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Exeter Advocate, 1907-09-12, Page 2FIGUT THE BATTLE OF GOD Our Refuge, Our Strength, and Our Present Help "God is our rcfugo and strength, a very present help in trouble."-l'sulnos Xlvi. 1. Thu %Lurid has been likened to the sea, ever agitated ; liable to storms and tempests wherein many aro engulfed end lost. The Christian mariner Ls sail- ing upon this sen. flu nnust cro.sn it lie brei ever ho can reach !he haven of rest. w.; long as it is etno..lh sailing we can senile and be happy, bet let lee tempest in its fury burst open us and we use all uur siren eh, our c • led• The christen is In cutest' anger from himself and others. The devil is a danger that is ever near tee \\'e must needs watch and pray that we enter not into temptation. Danger coons to us also from our own evil natures. \\'e have in us the tendency to do evil rather than good. It is hart to overcome our - m -Ives. Yet that is tho very thing we Must do, deity ourselves and take up ot,r cross end follow lion. Danger is the lot of God's people. 'They have en- listed under His tanners and must in- ce.r the risk of battle. 1f we would wear the croem we must tight the battle of God. Every time we go out from our homes; we are in physical danger, and yet we go. So lel iis go about the busi- ltess of our Father's kingdom despite the danger, FACING IT IN 1115 NAME. Our text also I►nphes weakness, for where there is need of strength there must be weakness; weakness felt by the most pious and devout. There has been no one who at sone (line has not felt it. Does not God make this His op- rhtity to leach us to depend upon Him? Does Ile not thus show us our helplessness and draw us to the great icuntain head of strength? When we have some great duty to perform wo feel this weakness. We say, oh, but we can't do that. We are too weak. We feel our weakness when some great sa"rifice is to bo made, when God culls mon us to give up ono iso lege or there Le sonic great temptation to to resisted. It is, heowever, in the moments when we feel most sell-c.,nfdent that the aro in newt of strength, 1l is then that we are really weak. (kid is our refuge in danger. When the child is in danger ho flees to father cr mother for safety, firmly believing that (here he is sate. Oh, the implicit confidence of the child! 1f we all Could only feel toward Crud as the child feels his parent. In grief. in yarrow, wo can find a suro refuge Ise, our strength in weakness. : the mind. Ile gives energy and strength to the soul. In Him we can do all things. The Apostle l'aul ex- claims: "When 1 am weak then am 1 strong." Paul would glory in. his weak- ness, for it was then that the strength of God would shine forth in hon. if ever there was a roan, recording to the judg- ment of this world, TIIAT MAN \VAS PAUL. Yel he secs in himself only weakness and tho strength of Christ. What a re- buke to the self-sa:isfled. God is our help in trouble. If there is ono thing that God is above all else that thing is love. We seek the refuge In danger, we use Ills strength in weak- ness, but we feel tho heart throbs of God Himself when Ho helps us in trouble. 1l Ls a pouring out of His love to sinful and suffering man. \Vhat a comfort in sorrow is the presence of the man of sorrows( Oh what a deliverance iron trouble is worked out for us by the help of ell the ages! lie sanctifies to us our trouble. lie draws us nearer to Him thus. It is not a far off hope, but It is a very present ono. You who are sorrowing nt the going home of a loved one, Ila waits to help you. You who are wcrriod by laity cares, Ile would share your burden. You who are laden with sins, He would forgive you. Oh, fly to Him, who Is indeed n very present help i'i trouble, our refuge and our strength ! BEV. WILLIAM FI1I.AS, Jr. oloweififf****** HOME. :************ SOME DAi:N"l'Y DiSIIES. Scalloped Lambe -Into a deep dish put it layer of chopped cold lamb, a layer of tomatoes (tinned will do), sliced thin, met n layer of stale breadcrumbs. Sea - tun with pepper and salt and n little all- spice. Put small pieces of butler over till and enough stock to moisten slightly. Hake till the crumbs are just brown, then serve. Bice Cutlets. -Boil n teacupful of rice Until it has fully swelled. then drain it very dry. Mix into a pnsto with two eggs, four ounces of currants, nutmeg, and sugar to taste. Add flour to thicken mud form into cutlets. Fry in boiling !at Serve willi a little jam on each cut - 1.1 as a garnish. Stewed Breast 01 \'eel. -Put a breast Of veal into a saucepan and well cover it with coke water, bring to Lha boil and skint, then odd two onions, two carrots. two turnips eighteen peppercorns, and water. Let this stand till the sugar Ls dissolved, then set 1l in a pan of boiling water and let the syrup boil for five minutes or more. As the scum rises, skim it away until the sugar kicks white and thick, and then stir into it a quarter of a pound of nice fresh grated cocoanut. Put the pot back on the fire anu with a wooden spoon stir the candy continuously till it rises up in the pip- kun, then at once spread it on sheets of well -dried writing paper, which should tis warmed before the Ore before using. When nearly cold take away the paper and cut the candy into small soaves. IiINTS FOR TIIE iIOME. Mint sauce maker; Iamb, with which it It eaten, more digestible. 'fo fix the color of colored shirts, etc., rinse the goods in a weak brine for the first few washings. To Remove Steins From the Finger Nails. -Dissolve a lithe oxalic acid in wader, rub the fingers in this, then rinse thoroughly in cold water before using soap, To Take the Shiny Appearance from Blue Serge. -Gel some anent -win and to every tablespoonful add the same quan- tity of perfectly boiling water. Ruh this salt to season. Stew the veal very gently ; into the serge while hut, set, in the air for two and n half hours and serve with i to dry and then brush with a clean parsley and butter sauce and a liberal 'denies brush. If one npplientlon does garnish of rashers of bacon. not renovate sufficiently. repeal 11. Savory Ilio. --\\'ash throe ounces of To \\'hip (:renin.- Have good fresh, Tice and Mil in Will a pint of milk U11 1lhick cream and stand it in a cool place. quite tender, ridding pepper and salt. `T a whip lake a large basin, rinso it out !letter a disk, spread halt the rice on it, , In cold water and dry. In n cold place sprinkle ono ounce of grnted obese neer the air, put the cream into the over. add the rest of the ri••e, sprinkle basin and whip steadily Ii11 n stiff fmth over it another ounce of ere• se. put half . is required, flavor and sweeten to taste at ounce of butter on the top in small 'with raster sugar. me - pieces and blown in a quick oven. Stewed your piano toles by this rne- Stewed Tomatoes on Toast., -Take as ; 1hnd. '1'nko some finely powdered whit. many ripe tomatoes as you require, pour ening and apply It to the notes with a Smiling wnler over them to loosen the d unp chilli or chamois. 1.et the lid re- ektns. Let them stand for three nein- rain open twit exposed to the sun and Utes, then peel and put int.) n slewpan air as ntuclt as possible. Rub the spots svlth a little atilt and butter or good with lemon juice before applying the dripping. Stew these very slowly for whitening. about half an hour. Tut on to hot but- in bottle peas for winter use. Pick tercel tenet .lust pepper over, and serve. end shell your peas when quite dry, and Shortbread.-Itub two °tutees of but- scald in boiling water. drain very dry, ter Into tour °linens of Omit sed one emir Into bottles or jars. and eo ver with ounce of sugar and mix well together. snlurated brine. Have a film of oil on Flour a hoard and turn the paste on 10 the top to exclude the air. Before cook - 11 and knead it well, then roll out to inp; the peas soak thein in warm water half an inch (hick end cut into oval for nn hour to extract all the self. This ei sees. Grease baking tin. put the short- method has tin: ndenntage of simplielle. gree l on to it. and let. It hake till a pale A Good Cold Sweet.- Soak an ounce frown Color. when it will be done. ni gelatine In half n pint of cold water Egg std Fish Pie. --(Ane a medium- her Iwo !were. Then dissolve it with four Sued ple-dish with n light pastry crust, ounces of white sugar by n slow heal. pu', sono t.nc.>'olitvt rice into it, and hake four one pint of broiling water nn In the ft till half done; remove the rice; have rind of a lemon, and simmer steely for randy three eggs beaten with halt a pint quarter of an hour. and strain the geha- line, sugar. etc.. Into it. nailing the juice of the lemon also. \\'hip the whiles of one or two eggs lo a stiff froth. end when the limon mixture is nearly cold. star the egg into it and brat all loge-, flier. four into a wetted mould and ellen cold turn out and serve. of milk. atr)ut six ounces of Hold ilsh broken into Oakes, never all with Minced parsley, cayenno an.) salt. and like till nicely brown. Serve in the dish very fent. einnanton Iliscuite.-tic half a pound of butter with half a pound of sugar, add one egg and half an ounce of ground cinnamon, lastly stirring in on,' poem! ti Ikuir, which shouhl 1.•• dneel nerd si( wly serrnl in. Pell 0111 'inn and cut Int( rounds, pal half an nlme nd on enli biscuit. met hake in n neeiernle oven far len minutes. Turn upside down to (vol. They should be very crisp. Ketnrys with Eggs.- --Cul fuer sheep's kidnie s into thin slices. (In'lge to .th KTtQUEITE AT 911E 'FABLE. 1)o not empty every drop of soup from your pinle. Do not drink yotir snap from the point of your spoon, but front the side. For fish du not use a dessert knife in- stead of the fish knife. If there be no fist. knife tie., n s,na11 crust of breed. but Boer. sell and pepper. and fry in a hullo ber,ve Uutt piece of crust en your plate. dripping. When brown n•neowe from the le. not eat it nfter•wards, as s.) many Fan and put 11 in the oven te h"eju hot. people do. New take a ermeepan end put in two IM not be datnly and fringe your plate ounce,. or butler, berak the eggs into it with bits of meal Ent what you can and heal. Put in also a little pepper, and put any skin or hone on the edge et c' opped parsley, with a gill of milk or year plate in one little heap. which move cream. Stir all over the fire till rniced, dawn from the edge when you have tinnily adding the kidneys. Arrange nn finishM, Re,uares of tail butterel toast, garnish Do net crumple up your table nap - with parsley. and serve immediately. kin. r.ocosln,t hand v'. --lest into nn earthen -4 After eating it is well before you ct -ire stewing inr ors: ixtund of toes( Inn, ,pi.k to wipe your lips ; ntherwls' you si.gnr tett a bceektist cupful of code 1'at.• n sinenry mark on the glass. Ito not gulp liquids and sweetie' audibly. Fh not pile ycnr plate with food of grasp your knife, fork, cr spoon as if it were a weapon of tvarfae. Do not crumble the bread by your tide or drain your glues to the last drop. On the other hand, do not be affected t. nit act as it an appetite teas a crime. drink as if you were a dicky bird, or hold your knit.', fork, and spoon as if they were redhut needles. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 1\11:11N 4TI)N.%L LESSON, SEPT. ta. Lesson XI. Moses Pletading With Israel. Golden Tcxt: Deet. 6. It. THE LESSON WORD telUDiES. (lased on tho text of the Revised Ver- sicti. Approaching Canaan from the Fast. - After leaving Mount nor the Israelites seem to have proceeded southward along the western side of Mount Sete to the. Gulf of Akabali, and from thence east- ward sed again northward along the eastern frontier of Edon) and Moab, un- til they arrived in the oountry Imme- diately northeast of the Dead Sea. Here for a time they paused before attacking i:anaan west of the Jordan. \Vith the story of their sojourn in this district are associated the episode of Militant (Num. 22 2-21 18), the seduction of the Israel- ites by Ute Midianite (or Moabite) women (25. 1-9); we taking of a second census et the people (261; lite selection of Joshua as the successor of jltosevs (27. 15.23); the communication of numerous laws and regulations (27. 1-14; chapters 28-30; 33. 50-36. 13). In chapter 31 is recorded tite punishment of the Midianites for having seduced. the Israelites. Chapter 32 re- cords the assignment of Gilead to the tribes of Itouben, Gad, and the halt tribe ei Manasseh, and their settlement in the territory assigned them. Chapter 33. 1-l9 contains a summary of the itinerary n! the entire journey of Israel from Egypt to the eastern border of Canaan. Before entering upon actual possession of the Promised Land it was natural that a »umber of important things should ie attended to, and Moses, who had now grown to be an old scan and who felt that his death could not be far distant, gathered the people together and in a long discourse reminded them of the past guidance and blessing of Jeho- vah and exhorted them to obedience and constancy in their devotion and service to Jehovah. (For a brief discussion of the purpose and nature to Deuteronomy, sea 'Ther Lesson Exposition," "A Simple Plan for Teaching," and the "Lesson Outlook.") Verso 1. in chapters 1-4. 40, Moses. after reviewing the recent history of the people and pointing out Jehovalis love for Lsrael as revealed by that pillory, earnestly urges upon tho people the duty of keeping Jehovah's laws, reminding thorn of his spirituality and absoluteness. Then In chnptcrs 5-11 inclusive follows an extu,rtation which may be considered as hnte ductory to the more specific in- junctions of chapters 12-28. The special relation between Jehovah and his people was established on the basis of the 1)e- calogl,o which is here repeated (Deut. 5. 6-21), Moses at the sante time reminding the people of their promise to obey any farther cnmruands which Jehovah might give (chapter 5). The source of all true rt•erlience, however, is a right attitude, nod therefore Israel's first duty Ls the duly of love to Jehovah and of service and reverence, and, further, of keeping his claims constantly before their chil- dren. These points are emphasized in our present chapter. The conunnnd►nerrt, the statutes, and rho ordinances -Those additional laws and contmandmentI promised In verse 31. of the preceding chapter: "1 will speak unto three all the .commandment, and the stat:tes, and the ordinances which thou shalt tench them." 2. That thou might)st fear Jehovah - T', implant in the hearts of the people this reverential fear of Jehovah had been Ihe aim and eeope of all 1110 instruction which Moses had given them. 'thou. and thy son, and thy sines son -Ono generation is to he rcapxotsible for handing the law and the traditions o' the fathers on to the next. 3. Increase mightily -Net 1n numbers only. nor yet primarily. but in rank and p(sitien among the nations. A land flowing with milk nnd honey- ('ec.mpa•e our Lesson Word Studies for Se tcmbe:• 8. 4. Jehovah our God is one Jehovah -- Or, "Jehovah our God, Jehovah is one': r.i "Jehnvoh is our lend, Jehovah alone." 5. With all thy heart, with all thy snot. with all thy might -No part of nean's intellectual, eneotionnl, vnlittonnl, o • physical life is to Ye withheld from lh'• serviCe of Jehovah his God. ' 6. Ile upon thy heart -Constantly In 1hv thought and mind. 7. Thou Lail leach them diligently u:ntu Ihy chlldren -1.11., "impress," that is "inculcate' (prick in). • on parchment may be found on the deem post of the fumes id orthodox Jews, the pious Jew touching this little case or box or kissing .us linger as he prices 1t to go in or out of the house, to and true. Sue daily work. 10. In the remaining verses of our les s0r text the exhortation is against for- getfulness of Jehovah and his past de- Ie.'ran••,es during a luno of material prosperity and blessing which is sure le come. 11. Cisterns hewn out -The broad deep, rock -hewn cisterns in whieh 11u water front the scanty rainfall of %% inlet is hoarded up for use in the lent;, hilt. dry season are still a great boon in Pal- estine. \ ineyards and olive trees --Two of the principal source+ of hvelil►o)d in Pales- tine. 12. Then beware lest thou forget Jeho- vah -It is easy in limes of prosperity (o forgot past adversities. 13. And shalt swear by his name -- The modern Oriental is profuse in his use of oaths. ile swears by everything and in proportion to the eeverenco with which he regards that by which he swears his word and his oath may be trusted. When he swears by the •livin- ity in which ho believes he usually steaks tho truth and may be trusted to fulfill the promise emphasized by su"h a'. oath. It. however, no swears by a god not his own or something of miner dignity and importance, his oath may not he considered as binding, and cer- tainly is not so considered by himself. Tit what extent modern mistimes in this respect reflect ancient conditions it Ls dilliCult to say, but clearly the Israelite is here extorled to call upon no other gods but Jehovah to witness tis most snored promises and vows. An oath, moreover, Ls a peculiarly solemn con- fession of faith, and as such the Israel- ite was sacredly to regard it. WOMAN (REBUKED BY A SiHEIKII. In a Novel %t inni(red Graham Disclosed Secrets of -••oslem Shrine. Novelists, both men and women, re- ceive many queer lepers -letters of praise, of condemnation, of all sorts. But Miss \Vinnifred Graham, the Eng- lish at,thoress, is probably unique in having received an epistolary "roast" from a high and mighty sheikh of the Soudaneso Desert. In the course of it site and all other women are told their value from the !Mohammedan view- point, which is, it seems, that they are of no consequence in the universe, ex- cept as potential mothers. - 'World Without End," written by Miss Graham, was published a few months ego. One of its tilos( interesting (ea- teries is a detailed and picturesque de- s^-ription of the hitherto hidden myster- k s of a Moslem shrine. This Mohan- mcdan holy of folios is str,ctly forbid- den lo the eyes of all infidels and Chris- tian dogs. Strange as it may seem, a copy of the novel found its way Into the desert. Per- haps a Cook's tourist threw it aside or lett it at some stopping place on the Nile. At any rate an Arab presented a copy to Sheikh Ali Mohammed of Mou- diriat-Dnrfour, known as the holy Man of the Desert. The laying hero of the secrets of a Moslem shrine horrified hint end the dis- covery that a woman had done this. in- tersilled the horror. So the learned sheikh composed a long screed, which his secretary prepared and sent to Miss Graham, through her publishers. This document begins, "In the name of God, the rnest gra- Melte, and after saluting yourself : "We have received one of your books and have noted Its contents through one of our friends who has come to us from remote -countries and joined us." After which introduction the sheikh pr•ceds to rebuke the novelist for ven- turing to deal with a religious subiect "which demands very careful in'estiga- lien," and declares: "You are a woman and have no waluo in the universe, except that you might be a another; you will bring down upon yourself the displeasure of the Almighty (-.cal, and he will punish you." Then follows a stern denunriatlon of let "calumnies which you hove esprend al.rond concerning this sacred country," and in closing the author is urged to send her s.ut, if she has one, to Mecca to pray for her forgiveness. FILIPINO FAMILY (.I(:.4R. Kept In hole in Post of Dttetlint), and Is Common Properly, \Vhett lenu 511131 . , and when thou t:alke'st-'Elie laws of Jehovah are t, lee the subject of a unyorsntlon between par- ents and children at all limes. x, lifnd there for sign upon illy hand --An eeprecslnn doubtless intended only figurnlively herr. hal interpreted literally in inter limes when the people renverlcd little parehmenl serials of Ilm taw tele amulets which were actually worn fnstcned to die hand. For frontlets between tier eyes --Aly) intended figuratltvly no (knubl. the cense king (hal Ihe mmunandrnents of Jeho- t a1, ore to seer•ve we an ewer-presrnl re- minder to the Israelilee of their relation- ship le Jehovah. and of the debt .or gratitude which they owe hint, In ne- wel predict.. however. the Jews carried 1!..' injunction nut literally by inecribing on small w'relts of parchment portions of use law, which scrolls they teen in - c'a'sed In small envies and 1 vomit Cheese with lenlheern Ihnngs le the 1'n'head ;as nlsn on 1h.' left ares) at the lime of the daily r'rtlali..n o1 the Shown. nr as• sum.rl perhen or summary of the Jew. re teen the uIs,rieete of tlty (else, and term Ihy gnl.es-Thio nmvislnn wee, and still is, rinsed nut literally by the 'ewe. Even to -day Ihesl' tiny rylinel.'re et,$)sinyt perilous c! Scripture written C11U.D Bl.'RUI.AR9. Boy's "Professional" Skill -Sent to an Industrial Scrool. Two school children, Frank Swell and Florence Sini.h, aged nine and seven respectively, of Church road, Barking. England. were cttarged at Stralf•er'i Police Court, says The London Mail, With being concerned in breaking into , a house in Victoria road, Barking, and stealing various articles belonging te. Frederick Hein -tore. a cable jointer. On the evening of July 3 the prosecu- tor missed his hoots, and, next day, when a sheet and a pair of trousers could not le found, the police were in- formed. 'Then it was discovered that etc two children had taken the missing articles to u Mrs. I'ricst, who had en different occasions pawned articles for Meer mother, the girl saying that tier mother was ill and wanted the articles pledged. Mrs. Priest got Gs Gd on the articles, and deducting 2d for her "pro- fessional fee." gave the girl Gs 4d. Detective McMullen, who arrested the children, stated that the boy said to hien, "We watched the woman out of the house," and the girl admitted their guilt, but Mr. Eliot Howard (Ihe chair- man of the Bench), said that as the children had not been previously cau- ticned he would not accept the state- ments as evidence. The officer went on to say that the bad had been twice convicted, and that in a previous case of housebreaking against slim the manner in which he had forced a door was quite professional and would be hardly credited. The Bench said it was clearly a case foe industrial schools, and the children will be sent there. \WEALTiI IN HANDS OF FEW. Dr. Bushnell Gives Some Statistics to Make People Think. Prof. Chas. Bushnell, in a recent lec- ture in Washington, said, among other sti:rtling things :- That the wealth of the country is in- creasing al the rale of 55,000,000,000 a year. That its distribution is becoming in- creasingly dis-proportionate, causing great injustice, hardship and suffering. That the control of the nation's wealth and through it, of tho nation itself, is fust centring in the hands of a few, ono -eighth of the families now own - ins; seven -eighths of its wealth, 11 is said on good authority that the control .it one -twelfth of the nation's wealth is represented at the meeting of the twenty- four directors of !he United States Stele Corporation alone, and that the all - lm -portant railway systems of the country a'o controlled by just six then, with only one supremely dominant. That on the other hand 10,000,000 or one-eighth of the people of the country. ate- in constant poverty, while 4,000,000 arc paupers. That through poorly coordinaled and selfishly administered industrial enter- prises nearly 1,000,000 ignorant immi- grants nro landed each year and con- densed in the most crowded industrial centres. In the city of New Cork an average of one hnntigrant arrives every forty-two seconds, and an arrest occurs every four minutes. That under the pressure of theca ab- normal conditions drinking, stroking, n-•crder, suicide, insanity, robbery. graft and social vice are increasing fas- ter than the population. causing finan- cial loss that more than counterbal- ances our annual national gain of wealth. "I like n good cigar," said n man re- ecntly returned from the Philippines. "The family cigar of the islands is a good cigar --good in tnalerinl, In make, and in size; but the Phillpino family cignr I never could enjoy. "I1 Is from fifteen inches to n foot and n hall long, and is somewhat more Than nn inch in diameter. When not in use it is thrust Into a i.ule In one of the up- right bamboo pods of the dwelling. The hole is not so far above the floor that the youngest walking members of the family carrot reach it. "When any member of the hhousehold. the old man nr his four-year-old daugh- ler, feels like taking a snmoke. the ram- ie cigar is dragged from its hole in the post and fired up. When the cigar gets Ice shed for comfortable smoking ano- ther takes its place. "It is a queer sight to seen Filipino infant pufTin►; nwny at a big black cigar about n third ns long as the child is ani so lnrgo around that it. distorts the little yellow face into which it Ls inserted. "The family cigar is not taken away (rem the residence: 11 remains always ;et hand as a vehicle of iospilnble ex- pression. When a visitor calls the fenm- ity cigar. (f it is not in use. is with. drnen from lis tole in the post and tittered to the guest with a gracious ges- ture. "11 the cigar happens 10 be in u3e, perhaps by a little girl squatted back In 41 corner, the pKersen doing Ilse honors snatches it frotn the mouth nt the smoker and proffers it to the guest without delay. "To decline this offer of hnapitnlily Ls rot considered good form in Filipino s..ei.'ty ; in feet it amounts to scorn or friendly intention. Kit ming the career et the avenge family cigar, it is not easy In accept and smoke it wee an np- p•nrnneo et enjoyment when it is taken h • ere Its hole in the post, but it le een- sldernbly herder to receive It from the mouth of eine member of the net over - neat looking family. and 1•:unq.enns and .\mericens frqueutly balk sl (his stage of the call. WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE. People Who Look Wise Do Not Always "Make Good." As an illustration of the old saying tt.at "doctors will differ," the following is related by a physician of veracity: 1•t the course of a lecture which he was delivering before a number of stu- dents he had brought in by the mother a child sic months old, which he stat- ed was suffering from a very peculiar off -coon -one seldom seen In this coun- try -end he requested Ove of the stu- dents, cacti , cparately to diagnose the case. Tho first, sews The Baltimore Guilt, gave it as lids medical belief that the child was suffering from Incipient pneumonia; the second, after examine• Lon, pronounced it incipient diphtheria; the third staked his repulat(•n upon its being peritonitis; the fourth called it marasnuts, whole the 011h seld it was malaria. \\'hen they had each made a cr•retut exanmination the lecturer said: "Well, genll men, trove you anything tcrther to say in regard to the case?' 'Nettling mere than tuns already been said," was the reply taken from each. "Well." snid he, Inking the little one and holding It up before them. "this is a child that has never had a day's i:1- ness since its birth. It Is the most per- fectly healthy child that I have ever seen." CHILDREN'S LONG SLEEPS QUEEN INSTANCES Ot' t\FAN"1'H.1 SLUMBERS. Absolutel' Necca'•ary to Call oa Mc.:ical Science In Order to Awakar► Them_ 1 attended a child some months ego eh° frightened iIs mother as wen as me by sleeping steadily for twenty -ebur days -or rather mor) than three weeks, write.; a well-known physician in Lon- don Tut -Bits. The child was six weeks old, perfectly normal in every function of its body save that since it was two weeks of age it had never opened its eye, or cried as a healthy baby is supposed to do. Al that time it was taken with a high fever. which i succeeded in reducing, bet the sleep into which the infant sank exentinucd. 1t indicated hunger by what I believe was an entirely muscular and instinctive pursing of Its lips, and we fed u sparingly on cow's milk. For twenty- four days toe child showed no indication of awaking, and then quite suddenly it emitted a long cry and opened its eyes. We had done everything known to medical science to arouse it, and just as we had almost given up hope she fooled us all by waking tap very touch alive. The child was heavier than when she fell asleep, and tiro indications are that she will grow into a strong woman. She ha; since shown no desire to slumber longer than is usual with Infants. Another child -a boy of seven -whom i attended, and whose name was George Bice, SLEPT FOR OVER A MONTH. in this case we were able to rouse hart tier intervals of a minute or so two or three times a day, and feed hint on milk. Tito boy had been studious et school, and fl is my impression that overworl had brought him to this condition. \Vi tried all sorts of things to arouse him but it was no good. Electricity had nt pcwer to bring about even the quiver(ni of an eyelash, and at last wo were corn pelted to leave him to finish his slee out. Each day we weighed him, and each day showed that he had become 1 fraction lightet. Isis case attracted a le o' attention, and wo had alt sorts of gaeer "cures" sent to us, some of ulna we tried. Perhaps the queerest remedy was sent by a woman, who wrote: "I have read au account of George nice's strnnge sleep, and 1 write to say that 1 knew a ycung woman who was similarly affec- ted. 1 made an ointment which cured her. Ono application is all that is needed. It destroys germs and is as hartnless as milk." \Ve Lried this pecu- ti.r remedy. but all the effect it had was to induce Biro to lake on a new lease of slumber. Music was tried, hypnotism, fanning, ice -packs. and a hundred other things; and finally, when, we Id hien ale ne, he awoke of his own accord, and seemed none the worse for his long sleep. Thera is, of course, such a thing as th.e "sleeping sickness," but this is a dis- ease and not to be confounded with these long slumbers where the body is in a normal condition. TIIE "SLEEPING SICKNESS I, invariably fetal, and no cure that 1 have ever hoard of hes yet been diso rev- ered, or anything which will even retard it; progress. A man can suffer from steeping sickness for a year or two years, end though he may not he abso- lutely unconscious during the whole of that tune he only has moments of wake- (utnoss of sufficient duration to make Len- realize hts terrible position. The (iiscase is caused by a germ. but who. tiler the germ will ever be discovered 1 cannot say. 'There nre just now many scientists on its track. These long sleeps are found more often among the young than the middle- aged or old. As a man or woman gets on in years leas slumber is required, and you will often meet men and women of sixty and over who gel along very comfortably on from two to four hours' steep during the night. Heavy sleepers among the aged nr'c very rnre. pial Io return to youth and long sleeps. Per- haps you recollect the case of Heinrich Ru.rgitnller, the German science st.dent, who fell asleep on his sixteenlli hirthdny and was a year older before he awoke again. in This inslatice, Ion, the entice of the keng slumber w'n4 (1110 to overwork and anxiety,. No attempts beyond Ilse sim- plest were made to awoke Burgstaller. the efforls of the doctors being directed towards keeping up his strength and weight by every means In their power. Every morning ho oas bathed lin THIN OAe\IEA1, GRUEL, }- TILUTII It's better to fall out than it is to he kicked out. Fortune smiles on tho few, and grins on the many. A Mont person is apt 10 make the most culling remarks. The mon who is always right is al- ways a nuisance. A CtugUetle's heart probably looks like an empty honeycomb. Sometimes you see a locks pretty when she is angry. Never judge what a woman wants to do by the thing she does. Nothing p leases a little man more than nn opporluntly lee net btg. Consistency Ls a jewel, but en many purple do tot care for jewellery. Aren't you glad yeti don't own the earth when it is taxpaying time? Many n Inas sows wiki oats at his lei- sure that his children (itat reap In haste. woman who RO1'I.1Kr. 11 a hey had a k)eomotive lo play with he would Id It tall and break it the first thing. Professor (lecturing on hyglrne)- "'lnhacev). gentlemen. makes n•.n ustle short-winded, idiotic'. paralytic; nit,' 1 (an tell you Rtls from experserc••, 'or 1 have smoked for many years." in the belief that his lady would absorb much of the nutrition contained in the teeth while quantities of milk were forced dawn his throat. Ry these means his strength was preserved. and when Burg- slaller finally awoke, quite naturally. after more than n year of sit -miter. his weight had only decreased some s'ven px;unds. A story was current some line ago 01 a Russian child named Olga Piatknwska having slept on end from her third I0 he• sixth birthday, but 1 could not vouch for the Inith of it. ,\c••ur.ling to the re- vert the infant was the daughter of toot. pnrente. whose father leber d in the foe. 041 and whose mother w•nrke'.I m the i olds. 'Thee hill writs usually 1•.•k.•.1 into n room during the absence of the par- rots, n neighbor calling in every two hours to feat nod Mak offer it. One day when the good women ram') shoe found the child sleeping very heavily and left her, rele.rning in Iwo ttcttrs. The baby still slumbered, snit centimted In ahnnter when the mother Firmed. Nothin aroused it. and when three day's had passed n doctor was celled. He evinced en Interest in the et,se and took the child bo n SI. Peters- burg linspilnl. where it was welched for months by interested scientists. 'rhe add Wii4 feud artificially. principally Ihreugh the nose. and everythir,e was Cone 10 to mrish it. itul the hal y eye.i retrained closed for three )•er.rs, wti n, with -oat any warning, the welcher bends iv • bed wont astonished t0 .see then) open. 1'r n second or two skip ai,pcnrr.t to have at 1851 lied. het nlnosl Instantly fee' eyelids rim aped again, there - ru • fain. sigh. and d-,ui hal taken 1he+ p:•teo of s.uniber.