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A lot of photographs taken in tropical
Africa last year are suggestive. Here
Is a busy scene on the wide veranda ,r
e house on the upper Congoe Two black
fellows are running sewing machines,
A woman sitting tailor -fashion on a
tabic is sewing buttons on coats, and'
ether women are busy with Cloth and
needle. They are making clothing tor
the whites and uniforms for the black
soldiers. This is a part of the Govern-
ment training school for tailors; and
it stands within a stone's throw of the
place where •hundreds ofe canoes were
launched upon the river on the day
when the fathers of these people, the
f'erce Bangala cannibals, gave Stanley
the hardest fight he encountered during
his long descent of the Congo. The
twenty-eight years that have since pass -
ea have wrought a wonderful change
in this people and their country. Stanley
tailed them "the Ashantis of the Con -
,so"; but the Bangala are now foremost
among the natives in industry and pro-
gress.
ro-gre:s.
Another picture shows 200 of the
Bangala school children drawn up in
a long line, naked to the waist, but
wrapped in cotton skirts that fall to their
ankles. The women and girls formerly
dressed in the shortest of grass skirts,
skilfully woven by themselves, but scan -
13 even for the ballet dancer. Yards of
cotton are now used In their attire, which
suggests .the new markets for cotton
fabrics continually developing in Africa.
Every white settlement throughout the
Congo State shows the new arts the na-
tives are learning. They are burning
Sime and mating millions of bricks. One
picture shows a lime kiln of the most
approved pattern in the remote south-
east corner of the State. Nearly all the
houses at the stations are built of brick.
Other pictures show the Government
training school in carpentry, with black
amen sawing, planing and hammering;
making door frames the wooden fortes
used to shape the half -oval brick tops
of windows, and many other specimens
of the carpenter's art. Then there is a
eiew of the school in which young men
are instructed in cabinet making, for
tine houses of the Congo are beginning
to be supplied with furniture of home
maunfacture. On the lower Congo they
• aro doing their own printing, and the
press room of the printing house at Bo-
ma is shown with a modern cylinder
press, which black men are tending and
seeding.
Philanthropy is
prominent in these pic-
tures. The hospital for natives at Boma
13 said. to be the finest building but one
on the lower Congo. A hundred or more
little waifs are shown in front of the
orphan asylum of the sisters at Moanda.
Another series of views, from German
East Africa shows several handsome
hospitals, surrounded by fine gardens
of shrubbery and flower beds.
When Stanley arrived at Boma, fifty
miles from the mouth of the Congo, in
August, 1877, he found six trading build-
ings of rough boards, engaging the at-
tention of eighteen white men in the
midst of a dreary, bleak and unpromis-
ing landscape. The Europeans on the
Congo to -day try to make their sur-
roundings pleasing to the, eye and to se-
cure all possible comfort. In the older
Settlements the dwellings are surround-
ed.. by an arrangement of shrubbery,
flower beds and gardens that give a
pleasant impression. Every comfort is
sought for in the arrangement of the
rooms and the ventilation of the houses.
Nearly all the stations vie with one an-
other in making the •surroundings as
attractive as - possible. Nature is •so
luxuriant in those latitudes that, with
guidance .and pruning, vegetation may
he made to soften the asperities of the
ugliest places. Boma has • its public
park, with winding walks, and shell
lined flower beds, its foundations and
classical statuary, all very pretty if
somewhat conventional.
The collection includes many pictures
of the Catholic mission stations. • Tile
;wick houses, schools and churches are
commodious and neat, the trees are not
too numerous nor the treeless areas too
wide; the tilled lands stretch away an
every side and the roads are wide and
straight, and seem adapted for any kind
of vehicle. Some of these stations might
be taken for humble hamlets in central
Europe if a .baobab or a palm tree here
and there did not spoil the. illusion. At
the larger stations the Church dominates
everything, and some of the edifices.
accommodate. hundreds, :of worshippers.
Same.,of : the finest of them:are as far
away as Lake Tanganyika, on the CAA -
ern edge of the. Congo State.
Such pictures . aro convincing proof
Mat the day of pioneer exploration. of
Africa is over and the area of develop -
'Tient is well along in •i(s initial stage.
There is plenty of barbarism left, but it
is losing its foothold ite widening areas.
;5oience is helping to hasten its retreat.
These pictures from the Congo and East
Africa, showing the rooms ,in which dis-
ease Is ,being studied under the micro•
scope,' the experirnetital teams, the col-
onis.t in. • the ]healthful 1lsambara up-
lands, the automobile roads for freight
transportation, the railroad w.hielr 470
whites and 4,000 blacks are now build.,
ink in the heart of Africa, the water
conduits .inc' the • bridgesspanninganh1
n
g
Streams that explorers had to ford, are
Convincing proef that the best fences of
etvilizittion are enlesfed in blre"rvor)c of.
turtle tropical .aee aca to good Weed.
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THE PIOUS
PRODIG
1 -le Who in this Desire for Rectitude
Loses His Interest in His Fellows
• Now his elder son was M ,the field..
And he was angry and would not carne
In -Luke xv.,
Perhaps the pulpit will always feel an
obligation to berate the young man who
wandered into the far country and spent
his substance In riotous living, and to
be silent regarding the brother who•
sulked and complained at the fathers
rejoicing when the • prodigal returned.
But. the .average man or woman cannot
but. feel a good deal more lilting for the
ri ckless wanderer than for the respec-
table stay -at -horns, •
This • would be a mad world with no-
thing but prodigals of the ' wild, loose
type in It; but It would be a sad, bleak
world if filled with these elder. brothers:
They are the cold blooded, steel -eyed,
respectable young nien, the ideals of
the banker, the ambitious mother, and
the wise young woman. . They save
their money, walk decorously, speak
softly, and acquire a reputation for re-
spectability.
But somehow children will have no-
thing .to do ' with that type of men.
Hearts turn from him because his heart
is paralyzed. This is the contrast dang-
er to this model. young man, this flaw-
less specimen of the ideal according 'o
the cold cash world. He is as flawless
as artificial ice, as correct' as
AN AUTOMATIC. MODEL.
His fife is but a negation, its whole ob-
ject being not to do what others might
disapprove.
If the one lad had wandered far away
tri wild lusts, the other was equally a
prodigal wandering in the desert of cold
greed and selfishness. The man who
seems to sit at home may wander far-
thest from his father's heart. No mat-
ter how precisely a man may appear to
conform to the external laws of relig-
ion, he is far away, lost and alone, if
h•' has spent in selfishness or lost
through disuse the , power to love his
brother, if in this he has departed from
the essential and eternal law of 'relig-
ion.
Full many a man preserves his re-
spectability at the price of his real re-
ligion. No matter how nearly ideal the
life may seem to be, a man is far from
the kingdom if love be not the great
law of his life. And when he gets so
holy that he would rather see his sin-
stained 'brother go down in the mire
than soil his immaculate hands by help -
Ing him up he le not likely to realize
that the voice which whispers approval
in his ear is not that of the Most: Nigh,
but of another.
The hardest sinners to reach are the
ones who are enswalhed in their own
smug self-salisfactlon, the very ones for
whom the sting in the end of this par; -
able was intended: In rapt contempla-
tion of their own perfections they have
lost all sense of Others, or at best they
have thought of them only as a fitting
foil and background against which to
display their own well -tended virtues.
The way of the prodigal is dark and to
be avoided: but when he came to know
his sins, with broken heart he hated
them, while the Pharisee cannot repent,
fax his heart is atrophied with
SELF -APPROBATION.
The man who thinks only of himself;
even though his thought be the noble
one of the perfection of life and char-
acter, is taking the way that :leads far
from perfection. The development of
the most perfect life, the attaining of
the highest and most worthy selfhood
comes only through forgetting' self in
service for our fellows. They only find
life who are willing to lose it; they find
character who are willing to lose it if
only ;they may do some good and help
some other one.
He who in his desire for rectitude
Ieses his interest in his fellows, his love
for his wandering brother, is himself a
prodigal. a wanderer from brotherhood,
and therefore from his father. He is Out
of all sympathy with his father's long-
ing for the return of the lost, and shut
out from his plans for bringing even
the worst ones back to himself, It is
eelf that takes us away from the good,
whether we wander afar or abide at
home; it is love, love for the father, for
the old home where the best things and
best thoughts are. and love for one an -
ether that brings us bark to the father's
face and the son's rightful place.
THE SUNDAY U SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
FEB. 18.
Lesson Vil. A Day of Miracles in
Capernaum. Golden Text
,
Mark 1. 34.
LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note. -The text of the Revised Version
is used as a basis for these Word
Studies.
Chronology. -The events of to -day's
lesson probably followed immediately
upon those of last Sunday's lesson, as
indicated by the order in which Mark
arranges his narrative at this point
(comp. Mark 1. 16-21, if.). Luke reverses
the order of events, placing the day of
miracles at Capernaum before the call-
ing of the four fishermen (comp. Luke
4. 31. to 5. 1, ff.). Matthew records only,
and in another connection, the healing
of Peter's mother-in-law and the miracles
of healing wrought by Jesus after sunset
of the same day (comp. Matt. 8. 14-17).
Verse 21. They go -Jesus together
with the four men whom he had just
called from their occupation as fisher-
men to become his disciples.
Into Capernaum-It was doubtless
very near to Capernaum that the mar-
velous draught of fishes had been taken,
since this city seems to have been the
home of Simon and Andrew, and very
probably of James and John, the part-
ners of Simon and Andrew, also (comp.
verse 29). Capernaum is mentioned only
in the gospel narrative and derives all es
interest from its association with inci-
dents in the life of Christ. The ancient
city once highly favored has been utter-
ly destroyed (compare the prophecy of
Matt. 11. 23 and Lulie 10. 15), and even
its location is to -day a matter of dis-
nate. From. Matt. 4. 13 we know that
Capernaum was situated on the shore if
the lake, and from John ''6. 17-21 that ;t
was in or near the plain of Gennesaret.
Two sites, both mounds of ancient ruins,
are traditionally connected with Caper-
naum: These are the modern Khan
Minyeh and Tell Hum, both located on
the northwestern shore of the lake
about two miles apart. Of these the
more probable site seems to be Khan
Minyeh, situated farthest to the north
and east. For incidents in the gospel
narrative associated with Capernaum
compare Matt. 4.-13-x6; 2. 44; 8. 5; 9. 9;
it.. 23; 14. 34; Mark 1. 16, 23, 34; 2. 1,
14; 4. 13-16; Luke 4. 33; 5. 18, 27; 7. 1, 5;
10. 15; John 1. 44; 4. 46; 6, 1.7-21, and
other passages.
Straightway --The . Revised Version
follows the. Greek in using the same
word in verses 21, 28, and 29, and 'in
inserting this word also in verse 23
("And straightway there was"). The
phrase "and straightway is p favorite
one with Mark, one characteristic c.f
whose gospel was, as we have already
pointed out, terse brevity and rapidity.
of movement.
Synagogue --The public meetinghouse:
of the Jews, where they came together
not only for worship, but for more for-
mal instruction in the Scriptures also-
the humble prototype of both the modern
public school and Christian church,
Taught -First reading and then ex-
pounding a passage of Scripture.
22. As having authority;• and not as
the scr'iheti---rifle scribes were the lawyers
of Sestrs:s day, and to them the interpre-
tation of Mosaic law, especially in its
application to daily conduct, afforded
ample opportunity for minute discrimi-
nations and a pompousdisplay of learn-
ing and piety, But in giving his inter-
iti 1hof h v
ret tion or ex os o the law. a er
a py
p
ear!bo was sura toquote the authority
of other learned rabbis and lawyers, an
original or , naw itfter'pretation being a
rare exception. Jeses ,quoted no .mate's
interpretations, but gave his own, and
this with such confidence andevident
mastery of the real meaning of the Scrip-
ture which • he was expounding that it
gave to his words the ring of original
authority. It was his nut I say unto
you" which astonished his hearers. who
were accustomed rather to the phrase,
Rabbi Solomon (or some other rabbi)
says so and so.
23. A man with an. unclean spirit -A
demoniac. This is clearly .a case of
actual demoniac possession, although the
Evangelists, sharing as they did the pre-
vailing beliefs of their age, psychic an 3
cosmic, were not always careful to dis-
tinguish between actual cases of demon
possession and other bodily and mental
ailments commonly, though mistakenly,
attributed to the influence of evil spirits
over the sufferer. Thus both Matthew
(17. 18, 19) and Luke (9. 39-42) attribute
the sickness of the epileptic boy to an
indwelling evil spirit, while the father
of the boy, according to Matthew, ad-
pvv onlo.Ssd 'alto elm to slageq Rumen
dressing Jesus, says of his son simply,
"he is epileptic" (old version, lunatic),
"and suffereth grievously: for ofl.iimes
he falleth into thefire, and ofttimes into
the water. And I brought him to thy
disciples, and they could not cure him"
(Matt. 17. 15, 16). But epilepsy was in
those days commonly attributed to
demon possession, and the fact that the
disciples sharedthis belief accounts for
the wording of the rest of the narrative
in Matthew and of the whole account of
Luke. Luke even seems to attributes the
fever with which Simon's mother-in-law
was Suffering to the influence of an evil
spirit (Luke 4. 38, 39), and in like manner
dumbness, deafness, and other diseases
were, even by the disciples, often attri-
buted to demon influences. Jesus simply
does not attempt the psychologically,
difficult task of correcting their mistaken
notions, because as a wise teacher he
concentrated his instruction on more
important things from which he could
notafford to divert his pupil's attention,
The Master, doubtless, in his associa-
tion with his disciples many times had
the thought in mind which on one occa-
sion he expressed in the words, "I have
yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear thein now" (John 16. 12).
But the factthat people generally. and
so also the disciples, wrongly attributed
some forms of bodily illness to tihe in-
fluenceof evil spirits, does not, as some
have attempted to show, prove that there
was no such thing as. demoniac posses-
sion at all. Against any such conclusion
the case of this man in the synagogue.
and atleast all similar cases in which
the demons, as here, themselves speak,
as well as the case of Mary Magdalene
(Mark 16. 9), stand out as examples of
actual • demoniac possessionpossession
which cannot be explained away.
The Holy One . of God -The one conse-
crated or set apart for his seryice, The
phrase indicates the reason why the
demon feared Jesus had interfered to
punish., him as well as to set free the
man whore he was so grievously tor-
menting.
25. Hold thy peace -Literally, be muz-
zled: The word means both to close the
mouth and to reduce to silence. In the
latter sense ;esus uses it in calming the
storm (Mark' 4. 39).
26. Come out of him -The first miracle
recorded by Mark and Luke. Matthew
mentions first the healing of a leper
(Malt. 8. 1-4); John, the changing of wa-
ter to wine (John 2. 1-11), which was
really the first recorded miracle per-
formed by Jesus.
27. What is this/ A new teaching!
with authority ; he eommandeth-The
punctuation of this Verse follows the
Majority of modern critical' teats. Since,
however, there is no punctuation in the
original we cannot be pleitivc that this
gives just the meaning intended. It has
been suggested that
the e
x rens on
"With authority,' belongs more proper-
iy' With the noun teaching, .. thus '
"e. nevv tbaching With authority.,t he
eintMafdetll the molten spirits."
It was the authoritative tone .of eesus's
teaching as mueh as the miracle which
he wrought which amazed the people
(comp. verse 22, above).
29. The house of Simon and Andrew -
The word translated "house» may mean
either the actual building or the family
circle, in this verse it is usually taken.
to mean the former, the inference being
that the building belonged to Simon an'
Andrew. Examples of the other use of
the sante word are found in Matt. 12.
25; John 4. 5e; 1 Cor. 16. 15,
31. Ministered . unto them -Served
them' in the preparation of a meal or
lighter refreshments.
32. When the sun did set, they brought
-The Jewish Sabbath ended with sun-
set. Before its close it would have been
unlawful according to strict rabbinical.
internretalion of the law to carry the
sick through the streets.
33..,All the city -People from all parts
of the city, a great multitude.
34. Healed many that were sick with
divers diseases, and cast out many de-
mons -Mark here clearly distinguishes
between those possessed with demons
and those who had bodily ;ailments df
whatever sort.
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Notes of Interest About Some Well -
Known People.
The Countess of Westmorland is a
first-rate fisherwoman, especially with
trout and. salmon. She favors the Spey
and the Tweed, and her biggest capture
was a salmon weighing 22 lb. Slie also
pursues the fireside occupation of needle-
work, and is a most skillful em-,
broideress..
When the King. of Greece first landed
on Grecian soil some forty-twoyears.
ago to rule over the, nation of which ..e,
had been chosen King he could not
speak a single word of modern Greek.
That was one of the first things he had
to learn. He lost no time in securing
competent tutors, and spent hours a
day ]earning the language of his adop-
ted country and acquiring an accent
which was eventually to be sa perfect
that there is said to be no one in
Athens who can speak better Greek to-
day than King George. He also speaks
English fluently. •
The Bishop of Ripon (Dr. Boyd Car-
penter)
i
possesses among his treasures
three volumes containing the autographs
of most. of the archbishops and bishops
of England for nearly 300 years. One of
them is that of Juxon, the Bishop of
London to whom Charles Stuart spoke
the word "Remember" with almost his
dying breath,. Another album contains
a photograph of every church in the'dio-
cese of Ripon. In- his palace, too, the
Bishop has the Saxon chapel supposed
to be the oldest place of worship in the .
kingdom.
Sir Robert Harvey, of Dundridge,
South Devon, England, has been called
"The Cornish Nitrate King." He is n
self-made man, and was the partner of
the. late Colonel North. Born at Truro,
and in due course apprenticed to an
engineer, he first went out to South
Africa to fit up some copper -mining
machInerY, at a salary $60 a month.
of
His abilities were quickly recognized,
and when the Peruvian Government ex-
propriated the private speculators tie
was appointed Engineer --of the Province
of Tarapaca and Inspector -General f
the Nitrate Fields and Works at $7,510
a year. -As a lively interlude he found
himself a prisoner of war in the hands
of the Chilians, who were again so much
impressed with his merits that they con-
firmed him in his official appointments.
Believersin the influence of sheer
chance on' the fortunes of individuals
can point triumphantly to the case of
General Bugere, the commander-in-chief
of the French army. On a fine autumn
day the General, who was then only a
colonel, was tramping through the
stubble in company with the late Presi-
dent Carnot and some High function-
aries of his household. The occasion
was a shooting party, and Colonel Bru-'
gere was walking in front of the Press -
dent, who was nervous and short-
sighted. Suddenly the Presidential gun
banged, there was a shriek of pain, and
a, portly field officer was seen writhing
on the ground bleeding profusely.'?
Colonel Brugere was not long in recov-
ering .from his injuries. That errant
charge of shot was the making of him. I
M. Carnot could not do enough for the
gallant officer, and in rapid succession
Brugere found .himself uilitary Geyer -
nor of Paris, vice-president. of the' Super-
ior Council of War, and finally general-
issimo of France's army.
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LEED'S CHOIR'S SUCCESS.
English Singers and London Orchestra
Astonished Parisians.
The great audotorium of the Chatelet
Theatre, Paris, was crowded by the con-
cert given by the London Symphony
Orchestra and the Leeds choir, recent-
ly:
When President and Mme. Loubet,
the British Ambassador and Lady 13er-
Ile, the Minister of Fine Arts, and their
orchestra and choir played and - sang
the "Marsoillaise" there was not a va-.
cant seat anywhere. .
By way of emphasizing , the "entente
cordiale Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
bad: asked M. Andre Messager to conduct
the orchestral selections, and at the sea'
and and last concert, M. Colonne to act
as coriductor.
The great stage of the Chatelet, which
is as large as that of Drury Lane, Thea-
tre, London, was entirely filled by the
orchestra and the choir.
From the opening bars of the "Mar-
selllaise" to "God Save the King," • the
canted was an immense success, and
nothing, but expressions of delight and
astonishment at :tee wonderful singing
of the choir, Paris has flne orchestras
Of its own in those of M. Colonna and
that of the late M. Lamoureux, now con-
ducted by M. Chevillard, his son-in.law,
but musical Paris declares that the Lon{
don Symphony Orchestra is finer than
anything it has ever heard,
The applause was great at the close
Of the first items on the programme, but
if rose to enthusiasm atter the leach
motet, which the Leeds choir sang with•,
wonderful effect, although the Chatelet
auditorium is really too small for thein,
Several French' entice expres;yed their
t#stonishment and delight at what .they
rrned the choir's marvellous perlorm-
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HOME.
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DOMESTIC RECIPES
Cocoanut Calces, -Mix half a pound of
desiccated cocoanut _iii two tablespoon-
fuls of hoar and half a pound of castor
sugar. Stir in the white of two eggs,
melte into small' cakes and bake in a
quick 'oven.
Fruit and .cereals should form the base
of every good breakfast. All cereal foode
require the most careful' attention al
the beginning of the wetting. Sprinkle
the dry material into rapidly boiling wa-
ter; de not stir, and do not add the cer-
eal sufficiently fast to stop the boiling.
Coffee made In a good Coffee -not should
be made by you nig about half a tea-
cupful of cold weer on the coffee, and
filling with fresh boiled water. Then
Ming the whole to boiling point. As
soon as it actually boils, stand it aside
for a mordent to settle, and drain it off
Into another pot.
Peanut Marcaroons,-Mix together one
cup of chopped peanuts, one cup of pow-
dered sugar, one large 'tablespoonful of
flour, and the stiffly beaten whites of
two eggs. Drop the mixture on butter-
ed paper andebalte in a moderate oven.
About a quart of peanuts is required
with above quantities.
Cauliflower Fritters. -Pick out the flow-
ers from a freshly boiled cauliflower
and dry them. Season. with salt and.
white pepper; dip them in a batter made
with one cup of milk, two-thirds cup. of
flour, and one 'egg. Fry in a kettle of
deep -fat and serve on a napkin dotted
aver with pareley.
Currant Pudding -Chop or mince one
pound of currants, butter a. .deep disb.
and put in alternate layers of bread -
crumbs and layers of currants ( a few
sharp apples sliced may be added). Pour,
the milk (or milk and water) over, •the
whole, and bake in a quick oven,
Bread Cake -To make a common bread
cake. separate from the dough when
malting white bread as much as is sulii-
dent for a quartern loaf and knead well
into it two ounces of butter, two of sugar
and eight of currants. Warm the but-
ter in a teacupful of good milk. By
adding another ounce of butter or su-
gar, or an egg or two, the cake may be
improved, especially by putting in a tea-
cupful of raw cream. 1t is best to bake
ii. in a pan, rather than as a loaf, the
outside being less hard.
A Biscuit Custard. -Place a layer of
sweet biscuits in a buttered pie -dish.
Sprinkle plenty of currants on the layer.
Nearly fill the dish with stewed apples,
sprinkle again with. currants freely.
Beat' an egg with a' quarter of a pint
oI milk and pour over apples. Place
some small Ratafla biscuits on the top
and sprinkle with some grated nutmeg.
Bake in a moderate 'oven. -
Currant Cake. -For, ti good common
currant cake, mix five. ounces of butter
in three pounds of fine dry ;Four, and
five ounces of best moist sugar. Add
plenty ty of .currants: Put three spoon-
fuls of yeast' into a pint of new milk
warmed, and mix it with the above in-
k a light dough.. Bake for about one
and one-quarter hours.
Pineapple lemonade is a noveltyfor
a children's party. - Take a large tinned
pineapple, turning it out of the tin_.di-
rectly it is opened. Cut the fruit in slic-
es and chop ,finely; add the juice of four
lemons and any syrup there is. Place
in a basin and pour over tare quarts
and a half of boiling water, sweeten to
taste with lump sugar.
Vanilla Buns. -Take half a pound of
flour, add one teaspoonful of baking -
powder. and two ounces of caster sugar.
Cream three ounces of butter, add the
dry ingredients, and lastly two well
beaten eggs. into which is stirred ten
drops of essence of vanilla. Divide into
pieces the size of a walnut, bake ten
minutes in a quick oven.
To Make Coffee for a Large Party. -
allow a tablespoonful for each person.
Grind the coffee freshly, put it in a fine
muslin bag and pour slowly over it in
a
hot jug enough boiling water to make
the amount required. Tice hag should
be large enough for the coffee to be
loose in it. Let it stand on the stove
for ten minutes. then take out the tine
and the coffee Is ready for. use. This
can be placed in a stoppered bottle and
treated as required.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To keep lemons ]ay on a slat surface
and turn a tumbler aver each.
Tinned fruits should be opened and
taken out of the tin several hours be-
fore they are to be eaten.
To clean linoleum without washing
remove all the dust, then take a bit of
flannel sprinkled with paraffin and rub
the linoleum. It will not only make it
appear like new, but will preserve it.
Ebony -backed Brushes.- The bristles
ct •these should be washed in a hot,
soapy lather, and rinsed first in hot and
then in cold water. The backs should
be rubbed with a very little 'linseed cil
and then polished with a soft cloth. Dry
the bristles as quickly as possible after
washing, or they are likely to get sof'
and flabby. After washing with soap in
this way, dry very thoroughly before
using.
Polishing Steel. -One of the best me-
thods for cleaning a steel fender or the
steel parts of the kitchen range is to
dip a piece of damp flannel in the cote.
aches and thoroughly rub with this,
when a brilliant polish will be oblainid
Laundry Hint. ;- -. To prevent the blue
spotting the ciotthes put some out on a
piece Of white cloth, gather up the cor-
ners and 'tie together. Dipthis bag in
the water, then squeeze it until the water
is blue enough.
Loose Wall -paper- When paper =-
not be retained op the wall by reason
iii dampness make a coating of the fol-
lowing ingredients: Quarte, of a pound
of shellac and one qude of naphtha,.
brush the wall thoroughly with the nnx
lure and allow it to dry perfectiy, and
you will find this process will render
the wall impervious to moisture and
the paper in no danger of being loosen.
eta
'Keeping Milk. --If a can of milk is plac-
eit near an open vesseleotita.lning tun
pentine°fki.e, smell. of turpentine -is soon
communicated to the mi1lk---"The same
Occurs as regards tobacco paraffin, asaa
froti.dtt, camphor and many other :strong-
sneltitig sthbst,athcee. Milk.: shnutd he
lxept at a dista)ice from every voltile sub -
,i
`stance; milk which has stood in :Sud'
chambers should never be used.
Cleaning brass. -For polishing brass'
beds there is no more reliable medium
than the old-fashioned whiting wet with
household ammonia, which is less apt
to scratch than meet other preparations,
To Renovate Silk, -.-[flack silks can be
best renovated by sponging with aMea
lrol, and afterward with a little Wats
hater, and winding them round. p, Beller
without ironing. To prepare the potatp
eater pare and slice a good-sized 'potee
to, and pour about a pint of: warm wai
ter upon at. Let it stand in a warm
place (not hot) for ball an hour, when
f will be bit for use. This is one of the
hest methods, that can be adopted:
To Clean a Sewing Machine. To.
clean a sewing machine place it near
the fire to get warm that the congealed.
oil about it may melt, and then oh it
thoroughly with paraffin. Work it quick-
ly for a few minutes, then wipe off tell
the paraffin and dirt, treat It to a little
more paraffin, wipe it again, and after
the application of a very little of the or-
dinary lubricating oii it will be ready
for use, and its easy working will' be
ample reward for any trouble incurred.
Corsi for Screw Holding. -1t is a com-
mon thing when a screw or staple be-
comes loose to draw it out, plug up the
hole with wood. anti re-insert it. It .•
has been found tint a much better way
is to fill up the holes tightly with cork.
Screws and irons so secured are said
In remainperfectly tight. as long " as
when pat into new wood.
To Brighten Glass. -If window glass
1, lacking in brilliancy; clean it with .a
lfquid pRsip 111$14P of rlenhnl r»d whit-
ing. A little of this mixture will remove
snecks and impart a high lustre to the
glass. To give looking glasses and
mirrors a brilliant polish apply alcohol
ten a sponire. then dust whiting over
the glass. rub it nr with linen cloth, and
1 olish with chamois.
TO PROTECT THE EMPIRE
4 ..,
GREAT BRITAIN'S NAVAL MANCEU-
VRES OF 1906.
To Test the Distribution of Fleets -The
New Policy of Con-
centration.
The current year will witness the new
policy of naval redistribution subject-
ed to searching practical tests in Feb-
ruary, June and September, says the '
London Daily Telegraph. The manoeu-
vres will be on an unexampled scale,
and are expected to be most instructive in
settling important points on naval stra-
tegy. This new policy has involved the
withdrawal of the naval establishments
from Canada's Atlantic and. Pacific
coasts.
CONCENTRATION AND MOBILI'TY.
it has been determined by the tenor
of the late ,War in the far east, i. e., the
necessity of assing British naval pow-
er so that it -c be handled in time of
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war inlful binati n with irresis-
tibls
ki c o h s
chile effect for the protaellen of tliaiio3iio - and over -sea dominions aiia for guard-
ing the J3ritish mercantile marine in
Avery sea. Canadians will watch 'the re-
sult with interest.
The year's manoeuvres will be as- _tele --
lows:- eeen
February -The Channel, Atlantic and
Mediterranean fleets, with the three as-
sociated squadrons of armored cruisers,
will concentrate at Lagos, a magnificent
bay off the Portuguese coast, and then
take part in joint operations.
June -The same naval forces rein-
forced by the ships of several divisions
in commission in reverse at the home
ports. and all the torpedo craft, will
combine for the "grand. manoeuvres. it
will be the greatest naval assembly ever
called togeteher, and fourteen British
admirals will fly their flags. Every ef-
ficient man-of-war in the British ileet in
f nme waters will participate, and the
co-operation of the ship -owners bas been
promised. so that the conditions during
the period of the mimic war may resem-
ble those of actual hostilities in all es-
sential respects. The squadrq s- ine''4•--`--•o` "''
tant seas will co-operate as though. war
had been' declared.
September -The China, East Indies and
Australian squadrons will concentrate
at Singapore for joint manoeuvres,
specially intended to illustrate the best
methods of safeguarding British inter-
ests in far eastern and southern seas.
For., the first time in modern times the
*hole of the• British fleet Will be placed
or a veritable war footing, and `carry
out its duties as if the fate of. the Empire
depended on the issues.
Sir Arthur K. Wilson, our greatest
naval tactician and strategist, will be
throughout in general control of the Ad-
miralty's plans, and the assembled fleets
in June. The most important manoeu-
vres will be under his :supreme orders,
The squadrons in the far east, East
Indian waters, and the Antipodes and
in the Atlantic will co-operate;'
TO DOMINATE' TFIE NEAR SEAS.
Naval power` that may clash with Brit-
ish interests in situated hi, Europe, if,.
then as the results will prove, •British
naval powers can dominate the Chan-
nel, the North Sea and the •Mediterran•;
can, i, e., the "near seas," it dominates
al; seas.
Backed by Japan .the far east, and
with the United States In the wast. Britt
ish naval power sets aside the seas
which lie between lesquftnault, Hong
Kong, Sydney, Cape Town, Jamaica,
Halifax and London..
THE PROFESSOR'S CHANCE,
"You sketch with a, free hand, Miss
l3rownsmith," remarked .' the professor,
who had been critically examining her.
portfolio.
"Entirely free," said the young Indy,
alis she cast down her eyes in soft conn
fusion. and welted for the professor re
follow up the opening:
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
Mamie -i believe in woman's rights.
Gcrtic---Then you think every women'
should have a.vote?
Mantle -No, but I think every wopaau
should have a, voter.
Ws easier for a society giir] to intake
her debut than it is for het to tnake heti
own Clothes:
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