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Newspaper Page Text4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLAjrTA SA., S MOB TH FOBSTTH ST. Catena at the Atlanta Poe tof Hee aa Natl Natter of the Second Claaa. JAMES R. GBAT, President and Editor. i skbschiptiom price Twetre worth* tie Mtha * ** Three woetto. The gem ( Weekly Journal la pnbliabed oe Ttr and Friday, and la matiad by the ebort •at routes for early delivery. It ecutains neem from all ever the wnrM. brw.rbt be ererlal leased wires Into our offc*. It haa a staff of di«tiu<«ibed contributor*. • w‘th atrousr of apecla) value to the borne and the fam. Arents wanted at every pnetnfHee T.nmra ,? Wenteta allowed. Outfit free. Write tv | P. R. Randolph. Circularton Manac-t. Tbe oc'y tra»eltng repreaeutatleea we have are 3. A. Brian. B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle ■“> M. H. Gilreath. We will be responsible only for money paid to tbe above named travenna I represents tires. motici to subscribers Tbe label need for addrvesliig P*’ K paper shown tbe time your eutwrtptloo expire*. By renewing at least two weeks before tbe date on tbs label, you Insure regular errlce. In oni.rnc paper changed be sor ts menttoo your old. as well as your *, new add rem If on a rural route, f. please give tbe route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to be gin with baek numbers. Remittance should be sent by postal order or regis tered mall. _____ _ department to THB BEMI-WEEKLT Address all orders and notices for this JOURNAL Atlanta. Ga. Never -mind, maybe we’ll win that baseball pennant next season. =>,"■ "rhe price oi cotton may drop some of the time, but it won’t all the time. It was smooth of Gary and that crowd to put 4t all up to Teddy as they - d Doubtless the umpire is looking for ward with longing to his annual vaca tion. All roads lead to the south, especial ly the national highway and its Glidden tour. •*- If. dog days would always be like these, by all means let us have dog days- Wouldn't our sister cities in Georgia give us the laugh if Macon did get the capitol ? There is no doubt about e fact that I Macon was an admirable hostess to the : Lives there a man so honest that he Will admit he bought his automobile * •econd-hana ? I The way the price of cotton holds up ’is an indication that the world still needs < jtton goods. If the people move the capitol from Atlanta, why not move it out of Georgia and be done with it? -LaGrange decides to have an audi torium. Good for LaGrange, and she won't regret It. either. Auto repairer has been held as a bandit I at Salt Lake City. The charge in this I case is not a figurative One. The Crackers play in Birmingham to day. A liberal reward will be offered for the best guess on who will win. i- Admiral Togo has doubtless seen Niag ara Falls in fireworks exhibition. Nat , urably ha wanted to see the real thing. The Democrats have shown pretty conclusively that there is such a thing t ns downward revision of the tarifr. It is a pity we couldn’t turn the world's supply of English sparrows into the cotton fields to fight the boll wee vil. The Washington basebail team will not train in Atlanta during 1912. May be if it did it would take on a little of the "spirit." Admiral Tago is very much pleased with America, although his Impression I would have been much better had he visited Atlanta. President Taft has decided hot to do much active campaigning until the stat us. of the Pniladelphia ana Detroit teams is settled. Without intending to disparage any other dty. Philadelphia and Detroit are today about the two most interesting places on the map. Bat Nelson came back to the tune of knocking out another pug in five rounds, showing that sometimes the im possible is possible. , Admiral Togo Is very friendly, but he doesn't go to the extent of denouncing the warlike utterances of Captain Hob son. i The cotton speculators would do well to count on the uncertainly of August weather, always a factor in tbe cotton crop. The example of the Bibb county man who cleared C.suo on an Irrigated, eight acre farm, is well worthy of being fol lowed. Representatives at Washington will soon have an opportunity to compare the climate at home with that of Wash ington. Congress does more effective work un der Champ Clark, even if Speaker Can non was more picturesque in some re | specks Colonel Roosevelt at least got his Chance to speak when the steel probers summoned him to Washington to testify tn the trust case. |1 Ab. that we might have every sum mer dog days as fine as these! But if we I did there would be no necessity of desig nating the dog day season. The millionth patent has been issued by the United States government, and yet out of tnat large number there isn't a single successful patent of an Auto tn* tic iiy swatter. | A Cl(_ ago man was cured of the 11- Ipoor haoit and insanity by being in a collision of an automobile and a prison ■van. but this treatment will hardly be Introduced generally into asylums. | Colonel Roosevelt was a willing wit- whatever else could be said of his i testimony at the steel trust investiga tion. and a temperate witness, for he F consigned no one to the Ananias club F From Chicago comes tbe story of a mother who is willing to sell one of her fingers for enough "money to provide her daughter a musical education, and yet some people say thia isn't an age of | sacrifice. > In Illinois it la against the law for a man to drink on a train, except In the dining ear. This is class privilege, but the common people could evade the law perhaps by sticking their heads and bottles out of the window." k I THE FARMERS’ FREE LIST BILL. The partisan charge that Governor Smith’s absence from the senate affected the result of Tuesday’s vote on the farmers free listibill, is without foundation in reason or fact. The vote on this measure was a tie. The Democrats could rightfully have assumed that Senator Bailey would stand with them in support of the original house bill. It is a fact, however, as related by our Washington correspondent, that even if Governor Smith had been present and supported the bill, Senator Baile. would then have been joined by another Democrat in opposing it, and thus the result would have been unchanged. Clearly, therefore, it was at no time possible for the bill to pass the senate as it originally came from the house, for the situa tion in the senate made a compromise inevitable. As a matter of fact, the amendments which the senate Demo crats have wisely accepted strengthen the measure rather than weaken it. This is plainly the opinion of Democrats in the house, where the bill originated. Mr. Underwood himself, the house lead er and the author of the farmers’ free list bill, expressed himself as eminently pleased with the outcome of the senate compromise. These amendments leave the heart of the bill undisturbed. One of them, offered by Senator Kern, a Democrat, provides that meat products, flour and cereal products, shall be admitted free from only those countries which, by reciprocal agreement, admit American farm products, namely “cotton, corn, wheat, oats, horses, cattle and hogs.” This means, in substance, free meat and flour from Canada, our main supply in these products, outside of the United States, and we export both of these items in large quanti ties. The immediate effect will be to keep the tariff on meat from Mexico, but ultimately this will encourage reciprocity with Mexi co and Jhe countries of South America, thus extending the market . . nur own f. "m products, especially southern farm products. The other three amendments are also believed to be an im provement on the house bill. The one by Senator Groona, for in stance, places on the free list all kinds of footwear in addition to leather shoes. This clearly broadens our sphere of free <rade and is a blow at the rubber trust. Senator Shively’s amendment puts wheat binders on the free list, and thus strengthens the farmers independence of the harness trust. Thus the house bill has been virtually strengthened by these amendments. ’ The main point is, however, that had Governor Smith been present and voted for the original bill, it could not have passed be cause of the circumstances we have already mentioned. A compro mise measure was predestined, and it has so turned out that the compromise is thoroughly satisfactqry. From every standpoint, therefore, it is clear that Governor Smith’s absence from the sen ate could not have had and did not have any untoward effect on the free list bill. w _ A SIGNIFICANT EXAMPLE. The deepening interest of Georgia farmers in the cause of good roads is strikingly evidenced by the successful campaign to build a modern highway from Dalton to Ringgold. This enterprise is particularly notable for the reason that it has sprung forth in a mountainous country where road construc tion is far more difficult and expensive than in other quarters of the state. The route chosen is but three miles in length but it will serve an important purpose and its development is liberally sup ported by the planters along its way. At all the preparatory meetings, the farmers were largely represented and they have done much toward raising the necessary funds. It is furthermore to be noted that the route was selected by thorough and businesslike methods. There were three tentative routes to be considered. * Each of these was carefully explored and the one presenting the richest share of immediate and future ad vantages was chosen. It is likely that following this, skilled engi neers will be called into council to determine matters of grade and material. As a result the highway will be-substantial and will serve the common interests of its territory. (d 1 f* Contracts have been virtually let and the actual work of con struction will soon begin. This is a heartening instance of the interest which farmers throughout Georgia are taking in the development of public roads. They are fast recognizing that the value of their land and their crops, the welfare of their homes and children are directly en riched by good roads and are impoverished by bad ones. From such an awakening, every phase of the state’s future and present good will profit. ADMIRAL TOGO'S VISIT. Seldom has a visitor to this land met a heartier welcome than was yesterday accorded Admiral Togo, the hero of the Japanese navy, on his arrival in New York. The shouts of enthusiasm from the people and the cordiality of his’official reception furnish a potent answer to the croaks of boding trouble between America and Japan. The famous little seafighter arrived on the very heel of the Anglo-American and the Franco-American arbitration treaties and it is possible that before his departure the terms of a similar agree ment with his own country will have been outlined. Togo is one of the conjuring names of modern history. It was he who sank the Russian fleet in the sea of Japan six years ago. He is almost worshipped by his own people and by the world at large he is considered one of the truly great men of battle. There can be no doubt that his visit to the United States will warm, witk 1 personal touch, the amity now existing between his nation and ours. . * From a purely speculative standpoint, it is doubtless possible to see remotely the chance for differences with Japan but in the field of fact there is no ground for such apprehension. The immi gration problem has within recent months been greatly clarified, if not solved. The commercial bond between the two countries is bound to become more and more firmly welded. We are learning more about the Japanese and they are learning mo*re of us and this will broaden our mutual understanding. Japan has evinced a willingness, even an eagerness, to enter into a treaty of arbitration such as is now to be established between the United States and England and the United States and France. The we lcome accorded Admiral Togo may therefore be interpreted as a symbol of substantial good feeling, between our country and his and as a hospitable pledge of peace. GERMANY AND FRANCE. There was keen apprehension a week ago that Germany and France might come to blows over the situation in Morocco. . Today, however, these fears are fast dissolving, and it is be lieved that within the near future all the differences will be peace fully settled. On just what basis an agreement will be reached nt one forecasts with any certainty. Some English papers are of the opinion that France will cede to Germany certain territory in the French Congo in return for a free hand in Morocco. Others think that a general conference of the interested European powers will be called with a view to establishing another general treaty. Whatever course may be pursued, it is evident that England will reject and make impossible any terms whereby Germany might gain undue advantage over British interests abroad. In dit'd. it was the firm assertion of this purpose that moderated the tone of the German government in its negotiations with France and thus put an end to the incipient war scare. It is belitved that Germany looks unfavorably upon the sug gestion of another general conference. The treaty of Algeciras and , a subsequent agreement seems to have left her rather discontented. She will, therefore, doubtless prefer to settle this issue with France without the aid of other parties. However that may be, every indication now points to a pacific compromise, and all Europe is resting more easily. At one stage of the misunderstanding Germany and France both appeared too obdurate ard England and Spain were involved. Happily, how ever, the crisis has passed. ✓ > / THE ATLANTA SEMf-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1911. FRUITS OF A PROGRESSIVE POLICY, \ Nothing could be more significant of Georgia's steady and per vasive progress than the fact that the tax returns from seventy three counties, which is half the number in the State, show an ag gregate increase for 1911 over 1910 of nine million, five hundred and ninety-three thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars. These aie official figures from the office of the comptroller general. A review of the list of these counties shows that this increase has not been conlined to any particular section, but is the result of a wide spread advance in values. Every quarter, and it may be said, every district of the State has contributed a proportionate share to these increased returns. ' / It is therefore clear that Georgia is moving forward as a whole and that every field of its manifold enterprises have felt the quicken ing touch of progress. Town lands and country lands are worth more today than ever before. Our industrial as well as our agri cultural life is striding forward more and more rapidly. The reports from the comptroller general’s office confirm and carry a step further those of the recent census "which showed a sub stantial increase in the State’s population, its taxable wealth, its railroad property, its farm products, manufactured products, and banking interests. It will be remembered that the gross receipts of Georgia’s railway companies during the year ended June 30th, 1910, amounted to some forty-four millions of dollars, which was an increase of nearly five millions over the preceding twelve months. The value of the State’s farm products have considerably more than doubled within the past decade, while the value of its manufactured products have within the same period grown from about millions to more than two hundred and twenty million dollars. The cause of this truly wonderful advancement is not far to seek. It lies partly in the State’s deepened interest in good roads. The building and improving of the public highways contributes di rectly to land values, and by bringing the farmer nearer to the market stimulates trade. It may well be predicted that when, the proposed state high way commission is established and begins its work, these results will be still more fruitful. The introduction of modern methods and appliances for the farm has also played an important part in the increased tax re turns. It is accordingly clear that every dollar which the State ap propriates to agricultural education is a fertile investment for the people as a whole and that it bears positive results for the State’s treasury. j These are important facts to remember, particularly at the present time when bills for certain constructive enterprises are be fore the General Assembly. Money contributed to the conservation and development -of natural resources is simply a business invest ment. The State should not hesitate in alloting liberal sums to en terprises of this character. A specific opportunity of this sort is now presented in the bill for a survey of Georgia’s swamp and overflow lands and its water-courses, and also in the request for a fund wherewith the State’s soils may be surveyed and analyzed. In congratulating itself upon the increase in tax returns during the past year the State should bear in mind the causes that have made possible this growth, and should devote itself more earnestly and intelligently to conserving these sources of progress. GET READY FOR THE GLIDDEN TOUR. The announcement that the world-famous Glidden tour is to be conducted this year over the National Highway should, and un doubtedly will, inspire every community along that route to prompt and redoubled effort for the improvement of the roads. Especially does this apply to those counties between Roanoke and Atlanta and between Atlanta and Jacksonville. Through north Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia, the highway has been an established fact for several years. These roads are accordingly in good condition, but they should nevertheless be improved still further and made as nearly perfect as is possible. Every mile of the route should be carefully inspected by city and county author ities and by interested citizens in order that any barrier to the comfort of the tourists or any feature that might bring discredit upon a county may be promptly removed. That portion of the highway between Atlanta and Jackson ville, known as the Florida extension, will have the particular honor of being christened by this tour. Since The Journal-New York Herald scouts finished their expeditions some three months ago, the work of road building and road improvement along this stage of the highway has been steadily progressing, so that the great task is now approaching completion. From now forward every one of the interested counties should put forth extraordinary in order that the Florida extension may receive its finishing touches before the tour begins and thus compare favorably with the other sections of the highway. The coming of the Glidden tour will be one of the greatest distinctions ever paid the south, and also one of the greatest ad vertisements. It is the classic event of the automobile world, and the section it traverses becomes a center of national interest. This year it is to be primarily a gentlemen’s contest. Its entrants will include represehtative people from a great number and variety of states. Upon the impressions they receive from the highway will be based their estimate of the soufh. It is therefore especially important that the roads between Roanoke and Jacksonville be in the best possible condition, for upon this wall depend the extent and the value of the publicity the south is to receive from this great tour. We, accordingly, call upon every community along The Jour nal-Herald highway, in behalf of their own and the section’s pres tige, to bestir themselves forthwith and make ready a continuous chain of excellent roads that will fittingly bespeak the south’s progress. The tour is only about ninety days in the future, so that prompt as well as vigorous work is essential. GEORGIA'S FOREST RESERVE. The United States government has recently contracted for the purchase of some forty thousand acres of land in Fannin, Gilmer, Union and Lumpkin counties, to be set aside as a perpetual forest reserve under the provisions of the Weeks Bill. The people of Georgia greeted this announcement with enthusiasm. The reserva tion was the first to be made in the Appalachian Territory, and as was promptly perceived it will mean a vast deal to the-State’s wel fare. x In order, however, that this purchase may be consummated it must receive the sanction of the Legislature. To this end Senator Kincaid has introduced a resolution giving the State’s consent to the Government’s acquisition of any lands which it may wish to buy anfi set aside in Georgia as forest reserves. This resolution promptly pass 'd the Senate and there is no reason to think that it will meet opposition in the House. For certainly it is to the State’s interest to encourage in every manner possible the protection of its forests. It should be noted, however, that promptness in the matter of this particular resolution is important. The Government’s con tract with the individual owner of the lands must be closed by November first next, hence the urgency of action at this session of the General Assembly. The proposed reservation in North Georgia will prove a timely safe-guard to the agricultural and industrial welfare of that section. The tract under consideration includes the head-waters of important streams. It is a matter of common knowledge that upon the conservation of these forests depends in large measure the future water supply and rain-fall of the out-lying districts. The State should therefore co-operate with the Government in carrying out its constructive policy; and as a primary step in this direction, the State should give its sanction to the Federal pur chase of such lands. THE TRANSFORMATION OF A MODISH MINISTER INTO AN OLD-FASHIONED PREACHER BY BISHOF W. A. CAHDLEB Robert Louis Stevenson said, "There Is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. By my duty to my neighbor Is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy,—it 1 may.” There was a minister who ac cepted this view, and in all good will and sincerity undertook to fulfill it in his ministry to his flock. His-sermons were framed with this intent, and in his pastoral rounds he sought to make all merry and happy. Both in the pulpit and out of the pulpit he brought in view only pleasing subjects. He wished above all things that his people should, be happy, hoping that if they were hap py all the ume they must inevitably "'be holy in the end. If any of them pur sued dubious courses of life, he offered no rebukes in public or private. He did not interfere with the joy the men had in making money, nor with the pleasure which their wives and children found in spending money. In turn they sought to make him quite comfortable in so far as money could supply him with comforts. He was very popular with his congregation, and they were well pleasing to him. So matters went be tween them for a time. But at last he perceived that his peo ple were not a happy people Most of them were restless, not to say peevish. They were perpetually pursuing happi ness, but seemed never to overtake it. On the contrary, some of them overtook more pain than pleasure in their chase of happiness. For example, one family in which banquets and wine-drinking prevailed awaked to the tragic fact that the eldest son had become a drunkard. Another which was much given to the diversions of the card table were filled with distress because a son had become a gambler and a daughter had become the wife of a modish black-leg whom she had met first at "bridge parties.' A childless couple had separated be cause of disagreements which began be cause the husband pursued gain so greedily and unceasingly that he saw little of his wife, while she was so ab sorbed with "societyi’ that she lost in terest in him and affection for him. Another household was disgraced by a defalcation on the part of the husband and father who was addicted to specu lations. Still anoter was shadowed with sorrow by the killing of a son in an automobile race. Even over the homes which had suffered no such shames and griefs there seemed to brood a spirit satiety and discontent. Worst of all the poor pastor found that he could not console his people with the solaces of religion; for they neither understood nor cared for suchysomforts. They were not used to finding comfort in such a source. Their knowledge of the Bible was not great and their ac quaintance with the God of the Bible was less. They had joined the church, but they knew nothing of union with Christ. They lived out of hearing of the promises >of God as they lived in com parative indifference to the requirements of the gospel; but “of course they were Christians; for they professed and called themselves Christians, and who would dare question their sincerity”? He would not impeach their Christian character, and yet he could not vindicate it by the Scriptures; it seemed not to be of the "pattern shown in the mount”, but of some lighter and less serious type. In fact there was nothing very serious about his people. Their test of the ex cellency of a sermon was In its brevity or lack of brevity: they particularly dis liked sermons about cross-bearing and kindred themes. The only crosses of which they had any knowledge were those irritations which they indulged when they crossed one another in do mestic contentions or in social competi tions. What could he do to make such people happy? What could any man do to make them happy? He began to suspect that he had been working in a wrong way, that the prin ciple he had been following was not sound, that his chief concern should have been about the holiness of his people, and that he had bestowed too much care on trying to make them happy. He sought to change his man ner of preaching. He rebuked sin more than had been his habit. He insisted more earnestly upon such themes as re pentance, salvation by faith, and the new birth. He was less disposed to approve the banquetings, revel Ings, and worldly diversions of his people. But his changed method brought him criticism and oppo sition. A change of pastors was desired and obtained. Now he had time to discover that try ing to make men and women good is far more difficult, as it is far more im portant, than making them happy. At k TUBXET BAXBXMG. We know a Virginia woman who rais es from 100 to 300 turkeys every year and the whole bunch roost in a great oak tree. To enable the youngsters to reach the branches she built an Incline stair way, consisting of a 10-foot plank with cross pieces. This woman declares that until the poults began to roost in the tree she confined them in houses and lost many birds every season. Good time to stop the leaks is in the months when the least rain falls. By keeping the rake, hoe and long handled shovel at hand, one can clean out the droppings from the poultry house every morning in just a few mo ments and thus guard against the ac cumulation of filth for the lice and mite pests to harbor in. “Intestinal diseases are more abundant whenever and wherever you find flies, and the flies and not the summer heat are the active agents in the spread of such sickness and of infant summer complaints. Cleanliness is next to fly lessness.”—Mrs. R. S. Bradley, Boston. Some people presume that young chicks, ducks, and goslings ought to have as much sense as a grown man. Maybe they have as much as some men blit, they must be cared for as though thej' had not In providing a chicken dinner for the home, it is not necessary to select the biggest and best formed cockerels. The smaller birds may be just as fat and toothsome, but they do not weigh so much and bring less in he market. From observation and our own expe rience I am firmly convinced that at least 25 per cent of stable manure is wasted by distributing it by hand. A manure spreader will soon pay for it self in saving.—R. M. Allen. A blanket or heavy cloth fly cover is positive torftire to a nervous and thin-} skinned horse. The old-fashioned leath-1 er or cord nets are better. If the young turkeys prefer to roost Ln the big tree in the yard, let them. the same time he found out that It is only a delusive and disappointing sort of happiness that can be ijad apart from goodness. It was brought home to him by the recollection of the among his former parishioners that a programme of life that puts happiness in the chief place and holiness in a sec ondary position fails to preserve decency in a family through two generations, far less piety. A sadder, but wiser man, he is devot ing his later years to a ministry which puts self-denial and cross-bearing for ward as indispensable characteristics of genuine Christianity. He attends fewer ‘‘functions”, and more prayer-meetings. He is not so felicitous as formerly in after-dinner addresses, but far more ef fective ■in priestly intercessions. The congregation he serves pays little atten tion to the pursuit of happiness, but possesses much of the most satisfying and sanctifying joys. They have their sorrows too, but their hearts are more open than were the souls of his former parishioners to the consolations of grace. When he enters a shadowed home among them he finds the grief-stricken are, al ready soothed by the tender touch of tlie Comforter who has gone in advance of him. They respond to the solaces of grace which he utters, understanding the Scriptures by personal experience as well as by patient study. Nevertheless he finds in his present pas toral charge that amid the most favour- ' able conditions the work of making hu man hearts thoroughly good, as God' counts goodness, is not easy. To en-' tertain men and women he finds is not difficult; that can be done by pleasing phrases or novelties of theory. But the renewal of the human heart in righteous- 1 ness and true holiness he finds is a re sult not possible without supernatural, regenerative pow-er from heaven. Such, being the case, he is now more cai-eful to please God, from whom only uuch pow >r can come, than to please men. Therefore an unearthly and heavenly ac cent has come into his speech. When he comes before his people he brings with him an atmosphere that is like a breath i from the upper world. They take knowl-, edge of him that he has been with Jesus 1 in the heavenlies. Even men and women "Os the world are impressed by his spirit ual presence. Not infrequently men ap ply to him the beautiful lines of Glold smitli concerning the village preacher in i the "Deserted Village”: "Unpractised he to fawn, or seek so a power. By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to Prise, More skilled to raise the wretched ihan to rise. And in his duty prompt at every call. He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies. He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, , Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way”. Men and women and youth who sincere ly seek to be real followers of Christ seek his counsel; but the giddy and shallow call him "quite old fashioned”, some applying to him the coarser terms of "moss-back” and "old fogy”. How ever it is commonly observed in the com munity that even the people who deride him when they are beset by no trou ble, wish bis presence above all other ministers when sharp trials or sore be reavements or the near approach of death compels them to be real and genuine in matters of religion. The godly man himself is well con tent to be called an "old-fashioned preacher". In this old world with its old 1 sin. old sorrow, old death, he feels .hat nothing is quite so good for human souls ’ as “the old, old story of Jesus and His love”. He is probably correct about that matter. At any rate most of us who recall hours in our lives, when the strain upon our spirits was greatest, remem ber that we found renewed strength in nothing else. God multiply the "old-fashioned preach ers” who unknown and indifferent to fame, preach in unsensational ways the "old-fashioned gospel”! It is by the min istry of such men that faith is kept alive la earth. God help all of us to think more of the men who try by the faithful preach ing of God’s word to make us really good I and to estimate at their true value the, mistaken men who are only concerned 1 to coddle us with soft sentimentality to make us happy! The sum of human hap piness is increased only by them who seek to make us good. 1 , t How many of us try to quiet our oon-1 science by laying- a bouquet on the coffin , of a neighbor whom we have neglected’ all his life. milking, governed according to the time 1 of trains, the distance to deliver, and j the size of the herd. Market milk is produced at a prlce-i where a man must have cows that ivtll i give a large quantity, regardless bf qua!- I ity, athough It should at all times be) reasonably good. If the soil is wet In the corn field use I an implement for cultivation that will not pack the ground but will leave Ft as' loose as possible. When the soli is dry pack It tight. High-priced feed and low prices for milk i or its products is a very undesirable combine- i tlon but it is sometimes economy to submit to . a present loss, rather than allow a milk cow I to go by default. Dirty, unoiled collars during the hot' weather season sion start a bill for gall- . cure and lay a firm foundation for ex cruciating pain to the work horses. If you should find a hidden nest filled : with eggs do not send them to market. < Naturally some of them will be old, and to sell them would be fraud. We all have to scratch when a mort- , gage is on the place and the hen will , dd her share 'toward lifting it If you will ' f let her scratch too. When cultivating the ’ orchard use a short singletree with the ends curved back like a half moon—no scraping the i bark off with this. Many promising colts are ruined by being forced on long drives with their dams. This is not only a cruel practice, but a senseless one. -• 1 Dime, such as ground oyster shells, or ' in some other form, fed in soft feed, will 1 harden the egg shells. I The farmer who constantly robs his soil will some day have to leave his land . because it will not yield him a living. -