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The Clinton News-Record, 1904-08-04, Page 3• ,. • , Lon. oeed I aall'' ad JABAXElliX DUZ.E.CTX. 4 700p1s in, Diffinatat Part.. The Bite — 0 4 - ,t1 JI 41 O ?Want Fortran. tol j A, taliool has boot pnin don tor the study et Japeneee. It* Proprietor *aye that Japan has as ntarty dieloots as there are dyer in Tr iflf anderful Are the Riurtphs Over Natural tigl:tri it, 's common112c:1°011721= t he Moen da t N Charactere ocetipy by far the most iMportant place in the Japanese , style of writing. Alt in Erigland, Of- . ferenees a dialect are ellatinctly ap- parent in 'varlottio localitiee, but , groaned accerding to Act of the ter, , 444 ot o these are not by culY rattaats50gement of Canada, in the yeer Ono our tline thottoandri paile bottomed Nine Ifundred end roma pairtlesidy through suffering which in a =errekled as in the cage of Chirue. •As W*st.,144,,,,ae_eitley, oi Torque,. ee the rorreer tittles- -' would have racIced 0, •a Man spealcing the pure Toe '. W4" et Aarieulture, Petew e 1 Ida dialact Might travel through them with •exeruelating torture. ......ea,-.. nearly the evhole of Japan without Laws and Forms. ciespetcia from Los Angeles *a Bev, FretijeDe Mitt Talratige prea Otir tam. the afollcieellig text': ao ectie, 12, "Greater woricatittlean th Phallehe do:" Man inereaees not We gospel ia gay. loWering the *tandem's of •lease. Yu might as well exp laaree Le uphill of its own cord, or violets to grow during 'Winter in a snowbank, or daylig to follow atter the einking t Ben in the west, or the flush health to ae seen on the pale ch of a corpse, or a humining bird Vo/untarily make her ,. nest in t ATODEItel MEDICINE. experienciet any considerate% ewe YA: ch- But to -day are the "wonders of ,ficulty. His words would generally lat Modern stiegery" Daly more marvelettaihe :hilly underatood, although he ese than the ' wonders of modern eaedieeinight now and again be unable to cine?" Is the power of modern meta- catch the trite „meaning ot the an- itle Ulm: to eine disease any more mar -i steers he received. . elle• Nelms to -day, than the power of It is the Toklo dialect that id now ea' Modern bactereological investiga,tionsi being taught to thousands of the ea_ to prevent disease? You see Christ young men. of Great Britain, for it in. stopping here Ana there to open (Vie the accepted language of Japan ht budded CYO or to unstop a deaf ear 'I just as ixariltian 'French is accepted he or to loosen the heavy end labored, everywhere in preference to that soe a breatlelog of the asthmatic sufferer,' ken in the country distriets. it is eek But to -day the achievements of the' thie particular dialect that is being to healer include more than here and; taught to young BritiSla Army of - he •and there an isolated pbysteal euree fame; who aro *anger.' to qualify as " I eee the lights in thouoands of horee • dark labyrinths like a ground me as for a radiant faith capable transforming eharaeter to exist any, temple unless the 'ehief corn stone of that temple ie Jesus Chri "And 1, if I be lifted, up fro earth, will draw all men unto me said Jesus Christ just a short ti before his crucifixion. "I t Way, the truth And the life. No ea cometh unto the Father but by me speaks our resurrected Redeemer the gospel Workers Of the prese day. Let it be clearly: understood at t Mitset that by no word thoug Would I seek to depreciate the Po er and influence of Christ's persena ity and work. He it is who fills a created things; he it is who gier • life, natural, mental, soetal. He the inspirer, the spring from whi ceme all our triumphs. But we, to show you that the promise whi he gave to his disdiples, 'Great works than these shall ha do," ' been fulfilled and that man ixispir, with his spirit., has with the tatter forees at his disposal One •mero f uplifting humanity, as Christ se, he should, than did Christ 'lima Man has taken hold of the paw laei windows glee -Minh Ilk° ttlir Japan or before the Civil Service 'interpreters, either before leaving ,„ stars in the heavens, see e Conunission at holm It is quite white robed nurees and the doctors, probable that our young naval of - corning forth as did the angels ".,f:acers will. in the near future. .have s'' lieelth who troubled the waters 'at to qualify in a like manner. 1,1•"! the pool •of Bethesda, crying to the The most. difficult of all the dia.. • sica everywbere, "Come and be cured hats, perhaPs, ie that used in •the ltte• of your ailments!" I see thousands Satsuraa, district. It possesses many he and tens of thousaeds of strong men an • and women • who witrela haeo died Words Peculiar 0 its own province, ,twenty years younger than they are so numb. so:. indeed, that a. cenversa- tO now had they lived and been sick tion etirried on between two Satsuma at the days when Ohriet lived and he men ia often all hut unintelligible t6 • haa seen them not or touched them a native of Tokio, although the lat- he not: Christ as the physician of the ter might be able to make himself ht body was a Wonder worker. But understood by • either of the others. w- man to -day ,as a curer of physical In many country districts also a pa- le ailments id accomplishing far more tois is used known only to the peas - 11 then _Christ ever did; Man is not ants, and presenting great difficulty es• only opening the eyes of those born tn any Japapeae of the better class is blind, but he is making by the thoha who contest from a aifferent locality." eh sand unc.1 • tens of thousands the ea, deef and the dumb sPeaa'until ,this oh ancient miracle has ceased to be a er %vender because of its commonness. THE 1110ROBE AT HOME Now, study Christ '• from another as ' 1 t d J al down epee earth to: do? Ile came to • . UE ARE HATCHED. • save the world? Oh, yes; he cam cir men' -Bacillus of Sleeping Sickness Lives od t save the World by drawing unto himself and banding fhein : together• as Christians. That rneana -. : Xnside the Body tif the • • ' ed standpoint. Vha id eats come. W1LE-RE CHOLERA; AND px,Acl- er which Christ bestowed end has ap- plied it beyond the opportunities which Christ had to complete the work that he initiated. Christ fe the multitudes: Christ opened the blinded eyes and straightened 'the crooked limbs; Christ .assuaged pain and stopped the chronic issue ' of blood. Christ was gegreat preacher arid drew the multitudes about.him Christ fought against the heathenish doctrine that 'might- is -right." Christ was the greatest. of all work- ers of wonders that the World had over seen, There was: only. one Christ. There will never be another. Yet there are sentes, natural as vvell as spiritual, in which his promise has been kept .to las followers, and they have been enabled 'through the pow- er emanating from him to do. works which surpass those he did in • his life on earth. But let. it never • be forgotten that - these . "grantee works" which man has done have been accomplished only because. Jesus bas lived and Jest& prophetic words have been fulfilled. In •order to get a better grasp of this theme let me read to you the 'full verse an which tho words of my text are o orno 1o1lowors • o himself. Yet, after • ha, came to • earth and was born in the manger and lived in Nazareth,. he literally, , bocame the "dspIsd and the roject- ed of neon." ' • After he had lived and suffered, preached and worked on alai on until the day when he was civet the' converts ..he had were were only a lietle'liendful. of followers at the foot of aim cross. • , CHRIST :NEVER yistrpzi:T.N3HA AU India was yet to give up, ite Widow buiiiing and the tossing.of its helpless girl ..infants • into. the Gengee to be :eaten- by crocodilea. and . the heathen, worship idols;but. Christ Watinot, hi body, able as a inan t� set foot on thesoil of India. William Carey and Alexander Duff And Bish- oP•Thobarn,were t� . de that. •Africa, with its •Muider and rapine and can-, -neealistiC. orgies. was to build ite 'alters .to the, worship, of . the -"true Gad,' •but queen as a phasic man. ,Wes. nearer to ,• penetrate • into thoee • dark Missionary lieldS. .intone, - a Taylor, and -a 'Hartzell .Were to ae that: .Europe at- that time .shaking Under the tread of the Roman •legions e Nortli'.ancl South .Aineriea 'utterly; uriknoWn tax Ovine eationa the island§ of the ,sea, inept of them unvisitedall are yet to how to ..Christ and come ander. the, ettiati of' hive and gentleness. and purity arld• truth. ' •Thesel are to an- ..won througb the' ' t • t y Men • energized by the Holy Spirit are to • gent the. whole world for bitta . . • 'Trulya as we look at stich-a, conquest and compare it Witti the Work -that ha eaccomplislied Paleethie we tiee What he smeantivherehe Sale, "Gieat- er than' these shall.he -• de." gar*, sew 'ell.:this future' coequ:est 'of ,the World, •but• tee a man' he ii4ver went . awey. from the Paleotin.e are' grew .up in Nateareth. ahe 'four- neyed 'teem Nazareth a few. times' t6 Jerusalem. • •:•:Tliere.' •cit ...the: Devidie capital.' he was last'led as a guilty .CP.Thainal- • out .to .the •Calvary heights. to ignominiotisly die... To his -'followera he left: the stiniendous task ef evangelizeng the world,- premieinge that he would :be witk them to the end that through his power they should be able. to win mere Souls than he had done.. : • • But though we have boon • praising man's : "greeter work" ,we would have you beat, well in mind this wee teoniendous feat. NO work ' of intin. is truly greater -than Chelsea. work, eocause all _ gra' ter works ere the Outeo .of Jesus' •:wark.• If yen lead the erso in which my text, is •fotend you -IOW find the 'whole trend of the thought hi the one word "because." ''He 'shall do &eater welts than'. these because I go to my: Father," Became' Christ in god and Gociaid•in, us is the reason than - is able to acconeplish „greater works' thee clid Christ,. • . • Po -day win you not feel that .you can only • .aocomplish ethe greater workePhriet has given .to you :to do by hieing and • working in Chrivt, Ob, -My • friend,' -marked with the signs. ot hitamer epen your heart, ',leaked • with • tee. sigee of vebelion aattiest Chriet,. will yoa not cheep • your helief to 'become an enthroned king? fah- bear on ;your Soul 'the hawks o ein, but if you will come eo him he will take.you into his on- , ploy end will scud you forth to bleee and help the world, As the apostle bore . oft his body the . marks • of Cleland Jamie, eo yell mite weer the• badge of his serviee And ie. his name and by hie power terry on the work that he began. ,Tci you, too, : the promise is given, "He that be- lieveth on ine the 'Works that t ehell tie do oleo, and breater works than -these -shall he do, because go Unto tny Father." • 1 , ' all right to love at first sight,. but 'before. marrying take a seeded look. A inerrieci inan'e. idea of real en- joyment is to do. things his wife dis- approves of, • IS a man financially etiebarrassed if he- has nioie money than he • knows What to de says we aro so' alike he took Us for sisters." "Just liko, hhnf 'oeVes nue a grildge." Tethel--"Did you give Tent permbe 'don to kiss., you?" Clara --"Of eourad not. Ile didn't /ink it." Ilobbbiese"What rocket; old Bullion, Ile dress so shabbily'?" ltobbintes"Pride of station." 'Bob- bite---"Iroes'e that'?" , Ittibbinese afreid of being mistakao for a Clerk, I found. "Verily, verily I say unt you he that belleveth on ,ane th • works that lado shall he do also, and greater works than these shell be do,- because I • go unto my Pae• th " AMAZED HIS GENERATION:, Jesus Christ was the amazement of arnazements tho people of leie, . . day and generation as a worker of natural phenomena. He seemed to" his time superior te all natural laws, When he went Out to visit' his disciples in their ship; he did not bave to use the lend; as other, people had tcario. Ito steriped 'upon the crystal pavement cif Like Galt, lee as easily as an 'Alpine climber might rest his fene upon scilid :rook, as easily as a hind's feetanigat glue themselves to mountain -crag. When he spoke. the homage of °ha:Benne Was rendered to him. not alone by men in the synagogue. by batiste 'of the field, and the fowls of the' air, but by the winds and the *even, IIe called in the Galilean tempest, "Peace be still." At the glance af his eye the ".conscious water blushed to see the faire of its Lord" at the wedding .in Cana of Galileo. At a word from his lip .the fig tree dried: no and withered away. e• All he had : tn say was, "Let no fruitegro*, on thee heuceforward forever." At his call tame whole schoOle ef fish be caught by the Galilean' eisherpeen . By his touch whole °veils full •of • bread seemed to be rairacel'oes.ly cre- ated. After the sermon upon the mount. ho fed the muleittides by 'Mine- ly breaking five loaves of breed inte pieces. Ile kept on breaking these .nieces again in twain unti 1 at last all were fed with bread. as intiCh"as they cared to eat. Christ. we's a wonder worker in natural phonate,- ena. He could tell Peter Met where to go and catch a lif.411 which had in Its mouth the "Mete: of money" by which the disciples Phauld pay the just taxee" to the iloniari govern- ment. In the hour of his sulteritax and deata the earth teeinbled and the sun Was shrelicied in riarkness. In him WAR the power Whieh the pgaltnist ascribed to the Most Ingh, "He looketb upon the earth end trerobles;• he tote:110th the hil1s. anti thee bloke." Not only did Christ astonish the people in hie day by his power twee the forces of natuta; he reVealcid Ids divine neture by nhowing his poiter• over phyeleal disc/tem. Ito tried to conVinte the people his day *of his power as a healer of " eel ri teal malitdies by proving himself the oeatteer of leper 'spots, the openee of blinded eyes arid the only one or his Wee who •teuhl Send , the nitisesee blood 61 health coursing through the Withered Iftebs of hire Met; with t he palsy. Yet to -day, AA t tallti7 Ohrist, the healer of the sick, 1 see that the work he did hag been taken hp by his followers end its tea tonplie multiplietl, By the Word of Ifis power he gave "sight to a few blind men, but in, our day the Chriii- tian surgeons, by their operations. are giving sight. to theusande. The virtue, from his garment stopped one feels, of blood, but in oir day the Christian pliptiarth, With hitt rne4f- te stoppieg thotteands of intrust. Christ's tenth relieved a few fittlitieerit of paio, but in the hosplm Tsetse Fly. • lor ineksoSee. is at leeste* oily la ties body a tits ennishele zaterquito: an it is the bite of the latter,. Woe therefore, that produce* Psi con plaint in Man. Also, it hi now quite certain that the mysterioue als*Ping which annetelly dee/troy* soiree of thousiu3ds of Item Eunatorial Africa, in due to a microbe wheels habitat is t bisod.ivz; topforfansItP, 6edieitirco*1 t. tsetse fly. ery was made only last year by Col. Bruce and Dr. Castellani, and was by the= cerantunicated to the Royal Society. Of emote, it has long been known that the bite of the tsetse fi fatal to horses and cattle, but it ha always been held to be innocuous t man. Sloe however, it is shown to affect hint eqUellY malignantly, only. after a different fashion. In &sort, sleeping sichness turra out to be a Rennin TswrsE msEAsE. 'Abolish the insect and you abolish. the complaint. For the microbe can no more elriat Outside the body of it o original hoot than can a fisle out of water. Mr. Ilaviland's investig•ations have disclosed tbe existenee in England of what he has not inaply designated "cancer fields." By this is meant valls in a very marked degree. They are invariably mituated on alluvial or 1 FOR FARMERS Asigerfoutble etid Profitable Mote for the May TOW'S et the Soli. 4*.-3(4446****Wee•isfee41C-1.***9411. GARDEN IN liareinturat. .A.vguot la a very trying time for some kinds or vegetables, and in hot, dry elinsate they will often be almost a failure unlese special pre. U a taken at that Unto. plant and peppers aro especial- () ly liable to shoW a weakened condi- Mee, the leaves often turning to an unhealthy ,celor and the• fruit failing to make proper growth. There is a very simple reinedy for this trouble it -being a small handful of oat and unleached wood ashes in equal quan. eprinkled on "the ground around the Stein of the plant. 'Unless rain falls soon after it is epplied, if _will be well to water the ground thoroughly, eo that the mixture will he dissolved and be condition ta be used by the roots at once. In a very few days a ditlerence will be maticed In the color of the foliage. and the plants qUicklv start into ea. tive growth-- • When early cabbage begins to burst arit is likely to de When the growth is almost completed and a heavy rain falls on Ahem, the grower 'considers them alenost n to- tal loss. This need not lie Kt if one la willing to wetch 'them closely. An aeon as even the slightest indication craeleing is Seen, the cabbage head should be grasped firnaly with both hands and be pulled and twisted suf- ficiently. to break off many of the rutialler roots, but not enough to cause the stump to lose its hold en- tirely. The head will grow no More until tow rootlest have• formed, and consequently will not berst, but can be sold or used at any time dureig tae followirig ten days. • Cattlificevar, which is much more troubleSotne about heading than cab- bage, can be aided in the work • by providing a heavy mulch. of fresh cow manure, .sproading it all around the stein. of each plant for about feet in each direction,. When fresh inanurix 'cannot be had, the dry can be used by being well •soaked before being During the -height of the muskmel- on. season there is often Much troll - bin from cracking of the .fruit hqtoi it is ripe. This usually occurs after a dry spell which is followed by a heavy. shoWer. Melons which crack 112 elhat way are a total loos, rotting before ...they becerne full,y ripe, q'he cracks develop slowly at, first. • If one will go over the vines care- fully once in two days he can „keep track Of all that show signs of ' it. As soon as one is discovered, the stem should' be cut about ball the way theciugh, with a sharp as . not to bruise the stein, eritting obout hall' way „between the melon and -the ,causes it to' rip- en .more rapidly while receiving less nourishment .froin the :vine, and in almost every: case a perfect melon Win be •Proclueed, whleh, though tait . quite so large. Will be perfeet in shaele elid of good, fia.vor; .- • . Bead letteice Is herd to obtain lite in the• euminer, hue if aetempOrary frn,nie be :milt oyer the•planes and a • mnain cover be pieced over it • and proper atteiation be paid to watering some very fine heads will be formed:, The' gre'und, • if .very cley should be• 'well. Soaked and a heavy raulca of, straw or •litter 'be applied., • clay soil, and subject to periodica floodingta Under theee conditions and under these conditions only, 1 all huntau probality, is the as ye undiscovered Paraelte responsible fo this hideous scourge developed. And as with cancer, so le it, bu in a more marked degree, witli lep rosy, It exists In many parts the world, but it is endentle in no more than half -a -dozen places, and these are all low-lying, swampy areas. If we could • sink certain, nearly valuelesa Polynesian atolls beneath the ocea,n, depopulate the "bot litacte" of Central `America, and oth er places of residence for some few hundrecf thousand Chinese and Meier). miens, wo could savd millions ye unborn from the grip of. an inveria- bly fatal' disease that is among the most. horrible •kpown to mankind and perhaps even lay the axe to the root of the Modern "white plague" —consumption. •• Yes-consumptiop For leprooy little more than an figgra•vated - and special form of what was ohm celled consumption, then Phthisis, but which physicians are noW agreed to designate tuberculosis. • Only lepftisy, . „ ow cousin lupus attacks Mete has recently. returned to Vienna from 'Asiatic Turkey a scien- • tific research expedition led -by Dr first the outer surface, while con- surnetion settles upon the internal organa, and, for preference, the lungs. But the microbe of leprosy, the lit- tle 'chap that does the danuie, • iss indistinguishable from the microbe of tuberculosis, 'Maim the one, and you realm the other. Abolish ital- together, and • in time, so scientists are beginning to think, the 'other vein disappear entirely. ' I • a • Klenz, which has been seeking to Locate the lace of origin of the bacillu pestis," the hideous littlo. organism. that is responsible for the dread complaint which mankind has. agreed to designate, these many cen- :turies past,- "the plague." • " • A few years , ago .sech a, .seareb. *Mild have been—deemed sUperfliithla • from the. point of vie* of •we 'Earee- cans. We thougat.: we were. exempt from: the 'epidemic. It :had beSn un known -among us for more than two inindred years. herefore, • we agreed, it would remain; a stranger to Us until tho end of tint seas Peet -eon's Weekly. • • • - But: ilia; theory wag' rudely shill- ' tered When; . in 1;1899, the diseccee broke. out at Oporto, Portugal: in 1 Russia, on the Volga; in Vienne; and elsewhere on the. Continent. :It Wee Spread to Gitingow,: where, tioweVer, only fifteen. died out lir the. thirty- four persons attacked -an. exeee,cling- ly small case -percentage in so Malig- nant a complaint as the plague, give en favorable conditions hat Proved itself t� be.' . Of couree these 'outbreaks were fin - ported. If there is one tiling. that „ Is absolutely 'certain about plague, it " -le that it is not endemic anywhere in 1 Europe. . A case.' ler' example, could a no more develop 'of its own accord, B4477. .FARN. : New 1.31an. Of. Physical Reform Put . • in Practice. . An amazing marriage has just tak- en Piece -near Perin, • M has, Russia, cin the estate of a Wealthy retired. distiller named Reshenthikoff. The bridegroom, a handsome peas- ant, . named Vasilieff, ef splendid physique, and •the 'bride, 'a* loaely girl of eighteen, were driven to church in •Reshettakoff's carriage and given as donay a large wooden cottage and plot • of land. Hund- reds nf persons witnessed the cere tnony, and at the:wedding breakfast Reshetnoaoff delivered. an elci- quent -speech 'in 'which .he .welboineel 'the second generation of -hid. nup- ings. who are to':niait-e- Holy liefeitai- n• earthly Olympus ' peopled - •avieh A.pollos and Ilebes." The 'Meaning of these strange ero- eedinge• isas hollows: At the time I the ,Russeartirkieh, wet., M. Beebe. tnikoff; etruak with the inferior, ill- ourished. physiqtie. of :many recruits. et aside annually, eut of his laege orterte the sine of 10,009 roubleair he purpose of •elirninating the unfit y .ettecntragirtg marriage may be - Ween 'ycteng people of exceptional eauty, health and intelligence. ; To attain this end, he etnpioyed as workers on his estate only the•nand-• tamest . and 'healthiest villagers, 'MPS° he :encouraged to enter upon matrimony • by free grantsoe land, aynient a all Marriage:.s: d an nnuity. of 50 roubles aayear for verv ehild born,- He succeeded in /*emoting from his state by rather harsh means all deemed and sieicly persons, and at-. raCted' handsome sgients from all arts of • the proVince by •granting hem valuable privileges.. • Those who efuseci to marry 'the partners he se- ected were unceremoniously deport - d. ' •• Since the ihatitetion of this • hee Mit beauty farm forty model, mar- riages haye taken place, and • eve! 00 children have been born nearly 11 ef them being ,Iminensely superior D the average Russian peasant chil- reit' in • Strength' and beauty. Tire iris in partieulat are remarkable for, heir graceful carriage, and lithe, ac... ye: forms. ,• ' Vagiliers marriage was celebrated ith exeeptional display, owing • to he feet that he and .his bride aro- ho first couple, both of whom sprung em Unions arranged by M. Reshot - M London, than Could: it 'pineapple. apring of its 'own accord . e subarbien, 'backegardee; • -: , Se, knowing Oak ecientistie ' :set e about finding Otte the original breed- n inn -plate -the' ammo; as' It *ere -of • .pAolx.4u.s f Aiaci. if lir. Rich's is to be 'believed,' they bave,iiiiied it. It is- district of noe. Moreethan a egature ot b" tito eatent, and is sittiatOd in Mesopotamia,' neer the Persienti,ope tieIrn'the centre': thereof ..Stand•; ;*-the 6 little village. -�f Kefri. • And 'among its , juvenile population, and. among them. elope,. elegize recurs year after P year, geheretion after generation, a century -niece century. And :out Of e its unspeakable foulnees the cent& gioxt sallies westward eaten titme e time to -,.etrike dinea the cleatilye.• d and, therefore; unAnatnune-rairopean t adult pe6ples. • .: p • Nor 15 it • any. wonder "taat this' t should be so, when the situation Of r Karl. is taken Into neeeunt, It Ilea, We are toida-th the Ceatre of a -sau- cer-shaped depression among -the bills, and consequently the. ground l5. so saturated with. moiettay tbat the refuse of. the village is heithet 'ab- e seabed ..nor eraporated, but acquires a the torte of, a blieshebleca oily /beide t which surrounds the huts and envers d 'the paths, and" stales the wells two feet op from the ground. Ineide the a hovels things are even wore°. • If, De. ,Irlebz tainks, Xefri. Were '' obliterated, there.would be act longer e, iniy danger of the plague spreading r ta Europe, sitice the only' other prove ee ed ericiemic centre in the. World is be ,` 'the protince •of Yuanan, •in ("hinge xr FInd .thie only eaves to infect the PAX nlarha East. SindlarlY, it has been hold, be,. " no tem high an authority time Dr. Ketch that eholera is endemic in the delta. of the Ganges below Caleutte. .and nowhere else. "If," he says in effect, "thie triangular bit of country could be obliterated from the Mee) of In- dia, eholeie. would in a few years become extinet." Ivor there, . and and there °1y, TffJIi CHOLEItA BACILLUS really and trulY "et home." Ile in- vadee other and far distant regions 61 the eartit's surf/tee, workil ite- eomPiereble havoc among their in- habitants, 13ut, aoott or 'later, he perielsee utterly. And he tan. letter reprodaee himself there anew. In the Suhcierbunds of the Gim- e-am Delta, however, things are att. feretit. Dere he cart, and thaw, ori - ghetto out of nothing, as it were Beenalae here, and here alone, are touted the conditions fa.vorable to web, oesses-an uninhabited ewamp of vaet extent, already teeming' with deetiying vegetable end animal mate ter, whieh is constantly being added to by filth unepeakable brought down by the river from the cities that. lino its batilte, It, is not alWayis, however, that tho pathogenie 0:Beetles-producing mies robe chooele for ite home Ruth lotali- Mt se the?* The particular brand Of organhan responsible for tualaria, Au -16m "As a rule, wee aildramilk. -Willed by a herd of rows then is r attired tor raistug the calve's, 0 of the beet Imo that can be mad* .5 ME S. S. LESSON, ,t1111 ourplus to feed it to pig Under some conditions es lenge r turn, Can be realized Irons feed skins milk to pige, as to calves. The 0,3 Text nt the Leescop 1. Xing& rY tie Anal* of promoting growth. 'and cl We are now introduced to and ire IA to spend six: Weeks with Eltiah, the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitant* aiTICENATIONA.T., X.E30,0Ns lag AUG. 7. high value of thli product i* IOW appreciated even in the older dal sections. Prof. Jordan ova, 'An eondition of health and vigor, an also as a supplement of cereal oral produeta akim milk and buttermilk are not excelled, and perhapa n equaled, by any other feeding stale The prineipal reason for the high Value a alilm Milk. as .8 feed for growing piga IS that it is essential- ly a growth producing food contain- ing all theta elenterits originallY the milk, at is a well-icnown tact that In the corn belt the tendency Is to feed plgo too mucluof a fattening ra- tion in the form of corn. Suck a ra- tion lacks the (0010h -waiting els- ermine which are supplied in the best form by skim milk Mad butter, In feeding skim Milk to pigs it is neith- er necessary nor desirable to feed middlings with it, as is often thought proper. Skim milk natural- ly goes best with corn, which is largely' fat-prodncing. A small por- tion of tlici grain ration, however, May be middlings if desired. One common mistake in feeding skim milk to pigs is overfeedieg. If allowed, they -will gorge themselves with the milk and will not thrive as they would on less milk and more grain, The t•esults of experiments carried on by. Henry, Li/afield and Roberteen show in every case that the best re- sults were obtained when about one pound of corn was fed to three of skini. milk. For economy in feeding* the proPertions of grain and milk fed depend somewhat upon the prices of each, Tf corn is high and the supply of skim milk abundant, larg- er amounts of skim milk can be fed than if the relative prices were re- versed, • "Another economical use that can. be made of skinteralk is to feed, • it to sows Oat are suckihg pigs. Com - blond with middlings and corn it. is probably as good a ration as can be made for this purpose." • 401,11•0.10 1.10. Golden TESto r. Pot. v., 7. Qt of Gilead. The Mat rerrnd of bire, 's• contain*. All that we know Of his birthplace and parentage. Like chizedek, he stands before us on the pages of Scripture without any re- cord of father or mOther or once& trYi Aud he appears as suddenla. He Is spoken of by some as one of the grandest and most romantio charac- ters that Israel ever produced. His name eignilles "Hy God IS Ahoy- •ali," and before Jehovah he stood, and unto Him he lived. The fleet te-• eon:led sentence from his liPt,• "The Lord God of Israel. liveth, before whom 1 stand" verse 1). gives tle. his constant attitude. The rale of his life was to please -God, not fear- ing the frown nor seeking the fat* of mortal man. His opening ;verde are repeated in 16, and make tts think of Gabriel's -words in Luke i., 1.9, am Gabriel that Stand in the presence of GO." • They satto carry us back to the Lord's word to Abram in Gen. xvii., 1, ea/ralk be- fore me and be thou perfect" (mare girls upright, sincere), This is the only way for those who would be the Lord's ineasengers. • Concerning his message to Abate "There shall not be dew nor rabi; these years but according to MY Ward," we must consider 17, where it iso'written. that lie pray- ed earetestly that it might not ram, and •also Dent. 174 where we have the authority for such a pray- er, the Lord having threatened to shut up the ' heavens and withhold ramn,. if they turned from Him to ; worship ' That the • heavens, were thus Mint up in the days et Elijah is confirmed by our Lord 'in Lake iv. 25. Believing prayer must' be leasea, upon some plain assurance in the word of God or some 'clear re- velation from God concerning His will, George Muller • has called the former the grace of faith and the . latter the gift of faith, • In mte way or the other God will guidnie. Verse g 2 to 6 give us the tory �f - • the brook Cherhat and the ratris a,o'd all was according t� the word of the Lord, which 'both Elijah and the ravens Obeyed. :The lirst, time this : title or exPression, "The word of the Lord," is used is in Gen.' xv. 1. It .• may mean a message -from .doci or it may mean the Son of God, •who is called 'The Word" (John .1., 1; Rev. • 18). Either Weer et is God' con- trolling,,• :and our part is, "Willing and Obedient". (Isa, 19). . The prophet is uow told to hecle hiniself; lte has delivered his eaesea,ge, • and • that is all that is required' 61 him a, present."' GRAZING TINDER WATIL. Animala 'in Australia. A.clapt Them- • selVes to Ciicumstances. While on a cattle -station in • West - 0 ern Australia Mr.. Henry Tautort had an Opportunity of seeing a remark- able instance of the way he which aeimals ca,n adapt themselves to, their surroundings. • On the upper reaches of the river there was a.large pool just fordable at most times; but iu a dry:season very low.: Among the horses making. their run in the vicinity of • this pool, an. old mare and a beyy•of foals aad yearlings used to come down every day in, the lona, dry' sinnmeis-wtheri the. herbage was scant and scoicheci into ,dryness. They waded into the pool until the water nearly reached theft. lieeee, and stood there foe Emirs, diving to the bottom, for a Mouthful of .aucceleat 'weede, Which they chewed at leisure with'their dripping . heads raised above tete !•••••••:. •••• • 'TREATMENT' OF Bitoop The Meet .afed most important thing to do in the raising of pure-bred hogs 'is the selection df the bkood so*. NO anneal on the farm will give" its •owner, such a liberat. in crease for the enopey expended a,nel the Mod consumed. ail the breeding soiv,-. writes C. M. Abbe, , : By buying gilt from a reliable breeder, at f three to sac Inoriths of egg, the cost Will not 'be-.1itrger Get -tinier' the beet. ,making. quality .your standard. $kiirinailk, mixed feed and Seaked eorn make a well-balanced tion that' gives bone. and Muscle, without tea nateh fat, and if Allowed -Destine. or ,the eat .01 an. oreherd, the cenditiems are Ideal for the best dove/opt:tient Of aroma - • It confined at a pen or yard, fresh clover, -rape and green •corn shonld be given, .1 hive fed :rape with best results- and it is geed for sheep' and cal'Oes as well. The sow. should -have good length of body. .Aeleict having a swayback, and yet to keep up the length of the °fleeting, mate with a male having .a slightly. arched back; Or by using a sire 4at is shorter or more tompaCtly .Mer choke is the first reatliodefor length gives eX- tra *eight, heece extra donate, Get a gilt wheat) dant is an excellent tanker, and from a family of ,gceel Milkers and mothers. •• . • ' Breed the sow at eight to ten months Of age, preferring to use . Mature sire rather than a young mate. Put the saw in the farrowing pen about Otte Week before she is dee, With proper bedding and other condi- tions being 'favorable, the sow tvill aot need much attentiOn at; birth of litter, otiose ft is cold weather. A railing. around' the sides ef the pen lVihl prevent the pow crashing her pigs;if she is large and heavy. :reeding the sow tut& Meer is said he en art, but many men make a ccess of this work. A thin bran esit the 'first 24 hours is all the ed required -then follow with a ,ht, soft diet. of warm water, a gifted anzoont of skimmilk, With ixed feed; until the pigs take all O Milk, then increase the feed lib - ally. about What the sow will, eat, ding soaked core once daily. Do ot oveefeed, and ecotir the pig. At three to fotir Weeks the lege U1 begin to eome to the trough, en give them a separate trough, ith milk and grain, also dry shelled rn. It is good for , their teeth. over, rape, apples and sweet torn 11 increase growth rapidly. Weatt six weeks. but it is better to nit until eight week e Unless for Me special reason. Cut down the el of the sow olualtalf for four YR, then still more 50 in quality, hieh will dry the ow off. At the d a week, separate the sow d litter, turning them together es dello for two dart and the lek is done, With the sow free from Iced udder, 'and reedit' to rest, ins and eontlition. The rage /0'6 wean- withotit the Tose of growth. • The first time I witnessed' this strange sight was durixig• a ery sea- son when I wes riding with the over- seer in search ef some strayed stoek., As We approached 'the pool, my oona. peniegi bade .me keep' quiet if I de- sired to See. something even worth' looking at- As we rode. quietly, up te the pool I.saw a group of homes standing in thci water, . and disap- pearing from time to tined ,as they aucked theft-. heads • below the sur- face. wondee was soon at an end when saw ono of their heads suddenly come 'out, :with a merethfel of dripping weeds. , No sootier was e this mouthful disposed of than • the head disappeared in search of all- ot/ter,' • . The overseer.told Me that during a., long 'drought etnne 'eve' Eiix years previous, v,vhen. hardly e rotatige • of feed Wes left On the rate and bush Area had laid bare the sand -plains, the old. mete had diseotered that there was plenty- of luscious feateat 'the betting -of the pools, which could be pet:leered •by fOr it; • and having once put her discovery into practice; she continued to do out .cif preferenee What elle had been daye,n to de by. necessity. ' The several generations Of foals which she had reared had all follow- ed her examPles although none of the full-grown horses had joined the am- phibious group. Her, then, seemed to be a new variety of horse in eao- letion which, if left • unelisterbede Might 'breed. and separate from the run; perhaeis a to survive through droughts seitere enough to eXtertein- ate all' °there. . , • • • . On thWeAwVLSe, °cluirri.r?git' illtheEictet WHY CA.T.LED PORT ARTHUR. eesu Name of daptain a First English te Ship to Enter it, 11 Since the Japenese bombardment:1 m brought Poet Arthur into notoriety, th everybody. is asking why the place is er Called Port Arthur, arid nobody tee seethe to knotv the reason. The hay n no doubt lutd, and probably still has, a Chinese name, but nowadays w evert the Russittrie call the harbor by 41,3 its rertgliett title. In 18157, before „," the war which England and France ea declared against China, an English Lee; cruiser, named the Algerine, entered L.', the bay at the end of the Liao Tung we peeinsula, and is said to bave been aa the first European veseel to do eo, w 'rhe commander of the erttiver bap- 80 poled to be Captain W, Arthur, and fe4 the crew, not knowing what _the de, Chaim called it, gave the harbor W the name of their taptain, and tho 02 title ban stuck to it ever since. art Now, however the Iturtakes are ere- on dited with the intentiou of altering tr th'e mete and calling the place Pert ca Nicholas, after the Czar. They will tee probably wait .antii the port is safe ea from capture by Admiral Togo, for, if the worn coinea to the worst, they will doubtless prefer Viet the bay shall be lent under its English ' name rather than under that of tho 111 Czar. •, 1104,4, ra0 .6'011 PIGS. Tho Mistouth ,Experiment Statioe a recent bellethe, saye ef the value d usee of skitii milk On the farm: , • Nay:the life of every' child of, God • be summed up in this': •"Striteng ace ,• cording to His working. whicth worke • eth mightily" (COI. L:29),for • unless itis-Godivorking in us it can- -- not stand. But when we thus seek first the kingdom of God .and His right- eceuseess we may be sure taat elle tepeparal things shall be. acided, even • - .1 '• though': ravens feed us. or poor wiclf • ones- minister to •ukt. In these days of unbelief and scoffing, if any should - hear it .said that 'Arabs, noth, Weds, fee Elijah, just ask . what kind 01 -an- 'Arab fievr out of Noah's ark for the word "eaten" . in our lesson is the . s.anerivesenie intliec;earn.abvrieitiv 7as. th4 7Who:t_ds ever instrumentality the Lotd. May , • miniater. to us,' while truly grateful •. to, Him and to His mipistering sere tante, we'ratiot be Stayed upen Him- self alone,. lest some Cherith dry up and We thereby grew discouraged. }lab. 'tit, 17,, 18, .is a fine word to. appropriate, for whoever or what. ever they fail 'Us, we can always 'truly : .1, say, "Thou, 0 Lore, renialnest for- • ever" .(Lans.'V, 1.9; Hob, 1s'11). :" It was not for 'think out • . , sorae new pitted. •to -go to, for' the Lope who sent him to Chetith .and bid and pustainea hina. there aed. • hie • eye epee him •(XI. Chron, aye; 9), . and saw all the circiunstancede and. douleelese Elijah .taike.d with about it. Well, at the right time, - slot too soon nor too late, the same word of the, Lord who sent him . to • . . Cherith commarids hire to go to a • widely wontan 'at Zaeephatht or ac- cording te Luke iv, 26, Sarepta, and that is our Lord's eonftrination of • this Part of the story also. Zare- Phath signifies a plate of refining., • ,and, While at Oherith he wee cut off • • (rcen all human help, he ia now' to be refined still more by most Marian • ministration ' Safely he ' joerheye, for the Lord can hide u* while abiditig, and when he arrivei ' the gate of the city the widovi 15 there gathering a fow sticks 4t, make . a cake, for ha/eon and her. son ' - the last handful of meal in thah:ouse and after that they expect to die. . What a bearding housel What a welcorne for a Weal* traveler( 'And ' yet it is tho Lord's way. Listen to Elijah :• "Feet* not; -got), and do as thou haat said, but make Me a little take first" (verse 18). Had this been all, the woman might have theught him eome crasy tramp. Bt listen yet : "After that melte for the and for thy son, foe thee Saith the •Lord God:ef Israel, the barrel •of Meal Mali not waste, with- er ehalt the cruse of oil fail uhtli". * * And so it cared to pease ac - coaling to the word of the Lord, and the meal and oil Were trialtipliect for a full year (verses 10.16 and Margin, • • of 15). This poor widow gave all' to the Lord; the widow who . had • tWo Mites gave alie se lad with the five loaves gave all, Wheh. We Ile Unreservedly Otte ive shall see • the Lord's increase, ' "There is that seatteroth and ire. inereaseth" (Prov, Xi, 24). The rest of the yore° tent why many are poor who. might be ty years, there has been. a reduction in crime of what is termed the grav- er sort; but every now and then, at fairly regular 'Intervale, there is wave of seriotts crime whieh 'sotto - times eXtends weer half a year, and sometitnes eighteen. months. The year 1902 was one of these years of. crime Wares'. In 1903 the total number • of persons tried in,. Great Britain was. 661,667; while in 1902 the lig- urea were . 787,676. This itioreate was chiefly in crimes against proper- ty. All published statieties show that neither petial eertitude nor itn- pelsortreent Serves to deter the habi- teal ()header from reverting to crime, the Inost incorrigible of all being worneta Of the graver crimes which show a Marked increaSe are inurdere and burglaries. It is net a Pleasant thought to the British taxpayer taet he has to payneatiy $6,000,000 a year for the suppression of crime, and over U2,000,000 kr poor relief, - A1IINUTTEllE11 Two Irishmen serving in an Eng- lish regiment were good chime until Rooney" was raised to the rank ef sergeant. Porthwith his chest ex- panded, and front that time on he lookee down on aleGratua One day McGraw) approached Rooney, and said. "htike.-I mean sergeant, e'Pose a private stepped up to a eerseant and called him a con. ceited monkey, phwat wud happen?" "Ite'd be put in the gyard-house," "Eo Wed?" "Ile Wud." "Well. now e'pose the Privato. on'y thought the eewgearit was a coaceited • monkey, and sasr Ward aliciut it. Wud he be put in the gy.ard-houxe?" "'IVA‘e'Il,tmtth6t4iti:Itvfer":111 lave It go at; that." STEEL TORNITME. All the ships of the United States navy are *being supplied with *tea furniture. EXperinients carried. on, for several Months have proved that ainsotit• all the etatential furniture 01 ' Warships can be made of Steel, Str. lolls damage was done during the Spank% War . the furniture of ships eatching fire, the cruiser 13alti. more havieg suffered BeVerely, la the Battle of Manila. •••••.....0.1,••••+ • Xerv Cooke -"Whist doee your hue., band like for lib breakfast, letteeetere Mrs. Gratvelle.04'01m, he likes art - thing we haveret k •