St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 September 1894 — Page 7

DOMESTIC ECONOMY. TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. _ Bow Air, Heat, and Water are Held in the I Soil at the Same Time—Value of White i Clover — English Horses — Kipeniug of Fruits.

A Reason Why Crops,Fail. The correct condition for soil to be In is when it is lit to hold three things, each in the right quantity, neither too much nor too little of either. They are, says Colman’s Bural World, air, heat, and water. Too much of either will cause the crops to fail, while too little will have the same effect. You see how difficult a science is tanning, in fact, you have felt this all your lives. Air, heat, and water have each an affinity for each other, and yet they are each antagonistic to each other, so the trouble is just how to maintain the best possible balance of all three in ; the soil at one time, and cons inn- j ously while the crop grows. If you shut either out of the soil the crop , will die, and if you give either in too great a quantity it will likewise die. The many processes you effect working land are all undertaken for this end, though some of yi u may not have before seen it in this way. To the man with the inborn farming intention this knowledge is perhaps of no use at ail in ' every day practice. To tnose who are ever anxious to learn the reason why, it is at least a satisfaction, if nothing else To illustrate how air, heat, and water can be held in the soil at the same time take in imagination a tub, and till it. with soil worked up into a tine tilth after a good autumn i rain. In this case you have air. heat, 1 and water each in correct quantity. i Pour water gently in on the soli in ! the tub till you know it will not ab- ! sorb any more. You thereby drive I out the air and any farm plant growing in it will then dwindle and die. Make a hole in the bottom of ; the tub to let the water escape, and the more you pour in, it done gently, like tailing ram, and not too con stantly, the more the plant will flourish. If, however, the water is cold and the surrounding atmosphere is cold also, tnen again the plant will pine; the cold air and cold water will kill it if continued. Try the tub again tilled with soil, networked into a tilth, but in small clods. In this case you would have air tilling all the spac s at the expense of the water or moisture. Dur.ng a rain the spaces would be filled with water, wh ch would at once run through the stile soil, to be immediately followed by air to till the interstices. If the air was cold it would tend to kill the little moisture retained by the clods ^would at one evaporate, and in ^wither case vegetation would suffer. ^■Rkc the tub again and till it with a a Arm lay soil. The clay would hold

moisture but not air. As regards heat, it would be warm when the atmosphere was hot, and cold as the weather changed to cold. The heat and i old would not so often be changing, warm in the day and cooling of ! rapidly at night, that plants here again would not be strong. It is very important to bear in ’ mind when working a field that you want it in such a condition that it i will hold these three elements in well balanced proportions. A sponge is a good illustration of how water is held in capillary attraction. Din a sponge in a tub of water, and when lifted out it is full of water an 1 void of air; give it a gentle squeeze to eliminate some of i the water, air immediately takes its place. You then have both air and waler held in the spone. Not only that, but the moist sponge would hold heat in a more uniform degree than if it was either full of water or quite dry. It would not cool off and heat up so quickly with every change of temperature in the weather. Woolen and linen fancies also illustrate this power of retention of heat. Wool in its til re is hollow, linen is । solid. Jut your t hand on a roll of ; flannel —the flannel feels warm, it j gently absorbs and retains the heat j from the han I, the minute hollows , and spaces of the fabric draw the heat and hold it Try the same with a roll of linen in the same room, it feels cold to the touch. It is a more solid holy, like a clay soil, which draws the heat from the land rap dly to let it go again in the same rapid manner. Tne wool represents a nice open friable soil —always growing, soil, iirw'.t'A !! “m ' im I I Ip avy >ubl . ~iy i her too hot ortuucold, , *B^^eTor too dry. White < lover. One of the must valuable plants for pasture, when sown with other | Grids, says the New York Times, is . Waite clover. Its nutritive qualities are considerably better than tho-e of , red clover, and it is a hardy, per-ist-ent plant. It will grow under the shade of the stronger grass and . clover, making a dense t ottom that, * while it is not available for hay, yet ^"^ffordsa large addition to the feed for pasturing animals. It is beyond ■ reproach tor cows and sheep, but for 1 horses has the effect in the late sumImer of salivating them profusely, so ',much so as to make them quite thin. Lit has the same effect upon mules, and these animals should, therefore be kept out of Helds in which it crows to any extent. \ It will be a useful occupation for a bare hour or two to scatter a pound ' this seed over the pasture, especily where the grass is thin. It will iow next season, and om e having ssession of the ground it will keep or several years. It is the best of the honey-producing plants •wn, and, having a long blooming

season, the bees make mere money from It than from any other source. Its effect upon the yield of milk and butter of the cows is so apparent as ’ always to draw from the butterj maker the remark: “The cows are j getting the white clover now.” And । this is always the case when, at this ; time, the cows are turned into the newly-mown mead ws where this plant is abundant.

Ripening; of Fruits. Grapes, unlike most other fruits. ’ never ripen any after picking. All ! that can be expected in the way of i change is the evaporation of some of ’ ! the water, and finally decay. They must be in perfect condition for eating when plucked, or the full value of the fruits will be missed. They should be plucked as soon as ripe, lio we ver, and stored away in some : cold place. They can be preserved I even longer than pears Raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries gain very little after picking. They should b^^llowed to reach their full growth beTore picking, but they are worthless for keeping if allowed to reach the stage commonly known as “dead ripe.” They are then unfit for shipping. Practically, the destructive forces have already started into operation at that point and nothing wili che k them after such a start* KiiKlhh Homes. In spite of the imports from Poland. Finland, Holland and even America, and the pony trade with tiie Baltic, the English export of horses enormously exceed the import in value. A three years' total gives 112,532.000 of exports, as against £>04,000 of Imports ami the quality and pric* of English horses rise steadily. The imports do not include those from Irelan I, which until recently supplied the entire Belgian ■ army with remount and at present largely till the ranks of London cab i horses. They fetch on the average about £3O apiece, and as a new han- ; sotn cab costs t b o, the hirer employs the tempo ary use of a capital ot £l3O I and the service of the driver. But i the number of cabs steadily decreases and from the horses ptint of view this decline is hardly to be deplore !. The best way to checkmate low prices for feedstuffs, says a writer, is to keep good stock to eat them. Ati. admit that a cow needs shelter in winter: but it is equally ' necessary to furnish her protection from Ilies and the scorching rays of the sun of summer. Never waste good a-hes. Save every pound, and use them on the I orchard land. Corn cobs are very rich in potash, and the ashes of such should le preserved carefully. The sow mus be in thrifty condition to raise thrifty pigs. feed he on succulent food. Cooked or steamed c ver, turnips, potatoes, beets and a variety of food, with a due proixirtion or grain, will keep her in the best condition.

A rii sr- las minimal Is sure to bring a good price, but he who has ! all first-class stock usually obta ns “the top of the market.” When they all seem to tie of one mold, and , that a good one, there are dealers ; ready to take them as a lot. I Gua-s is essentially a milk, cream 1 ! and butter food. The 11m st grain ■ mixture ever devised will not answer ।so well \\ hen the latter is given it should be with the idea of making bone and muscle, while the gra>s makes the milk AV hen the grass is i poor the chopped grain is a good adjunct. The handiest and most effective way to app y paris green to potatoes is in the :orm of a dry mixture with lour. Il sticks better than any oilier substance: a very small uan tlty is sufficient; and with a small sifter it may be applied rapidly and with little waste. It does not. invo ve such hard work, an I is rt ally cheaper for that reason. Carrying water costs more than the Hour. To Cripple the Rattle of England. At its first establishment the inexj perience of its founders was by no । m ans the worst peril which the j bank had to encounter It was sur- ; rounded by enemies, whose opposition arose partly from political and partly from selfish motives. The goldsmiths, in whose hand- the banking of London, such as it was. ha 1 developed into a most profitable trade, were naturally d sposed to set i every obstacle in their rival’s way. They contends I that an institution ■ on «o large a scale was likely to assume the control of all financial i business to a . egree iim-t threaten- ■ ’ ing to the common interests of the j . country, and to attain so much power । as would give to it a dangerous au- | thority and influence, even with the i ■ National Government. They pre- i | tended to foresee that, as soon as it j I was firmly established, it would so i I raise the rale of interest as to cripple i industry, while tilling its own coffers I Iby usury. And in this there was no I | doubt some reason, for many of them I । had grown wealthy by the very meth- | ods they now denounced. Some of them employed their i means freely in endeavors to embar- t | rass the bank, and their plots were 1 . occasionally successful enough to I I bring their new rival into danger. | One of the most unscrupulous of its I enemies was Sir Charles Buncombe, i who had lately pm chased a magnitl- ; cent estate out of the profits of his । own banking business. On one ocI casion he is said to have sold his eni tire holding of bank stock, amounting to £BO,OOO, in order to discredit I its reputation, ami. some years later, to have conspired with others to i create a run by collecting and pre- | senting on one day £300,000 in notes ! of the bank.—Macmillan’s Magazine. > I It sounds like a sbame to call some 1 I men piofessor.

at THE - STATE fair, A Commodious GranH Stand, Splendid Track, Good Horses an ^ Interesting Races. Grand Stand as Photographed Sept 22^-1892. 1 he Indiana] olis rac> course on the Indian t State Pan* Grounds has the proud prestige ot being the fastest track in the world. It was here that the G'ueen of th< Turf, Nancy Hanks, made her famous race against time in IH<J3, and the thou.-ands in the beautiful grand stand saw tl n gallant little mare cut away the seconds fro n the trotting record of the world. It was here that she ma le her m irk of 2:04i. The track is built u; on the best known i rineiples and racing can 1 e seen from the grand stan I along c cry foot of the mile of beaten earth. The ra es at the Mate l'air in IMH promise to eclipse anything heretofore seen on the grounds.

INDIANA ST ATE NEWS. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Tntrrratlnc Kumniary of the More Important Dolhrm of Our NviKhborw—Wrd. cling* ami !>< ;&th* ( rhnr*. < If* and General Nrws Notes of the State. tltio^irr IfMppvnlngs Be. wood-working mill, worth K>d,I f>oo is in a.-hes at Greenwood. A ( OMl’any with 'lo.iioo capital has ( lau n organized at Middleburg to manufacture chewing gum. The I neamb—cent Electric Light Corn; any ami the Seymour Ga- light and Coke < omnauv. lx>th Seymour concerns. have consolidated. Hammono heilth officers claim to ■ have located a factory in I*ake County whore saur»ages and dried beef were made from curt a—< -of ( hit ago street car horses. | Mr-. Marv Wire's Munch', was burglarized and S2IO j ' worth of y.-we ; \ -to en When -he j beard of th<* theft she wn- prostrated I i and her recovery i- douhtfa’. H. M. WHJ.tAMs. a balloonist, a-j eluded d " ’ iti the a.r at i\ e t Wayne, lie owered him-eif fitly P-et ' by a rote ami attemp . d to puli birr ■ )>arachute h> -o The huge umbrella : would not work a ti he wa- compeibsl , ito climb, ban o\ei ha >i. to the , traee.o. He came down in .-.tfctv with I * The gr- at iiurton family,nmnlx'ring 1 O.b»iinth< Ctntrd Stat. , an 1 about e;ehtl‘en ). , .re : in the t . Ito' , of I Miteheli, he.d t..e:r ami ia! r- union in j a I" a , . ■ . • t i ' . < . H Hal. of Eim - m made the an- j ► r\ ■ .) I •. : . H : • fa , Man; after uinm -p> ■ .• - were male by I piomineid mem! er - of the family. Ei»\vari» Ki .¥. a ; a.-s blower, I originaEv from I a-t Cambr.dge. Ma-, , | died at <. , \ . *. lv y are • mm h.s Ix’d for a dr uk of water. He drank from a < an ol -upix.-ed rain wat-T on a window <‘>ige. Tib can contained .on-I centrated lye the i hambermaid had ! been using for ekuoiicg the room, i A ter four daw- of agony Kelly died. Joseph W- «•:»<, a pro-jx-rou- farmer Os llraiidyw\< ■ E mn-hip. Shelby County, is the po?-e>.-or oi a week old : pig which ha-, -ix legs. The extra । legs are oined to the pelvis and to the rear of the hams. The animal is in a healthy condition, and bids fair ,o live to maturity. A close examination shows that there are two animals, whi h have be,-n nd I about themid- ! die lumbar vertebra. A case of extreme cruelty tea child came to light recently at New Albany. A few nights ago Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Harris had a tight at their home on! Water street. Mrs. Harris was w orsted, i and in a spirit of revenge sho sei ed ■ her H-year-old -te; -on Charles and * threw him on a redhot stove. Both I arms w< <• badly burned before Mr. I Harris could pull him off. He drove h - wife from the house and the little j ; boyislx ing cared for by relatives. < omplaints will be pre erred against j Mrs. Harri-. sei KET.MiY Br knell. who ha- iust r-turned from a visit to the southern i prison, .-ays the abolition of the lock- ■ step there is regarded as a move in ! the right direction. Through the I loek-stc . long-time prisoners acquired a peculiar gait that branded them all The Northern pri-on w T soon follow the example oi the Southern i ri-on in this respect. 1 The new wall aronnu the latter institution has been tinished. It is thirly- | six feet high, and extends seven leet under ground, resting on a b se several feet wide. The prison is in an overcrowded condition. While playing hide and seek Frank Conner. 7-year-old son of .Horace Con- I nor of Lebanon, was instantly killed by falling through a hatchway into the cellar of Bell's implement warehouse He pulled a two-hundred-pound wa<’on wheel after him, which fell on’his head, crushing his skull. At the American Tin-Plate factory Elwood, Major Stewart, employed in the tinning department, accidentally dropped some water in the acid flux causing it to explode, flying all over his hands, head and face, and possibly destroying his sight. If he recovers he will be disfigured for life.

AN jerson flint lottie works have startup up and 20 i men are employed. SHU Shewana ex|x*ctß to have water works and electric lights this fall. Moses Rose, aged 14, while stealing a ride ma I’., C.. C. a St. 1 . pas-en-ger to 4n. fell beneath the wheel- and was fhlaily injured at Jeffersonv tile. A Sy.RJOVS head end collision hetweeaa jass- nger ami freight train oeeurled on the C. E. A 1. road, near Hilbimlo. Both engines were wrecked. No one injured. li^NRY Vodpe. a fifteen-year-old almost instantly killed at For vVavne. by falling under a Wa I a-xtrain « him ti \ ing to run aero.— ahifc of the locomot. ve. BWIIE HaTi H, aged got a tobacco tflj Tn his throat the other < a\. and sIM |r(d great agony. The tag was f^’ Md into his -to aeh. and wat‘r wm from his stomach by an emetic. . fetlLL dan .VO feet long across the S’*mj onie River. Wabash Co niy. was • I by fire. Loss. Tio.OiiO. i I” very low in the river an I it is 'J-iTt ~n~L lueu mci vntaily WIT Ti ttle, traveling -alvs imn for thoWisor A Hibbit's flour mill at - M«i*. wa- ba : > - aim d at the mill. H-« »ai assisting engineer James DoHai« in tLing a steam pipe near the I Ixhlt. when a plug flewout of another plj<raud lo* was deluged with scalding wawr^' The jb. sh on his breast and l»a k gas fairly c<»oked. His condition ■ i s 'I j n t fn’a!. 1 IV vi E. H hlanher, pa-tor of the i Germin INangc ical < Larch at -an I Pierri « accidentally shot and killed 1 •< J He w -a> <> .■■ :y m a* -Ut p; ed to be lmr_liirs. and seizing a i gun,Srteii to go out. whet, the gun i wa- < ^charged, blowinghis head from ; :,e s imLb-: - U'.-; - ! t aw.< . ! phet^ink. He leave-a wife and several ‘jiil ren. ? ard County ami i- raging to an extent never* beioro e ualed. In the pa.-t fottr iU ... •. ,f. .■■ • h.. ■. I.a .e ■. ie L '.-mne^r e-- :o-m; th irenti drove. I‘L cMdennc app arc a ■. . ralsi c- ■ tlie county at the same time, an I i^Bore <; ieklv fatal than ever j knowAnher before. Tim far er- are I great f alarmed. The le-- already reaeiifs many thousa d dollars. A sip cking accident happened at the Inrt' canning fact>ry, Tipton, which will result in the death of Mrs. George Teague. She was feeding the can tiller and her hair caught in a line shaftalxjve her. The entire scalp, in- j eluding her forehead and one ear. was J ersed off. There is not a hair on her j head nor eyebrows that are left. The j suiVMms dre—ed the wounds, but they say yit there is no possible hope for , her Bicovery. IltlilAKP M< GRIEF and his brother ; G< orgte. twins, celebrated their ninety- i thirdpirthday at the former's home ' near I r cat up r-. -g^''irv are undoubtsy- ■■ • i>, .1- n ' the —(filled Stat. -. Both are quite 1 -o-y. without canes and read I . imAglaxe-. One’hing remarka- | bio ‘ < the history of their lives is that । • mhsr ever used tobacco in any form ( nor tbok intoxicating liquors. Each owns A well improved farm. Turf municiiial administration just inaugtirated at Kokomo is pursuing vigorously the issue on which they were Elected that of the strict en-i forces ent of the laws. At the first meeting of the Council every police-! man excent one was summarily dismissed. 1.. Martin, who is Captain of Company L. State militia, and Sir Knight Captain of the Koko i o Bivis- । ion, Uniform rank. K. of P., being the . only jurzivor on the force. Four new men ^re in their places. At the same session an ordinance was introduced to remove screens from saloons during unlawful hours, nights. Sundays and legal holidays. The order will nass and be strictly en:o eed. The State Tax (’ommission is giving attention to the allowances that have to be made to the attorneys who carried the railroad and other corporation tax cases to the Enited States Supreme Court. The total amount of pi operty in controversy was over -22,- : 000,^00, said to be the largest amount ever in litigation as to t nation. The tax on this amount reached nearly ; $4.(W,()00, and the attorneys conse- | quently expected a Pig fee. It is said that the board intends to distribute $2(1,000 among three attorneys, giving John. W. Kern $10,000,W A. Ketcham, SIO,OOO. and A. J. Beveridge $6,000.

Perf will build a new $30,001 school building South Beno has a city ordinance prohibiting the peddling of produce in the streets. Bristol people are protesting vigorously against another saloon being kx-ated there. Diphtheria is epidemic at Bedford. Owning of schools has been postponed on this account. Solomon E. Yost fell down an elevator -haft at Evansville, a distance of fifty feet. Muy recover. J. W. Haskett, ex-postmaster at Strawns, committed suicide by shooting himself. Poor health. Al. Lee jumped from a passenger train going al full .-peed near Ander--on and was fa'ally injured. \ roTALof 2 s children have been registered s n c the establishment of the Orphans’ Home at Laporte. Earl Brown. Id-year-old stepson of James P. Townsend, living near Edinburg, was found drowned in a rain barrel. M iky Wilson of Muncie, lost a band in a machine at the Cottage Steam Laundry there, and sues for damages. Farmers near Goshen are organizing to protect themselves against hunter- who trail over their premises without permission. Valparaiso hoodlums unsuccessfully tried to break up a salvat’on army inerting by throwing a skunk into the barracks. M. X' ii: gla— workers and manufae-. timers have agreed that a reduction ol 22- pep cent, be made. It meets the approval of all concerned. Patents have been issued in Indiana as follows: Mathew Arbuckle. Indianapolis, wheel-washing device: John S. Birt. Arlington. as-igm>rto F. H. 1.. Kalin A Bros. Hamilton. Ohio, pan making machine < harles T. Cox, as--ignor of Iwo thirds to M. .1. Moon and \V. T. l ower.-, Liberty, disinfecting apparatus: Michaei Gleason, Liberty, fence ma bine E ward a'd L. Hedderiek. Pettit -iwmg machine: Isaac H. Henley. Straughn, fodder-tying device: Lauren Humbarger, near Columbia * itv apparatus for transplanting plants; Frank G. Smiley , Go-hen, beam se.de; Adolph Weil, Greenfield, a;>paratus for boring well.-: William A. Wildbaek. In .ianaj olis. target trap. A Discussion on Fishing. ‘•Papa,’’ said Benny Blcobumner. who knew his father's weakness “you know all about fishing, don’t you?” “Yes. my son,” replied the elder . Bloobumper gr ciously. ‘ There is very little about that gentle sport with which 1 am not familiar.” “You know all about the right sort ! of bait to u e. don’t you?” “Certainly.” “That’s what I was telling Freddy ' Fangle, and we agreed to leave something about fishing for you to decide. I We had a discussion about it.” j “Well, Benny, lam very glad to I see you take such an interest in fishing, as well as to see such confidence in your father’s judgment. What was the point on which you and Freddy diil'ered?” “I don’t know as we differed, exactly. Freddy didn't seem to quite agree with me, though ” “State the question, Benny.” I “Well, fish run in schools semetimes, don't they, papa?” “Yes ” “That'.- what I t Id Freddy.” “Didn't he believe it?” “Oh, yes, he believed that all right.” “Then what is it you wish me to decide'''” •‘Well, I told him that when fish ran in schools the proper bait to use was hookworms.”—Harper’s Bazar. Fnv elopes. A safety envelope, to prevent tampering, has been devised. On the flap, the words. “Attempt to open” are printed with a double set of i hemtcals, the first impression containing nutgalls,and the second green vitriol. If the flap be steamed or moistened in any way. the magic printing will appear. By the use of electric headlights, locomotiveengineerscan count s venteeu telegraph poles ahead, as a rule.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elev.-ting Character— AVholesome Food for Thought —Studying the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently and Profitably. "W hat Jesus teaches us at His rest- | times; or, in other words. How Cbrmt rested— this is the lesson for this week, and is found in John 4: y-26. Jesus at Jacobs well. Some of us, who < all ourseV es disciples and apostles, have been resting for a season. Is the;e any regret a; we look back on the wellcurb, opportunities that hate I een 1 gi anted? Has it been meat and drink to us to speak and do for ( lirist? Ye>, after all, was there anything more r 5ireshing than the pviv lege, hai ly ours, of saying that kind word one day. Os doing that kind deed? May the Lor J teach us hero again His owa secret o v refreshing! .* thou hast nothin" t > draw with.” An instance of the w add s slow apprehension. tshe was thiukin" of the h 0 r "eve n re seizes upon the thought, taking the natural text, and leads her on into a knowledge of the well ai d water of life. Here al-o he teaches us a lesson. “Living water,” i e.. water of life. Gr, to pursue the piiysica’ an-a-°?y» water that keeps on flowing. Christ himself explains it' “The water that I .-hall give hi n shall be in him a well of water springing up intoeverlasting life.’’ The rd “s ringing up” means literally and graph tally to leap. It has buoyancy and power with;n itself, it is fed from the heights aud leaps toward t e heights. "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.” Just a quiet acsnowl dgwent ot her sin and of Curist’s prerogative as one sent of Gt d to rebuke -in. But is she trying to change the subject. when in the next breath, a little more glibly, i erhaps, she begins the mooted question, “Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and ye”—? She has not yet apprehende 1 who it is that is speaking with her. She is talking with a rabbi, a teacher; not yet sitting at the fe t of Jesus a Savior. “For the Father see' eth such.” The accent seems to us to be upon the eeketh. As much as to say. Cod is not in any one favored ] lace where some chance selected or r tricted people can find him. He may now be worshiped anywhere in spirit and in truth, i. e., where the sincere heart cries out to him. Yes, he is out even now, seeking such worshipers, and hence am I c me. And now the woman looks up with a strange new light in her eyes, we may imagine, born of the dawning appr hension. “I know that Messiah cometh which is called the Christ.” She is looking inquiringly, yearningly at him. And he, he is looking at her. very directly, and very lovingly, ; s he say-, "I that speak unto thee am he ” And now she is at his feet: the sinner has found a Savior'. llintH and Illustration*. At Jacob’s We i we get a new view of ii f e, its privileges and responsibiF~ ~ it ; es. From this standpoint, tie uplift of the well-curb ot Sychar, what do you disco.er regarding the work of the kingdom? Get an answer from each. What do you see? What do you? Do you behold the true symbolism of water? Do you see how liberal is the gospel, how it reaches all, how it find- an entrance to every heart. Do you discover what makes a place holy ground, the name of Jesus spoken there’ Do you find the way to recuperation and strength? Do you lift up your eyes and even now behold the whitened harvests near at hand? Get a good look from the obser. atory of J acob’s Well. Tnis woman whatever else she was not, was teachable. She was humble, ready to receive help. It was George D. 1 renti-s who said, “The man who has a great idea of himself ■.“ ill never have another great idea.” And yet this woman was n t weak. She was strong in her asking, as she was afterwad strong in her testimony, strong in the Lord, it is -uch so s that obtain. Someone tells < f overhearing an old colored man in his prayers. He was lifting up his hands and saying over aud over again, “O Lord, do your best with me. O Lord, do your best with me!’’ It was the be-t that’came to this w-man at the well. Ask for nothing less. Our Lord s own Inquiry meeting. We learn a lesson here as to its conduct. A quick but profound ! searching of the heart, then bringing the s ul straight to Jesus. Christ did not check this heart. He let I er speak her mind, that she might herself know it, and then he showed her himself. “The Jews ha e no dealings with the Samaritans.” The saying was that a Jew would not tell a Samaritan his way. if lost nor give him a drink, if thirsty. Thank God the Jew died when Vhrist came. Such exclusiveness and bigotry i- now entirely pa.an in .-pirit A missionary- visitor preaching by an inierpreter to an attentive audience in heathea lands suddenly -iw ha.f his heai-ei--.ari-' and, moniously betake themselves to outside of the inclcsure. "What did I do. what d d I say. that offend, d?” h^ asked at the close. “Nothing,” wa the arswer. “simply a low < aste mar came in and sat down on one of tho seats.” Think of these needy souls about us, hungry and thirsty, and we do not seem to know, dying for the water of ife, with help just at hand. Jesus interpreted the 1 a f-spoke;i cries of men and taught us how to look al out and discover t e real want that speaks from lip an 1 eye. Lord Jesus, give us thy quick vision for souls. Golden Text. —“Whosoever d, inketh of the wate ■ that I shall give him shall never thirst.” —John 4: 14. Next Lesson —“Daniel's Abstinence. ” —Dan. 1: 8-20. This and That. Yale graduates a e to have a paper devoted esp-cia ly tj t! eir interests. Os 473.206 persons of school age in Missi-mppi < niy 244 are of foreign birth. In Connecticut. Florida. Oregon and Wisconsin tho school age begins at 4 years. New York lias the greatest number of inhabited dwellings. •<! 5,593; Nevada the least, 10.066. lx s me of the Western states the number of dwellings increased 7a per I cent, in ten years,