Be spared from the children and the family meals, the parson, the
Reverend James Mavor Morell does his work. He is sitting in a strong
round backed revolving chair at the

right hand end of a long table, which stands across the window, so that
he can cheer himself with
the view of the park at his elbow. At the opposite end of the table,
adjoining it, is a little table; only half the width of the other, with
a typewriter on it. His typist is sitting at this machine, with her back
to the window. The large table is littered with pamphlets, journals,
letters, nests of drawers, an office diary, postage scales and the like.
A spare chair for visitors having business with the parson is in the
middle, turned to his end. Within reach of his hand is
a stationery case, and a cabinet photograph in a frame. Behind him the
right hand wall, recessed above the fireplace, is fitted with
bookshelves, on which an adept eye can measure the parson’s divinity and
casuistry by a complete set of Browning’s poems and Maurice’s
Theological Essays, and guess at his politics from a yellow backed
Progress and Poverty, Fabian Essays, a Dream of John Ball, Marx’s
Capital, and half a dozen other literary landmarks in Socialism.
Opposite him on the left,
near the typewriter, is the door

Lly known how clover accomplished
such fertilization. It was thought it thus gathered fertility by
feeding deeply in the subsoil, and through the plant food thus
gathered, the root system of the plants
were so strengthened in the cultivated surface section of soil as to
account for the increased production in the plants that followed
clover. According to this view, the stems and leaves of the plants
were thus equally benefited and, consequently, when these were plowed
under where they had grown these also added plant food to the
cultivated portion of the soil, in addition to what it possessed when
the clover seed
which produced the plants was sown upon it. In
brief, this theory claimed that fertility was added by the
clover plants gathering fertility in the subsoil and depositing it so
near the surface that it

S is perhaps worse than none, that is implicit and not to be
understood, or subject to what constructions he pleases to put upon
it:– Great critics in a _noverint
universi_ Know all
men by these presents how to curse ye; Pedants of said and foresaid,
and both Frenches, Pedlars, and pokie, may those rev’rend benches Y’
aspire to be the stocks, and may ye be No more call’d to the Bar, but
pillory; Thither in triumph may ye backward ride To have your ears
most justly crucified,

And cut so close until there

be not leather Enough to stick a pen in left of either;
Then will your consciences, your ears, and wit Be like indentures
tripartite cut fit. May your horns multiply and grow as great As
that which does blow grace before your meat; May varlets be your
barbers
now, and do The same to you they have been done unto; That’s law and
gospel too; may it prove true, Then they

shall do pump-justice upon you; And when y’ are shaved and powder’d

you shall fall, Thrown o’er the
Bar, as they did o’er
the wall, Never to rise again, unless it be To hold your
hands up for your roguery; And when you do so may they be no less
Sear’d
by the hangman than your conscience

Et, and went out. It was just sundown. The village lay glittering in
the light, that would be gone in a few minutes; and up on the hill
the white church, standing high, showed all bright in the sunbeams
from its
sparkling vane at the top of the spire down to
the lowest step at the door. Nettie’s home

was in a branch-road, a few steps from the main street of the village
that led up to the church at one
end of it. All along that street the sunlight lay, on the grass and
the roadway and the sidewalks and the tops of a few elm-trees.
The street was empty; it was most people’s
supper-time. Nettie turned the corner
and went down the village. She went slowly; her little feet were
already tired with the work they had done that day, and back and arms
and head all seemed tired too. But Nettie never thought it hard that
her mother did not go instead of letting her go; she knew her mother
could not bear to be seen in the village in the old shabby gown and
shawl she wore; for Mrs. Mathieson had seen better days. And besides
that, she would be busy enough as it was, and till a late hour,
this Saturday night. Nettie’s gown was shabby too; yes, very,
compared
with that almost
every other child in the village wore; yet somehow
Nettie was not ashamed. She did not think of it now, as her slow
steps took
her down the village street; she was thinking what she should do
about the money. Her father had given her two or
three times as much, she knew, as he meant her to spend; he was a
good workman, and had just got in his week’s wages. What should
Nettie do? Might she keep and give to her mother what was over? it
was, and would be, so much wanted! and from her father they could
never get it again. He had his own ways of disposing of what he
earned, and very little of it indeed went to the wants of his wife
and daughter. What might Nettie do? She pondered, swinging

her basket in her hand, till she reached a corner where the village
street turned off again, and
where the store of Mr. Jackson stood. There she found Barry
bargaining for some things he
at least had money for

Eld of active missionary work, or in "doing without things" for
Christ’s sake, that His name may be proclaimed, and that His kingdom
may come. * * * * * _CALLS FOR BOOKS._ Calls often come to us from
the field for hymn books.
Churches or individuals having unused books, enough of

the same kind to supply a small congregation, can get them put where
they will do the most good by sending them to our rooms prepaid. If
any of our pastors have BARNES’ NOTES in complete or incomplete sets,
which they may now no longer need, the American Missionary
Association can use them most profitably in supplying
their young missionaries. Send them to us at the Bible House. * * * *
* _THE FIELD._ 1890-1891. The
following list presents the names and post-office addresses of those
who are employed in the Churches, Institutions and Schools aide