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TO DEBT 1„berute1y enter a store and rna up
tion Of paying, he is just as mueh
a. heavy bin, which he has no linen -
In meter Caw's, When a man will de -
robber as the sneak thief who rushes
into the hakery and steals a loaf of
broad, and he should bare little
mercy shown him, The debtor not
only steals the groceryinan's goods,
but he steals his time and his ser-
vice.
Many a man who for years has de-
liberately run up all the debts he can
Is to -day walking around our streets
Maiming that in the sight of the
law he is honest. After deliberately
swindling all the men he could he
puts the little money he had left in
his wife's mime. Then he enters the
bankruptcy court and asks the judge
to free hila from all these financial
obligations. Now, I care not what
the baneruptcy court may say in
such eases, no honest mon, in the
sight of God oi• man, ran ever be
enemies' freed from a financial debt
until that debt is paid. it is a
man's business to pay what be owes.
no Matter how the hill was contract-
ed, One of the th•st teams of Zee -
chums' real conversion was when he
turned to the Saviour and said,
"Behold. Lord, the'half of my goods
X give to the poor, and if I have
taken anything from any man by
rabic accusation I restore to him
fourfold." ln other words he said,
"If I have cheated any man out of
his just dime, I am ready not only
70 restore to him the full amount
of movey taken, but I will restore
to him1 ul Ind treble and uad-
ruple that which I have talen."
And no man, In the sight of Clod,
can be a Christian until he first sig-
nifies his intention to repay to the
utmost of his ability all the money
borrowed by him and to cancel his
full obligations to every /me of .his
financial creditors. You cannot lova
Clod and a1 the same time signify 0
willingness to cheat your fellow
men.
Avoid It As You Would Pestilence
or Famine.
Agiatgr 0.4 according to Act 01 the Par-
liament or coniulit, in the Year Q11*
Thousand Nine klunared and Three.
by Wm. Pally. of Toronto, at Che
Lopartuient of Agriculture, (ttawa.)
A despatch Mein Chicago says :---
:Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage peach-
ed Motu the following text :—ROinans
3dil, 8, "Owe no man anything,"
Ono day a famous scholastic clergy-
man was talking to a noted practi-
cal preacher, "How is it," said lie,
r'that you can collect such great
audiences to hear you preach 1 I
have one of the best private lih-
sexiea in the world, I spend at least
ten bouee a day in my study with
my books, itaa yet the people prefer
to hoar you preseh instead of me.
They want to hear your sermons,
although you do not work a third
as hard upon them as 1 do. Half of
your days are spent in calling and
in wandering about the streets and
in the stores." "Ah," answered the
practical minister to his schematic
friend, "the difference between us is
that you read books, while I study
the stuff out of which books aro
made. You breathe the atmosphere
of musty tomes ; I, by close asso-
ciation, study the heru•ts of the men
and women with whom. I come in
contact. Yon translate epitaphs of
dead men ; I analyze the troubles
and temptations and sins of living
mao; I sit With them at the table ;
I go With them to their stores; then,
whenI begin to discuss their trials
and temptations, they naturally
want to come and heroine preach."
OFFSPRING OP PRIDE.
Debt is generally the offspriug of
pride. The bare necessaries of life
are very small. Nearly every man
can make enough money to provide
for these necessaries if he will only
work bard, do his best and not
waste his income on useless ex-
travagances. Henry Ward Beecher
once made the declaration that a
man could feed himself and wife and
a family of growing children upon
51.50 per week. Per making this
statement Mr. Beecher was sharply
arraigned by thousands of critics.
Many newspaper editorials affirmed
that the Plymouth pastor was ad-
vocating the reduction of the la-
borers' salaries to 25 cents a day.
Be was not attempting any such
thing. What Mr. Beecher tried to
prove was this : The bare neces-
saries of life are very small ; enere-
fore most people can provide for
their actual needs il they will only
be energetic and at the same time
be frugal.
But this frugality, in many cases,
pride will not permit them to prac-
tice. Pride, with the smiling, super-
cilious face and bediamonded finger.
*usually comes to the young man's
home with such insinuating words
as these : "My friend, you have no
right to rear your family as you
are doing. You should not allow
your wife to stand behind a counter
ary of 510 a week who saves at
least one-tenth of his income.
Debt is not only the offspring of
pride, but is often the parent of a
largo family of criminal children.
The study of genealogical tables is
among the most interesting of
studies. Certain nullifies nearly al-
ways have good children ; you can
trace them down front generation to
generation. Other families nearly al-
ways have bad children ; there is ap-
parently something in their blood
that is diseased and contaminated.
As the waters frilling down the cas-
codes near Duluth slime the discolor-
ations contracted in passing through
forests of cedar and tamarack ueiles
reWay, so the blood of Some children
Is tainted with criminal tendencies,
inherited 011011 before they are born.
They are born with a propensity for
/Sing, for stealing, for inebriety,
which they are seldom able to eradi-
cate. But, though those children
may not fie able to overcome their
evil tendencies in their owo etrength,
they can overcome them by the hell/
of a supernatural power, which is
offered to all who are tempted.
WILLFULLY RUNNING' INTO
DE13T.
Willful doht is that kind of debt
into which many allow themselves to
run through useless and sinful ex-
travagances. 'While the young man
la being financially ground to pieces
13ye the upper and nether millstones
of this kind of debt what is often
the most natural thing for hire. to
do ? Ask that young collector who
is taking some of his employer's 1110-
ney to r1n, as 10011811131 thinks,
fortune at the gambler's wheel. He
is not at heart a bad young man.
He intends to pay that money back.
He expects to use it only for a
little while and then return it With
interest after lie has escaped
from the clutches of merciless ,
debt. Ask that young 0111-
beZzler who has just felt the heavy ;
hand of the law placed upon his
shoulder. Did he ever expect that
the late suppers, the theatre ticket5.
and the attendance at the races:
would yet and in a prison cell? No, ;
not He was led as it lamb to the!
slauglatee by the eyil worryings of I
debt, accumulating debt.
When a man needlessly and will- I
fully runs into debt, he opens the,
sluice gates of falsehood. He pro-
fesses his willingness to clasp hands ,
with deception ancl deceit. The debt-
or says to his creditor, "I have no
money this morning, but I will pay
you next week." His words are
he has no Intention of paying but also love our fellow men enough
next week. The debtor says; ".i. to be financially just to them as
well as merciful,
A PERTINENT QUESTION,
In closing I would like to ask my j
hearers a pertinent question — is
not the chief reason why you are
unwilling to publicly confess Christ!
because you have not been living j
right with your fellow men ano try -1
Mg to pay your honest debts? My I
friends, is the awful realization that ,
von have been financially unjust to
'your fellow men keeping you away
from the love of Christ? Will you
not try to undo that wrong? Will;
you not follow the command of
Paul, who tells us to "owe no man
anything," the same Paul who tells
us to "press toward the mark for
the prize of the high calling of God
In Christ Jesus',"
It may only, take a small speck of
dust in the eye to blind the sight
and simt out the light of the noon-
tide sun. It may only take one bill
which we refuse to pay to our neigh-
bor to shut out all the glories of
heaven,Paul does not ask of us an
impossibility, but he does demand
that we, one and all, should not
only love God with all our souls,
am now trying to sell some /encl.
The deal is almost closed; then I
will send you a cheek.." The debtor
knows he is a Waffler; he has go
land to sell.
One of the dearest friends I ever
had by this curse of running into
debt became a moral degenerate. He
or to live in the back room of the went to another friend and borrow -
store with her two babies, as yolar ed 5600 and gave as security some
another once did. This is a different cattle which lie professed to 1)1011 St
age from that in which your father that time in Kansas, In fact, he
started out. If you do not let your did not own a horn or a hoof in all
children grow up 10 a respeCtable the world. So the perjury habit,
neighborhood and go to refined and which is often the offspring of debt,
expensive private schools, then their will creep into a man's heart as a
youthful associates will be bud, and worm thimels its way into the heart
refilled people will have ilothing to of a great tree and leaves there
nothing but deritho and corruption
do with them." So the young man,
who was making a humble income and illth, "All liars shall have
and was on the highroad to ultimate their part in the lake which burneth
iinancial succese, hires a private with flee and brimstone, which is
the second death." Beware, 1) man,
home on tho boulevard, He inoves
how you nourish this destroying
his family away from the neighbor-
hood of the Store;Ite hires a mars child of perjury, which is often the
offspring of accursed debt!
to do the work formerly done by
his wife, while he himself is visiting HELPLESS AND INNOCENT
the wholesale deprirtinents. The in- VICTIMS.
come, small before, becomes less rind 1Vi1lful debt is the fiend who cares
less ; the expenses of the family sus- not how many helpless and innocent
tenance are doubled and quadrupled; victims he may destroy in his own
a haunted, worried, anxious look annihilation, The pirates of old
comes °Yee the young man's face. used to raise their black flags and
Instead of there 13eing a balance in prey upon the ancient shipping, The
the bank, now there is a deficit 1 in- robbers of Scotland used (0 place
stead of the wholesale stores allow- false lights upon the shores so that
Ing the young man all the credit he the ships would be decoyed upon the
withes, now they begin to push him, rocks and the wreckers comae col -
and one day debt, the offspring of Met the broken cargoes. The man
pride, calls at the (store to sec how who willfully runs Into debt is a
the young man is getting along, but human vampire who is sucking the
instead of clebt ,now coining with lifeblood out of his butcher and bak-
the obsequiousness ef a visitor he ,er, his tailor and landlord, his friend
Strides into that young man's store and his enemy alike. He cares not
and bome with the mien and the ;how he gets money so long as ho
heavy step of a tyrant and a rims- ; gets it, Ile- cares not who hos to
ter. suffer so long as his present desires
THE TRYANNY OP DEBT. are satisfied. What is the natural
and inevitable result? Them have
This tyranny of debt, which is the been thotiscuide of small retail mor-
of:reprint; of false pride, makes its chants driven into bankraptey be -
conquests over those who 11000 largo eaten their customers, supposed to
incomes an well as those with small, be honorable men, would oot pay
Only the other day there was buried :their bells. There have been hull -
to one Of Chicago's cometerieS a man 'deeds and thousands or poor widows
who for ten years hod a salary of 1011(1 orphans and aged awl helpless
over 0,000 per year, Yet that man depositors of small sums in the
'was always in debt. While ha had banks 10110 haVO 10St all merely be-
an income of $2,500 1113 Was teVitne cause the ea:liters have become de -
to live on the scale of those who faultees and cared not whom they
had a 54,000 income. When he was dragged down with them , in their
appointed a general superintendent own niol'al and spiritual destructio*o
of a large corporation, at 8650 per It is n contemptible act for a man
month salcu•y, be immediately moved to steal from a millionaire. It is
his family into 0 nee/ neighborhood infinitely meaner for a woman to
and tried to almociate with Chi- steal from her poor dressmaker, her
cog° s mililonniros. Phat 10011, when cook or her washerwoman, or for a
he died, dicl not own tho home he man to rob his grocerymen or ice-
liVed in. He did not even own the man or his coachman or the garden -
bed on which he died. Every parti- er who sells to him his flowers. :rt IS
cle of real estate held in his mune meaner because those Who are rob -
1008 plastered over with inortgagus. bed under such circumstaiwes must
Last fall he even allowed his life in- perhaps lose their all and he driven
Sesame Policy to hipso because lID 10 811119V0 a11(1 die,
could not atTord tO pay the few him- A WELL DRESSED VILLAIN.
deed dollars necessary to keep ft up,
though he had a Salary of 0,000
per year. So we find to -day that
meny , man Who lives to a fine
Mansion is in the merciless clutch of
debt. .The financial curve of this age
is that Multfilidee or people, on
neemint of false pride tend per-
nicious extraVaganee, tire eking mit
a Iniseeable existence, Theme people
May move ie theeteest society, 00
Willful debt is often a web dressed
villain who pretends to be an hon»
eat man. 10 oldeo times if a man
could not pay his debts be was
/oolced upon in the same 501180 all a
thief rind sent to jail. Under the
old Roman law, after spending a
certain time in jrill, it he wee s1111
enable to pay his ereditore, he was
sold into slavery and heel to pass
his fife as a emet. Some oile might,
!Called, yet Com /WO Sar poorer than say that such a condition is very
the hunlbl'O 011131 WW1 a paltry sal- hard omd usilttelic, and 80 it is But,
THE S. S. LESSON,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
MARCH 8.
Text cf the Lesson, .Acts xix.,
13-20. Golden Text, Acts
xix., 17.
13, 14. Wo adjure you by Jesus.
whom Paul preacheth.
Thus the unbelievers though pro-
fessedly priests of God, -used that
beautiful name as if it was a charm
or carried with it some magic spell
that anyone could use, like people
who now say concerning jesus,
try Him and see if He will do any-
thing for me, He is to be known
and trusted, whole-heartedly re-
ceived and relied upon, for He is
worthy and true and faithful, the
living God. He is asit to be treated
as people treat e Patent medicine—
try it and see ft. will (lb you good;
hut because 1•.‘, is indeed the only
Savlourof sinoors and the Judge of
all mankind He is to be honestly re-
ceived as such,
15, 111. And the evil spirit answered
and said, Jesus I know, and Paul
I know, hut- who are ye ?
These jews had called the nanle
of the Lord Jesus over a man pos-
sessed With 011 evil spirit, resisting
and opposfng Paul somewhat els the
magicines in fehypt withstood Moses,
but God permitted the evil spirit to
rebuke them and by the man
Possessed by tho spirit to
overcome them and cause them to
flee from the house naked and
wounded. It could hardly be pos-
sible that they would over again
attempt to May tricks with that
holy mune. What shall be said of
t1 1 i1 •acrod
name in every thoughtless and evil
way ? And because no judgment
falls upon them they wax worse and
WorSe (nevi, viii, 11).
17. And 1,1118 Was known to all the
Jews and Greeks also dwelling at
Ephesus, and feae on them all,
and tho name of thp Lord Jesus
was magni fled,
In verees 8 to 10 we read that
P41111 continued at Ephesus Meer lino
yarns, not without much opposition,
hut also with marked restitts to the
glory of God. In 0008e11 11 and 12
we read cif epecial miraelee to' eon -
Chan and emphasize the gospel mee-
grime and 11011 through tlui devil's
own children the ham of ilests 15
magnified, In hie letter to the
Philippians Paul said, "Some indeed
preach Christ even if envy and etrife
and seine also or good w111, Th1,.
one preach Christ of contention, not
sincerely, stlppoeing to add afflic-
tion to my bonds, hut tho other of
love, knowing that 1 am set for the
clefence of the gospel.' Yet Paul
said that: es lopg ea Christ Was
preached, whether preteneo or in
truth:, he would rejoice (Phil. 1, 113-
15) The "all things" of Rom. 0111,
28, nmst inelekle the opposition or
the dwell as woll as the Manifest
blessing cif God, and whatever lTD
permits the adversary td do must in
some way be overruled for llis
glory, the higehest avert of 11Is peo-
ple etbd the hastening of His king -
c1:11;
And many 111111 believed came
a
confessed and $howed their
d
While salvation is wholly of grace
through faith, where faith is real
there \vitt bo good works menifest ns
an evidence before 111011 of the hall
that is really in the heart before
God (Eph. ii, 8-1 0; 'Mt. 111, 5, 8).
The faith that is not manifest in
works cannot be a living faith. Not
any amount of works' on oin' part,
howevey good or gitat, can savo tts,
but being saved by His work alone
(Item. iv, 5). I4e having been re-
ceived by uS, haVe come to live
in us, mUst woi•lt out the salvation
which he has wrought In us (Phil.
if, 13; Heb. xihi, 20, 21). Hearers
who aro not doers Ore only self -de-
ceivers (Matt. MI, 26, 127; Jas,
22).
19, Many of them also which used
curious cute brought their boeks to-
gether and burned them before all
men, and they counted the price of
them and found it 50,000 pieces of
What an illustration of "unto you,
therefore, which believe Be Is pre-
cious!" (1 Pet. ii, 7). $o precious
hael the Lord Jesus become to them
that things which were before of
much value now seeme(1 worthless
and 1001'0 at once committed to the
flames lest they might ensnare and
injure others. Their affections were
now on things above, not on things
on the earth (Col. iil, 2). Like
Paul, they could testify ''what;
things wire gain to us those we
counted loss for theist (Phil, ii,
7). This bonfire cost perhaps 510,-
000 and WAS a glorious triumph for
011*181 00011 the rear • It was
like the victory on Mount Carmel
over the priests of 138.0. The clay
will come when all that is against
Chriet shall perish and the people
who resist Him and their leaders
shall be given to the lake of lire
(Rev. xix, 2e; xx, 15),
20. So mightily grew the word of
God and prevailed,
In chapter xii, 24, it is written
"the word of God grew and multi-
plied." The work of God is -done by
tbe Spirit of God using the word of
God As we have seen in former
studies, the preachers used the
Scriptures, and all the Scriptures,
and m•eached from them the things
!concerning the LorcLjesus and the
kingdomof God. They do not 1 tho
least discount any portion of the
word of God; hut, like the Lord
Jesus in all His teaching,
they honored it all. It is
safe to say thee those who in otn•
day make light: of any portion of
the word of God aro not causing it
to grow or multiply or prevail, and
they am certainly not for the time
being following the Lord 'Yeses.
When I hear the word of God dis-
" 0*13' portion ot 't iuodo
light of, I Cannot, help thinking at
tho devil, for the first recorded utter-
ance of that old serpent is, "Yea,
hath God said?" (Gen, BS 1) He
began his evil work on earth by
questioning the word of God and -the
love of God and by making God ap-
Pear to be a, liar (Gen. ii, 17; ill,
4). Let us in the name of our Lord
and by the Spirit of God resist him.
WOMAN AT FORTS.
Should Be the Happiest of Human
Beings.
The object of El, woman's career
should be to be beautiful till She is
40 ; after that she should become a
power, is the way a Frenchman sees
the question. Another Frenchman
said that after 40 e. woman should
either take the veil or be abolished.
Miss Achurch, . an' actress, lecturing
on the subjeet, inclined to the for-
mer view. She said : "The omeman
Who has passed the confines of youth
has come to 13e regarded as of much
greater importance than she was
twenty years ago, This change can
be seen in words and in life. Pim
the period of Fielding to that of
Thaekeray the girl of 17 was al-
ways the Center of attraction and
she always disappeared after her
wedding ,,,day. After Thaekeray came
the long inning of the woman, of
80,"
The woman of 40 ought to be the
happiest of women. She has lie•
culiar privileges possessed by no
other woman, rehe is not troubled
lik•e her younger sisters at the cross-
ing of the borderland of youth, for
she is elrearly on the other side. Her
fitture is more clearly defined, foe at
SO has she not chosen and settled
down in her career ?
A professional woman is at her
bat at 40, She can act hotter,
pain1 better, write better, licit only
because liel• powers are more ma-
tured, but also because she will not
be interrupted by love affairs, The
age of 40 should he looked forward
to es 011 inheritance rather than be
dreaded by every woman,
GRAINS OF GOLD.
Originality is sbnply E8 pair of
fresh eyes,—T, W. Higginson,
Avoid popularity; it has many
snares and no real beneflt.—Penn.
The greatest and sublimest power
is often simple patience,-13ushnell.
A life of pleasure even makes the
strongest mind frivolous at last. —
Bulamr.
Politeness is as natural to delicate
na.tures as peefume is to floWer$, —
De Vinod.
Most people judge others by the
company they Imp, or by their for-
tune.-1tochfouertuld.
It is not the place that maketh
the person, but the person that make
oth the place 1101101'11.1)10.-0k:two.
Nothing 01111 bring you peace but
ji°00"evelif1;1 tr1111°111,11.1151111111811of 11)nr,1114111008".
—Minerson.
Tho co»ditions of conquese aro al-
ways easy. Wo have hut to toil
believe always, and neVer
Win back.—Simeas,
4koos(gilithb000eoeceoe9cseee
Z FOR THE HOME
Recipes for the Kitchen. ire
Hygiene and Otlier Notes 6
9 for the Housekeeper,
t9
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DRESSING LITTLE GIRLS.
The love of dainty peld becoming
clothing is, a mark of refinement,
and is inherent in most little girls.
This trait in children should not be
condemned, but guided In the pro-
per direction, Our clothing has
much to (lo with the opinion people
form of us, and while extravagane
is not commendable, carelessness in
this matter leacis to oven worse re-
sults, Dresses eor school wear need
not be expensive, for fine materials
cunt trimmings are not in good
taste, and a healthy school girl
would soon ruin them. She will
need two or three woolen (Messes
and half a dozen white or lig.ht col-
ored aprons to keep her neat and
clean, These aprons should be made
by different patterns so she will not
tiro of them, and trinnned with lace
or embroidery. Let them be as
nice as you lilce, foe they will last a
long Lime and can be washed when
they need it. Di making the dresses
the prudent mother plans to length-
en them so they will not bo out-
grown. Many a good garment has
been east aside because this has
been ne.g•lected, and it soon becomes
too small for the wearer. Plain
full skirts are 'tucked or deeply hem-
med. Gored skirts are often ruffled,
000 *111 111011 18 sary nin ou
wish to lengthen them is to piece
them out at the bottom and move
the ruffle (1010)1. 1110111 sleeves may
be hemmed at the bottom or pieced
out and the pteeing covered' evith
001110 kind o o th so
made with 11111 upper portions gathe
mod into cuffs, are lengthened by
replacing the old cuffs with deeper
ones. New dresses inny be made of
1'en3nants, or if the mother has the
knack of makiog clothes over the
best parts of some elle has cast aside
may be used. A package of Dia-
mond dye is a great help in making
drosses over, for it will freshen the
goods and make it briget and pret-
ty. These dyes are easy, to use, and
the colors produced by them are per-.
moment. School dresses should be
quite plain, for an apron will not
111 WE, 1 10 C1OSS is triminod IN al
Tight -fitting waists or those
made with a yoke of any shape de-
sired with tho lower portion joinedgather-
trimming may consist of braid put
on around the edge of the yoke, col-
lar and sleeves.
CULINARY CLIPPINGS.
You can inake rice waffles the same
as plain waffles, adding two-thirds
cup cold boiled rice, one and a half
cups milk, two tablespoonfuls sugar,
and one egg.
Dressing for Boiled. Beets.—Three-
fourths cup vinegar, one-fourth cup
:
water, tablespoonful mesh flour, but-
ter, salt and pepper: melt butter,
I aced flour, pour over the vinegar;
; cook until thickeued and potn• over
the sliced beets.
ISalad Dressing.—TWO eggs, well
beaten; little white pepper and just
O daSh of cayenne; one heaping tea-
spoonful of dry mustard, tablespoon-
ful sugar, little salt, one-half cup of
,vinegar; boil all together until thick;
'remove from stove, add butter size
of an egg; when cool thin with milk.
This is as sMooth as velvet. Choi)
a head of cabbage flue, mid serve
with the above dressing.
To make a Holland salad cut into
small cubes an equal quantity of
pickled beets, potatoes, dill pickles,
and raw ,tomatoes. Rub yolks of
four hard boiled eggs into bowl, inix
carefully and gradually to a cream
with oil and -vinegar, Season with
salt, pepper and a tablespoonful of
essence of anchovies, Add to vege-
tables and toss lightly until mixed,
garnishing with lettuce and slieed
eggs, ;
To make cheese souffle, melt two
tablespoonfuls of butter, then add
one-fourth cup of flour, one-fourth
teaspoonful each of salt, soda and
paprika, 011e-11011 cup of milk, and
one-fourth pound of cheese, grated,
or one cupful; when the cheese is
melted add the yolks of three egg's
beaten light; when cool add the
Nyhites of the eggs beaten stiff; bake
in individual china dishes, buttered;
Place in the oven until puffed E11111
(1011091,1013, colored; serve as soon as
removed.
TO MEND FAMILY MANNERS,
Family manners are apt to stiffer
from too 3101011. candor. We speak
with great plainness in the circle of
our own kindred; WO Comaleat toe
freely on foibles; we express the con-
trary opinion too reudily and with
too little courteey. A slight infu-
sion of formality never harem social
intercom's°, either in the family or
elsewhere,
Beyond this too common mistake
of an overbluntnese arid brusque
freedom in the manners. of a house-
hold in some of our homes, there
Is a greater fault, 00011 a lack of
demonstration. There is the deep-
est, sincerest love in the home —the
brothers and sisters would cheer-
fully die' for ono another if so great
a, sacrifice Were clemencled butethe
love is locked behind a barrier ot re-
serve. Caresses are infrequent, Words
of affection are seldom spoken,
31 may 13e urged with troth and
some show of reason that in the
Very homes where this absence of
demonstratiOn is moid, marked, here
ie complete W111taal understanding
and no poseibllity of doubt or mis-
giving, and, so far rtS IL goes, this
Is well, 11111 often young heart's
long tnspealtably for Some, gentle
eige of love's presence, the lingering
touch ot a tender hand on the head,
the good -night, MSS, the 100101 01
pre Ise, the recogn Lion o f affect! on.
Older hearts, too, are aometteries
empty, and many of tie, younger and
elder, are kept on short raeione all
Our lives, Whe11 our right 1,s to he
fecl with the finest wheat, and en-
ough of it too.
A WOMAN 01!".fiACT,
A woman of tact is Ono who feels
that the story to hurt your feelinge
IS essentially bad form, and incon-
siderate of the feeling's of others. A
wOnlan of tact; is one ivho makes her
good morning a pleasant greeting,
her visit 0 bright spot in the day
and her good -by a hope that silo
inny collie again, A woman of tact
is one who does not gauge people by
t/wir clothes, or their etches, but
who condemns had manners. A wo-
man of tact is one who is courteous
under all circumstances and in every
condiLlon in which she may be plac-
ed. She is the women who can re-
ceive the unwelcome guest with 'a
smile so /bright and a handshake SO
cordial that in trying to make the
welcome seem real, it becomeso. A
woman of tacit is ono whose love
for 111101anity is seeond only in her
life's devotion, and whose watch-
word is unselfishness end action. By
making self last it filially becomes
natural to have it so.
usns OF GASOLENE.
.A woolen cloth dampened with gas-
olene will make the dirt disappear as
if by magic when used for cleaning
porcelain sinks, bath tubs or marble
wash howls.
Gasolene is also a, sovereign reme-
dy for bugs. It can be literally
poured on the mattress, springs and
bed without injuring the most deli-
cate carpet, and every bug will dis-
appear,
The daintiest neckwear, which it is
iinpossible to wash, if left over night
in an air -tight voesel of gasolene will
look fresh and new when carefully
dried.
BREAKING IT GENTLY.
After the ship which had 001110
fr0111 New Zealand was tied up at
the whorl; Larry O'Brien was told
off by his shipmates to call upon
Mrs. McCarthy and break the news
of the death of her husband, which
had occurred on shipboard the pre-
ced i ng summer.
"Good morning, Mrs. McCarthyl":
said he. "Is Denny in'?"
"Denny?" sai)1 the surprised WO -
man. "My Denny? No, he's not
in. Is the ship here?"
"Sure, it is. And Denny's not
got home yet? That's quare — 'un-
less something has happened him,"
"What would happen him?" Mrs.
lekCarthy asked, anxiously,
-There's plenty or things can hap-
pen a man," said Larry, delicately.
"He ;night have got hurtod, or be
might have took eick with the fever,
But there's one comfort, as Father
McGinnis said once, and that is that
time heals iviry grief."
"What do you mean, 1110', Oeprion?"
"I mane that if anything happen-
ed to Denny, you wouldn't feel as
bad about it a few months atter it
happened as you would right at the
tinie, would you?"
"I suppose not," said Mrs. McCar-
thy. "I mind whin I 10St 1110 first
husband I thought I'd never get over
11. But, as you soy, in a few
months it was aisier to beat."
"Then, Mrs. McCarthy, you'll he
glad to know that it's 11011 four
months — nearly five — since Denny
died. Sure, i1 can't grieve you 11010
as mueli as it would if you'd known
It at the time."
NEEDED INVE'NTIONS.
Nave you an inventive mind? If
so, you have a fortune in your
head—if you only know how to get
it out. Marc's your chance. Here
are thirteen things the world needs,
for either one of which it will pay
you a fortune:
A wall -papering machine,
A. quick -acting monkey -wrench.
A rail joint without nuts and
A screbbing machine.
A cuspidor that will not spill
when upset.
A 'trolley that will not come off
the wire.
An oil can that will not explode.
A quick fire -hose coupling without
screw threads.
Combination ironing -board and
step -ladder.
A music leaf turner.
A window lock and burglar alarm,
An envelope that cannot be open-
ed without detection.
A simple nut lock.
-
The world eats 2,640,000 pm of
butter a year,
"Although X hate work," mused
idle Tim, "der is one job 1 wouldn't
mind ttkin'," "What job is that'?"
queried Dusty Dan. "Why, coloein'
meerschaum pipes."
Mamma (to Flossie, who has been
lunching with a little frien(1) — "X
hope you were vole" Polite, Flossie,
at the table, and said 'Yee, please,'
and 'No, thank you.' " Flossie —
''etell, I didn't. say 'No, thane;
you.
"Are you afraid to go cloWnstairs
and loolc for that man who is ran-
sacking the :house?" asked Mr. Meek -
ton's wife. "Certainly not. I ain
perfectly willing to go and look for
him, nut, IlenrieLtn, I'm afraid
you have been innking a mistake
with me all those years, You ought
to have developed ney conversa-
tional POWOra 17101'0, After I find
the burglar I Won't know what to
Say to hint, You'll have to stand
at the head of the stens and do tho
talking."
A noted humorist had often peti-
tioned the council of the town whey°
110 1.081de01 to fill up tt 11111(l.11010 110111'
his house, hut without, vomit, One
night he heard n, spinttering noise
and sinideer Nincroatfolls mot for
publication, and, going' to his door,
he found a reepeettel member Of Ole
Town Connell flotiralering about in
tho mud -hole, "Good eVelting, sir;
lern glad to see you Airliner 111 this
matter at Met," and am:saying he
(dosed the dooe and left, tho tom'
councilloe to catenate himself as
beet he 3100 1(1.
GHANCE FOR ENGLISHMEN
A WRITER GIVES ROSIL: VIEW
02 CANADA'S ruwunn,
Refers to Northwest as Land
Where Dollars Fly as Thick
as Bone*
Canada to -day presents an object
lespon 111 progreesive 'agricultural de-
velopinent such as no other country
can claim for its 01111, either on thie
00 on the other side of the Atlantic,
zsettlyfice.a writer in the 8 t. Jainee'
Ga-
0uie,dian commercial expansion is
Secured departmentally, by unita,
each departmental chief being not
only a worker, but the master -work-
man of hie craft. The council of the
nation is a correlation of forces, re-
sulting in perfected mechanism,
working truly 111 every part, no sec-
tthioensmbeoinoth 013pMelinaittftoe: of ttoh el ntelivel,,uot
machine. Not many years ago Can-
ada was importing some foods; to-
day she is the granary of Great Bri-
tain and her other colonies "beyond
the seas;" and in dairy prodeme not
only in point of :quantity but espe-
cially in that of quality she is fast
forging, ahead,
A canAT LN'CREASE.
Of the total imports of butter in-
to the United Kingdom six years
ago, Canada contributed only .46
per cent., while last year she sent
4.28 pea cent. While Canadian ex-
ports of butter between 1895 and
1902 have increased in bulk, the
price has risen by 18.70 per cent.,
so that last season'e increase in
price applied to 910 quantity ex-
ported is equal to an 11101e08e of
11)134,534 over the business of the
season of 1901.
In cheese laet year, with all the
world against her in open competi-
tion, Canada exported and sold to
Great Britain 55.5 per cent, of the
total of the importations of that
product to the old country. In value,
Canadian exports of cheese' to Great
Britain haVe increased from
780,000 in 1896 to 1133,020,000 odd
during the twelve months ended June
last; during the same period Do-
minion butter exports to the moth-
erland have grown from 11178,600 to
111,091,860; while Canadian butter
exports to Great 13ritain in 3 895
were worth only 11107,3110.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
In 1890 Canada exported to Great
Britain 011131 111.29,072 worth of ba-
con, hams, and pork, but clueing the
last fiscal year --1 901-2—of the total
value of these articles — 1112,491,578
—the old country took 112,478,081
worth. In the former year Great
Britain purchased L1,e874,413 worth
of cheese from Canada; this year, of
a total of 114,1119,301 produced, she
secured C8,92.4,048 worth. In 1890
Canada sold to the motherland 1177,-
778 worth of wheat, 11104,277
worth of flour, and 1151,232 worth
of oats; this year she sold in the
same market 11.3,604,852 worth of
wheat, 11458,012 worth of flour, and
111346,030 woi•th of 0015.! Taking ba-
con, hams, pork, butter, cheese,
cattle, sheep, lambs, oggs, wheat,
flour, oats, oatmeal, peas, and ap-
pEs diming the last fiscal year, out
of a total aggregate value grown In
and exported from Canada of 1116,-
148,876, the 'markets of Great Bri-
tain purchased 1114,857,887 worth,
or 91.9 per cent.
Another important item lies in the
fact that tho Canadian poultry trade
between Groat 13r1tain and the Do-
minion has grown from L2,200 to
114,8,709 in less than six years, while
the total exporLation of goods of
all kinds, the produce of Canada, to
Great Britain, has risen froom 1119,-
800,404 in 1892 to L89,208,953 in
1902, coin and bullion not being in-
cluded.:
EASY TO Gm A START,
If a mom enter Canada, with little
more than his fare, he can always
obtain steady farm employment for
one, two or throe years, and mean-
while he will, 11 110 be careful, have
earned and saved enough to start
fanning on his own account; and the
practical training he has Owe ob-
tained will enable him to increase
the value of his holding by at least
1180 a year, or 400 dollars in Can-
adian currency, If a man have 11100
clear on first reaching his home-
stead; he is in a. position to make
a fair beginning on free grant land.
The man who hires himself to a far-
mer foe 0110, two or three years,
will be kept hard at work during the
seediog and harvesting periods; but
he will find ample time during other
months of the year to perform the
statutory and necessary work on his
free homestead, The young or other
man with ample means can always
purchase an improved farm, where
he can at once reap the benefit. In-
tending settlers are warned against
purchasing agricultural implements
except in Canada, because farming
here requires special tools, and every
necessary specialty adapted for this
country can be purchased cheaper
Canada than elsewhere, besiclee saw-
ing mist of carriage, which 18 a, seri.,
118 11.11'0AnlIiNING TO SETTLERS.
The intending settler in, likewise,
warood against putting his trust in,
and above all entrnstIng hie money
to, anybody, howeVer, apparently re-
spectable, in the belief that they con-
fer rimy special 100031,3 111)011 him
which he cannot obtain himself on
application to the officers of the
Canadian (10\inamant, This article
10 being written during the fourth
week in Novembee in the capital of
the Dominion, at 1)1) open window in
O room free NOM (l1'0 01' Other art)»
ficial heating, mid with the warm
eaye of the sun pouring upon these
Weeds as they are penned — it is tt
typical fine bright :English autumn
day, with paths leaf-liestrewed, and
the lofty range of the bled Lateen -
Gans, which streteh from tho banks
of the mighty St. Lawrence to the
houncls of Hteloon's Bay, etanding
out in held relief far 11101"0 clearly do -
fined against tho azure sky then
Coniston Old Mail, HiciAllaW, Saddle-
back, or Ffelyellys. on the clearest
elay 1>1 earee! =tenni, ,