' Me Fou NTAIN ~ - OF P alr. SERMON BY THE LATE REV. GEO. H. HEPWORTH, D.D. A great many honest minds have been disturbed and driven to the verge ef doubt by their inability to form any conception of God. He is the uncreated Creator, but the fwords convey no meaning whatever to ur minds. If you look through the Kick telescope at Arcturus you see wery little more than with the naked eye, and if the profoundest philosopher looks at the Alinighty he sees very little more than the unlettered peasant. Still Arcturus is in the sky,avhether you can into his secret or not, and God is im your life, though your most search- fng thought returns to you empty thanded. The very words omnipotent and omnipresent have an unthinkable signification, and when the man of sci- ence tells us'that space is absolutely lim- itleas, that it consists of horizons which are simply endless in number, we accept the fact, but have no more conception of it than the microbe in a watch has of the delicate machinery whose ticks are a continuous roll of thunder in its ears. 'What, then, you ask, is the basis of @ religion which demands such self- eontrol and self-sacrifice? Jf these problems will always remain insoluble, and if you can know s0'little of the Being who demands your soul's allegi- ance, why may not religion itself be a mistake ? Many a heart has been en- @loomed by those thoughts and many a mind befogged by them. The church, I fear, has done us an fnjury by putting into a creed its specu- Jations.and making that creed a stand- ard of excellence. If the creed were of- fered to hungry minds as merely a theological hypothesis, to be accepted or rejected by the thinking folk in the re- ligious community, valuable in so far as it is spiritually helpful and satisfac- tory to the individual, then we could see its importance. But when you ure told that it is the absolute truth on the subject, and that assent is the condi- Eion of receiving the Christian sympathy bf your fellow pilgrims through the @arkness, you are balked in your efforts to lead a holy lie, and perhaps fall 'from the high level of your natural faith to the fateful lowlands of doubt as to whether the whole scheme of sal- gration is not mythical. , True religion is independent of any purely intellectual theory of the uni- werse, and is founded on facts proven true by the universal experience of mankind. This statement is easily illus- trated by childhood. The little one does wot understand its mother, has no com- prehension whatever of a mother's love, or of the significance of a mother's dis- e. If the baby were gifted with Soot and could describe its relations 'to that mother it would make as many mis-statements as we do in describing pur relations to God. The mother's providence is wholly misunderstood; even her watchful care looks like inter- ference with the child's rights, and the child might say, as Calvin did of the Almighty, that "of her own good pleas- ure" she pets at one moment and pun- fishes at' another. The knowledge that punishment and love are entirely con- sistent with each other, or that mother fs still moth r even when the child's prayer is sternly denied, is beyond the reach of that narrow intellect, and will be for many a year to come. Mothers and children sometimes get at odds for this reason, and in like manner we get | /et odds with the Almighty. But when we come to be men our minds are large enough to settle cer- tain matters of practical importance It is needless to theorize, for harsh ex- perience tells us truths which cannot be insaid. The mierehe in the watch has earned his lesson and knows that some journeys are dangerous, while others ure safe, and from that moment he has a lan of life. He constructs a decalogue or himself, and the "Thou shalt not", the voice of imperial law, not forbid- ding him through caprice, but because an infraction of the law is followed by loss and remorse. Every man knows that there is a right and a wrong ; has |" been taught this by many tears and failures; that love brings sunshine, and hatred the tempest ; that filial relations with the Infinite result in serenity of soul, a resignation to harsh events which changes them from a curse to a blessing by some necromancy whose se- eret he cannot fathom, while hostile re- lations end in loneliness and despera- tion ; that integrity of character is worth all its costs to acquire and defend it. Add toallthisthe prophetic longing for another life which no argument can suppress, a longing that, like the spring on the mountain side, will have its way, and a curious conviction, Lore seems to be a component part of his nature, that in ways ars marae the ~_ ones in heaven cap to earth, aA IE, a MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. drawn by a love which was sacred and strong before the funeral bells tolled, and is equally strong and sacred now, and you have an array of facts, corrob- orated by every human life in every clime and every age. That is the basis of the kind o religion which Christ taught. He gave us no explanation of mysterious problems, but simple truth instead--truth most needful and alto- gether practical. Build your faith on that foundation and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Earth will become the primary school for God's university, and God Himself the teacher, whose love is no more loving than is His discipline. - SS For Poultry Keepers. When hens do not lay in summer the fault may be due to overfeeding, owing to the abundance of insects, grass and seeds on the range or pasture. It is better to send such hens to market it they are over two years old, and de- pend upon the early-hatched pullets as winter leyers. All pullets that are to be retained should be kept in good grow- ing condition, not fat, by allowing a variety of food, meat being much bet- ter than corn or wheat for all kinds of young poultry. Tips to Turkey Raisers. You wish to know something about growing turkeys? Well: Don's let the young turkeys get wet. Don't feed them inside of twenty-four hours after they come out of the shells. Keep them free from lice by dusting them with Persian insect powder. Dust the hen, too. Don't neglect the mites and big lice. Greasing will drive them off. Don't let the turklets run on dirty "Tpanges or in filthy quarters. Pa water only in small and shallow s During the first week feed them with sifted, rolled or ground oats, cooked and crumbled and mixed with a beaten egg. With this give them milk and curd. Feed them five or six times a day. Add a little raw meat, fine- -chopped onion and green food daily. During the second week put wheat and ground bone in boxes where they can get at it, and give them three daily feeds of mixed cornmeal, wheat' mid- dlings and ground oats, cooked and mix- ed with chopped green food _. Thereafter sol = them with cooked 'Tice, or turnips, or potatoes. Remove the coops to freshoground fre- quently in order to avoid filth. Supply : dust-bath, fine gravel and r- + They os 'tender until. their feathers are full. Fresh bone finely cut will be a good thing for them. dry, warm days se them range, but never on wet, cold day: Give them a roost in yt open . shed the sout! One gobbler will answer for twenty to twenty-five hens, as a single mating fer- tilizes all the eggs a hen will lay during the season. Mate pullets _ "emit rieae Should you wish to use an incubator and brooder, do not try more than twenty-five to thirty in a lot, for the constant care required by young tur- keys makes it difficult to handle larger flocks. In matin select medium-sized gob- blers. The turkey is a range bird, and can- not thrive in confinement after reach- full size. The turkey hen should be permitted to make her own nest. Once fully feathered the turkeys are able to look out for themselves largely. Feeding them in the barnyard night and morning will accustom them to re- turning home at night to roost--New York Farmer. Egg-eating Hens, It will sometimes happen that the re- turn in eggs from a yard of poultry is much less than it should be, and won- der is expressed that the hens don't lay well. Then is the time to keep a sharp watch for the egg-eating hen. One hen will demoralize a whole flock, and fre- quently the eggs will be eaten so clean that no tell-tale shell will be left to show the cause of their disappearance, and it may be a long time before the owner discovers the true reason for the }~ small number of eggs. The habit seems to be caused by improper feeding or too close confinement. Fowls that have free range and get a variety of food in consequence rarely eat their pwn eggs. Let a hen once begin to eat eggs, how- ever, and it is almost impossible to cure her, and the very best remedy is the axe, before the rest of the flock become contaminated. Care should be taken to prevent conditions giving rise to this habit. If the fowls are closely confined they should be given meat scraps,ground green bone, etc., to make up for the loss of bugs and insects they would get in free range, and their grain diet should also be varied. It is well to be careful about leaving any egg shells where the fowls can get them. If any are fed they should be chopped fine in the morning mash, other- wise from this one cause the egg-eating habit may develop. A close watch should also be kept for a time_on all new stock purchased, to see that this habit or any disease is not introduced into the flock. Care and attention as regards poultry will be found to pay for the labor ex: proeed many times ever, for while a flock left to themselves on free range seldom eat eggs, they will be found to waste them through stealing their nests, and having the eggs destroyed by prowling vermin, or brin off young chicks so late in the season it is hard for them to survive. The hens also de- teriorate in. plumage and become tough and thin in body. Fowls properly yarded, with plenty of room and receiving the right care and food, seldom develop disease of any kind, and egg-eating is unknown' to them.-- H. E. Haydock. For Patching the Gods. Miss May Morris, daughter of the late William Morris, aratgions recently in gob-_ py or reine i blers with a and the sega ih she cited some Lon in the course of w ftems in bills for mediaeval mystery plays :--'"'Mending heli mouth," 3d; ve. the world on fire, 5d; paid to God, 2s; hanging Judas, 4d; washing angels' albs, 2d; fire for hell mouth, 4d; making devil's 'head, Is 8d. These are paralleled by the comical bills paid by our own Government through the Pub- lic Works Department to stpport the gods and pageantry of India. "For mending crack in Siva's back," "For patching up Siv#*# nose." The Indian Government shows a calm aloofness which is some distance beyond humor. Ob, what a pleasant world 'twould be-- How smoothly we'd slip through it, lf all the fools who "mean no harm" Could manage not to do it. --New York Times --++4+4-- Farmer's Wife--I thought you said you were hungry. Weary Willie--Dat's wot I sed, ma'am. prong Wife--Then why don't you eat that piece of steak I gave you? Weary Willie--Dat's all right, ma'am. I didn't ask for work--Chicago Daily News. --+4+4-- According to the official report of the Ottawa, Kan., druggists for March, it took 82 gallons of whiskey, 88 gallons of alcohol, 38 gallons of wine, 14 gal- lons of gin, $3 gallons of brandy, 4 gal- lons of beer, 3 gallons of ale and 4 gal- Jons of malt to cure the ills of that-dis- tressed community. 'the lquor was wanted for a multitude of diseases, ranging from ingrowing toenails to ap- pendicitis. One honest fellow signed up under the "mechanical" clause of the constitution. He said he needed four gallons mechanicaily--he was going to have a "barn raisin." --+4+4-- "You have been with that firm a long time," said the old school friend. "Yes," answered the man with the patient expression of countenance, "What's your position " "lm an employee." "But what is your official title "I haven't any official title. It's like this: When the proprietor wants something done he tells the cashier, and the cashier tells the bookkeeper, and' the bookkeeper tells the assistant book- keeper, and the assistant bookkeeper tells the chief clerk, and the chief clerk tells me." "And what then?" "Well, I haven't anybody to tell, so I have to go and do it."'---Washington Star. --+44-- United States Senator Stewart, who has been in Washington for many years, has an old negro retainer who comes around twice a week for some mon He made his regular Wednesday call to- day. The Senator gave him a dollar and said:-- "Jim, I'm tting tired of this sort of business. You are an able-bodied man, y don't you go 2 work instead of living on my charity eed, boss," said "Thm; feproachfu "you 'ain't the kind. o' man to be as in' me to go to wuk now, is you ? 4 boss, it's too-hot to wuk." "Well,' snorted Senator oo haven't seen you work in th revintee any, either." whe, er in great ogre » you mus' be era "it's tar Too cot' to wuk in de win- --New York World. & --_--___--__--------_-_ +» THEY ARE VALUABLE FOR CLEAR- ING BRUSH LAND. The Hair and Meat Also Marketable --Land Made Four Times More Valuable by Them--Probably 1 250,000 in United States. - cd Writing to The New York 'Tribune Farmer, Dr. A. 8S. Heath, New York City, says :-- Like cows and sheep, the Angora supplies our primal demands of milk and meat ;and,like a sheep, also furnishes ma- terial for clothing. But we are in- debted to all of our domestic animals for the means to enable us to furnish bce! complement of the triad of the neces- es--food, clothing and shelter. er er oats originally came from Angora and vicinity, in Turkey. From Turkey these animals were imported to South Africa, where they are better bred and managed than in their early home, and from this latter country they are imported into the United States; but the mohair and skins are still very largely imported from Turkey. In the Uni States the value of mohair averages 40 cents. The long mohair of young An- goras at full growth may reach 60 cents, while the coarse, very/long hair-- 15 inches, up to the astonishing length of 22 inches--now brings $l or more, because of a new industry, which will pel aeettibes and illustrated in an other * What Angoras have done and are do- ing in the increase of the value of land is shown in one instance of the Flower Mound Stock Farm, near Dubuque, lowa. /The proprietors purchased: 470 acres of brush land at $7 an acre. They put a flock of Angoras upon it, and in three years they cleared it, and now rich grasses have sprung up, making fine dairy and sheep pastures. Now the same land is worth four times its cost. What Angoras have done for the west they will do equally for the east, and other sections of country having cheap, poor nd. Almont Barnes, of the Division of Sta- tastics, states that Maine has three mil- lion acres, or 50 per cent. of her land, uncultivated. This will hold equally good of other eastern States. The same authority shows conclusively that in all of the land of the United States there is over 42 per cent. of the acreage unculti- vated and unused. Ten cents profit an acre would yield millions upon millions. This could be accomplished by the ser- vices of Angora goats. Whatac 1g08 this would make'in the eastern S 3! And this change would be quick and cer- n ain. The number of Angora goats in the Sar States in 1898 was estimated at These were located in -eight Seine The probability is that now there are more than twenty States where breeding of Angoras is being car- ried on, and that there are more than 1,250,000. Yet, as half of the flocks are females, it is "upon the numbers of these that annual increase can be recorded; and, as only one buck for one hundred does is required, there must be a re- lative number of wethers that only yield fleeces, skins and meat. The mortality from disease or accident is less than with sheep by more than half. Last, though by no means least, but, rather most important, is the digestible, delicious, nutritious meat which the An- gora may furnish the year round. It is like the venison of the wild deer, but far better, as it i throughout the year, young and fattened kid fattened wether or doe. Like the deer, it is al- most exclusively a browser. The tritive element of the browse is richer than those of the grasses. Angora veni- son is especially valuable for invalids and conyalescents, and hospital dietary. The houlm-leaved kolmia is ~ calle sheep laurel from being ag erige to sheep, pheasants and~quail; but from the fact that the Angoras clean up brush land in which the kalmia forms a con- siderable portion with immunity it seems not to be poisonous to the goat family. This being the case, the An- goras should be able to render an es- sential service to owners of sheep and of laurel-covered pastures. Grasses and laurels do not grow together, but when cleared up the grasses spring up and grow luxuriantly. T quote briefly from Burton E. Moore, Winsted, Conn: "In regard to the num- ber of goats, I have bought not far. from one thousand head in the last year, and have sold all but 225 or 250, which 1 have on hand now. I have made eight shipments to Vermont, two shipments to New Hampshire, four shipments to Mas- sachusetts, two shipments to New York and sixteen shipments to various parts of, Connecticut. I can only say, the more goats I see" qse more I want them. I believe Sty are the coming thing in this vicinity. They are posi- tively brush killers, and, I believe, money makers. I don't know of any- thing you can get as much money out of with as little expense and labor as goats, and they will certainly live where cattle and sheep will die, and when they kill brush it is dead." in speaking with strict regard to the heraldic rules of propriety, it may be noted that the ordinary Britich subject has no po a fly any flag whatever on his own acco "The Royal Standard is the personal aEeeeay of the King; the Union Jack is the national flag; the various ensigns--red, white and blue-- are strict! igh nse ae ae unfor- tunate private citizen o flag to which he is entitled res heraldic - ore) nooen ty ae that a private - citizen's flag be nu- ~~