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Rev. Frank Frank e Witt Talmage Tells
U$ of the Truly Great
Mitered According to Act ot tho Par- auditors cried, "Lot us go end fight
Dement el Cainala, in the year One , • so
Pnilip ! out llama! e, rt ay y
Thousand Nine Benched and Three,
by 1911%, Bally, of Toronto, at the "Come let 1,114 enlist under theoban-
epartmnitt of Agriculture, Ottawa.) net, of joeus..?"
A deepatch from Ohicago nay.e A FAMOUS PERSONALITY,
Bev. Frank .De Witt Talmage preach- But let us inquire a little more
ed from tile following text 'Matthew closely how John the Daptiet sub -
xi, 11, "There bath not risen a merged his life in Christ. Jesus
greater than Joint the Baptist:" was an unknown man at the time
"Great men, great events .an'd 3 ohn, the hermit. and recluse, was
great epoehs grew. bigger and more making the very palace walls at
colossal LS the years ))ass away Jerealent shake, Up to thirty years
front thetue" once wrote the Mogen- ef age jestts was an unknown 'dwell-
pher of Robert BUMS. Like the er in a emintry village. The whole
mountain shadows they increase in extent: of Ohrtet's eurthly ministry
oleo and their reputations lengthen extended over only a short period
11) importnnee as the sun of their of three OP four years. We read of
day sae end the long eight of their Jesus when he was born. Then ho
root separates us from them. Like disappear% We read of him twelve
the mythological heroes and beroines years later, when'as a boy, he talks
ef old, their leaders' 'brows become with the doctors in the temple, Then
luminous with crowns of gold. No be again disappears for eighteen long
eatheilral impresses us so much e.s years. Up to thirty years of age
the venerable pile that is covernd
ed Christ was politically asociologi_
with m°58 ax01 ereelthig cally, an unknown factor in aStern
IS Se1d0111 00,11011 great and -truly we,
great until Jut leuf been dead at least in •tho meantime who was this
twenty years. John the Baptist? This second
But standing to -day under the young mao, of about the SU -1110 ago.
lengthenm
lengthening shailews of any great
reputatiome these imminent questions as Jesuswas the most famous per,
naturally arise in many minds : sonality in the east, De had lived
What is true greatness ? What aro as a 11'i1. nut But the voice ho lifted
the elements which distinguish the reached, not only echoed throughout
truly noble from the merely selfishly the villages, but also throughout tho
fatuous ? great capital itself. The rich and
JOHN TETE .11A,P'DIST'S GLORY. the poor, the old and the young, the
TJie purpose of this sermon is to government officials and the peasant
alike left their homes to silt at his
show why J 0110 the Baptist was fed, Great crowds swarmed about
greater than all other men before
Christ's J orsianic baptism—John the 11118 strange teacher wherever he
Baptist greats although lie was so went. They pressed into his caves
1,00„. his 1101110 was among 018 luessttinough they were tentides. As a
rocks and sands of the wilderness, result John built up a great school
lying befWeen the capital end the ,
of devotees and baptized his follow -
Dead. sea; els by hun
so poor that his only gar- ctredk and thousand°. Many
molts wore the coarse skin of the of them, were ready to bow down
wild beast, through the holes of and Worship hint as a temporal as
which stretched Sis long limbs ass' well as a spiritual king. Yet when
heirs; ebesi; so poor that his only Jesus appeared this illustrious man
food 10011 the grasshoppers or locusts was ready, and gladly ready, to set-
tled the honey which hart been sal_ render all for Christ.Like john
den by the bees amoms the . caverns the 13aptist, eve we willing to lay
and the hills -our fame, our wealth and our entire
Front the world's standpoint this lire work at Jesus' f°°1.7
is a strange portrait of g great man, FEARLESS FOR RIGHT.
But how wonderful is its setting. Great was John the Baptist! At
The fabled portrait was of a
g
face with a silver frame, buttolltel the risk of his life he was ready to
portrait of John the Baptist is et det,to?nce and attack the intrenched
silver face with a gold frame. Like ane the practically invulnerable alas
a ruby, stewing red it is set in a of that day. • Be was not one of
et vele of UMW, preC1OUS .!.,hose men who always stop and ask.
Like a mirror of burnished brass, Does it pay?" before they attempt.
pure and spotless, seesess she to do what they ought to do. He
light of a rising sun. It was John Preached on. the duties of men and
the Baptist's glory that he waS 11110 waged war against wickedness in
harbinger of a greater than himself, logo places. ITe declared against
As the direct forerunner of the S011 evils as mighty in his (ley as the
of Goa he canfe at the suPreme crisis liquor traffic is in ours and never
of the world's histoey. Nis nettle condoned crime though the criminal
was thus linked with the most mom- was asking. He was ready to look
eetinik 'of Ail eVentS and 'derives a the hideous monster sin squarely in
luster from the conncetion, There the face and then hit at that sin,
seems to he n natural law that great though his arm might seem to bo as
111e11 should always be identified with helpless and weak as the Mind of a
great events. • yoUng girl striking at the wild beast
TRAINING FOR GREATNESS. leaping upon her in the Roman are -
There must 00 a training for great- na. He called a spacle A spade, a
nese. The occasion 'does no1 create lie a lie, an adultery an adultery,
eassetness; it only 'develops and pro- blasphemy blasphemy. and hypocrisy
duces it. [1. 00.1111)11 treat° or make hypocrisy wherever they were found.
gentleness out of common clay. We Ho denounced and excoriated the sins
do not assert that history can play of the Jewish church. When Herod,
it Minders "Messiah" upon a dinimr the governor, fell in love with his
piece or blow a bugle blast with a evil brother's wife and murdered
jesony whistle or catch thunderbolts Phillip that he might marry 1100,
with a straw hat or shoot masto- John instainly hurled the divine
dons with pins or strangle volcanoes cendemnation against the ruler. Ile
with spider webs. The old poets' raised such it storm of popular in-
suld that when worlds are used fOr dignation that Herod flung him into
slaittlecocke and tile universe is a Prison and afterwaid, at the behest
playground and all Infinity is ablaze of his step -daughter, who was dtum-
with the conflagration then the very ing before him at a detinken feast,
gods themselves must take pert in he beheaded John and gavo to her
the sport. It needs stronger al%mts tho bloody, trophy upon a charger,
thee yours or mine to piteli islands oh, nty brother, daSo we 151t11
for quoits, to bowl down mountains
for tenpins, to swieg hemispheres as
an ethlet 0 hurls the hammer, or,.
with etamp of foot, to make the
submerged continent Atlantts, which
011C0 stvetched between the old world
and the 1100', with a. dying gurgle
sink and .dlsappear. But crest
needs hring great 01011 11'0111 ObSEUP-
ity into prettlnenee. The occasion
Purnishes the opportunity.
Great men are produced only by
great entergericies.- This pr,crelse
1)11-
-Ing granted, what gloater event is
there in all history than that of the
corning .ofthe. promised Messiah 9
Now ninth it meant to the world
midi to us 1 'Mat life of eternal joy
have we except that which. reserves
about the . personality 01. 11110 who.
was once,baraised by John the Bap-
tist in the river Jordan 9 What
hope haveitwe of ever meeting: our
loved ones, our parents and 001'
Mends Who have gone beyond except
through the Divine Being of Whom
John the Baptist was tile 'direct fore-
runner ? Oh, My Mends, as John
the Baptist's. namo seas great • by bee
hag linked to the name of Jesus
Christ at his first Minting, will- yons
not instke yotir name great by doing
your part towata 'proposing the
world for Christ's second ,comilig ?
A FORERUNNER OF GOOD.
;Min the Baptlat 1511.8 a direct fore-
runner. He was more than that;
He was ready to sink and submerge
and entirely cover hp his individual-
ity with the personality of 'Jesus
Christ. Ito was ready' lielet
be all in all. •Sife wanted to be
merely a footlight to make the di-
vine face shine forth Ole more clear-
ly. He Wag willing to iteereriso so
;Mot the glory 01 3118 Saviour might
increase. 00 weS 1ik Johh the
13eptist„ sink oUr 10
Chritt'S or do we, like some of the
ancient forerunners of the elist pre-
coalng the leing's chariots„ W1811 t
bo 'C1POBa01l so gorgeously end 'to
make so rauth noiSe that people will
be wetchieg us end achnirmg our
Strides instead of terming their eyes
tewara the royal Master whom we
tiee proelaiming ? Are 150 %visiting
that all eyes shall be turned upon
ite Nett:ad of tmon Jens ? Are tve
trying to Vrettelt so that nien may
my. te a fine sermon ?" or
We110 'LryAflts te •3)1e0.111 1.0 'that, as thitt . tido 01 1.110 grAVe We May still
When Denseatititellee harangued, MS eohtimict tet liVe• In influeece for
John's eourege, attack intrenclied sin
wherever 1,1. may be found? :Like
John the Baptists are We great
enough and brave enough, no matter
wiSat the direct cost inky be, to up-
hold the great principles of gospel
truth in the store, the home, the
factory, the city through
the sacred aisles or the church It-
self? Dare we do this even though
the eitrthly "powers OM; be" should
unsheathe the glittering sword of
death and wave it over our heads
and the heads of our loved ones?
• GREAT INBEAM,
But, though John the Baptist was
great in life, he was also great 11n
cloo,th, Like the pionew who enters
the American forests and cuts away
the trees and pulls up the stumps
and builds tho home and plants tho
corn, in order that, hie,thildren may
reap the harvests after the father is
gone, so John the Baptist, not for
himself, but for those who should
come after him, lived his life rintl at
last laid 11. down a martyr. John's
death was as beneficient in its re-
sults as that mother's death might
bo which would bring togethee the
warring factions of her family anti
reunite them beside the altar of her
casket.
1•1 you follow the teachings of the
Bible very carefully you will Snit
there was a war, a rivalry, a jeal-
ousy, between the followers of Jesas
Christ end the followers of 'Sohn,
There Was po war between John and
Christ, sooner clicl Jesus appeal'
than Joint bent the knee and render-
ed unto 111111 full and coin/dote obedi-
ence, But this 01)0011(111015(0) 1101.
0110 111 1'0t01'011110 to the jobrinnian
sehool. In ,the fourth chapter of
John We find that in order to still
Ibis rivalry Christ with his followers
left tho &althorn regions of Juartert
and travelled north and went
through Samaria. But no 8001100
Was John the Bar1.1st dead than his
disciples took the headless {stink of
his body and buried it and "went
and told Jesus." Alf, yes, by
John's death all these factions were
healed. The Johromian wheel be-
aten) 111 tOtO the "school of the
Nazarene," Is it not a. Mottled
thought that 11 WO liVo ter Christ
Christ after We /WO deed? John the
Baptist, great before hie sacrifice!
John the Baptist, great after be WaS
martyrecll
A TTIOUCIIIT ILLUSTRATED.
Perbaps 1 can illustrate the Bible
thought in a simple way. A great
wall or fortress has to be built. The
work must he pushed, One group of
workmen amend the seaffuldiug and
I0 y on one layer of atone and thee
go to their rest. Another group lay
another layer of stone npon the pre-
ceding layer and then go to their
rest., And so the work upon 1.110
wall grows higher and higher, each
group of worIctnen standing upon a
loftier scaffolding than that of the
prereding laborers. Well, the great
wall of progress has been builded in
this way. Each generation repre-
sents a batch of workmen, each lay -
OP Of S101101110 001111deled work of
the preceding generation. The col-
lege boy of to -day linowe more of
geography, more of chemistry, more
of astronomy, more of all the scienc-
es, than the ablest man living three
centuries ago. Why? Because he
has absorbed the compact knowledge
of the last 300 years, which the
great who/ars of those Dare cen-
turies have laid at his feet.
But as the wall of mental end
spiritual progress mint on growing
higher and higher century after cen-
tury suddenly about 1,1)00 years ago
spiritually it took a miraculous llft.
Christ's sacrifice was laid imon the
top of it. Tho Calvary ,9'1ones were
the layers of the year 30 A. D.
Those stones will lift all succeeding
generations higher in knowledge and
in possibilities, higher than all 511)
and higber than ail future condemna-
tions. I once heard a worldly man
say: "The best man that ever lived
never went to heaven on his own
merits, If we ever reach the city of
the redeemer], it must be through
what Christ has done for us and not
through what we have done for our-
selves." This statement contains
tho kernel, the essence, the heart of
all the gospel. John the Baptist in
his own life great? Yes! "Yet,
notwithstanding, he that is least in
the kingdom of heaven is greater
than he."
LOTS OF WORK AnEAD.
Snrveying of the Empire Takes
Time to Accomplish.
"There are many parts of the Em-
pire of whith there are 710 Suit:IMO
11101118," Lieutenant -General Sir W. G.
Nicholson informed the War Commis -
mom "They lutse not even finished
the Ordinance Survey of the United
Kingdom, on which they haVe been
at work for the last 118 years, I
wonder," added the witness, "how
much they have spent on that ?"
The survey of the United Eingdom,
which is proceeding as briskly 1100'
as it WaS over a century ago, is
costing the country £230,000 a year.
During the past decade the work has
involved a total expenditure of 42,e
300,000. The stall' comprises 847
°Meet's anil men of the Royal En-
gineers, and 2,254 assistants
and labourers.
The uninitiated might be excused
Nor supposing that such an fanny of
workers would be equal to preparing
a reliable map of these 1511111(1s in
something under a century,. But in-
quiry in official quarters justifies the
assumption that they, or rather their
' successors, will be still engaged 111
1t,heielee.undertaking agother century
The explanation is that the larger
scale Mape show such details as the
number of steps to a hoose, the po-
sition of fire plugs, and the arrange-
ment of trees in fields aad allot,
melds. Obviously these maps can
be rendered inaccurate and out-of-
datewith utntost facility, necessitat-
ing a, resurvey and a recount of the
dom.-steps and tho trees.
The plans- 01 01. SUrVey of Ireland
at ProSent being nuirle indicate every
tiny holding iu the country. There
are as many as 1,300 of these small
enclosures on one of the plans, "No
such labounious work." it is stated
officially, "has been 'met with on the
Ordnance Survey of Great Bri•taiin."
Ti1ills 10i01 another great obstacle.
It takes from four to six months to
Make E, hill drawing from the lield
sketches.
Almost microscopical though
attention peid to Great Britain is,
the Ordnanee Survey practically ig-
nores the rest of the Empire. There
are 3,200,000 sque.re 11111es of Aus-
twins New Zealand, ana adjacent
islands, which have not yet been 0)11"
b'11,011, and an accurate inttp Of tho
former country is unobtainable. The
less populous ilistrietS ol Canaila,
and the whole of South Africa north
of Cape Colony 0.10 in rt, strictly geo-
graphicAl seese, unknown to this
day. :What detailed maps exist have
been prepared front sketches Made by
trusiellors and explorers.
NOTES 15110)1 PROM ;5,1:ANYWHE1TE.
Tattooing is 11015 110110 1E101 a
needle driven by olectricity.
The number of murders per million
inhabitants is in England 5.13; ia
Gerinnny, 5,45; in Prance, 11.58; in
Austria, 15.12; in 3.taly„ 76.11; and
in Spain, 44.70.
The letense love of the Filipino
for music is 110tably shown in their
funerals, then. home entertaimeentS,
and in their theatreft, The litilipino
voice is smolt and thin, but it makes
up the deficiency in shrilleess.
TO PREVENT COLLISION,
A Russian inventor has clovised
apparatus which is intended to pre-
vent collielons at sea. The apparee
1115 is operated by the use of cOntent
deVices which he calls "feelers." The
feelers move in a1,1 0(100 of the ship,
end n.1, such a depth as not to be
materially interfered with by the
Weves. are so tlittposeil and
Coenected as to indicate an Obstrue-
(Son, stationary or floating, betieath
the reirittee, whether 111 the direet
coarse of the ship Or 011 0110 Or the
other side,
It, is easier for n WOrtiall to conceal
her love than it is td hide her indi.f.
Terence,. '
iSeesesetSoglesaoSituSSeepeariellt
• FOR THE HOME
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TESTED COOKERY.
Strolled Sirloin Stealr.-1-T.ave tin
steak cut ono and one-half 1110110thielc and eut off the flank end, a
it will not be goo'cl bred oilbut Call
be used profitably in other ways
Grease the broiler with some of 11)fat, then put in the steak and turn
as often aa you count ton w
slo's
until both sides aro seared, then hold
each side to the fire longer at a
time. Four minutes will give
rate steak and longer (-11110must b
aliowed to make it well (MEM. Do
not take out the bone betore broil
Ing bat after the steak is laid on a
hot platter ran a sheep knife along
next to the bone so that the Mee.
can be cut across for the bone to
serve. Sprea'cl with 50118011011but
tor. To one-quarter cop of buttei
creamed arld one-half level teaspoon
of , .p pp p , •
spoon of finely chopped parebiy and
one tablespoon of lemon juice.
Creamed Oysters.—Scald 'two cups
of cream in a double boiler with a
slice cut from a large onion. Mix a
rounding tablespoon of 110111. Wilk a
little cord mak and add to the not
cream mid coolc une
til it thickns.
Cook a pint of oysters in their own
liquor ;until they begin to curl, sklin
them out and drain, add to tho
cream and season with salt mid
pepper,to the taste. Serve in tim-
bal eases or in bree.'cl esionstades.
Split Pea Soup.—Pick over and
wash one cup of dried split peas,
soak over night in cold water, drain.
and put on to conk in cold water
and lot them coolc until entirely
broken u,p. Ada boiling water as
neede(1. Rub through a strainer
and prit over the fire again. Add
stocks milk or boiling water to make
of tho right ,consistency. Rub 'two
level tablespoons 05.01)di flour and
butter together and turn into the
boiling soup, cook until smooth and
season with one level teaspoon of
salt, one-half as much sugar and a
few dashes of popper.
Lichen Sweet Apple Puchling.—Pare
ance d slitwo sweet apples thin.
Scald two cups of milk; two round-
ing tablespoons of corn meal and
one rounding tablespoonful of flour
with one-half cup of molasses, a
lovel teaspoon of giager and pinch of
salt, one egg beaten and two table-
spoons of nielted butter. Mix apple,
inilk and other ingredients and turn
into a buttered pudding 'diels Add
two cupd m
s of colirk, but'do n
o ot
stir it in, then bake in a slow oven
three boars,
,Cocoanut Puttcling.—Put three
rbunding tablerpoons of toprioca. in
cold water to soak over night. Scald
four cups of inilk anti add the drain-
ed tspoica. Cook five ininutes, then
add • tlici yollcs of four eggs, three
rounding tabiespoons of sugar and
three tablespoons of prepared cocoa-
nut. Cook ten minutes and turn
into a dish to cool, Beat the whites
of four eggs and four level table-
spoons of powaered sugar, together
to make a meringue, and spreaa 01W
the top. Sprinkle lightly with
cocoanut and brown slightly in the
oven.
Pea Sonp with Tomato.—Neat two
cups of cannedm
tomatoes 0)011 3)1088
through a 01)0.1000 to take out the
seeds, adict a few 'drops of onion
juice and. add a pea soup made from
above eule
Recipes for the Kitchen,
• liyglene and Other Notes
? for the Housekeeper.
Sit at your work whenever pos-
sible. Do as much mending on the
Revving MEEM1110 CM possible.
live the sweeper„
When "dead tired," stop alai est;
7700\Oh accomplish more in the
encl.
SOME OSE.S OF BORAX.
1.11 sudden hoarseness or lofts of
1'0100 from colds relief may be ob-
tained by iliSeolving and parlialls
rtwultowing a luny of borax the size
of a. pea. Borns may be ilitstiel on
5 a (Wald 01' Wet bUr/lod surfsce. it
5 Is nice tor decodes the teeth and 1.0
sweeten the breath, ate addo
litled t
hard water readers il, meth nicer
o for batithig purposes,. Ewe'', parte
of powdered orris -root, borax pre-
' pared 111101110mtied one 0110111 01! feud:,
Poop ato rt. 11110 dentifrice. Ther
110 better remedy for danklruff
o than a smell of an ounce ('11011 0!
borax and camphor to one and one
half pints of cold water, Scurf 1)10)1be removed from the baby's head by
rubbing on u, little borax and then
, washing with soap and water. Use
one triblespoonful of borax to one
gallon of water for washing xvordion
fabrics; it makes a better lathet
when diesolved f11 110t water. For
washing silk handkerchiefs and
gloves bornx may be used instead o
somp. It is also Mee for cleaning
hair -brushes, When meat, is ready
to hang up, wash it in water 101
hot as yo0 can bear it on you,
hands, then carefully cover the flesh
side with powdered borax, MEd 9'01
will 110E be troubled with bugs or
worms,
SAVING STEPS.
The woman who 'does 1111 her own
work should make her "bead save
her heels." By a little foresight
and skilful managing she may 110 in
au endless variety of ways. The fol-
lowing are some means of saving
steps and labor :
First of all plan aboaa-1101.50 re-
gular times for all work, and thus
be ndstress of your. work and keep
at the heal! 0(it,
When conking green beans, cook
enough for•two or more meals.
Seine once with a plate itressing
of buttes, salt ancl pepper, then re-
heat aad serve some 11101.0 With a
cream sonce,„ and again servocold
with turisionnalse or Preach dres'sing.
Make enough pie -crust for two
baSings at once, and sot the umisect
part in a, cord place until wanted.
Slie last will bo better than the
first.
Let the boys or hired nirin Wash a
'bushel or more of potatoesout-
doors—at one time.
Cook the breakfast cereal the day
before, Cook enough for 'WM • Or
more ntrals in a doable boiler and
reheat any number of times, ThiS
should be coolcoid on ironing 'or bak-
ing. 'clay to savo fuel. Those who
object to having 'the same cereal two
mornings in succession ean still al-
ternate, as the cooked cereal will
keep several 'days in a, cold mace.
There ere many fruits and vege-
tables which need little or no pre-
paration for the table, • T_Tso 'these
generously 111 season. Serve simply,
neat (int nnl.i.dgiolyost 0
od-thopper anti *ttse
it.
Keep a supply of bread erambs
ready MP 1180.
Keep kitchen utensils 111 convenient
Places.
Doit't spend time ideating , Sheets,
underclothes, 'towel% or stockings.
They are More sanitary `unfrosted,
For every day 15041` Make .010 11
110 girl's dresses 1111d bloomers of
some ilark material—flannel in win-
ter and chambray or den0111 in sum,
nifizri—anddo away with the drawers
al alit8.
Cleae thoroughly as you go, and
then keep clean. Insist upon the
feet. being clettecid outside on some -
'thing provided for this purpose.
Don't ellow tho 'dog te track up
your porches, Clhain .111111,
linve a palee for everything in the
11011110 and Hee that each member of
the fondly puts the article he neefl
in its proper place.
Make 'every trip tlp doWn
Stairs •count make no unnecessary
ones.
niE s. s. LESSON.
••••••••••
the senility school
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOV. 1.
Text of the Lesson, II. Sam, xv
1-12. Golden Text,
Ex. xx,, 1011
Afler the everhisting, unconditional
covenant envie with David 1,10115 01111)151
his sop, who %void(1 be inrael's Mers
slats and the kingdom of righteous -
;tees, as recorded 11) our last lessen
111 this book tehapter vli), we read
of David's great prosperity and
righteotie reign (5111. ,15). Then
coinett the record of his great sin and
repentance, the sin of Amnon and
hie death at 1 110 Minds of bis brother
Ahsalom, niter which AbseJom fled
'to the king of Gesbur and remained
there three years, but through the
pleat -deg of the wise woman of 're -
lints, employed by Joel), he came
back to Jerstileiti and dwelt whole
years without recouciliation to his
feller, after which, through Joab's
intereeesion. the king became recon-
ciled to hint, saw him and kissed
f him xiv,, gs, 3:35. Absalom signi-
fies 'Tattier of settee," hut his eon -
duct Silite,Sta one 1010 18 of his fa-
ther the devil (John 1-111., 411• The
r king's Liss to A(selcan %vas 1110 los-
ing kiss of a beartbroken father wel-
t craning Ids erring son, but the kiss
of A.bselom tif ne did kiss his fa-
ther) was 1(101 1.110 kiss of Judas
when he betrayed his Master. This
Is the third tiine in fourteen yeare
that we have bad this portion of
this -chapter assigned as a lesson in-
stead of the much more helpful and
suggestive portion following, but vve
are asked to -day to study verse 23,
W11101 IN somo improvement.
Tho story of Absalom is one of de-
ceit and lying- and treachery and re-
bellion even against his own father.
Perhaps there was 110 one more wick-
ed. His unscrupulous self-seeking,
even at the cost of his father's life,
is suggestive of the devil, who
would if possible 'dethrone God, and
COOKING VEGETABLES.
Onions should be 'boiled in hard
water salted, because they lose much
of their flavor and aroma If boiled
in pure soft water. String -beams
usually need to boil for forty-fivc
minutes. The addition of a small
bit of salt pork will generally mini-
mize any rank flavor, end will im-
prove them. Men done, drain thor-
oughly, season with salt, popper and
butter. Turnips, carrots, cabbage
and onions should be boiled in a
great 'deal of water, then taken up
immediately and drained wbon 51111-
Cieally 'done. Overcooking destroys
the taste, and too tittle water will
&thew them to turn 'dark in color,
New • potatoes are best baked, A
very little sugar .adde'd 1.0 tomatoes,
squash peas, corn, beets and tur-
nips will improve them. Summer
squash should be steamed and not
!boiled. Cauliflower should bo tiea
in a net to prevent boiling to pieces.
Put a piece of bread the size of an
egg into a cheese -cloth bag a.nd drop
into a pot of boiling greens to ab-
sorb the odor.
SHE'D SAID TOO MUCH.
"Now, Stanch" .said Edgar, with a
complacent smile, I ant, ready to try
that little experiment. X am sure I
earl bring you tinder hypnotic influ-
ence if you will agree not to resist.
Just put your , mind in a passive
conclition. TOY to think of nothing
liktf all. Fix your eye on the light,
now, and don't, forget to keep your
Mind a bleak. I will count, sixty
seconds by my wrath." •
The girl followed his directions lit-
erally. 111. twenty seconds her eyes
blinked; in forty they closed.
"AM I know I would snowed!" ex-
claimed Edgar, highly elated. "Now
Maud, I conunand you to tell inc the
secrets of your heart. Whom do yeti
love? Tell me, I command you."
A momentary expeession of resist-
ance crossed the girl's face; then sho
spoke in a. monotone:
"I love Edgar Popham, and—"
"Yes, yes!" cried Edgar, trembling
with delight. Go on. Tell lee all
the secrets of your heart."
"I love Edgar Popham," continued
the .girl, in the saute tone, "and I
would love him move if he were not
so stingy. I want to go to the
theatre t•wiee a week, and he takes
1110 only once in three menthe, 11
want diamond rings, one he gives 1110
rings with imitation stones in them,
1 \vent a, drive in. the Park once or
twice a week, and 11 never get it,
When I go out with 111111 and get
hungry,ie.T_,11°never thinks of oYstors.
"Enough!" cried the young man,
"Awake! I command you!" And be
fled, without waiting to see the re-
sult of his command. As the Trent
door slammed tho Young girl °Ported
her eyes, smiled, and said;
"I hope I did not spring too much
on him at once, Perhaps I should
have let the drive and oysters go
till another tine." '
GETTING ON.
A lady on entering the kitchen ear-
ly one morning SELW a plate and knife
and fork, the former of which had
evidently contained rabbit pie. Tho
lady strongly suspected a certain po-
liceman of having supped off it, and
tho following conversation took place
between her and the cook:
Mistress—"Jane, What's become of
the cold rabbit pie that was leftr'
Jane—"01),1 didn't think it was
wanted, mum, so I gave it, to the
dog."
Mistress (sarcastically)—"Boes the
dog use a knife and fork, then?"
Jane (unabashed)—"Not very well
yet, mum; but I am teaching him
tot"
SOLD BY TEM STIOCK.
A farmer went on a visit to a
friend. After dinner the husband-
man requested to be shown round the
town.
After visiting several places they
nosily reached the electrie lightlug
works,
"What d'ye call this place, Dan?"
fit:wird the 111111100.
"WS 1a called the eleetric plant,"
17I5 the reply.
"Plant! What do thoy Vote,"
"They groar eureenrs,"
'l -Tow do they sell '010-1)91 the
buehel?"
'Man/ don't aell "tnn by the 1)081101;
they 'em by tho shock."
Sbads 811011101 be pretty • teaSe of
ilielehing they feel in their bones
who will yet seek to do so ere the
age doses. Make a careful and pray-
erful study of the following passages
and be ever on your guard against
all such manifestations. Ise. 1015.,
Li, 14; Dan. vit., 2.1; sills 24,25;
xi., 26; 11, Thesis ii., 3, 4: . Rev.
5-7; xvii., 14; .xix., 19, 20.
There are Many foreshatiowings on a
small scale—politicians who will not
lake up a matter without first con-
sidering how it may affect their own
political prospect; those who, for
their own ends, by good words and
fair speeches, deceive the hearts of
the simple; those who under pretense
of worshipping God have only in
51015 their 0111.1 promotion and pos-
sibly the overthrow of some just
person. How desperately \ricked
must have been the heart of Absa-
lom, who, with profession of devo-
tion to God 00 his lips and his fa-
ther's blessing sounding in his ears,
goes forth to carry out his devilish
designs against his father. Yet
there is an ever increasing multitude
who are disobedient to parents and
in open rebellion against God (IL
This iii., 1-5). But as truly as David
returned and sat 0/1 1111•1 throne in
peace (xis., 14) so shall our Lord
Jesus return awl reign on David's
throne, and the wink of righteous-
ness shall be peace and the effect of
righteouteleSS quietness and assur-
anee 101111'er (lsa, ix., 6, 7; xxxii,,
17). There are Malty ahithophels
(foolish brethren, the name signi-
fies) who stand high before men
in relation to the icing, but
who while outwardly professing al-
legience, aro really on the side of
thri enemy. Let us turn from the
dark picture of self and sin to the
faithful few who said to David in
st sis calk bout, Behold thy ser-
vants aye ready to do whatsoever
1111' lord the king shall appoint," and
to hull, who said, "As the. Lord
thrill arid as my lord the king
avetli, surely 111 what piece my lord
the king shall be, whether in death
or life, even there also will thy ser-
vant be- (verses 15, 2.1).
To mere natural eight it looked
dark for David, but God hect promis-
ed that the kingdom would be estab-
lished forever„ and there were some
who had faith in Gocl and WePe also
ready to die with David rather than
live with Absalom. The time was,
and in China oily two years ago:
when to live menet to deny Clirist,
but malty confessed Dim and clied for
See in Rev. xiii, 15-1 7, a. dee
seription of coming clays, and see in
Rev, xis, 9-11; xv. 2-4, the future of
those who deny Christ in order to
live and the future of such as rho for
His salce„ Aray We have the spirit
f ittaf and of Ruth ana of Elisha
(Ruth is 16 17; 11, Ntings ii, 2, 4,
6, 9), and only our determined stand
be that of Paul in Phil, I. 20; 11L
8-1-0. Note Dasid's submission and
recogettion of God in this great trisl
"Behold, hero am 1,, let Him do to
me as seenicith good unto Ilim"
(verses 25, 26). 0101' the sante
brook Nitlron (verse 23; John xviii,
1) went the see of David 011 the
night, of the agony in Gethsemane and
the betrayal by Jtidas Iscatiot, and
the faithful followers were 'yery few,
Erma the same Olivet (Serse 11(1) the
rejecter' Christ returned to Tits home
in ITtetven, and to the same Olivet
will Ile tome again to overthrow
llis tummies and establish the proms
ised kingdom with Jerusnlem its a
center (Acts 1, 11, 12; 'Zech. 1011r, 4),
therefore lot us obey Ise. 6, 7.
David's going barefoot is suggestive
of his acknowlectgetnent that this
was ell of God, and God must man-
age it, for it is 'His affair, Ile
kilows how to perform every
purpose, unit it 11ee0111011 US 10 put
off our shore in Hie presollee, 05 Ile
sairl to Moses and to il manta (lex.
ii, 5; v. 1.5), Wo have tome to 5.
plaee of great rest when, Ivith true
humility and -obsolete towfideeee in
God, We eat go day. by dny with
unshod feet,, acknoWletigieg that tlic
whole life arni all its service, passive
or active, aro ef Goa, Ho appointed
and prepared foe us and Wit have
only 10 Walk With HIM in 11, Ho
the Maher and iiniSher Of all,
BEN- 18 MATER
THINGS AXLE LIA-,
131X TO liAPPEN,
Some Captains of Vessels Malta
Their Dishonesty T'ay,
Thetis Vlrell,
theptains of merchant Vessels have
a larger field than anyone else for
the exervise of roguery, and many,
of them do not fall to Week the
Mild to the fullest extents
'rho ways In which a elcipper can
build up a competenRy are numerous.
I.'irst of all there is the iniquitouit
SyStem of commissions, If the
oweers order the stores to be of a
certain price and quality, the sup-
pliers find 11, advisable to cc/Arita:to
the captain, or there will be tom -
plaints. To ecmmensate for this
outlay, the supplier probably has to
send in a part of the stores of coal-.
Its, 11110010r to that agreed, or the
exect quantity is pot always given
and this ds winked at by the master.
Ile has to sign for the goods or re-
port on the quality, and there is 110
complaint front him.
Some skippers go farther. Fifty
pounds' worth of stores are some-
times' sent 10, and the Master 515,05
a smaller for half as mush again;
the firm pays, and half, or more
than half the supplies goes into the
skipper's pocket.
It is surprising, too, to notice 11010
quickly certain articles in the way
of cutlery ankl linea will wear out,
Or be lost or damaged. Tablecloths,
kuives and forks, and the like, fina,
their way to the home of the Mis-
trals Thu wives and fatuities of
some captains 310150 0.01 abundant Slip -
ply of provisions at the end of a •
voyage, 10111th means that the dkip-
per has pinched the food supply at
seas
IlOGUE'S ADVANTAGE.
In these cases where shipowners
allow a sum of 10011ey to the master
for provisions, the dishonest com-
mander will grind quality and quan-
tity to the lowest point, thus add-
ing to the banking account standing
in Ms wife's name. The men may
grumble, but the skipper has the ear
of the owner, and the "common
sailor has no chance. The mates
havo occasionally to be kept quiet,
which, 'deprives the chief of a small
portton of has hard-earned pilfertngs,
but that is only a small drawback.
Not only the provisions, but also
tho ship itself and the cargo suffer
at the hands of these mem Ropes
and teoltle will be sold at a foreiga
port, to the common danger; but
the captain pockets the proceeds and
accounts for the deficiency under the
head of "thrty weather," 01' 50111e -
thing of that nature,
Again, repairs at foreign ports run
-up the expenses from time to time.
BOLD BUCCANEERS.
801110 of tbe depredations of skip-
pers, in connection 101t11 the cargo,
are enough to take your breath
away if you rue not in the swim.
Par instance, it seems incredible
that a captain could appropriate ten
ingots of copper—yet this was ac-
tually done. Tim infortnation was
given by one of the men who helped
to carry them ashore at an Ameri-
can port. This was one of the
cases where tffe mates have to be
tipped; they had 122 each for the
helping, and the cower fetched £28.
One skipper found it necessary to
throw overboard ao fewer than
fifty bags of gond Russian wbeat
'during a- storm; a. sudden modera-
tion of the gale saved the greater
part of the cargo from the same
fate. That was a loss; but it is
not uncommon to throw over some
of the cargo to lighten the vessel,
anti there are losses as well as gains
in all linsinesses. But the strange
part of the affair was that those
bags of wheat were thrown over
several days after the gale, mid
about 1,500 miles from the suppos-
ed spot—en tact, when the vessel was
u, lotig Way 001 011 another voyage.
Now was that ? .
SEEMS TO PAY,
The bags had been removed and
hidden, in the anticipation of being
able to dispose of them at the end
of the next Dip; but, to the dismay
of the elcipper, the vessel WEIS sent
with ballest to a port where. thero
was 110 chanee of selling the ill-
gotten goods. lf the bags were per-
mitted to remain in their place of
concealment too long tbey might be
discovered, so they were thrown over
the Side at Iiight.
An "advauce" on account to pay
to men who desire to go ashore at
nport of call gives the dishonest
master another opportunity of mak-
ing a little by charging interest. It
may be that the met are entitled to
an allowence, rind thus no interest
can be charged but if the port be a
foreign 0110, the captein does not
frail to change the money for them
and charge a high rate of exchange.
"lf I could get a master's birth,"
once said 11 mate who had held a
captain's certificate, but had been
unable to obtain the coveted peel -
up seafaring and re-
tkssl, "1 would 111-0110 enough in five
years to turn
Ire meent it, slid as he Was "in
it„" he knew what he was talking
about. Further, in support of Ms
nasertion, he mentioned e captain
who, in a dozen years bad acquired
Property to the value of four 1110)1)
-
1(0)11(1 pounds. This was more Gam
his pay anioanted to in the whole
period, to arty nothing Of the fact
that ta. had kept a inniily in good
style all the time.
WITA.T MAMMA Swill.
An amusing story is told of a 11118-
01.19/ old gentleman 15110 visited his
relntives uninvited,
Ono ntornieg his little niece of five
summers (1)1110 1-13) to him unexpectecie
ly with the inclignamt question:
"Thiele, ale you a cannibal?"
The gentleman wag' startled, and
said:
"No, of course not, my deer child;
bet what on' earth nutkes you ask?"
The little girl replied:
"011, 31 thoeght yoe most be, be-
cause melanin Wag saying This morn,
Ing, Just ue you 0111110 111, 11111E you
aiWuye liVod on your telations,"