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The people lowed the head and woe.
shipped-ledleating a reverential attitude
toward, and .4 willingness to obey, the
command of Jehovult given to them
Believe That Christ Is Right and Set th.ugh Nkmos..
Yourself With Him.
"Sirs, weal, must 1 do to be saved? .
Gelleve on the Lord Jesus Christ end
'Meet shalt. be saved." -Acte eine 30-3L
The aeswer that satisfied that parte
etear man at !hal parliculattime moy
not satisfy ,eeery man toe:ley. AL any
rete, when tee honest inquirer comes
with such a question and receives au
answer in the 8/1 1115 101111S, 11 IS likely
to hint to seein like no answer at all;
0,1 turns away wile a puzzled look, es
it instead, of helping him out of Iris
ficulties Me unewer had but increased
rthern..
The num who asks thee question in
any verbal form whatsoever means
etriain definite things by 11. Ignoring
theological definitions of salvation, he
seeks to find freedom from certnin
habits; he would edre out a torment-
ing, Mantling past; he would prepere
foe a butter future. Ho is not shaking
with apprehension of a yawning pin
he is need with loathing at an unsatie.
rectory life.
With the true man to be saved is
something other then being taken as
he is and lifted to some eheltered spot
here he may be protected from the
consequences of his own evil doings. lie
.desires
A CHANGE IN CHARAC.TEPI
rather than in condition; he would turn
life from Ihs briers and tangles, its Pus -
stens and sorrows to seine way that is
lifted clear above the fear, follies and
failures of the past.
He is riot worried about doctrines or
opinions; he is not fearing punishment
for intellectual vagaries or credal short-
comings. So if you answer his deep
questioning with a demand that he ac-
cept certain doctrines, that he force
'himself eo faith in certain facts about
even the greatest of the sons of men.
your remedy seems unrelated to hie
disease; he turns away empty and un -
helped.
And yet tile answer that satisfied men
long ago has in it all men need to -day.
But it contains more than we realize.
It means something more by far than
tee, fortnal intellectual acquiescence
with certain historical statements. No
men ever solved the problems of his
life or found firm places for his feet LI3'
seeking his way through any Intellec-
tual propositions.
13e1 if we can but see the significance
ef that life lived long ago; if we can
but receive Its wonderful message, then
we find life. WA overcome the past, and
enter upon our own salvation. It Le
not words about Jesus that save men;
it
Is taking lien and all flis life ae
word, the inessegeeabout God and 1111111,
&Mout the way el life, and the truth of
411 things, that leads the life out Into
FULL GLORY AND FREEDOM.
Here was a life, lived on the plane e
ten own, meeting our needs, sorrows,
and aseatilts, yet Marvelously clear, Un-
111lruptenly in touch with heaven, re
-
vetting supernatural eourees of spiritual
se'englle, touched with the feeling tef
our infirmities, but ehewing the possi-
Willy of overcoming them by yet Closer
touch with the Infinite.
HEW WeS a life that ever turned 'le
face te the Father of all; a lite that
kOked up and lived up. Sin 1.3 living
deem, missing, and falling away front
the mark or nenes possibilities. Sal-
vation Is living, up, growing, going for-
ward, reaching toward the mark, Catch
the trend of that life, look on life with
Hie eyes, turn in the direetion He
Tares, In other words, believe that Ile
Is right end sel yourself with Him.
Here was a llfe that never believed
fit the possilelien of better things.
Jesus hnd Mite In the possibility "
gesednesse Ile believed in virtue, honor,
trete. He may not have seen much of
Mese things In others; but Ile believed
there meld be more, and Ilo looked on
the virtun as things not unattainable
fer Himself. A man indeed is lost when
he hes ceased to believe in the posee
Piny of goodness for himself or in his
frIiovs.
NOR WAS TIIIS ALL;
here was a life in the beauty of har-
mony end helpfulness with all other
men. 11' W115 bated by the breedees
eT discentent and prejudices because
ITe was by Ills own life teacinne men
to live together as brothers. His was
net only a face turned toward a Father
in heaven; It was a tender face and a
helping hand turned toward all His
fellows.
To believe on Jesus C.hrisimay have
to do with questions of history 05
of philology; tt has to do with seeing
In Him and in His efe the best inter-
pretation of life the secret of our living,
the message for our oven mannood;
with seeing life through Ills eyes, set-
ting the face, in the direction that He
lived, seeing God end men as He saw
them, finding in Him our leaner, fol-
lowing Him as our master in the art et
living.
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
TUNE 9.
28. So del they -Doth the miracles per-
formed by Moses and Aaron, und the
earnestilees et their exhovlation Iran
peofoundly influenced lee people, fully
toilette:lug them of the trine of all Mat
had jest:ben told dimming 40103'111es
beneficent intemtions to deliver them
Mom 1110 hoods of their oppressors;
wherefore they were ready to render
11)11411411 obedience In all things com-
manded them.
20. At, midnight -"About midnight will
I go out into 1110 midst el Egypt" (lexed,
lt. 4).
From the firstborn of Pharaoh .
unto the lirstborn of the captive that was
the dungeon--"Fioni the first born of
Pharaoh . unto the tire:Morn of Me
'maidservant that is behind the mill"
;Exod. •.1 1. 5), Both expressions mean flee
mine thing, namely, teal the Brannan
of all persons, Morn the highest to the
lowest in rank, as 1.11 AS all the nese
been. of ontile ehould he Sleill.
30. Not a house W110141 Mere WAS 1101
0110 doild-TO vitality there would be
many [Mullin having no children, and
ia winch, al, the $111115 lime, neither hus-
band our wife was A 11Rellelell C1111C1;
fill' All Cif \\*111511 C/180$ due cillowanee
must be made.
SECRET OF COCOS ISLAND,
An English Admiral Who Relieved in
Stories el Buried Treasure.
Admiral H. St, L. 13. Palliser diet sud-
clently at his country house In Chiches-
ter, England, recently, Ile served in
the Baltic and Black Sea clueing the
CI 111101111 Wur, and in oomnuiud of a
semi:iron watched British interests
throughout the Curlist War in 1871lie
wee the commander-in-chief of the Pe-
elle: squadron from 1806 to 1899.
11 was during his command in the
Pacific that Admiral Palliser came in-
to poseession of what he Umught to be
the secret of the buried treasures of the
famous Coen Island. and on board her
Majesty's ship Inmeriense made the first
o: a long series of ineffectual efforls to
unearth the bueied millions. The late
admiral received the "secret" from Capt.
Hackett when the latter was on his
death -bed, and was so Impressed by 11
that despite all failures, he remnined
a firm believer in the existence of the
Menem.
The story of the Cocos Island trea-
sures is one of the most, romantic and
thrilling character. One vast 1108Cd
valuables is supposed Lo have been de -
veiled on the island which lies 500
nines soutinwest of Panama, by a Brit -
Ise ship which had turned pirate in
1821. The seeend and more valuable
treasure was buried there by the crew
of the barkentine Mary Dier about 1835.
This hoard was supposed to be the bul-
of very many kinds of insects, a nee bon and jewels of the Peruvian TOM
table 'motley multitude' fulfilling Me cf Callao, which was threatened with
name of the fourth plague. The results revolution and pillage. The national
of recent bacterial obsei'velions show treasure was put on. board the British
how great a, factor in the spread of dis- ebill for safely, but the crew betrayed
ease these insects are, and so the firth their trust and fled with the rich cargo.
The value of the two treasures is sup-
posed to be many millions,
At least £6,000 worth of valuables
were taken from the island by a man
called Keaten. This man died and be-
queathed the secret to Heckett. Since
the latter confided in A.dmiral Palliser
nine half dozen fruitless expeditions
Nye been fitted out and have searched
the soil of the island. One 01 11111 latest
was led by Earl Filzwilliam, in 1905,
but his party met with a disaster in
shime nf a landslide clueing blasting
Lesson X. The Passover. Golden Text:
Exod. 12. 13.
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Beeed on the text of tee Revised Ver-
sion,
The Plagues of Egypt. - The severe
judgments which God inflicted upon the
Egyptians on account of their oppres-
sion of the Israelites and their refusal to
permit them to leave Egypt are familiar-
ly known. as plagues. A detailed account
of these eldgments is given in Exod.
842. 31, while in Psalm 78. 48-51, tend
Isa. 105. 27-36, reemectively, an epitome
of the longer account is given. The
Exodus narrative enumerates ten sue-
cessive judgments (1) the turning of
the streams and pools into blood, (2) a
visitation of flogs, (3) the plague of lice,
(ei flies. '5) nuirrain, (6) boils. (7) hall, (8)
devastation 01 the land by locusts, el)
derkness. 001 the slaying of the first-
born. 'fee epitomized account in Psa.
73 omits 4, 6, and 9, and MO (If Pea.
105 omits 5 and 6. So far as is now
known there are no extant annuals of
these pleguee Irene egyptien soure,es.
The district needed by ale plagues WAS
probably limited to Moor Egypt, in
whin sense the word "Egypt" is proba-
bly to be taken in this narrative. The
length of time over wideli the plagues
extended, 111111 18, 1110 interval between
ibe first plague and the exodus of the
Israelites. is, not stated, though the pre-
sumption in the Reedits narrative
seems to be Mal of n fairly regular and
quick succession of jedgmenls. Preced-
ing the aceount of the plagues proper,
Mention is made of a series of signs
which Moses was instructed to perform
In the presence of the Helms on nee
one hilted, and of Pharaoh on the other,
ter the purpose of attesting the reality
of his divine mission. To what extent,
43oct employed ordinary seasonal phe-
nomena as ineiruments of his divine
judgment, and to wIrat extent we are
te regard the seperate plagues as abso-
lute miracle, it le difficult to say,
Doubtless we have in meny of the
plegues enumerated netural and not
altogether lament phenomena eppetne
Ing simply in a miraculously intensified
form. Thus 11 11110 been, suggested that
Me discolorelion of the waters ef the
Nee, if we nmy think nf this plagoe 145
laming come at the flood season, may
hen been chic to 1110 detachment of a
great times of vegetable matter, far up
near the head waters of the stream,
caused by the inerceee of wilier% at the
flood season. This vegeltible matter, ie
is oegued, well the myriads 45 living
organising which it tenet nontein, might
ensily have caused both tire discoloration
and thedeath of Lee fieh inlielieleg the
stream. Following this line of argu-
ment, 11:M. A. elecalister, 111 an article on
the "Plagues of Egypt," in the Healing:ea
131I50 Dictionary, continues "Such a
mass of organic matter with its con-
domitent animal life would be the condi-
tion ender welch frogs would multiply
rapidly, end rnay hen been the ante-
cedent lieed to bring about the condition
01 111.11 second plague. The decomposing
messes of eyogs could not fail to have
been the hest enseeible breeding grounds
and sixth plagues would follow fiS the
sequences of the third and fourth." The
seventh, eighth, and ninth plagues form
a new series, depending upon atmos-
pheric conditions, while the last and
severest judgment, the slaying of the
firstborn, stands by itself ae e direct and
terrible Mterposition of God, intended to
make a lasting impression both on the
memory mid conduct, of Israel.
--
Verse 21. Then -After having received
specific Instructions from Jehovah re-
eseven of them were in -
seeding preparations for the departure ineralleins. and
of toe Need. Several companies have been
from Egypt and the eating
memorial passover.
The elders of Israe1-4n the original
and literal sense of "older men," the
heads of patriurchal families and tribes.
Draw out -Go forth,
Lambs -Kids.
Ateording to your families -One for
.each family or group of smaller families
or persons as specified In Exod. 12. 3 and
4: "A lamb for a household ; and 11 1110
household be too little for a. lamb, then
511611 he and his neighbor next unto his
house Lake one according to the number
of souls; according to every man's eat-
ing ye shall 11111103 your count for the
lamb.'
22. A Inmeh of hyssop -A species of
plant growing on walls, yet furnishing a
stalk of :tome length -not positively
identified with any known. plant. The
hyssop was considered as having a
purging or purifying qualities, and was
ustel in different forme for ceremonial
.clenesing, as the cleansing of lepers ere
leprous houses (Lev. 14, 4, 51, 52); also
ets an 11101)15111 111 the water of separation
(Num. 19. 6).
Lintel -The upper crossbeam, or raf-
ter, of the door, resting on the two side
poste.
None of you stall go out of the door
or his house -Both the designation of
the hyssop as the lostrument for sprink-
ling the blond upon the doorposts and
lintel, end Leis injunction not Lo leave
the house until the morning were added
by Moses to the specific injuections re-
,ceived from Jehovah, or at lent, not
recorded te our nnerative as part of
Jellevalee specific. instructiens.
23. Jehovah will pass through to smile
Ilia 12g3plians-in reality a destroying
angel, referred to farther on in this
same sentence es Me (keel -e'er, seems
le linvie tided as Jehovah's egsnl In ex-
ecuting this severe judgment. 14 was
eione the less Jehovah himself who in-
flicted the punishment, and who there-
fore is spoken of as himself smiling the
legyptin ns.
25. The land whleh Jelieveh will give
yeu-Whicli he had 'viten tedly promised
in turn. to their forefathers, Ahrelune,
leann, end Web.
20. When your children elraIl sey unto
you. What menet ye by thie service 1 --
Another injuntelon follows, not epecia-
catty mentioned in commend of
jehovele to Moen. Moses aseemes that
lite l'egular repetition of the paschal
ceremony will 1.15011S0 in each ,sueceesive
generation natural curiosity as to lee
mewling and origin of ihe ceremony.
27. 114 the seerifice-Ialer, under the
covenant, to be offered in the saneluary
(Deut. 16. 5, 6), the blond to be sprinkled
epon the eller arid the fat or tee offer-
hig 1011111. (e Citron. 30, 16; 35. 11 ;
romp. also Excel. 23, 18; Nem. 9, 7;
DM, 16. 2).
formed to equip expedittons, but need-
less to say none of them has ever paid
a dividend.
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SELECTED IISCIPES,
510518 Oysters, deltelous with steak,
may be made how canned Corn. ChM>
half cupful very tine, add salt, pepper,
and a tiny pinch. of mace, the yolks of
three eggs aed three tablespoonfuls of
peepared flour. Beat the whiles stiff,
fohI into the batter and fry In deep fat
U11111 golden brown, Drain on brown.
paper and servo upon R. folded 5111)18111.,Mane) Gakte-Beat to a eyeful) 0115 cup
of sugar and half a cup of bulter ; add
Meet, eggs, 1)11014111Very light ; a cup of
milk, a teaspoonful of vanilla, three cups
of sifted Deur, two teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder, Bea the batter smooth,
then divide Into two equal parts, keele
ing one for the light part and mixing
with the other portion ground cloves,
nutmeg and cinnamon to taste and. quer-
tee of a cake of grated sweet chocolate.
1,111 the pan by p0011115 in a little better
al a time to 511 1110 marbled effect.
Poached Eggs with Tomato Sauce.-
Buller some very small moulds, egg
011118, and into each drop a raw egg W1111a little salt and pepper, being careful
not to break the egg yolk, Stand In the
moulds In a pen of wan and brace un-
til they are set and turn out on a small
platter ; surrourel with a cup of tomato
lettuce, prepared as In the rule for toma-
to nod shrimps.
Cleaned liard-boiled Eggs. -1301l and
(Ilea six eggs. Make some squaries of
Mire toast, and cut off all the crusts ;
make a large cup of white sauce, using
cream instead of milk, and spread 55011
elice of toast, well some of this, well
seaeoned wile salt. Lay slices of egg
evenly on Me toast, lapping Me edges,
and spread these lightly also with the
sauce, and serve very hot. Another way
of creaming herd -boiled eggs is to cut
them up into bits and put them in a
baking dish with the white sauce, addMg
fine crumbs and better twee the top, and
browning the whole in the oven.
Eggs and Cheese. -Butter well a shal-
low baking dish and cover the bottom
with nery thin slices of cheese; sprim
Me withl salt and cayenne and drop over
.the cheese half a dozen raw eggs, eon,
out breaking the yolks; add more salt
and pepper and half a cup of thiek
cream and half a cup of grated cheese.
Cover the disti and bake 15 minutes ite a
hot oven,
For Potage Rouge -Twelve tomatoes,
peeled and sliced, one small 01110ri
sliced, three ounces of butter, one table-
spoonful of chopped parsley, pepper,
sali, one teaspoonful of sugar, one small
GUI) of boiled rice, one quart of boning
water, elld 0110 ounce of flour. Fry the
onion in two ounces of flour, add ihe
tomatoes and parsley, and stew for one
hour in the water. Rub through a sieve,
add the flower, one ounce of butter, pep-
per, sale sugar and boiled dee. Simmer
for ten minutes and serve.
Chocolate Meringue. -Scald a, pint of
,n011c in double boiler, Beat up to-
gether half a dap sugar, a large table-
spoonful grated sweet chocolate, a heap-
ing teaspoonful of corn starch and
beaten yolks of three eggs. Add the hot
milk return to the fire and cook in
double -boiler for twenty minutes, or un-
til it thickens. Pour into a raney des,
0511 dish and let gel cold. Beat the
whites 01 11111 eggs to a meringue with
powdered sugar and heap over the top of
the pudding. Place ln the oven to color
a delicate brown and serve with or
without cream.
Now England Fire Cakes. -Make a pie
crust not quite as rich as for miff [mele-
e good half and half paste will be about
right. Cut off 5111511 pieces and roll them
out to about the size of a breakfast plate
and as nearly round as possible. Have
the cake griddle well greased and het,
bake the cake,s on this, one at a timte,
tuening when done on one side te brown
on the other. As each one Is baked lay
it on a, heated plate; butter well 51301
spread with a layer of preserved straw-
berries, raspberries or *towed and sieved
dried peaches. Fresh strawberries) well
sugared and slightly crushed, are fine.
As each cake is baked pile one upon the
other, butler and spread withthe fruit
or preserves untit you have used up all
your pastey, or leave at least five cakes
in the pile. Serve lea, cutting down
through the layers like .a pie., This is
similar to the Southern fried pile. In
our grandmother's time this was a great
New England favorite and was baked in
iron spiders propped up before tim open
fires, hence the name. 11 makes a nice
fruit shortenke for tuncheoe or supper
served with good cream.
CALLED HIS 131',UFF.
The following advertisement appear-
ed In a German paper last Inionthee-
-rho gentleman who found a purse
with monee in the Blumenstrasse is re-
quested to forward it to the address of
the los, es he is recognized."
A day or twe later appeared the re-
sponse, which, although so courteous,
hurl an elusive air, to say the least.
"The xecognized gentleman who picked
up a purse in the Blumenstrasse re-
quests fee loser le call al 111s house at
a convenient day."
—:a.
SELFISII ENDS.
An old farmer and his 1.1110. W110 lived
not far from Tendon, came to town, for
the day 1301 long ego, and so, to save
eepense, they brought a substantial
lunch in a basket, which the old Jady
carried.
As they crossed a crowded street, the
termer remarked:
"Here, flannall, ginnne the basket,"
The need woman smiled gratefully.
"That's kind o' ye, Sam," she said.
"Kind?" snorted tier hiusl,ond "I was
armed yetd glt lost."
1,---e-
linen littera, This moles a charade();
Mble mete
A white 14111010 1)461 has becolne soiled
May be Weaned ,dIpping it in a paste
010410 or flour and gasoline. Rue ft light-
ly through the Mitre Mier Web den
Mein. It 5140111(1 bo hong out of dime
until the gasoline hes evaporated,h
wen
1110 flour an be easily shaken off, and it
will be found tintl, the plume retains 118curl. 1( 11 should not. be perfectly clean,
repeat the operation.
When wetting a bultoranne in a
heavy cloth -el' one Mae male anti frays
-11 save"; mliell trolibie lo work the hole
by basting thread, then stitching close
to thls on the nentine, palling he two
POWS J114 the length of the buttoehele
to be. Celt W1111 11 811001/ I/0111111110 lie -
1.1115011 theS0 111158 CORI work closely in
the 0501111117 11,03' 01'011 the machine
stitching. This' buttonhole will Mee) its
„shape and remain Mittel, as long as leo
cloth. hold.e together.
everyone does not know the secret nf
weseing a chturiols skin SO as to make
it as good as 11011'. WeI 111 a \vette solu-
tion of washing soda and water, rub-
bing plenty of white soap on It ; let 11 110
100 Iwo hours, then rub between tee
liends until clean. Reese 111 a weal; solu-
tion of eon and water with a little soap
shaken in. lf 1`1115511 111 pure water it be-
comes Wird. It Is 1110 SIllall partielee of
stem that give it the ellicy softness,
Navnetill.111.3'
pilIling and bnuslilng 11The eimpint arid one of the prettleet
of trealnienLe 101' 11 11000 IS DA follows :
'Wash the floor well and let it dry. Then
go 010011 II W1111 a cloth dipped from time
to time in coal oil, whiell Ind only
cleanses but penetrates the floor so Mtn
less of the boiled oil is required. lie two
quotes of boiled oll put, beeswax 1110 size
of helf an egg and boll together till
melted and thoroughly mixed. leite ut-
most care meet be taken In doing leis,
as both 1110 '111113 are inflammable.
While Bee oil still is waem apply with a
wide paint brush, lf the wood has a
handsome grain Hie oil brings it out
beautifully. 11 only requires dusting
from week to week.
To clean a papered wall, cut into eight
Pieces a large loaf of bread two days old,
blow the dust off the wall with a bellows
and rell down. with a piece of the bread
In half -yard .strokets, beginning at the
top or the mom, ontli the upper pate or
tee room is oleaned ; then go mound
again, repealing until all has been gone
over. Or, better, take about two quarts
of wheat bran, tie 111n a bundle of
coarse flannel and rub it over bIle trapee.
It will clean Lim paper nicely. If done
carefully, so that every spot Is touched,
the paper will look ahnost like new.
Dry comment applied \vith a cloth may
be used instead of bread, If grease spots
appear, put blotting paper over the
spots; press with a hot flatiron.
Many houses are not lighted by gas or
electricity, and the proper enre of the
lamps becomes 1111, important matter.
Many .6 lamp gives a dull, feeble light,
or has been set aside as dangerous, 1)e-
CO.U$0 the burners had nob been kept
clean and the dust had accumulated in
tee emelt air tubes ab the side of the
wick. The remedy is so simple That
there is no excuse for this condition of
affairs. The lamp should be tilled daily
and the chimneys brightly polished. Re-
move the wicks Mem the burners once a
week, put them in water containing
enough pearlin,e to make a good suds,
and boil them half an lieur or more.
This will remove the oil teed leave Lhem
bright and clean. Polish wilh dry flan-
nel. Use only the best of ell and keep
the lamp full to insure good light. Do
not cut the wick, but turn it 1 little
above the tube and rub off the charred.
portion with a match. New lamp chim-
neys ato toughened and made more due -
able by pulling them en water and heat-
ing gradually until te is boiling hot.
Wizen they have boiled nye minutes set
off the stove and allow them to cool in
the water,
KAISER IS ISOLATED.
A Gorman Paper Sarcastically Outlines
TIIAT'S ANOTHER MATTER,
"But, I den't love you," objected the
young 'women.
"Then, why," bewled 1110 inellgrient
youth, referring hastily to divers memor-
anda in Ms pocket diary, "did you eat a
telal of sixty -nee boxes of chocolates I
,bought you Miring the past year if you
didn't love me?"
"Because," see said, wile a rapt ex-
pression on her lovely features, "I do
love chocolate 1"
FUNNY TRICK.
"Tolinny," litfpiired Me. Nexdore,
"why don't you 510 funny teleks like the
10e1zere1M111101' 11110erl
"I can't 11111110 of nuletre."
" \\My &net you smash your N111030.3
phonograph?"
TOPELESS.
"Ponr nines le 111 In."
"What's the matter?"
elle sneer% so Real Met .he can't
sleep."
"Po you believe that 10115 IS- blind 1"
"I know 11." "now do yeti lcnow it ?"
"From 1415101115 et the kind of Men some
Wemen vinery, leaves and couch them as a leader or) a poor,
WHERE 'MAPS DIFFER
IINGLAND'S NEW ALLY AS SEEN ItV
TOURISTS,
Japautese Object to Wine Celled Un-
eivIlleed-Tedr Customs are
Peculime
Never here there been so many 1101-
1 010 t1 Jupan as this yeter, writes a
Japans)) to the Taller, 'Mien ell 00111e
in a condeeeending, erltical way and
compere to Um disadvantage of Jamie
1111d 1151' C11310108, NOM 1110,80 1111 1101115,
T110 lingIIsh [menet generally regents all
othee counIrlee as uncivilieed and colt^
eiders Jepan In particular 11S onle Pen
emerging fro nesavage barbarism.
Tee other day I 110111111 11 0101111,00 of
Parliament :say paleunizingly, "11 Is
wonderful what 'your peeple 1111411 (10110
la 0111Y forty years of civilization."
Civilization lo the lernopette mind scents
to be synonymous with the acquirement,
or the knowledge and use of inn -idle
Ing machinery. English prime' et home
0(0 1101:. OVel'InIfilinled with polilenese
courtesy', end whea they !Tavel in bete
bayous lends teey seem to preen" to tra-
vel lighLas far as these qualities 1150 0011-
051110d.
LANCS IN ;LAPLAND.
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE,
Orange Teel, dried and grated, makes
re fine yellow powder that, is a delicious
flavoring for calces and puddings.
To remove finger marks from door
knobs and looks use putie soap and old
cheesecloth.
Fish are scaled and fowl are plucked
more golckly if dipped into boiling water
for an Melanie
Matting may be clennsed with salt
enter and a small Muse. 111118e and dry
thoroughly,
Bread which is to bo knt long should
be kneeded longer than that which Is
meant, for to-morrow.s use.
The skimming of fat from off soups,'
etc., should be saved for frying per,
poses.
Wash greets wenn slightly stained
with Mile the marks may be removed
tie follows : Wel the places, then light a
common sulphur 1011101 and hold it. over
liie. spots; when 1110 match lies burned
on replace it with anothee and continue'
'until lire steels (liniment..
When- willow Chairs eennain ,vellow
neer being washed with nap end eell-
ter, wiped well, mut then dried in the
sun, they can be bleached by meters of
sulphur fumes, Liget ie sulphur candle
mew the °hole, and tover bole' \veil a
1e15e dry goods box. Tete should be
clone before the chair is perfectly dry,
A table cover for' it 811111111 bedroom
Melo is a denen square edged wile white
trInge. If you have eny mateviel in a
veld color 11.111 03/01`1 horn sewing, Me
lien it by cutting in conventional
I was travelling in e [vain Me other
day when 0 big I emeaeliire num end h1s
wife got info the etneitige; 1115 lady
looked around and gavo it 11111e enie or
snort. and 81 Id, "1 am surprised thal they
allow Me patine to travel in the liret-
class caerleges," There was a Jupeneee
nobleman sitting, opposite her. when
111111ily WAS 1'M Old 0110 \\Men \Valiant the
Conqueror croseed from Normandy. As
lee wits a graduate of Cameridge, too,
lannaddes1110111nesqnutilite°. , 08 well as shc' 411(1 it'
IDleAS OF PROPRIETY.
English ladies often walk In our
housee Mete boole ne, and SAW
0110 refuse to put on the cloth covers
which tin provkled for them Ai the en-
trance of the great Mitsui 5111: Sere.
suppose wo have not yet 110001110 811111-
01011115 civilized to like lee clean-
liness of our floors with muddy boots.
Everything that we do not do In the
European manner is Wrong. Our books
begin at the wrong end because not al,
lee European end, but if anyone will try
the experiment of putting Whine books
le the hands of very little clintlion 'he
will see that probably five out of six
1wenilvlesopen the book and turn over Me
M our entumer.
Some English people appear to 11111110
it, very shocking if a Jap1111040 girl it
running displays vistas of her bare tege.
They forget how shoceed we were who
low-nocked dresses were introduced into
Japan, displaying an amplitude of what
our tattles kee‘poleitIterebrualtlhyitel :leveled, ex-
cept 111 1110 bath, which is the proper
decency we necessarily adopted nme of
time. As we imported your icleas of in -
your customs
A LAW-ABIDING BAl'HF,R.
After the regulations were promul-
gated that "persons when bathing are to
wear ballang costume," saw pension
neighbor of mine welking down 10 the
seashove in the costume of his birthday
cerrying a tiny garinent in his hand.
Thls the law-abiding man immediately
donned when he got into tee water and
only removed it when he emerged. lie
then walked back 10 his [louse, about a
quarter 01 a mile orr, in the same man-
ner as had been ins habil for yean pre-
viously. The regulation Met the sexes
end to be separated in the public baths
was frequently carried out by placing a
bamboo rod across the middle of the
bath.
the Situation.
One or the most amusing and sugges-
tive comments in the German press on
the present, 'alleged rivalry between Great
Britain and Germany is the followieg
passage taken from the Rhenish Wese
'Malian Gentle, a leading German jour-
nal of aggressively patriolla views :
"Two players are sitting oppoeile to
one another engaged in a stubborn con-
test an the European chessboard. One
of Mem (Edward VII.) is a cool, Woe -
lining, and quiet player, while the other
(William II.) is young, full of vivacity,
the reverse of calculating, rich in idens
and fantastic imeginat)on.
"There Is no longer any doubt which
of these players Neill gain the victory,
sa long as tee contest is confined to the
diplomatic chessboard. William IL is
already checkmated,
"None of all those princee nue kings
whom e,e visited in the earlier years of
1116. reign, and whose friendship lie
gained has remained true to elm, ex-
cept the aged Emperor Francis eoseph
and the proprietor of the greatest gam-
bling hell in the world (the reigeing
prinee or Monaco). All the otherd have
quilted their setae al the German Em-
peror's banqueting table, Seine noisily
end others noiselessly, benne, so to
speak, tee polttleal cuisine offered to
Mem in Berlin no longer suited their
tastes.
"All the marks of friendship, all the
words of praise, all the presents, all the
orders and decorations which lee Ger-
man emperor has dealt out se lavishly
to foraignere, and oven his 05511 minion -
ale prayers, have been fruitless, cued
William II. 0.0W remains in isolated emi-
nence."
WnONG FOR ONCE.
."Sir I" exclaimed the injured party,
"you stuck ,your urniirella in, my eye,"
"Oh, noe replied the cheerful offen-
der, "you are mist/Men,"
"Mistaken ?" demanded the Irate mere
"You idiot, I know when rny eye Is hurt,
I think."
"Doebtless," replied 1110 cheerful fel-
low, "but yeti don't icnow my umbrella.
borrowod this ono from a friend,
01151101, from the town (in n eremite'
villageeto farmer's wife); "For gender:4e.
sake, don't tee your cows drink 80 11111011
THE BLESSING 011 BEER.
131101 we have to thank you for mane'
things, dear allies -the blessing of beer
among the number -which you. first
taught us to appreciate, We sent out e
commission some yeaes ago to inve.ste
gate which religem was the best and
which ens the lint of European bever-
ages, espectla .y Dor soldiers. On teethed
question the commission Mittel to unee
to any conclusion, C111 1110 sewed they
W000 tumeimous in favor of British
been.
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS Ille MAIL, ABOUT MMIN 1131114
AND illS PEOPLE)
Occurrences In enl—tioor:410,ne Thai
Supreme in, the Commercial
The softest water In lengituni is round
111 Cockern to tt h.
A Greenwich magisieule held that a
1111111 eels drunk "when he cannot lie
tiewn \\*Mena leolding."
The London Giotto suys Ale Whiteley's
($.1\1\1.5.1.1:11) 017.1.13'sia,11 11;1:503\5'1,110les) estate hus been
18 811id 10 1111110 the largest
number of teetotalers in proportion to
population of all leugileh counties.
The 1111'5051 ever seen In Lowe -
siert 11115 beim 4»1 exhibition in flee.
0111111Pi i*.diljtai. I ws\ ge 1"1.0(1)1(1.1'em.111' (11)11(5 01 a
prespeetive 1;1'1,1014re/se whoel banns
were published ill St. leuktes Church,
Kialestomoneelannes.
lemcion's population denten In Mena
forty-five years, lell. (hal or ihe rest of
111(1 diuntry inlets neeely sixty yeate to
multiply In' Iwo.
It is not veey well known that Ine wi-
dow of Arline' Orlon, lee Tinhorn()
,elainient, Is en inmate. of the Soule
1)501 1)) 1131405 111 ]3OrksIi ('4'1141,1‘ 1.4 Jur
Inhabitants 011011 ; Iltielcingham there
Is a parieb. with 805111 111111111i1/1111S 11111
In Oxford one wile eIght.
Tee most remote villege in lengiand ls
that of learley-cum-Pil tote This truly„
rural spot is thirty miles and fl 111111 110111
the nearest railway statiom
A nem who played a tin whistle he
the .streels wee chaeged at Bluckpool
wile begging. Ile pleaded that he had
showed skill ln playing, and was 4118-
(1111eutiTedee., the son of the prime minister
of Uganda, WAS among the )rize-winnens
at the mutual sports of Gresham School,
Holt, being secomi In the half -mile race.
One cif the great perche,s leverpool
Genie/hal is to be provided by the chil-
dren of the dereese. It is lo be called
"The childreies Porch," and wilt cost
42,000.
The Income from all amines al Leo
Zoological Gardens, London, lose year,
reached 440,000, as compared with 430,-
000 in the previous year. This Is utmost
11 '11'.eliCe°rrod'are len railway Lumens in Eng-
land OW00 A 111110 011011 111 length. The
three tensest are the Severn Tunnel,
7,064 yards; Tolley, 6,220 yards ; Ibm
Stalledge, 5.342 yerels.
Some extensive alterations arc to be
carried out at Sendringliain Ilouse, and
considerable additions will be made to
Lena end of the building which is ap-
Preached from lhe Norwich setae.
The Iloehdale Spinning Company is
paying a bonus of 5s. per share, making
a return of 60 per cent. on the quarter.
The company Mr the pest nine rewrites
has paid a dieidend of 60 per cent.
A man charged al Pow Sleeet Police
Court with being drank esIted Me enmes-
hed° to excuse him es ho bad goi very
excited over the visit of the Colonial
Prom A small fine was imposeel.
The average wages paid in Me Lanca-
shire district, England, to cotton spin-
ners range feem about 81.4e a weelc for
defiers lo 513.72 for men in opening room
and 513.20 for carding 0\101'800N.
The Oldham Watch Committee have
suspended a cal) driver', lieense for six
months for 410(1)11 (1(114(5 Milt a cetera
when ihe legal fare wits a shilling. The
mayor suid the public must be protected.
In reply to Mn. Cooper, M.P., the
1348,mesSelageevaelneirsy, st(tIttes that 27 inspeetere,
nd 1,378 conslahles
would have to be added te the Metre-
politen Police Force to give each men
one clay's rest in seven.
A proposal to deepen the 011601101 ef
Southampton Water, al. an expentlittive
of filly-tlibusand pounds', WAS agreed lo
by the Southampton Haney lioard, pie -
vided that salisfaetory fineneial arrang' -
meuts are entered into with the London
St S011111V00,1061 eiatheely Compuny.
Am Interesting question as to tee right
of a feiendly society to expel a menthol'
because Ire 1,0101,1 for a socialist wile
raised in the King's Bench Division end
decided in favor of the society, the One
holding that in 'so voting the plainlilf
had broken the pledge ho gave them
when he joined tho society.
A Inistol hairdresser who received
news of a legacy' amounting, it is eel' ,
to nearly 42,000 n year. Inane arrange
melds to dispose, of his business a11,1
leave for Londen. On the eve of de-
parture he was seized meth en templet. -
tic 11111(101 died. Ile was thirty-four years
of age.
LIVE ON (3RIMI1.
African Teibe litillze Nil Their Convicted
Offenders for Food.
\Veiling from the South Camereons, a
correspondent. of the CoMeme, Gazelle,
pl„ Domintle's expedition,
wee Is with Ca
says lent lee Maka, newer tribe in-
habiting the 'miter), between the 1400101(1
and eixth degrees, north nee
CAA HAW, and not only eat captives, but
criminals who have been condemned to
deriateleeently
a caravan of negro traders
fell into their hands end all were eaten,
The coreespondent observed huninie flesh
regularly exposed for sole in Ihe mar-
kets feequented by these tribesmen. The
smallest offences ere punished wee
death in order to seeure tr constant am-
ply/ober:re alittlueiceonntcottitsitit)ionipek1311511,11 novieen
bodies were cut up into eonvenient joints
te serve for a festive meal,
JUSTIFIED PUNISHNIENT.
11110 WAS. a deer old lady, end see had
a dear 111 110 dog. But somehow leg Mlle
dog got into Me bed buses of a 111:111
who was walking behind Ins mistress.
Happening lo glance back the dear old
lady ,stew the peciestelen 'kick the dog
viciously.
"Yeti unfeeling vitiate I" seld ette.
''1 low dare sou kick »15 11111e dog 1 Yen
ought to be ashimied of yourself Sup-
posing' a great Ng. num mune atone end
gave you 0 vicious kick 1 I don't think
you would like it, very 'much I"
:1;\1\lele1111,1stineilln°?'1'°1(110 asaliCIP,is"ifslIn'd'Pt.bisiett(eLn a
piece out of his leg thee your &gluts
Peet done net of mine, I reckoft should
0s13111.111.1 lisr(OPionIrde Indy did not wait to aegue.
She greened her pet into bee /10111S end
depaeled.
BRANDED AS A DESERTER.
An army pension has just been grant-
ed to 3. Tomlin of Nee inghem, who ie
how 81, and his models, granted for
Srvastepol, have been replaced. It
000111S 11101 110 WAS 1011111(10d 1101110 11'0111
1115 111111100 and granted n. menllee fur-
lough. \kettle enjoyIng his rest 110 was
stricken with typhoid fever, but, being
unable to read 00 WI'll0; did not me
quaint the oMcers of Ills regiment with,
Ine misfortune or ask a Mend le clo so.
The consequence was Mat when 1115 lur-
e:ugh expired Ile \vas posted es a de-
serter, end welle on Ms WAY to rejoin
ens arrested, AA Alderihnt he OMS
hied by emirtspertiel, and sentenced
to lie branded with the letter "D."
KN013 ON A PiPle.
thi you know why some pipet; 11550
a knob at the bottom? II floes not ten
peer to serve tiny puepose. 1,114e the
bnllons at the haek of e male coal, lee
lamb is simply re.lic of bygone days.
It fleet .made Its eppearence oh the
clinrciewarclen pipes beloved ef oue
eestors. Smokers. Muting lee pipes too
long and too hob te hold, ‘1401.11d rest
them on the table, ASICI 1110 knob was
evolved 80 that pipe would stand
upright and prevent the ethic or its
covering being scerehed. .
A eemlus is man who likes work so vent 1" "Wes. yee -Mary Ann." "011,
"New eervan1.1 We !thee no new so, -
"[Tow let your new servo itl gelling on e"
\\mien No weeder your 1111114 is SO 111111 110 do05111. 115Cd 1111 alone (leek
tutece 111111 arise tied get at his labors. meet IY1OPOLI.
my dear, why, sliele le en With us for 111-