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be selfish; live for the ages and they will not forget you. Plan your mas- 

 sive temple. You need not spend millions piling costly stones on the 

 foundation. Kindly mother nature will attend to that. The energy which 

 goes into grass and weeds will be the capital which will rear your 

 structure. Why not divert the wastes which lie all around us into forms 

 of use and beauty? 



Take evergreens congenial to the soil and climate. Have your rows 

 perfectly straight. Handle and plant with care. 



The man who plants grand things lives longer than the one who lives 

 for himself and lets care or pleasure eat out his vitals. 



Suppose you are thirty. Lead a simple life and you should be eighty. 

 In your declining years walk through the temple which you and God 

 have built. What a consciousness you have of your own worth — one of 

 God's factors in making earth beautiful. You have been co-worker with 

 him as creator. Those massive trees nod you welcome with all their 

 moving branches. The coolness, sweetness, freshness, and silence of the 

 deep woods are there. 



Devoutly you uncover your head in deference to yourself and your 

 heavenly father. 



You realize you have had your coronation down here. You are 

 crowned "with riches and honor." And as you consider your relations 

 to earth, instinctively you lift the prayer that you may be a pillar in 

 the temple of God up there — a factor in the building of his heaven as 

 well as of his earth — a star in the new system of astronomy on which he 

 is now at work to shine as the sun in the kingdom of the Father. 



IMPORTANCE OF ORCHARD CULTIVATION IN SUMMER. 

 By E. F. Stephens, Nampa, Idaho. 



Traveling through the country I noticed that some orchards planted 

 this spring, as well as some of the older orchards, have not yet been 

 cultivated. People say to themselves and to others, "The spring has 

 been unusually favorable, we have had more than the average amount 

 of snowfall the past winter, we have had frequent spring rains." Under 

 such conditions many a man feels that he can busily engage in other 

 lines of work and that his orchard is not yet suffering from lack of cul- 

 tivation. 



The planter who reasons in this way evidently forgets frequent show- 

 ers or periods of drizzling rainfalls really require an increased amount 

 of cultivation. Scientific men with ample time for study have demon- 

 strated that where the rainfall is not more than one-fitth of an inch 

 no addition is made to the amount of soil water stored; succeeding evap- 

 oration quickly removes the light rainfall. 



The late Professor King of Wisconsin has demonstrated that an appli- 

 cation of one pailful of water applied on the surface around a petted 

 tree or plant each evening, for thirty consecutive days, will leave the sub- 



