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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-12-2, Page 2THE ORME OF THE BOULEVARD. By JULES OLABETIB, tOometrethe tat by R. F. Fenno et Co., Hewett in there t'110 evening, basin, a little thee to Lime:tele as he weuld eat, gone into J. tie men It Ituew tromeetblog eistatt thie catentst dm.; ague - new tememiumg tee of the ettieetent. lie foiled the leave very droll. A euuttl whitem had 3 IeW 10‘alti:h Isetere ewe a conommen wutsshop Itee beat traute lewd jute luguLrieus elate. 1:11.: ‘1%kiit& were pantted 3 dead black ttnd were ?mug wilt a zarge nim - u paintiugs—scenes from inaelted balls, goudolas, parades, serenades with haleeny scene, eome of the lovers' euelezvous a Venice and an ideal vietv of (Impede, with couples gaziug at each ether mind sighiug itt the gelato/as on the lageoms or in the Audalueian courte, and iza tbis terauge plztee with its ro- Bernardet was able to study him at his ase. The pale face, with its expression, uueasy and slightly intense, struck Ber- nardet at once. That white face, with its black beard, with its gleaming eyes, was uot to be paesed by with acmisual glauce. The waiter placed a glass of brandy before him; he placed his el- bows ou the table and leaued hie chim upou his hematite He was eviattutly not a habitue of the place nor a resident ta the quarter. There was eomethiug for- eigit about his timer:entice. Hie glanet• vas steady, as that of tate who eearrettet the horizen, looks at ramming water, contemplates the sea, asking for etnee "geed luck of the unktmewn. "It tvould Le etrang," thought leer. 'tartlet '*if a simple hat and no other clew slesuld in men the track a tne neea eye whom tve are searchir,g,- At eueq. With the ingenuity of, a Inas. ter a dramatic art, the agerit ltegan to plot wad to put into uction what law- yers, pleading aud meninx; and twistiug a cause this way and that, call an ef- fect. Ile waited until the manager in- formed thew that; they were about to pass iuto the cave of death mad gave leautzt: pentrees, souvenarsO Museet nr `i them all an invitatioe into thadjoin- of Carlo Gozztt the. teLles were made ta nue. eau then, profiting by the geueral e the to.rna of ccitins with little:ea cennee n);,,eweut., he „nittent,theg theme:we:en etanding upon then, and the NV:1th, I'S were dresetel as uudertakers' aeeisteamre, with elstay black hats trimmed with crape on their Iteaele. 't What eoisen will yen drink befere diet" asked one a the creatures of • anti, almost shouLter to shoulder, he waleed along reeirle him, thrrazgh a — 1 . narrow, dark peetege to a little rem, where, on a narrow etage, etood uptight an empty ceffiu. It was a doleful spectacle which the Cetera; du tepaltate (the wiuesheit of ruardet sat and gazed about him. the skeleton) tefteed to its clientele of Idle hewers and zuorbul curate:ay seek- ers attracted to its halls by these exhi- bitions. Bernardet knew it all very well, and be enew by eust what play of lights, witat gointuou cbeznical Otos, gave to the lookers on the sinister illusiou of the decomposition of a corpse in its narrow home. Thiel:Mau- tasmagoria, to which the people from the boulevard came in order to be amused, be bad seen many times in the little theaters in the fairs at Neuilly. The proprietor of the cabaret had ex- plained it to bine Ile had been ourioue aud, very keen about it, and EO he fol- lowed the crowd into this little ball to look once more at the image of it man in the coffiu. He knew well to what purpose he vould put it. The place was full. Alen and women were etauding about. The black walls made the nar- row place look still smaller. Occaeional bizarre pleasantries were heard and nervous laughs rang out. Why is it that, no matter how skeptical people may be, the idea, the proximity, the appearance a death giva them au im- preeeion a uneasiness, a engular seem - tion wbich is often displayed ineervous laughs or sepulchral drolleriee? Bernardet had not left the Ade of the Town; man with the gray felt hat. Ho could KO bis faeo distinctly in the light of the little hall, and could study it at A few "high tikes" from the ether , side a aris were there. Here and there 4 thief front that quarter sat alone at a table. Some elegeuts in white cravats, who had come there in correct eveuing dress, were going later, after the opera, to sup with some premiere. The polive *fatter understood very well why the blase came here. They wished to jog their eaded appetites; they souglzt to find some pinient, it curry, spice to sea- son the tameuess of their daily exist - emcee The calla shaped tables upon which they leaned their elbows amused. them, Several of them had asked for 4 haVareitle, as they were on milk diet They poiuted out to each other the gas flaming from the jets fashioned in the form of a brolteu Ada hone. "A little patieliCe, iny trielidll," seid a sort of manager, who was dressed in deep mourning. "Before long we will ittljourx to the eave of death." The drinkers in white cravats shout- ed. Dern:mite experienced, on the con- trary, what :time. Bernardo; would have called a "creepy" sensation. Seasoned 0,3 be was to the bleetitt and villainous aspect of crime, he felt time inetinctive shrinking of it healthy and level headed bourgeois agaiust thete drolleries of the brain diseaeed upper axes tuel the pleas - entries of the blase decedents. At a certain moment and after an ex- planation given by the ma:eager the gas his ease. In the shadows winch lurked about them the youog eu an 's face seemed like a white spot The officer's sharp eyes never left it for it moment. The manager now asked if some one would try the experitueut This was to step into the open cadu—that box, us he said—"frora which your friends, your neigbbore, can see you dematerial- ize and rethrn to nothingness." "Come, rey friends," he continued, in his ironical tones, "this is it fine thing. It will permit your best friends was turned off, and the lovers in the gondolas, time guitar playersthe sin. ers of Spanish songs, the dancers infat- *tutted with the Itfoulin Rouge, changed euddenly itt sinister faehiou. In place of the blond heads and rosy cheeks skulls suddenly appeared. The smiles became grins which showed the teeth in their fleshless gums. The bodies, clothed in doublete, in velvets and Sat- ins, a moment ago, were made by SUM interior illumination to change into hideous eiceletoes. In his remelting tones the manager explained and commented ott the timetantorphosie, adding to the funereal spectacle the pleaeautry of it buffoon. "See, diseased Parisians, strhat you will be on 'Sunday!" The light went ont suddenly; the skeletons ditappeared; the sighing lov- ers in the gondolas ma the lagoons of Venice reappeared; the Andalusian sweethearts again gazed into each oth- er's eyes and sang their love Bones. Some of the women laughed, but the laughs sounded constrained. "Droll, this city of Paris," Bernardet thought He sat there, leaning back against the wall, where verses about death were printed among the white tears—as in those lodges of Freemasons where an outsider is shut up in order to give him time to make his will— when the door opened and Bernardet saw it tall young man of stalwart and resolute raieu enter. A black, curly beard surrouuded his pale face. As he entered be cast a quick glance around the hall, the air of which was rather Oleic with , igar smoke. Ho seemed to be about 00 years of age, and had the air of an artist, it sculptor, or it painter, together -with something military in his carriage. But wbat suddenly struck Bernardet was his hat, it large, gray, felt bat, with a very wide brim like , the eombreros which the bullfighters wear. Possibly, a few peoplepassing through Paris might be found wearing suck hats. But they would probably be rare, and in order to find the seller of Jacques Dentin's portrait Bernardet bad only this one clew. "Olt, such a mean, little, weak clew! But one must use it, just the same!" Bernardet had said. What if this young man with the strange hat was, by chance, the un- known for whom he was searching? It was not at all probable. No, when one thought of it—not at all probable. But truth is sometimes made up of improba- bilities, and Bernardet again experienc- ed the same shock, the instinctive feel- ing that he had struck the trail which he felt when the youngman entered the wineshop, "That hat!" murmured Bernardet, sipping his rine and stealing glances over the rim of his glass at the young matt. The unknown seemed to play di- rectly into the police officer's hand. After standing by the door it few mo- ments and looking about the place he walked over and seated biz:Itself at the coffizx shaped table at -orbit& Bernardet was seated, bringing himself face to face with the officer. 03ae of the wait- ers in his mourning dress came to take his order and lighted another candle, which he placed where its rays fell di- rectly on the young man's face. Thus dematerialize after becoming clutuged in color. Tbe flesh will disappear, and you will see his sheletou Thinke think, my brothers, this is the fate witica awaits you perhaps soon on going away from bere. Thiuk of the various illness- es end deaths by accidents which await you. Contemplate the magi° spectated offered by the Cabaret du aquelette and remember that you are dust and that t dust you meet return. Make wisely this reflection, which the intoxicated imumn made to azzotigr man in like condition, but asleep, 'And that is bow I shall be on Smuttier.While waitiug, my broth- ers and sister, for nothauguess, look ma the deuiaterialization of your coutten- porary, if you please." The play a lights, while the mart was taking, began to throw a greeniee pallor aud t& make remote at firet trans - Intent upoutbe orbits of the eyes; little by little, the spots Keeled to pew stronger, to blaeltea, to emalatege. Tee features, lightly *iced out, appereed to change gradually, to tete ea pray and contused tiuto to slowly dieape. re• as under a veil, a damp Taper winen covered, devoured, that face, now uu- ecognizable! It has been said that time nmanuer in which this phenotneuon w:3s meramged WAS a ren,arkable thing. It is rue, tor title human body seetned liter- ally to ditaelve betere thia curates crowd, now bet:me silent and frighteu.' ed. The everk of death was accemeliete ed there publicly, thanks to theilliesita of lighting. :the livid man who smiled a ft:NV 1110111i1IIIS before wee tmettioelese. teed; then, pretelug through some eintea. km changes, the thele eceumed to la/ Tanns mauve. front him it plow and orayer wi — Suddenly the plat' of lights made Fll do the work we Leave the dirt excavated along the sidea /aim dieappear front the eyesof the spec- of the trench, tangs mai they Saw, thauks to retlee. Take a spade and in the bottom of tious made by mirrere, only a, skeletou. It was the world of specters and the the trench cut a mealier (me of 4 Syade'a secret of time tombs revealed to the width and a not deep from eua to end. d crowd by ti.kiud of scieutitio magle I Lay atioks or short stripeboard across thia narrow treneh and On these lay a tern. common fencing board. This will leave Bernardet did not desire to wait Ion- the small trench sufficieutly open for ger to strike his blow—this was the ex- ventilating, purposes. In one end of the act monieut to do it, the psychologieal neatuattag ditch pat a square, pip raoment I made of boards, six inches insule, and The eager look of the Mall ha the let it slope outward frora the end a the eombrero revealed a deep trouble. There ditch at an allele of 45 degrees. NOW was in this in(lic snawthing ninre t1l"11 commence piling in the mangels and fill the ditch, beginning at the ventilatmg pipe already set, and fill tin they rise In the shape of a neat rick 3 or :tee feet above the grouud. As mu as you have few feet in length of the trench FO fined shovel on dirt sufficient to eowr he inaugels so that none ceu be seen and coutinue so building and so cover- ing till all are stored, At tbe last end of the rick put in 4 pipe set at an angle like the one above mentioned. If your rich is more than 30 feet long, set one up in the middle, come. nectiug it else with the narrow ditch in the bottom. Use no straw or Jitter of any kind betweeu the dirt and tbe num- gela. After ail are stored and covered have straw convenient, road when the ground is about to freeze for the wln ter put 00 a coat of straw that when pressed dotvu will be aboet FiX inches thick and cover with a light coat of dirt. When the weather is cold, shove an old gunny sack down the venthators; when warn, take theta out and let the wind blow through tbe slanting ventilators to change the air. By this method I have kept mangels till April as !rub as when first pulled—not wilted in the least. Commence feeding from one end when not too cold, and the dirt and straw are at hand to close it up with. It is easier to put them up in this way than to get them to aud from You have coinplete control of the tem- perature and can place them wherever it will be most convenient to use them. Timis is not my invention, but is a modi- ned form of the metbod used in some parts of Europe for keeping sugar beets. Try it, farmers wbo bave large quanti- ties of mangols, beets or turnips to feed, 8TOR1Ne ROOT CROPS. A, Modified Form of a. Method Used I Europe. A method of keeping mangels, beets end tureips for stock feeding, which the one who describes it says he has never seen equaled for cheapness and convenience, has been presented in the Iowa Homestead. Select a pittee that will be convenient for feeding and open a treuch 6 feet wide at the bottom and 20 inches or 2 feet deep. Let the sides be sloping. A Fia tvaikcce over and seated himself at the coffin shaped table. to see you deliquesce. Are there any marriett people here? It is only it ques- tion of testing in advance the pleasures of a widowhood. Would you like to see your husband disappear, ray sister? My brother, do you wish to see your wife decompose? Sacrifice yourselves, I beg of you. Come, come up beret Death awaits you!" They laughed, but bore and there mt laugh sounded strident or bysterieal. The laugh did not ring true, but had the sound of cracked crystal. No one stirred. This parody of death afreoted even these hardeeed spectators. "Oh, well, my friends, there is a ca- daver belonging to the establishment which we can use. It is a pity. You may readily understand that we do not take the dead for companions." .As no one among the spectators would enter the coffin the manager, with a gesture, ordered one of the superneoner. axles of the cabaret to enter. Prom an open door the figurant glided across the stage and entered the oofen, standing uprigbt. The manager wrapped him about with a shroud, leaving only the pale face of the pretended dead man ex- posed above this whiteness. The man smiled. "He laughs, messieurs, he laughs still," said the manager. "You -will soon see him pay for that laugh. 'Boum rit et mourat,' as Bassuet said." Some of the audience shouted ap- plause to this quotation from a famous author. Bernardet did not listen. He was studying from a corner of his eye his neighbor's face. The man gazed with a sort of fascination at this fantas- tic perforraance which was taking place before hitn. He frowned; be bit bis lips; his eyes were almost ferocious in expression. The figurant in the coffin continued to laugh. "Look, look keenly," went on the manager. " You will see your brother the curiosity melted by it novel speeta- cite The nuetelee of his pale face twitela ed as with ph:pleat eutlarieg. In Itie eyes DernartItt reed an internal agony. "Ali:" thought the pollee officer. "The living eye is a beok which 0110 CAW read as well as a dead man's eye." Upou the stage the play of lights was rendering even mere sinister the figu- rant wit° was giving to wig morbidly ourlous crowd the comedy of death. Gee would have now thought it was one of thee° atroeieue paintings made in the studios of certaiu tepeuish painters iu the putridero of it Valles Leal. The flesh, by it remarkable seientifio (mamba - nation of lights, was made to Seem as if falling off and presented the horrible appearanee of it corpse in a state of de- composition. The lugubrious vision made a very visible shudder pass over the audience. Then .Bernardet, drawing himself up to Ids full height sons to get a good VIONV of the face of this num so much taller wad approaching as near to him as possible—in fact, so that his el- bow and upper arra touched the young mama's—slowly, deliberately dropped one by one these words: "That is about how M. Revere ought to be DOW"— And suddenly the young man's face expressed it seusation of fright, as one sees in the face of it pedestrinn who sud- denly findk that lie is aboutto step upon a viper. "Or how he will be soon," added the little man, with an amiable smile. Bernerdot dissimulated under this ami- ability and intense joy. Holding his Br= and elbew in an apparently careless manner close to his neighbor as he pro- nounced Rovere's name, Bernardet felt his neighbor's whole body tremble mid give a very perceptible stare Why had he been so quickly moved by an unknown name if it had not recalled to his raind some frightful thought? The man might, of course, know, as the public did, all the details of the crime; but, with his strong, euergotio face, his resolute book, he did not appear like a person who would be troubled by the recital of a murder, the description of it bloody affray or even by the frightful scene which had just passed before his eyes in the hall "A man of that stamp is not chicken hearted," thought 13ernartlet. "No, no." Hearing those words evoked the image of the dead 333an, Rovere. The man was not able to master his 'violent erection, uud he trembled as if under an electrical discharge. The shudder had been violent, of short duration, however, as it he had mastered his emotion by his strong will. In his in. voluntarymoveraent he bad displayed a tragic eloquence. Bernardet had seen in the look, in the gesture, M the move- ment of the man's head, something of trouble, of doubt, of terror, as in a flash of lightning in the darkness of night one secs the bottom of a pool. Bernardet smilingly said to him: "This sight is not a gay one." " the maven answered, and he al- so attempted to smile. ' He looked back to the stage, where the somber play went on. "That poor Rovere I" Bernardet said. The other man now looked at Ber- nardet as it to read his thoughts and to learn what signification the repetition of the same Ilt02/10 had. Bernardet sus- tained with a naive look this mute in- terrogation. Be allowed nothing of his thoughts to be seen in the clear, child- like depths of Ws eyes. He had the air of a good man, frightened by a terrible murder, and who spoke of the late vic- tim as if he feared for himself. He waited, hoping that the rams would epeak. In some of Bernardet's readings he had come across the magic rule applica- ble to love—"Never go; wait fax tie, other to come" (Ne ire, fats venire) -- applicable also to hate, to that deal al raagnetism between the hunted map and the police spy, and Bernardet wait- ed for the other to `4corae." SUNLIOHT IN Ti -3 'E STABLE. A. Neglected Item in the Practice of •Oood Dairying, Mr. John Gould of Ohio says be bas been in the habit of paying attention to the whadow lighting of the many stables which he sees, wherein dairy cows pass most of the winter, and under the title of "sunlight in the stable" he records in The Country Gentleman impressions received: I am struck times without gaunter with the little regard which is paid to the proper lighting of a settee, and the little attendee thew men seem to pay to the value of sunlight in their stabiee. The usual rule is to put in u few mall wiudows along tbe northern walls—few of any kind or size. In a large new barn which I xecently visited, the eemilneement stable in which more thau 40 cows were tied had no light admitted from uortb, east or west sides save when doors were open and only fpur sunlit windows on the south side. There Evems to be a prejateice against admitting light full and tree into a eta ble, a belief that comfort in it staide consists of malaise it dark end witletut ventilaticat, and then the owners woneer aletut a ttet many rhinos that lial;u• while their cows are in tbe winter Me- ttles. A etable should be as light as the sun can make it and the windows so hate - that the sunlight can fall ma the me= and 'dome, anti if one isafraid diet there will lre too much faiJiu Of tem- perature (linden the teed nights by re. fraction put outeitle Rom wiutlowe t.n. the air space iutioeed by whieh is 0 Eutratient protection. One of the Meet dairy hods I ever eaw waft actually basking in sunlight. There were large windows with oatside storm saeliet. The temperature was kept very OVvii. and veetilation was secured by Ones and dempera. not by either cracks in the walls or apex* windows. The teetimony everywhere is that the men who have these well tiglated stables are warm in their praise. In my barn I would no zuore think of going back to the clerk little windows than of readopt - hag the 1850 plan of letting my cows sleep in the wood lot in whiter. 'rite verdiet everywhere is that the cows are better cared for, do better and are in better health and streagth for the uhun- duet light. A cow with the suulight Janine"on her in the stable is having all the advantages cif a sun bath, and thus tenet s zern weather. In tbe well lighted, bunny stable thereat:ea tiryne.,;s to the air and freedom from staleness or tlisagret aide 61111'11S Wbiell repay o*ie ver and over fax the littitt outlay. I emphatically Leticia) that the eow stabla should never he a subbasement affair or Le walled in ou the north eimie with it witelowlees stone wall. Stably:I should run north and south and be st arranged that the morning sun mune In on thnt eide. the DOM hhi008 in the south end WindOW, and in the afterianon the west windows 'should get their hare. My dairy barn is built this wily, ;I I regard it cute capital plan, though e 'windows are not extremely large. With sunlight and absorbents I have not the ltemet difficulty in keeping a warns, dry stable. SIDE VIEW 01,' COMMUTED but let the covering dirt come in con- tact with the roots. Use no straw till the second covering. Have your ventila- tors so that a cat can go in at one end and out at tbe other. Seaweed as 0 Manure. While seaweed is not strictly com- parable with farmyard manure, it has about the same value per ton. it is an all round maeure, specially rich in pot- ash and specially poor in phosphate. While, just as in the case of farmyard manure, it is difficult to place an exact money value per ton on it, it has a con- siderable value for all round manuring if supplemented with some phosphatic manure, and in special oases by some sulphate of ammonia or nitrate of soda, and it has it special value for all soils deficient in potash and for all crops which speoially require potash. Its rich- ness in potash partly explains why it is so largely used for potatoes ' and why when used on pasture it is said to cause such a marvelous growth of clover. A subsidiary but by no means unimpor- tant advantage which seaweed has over dung is that it does not carry the germs of diseases or the seeds of weeds, says Professor J. Hendrick, a Scotch agri- culturist. Irovr Dees Ventilate Their Homes. The buzzing sound that bees make in their hives and whioh can be often heard by those standing outside is not prodtmed for the sake of the music. It is to expel the bad air, and a row or file of them may often be found near the entrance engaged in that health giving operation. Meanwhile there is another little company standing just outside, "flutter- ing" the fresh air in. An this time the little messengers between hive and flow- er gocome and go and beush past the ventilating corps with their little loads J. J. H. Gregory says in American are instantly in glory (Phil. i, 21 23; Ilj of honey. Cultivator many that in all bis many years of Cm. v,8), but our bodies rest in peace and handling sweet corn he cannot recall al under His care whose temples they wen at ones in this praiseworthy peewee ef • • season when he found so few nanny 1 until the resurrection, giving fresh air to thea homes. ears among his Seeds. Report of Bureau of Anima/ Industry, It is announced that the fourteenth Annual report of the bureau of animal industry will be Available for distribu- tion by senators and representatives About Deo. 1, le98. It gives the 11111n - her and value of horses, mules, milk eows, oxen and other cattle, sheep and swine in the United States tr the years 1867 to 1896, iechateive, and by states fax the years 1870 to 1896, inclusive. These etatittics, with those on the im- ports and exports of animals and animal products for the years 1892 to 1896, in- clusive, make the volume valuable to all who desire to have such facts in form for ready reference. It also contains it comprehensive 11- lustrated article on "Sheep Saab; Its Nature and Treatment," by Dr. D. E. Salmon and Dr. Me Wardell Stiles, The article gives a brief history of sheep scab, as wetl as it full description of the four kinds, All the raetbods of treat. mitt are considered, including the for- mulas of the different kinds of dips iu use. The various dipping plants are ful- ly illustrated and described. TiE SUNPIY SCI -10014,i LESSON X, FOURTH QUARTER, IN. TERNAT1ONAL. SERIES, DEO, 4. Text ef the Lesson, IT Eines xU, 8-20, Memory Verse, 19—Golden Tex; Ps, (mix, 2 -- Commentary Prepered by the ' gee, D. NE, steams. [Copyright. MS. by D. M. Etearns.1 8. "I have found the book of tho law la the house of the Lord." By comparing II : Chron. vvviv, 14, it looks as if 10 might have been an original copy of the law. Josiah was the last good king of Judah, and he reigned 31 years. In the thirteenth year of kis reign Jeremiah, began to proph- esy and continued a prophet of the Lord for 40 years (Jer. 1, 2, 3). It is written ef Josiah in II Kluge exile 25, that there was no king either before orafter him who like him turned to the Lord With all his heart and soul and might. Hezekiah eX. celled all others in his trust in the Lord (II Kings xviii, 5). Josiah began to reign at the age of 8 years. When he was 16, be began to seek God. When be was 20, be began to cleanse the land of idols When he was 26, be repaired and elmased the tennde, and kept the greatestpassoverthee bad been kept situ* the days of Samuel (11 ('bron. xxxiv, 3. 8; xxxv, 18, 19). It was while they were working at tbe temple that they found this book of the law. 9. Szhaphan the scribe reported to the king that the money,whieh had been gab. ered in the house of the Lard had hem de. livered to the overseers of the work, and it is said that they were so faithful that no reds:ming was made with them of the Money (verses 4-7). We do not read at auy lacb of funds for the work, for the Wen - hat of Eishaddai (the mighty God wbo le all sultleient) was upon, His faitbfUIpcople. 10, 11. Sheehan veld the king of the book that had been found, and read it ta him, and when he beard it he rent hie clothes. Josiah was possessed ef it poos and contrite spirit and trerabled et God's word (Ise. lxvi, e; left la). It is written in Es. ix, 4, "Timm were assembled every one that trembled at the words of the Goa of Israel because ot the trangression." Many are iedifferent te the word of God and never reed it or hear it read, Slaw who read it do not give heed to it. Melly, even of those weo are supposed to be preachers of the word, dishonor it by' doubting it and qUestioning it, while hut few comparatively tremble at it like Jo - elate 12, 13. "Go ye. inquire of the Lord fot' me and fax the people. and for all Judah, coacersdng the words of this book that le found." The priest and scribe and other* were thus commie:mooed by the king. It may have been such passages as Deut. =will, 154: . Lev xxvi, 14•40, that se stirred Josiah, but whatever pertiona spa. Chilly aireeted him be evidently believed what mell Prolei,ing Christians do not today believe, that there is such a thing as the wrath of God and that It Is a very verities matter not to believe and obey the words of the Lord. To set one's been up- on and observe to do the words of the law wee said to be their life, but if one would not hearecu God had Bald that Ile would require it of him Moue xxxii, 46, 47; xviii, 19). A common Ono of unbelief now Is thnt God is too good to punish any ono and that there is no place of Ore and brinistene either for the devil or his fol. lowers. 14, "They wont to lInidah the prophet- la ess who dwelt in Jerusalem, and they communed with her," So there were at other times a Deborah and an Anna who know the Lord better than others (:Nag. iv, 4; Luke ii, 36). God has His hidden ones to whom lie reveals Himself and ‚whom Ile uses to instruct others when His time comes. It may be a Joseph in a prison, or a Daniel who has been crowded out by it younger and more progressive pnrty, an Elijah at some cherlth, or a Stephen or a Philip ready for slay manner of service. Wherever you are be sure that you aro learning to kuow God, for in due time He will call you. IS. "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the num that sent you to me." She had, no words of her own for them, no opinions or suggestions, no words of peace- ful flattery, but only a faithful message from the Lord, regardless of what tho might think of it or of her. When God has a messenger whom He can use, He al- ways gives a message, He said to Moses, "I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say." 16. "Behold I will bring evil upon thla place—all the words of the book which the king of .Tudah hath read." Every purpose of the Lord shall be performed, for bath He said and shall Ile not do it? Or bath He spoken and shall He not make it good! (Jer. 11, 29; Num. aril', 19.) All that God purposes to do is as good as done, fax - Bit is able to carry out all His plans; there is nothing too hard or wonderful for Him. Be cannot err, neither can He fail nor be discouraged- He did not fail to lay upon His dear Son all our sins. Ho will not fail to id t His wrath fall upon all who de- spise His Son and His love. 17. "My wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched." This because they forsook God and wor- shiped the works of their own hands. They forsook the fountain of living water and made themselves cisterns which could hold no water (Jar. ii, 13). We think it strange that Israel could possibly turn from the living God to worship idols of wood and stone. Yet in the so called service of God among us there is a great turning from the shnple worship of God in spirit and truth to that which is possibly worse tha,n be idols of Israel. 18, 19. "Because thine heart was ten- der, and thou hest hurabled thyself before , the Lord, when thou heardest what I : seeks." Although wrath would surely . fall upon the nation, yet upon Josiah and I teach 8,9 humbled themselves before God there would be mercy. At one time the Lord said that though Noah, Daniel and! Job were in the city, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness. Again He said that, though Moses and Samuel stood before Him, His mind could not be toward Israel (Ezek. xiv, 14; Jer. xv, 1). There came a time when all -that certain righteous ones could do was ta , sigh and cry because of the sins which they loathed, but could not prevent. On I, them God set His mark of approval (Ezek. 1 ix, 4). We cannot rectify the wrong things 1 that are all about us, we cannot bring righteousness everywhere to be manifest- ed, but we can, each one for himself and herself, be right with Gad through Jesue Christ our Lord, and He will then use us to bless others as far as He can, and it shall be well with us. 20. "Thine eyes shall not see all the ; evil which I will bring upon this place.", When the time comes for us to he called , out of these mortal bodies, we ourselves ; Precautions Against Orange Bawl: - weed. De not grow the plant in flower gar- dens or carry the flowers home for bou- quets. Do not buy hay or straw from farms kuown to be infected with it. Do not mix the hay from infected patches with clean hay. It would be better to burn the hay from infected patches out after the seed is mature rather than ram the risk of scattering the Feed by hauling, feeding or in tna• num. Agitate the necessity of destroying patches of weeds growing along road- sides, on abandoned or neglected farms and on waste places it; towns. Learn to recognize the plant, so as to early detect its presence on the farra and destroy it. A.gricultura1 Brevities. At the Ohio station ground ma,nured during the winter direct front the sta- ble for oorn and another piece jest be- fore plowing in the spring gave higher yields of oats for the earlier applica- tion and lower yields of wheat the fol- lowing years. The new sugar beet factory at Bing- hamton, N. Y., goes into operation un- der the marmageraent of a Belgian beet sugar expert and expects to convert the product of 2,000 acres into sugar. The New York and Pennsylvania honey production this season is report- ed below the average. A short potato crop is the estimate this year.