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The Best Things Are the `Least
Expensive.
In a recent odlhrese. Rev. Dr, Newell
Dwight Hillis, of the Brooklyn 'I'aber-
uaele, said:— It is often said that our
generation is metre avaricious, pleasure -
loving and immoderate than any of its
predecessors, But he who rends lite
history of the eighteenth century will
be cured of depression over the ex3es-
nos of the nineteenth and twentieth. In
medicine it is a proverb that like cures
like, and That a little .drop that causes
e disease will also prevent it. And eer-
falnly one page out of Me history of
Walpole makes the history of the "fast
set" et to -day seem tame.
What' Our generation a race of spec-
ulators? In the days when the stock
waterers in London were promoting the
Mississippi Bubble the tradesmen and
citizens of London lined up on Saturday
night so as to be the first In place on
Monday morning ready for the. Stock
Exchange to open. Faithful wives car-
ried these men warm drinks of tea and
Whiskey during the two nights. Some
mel fainted in their places, others were
trampled to death, and all that the citi-
zen might be the first to exchange his
gold guinea for a piece of paper that
represented nothing,
HIGHEST WELFARE INEXPENSIVE.
But the best antidote to the evils of
our time is the love of simplicity and
the essentials of the life that is more
than cleat or raiment. This wise King
who prayed "Glue me neither poverty
nor riches" understood Me importance
of the golden mean. He knew that too
much rain of wealth and too much
drought of poverty were alike injurious
to the fruits of the soul, He knew that
God had ordained that the swetest
pleasures should be within easy reach
of the shortest hand.
On architecture we have all learned
to eschew ornament, The Corinthian cap-
ital has just enough loaves, the Ionic
column has very simple lines. In liter-
ature we know that nothing destroys
the ornalion of the book like verbosity,
Every June bride knows enough to wear
one color—white—and one spray of
blossoms on the bosom. The.physicians
tell us that walking is far more health-
ful that riding, and we need no physi-
cian to tell us that it 1s less expensive.
When the poor boy is making his for-
tune he does not realize that hlss
strength, his energy and his happiness
are largely due to his plain living.
-Grown rich, Ile eats eight or ten courses,
with two or three kinds of wine. That
is, he eats the courses fora short time
—then Ihe courses carry him into the
graveyard, The achievements of Words-
worth, the old German Emperor or Leo
)UH., of Gladstone and Tennyson, are
the achievements of extreme abstinence
in old age. A little fruit, a little cer-
eal and wheaten bread, a glass of milk—
dlscountng his standing as a !miler
among the people, which wuuld bo In-
volved in leis failure to answer' sailelae-
tarily.
19. Mases wrote --In Pout. 5. 5 "if
brethren dwell together, and one of them
die, and have nu son, the wife of the
dead shall not be married whhout unto
a stranger," etc, The purpose of the
low was the preservalien of families
and family moue, which under the old
tribal division of the nation had been
highly d sit -able,
20. There were seven brothers ---Prob-
ably a I1ctiUous or hypothetical case.
211. Ye know not the scriptures nor the
power of Goths- error was a two -
these are within reach of all, even the fold. one: (1) Ignorance of the Scrip -
poorest letterer; anything more is at lures • (l) Of ticP rofound truths which
thoee :scriptures leach, Jesus deals first
with tho second of the two points.
25. Neuter marry nor are given In
marriage—The carnal rel111005 of lids
life are not to be thought of as extending
into the future life, or as being repealed
there, Compare Paul's argument (1
Cor, 15. 30-44), based . on the endless
variety of the creative power of God.
As angels in heaven—The exieteuoe of
angels was dented by the Sadducees; in
Ins reply, therefore. Jesus embraces the
whole Rees of their unbelief.
20. Ifave ye not read in the book of
Moses ?—They had quoted Moses In their
0088110n, and Jesus answers by refer-
ring thein to the saute authority.
In the place concerning the Bush—
Exod. 9. 4-0.
27. Ye do greatly err --The answer of
Jesus to the Sadducees was thus as
conclusive and final as had been his
answer to tate Pharisees, S1i11 another
question put to Jesus by a more sincere
inquirer is recorded in this connection
by Mark in the verses following our
lesson ease lest.
xt.
the peril of line eater. The express emu -
ponies' nark certain packages "at rte
owner's risk." In life's feast Nature
stamps the last eight courses of the rich
man's dinner with these words, "At the
owner's risk. All responsibility dis-
claimed."
IHAPPINE:SS AND CULTURE.
That the highest happiness is inex-
pensive is seen also in the fact that
leans chief pleasure cones from menial
culture. Upon rel1e011011, We all discord'
that our happiest niomenls, day by day,
are those when we are conscious that
'we have grown in manhood or woman-
hood through the companionship of great
beaks and conversation with wise
friends, Nothing exhilarates like a gol-
den hour of personal growth. What a
glow pervades the mind when one ap-
proaches the last pages of an inspiring
story, poem or oration! The pleasure
is not fiery, nor consuming. IL 10 a
gentle pleasure, Like that experienced
when WO listen to high music, or look
ata rich sunset, or behold a mountain
side golden with autumnal splendor. It
need not be college culture, for the time
Is gone forever when culture is limited
to colleges. '
The aerial highway Is for all, pool
and weak, bond and free, high and low,
alike. Alt that is asked is the hugger
for the feast of beauty that Nature
and God hath prepared. For the foun-
tain that bubbles on the mountain side
is free to lark and eagle alike, and 'a
the wild deer. And the fountain of hap-
piness is a spring that will bubble in
every human heart. What a word is
that "the well of water that I will open
up Is a well of eternal life and happi-
ness."
HAPPINESS OF LOVE AND SERVICE,
A higher form of happiness k pp news is the took out of his pocket and handed to
]east expensive—the happiness of ]ave
and service. The keenest delight that the geut!enlhlui nine pearls.
ever ravished aha soul of man is the Questioned as to where he had found
delight of serving the poor and weak, the valuable stones, he answered that
That wealthy Englishman who took his he had gathered them in a country road
outside the walls of the oily. Another
boy who was w•itit lam w11e1 he found
the pearls had twenty of them.
The pearls belting to a neelduee which
Princess Falconieri lost some time ago,
a gallery that would spread his name, and for wlhlcli she offered the 0300 re -
and tante. He founded a school of art ward. It was worth 35,000, and the
for the working people who made knives number 330 pearls which 'have been now
and forks and spoons. IIe taught thou found (thirty in all) represent only half
how to spread beauty over the walls of its value.
the dining -room and parlor, and gave The children who lied 1001115 found
them models for beautiful rugs, IIis the precious stones were given 0120 by
gallery is empty, but his heart holds Prheess Falconieri.
something that it, has never held before
—happiness—that the world could not
give and could never take away. This
is the joy of knowledge that the wise
man can teach.
PRINCESS'S LOST PEARLS.
Beggar Boy's Story of a Roadside Dis-
covery in Ronne.
Recently a notice was posted. In the
streets of Roma to the effect that a suns
of 3300 would be given us reward to
the person who found a- pearl necklace.
A few days ago a boy begging on the
Corsa was driven away rather roughly
by a policr1na11, whereupon a gentle-
man ran after the lad and gave him a
few "suldi,' '1'110 boy turned to his bene-
factor and said he would make flint a
present of some "pretty little glass
balls" he had found. end saying this, he
art treasures to Sheffield was a who
man. He had marbles that had come
from Greece, pictures from the galleries
of Italy, examples of the French and
Dutch schools. He did net lake thele to
nlfnirs, in the coin)cils of the San-
THE ledrin
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tie Je ds
S• LESSON 1, w 11 SIAIC Cx-
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isied. ' But with the downfall of tel
slate at the time of the destruction of
INTERIVAT/ONAL LESSON, came
their power and influence
cane to an end, and they soon disap-
peared from history.
SEPT. 16.
Lesson X71. Jesus Silences the Phari-
sees and Sadducees. Golden
Text: Marla 12. 17.
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note.—The text of the Revised Version
Is used as a basis for these \Vord
Studies.
Pharisees, Ilet'odians, Sadducees.—
The Pharisees were a separatist religious
party. They represented the religious
views, practices, and hopes of an earlier
and less corrupt generation, and of a
remnant of zealous Jews t of the old
orthodox school in their own time. As
rigid legalists they were scrupulousvpulous ob-
servers of the law as Interpreted by their
learned scribes and rahbls. and of the
ceremonial regulations touching ievilieal
purity. They were pledged by the
secret vows of their own order to con-
scientious payment of tithes and temple
dues, and to the literal observance of
rules and ordinances established by lite
traditional interpretation of the law.
They were the bitter opponents of both
Saddnlcees and Herodians, In contrast
with the former, they believed in a fu-
ture life and in the coming of the king-
dom of Heaven in vLeible form on
earth. Compared with the common
people they formed an arislocrnry of
the learned and virtuous, despising
heartily the ignorant populace which
knew not the law. After the fall of
Jerusalem and the destruction of the
temple the Pharisees again became tit)
dominant party in. Judaism, exerting a
Strong influence on ifs later character
and Malady,
Verse 13. And they send—The exas-
perated priests, and scribes, namely,
who had been angered by the piloted
Parable of the Unfaithful IIusbendntan
spoken by Jesus, and recorded in lie
preceding verses of this chapter.
Certain of the Pharisees—Chosen lend-
ers learned in the technicalities of the
law, and skilled in debate.
And of the Herodians—The combina-
tion of these two aningonislic parties
against Jesus is ah significant comment
on his power and influence at this
time.
14. Teacher, we know that thou art
true, and rarest not for anyone—Words
spoken, doubtless, with n line
show, of
sincerity, but the held flattery and hypo-
crisy of which did not escape Jesus.
\\'hat these Pharisees said may be taken
to indicate what was the general reputa-
tion of Jesus among the people at this
time.
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cne-
sal'?—A subtle question from the snare
of Mitch fere seethed to be no escape.
since a negative 011• an affirmative
answer alike would. give them a cause
for proceeding egainsl Jesus by process
of law. It was a question, however,
which in their own hearts they answered
wilt en emphatic negative.
15, le. But he, knowing 11rein hypo-
crisy, anti -1118 answer of Jesus was
always determined by the spirit of the
question put to trite.
Bring me a denariius—As zealous
patriots who holed eveayllting that re-
minded them of their subject relation to
Rome, they would not. he likely to carry
with thorn this lithe silver Ronan coin,
with its (mage and superscription of
Caesar. This lunge of the emperor w08
The ilerodlons were 11 religious-poliU- by the stricter Jews abhorred as idols
cal party In power in Jerusalem during thous, and in dcfcrenoe to their religious
• the reign of King ilcrad and his sum' semslhilily o1 this point, the Romans et
tossers. 135 Jewish rabbis they were one flue allowed it special coinage 10 be
Called 13oetirusialls after Recitals, father struck for Jaden ort which the Image did
Of Marianne, the murdered wife of the not appear: Hence Jesus says, °bring
tyrant Herod, the latter having succes- me," instead of simply "show me."
slvely appointed the sons of Hocllrus to 17, 1,05101' unto (tamer the things
the o01ce of high priest, In politicos that 1175 rus'ser's-.-Pray to the emperor
sympothtos and ethical petneiples the es a rightful obligation ev017 legal (1110.
Iierodians were closely allied in the And unto God the tiring:: teal ore
Saddhlcees.• f,mds--Possibly there is hire a reference
'1'l Sodducees were the eristoe'atia- to (be temple shekel. tat well es In the
priestly party, fewer in number, richer, deeper spiritual obligntiens to Jehovah.
less rigidly legalistic. end less 8Irict in They tunrvelled meetly - ;lppr,ets.
Meth habits of lire than lime Phnrteepe. ling al least the still end aIrewdnees rf
90salt the latter they differed also in lits answer, if 1111 also the deep spiritual
She fact Ihnl they did not'believe in a insight involved therein,
future lite, 11or in the existence of 18. The Idler failure of. the Phnrlsees•
angels, etc., end Aid not neeep1 the Ira- to retell Jeans 111 their net of words mired
ditlortnl Interprelntion of 1110 law its have given to the •Sodrluoees much secret'
Insisted upon by scribes end rabbis. salistnnton: It Is now their turn to
They were in league with the Tlerodlne question 111111, 'Theirs is, hewevcr, a
and other ruling farnilice 1011 therefore. doctrinal rather Mar n legal queslien,
wore i1111uentie1 in rdigfous and civil (hough equally subtle, It is aimed st
t
GOOD OLD EIIITISII BULWARKS.
The following table illustrates the
changes in (11e positions of the three
chief nestles of Europe since 1891, and
.1
shows the rapidity tido with Germany
y h which
has forged ahead to, a position c.1
equality with Franco in battleships
actually in commission and bnstanlly=.
or almost instantly—ready for action
.Brett t
Britain. Germany, France.
18041 37 — 20
1809 20 7
1903 30 ..... 8
1905 28 12
1900 45 10
21
14
15
15
'rte present position of the British
fleet -111e Russian navy' having been
practically almlhilated—ls not one to
occasion a moment's anxiety, particu-
larly es there never was a 11me since
steam was introduced when Ute gun-
nery of British men -of -wee reached as
high n standard ns to-dey. The nation
can with thankfulness accept the a88lir-
mice of the "Naval Annual" that "the
British navy bus never been in so
strong a position as at line present
ora
this n .
d11T.ITAR\' EXPENDITURES,
According 10 the British Palialnen-
tary paper, the world's norinnl amnia)
miliary expenditures are as follows:
Russia 51ti5,000,0110
081'(110 05 .... 157,000,000
Great Britain ,.,. 153,000,000
Frame , . , .... 133,000,000
UnIled Sinter ,:.. 11�2,(100,01l0
India ...... .... 00,000,000
Au,! 0(11 88•,00,000
Italy .... .... .... .. 55,000,000
japer . .,. ., 21,000,000
Besides i0r111's 598.(X10,000, 01her ent-
ente,: 1,1 01'051 Britain expend 312.000,-
000 n year for local purposes, Tho
Commit Mini /lees 1101 include 118 325,-
000,000 5 5005 fur colonial Military ex-
penses, end the French 101111 also ex-
chldee $18,000,0011 a ye0r for the nervy
serving (10081. The British Empire
lead) wilt its home and colonial total
of 4;271,01X1,000. Including 3117.000,000 n
Year for pensions, the United Slates
co111e8 next with $240,1100,000.
lusts CO\llim$ F.10e1 •TREES.
110 resin 1(l Ihe shoemaker and 131-
131en rs ob!tdnr1 from different species of
iho fh'-Irra•es the Sante fir, the latest,
and (he tulsnnl lir of Candle, 11 is
well known Ihnl. n ('0811(08 juice exudes
from dose tr,rs, which madders into
solid Mar.5 fhe clear juice itself, be-
fore 11 has dined up by corning to I.he
perfects, is known in commerce 1(.s tur-
pentine., end in 1110 1nein composed of
nil 01 turpentine and resin.When the
juice is distilled, the 011 codes over,
end the resin remains behind, When Ihe
distillation is (tarried on to tli•,vness,
50111itrnn rosin 3s formed., tell when wale'
is mixed with 11 while yet fiord, Ihe re-
sulting nines Is the v11rfely called y'ellnty
resin, which is preferred for most pin' -
pesos beemr,1 31 is more (Indite i115n the
former, owing probably to lis contain-
ing some 113!,
itriertelereiretste@titi<we st indieteiteirrstefisg
S)
111
Windy stiff. In this case only ono
rinsing water slluuld be used, as re-
pealed
'apealed rinsings would lake out 111e ,slight
stiffness.
Hard water, always prejudicial to
washing, 1s, 01 0011151', especially objec-
tionable to perishable duhily garments,
With buffs and grays, either In lineal or
muslin, IL seeuls to have a spolllug ten-
dency, !'hese calors are 0. 111110 bard 10
➢9+n+ 4 f+•�•1'+N�?1r 8,15.0..8133 tvntib 1n any case, plunk pepper is sn111
BREAD NOl'1's[.'111iF, to remedy ((tete tendency to fade out
and spot, and it slightly Softens the
Tea Rolls. --When your bread is ready water, Use 111111 a teaspoonful, .
to put in pans sot 1(81110 enough dough A. method of permanently fixing the
in a bowl for a good sized loaf ---Iwo and different shades of blue from the palest
one-half pounds will be eullicient. Have up to the much less perishable daric10
ready one-half cup lard, which has been shades is by soaking for a few hours in
warmed, but not molted; to this add one- a pail of water into which au ounce of
fourth cup sugar; mix these ingredients sugar of lead has been dissolved.
together and nvertc them thoroughly into Ilot water starch is nixed in the fol.
the dough, have your pastry board lowing proportions ; One tablespoon of
well floured and t'unsfer your dough, starch, n quarter 18(18(000 borax Ms -
which will be in a sticky condition, to solved in a little boiling water before
11(15(1lg, taking care not to pour in the
dregs; a (punter inch of tallow candle,
two tablespoons cold water, with enough
boiling water to make into a stiff Jelly.
Dissolve line starch in cold water, add
the borax and tallow candle, dissolved,
before adding the boiling water.
A Cheap Floor Stuln.—Mix ono part
of Brunswick blade with 80\1011 parts of
turpentine. Apply to the wood with a
flat brush. Next day polish with bees-
wax and turpentine. Use more or less
turpentine to make a lighter or darker
slain.
Wen Polishing Furniture.—It is not
generally known that wringing out a
cloth in hot water. and wiping the fur-
niture before putting on furniture
cream, will result, in a very high polish,
0111 will not finger metric.
Brass Cleaning.—Powder should never
be used to clean wrought or chased
brass. Wash the articles well first and
dry theist. Then rub over the surface
with half a freshly cub lemon. When
quite clean, rinse thoroughly in warm
water, 101 it dry, and polish with a cha-
mois leather.
Mildew and Linen.—Take equal parts
of soft soap and fine starch .and lepton
juice, mix into a paste, and spread
thickly 00 both sides of the mildewed
article, and lay on the grass day and
night. In a day or two the mildew will
disappear.
Kitchen Towels.—The most soiled of
kitchen towels will become sweet end
white with this trealulent; Cover w1111
cold water, put Nieto at the back of the
stove, add on tablespoonful f shaved
Lo e, 0 1 d o s 1( d
caslile soap and rho juice of half a
lemon. Let it come to a boil gradually,
and repeat the process. Rinse first in
tepid then in cold water.
this; now knead gently into it enough
flour to matte tine dough just, stiff enough
not to stick to your hands; replace 1n
the bowl and set aside to rise, When
light, roil out and cut into cakes with a
biscuit cuter, mold these into balls, and
set close together in a pan. 1f wanted
hot fur tea. set 1n a cool place to rise;
when they have shod about an hour,
brush the tops with sweetened water,
which will make linen a rich, glossy
brown.
Spider Calces, Take some dough from
yeast bread, out into any shape, and fry
with butter enough to keep spider from
being dry. Fry slowly and eat when
fresh spread with butler.
Squash Bread.—One pint sifted
squash, one-half cup lard, one-half cup
molasses, two-thirds teaspoon soda, salt
to taste; flour enough to knead it stiff,
rise twenty-four hours; bake in cakes or
puns as you would ginger bread.
Blesses Bread.—Mix one-half cup each
of corn tnea1 and graham flour, add one
and one-fourth cups gal -tans flour. one-
half cul) molasses, one teaspoonful salt,
(tree teaspounfuls soda. end. one and
three-fourths cups lukewarm water.
Mix thoroughly, pour Into a buttered
mold, and steam three and one-half
hours. Attractive loaves of brown bread
are made by steaming the mixture 311
one pound baking powder cans, when
two hours to sufficient for the cooking.
Shan -dog Broad.—Pour one cul) el
boiling water into ono cup of mill(; when
cool stir 10 one cake of compound yeast
(dissolved in Iwo tablespoonfuls of luke-
warm winds-, one teaspoon solt. Add
flour o make a stiff dough; turn o 0
to out n
g,
a kneading board, and knead hvl.nty
minutes, or until It will not cling to the
board. I.et IL rise for three hours; knead
thoroughly, put in pans, and let rise one
hour. Bake f0rly-five minutes. This
will make three loaves, and is intended
for morning bread making.
LEFT OVERS.
Baked Bean Soup.—Take the cold
beans left from Saturdays balling, put
in a Stewpan with one onion and three
or four whole claves, cover 111011) with
cold water, and holt till soft then press
them though a strainer and retan to
THE MODEL WIFE.
Husbands, here is Something for You
to Carefully Peruse.
She doesn't know a word of French,
Melton, or German; 11011e1' ready any-
thing but "flints to Married Women"
"The Cookery Book"; doesn't play- on
the piano; keeps but one girl; does half
the washing end ironing; makes all the
stove; 88081111 with salt and pepper to cakes and pies; cuts her husband's
taste. When about to serve have ready vests, her Own dresses; mends all the
two or three hard-boiled eggs, sliced, stockings; does all the marketing, and
and a lemon, sliced thin; add when send- buys the wood and coal; never goes out
ing to tine table. If one prefers a thin-
ner soup on111 lemon and eggs, using
slot mill(. Serve toast in small squares.
liken in While Jell •.— 1 -- al
Clr 011 h f cup
uP
of cream sauce, white neat left from
cold roast or bolted chicken, oile-half
teaspoonful gelatin. Cover the gelatin
with cold water and let stand while you
male a half -cup of cream sauce, then
add it to the sauce and stir until dis-
solved; add a few drops of onion juice,
strain, end when .nearly cool pour it
over the chicken, which has been cut
into meat pieces or sliced and spell-.
seasoned. Serve cold on a tender let-
tuce leaf or garnished with young cel-
ery. no lop sometimes may be sprink-
led with rolled toast crumbs and finely
chopped parsley tiering the jelly has
!tented. The jelly also (1nay be cut In
111111 slices and served with thin bread
and butler.
Breed Pudding.—Take throe cups of
stale breadcruinbs and 0110 cup raisins,
Mut' ' cups of milk, one cup of sugar,.
flavor with vanilla, put into a pudding
pan, and bake from thirty to forty 01111-
lles.
Eggless Veal Loaf.—One pound of
coltd veal chopped fine, one cup swept
mill, a good sized cup of cracker
crumbs. season with salt and pepper
and bake one hour In a slow oven,
NO TUIRNING NO BURNING.
"How is it you always have such
beautiful bread?" was asked a busy
housekeeper. "Sour n1111; and a bread
mixer," was the reply. Asked to ex-
plain, she said : ",I unix my bread wills
scar milk hnverfably. That is, I allow
four cups of milk, one cup of lukewarm
water with Ihe yeast dissolved In 11,
0111 three 0111)8 of hot waLe1' added to
faille--ejght cups of liquid hi all.
Two tublospacnfuls of lard or one table-
spoo nful of bitter and ane of good beef
dripping go talo the lhpld, and igen I
fifteen 11111 cups of flour and a small!
handful of sail. For a long time 1 could'
not ho persuaded that any mixer could
make bread es close and fine as my Iwo
110018could runic! .
\
owadaY
8 Ihe
noised docs 1110 work, ❑11(1 iP T an 100
busy to mnice it myself, one 01 the chil-
dren can do it just as well 1f (he ingre-
dients ere measured 11110 the mixer. I
no longer dread the baking day. though
it comes oftener than it used to, sty
reason of the fact that (he lovely breed
we have gels eaten up so quickly.
'Thirty-tvo minutes; no turning, n0
binning; is our recipe for its lase,"
C lfFUL IIIN'Pd,
Some people prefer- not to use soap at
all for de11511Ie timeline, though wizen a
mild, good soap is used there scarcely
is any objection. The substitute used is
wheal brim. Roil 111,0111 Icon quarts in.
wader, Id d( cool, and simile Ihe. liquor,
which may be used 111 )(thee of soup,
taking out . (lie dirt, 11orptng the color,
*olid also stiffening slightly 111 1110 811100
13111P,. tuts ohvialhtg the 11001 .51 starch
unless the dresses are warted ex- 'pilled ogalust a W0111011 (cars,.
except on Sunday; doesn't know wile -
thee 8111811 or big bonnets are worn; 110v-
er sleeps in the daytime; always looks
pretty, never looks. tired. Wouldn't
speak to any mans but her husband for
tine world, pule lilies to see hint 'talk to
al( pretty women. Rocks 1110 cradle
and darns (Ina stockings in the morning,
then darns the stockings and rocks the
cradle in the afternoon.
Slays at home in the evening and
mends her husband's old trousers,
while he goes to the show; sits up to
the rocking -chair half the night nurs-
ing young Snooks for fear he should
disturb papa; rises at five o'clock, takes
out a clean shirt for \lr. Snooks, wash-
es lite faces and combs the heads of the
nine litho Snoa1Bes, scrubs their elglh-
tcen little dirty hands, and nurses the
baby while papa is shaving, for fear
Its crying will melee him cut his Ince
with the razor. helps the nine and her
husband during brealcfost-lime, then
eats a cold egg anti some burnt toast
when they Thinkher
w y are gone. 5 hus-
band an Adonis, a Solomon, and 15 per-
fectly willing that lie should engage
a'
hhn-a.lf to be mnrrIed coming n
l home
m
from (he funeral,11111 1101108 No. 2 will
be more worthy of sucih a treasure than
ever site wast
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TILE DANCER OF WIMP', LEAi).
Probably lead -working, and particu-
larly the mnnutuelut'e'of while -lend !s
the most dangerous calling. hl this in-
dustry it is in0151teble that, sooner of
later, - the w elt:ors must succumb to
lead polsoning,.and there would appear
to be no part of the body that the pois-
onous fumes and floating particles
which permeate the atmosphere of the
workshops do not effect. The complex-
ion -takes on a ghastly corpse -ince pn1-
lor, the gnats (turn blue, the teeth decay
rapidly and full out, the eyelids are hide-
ously inlia inti, A snatch or en abra-
sion of the skin becomes en unheulnhle,
sore. L.nter on, when ahe'vcs and
muscles beieu le affected by the poison
In the blood, the eyeballs ore drawn 111 -
to oblique positions, 11110 take on a 011111
and bleared 0ppenrautcc. The joints,
especially the knee and the wrist, be-
came semi-pa`elyzod, and the whole
form 3s gradually ben(, and contorted.
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ViurrPANS ))V1NG OFF.
Veterans of -(ire American Civil War
ere flying now at 1110 111(0 of 100 a day.
ncco'd117g to the records of the United
Slates P0115100 Otico, The reports fur
several months pest have shown the
death rade among the old ;soldiers to i 0
Ihe neighborhood of 3,000 a Moth.
tension . 0,1100 officials who have
watched (ire figures closely and )snow
the tendency of the (:tenth rule ere of the.
0(ihtfun that Cho number of Civil War
pensioners • has reached the maximum
and that hcraoftc' each 800000ding
mein will show 0 decrease,
11'8 easy (n 7)11110 1110 wh11101! nn
a11)11( en! In width a mens words er.
ODDITIES OF INSURANCE
PEOPLE 1Y110 INtSLIr I AGAINST•
BALDNESS AND SANITY,
Impossible to Imagine any Possible Risk
That You Can't Protect Your-
self Against.
It is fairly 00111111011 1E1101 twig° 111111
horror musicians, like Kubiak mad
Ptldel'ml'sl(l, Insure (heir bends against
accidents that Bight disable thele ;
singers
insure theft throats, athletes
their limbs.. and so on, iho ehlgle part of
the body w1110(1 is (I source of ;wont be-
ing overlooked; while, if you are a ten -
taster, you can cover the ('151( of losing
the delicacy of your palate, and a per-
fume expert can similarly protea) his
sense of smell,
'!.'here are companies which melte a
specialty of insuring against loss of
sight, so that y011 (110y contemplate even
blindness with comparative equa-
nimity. In Germany a clitd can be In-
sured against ophthalmia up to the age
of thirty-five by an annual payment of
twelve cents only. If the insurer's sight
fails and he has to weal' glasses, they
are provichd free, with treatment, as
long as he lives. Baldness and loss of
teeth can equally be provided against.
At Grimsby, England, Rshingalats are
insured against loss or damage; there is
a company which confines its opera-
tions t0 the insurance of
CUT -GLASS AND CHINA -WARE;
and you can easily guard yourself
against loss from burst pipes in winter.
But quite apart from risks of what
may be called en ordinary nature, from
loss of employment to loss of a limb,
there 38 011 extraordinary va•tety of
risks against, which the underwriters of
'Lloyd :s' will prated you for an. suitable
consideration. Suppose, for fnetancc,.
a tan. idler malting his will in your
favor or leaving ,you a fat legacy, be-
comes insane, they will insure you
against the contingency of his recover-
ing his sanity and culling you nut of his
last 108lanleu1. If you 111(150 been left a
legacy on condition 111111 you should
marry a certain lady or change your re-
ligion, by P1151119 the stipulated pre-
mium you will be assured of an equal
amount if the lady won't staveY ou or,
on consideration, you prefer to rennin
single, or if you decide to stick to your
faith.
if you want to sell your house and the
lite -deeds have gone astray and can't
be found, you 00 secure a potty 85 11
substitute for the Lille, so that you are
relieved of
ALL FURTHER RESPONS1B1L1TY.
Similarly, If you have arranged for a
garden -party and fear that a wet day
will involve 5011 In loss, you can have
your expenses guaranteed, so that, as
far as your pocket is col1Cerned, you
can smile at a falling barometer"; and,
equally, of course, It farmer can pro-
tect 1ils )'ops against unkind weather,
Suppose, again, you arc heir to a
bachelor uncle and are fearful Thal 11e
may nnarey and you nay be supplanted,
you can insure against suc11 an unde-
sirable contingency, so that, whether
he weds or riot, you will not be a penny
H f
poorer; n o
Elle oo a or if you are engaged to
girl pith a' 11150 Mlle dowry We leave no
doiubl you could protect yourself against
the chance of being jilted even et the
eleventh hour. If you are next-of-1dt) to
a man who hes not male his will, you
can Insure against his doing so to your
detriment; or if he has already left you
a legacy you can be gueranteed against
his cancelling 11.
IF I0U ARE A CIIE\MIST
you can guard yourself agninst the
financial consequences of supplying a
wrong drug to a customer; a dentist
need not spend sleepless nights for feat'
of drawing a sound tooth instead. of a
decayed one; nor a medical omit Iron)
fear of a wrong diagnosis. For a
modest payment of about $15 per cent.
you can face the possibility of becoming
the father of twins, and a much smaller
sum will relieve your anxiety about
triplets; while, if you are afraid your
L i
baulk 18 shaky, you Can insure i against
est
disnste•.
But one might quote similar examples
almost indefinitely without covering Ilse
entire ground of out-of-the-way risks
against wind) you cannot protect your-
self nowadays; 11111 WC have told you
enough, we think, to prove that 11 you
are worried about 1ny earthly contin-
gency, from en earthquake to an attack
of measles, it Is your awls fault if you
are not ...protected against its flnaeial
consequences.—London Ttt-Bits.
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DOGS AND TELEPHONES.
The first instance recorded 10 Berlin
of a dog using a telephone occurred
there the oilier day, when a poodle
which hod been lest by Iwo provincials
during Iheh' stay in the capital was re-
cognized by this means. 11 answered
Ihe description left by the mimes as to
otlwnrd oppcnrnnce, mid in order to
solve all doubts its probable masters
Were rung up on the country telephone
and asked to colnnl4utieate with the dog,
egolnst whose ear Ilia receiver was
pineed. On healing Itself called by its
name the animal burst into joyous, ex-
cited barb, which was recognized by the
owners atthe other end of the wire,
The dog was theroupon forwarded to
Its musters by rail.
ASHES FROM VESUVIUS.
00 April 11, while Vesuvius wa3 Still
inuring frielb clouds of dust and ashes,
Stens. Stnnlslos Siennier. the t•ereech
geologist, noticed a pee ilier fog over
'oris, and upon Oxp0Sing, plates of gena -
in onthe roe of his house, prepared
or Mc purpose of catching atmospheric
11101, he obtained samples of volcanic
ish, which. upon exeml0al.lon, proved
n be identical in composition with Oaf
:1101, 0111 of the crater of Vesuvins 1111'-
09 lite greet eruption of 1822, when, as
111 the present Ocenei01), the conical
1hmlit of the v01cen0 was bl01vn away.
OVfart 4 (103111.
Captain Olasturd's lisperlenre With a
Bea'.
To go out atter pule In the hill -coun-
try of hila nte111s t;i'il Ills limiter will
find game, soya Captain ulnsItuel, the
nightie of "111110 and Romance 111 1110
Indian Jungle," One morning, followed
by his 8hikarees, or nulive hunter's,
Captain (Aasfurd was not looking over
a Tough hillside for hent, lie Mitt p1188ed
round (ha curve of a high ledge, when
he 111(111 hiuself 111 trout of a Virga, low.
roofed dive. On the sandy 00ul' of the
entrance to 1110 cavo wore the !'rest 1h=
ening tacks ad a beer,
Our position was a sufficiently hazard-
ous 0110. '1'110 ledge wax extremely nar-
row, overhung by rock, and on the verge
of n perpendiculer face of sandstone. We
0)9(11) quiclly reh'0cing our way. 13111
531.00513. had we taken ono slop whet
u imrrlblo disturbance occurred in the
depths of the cavern. This hastened mfr
movements; but our (taste was as no-
thing compared to the rapidity of the
eruption that was going on behind us
es the bear came yelling and scrambling
out of the cavern. For me there was
nothing but a.Swii't whip round to face
this horrid denouement, my lite not
even permitted to reach my shoulder.
To right, a blank wall ofsmooth cliff -
side; to left, a swift descent 'lo the un-
known over the edge of the cliff, and In
front a raging, roaring mass of black
flair shooting loward me with the speed
Of a l'tlntlway' 1110t01`COr.
Bang! goes my rifle, and the next mo-
ment 1 (int enjoying a strange, slowly -
Yid of its memories being the smooth -
brushed appearance of the beer's fore-
-
(high.
We bump and whirl swiftly . down -
word. A semi -unconsciousness held me,
and then 001110 a shock. 1 saw the body .1
of the bear hurled far from me into
space, and 1 realized that I was e1u1eI
Ing at something.
11 was a little tree that 1 gripped In > .,
Ihe strength of despair. d was hanging t
0(
to111 11, Bitseleadf. downward, on the face of the
-
SIy JAL orderly's voice sounded in niy
ea'. Tho plucky fellow crawled down
(stat awful slope and managed to seize
1115 hands. I was somehow drawn up-
ward to the ledge. Then my gaze fell
upon that solitary sapling, tooled in
smile mere chink in - the rock. There
w•O0 no other tree within nnuny yards.
Two months* a ,
t lay Mach afforded
scope for thought as to my extraordin-
ary piece of luck.
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FREDERICK TEMPLE'S CHILDHOOD.
Ills Mother ll'as His Teacher Before De
Went to School.
rr,dn1ic Temple,
Archbishop of Can-
terbury, was horn in the Ionian islands
Although he was taken to England at
nine years of age, his r0 01105tion of his
early yenls 0.113 vivid, and the inn*.
awes o1 flim of his home edueldien and
surrounding, were permanent. in
his "\tenors" ills sister tells of his
early ed urn to)
Sly mother was considered a beauti-
ful woman, with genll0 manners, know-
ing no language but iter own, 001 cle-
v01' in the sense of brilliant at ail; but
thoughtful, with excellent judgment,
treat. sense C C c ,f personal a11911i1,y, govern-
ing
Ing her fancily without any effort, with-
out severity, Her word was an, un-
quesional law.
Silo was the only teacher that my
brothers and 1 had previous to the time
when they went to school. She taught
us to rend and write; she taught arith-
metic, with very little knowledge of
arithmetic herself, by steady repetition.
Sine had a key to the suns in the arith-
metic which gave the answers, 11 a
sunt was brought to her and the answer
was wrong, she drew her pencil (through
It end made -no further remark. It
Mod to ire done again (ill it was clone
rigid. The stmt to -day was repeated to-
morrow, and so on, until perfeot accur-
acy was obtained.
•When It was lime for my trotters Lo
begin Lnlhi, tie same system was adop-
ted. She could not pronounce it, but
Frederlok had to learn a few lines each
day, always repealing the old until soy.,
en or tet pages had been learned. Then
iho first four m•
five pages would be
left and a further advance made. -
This went on day by day and year'
by year until 11e was twelve years old;
and he went to school knowing his
grammar perfectly, es n0 Otter boy
knew tt.
Euclid was the 811100. She did not un-
derstand a weed. He began to under-
stand as he advanced, end cold sub-
stitute one expression for another, o1'
change the order of letters. She inter-
posed and corrected him. IIe 'would
reply, impatiently, "It 1s all the sane."
"Soy 11," she ordered, "precisely os it
Is here!" touching the book.
The i:oys were under an absolute dile
of courtesy, They were taught that cour-
tesy wa.S ever to he lneintnioed in Use
family. We were not et all etch, and
lived very plainly. Buller wee expen--
sive, 1101 we lived on dry breed, except
that now and then wo wel'0 allowed
some jam, or, a ?neer treat slit, SOn10
chipping." The boys were taught to
eel whatever wes given 'risen,
WISDOM UNCiIANGED,
After 11 is alt over, a mon wonders
why ho w118 worried.
The worst 050 that can be trade o7
SUCrc8Shis is In (101151 . -
I'is 0hvny's n gonof11d world to those
who nye doing good work. •
Gossips have no use for people who
refuse to furnish material for them,:
A noel always making excuses leaves
himself 'no time to malting eny.ihing
else.
Sonetimos a man longs for to -morrow
because he Is ashamed of what he didn't
do la -day..
Bllsiness based upon friendship
threatens 130111; friendship based upon
business strengthens boot.
It Is a shallow mind that suspects or
rejects an offered kindness because 11 le
unoble to dISeever 1110' •mgtive,
The man wha never made nada a success 01
anything in Itis We always wonders whoa
111011 do not hoed his advice.
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