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FARM AND GARDEN. s MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Up-to-date Hlate About Cultlvo tloa af tba Soil aad Tlelda Thereof —Horticulture, Viticulture and Florl oalturo. "MB years ago elrelgel and Wll rth demonstrated lat by tbe use ’ tbe legumes tbe ipply of nitrogen iuld be Increased > almost any de red extent and lat wherever the lovers,, alfalfa beans or pens of any variety can bo grown there is no need of soil exhaustion so far as nitro gen Is concerned. It Is now beginning, however, to creep Into the heads of tho aclcntlr,ts that the restorative powers of tho legumes Is due not merely to the supply of nitrogen but tbe res toration of humus to tbe soil, and In vestigations are now proceeding In *b;ii lino which promise to be exceed ingly Interesting. By humus we mean the vegetable mold which exists to a greater or less extent In all soils but Is more abundant In all new soils, whether forest or prairie. It has been observed by the common, every day farmer who pretends to no knowledge Of HCienci* Mnilu 1 no in fjtrtllitv In proportion as this vegetable mold is exhausted. It is exhausted quite rapid ly not merely by the removal ol crops but by chemical action which Is the Jx result of cultivation, hence the soil that seems to be rich In vegetable mat ter turns out In a few years to be a clay bed which produces little or ^nothing. The Minnesota agricultural (experiment station has been taking a prominent part in these Investigations and has found that when a fertilizer containing nitrogen, potash and phos phoric acid, or any one of these alto gether or alone there was In no case an Increase of over three bushels of "wheat or two bushels of flax per acre, and on moderately new soils, and that "where soils had been cropped for twenty years the largest increase was four bushels per acre whilo the de cline between these soils In their best condition and worn out condition was I fifteen bushels per acre. It Is there fore clear from this and other results that the decline In soli fertility Is not 4ue merely to the removal of the ele ments essential to fertility but to some other cause. That cause Is to a very great extent the lack of humus or veg etable matter, and It Is quite probable that the results of clovering, which In our experience adds from fifteen to twenty-five bushels of corn per acre to worn out soil, Is due not merely to the nitrogen stored in the soil but to the material from which humus is made in the form of the roots of the clover. This accounts also for the lasting ef fects of barnyard manure which con tains not merely these essential ele ments of fertility but adds humuB to the soil.—Wallaces' Farmer. _ Protect Inc Evergreen* from Mronth. The Wisconsin Horticultural society bulletin publishes an article by J. C. Plumb on "Protecting Evergreens from Drouth.” It is as follows: The premature death of so many of our evergreens In lawn and hedges, In aouthem Wisconsin, Is truly alarming. In my home village are many trees which have hitherto flourished and at tained their ten to thirty feet, without any show of weakness, but which In the last year have lost their foliage never to return, and the evergreen hedges, miles of which we have planted and furnished In that vicinity, are now many of them dying out In spots, or ahow a weakness that preludes death, and 1 am looking for a larger death rate to show among the evergreen trees than ever, with the coming spring and summer. With a view to avert fur ther losses In this line I huve been looking up the facts and seeking a remedy. It Is plain enough that the primary cause of this death Is the want of rainfall during summer and autumn, aa haa been the case during tha last two years. Copious uml seasonable watering would have saved most of them without doubt. Hut prevention la r better than cure. Artlctal watering Is generally costly and often a difficult process, go we find It beat to avoid the cause by conditions of planting and growth. Our Manual rainfall la all •undent for our used* In thla direc tion, If It can bo coiiaervad, or reserved, for tlmo of need. In thla line we find throe ways available, namely: Ktrat, culture; second, mulching, third, pro tection from robber plants. Tha Brat two method* named we all undervUnd and practice’ with all auceeaaful nM* vatluus. but the last remedy we have failed to appreciate. Our evergreen* are being robbed of the last veattgo of water In tha sell by deciduous trees, of which the white soft maple to meet destructive, the butternut and Ruro peat* larch fellowing due* la fast aay treo tha roeta of which (aad ea the sur face Witt rob the evergreens. Wa Bad tha hemlock and balsam Br moat aan ottivo to the rubber reota, aad lb* ar b*» vitae least sa. au that under the earn* eeadiUen* tha latter 1* balding Ha awa with UtU* shoe of neahaaa* from the drouth New tiara no surface mutch or e wit are mill answer fully Hi our tus, wo have found It naewmary I te mit dee* or a*tartly rust prun*. khea* dec Muses Irene wham they an crone had upon tha evergreens, In an* ease abate n beautiful hamleth fudge was ahunig* tha Brat symptoms *f danth. w* too* up the lata* toning yhal oadi and nit •* tha maple roeta of iiggtug a two foek treo-a betoeea tha badge and th* trwaa Again wo »*<• dug a atmttar iroosh around atwgt* Woon 10 «ut of tha rvbUi roota la every case the effect was soon shown by the renewed vigor of our evergreens. But as this must be repeated every few years, It Is a question why not put In a permanent concrete wall between, or dispense altogether with the fast growing deciduous trees? I am of the opinion that we have too many of these rapid growing maples, and the sooner they are dispensed with the better for our beautiful evergreens. I have for many years been In the practice of cut ting the surface roots of grass and shrubs around our lawn trees by shov ing the spade Its full depth In a cir cular cut as far from the base of the tree as Its branches project, and the same treatment for the rose bed, or any of the choice plants which are bor dered by grass, and In all cases with excellent and Immediate effect. Of the miles of evergreen hedges wo have planted but few will be left at the end of another series of dry years, unless protection Is afforded same from robber roots of maro vigorous trees. Killing WwH. Weeds are easily killed Just when (hoy begin to grow. If the ground is then stirred they will be very readily put out of the way. When those lit tle tender white roots which they firm put out are turned up to the light ami sun, they soon vanish. But once allow them to get a good hold upon the soil and It Is quite u different thing to re move them. Is?t the harrow for In stance stir the surface of a corn field Just when the weeds are starting, and they will be destroyed In myriads. But let the harrowing be delayed for two or three weeks and comparatively few of the weeds will be killed wllh one harrowing. In growing a crop of man gels, If the edges of the raised drill are A a m a/inn a a fhn Til fl T1 lfV>\ 4 appear, this work may be quickly done without disturbing the mangels, but once let those weeds got firmly rooted and the difficulty of the work will be greatly Increased. The rootlets from the weeds will Intertwine around those of the mangels, so that when the for mer arc being uprooted the latter may also Iks pulled out. The true plan Is to so arrange that the roots of the weeds will not make any considerable headway before they ure destroyed. Then the work Is easily dorio, and the farmer should be careful not to grow more of a crop than he can lake care of In good form. This Is particularly H ue of crops that require summer cul tivation.—Ex. The Root Crop. Mangels, sugar beets and carrots, when properly stored, may be kept un til late spring the following season, but the former should not be exposed to the early frosts of autumn or they will not keep so well. Our machines for saving these crops are not by any means what we want at the present time. The standing objection to the growing of field roots is the labor in volved; but think of the ofTset to this labor in the streams of milk which the roots generate, und in the beneficial Influence which they exert on the health of the cattle. Unnecessary la bor may in a sense be grievous, but not so the labor Involved in growing field roots. For nearly C.000 years men have found that it is not such a bad thing, after all, for a man to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and growing field roots has a more salutary influence even on the health of a lazy man than the consumption of the roots has upon the health of the cattle to which they are fed.—Ex. Chicago Home Market. The total receipts for the first half of the current year aggregate 70,929 horses received and 56,889 horses dis patched. again“t 70.856 arrivals and 08,233 dispatched for the first six months last year. The extraordinary receipts In 1895 have more than been duplicated up to the close of the Juns trade, und all indications arc favorabli that this season will establish a new record In 'he volume of trade at the market. Receipts are very light, tho light receipts of all grades being ample to supply the limited demand from all sources. Eastern farmers say they can not compete with western farmers In raising draft horses, but In coach and carriage horses they propose to take ihe lead. All right; we can supply them with both draft and coach horaes when we get started to breeding.—Ex change. Wild Oats.—According to Or. Scho ernburgk. of South Australia, a va riety of our cuuiruou field oat (avenu saliva, tar. melumwperma) bus become surprisingly injurious. He says; “The black oat has the most notorious pre eminence of all tbs Introduced weeds, and Ihe effects of the Intiuder moat ruinous to the (arming country. • • • Thousands of seres of arable land, es pecially ouch a* bavo been la cultiva tion some years, are totally ruined for th* purpos* of wheat growing, by the blach <>at" Tot. of a vory clooely al lied plant, Dr Brewer yeara before the above wae written. Mid: “The wild oat tavann aterills) la found from Palestine to the Atlantic, hut I never hoard that It la of any vatu# there Hut In America. It clothe* the plains of t’sliforau and «e«t*ra Meslco; sis* parts of Itoulh America and the inland ef Juan Per- j aandea, Uront arena, at hand rede, or | even thousand* of wjuare miles to gether. are seeded with It. and mi Utons of animate teed a* It ‘ Water for Irrigailon -A barrel of water ef M l gallon*. applied t* a put j at land t*e by tea feel, would egual a leiohvll of ea* taefc. ttr It would Uha about N* barrel* of water per arm to eg**! • rainfall af on* taeb. This will weigh well aver lee tana If can mast depend an a well. It mutt be **ta to that It la sapabte af aupplyiag the amesaary guesilty aad that the , windmill ban p* of enough to talsg M to >00*00*me If A— St r%* a>a that pays »ujt> j TALM AGE’S SERMON. "a shadow on the harvest FIELD,*’ SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. kAsd When tha Child Vm Grown, It Fall on • Day That Ha Want Oot to Hla Father to the Keeper*"—Second King* 4H8, 10. *0. IIKRB Is at leant ons happy homo In Shunem. To the luxuriance and splendor of a great house had been given the advent of a child. Even when the Angel of I.ifo brings a new soul 1 to the poor man's 1 hut a star of joy ; shines over the manger. Infancy, with Its helplessness and Innocence, had panned away. Days of boyhood bad home—days of laughter and frolic, j flays of sunshine and promise, days of itrange questions and curiosity and Quick development I suppose among all the treasures of that house, the brightest was the boy. One day there Is the shout of reapers heard afield. A boy’s heart always bounds at the sound of sickle or scythe. No sooner have the harvesters cut a swath across the field than the lad joins them, and the swarthy reapers fool young again ns they look down at that lad, as bright and beautiful as was Ruth In the har vest fields of Bethlehem gleaming after the reapers. But the sun was too hot tor him. Congestion of the brain seized on him. I see the swarthy laborers drop their sickles; and they rush out to see what Is the matter, and they fan him aw Ihnv trv tn cent hla brow: hut til la of no avail. In the Instant of consciousness, he puts his hands •gainst his temples and cries out; “My head I my head!” And the fathor said: "Carry him to his mother,” Just as any father would have said; for our band Is too rough, and our voice is too harsh, Mid our foot Is too loud to doctor a lick child, If there be In our home a gentler voice and a gentler hand and g stiller footstep. But all of no avail, tyhlle the reapers of Shunem were busy In the field, there came a stronger reap er that way, with keener scythe and for s richer harvest. He reaped only one Iheaf, but O what a golden sheaf was that! I do not want to know sny more about that heart-break ing scene than what I see in Just this one pathetic sentence: “He sat on her knees till noon and then died.” Though hundreds of years have passed away since that boy skip ped to the harvest-field and then was brought home and died on his mother's lap, the story still thrills us. Indeed, childhood has a charm always and sverywhere. I shall now speak to you of childhood; Its beauty, Its susceptibil ity to Impression, Its power over the parental heart, and its blissful transi tion from earth to heaven. The child’s beauty does not depend upon form or feature or complexion or apparel. That destitute one that you saw on the street, bruised with unklnd netts and In rags, has a charm about her, even under her destitution. You have forgotten a great many persons whom you have met, of finely-cut features and with erect posture and with fault less complexion, while you will always remember the poor girl who, on a cold, moonlight night, as you wero passing late home, in her thin shawl and bare foot on the pavement, put out her hand and eald: "Please give me a penny.” Ah! how often we have walked on and said: “Oh, that is nothing but street vagabondism;” but after we got a block or two on, we stopped and said; “Ah, that Is not right;” and we pass ed up that same way and dropped a mite Into that Buffering hand, as though It were not a matter of second thought, so ashamed were we of our hard-heartedness. With what admira tion we all look upon a group of chil dren on the play-ground or In the school, and we clap our hands almost Involuntarily and say: “How beauti ful!” Al! stiffness and dignity are gone, and your shout Is heard with theirs and you trundle their hoop, and fly their kite, and strike their ball, aud all your weariness and anxiety ure gone as when a child you bounded over the play-ground yourself. That father who etaads rigid and unsympathetic amid the sportfulnesa of children, ought never to have been tempted out of a crusty and unredeemable solitari ness. The waters leap down the rocks, but they have not the graceful step of childhood. The morning comes out of the gates of the east, throwing Its sll ver on in* inn* ami tut gum on me tower* amt tta Are on Ihe cloud: but It Is not ao bright and beautiful u th* morning of tlfo! Th*r* la no light Ilk* that which is kindled In a child * ay*, no color Ilk* that which bloom* «n % child * chr«h, no music Ilk* th* ■ootid of a child* vole* It* f»>* In th* poorest picture redeems any Im perfect loa tn art When w* arw weary with toll, their llltl* h#nd* pull 'he burden* o# our hack Ob. what a dull, •tale mean world that would ha with* aut the sportful**** of children Whea | And paopl* that do not ilk* children, 1 Immediately doubt their metal and Christian sharactsr. Hut when tha gras* of fled corns* upon a child. how uaapeahahly attract!**. Whs* hamuat begins tn pray, and timothy begins ts read th* tfotlpturws, and Joseph ahnws himself Utvulasrabla t* tamputmg—j haw banutifu) th* MM! I ban* that pat eats somsttman get servo** whs* their children become pious, beeaua* hat# tha Idea that good children sl ants die. Th* strand* u west Ions about tb.-l and Morally and th* dsad, used# apprehension in the parental miad rut bar than eongvutulathMi Indeed, there |l« sum* ( fUpta thub n»g mmh »d for heaven. This world Is too poor a. garden for them to bloom In. The hues of heaven are In the petals. There Is something about their forehead that makes you think that the hand of Christ has been on It, saying: "Let this one come to Me, and let It come to Mo toon.” While that one tarried In the bouse, you felt there was an angel In the room, and you thought that every ilcknese would bo the last: and when, finally, the winds of death did scatter the leaves, you were no more surprised than to see a star come out above tho cloud on a dark night; for you had often said to your companion: "My dear, we shall never raise that child." Hut I scout the Idea that good children al ways die. Samuel the pious boy. be came Samuel the great prophet. Christian Timothy became a minister at Kphesus. Youg Daniel, consecrated to God, became prime minister of all tho realm, and there ure In hundreds of tho schools and families of this coun try to-day, children who love God and keep bis commandments, and who ere to bo foremost among the Christians and tho philanthropists and tho re formers of tho nest century. Tho grace of God never kills any one. A child will be more apt to grow up with religion than It will be apt to grow up without It. length of days is prem ised to the righteous. The religion of Christ does not cramp the chest or curve the splno or weaken tho nerves. There are no malarias floating up from tho river of life. The religion of Christ throws over the heart and life of a child a supernal beauty. "Her waya are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” , I pass on to consider the susceptibil ity of childhood. Men pride them selves on their unchangeability. They will muke an elaborate argument to prove that they think now Just as they did twenty yeara ago. It Is charged to frailty or fraud when a man changes his sentiments In politics or In religion, and It Is this determination of soul that so often drives back the Gospel from a man’s heart. It Is so hard to make avarice charitable, and fraud honest, and pride humble, and scepticism Christian. The sword of God's truth seems to glance off from those mailed warriors, and the helmet seems battle-proof against God’s battle-ax. But child hood; how susceptible to example and to Instruction! You are not surpilsed at the record: *’Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob;’’ for when re ligion starts in a family, It Is apt to go all through. Jezebel a murderess, you are not surprised to find her son Jeho ram attempting assassination. Oh, what a responsibility upon the parent and the teacher! The musician touches the keys, and the response of those keys Is away off amid the pipes and the chords, and you wonder at the distance between the key and the chord. And do It Is In life; if you touch a child, the results will come back from man hood or old age, telling Just the tune played, whether the dirge of a great sorrow or the anthem of a great Joy. The word that the Sabbath School teacher will thle afternoon whisper in the ear of the class, will be echoed back from everlasting ages of light or darkness. The home and the school decide the republic or the despotism; the barbarism or the civilization; the upbuilding of an empire, or the over throwing It. Higher than parliament or congress are the school and the family, and the sound of a child’s foot may mean more than the tramp of a host. What, then, are you doing for the purpoae of bringing your children into the kingdom of God? If they are so eusceptlble, and if this Is the very best time to act upon their eternal in terests, what are you doing by way o', right Impulsion? There were some harvesters In the fields of Scotland one hot day; and Hannah Lomond waa helping them to gather the hay. She laid her babe under a tree. While she wub busy In the Held, there was a flutter of w ings In the air, and a golden eagle clutched the swad dling band of the babe, and flew away with It to the mountain eyrie. All the harvesters and Hannah Lcmotul start ed for the cliffs. It was two miles be fore they came to the foot of the cliffs. Getting there, who dared to mount the cliff? No human foot had ever trod it. There were sailors there who had gone up the mast in the day of terrible tem pest; they did not dare risk It. Hannah Lomond sat there for awhile and look ed up and saw the eagle In the eyrie, and then she leaped to her feet, and site started up where no human toot bad ever trod, crag above crag, eatrblng bold of this root or that root, until aha reached the eyrie and caught her babe, the < tv I.- swooping In flerceueo* all •■round about her. Fastening the ehtld to tier bark, ehe started tar her irteuae and for home, O, what a dl**y descent! alldlui frutu tkla erng ta that crag, •tacking by that tine and by that root, coating down further and further, to the moot dengeroua pane, where ane found a gent and *ome hide. Hhe entd “Mow ru follow Ike goat; the goat will know fnet which la lha aafeat way down;** and aha waa ltd ky the aalntal down In the plain. W hen ahe got there, all tha people triad Thanh Ood. thank tlod” her atreagth aat gltlng wag until the «NMM waa effected And lhag artadi ' tftand bach, now, like her nirr Cl, if a a»nw will do that far the phyaltal Ufa af bar child, what wtil rou da far the eternal Ufa of your h«y aad yuur girl* Lot it hot ha told la tha grant day of eternity that Hannah l.emend put forth mure etertlon tar tha eurtng of tha phyaleul Ufa nf her child than you u parent, bate eta# put forth feu the eternal Ufa of y«ur little ana Uud help you' • • • Thera la aat * large family, er hardly a large family that hna nut heat near each a treasure and tael It, la the family fvid ta theig ag dead tetgbj I have seen many such cases of sorrow. There Is one pre-eminent in my mem ory as pastor—Ccoville Haynes McCol lum. The story of his death has brought hundreds unto God. He belonged to my parish In the west. A thorough boy, nine or ten yeare of age. Nothing mor bid, nothing dull about him. His voles loudest and his foot swiftest on tbs playground. Often he has come Into my house and thrown himself down on ibo floor In an exhaustion of boisterous mirth; and yet he was a Christian, con secrated to God, keeping his command ments. That Is the kind of childish piety I believe In. When the days of sickness came suddenly and he was told that he could not get well, he said: “Jesus alone can save me. Jesus will save me. He has saved me. Don’t cry, mamma. I shall go right straight up to heaven.” And then they gave him a glass of water to cool his hot lips and he said: "Mamma, I shall take a drought from the water of life after awhile, of which If one drink he shall never get thirty again. I lay myself at Jesus’ feet and I want him to do Just what he thinks best, to do with me.’’ In those days, "Rest for the Weary” was a new hymn, and he bad learned It; and In a perfect ccstacy of soul, In hi* last hour, he cried out; la the Chrlallan'a home In glory There mnitM a land of feat; There mr Hatlor'a gone before ui To filial my grnil'g rri|i)e«t| Thera la real for tha weary, There la rrat fur you. Slog. O eliig, y» Itelre of glory. Shout your triumph# na you got f.lon'a galea are opan for you. Yon aball Arid an entrance through. Thera la real for the weary. sea The brightest light that can he kin dled, Christ has kindled. Let u», old and young, rejoice that heaven Is gath ering up so much that Is attractive. In that far land we are not stranger*. There are those there who speak our name day by day, and they wonder wby eo long we tarry. If I could count up the names of all those who have gone out from these families Into the kingdom of heaven, It would take mo all day to mention their names. A great multitude before the throne. You loved them once; you love them now; and ever and anon you think you hear their voices calling you upward. Ah, yes, they have gone out from all these families, and you want no book to tell you of the dying experience of Chris tian children. You have heard It; It has been whispered In your ear, O fath er, O mother, O brother, O sister. Toward that good land all Christians are bearing. This snapping of heart strings, this flight of years, this tread of the heart reminds us that we are passing away. Under spring blossoms, and through summer harvests, and across autumnal leaves, and through the wintry snow-banks, we are passing on. O, rejoice at It, children of God, rejoice at it! How we shall gather them up, the loved and the lost! Before we mount our throne, before we drink of the fountain, before we strike the harp of our eternal celebration, we will cry out: "Where are our loved and lost?” And then, how we shall fither them up! O, bow we shall gather them upl Id tbla dark worm or am ana pals We only inert to part again; Tut nben we ranch the heavenly ahore We there aboil meet to part no mort. The hope that we aball aea that day Should Cbaae our preaent grlefa away; When theae abort yeara of polo are pagS We ll meet before the throne at loat. Trne Amerlconlam. In the coming campaign let the pre sumption of sincerity and real desire to serve the country lie with all who have not forfeited their claim to it, and when the president shall have been elected let it be Insisted on by all true patriots that he Is the head of the na tion. not the Instrument of any party, and his good name and fame are In the keeping of all loyal hearts.—Rev. B. F. McDaniel. FOR WOMEN ONLY. The dainty, pretty, and generally be coming fancy waists appear to be Just as popular as ever. The latest bats are charmingly light end bewitching, wUb their brims encir cled by full box-plalttngs of the filmi est tulle. The tan shoe Is not as popular aa It was last summer, and when worn It Is it a dark russet shade. Among the newest fancies of fashion are the bright green belts of alligator •kilt. Every variety of flower that nature has produced, and many others, which must have orlglusted In the fertile oreia int nower maser, are in con spicuous evidence, and flower bonnets are shown among the newest |afch diraw hata with rowa of plaited tulle around the brim are among the pretti est fancies, anil the piattinge are some times wide enough to stand up around :he crown with a twist of velvet or rib bons between Vails which are designed to enbanco the loveliest completion and Improve a poor owe are made of blech Kuselaa net, spotted with chenille, and lined with the thinnest piah lull*. The elooely flttlug sleeve ta feet gala tag ta popularity, and la thin material, •u h as chlVoa, net and mualia. It la i eftew arranged la pule, with laeertloaa »f base between, with narrow blech vwt vet ribbon drawn through tha lee* The ahtrtn at heavy cotton and Keen (owns are made without aay Halag. and g«e yard# la ewaaidetwd ample ful nee at the bottom ualewe they have tha broad boa plait tint ta front, whleh mate prater. A meet sensible feahbta te the eae ef making street goose te clear the ground, and seam of them M« even ♦barter ta the hn«h than ta frwat, an j the shirt whleh trails e ven a little bti le ilMl mi THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON IX, AUGUST 30. AB SALOM'S DEFEAT AND DEATH. liohlen Test: “The Lord Kaoweth tho Way of the Klghteons. hat tho Way of the Ungodly shall Perish''—Hooh of Psalms, Chapter i. Verse 10. — O-DAT we continue the story of last Sunday's lesson. But seeing the sod end of the disobedient son and the father'a grief over him, we look at the atory from the father's aide. Besides the main lessons of the sad harvest from hr liking the Fifth Commandment, and of the father's fad ing* toward M* dls olndhrit and lo*t child, there ave roan touching Incident*, each bearing the fr» grunt blossom* of Instruction. We w itinly tin- whole story, and * otnpsrt with the psalms, and with Mod's love wards til* sinful children, a* < *prc In tho story of the Prodigal Son, the school rcpi at In concert John nfid the Fifth Commamltm nt I! ‘I I netting. Time. It. C. 1<>2J, a »hor| after the iu*t laaann Flood* <t) ,ilm (the tWO hurl* or (snip*), temporary capital, a strongly 'own cast of lh<- Jordan. t»nd Jabbok. it wa* the place it Ishhosheth, made Ills raid'll. wh* holding tin- ten tribe* h 11 tl* (iron. Here, too. lij Lord mi t Jacob, and Jn prayer tOen. *2). (2) The l«n the Wood of Kphralm, not tl In (ha trtti* of Rpknta, west t.• • I '.'It some part of the ».i-». < of tlllead, east of the Jordan, one day of Mahannlm (chap 1": 2).^ j'-sOy' name wa* probably given to the f because of the memorable defeat of Ijf J-: Fphralmltes there In the time of J»p. fbub (Judg. 12:4.) Today's lesson Includes verses 2-17. 22, 12. chapter IS, Second Book of Samuel, as follows: t>. "Ami Absalom met the servant* of David" In battle array; and Ills troops were defeated. "Absalom rod® upon u mule," In his flight. "The mule which lie rod*—perhaps David’s own—was a murk of royalty (1 Kings 1:32 bridge Bible. "Ills head caught hold of I he oak," "His head wu* caught In the forked bough* of the tree, and he hung there, stunned and helpless. Per haps hi* long, thick hair got entangled, but there 1* nothing to support the com mon Idea that he was suspended merely by hi* hair."—Cambridge Bible. "Josephus say* distinctly that his hair was en tangled."—Cook. 11. "Why didst thou not smith him there?" But the man knew too murh to be tempted even by a girdle, the mark of friendship, and hy money, for he well knew that it would he known, and Joab himself would have cost the blami epon him before David. For David was In tensely anxious that Ills wayward son should be saved. II. ‘‘Joub . . , took three darts . . . and thrust them through the heart of Absalom." He alone felt strong enough to disobey the king. He did the act for David’s own sake. Doubtless he thor oughly believed "that Absalom’* death was the only effectual way of ending till* most guilty and pernicious tnsurrec tlon, and so preserving the country from ruin." PI. "Joab held back the people,” from further slaughter. In this way the na tion could more easily be reunited under David. I*. "They took Absalom, and cast him lino a great pit In the wood,” etc, ’’The people of the east Indicate their detesta tion of the memory of an Infamous per son by throwing stones at tho place where he Is burled.” 22. "Cushl,” one of the courier*. "1* the young man Absalom *afe?" David’s llrst thought, after he knew that the kingdom wu* safe, was for the fate of his wayward son. T* the young man safe? This Is a ques tion every parent and every friend of young men should ask. It the young man safe from intemperance, from had companions, from bad books, from dis honest conduct, from had habit*? I* he Nafe In Jesus Christ? Is he safe In a good home and among good Influences? I* he safe for this world? Is he safe for eternity? Ask yourself, also, what you are doing to make him and keep him safe. Is the young man safe! So. Why not? Because he has begun to taste Intox icating drink*. Because he has given up his life to regular money-making. Because he Is reckless In his way of handling money. Because hla thoughts are not pure. Because he has a lot of opinions thut are false. Because hi* parents do not set him a good example.—A. F. Bchauffler. 33. "Went up to the chamber.” To be alone In his sorrow. The deepest sor row "triads the wine-press atone." "And wept ’’ ' Tears are the safety-valves of tlie heart."—Albert Hmlth. ’’O my son AbsalomThere Is not In the whole of the Hid Testament a passage of deeper Pathos than this. The simple beauty of tlie narrative Is exquisite, we are Ir resistibly reminded of him who. while he ladield the rebellious city of Jeru salem and thought of Ihe destruction It was bringing upon Itself, wept over It ll.like la 111. Cook. "Would ilod I had died for thee. 1 Mo Mooes (Kx. liJJi and ro Ml. l aid ilium, t Jl would have sacri ficed themselves, had It been possible, to Save others. IBs wish to die In Absalom s lead was no mere extruvugance of grief. Davit) knew Ids own pence was mails with that; he could die at any time If Ab salom Were spaled III life, he mlghi yet repent. Hit* of the bitterest Ingredients In (Ms cup of sorrow was the conscious ness that bis uwn sin was iutrtly ilia cause of Absalom * fate. Ii was pari of I the duoto altered by Ihe prophet, The I *w* rd doll never depart from thy house " | tit hib Mfiufi* tu |( hitl Immjh in I tain. Hal I M fi*»| It. hi* »f* I i*ttv| In hid it'ititHtMft. u«rHi|)i Ah* ] wi-uhl hAit invii • tlinviviii f 'iunn !*«*>• r«v flli«4 l«|li*hid«M I ii• iScilits lutby la a rat* whs-it ; mi»iy ilaift Mils la a iitM |rrwa g- ti iiSna iht lost ittnty yssn uity dis a^tttlwutstt wiiitiHii wdttdliNi‘ la ! t« if aautai bats rsnlnl ult tb* tHiUd |u <•«. rKMbONAU. Mrs Cilrti A Urk* bas tiMtd IISM i« il« I'mImhI) Ukniii fua4 of bar ill H|lA waist. tba Waatbfb IVmala Asm* taary si Otlsril, U. Mr William M l*b*lys. 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