St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 February 1891 — Page 6

I LAY i T T et N > X - AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Some Suggestions for the Farmer, Ranchmarn, Housewilo, Beeck<eper, Poulterer, Gardener, and Every One Connected With the Farm, THE FARM. Worn Out Pastures.

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would be an excellent pasture now, ‘but 1 it lacks grass. An cxamination shows - enough of several good grasses well scattered over the ticld to fully stock it, if they could only be induced to thrive and spread. There is white clover and sweet vernal, and what I call Llue jointor Vir- ] ginia blue grass (Poa compressa), and some of the festucas, all in fair quantivy for a start. But as a whole, the field does not support one cow well, where it ought to carry five. The question how to restore this old pasture, while continuing to use it as such; has been fully canvassed, and I have decided what to try. It evidently needs an addition to its supply. and mainly its surface supply, of plant food. For years its fertilizing elements have been carried off, day by day, in the form of flesh and milk, and nothing returned. My judgment is that this is not a case of one-sided exhaustion, but of general poverty. A good top-dressing of stable manure would probably be the best possible application, but all our manure is needed elsewhere. Shall I buy and apply chemical fertilizers? That would l undoubtedly be beneficial, perhaps secure | all desired results, but it would be expensive. I think I have an equaliv effective and more economical plan. Something must be bought to do this l : work, and instcad of buying fertilizers I | shall buy feed. The fleld will be over- | stocked with cows, nearly twice as many l as it can keep in good order on pasturage | alone, and to these a few sheep will be added. All these animals will be kept ‘ on the pasture, night and day and the cows milked there, and all will be fed a good ration of grain till taken to winter quarters. I shall feed liberally of cot-ton-seed meal and wheat bran, or sometimes middlings. I would be glad to use cotton-seed meal alone. But during most of the season equal weights of cottonseed an bran can be safely used, and the 1 rest of the time equal parts of the three feeding stuffs named. This has been written as if all in the future, but really the co\ugc of treatment, i r pasture and eatticy has already begun, and I have full faith in the satisfactory result. The mixtnre costs just abouat one ~ent & pound as feed, and it is used at vhe rate-of five pounds perday for every cow weighing 1,000 pounds, other animals in propertion. According to the numerous excellent tables prepared for our guidance in such matters, the manurial value of the mixture is nearly sl7 a ton. That is, with chemical fertilizers at thefr present market rates, the plant food contained in one ton each of cotton-seed meal, | wheat bran and middlings is worth just about 850 if applied directly to the land. Fed to animals as described, at least four-fifths of its manurial value reaches the land. Then the pasture gets £4O worth of manure, very well distributed, for every S6O worth (three tons) of the feed used. 'This isstated ina theoretical way. Butitis not mere theory, it is fact! The facts are scientifically (which means truthfully) obtained for us at our experiment stations, and we can depend upon them. The difference between the cost of this grain fcod and the value of the manure from itis S2O for every three tons, or three pounds for a cent. I must ‘ get about two cents in food value daily | for every cow fed, and as the result ()fl this feeding, in order to cover the deficit. Bat it is plain enough that the gmin-! feeding gives much better return than | this so there is actnal profit in the opera- l tion, quite independent of the better- | ment of the pasture. l Nitrogen and phosphoric acid are the | two elements of fertility, which are thus | especially returned to the land, in what ’ [ regard as a safe, sure, ccomical man- | ner. There is also some restoration of] potash, but pyobably not enough, and in time this will have to be added in a more direct form, as by appiication of wood ashes or potash salts. But for the pres—/ ent I am well satisfied that what is i wanted is secured with more certainty, | that moro is obtained for the dollar dis- f : sursed, and that the land receives its i aceded manuring in \_~-\'.v‘»:' fnrm_ by thi_\"\ purchase and use of feeding stutls than if | a like expenditure were made directly for ’l fertilizers.—_ American Cultivator. a B e e e 7 THE STOCK RANCIH. ; Yeeding 'orses. ‘ “The sole purpose for which horses are i kept,” says Professor Sanborn, *‘is for i the production of force and work. This | sets the horse apart from other domestic l animals in special features of feeding and care. His ratio of stomach to body I and intestines is also unigue, and calls again for special consideration. His stomach holds only some three and a half gallons, while his intestines are very large. The horse, however, seems to be specialized for the peculiar purpose of epeed. “The horse sells for some fifteen cents | a pound, while the steer sells for but two or three cents. 1s the difference one of food cost, that is, does the horse require in food for 1,000 pouncs in growth an amount in ratio to the difierence in cost more than does the steer? He certainly does not, although it costs some more, and unless there is a great difference in other dircetions is a much more valuable market for food than the steer. “Grerman experiments haveshown that | of very coarse foods the horse digﬂStS' somewhat less thawn the steer, but this difference seems to ce confined to coarse - foods. E. 1. Stewart gives us an account of teeding three colts, whose gain | was in round numbers two poupds daily, 1

eeeee e e e e . ® 1 which was as ecoromically made as that of steers. ‘“Boussingault, of TFrance, fed several colts on weighed rations. Three weighing 1,106 pounds, ate 19.8 pounds of hay and seven pounds of oats. This was in the equivalent of hay 2.6 per cent. of live weight daily, and gave a growth of 1.2 pounds daily, as good as airequal amount of hay would make on steers. I made some trials with four horses and mules last winter, which led me to believe that maintenance for a horse is slightly more than that for a steer of equal weight. The horse will not make as effective use of course foods as will the steer by pmobably from 4 to 11 per cent. It will make, probably, as good use of grain and very digestible foods as the steer. These foods cost something more per pound of digestible matter than dces hay, so that it is probable that ! horse flesh costs slightly more thangsteer | flesh, yet not enough more to cut any lﬁgure when the relative values of the growths are considered.” I Live Stock Notes. Stock shelters should not be crowded, l but one giving room to scrubs is by that i much too large. TaE useful animal for any purpose must be built on a good frame of bone and muscle, and carbonaceous foods alone, such as straw and corn, will not make that frame. THE best assimilated food is that which the appetite craves. The best ! feeding keeps the animal in such health that it, at all times, has a brisk appetite. Tur general farmer must be a man of genius if he can make as much profit [wit.hout‘, as with cattle. On hig farm he will of necessity produce much rough feed that hogs will not consume; that cannot be fed with profit to horses; and a part of Which, at least, can be sod to cattle to better advantage than it can be fed to sheep. IT {s consistent with science and practice both, that to grind the fegd for all kinds of iive stock is an eccnomy equal to fully one-quarter of the feed. THAT dehorning Is a reform and one that ought to be generally adopted, and on the side of humanity ! am tkoroughly convinced.—Waldo I. Brown. THE HOUSEHOLD, A Dictionary Holder, A dictionary is a heavy book to lift, and one that if left on the table occupies 1 a deal of space and is apt to have other i things placed upon it. That it is a book which should have its place in every fami ily has been said over and over; also that |t]u~. children should be taught to use it i often. | A practical ‘“‘dftionary holder” that ! has been in use for many years in a fami ilv, where the worn cover of the book i bears a strong though silent testimony to l its constant use, is illustrated herewith. ’Y—-— S e- - | :.‘1 . | =\ %"if\b' éi,’:i\\ dact o, i Y 4 I 1 A i She | T, %‘,Lmz‘m% % 2T me¢mammw&wzmuM SHELF FOR DICTIONATRY. It is made of an inch-thick, well-seca-soned board, 13 by 15 inches. It is snp-l ported by two iron brackets, such as are | sold at any hardware store. The bruck-l ets are serewed both to the board and the ’ ' wall, making all very secure. ! The cover is of dark-red felt. The lam- | |bx‘vquin is ornamented with a vine embroidered in crewels. The stems and leaves are shaded green silk,and the star-shaped flowers in Yellow. The edge of the lam- | brequin is finished with a fringe made by i cutting felt into narrow strips for a i depth of three inches. i To make this holder perfect, there shouldjbe a law as unchangeable as those of the Medes and Persians, that under no circumstances should anything but the [ dictionary be placed there.—Couniry | Gentleman. | | THE APIARY. ' ! Thoroughly Ripened Honey a ConfecI tionery. ! TFor the benefit of our young readers | who delight in making candy, we give | the following, which appeared in a late lissue of the Canadian Bee Journal. !Doub*]nss the same result could be ol)-’ | tained if the honey was placed in .\lml-' | low tins in an oven kept at a moderate | ; heat. A correspondent writes: [ | At our home we have had a coal stove ' i burning for over two months without in- | terruption, keeping the temperature f high, consequently very dry. Near this ,stuve is a pantry with only a lath and | plastered wall between. In the pantry | was a large fruit dish containing honey. The dish had been setting on the shelf’ next the wall far about a week, and ‘ ' when it was brought out the spoon was | resting on the top, which was tough and ‘ . had a glossy appearance. When pressed l with a spoon it seemed like a paper covering. We seratched a hole in it to ;\s-{ certain the depth, and found it to be between one-quarter and one-half of an ll inch. When placed on paper it looked | \ like soft wax, and one would hardly bt‘-l lieve that honey, by a hot dry atmos- | ‘ phere, would evaporate its moistare and l { become so thick. e thought this :).-t { good opportunity to test the difference in | quality and flavor; taking some of the ] honey from a sixty-pound’ tin and com- ; paring it in texture, color and flavor with this better ripened, it did not seem the same, The contents of the tin was specially selected, and we considered ibi as good as could be produced; but tests go to prove that the honey in the dish was 80 much superior that any one comparing them would not hesitate to give two or three cents a pound more for it. i We do not know how much loss thvmi would be in evaporating honey to tllatl extent; but we suppose the loss to be i from 10 to 20 per cent. We believe this | class of honey would find a market at a | price sufticient to warrant the vxpf‘ri-I ment. It would be necessary to place it on very shallow vessels, and subject it to a very low temperature that the color might not be changed. We faney a room properly arranged, with coils of | steam pipes to raise the temperature ' to a desirable height, at the same time aliowing a current of air to pass through, would soon reduce our ordinary honey to l the consistency of jelly. It could thvni |bi'. p]:]('t.‘d i'n tumblers, or any kind of i vesscl; in fact, paper bags could be m:m-l

JHERE is under | my care a large pasture lot which isin a sadly rundown condition. In one corner is a running spring stream, and a sow l shade trees sc:\-t~l tered about. The land has a frvor- | ‘abie cxposure and I could be ecasily worked,if that was 1 desired. But 1! don’t want to cultivate it. It is just the place fora permanent pasture, and that is what it is wanted f()r.. 1t

ufactured of a size and shape suitablpe to | hold it, and sold in 5, 10, 15, and 20 cent packages. It might even be sold by the penny worth, which would increase its consumption. ; e——— THE PULTRY YARD. Thoroughbred Poultry for Farms, Many farmers think the raising of thoroughbred poultry is too small g business to merit their attention. It is all well enough to raise thoroughbred horses, qattle, sheep and swine, or at least to improve or grade common stock by the use of thoroughbred sires, but the idea of doing that in so smal] g mabdter as poultry is laughed at. Let us apply afew figures to the subject, and see how they look. If the common scrub fowls weigh from four to six pounds it is thought pretty good, for many of them weigh much less, The standard weight of a Plymouth Rock cook is nine pounds eight ounces, and the Plymouth Rock hen is eight pounds. Now, is it not money in a person’s pocket to take a flock of fowls to market that will average four pounds apicce more than the scrub will? Here is a difference of forty-eight pounds in the dozen. With chickens worth 8 cents a pound there is a difference of $3.84 cents on the @lozen. Certainly there is a gain here, butthis cannot be had without the best of stock. If the objection is raised ‘‘bredders place too high a price on their stogk,” we will meet this. If you are goip@ to raise chicks for the general market, s you want is weight and symmetryg lOV fancy points. If yon can obtain a 12" oughbred Plymouth Rock cock yo grade your flock. Write to somg ®elliable breeder and tell him what you want, and ask him what he can furnish you and at what price. We did so once, and were informed that one which would please us would be sent for $3, and that if it had astandard comb it could be sold for $lO. We sent for it. When ten months' old it weighed nine pounds. Selecting twelve of the largest hens from one flock we made our first “pen” for graded Plymouth Rock. The results were very satisfactory, and there was money in it. At two years old he weighed eleven pounds, and got us many fine birds. Change cocks after the socond year, and you will soon have a flock that for market purposes will be almost standard. If you are situated so that it pays you better to raise eggs rather than broilers or fowls for the market, the same course pursued will bring you good returns for the investment in a thoroughbred cock of some of the laying breeds. If you think you can afford to invest in a small flock of hens or a few dozen eggs for sitting, you will improve vour flock faster. The average scrub hen will not lay over six dozen eggs a year, while any thor‘nnuhhrml fowl will lay at least eight dozen in a year, and some of them will lay sixteen dozen in a year, such as the Leghorn class of fowls, but we will take the average of thisclass and say that she will only lay twelve dozen a year; this is just double the amount that the scrub hen produces, and as it takes no more to keep this class of fowls, the profit is certainly with them. With a thoroughbred Leghorn cock and a little care in selecting neat, trim puilets from your floeck you can spon have half and three-fourths blood leghorn fowls, that will give you good saryice as layers. If vouare skeptical as t¢ results, try this matter of gradi il | poultry flock one HATANTESSNNT |\ ! will be pleased.—Farm, Feld and Stock~ man., l THE GARDEN, | Red Raspberry Culture. ‘ Expericnce has taught me that, as a rule, the plants are set too close and al- ! lowedt to form a matted row. I prefer | to set five feet apart each way and culti- [ vate ecach way with a shallow, sharp %rulli\';\lur, to prevent suckers forming. l Allow only from three to four stalks to a | hill; cultivate until the fruit forms, and | I do not cultivate again till the picking is done; then cut out and burn the old , stalks, and cultivate and clean out thor- { oughly. Never cut back the nevw growth while growing; trimming while growing causes laterals to form and makes late | fruit bads, which often winter-kill. | Laterals are liable to be broken by the snow and ice. I have tried this method I with great success. Defer top-trimming until winter or l spring. Avoid cultivating late in the j fall, which is liable to make a late { growth and winter-kill. It is well to ’ mulch in the winter with straw or coarse | manurc. [am of the opinion that it will be well to sow to cats in September, ! allowing it to remain as mulch to prevent winter and spring killing. ‘ Manuring the Grape. The Government committee in France, ! after several years’ investigation of the manuring of the grape, and the result Ens a series of experiments with potash | manures, report strongly against nitrdlgonous manures, including stable manure, as being “more hurtfal than usg- ’ ful,” which accords with common prag tice, also that feeble grape vines cons ‘sume as much manure as vigorous vines.. Potash should enter into the composi tion of manure for grape vines, the ela ments in the soil being generally in bad condition for assimilation; potash carries forward, in some way, with it the othe tertilizing principles. . Potash from the root passes to the vine, to the leaves, then to the twigs, t arrive at last at the fruit, of which it§ favors the development. Its migrations is comparable to those of the nitrogen-f ized elements of phosphates. The potash introduced through the root in the conrse of a season is not entirely consumed, since it is found after fructification, reserved in sufficient quantity in the wood and in the twigs, — ‘ Rural Messenger. & (iumes. ' WHATEVER tends to promote the zen’ornl health and thrift of the tree wil | also free both tree and fruit from blight and scab. Good drainage will aid in accomplishing this, so will more ()])(*;1 planting of trees, which allows more sunsl}inv among the pl'zm('hcs—tlm gruuf vitalizer and giver of life. ’ 'l‘_m-:m-: iS no market anywhere for ! half-grown potatoes. Growers injure the nnn'l\.’(-t,‘.\". themselves and neighbors, b e i ol S 2 o Ywhere 1o properly matured or full-grown stock, and growers } should not waste their products in the manner indicated. Tur farmer who has a neat and woellkept garden is nl.m:)"c sure to have g neat and well-kept farm, tidy out-build-Ings, stock in good condition, and general thrift all about the premises. ?\nd ! the housewife who takes pride in her | garden generally has a home to take pride in and to be proud of, ~ THE devil is a gentleman and wiil got up and - o il he ir teld. —Sam: Jones.

HAVOC BY HIGI WATER i v JOHNSTOWN, PA., 1S AGAIN FLOODED. S uffering and Devastation Caused by the Swollen Rivors—General Suspension oy Business and Travel. Concerning the rising flood, a Johns- 1 town, Pa., speclal says: Stony Creek began to overflow its banks and soon the water came pouring steadily into the streets and flooded the business district of Johnstown. Both the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers are rising rapidly and feeding the flood. Thieves took ad: vaptage of the excitement and began pluudering right and left. By orders of the Mayor armed men were detailed in all parts of the city to remove property to places of safety and to show no mercy to anybody who was seen to steal anything. A mounted patrol was established and worked in connection with the gangs of volunteers in the rousing of sleepors and the moving of property. The railroad people sent a crew of men who worked all night at the stone bridge keeping the arches clear. BSeven men imprisoned in the town iail were liberated because the authorities found that they might be drowned like rats in a cage, as did actually occur at the time of ' the great flood. Many bridges have gone down. All over the city business men hastily rigged pumps and are laboring to get the water out of their cellars, but with uraging results. Both the rivers are swelling from hour to hour. The marks show a depth of twenty-five feet, This is past the danger point, and both rivers and all their tributaries are growing larger. A height of thirty-throe feet at least is looked for, and the greatest efforts arec being made to meet this c¢mergency. Should %he water go higher ) LY : i e l !' uIl H;“[”““Ii' ’g !m{\”‘ m Um, s ” { l \‘.lf:"‘ 11} I‘r it H ll ]H[zg | w}. A WL L == (| ot A 7S ) STid e L‘ //\\\3:‘!. ‘T E|ﬁ-' l’-ﬂ/'“}— - NN it da I =] R T 0 e AR 22 | ’.l'. ! ! }“M 52T gfl 7 ,"‘:':'_‘ 5 == |/ Gl eT e Sl gt : s‘: * j /(’//7 ~},;.3’." i v %l. %‘ guw\) . S A5 >4 &~ o D »£ P T 7, ‘ k:ﬂ ; - .‘_/ 2{(,,3".:. LT s ~ - e 57 = 7 ¢ LOWER ALLEGHENY CITY. no effort can avert enormous loss of life and property. Word comes from the lower part of Alleghony that a house has been swept away and all its occupants drowned, but no names or particulars can be obtained at present. All the large storeson PennLksylvania ave a short \\‘nF from the T Ascnne vor, are flooacd, and tho | work of removing property is very daa{gerous and slow. All of the railroads are seriously disabled by landslides and washouts, and al!l trains which have not been abandoned are very late. At Jeannette many persons have abandoned thoir homes to the flood, and have sought personal safety on tle higher ground. Many bridges and houses have gone down already, and the water is rising at that point very rapidly. All rallroad traflic has becn susponded at Washington, Pa, since thoe bridges are not considered safe, and at Témper&nceville, a suburb of this city, the Chartfer Creek covers half the town and is spreading. Hundreds are homoless, and since &il the trains are tied up they can only seck the higher ground and take with them what few Dbelongings they can carry in their hands. A message from Bradford tells that both branches of the Turva Creek have become roaring rivers, and Davies, Florence, Foreman and Ann strects are inundated. The water has come Into the Bevario and Seifangs mammoth fron works and all the fires are put ont. At Pittsburg, the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers continue to rise and have reached the highest stage since the flood of 1884, the marks in both rivers registering 27 feet. The river men and those in possession of reliable information from up-river points expect the waters to reach the thirty-foot mark. In this event all of tho First Ward of Allegheny and a laige part of that city known as Manchester will be submerged. ¥very person in both cities owning property in places Hable to be affected by the flood is preparing for the worst. Already many of the mills, | glasshouses and factories along both % river banks have closed down, while ores of residences between Sharpsburg : ®d-iower Allegheny City are surrounded by water, in some instances recaching to 1 the second floors. Traftic on the Pitts#burg and Western Railway Lbas besn en‘tirely suspended between Sharpsburg {and the depot at Union Bridge. Water i covers the track from fohr to six fret | almost the entire distance. i On the lower Mississippi the continual rise of the river, says a Helena (Ark.) dispatch, is causing much anxiety, In the neighborhood of the WHliamson plantation the levee is quite bad and considered dangerous. A large body of men have been put to work to construct a “run around” in that locality, which is 300 yards in length, It is hoped that this will prevent an Incursion of the water, which is barely two feoet from the danger line. AT a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences the Prince of Monaco read g paper demonstrating the rpossibility of shipwrecked people, who have taken (o the boats and are without provision, being able to sustain life with what they could catch in a drag net trailing overboard over night. O~z of the chief features of the use of paper fabric for building purposes is the ease with which it can bo worked into sheets of any required width or thickness that will not bo affected by changes of temperature or humidity. Trne foHowing surnames appear in old English records: Duck, Duckreil, Drake, Sheldrake, Wildrake, Wildgoose, Mallard, Duckwonth, Peter le Goose, and Walter le Gows. Now 18 always the very best time if we will only make it so. ;

R T—_—_‘-——_-_—_——H ‘ SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY \ \ CONSIDERED. e—— A Scholavly Exposition of the Lesson— Thoughts Worthy of Ca'm Reflection— Half an Hour’s Study ¢f the Scriptures ~Time Well Spent. The lesson for Sunday, March 1, may be found in IL Kings 4: 25-37. INTRODUCTORY. The Golden Text of to-day’s lesson will give us the keynote for the more spiritual teachings 1o be imparted. There are the main lines of suggested reflection. The first is, that Jesus is the resurrection and the life; believing in him, though we dle. we shall live again. The second is the related truth that Cheist raises us up at oncs out of spiritual death into life eternal; «fol this,” he says, «is life eternal, that they 'might know thee, the only true God, and from Christ, whom thou hast sent.” It will *be well for the teacher to enforce that profound saying of our Lord in the 11th of John: «Whoscever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” And can we not follow it up personally as our Savior did, and looking deep down into the soul say, “Believest thou this:» ’ WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Went and came. A good half-day’s ride; about sixteen or seventeen miles from east to west, and slightly north, through the valley of Jezreel.—To Mount Carmel Probably one of Elisha's tarrying places, the spot being memorable. (1 Kings 18: 20.) ——Afar off. There seems to be some rea.sonableness in translating this as in the | Douay. Coming taward. It means more | than to be across the way ar opposite. The | main word of this phrase is rendered ‘at 3: 22: On the other side. Probably Elisha saw her across the valley.—Behold, yonder is that Shunammite. Literally. Behold the Shunammite. This. Not the same word translated this in v. 38. Now. Emphatic position in the Hebrew. This the Revision seeks to bring out by a slight change in the order of the words. See Variations.——And she sald, It is well. The Douay is more literal: And she answered, Well, i. e., she simply ggve him the salute of courtesy, like our good morning or good afternoon, passing on to speak directly to his master. To the hill. Having crossed the valley. ——Thrust her away. The word means to cast her out, as by force. So used at Deut. i 6: 19, of the Lord’s enemies. Like the discivles, Gehazi thought to protect his Lord’s gerson from intrusion.———-Vexed. Literally, itter, (Marah.)——Aid. Not miraculously revealed. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite. May her tribe increase! We have the spiritually “dead all about us. Qur children, neighbors, friends are lying dead in trespasses and in sins. What pains are we taking to carry thefr cases before the Great Healer, before { him who is the resurrection and the life? | This woman paused not, but under the same ' burning heat that had stricken her son sha { pressed on miles and miles to the north to ! where the prophet was. What effort are we | making to save the souls of kindred and ac- l quaintance? Do we act at all as if we were i concerned about them? Do the angels look i out from their watch-towers and say of any l of us, burdened for sculs, “«Behold, yonder is that Shunammite!» P | Iwill not leave thee. A servant and a | staff were not enough. She needed the ' great prophet himsedf, and she would not lesy him go. Here wasa very Jucob at wrestling. { The patriarch hung on, albeit in shrunken I weakness, until he could say, «I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.* There are times when only God will suffice us. His servant, however gracious, will not ¢o. His rod and his staff do not comfort. Wo want the shepherd and the king himself. And him we may have if we will, his very presence and power. Only there must Le T e cosntned, fully devoted, II will-not-leave-thee spirit. Jesus Christ stands at the iron door still waiting to be “#constrained.” Not coaxed. No, for it is the love of Christ himseif that first con- ! stralneth us, Heonly pauses for our whole- | heasted surrender of seif, and behold, he { has gone in to tarry with us. i Shut the door upon them twain. Have you ever been alone with a dead soul, an ‘ unconverted person? It is the time when the issues of life and eternity are decided. ’ Indeed, it Is the only way to apply effica- | ciously the medicine of the gcspel. The { public proclamation may stir thought, | awaken reflection, make ready for the per- , sonal presentation of the theme. In the ! great majority, if not in all cases, there | must be cne scul in which is life brought | into relation with the soul in which there is i not life ere the grace of God is imparted. I We heard Moody say not long azo, «In all | ’ my experience I never knew a man to be | converted for whom Ged had not used some i human instrument.” It is thus that faith { is made to spread, the spark leaps from } Leart to heart. It may not be in utter se- | clusion, it may be in the inquiry meeting, | but somewhere faith and unfaith must | closely confront each other. When the dcor | shuts upon them twain, then comes the | touch of power. | He stretched himself up-n the child. | There was no half giving of himself to the i task. Elisha literally, and we may say it | in no light spirit, laid himself out to the | pccomplishment of the gracious work to | ‘ which he was summoned. It was mouth to | mouth, eye to eye, hand to hand, the wholg | man joined and committed to the mattes, | body, soul, and spirit. Only thus comes | spiritual success. The work of an evangol : 1 is no trifling work; only the whole-hearted, | the whole-handed succeed. «He that win- ' | neth seuls is wise, and strong too, witha | wisdom and strength thoroughly given to | the service.” Paul was all things unto all ! mnen that he might by all means save some, | and when we study'the passage In its con- | nection wesee that in its major puarport it i has reference to Paul's thorough devote- | ment of self to each case on hand. «Yet { have I made myself servant unto all that I | might gain the more.” Go intoc a genuine, ‘ | spiritual inquiry meeting, where soul 1s | wrestling with soul, if you would see rhe, ' text at the beginning of this paragiaph practically illustrated. Call this Sbunammite. Blessed call.” Sha had heard it before. «Call this Shunam- | mite,” Elisha had said before when he aunnounced to her that she should embrace & son. There is blessing in the very summons, full as it is with promise. So muss have sounded the glad voices about Bawre timaeus at Jericho when they cried out, “Be of good comfort, rise, he calleth thee.® Reader, he is speaking the same to us to- { day. «Call this Shunammite,” our Lord s | saying, this child of my love, this recipient , of my grace. He has called us before, and ‘ it has always been to bless us. His call at conversion was very graclous. He calls us ' still that this same tender relationshtp may be continued and new gifis may be bestowed. He has betteér things yet to bestow. He still stands saying, «Ye will not come unio me that ye might have life.” And it mgn say, “Lord, we already have life at thy hands,” he answers still standing and calling, “And that they might have it more abundantly.» Next lesson—4Naaman Healed.” 11. Kings ‘ 5: 1-14. A | Florida Camphor. I The new industry of camphor production gives promise of being permanently established in Florida It is believed that in ten years’ time there will be more camphor trees than orange trees in Florida, and that the camphor industry will be more profitable than that of sugar. It is stated that t‘he camphor obtained from the Florida trees approaches more nearly to th_a.t of Japan than to Chinese camphor, since the odor of safro is distinetly vecognizahla. |

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