. + os oe A on ee, ~~ . Dis HE NOTICES LITTLE THINGS. There Is No Emergency of Life. Where i Is ) Not Willing to Help. Se eaeres 2 despatch from W. Dr. z must be enlarged tirely new building constructed. Wha' will they do? Will they send up ah Verusalem and solicit contributions for this undertaking? Will they send out agents to raise the money for a mew theological seminary? Having raised the money, will they send for GSiurs of Lebanon and marbie from the q Ahab got the stones for the pillars and walls .of his 'o; the studeats pro Pose to build it themselves. Thes who had beeu. brought up in tho rountey and who had ed by the lux- All they ask is I told him I had not The : Jordan are now attacked by Elisha's stu- dents, for they must have lumber for the new theological seminary. I suppose some of the students made an awkward stroke, and they were €xtemporized axmen. STAND FROM UNDER! Cr: f ho trees and and another. But some © Was much like' our modern ax, it differed im tho fact that instead of the helvo or handlo being thrust inte @ secket in tho iron age the head of the ax was fastened on the handle by a leather thong, ot so it might ap the helve. A student of the sem- nary was swinging his ax against one of those trees. and whether it Was at the moment he made his first stroke and the chips few or was af- ter he had cut the tree from all sides $0 deep that it wus ready to fall We are not told, and the handle parted. the riverside, the ax head dropped into the river and sank to the mud- a ale oF 5 'i any were novan' up in funurice oe ite give out BEFORE THE BATTLE 's WON. Notice, also, how God is superior to every law that he has mate, even the strongest law of nature, the law of gravitation. Tho stick that Elisha threw into the Jordan float- ed, but the ax head sank. By exorable law, it must go down into s0 much hard, heavy metal sought the sur- fuce, There is, the flonting ax head. What a rebuke to those who reject miracles on the ground that they are contrary to nature, as though tho law were stronger than the God who made the law! Again and again in Bible times was that law revoked ! Witness the scene on the banks of* the same Jordan, where, fter__time, the ax head Elijah stood there, wearing cape of sheepskin, when uiére was'a mighty stir in' the tire, he rose. ays searched the mountai if -the body of E at by the birds of prey, search was in vain. Tho law sho hichaeai had been defeated. DO E>: OT FEEL LONELY because your nearest neighbor may be miles away, because the width of the continent may separate you from ace where your cradle was rocked and your father's grave was - Wakened though you may bo lion's roar or panther's_scream> help you, whether at the orest around' you raves in tho' 'midnight hurricane or you suf- fer from something quito insignifi- i e@ loss of an ax' head. ur Bible out under the trees, or the long meter psalm oe the thunder, those words of tho have "Yho trees of the Lo sap. The cedars of Leban he hath planted, mako their nests ; hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the conics. ou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all tho beasts. of the forest oy om. Great was the student's|do creep forth. The young lions dismay. If it had been his own ax, | roar-.after their- prey and seek it would have been bad enough, but | their meat from God: 'The sun the ax did not belong to him. He | ariseth, th ather themselves to- had ne means to buy another for the gether and lay them down In thcir kind man who had loaned it to him,|dens. Man goeth forth unto -- his but-God-helps-the~helpless,;--arttHe } work ~and~to~hislabor~ until --the generally helps through some good !ovyening. O Lord, how i are ic soul, and in t works { In wisdom h thou case it was Elisha, who was in the|made them all. Tho earth is full woods and on tho river bank at the jof riches." How do you like that time. He did not seo the ax head |jmportance of keeping our chief im- fly off, and so he asked the student t down into Then Flisha broke off a branch of a treo and threw it into my text, > IRON DID SWIM." Furthermore, in that scene of the text God sanctions borrowing and sets forth the importance of return- ing. Ido not think there would havo been any miraclo performed if the oung man had owned the ax that slipped the helve. The young m. cried out in the hearing of the pro- | whet, 'Alas, master, jor it was bor- rowed!*' He had a right to borrow. There are times when we havo = only aright to borrow, but it i duty to borrow. The When we ought to lend, His sermon on the mount dec "Frooi him that would borrow of thee turn aot thou away.' It is right that ono borrow the means of @etting an education, as the youn student of my text borrowed the ax. [It is right to borrow means for th forwarding of comunercial ends. Most of nere are times cs | © vast fortunes that nuw ov er. | shadow the land wero hatched out of a borrowed dollar. time; we will borrow eternity, and that constant borrow- ing implies a return. For what we hearty th. helpfulness for others or advoca! © law or preaching tho gospel, fought their own way on end uw are kind of men us that in college days the sons of affluent fathers, with plenty rive aad to spead rains ° peal t plement for work. My subject also reminds us of the importance for work IN GOOD ORDER. I think that young theological stu- t)Was seen more than once eos tho air | ed | if, THE S. S. LESSON, INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 9. --- Text of the Lesso: to v., 11, Golden Text, iv., 25. t power gave the the plied and that no one might ve any lack There was no selfishness Li sider the strife for pre-eminence that twolve before Jesus died; yes, even at. the passover on the night before His resurrection, but now they wero all filled with the spirit, and hence this great difference. A Spirit filled people will manifest the life Christ and not the life of self. Jos- es, surnamed 'Barnabas, son of con- solation, a Levite, = evidently a true one, is oned as one of those who having tand sold it -and laid the money at the apostles' feet. Levi signifies *'joined, ** and he illus- trated the truth, Our Lord Jesus not only gave up all His riches became , but He actual- Himself for us, taking the place of the guilty that woe might be Joined to Him (If. Cor. viii, 9; Gal. 20). %, 2, "But Ananias and Sap- Phira. vs he tares and the wheat will grow together until tho harvest. Until Jesus 'comes again many a bird will lodge in the branches, but no bird ever becomes a branch. T ceitiully" (Jer. xlviii, bo always poe When Abram and Sar # lie ond Isaac and Hebekah did the samme (Gen. xil, 11-12 2: We are not our own, but bought.) with His precious Bloo 3, 4. 'Why hath Satan fidled thine heart to lie = the Holy Ghost? Thou hast lied unto God." See the oneness of the Father .and the Spirit, for in lying to el -- they lied God. © oneness of the Spirit and the believer. for in ly- ing to Peter and the others lied unto the Spirit. Notice also that it was tho work of the devil, the father of lies, in Ananias, See e883 ticing his ungodly Contras Peter filled with 'the 'Stine and An- anias filled with Satan and the high moment have found out whether the helve and the head were firmly fas- tencd. The simple fact was the Was not in good order or the strong- est stroke that sent the edge into the hard sycamore would not have left the implement headless. So God has given every one of us an ax With ee hn to Let us keep it in [by "bibts study and yer. The r for resthope in | 8 'forward work. 'pen or a type or a yards [scales or a tongue ti i. cig not perfect, and I would be giad of the order, having been sharpened strengthened by eason We sometimes fail in our work is because we have d ax or we do not know | how | aright to swing it. The head is not aright on the hindle. At the time we want the most skill for work and perfect equilibrium we lose our head. We expend in useless excitement the ; nérvous energy that we ought to ave employed in direct, straight- our ax may stick or a which in legisla- ive hall or business circles or Sab- bath class or pulpit is to speak for God and righteousness, but the ax will not be worth rouch until it has been sharpened on the grindstone of affliction. People who havg had no trouble do not amount to much for usefulness, but God puts their ax on the hurd circle of the grindstone, and betrayal gives it a turn, and pain gives it. a turn, and poverty gives it a turn, and disappointment gives it a turn, and bereavement gives it a turn, and now it is sharp enough FOR SUCCESSFUL WORK, and how it cuts down evil and builds schools ouhae churches and theological seminarics Alas, owed are impossibles Gefore thousands of people--cal d work that it is impossible for them ' o bear burdens that it is impossib!e far "oo ida, called to endure suficring that it is impos- sible for them to endure. Read all the gospel promises, rally all your faith, and, while you will always be led to worship the God of hope, to-day, with all the concentrated en- ergies of my soul, I implore you to borrowed, and lost and restofed « ead, ? ----_--~4---- ------ ue DECLINED THE PRIVILEGE, Jepson--"T otice you to have = remind me fact Jobson--"Tell you of your faults?" "Yes; oniticise tell me me is. Jobson--'Jepson, you ora six-foot two and I am five feet. four, and you Want me to give you my honest pri- vate opinion of you? 'No, sir!"' =| what your honest idee opinion "Ot il- | me That's wha' ent on ee banks of the seria death is gain and fur better than was = blime for not ning But what of Ana- ax before "he lifted it that Pred t nias ? His o aine means, "Jehovah a tree. He could { a |is gracious. But did he know the wetoe grace of Jehovah ? c know esh and yet tho spirit saved, that some of the rs of the church wero sickly _-- some dying because of sin and tha we are told to ee nothing "bofore the time until Siar le Come (1 Cor. iii, 15; ~v, . _ iv, 5), yet Rev. xxi. 8, gives us ge 'hope "-- Ananias. , 8. "It was about the spnec of on c reo hours after when his wife, not cutter and every poultry raisoc keeps even two or three dozen hens knowing what was done, came in."' Three hours a widow, But hot aware o not know, but his journey end: and hers is about to, though sho is all unconscious of it- Perhaps Acts Mealy Be for at tho extra egg cro " PRELIMINARIES ay atm THE CORONATION. WORKING FOR TIIE CORONATION IN CANADA: HUDSON BAY COAf- PANY'S TRAPPERS PREPARING ERMINE AND MIN- IVER PELTS. He will not always keep silence and that judgment must begin at th house of God (Ps. ii, 3; I Pet. iv, 17). OAM SEE oa LFOR FARMERS } o Season able and Profitable Hints for the Busy Tillers * of the Soll. £ HOW TO GET » WINTER EGGs. A lazy fowl is an unprofitable one, by means discouruge laziness stronuous jeans m them of ae habit of. cette around humped up. Tho often 9 ised morn- ing mash is to -my d the worst thing that a hen can fill herself on, for it at once puts her into a |condition that will tako hours of her valuable time to-undo. What she pile of leaves, or stra' B tho grain should be placed thero in liberal quantitics, for we cannot ex- pect her to shel! out the eggs on a -advise | from. ; siege age others filled with 'ndigua= stein diet-exclusively.-- aap shoul considered |. vy (chapters iv, 8, 81; a two meals |by every farm 3 tT), 'Th filled =-- the Spirit, evil lbs for them, writes Mr. F. H.- Near large ane straw has e can find no place i The Spirit | Petts. most too expensi an poor for of Truth and the father of Hes each| D the short winter months |bedding. Shavings and sawdust are desires us, but mye can fill us un-|the evening meal should be given at|not entirely satisfactory. Upon th less we welcomo ly enough to allow th we ve that wh take 5, 6. Dead and buried om an few|to finish and get onto the roost be- © place o these for cha litter. iours ; gone from the and |fore dark, and you know dark comes|By a little extra 1 caro from his pos icon, oo" gone /early in winter. " find = eri or | wi ubbish c: ie 9 gathered whero ? To the true child of God |clover igjand secured for bedding. Although are m 'arm night relished, and aiunite ay led half and half with equal par and shorts. Over this pour outing water and stir until well mixed. It muy then be fed in wooden troughs. Pro- vide at this hour slightly warmed water, 'sceing that all water vessels aro empticd ag soon as they have finished, for nothing is more annoy- ing than to bo obliged to dig the ico out of the water vesscle ON A COLD MORNING. Cut bono is an ideal dict for lay- ing hens, and while it requires. some labor to produce it, still it is timo well spent. At from $6 to 510 you a good modern bone who will find such a machine nearly paid ne of the year in I dé 6 sonata it necessar: eorge the breed to kecp for winter, r it mattors but little in regard to is a sad story and should teach i who desires | t Peter' was filled with the Spirit, wo might feel | like questioning his way with her | and might wish that he had sought | to lead her to repentance, but per- | chickens that aro giving look as much alike as two peas, i. color. If you possess a flock of good re- turns, stick to them till they go G). ; back on you, improving them jyear most uniform colored ones, for af by selecting tho best layers, and ter all we are apt to favor a flock that » and toke more pride in them. The nests haps her heart was fully set in her 'should be nice and ro omy, and pro- to do evil (Eccl. viii. 11). vide plenty of material that will 9, 10. 'How is it that yo aa 'permit _ considerable fixing, for a agreed together to tempt 'hen is y on the nest question. aur of the Lord ?"" So one with | 'She likes "to build her own. lo eare His ai that when we 'of gravel in easy h is always ac~ eosrels them we touch Him, and as we 'ceptable, and the hens will pay a deal with them we deal with Him! visit to it many times during a day. (Zech. ii, 8; Acts ix, 4). There is | 'it wyour hens aro laying nicely, and unspeakable comfort and yet a sol-, | the supply of eges begins to incrense emn career How_ awful is this scene before us | | ; them. She husband's death and same early ch in eons great truth. 'you will soon bo thinking of setting roody hens are scarce these is for the first tim told of her: ; times, so in order to make sure of icks wo must make other ar- at time told that she must dic, and in! 'rangemerits and procure an incuba a moment she is gone. In the morn- ing they are in health, but united in ° night Pr cut (Num. xxxii, 23), | tor. DAIRYING WITHOUT A SILO. Tho farmer with a small dairy will ead and find that he can obtain good results buried.. Two liars 7: git a. But | Without a silo. Last spring we fed their 'souls® If not saved as by fire,|r¥o and all then Luke xvi, 23, first clause, tells théir fate. It was the hand of God, and the Judge of all theearth docth right (Gén. xviil, 25; Rev. xv, 3). Sco tions and nhominations in His pro-' fessed people. He assures us that | oe grains. yee oe ring. 'cows ha very ie in milk, and-as- clover once a day. At night the cows would clean, . H. Hartwell. ready it frecly until the cates had be- Kerrang Was made wet and d night... When the pumpkins ate gone we turnips to follow, so food till "milk in November tost- > ed 4.20, I guess it is all right. er, going. the | w. to-jor,'at least twenty-five per cent more -jof their getténg injured. but | Marri Wo planted our corn with a plant- cow: they would eat and had several foads le{t over, which the cows will cat, butts and all. The pumpkins and turnips were grown with the carn, and so cost us noth- ing except the labor of sowing the Wo don't think the crop. of fair crop for sec! 'on. has When butter fat sells for 29 cents @ pound, pay ona his cows. In feeding pumpkins, it is important to remove tbo seeda. LITDER FOR BEDDING, Such forms of vegetabio- produc- ind tion as weeds, vines, stalks, etc., if gathered and burned return but lit- téo value to the farm. If allowed to remai on the ground they hinder plowing. Weeds will grow, and they | are productions of our lands = and have removed from the soil a por- tion of its fortility. How to return this to the soil in the most con- 'eeds ma- tured they had best be eres: but rather than have the seeds scat on tho ground, we would chance them in the compost heap, where a portion of them will be des- by-products of the farm that, have been going to waste. Utilize them by returning them to the soil, and let them carry in their Ussues some fertility from the stable THE PIG PEN. We must maid the fattening 6 ke ept in a cold cold weath- pigs food will be required to give a chves gain. Two hundred pounds is « good market weight, and do not have the pigs too fat. It does not injure a well nurtured, mature sow to give birth to jitters of pigs each year. The squealing pig with staring coat and humped back, who crowds and pushes in_the steamy nest for a warm place, @™ijurely losing money for his carclan "owner. Theré is no great secret of success in swine raising. A good, warm, dry well-ventilated hog house and pure water for all seasons "A good pas ture for spring, summer and fall, and a variety of feed for winter, with thrifty, strong pigs, and success i8 yours. It is a good idea, and ono the hogs will like, to throw to them every week or so a few freshly cut sods during the winter, when they can find little opportunity for root- ing about, The fresh earth is good | been for them and they will not fail to show their appreciation of the treat. Do not keep over two or three brood sows in the same pen. Give them a dry, comfortable nest so they will not crowd and pile up ; they should also be kept rensonably warm to avoid this result. When brood CARE OF DAIRY UTENSILS. It is often difficult to keep dairy utensile i the best possible con- dition .in winter, because of lack of su On most farms vessels ar scajded and then put in the sunshine until wanted. Man < oughly an AT LAST. : '= ach that Wagson is going to get. THE EMPIRE'S SECOND CITY REASONS GLASGOW THE HONOR. . Its Monici Matecpeiee and doa Extent of Its Var- on the River C and educational position as a ca' ral and University Minds says a writs er in London Tit-B tempted to rival pisesow are Liver- Pool and Manchester. t tho census returns of 1901 setile this point: Glasgow, 760,406; oan pool, 684,- 947; Manchester, 543,9) H laim No. SGlagow's Progres- sive Municipal Enterprise. This in- cludes: waterworks, giving an unlim- ited supply for all purposes at a ts per £. Cost $17,- 500,000; storage capacity, fully 13,- 000, is ears $25,000 a year; a sowage pebetia ey by whch the filth of the city is to be con m and inprovem own care ter houses for Seg working asses. service in . beautiful with uniform; scicn art galleries, museums, publle. alte free libraries, baths and wash houses, nments, faimil homes, bear bureaus, etc. h ders in band as will keep them for An extensive sys THE LARGEST SIZE ©} can be accommodated at ---- peed $80,000,000 was im: t just add here a meation of its Plc very successful International Exhibi- tions, the largest of their kind ever tered|held in Great Britain. the only city in ae roo of four miles for one ey Ee ovine city of the Empire EXPENSIVE TICKETS. sive scason tickets are issued by the Congo Railway Company. The first- class single fare for a journe about 250 miles is $100. Latterly, this company has issued season aie els, available for sa year, following four vebure journeys, ge for de t return jour- _ aud for twelve return Naturally, the is- whkse is very limited, so far only four having been deliver- ed, but application for a filth has been mad Th are not penis but written out on a piece o board, 4 in. b: . folded in two: sq ning and cad of each jour is fil. led in vf the station-masters at time it is perform THE JOKE DIDN'T WORK. "Robson, do you know why you : a bornness itself. The jest picased Robson immense- vy, for he at once saw the opportun- of a glorious dig at = wile. So when he got home he sai oe cire: Robson, do you uot why I am like a donkey ? He waited a inbiasat: expocling wife to give it up. But she didn't. Sbo looked at' him somewhat pity- are | ingly as she answered, is because you Were born s --_----. : ARCHITECTURAL INSPIRATION. Mrs. Dash--"Can'% you suggest some pretty name for our comm| odi- new home, Mr. Grump?" '*Why 'yes; call it "'The "I'm glad he has {quad « way_to support himself," ~Grump-- White Elephant." 24 know. fully infectious: and ye ty end--a Leta ""im- d in building bet- Glasgow e honor of initiating = extensivo cotton oe un- a proving the Clyde, a the "Clyde Provost has the rank of Lord-Licu- men in a What arc perhaps the most cxpen- fly opening "Because your, better half is stub his }thoroughly "1 i apie it. BRAVE DEEDS BY DOCTORS D.'"S WHO RICHLY SERVE TO BE V. C.'S. | a y SOME M. DE: \ The Terrible Risks Doctors Run in Finding Antidotes for Deadly, - Diseases, Typbus is, fortunately, a rarer dis- ease nowadays: that it used to be. It by filth, hunger, and over- -- crowding. and in_old_days--was_bet-. eee: ic is fright- t is impos- sible to leave sufferers clone: for the oaly cure is good nursing and con- tant feeding. mediately set out for the place, had the greatest difficulty in getting: a@ boat, but eventually got hold of an old one, went over alone, and ecceded in bringing the patient. across to the mainland. The man r vered, but oer sickened, and» man cos of this I asa matter of course, - In oon periments which so many ow trying, with the a of Onding ' an-4 tidotes for deadly d ks run are far more terrible. A distinguished member of the Ir-; ish College of Surgeons, at presents practising at Lowestoft,- has lately- offered himself as a subject of a still: more terrible experiment. He wrote: recently to Dr. Koch, the famo umption specialist, offering tal submit himself to inoculation with tubercle poison from A TUBERCGLOGS COW. According to Dr: och's theory such inoculation could have but one. rom cons; used H the risk, as he did also that of inoc¢ ulating Dr. Gerhault, who made a similar offer. Tho latter, however, to drink for twelve, months nothing but milk from a tub-{ the question whether consumption is- caught from infected cattle. A balloon ascent is a trying ordeal for a person who has never before vent above firm ground. Yet three Parisian doctors not only brav- such an t r the e of science, but also the much renter' one of rising to the extreme igh at which life is possible, in order to experiment at that height upon the efiect great altitudes have on the circulation. For this purpose. they took up se-« animals, and The difficulty wv! hendltig lancets in the intense of an clevation of 20,000 {cet immense, oun Parisian uotable for nis r. Calmette, Pasteur's us-> Purpose the doctor has frequently te- handlo newly-arrived, savage, | poisonous serpents. few months ae an immense cob- ira. a how. from h and struck 'him on ar forefinger. resu Galtantte ¢ did not hesitate an instant. HE SEIZED A LANCET, ripped the injured finger open, and called to assistant. The latter inmeadiataly injected some, serum of the doctor's own invention, and he at such an excellent opportunity for' testing his remedy. Dr. Pestana, of Lisbon. went to riving to a dinner given by his wife to celebrate his return, certain sym-- ptoms proved to the doctor that ho had plague. He 'immediately sent word to the authorities, and before he was takea away to the hospital gave minute instructions as to the and arr: 01 Then he himself took his*medicines | and papers, and resigned himself to the care of the lazaretto attendants. Everything was dono that could be done, but all in vain. Yet en as ho was in the last delirium, he kept on talking about the disoase.. His last words were: "Alas! we know lit- tle more about the plague han was known in olden times."'--London A swers ----_4---- tre TRY THEM. . * A Few Little ¢ Things Which You cannot rise from a chain Without bending forward, or putting his feet Cy the chair or outside of it ¥ aman will back himself to give another a start of fifty yards in' @ race va one hundred, provi the man aving tho start hops all the Way. o or er, however, mers oe give ae amount to aa man. r the yards th they go at eactigally the same Therefore the runner, to go nincly- five yards ile the "hoppe>"' gocs pple feyisc would have to run more ese d it would be weal: iman who could not hop for teclive yards . pace equal to twenty secands for one hu pared ts that his " penknife is paruicalacs nap ask hini to cut With one stroke of the blade ono of th hose yellow ribboas, mostly of silk, pull out long, an ore he tri to cut it the Monae it Will pull out." No one-except 1d stand without punieet 'of any kind fer five minutes at so atretch, if he fst blindtolded, without: moving his fee If he docs not move his feet -- is Labeted a to topple over in about a min ------ New Lodger (sarcastically}--"Ze_ th oap there is in the