= Main Should Value the. Atfections of the Dumb Creatures. (Entered aceora: ge Ast ot he of Uenads, the ine Hongred King za Four w ae nm Sy caeeclterer * Ottawa 5 A despatch from Los Angeles, Cal,, suys:--Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preached from the following text: Deuteronomy xxv, "Thou shalt not muzzic the ox when he treadeth out the corn.' M . the first great stutane man that I know of who recognized toga rights to animals as well as to men and women. It was sgn and righteous course, and om glad to remember that we, too, have oe only laws to prevent the ill usuage of animals, but also in the Humane society an organization to see de a are enforced. [I want to sho u this morning why every Christian' should be in touch with that society und that its principles should be applied to all classes and all ages. 'There is no reason why tho admonition should be limited to tho farmer. The hoy should be taught to be good to 'his pet dogs and squirrels; the drayman should be * compelled to lighten 'the load if his horse is o Weak to draw it; the hackman should be required to blan- ket his steed shivering in the chill blasts of winter; sportsman should be prohibited erica! the mother bird in nesting time. I would try to sho that the Christ who was born amid the lowing of the cat- tle and the bleating of the sheep and the neighing of the horses, whinnying for their outs. is to-day the friend and ape gene of the --_ brutes as % our fellow nEaeane® ; A s nature Is degraded by in- diulging in cruelty to animals loses er manliness and acquires the hatura brutes. He undergoes in hia iifettme the metamorphosis that tho pero believe he suffers after 1 far east there is a it Well a caves sTY cat t popular belief held by multitudes; is a belief in the transmigration of "souls 1iS means, in popular in- terpretation, that after a man dies his soul passes into the body of a or or a lion og a cat \ and so lives on through the coming 08. but) though in ¢ tianized America we do not believe in the transmigration of souls. we nay " mround us an enalogous phenomenon, When a man abuses a dumb Fute he is not punished by i soul at death pass into the . but he tnkes on the character of those cruei be- tial ur legged scavengers of th desert, and he becomes one of them in his nature. Svery time the old Mexican skinned a lamb alive, think- ing that thereby t nS inad wriggle and squirm in agonies that boy is fitting himself to became a paater, a miirderer and a destroyer of m demon, became 'the inhuman monster he was by first. as a hoy, learning to take ple asure in the sufferings of his nursery pet Every man takes upon himself the heart na savago animal when he abuses the helpless dumb brutes that God gave to him ne dependent TRAINED RY KINDNESS, The Humane Society of America, ' in teuching man to be kind to second practical dumb brute, has a milssion | It teaches that harshness and bitterness and cruclty do abso- lutely ue good in the training an the iste subjugation of oan anima - was able to t yy Blows and kicks and cuffs only make a stubborn hérse the more stubborn balhy animal the more : n a more than whew T passed two cohaagor'y al- nest within a stone's throw of one of the best stock farms in thi s coun- try. What magnificent anunals those were ! ed there . riage horses and roadsters of all sorts The clean limbs, their flashiny, eves, their high strung, ner- vous er made those e ani- the er eg rst day on which Was put upon them yet in the hands of their kind became gentle, lovable afar," masters they docile. POWER OF GENTLENESS. An old, erumpy. dyspeptic philos- opher once said, "The more I see of I sce of dogs and horses and cattle the more I think they are like Supposing you were a horse hitched sing to move over to the o side the stall, and instead "of Placing his saying 'savage heat thernide i the bead that ear ring and your brain yw wire pale. " What would you" 'on the thrashing floor, do? "Would And bite and kick him if you 'got the chance ? I doubt whe~ ther human caine would be as long suffering as equinc nature under _ erorometien. But_if every time that caress I them with the same zon ntle sion in an an é -- terror and fear can never produce it. JUSTICE FOR THE BRUTE. d you ever stop to think how you and I are tauebted to - s on dens he has carried! happy times we have had when being by him over the country In how many scenes of mer tymaking has he been an essential part! And often in times of hey are land prima donnas, our songsters and make the day, cattle of worthy of their hire. bone muscle and brain of man come from their flesh. Even the 'humblest crea- tures are sometimes of great value |} to 'man. "I saw a hideous snake this after- " IT said last summer af . "It seemed to be all colors and I caught "No, my 'All sunakes are not to he poisonous snakes are to . but not those that are not pois The snakes we have around . for the most because the laborer is always worthy of his hire, but the the mong °lthe best and the oe, faithful 'Taber . ers' we have THE LOVE OF ANIMALS. I assert that we should nl affection even greater than that you were |o ied to apatly upon. you and ow aoe over," he gives k in the stomach or jf man if that loving power of the heart is ever allowed to develop. I believe that a dog can love as a man can love. I believe a horse can love S a man can love, and a bird also. We should be very careful lest we hahiogd upon the hoaree of the duinb , brutes. as some us too often tram- jple pea the hearts of men. "What! A do asa ves? Absurd says some one. Is it absurd? Have you never heard of a Con. dying from gric. because his master dived? my father once had a noble greyhound. When he went far away from home that dog became so lonely without my father that he refused to eat, and literally died _ grieving for his muster. Absur Did you never see a dog sicinion among the chief mourners at a funeral? Again and again we tried vo drive Beauty, a little sky termer, out of the room of death. But he would not go. Un- der the casket he lay, hour after hour Mournfully he went from to room after the undertaker had carried the precious burden away to sleep among the flowers For days and weeks Beauty was hunting. He was always hunting Iie. was hunting for the dead Have you never had a Beauty in your home? WORLD NOT FOR MAN ALONE. But, lastly, we should be kind and gentle and loving toward the dumb tes cause God loves them, and whet Qod loves we should not de ise. | derorut ng "and aptuteteriag because man was th Bu I be lieve all worlds are created as our own World was created because Cod loves the beautiful and has declared that cevergthing he created in the universe was good es, God "hath saree not catch it for twilight, in = < music is sweet. As Father loves the birds we should poll think it sil- jexperim: _ {uniform height, level. . "eles ace thet txoad opens streams. Undoubted glacier marks were found at considernble height, eddy ™ brook and sportag 'and «moraines were found on Cape 8 Royds at a hei nt of 1.500 feet. = = > a = ~ s => when he treadeth out the corn!" ---- jf DETAILS OF THE RESCUE OF THE DISCOVERY. Ramming, and Saws Used to Get Lay Out of the Q arrived at Lyttleton, New land, on Good Friday, after an ab- nce of over two years ing the last ye some anxiety was felt about her, and after a little delay A LIGHT O% THE MATTER. two relicf ships were fitted out at | When ao large sea-l » B Variety great expense hese vessels, the | of -- Was cut open the remains of Morning and the Terra Nova, found |@n ordinary seal were found in the the Discovery on Jan. 5 ly im- aniena?a stomach. As he posse bedded in the ice Explosives were it is tried, with no result. Then lief ships tried butting the icc. The Discovery, bered, had been less -- miles ba the om sea, 50 tha mass solid ice to OUT OF ANTARGTIC IGE = The Antarctic exploring ship Discov- Zea- |P nen. 'ring them for food y any mears abundant. met with, that known' as Wed- do's Dagon the best cati The Ant- ur is not of the "marketable Zoologists have for some, time bee uzzled and sonent, s0 frequently found -_ the The Discov sma expedi- tion on able to throw supposed that the habit of -- the cannibul to- ward = smaller breth e skua gulls are the Scavengers of the vmietd regions. They are not a ail = will come up in numbers a Seal has straighttay begin feeding of the' car- "The giant petrel shares, the distinc- ed mn @® pecullar ben through before reaching her. The of the butting were le ngth would | pear away, tit other" times not three | necks Be ore' the e on. the poor little Morn- ing tried, but as the Discovery's men THE DISCOVERY'S MEN, o Were Watching from the hill, de- clare that her last shot was a fine sight. She broke the ice like pa- per. Of the work done caring the Fal the reports have a go 1 "oO the first few tiered they occupied themselves w ing als and gulls for winter April showed no chance of breaking up the ice, preparations exploring began. The longest tour was that who led his d most severe weather to contend with, almost lost several lives by men atop over a precipice into soft sno ly were brought to a standstill by a terrible it touched it. When the men ceased | Walking the contraction of the skin caused it to split and gave severe | iain. They had taken light -- tents hole which, when they were i hey Warmed was kept closed themselves and cooked their food by means of Primus lamps, and the brews of tea or cocoa were limited, since fuel had to be carried. Th sledges were hauled by the men, This was found most arduous. After getting to a height of 7,200 feet on the glacier, Capt. Scott and his men, in the teeth of a driving blizzard, crossed the 180th meridian at ¢ point furthest south yot reached in the history of the world. Then the compass was pointin, IEXACTLY THE WRONG WAY. But the weather no severe that the pa on their +. For nine days they kept up, making la- titude 77 deg. 59 min. south and longitude 146 deg. 33 min. east, to the summit of Victoria Land, which they ascertained to be a plain of 9,000 feet above sea geologist of the party made import discoveries in the w of fom "plant life and pebbles, which -serve to show t at nie past time the climatic conditions of this nsi These are probably the only fossils yet found in the Antarctic con- tinent. They were fuund on a sand- stone Icdge in a carbonized band, ap' Parently carried there by torrential t cut made was forty fect in four hours; and as soon the cuts were made they were frozen a | oeain, s0 that at lait = work had aband lee: to loned as uscle Meantime, anotlier extiedition had set out under Lieut. Royds and Mr, Bi i wished to ascertain the Of the ice sheet and to see if any land were in sight. t- geccrensen' conditions prevailing over ce sheet to be ascertained oat Saabs observations taken at o Place FREE FROM ROCK MASSES. e | amount of prod the emperor a seme time emitting curious' wetter cries. under- | tries ing w, and final- | reading-his wings |. sails. 6If the ir lasts long e- jenough his digestion comes to his | rescue and he suddenly raises himself land flics off. The uins seem to ~~ Brovid- the explorers with "a certain amusement. They used to penguin te éd ing sixty pou of a oki Y ik ghen would give it tremendous "ear Which made the hand tingle; a we will find 3, which are b well rotted. tion of a S. ose these into available fo dent that t bacteria b in humus, i see corambling along the ice on lies, using the flippers like in dives en that majori It to the Phe adelies, o smaller are consive Soci most ---- customer always | : coming what is, be done in - ¢ 43 tent of the we turn to ey parts that dives fig- ures carry m ning Tho population of Scotland's vil- lages is 466,000, women predominat- ing to ie ou of 9.00", which, in other words, is roughly only 50 of the fair to every 49 of the stern sex. In strictly rural parts, which have a Population almost twice os the villages, this disparity is still pone marked, indeed as slight 220 dha = 219 males, -- "Cartously. ough, Scotland's is- lands show the disparity of all. Of the 105. 000 persons who in- habit these islands over 82,000 of the gentle sex. WHY BABY EATS 1 LOT. It bas been laid down at a physio- o of the eater, but on thw extent his bodily surface. In the case of children this rule is further mi An infant may weigh one-eighteenth as t its e infant's food is to replace the heat that is continually being lost by radiation from all parts of the dy, the -- fraction determines portion of nourish- ment rather yi the former. . But the, of a growing child, food is also neéded to supply the increase of bodily' weight, In all, an po are |the acid, injected his gee 4 for ing climate to Durban, fant"s ration May be five t actual weight alonc. oa DOG FARMING. are the .dowry, daughter of poor parcets,-more_ cy be weal The brutes serve woman cdieeost cox avastbice atiout "the size of her shone as she es Ria Prisine--ist ap: shocked Their efforts were crowned with great. success, suffered severely from froatbite and from a of food, which eventually oer ie ge sears back. Was necessary to carry light lok" but he open inre xen, iad, You: eee eat to kise*y in inuch as would be estimated fom its | i nd then reshiprced to Germany. N. Manchuria dog-ra'sing is prac- withstanding th» fact been purposely placed near superficially On, \thin slice from the outside had to cut off, Prot. raceme process ish ars With these low which others tearing it Struggle for existence, while may mal or plant. | will probably fi manures, str About the only forra in which into simpler cempounes, commonly say large germs of which thefe are two distinct SSE: First, nitrates and Saher bacteria and it is thought by some to having ip, and the professor 'preserved' proof against heat, If the meat is to be tain tricks of manipulation, : ° and... averting i ine we have vely associative action of bacteria their 4 'a matter of Fak. useful as: these la , they pl but a small part in the preparation of plant food: Any fertile . is og gil alive life some of orms of cla ark are emett ut of which bear no rolation to the soil ox- cept that [t furnishes thoroughly cultivated in it anywhere from 10,- of 0,000 germs, som wilding up plant food and own in their fierce others its, igher * plants Few have the wana "ot directly converting complex organio matter such gs stable WwW, etc., into plant food. nitro- must be converted or as manu ust be This is the chief func- number our soi those which decom- substances into ammonia r plant food. he presence of these bac- teria is essential. In ordinary soil these two classes of yalance each other and there is little loss, but in soils very rich nh manure heaps or com- care must taken or ammonia' will be produced faster than it can be oxidized and thus escape in- s this process of ex- trification which we have necessary for the growth of all bac- While nitrogen is perhaps the most ADO = of plant foods, certain min- e rege an cria also play an im- 'Those "honk commonly nd These belong -to the are of sever convert the aenerels form eraltable for plant f is. er form of beosl ine teria which o how great an extent t bacteria afiect the nitrogen con- soil is unknown, though be a mat- ter of great significance. The sub- " of soil bacterioloBy is still in its infancy, but it may bring about the disparity betw: num! of great oa ¢hange in the cultivation men and women to be least in. the |of the soil as pathogenic bacterio- towns and cities. logy has in ee | and surgery what do we really find? In aces a and Glasgow there are PRESERVING MIEAT. nearly 40,000 more femalés than A lar rl professor claims to have males, which work out p ticall Process for preserving 29 men to ev 30 womrn. In the | mients that. will revolutionize the other Scottish towns there are in j)packing industry, an far toward all an excess of 70,000 females, equal |Solving the problem of supplying to the still larger pe of 25 {armies in the field. Public tests were women to every 24 men. It is when {held in Berlin recently, and 'or respondent who was present thus de- scribes the process: in the cass remaine " After the lo had been allowed to flow out Prof Egimerich, discoverer of the process, solution of acetic acid in the upward course. Then the meat cold, =e or vary- conditions,' from , simple, since there are { veins, that need to be so prepared has been shipped South Africa, from Ger- man ports and found, after usual cul- nary preparations, to be delicious in jflavor and quality. Another ship- was recently made to South retained there a fortnight that the ship and had twice it arrived there differ- the ch had been sprayed with had 80 that before eating a ich's process i is said t> more expensive than the imple Tt obviates, by rts absolute- harm ~ Baron. von Asch, Bayarian minletet APD War, in reporting upon the nose, experiments Munict, says: "Emmerich's process enables us : t from. to" offer j been" tynehed."*"" nes "ae dae SPRAYING. I di in fF ae pee ve which time 1 l used paris green nsectii time the poison is used in the bor deaux. '1T first agen is -- just. as the buds are openi! later, f the weather conditions have been umavorable. Spraying not only pays me well, in the production of better and more porfect fruit, but it ps my trees in far better oondition than thoso not sprayed. Good, strong, vigorous trees are cajiable of produc- ing fruit more regularly than weak- I learn somcthing about mixing 5 ma ach year or basket until all the mat dissolved. The other barrel i three-fourths full of water, to. which is added 12 pounds well-slaked, good i This should be --_-- 'ive a the bluestone Stir the mixture continuous- ly while the lime water is being ded. About the fourth pailful, so evenly, an work out so well through the nozzle. We then fill the barre] containing the solution with water and add 2$ ee of arsenate of Icad or dispar- as it is called. "This mixture is used at cach spray- ing. Usually we add one-fourth pound paris green barrel when spraying after the blossoms fall, We find that the paris green being heavi- e the other material scttles hand pump. year 1 ordered gas power sprayer and will give it a thorough test. Vermorel nozzles with bamboo extension rods are used. will try the now mystery nozzle this year. Our young trees are usua mes one aueitcat ten, This is peated if it is thought necessary. The young orchard, on the bottom land was planted in 1902. It was culti- vated for two yi and is now ed to clover and bluegrass. It will be mo regularly from now on, but the grass will be left on the ground as amulch. There are 600 an plums an toes are that there will be lew: if any, ners or plums in this section this ye but I never saw a better orenguct for apples. GETTING PAPA'S CONSENT. The any girl tapped softly at the or of rt father's private office Was no response. She tapped a little louder. do ome She turned the knob and entered. The grey-haired money-grabber looked up from his little desk. "Halloa, Lucict" *"Halloa, ney?" Pp Anything wrong?" "Talk faster, my girl.' "Well, you sec, pa. I want----"' "How much?" "Wait, pa. Give me time." "That's something I can't a Pilea ust a minute, pa. I m "What will it cost?"' "Don't interrupt, pa; I want to give a young man nat ing." we present' "Well, don't come to me. I haven't any.idea what @ young man wants."' "But I have, pa. --I know just what he wants.' "Then why do you come to mec?"' uu I want you to approve, im. "Oh, that's all right, of course. Give him anything you please. Want a chequ ue?"' "N--no, pa. "Oh, anne a up.' "IT want you to a it's all right pe. I want you to again can give ped "anything I please."' "Silly course you can. You've always, hes Bis own way. Is that oad pa. You see, I know what 7 wants." just "You said that before,' ' "Because what he wants is--"* "Well?" "'M-m-me!"' Tabelcau. ee neem RAILWAY CARPETS. French Minister of Public Works has taken up the guestion of Cir- sanitation in sing carriages. culars ha to the various railway companies ordering the ediate removal from ra able pets, he cessation o} the system of dep sweeping and claan- ing. Even carriage seatings are te washable materials. ----------E PYROTECHNIC BIRDS. In Nagasaki (Japan) there is a firework maker who manufactures |pyrotechnic birds of great size, that, 1 sail ina life ng. be in those of living birds... The secret of nnking these wonderful things has in the on of the coldest _*e----- Dingdong--"'Did you try that cigar do you 'Dingdong--"Why, mean?'* Wuang--"It - {of oe in this block containing about tten=4 200. each of: Japanesa plums. one, ful I you "Yea, but it didn't Seren Gal." see "should have | 5 would be verfectly willing to bury alive. Fs amg up to the very last evening be- re His crucifixion. It scems so unR- fe § Pore or to get so little where. there fis so much, but this is true even the. smallest portion of Scrip- we must u the " ad Spirit to give us all that He secs we receive. - In a es let us the things we the supper and anointing at Bethany, the public entry into Jerusalem, the te cursed and many par and discourses. } y-are the believers who find ti meditate much upon esso! rded by Mark and Luke as = as by Mat- thew, and 2 says that He sent Peter cad "John, aqyieg! "Go d that we may eat."' Then they asked goodinan of the w them a large upper room, fur- nished and prepared, und there they were to make ready. They found as He had said and did as Ho had ap- pointed them (Mark xiv., 13-16). There is a word in Prov. i which has been full forty years, having takep hold me I ung clerk in a 1 " of 'the lesson and ix., 6, sent them ie nd assurance in culdaoes Eph. ii., 7; Pa. xxxii., 8; Isa. 13; but be sure you ne your understanding nor want your own way in anything; be good clay in the peas hand (Isa. Ixiv., 8; Jer. xviii., Now tet us vais the upper room and see ur Lord and the twelve at . This also had been arranged before the world was. Of all P vers, the first in Egypt (Ex. xii.), this was the oe for it was the last, tho nsummation and fulfil- ment of all the others. oncern this one He "With desire I have desired to eat over with you before I suffer; for Say unto you, more t filed in (Luko xxii, 18, 19% us toa rael than ever Bayer bul ae. xVi. 14, 15; xxiii; 7, 3. ps atonement the of he established on this earth Han arranged in the etern past, in ans time -- S Aegeny » fore- shadowed to man, as the ap- pointed time cnn "all 7 fulfilled, for "the Scripture cannot be broken'? and "every purpo: of the shall be performed' (John x, 35; er. ii, R The institution the passo (Ex. xii) should be yn studied, and the lessons of the Iamb, the blood, the bitter herbs, the leav- d had -- unpenaualts ts aol it ho had only 'been willing. oh read that Judas, hay- ern oO escape ; Luke xvi, 26; Rev. The passover being fulfilled, or about to be, but not for the national not the time of this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lord's death till He come.' 'Then shall begin that phase of the ingdom when Christ shall ve He hath put all enemies His feet, after which He shall Nieliv- His absence we are and faithful stewards occupy th "ult Ho come (Luke xix, 13). We are to be His faichtul witnesses, preaching rej of sins among all nations and no shrinking from fcllowship with Him sethsemanc Bi us "we must hold ours, ees ior Cs iv, 11; I Cor. vi, 10, es When a small boy gets. his finger caught in the oem al it ia' t the pe! jam he is looking fo Mr. Deal, the nucaiite: was nev- er at a loss for an answer W ny- one nacre to poke fun at hin or his pr on. One day a wou wit remarked to him; "Yours must be business,. Mr. are : "Th know some people whom + '\