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I ON THE TRAIL OF THE | AMERICAN MISSIONARY By WILLIAM T. ELLIS ‘ s Dbt Amgioms devpeie & Tmbep A oy Sl S eof R Illustrated with Drawings and from Photographs. Ominous Muttering Now Heard in India

Calcutta, India.—lt is serious igporance of the world’s big news to be unaware that there‘'is at present in India-a widespread sentiment of resentment, if not actual revolt, against Great Britain, which may at any time find sporadic .expression in revolution. Great Britain, with the self-con-fidence of the strong, does not seem to be paying much attention to the matter, although some _persoms, Tecalling that this year marks the fiftieth anniversav of the mutiny, are nervously calling public attention to certain disturbing signs. . Anyone who gets as close to the na_tives as the missionary does—which is far closer than any other white man—knows that the foremost sybject of ' thought 'and agitation among them is ~ what they consider their wrongs at the hands of the government.” They claim that they are being dealt “with in high-handed and oppressive fashion; that they are denied anything approaching a proper measure of selfgovernment; iﬂat the public offices are opén to them in a decreasing degree, and that, in short, India is being ruled for the welfare of Great Britain, and” not of India. 34 The “India-for the Indians” Cry. Now a fair-minded observer cannot : by any means agree with all of the positions of the Indian agitators; nor can he withhold a great deal of admiration for the fairness and disinterestedness of the British officials. Nevertheless, he is bound to recognize the seriousness, not to say ominousness, of this “Swadeshi” or “India for the Indians” agitation. Without putting much credence in the talk of a national uprising against the white man’s rule, (as one precaution, the native 'troops have' never been perjmitted to serve artillery since the inmitiny) it cannot.be denied that the “deep-flowing, ever-increasing and 'widely-manifested tide of India’s national sentiment is worthy of most serious consideration.

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“Swadeshi” signs may be seen in abundance on the stores of tradesmen who have pledged themselves ‘o deal in India-made wares exclusively. This commercial ard industrial side of the “Swadeshi” movement has a direct relation to the-industrial teaching in <uission schools. The native papers are full of “Swadeshi” talk; snd it is not wholly absent from the praiseworthy national missionary organization which Indians have organized, the object being to further the evangelization by native Christians glone, unaided by foreigners. Furthefzore, one frequenil]y runs across ““wadeshi” mass meetings; I found ¢me under way in College square here, with hundreds of students listening eagerly to the impassioned speeches. It was rather surprising that the Y. M. C. A. student leaders were able tp gather a crowd, fully half as large, only 50 yvards away. ; The oriental dearly loves intrigue ang. agitation; especially ig this true of the Bengali “babus,” or educated Bengalis, who are foremost in the “Swadeshi” movement.+ Tke Bengali, contemptuously declares the Briton, is an-idle, boastful talker, and neither a fighter nor a worker. My own inquiries developed the repezted assurance, on the part of informed persons, that the “Swadeshi” moveraent has not, to any perceptible degree, at least, extended to the villages, which contain 90 per cent. of the native population. Bearing in mind the wndoubted Christian revival which is to be found in some parts -of India, and the potency of this new national movement, it is evident that mission work here is bound to take an added interest during the next few years. Making Men of Outcasts. . Whatever tends to put the stamina of manhood into this people contributes indirectly to the missionary ‘undertakinz. For the first and last ‘factor of Indian life is the caste system, whic> dooms the majority of the mlew # lot esteemed lower than of ths cow. If it were not for able divisions, no foreign power could Jong control this nation of three hun‘dred milliops of people. This same ‘a man to dull acceptance of his - rather than to a cherishing of the ‘ment, so that its golden age is in the . As s well known, the converts of R e g :s:*»s;’z% :» g i Y L‘ pfﬁ

the sweepers. Having nothing to lose by accepting Christianity, thousands of these have embraced the gospel; and they are to—day entering ~ the Christian church in large numbers. The motives of many are doubtless mixed, but they at least afford the missionary material on which Ato work. The material is not of the best, but it is human. Here, as in all heathen lands, it is to be borne in mind that the missionary is really after his converts’ grandchildren; no missionary known to me expects to see a completely transformed ana Christianized people come out: of raw heathendom. So he bears.with the short-comings of his Christians.. He laboriously tries to set them on their feet, and though they fall a hundred times from the ideals of self-respuect and self-support, coming to him with the bland assurance, “You are my father and my mother; please help me,”. he does not lose heart. For he has ever before his eyes the spectacle of outcasts who have been made over into noble men and women by the power of the Christian religion. . { How Sons Excel Fathers. :F Undoubtedly the missionaries are transforming their people. One of tha Methodist missiondries at Lucknow pointed out to me a young man belonging to their church, the youngest of three sons, whose father never earned more than eight rupees a month in his life. All the boys are products of the Methodist school. Oue of them is secretary to the governor, and all* are in government employ. winning their places in competitive examination; and the salary of taz most poorly paid is 150 rupees & month, or 19 times that of his fathsr. This is the sort of thing that is being accomplished all over India. The schools of India-are the crowning glory of mission work; they are the mills of which Imwanhood and womanhood is the finished product. Of a few of them I shail speak more

in detail next week, in my final article upon India. They are a distinet and powerful contribution to the forces which are creating a modera national consciousness in India. ¢ One phase of missions to which the government contributes its support, financial and otherwise, is the industrial school work. The Indfan ig proverbially unprogressive and uninventive; the mission schools are teaching the manual arts and ih modern fashion, so-that. new enterprises for the winning of the livelihood are being created and old ones revived.

For the Christians, be it understood, are practically a caste by themselves in most places. They are cast off by their families, friends and co-religion-ists; and it is necessary that some means' of livelihood, mnot dependent upon neighborhood favor, be taught them. ' Thus industrial training has a most practical relation to missionary success; since not all, nor, in these days of great ingathering, a very large percentage of the native Christians can be employed by the missionaries in any capacity. ~ The powerful social leverage which is exerted by female education in a land where women are kept ‘“behind the curtain,” is* almost incomprehensible to one accustomed fo the liberty of the west, and to the equality of the sexes. The missionaries have far-sightedly set to work to make the very springs of India society Christian. % - X :

Physical hardships are more numer- ‘ ous for missionaries in India than for those in any oriental land. . came to India in the hot season; some missionaries were cruel enough to gloat over this fact, for most travelers see India only in its delightful “cool” season, and then wonder why amybody should complain of the climate. The ‘missionaries have my sympathy; peo: ple who worl; as they ‘do in a temperature ranging up to 150 degrees are not out for a pleasant time. Trying to accompany them on their rounds nearly finished me; hereafter I prefer to read about their labors in a book. Accustomed though the American be to the plague as an occasional horror which merely peeps in at one of our seaports, it is not congenial to go ranging about the native quarters of cities where the deaths from plague number more than 200 a day. Yet there lies the missionary’'s lot, and he will explain that very few white persons die from plague, although cholera exacts a _heavy toll. Nobody seems to know just what the plague is; even the natives have come to a hazy realization of the fact that it is transmitted by some sort of dirt

son, meny natives may be seen wearing shoss and sandals, to avoid cuts on thelr feet through which the plague might enteg ik

Snakes are a real peril in India, some 69,60 t persons dying annually from snake bite. A certain nzﬁssionar’/ upon whom I called had native nurse for each of his two little chilGren; perhaps he thought I looked as i 2 I-regarded this as a missionary extravagance, for he explained that they dare not trugt a child outdoors for a minute alone because of the danger from snakes. Altogether, missionary work in Indiz is not an Edoenic exszerience—espaecially since at some wvlace the missionaries labor for years without a convert. One British veteran has had only three converts'in 15 years. At Benares the three strong missions average only two or three accessions a year. 3 (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) REAL ESTAYE MAN’S DREAM. Buys Last Lot on Most Crowded Spot on Earth, But Hasn't Collateral. “Speaking about the phenomenal value of real estate in the crowded parts of Manhattan island,” said the real estate man, “I had a dream last night of a 'place where land was so valuable that it made land here seem like aereage property. “This place was on an isthmus between the two hemispheres, a narrow strip of land that was the most crowded spot on earth. There was just one street along through this isthmus, and all creation that passed from one hemisphere to the other had to pass along this thoroughfare. 2 “Sure, this was a place to do business, if there ever was one, and by gracious there was a vacant lot on the great isthmus thoroughfare, just one vacant lot, with a sign stuck up: ‘For Sale, to Close an Estate. Inquire of So-and-So.’ . “And of course, I sort of saunters into the office indicated ‘on the sign right away, and I says to the man there: .

“What are you aseking for that lot down there at 22?” And he says: “‘A million dollars a front foot.’ ' «“‘How much is there of it?’ I asked him, and he says: .’ ¢ ‘«sgeyenty feet,” and I says:

“‘Well, I'll take it just like that, because I knew it was a bargain; never’d been offered at that price in the world, I knew, except to close an estate,-and the only wonder to me was that somebody hadn’t snapped it up before I came along. : “So I bought the only vacant lot on the great itsthmus thoroughfars, and the man said he’'d have the papers made out right away and I could drop in at 9 o'clock the next morning and pay the money and he'd hand over the deed; and then L went out and stood on the sidewalk and saw those wonderful multitudes of all the peoples of the earth,. passi‘ng in those amazing processions; crowds that made the people passing on Broadway and Fifth avenue, New York, seem like the lihes of stragglers workiang their way out along to some county fair; and then I goes down to that vacant lot at 22, my lot, and stands there and sees 'em go by from there, and pats myself on the back and says to myself: “‘Well, son, thank goodness,, you’ve finally hit up' on something that you're going to make something on; large money.’

“And I was congratulating myself like that, watching the people go by, when all of a sudden it struck me that 24 hours was a pretty short time for me to raise $70,000,000 in, with me & good ways from home; for this was a cash sale, you understand, cash on delivery of the deed, and I knew per: fectly well that I'd find a string of men waiting in the office in the morning, any one of them ready to snap this bargain if [ wasn’t there with the money, and I suppose .it must have been worrying over how I was going o get the $70,000,000 together in that time that woke me up.”—New York Sun.

Saloons for Waomen.

“When I was in Berlin,” said a clergyman,” 1 had enough curiosity to visit one of the peculiar saloons for women. that they have. there. The place interested me, and.l am bound to say that it was decently conducted. Berlin is the only city in the werld that has those institutions. In our country, where the women are nearly all tee‘totalers, we don't heed them. In England they don’t need them because English women of the lower classes enter the public houses and lean against the bar and sip their beer with as much nonchalance as their husbands. v : : “In this female saloon in Berlin about 25 females were gathered. They looked poor, but respectable. Some were smoking—cigarettes and cigars —some read the papers, and in a corner a little group argued noisily over -an article in a fashion magazine, much as men argue in their own sar loons over politics.” ¥

Church Made of One Tree.

A large Baptist church that stands in the City of Santa Rosa, Cal., enjoys tpe distinction of having been constructed entirely from a single tree. Of course, that includes the woodwork of the structure. The tree from which the timbers, lumber and shingles were cut was a giant California redwood. A considerable gquantity of the lum: ber was left over after the church building was completed. The building has a spire 70 feet high; an audienceroom capable of seating 499, a parlor capable of seating 80, a pastor’'s study 14x20 feet, a vestibule and ' othes

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Now that the American battleship fleet is well on its way to the Pacific, leaving the Atlantic coast practically without any warships for its .protection, the question naturally arises in the minds of a great many people as to what would happen if foreign complications should suddenly arise with some of the European powers? Would the big cities along the coast—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities—be at the mercy of a hostile fleet. Only a few years back, during the Spanish-American war, when the American fleets were ordered to Cuban waters in the course of the Spanish-American war, some persons were troubled because the shore resorts of the country were suffered to be left to the mercy of what proved to be the well-nigh harmless Spanish fleet. Apparently they assumed that it was essential to the success of the enemy that it should shell summer hotels with a great expenditure of powder. And now once again an American fleet, comprising a large proportion of the vessels of the Atlantic squadrons, has left the eastern coast of the country for a period of several months. No war is now in progress, but the “radioplane,” swifter than thought in its flight, possessed of the power to lift ships from their watery ways and transport them thousands of miles through the air, has yet to be invented. “What would happen to New York or Boston or Baltimore or Washington should war break out unexpectedly? Are these ports amply protected?” asks the man in the street. !

The war department makes little noise about the condition of the goast defenses. Such activity as one sees about the fortifications reveals little. The sun spreads a flood of gold upon the soft, grassy covering of their sloping sides, and, Somehow, one does not think of them as impregnable fortresses. Buch guns as one sees look innocuous enouzh. They do not ‘seem as formidable as one imagines they ought to look. In fact, however, these fortresses are mailed fists with a velvet covering. Army officers assert that no hostile war vessel could reach the upper: bay of New York harbor if it could be seen= It would be annihilated before it reached the Narrows.

Gunnery has shared in the modern tendency to specialize and to become highly scientifie in its practice. Gunners are now apecialists. <A battery i{s a highly organized mechanism working almost automatically. In the old days the men who fired the guns used to see what they fired at. Today, with guns capable of throwing a thousand-pound shell as far as the eye can see on a clear day, the men who discharge the guns no longer necessarily see the object which is to be struck by the giant hail they release. Until the shot is fired the gun itself cannot be seen above the parapet. » Hitting the target has become almost an exact science. By mechanical means the striking of a target has become so nearly an infalliability that the tugs which tow the floating targets are separated from them by only 600 feet of line. The men upon the tugs have no more expectation of being struck than if they were a mile behind the gun. They never have been struck, although the different batteries have frequent practice. The song of the shell to the men on the tug is not like the song of the Lorelei, for death does not follow in its wake. Té be sure, like motoring, one has to become accustomed to face what seems like impending death. Faith in the: gunner, as. in the chauffeur, and in“the gun, as in the motor car, is an .essential.

What is done by the guns in some of our forts is illustrated by what has recently been accomplished at two of the forts along the Atlantic coast. At Boston recently a target four and a half miles from the fort and moving along the horizon at the rate of five miles an hour was struck by every shot fired from a ten-inch battery in

INTELLIGENCE OF PLANT LIFE

Writer Declares There Is No Proof of Its Existence.

But as the animal is nearer to us than the vegetable, so is animal intelligence nearer akin to our own than plant intelligence. We hear of plant physiology, but not yet of plant psychology. -

When a plant growing in a darkened l room leans toward the light, the leaning, we are taught, is a purely mechanfcal process; the effect of the light upon the cells of the plant brings it about in a purely mechanical way; but when an animal is drawn to the light the process is a much more complex one and implies a nervous system. It is thought by some that the roots of a water-loving plant divine the water from afar and run toward it. : The truth is the plant or tree sends its roots in all directiomns, but those on the side of the water find the ground moisture in that direction and their growtb is sccelerated, while the

less than four minutes, the number of shots being six. The following day a ‘battery of 12-inch guns performed the same feat, bunching the shots more closely than did the ten-inch guns. The shots of both batteries were so close together at the target that they might have been inclosed in a rectangle ten by 20 feet. : A Battery Parrot, Capt. Kilborn, at Fortress Monroe, recently was called upon to fire at a moving target an unknown distance away. Actually it was about three and one-half miles away. Pyramidal in shape, it looked as it moved across the water about as a leg-o’-mutton sail on a skiff would appear at a distance of four miles. Every shot was a hit, and the fourth and last destroyed the target. The entire round was fired in one minute and nine seconds.

One of the firing tests is called “fire command.” In this test the gunners are expected to change the fire from one targét to another of the three in the string as directed and hit it without changing the speed of the fire. - The targets are suppesed to represent the vitals of a warship. This mythical vessel is considered to have. a freeboard, or height out of water, of 24 feet. In estimating the hits, the basis is that of a representative battleship. A shot which does not actually hit the target, but which would have pierced a vessel had it been where the target was, is counted a hit. Officers on: the tug towing the targets work out the score by means of the “range rake.” This is an implement which looks like a garden rake with a short handle. . The spaces between the teeth each represent a given rumber of yards. When a shot strikes *he officers sight along the handle and note how many spaces to the right or left of the center the shot hit. :

A gunner of the old school would turn gray if he had suddenly to adapt himself to the new methods in the face of the enemy. Hairline telescopes, surveying instruments, barometers, thermometers, anemometers, weather vanes, tide gauges and stop watches are required to secure the requisite results. The accuracy of the fire is obtained only by taking into consideration such details as the curvature of the earth, the speed of the target or the hostile warship, the range or distance of the object from the gun, the pressure or density of the air, the speed and direction of the wind, the temperature and age of the powder when placed in the gun, the height of the tide at the moment of firing the shot and the “drift” of the projectile. There can be no guesswork in securing such artistic results as making hits with successive shots. : : e The effect of all of these factors in the combination under all possible conditions has been worked out by experiments and computations and the result utilized in devising apparatus which automatically registers the information which is essential -at such a speed that halt a dozen half-ton shots can be thrown into a ship from a single battery in the space of less than four minutes. The “drift” of the shot is the distance to the ,right which a revolving projectile fx%:m a rifled gun will go in the course of a given distance. The range and the point where a vessel will be at the moment a shot could reach it are reckoned in actual practice at least once in every 20 seconds.. The establishment of 20 seconds as the interval when a fresh survey shall be taken is based upon the fact that no boat could change its speed or its course sufficiently in that space of time to affect the probability of a shot hitting it.

Largest Sunday School in India.

The largest Sunday school in the Methodist Episcopal church is said to be at Merut, India, with a membership of 4,134. There are 93 schools in the denomination with an average membership of 1,489. = . °

others are checked by the dryness of the soil. An ash tree stands on a rocky slope where the soil is thin and poor, 20 or 25 feet from my garden. After a while it sent so many voots down into the garden, and so robbed the' garden vegetables of the fertilizers, that we cut the roots off and dug a trench to k the tree from sending more. Now 3 gardener thought the tree divined the rich .paturage down below there and reached for it accordingly. The truth is, I suppose, that the roots on that side found a little more and better soil and so pushed on till they reached the garden, where they were so well fed that they multiplied ‘and extended themselves rapidly. The tree waxed strong, and every season ‘sent more and stronger roots into the garden.—Outing Magazine, ' The king of England buys no cigars. The czar sends him every Christmas a cabinet containing 10,000 of the finest Havanas. et :

raos | ONBROOK SIR R R I LTP A el W R e .;,;_._- »¥ AR N, - :' \F )’ 25 N A 7.8 3% The more succulent the feed the better it is for sheep. Be a good farmer if you are going to be a farmer at all. Clean and sort your seeds and thus insure larger and better crops.

Water, pure and plenty of it, should be provided for the dairy cows.

Young stock should be thrifty tp return a px‘oﬁtf2 Keep them growing.

Unprofitable at any time but especially in winter: Ticks on sheep.

Every crack in the barn means so wmuch added drain on the feed bin.

Molasses is growing in favor as a feed for stock, including dairy cows,

Sheep seem to have the call now, and wise was the farmer who started a flock a year or two ago. -

Feed floors for hogs save feed, keep the animals healthier and make it possible to keep the gquarters cleaner.

The crusade against tuberculosis in cattle may ultimately lead to colder stables and blankets on the cattle.’

Scatter salt over sprouts and stumps and other noxious weeds and the sheep will clean them up. .

Which do you keep? The cow that makes more than she eats or “the cow that eats more than she makes?

Perhaps you do not realize it but the dearest animal on your farm is the cheap scrub. - : :

Hogs need clean, pure ‘water as ‘much as the rest of the stock. See ghat ‘they get it.

Salt, sulphur amd charcoal .is the three-fold requirement of healthy hogs. : .

Unless the heifer calf has wellshaped bag and teats it is better to sell her for veal. :

Have a wind break in the cattle yard so that the livestock can find protection' on windy, stormy days:

The dollar earned by honest toil is the dollar whose influence for good rests not only upon the recipient but upon the spender as well.

The winter time is the busy season for getting ideas for next season work. Do lots of reading, lots of thinking, lots of planning. (

» The young animals should be turned loose in a roomy shed in the winter. Plenty of good feed and exercise will keep them in health and on the grow.

The average farmer will find raising draft horses more profitable than raising roadsters. It takes a born horse lover to successfully raise .tl}e latter. There is no excuse for the filthy hog pen. - This means you if your hogs are wallowing around- in mire up to t¢heir bellies. - : =

The milk bringing better prices is all the more reason why you should weed out the poor cows and increase the margin of your profits. - '

Cows compelled to drink from a water trough coated with ice will show the effects in the feed bill and the milk pail. .

Vigorous rubbing followed by applications of hot water will reduce caked udder in sows. Treat daily until trouble is passed. -

If the .members of the flock which seldom or never lay could be weeded out, the feed bills would be less and the egg profits more. :

Do not have the sheep pens too warm. The natural coat of the sheep makes it able to endure severe weather. L ‘

High and dry is the rule for locating the poultry house and yard. Do not suffer puddles to exist in the vicinity thereof. ; .

Hunger is a good tonic. Don’t feed the sick hog and in most cases he will get back his health and his appetite all right.

The farmer who thinks more of his own comfort than he does -of the ecomfort of his stock, is the farmer who will be disappointed on market day. - .

In cultivating the plum and cherry orchards remember that it must be shallow enough to avoid breaking the roots, for the broken roots send up shoots that suck the life of the tree.

A good deep hole in an out-of-the-way place is the right place to plant all the old tin cans, broken bottles and other unburnable rubbish which makes the premises s 0 unsightly. Hercules cleaned the Augean stables by flooding them with water from the river. You can clean and sweeten the atmosphere of your stables by flooding them with sunlight. .

“Milk fed” poultry are. p%lltry fat: tened for market on a milk and ‘ground oats diet. This food produces white flesh—just the kind that brings the fancy prices. : Sia

Kansas had an alfalfa day recently, 250 meetings being held throughout the state at which the. subject. was discussed in all its phases. Not a bad idea for some other states to follow. ; - S

Ever know a farmer to buy a poor cow because she was cheap and keep her for years and think he had secured a bargain? Many a man is pen:ny wise and pound foolish when: it comes to the cow deal. i

One poultry raiser says he feeds roupy chickens whole corn that .has been well soaked in kerosene, and bathe the swollen heads and eyes with a mixture of equal parts of kerosene and lard. : o i

- If-there is not a good balance struck between the feed bucket and the milk pail you better serve noticé on your cow that her room is better than her company. Get rid of the unprcfitable COW. : - 2

An uncultivated field will lose its moisture very: quickly, while a soil which is stirred to the depth of two or three inches so that a gurface mulch is formed keeps its moisture because the upward movement of the moisture is checked. - -

Exclusive corn diet is bad for the brood sow. ‘She cannot farrow strong pigs on such a fattening diet. Little corn should be' fed, but rather a ration made up of foods rich in protein, such as wheat bran, ground oats and clover. ° 2 :

A 'milking stool out of the core around which fence wire comes wound is the discovery of one resourceful farmer. He nails a bit of board on one end, to make, the seat more comfortable, while he uses the auger hole in the other end to hang the stool on a nail when not in use. :

Pride in one’s own farm, stock; -etec., is all right, but don’t let it become a stumbling block to you so that further progress towards better things is stopped. Always be on the lookout for the new idea ahd the new method which will increase the efficiency and profits of your farm. :

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson estimates that more than $600,000,000 must be regarded as value of the poultry and eggs produced on United States farms in 1907. The farm ‘price of eggs December 1 this year was given at 18.2 cents, which is’ the highest for a long time, with the exception of 1905. -

In telling the conditions néecessary for the production of good butter.one maker who has made it 4 life study says you must back of the handling of the milk and cream . consider first the quality of the cow and next the quality of feed you are putting in her. Mold or any other impurities in the food is certain to affect the flavor of the butter.

~Weston, the aged pedestrian, who has just walked from Maine to Chicago, says the roads are worse now than they were when: he made the trip forty years ago. Rather a severe indictment in view of all the money which has been spent in road improvement. Rather would it seem as though it had been misspent. How is it in your locality? Is road money being judiciously spent? If not what are you doing to bring about a better state of affairs? Fo :

The three rules for successful butter making as laid down by an experienced hand are: First, cleanliness throughout, from the time you go-to milk the cows until the butter is in the hands of the . consumer. Second, punctuality, churning immediately when cream is ripe, rinse, work, salt, print or roll at the right time, not just when the butter maker has time. Third, a good hand or power cream separator to separate the cream from thel fresh milk as soon as possible instead of letting the milk set 12 or 24 hours, absorbing such .impurities as have escaped the strainer and expect it to raise -a nice, sweet cream. =

A practical demonstration of the value of the trap nest in breeding up the laying average of hens has been made by the .slaine experiment station, where the trap nest system has been in operation for several years. Two years ‘ago the average production was 120 eggs per hen for .the year and last year it was’ 134 eggs per hen, which means that they had a gain of about 14 eggs per hen over: earlier records. I think that Prof. Gowell of the station, states that no males are. used in the breeding pens that have not been produced from hens that produce 200 eggs per hen per year.. Al the hens in their breeding pens have been bred from hens that laid 160 eggs per year, so they might be termed strong producers. No hen is used for breeding purposes until after her egg record had been known tor-i 12 months. . s

Soil © washing causes an immense loss to the farm lands of the country. The value of the material is not easily fixed, but at a moderate appraisalthe annual loss would exceed all the land taxes of the country. Besides' impoverishing the soil, the sediment pol-. lutes the waters, reducing their value for domestic and manufacturing purposes and® endangering the lives of those compelled to use: them, and causes streams to scour their channels and build bars; and through scouring and building it compels the lower rivers to shift and overflow, thereby reducing the value of fertile bottom lands. However estimated, the loss is enormous, and the chain of evils resulting from the annual erosion of this billion tons of soil is long and complex and leads directly back to ‘the farm. Hence in the last analysis the farmer is the one who stands this immense loss and he is the ope who must employ remedial de vices to check such losses. St

VIRGINIA MERCHANT RID OF A . VERY BIG GRAVEL STONE. Another Remarkable Cure of Serious 7o . Kidney Trouble. . - C. L. Wood, a prominent merchant of Fentress, Norfolk Co., Va., was sufS s -~ fering some mpntl_m -~ #A=F W\ ago with frequent at- ; SN\ tacks of hard pain in “ NP the back, kidneys % Sat. and bladder and the. . kidney secretions = wereirregularly e ‘ ‘scanty or profuse. 35 Ji% Medical treatment = N e failed to cure him. “At last,” says Mr. Wood, “I began usipg Doan’s Kidney Pills, and before one box was gone, I went through four days of intense pain, finally passing a stone, one-half by five-sixteenths of an inchn diameter. I'haven’t had a sign of kidney trouble since.” =~ : Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. e DEAR LITTLE CHAP. = , o 1 s v/’ \ 2 / J {3 4 \ A i | , " - _. A e 3 i e Bob—Say, ma, Wwere men very gcarce when you married pa, or did you just feel sorry for him? Why Sloan’s Liniment and Veterinary Remedies Are the Best to-Use. Let me-tell you why Sloan’s Liniment and Veterinary Remedies are the safest and most-: practical on the market to-day In the first place, Dr. Earl S. Sloan is the son of a veterinary surgeon, and from his earliest infancy he was associated with horses.® He bought and sold horses while yet very young. He practiced as a veterinary for 20 years and has battled successfully with every disease to which -that animal is subject. All his remedies are the result of experiments made to save life or relieve suffering while he was practicing his profession. 3 Any reader, by writing to Dr. Earl S. Sloan, 615 Albany Street, Boston, Mass., will receive ‘“Sloan’s Treatise on the Horse,” free. This book tells how to treat horses, cattle, hogs, and - poultry. THEN IT LOOKED ABOUT RIGHT. Coal Dealer Understood When Told : What Load Represented. John -D. Rockefeller, Jr., in ong lot the last addresses that he made to his Sunday -school class before abandon- - ing it, said of carefulness in business: “Too many business men are careful on one side, their own side, only. Thus a coal dealer whom I used to . know shouted one afternoon to an employe who was driving out of the yard: “‘Hold on there, Jim! That coal can’t have been weighed. It looks a trifie large for a ton to me. “Jim shouted back: “‘This ain’t a ton, boss. It's two ton.’ T “‘Oh, all right,’ said the dealer, in a modified gpe. ‘Beg your pardon; go ahead.’” _ i : The Golfers’ Limerick. ’ A well-known Derbyshire doctor has just resigned his membership of a Midland golf club, his letter to the secretary of the club reading: A canny old Scot writes to say - . That at golf he no more will play; He thinks nowt of the game, - So please strike out his name And his wife’s from the club right away. The seécretary of the club was not to be outdone, and he sent the doctor the following reply: = e A canny old Scot like you ought To play golf like a Vardon untaught; As I've now got to rub ! Your name from the club ; Your subscription amounts to 0. A : —London Daily News.

. FOUND A WAY To Be Clear of the Coffee Troubles. “Husband and myself both had the coffee habit and finally his stomach ‘and kidneys got in such a bad condition that he was compelled to give up a good position that he had held for years. He was too sick to work. His skin was yellow, and I hardly think there was an organ in his body that was not affected. : “I told him I felt sure his sickness was due to coffee and after some discussion he decided to give it up. “It was a struggle because of the powerful habit. One day we heard ‘about Postum and concluded to try it, and -then it was easy to leave off coffee. o ¢ “His fearful headachés grew Iless frequent, his complexion began tc clear, kidneys grew better until at Jast he was a new man altogether, as a result of leaving off coffee and taking up Postum. Then I began tc drink it, too. ; “Although I was never as bad off as my husband, I was always very nervous and never at any time very strong, only weighing 95.1b5. before I began to useqPostum. Now I weigh 115 Ibs. and can do as much work as anyone my size, I think. : “Many do not use Postum because they have not taken the trouble to make it right. - I have successfully fooled a great many persons who have drunk it at my table. They would ‘remark, ‘You must buy a high grade of coffee.’ One young man who clerked ‘him what it was, he said, "'why I've sold i ey R e R S R R RN T B R