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UNCONVENTIONALITIES.
"Sloppinger,- If you had just a few
grains of sense you'd know what a
gibbering idiot you are."
"I won't dispute - your assertion,
. Kiljordan, but when I make a state
ment like that I want somebody to
have nerve enough to tell me I'm
a stupid, turtle-headed liar."
"When I look at you, Murdlestone,
I can't help wondering t if you're
worth the atmosphere you displace."
"It's hardly necessary for me to
tell you, Blim, that you are the last
man on earth I'd want to share a
stateroom with, but all the others on
the boat are taken." ,
"Yes, 6ir, I've read, the manuscript
of your story, and It's absolutely the
rottenest I ever waded through.
Here it is. You may leave the door
osen as you go out."
Test of Gravity.
"Professor Blobbs is a serious-mind-d
man."
"Yes."
"Have you ever seen him at a base
ball game?"
"No. Why do you ask?"
"I was just wondering what his
conduct would be if the game were
tied and a player on the home team
whose batting average was a joke
should walk up to the plate and slam
out a home run."
Feazing the Boss.
"What? You didn't let your office
boy off this afternoon simply because
he told you his grandmother was dead?
Don't you know that the moment he
left here he went straight to the ball
game?". .
"Yes," but what could I do? The lit
tle rascal, taking a long chance, looked
rne straight in the eye and asked me
politely would I like to attend the fu
neral. You can't call a man's size bluff
like that, can yau?"
Run for Wrong Party.
Mistress Oh, by the way, Smithers,
I've arranged for the breakfast in the
servants' hall to be a quarter of an
hour earlier in future.
Smithers Then, my lady, I beg
leave to give notice.
Mistress Indeed! Why?
Smithers WelJ, my lady, it . seems
to me that this establishment is being
conducted for your convenience rather
ban for that of the servants. Punch.
VERSATILE MACHINE.
-vjfc f
"But your automobile doesn't turn
turtle every day and seek a. mud pud
dle, does it?"
"Oh! no. Sometimes it turns bird
and takes to the -air and then again
it turns monkey and climbs a tree."
Plenty of Time.
Now azure skies above us bend
And nature seems to smile.
But J would not be anxious, friend.
To picnic for a while.
Effective President.
"Bosh!" 6aid Mr. Nervepop, after
Mrs. Nervepop had expressed the wish
that a woman might be president of
the United States for just one week.
"What could she do?"
"What could she do?" retorted the
lady. "I tell you this, James, that if
I could get into the White House with
a couple of good Swedes to help me I'd
do more in a minute than any presi
dent we've had In 20 years with both
houses of congress and his cabinet be
hind him!" Harper's Weekly.
A Fussy Boss.
"Where in the dickens Is that office
boy?"
"Gone down to the corner to look
at the baseball bulletins."
"Go and tell hjm to come to me at
once."
"Don't be' too hard on the boy."
"I'll fire him on the spot if he can't
tell me exactly how the game is go
ing." I , Stingy, Thing. :
Will not let him hold her hand.
Will not lit him kiss her;
Bet when uhe goes out of town
He will hardly miss her. '
Of the Actlvd Transitive Kind.
"That's the first time I ever heard
anybody speak of Smidgins as a work-
ing man."
"But he Is, Just the same; and 1
vuuiu give juu a. not tu ilia iruai-
Ing fellow citizens whom he has
worked."
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Main Crop.
"There are so many things I was
disappointed to find I couldn't raise
on my farm." -
"I would be satisfied if I could onty
rJe the mortgage on mine." j
Lock of Room.
I do not In a hammock swing.
But don't deserve applause for that;
There's just no place to put the thing
Because I'm living In a flat.
Just in TItie.
"Pa, here's something in this news
paper about the 'chorus girl lure.'
What does that mean, pa?"
"Ahem!" coughed pa, with a know
ing smile that suddenly froze on his
face. "It means nothing that concerns
you, son. Don't you see your mother
standing in the door? Go' to her at
once."
Might Not Be So Bad.
Briggs I see the capitol at Albany
was so badly built that It is likely to
fall at any time. Isn't that unfortu
nate? Griggs Not necessarily. It might
fall, you know, when the legislature
was in session. Life.
PHRASE ORIGIN.
Willie Prehistoric Oh! mamma,
what is papc doing with that tele
gram? Mrs. Prehistoric My son, he's
merely breaking the news.
It's the Weather.
This morn's he's yawned 'bout 60 times.
And ere the day is o'er.
It seems to be quite likely that
He'll yawn 'bout 60 more.
She Had the Preference.
Father (angrily entering parlor at
12:30) Look here, young man? Do
you stay as late as this when you call
on other girls?
Jack Huggard (trembling with fear)
N-n-n-no, sir!
Father (appeased, as he leaves the
room) That's all right, then! (Aside.)
Thank heaven! Mary has caught on
at last! Puck.
Up to Date.
"What did she say when you told
her that you were not worthy of her?"
"She said she was glad I admitted
It; but that her father had been hav
ing tne trailed by a detectjve and was
quite prepared to prove it if I had not
admitted it."
Coming and Going.
"Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Green seem
to have little to do but talk across the
fence."
"Yes, they have plenty to talk about
Mrs.' Brown has just come out of the
hospital and Mrs. Green thinks of go
ing." In the Future.
"Have the Smiths any aeroplanes?"
"No, they are so poor that they can
not afford anything but an automo
bile." Getting a Cook.
Her Husband I suppose you looked
up the new cook's references? .
His Wife No, dear; I was afraid
they might not turn out satisfactory.
WOULD THINK SO.
Cholly I just saved a girl's life
and she promised to marry me.
Molly Didn't she prefer to Crown?
Literature
I haven't time for prose or rhyme
Or matters of the stage.
I only heed the stuff I read
Upon the baseball page.
No Quick Work for Him.
Weary Willie This paper say that
curved jaws that may be strapped to
the hand have been - patented by " a
Michigan inventor to enable a man to
husk corn quickly.
Toddling Tommie Who do you
suppose would want to husk corn
quickly? ' " ' ,
Note of Alarm.
Landlady Mr. Snipe, is' it true the
papers say there is going to be a re
duction made in thetsxiff on prunes?
Boarder (hastily) I hope not!
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LIGHT; LOVE; PEACE
All Blessings Offered-to Those
Who Will Open Their Hearts -to
Christ.
CHRIST does not offer to be sim
ply an f occasional shower .of
blessings to the faithful believer.
He promises to be a living well.. The
deepestand the most urgent wants of
the heart he promises to satisfy. ;
In true conversion Christ enters
the, soul. This is the very-essence
and touchstone of conversion. With
him comes light; with ; him comes
love; with him comes peace. The
radical change of heart in conversion.
Is Just as truly a supernatural work
as was the resurrection of Lazarus
from the cave in Bethany. Christ,
then, enters the soul, not as a trans
lent visitor, but as an abiding guest.'
While he abides there, he gives peren
nial life and beauty and strength to
the believer. "Because I live, ye shall
live also." "Yet not I," said the hap
py, hale-hearted apostle, "but Christ
that llveth in me." And that was the
reason why Paul remained a Christian
(a Christ's-man) long after the first
excitement of the scene at Damascus
had passed away. A well was opened
in Paul's heart that day, and its deep,
cool, living waters neyer ran dry.
- Ruled by Love of Christ.
Men could always predict how Paul
would act in any emergency, because
the" principle that , ruled him was al
ways the same. "The love of Christ
contraineth me." "For me to live is
Christ." The only reason why any
good man continues to be a good man
is that the wellspring in his soul
never runs dry. Reckless, slave-hunting
John Newton ceases to scoff, and
begins to pray. ' Twenty years later
John Newton .is . still praying, still
preaching, still overflowing in bene
ficence among the haunts of busy
London; and solely because the Lord
Jesus dwelt in him, a source of holy
affections, and an inspirer of noble
and godly actions. On Sunday he
went to preach to rich bankers and
titled ladies. On a week-day evening
he -would sit on a three-legged stool,
in his blue sailor jacket, and open
up his rich experiences and wise
counsels to the poorest who came to
visit him. "I was a wild beast on the
coast of Africa once," he used to say;
"but the Lord Jesus caught me and
tamed me, and now people come to
see me as they would go to look at
the Hons in the tower." What people
came to see and to hear and to love
in the sturdy sailor preacher was the
Christ who dwelt within John New
ton. Here Is the secret of Christian per
severance, that a true Christian holds
out for no other reason than that
Christ holds out. The Fountain-head
of all holy affection, and all generous
deeds, and all heroic, self-denying en
durances, is down deep in the man's
heart; because Christ lives, he lives
also. You can no more exhaust the
graces of the true Christian than you
can pump the Thames dry at London
bridge. What a transcendent idea
that is in Paul's prayer for his' bre
thren: "That ye might be filled with
all the fullness of God." When, there
fore, we, meet with a man or woman
who almost never disappoints us, who
is always "abounding in the work of
the Lord, who serves God on every
day as well as the Sunday, who is
more anxious to be right than to be
rich, and who can ask God's blessing
on the. bitterest cup, when we meet
such a one we know that down in the
clefts of , the soul is Christ, the well
spring!" Spirit Made. Manifest.
In a thousand ways will the inward
fountain of Christian principle make
itself visible. We see it in the mer
chant who gives Christ the key of his
safe, and never soils it with ill-gotten
gains. We see it in the statesman
who cares more to win God's smile on
his conscience than a re-election to
office. We recognize it in the min
ister who is more greedy for souls
than for salary. We see it in the
young man who would rather endure
a comrade's laughter than his Savior's
frown ; in the maiden who obeys
Christ sooner than fashion. I some-
m
times detect this wellspring of cheer
ful piety in the patient mother, whose
daily walk with God is a fount of holy
influence amid her household. I know
of poor men's dwellings in which
grows a plant of contentment that is
an exotic rarely found in marble man
sions. Its leaves are green and glossy;
it is fed; from the Well.
In dying chambers we have often
heard this spiritual" fountain playing,
and Its murmur was as musical as the
tinkle of a brook "in the leafy month
of June." . .
" Perfect love had cast out fear.
Peace reigned. Joys sparkled in the
sunlight of God's countenance. There
was a well there which death could
not dry the "well of water springing
up into everlasting life."; Rev. Theo
dore L. Cuyler. '
Loving and Serving.
If ever we are to labor truly for
the highest . good of our fellow crea
tures, we must learn to take reverent
and loving views of them. The deep
er and higher our. estimate of the soul
of man, the more shall we be filled
with the pity and awe that are the
strength of persevering labor in its be
half, and the more shall we share the
mind and. help the work of him, who,
knowing the soul s ralue, died to save
the 60uls of men. ;
A very great part of the mischiefs
that vex the world arise from words.
EeTmund Burke. v
IMPORTANT CORN CROP
Elimination of Weeds Is Abso
- lutely Necessary.
Soil-Mulch Theory of Tillage Has
Been Fundamental One in A m eri
cs n Agriculture Soil Mois
ture Is Conserved.
. . (By T. C. CATES.)
Corn is one of the most .important
crops in the United States. Cultiva
tion is one of the most expensive op
erations in the. production of corn. It
is - also the operation which of all
phases of corn growing, has probably
received the least study or about
which we have-ithe least fundamental
knowledge. :
i The soil-mulch theory of tillage has
been n fundamental one in American
agriculture. It was long ago found
that by means of a mulch, crops could
be grown in alternate years.1 on land
receiving such iscant rainfall as to
make It Impossible to grow any satis
factory crop by other methods. In
studying the effect of the mulch it
has come to be generally recognized
that la most soils moisture can be
saved by maintaining the top portion
of the soil in a finely divided condi
tion. It has also been found that fre
quent -stirring of the soil promotes
rapid nitrification. It would seem to
follow, naturally, that a system of
cultivation which promotes nitrifica
tion and conserves moisture would
be 'an extremely valuable system to
apply to a tilled crop. In practice it
has been found that in most cases fre
quent shallow cultivation gives better
yields than other methods of corn
tillage. Upon this experience tillage
philosophy has been' developed and
tillage practice based.
To ascertain the ideal method of
cultivation for corn in various sec
tions of the country, experiments ag
gregating 125 and scattered over 28
states, were conducted. These ex
periments were simply removing the
weed3 without stirring the soil or pro
ducing a mulch, as against corn culti
vation. The ' measure of the relative
merits of the two systems was, not
In the preservation of soil moisture
or the effect on nitrification, or the
making available of plant nutrients,
but the relative yields of corn pro
duced. These tests seem to indicate that it
is the weed factor which makes the
cultivation of corn necessary, or,
Cultivated and uncultivated fodder and
ears of corn an experiment In
Kentucky last year. The cultivated
may be seen at the right and the
uncultivated at the left of the illus
tration. stating the proposition conversely,
that cultivation is not beneficial to
the corn plant, except insofar as re
moving the weeds are concerned.
The reasons why uncultivated land
kept free from weeds should yield
practically as much com per acre as
that given the most approved modern
cultivation are not clear. The results,
howevtr, point strongly to the con
clusion that the principal object of
cultivation is the destruction of weeds.
Where the weeds are kept down 'by
some oher method cultivation seems
to be of no particular advantage. This
is contrary to the accepted teaching
on this point, and the conclusion is
stated jonly tentatively.
If it be true that weeds make the
cultivation of corn necessary the
problera immediately presents itself
as to what farm management methods
can be pursued to eliminate or reduce
to a minimum the weed, pests of the
farm. Our present implements for
cultivation are designed primarily to
produce a mulch and stir the ground.
Weed killing is a secondary function.
It is possible that newly designed im
plements made with special reference
to weed control, could accomplish
this, end with greatly decreased
cost.
In summing, up the results of the
experiments of the 125 corn growers,
it is shown that the weeded plats pro
duced 1)5.1 per cent, as much fodder
and 99.108 per cent, as much grain as
the cultivated ones. . If there was any
difference between either set of plats
in regard to thoroughness in keeping
down the weeds it Was In favor of the
cultivated plats. Although it remains
to be demonstrated how far this prin-
cinle m;iv be anniiftd in anv narHcniai-i
section, -as a general average forall
the regions in which this work was
done it may be concluded that- the
proposii.ton just stated Is substantial
ly true. . If this be accepted, weed
control becomes the principal object
of corn cultivation. '
Worn With Tailored Suits.
Very few pure white blouses are
worn with tailored suits. Figured
nets, crepe de chines and shadow laces
veiled ta chiffon are more often worn.
The kiiiono is still the favorite style,
and is to full that it blouses consider
ably ovr the waist line.
, ! Plain Parasols. :
. The rather fiat, many ribbed para
boI, especially, when covered with the
plain colored silk, Is modish. Often tffe
ribs an gilt tipped.:
PROPER CARE DURING MOLT
Hens That Have Completed Process
and Regained Normal Condition
-Before Winter Most Desired.
, The early-molting hens are the most
desirable ones, because they will have
completed the process and regained
their normal physical condition again
before winter sets in, and therefore
will be in better shape for the arrival
of cold weather and will lay more
eggs. The hens that are not well
clothed with a new coat of feathers
by the time the weather turns cold
will not prove very profitable as win
ter layers, because cold weather will
still further retard the molt and the
fowls will suffer quite a bit with the
cold. .
Molting may be hastened somewhat
by withholding the greater part of
the food supply ten days or two weeks
and then give the fowls all they will
eat of rich flesh-forming and feather-
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producing foods. During the entire
time they should receive a few hand
fuls of sunflower seeds each day, as
these are very good in helping to
loosen up the feathers. Feed with
care, however, as too many would
have a bad effect, causing an unnat
ural molt.
Plenty of meat and green food are
very essential to getting fowls through
the molt successfully. Give them lots
of green cut bone or ground beef
scraps, and all they will eat of vari
ous kinds of green stuff, grass and
vegetables. A little linseed meal,
added, to the mash two or three times
a week, will be found to be very bene
ficial at this season.
See that the fowls have cool, fresh
drinking water at all times. Keep
down lice and mites, as many of the
deaths during theonolting period are
caused by these pests and not on ac
count of any hardship attending the
molting process, as many people sup
pose. Provide dust baths in which the
fowls may wallow whenever they
want to, and these will help' to ex
terminate vermin as well as furnish
healthful exercise and pleasure to the
birds.
SILAGE MAKES BEEF PROFITS
Conclusion Taken From Bulletin by
Experts of Indiana Agricultural
Experiment Station.
The addition of corn eilage, once
daily to a" ration of shelled corn, cot
tonseed meal, and clover hay, re
duced the cost $1.83 for each hun
dred pounds of gain and increased
the total profit $8.85 per steer.
The addition of corn silage twice
daily to a ration of shelled corn, cot
tonseed meal, and clover t hay, re
duced the cost $3.17 for each hun
dred pounds of gain and Increased to
tal profits $11.19 per steer.
The substitutf6n of corn silage for
clover hay in a ration, of shelled corn,
cottonseed meal and clover hay re
duced the co6t $4.35 for each hun
dred pounds of gain and increased
the profits $17.97 per steer.
The more nearly corn - silage re
places the clover hay in the ration,
the cheaper was the gain j and the
greater the profit.
The silage used in this trial con
tained an unusually high per cent, of
dry mattre and was, judging from pre
vious experience, more efficient for
fattening cattle than silage containing
a higher per cent, of moisture.
A ration of shelled corn, cottonseed
meal, oat straw and corn silage (twice
daily) proved to be as efficient for fat
Uning cattle as a ration of shelled
corn, cottonseed meal, clover hay and
corn silage (twice dally).
The above conclusions are taken
from a bulletin by Messrs Skinner and
King of the Indiana agricultural ex
periment station giving the results of
a steer-feeding test where the value of
corn silage, as a fattening ration was
tested. "
KEEP HENS IN GOOD FLESH
Keep the Fowls Busy, Feed Them All
They Will Eat and They will Make
the Best Records.
(By M. PURVIS.)
" Hens that are kept thin in flesh will
not make good egg records. Professor
Rice of Cornell, had a lot of hens killed
and their laying condition noted, dur
ing his absence. He then examined
the carcasses and . was able , to pick
out the best layers by simply choosing
those which showed the most fat. Keep
the hen busy, feed her all sha will eat
and she will make the best record pos
sible V:.,' " .'-: .
Dairy's Golden Era.
This is the golden era for those who
know how to handle dairy products.
Good prices are the rule. All such
commodities have reached a high lev
el, and the situation is such that farm
ers are assured liberal profits.
(By The National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union.)
ISTHMIAN CANAL ZONE DRY
One Exception to Statement That
"The American Salcon Follows
the American Flag."
No license for the sale of intoxicat
ing liquors in the Isthmian canal zone
will hereafter be granted by the com
missioners. The government received
considerable revenue the laBt six
years from the five canal zone settle
ments where saloons were permitted,
but it decided that It "didn't pay."
The dramshops and the three great
American brewerieB closed their doors
July 1.
Mrs. Abbie B. Hillerman, national
W. C. T. U. representative in the
canal zone thus writes:
"We are thankful that there will be
one exception at least to the state
ment that 'The American saloon fol
lows the American flag.' With the
eyes of the world centered upon this
strip of land, which is so soon to be
the great ocean highway of nations,
this action is most opportune. We
believe that the thousands of pages of
temperance literature sent to this sec
tion by the National W. C. T.. U., to
gether with the influence of temper
ance sentiment at home, has had some
part in this victory. It is certainly In
harmony with the views and actions
! of the president of the United States
land his cabinet."
ATTACK ON LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Former Premier of France Makes
Strong Denunciation of Formid
able Enemy of Social Peace.
Georges Clemenceau, former pre
mier of France, who was one of the
candidates for the presidency, has sur
prised Paris by a strong denunciation
of the liquor traffic as a peril to the
nation. He has written the freface
of a pamphlet devoted to a general
economic study of alcohol, which has
just been laid before the Paris Acad
emy of Medicine. He deplores the fact
that the state seems powerless
against this "most formidable enemy
of social peace and general welfare."
His words are thus translated:
"Today it is .beginning to be under
stood that the right to poison people
cannot properly be regarded as one
of the achievements of the French
revolution. Universal suffrage would
really put itself out of court if it had
succeeded in emancipating itself from
the yoke of a single tyrant, only to
fall under the sway of a league of
private Interests which are In open
warfare with the public -interest. All
well intentloned men, without distinc
tion of party, ought to join in a com
mon effort for the salvation of our
country which is menaced from so
many directions at once."
MAKE FINEST FIGHTING MEN
Most Pressing Enemy to Be Encoun
tered by United Kingdom Is
Drink, Says Wolseley.
The recent death and public burial
in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, of the
noted soldier, . Lord Wolseley, recall
his outspoken attitude on the tem
perance question. In 1870 he carried
through his Red river expedition on
rigid lines of total abstinence. Of
the Nile campaign he reported "all
the troops for months without beer or
spirits," the result being that, as one
of the officers declared, they were the
"finest fighting men It was ever any
man's lot to command." In 1893 Lord
Wolseley said: "There are yet many
great enemies to be encountered,
some great battles to be fought by the
United Kingdom, but the most press
ing enemy at present i3 drink."
Ultimate Success.
When a movement or reform pro
ceeds in its progress past a certain
stage, the dictates of reason as well
as the record of history fairly Inform
us that that movement or reform will
come to a successful issue. When a
movement abides the buffeting of early
persecution and projects itself from
year to year with a persistent and in
creasing power, it is only a question
of time when it will win universal
recognition. It Is thus that all believ
ers in a. saloonless nation are confi
dent of ultimate success. Northwest
era Christian Advocate.
Better for Humanity.
:'Tt would be better foV this country
If there were no alcohol In it The
medical profession does not supply it
as it once did. I shall be glad to see
the day of universal prohibition. Even
the German emperoV has warned hia
army of the dangers pf beer drinking,
it would be of great benefit to human
ity If all the, saloons and breweriea
were closed up." Dr. Harvey W. Wi
ley. Temperance In British Army. .
Field Marshal Lord Roberts says:
. "The record of the British army to
day as a sober community is one ot
which the empire may justly be proud.
vxtsnertua uuu units r uuiuei o l epui i uiuv
this gratifying state of affairs is in a
ereat" measure due to the Royal Armv
1 Temperance - association. They say
that ' the association promotes the
moral, physical, and financial welfare
nf thfi soldier and eonseauentlv it Via
been the means of producing a mark
ed fiffer.t in raisins the' standard nf fv
briety in the army."