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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-3-9, Page 7OTS ACE alter 13rit- 113. Ob - he Don male pro- IOW - of moot phy.- of 01.35 151' '5 utli. the lden 05- 0 1' lost +out ling rth or ith or eke and ant ows log 113,11 lle- ns, the big at7 1- 111 0 WEEK AND LOWLY IA SPIRIT Next to Holiness, the Next Greatest Thing is Real Courtesy. lie eintoloons.--1. Prtor, 111., S. One inan 511 Id of another, "Ile Is a good man, 1 beeline, hitt be certahtly is itol, crv egreeahle," One of the most popttlite English essayists of to -day remarked.. Hitt wo might say of Home diselples of the Hartnett' as the dog sold of the hedgeline% "A rough Chriellan," BM, really there Is no such thine; as a rough (ha0. tinnIn propmelon as ono is runatt and disobliging he is not a (helm - Man, Goodutyse ought, to he agree- ' able. 'the Now Testament Is as severe in its rebuke of incivility as the Chinentate wini in San Francisco, An Anti-sic/le trnlid»g• along the sidewalk pushed the Chinaman off so rudely that he fell in the mud, With the forbearance that intake his race, the Chinaman nrose and begun meetly to brash off the mute And then as, Ito Went Olt MS Way he said:—"You Christian. hht beathen. Coodby.'' The New 'Pestament parts company with the man as completely 83,5 thai . It wants none of him. The most stetking chanicteristio of the Sellout? was that fie wee meek aad lowly in heart, ami that must im the beep of His disciples as well. it may seem a little strange that such a conamand as this "Ile come tenus" should have a place in the bble. To treat one another with genuine poli (('11(13118 may be important, but it hardly seems all-important, EIJI:chess no doubt is a grace, Mit it ie usualle, supposed to lyty a secon- dary grace of OE STIAN 0 HA LIMITER. We should not expect that God would inSpire an apostle to tell us to ttetat each other colirtemiehe But that Is precisely \that is done here, Anil since that is the eaSe it luny be that eur notion of the importance- of this grace is atm, anti that it real- ly is a more momentous matter than WO s'IPPosed. Any one who read the Bible carefully with this thing in mind \till tenne to the end of it with the convietioe shat there is one thing in the world. greater than Icheinves of heart, ancl that is purity of heart. The gyrate:it thine. in the world is holinees: the nextgreatest thing is real cotirtesy. Tlie Bible has It geoat deal to say about out. »limners to our fellow men. The Bible le the best hookeeof -etiquette ever wril ten. ell that it says helps a Man toWard real peace of heart and demeanor. Whatever is rude in act, coarse and utilovely in eituractor, ungentle in word Or thought it unsparingly colithellea, nem difference 111,113 ('111 t110 ilide and other 'woke that treat of manners 1 that the Bible looks on good man nem as a matter of the heart am other 11005(8- treat it MI Et matter o I1po1'Ltttl. 511115113,', " o 15113 11)11311 (1 the world courtesy is an accomplish orient merely; to the Christian mat 11 is a virtue. To the ono it in grace of nuin»er; to the other 1,1i is a glace of charaetete Politeness is 1 g • surface manner only it has no more power to make the 110113111 right than peint anti powder have to make a, good complexion. Such things may counterfeit a good complexion for an evening; they can make the skin look like ivory, but all the while you kno‘v that underneath the skin Is just as ('0113511 and muddy as ever', So underneath the most courtly Ways 1011,0 13 concealed the 1110$tCO NTEM BLE t act ons prove with equal con- clumivenems their eplril,tuil and moral alienation•from At/reliant, to whom had been given the title "the hither of the faithful," Not free Mersa you ---the inaketh 110 advance in you. 1'o('a short Dine hIn WOril had indeed 501113(1 piece 113 1110111, it cllti not abide in than noz they in IL 38, Ye hentel--The hest, antriuseripls retuiiug hoard astead of "have Your fat lier—"Your father Lhe devil" Odurelever, inanelayere the father of liars (verse •11)• 40, Ye seek to kill nye—Jesus (multi 15 read their inmost ehoughts. - A man—Used only here by our Lord I 115 himself; post -tidy in anticipation f of the designation "xnanslayee" he f was about to apply to his gveatest - opponent of whom they were allies 1 and children. 'Ede did tiot Abenhani—Abralitern Is In Oriental traditions often spoken of 1 as "full of loving-kindness.'Ile wan at least a willing reeipient of 1,0d messages, whether weleorue unwelcome. Instead of being one or the minor virtmet veal Chrietian courtmey in- clu(es 11) itself all the graces (51 '1,0 are. love is at the centre of things im the Christian system, and cour- tesy is simply the way ill which love exprreses itself. It is a grace that the poor man can exercise as well as the rich and the untaught as well as the cultured, it is alto- gether a matter of the heart. If the heart it; kind the manners are sere to be gentle. No grace is more needed in the World and none Js more po- tent for good than courtesy. And it has the unusual 113 cri 5. of blessing hint who gives as well 021 111111 Wh takes. Omit as surely as one gives quieetiese for notsy abuse tine kind- ness for discomeesy so surely wit1 he bring happiness and pence to the hearts of others and proluoie the well being of his own heart also. It Is like the seed that the farmer Sows. He gotn it hack multiplied. 11 is 111;e the miracle of the loavem and the fishee—thero is more left whoa the meal is over titan there was itl. the beguming. It is like a candle—you can light numberless other candles at its flame and leave its brightness undiminished. It was chiselled on the headstone or a beautiful young gire "She was ahvae•s so' pleasant." That is a en/ogy to be coveted. None ave moro blessed than they who know how to brighten the lives of others and make their wk. easier. We are sere to make men's hearts hotter when we show that gbodness iS agreeable. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCIE 12, Lesson. XI. The Slavery of , Sin. Golden Text, John 8.34. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Note—The word studies for this lesson are based an the text of the Revised Version, items Chronological.—in point, of thee the events of this lesson follow -closely- those of our last lesson. In verses 45-52 of chapter 7 is recorded the aeger of the members of the San- hedrin on hearing the report uf the officers whom they had sent out to take Jesus, but who hail returned ,empev-itatuled with no other excuse to Offer than that never matt so snake, Jesus meanwhile continued to Leaelt t he multi t odes unmolested, and after a Meer interval, thoegh iti all peobability on the same day, he delivereil the discouree on "Light of the World" recorded in John 8, 19- 550. 'Phe passage relating to the wo- man takea In adultery (7,113 to 8,11) does not belong Imre chroeologicalle. Aleiny manuscripts of John's gospel place this passage at the end of the gospel cis a supera.clited inrid011t, '.11111101 the oldest extent manusceipts omit it entieely, This Is indicated in the Revised Version by placing the Paesage in brackets and by separat- ing ft 13y extra spacing from what precedes and follows. - Verse 31. Those Jews that had be- lieved on e0ni—'1'1iose specially men- tioned. in the preceding verse as be- lieving on him upon heaving his die- -course. The degree of faith which many of them possessed Wa8, how- ever, n 01 largo, tts the subsegeent event. showed. If ye 0.511 d -1-'h Lest to 11005)1)110(5 in the ease of every one that be- lieveth. In illy word --Literally, 111 the word which le mine, thee: Is, peculiarly mine, in my special message lo yotl. Truly my diaelples—Taily !owners oe pupils of minn, A tree pupil of a .great Mettler is faithful to (abides 11) the instruceion i•erolved from his Alastei.' 510. Shall know the truth—Jesus identitlee his word with truth as .11) the Old Tostament the law of Clod * is . identined with truth ,(Psit, 110, 142). Shortly before his departetre Nom this worlil tleeue preys for those who have proved themselves to be "truly his 'disciples," and Needs for them with the -Father: ''Sanctifet them in the truth; f,hy Word is truth;" attil this woed of the Father IS the Beene which ho hail spent 11i8 life in dot:hieing. 'The truth shall Make you free— Erre indeed (verso 80), or fs'ci Ilt 1,1)0 deepest, truest sense, dents is epeaking or hitolloctual anci morel freedom from error, which, after all, Is the greateet of all tendering poweete The bondage of ortme ie worse titan physical bondage, the slavery of sin worse than potill- cal nepentlenee. 88. Alithhatn's tgen—To Ablahatti Joiloyall had peolnised that he 'Should. he "the father of multitudes of 1111- 1 tians," while of Sarah, Abeehente, wtfe, he lied saki, "Kings add peo- Ples shall be of her." These anil other prongeen ore interpret, eti by Abrabaufs descendants to mean that they, (the Jews) as a people should have dominion over many •nations. • Novel' ill bondage—A claim tvideh was contrary to feet. Egypt, Baby- lonia, and Syria ban in succession bad donde-tun over Palestine, while its subjugation to Rome was at this time absolute. Tel the proud spirit of the Hebrews conetantly rebelled against this bondage, submitting to 11 onle as something unreal and transitory In 1.110 prog•rees of the na- tion toward ultimate triumph and a world dominion. How, then, eould this Rabbi be so unpatriotic as to imply that they were not a free peo- ple? Thus they miss utterly the true import of the \verde of Jesus, But their spiritual pride is even greater titan their national conceit, and the mcplanation Jesus given of his in- tended incoming, since it implies Ihe possibility of sin on their pan, Is more bitteely resented by them even than were his weeds in the sense in which they first, understood them. 34. Verily, yetely--Greek, Amen, amen, a solemn form of emphasis. Everyone that committeth slit -- Words which togeLher with those of verse 86 imply that they whom Jaws is addressing ate elate* those who have committed SM. The Geeek uses the delinite ertiele with the tvovd for sin, which indicates that Jesus meane ea merely a simple act, but rather the life of she With a similar :signi- ficance the erticle ie used in the ex- pression doeth the teeth (Joh a 8, nl), end in dooth (the) righteousnees (3. John 2, 29; OMIT, also 1 John 13, 4-8), The bon01 se)'vant—That is, a slave Th a few manuscripts this verse ends here, the words of ein beieg omitted, 35. The bond eervant; ye pen can- not be a child of Cod. In his sinful moral state his position with respect to God becomes sweetie. T41s obe- dience, if he renders such at all, is only leaned obedience, in stet a moral state the sinful man cannot poseibly abide in the Melee of God, Rom wh(1m() he bast separated hitneelf spiritually. In the parable of the two eons (Luke lei, 99) th10i prodigal dentee het sonship be, the worde, 'These Many yoare do :C serve thee." ,1 1 ishad not been the obedience of a eon, and berme the consciousness of real 80085d35Was not his either, The Nen Wilda]) 'rm.:woe—He who theiyugh the cottunimity of spirit is a son in spirit, and hence in truth, will neeer become separated from the hatiaehold of which he has 5)0- (01110 an Organic part. 86. If therefore tho Son ,h5(11 Soshell make Yeti freo—Impleing in the context that the Son tied heir has the power both to eel: free the mervant and to adopt him into the fa m ly as a brother and joint heir. Free imieed—"Phae is, in realitty, or 37-40. Theee 0e18e8 latest he taken together to get the thought 05 the Words; of iterate, "elle expreseiOn, knoll, that ee are Altralient's geed (Veree 87) vilest be eakee together With the expreeslou, lf ye wore AIrmt- llttiti'it seed, of Verse 539, Jean! ab- ility the correctness 05 the eh/ 1 leg cords,proVing their PilYsleal'relatitin- thip to Abraham!, bet bleists that t -L. -• 0.0-0-0•00-00-00-000-0-0•0•0-0•0•0•0-0 YOUNG FOLKS 000.000-0-0-00000-0,0-0-0-0-0-1) 0-0 DADDY AND ME. Aly (lad Ito eften looks at me. And says how very glad he'd be If he could only be a boy, I guess that it's so long ago Since be was *Me, he doesn't know That being boys ain't so much 103', Now you just bet, I'd be real gla To he grown up as blg as (lad, And have a beard and noted do A thing unless I wanted to. It's "Johnny, wipe your feet!" and "Say, You do those errands eight away! nci Johnny, are your lessons done?" And "John, now rim to bed, 111Y son." I clon't wish daddy any hada But 1, would almost geve a farm Tf he could be. a boy and see The -trouble that he gives to me. THE 13EST PLAYHOUSE,. "Why (Mil% you want to go with me, Nellie? Mrs. Clayl on has a lit- tle pert about as old as you, and thOligh1 you would be glad to have O playmate. 'There are so few chil- dren M this neighboiltood," said Mrs. Lams to her little daughter, "I guhe ess s. wonw 't ant to pla,v with me," 80,111 Nellie, soberly. "She has a veal playhouse, anti the nicest dolls you ever heard of. I saw them one day when she was playing by the fence." "Is that the reaeon you moved your playhouse eo the other cornet' of the yard?" asked mama, sadden.- ly, "Well, 1 didtet want her to see my rag dolls and pieces of broken dishes. She peeped throtigth the cracks at me, and 1 didn't like it. She'd oniy tnake fun of my.things If we clic! piny together, and 3: don't want to go to see her," said Nellie. "Where did you get ideas llko that?" asked Mrs. Laeg, drawing her little girl to her lap. "How do You know the little Clayton gild is not a well-bred child? Just be- cause her parents are rich, you must not think she is naughty." "Matna, she just looks like it. ,She'd wonder how I have fun with tozeh old things, and show 111e all ler nice dishes, so 1 wouldn't hey° a good time at ell. Please don't nake me go." "All right; but I a111 sorry my Nellie is so hasty in making up hr niece" and Nes. Lang wout away alone. Nellie went to -play in the Play - muse, Wilieh WAS only a earner of he yard fenced 611 with smooth oards, Tho graseMade a fine green area., and tho olcl aPple-tree a nicist; ovely byt somehow the tit- le girl was not happy, She looked ato the cupboard papa had made or her out of a store -box, and ret- ied tho old dish ecot•nfully, Then he put all the dolls to bed so they would be out of sight, and sat down n the „hammock just otesicM her 001'. ":1; suppose that other giel doesn't yen have to wash her owe dishes hen_ ehe has a play -Party," aid to the wiee old robin up on her est. "All she has to do is to tell he cook to bake cakes and tarts for er, and have her clean up aftev- ard. Illy, that nude. be leveled" "Are you asleep?" asked a sthange Mee, and N'ellie bounced out of Die animoete to lind 1.110 little Clayton ill looking at her Prato the 101) or le fence. "May coney clown? Not girl has hem) to see me yet, and T It couldn't stand it any longer." Nellie wented to say "no" witch Ye Saw 1.110 bea u Li f I W11 1 to dress id 5105111 1' silences her visitor wove, 151 somehow she couldn't he (goes, in a few minutes both Itttla girls ere in the playhouse talking aS filet s they could. " "I saw you having such a good me the other tiny when your honee as °Yee there," said Ilona Clayton, tenting to the other side of the IA, "It seams to me. that is tho east place. Why did yell move 7" "If T toll you, you'll thinlc viol bad," said Nellie, With a vcent d face, "I thought you were netting at My old dishes and vag Ils, so T 041115 Otrer here. YOU ye olleh 100cly 1111111gS, yott know." 'They're not half as niee 113. MS,'Paid Rose, warmly, "Why, can't Intim a Lcit-party once a Ontli, for our cook is so cross, and ,e't have tile mussing in her clean Wire, Mama is not very well, 80 den't went to bother her, hItit- 18 liard 10 555 all the gigs Inte hat'Ing good 155e108." 'Not /ewe teit-pattleet have heel ettoey ditY, Menlo Made me a • wee loaf of bread this morning, mad some clew, 115 .1,' ;monies, but I thought that wasn't enough to make a party out or. Wait a minute, and I'll bring the thinge out." "1' never had a Loaf like that In my 1 I fe," said nese, when Nellie eal»13 hark With the bread, n pat of y(.1l01311 Mater and the sugary cook - les, "'You ought In be the happiest 'girl In the world with thin lovely playhouse and all the beteparties "'t•I'llviantn!/;"just what 1 thought ebout You." said Nellie. "You have !melt splendid dolls." "Yes, but they are too line to play with. Au»I, Marla given them to hie, and always expects me to keep thein perfectly clean and new, SO I don't often handle them." "So you have compan,v, nave you?" asked Airs, Lang, with a 1101111(50 in her eye, whoa she found the two little girls chatting over their make-belleve tea in the old CuPen. ,phle is Rolle Clayton, mama, and she thinks my playhouse is Pen love- ly. I told her how Doughty I hail heen, but elle 503,5 she doesn't envie We are going' to be good friends al- ways, And just. think, rearnal She iilms rag Polly better than the doll her aunt brought her froin Did you aver heat. such a thing?" LONDON' TO MELBOURNE, Britons Are Looking Forward to An All -Rail Trip. How would you like to walk up to a railway ticket office in London, lay dotvn $250 on the counter, and re- ceive in return a couple of yards- of coupons which would entitle you a rido for 98 days almost, contin tautly en railroad trains across len continents, through counteles 1111111 Red byoevery one of the five races mankind save the Amertean India and ranging in climate from the fr eon wastes of ituesia to the swell() ing• 511035105 ef the tropics'? To the travel -loving Briton this an alluring prospect., and IL among the possibi lit les of the pr stm1 adult generation. Icor, be it known, from London to IVIelbourrite Australia. in 28 clam overland, is prospect of the future—not the ne future, yet not the very far :distal (Mere, either. Of course there will be several sho sea passages in the route, but tin win be insignificant compared to t present ocean voyage of lei days 11,092 miles of sea travel—by with. Australia's great seaport is reacht from the world's metropolis, At tho Present moment a travel may go by rail from London to 11 borders of Afghanistan, vla Osten( :Vienna, Mbseow, Allichnelov, an kierv, CrosSing rcaltn the Steal. of Dover and the Caspian Sea. Afghanistan, 400 milea aorosH, ,taa at present no railways, but Ileitis and Russian engineers have bee winking. for several y -ears on plan and surveys for e rail mute throug tho Ameer's country, and it will h built before many years have passet One° across 'Afghanistan and a the border of India, a railway is a hand alit" from Peshawar to Claleutt s a by no means utpleasant jour eye After Caleetta there 18 shor laths, covered by a trip on th liver (1 anges, Which would caer he traveler lo another railwa which tuns as fee as Chittagong lurinah. Another break of 300 miles, the ail travel, Mandalay to Rangoon Next comes 1110' longest gap. There is no road running down th Malay Peninsula to Singapore, lie here are several lines in 00M:envie ion, and one of thezn, known as the ultan of johore's Railway, is al ender under constructiou. Flom Singapore to the :Island o umatra is a short sea passage of bout 40 miles. A railroad must, ha built across Se- ntra' from north to sotitn Anothei hort sea passage 'woulti put the reveler in Java, across, which. • ta- tted railroall now runs, • Then will follow the longest trip— Ye' days—to Port Darwin, Austen - a. Front Port 'Darwin ce limy has Oen built south More than 100 miles o Pine Creek, Nexe conleS a 1,000 -mile section of le "little continent" not yet equip. with .'all, but which soon will e. Then the voyager will strike 10 last i•all link, stretching south- aed to Melhout•rcy, IN A URA ME AT SleVENTY, ***31011 *3fE**3 Oif 4 H OM • :***4010 MISISJOK I fieefle,STI C RECIPES, Layer Calce.—TWO Well -beaten Ogg Onc CUp littgar; one tablespoonful butter and four of cold water fo sweet. milk); flour to make sun -Mien ly eten, (tad two teaspoonfuls z baking powder. Bake In two 10'01 u»tl put together with any' fillin you Iike. Potato Salact.--Ifalf a cup of vine ffar; hair a teaspoonful, each, 0 neuetard and salt; quarter Len:35)001 flit of popper; one 1 ablesPoienr I chopped onion; four tablespoonful of ortolan and /11e saitto quantity o bulter. Put over the fire; when zone% to a boil stir in one beate egg. Take Prom the ?dove and sill In mashed potato until It is thMlc. Fish Ceonuettes.—One pint eel boiled fish, free fr01.11 skin and bone and minced line, one pint hot mastre petal 0, one tablespoonful better one-half cup hot. milk, 0110 egg wel beatt•n; pepper and salt and a. 11111 chapped pee sl me. life thoroughl and let cool, Wine) cold make into balls, dip Into a beaten egg, roll i leveed crumbs, and fry in hot lard Very nice made of shad roes, lem salmon croquettese use (if made canned ealinun) bread erumbs in stead of potatoes, mid an extra egg, omitting the Salmon ,Cleatin.—One cup of cold boiled minion, flaked; 'nixed with one-half cup of cold, drawn butter; to pepper anti salt. Fill little earthet 11- diehes with the mixture, eover with •ee fine lreead crumbs, and brown. he Salmon Pudding.—Mince one can of of 801 111011. snving liquor for sauce; n, put four tablespoonfuls of melted 0- butt er, one-half cup of fine crumbs, r- pepper and sett. and finally three well -33 eggg. Pot in buttered is tnolci, sot in a pan of hot water, is cover and steam in oven for one 0- hour, with boning water as. it evaporates. Set in cold water a. minute and turn out. Sauce: :Heat one cup of milk to twain,' and tin over your kitchen -table. Thie ee, needs no serubbing, is Impervious to 75'I hot kettles, and doefi not lake grease. 'To Make furniture cream.-13uy ge, bar ur ettatile sea!), and cut up one •eee atul 15 haif ounces tory Boil thie in half a pint of teeter till it "' diseolved; (hon gime it, still boiling, on to two (nieces of white wax, whieh has preelously been cut smell aild half a pint of turpebtine. ' Stir the whole till it is cold, Apply r to the furuiture with a piece of Manuel, and rub it well into the )„ W0011. llo 11 1150 over much at a ltlitd het', 11.108,1111,giw ,311:118;1141 Misting 11‘avnidti! kerchief for Ow purpos,e. A eplee- did polish will be the result. It is well to know that a jar oof plaider-of-Parie is EIS \Minable t luniScIrlfe 115 the string -box. A few chspoonfuls of plas ter -of .theris, t naeht lato 0, paste with cold water, can be used for all manner of put,- " poses. A break in the wall, caused by the constant hang•ing of a door - 1 1111)1(110, can Im neatly filled iu wit the paste, and then painted over toil ' the shade of the wallpaper. Make the inieture to the thickness of croatn, inis in a little gum tinge - 1 canth. Lind It 111551 be an excellent medium for montlini; broken china or statuary. Wipe the edges pee- n 1'I 35 dry and clean, spread on the, mixtere, olefin away: the particles of . mete that show, tie firmly, and leave for theee or four clays to get hard. a. ar thicken n'ith a tablespoonful of corn lt starch wet, in cold water; add a , spoonful of butter, sehnott liquor, I's and a beaten ego; take from the fire, stetson, add stand in hot. water three "e minutes covered; add juice of half a - lemon; pour ogee the pudding. ,d Oyster Pattles.—Take of oysters according to the number to be serv- er ed, and put them tho same pan le- with butter, pepper, salt, and a lit- e tie flour; stir and let simmer for a d few minutes. Bake shells of rieh is puff paete in patty ties, arid also skean rounthr-for covet's; heat . 'the O shells and tit I with oyster% put on 11 the covers and set in the oven 'for n five minutes, They should be screed s immediately, 11 Fried Clysters.—Drain the oysters e carefully and eprinklo with pepper 1, and salt. Take each oyster separ- 1, ately if largo enough, or, if not, take two, cinel roll first in crackee a dust, and then in boatea egg- mixed - With it little milk, also seasoned: with popper end salt, 'Dip again in the cracker, end fry in butter and O hot lard mixed. 1 Y Pincapple Sherbet.—Cut the heart Y. and eyes Mom Urle lagge pineapple ' and chop it line; add to it a scant pint of sugar and one pit- of water; n nook one tablespoonful of gelatine ' for one hour in suellelent water to „ cover it, and add to the pineapple. Ifimolve the whole In half a tea- t - cupful of boiling water, Freeze as Tot' ice cream. e Italian Cratin.,—Grate the rinds of two lemons, upon a few lumps of loaf sugar; stir those into a, pint of rich cream, add achl enough white sugar to sweelen, Whip briskly, add the juice of a lemon, and stettin in ono • ounce of gelatine dissolved in water. 19h' 5)0,51j thoroughly light, flavor to taste, and" put in a Mold aild Preeze. Garnish with preserved fruit when eerved, -- , HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A'sininy aspect is lead for a pantry Ll There iS a man of seventy In Pates hunted Wallace Supeeneen, 10110 still sleeps la the cradle he was rocked in when ti baby, and he has never Facet one night of his long life 511 any' °thee bed, Tho youngest of a family of boys, Wallace retained his place in the cradle as ho grew older, lie soon becatee too tall to IM in it full length, but he overcome this difficulty by drawing hie knees up - Will*. Emelt night to thie day he hyets his feet squarely en. the bot- tom of the eradle, eiveys his knees to and fro, and reeks himself to sleep ns he did when a small boy, Tho nabit WAS t/Oiled in babyhood Atiti never broken. ISLAND OF BLACK CATS. Ofte of the queerest corners of the emelt is Chatham fsland, on' the Comet of tecuedote Thid island 115,1 600 miles 10055, 01 Guayaquil, and the Equator runs directly throligh fie Captain Pohlman, who was sent to the Galapng,os group of 'Blends to inquire Into the proper grotnicting of lautidec°11:is-littenad, Caanbtlie'8a8yriit'e.daboautd°shalt; eats, °Very ono of which is black, These aufinals liVe la the crevices of the lava he 'mintier, near the coast, and sell:tette, by catching fish nod crabs instead of rats and mire. Other animals foetid on this island eniece1 relie(1-:814,11 08:cloatf1110,45115100g5,age:aftte8teecallyti. 1051(1. - 115)03510 vehe lino in 131,0110 'hater 13h'ow S ff or larder. To preserve eggs dip them in boil- ing water for ten seconds. Anutioela will prevent 000"hl'ftClt- 11)55 brown. To make glass heilliant„ add a i small piece of blue to tho water in which it is washed, f' Sandi larders may be kept Cool in hot Weather by planing a damp cloth over the windoW. A lump of sugar pid'eecl lit a tea- l pot when. put away aftee use will t prevent it from beceining musty, r.P0 keep cabbages fresh, etrip off 0 the outside leaves and place in a P Paine' hag secarely tied, so as not s to admit the. air. 31 Umbrellas when not le use. tehould I always be -unrolled, lf tightly e rolled and kept in a 011.33e, embeelles soon CreaSo and wear into hales. Tinware relyhed over with froth lard, .and thoroughly heated In the oven before it, hi need, will never rust, tto matter how much it is put 111 35 0Wilcalto7he elineld never be washed a in hott soapsuds. Thee should first n be washed clean with cold water, 1-1 11101 rubbiel dry with a eloth wetted 11 in Milk', 'Thie method pays in the lc end. ADVICE TO NAGGERS. There ie the woman who nags, and many do without being conscious of ie. She is often perfectly well bred in all other respects, but she loves het husband op that she can't help but ply him with questions. The whys and Ntheres end whens and "I told you so" become a daily mutine which exhausts the patience of the best; of men. A, wise wife shotrici re- member ihat Whein a thing has once hem; tallied over and threshee out it is good fern) at least to let it alone. If it is a fault that meet be .ellie-1, oe a habit encittred, she should remember that men folks are often like 130 Peep's lost streep—"If you let 'orn alone they will come home," etc. Constant teferenee to a fault, or a 3111111713'r1803, is the cause of more inarital infelicity than the average wife dreams of. Coocl manners ere happy WayS of dning things, and good sense, cheer- fulness and tact should guide every woman who hears the honor and dlemlity of wifehood toward the chan- nel of thcse happy ways. AIRING TEE BEDROOM. Even en the coldeet weather the bed should be aired thoroughly everY day. To simply throw back the Covers for a few moments anti then make. the bodily heat still in the bedding, invites disease. Each Mee - should he taken off separately aud placed where the alt' can touch every Portion. The matt vess should be turned every few days, and the bed springs and slats wiped off weekly. If therc is any clanger of the "pesti- lence that walks in derkness" a ssclhloent,,s1,11.,ic I boot hu strict. m_fpz 1 ei_dh 0 wsi it.)121.inkge: o satezt A PILLOW WRINKLE. Every one knows how apt pillow' ticks are to grow yellow or dis- colored juet where the head nests. A good Way to -avoid this is to keep old Pillowcases for tick covers under the outside pillow slips. GRAND DUCAL PARASITES. Russian Denunciation of the Op- pressors of His Country, Au article in the National Review by a. "High Russian °Metal," gives a scourging denunclaLion of some of the evils of the Russian State. The anger of the authoe is strong against the Orand Dukes, "(Inc has MR to rake any money scandal well enough," he says, "in order to tonne upon a Grand Duke at the bottom of it. While foreign ladies can real- ize miliioas for their smiles upon the Scions of the Imperial ham), these soldiers with their festering wounds, their quivering limbs, and. their tioz- ng life blood, aro thrown upon. heaps of horseedung and bumped tend jolted' or days withoet medleaments, food, washing water, or any other anti - optics than tho frost. And none of the Grand Ducal sybarites, who live argely on the money extorted from he people, Oftel'S rouble for the weunded, or his sword for the cause f tho aletocracy. We are neither uritanical nov hypocritical te Rus- in," be adds, "but we object to a timorous caste of Mere blood -suck: ng parasites, 5011113 of Whose lives re Made up of unpunished crimes, man shifte, colossal frauds, and utlandish hut the Czar regerde himeelf not si the invitee of -the natiom but as he owner of so many mi 1 1 lot) souls. he laws aro treated with levity, the roes is stifled, religious convietions re played with, spies pry into ell 101111 et:wrote, miteettioe is syste- latically discouraged, end taxes toris limn the people rah beat, are moil, so that "nomdy livo in tentle the. (Rand Ducal ver-liuseiane apprnpriate the funds eetined for the army, naVy, and thee public deptutmente, and pa- d° itt the theetres or at bells with yeir favorite. ladlea," Itassia is an tate, not, a state, and for all thia le writer contends. the Cern' Is imarily and (tiredly responsible, le part, or his policy, aed he, of O 01011 Will and by Ills own resolu- on, fortes It on the empire in the me of autocracy, COTeD couronp. NevvouA Old Indy (oh. seventh Lartler-SiltelVes after being sertibbed, 9 should be thoroughly dry before pre- ° serves awl the like aro replaced on ° thane To negleet this precaution is rn a certain clap' of bringiug about mould and fermeetatIone Get rid of the rubbish in your 1:1 n$3 you go along, All that 0011 551) go Unto the NLOOC-pot should go ,•"' in at Once; all that implicit ntil- teed slimed be Intent or throtvn awaY. Thus will you keep your na liiielwn sweet mitt eletin end free from "smell of cooking." A iitgeoveved table in the kitchen a inendely better thee the oedirtztey oor of hotel)—Do yen 'glow ee) sari:pee of eoft deal, ial•tev tth- ee soviet every dregs of 'erecter, coed eo liffiettit to legit/ dent, Any iron. non or will Omit ly At I VE01110115 the proprietor or the pttletleleti—SPteek,elltntang011rethYabe.elthe piece do Stud .01 inshoored for tWiee writ it's wort'. wu VERY CLEVER RETORTS ztrzx mara AIM. NOT TROYMILED wznr 4.102Z1I-WI1,'. Noted Nen Who Were Al ays Ready With A, Sharp Answer. of 111011 cannot alWaYe --- ister it; for oven the readiest -witted 05 life to think 01 18111 eX01(11(11100151nd the It is 0110 of the conimonest teepee - retort when it Is too lule to admin." answer which is effective in ProPter- Don as it is swift and Onpremerlitat- ed, But if Wu cannot all emulate this nimbleness of toegue we. cannot, 11015) admiring it in others, ever) ff it oreasionally takes a form scarcely, distinguishable from. rudeness. "Do you see anything ridiculoue in my wig?" an lrish judge once snap- ped out at Curran. "Nothing but the head," came the swift and crush- , ing retort. Less happy, perhaps, but equally sincere WAS Lord Justice Clerk Braxtleld's remark to his iady- partner at the whist -table: "What are ye doing, ye autil fule? Your ftloarrcli jolzyi'saihneggweirde,.,inadam; I took ye It was the same jullge who was once sitting at the Court t sessious 1051011 a brother judge failed to put in an appeaz•ance, "What excuse can a Stout l llow:ifiylte lrectaxfitehld President, sympathetically, "haven't answer gre you heard'5 751 has lost his wife," "lists he?" answered Benefield, "That's a good excuse indeed, I wish we hae a' the samte," When Chaeles II, met Rochester 0130 day His Afajcisty accosted him thus: "I believe thou art the wicketest fel- low in my dominions." "For a subject, sir," retorted the Eorl, "I really think I am." FREDERICK THE GREAT• once received an equally disconcert- ing answer, Wishing to humiliate his physician 170 asked him, "How tnallY men have you sent into the other world?" "Not nearly so many as your Majesty," was the retort, "and with intinitely lese glory," When George III. Brat met Sir John Irwin, who was noted even ia those bibulous doe's for the quantitY of wine ho could make away with, he said, with a bow, "'They tell me, Sir John, that you love a glass of wine.", "Sire," answered the bon- vivatit, "your informants have done me an injustice; they should have said a bottle." And It was tho same George who, when ho asked Horne Tooke if he played cards, received the answer, "Your Majesty, I really cannot: tell a king from a knave," George I., during one of his visits to Hanover, stopped at a village inn, while the horses were being changeil ordered a comle of eggs, for which his host asked a bemired florins. "flow is this?" the astoined; ed King deinanUecl. "Egs must be indeed. scare in Holland," "Painion me, sire," answeree the innkeeper, "eggs aro plentiful enOugh; it is kings that aro scarce." When the Abbe de Voisenon heard that he had seriously offended tho Great Conde, he bastened to offer an apology, only to find that the flold- marshal TURNED HIS T3ACE OX MAL "Thank God I have been misinform, ed, sir!" he exi•lainied. "Your High- ness does not treat me as an. en- emy." "How do you see that, M.. Abbe?" Conde asked, in surprise. "Because, ter," came the clever an- swer, "your Highness has never yet turned his back on an enemy." Francis T. had a jester called Tri- boulot, who oue clay complained to 11.1101 ig lnus till t ah f or nsoonlieemaof nhtl eat che thz- given him.. "If he does," lerancis ex- claimed, "I will hang him a quarter of an holm afterwards." "Ale sire," replied Trtboulet, "can't you con- trire te hang hint a quarter of an hoU3' previously?" Few men have been better able to extricate themselves from a predica- meet by nimble wit than Presideet Grovy. Once when a ramous artiet was conducting him round the Salon, the President stopped at a plottlre Which arreeted his attention, aud 'ex- claimc-d, "What a terrible (kneel Whose is it?" "That. picture, sire, answered his guide, "is (Mae," "I al313 not surprised to hear it. sirVe Gravy replied, without 0, moment's hesitation; "I should, however, ex- plain that whenever '3' particularly with to purchase a picture always dilootvutic;;IT P1115 "PAtTiI," When King James asked Lord Weeper Bacon ono day what, lie thotight tee the new French Ambnssa- dor, Bacon answeree, evasively, that he wee a tall and Itandeome man. "Yes," -continued Jamose "but what do r u think of the headpiece?". "Site " waS the 01)511'er, "tall men are like high houses, wherein, com- monly the uppeemost rooms are worst furnished." As au example of a courtectes apol- ogy the following would be Very die, ficult to equal. 'At the Battle of Cape St. Vincent one of our .shiPe. the Dartmouth, blew up, and all ite crew, with a few exceptions, were drowned. Among those who were rescued and taken on board the Prince Frederick WAS young Trish slieenaltoodeatiott,thlevhco,nptwalialelnofbethowarsesetpilyn•e-g vessel, said, "Sir, you must eecuse the Unfitness of my (trees te) Come ell booed yoer ship; bet, really, Ieft. my oWn In such a hurry ehat bad no time to stae, for a change of apparel.''—London Tit -Tilts, Or. George Nall, of one or 3105111(5..APPLIED PITTLOSOPELY. ing Now York life imstnettwo soinpau- tellS t1158 story of an applitemb With whom he recently came ill eolle tact. "1151 heart action .tvae peer, the mari had 3501.11.35 tentlenC100h,. had had appendicitis, tied his eYea and ,c0Tnne51110ax,ilidmeiti7lorloyi‘hooxspelaolft sedslein 5)153' - side». "rinishing nty examination, frantly, told hint that ho VMS lit the way of drinking Ithrooll totally was his philosophie rejoin. r, • "I've soon about , evOrything rtif atlytetty, ifecteree