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oES RELIGION
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The Profit of Piety Can Never Be
Expressed in Cash.
[loth Job fear Cod for naugin?—Job
1„ 9.
That was theguestion which, in this,
striking drama was asked by uan's(
grout adversary. It was a most natural
one iron the satanic point of view,
where selfish gnhn is the only admissible
explanation of any action, weer° the
solo question is, will it pay? and where
personal advantage 'ts the only (mown
standard 01 ethics. 1L is not strange
that the lodger view Of life books on re-
11glen as a possibly profitable business
venture, a side ]loo to be carried for
whet there is in 11..
The acr."sn'Ion In the question is trite
enough Lo -day, but It only pel:alsls be-
cause of the Iruth In it, The Christine
soldier who lives for the loot keeps alive
the sneer al religion. A man's testimony
in prayer meeting is often only an eco-
nomical method of nclvertlsing tits sugar
or 1110 dry goods. Many a man is serv-
ing
erying God with an eyo single to the good
01 his trade, while to others piety Is but
a professional pull. To yet others relig-
' ion is a performance to be regarded as
one of the penalties peed to social con-
vention.
Moro dangerous because more subtle
is the error of those who look on pious
practises as means of placating the
wrath of the deity, who hope to buy
passports th heti von by prayer meeting
pretences on earth.
ACTS OF \VORSIIIP •
are to them things devoid of delight
which they dare not forego for fear .I
future pains. ii heaven could be earn-
ed this way they would certainly deserve
IL
But the hypocrites deceive no one.
Their pretences are ton palatable. They
alone are satisfied with themselves.
Piety for profit alone is almost its own
sufficient punishment. Who can help
pitying the masqueraders who loll so
hard to produce no impression. Neither
heaven nor earth takes any stock cf
them. Their mummery has no more
to do with religion than charily balls
have to do with it beneficence. It neither
pays as business nor as religion.
In spite of all pretenders, who are al.
ler all relatively few In nunener, relig-
ion is a reality In the life of man and
the question. does religion pay? deserves
a fair answer. Life has no place for
that which dons not pay. Neither sup-
erstition nor sentiment can sanction the
waste of life on useless ends, Taking
the soul's infinite standard of values
all things must coma to the Lest of their
service, the meet to mankhld.
A man serves God for the satisfaction
secured; not for sol[-50Lisfa0Uon, but
because deep within him ho feels 11is
treed of the divine, of one who can sa
fy his thirst for good, who CO s0,'•
1,088 his highest aspirntftens, who can
constantly tone up his life and lead elm
to things better than himself.
Friendship is not without Its Putt;;
yet the true friend dons not Ilgure ran
them. Ile who unselfishly seeks another
soul, who delights in his service, und
counts all sacrifice as joy, finds rcwatds
KWh as the cunning of selfishness col 1
never extract. So is it with the service
of the Most High. •
THE SOUL OF MAN
seeks after (lie soul of all; religion Is ser-
vice for this supreme friend; worship
the communion with him, work tile do-
ing of things that please him who
shall mOasUre the profit of such love ter
what shall a man give in exchange for
110 joy and peace?
Tile soul's need of God, the need o[
110 sources of our lives for the source
of all life, the need of the inner spirit
of man for touch with the great spirit
of all is as real, as definite, and as stead-
ily asseelive as the need of the body for
food. There aro men so busy making
money that they think they have n0 time
even to eat; but their folly is As wisdom
enmpared to ,That of those who think It
does not pay to tate time to fend the
inner life, the eternal man.
Nor can a man estimate the profit of
religion by his own soul possessions
alone. Wherever even two or three lift
up their eyes and hearts to nobler
things the whole race is raised. Che
worship of the things that aro worthy
makes the whole world more worthy.
The profit of ono man's faith becomes a
common possession, and the most god-
less shore the benefits of the godly lite.
The daily search for God is the tuning
o,,
r L the must t
it close o
t whole life of the
the infinite; the harmony, the fleapit,
the salvation of the world depends on
its coming into complete accord with
that which rules at its heart. Thls,
then, is the eternal, individual, and uni-
versal profit of piety, that it causes all
things more and more • perfectly to
work together for the good of all.
THE S. S. LESSON
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
A IAN. 28.
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LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note.—These Word Studies lire based
011 theioxt of the Revised Version.
John Mark, and His Life Sketch of
Jesus.—To our second Gospel has Vaca
given,not the Hebrew name of its author,
which was Jo1311, but his Roman sur-
name, which ons Mark. "John whose
surname was Mark" (Acts 12. 12) was an
attendant of Darnabas and Saul on their
first missionary journey, and just pre-
ceding (Acts 12. 25; 13. 5), and a little
later a source of contention between tis Messiah, and for his coming people were
superiors (Acts 15. 27-30, because of his to prepare themselves.
having loft them before the completion
of their first missionary lour, on which
he had started with them as their at-
tendant (Ads 13. 13). But in the Epistle
to the Colossians he again appears as
the companion of Paul (Col. 4. 10), and
is mentioned also in Tim. 4. 11, and In
Phnom. 24. Peter also, to 11(s second
epistle, speaks of Mark, calling him his
son in the faith (1 Pel. 5. 13), and it is
to rho home of Mark's mother In Jeru-
salem, whore it company of disciples was
gathered in prayer for his deliverance, distinguished from Christian baptism,
that E'eler hastened upon being mitten- with which It wos not identical. It was
lously set tree from prison (Acts 12. 12). a baptism unto repentance, and signifies
Mark's gospel is distinguished from
those of Matthew and Luke by its brev-
ity. On him the life of Jesus seems to
have made the impression of a "swift
march of important events toward a
tragic end." Omitting all mention cf
the birth and childhood of Jesus, anal
touching but briefly on tinct events of
resurrection morning, his life sketch of
Jesus is devoted almost wholly to the
period of his public ministry, "a brief
and terse narrative of a throe years'
campaign."
That Mark wrote for Gentle rather
than for lowish readers Ls evident from
the fact that he oOnstantly explains Ile -
brew terms and customs. The feet that
he refers to 111e destruction of Jerusalem
as an event still hi rho future, 'though
imminent, necessarily pltioes the date of
the compostten of the ,gospel before
A. D. 70. Traditidn points to Rorie as
the place of its welting, and certain
Latin words peculiar to this gospel give
support to this tradition.,
Verso 1. The beginning—Mitts verse
alnenl8 to be intended as a title or heading
of the paragraph in rogard to'[110 work
of John the. Baptist, whose announce -
tient of the corning of one mightier than
himself was tho beginning of the gospel,
X01 good news about Jesus Christ.
. Of Jtsus Christ -Jesus is th0 personal
name of our Lord. in Matt. 1. 21 its
descriptive metalling is pointed out to be
that of Saviour: "01100 511a11 call lids
name Jesus; for it is he that shall save
his people [rem their sins The word
Chi'IM Ls the official title of Jesus, and
means literally, the anointed, or [dos-
siall, Tho .expression the gospel of
Jesus Christ" may mean either the glad
tidings coneer0tng Jesus Christ or tllore
brought by him to the world.
11, In isalall the prophet --Thee Icing
James Version In its rendering in the
prophets" follows a sma11 minority of
the older manuscripts, Tho quotation
which follows le really token front tern.
prophets, the lime part being g font Mal.
2. t, and the seemed from Ise1011 40. 8.
Before tory face --ht the original 'ens-
sage from bialarh[; Jullovall himself 1s
spent:he; old, says, "Behold 1 s111111 by
tnessLuger, who shelf prepare the way
WOW 1110," 11e for whom the way le to
be pt 111M -
self
self made flesh: "And the Word be-
came flesh, and dwelt among us" (John
1. 14). 1n Matt. 11. 10 Jesus himself
points out that in the coming of John
the Baptist the prophecy of Malachi was
fulfilled: "This is he of whom it '8
written, Behold, f send my messenger
before thy face."
3. Make yo ready the way of the
Lord, make his paths straight—Public
highways in the Orient are not, ordinarily
kept in good condition. When, how-
ever, a prince or o1.110r person of royal
dignity desires to make a Journey her-
alds announce the fact sufficiently in
advance to give the inhabitants of the
country through which the prince is to
pass a11 onnortunity to put the highway
into condition for travel. 111 111ce man-
ner, in a figurative sense, John the Bare
net was In annrnnlce the coming of the
4. John came—Verses 2 and 3 have
have been parenthetical; on1(ttng this
parenthetical reference to the prophecies,
and joining this fourth verse to the first,
11e significance of our comment on
verse 1 becomes apparent, "The begin-
ning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God,' consisted, so far as Mark's
narrative was concerned, in the corning
of John the Baptist.
Baptized John's use of the baptismal
rile was unique, and is to 110 carefully
the inward purification of the person
baptized. "It took u" into a symbolical
rite the figurative washings of such pas-
sages as Ise. 1. 16; 4, 4; Jer. 4. 14; Zech.
13. 1; Psa. 51. 2. Outwardly it had its
counterpart in the Levitical washings of
the law (Exact. 28. 4; Lev. 44. 8, 9; 15. 5,
8, 10, 13, 16, 21, 22, 27; 10. 20, 28; 17. 15,
etc.).' Gould.
Repentance --Tho Greek word means
literally a change of mince, especially
such as comes from an afterthought.
'Thus 1.0 reconsider one's actitun, and to
turn from a life of sin to one of
righteousness and holiness, is to repent.
5. A11 the country of Judaea, and all
they of Jerusalem—A hyperbolical ex-
pression, just its if WO 811001(1 read in a
oily paper that the whole ally had turned
out to soo or hear the President.
0. C7d11od with camel's hair—Clothes
made of coarse cloth woven from
camel's Clair.
TITLED WOMEN WORKERS
I101V '1'Hl'IY HAVE HELPED NATIVE
IN'DUS'TRIES',
Englund, Ireland and Stollen() Have
L'ene[illed by Their
'Influence.
Many ladles are excellent organizers.
writes Lady Violet Greville 111 111e London
Daily Chronicle; many of them have o
talent for collecting round them the
right people and putting them in the.
right places, while they are 01s0 gifted
with such acumen and jurdiclous in-
sight into character as enables them
triumphantly to conquer difficulties.
The work done by the Scotch and 11.1011
indltshles alone proves this.
'I'Ile Duchess of Sutherland has re-
stored comfort and activity to many a
village home which for 10.011 of work was
perishing, and by her unwearied energy
and example hes developed the making
of homespun and tweeds into a real
and flourishing industry. She, in the
north of Scotland, Lady Aberdeen in
centra( Scolland and the Duchess of
Buccleuch in the south practically
sweep the country between Mem and
command an excellent sale for the pro-
duces of their taste and judgment.
The industry so valuable to the poor
crofter's who weave m the long winter
months has steadily progressed from the
first initial opening, when the turnover
was 81,900, tin it is now ,£,400. As was
very wisely observed recently at the
Leeds exhibition, "\Ve don't desire ,o
raise an unemployed fund, we wish to
keep the poor employed." One Weal
advantage of the materials they supply.
which a(, dyed with seaweed, which
gives lovely tints unattainable other-
wise, is that they ore all good,
GENUINE AND DURABLE.
As an illustration, there is a story cur
rent that two suits of -Harris tweed were
sold by a worker to a couple who wished
to bo dressed alike on their tandem
bicycle. Year after year, when the friend
visited them, they wore still wearing
the stilts; at last In the fifth year the
friend saw 111en1 no longer and thought
they must now be worn out, when, be-
hold, in came five little children alike le
the identoul tweed, still a5 good its ever.
What these ladies have clone in Scot-
land
industries
1 revhdn the cottage
land 1
g
Y g
in Ireland
byLhe
repealed
^been
has
Duchess of Abercorn, Lady Aberdeen.
Lady Londonderry, Lady Cadogan, Lady
Arthur Hill and many others, In Ire-
land the old art of making beautiful
lace, which was languishing for lank of indicated and there found Inc bones of
encouragement a few years ago, is now the murdered warrior concealed in a
successfully practised, and fashion In moorland tract. called the 11111 e[
Paris, by some inscrutable process
known only to itself, has ordained that
this season Irish lace should be the
"dernier orf de la mode." Whole gowns
are fashioned 'of it, blouses of fairylike
texture tempt the purse and the vanity
of the olegante, while no dress is con-
sidered complete without the addition rf
a jabot, a pelerine or a trimming of Irisin
lace. Lady Dudley, wile of tho ex -
Viceroy of Ireland, has encouraged the
manufacture and sale of lace to the ut-
most of her ability, and Lady Mayo
seconds her efforts in giving designs,
advice and assistance of all kinds to the
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Ached. All these boys hove turned out,
well. One is a slutiou master, another p.
an organist, a third an estate clerk, a I
fourth a lend gardener, one or two til
Ihel1 having slhown special cupacity
were sent to college, and did excellently.
The great beauty of all (hese schemes
is the voluntary effort conipried in thein,
and the personal influence required to 1� ,44„�„�«ereeee viegel„ ,+14
hring lien to a satisfactory conclusion.
They show that many woman are seri-
ously trying to grapple With 11118in055,
educational and social problems, and
are busy in 1001'e senses than 'one,
HANGED ON OHO:T'l"S TESTIMONY.
Peculiar Trials Found Among Bettish
Court Accords.
The. testimony of a "ghost" would not
now count for much In a court of law
but the day has been when it has sufficed
to hang a man. It is slated that the
original depositions are in the Bodleian
Library of a most remarkable case 11
this character, says the London Stan-
dard.
A girl named Anne Walker was sup-
posed to have been sent away for her
mind by n sitestonlial farmer. Some
time nflerwerds a so-called apparition
appeared to a neighbor, with its head all
nuouy Il•01[1 wuuuus, and tolling hint
that she had been murdered by the far-
mer and an accomplice. Her body, 11e
apparition said, had been buried In a
spot which she described, and.she
begged the man to whom she appeared
to bring her murderers to justice. True
enough, the body was found in the place
mentioned and the men were brought 10
trial. The sensational character of the
case was intensified by ono of the jury-
men declaring that he saw the child of
the dead woman "silting upon the
shoulder" of its father, the farmer. Both
the culprits were hanged.
There was a ghostly accuser In a case
with winch readel s of Scott are famil-
iar. Soon after the "45" an English sol-
dier wandering near Braemar met a
violent death. Hawks do not peck out
hawks' een and no man opened his
mouth to give a clue. Years passed and
then came a story of a communication
[ram another world.
A faun servant declared that In the
night a spirit bad appeared to him, de-
claring itself to be the ghost of the sol-
dier, whose bones it said lay still un-
buried. The highlander must see to
their decent interment and have the
murderers, two men named, brought to
justice. The Highlander promised, but
and
a second rd and s c
did not keep his word,
appeared
andu-
the spirit n e up-
braided
time p
thirdp p
braided him for this breach of faith.
Alarmed at last and no longer daring
to delay, the man called a companion,
went to the spot which the spirit had
workers.
But lace, tweeds, friezes and serges
are not the only manufactures distressed
Ireland produces. Lady Kenmare, in the
delightful and poetical regions of lenl-
(arney, has organized a new industry in
the shape of
INLAID FURNITURE,
made by the natives, which can vie in
beauty and finish with any other work
of the kind.
It is almost superfous to mention the
well-known lingerie and art needlework
executed in convents, schools, etc., and
encouraged, presided over or actually
created by women. When one considers
how difficult it is to reorganize a dying
trade, to enter upon business as an un-
trained person, ,1 find out the best mar-
ket for the sats of goods, to create
fashion, that most capricious of females,
and to snake both ends meet, it must be
confessed that women of tho present day
have shown remarkable aptitude for
organization, clearness of aim and un-
paralleled activity and perseverance ei
carrying out their somewhat ambitious
aims. Lady Warwick's experiments In
toehlnical schools, gardening and agri-
culture are well established and have
opened several new careers 10 women.
Lady Henry Somerset's temperance
work and (ler homes for Inebriate women
aro the outcome of a lifelong devotion,
and one knows not which to admire
most, the strength that has enabled her
to travel all over America In the cause,
the silvery tones 0f her clear voice when
she pleads for the poor and the wretched,
or the admirable discipline and wisdom
with which she rules her little communi-
ties, and the decided success that has
attended them.
A leathern girdle—Compare the des-
cription of Elijah's raiment: "He was a
hairy mal, and girt with a girdle of
leather about his loins" (2 Icings 1. 8).
Locusts and wild honey—Several
species of locusts furnished food for the
common people of Palestine, especially
in times of ranine. By wild honey is
meant the honey of the wild bee stored
in hollow tree trunks and in Caves and
crevices In the rocks. Tho Greek word
seems ,also to have designated the sap
Of certain trees.
Laiohet-=The strip of !anther that
fastened a sandal or 01103, The English
word comes from O. F. les, or laced,
"noose," from which (101n05'a1130 the noun
"lace," any kind of cord holding to-
gether pmts of a garment or shoe.
8. In the Holy Spirit --Or, "with the
Holy Spirit."
0. Nazareth of Galilee—The phrase "of
Galilee" is one of the many little ex-
planatory phrases found in Mark's gos-
pel which indicate that the circle of
readers far.which the gospel was in-
tended wee Gentle and outside 01 Pal-
estine
10. Straightway—A favorite word of
the a116ho1', wheee narrative might, be
called the. stral htwey
appropriately f¢
gospel," firrelc the pre.
Rant asundtr •-fn t10 P
r. 0(0(1 Is,nonnotl01' than Gad 1im- sell pnrtictple is used, indicating pre.
P. Sent action, being rent asunder.
Christie.
The story of the Highlander came to
the ears of an anti -Jacobite, who caused
the mater to be brought to trial before
the Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh. There
the talo was corroborated by a woman
who had seen a naked figure enter the
place on the night spoken of by the man.
It was an age of superstition, In a dis-
trict more than oommonly given to super-
stitions, and the jury seemed disposed
to find the two rnen charged guilty of
the murder. Rut it happened that the
principal witness spoke only Gaelic.
Nov,said counsel for the defense, "in
"'el. language did the ghost speak?"
'1.s good Gaelic) as I ever heard In
, ,rubor, was the reply. "Pretty good
for the ghost of an English soldier,'
said counsel. And that question and
comment saved the nettles of the men at
the bar. The jury could believe in n
ghost, but not in an English ghost speak-
ing Gaelic.
The Duchess of Montrose's hobbyUs
to establishment of district nurses. p
to a [ow years ago 831011 useful women
wore unknown in Scotland, 111e training
of village midwives left much to bo de-
sired,' and the poor in time of sickness
were forced to depend on the minister -
Ings of relatives or the unseill[ul if wall
meaning attempts of friends and neigh-
bors. The ductless has organized 11
training home and nurses' home In
Govan, ono of 111e poorest suburbs of
Glasgow, where any amount' of exper-
ience can be acquired, and thence is able
to send out
DULY QUALIFIED NURSES
to any counties that I'egilire them.
Tiny ventures of all kinds have boon
practised by other busy ladies, accord-
ing to their several capaciltas and idio-
syncrasies, One, for instance, has
started a holiday Homo for poor chil-
dren from the -crowded eines where the
11tfe ones may breathe fresh air and en-
joy the delights of running wild In the
country ter a fortnight; It lothee -Mees
charge of Crippled children, perbnps the
most pathetic work of all, and end0al•01's
to restore them to 11011111 or to leach
them trades by which they they bo nude
self seppartIng and happy. -
The Merchfonees of Deeadalhana has
initialedan inlorasLing experiment 1n
ilio education of orphenl boys Mon 10011.
the poorest ciass; The boys, about a
dozen i11 millibar, are lodged '9u -a Teen
lvurinuan's College in a beautiful village;
STRANGE ROMANCE.
1011(1n Marquis fields itis Title to
come British Subject.
A strange romance of an Italian mar-
quis, who gave up leis title and fort tie
and became a British subject, has been
unfolded in the New Zealand Court of
Appeal. whe-
herCourt was asked to deckle he -
her the late Marquis Arturo Taliacarne
was an Italian or a New Zealander. lie
w
as the son of the Marquis Andrea
allacarne, of Genoa, an Italian subject,
and at various times Ambassador of the.
then King of Sardinia to many countries.
Tile Marquis Andrea married an Eng-
Ushwoman in London, and when ho was
Ambassador for Sardinia at The Hague,
n 1859, his sot Arturo was born.
The boy was educated at Harrow and
Oxford, and on. the death of his father
became possessor of largo estates In
Genoa and other parts of itaiy. In 1881
to went to Now Zealand, invested a large
sum of money in land, and, adopting
the donoeratio spirit of the country,
dropped his title, and assumed the name
of Arthur James Beetle.
While he was in New Zealand he ar-
ranged for the income of his Italian
estates to be invested by an Italian ape
pointed to receive the money. After
the Marquis' death, however, it was dis-
covered that f.his person had become
bankrupt and lost the entire fortune (f
the Marquis, amounting to about
$200,000,
Ill 1800, shorty before 1118 death, 1110
Marquis married in his English mune,
and• it is his wife, who has since married
again, who brought an action asking the
New Zealand courts to revoke the grant
of probate to his will on the ground that
ile was an Italian subject. The action,
however, has been decided against her,
the Court of Appeal declaring that the
Marquis was a r.esidml1 (1f New Zealand
and a British Subject.
PERUVIAN RAILWAY.
A retnorkable railway, 0110 of the
wonders of Peru, is that which runs
from -Callao to the gold fields of Cerro
de Poem. Beginning in Callao, it as -
coeds tic narrow valley of the lilma ,
rising nearly 5,001) fact in the first 0
Hailes. Thence it goes through the intri-
cate gorges of the Sierras till it tunnels
the Anulus at an altitude 0f 111,615 feet,
the highest point in the word) where n
piston roil Le moved by Menne This es.
tnntshilig °lihve llen is reached in 713
mil08.
Bo -
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Fritter Beans,—Beat an egg until light,
add ogle -fourth teaspoonful of salt, one-
fourth of u cupful of milk, and pour
gradually into one cupful of flour. Beat
until smooth, adding more milk !f needed
to make a drop batter. Pour through u
colander Into deep hot fat and fry until
brown. Lift out with a sicimmer and
drain on brown paper. Put a spoonful
into each service of soup as served,
Apple Ginger.—Wipe, pare core and
chop sour apples enough to weigh two
and one-half pounds. Put In a slcwpan
and add one and one'hftlf pounds et
light brown sugar, the juice and rind of
ono lemon, one-half ounce of ginger root
and one cupful of water. Cover and
cook slowly for three hours, adding
water as necessary to keep from burn-
ing. Serve around the roast goose In
apple cups made from bright red apples.
The apple sugar may be prepared a week:
ahead 1f desired.
Soft Ginger Chocolate Creams.—Form
fondant into tiny cones, tucking into
each ones a bit of preserved ginger, well
dried, before using. Dip the balls 1010
melted chocolate, one at a erne and lay
on paramn paper in a cold place to
harden.
Maple and Butternut Cream.—Break
into shall pieces five pounds of maple
sugar and brat in a porcelain pan with
one pint of cream. Boll over a moder-
ate fire to the soft ball stage. Remove
from the fire, add one cupful of chopped
butternut meals and stir slowly until the
mixture cools and beghas to thicicen,
then pour into_.shallow buttered pans,
score 111 squares and place a butternut
meat on each square. When cold break
apart and wrap each piece in a square
of scarlet paper with fringed ends.
Devil's Food. -13o11 together a half -cup
of sweet milk, a half -cup of brown sugar,
and a half -cup of grated chocolate.
When as thick as cream take from the
fire and set aside to cool. Cream a cup
Of brown sugar and a half -cup of butler,
add two beaten eggs, two-thirds of a
cup of 011111, and vanilla flavoring. Mix
in the boiled mixture and add two cups
of flour that have been sifted with iwo
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake
in layers and put these together with
icing.
boiled i c
Apple P
utter.=Boil cidere1. down to two-
thirdsIts original quantity, and turn into
this as many peeled and sliced apples
es the liquid will cover. Simmer, stir-
ring often until soft and broken. Strain
out the cooked apples, odd more fresh
ones, and cook in the same way. De
11111e until the cider is absorbed, Set all
aside in a stone crock for 12 hours, tiler
boll to a soft brown mass, and pack in
stone jars
Lemon Pie.—Line a pie -plate with a
light crust, grato upon this the yellow
rind of one large lemon. Remove the
white inner peeling carefully: and cut
the lemon into slices, placing them in
the oust with the edges touching, but
not overlapping. When the bottom if
the pie is covered strew the lemon with
a cup of granulated sugar, then pour hII
a tablespoonful of cornslerteh, stirred
into a gill of water; cover with a top
crust, and bake.
A New Idea for Meat PIos.—We all
know how soggy a meat pie crust
usually is, so most cooks will hat this
new way of making them. Cover the
outside of the pan with the crust, prick-
ing it lightly all over. Set this pan over
a eel so it will not touch tho bottom of
the oven, and bake nicely. Slip from the
pan and you have the bottom and sides
of the pie. Roll out and cut a cover to
fit, prick it well and bake this also.
When wanted for use, set in the oven a
few minutes, fill with the hot meat mix-
ture, put on the warm crust and set in
the oven until ready to serve. Both
crust and filling can bo made the day
before., so this saves a 1ot,of time.
ALASI
Once I was rich, end all rnrn v01110
. Submissive to my call,
But 1n a, Moment's 11010 n blame
A10rtn clock spotted ,111311. `.
If used regularly, the appearance of
having been bleached.
When boilingmeat the red juice will
escape and so render 11 dry and insipid
r dread of
e turning it to
fork c to n
it t 1 In
aIs g
n knife or spoon If the meat Melee to
the gridiron and is milked by the bars,
111e latter have not been won greased be.
fore putting -on the 8101111,
T11e really best 010110,11 of aleenimg
mirrors and windows Is t0 rub ureal
w1111 a pasha of whiling and water.
When ttt(s dries polish with dry chamois
and remove the powder. A little alco-
hol in cold water also gives a brilliont
polish. Soapsuds should never be used.,
When making soup, if there is uo
time to let it enol and heat again before
serving, pae4s It through a olefin wh11e
cloth wrung out of 00l(1 water, The cold-
ness of the cloth will coagulate the fat
and will prevent the pure grease from
getting through. Soup 30110 wholes
of fat Muting on the top is very we
appa(lzing.
If meat is Lough, or If you have any
doubt as to its tenderness, put a table-
spoonful of vinegar over when putting
it on to mole. You will (Intl it very
tender when done. Try steaming fowls
instead of boiling. You will find that
the meat is always tender and rho full
benefit of the fowl is kept, besides a very
delicate flavor.
To polishthe dining table, take 0
quarter of a pound of beeswax (the un.
bleached will do) end have ready a piece
of carpet a quarter of a yard square.
lined with a piece of cloth and padded
Hold the wax before a fire, and, as 11
melts, coat ihr 010111 well with IL, and
while yet warm begin to rub the table
briskly. Ruh for a quarter of an hour.
Por chilblains or blisters on the hands
first soak the members In hot water.
then rub with spirits of turpentine.
()thing Ls better for a cold on the lungs
than equal parts of turpentine and lard
mixed and applied warm. Many sharp
pain in 11e side or cues(. can be relieved
by applying clouts wrung from hot
water in which is one tablespoonful of
turpentine to the quart.
MADE 81011 13Y BOGUS MINE.
Exploits of Swindlers Laid Bare to
Their Dupes. -
An exploit of the "Band of the Baker,"
the gang of international thieves now
being broken up by the Paris police, bas
come to light.
Two years ago they invented a milling
company in the United .Slates. There
was no mine, but the shares were
adroitly put on the market at 820 apiece.
They were well subscribed, l
' b and in the
• c
ed
few months the entranced
course of a
shareholders received a preliminary
dividend of $6.25 a share.
Three months later they received a
further dividend of $6.25. AL the end
of e. third three months another letter
from the company mime. This lime d
was 111e notice of a general meeting of
the shareholders, and an Intimation that
valuable mineral discoveries had been
made on the company's property.
Mirabel, the leader of the band, ex-
plained at the meeting of the company
that further capital was needed to devel-
op the new discoveries. Ile said that the
directors had decided to make a call of
$15 a share, which would enable them
to extend the operations to the fullest
extent, and make the fortunes of the.
shareholders in a very little Cine.
By a refinement of cleverness, the
shareholders who did not wish to pay
thio call were Informed that their money
would be returned to them less 111e divi-
dends already paid. Everybody paid
this $15 call, Since the day they received
the scrip the shareholders have not
heard of the company or the directors.
NEIGHBORHOOD DON'TS.
Don't, in the interest of peace and
quietness, and as you venue your own
reputation in your own neighborhood,
be too intimate with any ono when it
conies to revealing the scored places 01
your heart and• home. Your mother, my
dear young woman, or your - husband,
is the safest confidant, and it makes no
difference • ov' perfectly congenial a
fried may seem, or even prove to be, she
will value you none the less for tho fine
reserve that you maintain about per-
sonal maters. And such reticence may
savo you infinite annoyance by and by.
Don't snake the mistake of saying,
"Now, of course, this is just between you
and ale," about one neighbor to another.
Don't, if you have cl.11droh, allow them
the privilege of any premises except
thole own, lost you bo.overrun with 1110
young of other families, and thereby find
mach undiscovered territory of impa-
tienco in your own self, and fresh pro-
blems 111 the care an(1 culture of your
offspring
Don't entertain your neighbors with
stories of the cleverness of your chil-
dren, your oats or your canines.
Don't tell them 1101v good your oldest
son is, for they may put on the look of
the wondrous wise, and thereby 0xas-
pnraLe you.
If ,33011 haven't sul[icfent lea in 1110
house fur 1110 imminent meal, do with-
out, or mate coffee in the stead of it, for
the borrowing habit Is insidious, de-
moralizing, and once begun 1s as hard
to reform as the drink habit.
The whole system sums
h at m a in the ob-
servance
p
of tho gondol rule, but since
no one is possessed of all (ho graces,
and negative virtues in a neighbor are
the ones we value most, except in rare
emergencies,it will be well to 1ea131 the
golden rule 0f Confucius: "De not unto
others, as yo would not 51hey should do
unto you."
The cheery visits to you in your stria
mass or bruuhle, the kindly Helping bend
when tinges of stress come,. will not mean
sn much to you if they are thrown' into
relief by a background of petty annoy -
niters, end and 11'41 a poor rule Ita1 doesn't
work both wept._
POR
uy,+,_
TOR 'i'HP, 1111L'4E\VIFle,
A little pipeclay Weeded in the water
employed 111 ensiling 1inraeb•awcs the
dlrlic\st clothe, ihoruughly,. with a great
saving et total' ((1111 soali, It 'will .also
improve the calor of the linen, giving If,
BRITAIN'S NEW PREMIER
Silt HENRY (1At11I'IBELL , BANNER.
MAN'S 111(0ORD..
ile is Entitled on Services to the Proal. -
inept Position lie Now
Holds.
In spite of Ills somewhat pronounced
LIL0'aliene,-his adherence to Home little, '
and the countenance which extended
during tea Shah African war - to the
pro -Boer section of his party, Sir Henry
Campbell -Bannerman has never been„
unpopular among the Conservatives at
Weshninster, says a writer in the Lon-
don Standard. (Con.) His cheery man-
ner, itis genuine kindliness, and a con-
siderable fund of dry (1unier, which oc-
casionally, though too rarely, dhows
itself in his public speeches, make him
a pleasant companion. Ho is moreover,
it hospitable roan, and an excellent judge
of cookery. Without any pretensions to
learning or wide reading, he Is a well-
informed, clever conversationaliot, and
versed in 111e light literature el Franoe
as well as of -England. -
HIS ADVANCEMENT. -
From the beginning of his career In
Parliament the was marked out for ode
vancemenl, though his warmest friends
could scarcely have predictedthat he
would become Prime Minister, or even
Leader, of the iIouse of Commons. He
seemed destined, rather [0 figure
among the highly -esteemed but distinct-
ly second-rate politicians whose claims
to Cabinet rank are recognized on COO,
dation that, when the time comes for
younger men to press forward, they wilt
uncomplainingly retire --either' with or
without a peerage. Twice he served as
Financial Secretary to the War Office
(1871-4 and 1880.2). From 1882 to 1884
the was Secretary to the Admiralty, and
in the latter year he consented, at a
troubulous period, to become Chief Sec-
retary for Ireland. In all these offices—
even in the last—he acquired a reputa-
tion for tact, businesslike capacity, and
a certain amount of Parliamentary -ad-
dress.
JENKS WAS RIGIIT.
Farmer Jenks is a man who is so de•
sirous of being considered infallible that
be will suffer great inconvenience rather
than relinquish that claim. "1-le'd ra-
ttler have his own way than eat when
Vs hungry," says his wife, who, after
long years of contention and final yield-
ing, has learned to know holm well.
Not long ago Fanner Jenks injured
one o[ his fingers so severely that llc
was obliged to leave s work and go
homli
e and have it dressed.
"I tell you what, Jane," said he to his
wife; "that finger'll have to come off."
"No. 'twon't, either, father," said she.
s0otlliligly. "I've seen plenty of hurts
worse'l that."
"Jane, I tell you 'twill! Don't you
s'pose that I know what to expect of.
my own trfgcr?"
The dispute ran high, and, as usual,
the husband had the last word.
Days event and the (Inger grew worse
rather than better, until M. last It reach-
ed such n elate that filo doctor was
culled. He had not been in the room
fifteen minutes when Farmer Jenks sum-
moned his wife.
"Sane," said ho, "come here, come
herel What do you s'pose he says?"
"Well, I guess by the way you're emit -
in' he says its all right," said she, also
beginning to smile in relief. "I must
say I am glad! Your forefinger and on
lire right handl it didn't seem to me 1
could 11e reconciled if it really had to
conte off—"
"iiut that's just it," interrupted her
husband, still smiling in triumph, (Ind
looking at hor with sparkling oyes; "it's
got to Dome off, and i told you sol"
SNOW -SHOES FOR MARSHES.
Tha largest extent of mm'sh land in
the world is to be found 111 the lowlands
which form part of the steppe of Ba' -
aha, between the rivers latish and Obi,
in Asiatic Russia. elem region is not,
and Corded with forests, salt lake?, and
quivering menthes, extending over an
area which is not less than 1013,0(10
squ0r0 miles. During the simmer
dense clouds of nlosqutuas float over the
treacherous ground. Jtnecnse nrea8 of
these dreaded "llrmans" Have never been
vieile(1 by man. The marshes treacle -
musty concealed 1(11(ler a swaying toyer
of grassy vegetation, can only be crossed
by moans of n 1(11101 of snot' -8110e in
winter, except at the po'I1 of one's like
CURIOUS COAL CEid,111.
to !inn churchyard of a coeteln Welsh
village. n 11111(11(1 sloring•plamc is pro-
vided for 1110 000 used to tient lila
('lurch during lie winter months. In
Ilia churchyard stand four largo yew
I(,10c, prominent lamlmarlw•( known to all
Iho villagers. 13ut these [!rand old. yews
are not only nrnantodal; one. aL least,
80rve8 a Toed purpose,, for in a hollow
in: 0110 of El SIM, 331(1011 Is protected by a
flog',. 14 slurcd' 111e rite -Mee supply of
Coal.
THE CORDITE VOTE.
It was natural that when Mr. Glad-
stone formed his now Ministry in 1886
an important department should be in-
trusted to a loyal and capable follower.
Sir Henry was Secretary of Slate for
War for a few months in 1886, and again
from 1892 to 1895. On both occasions
he won the, good opinion of the perman-
ent staff. Certainly he is not one cf
those administrators who make them-
selves disliked by restless energy and
reforming zeal. It was, perhaps, the
reluctance of Mr. Gladstone's and Lord
etosebery's Governments to spend money
on the army estimates that led to the
famous exposure es to the cordite and
to their defeat in the ouse of Commons.
There is no doubt that when they went
out the military store., had been al-
lowed to sink to a dangerously low
quantity.
AFTER THE SPEAKERSHIP.
It should be mentioned that, so far
from Sir henry having anticipated ten
years ago that he would reach 111s pre-
sent exalted position, he was anxious
on the retirement of Mr. Speaker Pee[,
t0 succeed him in the chair, and it was
only at the earnest Intercession of his
colleagues, who were already unwilling
to face any of the dilennas of'recon-
slruction, that he gave up what was
then his highest ambition. it was, per-
haps by way of compensation for this
considerable act of self-sacrifice that he
was created G. C. B.
The withdrnwal of Lord Rosebery
from the leadership of the party, and
the subsequent retirement of Sir Wil-
liam Harcourt and Mr. John Morley
from active wok in the House of Com.
mons, loft the field clear for Sir Henry.
Undoubtedly 11e has worked hard for
his party, and is entitled on his services,
to the high reward now bestowed upon
him. Whether his leadership can be
permanent, or whether it will be adval-
10geous, even during a brief period, for
his party, are questions that we need.
not now discuss. Nor will we go over
what we regard es his very'comprom-
ising and unfortunate reenrd as to
South African affairs.
RELATIONS WITH ROSEBERY.
Probably it was no fault of his that
the was forced into rivalry wvith Lord
Rosebery, who, after withdrawing, broke
up the party—so the Radical group con-
tend—by founding the school of Liberal -
Imporialists and setting up a definite
organization, the Liberal League, which,
in regard to foreign affairs and also '1s
te Ireland, pursued a policy which was
not the policy of either of 111e loft wing
of 111e .party or of its accepted leader.
These, again, are points that need not
bo discussed on this occasion. Tho
p011r1.21 which had seemedto -be appeas-
ed before Sir Henry's speech at Stirling
and Lord elosebery's lrply at Bodmin
had not died away—it only -slumbered.
And it is sold that Sir Henry, though
he has paid generous tributes to Lord
Rosebery's great abilities, did not alto-
gether relish his recent reference to 11hn
A -i an "0111 friend." Personally, we bo-
ileve thorn was no animosity. But the
difference in their points of view' he re•
g�erd to all imperial questions is abso.
13110)y fundamental,.
SPEAKS leR011( NOTES,
Whon Sir Henry chooses to make an
effort he can deliver a fareible end 11un1-
nrous speech. But he indulges at times
in an excessive use of gesture, and the
effect of his utterances is much dimin-
ished by the fact that they are, tie a
rule, reed word for word from a paper,
it is a habit whiele he must abandon 1'f
he wishes to attain 13113' 53101)088 "es lead-
erof the House of Commons.
8
('.11511 AND EFFECT,
"That young woman next door to you
goes in 1'00 meta, doesn't silo?
"Music, so•oalled, yes."
"Vocal or instrumental
"1 Milo of both. She's vociferously
Vaal and instrumental in making tate
neighbors swear,",
0.14.411,0
\VIIICII?
file -•pore's a joke abort 0 Weneatt
trying to sharpen a. load pencil. f Can't
sen any point to ill
Iia---Noboly Ran, Thatee What the
joke serv,