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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-01-23, Page 6CURRENT TOPICS. I)epcndablene s, perhaps, Ls the most prized of all the qualities which protnee the young mall preferment In lite. There are mullions of nooks and core Hera in the world for the mediocre per - eon who has earned for himself the reputation fur doing things in calm, sober seriousness that come( of his re- a,gnil:on of his duty. Even the block - heed, who, under alt circumstances can be counted upon to be at his post one attempt the best that is in him, has a value in many places where erratic Lrillience mould not be trusted for a day. That young man who is entering life has nerd to consider these state- ments of face as thus business world has fuunil them. Moro than ever before there is abroad the idea of the "short cut" to success. Men have shade these short cuts and succeeded; ;nen are mak- ing thein and succeeding. There is a profound inipre-sion at large that for ono to take the long, painstaking lanes to the goal of an ambition means only the loss of tine and effort. "Look how Smith got on," is a stand- ard form of expression on tiro part of the young man who has In his mind a remarkable example of the "short cut." Well, perhaps Smith did get on. 1t teal known, however, that Jones, Mack, and Brown didn't fail miserably in trying to imitate him. When you press the young nian who would Imi- tate Smith in the short cut, he can't te' you how Smith did it. But he ,may Lave a head full of incidents concern- ing Smith's personality and vagaries While Smith was succeeding! • We know of nothing which may have More of potential harm in It to the av- erage young man's prospects than for That young roan to stake a study of the personal vagaries of some individual mart who has made a success. Some of the most erratic men in the world have succeeded in their lines of effort. In the w.,. -lc t,f a comparatively few men in comparatively few lines, per- sonal vagaries may have leen assets mon which they have realized. In the great majority of cases, these teen Succeeded in spite of their erratic dis- pesitions! Imitativeness, affectations, "blue all are forms of weakness in the man. They will not pass current long in the world's serious work. When once any form of sur -h weakness is ex- pressed and recognized, the element of dependableness is gone in the person expressing it. That employer, partner, or man in any way called upon to share the responsibilities of such a person al- ways must be under stress of that per- son's uncertainties in di -(position and temperament. Ono of the commonest and yet most distressing of observa- tions made every day by the heads of ccspon---ible organization may be epf- toniized: "Thal man Jones Ls a won- der in his way. 0, if we only could depend on him all the timet" Yet there are a hundred young men, perhaps, who are nursing a secret ad- miration for this man Jones -not an ettrniration especially for itis ability Lut a sneaking emulation of the weak- nesses and foibles which have been his undoing. The experience of a business man with leo men in his enrptoy. One of these had bis full measure of ear - Rosiness. In his work he had one fault es his employer saw It -he nursed Some idents that not always filled in With his duties. When they did not, this roan's conscience forced him to re- fuse to do the thing eksirel. R was awkward ---it embarrnssel the earnest man -but when his carnes( refusal was Considered he was told that because of that enrnestness some one else would take the work off his hands. But a new man of mistaken (dens discovered this situation. Ilo admired the business w•cnkness of the otter. At the first op• pc.rlunfty he. too, refused a la -se -from another motive--nrd was discharged on the spot. Ilia shallow egotism was his undoing -nn egotism so shallow That when he was .indene he could not un'. rstand why! "Thoroughga,ing, ar- dent, anti senccn earnes!ne ar" What a multitude of minor shortcomings it Covers up every dnyl 11.1(:K TALK. "Lel rm• see" began Mr. Henpeck, "The Wooden welding is lire fifth ahnivensary, Isn't de' "No," snnppxetl his wife. "when one mnrrie:•s a blockhead it's the ceremony itself." PAREN'1'AI. \II:'I\Fc)R\I.1T1OV. "Paw. what is a g(uilktinee' "It's en instrument hearing snnre r'- Penielance to a alirt colter Ihnt has Peen tit to nr Petr time: to the knuxlr•y, Tian - Ivy. but it is much quicker and more ret n iful in its operation.' \W,XIINED. On the door of an eating -house In Nee pp 1110 curious may read the following printed announcement conveying fearful Intelligence to Tho gallant tars whe fre- quent that pert-"eaitel•s vitals c+oke.'d here." 'the wings of riches aro not pate r'r red o'ter tit' wings of angels. EXALTATION OF IIIIMAMT Story of Christ's Birth Is Full of a Mys- tical Significance "As many as received Dim to then( gave Ile power to become the sons of Cod." -John 1. 12. Then) was a great temple in Jerusalem which was still in pn+c'.;•:. ' le(3011 .•uc- t:n11 at 110 time when Clu•iat vas tern. II was the centre of the Jewish fuith and nation. The traditions of the p:a ople looked back to the first temple erected on (hut site by Solomon and dwelt with delight on the details of its glory and its wealth; but, as is the way with such things, much suffering waS built into the walls of that temple. Men were torn hem their tortes and families und com- pelled to work in gangs for so many months to complete this grand wor!;. On the sante site Ileiod built a temple stile more beautiful than Solomon's- Iler►d, the man who Is execrated in Jew- ish and Christian story alike for his cruelty and tyranny, [,till a temple to Cod which was oto of the wonders of ilia world. '(hese are the things that men count great. The oppression, the cruelty, lite misdeeds, THE DEATH OF 'I'l1E INNOCENT. and the suffering of the downtrodden working folk are nil fordx►1;,•n in the world's thought in the benefit which the world derive, from the deeds and the construction of such men. Their tem- ples and cathedrals, their hespilats and asylums, their schools and eelleges, their endowment of research and education make them great in men's minds. According to an old Christian tradi- tion the veil of that temple which tiered built was rent in twain when Christ died on the cross. A new order had come in with Jesus Christ. The temple for the in -dwelling of God was man. Man as man w•ae exalted to a new place. in him God was revealed. There was to room kr the old order. No buildings, iow- ever beautiful, whose foundations rested en the sorrow and suite: ing of men, could contain Ike waj,sty' of Geed 01' slew frith God to wren. The birth of Jesus Christ meant the ex- altation of humanity us such. The story 4 f 1110 birth is full of a mystical signifi- cance. God came appealing through the woman, and um wibon► 0111141 to men and women of the sante bkxxl ; 10 men and women bound to therm by the lies of a sacred religion, which, while setting them apart (term other men, laid mon them a sp eeiul obligation to CARE EACH FOR THE OTHER. 11e came in appeal of supreme need -a v:omun whose child was to be born, leeking fur 1. piece to bring it forth, and '10 ono would muke place. Each was so wrapped up in his own selfishness and hi; own needs, euch was so bound to maintain his own right•; and his own pri- vileges that none would aband m his nom in the inn that God might 1••• lorn there. ile carne unto Ills own and 1 Itis own know 1111n not. Tho inn Ls the life of man in which the leve of God must be born, and that love of God comes to the life of each man, appealing for room to be born. It ask.; nran to give up the room, which self hu - elle in his life, that the mother of God may conte in ; for love can be born only where self maketh place. Self hath many things to say, many rcasous why it cannot mkt; plea\, and tc u•iho listeneth to the voice of self Can never know laud, because he maketh no roust in his life fur the Son of (;std. But be who thrt steth self out altogether, who countelh nothing in oompurison ' ilh the need of another, to him is God ievenit''d and to him tower is given to become Ute son of Gull. Let self go out and God cone in, then shrill you have power to become a son of God. IICV. JOHN D. PETEIIS, D.D. -JC HOME. Z * #** , *. * ***xl '1E61 El) IILCII'ES. Simple Dessert. -('lace a slice of sun- shine cake on cacti dessert plate, over which spread a thick layer of vanilla ice cream. On top of this place half of a large yellow peach, seed side up. Firm a circle around this on plate. e f drops of whipped cream. The effect will repay for patience in making. honey Jelly. -Yoke Itte parings of one-half peck apples, wash well, and set to toil in four quarts of water and let boil two hours. 'Then strain through a cloth, after which you take one cup 0 sugar lo each cup of juice. let l one and half hours. This makes tie finest kind of jelly. Cheese Pudding. -Cover bottom • pudding pan with piecrhst dough rolled thin, scatter lumps of huller and cheese lo ►nake thin layer, season with salt and pepper, another layer of dough, cheese, butter, seasoning, then another; beat yolk of egg in cup of milk and pour ever, bake thirty minutes. Delicious but rich. Pure Baking Powder. -Mix by sifting several Uinec one pound cream tartar, one -haft pound baking soda, and one pw Iind cornstarch. This stakes Iwo and one-half pounds of purest baking pow - dei at a little more than the cost of cne pound of Tho Lest on the market. Pumpkin l'ie.--Take cnn of best pumpkin, stew down until two-thirds remain, welrhnng carefully. deal four eggs thoroughly. ndd two cups Braun• laded sugar, Teaspoon ginger, half tea- spoon cinnamon, half leaspcon salt, heaping tenspoon flour, ndd pumpkin. stirring well. and lastly add about quart of milk. This will make two large or three ordinary sized pies. Epg•ln•Ntsl.- :Separate the white el an egg frim the yolk. Beat the white Atilt and dry. pill in a cup or small levy!, making in the lop of it a hollow the size of the ynlk. Into this hotew slip the yolk. Cook in a covered snuce- pan containing boiling water until the top of the white is firm -about two minutes. Serve In the cup. Evelyne I'uelding.-Three tnblespnon• fuls of cornstarch, yolks of five eggrs, SIX tablespoonfuls of sugar. Deal the yolks lightly. add sugar and teal twain. atilt cornstarch with cote milk, nilx alp tr.getber. and ndd to one quart milk jiet ready to toil with a pinch of snit added. Stir until thickened well. Pour into a dish for table. Pince In even until it will bear icing. Place over top mined peaches or preeervee pineapple. Rest whiles M n stiff froth. Add tour tnbles{xonfule cf suger. Place in oven until n light brown. This is both de- licate and delicious. Salmon Sala't.--With n ran of are - won n hantdsome and rich sala:l Ls pre- pared. Take out the snhnon in nent. firm tills and lay them In n dish of cad spiced sin 'gar white the tomatoes nrr prepared. Cut oft the stem an l bellow e-ut with n spoon to make a neat. firkin cup. Medium sized tomatoes she•uld b' used. Mix a little enit, any- cnn', nn,1 vinegar with or without oil. ss preferred. time sprinkle the f(rnatnee well, Then nit with phi salmon. ('u• cumbers cut in thin. paper like slices tray le mix. 1 with the fish. Serve en lettuce leave's with mayonnnise. P.•1.tlo l)umplingrs,-Grnle equal ptitrt.c of raw and 11)110d protnb es, put the grate.] raw eotnloes In n ek.'h and rqueez.' mot nit of the limit] !rnvin,t them perfolly dry. Nov put e meting heel ant] add (roan nnr '• !' eggs (beaten). some salt, nee -n..: fl•eur In make the rexlure s! te.iing into hal.. limp. ir.t.. 1• r Toth , water, and •' e •• e • twenty-five minulz;, w ehoot a lid. pier fore rolling the whole mixl.)u•e into halls try one in the water tire, if it melts or breaks in the water then add more flour to the mixture. When done take from water with a draining spoon and serve with browned butter poured ov r same. USEF'UI. IiINTS. i'or tired and aching feet rub the teles \veil with kerosene oil. 1f you find it difficult to open your buil jars, just turn the upper end into boiling water for a few minutes, and you will find that your jar will open casey. '1•, r;l nn Silver. --To clean silver, mix se'•• '. cit and whiling to a creamy mass, rub in the silver with a soft cloth, then wash in hot soap suds and polish •e.:411 chamois skin or a piece of soft • t.en. i 'lean efica.-Take Isinglass from :►nd lay in vinegar about ten ',elutes ant then rub with a little salt and wiper clean. Willi a knife they cnn lee separated, making three or four out 0! one. They will be almost as good as new. To Renovate Pillows. -To renovate pair feather pillows filll a Loiter half hill of water, bring to a boil, place a leather pillow on as n cover, turning occasionally, and steaming thoroughly. Deng in the wind to dry, beating and shaking as they dry. Your pillows will come 0111 light and fluffy. To Clean Tufted (ouch. -Every one knows how hard it is to keep a lufteJ couch clean. The following plan is easy and the work quickly done: Turn ccuch on side, lake a round slick -a breom handle will do -press gently un- derneath on the little lin that heeds the Wilton. This will mise the button en top. Brush with a ehislc broo►n, Smooth Lunch Cloths. --To have lunch cloths and centerpieces without creas- es from having been folded is difcult. Either save the heavy pasteboard runs that pictures and calendars cone in or make a roll of heavy paper about twice as large around as a broom handle; and, by rho Way. tin old broom handle serves to start the roll of paper on, having two lengtics, one about a foot t(.ng for small linen pieces nerd another about three feet long for larger pieces, and roll the freshly ironed linens on these Tolle and keep in linen drawers ready for use and it Will not be neces- sary to iron the cress's out of each piece. as Ls the case when they are folie 1. Keep Table Drawer Neat. -The con- 1•nts of a Inrge, shallow bd can ewer bo kept in orderta. esle pecirawerally when it is treed to More small articles .,f every dny use. Such n drawer can le made useful rind will always be neat by fixing it in the following simple scanner: With emelt lacks attach to the bottom of the drawer small paste - 1. ,ard loxes er lids. Long. ohking. shnik)w• lx)xes ere best. Empty file b'xes about eight or ten inches !ung can be found at any hardware More. an.l one pound l.mnbon boxes are good for this purpose. in a hide table driver there is mom for n dozen of Miele serail hexes tacked side by side to the bottom along front of drawer. This lcw,s room at the back kr articles he large to be kept in boxes. Pena, mita, t•utt0ns. thread, keys. stanips. envelopes. small Mitts. ale.. can be cnnseniently kept In a drawer arr•nngel in the above tnnnner. Make iter, Save Ilett:. --:1 small seer ng later is of great nssi;tnnce to a he,u=(keeper who has no maid. fly using "her head k save her hive." sire ran rel the tet .% sen• - 0•! rcn:nwe dishes with s^lrerly . nran elle tri, for each. To set !'. all nr- 'from pantry 50.1 ' ! ' • ., ran be e'a_ .1 en the !able and rest, .1 ermine e ening table. To serve, place soup •.n;ng I(,iele by a tray, if nc tureen • . • 1. if there is a tureen the aoun, • . e cnn an 1 placed on Nee I i :, :.e l in. \'. taLlce and dossed may be served from Ill; table and as eetch course is fin,.shed the dishes may ler placed on it. \\'hen dinner 1s over it will be only a few minutes' work to remove the rest. ihy doing this way the• housekeeper. if she is entcrtaming Ler guests, can have the pleasure of eating her dinner with thein and They will be spared the unpleasantness of having the r hostess hurried and tired with inuch running back and forth. Lastly, Ike lady in the flat below will feel a blessed relief 'torn those endless journeys to and fro. SLAY IN FREEDOM'S NAME M0311EN IN (RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN OF ASSASSINATION. Illustrations of the Difference Between the %ten and Women Revolutionists. That a lot of women are mixed up in t►,e revolutionary struggle in Russia, every one who reads the papers must krow. They are arrested now and thea: kr assassinating sonn'body, or, us more frequently happens, for trying to do it anu making tt mess of the ghastly job. But few readers can have any concep- tion of how many plotters in petticoats there are in the Czar's domain, ot• of the iendigious influence they wield in the movement for overthrowing the Govern- ment, writers a St. Petersburg corres- p0n(lent. Not least among these female rebels against the Czar is Wanda Dobrodzicha, who is now in an Austrian prison await- ing, the decision of the Extradition Court. \WI►ile a student at the Petersburg Uni- versity she joined the revolutionary movement. She longed to "do some- thing great" -to prove her devotion to the cru -o by putting some high official cut of the way. In August. 1106, her op• p(,rluniIy came. The Governor-General oI Poltuid was sentenced to death by her party. Wanda begged the committee to allow her to plan and execute his "re- mcval,' as the murder of an official is called. HATCHES INGENIOUS PLOT. She was given carte blanche and took up her residence in Warsaw, where the Governor-General lives. She and her younger brother, who obeyed her in- structions and played a minor part In 11u. plot, look n fiat in Nalolinswa Street, :text door to the house occupied by the German vice consul, Von Lange, a y(ung man who had r•eoently arrived in frnssia and, therefore, knew but little about the inhabitants. Von Lange was walking down Ilio street one mooring when n man dressed in the uniform of an artillery officer slopped him, bit dim twice full In the face, and ran off. Von Lange at once telegraphed an In- dignant account of the insult he had re- ceived at the hands of a Russian officer to his embassy at Petersburg. The Gov- ernor-General did all he could to trace the. Insulter. lad failed. As a matter of fart, it was no other than the brother of Wanda, dressed up as an officer in an ola uniform bought from a dealer in second-hand clothes. But the trick had the desired effect, for hue (;overnor-Geiier•ul had instructions from Petersburg to call upon the German vice consul and apologize fol' a Russian officer's mLyconduct. Thi;• ref course. Was just Whnl Wanda wanted. For three days she and her brother kept watch on the balcony, awaiting the arrival of their propxeaal vlclim, who always drives about with en escort of Cossaeka. \VEAK IN EXECUTION. At last the quiet street resoundtel with the clatter of horses' hoofs. 'the Gover- ner -General ens coming to call un Ven Lougee \Vanda's fair head --she wore a pu.lden wig --appeared on her balcony'. The great 111011 drove up b tl►e vice con- su1:s door, and, afraid to Slay in the sheet, centered the louse, while his ad- jutant went upstairs to see if the vice (enol was at home. As it happened Von Lunge was out, so the Governor-General re-entered his carriage, and the whole cortege Merle) for the palace. It ens then that Wanda threw the bombs she I1nd prepared from her bal- cony. and lite result was another demon- stration of lho limital.krns of the Ione pine putter. Not one of the three bombs she threw reached Its (nark. The first one, aimed at the carriage horses, fell in feint of their feet, failed to burst, and oily made the frightened beasts bolt. The second, aimed at the governor !Out- sell, fell lit front of the carriage. The third, which might have hit its murk, was bombed off by (he hand of a valiant c:ssack. who waited quietly for it, and when it was about to tall into the car- riage, struck it with hie open hand. The bomb fell Into the middle of the street and the Governor -General's life was saved. Needles.; to say, the noise trade was terrific, and the pollee In at- tendance on the cortege, ksst their beads c.nhpletely, rushing after the carriage in- stead of remaining behind to find the potters. nlltxrugh they knew whence tae bombs had been thrown. TRACED BY A PASSPOi1T. in a minute the street was empty. anda and her broiler rushed out, hat - 1 ss, and, running to the 'morose cab, got into it, s^reaming wildly. "Go on quick- ly 1 Quickly 1" Ily 11 ' time the police lee searched the Natolinska Street the girl was al the other cne of the low'n• llud it not b oot' for a small piece of care• le=seers she \could never have been traced. She Tett her pas.apwrl lehind in the room where the lnlcony w• .. ll was n fal-e pasapx)rl, made out in .111 Eng- lish name. but rafter a v. • t•'11r4rn month,' search the Itl(SSi(tn i traced ler and it to Cracow and sate -;i I them- selves that it had been toed ley her. ily that litre she had left Bussu. \\tun arrested in :lnslrin she said she was hairy that her fright had led her to seed: sat&' ' in flight, and regretted that sli' had reel given herself op to the ;o- leo x'•1 ' then tire] Iherc. She declares null if leo resnlutienary cause is to prosper it noel net he robbei of 11s martyrs. She e quite w riling to mai:e'oro• of them and endure the horrors of a lifelong Siberian Cockily for \\'anda, she hats a hos- Iand-she mad mer e'r faiturr is blow ul I(i.'rrie(.ohcrgn1 .,r•aft1;enh••ra1. rte 1eee net relish 11r' idea of hia wit, geeing , Siberia. a;)d i1 1 s he' erica het,: f•nrght t;;•' e'tr•,.liti'sn prn'eetinge. Wanda.; blether, who itis alaro been freest, and arrested. takes the blame of the failure t 1 the attempt mon himself, saying that his nervousness n•ack'd upon hu sisk'r, W110 w•ot.ld have ben quite awl other- wise. DANGEROUS "C0\111%111'. NINA." The rece••t unsuccessful plod against the Czar, which, thuiks to a Cossack at tt:,. Peterhof Palace, who betrayed the revoettionanes, was discovtved just be - tele it was ripe, resulted in the Trial of 'urge number of revolutionaries, 50 per cent. of whom were women and girls. I he heat! of this large and powerful group was also a girl, Nina Zulinjano, known in her tarty as "Comrade Nino." She planned the death of I'aw•kow, Ilia martial procurator, and of Von Inutile, heed of the Town of Petersburg. 11 was with her bonitos That Ix►ll► thee? men were killed. She livid a; a fashionable williner in Petersburg, but l:elrind her shrew -rearm; was a Targe laboratory, fit - tee up \vett materials used in borne. making and containing large stores of firearms and ammunition. To her fail - nes ixleng the attempt le blow up 111e train in which Stolypin and the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaivitch were tra- velling to Peterhof in the spring of 190?, and in the subsequent plot to kill the Lear and his family, SIIE'S NOW IN SIBERIA. it was after the failure to blow up the train that the police fell upon laces that led to the discovery of Nine's laboratory. But it look senie months to arrest her, as she was continually travelling under false names between Moscow and Peter- hof. Finally Nina was condemned to death, but her sentence has been com- r.tutcd to lifelong exile in Siberia. The women who helped her in the plot against the Czar, and who made friends with the Cossacks who keep guard at the palace aro: Zubowa, Mary Prokoflewa, Olga Emma, Anna l'igit, Tarasowa Fco- desiesva, and I'etlowowa. It was through Zubowa the plot against the Czar was discovered. She used to be a nurse in the Bodkin bur - racks, near Peterhof, and for a long time telt authorities did not suspect that she was anything more than an ordinary Sister of Mercy. Ono evening the report of firearms was heard in her room. The servants went to it to find that she had shot herself in the head, but was still living. As is usual in such cases, the petite was called to stake a list of the wounded woman's effects, while she was sent into the hospital. When overhaul- ing her things they opened two large wicker baskets of the pattern used by Russian \•omen for their body linen. To.their amazement limy discovered that or,e contained bombs, explosives. fire- arms illegal literature, Inti cylinders ler making the newest and most danger- ous kinds of bombs; the second, plans of the royal palaces of Peterhof, 'I'sarskee Selo, and Gatchin, in which the paths and roads were marked with red ink, and notes made of the villas inhabited by palace dignitaries. Papers found con- tained the details of u plot to murder Me whole of the Imperial fancily and the chief courtiers. FALTEIIED AT TIIE LAST. Zubowa immediately was placed under arrest, of oourse, and confessed that the thought of all the lives she was about to imperil made her attempt suicide. She recovered soon from her self-inflicted wound, however, and her examination lad to the arrest of the other women and several men. The men were all hanged end the women sentenced to hard labor in S.oeria. Tarasowa, besides being implicated In the "palace plot," as it is called, formed an organization whose chief object is to make soldiers and sailors mutiny. This organization is strong in \'iberg and Cronsladt, and, though seventeen wo- men have been arrested in connection with it, there is little prospect of its be- ing stamped out. Its members, who have sworn to convert soldiers and sailors to tee revolutionary cause at all costs, go into the loweet resorts which they fre- quent, and da not hesitate to sacrifice everything that women hold nos( sacred In order to win then over. 11 is another cruse of the end justifying the means. It 1, said all the mutinies which have bro- ken out in Russia during The last four years have been hatched in these dens by women of the so-called "Intelligent classe" Mary 1'rokofiewa, who lived with one e:f the mnle conspirators in the character of a maid servant and used to let in all then accomplices when meetings were held 111 Peterhof, Is a sister of the man who blew up the Grand lintel in Peters- burg while snaking bombe in 1906. She was the fiancee of Sazonow, who killed the Minister of Plevne some years ago. Sarasowa and Ieodosicw•a are both mar- ried women -their !nest/ands were law- yer: and have been hanged. 11 was "Nina" who tised to twelve the Cossack, Kola, and tried to persuade hint to help murder the Czar, promising an exalted plan: in the "party" if he _would do suo. Ile visited her several times and pretended to enter into her plans. Ilut atter each meeting with her h • went to the police at Peterhof and gave a detailed amount of the interview. Nina's great confederate wns a telegram clerk, named Neuron, who had been sent to Siberia some years ago and es- caped thence to Petersburg. KNEW WIi.►T IIE WANTED. "What you want, sir," said the barber, as he ran hit fingers through the few re. n:ainitg hairs on the head of a customer, Ls a bottle of my famous hair restorer." "What 1 want," replied the customer, sadly, "Ls a divorce." And being a married man himself, the tensorial artist said no more. Sonne men are born srnall and seine others shrink. love eft! find a way --even If it Is only the way out. Seance ;nen are trade nn the order of billboards --a flashy iront with a va- cant lot behind. Two frogs strolling one dry fell into a pail 0f milk. fine Was a pexa irnist and the other an optimist. The pessimist be- gan to squeal. and after one abortive effort declared "there wens no way out," and Thereupon threw up the sponge and was drowned. The other, remarking that "while there's lifer there's lope." paddled an.! dn=hel amend and around the pail, until he eventunlly found himself eland. ing on a pat of butler. Moral: Don't be do wnhearlcd. THE SUNDAY SCH OL INTI:ItNATIo\ el. LESSON. J te. '_6. Lesson 11'. Jeers cleanses the 'Temple. Gulden teat: 1'.a. 'JJ. 5. 'i'11E 1.E...a)N \WOIID ti 1T I i! l e. Based on the text of the It + .-:d \•e r. Sketl. Additional 'I'cstincony.-We have called utk•ttti.►n uh CunnecUon wish previut:.er les.wrl5 lu the ldue.'c-fold thesis which upxoslle sets forth 111 the prologue tJo 0 1. 1-18) and which he pavpuses to defend by the introduction of testimony of ven- ters kinds and from various solutes in 1110 remainder of bis Gospel. The tcsU- teeny of John the Baptist which is the first introduced because among the most iu,porlant was a definite heslimony to .efferent groups of people specifically mentioned in the Met chapter. 'l'hus \+ rses 19-28 give the testimony of the 1:aptist to the deputation of Jews sent from Jerusalem; verses 29.31, itis testi- teeny to the large niullitt,de of people gathered to hear him on the hanks of the Jt ;clan, and verses 35-40, his testinwny 1u two of his disciples, including Andrew and Philip and Nalhanuel. This was rho eersonal testimony of individuals, and in connection with the record of this aro reported also the different effects which Ute testimony itself had on different people, producing, us it did, imbelief, on the one hand, on the part of certain of the Jews, and simple faith. on Me other hand, on the part of certain dis- ciples of John and others who heard the testimony. But It is the purpose of the evangelist to introduce also the words and works of Jesus himself in witness cf his divine nature, in harmony with this purpose ire is careful to record the miracle wrought by Jesus at Cana in Culilee at the very beginning of his pub - 11:. ministry. The formal beginning of that minish•y may 1►o considered to date from (11e first appearance of Jesus in the temple at Jerusalem, following the short visit at Capernaum recorded in the twelfth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel. 11 is customary to distin- guish an "early Judean ministry" from subsequent portions of the public work of Jesus, a brief account of which is given us in John 2. 13-3. 36. We may, lir wever, with equal propriety, speak of a larger early ministry of Jesus, includ- ing his appearance in the temple (2. 13- 22). in the city of Jerusalem (2. 23-3. 21), in Judea (3. 22-36), in Samaria (4. 1-42), and In Galilee (1. 43-51). It will be of in- terest to note the varying results of this earlier ministry of Jesus on different classes of people, both in the capital city and in the more rural districts of Samar- ia and Galilee. We should bear in mind the purpose of John to point out the gradual development of faith, on the cne hand, and unbelief, on the other hand, as a result of the impression made 1•y public discourses and miracles of Jesus. In subsequent chapters of his teepee following the fourth. attention is centred on the fuller manifestation of Jesus ILS the Christ, resulting in the con- firmed unbelief on the part of the Jews. Verse 13. The passover of the Jew•s•- The wording of this phrase is a clear in- dication of the fact Thai Iles Gospel was written outside of Palestine. Fenn other data, taken partly from the Gospel itself and partly from other sources, it seems probable that it was written at Ephesus, where John seems to have spent the ckising years of lila life. Thamver here mentioned is the first eireltneral specifically noted by John, and furnishes one:- of the important indications of time from which, together with others, it is petssihle to ascertain, though with 110 great degree of certainty, the duration of Christ's public ministry as a w 1ok, which IS usually taken to have extended over the greater part of three years. 11. Those that sold oxen and sheep rand doves -Merchants whose trafficking in Ute outer court of the temple nutde Il ccns•euient for pilgrim worshipers from a distance to secure the animals neces- sary for different sacrifices without bringing the came with therm honk their homes. Not only was the keeping of so ninny sheep and cattle and pigeons with - to the outer enclosure of the sanctuary out of keeping with the sacredness of Ih^ place. and mit of hat emy with the spirit of worship. but the selfn-hness and ccvetousness which had develop ed to c.nneclion with this traffic wens such IIS to utterly secularize and vitiate the whole service of religion which ostensibly it writs intended to foster. The evil was aggravated still rnore ey the presence el changers of money. who made a busi- ness of supplying the Jewish temple coins in exchange for Greek and Rennie money brought by worshipers from :► distance, and who took care to make a hmilt on every transaction of This kind. 15. Crest all out of the temple -We rite that it was primarily the sheep anal Ih.• oxen which Jesus drove out with tt o scourge of cords. 16. Take These Things Ilence.-The obedience apparently rendered le Jt• us by all the Irankkers whom he home mended t•, leave the sacred precincts with their wares was due. no doubt, lo "The might of hies ind.gnnlbn rind the majesty of his bearieg. supported by TIM consciouenca: of superhunrnrl ; Wer, ns Well 85 P. t11e vile conscience et those whom he thus rebuked." My Father's Rouge -With emptiest, ten the praneun. indicating the hers(• (otic ccnsc:ouentee eel Jesus. !louse of eferrlandise--Jews is re. pc Mei by \inllhew• tee lune 1:.e.1 the eepresstem "n .len of r(1bbers" 21 13); through it is possible. nNw,11141 hold. Thal wee nee to Think of tkve see - trate cleansing.: o! the temple. un•' ra peeled by John. o'eurring it the be- ginning 0f the ministry of Jesus, the other recoiled by the three ether goe pet writer. (;curring near the cIoti of his public mireetry, 15. \Vhnl Simi Sh',wret 'fleet Prato Us? -It Was natural f• r the Jeei.h an. thorilies In demand the credenllels 0f a man who thus assumed nutl:ority in the sacred mutts of the temple. 19. 'this Temple -fir. "s'rnrtunry." re. (erring ns is cxploin.'4 later. to the temple of his body, which atter hewing been three days in the tomb was to to raised up egad( to life end glory. 20. This Temple --The te•rnp'.' of 110r041. the third and last great Jewish temple of Jerusalem. 22. The Scrlplure-Referring proal} ly b Pas, 16. 10.