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One of tobeileeugrioasnai
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an organized school for beggars and
thieves, where children are tneight to
fiteal. There are two classes of din-
dren who become professional beg-
gars -namely, those small eefortu-
notes who have ran away from home
in order to escape rough treatment
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Ihmartnient et A stecutsuee,' QUa.174
The Lord Seeth AH, No Matter How
We Hide and Cover Up.
A despatch from Los Angeles says:
Bev. Frank De Witt Talmage preached
trona' the fallowing text: Blessed aro
the pure in heart, for they shall see
Clod. Watt. v. 8.
God in dealing with man gets
First, that pure in heart means
heart free from all sin and sinful
thought and desire. Second, that
there are theee who in God's sight
are pure in heart; and third, that
the pure in heart aro such not by In-
herent possession, but iteeause they
hese bc,en made so by Divine trans -
down below tho surface. Ills all- forming power. With these three
searching eye penetrates to the hid- our text again : "Blessed are the
pure in heart, for they 01101 see
God," Does it rict begin to mean
more to us, and does not the har-
nomious relation 01 the Promise of
the last half of the verse to the con-
dition named in ti e first disuse be-
come more appals!
That man cannos become pure in
heart by Ills owit effort is demon-
strated by human experience and tho
teaching of God's Word. The heart
under man's manageznent and con-
trol "deceite 1 above all things
and called them whited sepulchers.
and desperately wicked. Man is
n the''' 'sometimes deluded into the thought
Outwardly to the eyes of an
were intensely religious tual devout, that he ean carry on the heart
feithfulfy observing the rites and cere- house-cleaning alone, as the man to
mollies, and caxefully obedi- whom Jesus referred who drove out
ence to the letter of the law, but as the evil and swept and garnished his
Jesus looked within Ho saw the true henrt and then flattered him -elf that
condition and likened it to a molder- he had done a splendid ancl enduring
Ing, petrifying mass of dead men's bit of work. But it was the same
bones, Ile accused them of being
careful to cleanse the outside of the
imp and platter, while the inside WaS
full of uncleanness. When Jesus came
He brought Men face to face with
their real selves. Be startled anti
and convicted ley declaring and ehow-
Mg that the sins of the heart were No, mien cannot clean his heart so
more real and more terrible than the that 11 can be called pure. He cart
sins of the outward conduct. The
polish up and cover up and "gar -
murderer was ,wt only he who put nish," but he cannot purify. The
forth his hand and actually took hu- alchemist of the middle ages had no
man life, bet he who was angry with more hopeless task of transmuting
his brother. The adulterer was not the baser metals into gold than has
only he who actually indulged the the man who tries to ,Inake of his
lust of the flesh, but he who even el/I-seethed, sin -scarred, sin -breeding
looked upon o womoZ tO luSt after 'mart a pure heart such (is 18 neeeS-
her, for in so doing he had commit- sary to admit to God's presence.
ted adultery with her already in his David realized the utter hopelessnees
heart. The thief was not only he of the task of trying to purify his
who took thht which belonged to an- own sinful heart, and so in helpless -
other, but he who in his heart covet- ness ho cries out : "Create for me
ad another's posseesion, foe lie who a clean heart, 0 God 1" 'What Man
is a thief in thought mid heart needs cannot do for himself, God is able
only the opportunity to make Mtn and willing and anxious to do for
such in very deed.
' THE PURE IN HEART!
• den recesses of the heart, and Ile
knows num as he is alai not as ho
aPPears. Man is governed almost
wholly in his opinion and estimate of
others by externalities, but Clod never
for the inner condition of the heart is
of infinitely more concein to Iiira
than the occasional outward expres-
sion In the life of that which is with-
in the henrt. For this -reason, Jes-
us, Who "knew what was in man,"
denounced the scribes and Pharisees,
old heart with its sm-scarred wall
and there was a fatal emptiness
Which invited back the evil re -on•
forced by other evil spirits more
wicked than the Arst. And the num
weio up to find his lattee condition
WORSE TITAN THE FIRST.
.Just what did ..106LL6 mean? Who
aro the pore in heart? Certainly
liisus never used Well& carelessly or
with vagueness of meaning. When
De said "pure in heart." I take it
that He secant "pure in heart." And
if such is true, it can mean nothing
short of a heart free from the taint
of sin. lf I say that the candy I
Otto)' you is pure, I mean that not the
least adulteration or harmful' ingredi-
ent has entered into its niatufacture,
To say that it is pure defines its con-
dition. 11 I have several lots of
Candy, not any 0110 of which is pure,
I may say of one nelich has less adul-
teration M it than another that it is
iiitrer than the other, and of a third
which has the leaet adulteration of
all that it is the purest of all, but
if I say the candy is pure, there is no
need of comparative or superlative
degree. If it is pure, it cannot be
mere pure or most pure. And so I
believe in our text Jesus is not using
O relative term, but an absolute one.
A. puro heart-tt lined and certain
quality, and not arranged upon a
sliding settle to suit varying grades
end conditions. There is a disposi-
tion on the part of some people to
qualify the declarations or God, and
try to being them down to man's
level. 'Phis is reprehensible. It is
perlloue. 'When God says: "Ile ye
holy, for 1 am holy," "Be ye perfect,
even as your Father in Heaven is per-
fect," Me meant exactly what He
enid, and could not possibly Mean
01,1 thiti4 else. If one begins to quell-
fy sr weaken the statements and com-
mends of God, \duvet will he end?
-\ 11 it one has the privilege of adjus-
t:cis f-ioriptural declaratines to his
i.wii -dews all have the same privi-
1,ge, and ilia result is that Wo have
ne many different standards Its there
nee Christians. Bet this is manifest -
ler wrong, and brings confusion and
vitiates Ond's Word. It is inileitely
better and safer to attempt to recon-
cile lind harmonize our vinWS With
God's Wortl than it is to try to ac-
commodate God's Word to our vin1VS
and conceptions. Alia so, when
deSits speaks of the pure in heat% it
was not with the thought that each
was to decide for himself just how
moth 1.1.g term implied, but it was
.with on.- ilefirite ani1 fixed condition
•and sum:Sod in mind. Thc moo in
heart -lilies, 0(1051) hearts are sin -
free.
With this interpreiatiom however,
the •diftleettieit in the way seem al-
most beenenouniable. Surely, if the
pure iI he.art nre timer: in Whom ie
no Obit of sin, there can be none
such, and hence no one has the hope
of seeing Gori. But we know that
THIS LAST 111 NOT TRUE,
We lomw that the infinite purposes of
God center about mem and that it
.ift His loilging, hiving desire that all
. should come into Ills preaouen ClOni
• Word tettchini of a. Heaven which Ile
prepared l'oe Inan, that he might
. • dwell With Him foreVer. We know
Shat from Clenosis to Revelation, as
o the Sill and failure and depravity of
• man ono unfolded, the ineray, lova
nud forgiveness of God are gradually
reVealed in the MarVelone redemptiVe
•tvork. And knowing this, wo believe
that when JcsuS spoRe of the puro
in heart Ilo evoke of a condition psis -
slide to Man.
• If he said • "Blesaotl nro tiro mire 10
"How old would you say silo Was?"
hoart," there must be stick among
nom. And if tiler° ore timee Who "Well, let's Reel When. We Were in
ere really and trills,: before Ond pure Nigh school together she used to snub
in beant, a is evident that they aro me beeestee I Was a girl. Now, 1,10
pm% not, by Patui.0, not bg Self thirlisseSel'en, and, 1101 01121) well, T
sjstssoong asiss iturifying, hut they, elionld fitly she Was about tweaty-
have beet' 1/18410 so by a higher turd eight by ENS tisnet
him. "Blessed are the pure in
heart, because they bear the stamp
of the Divine tonch, because they
come fresh and clean and spotless
front the marvelous laboratory of
God, where the foul has boon read(
clean, where the base inethl of hu-
man conditions has been transmuted
into tho pure gold of Heaven. The
Pure heart is the handiwork of God.
And "Blessed," indeed, then "aro
the pure in heart, for they shall see
God."
But if sin enter the heart the sec-
ond method of maintaining a pure
heart is to be applied. The heart
must ho cleansed from the impurity,
the sin, And blessed be God, No
has made ample provision for such
condition. Per "if any man sin,
-we have an Advocate with' the Fath-
er, Jesus Christ the righteous, and
He is the propitiation for our sins,
and not for ours only but also for
the whole worlil." And because Ho
is the blood sprinkled mercy seat,
for that is literally abet propitia-
tion nwaes, "if we confess our sins,
He is faithfal and just to forgive us
our sins and cleanse us from all no -
righteousness." And how we navo
to keep bringing to Hinz our sin -
stained hearts that He mny forgive
and cleanse. But Ito dues not re -
Mike or chide 1.18 as 'we feel that we
deserve when We e01110 to Slim (and
oh, how often the fear that He will
do so keeps us from bringing the
guilty heart for cleansing), but true
Lo His promise. No does cleanse
front all sin, and tends us away re-
joicing, for what Sweet is so glad
as tho pert: heart 1 How the sweet
music of Heaven fills the chambers
of the heart from which have been
removed the disfiguring marks of
sin. And what a chamber of hor-
rors and Unrest it is whim filled
with sin. But floes not the Saviour
grow weary it: the task et gurirying
the hearts of Ills followers ? Do
the cleaning works grow weary of
cleansing the soiled garments
brought to it 1 :Do tho ore mills and
smelter over grOW Wenry taking tho
crude, impure rock and turning out
the yellow stream of pure gold 7
Never1 That is exactly what they,
have been established for. A ad
Jesus Christ luta come for tho sped -
tic purpose of cleansing us from all
sin, and He longs to make the heart
clean end to koop it clean as tee
daily and hourly bring it to Him
for cletuesing. 11. ift the privilege of
all to be pure ia heart, for the
blood Of JOSUS 1111 111341, cleanses from
all sin, and "blessed," yea, odes
blessed, "aro the pum in heart, for
they shall see God•st
—4.
ONE TSIPTIOVEMENT NEEDED.
A colonel in tho French' cony, Who
had a keen eye for neatness, but not
much of all ear for innate, took oe-
casion ono day to compliment his
bandtetteme on fife appetmance or his
men.
"Their Mdf01111131 aro vent," paid sbe
colottel, "and thole instrtnnente aro
nicely polished; but there iS one lin-
Provetnent that 11111161 insist upon."
"What is it, eolonel?"
"You meat train your auen, When
they perform, to lift their fingers all
at the same time and et regular ins
tervals on their itistruments, so-.
0210, tWO! One, twol"
tho trouble of dragging them round
frton .one village to another.
These latter confide their children
to old professional beggars, who soon
teach the young outeest to earn his
own livelihood. Some of these chiefs
of the mendicant profeesion enjoy (1
wide reliutation, and have scores of
beggars and thieves in embryo under
their tutelage. Thom even exists in
Tokio a Well-known house, which is a
regular agency for the letting out of
children.
Beggars of forty ov fifty years of
age (nearly always thieves hors de
combat, and crippled in some way or
other) call upon this firm ()Very dny,
andhire a child of four or five years
old, in whose company they prey up-
on the charity of tha public. The
price per day for a child is from three
to ten sen (1(1 to 20).
From five years upwards the chil-
dren do their begging by theinselVes.
At the age of 11 or 15, under the
pretext of gathering waste paper and
other rubbish, they prowl round the
courtyards ef the houses and -
COMMENCE TO THIEVE,
Their usual weapon is a long stick,
the end oC which -is steeped in_ a sticky
substance, and with which they aro
very adroit in removing trifles from
open windows, de,
At Di they are taught the art of
Picking Pockets with skill and des-
patch, end from being beggars riee
to the rank of bothhaliki (picisPock-
ets), or kopperai (th(eves). There
; is sat real difference betWeen the thief
and the beggar. The child commences
as n.br'UrZar, becomes in duo course a
thief and takes to begging once more
when old age evertakes him. Daily
1 lessOee are given to the young thieves
by the chiefs or each baud, and the
apprenticeship lasts as long as front
12 to 19.
The whole thing has been reduced
to a regular system, pocket -picking
and burglary are carefully taught in
every detail and a Japanese writer
mentions one instance or a specialist
who spent n year in Berlin in order
to acquire perfection in the art of
confiscating n purse. Since this gen-
tleman s return to Tokio lus class
has been very successful, and had a.
hundred intelligent pupils at one
me.
toted by a code of lawn, and these
The whole thieves' colony is regu-
are administered with the utmost
sternness. The youngest thieves keep
ten per cont. of their earnings, the
better class of pickpockets 40 per
cent. and some 50 per cent., or even
00 per cent. The surplus of the pro-
fits is invested in the teaehing of
pupils and employed as the chiefs of
the community deem necessary for
the general well-being. The thieves
are, as a rule, great adopts in dis-
guise of tuts, sort, and the Japanese
police rarely succeed in taking one
of their number red-handed.
JEWS IN RUSSIA.
Persecution of a People Who Aro
Loyal Subjects.
According to a telegratn, General
Kouropatkin boa ordered all Jews to
leave districts adjacent to the Siber-
ian Railway for fear that they might
compromise the situatiom
The coeseguence of this arbitrary
notion will, it is fearod, bo that some
2,000 or 8,000 comparatively poor
people will have to trudge between
1,500 and 2,000 miles into European
Russia, as the Russians refuse to al-
low them to travel by tho railway.
The order is the more remarkable
from the fact thet the Jews in Rus-
sia, though persecuted rolentlessly,
are amongs1 the most loyal of the
C'zar's subjects, About 30,000 of
them serSe in his army, and accord-
ing to the w11 -informed correspond-
ent of the "Jewish Chronicle," at St.
Petersburg, from 10,000 to 11,000 of
those have been sent to the front to
fight against the Japanese forceS.
I/actors and 1111r5013 of tho Jewish
faith are going in groat numbers to
the seat of war, anti members of the
community at large throughout tho
Empire have eubscribed inost gener-
ously to the funds for the peosecti-
flan of the war.
At Rharkoft alone they Piave con-
tributed .1 2,300 roubles, and have re-
quested the Governor to write to the
Emperor to assure him of their loy-
alty.
Aucl yet. at this 'very incoment,
when recent initrages sun fresh In
the public memory, a commission in
Russia is threatentug, if not actually
putting into operation, further
restrictions on. tho limited liberty
of tho Jewish residents Russia.
'isferchante and professional men of
the suwient race will, it is believed,
he peollibited front et/toles-Mg assist-
ants or servants of their Oirn faith
inthe country districts, and so 'will
bo driven into tho cities and practi-
cally ruined.
SChntkea Mother --"My boy, lily
boy!. What became of that last
Dime of pie 1 left la the eephoard and
told ymi not to disturb?" Little Os'
car -"I eated it." Shoelced Mother -
"Anil what Would you call an net
line that?" Little Osear-"Distesrbing
the piece, 9 auppose,"
"Whitt is it, iny children," exelaiin-
ed tho temperance advocate, "that
emotes mon to ignoro tho tiesi of home
neglect; their famillee, stay out WAR
after midnight, arid get up with a
bad headache in the meriting?" • "I
know," shouted a Young Witlo"ftwakn
in the 1'00111. "Well, My little fol-
low, tell tho ()there • What it
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NUTS IN MANY WAYS.
English Walnut Pie g -Line a. pie
plate with pastry, and 111 1 with the
following mixture. Beaten yolkit
of 3 eggs with 1 cup Sllgar, 2 Lea-
slmons flour, j1 tenspoon einnamon,
juice and a little grated rind of a.
lemon, 1 tablespoon of brandy, two
cups English walnuts and 1 cul)
Water. When nearly done add the
meringue, formed of whites of eggs
and 3 heaping, tablespoons sugar;
flavor with vanities bake till brown,
Peanut Macaroons 1 -One cup of
chopped peanuts, 1. of powdered su-
gar 1 tablespoon flour and whites of
2 eggs. Drop mixture on buttered
paper Lind bake to a light brown
in moclerate oven. Flavor accord-
ing to taste. A quart; of unshelled
peanuta will yield 1,110 necessary
quantity.
Nut Soup ;--Potincl to a paste 1
quart shelled, roasted peanuts; add
1 teaspoon salt. Place in saucepan
with 2 quarts boiling water, then
told teaspoon black pepper and a
pinch of cusenne. When tho mix-
ture comes to a I3oil add 1 qt. eye-
lers, 2 tablespoons cream end lump
of buttfir size of en egg. When the
oysters ruffle remove frone the fire
and serve hot.
Raked Nuts i-Mhe well 1 cup each
ot hickory nuts and black walnuts,
2 cups bread erumhS, 2 cups inilk
(to which add a pinch of soda), also
1, teaspoon nut butter, 1 of powder-
ed sage, 14, of stilt, and 1 of 0.grat-
ed nutmeg, then stir in 4 well beaten
eggs. Bake 80 minutes in a hot
yen.
Nut Wakes :---Make an icing of I.
cup pulverized sugar and whites of
2 eggs; add 1 tencup finely chopped
nuts, and flavov with teaspoon of
vanilla wafers and bake slowly till
•
Almond netzels.-Beat till light
3 eggs, 1 cup sugar and 4 tea-
npoone minced citron erated rind of
O lemon, lb. choped almonds, 1(1
cepa sifted flour, Itoll dough Into
pretzels and bake in a moderate
oven,
Nut Roast :-Mix together 1 cup
each of stewed peas, reduced to a
Pulp, wax beams chopped and 2 cups
chopped nuts, S, teaspoon each of
snit powdered sage and a pinch of
popper and sugar. Pour cup cold
water over slices of stale bread and
let stand 15 minutes, then break up
with a fork, add 1 teaspoon each of
gritted onion and sage, a pinch of
salt and 1 cup thick sweet cream.
Oil a leaking pan end lino with half
the mixtore, put the brend dressing
in, then cover with the remninder of
the nut mixture, pour oVer this half
cam Mara and bake about 1two hours
Slice and servo on hot platters. Oar-
nish with sliced hard boiledegg and
O pretty acid jelly.
Nut Loaf :-Two cups mixed nuts.
1 of stale bread crumbs, 1 egg, 1
cup boiling water, 1 tablespoon
chopped parsley, 2 of butter, 1 tea-
spoon salt and a dash of pepper.
Soak bread crumbs in boiling water,
then beat together egg, butter and
other ingredients. Form into a
Joni, bake untiL brown and serve
cold;
MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES.
Chocolate Doubles. -Bent two eggs
till thick and Bet. 'Add two
thirds of a cup of sugar, half a cup
of grated chocolate, half a cup of
chopped pecan or walnut manta, half
a clip of candied cherries, sultanas
and citron, chopped fine, half a tea-
spoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of
vanilla extract, and a cuP of sifted
flour, sifted again with one level
teaspoonful and a half of baking
powder. Mb: thoroughly, and drop
by the teaspoonful onto a buttered
1111, Shape into rounds, spooading
the mixture but little. PreSS half
n nut meat or a candied alien's, into
the centre of each, and bake about
ten minutes. The mixture will
spread a little in baking. Bake en
tho floor of the oven, finishing on
the grate, if necessary. The recipe
will make two dozen or two dozen
and a half of small cakes, Spread
the ondorsides of one-half tho cakes
with jelly or frosting, and press the
other halves upon them. 11 wished
moist, set aside in a stone jar. If
crisp cakes aro preferred, a tin re-
ceptacle should ho selected.
Hard Sauce for Putldings,---Oreian
half 0 cup of butter. Beat in. grad-
Ually 0110 0111) of sugar, and then the
unbeaten white of an egg. • Beat vi-
gorously throughout. The sauce
81100111 bo vern light and fluffy, When
Potato Bread. -13o11 four medium
sized pared potatoes in water to
cover until tender, then put through
n sieve with the water in which tbny
were cooked. Add sufficient scalded
11151111 Lo make a quart of liquid; two
teaspoonfule of salt; one-fourth cop
of sugar and the same quantity of
shorteniag, When cooked to luke-
warm:is add two yeast cokes soft-
ened tit lukewarrn milk, and flour to
make a dough that can be kneaded.
Knead until elastics lot rise in a
*emeriti:ore of about 68 degrees
Farenheit, 'When light shape into
leaves lot; riso GB not quite doubled
in bulk, put into the oven.
MEATLESS SOUPS,
Bohemian Sot1M-Sernpe and cut
small two carrots, saute in is, table-
spoon of butter, add two table-
spoone of flour, and allow 10 brown
slightly. When of a good color add
two quarts of water, a green onion,
a bey leaf, and ono pint of peas,
When the vegetables aro tender, rtni
through a sieve. Return to the fire
add a teaspoon of Salt, a daslt of
cayenne, and ono cap 05 eream,
Gorn. and Tonuao Soup. -Cover
ono pint of tormadoe With a (Mart
of water, addmi. pint of cora, au one
ion, and a epray of parsley. Simmer
half an hoer, add a tribleSpooa of
flour rubbed in a tablespoen of but -
toe, and preas the W11010 tiatitigh
puree aleve. Return to tho fire, add
jalotp.inch of cloves, a teeapoon of
Salt, and a &Ai ot cayenne, Servo
Spriog Soup.-liall one zap 0( 1)005
one cup of asparagus tips, end half
11 cup 01 carrots cut in small dice,
in separate watevs mail tender;
drain and sci; aside to add to tho
soup. Put all together in the Wrier
in which the vegetables were cooked,
ed(1 a quart turd in this cook for 113
miourofi two stalks of coiery, two
green onions, and a smell sprig of
Parsley, strain, return to the lire,
add 0110 pint of scalded nilik, a. tea-
spoon of salt, and draw the mauve -
pan to tho back of the stove, Beat
the yolks of two eggs, odd half a
pint of CreaM, dilute with a. little
OK tho hot soup, and stie Into the
rest of the soup. Do net allow to
boil after adding the eggs to 31 or
it will eurdle. Add the prepared
oogetables, and a teaspoon of ditoly
minced chervil. Serve at once.
HINTS TO IIG—ITSEKEEPERS,
Pastry may bo rolled either to-
ward or away from the manipulator,
but should nol, he rolled back and
forth. The eaSiest way is to start
each time at the portion of tho
paste that is nearest and roll light-
ly to tho end.
So general has the use of nuts be-
come hi cooking that they are now
chopped and added to mince and
Pu3nplun pies. Nuts are a mad-
tioua food and also serve to flavor
whatever they are usecl with.
Eastern hostesses, always on the
qui vivo for something* new and
novel, have taken to serving hot
baked Indian pudding with a spoon-
ful of vanilla ice cream.
Macaroni is a dish that is 1)00011)
109 more and mom popular RH AS
merits become better known. To
cook it properly there should be an
aboadarico of salted water, nt least
three quarts of boiling water to
half a pound of macaroni. The wa-
ter should boil rapid1;y and tho mac-
aroni be stirred occasionally with a
fork. Thirty -live minutes is the
rule for the anion and forty-five for
the largo kind.
Mrs. Tediums (Marion Harland)
advises that molds for cokes shoeld
be greased with lard, as butter
blackens.
Condensed milk can bo used in
cake making, but less sugar will bo
required.
To Clean a copper kettle s11 it
with very hot Water and rub it with
very sour milk, or, better still,
buttermilk. Afterward dry and po-
lish with a leather. Kettles clean-
ed in this manner once or twice a
week will always keep bright and
new looking.
11 milk happens to burn when you
nro boiling it pour it at once into a
jug and stolid the jlig ill 11. basin of
cold water till cool, when it will
PrObably 110 perfectly free from all
disagreeable taste.
Lamp wicks should be soaked in
strong vinegar end then well dried
before being used. This precaution
will insure a better light and a free-
dom from smoked lamp chimneys.
If hot, grease be spilled on a kit-
chen floor or table pour cold water
upon it immediately. This Will
cool the grease, when it can be
scraped off instead of being allowed
to sink into tho wood.
A shampoo mixture that is highly
reeominended consists of ono-rmarter
of an ounce of 'alcohol, ono drum of
powdered borax, two and one-half
grains of caMphor. Add the borax
last of all, cork 'Lightly and shako
well before using.
To polish a rusty StoVe which has
long been neglected is 710 easy mat-
ter. Begin by rubbing it all OVer
with a rag or piece of old nowspopor
dipped in paraffin. Then add a few
drops of 'turpentine to your bleak -
load and polish in tho usual mane
nor.
/IOW COSSACK'S CATCH FISH.
The Cossacke on some of tho rivers
ia Russia 1inV li, singular method of
catching the finny tribe in winter.
They cut a long trench across a river
when frozen aad 111111 n net from one
bank to the other; then riding Sever-
al MHOS up the stream they form a
line across the frozen surface and gal-
lop their horses down towards the
Pets. The fish, hearing the 310150 and
clatter of hoofs, become frightened,
dart in tlio opposite direction, and
are thus entangled in the nen
FUNERAL GUARANTEED,
An Essex, Englund, oyeter mer-
chant, advertising hienvares, adds tho
following • ogee; ',Should death he
proved to have occurred through eat-
ing- tho 501110, a decent rum:rill guar-
anteed,"
VAIN SPARROWS.
Sparrows are very fond of admir-
ing their plemago. Place a little
011/101' 1011010 one 01 these birds can
readily get at it, and for many min-
utes Ile will stand before it, gazing
at himself.
Love that has nothing Mit • beasty
to keep It alive Is very apt to bo
short-lived.
"Will you," thundered tho sturnp
orator, "strain at a gnat; ruid
sWai-
(oe a camel?" The thoughtful cid-
:Sell on the front gent knit his brows
noxiously, "Aro they both sterilized?"
ho asked,
Aunt Mary--"Norn, you're 11 1111001
child. Lot that cat go nt once,"
Nora --"Bat she's beeri naughty, Aun-
ty, na' punishin' her, 9 told ber
it was for her own gootl, an' it hurt
trio ineee'rt it Mut
Ered•-"Frrink is in a terrible fix,"
Goorgio-"How so?" Frocl-"Jossfe's
father threatene to disinherit her if
she Marries him, and she e11911 shn
will Sue him for breach of promise if
lie doesn't."
Dolly ;-"So Simpl(imi, the 1.6611-
1(0)'of' the bank, proposed te yoe
last night '1" Polly 1--"Ves; and I
peon:mod to 11)111111 (1im." "3)1(1 he
ask yener tether's permission 7"
"Yee; he said he would Ask oopo to
'indorse ,promissoig, note,'
,
tHE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON',
APRIL 24.
Text of the Lesson, Luke x,, 1-16
Golden Text, Luke x, 2,
All -noon the tvansfiguretion rind 1110
gentling 3.3111,11 Of the einvitty wo must
not oniy conelaier the 011111ts of ?Atka
ix., 87-02, and the More full acconint
of some of these ie Matthew and
Mark, but according ve. 'Minn:ries
\'''Ll1itr3311113°10.1 Y1.171(1W5e131111111801' ofn'1111v,i7t,11.
viii. Osumi only in that 9051)el) and
the whole of John vii., 2 to xl„ 54
fround olds, in Jo(1n), That wiS
bring 11f11 10 thIS 10333303), 111111011, is 1'0-
017r[1011 only by Luke. Tho time hav-
ing come or drawing near that lie
should be received up, lie steadfastly
set His face to go to jerusalem (lx.,
51), although He knew all that
awaited 111111 there. It would seem
rwat the sending forth of the seventy
as 0 last appeal ere His evecifixion.
They Were '10 go before 1111)1 unto
Manly place into Whieh Ife ITiunself
was about to 1.001110, showing His
power and Aiming up 0 spirit of ex-
pectation.
In His prayer In said concerting;
This followers, "As Thou host sent
Me into the WOrld, 00011 SO Iltrre I
also sent thom into -the world"
(Jobn xvii., 18). Our great lbli6ineR3
11010 15 to go before Ills face and pre-
pare His way, believing: that He
sends iis and is with us. That the
number twelve, the number of the,
apostles, suggests all Israel, needs no
comment, but that the number WV-
enty suggests all nations may not bo
so dear unless you have counted mid
found the nations of Gen. 5. to be
just seventy. These seventy of our
lesson were tho Lord's appointing
and unless He appoints and ordains
all is useless (John xv., 5, 16). The
command wbieb No gave to the dis-
ciples in Matt. ix., 87, 88, and 710113
repeats to tho seventy Ora they
should pray the Lord of the harvest
that He would send forth laborers
into 3.115 harvest, is still settleable; in
our ears, for the "harvest still is
great, and the laborers aro few. The
Lard 1S Still saying, "Whom shall I
send and :who will go for us," (Sea.
111,, 8). Put there few who answer
"I-Iere am I. Send me."
When I kist wrote 710t06 on this
portion of Scripture in 1889 our mis-
sionary ietereet-that is, a real in-
terest, • something more than an an-
nual oflering-was only beginning,
but we felt grateful to be able to
sand that year 8553 to help obey
Mark xvi., 15, and alto:: that it
$81.400 a year until 1890, 1011311 from
wreased front 62,000 to
the church and Bible classes and
friends we Sent OVer $23,500, Since
then ft hae never been less than $20,-
000 a year, and last year, 1902, it
was over 8218,000, without any o(
fort to raise a cent of it beyond
mentioning the need and calling at-
tention to the command.
The marching orders of the seventy
are very largely our marching orders
:now, though. after Iris death and res-
urrection Otero was some change in,
the commission.
The carnal mind is still enmity
egainst God, and the whole world
continues in the wicked 0310 (I10m,
9111, 7; I. John v, 19, R. V.) There
aro wolves in sheep's clothing, and
the messenger of Christ must bo
wise as a serpent and harmless 301 a
dove, Not all will welcome the mes-
senger or the mossege. The para-
bles of the sower and the wheat and
tares cover this whole nge. But the
messenger has only to gat his Ines-
snge from God, in the power of the
Spirit deliver it faithfully and earn-
estly, and the Lord 11111 always 21C-
domplish Ifis pleasure (is, 111, 11).
Wu aro to have no anxiety about
outfit or expenses, but leave all that
to tho Manager and Proprietor who
sonds us, for 3To will not fall te
take care of His 01011. (See Matt.
01. 25-33; Luke sit )2, 131; Phil. iv,
(3, 7.) We aro not to wusto tittle
on the mere courtesies of the world
nor seek honor ono of tmothor, but
be whole heartedly the King's own.
'needling peace by Jesus Ohriet; to
all Om world, nod Una as quickly
as possible, 1)00111(1 bo our, One aim,
for, haviag made peace by the blood
of 1315 cross, He pule in the hands
of the redeemed the commission to
proclaim it; fin' and wide. iire 11115
had compassion on a, lost world, and
ir Him Spirit fills 115 WO will shOW
Our 001111131513RM by giving freely
that which We have so freoly receiv-
ed. The God of l'eaco and the
Prince of l'eace ave veiling for mes-
sengers who will faithfully end ear-
nestly. early everywhere Gm good
news of redemption by the blood Of
Christ that, WhOSOOVer will may /AC-
cept. tho Lomb of Clod and, being
justified by 01 1 111, box° poaco with,
(lod through Jesus Christ (:rtob, xill,
20, 21.; Isa. ix. 6; vi, 8; Item, v, 1),
The connuand "illiat such. things 415
am set before you" is a very impor-
tant ono 1f. the messenger desires to
comment his message, bet thetas are
ninny Christians and 01'011 evange-
lists, teachers: nncl preachern who are
so feslidious about eating and
drink Mg, sleeping' a re ngeme» t s n rid
attendance, that neither host, host.
OM 1101' S01'V1111 t31 Who are once af-
flicted by 1110111 01101' 'Want 0 330e Or
1:1r11107) 1101101'l11011g°
0)110811 9111111' iO11111:1ee(,ee;111
Chide heerte,
These -messengers of our
Were 1,o heal the sick AS Well ea le
preaeli peace, foe the kingdom et
00d Wan Glen ai hend; but, Me
Itingeleon having been postponed be -
(guise of ita rgleetion (Luke :six, ( 1-
18), the miracle:, of healleg do nol
nimund • na they 111,1 Gnomon the
'twelve mid the seventy. Then here
are still and tilivens have liven such
miraelem, (10 ono can deny, bni sea
In verso 20 something battle (him
Miracles oi heeling.
Wise Propiletersoslitest Lliti eheap
restiturant-,'rrere, W011011! This Mod
14 vile, and r don 1 propose to pay
for 11, Whoro's the proprietor?"
1,111) 1101' Sles gone home to 11111111,
air,"
."7:11111-11
DELUGES WILE YOU WAIT
50111111 QUEER SCICSASSES FOR
MAEING
Nally Experian—ents naVe Been
1Y/ade to Bring on
Itamstorms.
AL Jogger's Algeria., wnoro miler
was reeeialy 11009 retailed at 81.25
per hundred gallonai 11 031-in111 Pro-
fessor Dencke succeeded, so it mild,
in produeieg copious riiin by artifi-
cial 111011.118. The plan he adopted
was to send up from three separate
centres a column of gas ninth: from
,O Secret 91111110111 of MS OW11. On
Ibis being contimmed fa 1' &JOU 5, till's -
to -two 11011115,0 heavy downpieur corn-
meeced and cordinued for half a clay
oyee an area »May miles square,
01110 rain la described as being al-
together difibrent from that ordinar-
• ily falling in that region. ft WaS
of a tropical character, coming ap-
parently from some -exceedingly lofty
air strata and striking the ground
ipoeiroposadietilarly and with great.
Except that the rainfall in this in-
stance is supposed to have been pro-
duced by 111011770 of gas, there is, or
course, nothing very novel in all
this. The idea of tapping the
clouds, 1111d compelling them to dis-
gorge their MoiSture °War some area.
or another particularly 111 want of i4
has been long 0 favorite one with
Meteorological faddiata.
So long ago rts the year , 18137
Professor 11:Spy, at that time a fairly
well-known scientist, announced to
the world his belief in his ability. to
accomplish. this
13Y LIGHTING 11/0 FIRES.
The heated air 01011 OM 110.15 to
rise to u, great height, where, with
diminished pressure, it would ex-
pand, become cooler, and thereupon
precipitate its moisture.
Nothing coulrl be simpler -in theory
an1.1 soine ydars later the Alistralian
Clovertiment„ at a tune 1011011 that
t1011111ry 111118 suffering fro ra one of
its periodical droughts, proposed to
:put the theory to the test. When,
however, Mr. II. 0. Russell, the
Goverment astronomer of New Sonth
Wales, demonstrated that they
would re(011110 tO 13111.11 111110 311/111011
tons of coa) a day for six mouths in
order to appreciably increaSe 010
rainfall in the neighl3orhood of Syd-
ney alone, the proiect was dropped,
in 1 8713, Ferdinand lIaternlann, of
igew Zealand, orginated the plan of
sending up balloons with aerial tor-
pedoes fated:led, the latter to be
exploded at 0, given riltatticle, The
concussion caused slight showers on
some oectisions, but on others no re-
sult folloWed; ancl eventually Hater-
anum, after spending considerable
sums of maims:, relinquished his ex-
periments.
His torpedoes contain gunpowder
only; but, in 1880, Daniel Ruggles,
of Fredericksburg, palentee 0 pro-.
cess for exploding large charges of
dynamite in mid-air, and this led
indSrectly to the
ELABORATE EXPERIMENTS
carried out ten years later by Pro-
fessor liyrenforth, at the expense of
tho United States Government.
These took place in August, 1890,
the locality selected being the fam-
ous "Staked Plains" of Texas, ono
of the most arid spots on the sur-
face of the globe. Instead of bal-
loons carrying dynamite bombs, tho
balloons themselves were inflated
with highly-exPlosive gas. Sixty-
eight Were Sent 1111 altogether, and
the heavens were els° bombarded
with mortars and cannon. Tho re-
sult, according to the professor, was
rainstorms lit O series of heavy
region where little or 110 rai11 had.
fallen fov o, wbole yeae previously. /
Everyone was greatly elated ove
this 5001121)19 SneeeSS, 4111(1 331 Noven.
her, 1892, after another prolonge
drought, the experiment WEIS repe0
eil on alt even more extensive scale
But, alas 1 on this occasion it
stilted in utter failure. On tile lies
day eight balloons were sent ep, 11111.
these proving- suni-offective, 3.5s.
shells were fired, and 4,000 poundie
weigla of dynamite was projected
aloft Cram a patent pneumatic gun"
hat was probably one
ihae
ceuss1113.1gw
st terrific '1air-rmalces". on r
cord.
NO RAIN 1.011.99.
So two days later, ten balloons
175 shells, and 5,000 pounds of d
namite were. used, Ono of the bi
gest of the balloons -was seen to e
plodo 111 the midst of a heavy bla
cloud, llut still oo prectpitati
followed. 'Whereupon, on tho folio
ing night, tho disconilli ad and di
gusted "vain-malcurs". Prod off th'
vernaining stock of explosives
random to gat rid of them, and
turned to linishington by thoIt
trn in. 1
This 1005 the end of the oillcial
1)01'1111011L09 blit in February, 100
Baker, of Alsal in , Cat f ern i
elaimed to have prednced ten s
tveelve separate downpours at wl
itt the driest part of 'Fresno Coun
whore vain seldom fall's.
The truth of the 111111)o,' 1001101 1
110 1110 1, ell hough rein • cannot • I
made to fall nt will on any pal
or the (11110111 '11 sin:face irrespective
climatic cond 1110,15 1 here existing,
is possible at times 1.0 bring oboist
downhill in districts where moistens -
laden Wends aro elready peesent.
Even this mush, however, is detoed
by item° 10 thorit ies, one m:11110111.
Meteorologist 01.011 going so ter as
to iissert tlint dy jumping off the
stern of the C'imipania in inid-eceen
-would help thnt, vessel •thing in •
nbout the same degree es 11 (inns -
1111 to , 101111 191) exploded 111 m d -a Ir
would 1101 P te 1111119 :Thou t 11,0 at-
inormlierie 0011 (1 i1 1011S 0100.3001 re to
n ref naiorill,
APAN'S 91 15,1.01' STI,IAiti Pitt.
The first steatine, owned by .r,pse.
was 1)1041(1 017 to the Shogun, on lee•
half of fleeter Vietorin, 'by Lord El-
gin, 1 he first Bei lash Minister 11, •1 is. -
sem. it wits 11. 14011111 yacht, of 41.0
tons 10110011 Tlie 113111p0r0r,
'Me man who gives ymis hand a
04,1,141a1 sltheS hos a Soli heall
or ne amply sstosso. •