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'NOTES AND COnnENTS
eS meat going out of faettien? There
has been a twofold concluelon in We
l'eStlitS of the recent experiments Made
—that we eat too much _meat, and WM,
generally speaking, we take too inuoh,
food. The experimenters, led by Prof,
'Chittenciert of Yale University, for sev-
eeeal Months, and In some instances for
More than half a year, eeducecl their
;meat diet, ba one-half, and yet main-
lainod is good or better health than ho-
lm. The muscular power of the ath-
letes wus increased and mental activi-
Ay undiminished. A banana and a cup
of coffee was one bill of fare for break-
dast. Strictly scientifte experiments
'carried on in Ameerica,. Germany and
:France, have unanimously resulted in:
elie.conolusion that health and strength
,Oan be maintained with a mucti less;
:proportion at nitrogenous food than'
Meat oe.ling peoples deem necessary.
The distinct teaching of ecience ie that,
-except the 'extremely poor, most. people
-eat about twice as much meat as is
,Reedful, area that the superfluous amount!
is not merely eveste but beeornes the!
fruitful. cause of disease and sufiering.i
The rice -eating eapanese and Chinese;
practically confirm the scientific doe.'
thine.
The people who pray for rough were -
thee live along the shores of the Baltic,
.where they gain a precarious livelihood
in atub-er gathering during tempeet-
dcssed seasons. When the wind blows
.in from the sea, as it often does with
terrific violence,. the bowleiters are toss-
-ed and tumbled at the bottom, and great
quantities of sea weed are washed up
on Me beach. This is the harvest of
;the warders.- For hidden in the roots
-and branches of the seaweed lumps of
,precious gum may be round. In- other
marts of the coast divers may be seen
going crawling on the sea bottom for
the lumps of amber hidden in the sea-
-weed and rocks. It is believed that ani -
'ter is ehe gum exuded from the trees of
'which not a; vestige remains. The 'Inas
-are most variable. The hugest piece
anima weighing eighteen pounds, Is
gn the 'Royal Museum at Berlin. The
'usual finds vary from lumps as big' as
a man's head to particles like grains of
.sand. The larger pieces are found
Jammed in rocks or in tangles of
marine vegetation. Divers work from
%four to five hours a day in all seasons
except when the sea is blocked with
dee. The work Is most. arduous.
The engineer has a new duty. A. new
leggy:type of switch has been devised which
.puts its control In the hands of the en-
gineer. In this switch the point, pieces
:move in a vertical direction inetead of
thorlzontally. This means that bolts,
nuts, coal, cinders, and other materials
'cannot drop to obstruct the operation
'or proper closing of: the switch points,
"as sometimes accidentally happens to
'ordinary point rails. The wheel flanges
automatically operate the switch, re-
.gardless of the engineer, when trains
:are passing over it, trailing on either
the main line or side track, but when
mcming from the opposite direction, cr
:facing the switch, the enaineer controls
iltaaction, there being incline plane trips
in advance of the switch on the outside
of either rail where the flange does not
,corne in contact. To operate these out-
side movable flanges attached. to the
front wheels of the engine truck are
-connected by. lever with the engine cab,
where tie engineer or fireman can
'control the switch at will, as in emer-
' gency.
'
Fifty cents a tore is the price they pay
'for coal In Nev South Wales. Coal is
4e abundant and cheap in New South
\Vales that it can hardly be said, in
tpla6es, to add to the value of the sur -
lace. It is drawn out by ponies. Beside
it are the inexhaustible field of lime -
'stone and permanent water, both of
et railway line. Rates of haulage on
minerals are extremely low. There
era enormous deposits of iron ore of
richness varying front 60 to 90 per cent.
The chemical composition has been
found satisfactory to experts in Europe,
and these deposits usually are along-
side deep -Water,, thus facilitating trans-
port. At Burnie, in Tasmania, the dee
positfroanwater level up is estimated as
20,000,000 tons, In Neev South Wales
the deposits within sight are 60,000,000
tons. The deposits known as tha Iron
.lienob and Iron Monarch in South Aus-
belia aro stated to contain 20,000,000
tons. The fleet great 'demand of Aus-
tralia has been stated as the eOrnpre-
hensive production or iron and steel
from her own ores. These basic articles
Will then be availablo al, half their pre -
ma, imported cost, just as Australia
bow supplies herself with the purest cf
all salt, another bale ;article, at less
Wait half the price she formerly paid
for ber importations,
4fr 1.441.4*
A POWERFUL REMEDY.
"So you used some of Me liniment 1
WI. here yesterday," eniel the agent.
"Didn't, you flied thee it worked well?"
snould say eel" cried the lady. "1
mistook it for the, fueniture polish and
It took all the skill off the piano legs
•rie one application,"
"
• There Is rate thing in the hemely girl's
favor-- she seldom aequirce a reputation
tes flirt.
II TRUSTED CHRIS
Hope That Sustains the Christian in Doubt
and Uncertainty is Defined
1 /tamer whom I have believed and am
persuaded that he is able ta keep that
whieh 1 have committed unto airn
aeainst that day. -11, Tim. 1., 12.
If Paul had been a millionaire, these
words would not appeal to the great
mass of Christian people, The average
Christian earns his bread by toiling
amid preinetions and temptations. Mt
Ibis fierce struggle for existencehe is
aften mucilled on unseen faossee end
caused to fight many a silent battle.
Hence the faith of the average Gaels -
ran is erten temporarily eclipsed t -y.
bis trials, and then it is hard toe him
to say; "I know whom 1 have believed."
Now, Paul was a penniless, hard-
working Christian, and he uttered these
words wider the most trying circum-
stances. Alter enduring the hardships
of these missionary journeys he was
now in a dismal Roman dungeon
awaiting his execution. If he had been
like many brethren of to -day, we would°
find him complaining about the unjust-
ness of his lot, and this comforting
teL would not have bean. But Paul
forgot his sufferings in his sympathy
for Timothy. He wrote the last Idler
r1 his life to comfort a sorrowful heart.
Stich was the faith of Paul—he truetial
Christ until thee day when the sea shall
give up its dead and every man shall
RECEIVE HIS REWARD.
But Timothy was like many Christi-
ans of the past and present. For in-
stance, the prophet Elijah, after fleeing
eight miles to escape the wrath of Jezebel, flung himself beneath a juniper
and sobbed to God to let him die. Then
John the Baptist, while languishing tn
the prison of Herod, began to wonder
why God shouter treat him so: Had
ins ministry been false? And so he
sent his disciples to the Master to ask:
'Art thou the Messiah that, was LP come
or do we look for another? e And these
dark days of doubt. and uncertainty are
comma to every Chrietian. Some-
times temptations entice us; we fail and
with bitterness eve cry: "The good that
I would do I do not; and the evil I
would not do that I do.'
Now the anguish and doubt suffered
by So many Christians is occasioned te
felling to distinguish between the (-Ma-
tions, "Are you saved?" and "Are you
free from hardships?"
"Are yoU sinless?" and Are Yeet es
geed as Paul (or some one -elsel?"
°nee a roan said to me: "Well, I
canet,believe that if I were a Christian
Id •1 me so"—he had
Frizzled beef, horseradish.
Sweetbreads, settee; beehaniel.
two days old, before calling for a trash
baiting. By these ene is able to dispenee
with cathattics of every deSeription.
Try theiet.
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
Burlap, darned with an oeeaeional
thread of a contrasting color, inalees
some of the prettiest of the farnishhegs
for dens or sitting -rooms. `Whole sete
of it care be made—couch cover and
screen, pillows and *table covers—at
lit,tle.cost.
In boiling egs hard put them in boil-
ing water ten minutes and then put
lost his wife and only child.
thern in cold water. It will prevent the
1 replied: "Don't you know that ee-'
at theyolee from coloring.
Wats are necessary to develop the Chris.- For a pleasant change in the tames-
tian graces? ta it not the night—the piiheardpnlmv nin
eofarnoom,elaryegisatfir.e or balsam -
dark night—that brings out tae stars? n
Noiv, how couid yn anifest that sweet, A harmiees and cleanly treatment to
grace of forgiveness ualess the Lord drive away mice is to saturate; a. cloth
first permitted an enemy to do you some With cayenne pepper in a solution and
iajustice?" Hence'it is self-evident %teat stuff it into the hole Dry cayenne
the question, "Are you a Christian?" thrown about will keep ants and cock -
does not mean, "Are you free from hard- roaches away.
ships?' for God gives every Christian Albunun
cooking utensils can be
kept bright as new by rubbing with a
SOME CROSS TO BEAR. polish made by dissolving twenty grains
That is the Fatties way of conforming of borax in water to which one-third
the Christian to the Image of His son— the 'quantity of ; ammonia is adden.
"by following in His steps." Shake the bottle of mixture before
Nor does the question "Are you. a- using.
Christian?" mean "Are you sinless?" For To keep a teapot clean and iteveet
Paul sinned and all have sinned and great care is needed. Immediately after
come short of the glory of God. use remove the olcl leaves, scald ihe
"None are righteous—no not one." To .teapot out with fresh hot water and
e saved from the guilt and power of wipe'. it quite dry. Never allow the in -
sir, does not rnean to be preof against side to become stained with the old
sinning, • leaves; no good tea can be made in a
And lastly, "Are you 'a Christian?" stained teapot. The Smell alone should
does not mean "Are you as good as reveal ;tbis, and yet many persons take
some one else?" Salvation Is not sanc- no pains to keep their teapote clean in-
tification. One is an act,' the other is side. A new teapot thus treated from
a process, We are saved from the guilt thebeginning will give little trouble
of sin as soon as we put our trust in and never become stained.
Christ, but It requires a lifetime to be-
come sanctified -a -that is, to become holy,
to get the badness out and the goodn•les
111. us. In other words, becoming ENEMIES OF AUSTRALIA
"good" is a development, a slow, gra-
dual, Imperceptible process like a brook
gradually becoming a mighty Hudson,
a grain of corn bringing forth .a full ear
01 harvest or lump of leaven that gra-
dually permeates the whole bowl of
meal. Therefore Christians" should not
mourn because they are not as good as
some one else. God is not through with
them yet.
Hence, when Cluestians like Elijah,
John the Baptist and Timothy lack the
assurance that they are God's children,
the fault is net with God, but with them.
They lose sight of his promises as they
grope among life's tribulations. They
look down when they ought to look upi
JOHN EDWIN TRIPLETT.
*****3fiogicifet.A0K4i
HOME.
tAINE*40******Z
SELECTED RECIPES.
'Richmond Cheese Cakes.—Boil a cup-
ful of sour milk and a cupful of sweet
milk together until they curd, and then
strain them through a sieve. Add the
yolks of three eggs, a teaspoonful rf
vanilla, and half that quantity of sugar.
When the mixture has been beaten until
smooth it is baked in pans lined with
crust, and covered- with a meringue.
Banbury Cakes.—Cream a pound of
sugar with half a pound of butter, add
three-quarters of a pound of flour, two
pounds at currants, an ounce of cinna-
mon and allsnice—ground and mixed in
equal proportions—and half a pound if
candied orange peel. Take puff paste,
roll it into pieces about eight inches
square, and, when they have been filled
with the above mixture, fold the corners
over and press them together. Dust the
top with sugar, and bake the cakes in a
quick oven.
Potato Salad.—Cut cold boiled pota-
toes in one half-inch cubes. Sprinkle
emu' cupfuls with one-half tablespoon
salt and one-fourth teaspoon pepper.
Add four tablespoons oil and mix thor-
oughly; then add two tablespoons vine-
gar. A few demle of onion juice'may be
added, or one-half tablespoon chives
finely cut. Arrange in a mould and
garnish with whites and yolks of two
hard-boiled eggs, cold boiled red beats
and parsley. Chop whites and arrange
on one-fourth ol the mound; chop beets
finely, mix with one tablespoon vine-
gar, and let stand flfteen minutes; then
arrange, on fourths of mound next to
whites. Arrange on remaining fourth of
mound, yolks chopped or forced through
a potato ricer. Pu small sprigs of pars-
ley in lines dividing beets from eggs;
also garnish with parsley at base.
Le(tuce.—Lettuce is especially valin
able during the winter Mid spring, when
other green vegetables in me.rleet, cone -
mend a high price. Lettuce should be
seearatecl by removing leaves from
stalk (discarding wilted outer leaves),
washed, kept, in cold water until crisp,
drained, and so placed on a towel that,
water may drop from 'leaves, place in
bag, and hang in lower part of ice -box
Lo death. • Wire baskets are used for the
same purpOee. Arrange lettuce for
peeving ill nearly its 'original shape.
Vanfll� Weters.—Cream half a cupful
of butter with one cupful of granulated
sugar; add one beaten egg, a quarter of
a cupful of sweet milk and one tea-
spoonful of vanilla; then beat in two
and a quarter cupfuls of flour, one /ea -
spoonful of baking powder, and half a
teaspoonful of salt sifted together.. Roll
thin, cut out and •bake in a quick oven.
Hamburg Steak.—The 'Hamburg steak
Was so exactly to our taste, that we de-
sired to know hoW the cook prepared L.
"It is after a formula' of my own," said
our hostess, proeeeding to enlighten
To 1 ib. finely chopped beef stir in 3
eggs, season with pepper and salt, and
flavor With parsley and sage. With a
large spoon dip out the mixture into
hot fat. •
Salted Almonds.—Shell lbs. almonds
and blew% them by pouring over
enough boiling water to cover. Let
stand for 10 minutes, then slip off the
skin. Dry the nuts Went:en the folds of
a clean, soft eleth', •let them cool and
then place in a baking -pan With 4 table-
spoons of olive oil. Turn their' over
and over irt the oil until well coated;
place the pan In the even ling let re -
Lobster cutlets, sauce tartare.
Broiled steak, Maitre d'Hotel,
HEALTHFUL BRAN BUNNIES. ;
Bran is one of the great muscle and
tissue builders, and, acting pleasantly
on the organs of digestion and assimi-
lation, no clogging is permitted; thus
circulation• is not impeded. A very
of using
BUSH FIRES HAVE CAUSED GREAT
LOSS OF PROPERTY.
Many Disasters This Tear—Rapidity
With Which the Flames
Spread.
Drought and bush fires are the twin
dreaded enemies of Australian pastoral-
ists and agriculturists, and of these they
are always standing in bit,ter fear.
Heavy floods may occasion serious
disasters, Ind the area devastated by
these are of comparatively limited ex -
Lent, whereas the ravages ofaeither uf
the two other evils may extend over the
greater portion of a State, as in the case
sonm
of theefetIrven)Tenaill,souasgaileernyvoeltintpberdealicnewhic
Vic-
torian rural districts with raging maes
of smoke and flame, rendering "Black
Thursday" a date to be ever remembered
with sorrow by hundreds of industrious
familiesm
who found theselves
pleasant and agreeable method ly confronted with suffering and ruin,
sudden -
bran, and- getting from it good results
is by making it into little cakes 'called necessitating their beginning the battle
of life afresh.
when warm, with coffee or tea, and disasters -.since then, writes a Sydney
There have been not a few similar
"bran bunnies." These are delicious
equally as good when cold for a lunch. correspondent, of the London Globe, and
curing bad forms of constipation and the earlier weeks of 1906 have found the
They are a natural vegetable laxative
kindred troubles, with a rapidity sur- sister States of New South Wales and
prising as well as agreeable. Victoria waging a desperate battle with
To make them take 1 qt good wheat the fire fiend, who has everywhere been
bran (do not peek in the Measure. but threatening the farmer's homestead and
dip it in), 1 qt. wheat flour, 6 tablesPoons the selector's hut alike with destruction.
In Europe such widely spread out.
New Orleans molasses, 1 pt. sour milk, breaks are practically impossible, the
a pinch of salt and 2 level teaspoons ceuntry being too largela intersected by
soda dissoheeed in milk. Stir thoroughly,roads, canals and railways; besides be -
tins about an inch apart; bake in a divided into comparatively small
m a teaspoon on buttered
and drop frong
steady oven until a nice brown. This
rule will make three dozen. Of their
keeping qualities I cannot tell; my fam-
ily do not allow them to get more than
main until the almonds are light brown
In color, stirring often so as to have
them evenly browned. Turn into a
colander, sprinkle thickly with fine salt;
shake the colander quite hard to die -
lodge all superflous salt and oil, Keep
in a dry place.
SERVING THE RIGHT SAUCE.
A well -made sauce is said to glorify
any dish, but this depends to a great
degree on the selection of a right com-
bination. The sauce that enhances the
flavor of fish may add nothing to meat.
It is generally true that the combination
which seems to be no more than a mere
custom of eating certain things at the
same time, has in reality a hygienic
reason for its long continuance. For
instance, a meat, like pork, or a bird,
like the goose, both require an acid
sauce or adjunct because er the excess
of fate In the same way mustard is
taken with corned beef to excite the di-
gestive organs to greater activity needed
to take care of the salted meat.
For the beneat of the inexperienced a
table with sauce combinations is given.
-Raw oy,elers, quartered lemon, horse-
radish sauce, tobasco.
Baked fish, drawn butter, Hollandaise
saBlicroeiled flsh, Maitre &Hotel butter,
sauce tartare.
Boiled fish, egg sauce, drawn butter,
Hollandaise sauce, • sauce piquanee,
cream sauce.
Fried fish. sauce tartare.
'Roast chicken, bread sauce, green
grape jelly.
Roast turkey, cranberry jelly.
Roast, goose, acid 'apple sauce, bar-
berry jelly.
Fried chicken, cream gravy.
lloast duck, mange sauce, currant
jelly.
Mast veal, tomato sauce, horseradish
841100a.
11ost mutton, currant jelly, soubise
Sallee.
Mad pork; apple sauce.
Roast Mini), mint sauce.
Meet; beef, brown gravy, horseradish.
Roast filet of veal, mushroom sauce.
Roast venison, barberry idly.
Roast quail, currant jelly, celeey sauce.
Boast canvasback duck, black cure
rant jelly, Olive sauce.
Belled mutton, caper sauce.
Boiled tongue, sauce tartan.
Coened beef, mustard.
Steamed fowl, eelery Salted.
Pork salleage, apple sati0e, fried
apples.
areas by lofty" hedgerows, embank-
ments, ditches and streantlets. In Aus-
tralia it* is otherwise. If a fire breaks
nut hi a patch of dry grass, there is 11.0.;
thing to prevent ithepaetaling
Wr111 LIGHTNINGLIKE SPEED
for very many miles. Fences, as known
In England, are not to be met with in
the Coreimonweallh; neither are the
stone. walls so common in; many parts
of ;Great Britain, fences of barbed wire
or wire netting being in universal use.
Although' designated "bush fires" the
outbreaks are by no means confined to
the bush, which is the; Auseralian tern\
for forest. 11 18 rather the other way.
After a period of drought the grats
springs up with marvelous rapidity,
often to the height of three or four feet,
and even more, furnishing a secure;re-
fuge for rabits and all kinds of animal
pests. It is the same with the 'mead
crops. But direotly the hot summer sun
commences scorching everything in the
field, the moment of danger has arrived.
single spark may kindle a conflagra-
tion beyond human power to extin-
guish. It is estimated that VA:ilin the
tnst few weeks between ;Iwo and graeo
million eaves of pasture and agricul-
tural land in New South Wales and
Victoria have been swept by the merci-
less flames -
The two leading causes of bush fires
are the employment of phosphorus for
rabbit poisorang, and the careless use ef
"vestae " or wee: matches. The phos-
phorus, no matter he what form it may
be applied, is 'readily ignited by the
sun's heat, and it has frequently been
suggested that some kind of substitute
should be utilized during the' warmer
months of the year. '
As regards ,the use of wax matches,
attempts have been made, but unsuc-
cessfully,' to secure the prohibition et
their sale, save during the Australian
Winter months, A lighted match thrown
carelessly• down the other day by a
,tramp after lighting his pipe started a
fire which consumed more than ,
THIRTY SQUARE MILES
of pasturage and growing crops.
Recently a man was sent, to prison for a
month. Ha was sitting on the roadside
on his swag, when he lighted his pipe.
Immediately afterward be found bis
swag on fire. He endeavored to beat off
the flames with his hat and shirt, but
In vain. Had he hot been badly burned
in the effort to undo the mischief he had
caused, he would have received a
hetviernsnerilateltia
pee.
In
ause a
&tinkeri man el,
fire to a pateh of dried grass in twenty-
seven different places. Fortunately his
attempts evere Witnessed by a couple oe
laborers, who traennled on the fgrated
MIMS beeere the thirties eould spread.
aSPerSt101efrseucils1 caseaeroitraevaLble"fr etTi:PriZetieadg'
that several of the moSe destruolive con-
flagrations have been 'wilfUlly octal
stoned, especially by ,dieappointed ewegs.
men,
As illustrating the rapidity with which
the eames sometimes travel, it isestated
that when the mail train left the Vic-
torian border meetly for Sydney the
dre on either side of the tine kept pace
with it foe several miles.
On another part of the railway the
flames spread al the rate of twenty miles
an hour. In the neighboximoa of Apollo
Bay, Victoria, a el.orm or wind senb the
fire onward at the speed of a mile per
minute.
The losees of live stock have been
enormous, and millions of rabbits leave
been destroyed. In one place the flames
showed an unbroken frontage of nearly
Way miles, Whore not engaged in
the struggle for life, nten, women. one
even litIle oliildrefl were tound engaged
• as fire fighters. Near Gundagai, in New
South Wales, the live stock on one of
the stations was saved by the women
folic
ATTIRED IN MEN'S CLOTHES,
the :father and brothers being absent.
'Aethousand acres of grass and miles of
toeing were, however, destroyed.
There luta been a sail loss of life, oc-
casioned chiefly by inability to escape
the embeace of the all devouring ele-
ment, Near Toora, in Victoria; six
young men took refuge in a dam, wait-
ing in suspense the advance of the
Raines from which they were endeavor-
ing to escape. So fearful was the ner-
vous strain to which .they were sub-
jected that one of them went out of his
mind and endeavored to out his throat.
Fortunately his companions succeeded
in securing the knife before he &aid ac -
c Inni p shl ettisleampeu rnpeoi gs en. n
orhood a school-
master heroically saved the lives of
twenty-eight children in his charge
While in the school room the flames
came reshing toward the building. Tim
teacher ook in the situation at a glance..
1 -le made the children lie flat on the
ground outside furthest from the fire,
and covered them with blrinkets. which
he kept mois t with pailfuls or water,
obtained by rushing through the burn-
ing grass up to his elbows. Ile said it
was like passing through a fiery fur-
nace.
Once he put the pail down for a few
seconds, and on taking it up again the
handle burned the skin off his hand.
But the courageous man persevered, as
did his boys. The children acted splen-
didly. As the flames reached were they
were lying they ran into hollow logs
further on, which they covered with
wet blankets. Thus they passed the
!fatal afternoon and night. Ultimately
' every child was saved.
The next day there was a sad funeral
in the vicinity. Nine reen had become
surrounded by the flames and all per-
ished. Everywhere farmers and selec-
tors rose to the occasion, risking their
lives over and over again in attempts
to rescue the weak and helpless. The
emergency brought out the best quali-
ties of the selectors, whose heroic en-
deavors tended to relieve the over-
whelming disaster of several of its
gloomiest features, and -show the
brighter aspect of human nature.
FIGURES ABOUT LONDON.
Nearly 130.000 leirt—hs in 1904 — Large
Proportion of Crime.
London's population (4,131,758), ac-
cording to the annual statistical abstract
just issued, is roughly 14 per cent. ef
that of England and Wales, but Lon.
don's proportion of burglaries in 1903
was 27, of robbery 34, and of larcemy
38 per cent. It had the due proportion
of death sentences, but 30 per cent., or
twice its share, of total convictions.
London's birth-rate, 13.0 per cent. of
the total for England, was slightly be-
low its share, e while its illegitimate
birth-rate was still less, 12.7 per cent.
The death rate was 13.6, and the mar-
riage rate, 15.4, was above its 'share.
London's share of alien immigrants
was 57.4 against his due of 14 per cent.,
while its share of houses was only -9.1..
Its share of imports of food was 8(5
end exports 'of food, 15.8. Its propor-
tions of on and off licenses were re-
sepctively 13.6 and 11.2.
The tramway passengers of the Lon-
don County Council numbered in 1904
156,839;8113, London Geaeral Omnibus
passengers 216,311,248, and • London
oatecitteCraar , d7e2,iiv6e5r3e.9d66
' 1905 numbered
727 millions, postcards, 166 millions,
book pachets, etc., 163 millions, and
telegrams handed in, 28 millions.
Births in London in 1904 were 129,-
3e5, against 130906 in 1903; deaths 74,.
1390 against 69,929; marriages, 89,588,
agalinst4t0eb,a26i2e.
Tiaravalue in 1905,was xu..
657,066, against £41,086,974 in 1904.
Parliamentary electors totalled 021,180,
against 612,569; and County Council
electors. 742.397, egainst 731,370.
Licensed premises numbered 10,379,
against 10,702.
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PRINCESS AND HER CATS.
Pampered Pets Have Hot 'Water Bottles
to Snooze Upon.
Beds heated in cold weather with
hot water bottles are at the service OP
the twenty-six cats of Princess Victoria
of Schleswig-Holstein' in "Seymour
Lodge," the model catestablishment at
Cumbeeland Lodge, Windsor Park,
England.
• "Seymour Lodge" is it pretty little
two -storied strecture, designed by the
Princess, on the lines of an ordinnry
dwelling house. There • aro four win-
dows—two upstairs and two on the
ground floor. A ladder connecte the
two storeys, and when pussy desires to
go to bed she mounts the 'trickier and
finds in 31 corner of the comfortably -
fitted becitoom, bedstead and bed.
Here dwell the , prize chinchilles and
blue Persians. "Pude," Um ehinchil-
la stud cat livesinta
lonoeulnyltiaatea infulat
separate house, which
record of the prises he hes taken at
wi'litr.T.otsal'showiL
isname giveze by the
Princess to a pet which she presented
trs Princese Alexander of Tock. During
Priacess Alexander's absence trOantnit
iteeted all the symptoms of greet and
despair, atul pined away tO a ShadOW
his former self. No attention eould
restore cheerfulness, arid Princeel Via -
has had to retail) "Erase tei the
hereto tor Which it pined.
TIIE SUII1)AY
LESSON,
MAY 6,
Lesson VI. 'the Parable of the Tares.
Golden Tet: Gel. 6. 7,
LESSON WORD STUDIES.
• Note. --The text of the Revised Vela'
felon is used as a. basis for these Word
Studies.
Sequel.—In the Parable of the
Sower, or. ae we designated it in the
Word tenitiles for last Sunday, "The
Parable of the Faux Soils," Jesus. taught
that the Kingdom of God cloes not ine
elude all men alike without discriminue
tion. Some there are who have not the
capacity, • or willingness, to receive the
word 01 the kingdom and to bring their
lives into harmony with ifs teachings.
The true, oe invisible, church may
therefore not becoextensive with the
visible church, senile who seem to be
subjects of the kingdoin being in reality
not such. To the teaching of this para-
ble the One we shall study in our les-
son for to -day contains the sequel,
Not only are there those in the Chris'
ti church who do not really belong
to Christ, but the good and evil within
the fold of the church are not, alwaye
distinguishable from each other, and
hence • men, who necessarily err in
judgement, should not try by force to
separate the evil front the good. This
will be done at the time of harvest, in
the day of final judgem.ent, when the
works of all men shall have luny,
matured and revealed their true char -
• Verse 24, Another parable—One of a
group of eight parables mentioned in
the introductory note to our Iast lessen,
Which compare.' "
25. While' men slept—At night. It.
should he noted that no particular men
are designated, it being the stea3thinese
.of the enemy, rather than any negla
gence on the part of the men who
slept, which this part of the parable
emphasizes.
' Sowed tares—Darnel. This plant or
weed In the earlier stages of Its growth
resembles wheat, from which 11 can
scarcely be distinguished at first. This
close resemblance gives added force te
the parable.
27. Servants—Literally, bond -servants.
28. An enemy—Literally, a man that
is an enemy.
29. Haply—Perchance.
Root up the wheat with them—The
siMilarity between the wheat and the
tares noted above made this a real dan-
ger, but. added to this the roots of the
plants would be intertwined in the soil,
and thus it would be almost impossible
to remove the one without also up-
rooting the other.
30. Gather up first the tares—Thte
would be hnpossible in actual practice
in harvest fields with which we are
familiar. In ancient times, however,
when the grain was all cut with a small
hand sickle and harvesting was not so
complicated or extensive a process as
now, and especially among a people
with whom time counted for little, this
separation of the tares from the wheat
at harvest time was not an impossibile
ity.
86. In verses 31-35 which intervene
pre recorded two other parables which
Jesus spoke in connection with the one
under consideration. It was not until
eau he had finished speaking that he
left the multitudes and went into the
house, the house referred to- being,
peobably, that of Peter and Andrew at
Copernaum.
37. The Son of Man. — A. title issued
by Jesus frequently in referring to
himself.
38. The Field is the World Probab-
ly Jesus intended with the term wor1d.
be designate actually the whole world,.
though some have thought that the in-
terpretation of the parable requires a
limitation of the word to that part at
the world inelndad in the leingdom which
he was to establish. Such a limiration,•
however, seems wholly unwarranted. In
interpreting the parable we must remem-
ber that it was not intended that the
details of any of Christ's parables
should be 'forced farther than Jesus
tamself carried the interpretation. Each
parable has one main thought or teach
ing which it emphasizes and any en-
deavor to interpret details of the fig-
urative language employed lead e Into
difficulty.
The sons of the kingdom — All be-
lieving disciples. ,
30. The end of the world — Margin,
the consummation of the age.
41. MI things that cause stumbling,
and them that do iniquity — Not per-
sons only, but things. also that are evil
and a hindrance to the final consuni-
mation of God's plans for his children
shall be removed.
43. The righteous shine forth ea the
sun—Jesus doubtless had in mind the
prophecy of Daniel'. "And they that are
wise shall :shine as the brightness el
the firmament; and the,v. that turn many
to righteoti:MOSS, as the stars for Over
and ever."
'MINCE OF NIGGARDS,
Loving Husband Allowed Hes Wife
Six Cents a liVeek.
The wife of Edward John Field, ef
Shepherd's Bueh road, who sought a
seperation order at West London Police
Ceuta the other day, told a remarkable
story of her husband's autocratic ine
difference.
Field, 5aid the Wire, was once a tore,. •
man, but had now started he the evindowl
cleaning business on his own aecount.
During the past month,' however, he hed
enly given her one shilling for her keep
end she was nearly starving.
It was case stated that the husband
nsed to bring food into the house and
eat et all himself.
"My business," said Field, to the
bench, "is not prospering. • 1 don't
set that 1 arl prernise my Wife any
money before the end Of April,"
• "Perhaps,' said the elork, "the 'bench
Wilt help you," Med the magistrate
granted a Seperation 6rder, giving the
evifd the tustody of the child of the
marriage, and, ordared the' Altiti to allow
ker 15s tI week atici to pay X2 ga, 461415,