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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1907-05-16, Page 2NOTES AND COMMENTS Go Fifteen years ago only half of the v%vhde mien in the employ of the Congo State had a chalice of living to oho end serf their three yeurs service. In other surds, the appalling proportion of ape proximately CU per cent. of tho omen .lief In fora their cnnlrect time expired. 'Thal eve:, Lefore the scientific investigations)! tropical hygiene had evolved the rules lot right living now commonly observed In equatorial Africa; It was w hen meal - Cis! men on the Congo were bell hun- dreds of miles apart, the dwelling., were Mere huts, uneullaary and con,torllcss, and most of the toed was tinned. A 'great change has come about, ter the eir'obleni of living in tropical Africa *cents to havo been solved. The report of Viscount Montmorres to the British Foreign Office on his eight Months' journey on inquiry in the gc Slate, during which he travelled 3,- 4100 miles afoot and afloat, has recent- ly' been printed. It shutes a decrease In the rate of mortality that is scarcely credible, and It is doubtful if any other tropical colony In the world is to -day showing co ►mall a death rate among ilia white officials. Ile says that 2,000 white men are now In the State service and that the mortality has been reduced during the average term of three years, to about 2 per cent. a year. This in - eludes deaths from sunstroke, usually the result of carelessness, and also tate Suicides that are sometimes induced by the trying conditions of pioneer tropl- cat lite. This Ls not greatly in excess of the death rate in many towns of our country. The majority of the men, to be sure. are 1n the prune of life, but there are also many men of advanced years, whose constitutions have suffered I,y log terms in hot climates. Montntorres attributes this remarkable improvement In the fact that the whites have •learned how to live, that the conditions of ex- islence are sanitary and comfortable, and that the men are freed from all dif- ficulty in provisioning themselves. in hie opinion, almost all the stations are admirably planned. The principal buildings are of brick with wide veran• ions, the grounds are laid nut with an eye to effect, the wide, straight avenues fire bordered by shade Trees and aro wen made and finely maintained, and every station has bis luxuriant flower garden and a kitchen garden that con Bluntly supplies all kinds of European end ether vegetables. The sanitalinn Is excellent, every station has a show- er bath In specially constructed house, the native quarters are kept clean and wholesome, and every day the station grounds are cleaned and garnished. Many of the stations now have cntIle supplying bet and milk, end the State trot only pays Its men well. according to the Belgian dander,. but It also ra• liens diem cerapletely as far as Euro- pe -en supplies are concerned. Each elan thrnugheett the vast domnhl receives his D'S WAY IN NATUR Disadvantages Bring a Train of Advantages And Moon put forth ilia hand end laid held of the serpent, and it L,'ane a root in his hand. -Exodus iv. J. Ile put forth his hand, and the ser- pent, dangerous, destructive, deadly, became a rod, a stay, a support, a de- fence. In the hand of u strong awn the precious thing became beneficent. This is God's way in nature. The supremely destructive forces of the uni- verse aro among the supremely great and supremely blessed of the educative agencies. of lite. Man has entered into conflict with then, and. contending with them, has grown strong and wLse. Where nature is prodigal ot her boun- ty where a suit of clothes grows on every tree and a dinner is found under every bush. man slumbers. Where nature enters lnlo conflict with man, bids him try conclusions with this old earth, its dorms and seas, sumo/leis him with hardship and Muse!. he finds himself. Ile puts forth his band and the serpent becomes a rod. But these forces of nature have their terrors. They crush, maim, blind, burn, destroy, overwhelm, appall. And so roan beoomas not only a stronger and cun- :n vain. The shadows of evening fell and his face lengthened. and there was never r. fish in his creel. And beside bun a ragged rascal of a village schoolboy, playing truant, with bare feet and un- washe.t hands, with hos house -nude roil and two -penny line, and penny float mei half -penny tackle, awutgutg out the roach and dace or greeely percli til in- most .:very swim. These thongs are written allegorically. It is not the costliest oulllt which takes the biggest It.h. cantina! Wolsey, Daniel Defeo and henry Kuno White -it would Is' luip0 .� bible to name in a breath three men niore utterly unlike each 'other were all the sons of butchers. Jeremy Taylor, ono of the greatest of English preach- ers; (Richard Arkwright, the rent found- er of our cotton inJuslrie4, mad 'Turner, the painter, were, all barbel:,. JOHN BUN1'.\N WAS A 'TI\KEll, Pobert Burns a 'Animate Iden Johnsen a bricklayer, Livingston was a W'a're, Stanley a workhouse boy, ('prey a cube bier, Copernicus was 1110 son of a linker. Kepler came from a German Inn. Vel,lt. field was a barman at the 11011 revere ninger roan. but a better roan. He Is in Gloucester, Haydn was n e l'e ' t ighl, educatet by adversity. and his heart Is educated not less than his head. 11e learns pity. IIE ENTERS INTO COMPASSION. Ile develops philanthropy. The ship- wreck launches the lifeboat. The phy- sician Le bred of pestilence. living Hien in our port hasten to die that dying men across the bar inay live. The plague Is stopped because the bacteriolo- gist has lived and loved and died. God's way in nature, Coda way in history is God's way for each of us in our own life. Let us grasp the ser- pent, that it may become a rod. ThLs is the story of all glorious con- quest of adverse circumstance. Strolling nhmg the bank of my native Trent, I havo seen a parable -with rad and line In pia hands. Some townsman, ntagni- flcently equipped, with outfit that must have cost a little fortune, flung his line Hildebrand a village carpenter, (;rein, Stephenson Was an engine fireman and taught himself 80111110th' on the aide of colliery wagons, Wilkie learned art with a piece of chalk and a barn door. Wen evade his first brushes out of a cat's tail, Watt constructed his flint model out of an old syringe, Humphrey Davy extenrper•ized hl•t scientific appliances from kitchen pots and pans, end Fatr- edy his from glass bottles. Elihu Bur- rill mastered eighteen ancient and mod- ern languages while earning his living as a blacksmith. Believe, then, that neither feeble Health nor cramping poverty, nor crush- ing sorrow. nor aceotnpllshed slit. nor evil habits need paralyze the aspirations of your essential manhood, nor quench its immortality. Put forth your hand. my brother. and the serpent shall be- come a rod. CHARLES F..V:ED. HOME. PUDDINGS. Agnew Pudding, Frosted. -Six cooking apples, rind of halt a lemon, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls currants, sugar, a little puff -paste. Method : Pare and core tho apples, and boil them to a pulp with the lemon -peel. Well heal the yolks of the eggs, warm the butter, and beat yolks of eggs and butler together. Next incor- porate the.se Ingredients with the apple pulp and currants, and sweeten to taste. iine a piedish with puff -paste, pour in the mixture, and bake for holt an hour. Bent the whiles of eggs to a firm froth. add a little castor sugar and a slight flavoring of lemon. Pile the froth over the baked pudding, and return to the oven UII the meringue is delicately browned. supplies once in three months, and they Almond and Currant Pudding. -Two *whence all the necessities end ►n any ozs beef suet. 1 teacupful milk, 4 ozs. brendcrumbs, X lb. current* X !b, rai- luxuries. Including a bcltle of red wine sins, 3 one almonds, 4 eggs, 2 table - a day, and All on n lavb►h scale. The Stale fln&c that this pays, for the ex- cellent care tent It lakes of its officiate makes them tar more efficient than they Could otherwise he, and touts enhances the value of the whole service. II AVE TOO ell'CII I.IIIF:IUTV. The Chinese in South %lrira are Not I•:nstu'rd. Sir West Ridgeway. the head of Ute rents, I lemon, candled peel. Method : late Conu11lssk-In to South Africa, has Beat the hurter to n cream, and mix it by degree; to the sugar, pounded end sifted. After they have been well -beaten together. acid the yolks of the eggs, and than the whiles. wale► have been sepa- intely whisked. Strew in the flour, dried, and sifted, the currant*, and the Lind of n lemon grilled. Butter n mould, and spoonfuls rum, 2 nae. sugar, a little nut- meg. Method : Chop two (emery% of suet very (Ino, end mix It with the bread- crunibs, a little greed nutmeg, the sugar and the currants. Butter a meted and put the misfile In rows all over It. with the almonds blanched and laid between the raisins. Well teat four eggs and ad(l then with two spoonfuls of rum to the other tngredlents. Pitt it all carefully into the mould and Loll it. When done, turn it out and servo with sweet sauce. Albert Pudding. -Half -pound (lever, ;- le. butter, S eggs, X-tb. sugar, entb. cur - given an interview in which loo ex• presses his view; on the: present sate Cleat in the Transvaal. Much, he says. depends upon the at- titude of the Progressive position Int the new Legislature. It They will fel- low their able and petition leader. Sir thickly over it sllct�s of candled George Ferrer, all we' ' 1 • well; but if Y they listen to wilder ',,arils who adopt orange and lemon peel. 'Then pet all the the policy of exasperai til. and continue other ingredient.+, perfectly mixed, into to dilate on the dislerally of the Dutch. ft tie It clncely over, and boll or steam thele may be a revival of racial ante it for three hours. Serve with sauce. patties. Ilere. again, the British press (For a cd when ell this is cnlleddling ayIi►ebt can de much by refusing to publish ex- h asperating speeelies which are really Cake.) aeldresscvl to the gallery in England. Bieck Cop Pudelina.--Oen pint milk, 3 Amt the great mining houses to i.on- don cnn do much by discouraging a leowocalive finitude on the part (f their repreeenlnlives in the Transvant. enol instructing them to co-operate with General Botha's elinistry in the speedy tad satisfactory setltemcent of the tern ole, questions which camera the indu,- iry. In justice to their shnrdwldrers they should do o. itegarding the Chinese Inbor queetien Cir West ttidgcwny salol: --No inquiry ,.,;Inncl t'udding. =Ehret ms. seems to have been made as le the an. A Plain 4 ,eel el i lemon,grated, ozs. lee'rdenls f the men who were sent to currants. 4 eggs. I c ei Afrlrn. And they comprise in their 1 pet utile. *fleet of brend•and-butter, r• : •t'ntrh of the !rum nn( of the ►,akar to ei:te. Method : Sprinkle three le s• . nwiit of China. Rita there i1 (emcee of currants ever 1110 Inside of a >n• - s• . i'' 1 reline! el .,.i;ng a S,;,' ars there ..t tlir,r ,.ern free ale, a I Let•► Iti• optical to lenve it if they car t 1d, eggs. Il'. .0 len, to the null, sweet- :, t-4-. They did net nccept the oft• hien an fmpres -igen in England s • +Dry on k thee. and hour ever :he bread -and - ere imprisnnnl In encloseree. e. „frog t utter. Le: 1t stand ior quarter of an clothe Roel. The enmpnunde nh' '' 'hey hoer, then hian le! ar. and +reeder cle oth over "meet fnhiteit rover a Targe erre, and are un• toil fence l and practically nng'inrd. 1. and enure. 11 is impos.sl+^e to prevent the Chinese I.hancetlor'e I'u• ding. --- Two sponge 11r m leaving them if They (*tired to do eat. 1 1'r. •tee roll, 1 pint milk, peel of Ro The eons,er1uence is IMO Mere is h`'•' .1 •.• e:. hetet. sugar, 4 eggs. .te- net n farm-houcc w ihhtn fifteen er le•en• 1* • ,trr.ion, some (nettled peel, nutmeg. lye miles of Johannesburg which Is sere \letlo 1 : (:ot the enroll. or peel. into lrnm pillage and attack. If Anything. Mie Chinese have ton much liberty, mould which has been well greased with warm butter ; fill in the spaces between the citron with currants. Then put over or them a la3•er of sponge cake roll,with a few drops of melted butter over it, and then add more currants. Commence again with the cake, placing some citron in occasionally, and repeat it until the mould is nearly full. Then add the su- gar, grated lemon -peel. and a 111110 nut- meg to the milk, and stir it into the well - beaten eggs. Mlx all well together, and peer it into the mould over all the other ingredients, taking care it Is quite full; lie a buttered paper over it, and let it stand to soak for nearly two hours. Then lie a thick cloth over it, plunge 11 Into a saucepan of boiling water, and let it hail slowly for an hour. When done, take it out of the water, and let it slatd for four or five minutes before re- moving the cloth ; then turn it out on a hot dish. and serve It with sweet or wine sauce. Carrot Fading. -Three-quarter pound carrots. %-lb. breadcrumhs, toes. cur- rants, 3 ozs. fine sugar, 3 eggs, some nutmeg, a little milk. Method : Bail and pulp the carrots, add to thein the bread- crumbe, currants, llnely•ctioppe d suet, nutmeg and sugar. Break the eggs over the carrots, and beat them In thernughly, one at a tome, adding sufficient milk to form the whole of the tngredlente Into n Ihlde batter. Pour the mixture Into a buttered pledish ; hake for three-quer- tere of an hour. turn out, strew with silted sugar, and serve very hot with Awed sauce Qavured with a strip of Icmon•peel. IIINTS FOIL '1'111: (HOME. Always scald rhuberb before cooking, for it requires an touch Tess sugar, and yet loses none of its flavor. Discolored cups and dishes used for baking can he made as loew by rubbing the brawn stains with a flannel dipped into whiting. itubber will !enlist' silver articles. tk, not put rubber bands around a box or ease in which silver Is kept. A delicate flavor will he given cookies or plain cakes if an apple or orange. Is placed in the hex In which they are kept. To Remove I'nint From Aprons. -Soak In a little paraffin. rub it thoroughly 1111 the paint Is removed, and then w•ar,h in the ordinary way. Reprove panes tit glee; by laying port soap over the putty which fixes Ihern, In a few• hours the putty will be soft and the glass easily removed. When cooking onions or cabbage try tahlispnontuls (lour, 2 ops. butler. 4 eggs. gelling a tin cup with vinegar on the nelb. currants. Method : Beat the (lur stove and letting it boll. 11 Ls said there into the milli until quite smooth; then will be no disagreeable odor. Atrain it Into a steepen, and simmer it When Sweeping a bare (lent strew over the iire until it thickens. Stir in over it moist sawdust to prevent much the butter. and when cold edit the yolks dust arising. For the came reason scat - of the eggs. well beaten and strained, ler dampened scraps of newspaper over and the currants; put the batter Into a a carpet before it is swept. battered basin, 110 a cloth over It. aid When the smell of frying pervades the plunge it into boiling water. moving It Douce examine the outside and bottom Menet for a few minutest, that It may be of the frying -pan, and you will probnhly well mixed. 'Hall for one hour. find ihat 11 is coverert with burnt fat, which smell. directly it is nt all hot. Be- sides washing Ilio pan nisido and nut with strong soda water directly It has been need, it is necessary ocrocionelly to boil it nut in a larger vessel with strong soda water end soap. Directly lv higher up, 1,11 111.1 head I3 reaeli.l. I1 nt.rsee and (nee 111 ath•nitanec en c1111 (hell, also people who those their ow 11 hair, would rementt cr this lent, they eould have rte difficulty tit rentovuttt t .ogles, and save hull the hair lent they generally en ub out. \Vanden walls can be papered 50 11151 the paper ell! not crack iv here the boards aril joined if cheap 111114.1111 is •.t1'elcb it lightly over them unit In 'ked into place. Mahe a sizing of glue diluted so that it will merely feel slippery 1e• ttveen the fingers and cover the minim t%11It It jus( "UM the paper ie put on. A glaze for lonp;ues, ho► and bruited beef can be 'nude as follows : Boil hull tut onion in a gill of water, and dissolve half an ounce of gelatine to the water. Add to this a teaspoonful of soy, It little tarragon vinegar, 81141 sufficient extract of meat to make the glaze a good brown color. When this Ls nearly cold brush over the harn, etc., with it. eVluit Is over can bo put away and melted for use another time. Grease spots may be removed from carpet by meals of u paste made of boiling water poured on equal quanti- ties of magnesia and fuller's earth. ThLs panto, while it is trot, must be placed on leer spots, and blushed off when quite dry. I.anip burners Ihnt do not burn well are easily put right by boiling hem for twenty minutes in soda water. Keep an Mil pill for the purpose, end use It every Iwo it three ntanths. Have the burners and reservoirs thoroughly dried boJoro Pie lire, fir) that all water is evaporated before using again. Two or three drops of water remaining in the reservoir of the lamp when filled with oil, will make all uneven light, which is tnost uncom- fortable. le:Perect riddin>ellein. then to arty 1111 tn• basin wilt' dice, of bread•anJ-bolter th burnt grans* is remo•osl, the strong with Ib' crust of!, dee sprinkle the emelt of frying in the home when the grated 1,-1,1-11 peel over each slice. Add an is on the fire will exist no more. Des If ink is spitted on carpels it cnn be absorbed it attended to at once. Craver thickly- with salt, and as iron es that layer is Bleck pal more on it ; continue tree until the top payer 1'PM/11115 white. D•• 3i44 ren'OVe the salt uniu 811110 dry, and then sweep orf. Tangled 1in1r--\Vhen the hair, rape• t telly ehitdren's hair. 14 tangled. a Iran - 11: effort is usually innile 1e non!, out the knells from the mole. 'rias 1•' n fatal mit• long skew. and put them in a star or any lake. The right way Le to I"egin to ninth other form at the bottom of a pudding- et the ends. and, hillle by little, gradual. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 19. Lesson VII. Israel Enslaved In Egypt. (;olden Text : Pisa. 147. 13. TIIE LESSON VW'ORD Sl'UDiES. Based on the text of the Revised Ver- sion. The Book of Lxodu.s. The Hebrew - speaking Jews of early limes designated U: r books of the Pentateuch each by its initial word or words. 'Thus the first bcok was known to them as "in the Be- ginning," the second, "And These Are the Names," the third, "And ile Called," the fourth, "And Jehovah Spoke," and the fifth, "These Are the Word*." The lilies as we have them (Genesis, Exodus, I,00 o ,li(vl theloks by etc.) were (lest applied Hellenistic, or Greek -speaking Jeerer, who translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek at Alexandria dining lite third and second centuries B. (:. The nano "Exo- dus" means, literally, "(departure, or out- going,' this name being applied to the second book of the Pentateuch because of its reference to the march of the Israelites out of Egypt-. The earliest Latin translation of the Old Testament, which was made from the Greek, re- tained this title untranslated ; and hence it passed into the Vulgate of Jerome. and subsequently into rho languages of mo- dern Europe. The narrative of Exodus opens on a scene of oppression, very dif- ferent from the lriump and prosperity of Reseph, to which the later chapters of Genesis aro devoted. A new dynasty has arisen In Egypt under which Israel is he- im}, cruelly cnished, the deliberate pur- pose of the Egyptian monarch being to prevent if possible a further increase of Jewish poopululion by measures of utmost cruelty and repression. The story of the book of Gene.sis Lc the story of Lsrnee's redemption. Although ultimately Jeho- vah Ls the Redeemer of Israel. yet he cl(Noses to bring about the snlvaUon of It's people largely through human wane; and the first step in carrying out Id, plan for Israel 1.s the preparation of it deliverer, Moses, whose parentage, early tiainIng, and unswerving devotion :o his own people, together with his love of Juatice and his utter fearlessness, mark him as the coming deliverer. Preparatory In the account of the depar- luro of the lsraolites out of Egypt, chap- ter 1 of Exodus treats of the rapid in- cl'r'aSe and growth of the people, end its development from a tribe into a within. following the account of the Exodus (hero Is recorded (chap. 19-40) the adop- tion of Israel as God's peculiar people, and the giving of the law of the cove- nant through doses at Mount Sinai. The contents of the book are thin in part historical, end In port legislative. The hlab,ricnl period dealt with, covers approximately 360 years between the death of Joseph and the snJourn of the people In the vicinity of MMunt Sinai. To a more careful study of this hiitaric narrative of Exodus and the subsequent legislative portion nt the book we are to devote the greater part of our time dur- ing the coining three months. the Sun- day echonl lessnrls for this period. with the exception of the temperance lesson (June 30) being When from trio book of temente. (1,,1►Ann(l *111113, 11,, l•elireg r,,, rl 00„016•11 slut rh11,1r1•n. Y 4. Ik'ubei►. . Pb, I ore aero: et teeth tied lee e 1 ere imeilieheO 11 order of floes PI Ili ,poly, e11) IIw,cs 1,1 ti,, „eemidery %% re e;. '1 e.,1,, idifi •,e. eller (lailtd, ihuuglt tiler, rhor.lIwl'„ epinrrel?rrvrv„lf trite duffers Itrn,t That given In Tien. 4r,. 511'1 ntny be Inken ns inlenel/vl le dr, 10,111 1, 11•u1111nnte 11,1 opp(.uvf to eivei111nry wede„•k. 'l hm wind wording rot the fleet vers.', "IMI mine of Israel who came Into Egypt %s ill' tie *tee ner(•.snrily ecrlu des the ineniiort til 1,,:epl1'n name in the list. ii. Seventy semen Compere Oen. 411 2". The reference here 14 10 dirrct (11 seelldaltls-• sons awl daughters, grand - sots cud granddaughters. elf. 6. And Joseph died, end all hie teeth - ren --All the ,muni sone of Jacob. It is burdly probable That Josepli woe the first .,tie to die, as 11 14 rennin, trnrn Extol. 6 16, that he was net the Incl. 7. Willi lids verso 111e real retentive of Exodus iogins, which dents with Ute history of oho Israelle,n subsequent to the death of Joseph. The 11'41 act of 1rn- poriancc mentioned Ls that they were fruitful, increased abundaelly, and mul- tiplied. 8. There arose a new king over Egypt --A considerable period of lune rnitcl be thought of as intervening, but the nar- rator is so absorbed in the 'totters which he is about to communicate that the question of the time, occupied in prelim's - lion for them does not seem to occur to hint. Thus frequently in the 014 Testa- ment the chronological element is re- garded as of comparatively slight im- portance. "Archbishop Usher's (fates, inserted into the margin of so many of our Bibles, aro the private speculations of an individual on the subject of mun- dane chronology, and must not be re- garded as in any way authoritative. Their primary basis is profane history ; end, though Inking into conslderatien all the scriptural numbers, they do not consistently follow any single rule with respect to them."--nutvlineon. Who knew not Joseph -The new dyn- asty doubtless was not only ignorant of hut also hostile to the policy of the old. The benefits, therefore. conferred upon a foreign people by the foreign and hated dynasty were not treasured long in the memory of the new king. Accep- ting the conclusions of modern scholar- ship that nemeses 11. of the XiXlit Dyn- asty Ls to be regnrded as the Pharaoh of the Oppression, 111* "new king," referred to in this verse, must bo taken to have been either nameses I., the actual founder of this dynasty, or Seti 1., his son, who succeeded his father to the throne within n little more than a year. More and mightier than we -Or, "too many and inn mighty for us" (marg.). 10. wisely -Shrewdly. Lest . . . they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us- e ' Moth nemeses 1. and his son Seti were compelled immediately atter their acces- sion to the throne to engage in a rather defensive warfare with the Ilittites, who at Ihat time constituted the great power of Syria. It was natural, therefore, for the king to question the loynity of He- brews who were also from Sy'rit. 11. 'Taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens -Pictorial representations Lound on Egyptian monuments dating frcan This period vividly set forth the oppression to which the Hebrews were subjected. In ancient times, moreover, severe grinding labor was often suc- cessfully used as a means of keeping down the aspirations of a subject people, if not of actually diminishing their num- ber. 12. Grieved -Abhorred. 13. 'Rigor -From a root meaning "to break in pieces, to crush." IL in mortar and In brick. and in all manner of service in the Ileld-Seri 1. commenced the construction of a great brick wall, intended to extend along the entire eastern frontier of Egypt. The wall was, however. never completed. Among the different. kinds of field labor may well have been included the cul - ting of canals for the Irrigation of the vast fields, en occupation Ilion which there was none more exhauelJng wider the hot Egyptian sun. As late as the lniddle of the past century !Mehenm(' Ali, n 'Turkish contractor, lost twenty thou- sand out of one hundred and fifty tent• sand laborer- in the construction of the Alexandrian canal in Egypt. Verse 1. Now -Lit., "and." The first eeample of an almost universal pretence arnang the historical writers of the Old Testament to connect successive honks in the closest p osaible way iy the simple copulative "and" (comp. Josh. 1. 1; Judg. 1. 1; Witte 1. 1; 2 Sam. 1. 1; 2 Kings 1. 1; Lira I. 1; Neh. 1. I: I:sth. I. 1). The sons of Israel. who came into Egypt ; every roan and his holm -hold crime with Jacob ---Or. ala nn optional rind equally accurate translation renders the clause, "the sons of Israel which cnme into Egypt with Jacob: they envie every than with his lteusehald." The spa ifle reference to the fact That every man brought with him his entire household i+ Irnp,rinnl in wires (If the ve\t1 ques- lien of the possible ineren%e of the ori- ginal company migrating with Jacob into Egypt . which within the Space of about four hundred years increased to mere than "600.(U) on foot Thee were men, 10* sides children.' In Gen. If. 11, no are toe: That the household of Abram com- prise(' no Mss than ••o' IOW( matce. It is nee'esnry. therefore, to suppose thnt the households of Jacob, his eleven eon•. and his numemue grown-up grandson', must have aggregated a total of eevctal -ale \lent: Ill:el. DI t,\IONDet. Hue as 'Thr Mere elicroecopir in Mile Ile Didn't eeear Tlieni. Dr. Burton. ,.1 (:ambrelge, started gunning last year on the attempt to made ettiflcial diamond,, says the Jew - eters Circulur-Weekly. Ile based his experiments on nn entirely different theory to Btnt of the late Prof. Meissen. Dr. Burton's idea grew out of the as- stmption that diamonds are just char - mat, only denser. In order to achieve his object Dr. Bun ten used en alloy of lead and metallic calcium, to hold a piece of eharcnal in e:nlution It the calcium ie separated F=ashion Hints. 7 r 11 \ IN i Y 1.11'1'1.1: V. IIAI :s. (:ape r: raps err sten on many of the roost attractive Parrs spring gowns. One model, carried uut in pastel blue 04,11i, has a becoming little cape of lite sante material, with velvet collar and remitted fronts, tnnnnd with broad graduated stripe and gold embroidered lace. • 'the Japanese bolero of lace also Ls bo• ing shown in Paris, relieved withualt-� row black or colored ribbon velvet bands end bnwy, and these give a dressy Itnislt to it voile, wool, or cotton voile (Irene. A hew are being made of gold net, the taper wide meshed. ll aLso is mounted on chiffon and trimmed with colored !knell embroideries for rich deml•loilete. Yellow chino taffeta anti brocade re- cently have made a charming cape Iichu with long sash ends for w•earieg with an ecru lace gown, which is accompanied by a hal of finest brown straw, trimmed with king brown feathers. It is in just such combinations with other colors as these that the bast examples of Mowat wear are seen, by tow way., although it is offered in profusion for every possible article for the making of brown cos- tumes entire and altogether in the shops. Yellow or buttercup tinted brocades, patterned with wreaths or bunches of yellow and pink roses, lied with blue and gold ribbon, are to make lovely evening dresses In half empire style. For the most up-to-date summer evening gown white muslin or voile will be worn, with o yellow silk sash with knotted silk fringe. These sashes, in various colors, also are made of silk for the waist band proper, and aro finished with lace round- ed ends eighteen inches wide. These ends are finished with yellow-, pink. pale green, or pale blue taffeta rurhrs, and are topped off with a rosette of Taco and silk In the centee of the Lack. In new millinery a striking effect is obtained with a brown straw horsehair hal, with a bunch of yellow tulips or single yellow, poppies set high on one side. Laburnum and wisteria, in rich yellow shades, also are to be seen on large and medium straw hats. Magenta straw toques ere seen with it double box plaiting of velvet in the same shade or a little darker, set around the upper and lower part of oho brim, a long ostrich feather lying flat across the top. The prettiest effects are gained in the striped pastel shades of cotton voiles by trimming them with Japanese or combi- nation laces. Pastel blue. rose, pink, and red stand out fresh and clear in wide and narrow stripes. Gowns of while lingerie aro shown, with border patterns worked in pastel colors. Colored embroideries also are used to trim while morning dresses. Pretty polka dotted shirt waists in colors on white lawn also are trim- med with them. FASiHION NOTES. 4. • Charming modals in hats are shown for little girls in the bell shape so much in favor for her big sister. Very lovely they are, trimmed with quaint benders of field flowers of soft louLclne ribbon in pale shades of pink rind blue. Little capes which can hardly bo dis- tinguished from a bolero at first sight aro much in favor, and are smart made in while cloth. Tulle combined with lace is popular for the yoke and sleeves of the silk voila gass'n. Liberty satin also trims these frocks; a favorite method is to have a broad hand of It around the bottom of lite t. Everyskirvariety of flowered pompadour materials is seen. Pale covert cloth with touches of Week satin in trimmings is remitter for the tailor cult. For summer wear teeny interesting woielcont.s nee torn in regular vestIng niatcrials such /IS are worn by uien. These are usually in white, often of heavy pique, sometimes of figuredeffects. 'they are made loth single +utd double-breasled, and can be easily lento dered. The Inn and chants-coktred w'alstcoats are also seen, being particu- larly liked In give a (much of color to a blue or brown cklh or linen suit. it THE tlE:\i. IBEASON. It wens n seientiflc lecture. and n41iuis- sion wens free, but in spite of this the attendance was small. Beside:- being few In number. the Members of the au- dience were very sparing in their ap- plause. The lecturer was consequently tl i4hea retied. f i, s: nlly hue saw a ragged fellow enter lin hail sed lake it seal near the door. The nevwronter evidently appreciated the lecturer's remarks. for he had not been from the fused plass a part of the char- lietenhng five minutes before Ile conn - coal chryslallzes, menced to applaud vigorously. To bring Ilits affect Mont the agency Deeply grateful to het ragged listen - of strata le brought Into piny. -While tere the lecturer Heresied him tie 11e was the metallic alloy Is in it stall' of igni• leaving. and es lnimtd warmly: lion the seem is introduced, and small "I was delighted In see ihnl you Bp - crystals of graphite are formed. When ' precinlyd nay retnerke." the %teem Is introduced At Meer tem• "Appreciate. 1:e l,k,wed: • was Ione re. pentium". microscopic crystals are pro- ply. 1 didn't even kuov whet yell was duced that prove to be diamonds. but leakin' nixed. I seed the lecture MS t•nly microscopic ones. This is the one free. elf an 11 was irecztn' outside. 1 come of one more of the many tedious and rosily exp'rtrnenli. Mit the really valuable feature ,dls- ckisrel by the leborntory work in tho* case la that it knocks oft Its pedestal the fanner theory teal the real Simon Pure diani and of (lame Nehmen labor- nlory is formed by the influence of en exec=stvely high temperature followed 1•.• intense pressure nn sudden cooling. At least this experiment of Dr. Bur- tn opens up n new theory that ran ran nip and lurk with the old one. The Ilea! theory is IMO real Alnrnondc are doe to the prewar* of some unknown ?elven! of enrhon separated at a very high pressure. ^. .mm.. -11M. nrn'll 5.1'0011 TO i.OSE SOMETIIhi(i. rustemer (excitedly) -"You've given me morphine instead of quinine." Drtigg.i4-"Is it possible. In that (roe you owe inn twenty-five cents aero " canoe In nut of the cold. end I was just cdappice to warm in)801." f Young Mrs, Gotrox (tit her fins break - fest with her elderly "catch") : "You at with your knife. (kel'1 you. Jelin. dear'" Ohl \1r. Get.ox (noticing hie opportunity, end with iet•erity mei dignity) : "Ne, mtdam. 1 do roe!. 1 eat with my mouth. I irequentty convey food from my plata to my facial aperture with my knife. but I do my own eating with my own ex. cllralve mouth, and until further nolioe 1 will myself furnish all the Instructions reel+:ling the methods to be employed." England's three mo -IM villager erel Pnurnevllle, Port Ritnlfght, and Eats- wiek in Yarkshtini. 1 ,11 ntay lune o1,45rveil that (ew 5 1 • c• soot eu.i,i'ess men feel at ease at a nettle s',cial function. • 1