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The Brussels Post, 1906-8-9, Page 24 THE HEAD AN) THE HEART It Is as' Much a Sacred Duty to Think as it Is to Aspire, • "Come now, let us reason together," is led to suspect that Indolence la seeks ninth Jehovah: 1$aiall 1„ 18. There are temperamental types which never reach any conclusion by pure rea- soning; intuitions, emotions, and inspir- ations take the place of intellectual, pro- cesses. It would be the height 01 folly to attempt to make such natures re- duce their religion to syllogisms, or to ask them to bring to the bar of the heed all the findings of the heart. ing to defy ignorance, and that nem whose Intellectual faculties have atro- phied by. their subjection le the 0100- lional now are envious of those who retaln the power to think clearly, and would have them also deprived of these powers. Nothing could be more clearly OP - posed to the way of truth than the no- tion that religion can be bought unly The emotional nature does not coon at the price of reason, or that the tonne- prehend the manner in which the aver- quence of using the intelligence 15 til' age mind must welt for its own light. losing of the power of affcuhon (or 1110 These souls that nnovc by great tides divine. the good, and the true—of the often reach saltine heights. The world warmth of heart and feeling that often would be poor, indeed, without their all' determine character and conduct. compelling enthusiasms, their glorious If the faculties are God given they are visions, and their dominant convictions, given for working purposes, if mon But such ones must not forget that has a mind and yet may not Vinik con - there is no royal road to truth; that ha. ceruing the man nature is not cast in one single y DEEPEST AND HIGHEST THINGS unvarying mold; diversity is not neves• of his own nature and destiny, then sanitKersey. There are other natures, not less rtes- the giving of that mild or the permitting essary to the world, not less glorious it to develop is the most cruel mockery 'fn their records of leaders, martyrs, and musters of men, These are the nahtres that find truth by tate slow steps of rea- kno\en to human history. But the simple law of nature that every faculty he some purpose, that no seising; that seek the way of right, with power is without its duty, is the 00- 'hearls of reverence and feet of failh, 10 seer to all this. The mind is as sacred the light of the faculties heaven has as the heart. There is nothing loo given them. They do not feel, they do holy for men to think about, to reason nasi understand the winds that. stilling about. The mind must serve the truth round them, convey such mighty mean- ing to other souls; they cannot buy pro- gress at the price of blindness. They are THE INTELLECTUAL TYPE, The conclusion that the emotional —.must with reverence lead to larger truth. No man is religious who represses any of Inc reasoning faculties. Every one of the lsighee p01183 must 1$$ st perfection, Not bloughi to their sneak 1 by .dwarfing, denying, but by develop- ing do men &belly their Creator. Just Sal' in the return of his brother, and 1110 cordiality of the Canter's welcome, a possible fuss to himself. 29. Never transgressed a command - meat of thine—The blind ti l tom l - Oeneyof the yw0115 mall reflects the self-righteousltess or the Pltarisees, which Jesus intended, with this parable, to crenate. 112. 'Pitts thy brother—'the father re- bukes the son fur his evident lack of brotherly interest in the returned and penitent prod(J(11I, \Vas lost., and is found --The ending of the parable at just this paint is a skillful touch of the Treat Teacher. We are not Mkt whether the elder bro- ther yielded to his father' entreaty and Joined in 1110 merrymaking, nor yet how the younger son behaved after- • iof ward. But all this was a matter eter u the future, entirely apart from the intended teaching of the narrative , and there- fore omitted. 'WOMEN NURSES FOR INSANE. New Departure in the Peoria, Illinois, Insane Asylum. An interesting experirneat is being tried In the Illinois Asylum for the In- cuu•able Insane at Peoria, that of sub- slituling women nurses for male at- tendants. There are sixteen hundred patients in elle institution and already sewn hundred and seventy-five men are cared for by female nurses. Pub- lic opinidn has been undergoing rapid changes with regard to iho insane. It is not so very long ago since men were selected to guard and tend this class because of their physical 158811gth and ability to "control" these unfortunates by brute force. The padded cell, the straight jacket. and ogler devices for subduing refractory patients were con- sider011 the proper thing. Now these methods are rapidly passing away. Insanity is recognized as a disease, and the humane principle of ruling by love is found to be more efficacious than brululiLy. As a nurse woman Is in the position for which God and nature spe- type must, after all, be the right one is dally qualified and designed cher, and a common one. This is because itlnakes a; the (ine81 tree in the forest spanks ratan can never hope to rival her in this the most noise and the most easily ap- 1100s1 eloquently of the bounty and beau- sphere. Formerly the Insane asylum prehended demonstration. And there- ty of nature, so does the gigantic Intel- was looked upon as a custodial inti. lore some tell us that the man who seeks sect glorify the intelligence that ordered 10 find the way of truth by the light :d 1(5 being. -the intellect must, without fail, wander Fear not to blink of sacred things; no - lotion where the chief idea was re- straint ; now it is given its rightful place as an hospital where these sad- into the pit of error; that the only way thing is sacred because it is mysterious; dent of all afflicted human beings 1 l come to religious truth is to shut the reverence does not dwell apart from should be tenderly and humanly cared reason. Faith does not rends its perfec- for. In Illinois the plan of substituting non in the fool; it shines most glorious women for Wren has worked well. Dr. where wisdom dwells. There still are Mitchell, in writing of the advantage, Ihe superstitious souls who confound says : "In placing women. In the male to heaven with the eyes of reason. -ale darkness with divinity; who cry aloud wards you restore as near as possible is urged to give up the use of his head against the light of knowledge. But to the patient homelike surroundings. that he may develop his heart. He they can no more stay the discovery of She takes more of a personal interest even is told that faith is incompatable truth than lite bats can hold back .he hl her charges than a man and looks with reason, and love with logic. So dawn. after the malty lime things that go to strong is the emphasis on this that 11e HENRY F. COPE. mate life pleasant and smooth. By eyes of the mind and yield to emotion. The thinker constantly is behug warn- ed that he cannot. apprehend Cod with his intellect; that he cannot see the way THE S. L SSON IN'1'ERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 12. ]Lesson VIi. The Parable of the Two Sons. Golden Text : 1101. 3. 7. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Mule.—ilia text of the Revised \'ersion Is used as a basis for these Word Studies. Answering C,1'itClsms. — Jesus was wendrrfully patient with those who misunderstood the scope, purpose, and spirit of Its mission. Every honest criticism of his work, especially by the mere to whom the common people were accustomed to look for religious in- struction and example, no malice how deeply rooted in prejudice or how num- neatly prompted by a misconception of his work that criticism plight be, he answered in straightforward, courteous langunge. His interest in the scribes and Pharisees themselves. was no less reel and deep then his interest in pub- licans and sinners; and it was only after these amen had been given an ode - quote opportunity to investigate his claims and his work, and had deliber- ately refused to believe what they saw and heard, that he uttered his scathing rebukes of them. exposing their hypo- crisy and wickedness. 011 several different occasions the Pharisees leek exception to the 0lthule of Jesus to- ward the outcast and the 81111181. 'their 'class prejudice and sense of moral superiority forbade their association. with publicans and sinners, and when Jesus manifested an interest in those classes, and sought to lift 1110111 lo a higher life, the Pharisees questioned the propriety of such action on the pert of a religious leacher such as Jesus claimed to be. The answer of Jesus to all (hese criticisms. on different occa- Sion's, Was of similar import : "They that are whole have no need of a phy- sician, but they that are sick" (Mall. 0. 11); "Simon, scant thou this woman . her sins which aro many, are for- given ; for she loved much" (Luke 7. 40.47)• These ore words winch illus- trate the spirit in which Jesus answered hls critics. 11 was a similar criticism of his work among the poor and outcast which called forth lilts exquisite trilogy of parables, the lest of whleh furnishes the text of to -day's lesson. Verse 11. And 110 said—!laving replied Ro the criticism of ih0 Pharisees in the words of tile.. two preceding parables. "'the. Lest Sheep" and "The Lost, Coin," Jesus apparently paused and then add- ed a . third parable, which, however, 15 a great deal more titan it mere reply to obJeetions• • To the thought of divine grace rind' the seeking lova of God, ex- pressed in the two preceding parables, Is added the portrayal of the rise and grdwili of ropentanee in the 'heart of a sinner. to 12. The portion of thy substance the. daliens to.. me -011a 11ird of the whole delete, or one-half 08100eh Se the oldest heti would. reeenie: But 'he shall ac- knowledge the, nesthnrn, by giving flim a double portion of allthat he bath" (Delft. 21, 17). • It : was 10 this double pottier' to which the firstborn was en- titled that '1,(18110 referred in his request rid tlijnhr, "Let a d0Oble portion of thy spirit be upon Ino" (2 Bongs 2, 0), T)tvlded lotto them hiss living •-- The ,0UStein . f 11108 diViditen properly x.r•. among children during the lifetime of the parent seems to have been wide- spread among Semitic people. 14. Spent all—With emphasis upon the word all, which in the original has especially emphatic form. 15. Joined himself to one of the citi- zens of that country—Prnbnbly a Gen- tile. This was the trot step in the. humiliation of this proud young Ile - brew. 1'o feed the swine—Considered a de- grading employment among all ancient peoples, whip: to. a Jew it must have been an abomination. 1(1. The husks—Gr., The pods of the carob tree. These 80118181 of a "leathery ease, enclosing a sweet pulpy 5111)- 0ance, in which the soeds are embed- ded. This pulp is edible and nuteilious, and is often eaten by the poorer people. The pods are ground and boiled" and used in other ways for food. The earop tree i5 still common in Palestine, when° the pods may be seen on sale at the stalls of street merchants. 20. Fell on his neck, and kissed 111111 —In Acts 20. 37, Luke uses exactly the same expression in speaking of Paul's departure from Ephesus. It is just such simiinrilles of language which in doubt- ful 08158,5 often assist In determining the authorship of a hook or a passage In the Bible. 21. No more worthy to be called 111y son—The confession is made as •plan- ned. Several, though not the best ancient manuscripts, add the clause, "make me as one Of shy Hired ser- vants," thus completing the 80018281011 as found in verses 18 and 19. Probably, though, the words should be here omitted. The emotion aroused by the ulexperled cordiality and forgiveness of a frillier doubtless made it impassible for Ihe son to add such n proposal to the confession already made, , 22, Shoes cn his feet ---Servants and sieves went barefooted, The robe, the ring, and the shoes transformed the boy from a ragged \•agnbond to a well- clad, honored member of the family and of society, 'lee fatted calf—One especially lop( for the unexpected occasion when great hospitality would be required. Com- pare the incident recorded in 1. Sam. 28. 24, 25 : "And the woman had a fat- ted calf in the Nonuse; and she bested, and kilted it; and she tools floor, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof : and she brought. it be - tore Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat." 24, Dead—Dead to the father, because last; the second clause being an ex planationr 1f the first. 25. 5lusic and dancing—Spontaneous expressions of joy, even among printf' !Ivo peoples. Both 11111818 and dancing have 1880010 more rhythmical than they were 11111,0g the ancients„ Music has bion elevated to the position of e nue net, and still retains ils power to thrill 1110 soul, Dancing, Hien, has be- come in 8 een1e more ertslien 11111, de- moting from its original significance as a $pcnllanenns exprvss]on, of joy, 'is now rather a 'more or less polished relle of antiquity, which may still serve 1110 51115/451 of making graceful bodily movements, but w•ldch on the whole is of questionable Minna end as nn amuse- ment of doubtful 10ndency. 27. Thy hllicennTin tarmnlfly of life fathers speech may possibly reflectthe lank of cordtnl relations between flim - self and his eldest 8011, whose cold pre- cision of f0rrnal 0101ten00, williout fllinl.lone and devalian, was Os wrong us had been' the -desire of the younger doing so she eliminates a source of irrdahon l0 an already irritated brain. The conduct of the men improves. They be0ente mere tidy in their appearance. The violent become less violent and the profane less profane. Men who did nothing before began to brighten up and do little errands for the nurses, were praised for their efforts and found something to lire for and some enjoy - stent in lite." Undoubtedly the new system will do away with the abuse and cruelly so often charged against male attendants, and !t will comfort distressed relatives who have been ac- customed to regard with horror the average asylum for the insane. Here is One of the true vocations for women I And fluty -we not hope that the example of Illinois in this matter will soon be followed by similar institutions every- where I--11. J. Kelso, Toronto. CATERPILLAR FEVER. Nature Study at Close linage Lias its Disadvantages. 1I -N Home spoon each of butter nod lard. Mix into stiff ball with toe cold wale!'. 'foss out art llout't:d board, pal flat and one-half Melt thiels, roll out till (me•hnlf Inch target' 1 than the plate, 1 l • shouldll bo deep, of granite or thin earthenware, and floured, not greased. Fald the extra paste under the edge and flute it light - 9' ly. If the oven does 1101 bake well op 1118 bottom, bake the crust alone, just 114.y44544,44(41,34.4144 enough to dry off the surface, and then atld the custard. DOMESTICl?L(,lf'E Custard.—Bent yolks of the eggs Cucumbers Fried—Pare the vego- slightly and whiles till foamy, add lhrCe tables and lay them in ice water one- rounded tablespoons of sugar, one- half !tour. Cut them into lengthwise fourth teaspoon o1 salt. and, if you slices nearly one-lialf itch thick, and I114e, one-fourth teaspoon of nutmeg; lay them „int ice water Iifleen minutes mix well and pour on three cups of new longer. Wipe 011011 piece dry, sprinkle or tulskimmed milk, scalded. Strain with salt and pepper, dredge with Into a deep plate lined with the paste. flour, and fry lona delicate frown in Bake slowly. When it puffs, Insert a lard or sweet drippings. Many declare cleats !mite blade, and if it comes out 11118 (o be lite 111081 hd1050me way of clean, the pie is clone. To have u tiro, preparing cucumbers,wfoamy, brown crust on top 01 the cus- l:ggs a la Crowle,—Melt three table- toed instead of one that Is yellow or spoonfuls buten, odd one -11011 cup fresh blistered in patches, bent the whites of mushrooms, broken in pieces, one the eggs separately until foamy, not tablespoon green peppers, finely chop- stiff ; and nlix diens in just before the pod, and cuuk five minutes. 'Then add custard Is strained. taw cups of strained tomatoes, and Lemon Ple,—elix scant half teaspoon cook eight minutes longer. Add five salt with one cup pastry flour. Chop 111 eggs slightly beaten, and cook until the. a quarter cup lard nrld unix with cold mixture is of a creamy consistence, water into stiff dough. Pound it out stirring constantly. Add one-fourth flat and half an inch thick. Put on but. cup capers, one-half teaspoonful of salt, ter In little dabs, roll up, and pal out and serve on toast, Capers (Pickled Nasturtiums). -Use Um green seed, and In pickling retain a short length of stent of each. I.ay 111001 In cold, salted water for two days, then plain) them in cold water for another day, Drafn well, and place the seed in a glass jar, cover with vinegar heated to the boiling point, and close Jar tightly, In a few clays the seed will be ready to use. They aro an excellent substitute for capers, Salmi of Ducks.—To use what, re- mains of a pair of cold dunks, dispoint tate coverteses, leaving intact the par'. tions eonlaining most meat. •Cover the bones and trimmings with cold water, add a slice of onion, a half teaspoonful of salt Mid a few peppercorns, and stew gently for a few hours; then strain. Boil down to a cupful. In a saucepan brown a large tablesponnful of floor, 11115 brown again. Stir in the broth and simmer for live minutes. Add four tablespoonfuls of wine, lay In the pieces of duck, coves, and draw to the side of the fire for ten m10111es. slave read,1' a large crouton of fried bread. Plaine this in the centre of a heated dish, arrange the pieces of duck around it. pour over the sauce, and garnish with 511101 s. Fruit Taploca —Soak three-quarters of a cupful of tapioca over night ; drain, turn into a double boiler ; add tour cup- fuls of hot water, and cook until clear and transparent. Remove from ire, stir into it one pint of fresh fruit, sweeten to taste. and serve_ hot or cold with whipped cream. Prune Souffle.—One pound of prunes soaked over. night ; cook soft in a little water. Press all through tate colander, add one-half cupful of sugar and file beaten whiles of four eggs. Rake in a slow oven fifteen minutes. Serve with cream. Panned Tomatoes.—As soon as the price of tomatoes reaches a reasonable figure tliev can lek0 their place as u wholesnnle dish for breakfast. Cut firm ones of medium size into halves. Havo a tablespoonful or more of'buller heated in a. frying pans; dip' the cut side of each tomato In flour, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and place (cut side downward) in the pan. Cover closely and cook slowly for about ten min- utes. This will probably suffice to make them lender all through rind well browned unclernealli. Transfer them. browned side uppermost, to a hot plat- ter. To the pan add, if needed, a little more butler, then liege in one lumping tablespoonful of flour. Stir until the Zeal for nature study, not tempered latter is absorbed. then gradually 0511 by experience, explains why so many one cupful and a half of milk, stirring until the sauce is thick and smooth. Season Lo taste with salt and pepper, and pour around the tomatoes: For those who enjoy a hearty. breakfast this dish will prove a welcome change from meat or eggs. Mint, Sandwiches.—From the stems pick sufllcient mint leaves to measure half a cupful. Bruise them slightly, place in a bowl, pour over thein one cupful of hailing water, cover, and steep for fifteen minutes. Strain, bring to the scalding point, add ono - quarter of a package of gelatine soaked in four tablespoonfuls of cold wafer, and silo until dissolved. Season with salt and pepper; set aside to cool. when beghlning to thicken mix It care - country doctors have been called in to diagnose an epidemic of rash which has affected whole classes in some rural and urban schools, says The London Daily Mail. The symptoms of tiro ailment, well- known to doctors as "caterpillar rash," are intense irritation on flee p0hns, and sometimes on e, mb a number of blisterthe-faclike swellingsaccapenied , 11(111118y when they occur around the eyes, some- times Stave the effect of obstructing Vis- ion. The preventive 15 for the nature class to leave hairy caterpillars alone. As the "palmar worm," the hairy caterpillar of the gold -tall moth, one of the common- est and most beautiful objects of the country et midsummer, passes from hand to hand, it leaves on every palm a few of its loosely -attached hairs, and these hairs are possessed, for the pro- tection of the, caterpillar against birds and browsing anbnals, of what scion - lists cell "unhealing properties." "Urti- ca" is the Latin for "nettle." As the barbed hairs Work flair way into the palm, the child feels the Irene, non, and scratches the palm with Ute outer hand, thus transferring some hairs to tate finger tips. Presently he touches his face, and the hairs or fragtnenls of them begin to irritate there. But the more he rubs and scratches the more be disturbs tiro maim of the trouble and the worse it grows. The best procedure when the first irritation is felt is to wash the ]rands rub them t sand or dust, and0r after Ihnt towih 10815dry1 all temptation to scratch the Irritated surface or to touch the face. Many other hairy caterpillars ere an most all bed ns the "poilster worm," and ns n general rude the less you handle any hairy caterpillar the better. PRECOCIOUS. Paler (et 2 ann.)—"Oh, drat tihe child!" Maier—" \ OU 11181:51 expeCI btlbies 10 cry when they bogie teething," Pater—"This ones been 'crying ever Since he began holring," 4- »-r Brown—"Did I ever tell ,you the story about the dirty window, (seen?" Green — N0. Tell 11 to me." Brown—nit's no use, you couldn't see through 11." HOW IT WAS. "Dili you hoar Miss 5(neer sny that site had a speaking' naqunintlnr0e with that Millionaire?" asked Maud, scorn. Tully. "Illes," replied 1vh4,v, with equal son for n larger freedom, stern. "It's the. fleet time I knew that alta evr Worked to a telephone e'i 28, He was angry -7411141'y becaase ho dtlango."r fully with one 01151111 of thick cream whipped to a stiff froth. add a few drops of green coloring and turn into a square 1/1001d. When set, turn out, 'e.a1, in titin slices. and use as a filling for sandwiches of rye bread. Tapioca Cretin.—Soak one -hull cups NI of tapioca three hours in a little water. hent one quart milk, noel cook tapioca In the 1111114 until clear. Beat together the yolks of three eggs, and ane -half teaspoonful of salt, old two- thirds of a cupful of sugar ; add the hot milk grnthtally to eggs and 511501, and cents until it thickens like custard. T110 whiles of Ihe 0558 may be beaten and stirred into the pudding when cooked, or beaten with pulverized sugar for a meringue. Watermelon_ 1-!earls.—there is a pretty way to serve watermelon. First, chill the melon, then cut it in slices ab0111 11011 an inch thick. With a lheart- sllapeci biscuit cutler 08.11. out pieces of 1110 11101011. 11,1111 enough of the white, herd part on to make, a firm (Ago. Pisan on ih0 lee again, end arrange the pieces on crisp green lettuce leaves when they are sent to (11e. table. Pench Pudding. --Pour over one pint of flue • bread crumbs enough boiling water to lhornngbly mnislen them, and stir in 01108 tablespoon hl of welled but- ler. 'then add two well -beaten eggs and half a cup of saws'. Butter a pud- ding dish, and put in a thin ]oyer of 111s butler ; over it n ' inner or sll0ecl peaches. with suttee, 111111 dish is full, having bollen el 1110 Lop. 11111(8 in a moderate oven for 11110111 1(1 110111', Serve with sweetened crenns. (NOD 4mi1o1'd 180, '1'1x. 0110 8011111 0110 nr sifted paltry flour. one-fourth teaspoon each of sail and baking powder. and Out o1' chop 11110 it one rounding table - CONQUERING THE SAHARA FRANCE RECLAIMS ARID AFRICA 1'0 CIVILIZATION, Famous Cashel Cavalry the [deans of Reaching the Wild and Law- less People. France is constantly siring proofs of her mastery over the Sul,aru. She has wort it by her new methods of desert travel, which were adopted only three y01180 ago, and proved successful horn the (fest. Iter utohm'islcs travel Mier - ever they are sent. AL irregular but frequent intervals they raise their flag Over some new territory and 0110011 it to one of their organized distsielse. Tho meh1ri5les era 81111111 troops of camel morality mounted on anht11118 spcalully trained for fust travel, so that they may go lightly laden. 'Phry depend on the 101505 10 replenish supplies. '!'heir latest journey is one of the must, not- able of lheie achievements. Starling from Timbuktu they marched north and northward about 350 tulles to Taudeni, arriving there May 8, Capt. Cnuvin and his men camped in the again. Do this four tinges, using one- town for eight days. The natives had fourth cup in all. Pat it out again and never seen a white man before. Then' lay 011 ice till chilled. Then rule It 00 inch larger than the plate and cut off for a rim, put this strip on the edge. first welting the under paste. Filling,—Mix one heaped tablespoon cornstarch with one cup -sugar, add one cup boiling water, and boil five min- utes. Add one tablespoon butter, the grated rind of half and juice of one lepton, and ono well -heater egg. Turn into the crust and bake till the crust 1s (lone. Cool and cover with a meringue made wills the whiles of two eggs, two tablespoons of powdered sugar, and one leuspoon of lemon juice. file it on lightly and color a delicate brown. f -10W TO itl,nICE TOILET SOAP. Toilet soaps are, or at least ought to be, prepared from a superior quality of fat or oil. They are usually made on a large scale by the coal<8d process which may be imitated on a small scale as follows : Buil together In a large vessel one pound caustic soda (commonly called potash) \vett' twenty limes its weight of clean fat (beef or lamb being excellent for this purpose) for some hours until a thick plass is formed which will draw out in threads. 13y adding one-half cup common salt the soap separates, rising to the top. Let it remain until cold when the soap is easily removed. It is still further improved and puri- fied by remelting with a 111110 water, an attractive white soap resulting. Perfuming may be accomplished at the melting stage by the addition of a few drops of essential oil. 011 of inirb0ne (which is artificial almond oil) is the cheapest., but the perfumes of real almond oil, citronella, cloves, or laven- der are mare agreable. If color is desired a small bit of potas- sium btclimitate dissolved in the lye w111 provide a green color. Brown may be obtained by dissolving a little burnt sugar and adding it to the fat before 0110iug, TO WASH A WI-IITE SILR BLOUSE It Is disastrous to entrust a dainty white sills blouse to the tender mercies of a scientific laundry, and extravegant to have It dry cleaned. l'lmse of soft silk and lace may very easily and sod- cessfully be cleaned at hone with the ordinary soap and water. flake suds of good clean soap powder and warns water, or with pure Castile soap, and let it got lukewarm. Wash the blouse in it by swishing it about, lightly( squeezing out the wafer with the hands. Then dip into another basin of suds of Ihe sane kind, and squeeze out once more. Now rinse in cold, clear water, and roll it up for nwiiile in a dry towel. Iron under a nue white cloth while still damp with a moderately waren iron. If a clear tone of while is desired, put a little blue in the rinsing water, but if an ivory shade is pre- ferred, use clear water. Iron the Ince or lace insertions on a blouse on. the wrong side. Never wash white silk in hot water, IL yellows it. 4 TO RUIN IIIS RIVAL. Peasant's Scheme is Discovered, and 11e is Sent to Prison. A villainous plot conceived by a Zur- ich (Switzerland) peasant named Stalin to ruin his rivet, Zimmerman, with whom ale had a deadly feud, has just come to 1ig111. The outer evening Slchli emptied his revolver into the woodien walls of his barn, and, after burying the weapon, went to 111e police stollen and told the omcers that Zimmerman nod attempt - e,1 to murder him. ZImmermon ens arrested, and the police searched his house, but coifed not lied the revolver \vllh whi0h he was alleged to have conlllLed the offence. Slnlil's house was then searched, and a bullet, was found In a box. On com- parison with those found. ltnbedded in the wood of the been, 11 was mean to be idenlictt. (11441311 1'115 Ihn-n m•raslecl, Under cross-examination he !woke clown and co11essecl the plot. Iles Ives 301110need to a year's lunprisonment for perjury and n tine of 580, A milkman, while serving a customer the other morning, was asked 1f ha could go0renlcc the 1nt11< 1158 pare, "011, yes," he replied. "1t lies been par- alyzed by the public anarchist." One clay n (p1110mnn gave half a dollar to n "deaf end dumb" beggar, who. guile, taken off his gutted by smelt 8111nn81081 mmninrenen, exr15140 1, jny- musty, "Illees you, sir! 131cws soul" "tinned" sold Ihe {('nflo,nnn; "i 111011501 you were doer mut dumb:?" "Su 1 ens. sll ' ('81)118(1 1111. beggar, 'lull (111(1• nv- h nc 141100ry „rnerosty 114(11 s111.11 a snarl: --:tach n pleasant shock -_lo ihr sy ivm 11101 i) has restored nn speech mud hens, fathers saw one specimen seventy- eight, years egos when Ilene Caine crossed the desert. Lenz was In that neighborhood about lwenly-elve y0mlu ago, but passed around the place be- cause HE DI1) NOT DARE" 'a0 ENTEli 1T. Capt. Cauvin attached 'Taudeni to the Government of 'Timbuktu and his party returned to the Niger. They had met no opposition, but were mtm11 fatigued by the heat and the hardships of a de- sert march nearly as long as the dis- tance between New York and Chicago. Isolated and miserable as 'Taudeni is, the place has long been one of the mast notable in the Sahara. It occu- pies a depression only about 400 feet above sea level. The waters conte near the surface Here and many wells are possible. This has made the settle- ment the converging point for ell Ihe caravan routes between Moruedo and Titnbtlklu. It is the centre of the largest salt lin duislry In Africa. here are apparently Mexhansliblo beds of pure frock salt, which elle natives hew out in blacks three feet long, weighing seventy pounds. Four of these make a camel load. The salt' is taken to Timbuktu and distributed throughout the whole western Soudan. It is sold to the Tim- buktu rnermhalts for a pittance. but in- creases in value with every day's jour- ney of their camels to the south. Taudeni is described by the people of Timbuktu as one of the most wretched of desert settlements. The natives are o1 mixed Arab and negro blood. They have had no government. Every num is a law unto himself. Often the miners suffer from lack of food, as they aro dependent ` on imports for supplies of all kinds EXCEPT WATER AND SAL I'. They exact a camel from every caravan replenishing its water skins at their wells. and the animals thus acquired are kept as a food resource. it 1153 b0 - cause Lenz could not spare a camel that he replenished his water supply 01 Wady Ten, outside the settlement, and went on without seeing a native. Salt alining is the only industry. The heat Is so intense firm at tines the shiners are compelled to quit work and lake refuge in caves. Lenz found abundant evidence that this region, some time or oilier. gave support to people of a culture differing from that of the present inhabitants. He found the ruins of ancient falls, objects of ornament, tools and other articles such as are no longer in use. He learned that many of these relics are scattered over this part of the de- sert and specimens of finely worked and polished stone have been carried as curiosities to other Saharan towns. The French expedition may throw snore light, on this region. DO TI -IE HARD TILING FIRST. 1•ie who defers an unpleasant duly does it twice. Anticipation of 1t may be- come a continued totemic. It is wlso In bs done with it in the first place, and •'-••••••-,M. TO TUTNEL THE CHANNEL UNDER THE ,1,1. A DETIViLl.1N ENG. LAND ANI) FRANCE. Would Abolish the Most Unpleasant Salt Water Passage til ',lie World, A scheme fit pars old e ly y l s O d is revived in the colnuli8slott, recently given to Sir Douglas Lax, past president of the Itn- slnule of Civil Engineers, 10 draw up plans for a tunnel between England and Femme. Parliameolary sanction for ih0 enterprise will be sought, and in view of lite good relations between the two countries, dud the tremendous ad- vances in modern engineer ing, 11 is possible that the old dream will be- came a reality. It would abolish the 111001 unpleasant salt water passage in lite world, shorten tate distance between England and every peed 1n Southern Europe, and stimulate the intercourse between France and England. IL would also deal a severs blow to some impor- tant shipping interests, and of this ac- count It is sure k1 be strongly opposed. \\'ERE ONCE JOINED. By restoring land communication be- tween England and the Corlltuent the tunnel \vlll undo the work done by 111e sea some thousands of yours ago. Where the English Channel now nova IOs once solid lend, and England was joined to France, so solidly, apparently, us France to Spain. Whether the sepa- ration ens effected by 501110 111011100 - dolts cataclysm or through centuries of 0r0sion by the waters Is 1101 kn0wt11 though the scientists favor the Janet. theory. Geologists speak of the sepa- ration having occurred not very long ego, which probably neons within a few hundred thousand years. \Viler- evet' the disjuncture look place, by whatever means, it may be properly regarded as the most important natur- al phenomenon store Ilse Floud. As a part of the mainland of Curette, there would have been no England, no lean pire, perhaps no America, ns we knew it to -clay, The 111('0.1 that made Eng. land an island made North America an. Pnglisit continent. DICKENS ON 'l'11E SCHEME, Looking over a ropy of ".\11 the Year Round," thein edited by Chitties Dick- ens, an article cane lo 11111' no the tunnel under elle English Channel un- signed and it alight well have been written by its editor, at )east, it is a passable hnilaltot of some.. of his moods. It is interesting to note that the great boon especlr4 of the hmnel was its 580111150 to 5111•0 travellers from sea -sickness. in all its teng111 (hero wens n0 w'nrd about the Ikue In be saved or tate journey to be lcasened. In ISM the people of England did 1101 think their time was so valuable. Nos was there in the essay any reference tc ,. the danger of a Frenell in\ astral, via twine], a bogie so prominent its subse- quent discttsstons of the subject. Ano- ther amusing feature of the article MIS its im5110it assumption that Ihe tunnel would be built in three or four ye1188. So. a half century hence may other reader's comment on the articles 111e project is apt to call forth. ENGINEERS 1.'11EPAR1 PLANS. In 1852 a French engineer proposed to connect the two et -nullities 11y a bridge, end for some time the protect was gravely debuted. This idea was to have a structure, 200 feel above 1110 waLOt resting on piers 4110 feet long. IL was estimated that n250,0(10,000 would cpver the expenditure. This slaggering stmt tended to sine( the :scheme, but the final blow was 31111(818 by lite ves:01 owners, W110 feared they would be ruined by the wreck of their ships 55lainet the piers of the bridges. Four years later a French engineer, Mr. Thorne de Go -- mond, shared with Ab'. William Law 110 honor of preparing the first scienti- fic plans for a Unmet.'rho Frenchman's sciheme e118 endorsed by experts in his native land, but collapsed through Eng- lish indifference or hostility. In 1807 he showed his plans at the great Paris Exposition. THROUGH THE CHALK 13I11DS, In 1867 °emend, Law and James Brenlees combined and • presented the plans to a committee, of which. Lord Richard Grosvenor wens chah'man. On then contemplation of it becomes a it wore several engMeetting experts, and pleasure. The undone task, resting up- all agreed that the 111010cl 17113 feasible, on your head, }weighs y011 down and and the engineers' calculations founded. holds you back. "The wo11-fllislled one, on solid facts. The 011001'y on which beneath yrottr feet, raises you up, and the most, important r,lrulnllon--that at helps y'ou forward. Somehow or other 11 seems that the hard things ore the important things, Maybe it is because they aro hard and sometimes left un- done that their importance is realized. If you have not met \Vitt 58100055 ('0U thinkaur efforts merit do not sit down to groan and rail against Fate, blit just boring out the rock ander Ilse channel- bed—ens based is that. the same chnllc formation 001011118 ulbrokmn from 1)0- v01' to Calais. This rock is excellent material for drilling operations, end y has proved almost impervious to water. In 11115 stratum a 511011, 1.90 some '1,000 feet deep, and not n drop of water ens quietly cast wok for the disagreeable10have p parts of ,Your work from which you have found, nihing experts leslliled that the shrunk. There you will and your point 1001,550 from the channel down was hot to be feared. 01 wenirness. You may not 0118011 much importance to these things you •ehri0k from, but ,you can 110\'01' know how your neglect of Them hots changer] the current e1 your life. (S\i 4 mg, Riess you n51(in, sir, a thousand Littlest" Heimthat` nurst bo 1 COs'1 OF TH1. 'TUNNEL, It 11018 0s1111111c1 !hal £14000,000 would itntid a tunnel wide enough for double franks. 'Phis wits el the 11110 Of 51,000,000 a 111110, 111 four y 0lu's Ihe pro- moters hoped to have the work com- pleted. Drilling 1nncllhlel'y 1108 order- ed, or built, mud the great borer ens said la be able lo advance al the rule of n ('01.51 an hour, end pasts 0111 Ihe reek and earth behind 11, The French Emperor approved Ihe scheme ns did the French f:hanrhel' of (:811nm5108, hut. English officialdom remefn 1,001. The result was Owl Ifo' grand project fell through. Since then 11 lues been din's. missed more or loss seriously n scorn of [hoes, enol Ihe London. Chatham and Dover flni.Iwoy hes tit denvored to arouse interest in the plan. but so far without much more suc0es.4 1111111 al- inches to the advancing at the metric system for England, ALI, DO 141 TIM. "Do you Know, oh. sterner is linve Ina al dealh'ct door,' . Kitchin "Hum, (inn, f5 ho? ''Si it8 ca.1 1141 g post. the keyhole..'