HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-4-5, Page 3!� CO1VSCIENCELESS AGE
The Lack of Conscience Is a Menace
of Present Day Life.
Herein do 1 exercise myself, to have
always a conscience void of offence to-
ward God and toward men. -Acts xxiv.,
16.
ConsNenee Ie a compound of two La -
lin words slgnifyiug self-knowledge. It
Is an haler' light whtuh shows lbe way
of duly. 11. Is a secret volae whielt for -
blas into wrong and commands the right.
t-feuao it points to a sett( of authority
uut of out•solvos-that is, it witresses to
a Cod.
Conscience, however, Hurst, bo taught.
An uninstructed, misguided conacionee is
one of Ute most Terrible forces resident
in man.'" And herein cones the naees-
say of revelation. When a man is act-
ing as itnpelled by the authority of God
ru should know what God wills. Bence
the human c0nsebveo must be enlighl-
cnod by the turned of Uod.
There are many imperfect and defec-
tive consciences from which the gross.
est errors and wrongs result, Thee is,
hest, a false conscience -one That hue
been mistakenly educated, that sees
):arm itt things innocent:, that confounds
Abstinence with Temperance, that )fore
bids what God has nhoant to be enjoyed,
that mistakes austerity for piety.
This nmakes conscience play the role
of a harsh, severe and bigoted censor,
altogether foreign to its true intent.
There are few things worse than
A FALSE CONSCIENCE.
Again, there is a legalistic conscience.
This takes hold upon externals. If the
outward life be correct, if the reputation
he kept moral, if visible conduct lie
blameless, if duties be regularly dis-
charged, it Is self-satisfied. But it over-
looks the tact that the real seat of con-
science is in the Inner life. The most
faultless legalism is utterly shallow and
ain until It springs from the heart,
'ho works of such formalists are but
done in be seen of Wren and have their.
reward.
There is the double conscience -ono
for the private' and another for the pub-
lic life. Some men feel in honor bound
to do uprightly by their families and
friends. They are patterns of moral
correctness in their personal relations.
But as members of some corporation or
trust they freely, and apparently with-
out blush, commit acts and sanction
practises which are no less than robbery.
liven members in good standing in
'VAST IRRIGATION
Christian churches have thus besmirch -
re the shuttle's fair name by flagrant dis-
hones ty,
And then again, there is the one-sid-
ed conscience, Paul's consclneco- In the
text had lire two necessary sides.
"Herein do 1 exereiso myself, to have al-
ways a conscience void of offense to-
ward God and toward men"
The conscientiousness of many only
embraces men, but quite ignores Chu,
their Maker. They have morality,
lack religion; and thus they disregard
the supremo obligation of the ethical
sense. God not only will not be Ignored
but Ho wands tine fist concern. Wrote
Buskin truly:
"God will put up with many things m
the heart of man, but one thing Ho will
not put up with -
Till: SECOND PLACE.
Ile who gives God second place, gives
Hint no place."
No more irnlortant theme could le
suggested for our time then this. We are
in danger of incurring that most tern!
Ile of indictments - a conscienceless
ego. Thinking, upright minds are
shocked at tine revelations showing utter
tack of conscience in wide ranges cf
present day life. We need, then, a re-
vival of the conscience. We need Loem-
plhastze the imperative necessity of
heeding it. Tho disregard of conscience
Presages remorse to the individual and
disaster to society.
Canscienee wounded becomes an ad-
der's tongue that will sting to the death.
Let no man hope to evade the Nemesis
that follows the ignoring .of this divine
monitor.
No tortures which the pouts feign
Can match the tierce, intolerable gain
He feels wino, night and day, devoid of
rest,
Curries his own accusers in his breast.
A life without conscience toward God
first and toward man because of God is
the worst. of failures. No gold can gild,
no glamour of position or power can
[111 it with success.
But a good conscience is true riches -
a patent of genuine nobility, a breast-
plate against all adversities and a light
of inner peace and joy that will sustain
us until we reach Our Father's house.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APIIIL 8,
Lesson 1t, lesus and the Sabbath.
Golden Text: Exodus 20.8.
LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note. -Those Word Studies aro based
on the text of the Revised Version.
The Lord's Day. -Tito Lord's Day, or
Christian Sunday, was not Intended
from the first tobe a substitute for the
Jewish. Sabbath. Sacred in the thought
and memory of the apostles and their
sucoessors as the day on which Jesus expression not of God's severity but of
had risen from the dead, it was Dense- his love to man. This being true, the
crated amass from the time o the lav itself is subject to modification in
Resurrection as a day on which
the dis- higher manifestations of God's love.
Suet a higher manifestation was the
satisfying of rho hunger of David, and
in this case that of the disciples. In
both cases this involved a setting aside
of the law Itself, or at least of' the law
as commonly tnterpreted by the religious
teachers of the time.
8. Son of Man -A title used by Jesus
of himself as the typical or representa-
tive member of the human race.
10. WiLheeed bond -A paralyzed hand
which had withered away because of
disuse.
Amuse Min -Before the ecclesiastical
authorities for false teaching.
11, in the other synoptical gospels
the argument of thhs verse is slightly
different. "Is .11 lawful to do good on
the Sabbath days, or to do evil? to save
life or to hill?" Matthew here states
the argument as it bears specially on
the Jewish law (comp, also Luke 14. 51.
14. Took counsel against him -Mark
mentions the feet that the Herodinns
joined the . Pharisees in this 'council
(come. Mark 8. 6.12, Luke 6. 111
Destroy him -Destroy not only his in-
fluence, but his life -that is, get rid of
him.
PLAN pa
rignalndsCena, l Thaancdu16I0.
'Tay
farm on traces 01 about eighty acres
ouch, and 1 am told that they raise two
or three times as much on such farms
as can be raised in the non -irrigated
sections.
During my stay in Canada I have
visited this Mormon country. it is
reached lay she line of the Alberta Rail-
way and Irrigation Company, which la
nsod largely to carry cool from Leth-
bridge down to Montana. The lands are
almost dead Ilal, and are rut up by ca.
nals fed by St. Mary's 1'ilver,
I'1' IS NOW UNDER WAY IN THE 'PRO-
VINCE OP ALBERTA.
forth in the sanctuary, called also con-
tinual bread because perpetually kept in
the sanctuary before the Lord. Twelve
loaves or cakes placed in two piles on
the table of showbroad each Sabbath
day (comp. Ex. 25. 30; Lev. 24. 6.8).
5. Profane the Sabbath -By the labor
necessarily connected with their duties
in the sanctum. Among these were the
removing of the shotvbread, the prepar-
ing the Ore for the sacrifice and officia-
ting at the regular temple services. In
these cases, Jesus points out, Sabbath
labor was not only countenanced by the
law, but actually commanded,
6. One greats' thane the temple -Note
the exalted claims of Christ Involved in
this statement.
7. I desire mercy ... and not same -
flee -Quoted from Hosea, 6. 6, and
quoted again by Mathew in chapter 0.
13. The law righty understood 1s an
of )les gathered together, for the purpose
of worship and for the breaking of
tread. But as a matte' 01 fact, the
Jewish Sabbath also WAS observed for
a hong time atter Christ, even in Chris-
tian circles, the two days being clearly
distinguished from each other down to
about, the close of the third century af-
ter Christ. Gradually the observance of
the Jewish Sabbath fell into disuse
among the Christians, while at the some
time the sacredness of the Lotd'a Day
increased to them. It is not quite ao-
eurale therefore to consider the Chris -
elan Sunday to have boon.-intenidonnily
substituted for the Jewish Sabbath.
Rather must we consider the latter to
have .been abolished in the Christian
chore) and the Lord's day to have been
given the preference as a day of rest
and worshtp, As one commentator puts
it : "The observance of the first day of
the week is en analogous institution
(analogous to the Jewish Sabbath which
had been abolished), based on the con-
seeratton of that day by our Lord's
leessurection, sanctioned by apostolic.
usage, and accepted by the early
church, -the day being set apart for
similar objects -rest from labor and the
service of God, -in a manner consonant
with the higher and more spiritual
teachings of Christ, and to be observed
in the 'spirit of loyal Christian freedom,
rather tinge by obedience to a system of
preels° statutes." 1t, is necesaary to hold
these faots continually 111 mind in order
to appreciate the true significance of
the Christian Sunday and its actual re-
totlhe Jwaist or 016 Tt ostaimen t, Sabbath.
Verse 1. 'rho sabbath day -pit was the
Jawisli Sabbath of seventh 'cloy of the
eveok on Which Jesus with hie disciples
went through the grain fields. These
were not in those days as now in many
p10008 of our own land separated from
made other by strong fences, but steeply,
it et all, by small footpaths. , Some.
titres these ne.the went. through the
centre of the ,groin fields also. .
gars -Heads of meted. and barley.
2. That whlali is not lawful -The
crushing 01 Jheeds tit grain in the hoed
to septate the. grain from the 11ut1 or
chaff surrounding it was interpreted as
being a form of harvesting and thresh-
ingg, and therefore was unlawful on the
Sabbath day.
What David did -In Sam.h21 1'7, we e
fled on account of the tnelden t In D
lite fiet'e metered to. Dowd In 11801ng
before ,ttu1-ig' Sahil came to Nob to Ahina
th
e1eah. e priest, vIlia .gave to him en
his famished companions the shove,
bread' Which was considered Sacred and
wee eaten: ordinarily by no one save the
priests who otfioliffeddit the;tai arnnole.
4, ShorvbreatiI tteratl ',. fhb bread et
setting (oriter; s6 called it:'om .tieing set
1,800.000 Acres of Arld Land Aro to Bo
Changed to Fertile
Territory.
By ail odds the higgest irrigation pro-
ject on the Norlh-,.,nertoun conlIneni is
now under way In Lhis province of Al -
Leyte. In Me all the irrigated lairds of
the United Slates dirt not amount to
10,000,000 acres, By this scheme Gona6n
will redeem a million and a half acres cf
semi -desert, and that by private purees
without 'government aid, writes Frank
G Carpenter, from Calgary to the Chi-
cago Record-ilerald.
The work Inas been undertaken by the
Canadian PaciOo Railroad, which has
exchanged a pact of its land grant for
3.000,00(1 acres lying between here and
Medicine 11111. Of this 1,5(0,000 aures
will be put under watnr,.and the balance
will be sold to the irrigated land owners
for pasture and mixed farming. This
tract of irrigated lands is almost as
ado oreat r California.s all e hi It 5 more thd an twColir-
ce
that of Utah, Idaho or Wyoming and
many times that. of any other western
slate.
This work is now going on. One iwn-
dred and ten thousand acres are now
ready for the turning on of the water,
and double that amount will be added
this year. The project will be hondled
in blocks of 1,000,000 acres each, or ' it
will be continued until the whole L
1, redeemed and settled. Altogether it
means supplying Gomes La something
like 30,000 families and with the towns
and other industries whish will be built
up along the lino it ultimately means
the addition of about 300,000 people to
Canada's population.
IN GREAT AMERICAN DESERT.
SAYS MARQUIS IS INSANE.
1a Kept Under Guard by His Bride of
Ten Months.
A sensation in London is the detention
of the Marquis of Townshend by his
bride of Jan months,. who declares the
marquis Is ' not mentally • sound and
keeps him under lock,. and key. • The
marchioness is a pretty blonde, the
deughter' of 'Thomas Sutherst, a barris-
ter, who Is said to have mild the mar-
quis $135,000 • for cooking . his daughter
a marchioness. The marquis' mother
and friends aro trying to have ]nim re-
leased from the restraint his wife has
placed on his movements, and secure
for him the freedom of asa:teenon be
desires with a man friend' for whore be
has great affection. They say be was
cruelly treated by his Wife on the honey-
moon -that the was locked In his room
end subjcoted to other indlgn[Ltes. The
marchioness, on the other hand, while
not denying that he was kept 1» .bus
mime, says he "Was in the seventh lien -
Yen" during the honeymoon trip, The
marquis is 38, but has the phystitue of
an underfed boy of 12. He had long
been on the matrimonial market, when
he fell into the hands et some apeouta•
tors, who, 16 is said, arranged for the
n(arrfage with the barrister's daughter,
"Re is le nophety of the Duke of Fite.
y.
Japan fish hava•to e soldalive, and:
Innre ug t •streets fe '
they are hawked }tiro gh the s
Mae. •
Sevonly-five thousand acres- aro el•
ready under cultivation and the railway
and Irigalion company above referred to
has allogeUter almost a million acus
yet to redeem. The eornpuny received
n concession for a part of these lands'ur
opening up the coai mines and building
the railroad, and looked upon them (e
titled only for grazing until the Mor-
eons came In and proposed to irrigate
them. As 11 1s, the irrigation works ore
only live years old, and they have the
town of Raymond, which has a popula-
tion of 2,000, situated in the heart of
them, and smaller settlements albrig
the line of the railroad.
I talked with Peter L. Nnlsmlih, the
manager of the compony, and C. A. Ma-
grath, the land commissioner, about lis
character and possibilities. They tell me
The lands to be redeemed are a part
of what was once known as the Great
American Desert..' This runs northward
through the western part of the United
Stales and on roto Canada. There is
more water here than in our tributary
country, but there are dry seasons,
witch make the lands unfit for ordinary
terming, although winter wheat, is now
being raised on much of 1E. For 110
post illteen years the Canadian govern-
ment has had engineers al work taking
the levels, measuring Llhe streams and
lucatng reservoirs. 1''ro11h such surveys
11 has been found that there are 70,000,-
000 acres of semi -arid land which need
irrigation occasionally 11 they are to 1.e
used for farming. The government en-
gineers estimate that 0,0u0,000 aches can
Busily be reclaimed, and that they will
have an unfailing supply of water from
the Saskatchewan and its tributaries It
the proper works are made.
The land of the Canadian Pacific
scheme lies in a solid block on both
sides of the railroad between Calgary
and Medicine Hat. It is flat or slightly
roiling prahle, and is now used for graz-
ing. the strip is 130 miles long, run-
ning back for some miles on each side
of the track. The water is 10 come from
the Bow River, a beautiful mountain
stream, It will be fed by other rivers,
which flow northward from the United
States through the Belly and Bow into
the Saskatchewan and thence on to
Hudson's Bay.
The Bow River flows by Calgary. A
party of us drove out to look at the
ditches, already excavated,' and to ex-
amine the irrigation project as far as- it,
is completed. 'raking carriages, we
went for miles over the prairie, riding
al times along the embankments of the
main canal, which is sixty feet wide et
the bottom, ten feet deep and takes from
the Bow something like 20,000 gallons
of water every second. At many places
the men were working, and the scenes
wore much like those I saw on the Pa-
nama Canal. Thee were hundreds of
horses scooping up the prairie, there
were great steam shovels gouging out
the earth and loading it upon cars, and
there were long train loads of excavated
material moving on: the temporary tracks
from one place .to another.:
SOIL HARD TO EXCAVATE.
The soil is harder to work than that
o• the Culebra cut. Culebra Is made
of a altaly rock, and 'u single blast may
loosen many tons. Here the earth is a
conglomerate of sticky, clay and great
i,owlders, which have a consistency
something like soft taffy or half -worked
putty. It gives little resistance and
some parte have to be blasted over and
aver again. The sluff is of such a na-
ture that the steam shovels cannot Work
(nit until It Is loosened, so that the cost
el excavation is great.
I have' talked with 3s S. Dennis, the
manager of this irrigation project, and
also with the civil engineer in charge of
it. Ho tells me that they have taken
out •about 4,000,000 cubic yards, which,
at. I figure it, would be just about enough
to 1111 a line of two -horse wagons, at a
ton to the wagon, reaching clear around
the' world. Altogether 20,000,000- cubic
yards will have to: be excavated before
the whole area is under water, and the
engineers say that the Bost of this will
be just about 86,000,000. It is an enorm-
ous, undertaking, but it will pay in the
lnoreased .value of the lands and in the
traffic which will come to the rolhroad
through the setting of the country.
Tho ral)roed hes Reece over the first
110,000.. aoies, now ready for settlement,
to an American syndicate, which has al -
beady made big money in selling tracts
of spring wheat lands to immigrants
from Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois
end other states. These American agents
have-calonixation offices at Calgary, and
they are formulating schemes by which
they expect to canvas tho irrigated sec-
tions of the Untied Slates to induct our
and farmers to cams here and buy these
lands as fast as they are opened up.
INTRODUCED BY MORMONS.
The praoUaal possibility of an irrigat.
nh' Canada was suggested by the Mor•
Mond. There aro about 10,000 of them
now living on Irrigated lends near Lode
bridge, between bene and the United
States •boundary. They have establish.
Ad towne, have built up n beet -sugar Ioe.
tory, with a ca ital of a million dollars,
dill `i e MAMA ' � ne flour 311 ani bu u at a
elaarlond a day, .and thhey `erele altogether,
one of. the most thriving peoples of (fie
new Canada.
Theee. f Mitinens produced: more 'Alen'
n nilll'lot'i buslhels of Wheat lbstyear, end
thug ara tow stltpping'flour dtieot la ial
THE LANDS ARE EXCELLENT
and that they ere being rapidly settled,
All'. lvlugialh, while not it M01inol1 him-
self, true represented those people in the
territorial legislature, aid bus known
them from Ole time they carne to Can-
ada, lie says they matte excellent citi-
zens and um conforming to the Cumuli -
an laws in every respect,
111 connection with these irrigated
lands of southern Alberta a rather seri-
ous interna m:1nl question has arisen,
'the St. Mary's River which supplies the
water for the territory settled by the
Mormons and others, rises in St.
Ma'y's lakes, which are situated In
rurtltwestern Montana, about twelve
ntiles from the inLe•nutional boundary.
These lakes aro twenty miles long and
one mile wide, The Ile high up In the
Rooky Mountains, and are fed by the
1.eavy snowfalls and glaciers. They give
St. Mary's River plenty of water, fur-
nishing an abundant supply for the 130
miles of canals which the Canadians
have built and have under way, and
by which they expect to reclaim some-
thing like 630,000 acres. As it is now,
the water flows through the St. Mary's
into the Saskatchewan and goes Mf into
Hudson's Bay.
Within a short distance of St. Mary's
lakes and not more than twenty-seven
miles from St. Mary's River )laws the
north fork of the Milk River, which runs
northward into Canada, and Lhen, turn-
ing south, flows for hundreds of miles
through the United States into the
Missouri and on into the Gulf of Mexi-
co. By malting a canal inside our boun-
dary from the St. Mary's to the north
fork of the Milk River the waters of
these lakes could be thrown into the
Milk River and be finally used to irrigate
lands in northern and eastern Montana,
and especially the lands which Ile above
the Fort Belknap Indian reservation.
BOTH CLAIM RIVER.
Such a canal would give enough water
to redeem thousands of acres of good
American soil, and the citizens of Mon-
tana claim that it ought to be so used.
They say that the waters fell in the
mountains of the United States and they
ought to water the United Stales. The
Canadians naturally object. They say
that the water having fallen in our coun-
try is ne reason that we should keep
it, for it may have evaporated from
Canada, and they have a common right
to it., since It has been flowing Unrongh
its present course for thousands of
years. I understand that the two gov-
ernments are now In consultation re-
garding the use of these lakes, and that
an amicable arrangement may be ex-
pected.
In the meantime the Canadians say
that the Milk River runs for a hundred
miles or more through Canada before It
goes beak into the United Stales, and
that if the Americans disturb their irri-
gation works here the wales of that
river might be materially dimtnisfied by
being spread over Canadian lands.
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SELECTED RECIPES.,
10 make fish balls ,pick the Ash fine
and cook it with the mashed potatoes,
which should be light as •whipped
cream, and not heavy and sticky. " Beat
them with a fork and add a little: milk
or cream arid butler while cooking.
Mahe small lisle balle, and fry thein In
deep, boiling fut. Just before you shape
them into halls add a few drops of lemon
juice to give a piquant flavor. The juice
of one lemon is sufficient 101' a dozen
or more fish balls. Drown and serve
with parsley and quarters of lemon.
Take any boiled fish. Melt one-fourth
cup od butter, add two and one -]half
tablespoons of flour, and pour on gra-
dually two cups of milk, Mash the yolks
of four hard boiled eggs and mix them
with one teaspoonful of anchovy es-
sence. Add to sauce, and then add the
fish -about two cupfuls of it, cold anal
flaked. •
Ginger Snaps. -One cup molasses,
one-half cup of sugar, one teaspoonful•
of ginger, one teaspoonful of soda, one-
half cup of softened butter; flour to roll
out thin. Heat the molasses and pour
over the sugar; Lhen add the other in-
gredients. Cul out in pretty terms and
belce meekly,
Turkish Delight. -Soak one -hell box
of gelatine in one -hall cup of cold water
for one hour. Put it into a saucepan of
cdtrle acid, and three-quarters of a cup
oI cold water. Cook len minutes, add
a teaspoonful of lemon ilu wring and
strain one-half through a cheese cloth
or fine strainer on to a plate that has
been rinsed In cold water. To the re-
mainder add a speck o! pink coloring,
strain on to another plate and stir in
one ounce of chopped almonds. When
the candy has become firm cut in
squares and roll each in confectioner's
sugar,
Orange Custards. -Heat two cups of
milk in a double bolter with a few
shavings of orange rind. Beat the yolks
of throe eggs light with: two rounding
lablespoels of sugar. Pour the hot milk
on the eggs and sugar and beat them,
then return to the double boiler and
coots until smooth, not curdled. Add
the Juice of two medium sized oranges,
heat and strain into custard cups.
Potato Fritters -Mash a pint of cook-
ed potatoes, and beat until very light,
Add a pint of flour, two eggs beaten by
themselves, one teaspoonful of baking
powder, and a pinch of salt, with enough
sweet milk to make a batter that will
just drop from the spoon. Drop by
large spoonfuls into hot fat, and fry
quickly. Serve very hot.
Apple and Nut Salad -Cook one cup
of English walnut meals in water to
cover, with a slice of onion and a bit
of bay leaf, for ten minutes. Drain and
put in cold water for twenty minutes.
Mix with an equal amount of finely.
shaved sour apple and moisten with a
little cream mayonnaise. Arrange on
lettuce leaves and garnish with more of
the mayonnaise.
Plain Lemon Jelly. -Soak one box of
gelatine In two cups of cold water for
one hour, then turn on two cups of
boiling water and stir until the gelatins
is entirely dissolved; add 0110 and a half
cups of while sugar and the strained
juice of three large lemons. Strain
through cheese cloth, pour into moulds,
and put it in a cold place to set.
t0iLICIOUS DESSERTS.
INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE.
Birmingham Still Produces Then -idols
Another Product.
One of the most peculiar trades
imaginable is that of the manufacturer
of instruments of torture. They are
manufactured in large quantities m
Birmingham and other towns, and they
can be bought in London. In the cata-
logue of the firm who trade in London
can be found the prices of disciplines of
knotted cords and steel, of hair' shirts,
and of crosses with protruding spikes.
Aithough such things in the twentieth
century may sound stnangely mediaeval,
yet the trade in them proves that there
Is n decided want for such articles.
Birmingham also carries nn the lame-
llar trade of tdol•making....Lorge quan-
tities of [dols are mode for sale in
Africa. In addition there is the manu-
facture of mall -traps, those terrible en-
gines 74 inches long from end to end
about 3 feet high. These will catch a
man above the knees, and 11 requires
two mon to set the traps owing to 1t
strong spring which is fixed at either
end, Any person caught inone of these
traps de naturally held a close prisoner,
4_
OUR GOOD OLD MOTHER TONGUE.
When the English longue we speak,
Why is "break" not rhymed with
treats?"
W111 you tell 1)0 why Ws true
\Vo say "sew," but likewise 'few," •
And the maker of a versa
Cannot cap his "horse' with "worse"]
"Beard" sounds not the 5111110 us
"heard"'
"Cord" is different from "word";
"Con," is cow, but "low" is low;
Shoe"is never rhymed with "toe."
Think Of "hese" and "dose" and "lest";
And of "goose" -and yet of "choose."
Think of "comb' and Lomb' and
"bomb"
"Doll" and; ' 'troll" and "home" and
"soma°;
And s1nc4e "pay" is rhymed evith "say,"
Why hot "paid" end."snid," I pray?
We hew, "blood" and "food'' and "good",
"Mould" is net prtnti0U»Ced him "could."
Wherefore "done; but gena' old
• "tenet . •
ft; theta any reeson'•kneet)n? •
And, In sborl,,it 5ca111s to hue,'
5aunds end lettere disagree. •
rest of gallon, fairly hot, and lot Bland
till settled. Pour off water without sedi-
ment and put linen into Jt, leave for on
hour, end then boil in strong soda
water, after wringing Um Unon well out
of the bleach water.
Wet Feet. ---flow often do we see
people tramping ubout in the mud with
leather Soaked through, and how often
do such people. when' they return tomo,
Mt down by the Bre and permit their
feet to dry without changing either
stockings or shoest Can we then won-
der at the coughing and barking, and
rheumatism and inflammation ? Wet
feet mast commonly produce affections
of the throat and lungs, and when such
diseases have once Luken place danger
is not ler oft; therefore let us entreat
our renders, no matter Trow strong they
may consider themselves to be, to guard
against wet feet.
Trying on Shoes. -New shoes should
be tried on over moderately thick stock-
ings; then you can put on a thtnner
pair to case your feet if the shoes seem
to be light. It is remarkable what a
difference the stockings make. 11 they
are too large or too small they will be
nearly as uncomfortable as a pair of
shoes that are too light. New shoes can
be worn with as much ease as old ones
if they are stuffed to the shape of lite
foot with cloth or paper and patiently
sponged with hob water. Or if they
pinch in some particular spot a cloth
wet with trot water and laid across the
place will cause immediate and Meting
relief.
Clean Utensils. -Nothing more quickly
defines the 'cook than the care of her
utensils, for a good workman loves and
cares for his tools. Such utensils as
turn with cranks and have oil in their
gearings should not be left in water, as
the oil is thus washed out and the uten-
ste are quickly spoiled. Clean well with
clear, hot water and a brush immediate-
ly after using, and dry thoroughly be-
fore putting away. Tins should be well
dried before putting them away or they
will rust. Do not put pans and kettles
party filled with water on the stove to
soak, as it only makes them more diffi-
cult to clean. Fill them with cold water
and souk away from the treat,
Banana Blancmange. -Soak a table-
spoonful of gelatine for 0.1 born' in a
teacupful of water. Bring a cupful and
a hall of milk to the boiling point, add
a pinch of baking soda, and stir in a
holt-cupful of sugar and soaked gela.
tine. Boil for five minutes, sthring
steadily. Line a jelly mould with sliced
bananas and pour the lukeeva.rin blanc -
mango carefully in upon these. Set in
the ice to form. Turn out and eat with
whin"ed ercnm.
Italian Cream. --,Soule half a box of
gelatine in a cupful of cold water for an
hour. Heat four cupfuls of milk in a
double, boiler, and when hot stir into
them the yolks of tour eggs beaten light
with halt a cupful of suger, stir over the
fire for two minutes, add Lhe gelatine,
and keep stirring unlit dissolved. 'rake
from the fire, flavor with a teaspoonful
of vanilla, and set aside to cool. Beat
the whites of the eggs stiff, and add.
them to tihe custard when it le cold, but
before It has begun to form. Turn into.
a mold wet with cold water, and set
aside to form fl1'1».
Peach Sponge;Soak a half box of
gelatine for Iwo hours. Peel and slice .a
dozen needles, add to them a cupful and
a half of sugar and a half cupful of wa-
ter, and stew until the fruit Is broken to
pieces. Now stir in the soaked gelatine.
When this is dissolved rub all through a
coarse sieve, add a tablespoonful of
lemon juice, and when the mixture is
cool and beginning to thicken whip in
the stiffened whites of four eggs. Real
steadily for fifteen minutes, and turn
Into a mold to form. Servo cold with
whipped cream.
HOUSEHOLD DINTS.
Clenning Light Kid Gloves. -First rub
with cream of tartar,' 'leave for an hour,
and then rub with powdered alum and
fuller's earth mixed .in equal propor.
tions. Next day brush them till the
powder is removed, 'mhd finish by rub-
bing with dry oatmeal to..whlch e. 11Uto
powdered whiting has been
e0ii ad .
afterwards wiping this with a y
61o(h,
Chamois Leathers. -When 70111 cha-
mois leathers are dirty do not throw
them away In future, for It is a very ex-
travagant practice, es they may made
nearly as good es new treated as fol.
lows: 'fake 80210 warm water, add a
very little soda to it, and Wash the
leather, nein a little soft seep; tet the
leather lie In water for two or three
hours until it is quite soaked and soft.
Then rinse it, Wring it, end whilst.it is
still wet pulpit about with Die hands so
hat it may be soft when dry.
Te Get Mildew Spets trona Old Linen.
-111(111011 with chloride of lime. To snake
a lion of blaaarli'tttlta'tWo thblespoot
1 clilet'ide of lime '
tt11�o r pour et pint dr
boiling water on; and stir well; then add
(REMARKABLE CASES.
English Surgeons are interested
Straimc Discoveries.
Two remarkable Cases in which Eng-
lish surgeons aro much interested have
just been revealed. One was We strange
discovery made in the course of an au-
topsy on the body of Jeffrey Owen Par-
sons, a young Wimbledon doctor, who
committed suicide the other night.
Dr. Barton said at lire inquest that a
common needle was discovered three-
quarters of an inch above the apex cf
the left venttlele of the heart and fixed
across 11, with the point upward- and
toward the right side.
• It had evidently entered low down in
•front of the heart near the apex, as the
scar was plainly visible in the ventricu-
lar well, but no marls could be 10116 in
the skin corresponding with the point of
chtry. The needle was so black it must
have been in the heart a long time.
The other case was one in which the
father of two children suffering from
broken thighs stated to the doctor that if
they merely attempted to walk their
bones sna.ped.
"Children whose bones are fragile as
porcelain and whose limbs almost brenlc
in a puff of wind or if they laugh exces-
sively are rare," saiys an eminent phy-
sician. "Such a disease is confined al-
most to adults, and, though common to
the continent is almost unmown in Eng-
land.
'!t is the most rare disease of child-
hood. The occurrence of the disease in
certain localities has impressed some
medical met with the idea that some un-
known climatic conditlons may cause the
trouble, but the true cause remains for
the present a mystery.
"The primary cause of the suseoptibll-
ity of a child to the disease is due to the
less of nervous tone, which follows as
a consequence of continued malnutri-
tion."
• 4' -
FIGNTING "GREEN MONSTER."
Swiss Have Awakened jp Dangers of
Absinthe Drinking.
Absinthe has been responsible during
the past iuw months for so many terri-
ble crimes In French Switzerland that
an aonve crusade is being. made to pro-
hibit the sale of tae liquor.
in the Cantons of Vaud and Geneva
over 100,000 signatures have. been ob-
tained to a petition Urging the Govern-
ment to suppress the (batteries en the
Canton of Neuchatel, and make the sale
of .the "green monster" at unlawful act,
Most of the absinthe is sold•in melt
oldies at 2 coats a large wineglassful,
and is made from chemicals and raw
alcohol. Good absinthe is the sante
Brice as good whiskey, but the terrible
combination of raw Chemicals and raw
alcohol can be made very cheaply, and
the poor people, on account of its low
cost, prefer it to wine and beer.
The Canton of Neoiihatel depends for
tis revenue chiefly cm the manufacture
and sale of absinthe, and naturally to
this quarter there is n1ncll opposition
to the crusade.
Not only the men, but the women,
and to a less extent the girls and boys,
have. developed the absinthe habit,
which threatens to sop the manhood of
the Swiss.in the French Cantons.
at Two
COMMONS' POOREST MAN
THE TROUBLES oXc AN ENGLISI
(LABOR MAN,
A British M, P. on Less Than Twelve
polars a 1yeck--Stara
Should Pay.
Pity the peounisry sorrows of the
Labor member 1 There is evert ono who
the other day confided to a representa-
tive of the London Daily Express that
only a paltry fifty shillings a week
saved him from the workhouse.
This was Mr. John Ward, fhb berm -
lean, genial, and altogether delightful
member for Stoke-on-Trent, who Bemires
the pittance of X2 10s. a week as seera-
tary of the Navvies', Union.
Thwn 10 h be-
yondere the dreamassopeof avaleehiIm inwealt1ho shape
of 1.'200 a year allowed to members re-
cognized by the Labor Representation
Committee. But :ver. Ward did not al-
together see ere to eye with this com-
mittee In all its ideas, and so he dented
Arose]f the afih.enco of 4200 a year.
"1 am the poorest man in the House,"
he said yesterday. "I have a wife and
four children, and with any br0t1 1, who
is a navvy, have to support my mother.
And beyond the fifty shillings a week
that I draw from the union 1 have no-
thing to 1011 hack on.
NO TERRACE TEA FOR IIUv3.
4
A MISNOMER.
Firs, Tones -"I think It's lea most ridi-
culous ening to call that man in the bank
o ltebl•lse. r,J"o
nes Baceuae he
e sin 1y won
'tMrs. Johnson -"Why)"
tell ut all. I tasked one t Mday'hew noteh
my husband had 00 deposit there, and
he just laughed."
COWARDLY.
Irate Husband. "I wish, madam, you
'Would not interrupt me every time 1 lire
to say something; Do 1 over 'break in
when you are talkIng?"
His Wife: "Ne, yen brute; you go to
81801"
••
G MOON16 .INFLUENCE.
TFI
Te8ihel-"What itiflueftce ties the
Moen upon the tide?"
Mlgh School Girl. 'l' don't knew exact.
T :What inflilende'ithrrron the tide,. but
it hem a tendenoy td 'make the "Untied
swfully' epoony:t
"Yes. If you like to pub it so, this is
really an injustice. It is impossible
without great hardship for a man to be
a member of Parliament on this allow-
ance, and maintain his position.
"I am not going to give you the de-
talis of my expenditure. Numerous
-eonlo have asked me how much I spend
n
week on food, and how much a week
goes on cram Pares 0o and from my,
home in Wandsworth. But those thrill-
ing details 1 am going to give to the
Douse of Commons firsthand myself.
"Very soon there will come up for dis-
cussion the question of the payment of
members, and about that 1 think 1 am
more qualified than any one to speak.
I shall be able to tell the House from
my awn personal experience what a
struggle it is for a man to keep up ap-
pearances In the house of Commons on
42 10s. a week.
"There are what are called 'the
amenities of the Ilouse.' Tea on the
terrace? No, I am afraid that is not in-
cluded, There will be no tea. on the ter-'
race for me as fifty shillings a week."
STATE SIIOULD PAY.
It was here suggested to Iver. Ward
that the ultimate goal of Socialism -up
to the tenets of which Bair. Weed sub-
scribes -is a fixed minimum wage for
everybody. At this the member for
Slake -on -Trent laughed.
"That is a1 old.fashioned idea," he
said. "What we maintain is that every
man should earn what he is worth, and
I am worth more to the nation as a mem-
ber of Parliament then I should bo 11 I
were, say, loading wagons.'
"Moreover, I can see no reason why
in my present capacity I should be be-
holden
o-]holden to any particular body for my
maintenance. I am doing the work of
the State to fire hest of my ability, and
it is by the State I maintain 1 should
be paid."
JOIIN BURN'S SALARY.
There was a scene in the house recent-
ly when Mr. Claude Hay was howled
down for referring to Mr. John Burn's
salary.
He asked Mr. Burns to say what was
to become of the 34,000 unemployed in
the London area who could not get
work under the Unemployed Committee,
and brought into his speech a statement
(printed originally in the "Express") to
the effect that Mr. John Burns accepted
the salary of 102,000 a year, although ha
had previously said no man ought to
have more than 4500 a yedi'..'
"Withdraw ! " shouted the ' Liberal
ranks, "Withdraw!" echoed the Irish.
Mr. Hay started to speak, but, volleys
of "Withdraw!" mingled with hisses,
drowned his words, and for some min-
utes there was an uproar.
Mr. John Burns, in his reply, showed
how he earns his 212,000 a year.
"Between midnight and four a.m. I
have been down under the Waterloo
arch, and at the Medland Hall, and at
other places where tihe poor congregate,
seeing how their lot might' bo 010011ot'-
ated and their numbers reduced.
1
daresay 'I made the remark some
time ego that certain men were not
-worth more than 58500 a year. ' 1 must
have had the hon. member to mind,
said Mr. 'Bairns,' and Mr. Claude Hay
,joined In the general laughter„
f
FORCIBLE ARGUMENT.
The little man was expounding to his
audience .the benefits of pbysietil *na-
ture.
"Three years ago," he sak, "1 was a
miserable wreck. Now, what do you
supp0se,brought about this great change
in mel"
"\Vhat change?" said a voice from the
audience..
There was a succession of loud smiles,
and some persons thought to see him
collapse. But the .little •man )vas riot to
be put out.
"Wel the gentlemen •who asked,
1WhaL change?' kindly step up here?"
he• asked, suavely. "1 shall then he bet-
ter able 1.0 explhin. TIlUL'S right!"
Then, grabbing the witty took
Han
by the heck t 'When first up
phyysiea1' culture i could not even lift a
little roan; now (suiting the action to the
word) ] can throw brio Abe% like a bun-
dle of rage."
And, Unfitly, he thing the interrupter
halt -a -dozen yards along the Door.
1 trust, g e
entl'roan, that you will Sae
the force of my argument,;, and that I
'have not hurt this gentleman's, feelings
by my explanation.
There, were, no more interruptions.
In his early days Mr. Justin McCarthTe
wile Is seventy-five years old, had eh
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