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Exeter Advocate, 1900-4-26, Page 3CIIRIST AND CREEDS Dr. Talmiage's Timely Discourse on Religious Doctrines. 'LOOSE HIM AND LET HIM GO," Woula'..Teee naonenity From LILO Gray.,0+: ClOtheS Of Old ltleclesitistical Do*aa 6 --Siallpili Fal 111 ill Cilrilit Ili tilli Tohl Of Uill'ifiiialliLy. . 01,13 . ,3shington 'April 22. --- At a time when the old ceseussion Of creed:, is being vigorously and soineweal el te telly revived this discourse of ea, Talmage has a speeial interest, nhe text as John xi, eel: "Loose hin and let him go." My Bible is at the place of this text weitten all over with lead pen- cil marks made at Bethany on the ruins of , the house of 'nary and Mar- tha and Lazarus. We dismounted' /nom our horses on the \Vay rup from ,Jordan to the Dead Sea. ,Bethany WilS the summer eeening retreat of . e. Jesus. After spending the day in the ct- tiot city of Jerusalem' he :would .come ' Out there almoet every evening to the , house of his three friends. .1 . think' the occupants of that house were orphans, for the father , and Mother are not mentioned, ,But the F1011 and two daughters must have inherited property, for it must have ' beeri, judging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms ' an opulent home.. Lazarus, the bro- ther, was now at the'head of the , household, and his sisters depended on , hini'. and were 'proud of ,hine for he was 'very popular ,and everybody lik- ed,,him, and these girls were Splendid girls ---Martha a first nate housekeep- er and Mary a spirituelle, somewhat dreamy; but ,affectionate and as good a girl as could be found in all Pales- tine.' But one day Lazurus got sick. 'From the characteristics otherwise developed, r judge that Martha pre- pared the medicines and made tempt- ing dishes of food for the poor .ap- Petite of the 'suffeeer, but Mary pry - ed ' and ' sobbed, Worse and worse getS Lazarus until the doctor an- nounces that , he can do no , more. The shriek that went up from that household. when. the last breath had been, drawn and the two sisters were : being led by sympathizers into . the adjoining room all those of us can ima.gine who havehad our own heart .broe'en. But why was not Jesus there as he so often had been? Far • away. in the country districts, Preaching, healing other sick, how un- fortunate that this 'Omnipotent Doc- tor had 'not been at that domestic• , crisis . in Bethany. When at last Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had been buried for days and disso- lution' had taken place. In that cli- mate , the breathless 'body disintegrat- es more rapidly than in ours. If, immediately after decease; the -body , had been awakened. irito life, unbe- lievers. might have said he was only •,. in a comatose state or in a sort of • trance and by some vigorous manipu- lation or Powerful stimulant vital- ity had been renewed. No! Four .111days dead. ' At the door of .the sepulcher .is a , ,crowd of people, but the three most atnemorabie are Jesus, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sis- •,ters. We went into the traditional , tomb one December . day, and at is deep down and dark, and With torch. - ..es we explored it. , We found it all quiet that afternoon o1. our visit, but the day spoken of in the 'Bible ,there was present an waited multi- tude. i won der what j es es will do? ,Ile ordere el he door of i he erave re- inoved.and then he begins to descend •the steps, Mary and Afeertha ' close :,after thine.. Deeper dawn into' the ,shadows and. deepen! The . hot tears .of Jesus roll over his cheeks and eelash upon the back of his 'hands. ' , Now all the whispering- and all the ,crying and all the sounds of shuf- ffinglifeet are stopped. It is the sil- ence. of expectancy. Death had con- quered, but now the vanquisher of ,death confronted the scene. Amid the •'awful hush of the tomb,1 the familiar name which 'Christ h'ad often had up - 01 this lips in the hospitalities of the village home came back to his ton- gue, and with a pathos and an al- mtghtiness of which the resurrection ,of the last day shall only. be 'an echo he . cries,' "Lazarus, come forth!" The eyes ..of the slumberer open, and he rises 'aed comes to the foot 01 the steps' fund with ' great difficulty begins to ascend,' for the. cerements ' of the tomb are yet on him, and his feet are fast and hiss hands are fast and the impediments to 'all his movements ,eare ' so great that Jesus comanands : "Take, off , these .' ceroments! 'Remove ./ these hindrances! , Unfasten these ' 'graveclothes! Loose him, and 'let him go!" , The unfortunate thing ' now is that so many 'Christians are only half lib- erated. They have been raised from. the death and burial of sin into .spir- ltual life, but they have the grave- clothee on them.. They are, like Lae - ants, hobbling up the stairs of the tomb bound hand and foot, and the ' object ,of this sermon is to help free their body and free their souls, and I shall' try to obey the IVIaster's coin- rna,nd that comes to ,rne and comes to every minister of religion, "Loose him, and let'him go!". ' Many are bound hand and foot by religious creeds. . Let no man 'Misin- terpret- me 'as anta'gonizing creeds. I have eight or ten , of therne-a creed about. religion, a ereed about art, a creed about social life, a Creed. about ' government, and so , ont A creed Is something that a man believes N,rhe- ther it be written or unwritten. The Presbyterian Church is now agitated about its creed. Some good men in it are for 'cooping it beeause ft Was framed from the ' belief of ';folin Cal- ' vin.. Other good men in it want re- vision. 1 ani. With neither party. Instead Of revision 1 -emelt eubstitue tion. I was sorry to' have the ques- tion disturbed at all. The creed did not hinder us fro In offer ihg the pare, don and the comfort of the gospel to all men, and the Westrnillster Confes- sion has not interfered with Inc one minute, But now that the electric lights have liehi turned op the im- perfectiOnS 01 that creed-eel/1d enern- thittg that mail feenions irrinerfeet —let ns out the old creed respectful- ly aside and get a brand new One. It is imposeible that people, WhQ Imodreds or years ago should fash- ion an aPPropriate creed for our times, John, Calvin was a great and geed man, but he died :d36 Years ago. The best centuries of Bible etuny have come since then, 'and explorers have done, thole work, and you might, as well have the "world go back and stick to what Robert Fulton !new about steamboats and reject elle sub- sequent improvements..in navigation, and go back John Gutenberg, the inventor of the art. of printing,• aud • tejoet all modern enewsOaPer Presses, anti' go hack to Woe time when tele- graphy \vas the of sigmas or the burning of bonfires on the hill- tops aud reject the magnetic wire which is the tonssue of nations as to igncee all exegetes and the philolo- gists and aim theologians of the last 8:30 years and put your head .under the sleeve =of the gown of ,a. sixteen - the century doctor. you say, "it is the same •old L'ible, .and John Calvin had that as well as ,the present ,student, of the Scriptuves." .Yes; so it is the same old sun in the heavens, but .in our time it has gone to making daguer- reotypes laid photogrephs. .It. is the same one water; but in • our century it has gone to running steam engines, 11 is the same old. electricity; but ta our time it has become a lightning - f ooted ereamel•boy. . So. it is the old Bible, but .110 \V eimplications, • new uses, new interpreLatioeS. 'You must remember ,that during the last 300 years words, have changed their meaning, .and some of them now mean more and ome dess •do not think that . John Calvin believed, as some say he did, ,in .the damna- tion of infants, although some of the recent hot disputes wotad Seem• to Imply that there is such a thing as the damnation of infants., We must remember that good John Calvin was a logician and a meta- physician,d anby the proclivities of his nature put some things in an un- fortunate way. Logic has its • use and metaphysies has les use, but they are not good at making creeds. What a time we have had with the dogmatics, the apologetics and the' heremeneutics. The defect in some' oi the creeds is that the try:to te1,1 us all, about the decrees of God.aroo, the only hatinah being that eVae ever, competent to liandle.that subject was andthe evould not have . been competent had be net been. inspired. I believe in tho sovereignty of God aed 1 believe in man's free aeco- cy, but no ,one man can haertionize the two: it ie not nedessaek that We: harmoniee them. Every sermon, that, I have fever, heard that attempted such. . harmonization . was to ,ole as clear as a :London, fog, as clear , as mud. My brother o1. the nineteenth century; • give ns Paul's 'statement: and leave out your 'own. :Better One chapter Of Pent :on that subject' than all of Calvin'sinseitutes, able , .and honest and mighty as they are. Do not try to ineasinte either the :throne of God or the thunderbolts 'of Cod with your little steel- pen. What do You know about the decrees? You cannot pre open the door of Godes ete ernal :counsels.. YoU.,cannot -explain the mysteries of God's governnient now; much less the myeteries of his government five hundred quintillion years age. I -move :for a Creed for all Our : de- nominations made out. of 'Scripture quotations' pure and simple. . That wduld take the earth for God. : That Would be impregnable against infidel- ity, and Apollyonic assault. That would be beyond. :human criticism. The denomination, whateverits name be, that ca.n rise, up, to that will be the church, of the millennium, win swallow up all other edenominations and be the one 'that. will be the bride When the Bridegroom cometh. ' Let us make it .,simpler and plainer .for people to , get. into the kingdom' of But there are those who could add unto the tests •rather than subtract from them: ,,There are thousands who would not accept persons into church membership if they drink wine or if they smoke cigars or if they attend the theatre or if they play cards or if they drive a fast lest -se. But do not substitute tests which the Bible does not establish. There is one passage of Scripture wide enough to let all in who ought to enter and to keep out all who ought to be kept out, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt' be saved." Get a man's hearf right, and his. life will be right. Again, there are Christians who are under sepulchral sliadows and fears and 'toppled by doubts and fears and sins long ago repented of. What they need is to understand the liber- ty of the sons of God. ' They spend more time under the shadow of Sin- ai than at the base ,of Calvary. Wbat ,many of you Christians most need is to get your graveclothes off. I rejoice that you have been brought from the death of e -in to the life of the gospel, but you need to get your hand loose, and your feet loose,and your tongue loose, and your soul loose. There is no sin that the Bible so arraigns and puma -urea and, flagel- lates as the sin of unbelief, and that is what is the matter with you. "Oh," you say, "if you knew what I once was and how many tithes I have g,rievouslY strayed You „would understand why I do not ,come out brigh ter !"' Th en think you wo u d call yourself the chief of sinners. I am grad you hit upOn ehat term, for II have a promise that ats into your case as the cogs of one wheel be- tween the cogs of one vheel be- es the key ftts into the labyrinths 01 a lock. . A man who was once called Saul, P01 afterwards Paul, declared, "'Jails is a faithful saying and worthy of ell acceptation that Christ Jesus , came into the world to save sinneee, oi whom I run chief.'' As -ark that—''of whoIt am chief." ''Put down your overcoats ancl hats, and I will take care of them while you kill Stephen." So Saul said to the , stoners of the first martyr. ,d0 not 0030 1eX• ert myself much, but I will guard yonr surplus 0 /mare] while 'you (lc the minder ,'' The NeW TOS ta 11(on 1 aceount says, "The witnesees laid down their clothes at a young inards fects whose name was Saul." No wonder he said, "Sinners, of whoni I am chief." ' Christ is used to climbiog. I -le Climbed to the top of 'the temple. Ile climbed 'to the 5top .of Mount Olivet. Ile plimbed to ;the top of the cliffs about Nazareth. He climbed to the top of Golgotha. And tothe top of the hills and mountains of your tranAgression be is ready to climb with pardoo fonevery one of you. The groan of Calvary ie mightier' than the , thunder of Sinai. :Pull reeetpt is ,of- fered fbr all anciebtedness. If one throw a *tone at midnight into a bush where , the hedge bird roosts; it nnmediately begins to sing', and Into the midnight hedges of your despond- ency these words I hurl, hoping to awaken you to anthem. Drop the 'tunes in the minor key and take the major. De you think it pleases the Lord for you to be carrying around \vith you the debris and carcasses of Old Transgressions? You make me think of some ship that has had a tempestuous time at sea and now that it proposes another voyage keeps on its davits the damaged lifeboats .and the.splinters of a shivered mast and the broken glass of a smashed' skylight, My advice is: Clear the • decks, overboard with all the dam- aged rigging, brighten up the salted smokestacks, open a new logbook, haul in the planks, lay out a course and -Set sail for heaven., You have had the spiritual dumps long enough. You will please' the Lord more by being happy than ,by being miserable. - Again, my text has good advice' concerning any Cliristain hampered ancl bothered and bound by fear of his own dissolution. To such the book.. refers when .10 speaks of those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject lo bondage. The most of us,• even if •VVO have the Christian hope, are cowards about death. If a plank fall from a scaf- folding and justigrazes our hat, how pale we look! Ilf the Atlantic ocean plays with •the 'steamship, pitching 11 towards the 'heavens and letting it suddenly drop, how .even the .Christ - fan passengers pester the steward or, stewardess as to whether there is, any danger, and the captain, wlio has been all night on the bridge and chilled, through, coming in for a cup of coffee, is assailed with a whole batterYof questions as to what he thinks of the weather. And many of the best people ,are, as Paul says, throughout their lifetime in bondage by fear of .de,atin My brothers and sisters if we made full use of our religion we would scion get over this. One of our first realizations in get- ting out of this world, I think, will Pc that In this world we were Very much .peut up and had 'cramped apartments and were kept on the limits. The most, even of our small world, is water, and the water .says to the 'human race, "Don't come .here or you .will drown." A few thousand feet up .in the atmosphere is uninhabitable, and the atmosphere says to the human race', "Don't come up here or you cannot breathe." . A few miles down the earth is a fur- nace of fire, and the fire says, "Don't come here or you will burn." The caverns of the mountains are full of poisonous gases,. and the gases say, "Don't come here or you will be asphyxiated." And, :crossinga s 4- racg, you, must look ,out ,or you will be croshed. And, standing by a steam boiler, you must look out: or you will be blown up. And pneumonias and pleurisies and consumption aad apo- plexies go across .this earth in flocks, in droves, in herds, ,and it is a world of equinoxes and .cyclones and graves. Yet we are under the delusion that it is the only fit place to stay in. We want to stick to the wet plank in midocean while the great ship, the City of God, of the Celestial line, goes sailing past arid would gladly take us up in a lifeboat. My Christian friends, let me tear off your de- spondencies and frights about disso- lution. My Lord commands me re- garding you, saying, ."Loose hitn„ and let him go!" Heaven is 90 per cent. better than this world, a thousand per cent. bet- ter, a million per cent. better. Take the gladdest, brightest, most jubilant days you ever bad on earth and com- press them all into one hour, and that hour would be a requiem, a fast day, a gdomn, a horror, as compared with the poorest hour they have had in heaven since its first tower was built or its first gates swung or its first song caroled. "Oh," you say, "that', may be true, but I am so afraid of crossing, over. from .this world to the next. and I leer the snapping of the cord, between soul and body," Well; all the • surgeons and scientists declare that there is 010 pang at the parting` of the body and soul, and all the restlessness at the closing hour of life is , involuntary and no distress at all. The cage of the body has a door on easy hinges, and when that door of the physical cageopens the soul Simply puts out its wings and soars. "But," you say, "I fear to go be- . cause the future is so inn Of mys- tery." Well. I will tell .yOu how to treat the -naysteeies. The mysteries have ceased 'bothering me, for I do as theejuclg,es of our courts often do. They hear all the arguments in the case and they say. "I will take these papers and give you my decision next -week." So I have heard all the argu- ments in regard to the next world,, and some things Inc uncertain and full of mystery, and so 1 fold up the papers, and reserve until the next world my decision about themn. I can there study all the 'mysteries to better advantage, for Ole light, \vill Pc better and my faculties stronger, and 1 will ask the Christian philoso- phers, who, have had all the advent- a,ges of heaven for centuries, to help me, and I, may be permitted myself humbly to ask the Lord, and I think there will be only- one, mystery left; that will be ono so linWerthsr as my- self got into . such, an enraptured place. Come up out of the sepulchral shadows. If you are not Christians P3' faith in Christ, ceine Up Pito the light; and ?/ you are already Jilts Lazarus, reanimated, but etill have your ,grave clothes 00, got rld of j 11131 1% g coomj,ita /Id is, "Leese him, tcnd et '1) A YOUNG GIRL'S W074. sHa WAS PASSIONATELY FOND UF ALL KINDS OF CANDY. But the Special Brand She Encoun- tered Le the Douse of a Friend Gave lifer ilinsestie•e oraiera4 a Much Needed Chance to Rest. • "What Is the matter?" asked the blue eyed girl. "You look nervous, and you haven't noticed that there is a darn on the elbow of my left sleeve, though I came in quite ten minutes ago, and"- ami--er-a little nervous, dear," sighed the girl \vial the curling lashes -"uot Cross, you know, but" - "Of couese not. Only fathers and husbands are cross. dVe are naturally • so much more amiable that" - "We are merely nervous? I know it. Isn't it nice Of us too? I -I went to see Phyllis this morning." "You were )Vise to go to See her in the inovning if you veahe wanted to talk to Per. Ralpb looks in on his way to business in the morning, drops in again, at limeldime, calls to take her for a walk after oflice hours and spends the evening with her. That is all, 1 be- lieve, except that lie usually calls her _up once or twice a day by telephone and sends her a box of bonbons or a bunch Of roses." "Al'hui! Just like a man; he gives her no time to rest, ruins her digestion with candy and then expects her to be amiable." "You can't expect a man to be really 'ordeal dear Lucky for Phyllis too. A logical person would have noticed that lier hair is six shades too light to really belong to her complexion. \That did she have to tell you about him to- day?" "I -I really don't know, dear. I had some awfully interestiug samples, and I really didn't listen. I am not selfish, like Phyllis, but I bad rather think about my own affairs than talk about those of other people. While I was there Ralph called her up over the tele- phone. That horrid little brother of hers came in to tell her." "lies, I notice that he is always ready to carry messages now that she has candy to distribute. But Ellie was there, too, wasn't she? I met her on the way." "She was. I waited a long time for and what do you think she had clone? She had gone down to ask Ralph's sister if he was quite well, be- cause she was sure that she had heard him cough over the telephone, and she knew if he died of consumption she would die too," "Oh, my goodness, gracious me! And she forgot" - "All about me, dear. I waited, how- ever, because I didn't want to go home. Mamma was all ready to take me to see Aunt Alive, and I -I don't like to hear Aunt Alice talk about birthdays and what I did when I was 16." "So you waited to comfort Phyllis. I see." ''T waited a long time." sighed the girl with the curling lashes. "As I sat there my eyes fell on a box of candy Mill in its original wrappings. I-er-- ain rattier fond of candy, so I"-- "Fielped yourself. Of course you did. Phyllis wouldn't care. She has so inuch nOW that she keeps boxes un- opened for days in her room." "No, I didn't help myself. By and by Ellie came in. She'was talking about Edmund. She seems to fancy that he is dreadfully in love with me. I can't imagine how she ever got the idea." "Nor I, dear, unless you accidentally gave it to her yourself. What did she say?" "She seemed to fancy that the candy was mine, dear. I believe that she-er--thought that Edmund had sent it to me." "rim! She doesn't know him very well, does she?" "I'm sure I don't know. I bated her to think that I was stingy about it, so" - "Yon opened it, of course. I only, hope that there was some left for Phyl- lis when she came In." "There was not. I -I said I'd share my candy with her. I wish now I hadn't." "Why? Did Phyllis come and catch" - "No. It was worse than that. When I opened the box, there was no candy in it -only a horrid mouse. The little brother had eaten the candy and put the mouse in for a joke!" "Ola, my goodness, gracious; you poor" - "That was not all. Edmund happen- ed to be passing the house, and my screams brought laim in to see if any one was murdered. And, if you will believe it, that mean Effie told him the' whole tbing!" --Philadelphia North American. 'Thankful. MONTREAL FREE. No Longer AnY Fear of Bright's Disease Since Dodd's Kidney Pills Came Into Use, All Kidney Diseases Rave Been Ren- dered itarnt1e44-1dar1a Ottimond's case of itlieumatism--lier Grati- tude for Dodd's Kidney Tills. Montreal, Anvil 16.-AnOther euro by Dodd's Kidney Pills is reported in this city. This time it is Rh.euma- tism 'which that excellent remedy has conquered. Tilers, hare been scores of similar gases this winter, few of which have reached the press. Rheu- matism is so common in this city - as it is indeed throughout the prov- ince -that every day. Dodd's Kidney Pills are coming more and more int° general use. In Montreal alone there Parc been dozens of cures of Rheu- matism Ity Dhcld's Kidney Pills re- ported sinee last fall. Rheumatism is seldom curable /le treated by the majority of physicians and at hospitals. But more than one doctor. has confessed of recent years that he has cured Rheumatism by the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills celebrated as the first and only cure ever known for either Brie:h.-Cs Disease or. Dia- betes. That this latter claim is true has been proved over and over again in Montreal. In fact Bright's Disease is 310 longer the dreaded malady it was ten years ago, when to be seized P3' Bright's Disease meant certain death. Now Dodd's Kidney Pills are well known and by their use Bright's Disease is thrown from the system. Dodd's Kidney Pills are just as efficacious in the treatment of maladies resulting from disordered kidneys as they arefor local kidney disease themselves. Here is an instance: "I have followed the treatment of the first doctors of Montreal for Rhe- umabislil from which. I have been suffering for six years, but I got no relief from it. I have taken seven boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and 1 am completely cured. I am telling all my friends of the excellence of this remedy and I thank it a thousand times a day." Yours truly, MARIA GUIMOND, St. Flavie. Don't Worry - Worry is the twin sister of nervous- ness. Neither should ever enter into the daily life of anyone. God, in His all -wise providence, put the head of a human being an top, that all be- neath it might be subservient to it. There is something wrong above the eyes, in the region of the will power, when one becomes nervous in the sense of excitablity. "Know thyself, '1 is zood: control thyself is better. Worry ancl excitement never aided any one. Any fool can get along when everything is all right, but it takes a wise man, a level-headed man, to get along and not worry nor become nervous when everything is all wrong. -Ladies' Horne journal. To Preyenals Better Than to Repent. A.little medicine in the shape of the won- derful Pellets which areknown as ,Parine lee's 'Vegetable Pills, administered "at the: proper time :and :with: the directions 'ad- hered to often prevents a se:rheas:eft/Mk of sickness and save money which would go to the doctor. ,In all irregulerities ofthe digestive organs ,the.y are an .invaluable corrective and by cleansing the blood they clear the 'skin of imperfections. I can eat well, ancl my digestion is good. Miller's Compound Iron Pills did it. cause for Alarm. The other day a Vicksburg wife went into the country on a visit, without saying anything to, or leav- ing word for her husband. He was uneasy on returnng home, and made enquries among the neighbors. "Gone !--missing exclaimed one woman, "Why, I should think you'd be uneasy about her 1" "I am," lie replied, wearing a sor- rowful look, for some one has got to split the wood to get the breakfast with!" I was pale and weakly for years. Alit ler's Oen/pound Iron Pills brought about a change. But the World Went on. • In 1186 astrologers said the world would be destroyed by conjunction of the planets. A few years later an- other alarm was raised, and in 133 Simon Goulart claimed a mountain had opened in Assyria end a scroll had been shown him on which was writ- ten the prediction that the world was coining to an end. ,He frightened everybody. A new back for 50 cents. Miller's Kidney Pills and Plester. C• omets Are Plentiful. Astr,ononaers tell ns that in our solar system there are at least 17,000,- 000 comets of all sizes. amrornmvetemimetnr Master (who has come down and found beeakfast not ready)-i'm very angry indeed, Annie! . New Servant -Oh, sir, I'm so glad, beeauSe if your face was always like that, hew awful it would be -I should have to leaven -Ally Sloper. OT JOHN LABATT London, Are undoebtodly THE BEST. Testimonials from 4 chemists, 10 medals, 12 diplomas, The most wholesome of beverages. Recommended by Physidians, For owe eyo1'3wherr- JilicIes For cltliareet, 1Vilere inotliess fuel fmtirs S,'0010 te we held of their childreo ie in a lecic Of, interest in tlieir airmsenie1 ts. li()ye field girls 11110 !lave retudied the age of 12 or t h rea bummls want 0001 other eeeu1 11 tion beeides gc)iies to ecliool and , reaming al200 of ter school hours, 11 111 just at this age that the eitildreil need interesting lei some bobby. If they do tiot take up the lioppy whet] (3m my are yotmg, ihoro is very littlt probability that they have tinie to do so 111 after years. The need of the, grown up folks of tliv present day is 11)01e Bach dit,"s work scents to ewallow ug • all orie's energy until there is hardly eily„ time for improvement of any sort. It is becituee /11011 Ilnd Women. 110 not 1,:now hcav to use Ile 13rotitably Ibm few spare mnintee they tilay have in the day thee We have so malty goselininss wives, (11'11111:en btisliands 011(1 riegleetiel children. The lieys mail girls shotild be encouraged to ii)tereet tbanisen-es 11 worlt of seine leirel, either hi lemmal la- bor, such ne cespentry, wood earving 00 elate] Ivork, 111 Nvorit for those p(rorer 00 weaker 1111111 themeolves, or else lit some speeitil branch or study. 5)1011 110 chemisti-y, cooltery or dairy Ivorit. Not only will 101120 5u.011 hobby serve to occu- PY what would otlierIvise be wasted hours, but in efter years it might be source of inconte. Life's Ups and Downs. Happily for us. hurnan nature has itt virtues as well as its frailties, and one of the most noteworthy of the former is the cheerful way the majority of people adapt themselves to alteved circuna stances. "It is really amusing," remarked a for- mer leader of society, who, owing to pe- cuniary reverses, has ceased to struggle to retain her position in the "swim," "to meet other `have beens' like myself in the various economie establishments where try to make 51 (..0 the work of 55. "I went hito a I() cent store the other day to replenish my kitchen utensils, and there I found Mrs. Goneby on the same errand. We both had to laugh. 'We were not doing this 35 years ago, were wer she exclaimed. I, do not believe either of us then knew the difference between a saucepan and a frying pan. "We spent an amusing half hour to- gether, nevertheless, seeing how much we could get for a pittance. I do my owe marketing now, and I often meet ray old friends cheerfully buying their mutton chops at the cheapor places. I must sag that 1 admire our :Adaptability, and it is a genuine satisfactinn to me to find that I can actually be interested and content- ed in occupeing my time with what I should once have considered the sordid details of life." Their Only Disagreement. The only mai nal difficulty that Victor Herbert, the coniposer and director, and Mrs. Herbert ever had occurred, accord- ing to Mrs. Herbert, during theirhoney- moon, while crossing the "Atlantic. It wits brought :about by seasickness. The composer was sick. anti Mrs. Herbert was also ill. Their illness took the forma of inteuse irritabiles and morbid sensi-- tiveness. Each movement of the ship pro- dueed a groan from :hem and each noise - on board the veseel nn indignant protest. They tried 10 sympatbize with each other,. but their voices let ked sincerity. At the end of 1 111 third day the cora- posete after recovering- leen) a lurch of the vessel, said: "Dear, I have one -favor to ask. Don't speak to me arab, on board this ship un- til we reach shore, or I shall throw my- self overboard." "313' dear," answered Mrs. Herbert,' with her first sigh of relief since ena- beriting, "thank you. I've been wanting to ask you that same favor myself all clay." -- Philndelphia Saturday Evening Post. s - The Capable Woinan. If a monument is ever reared to com- memorate the virtues of the woman who has done the most for the world, it will not be erected to the woman genius -the poet, painter, writer or reformer. It will Pc built in honor of the capable woman - the woman who possesses what our New England cousins call "faculty," the wo- man of ability, adaptability and capabil- ity, who has met every situation in Ole and filled it with credit to herself and' comfort to others. The capable woman ` springs from no peculiar social condi- tions and i,s the result of no special en- vironment. She may be the daughter of luxury or the child of poverty. You may find her taking degrees in college hall e or uneducated and uncultivated, living her lowly lot in the backwoods, but wherever she is, she is distiuct from the wonaen about her and is making her influence felt. -Pittsburg Dispatch. HA Good Plain Cook." The words "a good plain cook" as gen- . erally used carry a condescending disdain with them, as if the gulf between a fine cook and a good plaiu cook were too wide to be bridged over. But a cook who has mastered the art of preparing simple and plain dishes in an appetizing manner is capable of becoming- fine in het line. It is just es important and perhaps mi lit- tle bit more so to be able to cook vegeta- bles in a surpassing numner as to make delicious ,eake. The really good cook,ree- og-nizes the importance of each individual, part of 0 meal and never slights even the most prosaic member of the vegeteble tribe. In fact, vegetable tot/king all by itself is not so simple a matter as one might suppose. Rotel For, Working Girie. Paris has a hotel for working girls, founded by a wealthy woman at the cost of 1,000,000 francs, and it is the home of the Aroicitia club, with 30 rooms for the shopgirls and a good and inexpensive restaurant, to which any working woman may have access. Each of the members pays a small stnn toward a fund used in the common interest ,of the association, which keeps up lectures and educational classes and otherwise provides for the entertainment and instruction of the members. The clubhouse is a restored mansion 200 years old, near what was once the hotel of Muse° de Sevigne, now the Alusee Cornaulet, in the Rue de Pare • Royal. • Peanut Cookieft. A. recipe for peanut paste cookies says: Creel)), two tablespoonfuls, then blend one tablespoonful 01 eel -tent' pestwith the butter. Add one-fourth of a cupfuls of sugar tind one egg well beaten. Sift together one -he 1 1 eti p1111 of dour, one- iotirth teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoon- ful of baking perycler and two tablespoon- mis Mix all ingredients tegetlt- er. Drop from a teaspoon on unbuffered Sheet one inch apart. Put One -hair pea- nut oat ton of each. Bake 15 minutes in t glow ever. ' 01