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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-7-30, Page 6SOME CAUSFS IF S1JICI Atheism, Agnosticism and Infidelity Chieflyto Blame. glenters0 according to Act of the Paw boing cremated. au orchestra render !lament of Uwnada, In the year One :nausea(' Nine Bundred and Throe, a programme OI popular and reelect by Wm. gaily, of Tomato, aatwta j music, and thole when at hltermis- • Nepertmoat of Agricutt cion is reached the friend8 ask the --_ nounbers of the orchestra to drink A despatch from Chicago says: 'te tho dead man's memory.' ' That toy, Prank 1)u Witt'Taleuuge preach- is the consistent outcome of rho ed from the following text: Job 11. 11, total annihilation lac•1iut. The earil- •'Out'se Cod and die." est Christian disciple says, "Life is Two incitements—desperate, iicrce, not u, juke; (teeth is not a finale." dolinite, outrageous! The one urges Life is an opportunity for doing itho broken hearted father, the norm- good and for struggling against Mal bankrupt, the physically tor- evil. Because tho good as well as meitted man, to grit Itis teeth and, the crit lives on for ever and ever with flashing oyes and uplifted stand, Wo ought to put ourselves in the. hurl a futile malediction at the Al- hands of the Almighty, who arrange mighty, to curse God with an etern- al blasphemy, What a shocking, appaling st(ggostion! Enough to make all heaven stand aghast in lhor- nor and to render even tiro demon in- fested caverns of a hopeless inferno " silent with four and to turn the 3lushod cheeks aflame with the tires of eternal woe white with terror. Curse God! Who could do that but a human being crazed and desperate and reckless under intolerable ungu- ish? The second inciteuunt puts in the hands of the sufferer the suiclio's knife, the hangman's noose or the vial labeled with the two fatal words, "Deadly Polson." To how many in every age has that insidious temptation come? 'How long will the human race listen to that hide- ous voice which bode Job seek in death eseapc from his misery? That tempter's voice is sounding louder and louder every day. Sha11 the crime of self murder bo allowed longer to spread the pernicious doc- trine that with one stroke of the tenor across the jugular vein or with ono plunge in front of a flying loco- motive or with one leap from high building or lofty palisade the would- be suicide can find rest, eternal rest, Cod given, blissful oblivion for all who are weary of life and peace for souls sick of the re11n1ts of sin? ATHEISM. RESPONSIBLE,. First, I charge atheism with the chief responsibility for the crime. Self murder is tho hidoous black vis- aged executioner of the merciless monster wo call athoiem, agnosti- cism, infidelity. It is tho old, slimy serpont coiled up under the. over- shadowing branches of the gnarled • and worm-eaten tree of unbelief, at the foot of which sits the grinning, blear eyed hag misery crooning a dirge for a lullaby. IL is tho death ratio of a human being whose parched lips have been sot to the TIM al the chalice tilled with the scorching, poisonous concoction of blasphemy and falsehood compound- ed by a Voltaire, a Rousseau, a Thomas Paine or a Robert C. Inger- soll. It is the whetstone, wet with human blood, upon which the moral sensibilities can be blunted and at the same. time the suicide's knife sharpened, for it teaches inunortal man that there Is no hereafter and that he is responsible for his liio's actions to no Divine Maker and King. No suicidal razor was ever honed upon the leaves of the opened Bible. Though the morning newspapers al- most every day are blackened with the awful obituary tragedies of • men and women who have deliber ately taken their lives by the bloody band of self murder, you cannot find among those who perished, in the full possession of reason, a single consecrated Christian church mem- ber. You cannot find one person among them all who realized that be was a beloved child of God and that 13e expected to go to meet a loving Heavenly leather unless tho poison killed himself during a 111 of temporary im)anity, as did Hugh Miller, the great Scotch scientist, who blew out his brains during Mental derangement, or that elinin - eat Now York clergyman who, in • Ylolirium, leaped from a window, tv'hy? The Bible distinctly and em- phatically declares that no num has a right to commit soli murder. It warns mon that they must answer for this terrible erimo before rho judg- mont seat of Christ, and it holds out to them no hope of pardon dur- ing all eternity. Read tho eighth 'chapter of Revelation: "And mur- derers and whoremongers and idola- tors and all Liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the sec- ond death," Read tho first epistle •of John, third chapter and fifteenth verso: "No nuirderor hatif eternal life abiding in him." In tho sound of such a divine waning, does any Christian .min, with his eyes wide open, attempt to sound the "upon eesanO" of true pearly gates of the New Jerusalem with the crack of a suicidal pistol? Dare any Christian, by self dostruction, obliterate that life which God alono can give and which God alone has tL right to tako away? PUT ON TTTE1 GOSPEL ARMOR. The whole tendency of tho gospel of Jesus Christ is opposed to this Suicidal epidemic; tho whole ten- dency of unbollef is to promote and Increase it. To the atholet life is a single. span, one ai)utmcnt of which is the cradlo and tho other the. grave, at which he me0t8 annihila- tion. To such a man t'.horo is no bettor' principle of life than to oat, drink and bo merry, for to -morrow lie dies. Ifo would Maim 1110 a comedy for all and death a groat finale, MS idealism Would do for his folloW man as that millionttlro capitalist reoontly did for his friends. Ile provided, by last will a11f1 testa - Ultra, that "no service. of a religious eharactor be held at hie grave; that a special trait of Pulllntils be altar- tered to takj his 10nlal3(1 front Louisville to Cincfithoti to 1(0 cre- nated; that tho buffet care be 11011 stocked With good things to eat -and (Platt; '�ho. ?while ills remains aro alone, croaking dutrillg the night, es our lot. for us, and say, tie did Job, "A11 the days of ,toy appO1rltea as it. will sometimes give the ploas- titne will I wait till my change curter command of following that 0001)," stern word t1trough an embowered TRUE HAPPINESS. pathway. Now. xray friends, the human .being BE TRUE TO CTIRTST. who commits suici(e merely because Now, lay friends, as the suicidal the gulden breasted oriole of wealth sin is often caused by a cotva•d's has Plumed her triage and disappear- ed heart, how can WO be51. become brave ed front sight or because the icon.- and true ? Now can ave bettor Blast of trouble has shattered the light this tendencyto self mender idol of fume, is doing a fool's busi- ness, happiness, true happiness, the happiness for which we all long and for which some of - us acre seek- ing, is not dependent upon outsi(le surroundings, but upon the condition of the heart. If wealth does not in itself pro- duce happiness neither does worldly .A. coward's boort Is a direct cause foe the Sufrldal sin. "Oh, oo," soya some one; "that cannot be. A stil- eldo may bo tbi or idol or the other thing, but be is not a coward. No num is a coward who dares to comlltit soli' auwder. No ntuu is a collated who will calmly look death in the face and defy the grinning' skeleton of tho tomb." All, nye friend, you are wrong. The direct rause of Cho suicidal sin is invariably the result of a cow- at'(i'S heart. It is the net of a 1919 who towns away from trouble instead of eourngoously grappling with it. Tho bravest of decals is to rile if n cessary 10 save otbru's. Da it would not bo heroic for oven 1.o (115 neoroly because they are too coward- ly to fight. Neither Is it boroic ot• Urate for any 11(00 to commit sol- d& 1 b e he 's loo craven enem 1villins to know Cod's thoughts and tmdtratend lees ways (Alio, it 12; ]511 Iv. 8, 9. 11, 'flues rintuluuth y00 the ou:ngost, and buhoLcl ha koolooth the u. sheep, And Samuel Mild unto ,loupe+, Send and fetch hia1, for we will not eit down Lill ho conal Ilitll- or, 'i'his ve•oe Rives Jceso's answ'0r to Santuel's question, "Aro hero all thy chi Moot'?" told teaches thin among' other things, that if we meek- ly and fully follow the Lord and re- ly upon flint Ile will always got us when: - Ile wants us, and where Ito docs not want us we should not not know how want to he. 11c do ( t David tools his /being left at home Cud day, but ave mi1y hope. that he took ii. meekly. Possibly his mother comforted 111111 1i' ha 110ccl(ci any, Wo eau n mace y (el't ti 1 may infer from soil., 218, that his 01' rte to moot thc' r0sponsibiliiies older hrothoes did not take kindly to of life ns they arise. The noblest his firing prrfetTcd to them. Only wordEnglish in some respects tin all lea ablurdhnco of the grace of God can l+htg1is11 luuiguage is "duty." 5 hat ollttllla 1s to act out the precepts, word wilt sometimes ectal el its f(1 'ln honor preferring ole another„ lowers to plunge into and endure the 1 bayonet thrusts of n thorny 11011 0, and '"111 lowliness of mind let ranch esteem other better than t.honlsclv0s" (Runs. ecii„ 10; Phil. if., 3), 12, And ho soot and brought him in. Nov, he NV 118 ruddy arid withal of a bona -Cad coturicnax•e and good- ly to look to, And the Lord said, Arise; anoint. Ilius, for this is he. What a blessed titan Samuel was to be permitted to bo so intimate with God, anti yet this pt•ivilogo than by nobly and conscientiously offeredtomany, though few are Ned - and (11utntleeely meeting tiro most ling to accept it, That which Patel pressing duly which is 110a105t at wrote 10 the 1'10014)lane is truo al - hand ? ItoW .can we cease 10 be ways, "All seek their 03011, 1101: the cuwat'1s better than by fulfilling our things which ate Jesus Christ's" honorable obligations which we (Phil, ti'., 21), 'Phis is our lirst in lwtow ave 09'0 to our Clod and our Christ ? We ]lava a1L read of the licona111 sentinel who daring an aw- ful eruption of Mount Vos'tncfus vas fame nor honor. Men strive for ready to die ut his poet when. the place and power as if with 1113111 officer of the guard did not relieve thoy wero sura of happiness. 'They )liar and oltow hint to 11y for his life. plot and conspire and murder that Should we not be equally ready to they may mount the steps of a be bravo and true to that great throw., and when they succeed they tinct that thoy have gained nothing but anxiety and worry. When the Servian king and queen, Alexander and Drnga, were assaSsinatod Pope Leo XIII. was heard to exclaim 111 the Vatican, "O11, when will the people learn that thrones stained with 1)1ood are not worth having?" And yet foe financial wealth and worldly honor thousands of num 1vi11 sut'ronem their all. They will fol- low those will o' the wisps, though the shining lights may lead them aver miasmic swamps and quaking hogs and into the fatal quickStuul. They will seek and struggle and con- tinuo to struggle to possess these supposed priceless treasures, because Croy believe that. in them tho great heart of happiness, rich blooded and life giving, can be found. Thou, when they have born defeated in the struggles of life they sometimes drivo rho destroying dagger into thole own arteries, as a tantalized serpent buries his poisonous fangs in his own flesh. .10Y. Ole 1i ELPING OTIJ,li RS, Moral application : Do not try to_ build the temple of happiness out of yellow bricks. Think not that the broad highway which leads to the throne room of joy is always lined with applauding and vociferating multitudes. The ground mole may tunnel his way into a gold mint, but he still remains a ground mole. The bat, flying about in the dark- ness, may bo able to push his claws into trembling men's pockets, but he to see Saul he evidently clung to is still nothing but a hateful bat. Lira fn his l:cat't (velao 1). Ia i's a Envy and c03'etousness also lend searching question, Ant 1 33holiy tipped over, and a man got 01e out, to suicide. The unwillingness to with God in ovorything or do 1 in and T was so fuof water that I didn't e(now nothing for a long 3vhil0. • "The other boy has to bo buried when thoy rind situ. His mother cavo front her home, and she cried all the limn. A horse ldeked neo 03nr, and I have -got to have some money to pay the doctor for mend- ing my head. It was broken a bit. "Wo 01C going to sot an old barn on fico to -night, and I am not your son if I dont have some real fun. I lost wry watch,- and I au very sor- ry. I shall bring home some snakos and a toad and a tamp crow if .1 cant get 'em in my trunk." t�e(jfdpDm6ldt ...t. FO EOR ,„ HOME E4 0 ® itecippes for the kitchen, o Hyglerto and Other Notes O for the Housekeeper. o CIOOP T1I1NGS TO 1IAT. 1',' (breads and Peas. --Soak the sweetbreads fn cold wale!' for en hour; then cook for twenty :Moulin In boiling wri0r and cool. llemovc tho nteulbenncs and pipes, 5ea5011 with salt, lay in a baking pan which leas been lined with thin slic- es of bacon. Set 1(1. the oven and bako until brown, basting well 3vit.11 the stock in which the swcutbreads worn cooked and. which has boon boated. Make a gravy from the contents of rho baking pan and strain 03'01' and round the sweet- breads. Cook throe cups of young poem In just enough welter to cover, and after the first ten minutes add ane -half level toasp1011 of sugar. Cook about ten minutes longer, or until tendon, allowing the water to cools nearly all away; add butter and Servo. Le111011 Ci9(ald.-11eat two caps Of milk to 1110 scalding' point in a double boiler, stir into it three level tablespoons of flour 33.01, with a tilde cold milk, then add the following mbxturo: Tile juice and part of the rind of one 10m0n, 0110 cup of sugar, Um yolks of tlu'oe eggs and one whole egg tool a pinch of salt, boat - on all together. Pour into a paste - introduction to 00 man aftor God's lln011 plate and bake. Cover with own heart (chapter xiii., 14; Acts the whites of three oggs and four xiii., 221, the history of wh0s0 king- Ant tablespoons of powdorod sugar; dont, past and future, fills so much 501 in a cool 0vm1 to brown. of Scripture. Ills 1na1111 is found •Rhubarb Betty. St.tr ono quarter about 1,00(1 times in the Old Tosca- CUP of melted butter into two cups pent and fifty in tho New. Son of of solidly packed broad crumbs. Cut David is one of rho first and last ono pound of rhubarb ail Inch long. Unless ver11110y oldpieces and tough, do not remove the akin. But- t.or n puddink dish and put in a laycl• of rhubarb, a dozen seeded raisins, a grating of the yellow pool placed us here to do 0311• d01,y, to a glorious intmcn'tnl future. of a lemon and a few drops of tho L'0.utluutcl0r who shall yet ride the titles of Christ. in t..o New l.'esta- mont (Matt. i., 1; Roy. xxii., 16). w'11.110 horse of victory anti in the As we goer, upon Clod's chosen 0110 great ndllannlal day cone to claim WO 0011. but wonder at the grace and defend his own ? Ifo has which chose a mortal man for such live his life in the world, to serve , � juice. Seatte' sugar over with a generous hand. Continuo malting layers, of broad and flavorings until all is used, including about one cup of sugar and a tablospoon of lemon juice. Put a cover on the dish and bake throe -quarters of .an hour, re- moving the cover the last fifteen minutes. The oven should be moder- ate and not Rowelling hot. Crean. Biscuit.—Sit1 twice four cups of flour with four level tea- spoons of baking powder and one level teaspoon of salt, Mix lightly with one cup of sweet cream and ono -half cup of inilk; roll out and cut in small rounds. Bake twenty minutes in a quick oven. Those bis - ciao nluot not be mixed soft, Hot Rico Custard. --Put one-half cup of rice and four cups of milk into a double boiler and cools ono hour. SW* occasionally and season with One-oighth teaspoon of salt, which is about what is called a pinch. Stir in the W011 -beaten yolks of four eggs and let cook one 111.1 11111e; turn into a baking dish, cover with a moringue made from the whites of three eggs and four level tablospoons of powdorod sugar. Set in rho oven to brown slightly; S01'VO W9,1111, Spanish Rice,-011op ono onion fine and fry wit!. two level tablespoons of but tor. add ono sweet green popper also chopped fine and one-half p01md of rico. Stir until all aro hooted through, then add one and ono -half cups of veal m' 011101ceu stook and set the dish in another 00(1 of hot w•at'o1' and cook the rhea until fonder with- out stirring. This may talcs half an hour or a Itttl0 longer. Add salt and a cup of hot strained tomato, and a savory' dish is ready to serve. MARMALADES, him by serving our follow men. Shall. .0. T3len Samuel 1.001. the WO cravenly desert ourpoet ? Shall' oil and anointed hint in t.he. midst 01 we doolar0 that the task assigned his brethren, and the Spirit of the us is too hard for us ? Rather let Lord carte upon David from that us look to hila for the•"almrighty day forward. strength haat be promises to 11fs The R. V, says "came mightily up- faithLul s0rvan1s that WO may en- on David," which makes the mean- dure as seeing him who is invisible, ing more plain, as the Spirit neust So let us stand undaunted beneath have been on him before. This was his staldalxi until his summons the first of David's throe an0inting13 reaches us and we quit with the (II. Saul ii., 4; v„ 3), the full sig- nificance of which we shall see sono day in Christ, the true David, David, though anointed, waited long for the t11'011e and suffered much. Our David is still waiting for His throne and kingdom, and w0 must leo con- tent to wait and suPOr with Him (II, Tim, ii„ 12; Rom. viii., 3S). It is only in tho power of the holy Spir- it that we can serve or sufTer or WW1 or in any way glorify God. triumphant shout : "I have fought a good light. 1 bane finished my course. I havo kept the faith. I7oncofor'th there is laid up for oto a drown of righteousness," r LESSO ,, • INTIERNATIONAL ' LESSON. AUG. 2. Text of the Lesson, I. Sam. xvi., 4-13. Golden Text, I. Sato. xvi., 7. 1, And Samuel did that which the Lard sputa: and canto to 1.3eth- ketolu, and rho elders of the town lrem,blod at his coming and said, Coutost thou peuc0bly ? • Although Saimaa came no more -¢ ENJOYING HIMSELF. A fond mother stilt her small boy into the country, and after a week of anxiety received the following letter: "I got here all right, and I forgot to write before. It is a very aloe place to have fun. A fellow and I *vent out in n boat, and tho boat love our neighbors 115 ourselves is any 501is0 cling to any one o1' any- one of tho indirect causes of this thing that Ile has (lisapilroved? In dreadful 9111. Two ways of looking versos 1. to 8 (oto 9110 lvaltds "I will at this old world—the ono is sent; 1. have provided; I will 8110w; tlu•ou h the green glasses of envy, tomb—A unto Itee ]trot whom 1 name." the result unhappiness; the other Notwithstanding the sin and rebel - way is through iho sanctified crys- lion of man Clod is over working out tats of a tender, a holy love, the itis eternal purpose, and llm seeks result gospel joy. The one way is willing vemelu in and through 3011om to bitterly bemoan because some Ile Can work. Samuel's "11030 can People are supposed to bo bettor o11 1 go'?" and his fear of Saul indicate thann we aro. The other way is to sumo lade of fellowship with God, try to find out how maty people ore probably boaauSO of his 031111010,tdtly worse off than Svc are ancl than with atilt Saul. I am a Christian desire try to troll) them 5. And lee nail : Peaceably as we would like to be helped if we come to :steatite unto the Lord won in their place. Through what Sanctif,• younoolves and conte with Mini of leases have you been 5Crtltiu-1 too to the sacrifice. lying .tiro )human rale 9 Through. Ile 'used 1110 very words of tho 1110 gree3 09s809 ur cn3;v, which' Lo„d (verse 2), The Lord's mese make all tho world look (lark, ort sower should say exactly what the through the clear, transparent eys- Cels of gospel love, which always make all the world look bright "co happy man over Wanted to com- mit suicide, No yuan can hotruly unhappy who i5 trying to help his fellow• man. When he finds that ho is making others happy, their Joys becotno part of his joys. The suicidal knit,' is blunted upon Lord tells hire (Jonah iii, 2; Joe. 1, 7; l(zok, 11, 7; iii, 4, 7; John xii. 411). Salami was the roprosontalive of the lettuce. of Pomo, the G'od of Poar.e.. 11. 15 only w115)10 thoro 18 poreisten1 triunity that there is need for a sword instead of peace. Sano(ilioatlon 18 twofold, livery true child of God is sanctified by the snot -tam of Christ, but also the whetstone of kindrnss and loco rtcods constant SanCitiil'Catiolh in the and sett sacrifice for atothor reason: daily life (I1,eb. x, 10, 14; J011;r1 When a C1131.110n eaclu'st.ly ccp0e- soli, 17). Crates his Plc to helping his fellow d, 7, 1 have refused him, for tho rnen he is mowed how man,' troch- Load eeet'h not as plan Beeth, for ]es are piled at his neighbor's door cum luol(eth on the outamed ape and. instead of repining at his lot, thanks God for the mercies he en- joys. Ifs hrctunas metro contented 10 carry his own burdens berauso as his brother's sorrows grow larger and larger in hie eves his coil neces- sarily by compo; inion shrink and dwindle and bc'c01(1(1 lose and loss. 7"1117 COWARD'S MART, No power on earth can mance a haulms being more contented than that which conies frontboing brought into sympathetic toaxch with other people's trealt, for all people have diem. 77e white, fleocy Clouds all in the distance, circling about 1110 mountain tole, may look like sea gulls sporting with the crest of a warm. On mower approach they aro only fog and drizzling mist. The 8)1Lps far out at sea hove spotless sails and, trimmest 'hulls, But upon nearer approach we see that thou canvas is 9ei011100 1111( their trolls scerrOd With the blows of many tennpest5 Clear crystals of a ten- pearance, but the Lord loo.kolh ell tho heart. fosse and his sans canto to the sacrilleo, and as the Loud had said Brat 11'o hail 11(30800 0110 of 11110111, Saniticl string that F.liab was tall and good looking thougiht that he roust bo the Lord's anoinlod, hut the Lord said no. In the matter of ctalwation the Lord refuses n.(mc Who conte (John vi, f17), butt this is a matter of spacial sorviCO and the Lod looks for a hoart willing to be routrollc+d, lye Must welt a beat'; right with God, wholly sole jcvt .10 Him, and not the approval of 1)1111 or to make a good inl)llres- 51011 Upon people, -8-1.0, Mild J'oSsc made 1ev1n ofhie 80t111 t(1 pass before 13(010el. And 50.1111111 said unto Josso, Tho Land hath not chosen those. '11110 11, V. says "and” Instead of "Again," which makes 11b1e 0011'10 a 11(1.111 clearer, ,Tesre had eight 001)8 (x3J(. 1.2), and ho brought 100'('11 of dol' levo will not only mance its try i3u'nl to this feast, not tiulecilllf that 1,0 help our follow plea and desire tl.0 youngest could posl1i, lv bo to live a.4 long 05 WO con for that wanted, and surto ono had to mind Teurpoee, but tiny will also teach 118 rho sheep. Good ,01k011 for a ratan to bo mole and more ocetl1ntcd with who would Submit wholly in 1111) 011(1 owe' linos. Brother' better ar(1 lids 3vor(1 and Il:is trays (1n all change rho Jmises in you lapoctacle(. things, willing to 11 Wee 0101101LS !letter ire a 0110(ean playing In the and 1.01'(18 and ways (((1,11101 (.0 than, day 1110. a. 1111)1111g -ow), solitary and and a1)1(11(1 these freven 'Ho dors 1108 Stelm to halo: found Werth a ono, Pow Orange Marmalado—Wash, but do not peel, 4 oranges and 3. lemon'., Out in quarters and slice very thin (i`onnovtng seeds), To each pound of sliced fruit eltdd 3 pis, cold water and lot stand ina, cool place for 24 hours, then boil until tllo skin Is tender, and set away to cool. Later in the day, weigh again (water and all), and to each pound of the mix- tet•a, add 14 ibs, )oaf sugar, Boil lis l e. skins are until it j(1 o , and the tranepal'Ont, This 111131cos about 2 qts., and is delicious, Leann Marmalade—Six leptons, 3 orange, 7 1bs, graoul*Lted eager, and 7 pts. water, Wath 1.110 loht0)18 and orange, leaving the skins on, Dion cul Jn qua'tors and slice very thin with a sharp knife, Let the fruit stand in the watch' over" night. In 1110 morning boil ono hour, then add sugar and boil one-half hoar longer, or until 31 jollies, and turn into glasses. Don't bo afraid of 1110.81lns Limy add, 1011011 to the appearaneo of the marmalade and give it tone, Pear ('flips—Por 8 lbs; sliced pears and 11 lbs. granulated sugar, boil 4 lemons whole in 1 pt. water until thoy are soft. Cut tho lomons open and rnn1030 the sooils, then chop find, Aloe have a 25 -cent box of candied ginger choppod line. Put 1110 sliced pool's, chopped 101111,11 and ginger, sugar and water in which rho lemons were boiled. (be sure anduse no mote) over tine stove, and let it boil gently until it thickens like jam. Then put in jolly glasses or small cans. I3F1A1'ITY-MAi(ING FOODS. "The best of all beauty -making foods are fresh fruits and fresh vogue tables," said Prof. 11, 1V. Wiloy. "They contain 101a1ively little Hour- ishmu'nt—a woman could hardly live on thorn exclus(voly for filly length of time—hut for ('('1380(18 W111011 118 •yea aro im.porf0cl.ly understood, they po sees extraordinary value as health givers. if y011 Walt, bright eyes and a clear compluxion, oat plenty of thorn." Tho fact is that most fresh vege- tables and fruits aro nearly all Nea- ter. Spinach is 0134 per cont. water, cabbage Is seventy-50ven per cent. water, boots are eighty-eight per cent. water, carrots aro ninety -ono per cont. grater, cucumbers aro nin0- ty-six per cent. water, egg plant is ninety-1hr01 pct' cont. water. 0(1icin5 are 783 taw cent. water, tOlnatoos aro ninety-six per cent, water, green corn (cut from rho cob) is Sl4 per Dent. water anti celery is 1144 per cent water, Fruits are peetty near- ly all water, though the banana is relatively rich in starch. Fruits and vegetables, then are of no groat use in supporting the ho- rna1 body. Their value is mainly medicinal, and as beauty -makers they aro the chief among foods. It is al- most iluposeiblo to cat too much of thorn in a flesh state, though, of course, into diet 1111181 11101000 a rea- sonablo proportion of those sub- stances, such as incat, which fur- nish blood and muscle tissue. Miotress,---Mr. Cutting Il'imt01 Did you te.11 1)111) i 10011 (901, t Mat(1 Y0s'ln,. IA said ho theatglltyou'd be oi,tt; that was wh,y be called IiO1JSEI'IOLD HINTS. When icing a cake dust a little dry flour over the Lop of it Inform put- ting 00 the acing. Ti' this is done Um icing is not likely to run off, as it otherwise would. When 'black lace looks hopelessly rusty soak it forsomehours in cold vim:ga• and water, in rho propor- tion of two tablespoonfuls of the former to a pint of the latter•; then rinso it in cold. coffee and iron it while it is damp between two pieces of flannel. 'l'hiu process will 1ivo 1t a now and fresh -looking lease of life. Cold 104 81(001(1 101 0.1Way's be thrown away, for it is a good thing with which to wash oilcloth when it Se diluted with Water. 31 is also ex- celled for ferns. IL is 0 capital plan to keep a piece of while oilcloth to spread over the table when cooking is going on, and a piece of flour -cloth to lay on the floor' between the table and Um range. Bothcan be so cosily .wiped clean when done whit. To remove fruit, tea, 00(100, or Chorolalo staffs 1(10111 tabic napery spread the stained part over 0 bowl and pour boiling water through the cloth erom a 1)0lght so that i1: will steno: elm stained place with force. To make the tre0tmum, tnor0 e1T0Ctu- al add a little borax to the Wa1.en J1 is a good plan whru a nee 010detono bag has beet bought, and boforo it is used, to rub a little swoon oil won into it, and then to polish it "with a dry duslnr. This mattes the loather soft and nice, turd so the bag will 1113.e1• get to look as though it wore ingrained with dust. When moths are in n. carpet turn it bade and iron it on the wrong side with a good hot flat -iron. Then sprinkle the floor Ludurroatlt lib - orally wills turponli110, pouring it into rho cracks in the floor if there aro any, and rubbing it troll into tho boards, T1118 treatment should be repealed every two or three days for a fortnight BLAY HENRY 8011ERSET ENGLAND'S MOST GIFTSD PMILANTIIROPIST. Her Ta313ng Health Is a Cause of Anxiety to Tier Many Friends. That gifted and gracious woman, Lady Hoary Somcrsot, has many friends in this country who will be sorry to know that she is in failing health, Lady 'Roney Somerset may properly be (:a11od one of the fore- most womloll h. England, all of the later yea15 of her We having boon do - voted to good works. 1)oelberately turning aside from all the faseiln tions and allurements of society, she hos elevo1od her time and a large part of her wea'111 to uplifting hu - num 1ty. Lady Henry Is the third daughtor of the late Earl Somors, from w110mt she inherited much of the nobility of her character. lie was a man who had little taste for tho follies of so- ciety and lie spent much of his thno in trawl,. andin scientific research. Such men as Ruskin and Garabaldl and Moszini worn his chosen friends and ho went with Mr. ltabort 0141'- 909 on his explorations of the old Greek monasteries, lle was at one time lord -in -waiting to Queen Vic- toria, and he was a member of tho hou5o of lords for more than thirty yours, and a lover of study and art from his boyhood. LADY HENRY'S MOTIhFJ1 W119 the beautiful and highly ac- complished plisled 1liiss Virginia Pattla, from whom. Lady Henry. inherited hell grace of manner and much of the - bcauty that was hors in her earlier years. 11 wad in 1872 that Lady Isabol married. Lord Henry Somerset, a son of rho duke of Beaufort and a 'mem- ber of one of lengland's most dis- tinguished famillo5. Lady Henry recalls • with pardonable pride rho fact that Tennyson sent her a bas - Set of snowdrops gathered with his Own hands on the morning of her wedding. But the marriago diel not result happily, the young couple not leav- ing tastes in common. A separation was arranged and Lady Hoary was given control of floe own child, a son. 3 -Tor unfortunate matrimonial ex- peeionc0 had the effect of inclining Lady Keary mono than ever toward a. life of usefulness and s110 refired 0'010 society altogether, going to her great estates surrounding East - nor Castro, about: 100 miles from London. Theso estates are tiftoon mIlos in length and contain 25,000 acres. The castle is A GREAT BUILDING with an entrance hall 00 feet long, 30 foot wide and (3S- foot high. In the hall a•e almost priceless relics of antiquity found by the earl of Som- ers while on his travels. In the groat dining -room aro splondid paint- ings and rare statuary. There aro rare tapestries and 0 veritable muse- um of works of art. Icor home is open to the public on certain clays In tho week, but one must pay a shilling as an admission fee, andall tho money thus paid is used for charitable purposes. Lady IIem•y's first public work was in the cause of temperance and her first public address was a temperance speech 101140 in a little school houso near one of the gates of her ca811e. She had seen the evils of drink among 1101 army of tenants and oho determined to do something to im- pfove their condition. She went about giving 1111110 readings in the kitchens of the people and she held t0ntpe•auco meetings 11) tin ca5t10 it- self. She went to the mining dis- tricts of South Wales and held 100ntings among the .minters, and in 181)0 she succe0ded lleargorot. Bright Lucas• a sister of John Bright, as president of the Ilritish 1Y. C. T. U., a position she has held ever since. LACK OF HU1YIOR. A Laughable Incident at a Rus- sian Theatre. IN IC11.N1'UC1Clf, Dead 93e1 guard no ,fails. Order is henvcu's first; flaw, A poor feud is bolter Limn hone: To shoot is human; t0 forgive, a crime. A gun in the hand is worth two in the hip 'melons. Neve' put off until (..o-ntorrow rho fru( Von can start to -day, (nod gave us hushes that might ho ambushes. thot'o I1011810 V. Mifl:J7. A iter qua9ro1lbig 113.11)' rho-rpv'pee tiv0 511engtk1 of a (10rso and a ntlul0 two formals tit Sogo3ia, F/30111, de- ckled to settle rho matter by a terg of tea'. '1111, animate wore hauvuos- ml, ono at earth med. of a cant. At - tor a (temperate 6trigeg1(3 the mkt10 t:riumphnd, pulling the horse all its logs, and galloping away with it, CIOS'l'I,'Y SETH% Owing to an accident on 11013(8• b0e31 the Sultan of Johoae 'howl all ills inehro15 smocked oa1,t, Tine: halal Menu r0pluced by tooth of gold, 11.1') , aril of which has boon sat u Jha, c (Mie o;nd, 'i'.he elem.( is they w, 1 )i wd.111 the Sultan tun110i 011.d. the saunlight e•1t"1et105 the 010:100, Humor is a saving grace of which coach) Hessian officials are ill 110ed, if the following story told by the London Daily Telegraph caps be do - peeled on. "T110 cotorso of true alt. (Ines not always own smooth 3n holy 1tusa'1a, as, for example, in the theatre of Yoliravetgrald. 11, the fourth act of a certain play there is a theatre within a Sheathe, as ((3 13 )103 0- speae's Haanalet, only that 150100 of the dvall.atis personae have to 1nlx with the public in the galleries, amid to hiss tho dinef a,atr<01s, who (luny faints, ,As 180011 CIS 1.110 gen- tlenwn itokl taken their places among the gads and begun tai tarso and Whistle, ilhe poli(onlau an dart,cane down upon them like a 3volf on 11111 fold, and before ahoy could utter a word of ex111wnatioll he and 1138 collon4uc.s "naelb(d" two, removed 1,110111 by foi,8s and took them to tete mud, police station, 13.11Or0 Choy wee obat'gtd with disottdorly conduct at a public place. They peoto81011 that. they It'ald only dorso their deity, but the police Iwugbod -'thele explan- ations to scam. The public - loft the theatre en 1(la5811 to st'0 what was happening to the actors, lint tho 1011..01' had already been consign- ed to filo cells. The tooted in the ellreot befoln the ,lat.1oln h'o'use gk03v vapidly in 11p111lions 01181 their noisy p1)0lQ(te th neeeIrtd ib Clhlntlitate 1,71 sericite` tli0olulrsr'g, 'ori encvtely, the ma/ragor Of the &heatae ni1,p0ardcl be- fore. toe Supetln'tOnellinit, and by 1110 light of a paro,1ln lamp declaimed, with ruanaisal'ixit In hated, the whole fourtlh . act, in order to how that Horsing was ah esSearliai part of Um porfonm,amcc, Only then did Oho it. penfle1ttatives of 1)m law t'CloatO 1,11(1 Jivroceelt 0(.13053*," 31,()T leePIA'1'111T31t ADe'TCE, )Cat; lose 011.11 drink plenty of Nva- ten' 33.11,11011 iso ate! Lilo heat 1iro1(o will 1101. gat, ,yeti,, ac0or4111( :51 1:110, best antluoritlo0,