St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 October 1891 — Page 3

THE WAY THINGS KUN IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Thing* Which Have Lately Happened Within Its Borders—Some Pleasant and Some Sad Beading. —Abram Anderson, 88, an old pioneer of Greensburg, is dead. —Typhoid fever has caused twentylive deaths in two weeks at Harris City. —lt is estimated that Indiana’s wheat crop this year will be 63,000,000 bushels. —Patton & Roberson’s commissary at Petrona was blown up by dynamite. Loss $4,000. —David Hays had a horse and buggy stolen from a public hitchingrack in Muncie. —At Waynetown the earthquake is said to have cracked the walls in Masonic Building. —Three miles of electric street railway will be in operation at Kokomo by November 1. —Morgan County has the largest sorghum factory in the world. It is located at Mooresville. —The wife of O. B. Brooks. Kokc^ has disappeared. Left a note saj^o^. she would never return. —The women of North Grove, Miami County, are making war on the only saloon in the place. —Wm. Cavenaugh, Washington's marshal, has been arrested, charged with kid napping Joe Able. —Hezekiah Davis, the wealthy founder of Shipshewana, died at Goshen after a lingering illness. —Twenty-one deaths from malignant typhoid fever occurred in the neighborhood of Columbus in eighteen days. —Rily Smart, a young farmer near Madison, ran into a hornets’ nest and was stung to death by the vicious in- - City Civil Engineer Mann, of New Albany, is considei ng the proposition to pave the streets with vitrilled brick. —Sarah Robinett, daughter of L. Robinett, of New Washington, was burned to deatli by her clothes taking tire at a stove. —Rev. A. N. Somers, of Black River Falls, Wis., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Unitarian Church of LaPorte. —The Lafayette public schools have been closed until the weather becomes cooler and an epidemic of diphtheria subsides. —Mrs. Morely, a milk merchant of New Albany, was caught under her wagon in a runaway and barely escaped with her life. —George Lewis, of Evansville, went to sleep on the railroad tracks in a drunken stupor, and was chewed to 'AdiiiiY fl css, while working in a saw-mill at Corydon, fell against the saw and was killed. He was 45 years of age, and leaves a family. —The Emerson Manufacturing Company, of Sunman, struck a vein of water at thirty feet that shot up live feet above the surface. —Edward Dowdie, Shakerville, charged with drunkenness and assaulting his mother, was taken out by White Caps and whipped. —Thomas Cory, of Colfax, was 1 seriously hurt by being struck by the east-bound Big Four train. His wagon was demolished and the horses crippled. —A party consisting of 100 farmers are scouring the woods in Pipe Creek Township, Miami County, fora tramp who has deen burning hay stacks and I insulting women who refused to feed him. —Gov. Hove\' commuted the sentence of Charles B. Harden,convicted i by the Marion County Circuit Court of larceny, and sentenced to the State i prison for two years, to commitment ! in the Reform School. Harden is 18 : years of age, so that if he serves out the requirements of the law he will have a year longer than he would have had had he gone to the penitentiary. —An aged and wealthy farmer of • Martin County was assaulted by two i men one evening in October. 1885. j After a hard struggle he was over- , powered and killed. His murderers! lied and baffled discovery until last ■week, when the grand jury of that j county returned an indictment for h the murder against John Crabtree, of ' 1 Dubois County. He was arrested, and 1 : is now in jail. Whetherthe evidence 1 is sufficient to convict is yet to be ! learned. —John A. Lysles, employed in John A. Ratz & Son’s sawmill, Evansville, met with an accident from which he cannot recover. He was working in front of the double saws, when they became choked up. ! and taking a ragged piece of timber ! he attempted to clear the saws. One | struck the piece of timber, driving it back with such force that it was driven into the lower part of his abdomen, passing clear through his body. His physicians say he cannot recover. He has a wife and two small children. —Michael Sullivan, aged 70. an Irishman, was killed by the Vandalia express train at Greencastle. He was intoxicated, and was on his way to the County Asylum, where he has made his home for the past few years. —Thomas Efferson, a lineman employed by the Postal Telegraph Company. fell from a telegraph pole,seven miles east of Indianapolis, sustaining serious and possibly fatal in’uries. Both of his arms were broken,one eye was gouged out and his back and hips were badly bruised

—Crawlordsville is to build a mile race track. —William Slater and William Herron, Brazil, are owners of a boneless dog. —A Valparaiso kid has lot his mind on account of smoking cigarettes. —The Consumers’ gas line pipes were blown up with dynamite at Lapel. —Marion Gilman, Paoli, has been declared insane. He has a mania for murder. —Bloomfield is on a boom. More than SB,OOO worth of new streets will be built. —G. W. Ronnehe’s barn, near Shoals, was struck by lightning and destroyed. —Dr. J. S. Thomas’ barn and horses were burned at Winamac. Loss SI,OOO. —Cornelius Skinner, a wealthy Lafayette bachelor, was found drowned in the Wabash. —Glass wage dispute has been settled at Muncie and the blowers have returned to work. —George Bamford, a miner, was struck by the cars near Knightstown and cannot recover. —Gen. Lew Wallace, Crawfordsville, has been granted patents on a fishing rod rail coupler. —The street railway system of New Albany will be operated by electric motors within six months. —Harry Gardler, the 10-year-old son of R. K. Gardler, of Worthington, fell from a tree md was killed. —Since May 1 $52,000 worth of real estate mortgates have been paid oil by Morgan County farmers. —Harrison Hogan, of Jeffersonville, got a judgment of S3OO against his wife for household goods that she sold. —Mrs. Annie Hamler, of Kokomo, has sued Elmer Nuding, of Elwood, for $5,000 damages, for breach of promise. — Pearl Locus, a 14-year-old colored girl at Kokomo, is in jail on charge <>f stealing sll4 from butcher Bailey, of Burlington. —John Swisher, an old resident of Yorktown. Delaware County, fell out of a haymow, receiving injuries from which he may die. —Gov. Hovey and his staff, together with several invited guests, will make a tour of Mexico, starting from Indianapolis Nov. 1. — Perry Anderson, a new brakeman or Panhandle, had his hand n ’.shed at Columbus, within an hour alter going to work. —James Reese, a 16-year-old Imy of Charleston, has disappeared from his home, and his mother h not expected to survive the shock. —William S. Dukes, one of the pioneers of Boone County, died at his in his sixty-seventh year. —Adam Hess, of Harrison County, fell against a saw and had Imth legs cut off. He bled to death before assistance could be obtained. —The Muncie Pulp Coripany is preparing plans for the erect ion of a large paper-mill to utilize the pulp and avoid shipping to New York. —Mrs. Rebecca Mahoney, of Mount Pleasant Tow nship. Delaware County, i died at the age of 00. She was one of the old residents of Delaware County. i —Dr. J. H. Taylor, President of the State Board of Health, ha- placed in j quarantine a neighborhood about a . mile east of Crawford-ville, where the , most malignent type of diphtheria is raging. - Mrs. Emma Ha-kins ordered ( Chas. Johnson to leave her hoarding i house at Henderson. While -he was gathering up his things. John-on -hot her in the neck and forehead and made his esca|ie. — Harry Lathrop, of Jcffer-onville, was attacked by a muskrat as he was going along East Chestnut street. The pugnacious little animal made a bold stand, and contested the ground until killed by a blow with a cane. The rat bit viciously, and would spring at Lathrop with savage fury whenever he would attempt to pass it or make a motion to strike. —Human bones have recently been found in the mound known a.- the ‘•Knoll" on the farm of D. P. Hinderlider, two miles south of Medora. They are supposed to be the bones of an aboriginee belonging to the race ; that once peopled this region. Axes, arrows and other relics have been ' found there before. The place is of peculiar interest on account of the great number of mounds to be found I . in Ilie vicinity. —Matthew Brady, the !>-year-old son of Mr. J. P. Brady, of Evansville. while attempting to cross the ! street railway track in front of an I ! approaching ear, -tumbled and fell । against, the mules. The animals । kicked him causing him to fall lengthwise across the rail, and before the car could be stopped the wheels passed over one of his legs and across ■ his body, cutting him almost in two. He was picked up and carried into a store near by, where he died in five minutes. —William Dougan, a farmer near | Princeton, got on his horse to chase three men who had been tiring at his dog. The horse returned riderless and the farmer was found unconscious by the roadside with an ugly wound in his head. He can not recover. —Burr Sanders, a 12-year-old lad, was caught by a belt while playing in the Crosley paper-mill at Marion, and was seriously mangled. The right thigh was crushed and there were severe abrasions of the body, caused bv the belt. His recovery is doubtful. —— - I

AGRICULTURAL TOPKSnj A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUJJO RURAL READERS. J.n pc The Farm Should Be Conducted tn qj Business Way—A Drop in Fine 81^^ Predicted—The Dairy—A Yankee Heij. House—Orchard and harden-Househoi, Hints. Bic. Business Methods on the Farm. z, -yy il'H all the exher1 \/\/ tations to farmers Al 1 Jl JL to ni ake greater

use of business methods on the farm, we see veby few of them explaining how such methods should be applied, or wherein they would bo specially valuable, I writes Webb Donnell in the Prae*t leal Far in er. Generalizing is not the best way to make truths plain. •To come down to the root of the matter at once,,

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let me ask the reader how he Islo know whether his hogs, his poultry, . cows pay him a profit, if he feed** class of these animals from grain bin? The cows may be makimrS profit on their feed, and thus concealing a deficit that comes from unprofitable hogs and hens. Or, the cows and hens may be concealing the fact that the hogs are running in debt to the farm. It Is the same with other kindsof stock, when when all are fed from a common quantity of feed stuffs. Occasionally it is even worse than the case mentioned, the cows, hens, and hogs might each and all return less than the cost of their keep, and still tin 1 truth be undiscovered, provided some other branch of farm operations brought in sufficient revenue to make up the deficiency. How can it be told, whether a certain crop of corn, oats, wheat, or potatoes, has been a profital le one to raise, if no account is kept of the cost of preparing the ground, dressing, caring for, and liars esting the crop? I would have separate grain bins for each kind of stock; then upon the first day of January of each year, or upon the first day of one of the spring mouths. If one chooses, a large blank bo* k should be pro* ured. ami every time a sack of bran or oats Is put into the |H>ultryhouse, its cost should I e charged to ! the account of the poultry. If ground meal, bone, or any other article of food Is purchased for the hens, let the cost be charged to them, and whenever eggs or market poultry are sold, let the proper credit be I given, together with a credit for the eggs and poultry used on the table. If the hens have eaten a certain number of j bushels of vegetables, there value should be charged to the poultry account. At the end of the year St will be pretty plain how the fowls have paid. i'he dairy will have charged to it the feed that has been placed in the stable bins, together with the value ot the hay. ensilage, and root- eaten: and credit will be given to the same, for the butter soU ami eaten, the milk sold or used, a»f the estimated value of the skim miik^M out. The dalrv should also !»c cr^^Tj 11 t it is not necessary tn go further Into details, to show that this is the only way by which we can tc** whether the work Is profitable or i L This is the only way. if it is not pr«>. table, by which one can tell what branch j- handicapping all the rest. It need- no great knowledge J book-keeping, to classify these Important fa< ts. Anv one w ith good common sense can make such debit and credit entries, under the In adit g of ea< h branch of his farm operations, as ho can himself readily understand, when he comes to reckon up the cost and the value of artieh - soh. and on hand. The great point is to legin keeping such accounts, and the sooner one logins, the better. LIVE STOCK. l oi.k Ont f.ir a Drop. A gr< at many who have gone into the business of brei ding trotter- will soon find themselves on the wrong side of the fence, so far as tnam-ial matters are concerned. Too many people emt arked in the business when it was on the boom, just as they did when Jersey cattle were selling for tens of thousands of dollars and everybody thought that all that was necessary to make money was to buy a herd of them, and begin breeding. It will be this way in the trotting horse bu ness, । wept that a horse cannot pr Juco any commodity as marketable a- I titer, and is therefore really a luxury. Os cour.-e there will always be a legitimate market for the light harness I horse, but men who think they are going to make money after starling out. by paying thou-ands of dollars for a stallion. and having broodmares worth from Fl.ooo to 85,r>00 are almost certain to be mistaken. A good many men have made money by breeding trotters, but almost without exception they have started in a 1 modest way, and developed the colts by | their own horses and their own mares.) In other words they have made the ibiod they owned fashionable, or at: least helped to do so, and in this way! have greatly enhanced the value of ; their goods without [tutting themselves to a great expense in doing so. The market for trotters will always be I fairly good, and at reasonable [trices for i -tailions and broodmares, there will be t ino occasion to conduct trotting-horse farms at a loss, but at the boom prices that have been paid for stallions and . mares during the last three or four years there is certainly no chance to . conduct breeding farms in a legitimate manner, and make any considerable ■ aniount of money out of them. [The New York Sportsman. No More Fights. Here is the cut of a pig trough which I have used for the last year and find of rn^rT^FT rUld I great value where a number of pigs are kept together. It is partioned in such a I way that each pig has his own stall, and

uqj j - , ’ ore there is no rooting each other the trough and filling it up with JOA\ It Is made of two-inch plank, one >piS has wide and the other twelve, P.TG I,ed U P against the pen.—[B. L. er in Farm and Home. Djid L THE POULTRY-YARD. A Yankee Henhouse, J 0 is a henhouse that can bo built ll[M , if one has any Yankee blood in 11,.... i think it makes a neat warm house for hens when it is desired that hens should lay through the winter, providing they have proper food ami care besides. It is boarded up first with common lumber and tar-papered and then sided with clapl oards. The frame >s 10 by 10 ft., but can be built longer if more room is wanted. The studding is 5 ft. high at the back and 18 inches in front, or on the south side, with 0 ft of glass and 12 inches of board at the top. Ihe glass sash is 6by 6 ft., covering the entire front with the exception of the 18 nches at the bottom and a 12 inch board ’it the top. It slants back 3 ft. 3 inches from the perpendicular and forms a part T" 1 t Ui jT-A— P >^4 '*l H l-i * u of the top roof. The north side has a shed roof, with a rise of 2ft 7 inches. I cut the boards 9 ft. 6 inches long ami let them come ver from the ton 1 ft. to form a cover for the curtain which I had fixed up, and which rolls upon a long [Mile with a crank at one end to let down over the glass of cold nights. For the nestsand roosts I made a platform 2 ft. high by 2 ft. wide and 8 ft. long. The roosts are 1 ft, above it over the center. A is the roost, B the nest, C the opening behind the nest for the hens to go in from the back, D the doors to it to reach into the nest from the front and E the space under the next which is open so that the hens have the whole of the floor room. I have given it a thick coat of whitewash which has filled up all the cracks in the common lumber on the inside so that it looks like a hard finished plastered house. For the floor I use three inches of old plaster. The plat1 form under the roof enables one to clean [ out the droppings once a week, ther*“by ' ■ keeping the house clean. The house is j nicely ventilated by a pipe five inches in 11 diameter, running from 1 ft. to 3 ft. 3 । inches above the roof which takes off all the foul air from Hu- floor [I. B. Love1 • Joy, In Farm and Home. Blow to 101 l with Ponttry. To fail In the chicken business, Wm. F. Rice, In Farm and Home say-, clean your henhouse once a year. If your chicks have lice, let them alone. If you ■ can find only one kind, borrow from your q neighbor and ‘tart right. If there are 1 any crai ks in the house, don i dose them, a- you may wish to ascertain what roup and s« ,e head arc. In case the roup ap- . j exp- I' l * l 11 ru ” B w '*l stop after a ,o "IB th° chickens, and then -w .t .. ... b I nrtinr fn summer, keep a cess[MHd kI oy if you have none, by all means i^tvake one. If your fowls get cholera. ■ * simply give nothing; jierhaps they- will ; , get on all right: I won’t insure this, but • it is a part of how to fail. Lot your > j fowls roost in trees, and if you havu no I trees put Up poles leu or twelve feet j i from the ground, as the higher you get ] • the purer the atmosphere. Again, you need not pav any attention : I to the nests; the hens w ill look out for i : themselves. If one should hatch abroad, j i । let her hover near a pu-ture so the little | ■ I follows can go out in the <b w ami catch 1 I the gape-; then you can -ave feed, for ' ! they will not eat for some time, as it will require all ihei» lime to open and -hut i their mouths. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. A lioliir in «<|o M r. Popular Gartlcncr de-rribes and illustrates a homemade weeder a- follows: Take a section of an old mowing maI chine knife, drill a hole in center, grind fvT ' ’ 71111 the edge- -harp, rivet ; I {pF —i an ' rnn r "'* a l ’""' a foot j ’ O t pas-ing through ; wiKvden handle to th< You w ill then have a u-e---fol implement to cut out weeds from among garden vegetables. Low Ueati^ for App'e Trees. Nearly all old apple trees are too high headed. The idea of their planters and I early trainers seems to have been that it : would not do to let I ranches hang -o low ■ that the largest lu r-e could not [dew or ! Icultivate i-lo'-f to them without injury. | ft The von<• qurnre is lhe stems ino>tlv run I *p seven or eight feet without a limb, I and most of the fruit. ex|»osed to winds, 'is blown off and spoiled for marketing. ^lf not, it is extreinelv difficult and even । dangerous to gather it bv ladders. The way the business is managed now is to train low—keep the branches -• that when loaded they will touch the ground. ! Many of the ap|»les thus grown can be picked from the ground or bv low step ladders set under the trees. These lowheads are objected to by some from the inconvenience of driving round in the orchard with a team to gather apples; but when the proper distances in setting the trees are observed, especially be-i tween the rows, the objection has less force. — [Lewiston (Me.) Journal. THE DAIRY. Feed After Milking In Winter. The recent examination of a mass of silo literature,says the I’raetieal Fanner, i with special reference to the dairy and I results, went conclusively to show two things, that, for the dairy, the siiage corn fodder should be allowed to stand in the field and mature as long as possible, or up to the glazing point in the ears, and the work of pitting hastened. That in the winter, it is best not to feed °r disturb the silage until after milking the dairy, and then fork out the silage and feed, putting the grain onto the silage at the time of feeding. Silage so handled and fed, showed no after effects •n milk, or intluenees on butter or cheese. * A cow fed upon a food that has a peculiar

odor, just before milking, will impart w • traceof that order to the milk. When fed after milking, the system discharges this odor, through the probable oxygena- < tion of the blood in the lungs and lluids, the twelve ta»urs intervening between milkings, being ample time for this. It is a good plan to always feed the winter daily after milking, and itcorrects many defects to do so. Bad Flavor.. E. C. Bennett says in Hural Life: When cows are fed on sour or moldy ensilage, it gives an unpleasant flavor to the milk, cream, and butter, but if the milk is heated before setting to 135 degrees, this tainted flavor is all removed; or it the milk is set without heating, then the flavor may be corrected by heating the cream, when perfectly sweet, to iho same temperature, and the butter will be perfectly free from the tainted flavor. Ihe writer at one time fed the clover that was put in the silo, whole, and had become moldy at the outside, the cows eating it eagerly, but the milk was so badly tainted that good butter could not be made from it until the milk was heated as above stated, when the butter had not a trace of the bad flavor. Turnip flavor may also be removed by heating the milk before sotting. But the flavor from onions and leeks is to be removed by such heating. When cows have been suffered to drink from stagnant pools in dry seasons, the milk is not only injured in flavor but in its healthfulness. If such milk is heated to 140 degrees the ill flavor is dissipated and the butter made from it healthful. It also frequently happens ihat cows cat more or less of ill-flavored weeds in pasture, giving a disagreeable flavor to milk and butter, but heating is an effectual remedy for this. THE HOUSEHOLD. Dillow lor th. B.by. A dainty infant’s pillow is made as follows: Tako two gentlemen's handkerchiefs of line sheer linen with deep hemstitched borders. Over each are irregularly scattered buttercups with their leaves worked in tiie natural colors with a single thread of file floss. A row a! i feSM BABY I’ll LOW —Bl TTEKCtT DESIGN, stitching in yellow silk runs around all four sides inside the hem and the two- - are joined together with । another row of stitching inside the first, l which leaves the hems as a bonier. The cover is applied over a pillow cov- j ored with buttercup yellow silk. The j handkerchiefs simplify the work by sup- i |>lying a ready hemnuxi material. 'l'he I color and the flowers can be varied ad ' libitum jiroviding only that the flowers | selected are small The. pillow can Le ; WWirtWln’ ehlrvudtc by admitting ruffles ’ of lace to the hemmed edges. Hint* lor the Mou.ewirts S ki t will curdle new milk. To soften old putty, use a hot iron. V khmsii Is “rough on bugs"—bed bugs ' i especially Mix baking soda with brie .-dust for j -l ouring your knives. Yov can clean mica, that has become : । smoked, with vinegar. R\w beefsteak applied will remove the ! discoloration from bruises. Laying tough meat in th • vinegar for a few minute- before cooking is said to make it more tender. Sweet oil will remove finger marks : from varnished furniture, ami kerosene from oiled furniture. A few drops of ether dropped into a j bottle of u? will prevent it from becoming rancid for a long lime. THE KITCHEN. Comnion Sense in the Kilchnn. The main causes of failure in cookery are lack of care in details and ignorance of natures laws. Emerson has said: “We must learn the homely laws of lire i ami water; we must feed, wash, plant, i ‘ and build.’’ Exactness in measurement and care in • ! -craping dishes are essential; it is not : | safe to “guess.” If syrup is measured I or an egg beaten, and either poured into a mixture without rinsing cup or bowl, the proport ions cannot Le exact. Nor, in order to rinse a dish, is it allowable to I add iwo or three spoonfuls of liquid be- ! yond the limits of the rcceipe; but meas- { tire dry ingredients first, then syrup, and । lastly the required milk or water. Temperature is the rock on which ; i many a cook wreeks the work of her j । hands with mt knowing the cause of dis- j j aster. May the day soon come when a | thermometer beating a high degree of heat shall be considered as great a necessity in a kitchen as a teakettle! Flour cannot be too cold for pastry, I cookies or kindred doughs, while for ; yeast bread it should be warm enough to ' favor the growth of the yeast plant. For j the sane reason warm water should be used with yeast, while with cream tartar ! and soda it would hasten the escape of- - gas, and cold liquids only are allow- j al le. Doughs that stick to rolling-pin, board and hands in a hot kitchen should be set away till thoroughly chilled, but all i trouble might have been saved by using । cold fat, flour and liquic at first, and the I texture of the dough would have been better. potatoes are boiled and drained and then closely covered, instead of being shaken in a draught of air to become while and floury by parting with the superfluous steam. Deep frying is loudly inveighed against by those who have not the inclination to i discover tha. less fat is absorbed by pieces ( of fish plunged in deep fat than those i which are turned from side to side in a ' limited quantity, ami that the intense 1 heat of the fat cooks it more thoroughly i than is possible by any other method, t ami if carefully drained on paper little j fat remains. f What is needed to-day in our kitchens i is less of the cook book and more natural ' ( philosophy and common sense—i. c., । knowledge of common things and every- ' day phenomena.—[Arthur's Home Maga- ‘ ’ zine. । 1

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting;, and Instructive Lesson and Where It May Be found— A Learnod and Concise Review of the Same. Christ Foretelling; His Death. The lesson for Sunday, Oct. 11, may be found in John 12; 20-3 S. IKTRODCCTOKY. Christ is hero represented as the life of tiie world. But he is only light to those who will walk by his precepts. The darkness is ever imminent. Alas, that any should think to ba children of light and yet walk in darkness. Spurgeon tells ot a beggar who asked aid from a certain minister cf England, bolstering up his claim by tiie remark, “Why, sir, when you first came here 1 cared for neither God nor the devil; but now I love them both'.” Has that man any relatives among the amiable. easy-going religionists of this side tha water? WHAT THE GKSSON SAYS. Certain Greeks. Hellenic Jews. Greeks who kept the Jewish faith. Them that came up. Or, as in Bible Union, who came up. Frequentative use ot the present participle The word Is that from which cornea our anabysis (wrongly p. luted analysis in the notes of two weeks since). Desired him. Rather, asked, or inquired of him. It is this word that is translated pray at I. John 5: 16, where a closer rendering would possibly go far toward obviating the difficulties of Interpretation. (“I do not say that he shall pray for therm) —— Wo would see. Literally, we wish to see. Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. The translation of Dr. Conant (Bible Union) is here, as usual, more exact. See Variations. The literal Greek is quite graphic, “Comes Philip and tells Andrew; cometh Andrew and Philip and they tell Jesus.” The hour is come. Or, has come; 1. e.. the hour of his clear declaration on Calvary ami in Joseph's garden. Glorified. The word originally signifies to manifest, i. e., in a glorious fashion. Corn of wheat. Or, grain of corn, or kernel of grain. A general word for cereals. Fall into the ground and die. Greek: falling into the ground, die. The last word is the all-important one. Abideth alone. Literally, remains single, j one; 1. e., it stays just as it is. । Shall lose. Better, loseth. Present tense; : general statement. Hateth. The word i is sometimes used in the New Testament in | its sharp, positive sense, e. g., “.Me it hateth,” John 7: 7. But ordinarily it seems to be used in its more negative signification. ; 1. e., to love loss than somo:hing else, to slight or despise; e. g., “Esau have I : hated; 1. e.. as compared with Jacolx Cf. the “two masters.” Matt. 6: 24. “Father : and mother.” Luke 14: 26. Keep it. The word for guaid, a garrison. There shall also my servant be. Certaini ly, if he follow close, as just noted. | Serve. The two words serve and honor ! stand next to each other iu the Greek, as : emphasizing the comparison: service trausi formed to honor, the serv nt made king. Troubled. Shaken and agitated under the stress of the burd n. Same word used I of Christ at Lazarus’ tomb. John 11: 33. and at the last supper, John 13:21. Father save me. To be rendered el her with exclamation point, as in the Bible Union version, or question mark, as in Margin. See Variations. Unto this hour. Greek into. A great I junction of events, With you, L e., among you. Christ’s ; bodily presence; secondarily, his spiritual I influence. Come upon. Or, overcome, i the comprehended of John 1: 5. Light. Or. the light. The article occurs i here also. Children of the light, or sons i of light, no article. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. Sir, wo would see Josus. It is on the | world's lips still, though often unspoken. Jesus they need—the flesh. Jesus they wish to see. And It i is possible for us to read the question in their faces and in their vague, half-con-scious endeavirs. Is it not our duty and privlle.c to interpret to them the significance of their own restlessness? “Friend, it is Jesus you want” —ought we not oftener to say? And yet we still leave them, as did the disciples of old—prior to Pentecost —to come themselves asking. Perhaps we are thinking that it was ourselves that they wished to see or hear. No, Jesus is the nan.o their hearts whisper. The world needs Christ and nothing less. The hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified. Is this a response to their inquiry? Yes, a better answer, if they will receive it aright, than they bad anticipated. They asked to see the physi- : cal Christ, the Lord Jesus, in the flesh. He here tells them of a better vision, such a vision, Indeed, as can come to us all—that of the spiritual, or glorified Jesus. Some * ne lias just been saying, “Why should we be held accountable for our lejection of the Christ? We have not the opportunity to behold him that the disciples of old had.” And the answer to be spoken is that we have not the same opportunity, but a belter. We do not see him in the flesh, but in the spirit. Crucified and risen, and so glorified, lie is to-day to be apprehended as He was not when the Greeks approached Philip. The Spirit is here now to take of the things of Christ and reveal them unto us. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone. That is | to .-ay, it stays just a- it Is; it does not change. The trouble with a great many of | us is right here. We are willing to abide I alone, to stay as we are. God wants us to be something other and more. To become that, the corn of wheat must fall into the ground and die; there must be self-giving, self-surrender. 'J his grain of corn looks ■ very hardy and strong, quite disposed, as i it would seem, to abide alone, monos, just as it is. But it is infinitely better that it perish to Its present self and come up pres- ' ently in multiplied strength and beauty. For your sakes. Christ was always mak- ' ing it a personal matter. Here are tiie two forms of unfaith. Something had occurred, ; something strange and significant. “It has thundered.’” There is the school of rationalists; a natural event merely. “An angel spake to him!” There is the hushed voice of superstition, and men are affrighted. । Not so said Jesus, “This voice was for your I sakes. ” O, to note in all events, marvelous : or ordinary, the divine voice speaklug to I us and for our good. That whole life of i Jesus was just an appeal from God to man, ' saying, “Ye will not come unto me that ye I might have life ” Now is the judgment of this world. The I Greek word Is crisis. The cross does indeed mark a crisis in-the world’s history. It fixes the crisis point in every man’s life. It is ihe great place for decision to which we 1 must all come. Then Is Christ lifted up. i Thus raised before tiie eyes, he both draws and drives. Draws forth toward heaven and all that is good; drives away all that is vile and iniquitous, for now is the prince of this world cast out. But that Jivine constraint can !>e resisted. We can hold on to self and to Satan, if we will! What a crisis for souls t >-day! Next Lesson.—“ Washing the Disciples’ Feet.” John 13: 1-17. People and Events. Great Britain has 58,C00 women trade unionists. A Marshall County (Mo.) man has a mule 24 hands high. Robekt Bonner does not think the trotting mile will reach 2:05. An inventor lias applied for a patent for an automatic child spanker. Mr. James Rvssell Lowell left an estate valued, all told, at $47,000. Robert T. Barker, of New Bedford, Mass., has read the Bible through 109 times