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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-12-12, Page 7JITTER AZT 0042'411.07M A ciorreepondent, of the Saturde ' Review 'who ift disceseing the Sub* Of echeeation iuIfilifedand Waite° point WI11011 ie equally deservieg o Attention in tide country, EiO eaY that "fonts and inforMatien un edueationally Useful in SO far as in Wedeln, power cen tie eXtracte from the leanireulatien if thena a heat can be entreated from Mal an developed bleepe Irene the use durebbale," thorougnly instem tive analogy is presented in tit trelniefe of the body, n'iret, welkin the muscles conduces to PheniCa health mid working the breea Co duces to mental health. $econd, an other object M both ears ainOn the young should be 0 general train ing anti diseipline, A boy wh learns the giant ming on the Mien zontal leer does not expect to melt a specialty of the horizontal bar fo the rest of hie life, Be 1 preparin hie muscles for use In other ways lis ie geening in strengths in agility 111 the powor to handle bimself, an if the training of gymnastics is no as essential now as it was in rude ages there eau be no mistakb abou the principle of such 'training. a cl 0- r The idea is -that work is ail equip ment for work, not that there is eon, special advantage in swinging on th bar, This also is the true basic ide of education, which, as the corms pendent on the Saturdey 'Review in dicaths, is something quito. different frora instructiou or information. Tricking a child into learning some- thing so that it taw be done appar- ently Without effort has not the slightest educational value. Where - ever there is honest training there must be conscious effort, It mieY be 'begun with repugnance, and it cer- tainly must be carried forveard with hard labor if it is to lead to per- manently good results, Tim boy who "learns easy" and who abuses .this facility- by trusting to it too much is pretty sure to turn out a failure, or, at least, to lament his careless- ness in later life. The Instruments of the training may bo mathematics, ancient languages, modern languages science or history, but it is a capital error to suppose that education must be improved by the substitution of information studies for those that are more, purely disciplinary. Infer - motion can be picked up in Many ways, but educational drill is deriv- ed by persistent, methodical work alone. It is lost with very easm studies,which. leaai ve the brn flabby and ready to tackle nothing more serious than a vacuous novel, a —4 MODERN WAR. 'Smokeless Powder Has Changed the. Treatment of Wouncled. Professor Inuttner, an eminent Ger- man surgeon, who has served with volunteer ambulances in Turkey, South Africa and China, has boon giving the results of his observe-. Lions in the field. Ile dwells upon the .changes wrought by the intro- ducticm of smokeless powder. Por- merly, the powder served,. to a cer- tain extent, as a protection to the opposing forces; but at present only a light haze rests over the battle- field, and oven thie is wanting in windy or rainy weather, In South Ahem, it often happened that slight- ly wounded soldiers, at the first shock of their wounds, sprang to their feet in order to run to the hospital to be bandaged, and in the next moment fell down, struck by se- veral bullets. For this reason it Was found impossible to begin to at- tend to the wounded before the end of the battle. All atterapte to begin during the fight Were fruitless. At Paardebarg, for iniitanco, three sur- geons arid a number of ambulance men svere shot,. The ambulance ser- viCe generally did not begin until the close of the action, and then it was very difficult owing to the dark - Dees. After the engagement at Jo- kobscial, tho service bad to work un- til four a. in., because the rain and the darkness made it exceedingly difficult to find the wounded, noton- ly beams° the lehaki uniforms re- sembled the earth, but became° the wounded erawled behind stones and bushes tor fear of Itaffir robbers. :Professor Kettner say34 that the fate of the wounded often depends upon the first bandage, and that after Magersiontein many lives were lost for lack of rational treatment, WHAT A BRAVE FELLOW 1 She—"Mr, Jones, look at that int- putlent man On the other side oil the Mena. He has been folloWing us for the last ten minutes.," Jonen—“Why didn't you tell me so before ? 1'1 1 teach that impudent PUPPY a. lesson." Winking boldly across Um street, jones mers to the Man ."Look here, ,'n1p Xnun very sorry I've not got the looney to pay you eor that lest suit, but, you ought not to follow ine up and dun inc when l'in trying to ce.ptuee that girl. She has got Iota of cash, and if X ale.- ceed you will not only get your money, but also nu Order for a wed- ding outfit," Shill goes off satisfied, Ramming to 'the young lady, Jonee saye "I ant glad you railed metattention tp that cowardly Seoundrel. I don't think Ito will emelt aare at you again. '1 had great clifiMulty in restraining inyeelf." HIS WONDERFUL WORK Conquests of the Plow, the Hammer and the Pen. 180040 morainic 0 4ob of on rerun:ewe Of 00014, others Say am la excif Mpg* In the 5041One 'flaotiortna Mile Mal^ ,. . . . dred ond Ono, eimamqr T s m ay, orno i, et. WhLi at am) 01,00 130f0110 00011 atkeher0d, the Department of AgrIeuIture, Ottawa.) While higher micas will bell) Make A despatch from Washington eve: up for any deereased supply, SOT0 —Roy, X:or, Tahringe preached frona sign of agrieulturel prOSPerity Wo the folloWing text: I. Corinthians ix, have in the faet that centre Mill 3 0, onfe that plowettmehoulcl plow horses and slump and sevine and ail in hope"; Metall xli, 7, "Ho that f0110 animals have dimity the last smoothoth with the hammer"; Judges IMP Yeare increneed M valuo, Twenty '' V, 1.4e "They that handle the pee al zeillion Mine slaunhtered this last the writer. Year, veld Yet so melee hOne loft. Pilings have marvellouely chimgea. Enormous paying off of farm mat - Tinto woe whoa the stern edict of gages has spoiled the old slicechee 01 Goveroments .forbade religious as- the calamity howlere. If the an- eemblagele. Those who dared to be ciente in their fefitivale presented so luiloyal to 1403k latlg as no, at, their reioiciegs before Ceres, the god- hnowledgo loyalty to the mad, of dess of nor» and tillaeo, shall We AO - the universe were punished. Churchee gleet to rejoice in the presence of awfully silent in worship suddenly the greet Gocl now? Froth Atlantic heard their doors swung open, and to Puente let all communities unite down upon a ',Morels aisle a 30008 01 to celebrate the victories of the plow, mueltets thumped as the leadere 1 coma next to speak of the con - bade them "Ground arms!" This quests 'of tho hammer. Its iron custom 01 having the fathers, the arm 'has fought its way down husbanicle, the sons and brothers at froni the beginning to the present. Under its swing the eity of Enoch tee entrance of the .pow Is a custom which came down from olden time, rose, and the foundry of Tubal Oath. when ' it Was nbselutelY Meeessery resounded, and the ark floated on the that the father or brother should sit deluge. At its Clang ancient tem - at the end of the church pew funy pies spread their magnificence . and tamed to defend the helPices pore chariots rushed out lit for the hat - teens of the family. But new how the Its iron net smote tho nimble thanged I of Pianos; and it rose in sculptured Most of Geo Implements 01 11118- Minervas Mad struek the. Pentelicon bandry heve been superseded by minesuntil from them a Parthaion modern inventions, . but the plow woe reared whiter than a palace of hes never lost its reign. It has fur- ice and pure as un angel's dream, rowed its way through all the ages. Damascus and Jerusalem and Rome Its victories have been waved by the and Venice and Paris and London imeley ., of Palestine, tho *heat of and Philadelphia and New York and Persia, the flax of Germany, the Washington aro but the long pro- ricestalks of China, the rich grasses tracted. ' of Italy. 11 has turned up the mammoth of 'Siberia, the mastodon-, CilICInS Or. l'kt° HAMM-2R. of Egypt and tho pine groves of Thaler the hammer everywhere Thesealy. Its iron - foot has march- dwellings have gun° up ornate and ed where Hoses wrote rend Homer luxurious. Sehoolhouees, lyceums, sang and Aristotle taught and Alex- hospitals and asylums have added a nder adclitional glory to the enterprise us MOUNTED .HIS WAlt CHARGER. well as the beneficence' of the people. Vent public works have been eme- lt hath wrung its colter on Norweg-. Structed,. bridges have been built Ian wilds and ripped out the stumps over rivers and tunnels dug under of the -American forest, pushing its incientains and churches of matchless way through the savannas °nth° beauty • have gone up for Him who of the New Hampshire yeomanry. `he old theory is exploded that be - had not where to My His head, and Aho Carolinas and trembling in the grasp To get an appreciation of what cause Christ was born in a manger the plow has accomplished I take we must always worship Rim in a; you into the western wilder- barn. nem. Here in tho dense forest Raelroads of fabulous length have I find a collection of Indian wig_ been completed,' oVer which western warn's. With bolts of wampum the trains rush past •the swift footed men sit lazily on the skins of deer, deei, ma • king tho frightened birds to smoking their feathered calumets, dart into the heavens at tho cough or, driven forth by hunger I of tho smoke pipes and Um savage track their moccasins Mr aWay yell of the stecon whistle. In hot as they make the lorost echoes crazy nasto our national industry advances with their wild halloo or fish in the her breath the alt of 10,000 . olur- %voters Of the still lake Non tribes. nacos her song the voice of tined -tint - challenge, and council firth blaze ed factories, her footstep the flash of and warwhoops ring and chiefs lift wheel buckets Mid the tread of the th0 tonialutwks for battle. Attar shaft and the stamp of foundries. awhile wagons from the Atlantic T ,11 Ta.11ennibo.ut antediluvian longevity 1 i 1 the average of human life is coast come to these forests By - "' day trees are felled, and by night more now than it ever was. Through mechanical facilities Zen work so bonfires keep off the wolves. Log d 1 h oh much faster an accomp is so mu cabins rise, and the groat trees be- snore in a lifetime that a man can gin to grow their branches in the afford to die now at forty years as path of the conquering white inan, well as one of old at 900. • I think Farms are cleared. Stumps, the the average oe hlunan life in point of Monuments of slain forests, crumble accomplishment is now equivalent to' and aro burned, , Villages appear about SCO years, as near as I can With smiths at the bellows, masons calculate. In all our occupations and on the wall, carpenters on Inc helmet professions 1170 feel the effect of a top. Chorehes rise In honor of the crippled or enlarged mechanical en - Groot Spirit whom tbe red men int terprise. We all have stock en every norantly worship. Stenmers on the house that is built and in every pub - lake convey merchandise to her. tic conveyance that is constrected wharf and carry east the uncounted and in Upshots that have pone° to the ... market. Brieg hither wreaths of, E vERY SHIP THAT IS SArLED. wheat and crowns of rye and let 1When wo see the hard-working men Ute mine and the machinery of 'barn of the land living in comfortable and field unite theiimvoices to cole- abodes, with luxuries' upon their brate the triumph, for the wilderness tables that once even kings could bath retreated and the not afford, having the advantage of PLOW IIATII CONQUERED. thorough education, of am:eruptions meat and art, we are all ready IN Parts of the country under in- this season to .unite with them in dustrious tillage, ' ha.ve become an praise to God nor his goodness. Eden of fruitfulness, in which roli- Now I come to sneak of the cion- gion tands as the tree of life and quests of the pen. This is the s3,30 - educational advantages as the tree bol of all intelleanality. The paint - of imowledge ol good and evil, and er's7perecil and the sculptor's chisel one of them forbidden. We ore our- and the Philosopher's laboratory are selves eurrounded by well cultured all brothers to the pen, and therefore farms. . They were worked by your this May be used as a symbol of in - tethers, and perhaps your mothers tellectual advancement. There are helped spread the hay in the held. those disposed to decry everything On their headstones are the names Anierican. Having seen Melrose and you bear. As, when you were Glastonbury by moon3ight, they boys, in the sultry noon you sought never beheld among us an impressive or the harvest eeldowith refresh- structure, or, having strolled through ments fOr your fathers and found the picture galleries of the Louvre them taking their noon spell sound and the Ltixerabourg, they are (Ilse a sleep under the times, so peaoefully gusted with Oar academies of art, nmy they sleep in some country It makes inc sick to hear them peo- ple who have been in Europe come churchyard. No more fatigued. home talking evith a foreign accent Death has plowed for them the deep and aping foreign customs and talk - furrow pi a grave, . Ing of moonlight on castles by the Although most of US have noth- ing, directly to do with the tillage see. I think the biggest fool in the of the son, yet in all 01.11' occupa- country is the traveled fool. thins we feel the effect of suecessful As the pen has advanced mu. col- or blighted industry. Ivo must. '''. 10g0,0 itad universities and observe- t0ries have followed tlie waving of all Our occupations rejoice over the its plume. Our literature is of two victories of the plow to -day. The kinds — that on foot and that on earth was once cursed for man's the wing. By the former I mean tho sake, and occasionally tne soil roe arm and substantial works which venges iteelf on US by ralusing a will go down through the centuries. bountifol harvest. I guppose that Whet, on the other hand, I speak but for sin the earth Would be pro- of literature on the wing, I meat Clueing wheat and born and sweet the newspapers op the bond. fruits uo naturallY as it now pro- How things have marvelously ducal Mullein Stalks and Canada' changed 1 We ueed to cry bemuse wo thistles. Them is hardly a hit- had to go to school. Now childreil leek between the forests of Maine cry and the lagoons of Florida, betWeen e, the poach orchards of New Jersey t" `-'nemN°1 and tho pines of Orogen, that has efany of them can intelligently dis- net sometimes shown IIS natural cuss political topics long before they and total depravity, The thorn and have seen a ballot box or, teased by thistle seem to have utnumed the seine poetic mass,cnn comPcs0, ar- so% and nothing but the rebellion tieles for the heWepepers. Philoso- of the plow can uptoot the evil phy Lind astronomy and chentititty supremacy, have been so improved that he Meet be to, genius at (Millen who knowe VIIT 001) IS GOOD, nothing abollt than. On one side Now, if ono of our seasone nOrtlallY shelf or a poor man's library ie Irmo provee ci. tenure the earth moss to practicel knowledge than in the repent of it the next ambler 111 400,000 volumes of encient Aleean- more intinificent simplydries arid education is possible for Praise Cod for the great harvests the moet indigent, and 110 leghsIa- that have been reaped this last turn or congress for the last fifty Yam! Some et them injured yeare lute aseembled which has not by drought. or insects oe fresh- lead in it rail splitiewe and farmers n were »ote as as and drovers or men who have been neelleteneed th telling with the bend and the Mot, The groin Bade Immo paean' their llertnetel nbone the vete of drought Ann deluge. The freight ears aro net large enough to bring doWn tile rSraiti to tbe seabonrcl, The Canal berate aro eroWded With breadetuffs, Milt to the robin Of the Wheat threttele the great Chicago 00104 410- vators1 Honk to the rolling of the hogeheads of the Cincinnati park paceere Eneugh to vat, and at low prime ; enoegn to wear, and of home manufacture, if mine have and wino have not, then may Cod holP these Who have to hand over to those who have not 1 Clear the traelc for the rail timing that rush on bringing the wheat and Gm' cot- ton and the rice and the barley and the oats and tile hoPS and the lam' be and the leather end everything for Man cuul eVerytilini for boot 1 Lift up your eyes, 0 nation of God's right hancl, at tile glorious prospects I Build larger your barns for the harvests; dig deeper the vats for the spoil of the vineyards ; en- large the warehouses for the vier- chandise; multiply galleries of art for the pictureand statues. Ad- vance, 0 nation of God's right hand, but remember that national evealth, if unsanctillecl, i sumptuous went°, le Moral rein, is magnificent woe, is splendid rottenness, is gilded death. Woo to us for the ivine vats if drunkenness wallows in them! Woe to us for the harvests if greed sickles them 1 Woe to ue for the merchan- dise if avariee swallows 11 ! Woe to us for the cities if misrule walks them 1 Woe to the land if God defy- ing crime delmuches it 1 Our only safety is in more 13ibles, move churthes, More free Schools, More good mon arid MOM good women, more consecrated printing presses, more of the glorious gospel of the Son of God, which wilI yet extir- pate all wrongs end inirodum all blessedness. '-0--'---- THE S. S. LESSON. iNTERNATION.A1, LESSON DEC. 15. Text of the Lesson, Ex, =if., 1-17; Golden. Text, I. Cor. v, 7. 1, 2. This moeth shall be unto you the beginning of raonths. It shall be tho first nionth of tho year to you." Thus spoke the Lord to 'Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt in connection with the feast of the Passover. It was the month Abib and the.seventh month of their civil. yeas, but becaane from this time the first month of their sacred year: It was the national redemp- tion month and the beginning of their existence as a redeemed people unto God. So with every redeemed soul, the time of its now birth is to it the beginning of days, the time before that being lost, ear it is only he that hath the Son who hath life (I. John, v, 12). We begin to live only when we come undee the shelter of that precious blood. 3, 4. "Every man, -according to his eating, shall make your count for the lamb." A lamb was to be chos- en on the tenth day of that first month, a lamb for each house •unless the household should prove too little to eat the lamb; then the nextmeigh- bor was to be inducted as far as ne- cessary, that each lamb might be eaten. When they gathered the manna for their daily food, they did so on the same principle --"every man according to his eating, some, more, some loss" (Ex. xvi, 16, 1'7). While redemption is by the blood of the Lamb, it is all Important to abundance of life to eat the Lamb, for Ho Himself said, "Be that ent- ail Me evon he shall live by Me" (John vi, 57). 5, 6. "Your lamb. shall be without blemieh." The physical perfeaiou of the iminael was typical of the ab- solute perfection of the antitype, the Lamb of God, our Passover (I. Cor. v, 7). Compare Lev. xxii, 19-21; Beat, xvii, 1; also Num. xix, 2, con- cerning the sacrifice of the red haler without spet and without blemish, all typieal of Him who wae holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners—the Lamb of God with- out blemish and without spot (Hob. viis 0, I. Pet. 1, 10)• The male in- dicates the perfect strength of the sacrifice. There was no weakness in Him and even when He Med He cried with a loud voice. Ine gave his occupation, *Lo conduct it on Ilis broad and 003011100 seuse lines and eth iltIffe;said, "No one talc- houoni Me" (John x, 18), The hour and thirty minutes In eating, with a, margin of profit? Agricultural ellowing for the time it takes Malta nur it ever offered higher rewards su a 11 four (103,8thaet they kept the iamb go to and from his meals and in - 'There 110Ver Was a Is suggestive of tho 4,000 Years from than to -day. the promise of the Redeemer until He was offered a sacrifice eor our sins (Gen, iii, 15; I. Pet, 1, 20; 11. Pet. ill, 8). 7-10, "And they shall eat the flesh In that night, roast with ilre, and UnleaVened bread, and witli bitter herbs they shall eat it." The blood 'being eprinkled on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost, they were then to dispose at tho whole lamb, burning with fire .that evbien they could not, eat. Consum- ing by fire tvaa Cod's way of aecep- ing, so God and they ate tho Lamb together. The roasting with lire in- diented the sintering% of Christ by which He was prepared to be our life, The unleavened broad signifiee that we must put away ,all evil in order to food upon Minn for heaven Is itievays a symbol of evil. The bitter herbs teach tia that we must be willing to suffer with Him, for it is given unto us so to do (Phil. 1, 20; iti, 10). 1143. "When I see the blood Will pass over you." This was the greet difference that night, Some houses were sprinkled with the blood of tho Poseover lamb, and Sonde were not, and wherever 'there was no blood there was death—Lhe death of the flint born. But where thertmlutd already been death—the death of the lamb—there wasno death Oi t110 born. "It is tlio blood that ineloth an atonement for the pone" and 'without shedding of blood there is denned lie to 004 be' '113.Y 0001" (Bph, 1, 7; Rev. v, 9). The gent- borel111 eVory bposo Where tho blood wae sprinkled was perfectly safe, whether they Olt quiet about it as not, for ealay dOee not depeutl upon assurance; but, being eafe, assurance ie our privilege, and penes fool joy Will be ours if we only believe pod xv, 13). They ath with loins girded, awoke on arid staff in need, ready to depeet. So We are taught to be ever reedy for Our exodus. 34, 15. "Seven cloys shall ye at urileevened bread," Compare with thee° two VerSee, Verses 18-20 and nolo the repetition M the stetement that whoever should eat anything leavened Would ne eut off from In Lein In 11, leaven was forbidden to be ogered with ;my sae - rifle°, and in tne tectobleg 01 our Lord Jesus Ire repeatedly warned the disciples to hewer° oe tho leaven of the Pluerisecie and of the Sadducees of the Herod. In the passage where Chriet is celled "Our Pawn:mein' We are exborted to keep the Mast, not with the leaven of malice nsicl wIok- 0011055, but with the inaleavened bread of sincerity and truth (1 Qom v, 7, 8). In Lev. vie, 18, and xxiii, 17, there is a command to offer lenven, but io each 0060 it was to represent the evil that was 111 the cetera. The first was a thanksgiving, olleving and Is expleined by Amos is, 5—"OfTer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, for this liketh you. The other was typical of the evil that found its way into the gather- ing of believers, at Pentecoet, The passage that Is most misunderstood and perverted coecerning leaven is Math. Xiii, 33, which is geeerally taken to mean that the gospel will gradually .0/1 tho world whereas in the light of the whole discourse in that chapter it plainly teaches that in this age of the mystery of the kingdom (verse 11) the woman (the church) will corrupt her food till ail shall be corrupted. Se' 3.1 Tim. ill, 1-5; iv. 8, 4, as a comment. 16, 17. "No Manner of work shall be done in them." This and similar statements concerning the feasts of the Lord and the holy days of Israel seem to me to have their spirituel application set forth in Pleb. iv, 10, with leph. ii, 8, 0; 110171. iv, 5; Phil, 11, 18, and similar passages. The iseason like that now closing, deep redemption of Israel was wholly of , plowing and sowing are an absolute work, not ours, gives peace. So also God, cis also hi our redemption. misInecessIty. The more deeply and thoroughly the land is cultivated the the daily life must be wholly more effectively it store up God. As we eat the Lamb, nppre_ I moisture. In our enquiries relative to this season's potato croP, we foiled that deep planting had con- tributed very largely to successlul crops. This, although apparent 111 dry seasons, will be found true of cereals as well as of roots, Plow deep may be taken as a sate rule in any soil and in any season. A FOR FARMERS 4 ,seasonabie and ProlltablO , flints for the Ottay Tillers s of the SOO, -.SK,Sif.A.11,4***ciieNentt;o4K•n?KneX;1 THE PLOW, Ile the changes noticenble ameeg fanning iMplemente during recent venni that which has taken place 111 the plow ie perhaps 310 Mee marked and is cortannly no less important Gum 111 runny of the Anon coneplicate seidiiinvehlritiou70 01011Vozatiarvdayp. arat'sheorre talruie country eervivore of the iron age, of the slays when the long heavy iron plow turned ite thread-like furrow straiglit as 11 following' a thane boo. In those clays the newly plowed field was expected to have the APPeeranee of having been oast in a raould, and the Ability to handle PloW and team with this result Was a certifi- cate of competence and e Ve00/10nlen" dation which went lar towerds se- curing a situation Mr a farm hand seeking employment, Want of tho ability to do so would cerialnly bo a bar to cibtainieg work op. any up -to.' date frame The narrow furrow over- lapping its neighbor and standing at an angle of about 45 degrees with an air spnce between, from whith the grass or secede, when they existed, grew up in advance of the legitimote crop, gave place to the wider furrow turned down nat. This system, al- though vigorously coinbated by the old sehool, finally gained the day and plowing has resolved itself into turning the land tzpside down, turn- ing the vegetation, under in such a, Its decomposition and thus become way as to prevent its growth, hasten II0I1511 GOWN. groeviug up as a, rival. The success - available as plant food, instead of 82 to 42 Inch Bust, ful plow „of to -day is the plow that No garment included in the come will turn over the widest furrow and plate wardrobe is more essential to turn it completely. Depth, too, will comfort and Vim elegazice Cum the in the future, with the evident tasteful, becoming house gown, The change that is tatting place in the very cbarming model shown is suited rainfalleof this country, become an to many meteriale, light weight important factor in plowing. In a wools, cotton and linen, but Is ne- ver more effective than when made after the original in primrose yellow challie with black rings trimming of black velvet ribbon and yoke of tucked yellow silk. The lining is inted with single bust darts, that for ordinary wean are stitched, but which can leo laced to- gether by means of eyelets worked 10 their edges and so made susceptible 01 enlargement when the gown is de- signed for invalid or maternity wear. Tne yoke is faced onto the lining, but both the gathered ironte and the plaited back are separate, and are arranged over it. The neck is finished with a regulation stock and shaped betelles fall over the shoulders and make a most effective trimming. The sleeves are in bishop style with pointed bands at the wrists, and are both satisfactory -to the wearer, and in the height Of fa- shion. The original is held at the waist by ribbon velvet, but when de- sired the gown cau be allowed to ball free from the yoke. The skirt por- tion is long enough for grace and but does not train sufficiently to be - dignity and falls in admirable folds, come a, burden. To cut this gown for a 1V0111811 of medium size 12 yards of material 21 inches wide, 11 yards 27 inches wide, 103, yards 32 inches wide, or 63, yards 44 inches wide will be required, with 1 yard of plain silk for tucking Or 3, yard of tucned material for yoke and collar. One needs plenty ol help and above al plenty or utensils era/ tools to work with. We see farmers who have all kinds of farming machinery bet when hog -killing time eeinee theY bane to borrow knives, kettles, 544045- 34541 grinder, lard press, ole. litueb valuable ti2310 is consumed in going. alter these articles anti taking them home. Every farmer should P055085 a butchering qutllt, Who kettles aro more expensive Wan any-, thing else, but with good care theY Wili outlast the owner, elate Christ and all that is His more fully day by day. He svill work in us both to will and to do of His good pleasere, working in us that which is Well pleasing in His sight, and whatever He may atcomplish through us we shall gladly 'confess that it has been "not 8, but Chrutt," "not 1, but the gram of iod" (Gni. 11. 20; I Com xv, 10). God is 5107:- ing earthen 'vessels in which He 1013, work unhindered all Iris pleasure. If we ere only willing and Ho Will. Jo it. TIME LOST IN LIFE, Practical Waste of Three -Eighths - of One's Existence. "I read the estimate prepared re- cently by the British Government witb reference to longevity anmeg men in the aemy," said a gentleman recently who is fond of mathematics, "and I do not care bow much men may ilg,ure on the lengthening. of life's average—the fact is, a fellow doesn't live so long after all. Life is very short when NVO 001110 tO think ei it. It is, indeed, a fitful fever, to nervily the simile of the pot, and the distant° between tho cradle and the tomb is the span of one's hand. How much of a anan's life is devoted to the actual work of accomplishing whatever his highest aim may bo ? tid you over think about figuring on this problem O 1 have, because, I guess, I happen to have a penchant for mathematics, But it lo interest- ing for other reasons. Of course, a fellow does nothing until after his twenty-first birthday. He must at- tain his majority before ho enters upon the serious dirties of life. Be- fore this timo he is passing the pre- paratory stages of life, and, theme - teeny, is equipping himself for its serious bottles. Fifty years is the life of the averege elan, although life's general average Bores clown to a point below this. "Give the. Average man thixty years beyond tho period whets he becomes of ago. 1 guess it would be safe to assume, even in this rushing age, that the average man will spend one zDucAmoN FOR FARM BOYS. The boys are leaving the farm. What is the muse of this exodus? A Milure to appreciate tho opportuni- ties he agricultural pursuits. The country boy leaves the farm because he sees nothing ahead of him but drudgery and endless toil. Re does not understand the vital relation ot the sciences to the pro- gress of modern agriculture. He is ignorant of the ,fundamiental princi- ples that govern his occupation. The operations on his father's farm are in all probability carried on after the fashion of a hundred years ago. The methods pursued are antiquated, the fields are cultivated in a slipshod manner, the nnancial returns are meagre, and it 13 little wonder that tho youth determines to seek his for- tune elsewhere. What is the remedy? Education, in order that the farmer's boy may have an equal chance in his chosen profession with that of his city bro- ther. It seems to be an axiom in the country home that the boy who intends to be a doctor or 11 hemmer must be educated, while the ono who proposes to be a. farmer must not be associated in any way with "book larnin." This is where the most ser- ious mistake has been made. Farm- ing is a bushman The profits in farming are directly measured by the intelligeot effort put int o the busi- ness. Treat nature wisely and she will yield bountiful barvests. Is it not time that this fearful drain upon the best element, of the rural district won stopped? In it not time that rational methods were pursued in agriculture? Is it not time that the country boy was given a. chance to secure that education that will ermine him to appreciate preparing for the table. We might safely figure that he spends an aver- age Of 0110 110111' tind thirty minutes out of every twenty -lour in other minor ways—in exchanging pleasan- tries with his Mends and chatting on topics enrelated to his business, in ,winding his watch and ia other in- Mods because they are given too dulgences of an iunoeent end harm- much at a time. less kind. This Would Make a. total of nine lioin•s mit of every twenty- four that a, man spencle in doing things that are unrelated. in a strict sense, to Ms business. This aliments to three-eighths of the life that is be- fore him, Ile has thirty years in which to do lite work. Ile wonld devote eleven years end three menthe to sleep end to other Mtge, as it - time when the country offered such bright prospects to educated efforts TUE PIG PEN. Inge muss over and reject green fod- der, clover hay coal other bulky The pig needs some bulky food but not as much in proportion as do cat- tle. horses and sheep. (live the little, tate fall pigs wheat mietilings and skim -milk; we must , keep the Mile fellows warm and growing. If the pig house is not dry- and well ventilated the hogs will become stiff and lame and can not do well. Merited, rind would 1101/.0 11100100» Coustruct the pens so that they are years and nine 'teethe in wbich to cosily emanne . . It GM bo do hie littic do. 111511 and 1)0051(150 air shafts if news - 'Twenty years looks like a good bit, of time, but 1511011 IVO 001110 t 0 Let the floor direeoy on tho this fearful thing of living for t `- ground surface so that there is no exPootinff to ond°av 0015` chance for cold air to sweep under or eelven to our countrymen and to aro annulate a little money beeides, the filth to collect, time dace not seem long. 'Pile time Grout ilooes are best0 draining to a central alley whith is kept well lit - is really much shorter than this ctod caul ie .cleehod out 00)010each 'When We alloW for Sundays and so- 4 " p;rttheriugg „id p yer mectiuge weekA good arrangemeut is to ancl things of that soht, leut.as these h9`ve. of sleepily pone 011 One functions do not figure an every side of the building, and 11 rOW feeding ns 01011511,1co 411olio.lyievb,yalliennel4iiii0g1, man's life 1 linve loft them 0,14,''moross 1140 pe4301 115141 The hogs will usually keep the pone clean, Bt t100 yenes the evangel length oi TIng killing in a time most of us toenail life hae berm doubled. In the dread, und NVO heLIVO It eigh of relief sixteenth eentury It was betWeen when the grouse, task is endect Ba- lm remission of sins" (1.04', xVin 11; eighteen and twenty yearn; at 'the' cloning is Marla 111011304111404' cad silded nee, ix, att) In Ilim See hams res Close of the eighteenth conturv it sooncr when one is well prvparocl far clomption by 3lie blood, anti the re- WaS 11;1 11 110 ever thirty 310.4115, and it.. 0 01 eVerything 111 road 1)1W; deemed in glory ming, OTholl ham leo temeer it is over .totiv years, day or atm, beforellitud, LIPP, AVM-IA.0P5, CLOAH WORTH $000,000. The costliest garments worn aro not always to be found in possession of the wealthiest cheeses. The Queen Dowager of Italy is said to be the possessor of a piece of lace SOO years old, and valued at $10,000. "Point Tresse" lase, which was made from threade of flex mixed with human hair, is also inmeenselY valuable. An Indian rajah sent a. London lady o wonderful garment in return for a service done him by her husband. Fifteen thousand of the wing -cases of an Indian beetle are sewn. upon the material, and lend 41. shimmering green iridescence to its flowing folde. Many fashionable la- dies wished to duplicate it, but found it impossible; both from the rareness of the insect cent the (life- culty of ainxing the delicate wing - eases to the material. As for its. cost, 113,000 would be woll within the limit. The most costly garment in the world ie royel cloak from the Sandwich Islands. It is made of red, black, and yellow feathers. The Med is now extinct, and was al- ways so rare that it took a century and a. hnlf to collect enough to make tho cloak. It, M vi4.1_,..lued at 000,000. THE CHIEF RASCAL. Thomas was a gentleman of Celtic, origin, cuid it did not take long for the boys of a. neighboring fall1001 to =UGC 1118 brogue, and they Made all manner of fuu about it, often mimicking it to a uicety. Thomas stood the tortures as long a$ any able-bodied man could be expeeted to, but finally he resorted to pun- ishment for his tormentors. One day, full of wrath at en exceptionel breach on tho part of a tow -headed yolingster, he strode vengefully to the school. With much noise he elimbed .1,11e stains my 111 5004411 of the principal, to whom he had been ad.- vised to complain, Ho wen COUrir 003151y ShoWn 10 .that 13e1'0011, and began to bitterly denounce the action:4 of the pupils. "I 0111 very sorry Co hear )hie," exclaimed his listener, "end I will try to put an end to it." • "01 wish you would, simile Cense sorry to trouble ye, but Oi've beat SO abused by 1111111 rtteeals 01 thought 01'd tell ye, UR 01 UnderSland ye are the pribeip—al 'Mishap 'The (Met or si3514 keep up thise race for money I'll 1,),INneesl.cmdcz131,011,5.,tna13. aleiliyatilr,ia.stei1'41114' 050 eliall Mee 112 31 qord it."