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Apoatrophe To Womanhood.
zrOnt•T unsicm.
Mothers and maddens'believe me, the
whole course and charaoter of your lovers'
!fees is in your hands.; what you would
have them be they shall he,
if you not only
desire to Immo them so, butdeserve to have
them so ; for they are but mirrors, in which
you will see yourselves imaged. If you are
teivolous, they will be so also, ;,y yoo bave
4eits understanding of the scope of theirduty,
Alley also will forget it ; they will listen.—
Ailey can listen—to no °thee interpretation
af it "than that nttered from your lips. Bid
'them be brave, they will be brave for you;
bid them be cowards, and how noble soever
they be, they will quail for you. Bid them
be wise, and they will be wise for you ; mock
their counsel, they will be fools for you;
Anch and so absolute is your rule over them.
You fancy, perhaps, as you have been told
so often, that a wife's rule should only be
over her husband's house, not over his mind.
h, ! the true rule is just the reverse of
that : a true wife he her husband's house is
s servant ; it is in his heart that she is
ueen. Whatefer of best he can conceive;
t is her part to be; whatever of highest he
an hope, it is hers to promise; all that is
ark in him she must purge into purity; all
hat nefailing in him she must strengen
to troth ; from her, through all the world's
amor, he must win his praise; in her,
hrough all the world's warfare he must
nd hb peace.
Proper Training', for Girls. - •
Staying at home as usual, and at work,
rhile the girls are oft on excursions, and
oat rides, and botanizing expeditions, and
bowing at gardeo parties, and festivals of
11 sorts !
What folly, not only for, you, but for
em ! but must they have sonic recreation?
°Mainly, and so most you. IsTovvjust stop
ncr consider that it is not a kindness ' to
ring them up in this way.
Life is a very earnest and practical affair,
ud trying to make it up out of picnics and
estivals and jollities would be very much
'ke trying to make a xneal out of whipped
earn, It would be neither sensible nor
Sealthful. No girl should go out more than
moo or twice during a. 'week, and not then if
so doing she neglects the inost important
*excites of her education—a knowledge of
imusehold affairs and how to do in the meet
Practical and easy way the duties that she
must naturally expect will fall to her lot.
It is ahnost a crime for you to allow your
tirls to waste their hours in such a faeluon.
?ethane they are hang a good time, but
oma -day they may my to themselves:
l' Oh, dear how I wish mother had taught
no something useful and. sensible." And
then the botany and the music, the dresses
end the feasts and festivities will be re.
Membered with regret, perhaps vexation
end fault-finding.
Did you ever know a woMan t., regret
That she knew how to do exquisitely fine
aeedlework or plain sewing, to bake light,
wholesome bread, or make delicious pies
er cakes? Did you ever know ono who
Was ashamed Of her skill in pickling and
preserving, or who was unwilling to admit
ihat she couid arrange a table, order a
soon° diianer ana if need be, do the carv-
ing herself ?tNo, indeed ; but many a
Woman has sp
at years in trying to acquire
the knowledge of household affairs of which
the should have been mistress before she
was fairly in long dresses,
The mother who fails to instruct her
daughter in such branches defrauds her of
woman's best rigbt, the right to a knowl-
edge of how to make a home. .Perhaps only
a home for leersalf, but, oh, how pretty and
pleasant it caaAe if the tact, the skill, the
grace of the trained hand and eye and taste
exe there to bring it into perfect symmetry.
In this day and age women must learn
more than household service, but that she
thould be taught as she learns her alphabet.
She is never too young to learn, but really,
is far as practical purposes are concerned,
the is sometimes too old to learn. Habits
tof neatness, thrift, order and economy
should be among the first lessons of life.
Girls should never know that there is such
I thing as habitual disorder. Comfortable
system and well -considered prudence are
among the gifts and graces that go to make
up the useful and beautiful women. A
eareless woman can never be wholly attrac-
tive. The eye rests at once upon some evi-
dence of untidiness and the charm is de-
stroyed. Girls, and boys, too, for that
matter, should have the importance of
personal tidiness and neatness early im-
pressed upon them.
And not only is this imperative, but
arder and system in business affairs is of
he utmost importance. How long would
s merchant do business, think you, if he
put his accounts down on sense loose serap
af paper or on the wall, , or undertook to
emary them in his -head ? The idea aeenis
,preposterous, but is no more so than many
of the prevailing notions on the subject of
housekeeping. • ,
"There is really no royal road either to do-
mestic or business success. Only hard
work and steady, plodding industry can
make a perfect housekeeper or a capable
business man. .ancl household affairs do
not take long to learn, after all, if one only
begins earl and grows into it naturally.
f
--Such lesson. should be learned b.jr all girls,
whether ri li or poor, and, with them,
svery practical lesson and accomplishment
that time, strength and circumstences will
permit '
-- .
Extravazanee in Simpliety.
young men of small means must nob be de-
luded by the simplicity of the gown into
believing its cost of the same character.
"ever has there been a season when
quality \, reigned with the omnipotent
supremacy of to -day. Since, satins and
velvets cannot be compared in cost with
the deceptive little muslin gowns worn by
the suremer girl," .• -
The Evil in Feminine Dress.
The evil in the feminine dress of to -day
lies not with our rich women, but with our
women of average xneans, writes Edward
W. Bok in the July _Ladies' Home Journal.
The wealthy woman rarely overdresses ; the
average woman far more often, and she
stamps herself by that very indiscretion.
It is not the mistress who everdresses so
much as it is her servant who tries to imi-
tate her. The nice and refined women,
the women of taste, are not the, purchasers
of the showy dresa patterns and misfit hats
which we see in the show windows. Just
in proportion as a woman is refined in hez
nature is she quiet in her dress. A refined
woman never dresses loudly. The present
tendency in red is not followed by girls and
women of refinement. It is affected by
those who forget that red is the most try-
ing color which a woman can wear becom-
ingly, and there is no color of width one so
soon tires. Only a few women can choose
a perfect shade in red, and those are, as a
rule, not the women who wear it.
Rome -Made Ice Cream.
Anybody can make his own ice cream in
fi,ve minutes, and for an expenditure of two
or three cents, says a correspondent. If
the preparation desired to be frozen is plac-
ed in a tin bucket or other receptacle it, mon
be readily congealed by putting it in a pail
containieg a.weak solution of sulphuric acid
and water. Into this throw a handful of
comman Glauber salts, and the „resulting
cold is ao great that it bottle of wine im-
mersed in the mixture will be frozen solid
in it few minutes, and ice cream or ices may
be quickly and easily prepared.
"Even though sweet simplicity as repre-
tented by- muslins and organdies prevails,"
jays a correspondent iu the Philadelphia
Times, "our extravagant girls are not de-
barred from showing how much money can
be expended even on a gown of this sort,
end in consequerce they line a twenty -five -
mut Swiss with a dollar -a -yard silk and
.aem it with real lace at any price they can
mach.
•"Their parasols, though of the plainest
• leficription, will have handles that represent
mug little sums, beiug, as they are, made
id colored pearl set -with jewels, overlaced
)vith genuine gold or silver'and a very
Sconorarcal woman thinks it Dresden China
thot or handle not one whit too expensive.
"Oa their hats they will wear real
diamond buckles and stars, if they 'own
thein. If not, the very finest imitations,
which in themselves are far from being
heap, take the place of the genuine, and
mile in among the lace and roses that are
m dear as they are dainty. No inore lisle -
thread hosiery iar the summer girl. 'Silk
or nothing' seems to be her motto, and it
eans no small supply when she,has at
ast a dozen pair of ahem and ties,that re -
titre etockings to metals, Her handker-
shiefs moist be bits of sheer linen or lawn
es fine snd about as useful as a tpider's web.
• Her dainty shoes must have real gold and
tibiae tips, and her lovely hair caught up
With fillets of the precious metal, studded
with rare jewels.
"She may look wonderfully sweet and
ettreetime en her sinnmer attire but the
The Couch in a Cosy Boom i)
A room without a coucli of some sort is
only half furnished. Life is full of ups and
downs, aryl all that saves the sanity of the
mentally jaded and physically exhausted
fortuue-fighter is the periodical good cry
and the momentary loss of consciousness on
the upstairs lounge, or the old sofa in the
sitting -room. There are times when so
many of the things that, distract us could
be straightened out, and the way made
clear if one only had a long, comfortable
couch on whose soft bosom he could throw
himself, boots and brains, stretch his weary
frame, unmindful of tidies and tapestry,
close hia tired eyes, relax the tension of his
muscles, and give his harressed mind it
ch ance. Ten minutes of this soothing nar-
cotic, when the heed throbs, the soul yearns
for endless, dreamless, eternal rest, would
make the vision clear, the nerves steady,
the heart light, and the star of hope shine
again.
-There is not a doubt that the longing to
die is mistaken for the need of a nap. In-
stead of the immortality of the soul 'busi-
ness men and working women want regular
and systematic dons of dozing --and after
it mossy bank in the shade ofanold oak
that succeeding seasons have converted into
a tenement of song birds, there is nothing
that can approach a big sofa, or a low, long
couch placed in the corner, where tired na-
ture can bum her face to the wall and sleep
and doze away the gloom.
Unwholesome Eggs.
The character of a hen's egg is something
that affects consumers of this kind of food
very seriously. Few persons suspect danger
existing in an egg. There is au old adage
to the effect that an egg and a nut can be
eaten without suspicion, but it is very far
from being true. For it nut has almost al-
ways it worm biding in the kernel and an
egg has beese found to have the germs of
various lothsome kinds of organisms exist-
ing within its substance. This fact has
been heretofere mentioned as derived from
personal experience of the writer, and now
we have before us a report of investigations
by Dr. Gayon, who has discovered in eggs
bacteria, aspergilli, and other organisms
which are derived from the fowl itself and
are to be found also in ovaries and oviduct
and blood of diseased fowls. Inoculation of
the hens with bacilla resulted in the pres-
ence of these organisms in the eggs, and the
fecundated eggs were found to be far more
profusely supplied than the sterile ones.
Consequently even eggs are to be eaten with
fear and trembling and the long -boiled hard
egg will be far safer than the light -boiled
soft ones, and the well -cooked omelette
safer than either. ,The owners of fowls
should therefore be especially careful of
the health of their flock. ,
The flesh of diseased animals is • very
properly objected to as food.. ' But the egg
of a diseased. hen is as much diseased as the
flesh. Poultry cholera, roup and other
virulent diseases are more prevalent in
fowls them any diseases in other animals.
Almost every farm flock has ita receptacle
for departed sick fowls back of the barn or
in a. fence corner, and in little graves in the
garden under the currant bushes or grape
vines. No notice is aken of the fact that
the eggs of these hens have been gathered
and sold or used for weeks preceding the
final event, or a thofight given that they
were virulently unwholesome. Yet we have
been told that hens had received the germs
of diphtheria (which is roup in their ease)
and of tubereulosis from human subjects.
But wholes seriously considered the danger
of infection by diphtheria or consumption,
or of intestbaal fever (Which is the - fowl
cholera) from the eggs we eat? And yet
there is imminent danger of it that has been
heretofore unannounced, so far as we 'Mow,
except for some years past by the writer
in these columns and by Dr. Gayon.
Bay Well and Do Well.
A. short time before Dean Stanley's death,
e closed an eloquent sermon with a quaint
verse, which greatly impressed his congre-
gation. On being asked. about it afterwards,
he said it Was doubtful Whether the lines
were written by one of the earliest deans of
Westminster or by ono of the exttly Scotch
reformers. •
The dean had come upon ib by accident,
and feelhigthat it expressed with singular
felicity the true Christian proportion be-
tween doctrine and character, between good
words and good worker he used it to follow
and adorn his sermon. It ia as follows
Say well is good, but do well is better,
Do well seems spirit, say well the letter;
Say virell is godly and helpeth to please,
But do well lives godly, and gives the world
eass• Saywell tO silence sometimes is bound, •
atutdo well is free on every greund,
Say -well has friends, some here, some there,
But do well is welcome everywhere.
By say well to many God's' word cleaves,
But for lack of do won it often leaves.
If say well and do well were bound in one
from e,
Then all were done, all were mon and gotten
were ge,M.
ZN GLAND'S PREMIER.
Inelderits Iht the Career or the Marquis or
Salisbury.
The most remarkable thing &beet Lord
Salisbury is &Tenons' one, though it has
a certain sort of political interest. He is
the first Prime Minister of England since
his ancestor, Robert Cecil,. Earl et Bur-
leigh, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal un -
dee Queen Elizabeth, who has worn a board.
The fashion of wearing beards went out in
Engleud •stMhe beginning of theseventeenth
century, and has never quite come in again
among that class of men from whom Prime
Ministers are drawn. Even the mustache
was almost unknown in England, except
among the military, until after the Grin -lean
war, when civilians - took to wearing it,
partly in imitation of the soldiers and
partly from the influence of the French al-
liance; But as for the beard, it is still re-
garded as an eccentricity or as the mark of
some outlandish bringing up. The official
class as a rule wear only side whiskers.
Mr. Gladstone, Lord • Beaconsfield, Lord
Russell, Lord Palmerton, Lord Derby,
Lord Aberdeen, Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, Lord Melbourne, and
all the other prime ministers of the nine-
teenth century wore only side whisk-
ers, while before their time, for two centur-
ies, the custom was to shave close. At the
present day beards are more common in the
House of Lords than in the Heine of Com-
mons'because a good nanny elderly men
wearthem, and the Lords are much older
than the Coe 'mons But in either house a
beard makes a man decidedly noticeable.
Lord Spencer, formerly Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland., wears a big rough beard, and Lord
Lathorn, the present Lord Chamberlain,
wears a hugered beard, coming almost down
to his waist. But Lord Salisbury is the
cmly Prime Minister weo has woru it beard
for- Just 300 years. And such a beard as it
is 1 If itwere not for his great, bulbous
forehead and long, aggressive nose his
beard would eeem•to eoverthe whole face
of the man and constitute his whole in-
dividuality. With its sturdy bushiness and
total disregard of conventional ideas, it. is,
indeed, 'very characteristic of him. The
Duke of Devonshire, who always wears a
beard, is said to have more " you be claninecl-
nese" about him than any other nobleman
in England. But Lord Salisbury runs him
close. He is the very type of the strong-
minded, bull-headed, .good. tempered Eng-
lish aristocrat ; and he shows it ip his
appearance as much as in his words and
acts.
The origin of Lord Saliabury's beard,
however, is to be found in an incident of
his career which is not generally known, or,
rather, which is generally forgotten, but
which has had a good deal to do with the
formation of his character.
He was a younger son of the second
Marquis of Salisbury, and though bis father
was the lord. of many acres, and married to
a great heiress, the present head of the house
started in life with little but a historic name
and it splendid education. Lord Robert
Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil was not the
man to live on his father or to idle away the
best of his years among dogs and horses..
He determined to be independent end, hav-
ing an Oxford fellowehip to support him,
he set out for Australia and New Zealand
with the serious intention of 'becoming et
colonist and building up his own fortune by
enterprise and hard work. That was when
he grew his beard, for in those dams a razor
was almost an unknown article in the col-
onies, and having got into the habit of it,
he has worn it over since,
Lord Robert's plans of life were entirely
(dimmed by the death of his elder brother,
Lord Cranbourne, to whose courtesy, title,
and magnificent prospects he succeeded.
He had already made a great name for him-
self in the House of Commons, and been a
member of Lord Derby's Cabinet, when, five
years later, the death of his father made
him Marquis of Salisbury and one of the
great landed magnates,of England. Ire was
then just, thirty-eight and in the prime of
his powers, and his accession to the House
of Lords proved it most fortunate thing for
the Conservative party. Lord Derby—the
great Lord Derby, as he is commonly call -
was a tory ot the old school and a most
unfortunate politician in every way. Ho
was a man of splendid presence and most
chivalrous character, and his princely nut-
nificence and ardent love of sport made him
personally popular. Butehe was never in
touch with the English people or in har-
mony with the spirit of the age. He seemed
to be a feudal nobleman of the middle ages
dropped accidentally into the nineteenth
century. Under his leadership. the Con-
servatives reallyhad no prospects at all.
i
They never got nto power except through
some temporary crisis, and they never held
Wier more than 'a few months. All idea
of Conservative administration as a per-
manent thing seemed to have passed away.
Just a,year efter Lord Salisbury's accession
tithe familmlionors,,LoaciDerbtadiada Me.
Disraeli as he then was, succeeded to the
leadership of the party, and Lord Salisbury
took charge of their interests in the House
of Lords. He was immediately elected
Chancellor of the University of Oxford in
suesession to Lord Derby—a very high hon-
or for so young a man—and was marked
out for the future Prime Minister.
Two more different men than Disraeli
and Lord Salisbury could not well be im-
agined. Disraeli was all his life an actor,
a mystery, a dreamer, an adventurer. He
possessed nothing and he did not -want to
possess anything. He never really owned
an acre of land in his life, and if he had
just enough money fommitrent expenses he
was thankful not to be troubled with more.
He had no Milldam, and his wife was more
like a friend than anything else. He was
un-Englisla in all his ideas as he was in
appearance. Lord Salisbury is exactly the
opposite. He is, perhaps the most Eng-
lish Englishman in England. He is a
wealthy landowner, and the inheritor of
titles and estates 300 years old; essentially
a family man, and the very pink of social
grandeur and high style. Yet the two men
got on exeellently together, because they
both had 'brains. Lord Salisbury was wise
enotigh to discern. that Disraeli, with all
his flimsiness and all his *charlataniam, had
really big ideas and a big enough heart to
carry them out. , He was bold enough, too,
to trust Disraeli' and mobody who ever
trusted him foundhim false. Disraeli had
that strange insight into men's characters
which enabled him to find out sooner than
anybody else, ,not excepting themselves,
what they were best fit for.
Lord- Salisbury had devoted himself
mainly to home. -airs and especially to
church questions ,; but Disraeli discerned in
him a great foreign minister. By way of
basting his capacity in this respeot, he sent
line to the conference of the powers at Con-
stantinople, without any previous training,
as minister plenipotentiary at an extremely
critical period. Ire acquitted himself so
well that he acquired at one stroke almost
equal ranle.with Disraeli as a master of for-
eign'politics-a4 posieion which he hes never
forfeited since. :Prom that time until Dis-
ae l's death in 1881, the two statesmeo were
a David and Jonathan; and when the
liner Of the policy of "peace with honor
was laid to his reet under the pyramid of
primroses at Hughenden, Lord Saliebory
was upanimously acelairned Ma sncceasorjp
the leadership of the Comervative party.
How well he has succeeded in that position'
is attested b.y the fact that out of the eleven
years elapsed since Dieraelias death, the
Conservatives have been in (Om seven;
they have never been defeatedon it govern-
ment question in the House of Commons,
nor on any question in, the House of Lords;
and, they have lost fewer seats than either
pamteeever lot beforeto an egnal length of
thee.
The contrast between their condition to.
day and their condition under Lord Derby
is one of the meet remarkable things in the
modern 1Vstory of English Polities. Un-
doubtedly, Disraeli had a great ,deal to do
with that. It was he who galvanized the
prestige?, of the Conservative party into a
brilliant semblance of renewed vitality.
But it is Lord °Salisbury who really inspir-
ed it with fresh hfe, and maintained it over
a long period of eventful years in ever iu-
creasing vigor.
A British Foreign Minister 'needs to be
much nuirethan a mere diplomatist. The
ablest and most prominent diplomatists in
the Queen's service are, in fact, but in-
struments in his hands. If only the Brit-
ish Isle were to be considered, his post
would be comparatively a sinecure. But
what he has to understand and bear eons
stealer in mind are the several anci
collee-
tive interests of all the diverse and widely
scattered parts of the empire. Often, when
he is conducting some tedious negotiation
with a continental power upon an appar-
ently trivial question, the object witich he
really has in view is connected with the
future safety or welfare of scene distant de-
pendepoy. Practically, he controls all the
outside affaire of the empire, and the Minis-
ter of War, the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, and even the First Lord of the
Admiralty , are but coadjutors of his. That
is why Lord Salisbury bas always contend-
ed that the office 'of Minister for, Foreign
Affairs ought to be hold by the head of the.
government. Before his time it was cus-
tomary for the Pretnier to be First Lord of
the Treasury, on the theory that he ought
to hold the purse strings. But Lord Salis.
bury has always taken the ground that the
most important office in the Cabinet, in the
modern position in the British Empire is
that of Foreign Minister; and that he is
quite as -well able to control the purse
strings through it trusted colleague as he
would be if he himself administered the
treasury.
History affords abundant evidence of the
correctness of this view. All the recent
trouble between Great Britain and France
about the North American fisheries—and a
very serious trouble it is—arose from gross
ignorance of colonial affairs on the part of a
Foreign IVIinister more than WO years ago.
In one of his best known eseays, Macaulay
makes great fun of the :Duke of Newcastle,
not knowing that Cape Breton was an island.
But at a much later period Java, the gem of
the Indian Ocean, was lost to Great Britain
by a similar blunder on the part of a Foreign
Minister, who, in concludine * treaty of
peace, said he supposed "one island was
pretty much tho mine as anotheri"
We need not go so far back as that, in-
deed, to see the results of the system of
divided counsels in imperial affairs, against
which Lord Salisbium has steadfastly set his
face. • Alt throtigh Mr. 'Ulatietoise's, long
administration, the empire was involved 41
costly and disastrous little wars, and in
angry aItereetions with the colonies, simply
beeause the premier gave all his attention to
the treasury, while the Foreign Minister,
the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the
Secretary for the Colonies, each pulled his
own way. There has been nothing of that
kind during the last seven years, and it is
safe to say there never will be as long as
Lord Salisbury remains where he is. The
rule of his foreign policy is, to use his own
words, "to treat another powers as a gentle-
man wonld treat his neighbors, that is to
say, like gentlemen," and in every case, if
possible, to come to a friendly settlement,
benelicial to all concerned; and the under-
lyzna principle of it all is to keep good faith,
promising nothing which he does not fulfill,
and threatening nothing which he does not
mean to inflict.
Bismarck, who is an unequaled judge of
such matters, used to say it was impossible
to cultivate the frieudship of Great Britain
under Gladstone, because it was impossible
to depend on British policy from week to
week; whereas, under Lord Salisbury's re-
gime, Germany has become warmly attach-
ed to GreatBritain without offending French
susceptibilities.
At home. while Lord Salisbury's great
merits as a foreign minister are very gener-
ally acknowleged he has never gained popu-
larity in the ordinaryssense. The aristo-
cracy swear by him, and the great mass of
of the, world* men have a genuine admira-
tion of him. But the lower middle class,
small tradesmen,' and the mere mob do not
'like him at all. As for him,. he despises
them too heartily to have any resentment
against theme and he is far too proud to
make any effort to conciliate Ahem. He
never shrinks from expressing his contempt
for them and their views of poblic life, and
he is at any time ready to retire rather than
to be indebted to them for a Eingle vote.
He is not at all an eloquent speaker, but he
is so bold and clear, and in dealing with his
opponents he has such a cutting wit that
his speeches are always eagerly listened to
and read. He is not uncommonly charged.
with bad taste in his epigrams, as for in -
Stance when he said, apropos of William
O'Brien and Dillon's flight from bail and
Parnell's catastrophe : " It is a curious
thing about Irish national leaders that they
are always eseaping. Sometimes they escape
by water and sometimes by the tire escape."
But he cares nothing. for such accusationa.
He says whatever he pleases and if his foes
don't like it so much the worse for them.
In private life Lord Salisbury is a prince-
ly noble in all respects, a magnificent host,
and excellent landlord, and a firm and cer-
dial friend. He has entertained Queen
Victoria at Hatfield House, his splendid
seat at Hertfordshire, as his ancestors en-
tertained Queen Elizabeth under the same
roof; and last: year he entertained the
German Emperor there. But t� see him at
his best it is necessary to be at one of his
"home " parties when he surreunds himself
with his neighbors and friends from all
parts of the country, and comes out strong
in his trne character of "a fine old English
gentleman, one of the olden time." He
loves good eating and drinking, puts away
a bottle of old port after dinner in defiance
of his hereditary gout, and is not at all
ashamed of a few generous old English vices.
But noblesse oblige in his rule of life and he
never departs from it. For years past his
health has compelled him no live in the
south of France in winter, and 'the Villa
Cecil is becoming almost as well known in
connection with his name as Hatfield.
It speaks volumes for his lionhommie
that he is, next to the Prince of Wales, the
most popular Englishman in „France. ,
EnwArto WAggriELD
There is always roomier a men of force,
and he makes room for manymegamersee,
Row "There is aRappy Laud" Was Writ-
• ten.
Amhart time ago, in the course of my
work as a reporter, I found myself in a low
saloon waiting for the proprietor. I lied
noticed as 1 came in three men and it boy
playing cards in a comma Dirty and un-
kempt, coarse and loud voiced, their hands
came down on the table with a bang each
time a card was played, while through, the
game a, running fire of profenity was kept
up, punctuated by the sound of the tobacco
juice as it spattered on the dirty floor. I
turned my back on, them and was thinking
of other things, when I was brought back
to my surrounaings by the straisis of a
hymn, the first I ever learned so long ago in
fille11 a different place. The boy was softly
singing to himself; •
There Is a happy land,
Far, far away,
Where saints an glory steals
Bright, bright as day.
Oh, how they sweetly SWF,
Worthy is our Saviour King,
Loud let His praises ring,
Praise, praise for aye.
My mind flew back to the night when I
heard these same words sung by a little band
of Jamaicans in the swamps of Aspinwall,
and further lea* still to the time when in
Edinburgh I heard them in their author's
class -room.
The music coming from the cradle of the
race, the words tellingmf the famaway goal,
this hymn seems peculiarly fitted for the
world-wide fame it has won. Of the mil-
lions who have sung it there are perhaps
few who know how it came to be written.
I have the story from the author, whose
Bible class I attended.
In 1838 or '43, the date I am not sure of,
Andrew Young was a young man—a teech-
er in St Andrewe, Scotland—and much
interested in Sunday school work. It hap-
pened that, spending an evening with a
family recently from India, he heard one of
the ladies play something which struck hun
very much. "What is that?" he said,
"Why," she answered. "That ds a Hin-
dustani air called 'The Happy land.' The
water carriers sing it." He asked her to
play it again, which she did, and again, five
or six times, The idea had occurred to him
that the air would be suitable for a Sunday
school Hymn. The next day he wrcte
"The Happy Land." His scholars took to
it at once, visitors heard it, and it spread
and was translated into many languages and
sung in every chine, and thus out of the
eater has come forth meat and out of the
strong sweetness, and the water carrier's
song has brought many to the ever -living
streams.
.--(Wm. C. Thackwell.
A Man -Eating Leopard.
The Calcutta Englishmam contains a
blood-curdlieg account of the doings of a
man-eatinkleopard lately shot in the Raj -
shad District, in Bengal. The monster had
destroyed 154 persons before he was cut
down. His appetite for flesh, his ferocity,
his cunning, and his audacity were unex-
ampled in the leopard tribe, and they would
have done credit, to a tiger. He depopulat-
ed whole villages, for the mere terror of his
name sent the inhabitants flying as soon
as be had seized a solitary vietim in their
midst
For miles around the people never ventur-
ed to leave their houses after nightiall until
they heard he was dead. But this was no
smokingtlmmfrom when they were
elarEdemosthes_smem,eometimes
giatehimirance to him. lie would seize
onithearerin "la's
he penetrated the very houses in the dea
of the night and carried away children—
often without giving the slightest alarm to
the other inmates.
As a rule, he killed only one person at a
bus; but sometimes he killed two, and,
OU one occasion, three in one day. Children
and old women were his favorite food.
Among his victims there were six rnen. He
VMS impelled by a sheer hankering for human
flesh, for he never touched the cattle.
The villagers began to think the scourge
was a demon incarnate, and it was impos-
sible to organize them for the pursuit. At
length sonic twenty elephants werebrought
together for the expedition, and a flying
column of British planters set forth in
quest of the destroyer. They searched for
some time in vain, until an old man, whose
wife had been eaten, came to report that
their quarry had taken refuge in a tama-
rind tree.
It was as he had stated, only the man-
eater had by this time hidden himself in
the jungle at the foot et the tree'and for
the moment. could not be found. The place
was surrounded, and the elephants advanc-
ed in close order to trample the fugitive out
of his hiding place. This maneuver suc-
ceeded after frequent repetition; the beast
was driven out of cover, and at once rid-
dled with balls. • He will become a legend
in the districte, and perhaps a deity.
How to Ilse the Gooseberry.
- The gooseberry is not as highly esteemea
in this couutry as it is in England. It is
difficult to get a variety which will grow in
our dry climate and attain that perfection
whichit obtains in the moist climate of
England. Our common variety of gooseberry
is so susceptible to mould that it has prej-
udiced fruit -raisers against the entire
speees. Nevertheless a gooseberry pudding
is a very good dessert, and a sauce of green
gooseberries au exeellent accompaniment of
broiled lamb or almost any June dinner.
The eoosaberry is a fruit that, is generally
used just before it becomes ripe, and while
it still possesses the acid of the immature
berry. A ripe gooseberry is an insipid fruit,
of no special value for cooking, except in
the time-honored recipe for "gooseberry
fool," which calls for ripe goomberries stew-
ed to a pulp and beaten with whipped cream.
An English batter -pudding with green goose-
berries is made as follows: Pour a pint of
milk over a slice of bread, crumbed. Stir
in ten even tablespoonfuls of flour. Add the
yolks of four eggs, half a teaspoonful of salt,
and fill ally, the whites of four eggs which have
been beaten to a stiff froth. Beat this bat-
ter carefully- and stir int� 11 aequart of green
gooseberries.. Put the pudding in a greased
mould or tie it up in a till& cloth which has
been thoroughly greased and floured. Let
it boil two hours. Serve it with an English
brandy -sauce or an old -fashion hard sauce.
To make a gooseberry sauce, top and tail a
se -Indent number of green gooseberries. Add
about, half a pint of water to a' quartof ber-
ries and let them stew in an earthen pipkin
till they are thoroughly terider. Add sugar
enough to make thein palatable, but still
leave them is pleasant acid. Servethe sauce
with meats as cranberry or apple sauce are
served. Green gooseberries also make a very
nice pie, either baked like a rhubarb pie in
a crust, or first stewed, baked without an
emper crust, and then covered with • a
meringue, like El, lemon or apple meringue
pie. The name of this fruit is a rcurimis
example of the transmutation of language.
It is not the berry of the familiar fowl
which saved Rome ass the name would
seem to indicate,ba it is literally the prick.
ly berry or gooseberry, ea eallea in allusion
to itr 9sor.ty10 in.
Fame, Wealth, Life, Veab
What it fain
Tit thesiein;gleam on the menntains,
Spreading brightly ere it tliet,
'Tis the bubble en the fountain.
Rising lightly ere It dies:
Or, if here and there a hero
YelletfigniemtbliOrg°dainthisit)zuegroh all ° Yea"'
Death hath stilled his tippet and fear*
Yet what danger men will dare
If but onlyin the air
May bo heard seine eager Mention of thole
rmm
•Thougthhetaltny oirer it not themselves, 'tit Much
What is wealffil
'Tis a rainbow, still receding
As the panting fool pursues.
Or a toy, that, Youth unheeding,
Seeks the readiest way to lose;
But the wise man keeps dtte mettUre,
Neither out of breath nor base;
Ho but holds in trust his treasure
For the welfare of the race,
Yet what crimes some men will daro
But to gain their slender share
In sohmeetapthro.fit, though with loss of name d
'What is Met
'Us the earthly hour of trial
For a life that's but begun;
.When the prize of self-denial
May be quiekly lost or won;
Tis the hour when love may bourgeon
To an everlasting dower;
Or when lusts them victims urge on
To defy immortal power,
Yet how lightly menignore
All the future holds in store,
Spending brief but golden moments all
strife;
Or in suicidal madness grasp the knife,
What is deat1
Past Its dark, mysterious portal
Human eye may never roam;
Yet the hope still springs inunortaI
That it leads the wanderer home.
0, the bliss that lies before ut
When the secret shall be known,
And the vast angelic chorus
Sounds the hymn before the throne?
What it fame, or 'wealth, or life?
Past are preemie fortune. strife;
All but love that lives f o rover, cast neneath.
When the good and faithful servant takes taa
wreath.
—iW. W. Sacat,
The Mother's Hour.
In every real sense all hours are the
mother's own, from the tune of her child's
babyhood to the twilight of, his later life,
No human tie is so clom as the mystic -band
which units a naother to her children.
Their lives, once identital with hers in
every heart -bent and every thought, are
never altogether dissevered while life lasts,
and the man is indeed an ingrate who,
under any provocation, speaks slightingly
of the mother who cradled bine in her young
arms and who remains, through aU chance
and Lange, all loss and gain, his friend, his
champion, his defender,
"This world never felt so cold before,"
said a mar, middle-aged, prosperous and
self-reliant, "Mother died laat week; I
realize that I must henceforth breast the
storms alone."
Yet there are hours and hours. The wise
mother, appreciating her opportunity and
the preciousness of the gift of God which%
enables her to take part in carrying for-
ward the race, is chary of certain times and
seasons, which are peculiarly hers for im-
pression and for delight. One of these sea-
sons comes toward the sunset, when it is
timo for the nursery supper, and the frolic
before the children go to bed. Then, if she
me, the mother secures a blessed half hour
with her darlings, talking over the day and
it problems, patting, cuddling, receiving
confidence, and sending the children to
their nightly reat happy and tranquil. The
mother is more than mistaken—she is eruel
if t this time she witholds a carcass, or
criticisms, except
stPhrtkwshlinchir7661ks most goonrartiftt.
-Silseving. No
shadow should be suffered to fall on
tle heart at bed time, however important
the occasion may appear for discipline.
Above all, if the mother prize her privileges
aright she will herself hear her children say
their nightly prayers and hymns. Too sas
cred a duty to be left even to the most
trustworthy of nurses, at this rite the
mother officiates, associating her own pres-
ence and influence with the devotional.
habit, which, if formed at all, must be
formed early in a, child's life. And after
the little ones have grown to girlhood
and boyhood, to a certain independence of
care and the development of their own
individualities, who but the mother has
still the freedom of their rooms, and who
else, excusing herself for a little while from
the drawing -room and the society of friend.s,
can glide softly in for a few moment's chat
and a good -night kiss upon the unfurrowei
foreheads and the rounded. cheeks so softly
resting on the thornless ,pillows of youth
and health? the mother s hour is worth
watching for, lest it evade her in the ab-
sorption of her intensely occupied day,
toirounsnder the pressure of her social oblige.-
• The Opirit of Unselfishness.
One of the earliest lessons in training chi/-
dren to be unselfish is to teach them to 're-
joice in the happiness of others. It is a
natural impulse when some rare pleasure is
offered to one child in the family for those
who cannot share the enjoyment; to be a
trifle envious. If the sister is singled outt
to take a delightful journey the brother
grumbles beimuse he is not included in the
invitation. If a favorite uncle makes Jack
a present of a bicycle, Mary pouts because
no gift is bestowed upon her. All such
causes offer an opportunity for parents to
develop in the children that highest form of
unselfishneii which finds its joy in the hap
piness of others. Few adults, however,
possess this grace in its fulness.
They are far readier to weep with those
who weep than to rejoice with those who
rejoice. But nothing wins friends more
easily than the habit of entering heartily
into the plans of others and expressing
pleasure at their succes.s or good fortune.
"Your letter this morning," writes one who
has always cultivated this gift of loving
kindness, brought a great happiness into
my day bemuse of the pleasure in store for
you which it chronicled." 'Were this spirit
more prevalent how much sunshine would
be elided to our lives.
• Might Hurt.
Little Dot—" My new doll has a, drefful
dilartlyttflaecel;i'esk--" Why don't you wash it'16
Little Dot—" Mamma won't let me. • 1
dess she's afraid I'll det map in het eyes.'
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Soapsuds are good for most garden
plants.
iaFranoo it has been demonstrated that
vaccination is beneficial to horses suffering
from glanders.
Among the wealthy elasses of Japan it is
considered undignified to ride a horse
going, faster than a walk.
The man who lives right and is right has
more power in his silence than another has
by hit words. Character is like tells which
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