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ho ntore carefully We eonelder tie
treaty between Engleatli and Japan
the More clearly nilist we reeOgniM
the mo,guitude of (Lethal aita
proepective olgailicance.Itite (Me
eggeration to eay that this internea
tiOrtal compact has revolutionlage
thE3 eltnetien in the Far LAM. TWA
ie trite, whether We look at its ei-
feet on the contraeting parties;
theineolves, on Russia, which suffere
by it, On China, its beneficiary, or
on powers lees directly inteMeted,
At a, stroke the treaty relieves Eng-
land froin the ieolation which,
coupled with the abeorption of her
military resources in South Africa,
has, for some time past, paralyzed
her inilnence in China, waere it used
to be preponderant. Should her in-
tereste in that country now be
threatened, she woula be stroeg in
the very particular where• hitherto
ehe has been weak, far through her
alliance with Japan she would have
at her disposal a land force superior
in numbers, discipline, equipment anti
efficiency to any that a European
opponent could array against her in
the Far East. Equally patent is it,
that through the alliance just con-
cluded, Japan becomes mighty where
she was but feeble, and no longer has
• anythiog to fear from the combined
.naval armaments of Russia, and
France. In a word, the land power
of Japan and the sea power of Great
Britain complement each other, and,
together, constitute a whole which
is locally irresistible.
Upon Russia's plan to acquire a
monopoly of Manchuria, which MU-
inately must have led to dominance
throughout northern China, the
treaty between Japan and Great
Britain falls as an extinguisher. If
Mancliaria is to remain Chinese, the
already partly constructed brancli of
the Siberian Railway to Port Ar-
thur will become valueless for mili-
tary purposes, inasmuch as, travers-
ing foreign territory, it could he
obstructed at any hour. The hope,
too, must be renounced of securing a
naval station on the southeastern
coast of Corea, and of thus con-
trolling the direct maritime route
between Vladivostock and Port
Arthur, which, being thus condemn-
ed to segregation from each other
will be comparatively useless. In
fine, the secret purpose which has
*impelled Russia to expend vast sums
of money upon the Siberian trunk
line—the purpose of gaining prepon-
derance on the west coast of the
Pacific—is now nipped in the bud. So
far as any forecast can be drawn
from the new situation, Russia's
dream of the conquest of Pekin is
e now as far from fulfilment as her
dream of the conquest of Constanti-
nople. So long as the present treaty
between Japan and England shall
hold good, it will seemingly be the
destiny of China, either to remain
intact and independent, or become
Japanese.
That the prestige of France and
Germany has been relatively dimmed
at Pekin by the treaty between Jap-
an and England is too obvious to
need demonstration. Of late each of
those powers has had great influence
, with the Chinese Court, because each
was feared. Henceforth neither
French nor Gorman diplomacy will
be able to exert any pressure upon
China., backed as that country will
feel herself to be in the last resort
ish fleet. No doubt, France and
by the Japanese army and the 131
Gerniany will be permitted. tempor-i
arily, at all events, to keep fuel
small territorial accessions which
they have won respectively in south-
western China and in Shantung ;
but itot a step further can they now
hope to go.
Give Earnest Thanks for the Divine
Goodness Shown You,
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A despateh Dann Waehington sayS
—Rev, Dr. Talmage preachea iron
the following text :—L Corinthian
X. 31, "Wliether; therefore, ye eat o
drink or whatsoever ye do, do al
to the glory of God."
When the apeetle in this' text set
forth the idea, that so eon -linen ai
action as the takiag of food end
drink is to'be conducted to the glory
of God, he proctaime the importance
of religion in the Ordinary affairs
our :life. In all ages of the world
there has been a tendency to set
apart cortin days, places and ocect-
sions for worship, and to think
those were the chief realms. in whieh
religion was to act. Notv, holy days
and 'holy places have their import -
come. They give opportunity Mk spe-
cial performance of Christian duty
and for regaling of the religious ap-
petite, but they cannot take the
Place of continuous exercise of faith
and prayer. Irt other words, it man
cannot be so much of a Christian on
Sunday that he can afford to be a
worldling all the rest of the week.
If it steamer put out for Southamp-
ton and go one day in that direction
and the other six days in other di-
rections, how long before the steam-
er will get to Southampton? it will
never get there. And, though a raan
may seem to be voyaging heaven-
ward during the holy Sabbath day,
if during the following* six days of
the week he is gain toward the
world and toward the flesh and to-
ward the devil how long will it take
him to reach tbe peaceful harbor of
heaven ? You cannot eat so much
at the Sabbath banquet that you
can afford religious abetinence the
other six days. neroism end prince-
ly behavior C111 great occasions are
no apology for leek of right demean-
or in circumstances insignificant and
inconspicuous. The genuine Chris-
tian life is not spasmodic; does not
go by fits and starts. It tolls on
through heat and cold, up steep
tnountains and along dangerous de-
clivities, its eye on the everlasting
hills crowned with the castles of the
blessed. I propose to plead for
snap of it worlsne emiflagration,
Whim you have anythitlg to do in
life, bowever humble it may seem to
be, God is rawer/ there to help you
• to do it, If your work is that of a
fisherman, then God will help you,
413 Ite helped Simon when he dragged
r, Gennesaret. IR your work is thaw-
ing^ water, then lie will help you, as
„ When he talked at the wen eurb to
the Samaritan woman. If Yea ars
' engaged In the custom house, he wilt
lead you, as he led Matthe\v eitting
at the receipt of customs. A re-
. ligion that is not good in oneLplace
is not worth anything
IN ANOTHER PLACE.
EVERYDAY RELIGION,
in the first place we want to bring
the religion of Christ into our con-
versation. When a dam breaks and
two or three ville.ges are overwhelm-
ed or an earthquake in South Araer-
ice, swallows a whole city, then peo-
ple begin to talk about the uncer-
tainty 01 1110, and they imagine that
they are engaged in positively relig-
ious convers-ation. No, You may
talk about these things and have no
grace of God at all in your heart.
We ought every day to be talking
religion. If there is anything glad
about it, anything beautiful about
it, anything important about it, we
ought to be courteously discussing. I
have noticed that men Mat in pro-
portion as their Christian expe-
rience is shallow talk about funerals
and graveyards and tombstones and
deathbeds. The real, genuine Chris-
tian man talks chiefly about this
life and the great eternity beyond
and not so much about the insigni-
ficant pass between these two resi-
dences. And yet how few circles
there are where the religion of Jesus
Christ is welcome, Go into a circle
even of Christian people, where they
are full of joy and hilarity, and talk
about Christ or heaven and every-
thing is immediately silenced. No
one had anything to say save per-
haps some old patriate. in the cor-
ner of the room, who really thinks
that something ought to be said un-
der the circumstances, so he puts
ono foot over the other and heaves a
long sigh and says, "Oh, yes, that's
so, that's so 1"
My friends, the religion of Jesus
Christ is something to talk about
+will a glad heart. It is brighter
than the waters: it is more cheerful
han the sunshine. Do not go
'around groaning about your religion
when you ought to be singing' it or
talking it in cheerful tones of voice.
How often it is that we find men
whose lives are utterly ieconsietent
who attempt to talk religion and al-
ways make a failure of it My
friends,
WE MUST LTVE RELIGION
or WO caenot talk it. lf a man is
cranky and cross rind uncongenial
and hard in his dealings and then
begins to talk about Christ and
heaven, everybody 0; repelled by it.
Yet I have heard much 0100 say in
whining tones, "We aro miserable
sinners," "The Lord bless you,"
"The .Lord have mercy on you,"
their conversation interlarded With
such expressions, which mean no-
thing but canting, and canting is
the worst form of hypocrisy. if we
have really felt the religion of Christ;
in our hearts, let us talk it ; and
talk it with an illuminated coun-
tenance, remembering that when Lwo
Christian people talk God gives spe-
cial attoritien and writes down what
they say Malachi it , 10, 'Then
they that -leaved the Lord spake of-
ten one to another, and the Lord
hearkened and heard it, . and a book
of remembrance was written."
Agate, X.remn.rk, WO must bring
the religion of Christ into our em-
ployments. "Oh," you say, "that
.very well if a man handle large
sums of money co. if he have no ex-
tonsive traffic, but 111 the hunible
work in life that t caltecl to the
sphere is too small for the aetion of
such grand, heavenly principles."
Who told you so ? Do you not
know that God watcher; the faded
leaf on thEi brook's peeface Ete cer-
tainly as he dace the path of
blazing SOU ?: AIM the Mose that
creeps up the side of the rock makes
es lunch impression upon Goe's mind
as the Waving tops of Oregon pine
end Lehation cedae, and the alder;
crackling under ..tho cow's hoof,
ets'aida as lottd in Cod's eer no the
What counter-move can Russia
make ? Even if she could secure the
cooperation of Germany as wen as
France, the combined naval strength
of those three powers would be 'In-
adequate to cope with that of their
opponents in the waters of the Far
East, because the Anglo -Japanese
fleet, besides beink at, least equal in
magnitude, would possess incompar-
ably superior naval bases bi the
Japanese and Chinese harbors. To
enter upon such a contest with any
prospect of success Russia would
need the helm not only of Germany
and Fran.ce, but also that of the
Unitett States, which xvould carry
with it the invaluable naval bases in
the Philippines. No help from the
Dotted States Will be forthcoming
for the purpose of disturbing a situ-
ation, which, as shaped by the new
treaty, aseures the maintenance of
the "open dime" and the preserva-
tion of China's territory from dis-
memberment.
"Your connereation, Iffr.
man," said bliss Peppery, suppress-
ing a yawn, "rerninde mo of seine
champagne." "Ali 1" exelaisted
Itevviman, rrateh pleased ; "so
sparlding as that ?" "NM but it's
Metre dr'
The man who has only a day's
wages in his pocket as certainly
needs the guidance of religion as ne
who rattles the keys of a bank and
could abscond with it hundred thous-
and (toilers,
There are those prominent in the
churches who seem to be on public
occasions very devouli who do not
put the principles of ObrIst's religion
into practice. They are the most in-
exorable of creditors. They axe the
most grasping of dealers. They aro
known as sharpers on the street.
They fleece every sheep they can
catch. If the ' wheat in the
churches should be put into a hoPPee,
the first turn of the crank would
make the chaff fly, I tell you. Some
of those men are great sticklers for
gospel preaching. They say:"You
stand there in bands and surplice
and gown and preach—preaela like an
angel—and we stand out here and at-
tend to business. Don't mix things.
Don't get religion and business in
the same bucket. You attend to your
matters, knd we will attend to
ours." They do not imow that God
sees every cheat theyhave practised
in the last six years; that He can
look through the iron wall of their
Oreproof safe; that.110 has counted
every dishonest dollar they have in
their pocket, and that EL day of judg-
ment wnl come,
There are many Christians who say:
"We are willing to serve Cod, but
we do not want to do it in those
spheres about which we are talking,
and it seems so insipid and monoton-
ous. If we had some great occasion,
if we had lived in the time of Luth-
er, if we had been Paul's traveling
companion, if we could serve God on
a great scale, we would do it, but
we can't in this everyday life." I
admit that a great deal of -the ro-
mance and knight errantry of life
have disappeareh before the advance
of this practical age. There is, hew -
ever, a field of endurance and great
achievement, but it is in everyday
life. There are Alps to scale, there
are Hellesponto to swim, there are
fires to brave, but they are all
around us now. This is the hardest
kind of martyrdom to bear.
Again, we need to bring the reit
gion of Christ into
OUR COMMONEST TRIALS.
For severe losses, for be-
reavement, for trouble that shocks
like an earthquake and that blasts
like a storm, we prescribe religious
consolation; but, business man, for
the small annoyances of last week
how much of the grace of God did
you apply? "Oh," you say "these
trials are too much for such applica-
tion." My brother, they are shap-
ing your character, they are souring
your temper, they are \veering out
your patience and they are making
you less and less of a man. I go
Otto a sculptor's studio and see him
shaping a statue. He has a chisel
in one hand and a mallet in the
other. and he gives a very gentle
stroke—click, click, click! I say,
"Why don't you strike harder?"
"Oh," he replies, 'that would shat-
ter the statue. I can't do it, that
Wit/. I must do it this way.", So
he works on, a.nd after awhile the
features come out, and everybody
that en' ers the studio is charmed
and fascinated. Well, Cod has your
soul under process of dovelopinent,
and it is little annoyances and vexa-
tions of life that are chiseling out
your intinortal nature.
Again, we must bring the religion
of Christ into our commonest bless-
tngs. Whethe autumn comes and
he harvests are in and the gov-
n
ernors make proclamations, Lve as-
semble in churches and we are very
thankful. But every day ought to
be a. thanksgiving day. We do not
recognize the common mercies of life.
We have to see a blind num led by
his dog before we begin to bethinIc
ourselves of what a. grand thing 11 10
to have undimmed eyesight. Wb
have to see some wounded man hob-
bling on his erutch ' or with his
empty coat sleeve pinned up before
we learn to tither what EL grand
thing Cod did for us when he gave
us healthy use of our limbs. We
are so stupid that floating but the
misfortunes of others can mese us
up to our blessings. As the ox
grazes in the pasture up to his eye
in clover, yet never thinking who
makes the clover, and as the bird
pleks up the worm from the furrow
not thinking that it is God
W110 MAIM'S FIVERYTITT NG
from the animalcule in the sod to
the seraph on the throne, so we go
on eating, drinking and enjoying,
Mit never thanking, or seldom
thanking, or, if thenichig et n.11,
with only half a heart.
I Compared our Indifieretice to the
brute, but perhaps I wronged the
brute. I do not know but that
tonong its other instincts, it May
have an instinct by which it races-
nizes the divine hand that feeds it.
do not know but that. Cod is,
through it, holding communication
with what we call "irrational crew -
tion." Who thanks God for the
air, the fountain of life, the bridge
of eimbeams; the path of eound, the
greet fan on a. hot sintnnerni clay?
Who thanks. Codfor. thia ,wender1u1
physlcan organism; this steeen of the
visien, this align, of intrteefer etrack
01t9 the ear, Cite eoft tread et a
myriad delighte over Ile nervoLla
ti,sime, lids et the erioaloa
tide through artery and Tein,
thie drimmilog of Um bead oft ena
inarch to inueortality? Wo take all
theSe things all a Matter of come.
Take title prnetleal religloa
have retanomended Inte YoUr every-
day lire, Make every day aSab-
bath, and every meal a searanient,
and every'room you euter a holy of
110008. We „all hare work to do;
let us be willing to ,lo lt, We all
have sorrows to bear, let us them. -
fully beer therm We ell have bat-
tles to light; let us eouragccalely
light them. If you want to die
riga, you must live right, Negli-
gence and indolenee Will win the hies
of evorlastiag scorn, while faithful-
ness will gather its garlands and
wave its sceptre and sit upon its
throne long after this- earth has put
en ashes and eternal age's have be-
gun their march. You go home to-
day and attend to youv sphere
of duties, I will go borne and at-
tend to. my little sober° of dutiee,
Every one in his own place. So our
every step in life shall be, a tri-
umphal march, and the lunnblest
footetool on which we are called to
sit will be a cOnglieror's throne.
THE S. S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
MARCH 9.
Text of the Lesson, Acts viii., 2-17
Golden. Text; Acts via., 4.
3."As for Saul, he made havoc of
the church." The Revised Version
says that he laid waste the church,
but our Lord had said, "The gates
of hell shall not prevail against it"
(lllatt. ay.!, 18). So that` this im-
prisonment of Christians and power
of Saul and the authorities over
them did not really hurt the church
any more than the fiery furnace or
the lions hurt Daniel and his friends.
4. "Therefore they that were scat-
tered abroad went everywhere preach-
ing the w ord. ' ' So the disciples
could say to Saul and- his 'company
as Joseph said to his brethren, "Ye
thought evil against me, but Cod
meant it unto good to save mut%
people alive." (Gen, 1, 20). When
we wore persecuted and in the midst
of trial it seems very difficult to see
any good in it, and not to see our
persecutors, but faith sees only God
and ls quiet. because He controls all
people and all events. These !scat-
tered preachers of good tidings were -
not the apostles, but all except the
apostles (verse 1), and they Lvere
just the Lord's messengers with the
Lord's message (-llag. i, 13). If an
believers now were ready to tell oth-
ers the love and glace of Gen, tell-
ing His salvationf rom day to day
(Ps. lxxi, 15, 24), how soon the gos-
pel might be preached to every crest -
tura!
5-8. "Then Philip went down to
the city of Samaria and preached
Christ unto them." Philip was the
second of the seven who had been ap-
pointed to minister to the needy in
things temporal, and now that Ste-
phen had been so honored and pro-
moted he is also honored as the
Lord's messenger. If we are con-
tent to do the ordinary work of tho
daily life, the Lord will , nIlis own
time lead us into greater servico.
Very helpful words on this are found
in IL Samuel 2CV, 15; I. Chron.
xxviii, 21. In verses 4, 12, 25 we
get a good idea of the preaching of
those days. They preached Christ;
they preached the. word of the Lord
and the things concerning the king-
dom of God. As Philip preached
the Lord wrought with and through
him, confirming the word with signs
following (Mark xvi, 20), and, see-
ing the miracles and hearing the
message, the people with one accord
gave heed, and there was great joy
in that city. Whether the messenger
be the woman of Samaria or Philip
the evangelist, if Christ is preached
the Spirit works, and whenever
Christ Is truly received there follows
Joy and peace (Ps. xv, 18).
10. The adversary who opposes
Cod and exalts himself is always to
the front ever since he slandered God
to Eve in Eden. IR is seen in the
willfulness and self-asseetion of Cain,
in the endeavor of the 'label builders
to make themselves a name and in
all who oppose themselves to God,
and His truth from Cain to the one
who shall exalt himself and magnify
himself above every god, so that he,
as God, shall sit in the tentple of
Clod showing himself that ho is God
(Dan, xl, 36; 11, Thess. ii, 4). This
Simon, like-Theudas of chapter v,
36, was just one of the great host
who magnify themselves and alWays
Ind a following. As I write Et man
in Chicago, whom inany follow and
who seeras to preach the gospel, has
just given out that he -is :Elijah. And
so it goes; and will till Jesus comes,
11, 32. 13ewitching people with sor-
cery might possibly describe many
of the teaching's of to -clay which
captivate such multitudes. A great
following is not oioncient proof that
the leader is right, nor are .few fol -
towel% neeessarily an evidence that
the leader is wrong,
13. "Simon himself believed also,
was baptized, cool:limed with Philip
and wondered, beholding the mil. -
Elates and signs," The power of God
is able to break the hardest heart,
and the Met that Simon was bap-
tized and eontinutithwith Philip after
be believed, would seem to ludicate
a. real con \foretop., The eequel.in
verses .18 to 21 may indicate, how-
ever, that Simon had not truly re-
ceiaed the Lord Jesus, or they may
mean that he was not right in the
matter of the gift of the Spirit. If
he had no part in (Ariel', he ' cer-
tainly was net saved, but if Peter
meant that ho had no part in this
gift of the Moly Spirit he Wits just
In the condition in which most
chetah members are, and it litn,y
have been in reference to serving God
that hie ,beart was not right. Slinoo
soreerer is not a coinfortable
Manly. There is much of himeelf
from first to last and little, if any,
of Christ even after 'he believed.
14. "alow,, when the apostles whielt
wine at Jertesalein heard that. San,
Marla had MIAMI the Word of GM),
they sont unto OEM, Pel,ea and
John." %liege Inifo 0110 are ee Pro*
Minont in the early eliaptere are still
evidently the forentoet among the
apOStleti and epeeially honored bY
the (Aimee, NOtlee what ii, WELs the
people Of Samaria had reeeived.
r
ue17, illailtaer0t01100"4"rdheLs1s10a1Won°1radtuaQi Gld
tiQuii;
doubtleee received it, not as the
word of Men, but as it is ill truth,
the word of God, wide11 effectually
worketh in those who believe (I.
Thess, 11, 1.3), Our Lord Himself
said to Plis leather on the night Ini•
fore His erueifixion, "I have given
unto them the words which Ttiou
pascal Me, and they have received
them" (John. xvit, 8), We give our
Lord ptomain) when we receiVe HIS
Ward, It iS to be reeeived with
ineelcrieee and then bell fast and held
forth (Jas. i, 21; Tit, 1, 9; Phil, it,
(6).
15, 16. "Who, Whell they wore
eorne down, prayed for them that
they might receive the Holy Ghost,"
They were somewhat like the apos-
tles and other believers before Petite-
tit$7ted. aTicliQy IhmAdd bbeeeloiemvEVOhIVIde7en bag;
God and temples of the Holy Ghost,
but they had not been endued with
the power which all believers oeed to
enable them to secure the living and
true God, All who trdly receive
Christ are eared aud have become
children of God (Jo(1n 1, 12) and
temples of the Holy Spirit, who
dwell in every believer, but it is
possible for such to be only babes
and carnal (1 Cor. vi, 19, 20; iii, 1,
2), and therefore the necessity of
being•iilled with the Spirit and en-
dued with. power to live the life of
faithf el testimony,
17. "Then laid they their hands
on thorn, and they received the
Holy Ghost." Having prayed (verso
15), they now with expectation lay
hands on them, and the special gift
of the Spirit is received. So also
did Paul at Ephesus (chapter xix,
5, (1). Our Lord's words, "AS1c, and
it shall be given you, are in con-
nection with these others, "How
mueli more alien your heavenly Fath-
er give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask Him" (Luke xi, 9, 13).
TANKAGE IS FOOD FOR PIGS
ITS ADV.AISTAGE AS A FEED-
ING 1VIATERIAL.
Synopsis of a Recent Bulletin
Issued by the Indiana ,Ex-
periment Station.
Invie7owtg,ltiearnadthoo
Pidexteein'ssiZuei0M1
swine g
establishment of pork packing houses
in all parts of the country, a recent
bulletin (No. 90) of the Indiana. Ex-
periment Station, regarding the
value, as a food for swine, of the
packing house bye -product. known
as tankage, may be of interest. Ac-
cording to the above bulletin, tank-
age offers considerable advantage as
a feeding material for pigs. It con-
tains a high per cent of protein,
and an amount of phosphoric acid
that materially excels that found in
any grain or bye -products of mills.
The phosphoric acid for pigs is use-
ful in building up bone structure,
and this is an important feature
with our pigs to -day, while the pro-
tein has a value universally recog-
nized by feeders.
An extensive breeder of swine in
Indiana thus describes the character
of this product :
'Especially with young pigs, one
finds some feed of great advantage
that is rich 18 i the nutrients re-
quired, that is easily digested. and'
especially palatable * * A year's
experience with feeding tankage
shows it the ideal feed for this pur-
pose. Blood, lungs, etc., are cook-
ed together in tanks at the large
packing houses. The fat is drawn
off and the residue dried and
ground for hog feed. It costs about
$25.00 per ton laid down at my
home, contains about double the
protein found in oil meal, and is a
very much better feed for pigs. It
seems to be a perfect substitute for
milk, a pound of the tankage cost-
ing less them a cent and a quarter,
and having a feeding value equal to
about three gallons of skimmed milk.
A mixture of thirty pounds of corn
to 10 pounds each of wheat mid-
dlings and tankage makes a very
well balanced ration for pigs up to
four 'inoliths old. A very good ra-
tion for older pigs or hogs may be
made by reducing the middlings and
tankage fully half in proportion to
amount of corn. Tankage dissolves
almost immediately when put in
water, and should be fed in slop.
Piga fed upon tankage show great
muscular and bone development,
have ravenous appetites, and .are
especially free Troia gouty and rheu-
matic -troubles. Tankage is so dry
that there -is no danger from worms
or from decomposition, and has heen
so thoroughly cooked that one takes
no risk from contracting disease in
his herd from feeding it."
A quantity of tankage was sup-
plied the Station' at that request of
the Director, by Swift A Co., of
Chicago, for feeding swine. This
tankage was especially peepared for
the purpoee, being made from "bones
and meat taken from the cuttiog
room, tanked ininiediately, and
pressed and dried," A representa-
tive of the above iirm wrote that
"If tankage can be used at all fo'
mvine feeding, it must be specially
prepared. The writer's npialoa • is
that no tankage that contains any
pavt of the intestines, etc., should
be used for this purpose." A sam-
ple of thie tankage showed the fol-
lowhig composition :—
Moisture ..„„ .. .... . 8,63 p.c.
rrotein„ .„ 19.81 p.c.
Ether extract ......15.78 P.C.
'Cralle tibre..... ...... .... 4,78 p.c.
Nitrogen feee . extract • 5.06 p.c.
Ash. .... ... . . .15.91 p.c.
Total .. . 100 p.c.
To determine, something of the
velue of tankage in EL swine feeding
ration, an experiment with a fairly
uniform lot of .pigs was begun and
continued for 127 day*. The ,ani-
mals fed consisted of 30 head of
young pige, divided into lots of four
each. Theee Were all perebreed ani -
Male, and averaged EthOtit Sixty
poetical each at the beginning of the
test, Tap Node peed Were OS fel-
10150 , •
Lot 1 -.-Ten parte of Mire corn
finial end one Part tankage'
' Lot 1.1-1cive parte Pure eornmeal,
and 000 part tankage.
Lot 3—Pure cora meal only.
Let 4—'Pen paate of EL mixture in
equal propottione at pure COM tneal
and Short$, and 008 part tankage,
The rem' wes weighed. Oat at feed-
ing time, and mixed with wathr,
forming p, Medilnel thin step, about
two parts water 110 one part grain
being used, The grain Was not eook-
ed, but the chill was removed from
the water before mixing to malco the
Slop. The grain and tankage were
thrown' together in dry farm, and
the water then added, The average
daily gain as made by each lot was
as follows ;—
Oost per
Daily geio. 100 lbs
1.401 No, 1,., 4.68 Me $3.80
Lot NO. 2... ...,4.811bs 4..00
Lot No. 3,.; lbs 5,20
Lot No, 4e, . ... .4,55 ltis 3,60
iirgloortettab ooletreautal tnsk agsch 0171 s utphaptlytnhge
protein to what woulcl otherwise
have been EL very carbonaelous ra-
tion, was extremely beneficial in the
'growth of pigs, ea well as in the
financial results, With lot No. 4
there ie a difference of nearly two
cents between cost. 01., feed per
pound of gain, and in price received
per pound live weight, while the dif-
ference in this respect with Lot No.
3 cornfed, is very slight Indeed.
The firmness of the flesh of lot No.
3 was not quite as good as that of
the tankage fed lots. This was fair-
ly noticeable.
The ,Conditien of these experiment-
al fed "pigs during the feeding Was of
much interest. Those of lots Nos. 1,
2 and 4, \ahem tankage was fed,
had noticeably silkier coats of hills,
than that of the corn fed lot, !rho
corn fed anintals did not eat with a
keen relish after the experiment was
fairly 'started while the other pigs
always did, and. therein a marked
difference was to be seen. The corn
foci pigs developed into very poor
feeders, aad this was due to the
feed. The conditions of the stomachs
of the corn fed pig a was of unusual
interest, these containing sour of-
fensive smelling corn meal simply,
which seemed a sodden mass. Cer-
tainly the contents of the corn fed
stoMachs was inferior in a notice-
able way, when compared with the
other pigs.
In conclusion, this experiment,
strongly emphasizes the WOaknOSS of
using corn meal as a single ration
In feeding growing, fattening pigs,
and indicates the great value of
adding a feed rich in protein to the
corn, thus producing a better bal-
anced ration and securing more de-
gsirroawbtlh.eresults in both health and
FAITH AND WORKS.
A piece of bright Mass -mein re-
partee comes from a Western college.
The professor has been annoyed by
the tardy entrance of a student into
Ole lecture room, and politteclly
topped talking until the man took
his sent.
After class the student went to the
desk and apologised.
"My watch was fifteen minutes out
of the way, sir. It's bothered me a
good deal lately, but after this I
shall put no more faith in it."
"It's riot faith you want lo it,"
replied the professor ; "It's works.
ISLE OF MAN.
In ..the matter of taxation the Isle
of Man is unique, There are no in-
come tax, no succession duties
chargeable against the estates of de-
ceased persons, lio highway 05 turn-
pike tolls. Roads are maintained by
the revenue from two sources : a
small tax upon every wheel and shod
hoof and a lely upon every male in-
habitant; who must give a day's
worlc on the road, or its eqUivalent
in cash. There are no stamp duties
on receipts, cheques, promissory
notes, etc. ; i01 fact, stamps are used
only for postage.
MEASURED BY MUSIC.
A learned scientist has recently
shown how the velocity of the wind
can be reckoned. by noting the lomat-
cal 'pitch of the sound givert out
when the wind blows across a.
stretched wire. The principal ele-
ments on which the calculation is
based are the diameter of, the wire
and the temperature of the air. The
length of the wire is immaterial, so
long as it is not changed. Every
variation in tho whirl's velocity ie
faithfully represented by the rising
or falling of the pitch of the note
sung by tha wire.
A P.S. TO A FR:Aym.
A. little four-year-old knelt to say
hor prayers the other evening. After
invoking a, blessing on all the mem-
bers of the family, she Wound up by
Sa'Y'Afringd: bless Mr, Ilicksworthy,
nanen."
Then she rose up, bit immediately
knelt, down again.
'I don't mean Mr. Hicksworthy
that thinks litas so Emmet,' Lord, but
Ole poor old PeIr. HicksWorthy that's
only got one eye, and always .gives
me sweeties. Amen."
It: lo related, of a clergyman who
Was the lutppy father of a charming
and beautiful daughter that one
day, while peeparing Iiis Sunday dis-
course, he was suddenly called away
from his dealt On a mission of nairey.
The sentelice, at which he left ofi was
this : "I never see a, yoting nlan of
splendid physique and the moults° of
gloriotto inamlmod. almost realized
but my heart is filled with rental%
and delight," Ills daughine, happen-
ing to enter the study, eaw the ser-
mon and read the worde. Sitting
down she wrote underneath 4—
/ny sentiment% papa, eg-
aetly,"
TfiE.Ritir.:..op. ENUJIMTJJ
NVWS rnr AT,44 47401:P3? 4'0AN,
MILL ,AND HIS PEOPLE,.
fltecurreneels in the Z,atra' That
gefgme Supreme in the 011on,
Meraial World.
Mr, Andrea?' Carnegie has. been
eleeted a menthol* of the London /tee
fOrm MUM
llixeter Cathedral bens are bMng
reining- for the corountion, at tt, cost
of ,n1400.
A. lady has let her house in L044'
don for Juno at the rate of 1e1009
for the month,
The late goeen'e travelling ser-
geant of police, Mr, George Roe%
died, the other day at Windsor.
01 139 °Ricers and men of the royal
1151537. Who have won the Victoria
Cross only 12 am now living,
The annuity of the Duke of Cott -
naught Is :225,000 a year. The Duke
of Cambridge gets 1012,000 only.
Since the war broke out the Brit-
ish Governmettt haE; expooded 413,-
000,000 on the purchase of horses.
It is reported that the design a
the now postage stamp is faulty hi
several revecte, and another issue
will be made.
There are at present 10 South Af-
rim, according to the returns, 24
regiments of cavalry and .1.22 regi -
1110111.9 cif British Infantry.
Brighton'a oldest inha,bitant moat
ettrelY be Mr. Charles Green, who
was born in 1794, and is 11085 ill hi('
one hundred told eighth year.
Manchester has in the last six
years increased its water supply by
50 per cent., yet gets a profit of
£35,000 a year out of its water.
A Lewisham schoolboy named Sid-
ney Harry Smith put bis head
through a roller towel, which twist-
ed and held him fast and ho died
froin sheer fright.
Ten tons -of coppers, in all 1,107,-
063 coins, were collected by the
Manchester' Gas Committee last
month from prepeyment gas -meters
in the district,
ln connection with the jubilee of
Good Templary a national campaign
has been decided upon with a view
to adding 100,000 adults to its morn-
beaill'lPat.esday, in the river Weaver at.
Nantwieh, three men were dragging
for the body of a boy, when their
boat, a Canadian canoe, capsized,
and John Pennell was drowned.
Last year 26,000 new houses wore
bunt in Lon.don, Probably they are
now felled with 130,000 people, the
population of a large borough. This
is the way -London grows every
year.
The annual report of the Manches-
ter Shechith Board shows that . the
Hebrew 'community of Manchester
last year consumed 158,746 fowls,
4,215 beasts, 2,213 sheep, and 1,-
074 calves.
At Southamptomon Monday,Lieut.
A. 13181ce, Imperial Yeomanry, of
Maidenhead, was lined 40s, ;Ind costs
for landing a toy fox terrier dog ia
contravention of tile Importation a
Dogs order.
At the Wooddorn colliery, Myth,
on Monday, a master wasteman,
George Hedley, while descending the
pitshaft in the cage, lost his balance
and falling headlong down the alitife
was killed. -
Lily Channor, widow of a colour -
sergeant of the Gloucestershire% who
was shot in South Africa, was on
Monday committed for trial ou a
coroner's warrant for causing the
death of her child.
The Court of Governors of Owens
College, Manchester, resolved at a
meetiug on Tuesday, that the time
hae arrived for steps to be talcen to
Snare, as originally proposed; an in-
dependent university in Manchester.
At Preston Great Horse Fair on
Tuesday, heavy animals which IAVO
years since would have fetched £60,
were sold at £45. The decline in the
prices of cart horses ia attributed to
the increasing use of motor vehiclea.
Teo children, over 100 grandchil-
dren - and pity great-grandchildron
constitute the family of Mrs. Mary
Taylor, who died recently in Lan-
caster. More than a hundred of her
descendants were present. at the old
lady's funeral.
A magnificent gift of 1025,000 with
the stipulation that, it is to be re-
tained as cepital, has been notitled
to Ring Edwatat's Hospital FInni
LOnd011 an 11. "COV0110,61011. Gift" by
Messrs Edge.r.Spoyer Brethees, Loth-
blitri3je;.LD°111*.d°,7nochn Wateon has rennet,
ed froin Egypt and is in nnipit better
health. He had great enjoyment ill
lisO hOlidaY, 011. OhliStnlaS Day he
took the chair at, the dinner at Lux-
Cora,froan,c1 he brought in the einew Year
with the Seeforth Ilighlanders at
DOGS OF 1VATt. .
Experiments -which have been in
progress 10 Russia for live years to
ascertain how iae dogs might be
used for military purposes have dis-
appointed the hopes ot those who
hold that such animals could be use-
ful in time of war. It was believed
that, in addition to effective work as
cPoiCnirdtsbe tcatig'Lltittinto vc4Eirliee•yLie(sles0pfEttdc°11gest$
and ammunition to the firing lino
(tering battle, but the experiments.
which have been made in this direc-
tion have proved unsatisfaetory,
001,1e A CAPITAL OFFENCE.
Golf -players, who practise in Scet=
land, nifty not, knoW that they aro
liable to a eentence of death fat'
their indulgence. '3`echnicallY, that is
literally the fact, In ancient tittles,
when Scotland always had Work for
hor soldiers to do, all the young
men were compelled to perfect...them-
selvee in archery, They preferred to
May golf, and so serious a rivet did
the. game become that it was for a
time soppreesed and mode a capital
°dance. That curious ThAv bay nevor
yet bocci repealed, and luny still be I
fearat la the •Atattite Book,