St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 April 1892 — Page 2

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. e ——————————— A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. e —r——————— A Plea for Permanent Cointrv Roads— Simple but Effective lat Arap—Corn and Hogs—Apple Trees Along Roadsides, Etc. Sty

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for the manufacture of the durable product for road ballast and coustruetion, permanent roads may be com-

meneced and extended until the road bound thraldom of the producers might be thrown off. The loss to the cofntry at large, during the periods of trade suspension, 15 very great and were the lost time invested in permanent road-making the country would soon be redeemed from its slough of despond. Thelabor already expended in work which at best can only be temporary is a great waste of time and energy which if put into permanent work would result in lasting future benefits. The average State debt at the present time is doubtless comparatively small, so that any of them might, to the advantage of the general public, appropriate large funds for road-making, appropriating to any township a sum ejual to the ! expenditures of the lecal investment. By this means a steady advance might be made and the tax would be so evenly distributed that the burden would not be felt Cities and towns |

should help to build the country roads, and the sconer legislation is directed to that end, the better for all concerned. —Rural. A Rapid Ratr Trap, A rat trap I recently saw consisted of a barrel, the head of which was hung in the middlie and tipped both ways. To hang the head, holes were bored 1n the staves diametrically opposite and a couple of wire spikes driven through the holes and into the head. The head was balanced in a horizontal position by driving an old file into the center on the under side. A R§ e [ Byl o g ‘*‘%““‘Z J el il [=\ S e NN TS el f ke ] 3@’ .m e r ; Rt g *‘-I‘".‘ : ;;@,.2;;.‘; P o oARRs BE . R T A

| let him in, springing back ready for | the next one. This trap has a record ! of twenty-four rats in a single night, ! . with pumpkin seeds, fastened on with | brads, for bait. Fresh meat willalso | | do.—Charles Lewis, in Farm and | Home. g “ Making and Keewping Manure, | If the farmer cannot draw his ma- | nure to the fields as fast as it is made, it should be piled, free from sink holes, and to guard as far as possible against the evil and malarial consequences of being too near the barn. Tam absolutely oppo:ed to manure basements under the stable, writes an experienced farmer. Experience taught me of the dangers of the manure heap. My barn had a large manure pit directly below the cows. "The cellar was below the ground surface and the surface water accumaulated. In driving the cows to the field one dropned dead. A veterinary | surgeon could not discover the cause. - The next day another cow dropped dead. A post-mortem examination whas of no avail. 'The nextday while milking another cow dropped dead. I went richt to work, took up all the ' stable floor, drew every parcle of the manure out, whitewashed everything, put the floor back and never a sick animal after that. The poisonous gases from the manure stable were the sole cause of sickness and death. Kecepyour manure away from your buildings. It breeds malaria, sickness and death. Ido not believe

in liquid vaults, but bed and litter}: the cattle thoroughly with cutstraw. | Keep everything clean and get it ii away from the barn. Do not house the manure under cover, but draw it,‘ directly to the fields. Let the sun and the rain return it again to the ‘ earth, to bring forth the wealth ofl the soil. l Smut in Wheat and Oats, i For the information of the sub- ! scriber who asks for a ‘‘remedy to! prevent smut or blasted heads in oats | and wheat” we give a portion of the| chapter in ‘‘Soils and Crops of the| Farm” on diseases of wheat. Thel disease is spre ud by the useof smutted | seed and is 1o be pevented by sowing | on clean ground and with seed free | from smutspores. The infected seed ‘ may be practically if not entirely | freed from the disease. The nmtho(ls! used consist in soaking the seed in| certain solutions, or simply in hot water. The most common solutions are a saturatec 'solution of common salt and a five per cent. sclution of copper sulphate. The wheat should Le placed in sacks or baskets and alv wed tostand tventy-fourto twenty-

six hours, when the wheat should be spread out to dry. More recently the Danish investigator, Jensen, has introduced the method of soaking the wheat in water at a temperature of from 127 to 133 degrees Fahrenheit | for five minutes. American experi- | menters recommend fifteen minutes. | Smut is much more common and destructive on oats than on wheat. The

same treatment is recommended, LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. Corn and Hogs. Many farmers, especially those of the older generations, have a fixed rule of expectancy upon which they figure when fattening hogs. This is, that one bushel of corn will make ten pounds of pork, and if the bushel of corn is worth less than they expect to get for ten pounds of pork they con- | sider that there is a profit in feeding. The only trouble with this rule is that it does not always work. It fluctuates under the influence of many conditions, one of which is the state of the weather where the feeding is done. A careful experiment has shown that in severe weather, and the animals being exposed, 1t has required as much as 11§ pounds of corn to make one pound of gain,

I there is anyIthing which would naturally set the country people to thinking upon the best \ method for the ¢ improvemet of ~ theaverage country roads, permanentroadsand ?ﬁ streets should be the motto henceforth. By the use of the avail- » able material and ? the modern processes -of road construction and

1 | while in like weather, and with the | s | same animals, the only difference be- » | ing that they were sheltered in a s | warm barn, only 5§ pounds were re- | | quired to produce the same result. .| Thus in one case the rule just about | held good, while in the other it was | so far wrong that there was no possible profit in the feeding. This is only one of the conditions that gov- ! /orns the question of profit. Others are the age of the animai and the :ls-, similation of food. The only way to | ’ be on the safe side is to guard as far | as possible against wrong conditions ‘ and then to measure or weigh the ’ foed, and then weigh the animals at | short intervals. If this were system- { atically done fewer hogs would be fed | !up to heavy weights, and farmers | would soon learn the importance nf; feeding off early,during mild weather. | Although the fact has been repeat- | edly and fully demonstrated that pigs | cannot be kept healthy on concen- |

,’ trated food alone, many farmers con- [ tinue to give them little else .| during the largest portion of their lives. Corn, ecither ground or unground, 18 too solid and compact a food when unmixed with other ma- | terials, and cannot be thoroughly di- | gested unless a certain proportion of | rough and bulky food is'given with | it. A failure to observe this need is ‘| doubtless one of the most frequent | causes of cisease with swine: and even if disease does not result, it is well established that hogs fed without this variety fail to give the best re- | turns for the food consumed. Pigs . kept up in pens, so that they are un- | able to forage for themselves, should : be fed green clover; this is one of the | best alternative and relaxing foods, ; giving bulk and lightness to the other ' | feed, and furnishing beside, a consid- , erable-proportion of muscle-forming | not be obtained, its place may be syn |

N e 5 good resrits.—Wisconsin Agriculturist. [ Study the Cal” i In a recent meeting of steek men a | paper was read by J. F. True on | ““The Desirable Feeding Qualities in i Catile.” He urged the use of the | pedigree for all it is worth but he i said: “‘Let individual merit be the | paramount consideration in selecting the parent stock. Carefully observe from which cows and sires comes the | best calves as denoted by their being { quickly en their feet and looking out for suck after being dropped. Observe carefuldy how they digest and assimilate their food during the tirst two weeks. This will be shown by their growth and disposition to take on flesh and assume desirable form and be entirely free from con- | stipation or the opposite condition. . ‘ Princ ples of tiome Dairying. | For the man who loves the work { and is willing to take all possible || pains the home dairy is the proper | thing. He will follow so far as prac--1 ticable, scientific teachings. In { breeding his herd, which is the | proper way, the greatest care will be v i made in selecting the sire. Gentle- | ness also pays twofold, while regui larity in care and feeding are indis--5 | pensable. In regard to making the ' butter be should study the market to | | learn what kind has the most call and | then try to supply it. In all cases ! conditions alter his needs, but success | or failure depends entirely upom him-

self. He will therefore strive ali the more to achieve success.-~ Warm and | Home. ‘ ORCHARD AND GARDEN. \I A Raspb-rry Trellis, ; 1t ig rare that we find -a field of | red raspberries in which due provi- | sion has been made for sustaining the | canes during the bearing season. | lThey are cut down, as a rule, in au- | tumn to a height of three to four feet, | ' and left to winter through as they | can. The damage from snow is al-| | ways serious. My own loss in winter | and from broken canes in summer | was so great that I have adopted the ‘ !( following plan: 1 set strong cedar | stakes at the ends of rows and at inl tervals of twenty-five feet. To theseé l 1 staple a wire, as for a grape trellis, l about four feet from the ground. | Then, bringing the canes together | in bunches of three or four, they are i tied with soft strong twine above the lwirc, not on the wire, for then the cord would soon be cut by the wire. The rows being all tied, intervening | aud short canes are dug out. Then, .| with hedge-shears, the tops are cut

SAST ST R NS R e e off at a height of six feet. This height on this plan is not too great. The raspberry likes a moist, shaded soil, and in this way it shades its own roots. In the bearing season the sides of these trellises become a wall of berries, a wonderful sight to behold. Pickers move ap and down the - rows quite hidden. I have deseribed my planavith the Cuthbert and Golden Queen in view. These, in fact, are with me the only standard firstclass raspberries for market as yet. The Turner must be grown very thinly here, and in hills. to secure a reasonable crop. The Marlboro has succeeded fairly well as above, but | with me it is not a standard in any sense. Rancocas I must reject, ‘ as also Hansell, Lost Rubies and Crimson Cluster. Schaffer’s Colossal i does admirably on the wire, and is an | | enormous bearer on that plan. Black Raspberries, in general, had probably best be cut low and grown in stout heads.—E. P. Powell, in. Garden and IForest. Apn'e Trees 2long Roadsides. Much of the droppings from horses or other animals driven along the street finds its way to roadsides, 'which are, therefore, good places to grow apple trees. Possibly when they l come into bearing some of the fruit { will be taken by passers-by, but its l owner can afford to give toll to the { public forits use of land that is de- ' [ voted to public service. When the , road is macadamized, the apple tree ‘ roots will run under It, taking that i part of the excrement that is filtered l through the stones and is become the , | best possible plant food. Some years | ' ago we saw a macadam road taken up ‘ for repairs, and a complete network ! of apple-tree roots was found under ] the stones, coming from trees more | than two rods distant, as they were ' inside the fence in the lot adjoining | the road. Kach tree seemed to have | found this rich deposit of fertility, | and sent, its feeding rootlets to secure | its share. The owner said this row E of trees next the road had always borne better than any others, and ' when he saw the mass of roots under } the macadam he knew the reason for ; the fact.—American Cultivator. :’

| HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN. l 3 The Selence of Dusting. | | Itisa science, since the doctors | have discovered for wus that the | | Turnishings of our houses are the | camping ground of lively unknowables | called bacteria. The removal of dust is | therefore, not only a performance of ecthetic necessity, but of the greatest | sanitary importance as well. 1t is| not going too far to say that there is i just as much need of classes in the ; hygienes of cleaning and dusting as there is of covking classes. 5 The simple displacement of dust | isn'c dusting, and the whisking of ! the feather is no more evidence nf? cleanliness than the possession of many books nowadays is an evidence | (of learning. A room is dusted only | when the dust is taken cas room and is done only A “‘UQ" brutih | been carried out =777 .04 . iis done by usiqm, e oy ol SER Im

2 Y WAI T IO dust up in the air, whenece & fßhey will settic again instantly some- | “where else. ~ The utility of the feather-duster | except for walls is to be doubted, and | even for walls a soft tloth is Dbetter. | A thin silk eloth or a piece of cheesecloth makes a good duster. So does | a soft, firm woslen cloth, but linen 1 and cotton-thinnel leave lint behind ! them. One woman uses all of her ) worn-out silk stockings for duasting | and still another makes loose mittens | out of old woolen which she puts on | as dusters. A turkey's wing 1s ad- | mirable to get the dust out of chinks | and between rails, and chamois gives ! a last polish tetter than anything ! else. 'l'he best }‘vnli.\h in all the world i to keep furniture from locking dingy | is the following: Two tablespoon- | fuls cotton-seced oil, one tablespoonful | turpentine. Instead of cotton-seed | oil grout oil and good vegetabie oil | may be used. This should be well | rubbed into wood and then a last! polishing given with chamois. This | is the recipe of a famous furniture | dealer in New York.—Helen Watter- | SO. - i How Beds Ars Dressed, | Beds are dressed in two particular | approved forms. One has a bolster | arrangement, both top and bottom, I in away to permit a lace spread | Ito be tucked under and then ‘{draped over. A bed, to have this | | form of arrangement, should be of | equal height at the head and foot f boards, and be placed sideways | | against the wall. Another clever ar- | | rangement is permitted when the'i "t bed can be located in a corner. A |

tent-like canopy runs out from the 5 | angle of ceiling and walis and is ‘ draped down. Pillow-shams are | \ quite out of style; everything now is | | French or English and goes back 31 | hundred years for its form, and, of '!(-nursc. pillow-shams did not worry i people in those days. | } W hat Good Cooks Say. { | STEWED VEAL.—Cut a slice of the | cutiét in small pieces, season it with | pepper, salt, and, if you prefer it, a i little grated lemon peel and nutmeg. { Powr in as much water as will nearly { cover it, let it cook slowly till about ‘thult' done, then make a ‘rich gravy l with some pieces of butter rolled in i flour, and add to the water it was | stewed in. 1 MAcAroNlL.—Simmer half a pound | of macaroni in plenty of water till i tender, but not broken; strain off the | water. Take the yolks of five and | the whites of two eggs, and one-halt | pint of cream, white meat and ham | l chopped fine, three spoonfuls of grated i cheese. Season with salt and pepper. | Heat all together, stirring constantly. | Mix with the macaroni; put into a | buttered mold and steam one hour.

S A st e T ’ |BLOCKED BLAND'S BILL. Glite i TEMPORARY TRUEE |IN THE COINAGE BATTLE: The Measure Thought to Havs Been Killed by a Midnight Adjournment— Excliting Filibustering to Defeat the Silver Eill, Fis a Drawn Fight. According to a Washington dispa‘ch the free silver bill isdefcated, the House having adourned without a vote on the bill. This ended the legislative day for which the special order was made, and the Bland bill now has no more righis in the House than any o‘her measure, In all pro¥ability it will not be taken up again in this session of Congress. 3 _Mr. Bland hopes to go. another spe- | l cial order from th: Committee on Rules, | i but the chances are decidedly against | him. Gen. Warner, tho chief lobbyist | for the bill, admitted that the bill was defeated. This is without much aucstion the end of the great campaign of the silverites in this Congress. ; The closing of the contest was ma I d 1 by great excitement and Ditterness. Frequently the House was in such con- { fusion as to require the assistance of | sergeants-at-arms to clear the fioor, and 1 the grecat mace, which is used only on l rare cccasions, was paraded up and down the aisles as a warning to turbulent members. On the morning of the la-t day of the discussion the anti-silver forces were wiiling to concede their defeat. At midnight they were contident of ultimate victory. Three tin es durirg | the night they routel the enemy, bus | each time the free silver forces rallied and left the final result in doubt. Speaker i Crisp was once compelled to vote in , fordcr to save the bill froa defeat, an i effort which availed nothing in the foce | ‘Ol the determined oppositi n of the | { Northern and Northwestcrn Democrais. | 1 The silver battle in the House began | i in earnest at 5 o’clock in the eveniig. i | All afternoon the orators had been | | making speeches. 'This was simply the | E cannonading, but from 3 o’clock on the ! | opposing forees mot in a bitter hand-{o-s hand conflict. XNo such filerce and bitter { i struggle has been seen in the House for : !nmny ayear. On cne sido was Bland, i calm and confident, anticipating an ! i easy victory. On the flcor was General | ' Warner, the chief of the silver lobbyists, | ’rmhunl!y looking forward to a triumph ; ' over the hated gold-bugs. FHBohnd the | silver leaders was a strong and de- | termined force of Democrots, chiefly | {frmn the South and West, .ut with a | scattering of votes in Ohio, Ind ana, | Southern Illinois, Michigan, and lowa. i They were joined by a handful of Re- | publicans from the far West. In all | they were about one hundred and iiity | strong. Arrayed against them wore | eighty »Democrats from New England | and the Northern and Northwestern | States and seventy Republicans, These anti-silver forces were led by Traecy and | Cochran of New York, Harter and | Outhwaite of Ohio, for the Demoerats, and Tom Reed, Burrows, and Abner Tay!lor for the Republicans. i At different times during the night's | battie 300 moembers voted., Os those 8o | were Repubdieans, 212 Demoorats, and 8 | Farmere®’ Alllance. Os the 89 Republi- % cans all but soven voted to lay the Bland | bill on the table < The soven pro-silver { RemitTcans were Bowers of California, { [("mk of Wyoming, Vincent Tavlor of | ”!liﬂ, L.'\f'."_\’ of South Dakota, l'i_'":{‘l”r; lof North Dakota, Townsend of Colo- | I;.x 10, and Bartine of Nevada, ’ Os ha 213 13 .

voted on the advice o Renator Hill, a those from New Jersey, exeopting Fowler; all from Pennsylvania, excepting Rellly, wers azainst the bill. Maryland was silid & ‘nst Bland, with the exception of Mr. Complon, who voted on @ roll-call and then disappeared. Mr. | «'lilsﬁn, of West Virginia, was the only ‘ member from that State to vote against | Bland. Ohio Democrats gave 9 votes | for Bland and 3 aga nst, with Donoyan % dodging and Tom Johnson voting both ‘ ways. The three anti-silver men were ! Outhwaite, Harter and Pattizon. ; All the Dem serats trom Indiana voted | with Bland, two or three of them re- | luctantiy. Os the Michigan Democrats, Chipman, Stout and Wheeler voted against Bland. Mr. Babbitt was the only man } in the Wisconsin deciegation to ww’ with the Blandites. | The Illlinois Demoerats voted as fol- | lows: ! . With Bland—VWilliams, Wike, S{o\\'-!_ i ard, Fithian and Lane. I . Against Bland—Newberry, MecGann | - and Cable. : 5 Busey voted twice with Bland, and | . then arranged a pair with Mr. Springer. | | On the first roll-call Snow and Scott | | voted with Bland, but afterward paired, | | Mr. Snow desiring to change his vote. | l‘Mr. Durborow was paired, but reached | ‘ the hall just before midnight, with his | i gripsack in his hand, eager for an op- | | portunity to go on record against free | | silver. i I All the Illinois Ropublicans voted | against Bland, including General Post, l | whois a free coinage man, ; t The lowa Democrats divided, Hayes, | | Seerley, and Eoavman voting against | | Bland. Kansas and Nebraska were ; solidly for the bill, Mr. Funston's vote ! being a surprise. Tom Reed attempted | ! to whip the Kansan into line, but was ! unable to do so. ©Only one Missourian, | i Mr. Cobb, voted against Bland. Only l two Democrats from the extreme South- ! ern States, Brawley, of South Carolina, | i and Meyer, of Louisiana, voted against 1 Biand. All the Farmers’ Alliance mem- ‘ bers voted for free silver. The New York Democrats are very ! indignant at Tim Campbell and Stahl- | i necker, both of whom were absent and | | net paired. Had they been in their } places the bill could have been beaten. { Campbell arrived at midnight, too late | to be of any service. | A LEssox from the Chicago boodlers’ | grammar: i Positive, jolly. | Comparative, jollier. | Superlative, Jolict. '! bye | SIX suits have been brought by rela- | bives of the lynched Italians against i New Orleans, the tot:l sum claimed being about $460,600. It is doubtful if the lynched men were ever before s=o valuable to their families. Such costly citizens should be kept carefully in their native countries.—iixchange. | e { Ir is stated that a genuine Hogarth . has just been discovered during the val- ! uation of the contents of a country . mansion near Hythe, belonging to an , country family.

RP B LS BPO SN TSP SRB eee e e e eB e e e T 1 SERIOUS SURJECTS CAREFULLY | , CONSIDERED. l IA 8 R i Th;:::::‘t':y‘:i;{’l?;’t:f)nc:'fl SO Rt ‘m Refloection— | Half an Hour's Study of the Scriptures | —Time Woll Spent. ! l The Way of the Righteous. ; The lesson for Sunday, April 3 m-xyi {be found in Psalms 1: 1-6. > } INTRODUCTORY, i I The Ims are for 0 | 1¢ psalms are for our reireshing, | { Every one of them proves a rortion in i !duc season to those who l-an not on ! | their own understanding. This psaim | is a cup of cool water, offered to us at | 'Um gate of the interpreter’s house, A | ivery good introduction it makcs to the | i Christian’s song-bcok, as we have ¢hosen | to name the psalms., Who wrote it, we ' do not know. Yes, we do; Golwrote it, | for it speaks to tise heart. Only he who | made the heart can speak to its inner- ! raost self. But the penman is out of | i sight. And yet how many men have | reinscribed the truth of this psalm in | x’th«.-ir own lives! Good men, wicked | i men. Every man’s life is a living epis- | tle, known and read of all, and it | ’spe:lks for the truth of God’s word. | May this pealm, as restudied, kindle in | many hearts a new love for the precious | Bible. | WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. ’ Blessed, or happy. Lit rally, O, the felicities. From the verb to be straight; hence, prosperous. Deut. 33: 23; Prov, 29: 18.——Walketh not. Douay: hath | not walked.——Ungodly. Yirst mean- | kg fractious or rebellious. DMargin, | wicked. Job 354: 20.——Sinners. Greek: ' Amartano, to miss the mark.——Seorn- | ful. From the root to stammer, {o mimie, used especially of mocking a '!Oroignc?r‘. Notice the two-fold climax 11)«'1‘«'. Ungodly — sinners — scornful; | walketh—standeth—sitteth. ; ! Delight. From the verb to bend over, | —--liaw. Hebrew: Torsh. From the | verb to”point out, to direct. Such is | God’s law a sign-board, pointing toward | ; heaven.——Meditate. The 105 t means ito Say over, to cnumerate; to murmur as in conninz a lesson. 1 The unzodly. Same word asinv. 1. —DBult. A peculiar form. Literally, ! for if, two words in the Hebrew. Liko: { “Tedl m:» if."——Chaff. Douay, dust. | In eontrast with the living tree of v, 3. | E It is from the verb to crush off or sop--5 arate.——Driveth. The word is traus- | lated differently at Job 32: 13. The % Douay adds: from the face of. the carth, | { It also renders, the ungodly are nt so, | i by not so, the wicked, not so, bringing | ? out the expressiveness of the original a i little more clearly. X { By the rivers. Or, upon the riv rs. | { Douay: running waters; from the verb, | |to flow.——ln his season. Or, in its | | time, in due time,——Wither. Verb: to | dtoop or fade. Douay: fail off. ——Pros- | é]‘-'l‘, It is suggestive that this word | | means, literally, to cut its way throuzh, | { the price of zll success. Tho ravision, | | margin, prefers: In whatzoever he doeth | { he shall prosper. | ;: Tharefore. A strong word. Literally, | {on account of s, -Stand. Not the | | eame word as that in v. 1. Hero it | “x'.w:l:;i to rise up, make a stand, de- | | fensive. The Douay understands it to | | mean rige again, — Congregation. Lit- ‘ ! erally, the sitling, or session, i. e., coun- | ¢il. Contrast with sitteth of v. 1. See ' I,"‘v'. > 10 ; '%s#vfﬂ‘;'.ﬂ'ﬂ"f.'vm Canind at |

Deut. 25: 5. ; ee 1 WIIAT THE LESSON TEACHES. - Blessed is the man. We are sought out, one by one. The message of the Bible i 3 to us as separate and independent souis, We ‘have our mutual relation ~ wo stand in families, in churches, in social groups. But behind all, God speaks to us as isolated souls, standing alone and belfore him. “Blessed is the man.” Individualism. Suppose we take this psalm, then, very personally. Isit the preface to my life? Can you and I put our names here, and bend our heads reverently before Gol and over his book? dhen it shall be a happy thing for the church anid the world., The blessedness of man collectively depends upon the blest-ness of the individual. | - His delight is in tha law of the Lord. 5 The word delight means, literally, 1o | bend over. Yes, I have seen it so. The ‘m:»:hvr is bending over her babe, she l loves it. The loy is bending over his EXH}', he delights in it. the student is { bending over his problems, or his lan- ! guages, they are his inspiration and reijoicing. What a man delights in he i bends over; I know the passion of his { soul by the posture of his body. You !twﬂ me you love the DBible. MWhat are { you doing with it? If your delight is in | it, we will see you daily poring over it; | this is the best way to prove your de- | votion. Andthat word medidate is sug- | gestive. It signifies in the criginal to | keep saying over and over, as in the { learning of a lesson in the school-room. | Are we doing that? Do we take the % sacred sentenees out with us to the j day’s work to repeat them to ourselves |as we perform our tasks? There are { some lessons out of the divine word ! that are cnly thus apprehended. O for more conning of the Scripture! They Lsai(l t> Harry .‘orehouse, whkom they i used to find late in the night reading his Bible: “Do you understand it all, Harry, as you read?” “N0,n0,” he used to answer, “but I keep going over it and i over it, and presently it all comes to t me.” Why not another Harry Morehouse? ! But the way of the ungo lly shall perish. It is the law written in our memt bers and in all nature. “To be carnally { minded is death.” Wehave but to go on ‘ in our godless way, and we go the way of perishinz. It is another word for ‘ lost, a lpst way. “Without God” is the same as “having no hope.” I look along i the sinner’s way, and I se» blackness ot darkness; away that loses its:lf in thiek ; night. I look along the way of the believinz, and I sec it growing brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. Excuse me, man of the workl. bt you provek: -me; you make my Licod hot. YWhy do you ask me to go sucha course? Pleas]m‘r-, just row¥? Aes, bLut look at the | end. ““Isee no end.” Neither do I, and !t':uL is the reason I prefer the lighted * path. “For the Lorl knows lh.lhﬂ way of the righteous, but the way ol the uni godly shall perish.” J Next Lesson.— The Kirg in Zien.” Ps 2 ‘ A 31AX fell dead in Manchester. Va,, a l few days ago, in a grave wkich he was digging for another.

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