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IN THE QUIET HOURS.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST AUTHORS.

Door Shut for Our Good-Cnrist Standing
at the Door - Draw Patience From
Christ -Unappreciated Blessings-The
Value Is in Christ Faith by Watching.
God sometimes shuts the door, and shuts
US in,
That He may speak, perchance through
grief or pain,
And softly, heart to heart. above the din,
May tell some precious %thoughtto US again.
God sometimes shuts the door, and keeps US
still,
That 80 our feverish haste, our deep
unrest,
Beneath His gentle touch may quiet, till
He whispers what our weary hearts love
best.
God sometimes shuts the door, and though
shut in,
If it's His hand, shall we not wait and see?
II worry lies without, and toll, and sin,
Gods word may wait within for you and
Tpfarfnn
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The Value Il In Christ.

You remember the scene in Shakespeare's
Merchant Of Venice" when the suitors for
Portals hand choose between the caskets-
the golden, the silver, the leaden. The
value is not in the casket, it is in the por-
trait OF Portia that lies within, and he who
finds the portrait wins the living bride.
The value of our Bible is not in its words
and p rases-these are the mere caskets; 1t
is in the Christ whose portrait is contained
In the whole Book, from the opening scene
In the Garden to the closing scene at the
Judgment. And he best uses the Bible
who knows how to open this casket, to look
beneath its words and phrases. to see the
Christ whose image is enshrined there, and
then to look up and see the living Christ at
his side and take him "a a Friend and a
Bridegroom because he has found this di-
vine image in the Book.-Lyman Abbott, ID.
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Christ Standing at the Door.

To the church at Philadelphia it was prom
ised that the door should be opened but her
a church at Laodicea, which had deliber-
ately shut its door on the higher life. It
was a church that was neither cold nor hot,
a lukewarm, Indifferent, spiritless people,
and to such a people, wilfuly barring out
the revelations Of God, ONE the Christ In
this wonderful figure, standing at the door
like a weary traveller, asking to be let in.
Such O picture just reverses the common
view which one Is apt to have Of the religious
life. We commonly think OF truth as hiding
itself within its closed door, and OF our
selves as trying to get In to 1t. We speak OF
finding Christ. or proving God, or getting
religion. as II all these things were mysteries
to be explored, hidden behind doors which
must be unlocked; as II, in the relation be-
tween man and God, man did all the
searching, and God was a hidden God.
But the fundamental fact Of the religious
life Is this-that the power and love oil,
God are seeking man that before we love
Him. He loves US that before we know
Him, He knows us that antecedent to our
recognition Of Him must be our receptivity
Of Him. Coleridge said that he believed in
the Bible because 1t found him. It Is for
the same reason that man believes In God.
God ind him.. 1t is not the sheep which
go looking for the shepherd it is the shep-
herd who finds the sheep, and when they
hear his voice they follow him. This is not
contrary to nature. The same principle Is
to be noticed in regard to all truth. That is
what we call a discovery 1t Is the opening
Of the door OF the mind and one Of the most
impressive things about science today Is
to consider how many other secrets Of
the universe are at this moment knock
ing at our doors and waiting to be.
let in; and to perceive how senseless and I'm,
receptive we must seem to an omniscient
mind, when so much truth, standing near
us, is beaten back from our closed minds
and wills. It is the same with religious
truth. Here are our lives, shut in, limited,
self-absorbed; and here are the messages
Of God, knocking at our door, and between
the two, only one barrier, the barrier Of OF
own wills. Religious education Is simply
the opening Of the door Of the heart. A
Christian discipleship is simply that alert
ness and rec ptivity which hears the knock
ing and welcomes the Spirit which says:
''1f any man will but open the door, will
come in to him, and sup with him, and he
with me."-Prof. F. G. Peabody in "Morn-
ings in the College Chapel.
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Unappreciated Blessings.

A poor old widow, living in the Scottish
Highlands, was called upon one day by a
gentleman who had heard that she was in
need. The old lady complained OF her con-
dition, and that her son was in Australia,
and doing we'll. "But does he do nothing to
help you?' inquired the visitor: mo, moth
ing" was the reply. He writes me regu-
larly once a month, but only sends me
a little picture with his letter." The
gentleman asked to see one OF the
pictures that she had received, and found
each one Of them to be q draft for Gl0. That
is the condition Of many OF Gods children.
He has given US many exceeding great and
precious promises" which we either are
ignorant OF. or fail to appropriate. Many OF
them seem to be pretty pictures Of An ideal
peace and rest, but are not appropriate as
practical helps in daily life. And not oRe OF
these promises is more neglected than the
assurance Of salvation. An open Bible
places them within reach Of al, and we MAY
appropriate the blessing which such a knowa
edge brings.-D. L. Moody.
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Uses of Steel.

We ride to New York on a steel
road over steel bridges, stay at a steel
frame hotel, and take a steel steam
ship to England, a country whose civ
ilization rests on steel. Our farmers
use steel plows, our merchants steel
safes, our manufacturers steel boilers
and steel water-wheels, our carpenters
steel nails, and our soldiers fire steel
guns from behind steel shields. Steel
nails are SO cheap that if a carpenter
drops one j. is not worth his while to
pick it up, for ten seconds of his time
is worth more than the nail. They
are so cheap that it pays to lose them
Hartford Conn., Courant.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
Society is the book Of women
Jean jacques Rousseau.

Society is the book Of women
Jean jacques Rousseau.
Behavior is q mirror in which
every one displays his image.-Goethe.
Life is not so short but there is
always time for courtesy.-Emerson.
Mans inhumanity to nan makes
countless thousands mourn.-Burns.
Labor rids us of three evils-irk-
someness, vice and poverty.-Vol-
taire.
In business three things are neces-
sary-knowledge, temper and time.
-Feltham.
Whatever makes men good Chris
tians makes them good citizens
Daniel Webster.
Labor to keep alive in your heart
that little spark of celestial fire called
Observation-Disclosures.
One part of knowledge consists in
being ignorant of such things as are
not worthy of being known.-Crates.
The fountain of beauty is the heart
and every generous thought illus
trates the walls of your chamber
Bovee.
Nature gives us many children and
friends, to take them away; but takes
none away to give them us again
Sir W. Temple.
There is no open door to the tenn
pie of success. Every n makes his
own door, which closes behind him to
all others. --Marden.
The diligent fostering of a candid
habit of mind, even in triaes, is a mat
ter of high moment both to character
and opinion. --Howson.
The youth who starts out by being
afraid to speak what he thinks will
usually end by being afraid to think
what he wishes. -Marden.
1t is with narrow-souled people as
with narrow-necked bottles--the less
they have in them the more noise they
make in pouring it out.-Pope.
If any one speak ill of thee, con-
slider whether he hath truth on his
side; and if so, reform thyself, that
his censures may not affect thee
Epictetus.
When Infinite happiness is put in
one scale against infinite misery in
the other; if the worst that comes to
the pious man if he mistakes he the
best that the wicked can attain to if he
be, in the right, who can, without mad
ness run the venture. Locke.
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The Country School.

If the elementary principles of soil
fertility and plant growth are to be
taught in our country schools, some,
,ven, of our most successful teachers
will, perhaps, need to post up" on
these branches, and we respectfully
suggest that they might do we'll to be-
gin now; the country school is bound
to grow bigger, broader and better; it
has the people back Of it; they must
know more about the common things
with which they come in daily contact
and the mighty forces of nature with
which they have to deal.-The Epito-
mist.
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Legislator a Victim of His Own Law.

This is the story of a nan who was
hoist by his own petard. His name
is Ira N. Terrill, and he was the first
victim of the capital punishment law
in Oklahoma, escaping on a technical
ity. He is the author of the law, hav-
ing been a member of the lower House
of the Territorial Legislature.
After much work his labors were re-
warded and the bill making hanging
the punishment for murder became a
law. Shortly after the Legislature adj
iourned Terrill and a man named
George Embree had a discussion in
the land Office in Guthrie over a plot
of ground. Terrill drew his revolver
and shot Embree dead.
Terrill was tried before Judge Dale
and was found guilty and sentenced to
death. His attorneys were clever,
however, and obtained a new trial for
him on the plea that the crime was
committed on that part of Guthrie
known as the Government Acre." be-
longing to the United States and that
therefore the trial should have been
before a United States court.
At the second trial he was sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment and
confined in prison. Then his attor.
neys tried to get a third trial Oh habeas
corpus proceedings and did so well
that he obtained his freedom. He
was at once rearrested by the authori-
ties and retired and sentenced to
twelve years. imprisonment.
Scarcely had he been placed in Jail
when he and a number of cattle thieves
broke out and escaped into the Ozark
Mountains, where Terrill remained two
years.
About a year ago he made an effort
to visit some relatives in Kansas, when
he was recognized and captured. He
was taken back to the penitentiary
and is there now, awaiting the de-
cision of the courts as to which sen.
tence he shall fulfil. New York Jour
nal
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The Campbell Farm Gu lture.

We might SUI that our readers
are familiar with the nature of the
Campbell method" of farm culture,
as we have once or twice described it,
but we may repeat that it consists,
first, in thoroughly pulverizing the
upper three or four inches of the soil
intended to be cultivated. This is
best done with a spader or disk har-
row. If the soil is already in perfect
condition this operation may be
omitted. In this upper stratum, at
the end of the summer, is concentrated
the most of the available plant food.
Secondly, the ground is plowed to a
uniform depth of eight inches, by
measure and not by guess, the furrow
slice to be turned completely bottom
up so that the pulverized surface soil
containing the humus may be in a po-
sition to form the rootbed for the
coming crop. Third, the pillow is to
be Immediately followed by a tool
called the sub-surface packer, which
thoroughly firms the lower four inches,
but leaves the upper stratum in a fri
able condition suitable for a seeded.
The object of tirming the lower four
inches is to prevent drying out by a
too free circulation of air, and to in
crease the inflow of water to rot the
vegetable matter in the rootbed.
Fourth, the grain is sown in drills,
eighteen or twenty inches apart, and
the cultivator kept going in it every
week until headed out. This surface
cultivation is only about two inches in
depth, and with a proper tool can be
done very rapidly. Corn and other
hoed crops are planted at usual dis
tances and tended to maturity.
There is no doubt as to the result of
such cultivation wherever the annual
rainfall is sufficient to make a crop,
and very little rain is required when
the water is all saved. That it is
saved by this method has not been de-
termined alone by the size of the
crops, for other reasons might be
alleged for this, but more accurately
by analyses of the soil to a depth of a
foot compared with the analyses of
adjoining soil not SO cultivated. In
the one case there was always found
sufficient water to make a crop, and
in the other case it vas not found.
The question to be settledis whether
it will pay to raise good crops at the
cost of so much labor. AS to this the
data are not forthcoming, although
they doubtless will be supplied in the
course of the season. In different
climates, with different rainfall, and in
different years, there will doubtless be
a variation in the number of cultiva'
tons possible or profitable, but il
seems evident to us that this method
is certain to open to profitable cult
vation large areas of arid lands hither
to considered worthless, and We be
lieve it to be desirable that expert
ments should be at once made in thi'
State with the view of determining
what the results will be here. Their
is more or less of summer rain in th'
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Why a Boy Was Good Fifty Years Ago.

Assistant Marshal Wright amused
himself the other day with watching a
small boy, who thought he vas unob-
served, try to let the wind out of a BIZ
cycle standing il front OF the Western
Union Office. He unscrewed the cap
from the valve and then glanced about
to see if any one was looking; then he
squeezed the tire, put his knee on it,
and tried various means to get the air
out, looking, meanwhile, to see if the
owner was coming. He finally had to
give up. Mr. Wright said to ex-Mar-
shall Hendrick:
''Talk about bad boys; they wouldn't
have done that fifty years ago" Mr..
Hendrick, evidently q believer in the
boy of to-day, answered:
"Oh, no; they didn't have bicycles
fifty years go,"-Springfeld Repub-
lican.
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Splits in Fruit Trees.

If a fruit tree is trained properly
from the nurseryto the bearingperiod,
the danger from a splitting of the
trunk or a splitting off of some limbs
from the trunk would perhaps not be
very great; but, as a matter of fact,
many trees do thus split, and q knowl-
edge of the proper treatment of such
wounds is therefore important. Some
times the two split portions of a tree
are brought together and an iron rod
passed through both parts, the ends
being secured by a bolthead and by e
nut. Such material is not always at
hand, and costs, moreover, more than
is necessary. American Gardening
suggests an improvement as follows:
If a coil Of stout, galvanized iron
wire mo. 12,a at least, is kept on hand,
a split limb can be instantly replaced,
and q figure eight placed about it and
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An Elenhnnt and n Baby.

At the circus parade in Middleton
recently q small child in Broad street
got away from it's mother and toddled
out in the street to see Jumbo. Before
any one could realize what the child
was up to it was directly in front Of
the herd of elephants. Every one ex.
pected to see the little one crushed to
death, but the leader of the herd care
fully picked the babe up with it's trunk
and swung her out of all dengeT.-
Hartford (Conn.) Courant.
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A CAPRICE of Fortune.

ct noticed in tn colyumns of the
daily pr-press that Actor Bancroft was
knighted by tn gr-r-racious hand Of
the lady queen. Now, who in Erebus
is Bancroft"
"Barnsy, me boy, I dunno. I I'M
derstood he was retired"
Goods! Listen to that! Retired!
Suchi is our pr-r-rofession. The obsolete
and spawned oldlaid-on-the-shelf gets
garters, while we active ornamentous
of the stage can't even connect with
dime suspenders! Truly it is a parlous
world. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Faith by Watching God.

Faith is always on the lookout. 1t does
not always see, but it keeps its eyes open.
Yet faith is always painted blindfolded. II
don't understand anything about Provi-
dence or the Bible" said a young man, re-
Gently. Il don't try to understand it; pre-
fer to walk by simple faith" But simple
faith does not court darkness, nor is it an
evidence Of great faith when ono who has
lust placed his hand in Gods hand closes
his eyes. Following God blindfolded is not
the courage of faith. but the recklessness Of
credulity. Aman of faith finds strength to
go through hard places, not by shutting
his eyes. but by keeping them open; not by
watching Him in all His ways. s.
Times.
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What He Wanted to See.

"Did you see the account of the new
submarine boat?"
eyes; but Ididn't readit 1t doesn't
interest me, you know"
eft certainly indicates extraordinary
progress"
"Of course; but in the wrong direc-
ton. Enough boats go down now.
What Iwant to see is n that is
guaranteed to stay up.'-Chicago
Post.
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it's neighbor, as shown in the illustra-
ton. Severals strands of the wire
should be used, according to the
amount of weight to be supported. A
bit of sheetiron, tin or zinc, placed at
the sides will keep the bark from be-
ing cut by the wire. Such wire is ex-
ceedlngly convenient in mending
breaks of many kinds, and may we'll
be kept always on hand.
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ment that can be slipped into the bar
row on such occasions, to the great
increase of its capacity. The side
pieces should be hardwood strips. The
attachment may be supported by hooks
from the strips to the top Of the wheel
barrow's back if preferred, American
AOrio11turict
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DOG Meets the Mail Train.

A big black dog of uncertain breed
seizes the mailbag when it is thrown
off the train at q certain rural town in
Georgia and scampers away with it to
the postofice 1t is said he seems to
know the time when the train is due,
and is always punctually at his post.
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An Eskimo Student.

Among the students in the summer law
school at Ann Arbor, Mich, Is Edward
Marsden, q full-blooded Eskimo, from Alas
ka. He has the typical features and build
Of an Eskimo, but Is good-looktnS. he
was early converted to Christianity, and
was graduated in the Sitka Industrial
School. He served as q steamboat hand
on the North Pacific for three years. DE
expects to return to his country and use
his knowledge OF law to help improve the
political and economic conditions OF his
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The Returned Student.

Upton-"Well, I see your son is
home from college. What does he in
tend to do?"
Manville-"I don't know exactly,
but, Judging from the start he has
made, I'm inclined to believe that he
proposes to put in most of his time ex-
planning how he was turned down
when the racing crew was chosen
Cleveland Leader.
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An Easy Exploit.

Brown-'I dom t see why so much
fuss should be made about Queen Vic
toria reigning sixty years"
Jones-"Nor I. We have thousands
of statesmen who would guarantee to
hold on to a job sixty years, provided
they didn't die and were notremoved.'
-Pnck-
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Or BUDGET OF HUM0R.
STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.

The Modern Marco-Fair to Look Cp0n-A
Ridiculous Ouestion-In Washington
Ups and Downs-Labors Divided-An
Easy Exploit-Saving Labor, Etc, Etc.
At midnight, in his gold boudoir,
The broker dreamed, with smiling lip,
That Greeks and Turks, In strife afar,
Had made wheat take another skip.
Detroit Free Press.
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Labors Divided.

Parke-ssI have a joint account in
the bank with my wife now"
Lane-''Good! You make an even
thing of it, eh?"
Eyes. I put the money in and she
draws it out. detroit Free Press.
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districts where it has thus far been
tried, but among the missing links in
the evidence hitherto supplied is the
rainfall by months, on the farms
worked by this method.-San Fran
CISCO Chronicle.
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Golden Bridge Building.

"Of course you'll give me n little
kiss before I co." he pleaded.
She looked at him intently for a
minute and sighed.
cts pretty high pay" she replied,
1sbut if you will go early enough 1 sup
pose I'll have to call it a bargain
Chicago Post.
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A Ridiculous Question.

Miss Flitterley-'Oh, Mr.. Soper,
didn't I sec you asleep in church?'
Mr.. Soper-''I really could not say
if you did. "-Pick-Me-Up.
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Saving Labor.

"Our typewriter girl asked the boss
if lie couldn't tighten her work this
hot weather"
"What did he say?"
"He told her not to hit her type
writer keys so hard and to lick her
postage stamps only on the corners.
Chicago Record.
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The Lord Speaks.

"Do you think it's true that every
man has his price," asked the heiress.
"I'm sure I don't know" he an
swered thoughtfully, ''but if you want
a bargain you needn't look anyfurther.'
CHICAGO Post.
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Ups and Downs.

"Betterdays has come down in the
world, hasn't he?"
Decidedly. He's living on the top
floor of a tenement. Puck.
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In Washington.

Office Seeker-"Have you given up
all hope of getting that job?"
Ex-Ofice Seeker (sadly)-"Yes, I've
lust grasped the situation"
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Increasing a Wheelbarrow's Capacity.
When wheeling corn, fodder, and
other light stuff, a wheelbarrow's ca
pacity is too limited for convenience.
The illustration shows O simple attach
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Good Crops in Mexico.

News from crops all over Mexico indy
cate q year OF great abundance and banke1
predict q good business during the coming
autumn and winter. =.
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Fair to Look Upon.

Miss Highsee is q beautiful singer,
isn't she?"
every. That was all that made
her singing endurable. "-Washlngton
Times.
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There is no greater gift or possession
than to believe God speaks to us. II we
believe that we are already blessed. -Martin
Tuther