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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1905-03-02, Page 2BLESSEDNESS Of 1NE NAND Difficulties Are Opportunities Inviting IIs to Master Them Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. -II. Timothy, ii., 3. In our severe experiences life is no less kind than in our gentle ones. It is hardness endured that snakes Olen. It is difficulty overcome that nclievcs success. Only by the help of resistance can man create. 'I'no hamster i:ua beet iron into useful fortes lee -meet of the enduring hard- ness with which the iron opposes the hammer. Only by the friction of the roils can a train cut the air like a colossal arrow. The resistance of the soil as much helps tho flower c•lieuh into its blos- som ns the tender uplift of the sun. The clouds opposing light make sun- (ets. lit the opposition of the strings to the how music is born. Bow and string make a cross out of whose pain conics the mercy of music. The great things of art are not the happy inspirations of idleness. 'The ache of difficult toil beautifies there in the Madonna's face. Beauty is the glorification of drudgery. Ily two currents in opposition the elec- tric light shines. No man cnn loaf into an achievement. Clay cannot marshal itself into ceramic beauty. It strives into beauty by the hard way of the potter's whirring wheel and repressing hand. It is FINED IN BEAUTY BY FiRE. Difficulties are opportunities invit- ing us to master them. They are the necessary friction by wihich we speed to our goal. The hardness of marble makes it worth while to tut beauty into its faithful keeping. Every great career has been cut into the resisting marble of difficul- ties. When we learn thin truth dis- couragement is dethroned. Courage takes the sceptre and creates a king- dom. 'There is no more energy given to complaininge, no Moro time wast- ed in wishing for caster tusks. Every opposition is an invitation to hero- ism. What opposes is our w•orkfel- low. The hardness we nest endure is our friend. This truth holds the ways of being as well as the wads of doing. It has t' do with goodness as well as with goods. it is the greatness of charac- ter its well ns of career. Out of rocks and lire the gold conies -the gold of goodness as the gold of com- merce. Temptations are calls to vic- tory. Count it joy when yo.e hear them, for you can compel them to yield you the grace of a noble strength. As from tha m►u(1 of the pond the water lily wins beauty be- cause its heOIt is pure. so you can win from temptations the beauty of holiness. An oyster overcomes an irritation and becomes immortal in the pearl's beauty. Many a man has compelled the distressing things of life to yield him A BEAUTY OF CiHARACTE11 beyond the price of pearls. What Jesus endured helps tell His beauty to the centuries. What martyrs have suffered mlakea the clouds on which their glory shines across the years. '!'herefore think out confident- ly the kind of man you want to bo. Fix firmly in your mind the ideal to which you aspire. Nothing can pre- vent ro-vent you from bes:onling the things you yearn to be. Each opposition in reality reaches forth a helping hand. Co-operate with it and you win a beautiful nature, a noble career, a Christlike character. It hut gives the necessary friction by which you more forward into achievement. Every hardness endured makes the marble of character in which only the beauty of holiness outlasts the centuries. heaven is above to be reached, but the opposing heights will help you climb. The crown of sainthood is weaving for you in every hardness endured, if the spirit of Christ dwell within yoer, it fol- lowing His banner you march. It is a crown of thorns which Christ wears as the king of the world. What you suffer will crown you, if you make yourself worth the crowning. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB` 26. Lesson IX. "The Miracle of Loaves and Fishes. Golden Text John 6, 51. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Intervening Events. -The healing of the impotent Man nt Bethesda (see preceding lesson) led to a public dis- course by .Jesus in defense of his hav- ing performed the miracle on the Snlrbath day. This defense is based upon the relation of the Soli of God (which title Jesus applies to him- self, .John 5.25) to the Father; which relation explains the power of tho Son both of communicating spiritual life and of causing the bodily resur- rection of the dead. In chapter 6 we have the record of a twofold sign (6. 1-25), which again gives rise to a longer discourse (6. 26-5U), this discourse in turn producing opposite r. s +Its of dillhrent hearers. The mir- e(Is in this case is one involving the sustenance of life, the discourse which follows, in harmony with the intended teaching of she miracle, be- ing on the Son as the support of life. How much of synoptic history inter -totes between the two lessons is difficult to say, but excellent auth- orities think all the events recorded In tnnrk 2.23 to 6.30, Luke 7.1 to 8.54 and parallel passages, together with the Sermon on the Mount (,Mott. 5 to 7), must be inserted at this point. Four Acco•itil -Tho fending of the five ..ousted is one of the few evenl8 of our Lord's life recorded by all four evangelists (comp. Matt. 14. 13-21, Mark 4,32-14, and Luke U. 12-17), and as such is worthy of special study. The par- allel es nopt Ic ace is should be carefully compared threeighont. Verso 1. After these things -The things mentioned in chapter 5. How long after is difficult to determine. John's sequence of events, as far ns he records events, is probably cor- ms t, though hie account certainly cont 0ies gaps, his purpose being quite another from that of wilting a chronological narrative. Compare Int est ening Event s above. \tent over ("went away to the other side") -frown the t'deity of ('up„'rinuul, on the west Side of the lake, across northeast to the ticln- ity of Ilethsaida Julius (Luke U, 10) a little distance back from the shore of the Inke. tied of Galilee --A little more than eixty miles nort heast of Jerusalem, the s end of our last lesson. Which is (the stat) of Tilrerinn--An exp limit ion added for the benefit of readers not familiar with the older name Galilee. One of ninny little in- dications that the gospel of John was written outside of 1'altstii0, where people were more familiar with the 'Roman names of pinees and peo- ple. 'Tiberius ens emperor of !tome in the tithe of our I.onl (:\.I►. 1.1- 37) and the sen received this name in his honor. 2. Followed lint -"On foot out of t cities." ns Matthew explains. Miracles ("signs") whi.h he (lid - Not the miracle at ll.•thes,in nlone, hat many others ohieh hail inter- vened, recorded in Mark 2. 23 to 6, 30 and Luke 7, 1 to 8.56. and parallel passages. it ttne nut of the cities of (faiths', where these miracles hnd !nen wrought, that the multi- tudes followed Jesus. 3. Went up into a ("the ') moun- tain -To be alone with his discirticei, having lust melt ed the sail news of John the Baptist's death (Matt. 14, 12, 13). 4. 'The passover-Commemorating the escape of the Jews from the bondage of Egypt, and more especial- ly their escape ftrout the avenging death -angel who slew the firstborn of Egypt (comp. Exod. 12. 2 1-27 ). A ("the") feast -More correctly, the feast, as in the itevision. 5. Unto hint -Better, toward him. Philip -The apostle and one of the Twelve; the fourth of those ehe be- came followers of .Jesus, and the first whom -Jesus directly mated (.1ohn 1. 43): a fellow townsman of both An- drew and l'eter, all three disciples hating been residents of Bet hsnida of Gelid. is preached in Asia Minor; and, according to I'olyerates, hail several daughters. Not to be confused with Philip the Evangelist, one of the seven deacons chosen by the church at Jerusalem (Acts 6). itread-A plural noun better trans- lated loaves. hound or oblong cakes composed of (lour mixed with water Ur. hector recently wrote that and baked; in size about has large 's j probably none of the mountains of a plate and as thickas a u1A Ita E thumb. British Columbia rises above 13,000 4. To prove him -'1'o test (1) his or 13,500 feet. Outram, Collie nett sympathy for this hungry multitude,: about a dozen other sten have with - some of the disciples having sugge.-,t- l In the past ten years ascended ninny ed (Matt. II, 15) sending the people of tho high peaks of the Canadian away teasel; (2) his willingness and Rockies and made observations to his ability to fleet an etuergency; ; ascertnim their altitude. '111e ro- (3) his faith in his Master's love! milt tiously decided decrease innt thee (love for mankind, compassion) and:Previously accepted power. Jesus is teaching his discip-number of the highest mountains of les as well ns helping a needy, hum- ` these ranges. gry multitude. �♦ 7. Two hundred pennyworth ("shil- lings' w•01th")-The dennrion, (Lat. BETTER ASK IIIM. dennrius) was a silver coin worth Words omitted by the best manu- scripts. 1'2. fragile its that remain ("bro- ken pieces which remain over") -Un- distributed portions remaining in the hands of the Master and of the dis- ciples. not crumbs and pieces left by these who had veldt. 13. Baskets (kophinuus) Stnall wicker bassets iu which travelers carried fond and other things need- ful on a journey. 11. That prophet -"Litre unto Moses" 1Deut. 18, 14-19); commonly uinierslood by ,he people in Christ's time to refer to the promised Ales - :late BRITISH COLUMBIA. Canadian Rockies Not So High as Was Thought. In no part of the world excepting Alaska has there been more rapid progress in geographical exploration in the past few years than in Itritish Columbia. The latest facts concern a number of new passes through the Rocky Mountains. Some readers may be surprised that there should be anything Left in British Columbia to discover. 'I9to fact is that the Government surveys are yet far from covering the larger part of that big region. The fine geographical work that a mission- ary has recently been doing shows that there are still opportunities for discovery in this part of the Domin- ion. Father Morice, whose emission sta- tion is( on the shores of Lake Stuart nearly in the ceetro of the Province. has been travelling many hundreds of miles in a canoe, mapping all the streams, lakes, mountains and val- leys in the upper basin of the Net- ebakhoh River. A Cite map of his discoveries, which has just'boon pub- lished by the Neuchatel Geographi- cal Society of Switzerland, shows many details that have been sten on no previous map. Lake Morice, for example. which is not found on the latest atlas sheets of Itritish Colum- bia. Is fifty miles long, and 777 feet deep. Tho new passes in the ltockies have been studied by a party of Grand Trunk Pacific engineers who have been engaged in the work about a year. A newspaper has re- ported o-ported that this partv has discover- ed the Smoke River, Porcupine, Rod Deer, Wapiti and Pine River passes, but this statement is not quite cor- rect. All these great passes through the IRockies to the north of the Canadi- an Pacific Railroad have been known to exist for some time, but the en- gineers have been the first to study them in detail. and they now re- port that they ere all available for railroads, that the gradients on the cast are very gentle and that some of the passes are wide enough for double tracks. The scheme of the Canadian Paci- fic Railroad was Inug'Iiod at as im- practicable until the great gateway through Kicking ' Horse Pass was discovered. It is now known that further north there are several other passer) lower than those which the Canadian Pacific uses and that they will amply suffice for ell of Canada's railroad needs through the moun- tains. Explorations of the past few years show that the old Ideas of the heights of the leading peaks of the Canadian Rockies were much exag- gerated. Peaks still appear on some of the maps as from 15,000 to 17,- (00 Get above the sea. 1 bout 16 2-3 renis. Hence the sum A Lawyer tells how once it shall mentioned by Philip was equal to boy got the better of hien in cross - about 33 1-3 dollars ($33.873) in our examination. I'nrt of the question - money. i1't purchasing potter was iii: ad the replies thereto were as doubtless greater. foHmt•ns:-- . 8. Andrea', 81111011 Peter's brother "trove you any occupation?' -At first a disciple of .101111 the "No." Baptist; one of the Best two disciples "Don't you do any work at all?' who followed .iesus (.iohn 1, "No." 37-40); lass prominent in apostolic ",lust loaf around home?" history than the brother whom he ''17r+nt's about a11." hail led to Christ; n native at Beth- "What dues your father do?" cnida in Galilee. Of his Inter sphere '•Nothin' much." of work nothing certain is known. "Doesn't he do anything to sup - Tradition resorts him to have labor- port the family?" (d1 111 (1rce(e, Ml►ce.loniu, 0nd :‘sea "Ile does odd jobs once In n while Miner, finally suffering martyr(' nt when he ren get them." Petrie..n ('Ivy' ofAt lAlll. Pelet''s 'As n ntntter (11 fact. Isn't your personal ebaracte• and history is father n pretty worthless fellow, better known and need not he set tenets always lighting, nod a loaf - forth here. U. Burley )saves -Anil hence an in- sr?" betfetior quality of food. 'I he word for "1 don't know, sir: you'd ere In 'mites is the stone as that trnnslitt- ask hien. !id's satin' over there n pd bread in verse 5 above --which the Jury -box," compere. 1'i:hi s -The Greek word may apply to meat generally, or to anything eaten with bread es n relish. As well ns to small fishes so tots!. The syn - (Heists use ikthues, (he usual wont for fishes. 10. Sit down-I,it,•r.ttly, re:li. • . Thin command 110311(1 indicate tit it more than n scanty !rile or •imine luncheon was to be served. Men re- cline) to partake of a meal. The simple nleiilonce of the illecipt.•s in seating so inriro n company of hun- gry people before a vlsihle food sup- ly was on hand is n remarkable commentary on their faith in .Iesit. A1)out five thmrsatel-l'ir'e thmi- sand men besides women end child- ren" a Mat t. 14. 21). and he.u•e a total number easily twice ns Inrge. 11. Giten thanks-i•:mh of the other etnngelists re:vtr.ls his looking up to heaven and blessing. .\ fami- liar formula nsetl in prayer by the Jews before eating was. "Blessed art thou .Jehovah our Gott, King 0f the wort 1, whit vainest to conte forth bread from the earth." To the disciples, and the disciples- • (1IIA111)1X(! TItl: S. '1 here aro prohnbly few inanimate e;e,cts which have not nn occult sig- hilieation attached to them In some part of the world, and for a long time iron has been held in venera- t ie,n by the decrees in the south of the United States. They have a su- perstition to the effect that if Iron he Ming upon the branches of a tree, it will keep off evil spirits and In- sure a good crop of fruit. In Mary- land there Is n p.'nch-t re protected In this strange wily. SuspendeMI from the trunk and branches nro chains, stove -lids, grates. ntel Iron nails, and it is a remnrk(thle fact that since It has been so adorned, Its crop of peaches has become larger each year. .Ingo-•"rli'.y say that n term Amin! not be judged by the clothes he wears." firs. .Ingo -"Quite cor- rect. 1i should be judgtsl by the clothes hijs wife Wears." HOME MI( **********: Ix►M1:5'1'IC ItECIPF.S, Fried Cakes. -put a quart of flour in a pan; add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. one cup each of su- gar and sweet milk, two eggs, un- beaten, three tablespoonfuls of lard end our teaspoonful of lemon ex- tract. Mix soft and cut in rings. Have the lard for try Eng not too bot, just hot enough. They are de- licious. Ginger Cookies. -Two cups molass- es, nue cup each of sugar and lard, tett-thirds cup cold coffee and soda. Mix unil bake in a quick oven. Ginger Snaps. -One cup each of Now Orleans nnolans(es and sugar, three tablespoonfuls of lard and six of cold coffee, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, ginger and soda. For Apple Salad. -'Yuko small, smooth, rel apples that aro very trait, cut a Waco from the end, then remove the core. 'Throw the peeled apple into cold water to keep it from discolor ing, and chop rather coarsely. Mix it with chopped on- ion. ar1(1 pour over it an oil and vinegar dressing. Scatter chopped parsley over, and serve. The Secret of Cooking Sausages Well-ls to let them heat very grad- ually'. It so prepared the skins will not burst, so long as the sausages aro fresh. The common practice of pricking sausages is not to be re- commended, as it allows the gravy to escape. A few slices of apple fried with the sausages are an im- provement. '1'o Boil Rico Successfully.-llavo ready a large sauce -pan of boiling water, salt it thoroughly. Wash the rico In several waters to remove tho flour, etc. Throw into the fast boil- ing water, add a tablespoonful of vinegar, and cook for exactly a quarter of an hour. Then (Irvin through a sieve, and keep the rice in a warns place (111 wanted. An Orange Drink -Which you will like is made by boiling three-quarters of a pound of lout sugar in one pint and a quarter of water, skimming it. well. Squeeze into thin the juice of three oranges, stir well and add one quart of water, and a few strips of thin orange peel; stir all together. 1'lace in a covered jug and stand till cold. Add a new slices of orange be- fore o-fore serving. Flat Gingerbread Cakes -Take ono pound and a quarter of flour, and into it work four ounces of lard or dripping and a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, with one ounce of ginger (ground); add one pound of molasses slightly warmed. and, last. of all, a good teaspoonful of carbon- ate of soda dissolved in a little like waren milk. liake in a Yorkshire pudding tin, cut into squares- while hot. and set on a sieve to cool. Celery with tomato sauce is an excellent vegetable course. Iloil sev- eral heads of celery. freed from green and cut into two inch lengths, till tender. strain the celery very dry. place it in a hot vegetable (11sh and pour over it some good melted but- ter sauce in which is mixed sufficient tomato sauce to give all n nice color and flavor. 'Turn the celery over once, scatter chopped parsley over and serve. 1''ish Pudding. -Boil a medium Wed haddoek, and when cooked re- move the meat from the bones in nice flaky pieces. Boil about halt a pound of potatoes and when cooked rub theme through it wire sieve. Mix the fish and potato together, add. salt. pepper. and cayenne, n nice lump of butter or vial flied beef dripping, an egg beaten in two table-, epoonfuls of milk. Stir all tog -ether.' and if you like parsley, add a little finely chopped. flutter a pie dish, put in the inixturc with a little more butter on the top. Bake until bol through and (he top is nicely browe- ed tient fickle. -'rake one pound of. common salt, a quarter of n pound of bay salt, two ounces of saltpetre, and one ounce of brown sugar. Mix all together thoroughly, and well rub' the ham with this mixture. Let the straightway into hot notional poll - hem lie in a tub for four (toys,. rine. ties. That phenomenon here dis- hing it and turning It deb day. closes Ittissia in the critical throes 'Then add one pound of treacle. and' of producing what Is termed n mid - leave it for nearly three works. be- (110 class. ing careful to rub and turn the haul it hae been the uniform practice every day. Wipe off all the apices here that every chnn00 Should be with a damp cloth; nitre vary dry, , worked IW it stroke of the sover- and hong up to dry. If possible. ;0ign's pen. 1t,t 1? td bus have not have the haat smoked. IIIN'I`S FOiR T111: HOME. covortd with velvet, instead of a brush. A brush wears the silk, and the velvet plot while avoiding this removes the dust beautiftilly. Never cut siring if you can avoid it and if it has to bo cut do it as ueur the knot us possible. Save all Ole struig, and for the purpose have a special box. 1f string thus saved is to be really useful, each piece must be done up separately, so that it ('ar1 easily be undone, before it is put away. This small ee0 y, if faithfully carried out, will sate many pennies in the year, for string is necessary in every kitchen, and also for pecking up parcels. Life cnn be seeitnined for about thirty days on water alone. With only solid food, one could live but one quarter of that time. '1'o Clean the itailings of Banisters. -Wash all the dirt off with soap and water, and when dry rub with two parts of linseed oil and ono part of turpenfino. 1f the smell of the tur- pentine be objectionable, use two parts of sweet oil and one part of alcohol, but the mixture of linseed oil and • t urpent lee is most desirable. To Clean a Feather )ion. -First procure coarse bran and a small quantity of flour. Mix both together and set in the oven to get thorough- ly hot. Also warm a largo cotton bug. Put the boa into the bag, shake in the bran, etc, and do up the end. !tub the bag well and shake it thoroughly. 'fake out the boa, shake it thoroughly and it will bo equal to new. If the boa bo very dirty two lots of flow', etc., will bo required. Kitchen tins may bo brightened by boiling them in strong borax water. Rinse in hot water and dry, and un- less they have been very much neg- lected they will be silver blight. !toasting in a pot or saucepan is especially suitable for small pieces of meat, such as French cooks cook to perfection. Melt and heat a good tablespoonful of dripping in a pot. Brown the (neat on all sides in this, so as to harden the outside and keep in the gravy. Then draw the pot to the silo of the fire and let the meat cook slowly, with the lid on the pot; baste it frequently. This is a very economical mode of cook- ing because of the small quantity of fire required to heat the miniature oven. To make the joint more tasty add an onion and a few bits of celery to the pot. Wash chiffon, especially white, and it can be made to look almost like new. Make a lather of best yellow song, and let it stand till lukewarm. Soak the chiffon in this for one hour. Shake it gently round in the suds, but do not rub. S(teeese out care- fully, and rinse in two or three lots of cold water. Dissolve a little guns in a teacupful of water, and add n few drops of vinegar. Dip in the chiffon, and (do not squeese, but lay between the folds of a clean cloth and pat with the hand; pull out care- fully. (.'over with a piece of tissue pnpor, and iron with a moderato iron. THE NEW LIGHT IN RUSSIA AWAKENING THAT MAY BRING ABOUT REVOLUTION. The Newly Born Middle Class Are the Product of the Universities. As the national indorsement of the reform programme epreatds xtcad- ily over the whole of Russia there is a feature which rect's persistent- ly in each local movement. Bodies which fere wholly non-political ill other countries fere hero foremost in pressing the agitation against the Government, says it St. Petersburg letter. Medical societies, engineers' associ- ations, the teaching profession. headed by nearly all the mit-deity professors, are as active as the law- yers. Every nation which docs its own lawmaking lets naturally a big pert..•lenge of lawyer() in its Legisla- ture, but it is not the practice abroad for doctors or architects or any other class of profteasionul Men when they sleet to discuss tnatters affecting their culling to plunge 1)o not salt stock 1i11 you hove done skimming it, ns the salt pre -1 not the 111+ritr)tions to the people. vents the scum from rising. Add; The first sharp Repression made on very little at a time. t he Got(rireetit by the Crimean (Von Snt•e sour tail: in large or small fifty years lig() was that a complete quantities. for it 18 SO useful for abeence of national education had dikes, when carbonate of stela must reeved a handicap. They were en - bo su1)8111uted fi,r the usual Laking-- t i rely ieet in hotline t hat their powder. soldiers hnd proved n( least as The secret of hawing light, good brave rind hardy 118 the french or meshed potatoes fs to keep thein hot the J'nelish. lett in ell the muulti- tthile numbing and to have the milk tilde of things thnt are nec0v.ni•v tt with which they are tnoistened hot the conduct of n w 11 , the t nnspret t also, url nni"ntion. the nrrnneisne me for When grease is spilled on a hot let tin•: tele division knots what an - stole, throw plenty of salt on it other w.•q doing. they quickly and the smoke and "smudge' AI►\iI1(1:Iti,Y 111011(1.1DO1ti'y1. will be largely prevented. Fifteen yards of five -cent gighn,n or print and four rolls of batting will make a better comforter than you can buy for S1.7. , end you will know whet it is stuffed with. Very cheap cotton generally goes to the filling of the "store" comforter. Somebody- has discovered that prunes, soaked and chopper!, snake an acceptable addition to fruit cake. One of the geic•kest and etstbest whys to clean n greasy pan is to turn the grease out and wipe the pan, while hitt , with soft paper. Burn the papas and trash the pan with soup and water. '1'o ('leen Bronze. -Make the article hot by putting it into soiling water and then clean it with a piece of labllyhed whol. sole, not 0111y in flannel dipped in sonpsu.ty. It must greet cities. but in every province. then be di1'd and polished with a soft flannel. The whole process should be performed as rnsidly as possible. 'l'o brush dirt from silk Use a pad grown up: they hove been deposited ns completed) produrts, incl it is the people who have been cello.' on to adapt thems:l•.e8 10 the institutions, The treatment prescribed by the Government after the war was over consisted in the creation of univer- sities all over the 'conte-'. Out 0f these the am hot ? los expected to sec mnnufactiwed that. new 1 dis- covered useful thion. But none of the governing elnss or territorial nobility dreamed of send- ing their suns to these brand new universities. 'rhey had them edu- cated private Iv and by travelling tu- tors, ns had always been the Russian nobl(s' WAY. It c. ry soon carne to be it pressing question who were to be put into these universities which had Dien es - however remote or unitnp()rtant . The lila•rntion (f the pw•nsantry from being the legal chattels of the inna- owner. fed and clothed from the pro- ceeds of their work cm the 101111, Mit rame not paid waties nor allowed to heave their owner's estute, which was also a political sequel to the defeats that the ('rinuann war had discknvu(i, soon gave the Government an ideet Nhieh enitiiie.l it 10 get out of tits dila ltlaa 17w children of those freed peas- ants, who worn best at learning - there were and there aro no State primary schools, but in twist dis- tricts the noble family tutor or some of his poywor relations, very seldom,, the. Orthodox priest, would help a clever child -were drafted into these new provincial universities, where their training was directed in pre- paring them for the subordinate clerking departments of the Govern- ment service. But tills system of education, especially the daily companion -hip of numbers of poor and ambitious young then who expected nothing but a life of empty drudgery. in a - few years was once again an anxi- ety to the Coverntnei t. '17w places which were intended to supply that species of education which the Gov- ernment wanttel were all turning in- to forcing grounds of RADICAL POLITICS. 7'he rulers took the lino of least resistance in creating thousands of vacancies in the State service every year for no other purpose than to absnoM) these dangerous educated poor. itut there is a limit even to this in Russia, anti for most of the last generation the universities have been turning out each year larger numbers of 01011 who are trained for separate professions and not for Government service. They represent Russia's first specimens of an cem- ented, independent middle class '1'o refuse to take note of these class acfrnitions is to miss the (actu- al working out of national develop- ment here. Only two classes in Russia have historic traditions and legally de- fined positions -nobles and peasan- try. The middle ground between the two has been gradually occupied by pcoplo who are no longer tied to the land as under the serf laws and have prospered more or less in busi- ness in the towns or have gone into the educated professions. 'These peo- ple have found thenisel'es without. a political position in the conunun- ity. The peasant laws are based on the principle of paternal care, no re- sponsibility or authority, but, on the other hand, certain legal pro- tections from fraud. The very qua- lities that bring people into this middle ground in the population of Russia aro just those which make pennant laws intolerable to them. They are not particularly afraid of being defrauded in the ordinary af- fairs of life: the fact that they have got to the positions they occupy, goes to indicate that they are nblei to take care of themselves. On the other hand, they are willing to bear authority and responsibility. All this educated opinion repre- sents a dilTertnit problem from that of the peasantry. It is not n ques- tion of more food, of more intelli- gent agricultural tuethods, better roads and fewer local exactions by tax gat.here•s. These are Til'E DAiLY QUES'T'IONS of the pcneantry. For the educated reformers the agitation Is wholly political. Any economic reforms they would prefer to wait for until they were allowed to have a hand in framing thorn. Their greatest encouragement and strength comes from the co-opera- tion of the territorial nobility. These have always t'ei,!arded the Gov- ernment functionaries, up to and in- cluding- the Ministers of State, as a species of Chinese literati, trainee parasites on the body of the nation whose functions they impede. As the agitation proceeds there appears 11 closer union between the leaders of 1hce provincial nobility class and this new middle class whose grand- fathers were serfs. Tho policy which M. Witte is adopting aims at economic develop- ment for the peasantry and is against the political rights demand- ed by the middle class. Resolute and single minded though he is. it is difficult to understand how he can prevail eventlnlly ngninst a con- etantly increasing body which has plenty of energy and is not at all modest, There is nothing academic about their methods. They record all around their approval of the act of Ito I'lehve's assassin, who was of the class from which they are drawn. The ominous recurrc00ce of the bomb idea in the past two months comet) from the younger awl angrier -of this party. and not from the starv- ing anarchist type. It 1' ronvtitutionatiem that they call for in deadly earnest and no longer the local nd ' ist•ative re- forms of the first programme. 'nip (iover•nment answers that Russia is in a wholly different posit' po- litically from any other great come try and that she needs a wholly dif- ferent system. "It in not so." say these business two, lawyers, doctors. engineers, all this new class in Russia which is itiplying over the spnc0 that lies between noble and peasant. "\\'0 ere not of very different stuff front whet other people's are evade of, fond we want to take the same risks and chances as they." Nenr•nIgin of the body is frequen(• ly mistaken for pleurisy It may ie distiltguished by the fact of ivy being more 'n the surface, and its shifting about from place to pined - Any anodyne linimentt, srtch ns led!• Ind(mtla, npplic d on a piece of Ilan- _k next n tonic such as quinine! will {sive relief The young wife hutted her heel ie the sofa pillow and sleeted ns if her heart would break. "%V -el en vo were married," she goblet). ''s..1 said that no matter whit hnep••te•1 you wos1111 love nue s.l i t l.'''\ eS, recoiled the bretal hush/tett, -het you never are 81111. That is 1.a reason 1 don't lots you."