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Gravel Roads in Danger. .
Recent observation and experi¬
ments have shown that automobiles
are a serious menace to stone and
gravel roadways. In some States,
particularly New York, civil engi¬
neers and road experts have made an
extensive study of the effect of self
propelled vehicles upon the roadbeds
in the country districts, and in re¬
ports recently issued by them they
unanimously declare that the dam¬
age caused by the rapidly driven cars
is far greater than one would surmise
at first thought. One report says:
“In the past three years the in¬
crease in the number of automobiles
and in their weight and speed has
ma’fle their effect vary noticeable.
The fragments and powder formed
by the grinding action of traffic,
which serve as a necessary binder to
the stone of the macadam, are lifted
by the broad rubber tires of a rapid¬
ly moving automobile and scattered. »»
The broad, elastic tires of an auto
are pressed down by the great weight
of the machine and then lifted with
such quickness that the loose parti¬
cles of dust and grit are literally
jerked into the air, having the effect
in time of practically removing-this
important part of the road’s surface.
Most people are familiar with the
appearance of a gravel or macadam
road after It has been washed across
by a swollen stream. All the lighter
material is gone, sand and dust are
carried away, the binder is cleaned
out and the road is visibly damaged.
Something of the same sort of effect
is caused by the automobile. The
process is not so rapid, but it is going
on day after day, and has already
caused so much damage in many
States that the question of preserv¬
ing the roads from this peril is puz¬
zling the experts.
Mr. C. A. Kenyon, qn engineer, of
this city, has investigated this ques¬
tion in Europe. In an interview in
the Indianapolis News he says:
«« Ten years ago countries like
France and England boasted of thou¬
sands of miles of the finest perman¬
ent macadam roads, as smooth as a
floor, clean and sightly, easily and
cheaply kept In repair without being
a great burden to the taxpayer. Great
Britain alone had nearly 30,000 miles
of such roads. The advent of the
motor car and the motor trucks, and
their marvelous increase in numbers
has produced such a stupendous
change in the conditions of their
roads and streets as to create a feel¬
ing ahnost of panic among public of¬
ficials and engineers, as well as to
taxpayers upon whom will fall the
burden of meeting these new condi¬
tions. The beautiful and cheap ma¬
cadam and gravel surfaces must be
abandoned. The rubber tires suck
the fine material out of the road and
throw it into the air in great clouds,
and the road or street pavement is
soon destroyed. The most liberal
appropriations of the local authori¬
ties for road maintenance and repair
are so soon exhausted that taxpayers
have become affirmed, and those in
charge of the up-keep of such streets
and roads are in despair. Thousands
of miles of roads that for fifty years
have been considered as ideal are
going to pieces under these new con¬
ditions, and every one at all inter¬
ested is inquiring, What are we going
to do about it? How are we going to
meet it? I heard eminent engineers
estimate that if the motor traffic con¬
tinues to increase in the rate that It
has in the last ten years, all of the
main roads in the United Kingdom
will have to be reconstructed within
another ten years, entailing an ex¬
of $700,000,000. t*
pense over
There is another phase of the prob¬
lem that is of vital interest to farm¬
ers, and that is the damage to crops
caused by the clouds of dust thrown
into the air and carried over adjoin¬
ing fields. We have seen fields of
timothy so covered with grit and dirt
in this manner that one could hardly
tell the color of the grass.
The subject of the motor car and
the roads demand serious attention.
The auto has come to stay. Also, we
trust, the roads will stay, hut if so
plans must he devised whereby the
motor car and the road can get along
better together than they have been
doing up to this time.—Indiana Far¬
mer.
Deserter Heir to a Fortune.
Fort Leavenworth, Kans.—Under
sentence of two years in the federal
prison here for desertion, which is to
be accompanied by a dishonorable dis
charge from the army, Gerald Fair
child TA aged 23, 1 is one of two heirs of a
$300,000 nn estate nc at Duluth, Minn. \Tinn
Million Doiiar insurance Policy.
New York City.—Frank T. Heffel
finger, president, and Frederick B.
Wells, vice president of the Peavey j
Grain Elevator system, have conclud- !
ed contracts by which their lives are
jointly insured for $1,000,000 for the
benefit of their corporation.
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GOOD MARKET FOR GEESE.
Why don’t more men go into goose
farming? Thousands of acres of land
in many of the States which are not
now profitable might be made so by
raising geese, for they can be kept
at lower cost with less trouble than
any other domestic fowl, There is
always a good market for g P —
Farmers’ Home Journal.
/ MARKING TOOLS.
Take a little tallow 6r beeswax,
melt it and spread it over the place
on which you want your name. Write
your name down ihrough the wax
with a big needle or awl and pour a
few drops of nitric acid over the let¬
ters you have made, Leave a few
minutes. Then wipe off the wax and
your name will be on the iron.—
American Cultivator.
SHEEP BREEDING.
A successfu! sheep breeder says:
Do not breed a dry-fleeced ram. The
sire is the proper improver, but in
order to be such he must be a good
individual and descend from the best
lineage, Study sire, dam and blood
lines. Have a right idea and breed to
produce it. Honesty is of as much
importance in sheep breeding as it is
anywhere else.—American Cultivator.
t THE SWEET POTATO BELT.
The northern limit for sweet potato
culture is roughly indicated by a line
drawn from the border line of Massa¬
chusetts and Connecticut on the east
coast westward to the northeast cor¬
ner of Colorado, but the area where it
is profitable commercially would be
considerably south of this, except in
the Mississippi Valley, where it ex¬
tends well into Iowa, Illinois and In¬
diana.—Weekly Witness.
MENDING TUBS.
A tub or a barrel often drops down
for want of a hoop. If everybody
knew how easy it is to make a hoop
from a wire—perhaps a piece of
waste telegraph wire often seen by
the roadside—the work would not
wait. Simply bend the wire around
the tub to measure it, remove it and
twist it fast, Then drive it on like a
hoop; drive it fast, It will not break,
and being galvanized, will last in¬
definitely.—American Cultivator.
PROTECTION OF WOUinDS.
No artificial medium can be applied
to the surface of a tree wound which
will induce it to heai more quickly.
The activity of the healing process
depends upon the character and posi¬
tion and the time of the year when
the wound is made rather than upon
protective coverings, but where a
large surface of heart wood is exposed
it is advisable to protect it from de¬
cay by a coat of white lead or other
satisfactory covering.—Weekly Wit¬
ness.
i EATING UP SHEEP.
The world is eating up its shesp.
The number on foot is steadily being
diminished, and the same is true of
cattle and poultry, says the London
Meat Trades Journal. From the avail¬
able statistics it is said that it three
years should there be no increase, at
the present rate of consumption every
head of cattle, every hog, every sheep
and every chicken in the barnyards
would be eaten up. It has been no¬
ticeable for several years that the
number of food animals raised
throughout the world was steadily de¬
creasing. The question is, unless con¬
ditions are modified, and that shortly,
from where are the meats of the
future to come?
PLOWING GROUND TOO WET.
I never get in such a rush that I
am tempted to plow or cultivate a
field when it is too wet. The May
rains caught many farmers with only
a part of their corn ground plowed—
and there really has been no decent
weather for plowing now for nearly
two weeks. What is best to do? I
do not believe that much can be
gained by plowing wet ground, The
ground bakes, and you simply cannot
secure a proper seed-bed for planting.
It will be cloddy all season, and when
the trying weather comes on in July
and August, you will find you have
dissipated all the moisture which
should have been conserved for grow¬
ing the crop. I have seen much of
this plowing of wet ground this
spring, but I do not know of a siDgle
instance of a fine, well-pulverized
seed-bed. A wait of even a week, un¬
til the ground is in fit condition, is
much better than plowing when the
ground is too wet, and then have
trouble for the balance of the season.
—L. C. B., in the Indiana Farmer.
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B Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I say?”—
Luke <i: HI.
Jesus is either a force or a fraud.
Kis word is truth or it is nonsense.
His gospel is either the supreme phi¬
losophy of life or the quintessence
of silliness. He is either to be fol¬
lowed or not to be followed. If He
is to lead we must do His will. He
is a captain whose commands are
commendable and practicable or an
untrustworthy leader to obey whom
ts the sheerest senselessness. There
is no middle ground. Christ is a wise
man—the eternal wisdom of God—
or a fool; a visioned statesman or a
visionary; a religious leader beyond
compare, or the most illogical and
fantastic enthusiast who ever lived.
The church of the living Christ
through near 2000 years has pro¬
claimed Him the incarnate mind of
God, the glorious embodiment of the
eternal wisdom, the supernal leader,
! the only true guide, the mentor of
! the mind as the Saviour of the soul
j of beauty, man. philosophers Saints have have sung yielded of His
homage to the purity and profundity
of His thought, sages have reveled in
His wisdom, martyrs have died for
Him. We have declared Him Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the
end, the ultimate both as to inception
and finality.
And yet we fail to practice His
truth, to apply His principles, to
obey His mandates, to trust His
word, to live the life that He counsels
as the only life that eternally is
worth the while. We elevate Him
upon a pedestal of dominating prom¬
inence, and then we laugh at Him.
We join His church, and then we
misrepresent Him. We swear fealty
under His control, and then we de¬
sert Him in every hour of the test.
And then we wonder why men of
the world have no use for eccleeiasti
cism, though they cheer the Christ.
We are amazed at the paltriness of
the church’s grip as an organized in¬
stitution uoon humanity compared
with what it ought to be; while the
sweep of the influence of Jesus is be¬
coming universal. We are astounded
that in an age when the Lord of Life
receives greater homage than ever in
the reach of years, the church of the
Lord—the organized body that bears
His name—is being weighed in the
balance of intelligent criticism and
declared wanting.
But it is not strange. Too long
have you cried, “Lord, Lord.” The
world demands performance as well
as titudino’us. protestations. It tires of the pla
It expects men who pro¬
fess to love the good to be something
more than pious. For the piousness
of the day is almost synnoymous
with the most dangerous impious¬
ness.
Bad men have a suspicion that had
men will be bad. They expect good
tnen to be good. They detest pious
talk and a pious mien that gets no
further than words and loo cs. And
they are right.
Laodicean Christianity is as trait¬
orous as it is inefficient. It denies
that in which it professes to believe.
It betrays its Lord with a kiss. The
world has no use for it and we ought
to have none. A world that could
contemplate it with equanimity
wouldn’t be worth saving. What
shall we say of a church which too
largely practices it?
Too much have we cried, “Lord,
Lord. Jesus says, “Ye are My
friends if ye do whatsoever I com¬
mand you.” Have we done His will?
Jesus says: Love your enemies;
bless them that curse you; him that
laketh away thy cloak forbid not to
take thy coat also, >» And Jesus prac
ticed His proclamations. He was the
friend of God. He did the will of the
Father. They crucified Him. He be¬
sought forgiveness for His persecu¬
tors.
And yet in a land blessed as is
ours with the heritage of twenty cen¬
turies of Christian teaching, cultured
and controlled under the gospel oi
Jesus, the best theory of peace that
we can practice is that which bids us
to be prepared for war. The very
church which sings the praises of the
prince of peace is strangely silent be¬
fore the militarism of our age.’ Pre¬
paredness for war has yet to be pro¬
ven a guarantee of peace. Indeed it
has been quite otherwise. It is
neither effective nor necessary. It is
purely expedient and never final in
theory or in practice. Jesus’ way is
a better way. If all the armaments
of the world were wrecked there
than wi^jjld there be a is surer to-day guarantee and greater of peace
pros¬
! perity.
Jesus’ theories have never had an
honest opportunity to prove their
worth. Those that have been tried,
however little, have revealed the wis¬
dom of the Lord. Where nations
have ceased to war and have brought
their difficulties to the bar of divine¬
ly guided counsel there have they
found the best results. The individ¬
ual who follows in the footsteps of
*> is Saviour and forgets injury, for
S ivp s injustice, requites good for evil,
™ ay aPPm impractical, but he is the
h a PP iest as the most honored among
th e so ns of men - The P an Z h °. Bub :
mIts , + t t0 P eraeca Gon while his trust
remains , in God may lose his head;
he will not lose hls BouIf External
forces cannot steal away that life
eternal which is the gift of God.
The church must either follow
Christ or it must cease to be. The
reason for its existence is resident in
its recognition of His authority. The
secret of its ancient power lay in its
willingness to do His will. And as
T the guiding spirit in a larger era
I gives her visions of wider ministry
j which and impulse she has to a service known the she like must of
never
move on with fidelity and fervor or
be discredited and disowned.
The church is not the kingdom
save as the church labors for the
consummation of the kingdom. It is
| not an end in itself. It is a means to
the attainment of divine conclusions.
The trouble has been and is that wo
have mistaken theology for Chris¬
tianity, the organization for the life,
the membership roll for the test of
membership. Quite otherwise is the
mind of Christ. The test of member¬
ship is not how warm we make seats,
or how loud we sing, or how vehe¬
mently we pray. The final testing is
the testing of service. Do you work
as you pray? Do you warm hearts
as well as benches? Do vou make
souls to rejoice? Do you regard
yourself not ns your brother’s keeper
so much as your brother’s brother?
Are you true to Christ? Have you
keenness to serve the King?
"Whv call ye Me Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I sav?” The
question is as timely and applicable
as it, was when it was propounded.
For there never has been a time when
the church more largely was cognir
ant of the ineffectualness of lip serv
ice and convinced of the need for re
sultful and helpful labor than she is
to-day.
The Protestant church is in danger
nf becoming nriest-ridden—the worst
that can befal the organization of the
church; ridden, with a priesthood
shorn of compulsory authority and
in whom the authority of the Christ
is too precariously admitted to re
side. The laity of Protestanism are
too largely guilty of hiring men to
do their wor’.; for them—at salaries
on the average that are an insult to
the Lord whose work they send their
employes to do—rather than of call
ing leaders whose business it shall
be to direct the energies, rebuke the
sins, vitalize* the virtues, clarify the
thought, inspire t.he minds, intensify
the spiritual conceptions and percep
tions of the sons of God who are
members of the church of Christ,
The church of Christ is lull of men
and women who have their names
upon ’.ts rolls for no better reason
than that it is politic or proper or
polite or profitable socially and com
mercially so to be enlisted. And the
consequence is that enthusiasm has
gone out of the most oi the meetings
of the church, the gatherings for
prayer are generally so dry and cold
and uninteresting that, they are a
distress to earnest pastors and a re
flectlon not only upon the inteH gence
and spiritual experience but also
upon the gratitude of the church.
The reason for this is not far to
seek. The laity, and not infrequent
y the clergy have been so busy seek
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the manner oi the Masiei. ihe do...
lar has supplied so many wants that
men have ceased to feel the pressing
need for spiritual supplies. It has
been declared impossible for a nation
to believe Christ, disarm and be pre
served against the rapacious agree
sions of the armed. Business men
have declared it Impossible to follow
Christ and succeed. The best we
have done, till very lately, in the
management of criminals has been
to jail or execute them. The spirit
of the lex t.alionis—the lowest law of
Judaism—is rampant in the settle
ment of disputes between nations and
nations, society and its members, in
dividuals and their fellows. We have
forgotten the God of life in the ex
cellency of our livings. We have
prayed for reforms that we have
neither advanced, expected or de
sired. We have thanked God for the
might of His power while fearful to
trust His sufficiency against the on
slaught of Satan. Wo have talked
brotherhood and practiced an indi
vldualism that has brought sorrow
where there is no need for aught but
joy, and strife where co-operation
would more thoroughly fulfil the
plans of God, by and with the con
sent—tacit or active—of the church.
The situation cannot endure. The
church must reform or relinquish her
claim to primacy and to the privil
eges of leadership. Saying "Lord,
Lord,” will make her acceptable
neither to coming generations nor to
her bridegroom. Vain repetitions
are valueless to produce results. Ac
tion only is qualified to transmute
ideas into achievements. To do His
work we must do His will.
Jesus gives us a picture of the end
of the institution or the man guilty
of lip-service or of lukewarm adher
ence to the propagation of the truth.
“Not every one that saith unto Me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king
dom of heaven, hut he that doeth the
will of My Father.” He forecasts
the fate of those insincere and paltry
Christians who stand before Jehovah
at the great assize.
It is to be hoped that Jesus’ pic¬
ture will not prove a photograph of
us. It is not necessary that it should,
We shall be recreant and without ex
cuse if it shall so prove to he. No
man and no church need call upon the
iLord in vain. Hd who hath called us
jand upon whom we call Is both will
png and able to perform through us j
(effective service for the welfare and
(the salvation of individuals and the
[supreme jrace. God labor. summons He provides us in Christ contem- to
poraneously the power necessary to
succeed. He energizes and verifies j
and inspires and enthuses every soul
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and every society that with high de
sire and dedicated purpose calls upon
His name. , ;
Not “Lord, Lord,” but “Lord, here 1
am I, send me,” “What wilt Thou
have me to do?”
Brooklyn, N. Y.
He Is All in AU.
God is all to thee; if thou be hun¬
gry, He Is bread; if thirsty, He is
water; if in darkness, He is light;
if naked, He is a robe of immortal¬
ity.—St. Augustine.
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MENTS FOB OCTOBER 4.
Subject: David Brings the Ark to Je¬
rusalem, 2 Sam. fi—Golden Text.
Ps. 100:4—Commit Verse 12—*
Bead 1 Chron. Chapters 1 ft, 15,10.
TIME.—1045 A „ B. C. _ I LACE. —■
Kiriatb-learlm.
EXPOSITION.—!. Bringing TTf*
port’s Ark in Man’s Way, 1-5. This is
one of the niost solemn and searching
passages in the entire Bible. It
teaches a lesson needed to be learned
in our day. It shows us how neces
sar >’ u if! to serve God In God’s way.
David’s desire to bring up the ark of
God’s presence into his own eity, the
vpr V centre of the nations’ life, wee
most, commendable; but he should
}iav ® inquired from Cod's own hoot
the proper wav in which to bring it
nP- It was declared there with ner
tect plainness (Nu. 4:5-12: 7:9).
His neglect to consult and obey the
Word of God got David and others as
well Into great, trouble. Neglect, of
God’s Word lias gotten many a welt
meaning man into great trouble, am!
His friends also. The ark was t.h«
svmhol of Jehovah’s own holy and
glorious presence. Men must be
taught to treat it, with the reverence
due to His arp?u and hnlv Name. It
was “the ark of Cod which is called
by the Name, even the name of the
Lord of hosts.” The n.rk was also a
remarkable type of Christ. Christ is
Immanuel. God with us. and the ark
was the svmhol of God’s presence
with His people. Moreover, In the
ark the law of God was perfectly
kept, and in Christ the law of God is
perfectly kept. Further still, over
the perfectly kept law was the blood
snrinkled mercy seat where God met
His neople (Ex. 25:18-22). Tn Christ
we have our blood-sprinkled mercy
seat where God meets and communes
with us. David had no intention of
not, conferring due honor on the arlc
0 f God. He made great and costly
preparations. He "gathered together
all tbe rhnsen men of Israel, thirty
thousand.” It is often said that it
does not make any difference what a
man believes or does if he is only sin
rere . David was il perfpctlv sinr9rp .
but b(1 was wroi1? an d It made a
t (lpn1 f dlfrfiret)ce both tn bim
at1(] to TTzzab David was to blame
for bis , Knorance< He bad the TOPans
of enlightenment. Tf men to-dav am
ignorant, of what is in the Word of
God and suffer for it. it is their own
fnnif rnT,~, f ennuoi •i
thone-h thnv wm,M firm ^ in-’ ! ikc tf tn \ The mi®
, wen_
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WhGU
J Go is wav God had given
that tbe 80n 8 " f
der ? a At fN ”’ ea z tkp , ark , 7:9 ’ ip " ?’ n the and ! l r a shoaI . new -
™ ” ndeir tl,e c, r f urns an ™ s Y, ap n ?
ka n an a 1 David T had
. . ned improved ’’If”
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JL rai ka " ,, | s he wkere keathea , al * , improvements fcf ( - 1 Sam - <j :7 upon, ’ s >
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., God Judgment Disobedf
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£ n< e n,,d ^reverence, fi-9. David's
f° , ! y was saon ma ^ e manifest. He
aa KOWn the seed of disobedience
a , so ? n rea P p d a harvest of greater
disobedience , and death. A cart drawn
,y oxen, even though It was a new
f a was no hl ace tor the ark; and
, , aaon comps: “the oxen stum
! I J a 1 ea ‘ ,, Of course ,^° wlG they 1 drawing did, hut God’s what
f' k ’. ,\ e I° r tHat was upon
' shoulders of fit, men. It was quite
natural , for Uzzah to put forth his
hand to steady the ark, but it was al
PHmt .^^her disobedience wrong. It was to God, an act and of ex- of
gross irreverence. Even the sons of
Kohath, who were divinely appoint
i ' )Pa i'the ark, were not permitted
’ <ou ch the ark. or even to look at it
j J® v 1 * a ™® T, n '' ae en *' are ^ Nu very - 4 ill), solemn 19 , 20, words R.
Wal1 /‘ which the 7th verse opens, Ir
reverence towards God and His holy
name is an awful sin, and God in His
great mercy often deals very sternly
with it in order that we may know
how He regards it Ccf. Lev. 24:11-16;
10:1-3; 1 Sam. 6:19). Even in the
Christian dispensation men are cut
when they approach the table that
ae ts forth the solemn truth about
Christ’s atoning death in a thought
^ ess way d Gor. 11:27-30). We do
P Qt nped to suppose that Uzzah was
eternally lost. He simply suffered
temporal punishment for his sin, even
unto death (cf. 1 Cor. 11:30-32; 6-
5). David was displeased at God’s
judgment; he might much better have
been displeased with his own folly
that made that judgment necessary,
When he had taken time to think it
over he put the blame where it be
longed, on himself (1 Chron. 15:11-
13). We are often tempted to be
displeased at God’s judgments when
a little honest reflection would show
us that we are to blame ourselves,
and that God’s judgment is only a
merciful way of bringing us to our
senses.
HI. God Blesses the Home in
Which He Dwells, 10-12. We have
just seen Godisdealing in judgment,
and now we see Him dealing in mer
cy. A moment ago all was death.
now all is blessing. Obed-edom was
only a heathen by descent, a Glttite
(cf. ch. 15:19), but he welcomed the
presence of God in his home, and
God “blessed Obed-edom and all his
household. ft Nothing else brings
such blessing to a house as the pres¬
ence of God in it. That ark in his
home was the symbol of Christ in oitr
homes. Where He is there is bless¬
ing for all (cf. Acts 16:31).