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y ' -' - V . Fertility Value of Bran. -. Wheat bran is very rich n those elements which! give it un usual value in bone making, and which! render , the manure made from; it very valuable in deed as ai fertilizer. On this point the sixth annual report of the -New York Agricultural Ex-4 periment station says: "Two thirds of the nitrogen of the grain remains! as a part of the flour, but of the mineral elements, phosphates, potash, etc. , the larger proportion is left in the by-products, jwhich are used as animal feeds, only about one fifth of the phosphates being in the braii. - -(The high coefficient of diges tibility for the by-products from flour production renders them a most valuable source j of animal feed, and at the same time so concentrated and riclj are they in those elements necessary to a fertile soil that they become, when properly managed, a val uable source of fertilizers. We find that the milling products from one bushel Of wheat hav ing1 a composition like our sanx ple would contain the! following amounts of fertilizer matter ex pressed in pounds: Nitrogen. AcidPotash. Lime. j . PhosJ , ; . - Flour..'.... L...6 .730 .092'!! .054 .018 Middlings V .105 .064! .034 .002 Shipstuff.. ..-I.... - .05 .044 .083 .003 Uran ........ .'J .228 ; :254 j .182 .012 Totals ..... ...... 1.158 .451 j .343 .030 ' 'Th relatively high richness of bran in these valuable manur ial elements will be' apparent when we consider that the quan tities givenj above are for forty four pounds flour, four ! pounds middlings, it wo pounds shipstuff and ten pounds pranrjj Why Are You Not a Christian P I ! a i i Is it because you arej afraid of ridicule, and of what others may say.of'yourj ' rj "yhosever shall bei ashamed of me and of my words of him sjiall 'the son of Iman be ashamed!" I a Is it because of the inconsist ences of professing Christians? -''Every one of us shall give an account of himself to God." . Is it because you are! not will ing to' give 'all to Christ? ! "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose .liiij own soul?' i Is it because vou are afraid that you will not be accepted? !Him that. cometh to me I will in nowise cast out." Is it because you arc too great a sinner? , ; I "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." j Is it because you are afraid you will not hold out?" I ' ' He which begun a good work in you wiJl ! perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." j I Is it because you are thinking that you will dotis well as you can , and that God ought to be satisfied with that? i j j "Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guiltyj of allU' j Is it because you .are postpon ing the matter without any def inite reason? Ml '. ! "Boast north vself of I to-mor- row, f ti6u knowest not what a dav may brine: torth " Friendly Greetings. i i Ready to Begin. . Jones went to housekeeping on Saturday. . ivirly I m the morning, when Jie started for the office, his; wif gaye j him a list of thingK which she1 needed very badly. As lie entered the house in him with the evening j she met bss aiid then I asked: "Did you b irmo; 'the oast for dinner?" i Jones' face fell. "No, Ltfollie' he replied "Fact is, I forgot it.' "Got the coffee and sugar all ' i right, of course?": statnmered, "forgot therii too "And the the vinegar Henry voti loaf of bread and land the oil! surelv. didn t torget them?' . - - ..if ml 7 "x-y-yes. Alollie, il'll be blanked if Lklidn't But," and here a smile jlluminated his face. that;. would have Sieaven - swjept over I did brinsr the quart of whiskey jind tlie box of imported cigars. Philadelphia inquirer. "Let tie Baby Cry!." I ' In the old mining days, a child was, so rare in San Francisco that dnce in a theatre, jwhere a woman had takei her! infant, when it begun to cry, just! as the the orchestra began to! 'play, a man ih the pit cried oui, "Stop those fiddles and j let the1 babv cry. I haven't heard; such a soud in ten jyears; " The audi diencej applauded this sentiment, the orchestra stopped and the uau yuiitinuea its pertprmanCe amid .unbounded enthusiasm I Zircon and its Uses. North Carolina can I boast of the only zircon mine inv Amer ica. It is situated on Green river, in Henderson county. The mining of zircon has grown into j surprising proportions in that j State within the past few years; The beginning of the industry was in 1869, when Gen. T. L. Clingman succeeded in gathering together about one thousand pounds of this, then considered, rare mineral. Again he obtained, vnth crude meth ods, about eight hundred pounds additional in 1879. All this was consumed for the most part, in endeavoring to find a practical use for zirconia the most in fusible of the oxides, j It was left to Carl Auer von Welsbach, of Vienna, to point out, at last. the I practical utility of not only zirconia, but also of the allied earth j lanthana, ceria, thoria and yttria. I He made use of their infusibility by applying this characteristic to gas-burners and of using the glow or heat-incandescence as j a light for general illumination where ever light is required. To North Carolina this inventor at once turned for his supply j of Tare minerals necessarily essential to the success of his invention. The above noted success of Gen. Clingman in mining j zircons came to Carl Auer's notice, and the sequel was that a contract was given for the unheard of quantity of twenty tons, which was subsequently increased to 50,000 pounds. The black crys tals . ! of zircon are reduced by chemical and electrical process es to a fine white powder.) This is zirconia, which is oxide of zirconium. It is now ready for use in the incandescent gas light. A glasschimney is fitted over a Bunsen burner. In this chimney is suspended a hollow cotton wick. It is not different from any wick, except that it has been thoroughly filled in all its, interstices with the white powder. The eras is turned on and a match applied. The flame runs along the cotton wick and burns it up immediately. But there is something that does not burn. lhis is the zirconia. When the cotton wick is all consumed a thin, delicate, snow white, hollow column 'of zirco nia is left, exactly the shape of the cotton wick. This heats white-hot and glows like an electric light. It seems, almost to last forever if it does not eet Jbroken. This! is the newest rival to i the electric light. I To give an idea as to I how far the above mentioned quantity of zircon will reach, it is only necessary to state that one ton would make over half a million of the new gas burners if they were made entirely of zirconia, but as that is only one of j the con stituent elements necessary to the life and usefulness of this burner, it can readily be seen that twenty-five tons will go an immense way illuminating the world with the Welsbach bur ner, From Dixie. Mrs. Cleveland's New Home. Mrs. Cleveland's new house in New York, which Mr. Fran cis Lathrop is decorating, is to contain a great deal of antique mahogony furniture, which is with its mistress quite a hobby. Ever since she went to New York, she has been buying, as opportunity offered, old chairs, tables and chests of drawers which might have formed the furnishings o stately colonial mansions with their vellow and brown walls; I their immense mirrors, reaching from floor to ceiling; their I sconces with twinkling candle lights; their white marble mantelpieces with frieze; of j acanthus and decor ated with heads crowned I with amaranth and their heavy ma hogony staircases, which re sponded to the lightly flying feet of the I fair dames ! of one hundred (years, ago. ! To! buy mahogony is an expensive fan cy, for all that is really olid and good is being snapped up at fancy jprices by the Vanderbilts and people who aim at, solidity as well as show. Lillie Dever eaux Blake has a little that be longed to ithe Dixes and Mrs. M. Louise Thomas, Ella Dietz Cly mer's predecessor as president or sorosis, nas some fine pieces. Mrs. Cleveland has bought with a great deal of discretion, and the house of the ex-nresident will be very Albany Argus. attractivel Cor. Another fraud has gone to the wall the bogus doctor making machine. ! That is a good point, but it is necessary to watch everywhere to see where it will spring up againl The shams of that sort are much like inch worms it is no sign that you have cut them in two. Millions In It."! The! inevitable and ubiquitous statistician has gotten! around to the dairying business, and announces that there are $2,000j 500.000 invested in that line in this country, " That amount' it is asserted, "is almost double the money invested in banking and commercial industries. It is estimated that it requires 15, 000,000 cows I to supply the de mand for milk and its products in the United States. To feed these! cows 60,000 acres of land are under cultivation. The ag riculture and I dairy machinery and implements in use are worth over ftjvo million dollars.! The men employed in the j business numbpr ; 750,000 and the horses over lone million. The j cows and horses consume annually 30,000,000 tons of hay, nearly yu,uuu,uoo busnels of corn meal. about ! the same amount of nat- meal 275,000,000 bushels of oats, 2,000,000 bushels of bran and 130,000,000 bushels of corn, to say nothing of the brewery grains, sprouts and other ques tionable feed -of various kinds that are used to a great extent. It costs $450,000,000 to feed these cows and horses. The average price paid to the laborer neces sary to the dairy business is prpbably $20 a month, amount ing to $180,000,000 a year. The average cow yields about 450 gallons of milk a year, which gives; a total product of 5,700, 000,000 gallons. Twelve cents a gallon isa I fair price to esti mate the value of this milk at, a total return to the dairy farm ers of $810,000,000, if they sold all thir milk as milk. But fifty per cent. of. the milk is made into cheese and butter. It takes twenty-seven pounds of milk to make; one pound of butter, and about! ten pounds to make one of cheese. There is the' same famount of i nutrition in eiVht and a half pounds of milk that there is in one pound of. beef. A fat r steer furnishes fifty: per cent, of boneless beef,! but it would require about 24,000,000 steers' weighing: 1.500 Dbunds each, to produce the same amount of nutrition as the an nual milk product does." j These are pretty large! figures notwithstanding the omission or tne items ot chalk and water privileges in where! water dry districts, or works water is erolden cosmetic used, and the frpmnfirtt.l the complexion of butter. From -LUxie. ... ii "The Same Old Jim." The ultimate evident of vnlnp m a religion must be in its fruits or the! effects which it produces on the" temper and conduct of its adherents. ! Religion has its seat in the heart. No I amount of outside manipulation j can make a man a real Christian. Forms of faith, attention to rites and ceremonies, are no sure evi dences of a good man. Some of the worst men have served j the devil under the guise of devotion to God. Pharisees , and Jesuits are no better for! their long prayers and sanctimonious faces; under the deviltry still works their professional robes, and is sure, in due time, to burst to the surface in j a fiery nood. The I Canadian Indian: in his the blunt way, hit the nail on nead when, in disnntinc thpi Jesuit's doctrine of the efficacy of baptism, he said, "Not the face; the heart needs washing. Water! on face all go for nothing to j bad man. Jim Buck Tree bad as ever with strong! water. Baptize oh face do him ho good; he the jsame old Jim still!" The aim of jChfistianity is to' dispose of this old ; Jim. No holy water sprinkled on him will i do the work; the old man must be cast from the heart, and the new man renewed in the image of Qhrist introduced; " Christianity is eminently a heart-work. To be surd, heart religion will man ifest itself in external cjoriduct; but it iniist be first in the heart. The heart is the matter of first lmportance.Zion's Herald. j The Jews of New York pro - fib pose to) erect a mission building to cost $200,000, and a fair is to be held in aid of the project. It is said 25,000 Hebrew immi grants J arrive in :New York yearly,! of whom 20,000 remain m the about 100,000 of them in th down-town districts, thrf f ion of - a j large proportion j of whom it is the duty of their more fortunate and enlightened brethren to better. In the new uuiiumg win oe esiaonsned a jiiuuerganen, maustriai glasses nee leuji-uresi nuraries ana in struction m various klepart ments. r HEVIK OF THE QUARTER. r: .l.b-L ( LESSON Xl, THIRO QUARTER, INTER NATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. 29 The Story ot the Life of SamneL the Choice of Saal, the Anointins of David, the : Touiis Shepherd, and the Final End of Saul, i : ' - ; The lessons that have been considered dur ing the quarter just brought to a close have covered one Of the most ; important eras of the history of the chosen people of. God. . i Lesson I had to do especially with the call ing of Samueli by the Most li'Tgh. Samuel was the son of Elkanah j and his wife Han nah, to whom he had been given by the Lord in answer to Hannah's prayer. And accord ing to the vow of his mother the life of Sam uel was devoted to the service of God. He was placed in the hands of Eli, the priest, as soon as he ha4 been weaned, and when the sons of Eli had scandalized the people and offended the Lord with their wickedness, he was selected to be Eli's successor. Now "the word of the Lord was precious ra those ! days. j There had been "no open vision" before that vouchsafed to Samuel for a long time. Perhaps herein lies one of the most valuable lessons of the quarter a lesson for mothers. J.f you would raise up your sons to be mighty men before the Lord, de vote them to God's service from the first. In Lesson II was told the sorrowful death of Eli and the humiliating defeat of Israel a defeat j that can be clearly traced to diso bedience' of God's command. Israel had at this time fallen away somewhat from the worship of the one God. But when a war arose between Israel and the Philistines, Israel called upon Jehovah for help. But how? The sacred ark of the coveuant was taken from Shiloh, where its place was in the Holy of Holies, to the Held of battle. But the command of the Most High had been vio lated; God did not fight with the Israelites and they were defeated, for the Philistines were desperate and fought with a fury that carried all before them, i And it is now as it was then if you desire the Lord to help you in the constant contest with the j worldyou must obey Him. ' : In Lesson III we were told of the repentance of Israel and the rescue of His people, after twenty years' punishment, out of the hands of the Philistines by the Lord of Hosts. "And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel." In Les son IV is ifecorded the action of the Israel ites in demanding a king. Samuel had grown old and his sons had been made judges of the people. These sons had done even as had the sons of Eli before; them; "they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes and per verted jujstice." But this was no just excuse for the Israelites in their demand for a king. God had, Appointed the method of govern ment for His people, and there is no doubt -but He, in His own good time and in His own way,! would have corrected the abuses the people suffered ancKpunished those by whom the abuses came. But nothing would satisfy the Israelites short of a king, and so as we are told in Lesson V they were given one in the person of SauL Saul had been sent to find some domestic animals that were lost; he failed, and at last sought out Samuel, the man of God. Sam uel had been warned of the coming of Saul, and had been told of God that Saul should be the king whom the Israelites desired. Saul was a "goodly young man," tall and strong -a. king in appearance just what the Israel ites desired. God was about to try His peo- pie to give them -an opportunity to learn that His ways were best. But even when Saul had been ; shown to the people as he whom the Lord would have to be their king, they rejected him, and deridingly asked: "Shall Saul reign over us?" But Saul de livered them out of the hand of the Ammon ites, and then they were convinced. In Lesson VI we studied the last address of Samuel, that wonderful speech of the pro phet in which he reviewed before the peo ple the history of their, nation, and set out to them the everlasting doctrine that true prosperity and unalloyed happiness only come to those who serve God sincerely. In Lesson VH we learned how the Lord finally rejected Saul because of the diso bedience of the latter. God had told him to spare noli the " Amelekites or their cattle or goods, but Saul had saved Agag, the king, alive, and had kept alive the "best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good." These he had preserved for the use of himself, and God told Samuel that this was displeasing to Him. "Behold," said the prophet, "to obey is better than to sacrifice." Saul, rebuked by the man of God, became repentant. But it was too late, : In Lesson' VIII we are told of the anoint ing of David as the "chosen of the Lord. When Samuel saw Eliab, a son of Jesse, who was tall and strong and of regal bearing, he said in his heart that here was the future king, but God said not so. "The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh upon the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the: heart." Oh, blessed assurance, j that is and will be ever kept in remembrance by them that love God! ' ; ! David, the shepherd boy; David, the youngest; David, whom Jesse had not thought worthy to be brought before the prophet he was the chosen one. Truly, God's ways are not the ways of men. 1 In Lesson: IX is told the story of the killing of Goliath by this youngest son and shep herd, David, who went out before the two armies to meet the most mighty man of the Philistines. . ! ; i Nothing in all the Old Testament is in its way more affecting than the story of David and Jonathan, which was the subject of Les son X. Saul had become jealous of David, for had not the women sung: Saul hath slain his thousands! iAnd David hath slain his ten thousands t Saul swore to be the death of David, but the i bond of brotherly affection , between David and Jonathan saved the shepherd boy. In Lesson XI is told the story of David's great heartedness when he had Saul in his power. David's magnaniy was prompted by & two fold motive. He would not smite a sleeping man. JHe was too truly brave to do so cowardly an act. Besides, Saul was still Lord's anointed.. ! And in Lesson XII is told the story of the last days of SauL The king had wept the tears of the crocodile when, as told in the previous lesson, he affected to be reconciled to David, and he had continued his pursuit of the'shepherd boy. But now Saul was to receive his punishment. "War was raging be tween the Philistines and the Israelites, and it went not well with the latter. Saul saw that defeat, bloody, ignominious defeat, stared him in the face, and he feared to meet it. To run away would be to court additional igno miny. And besides he would inevitably be captured in the end and be put to death with indignities, j So he died the death of the cow-' ard he killed himself. His sons were dead before him, and his death was but the culmi nation of the defeat that had for the time come upon IsraeL How great is the lesson taught in this ter ribly sad ending of the career of the jrtest goodly man of all IsraeL the man chosen of God to be king over'llis people I THE I ! . 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