TALMAGE’S SERMON.
FLOWERS ON NORTHERN AND
SOUTHERN GRAVES.
VMIt ‘‘Th* Tim of David, Balldad
♦or an Araeiy Wborooa Thoro Hang
• Tboaaaad Baeblvra, All gbloldr af
Mighty M#«"—*•*- 4i4.
HR Church la here
compared to aa ar
mory, the walls
hung with tropbleg
of dead heroes.
Walk all about this
tower of David, and
aee the denied
shields and the
twisted swords, and
the rusted helmets
of terrible battle.
Bo at this season, a month earlier at the
Booth, a month later at the North, the
American churches aro turned Into
■* armorleg adorned with memories of de
parted brave*. Blossom and bloom. O
walls, with stories of self-sacrifice, and
patriotism and prowess!
By unanimous decree of tbe people of
the United State* of America, the
grave* of all tbe Northern and South
ern dead are every year decorated. All
acerbity and bitterness have gono out
of the national solemnity, and as the
men and women o tau Hoiith one month
ago florallzed i!;<> cemeteries and grave
yards, so } • .it i lay, we, the men
and women of the North, put upon
the tomb* of our dend the Vlas of pa
triotic affection. Bravery always ap
preciate!) bravery, though It Dvtit on the
other side; and If a soldier of tit# J'V<|.
eral army had been a monin ago at
Savannah, he would not have been
, ashamed to march In the floral proces
sions to the cemetery. And If yester
day a Confederate soldier was nt Ar
lington, he wus glad to put a sprig of
hcart's-case on the silent heart of our
dead.
Ml* l* HUUI'. UUI Htri, n HI I III'
Confederates were driving back the
Federals, who were In swift retreat,
when a Federal officer dropped
wounded. One of bis men stopped at
(he risk of bl* life, and put bis arms
•round the officer to carry him from
(he field. Fifty Confederate muskets
were aimed at the young man who was
picking up the officer. Dut the Con
federate captain shouted, "Hold! don’t
Are! That fellow Is too brave to shoot."
!And as the Federal officer, held up by
bis private aotdler, went limping slowly
off the field, the Confederates gave three
cheers for the brave private; and just
before the two disappeared behind a
barn, both the wounded officer and tbe
brave private lifted their caps In grati
tude to the Confederate captain.
Shall the gospel be less generous than
tbe world T We stack arms, the bay
' onet of our Northern gun facing tbls
way, tbe bayonet of tbe Southern gun
facing the other way, and as the gray
of tbe morning melts Into the blue of
noon, so the typical gray and blue of old
war times have blended at last, and
(hey quote In the language of King
fames’ translation without any re
vision: "Glory to God In the highest,
•nd on earth, peace, good-will to men.”
Now what 1o we mean by this great
Observance?
Flrat, we mean Instruction to one
Whole generation. Subtract 1SC5, when
(be war ended, from our 1890, and you
will realize what a vast number of peo
ple were born since the war, or were so
young aa to have no vivid appreciation.
No one under forty-one years of age has
•ny adequate memory of that pro
longed horror. Do you remember It?
"Well.” you say, “I only remember that
mother swooned away while she was
reading the newspaper, and that they
brought my father home wrapped In the
flag, and that a good many people came
1n the house to pray, and mother faded
•way after that until again there were
many people In the house and they told
me she was dead."
• MWtW UVHVI B n uu UHUUUl I C Ulr 111 •
her the roll of a drum or the tramp >>t a
regiment, or a sigh or a tear of that tor
nado of woe that swept the nation
■gain and again until there was one
dead In each bouse. Now it Is the reli
gious duty of those who do remember
It to tell those who do not. My youug
friends, there were such parings at rail
car windows and steamboat wharves,
and at front doors of comfortable
homes as I pray Uod you may never
witness. Oh. what a time it was, when
fathers and mother* gave up thetr
•one, never expecting to see them
■gain. Bad never did see them again
until they came bach mutilated, aud
crushed, and dead!
Four y«are of blood. Four years uf
hostile experience*. Four years of
ghaaiHue** Fuui year* of grave-tig
glng Four years ol funerals comas.
Shuuds, hearses, dirges Mourning!
mourning! mourning! it w*a hell let
luma, What a lime ef waning ter news!
Morning i ms e <eutng piper
acrutinUed fur Intelligence from the
hays at the (rout Firm. announcement
lhai lb* buttle must t ur th* a«xt
day. The* the a*w« ef the battle s gu
lag am, On the following day still go
tog *■ Then news ef thirty thousand
■data and of the aims* of the great
gen*tula who had fallen, hut no feMM
ghoul ton private midterm Vt siting far
•ass' After many days a tend at
Wounded going through the testa uf
•ity. hut ns sees (rum our hoy. Than n
tong 11*1 ml nnun t and a tong Hat uf
lha dead, and a tong Itgt uf th* mUsing
And among the tom .ft uui boy.
Whan to *e>ag ! Hu I missing? Who
new him I*at? Mleatag Misutngt Wse
he in th* scodn to by the stream ? Hon
was he hut. M-suing Ml • •'•* ' u*l
burning prayer* that hs me, ».t feu
hoard from In that awful ••tong f»r
gees many a Ufa perished. Thu strain
ml iigHtiy was two great. That ntfss
_
brain gave way that flrat week aftar the
battle, and ever and anon abe walks the
flooro of the asylum or looks out of ths
window as though she expected some
one to come along the path and up the
steps, as aba soliloquize*, "Missing!
missing!”
What made matters worae, all thla
might have been avoided. There waa
no mors need of that war than at this
moment I should plunge a dagger
through your heart. There were a few
Christian philanthropists In those days
scoffed at by both North and South,
who bad the right of It If they had
been beard on both sides we should
have had no war and no slavery. It
was advised by those Christian philan
thropists, "Let the North pay In money
for the slaves as property, nnd set them
free." The North said, “We cannot
afford to pay." The South said, "We
will not sell the drives anyhow." But
the North did pay In war expenses
enough to purchase the slaves, and the
South was compelled to give up slavery
anyhow. Might not the North better
have paid the money nnd saved the
live* of five hundred thousand bravo
men, and might not the South better
have sold out sluvery and saved her
live hundred tluu ind brave men? I
swror you by the grave? of your fath
ers and brothers, and sons to a new ha
tred for the champion curse of the
unlvM 'c war! O Lord, God, with the
hottest holt of thine omnipotent Indig
nation, strike that mons'er down for
I ever and ever. Imprison It In the deep
est dungeon of the eternal penitentiary;
Bolt It in with nl! the Iron ever forged
In cannon or moulded Into howitzers,
Cleave it, with nil tho sabre? that ever
glittered In battle, and wring Its soul
with all the pangs which It ever caused.
Let It feel all the conflagrations of the
homesteads It ever destroyed. Deeper
down let It fall, and In fieri? r (lame let
It burn, till It ha* gathered Into Its
heart all tho suffering of eternity as ;
well as time. In the name of the mil
lions of graves of Its victims, I de
nounce It, The nations need more the
spirit of treaty and lesa of the spirit of
war.
War I* more ghastly now than once,
not only because of the greater destruc
tiveness of Its weaponry, hut because
now It takes down the best men,
whereas once It chiefly took down the
worst. Bruce In 1717, In his Institu
tions of Military Law. said of the Euro
pean armies of his day: “If all Infa
mous persons and such as have commit
ted capital crimes, heretics, atheists,
and all dastardly feminine men, were
weeded out of the army, It would soon
be reduced to a pretty moderate num
ber.’’ Flogging and mean pay made
them still more Ignoble, Officers were
appointed to t'oe that each soldier drank
his ration of a pint of spirit* u day.
There were noble men In battle, but
the moral character of the army then
was nlnety-flve per cent, lower than the
moral character of an array today.
By so much Is war now the more de
testable because It destroy* the picked
men of the nation*.
Again, by the national ceremony
we mean to honor courage. Many of
these departed soldier* were voltin
teer*. not conscript*, and many of those
who were drafted might have provided
a substitute or got off on furlough or
have deserted. The fact that they lie In
their grave* 1* proof of their bravery.
Brave at the front, brave at the can
non’s mouth, brave on lonely picket
duty, brave In cavalry charge, brave
before the surgeon, brave in the dying
message to the home circle. We yes
terday put a garland on the brow of
courage. The world want* more of It.
• • •
Again, by this national ceremony we
mean the future defense of this nation.
By every wreath of flowars on the sol
diers’ graves we say, “Those who die
for the country shall not be forgotten,”
and that will give enthusiasm to our
young men in case our nation should In
the future need to defend Itself In bat
tle. We shall never have another war
between North and South. The old de
cayed bone of contention, American
Blavery, has been cast out. although
here and there a depraved politician
takes It up to see If he can’t gnaw some
thing off It. We are floating off farther
unit f>irt hi r fsuni I tv d ii/iselMlitl' nf as.»_
tlonal strife.
No possibility of civil war. Hut about
foreign Invasion I am not so certain.
When I spoke against war I said noth
Ing against self-defence. An Inventor
told uie that he had Invented a etyle of
weapon w hich could be use a in self-de
fence, but not In uggreasive warfare. I
said, "When you get the nations to
adopt that weapon you have Introduced
the millennium * I have no right to go
on my neighbor'! preiuiaea and assault
him. hut If tome ruffian breaks into tuy
house for the assassination of my fam
ily, and I can borrow a gun and had
U In lime and aim It straight enough, 1
will shoot him
There is no ran en this roatlntnt far
say other t allot. ete#(4 Canada, and n
heller neighbor no an* ever bad. If
yeu don t Iblab so go to Vlutrcal tad
Toronto, and see hen well they will
Ueni you. Other then that there la ah
saiutniy an room lor nay other nation
l hare been across the continent again
and sgaia. and hence that *« have a«t a
half-inch nf ground ter the gouty toot
of foreign despotism ta eland aw- Hut
I am not #« sure that some ef the *rr«
•u«t nan one of Knrepe nay a<<* •••a*
day challenge us. | do u t knew that
lbo»o fur** sroubd V « V *es Hsv at*
la sleep all through the neat century
I da not bn«- w that lUmgst light ho oss
mil not ret Urns ...f upon a hastll*
navy. I da not bnan hut that a half
desea a«ilues envious at ear prosper
It), ms) want to glee us a wretlla.
If foreign l»e should coma a# waat
*k#a lib* three at t*U and llba th«sr of
IM) to meat than We want them hit
up and down the eosst |*v»laahl had
fort dummy Is the name chorus gf
thunder as Fort Lafayette end brt
Hamilton. Men who will not aly
know how to fight, but how to Ho.
When eucb a time eomee. If It ever oee
come, the generation on the stag) of
action will eay, "My country will are
for my family ae they did in tbe ol
dlera' asylum for the orphans in tbe
civil war, and my country will boor
my duet as It honored thoee who re
ceded me In patriotic sacrifice, and uce
a year at any rate, on Decoration Dr, I
shall be resurrected In the ream
brance of thoee for whom I died, tire
I go for Ood and my country! Huzza!"
If foreign foe should come, the Id
sectional animosities would have no
power. Here go our regiments Intdtha
battle-field: Fifteenth New York :jd
unteers, Tenth Alabama cavalry, thir
teenth Pennsylvania riflemen, Tfcth
Massachusetts artillery, Seventh Hath
Carolina sharpshooters. I do not kjbw
but it may require the attack of mnn
foreign foe to make us forget ourabfcrd
sectional wrangling. I have no fgth
In the cry, "No North, no South,yio
K.ist, no West.” Let all four scctisis
keep their pecullarltle!i and their pbf
ereneea, each doing Its own work id
not Interfering with each other, earl if
tbe four carrying Its port In the gait
I rrnony—the baas, the alto, the tcg,r,
the soprano - in the grand march j if
Union,
Onco more, the great nallonal cig—
mony, means the beautification of t e
tombs, whether of those who fell in hi
tie or accident, or who havo expire I Ji
their beds or In our arms or on n|?
Ir.pt:. I support) you have noticed ih>:
many of the families take this season
an the time for the adornment of their
family plots. This national observaiicr
h. a r1 "arcd the arboriculture and flori
culture of the cemeteries, the straight
ening up of many a slab planted thirty
of forty years ago, and has swung tt'i
scythe through the long grass and hit
brought the stone-cutter to call ott
the half-obliterated epitaph. This day
Is the benediction of the reatlng-placi
of father, mother, (ton, daughter,
brother, sister.
i l »m an mai i:«iu uu 11/r iu<wu uuw«
Make th"lr resting-place attractive, not
absurd with costly outlay, but In quiet
remembrance. You know how. If you
can afford only one flower, that will do.
It shows what you would do If you
could. One blossom from you may
mean more than the duke of Welling
ton's catafalque. Oh, we cannot afford
to forget them. They were so lovely to
us. We miss them so much. We will
never get over It. Blessed Lord Jesus,
comfort our broken hearts. From every
bank of flowers breathes promise of
resurrection.
In olden times the Hebrews, return
ing from their burial place, used to
pluck the grass from the field three or
four times, then throw It over their
heads, suggestive of the resurrection.
We pick not the grass, but the flowers,
and Instead of throwing them over our
beads we place them before our eyes,
right down over the silent heart that
once beat with warmest love toward us,
or over the still feet that ran to service,
or over the lips from which we took the
kiss at the anguish of the last parting.
But stop! We are not Infidels. Out
bodies will soon join the bodies of out
departed In the tomb, and our spirits
shall join their spirits In the land of the
rising sun. We cannot long be separ
ated. Instead of crying with Jacob for
Joseph, ‘‘I will go down Into the grave
unto my son, mourning.” let us cry with
David. “I shall go to him.”
On one of the gates of Oreenwood is
the quaint Inscription: “A night’s lodg
ing on the way to the city of the New
Jerusalem.” Comfort one another with
these words. May the hand of him who
shall wipe away all tears from all eyes
wipe your cheeks with Its softest ten
derness. The Christ of Mary, and
Martha, and Lazarus will enfold you In
his arms. The white-robed angels
who sat at the tomb of Jesus will yet
roll the stone from the door of your
dead In radiant resurrection. The
Lord himself shall descend from Hea
ven with a shout and the voice of the
archangel. So the Dead March In Saul
shall become the Hallelujah Chorus.
GREATEST THINGS.
Moscow, Russia, has the largest bell
In the world, 432.000 pounds.
The Alexandrian I.lbrary contains
400.000 valuable books 47 li. C.
The first theater In the United States
was at Williamsburg, Vs., 1762.
('ongrvM declared war with Mexico,
May 13. 184«; closed fob. 2, IMS.
t'olumhus discovered America, Oct.
13. 1403; the Northmen A. !• **V
The electric eel Is only found In tba
northern rivers of South America
The highest denomination of United
•tales legal lender Mules Is |lo out)
The Arst rvi'wplete sewing ma>hlne
was patented hy Kilns Howe. Jr., In
lit*
l.« ndon Is the largest city In the
world, coatalalrg a population of 4."
Is4112 persona.
first cotton raised lit the United
State* was In Vtrglata, tu 1421. Aral os
ported. 174?.
I he large >t university I* Ogfuri, th
Ragland It niMlita of twenty-one
wttegen and Av* hall*.
first sugar -ns militated la • *•
United •tales. m *r New Orleans. IHI
•r*4 sugar mill. I t v*
Th* ir*t tllnmlaaitiin with ga* »**
In t'ornwall. fog. 11*4; In th* fn.ied
Atsien, nt kudus, li:i
first t*t*gt*pnp IS v, rath'g Is
Am*ru<n was h*t*»*a Waahtagton and
Ualtlmer*. May 27, tw*«
frlillti was ha >wn th China 'a th*
•ih cent*ry, lair reduced Into Ragland
shout 1474. A met i. a 1134
Th* great wall el t pis* hotlt 14* II
C . ta 1,2*0 an i to tens'h *t» f**4 high,
and I* Not thtch at th* too*
UUo mirror* Aral mad* hy V*n*
Ilona In Ih* IJth -entnir, Kv.itM
m«t*l Vi i ns*4 before i? at tit**.
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
■am* I'p-to-Dai* Hint* About Cultiva
tion of thu Moll untl Vlulil* Thereof—•
Horticulture. Viticulture eud Flori
culture. _
HB Blghth Report
of the Ml**ln»lppl
Bxperlinent Station
aaya;
In 1S88 the Hta
tlon commenced a
eerie* of experi
ment* with gruHee*
ami forage plant*
with a view of de
termining:
1. What plant*
will restore fertility to the roll moat
rapidly, and at the same time give f *'r
return* lu hny or pasture.
2. What plant* will make tlm most
permanent meadow*,
3. What plant* will make the best
permanent paaturaa, eapedally t,,r
winter grazing. , .. ...
4. What buy producing plants »
he,f for temporary «*e ,. ,
Since the commencement of 1
work, B86 apeclc* have been grown,
many of them on soil* widely dlff* r n
In character, Rowing* have ;i to
at different seaaon* and under '
cut condition*; i, < d* of the m'|,! *_ '
(sing eort* have lawn distribute 1 o
planter* In different port* <f the *t u*«
i■•:d special attention hna beer : rt
Hie fertilizing and winter crag ny
tie* of each specie*. When tl.t woiii
wa* commerced, aimed no hay ••• • •'
grown In the slate, ex< • pt what v •<*
lined hy planter* for home contwmrt'oP.
and thousand* of ton* were • hli.'
Into the state annually. The c ’’ 11
report for u -,0 give* tic yl'ld of hay
In MIkmIssIppI mi bring only .'*•'* ’
per acre. against an average yield of
1.14 per acre for the whole I'nlt'd
State*. In 18!t3 the yield of Uay for
this wtfite had doubled, being then IT'1’
form p<*racrt* uKAlru't an avww,**i
tons for the whole country. In 1895 t he
average yield In Mississippi had In
creased to 1,95 tons, ugalnst an aver
age of 1.06 tons for the whole of the
United States, or 81 per cent above the
average, und 114 per cent above the
average yield In the northern and cen
tral states of the Mississippi valley.
Hunting for Hour? In Till**
Iloston Evening Transcript: We have
nad wonderful weather here for some
weeks past, cold at times, but no frost
for several weeks, and In consequence
everything Is In full leaf and bloom.
We seldom have such a spring. The
flowers are In the greatest profusion
and Infinite variety the hills and val
leys are dressed In a coat of many
colors. The great white heads of the
Spanish daggers look like ghosts as
they stand around on the hillsides. At
a distance the leaves of the plant are
visible among the general green, and
the flower stalk stands tall and stately
with Its load of creamy bells, the whole
cluster being often four feet from the
top bud# to the lower flowers, and a
foot and a hulf In diameter.
There Is another shrub with purple
flowerB that Is very much In evidence
Just now; some of the bushes are cov
ered so closely with blossoms as to
leave only little places through which,
the crisp green leaves show. The flow
ers are in clusters five or six Inches
long, drooping from the end of each
twig, and one must see them to have
an Idea of their gorgeous beauty. There
are whole hillsides of them, too, piled
one tier above another. Still another
shrub with a flower the color of peach
blossom is the most beautiful of all.
There are several large places on the
range where cedar brakes have been
burned, and they are almost entirely
covered with these bushes, and in look
ing over the tops of them on a level It
seems like a pink wall, with the old
blaek cedar trunks and burnt pines
looming over them In gaunt derision.
The warm weather brings the bees
A..* I » full fneua nm/l T n m m/iSA I li u n
ever fascinated with the little insects.
I never see one sipping at u flower or
flying along In the air but he says: "O,
no, you can't find iny house; others
you may And. but mine, never.” And
forthwith I take up the challenge and
never reuse hunting until I find It.
Though two or three years may puss 1
seldom fail to do so eventually, and
you have no Idea what faselnatlou
there Is In It after one has experience.
I can usually, after seeing several bees
go home and after getting the course
laid off. run them home tu a couple of
hours, unless they go more than two
miles. It seems ridiculous to any one
who does not know their ways to make
•u< h a claim, but It can be done. To
any eye except a bee hunter's a bee In
Ihe air U Invisible. I question If many
people ever saw one flying, unless It
waa In the act of alighting on a flower,
but they travel through Ihe air as peo
pie travel on earth, and woudertul
poser* of sight they must have, lit
sides that, there Is ao doubt la my
mind that there is an Intelligent wider* ;
tug of the whole business of the hive, !
and a means of vommusieeOng of one
with Ihe others.
•kuttstlmss I take a lot ef *umh with
a lml« honey on It. and **t It on Ih*
top ef a hill, or In aa open pl*<# where
I can see In all dlrwotlonx. aad leave It ;
for s day ar two. uwlll Ihe bee* are ,
working si It strong. aad res >h«a run
ikem home la a little while Wh.nl,
hate leisure I stay aad watt lor ih.m
i.t come, and snaottsge them hi burn
lag a piece ef comb every half bout
er s* lilt le a warm, blight dsv Is
winter aad Ike «**wb Is within two
mites ef n swarm, they will come be*
fere Ihe *»st hear Is out The hist one,
always doubling b»re sad there flies
In ever narrowing unules, until kv
And* the start location of the ewvwl j
swell| he examines It from all sldaa, ,
Slowly bussing around It, and flaally
•tight*. Inseiis his Iona, •«» lehflwe |
In a drop of honey, sets bit pump tc
work, and In a few minutes Is as full
as he can fly. Slowly he rises, carefully
scanning the country as he gets higher,
so that he can tell the others the exacl
locality of tils And, probably. As h«
gets still higher, bo feels confidence,
and away he goes, slowly and carefully
but directly toward home.
1 generally time the first bee, end
can Judge accurately as to distance by
that, allowing about fifteen or twenty
minutes to a mile, going and coming.
The bee never delays an Instant, ex
cept to unload and make bis report, and
then Is off again. If It Is a reliable bee
his first report Is heeded and three bees,
or In rare cases four, are sent at once
after him, arriving at the halt a minute
after the first one comes for the second
load. Once or twice I huve seen the
first bee make two or three trips alone
as If his report had not been considered
truthful enough for others to be sent
to his aid. If the swarm Is at work
elsewhere there are seldom more than
twenty sent to the new place, but II
there Is no more honey to be had they
keep coining In regular detarhraenti
until, to the experienced eye, It Is Ilk*
a road to a populous town, and some
ate going loaded, others me hurrylnr
along to have a hand In the spoil and
scldoiii getting far from the beaten
track. As otm new tl ■ • hive (trie oi
cave, as It may l;e) the coming and go
Inr; becomes iocehsant, some high In
tlic air and others clone to the ground,
hut all bury and • ; -r to be dciti;: tin h
share. And <o think that to must eyes
all (his Is invisible! In all the men
I have had I.*-i<• -probably l ei Mexl*
r„n:« In the last three winter-, horn
woodsmen no they are, and true sons o|
nature, only olio can **■ a Leo In the
air; another In learning the craft a
little with lay help, Ti uly, obc way
have eye# and tee not!
i'o*f of ffnir'ni*- Corn In
Kansas |» certainly a great corn state.
Statistics show that the average an
nual yield for all the thirty-four years,
had seasons and good, since J801, has
been twenty-seven, bushels per acre for
the entire state, ranging In different
years from nine to forty-eight and four
fifths bushels. The product for twenty
five years ending with 1893 has had an
annual home value uveruglng more
than $31,000,000, and a total value in
that time exoedlng $770,000,000.
Secretary Coburn In the March fpiar*
terly report of the State Board of Ag
riculture, presents u detailed showing
from sixty-eight long-time extensive
growers, in forty-five counties which
lust year produced 140,000,000 bushels,
giving from their experience "on such
a basis as others can safely accept"
each principal Item of cost In growing
and cribbing an acre of corn, esti
mating the yield at forty bushels.
About two-thirds of those reporting
prefer planting with listers, and the
others use the better known check-row
method, after the land has been plowed
and harrowed.
The statements of all the growers
summed up, averaged and Itemized,
show as follows:
COST OK RAISING AN ACRE OF
CORN.
Seed .$ 0.07
Planting (with lister, or with
check-row planter, including
cost of previous plowing and
harrowing).77
Cultivating . 1-1)3
Husking and putting in crib... 1.18
Wear and tear and interest on
cost of tools. .25
Rent of land (or Interest on Its
value). 2.41
Total cost.$ 5.71
Cost per bushel.14(4
Average value of corn lund per
acre . 29.25
C. D. Coburn.
Bacteria in Milk.—When the milk
comes from the udder of the cow it It
generally supposed to be free from bac
teria. Yet five minutes afterward it
contains whole colonies of bacteria
washed out of the milk ducts, dusted
off the Hanks of the cows, blown by the
wind from the filthy barn or stirred
up from the bottom and sides of the
ntllk pull itself. Thorough attention tc
all details of milk and milking will do
much to overcome the troubles too
often found In the dulry and in dairy
butter.
Humus In Soli.—No noil can be made
to produce good crops without the pres
ence of a fair supply of humus or de
cayed vegetable matter. Kroshly
cleared lands, and lands which have
not been plowed for many years, usual
ly contain un abundance of humus, but
when lands have long been cultivated
In hood crops like corn ana cotton, the
humus becomes exhausted and must
be replaced before they ran be made
profitable. Just how this humus shall
be supplied must depentP on the cir
cumstances of each plantation. When
It rau be bad In sufficient quantity,
there Is no belter material for this pur
pose thun Is stable manure, but as this
ran seldom be secured In sufficient
amounts, recourse must be had t«
other material*.
Well Prepared tlround The true
rule Is to so* no more ground than rau
be thoroughly prepared! but where the
anti t« not too rompm t, and Is tree from
weed growth, plowing may sometimes
he dispensed with and 'he upper crust
be put In good shape lo receive uat*
by careful harrowing Thus It may be
under way before the preastng spring
worh begtna - K*
t’urleelllM of Uratling The ottvs
has been grafted uy a juniper, applet an
plum*. * toe* oo an orange, p* a* be* oa
mirth#, and mulbervbm and red and
white grape* with psaihce and apt Wot i
«s the aarne stem tor, as the buds at*
dlatlnot, the stem furnish** autitattni
fur alb
\n agtlaltun la proareeatng In lfng
land on the question of the gev*rnm«nt
paying for tuheveutuata car-ass** e|
antrnaU that may b« read* •• a»d by
the inspeeletn
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XL. SUNDAY JUNE !♦—
JESUS IS CRUCIFIED.
Uolden Toil—“Christ Iliad for Oar Bin*
According to tha Borlpturas" — I.
Corinthians IB: 13—Btory of tha Trial
he tore Pilate.
UK whole story ef U>o
trial and cruet# slot!
belongs to this lesson.
There Is this sdvsn
tsge in this fart, that
we <*n embrace with
in one view »* a whole
lhat which In all our
former studies we have
beheld in s sun esslotl
of separate pictures,
with week* Interven
ing between them.
Time of the Trlal*.
ISetween 1 and 2
o’rlork till about It
o'clock. Friday morning. April 7, A. I>. W.
Place. The high prlest'a palaee, llie hall of
the Panhedrlm, Pilate's pro tor I urn or Judg
n eril hall, and Ilrrod's palace.
Holers. Tlhcrlus Ca<*rr, emperor of Haiti' ;
Pontius Pilate, governor »f Judes; Her d An*
llpae. of Oallh I t'alnpl. . ' tin \.W,. ; re •
To-day's Jeason Includes f.uke 2J; JI-l'l. rhe
explanation* are as f«tl«w«:
S3, ' the plaeo * * * e#,!l-d Calvary," Tin
skull, probably from It* she, •. a knoll In Urn
form of a skull. < ilvur v i * m..o n.id <
gulhtt Hebrew for skull. H.b iln.s m» fend
toward the bolls! tbs'. Cal>«ry vr*» the knoll
In which is the grotto of J< > -mlal). *1. /’it. :: “>
fe.-I beyond tin le.rtll Will id th III ■
crucified him." .bulls was nulled to tin- or- •*,<
While II. was lying u; rl the ground, 'Inn It
was slowly raised with it, ►.-i- r u: m It.
The feet #,f the u'llb rei were ■, r* ly a foot or
two iiI/Ovc the ground, and not a* represented
In most pictures.
at. "Father, forgive llu-m," Th/ so IIret
words front Iho cross wen. pr, hably spoken In
the height of the agony, wlo u the crocs with
the vlcliiu upon If. vile, ilr ; i J Willi a sudden
lee, h into O , J,I ,. ,, ,,, ip ,.. . " I 111"/ 1
know not whi.i they do." The .el noi reatu-e
that they were murdering their Me,- iah, the
f'flu tt'lllt IfUc/ft Ill/VIM Mflth Ml III.' l!lf
Knfi of God, Therefore, forgiven*. < was pws
slid** for them, and a change of life. Tin y hud
not passed the degree from which return v/«»
impossible*, "And they,” fb* guard of
soldiers, "parted his raiment," th >se pirta
which could bo fairly divided among the m,
"casting lots" f <r his inner coat or tunic,
which was woven In a single piece,
3'*, "And the people * * * and the rulers
also with them, derided him," scoffed at him.
There was an unruly, turbulent crowd, shout
Ing, scoffing, mocking. "Ha saved others let
him save himself," which of course ho could
do If ho were the "Christ," tin- Messiah, They
Implied that lie was a cheat, a mere trickster,
who had deceived the people, unless he proved
his power by using It to save himself from
crucifixion. Hut he did not come down, In
order that he might save others, and because
he was the Messiah.
26. "The soldiers also" took part In the
mockery, it seemed absurd that this dying
man was a king, yet by this act be was be
coming a king over a wider reaim than Heme
ever knew,
26. "And a superscription also was written
over him." The white tabb i nailed upon tho
cross above the head of the victim, to declare
the crime tor which he was crucified. "In
letters of Greek," the language of literature
and culture, read In all cultured circle* of
the world. Latin, for the Homan soldiers, the.
language of law and power. "And Hebrew,"
the language of the Jews, the language of re
ligion. "One of tho malefactors," tailed else
where "robbers." Probably Jewish fanatics,
who made Insurrection against the Homan
power, and used this as a pretext tor rapine
and murder. "Hailed on him" In his agony,
wondering why Jesus did not exert his power
If he had any. Pain does not necessarily make
one better. "If thou be Christ," the Messiah,
as Jesus confessed before the high priests,
40. "The other • • • rebuked him.1' It is
quite possible that he had heard Jesus, and
seen his miracle*, arid had witnessed the trial,
4t. "We indeed Justly," showing his peni
tence.
42. "Lord, remember me when thou coxnest
Into thy kingdom." This implies that the
robber hud heard of some of the teachings of
Jesus. The robber showed that he believed
HI In Christ as the Sou of God; 12) in his love;
(3) In his power to save; (if in the Immor
tality of the soul; (6) in the kingdom of
heaven.
43. "To-day," not In the far future, "shait
thou be with me In paradise." a word signify
ing a pleasure ground or park, and designating
the place of the happy dead.
14. "It waa about the sixth hour." 12 o'clock.
"Harkness over all tho earth," rather, with
revised version, the land. "The ninth hour."
.{ o clock p. in,, the hour of the daily evening
V. "The veil of the temple whs rent," Thin
wan the veil thnt hung between the holy place
anil the holy of holie* Into which the high
priest entered once a year. It wus th fee! long,
and :io feet wide, and us thick us the palm if
the hand. At this time were uttered tho
fourth, fifth, sixth und seventh words from the
cross, of which the last w„h, "Father. Into thy
hurnlu I commend my spirit, (late up the
ghoat," or spirit. Literally, breelln d out his
lift. None of the evangelists use the comiumt
word for dying, hut all, some form of ,x
prisslon denoting a voluntary yielding up of
his life. As Jesus died there was an eatih
t|uake. which rent roi i s and opened graven
iMatthcw 7 63), and the whole scene deeply
Impress. 4 the people and even the limn ...
of'uod "" Trul>’’ ",l* “*« Sou
1‘lalluuHi at the Center, ^
tVft l.ipttiliuiH geologlm hnr pro
pound* d ihe aatunUhlnq theory that
the renter of the earth in a tu.tsg of
mu I ten gold amt Platinum. He say*
' It you put Into u bottle tutus ruffe*,
kiime sand. and some qutrkallver, fill
It up with water und then shake It
hilskly, as soon a* it has reeled t t a
minute you will have a Ivy.r uf quick
•liver at the bottom, a la>*i u(
in the middle and a layer «f
tup. with the water over all. That |«
the he.vi.et ,h# bsHlom and th*
Itlhte.i on top At uh* Urn. lhe
**• last Ilk* th* content. U| th. * tay«u,
And a. It ha« rvtoie.l it u
lhai ib* hravie.t of all in< *l.nt*iita
putlnum baa •on* to u. bottom
I*, the renter, and that l!,» pla.,«uW u
surrounded by a layer «f par* ,llM
Tb* fold that *c bud un ib* aurta.* i,
merely a small quantity :|wi, b.»*
Iber* |UI entangled tt„,rr |fc
and wa« prevented fr..m .!»,*(«, •
oocnnnn t» natoh*. i
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