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VOLUME XVIII.
FRANKLIN. N. C.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 27, 1003.
NUMiilSn 22.
A CRITICISM
with I ten a Bcl-nce, or aa Ethics, or a
Plan,
Or an y thing Instead of Just aa ordinary
man.
It I woro but a Dootrlne, mine would be
vr"ver lot,
Ot I 6ini(ri.inujliKhte4 were I Jut a
i Higher '1 nought
For thnn tha men ol millions would be
handing out the chucks
To aid tu saviug ma (torn ail the hindrances
that Tax. - -
" '."-' " '"
I wish I were a System, or a Volley, or
Chair,
Tot some o a would endow ma, and my
prospects would be fair)
If I could be aa Issue, or a Iheory, I
know
The money to suppottfnt would Immediate
ly flow;
Or, were I not a common man, bat some-
thing like a Fund,
1 know by all the plutocrats I should not
then be shunned. ' .
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LIFE'S LONG SHADOWS.
The Story of a
iuuiiaiuiiijuiaiaaiiuiuiu
' The following story was related to
me by a Russian gentleman, at whose
bouse I spent a few weeks last sum
mer. He bad been In the employ of
his government for soma years as an
; Inspector ot prisons, and It was on
' the occasion of one of his official tIs
, Its Jo the famous convict establish
., rnant at Tobolsk -that be beard the
stoty from tho.lips ot an old man, who
f had spent upward of" 40 years In pris
1 -on. Substantially it ran aa follows:
i "Many years ; ago how many, I
"' cannot tell you, sir I was living on
the outskirts of the thriving little
y 'town of Veins, In Russian Poland. . I
Iwss a blacksmith by trade, and my
' forge a,tood at the angle ot two cross
t roads, about a mile from the centre of
jthe town. Adjoining It was my cot
: tage, the neatest and prettiest little
homestead in all that countryside.
' Many there were who envied me my
lot, and, Indeed, It was an enviable
me, for few prospered as I did, and
-" rould boast a happier home. .
""-n married two years
1 to a boy a
1 -ui N-s'ho,.as
time went On. grew a siuiuy"..ignt-
eyea uiue leuow, tee aarung oi c
hearts, and the brightest jewel In our
crown of happiness. What he was to
me.no wor&s can tell. I know only
. that he became the very light of my
, life, and when some childish ailment
' , checked tor a brief space his merry
prattle I was like to go mad with
grief and fear so bitter was the
thought that aome day, perhaps, he
might be taken from me.
' One day I was at work when
heard a troop ot cavalry approaching
. the forge at full gallop Laying aside
my hammer I went over to the halt'
door to catch a glimpse of them as
they rode by. The leading files bad
already passed when a piercing shriek
rent the air and froze the very mar
row In my bones my heart stood
still. Oh, God! can I ever forget the
fearful sight . that met my gate,
see It now, as plainly as on that day
my darling, my heart's idol, and his
angel mother, side by side on the
dusty road, ' trampled, to death by
those cruel hoofs, 'With a terrible
cry a cry such as only a man infu-
, riated to the pitch of madness, can
tittor-I snatched up my hammer, and
J'lig It around my bead, rushed
ufa Jt gdiaitTg, ulaL dismounted
it J - t. ...a V tt -j?ftrj
moub
and gathered about the promote- and
mangled forms of my darlings. A
panic seized them ani they struggled
furiously to get beyond the reach of
my wild blows. One there was, how
ever, that essayed to close with me
and wrest the ' hammer frct my
grasp, but i hurled him to the ground
'ind struck him a blow, that, had It
fa!Jej.pn his bead, would have killed
m outright Happily for htm and
r my future peace of mind, his up
ised arm saved him; and before I
uid strike again one of his coin
cides dealt me a -blow that stretched
me beside him, bleeding and sense
less.' When I recovered conscious
ness I found myself lying on the floor
of a cell In the Vvison of Velna. ,
"Oh, the misery ot that awakening!
(low shall I describe It to yoa, sir
How describe the awful sense of des
olation that crept over me with the
first dawning 'of consciousness, and
o laid hold of me that I prayed, and
prayed with all my might, to die?
How describe' the tortures I suffered
wheq the remembrance of all that had
happened at the forge that day came
back to me with redoubled force, and,
flooding my soul with anguish, created
In ma a fierce thirst for revenge but
I cannot, I cannot. To realize my
misery you must suffer as I suffered,
love as I loved and that I pray you
neves- will. But let me continue my
Btory. The daylight had faded In my
cell, when two soldiers, bringing with
them food and drink, communicated
to me the intelligence that I was to
be tried on the morrow tor attempt
ing to kill one of His Majesty's
guards. I paid little heed to what
they said eo wrapped was I la the
bitterness of my thoughts and my
indifference angered them. "He is a
sullen dog," said one of them, and,
spurning me with his foot, passed a
cruel Jest that sent the hot blood
surging to my bead. Had I not been
bound I would have fallen upon blra
.and torn him to pieces, but they had
chained me to a ring In the wall, and
(strain aa I would, I could not reach
him. My ,, fruitless struggles but
nerved to amuse U"ra, and thoy joered
at me and taunted me with tha Impo
tenry of my rape, and so goaded mo
v : r 1 1 1 h 1 1 1 y of their Jests that
I was hiTiPVo go mad. When at
liin;ih they 1, 1 nalUflpd thcmpclvra
v.'1'li the cni"f rt they left me
1- rt me to the li..ir ' of a rt!-tpltxs
Ht, of a nijit fiik'.i ' mvU-s
.f rny di-ar ones and of iim t,
oily that had robbed me of !''; liinl
OF DESTINY,
It I were one of these things, why, the
outlook would be great;
They'd evn rote me money from the taxes
. of the State.
The good Bnancial fairies with their won-
der-worklug wds
Would soothe ma with a shower of their
currency and bonds.
If I were something I'sychlo, or a Social
Settlement,
I'd never need to worry over ooal or clothes
. or rent, - . .,
I wish I were a Microbe, a Bacillus, or a
Germ
A mtorosccplo wriggler Just a shy, oIubIto
worm
For then they'd spend their millions, and In
earnestness would strive -To
trace me out and feed me, and to help
me keep alive. - -
1 wish I wete a Belenoe, or aa Ethics, or a
Plan,
Or anything instead ot just an ordinary
manl
W. D. Hesblt, la Obloagb Ttlbunt,
Siberian Exile.
- iuiuiiiiaiuiuiuiiuuiuiui
heavy slumber, which lasted until the
guards appointed to take mo to the
place ot trial aroused me.
. "Heavily manacled, I was marched
through" tha streets to the court, and
as I passed through the crowd gath'
ered around its doors many were tne
words of pity for me I heard on every
side, and many the prayers that God
might comfort me and' have me in His
keeping. -.-...'
v Twill pass over . the scenes la
court-Mho testimony of the soldiers,
the hisses of the people when the
judge condemned me to a life ot penal,
servitude In the Siberian mines, and
their eagerness to catch a nearer
glimpse ot me when I passed, out Tt
my -way back to prison. ' The recital
would but weary you. The noxt day
I began by long and toilsome journey
to Siberia. ,
; "With many other exiles I was
marched through the town and out
Into the country by the road that led
past my forge. Long before we came
in sight ot It, I was straining my eyes
to catch a glimpse of the little home
stead I loved so well; but when
lentrth 1taVm Irt rl t fSight
, f nf-eantloh aiiu-wied In
a moment the eager throbbing of my
heart. Ah! What a sight was that!
Coming toward us, round a bend in
the road, jvas a tumbril, heavily
draped with black, and, following it.
a long procession ot men and wom
en, many of them weeping bitterly. A
mist blurred my vision and magnified
the tumbril until to my tear-Jlmraed
eye it seemed as a great black cloud
that wrapped the whole countryside
In its sorrowful folds. On me It cast
Its darkest shadow, and I cried to the
guards to kill me and lay me beside
my dear ones, for there was not on
God's fair earth one more desolate
than L - But they only cursed me for
a madman and lashed me with their
whips to trrgo me forward., V .
"The tumbril was almost abreast of
us when the mourners recognized me,
and a great cry of compassion went
up from all, for they knew bow It had
been with mo, and their hearts were
sore to see mo treated thus in the
presonce of my doad; and moved by
a common impuse, they broke in upon
our ranks, and, clo3ing round .me, bore
me, despite the frantic strivings of
the guard, to the tumbril's side. One
passionate kiss on the shell that hid
my darling from my eyes, one fierce
cry of vengeanco on the' authors of
my misery and I knew no more. .
"When I came to myself I was ly
ing at the bottom , of the wagon In
which tho guards carried their, food
and ; equipment The tumbril and
mourners, the familiar countryside
all had gone and naught save the
tolling band of- human misery, the
poor Siberian llos, was In view. "
I will not dwell on the details of
that terrible Journey. ' Suffice It to'
say that we reached Tobolsk, after
months of incredible suffering and
privation, a smaller band by many
than when we left Velna. Death had
been merciful to the weak, and Jeft
only the strong to suffer. And terri
ble, Indeed, were our sufferings dur
ing the first years of Imprisonment,
for a cruel man governed ua. and
ntled us with a rod jot iron.
One day, while we were at work,
a fellow prisoner told me that a new
warden had arrived at the prison, and
would be on duty for the first time
that night I paid but little attontlon
to what h said, and when night fell
and I was locked in my cell I had for
gotten all about It It was the night
warder's duty to Tislt the cells every
hour, commencing at 10 o'clock. On
that particular night I was more than
usually restless. It was the anniver
sary of that fatal day at Velna, and I
paced my cell with ever quickening
steps as recalled, one by one, the
events of that terrible time. The J
prison clock struck 10, and I paused
a moment to listen for tne familiar
grating of the .bolts at the end of the
corridor as- thd warder entered to
make his usual round. But every,
thing was silent. I waited a few mo
ments, and then resumed my walk.
The quarter struck, and still no' war
der came. Then I recalled What my
fellow-prisoner had told me, and I saw
how it was. The man was now to
his dutlos, and, like enough would
not come at all. But even as the
thought paaaed through my mind I
heard the bolU grating In their soc
kets, and, a few moments later, some
one stumbled up the stops that led
from the corridor to my coll and fell
heavily against the floor. With an
oath ho ri covord himself, and, unlock
ing the door, Hung It-wide open.
'The dim ll".ht prevented meat first
from seeing his face, but I knew from
his heavy breathing and iiiili.tin't
Unit lie bad ben dripl.ing.
made as though he would draw his
sword, but I rushed upon him like a
wild beast loosed from Its cage, and,
m-nt.llM .l(t. vt t.tm n 1..
tni;ii,i!5 nnu Mini, xuiiciu uiiu uiv j
wards down the Bteps. He raged and
swore at me, and struck me with th
heavy keys which ho held In his hand
until the blood streamed down my
face and nigh blinded me; but I clung
the more tightly to dim, and, putting
my foot behind him, tripped him and
threw him heavily to the ground. His
bead struck the stone floor with stun
ning force,' and he resisted no longer.
With a glad Cry t sprung to my foot;
and, snatching the sword from his
side, fell back a pace that I might
give greater force to my blow. Nerv
ing myself with the thought of all I
had suffored in the past, I was about
to strike when I felt the light touch ol
a hand on my arm.
"Great Godl What did I scet Stand.
Ing besldo mo. In a radiance of light
that soemod in a moment- to melt th
black shadows enveloping my heart,
was my darling boy, with a look ol
mingled reproach and compassion bn
his pure young face that blotteJ
from my mind all further thought ol
evil. With a cry of shame I throw
the murderous weapon from my hand
and falling on my knees, wept bitter
tears of sorrow, and thanked the good
God who had sent hiui to save mt
from the commission of that hateful
deed. Then a blessed calm, such as I
had never known before, fell upon my
spltlt, and I raised tay eyes to the
bright figure above me. A heavenly
smile lit up his angelic face, as if in
approval of tho change his presenct
bad wrought In me and he was gone.
Klsing up 'a new man, I went Into my
cell,, and bringing forth a pitcher oi
water, bathed ths temples of the
prostrate guard and moistened his
jips. Gradually he returned to con
sciousness, and when he was suffi
ciently recovered, I handed him his
sword, and kneeling before him,
begged forgivenoss for the Injury I
had done hint and the still greater
wrong I had meditated against him.
But with muttcrod threats and curses.
hef spumed me from him, and bid
me enter my cell, locked the
me and left me.
"Tho next day I
the governor a "
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knouted.
. "A so"
prono'
eon
rlson
crV'
wrists
Aalwart
jt hands.
r
uimencea
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dosct
, ruel thong
and lapped
around
dy no words
ed With' ths
can es
r
agony aii
to kill me
them in mercy
But they lashed
me the mor
was at the point
I , felt the light
of swooning
touch on my arm that had already
spared me a worse punishment, and,
looking tip, beheld my boy beside me.
"As his tender, compassionate eyes
met mine the pain of the ' scourging
ceasod, and I felt not the blows they
rained down on my bleeding shoul
ders. - Lifting his hand,, he directed
my attention to a spot some few
yards ahead and there I beheld a
strango sight . '
"Bound to an iron pillar, with his
face turned from us, was another
prisoner, his two ahovlder bared and
livid from the blows that had already
been showered upon them. As ' I
gazed on the cruel sight the prison
walls' melted before my eyes and I be
held, as in a vIbIou, the whole world
spread out before mev And I say
myriads of people men. women and
children of all sorts and conditions
flocking from every point toward .the
pillar' where the poor prisoner was
tied. And as thoy drew nearer I saw
that all oven the children bore
scourges in their hands, with which,
aa they passed the pillar, they smote
with reluctance, as If urged on
by those behind. Others, and they
were numberless, smote with all their
might and with malice Inconceivable,
while others again turned and smote
more fiercely than before. '. One there
was. who riveted my attention by the
eagerness with which he pressed on
to the pllrar, and by the revolting ex
pression of his countenance. Never
bad I seen so much malice and hatred
delivered with one blow as whon he
struck those now fleshloss bones. 1
cried aloud with horror at the sight
and strained to burst my bands, that
I might tear b!m to pieces, so Infuri
ated was I by his brutality. And In
that moment both he and tho Victim
of his malice turned and looked at
me ami ai heart sank within me. -"In
-that "raging bruto whom I had
cursed and tihngercd to tear I beheld
none other than myself, and In his
"victim the man of sorrows the mas
ter of all. ',
"Then tho vision faded and I found
myself lying on a bed in the prison
hospital. I had been unconscious,
they told me, for many hours' , t-.
vore had beea tho punishment i nkd
suffered at tho hands of the wardors.
"When I was well enough' I re
turned to ray work, and thenceforth
my life was a happier one. The one
short glance of divine forgiveness
which the master had deigned -to cast
on mo at tho pillar changed my whole
life, and gave me new hopes of a bet
ter one hereafter of a glad reunion
with those I ba4 loved long since lost
a while-
For many years I have waited for
that happy day of emancipation, and
I know now that It cannot be far off
nay, that it is very near. Often, of
late, I have heard fragments of the
most beautiful music that over rav
ished the car of man. and today mv
cell has linen tilled with its iilorlena
melodioH. Iinrk! There, asriin! Do
you not hear it lntnier and more Joy
ous? And sw tho li;:iit! Tim V- -lit
of heaven! How it tnnHs ami Iims
me up. And my d.irliin 1 ;,. v
beeliou tiio Willi out;;ui'ti le d arn
at bust! At last!"
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Sheep Culture,
Sheep culture has many advantages
over cattle raising, as also over dairy
ing. There is a necessity ot sheep
husbandry for meat production. ' The
rapid increase ot population, the scar
city and Increasing price of beef, and
the inferiority ot pork In healthfulness
and nutrition, tend to ths increase of
mutton eating- And it Is not ths re
sults in the economy ot meat and wool
alone, we may add, but from an eco
nomical standpoint In feeding the soil
&0 factor In its wealth occupying a
mors prominent position than sheep.
This has been tested, ind will bt
found to be most valuable In its ap
plication to all the economics of farm
establishment and development
. Loss of Material In Soils. - '
tu estimating the value ot a crop we
should endeavor to Include in its cost
not only the labor but the material
taken from the soil la Its production.
Estimating a crop ot potatoes from an
acre at 400 bushels, and a crop of corn
at 60 bushels, the former will remove
from ths soil 135 pounds potash, 43
pounds phosphoric acid and 04 pounds
nitrogen, while the corn will take away
134 pounds potash, 49 pounds phos
nhorlo acid and .W pounds nitrogen, It
will cost more, then, to produce the
400 bushels of potatoes than the 60
bushels of corn, but with corn at tl
per v bushel and potatoes 'at 25 per
bqshel, twice as much is derived for
the potatoes as for tho corn, eve
the low price for potatoes
to the above, it costswrearly tw-uiuch
to produce one Jknshol of ccn as to
produce eigtiWushels of poritoes, and
yet there are timf whenA bushel ot
potatoes is worth as miith' In market
'fa bushel of corn, while the labor
A production i nearly sqaal. 1 '
Strawberries vs. Cows. .
The figures that show the roginal
cost of an acre of strawberries up to
the time of fruiting are disappointing
to look at by a mart about to begin tha
culture ot the strawberry. It is hard
to convince him that he can ever get
his money back. . The same is true in
the dairying business. If ths farmer
could b shown what It cost him to
grow up a cow to the age of full milk
production, and again what he has to
put into that cow every yar in the
form of material that could be con
verted into cash without feeding It to
tho cow. It would discourage him, and
yat there art many men who make
more than a living from dairying. . I
bar milked cows ever tines I was t
yean old, and have been In the straw
berry business for JO yeart now,-; I
eaa truthfully say that I would rather
have i the net profits, on an average
from year to year, from an acre of
strawberries, cared for as t know how
to care for them, than the actual net
profits from the best 10 cows in the
stata of New Terk. When you get
above 10 cows you either bsvt to hire
a man or have you wife milk. If you
hire a man it takes all 10 more cows
will make the best you can do, to pay
tor tha hired man. ; '
t havt always advised the farmer to
keep the cows because they are neces
sary to preserve the fortuity of the
soil; keep 20 of them it possible, and
a hired man also, but in order, to get
ahead he should have an acre or so of
either strawberries, raspberries or
some similar crop to bring lq a lump
of money all at one time to nse in pay
ing for ths place, .to pay debts or what
ever luxuries the farmer can afford.
I contend that no farmer can be np to
data In his manner of living and make
It from a dairy atone. You can go
without things thai a farmer ought to
have, and pay tor a farm with a dairy,
but you cannot live as farmers ought
to live in this age unless you get the
money from some other source than
the dairy ot 15 cows, -two silos, feed
cottonseed meal, gluten, eta., and get
25 cents the year round for butter.
I J. Farmer, in Rural New Yorker.
Ptrrn Separator Cream.' ; a
Farm separators hare been ' intro
duced faster than the spread of knowl
edge regarding the requirements to
run them properly. Arid yet It is the
easiest of all farm machines to man
age when one knows how, and any
bright farmer boy can soon loarn. But
he must first learn, either from one
who knows, or by experience, and the
latter alone sometimes costs too much.
When a private dairyman- buys a sep
arator the result is almoM universal
ly satisfactory, but thousands have
been sold witnin two years to creamery
patrons, and dissatisfaction of patrons
and of factory owners often results.
The farmer complains chiefly about
the test of his cream. He cauiiuir-see
why a teat one week or ono day Is re
ported but two-thirds as much as the
previous .time. : There are several
causes for variation of the test The
speed Of turning affects the richness
of the cream. The faster It is run the
greater the centrifugal force and the
pressure on the outslcto of the bowl,
consequently tho greater the propor
tion which will be delivered as skim-
milk. The slow motion allows more
to flow from the central purts of the
bowl, and more miik will go out with
the cream, Whon turned by hand, as
moat of them are, this variation may
always be expected. , When run by
tread power, steam or gasoline engine,
S mnrA linlfiirm Rnepd la nb'iihied nml
in my im bo I ! 1 i r 1 v f t
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5 1 left t lilt I 1
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ir.i.k the f s --r it dl i t t- t
m:u ion", li i i i i! r i .. i
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form speeJ and have the milk uniform1
and the temperature tho same every
day. But uniformity. Is not really es
sential '
A more serious charge Is that made
by some creamery men. This Is
garding the-quality of tho cream, for
making butter of tint flavor.' Al
though the private dairy men make
butter of Una flavor, and some cream
eries make good butter from farm sep
arator cream, some creamery men ob
ject moBt rigorously, and others pos
itively refuse to receive the cream.
Two reasons exist for this poor quail-J
ty of farm separator cream. Too long
time between deliveries, and: mixing
warm cream with old cream. In or
der to sell the machines, somo unscru
pulous agents have old farmers that
l-that once a week delivery was all
right . This Is not true. Private dairy
men can churn but twice a week and
make good 'butter, but farm separator
cream should go every day , In bad
weather, and onco in two days at oth-.
er times, to the' creamery.
The farmer who has used deep set
ting and skimmed the cream directly
Into cream from a former skimming
found that It worked all right, and to
he naturally follows ths same course
with bis separator cream. But this Is
a fatal mistake.- The deep setting
cream was cold when skimmed; the
farm separator cream Is warm. Mixing
warm milk or cream with milk or
cream which Is on hand afways makes
trouble. The germs lying nearly dor
mant in the 'old milk or cream are
stirred Into activity when warm mi'
or cream Is added, and a stale, nau
seous flavor results. All that Is nec
essary is to cool the cream before mix
ing with older cream and keep the
crctra f!btd until " delivered at the
creamery. Then, -good butter can.be
made E. C. Bennett, Iff American. Ag
riculturist.
Fruit Trees In Spring.
Tho orchards of this country have
received more consideration during the
pastt decade' than for a century previ
ous. Crops of apples wee formerly
allowed to waste on the ground, the
trees were not protected from Insects,
and the quality ot the fruit was a sec
ondary matter, while overbearing was
considered a fortunate occurrence. It
is difficult to convince fruit growers,
however, that ft is to their advan
tage to thin the fruit off the trees, and
in that respect they suffer a loss which
could easily be avoided. It is main
tained that the amount of fruit on a
tret may be regulated In two branches
tree may be regulated In two ways
by pruning away a part of the branches
to prevent the formation of too much
fruit or by picking Off the superflu
ous fruit as soon as possible after 11
js formed. With such fruits as grapes,
raspberries, blackberries , and the like
pruning is ' preferred, as i( is more
easily done than by picking off tb
fruit In the case of currants and
gooseberries) which are, as a rule,
pruned less ' severely ' than grapes,
raspberries and blackberries.' thinning
might be an advantage. - With cur
rants the removing of the tips of the
stems gave 15 percent mcro berries to
the cluster, and the separate berries
were 7 percent heavier on the thin
bushes than on the others. There is
also the attractiveness of the fruit in
market, which must not be overlooked,
as the appearance has much to do with
tht prices obtained.
. It seems like a sacrifice to deliber
ately remove the fruit from the tree,
yet at the Hatch station tha yield of
Gravpnsteln apples on the trees that
had been thinned by hand was nine
bushels of first quality fruit one bush
el second quality and 101-2 bushels
windfall. On other varieties the trees
that had been thinned ot fruit gave
two bushels of choice fruit, while the
unthlnned trees gave none at all. Tho
market value of the- fruit on the trees
that had been thinned was from two
to 11 times as much as that from the
others, the net gain ranging from 85
cents to St85 per tree. Tbe results
with plums were very similar to those
with apples regarding the Increased
production of fruit A tree each of
Gucl and Victoria plums was divided
Into approximately equal halves, one
half being thinned and the other half
being loft ga. a check. Tbe thinned
halt of the 'Gucl tree yielded, nine
quarts of marketable fruit and tbe un
thlnned half five and a half quarts.
The yield of marketable fruit from the
thinned and unthlnned halves of the
Victoria tree was 16 quarts and nine
and a half quarts respectively, the net
gain due to thinning being 20 cents
and 41 cents respectively. Another
remarkable result affected by disease;'
The- advantages ot thinning fruits
from the trees are many. Thinning In
creases the Blze of tho, ftult, gives more
color and also fetter flavor. It di
minishes the proportion of windfalls,
Increase -the amount of first quality
fruit and tbe total yield Is larger.
tfhile a higher price per, bushel Is ob
tained. It lessens thoinount of rot,
especially In the case of peaches and
plums, since the disease ran spread
lass easily where the fruits do not
touch each other. Thinning also tends
to keep all Injurious Insects In. check,
as care Is taken tto remove all Infect
ed fruit. Another point is that it
weakens the tree more to preduce large
quatitlcs of Inferior fruit than to yield '
U,e same quantity of ll?t quality
In btiKhels, as the extra amount of
seeds In the more numerous apples,
peadies, plums, etc., taxes the trees
eevcrHy. It Is well known that many
trees that are overloaded one year sel
dom bear the next, but by reducing
the ork required of the trees It is
posr-lble to have a crop every year.
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KH tLOQUlNTANO CONVINCING DIS.
COURSE ENTITLEf 'flMMORTAUTY."
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rne Rev. M. Cl.UHMt.r Deliver, a Cam
fortius Massace to Those Who Ave
Wavering la tbe Belief in Kegard
a Lit Evarlutinf. '
New YonR Crfr. In the Church of the
Messiah, Brooklyn, Bundsy morning, the
reotor, the Rev, St. Clair Hester, preached
on "Immortality The Longing for It, 1'roj
nnwd Ktihititutra. Man'e Iinzht to It.
The text was from Job ivl 14i "If s mad
lie shall he live onain?" Mr. Hester said:
The irrepressible, ubiquitous question,
repeated again and again, world without
end. Men like Job were asking it centut
iee before Christ, and -men like Job ere
asking it centuries after Christ. It is in
vested with perpetual youth and the world
ever tires of hearing answers to it.
A father afflicted by the lose of his only
eon in ths morning of a beautiful youth
writes a book entitled "Life Beyond
Death.' His dedication is a letter to his
boy, beginning, "My Dear Phil," and clos
ing with Ihese words: "God bless you, my
boy, till the eyes which I closed I see open
tgam and looking into mine. Lovingly,
father." This ie the answer of one in
grief. Under similar circumstances could
you, would you, want to give any different
answer? A Wife bewails the sudden ue
roaw, nf htvr hiishnnd.' fthe finds tffnat OOBl
fort in reading through ill sermons and
gathering from them and publishing every
sentenoe that been on the subject of
meeting again in the world to come. Her
heart is constantly singingl
- ''Soul of my soul, we shall meet tgaln,
And with God be the rest." .
Tim is the answer 'of one in loneliness
buoyed up by confident anticipation. Who
tu such a noiition could or would want te
"tive any different answer! 1 ' " "
. Tha' tiuiitirnte ot mm oyt tne suoiecs re
peated, wiVi-rffii reaffirmed thrown thou
sands of yeua opituraan history, form an
accumulstion ot A lence from which it is
difficult to CHt-n dence that Eains em
phasis by its ion, evidence that
arouses deep' ''ar the very earnest-
ness of its ' ---i'ie answer of Jesus
Christ ' Jj answer that entirely
iatislir -tun mind and bean, it
mm. amid rejoicing, melody and
nn Kn,ii Ah.t in all the churches. -
The echoes ol KSatfr have not yet died
out. Theh-soul .'has cefTir!tKJl the world
and their words unto tha ends ol
1 he echoes that come from the rock-bewn
tomb within the Garden of Jcieph of An
mathea are not like those we shout among
cuns ana canyon wans that gradually fatt
en and die away. They are within the
realm of the spiritual world and they in
crease rather than, diminish. They grow
from soul to soul, front the soul of the risen
Christ to the souls Chat believe in Him,
and so they grow forever and forever.
If Christ eiotie of all who live or havt
lived upon the earth is to live again after
death, the resurrection of the first Easter
day is nothing more than an amaiing exhi
bition of Almighty power which while it
impresses tie it correspondingly depresses
us because it emphasises the diffefence be
tween us and Him and makes ns despair of
ever attaining unto such exaltation. If
this re your feeling His rising was to no
purpose, our preaching ie vain, Christian
ity u a cruel system of deception and we
are of all' men most miserable. But the
truth is His rising was a promise and
pledge i us of ours. He was the first fruit
of them that sleep.- .-y
First ol all let me ask it it a fact that
men desire 'to live again ! Emerson tells
the story of two members of the U. 6. Sen
ate Who were fond of discussing specula
tive questions. Whenever possible they
would meet and find relaxation in convers
ing on subjects other than shop. Their fa
vorite topie was the immortality of the
soul, but they could never find any satis
factory reason for believing it. They sep
aratea and one retired te A distant Bute.
After twenty-five years they met at
crowded reception in the White House.
They shook hands cordially, and standing
to one side for a moment one of then
asked, "Any light, Albert?" "None," wne
the reply. After a pause tht other asked,
"Any light, Lewis? ' The answer again
was "None." They shook hands again,
looked one another in tbe eye in siiei.ee'
and parted, never to set each otb-j- again.
Emerson's remark upon the incident is
that the impulse that prompted fwse men
to try to find proofs of immortality wri it
self the strongest of all proof. In my opin
ion Bmerson was right.
Yea, men do desire t live again. They
ere not afraid to die, to have the body de
stroyed; many of them, but thev shudder
at the idea of annihilation, of becoming
nothing more than a breath of air or a
pinch, of dust.- Even the barbarian and
the savage believe in .a future life, that
somehow the thinking soul may escape the
wreck of the unthinking body. In all prob
ability, it is an idea that irrew out of tht
phenomena of dreams. While man sleeps
hit- other self wanders away at will, and
something like this may happen, he les
soned, when death, the long sleep, comes
to him. In after and higher stages of cul
ture tha conception of immortality was at
first t sad and depressing one. The Sheol
of the Jewi. the Hades of the Greeks, the
Orcus of the Roman, were abodes of
shades, shadows, ghost and such a futuro
could only be regarded with fear and dis
like. But in time man began to surmise
that perhaps the next life might be an im
provement upon this one. The analogies in
nature around him rave a strong suggestion
to this effect. The snake casts its skin end
glides forth in a new and better one. The
beetle breaks awsy from its filthy sepul
cher and enters on a new career) and man
notices it and begins to hang golden senra
baei in his temples as symbols of his hope.
Winter retires and there comes a resurKC
tion of flower, foliage and fruits..-He sees
the silkworm weave it- cotoon and die
within it, and after a time come" forth clad
in brighter colors -and able to spurn the
earth on wjiieh it formerly crawled and ily
away and then he begins to carve buttcr
f I on tombstones and ventures to hope
that he may likewise be freed from the en
tanglements and delilements of earth aud
flesh and range in a (roar and happier state
the universe at will. All such similitudes,
and there are hundreds of them in nature,
help to strengthen man's conviction that
he will live again, make mors roseate tht
hope that he will survive the wreck ot iSe
universe. '
If a man die, shall he live axaiu? The
answer of Christianity is, "I believe in tho
resurrection of the body and the life ever
lasting." But this answer is not unani
mous. Modern skepticism and speculative
philosophy have, proposed, certain subiti
lutes for the faith once delivered. Kven
tliouirh tho comforting -doctrine of Chris
tianity be rejected men recoil from the
specter of eternal oblivion! They invent
new theories and call them by the old
sweet name of immortality, which means
continuation without break of the inuividj
unl life. One substitute proposed is ab
sorption into God, loss of conseiounness of
dilterence between self and another and
elts and Is loat in the cuflVe it sweetens,
jiint as the river nowlmr to the sea is swul
owed up in the great dcrp
Now tlm Iowa uf imlivniiiulity, personal
iilintify, selfhood, would lie a loss of eon-si:ioti--nrHa
nnd 1 h of cons- iou-nes
r"nvoiiid lie the loss of every! hint- of irnp'H-
tance. If 1 do nt know that I exist tins
is nrru'lie.il aiinihiiiifinn. and thin ooi-a not
at .ill meet or satniy the lir;nm of my na-
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Hon to this theory Is that tt mk iromor
ta'.ity the privilese of the few. fn Alex
anders, the Caesars, the Augustines, the
Washingtons, the geniuses, are all happily
provided for, but what of the many who
have written no beautiful books, who have
performed no heroic deeds, who have left
no inspiring examples? Are they to be
blotted out, punished for not having what
was never given them, for not having what
they could not possibly, get? Is immor
tality ttius t reward on y for the diytin
tniithed, the gifted Jew?' No, it a false
theory. It it pathetic -and surprising that
men of parts should have stooped to con
sole and flatter themselves in this fashion.
Famt alone, bt it ts great as that of an
cles or Luther, is not by itself a sufficient
and satisfying return'for the labor ita win
ning entai'lsi it certainly is not pay enough
for man's extinction, fame is something
left "behind anyway, and those of -is who
have no fame art like the drop of water
that dries up after it has fallen. This sub
stitute is puerile, wanting in dignity.
1,'he desire for immortality is tor appar
ent to be open to dispute. Tho savage and
the eiviliMd, the illiterate peasant and the
nrofoundest thinker alike want it to be to.
Kven whe.i eome have lost hope they dcire
it fondly as ever. Even when a man has
lost til hope tf living again lie tannot. rid
Jiimself of desire for Tt. That if ineradica
ble. Now hero is the sound and legitimate
conclusion. A desire so universal and per
sistent is the planting of the creative power
responsible for our existence. It is a man
ifest prophecy of What ehc'l be. , The ex
istence of an organ implicit the existence of
fluid for its onerntion this is an nxioin
of science. There would b no fins if- there
wert no water to nwim in, no wings u
there were no tir to fly hi, no feet If thert
were no earth to walk-on. Now here it
another eonnd and lcnitimate conclusion
what God promisee He pefo,rrn- ch1r;
sctcr is perfect. To hold any other
idea of Him would ba blasphemous or pre.
sumptuous. To implant this desirt and
irovide no means for its aratiHcatio-t would
bt a cruel deception. TJ make this prom
ise and not carry it out would be a breach
of trust as base at the squandering, on sel
fish pleasure of tho property the widow or
tht orphan confides to an attorney s man
agement. God bat not dealt so in any
other case: He is the rewarder of those
...I .I..!- .Mia In Tt am .. .
If a men die, shah ho live again As a
Chr st an 1 answer ye. uitouswji
Because be has a rijrttaJi? ".-Js"
God it just; Hjjfitcous artTSon in all
Uby wsy.ihtrfl&lmist sines. Borne inclint
to therilw that as retards God's dealings
man. the latter can havt no right,
That man is in the position of a beggar,
gl.d to receive tnvthing, bnt witliont any
legitimate claim. He must call npon God,
not because of any virtue in His character,
but because Vt is all powerful.. He made
us, wt are His creatures; therefore, He
may act toward us and do with us as He
pleases, we are duty bound to-rosy aim
t bi kindlv dlsnoscd toward Him but He
is nnder no sort of obligation to deal gen-
-erously or justly toward ua. All srnJi the-
vriee ana mierprntiMMjiiH arv ini,cp.i:o.i
tations of the divine character, actual
slanders upon God's goodness. God is a
father, and no father is at liberty to neg
lect, ill treat, degrade a child simply be
cause he it his own. , Indeed, this .very
fact is the strongest sort of reason that
he will do just the reverse. We all recog
nize apd respect the obligations of parent
blood. To care for the child's body, to
train its mind, to instill moral principle
into ita nature is incumbent upon everv
parent. Borne deny themselves tha high
privilege for fear of an inheritance of
weakness or disease, and thereby making
the life of a loved one miserable. It is tht
veriest sophistry, it is cruel misrepresenta
tion, to my mind it is unthinkable, that
imperfect man it of kindlier nature toward
his child than the perfect God toward His,
that tht finite is under compulsion to do
right, but the Infinite is not. On the con
trary, every rise in the seals of being de-m-irids
a corresponding rise in the scale
of obligations The wiser, the greater, tht
better off the parent, the happir his child
Is expected to be. The greater his ability
to do, the more ix ought to do.; This is
thu lesson of the parable of the. talents.
Vo one five, to another two, to another
nne," to tveri man according to hit several
abilities. JTatoroportion toV gift eo
ought the fain a te be. He who liat-hUlt
of him little is demanded. He. who has
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-mnch of him much te reauired. - this
tn immutable law of universal application.
" We are not mere objects stones, sticks,
shells but animate, intelligent beings, into
whom God breathes and builds something
that identifies t With Him and His natare.
The difference between God and man is
more in degree than in kind. The two art
of the same spiritual essence. There are
faculties the two have in common: Reason,
conscience, will, are specifications jn point.
Man is endowed with them and the consti
tution and course of nature reveal tlieir ex
istence in the workings of God. - By resem
blance of attribute and identity of life wt
are proven God's children. And will God
kilt Hit own children? kill' us before we
have fully realised what the life He hat
given is? We long for happiness and yet
we get comparatively little of it here. Wt
cherish an ideal of perfection and yet we
never attain it on earth
we are dui ne-
ginning to understand what grand and
noble thins life mav be when we have to
lie down and die. We are just e the point
of reaching the rewards for which we have
waited and toiled when tne end comes, ami
if we are ever to eniov them it must be in
another world. Now is God in all this and
all the while deceiving us? When we de
sire the bread of everlasting life will He
gtvt us the stont of everlasting death ? Af
ter we have prayed to Him, trusted in
mm, lutca up our nearrs to rum, inru
II is works to do, loved Hun and longed to
MS S2 "LrJZt
to Him with annihilation? If no
uil ,.nnA It on Ua im tint 3nd. If Srrm:
ie.oovGod. II so on the throne ot the uni
nru ur scatsd not a lovinn lather but a
jeering -fiend taunting us for our beiplcss-
ness ana oengnting in our misery. j.ukw
eousnesst eternal righteousness is against
any such supposition. It is not possible
that the devil is supreme. It is not possi
ble that man is mora kind, more humane
and considerate and sympathetic than the
Uod who made him. It is not possible
that lie who made conscience una no
conscience, it any I lung stands tne test oi
reason this does that He who implanted
the sense of justice within us must Himself
be just. Amid all the darkness the sor
rows, the riddles of existence, let us not de
spond or despair, let n look confidently
for the greatest gift, the gift (!od owes it
to Himself to bestow eternal life. -
"Jn all the maddening male of things .
And togsed by storm and flood.
To one fi-r-d stete my spirit clings
I know that God it good." ,
Thereore. He will never leave or for
sake us. either in this life or the world to
come. Let lis hold fast to this truth God
a uood and when the end eometli all win
be well with the soul. ,
Wlt.n si.'-Mi is snnlied inlernnllv tn er-cs
they give way ot a pressure of thirty-two
to sixty-hve nctiniis per square inch.
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A not froi.1 Rouen states that tht
Rouvel, the celebrated bell in the bel
fry of tho Town Hull, which rings the
curfew every evening from 9 o'clock
to a quarter past, Is craclted, and It Is
feared that further use may cause If
to full to pieces. The curfew has been
temporarily discontinued In conse
quence. The Rouvel (lutes from the
tlilrleenlli century, nnd Is gouernlly
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. ACTION8 AND WORC3 "
Here's t sentiment worthy to keep tb your
mind
At you travul through llfo, for it's tint yow
will Bad,
I That you're dot to much valued by what
joumsysny,
As by what you may do In a practical
i- way; '.. . - V
For unless yon perform what yoa say you
caa do, x ' -
Grate doubts will ariat that you're nonest
. tad true. - .k
Though your volet bt tt twtet at tht long'
of the birds.
Bemember, that actions speak lends than
woras.
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Nor would I discourage the message that
- cheers,
Of the prayers, or tht bleating ot sympa
thy's tears; '.. . .
They are always in order, they help In
their way :tJ
' To hasten the dawn of millennial day.
But a little mom gold sandwiched In w(th
jour prayers
Would banish more ttara and, .lighten more
-tares. ,
. Though your volet be at sweet as tht toag
of the birds,
. Bemember, that actions speak Loader than
I - words.'
,. - "-Bast's Horn, ,
i HUMOROUS."
diss Angora I. hare gold nrnug
my teeth , now Miss . Maltese You
have? Miss Angora Yes; just ate
the gold fish. 1 -
v Blobbt Ha doesn't ' know ' 'ctioagh
to come In out of the rain. jgBlobba
Well, he knows enough to always
have a borrowad umbrella;1 '
SUllcus Women always o to ex
tremes. Cynlcus That's right. It
they are 'not In the height of fushlon :
they are In tho depths of aespair:-
i Visitor So you kStontj
eight, eh(i iymiXtC:
what tmwrHr
psj-gpp--wKj mi. i. v vfta-e , uuuu;
slrj nursle to put mo to bed!
Miss Ann ToqueBut you ! don't
think marriage is always a game ot -chance?.
Jack ' Young No, Indeed;
some people have no chance at all
Mrs. Muggins Did sne marry well? :
Mrs. Bugglns Yes, Indeed,,. I under
stand that she has considerable dif
ficulty in spending all her alimony.
Wlgg--So she finally landed' him,
eh? How did she do It? Wagg She
told him her father had forbidden her
,to see him again, and the rest, was
easy; .";.:",'-i;" ' :, ' i A'fi'v
- Mrs. Z. Listen, George tho ! baby -Is
saying 'Oo-goo-Ja-boop-go!' What t
does it remind you ot?""vfr. Z.-r
"H'm? reminds me of a brakotaao..
calling out stations."
Tough Youth Say, I want ' to buy ,
some handkerchiefs fer a young lady.
Clerk PlalnT sTough : Youth Naw4
she ain't plain; an' I kin lick the man :
that says she Is.
- "'Was It a 'farewell tourf askod tht)
close friend. -"I should- tay-Bot," ro
sponded the heavy tragedian, who bad
been greeted with over-ripe vegetable ;
'1 never tared worse 'In my life."
"Why do Ketchem ft Co. stick tho
stamps on their letters upside down?
They must be crazy." , "Quito the op
posite. They wish to give people the .
Idea they are doing a rushing bush
.ness." ; ' f . A' -s -v rsf
"But," protested the plain citizen.
listignn: consider honesty, a good,
thing7"tte! " replied tho poliU
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ciaa. i3Ub 11 TUMI, suj guuu ujiugsr .
you're, got to make sorihoioney be -tore
you can, afford it."
! Host (In a low voice to his wlto?1
I have a fearful headache. Do get r! 1
of our guests as soon as ever yotf ' .
can. HostessWell, I cannot, put '
them out. Hoat No, my dear, but - -you
can play tht piano. ; . ' . , V"
"What in the world are' you doing?"
asked Mr. Horsefly. "Why, I am teach
ing my brood how to diet on gasoline," '
responded Mrs. Horsefly; "if they ex
pect to exist they must depend on
the automobile tor u living." . ;
; "f would like to find out how many
idle men there aro in town." VWell,
just start some laborers to digging a -sewer."
"But they won't be idle."
"No;"bui evefy Idle man In town wilt " '
tt ind around and watch them." ,
"Oh, excuse me for stepping on -your
feet," stammered - the blushing .
young maiden. i "Certainly!" respond
ed tho gallant young man; ."I only'
wlah T nnil mftnv foot AS ft fentl-
redo, and that vmxjrouJd step onthen.
Mr. Brisk I am going , to nialrj
your daughter, and I called to ask a
few questions about her financial
prospects. How do you stand? Mn
Bulky How do I stand? On two good;
feet, sir two good foet! ; Try one
(zip!) Try the other (zip!) How d
you ut "em, sir? -M r.r. -
. Gardening for an Invalid. f
Several years ago I found myself too
much of an invalid to be out in the
garden sowing needs and "with no' one
at my service who,ln-' my opinion,
could be trusted to do it for. A sum
mer without flowers was too dreary a
prospect to ba contemplated. I no
cured a half dozen wooden bo., ;
about the size of common soap box i
hand had them sawed so that th- -were
each four inches deep. Tin i
boxes Were so small that when filled
with soil they could be eattily lin. -i
about. I bad the boxes Ailed with n . '1
from the garden; and now Imagine r v
comfort as I sat at a table sowing n y
seeds! There) jfcre no cramped lm,
and aehlng back, as was usually t i
case when I had sowed myf wodi 1 .
the seed bed. I had that year es l
a display of annuals as I ever i
when the seeds wore Sown In the y
den, In splto of the fact that t
weather did not get warm enotii U f
It to be prudent for an Inve.lM I '
on the ground to triin.-i'lnnt t' i
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