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TALM AGE’S SERMON. rV“— ■ •THE SOFT TONGUE" LAST SUN DAY'S SUBJECT. Itea n. Text: “A Bert Tongue Break •tb the Bone"—Prorerb*. Chapter >1, Terse IB — Bolomoa’e Wl.e.1 Bey tag. __ When Solomon said this he drove a Whole volume Into one phrase. You, mt course, will not be so silly as to take the words of the text In a literal sense. They simply mean to set forth the fact that there is a tremendous power in a kind word. Although It may seem to he very Insignificant, Its force Is In describable and Illimitable. Pungent and all-conquering utterance: "A soft tongue breaketb the bone." If I had time, I would show you kind Bess as a means of defense, as a means •t usefulness, kindness as a means of domestic harmony, kindness as best amployed by governments for the tam ing and curing of criminals, and kind ness as best adapted for the settling and adjusting of international quarrel; hut 1 shall call your attention only to two of these thoughts. And first, I speak to you of kindness jus a means of defense. Almost every man, in the course of his life, Is yet upon and assaulted. Your motives are misinterpreted or your religious or po litical principles are bombarded. What to do under such circumstances Is the question. The first Impulse of the nat ural heart says; “Strike back. Give as much ns no sent, 'irip mm invo mo ditch which ho (lug tor your feet. Gash him with as severe a wound as that Which he Inflicted on your soul. Shot for shot. Sarcasm for sarcasm. An •ye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth." But the better spirit In the man’s soul rises up and says: "You ought to con aider that matter.” You look up Into the face of Christ and say: "My Mas ter, how ought I to act under these dif ficult circumstances?" And Christ in stantly answers: "Bless them that curse <fou, and pray for them which desplte fully use you.” Then the old nature rises up again and says: "You had bet ter not forgive him until first you have Chastised him. You will never get him fa so tight a corner again. You will fever have such an opportunity of in flicting the right kind of punishment Upon nim again. First chastise him, and then let him go.” "No,” says the better nature, “bush, thou foul heart, fey the soft tongue that breaketh the bone,” Have you ever In all your life known acerbity and acrimonious dis pute to settle a quarrel? Did tbey not always make matters worse and worse find worse? About fifty-five years ago there was a great quarrel in the Pres byterian family. Ministers of Christ were thought orthodox in proportion as they had measured lances with other Sergymen of the same denomination. he most outrageous personalities were abroad. As, in the autumn, a hunter •omee home with a string of game, partridges and wild ducks, slung over Ilia shoulder, so there were many min isters who came back from ecclesiastl eal courts with long strings of doctors of divinity whom they bad shot with their Own rifle. The division became wider, the animosity greater, until af ter awhile some good men resolved up on another tack. They began to ex plain away the difficulties; they began to forgive each other’s faults; and lo, the great church quarrel was settled; •ad the new school Presbyterian church and the old school Presbyterian Church became one. The different parts of the Presbyterian order, weld ed by a hammer, a little hammer, a Christian hammer that the Scripture s “a soft tongue.” ! ou have a dispute with your neigh bor. You say to him, “I despise you.” He replies, "X can’t bear the sight of you.” You say to him, "Never enter nay house again.” He says, "If you come on my door sill i’ll kick you off.” You say to him, "I’ll put you down.” He aaye to you, “You are mistaken; 1*11 put you down.” And so the contest gages; and year after year you act the unchristian part, and he acts the un christian part. After awhile the better •pirlt Belies you, and one day you go over to the neighbor, and say, “Give me your hand. We have fought long enough. Time is so short, and eternity is so near, that we cannot afford any longer to quarrel. I feel you have wronged me very much; but let ua set tle all now In one great hand-shaking, and be good friends for all the rest of our Uvea" You have risen to a higher platform than that on which before you stood. You win his admiration, and you get hie apology. Hut If you have not conquered him In that way, at aay rata you have wt>a the applause of your own conscience, the high esti mation of good men. and the honor of your U*rd who dUd for hts armed ene mies “Hut," you say. “what are wa to do when slander assaults u*. aad there tame acrimonious saying* all around about ua and we are abused and spit upon?'* My reply ta lie not go and attempt to chase down the list lem j tins rtft • .*!.• li.irn AH Mr at lone of indignation only eg ha ml y wore# if You wight aa well tn Wuute so lower night when the gear mg mt Inseete are totting wp from the meadow* and disturb lag you aad dtp twhisg ywur family, bring up s in* prewt “wwawp angel “ like that whwh ghtender »d ovet Chat leal ww. and try ta ihcel them dawn. The game la lew pen tw dw with the abnae* that ewme upon yew in Itfw1 Yen are ta live them doe a! I eww g termer go eel ta get hark a swarm wf been that had van gated off teem the Ai Imi wmi4 amid them they IMused emend He is • . \m and buzzed around bla feat If ha had killed one of them they would hava stung him to death. But ha moved In their mldet In perfect placidity un til he had captured the aw arm of wan dering beea. And so I have eeen men moving amid the annoyancea, and the vexations, and the assaults of Ufa In such calm, Christian deliberation, that all the buzzing around about their scut amounted to nothing. They oonquered them, and, above all. they conquered themselves. "0," you say, “that’s a very good theory to preach on a hot day, but It won’t work.” It will work. It has worked. I believe It Is the lust Christian grace we win* You know there are fruits which we gather in June, and others In July, and others In August, and others In September, nnd stfll others In October; and I have to admit that this grace of Christian for giveness Is about the last fruit of the Christian soul. We hear a great deal about the bitter tongue, and the sarcas tic tongue, and the quick tongue, and the stinging tongue; but we know very little about "the soft tongue *.hat breaketh the bone.” We read Hudibras, and Sterne, and Dean Swift, and the other apostles of acrimony, but give little time to studying the example of him who was reviled, and yet reviled not again. O that the Lord, by his Spirit, would endow us all with “tho soft tongue that breaketh the bone.” I pass now to the other thought that I desire to present, and that is, kind ness as a means of usefulness. In all communities you find sceptical men. Through early education, or through the maltreatment of professed Chris tian people, or through prying curiosi ty about the future world, there are a great many people wno Become acepu cal In religious things. How shall you capture them for God? Sharp argu ments and sarcastic retort never won a single soul from scepticism to Ihe Christian religion. While powerful books on ‘‘The Evidence of Christiani ty” have their mission in confirming Christian people in the faith they have already adopted, I have noticed that when sceptical people are brought In to the kingdom of Christ, It Is through the charm of some genial soul, and not by argument at all. Men are not saved through the head; they are saved through the heart A storm comes out of its hiding-place. It says: “Now we’ll Just rouse up all this sea;” and it makes a great bluster, but It does not succeed. Part of the sea is roused up —perhaps one-half of it or one-fourth of it After awhile the calm moon, placid and beautiful, looks down, end the ocean begins to rise. It comes up to high-water mark. It embraces the greah headlands. It submerges the beach of all the continents. It is the heart-throb of one world against the heart-throb of another world. And I have to tell you that while all your storms of ridicule and storms of sar casm may rouse up the passion of an immortal nature, nothing less than the attractive power of Christian kind ness can ever raise the deathless spirit to happiness and to God. I have more faith in the prayer of a child five years old, In the way of bringing an infidel back to Christ and to heaven, than I have in all the hissing thunderbolts of ecclesiastical controversy. You can not overcome men with religious argu mentation. If you come at a sceptical man with an argument on behalf of tho Christian religion, you put this man on his mettle. He says: “I see tnat man has a carbine. I’ll use my car bine. I'll answer his argument with my argument.” But if you come to that man. persuading him that you de sire his happiness on earth and his eternal welfare in the world to come, he cannot answer it. What I have said is as true In the reclamation of the openly vicious. Did you ever know a drunkard to be saved through the caricature of a drunknrd? Your mimicry of the staggering step, and the thick tongue, and the disgust ing hiccough, only worse maddens his brain. But if you come to him In kind ness and sympathy; If you show him that you appreciate the awful grip of a depraved appetite; if you persuade him of the fact that thousands who had the grappllng hooka of evil inclination clutched in their soul as firmly as they now are In his, have been rescued, then a ray of tight will flash across his vision, and It will seem as if a supernatural hand were steadying his staggering gait. A good many years ago there lay in the streets of Richmond. Va., a man dead drunk, his face exposed to the blistering noonday sun. A Christian woman pass art slims wvW Oil Al him Afttl Uliil "Poor fellow." Hhe took her handker I rhlef and spread It over hit fare, and petard on. The man remawd himarlf up from hie debauch and begun t > look | at tha handkerchief, and, to! on It woe the name of a highly reepertahlo Christian woman of the city of Hl.-h* mond. He went to her, he thanked her for her k Indues*, nnd that one llttla deed waved him for thin life, and eav* ed him for th» life that la to ewia He j wae afterward attorn- y geuerttl of rttw | I'atted Htatee. hut. higher than all. he became the consecrated dlwctphe of Jeaua Christ. Klad word#are a»> eh*ap, It Wi a wonder we do wot uiw them oft I tt*f. There are t >ae of thotteawde of tec pie ta theee cities who are dytug ; fur the Inch of one htad word There la a buataeew mm who haw fought agalnet trouble ualtl he tw pwrfwwtly wi* faulted Hw ku bora thinking |MI forgery, about robber*, ehwut euh’ldw. Uo tw that huetaewa man Tell him that better time# are coming, ea t twtl him that you yuumwlf were in a tight bueUoee pare aad the left del leered yea Tell him tw put hie trum la Uod. Twtl him that Jewua Clrtm rob I kwwtdw every huwkawaw out la hie per* pieiit tee. Tell him of the sweet pr*uw teww el tkod'i eomfwrtiag gntm That • boa |» dy ing fur tue keck wf Just cum king word tte o-morru* h*d gtt«r that one saving, - omnipotent, ktnd wont. Here Is a soul that ha* been swamped In sin. He wants to find the light of the Gospel. He feels like e ship-wrecked mariner looking out ©v*r the beach, watching for a sail against the sky. O, bear down on him. Tell him that the Lord waits to be gracious to him, that though he has been a great elnner, there le a great Saviour provided. Tell him that though his sins are as scarlet, they shall be as snow; though they are red like crim son, they shall be as wool. That man Is dying forever for the lack of one kind word. There used to he sung at a great many of the pianos all through the country a song that haa almost died out. I wish somebody would start It 9galn In our social circle#. There may not have been very exquisite art In the music, but there was a grand and glorious sentiment: Kind words never die, never die; Cherished and blessed. O, that we might In our families and In our churches try the force of kind ness. You can never drive men, wom en, or children Into the kingdom of God. A March northeaster will bring out more honeysuckles than frekfulness and scolding will ever bring out Chris tian grace. I wish that In all our re ligious work we might bo saturated with the spirit of kindness. Missing that, wc miss a great deal of usefulness. There Is no need of coming out before men and thundering to them the law unless at the same time you preach to them the Gospel. The world is dying for lack of klndnew. These young poople want It Just as much as the old. The old people some times seem to think they have a mo nopoly of tho rheumatisms, and the neuralgias, and the headaches, and the physical disorders of the world; but I tell you there are no worse heartache* than are felt by tome of these young people. Do you know that much of the work Is done by the young? Raphael died at thirty-seven; Richelieu at thir ty-one; Gustavus Adolphus died at thirty-eight; Innocent III. came to his mightiest Influence at thirty-seven; Cortez conquered Mexico at thirty; Don John won Lopanto at twenty-five; Orotlus was attorney-general at twen ty-four; and I have noticed amid all classes of men that some of the sever est battles and the toughest work come before thirty. Therefore we must have oui sermons and our exhortations In prayer meeting all sympathetic with the young. And so with these people further on In life. What do these doc tors end lawyers and merchants and mechanics care about the abstrac tions of religion? What they want Is help to bear the whimsicalities of pa tients, the browbeating of legal op ponents, the unfairness of customers, who have plenty of fault-flndlag for every Imperfection of handiwork, but no praise for twenty excellences. What does that brain-racked, hand-blistered man care for Zwingle's “Doctrine of Original Sin," or Augustine’s “An thropology?" You might as well go to a man who has the pleurisy and put on Ills side a plaster made out of Dr, Parr's "Treatise of Medical Jurispru dence.” * It was all for another that Sir Matthew Hale took off his robe and put on the garb of a miller. And so Christ took off his robe of royalty and put on the attire of our humanity, and In that disguise he won our eternal portion. Now are we the sons of Ood. Joint heirs! We went off from home sure enough, but we got back in time to receive our eternal inheritance. And if Christ was so kind to us, sure ly we can afford to be kind to each other. NOTES OF THE DAY. The city of Jerusalem Is becoming modernized. There are now eight printing ofllces in the city. There Is a lime tree at Nueitadt, Wurtemberg, which Is said to be tbs largest In Europe. It Is over 1,000 years old. In an Eastbourne, England, paper ; "A Baronet’s Grandson" offers to glv# I lessons In bicycle riding at & shillings I a lesson. The night watchman In Albany, Mo., I rings the big bell when be thinks ths clouds Indicate the approach of * i heavy storm. According to Leuwenhoek there ar* anitualculae so small that 10,000 ol i them could be bidden under tbs liuml grain of sand. The Central Council of tbs Order of The King's Daughters and Sons call* for |30 to make up the 1100 necessary for the purchase of a wheel chair, a h**«l Fa*act anil I n v a 11 it‘at lahlff and a halt of crutch**. The outflt 1* for Iho iim of Iho Tenement ItouM Chapter, In Ua work among th* *iek poor. The head quarter* of the chapter are at 77 Medt •on atreet. New York City. Mm Iter «.f the Mirer Cro**." a aeaalile home fur poor mother* and ehil Urea, la under th* «pecUI man .tgeinenl of the Mi outer In* Citato of The King * lighter* of Wilmington. N C. Thief hundred and twenty lie* peraoa* faung real and baalik through Ita taintatrla* la*l aumater ChtUtreu'a clrvle* la htne**rhn*fMf are much lat*r*«i*d la protldlag a 4#»l and dolt haaaa for tier dun Keel, Thf Km* a Daughter*' vmatlun beat* la llaaaua Aa (ha reeuit af recent eorreagoad ea.e. tk* Or lee of Tha King * Daugh ter* and doaa la about ta ha aatahlwbed la Ttalaad. A elrola *f hllnd girl* la a arhoai fat Iba blind la Karh*t*v, California, aiaha gaehat ala pad*, and All aaaall hottlag with ewlogae, tilug la I ham Aartgturf •*»•* Theea lh*> mad la haagliata hat ChrUtma* praaaaut. A fre# reading roam gad library hag haaa ee'abltehed by the Watchful Clf. al* af Th* King* Daughter* la l‘t#4« awai Alabama. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XI, SEPTEMBER 13. DAVID'S GRATITUDE TO GOD. Golden Text: “The I.ord Is My Rock end My Fort re., end My Deliverer"— Verso a. Chapter tt. Second Hook of Ramoel. _ EFORE we come to the Hong of Praise, which Is the text of our lesson for to day. we must take a view of the last days of David. Then. from his death-bed. as from every death-bed, we should look both backward over his past and forward Into the future, as .. one, who In his j travels ha* reached a mountain ridge, look* over the way he has come and gains a vision of tho Journey before him. The song, although written about the middle of Davids relRn, suggest* thought* and feeling* appropriate to the end of life. The feeling* ut the first rest and lookout In the mountain climb nrc of the same kind a* those which fill the soul when the rest and vision at the summit are gained. Note In this song of praise (I) what were the things for which David praises God, ever looking to him a* the source of every good; and (2) the value of the spirit of praise both In It* effect upon the soul of him who praise* and also upon those who hear the praise*. The section Include* 2 Samuel 22 and 23:1-23; 1 King* 2:1-11, the last charge of David to Solomon, and 1 Chronicle* 2!): 26-30, a brief summary of David's life, and Psalm IS. which I* substantially the same as David's song In 2 Samuel 22. Historical setting. Time. Thl* triumphal hymn must have been written before David's great sin, but after h!» great victories, perhaps the time referred to In 2 Samuel 7:1. Thl* would make the time uhout B. C. KHO. Place. It wa* doubtless written In Jerusalem. To-day’s lesson Include* verse* 40-51. chapter 22, Second Book of Samuel, as follows: 40. "Thou hast girded." "As warriors ... _..s their loins, that they may be more fitted for strenuous effort."—Jamieson. "With strength to battle." No small portion of David s life was a warfare against out ward enemies, the enemies of (Jod, of his people, and his truth; and therefore the enemies of the world. 41-43, "That I might destroy them that hate me ... I heat them as small as the dust,” to be scattered to the four winds; "as the mire of the street,” use less. defiling refuse. To understand David's feelings In uttering these expres sions, we must put ourselves In his place. 44. "Strivings of my people.” Internal dissensions, of which David had not a few at first, but all the nation at last became a unit. A type of the complete triumph of Christian unity over all the dissensions of the kingdom. “A people which I know not shall serve me.” The surrounding nations, of which David had no previous personal knowledge, attacked him, were defeated, and came under his (way. 47. "The Lord llveth.” His Qod, Jehovah, Is a living God, not a dead Idol. He not only exists, hut lives; Is alive to the needs of his children. Is quick to see their needs, and keen to hear their pray ers. and ready to extend all needed help. Compare Elijah's address on Mount Car mel (1 Kings 18:26-311). "My rock.” The personal pronoun all through this song and through the psalms Is very Instruc tive. It speaks to the heart. It signifies a very close and definite relation. It expresses God's care for each individual, and not merely for the whole. “He call eth his sheep by name,” knowing each Individual need and longing. "My rock . . . the God of the rock of my salva tion." Compare with verses 2 and 3. and notice "the number and variety of the terms which he employs to describe the protection which God afforded him; and the second by the emphatic personal manner In which he speaks. He seems to have a difficulty In finding any one word which would adequately express all that Jehovah had been to him. so he heaps one term upon another, calling him 'a rock, a fortress, a deliverer, a shield, a high tower, a horn, a refuge, and a Saviour.’ "—Taylor. The rock was a fortress, like Gibraltar, which would sustain possible attack. A horn was a terrible weapon of attack and defense. 48. "It Is God that avengeth me," by punishing his enemies. Note that David does not claim the vic tory himself, hut attributes it, and right ly, to God. He could have done nothing without God. It was because he Identi fied himself with God's cause, was ad vancing the righteousness of God, that he himself would triumph. He that identifies himself with trreligton and sin must fall In Ihe end Mrs. Partington trying to sweep out the Atlantic ocean with her broom was wisdom compared with the folly of those who expect to succeed in defiance of God's laws. Whits-Framed Mirror*. Let not her to whom nature has been nigaid of her charms despair. If she would see herself In the deceptive mlr ■ or as others see her with the eye, or us nearly as possible, let her hasten to a dry goods shop and buy a quantity of soft, pure white material, game, If pos sible, If not, Swifts or Indian muslin will ; "wm. wv nut w have It puro white, and after polishing the surface of the mirror gather th material at the center of the top, and hrlug It down softly at either stdo. framing the gluas In fold* of pure white, When thl» U done to artistic satisfaction peep In and see what a transformation! The true tint* of the cotupleklou. the evpresalou of the face are brought out by the drapery, Til* ***»»* The notion that the Sahara la alto gether a barren anil worthlee* waste la wide of the truth In IIK there were glHM lMW Sheep la the Alger ian Sahara alone, b* tides jf.guo.ouo goata, and 3v*. mat rntnela. On the u*m them are I &mmmm date palm*, giving 4*t« * worth Id u«at omj a year ho that «v*n Uk des ert la worth keeping under lugrrot, Nurit or f Mg UAV, l**p»r boa la Will Won be put on the market by a U»v*r N It. arm Mona-a had II Ml vfeltar* dating the month of Mat, which la over l.mw more than ever before Twelve people mi down at an Kina. N M. dinner table recently whoee watted age* were thin year* A MU legalising the aw of motor wagon* on highway* hw pawed lie third leading M th* Urltlah hoaw of lor da. FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OP INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. ■MM Cp-to-d.t. flint. IbMt C.llllV tins .( Ik. Soil and Yl.ld. TkWMf —Hortlcaltor., Vltloultar. and flotl •altar* ET SOILS ARB always cold, com pact and apparent ly lifeless, quite a contrast to the same ■oil after being t b o r o u ghly tile drained, and conse qently aerated. Aeration mellows the soli, renders It more friable and Bakes the plant food more available. The fertility has been present all the time, but lay dormant because the conditions did not permit of Its use. The air enters the tiles and permeates the soil In every direction. Thus It Is easy to see how and why tiling deepens the soil. In the swamps and basins having a clay subsoil, as they nearly all have, that before drain ing were difficult to plow more than four or live inches deep, can easily be plowed twice the depth after draining. A well-drained soil not only permits the water to descend rapidly, but also to ascend readily by capillary attraction. One Is about as necessary as the other In rapid growth. It Is certainly much better to furnish an opportunity for It to filter rapidly trough the soil than to be slowly evaporated by the heat of summer. If permitted to soak Into the subsoil It Is held there until needed and used by the plants. It Is difficult to Induce people to believe that tile drainage is beneficial both In wet and dry seasons, yet such Is the case. Hav lng demonstrated that drainage deep ens the soil, a little thought will con nuv* HU/ UliO lUdl ITTw V* yv»v — ■oil will absorb anl bold more mois ture than one foot. At an institute in southern Ohio a gentleman asked me whether I thought It would pay to tile a strawberry bed for the benefits during drought alone. I replied that I was satisfied it would. The berries contain a very large per cent of v/ater, and they cannot be fully matured unless supplied with plenty of moisture. If the plants were set In a low, wet place, they would suffer from "wet feet" and be “heaved up” during winter and spring. Drained soils freeze as well as undrained, but not so deeply, and plants are not pulled up and winter killed.—Drainage Jour n»L Cost of Raising; Whaat anil Cora. According to estimates compiled at the Ohio Experimental Station from reports sent in by 30,000 farmers, in cluding 4,000 experts or specialists it appears that the cost of raising an acre of wheat is $20 In New England, $18 in the middle states, $11 in the south ern states, $11 in the west, $16 in the mountains, and $12 in the Pacific states. An acre of corn cost $28 in New England, $21 in the middle, $12 in the southern, $11 in the western, $18 in the mountains, and $18 in the Pacific states. According to these correspond ents, the average cost of an acre of wheat in the whole United States is $11.48, and average value $6.16, and average cost of an acre of corn is $11.48, and the average value $8.21. This does not include straw and fodder. If these estimates are correct it is evident that there is nothing made in growing eith er wheat or corn, unless It is in the straw and fodder, or in the feeding to stock. If there is a fallacy in the fig ures will some reader point it out. Such statements, if not true, ought not to go unchallenged.—Exchange. It is without doubt generally true that the farmer is selling his grain at less than cost of production. It must also be remembered that with every bushel of grain goes nitrogen, potash and phosphorous enough to make up a good part of the price. Thus the fertil ity of his farm is slipping away with out recompense, for the cost of produc tion does not take in loss of fertilizing Ingredients. About ApplM. People are learning to eat apples the world over, and the facilities of the present and the future will enable those who have such things to sell « »mv vuunuuK i m% * a vv»»* People are constantly Increasing tha amount ot fruit consumed, and the lux ury of the present will become the ne cessity of the future; and, aa the area ot really proper climate and soils for fPPl* crowing la limited, it affords a rare ehanc* for those who Uv* In this fnrorsd climate for tha production of something that the whole world wants, •a tha Inducement that orcharding holds out la certainty of n market and the assurance of fair to good returns for Ut* Investment. Wkea w* look about ua.nud especially whan w* aaa the sondltlaa and future prospect* far agri culture w* nun regard the future with Serna what of apprehension, for them la overproduction, or, what la won*, un derconsumption. with n> Immediate prospect of Improvement, far It wa rataa wheat, aa doaa Couth America, Huaala. Australia aad India, each com paling far the world’s markets, and tk* result must b* that w* must raise aheapar wheat nr be beaten la the spa teal, aad that I* true at many ether aropa. aad to a certain aslant at tha atach tat*rests aa wall. Than* *< as i whe have had asperlaac* with ahoep, far hsstaaca, do out ear* to talk shoot ' tha atoah latateats; aad thoa* who have 1 bean raising horaaa era but little better I 4; while Ihoaa who have haaa tom ! lag thate attention ta calUa aad kaga ' are constantly combating In na over j stocked market; aad others drives o«l ' of ahaep la Juan y or* crowding lalo cattle end bog raising, until all ar* locking about tor some more profitably employment Most of the thing* named are now being sold on th* world's markets, and, by the way, most of our future products must com pete with the world, and If we must be aucceseful we must try to produce what our natural advantages give ns s prospect of successful competition. We cannot now produce wool or mut ton at a profit to sell in competition with Australis, whose ocean freights art cheaper than our rail rates, and their natural advantages, cheap lands and Inability to do some other things that we can do enable them to under sell us In the lines mentioned; and tbs same Is true with some of the South American countries. The Nebraska farmer cannot raise wheat In competi tion with the coolie of India, whs Is glad to work for 10 or 12 cents a day, and take his pay In sliver coin at Its bullion value, and those of you who hava seen India wheat will agree that It is, at least, as good as you can raise, If not better, and so we might go on, not only with our other stock and crop Interests, but we might refer to our manufacturing interests, for every thoughtful person must agree that manufactured goods must sell even lower in the future than they have sold In the past, and as we must produce something,and desire to producs those things that will bring the best returns, I can confidently recommend apple growing to you, and assure you that my belief Is that no other product of the farm promises better returns than time and money employed In commer cial orcharding. Hut to obtain desired results, good, careful, systematic, Intel ligent work Is necessary, and to those who are willing to employ such meth ods the rewards are sure. Adulterated Ptrli (irttn. i Mr. B. M. Lelong, at the February meeting of the Htate Horticultural So ciety of California, Is reported to have stated as follows: "In the past two years enormous quantities of Parle green have been sold to growers, much of which was of very Inferior quality. The results were equally as poor, and many grow ers have thus become prejudloed against Its use. Samples of Paris green have been examined with as tonishing results. Several samples, al though of nearly the Batne shade of color as the pure Paris green, were found to be a mixture of Prussian blue and chrome yellow, clay and chalk. Others were found to contain no arson lous acid. In many cases the fault lies with the fruit growers themselves, for wo have continually advised them to use the pure article, which costs 20 cents per pound. This advice has been disregarded to a considerable extent and the cheapest grades have been pur chased, with little or no results. It was only last week that an extensive apple grower visited several stores In quest of Paris green, refused the pure at 20 cents, and had a large quantity shipped to him at 4% cents per pound. You can therefore Imagine the results he will have."—Pacific Itural Press. Weaning Pl*». Our experience is against weaning pigs other than to let nature take Its course; by this method we get better pigs. It Is almost Impossible to prevent them from receiving a check If weaned at seven or eight weeks old, as some advise. You not only check the growth of the pig, but it seems great Injury would result to the sow. No one would take a calf from Its mother, refrain from milking her, and then expect the cow to escape without Injury, and sure ly a sow must be something like the cow. Teach the pigs to eat at as early an age as possible, gradually increase the feed until about two months of age, giving as much butter or skim milk as they will take along with what grair they get, and weaning will not be hurt ful to either the pig or dam. I^ore loss of growth is Incurred right here than any period of the pig's life. If yen must wean them at an early age don't do It suddenly.—Southern Swineherd. Florida Oraugen. An agent of the Florida Fruit Ex change tells the Citizen of that state that he estimates next season's orange product at 125,000 boxes, against less than 50,000 for the present year. The recovery of the trees is not as rapid as expected, but Is satisfactory. About half the Injured acreage Is being re covered by active efforts—the rest neg- X lected or Indifferently cultivated. Twen ty years will be required to replace the bearing surface In existence before the freeze. Yet many large owners who Invsstsd In ths southern counties niter the disaster are coming back and push* lag the recovery of tbelr loet groves, while not abandoning their new ven tures. It le thought a better orange can he grown In the northern part of tha halt. Willow Fence I'ustn—A willow stake pushed Into the eotl la early spring, while II Is yst moist from the effeyta el winter frccsiag end thawing, will al most certain!) grow, and ati»r two or litres years It will become enough of a tree to serve as a post for attaching wire to If ter n fence. We have known many farmers who eenatruei their readable fences ta thin way. alien pleating the Ueen clues enough to gether so that s II 4 II foot heard •ay ha a«U«d te the lit lag poets after they hare attalaed sudteieat alas. My suiting off the leg every twn or three a years the tease may he kept Ire* eked. * tag the read or debt tee much - Km. late Truck Thuee she dm thete pemmee early ta July res ealdly pleat encumbers or sweet for a at anew, will reasons Me sspurutlua of a echoed erop. and seme prvgt Irom lb A Herman etaimtieian makes the id* eetyea that there are In HuigarU t ill reauagnnna. or one te every l.tfdd 4e hsIlUkU.
