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not foili my cleax idM in Boaton and Camkridga, and avary taiatloBt tMa Divloa time my taaohar and I stopped over and materiai morM. t lost in St^aahinftoa on onr way to or fram H 1 ■may timaa tn shadows and Whndannc back and the licht which was «s im^bUy reasaurinc and the chaos SKd4iaii3tass of nature that saemod so Vaal as not to be gainsaid. One day I waa made radiantly happy and hroui^t nearer tb a sense of God **I sratched** an. exquisite but- , just out of its cocoon, drying sHags in the sun. -and a^rward Mt it fluttering over a bmich of.trail- l||i iu^utus. Someone told me bow i&clent Egyptians had looked Ihe butterfly as an emblem of rtality. I was delighted. It to me as it shoukl be, that Vaeh beautiful forma of life should ive in them a lesson al^out things more lovely. Nevertheless, the Imme bun-ssw continued to worry mo iaatil one day a sudden flash of intui tion reevaled an infinite wonder to I had been sitting quietly In the library for half an hour. I tumad -to my- teacher and said, “Such a attmnge thing has happened! I have been far away all this time, and 1 haven't left the room.” “What do you mean, Helen?” she asked, surprised. -Why,” I cried, “I have been in -Athem.” Scarcely were the words •ot ot my mouth when a bright, atmacing realization ceemed to catch ay mind and set it ablaze. I per ceived the realneas of my sonl 'and its ahesr independence of all condl- tiotts of place and body. It was clsar to me that it was broause I was a qiirit that I had so-vividly “seen” and Mt • place thousands of miles away. Space was nothing', to spirit I In that ■MW consciousness shone the Presence U Oed. Himself a Spirit everywhere at onoe, the Creator dwelling in all the universe simultaneously. The fact that my little soul could reach •ut over continents and seas to Greece, despite a blind, deaf, and stumbling body, sent another exulting amotion rushing over me. 1 had broken through my limitations and Connd in touch an eye. I could read |tha Gwoghts of wise men—thoughts xwUdi .had for ages survived their Soovtal life, and could possess them part of myself.. If this were true, bow much more could God, the un- dreoinscribed Spirit, cancel the harms af nature — accident, pain, destruc tion, and reach out to his children. I Psafness and blindness, then, were of real account. They were to be talsgated to the outer circle of my lift. Of course 1 did not sense any an^ process with my child mind; but t did know that I, the real I, could |aava the library and visUTsny place f wanted to, identally, I was liappy. That was the 'li^le, seed Crm which' grew my interest-4a tnal subjects. I was not at that time especially aartinslsiitlc about the Bible stories, axerpt the story of the gentle Nazar- ans. The accounts of creation and the dMving out of Adam and Eve irom fidan for eating a particular fruit, dim Flood and all the wrath and ven- Eaani'o of the Lord seemed to me very jJaiilar to the Greek and Roman I bad read—and there were few gods and goddesses I could my southern home, we had delight ful trips with him. After my teacher and I settled down in Wrentham, Maae., he spent six weeks with us every summer un til the year before he died. He loved to take me out walking early in tha morning while the dew lay upon grasa and tree and the air was Joyous with birdsongs. Ws wandered through atill woods, fragrant meadows, past the picturesque stone walls of Wten- tham, and always hs brought me closer to the beauty and the deep meaning of Nature. As hs talked, the great world shone for me in the glory of immortality. He stimulated in me the love of Nature that ia so pre cious a part of the music in my silence and the light in my darkness. It is sweet as I write to recall the flowers and the laughing brooks and the shin ing, balmy moments of stillness in which we had joy together. Each day I beheld through his eyes s new and charming landscape, “wrapped In exquisite showers” of fancy and spbntual beauty. We would often pause that I might feel the swaying of the trees, the bending of the flow ers, and the waving of the com, and he would say, “the wind that puts all this life into Nature is a marvelous symbol of the spirit of God.” On my fourteenth birthday he pre sented me with a gold watch he had worn for more than thirty years, and 1 have never been separated from it since, except one time when it was sent to Switzerland for some parts that were worn out Curiously enough, H was not made for the blind in th* first place. It once belonged to s German ambassador who had it fixed so that he could keep important ap pointments exactly. He waa obliged to call upon a high dignitary of th» Kaiser,- and it was not etiquette to look at the watch, nor was it eti quette to stay too long. So the Am bassador went to a jeweler and gave him instructions about making the watch so that, be could elip his baud into his pocdttjj^itnd “feel” the time. It has a face, and a gpld hand on the :baiakj which is conneebil^ with minute hand, and goes wi^' iras never old to sm, and I was rmiHt daaf and blind to hisn. . Hs spellsd with dUReulty on his fingers, a^ hs was so hard of hsarlng I had oftoa to rspSat a sentones six tlmss with my Imperfset speseh before hs could understand ms. But our love covered a multitude of dlfflcultles, and our intotcourse was always worth every effort it cost us. As we talked thus, Mr. Hits came to rsaliM folly my hunger for Utera> tuzs I could read on subjects ttiat . especially interested ms. ^ himself had grown deaf, and that snablsd him to see the distorted angle of my thoughts with regard to the world of my senses. He told me that if I would only try to put myself in the place of those with sight and hsarlng and divine their impressions of things, they could unite their senses with mine more and mors and thus won derfully increase my enjoyment of the outer world. He showed me how I / could And a key to their life, and give them a chance to explore my own with understanding. He put into my h a n'd s a copy of Swedenborg’s “Heaven and Hell” in raised letters^ He said he knew I would not imdeA . stand much of It at first, but It was fine exercise for my mind, and would satisfy me with a likeness of a God as lovable as the one in my heart. He told me always to remember that It is easier to see what is good than what is true in a difficult book. For, as Swedenborg put it, “Good ie like a little fiame which gives light, and causes man to see, perceive, and be lieve.” When I began “Heaven and Hell“ I was as little aware of the new joy coming Into my life as I haiT been years before when I stood on the piaxza steps awaiting my teacher. Impelled only by the curiosity of a young girl who loves to read, I opened that big book, and lo, my fin gers lighted npon a paragraph in the preface about a blind woman whose darkness was Illumined with beauti ful truths from Swedenborg’s writ ings. She believed that they Im parted a light to her mind which more than* compensated her for the ’toss of earthly light. She never tonbted that there was a spiritual tfwths have heat to my faculties what ‘ color, aixi music are to the eye car. They have lifted my wlst- ifiil longing for a fuUer sense-life into a vivid consclouBaew ot the complete being within me. Each day comes to me wkh both hands full of poseiblli- tlee, and in Its brief course I discern all the verities and realitiss of my existence, the bliss of growth, the glory of actioa, the spirit of beauty. To be continued. Nitrogen Is Big Factor in Better- Yields of Cotton it and stops with it. There are alpo } body within the material one with Qiriui disappointed not to find in "tlw Bible Gtat my good aunt held up to me as a Divine Book, a likeness of toa Being whose face shone so benign, bMi!^al, and radiant in my heart told me tales out of the Apoca- lirpae, apd still I felt a void I could pM axplain. What could I see in a Vnu batwsen God and dragons and iMgaad beasts? How could I asso- el^ the eternal torture of those cast tilito the lake of fire with the God > .Christ declared to be love? I wondered, should one particu- of God be described with Sts of gold and walls of pre- ktones when heaven must be full ling else just as magnifi- ouxtains, fields, oceans, and sw fruitful earth, restful to ^^1 feet? The touching story of , ’.^dhriet, comforting the sorrowful, ~ IsiieFiiif the sick; giving new ligdit to blind and speech to mute lips v;-' (girred me to the depths; but how * worship three persons—the ^^atfaer, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? tHrii that not the sort of false wor- ii,iriitr wo terribly punished in Old Testa- "pent days? Sueb were the bewildered, dissatis- thoughts on the Bible which ‘ |m**esBid my mind when tfiere came loto my life one of the friends I Ipved most, Mr. John Hitz, who had 4to a long period held the position at H|Mwllington of Consul-General for ^sritierldnd iii this Country. After- Ijiflrd he was superintendent of the Tolta Bureau in Washington, which 3ell founded with the Volta fTlUz* money he received for invent- thc telephone. This bureau was isbed for the purpose of collect- 'and distributing information thej deaf, and publishing a their 'oehalf. The Annals If, which ia now called Tks "ilr. Hits first in 1893, when about thirteen years old, and the beginning of an affec- I and heantif ul friendship which among the dearest memories Ufa. He was always deeply in all I did—my studies, j«^ and dreams, my i tbrough college and my work l^ldiad. He waa one of the few ' ton?i^*ciated my teacher add aignifleanea of her work ''to mo, hut to all the world. Wra teatimony to hla af- her and faia underntand- aha waa to me—a light lU Ikttai to afm gold points around the rim of the watch which indicate the hours. I wear it always against my heart, and' it ticks for me as faithfully as my friend himself worked for me and loved me. He whose love it keep* ever be.ore me has been gone nearl7 twenty years, but I have the sweet consciousness that each tick is bring ing me nearer and i)earer to him. Truly a treasure above price, link ing time and eternity I Mr. Hitz and I oorresponded for many years. He learned the Braill* system so that I could read myself hia long and frequent letters. These let ters are a record of spiritual kinship which it comforts me to read over when I long for the touch of his hand and the wise, inspiring words with which he encouraged me in my tasks. Hia first and last t^9Ught was to les sen tl^e obstacles I encountered. He quickly perceived my hanger for ^oks I could read on subjects that particularly interested me, and how- limited were the embossed books within my reach. For eight years he devoted a part of each day to copy ing whatever he thought would give me pleasure—stories, biographies of great men, poetry, and studies of Nature. When, after reading “Heaven and Hell," I axpreased a wish to know more of Swedenborg’s writings, he laboriously compiled books of explanations and extracts to- facilitate my reading. All this he ac complished in addition to his duties as superintendent of the Volta Bureau and his extensive correspondence I In. his letters he often referred to “the quiet morning hours before breakfast perfect sonsee, and that after a few dark years the eyes within her eyes would open to a world infinitely more T^derful, complete, and satisfying toan this. My heart gave a joyous bound. Here was a faith that em phasized what I feh BO keenly—the zeparateness between zoul and body, between a realm I could picture as a whole and the chaos of fragmentary things and irrational eontingenciei which my limited physical senses met at every turn. I let myself go, ai healthy, happy youth will, an^ trtod to possle out the tong ’toi^rds and the weighty thoughts of the Slw^^ sage. Somehow 1 sensed the whom I loved as the CM.ohd Only. . and I wanted to nnderetand more. The words Love and Wisdom seemed to icareee my fingers from paragraph to iparagraphj and these two words re- ' ’leased in me new forces to stimulate my somewhat indolent nature and. urge me forward evermore. I came iback to the book from time to time, ipicking up a line here and a line ’there, “precept upon precept,” one (glimpse then another of the Divine Word hidden under the clouds of literal statement. As I realized the ^meaning of what I read, my soul seemed to expand and gain confidence lamld the difficulties which beset me. 'The descriptions of the other world bore me far, far over measureless iregloni bathed in superhuman beauty -and strangeness, where angels’ robes flash, where great lives and creative minds cast a splendor upon darkest circumstances, where events and mighty combats sweep by endlessly, A number ot tests conducted by Soothern experiment etations clearly show the importance of nitrogen in lertlllzing cotton. At the South Caro lina and Alabama Stations, for exam ple, experiments have shown that the ; increased yields of cotton obtained by increasing the amount ot nitrogen in a fertilizer were much greater than where Increased amounts of either phosphoric acid or potash were applied. Nitrogen must be relied upon tor increasing yields per acre, and when' an insufficient amount is furnished In the fertilzer applied at planting it Is obvious that side dressings must be made to insure the profitable produc tion of the crop which is obtained throngb high yields per acre. Side dressings of nitrate ot soda are Im portent for furnishing this nitrogen because the average mixeij fertilizer applied at planting ia out of propor tion as regards the percentage of ni trogen. Home mixing of fertilizers is in creasing In popularity. By buying his nitrate of soda, acid phosphate ^nd potash and mixing his own fertilizer, the farmer is absolutely sure ot the materials he is using, knows that he is getting the best and generally saves a nice sum of money. Where home mixing is followed It is often advls able to put only a part ot the nitrate of soda under the crop and the re mainder as a side dressing after chop ping. (■> BETTER WAGES FROM BETTER MILKERS COWS LIKE THIS PAY HlGHW/mS 300la OF BUTTER f»T A YEAR COWS UKE THIS pay LOWWfGBS ISO LB. OF BUTHR Bvr A YEAR ' SIAW-WOtSUtS (ViBICUI.lU«*t fOUWOATIilW By following certain well-detined rules, any farmer can obtain good wages‘'for taking care of milk cows, edys the Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. Failure to adopt the practices laid down by,these rules will cause the farmer to work for very low wages and possibly nothing. Records covering -21 farms In one tounty, gathered by the Minnesota where the night Is lit to eternal day OoRege of Agriculture, showed that Many friends have done wonderful things for me, but nothing like Mr.. Hitz’s untiring effort to share with me the inner sunshine and peae* which filled his silent years. Baoh. year I was drawn closer to him, and. he wrote to me more constantly a* the days passed. Then came a great sorrow—separation from the friend t loved best next to mv teacher. 1 had been visiting my mother, and waa on my way back to Wrentham. As usual, I stopped in Washington, and' Mr. Hitz came to the train to meet me. He was full of Joy as he em braced me, saying how impatiently ha had awaited my coming. Then, as ha was leading me from the train, ha had a sudden attack of heart trouble, and passed away. Just before the end he took my hand, and I still feel hi* pressure when I think of that dark time. I could not have borne the loa* of such an intimate and tender friend if I had thought he was indeed dead. But his noble philosophy and certainty of the life to come braced me with an unwavering faith that w» should meet again In a world happier and more beautiful than anything of my dreaming. With me remains al ways the helpful memory of his rare personality. He was a man of lefty character, • man of rich spiritual gifts. His heart was pure and warm, full of ehlldlike faith in the best he saw In his fellow-creatures, and he was al ways doing for other faeple eome- thing lovely and dear. In all hi* ways he kept the Oemmandmeut, “Love thy neighbor as thyself." At ei^ty years of age he had the heart of an evergreen, and Us InaxhaustfU* power of enjoyment **ltftod hht far above the average of humanity. He gem slued young with thu yeuuf. B* and women of nobler mould past la majestic procetelon. For the firsl time immortality put on intelligibility for me, and earth wore new curvet el ilovelinesa and significance. I WM glad to discover that the City of God ‘was not a stupid affair of glass streets and sapphire walls, but a sys tematic treasury of wise, helpful 'thoughts and noble influences. Grad ually I came to see that 1 could use 'the Bible, which had so baffled me, as I an instrument for digging out pre cious truths, just as I could use my hindered, halting body for the Ugh behests of my spirit. I had been told by narrow people that all who were not Christiana would be punished, and naturally my soul revolted, since I knew of wonder ful men who had lived and died for truth as they saw it in the pagan lands. But in “Heaven and Hell” I found that “Jesus” stands for Divine Good, Good wrought into -deeds, and "Christ” Divine Truth, sending forth now thought, new life and joy into the mliida of ment tlmrefore ne one who beUaves in and lives right Is ever eondemnod. So I grew to womanhood, and as unaccontsbly as -Conrad found In English the lan guage of Us eholeo, I took more and more to the New Church dootrinea as my religion. No oao oneouragedt me in this dioiee, and I cannot explain it any sMre than anyone else. I can only say that the Word of God freed Ifrom the blots and stains of barbarous ersods has been at once tha joy and good of my Ills, wonderfully linked toifh mv growing appreciation of my tsaehere work and my own responii- MMes of Borvlas, hoars of struggle stnd soUtuds, hoars of doapsat Joy, Ibaihh tro^ faosd sauarely and hi^ ^rwua held daflgar Ibm tte plsasairt since the farms were all In the same locality and bad the same market, this Variation must be attributed to dif- lerences in the methods employed. The prlnc.toal rules by which to ob tain good wages for milking cows, as shown by the actual experieuce of many farmers, are as follow.s: 1. Kec)) (-ow^ sired by pure-bred bulls (tf higli producing ancestry. 2. Weed out the poor prudueers, as Indicated by the amount of milk pro duced, the butter fat test, and feed record. 8. Take measures to control disease and eliminate losses from tubercu losis, abortion, garget, etc. 4. Feed rations which are ade quate with respect to protein, succu lence and variety, and vary the quan tity in proportion to productiou- 6. Supply ample pastures through out the season. A. Keep the expense for bams and tqulpment on a reasonable basis. One of the most Important factors in determining the wages received for pillklng cows is the rate of production per cow. An average production oi 800 pounds of butter fat Is a reason able goal. In some fluid milk districts, It has been found that dairymen whose cows produce less than 9,000 pounds a year stood little chance making a profit. A farmer who keeps average cows producing only 140 to IflS pounds of butter fat a year can not expect to receive good wages fot taking care of them. Tammany Costs Respect Resigning from leadership of Tam many Hall, Lewis Nixon asserted that he could no longer remain as leader and ratal* bis self rsspact. . O. W. Has Great Faith tare of North Carolina > f ■ I?" ' ii-.-e c -DOO.OOO in bonds being handled by employees of the Woed .-'-n of tre Wo^ld. VV. A. Fraser, Sovereign Commander, is stand- ir j vvldi cheaf of bonds .n his hands. $13,769,000.00 of those bonds repre- srrrt ivortii Carolina ir, .-sstments. The employees are clipping the •eml- aii.-'.us! ci.v’i-. ..d coupons, ' . ' f /-i-tI HAT 'lie AVoociraeu of the /-T-rj H.-. r ^ AVcrld Id Life Iiisiu-ant-e Assoc- l>as faith ill Hoke Cor.Dty- in evidenced by tlie fact that O. W. has $73,500.00 inve.sted in municipal bonds of this county, according to a statement today b;\' V.'. A. Fraser. Sovereign (,'.;,;a.-nauder of liie Woodmen of the Wuria .’ind Fresident of the Globe Life Insurance Company. "The Ct'oiidmen of the ^^’orld has great faith in the future of this state,” said Mr. Fraser. Sovereign Commander Fraser also announced that the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Assoc iation now has $13,769,000.00 invest ed in municipal bonds in the state of North Carolina. “Our funds are used to help the development of the various parts of the United States where Woodmen of the World members are located,” said Mr. Fraser. “We are glad in having the opportunity to aid the vaHous counties and states In build ing roads, school houses, court houses, street improvements and other municipal enterprises.” “Not enough pepple In America realize the importance ot modern and up-to-date school houses and modern mqtboda of education. San itary and modern school houses tend toward ifiakiug both teachers and school pupils more conteoted and, therefore, more efficient. Good school houses with their sanitary conveniences, proper, lighting and ventilation enable school teachers to do better work, and nothing is more Important than education of our children—the future citizens of tomorrow.” Mr. Fraser said the factors enter ing into security of their Invest ments are based foremost on the community’s financial responsibil ity, both present and potential. But in addition, however, ho said the Investment Committee was also guided by good faith of and confi dence In the municipality issuing such bonds. “Great assurance of good faith is given to the Committee ia the simple statement that American Municipalities of any importance do not default in the principal or Iif terest of any of their obligations," said Mr. Fraser. During the thirty-seven years ex istence of W. O. W., the association has been very careful In tha dis position of its funds for invest ments. The company, ne^tr 'has $88,000,000 invested In mu^citol bonds. During its twenty-seven years, W. O. W. has handled 'more than $120,000,000 of tntoftiBidnts without losing a cent of principal or ■interest. ; Happmess and Comfort to ' Dependent North Carolina Familiet Val-2 ci Life Insurance By W. A. Fraser * *, :) t.ife irisurauce has saved ni.t,.y i. irdiics irom going to tha ijoo.house. :{J * 4i Life insurance has made it nosoi'ij'e for childixn to con- tbiiie v-ith their education. • ( 4 * Life insurance has elimin-, ated misery; has kept the welt 'trom the door of widows and ciphans; has brougiit comfcit i> old age. Y 4 * * It is a dawn of hope that v.'iil rsvcn! itself when days of * t CvV ficive v;orne. A - rw .’l. id.GFK story oE the r.’'"' ': tiiai hai b.;en elimiii- ;'i!.l me ahd f ,.y.-r 1110.1 liiis bi'cll , jAiud-i of North C'aru- y ■ .■c'.-iiT-,’.-! were ; ■ ( ;■ ii’.,'. t'.'OOilUl’, n of t)ic -■■.'•ly prnpbaeiJ'i’d .hv i:’mnil'.d I’.y \\'. A. Frasc’i-, ';u'’"''''udci' cl the Wood '1 ■M. ,md( I t li.i 1 Fraser's t'..,' Woodmen .re associa- jjii ill death i r,i sL’.le .since V.'orl '. started 111 IS;';;. V,;"It tiicse niillion.s r? — '-nin. 'u ii;3uranee br-neflta •’, o : ;o li;.I'.ir.tilica whoso V, ! iptclied away , 1 I i 1:;. ir i'e"u’.;’;r in- , i; : " :uiid ;.;r.Ve!'eiyn ■ iiaan.; r i ;;,.r. "Oae does not iv ‘ lo sireteh his imagination to ;• ..lire v.IilI this money has done I .• .he wi'hi -, and the orphans of ilie I'. r.’ilic::' of this state. If these I ■ a ! v.Tmit;. .t had not bees Insured, t.iiii!: o the great misery which would lu’.ve come into the lives of th.-' wives and children through no fault of their own. Just a little thoughtiuln. ss on the part of the fa'.h;. rs and husbands of these I'aiW i'.'s brourht untold hsppinosp, gave the children a chance for an education, kept, many families out of oryhan asylums and poorhouses and in this way s.:ved the taxpayers be state thousands of dollars. W. A. Frstsr bring this happiness to these many thousands of families of this state. "The marvelous record of th*' Woodmen of the World can b* (raced greatly to the loyalty and mini?iasfic support given us by I he people of this state. We enjoy doing business here and we hopti 1 sse will always be able to play aU; ! important part in bringing happ(-i ! ness and future security to the' I families of this state who suffer th* I loss of their bread winners.” ' “The maintenance of the War Meniori"! hospital at San Antonie, ... II one of the great serviced by the Woodmen of thq, of lir Wi.'cdmen of the World has been glad to pay these claims and Texas perform World. Patients are cared for free; of charge in an institution that; eoataliis every possible means oft reuew.iug the health of our mem»! bers. Of the 3,000 patients that have been cared for a majority have I been returned to their homaa cured, and in a position to bcoouia useful citizens of the natlonwld* communltiea in which they live.” j Mr. '.Fraser announced that tha Woodmen of the World is 108% solvent and now has $891000,000 In! municipal bond holdings in its,; reserve. A large portion of thesa bonds have been invested in thia state, thus aiding In th* building ot the state’s roads, schools, and vail^ ous public improvements. “The Woodmen of th# WorU la now ths richest frktenuU't Ilf* In surance association .in th* wwld,” said Mr. Frasar, ■%. ' I ■A. ) ' NV,’ ■Wi.