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There Is Only One Solution of All the
Mystery of Our Lives.
• "The Lard is my Shepherd, I shall not
wan" -P.. xxiil., 1.
efillions have lived and died In forth
in that word; nations have sung its strain
Into the strength of their being. The pie.
lure of the ono who leads hL flock, who
curries the lambs in his arms, appeals
to all; yet who has not some time, per-
haps often, questioned: After ala Is there
any one -who cares; Ls there any eye to
see or heart to heed if I -or, indeed, all
men -should faint or fall by the way?
Perhaps there are some who no longer
find aught beyond an imagery of poetic
beauty in the old strain, who even feel
that it woutel be retreating intelleetually
to conceive of an infinite heart that,
broods over men or a hand that helps.
They tell us that science has wiped out
the possibility of such a one as the great
Shepherd of the flock of humanity. Yet
even they are not dead to this great
thought that so long stirred men's souls
and made them beam ready to sacrifice,
to die.
The truth is, the singer of long ago
was but giving expression, in figures
familiar to him, of a truth we all appre-
hend with greater or less clearness, one
that alone gives strength, hope, and
faith to our hearts, the conviction that
bade of all
THE WARRING PURPOSES
and jangling discords of our lives and
our world there is reason, and order,
and beneficence.
The science that seemed te wipe out
the conception of a. mighty Creator who
fashioned the first man with his fingers,
but emphasizes witis a stress that grows
from -day to day the fact that this Uni-
vers° is not without order, its forces as
shop without a shepherd; that the slats
are not wandering, nor the least atom
without guidance; that, as one put it
long ago, all thIngs work together for
good.
If the remotest particle of matter Is
bound. up with the mighty laws of the
universe, guided, governed, led to its
appointed end, bound to serve its pur-
pose, shall we not have faith that the law
that guides the atom and holds the
Planet pervades all the universe and
takes us in its mighty grasp? We widen
our conception of the work of the great
Shepherd; we think perhaps less of pr -
sinal providence turd more of the spirit
or law and life Ihat ent•es for all.
Not with Joubt but with larger mean-
ing and deeper assurance may I sing,
"The Lord is my shepherd," thinking not
only of one who lakee up my lane life
and carries it without regard to 1.111101'
lives, but of the great fact of all life
under law, law divine, all pervading,
moving in pajesty on to the completion
or its purpose I may not know what, the
Shepherd looks like; I may have lost my
old simple pictures of personality and
appearatice; the larger fact grows too
great, for fixed words.
ThLs Ls to see the guidance of the
Shepherd la the great things of our
world as well as in the little. It, Is a
strange, a poor religion that believes
that providence will send a man his din-
ner but never gives a thought to
THE GREAT PURPOSES
working out through all the strife of aur
common life, through our industrial,
social, and political probletns, nor re-
members that life Is more than meals or
millinery.
Theo is the large faith which we need
for all times, to believe that a plan is
being wrought out behind all the seem-
ing chaos, that there is a purpose even
though we cannot yet trace its lines, to
be willing to go on doing our work, lay -
log down our lives, because the goal
world needs us; the Shepherd cannot
bring his flock to the green pastures and
Me still waters unles& we live and labor
and die.
'There is only one solution to all the
mystery of our lives, the riddle of history
and the universe; it is inc spirit solution,
that we are but the offspring, as all
things are but the creation of spiritual
forces; that we are working out spiri-
tual destinies, the green pastures and the
still waters are but emblems of felicities
and beauties beyond our tcmgue, the full
orbed glory of the soul to which the
Shepherd leads by toilsome mountain
ways or dreary desert trails; but at last
we come to the house of the Lord, where
we may dwell forever.
-HENRY F. COPE.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
after bis arrival in Palestine from Meso-
potamia
4. Caliea on the name. of Jehovah -Be-
- fert•ing io Abranfs habitual custom of
worshiping Jehovah.
6. The land (the mountainous or rug-
ged table -land of Ephraim) was not. Mile
to bear thern-Not fertile or productive
enough to sustain the whole company
cf tha combined families with their
numerous flocks and herds. 'this was
doubtless especially true after tho period
of famine through wbieli ihe country
had just passed (comp. Gen. 12. 10).
7, A strife between the herdsmen ---A
most natural occurrence when pastueuge
for the herds was scarce.
The Catthanite and iho Perizzile-Two
of the six or seven peoplee often enu-
merated when. Old Testament writers
ebaracteriee the lend of Palestine as it
was before the Hebrews took posses-
sion. The other peoples usually men -
nailed with these, two aro the Ammeter, of a dark Purple color spring therefrom
the ninth, the Frigate, the Jebusite and and are attached two by tWO to thin lila-
sometimes the Girgashite (comp. Exod, moots or threads. Each of these small
3. 8, 17; 23. 23; 33. 2; 34. 11; Deut, 20. 17; oval bodies is a spore, tool (1 (5 they in
Josh. 9. 1; 11. 3; :12. 8; judg, 3. 5; neut. their enlireLy which impart the violet
7. 1; Josh. 3. 10; Neh, 9. 8). The Canaan. hue to the leaver part of the cap. ar a
iles end PerIzzites are frequently essosheet, of white paper' be placed beneatb.
dated with each other, in the narratives the cap of a, ripe mushroom, it will, af-
of Ctenesis and Judges especially. From ter a short space of limee be tinted violet
some of these narratives it would eeent by the impalpable powder falling upon
that the latter occupied a district about it. Each ,single one of these microscopic
Beth -el and Shechem particularly, but snores, provided it meet with the requi-
the probuble derivation 01 155 word from slto favorable conditions,will thrive and
"portal," meaning country folk or produce a network of white filaments
peasantry, metres it seem probableethat from which a new vegetable growth will
the name refers to the village popule- orlginal.e, that- in duocouree,oand for
tion of Canaan, the tillers of the soil in several years in sucreesionaWill pkoduce
generel rather than to any Particular growths similar- to those 'to which the
tribe or race. For noire no Canaan and sporelirst, owed its•being. This es a brief
Canaanite see Word Studies on lesson and simple explanation of what scien-
for February 10. lists term cryptogantic generation. The
8. Brethren -in the wider sooso of filaments thus formed by the germina-
kinsmen or relatives. Lion of the spores form Me their enlieety
11). Lifted up his. eyes -Surveyed the what is called the "mycelium," which
land, forms the actual vegetative port of the
Plain of the Jordttn-Ore circle. 'this Inuelirooml sod is to UM mai is
Is the specific mune for tOe bolo -Mee to superior orders (pharterogatnao) of
lowee and broader poetion of the Jordan plants, This mycelium ramifies indefl-
velley beginning (Mena Weenie -five Mlles nitely, and combines to form small
north of the river's mouth and Inelteling whitish bane or globttlest Mese latter
apparently the Dead Sea basin itself as gradually grow and inorease In volume
Well aS the small Wein at its southern till they form the perfect ilillShrOOM.
und. Sometimes the mune is resteicted While pursuing its course underground
more especially to the southern portion (and before the small while globules
of this larger area in the immediate terming llie future mushroom appear on
vicinity of the Dead Sea, "The Jordan the surface), tho mycelium is nourished
valley, once a sea bottom, conleins largo at the expense of all other plants, which
patches of salt, and baron soil; but In it destroys, at the same Limo sterilizing
some parts, especially about Jerleho the eoll, and exhausting all the potesium
(whore enelently there were beautiful Lind phosphoric acid; however, it carries.
palm groves) and along the banks of the with it in its circular course various 1111 -
river, it Is extremely fertile, and pro- Valve principles, the result being that a
duces exuberant vegetation • and the dark circle Is formed on the geese, which
welter, Seem, piettired it,' as haVing shows up In marked Contrast to the
been still more fertile than it was In his withered and yellow or poorly nourished
own day, "before Sodom and Gomorrah verdure In the immediate Vicinity. Theso
had been destroyed" (comp. Gen. 115 marks have for irony yews pot been
21-28).
Sodorn rind Goninrrahe-Twe Of the THE OBJECT OF ROMANCE
"cities of the plain" referred lo in vemeee in nil 'countries where ohildren love Lo
12 heleW• 11 has been a alaRee "r 801°1 foet, their metes upon witchcraftand
literittle whother,Sodom arid OanMesah goblin lore. 'these eiroles of grass,
hVel•her wills 7•"eme wee° located none Dle greener and morooluoritious in growth
.seuthern end of the Dead Sea, or whel•her then that, soften/411g them, are onp-
the Iwo former cities were farther to the pneed by children end •SiMple-minded
north. near the prosent northot•n end, metre -people to be tom/IN...rinse joie
Ali that may bo posilivelY inferred from by ihe noires ei hory foct, agar long Ana
the narrative is Met they WIWI: 01110,, frisky frolics end ounces in ihe silvery
where in the basims known as "lime plain moonlight. Poetry must again give place
of tho Jordan" referred to (drove. .to prose. We have no fairy feet to doe)
den Of Eden. • , but merely lhe work of lite spores
Like ihe garden of ,Jehovali-Jrhe Oar. Withb
me the how of egypt_The typo end ,o,i itry be 1ilitlengeltafungus called the "oread" or
'ideal of fertility.pignen" Nlaras
Oinius
oriades) ono Of (Incthbeet of edible fungi ;
12' The, elUes or lho 1)111111-4.1" M it Le of a •oreamny yellow color through -
I 1. 2), •
Moldier Including
Setikaal out; Us blades (gills as they are techn(c-
Aelmith?..01)011111, and Zriar (eolltP. San, ally termed) are broad end etieh distinol;
,
lie Mem' 18 alender arid solid, and is'
SIOnots rtgAini41 301)ovial mos'eshlig* possessed of a steorig atematio ecent. It
lyr-The Wickedness of Ilio inhobilenle Of
these fleerlshing cities of lite plain Was IlltlY here be peitiled out Mat the eteen of
(hire nmehroom 18 quite indeed, • while
tettidelted in later limes In the Waal ihtee ef modems ealeuee fano lee/pent
„
. bean at the beginding, Heat the Sherily of ebb coining,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
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FES. 17.
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Losson TH. Lot's Choice. Golden Text:
Luke 12. 15.
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Based on the toxt of the Revised Ver-
sion.
Egypt, the Land of Plenly.-The por-
tion of our narrative intervening be-
tween this and our last loson tells of a
visit of Abram to Egypt and assigns as a
reasoa for that visit of the Hebrew
patriarch and his household the fact that
there was famine In Palestine. Egypt.
was known in antiquity as the land of
plenty, because its fertility was depen-
dent, not on uncertain and scanty rain-
fall, as was the 0050 in Palestine, but on
the regular and unfailing flow of the
Nile River, caused by the perennial melt-
ing of the snow and the heavy rainfall
in early spring near the headwaters of
the stream far up in the Nubiem moun-
tains to the south. Its great fertility
made Egypt a land of wealth and also
of culture. It is not strange, therefore,
thot its prosperity should prompt bar-
barian neighbors to envy, arid stimulate
13 them a desire for the conquest of so
rich and prosperous a country. In times
when famine visited surrounding regions
Egypt became a nieco. of refuge for many
and different peoples. Thus, probably,
(ha liyksos came into Egypt, about 2200
B.C. since whieli time the land. of the
Pharaohs has been entirely overrun by
people principally of Canatuillieh des-
cent.
The account of the deception and un-
truthfulness of Abram in seeking to
safeguard himself in Egypt by telling a
deliberate falsehood with regard to the
identity of Sarah, Ids wife, reflects in a
remarkable way the mildee judgment, of
all Otientals toward the sin of decep-
tion. This same lenient*, toward un-
truth, especially in eases in which a He
Is told with no vicious intent, or Ewen to
serve an apparently worthy purnose, is
met with in many portions or the Old.
Testament narrative. Even the prophet
Jeremiah resorts to overt falsehood to
protect the secret of the king (comp. Jo.
38 24-30). •The weakness In Abram's
character at, this point, therefore, must
be Judged in the light of this getteeal
attitude ,of the eaely Hebrews in com-
mon with other Orientuts • toward (Inc
moral queetion involved.
---
Versa 1. And Abram went up out of
Egypt -The fact is that he was sent
away an grave reproaches by Pharaoh
for having sought to deceive lho king.
For notes on Egypt, and ancient con-
ditions . in that country; get, 50100' hook
on modern research and discovery,-elay,
one of Flinders Petrie's. •
Ile and his wife -Ills wife is heee'spo•
eially nleotioned, deubliess, 'beeektee of
the Incident in which he had just pluyed
sr, prominent n part.
Lot -Comp. Word StudieS On the les
son for leebroaoy 10.
Into the South -The southern part of
Palestine, khottiti as the Negeb, a dry
awl alma.;( barren table -land affording
ally, scant prieturefee for floceks end
herds,
2. Abram wee Very rich -110 had bean
den even before 10Orneying Into Egypt,
Whet% hie wealth had Non greatly eug.
merited by. gins trent the king, of tvarem
it le said Med. 12. 16) that he "410.1t
with Abeirtner •
Belli-d-Corrip. Weed Stiallee on
lessen foe Fehertaty 10. Abram emlowly
reirride.•s Isis Meps Mittliward Until Ile
Cortfee untie' pick Where his Cent lied
MUSHROOM CULTIVATION
MANY ERI
XPEMENTS WITH TUE
TOOTHSOME VEGETABLE.
Specimens nave Been Discovered
Flourishing in the Cata-
combs at Rome.
A problem which tuts occupied the
minds of ugrioultural and scientilic men
for many centuries past IS Imo to culti-
vate mushrooms with as much ease and
success as potatoes, carrots, turnips, and
parsnips. The solution of this problem
lins so far proved extremely elusive, but,
within the last ten years, resettrenes in
this direction have taken a fresh turn
which (in all probabili(y) will hasten the
advent of some means whereby it will
beeenne possible to increase and vary the
productien of vegetable which, though
er delleate flavor and nutritive excel-
lence, is al present, a luxury for tho pub -
Ile at large. So Inc the Agaricus cam-
pestris Ls the only member of the mush-
room family whieh has lent iLself to ex-
perimental cultivation, ell other edible
varieties (Including the truffle) remaining
obdurate to all scientific attempts at cul
Ovation; undoubtedly their production
has been fomented in certain districts,
but this is duo merely to very empiric
methods. The nrohroom saki in our
markets has also not much -progress to
boast. of, as IL is still grown precisely in
the same way as it was over
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
and more; the only difference is that it
is now grown in largee quanti 185, while
means hove also been discovered of pro-
tecting IL front certain diseases to which
it is liable.
Every plant in lhe vegetable kingdom,
as a rule, springs from and produces
seed. Mushrooms, toadstools, and fungi
are no exception, but thcir reproductive
hefts tome termed spores. Though Mose
latter are truly analogous to seed, still
they differ front 11 111 structure.
Spores, for general parpe.ees, 11103' 10
regartied as im mprocluctive --es without
an embryo, this latter being Me 110001e
rudimentary plant invurialey found wi 11-
in (100 seeds. The spores of some fungi
aor so inconceivably minute that a
would require more than two lillinired
million placed side by side to cover one
square inch; yet these Menus keep eon -
S111411, 10 particular patterns, both in
shape, ethe end color, Each of these
atoms is endowed with a spai•idel of life
which, under favorable circuinstarest•s,
will cause the minute spore to swell,
burst and reproduce the parent plant
rem whicheft sprang. The spores of
different species of the mushroom family
var,v greatly in size, shape, color, feud
quality. Some are one hundred times
larger Man others, and they• take all
sorts of geometrical and ornam••noil
forms; many are white, some laue, greem
red, yellow, or black; and, while some
aro perfecely harmless, others are \ io-
Lenny poisonous in their effects. Tire
purple known or violet spored edible
mushroom so common in our ileitis con-
sists, as our readers are aware, of an
umbeelle-shaped top carried by a cylin-
drical and vertical stem, On ..e lower
sinaace of the "cap" (as the top is tech-
nically termed) there are thin blades or
strip -like lengths of violet, color which
radiate all round the point of union wi 15
lee stem; on ciatIng through one of these
blades or "gills" and examining it with a
microscope it will be seen that
SMALL OVAL, BODIES
tee.es of ISa people of Jerfeho al the time neighbor), teemed rho teem-40re+ ig
ricsigely 'at the baso, In dire odireso the
•
little white balls tipper in the circle, und
•geadually develop into the toutbsunte
mushroom.
MUS111•00111S aro cultivated everywhere.
They grow in many strange plaoes-e
among others In the Catacombs at Paris,
The most likely place wherein to find
mushrooms geowIng is a modem or plot
or grass, hut they are rdso often mot
with in woods, on tenths, and In unfre.
titivated wayside nooks. Of tale mo cur.
lous field for their growth has been se-
lected In France, The Sa Denis (depart -
men], or tho Seiler* railway tunnel is no
longer' used, for the plirpose for which it
was originally intended. 11. has been ac-
quired foe other purposes, and the
ground therein has bean cut, up Into
ridges, divided from earth other by means
soltiaraerra7s, upon which whole battalions
m
of mushroom.; aro are now nourishing in lite
d
THE GLOOMY TUNNEL WALLS.
This enterprise (which is amply repay-
ing all the lime and capital expended
mem it) has its counterpart in Scotland,
Where a eonmeny is noW growing this
eines of vegetable in a tunnel 3,000 feet
-long. It \vies originator beilt by Me
North British Railway Company, and Is
60 feet below the streets of Edinburgh,
Besides being a palatable moreel, the
niushroom may also be termed tho ath-
lete of the vegetable kingdom, About a
year ago some asphalt paving was laid
down in a continental town, imprieoning
sume spores of a varte'y of the 111114;11.
room known as the Champignon psail-
iota eampestris. In the course of their
germination these spores lifted the as-
phalt, and finally split it in half in Melt,
struggle to reach light and life. Doubt-
less the °spittlit may have been softened
Lo a certain extent by the warreth en -
amulet -Led by the growth of the spore.s ;
still, in any case, Prof, Buillemin, of
Nancy (France), eetimates that the pres-
sure exerted agoinst, the asphalt by the
ehanieigtion must. have amounted to
alood 25 putinds,-A. Keane, in the
Scientific A•morioan.
PITY Tim MAN IN THE el005.
wmoime mooed posibly exist on the
moon as 11 Ifni 1, tor he nem ciature of
11., moon's e armee during the long Inner
miighI is pFolably not lar lrom 100 de-
grees below the zero iittlt 5 of a Fahren-
heit thermometer. Ice :aid AnOw aro the
foetus. Wen, which ,1.11ar water nued
Beettuee of lho present scarcity
we'er the moon's atmosphere is so
eeratetinely rare Mat seedling effects
mem t•reeltemeri. s 1150 most shik.
egi 0ih111 of ihe ;,11,“•1,".... Dawn, nod the
• eeklen ge,w that nehoes 111 out' (MY,
centiol NT/ 41` m,n 1.11P moon. The 01111
leaps .e•111 the Ito, Lem, a flantleg circle,
met ilem loftier peaks inenedielely nose
eon Iliad. There Is no azure sky to re-
\ e the monoteteles effects et inhy
reed; shadows tom dazzliog white ex.
;manses. The suit aleetns in fierce splen.
sole. with on clouds to diffuse its blind-
ing noble Even el. midday the honeens
ere pitch Hack, eo that, despite the 81111 -
light, 'he stars and glemn with
• brie•iiincee IMO they never exhibit le
ne even on the clearest of moonless
nigtds. 'rhey :011;141 steadily, too; for it
is the eerth's almospheee Mat causes
them to twinkle to our eyes.
ARE CANALS UNLUCKY?
It is strange 'that a cruel fate seems to
pursuo nearly all great canal echtemea,
The Pentium Canal has been the despair
of two goat na lone -France trul Amer-
ica. Tim Suez Canal, although a valu-
elle wore now. was for years a veritable
flightitutro to soveral counirres. The
islanches'or Step Conal has never come
up to eady extecialions, and has caused
morc. worry than its prOillOterA Would
have believed 1,1-silde. Even the Kaiser
has not been :mitred, for the Kiel Canul,
upon which he counted as a most pre-
cious aid lo his ambalous naval
schemes, has been a source of great
disappointment. it wits to prove a short
cut from the North Sea to the Valtic, and
skips were to pass from end to end in
• matter of about eight hours. 11, wes
designed to accommodate - the largest
ships likely to uSd 11. imd the biggest,
German men -or -War. Rut it has entirelY
failed to realize Opectattens; lis baffle
nes not been anyihing like so groat as
was estlinated, the journey front end to
end -has 'proved ns long, In many cir-
cumstances, as Isa naelgation of 'the
Kattegut, Ships have stuck far long per-
iods, and the cams) -has been a nose°.
MINIATURE MARVELS.
Almost any commonplace object,
magnified under a good belts, will re-,
egret astonishing and unsuspectUd form,
structure and Ilfe. For instance
bleeds of various kinds may be seen
In the cavities of a grain of sand,
Mould is a !area of boutiliful trees,
with brenclies, leaves and fruit.
Butlerfliee aro fully feathered,
Hairs, are 'tubes filled with pith and
ornamented on the outside with settles.
The surface. of the human body Is
covered with seines like a fish. A single
grain of sand would cover 150 of these
scales, end yet a eale covers over 510)
pores. Through these riilrhoW openings
the perspiration forces itself llice wirier
shrough a sieve.
Eadi drop of stagnant water eontelns
a world of creatures swimming •with as
Much freedom as, Whales in 1116 Sen.
PET SNAISES l011 WOMEN.
A great many An5il18S ere imported in-
to England. There is a brisk &mend
Inc snake pets moon rich Indio. It's a
funny kind ot• a pelt, pertieps, led, they
seem lo like therm Of (mete those pee
snakes ei' all notillamisonous..
•
TI1E WHOLE WORLD We NTS-
• Men who cannot be bought. '
Men whose weed Is their hond.
• Men who put dived:ea above wealth„,
Senwho possess opinions and a will.
Men evber will be lioneatin small
things RA web Os In great thing.
Men whose ambltione are not confined
to their oWn ,e0Ifish desires.
Men WII0 0.1.0 willing to &termitic° pri-
vate Interests for the ptiblic good.
Men whn aro not afraid to take
chances, who aro not afrilid of !Miura.
Men who will not haVe One brand of
'110110513' Inc leitsittees perposes, and moo
thee for private life.
Japanese millet the beim eite front
aare. to 8 'NIL,ansi theee laerto Sundny
off,
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SOME scorristi SCONES,
Griddle Sennes.-Ilub a email Were of
binier into 1 fis, of flour; odd lleaspram-
fit! of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful
cream of tartar, and 1 lenspoonful color
sugar, 114fx well, and add enough but-
termilk to make a gond dough. Divide
1111°Pieretie.
eesidroll out, thinly, n.
inly, and bake e
81-1otg
Syrup Seones.-Theso are very \vital°.
scone -especially for children. You re-
quire 1 lb. liouteeX teaspoonful carbonate
of soda, X teaspoonful tartaric acid, 1
teaspoonful golden syrup, anti some
buttermilk. Mix the syrup with a tea-
cupful of buttermilk, and pour It into
the dry ingredients, adding Mete If too
dry. Knead it as Ifille as possible, and
roll out X -Inch thick. Cu( into rounds
and bake slowly,
Oven Scones. -Mix together 1 15. flour,
3 OZ. 'butler, 2 small teaspoonfuls cream
al tartar, 1 smell teaspoonful carbonate
of soda, X teaspoonful of e.alt. Use tts
inUeli sweet, milk as Mil make a Mee
soft dough. Do not knead it, but give 11
a light work with the hands to meke
smooth': Roll out into one large piece,
longer than bread, and SO -Inch ihielc.
Divide down t.he and cut Into
small pieces to Lae size required. Bake
in a quick oven for about A., minutes.
Cream Scones. -One 10. flour, a large
.teaspoonful of balOng powder, 1 tea-
spoonful castor sugar, 2 oz, buttee, end
1 teacupful cream. Mix the dry Ingre-
dients together, then, with the cream,
melee a soft dough. leivide this in
pieces, roll out very thin, and out in
four when on Mc griddle.
Digestive scones. -Wholemeal is used
for these, and three breakfast cupfuls
will make two large, thick scones. Add
to the meal a pinch of salt, a small tea-
spoonful of cream of tartar, the same er
stager, and half a teaspoonful of ettebohe
ate of soda. Mix these well together,
end add as much sour or buttermilk vs
will form a dry dough. Divide the mix -
for twenty minutes, dusting a little pour
nice into two and bake in a 1101 oven
On each scone before putting it in the
oven.
Flour Scones Without Soda, -Put
quantity of fine flour info a bowl, add a
little salt, and enough boiling water to
time° a pliable dough. Form into
rounds, and dust with flour. Do nol.
roll them, but use the hands, patting
them out as thin as possible. Bake on a
hot griddle, and wben a little co put
them one on top of another' ina clean
towel. These will noL keep, so must bo
baked fresh every day.
CANNED SALMON.
En Casserole. -Grate a large onion and
cook it thoroughly in a saucepan with
one tablespoon butler, add one cup sifted
crumbs and one-half cup milk. Cook till
11 comes to a boil. Add salt and pepper
as desired. When cool add two well-
lienten eggs and one can saltnon,
Diced. Pour into a well -buttered Cas-
serole. Dot wiln bits of butter and bake
to It nice brown, setting the form into
a pan of water to prevent burning.
• Curried,--lery one-half onion chopped
fine in ono tablespoon butter until
,brown. Add the liquor 1 '0111 a can of
;oilmen and one-half oup water. Sim-
mer live minutes, strain and return to
the fire. Add one-half tablespoon flour
mixed with a little water, ono teaspoon
curry powder, ono teaspoon lemon juice,
and salt and pepper to taste. When it
boils, add the fish, heoken in large
flakes. Simmer five minutes and serve.
Pressed. -Two eggs well beaten, one
tablespoon butter, two oups sifted breed
°rumba,ono can naked salmon. Mix,
season with salt and pepper, and steam
one-half hour. Turn into a mould end,
press lightly till cold. Serve - in thin
slices
'
la
ACreme.-Warm a- enn of sahnon
in a cream sauce, servo on toast, anO
gornish with parsley.
Spiced. -Steep, six Cloves, six allspice
kernels, six peppercCrns, and one -table-
spoon brown sugae in one cup' sharp
vinegar ten minutes. Willie hot pour
it over,one phit salmon, freed froM skin,
fat and bones; cover and 16t, stand an
hour or two before serving.
Croquels.--One cup canned sairnon,
one-half cup cream sauce, one teaspoon
lemon juice, and a dash of cayenne.
Stilt as desired, Spread on a plate to
ecol. Form into croquets, dip in crumbs,
then In egg, then in crumbs again. Fry
in deep rat and drain.
WITH BUTTERMILK,
Molasses Gingerbread. - To 34 cup
sugar add X cup molesso, 1 egg, pin&
cf salt, g teaspoon einnamcm, g tea-
spoon ginger, 1 teaspoonesoda. dissolved
111 1 cup rich buttermilk, add flour
enough to make a thick batter. Bake 51
a sheet.
Biscuils.-One cup flour, g teaspoon
salt, teaspoon soda, and enough butter -
malt to mix and roll out, good.
Griddle Culcoe--Two mops buttermilk,
X teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, and
flour enough for a thin bal•tor.
If the butermillc 15 only slightly
soured, as much cream of tartar should
be used as soda In all the obove recipes.
FIOUSEIIOLD mimrs.
To reeneve paint front windows use
.sherp.edged coin, 1105 on the paint.
NeVer 011 e lamp (Milo ROL A full
lamp -standing in 15 warin roore will min'
ever through the expansion of the MI.
in boiling all fish save sehnon put, It'
smell quantity of village', lo (o walee,
this will keep the fish front fulling In
pieces.
Halaradoe,en newspapers :ditched to-
gether with brOWn paper on lop and
underneath will mato a warm ined to
sterol on by the sink, elem., in Alum Winter.
Water in which Hee 0505 been boiled
may be used for etareliing old lime,
Choice handicerchiefe, etc. II, gives
eoff, and dainty eliffness Whloh (Mlle a
charm in the appearance,
IlOth ihne and trouble raw be MtVPfl
in analing fiSh firSt• Pnlif;Inghillwsisr
over lIlisini until the scales begin In NH,
Then serape 'queerly and Wash in erveral
tealere, takIng rare that the last v. liter Is
cold and evell salted.
Oranges Med, lernolie should Invariably
San washed awl the rinds brushed with a
soft breeds Apart from the certainty
that Me fruit has linseed through lowly
doubtfully cleams bands and reoplueles,
the specks often seen on the flea ass
slated to Inc of a parnsitle nature,
Cut a silo° of new bread athtut an
Melt (lade, and place In the (In witIi tho
cake; this will help to keep the cake fresh
101' some time, The broal must be ere
newed when stale. An apple placed in
the cake -lin will mower Me same pur-
pose as the bread, and should vise be
renewed front to time,
To clean paint that is not varnished
take a flannel and squeeze nearly dry
out of SN'arni Water and dip in a little
whiling. Apply 'La the paint and with a
Mlle rubbing IL will insluntly reMQVe
grease, AMOlie Or Other soli. Wash with
warm wino and rub with a soft cloth.
11 55111 not injure the most delicate color,
makes it look liko new, and ittels much
lrfunigeer.rthen if cleaned with soap and
,A
AN ASTONISHED "FAKER."
Japanese Dentist learned the Money
Easily.
The street '"faker" who was selling
cement near the steps of the court -house
stood behind a tintle table on whleb,
says the Lendon' Tdegraph, AIMS con-
spicuously displayed the sign, "A box
.1 this cement Mee to anybody who can
break any of these apart."
There were spools, blocks of wood
and other articles that had been cement-
ed together. Most of them bore marks
oe having been struggled with by per-
sons whose hands were grimy, in vain
attempts to wrench the pieces apart.
A swarthy little fellow who had stop-
ped in front of the faker's stand palat-
al to a round peg that appeared to have
been dipped in the cement and driven
efio a good-sized chunk of wood, and
asked him what would bo the reward
for pulling it out.
"If you can pull that out," said the
pedlar, "111 give you a crown."
The peg peojected a little more than
a. quarter of an inch above the block.
The swarthy Mlle fellow pieced his
left hand on the block to hold it down,
tonic the peg between the thumb MCI
ferefinger of his right hand, and pulled
it out with apparent ease, a poetical of
the wood °ening away with IL
"Bless mcl" gasped the Mall bOiria
the table. 'What are you?"
"aic eapanese dentist," replied the lit -
tee fellow, pocketing the silver and
walking away with a grin on Isis face.
:Wanes° dentisie use three fingers for
forceps, and a part of their training
consists in exercises and work which de-
velop an mount of pOWer in their hands
which would be incredible if it were not
se well authenticated.
NEW NATURAL FORCE.
German Scientist elakes an Interestinn
Discovery.
Herr C. Gruhre, of Berlin, whose ap-
paratus for telegraphing handwriting ab -
much attention some years ego,
behove; that he has discovered a force
oT nature which has been hitherto un-
noticed.
A wooden end suspended by a silk
thread from the top of a dosed glass
vessel was Mend, under certain condi-
tions, to be influenced from the outside
by another rod consisting of metal el'
stone. As the rad outside was brought
near the vessel the suspended wooden
rod was sometimes drawn towards et,
and at other times repelled.
Expetements showed that the conduct
cf the wooden rod depended on the
condition of the atmosphere, and the
apparatus can even be used, says Herr
Gruhn, for prognosticating \veneher.
Ench kind of weather is foend to c01' -
respond with a particular behaviour of
the suspended rod, and changes can be
forecast from 12 to 36 hours'ahead.
As the force which influences lIse rod
passes through substances which ef-
fectively insulate electricity, an electei-
cal theoey does not explain Ilse pheno-
mena. Herr Gruhn and °thee seeentists
are continoing investigations.
• MATING GEIIMANY„ AGAIN.
By • August next, when the Maure-
tania -just launched -will be ready for
business, the blue ribbon of the Atlantic
will once more be held by Ilritain. Some
itlea of the size of this huge vessel May
be formed from the fact that her fun-
nel§ would. make comfortable -sized rail-
way tunnels for two trains to pass
through side by side! It Is' expected'
that the ship's 192 furnaces, beneath 25
boilers, will burn about 1,000 Ions of
coal per day, to develop the 68,000 to
78,000 horse -power required to give the
25 -knot speed. The vee.sel is a sister -ship
ID the LURitatila, width WaS launched
last June, and both have been built, for
the Cunard Company, in fulfilment of an
agreement with the Government, where-
by' the company holds too vessels ILL the
disposal of the Adminny in time of wee,
the Government advancing, ht rehlrn, is
sum not exceeding £2,600,000, at 234 pee
cent. Interest, and paying 4150,000 per
annum to the Cunard Company foe the
use of the Wont steamers ns Moil -boats.
•
A CJIIMEAN 11\fC. 1DENT.
Many are the deeds of heroism evened -
ed lus Sit' Evelyn Wood's story of hth
rine "From Midshipman to Field -Mar-
shal," hut none move thrilling than en
loch:lent or the fighting in the Crimea.
"Look out! 'Whistlieg Dicer " WaS the
Warning that was ehouted one day, ttrul
ft, (Inc. Gall, whteli referred to 5 .cerinin
huge:mortar welelt bad been • eliciting
[here, everem one 15 heaving rushed for
stroke. All emmeeeded bts geining the
teenehes exrcel, yomig,111ewill, of It, NI,
S. Queen. Hint the spent shell caught
tinder the Slices and pinned to the
.*‘Sntlevpi.hcmill Stephen!" he veiled to
Stephen Welch. "Do not leave me to
titer
The fuse of Iles Iliteleen-Ineh she'll Was
hissing, litit O'Veleli did not hesitate a
seentul.
"(etine on, lode! tele; tree" he ghoul -
ed, 1111(1 10111)ing front the freneb, began
tugging with all his strength at the
big mate Of Iron, • Al Mat litstrint • it
I mot, tied Of Hefter' Men 'ems e hemg-
n I sprit egalo.'
ere'4 5.11e rotel lab wren a' woman
as merle to; the Money ho can't spend
worries a Mani ,
•
HORSES OF AN EMPEROR
KAISER PICKS THIRTY MOM Tim
sTATii: STUD EVERY YEAR.
Emperor William the Most Maindtleent-
ly 'fumed Montreal In
Christendom.
Emperor is probehly the most
magnificently horsed 1110narett 111 Mirth.
lendoni. This is due to tho fact Mat us
King of Prussialte bas a right to select
freo of east each yeae 1551 hfs !loyal per-
quisite thirty of the finest horses -that is
le say, lite pick sr lho flock. from the
State stud at Tralodulen. The latter is
a national Institution, of woritl-wide
fame, upon which the Government avet
einee the days of Fredeeleic the Great has
lavished enormous sums.
Every year some of usa finest horses
on the English, the French and the
American turf are purchased, well-nigh
regardless of cost, and are carried off to
this hugo breeding farm of the German
cavalry. The stallions selected have al-
ways been Mose in which speed and
weight -carrying capacity are united in
the highest possible degree, the result
being that after nearly 200 yore tho
Trakehmet 'has become one of the
EINEM' BBEEDS IN Stella WORLD.
:Every year, In the month or May, tho
four -year-olds ere distributed among tho
auxiliary or secondary, stud farms of
Prussia, not, however, before the Em-
peroe's master of the horse has had bus
pick of the finest thirty.
It is this constant •addltion lo 1115
stables, without cost to himself, tbat
renders it necessary foe the titterer to sell
each spring We surplus stock of his own
stables in order to make room for the
newcomers. It te es woll to explain this,
since these cleueauce sales of theolloyal
stables at, Berlin have excited a good deal
of criticism, 801110 people blaming the
Emperor for thus ridding himself of
faithful equine servants entitled to a
restful old age; while others 11MT. RS-
surnod that these sales indicated that the
Kaiser was ton heal on his horses and
quickly wore them out. Neither rif these
insinuations is, theverore, just. 'the Kai-
ser has not room for metre than a certain
number of henries in his stables, Is
obliged to make roern Inc the now batch
of thirty that. arrive fronL, Trakehnen
each elay arei naturally gets eid ot the
iurerior material, retaining only the Yee),
best. In fart, there Ls a. perpetual pro-
cess of selection [mei elimination going
on.
A feature of these Trakehnen horses
of the Kaiser is their extranrdinary
docility. That spreii of subordination to
authority which dentinal:es all things
living in Germany operates on the colt
frotn lis birth. You cart enter a Reid at
Trakehnen in which 6 hundred three-
year-old stallions aro running free
watched by a mounted herder and, al-
thougft a etranger, you may walk in the
midst of them, 1
tat them on the -nose or
flank, and they will show themselves
AS GENTLE AS SHEEP.
To achieve such a result prizes aro
offered to those herds whose horses show
the most, confiding disposition un the ap-
proach of man. In order io promote this
qualieo it is made a rule that each day
(Inc colts aro to Inc stroked by the hand,
their feet raLsed. and in other ways so
treated as to milk° them thoroughly
familiar with their future melees.
Trakelmen is snouted in the eastern-
most portion of Prose% and the property
is just about ten milea in ono direction
and stretches seven miles in the 00105'.
It was the father of Frederick the Great
who fleet pitched upon the place and who
converted the swamp aver which the
moose roamed wild, into the finest pas-
ture land in Germany. Of course tho
least favorable feature about Trakehnen
Is its geographical position with regard.
to Russia''and, as a matter of fact, it
has three times been exposed to capture
by hwasion from across the eastern fron-
tier, but on eace occasion the °Metals in
charge Or' tile Trakehnen stud farm. have
been nble to eecape with all the animals
in their charge.
Within a drive from Trakehnen Is
nominten, the revorite hunting retreat
Of the Kaiser, forests well stocked with
wild tiger ancl boar, .and where," it !tray
be remembered, he received Count Witte
on tha latter's return from Ainerica on
the conclusion uf the peace of Ports.
mouth.
HAVE YOU A TWO -FOOT HEAD?
A well-known London expert in phre-
nology has plumed on reeoed limo results
or his studio .or many yeaes. Ile elates
that the aveinge adult head has a dr-
cumferenco of fully twenty-two Indio.
The average adult•hal is futev (IX size,
Tho sizes of uten's hats are 634 and og
generally. "Sevens" hills are common in
Aberdeen, and the Repressors of our eol-
logos generally wear 734. to 8 sizes.
Heads wearing hats of Mc Sizes 64 and
smaller, or being less than twenty filches
10 oloeturrierenco, caneiever bo poweeful.
Between tfinclueo and twenty inches in
eircumfeeence heads aro Invariably very
weak, and, according to 111144 authoriLy,
"no Indy should thine or ninerying a
llUln11,:din a heed leas tlintl twenty itiebds
in circumfeeence." People olh hea
ld*
lindee nineteen inches aro mentelly 10-
fiae
011IGIN 01, .cu:sit,o‘vroln,
The C•lilriese hove long boon credited
wig' Ilia inVOntion al amineesder) but
Prof. le. 0. Von Lippmann of natio has
'canceled evidence to indicele teed this
Is It mistrtke, foul thin, ilto Arithlene 151
Inc!, Os comitioilly slated, introduce gen.
powder into Europe during the 8115 and
011, cenhiriee. Peofessor Von Lippnintm
believes that ilie menufecture of the flest
gunpowdbr was bttsed 511>05) (Inc9'1,11,0.
hook" of Marcos grfleella, which cement,
ed. in Constantinople about Ihe middle of
the 1301 century, This was Ihe senora
from whit% Roger Alberine
rilIS end l'helnes Aconites derived three •
• knowledge or • gunpowder. The fiest. rise
of geripowder lo delve peojemeillee le as -
reified to o mortk, Berthold Seidearz,
whose dieterseTS woo Intlert imeehlentallY
while Neatening 15s totaterm (01' madle
purposes, •
see tor
•
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ele