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combatting insect enemies. By the use of a spraying outfit you 

 may for example, increase the value of your apple crop from 

 fifty to one hundred per cent. A few dollars invested in such 

 an outfit may prove the turning point in a fruit grower's career. 

 Others have profited thereby ; why not you ? Whatever you do, 

 bear in mind that eternal vigilance is the price of good crops and 

 that careful attention and intelligei:t treatment of the crop arc 

 the chief factors in successful fruit growing. 



REFINING INFLUENCES OF PLANTS AND TREES 



IN PUBLIC PLACES. 



By Rev. Blanche A. Wright, Livcrmore Falls. 



The time was when capital punishment was meted out to all 

 who were guilty of any serious violation of law. Petty offenders 

 received punishment all out of proportion to their crimes. We 

 do not have to look back far in history to read the records of the 

 time when the chief motive operative in the treatment of crim- 

 inal classes was to make it impossible for them to injure the 

 public. Whether this was accomplished by killing them or by 

 close imprisonment mattered little, since the welfare of the crim- 

 inal did not enter into consideration. Meanwhile the making of 

 criminals went on without much restraint. We have taken a 

 long stride forward. We have discovered that the best way to 

 secure protection against criminal classes is to transform them 

 into good citizens by such kind and intelligent treatment as will 

 bring about this reformation ; and that better than the work of 

 reformation of criminals is the work of prevention of crime. In 

 this age of splendid philanthropies such a promising field of 

 operations could not fail to be cultivated. The value of educa- 

 tion is recognized and the best possible school advantages arc 

 opened to children of all classes. Churches are alive to their 

 opportunities and minister in many effective ways to the people 

 in their precincts. Whatever can contribute to the elevation of 

 the masses is rapidly being discovered and put to their use. 

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We do not stop there. Recognizing the close relation existing 

 between all classes of society we believe that whatever tends in 

 any degree to the refinement and culture of a part of humanity, 



