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Three- or - foer years ago the Turkish
001ilevy Wes massacring the duns, bin being continually given fresh sth
ReMelon by the wirk of bands of Bub
.garlans end Greeks teen edifies the
border .Who were urging the natives tei
rebellion. Now, as the roeult id the
eNtuereeleg programme, it really seems
sis if seek:mete Turkish mileages hal
genie to an del. In place of that old
tri leiwover, the country is now
butte:hie fele the expeditions of bands
of Bulgariaue, ()deice and to temie ex-
tent cd lemmata:me, all bent on Wise-
bie proselytizing. Many outrages are
counniVed by these bands. mad the
Take seem to lake delight in what ie
happeneig. At any rate the Turks do
yestekg lo uppeess: the harrying cf
Chriftlan .by Christian.
-
The Greek: are said to ess 1110 weret
,in Ilisse expeditions, and 11 -is suspected
teat the Greekgovernment connives rt
what is happening, but the other meek
Lering nations eve uot far behind. ett
Of thein expect that the time will come
when Maetelenia. will be taken away
from the Turk and split up. and all of
them want to have a territory an large
as possible whieh they ean claim is
preperty to lie assimilated lo them as a
nation. Therefore they are trying hi
make the villages in 'what they claim
cis their reepective 'spheres •:it influ-
ence" universally afemit allegiance k
the church "headship et their own (201111-.
tries. and they are follewing that up
by trying to stamp their own languages
elfeen the communities.
THE
LSINESS OF LIFE
Wealth Comes By Seeking Worthy
and Ideal Things.
- "What shall it profit T man if he gain
the whole world and key his own
soul ?"- Math xvI., 26.
When a man wished to evade the fem-
sequences 01 a praelkst1 application of
eligion 1 ie.:mime he called 11 an affair
of the sine. By the seta he clioseIri
mean some hidden, mysterioue; impal-
pable, and immortal purl of man, :scene.
thing that eeilher ate nor drank, eat -
Wed, nor died. -
The object ili religi•in was suppesed
le be the saving of this soul in order
that it might pass lean Iles present
ehryealis shell 1 whieh it is hidilon and
blossom ink the limey aud clear iden-
tity of another life. What wonder that
religion found no relation to daily living
when Us purpose was the preparallou
a mysterious otecnown kr a future and
imaginary home.
is this what the great teacher means
when, having pielured the folly of living
kr possessions alone, he asks this strife
ilg questimi on the tweets and valuee
of life? New distinction comes to his
\verde when we lay aside our traditional
significance and nmke this word soul
read, as it should -simple life -what
will a man give In exchange for his life?
The businees fli lifo is profit. not the
lease but the largest. The great lesson
tho master of living leaches is on
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF LIFE.
Tim questions of relative values must
come .10 every man. No day dewns
twice, and it is u matter of no small
moment whether we are living each
one to the best advantage.
Wo compare the returns of our nwn
lives with the profits that others are
making. Each man gees the things foe
which he lives. What are the worth
while things and, in the infinite ac-
counting, yes, in the balancing of the
books that is going on every day. what
aro the assets and reserves upon which
we rnay depend?
It is a. good thing to sit down in quiet
The efforts made under the Mum-
steg programme have hem eenfined
heretollere mainly to establishing) tis
much peaise and order as poseible. Re-
cently the Porte has been compelled to
raise the customs duties on imports in -
Macedonia, and by this means more
revenue will be provided for the work.
The Beiliste foreign efilee, however, has
recently let it be known that it has no
hepe of further reforms of the machin-
ery of administration, such as the crea-
tem of a foreign lieutenant governor
who would take elacedoula in all bul
rams from Turkieh suzerainty. Mace-
denia is an. unhappy land. •Ils great
difficulties being too many nationalities,
foe many neighlioring nations directly
find selfishly interested in its tate, and
loci many overlord powers jealous ef
etich other's intentions, The best it can
hepe for is gradual amelioration. of its
lot.
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HANDWRITING OF At1THORS.
--
-DickensMee Ink and Paper-Byron's
Copy and Erasures.
eel31 tntertesUng study is the handwriting
of authors, as it indicates to a greater
oe lees degree their personal tempera-
ments.
Longfelloes wrote n bald, open backs
Mind. which was the delight of printers,
says the Scientific American. :Joaquin
Miller writes such a bad hand that he
often becomes, puzzled over his 0W11
work, and the printer sings the praises
of the inventor nf ihr typowelter.
Charlotte Bennie's writing iseerned to
have been traced with a cambric needle.
and Theekeray's writing, while marvel-
lously- neat and precise, was so small
that the best of eyes was mieded to read
it. Likewise the welting of cam.
elerryat Was so microscopic that when
he \\me interrupted in his labors he wies
obliged In mark the place where he left
off Ity slicking a pin in the paPer.
Napoleon's was wore) than illegible.
rind it Is said that his letters from Ger-
numy to the Empress Josephine Were e1
first thought to be rough maps of the
seat of war.
Carlyle wrote 1 pntient, crabbed and
oddly -emphasized hand. 'rhe penman.
ship of Bryant was nggressive, well
kneed and decidedly pleasing to the
eye.; while the chirography of Seen,
Hunt, Moore and Gray was smeolli and
easy to read, but did not eNP1'.'S.,1 diS111101
llyron's liendwriting was nothing
mese than a :seem]. ills edifilions to hie
proofs frequently exiceeled in velem') the
original coley, and in ono of his poeme.
wheel contained in the original only
km hundred linee, one thousand were
added in Ilio p1oof:3.
The \\Tiling id Dickens was• minute,
rind he liad a hobit of writing with blur
ink +-in blue paper, Frequent erasure
end inlerlinenliens made his copy a
thualtin to Itie publishers,
LUCKY 111.'SSLiN "BOBBIES."
"Cops" in the Land or the Czar Enjoy
Elaborate Training,
fluesia tieing a country in ehiell the
pelice nee 1)0111 a powerful and 1 Minter -
(els body, it t lewdly surprising lo
liern that great pains- nee 14pLe11 111
!training them for their dillies,
There is, indeed, ne,ortling to an
Ebglislininn who lues lived it long lime
in • that country, a cern:dile poliedinin'e
college in -SI. 1101 p1 msg.
sieve_ the Iluseem policemen is• made
• 101111111W 111111 the touts used by ei•finl-
nits, end acquire tin PX1011SIAT 1,110W.
• idler of the tricks of law-lieshere, pith
-
neat and iitherwise. The Ilueeian pees-
• port syeteit ls :Ilse n.sehjeel of :deity.
This; is such im P10101.010 1111(1 C0111],11-
001011 businese that it ferule a special
:411 1011 We polleeman's 41111111 1(11.
The „students often lake is much in-
terest in their -studies ns Ihough they
were preparing for ihe army Or 111111,
Tlie 'candidates arn 'numerous, for Ihe.
P• melee 101043 11118 many 1111rnethais for lbe
- young find tanbilknis Ilussian, leading,
, as 11. may do, to very high positiene
under .govermedat,
And the MIAs, bird aometteice gole
lte where Lee glean got the exteredon,
(n 1), WililO
1),Ooeics.111 anfirithilb0g0sk 111'3(1\1:ergo lohiel
1111' 11'ein-1111s eon We 111111.31 COI our own?
Net 1110 things \Lie possess but the things
we enjoy, sot those to which our names
may be attached bet those that, perma-
nently enter uur lives, tuld in some way
to pereonality and enrieli character.
eteasuotel by this stinutaid a new
order atul new values ine• cestithlislied
among men ; the rich mee still niay 10
ne inoy niesear poor, indeed,
while the poor nmy be rieli • hut neither
the poverty of the one nor the wealth of
other le determined by aught outside
himself.
Lel a man appraise himeelf in this
manner and new content \\ell take the
place of old efnumainings while Dew
aepleations displace old unworthy am-
bitions. We see that 11. is the life and
not the lol lital is detertninative, that
capacities of
1.0\'E, ENJOYMENT, SERVICE,
and sociability !nay make the life hold
more than many another that seems to
lie buried beneath the wealth outside it.
We have been wont. le boasi in this
country that every man had 011 0111(111
opportunity lo rise In affairs and to find
riche.s. Whether this 1111 1)0 true co not
0 Is true eternally that in the kingdom
of the spirituel in the realm of real life
every man litis equal opportunity to find
and possess that which cannot be stolen
or lost of the \\Ten of life.
13111 does not Ilus Now us back again
011 the unreal? Not if we remember
that sttelt wean as this e01110), 014 110
Other, 1101 by dreaming but by doing,
like the riches of health and strength
that comes not from thinking of the
stonuirh but from toil and nourishment,
SO 001110 the riches that permanently
enrich the personality, that oonstitute
title profit because they are life, by do-
ing well our work, by seeking worthy
111111 344301 things.
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
AUG. 18.
Lesson Nil The Oa)* 01(1443 Atonement.
Golden Text: Bele 7. 25.
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Based on the text of the Revised Ver-
sion.
Atonement 1 Day of -The modifying
1101111 in the liebreLv is a plural. NN'e
should therefore translate literally the
"Day of Atonements." or "Coverings."
'this inmortant day hi the Hebrew cal-
endar, in which seems to have centered
and eulrainuted the whole system of
eymbolic worship described in the 0141
Testament, wits the only "fast day" pre-
scribed by law. It was kept in the
autumn on the tenth day of the seventh
month. or, =meting to our method of
reckoning, from the evening of the 1310111
1.11 the evening of the tenth. 11. was a
day for the assembling of the people for
divine worship and for spesial sacrifices
in the temple. Its chief purpose WOS to
preserve tile holiness of the sanctuary
as a 11.1 place of meeting between nem -
rah and his people, There were four
subjents for which atonement was itinde;
(1) The Sanctuary itself (Including the
Holy of Holies and the adjoining Holy eourlli with unrIghleousness mid bleed.
Place) W1111 its furniture. (2) 'rile Altar On ace/tint of the wickedness Wr011gla
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A. barrel of herrtng contaIns 1,000 fish.
The Swedish mile contains 11,700 yds,
Italy has 400 priecee and 4,500 dukes,
There are 7,137 hansoms in London,
3,922 fourevheelers.
Austria 1VtIS 1110 nest country to use
postcards.
In England and Weles 45,202 1)011e01
1111,11 1111111110111 111311' 01111 O1 -4e1'.
bead melts ut 504 degrees ; iron at
3,470 degrees.
AlldielleaS 11113 1101 perIllittad 10 applalld
111 11110.411111 theatres.
No 110011101' lias yot feund a way to
make both ends meet.
l'ifiloria, Australia, has issued stamps
up to tho value of AL100.
There are 11110111, 3,400,000 mild.: COWS
In the United Kingdom,
Wormout billiard bulls are used for
:lancing dice.
Justice iN whnt 41 num thinks is certain
1, overtake everyme but himself.
Many a dog would never have 13ee1)
sold if he Mut not worn a valuable cel-
la r.
Don't you look down on people who
up to you.
To the pure all things are pure--ont-
side 01 1)111111430.
It sometimes happens that a wise man
has occasion 10 InEUTel at his Ignorance.
A W01111111 is apt to frown when her
husband "smiles" too often.
When a tall man 10 broke that's the
leng and short of it.
Lies often tread on the toes of the
truth.
When a roan has, no rellgien of his
own lie is apt to hide behind his wife's.
Some petiole are too eonsclentious
is preuch what 11103, pieteUse.
It's difficult to make 119111 of the
shadow of suspicion.
Sheeny alley love begins to wax logi-
cal it proceeds to bump the humps.
Clothes do not make the man -espe-
cially the sole -made man.
Most- people look grave when they are
burled•in. theught.
Money tallcs-tind a tew pennies make
more nolee than a hundred -antler bill.
130131. borrow trouble. 11 :41)41 have the
borrowing habil borrow money.
nificance of this WON that of the entire
consecration of the woeshiper to Jeho-
vah.
6. His bouse-His family.
7. Al the door of the tent of meeting -
The door or entranse from the courl to
the Holy Piave.
8. CAA bets -A cemmon method of
deciding inmustant iesues, the decision
cif which was not expressly enjoined
upon any official nevem' such OS priest,
prophet, elder, judge, 01' king. The pre-
suppesition underlying the casting of
kite WM of course that of the overruling
and controlling divine influence operat-
ing in such a way that the result (Ohl
-
e111:11. Nvith the will of Jehovah. This
underlying presupposition is well ex-
pressed in Lim Ni,ords of PrOV. 16. 33,
where we read ;
"The lot Is cast into the lap ;
13u1 lite whole disposing thereof is of
Jehovah."
We base nowhere a very clear Indi-
cation as to the actual 11111111.0 of the lots
used by the ancient Israelites.
Azaxel-A word apparently related to
tee yeti) "to rdnover or "141 separate."
The name as it occurs here is not found
elsewhere in ihe Old Testament. In the
hook of Enoch, which dales from the
second century before Christ, the natne
occurs as thal of the leader of evil 1111'
gats "who (Geri. 6. 2-4) formed unions
with the daughters of men, and (as the
teeend is developed In the book of
Enoch) taught 11101;1 vaelo)is lags, and
whose offspring, the giants, filled the
of Burnt Offering, which stood just out-
side the sanctuary proper. (3) The
Priests. (4) The Congregation. The
rrinicipal Old Testament priesages in
which reference is made to this great
annunl filet day of the Jews. are Isev. 16,
and 23. 26-32; but some additional light
is' thrown on the day and Its services by
details recorded in Num. 29. -11; Exert.
30 10, 111141103', 25. 9. That the elaborate
rthuil described in 1.15.. 16 wes of gra.
dual growth Is 1119,1113, probable.. The
trIPnaItlconnetnion of the chapter with
chapter n1. In which the sin of Kedah
and 11,11111 10 dviseribed, 10 evIdlents
Verees 1-3 contains a solemn wiuming
addressed hi A111.011 against carelessly
and at MI limes entering 1110 most Iloly
Place. 'then follows n forth of
the poeliminary 1-11e8 10 be performed
whenever the high priest bed occasion
tt entor within the yell of the Holy of
Thereupon the solemn atoning
ceremony to be performed foe the sanc-
tuary 11.self and for Ilia cungregation is
Indicated, and thie first In general out-
line (vs. 3-10) end then in fuller detail
ms, 11-28). Peehnps, ns tins been sbg-
gesleil by ono emirient Old Testament
scholar, there was originally a 11111011
simpler ceremony of purification per-
fornicsi, first of all in .1-,011erfUellee of 1110
defilement of the tabernacle. by Metal.)
and Abilm. This original rite was re-
melted after subsequent deseeralkns,
and in Inter fimee came to be performed
reaularly once onch year, the ceremony
itself gradually attaining the elaborate
form here described,
Verse 5, lie shall lolce Tlint is,
Aaron, Verse 4 deseribes the 811111110
((Havel which the high priest was to
Lvteir on smell occasions.
Two heeesiate for a sin offering --Only
41110 of these. however, was •actually to
lei enceinte:a, 1114 vorees 7-10 clearly
show, "'The Sill OriVring" was (me ex-
acted of the people as a penalty or
offering for ShIS V0111111t111'11. IL is en-
kindl speeifictilly in Lev, 4 1 "And 111)10
5.11 tltcongrogetton .01 Israel orr„ ,
when the sin whereht they have slimed
ts kitown, Illen IiSsenlbly 14111111 Offal,
11 yeting belleck for n sin offering" (4
13, fie Thti menial presented for sin
effieinge varied reicording ku Ilie posi-
tion 111111 rant: of the pereon bringing iI,
end also nceording 14, the mature of the
c.ffense committed.
Pewit offering --So celled because!. 11(3
eflering brought \vim entirely eonsurned
by Azazel upon earth, the four arch-
angels, Miehael, Gabriel, Uriel, and
Bejewel, ave represeeted (IN impeaching
him before the Almighty, who thereupon
bids Raphael bind 111111 band 1111c1 fool,
and seeure him, undee 'rough and jag-
ged rocks,' at a plats in tho desert
called Dielael until on the 'great day of
judgment' he is cast Into the flee."
Mast. Bib. Mete
2. The Altar -Altar of burn offering.
Sweet incense-Fiegrant spices and
gums beaten small.
13. The mercy seal -The gold lid of
th? Ail( of the Covenant, with its cheru-
bim figures. ,
14, Spelnele of the blood -The sym-
bolicul significance of this act being that,
everything 3131')) 11 whic11 the bloocl of 1110
SaarIlled WaS 11111S brought, in 4)011)1101
44111' thereby breught wider its atoning
Influence, und cleansed of every im-
purity.
Seven thnes-From the regular recur -
remit, of the seven-day weekly c)Ncle of
time Ilits number aiming Ancient peoples
0111110 gradually but nuturally to stand
in a general way for 11 round number of
neglerate size. We need not here ale
took to it any• of the More sacred or
mysterious eignificance which 11. seems
to have acquired in later Lime, anti
whish is especially proinitient in the ttse
or the 'number in the Apocalypse of
Jelin.
16. Make atonement for the holy
place -which here is co.nceived of (18
1,01111(4'd by the approach of sinful Woe-.
shiners within es walls, as is imitated
h.,* the wording of verse 19 1 And 110
shall demise. it, . . from the un-
cleniniese sit the dilldren of Israel. .
.17, Tent of misillng-Appnrently this
title is 'used here to designele the label,
necle LIN a whole.
22, The goat shall bear upon him rill
their Iniquities unto a scenery hold -
Through the saerilIce of the slain goat
atonement had' beet miele for the sins
of the people, who were therelly restored
lo pence nncl fellowship with lehovah.
The confeesing of S1118 over the head of
Ilds seeone goat, which was afterward
sent away into the wilderness, 8314)-
130111') saimpletti removai of the sins
for which atonement had been made
front the sanctuary and congeagation.
Thus the double eeeeniony symbolized
visibly nml feleminlely ns lent was
pessible, both the atonement, for sin,
end the ditire removel ef 1110 dingo of
(id's allenntion and displeasure. Mead
lty the on the altar. The symbolical else .carefully: through verse (10).
QUEER HEARTS.
Some Long, Some Short and Some in
the Small of the Back.
There is one curious fact which not
everybody notices about the common
finger long, green cateepillars of our
lerger moths. Theft. heeds, Instead of
being in trent, aro at the back of the
body and extend., along the entire
length of the animal. 0110 can see the
heart distinctly through the thin skin
and can watch its 'slow bent, which
starts at the tail and 10031e8 forward
lo the head.
Hearts of this sort reaching from
head lo tail are 1101 a all uncommon
in the simpler reeatures, SRA P1. P1014'
0)80. The earthworm hos 0110, Ond SO
hE1Ve 111081 \\hens, celerpillars and
other crawling things.
fiends i14 the middle of the back are
also quite as frequent es those in what
seems to us to be the naturat place.
Ninny anlinals. the lobster, for example,
and the crawfish and the crab, which
have short hearts like those ot the
beusts and birds, neve:lawless hove
them placed just under the shell in
what in ourselves would he the small
et the back.
WARM TI141E5 AHEAD.
Despite his rheum:3115111 and lumbago
the old Winer was in hot pursuit of the
Ms who had been plifering his cherry
ireeS.
"Keep on running, 13111y 1" panted the
hoy with the hat full of red cherries.
"Ile's coming, and coming fast. I can
hear 13101 puffing and he sounds like a
steam engine."
"Whew I" gasped the lad who was
stumbling through tho tall grass, "An'
that ain't the mist of 10 When he gels
us he is liable to turn from a. steam
engine to a thrashing machine."
And soon the lusty yelle that emanated
from the old orchard told tha1 the trans-
formation had taken place.
01101013 OF PRAYERS,
11-2 Home
h Vialtshastiiitthr •
TESTED 111401 '119.
Cronin FrostIng,-Temake a most- ex-
cellent frosting and One yull e1111 elwaye
depend upon, Lake a etilllehed amount
01 Confeetionee's segue and wet with
sweet tweet until 11 is moist enough
supnlyvitilletinigilty•e(1)yu oditesyl4riemi cake. Flavor with
Taffy.-Eirst grease the• pan 00 terry
will not slide Set on the lire; thou
add one.-feurth cup of butter, Iwo cupe
of light brown sugar, fo r 1 easpoonfu Is
of vinegar, two lableispoonfuls of wider,
Ileil till Milne; turn lido greased pun;
cut inlo squares.
illanquelle nI Porlc.--Those seemingly
helpless remnants, pork chops, fried
hard and dry, can lie et:claime11 caul
eieved as delirious hie:mut:See. Cut and
allow to shutter, coveted wile milk, In
a. double Melee, for several hours.
When ready to seeee make lfie milk ink
a cream gravy, 60(18011; add the meat,
and lastly whip in the beaten yolk of an
egg without allowing it to cook.
Eggnog. -1 la ve your eggs euld. Half
a pint of whipped cream; tem egge; mei
tablespoonful of sugar; Merely to tast1!,
Serve 111 glaSAOS. spelnide 0000 1111!
top wined nutmeg. Southesti eggnogs
firieleiTel3n1Ne;vnite1.1-11"1•Nati.11)01011the fresitly-piched
rose leaves and put into a jur, alkirtuthe
ly, a layer of rose lenves und sugar, and
pour ever all a little water. In four
cloalie. yisstrain. Let stand 14 week and
b
Breakfast 1le1ls13,-TnIce bread, uot loo
dry, sett fry la batter. Have straw-
berries crushed in 9141113' of sugar and
ppm over the bread. Serve hoe
Pie Plant. Conseeve.-Three pounds of
*plant cul (Me, skin and ell, three
pounds of suger. Let 810.(51 over nigh)
13 draw out, the juice. Three oeurtges.
pulp und juke; on0111011 the yellow rind
chopped fine. Cm0)1 until thick like pre.
serves.
Tomato Salad.-Talce medium sized
tomatoes, cut off tops, .scoop out seeds.
fill with celery, (1111 11) emelt pieces, Eng-
lish walnut meals, serve on lettuce leaf
with mayonnaise dross 1 11
Walnul Calce.-Cicani one-half cup of
butter and one cup of sugar; add three -
[(meths cup walnut meats. chopped fine,
three egg yolks, two egg whiles, well
beaten, and one-half cup inthi. Sift to-
gether one and one-hrilf cups flour end
one and onchalf teaspoonfuls of baking
powder. Add and heat well. Bake in
cake tins; put frosting on lop and be-
tween layers.:
Orange 13essert.-Pee1 and slice four
oranges,• put a luyee of sante 101 feuit
dish. Si:lipid() a layee of shredded
coeoanut, chopped English weInuls, end
pulverized eugur, repeating' again With
so that the ton layer Is sugar and cocoa-
ifilifulLornege, c•ocomitit, fruits, and sugar,
Spice C.alte.-Two cups of 13e04101 su-
gar, one-fourth cup of butler, cup of
50111' milk, two and one-hulf cups of
Fleur, one teaspoonful of soda, elle and
one-half eggs (while of one fur frosting),
one teaspoonful of two tea-
spoonfuls of cinnamon, one-half tea-
spoonful of cloves, one cup of raisins,
inch of fresting. Meke three 01111111 or
14110 large layers,
- Watermelon lee,-Ilemove seeds .from
a rMe watermelon and with a spoon or
fork chop lightly inle malt pleas. Add
lee juice of ono lemon an(1 one-half
pound of powdered sugar.. Pu1 mixture
in freezer a.nd freez11 as you would ice-
cream, turning slowly for fifteen min-
utes, when mixture wilt he Uke SAOW.
00110 111 tall glasses.
Pastry Shortenings -Render out email
portions of lard and wet togethee. When
pertly cold beat vigotously foe ten min-
utes, then set aside to Minden. This
mottos a while, creamy shortening tor
pastry or. biscuits Mat is more delicate
than lard os butler.
Lityer Cake. -One and one-half cup
or sugar, one-lialf cup butter, or em.rt,
Insd, one egg, one cup milk, large mea-
sure, two teaspoonfuls uf baktng pow-
nd flour ettough to
der, flowering, a
1111110, thick.
A. mother told lier child, a boy of ftve
years, to say las morning prayer.
Kneeling before her, the little fellow
asked :
"Mother, shall I say my prayer or
nurse's prayer?"
The mother, 1101 1301119 aware thee tho
11111'5e evee said any morning prayee, be-
came obvious,
uSaY nurse's, dear," she answered.
Whereupon the litho fellow began sob
ell'In.IYed
r , 0 Lord, have I got to get up?"
• 1119 FORTE.
":711," asked the first physicinn,
"what, has that strange patient of yours
go7
"I dee% know," replied the other, "but
Pm trying to turn IL into typhoid revel'.
That's my geed specialty, you know.'
IDS 511S-rAKE.
"Ite hasn't succeeddl in his political
ambitions."
"No ; tho tenable with hint is that ho
ap,es the swell people--"
'Thetis net tho trouble. Ile 1)119111 1490
the swell people 11 3)8 pleased if he
didn't afterward monkey with the plain
people.
of n system of evolutions, everted mit
A Man has to have a Mighty lot et
sense to bo able to show that he has
Peen& naval experts have npproved
without either compass or signals.
"Don't, you disapprove of gossip?"
"Yes," answered Miss Cnyenne, "lad
I'm like everybody else -the more I dis-
epprove 01 anything, the move I seem
te enjoy listening to
eingtetrale: "Slay I I cannot allow
yowls) address the Bench In thie familler
inanner," Prisoner 1 "Beg your honor's
pardon, but yen find me lins met so
otlen, we seems like old friends."
"Yon (long know how to piny (Mess,
do yon, Mr. Adlet?" asked Miss Sias,
with rt look at the clock, which indicated
11.30 min) "Why, yes, I do, 11Iss 911111.),
Whet (mule you think 1 didn't r "Why,
you dont soma lo know When it's your
111010,"
fil)ii•itc‘isiu,1111.1711 the gress In 111.' 0(111, fuel,
it. dries, wet 41911111, 'rho mildew \vill
proliably 001115 out aflos 111e 5111411311 113,) -
blies In summer are Very Irolible•
01111111 410 1401110 of my readers may lw
gluit lo ltnOW 4,1 (1 1011,41 that, 1111s porsks
tent insiisi objeete mid nvoids. Put
eau, taliteapoonfuls of enu de codegne
1(1141 11 bottle and add to it one detelini
of permyroyul. With this sponge the
hands twee- a 31113', Try this milady
111$0 for Sinull inidges.
How to Bp: Small elene Innek.---
Small skies meth the fini on, tenth as
those of sublets, elle, luny be ityiel Mad,
111 this way, non ono (01111.11 ,,r
a quartet., of 1111 01111,10 of 141,1151411. and a
ilreelnii of copperas in eels pints el
water, Put your fur into the liquid. give
11 a boil, 11, 111111 puss 11 Insiugh
Ilinse 11 again fuel Muni
Ceeitinthers, - Gather small
4(1.41.171;i 11\1\0.1111T 33,•11111.1711\1:11111e49111 01.1"?1'on vianeth' 11111111
vinitgar add a tahlespoonful fif 51111.
1.00.00 1411' 11 Week. l'obr away 1111,
vinegno, boil smile 11101e 5.10. 111111 11
1101111d 01 Sugar 111111 11 ltsupon111111 Of
peppencornS 10 evesy limit the
boiling \ensigns oVar 111a 0110111111ar.s.
when cold, cover with madder,
CLEANING LACE.
•
To clean laces that are mile, 1111911113
soiled rub \vett in cornmeal, 1111911111)111(1
corn March, allowing the lase to remain
(woe 1119111 in lite meal or medley. Next
titernitig 11111511 cm•efully with clean
',push. For lace Melly 111:woke:4 hy
perspiratimi sonic for len minutes 1(1 11
suds 1110de W1111 01151110 5111111, 11111 W1111,'
A1111 &geeing with this put il 111 strong
sonlight. W,11011 dry return k) the Soap
solution, repealing the soaking and <ley -
Mg process 1111 Me color is reskfred. leor
ince washing In geueral /11111101`Se 1111
lace in. \VOLK' made soapy witli whits
eastite soap. Shales up 111111 deven,
changing the water Lill il ShoWS 10 dis-
colopalion, Press 1.1111 lace gently be -
1W01.11 the 111011114, 11111.1 111180 severni
clean tepid waters, pulling in the 1111
water enough sugar to make 1.1 feel
sticky.
'Aline silk lace that hes hesome yc,I•
low nine be whilanad 11' nest sewinp
it on llennel and snaking it in a solu-
tion of millc and borax for half au hour.
and thou by bleitehing it in the min.
Eine Ince slmuld be Very direfully met
puitistelcingly pinned cm flannel le dry.
Cover 11 hoard for the purees,: w101 al
least two thicknesses of flannel, and keep
4n1011, slender pins of good ghallly for
this use. 111 911111119 a 1111s) lintellierchke
ou the txmiel begin with the. teethe,
IL carefully into shape, with 113,1
threads in the centre rarallel, 541 111111 it
wilt 11.01 be twisted when dry.
-
SENTENCE SElle10.NS.
rtiNTS FOR THE HOME,
Green vegetables should be put into
boiling 5.0 101' 41101 El. 11113' pinch of soda.
A Idnon should always he Peet 1100.1'
1110 1011(11011 Sink, OS a slice of raw lemon
will remove all stains finni the hands.
When boiling baricot beatie do riot
Put, in the salt till the beans 1111.1 nearly
cookod, otherwise 1.11e3' are 1191 to split
aiid crack.
'1'110 shank bones of mutton, so 11.1110
valued in general, if welt soaked, adds to
the Holiness of gravies and semis for
sick -room broths,
lied a lemon thoroughly before
squeezing it, and you will obtain neaely
double the quantity or Juice that would
be obtained If IL were not. heated.
If moths are in a carpel, turn it over
mid Wou on the wrong side with El good
Mil -Iron. Then sprinkle the floor with
turpentine, rub IL well in, and turn the
corpet, back. Repeat the treatment two
or three times.
Tough stealc may be rencleeed more
tender by lying for Iwo hours on a dish
containing three lahlespoonfuls of 'Ngue-
ma. and salad oil or butter, a little pep-
per, but no salt; torn every twenty
minutes. 011 and vinegar soften the
fibres without extracting the juices,
If you have armed a pro) in which (0
roust meat, never open it 10 baste the
mod. Keep covered from fled lo lest
The Ides is 11101 1110 1)01) 15 full of deem,
which penetrates the flbre of the meat.
If desired to brown the Outside, leave
th) cover oft a short Iline in a quid<
civNrsVnhell boiling ham, • salt beer, Or
10119111 for enting Cold, leave the joint,
in the liquor man cool. Ily this means
the (Ivor is very much Improved.
Horseradish for Garnish. -Wash and
brush the horseradish thoroughly, Id it
Ile in cold wider tor an hour; scra.pe 'off
the ontee skin, and very finely shred the
root downwards with a sharp knife.
Arrringe this to little bunches on meat
or fish, rind put some round the dish,
For Blue Mould on Dress. -Try
this remedy Bub the spols well wIth
yellow sone, and then sorely on to them
some finely-peWdered chalk, Lay the
Blowers are poor builders.
11111109 hope is moral suicide.
Sow llaPPiness and leap heaven.
Every man is made up of many men.
Yooludeor411..never find rest by retreating
fro
Men flre not uplifted 4111310111 the
lever of love.
Every time you serve a superstition
yeti enslave yoor soul.
Too many of us are blaming fate for
(('111) ((go of out. fears.
'rhe child of heaven always sees sonw-
thing of heaven in the ditild.
Many people who prey for barrels ef
biessing set out only teacups.
The door of opportunity Is net 11111011
USE: 19 the. 1110.11 W11.0 is asleep.
Iles hard kr the pulpit to see truth
5.110.11 it fixes its eyes on the treasury.
It takes more than abilily to knock
the church to open the doors of pare-
diee.
Some folks think they ere pious be-
cause, the eight of pain glees theta
pleasure.
There never yet WEIS a sermon that
could have any, force on a head full
ladeon.
Some folks feel sure they use bulkl-
ing on rock because their hearts axe
hard as flint.
The burdens ot earth demand tint our
11.43estin.avrtsbe nourished with the broil et
The spirit of brotherhood never needs
to hire billboards' to have Its good deeds
mode knoLvn.
There are too many people hungry
for love for any one ever to talk of suf-
fering from loneliness.
Some men think that the ladder to
henven has but three rungs, called
wages, salary and' income.
It now is perfectly sate le prove your
charity by giving away wornout win-
ks's clothes.
There slims Is a tendency to judge
suc)4 things as love by the cliverce se;
wide rather than by the many happy
homes.
You cannot rench men helpfully so
long as You have a sense of having to
wadi to them instead of standing right
by 1110111,
BOTTLE WITHOUT ops,T.
AT A PERSIAN Virtleti,
The Sluiles Is a hiagnificeitt
Apertment.
The new Shah of Pereia, nocerding to
e resent nowspume• nrliete, succeeds to
a inost ntagniticent kitehen. the stoves,
pokers, tongs, end even the ceffee-Mills
et whio, sow auver. what
IS litd Of SilVer ls of coppee, heavily
glided. All the ilishes, krks an11.
sucIl ithinsils ere of g,dit, set, 111111 I/1'0 -
(11011s slonee. The Ittloilen Itself is it
WOrli of art, 115 ceiling is of \\angle:us
lacquer, and Ile Mime of marble and
enyx. 11 is un npartment fit for Alla-
dee,: whims riffles, than a (mince ef
eteilsory. Me. Whis, in "Persia As 11 18,"
gives an aceount of Persian culinary
matters, and also daseribeS 111" 10111111fli 1
sharlsd-sia1011S of 111,1 country, which,
1111)101911114)1 11111131' of 90141 01' WIWI', 01'0
lieetly prized.
oft'erahsololiiii,:,ttiNruauflhe l 91:11111‘131\1\isaTI1111001'ore.1.1hael
benein nI jollie• combined 3,01113 the act
of eating 1.1144 bre:Mimi- takes phice at
twelve. a solitary meal, the monarch
squalling befere 11f13' dishes or more.
From- these Ito Meets a fee, of the sim-
plest-, and quenches bit Utiest, with iced
sil'1ia15
1:i)71.8.
l11e110e reigns ; the reyal butlers
hoed the intignilicent elutes mid bowls
without 11 50111110
Dinner is eaten el nine lit the evening,
inet <thieve from the moi•ning meal In
elaboration and the fact that IL Is en-
livened by a band.
The food is very varied and tho oonk-
Ing Lambs. roasted whole
and :duffed with almonde, raisins, dates
and plstachio-nute, and sparrew and
roue:granule soup 011101' 11110 the deli -
alleles of the cuisine, Sherbets are a
reveille drink. They nee merely water
moistened mid flavored with fruits, and
iced.
This sherbet is dr11111: front largo
\dote-% :mein's, delicately carved and ot
great value. A num often shows his
wealth in the great variety and costli-
nese of his sherbebspoons. They are
nuke of pear woue, and are from one to
Iwo feel, i131 length, with bewls Which
seinethutis 110141 a tumblerful,
The earving Is as fine and elaborate as
Ince-work, imil the wood In places is 011
se 11111 aS la 1311 translueent. The bowls
are often ornamented with inscriptions.
oll with which they. are treated dark-
ens the originally bight -colored wood.
soma fira 1,101 411)1)18 01 art.
No Iwo spoons are exactly alike, and
The Perslan cansidens a silver spoo11
nn al)omlnation 11 touch to the ups. The
lirty teaspoonof silver have a Mimeo
hole in the bowl, rule ave iteed only for
st Wring.
An It•Isliman who had begun, to erec-
tile: phetogrophi, went Mk) i shop lo
buy a Small bottle hi which to mix
some al tils solutions: Seeing ono he
wanted be 0Sked 110 011e1111241 1100'
11111011 11 Woe.. be.
"Well," Mild the chemist, "it will be
two -pence as 11, 18, 1011 11 you 1.1'11111 0.4)3"
111109 31 it I will not charge you for the
bottle."
"Then," dad Pat, "Put 11 cork 111 11."
TIRESOMELY FOND,
Velend 1 ".1 suppose the baby's fond of
you?"
lettlher ; "Fond? I should say se.
Why he, sleeps till day whet) I'm not st,
home enci slays up all night, just to eu..
joy my eociely,"
,-,--
T11LIE.
rise to remark
That for lids Met are queer,
The oneS built for women
Are freakish this year,
1111 IJSED R1DOMENT.
Ouesi, (after 0 d)nner): "Your
wife is 811141 ft 110(1111W 5.0111011 It's
wonder you're not. jealone, of her,"
The 'lost : "011, I am 1 I never Mille
tiny man tere 111111 any sane 1..vornan
vieuid lahe a fancy to.'
• ---Ls --
FOUND ITS WAY 11011113.
Pet Seal Came Back After Seven Days
at Sea.
The story of a pet seal, captured when
O pup hy 5 lighlhouse-keeper nn the
C011341 of England, is giVell 111 "Reminis-
cences of a Sportsman." The young
seal WHS fed, and allowed le have tho
dinge of the kitchen, end the inernlens
of the household became greatly attach-
ed lo It.
It would malce Us wuy daily down to
the Willer, 1111d pOSS many holies swim-
ming about. It secured InOre or less
food In thatway, but always retuened
to its piece in Me kitchen nt 2)191)0
litindimes (Molly dune to the seal
with old age, bu1 it cenlinued its j01313 -
1533'S lo the sea, end returned hom0 as
reguterly as befooe,
As old age i»ereased, it caused 011'
11031)1)05 by ils peculiar cry for food
and Its lessened ability to get abmit. At
lnst the family decided they must part
with 11, and not wishing to 11131 11, they
arranged with a fisherman to cam' IL
well off -some twenty nales-and chap
It into the sea, l'hey expected that it
would 101110 to a natural death in that
element. But on the second day 11 ap-
peared again in its accustomed ithice.
Another etfort was made to get rid or
It by arranging with it sailing VeSSel to
take it several hundred miles out to sea
and then drop It ht. 'rhis was clone, and
some 1)010 pessed awa,y without tiny
sign of the eeal. 13111 seven days Mee.
its departure the kitchen maid, W110
SICIA near the door of the kitchen, fen
-
vied during the night she had heard the
plaintive cry ot the seal ; and next.
morning its emaciated body was found
or, the threshold.
SECiURING A "PEACE orvoRING."
now a British Officer's Daring 51111ed
His Commission. •
in ltio days of the Feist Imila Com-
pany a. certain young Mikes, says the
author of "Ilecollectiens of a 13Isoa and
'1') 9131' Hunter," commlited 1111 indlscre-
Lion, There 131112 11011110g 111 1110 net
which touched his honor, but it was a
11115111100, 111111 lio re0e1Ved 11 111))) 111(11 1118
SAe'irt\hic'es Bew11(1)gukififil81o17191Yril,b5heaclisuliTgensti
lc:<d
his bruins to find a way out of lee MI-
cillIy
;lust at that monnee n nokaluus rebel
was wanted by the government, and a
largo rewerd had been offered for his
capture. The officer learned that the
rebe1 went regularly to Ft snertx1 poet
111,0111 midday to bathe...but the neigh-
borhood of the pool %yes swarming 101111
andliwers.
Nothing daunted, he fa:mimed the gfirb
of a Brahman, end having stationed a
vehicle al, 11 suot not Mr front the pool,
boldly entered the water with. nettling
1.011 a pnie of sleet thandeliffs end 11 geg
hidden about Ms waist.
'rho yotteg officer performed Ills (ask.
110k1,1
111)lf111,0(1i,1_1cil)111 11:8181111171111411,11is,11101‘0ro111111111199,
manacled to ech ot1her, a1nihe vehicle
lewdsloppelit Govement House
was mezioned ad the "praremitering"
Iendelei'ee to a high ohelai io 16dotiitvflb.
The 9111061' fist gegged e reict, and
111011 drugged im it ofte wider. Ilts
daring md resucSaved im his eonk
mission,
Tns hAANCg.
.Lb
Tho Vineyard twee of reams; hi 1006
Was 4,114,51)1) nores, yielding a wine pro-
duction or 1,375,771,921 gallons. Pro. •
auction hos steadily decrensed Since'
1006, when _11_w_as_441_,17022.6.72566 galione,
Generally 145.0)11110 bins le breg about
the numerous good leoils or Iler hils'
bond jest as 11 115 Mill; had them,