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finBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBm ,s-.H V --- T" . s- fc. f ' -. '"'"a: ,.- J -'a tt ; ? IV ( Lincoln Letter Current Gossip from Che STATE CAPITAL Legislative and Otherwise Tke aati-pass bUl west through the house with but one dissenting vote thnt efjCene) aad immediately after the senate accepted the house amead saeats. The bill carries' the emergency clause and will become a law just as soda as signed by the governor. By reason of the senate provision makiag the holder of a pass equally guilty with the giver, every owner of an annual In the state, not especially excepted by the provisions of the bill, will be come a criminal and subject to prose cution unless he throws his paste board into the fire or hsnds it back to the giver. Several members of the legislature who have been making fre quent trips home on complimentary, transportation will have to pay when they leave after the final windup. Under provisions of the bill attorneys or surgeons to receive passes must be able to show that they are "bona fide employes, the major portion of whose time is employed in the service of the company" from which they might re ceive the transportation. Cone's ob jection is that there are a hundred and one pretexts through which a railroad may construe lawyer and doctor poli ticians al! over the state as employes. The house recommended for passage Aldrich's maximum freight rate bill by practically a unanimous vote. The senate having passed the measure, it will he certain of passage now and equally certain of approval. The bill makes :t reduction of 15 per cent In the rates in force January 1, 1907, on live stock, potatoes, grain and grain proJucts. fruit, coal, lumber and build ing material in car load lots. The rail way commission is given power to raise or lower rates. If the roads show that the rates are not reasonable, the commission has power to permit the roads to raise rates. The friends it the hill make the claim that ft will give immediate relief from the unjust charges on the principal products fised and shipped in the state and without waiting an indefinite time on the rail way commission. It was urged as a temporary and supplementary act to the hill defining the powers of the commission. Two hills regulating the South Oma ha live stock exchange nd the stock yards were passed by the house. One bill by Adams of Dawes provides for a general cut amounting to 50 per cent oti the profits in the charges made at the yards for feed, yardage and sim ilar service. It provides also for state weights of live stock and for annual public reports showing the business condition of the company. The Do ran bill Is aimed at the commission men and the live stock exchange. It provides a cut in commission charges to put tVm back to where they were two years ago before a general .reduc tion was made by commission men. An anti-discrimination feature also practically knocks out the stock ex change by opening up that exchange to any character of Irresponsible con cern. Under its present rules a com mission man must pay the shipper for all live stock sold for him whether the commission man can collect or not. The hor.se refused to stand for S. F. 384. which conferred upon the state labor bureau authority to investigate corporations and look into the books or these concerns, a bill which it was said Governor Sheldon heartily en dorsed, and it was indefinitely post poned upon the recommendation of the judiciary committee. McMullen and Harvey made talks against the bill, and though Noyes of Cass offered, amendments, they were not acted up on, and the house sustained the re port of the committee. S. P. 308 re ceived a similar fate. This is the bill by Aldrirh of Butler providing com mon carriers shall receive permission from the railway commission before floating bonds. The railway commission has not yet formally organized owing to the ab sence of Robert Cowell, the member from Omaha. He failed to come early In the week and it is not known when he will be present. His resignation has been expected for some time, as he has told friends that he would resign if the work of the commission required nijjch of his time. He was not present to be sworn in when other state of ficers took the oath of office January t. but took ..the oath later. The "single tax" theory is dead as far as the present session of the legis lator is concerned. The senate killed a bill introduced in the house by Rep resentative Davis. Later a similar fate befell S. F. No. 109. presented by Senator McKesson. Governor Sheldon recommended in his message that all mortgage indebtedness be deducted from the assessed valuation of the property. The senate declined to reconsider Its action of the previous day indefinitely postponing H. R. 403, by Blystoae. ap propriating '$50,000 for a hospital building at the Lincoln hospital for the insane for the use of men. Me Keseoa's motion to reconsider was defeated- by a vote of 9 to 15. The mat ter was discussed aad Root' of Cass, chairman of the finance committee, aid his committee was unanimous in Its decision that the appropriation was aot necessary. He was supported by other members of the finance com mittee. The hoase was touched with senti ment and presented to Speaker Net tletoh a solid silver carving set and berry bowl and a carving set to Chief Clerk Clyde Barnard. Representative Dodge made the presentation speech and paid an eloquent tribute to the speaker and clerk. Governor Sheldon signed the termi nal tax bill fifteen minutes after the bill was placed oa his desk. The bill has no emergency clause and will not affect the assessment of railroad prop erty this ye" The state-wide primary MU the house oa the 29th. as fine' by the seaate. Dodge, of Douglas, move1 that all the ameadmeats he adoptee with the exception ef section 34), rss lallag' to the- promulgation of the party platform aad the selection of a state committee, aad on tails eaes ttea he asked for the appointment of a coafereace committee. His mo tion was defeated. The seaate pin d the bill by a vote of 39 to 3, every seaator going oa record. Though the bill was recommitted at the foreaooa session for aa ameadmeat which Sea ator Aldrich wasted ' to attach, the change was aot made aad the bill was placed on its passage at the opeaiag of the afternoon session. The three seaators who voted agaiast the ore were Ashton, Latta aad Hi Ashton aad Latta are feskmlsts while Haaaa is a republican. Ashtoa ex plaiaed his vote in a writtea state meat, declaring the primary would cost the state $200,000 a year. The bill goes to the -governor at once. The proposed law, to go back to the old system oi precinct or township elective-assessors, was defeated ia -the house by a vote of 40 to 42. The bill was introduced by Johnson of Saline and applied only to counties of less than 25,000. In these counties the county assessor was to be done away with and the deputy assessors. Instead of being appointed by him, were to be elected in each precinct or township. There was a considerable demand for the bill by farmers who declare that assessors are appointed from the towns which give the merchants in the towns the best of the bargain at the expense of the farmers. The house passed the Adams and Doran stock yards bills with practic ally ' the Douglas county delegation opposed. Some of the members from Douglas county did not vote for the bills. The contest came up In the afternoon when Thiessen of Jeffersoa raoved to recommit H. R. 495 by Do ran to provide an amendment that commission men should charge 50 cents a head for selling cattle, 25 cents a head for calves, 15 cents for hogs and 5 cents for sheep. This was quickly voted down when Clarke of Douglas made a motion that the bill be indefinitely postponed. It received only 8 votes. Among the more important bills passed was an amendment to the Hirsch law by Cone. It seeks to rem edy the defects in the Hirsch elevator law by providing a means through which railroads are required to furnish trackage to elevators. The limit in ca pacity of elevators to which railroads are required to furnish side tracks Is also reduced to 10,000 bushels. The bill provides that the elevator man must be ready to put up the cost of building the side track, but forbids dis crimination between two elevators In one place and requires the railroads to treat all elevator men in one local ity alike. The senate finance committee 'rec ommended for passage H. R. 295, which provides for a heating plant at the Peru Normal school. The action of the committee in indefinitely post poning the bill appropriating $2,000 for a subhatchery for fish in Cherry county was reversed by the senate after a fight by Senator Hanna. After securing the reconsideration of the vote he moved the bill be placed on general file, and after a heated de bate in which members of the finance committee declared the action would open tip the way for a wholesale re versal of the, action of the commit tee, the motion carried. "Wilsey of Frontier, chairman of the railroad committee of the senate, gently laid fifteen bills on the secre tary's desk after a motion had been carried to indefinitely postpone all senate files not on the general file or advanced to third reading. The batch, with one or two exceptions, applied directly to railroads, but in the entire lot there is not one that is not wholly or partly covered by bills already passed by one or both of the two houses. Many of them related to the qualifications and powers of the rail way commission and some related to maximum rates of commodities. The senate expunged from the rec ords a resolution offered by Sibley of Lincoln county early in the session censuring Assistant Secretary F. P. Corrick. The trouble came about through the publication of some let ters from some of Sibley's constit uents protesting against a stringent anti-pass law. Senator Sibley offered the resolution apparently while an gered at the publication of the letters. It was never pushed and has been al lowed to lie dormant until, when, by unanimous vote, a motion by Randall of Madison to expunge it from the records carried. The last, county option bill was In definitely postponed in the house by a vote of 40 to 37, made by Lahners of Thayer county. The measure was in troduced by E. W. Brown of Lancas ter after tht origiaal postponement. The defeat of the Thomas bin to re duce the rates charged by .sleeping car companies in this state was one of the features of a senate session. Aldrich of Butler moved to recommit the bill to the committee of the whole for specific amendment, so 'as to .per mit the railroad commission to control rates as well as the running of sleep ing cars oa trains. Clarke of Adams moved to table the whole matter, which would have carried with It the original bill. King of Polk spoke la opposition to the motion to table. It was defeated, thus killing the measure. The physical connection telephone bill is among the measures left oa general file by the sifting committee. Five hundred and fifty-eight bills were introduced in the house and only a small portion of this nnmber has been considered or advanced. The seaate killed the Thomas bill, cutting the fares on sleeping car rates and that the house sifting committee Imme diately afterward advanced the house sleeping car bill to the sifting file, together with the bl)' catting express rat's. NOTES WPr?yHM 'h&mStr Get after the peach sorer. Eggs hatched bow will produce the early layers. Set out the horseradish roots as early as the ground will permit. Variety is important in providing the grain ration for the sheep. In buying a work horse for the farm be sure to see that yon get a fast walker. A. silo and a separator will prove indispensable where eight or more cows are kept. Don't push the horse beyond the limit, x Signs of exhaustion point the time to stop and rest. A lamb creep is needed as soon as the little fellows will eat grain so that they can get in away from the mothers and eat at will. Three essential things to remember in spraying are, what to spray for, the proper solution, and its applica tion at the right time. Two milch goats can be so handled as'to keep a family in milk the entire year, by having one come in fresh at the end of each half year. After the colt is about five months old begin gradually to stop it from sucking. Take a month to do it, and neither colt or dam will suffer or tret It is easy to put the eggs into the incubator, but it means care and at tention and strict observation of the rules to get chicks out of the incu bator. Goats thrive best on hilly and rocky land, but will thrive on level bind that is not wet or swampy. They are great foragers and will subsist on weeds and brush. The best remedy for the flock of hens, that does not produce a good average of fertile eggs is to intro duce new blood. Buy healthy males from another flock. The kind of a road you will have along side of your place all summer depends largely upon the amount of work you do thereon with the road drag during this spring. As to the value of alfalfa as a feed an Illinois farmer declares he would rather have it pound for pound than wheat bran in feeding milch cows, brood sows, young pigs and all grow ing stock. The nest of the setting hen should be made up of dry earth with chopped hay or straw as a liberal covering, and then insect powder dusted over the eggs and nest before placing the hen thereon. The owner of well-bred fowls is as justified in valuing eggs from pure stock at more thaa the market price which eggs from scrubs can command, as the man who has a pure-bred herd of cattle in asking a high price for his calves. Undoubtedly the deadliest foe of the farm poultry is the tiny mite, whose smallness is made up for by the enormous numbers'in which he does congregate on the perches and in the nest boxes. Begin a crusade against the intruders at once, and once out keep them out of the hen house. The reaping depends on the sowing, and the sowing on the care with which the farmer has selected his seed. Good, heavy, clean seed cannot be se cured without the help of a fanning mill. And furthermore the farmer should remember that he cannot get anyone to take the same pains in grading his seed that he would him self. According to the government cen sus report there were 826 establish ments in the United States engaged in manufacturing butter, cheese and condensed milk in the year 1905. The total capital employed in the industry was $47,255,000, and the total number of wage earners 15,557. Material con sumed amounted in value to $142,920. 000. while the products were valued in the aggregate at $168,182,000. There is no better remedy for scale insects thaa the lime-sulphur, spray. So those who use it for -.Sea Jose can also kill other scale with it. Bat, remember, this mixture should be used before buds swell. For later use, whale-oil solution is the safest remedy for oyster-shell and scurfy scale. Now is the time to prepare your Bordeaux mixture and get the spray ing apparatus ia shape. The former is made in the proportions of two pouBds of copper sulphate aad two pounds of fresh lime, to 50 gallons of water. The first spraying should be done in the spring as soon as the bads begin to swelL This will de stroy the fungus that produces leaf curl of the peach, scab of the peach and brown rot The second sprayiag should be given after the petals falL The treatment as applied tip cherry trass helps to control the leaf spot and the powdery milder. ' t9s?mlftavffK?XmnsnaBmCaBE9KK "Aflfll BaaaaaPamBaaaaaaaaaa9ftmaHPlm maKPBmcnav 4mBsmBaamavPV'm rlw KSSsBmnnL Guess work on the farm sever pt dollars la the beak. Worms cat sows the thrift aad re dace the profits la swiae gi owing Harsh treatment ef the cow Is mere thaa apt to decrease the nrilk flew. Cold haaaa oa the udder of a sen sitive cow are more thaa apt to make her kick. .. c It harts the sheep and It does the fleece -'ao- good to catch the animal by the wooL The only phase of the dairyiag is dastry which is overdone Is the keep-lag- of poor cows which return ao profit Don't use the cowaedder for a hand warmer. Begia "your mllUag after yoa have warmed yoar heads up with other work. The space ia the hives should be suited to the slse of the colony, espe cially at this season of tteyearrwaea the colony is apt to be weak'.' Durlag the short days of wlater it may be necessary to do some of the chores after dark, but now that the days are longer, plan to have the day's work end with the coming of night Put yourself in the other animal's place. Do unto thy horse and thy cow as thou dost think thon wouldst like to be done for if in their place. is a golden rule for the stock raiser. Home-grown seed carefully cleaned, and graded is more valuable than seed brought in from abroad. For this reason the fanning mill, even though it be only a hand-power one, should be found on every farm. The "I guess" method is the one too often followed by the farmer in the running of his dairy, in the growing of his livestock, in the raising of his crops. Progress in agriculture, declares Prof. Cyril G. Hopkins, demands that to the greatest possible extent prac tice shall be controlled by science, not by chemistry alone, but by every science that deals with principles fun damental to agriculture: If tuberculosis has gained a 'foot hold in your dairy herd separate all affected animals .from the healthy ones, thoroughly disinfect the barns, and then establish better sanitary conditions. Compare the appropriation of $3,500 made by this government for experi ments looking to the Improvement ot draft horses with that of $350,000 made by France for the same pur pose, and then judge 'which is the most interested in the -subject. Prof. H. H. Bailey of Cornell uni versity' says: "I believe Jn the organ ization of separate - agricultural schools, but also believe that the com mon school musttak&upagricuUuTBl. instruction in its rudiamentary princi ples." He predicts that the common school system "in the next ten years will be redistricted and reorganized r In Denmark the children pass front the elementary schoobVto the agri cultural and dairy high schools, oi which in that little country, there are no fewer than 97, 85 of jthese receiv ing state assistance.. "More than, 100 teachers, chiefly male aqd female stu dents of the University, of Cppea hagen. without paymentTgive lectures and demonstrations in different parts of the country to working men and women during the whiter., Secretary Wilson injjarecent.. re port on the work ofthefedara meat inspectors under the new' law shows that they are passing on ah'enormous number of cattle, bogs and sheep. The report shows that during July, August and September, 1906, 9,685, 000 carcasses were inspected. In Oc tober, November and December 13, 262,000 carcasses were passed upon. In July last year inspection was con ducted at 154 establishments, while ia January. 1907, it was being main tained at 644 plants. Plans are being laid by the Commer: cial association 'of Chicago for a big corn exposition next fall in Chicago. It is to be known as the-National Corn exposition, and according to the dates now fixed will be held October 5 to 19. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars is to be expended in making the show a success. Cash prizes will be distributed so that every corn sec tion will be rewarded, providing it par tlcipates. There will probably be state prizes, probably district prizes, aad certainly prizes for the farmer, the"' farmer's wife, the farmer's son and the farmer's daughter. The men having1' the exposition in charge are, leaders in Chicago business enterprises. The fal lowing officers were elected: Presi dent. Edwia S. Conway; vice presi dents, E. 8. Fursman, El Paso, 111.; Prof. P. G. Holden, Ames, la.; secre tary, Curt M. Treat, Chicago. There is no doubt that electricity will be used more largely by the farm er of the future. The latest develop ment in this direction is the associa tion which has been formed,Ty somo enterprising farmers of Davidson aad Turner counties in South Dakota for the purpose of introducing of elect trical power iato farmiag communi ties and its utilization for plowing aad -cultfrating the soil, harvesting the crops, running farm machinery and lighting the nomes of the -people. It will be applied to the dairies, cream eries aad other local industries. Pow er is to be put in the home for the purpose of running sewing machinery laundry appliances and everything re quiring physical labor. The plan of those Dakota farmers Is worthy the consideration of agriculturists la many sections of our western country. It contemplates active -cooperation of neighbors for the purpose of utilizing the natural advantages. It mesas the harnessing of water power ia the mountains aad valleys aad the devel-. opment of industries allied to farming that' will increase the assets of the country. GREAT RELIGIOUS REVIVAL ON ALL ici OVER THE WORLD x.l .v . .S j K Beyond Precedent HARVEST OFCONVERTS LARGER ' THAN EVER KNOWN. Historic Movement ef 1t57 Far Eetlpsed ia Intensity and Fervor Starting with the Work ef Terrey aad Alaaaadsr tn-Aaetralia Fear Years Ago It Has Spread to All Civ-' lliaed Countries What the Evan gelists Say af Jt . Chicago. The greatest religious re vival jot modern times is in progress. Throughout the United States the manifestations of enthusiasm- have been no more marked thaa ia foreiga countries. The movement seems to be world-wide. China aad India are Beading to this country most remarka ble reports of the religious awakening In those countries. Everywhere the revival spirit is marked beyond all precedent In the central part of the United States, with Chicago as the focal point, the series of "old-time" relig- Dr. R. A. Torrey. WWWMNN ious meetings and the harvest of con-, verts have been the most notable in the history of the country since 1857. In that year occurred a religious movement that has become historic by virtue of its intensity and scope. Considered in proportion to population then and now, the movement of 1857 probably was as important as the one now in progress Taken without ref erence to population, the movement of 50 years ago was but as a drop in a bucket compared, with the scope of the revival movement that is abroad to-day. The history ot .religious movements of this kind shows that they almost invariably have followed on the heels or have occurred during periods of deep industrial distress. In the Unit ed States this has been particularly true. Distress Affected Souls. ' The religious outbreak, of 1857 ap parently had its origin in the-distress of the people, and thousands of those who had suffered financial losses in material things flocked to the churches to pray for relief from their troubles. Monetary disaster rendered the peo ple susceptible to religious influences, just as misfortune in individual cases Is a potent factor in the introspection that often leads to the acceptance ot religion. The great revival of the late '70s 'appears to have had its ori gin in a similar national condition. The historic religious movement led by. the 'late Dwight L. Moody in Chi cago and running synchronous to the world's fair took place when the coun try was entering the throes of one of the most disastrous industrial panics in its history. The same is true of other nations. In this respect the present religious movement differs from nearly all oth ers. There have been ten years of unprecedented prosperity. In mate rial things the country and the people as individuals have been and are more prosperous than ever before. Yet, contrary to history, ia the midst of this marvellous prosperity there arises and is maintained for at least four years a constantly growing tide of re ligious enthusiasm. The men guiding the movement say that they see no evidence of the approach of the end of the revival spirit The number of converts is increasing daily, more mea are going into the evangelistic work, and everywhere preparations, are be ing made for wider activities in the revival movement. Revival Began in Australia. The current "religious enthusiasm, in Its world-wide sense, dates from the work of Torrey and Alexander in Australia four years ago. On this Australian tour these evangelists WEATHER A WAR ELEMENT. Plays an Important Fart in Some Canv ' . saigns ef Note. At a recent meeting of the Royal Meteorological society of England the president Richard Bentley, in an ad dress showed how upon upward of 300 occasions the course of history waa greatly influenced by weather coadl tioas. Often iavasioBS were frustrated or greatly impeded from the time of the destruction of Mardoalus fleet en Mount Athos to the attempted French invasion of Ireland. Fogs also played an Imoprtant part In history. Lord Anson In a single ship loaded with Spanish treasure slipped unpereeived through the en-, tire French ;fleetTTrand the great duke of MeJriboroagh contrived to get his army across the Scheldt in the teeth of the enemy in a river mist Refer ence was made to the difficulties over asms ia crossing the snow oa the Alps Si A bbbbbbbbbbbbbbSU aSa bbbbbbbbbI X lsmaVaSBBBBBBBBEMBBBBB IMS converts la a meath upon thaasaada feVowed the first great crowd of coaverts la rtaeir acceptance ef reagioa. .The fire thaa kindled spread throaghwat New Zealand aad 'Australasia - It: has cea tlaaed te ban steadily la that part ef the world,t flaming; all the time aad bteailssToataercely at iaterrala. The men who atarted 'It went te Leaden and the reealts of their work.there are well remembered. England, Scotland and Ireland caught the coataajon. The famous Terrey and Alexaader meet ing - at Cardiff. - Wales, started the Welsh revival, which was one of the most 'amazing rellglcas manifestations of either andent or Modern times. Siace that time the movement has gone oa as a rising tide. New England in a Fever. J The nreseat revival spirit ia this f country appeared ia its most distinct form soon after the woaderfal sac cesses of Torrey and Alexaader ia England. New England, cold tempera mentally aad reck-sound religiously, cast off its traditional reserve and laid itsejf open to the Influences of 'the "old-time" religion. In Boston the evangelistic work under Rev. A. C. Dixon aad others' resulted ia aa un preddented number of conversions. All over Canada the same waa true. A four weeks' campaign in Toronto by Torrey aad Alexaader resulted la 4,300 conversions. Philadelphia aext was attacked by the evangelists, and the eathasiasm whipped to a high pitch, a small army of mea, women aad children profess ing conversion. Every section of the country, outside possibly of the Pa cific coast has fallea under the wave of religious enthusiasm. Felt Throughout the West The revival in the middle west can not properly be said to have spread from Chicago, because the religious fervor in this part of the United States has been as much in evidence in the cities surroundiag Chicago for as long as it has beea ia the city. The proportion of converts to popula tion in the smaller cities and towns also has been much greater thaa ia Chicago for obvious reasons. The exact number of converts in Chicago within the last six months is not ohtaiaable, for the 'reason there have been so many individual revival movements in Chicago without any central controlling organization whose business it fe to keep track of the converts, each church doiag this work for itself. The principal evangelists workiag in this city estimate the num ber to date at from 4,000 to 5,000. Be sides these, many "backsliders" have beea reclaimed and much interest has been aroused among persons who have not affiliated themselves with any church. Enthusiasm in England. Ia England in the Established church the religious enthusiasm with ism. Some of the most effective evan gelists in the field decline even to tell tvtA Wm. A. Sunday. their audiences what church they are formally affiliated with. In most cases In the last year has been unprecedent ed, and evangelical work of wide scope is being carried on in much the same manner as the revival work is being done in the United States. From the headquarters of the Sal vation Army there come reports of ex traordinary interest in the work of that remarkable organization and of an unusually large number of "saved." The work of the army, however, fol lowing the great humanitarian dic tum of Gen. Booth that "we should be williag to do as much for a man as gar a horse," partakes in its daily manifestation much of the character of a revival aad the difference there fore is not so noticeable. As an army officer said: "We are whooping er up all the time, anyway. With us it's, always revival' time." Standing out as the chief feature of the present movement is the blot ting out of sectarian lines in the evaa-. gellstic work. The men who have met with the greatest success are those who have paid ao attention to either sectarianism or deaominattoaal this is known, but doctrinal prejudices eM0ww - AAAMMMMMMMMMMMMVMMMM by Hannibal. Napoleon. Massena, Sou varoff and Macdonold. and also to the march of Col. Kelly's Sikhs to the re lief of Chitral. Mention is also made of. the hailstorm which smote Rich ard I.'s men at Ascelon. of the sleet storms st the battle of Hohenllnden and Sylau. and of the wild weather during the memorable retreat from Moscow. Many other Instances were given. The Abiding Love. -Itafnseth law ia every heart. We hear It each and all: A song of those who aaawer not. However we may call. They tbroar the silence of the breast. We see them aa of yore; The klad. the true, the brave, the .sweet Who walk with us ao more. More homelike seems the vast unknown, Slnoe they have entered there: To fellow them were aot so hard. Wherever they may fare. They cannot be where God is not. On. any sea or shore; Whato'er betides, thy love abides, . Our God for evermore. -John W. Chadwick. heptiathe never Thtu chmiaattoB ef the evangelical either cense or enact- geasta differ oa this that the moveaMat is igaered; while others eral revival spirit Is a What the KvengsNta If yoa ask one ef the' who are Banking hag saeeeaeas in the, revival field for the cease of the pree ent movement he wM tefl yea that R Is answer te prayer. This la what Jtev. A. C. DIzaa said: "We who believe ia the enteacy at prayer believe that Ged ia ssnvirmg the petrUoaa that have beea going ap for tea years an over the earth far a wsrid-wide revival ef religlea. Al though the non-charehpapnlsrlaa 4eea not know it; the fact Is that Chriatlaae for a decads have prayed parabasal ly, earnestly aad confidently for jest such a movement aa la new la prog ress. We are still praying aad the movement is increasing. How much stronger it will get only God knows. "Bat I reaUxe taw answer win net satisfy those who do net heUeve ia prayer. The unchurched, while ferced by what they see to admit the strength and scope of the present revival move ment, demand other reasons for its existence. And there probably are other reasons. History ahewa as thai faith cornea la waves. For some years we have had the higher criticism, and educational force destructive of faith ia the Bible. Dr. Briggs ia the east. M M "Gypsy" Smith. Dr. Harper of the University of Chi cago ia the west, the leaders of the Welhausen-Grafft school la Germany and many others who have been la the front of the higher criticism movement have done much to destroy faith. But there is a awinging hack from this fad. Darwiaism Is oa the wane. These things seem to 'come ia cycles, bat each wave of faith ia the Bible that appears Is much stronger than its predecessor, and in the end faith must triumph." Rev. Mr. Sundaya Views. "Billy" Sunday has some very mate rial reasons for the strength of the present movement. Here they are: "The plan of gathering together great audiences under one roof is one source of success. There is enthusl- asm In numbers. Formerly they tried to convert a town by holding revival meetings in a church that would aot seat one-fiftieth of the population. Most of the successful revivalists in sist nowadays on the erection of a ta bernacle big enough to hold thousaads, if there Is bo such building already in the town. And people now are so prosperous that they freely give money for this purpose where they' formerly would not "But back of it all is prayer. The scoffers deny this, but if a large num ber of scoffers were to ask a human power to give them a certain thing in . 'a certain way at a certaia time aad they received this thiag they would be pretty likely to thiak it came from the power they petiUoaed for it evea if they could not actually see it givea." Complaint ef the Scientist. Dr. W. C. Farabee complalaed quaintly one day before he set oat -on his ethnological investigations among the Indians at the head wa ters of the Amazon about the slight ing way la which the world still looks on science. "Only in Germany,' said Dr. Fara bee, "does scleace get her due. Ia some countries she Is so hardly used, indeed, that the deductioB of the west ern trapper comes to raiad. This trap per, noticing a place where roots had been dug up, examined the spot aad then said calmly as he rose and brushed the dust from his knees: 'This must have been done either by a wild hog or a botanist' " V ? Persia aaarseiy Koeuiaiee. Large' tracts of Persia are uninhab ited. The total population is about 9,000.000. which is only 14 to the square mile. The nomads (Arabs. Kards. Leks, Turks, Lars, Balucaia and Gypsies) move from place te place, according as their animala need pastures or as their other Interests de mand. Persia, Past aad Preseat MMMWMVWMWMWWAMW hut we may meatioa two which are, at any rate, not referred to in the official abstract before us and are sufficiently remarkable to deserve special notice. The one Is the defeat of the barbar ians by Marcus AureHua. A. 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