The Clinton News-Record, 1904-09-15, Page 6EAUTY OF THINGS
ltng Solo on Says, "Re Bath Made Everything
Beautiful in Els Tinley"
greztereet ettiorieleg in Mt et the rare
nannett. et Osmad*. in the year viat
Tiousaaa_aline liundred asti Pow,
P.7 ot Toronto, at the
amPArtiallat ef .0.gr1eulture. otttana4
A. .dispetoli from Loa Angeleci eve:
aeXtev, Frank Do Witt Talulage
Preached front the following text ;
Ece1etthtea iii, 11, "Me leatli made
everYahriug heautilul in lite time."
The 8olomie writing0 are 4004
eplgr winmatic in 'style. Like price -
lees. jewels eat and Pelished, by the
lapidariee and Collected in caskets, ir-
respeCtive of air,e orcolor, his verses.
• 4ts verbal gene ere clustered into
eluipters, with but little attempt at
ceneezativearrangement. Indeed,
ICiag $.elemea for the most Part
seemsto me to he like. a writer of
iiotebooks. In the king's jUdgMent
hall or on the street or out upon the
hillsides under' the blue dome of the
PiciYft when 4 great' thought is diviae-
ly inspired within his brain, he jots
that thought down in memorandum.
Thea at the end of the day or the
week or the. month or the year he
collects theme different thoughts,
ir-
espetive of their logical sequence,
into sae/Motet* or a book and hasthe.
court steal:Peal:filer write them out
again in full. In other words, King
Solomon's verse a tor the most part
are like freight cars that can be
aide tracked or uncoupled from one
ear and.attaehed to other ears. Each
verse stands' out as a distinct entity.
An average verse is as appropriate in
the •sixth chapter*of Proverbs .as 111
the twentieth aaptere The verse is
the car. The chapter is.,the freight
train. They. are oftea as unconvect-
ed as the definitions of Webster's
Dic-
tioiaiy. They change their subjects.
very, often. They are like nuggets of
guldsome unes 1 ound by the ra-
lien miners in ,the dust by the , roa.d,
sides or in the river beds, entirely
separated from any gold veins. They
are like great round bewlders of rock
imbedded in the sands. .These •bowl -
der verses in a glacial age have been
carried by the lee from.' afar and
have, foam!: a resting .place amid ea-
tirely. different .elements from those
among which they were ereptect, .
• The Modern critics tell up that
King Solomon did not write the book
of Ecclesiastes, that its -etyle and
, diction belongto a later date. It
appears, to map haavever, that its
depressing riiiain are characteristic
of a man arlickled such .a, life' of ease
and self andidgeriee as Solomon led;
and that at 'the: end ef .it, satiated
with pleaSure•and" study, Lis he must
have been; it *ea.:precisely the kind
of book' that would come from .11.10
pena'aud the eonclusione uttered in
that , book, just such as Weald be
likely to he reachedby..a. man who,
baying strayed Irani; God, was ' dis-
appointedand dissatisiled With ". his
life. In 'the absence,atherefore, of
definite • 'knowiedge 1 shall.::e,esturie
that the, first, verse, .of the book
in-
dicates as the author; "The son
of David, king in Jerusalem"
COLERIDGE'S DEFINITION.
We find an 'analogy Lor mans spir-
itual beauty in the painter's brush
and the artist's easel.... According to
Samuel Coleridge, tae 'English poet
and literaryaciatic, the true definition
of "beauty". ,is "multitude in unity."
When standing before a great: pic-
turelike that of" Leonardo da Vinci'S
.
Last Supper,"or .. • o, s . r
• steles of the Leavaa': and Fishes," • or
Raphrters greatest picture, his r•
Sis-
tm� "Madonna," we .find that there
the many lights and the Shadows, the
-gold and the sillier and the green and
the yellow and the. blue and the saf-
fron and the violet :and the Purple;
all blend in one common purpose..
Thousands, Perhape. 'tens • of thou-
sands of times, Michael Angelo, WiLh
his brush; may:hare tour/lied • the
wall in the Vatican, where to -clay is
seen his "List .Judgment." But not.
one ofall of -those theasands Of
times when he laid on the paint did
be do so withoat having one great
fden in his mind. "Perfection is
composed of many Uifiee," wrote he;
•"bat perfection in wet a is not a
trifle." A' great • Nature is always
"multitudes of 'different colors itt
blending unity." That unity is the
cause of beality; when seen upon the
canvas of the masters of old and the
masters of•the present day, ' • •
IlitILTITODE IN tl'alITV," •
An 'artist's beauty le a • "multitude.
itt uaityA . We ',know that Samuel
COleridge'a definition in reference to
the painter's ea.sel, is true. We see
a• "multitude , of colors itt .unity"
when Turner, the most brilliant .ar-
tietic colorist•Thigland evar produced,
makes the sea a creature a. life. Now
It is a beautiful boulevard of . gold,
paving its way to the throne of a
setting sun; how •a perfect pandemon-
ium of furies; nowit is a burial
'scene, when Sir Da;vid. Wilkie dada a
Sepulcher ih, the mighty deeP, wlieSe
waves beat thwaselves into Pieces On
the Gibraltar crags, We see in ar-
tist's "multitude in -unity" in the
portrette Of a Sir Anthony Van
Dyck and in the mighty Mountaa
pea,ke of a Therdstalit and In the pas,
torsi ,.dreanie of a Millet. But,
though there nerty be many different
data :blending, in the colors of
ralabow. or in the hectic flush Of a
:rose, ,did you 'ever :stop to realize
that .all colors 'come front but theca
primal colors? ijust'the tame as all
nature. All the animal and vegetiv
ble raid mineral kingdoms have but
sixty-six different basic elements. of
Which. they are all composed, So in
the ertistic World we And that ' all
colors originally come from hut three
primary colors -the red, the yellow
tied the blue, • Now, if God can
form the artistic beauty of the sky,
the tide, the laud, out Of tbe Mule
ple ted, the einapie yellow and
the elm* violet, is- it Absurd to
suppose that God gait epirittrally
Make us artistically beautiful, no
Matter, now crude and genet we may
be, it we only allow our thoughts
aad lives to be combined in ityin-
=dry with his thoughts cold with
Christ's life, Oh, the beciaty of
blending eolotei PSOM the brilliant
pictoriale of an autumnal leaf let us
learn the spiritual lesson for mat
that Ged bath made and can make
eneryth'ing beautiful in ite time.
, tXPRP.SSED: IN SOUND.
The aymeeetties of straight lites
and tirrnee itt setrIpture and arcliiten"
tufe salad feign arialegiel for /men
faiititual beauty. Witudetirig among
the famous buildings of 141urope, I
Arid that; areldieeturallY, n nrent
btiltdlete flea a syntinettleal unity,
juin an a perfert estatue le chiseled
after the physical fern -salamis of a
Peefeet Man, ?deny yeere ago there
etes eehunted neat the burled ruitte
Of oldliome n Marble' leg, broken
keens nitenet 4 istAtiam,t4 Q1404
t
Then broken fragment is stili Pre-
served in the Vatican. Miehael
get°, as a sculptor, used to stuffy
-Olen leg by the day, the week, the
Month and the year, °"because," said
the great Italian umeter, "I con-
sider that piece of stone the most
perfect formation of pliyeical ana-
tomy ever carved by tlie Chisel Of
man." So symenetricalln perrect
Man the lines and the caves Of, A
great group et' statuary be, that
when you, look at some of the best
examinee ot .seulptare in the lanvae,
the Vatican Or the Britieli niuseuna
the figures altaoSt seem AS though
their limp are breathing and their
lips are ready' to speak.
Let usloiter for a little while in
the "Poets' career" Or Westminster
'A•bbey, As we Beton the sweet
bartie of the nntzglisli language .seien
to lift their heads front their pin
lets en dust and begin to sing, and
we find men's spiritual beauty in the
analogies of poetry as Well AS in.
Painting and- music and .sculpture
and architecture. "Inor an painting is
rhythm in color and music is rhythm
in squad and sculpture and architec-
ture aro thytlain in stone, ito poetry
is rhythm in words. Ayes poetry is
more than mere rhythm. An Ehg-
hell writer once well said, "Poetry
in the flower garden of human langu-
age is the'blossone and the fragrance
of all human knowledge, human
thoughts, human passion* and emo-
tions." It is man's most transcend -
Cot hopes , and noblest ambitions,
with the highest peak of the Mount
of Ascension for a' feastool, or it is
man's wail of eternal ;despair when,.
as the resulte of his sins, he is
lieedirig toward a Bantins "Inferno
orhe is compellen to join In the:
inoatis f a Vett ' '`ParadiSe
nnost;"
:•
TAB REDEMPTION Or JOHN.
Are you and I ready to become
part ot God's beautiful creation?
Are .We ready to b,ecome beautiful in•
ourselves by becoming beautiful la
him? Even the lowest and vilest,
saved by :his grace and redeemed by
his blood, eau income a true part
of Christ's beautiful life. Many Years
.itg'o when the yellow fever plague,
was raging • in Xentpliis, Tenn„ a
rough looking man applied to .the
city ' relief ccireinittee and said, "I
wieli to; name." It Was at • a -tithe
when, most people who cold were
fleeing irom. athe stricken and. deso-
lated. homes. The death carttt.
maned to be goiag 'everywhere. a At.
first • the physician- deelitted the
roughman's services; but as lie
could get no ozie elan to do the
work tine man was. sent to oae of
the most AlthY and dangerous wards
of the city. Wherever be went ho
WO a messenger Of love. He Would
not tell his naniei lie sad siMply,
"Gall me ..7o1M." Tiree passed on,
and after awhile Jelin, these name
was now famous through the city,.
'sickened and died. While his body.
was being prepared for an unmarked
grave, soddenly upon his arm was
.found •a.. livid Mark, whzch proved
that _John Was an ex -convict. John
had been one of- the most dangerous
criminals of all the:soutli. Once lie
weea raurneree, but now threugn
the blood. of Jesus, he beCame . a
ministering angel, ' ()nee he was hor-
rible in his depraved' malformation.
Now • he was made beautiful by
bringing his life itt sYmnietrical
touch...with Jams' life.
'MY friends, Will .you net let °heist
'fill you with his spiritual beauty?
Will. You nOl...aniy in the future be
spiritually beautiful, but beautiful
now in. your Present, WO Will you
net become transformed as was
John the redeemed nuese, laboring
for his Master .in plague' strieken
inensolitse "
•
IC/X.X.V1:1 BY CIGABETTES. '
Boy Bute -Limbs to Nicotine Pole-
iri England .
' Thee eigarette seeeking by boys •is
a 'dangerous habit ha formed the
text of unity -a raeilical .sermon, but..
it". zzotorious that the evil has
greatly increased within the 'lit.S: few
years, • .
Notr, lioweVer, that 4 schoolboy;
Patin* ranee, aged la, living' at
Hainan, England, has lost his life
through ertionitig eigarettes-enpOisore
al by eieretine" was the verdict- Of,
the' coronet's. jeren-the °netts mide
by elergrneia, doctors, and piablienete
to. discoUrage • this vice may meet
with some SucceSs. . • "
After smoking eesieral eigarettes ott
Satin:clay Afternoon tlie lad beame
sick on the followitig day, rind died
,on 'Montlay after partial paralysis
had ',set io. When a dotter was :call-
ed hit at ouce diagnosed the ailment
as nicotine poisoning.
in every toWn arid: village boys of
froze, seven to twelve years of age
mats be seen smoking Aigarettes with
apparent enjoyment, Penny. packets
containiug five and six are ie would
seem, put up with the idea' of at-
tracting the euetont of thee& Children
and, worse •still', small ohildreii pick
tip half-con.eturien eigarettee .from to
Streets, beg a match from 4 passer-
by, and then puff contentedly.
Discueeing the dangdre of eigar-
ette-smoking Whea indulged in by
boys, It physician iittaelied to. one of
the great London hormitals said the
evil was none the less reel beertuse
the effeets Were not as a rule very
noticeable at brat.
"Cages of ehronle nicotine poison-
ing" among boys," he said, "are be-
ecening more and more common.' Tha
heart is tae organ ' first atfeeted.
There is a rapid pulse, 'dangerous
weakening of the heart, the digestion
is impaired, and there is trouble
with tlie eyes,
• "In acute eases, 'which ere morn
rare, the poloon is exceedingly ree
piti in its efiertri. Ask to the evil
caused by juvenile smoking, much de-
pends upoe the constitation of the
bOy. Soine lads are peeullarly Bus.
teptible to eieotine polsonieg, Then
again, the dangeroue habit' beeontee
more dengerous if the Woke le in-
haled,' t
Dot:tor-0%o, X shall not jety you;
'you have epoilt the pitvemeral and
then covered it up With earth to
hide your k•ad work," ravior--
•"Debtor. inlue is not the only bad
Ya.4404, tddes,,'!.
310ZTO4.T ART
What a'opiooese-712.0414row Vat**
Are Ws'.
T.ralwaY treveler aJepen buys
Wi to eaPer
TV:4"a::
:r. "
he can get a, tteket entitling
eineply to Ntand On the platform.
Many of the cars can he entered
either trona the 010,4 or the end, The
priacipal differeace between' 'OW Snit
and seeoutnclase coacliee is tne color
or the- epholsteree None of the
cars are very- clean. Many a the
third-class apaches could serve, with-
out muchelteratioa,-as ordinary pig-
eties. 441 the more reraark-
able when the lacomparahle 01%0114-
efiee of the Japanese honte We, even
Of the liumbleSt, le taken into consid-
eration. Au explanation of thie miry
be that the Japanese have little re -
geed tor the cleatilinese of any plaee
where they keep their acme or clogs
on, The European room, for exam-
ple, whicht has been.establielied in
fey/ Japanese homes, is the only
apartment in the ahoe house that
is not kept scrupulously swept, duSt-
eti, oiled anal imeuislied. So, too,
with, the Japanese inns. Tlaoee that
are maintained in native Style are
sweet end cleau; these that have be-
come Vurepeanised are usually lit-
tered with clearet /stumps, fruit
peelings and cores and other debris.
A Pullman, with its crowded and
•unavoidable iatimacies, is a decent
and polite hermitage compared with
• ta packed coach in Japan, All aorta
a unexpected things happen,. Daring
ablutions are performed and eom-
plete change of rail:neat is frequently
effeeted, the constaatly recurring ten -
was serving to screen the astonishing
'character of these programa. e
The door of third-class -coaches is
an unswept riot of the flotsam and
jetsam that usually fellows in the
wake lof certain kind a of lamina craft
the world ever, A Bowery picnic
crowd abandoned to peanuts, popeoru,
bartauas, never Marked a more con-
spiettous trail than a lot of Japan-
ese peasants en route. Only, with
the Japanese, it is all a very solemn
affair,. . Travel seems to afford Litt -
lag oppoitity to 'discard alf kinds
of personal wreckage. Ali forms a
abandoned odds and ends of things
begin to identify the itinerary • from
the very start. Of course,the for-
eign traveler who wades through this
car -strewn waste does so to gain
experiettee. It is not a. pursuit or
happiness.
•- .i"
YUKON'SBIGGEST NUGGET
. •
IYIAY BE' PRESENTED TO XXXG
' . • 'POB BIS • CROWN...
.
Weighs Over Seven Panicle, • and
.Has An Xntrinsic Value
" of.$1 . •
. • . . ,?280
A. sehenie .,to advertise 'Batson
throughout the eiAlized world venere
newspapers are readamfd. exchanges
.go the rounds 'and y other press
'Means has •hen suggestect. and dis-
cussed at Grand Fortis •and in Inesen
soil -by ttione tine lia.ve seen the huge
piece of pure gold, marrazioth nugget
talcett from No 0 Froneli Gulch. The
sclienie ii.te.'buer the nugget by ' p0 -
pular • subectiption,, and :send it to
Ring „Enter's!, nionereh' of the great-
est kipgdoni, the world lies known,
to beeueed in ineking 4 net crown
for eels •tncijeiry. '
'rhos(); who have suggested the
niOneinent Say Oat not only -would
the Xing 'feel ' highly • hopored .'•bv
aucli recognition trent his peoPleand
his- tieltee:ers.'and empire builders nn
Whete'is the onspire'e farthest north,
but every publieation ._the" world
round woidd give the ,yitkon• a mea -
euro a40...9pition :chat it could not
obtain otherwise without the .eapen-
ycflotiul,arrsr.eo,
f'1,tu.,adre.ds thooiandsa ,
'14'Elalia*S SEVEN PODNDS,.
• The giant iittgget ;Which was found
net tongego on No. 0, a fraction at
the Mouth of 'French tluich is, in
IiewPoii. R. 0 .1/140116.ra :;the Man
who 'found the big • It be,
langs to IVIalollom 'and -Geogre, Quire
ie, OWnera Of the fraetion en•whleh
it Was 'found. • ': ' *, • •
The zragget weighs More thali. sev-
en peen& troy, and tine the
seines ktt exactly 85.42 ounces. At
$1.S en mince this nugget has an in-
trimPa*, value of '01,aso. However,'
the 'owners cintaider it Werth much
neore.tlia,ri that sum, Siniply for its
exceptional size and purity, •
: 'Otte groat.,feature about itils nug-
get ie that it is puns geld through-
out,.Most nuggest anywhere • mean
its slits contaie 'a share qf neertz,
VOUND 13Y AleOIDENT., • .
.This nugget is net le etutpe. • It
looks like. a huge flat rack •fram-
Creel,: bed, And for this- reason, iteal-
most was, toet whoa Sboyeled nrom
the.earth and tifrovii into tlie slttias
boxes; etcCollom 'weer' •foraing the
heavy reeks out Of the sluice - tor
when the big eligget..unlmowingly
was tifrowti In with a wheelbarrow
full of pay diet. Ita was dusk, and
Xcaolloni heaved the piece of wealth
Out on top of a pile of rooks. The
exteacirdinary weight or a briglit
spot. in the nugget ore sorantliing
eaoee4 the men, Ao hesitate and take
a second view er tbe• big Wean` He
WAS surprised,' .scrittehing away
tne flirt; to find' tiii-goition treasure.
It was a happy moment for the •lior-„
ley -handed and hardy. niiner. • Never
his life had he Made suoh a pick -
one niotion ofthe heeds, and
his heart leaped to his Mouth as he
reeked up the prize, and raced to tell
pother.
The elaim on seinen the nugget • was
'fotierl wea allowed to Jarmo A year
ago arid was resta'kecl by NICCollorn.
• . t .
MI0E1.013ES,
in a lecture on "Old Age," deliv-
ered )3y Draltienehnikoff in Paris reee
ently, the speaker expremeed the opin-
ion that eenillt;is *as produced by
certain physiological etates which
cause the bona/dent- species of mi-
czobes called "Maerei.pliages" to in-
etease too rapidly: Then in their
turn they become injurioun. These
paraeltes flourish in the large intes-
tine, which mammals possess, where -
es in birds it is almost entirely lock.
big. The result was /shown in the
pereon of the iloctor'n own 'dog,
Which Was deerepit at eighteen; while
the (logic:Ws parrot, aged scivOrity,
eppeareri to the n.udience hale and
lively. "It Onside 1.frOved," NON the
doeter, "that SensIlity la an infectis
cons disease, mid it ehotdd be possable
to treat it like other malittliene-to
cure it or prenent it," The hope
Was expreersed by Dr. Uenclinikoff
,t1hat it Return Woilld shortly be 'dis-
covered to counteract the "inacrop-
cies" and prolong human life; inean-
tinie, eciye the '"Vigaro," lie recem.
trierided the consumption of curdled
'talks
• mAriv usmoossux ralivros•
014 cuotOwit die hard, no matter
hot uselesei they man' be, On farm°
where much stacle.is to he raieed
bailees are quite necessaty, put 021
lama 'devoted to .fruit growing, vege-
table raishig er grain prodetetion
there can be little needtor a large
expenditure la the Way* of :miens.
The eXiatenes of Useless Peewee is the
PRIINNINtl AND PLANTING.
The critical period iu the life of a,
plant is walnut it in trenspiented from
the 'strawy to its permanent loose
tioa. Iu moving treee from the nurs-
ery a portion of the root area ht loot
and the top eliould be reduced ne
proportiou te the low* of root area,
iu order that the newly trimeolanted
and uneatabilelteci plant may be eble
to ware sunleieet ntoieture end feed
to *Imply the demaude of the top.
The roots eltould also be pruned, Ito
as to protect them against decoy, by
cutting away el/ brokea and nalatilat-
ed• parte, leaving the eut surface
smooth and in ouch. pomition that
they wlfl ceMe in contaet with the
free)), earth. Alter the plant be-
eornes eatabliehed,"certain 14ranelied .
will grow more rapidly than ethers
and the appearance ot the plant will
cause of mueli, waste of time and be spoiled by thia Unequal grewtb.
labor in the perforining of the farmpruning eliould, therefore, bo resort. -
work, ted to in order to Preserve a Wm
-
Marine etook raising la earried on metrical 'development a the plant
on a efendelerable seale we tenet witlioat rendering it. astificial orfor"
have fences, for tate farm crepe nnist"nuil itt appearance. Otere should al -
be rotated and the peeture went be SP be exercised during. the early de-
ieclueled in the rotation. This is velopment of 4a pleat to mialistalin
true of those farms. tabors there is a uniform, nistribution of braneties
not a large permanent neeture. In azousta the central axle, if It be a
the ease a auclifarm, it should tree, SQ as to insure a symenetrical
be enough to ranee the z.itstutre Or awl pleasing form at Maturity.
turesttas
g Y. some WoulU At planting time the excavatiou
obleet that this timid not allow the prepareci fel- the reception of the
meadow to be pastured, 'Very well, tree should be of sufficient depth to
the nonepesturing of tae meadow allow it to be art as deep as it stood i
would be a good thing' for the ram- hi the nursery and large enough to
slo'Wti, and Juat as good for the farm aecotmnoclate the roots without bend -
animal itt the end, as they would ing them, while the earth. in the bot -
have a large sapply of forage from tom of the hole should be loosened at
those same inept:cleave. least one apirde length below the gen-
The custom hayingMany ilel4s, a1 floor or the hole: In replacing
ea.elz Well fenced, dottbtlese, arose in the soil over the roots of tlie plant
the time when the land was being' a tido layer of earth should be plac-
cleared of its forest. growth. A Mail ed immediately in contact with the
cleared a piece of land, fenced it,: to roots and thoroughly pressed down
keep out the browsing animal Which by trampinig in, order to bring the
at first generally ran at large. Then. particles of seil in close contact
a little more land would be leared, with the feeding roots of 'the pleat.
and another fezee would be built. So„The hole sIxoutcl thee be fille'd a and
we And.in rlistrieta tVat were (�1f t-. -the surfece left slightly above the
ed with foreste multitudes of farms geninnl surface of the surrounding
'broken up into small aelds, eaeli sur- ground.
rounded by it stone wall or rail
fence, In time those cut -Up farina'
Went out of the possession Rf the COUNTRY ROADS IN IIIIPAN
man wile, cleated theist, and came .
to the hands of other men, The lot- aa.a •
ter accepted the small 'fields, a,nct the. SCENES .AND MG/DENTS OP A
fences as parts of their purchase, ep.Ayrs eseernarre,
They' saVed the walls and ferions , •
renal as Many- people' win saVe • old •An, Engesenenen Teets of Ms
Ex-
fux that has Outlived itS
fulnees They do not w that parlance in this Xiiradon •
they will .liave any ese for 'it, but .Country
it May come handy 'setae .iay Al a. ride Out Of the town,' ethe
if these otd .ranises and walls °vet, 'eteeets are thronged bath 'girls and
do become .useful the value of that boys on their wayto sehool-eyoung
izsefulness will never offset. the cost Japan, with i;teaugely growrieeP In-
dy/ink.; allthe years they at e. being t,entness, all bent on now knowledge
preserved.' a tet a fain -inn. sit • , *don n and advance.... There are •diminutive
and count thecost of retaiuing theseboys in :peened blue 'caps adorned
o/d ''stractures; The 'land occupied natal:, the :gilt 'badge •Of their sehoel
by the walls is. consideraace, .but• .and thestiff, lopg. cotton skirts: that
that.le not all; It is .rte,..;er peseible are worn by • stuslents and learned'
•to *pitman or cultivate. close ..to theln,persons:of any age and either. .sex,
and in the .case of small fields there. and smalt girls in ,crinisan Skirts,
itt generallY What IS Called a "head theienblaen !hate errangeilein a *ay
land" left: in each lleld, Wiiet'e the 'Suggestive ot.loreneh poodles itt..'the
.horsesi stepped and teri•ned itrotind latest sliielilon ob tufts and tails...
In the act of ploughing and • harrow- Among' thein, ' au: important,. Stalk
Jug. ' This • is practically waste the •middle eelioca 'et:admits:Of, every
ground, and is' to be added to ' the age, from twelve to tweritY, &1 orti-
ground occupied by the wall itself, formed indarn blue acme* and tronsThse strlPS Of waste land become inere, witliout: Ceffe and- toilers.. .Ons
the iritrenehed posttionat all kinds the3lat of Xpne, Whatsoever' tlie wea4,
of brieeni and of weeds ,that annualL, thee, they , will all .bloesom . into
ly teed outs millions of seed's into white editions•.of their present attire,
the ploughed grOund of . the far.nter. . as wxU also the students at 'ail high -
They are the. hatter Of the. 'insects er schools, thepolice *.eir masse, :and
that ravage: :the orchards and the government officials geaerally. Among
the .ehiltiren itt. a plentiful sprinkling
...of bin .,gites in blue cotton With
-bright sashes. They are all ..•.ffinisif--
ing"-some going to a needlework
selitiola. where they will- sit , en the.
door from -.:111110. °tele*: till three,
menciag theirs troeseeatin and • all
kinds of fancy woik itt betihinni silk
crepe and embroidery: • Othere:. are
bound for a flower -arranging class or
go •to study the tea :ceremon3r, ac-*
eoreediehinents, which take even years
to Mester., • • • . •
. AS I pass tile new dtrtp* High
• Seliool, a lino, wooden :building,.
nragnifipentIy tip -to -date, withits.pi,
to speak. . upon the etibjeet. • .Th e• :armi,. tennis eourts, laberatery,..acie
question ariees, whet is tthe farni,er °nee,' nulsenni, eta, „ • .
with a heal of dairy cows to do? .. • BR1Glivy-h1A0B1) GIRL • .
Fxi el of all he should find out not are 'entreerninn the'. big '01-i
only 'what' his hem, collectively:, hut trance, gates, 'each Witii her seilioal-
what each .eow IS doings 11•0 Should books" neatly .wrapPed in' a colored
begin a 'record of both' quantity and handkerchief. (tor in Japan books are
quality of Milk produced :by eaeh not :tarried 'ehadelcann 1 nak-
'pea: This will enable •liiinafter a .eck"), and 'another hattditerchiet, con,
time to sySteinatically Weed out: his tabling lunch, which will probably
herd, retaining only ;the best. .• ge copsist..ot .rite and a little Asii or
ShOuld then gradually raise the -sten- Vegetables ia a small two -storeyed
nclard sof his herd by. breeding ,or by (shine pot, or it may be a lump of
the introduction of new stock.- tho bread with a little bean paste in the
at/trap Cast of .keeping 'a cote :a lnxdtlleOtt thi•ough streets ,of open
year has heert variously estimated by shops and woodehelatticed,neatly
erceeienzent stations, iii different loe ttled houses, •'entilethe town .melte
maleq. at from $85 to $45%. The away • into garden -like iields, rzch
means' of keeping the* round:. of the with the verdure of the indigo plant
'become, enabling the Weeding out and •otion I am at. 'the river and
:process, are now available to every must dismount and haul my bleycle
&hymen.' The Babcock .test, which tato the great flat-brittOraed ferry -
is a simple •xtlealui of determining the boat " . • •
riehnees of the milk itt fat, and the Other entesengers are ia the boat
settle& for neternitningthe yield of before Intena' Amboy red trelIocer,
men , ename any farmer to .aseer- •three Women, with bables.on their
tain•• the value of milk and butter hacks, a., 'etlupie Of rickshaw num
production of esteh cow in his. horn, With their fat ese twO ladies robed itt
arid uliether she le a source of pre- silk, 'and tbkee or four fatiners itt
fit or loss, • . : is blue cotton attire tuelred up
The mere mill( •productiou may be • over tong white hose, and on their
misleading if . the -fat teat le not:. lioade soft felt hate, the latest fore
Made. The fat test may be niade eign fashion in this province. All
'at frequeet intervals, say mice: 'a oyes 'are immediately upon nie and
week. Since moertirig• milking differe as our otaltvart gcmifohier. wielkieng
•fruit plentations!. And; have more
than once beea diacevereil to be the
names of the blights that worts nee
seoe onthe foliage of our trees. As
a arbor of noxious weeds and pre-
datory: insects the 014 rail fence is
probably worse that the ensile wahl
DO DAIRY, •COWS PAY?
"Good Judges believe that in ,the
entire country one-third of the cows
kept for their milk do not ,pay for
.their cost of keeping, and aearly one, -
third mere fail: to yield &mum): Pro-,
This rattier startling statement
was made by otie..who.' is competent
somewhat from that made et night,
it In more reliable to take samples
of both for teetieg.
It is needless to say that proper
care alai feeding coutit for e great
deal in txillk produstion and May 'do
roueli to improve the milking quali-
ties of otherwise poor cows. Before
a cow is rejected the farmer should
be sure that tile fault of light pro -
dilation lies' in the eon and not ill
• Moo414.rWid
• OLDJratE CIDEle
When the farmer wants to make
eider nova-Aadaya, he tine his hig
wagon tied and driVee to the neW
steam. cider .press, a short .distarice
away. Once it wail not so.
orchards Were Terser Ond the statist
einer press tinknowri. /n 'its stead
tve had "the old °liter mill," a very
different affair, as those who made
eider 50 years ago very well renutte-
bet, Atom with. it Went the apple
butter netkien. the paringeand
zing bee, bee, to which ad the neighbor-
ing lads and lasses were invited, It
beat quilting arid eorn litiskings. 4f -
t%. that came the apple butter boll.
ting,,a ten or 12 hours* task: Talk
about your pink teas. They are not
to be 'compared with the butter boil-,
lag and ita accompaniments, They.
pared apples and sititzed them they
told stories tuid drunk the nereet
cider; they dewed, PhlYed names,
sang temp et hope and love, While
the young lovers strove to got to
the great Wooden stiteet ittcants
pahy and agitate the boiling lease,
_
alternately a long pmetingepole and a
snout oar, pueliee oft luta min -stream
they proceed. to diocese rae in detail,
"A man it Will be,. for so tail."
"DIA it is not; • look at the hear."
"Xot of this cottatty," "The bi-
cycle, better than any in theae pains:\
Perhaps it cost oven a tileueand
'yen." (X, 13, One yen equals fifty
cente.) 'Does not 'mow this coun-
try's speech'," and so on, in the wal-
la impersonal JApettese style. At
length One bolder than the rest tries
me witle "Ronorable, how ntueh?"
referring by Japatiese idiom te My'
• age, Then, finding i pan talk he
ilres
A: VOLLEV or gilI1STrols18
at inc, ranging from purely personal
miblects to enquiries about the sun
hi England. The rest of the pas-
sengers lifiten with great 'delight at
hearing etieli intelligible language
front a foreigner, and one oin IadY
retterkel "Demo! When these for-
eigners firtt came to the country,
years ago, 1 could not understand a
Word they said, but now we have
learnt to uriderstaled them well,"
tabely taking to herself and her
eompatriote an the eredlt of my
• Weary lioure. of /study of a language
justly styled topey-turvy. On the
road at the further bank a group of
inekeliat men came forward eagerly
for possible fares, Old and new
Japan Sestle each other, along these
eountry. roadie Ifere in his private
rickshaw Conies a grave gentieman in
gold eyeglaseee, etteariug foreign dreae
i& taw ls.tust iaohiort and & goof oos
ler tepee. lie Ile a Juidne an Um
wity home from carcuit. Pawing hies
1 meet linchibiet priest in %ergs -
ova purple robe* end silken *tone
bqiuNwrownlYi;o1:1114.4.. Thenby "as4InTopeci.tiCikAboiri
through fields redolent of Wane two
8"Pail;b134"in'edgirriertsit'elbiltt-tiva411"abilraltZ, free
wheelie, cyclometer* --doing a recerd
arrows the lelvaid. Gazing after them.
isttli. wonder axe a group of white -
robed pilgriins, staff in fiend, big
bundlen on their beeke, and large
round basket bate, all boiled for the
local Mecca, where twelve liundreil
pilgrims a day le only ehe average
in Afays Illgrons are of many kindle
nIere are some girle enjoying
the perpetual picnic iu thia shining
weather, but aleo -feeling that the
Merit of their journey will stand
them in goon 'need when thennmarry
as they are Poen hound to 40. pen --
nape going te a bridegroOm of whom
they know nothing except his name.
SEVEliAL 01./.1) LADIES.
desiring to gain merit in the iiiture
life, are piously- singing a weird•
dirge as they Plod along. Here are
a grout. all bandaged and eat", in-
deed to look open, for they are lap -
era. Behind tliens comes a weary
woman, pulling little wooden house
on rotigh wheels. In this sits a poor
'wretch whom the fell leprozy htts
deprived of botli his feet. Ile has
set out on tlie long; journey to the
eighty-eight shrines of this island,
trusting to other pilgrims who may
think to earn double merit by help-
ing him upon hie way; And, strange
as It may seem to enenark on jour -
toy' running into hundreds of milea
in a cart without a horse, euch pil-
grims seldorri.liave long waits upon
their journey, some one beiug oner-
ally teadar to pull the eart a mile
or two, But oft= the lepers die
of exposure or extiaustion' long be-
fore the Sourney's end. Some of the
piTgriins seem to receive alms, but
more have been rem terl 10 o on
pilgalinage by the fact of focial and
shelter failing at nom°, And these
will go from door to *door intoning
a dirge -line chant, in hope of receiv-
ing o few rin (gee equals 1-10 of a
farthing) or a handful of rice. Many
have. ingS .on the head of their staff,
:which jingle. as they walk. while
others have: aenmall hell which, they'
ring eolereely at intervals. .
Passing the pilgrims, eowe to
long. riekety wooden bridge aeross
another. shallow blue river, .These
bridges are built oii and in
'stormy 'weather, When the. river, feci
with countless streams •from the
heart of the euclecling mounteins,
swells nendezily into a raging tawnir
goad, they are /many taken to piec-
es and packed up on the hank ,till
the torrent has Subsided. "Wheeling
mY bicycle over the uneven planks, 7
oVertake "undokwai," which Is a
function Of the nature of
SellOOL , •
in which the. teachers Marshal.' the
saiolars :and take .them aix foot.•
sonietinies for' a "WO :or, three days'"
exPecfftion, to sbrne place Of interest
or 'beauty, by way of, enlarging their
minds, These ate boys, and tlinsight
of .a foreigner relieves the tedium:of
their :trudge aleng., the 'lusty road.
"How, are you, sir? T tun gladto
meet you," anye one la eager Eng-
liaVe grown. aceustotned to
-this fernt of address from Japanese
studeets of the English language.
Itt is, an‘parently, the, fleet sentence
;in a Conversation -manual Of 'greet-
ings, presumably aPplicable to either
sex; 31 return the salutation,- but.
*las! not as the manualprOceedea'S9
rny words fall fiat, Others .gather
round and lire ioff eentencee from the
manual, t� *hien unfortunately, owe
ing tomy ignorance -of tlia 'book.31
om not able to return irttethglbla
answers; so at length we, drop Mt°
the vernacular and compara.notes of
the way: . As r remount they Pa:-
litely, doll 'their cape and folio* Me
With; a enotous, of "Good-bye, eiel"
• Butntlie sun •sOolt gets hot, and. the
Sight of the .farm -house for whieli • n
am bound is eery welcorne, X am
glad to open „the lattice doot and
turn ,- into the cool partli4logred
tranee halt and call '"Gomen nasei"
'(lf 'Deign • 'arid •augtist glence''), A'
Pelien Pane/ 'alides itha the 'little hese
toss' appears, and with ineny. seines
end howe begs:tne to lift myself oti
to the col° 'mats, tviiicii ,n am no-
thing loth to nes 'dropping ran 'sleety
shoes. . She further presses zne -to
spread reyeelf upon' a small etaw
cushion, and then proceeds to fari
me softly, reniarkine on , the sever-
ity of the honorable heat, cunt door
her beet to make me forget elie toile
of the country rood,:
A had than is naturally suppicions
of every good Oran he meets.
You may have observed that it is
only ' the •foole who 'disagree ritx
When the Y. M. C. A. was stetted
on ,Tun e 6th, 1844, it had twelve
Members, and its weekly expeaditure
amounted to fifty pants. Now it
owes buildings valued at over $80,,,-
000,000, has in membership Well over
n00,000, ,
'"Illease, sir," said the energetic of-
fice -boy to the irtanager, "I wanta to
get Off Vile afternoon, Mr grandfa-
ther's dead." • "IS that so, James*?
When 'did be die?" "lir-.about Ave
years ago, air."
"Ilid you taterget the belt Of an
argument nsith your WW2" naked the
inquisitive man. "Oh, .yeel" • replied
the nrildentannered one. "But 31
tever got tlie beet 'Of her in an argue
ment I
tricks are capable of absorbing
about a pint of ,water each. Owing
to this circumstanee, the captain of
it ship that earries a cargo of bricks
has to be twain' that a leakage
Skies not go undeteeted, tlie water
being bucked tip nearly as fast as it
gets in.
If n persine is bittea by a suppos-
edly mad dog let him eall a physici-
an, and in, the meantime aiy leiro
ofi-juice to the wbund. This, le the
advice of tor, Idagorio; of the Pas-
teur Institute,
etippose you have eneountered
worse gales than this'?" asked an
hiquifyitive passenger of the sailor..
man during a very moderate bit of a
blow. ,"This yere ain't a gale," re-
sponded the salt. "Why, X Wee
(Met In the Bey o' Macey when the
*hid blew all the paint oft the bun
%narks. It took four on us to 'old
the captalu'e "at, oit 'is 'ad, end
even then all tlio tinkers was blown
off 'is buttons-, That Waif 0 blow
for yer. Why, even*" llut hir
this time the various paeeenger reit-
Wad that he was indite* "guyed,"
and lie did not give the liatighlative
tar the eh/the/pot funebtog•his inter-
esting barrette*.
MON;
7,NTICILIcAT1OX.A.14 LESSON'.
fiErr. 18. ,
Text of the LOPICIII 11,TO011 T.1 4.•
15. Golden Text, Amos/
v., 6.
Seek ye Me, and ye rhea iive;
60088et giteod l'a'
ecndllnottuegrvillhellllYleiiity
live, awl SO the Lord, the God of
hoete, shall, be with you, for thus
saith. the Lord ueto the house of
Anto;nn.el i(tverresems4144,00u, b144.1); ETulinairweseefin(ar
itcoinbge,:thz.evcile:74213.)t.ltoatoaightotof,:uohrulae,s-s
the Lord be 003, follow ilim"
farewell eehortet ore thoose you
this nay whom We will serve" (Josh.
xedife;atavtlev;*eli 1:1161nietv'ereacf:osdret:".13reletttoe°}1,o‘er:‘;:;Iffae*. tilitIyie .,M1 14otal
the Lord, .God; obey Ills Voice,
1.(7:eittvti d. n as:x. :hie:, -20). Whether it
fhle.olufm1.11:awelli,o7i t41%:;atee,luAl.th*Coril 2actird, k‘h.e.t
ant the life" (John lx51„1;5;iiettzliva..13:)t.
Godaitt nd14.111111.071,t"iiitiple1
;, .1
tiott of all otbers Ephi. It., 1, 12).
In the nays oi st`408. tIS noW, Men
would • de anythic ir rather num t"i'
eoive iieehy ij'wzxe d file gui Of
They would, undae pretense of war-,
ship, transgress et Bethel and Gil -
gall .cintlid a.tf 13.4e.t.'sillettil-fClocdnnsflaittib,eiv"Osfi4ecr-
Wives or thanksdiving were fell of
a s aefi1a44iI:vbit-
von, t riIet:iativ.
lea-
vonbnsgI:cc Ievery-
where •
In the Bible, ;even in Matt.
32„ where our Lord in descrila
ing this present age, the- mystery of
the Itingdomi-that • is, the. a:indite:1m
of affairs while the kingdom is re -
meted and poetponed.-. o
the Woman church) would that,-
oughly, leavenor corrupt her food,
!Never was the food given to the .
church raore. .corrupt then . new,
1 damental truth
'ia 'denied by many: Preachers and our'
Lord Jesus , Himself is not counted
a safe teacher, much less the Son of
'God; so we know that the age is
:drawing to 4 dose and the time of
'Israel's ' restoration drtisveth . near.
The word of the Lord thiongle Amos;
-and every other Prophet shall be Id -
filled. ''1 "I Will 'plant thein upon theie
.:land, and thav shall ao more be •
nulled up ont.7-61 • their land wliieh 7 .
have giVen thein, saith the Lord tilY
God' (Amos ix., 1.4, e5); Jere icxxii,
ala Zeck,. axxvii., 21, 22). -
They make a , man an offenderr for
a; Word and lay a snare for blin ,that•
reproveth in the gate and, tarn aside
the plat, for a tssng of naught. They
say; "propheair not ' MI to us • right
things; speak unto ' ns smooth
things. 'Prophesy 'deceits, cause' the
lioly One ,of Isrit..1 to teatie.from be-
fore us" (Ian xxix.; '21; ezcx., 10,
ill). • .Theenkncen eh°. thoughts of '.
ithe „ •Lerrl; neitber understand thic-
His
Coupsel 'nelec Thess ate
of unrighteousuess and °pores;
SlOfl Yet tfixe•!'„ord• loved them and
pitied thent and by. ' prophets.
umrigaebdt thhaevrne two ertcus7.rni,"ipt oonlItihmemth; at InHee
had compassion on klis peoPle mad
;on His dwelling place and sent theirs
;His messengers; but they ineeked the .
messengers of God anddeSpisecl itis
words. and .misused Ilis prophets. an -
111 the wrath Of the. Lord aireee
against His peoPle tillthere was no
remedy (11. Ghren. xxxvi, 15, 16)- •
:that is, there waS •n.o remedy or, as'
:hi the margin; "healing!' in etything:.
that they, could do. ' ...Yet ge. cries. •
from e)fo.ogdoinag.. ercialvsn, ist_t jtcibri4e
pit; 1 After r ire atI'Visited upon their •
ttilhiliieetritlue:toevathrv(le.Atty.lunreinne ti2e)oi,rna4dned:• anIlefrwoeutude
'time sent them "the Ransom, the De-
s' byr i d
liverer; the IjOVd, their Righteousness
;the Tot*: premised Meselah, hut'
what:le. the record?' ,'Ile was in.''.„
the.world,: and the World Was made. ;
by 'Hint; and the World knew Hirn
not.. ;Be came: unto His own, and .
His
).hope for sru, eeee' vitoeW
hap
of such, great sin and .ckying
'blood be.wu.en us and upon our 'xibiid-
ree' nave been scattered a byword
and it reproach aniong ell nations?
We could not believe eit if He had
not said it, but sleets has said
that for Hii3 own Name's seke Tie
Will fulfill His promise to Abraham,
Isaac . and • dace)). Ogle.
Pazek xxxvi, 2i2. Be will do it, and
we must ,beleieve it, "The gifts nnd
-calling,' of God. are • w,ithOut: aepea-
tanee. Oh, the depth of therieneS
both of the wistiora and knowledge
Of God 1 How amseareliable are His
judgments and His ways peat finding
Ont!" Mom. xi, 29, 33.)
But those Who are meek niough to
believe what Be has said by the
prophets shall know His ways and ,
His purposes, which are sure to he
• performed, for "surely the Lord Gad
Will do farthing, but He revealeth
His secret unto His. servantthe
,prOphets" (Amos iii, The
Spirit through Peter says that prop-
hecy IS 8, liglit in dark place un-
to Which we do web to take heed in
our hearts (IX. Pet. I, 19). But
there Ake many teachers in our day
who, 'though wits in their own esti-
mation, are foolish in the Lord's es-
timation, because they 'will not be-
lieve what the Lord has spoken hy
ZiseerVants the prophets (I itike.xxiv
25).
Xo matter what the wise of . this
world may think of us, lot us by ell
Means giVe eartteet fiend to the Sill*0
Word of prophecy, for "the testimony
Of Jesus is the spirit- of prophecy"
(IneV. nix, 10). By all means reed
Often the book of Revelation, for it
is the ohly One of all the books that
lute a very epeelal blessing for the
reader a,ad bearer (lter.
TOO, TOO.
The Pithool,tetieher had been en-
deavoring to explain to her pupils
the different Meanings of the Words
"to," "toe," and "tWo," and Anal.
ly, in order to find out if the 01111-
dred had properly grasped the idea,
she decided to give 4 test.
children, as quicicly as you
can, „I want you to give ma a SOft.
trace with all :three of these spell.
ings in it."
Madly 'Were the.worde out bf 'bete
mouth before up went a hand.
"Wig!, lame?" said the teacher in.
tterogatively, as the boy, who Was
the solitary Jewish ebild in the
atiAtered glibly"
• "Two clollare itt too manh te
vectit•"