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FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some l?p-to-I»*t» Hint* About Cultiva tion of thv Boll and Yield* Thereof —Horticulture. Viticulture and Flort cultore. ISTAKES In plant ing—It Is a mis take to plant trees till you get your ground ready; or to plant In soil not adapted to their growth; or that has not been properly enriched and thor oughly underdratn cd—trees will not thrive with wet fpet. It !» a to plant In certain quarters of the moon—trees do better planted In the earth. It is a mistake to plant too many varieties—or to plant all of one variety—or to plant a variety because some tree agent advises you to; or to plant every variety offered you before It has been thoroughly tested In your locality, unless you have the means to conduct an experimental fruit farm. It is a mistake to plant in post-holes and think that trees will grow without any further care or cultivation. It Is a mistake to plant at all unless you know what varieties you want and how to take care of them when planted. Mistakes in Cultivation.—It Is a mis take to think that when trees are once v planted they will take care of them* •..elves. It Is a mistake to turn young f rfiflU mi* A n MHnuu ttnfn P<1 fhf»V iiTl! weaned from the nursery. It Is u mis take to think they don't want Just a» good cultivation as corn or any other crop to succeed well. It is a mistake to try and raise crops year after year from an orchard without returning any thing to the soil; trees want feeding as well as your pigs or cattle to pro duce growth or fruit. It is a mistake to trim by horse or cattle power, you are apt to overdo the Job. It is a mis take not to trim and shape your trees when young and thus avoid the neces sity of removing large branches when the trees are large, and thus mutilate and injure them. It Is a mistake to let too much fruit grow on young trees or vines. It is a mistake not to thin out heavy crops on any trees. Mistakes in Marketing.—It is a mis take to market your fruits in flour or meal-bags, when you can get clean ones. It is a mistake that you don’t use the clean ones for oats or wheat and put your fruit in good clean baskets or barrels. It is u mistake to try to put a quart of berries into a pint and a half basket, or a half bushel of peaches or pears into a twelve quart basket—they shrink In getting them out. It is a mistake to put all the small samples in the bottom of the ^ basket, most people take them out be fore they use them, besides the large ones on top have a crushing effect, if not upon them, upon your honesty as a fruit grower. It is a mistake to send soft fruit to a distant market. It is a mistake to send fruit to a commission man whose honesty you know nothing about. It is a mistake to expect piompt returns from every commission man you send to. It Is a mistake to send off fruits to be sold on commission if , you can get a fair price near home. Miscellaneous Mistakes.—It is a mistake to think that nurserymen never make mistakes, or that *hey they can. It la a mistake to think they are responsible for the death of all the trees that die before coming to matur ity, or for all the tricks of tree agenta. It is a mistake to think they don't want to sell all their surplus stock, and that tree agents don't often buy It and with out their knowledge, re-label It Just what their orders call for and send it out, and when It bears, nurserymen get the cursing. It Is a mistake to think all tree agents are rascals.—A. M. Smith. Vianflllit* <)uiiir#a. Quinces may be gathered as they rlpeu in such a manner as to prolong the season very much. No fruit needs more careful handling-even it thumb mark becomes a dark spot In a short tiftc For shipping to a distant market in considerable quantities, probably no I package is more satisfactory than the ordinary apple barrel. The ends should tie lined with white paper and the fruit placed in very carefully, calyx end downward against the head, instead of the stem end. as with the apple. The tall etui of the barrel should be gently pressed to Its place with % lever or i screw press, but less heavily Ihsn In the esse of the apple, because th# text ure of I be quiuee is more brittle slid lews elastic, consequently every bruise will result In i serious blemish For • near market, and In smaller quanti ties, ns package ess surpass the now vary popular twslvs quart basket. Whichever package Is u**«l It will usu ally be found bust to make two classes, and out to ship the entail tuts shapes nr poorly colored ap* itn>n* In th* same package elih the >hot> • fruit. If, knweser, no detection is mads, a fair shots of heat and worst should he mads In order that dealers may know exact ly »hst they are handling and boyar* m*^ know exactly what they are buy tan - t- »»:<*» U out* *iton fbe Xlsstsey ef Pates IssSiUss, On# of the m«sdt dtstvearieniug xxpe-1 t tenure* that ran h*tail a m*n who I* Making a bustsvasof growing a partis wist garden «# fat m crop is it witness the failure ef MSS a crop when he dues pnt knew what in du to prevent th leMt inch an *xp*ft*Uce queueh** <*u» * enthusiasm tn M* work temporarily st ! tsest, and weaken* hbt totth in nta abil ity tn #» steam# the elalwks that he most m*t tn hi* booth***, Tbs »•*• or trthf rtf rtitk experience* ha* ultra been the direct cause of the growth of one crop after another being aban doned; and occasionally this has re sulted in New England in the abandon ment of the farm a together. On the other hand, to feel that one under stands the peculiarities of plants and knows what to do for them and when to do it If they are threatened with dis aster, begets a certain confidence in the occupation, and in turn this begets an nmbltior. to cultivate mors crops and larger fields and to increase the pro duction of each square foot of land so tilled, The discovery of the Bordeaux niixtur/ and its plant-disease prevent ing qualities promises to be of great value to those engaged in the cultiva tion of the soil, onuhllng them to con trol In a large measure a class of troubles which have in the past 'jccii the occasion of heavy loss and trying annoyances.—Rhode Island Bulletin. Irmert Injurle* to Imllan Corn. .♦Bulletin No. 44 of the Illinois Agri cultural Experiment Station Is a com plete practical account of all known In sect Injuries of any importance to ite seed and roots of Indian corn. The kinds of lujury are so classified and an alyzed ns to enable one to determine the cause of the injury from the ap pearance of the field or the Injured plant, and from the Insects found in or upon it. The wireworrn, the root lice, the white grubs, and the corn root U/fif’niH nr/, fr/tul/.il with outihI fi I full* ness. The discussion of each form ct Injury and of each Insect treated In cludes a full account of preventive and remedial measures, the whole making a pamphlet of eighty-seven pages, pro fusely illustrated with cuts of the In jurious insects in the various stages of their development. This bulletin Is Issued by the consult ing entomologist of the station, i'rof. 8. A. Forbes, who Is also State Entomolo gist of Illinois, and the article Is made up largely from the eighteenth report of the State Entomologist, with the omis sion, however, of all matter of a tech nical character or of trivial economic importance. This bulletin, as well as all others Issued by the station, will be sent free of charge to any person In Illinois in terested in farming, who will send his name and postofflce to the Agricultural Experiment Station, Urbana ill. W. L. Plllsbury, Secy. I.atfl I'utwtooi. The planting of late potatoes has fal len Into disfavor in Rhode Island cn account of the occasional prevalence of the late blight which hitherto In some seasons has run riot In the potato fields, while the owners of the fields could do nothing but stand by and see tb ur potato vines wither and blacken rod their prospects of securing a gool po tato crop grow small by degrees nnd beautifully less. Experience has shown that potato growers can now save their late crop from destruction by this dis ease; but in order to do this they must Introduce Into their methods of culture when necessary a feature that Is com paratively new to the business—-a kind of work the details of which are per fectly simple, but they are unlike any operations that have formerly been practiced upon the farm, and conse quently they must he learned mainly by experience and observation of those who are to practice them. Iiesiilt at Draining. A number of years since two acres of clay land which had a hard-pan clay subsoil was taken from one end of a meadow anil fenced In with the adjoin ing corn field. Two years' cultivation endeavoring tc- raise corn proved a fail ure in getting even fair crop yields. About sixty rods of tile drain was pat down at an average depth of two and a half feet. The ground was well plowed and cultivated, then wheat drilled In. A crop of wheat of good quality, forty eight bushels, was secured off those two acres, and only about twenty two horee-wagon loads of stable manure was applied to the ground. The two pr» vious crops of corn were very light, hardly paying for the labor of cultiva tion. Since for about ten years those two acres have produced euch year, nvt Inui t out* onn/l I’se Good Seed.—Many farmer* make the mistake of arguing thla way: "1 have Home good grain that will bring a good price on the market; I will s«|| that. I have some poor shriveled grain that grew down on low ground. I will keep that for seed." It Is a great mis take. It Is a very true principle In both animal and vegetable growth that ‘hike begets like,' and If we sow poor seed we may expect a poor crop. Again, In selecting our seed we shuuld strive tu select It from a field that baa been uniform in both quality and quantity. When we have thla seed let us dean It thoroughly, I used to thluk, when I was a boy, and my step father kept u* cleaning grain after it hud been cleamd two or three times over, that he did this to keep us out of mischief, hut I have ruaduded that he was right about thla thorough clean ing Ueo. M< Ketrow. Kvperluccfttsl H<wilr There I* ev ery reason to belter* that there Is la the rural rotum mitt** geo*, ally a to tal lack of appreciation of the beneRls uf good roads, which Ml be at all seasons af the year. The truth Is the people have had go espa rlettce of I realty gumf roads, and is opportunity af fudging ef the superiority e*er had »nee 1 here Is mu* h room for popular rduantlen on this subject sad one el the best means af >du>«uuti usul l h# Ike conaituctmn In every community »f a pi*-» et ar*t-da»t mad tiuch an uhjm t Isssun w ioM he Inc sloabte, and li ta easy la h* liar a that targe ad iillilti mighi l«* from a liberal ta panditare hr the slate Then, two there t* a natural and easily under stood fear <cg the pari ef the farm*«* that the pruvtsbsa el |u>l reads means an invrs- •« af lags*, h i THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VI AUGUST 9 — THE VICTORIES OF DAVID. Uoltl.n Text! “The l.oifl lx My I.lfe and My f.!g:ht and My salvation; Whom Kliall I Fear?"—Psalms ’47:1 — nuta tion* and Application*. OK little children It Is not good to dwell on bat tie* and slaughter of enemies. Hut the fact that these were righteous wars, and victories over enemies tnat were ruin ing the country in David's time, and that such occur In the hlvtory of nest _ countries, may be dearly / shown. The wars should / ^ be viewed ffOfl th* standpoint of Justice, of chivalry, of patriotism, of deliverance, of victory, of blessing to the cause of mankind—the r» suits rather than the details. The applica tion Is clear. We have many enemies to overcome, both within and without. We have the weapon* described In Ephesians. We have many promises to those who over come. We need as great courage, and hero ism, and devotion as Is required In the his toric battles of the world. Historical Set ting.—Time.—The earlier years of the second part of David** reign, H. C., 1040-1033. Tin# section Includes the whole rangy of David’s wars, 2 Sain. 6: 18-26; chap*. 8 and 10. and 12: 20-31; 1 Cbron. chaps. 18, 19 and 20. I’salms 18 and 60, according to their title*, throw light on David’s experiences arid mo tives at this time. Light From Other Scrip lure*, in addition to Psalms 18 und 60. and others, the spiritual conflicts of Homans 7, the warfare and armor of Ephesians 6: 10 18; and the promises to those who overcome, In Revelations 2 and 3. The lesson for today Include* 2 Samuel 10: 8-19. 8. Ho “came out" from hi* capital Into the op<|n country. He hired Syrian soldiers from Zobs, In the northeast' toward the Eu phrates; from Hcth-iehob, in Asher, In Northern Galilee from Maacah beyond the waters of Merotn, and Ish-tob, southeast of the sea of Galilee, the scene of Jephthah’s exile. The scene of the battle was the city of Medeba (1 Citron. 19:7) In the mountains of Moab east of the northern end of the Deal Boa. David’s general was the briillant Joab. 9. "When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind." The Ammonites were at the entering In the gate of the city, while their Assyrian allies were In the plain, and the Israelites between them. "He chose of all the choice men of Israel," These were chosen to light the flyrluns as the most dangerous enemy. 10. "The rest • • • Into the hand of Ablshal his brother," with the agreement that each should help the other In case of need. The brothers with their enemies were thus back to back. 11. "He of good courage," for they were In a most dangerous situation, and had go »d need to "play the men.v The motive behind their couarge was, "for our people, and for the cities of our God." Strike—for your altars and your fires; Strike—for the green graves, of your sireH; God, and your native land. -Halleck. "The Lord do that which semueth him good," Better, Jehovah will do, etc.: an exprer^lon of trust combined with resignation to God’s will. Compare 1 Samuel 3; 18."—Cambridge Bible. 13. "The battle against the Syrians" was a victory, quickly billowed by the defeat of the Ammonites under Ablshal. This defeat was not final, but the Syrians made one more effort to recover from their losses. 10. "And Hadarezer” was king of Zobah, northeast of Damascus and south of Hamath between the Arontea and the Euphrates. "Came to Helara," a town west of the Eu phrates. 17. "David • • • passed over Jordan, and came to Helam." Here David gained a great victory, destroying the men of "seven hundred chariots • • * and forty thou sand horsemen." The numbers vary some what in Chronicles. Errors of numbers "fre quently arise from the practice of expressing numerals by letters, with one or more dots or dashes to Indicate hundreds, thousands, etc.—Cook. 19. "The kings that were servants to Hudarezer." "His vassals and tributaries transferred their allegiance to David. Ac cording to chapter 8: 6 (assuming it to refer to the same war), the kingdom of Damascus was completely subjugated and secured by military stations.-—Cambridge Bible. Thun I ll £.1.1 *1.£. t^ppi , l, r, np I as the Euphrates. On the east to the desert, he conquered a little later from Ammon, the partners of the Syrians, in the siege of Kab bah Ammon, east of the Jordan, where I'riah the Hittite was slain, as referred to tn our next lesson. (J. While David was thus em ployed In the north, the restless and always hostile Edomites, seeing the south denuded of troops, and excited to action by the vin dictive Ammonites, invaded Judah with a large force. Joab and Ahishai were imme diately despatched to the south with a por tion of the army, and with orders to treat the enemy with the utmost rigor. They found that the Edomites hud already caused wide distress, and were now retiring to their own territories at the approach of the Israel ites. At the southern extremity of the Dead Sea, in the valley of Salt, they were defeat ed; and in six months (he Edomites in the mountains and defiles of Idumea were re duced to submission and garrisons placed in the conquered district. Thus David's empire was extended to the south as far as the desert. Home Moral Questions and Applications. - First.- Now for the first thus was completely fulfilled the promise made to Abraham (Gen. 15. 15*1 that his seed should hold (he land frwtu the river of Egypt to tha river Eu phrates. Se\*-ra! things combined for this result, til The period was during the 4e «tins and obscurity of boh Egypt and As s>ru. sad It la during this interval alone that such an empire could have existed.— ri de Light* on History, til The *ur* rounding nations made the attacks and it «a. from the ae* easily of self defense that } the larger li>i|4*>iu was gained, d> David j was Just the man to? the t*uw religions, | |u«t. shillful statesman Ith*. and soldierly. J Thus alt God's promts** are sure ta he fat- [ filled whenever the best time and the tight I men meet, Ihlsj it n -t d* taL hut the J parted for the ripening »»t the w >«>l ; fruit, geie-nd. The Israelite* h«)d (fits Uxi j as long aa they ^bend Ttiif might have j '-•Id it to this «la> It **a epuatsd * toe ! what as gwttisfland is today among the sur* [ t v ott'Loa natives. Might Htwtffi Mutnllljr |A right XtKtHMI *llk nt«t. ^lUrtloilllt) U With t*»*•' ■ A null IW| b« All IIS At *llK hi* I'll i*» ' *A>t ,11 AluAg A ilb UuJ tth*» A .U4A j I«U il|il • iib IM M it risk! *11 It' it it toil H*t A C, Ihaw*. NKAIV f Ml V ft. A At TO HlllUb At *4— lit. It ^ vtt«t IlfCAl j III It41A Ut AA A 1**1 IA tO l4ll IMi vssfs The 4um 4 lb* Si I'a il » 14 a bunt! t* MO Iwl Me 44 (Oft 41# Oi l IS | I Ac |«4I Ia iciAititltAi i« iia .*44 Mm bcicci ft44 A lAftlbr ilub i I Iftll AAV uiiict I |AAtl|A|tc4 Vlftillwl IQtlAftf tAf lift Hit ftO A | ftfuAt a! |t •».<#»# Ufti |««f, Ia UbA A*c- f mm* u Mi III t TALM AGE’S SERMON. "WHO WAS YOUR FATHER?’' SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. From lha Tast: "nhna Hon Art Than Young ManT”— Hereditary Proclivity for tiood or KvU-Huvld Varaui QolUtk. — EVER was there a more unequal tight than that between David and Goliath. David five feet high; Oollath ten. David a shepherd boy, brought up amid rural scenes; Oollath a warrior by profession. Goliath a mountain of brag gadocio; David a marvel of humility. Goliath armed with an Iron spear; Da vid armed with a sling with Hmooth •tones from the brook. Hut you are not to despise these latter weapons. There was a regiment of sllngers In the Assyrian army and a regiment of sllngers In the Egyptian army, and they made terrible execution, and they could cast a stone with as much ac curacy and force as now can bo sent with shot or shell. The Greeks In their • rmy had sllngers who would throw If’flflAn llllllimudu InuFtvlltrwl tariff* 4fw* lu rltatlng words: "Take this!" So It was a mighty weapon David employed in that famous combat. A Jewish rabbi says that the probability Is that Go liath was In such contempt for David that in a paroxysm of laughter he threw his bead back and his helmet fell off, and David saw tho uncovered forehead, and bis opportunity had come, and taking this sling and swing ing it around his head two or three times, ami alining it at that uncovered forehead, crashed it in like an egg shell. The battle over, behold the tab leau: King Saul sitting, little David standing, his fingers clutched into the hair of the decapitated Goliath. As Saul sees David standing there holding in his band tb« ghastly, reeking, star ing trophy, evidence of the complete victory over God’s enemies, the king wonders what parentage was honored by such heroism, and in roy text he asks David hla pedigree, "Whose son art thou, thou young man?" The king saw what you and I sec, that thlB ques tion of heredity is a mighty question. T«e longer I lIvo„the more I believe in blood—good blood, bad blood, proud blood, humble blood, honest blood, thieving blood, heroic blood, cowardly blood. Tho tendency may skip a gen eration or two, but it is fure to come out, as in a little child you sometimes see a similarity to a great-grand father whose picture hangs on the wall. That the physical mental and moral quali ties are inherited is patent to any one who keeps bis eyes open. The simi larity is so striking sometimes as to be amusing. Great families, regal or lit erary, are apt to have the characteris tics all down through the generations, and what is more perceptible in such families may be seen on a smaller scale in all families. A thousand years have no power to obliterate tho difference. The large lip of the House of Austria is seen in all the generations, and is called the Hapsburg lip. The House of Stuart always means In ail gener ations cruelty and bigotry and sensu ality: Witness Queen of Scots. Wit ness Charles I. and Charles II. Wit ness James I. and James II., and ail the other scoundrels of that line. Scot tish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fondness for the sea, In dian blood means roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity, Homan blood means conquest. The Jewish fa cimy tor nccutnumuon you may trace , clear back to Abraham, of whom the i Bible says "he was rich In Rllver and gold and cattle," and to Isaac and Ja- j cob. who had the same characteristics. Some families are characterized by Ion gevlty. and they huve a tenacity of life positively Methucelish. Others an characterized by tiollathlan stature, i and you can see It for ono generation, two generation*, Uve generations. In all 1 the generation* Vigorous theology ’ runs down In the line of the Alczsn- i der* Tragedy runs on !u the family of the Kembles. Literature runs on In the line of the Trollopes. I’hlianthropy runs on In the line of the Wllberforei a Statesmanship runs on In the Hue of j the Adamses. Yon see these peculiar! > tits In all g»iterations llenry and Catharine of Navarre religious, stl their Isntillea religiuu* The celebrated family of the t'asstnl, all mathcmnii- | rlaus. I h* celebrated family of the M* du-l grandfather, son and Catharine, j all r»uiarkabts for keen Intellect, The relebt.tled family af Uuslatre Adolphus, all uarrtora. This law of heredity asserts Itself without t*fe«eare to so cial or political rwaditioa, for you yometlmes find the tgnehle In high pis. * sad I ha hunurstde In eke tit* pis *. . descendant of Kdarsrd I a toil gatherer A descendant af Kdusrd ji keeper A desroaitaat ut <» Inks of Nat thumtMrlead, a trunk •ut r dome of the miaktkest famklkee »f K»<stand am esUbet. wait* euute of those must honored la the peerage |e hack ta aa aaeaatry of hard knu* kies »*• ■ • <'* eslsstor t hi- la a of heir (flip Is entirely Independent uf social m political undttrust Then you tad •tartee sad Jsuieusy and census Ml y sad fraud kavtag full suing la soar* fatuities Thn yuhat temper af ftrf Mid hrlllsa ta the ta heritage* of Tradon* h the Ureal It ts nut s theory founded h» uarhtty phthmuphy, hut hy >li«iuu suthertty Du you net mmsmhsf how the Nthla apeak* et u shessa pen rrutkua of the penerutloe of the fight* nhm, of the goners t tea *d * >p»r* af *a satua aid generation. ef t stuhhera **a (was ii [ oration, of the iniquity of the fathers, visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation? So that the text comes today with the foree of a projectile hurled from mightiest cat apult, "Whose son art thou, thou young man?” Well, says some one, "that theory discharges me from all respon sibility, Born of sanctified parents, we are bound to be good, and we cannot help ourselves. Born of unrighteous parentage, we are bound to be evil, and we cannot help ourselves." Two Inaccuracies. As much as If you should say, "The centrifugal force In nature has a tendency to bring everything to the center, and therefore all come to the center. The centrifugal force In nature ltus a tendency to throw every thing to the periphery, and therefore everything will go out to the periph ery.” You know as well as I know that you can make tho centri petal force overcome the centrifugal, and you ran make tho centrifugal over come the centripetal. As when there U a mighty tide of good in a faintly that may be overcome by determination to evil, as In the case of Aaron Burr, the libertine, who had for father President Burr, the consecrated; as In the case of Plerrepont Edwards, the scourge of New York society eighty years ago, who had a Christian ancestry, while, on the other hand, some of the best men and women of this day are those who have come of an ancestry of which It would not be courteous to speak In their presence. The practical and use ful object of this sermon Is to show you that If you come of a Christian ancestry, then you arc solemnly bound to preserve and develop the glorious inheritance, • • • First, I accost all those who are de scended of a Christian ancestry. I do not ask If your parents were perfect. There are no perfect people now, and I do not suppose there were any perfect people then. Perhaps there was some times too much blood In their eye when they chastised you. But from what I know of you, you got no more than you deserved, and perhaps a little more chastisement would have been salu tary. But you are willing to acknowl edge, I think, that they wanted to do right. From what you overheard In conversations, and from what you saw at the family altur and at neighbor hood obsequies, you know that they had Invited God Into their heart and their life. There was something thut sustained those old people superuat urully. You have no doubt about their destiny. You eripeet If you ever get to heaven t6 meet them as you expect to meet the Lord Jesus Christ. That earthly association has been a charm for you. There was a time when you git right up from a house of iniquity and walked out into the fresh air be cause you thought your mother was looking at you. You have never been very happy In sin because of a sweet old face that would present itself. Tremulous voices from the past accost ed you until they were seemingly aud ible, and you looked aroupd to see who spoke. There was an estate not men tioned In the last will and testament, a vast estate of prayer and holy exam ple and Christian entreaty and glorious memory. The survivors of the family gathered to hear the will read, and this was to be kept and that was to be sold.Rnd It was "share and share alike.” But there was an unwritten will that read something like this: “In the name of God, amen. I being of sound mind, bequeath to my children all my prayers for their salvation; I bequeath to them all the results of a lifetime's toll; I be queath to them the Christian religion, which has been so much comfort to me, and I hope may be solace for them; I bequeath to them a hope of reunion when the purtlngs of life are over. 'Share and share alike,' may they In herit eternal riches. I bequeath to them the wish that they may avoid my errors and copy anything that may have been worthy. In the name of God who made me, and the Chriet who re deemed me, and the Holy Ghost who sanctifies me. I make this my last will and testament. Witness nil you hosts ol heaven. Wltncsc time, witness eter nity. Signed, seated and delivered in this our dylug hour. Father and Moth er." You did not get that will proved at ihe surrogate's office, but I take It out today and I read it to you. I take It out of the alcoves of your heart. I shake the dust off tt. I a k If you will accept that inheritance, or will you break the will? Oh. ye of Christian ancestry! You have a responsibility vast heyond all measurement. God will not let you off with jutt being as good as ordin ary people when you bad such ex traordinary advantage. Ought not a Rower planted In a hot-house be more thrift* man a Rawer planted outs.da In the storm * Ought not a factory turned by tbe H..u*a> n e do mo e work than a factor* turned by a tbla an I shallow mountain oircant* Ought not luu of gr«at early opportunity be bet ter than tbaee who bad a cradle unbles sed? A father a*ts hit son up la busi ness He beep* an account of oil tbe eapeodltures, fa mwrb for gtoce ba lm**. m much for rent, aa much for thi* a* moeh fur that, and all tbe items *i« - *«i«d *»t the father • sinkta tbe sou to give all keeoukt, . , sea Hut { t or a for * moment to th»*e • bo had **ll parent igs and I want to tell you that tbe highest thrones in beaten aad the wight leaf triumphs nud the brightest croaks lilt be ter the*# wbo bad evil porestsg*. but tbe by tb* grave of G*d ceogwered eomguer *d As good. M useful, aa spUivdlJ a gcuti* ti«a aa I gtor hk*w had for h father h man who died blaaghsmtkg God uatll the aetghbgr* bad to pul j ibetr Art gar* Ik their sera to abut out the horror Oh 14 tbe meet v sow urn tod _ __ ..... •nd nsefnl Christian ministers of to day was the son of a drunken horse jockey. Tide of evil tremendous In some families. It Is^lke Niagara Rap ids. and yet men have clung to a rock and been rescued. There is a family In New York, whose wealth hag rolled up Into many millions, that was found ed by a man who after he had vast estate sent back a paper of tacks be cause they were two cents more than he expected. Grip and grind and gouge In the fourth generation—I suppose It will be grip and grind and gouge In the twentieth generation. The thirst of In toxicants has burned down through the arteries of a hundred and fifty years. Pugnacity or combativeness characterizes other families. Some times one form of evil, sometimes an other form of evil, nut It may be re sisted, It has been resisted. If the fam Ily frailty be avarice, cultivate unset flshmes and charity, and tet,ch your children never to eat an apple without offering somebody else half of It. Is the family frailty combativeness, keep out of the company of quick-tempered people, and never answer an Imperti nent question until you have counted a hundred both ways, and after you have written an angry letter, keep It a week before you send It, and then burn It up. Is the family frailty timidity and cowardice, cultivate backbone; read tne niogrnpny or brave men line Joshua or Paul and see If you cannot get a little Iron In your blood. Find out what the family frailty la, and set body, mind, and soul In battle array. Conquer you will. I think the genea logical tnble was put In the Hret chap ter of the New Testament not only to show our Lord's pedigree, but to show that a man may rise up In an ancestral line and beat back successfully all the Influences of had heredity. See In that genealogical table that good King Asa was horn of vile King Abla. See in that genealogical table that Joseph and Mary and the most Illustrious Being that ever touched our world, or ever will touch it, had In their ancestral line scandnloug Rehohoam and Rahab and Thamar and Uathsheba. If this world Is ever to he Edenlzed—and it will be-all the Infected families of the earth are to be regenerated and there will some one arise In each family line and open a new genealogical table. There will be some Joseph to arise In the line and reverse the evil Influence of Rehoboam, and there will be some Mary to arise In the line and reverse the evil Influence of Bathsheha. Per haps the star of hope may point down to your manger. Perhaps you are to be the hero or the heroine that Is to put down the brakes and stop that long liDe of genealogical tendencies and switch It off on another track from thsfc on which it has been running for a century. You do that and I will prom ise you as fine a place as the architects of heaven can build, the archway In scribed with the words: "More than conqueror.” But whatever your hered ity, let me say you muy be sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty. Estranged children from the home stead, come hack through the open gato of adoption. There is royal blood In our veins, there are crowns on our es cutcheon. our Father Is King, our Brother Is King, we may be kings and queens unto God forever. Come and sit down on the Ivory bench of the palace. Come and wash in the fountains that fall Into the basins of crystal and alabaster. Come and look out of the upholstered window upon gardens of azalea and amaranth. Hear the fult burst of the orchestra while you ban quet with potentates and victors. Oh! when the text sweeps backward, let It not stop at the cradle that rocked your Infancy, but at the cradle that rocked the first world, and when the text sweeps forward, let it not stop at your grave, hut at the throne on which you may reign, forever and ever. “Whose enn art thnu thmi vrnine man?" Son of God! Heir of immortality! Take vour inheritance! NOTES OF THE DAY. About 10,000 Americana visit Eng land yearly. Among the English nobility 19 per cent are childless. Of the 9,533 sailors In the United Statee navy 4,400 are foreign born. New buildings under way at Cripple Creek are estimated in value at ITilti. 309. Fashionable young ladles In Japan, when they desire to look very attra-; ttve. gild their Ups. Hunflower rake has been found, espe cially in Itussla, one of the beet auxil iary cattle foods. A meteorite which fell in Auetralia recently had a masa of pure copper lu. ledi.td in one aide. American ebony is one of the heavi est « >hU hnown. weighing M.l pounds to the cubic foot. lien t fail to try your hardest to win the favor of your prospective mother in-law let her tree, soon see that her eon ha» cboeen a gwl after her own heart for hie wife. I inn t (eel hurt mid aggrieved U its letters do not arrive with the same un failing punctuality with whch yours are dispatched, Nine men A of •very ten diollhe leu*, writing Make up your mind that your lover w not the tenth an* -N. Y. Commercial Ad ventser A French railway company hea or dered cloche to ho placed M the hi side of every hcoswilis The hlgheet Inhabited building Uk Fur op* ta the Alpine club houee, on Mount Keen, UUf* feet shorn the a** level Flight repairs m the stsna wad at Iks Woody Anglo. Gettysburg, made iha athar day, eaccvsrvd over IM hni Mia urn- of shell, parts .1 gun*, tta - -