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what we use for forage here, and you would be sur- 

 prised to know how much of it is used. They build 

 brush fires and singe the spines and feed it to 

 stock. I buy it by the wagonload and feed it to 

 my cows (I have three of them) ; and when I hap- 

 pen to run out, you don't know how- much less milk 

 we get. The stock will leave other feed to get the 

 cactus. I am also sending you all the literature 

 that I have received from the Department. 



Have you ever found out anything about the beans 

 I sent yon (aba) ? I wrote to the Department at 

 the time I wrote about the avocado, but they en- 

 tirely ignored my beans, of which I sent them a 

 sample. 



You ask me if I have bees and a garden. Yes, I 

 have a garden in my back lot, but no bees. I take 

 Gi.EAXiNGS only for the Home department, garden- 

 ing, and the temperance section V'v A. I. Root. That 

 ought to make you feel good. You are sowing the 

 seed more than you think. Just let me tell you 

 about something you did the other day. You gave 

 my address to a certain seed-house, and I sold 

 them over twenty dollars' worth of seed that I hap- 

 pened to have on hand (guada bean), and they 

 made me an offer -which I accepted; and when I 

 received the money I sent it to the Anti-saloon 

 League of Texas to help make Texas dry. Keep up 

 the good work, and you will be surprised when har- 

 vest time comes. 



About guada beans, that reminds me that I sent 

 to ray baker's supply house for some angelique for 

 use in a recipe (cake): and what do you think? 

 I received some guada beans done up like glazed 

 fruit. There can be no doubt about it. I have it 

 here, and will send you a piece of it. I am also 

 going to send you some more cactus confection. 



If there is any other way that I can serve you, 

 let me know, and I shall be glad to do so. 



If you ever come to Texas I want you and Mrs. 

 Root to visit us. I began this letter yesterday, and 

 just came back from town. I could not get any 

 real nice cactus confection ; but as soon as some 

 fresh arrives from Mexico I will send you some. 

 I am enclosing all liter atnre and correspondence that 

 I have from the Department, and want you to go 

 over it carefully, especially that in regard to the 

 tuna confection. I wish I could have been at your 

 prayer-meeting and heard your talk. 



Laredo, Tex., May 25. Hexet Boechers. 



From the above it transpires that not 

 only the fruit but the cactus slabs, when 

 they are small, can be used for food. In 

 regard to cactus plants for cows and other 

 domestic animals, see article in last issue. 



The aba bean mentioned above makes a 

 most astonishing growth on our Florida 

 soil. The beans are about as large as or 

 larger than our largest lima beans. They 

 are red in color, and grow on bushes two or 

 three feet hi?h. 



" GETTING EVEX , A COMPANION CLIPPING TO 

 " THE DEFEAT OF INJUSTICE.'' 



The following was also clipped from the 

 Sunday School Times of a recent date: 



GETXIXG EVEX. 



To get even with one who has wronged us is to 

 !ret down as low as he is. The more outrageous his 



njnstice, the lower we shall have to eo if we insist 

 ■ pon getting even with him. So "getting even" 



/.ways leaves ns worse off than we were before. If 

 f-ver one man was unfairly treated by another, it 

 « .-js David, at the hands of jealous, unworthy, in- 

 furiated Saul. But when David's chance to get even 



came, he preferred to stay on the heights. To 

 " revenge " ourselves is to return the sort of thing 

 that was given to us. It is as though, having been 

 cheated by counterfeit money, we wait for an oppor- 

 tnnity to pass some of the counterfeit back to the 

 cheat. No matter what we have suffered, we cannot 

 afford to do that ; for then we have been injured 

 twice ; and the second injury is far worse than the 

 first. There is a better way of getting even with 

 one who, in order to harm us, has descended to a 

 low level. It is to stay above him in God's com- 

 pany, and by love to bring him up to that level. 



Before considering the above, permit me 

 to say that we have now printed and given 

 away something over 20,000 copies of the 

 little tract, "The Defeat of Injustice;' or, 

 How to be Happy when People Abuse 

 You." "SMien I saw the editorial in the 

 Snnday School Times about ''getting even" 

 it impressed me that it should be added to 

 our little tract. By the way, one of my 

 greatest temptations all through life, even 

 since I became a Christian, is to " paj- back 

 in the same coin." Somebody has wronged 

 me. or at least it seemed to me that way, 

 and, rather than have a fuss or a jangle, I 

 have "swallowed it down" and looked pleas- 

 ant, and decided to let it drop Like "spilled 

 roilk." But there is almost always a temp- 

 tation to say to m^-self . "' Some time when 

 the chance comes " (and it almost always 

 does come) "I will remember this." But a 

 better spirit (and one that rejoices my heart 

 to rem.ember) almost always, or at least a 

 little later, crowds out the ugly and un- 

 christianlike attitude of mind; and this 

 better spirit, the stiU small voice, says. 

 "Forget that it ever happened,- and treat 

 this poor brother as if it had never hap- 

 pened." And this sort of treatment is what 

 clearly defines and marks the true follower 

 of the Lord Jesus Christ. The great out- 

 side world sees it. and at once recognizes 

 the genuine coin. Dear brother or sister. 

 whoever you are, and wherever you are. is 

 Kot this the best way to get along in this 

 world? And when you come to die. wiU it 

 not brighten your last moments by remem- 

 bering that you tried honestly and earnestly 

 to " love your enemies and do good to them 

 that hate you"? 



S-nLL PREACHING AT THE AGE OF 11'2. 



Our long-time friend Burdett Hassett. 

 now of Alamogordo, X. M.. sent us the 

 clipping below: 



TWELVE YEABS P.4ST CEXTrKT. 



The Topeka Capital says that the Rev. M. A. Cos. 

 112 years old, is pastor of the Methodist Church at 

 Almena, Kansas. He has been preaching for forty 

 years. Before this work, he was a farmer. He 

 hitches up his team and drives to chtirch every Sun- 

 day, arriving in time to receive his congregation at 

 the door. He is a native of Long Island. New York. 

 His wife died when she was 101. He has t-een the 

 father of eleven children, eight of whom survive. 

 He has forty-five grandchildren and twenty-nine 



