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Rev, Dr. Talmage Dwells on
Care for Mart,
its originalfeliolty ; feoultles
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that may bl„Ssulll ms) i brat f alt inex-
haustihly, inamurtality written epos)
every .eapaelty; a soul .destined to
range in unlimited sphere of activity.
Ood' lung after the world hue put on ease,
and the solar System, (shall have temp -
ped ate axle, tent the stars, that, in
their courses, fought against Siam,
shall hue been slain, apd burled amid
the tuning thunders of the last des,
aae
A des'pateh from Waslring'ton ears; I.The nno rami -+ding him of his origin,
..Roe, Dr. Talmage preached frons ( the other apamacing of leis destiny—
the following text ; "The earth Hs full himself the00046'ting link between
of the eoodness et the Lord." --Psalm the anneal creative and angelic in-
xxxiii, 5. telligenee, in trim a '.strange cone
The, season of learreet hes( biome. mingling of the tentiIor•al and eter-
NcttrLng ootald atop it. It pressed on nal, the finite, and the infinite, dust
dower through the weeeka and months,
its way lighIted by berating cities, or
cleft by cavernous graves; naw straws)
with orange -blossoms, and thee with
funeral weeds; amid inalrunien'ts
that piped "the quickstep" end drum -
meal "the dead march." Through
the ,gates of the morning it ,came,
tarrying on one shoulder a sheaf of
wheat, and on the other a ahowk of
nom. Children in holiday dress,.
held up their hands to bless it, and
old age goes oat to bid it welcome,
seeking that tit come in, and by the
allaaa of God rest awjfile, Come in,
oil
season, fragrant with a thous-
and ememoriee, and borne down under
the, weight of innumerable meroles,
and tell to our thankful hearts how
great is the goodness of God,
13y a sublime ergotism man liters
come to app'r'opriate this world to
himoolf, when the fact is that our
race is un a small minority. The
instances of human life, as panatela',
"ed. with the 'instances . of animal
lite, are not one to a million. We
shall enlarge our ideas of God's good-
ness and come to a better under-
ate,nding of the text if, before we
come to look art the cup of ;our bless-
ing, we look at the goodness of God
to the ixratiomal creation.
On a summa• day, when the air
and the grass tare most populous with
life, you will net hear a sound of 410 -
trees, unless, perchance, a heartless
school -boy has robbed a bird's neat,
or a hunter has broken a bird's wing,
or a pasture has been robbed of a
lamb, Lied there goes up a bleating
from the flack, Tho whole ear•tb
is filled with animal delighb—joy
fieathered, and scaled, and horned,
and hoofed. The bee hums it ; the
frog croaks it; the squirrel chat-
tens it; the hunk carols it; the whale
spouts it. The snarl, the rhinoceros,
the grizzly, bear, the toad, the waoP,
the spider, the shell -fish, have their
homely delights—joy as our joy is to
us. Goat climbing the rocks; ana-
conda crawling through the jungle;
buffalo• plunging across the prairie;
crocodile banking in tropical sun; seal
puffing on the ice; ostrich striding
across the desert, are so many
bundles of joy; they do not go moping
or melancholy; they are not only half
supplied; God says they are filled
with good.
God's band feeds all these broods,
and shepherds all these flocks, and
lends all these herds. He sweetens
the clover top for the oxen's taste;
and pours out crystalline waters, in
moseod sups 01 rook, for the hind to
drink out of on his way down the
crags; and pours nectar into the cup
of the haneysuokie to refresh the
humming -bird; and spreads a. ban-
quet of a hundred fields of buck-
wheat, and lets the bmney-bee put his
mouth to any cup of all the banquet;
and tells the grasshopper to go any
where be likes, and gives tee flecks
of heaven the chair:° of all the grain -
fields,
Yea, God in the Bible announces
his care for those orders of creation.
He says that he has heavea uptforti-
Iiotions for their defense—Psalrn
civ, 18; "The high hills are a refuge
for the wild goats, and the rocks for
the conies." He watches the bird's
nest—Psalm civ, 17; "As for the s•tonk,
the fir -trees are her house." He aegis
that the cattle have enough grass—
Psalmciv, 14; "He causoth the grass
to grow for the oattle." He sees to it
that the cows, and sheep, and horses
have enough todrink—Psalm oiv. 10,
11: "lee sendeth the springs into the
valleys, which run among the hills;
they give drink to every beast of the
field; the wild asses quenele their
thirst."
Why did God make all these, and
avhy make them so happy ? How ao-
nount for all this singing and dams -
lag, and frisking amid the irrational
creation? Why the .perpetual chant-
ing of so many voices from the irra-
tional oreationr in earth, and air, and
ocean—beasts, and all cattle, creeping
things and flying fowl, permitted to
join in the praise that goes up from
seraph and arohang°l? Only one so-
lution, one explanation, one answer—
God is geed. "The ea.rth"ia full of the
goodness of the Lord."
I take a. stop higher, and'notioe the
adaptation of the world to tbe com-
fort and happiness of man, The sixth
day of creation bas arrived. The pal-
ace of the world was made, but there
was 110 king to live in it, Leviathan
tilled the beep; tee eagle the air ;i
the Ilon the field, but where was the
sceptre which should rule all? A new
atyla of being was created. /leaven
and earth were represented in his
You sot that God luta adapted every-
thinn Le oar comfort and advuntitge.
Pleasant things for the palate; meal°
fur the ear; beauty for tbe eye; aroma
for the nostril; kindred ter opir':effete
Lions; Poetry for our taste; religion
for our soul, We are put in a garden,
and glory.' The earth for hie floor, and 'and told that from all the trews we
beaven for his roof ; God for his Futh- , may eat except beteand there one.
er; eternity far his lifetime, Te feed and refresh our intellect,
The Christian anatomist, gazing up- ten thousand wonders In nature and
CO3 the confirmation of the human providence—wonders of mind and
body exolalms, "I am fearfully and body, wonders of earth, and air, and
wonderfully made." Volumes have deep, an,iiugiea and antitheses; all
been written of the hand, Wondrous colours acid sounds; lyrics in the air.;
instrument 1 With it we give, friendly idyls In the field ; conflagrations in the
recognition, and grasp the sword, and sunset; robes of mist on the moun-
elimb the rook, and write, and carve tains; and the "Grand March" of God
and build. It constructed the Pyre.- in the storm.
mills,' and belated the Parthenon, It 1 But for the soul still higher adapba-
made the harp, and then struck out 'tion ; .a f[WAWA in which it may
of it all the world's minstrelsy. In it
the white marble of Pentelioon mines
dreamed itself away into immortal
sculpture. It rains in the swift en-
gine; it holds the steamer to its path
in the sea; it snatohes the fire from
child with its delicate touch, and
makes the nations .quake witb its
stupendous achievements. What power
brought drown the forests and made
the marshes blossom, and burdened
the earth with all the cities that
thunder on with enterprise and pow-
er. Four fingers and a thumb. A
hundred million dollars would not
purchase for you a machine as exquis-
ite and wonderful as your own hand.
Mighty hand l In all, its bones, and
muscles, and joints, I learn that
God Is good.
Behold the eye, which in its Daguer-
xean gallery, in an instant catches the
mountain and the sea, This perpetual
tcfegraphcmg of the nerves; this
human voice, capable, as has been
ossimated, of prodvotng seventeen tril-
lions', five hundred and ninety two
bi 141oos, one thanked and eighty-six
mi'di,oars, forty-four hundred and fif-
teen srounds. If we could realize the
wanders pf our physical organization
we should become hypochondriacs,
fearing' every moment that some
part of the ,machine would break Regularly the lungs work, and their
down. But many men have lived motion seems to be a spirit within as
panting after its immortality. Our
sight fails net, though the air is so full
of objects which by one torch could
'break out the soul's window. What
ship, after a year's tossing on the sea,
;meld come in with so little damage as
.ourselves, though we arrive after a
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HOUSEHOLD.
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TO 1101JSEI i511PERS,
Before cleanse a bouso, see that
avel'ytl}4ng, inside and out, i9 in or,
dor and good repair. Examine the
Pealenlege' of all blindsend the locks
of all doors; see that the roof dote is of
leak; that the cellar windows are are
care and protected, and that all gates
on the premises will stay shut. Peek
bedclothing in elusets, toyer met -
tresses with old cheats, set chairs
bank agatost the wall, empty and
cleanse ,kitchen closets and determine
to be care free after leaving the be-
loved Lares and Penates of the borne.
The trouble with bread not keep -
ling' Ls sometimes due not so much to
this jar or pail, as to its not being
sufficiently baked, especially if the
the loaves are very thick. It may
look done and there will be no appear
ants° of underdone dough, but yet it
would have been safer to let it remain
to the oven longer, safely eovered to
prevent burning. 'lbe writer has
used a tin pail ter several years, and
wash; a ladder by which to may numb ; likes 11, but she wraps her bread hs)
a song of endless triumph that it may
sing; a Drown of unlading light that 0leam soft brown paper and keeps it
it may wear.' Christ came to save it— secure from the air even 1s) the tin
carne witb a arose on his back ; came pail• II; keeps without sats sign of
with spikes in hie feet; came when no mold for several days,
one also world 'tome, to do Nothing responds to rich °ream
a work whtoh no one else with more appreciative flavor than
would do. Soo how suited a succotash. It is best made of kid-
man's'condition is what God. has done nay or lima beans, but airing beans
for bhm l Man is a sinner; here his can be used. Corn and' beans should
pardon. He has lost God's image ; be 000ked separately. The water in
Christ retraces It. Be is helpless; Al- which the cern is 000ked should be
mighty grace is proffered. He is a lost saved, but not that in whish the beans
;wanderer; Jesus brings him home, were boiled. Equal harts of corn
Ile is blind; and at one touch of Him and bran should be used.
who oared Bartimeus, eternal glories A large pineapple, the inside of
stream into his soul. Jesus, 1 sing whieh has been scooped out, leaving
thy grace 1 Cure of worst disease 1 a wall, sweetened and returned to
Hammer to smite off Heaviest chain! the shell is delicious for, a plank des -
Light far th1ekest darkness 1 Grace sect. A tall, narrow, box can be
divine l Devils scoff at it, and men found to fie it, and this, too, should
reject it, butheaven celebrates it l be kept right side up.
I wish you good cheer for the natlon To fry tomatoes, pert two table -
al health. Pestilence, that in other spoonfuls of butter in a frying pan,
years bus come to drive out its thou add to it a tablespoonful of finely
sand hearses has not visited our nation, shopped onion. Cook the onion until
It is a glorious thing to be well. How it is yellow and remove it. Out the
strange that we should keep our tomatoes in halves, let a little of
health when one breath from a marsh, the juice drain fromthem, place them
or the sting of an insect, or 'the alip- im the pan, and cook for five minute&
ping of a foot, or the falling of a tree- Turn them end cook them five min -
branch +might fatally assault our life 1 ales longer.
Vinegar and salt will strengthen
a lams bank.
Vinegar used to wash the wall be-
fore papering will Whelp the paper to
stick.
through seventy years, and not a
nerve has teased to tbria, or a muscle
to contract, or eland to mani-
pulate.
1 Lake a step higher, and look at
man's mental constitution.
Behold the lavish benevolence of
year's voyage to -day?
God in powers of perception, or the
1
faculty you have of transporting1 wish you good cheer for the har-
vest. Reaping machines never awatb-
this outside world into your own art thicker rye, and oorn-husker's peg
mind—gathering into your twain the never ripped out fuller ear, and mow -
majesty of the storm, end the splend- poles never bent down under sweeter
ours of the day -dawn, and lifting in- hay, and Windmill's hopper never
to your mind the ocean as easily as shook out larger wheat. The gar-
ypu might put a glass of hater to vers are Lull, the store houses
your lips. are r eovcrbrowded, the canals
Welch the law of association, or are blocked with freights pressing
the mysterious linking together of all down to the markets. The cars rum -
you crew thought, or knew, or felt, bio all through the darkness, and
and then giving you the power to whistle up the flagmen at dead of
take hold of the alowlDue, and draw night to let the Western harvest
through your mind the long train
acme down to feed the mouths of the
with Indescribable velocity—ane . great cities,
thought starting up a hundred, and P
I wish you good cheer far civil and
this again °thousand—as the sheep of l religions liberty. No official spe.
one bird sometimes wakes a whole watches us, nor does an armed sol -
forest of voices, or the thrum of one dta interfere with the Honest utter -
string will rouse an orchestra.
1Vshame-
day
r anee of truth. Blessed be God that to -
Watch your memory—that sheaf- t day we are free men, with the pros-
bimd•er that goes forth to gather the peed and determination of always be -
harvest rho past, and bring it in-
ing free. Jew and. Gentile—Arminian
to the present. Your power and vela- and Calvinist—Trinitarian and - Unit -
swift
wf thought—thought lightning
oL the I arian—Protestant and Roman Catho-
lic—onng the same footing. If perseau-
In reason and understanding, man tion should come against the most
is alone Thea ox surpasses him in
strength, the antelope ,m speed, the unpopular of all the soots, I believe
hound in keenness of nostril, the eagle that all other denominations would
in far-reaching sight, the rabbit in ;band together, and arm themselves,
quickrness of hearing, the honey -boa and hearts would be stout, and blood
im d,slioacy of tongue, the spider in
would ba frac, and the right of men
to worship God according to the dio-
iim°nesa ,of touch. Dlan's power, ' tates of their oonsoionoes would be
therefore, comsisteth not in what be
can lift, or how fast he can run, or contested at the point of the bayonet,
how strong a wrestler be eau throw : and with blood flowing up to the bits
—for in these respects the ox, the .of the horses' bridles.
ostrich, and the hyena aro his
Praise ye the Lord 1 Let everything
superior—but by his reason he comes that has breath praise the Lord! To.
dorbil to rule all. At his all -conquer -
'day let the people come out from
their store bosses and offices, from
factories, and off from. Western prair-
ies, and up from mines, and out from
]forests, and in from the whale ships
land wherever God's light shines, and
God's rain descends, and God's mare
God's rain descends, and God's mercy.
broods, let the thanksgiving arise!
ing dooroe, the forest that bad stood
for ages steps aside to let him build
hie cabin and cultivate his farm. The
sea which raved. and foamed upon the
race has beoonre a crystal pathway
for uommorco to mares) on. The
thunder -aloud that slept lazily above
the mountain ie made to comedown
and curry mail -bags. Man, dissatis-
fied With bis slowness of advance-
ment, shouted to the Water•and the
Mire, "Cattle and lila" "Come and
drawl" "Come and help!" Aad they
answer, "Ay, ay, we comae' and they
joined bands—the fire and the water
--and the shuttles fly, and the rail -
train rattles on, and the steam -ship
comes (soughing, panting, flaming
=tea the deep,
I
take a step 'lydglrer, and look at
man's moral. nature, Made in the
Image of God. Vast capacity for en-
joyment; ,capable at first of eternal
joy, and, thoagb now disordered, still,
nature, His body from the earth be- through the rabuperetivo foroe of hea-
teath ; his soul frvve the heaven above.1 venter grace, 'able to mount up to more
1IIIOTOR POSTJ.
. A frequent difficulty encountered
by postal authwri,ttes in Australia is
tib° cheap and expeditious delivery of
malls to bnutlying localities. Many
of these places ase hundreds of miles
from the ,nearest railway line, and
the route la apt to be through
drrotuttbretriclnem country, where the
diry roa.de are at times impassable
even by (navels. This is conspicuously
the case in tropical Queensland. But
the government of that colony iris
rival to the emergency, and bate de-
cided tro try Use expertmeath of dis-
prlielring mails to "out break" by mo-
tor car. The result is likely to be
awaited with interest in other plac-
civ than l,)aeanslanrb
REGARDING RUGS.
Although rugs aro in almost uni-
versal use, Occidental people do not
seem to have learned the art of using
:hum properly as do the Oriental na-
tions& Therugis intended to com-
fort the feet and should be plated
where people stand or sit a great
deal. It is appropriate ander a read-
ing table, dining -room table, or in
front of a window or a mirror, in
front of a bookcase or at ,the side oft a
bed or in front of a wash -stand. They
are inappropriate in a hallway, a
passage Way or against a wall, un-
derneath a mesio rack, or a tea Mable.
American housewives should remem-
ber that the people who snake and use
rugs go barefooted in their own
homes and that they put the rug
where it will feel soft to the sole.
In the selection of colors regard
should be had for the dolor scheme of
the room. A rug should be not less
than two nor more than five ehades
darker than the prevailing tints. The
only exception is in drawing -rooms
where there is much statuary or many{,
Water, and Sift in suffielent Grehaul
flour to Mike a drop batter,
Beat hard until smeeth, then eel
the bowl to a pin of warm water,
covet' (stalely and stand in a warm
Plate wntil the batter le very light
and filled tvith bulibles. Sift in more
fiver lentil you IIIVO a soft dough,
then tarn out on a well floured beard
and knead until the dough' is very
smotoh:to the touch and does not ad-
here readily to the board or hands,
Return to the bowl, renew the bob.
water, cover es before and stand
aside until the dough bus fully doub-
led an bulk,
Divide Into two equal parte and
knead cash well, until the air bub-
bles seem of uniform size, thea mold
ire° shape and place in a greased pan.
Brush the top with water' and let it
stand until the dough begins to rise,
then bake in a moderate oven. If
the pen le of a shape popularly
known as "brick' loaf," the bread will
be dove in from 50 minutes to an
hour,
GREAT BATTLES OF HISTORY.
Proved nee Is Not ,tKsar•n an. the Stile or
tits Waviest Battalions.
When Napoleon said ''Providence is
always on the aide of the strongest
battalions" he proved the falsity of
his own precept in his last battle-
field. It is not without interest to
sec how this applied in some of the
world's great battles. At Marathon
there were 200,000 Persians con-
fronting 11,000 Greeks. The Persian
army was routed and the invasion of
Gireeoe was ended.
Xerxes moved on Greece with We
army of millions. Leonidas withhia
immortals met them at Thermopylae
and held the Persians in check, but
not until the heroic Spartan and his
followers were killed. Subsequently
at Salamis Themistocles met the
Pasadena in a naval battle. Xerxes
watched the struggle from a dis-
tance and wept over the destruction
of his army. Under Hezekiab Jer-
usalem was menaced by 85,000 Assyr-
ians, who threatened to ruin ,the city.
Not one Assyrian soldier saw Jerusa-
lem. At Gaugamela, Alexander the
Great, with 47,000 men fought 1,000,-
000 Persians under Darius. The Per-
sians were routed and Darius assassi-
nated by one of his satraps.
The siege of Jerusalem was the
gloomiest event in the history of
mankind, In A. D. 70 the temple of
Herod was just completed. The Jews
were never so haughty and so patrio-
tic. They were never so disorgan-
ized. Innumerable factions divid-
ed them. But the feast of the Pass-
over and the common danger enabled
Vesposian and Titus to shut them up
in the city. John and Simon, their
partisan leaders, hated each other as
cordially as they hated the Romans.
When their followers were not fight-
ing one another duringthe siege they
wean opposing the Romans. Vespaa-
ian and Titus cast trenches about the
city, not one stone was left upon an-
other of their beautiful temple, as
the Savior prodioted, and 1,100,000
Jews perished in that awful holo-
caust.
In the Russian campaign Napoleon
lost 475,000 man. His legions melted
and died under the falling snowflakes.
The naval battle of Lepanto be-
tween the Christians under Don John
of Austria and the, Turks was one of
the fiercest contests of the middle
ages. The Christians numbered 80,-
000 and the Turks 120,030 men. The
Turkish fleet was destroyed, its com-
manders killed and the Moslem naval
power was crushed on the Mediter-
ranean.
At Waterloo Wellington had 70,000
paintings, and then the rug should mem and 159 cannon. Napoleon con -
be as dark as possible Considerable froutod him with 72,000 men and 240
taste is shown in the new Bulgarian cannon. Napoleon claimed he batt
rugs, the Sanford Axminsters and the Wellington in his grasp. Brit be was
Cotton Smyrnas for piazzas and facing deetiny.. A rain storm of
parches, The Japanese rugs in ,delft the night before wrought havoc with
blue and white : are exhibited in the the movements of- his artillery.
quaintest of all quaint patterns, and Grouchy felled to come up. A000rd-
are the coolest designs shown.
TO CLEAN WINDOWS.
A nice way to clean windows, or the
glass in bookcase doors, or cupboards,
Bays a writer is an exchange, is to
take a small bunch of cotton batting,
dampen it with kerosene, and wipe
alts glass all over carefully. After
allowing it to stay on a short time,
Lake a soft, Olean cloth and polish
the glass. You will be surprised at j inch strips and not longer than 12
Its brilliancy and clearness. There inches, The rags aro sewed as for;
are no streaks to rub off, over and . ;rag carpets, lapping them an half
over again, and it can be done in a 'Inch. They aro then rolled in balls
very little while, without any muss ' and woven upon colored warp, on
whatever. The smell evaporates al- looms that shine the silk as it is wov-
most immediately. One can rubs the en, thus making a velvety surface
gives all over well, then go about upon both sides. As the warp scarce -
other work, leaving it for several ly shows, the effect is remarkably
hours, and then it will polish just the pretty and not a bit "home -mads"
same looking. The portieres, rugs or
-- -- i afghans, whichever you wish, are
GRAHAM BREAD. 1 made in one -yard widths, and ono and
Repeated inquiries for recipes for dna-quarter yar'd's, or 52 Inch widths.
making Graham broad are answered About 20 oun0e4 of silk( is, allowed to
le the following standard .recipe; r each square yard.that is vary
Scald one and one half cupfuls of milk thin should bs mut a little wider,
buirrt into n large bowl and add one' aboutthree-fourths of en inch—as
cupful of cold wain', two tablespoon- 1 late pressure of the machinery
fins of molasses and ono heaping tea- 1 sketches these thin fabrics, and the
spoonful of salt. Add to this mix- ftniehed surface Must be of the seine
tune, which should be lukewarm, one weight. Soft woolens may be woven
third of a yeast entre dissolved in to tee same way, and they snake very
three tablespoonfuls of lukewarm letudsome rugs.
ing tar Victor Hugo, the sunken road
of Obam rained tbe charge, of Nagel -
eon's cavalry. When the night came
Napoleon was a fugitive.
PORTIERES. U
Some oriental portieres that aro
vary popular are woven from, scraps
of silk, old or new, straight or bias,
all sorts and kinds, stet into one-half
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Young Folks.
Ar BOY'S REFLECTION.
A loving couple are Rover and Frad;
Stanchest of oomradea thee roam to-
gether
Through budding orchard and wood-
land red,
By wind of Winter or Summer wear -
time
But the door of the school room, day
by day,
Parts them till study hours are
over;
The one to eviorkr and the other to
Play—
Since Fred in Fred, and Rover Is
ADM!
If Fred were haver, and Rover Fred,
Surely the gain of the boy would
be double;
To lay down duties and take instead,
A round of days without toil or trou-
blel
To wander• about me the uplands 0001,
Or lie at will in the sunny clover,
Never learn lessons and go to sebool—
If ].rover were Fred, and Fred were
Rover 1
Yet, were Fred Rover, and Royer Fred,
:Might not the winning be less than
the losing?
What wase the pleasure of skate or
sled,
Marble or ball to a dog's dull choos-
ing ?
Thee the sail dawn the stream and
the sport in the snow.
And the fun with the rest when
school hs over,—
Perlraps, after all, it is better so
That Fred should be Fred, and Rov-
er, Rover I
TORTOISES DON'T L1K.11 RAIN.
The tortoise shows a greater dislike
to and fear of rain than any other
animal. Twenty-four hours or more
before rain falls the Galapagos tor-
toise makes for shelter. On a brigbt,
clear morning, when not a cloud can
be seen, all the shell beaks en a tor-
toise farm may sometimes be seen
headed for the nearest overhanging
rocks. When that happens the people
know that the rain will come down
during the day, and as a rule it comes
down in torrents. The sign never fails.
A STORY OF OUR COCKER SPANIEL
Some people say that dogs have no
intelligence, but it is evident that
such people have never bad much to do
with animals, nor studied their habits,
Dogs do not like oats, as a general
rule they are sworn enemies, but a
little incident which happened in our
family a few years ago, goes to prove
that a dog will treat with kindness
a eat of whom he has every reason
to be jealous.
We ,had a dog, Bert, a cooker
spaniel, one of the prettiest in the
neighrbarhood. He was the only dog
or pet we bad except a canary, and
we all used to love and pet him a good
deal.
One day a lady gave me a little
white kitten and when I brought it
borne I showed it to Bart. lea came,
and smelt it, and growled, for he did
not like eats. I put it on the floor
and Bert walked out of the room. If
he were with any of us and we pinked
up the pussie he would go away, but
if we bad it in our lap and he was
aoming up, and saw. it he would back
away again, but as soon as we would
put down the kitten he would come
to us quite oheerfuly. Bert never
took any notice of the cat, any more
than if she were not in the house, ex-
cept when we had her.
Another day the kitten, or Toots as
we called her, was playing in the gar-
den with an empty spool, that was
hung from a line, and Bert was lying
on the walk asleep. A Week dog
walked in and stood looking at Toots.
Bert lay watching him for a few min-
utes till he saw the black dog begin
to walk slowly and steadily towards
Toots, than be got up. The other
dog saw this, and would look first at
Toots, and then at Bert, and they
would both step forward. This kept
up till they were pretty near Toots,
who didn't see the other dog, and
never noticed Bert. She was un-
aonoioos of any danger, Bert saw
this, and suddenly walked up, took
'foots by the back of the neck, march-
ed Lute the house, and laid her at my
mother's feet. Mother had been
watching the whole performance, but
was rather surprised and amused at
the look he gave hew, for it said; as
plainly as words could, "If you want
your cat you had better look after
Maida Stewart, Ottawa, aged 11.
RAILWAY BUILDING IN CHINA.
An interesting story revealing the
difficulty of railroad building in China
is related. A German company that
was building a ,road in Shang -bung
Province complained that the stakes
of the surveyors were destroyed, and
secured from the Chinese Governer a
promise to protect them. The survey-
ors teen again went over the ground
they had, traversed already three or
four times, and again set their stakes.
Later on, returning to the some of
their operations, they found all the
markers pulled up. Tbey bastenad to
the Governor in a rage. "The stakes
are all right, every one of them." the
Governor• blandly replied. "I had my
man go out and take the all upend
keep them safely 1;111 you returned,
and I have got them tied up ie bun-
dles for you:' It is added Lhat the en-
gineer seized the Governor and nearly
shook his head off, though the latter
hntl Bono what he supposed was a
great favor, and with the best of in-
tentions.
BREAD 'ANI) BUTTER.
My mother says, 11 llbb1 gala
Want curly halm, they meet
Plat all their bread ape butter ,tip,
And speolally the crust.
So very many fettle girls
In all the wide, wide world
Would be so very happy if
Their hale were mals curled,
And tan I be so ,elfish, tben?
No, dear mamma, I mast
Give other Little 'girls my 'bread,
And specially the crust.
THE AMONG ANTS.
From a military standpoint the
methods employed by wits to provide
food for an ant colony are almost per-
fect. Their foraging parties are
faultless, both in planning and axe
cutlon, and are almost uniformly ems-
cessful, Here is s description of a
foray of an arany of ants in Southl
Africa,
The army, which was estimated to
have numbered about 10,000 ants,
slanted from their borne in the mud
walls of a but and marched in the
direction of a small mound of fresh
earth but a few yards distant. The
heed of the column halted on reaching
the foot of the mound and waited for
the rest of the force to arrive at the
Place of operations, which evidently
was to be the mound of fresh earth..
When the remainder had arrived and
halted so that the entire army was
assembled, a number of ants detach-
ed themselves from the main body and
began to ascend to the top of the
mound, while the others began mov-
ing so ss to encircle the base of the
mound.
Very soon a number from the de-
tachment which had ascended the --
mound, evidently the attacking party
entered the loose earthy and speedily
ratuxned, each bearing a (ricket or a
young grasshopper dead, which he
deposited upon the ground and then
returned for a fresh load. Those who
had remained on the outside of the
mound took up the crickets and grass-
hoppers as they were brought out and
bore them down to the base of the
bill, returning for a fresh load. Soon
the contents of the mound seemed to
be exhausted, and then the whale
force returned bome, eaeh carrying
his burden of food for the commun-
ity.
Here, then, was a regular foray,
planned and executed with military
precision, the country surveyed, the
depot of provisions known accurate
ly before the rftaxoh was made, and at
the mound prudential division of la-
bor and care taken that none of the
victims should escape.
A KITTEN'S DANGEROUS GAM10.
Behind a big, old-fashioned house in
a great city there lived a large peli-
can. One day when he was taking his
morning exercise, in the yard a little
kitten from the neighbor's yard name
atralling along the fence. When she
first saw the strange bird her eyes
opened in wonder, her trail grew big
and her hair stood out. But present-
ly, as the pelican did not hurt her,
she became used bo him and jumped
down into the yard to see him more
closely.
The pelican picked her up, and,
giving her a teas in the air, opened
his huge mouth as if to catch hes
as she mama down; Pass seemed to
think it good fun. With a quick mo-
tion she turned over and came to the
ground on bar feet. The pelican
turned, made another grab at the lit-
tle cat and gave her another toss.
Down came kitty again, landing safe-
ly on the grass, not at all frightened
at this rather rough companion. She
stood still to be tossed as if she
rather liked it. The pelican got tired
first, His master came out of the
house with a good dinner of fish for
him. He picked up a fish, gave it a
toss and caught and swallowed it.
The kitten came in for a share of the
pelican's dinner, and they have been
the best of friends ever since.
PRINOE CH'ING,
"Prince Ch'ing is well known, and
yet not well known. He is a nobleman
int every sense of the word, as has
been indicated by his conduct towards
the imprdsu,n,ed ministers during the
mouths of the serge. He aonstnntly
risked his life to defend them, and to
send them pereviaicns. Ho has been
Inc years a member of the Tsungii
Yemen. Ile is a man upon whom we
may always depend for pro -foreign
views, and yet a man winom all the
Chinese Lova.
"He is not a genius, Ile is not a
crank. He la net a man who does
things w:hnah are talked about. He
is not a man Nehmen every foreigner
wants to interview; he does not take
extreme views, Ho is nest sougeht by
the. Chinese er by foreigners to settle
International. di puts as Prince Kung
and Li Hung Chang are sought.
"Prince Ch'ing al,weye employe a
foreign physician, which is one of the
sure Signe ed progress in a Chinaman.
Thane are three who Seed for the for-'
°eget plawkia.n in extreme cases; bet
men Like Li Hung Ohang, Ohang
buten and anal Peeve Ch'ing employ hint
in all instances•."
Lai not the emphasis of hospitalite.
lie in ,bed and board, but let truth%
love, honor mud tow-tesy flow 1h al;i
t try deeds,—Pmersoa•