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; Fertility Is Being Exhausted Rapidly and
Must Be Restored
By . C. Brown, La Grange, IlL
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M,0, -.mminta". of crop-making
jmfek. crops mean xmi Uuuu.4 fol-
, . . otvi hp soil. So It must
elements nave ueen ma-eu rrots grow
low when soil Is put in such good condition fer
abundantly and produce above the normal yield
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pains must be taken to return a
This very thing was brought to my
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4 noUc7a rewds asM f was traveiing through Central
tino ofiA irx noint was a farmer who had a uiw
xiiuivia a.
v . . oviocsfiiUv the
ouehiv keDt farm. He Had worsea uui u
i n- Hitinn. This he had done Dy a i
fully laid system of drainage and by knowing when to Jn '
tj h0H rfrM nut snrppssfullv tfth Droblem of keeping his land in goou
dltion. This he had done by a carefully laid system of drainage
problem of keeping his land in good condition. This he naa a - , -
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and by
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a carefully laid system ow drainage ana Dy Knowing -nrac-
and when to leave it alone.. Up to twelve years ago mixed farming was .prae
Used here, and a considerable portion of the farm was constantly kept m
meadow and pastures. Twelve, years ago stock feeding was st Ped and
wrhole farm was turned into grain fields. The natural result was that that
farm soon became famous for its big yields of corn, oats and wheat. These
unusual crops were taken off for nine years, and then the yields, fell off alarm.
ly. What was the trouble? No doubt there is still a large amount of nitro
gen in the soil, but it has been thrown out of balance by drawing too Heavily
on some other elements. Thousands of fine farms in Central Illinois are m
.precisely this condition today. Upon these farms cattle and hogs used to oe
fed, and little, if any, of the crops were ever hauled away from the farm.
But after twelve or fifteen years cf 75-bushels-an-aere corn crops farmers find
that they have to go to the bottom of one of their soil bins. If these lands are
handled right they are good almost indefinitely, but allow thjs one-sided crop
ping' system to go on and on and the soil conditions here will soon be on the
same basis as in the southern section of the state. The thing to do is to
keep this land in condition to produce bumper crops, but not to lose sight of
the fact that a 40-bushel wheat yield an acre has used up a correspondingly
large amount of food elements.
The
Topical Boston ian
Does He Exist?
r V ' THAT NEVEk
COLUMBIA GUANO CO.
By M. A, Tie Wolf Howe
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F the careful student of Boston should undertake to recon
struct from the recorded impressions of observant visitors
and critics an imaginary city, it must be said hat nearly all
the counterparts of the actual city would be found among
his materials. He would probably discover that some of
the materials are provided in excess and others insufficient
ly. The nature of most of them could be summarized by a
further condensation of the reports here brought together.
Such a summary might be desirable were this a more exten-
sive compilation. As it is, there is need only to add a single consideration
for r the- reconstructive student who, for one reason or another, may not pur
sue his studies on the sDOt. The Dossibilitv of scrutinizing the "tynical Bos-
tonlan" the man who has created the impression which the word "Boston"
briiig3 to mind is a diminishing possibility. This person, moving daily
farther from the East, is fading by degrees into the light; of common day.
Fpr the .sake of fifty righteous men, Abraham persuaded the Lord to spare J
tne city, or aodom, and with an admirable process of "jewing down" brought
the number through forty-five, forty, thirty, and twenty finally to ten. The
submerging wave of modern conditons has not yet brought the number of
typical Bostonians so low as the highest on which the bargain for Sodom was
struck. But it will roll tmward; fifty will be reached, and possibly by dread
ful degrees even ten. Lower than that the imagination refuses to go, and if
it must go so far there will be comfort in the knowledge that ten complete
Bostonians will be enough to preserve for their city something of Its ancient
quality. Harper's Weekly.
Practical ftoad Making.
One of the most popular and prof
itable courses given by the Universitr
Extension Division of the University
of Wisconsin is that in: highway con
struction. The purpose of this course
Is to give highway officials, and oth
ers who have the responsibility of
building and maintaining public
roads ,in the State; an opportunity to
acquire a thorough, and up-to-date
knowledge of the best material and
best methods to be employed in their
Work. Heretofore many of the offi
cials charged with road construction
and road maintenance have been
obliged to depend largely upon the
experience of the people in their own
town. These practices and experi
ences are naturally limited. The lo
cal knowledge has not been broad and
complete enough; and enormous sums
of public money' have been wasted.
While this course , was vnot given
until January, 1908, the results have
already , become apparent iri many
parts of the State in the better use of
the money given for highway con
struction. Citizens and public -officials
of Wisconsin who have charge
of the work of making roads in the
State are taught without fee, and are
charged only the bare cost of the ma
terials which are used in correspon
dence, amounting to but seventy-five
cents. The course consists of sixteen
lessons.
After discussing, the primary con
sideration of proper road location,
road building is taken up. Under this
head are considered three elements
which enter into the making of a road
foundation, drainage and surface.
These three things are very thor
oughly studied. Road maintenance
is also very carefully studied. A
searching study is made of the vari
oui kinds of road machinery points
of efficiency and economy in general
as well as the merits, and demerits
of any particular machine. When
one consideres the enormous sum of
money that has been wasted in Wis
consin in the building of roads and
the other wastages ' which have re
suited from bad roads, it seems diffi
cult to estimate the value of this di
rect and practical method of aiding
the people of the State. It is but an
other illustration, however, of the di
rect and efficient ways in which the
university is endeavoring to help the
people of the State, upon whom it has
relied and must rely for its support
Socialism and Human
Nature
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By Vida Scuddgr
ORAL preparation for the New Order! It might well be the
watchword of the hour: It is the last thing of which one
hears. The militant socialists are too busily engaged in
aggressive propaganda, so preoccupied with their vision of
healing and liberation for the body that they lay them
selves open to the charge of feeling slight interest in the
soul. Yet in the confusion one fact is clear: Should social
ism come otherwise than as the result of an inward trans
formation, affecting the deep springs of will and love, it
wouiu prove the worst disaster of any experiment in collective - living that
the world has seen. Matthew Arnold, wisest of Victorian critics, pointed out
years ago the perils, with which the .advance of democracy is fraught, unless
it be achieved through a common enlightenment and a pervading social pas
sion. Socialism is democracy pushed to an extreme. It would involve im
mensely elaborated machinery. Unless the spirit, of the living creature be
in the wheels, one foresees them grinding destruction. Should socialism be
other than the expression of a general will very different from that of today,
it would be an unbearable tyranny. The only comfort is that it could not
endure. The truth is that we rxe forced to agree with our tedious friends
who insist that we "must alter human nature" if socialism is to be a suo
cess. -From the Hibbert Journal.
v ; now : :
Women May Be Graceful
By Florence Augustine
Michigan's Specifications.
The Michigan . law creating . the
State highway department contains
specifications as follows:
(1) "Well graded road on which
the steepest incline shall not exceed
six per cent." (Six per cent, means
six feet gradual raise in each 100
feet of length.)
( 2 ) "Width not less than eighteen
feet between side ditches."
( 3 ) "Wagon way or traveled track
not less than nine feet."
(4) "Properly drained."
(5) "Made in two courses, or ap
plied in not less than two layers."
(6) "Thickness specified in table
are measurements to be equaled af
ter rolling, and after bonding in suf
ficient stone screenings in case of
macadamizing or " use of crushed
stone." .
(7) "Crowning of both shoulders
and metaled track or wagon way to
be sufficient for shedding water quick
ly to side ditches." .
(8) "Thorough rolling or thor
oughly rolled" is specified for Class
C, D. and E. roads; and rolling is in
cluded In specifications for Class-A.
and B. roads.
Summary. All Michigan State re
ward macadam roads must.be graded
and made not steeper than six feet
gradual raise in each 100 feet of
length; drained; laid in two courses;
crowned; "rolled and watered until
it becomes so hard that pieces of rock
will crush beneath the roller before
entering the road."
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON
DR. ALVAH S. HOBART
BY
Theme: The Unlisted Asset.
W 1
ITH strenethenpirl mnciias a . .
ouu uervea normauy in nana any
self-respecting woman ought to be able to maintain a grace
fill carriage and well-bred appearance at any social func
tion. It is well to remember that the secret of graceful
movement is comfort, that the graceful thing is the easy
thing. A graceful pose, sitting or standing, is a comfortable
Sev y,U galned contro1 oveyour muscles,
theywiil fall naturally; into comfortable, graceful postures
XT i. . . vt U
X et SXftPP TO attl. , x i
ficious. This, if anvtM r 'JT "TTV luuow unstuuiea, uncon-
ftmon ; " " conspicuous ear-n
re of
id Is
aperio
Is tha
Place." She is not cold or stiff hnt li uwrai nave, to fight for "a
interested, and grave? ta?2JSL
womanher total lsot , uo ci-iuarK oi tne well-bred
clothes, but tSSTSTS SUre f h?rSelf' sure of he
dd: "I can do Z n ZJl01 m,nd is t of the kings of
o desire to imnLs Z ?Bh superiority, because she has
She is Ttw V.u;:.' .ouf VW11 Sfle ieeis that it
Dlace" "r.Ve she doesn't
speaks for itself.
-4COteu, ana grave, but always alrt WnA T T Bgnuy
deling is bound thus to show In LS, fJ ? End courtePs. One's innate
tning of birth or brains j07ring; a?d breeding s not a
Smith's Magazine. Property, but something of the spirit.-Prom
Cost of Oiling Roads.
A recently published report of the
Boston park commission is interest
ing. In 1906 twelve miles of road
were treated with oil to keep down
the dust, and . the result was so satis
factory that in 1907 the whole extent
of; more than forty miles was treated
in this way. Mr. Putnam; the engi
neer, hasi carefully q calculated the
cost, and he says that the annual
cost of sprinkling a thirty-foot road
way was $4T9 a mile, whereas the
cost of oiling the same roadway thir
ty feet wide was $375. In addition
to laying the dust the asphaltum in
the oil had a binding effect on the
surface of the road, and very mater
ially lessened the cost for repairs.
The oil is put on in an emulsion in
which fifteen gallons of water is
mixed with 100 gallons of crude oil,:
the whole being agitated to the prop
er point of emulsion, and then 150
gallons mixed with 450 gallons of
water and sprinkled on the roads.
The plan has given the very best of
satisfaction in Boston, and might be
tried elsewhere with correspondingly
satisfactory results. Utica Press.
An Explanation. :
One reason why the women sup
pose the men are fooled by artificial
beauty Is that most of the men aro
too gallant not to pretend - that they
don't know the difference.- Chicago
Record-Herald. ... ,n.
Brooklyn, N. Y. The Rev. Dr. A.
S. Hobart, of Crozer Seminary,
preached Sunday morning in the Em
manuel Baptist Church, Lafayette
avenue and St. James place. His
subject was "'The Unlisted Asset,"
and his text was Matthew 22:4,1-44:
"While the Pharisees were gathered"
together Jesus asked them, saying:
What think ye of Christ? Whose
son is He?' They say unto Him, 'The
son of David He saith unto them,
'How, then, doth David in spirit call
Him Lord, saying the Lord said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
till I .make thine enemies thy foot
stool. If David then call Him Lord,
how is He his son?' And no man
was able to answer Him a word,
neither durst any man from 'that time
forth ask Him any questions." Dr.
Hobart said: r
Sometimes in the summer the ther
mometer runs up Into the nineties,
and we call it hot weather, but we
take off our coats and attend to our
business and say to our friends: "This
is summer, but after all I rather like
summer. I do not see that the sum
mer is to be so much dreaded." And
the next day the thermometer stands
just as it did the day before, but we
are nearly smothered, and' we say:
"I cannot stand it at all. I think this
is about the worst climate; it is
enough to kill a man." What Is the
difference? The thermometer does
not tell the whole story. . To-day
there are only sixty degrees of hu
midity, but yesterday there were nine
ty. There is a certain unlisted ele
ment In the weather that the thermom
eter does not make any account of,
but that unlisted element makes all
the difference in the world. A man
i9 sick and his doctor tells that he
has an incurable disease and cannot
live, because the medical records do
not show a single case of recovery
from that particular disease. Never
theless the man recovers completely;
and the only way -the astonished doc
tor can account for it is by saying
that the man had a great fund of in
exhaustible vitality. That vitality is
the unlisted asset in the case. ,
This is the idea I have in mind
when i speak to you concerning the
unlisted asset in Jesus. These people
wanted to know certain things and
He wanted them to believe certain
things. There seemed to be some
doubt as to the Messiah, and Jesus
asked them what sort of a man they
thought' the Messiah was going to be.
"Whose son will He be when He
comes?" and they said. "Why, Da
vid's son." Then He said, "Have ye
not read the psalm wherein David
said, Tne Lord said unto my Lord?"
In the Jewish realm no man-would
ever call his son "Lord." How was
it? They did not know. They found,
in tha Old Testament Scriptures that
there was an unlisted asset. Now,
history presents a similar problem;
Things have happened that we cannot
account for in the ordinary way. Be
fore, or, soon after, A. D. 300, the pa
gan kings of Rome ceased to be, and
a confessedly Christian king sat in
the centre of the Roman Empire.
Now the teachers of that gospel did
not have philosophy like the Romans
or literary culture like the people of
Rome or Athens. " , v
They suffered persecution and were
called "the off -scouring of the world.".
They had no armies, nor temples, and
yet inside of 150 years they displaced
the Emperor on his throne by the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. How are you
going to account for that? Somhow
these untrained fishermen, and that
cast-out Pharisee of the Jewish eccle
siastical Institution, had gone ahead
with the unlisted ' power and won
these marvelous victories. -Something
was there besides, something greater
than a son of David. A humble peas
Ant's son in Palestine prophesied that
His name should be above everything
and that all the nations of the world
should know it and bow down to it.
What do we see to-day? Why, the
Btatesmen of the world are beine
guided by. the fundamental principles
tnat tnat peasant taught To-day the
not In harmony with the fundamental
conceptions and the peasant's ideas
of God. All are admitting that they
must come to the recognition of the
existence of an Infinite source and
personal Goo" who controls all things,
and, this is the specific statement ,cf
Jesus when He said: "Pray, our
Father, who art in. heaven." Every
statement and every theory of the
sociologists of this time is pre-stated
in the language of the old Jewish
peasant's son and every great princi
ple that guides us-is stated better by
Him. When you look over the world
you find that where this Gospel has
gone, the world has new conceptions
of man. Nowhere else do you find
the conception of man "in the image
of God" and standing In all funda
mental essentials on a common plat
form. It has given new conceptions
of man's attitude toward God, of his
duty to his fellow man. There was
no conception of international law un-
J til Christianity brought it. And this
peasant's son in Palestine prophesied
all this recognition of these princi
ples 1800 years before. What are
we to say about that? Is He more
than a peasant's son or Is there some
unlisted element there?
We must look around to find the
cause of -this unaccounted for -phenomenon
of history. " We have ex
hausted the assets of David's son. and
we must find something else. Some
things, it is true, can be accounted
for-as the son of David, but not all.
The times and the character of Jesus
will account for some, but there is a
large residue left that cannot be ac
counted, for that way. Some say,
"Jesus Is undoubtedly the pre-eminent
teacher of the world. Nobody
ever-equaled Him before or since or
is ever likely to, but," they say,
"Shakespeare was undoubtedly the
highest genius in his line, and he
went so high that nobody aspires to
touch him. Socrates was a philoso
pher, and in his line nobody aspires
to take away his crown. . And -so
Jesus in His line was the product of
His day. He came from the Jewish
people, a most pious family, in a time
when the world was trying to be so
wicked, and He was a splendid reli
gious genius and , we bow down to
Him pre-eminent in His sphere." Will
It do? We will admit that the cir
cumstances and times did for Jesus
about all that could be done to make
Him pre-eminent as a moral teacher,
but why did not other people -the
martyrs, the disciples why didn't
Paul rise to the same pre-eminence?
No man could lay a finger on Paul's
life and say, "Here is a moral weak
ness that accounts for it" If Jesus
was no more than a peasant's son He
never could, then or since,, have com
manded the respect of a single man
such as He has now. Suppose a man
came Irom England and wanted us
to start Spurgeon clubs in every town
in America and worship Spurgeon;
or suppose some one wanted us to
start Phillips Brooks clubs and be
come Brooksites, we would say,
"There is a sanitarium over there;
you had better go there." -Toil see
that if Jesus were nothing more than
a pre-eminent son of David He would
be on the same plane with Spurgeon
and Brooks. We. will honor .such
men and take "counsel from their wis
dom, but never bow down to them.
And men would never bow down to
and worship Jesus Christ if He were
not something more than a son of
David. "But,", you say, "that hy
pothesis does not account for the fact.
"We admit the mystery, but tnere
is a certain unlisted element that we
cannot see yet." Let us see what His
apostles say. 'Paul had his own the
ory when he said that He was "in the
f prm of God, yet He made Himself
of no reputation and took upon Him
the form of a servant, and was found
in the likeness of the flesh and suf
fered death, even v. the death of the
cross." There is a notion of pre-ex-istence.
That is Paul's conception of
the unlisted asset, that pre-existing
glory with - God. That does not an
swer the question, but Jt answers
something. He did what David never
did. j He took on Him our form and
went back to accomplish the finish of
the jrork. In the Hebrews we read
that. He was the ''express imaee" of.
God and "by Him all things consisted
and held together." So you have the
hypothesis of His being larger than
David's son, who took on Him the
form of David's son. v Then wo find
p jesus speaking with authority.
?na so." AgaTn, ;T came down from
My Father, and all authority is given
unto Me and all judgment is givea
unto Me that men , may honor the Son
as they honor the Path Pr " nnA "1,.
. that hath the Father hath the Son-i
UB uatu not me son natn not
God." It does not solve all the mys.
tery, but it tells us of a certain ele.
ment of divinity about Him which no
son of David ever had.
Then again He says that whosoevect
believes and follows Jesus will be
with God. That does not solve the
mystery,-but it tells us that so far as
God can teach mankind He teaches
us by His Son Jesus Christ.
You say: "I am handicapped, be
cause people calling themselves
Christians have not Christianity,
enough to distinguish them from th
rest of the world." Confine yourself
to those whom you will recognize as
genuine Christians, those whom you
"would like to have pray with you
When you are sick. Ask these people;
"Tlow is it you have managed to over
come wher? others have failed? Ho
iis it that- you have kept straight for
ward with a cheerful spirit where oth
ers were discouraged? And thej
will tell you this: "Since 1 believed
in Jesus, a strange inside power ha.3
come to me that has changed my af- 1
f ections, that has opened my eyes
strengthened my courage, nursed my;
virtues, nerved my will and has kept
me steadfastly going toward the ideal
that I regret I have followed so far,
away." I say that such testimony is
the strongest testimony that this Son
of David has an asset of power that
He imparts to His people to give them
victory. ;
This is the New Testament eipla
nation: He was the Son of God and
had in Himself certain immeasurable;
assets of divineness that belonged to
Him, not because He was the Son o$
David, but because He came to bej
the Son of David from on high, and:
because of that he has a claim to ourj
obedience and worship and confix
dence.
What sort of a Christ do ycu vant?i
You need a" saviour. What do you
want Him to do? First, to forgive
you. Second, to purify your heart.
Third, to give you grace. Can any
body do it except it be the Son of
David to come In touch with you, and!
the Son of God to have power? I;
have spoken these words to you thi?
morning that you might believe, not
only that Jesus is the Christ, but that
Christ is the Son of the Living God,
land that, believing in Him ye also
might have life.
1
Every Christian a Worker.
Each member ' of a Christian
church should be a worker for Christ.
Our Lord has never granted a dispen
sation to a single one of us; would
any of us desire that He should? Hi3
vows are upon us all without excep
tion. Are we each obedient to His word,
"Occupy till I come?" Are we put
ting out our talents to interest? Iff
we are not doing so, we can nevec
enter into rest Rest implies previ
ous labor. - We are bidden by the1
Holy Spirit to labor, to enter into
t.h roet nf cinA it ic thf war thereto.
Idlers are unrestful, fidgety, worried:
and worrying, fretful and fanciful,
troubled and troublesome, iney t
the happiest who are the most coin'
pletely consecrated to the service of
God and most fully absorbed in ohe-.
dience to His will. Oh, that all our
church, members were constrained m
Divine grace to do their utmost for
the LordlC. H. Spurgeon.
philosophers of the' world' are sloueh-re8.BPea? with authority. "It
ing off all th speculations that ar r"n Dee.n by men of old time.
The New Testament
It Is an easy thing to take intj
one's -hand the New Testament, ana
turn its. pages; but do you estimat.
the New Testament aright? It J
colossally sublime. It has no paraiief
In human language. It is the poer
-a J man Tf ic the CflU('
of our thoughts. -And vit is all tni
because it enshrines the Christ. .
exists to perpetuate the Master.-s
Rev. David!Gregg.
Be Emotional.
A man can never move the worW
ir ho lets the world move him.
Uu Luther. .
Very , often a bad man finds a lo
hole in .a good law, but the gooa
seeking a loophole in a bad .
fesses the . Philadelphia ;LedSer' 6
eraliy "is up against it."
dogo .and $o, but Isay unto, you do so

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