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T1MF� TO TAKE A FRESH HOLD
Rev. Dr, Newell Dwight Hillis Discourses on
a Hebrew Patriot's Motto.
Text—"And the shadow went back
ten degrees," 1. Kings,
The other day the Dean of Cornell
University showed me his shrubs, flow-
ers and trees. While walking through
the garden my eyes chanced upon a,
unique sundial. Studying the bronze
plate, I deciphered these words; 'Turn
the shadow back ten degrees on the
sun -dial and take a fresh hold." The
Dean expldlned the motto by saying
Mat be had heard the sentiment ex-
pressed in some sermon or oration.
Thirty centuries ago a Hebrew patriot
and
poet was approaching old age,
Grown weary, the tool was about to
drop from his hand. But his country
Was suffering, and the poor needed him.
a that hour he girded up his loins
afresh and began anew. Addressing a
group of dispirited lolloweres, the old
hero suddenly exclaimed: "Turn the
shadow of life's dial back ten degrees
end begin anew." From that day nn
the words became the motto of his life.
HIS DAYS PACKED WITH GOOD
DEEDS.
After a while his fame began to
spread. When he died, he was known
a, the man who packed all his days
with good deeds and took the motto
et his life Irorn a sun -dial. Slowly
his story began to move out into other
climes and continents. History tells us
that a crusader, a young English sol-
dier,
oldier, carried the fuchsia from Asia Min-
or to England, just as a Spanish mis-
sionary carried a vine from the hills
ct Valencia to Southern California, and
so filled the world with purple clusters.
And so the old Hebrew poet, who passed
away thirty centuries ago, still lives,
and walks up and down our earth.
In one of his last journeys he took
ship to America, and made his way to
Ithaca, for I found his footprints in
Dean Bailey's flower garden) And when
I look at a library of books and reports
written by Prof Bailey and the group
or scholars about him, I discovered the
secret of the American scholar, as it
was graven on a bronze plate on which
the sunbeams lay, pricking out thsse
words for all who seek Inspiration to
fresh endeavor: Turn the shadow back
ten degrees on the sun -dial and take e
fresh hold."
DISCOURAGED PEOPLE SHOULD BE-
GIN AFRESH.
To all patriots and teachers and lov-
ers of their kind who have sown widely
and reaped few sheaves, there comes
this word of hope from the great He-
brew, who began life afresh, and at Inst
succeeded and made himself immortal.
For those who bear the burden and
treat of the day, life is often very hard.
It is not. an easy task to teach or write,
or do reform work, Oft the harvest 's
postponed. Often the victory for re-
form Is delayed for years. Full oft the
philanthropist labors and sees no fruit
et his labor, "I have done my share;
lel the young men come forward," ex-
claims the polltical reformer. "I have
been at the head of this movement tan
years; it Is time for some one else to
take his turn" cries the patriot or tea.
cher. I have earned money enough,"
says the merchant; "I am going to re-
tire from business." But no man has
ever done enough for his generation,
What! Refuse your voice and elo-
quence to the poor and weals and leave
the greatcause of the people without
an. advocate? Death alone has a right
to silence your voice. What! Withdraw
from the movement for reform or edu-
cation or philanthropy, and leave the
host without a leader? It is ignoble to
desert. it is for you to die pushing the
flag forward into the thick of the ene-
my and be carried off the field on your
Shield. What! You, manufacturer, ter
merchant, or financier, have made mon-
e;: enough for yourself? Go on making
money for others, that you may be bread
and raiment for the hungry and the
naked. No matter how old you are, you
ere just at the beginning. There is
time to write a new chapter in your
life. You are in sight of the goal; one
more forward movement and the vic-
tory is yours. "Turn the shadow back
on the die land take a new hold."
A MOTTO FOR YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE
To all who have reached middle age,
who recoil youth and anticipate life's
decline, there is food and medicine ;n
these words: "Turn the shadow back at
the dial len degrees and take a new
hold." Strictly speaking, there Is t.o
old age. Is the Misslssippl River any
older now Than it was a million years
ago? The hlississippl River is water.
The dirt banks between which it flows
show time, but the Mississippi River is
eternally young, eternally fresh, eternal-
ly puree, fed by the rains of summer,
the snow of winter, and the clouds of the
ageless ocean,
The soul is a living stream of thought
and love and plan that flows through
the lips in speech. The right hand and
the left hand are lllce the right bank
end the lett bank of the Mississippi
River. The body shows the mark' and
scar of time, but not the soul, For
the heart that thinks and loves and
prays, 'there is neither youth, nor ma-
turity, nor old age. It 1s simply life
that came from God, Out M the deep
the soul came; into the deep It goes, like
the river. And for those who open
their heart to the lnrushin bides of I:he
divine spirit, there Is no old age.
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ACHIEVEMENTS OF TETE AGED.
Ie a spark strucic out of the genius of
God. Thinking God's thoughts, fulfill-
ing God's plaits, living God's life, the
years have no power upon man. There-
fore, begin life afresh. There Is no
growing old. Instead of dropping the
tool, take a new grip. Instead ot con-
fessing defeat and withdrawing from
the scene, Alen a new advance. Have
you discharged your clerks, preparatory
to closing up the business, tear up tho
bond and make a new contract. Be-
gin life afresh at seventy. Gird up your
lr.ins anew for a last dash toward the
geol. Open a new furrow and sow one
more harvest. Dig one more spring,
build one more booth. bind up one more
broken heart. and then—do it all over
again! This day, tate second Sunday in
Tune, no mater where you are in life's
race, "turn the shadow hack ten de-
grees on the dial and take a fresh
hold,"—Newell Dwight Hillis,
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 1.
Lesson
1. Jesus and the Children.
Golden Text, Matt. 18. 14.
(Jar, 7, 31). 'nils Valley of 1111 uuli was
o deep, narrow gulch ur glen south-
west of Jerusalem, trliare hl earlier
limes the cruel practice of human sue-
r111UU to the god Moloch had been car-
ried on. It was during the reformation
tinder Josiah le Kings 23. 10) that Ilio
king "dell lad Tophet, that no num
might make hes son ut' his daughlee to
pass through the fire to Moloch," in
our Lord's time the valley was used ns
a place for depositing pollutions of every
kind, even the bodies of Criminals who
lied been execute i. From lids deltic•
meat and from its former deseereliun,
Gehenna rune to be used In a figura-
tive sense to express the abode of the
wicked after death. "'the words `ot flee
arc added either because of the ancient
rip's of Moloch, or, if a lttchbhtical tra-
dition Is to bo credited, le:uuse Ares
were always burning in the volley; or,
further. as a symbol of everlasting pun-
ishment."—Care, From the use of the
term "the eternal fire" in the preceding
verse it is probable that the last seeps -
lion of Carr is the oo•rot one.
10. —Literally, messengers.
Behold the face of my father who IS
in heaven—Nut as if these meseugers
brought to God tidings of the wrung
done to his little ones on earth, but
rather that they stand in the 'mestere
V the throne ever ready to do the Fa-
ther's bidding, and thus ready to speed
on errands of help to protect these little
ones and avenge Lhelr wrongs.
Fullowing the reading of several
excellent ancient manuscripts the Re-
vised Version omits this verse, but there
seeing to be equally good authority for
•retaining the same. The verse reads,
"For lite Son of Man came to save thee
which was lost." It fits well into the
thought of the discourse al this point.
12. Which goelh astray—Even while
the sheep is yet in the act of going as-
tray the careful shepherd leas already
begun his search. This parable in
Luke is given in connection with two
others, the parable of the Lost Coin and
the parable of the Lost Son,
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Nobe.—The text of the Revised Version
is used as a basis for these Word
Studies.
Intervening Events. — Descending
from the Mount of Transfiguration with
Peter, James and John, Jesus healed. We
demoniac lad whom some at We dis-
ciples had been unable to heal. Of
this Incident Mark gives the longest ac-
count titlark 9, 1499). Shorty after this,
while on a tour 'through Galilee with
his disciples, Jesus again foretold his
death and resurrection. Arriving et
Capernaum, the Incident of Peter's talc-
ing a shekel from the fish's mouth and
paying therewith for himself and hes
Master the annual contribution to the
temple treasury which was expected • f
every Jew, took place (elon. 17. 24-27).
Our lesson text is part of a longer dis-
course of Jesus on humility and forgive-
ness recorded in Matthew 18, and with
short parallel passages in Mark and
Luke (Mark 9. 35-50; Luke 9. 46.50; 15.
4-17).
Verse 1. In that hour—Immediately
following the miracle of taking the coin
from the fish's mouth referred to in the
last verses of the preceding chapter. The
working of the miracle had again ex-
cited in the disciples the hope of a glori-
ous kingdom upon earth, and hence
their question, Who then is greatest m
the kingdom of heaven?
2. Called to him a little child — The
statement of this tact inoklentally throws
much light on the publicity of our
Lord's work as teacher. No other great
teacher in the history of the race was
so continually and conspicuously in
view of the public.
3. Verily —,Literally, amen. This word
occurring et the beginning of a discourse
or sentence, means of a truth, surely, or
truly; at the close of a sentence It sig-
nifies so bo It, may it be fulfilled. The
repetition of the word, as often in John,
gives it the superlative significance of
most assuredly.
Except ye turn - From the haughty.
and Self-seeking spirit revealed in UM
question which the disciples had just
put to Jesus,
In no wise enter — Much less be great
therein, since the kingdom of heaven is
a spiritual kingdom of humility.
4. Greatest — Literally greater, that
is greater that others. So also in verse
1 above.
5. Whose shall receive one such little
child—To be taken in its literal sense as
pointing to the function and calling of
the disciples as teachers.
Recefveth me — A kindness rendered
In a friend le in a very real sonee a
kindness rendered tows as well. In fids
sense the words of Jesus are to be
taken.
G. One of these little ones that belie 'e
on me—The usual interpretation of Il;s
verse is that Jesus here islets not to
children, but to those young and weak
10 faith. This aplication of the words
of Jesus is perhaps justifiable and per-
missible, but since we have so fe,v
passages in which the attitude of fesua
toward children and their training is
set forth, we should be slow to divert
by. a method of figurative interpretation
such a passage as this one which, Lak-
en literally, as actually referring to
those young in years. yields Such a rich
fund of spiritual truth.
6. It is profitable for him—And ma.e
especially also for those whom his lite
might, 1f prolonged, influence for eel',
A great millstone — Literally a m111 -
stone turned by an ass, that he, one too
largo to be turned by hand.
Sunk in the depth of the sea — The
manner of (leans here referred In was
cocoon among the Greeks and Romans,
though probably not well known among
the Jews,
7. Occasions of stumbling—To others
who were seeking to live an upright and
righteous life.
It must needs be—it is natural and in
harmony with the actual course of
events.
8. Verses 8 and 0 are, a light, diverg-
ence from the immedinln thought of Ilse
preceding and following verses. From
persons who give 0ccnsion'for stumb-
ling Jesus turns to that within the dis•
ofpla'e own life which may be a hind -
ranee to his Christian lite.
The eternal fire—'Phe use of the as-
tiete seems to Indicate that Jesus refer-
red In some place nl torment, ether
well knrnvn in current leaching, or at
Rest familiar to his hearers from leis
own previous teaching on the stthjeot.
9. The hell of fire--l,hternny tie (IN
henna of fire. Ghonna Is the Greek
Mem of the Hebrew Ge•flinnnns or "Vel -
My of tilpnom," snmeilmes (ailed "Val-
ley of the Son of flinnom"; also Topltot
As for the memory, Cato, at seventy -
eve, learns a new langue.ge, the
Greek. As for philosophy, Richter
makes hie grentest inteileatliei dtscov-
ories after seventy. As for reform, Glad-
stone achieves his greatest eloquence,
and makes his noblest pleas after three
score years and ten. As for art, Mich-
ael Angelo never finds himself until he
domes to those years when the psalm-
ist thought he ought to have been in
the eemeteey. As for poetry, in ex -
Berne old age the great German's spiv t
elects like a lark floats into the sky,still
wo rte forth ria melod for
orldachievements and ctvlllention,
Moses wrote ids laws, soclN, political,
domestic, atter he watt eighty years old,
God lives, the eternal sun, with whom
thousdn'$ ;e&ca Mira as one day, Man
PRACTICAL BUSINESS METHODS.
Parents Should See That Their Children
Are Well Versed in Them.
A prominent lawyer of wide experi-
ence says that, in his opinion, 010e13,-
11ino out of every hundred of those who
make money or inherit it, lose it, sooner
or tater.
Ilow many thousands of good, honest
men and women there are in this coun-
try who have worked very herd and
made all sorts of sacrifices of contort
and luxury In order to lay up something
for the future, and yet have reached
middle life or .later without having any-
thing to shote for it ; many of them, in-
deed , finding themselves without a
home or any probability of getting one,
without properly or a cent of money
laid by for sickness, for the Inevitable
emergency, or for their declining years I
For'the sake of your !tome, for the
protection of hard earnings, for your
peace of ndnd, your self-respect, your
self-confidence, whatever else you do,
do not neglect a good, solid business
training, and get It as early in life as
possible. It will save you from many a
fall, from a thousand embarrassments,
and, perhaps, from the humiliation of
being compelled to face your wife and
children and confess that you have been
a failure. It may save you from the
mortification of having to move from a
good home to a poor one, of seeing your
property slip out of your hands, and of
having to acknowledge 'Your weakness
and your lack of foresight and thought-
fulness, or your being made the dupe of
sharpers.
Many men who once had good stores
of their own, are working as clerks,
floorwalkers, or superintendents of de-
partments in other people's stores, just
because they risked and lost everything
in some venture. As they now have
others depending on them, they do not
dare to take the risks which they took
In young manhood, and so they struggle
along in mediocre positions, still mock-
ed with ambitions which they have no
chance to gratify.
Thousands of people who were once
in easy circumstances are living in
poverty and wretchedness to -day be-
cause they failed to pal an understand-
ing or an agreement in writing, or to
do business in a business way, Families
have been turned out of house and
home, penniless,beoause they trusted to
a relative or a Mend to "do what was
right" by them, without malting a hard
and fast, practical business arrange-
ment with him.
IL does not natter how honest people
are, they forget, and 11 is so easy for
misunderstandings to arise that it is
never safe 10 leave anything of impor-
tance to a morn oral statement. lleduce
IL to writing. It costs but little, in time
or money, and when all partes Inter-
ested are agreed, that Is the best time
to formulate the agreement in exact
terms. This will often save lawsuits,
bitterness and alienations. How many
friendships have been broken by not
putting understandings In writing.
Thousands of cases ere In the courts
to -day because agreements were not put
in writing. A large port of Lawyers' in-
comes is derived from the same source.
Business talent is as rare as a talent
for mathematics. We find boys and
girls turned out of echoed and college
full of theories, and of all sorts of
Icnowledge or smatterings 01 know-
ledge, but without the ability to protect
themselves from human thieves who
are trying Le get something for no-
thing. No girl or boy should bo tllow-
e.d to graduate, espsetally from any of
the higher institutions, without being
well grounded In practical business
methods. Parents who send their chil-
dren out in lite, without seeing that
they are well versed 10 ordinary bust
ness principles, dot them an incalculable
injustice, --Success Magnetite,
THE PINEAPPLES.
Instead ut being the indigestible haft
which for so long they were believed to
be, pineapples are winning name and
fame tar themselves its one of nature's
numerous spccltlas for the very trouble
they were supposed to create--indiges
lion, It was Senor Winona to whom
the credit of the delicious discovery Is
due—he it was wlto found that it wee
only the tough core that was Indigesti-
ble, and wliloh gave the fruit its bad
name. Then another discovery was
made—an old skot'y in the country of the
pineapple, Africa, but news, indeed, to
Ws country—that 11 was of use in ler.
lain throat h(ethics, notably qu'nsy and
lonsililis, the fresh fruit, or Its sweet-
ened juice, or even the canned form,
when the other wits not available. So
good a medicine has it proved, In fact.,
that it is ranked among drugs, both in
powdered loam and as a tincture,
Serving the fruit es a dessert, atter a
heavy dinner, proves conclusively
enough its value as a digester; and, like
all of the natural medicines, it cures
without Dousing some other trouble by
way of reaction. There are dozens of
ways to serve it, perhaps none of them
more delicious than the simplest, of all—
the pickled pineapple.
Preserved pineapple is delicious in
winter, served with vanilla lee cream,
with a dab of whipped cream on top.
Some inter sting ways of preparing It
are :
Picked Pineapple.—Peel the pineapple
and remove the little dark protuberances
from the surface of the fruit. With a
fork pick or leer the fruit Into scrips,
strew these with granulated sugar, and
set in the ice until wanted.
Pine apples and Berries In the Shell.—
Trim
hell—'trim the bottom of a large pineapple so
Chat It will stand upright. Cut. off the
top, but do not throw It away. With a
sheep knife dig out the Inside of rho
fruit, laking care that the knife does
not penetrate the sides or walls of the
pineapple. Put this hollowed case and
the lop into the refrigerator until need-
ed. Pick the inside of the pineapple into
tiny bits and mix with a cupful of red
eirpbnrries or shrawberrles. Sweeten
abundantly with granulated sugar, and
turn the fruit into a glass or a china
jar, with a closely filling cover. Put on
the lid and bury the Jar in the ice for
several haul's. Just before Cillo to Serve
it remove from the ice, fill the hollowed
shell with the fruit mixture, replace the
top of the pineapple, and send to the
table.
Pineapple Trice,—Grate or chop a
pineapple very fine, atter peeling It end
removing the "eyes." Soak a half box
of gelatin tor an hour in a halt cupful
of cold water, then add a cupful of
granulated sugar and a cupful of boil-
ing water. and stir over the fire just
long enough 10 dissolve the gelatin. As
the mixture enols add the pineapple; set
the bowl containing it 1n a vessel of
cracked ice, and stir steadily until the
mixture thickens. Now beat in a pint
of sweetened, whipped cream. and turn
into a mould wet with cold water. When
formed, eat with powdered sugar and
cream.
Pineapple Pudding.—Peal and chop a
pineapple and cover with ` granulated
sugar. Let it stand 10 the icebox for an
hour; then drain the juice from the
fruit. saving both. in the bottom of
buttered pudding dish put a layer o
split "lady fingers," and over then pour
a little of the pineapple juice, to '(which
you have added two learpnontule of
lemon juice. Spread the lady lingers
with a layer of the chopped pineapple;
put in another layer of the pineapple,.
and more of the juice and fruit. • Have
the top layer of the moistened pine-
apple. Corer. set the pudding dish in en
outer pan of boiling water, and bake
in a steady oven for at least an hour.
Uncover and brown lightly. Serve this
pudding with hot liquid since flavored
with the juice of the two leptons and
the grated peel of one.
Appetizing Asparagus.—Cut off three
inches from the tip end, wash, and cook
in boiling salted water fifteen minutes,
or till lender. Skint out and set away
for salad. Cut the remainder of the
green stalks in half-inch pieces, wash,
and cook in the water from the lips for
halt an hour. \lash fine; press through
a sieve. There should be about a pint.
(feat egaln, add one pint milk, and
when boiling thicken with one fnble-
spootn corn starch cooked fn one rounded
tablespoon butler, Season with salt and
pepper, and just before serving mix
one-half cup cream, with beaten yolk o1
one egg, in the tureen, and strain the
belling soup in it. Serie with tiny dried
dice or white bread,
On Tense—Break or cut off the tough
ends and serape off the woody fibre or
scales. Wash carefully and tic in bun-
dles, Put t in boiling salted Willer in a
deep kettle, with the tips out of the
water, The steam will cook them shfrl-
clenlly. Bail ebnut twenty minutes.
Allow rine slice id toast for each person.
Dip the crest only in asparagus wale',
spreed w(Ih butler. And lay the slbres on
n large platter, Put the asparaans on
the toast with the tips toward the heck
of the plotter, Season with butler and
salt.
With Sauce.—Brealc off the stalls
where, they are lender, wash, Ile in it
bundle, coot( In boiling water till ten-
der.
emder. Drain, cul Into inch pieces, end
pour white sauce over 11, using only
enough to tnolsten it.
Salad. --Use only about three inches of
the tip end and cook as directed, and
chill it lhornughly, Servee it on a plat-
ter end pass with it French dressing,
served in small disbea,-'into which each
sten( may be dipped as desired.
USE1?T1r, HiNTS.
To elan enamelled bottle melte a
paste of powdered whiting end wetter,
end with this rob hhn meld& of Ihr bent.
'Chen wteh limt'nitghly with clean
writer end dry elmere
Tina hueieols end mins inn cosily he
defined' by t'tnhhtntt (hem ,vitt, a rASlr
made of balllbelek and poralrin. They
NOTIiING BUT SYMPATHY.
"Then you have no sympathy for the
deserving poor?" asked the person work -
lag for charity.
Mel replied the rich and great. men,
"Why, sir, I have nothing bol sympathy
for them."
01TY OF 131G FAMILIES.
San Francisco contains the lsrgest
famines in the world, t beasts of have
Ing thirty-nine families each having
more Than fourteen children, and sixty-
five tarniiles with more than eight chit-
dree in each,
should afterwards be washed In soda
water and wiped thoroughly dry,
1'o keep your silver height, clean It
thoroughly, and then stipple on collo-
ilea with a soft brush, This vitt quite
prevent the larnisltlpg of the silver 00
your drawling room table,
To distngulsh young hares and rab'
hits is not always easy. The rat's of
young rabbits and (tares ore very ten-
der and pliable; the sinews in the legs
of old lures feel lice strings, and are
quite ns tough.
Grease stains on leather may he le -
moved by carefully applying benzine or
perfectly pure turpentine. The spots
infest be washed over anerwsrds with
well -beaten white of egg or a good (cid
reviver.
How frequently WO see children whose
front teeth seem to be entirely decayed,
when in reality it is only tartar, which
can he removed by a liberal amount ,
powdered pumice slime and a good hard
toothbrush,
It you are baking anything and the
oven gets too hot, put In a begun of cold
water, Instead of leaving the oven door
open. The cold water cools the oven,
and inc steam rising from it later pre-
vents the contents From burning.
No better way for dusting the walls
of a room can be suggested than to
cover a broom with a bag of henry can-
ton flannel made with the fuzzy side
cut. A drawstring at the top allows
the hag to be drawn tightly about 010
ht oom.
The juice of a lemon squeezed into 0
tumbler of water and taken occasionally
the last thing at night or the first thing
in the morning has a wonderful effect
on the complexion and oyes. This treat-
ment clears the liver, and consequently
brightens the eyes.
\Vhen roasting a shoulder of mutton
sprinkle it with salt and flour, baste fre-
quently, turning 11 several lines that 11
may be thoroughly cooked without be-
ing dried. eerve with onion sauce, roast-
ed potatoes, and any fresh green vege-
tables nicely boiled end well dished.
Should a sewing machine run stiffly.
apply just a few drops of matte In
the working parks cndpince the machine
net, the fire. After two hours lance ftp the
nuichine and clean It In the usual wary.
The most neglected instrument will work
well after tills treatment.
DON'T FORGET THE KITCHEN.
Hang at least ono picture In your
kitchen in such a pence that It will meet
your eye a score of tines dally, Let tit
be a landscape or a figure, or a picture
"Ilett tells a story," only be sure that it
is not a scene that reproduces something
et the daily routine. if practicable,
change the picture for another once a
week or month. Good prints of the
best pictures can be had. Take a look
aS the picture often, seeing what it
means, or, rather, realizing each time
what it says to you personally.
This will break up the nionotony
which is the deadliest thing about house-
work and some other occupations, and
will help to prevent the formation of the
"fixed idea," which is the seed of utast
mental and emotional brotlbles. Just
try Iles for a month. You will find this
suggestion one to be thankful for—al-
ways bearing hl hind that "the point
of the idea lies in the application of 11."
TESTS BY ORDEAL.
Criminals in Sinai Subjected to 'rests
by Fire or Water.
In the Sinai peninsula, whore the last
cloud In the east has arison, lrlal by
ordeal is still practised, Lord Cromer
gives pertiou)0rs of Lht Sinaulbc judicial
system in his recent, report on Egypt.
In all criminal cases where no witness-
es are forthcoming the judge, "111 Ma-
bashaa," tests the suspected person by
fire, by water or by dream, 10 the first
the judge places an Iron pan in the fire
until it is red hot and gives it to the
accused to touch three times with his
longue. If marks of burning are shown
on the tongue the accused is pronounced
guilty. The theory, apparently, is that
if he is not guilty the moisture on the
tongue prevents it from being burnt; if
guilty his tongue would dry up from
fear of being discovered.
The test by water is described as fol-
lows: "The 'Mabashaa' sits with the ac-
cused and the spectators in a circle with
a copper jug full of water placed in the
centre. This jug Is then made to ap-
pear to move round the circle by means
of witchcraft or hypnotism. If the jug
returns beak to the judge the accused
is pronounced not guilty, but, if the jug
stops opposite the accused he is pro-
nounced guilty."
This description is rather wonting in
detail and it is difficult 10 know how a
jug which only appears to move can he
a trustworthy index. in the Lost 1 y
dream the "alobash aa" sleeps and sees
in a dream if the accused is guilty cm
not.
RACE FOR SEA POWER
BRITAIN STILL LEADS IN THE
WORLD'S 4'LEE79.
United Stales, i''r'anco and Germany
Bustle ht Building
Battleships.
Despite much talk of reduction of ar-
temente the greet powers ora still. (n-
guged ht Lite great race fur naval supre-
ittucy.
The annual comparison of the world's
heals issued by the Admiralty shotes
that Great 13nituin seems to be lagging
behind in the buUding at first-class bal-
tlesleps. The United Slates, France,
noect.
d Uerntuny are all ahead In this re-
sp
The exact position can be Seen at a
glance (runt the [ollowing table, which
gives the Ilt:sl-class battle -ships building
oh to be laid down in 1906-77:-
13
United States
France ,,,,,, ,,,, ,,,, ,,,,,, ,, 12
Germany 8
Great Britain ..,.,. •. 6
Japan .... ...... ....
64
Rualyssia 4
It......
WE AltE NOT SCARED.
Great Britain is better placed in regard
to armored cruisers, building or to be
laid down daring the canting year, hav-
ign ton powerful vessels under construc-
tion, of greater displacement and more
modern turinantent than many existing
firslrcless battleships.
, Compared with ether the other great
powers Great Britain steads as follows
iu regard to the armored cruisers build-
ing or to be laid down in 1906-7:—
Great Britain ,,,. 10
United Slates 8
France 5
Japan 5
Russia 4
Germany 3
Italy 2
But if the building figures seam to
indicate that British need suprenaey
may be seriously threatened 1n the near
Mum, the British fleet to -day is im-
measurably superior to those of any hyo
groat newels.
The Admiralty's altitude of memory te-
mirdhtg the Dreadnought is still iunin-
tained, neilhec the displacement nor er-
manncnt of the battleship being divulged
in llhe return.
ORIGIN OF WORD DOSS.
May have Come From an Old Name
for Vulcan.
Is the origin of the word "boss," used
in the sense of a master, definitely set-
tled? In. South Africa the terns 'bans"
is commonly suposed to be the same,
and the Hottentots call the head of the
family "ou bans," or old boss, and the
eldest son is the "young' bees." "Ou
hams," however, Is a term of respect, and
may be used in addressing a beardless
ycungester who is in a position of au-
thority, and there are grounds for su-
spicion that the words have been Laken
over by the Dutch from an original na-
tive eouroe.
It is significant that Cicero ("De Nn -
tura Deorutn") stales )hal the god Vui-
ran was called by the Egyptians "Obes."
who was the son of Collum. "Slceli ne
to Cape pmt uege, is the same as Burn's
"skellurn" Ton o' Shutter) and indi-
cates an unruly. poison—Racchus and
hes various synonyms, who in a sense
WAS the fattier of all. It seems exlru-
vegantly for fetched to trace back the
Ifottentot's "ou betas" to the Egyptian
"Oboes; but I have so frequently come
across classical customs among the na-
tives of South Africa that the connec-
tion does not seem bnprobable.
i have seen lite walling for the dead
Adonis among the Besides, performed
ne ceremoniously- as among the ancient
Greeks, while some of the folklore tales
of tins nation, given by Cassalis, can be
paralleled, incident for incident, with
some of the Greek tales, which in many
Instances were borrowed front the
Egyptians. I should explain (hal. I ant
thinking of the god Obas (Vulcan) not
as the blacksmith of later mythology,
hut as the very essence of stemma be-
ing. We learn that this was Ilse 00000
in which he was once thought of from
the inscription on tie portal of the
temple of I-leliopolls.—London Spectator.
ABSiN'T'l1E IN CLASSROOI%1.
Vouthhil Pupil in Parisian School Vic-
tim of Bad !labii.
DE LIVED ON POISON.
Old Turk Who Found Opium Not Strong
Enough,
I•lere is an odd yarn from the London
Times of March 31., :1806, about a man
living in Constantinople known by the
name of "Selyman; the eater of corros-
ive sublimate." "Flo is now 106 years
odd. In his youth he aecustottled him-
self, like all Turks, to take opium, but
alter increasing the dose to a great ea: -
lent, without the wished effect, he adope
led the Iso of sublimate„ and had taken
daily, for upwards of piety years, a
drachm, or 110 grains! lie some time
since went into the. shop of a 'Turkish
Jew. to whom he \ens unknown, ono
asked tor a drachm of sublimate, which
he diluted In a glass of water and mel-
lowed in an instant. The opolhecary
boner greatly damned lest 11e should
he accused of poisoning the Turbo; but
hie astonishment may be conecleed
when the next day the Turk ceme again
and asked for a similar dose!
THE NEW CHINA.
This little sidelight on life in a Chin-
ese city is clipped prom the Pekin and
Tientsin Times: "Two neon who have
Leen killing dugs and rats end selling
there to the people PS meat in the West.
ern part of the city were caught a fete
days ago and invesUgatfons by the po-
llee revealed a tele of shocking cruelty.
One has been soninnced to two weeks'
end the oilier to ten days' hard Tabor
and a very light sentence, too.
An amazing discovery has been made
in one of the conununal schools in
Paris. A class master notioed that af-
ter ten o'clock every morning one of his
pupils, a little boy of seven, seemed to
become a prey to fits of delirium, tie
thunpetl leis neighbors, and when re-
proved by the master, rolled on the
floor, shrieking, and groaning like one
possessed.
The child was constantly in the habit
of asking leave of absence for a min-
ute or two, and the master had him
watched. It was found that he carried
s small bottle of absinthe in his pocket
and took a nip es often as he could es-
cape from the class room. It has been
Lotted thnt for himne everiydmorning. tilled the
J g
EDISON ALWAYS AT IT.
Edison, the inventor, is nothing if not
practical. Cranks have begged lihn to
mance the discovery of perpetual motion
his next task, but lie refuses to waste
limo upon It. "There are far more vital
and pressing discoveries to be made,"
iso says. "We must learn, for example,
how to control the energy stored In
coal. At present 00 per cent. of that
energy is lost. If a means can be de-
vised by which this enormous waste is
saved, it will naturally revolutionize
and vastly cheapen the production of
power, It will enable an ocean liner to
Cross the Atlantic In unpreoedenled
tine, end, with an expenditure of about
ono -tenth the amount of fuel nor ro,
putted. Coal will bo put In a receptacle,
enemies applied for developing ILO en -
orgies with en inappreciable wastage;
through tteee agonclest teedrle power
of Tiny neeessary degree will be forth-
coming, That problem seems to hold
Leta grentesi, promise, to my way of
thinking, end I propose to give it con-
siderably more thought in the future
titan 1'lava done hit'horto,rr
F ,
NEW AR HSTIC VQCATiON
PAINTING OUT BLACK EVES IS A
WORK Ulr ALIT,
Artist Find II a Profllable Branch of the
Profession — flow It
is Done,
Painting out a elute eye approaches
realism 111 ort so closely that the person
len feet front the painted eye cannot tall
whore the stein scups and the brush
color begins. Incidentally, as the 'mow -
ledge of the art has spread, a few vic-
tims of fislcufts have appeared now
and theft to a few artists, who may have
been surprised themselves at an order,
and then have experimented with the
appltcullon, of flesh colored paint,
But painting a blackened eye is not
n easy thing for the average painter
toe
t o There are varying degrees of
blackness of the cyo, there are varying
positions for the settling of the pigment
under the lids, there are variations in
Om protruding of the eye -beret's, and in
the shadow effects in an uninjured. eye
Itself there are possibilities for the in-
experienced artist making the other eye
stand out In wlhitened contrast Worse
then before,
All of this is suggestive of a new In-
dustry in the great cites—that of the
artist slttdin which has for its one fea-
ture the elimination of the black eye in
any and all of its stages.
MUST 1311 IN OILS.
An oil paint is necessary, for the rea-
son that with wale'. colors the excre-
tions of the skin will start the pigment
le running. In the nil paint, too, it will
need to be remembered that turpentine
cannot be used as a drier for two rea-
sons:— First, that a touch ot the paint
so charged will blind the eye It it comes
in contact with the Intl:;; and, second,
that when turpentine is used 11 dries In
puckering fashion not al all artistic,
Japan will furnish a harmless drier
that acts naturally in the drying process
For the operation of pointing nut the
blackened eye, the painter barks his
patient's head into a bm'her's chair head-
rest, with bulb the patient's eyes fur
partially In the light. The idea is not
only to paint out the blaotcaned arena
of the single nye but to leave the black-
ened eye a perfect likeness of the ether
ey n
Two costs cif point will be necessary
on a good black eye, with a neeessnry
half day for drying between the Boats.
An artist who knows how_ should
be able to put nn an artificial eye that
will stick just light enough
F011 THREE OR FOUR DAPS.
Where a double coat has been put over
LW unusually dark optic, four days of
the paint will be sufilclenl to make a
second application of one cont to do.
Frequently in implying the paint a
glossy effect may be produced, but the
artistic distribution of a little powder
will dissipate the unnaturalness and
shine. For a genuinely Manic eye the
weever will have to count. upon two
treatments of least before he inn appear
in public without 'silting" for another
painting.
Five dollars an eye tray be consider-
ed as a fair average mice for an np-
tical illusion at the hinds of an artist.
Ten (toile's ought to be easy enough
ht hundreds of cases, while 825 in a
ripened emergency isn't impossible, The
man Mtn would not pay 112.50 for a bit
or one coal work naturally would hit a
man who had no regard for appearances
in any way.
SAi:(' 1011811 P1'NISIIMENT.
Agonies of Thirst Are Induced in the
Prisoner.
Tito hunger cure was at one tens a
very popular punishment. in Siberia, but
the latest punishment invented is the
eating of salted herrings. Tills 18 re-
garded as ospeoielly useful in the case
of prisoners who refuso to disclose sec-
rets or to betray their accomplices.
These who have experienced it say
hat the continued eating of very salt
torrings is the worst form oi-torture
ntaginable; thumbscrews and teen crl-
ers are mild inconveniences compared
c it. The victim Is shut up in n weli-
mated, small cell, and nothing is given
n
him to ant but salted herrings; no
water, not even any bread.
The thirst amts induced causes the
most maddening agonies, and IL is al-
most invariably found tint when the
prisoner is brought before the Examin-
ing Commission ho is ready to give nil
the infermntinn required to hint. The
sight of the first ("rink of water that is
given to him generally brings en nn at-
hlete of giddinese and lever, end for a
short lino he feels as if his mind- were
giving way.
'WEALTH OF GREAT i1RITAIN,
Bank of Enotand Is the Strongest fn the
World.
Although the population of tine United
Kingdom is only 47,605,177, it holds the
reins of en empire with a population of
306,968,798.
The area of the United Kingdom is
barely 120,080 square miles; but the
British Empire extends over 11,146,0114
square miles, being Rieger than the
Russian Empire, which comes next, by
more than two million square miles.
No empire can ptroduco so wide a
range of valuable Things, natural end
artificial, as the Hellish. Precious min-
erals and precious stones, ivory, Wheat,
corn, wool, Umber, fruit—in fact, every
necessity of lite and nearly every known
luxury—are to be had at first hand
within the metro, and the words "Bri-
tish made" ate still recognized all tit
world over es being the hall marl( of
excellence on every manufactured pro-
duct, from sultings dot %tee churches and
Iron) penknives to loeonlollves.
Thera 1s one financial institution which
stands ollt boldly above 011 otters, and
is indisputably the strongest in the
World, it 15 the Bank of England.
Our idea of a poor houedic epor is
a woman whet runs tho heuse on busi-
ness principles,