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People Are Not Ready to Give Up
Their Pet Sins.
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A. despatch from Chicago says
Rev, Dr. Talmage preached from the
following text :-Luke xiv, 18, "And
they all with one consent began to
make excuse "
it is comparativelydom that
seldom
men are convinced by argument. In
every period the great discoverer or
philosopher, howsoever 111,astable
his arguments, has been treated
with incredulity and sometimes with
ridicule. The young scientist who
read a paper some years ago argu-
ing that the coral islands were
built by a small Insect was perse-
cuted and expelled from the french
academy, and, broken hearted and
in disgrace, he committed suicide.
To introduce any innovation into
the realm of thought by the power
of argument is a task that few have
the courage to attempt acrd fewer
still the power to achieve,
But though argument and fact are
often futile there are two wizards
who can always charm -he who can
tell a story and he who can paint
a picture. With ono flash the artist
of the brush or pen can carry the
truth home. The public speaker who
wields the greatest influence to -clay
is not the scientist or rho logician,
but the orator who can tell the
common people what a thing is like.
Christ nearly always spoke in par-
ables. His analogies were the wheat
and the tares and the mustard seed
and the birds of the air and the
lilies of the valley. Everybody can
understand a similitude,
One of these matchless sitnilitudee
is the scone of the •text. The king-
dom of heaven is compared to a
feast to which many guests have
been invited. Mainers and customs
change, but in allperiods and in
all lands the idea of a feast has
been familiar. They have been cele-
brated front time imunemorial,
EXCUSES OLD AND NEW.
Let us examine the excuses by
which the men of old evaded this
feast and see how closely they re-
semble the excuses by which men of
the present day try to justify them-
selves in their refusal to sit down
at the marriage banquet of the
Lamb. FIrst, the capitalist's ex-
cuse. Hardly had the ancient ban-
" quet table been prepared when we
`scan see a courier's horse dash up
to the would-be host's house. The
- messenger is dressed in the liveried
costume of one of the rich men of
the east. He dismounts and knocks
at the front door, When the servant
gpeis that door, the messenger
hands in a scented missive which
reads something like this : "My
dear friend, much to my regret, I
find it impossible to he with you
to -night. I know you expected me,
but I have just closed a big deal.
I have become the owner of a large
tract of land, and 1 must go out
and see it, I pray then have me
excused. Though I am compelled to
be absent in body, yet I shall be
with you to -night in spirit. Adieu,
my dear sir, until we meet at my
own table." 1Vhen the good man of
the house receives this letter, his
eye flashes. The Bible distinctly de-
clares in reference to this episode ;
"Then the master of the house being
angry"-IIe read between the lines
of that refusal. He knew that this
capitalist was making a poor ex-
cuse he knew that the capitalist
as an intelligent investor would'lev-
er have bought that land unless he
had first seen it, examined it and
ascontained that its title deeds were
all right. The good man may have
had his suspicion that the capitalist
of the east, now that he was a
great landowner, felt a little above
his old associates and therefore may
have thoumht it was not dignified
for him to mingle with ordinary
guests at a common banquet, and
thus he stayed away. So we find
that the hardest men and women
to reach in a gospel sense are the
ri^h people. They do not always
think it respectable to associate
with representatives of the masses
in a church pew, They would bo
willing to go to heaven if they
could only go in a gilded chariot,
as a king might go to Westminster
abbey and be crowned. They would
gladly go if they could only bribe
their way there by a million dollar
check. But they are not willing to
be suppliants after the Bread of
Life when their own granaries aro
full of winter supplies and their
thrashing floors crowded with tiro
thrashers beating and bruising the
grain.
LOVE CANNOT DE BOUGHT,
Neither will money buy love.
Toney may buy sycophancy. It may
Y.rtal.e servants and so-called friends
how and cringe before us, but the
8ongstross of love is not a hireling
tybo sings her seraphic strains to
the jingling accompaniment of gold-
en coins. True love is woe by the
heart, not by the purse. True love
is found smiling as winsomely in a
cottage as fn a palace. Neither, 0
rich man, can you with money buy
your way Into leaven. If you have
no tame to seek Cod in his ]rouse
on earth, you will not be able to
find Christ in mansions in the skies
If you do not honor your Saviour
before iron, neither wiil Christ honor
you before tbo angels, who aro now
• assembled about the great White
throha of the celestial city. "'Clow
Starch slid ho leave ?" asked a
gentleman in referonoe to acertain
deceased rich man, "He left every-
thing," was tho answer, "I3is
811road had no poolcot, 80 far ea
Weld see,""" So, rich matt, you will
take before the jud inont Seat of
Ohrigt trot What you 11010 field In
your hand,- but what you have in
your heart. Therefore, it is very
Important that you do not with
fatal self complacency as to your
wealth and social prestige and your
ownership of mortgages turd bonds
and land titles blind your eyes to
the importance of going to the gos'
pel banquet.
t
7IF WAGE EARNER'S S
R's r�cu5I
Whom in modern h
e u life sloes s t t
stock Owner represent ? Ile 8y111-
b01lzcs tiro practising doctor or la1y-
500 or small merchant or manufac-
turer or mechanic or salaried em-
ployee engaged in a daily struggle
for a livelihood. IIe represents, as
Matthew henry well wrote, the ratan
with "the inordinate care and con-
cern about this world which keeps
him from Christ and Itis grace." lie
represents the father and husband.
who on Saturday night says '-
We11, I have worked hard all the
week. I am too tired to go to
church to -morrow and do God's
work. It is all well enough to think
about religion, but the simple fact
is, in this strenuous earthly life I
must look after my business and
keep looking after it all the timo."
Ile represents the business man who
at first does not intend to do
wrong, but, little by little, ho al-
lows
his business to crowd out his
duties to Christ. k'irst, he gives up
Prayer meeting on account of busi-
ness; then his daily reading of the
llib1el then his Sunday services.
Little by little he allows himself to
drift away from -Gori until at last
the invitation to the gospel ban-
quet falls upon unheeding ears.
TIIE BRIDEGROOM'S EXCUSE,
But, hark! Another knock is heard
at the door of the good man's house.
"Aha," you say, "think of the:fool-
islt excuse this third expected guest
has sent! He says he is a bride-
groom and therefore cannot come.
Why did he not do as Mfr. Moody
said he ought to have done - go to
the banquet hall and take his wife
along?" But, my friend, this excuse
of the bridegroom ought not to be
to you an object of derision. Of all
the excuses which Ohrist stated in
the parable I think this one was the
most plausible and the most ra-
tional. Tbe bridegroom in the east,
by the custom of that tltne, might
be looked upon leniently for answer-
ing as he did. The Hebrews consider-
ed --marriage one of the most sacred
and important events of a human be-
ing's life. Every young girl epont
her time chiefly in preparing for her
nuptial day. She was always spin-
ning linen and making garments for
the wedding trousseau. Every
young man was taught that his
duty to the world and to God was
to maery, He did not enter into
this marriage relationship in a hap-
hazard way, as do many of the
young people of the present time.
Ile did not marry upon a momen-
tary impulse. Ilut the young people
were often affianced for years before
the wedding day. Then, by the old
Hebrew as well as by the Roman
law, a bridegroom was absolutely
independent of all military- and, to a
great extent, of civil obligations for
a whole year. After the wedding
night for twelve long months he was
allowed to stay at hone under his
own roof. So when the bridegroom
of the east sent a refusal tocome to
the banquet he practically said, as
hundreds and thousands of wives
and mothers are now saying: "I
cannot afford to coupe to Christ's
banquet at the present time. I have
any home duties to attend to. I have
domestic obligations. I pray thee
have the excused."
THE DUTY OF PARENTS,
Resides, parents, how can you
have the right influence over your
children unless you are consecrated
Christian Wren and women? Iiow
can a father and mother tell their
children how to love the Lord Jesus
unless they themselves have accept-
ed the invitation to the gospel ban-
quet? Can the blind lead tho blind?
Can something come front nothing?
I lift a clay vase in my hand and
smell the sweetest fragrance. I say:
"0 vase, whence came thy perfume?,
Were thy substances Migrant before
the hot Are of the potter's furnace
touched thee?" "Nay," answers the
vase. "The reason I au perfumed
is because hundreds of flowers have
been plucked and have been allowed
to kiss me with their red and white
lips." Upon the sand dunes of the
seashore I pick up a curiously twist-
ed shell. I place it to my ear and
I hear a low, moaning sound, I say
to tho shell, "Shell, why dost thou
moan like a sick child?" "Because,"
answers the 811011, "I have been roll-
ed over and over into the bottom of
the seas, I have been allowed to
place my ear against the great
throbbing, aching heart of the
mighty deep. I am merely echoing
the sorrow of the sea waves,that are
now lapping at thy feet," Thus We
find that by the direct law of nature
there is no affect without a cause. If
you, 0 parents, desire your child -
rams lives to be redolent with the
perfume of righteousness and their
hearts and lips to be musical with
the songs of heaven, you must take
cam that they are surrounded with
heavenly hituencos while they are
young. If you want them to be at
the gospel banquet, you rntist lead
the way and not yourselves answer
the invitation with a felvolous ex-
cus0.,
THE OCTOPUS CF sr.carmT SIN,
The next roman why "they all
with ono consent began to notice, ex-
am" was because they expected at
some future tame to aoeept the gos-
pel invitation, This is a most na-
tural enpposition to make in Inter-
preting the text, They might have
stayed away and made eta ex01150,
jtut then the host would have been
offended and would never have in -
affect them again. They wanted to
keephis good will so that he might
invie theat some future time. If
those Invited guests never expected
t0 .accept an invitation to the good
man's. house, they would have said
to themselves: "What is the good of
my
aittiug down every little while
and writing to that man that I can-
not accept his invitations? Ifo Is
becoming nothing but a perfect
bore, What I will do heretCter is
just to throw Itis invitations Into
the waste basket, Then, after
awhile, he will cease to write and
will stop Itis importunities," But,
no, That is not the course these
Invited guests took, They metal -
catty said to themselves, "1 will
keep on sending my dcrlination,
year in and year out, and then sumo
day, when I ant old and sick and
helpless and about to die, I will just
I carried k I
be down on m sick bed and
4
3
that good elan will take ease of mo
and forgive all tite indifference and sin
of my Aust life," You expect to
some day come to Christ, but you
keep saying to the gospel messenger:
"Not now. Not now. Not now."
ACCEPT TI11(1 INVITATION NOW.
My brother and sister invited to
Jesus Christ, I ant not going to
force you to any decision. I ant go-
ing to leave the whole matter with
yourself. Instead of asking you to
come to the gospel banquet now I
am going to ask you when you will
came. Will you come to Ohrist ten
years from to -day? "Oh, no," you
answer; "I would not like to post-
pone the gospel invitation as long
as that," I may never live ten
years. 'Pen years is a very long
time. As I look back over my past
life I can see how many unexpected
things have happened during ton
years. Many of my best and dear-
est friends have died during those
ten yea's. They were just as young
and strong as I am now. I cannot
afford to wait ten years." Then
will you come In five years? "No; T
will not delay it five years. That is
also too long. I bare had certain
warnings that I may not live Ave
;rears. There was a strange pain in
ray heart; there was that dizzy sen-
sation in my head," Then will you
come next year or next month to
the gospel banquet? "No," you an-
swer; "I dare not postpone this gos-
pel invitation for a year or even for
a month. I know that the gospel
invitation will not press itself upon
the in a month with the same pow-
er as it is now doing. Each day I
postpone this matter it is harder for
me to come," Then, my brother and
sister, will you accept this gospel
invitation now? W111 you not ask
for a full pardon of your sins? 1Vi11
you not ask for a robe of righteous-
ness which has been crimsoned from
the blood of the Calvary cross?
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
MARCH 22.
Text of the Lesson, Eph. ii., 1-10.
Golden Text, Eph. if., 8.
1. And you bath he quickened, who
were dead in trespasses and sins.
The last clause of this perse de- laid ivory, each piece a perfect gem
scribes the condition of all, without of Indian art, was displayed. To
exception, until redeemed, and the make this collection the whole vast
sante sad truth is found in such pas- Indian empire was ransacked, and
sages as Itom. iii, 23; v, 12; Tit, the palaces and temples of more
than a hundred native princes gave
up their precious ornaments.
Notable in the collection was a
lady's clothes chest, three feet long
and carved of Ivory. Across the lid
all who desire to bo good are and sides of the snowy white casket
Christians, A minister in New Yotic a night of broad twinged bids Ant-
is reported as recently having said flut-
tered through a delicately wrought
that - he knew nothing of the new a od g ate y
birth and had never experienced it. tracery of trees and flowers. The
In sytite of all that men say ""'"Let
nd secret of the workmanship of this
teach wo must say, "Let God be wonderful chest has long been lost,
true and Query man a liar" (Rom. even among the hereditary Ivory
ill, 4) carvers of India. The box, al-
a, 3. Children of disobedience * * though made out of ono piece of
* * by nature the children of wrath, material, has been so constructed
that It has the appearance of a
triplicate nest of chests, one sot
into the other, •the sides of each of
these sections being carved and
wrought in a design peculiar to
itself.
'There is also a strange cabinet,
Ave feet high, constructed entirely
of ivory, each section of which, al-
though carved front ono piece, is
quadruplicate and bears its' own de-
sign, leaf, flower and bird, even of
above, however, it may vay, is in the iaaet t0oat piece, being wrought
oach one a life according to the with infinite detail,
A chess board, a turban box and
a groat mirror frame were other
wonder compelling things, while the
imagination stands appalled before
a small oblong jewel casket. Its
dead, with Him, burled with 134m,
risen with flint suffering with
Ulm, glorified with flim, coating
with flim (Gal. it, 20; Rom. NI,
4-6; viii, 17; Cot. ill, 1-4). What
He did and suffered tor us in our
stood as our substitutes wo aro
looked upon as having done and
suffered with )Tim, Ole cannot feel
nor realize this, but we can firmly
believe it, and that is e'ltat ITe
asks us to do, Only in the nos to
comeal 1c t
shall e sea the fullsignifi-
cance of 1t all, w11011 with 1111 saints
we shall eouprebencl, as We cannot
now, the breadth and length land
depth and height ot the 101'o that
passeth knowledge (blj11, ill, 18,
10),
8, 9. For by grace aro ye saved
through faith, and that not of
yourselves
It is theg ift of Cod
not of rkS
t 1" to lost any anon should
boast,
The law 1005 givoa\by Moses, but
grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. ITe was full of grace and
truth (John i, 14, 17). Truth tells
and shows just what we aro, and
grace saves us in spite of It all.
Not only do the epistles begin and
end with something about grace,
but sante of them are very full of
grace. In his own case Paul felt
that the grace of God was exceeding
abundant (I Tim, 1, 1.4), and in his
epistle he has much to say of the
glory of His grace and the exceed-
ing riches of llis grace (1, 6, 7 ;
11, 7). I do not know that it is
better defined anywhere than in 7:1
Cor, viii, 9, and when we can see
and know hots rich Ifo was and re-
alize in some measure how poor Its
became for us we shall then know
more fully the meaning of grace.
10. For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jostle unto good
works which God hath before or-
dained (prepared) that we should
walk in them.
While no works of ours can either
save us or help to save us, or add
to our safety, but if saved it must
be by the work of Christ alone, yet
there is in God's plan an abundance
of work for saved people. I have
found that if you ask a company of
Christians to repeat a verse begin-
ning "This is a faithful saying"
they almost invariably repeat I
Tint. 1, 15, but it is a very rare
thing for any one to repeat Tit.
HHI, 8, litany know John lit, 16, but
very few seem to know I John lit,
16. Many are willing to be saved
freely by the grace of God, but not
so many are willing to work out
that 'salvation day by day (Phil, ii,
12), for it costs more humility and
self denial than many are willing to
let God give them. If we only knew
Him better, His love would con-
strain us to be gladly willing to
Have Him wor]c in and through us
all the good works Ile has pre-
pared for us. He needs not our
works but men do.
EAST INDIAN IVORY WORK.
Exhibit at the Durbar Fine Art
Show at Delhi.
In the fine art exhibition held at
Delhi during the durbar an ines-
timable treasure of carved and in -
hi, 8; but the natural man rebels
against it, and especially the edu-
cated, religious natural man, who
teaches that all people are children.
of God, that there is good in all and
even as others,
This is as God sees us, and He
alone is qualified to tell us what our
hearts are like, Tor they are deceit-
ful above all things and desperately
wicked (Jer, xvIi, 0, 10). The
whole world Both in the evil one,
and he, as the prince of the power
of tho air, the prince of this world,
rules it and its people (1 John v, 19;
John sits, 30; :ova 11). The life or
walk of all who are not barn from
course of this world, fulfilling the
desires of the flesh and of the mind,
and it is all disobedience, under the
control of the evil one.
4„5, But God, who is rich in
mercy, for His great love wherewith surfaces are covered by a lacelike
ITe loved us, even when two Were tracery, depicting some ancient myth
dead in sins, ]cath quickened us to- of old Delhi, Beasts, and birds, and
gether with Christ (by grace yo ar trees, and flowers, and strange hea-
saved), then gods are wrought; with surpas-
"God columendeth His love to- sing beauty out of the creamy ole -
ward ars, in that while we were yet phant tusk,
sinners Christ died for us," "When The marvel is not that it took the
Ivo were yet without strength, Christ patient artist prince thirty years to
died for the ungodly." "When we clo It, but that It should have been
were enemies, wo were reconciled to possible to do ft at all. For 10 must
God by the death of His Son" be remembered that those old ivory
(Rom, v, 0, 8, 10). "God so loved carvers did not have the modern Pa-
the world (that is, the world lying ditties for carving their material or
in the wicked one) that Ile gave His the best instruments for carving and
only begotten Son that whosoever cutting, All of this wonderful work
bolievoth in Him should not perish, was done with two thin bladed
but have everlasting life" (Jolla 111, knives and a sharp pointed ferrule
16), This letter was•writton to the or chisel,
saints, the faithful in Christ Jesus Notwithstanding the fact, however,
(1, 1), those who had believed on that these marvels aro beyond the
Hiim and truly received I•Ilrn and hope of the modern artists attain -
wore therefore accepted 10 the TM- inerts, the Delhi exhibition has stim-
loved, in whom. they had redelnIttion elated an increased interest in the
lay Ills lalood, the forgiveness 0f sins possibilities of ivory as a material
and wore blessed with all spiritual worthy of the skill of the present
blessings in ITim (1, 8, 6, 7),, Paul day,
is showing them how it all canto . ,�--
and retnincling there of their condi- A MISMANAGED COIiPI.,IMEN C,
tion by nature, that they might
watch themselves, 111'vo no eonlidenco "I consider it an insult," said
in themselves, but rejo10 in Christ TSiss Passeigh,
Jesus (Phil, B1, 8). "You don't refer to that' immense
0, 7. That in the ages to roma He bunch of roses?"
might show the exceeding riches of "I do, It's a birtltdoy reinem-
Ilis graco in Iris kindness toward us 1)0ancc, and the card on it says: 'May
through Christ Jesus, emelt of these beautiful flowers repro-
Q•uiekenecd with Christ, raised up sent a year of your life,' "
With TTbtt, seated with. Iiia In the ---------•-•
heavenl)cs, aro. some of the truths Ella - "Is Voila a girl of high
th
in these and -l)1'Oceding versos, ideals?" Stella -- "I guess so. Site's
7Cllkewlrere It is eruelikel with 114m, chgaged to a elaefcoter,"
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FOR Telk HOME
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0 Reotpes for the Kitchen.
o hygiene and Other Notes
® for the Housekeeper.
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POM "TIIE IIOUSEWIF1,.
Any vegetable of assertive flavor
will be improved for persons who
ate inclined to scorn it by first
parboiling it. Cabbage will bo
found far more delicate if it is treat-
ed in this way.
Instead of sprinkling lavender
among the bed linen of the linen
closet, as theirg randntothers did,
many house -keepers now keep their
sheets and pillow cases between
large sachets which are perfumed
with lavender, sweet clover, or de-
licately scented sachet powder.
Others, who like the odor of the
"pity woods," keep flat sachets
filled with pine needles tacked at
the corners and sides of the mat-
tresses. This odor is thought by
some to be sleep producing.
Skilful laundresses know that to
iron a starched article when too
dry results in breaking the threads
of linen, which in it short time
makes the frayed edge or the hole.
They also know that hot water
dampens the clothes more evenly
than cold, and makes the garment
more quickly ready for the iron. A
sprinkler, which is much butter than
the hand, can be bought at the
house -furnishing shops. It consists
of a ru'b'ber bulb, with a rose sprink-
ler
prinkler attached -just like those the
florist uses for watering the plants
in his window.
Oriental eggs is a dainty savory
suitable for a supper and is made
with three hard boiled eggs, one
tablespoonful of cream, ono dessert-
spoonful of Worcltostersltire sauce,
ono dessertspoonful anchovy sauce,
one dessertspoonful of vinegar, sea-
soning to taste, and six small slices
of bent root. When the eggs have
been boiled and arc cool shall them,
cut them in two, remove the yolks
and pound them in a mortar, add
to them the cream, sauces, vinegar,
and seasoning. Force this mixture
through a rose forcer into the half
cups of white of eggs, place each
cup on a small round of beet root,
and garnish the dish by placing
curled lettuce leaves or endive
round.
Curried apples aro a novelty with
many persons, To prepare them
core a half dozen large tart apples
and arrange them in a baking dish.
Cream together four tablespoonfuls
of butter and a cupful' of brown
sugar, and beat in a tablespoonful
of curry powder and a tablespoonful
of lemon juice. rill the space left
by the cores with the mixture, and
,bak in a quick oven.
Do not clean plate glass mirrors
with soap and water, which sooner
or later dim the surface. Alcogol
and water is safe, • bout unless tho
mirror is actually dirty, rubbing
with a soft cloth cleanses it perfect-
ly, It is hest not to use soap on
table glass, much of which is rather
soft and easily scratched. For this
reason avoid the many patent pol-
ishing powders and cloths advertis-
ed to give a high polish to good
glass.
A divan or couch piled with
cushions seems to be accepted as
the correct thing for every der,
snug'gory, or living room, but in no
part of the house -furnishing is taste
more often offended than in this par-
ticular arrangement. We copy reck-
lessly the Oriental effects, juggling
them together in such a literal
"riot" of colors that jar and dis-
cord follow. If many cushions are
wanted and Eastern stoats are liked.
'as covering's, they- should bo °arcfulr
lye selected in relation to each other
and to the cover'. If the wood of
the couch or sofa is in evidence,
that, too, should ' be 'considered.
I•ifch Persian effects aro out of har-
mony on a white enamel settee . or
couch, as ate dainty cushions of
white silk, or fine embroidered linen
against a massive mahogany an-
tique, covered in some heavy dark
stuff. What is appropriate, in the
boys' den or smoking room is quite
unsuitable in the digt'tifled library or
drawing -room. Yet cushions, lilce-
beic-arbrac are constantly being
bought and mado in the most irre-
levant fashion -for their individual
effect alone --'and .with never a
thought of what their environment,
will be. -
SALADS.
Cucumber • and Olive Salad -Cut
oucumbors in halves, scoop out the
seeds and they will resemble boats.
Fill with ohopped olives that have
been stuffed with anchovies and pour
a French dressing over. Scoop out
tomatoes and' 1111 with the same
mixture, Arrange both cucumbers
and tomatoes together on a bed of
lettuce leaves; This salad may bo
served with rho fish course.
Canary Salad -Cut a slice from
tho stem end of red apples and
scoop out the inside. Fill with a
mixture of grape fruit, apple and
celery cut Ane. Put a spoonful of
mayonnaise in each, then garnish
with tittle eggs made front, Neuseh-
atel cheese and colored with vege-
table' coloring; on this pooh a little
birch also molded from the tinted
cheese, Set this apple on lettuce
leaves.
Iletedvard Salad - Out Cucumbers
cooked sweetbreads, and celery into
0ubes and cover with oil dressing.
Serve In lomon baskets, For the
dressing, mash yolks of four heed -
boiled. eggs until smooth, Add half
tablespoonful sugar, half teaspoon
mu.ota•d, half teaspoon salt a:hcl
fete greinna cayenne ; then, gradually
four tablespoons oil and four table-
spoons vinegar, Stir inlightly
white 0f egg and one quarter cup
heavy cream beaten until stiff.
Russian 1 Salad -Make an WIC
jelly and mould In small shapes
With email bits of cooked Vegetobled,
Servo with a French dressing mado
i to
p q art with tnUasco nod paprika,
Salad Molls -•-These ntay bo mado
Into twists or alleles or plain tolls,
Scald ono cup mills ; add three level
tablespoons sugar,' half a teaspoon
salt, When Naumann add, ono yeast
cake dissolved it1 ono -quarter CAP
lukewarm water, white of an egg
and flour to knead. Cover and let
else, Out down and lot rise again,
shape again, lot rico, and balm in a
hot ovon,ltrush over before baking
with egg slightly beaten, diluted
with one tablespoon milk.
G001) RECIPE'S.
Roast Becf.-Wipe the beef care-
fully with a piece of cheese -cloth
wrung from cold water, sprinkle
with salt and dredge with flour. Put
tho beef on a rack in the dripping
pan and not directly on the bottom
of the pan Allow 18 minutes in
the orae for every pound of beef
and baste every ten minutes,
)crown Gravy --Toho throe table-
spoons of the fat in the dripping
pan, acid to it three level table-
spoons of flour and brown; turn in
ono and ono -quarter cups of hot
water and cook five minutes,
Roast Lamb - Prepare like the
beef antl stuff with cracker crumbs
buttered and seasoned and with a
little Worcheetorshire sauce added..
Bake 15 minutes to the pound.
Durrant Jelly Sauce -Make a
brown gravy and add one-half glass
of currant jolly ; serve when, the
jelly is melted.
Mashed Potatoes -Boll six pota-
toes, press through a ricer, add one-
half cup of butter, salt, pepper and
about one-half cup of hot )Wilk. Beat
well and reheat.
Sweet Potato Croquettes -Boit and
rice enough sweet potatoes to make
two cups ; moisten with three level
tablespoons of butter and the yolks
of two eggs. Season with salt, pep-
per and a speck of nutmeg. Shape,
dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs and
fry in deep fat. hominy calces may
also bo served with roasts.
Brussels Sprouts -Soak in salted
salted water until tender, drain; re-
heat in a while sauce and serve in
water 20 minutes, cools in boiling
timbal cases.
PROGRESS OF INVENTION.
An electrically charged wird grid-
iron is the newest fly killer.
A red colored solution now obvi-
ates the need of a dark room in pho-
tography,
A Trench scientist has cheapened
the production of liquid air by half,
so that its use in the arts may now
be profitable.
The use of electricity in every -day
affairs is developing enormously in
Groat Britain, The usual price is
2} cents per unit.
By the use of electrical appliances
three men now do the charging of
twenty furnaces at Homestead, Pa.,
which formerly required 200.
In the automatic ' apparatus for
making altitude and temperature
tracings in balloons sent above to
heights in which sten would be froz-
en, Prof. Assman has invented a pen
which writes rod with saltpeter ink
on lampblacked paper.
A bill is proposed in the Gorman
rolchstag to prohibit tato use of
phosphorus in making matches, on
the ground that the government has
acquired the patent of a new ignit-
ing substance harmless to the health
of the employes and has placed it at
the disposal of the match factories.
"Big Bon," the world fatuous clock
in the tower of the houses of parlia-
ment, London, is being lit at last
by electricity, so that its time may
bo read during 'the occasional clear
nights, It is still unreliable,- how-
ever, not ]raving been cleaned since
'88, and its weekly winding takes
two men twelve hours.
MATRL130NIAL AGENCY.
Australia, with its 2,970,906
aquare.tuiles, is 26 times the size of
Groat Britain and Ireland, yet it has
a population of 8,818,728, Of these
there aro 200,000- blacks, 'Asiatics,
etc„ and the remainder aro of Bri-
tish extraction. New Zealand, with
its 1.04:,471 square milds, has but
830,758 people. The United King-
dom with its paltry 121,115 square
miles, has 41,456,953 people crowd-
ed together, for tho train part in the
towns, Many enterprising and in-
genious attempts have been made to
got Englishmen to go out of this
part of the empire, Sir Horace Toz-
er, Agent -General for Queensland,
has conducted the biggest matrimon-
ial agency ,on earth in order to got
young women out to tits state to
settle clown and marry, He has
sent out thousands of young women
wito have found good homes and hus-
bands therd, It cost Queensland
three million pounds 00 do it, but.
she is getting her reward in a num-
orous, settled and prosperous pope
lotion,
4 -
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Some men owe more to their wives
than they ever get paid.
'A man is seldom as smart or as
foolish as his wife thinks ho is,
Strenuous pursuit of the impOsel
hlo begets activity minus the re
ward,
Think of your own faults and you
will talk less about the faults of
others.
It is easier to get a modiste to
cut a gown than 10 is, to get her to
cuttho pries.
A third party may he all right in
polities, but when it comes to court-
ship it's different.
Money xray not make the man, but
that doesn't prevent the man front
trying to make money.
Tbe average woman can detect
flattery every timo - except, of
coarse, when it is laviebed upon her -
501 ft It is difficult to believe that every-
thing is for tiro beat, but there is
no reason why we should not try to
make the best of everything,
"I wee shoelced', to notice your
husbaltd out shooting on the Sab-
bath," said the Rov, Mr, Strato'-
Ince. "7011 would have been atilt
More shocked," roplied the offender's
wife, "if you had heard his remarks
about b if1 }Tuck 't
THE CONCILIATION ACT,
IT HAS BEEN CONDEMNED ESI
NEW ZEALAND,
Summary of the Nest Remark-
able Legislation Ever
Passed,
A despatch trout Wolahngton, N,Z„
to Tho London Times says that dts-
satisfaction In New Zealand wltlt
the Arbitration Act is evidently in-
creasing. A.t 1a meeting of Social-
ists and Trades Unionists at Were
lington the speakers strongly con-
demned tb0 working of the measure.
The Unionist officials, says the des-
patch, admitted at the meeting that
h act was failure stated Cita
the afa t enndst tl
militant unionism had boon villod
by it. They declare that they would
not reconsmencl the adoption of such
a treasure in other countries.
HISTORY OF TIDE ACT,
Tho Industrial and Ooncilfation
Act was originally passed in 1804.
Amending Acts were passed In 1895,
].806 and 1808, rt consolidating act
in 1900 and a further amending act
in 1901,
All 'industrial matters," except
indictable offences, come under these
laws, that is, "all matter's affecting
or relating to work done or to be
done by workers, or the privileges,
rights, and duties of employers or
workers in any Industry" ; and.
"workers" include all persons "em-
ployed to do any skilled or unskill-
ed manual or clerical work for hire
or reward in any industry."
Boards of conciliation', consisting
of ono or two representatives of
workers and as ' many employers,
with an independent chairman, are
constituted in the seven districts of
the colony, and a Court of Arbitra-
tion, consisting of one representative
of rho workers, ono of the employ-
er's, and a judge of the Supreme'
Court for president, is appointed for
the whole colony. Two employer's
or seven workers may form an in-
dustrial association ; trades unions
may register as such unions. The
workers' unions elect separately the
workers' representatives to the con-
ciliation boards, and nominate a re-
presentative for' the court ; the em-
ployers' unions do the iiko ; in do -
fault of an. election, the Governor
may fill vacancies. The term of of-
fice
ffice is three years, nliko for the
boards and, the court. Industrial
unions of both parties may enter
into an. "industelal agreement" re-
lating to any industrial matte's, or
for the settlement of disputes. Such
agreements are enforceable at law •
their terra is for three years at
most, but even after the expiry they
hold good until superseded by a
new agreement 01 an award of the
court, Any dispute may bo referred
to a board of conciliation by .an
industrial union (after ballot vote
of members) an industrial associa-
tion or an employer,
NO BIGHTS FOR NUN -UNIONISTS
Unorganized bodies of workmen
have no rights, but once a dispute
is brought before a board, the lat-
ter may extend the reference so that
the matter may be dealt with in a
complete shape. The board, after
hearing the parties, suntutotting wit-
nesses, and malting such enquiry as
it thinks fit, makes within three
months a reoommeudation for set-
tlement, the duration of the same. to
bo fixed within six months and
three years. Either party may ap-
peal from a board to the Court of
Arbitration, but if no appeal Is filed
within a month the board's recom-
mendation operates, and is enforce-
able as an industrial agreeunent. Tho
court has all the powers possessed
by the boards, and sway also compel,
the production of books and docu-
ments, award costs, etc. Its de-
cision must be git'en wlLhin a month
after tho hearing has begun, and is
given by a majority of the court. •
The award of the court is final. A
term of years, not exceeding throe,
must be fixed for its duration, but
after expiry of the sante, it . holds
good.until superseded by a fresh
award or agreement. Tito court has
power to mak tho award In any
case operative beyond the district ot
the original dispute, and applicable
to all competing areas in the colony,
The Act of 1901 specifically mado
awards
BINDING ON NON -UNIONISTS
and on new arms starting business
in a district after the issue of an
award, and expressed in statutory
form the power exercised. previously
by the court of ordering preference
to bo given to trades unionists, 1110
Act of 1901 enabled either party to
go straight to the court, instead of
bringing the case before a board 1
this was intended 1,0 remedy delay
and pressure of business, When a
dispute has been brought before a
board, any act in the nature of a
strike or lockout is forbidden, under
Penalty of +l50 fine, Any breach of
an agreement award is punishable
by Ane of £500 in the case of art
industrial union or an employer,
and .61.0 on any member of a anion,
The funds of a tracks union register-
ed as an industrial union, cann00 bo
attached at law,. except for a
broach of the conciliation acts,
A FRIENDLY OPINION,
Since Oho passing of the Act of
1804, there . have only been some
'half dozen strikes by small bodice
of unorganized Workmen; the trade
of the Colony has risen front LI (1,•
000,000 to :023,000,000 in 190;1,
and the number of persons employed
in factories and workshops from
29,870 to 53460, The Secretary of
Labor says : "The effect of the Act
up to the present has been til great-
ly benefit the working cla.ssee by
raising wages, by shortening tvorlc-
lag hours and by gtvitig (when other
things, such as skirl, etc.,, are equal)
preferoheo to unionist workers." It
is, iherefor'e, difficult to understand
What 0bjcotiod 111.1 trades unionists
should have to. tee Wol'lcing of the