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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-3-8, Page 6e CURRENT TOPICS eI an y taus et ne has yet stood on the summit the higher Himalayas. Sten - 'have o trove been made reach t one crya.her , of these culminating •-eataints, but all have failed.' The man who holds the record for high climbing, Dr, Workman, is not sanguine that any of the highest peaks will be conquered,. Coxwell and Glaisher attained in their Galloon a. little higher altitude than the top of Mount Everest, but that was a very different thing' from reaching the sante elevation above the sea and the are strata of extremely rarefied air eAbrough the tremendous exertion and etrairi of pulling one's self up the steep- est of ice slopes. Dangers are multiplied on the Himalayan summits that are from 4,000 to nearly 6,000 feet higher than Workman's recent climb. Every danger ^ of climbing in the Alps and Caucasus Is intensified and the peril of rock or snow avalanche is greater than has been Irietin any other mountain region. We have only recently heard of the accident that last fall cost the lives of four men who were struggling up the south slope of Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world. As the traveller leaves the train that has carried bine to Darjeeling he sees to )be north of him one of the most magni- ficent spectacles that the earth affords. He sees the green of subtropical verdure 7 stretching far away;` -and seemingly just beyond the green, but from forty - live to fifty miles from Darjeeling, the dazzling white of the Kangchenjunga range is lifted into the upper air. The high Himalayas of Nepal and Sikhice are spread before his eyes. All of these higher mountains have an elevation of more than 20,000 feet. Some of them are ore than 25,000 feet high; and a little west of the centre of the range rises the mighty mass of Kangchenjunga, over - kipping all its brother summits. It is 28,150 feet high. The top of Mount Everest may just be discerned far to the northwest, so dwarfed by nearer mountains that with all its 29,000 feet 11 seems insignificant; and hundreds of miles further west is K2 of the Indian Survey, which with its 28,280 feet over - tops Karig'chenjunga baeonly 130 feet. ,Theeyeenetensottthern slope of Kangchen- enga is often plainly in view from Darjeeling, and it was on this southern slope that the accident occurred. To Mr. G. Crawley had organized a party eaof alpinists to attempt the ascent of the ' :!hird highest mountain. He was joined rem France by Messrs. Jacot-Guillar- mod, ?ache • and Reymond, and the Indian niovernment gave them an es- arn of Gurkha mountaineers. It was -_.:tl3rgsspects were favor- uble. They ' It` e' :�^ng in high hope of brilliant success. kew particulars of the accident have been received, but it is known that after the party bad as- nded to a height of about 21,000 feet, ling upward in two groups, six men vika ;were roped together were swept from, their feet by an avalanche and .ea:Fried over a precipice. Pathe and three Gurkhas were killed, ani Jacor-Guhiarmod and De Right were -*lea.dly wounded. Further climbing was abandoned, but Mr. Crowley says that he will renew the attempt. Tjiis is the only attack of mountain- eers upon the higher peaks of the Kang- chenjunga range, and it remains to be seen whether the tragical result will very soon whet the appetite of alpinists for further experience on the slopes of these ,rmicletle mountains. Douglas Fresh- teld visited them several years ago to dc -4 � some high climbing, but a fall of three feet of snow just as he reached the base of Kangchenjunga put an end to his progress. He succeeded in pass- ing entirely around the range and in making a fairly good map of it; and the clear atmospheric conditions after the storm enabled Mr. Sella, the famous mountain photographer, to obtain a series of magnificent views of these , • highest of the eastern biimalayas. It was far to the west that Dr. Work- man made his record ascent et 23,394 feet on Pyramid Peak. Last summer ne gave to the British Alpine Club his reasons for thinldng that Mount Everest is not likely to be conquered in the near future. He believes it cannot be ascend- ed without means of transport superior to any now obtainable; and after pro- longed sieges, during which the moun- taineers will have to meet and over- come, . "not only the physical obstacles ;.presented by the peak itself, but also those offered by altitude, heat, cold, snow and wind, which become more ac- centuated thehigher the points attain- ed. One great difficulty is tbat it 's almost Impossible to force the coolies who are . needed to carry the camp equipment up to a sufficiently high i•z, point to snake the tops of these highest summits attainable." Dr. Workman Is convinced that the limit et human endurance in extremely rarefied air has been about reached. In his camp at 19,358 feet the whole party was kept awake by lack of air. They wattle! done off and then awake with h start, gasping for breath. In his opiri* fon, camps must be established', at heights of 28,000 to 25;000 feet to at- tempt the flag assault on the summits; and at these elevations, he says, sleep May be entirely prevented Or interfered with by defidfent oxygenation of the blood to such an extent that a party would be incapacitated from this clause alone fMr4 .going any higher. TROIJILES; AND SORROWS The World's Burdens Are Light If Divine Aid Is Asked Take my yoke upon you and learn , f me, ---,St. Matt. xi. 29. -' There are those who consider that, In these words, our Lord referred not to a yoke and a burden whioh He was to place upon us, but to the yoke and thin burden which He Himself bore. "Come unto me," they explain His words as meaning, "study My example, My yoke is easy. My burden is light. ' Be meek and lowly in beart, as I am, and yours shall be easy, yours, shall be light." There are troubles and sorrows in. the world which, so far as we can see, come to men through no fault of their own, which belong to their lot in life, to that state into which it bas pleased . God to call them. These sorrows our Lord does not pro- mise to remove, But He points to a means by which they may be borne. And what matters it whether you lighten the loud or strengthen tbat which is to bear the load? Weight is but a relative term. That which overtakes a fragile vehicle is but a light burden for one . that is strongly built. St, Paul was imperiled, impri- soned, scourged, shipwrecaed, famished, a -thirst, but none the less he cried: "I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed." St. Paul was not heavy laden. You have some load to bear and you feel that you can hardly sustain it longer. You yearn with all ..your heart for something that you cannot have. SOME TERRIBLE GRIEF is gnawing at your soul. You have been unfortunate- Prosperity seems' to have' turned her back upon you. He looks upon you in pity and in love, but He says in effect: "1 cannot grant your petition, You know not what you ask. Your lot is ordered for your good. But look back upon My life. I was perse noted, I was despised. I had not where to day My head. I died on the cross, yet My yoke was easy, My burden was light. .All through any life I had peace, a peace which I left for My tollowers for all time. Come unto Me. Be patient, be meek, be lowly. Learn of Me, and,. whatever your yoke and burden, you shall find rest unto your soul." And what ,except rest unto our souls are we living for? What one thing is there that Is worth the having if it bring 'not that? In the commercial' world a man's ability, his skill, his experience; are valued not at some definite figure, but, by the inevitable law of supply and demand, they are worth atany time and in any given place precisely what they will bring. Just so it is with the appar- ent advantages of this lite. They are worth only what they bring. A man may seem to want for nothing He may be envied of all and yet be ut- terly destitute. Another may be.bereft of friends, health, possessions and yet be living in abundance because he has that which the world with its utmost favor cannot give, which the world with its utmost cruelty and scorn cannot take away. He has learned of Christ and his yoke is easy and his burden is light. "HOUSE-CLEANING A SHIP 11IOROUGBLY OVER JAULED AT END OF EVERY TRIP. Every Part of the Vessel, From First Cabin to Steerage, is "Touched Up." "There is a general impression held by many people," said the head stew- ard of a big Atlantic liner to the writer recently, "Mat just as soon as a ship docks and the passengers have passed down the gang -plank the crew makea tee -line for theirrelatives or friends, and have a good time on shore until the return trip begins. This, 1 can as- sure you, Is far from being the case, for our hardest task begins almost the hour the vessel casts her anchor. When I tell you that between docking and de- parture a liner has to be thoroughly overhauled and cleaned from stem to stern, inside and out, and all within thirty-six hours or less, you will per- haps begin to realize that our job is not o light one. "On the completion of each trip the hull of the vessel is entirely re -painted, the funnels scraped and brightened- with a fresh coat of color, every bit of the machinery overhauled, and even the masts and rigging 'touched up.' "There is accommodation in our ves- sel for close on 3,000 souls, the greater portion, of course, being sterage pas- sengers. But the mere cleaning of the fleet cabin dining saloon, where we can seat nearly 500 guests without any re- lay, is in itself a big task. The carpets have to be taken up and beaten, each table has to be re -polished, the floor has to be cleaned until it SIIINES LIKE A MIRROR, every bit of paint and gilding has to 1'e carefully washed, all the chairs Inspect- ed and repolished, and a hundred other things done before it can be passed as ready for the passengers. And a sim- ilar performance has to be gone through with a second dining saloon, the din - Ing -rooms, the library, the smoking- rooms, etc. Then there are, perhaps, 40C state -rooms which have to be treat- ed in the same way. as well . as forty hathronms. "But, perhaps, the biggest order of the lot is connected with the 'furnishings.' How would you like to have to sort, count, and check over 30,000 pieces of linen? It takes time, I can tell you, though we get so used to it that the work is performed marvellously quickly. As you are probably aware, no linen is ever washed on -board, and any man found laundering even a duster would b' dismissed , as soon as we reached port. When the linen has been sorted and counted it is placed in sacks, each sack containing from 200 to 250 pieces, and then sent in vans to the laundry. On coming back it has all to. be gone over again, carefully re-counted and stored. "Next comes the silverware, which also has to be stored and counted, and which may number anything from 15,- 000 to 20,000 pieces. During a trip hun— dreds of spoons and forks mysteriously disappear and are NEVER ACCOUNTED FOR. Passengers, 1 believe, think it perfectly legitimate to annex a spoon or fork as a souvenir of the trip, and though we sometimes catch them in the act we cannot say anything. But the loss to the company in this way during a year must be tremendous. • "The glassware on a big liner very seldom numbers fewer than 25,000 to 30,000 pieces, while the number of dish- es, plates, cups, etc., often reaches 60,- 000, Every bit of this glass and china has 10 be washed and polished• during the 'house-cleaning,' though theft have been kept scrupulously bright during the "voyage. There is a man in charge Of each department --One for the silver• ware, one for the linen, one'for the china, etc., and each of these men is in turn answerable to me, bringing me MS report and .informing me of the total number of pieces that are on hand, so that 1 can see at a glance what the loss has been during the trip. "Our foundry -bili for a ,single 'helmet Cleaning, yotf may be fziterested to learn, rarely falls below $1,2,50, while. the account for soaps, cleaning materI- als, paints, etc., always amounts to a Iagh figure. Every sheet, towel, table- cloth, etc., which is found to be frayed or worn IN THE SLIGHTEST DEGREE i a thrown aside and its place taken l.y a new one, for no 'rags' are toleratgd on a first-class liner. During a trip we use something like 300 Tnrkish towels, each as large as a sheet, and a thousand smaller ones for the -first cabin alone. "In the steerage the cleaning is con- ducted on somewhat different lines. Everything that might be damaged by water is taken out .of the 'cabins,' if you can call them cabins, end then the hose is brought into play. The water pene- trates every nook and cranny, and the whole place is scrubbed from top to bottom. You might suppose that this wholesale 'swabbing' would leave the teerage somewhat damp, and so it does, but by the time we are ready for leaving port everything• is as dry asa hone. Altogether 'house-cleaning' on a Prier is a bigger job :than you night; at first guess, and f sometimes think my- self that it is rather remarkable that we are able to get through so much in so small space of time." -4 AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE'S FEAST. London Entertainment in "Which a Pony " Played Part of Waiter. In fulfilment of a promise to his friends that on the conclusion of peace between Russia and Japan he would en- tertain them at dinner, Mr. H. I3arnato, who has only just returned to England, was the Bost at a remarkable celebra- tion at the New Gaiety Restaurant, Lon- don. 1 -le had given Mr. Nobile, the manager, absolute freedom to prepare a banquet worthy of the occasion, and although Mr. Nobile had only twenty-four hours' notice, he achieved remarkable results. Mr. Barnato and his thirteen guests every one of them millionaire diamond merchants—sat dotan to a dinner of a costly and novel character. A circular table, specially made for the occasion, enclosed a huge tank, in which floated model Japanese warships, over- looked by a miniature Port Arthur. When the guests entered the dining - room was in semi -darkness. At the moment of their entry beauti- ful fireworks blazed out from the war- ships and fort, eliciting a round of ap- plause from the delighted guests. Then the lights Were turned up, and the most beautiful decorations were re- vealed, English and Japanese flags and flowers being artistically arranged over the table and round the room. The piece de resistance was a lamb, roasted whole, brought into the room by a small black pony, who walked round the • table while each guest selected a portion to his liking. Even the pony enjoyed the proceedings, and showed great reluctance to quit the room. At the end of the dinner two ships, carved out of real ice, over which real fireworks beautifully played, were wheeled in on a trolley. Among 'the dishes may be mentioned: Whitebait a la Port Arthur. Coupe a la Mikado. Gobelets des fruits frappes la Russe. Mr. Bernath himself was astonished and delighted at the novelty and ap- propriateness of the entertainment. JUST THE REVERSE. A kind-hearted and witty clergyman, g ,, entering the house of one of his elders cne morning, found the good old man unmercifully whipping one of his sons, a lad of about fourteen years old, and he at once hogan 10 intercede for the boy:. The deacon defended him by saying that "the youth must be early, trained in the 'way' it should go. It is best to make • an impression when the wax is NUft." "Yes,' said the pastor, "but that does not hold here, for the whaelcs were not soft." The deacon let the boy go. Customer ---"Look ,here, this bicycle bought only three weeks ago has all ,gone to pieces. Dealer--• Yes, sir. ,You remember I warranted it to go feet,'" ************* Npi HOME. :***********1 . WITH THE APPLE. Apple Amber (an English recipe). •— Peet, chap and core three-quarters of a pound of apples adding to this six ounces of bread crumbs, two ounces each of flour and sugar and four ounces of line chopped suet. Mix with these in- gredients two well -beaten eggs, one half nutmeg grated and grated peel of a le- mon. Butter a pudding mold, and when the mixture has been poured into it tle a cloth over the top; place in hard boil- ing water and keep, at boiling point 8 hours, Apple Charlotte (English recipe)—Cov- et ecipe)--Cowet one-half box of gelatine with one-half cup of cold water and let stand one-half hour, then plaoe over hot water for an - ether half hour. „Meantime whip well tine pint cream and place in an ice-cold bowl (over snow or ice if passible), Beat lightly Into the cream two large, tart, grated apples and . the grated rind and juice of an orange or lemon. Strain in- to this the warm gelatine; stir quickly till thoroughly mixed then turn into a mold and set aside to harden. Serve with rich milk or cream. English. Apple Tart— Pare and core apples and stew gently till tender enough tc be pierced with broom splint, .Line s baking dish with this pie paste and take till a pale brown. In this place the aimless. carefully, not to break them, and in their centres drop...a spoonful of peach or orange marmalade. Place marmalade between them, also. Cover the top with a lattice of narrow strips' or paste interwoven and bake. in .a quick- oven, Serve hot. Scotch Apple Tart.—Peel, core and quarter as many apples as desired and set in a crock in the oven with neither. water nor sugar. When soft mix with raisins, Sultanas preferably, allowing cne-quarter pound of raisins to one pound of apples. Place in a flat baking dish, sprinkle with sugar and grated lemon, _cover with a good paste and baker Serve cold. German Apple Cake.—In making up yeast bread keep out one cup sponge, adding to it one-half cup sugar, one tablespoon shortening, one salt -spoon salt, one cup of milk, and sufficient flour to make a soft dough like cake batter. Spread this halt inch thick in a well - greased pan and spread on it thin slic- ed apple in rows, sharp side pressed down. Let . tiffs rise one-half hour in warm place, then sprinkle with one-half cup of sugar and cinnamon mixed and fake in moderate oven. Some cooks prefer adding an egg to the dough, and l.utter with other spices than cinnamon to the top. WAYS WITH FISH. Salmi . of Mackerel.—Freshen for two hours in water a salt, fat mackerel, and then simmer it in a little water and but- ter, which save. Lift out of the pan (a flat one), take out. the bone, remove head and tail, and cut to very small cutlets. Have cooked eight or more potatoes, egg size, peeled, boiled in salted water, tender, but not not breaking. Make a white sauce of the mackerel, cooking nater and equal quantity of milk (not cream), and make an oval on a hot serv- ing dish; lay these around the plate, first dipping each potato into the sauce so as to coat all well. Then dip each piece of mackerel into the sauce and lay in centre of the potatoes. Always serve fennel with mackerel if posssible. 11 not, water cress or lettuce, and man- age to have some white mackerel sauce to serve apart. New England Codfish,—The woman who asked for desecrated codfish was not so far off, so 8o not use that kind. Take nine pounds of middle best cod- fish and wash well and soak for three hours or more if very salt, cook until it will flake, saving the_water for a cod- fish sauce. Flake, not small, and keep hot. Make a sauce out of the water, two ounces of butter, equal quantity of milk, a small onion, grated fine, and Our mixed in milk until the sauce is of a thick cream consistency. Make an- other small quantity 'of tomato sauce end breadcrumbs, seasoned, smooth and without lumps of bread in it. This gives two sauces. Have desired quantity of potatoes mashed white and ,fine. Serve the codfish on a hot dish, having first put it in the white sauce and taken it out again. Trim the edge with dice of salt pork, first boiled, cold, and then fried and with water cress or parsley with the and, and two dishes of sauce flanking it. . . Haddock with .Herbs: Take a fresh haddock weighing two pounds or a little less, clean and wipe dry and season with salt and pepper. Put inside a stuf- fing of fine bread crumbs without crust, well mixed with one grated onion, a tablespoon of parsley chopped fine, a. tablespoon of butter, an egg, and milk to make a stiff paste. In the baking pan put water half way up to the fish, three medium sized onions, a layer of parsley ir branches, a fresh lemon sliced, salt and pepper. Lay the fish on this and lay on it three strips of good raw ba- con. - Bake in a brisk oven thirty min- utes. Strain the liquid for sauce and make another with the herbs, and strain. Orolans molasses, etre-half cupful of but- ler and two tablespoonfuls of vinegar. When nearly done, add a pinch of soda. r Beat it hard after talent, it from the tire. Uncooked Fillings—Put the unbeaten white of one egg and a tablespoonful of stir water, milk or cream in a dish and iii confectioner's sugar until the require ee thicknes, Add flavoring at the bo- ginning. An infinite number of varia- tionscan be made by using a few drops cf coloring matter, the Fated rind and iuice of an orange or lemon instead of the water, cocoanut, chocolate grated• and nnelted, or dry powdered cocoa, nut meats, chopped raisins, etc. . Like the small boy who ran away from home for We, end returned, repentant, within twohours, before his mother had miss- al him, and who remarked gravely, "I see you keep the same old cat," you can use "the same old calve" and by the use of a little wit in making a variety of icings no one will ever recognize it ae an old; familiar friend, while you will earn a reputation in your home and among your friends as a cook of mar- velous exeperience and infinite variety. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To cool the oven,—If when you are baking anything the oven gets too hot, put in a basin of cold water instead of leaving the door open. This cools the oven, and the steam rising from the water prevents the contents burning. When cooked In a gas -oven a basin or tin of water should always be kept in the oven. A floor should neverebe swept ina room where there is a contagious pa- tient. 11 should be washed with a cloth dipped in borax water, so that no. dust annoys the 'patient and no clouds of germs ar• • flung. up in, the air to drift out of. the .indow. ChoO.5 1n E s.— - should be care- fully Eggs.—Eggs ggS O fully chosen; for they differ greatly, not 'only in the inside, but on? the - outs:id.3' also. Choose dull ones as being the freshest, and brown ones as being the best flavored and having the largest yolks. How to Wash a Corset.—Remove the steels, then lay the corset on a table or board and scrub with a stiff brush, us- ing a lather made of white soap. Rinse beneath a lap with cold water, pull straight, and allow to dry. •e To Keep Dust from a Cistern.—Get a Piece of thin wood and place it against the wall three inches above the cistern, the other side to rest on the edge of it, which allows -the air to get to the water and at the same time keeps out all dust and dirt. The board can be removed at any time, cleaned and replaced, and the water is always fresh. FILLINGS AND ICINGS FOR CAKES. • The following icings can; be used with any good layer Cake recipe: Maple Sugar Icing --This is especially good for black fruit cake andis made tie follows: To one cup of grated maple sugar add four tablespoonfuls of water and boil until brittle when dropped into cold water: Remove from the fire and pour immediately in a flne stream up- on the beaten white of an egg, beating it constantly while doing so and until cold. Carmel Filling—Two cupfuls of brown sugar, one-half Cupful of Sweet cream, batter size of az'i egg, one tablespoonfel vanilla added after other Ingredients have boiled until thick. Beat hard while it is cooling and spread immediately be - WW1 the lavers, Walnut Carmel Pilling--tJse recipe just given and after taking fromthe flro add otic cupful of chopped Walnut meals. Butter Scotch I rllrri„ 1.1oi1 together one cupful of brown sugar, orie of New THE SUNDAY SCROOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 11. Lesson X. The Tongue and the Temper. Golden Text, Psa. 141. 3. LESSON WORD STUDIES. Note.—The text of the Revised Version is used as a basis for these Word Studies. "I say unto you."—Perhaps the most pronounced characteristic of the teach- ing of Jesus was the authority with which he spoke. His was no borrowed philosophy of life, his no conception of the kingdom of heaven to which he had fallen heir as a member of his own gen- eration and nation, his no wisdom gained from books or human teachers. His teaching was his own, and his knowledge of men and. of God he obtained first- hand; the former, largely at least, from sympathetic contact with and keen ob- servation of men; the latter, from the hidden wellspring of divinity in his na- ture. In contrasting the fundamental principles of his teaching with the Old Testament law and tradition, as he does in verses 21-48 of this chapter, and es- pecially in asserting the superiority and higher authority of the principles which he enunciated, Jesus placed himself on record as one who believed in the pro- gressive character of revelation. The old law and the ancient tradition had to be superseded by these higher standards of life and action set by himself and ex- emplified in his own life. When now we consider what is implied in this as- sumption by Jesus of authority superior not only to that of all other teachers of the Jewish nation in his day, but of authority superior to that of the Old Testament law itself, we are confronted by an alternative from which we cannot escape. Either Jesus was all that he claimed to be, divine Son of God, and only Bevealer of the Father, or he was self -deceived and a deceiver of others. But the ethical purity of his life and the unparalleled quality of his teaching, to- gether with the historical fact of the great Christian Church, representing the rich fruitage of that life and that teach- ing, make it impossible for any candid and thoughtful person to accept the latter of the two alternatives. Verse 33. Ye have heard that it was said—The great bulk of religious teach- ing among the Jews consisted of oral traditions and rabbinical interpretations, clustering about the written Old Testa- ment law. The meaning of the written law on the points to which Jesus was about to refer had been distorted by the amplification and misapplication to which it was subjected at the hands of this oral tradition. Them of old time—The Old Testament patriarchs. Forswear—Swear falsely, commit per- jury. Special reference to the third com- mandment may have been intended (comp. also Lev. 19. 12; Num. 30. 2; Deur 23. 21). 34. Swear not at all—The Oriental even o! to -day makes constant use of oaths. In the following verses are mentioned some of . the 'things by which the Jews Were Vn. the habit of swearing. Even to- day the natives of Palestine and adjoin- ing countries are given to the use of similar oaths, none of which except the oath in which the name of God himself is used, being considered binding. The prohibition intended must.be understood as applying to those frequent rash and Careless oaths in daily Conversation, not to the solenin oaths taken in courts of justice and which in those days were re- quired as they tare in our own time. Verse 87 presents the positive side of - our Lord's teaching of which uh we here have the negative side, Neither by the heaven—One of the rabbinical sayings was, "As heaven and earth shall pass away, so passeth away the oath taken by them." Jesus intendeai to point out both that a false oath by whatever thing taken is wrong because false, and- that the false oath ,taken by, heaven, by the earth, or by Jerusalem is, because of the necessarily intimate. thought association between these and God, a profaning of God's naino: 36. By the head—One of the most common forms of the oath. 37. Yea, yea; Nay, nay—A straight- forward yes or no is sufficient. These in God's sight are just as sacred and binding as any foam of oath can be. The mere repetition of the word is a suffi- cient emphasis of the promise or refusal Involved to indicate that it has not betel' spoken. carelessly. The evil one—Satan, the father of lies. 38. Ari eye for an eye—The law in Exod. 21. 22-25 exacts "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe," frim the person inflicting' an injury or death upon his fellow,: The principle of equivalent retribution was recognized by the laws of all ancient peoples. The scribes, however, falsely interpreted the law when they made it an excuse for the gratification, of personal vengeance, and deduced from the law that it was morally right for individuals thus to. execute revenge. 39. Resist not him that is - evil --There is a great difference between the resist tance which Jesus . here prohibits; which is a resistance against the evil wrongly brought upon the innocent—as, for •llt. stance, the suffering and death of Owlet, which he resisted • not --and meek sub- mission to all forms of personal indig• nity heaped upon one by the vulgar ani the wicked, ,as isindicated by our Lords personal example in resenting, the action of the officer who in thc4 presence of tette high priest struck him while on • trial (comp. John 18. 22, 23). 41. Compel thee, to go one mile -The verb in this sentence is of Persian ori- gin, and signifies literally "to press into service, as a courier" for the royal post!, and in its more general usage also "to force to be a guide:" Thus a man tra- velling past a post -station was liable to be seized by the officers of the station and pressed into.• service of the king or emperor and forced to carry a letter or accompany another person back to the next station along the road over which he had come in his journey, or in some other direction, and this to the delay and. detriment of his own errand and bust• ness. This custom was one of the exaob tions suffered by the Jews under tea Romans, by whom it had been borowed from the Persians. Jesus exhorts to a cheerful submission to the law of the land, and a general wilingness to servd even beyond the legal requirement. 43. Neighbor—This is one of the many words _ to which Christianity and the New Testament have given a broader and a higher meaning. In the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10. 29-371 Jesus makes plain this broader meaning. of the word as used by himself. 45. Sons of your Father—Sons in truth, having his spirit and akin to him in character. 46. Publicans—That is, tax coflegtors though not in 'the sense in which than word is used in our country and in our day. It was customary for the central government of a large empire in olden times to sell the revenues of the different individual provinces composing the em- pire to the highest bidder, who then ap- pointed his own officers to collect from the people as much as possible. The publicans mentioned in the New Testa- ment are the lower or subordinate class of taxgatherers to whom the higher officers or contractors sublet the collec- tion of taxes. These men as well as their superiors aimed to become wealthy by exacting more than the amount which they had paid for the privilege, and thus the system resulted in great cruelty'and oppression of the common people, es- pecially of the smaller property owners: A Jew who consented to become a tax officer of this kind and to extort taxes from his fellow countrymen to be paid to the hated Raman authorities • was above all men despised by his fellow. Jews. 48. Ye therefore shall be perfect—No. thing less, no national or other stan- dard short of God's own standard of right and of love, shall satisfy you. As your heavenly Father is perfect— Not, however, in absolute knowledge and power, nor yet in absolute ethical per- fection, erfection, jn , sinlessness:: but _ in purpose and aspirations rather, having the ideal of God's own goodness ever before yea as the ultimate goal of that purpose and of those aspirations. NEW LIMIT IN MEASUREMENT. Can Get Records up to One Seventy- Millionth Fart of an Inch. Dr. P. E. Shaw, physical science leo- Curer at University College, Nottingham. England, has constructed an instrument of marvelous delicacy, whereby measure- ments up to the one seventy -millionth part of an inch can be made... He has been experimenting almost nighlly on this instrument for five years, working. in vaults under the university. He had to work at night; when all the factories were closed and traffic in the streetwas suspended. The arinaratus has to be suspended by, rubber bands from a specially -made frame in a - box covered with thick felt The delicacy of the instrument is such that the vibrations of aneengine 100 yards from the vault make it impossible 'o work with it.. It has already been applied to practi- cal use in the improvement of tele- phones. It will measure the smallest auu i ie movement of the ,telephone dia- phragm, 1t is also expected to benefit the wireless system, acting as the most delicate coherer, and will aid physicists in studying nature, possibly even the movements of the-molect'11es of matter. A MUTUAL SACRIFICE. Mrs. Klubbs (severely) --'"I've been it ing awake these three hours waiting for you to come home. - Mr. Klubbs (ruefully)—"Geer Arid I've been staying away three hours, wail. ing for yeti le go to sleep.' When a man funs In every othe, way to attract attention, he should gel a pair of. squeaky shoes.