclean thought, beeconirfa;
the sowers for every abominationb if
we could ' Sett those surfeeleg little.
ones sacrificed on the alter of every
iniquitous passion. and baptised
with fire from the laver of the pit—
wo would recoil, crying out, "Av-
aunt thou dream of Mall"
Oh, what a tremeedous power
there is in iniquity- when uneducated
end unrestrained 'and unblanched it
goes on coneentrating and deepening
and widening and gathering momen-
tom .until 11. swings ahead with a
very triuraph of desolation, droWn-
ing• like surges, scorching like flames
up the aisle, and the siesnining of
doors, and the treading o1 heavy
feet is poor inspiration for a minis-
ter. It requires great EbStractIon
in a pastor's mind to rreceed with
the preliminary exercises of tho
church when one-half e0 the audience
seated are looking arOUnd. to see the
other half corms in. Such a difference
of attendance upon the Mame of God
may be a difference of time pieces;
but the live church of widcli axn
speaking ought to go by railroad
time, and that is pretty well under-
stood in all our communities
Another charaataristic of a live
church is tile fact that all the peo-
ple participate in the exercises. A
stranger can tell by the way the
first tune starts whether there is
any life there. A churth that does
not sing is a dead ohm els 11 is
awful to hoar a cold drtzets music
coming down from the organ loft,
while all the people beneath sit in
silence. When - a tune wanders
around lonely and unoneie tried, and
is finally lost amid the arches be-
cause the people do not join. In it,
there is not much melody' austle un-
to the Lord. In hoe sea they all
sing, though. some there eon oco; sing
half es well ns others. The Metho-
dist church has sung all round the
world and gone from conquest to
conquest, among other things be-
cause it is a singing church; and any
Christian ohurch organization th at
with enthusiasm performs this part
of its duty wilt go on frosts iximnph
to triumph. A °burets of God that
• can sings can do onything that
ought to be done. We go forth into
this Isoly war with the Bible in one
hand, and a hymn book in the other.
0 ye who used to sing the praises of
the Lord, and have got out of tho
habit, take your harps down front
the will own.
ANOTHER OHARA OTERISTIC
of a live church is a flourishing Sab-
bath school, It it 1.00 late in the
history of the Christina church to
argue tho benefit of such an institu-
tion. The Sabbath school is not a
supplement to the church; it is its
right arm. But you Say, there are
dead elsurchee that have Sabbath
Schools. Yes, but the Sabbath
schools are dead too. It is a dead
mother holding in her arms a dead
chit d. But when wpm] ntendent
and teachers and scholars
come on Sabbath af ter000ns to-
gether, their faces glowing with le-
terest and enthusiasm, and their
songs are heard all through the ex-
ercises, and at the close they go
navoy feeling they have been on the
mount of tranafiguration--that is e
live school, end h, is ohorooLoristic
of a live church. There is 011157 one
thing 1 haVe against the reabbiali
schools of this country, and thel is,
they are tam respecteble. lite gather
In our sohools the children of tee 1,0 -
filled, and the cultured; but alas! for
IIERRY @LD NGLAND.
NOTES DY RAIL ADOOT JOHN DULki
AND MS PEPELS,
,
leecora or 04,01mi:flees sit the Una Thee
swells seeremo la the Centmerelel
World.
tho Mart, Tokonhouse-yard,
tonnion, the licensed fimehold Prerrt•
isos, known est the Lead o1 Hay,
Praed street, Paddington, were field
foo'
I:71ol0,
aO,11tn1ssioner Kele*, the :tenter
county court judge, has celebrated
his 80141 birthday, Ile has been the
judge of the (My of London for
nelaitlY 4affo
2Yer'irs
'`net'lle Control Telegroish
Office, St. Martin's le Grand, Lon-
don,' lust year, worked 747,770 hoots
overtime, the 'ordinary helms of
work being eight a (lay,
gardener to Lord Gainsborough
has killed in Fatten Park, near Oak -
1111.1)1, a fine geass ena.ko, which moo,
mired 8 feet 8 inches long and 44
inches round its body,
The County ,Court bnlllIl distrained
c()110111ntolcietiogicrodisiwoofht.lise palfric3ntglitoilistrNomeaw
Blackpool, in paymeot of the tithe
redemption charms, 431 aos, Od.
George Julian, who woe the oldesit
railway porter, .has died at Lincoln,
TL Is claimed for him that ho bad
loaded up more horses in hie lifetime
than any railway men iri the mum
-
At Thorpe, Essex, Arthur Cook
was fined 20s. and ills, Costs 011 an
excise prosecution for killing a phea-
sant without a game certificate, Flo
had already been in prison for 14,
daSoi,
Edward Camp, niachinist, was
awarded 43300 damages in the Xing's
Bench Division for the loss of three
fingers, the defendants being Messrs.,
Garrett & Son, builders, of Balham.
The River Wear COMInissionarS
have decided to purchase two addi-
tional dredges from, a foreign firm at
the cost of 434.0,000, just about one-
half the price that British firms had
tengdlo
eitttondon
School Board has tie-
caled to permit colioetions to bo
made in tho echools towards the
funds iloW being raised at tho Man-
sion House on behalf of the Nation-
al Vi ctor1 a Momoxial.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is
coneidering the advisability of allow-
ing income tax to be petal in guars
terly or helf-yoarly instalments, but
he doubts if he will be able to snake
the change,
Arr, Owen ThonlaS, fel* upwards of
tworve years head gardener to hor
litho Majesty at Frogmore has re-
tired on a pension, Ho will be suc-
ceeded by tho King's head gardener
at Sandringham,
; CRUSHING LIKE ROCES,
What are you going to clo with this
abandoned population of the streets?
Will yougather them in our
churches? It is not the will of your
Heavenly. Father that one of these
little ones should perish. 31 yott
have ten respectable children in your
class, gather in ten that aro not re-
spectable. lf in your Bible class
there be twenty young men who havo
come from Christian homes and ele-
gant surroundings, let those twenty
young men go out and gather in
twenty more of the young aim of the
city wise are lost to society.
Another characteristic of a live
church is one with appropriate arch-
itecture. Because Christ was born
in a, manger is no reason why we
should worship him in. a barn.Let
•the churches of Jesus Christ be not
only comfortable bed ornate. The
church of Jesus Chrtst ought to be
g*rent family circle, the pulpit only
the fireplace around which they aro
gathered in sweet and domestic corn -
Menton. A lis -o church must have a
commodions, comfortable, and ad-
apted buildings "How amiable are
thy Tabernacles, 0 Lord of Hosts. I
would rather be a doorkeeper in the
house of my Clocl than to dwell in
the tents of wickedness."
Again, the characteristic of a livo
chureh must be that it is a soul-
saviog church. It must be the gos-
pel of Christ. "Oh," say souse peo-
ple, "the gosple of Christ allows but
O small swing for suan's faculties,
and some men have left the ministry
svith that idea." Why, there is no
field on earth so grand as that
which is open before the gospel min-
istry. It has been my ambition,
and itelieve it has been yours, ray
dear people, in these years of my
ministry, to have this
A SOUL -SAVING CHURCH,
and We never yelthrew out, the gos-
pel net but we drew in a great mul-
titude. They have wine, 0 hundred
at a time, and two huedrecl at a
time, and three lamdred and fifty at
a time, and I expect the day will ap-
pear whea 111 some service there will
be three thousand souls. accepting*
the offers of eternal life. I wish I
could tell you some circumstances
that have come under My observa-
tion, proving the fact that God has
blessed the prayers 01 his dear peo-
ple in belialf of soule humeri:an
Others in different parts of the
land are living the Christian life
and upholding the Christian stun-
dard, and we shall meet, them when
the toils of life are over, in tho
great harvest home. 0 men and 'wo-
men immortal, hear this call of
sovereign, mercy. . All the offers of
the gospel are extended to you
"without money and without price,"
and you are conscious of the fact
that these opportunities will soon
be gono forever. The conductor of
railtrain was telling me a few
weeks ago, of the fact that lie was
one night standing lay his train on
a side track, his train having
switched off so that tbe express
train might dart past unhindered.
He said while he stood there in the
darkness beside his train on the side
track, he heard the thunder of the
express in the distance. Then lie
saw the flash of the headlight. Tho
train came on with fearful veloeity,
nearer and nearer, until after awhile
when it 0011110 110057 near, by the fiesb
of the head light, he sow that the
switchman had not attended to his
duty—elther through intoxication or
indifterenee—and that train unless
something was done immediately,
would rush on the sidetrack nett
dash the other traiu to atoms. Ife
shouted to the switchman:* "Set up
the switchl" and with one stroke
the switch weld; back and the ex-
press thuhdered on. 0 Men and wo-
men, going toward the eternal World,
swift as the years, swift as tho
mouths, swift Os the clays, swift as
the hours, swift as the seconds—
on what tvack aro you going to-
night? Toward light or dorkness?
Toward victory or defeat? Townrd
heaven or hell? Met 1151 thnt
switch! Cry ulotal to Oncl. "Now
is the day et Salve -Con."
In view of the heavy rate of infant
mortality at Norwich, GOO childeen
under tho ago of 12 months having
died last year, tho town council has
decided to appoint a female sanitary
inspector,
At tho annual meeting of the Gen-
eral Ceylon Tea Estates, Limited,the
chairman said ho felt pretty confid-
ent that before this year was out
there would be e, comparative mar -
city of tea in London.
Dr, Hauser, in a. report to be sub-
mitted to tho London County Coun-
cil on outbreaks of enteric fever in
Southwark, Lambeth and Nonsal-
Green last Septembm, thinics the 0v1 -
donee strongly suggests fried fish as
the cause,
Sir George Newnes wanted to know
la -Parliament; whether the Duke mid,
Duchess of Cornwall and York would
Sake the title of Prince and Princess
1..'lfulltV cilileciLloBnallesutrs lenriMtlir-o?ya with
the Xing.
The servants at Windsor Castle
have resolved on n. memorial of their
own to their late mistress, and have
a, good round sum, with which they
intend to endow a bed in, ono of the
great London hospitals to Queen
• Victoria's memory,
The London County Council 'has
discovered that It is entitled by law
to charge publicans 16 for each glass
Its weights and moasores inspectors
stamp. Hitherto tho charge has been
34cl. a dozen, but it is probable that
the charge will now be raised.
WIlIeRE srrica,nsEss 3.10 BLISS,
We speak of single blessedness, '
Ana talk of married life;
But Nvlutt a sad a:Wakening when
A girl becomes a wife!
In fancy, 8110 01111 see the path
With roeen riehly strewn:.
No tborus, of CourSe, lie ' uncles -
""Pis one long honeymoon,"
Moho no mistake, dear girl, if you
Would 1150 quiet, happy lives;
"Where eingioness is bliss, itwere
ut-
Among the applicants for out -re-
lief before the Iqempstend GUardlitaS
was 0. 'feeble old man, who said that
he was formerly in the employ of
the shoemaker to hor Majesty the
late Queen Victoria, and that he
mode the first pair of shoce over
worn by the German Emperor.
For many yenos people have been
accustomed to go on the Govern-
ment ritle range at Fleetwood a.nd
pick up spent bullets, which have Ca-
terWards been sold for old load, To
inch caught picking them up were ar-
rested nod fined 1 Os, this being tho
lima ease of the kind over heard,
PHIL0100PI1tY IN 1001..
A. good nomo is rather to be chos-
en thah groat riches, particularly
when it. Is on the South-east corner
of a fat cheque.
A boil in the kettle is worth two
on the neck; •
Always put off 1.111 to -morrow the
bill that is duo today.
7.`oo Many cooks spoil the police-
man.
A ring on the finger is worth 'two
in 1.110 pawnshop. •
.AS 5010e Men are knoWn by the
005114101157 theY keel>, so are others
known by tho companies they float.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
'The bey Who has the mumps can
stay away from school.
011 TWO TIVD'.dJ Tiro LESSER.
,Pcspa--Didn't I tell you, Willie, if
caught you playing with Tommy
jinit again I Would whip you?
Willie—Yes, sir,
Parm.—Then why Were you playing
with himl
Willie—Well, I got lonesomer than
I thought a lickin' Svemld hurt, No I
'just wuut over alp/ plit?e, with ham
that's why.