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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
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FOLKS
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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
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:***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