The Brussels Post, 1907-11-28, Page 6ETERNAL CROWN OF ropy :;1,)4010„,1, ,1T111t1I.ll'allirlIenS uOmf , pil1l1a0r0%1iu. opof obawdhgiecsh.
the hoese rested-- No irelitible romesen.
tenon of these aneient louses of the
Philistine cities ie et hand to enable WI
to give any tioeutote desoription of lee
shape mei plan of the builithig.
The ,tuegice mentioned earlier in the look
were enuengeous lendere, who at the
head of their Milo mid nation delivered
Israel out ol the band of its (Inners,
fighting alwaye in lle• mune ef Jehovah,
But Samson beide no army inle battle,
and does »ot light so nitwit in Joliet! of
Isom! as In eettheg his OW]] pCtStin /11
qUarreiti with the iffilietines, The trou-
ble in whieli he is utmost constantly In
volved, again. is 001 (>1,o:seined 1iy
OnpaesS1011 1114 he
iliS OW11 untioly tiffoition for firet one
end then al/other Philistine woluati.
The story, therefore, leeks !he newel
point alld emphasis which thc eat'ller
stories of Ilie Wok conlain, On the
nther Muhlit abounds 111 rude humor
and aerounts ol practical jokes perm, -
anted by the hem. sailisoll. 4111 WS Per-
sonal menthe:. ite it stands 11, luny be
onneltleved as 11 lypinol hit ol
Iilliliii vhie1i ''Us without 11011111. in
great tenor among the jcw'sli pronto.
115, 11101.041r01% gli11101, e„1" a
side of eurly Hebrew lik, nod ettneeeter
elsewhere represented in the Old
Trskon ell
31. Judged Isruel twenty yeureeortes
the sum filial of Um informitlioti
• Igoe com.Crililig 'Samson 11$ one of
lite Judges of Israel. \\*0 tire not told
anything regarding his capability as n
judge, but ‘,.c rror :utilise. 11.4101 the
leek (if moivil ellieogle he that
it weted be regard for his ()Welch.)
prowoo 11111e0 111011 for his talent for jug
tiee that would respect.
013NER.N.L INFORMATION.
Every Man Has in His Breast the Keys
to His Own Heaven.
"The Kingdomof Cod is within you.
-Luke xvii., .21.
The religion that has relations only
to heaven and angels, or only lo 11 su-
preme beteg remote and detached from
daily kfe and from our families and
friends, our business and affeirs( iesues
11 personal selliehness and is one of the
causes •of social dlserganigation and
Ileed.
It postpones to that dim future the
,problems that oughl to be solved in the
present. It promises those who Were
broken with injustiee and greed of their
fellows ft place where right would pre -
veil and red would bc, their portion in
the future. It shifts to an imaginary
and ideal world alt the perplexities and
wrongs of the present. world.
That kind of teaching ingrained in
generations accounts for the dull pati-
ence, the stolid, brutelike content of
the peasant in Europe; he is born a bear-
er of burdens. a tiller of the soil, to
walk bent and never lookup; it is all
enduruble because it Is all so short; be
some day will be better off then kings
and einperors are DOW. "
Rut RS the generations are horn the We are living in the glut, of things and
Inspiring vision of that future loses its selling these thing.e at the end of lis -
force; the ideals are gone and the chil-
dren come into the world with their fa-
thers content with their present condi-
tion, but devoid (if aspiration and also
.devoid of their father's faith in the cern-
pensuttons of the future.
whatever good Is designedi.foe man May
.tee realized in large measure while he
lives and Atoll make Ins good to consist
Only in goeds. Beller conditions cif lie-
4eg easily become the toe of the best.
ileaven Is net meat and drink; 11 15 the
hello, heart.
Making houses and lands iho supreme
end of living is lithe 1.)11,10e than look-
ing forward lo harps and crowns.
is easy. bring treed thom slavery to a
superstition to relapse into slavery to
clue lower selves, We are in danger of
living for a living instead of for our
lives. We are "on the make" instead
being (menet in making manhood,
We aro digging the lead of conunerdal
advantage with the gold shovels of
character,
We mey metteured by our own
menseeraents. In sermonand ora -
thole WA" assure ourselves that we are
ft great people beeause 'we have here
so many acres. so many minions 01
bushels of core and of wheat, eo high
wages, so
VAST FINANCIAL RESOURCES.
THEN COMES THE REACTION.
Som e daring spirits assert that if there
is any good, if there is equity and
rights, men ought to enter into and en-
joy them here and now. And some
who catch the vlelon of a God of real
love nie unwilling to believe that he
keeps from his children the present
joys of his home; they invite lo a pre-
sent heaven.
Then how easy it is to fall into the
error of seeking only a material pre-
sent day paradise. to live as if the only
things worth living for were food and
clothes and pleasant circumstances.
Better u worthy. beautifill ideal afar off
than an unworthy and &busing one al-
ready iodized. The heaven that eo
many are seeking will but bring all
men to the level of the brute.
The dat-er is that we shall miss the
real benefit of this great truth that
All tide does not mean that prosperity
is wrong; it doos not mom that misery
or poverty is n virtue. The danger Is
mil in our many acres. our high wages,
(Air millEons of money; the danger is
that these are the ends instead of the
intans; that we are existing fee our tie-
ing; ihnt WO make the man the tool of
leo, money instead of the money being
the making of the man.
If he will man may (Ind the riches
cif character; he may enter Into the para-
dise of is mind at peace; he may taste
:sr Ihe divine joys ef serving his fellows;
to may. In thought, eemnoine ton all
the geed and great; he may bear the
morning stars sing together.
The eternal erown of glory is the
clown of elsaraelee. The streets paved
with gold are ihe fair. clear ways of
virtue. The harps of whose music we
never weary are the strings of sympa-
thy and love and pain; these make the
heavenly harmony. The angels
the .ftwes we learn to tom These make
heaven when we see them in the ligOl
of the presence of eternal love.
IIENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
DECEMBFAt 1,
tie •ou IX. The Death ot Sennett,
(Olden Text: Eph. 6. 10.
'11.1[1 LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Based on the text of the Revised Via -
Sion,
The story of Sdnison.-The story of
&animal 15 reeorded in diapters 13-10 of
the leok of judges, and falls neturally
into three parts. In the intreeludory
portion [chapter 13) we are told ef the
announcement to the mother of Samson
.of the bit*th 01 a son, who was to he
brought up from ehildhood according
to 111.l billet discipline of a Nazarite, in
order that upon reaching adult numlicod
be might deliver Israel from the hand of
its oppressors. the Philistines. The
second porlieti of the neretthete which is
%Veined in ehaptees 14 and 15, cene
coins neer with the inarriage of Samson
to the Philistine weman in Tit -wale and
the• riddle which lie peopounded to the.
Philistines al the wedding fewst. Betray-
ed by his wife, who las the allSW(T to
the riddle 10 liee e0111117rna-11, Saieson
*Mole in anger to his father's house.
only to find mon his euesequent visit
10 Tinmeth that Iths wife has been given
40 another in merritige. This lends In a
:fend between Samson and the Philis-
tines In which the former first. see; Ore
to, the standing gone of his
enemies, and theee in 111171 revenge
themselves on the household of the WO -
man 01 Timnah, !Samsun's former wife,
11/110M they blame for their lmuble,
Thereupon Sannen, single-handed,
.smites the, Philistines "hip and thigh
with .great slaughter." Shortly niter.
Ward the people of jtelah, threntened
with dire destreetion et the hands of the
Philistines, deliver Samson bohitd into
the lomils of the enemy, hut, exerting
once mom Ms greet Strength, the eat, -
live Wars the ropes which 5,ln,1 him and
.again Stades Ina enemies with great
slaughter. The third division of the nar-
rative motels the Attecloneen of Sant -
5O111 fOr Delilah, a woman in the valley
of SA'.rek. between elebren mid the Minis -
Sipe cities to the nest. It is this. Minch-
rnent whleb brings upon Stinison his un-
doing; Having confided to Delilah the.
!secret of his great strength, he is be-
trayed by hor into the hands of his
enenties, loving first been shorn of his
long leeks, the budge. of hts Nazarild
vow. Al this point elm leeson Retentive
begins,
• Verse 21, Put out Ms eyes -In eceor.
dance with 1110 cruel, though common,
testate of the limes.
Gate--(Ine of the eve prinetpal cities
of the Alluded about two
leas from the shore of the Mediterran-
ean on n bow hill, amidst trees and gar-
dens, and In close proeimity to the innin
caravan route free Egypt to Jaffa tool
the East. It Is supposed Wel the andent
as 01 the time of the fudges lies buried
beneath the immense 51110.1 ldlls Whi011
In% to he toned beiveeeri the piveeni (•ily
and the seacoast, end wbiboh ore gen-
t -Melly eeteriding easteverd to. the wind
them the mot delve Ilia Mope sand In-
land. At the thee of one leseon men.
ilve (Oita eeenls lo here °Merged n posl
Bon of great imporlimee nit the copild
et the fffillieline confederacy, This Me
tetelanee ft Yeleined until the 1111111 of
. Mexetelec the Oreut.
Ile did grind le lite prioiln hot:see-A
common form of menial labor for slaves
o, captives of war 11111 the grinding of
grain in rude. hand -mills.
22. The hair .uf his head began to
grow -ll ie nevossary to ;suppose tome
lino to have remised Menem the cap-
ture of Samein and the feast- mentioned
tii the next verse. during whieh time
Same/nee hair bad again gerein suffi-
ciently long .to comply <alio more with
his Nezarite VOW to Wille his hail' un -
11, 1014.15 of the Philletines-Cor-
responding le the elders of Israel, the
chief inen from the different Philistine
(kith:nett them together -iProbnbly ut
Geza, though the pkice 10 not ininione4.
From the following vi•rses we learn
that there WAS 044. 0 temple 10 flagon
at Ashdod. and from reference$ such as
Josh. 15. 41. and 19. 27, we learn that.
the deily wes werehippol in ether
tones of Pniesline territory, as 1110
nainoe "Potted:won" !House of Dagen
and peeper winos indicate.
'Recently diviphereel Semen' ineeriptions
also testify to the wide extension of
Dagen worship.
For they suitl our eltiese
in 1111 probability not feund in the origi-
oel narrative, since 811213 11 least of spe-
cud rejoicing on account of the capture
of Samson would scarcely have bee,l
pt strolled uniti Ms hair had .fignin
grown long find his great strength re-
turned.
24, 25, 11 we omit the dove clause
nini Interchange the position i VCTStS
es., and 25, we will men whet is
mnsidered by moo rommenitiews 10 be
100 probable original feem and order of
the narvetiee, Some time enclthe cap-
ture of Sameon be the Philistines the
loiter eolebrated al the oil:Amery sea -
ore n great tenet ei tomer of their god
Dagen. In conned -ion with this feelal
occasion there great rejoicing, mot
i • II
when their hearte iyete inure
retnembering the reputation
of Samson as a wit end priefficed joker,
demand that the Minded oiplive he
brought More them that ho may make
It1
semi for them. Accordingly. Samson
is brought out of the prieon house, and
Placed between the tellers: Slid 41-110/1
the people ewe' him. they prniseil their
god:, for Ihey maid, NW god bath deli-
vered Mk: our band one enemy, wrol the
destroyer of caw country, who bath elain
many of us,
20. The Ind that led hint by the hand -
("eliding the blind men from place lo
piece.
27, The hieuee-Apparently nob en15
temple of flagon. but a kii•ger building
offivettiently sllented near at hand.
Templee in this early period Wer0 een-
sidered ne 4IXIIIII5111el5 1110 AI:Ming/1111100
Of 1110 (lefty, and not getteralig as 11
building in which the wereffippiers as,
setithled for their feelivittes Ein11' merry.
malting. In 1 Sam. 0, e..2, nnWiludg. 0.
Interesting 111-1515 of Knott ledge About.
'Most Everything.
Some of the gioat Allenlic liners cut-
pluy 15:1 firemen. .
lemiion's melee pleygrounds are the
envy of till other cities.
A chimney 1i5 feet high still .'.way
10 inches in 5 etriong wind witIlolil
danger.
For $5 steam will do work which
wouhl eost $800 if done by hand.
There are now 202,0e0 Sunday-sehools
in the world, with lolal of 26,000.000
pupils.
Sherks were praelleally unknewn in
the Adrialle tilt suez Coed was
opened. Now they
In. Chinn it Is net pessillle for a fa-
ttier to leave ITIOTe 1)1'01301'1y to one eon
than to anether, all atiest share equ-
ally.
'Ohore is mere variation among thee
divorce Mee iif different mittens than
among the laws governing any
11(51 1111',
Last year the Austrian Dovernthent
derived $150.000 from the tax on play -
Mg -cards. Austrian s a re invi Lcra te
gamblers.
Swiss farmers prefer eingIng milk-
maids, it brag held that the melody
soothes the cows and induces them lo
yield more milk.
Business men in illasgow and Edith
burgh are vigortatsly pushing 0 prO-
jevt for a ship canal to unite the Furth
and Clyde.
The ilovernment ef Spain has en-
gaged a nember of °mem:neon experts
14: tour Ihe iountry and give 111S1111C-
V.011 ki Ili,' farinelS.
The King of itaty spends Quito hems
'in hie etude riory day reeding Niel and
current Metalline Ile k greet ad-
mirer of the works ef 00101541, anther?,
In one ef the East liellen islands
there is a neeniel temp owing, Ow
wn ler Militate 00 being lietiyiki
charged with alkali. For a cells:devotee
distance roved the spring all vegeta-
lion has been destroyed by this 4,heini-
ilubbbt '. soys a nelininliel. have white
lulls se Illat Ilie young may L ble
to distill/nese their mother in ease of
Pursuit. Thy color of 5 rabbit is so
Ile that of the ground that thi, would
otherwise be dinicull. if ird impoesilee.
Ilantines 111.0 11011' 110,0001 ill 1.011tVal
115 ileetrielly, Thoy ave Mina in, etre
tight mono. Withal aro lintsled.
elertee Ugh'. The yowelifill Immo hove
itio surno ere '1 as svoshhic, and the
ripening of Ihr !mil can easily re.
gu le. tee
Experinemie love recently Wen einde
ile paste cin betide,
with tri 1,, Mee re
When lim Millet troves 3m muzzle the
juili,va, leaving n shi(enn
smoke behind 71, aml (naleing the
merkeinen k iveteli Ile eeeree, end,
oreeesare, correct Ms aim few lee next
ehol.
Tremplee 11111e.n 4-wo1'5' \Ng -wk.
day, Sir. 10111111 SiMpS011, 1.111111 nci,i1111en
at Thereby. in the Wielon .nr
Cum1ertnn(1„ England, hos during the
onel tweet vein., yeara 1.01'01,0,1 It dls-
innee or 11101111 miles. Do glee only
even et) dittle etre through 1 bit (0511.
and timing ihfirst seven years bad
only tarclays' holiday.
An exlreordireire (ffirlitem lins bero
lnade 111,P 01(hillilioft inVitlltIOrtS
nOW brine hell 111 Berlin, A slit riorinker
named Weehert living In straisburet.
has ern! 111 11 (leek of the grandfrither
Mimeo, oriole (a 'fool b,ih , mede (lithely
01 edrow. Mode. Milder:to dew.
find ONTO' 41e1011 11 eXellISIVely, of t•Innw.
Wegner he. inlien fifteen 3ienes eon -
:Iliad, ;.this etretwe oieee of moiling -
lent. .. keens peered Ihne. Mill under
the Nye:ruble elretinistenees 1)110-
11411 litel longer than Iwo yonrs,
A petal has just .heen granted ill
Germany kir en 'invention for the
inan ilf11 01 Rya of glass telegraph and
telephone pelee. A oortipany has, 110011
organized, end El factors foe the mene.
feeturing of gloss eon% has been 1mill
ab eiross-Alniereele, 410111, Franlifert.
'rhe glnee MIMI; Of which lite poles are
node is elrengthened liy inierleying end
Itilertwining with strong wire threads.
One of the minelpel advenleges or
Ogee polee went(' be then use tro,
pied countriee, where -the wooden poles
ore Aeon deetroyed by the owners. of
ibeeete and Clininlic influence& 'rho
pellis Are vary Cheap. rosting 010 etiell
peen of 22 Wet in lefiglio 'Tile' imperial
Peet temarltemil Gerninny has or.
(level 11 bergs stiOplye '
Il sereirierife of ji•hovelt 01-15I 11114 501
in4NtI05 lIb ono:O. Thinee, better for peeffie Who, til.te
1111 Important dlifeyenee betWeen this atel there et they eeree,
WO 11111'0 indleatente of Ito custom or
perloeing of the enerifielai meet in n
building venerate 'Rom the inimediale
sanctuary.
21). Samson called uifon joheveli--
Sioneods devotion to the Cod of his
people MON. lito that (4 his genoration,
of 11 primitive. though roboel, nature,
We note nod 'hr.:ways 'not for strength
Ilint the name el lenoviall may he 411'
511011 in Ile: eyes of the Philistines. bet
that hy the death of notny of thew 110
lei el 0115e temp& for the kos of hie
150. Bowed himeelf With all his Miglife.
Pulling both tellers Vomited end out of
Owe tis lie Me SO.
Moto num they that he taco/ In his
Mee -There 111 110 S11001110 huMbasis placed
in the elneing Nieto of the enerative 41,0
t
P,f7
11-1S)' Rome
4,171-telli-Tetelleitgefieli,Ve8.114434
SOME 11AINTY DISIJES.
Fried Oyster Dainty,- Cut top off ono
'on! id while then St" 160 0111 in-
side of loaf, 'roast the top of lotif which
has even cut off; butter Inside. Pry lAto
dozen oyg.!.( I'S 111411. U11(1 111',1W41, 011 11
loaf eihile hot. Put the toasted Me eel
Serve
Rico Cnialle is a retitle1 child's supper
in cold weather. 'Mix a tablespoonful it':
ground rive with little (old wider; MO:
this pour one pint of Soiling inillt. Feb
11, ku• len minutes; aild
lithe eon, Sweeten and naw.r wr.h
grated tenni/mon. Serve al. once.
PAUL .1011.'s Pudding,-1.Ine puthlinl:
dish with slices of Mead, i•uilerrel
on loth sides; One and oneshalf pinto of
• lielf cup of maple spiels one mg
'1 101551', 1141 e0111)11115. j1hb.'e lle55581, 11.‘pv0 4:4511,,;,1eNePirl n0.7Ig
ingredients, pout, over breed, Cook ie
elow owe toe hems. Steve with cream
Add Apples: to Grape Jelly.-ln noth-
ing grape jelly one will ilnd thal, a rich
fewer may be obtained by adding eight
geed sized apples lo one eased et
grupoo Ily using liwee-fourles 50 l0 to
ere, cup of juice jelly will keep longer
and turn 10 omen'.
Checoluto Fig Fudges, -Two oups of
sugar. one cup of milk. one emitter of
bekere' chocolate, and half a Dolled of
tiss out fine. Put in saucepan nil to-
gether, end toil until it forms a soft bell
in water. Teen add hutter the size of a
\relent and stir Until (10110. 1'0111' 11110
tins. W11011 hard cut into squares.
Quick Net Dake. -When noticing a
"limeiy-Op" colic, after putting the dough
in pen, rover generottely with
111.:16, @Mee chopped or whole nut meals;
then spi,Inkle a mearter of a cup of
grimulated sugar over the top before
biting in oven. When done the eal(e
tl 1111110 detteions coaling of not
elmely. Looks go -.d, lodes good, and
St11--its the nine of icing.
old Fashioned Mixed Krael..-Put over
the Ilre aloul. two pounds of spare ribs
and eook until tender, then add PM
medinni sized potatoes cid into eighthm.
and rook until CICtle; then mkt one [emit
a goad snuerkraut end boil 011e 110111,
-with jest enough wince lo keep 11'0711
burning. stirri»g often. Add pepper if
cluticed. 1,111 no still will be needed.
This stuffing for baked fish is excel-
lent. 011ie itr.0 tablespoonfuls of hreed-
evimille with (leseetilspoonful of
chopped paioley. n leaspeonful of C1101)-
1.1:41 pnrsIt•y. a teaspoonful of chopped
sweet herbs. add black pepper and salt
• aste, and two minces ot finely
slireffiled suet. Wink an egg into this
elefline. or if you have not One use a
lithe mine
Beeliosie eerved with chops and steaks
15 alienye Meet. Boil wine beetroot. un -
1,11 lendeie serepe, off the skin. chop very
thirty. and pour ever all tahlmpoonful
of melted butler. add a dash of vinegar.
pepper and sell to leek,. Serve hot,
plied in the centre of te dish with eliop
amend ft.
savory eoutliev-Mix together n pinl•of
biontlerumbs with. a Pa Sp.inilT1, 1 of
greled n elinowdepoonful ef
peed, herbs, pepper and snit. 13ent two
eggs lightly arel add a betoken:simnel
of milk, Pool. (hie into- the dry ingre-
dients, TIliX all together, beat for two or
three inimileee Pour 111 In gretteed pie -
dish and bake for ton minetes in 0
quiet( oven. ...
Barley and Trentitoes.-Wesh half a
eln, of barley and soak for four hours.
At the end of that thee put II inth the
double boiler with une (meet of lolling
water end one lea.spoonful eall. teiek
fee one hour. Then add onothalf eon of
tenintots and a medium eieed onion out
11li fine,' Tee il took half an hour longer.
About ton niinotes bee:re setivieg mix In
ene tablespoonful of grated cheese and
11 nit'ee Of 11111,10r 1110 SiZe of a walniit,
Bollix! Turkey. --Singe, draw end
otieli a Ittikey 55eighing Mout eine 00
lan 1101111dS, and velar wilii a dressing
mule by chopping n quail ,emell
tees rather coarse, and adding to them
a Mond or gilded brend crumbs.
levet liffileeponefets of sett. half 0 lea-
spoOnful power. a grain ef nayenne.
ti0111.10l. of a VIM1111 Of 1211I101' and IWO
eggs slightty. Fill the boost Of
the biril with genie of this dressing, and
put the rsillaind"' ink) 111'2 1"'El'W" 415
up and ',nos. Dip it lnegt, pitice, of cot-
ton cloth into eold water, and after
ringing 11 weth dredge il thickly with
uv. Pin the turkey in this vicith and
plunge 11, inlo teeter. Boil tupelo
ly for fifteen minute% end then vet leek
elide it will just sinuneti for lease
lours. Serve with o3oler eteme.
Mince Pi". -Ons potted (if finely chop-
1,ed lefied beef, one-half pound of fenely
(hopped suet, tine pound eiill washed
end diled ellITIMIS. one pound eioned
1•1111.11118, (11)0 pound finely tell citron. mie
pound sugar, ono -half le0,poonful salt,
the juice and 1 1111Ir paled rind of two
oranges, the juice and grated rind ef one
knion, one pint eider, one-half pint
brandy. one-half pint of sherry wine,
onn tenspoonell of ground cloves, one
neepoonfei of einnetnobt5 ene tenemon-
tot <if more, one grated nidineg, Nlix all
the ingredient,: is 11 10p:41141r, This
emount t§ eerfleienl ter six good steed
'pies. Line a pie 1111110 141111 cont. Mix
one pint, of mime: ineel with one pint of
finely (Mopped tipples, and 1111 1111' pinle.
cover With millet 114141 bake 1111 t1611111. If
liked, a few epooneful ot /trendy mem he
poured over the mincemeat hefore the
crust pul 0(1
scallop in plieo, und set, where the sun
and winvi will quickly dry.
After using oold watee starch, set it
settle, then poor off the 11111.01' 111141 41110W
/110 Merrill to dry, When it is ilry it ran
111 II011111iIed ill 1.11-e SIlleelit1ON for flaDre
LOW,
When altering a bleuee for eny 11'10
11o01 it le n geent mistake to move the
:doubler seam to 'the freed. A far teet-
er Men Is Mut of dropping it back -
weeds instenit of forwards.
To pteitont flonnel from shrinking dip
it, \elite, dry, in cold waler, wring (no
unil put It 111 warm or even 1101 :aan-
;tuts. made of akind ny of 111111)111111)ewe,
.),,wder, atid wash 11 culin.,
In papering it nom remember that
large patterns mid dart: colors will make
uldwar smaller, while 11 plain or
striped paper, Li a light hue, \vitt give an
mpression of incroased size.
A gotid floor -slain that, goes right into
he \wad and is very dutiable is made
11 linsosloil oilored with grimed bum(
embete Bub 11101,011011y hile the bounle
wffil a 11011ne1 pad, end next 4155 pellell
with beeewax end turpentine,
After a child IIRS 1)C011 vatioinabel,
415(01111 Ille Skin ar(31.111(1 Ille dressing ap-
!oar very imlbbllhlWd gently apply a little
!oracle 1)1111131011t With a eamerstheir
leoell, Do reit on any account disturb
the dressing. If the child Si,e111$ very
feverish end 111 the doctor shouid isa
called in.
Fine lieen. such ne Infant's clothing,
tegikettonekerehiets, de.. that lois. 1)5-
101110 yellow, nmy Isa whitenfla hy
ill,: ill elreng suds mi,ad w1bui Yellow
oiap and milk and water, half milk and
half water. Reit for half 1111 1101.1r, W111411
1.1 Ondinary tol, suds, rinse in Clear 110t
water, then in. cold blite-waiiev.
When n1 house is being done hppaint
Is not infrequeffily .'pill doorsteps,
and.44 bit eomelinies found very difficult,
to remove. In that 01150 matte 10 strong
eelution oI potash and wash the
Siniply leaving the solution to soak in.
In a short lime the, 115 1111 will beeonie
eon, and can then Le washed of with
wow utul wider. TI1011 1180 Ma W11101.
Paint Wh1eh 11US Liaell left on foe gone
time will yiefit lo this treatment.
Scrupulous cleanliness is the true se -
reel of liteming milk. every out, bowl or
jug being scalded daily, elony pcople
n pinch of Weerionate of &oda to the
milk when received from the dairy, and
If this is $ticred into sour nilk IL prevents
it from curdling when bolted, and pee-
ning of ils being noel for puffilinge. and
eNTT1 101' .eoffee, whon 0111erwise it would
be thrown away. 13oracki, neid, which
ninny eeeneed 1111115 authorties edit to
their $uprilies, should be toed, however,
with cautionespecially ellieve there are
children in the household.
THE CONVICTS OF CANADA
REPORT 010 THE MINISTER Ole OUR.
TICE ON PENITENTIARIES,
:Eleven Per Cent, ot the Inmates are
Youths Untles"reventy Veguis et
Age.
Tim ann.uel loport of ibe Minn:ter or
Jusbee as to penitentiaries in Canada
kir the fiscal yeae of 111110 11101t1118,
Marelt last, issued recently, ShOWS
the everuge daily populetien oi the
emlitentieries for it136.07 IN11S 1,433, an
increase of 20 as cenipared with the
preceding year, The Ilguree for the net
five yeale intimate Ilea the gradual in,
elease 111 Ilic number of eollviels
1101'-
SpfldS With the increasing population
of the country, and ls not indicative of
any noticeable advame in erlininelilY•
The number' .of Crit11111111S, WO report
netts, wile uteempany the rush of ino
migratien. Is evidently offset by the ex-
istmg empkiyment at a re
muneretive rule.
During the yew' 157 Convicts were re-
leased en parole, 20 were pardoned and
12 died.
TUE PAROLE LAW. .
The repert of Parole Officer Areht-
InIld stales that the opeetitions 01, 1110
parole late continues to be saltsfnetery.
The number of pardons granted during
the past seven years is 2110, as against
1184 granted during the preeetting six
yours.
As health resores Conadian penllenti-
avieehave on enviable record, The .1111111-
15r of- deaths Occurring in prison der-
ing lbe past 1.1114.0 yeal'S 1111$ been less
than one per vele. per annum. Only
ono convict, successfully escaped last
1 year. The .escape occurred a few days
after the. ,openIng of the Alberta Peni,
Wintery, arta was due 10 the inexperi-
ence of the guards. The number of
absolutely illiterate in the penitentiati,
ies is -equal Le about 17 per cent., while
net more than 10 per cent. have bad
the (Weaning° bl a good %minion school
SHARP nii.TORTS.
Ready Answers Which Turned the
Joke on the Other Fellow.
In a Loidon.truction room two men
were disputing thr possession of a plc-
-lure by n celebrated English painter,
which faithfully represented an
Enell second determined to outbid the
other. F1115111,-, one of them (mei:-
"My dear sir, it is 01 110 use; 1 4:111
tiot give M. The painting once be-
longed lo my grendfather, and I intend
le have it."
"Oh. ill Ulla ellae," replied his 014111,
suavely. will give it up. I think yclii
are fully entitled to 11 it 11 is one of
,Your feltIllY Portraits," at which there
was grout laughter throughout the
mom,
111111 [hie sheep reloel WO are inclin-
ed to rent( the lively of the Irish girl
who. caught in the net of pleying On
Sunday la:1'0111g, and being arcosted
bo' the 114.11'.611 lath -St with filo greeting.
"Cool leoinilig. doughler of 111.• Evil
C111 0." 11:111111 promptly, "(load mooting,
father,"
1,,1'd Coelthurn, after 11 long stroll.
sat down on a hillside beside a eheplierd
anti iibserved that the sheep 401:dal the
colitost situation for lying down.
"Aloe." eald lie, "I think if I were a
Owe.) I should certainly huve preferred
Ile eller skle 41 IMO hill."
The ,sheeherd atesevered: "Ayemy
iord; hut if ye had been n shrop 00
51.011141 i,u te had 311ilie SenSe." alld 1.013
WaS 11e001, tired of reIntieg
the .elory, and Limning the Intighoon
Motion,
A man who was offering pienteitous
1111'0 1 Int 14011 at 11 e0l1111ry fele' WaS dis-
paraging the slow of' cattle.
"Call these hero orize earlier" he
ecarnrffilly lead.' "Why. they abet 1)0-
1 btiit' 11
whet our folks ralepti. You
may not thine it, len my tether' raised
the blitgeet tall of uny mart mend out.
parts,"
ean very vvell believe it,- °beery-
ot a byelemier, setmeeing him Morn
heed to fool.
11 is Tem everyone who enjOys 11 jOke
fit Ilk own expense, The judge who
p“,ntott w,th his pane anti
'There is a great rogue at the end of
my mine," wne intensely enraged when
the man looked hard at him and askod,
coobIy-
"Al which 61(3, yomi homier
A irking of Cuernree was bregging of
Me allaeliment to the jure sysleho 1(511
said: -
"With trial by jury I have lived, and,
ty the blesting of Geld, With Well by
jure 1 will *did"
"Oh." eald Curran. In notch einem,-
merit "leen yeu've made up i30111' niind
to be hanged, fi•Jeli?"
.111ilt,;(1s KNOWING.
To heve Alienye a good light, coal 011
lamp burneve eleeted be boiled in a
beset with enough told wnier 15 coVPI.
lhern with 0 hand fll I Of WitShIng soda
added.
To cleat] a fishy trellis -pen, fill with
cold water and onto on the ,firei to
boll, When boiling pill a MI hot cinder
In and Ilion, west/ in the lisual wey,
If n tonepoonfol ef lemon Mice is
added lo the wince that pastry 18 inede
0.1111 it Will leefotted 10 make if riee in
dekeS 51111 be 0111611 W11110' nntl 1 igh ter.
To inerenee the polished appearance of
alimehed 01oIlles, odd n pleee of wax the
sie o of e bean, and a il\aSpOonflit Cif
powdered beret( To 5'1t110 shwa While lt
(gentle Quilt 'betties a 1,0 11 good
..stitute ler certain ,Oirelehers, loneten
13ETT1i111
she-ttAnd /Mr eve 11 11 (1151015(1
47401,, tell me everythiing tint
happens, won't. you? Collein Formiee
husliend does,"
1`11 go Irannle.O
hilshend 0110 better. 111 'tell pm a let
of things that don't Nippon nt
CONSIDERATE.
'Say, pa, won't, yeti bIly lire a (Muni?"
Pm [Heald you'll dieterb me
With the eoise."
"No, I won't, pa; I'll Only drum when
y011'a0 asleep,"
-_-#
ACC011t1iNG TO DEFINITION,
"114O5 onle 11 glaziev. Len he's n genius
In hie Way,"
"indeed!"
"Yea l bag on lulu* cdpaelly
pair 01 cutilffine at ie11ine pinning every taltIng
FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND,
NOTE'S OF INTERESer FROM 111111e
ReNtiS AND 1.111AES,
11'llat Is Going On In the Iliohlands -
and Lowlands el Auld
Scotia.
expects a busy winter at yecht
Nearly 40 Indlos are attending Ar-
t:meth ambulance Mass.
The- river Ayr WaS 011 1110 10t11 ult, the
highest for 30 yettre.
111 1-111bn11l.I'pbl 13orderers' Union has -
new a membership a MO.
A disuppoinling bee -keeping season is
reportot from the Borders.
M,iibllobII gas \i'l'euirks11u,[1t01.
'1.1° be extend -
e• $
AL Stevenston the pito ef gas has.
teen raised 2e4d. pee IWO fed.
11111101ve (le*
1115)10111 011010101101 oI 14, 001, pil' 4,
On the Otlf insl, the Royal 1Idel,
Celeff, was exposed at £4,000, but did notsell
•
A blest at Westfield Quarry, Aiyth, 00
the 'Oh October, dislodged Mout 700
tens of stone.
Undertheers are ifeeping nway from
Tifficoullry. Duilng September only One,
death took team.
A large number of Dunbar 'lettermen
have left for the winter herring fishing
at 'English ports.
Elgin is to grt an addition to I1 arch!.
gle loglaunrialel ;tlsh
iitecelice
tilei%sin the shape of a.
Offie Scottish Paeriolic Associntion havearraeged an attractive series of lecturas
for the winter.
Se leyman 01 Cowdenheath says 111111•
three, are 5,000 persons in Me burgh who.
mow enter a. church.
The bathing shelter at the west end of -
Dundee Est:It:elide is to be kept open all
Ihe year 1101)1101
Soil Union hare ap-
petaled a helloed ninoe to deal with 111-
fanblio 111 1110 •c,oriuntintly.
East. Lothian potatoes are ffirt,ly boi
turn out a magnineent crop. Most of
them will probahly he shipped to Lon -
n.
eouoatioe. Foureeee per cent of the
0(1101518 last year 511510t0 total abstainers, Miss Marshall, West Klihrele, has been
ce
appointed leacher of dressmniting at ihei
evening doss for girls at Large
Perth will have 11 neW 1.1.1111 hall, ths.
rod of which is not to exceed 15115,000.
It Is to he erected on the site of the ex-
isting building.
Only three flutheeay churches now
hold servives on the fest day.
Steps ore again Iveing effien with a.
view of having temperance refivshment,
and ten mono open em New l'ear's Day
throughout Dinsgow.
Leigh School Board have given in-
structions to maim orrangenients 101
providing free inetti:t to school children
dewing the whiter, "if necessity orises."
Ale. James St, Low, insistent gas man-
ager of the tfiasgow Corporation, has
been Appointed gas manager at Auello
44 per cent. were 'temperate end 42 per
cent. were intemperate. Lads ueder
tivenly years of ag11 constitute eleven
rem' cent. of the totol, nothwithstand-
Mg the unsuitability of penitentiaries
for
IMMATURE CRIMINALS.
"It is sato to say," says the report,
"that not more then one in a thousand
of thie eless Ss benefited by a penitentr
my experience."
The perceMage ol Canadian -born con-
victs 15 01, as eiimpared with 70 in
1107. The percentage of convicts born
III Great Britein and irellind is less
than in 1807. eliile the percentage of
these born in the Unititi Statile relllaillS
1110 8R1110 as it WaS len years ago. In
regard to religions, the number of con-
victs to each 111X00 of population was
as follows: Church of England 4,7,
Jewish 4.2, Roman C.alhollc :3, Baptist
2.2, Methodist 1.0, a»d Presbyterian 1.6.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Ile cannot do wly) dees not dare.
Opposilien ofteu is the best aid.
Living for men is the beet evidence
of toying Cod.
11 bakes an uplifted eye to iceep a
ek an head.
No men emu he grent holil lie can
see greain:ise.
Ile cannel pray for himself who prays
only for himeelf,
11 takes $01110 frost lo ripen the best
fruits of the bee rt.
Ile doilies himself the bestwho cannot
deny himself.
'rile woods of prepellee grow in an
intellectual desert.
lf there is nothing heavenly here
there is no heaven there.
A heavy heart does not prove that
yOu have a burdened .
Miley a preacher would be Seldom re
elmech but for the 0o1111011.
The best way to maintain good cheer
Is to comfort the cheerless.. „
Cools on your heeds will do more
for the good of the world than ettwns
on your head.
There Inc 100 ienny frying to whiten
the world by blackening others.
"Yee] can 11.8 110011 cross the ocean on
a chart ns save the world •Ity a creed.
Every choice in life is an impact that
determines the shape of eharader.
'You tOways can measure a men by
the things ibet provoke him to merri-
ment.
Theme le no vital „power in a religion
you can pigeonhole Into one day of lhe
week.
Yonti 1e1151051 is not lo be meneered
by what yeti are glelog up. butity %vital
you are giving out.
The difference between what you ere
11(141 ,,yhat you would be Is the prophecy
^f what you will he.
!:,oAry SUBSTITUTES.
The 311 051111 genernIkm Can hardly
goncelye a Ulna when 11s WaS no
such thing (51 11081). '1'et it is o»ly, rein,
partitively reeently teal map tee been
...el largely manufaCtured.
Until the diet:every of soap s# we
know it, the beet eleneing ap,eut was
feller's earth, the nbeolibeld mope:Sites
of which enables if to remove greasy
Mid Oily matter from most fabrics.
Another wane of cleansing wee 11111
euilip leery. the foie et 6 plant which'
lathered freely on rubbing with wilier.
Anether WAS the met of n plant known
111 aonoweri, bile lathering peopertles of
which wore duo to the presence 01 n
Iffibethire Palled seponin. whieh is el.
eo retool In the hoes(' chestnut.
11 is hy 11.0105 11 natural auballtifte for
51011.11 that the crofterS of Ihr Scotcb.
fright:olds succeeded in keeping their
blankets soft and white for many gen.
0111 I lonA,
1111 (11
Things MAY ha etelfing
Aa Iona; tilltrim liiub, all1L
1 find ihe ded.bmined flogleed
1,4 jest. Ale herd to fill,
lend 540 weeks, New eeepine,
Oliogow Town Council is to supply
wholesome milk tor babies, 1,ui lately
deckled ngalnst welting nilinicipal
playgrounds to children 011 Sundays.
There imei hem 110 minister's wife in
Port. Inenteilh parish for nearly forty
years. There have been three ministers
in that lime, bui all bachelors.
A new 15110 of dust cart is to Ite talon -
1,1 lit Edinburgh, 1118 hoped this iffiest
design will modify the dust nuisance,
and it IS 11184) claimed that it is more
easily worked.
A Cell -ender lassie fell out of is train
running at a high rate or speed near
Bannoveburn. title WaS UnhliVI, but
complained bitterly about her father and.
mother being carried away by the train.
. Within the past month or 11170 six of'
tho 01(1501 inhallitalltS Of Port pn
have passed tiway, their respective ages
being, 75, 70, 80;87,88 and 90, a total o"
Olit'yours.
Peelithe hits done something in She
past to leop the flag of freedom flying
both on the battlefield and et the }Mal-
IngS. 501011111 C08110, 1110 IOWn'a 1111-
(1011 1protector, boasts of having held out.
longer against the forces or (7ro015e11
thee any other place south of the Forth..
- REpoitTED nnAn.
French fslaval Officer Returns After Ile-
, mare:able Advent:oleo.
After an extraordinary series of adven-
tures, flaplein Nthuger, a leeneli naval
officer, who some months age wee offi-
cially reported aa dead, arrived the other
day in Paris. The eeplain commanded
the nrilisor (181183', whirli beenitio a total
wreck off the Chinese coast in May htsl.
on this occasion Captain ?clanger WAS
titf,tamle<pilinIgo thons710t,betionis .stlitrii111v,vintedle, eiv1011‘i‘leevolirle,
reached Shone:111i safe and 'well, owl a.
telegram WaS (sent to the Minister of Mee-
inc correcting this error.
'he day alter the telegram 501114 sent
eve officor was Ming in an automobile
with a friend when a collision occurred
WWI enether vehicle. The otteupants Of
the car were thrown out, and while Cap-
tain !Omelet, was lying injured On MO
roadway he WM: run over by s beovy
fire engine, bie, skull being traothrect nnI
several i•ibs broken. Ile was picked up
for dead, ond 141011 10 Ihe,Ameriettn hos-
Myth Than the receiving surgeon ex.,
tinrined Ilan, and, in view of his' tonight
injuriee, (loalarorl that it Ives leapostilide
for him 141 1150 ihmugh the night.
'Based on the dee.tods statement, a
second lelegrtim Wns sent eff to the
Minister of Marine,- Ormanneing htl to
injured officer WaS beyond hope of re-
covery, and hal ins death .was 51
miestion of a feW hours,
Some (lays elapsed, and RS nothing
further was heard (mot shanghai, Ole
Minislar of Marine concluded that Cap-
tain Moneen: desalt had dely taken
Owe. 'rhey acandingiy informed Ms
relatives to this effect, arel steeek hire
off the etrength of the navy. AS it soi
litippened, ho disappointed the doctora,
and cheated death. After having bean.
niworgielous for eix weeks, ho made
elow, tetcover,v. When he was oonveles-
eent lie steeled for Mirope. ignorant .of
the tad that hie demist had been an.
noun/1M in the 17.4'110_4nd Ioreneh news-
papers, -
1111101 cliAlomer..-wCan you really re-
commend this peened:eV. flaildreeedi-
"Very highly, str. Look whet 11 head
if heir tee gin, and leow" (removing
Whee i 10e1(0,1 111141 Lorvi,t,