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The Reviseil Version is note -
wee -Okla "If then ye were raised to-
gether witb Chriet." The alluolon le
a passage ,th the prevunte chapter,
Chap tla, wbere la the Act of. bap-
- tisre Chritittees ere veld to have been
hurled with Christ. Seek those altinga
which are anove. There is an alluelen
here te, tha taming *eft of Um early
Churoh, be Which 0.0W' members were,
attar bantam, riaciived fully into the
boly oompanlonshth ot believers, Tne
'things Which are•elieve" are oppesed
to the earthly objeete hinted. et
verge '23 Of the leot enteptex, "Of
eureelree We gen no tinge mscend than
,a bar Otekren Oen lift itself from the
,,,OartiesetaHlia „the leVe Of Miran is *
-Peoverful magnet to draw us up,
2; 6.0,-,anainieion, ritheara, end
Minya. Where Chriet oil:teat on the
404 head Of GOd. "Where Christ
is Seitted ral the right bend ot Ged."
We ape ebysicelly bound tO this world
et slenee, and Meat 94 oar ' Mental
ectivities, have to do with it; but our
affection% our treasures, flour heart,"
tie Zeeus Would etie, should be in heae
Ve4, Ats a cultured Engliehman tbe
eep jungles of Afrissa would strive to
. • 40 eonditioris araid barbaric surreund-
fepectluee, as far ae he Mild, 'Civilize
ngs, se 'cititenti eh heaven, comrades of
' haus, onildreo oil 09d, eonstantly feel
Ihe tiea , of their home. coontrer and
seek to have Oodei kingdom. come on
earth as it is in heaven. "Here we
have oit abiding eity," There are
eleeben te every real Christian this
ttuth-90mes-that he le a strong-
. 'sr, n a sejourner; a foreigoer
eel= ; that inespite of all citizen-
sliip lea and Maurch ties and home
ties, , in spite of the fact that hie
death, or forever elaniegi for recog-
own' 139,4,, to be got rietyof only at
nttion, he einiself, the gh and the
holy peal Of bim, that part of hint
Which reBegntees the fetherhood of
Grxi is net t ' •
,caneoe can never find satisfaction
..enttet, chest the place where Chtist
aitteth on ° t hand" a G°4*
2. Set your efface On things above,
.not on thtngs on the arth. Literally,
"Be minded, think." gas veree ia not
neerelyei yepetetion of theefirst.though
it ceeteinly is in harmony, one might
say in unison, with it. Dr. Light-
foot has 'in ;nettling fashion rephras-
e; ed tt ie connection with the first verse
-"You must 'not only seek eel.:
raiimi. but you must have salvation."
8. Ye are dead. Revised Version,
ians regarded baptism as
a sexabol of death to the old life of
:sits and of 'tiae_beginning. of a new
Christian Me. Thor life is hid with
Chtist in •GoO., , As a seed bixe•ied in
the earth m hid. The apostle is talk-
ing? ref' their 'new life, which had been
syMbolized by the rite of baptism; their
erploritual life: All life is at once hid-
', den and manifested. The ruddy cheek,
the flashing eye. the graceful move -
Ment of youth, are outward talent-
! festations of physical life at its bestS
bet the life itself is hidden behind
heart -beats, and nerve pulsings, and
lung breathings,• far beyend the ut-
most reach of surgical explorers. Quick
, perception, astute observation, clear
' ea' retentive memory, alert
, P n -these are outward manie
of tel tuaheiefefr but
, and iiii physical
etaphy cal researcb has yet
od, it. Paul here teaches that there,
be elseevliere wrote. are love, joy,
Peace, long-suffering, gentleness, good -
rose, faith; but when we search for
the -life itself it cannot be found "in
the sphere at the earthly and sensual."
jest as physical and mental life are
, , deeply hidden in their natural spheres,
_
e so is .this spiritual iffe hidden "with
Christ in God."
4. When Chriat who is our life. The
life is not only with Christ, it is
Christ, "I am the life," he said to
1Thomae; and John, who heard. him say
this, afterwerd. hears this record- -
Mutt God high given _to us eternat life,
end this life is in the Son. "He that
bath -the ,Son hath life, and he that
hath not the Son of •God haat not
life." Shall appear. Shall be manifest-
-ed, in contrast to the hidden life men-
tioned in verse B. Then . shall . ye else
4 appear, be manifested, with hini in
, glory. This promise or prophecy has
a mulitttde of fulfillment
s every ay life of the Clexiss.tianixt. it °lige
turn ed, for though that Christian's
)8P. itual life he hid with Christ in
d, "the life. also, of Jesus" is made
1 aeifest in him by every grace he dis-
plaes. It its fulfilled in Christian his-
ry too. Pagans could not under -
tape the vitality Of thet-barjyt., Chris-
ten Cheroh; %Van a marvel tb.,thefa
.4 that over, and over again, whey `they
thought it utterly destreyed, Christian-
-ate burst into resplendent life. The rea-
son was that while the, real life of
Christianity was hid. with Christ,
Christ in dhe titne manifested himself,.
and the Church waa menifested with
him is the glory of philanthropy and
e spirituality. But the complete fulfill-
ment of tbee_Werds is to be foUnd in
i.,,t.I.g/gettiO/1-Ciaitilg--of- our Lord. •
' . Mortify, Put to death. Make
dead. Shakespeare uses i'Mortified
for killed. Your members which are
upon the earth, Organs Of and
ministers to the life of Sense. But
this command is no more to be taken
literate than the cominand of our
Lord to out :doff the right hand and
speaking, tut ht begin with hands
dtviti
pluote,.. eel. life right eye. Our meme
ers which a upon the earth, literally
and feet, and tongues, end include
all physical organs. But the list that
Paul makes out is a lint Of the Modes
in which the members einfully exert
e themselves. The first two neentioned
require no explanation. Inordinate
..„, affection. refers to the dieeased Motel
' condition mit of which ungovernable
passions /Spring. Evil conoupiacence
May defined as those engovertutble
p And coveaMeness, XII,
Pointe di e'and" as having
te a clitnitatio force and meaning.
liksh is idolatry. Which is included
n iddlatt7. (Compare 1 Cor. .5, 10,
ph. S. 54. Idolatry hi not in the New
estament confined. te the mere wore
hip of images; it included, to again use
e. Vincent a worde, "the aoul's de -
aloe to any object which userps the
plitoei irkpod,"
6. Pot . which thitime• flake. The
things mentioned in the laet verse.
The wrath of God cometh on the child-
. tett , dieobedientle. The ,best texts
omits, the words "children, or oons, of
dlisobedienoti." 'rt is d Hebraio terra
add Means the outcome, •the product,
- disobedience.
'7. In the which ye alio walked some -
dem, when ye lived in them. Net
among whom, the children of distibedie
epos, but la which, the evil tonditions
speeiified in verde 5.
8. Bet now ye aleo put off all thede,
Ye alio, as well as other ObrIstitins,
tilted yourself of habit's and Modes
preothses that used to enwrap
tteeMe garments. • Ear blasphemy
the Reivieed 'Petition Id "rafting"' tor
filthy eenimunication, "shameful !speak -
age" 116odeta enuivaletite for all
ight be Irritability, naughtiteee,
&WM gosttip, bad language.
0. Ide not one to another. the
,greitfast and eryotalline beadty of '
Christ one tan imagine no deoeption or
falsifietttiem and ae we aris rieen
Mirist, and as -Christ is oer life, we
thould not deceive eaoh other. Stagg
that ye have put eft the old 141111 with
his deede. Throughout the lemma ete
tendrils is direisted to that oht, life.
which We ete imt off like old gar -
Monte. With his deede. When the old
nadirs gate surely the old behavior
eltould go with it,
HaVe put au the new man The '14
kelt' hatute. re renewed in Mewled**. *
Et tieing ootifineottely reiuswed. so Rd
tO Ming about knowledge. Atter the ,
fang's, Di him that °reined him. Rer 0
edittitiamler del blotto of Christ. it
'oak ereh *We," Thee*
le neititer bee* nett jeer. *
Ihmakrialmata peoyee sae int 1
0401 estatested amerdifig to nee or
osaloi or secial coadttions. elirceeee
aision oar uiesireunteleion. Neither are
they estimated, wording to religicete
creed Or eleurelt eaenthersbtp. The
phralle Barbarian itioludes er• trtboot
outelde of Greek and Roman eiviethee
tion Soythlan tribe' had hitherto
been regarded as the moot barberoue
f IL roe. ev ited
Versioa gives "boudeien, freemen."
Christiauity was not promptly recog-
nixed AN ett eraanelpation proclamation
• e 0 a men their relatton
tO Christ. Christiane of all /social
grease were free before God, and at
the time time servaatit of Chriat. And
if, when the Mutt:heap:le to power, it
had retainea the °bristly apirit that
pereaded the heart of Paul and john
and Peter. mediaeval and modern eller.
ers and railitary oonqueet could neva
er nave dearadedthe morale and dile
graced the history Ot ObristendoM,
Ch • t • 11
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absorba in himself all dietinctionat her
te the Son of Man; oily in a limited
/tense can be even be galled a •Tow,
Sublimely ia he all things to till men;
meete every man in the heart of Ins
own nature. Before him neither viola'
nor micial distinotiona. Gan have the
elightest nine.
12. laitt on therefore.
versea, 8, 9, 10. Haven disrobed them -
totems Of their old life and its time.
and. having put on the new life, these
young Obetstiana are exhorted to put
On with it its graces. The elect of
God. Godea ohoaen ones; the choice,
however, is one of mutual love. Holy
and beloved. It would be better to
place , these two words as adjectives
before' "elect" -"You are Crod's chosen. -
'holy, beloved 'ones." Bowels of mer-
cies. Or, EIS the Revieed. Veraion puts
"ta heart of cernpassion." Kindness,
Practical kindness; beneficence rather
than mere benevolepoe, Humble-
ness of mind. True lowliness. Meek -
nesse Gentleness, whielf inilloates
atrong nature held in control. Loeg-
aufferings "Love sintereth long and is
kind." .
Porliearing.. . . forgiving The
first word relates to present offenses,
'the second to, past offenses. Quarrel.
Cause of complaint.. As Christ forgave
you. The whole pansage closely ea-
eanables a beautiful exhortation in the
ambles a beautiful exhortation in the
letter to the Ephesians; "Let an bit-
terness, and -wrath, mid anger, and
clamor, and evil speaking, be put away
fram you, with all malice; and be ye
kind one to another, tender-hearted.
forgiving one another even as God,
far Christ's sake hath forgiven you: -
14, Above all these things put on
charity. "These things" are regard-,
ed as arm t Which the Ch •
ia enfolded and olothed. About them
la the sash or girdle which keeps all
together, , and, that .gerdle is charity,
or, as we would. say, love. The bond
of perfeottiess. The perfect bood.
15. Let the peace bf God x ule in
your hearts. The peace of God finds
a home In come hearts where it can-
not be fairly said to rule. Anitiety
and worry 'About the Entine, undue
unrest in the present, remorse for the
past, are alike inconsistent with the
absolute rule of a' human heart by
the peace of God. A man may obey
all the camraandments, he ma), 00
further 'and have auch blessed com-
munion wet.h Christ that the fruitage
of his, life is manifestlYeabod, and yet,
because af strong tem.peremental ten-
dencies or of faulty religious educa-
tion, or of a laok of living faith, he
may not only be outside of rule by
"the peace of. God," but h,e may actu-
ally live in nunrest. Surely this is in -
'excusable in the case of one for whom
the atonement and justification ap-
Propriated, ih faith have furnished
abundantly the -condition of perpetual
peace. To the -Which also ye are call-
ed in one body. That body is the
Church. %Ye are made meriibers of 'olie
bedy, so as to be peacefully related to
each other. Be ye thankful. Be-
come mare endenore thankful. Thank-
ful for what t Doubtlees for all the
marbles of aoa., but preeepeinently for
being e,alled in one body ; that ba, foe
the privileges of the Chriatian Church.
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MiRRIAGE OP DEAF PEOPLE.
Dr. Etinurd Augn Pay Gives the Results of
Dr. Edward Allen Fay, of New York,
professor Of languages in Gallaudet
College and editdr of the American An-
nals of tb.e Deaf, .details the results
of an 'inquiry into the results of mar-
riages of the deaf•in America, under-
taken under t,he auspices of the Volta
Bureau and prosecuted in conjunction
with the eleventh census of the United
Statee.
eotal number of mariiages of
•the deaf • in the Itnited States and
Canada, one or both Parents being
deaf, concerning which truetworthy re-
turns, niers or leas complete, were re-
ceived, was 4,504. It appears that
marriage is more common among the
deaf in America than in Euxope. The
number of marria-gee in each decade
of the present century has increased
from 1 in the first to 1,017 in the ninth,
There is a greater tendenoy on the
parr of the deaf to marry omeanother
rather than hearing persons, as a -re-
sult of natural seleotion.
The propertion ef children born deaf
ie greater. in the Offspring of the deaf
thee in those of hearing parents, al-
though marriages of deaf persons ate
far mare likely, to result in normal
cbildren than in deaf children. A.
smaller percentage of marriages result
in deaf offspring, however, when both
parents are deaf than when only the
one is deaf. The percentage of die-
vorces and separations is far less after
marriagee in which both the partiets
ate deaf than when only one is deaf.
OLD' AGE PENSIONS.
Mutplin'is Committee ht England fiends an
official to Denmark to Investigate
the System. •
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At loot Great Britatn bass taken a
definite step regarding old age pen-
sions. Mr. Chaplin's domniittee has
sent an offieird of the Local Govern-
ment Board to Denmark to inquire in-
to the working of the system of old
age pensions, which cone into force
eight yeara ago. When the committee
meets again the Ikinish system will be
expotineled to it by this gentleman.
The main lines upon whioh pensions
are granted in Denmark are ;is fol-
lows: The cost is shared between the
State and the °minute. The pension
oge begins at sixty, an,d. necessitous
persons wko have neither come upon
the rates nor been convieted of men-
dleandy during the previous ten years
may claim & pension of the Communal
Council, and, unless it ean'be shown
that the poverty of the applicant is
caused by a disorderly or extrayagant
mode Of lite, or that it iti in any other
way notoriouely due. to his own fault,
a pension le given. No fixed 'men is
defined, but there le a general instruc-
den laid down that the amount shall
be sufficient for the aupport of the
pereon relieved and of his family, and
for their treatment in ease of sick-
ness, The syetera rune concurrently
with out -relief under the Danish poor
ittw, big AO stigma whatever attache,'
to the receipt of pensiond.
IRELAND LEADS,
It is said that Irish girls bakre the
beet eyed, the keened wit, the bright-
est complexion and the most beautiful
handl of all the women in the world,
the bends of the American girls. being
declared too tiarrow and tee long, them
of this Eitel& gitte too plump, oerman
girls' hands too broad *rid fat, while
the Spouttioh feminine hand is the
least graoeful of all.
SMOKERS'S' FRANCE.
in *ranee there are 6,000.000ennikere,
nd of every 15 there are who emote
pipe, 6 who smoke cigars and only I
who use ingerettes. they use
more time 200,000,000 cigarette* a year,
✓ anongli to go *mud the world 600,
bidel if they were peened rata to mad .
IS a Hole
A
MANURES ANII. MANURING,.
(ti WeIbtee, Before the Oeterio
Plumate" Institute.)
(Continued.)
The important action of water In
manurial; doom not receive the attene
tion it warrants.
I refer particularly to the soil wa-,
tero termed ao capillary and gravitY
their tuition. That film which sure
. round* and °lingo to each particle of
or like musing along the rooto
and hairs of Plante in the mil forma
• a vehicle for the oolution of Plant
food, and tor cart/lug sustenance to
the- plant, has been explained before,
To understand wbat le meant, by oapile
lary water one bas but to obeerve the
action of water rising from the sail;
oer of a flower pot up through and
eaturating the dry packed earth.
Capillaries are then tubes or ohinmeys
!winch, form In the Boil, end up which
the water elinebis to the surface. If
these are aot broken by cultivation,
during dry vveather, the watee is rap.
idly evapbrated and carried away by
the winds. This, loss of moisture by
capillarity and evaporation can also
be observed with the eame, simple ap-,
IParades, by weighing the water sup,.
plied from them to time to the saw -
tier. The orisinal weight of the dry
soil in the pot being, of course, firat
obtained, a fisaal weighing ot the soil
presents a very simple oaloulapon.
When we consider • that .orops
from 300 to 1,000 tone a 'water per
aore per seamen, and often even more,
and that it eakea about an itch of
water all over an acre to make 161i
tons, the loss of water brought to the
serface by capillarity and blown eevay
, by the winds is a serious matter,
twhich me amount of applied Manure
can' compensate for. This shows us
quite clearly the necessity and adean
tago 'of frequent surface cultivation
by which neeans the capillary chimney
are broken and a sort of muloh
i formed foe a few inches at the sur-
face, but it is to the gravity water I
wish to draw special attention. I
mean the heb.vy aniouiet of water form-
ed in die soils by fall, winter and early
spring rains and melting atiows,
abundantly does this, accumulate
that the soils ate at times practically
afloat ib it. It freezes up pretty solid-
ly in the vvinter, and in the spring,
when the weather becomes milder, the
swelled teed bursts apart by the action
of the.trost. The loosened Particles Of
tnaterial become aotiVe in the soil,
and by a sort of polarity or attraction
vvhich takes place among them, new
conebinations are formed. Particles of
deconepoeed or deeoraposing manures
and chemicals form combinations with
soil Particles, .a,nd thus the foundation
of plant tood for the coming seatiOn's
crops is formed. If then we put off
our applicatious of manures untitafter
Rusba'ade
tiondition by tbe Cultism
der the administretion of
.0av.
The Knd.
itt 8110T TR1
kiat 111 1.ent ties* wine
us nee ANI SIGITING LION HUNT IN AW was oraciplete."
APRICAN JONOL.B.
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All 1111.41'
ammo iirie Who entiOn.
, tome tie see.
le no
- A Tenetrost4Tettr-4114 Soy Stolen Jet that
- night awl the lisped.*** of the Trouttit
licxygorer }Oa tok Maths& the Anima
. vtaniTy or Frani. immios 11141- -A *het DOR Tat.
While owe atied verietv, the
want it to come by having a .021*
ture cot :soda at each meal end no
by retteivieg one kind ot feed a
one meal, another in the next, OA
Still another et the third. Such
method of giving a variety le sur
. to redime the yield, se the cow a
• givea feeding time expects, th
Nemo kind of feed tbat she ate yester
day* at the IRMO time, and if notegiven
Ole she will be diaturbed aud will
give less milk. It is not neceseary
to give a oow the same kinds of
feed for supper that ohe had for
breakfast, but the breakftiOt MIX^
ture should be alike. for all break -
taste and the auPPer feeds the
same for all euppers ter a conceder.
able period. Sudden °banger& usual-
ly decrease tbe milk yield even
wben the new ration la better than
the old, and when it is necessary
to. Mahe a °Image • it should be
made gradually, taking a week or
len days to mike any radical
ohange.
y The Preneh explorer, 36. Kdotiard
t AP*
igusos.b::: author ef the volume "Prom
y a
unt ot his exploits as a I
d lion and el* ant bunter, wbioh lathe
French paper* ,tire printing complete -
a
ously. The folio lag is big story of a
liou ohase In T imam
"Two native' c ine to me, tient by
the chief of a i:41
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Tbey told me that a ion had tarried
away au old woman nil thet he Walei
atilt prowling around e neig
heed. We set out huMediatelY and
after a martin of four haute we arriv-
. ed at the village, Night Was coraing
on and it was impossible to do any- '
thing in the "dlitirriese. The beat
plan was to wait for daelight. Alit-
tle distance trona this habitation there
was another village, where the na-1
tivea were dancing eo the music of
tam -tams. At balf-past 4 in the morn -
heard, shrieks arid crime In the ,
'tale village, and just as I got out
with my gun in. hand,- followed by niy
men, a weeping woman threw herskif
at my feet wringing her hands and.'
explaining t'hat a lion bad carried
away her son.
"By torohlights we found our way
to the other village, and, On Inquir-
, 1 •
carried away the boy just as he open-
ed the door of the hut to fetch some
firewood that was at the threshold.
The axles uttered by the people in
the village frightened the lion away,
s. see0eer, tt was impossible to
find any, trace ot him' with its torch-
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DAYLIGHT SOON APPEARED.
I told the natives not to come in any
great orovvd. So ten men only accom-
panied me in silence,. eocording to
orders. As soon as there was suf.&
dent light to follow the trail we went
to the hut from which the child had '
been carried
STRUCK BY LIOHTNI
reentlaraild Terrible Onsete ar me ner
rent on a 4,11114
I SOM. Very curious phrase developed
.
in a cue which immured in New York
Iasi week. A small Italian girl was
etre.* by° a bolt of lightning. Showell
tpasang A long and narrow street at
I omuerrrityt. swtuenreuedvioable.no =rico of the
1 I
twilight when, the °peeing Mash of
a thuuderetorm felled her to the
ground. On riiiikeine to her aesistauee
it was at first sUpponed tie3t she was
Peedine the arrival of an ambulance
a druggist tried simple restoranyes and
ligtilrml ale;o4wt8e'd bnuot swiginth4oUf tlieffet."Tthe gTe)::
eral impreseion was that she Was dead,
i When an ambulance came from Gou-
verneur Hospital, the aurgeon burried
her away. The first singulat disoove
ery was made when ahe was laid on
the operating table, Portions of fab-
ric 'that had looked perfectly sound
cruMbled into dust at les touch. The
area of ineinera,tion was an irregular
ono in front of her waist and skirt,
and it passed clear through her oot
-
ton nutters/on:was, the fabric of whioh
had alai) been undisturbed, se far as
the rapt could determine.
And at last, under all this burning
of fahrio 'wee disclosed, the lightning's
most dreadful handivvork. It had burn.
ad and torn, deeply, fantastically. Tb
victim's flesh, was an arabesque of tor
ture. The lower part of her -trunk tin
upper parts of her legs were la.cerat
ed and scorched. • There were deep
' ragged wound,s LW leoleed asethoug
they had been' de th bl t
pon. There woe collections of bits
ters in strange and varied forma. Ther
were large, open barns, curiously dis
colored. fringed with ehredded cuticle
la a regular pattern. There were als
burns on the wrists, where they ha
been hidden by her /sleeves, but thee
were not so impertant,
It took half an hour to revive the pa-
tient. She awoke to intense pain, cry -
big: ' ' ,
" I'm on fire.1 PEI on fire!"
' Ste was as intraotable, as slow to
receive ideas as a person retioYerinie
from the effects of anaesthetic. Not
foe 10 minuted or more "could sh'e be
made to rea.lize that She was not real-
ly on fire. Then she remembered the
liglitning, and terror crept into her
tortured face. This is the effect most
'to be feared -the nerve blight for
Witieb-seience has no other name than
" snook." From what few words she
could remember that lightning •flash
could utter it was •gathered that she,
but nothing that followed it. It is pos-
sible that she never will remember any-
thing else, It is thought that she is
paralyzed on both sides.
BLINDNESS IN SPAIN.
YIERRY OLD ENGLAND,
DOINGS OP, THE ENOLISEt PEOPLE
REPORTED Ille MAIL.
.
* Record of the Events Tithing Place Ike
elute or fee iteee-feieresting Occur -
reams.
There are 0,009,000 total abstainers
in the 'United Kingdom. -
Over twenty boys under 18 years of
age have won the Victoria Cross.
The Bel -mess BurdetteCoutts is said
to be worth about £1300,0.00, and bar in-
come is se•t down as being close uPqn
Z100 a day.
" Major-General Sir W, Gatacre, K.
' Ma, who conimanaed the British divi-
s lion in tho Soudan, in replying to the
° charge ot inhuraabity towarda the
woundett and defeated dervishes, faves
an abaolute contradection to such ao-
-eusations on behalf of those with
whom bo was oonnected.
It is announced that the ist Cold
stream Guards will go from Ohelee
to Gibraltar, and. the 1st Scots Guards
will move from the Tower to Chelsea
the and Coldstream from Gravesend t
Wellington Barraeks and the .3r
Coldstreame from Wellington Barrack
to the Tower.
The death took place oo the 27th ult
at Leamington of Mr. Crichton Kin
mond of Cardney. Mr. Kinmond, wh
has been in bad. health for some tinee
Was well known as the inventor
many af the machines now used in th
preparatiou of tea leaf forthe market
and was the owner of extensive tea
gardens in Ceylon. •
Dickens' cigar box, which since lei
death has been in poresessioti of E. B
Halawarth, publisher of All the Year
Round, is now offered for sale by
Lanclon dealei, at 1100. It is of men
the gravity water has drained oft we
lose much of the benefit sought to be
obtained' by manuring. There is no
•machine of man's invention which does
this' distributing work for us so well
as the natural method described.
If you examine the dung of the ani-
inals by throwing some of it into a
tub of water and 'stirring it up you
will notice' how finely moat of it • is
subdivided. It will then be- easily
wOrked into the soil be the action of
water I have described if paced on
the fall ploeghed land while the grav-
ity water is •still plentiful and the
heavy rains assist in washing it in.
While it may be suspended in solution
it doe/snot imniediately become liquid
and get washed away, but on the con-
trary forms combinations with other
substancea in the soil. For the same
reason we observe surer and better ace
non from phosphates, or other man:
uring matertals reduced to a very fine
powder. In understanding these
thingi we appreciate more fully the
deduetions of eminent scientific agri-
culturists like Wagner, Maercher and
others who emphasize the necessity of
reducing 'manurial materials by ,. fine
grinding. It is tyue that in doing this
we are but stimulating nature, virhich
gradualle reduces straw, clover and
other organic substances to fine burn-
t* pewder. But this 'action is' slow
and in the struggle which competi-
tion in this age forces upon us we
must Use methods to produce more
rapid effmits. One other point sug-
gests itself and that is the air in the
soil.
A boil in proper mechanical cendition
should °main about one-sixth of . its
bulk 'of air, for plants take their oxy-
gen through their roots. This "Is a
matter which is left almost entirely
to chance. The pressure of the air on
the soil is only about 14 pounds, and
aa the gases formed by decomposition
of materials to, form humus in the
earth drive off the air to a consider-
able extent, it thorough looeening of
the soil is advisable. If it were, not
for this pressure of the air upon the
earth the water would not percolate
down tlu•eugh the soil, as it is the air
pressure which forces it down. Thia
can be easily understood, by withdraw-
ing the air from the cylinder cot a
pump and note that the water then
rushes upwards instead of downwards
when the air pressure is lifted from it.
The soil then gets its air mostly by
the air following and tromping the
spaces from which it ousts the water,
and it then forum pockets,. or rather
bubbles, in the uoil. Each of these
bubbles, or pocket tis is surrounded by
a film of water. Minute bubbles con-
stantly detach from the storage poc-
kets and pass to the roots of the
growing plant by the water whioh oar -
ries the other food in:aerials.
Now we see throughout this whole
operation of farming there is a steady
depletion of phosphoric acid, and vvhen
we consider the axiom "a good rrhos-
phatie heart is the basis of all autos:I-
fni agricpiture," it presents to us a
very serious problera. After a care-
ful practical. /study of the nittittiring
question, I am of the opinion that our
best lands can be brbUght to produce
double and trebles the feeding values of
the crops usually obtained -from them.
I also feel assured from successes
whioh I have observed that our seem-
ingly worn-out lands -cati, under rto
timid methods of cultivation and Mane
uring, be profitably brought to the
hightiet condition of griaulture.
will even go so far 45 to my that the
richest *beat lands of Manitoba are
only half producing. The qualities of
our Ontario graine can be materiallr
improved. Our fodders and roots scan
be doubled nod trebled in their feed.
ing volue. Our fruits can be improin
ed, both in keeping and nourislaing
qualities. Grapes can b6 inereased in
quantity of yield and impeoved in the
qualitr of the wine they produce.
attacks et fungoid diseasen can be
lessened sad' evils the ravagee of in-
sects withtstood by properly growing
Tbe tendeney' of the age has been
either to Manure blindly, or elite to
manure too Accurately, by whioh' I
mean a hand-ttemouth plan od at-
tempting to mit just what we °ma-
dder the requirements of the 'plant's
existence. Indeed if it were not pee -
;gbh§ to eatly thorium the produe-
tiveneee the land, there would be
a poor outlook for the continua-
tion of 6 human race for *nether
wintery am, werer, no Peeldm I
bet ye er as optlitilitt. I bate faith
in M her Barth, end want to see
Gamed take the lead in showing the
world fit the path to health, vrealth
end mutton lies through the
nem ewe the grathettelde mei be -
many
women epend
and leave them In
neon; of (is.
Through the whole "of his work
life the late President Faure was
rarely, if ever, th bed after five o'clock
la the morale,. Even when Presi-
dent he inveriably rose at five o'clock
even. in the depth of winter, had
cold bath. and wee immersed in his
books la his library by six reelOCit, To
this habit of early dein the "tanner
President" attributed swell of his sue.
eees in life,
M. Jules Verne is another praotioal
believer in the virtues Of rising early.
His practice is to doe at dawn In aura -
mor and at •six in winter. After a
light breakfaat, he takes OP his Pen
and writes industriouely until eleven
o'clock, when his day's work ie. tome
plete, and be can devote himself to
recreation. "If I had not been an
early riser." he says, "I should never
have written more books than I have
lived years."
Alexaorier von Humboldt, the great
German pbilosopher and traveller
raa'ele opera more than four houra in
bed, and, on the testimony of Sir
-James Sawyer, Was frequently con-
tent with two hours; and Littre, who
lived to be eighty; theiglf that to
7. spend more than
d FIVE HOURS A DAY IN 13ILD.
- was shameful self-indulgence, Al-
though his inseriable hour of rising
was eight o'clock, he spree*. ever left
- his desk until throe in the morning,
e or until sunrise warped him that a
new day had dawned.
• There are few earlier risers ,than the
d kinga and queens otEurope, wbo might
e pardonably indulge in later hours than
their subjects, In nis younger days
the Austrian Emperor used to rise at
lialfepast four in simmer and five
o'olook in winter, and was paying his
monies; feet to the stables when
nearly all Vienna was sleeping, •
The German Emperor has never been
a alug.gard, and is usually hard at
work in his stedy at five o clock and
on horaebok at six, while the Em-
press shares her husband's love of the
morning hours, and may be seen can-
terings on her favorite mare two
hours before the world breaks its
fast,
King Oscar of Sweden and Nor -
'way is usually to be found among his
beloved books between six and seven
every morning, and the.leiogs of Italy
a,nd Roumania have alsb left their
bede at this hour.
'The young Queen of Holland, like
her mother, rises at seven, a•nd at about
the same hour the Queen Regent of
Spain may be seen, in sombre black,.
"fat and florid," on her way to masa.
Many of Englandes gxeatest dien have
scorned the delights of Mid while liv-
ing "laborious days." Brunel, the
great engineer, who lived to be eighty,
rarely spent more than -four' hours in
bed at eny time of his crowded life;
and Sir William Arrol, the engineer
of the Tay and Forth bridges, and the
Brunel of our day, rises earlier than
any of. hia employes, and will ere-
quently crowd twenty hours work in-
to one daY during the progress of
HIS GREAT ENTERPRISES. ,-
Art, too, has its early risers among
its most eminent men. Mr. G. P.
Watts, the great Academician, fitta
rarely allowed his bed to keep him
away from his brushes later than Pave
o'clock in ,the morning, and has put
in many hours Of held work when the
breakfast bell rings.
Mr. Sidney Coopee. the doyen of the
world artists, who is now in his
ninetyeierth year. has always been an,
earlier riser, and has often, been busy
with his Palette at three or four
o check in the morning. .
Sir Richard Webster rarely allown
himself more than heir or five hours
sleep, and often has to content him-
self with less. ' He has frequently re-
tited to bed at two or three o clock
ire the morning, and has been reading
the day 0 briefs at five o'clock, and
yet he is one of the most vigorous and
robust men in England. For many
years Lord Russell did not average five
hours sleep a night, and the same
story is told of Sir Edward Clarke and
the late Lord Herm:hell in their busy
days at the Bar.
Lord Wolsely, like Von Moltke and
Bismarck, is a believer in early hours,
and is often at Work in les study at
six co cloak in the morning, but per.
haps no eminent man of our time.
spends more hours out of bed than Mr.
Edison, the "Wizard of Amerioa.e It
is no unusual thing for Edison to
work thirty-six hours. continuously
at a single problem, and on many
occa.sions he has spent a whole week
"in his elothes," snatching a few min-
utes' sleep when exhausted. nature
proved too stxong for him.
"We found the trail behind the
- house, which proved that the brute had
a gone around it. With the trail there
were footmarks of the child. Evident-
ly he had been. Seized by the sipper
Part of the body, Then we found. a,
e few drops of blood. The animal pass-
u ed through one of the steeets-if we
0 may Call them streets -of tbe village,
leading toward the river, going aleng
. with his burden in front of more than
- twenty huts. The inhabitants had not
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