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TAKE A BACKWARD LOOK!
Nothing
Is More Helpful at Any
Point in Life
"IIo saw them toiling in rowing;
for the tsiud was contrary mite
them." -Mark ei., 48.
The liken who had to do this hard
rowing were the n in whom Christ had
a (geeiel ititerst. 'fht•y were to
take llis place after crucifixion 011d
do Ills work. It was very important
therefore. that they get serosa the
lake subtly. and yet lie allowed them
to meet u contrary wind.
'1'he experier:ces through which torn
have to pass aro no index to the
Divine feeling toward theme. ]leaven
had as great interest in .lov,ph when
in prison as when at the head of af-
fairs in Egypt. The Father's pur-
pose for Moses was the same tho
day ho went into the desert to care
for sheep us tho day be cameo out
to become Israel's delioverer. David
was as much under (pod's caro when
hunted by the rand Saul as when
. writing the twenty-third Psalm. Mott
who do things must sleet opposition.
Tho Divine cure ►nay not save front
tho lion's den, but it will save from
tho lion's mouth.
There is a valuable thought hero
for to -day. Mon often become dis-
couraged because of the contrary
winds they have to meet. A young
noun goes into business with high
ideals, but the rowing is so hard
that
HE MAKES LITTLE 1IEADW.IV.
Another plans largo things. but just
as ho gets a good f lation laid
health faint aid touch of his plan hies
to bo given up. Another meeta to -
verse in middle life which sends him
to the bottom of the hill, with small
hope of regaining the ground lost.
/Ouch persons often feel that Heaven
ns no interest in them. It would 1.0
lard to (lo Christ a greater injustice.
No ono has tho interest in any life
that Ile has in every life. And when
men find it hard to get a start, or
find tho going slow, or lose what has
been honorably won, it is no more
due to lack of interest in them than
it was with tho disdil-1tee on G(•n-
nesareth. No sight of earth makes
such a strong appeal to tho Eternal
!Mart as that of a person headed for
Ithe other side of the lake but kept
(back because the wind is contrary.
We wrung Our Father. and we wrong
ourselves. every time we make neuter-
; ial conditions a test of His attitude
tow'ark us. '
A good thing to do when the wind
'is contrary is to take n backward
look. Tho disciples did not exp'c.t
( Jesus to come to them, and were
' frightened ellen Ho came. "'They
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considered not the miracle of the
loaves," that is, they did not recall'
what Ile had done only 0 little tinea r
before. Nothing is moro helpful at.
;any point In lifo than to turn on the
light of history. Leery bus -been of
'other lives tells of a may -le for•
• ours. Whatever has good in it has
God behind it. No matter where
!waters part and ways open into
!lands flowing with milk and honey
IT IS 1l1: 1'010 1;0ES
!In every experience, therefore. wo
should think of those who have cros-
teed the lake before us.
I Am i a stranger in a largo city,
compelled to depend on self alone?
(Mlal y high in position had to do the
same, and Some of the sxeetost
'memories they havo to carry through
the years relate to tho time when tee
wind was contrary and the rowing
hard. Am T a student seeking an ed-
ucation. with heavy odds against
me? Many filling first places aro
seri-mudo men, who would not ex-
change the good that came of 81rug-
• glo for any other thing life can give.
!Ant I a young ratan trying 10 livo a
(true life, with discouragemonts on
every Nide? Slimy of the choicest
'characters earth has known began
under like conditions and owe much
lot what they are to opposition mot
;and conquered.
IL is always well to think of what
has been with others when inclined
' totake n dark view of what is with
ourslevos. The most important con-
sideration
on-
-'!
Ie A r tion of life is not as to how
bl
!much hard rowing wo have to do,
but as to how much moral tmusclo
!we get out of it.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 9.
Lesson II, Hezekiah's Prayer.
Golden Text, Psa.
xlvi. 1.
LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note. -These Word Studies for this
lesson aro based on the text of the
Ilevised Version.
holrr Historical Chapters. -Our
canonical book of Isaiah falls natur-
ally into two groat portions, the
first of which Indudas chapters
1-39,
and the second the remniniirb chap-
ters of the book. Of the liret. part,
the last four chapters (36-39 in-
clusive'/ again farm a entailer divis-
ion quite distinct from the chapters
preceding. Ties(four chapters erg l
re
hietoricnl, while those preceding are
more or less strictly prophetic. Tho
historical chapters aro introduced in-
to the 1:ody of tho prophetical hook
for the purpose of giving the reader
of the prophecies a summary of im-
portant facts conccrnlne tho life of
the great prophet. They are a sum-
mary of tho events narrated in 2
Kings midi. 13 to xx. 19, from
which account they were doubtless
taken. The two accounts (litter as
regards Important matters only in
two points; the summary in laaiah
dons not record Ifezel(iah'i submis-
sion mentioned in 2 Kings xviii. 14-
10, but does insert Ireeekiah'e psalm
k It•in n his recovery
of than sq B u
'chap xxvill. 9-20), the latter not
tieing found in tho account in Riney.
Tho parallel account* should be rend
together.
Verse 1. In those (tuysr-This ex-
pression Is dohlbtlesei to be taken as
an indc'(•l,ite reference to some por-
tion of llozokinh's reign, the chrono-
logy of which as a ,tatter of fact
presents ninny ditllrllltiee. front the
arrangement of the narrative, both
here and In 2 Kings, It would v'.na
as li the sickness of Itereki(h fol-
lowed the retreat of Sensachei'il:,
but a closer examination leads us
to 0o►1clude otherwise. Frans 2
Kings xx. 12 and ise. xxxix 1 it is
plain that the eicknems pr•eeetted the
embassy of Merodach-Laladais. king
was king of Babylon from 721 to
of Babylon. Itut Merodach-ba)adan
709 13, ('.. rind again for a brief
period docile; 702 11. C. Sennachcr-
Ib's inva'tinn occurred in the year 11.
C. 701. 1(rn'o the sieklnet r (d Tiesar
kiali which preceded the embassy
sunt by the Itebylonien king (probab-
ly during 1119 second and shorter
reign) newt have preceded the deliv-
er/me. of Jet -us -Mem from the 1n;,Assy-
rian tr.
•, eh:ch ich nccnrre d still la r.
king,
The e rntq, therefore, of chapters 88
(loll :;9 precede In point of time
Those of chapters 80 and 37.
Isaiah the Prophet -The nuthor of
large parte of the book bearing his
name. living in the time of i?reiah,
,/othun, Ahab, lfeeekinh. Singe of
Ju lsh. 'rhe greatest of ]Hebrew pro-
phets, and, nt the SA1110 line. doubt-
less, the grentast of ifebrew states-
• men. lie was especially noted for
the strength of his personality, the
wtuelnthe of his statesnlAnship. tho
lereeth► n1n1 unhrok(w a•sIrance nt
hie ministry. the a1►nnvt unaided ser-
vice which 11e rendered to .Judah At
the er.nteset erlsls of-hor history, the
perfr•, and groniloler of 1419 style.
wad the great influence ho exerted on
Autes.equc*t propheev.
Thee iialttlt .Tehovieh '1 tie prophet's
auth,e:lly nae Sot ht. own It teas
as tho accredited tnexsenger and rep-
resentative of Clod that. he was te-
sptrlc(I and obeyed if at all.
Set thy house in order -Literally.
"Give command to thy houoe." The
parting corntraud of a man about to
die wan cotwideteel sacred and bind-
ing. Compare Jacob's charge to
,Iosei h (Gen. elle. 19-33). It wits
more than a last wish. and was ra-
ther of the nature of makin, a will,
as it related of: -t imete to tis' disposi-
tion of lanes and of property, and in
the case of kings of the royal Scep-
tre as well.
'2. T'urne'd his face to the well -In
order 10 be alone with God in this
hour of anguish. It. is probable that
i 1 was t tide time childless
} tiit>lctu t n i
(his son Manaseth was born later),
in which case hie death at this time
might have ine;.nt. the extinction of
his house and possibly of rho hu1190
of David alert.
3. Remember . how • T have
walked—Words of bold co
flde►co
en
the part of 1feze'+lath. i ong life was
coined, rad a i ark of God's approv-
al, and co:neared with leis immedi-
ate pre(leieerome IleeekIall's ad11tinie-
trnt.ion cortnii,le did e►'enh to •1t
this mark ( f approval. Jehovah
(lura 1»t dispute the claim, out
grouts the reint 91.
4. 'Then came the word of Jehovah
to Isaiah-'l'he answer to the prayer
was hunt( diene. as shown in the ac-
count in ''2 Kin•;s xx. 4, which ex-
plains that. It was "before isalnh was
gone out into tho middle court" (hut
he received word to return with Ibis
glad) mesxnge.
5. David thy fathor--The t 1
t h e et
a ms
"father" (1101 "non" were more lens"''
ly used among the Hebrews than
they are at present among us. it k
here used in the sense of "ancestor."
Fifteen years-Aecorlttn; le 2
linage xviii. 2 lle'ekleh hecatno king
at the age of lweety-five, and
lrigtI d in nil twenty-nine years;
horn:•. he twist. at. (hie time have been
thirty-nine years old and in the fif-
teenth year of his reign.
0. I will deliver Hoe and this city
-This verso seems to point to the
fact that the siege of the city had
not yet Laken place. Doubtless.
however, !-,n•iacherib'e emotion was
at this time antichpatestl nod greatly
feorel.
7, M. 'lite shadow on the atop, . .
dial of Alae -We are to think of a
pyramid of stops oil Ifo top of
which snood a short pine° or obe-
lisk, s*► ci►iwtructiel that when the
sun rose in the nanrnfng the *hallow
of the pillar Just covered the lowest
step on the western side of the pyra-
mid. An the sun roto in the Pagtean
sky the shadow shortened, climbing
Atep by step to the foot of the obe-
lisk at the top of the pyramid. After
noon,as the nun (levee:tried toward
the west the shadow gradually de-
scended on the opposite or eastern
side of the pyramid. 'Thus the po-
sition of the ihadow on the steps of
thy' pyramid indicated quite nccur-
ately the time of the day. Clock.*
and watches were at this time un-
known. The retreating shndow mira-
culously lengthening the day was a
pledge, as some have thought, sym-
bolic of the postponement of that
"night In which no man can work"
(death). which had Ro nearly over-
taken tho king.
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i11:11 BUSiNESS.
"What business Is Miss Gaddie in?''
"O' she's in everybody business.':
"A10 Wholesale, ('he"
"%'es, excerpt when itcomes to a
scandal. She retails that.'=
A PROFESSOR'S PLIGHT'
DOUBLES WHICH 3RING MANY
TROUBLES.
Close resemblances Lead to Com-
plications That Are Funny
and Serious.
It is an un:tinny thing to have a
"double," to know that there is
some one in tho world who is your
rather sell," ' he experietco Is still
11Un•e a,•:rd WhoIa tlhut "double.'
raving lunette, and hu escapes front
COII ti netll('n t
Olio case a i►h a serious trend is
that of all (;;stern college professor,
who had, unknown to hint:t lf, a
"double" who w es n daugeruus mad-
man. It happened that. the professor
wont to spend his holidays in the
county that contained the nsyluu►
where the other wns; and while hu
was there the lunatic broke loose.
One day, while out collecting geolo-
gical specimens, tho unfortunate etiu-
cutur was seized by warders who
had been scouring the country anti
hauled o(1 to the madhocse. 'There,
though the doctor expressed sumo
double as to the captive's identity,
Ito was detained until, happily, the
twat lunatic was brought in. At
once released, the sane man, upset by
the incident, was for a time quite
111.
Recovering, he paid the warders
who guarded the lunatic a weekly
sura to take special caro of their
charge. "Rut should he again elu;'e
you, inform me at once, and i will
remain shut up at home." When rho
lunatic in time died his rational, liv-
ing "reflect lett" sent a huncsonte suet
to the warders and to the asylum in
gratitude for
'1'11E Rt':Ll1?E 111 TI[EN PELT.
There is u woman, now living
abroad, who left her native country
for a peetiliar reason. In a large
store she was once accused of being
a shoplifter. Able to prove her in-
nocence, she was informed of the dis-
turbing fact evidently she had a
"double" who was a criminal. "take
caro that mho does not cornu to
learn of your existence," advised tie
police.
'i'ho woman event to live in the
count.l;y, but when the shoplifter,
fleeing from the largo cities, contin-
ued °pernt.ioes in tho smaller towns
the woman (rota a portra;t was
again mistaken for her and had to
appear ald avltncrs. Thenonviat
the
police hah foreseen actually happen-
ed. The shoplifter, aware of the
f.u•t that Aho exactly resembled tho
other, started a fresh career of crime
passing herself off as tho latter. And
in the course of limo so much anney-
ance to tho respectable double thus
resulted) that into disappeared from
her native land forever.
A young boy, sent hums from Eur-
ope alone, was looked after on the
long voyage by a fellow -passenger, a
stranger, who in a harbor where the
lad fell overboard also saver[ his
life. On landing the rescuer slipped
away before the boy's relations coup)
thank him.
ilut the lad had a photograph of
him, and
1118 GRATEFUL SiSTER,
by the aid of This, received trews
that tho gentleman tuns living in
another state. 'Thither she proceed.
d w u i'•picture,
su v tl a (I t lost of rho
e 6
as it appeared, and was pouring out
her thanks when nlln learned he was
not, atter all, her brother's i re-
server. He was, however, promptly
in love with his eisitor, and a year
later they were married 'There is
something methin • stein o to add.
K
]tearing tho story, tho real life
saver, who was passing through the
state, called to see the boy and also
his "double." Tho sister then at
Inst wns 10110 to thank him, (alt,
oddly enough, she, unlike all ()there.
failed to see that he: much resembled
her husband. And she was thinking
to herself, "Had we mut 1 should
never have fallen in love with my
brother's real preserver," when the
individual said to her: "It. is an ex-
traordinary thing, but you aro sur-
prisingly like my wife."
Ono of the hest known actresses
has a "double." Mho became quite
unnerved one evening on seeing her
"other melt" !daring K(t her from"out in front." The visit being re-
peated, the actress, ns('Prtaining the
woman's identity, wroto her saying,
that, liko many other stage folks,
she believed in omens, "soil it being
generally considered so unlucky for
'double:4' to meet, 1 ton quite affect-
ed whets 1 suddenly see you." Would
she, therefore, kindly send the ate-
teem
o-t.rem ward when rhe nhterided to he
present? The reply that came back
was thnt the W1111511 herself was ter-
ribly superstitious. she had not
known that tneetiugs of "doubles"
were "unlucky," but now *were of
tho fact. she would never mor the sc
tress 1ley Again. Stnro then. how-
ever, the two have been coexistent
correspondents.
'TAKES tilt' DOUBLE'S I'i.ACE.
Sonia years ago a c,r'tals English
royal personage had a "double,"
who was an oyster opener in a res•
taurant. For the fun of the thing
the member of royalty donned tho
man's linen sleeves and apron and
waited en the guests. Oreo customer,
detecting some di(ierence In the at-
tendant's ninnner. asked why he had
become so dignified. The Joking re-
ply wasp (teen presented at court."-
Whereupon
ourt.'Whereupon the customer, of course,
In Ignorance, actually said to royal-
ty: "Would not 'been up In court'
be more likely?"
Ilelicving In the "unlucky to moot
your 'double' " theory above men-
tioned, a millionaire. who 10nrne:l
thnt a certain individual e'nctly re-
sembled him, gave that "shadow" a
Aubstantial sum to leave the country.
l'he man went to the West Indies,
and, by causing it to ho Respected
that he was the rich person's twin
brother, he obtained unlimited) credit
and acquired, a fortune. The moral
was not Lost to others Another
millionaire was Informed where his
"other self" could be Been. A meet -
Ing being however. exactly whet wee
not desired, tho oth0r• mon waq hAnd-
sumely remunerated to get. seat n( the
way. Years afterwards the million-
aire learned that his supposed "dou-
hie" was not in the least like bion.
It had been just a
I'1.AY1' '1'0 BRING IN DOLLARS.
A certain detective agency, seeking
a -wanted" forger. discovered u luau
elm was his double, save that Ito
lead a mustache. Paying this indi-
vidual to "disltppear" temmporarily,
they, through lawyers, advertised
him, with portrait, as missing, men-
tioning that !to could claims consider-
able property. The halt was taken.
The forger cultivated a mustache liko
that in the picture, returned to
shout the possessions, and was ar-
rested.
In Austria an American jockey hat
a double. The jockey inherited mon-
ey from his late employer, whcro-
upon the double declared that ho
himself' was the rightful legatee. Un-
able to decide which was which, tho
pair were weighed, tho jockey -his
riding weight known -thus establish-
ed his identity. and the heavier pre-
tender trent to prison. In New York
(bore 15 11 man who for years has,
sou,etiin o twice. in ono day, been
spoken, to in mistake for some other
mats. Never in all that time has he
(himself secret his "double." Concern-
ing whirl', it. may be said that "dou-
bles" often du not themselves recog-
nize their likeness to each other.
SEEKS'A VAST FORTUNE
MRS. CAMPBELL CLAIMS HALF
OF QUEBEC CITY.
Twenty Million Dollar Estate
Escheated by British
.Government.
`Vee' in. to establish her 01111111 to
a 820.000.000 estate escheated for
three generations by the British (lov-
ernmemt in 1760, which in9udes a
tract it mild and n half long and a
mile wide through the heart of the
city of Quebec, and eight. acres of
the famous Plaits of Abraham, Mrs.
Caroline lambert Campbell, wife of
William A. Campbell, an assistant
superintendent of schools in Brook-
lyn. N. Y., haw engaged counsel to
push her (nee in the Dominion and
ltritieh courts, says the Now York
herald.
Recently she received from I.ord
Ly'ttelion, Colonial Secretary. a re-
ply to n letter she addressed to King
Edward, which states that Lord
Kno'l•s, the King's private secre-
tary,
ecro-tary, is able to advise his Majesty
to tsl a no other action than to sug-
gest I Ih ht >Jrs. Campbell take her
claim to the courts.
11EI(`USED TFHEi11 itr:QUEST,
in 1887 the Privy Council refused
a joint application frV,u representa-
tives of the Catholic church, the
Church of England and the cit.ieens
of Quebec, asking that £30,000,
held by the British (1overnrrr•nt and
collected as rentals upon this pro-
perty, should be equally diarided be-
twton the two churches in (Zaebec.
The Privy Council, with the assent
of Queen \'Ictoria, decided that tho
heir would in linty appear. and that
the property and its usufruct from
the time the decree to escheat ter-
n, leo d in 1805, belonged to the
heirs of Louis Joseph Lambert, who
gave largely of his vastfortuio to
the hrenrh in the French and Indian
war. %Shen the irnglish conquered
Its was deprived of his estates and
those of hi:, wife, the 'Demoiselle (le-
n)aieve De Villeray, who inherited
103 acres in Quebec city from hor
tat h%er!.^
rehaveao1 been
it forty
yenrs, Mrs. Campbell'''. sxid Sir Wil-
frid 1 'tinier. when Mrs. Campbell
visited hits two yenl:q ago. "I know
every mender of your family and
their history, and you ore the only
innedm; member." Sir Wilfrid,
throeigh his wife, was a collateral
claimant to the Lambert estate.
FOUND DOCUMENTS.
'the energetic, elTorts of Mrs. ('amp -
bell, only child of the tato Leander
i,anlbert, of Kingston, N. Y., so far
have remitted only itt finding many
documents which Montreal and Que-
bec I.wyers told her did not exist
or lust,
Mfrs.had Cnnhieshpt►ell'9 father, Leander
lambert, was the eldest son of
Augestine Lambert, of Quebec, who
removed to Troy about 1 85 and
died there in 18511. Leander Chad
unterrled, anti ono child, Mrs. (•nrnp-
hell, was horn before the young fa-
ther went to St. Louts on business
in 1 85 ant fell a vIctim to tho
ceolete, epidemic which swept over
flint. ries.est
T1. ate Ie estimated to bo worth
at )cast $20,000.000, hitt Mrs.'
Oantpbell would not ciente into actu-
al posee'naion of tits. It 19 entailed
under the 1l(Ilfs'. law, she says, and
she would have onto a life interest,
with tho richt, however•, to tnortgago
the properttei.
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T1I1: S('1ENCE OF WHEELS.
Attention has been called by tech-
nical writers to the fact that the
wheels of vehicles intended for driv-
ing reedit have not kept pare In de-
velopment with the other parte of
carriage ilherhanilul. Experiments
with heavy vehicles indicate that
'.wheels should he made both higher
and broad(r. In England It ha, been
rccnntn►rndo1 that with a maximum
axle load of eight toes tho width of
tire should be about 1 O inches. In-
crease of the diameter of the wheel
fa eitld to he more effective in pre-
venting damage to road -beds than
width of tiro.
HEAVIEST IIACiC BURDENS.
Probably the greatest weights car-
ried on the backs of men for any
distance aro the loads of ore brought
up from tho mines of tho Andes by
miner. of Chili. In a copper mine in
a ravine loathing from tho main
range of the Cordilleras, all the oro
Is carried a vertical distance of 450
fest. and the nverage weight per Asan
is 250 Ib. This lend fe carried up
ladder., made of notched trunks of
trees. set almost upright, one touch -
Ing the other,
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1IOME.
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T111•: FAIUI llt)Uyl•:.
Very many feralhouses have been
adds, to in construction. '1 he former
I kitchen has belt' mudo into a new
ining roust as rho new kitchen was
built on. Yet the pantry is left to
$ open into the d' ' g room, while the
entrance to the cellar is through the
!pantry. ',hie means many steps for
the housewife in getting oven teed
uncal, and when we come to multiply
the
extra steps taken to gut ono
steal by the number of meals in a
!day and again In a year, it means
!much toward wearing one out physi-
cally.
I Then, too, the lack of a drain in
1 the kitchen or upon tho back porch
! ne e:at/Oates hundreds of steps in a
day ilk going up end down the back
!steps to empty pails and pans of
water. The drain in a kitchen would
save all these, and added to this sav-
ing of physical strength, would leave
a touch more clean and healthful
back yar(1, which, without rho (train,
must, (luring the winter and early
spring months become offensive both
to sight and smell.
11y all means have the water sup-
ply in the house. Tho hard water
tank is a great Improvement over
the driven well even it the well is in
the kitchen or on the back porch,
and it has boon demonstrated) that
with only windmill power a complete
water system, including bath tub,
chair and lavatory. with hot and
cold water Opera can be bad in the
ordinary farmhouse as W011 a9 ill the
city house.
Tire lack of ventilation in the
farmhouse is often noticed. Windows
in all rooms should be arranged so
that they may bo opened from both
top and bottoms. The main living
room, which often sorves a double
purpose, should bo treated to a fresh
air bath every morning. We preach
and practice giving the sleeping
roomw proper ventilation, but rho
odoro buckwheat f kww c }eat cakes is often left
in living coon► until tho vegetables
cooking for diluter announce a
chnnee. Windows should not only
provide means of ventilation, but
should be allowed to serve their- le-
gitimate purpose, that of letting in
the sunlight.
House plants aro desirable in the
home, but to see every window filled
to Its utmost capacity with plants
leads us to remonstrate against this
practice. Let the cheery living room
have at least ono window trot aside
(ret'. of plants that if rho "gudo mon"
wants to draw nearer tho light in
reading on a dark day, he can (10 so
without fear of knocking over a
plant jar. lletter have a few well
kept plants arranged so n9 not to
bo in the way than a promiscuous
quantity occupying every pleasant
window view.
'lite with+ porch is much In fashion
to -day and for once, at least, fashion
conforms to comfort and convenience.
Eight feet is none too avicdo for the
i r
porch to farmhouse its d twoo
( a t n o an t
these add fluent to the architectural
beauty anal give ample room for use.
This front or stifle porch can be fur-
nished in summer with a few rugs
laid down, rockers and a hammock.
Then, too, how delightful to the lit-
tle (meg to have the table set for
snapper on this wide pordeees{>erinl-
ly to mark a birthday. After the
day't work is over what better place
for the family to gather than on the
porch and enjoy an hoar with papers,
books or with the children?
Tho wide back perch is both handy
and comfortable. In the summer
much of the kitchen work can be
done outside and in the winter it
affords a place to clean the shoes,
or reirx►a'e rubbers before coining in-
side.
'the farmhouse ran, and should. 1,e
built with an eyo for convenietw'esi,
light, ventilation, beauty in locution
and warmth. Upon the latter wo
t (
have not > u
(hellu t
b t the furnace
eta e
burning! either coal or wood is the
proper way of heating tho farnhoure
and the extrema, of one is not beyond
the 'mums of the average farmer. Wo-
men should look up and study out all
our►venieIlcos tending to help them In
their housework and then hawk the
rights to direct the arrangement of
the house when it is being built.
FOR THE COOK.
Pineapple Ice -.leak 1 cup tapioca
over night, add 1 cup granulated
sl1gar. ,crape or chop the snit part
of a pineapple and stir well into the
tapioca. Piero 011 ice a01 Serve no
cold as poll:Able with rarger sprinkled
over top.
1'or clop. Ale'xao;tra'a pudding
beat a Komi-91i.ed egg to a froth.
work two tablespoonful of flour and
ono of castor sugar ennonthly Into
It.. and arid half a pinto of new milk,
with a pinch of salt. Butter a pint
pthtding•lish, lino thickly with rano
berry jam, then pour in tho batter.
Lay n shirt of buttered white paper
on top and *fermi for an hour.
For rhubarb j(Ily stew about a
pound of rhuliarle icily till tender,
with
enough sugarerr to nweeten,
end
n little lenton peel. Vase It through
a sieve, and add one ounce of gela-
tine disenslved in half a pint of
water; thin, awith the pulp(d rhubarb,
should t00nsure n• nrly n quart. Col-
or with cochineal, and pour Into 0
mould. 'Turn out when cold and
pour custnr4 round.
Olive sandwiches are very nice.
To Hake them. cut some thin slices
of bread and butter, and trim them
neatly. ilall two eggs till quite
hard, lay them in cold water, and
shell when cold. Than chop them
finoly, and mix with them a do>en
Atoned end finely tninr((I olives. Add
the Juice of half a lemon, and Reason
carefully. Spread the mixture nn the
bread and butter, roll up ['glitter, or
cover with another slice.
To a child there is a great chnrrlt,
about any cake or dainty which V
Lade at home for its special lieaett
anal 11.•n»sere and this is why wo
s•.,Kgeat thr,e little cucua-nut cakes.
Rhe rce ipe is very simple. -Mix to -
get her half a pouted of desiccated
coeott-nut: two lablrsp(hunfds of
dosses and half a puu11(l of c(tslor
sugar. Ncw whisk up the whttee of
two eggs and stir in. Make the mix-
ture into 9111811 rough cakes, and
hake, an greased paper, in a quick
uvea till slightly brown.
Rhubarb Souflite titew about a
pound of rhubarb in a quarter of a
pint of water and half a pound of
sugar. 1Shen tender press it
( through a sieve, and mix it into
n quarter of a pound of cornflour,
then add the beaten yolks of two
eggs and a little lemon juice. 'Puke
it from rho lire, color itwith a
little cochineal, and add tho well -
beaten whites of the eggs. four into
et buttered dish (only three parts
full to allow pudding to rise) and
bake for three-quarters of an hour.
Before serving lie a piece of paper
round tho basin. and sand to table
as soon as possible.
LAUNDERING LACE CURTAINS.
Curtains badly smoked or otherwise
soiled can bo made to look almost as
good as new if carefully laundered.
'Ibis le my away of avnshine, there,
writes Mrs. 0. Gray. I first brush
out all dust possible. I then put
there in a tub of lukewarm rainwater
and soap thein well with naphtha
soap, roll up and let soak in the
water two or three hours. 'Then I
unroll and pat and work thorn
through the water gently, as they
tear easily. Mien I think they aro
clean I put through a wringer and
immerse in soft water, the tempera-
ture of the first. 'l'o this I add a
small handful of powdered borax,
and it makes them beautifully white.
Alter standing a short time they aro
thoroughly rinsed and wrung out of
this water and blued and starched.
On the floor of a spare room I
stretch sheets and on them stretch
the curtains. Vero two can work
to an advantage. Take opposite cor-
neas, pull gently and evenly, pinning
or sewing in place. It the curtain
has a scalloped edge, it will pay
you to fasten each point. Several
curtains may be done at once. ono
over the other. Leave until dry.
WHEN MOTHS' PREVAIL.
Shavings made from cigar bootie
are convenient for placing in woolen
clothes when packing them away for
the summer. Those who dislike tho
odor of moth balls, and this odor
will cling to tho clothes until the
frost takes it out, will find furs and
all woolen clothes perfectly sate it
sealed in newspapers 119 moths (11* -
like printers' Ink.
-T
PBINCE.
This Horse Understood What Was
Said to Him.
In the city of Oakland, Cnlifornit.,
lived, a few years ago, a horse as
beautiful, intelligent and affectionate
as ever n horse could be. "Prince"
was his name, and well it fitted hi►n,
Ile was a line, large cite:e it, with
eyes wherein a(T rNintellect
r and
were apparent to the most casual ob-
server.
The readiness milli which 11e unrler-
stood what was said to him wns re-
markable. "Prince," 1119 mistress
would say, "I would like to visit
Mrs. Y—,"
and n 9 Mrs.Y. was a
n
particular friend of his, 1'rince would
trot most readily and rapidly to her
!ousts. Again Miss C--- would tell
hint to go to the hank for money,
and there he would go, or to the
stable where oats, bran and hay were
to bo ordered, and ho would trot.
there at a lively rate.
Ifo was always spoken to exactly
as a person would Have been. Once
a lady who was riding with Miss
(2— ware surprised to have him take
her hoino and stop before the house.
"Oh. Prince," she said, "won't you
givo me a little longer ride'?"
Ilo shook a knowing head and
rachet around the Week twig, stop-
pitsg then as before, as if to inform
hor that the trip had heen of a rea-
ttunable length.
No end of little incident, of a like
nature might ho related of him.
ilpnn the return of Miss (2— from
a throe year,' abeenre Prince, on
hearing her voice, neighed atxi tali
to her with ouch demenrtrattoria of
low as no other living thing had ac-
corded her. putting his soft nose
against her shoulder and tnitine in
his IAngunge until her eyes wero 1,1Ie41
wn>a1s.ith happy tears. -/fur Dumb Ani-
-♦
FAST it. 11.W.\Y-MLtKiN(1.
'There IS new in use a now rail-
way track -layer, which, with n crow
of forty Wren. will lay two miles of
track n day. The track -layer has is
huge crane 00 ft. long. which pro-
Je(•tes forward over the road anti
hauls behind it a train of sixteen
flat ears lond041 with ties anti retie.
A continuous double line of cars
moves constantly over rollers 4111,1
carries the ties with it. (loth rails
and flee are seized at the proper
time by the tnachinery and placed on
tho rood in front of the train, where
they shortly form(
nr
t of the track
over which it passes.
'I'AX!NG AMUSi:MENTS.
1111svin line prohn),ly the most curie
ons tax in the world. it Is called)
the "ah11104e►n1 nt tax," and wns ie,sti-
tuted a year or two ago to found an
institution for the poor, under the
title of the "Empress Marie Founda-
tion." 'the tax 1' laid upon every
amusement -ticket sold, and rho man.
ager, increase the price accord:ugly.
Already more than 1,001,0)4,0 00014101
have been raised in that tray.
ITS BUSY D.Y.
Now doth the busy fiat disport
At picnics overmuch,
Invading cakes of evert softs