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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-8-21, Page 3A 4177ZPS AND C0411111711VS, Strike le the•antheacite coal l'OiIQll Q Penneyittnolis, together with several minor labordisturb' neee of the year, gives unumual pub- lic interest to the inteat A01'01011- Menl; of the Metrolien Plan of 0001e Pllleery exhilautioo as a Means of 10341111g Snell dhipateS. There iS a potruicir notion that the New South Wales act, eow in force in Austra- lia is a eepy of the Nino Zealand arbitrotion law. That this is =means is shown ay Dr. It T, Buie gess, of NorWood, South Australia, 7410 cicada' Points ont the widedi- vergeoce froin tho New Cfoealcald plan. , i the A.ostralion act ail the Pro- visions relating to boords of ceecile Jalapa are omitted, It, woe found in practice that two eats of bunttle do not work well, The de- cisions of tho coocillation boords are seldom accepted; and about seven - tenths of the (Tea go on.to the ar- bitration court. 13y dropping the arrangements for conciliation it is • obvious that the principle, of com- pulsory arbitration IS more strong- ly emphasized. Under the New South Wales act it le Provided that an employer°. may not disiniss an employe merely be- cause he is a • member of an. indus- tieal union.' °Systematic orgeniza- tion es made compulsory as well as aebitratiou, and under° this arrange- ment a lali011 carries large oblige. - 'tions and powers, .A. novelty in the new Aestrallan plan is the. provision that anything in the nature of a strike or lockout before a reasonable thy° has elapsed for reference to the court of arbitration c.onstitutes misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of a thousand pounds or two • months' imprisonment, A quarrel between an employer and his work- men is therefore regarded by the leg- islature as a public injury and nuis- ance. The orders of the arbitration court, h has powers to prescribe. a minimum wage as web ns other powers, are enforceable by the com- mon methods of injunctions, fines and penalties. The operation of the act will be watched with interest all over the world. Predictions of the dissolution of the novel are not rare, despite the abundant stream of production.. On the surface it koks as if the tide would go on flowing indefinitely, but there aro men who see in the very abundance of the output the culmina- tion of the flood. A year or two ago Henry James wrote a learned eesay in which he hinted at the novel's dissolution, owing, in his estimation, , to the false barriers a erected by Anglo-Saxon prunery. No form of artistic effort cm be in a healthy stote, he said, which is a step behind its furtherest follower. The very persons for whom the bar- riers were erected, whereby the novel prudishly restricted itself to certain topics and immutably barred cer- tain others, were clamming for their 0\ crib -row, and one of two s things must hal/pea—the novel must go to the' well , or throw open its 'doors to all human interests. 00 quite other grounds does Jules Verne enter Into a discussion of this moot question. The other day he declared that In the course of fifty er a hundred. years, which is cer- tainly far enough oil to causeno immediate concern or relief, • the novol would have disappeared. There me those whe think this a con- summation • devoutly to be desired, satiated as they are with a diet of colonial, historical and dialect novels, but the sigh of relief may bo checked by his guess at lC successor. 'The newspaper, he says, will have lcilled the novel. Nothing else will be read, Even for the sthdy of his- tory resort will behad to the Mos of the newspaper. One Writer commenting cm this statement draws from it the con- clusion that the novel will have 01000 "N.Ogiie than over; for as the number of newspaper .rectders creases '1,11e novel will be soeght os en anodyne fo3• the news/impel:ea me- etly of facto. To no it seem5. that the daily' newspaper furnishes feats amid the gildlng. of fiction In about equal properties's, Mr. Vorue's re- ' limits hove the quality of a 'Delphic; utterance, They need 'not foretell the actual .dooni ef the novel, bet; its 'disappearance/ under, One form ad its :conversfon into another, In- stead of the novel's being driven out by thedoily inovrang Feet, oue might on steonger grounds foretell • the newspaper's giving way to the ' daily Morning romance. A more prosoic explanatioe 41 Mr. Verne'e peusimiset is not that the mantle' er prophet; luta fallen upon hi111,. but that the pOpeamity of his own, ro- mances has fallen. ort. The Strongest man takes, a, black outtook when he lows tho setting of his Own 000. More than 2,000 (monk make a living in Prmle 141 fortaine-tolling, their total yearly earnings being eethnated at $4,000,000, E AGED CIIRIST1AN. an Testify of the Protecting Care of a Divine Father's Love. filtg1!"°131:4it'gft73132370IhOu4"14arvot And 1000,306 )11.04,4 Toronto, 01 PliparagaMG of oleolOaltere. eiteeed A dearittch from Chicago says ;— Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage 110e0.011 - e31 from. the following text :—Issalm xeli, la, "They, shall, bring forth fruit 141 old age." Old age Is a haunting spectre. It has terrorized the generations past more then even the fear or deatla The most hated and feared of all the GreciOn philosoPhers woe lie who 00041 to stead ur on the street oor- ners or Athens frightening the pass- ersby, with tbese solemn, words You will be an old man. You will be cm old woman." , Ile frightened the passersby because most peoplo do not want to beeonie old.' They are afraid of coming to the time when they will be a burden to their children and tbeir Mende. 'Phey are afraid 01 the time when their earn- ing capacity shall cease, for then, In the race of life, they will be jostled and left far behilia by the • speed and the strength of the young- er generation, They ore afraid of the 'years when they will have to walls with a cane or crutch or sit In an invalid chair' waiting for the time when the coffin maker will fin- ish their casket and the undertaker will order their grave to be dug, 'Oc, show how depressed 1101110 people are over •the fact of growing old I would read a letter wbich I received psoeopole ;time ago from one or iny Deur Air. Talniage.—Last night in your sermon you stated that this is the ago for young, men. You did not have time to 'speak one word 111 favor of the usefulness of tho old People. I was sorry. I knew some sitting near to Inc wbo would be heavy liecti•tecl on account of ' their old age, This morning an aged member of your church called upon Inc. He skid he was sodepressea over your remarks la..et night that he could not sleep. With tears Su his eyes, bo said, "I wonder if old people will be wanted in heaven." Now, my dear pastor. I would like you, LP possible, to preach a sermon upon the 'blessings of ola age. I would like you to preach a sermon to cheer up those who have passed the zeeith of their earthly life and are sliding cloWn the other side and nearing the landing place of eternity. You will, will you not ?" It is in answer to Um regvest in thisletter that I am. going to speak' this morning to the old folks. I will gladly try to refete THE POPULAR FALLACY that old age for the Christian is merely a time of tears, for physkal and mental pains, and for depreseing helplessness. The words of my text do not state that an agett Chris- tian's twilight or lifo epon earth is a gloomy and a sullen sunset. They ski emphatically imply that the last days of an aged Christian's life should be 11111011g his happiest and most • useful da.ys. Those • days should be comparea to the time when the orchard's branches are bonding under the heavy load of the ripened autumnal fruit. My agea •Christian friend, there may be othey brains just as keen as youro. Thoro may be other hearts just as willing to .rnake sacrifice for their Lord and Master as ycalre, bllt 110 ClIriStiall can a8 powerfully testi- fy .ef the protecting care of a Heavenly Father as you can testify Indies lie can truly speal . out of his owe experience. Tho saint who • is nenving the euct of life hae the clot rer view of heaven. You can speak about the goodness of God from personal experience, as my father spoke to me 31 few years be- fore his (loath by tellatig me this re- markable incident i—When he was a young 'Meister, ho esed to keep, a diary, In which he made a. record of all the requests he made to God concerning matters which were then weighing npon his heart. By some ;niacin be lost that diary, and • lie forgot about those prayers 110 had offered, •Some twenty or thirty yeara later be found that diary. Whott he opened it and read the. Many lacittests that he had made nearly 5, quarter of a century before, he found out that God had answer- ed every ome of his prayers, God had answered them with better re- sults than even his faith at that thee had dared to hope. So the nged Christian opens the book of memory. As 110 angera the many soiled leaves of that book lie testi- fies how Clod ciu•ed foe him when he was a young 1000. Ile tettilles how God cared tor him when he was midclle aged, and ha testifies how tho love oi God is protecting and ectiing for him now that he is an Old man. Me testillos just as the aged psalmist testifier' of God's goodeces when ho wrote,' "T lutve been yowls and 'now ani ,old, yet have I not seen the righteous for- saken nor. his eeed begging bread." Ho can, testify, as did Joaltua when he assembled the people together at the closo of his long life and said, "Behold, this day X an going the way of 1111 the meth; of all the good things; which the Lord spat: all are tome to rams, and not one thing hath reilecIthereof," He testi- fied as an honest witness merles coneiction in .n. comearoom because he telle or that which he haa men and personally experienced. He tes- tifies as • ONE HAVING AUTHORITY. D,101360 let oily 1330,0 tell you that the aged 013rietian influence is a useleea in1110010e. Tho Bible dis- thistly eays, "They shall stiIl bear emit In their old age." No better keit • can it beteg than the per- sonal tostimoby of God's faithful - nose, Which your children will never forgot. Whee sitopi les tteSail them With doubts, they be (Ole to say, "Ary father put .God's promise to the proof, and he deolared that he lied found them time." • The aged COMORO influences tor good those .who me near 110 nint be - 001100 lig Is able to lavish upon thleilnkloWberniteehof beer -141108s, 15140311,tetieeis affection. While We me young and oven middle aged we sPend most of our time in doing for others rather than in showing the sweet manifeetation of 0110 ogee" thins. We are like Martha, who wool; into the kitchen to crook Jostle a dinner, rather than like Mary, who sat oll the feet of Clu•ist. ' The stateinent that the aged, Chris- tian eon morels() a mighty influence for good over the live5 of those who aro nearest ancl dearest to 11110, iS especially true if time() dear ones in turn have children .of their 0030, I do not believe a man ever fully ap- preciates the love of a payout until he himself is married and has babies about his own family table, It ie only after a man who has had the worries and the anxieties .of his own homo troubling his heart, it is only after he bas' stood by the side Of the cradle and nureed his baby boy through the awful sielsneas of diph- theria, it is only after he has got his own family burial plot and has dug therein a little grave for ono of his own babies, that he 'begins to fully appreciate what his father and mother in' their tinie have done for So*My aged Christian friend, if you have childr�e. who have child- ren Of their own yotn, work on earth is not yet done. Now ihat your Iown children feel so grateful to you on account of your past aud present 1 'love, you can mould them and 111- duence them and purify them by that •saane love better than ever be - (ole. Perhaps by that love you .can influence them even more for i Christ and eternity now than when ithey were young men and young I women standing upon THE THRESHOLD 010 LIFE. The aged Christian is able to in - !spire the spirit of reverence in the hearts of many with whom he comes. in contact. This spirit is a growth, not an ad. It IS a germ seed which often takes .years and years to develop, and not an entity which springe into being at a jump or, a • bound. It generally starts away back in the nursery. If the child, learn to respect his mother, then it • is very easy for him to learn as a boy to respect his teach- ers, then it is very easy for him as a yceing man to lectrri to respect his Christian employers. If a, young man respects his Christian. employ- ers, (lien it is very easy for him as a middle aged man to learn to re- pect the aged Christian servants whe,•for years have been living at the divine .Master's feet. If the middle aged num respect God's aged Christian servants, then it is very easy for him to learn to respect the God whoni those Christians serve and to communicate that respect to othPI. TGod uses your physical weak- nesses asid your mental helplessness for a .intrpose. When he sees' . you, an aged Christian parent, being ten- derly cared for in your 01c1 age by a loving son; when he sees that son giving to you the best room in tho house and the easiest man chair and the softest bed: when he sees that son trying to make your last days upon earth happy. and peace- ful, then we can imagine him say- ing: 'arhat young man who is car- ing so tenderly for his aged Chris- tian parent is copable of great love for 1110 and my children. The young man who is true to his old mother, by iny grace will always be tree to me. I will honor him, because he has hummed one of my aged . ser- vants." Did not God soy in His 'Pen Commandments. "Honor thy father and thy leather. that the days mag be long upou the land 15111013 the Lord thy God glveth, thee?" Velem the young minister respects the old minister, and tries to honor the venerable, white haired mission- ary of Jesus Christ, then the Lord knows Unit the young 1111111 wants to honor Him because the young minister has • tried to lionor God's aged disciple, When the young phy- sician respects the Cheistiao phy- sician, then the Lord knoevs that the young man would like to he as the old physician Is. What we titl- mhe in others, that we would gen- erally like to reproduce in ourselves. THE AGED CHRISTIAN is n living evidence that for most of us earthly life is to be very short. Therefore what we me 00 441 for Christ we must do soon or we 811 1111 never be .ablo to do it at all, Sixty or sevouty or cigar.' years aro a long Link to live, but most of us will never live so long*. , • aye, most of us will navel, reaoh oven middle life. 1.1 you speak to an eged Chris- tian, you will find that he iS like a November leaf, hanging (tiniest soli- tary and alone after the, thousarids and the tens of thousands of autum- nal loaves have been torn from thole beenches by the equinoetial winds. You, will find that most of 'hie con- temporaries died Mier he was com- paratively young; that nearly all the rest died when he was in middle life mid that only a very kW com- panious of his youth arca alive to walk by his side, The stotiaticians cleclare that a tided of the human roce tile 111 infosicy. At least one- third of the remainder die before tvientyame years of age have been method, and only 6 or 7 per cont. of the hemon faintly live to be sixty years of ego or °vet,. So the mere Presence lit this world ot. an aged Christian, With 98 or 94 per cent,, of his contentememies gene, is a perpetual weaning that vve meet be about our Father'e Mistimes or the death summone 51101 4101030, ettui ive shell find Liu& Ivo haVie stecoMplish,- e,d 'nothing. Ana 11 seine of our aged Christian (3101)1181; 0 e 2, t e 31 row neiytiet telipg fori. e1 ietettoo l e awhpilee il 401313 to the clear 01100 011 the ether side 01 the Jordau, what will they be able to 1411 Our fathers and Ple- thora, oei, brothers; 44114 Meterfa otir wives and. little 01111(03011, who have gone beyond and are Awaiting 010 owning? Will they be able to ten our beloved ones that they intuit keep pinch by 'thole side for 101 In P110 of their heavenly inansloris? Oh, my brother. and sieter, 1gee by the tears in yolir eyee that you are elisions, In reference to the Message oue aged Christian friends will have to bear. Shall we plead with God that our dear frieede may be 'allow - ad to live lust a little 4011310 longer so that, we all may, here arid now, give our hearts to Jesus? Then, yo aged Christian friends, carry the neWS asi soon as you might to that bright anti happy band. Carry the news that, by the blood of Clirlet, we have all been 'eleauseci from sin. Toll them that tve hove all been purged with hyssop until we are clean, that We have been washed un- til we are WHITER TITAN SNOW, Thu, ye aged Christians. I want you to realize that.the words of my text wore written for you. "They shall still bring forth fruit in 111010 old age" means that yovr week o.nd usefulness will not be fin- ished until you draw your last breath, 'nail you take your glorious departure, So, aged Chrietians, as Your aged parents sweetened your life when you were young, • you, by the blessing of God, are sweetening ours. May your work be to you a happy work until at last the angel of the resurrection comes to call you to your etei•nal reward; May we be as faithful to our trust as yen, who are still faithfully bear- ing' fruit in your old age. And so, my 'aged Christian friends, I believe that you are the favored ones. You are the Christians who will carry the message to our dear Ones as well as to your own. 1713011 you go, I want you personntly 10I take to my mother and father, my love; juSt ea my father sent his love to his boy. Tell them for me that by the grace of God we all ' want to , meet them soon. RAILWAY C_ASITA.LTIES. Greater Than in Wars of 1812 and 1846 in. United States. The New York World says : In the first three months of this year 813 persons were killed and 9,958 wounded by railway collisions and accidents of all kinds. Of thio total 53 passengers only' were lolled and 826 injured; all the rest were l way employees. This large .crop of deaths and wouncLe Ives the fruit of 1,220 collisions and 8138 derail- ments. These figures ,ctre just, made public by the Literstate Commerce Commission. They . (cover only a quarter of a year. Multiplied by four, NVO get these as the probable totals for the full year: Killed, 3,- 252; wounded, 119,839. , e. That is to say, a larger number of persons aee killed every year on one, runways than were killed in the war with Great Britain from. 1812 to 1815, and the war with Mexico from 1816 to 1843 added together, and flee times as many are wounded as were wounded in both those hiss timic conflicts. -Yet if these figures for 1902 are not exceeded they will bo a rnarked improvement over those for 1900, in whkh year 7,855 per- sons were killed and 50,820 wounded on United States rnilways, which exceeded the combined totals of the TInion soldiers killed mid wounded in the terrible battles of Antietam, Gettysburg end the Wilderness. • Surely ,pectco hath her sacrifices no less shocking than war. Is it not possible to make railway operation less destructive of Inman life and limb ? THE KING AS A CLIJ1311.17AN. When the King was Prince of Wales he belonged to a number of London clubs, but since his accession to the throne the list of inetitutions to which lie belougs has been somewhat curtailed. Among the clubs of which King Edward is still a mem- ber ere the Marlborough, United Service, the Garrick, the Guards', the Janke University, Royal Yacht Squadron, the Royal Dorset mid Royal Thames Yacht Clubs, and -the Tull Club. • —_, BANK NOTE 33011G3011Y. An extraordinary method of fabri- cating bogus bank notes has • just been detected io Brussels, The op- erators cut small pieces from real notes, end put them together with infinite dexterity on a tissue paper so ±IIIO 1.111 th fradcould only be with difficulty detected when the bogus note was held up against a, strong light. Feom ten good notes an eleveeth of higher denomination WO 14 0101111IllatUrOCI 111 this way. --+- Facetious Old Party—"Now, Bob- bie, can you toll me why it is that babies are born without hair ?" Bobble—"Well, p'r'aps it's to got them used to it against the time they gets as old as you is 1" "Tle. simpler the gown," someone had said, "the prettier a really beautiful woman alMeoe's,': ThoY alt nodded and presently one dear thing wont over to another dear thing and remarked, quite casually: 'What ail elaborate gown you have on, dem I" Father—nrou seem to look at things; in t very different light eine° your marriage." His Netvly-tonaried Datighter--"Well, I ought to after receiving fourteen lamps, and Mho candelabrae for wedding prosante." Synnathetie Visitor—"Poor man I Whet aro you 110e0 for 1" "For 51001111g it ring, miss." "Poor fel- lew 1 • And don't you ameetistwe ra- ged your Watteki oppiortnnities ?" oiledeed, 1 do, wive. Tam% waS 14 necklace worth $5,000 in the shote enso that X etolo the ring from and 200 0000P0001000190 e0040 I FOR, 111 IIOIViE 44 lo Recipes for the Kitchell, 1,!, o Hygiene end Other Notes tor the thnasekeeper, • 0 113 1001410e100oeseile ceeseeelieffife NvA,MlimELoN paissinavIDs, Got 0 melon open and sooep otit the meat cleau, then cut the riud into brand pieces, leaving 007320 quite large; Peel each Weep •With 31 eharp knife exaetly as you do a lemon, taking off all the green a 10.1 remov- ing also every vestige of Lilo pink part. For every eight peunds of (reit, provide six of sugar, four mimeo( of green ginger root and live large lemoes. After you ,have peel- edthe melon Mesa cover it with cola water end add a level .teticamonful of salt; leave the •rind in this solution 231 hours; then put it into fresh woa ter in which you have dissolved 14 sciltspoonful of alum, and let it stand ovez• night. Next inernieg wash it well, and with a sharp penknife cut it In fancy dotage% and there is exereise for great taste and ingenuity" in this part of tile work. I• was once entertained by a Vir- ginia housekeeper, says a writer in an exchange, wilose watermelon pre- serves were as beautiful as jewels. Their translucency 10115 wonderful, and tho crystal jar seemed to hold imprisoned gold and topaz. Among the designs were oak and grape -vine leaves and the exquisite maple leer. Stairsand crescents, a tiny fish, i•inga, and even a bunch of grapes, with delicate tendrils curling above, were seen through the clear glass; and held in the sunlight a perfect shower of golden gleams .delighted the eye. After the alum bath the rind is soft yet fano, aed can be, cut in fancy shapes with little vegetable or garnish cutters. The rings were out out with an empty yeast powder can, and the little disks taken from the centre of each by a thimble. These disks were pretty in them- selves, serving to fill up spaces. Af- ter the carving is done, lay all the pretty things in cold water until syrup is eeady. Slice the lemons, rind and all, but take out the seeds, put into boiling 'water to cover and boil thoroughly tender, which 1011 be in about. half an hour. • Scrape and slice the ginger very thin and put it on to a boil; lt will take a couple of hours, more or less, to get this tender, according to the toughness of the root, but it must be thoroughly tender before you use it. Put the sugar in a. preserving .kottle, allowing a pint and a half of water to tbe six pounds; use for this the water in which the lemons were boiled, "adding plain boiliug water to make the proper quantity. Lot the sugar dissolve slowly and eome to a, simmering point. While the lemons and ginger arc boiling put, the .11.1111 into boiling wa- ter to cover and boil nboet three- quarters of nn hour, or until it looks evenly transparent; theu Orain from the water and dry as thor- oughly as posethle, even absorbing the mOisture front the pieces by means of a soft towel. Lay them on a flat china, dish to cool; they will look dejected and limp and al- most discourage you, but that is jest the way they should look at this stage. Note you must 0300 your syrup hard until it bubbles and froths and sputters well; then set to one side and let it subside into quiet before you skim it. Put into the syrup the rind, the lemons and the giriger, adding some of tbe water in which the ginger was boiled; thia is a wonderful Improvement if the water be pinigent of the root Boil until you see your pretty designs fill out thoroughly and each become rich and translucenti•then slsim the fruit care- fully from the syrup and put into wide-mouthed jars, placing them to show Well through the sides. Boil tho syrup about 20 minutes .longer; pour a generous supply over the fruit and cover while hot, All this sounds very coinplicatecl, but it will fully repay you for the laber expendedif. however, you want a sweetmeat that tastes just as good, although will not look as pretty; cut your rind into small s 1.0 *es oblongs ar cubes end carrv through the same sooking and cook- ing process. 1VA33S OF COOKING EGGS. Egg Croquottes.—Boil eggs for about ton minutes. Chop very 11110. Allow six eggs for six croquettes, one cup railk, one teaspoonful but- ter, two teaspoons flour, a little chopped parsley, a clash of onion, pepper and salt. Make the cream sauce in the Usual way. Mix with the eggs and set aside to cool. When cold form into desired simpo, dip le ogg and in cracker crumbs, lind fry in smoking hot fat. Serve with tormgagtoysecii-itaice%,_Beet six eggs light- ly, add salt, pepper end five table- spoons very finely chopped chem. Melt 0110 tableepoeit butler in a saucepan, Lure, in egg with cheese and stir until eggs are of jelly-like consistency. Serve immediately on squares of hot buttered toast on a dish garnished with yellow nester - twins and a few green leaves. SilOW Eggs. --Ono quint milk, six eggs, four tablespoons eugar, one teasp000 1010011. Separate yolks 111111 whites. Boat whites to stiff froth. Let the mint with sugar add- ed come to tho boil 111 n. saucepan. Drop in tho whites of eggs, a epoon- ail at a lanie, ,Cover the sauce- pan for two minutes, turn snowballs over, and cook foe 'Iwo rainetee longer. Tolse outtvith a skinnner and place in fancy dish. Take milk from fire and allow it to cool a bit. Boat the eix yolks, mid four ten, spoons cold milk, andstir nil into the hot, 1111114. Plnee eancepan agate on fire and Stir until jest below the bellies point. Add flavoring, Pour mixtere over the snowballa, deet over with sugar anti shredded coecina net. Sevee. lc.° cold., gaffi E111d TO)110.t005.--T11,4111 the 1.4- 2131010ee left 0001' 119}1). (1111)15/. Rift, througb a colander, let thein boil, and add n, good pineh of soda, a bit of butter, • stilt pepper (Ind a few crneker crumbs. Swam:Lao six eggs. Put on a .hot Platter sod pour bet tOmatoefi 00e3' them. Chtenlah with PareleY. 4 Oellelous eupper dish. Docerative Pickled 'leggse-put hard-boiled eggs alto 0 jar with pickled beets. They will eolor a bectutiful shade of plek, and eliced make a nice garnish. • Oyster Oinelet,—Heioet 435 good oystere, and cook ln saucepan until palle are well cooked. Drain and save the liquorl'ut in saueepan one teaspoon butter mid one of flour. Add to the liquor entingli milk to 'make a pint. Stir lintal Wilhite; add oyeters, salt and polo' per. Stand over hot water to keep hot. Make a plain omelet with six eggs, Put cnnelet 011 good-sized platter. Pour oysters over 11, and serve immediately, emBeeletctlei. Olsoionleete.4-11nfinlihse j,01.1111yreoer sealeenent1 meats 118 With layer cake. Sprinkle with sugar. Eggs and, Celery.—The yolks of hard-boiled eggs chopped fine with celery make a deliclous change for a ssupper clish, Make 0 cream sauce well measoned, and mix With eggs and celery. Pour oyer nieces of buttered town.. Garnish with the white of eggs cut in rings, and some green celery leaves, Puff Eggs, Baked.-1'onst uniform slices of bread and butter well. Plaee i0 a shallow pan. Beat the white of an egg until it stands alone. Place iu a square on the toast and carefully drop in the 330114. Sprinkle salt, poPper and dots of butter over the top. Brown in a hot oven and serve at once, Garll- iSli d0311 1011.71 parsley. ADVICE NOT TO BE FOLLOWED. Reading in bed is seriously advis- ed, so the newspapers say, by a pliy- sioiaii 438 con cl ucive 1.4) `I'm; air and resting','' "relieving conges- tion," emptying the veins overfilled by prolonged eye work. Certainly the 000 who gives this strange per- nicious advice could never have tried the plan. Some years ago there was described a patent' device , for sus- pending the book over the horizon- tally placed head of a stek person whereby reading would be posailfle .without holding the book in the hands. Even then one wonders how the light could bo made to fall pro- perly upon the page. Without a method of the kind not even a. teen person could hold a book five rain- etes above the eyes. Reading in bed hos killed thousands of d 03305. Unless 0110 sits up in becl as if in a chair it is impossible to liold the book in such position that the nrms are not quickly tired and so that the light falls o11 it properly. When reading lying down there is trac- tion upon the, inferior real muscles which is highly injurious. Every patient should be warnecl never to read in bed except when sating up as vertically a$ in a chair. THE MOST OF 3301711 YARD. You often hear people goy: "Oh, yes I love flowers nrid f'd have lots of them, too, but, I have no place for them. Just look at my yard—nothing' will grow in It." Noa- the reason why nothing would grown in it is chiefly because ooth- ing is planted in it. 1 don't care how gravelly or worn out the soil in a yard is, 1.13e8e defects may be remedied with comparatively little trouble, and there are very few peo- ple but who can have at least one plot oi flowers if they want it. Of course, there are 03mllies. oven in the country, who are so driven with worlt Unit Rowel -growing has to "take a beak seat," 00 11 is attempt, ed at all, and such people are ex- cused. But the person with plenty of time who lamentsthat he—or she —cannot grow flowers because "the yard Is in sitch terrible condition." is woefully lacking in enthusiasm to soy the least. ENGLISH OIL WELL. For some time past it has been be - Roved Ulla a large subterranean pe- troleum luke exists et Heathfield, neer Tunbridge Wells, England. and it is now announced that an Amen can syndicate has been formed for the purpose of working it. Eight Shafts are to be sunk, and of these three aro already u,otd5 whilc a fourth is in progress, mid a dePth ot 850 feet has been reached with en- couraging resultsthough the shefts will probably have to be sunk 4111 - other Iiut It or extraordinnry -1.1.nt it should hatalei- been left to A.merican enterprise to work this large and possibly very lucrative field. 1511.1111033) '4L BRIDEGROOMS. An tunusing story is told of the crowning of the Rose Queen of country district near 9'he se - looted Queen, as one of the formali- ties of awarding their dower, Wag asked by the mayor for the name of her fiance, "I have none," 13110 re- plied. Notified filet a, sweethenrt was indisnensable, the young lady (0(1(1011 tom y. thought10 municipality provided everything necessary." Straightway a young swain presented himself 118 all aspir- ant, nod, being as' Prollnallbe 11000101- 01, all things became regular and in • • SIAIIII1S1D DRESS AND Jnwras. Now that ladles wear so many jewels in the clny t.11110 Et sequence of color should be thought of. The Si- amese arrangement moy, periled's; afford s11gg0st10115 111 that country on Sunday red silk with a parer° of rubies ia teem; Monciay brings a :Al- yce and white dress And a imelslitce of moonstones; Tuesday is dortieated to light red, With coati ornametts; Wednesday is devoted to green, with emeralds; Thursday sees a display or variegated colors, tvith cats' oyes; Friday the lady le orrayee in pale blue with flashing diamonds; and StsturdaY the Mere sombre, darker blue, with seppliires to match. THE S. S. LESSON, INTENNAT/ONAL LESSON 41TO, 24, Text of Lessen, Num. xiii, 1-3, 25-33, and X4V, 1-4. 09131621 Text, Ps, Xi., 4, of1-1861.,aAein.a. tho Lord 814141(0 *14110 they may search the Jana Of Cane MoSee, 53133111(1. Send thou Peen tlint aan, which I give unto the 0111106o Wheu they came to the bordera of the 17311a which God bad promieed to them (for it WAN only Moven clays' journey from Horeb to 14:admit-bar- nert),' 'Moises said; "Behold the Lord thy God both sot the lancl bolero thee. Go ep and poseese it, as the Lord Cod of thy tethers; hath said unto thee Fear not, neither be din- eouraged." But the people came to Moeos and ECsised that men be sent to semen out the 1(30(1 (011(1 bring back word as to the Way to go and what cities 1.0 enter (Dent 1, 2, 21-28), Tho idea or spies therefore originate ed with Idrael, and the Lord gave commandment to have it go, because they wanted it so, just as after- ward the Lord commended Samuel to give them a king because they insisted on having a king like other nations (1 Sam. vies 4-9. 10-22)• Read Ex. 1±1 7, 8; vi 6-8 and consider it 43e11 and say in the face of such aseurances if the people's( request fcni.tispx iileisa.moacis. not simply a leek of fe 25-29. And they returned from ecarchieg of the land after forty days. They could not but testify that It was as God had said, a land flow- i»g with mills and honey (Ex. iii, [8; =Milt 13), but they had been 1151- 1g theh• natural eyes more than ; the eyes of their hearts (1111411. I, 18, R. V.), cold instead of seeing only God and Dis goodness and His pro- misee they saw olfileulties whieh seemed to them insurmountable, for. they forgot the cella erance from alegypt, aild the dividing of the Red Isom, and the quails anci the manna !so wondrously given, and so they talk of walled cities and giants and a etrong people, and they seem not to reakun upon God at all. They 2b2e1,1e2v4ed). not :His word (Ps, cvi, 21, 80. And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Lot es go up at, once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it. This was no vain boast or re- liance 'upon themselves, but words uttered from a heart stayed upon Jehovah. Hear Caleb and Joshua in cbapter xiv, 6-9 .the Lord delight in us, then He will brie.g. us ' into this land and give it us; * • may rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; * * the Lord is with us. Fear them not." Listen to this same Caleb forty-five years later when he asked Joshua for the moun- tain where the giants were, "And now, behold, the Lord hath kept ine alive, as He said, these forty and years, 11 * * if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said" '(Josh, xis, 10-12). He whol- ly followed the Lord and relie4 upon 74813111.-'33. But the men that went tIP with him said, We be eot able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. Thus they brought 1113 an evil re- port of the laud, a slander upon the land (eciv, 36). They saw the gi- ants, and they saw themselves as grasshoppers, it WaSa case of "we" and "they," but not a word about God. They me stronger than. we. We were in tbeir sight as grass- hopperse In our conflicts with the enemy as We pass through this wil- derness or sojourn in the pleasant land everything depends upon our point of vision. If We see things from our standpoint, the giants and walled cities will, seem very tealK but if. like Caleb nod Joshua, we stand with God all difficulties wilt seem as nothing. When David went to meet Goliath, he did.not consider his ow12 weakness. xiv, 1. And all the coegregation liftedup their voice and cried, and the people wept that night. No wonder they acted thus whoo they 40010 so unbelieving and rebel' nous against God. 'They were with- in sight and reach of the good land but occupied with themselves and despising the promises of G'od and even Clod Himself. See the record of a 1,1•0010120 weeping in Neill. xi, 4, 10, 33, 18, 20, and a later one in. Num, xxv, 6, (3.1111 note that it was all because of unbelief, as 10118 the weeping of Mary Magdalene at the tomb on the resurrection morning. Joy and peace come by believing, but in no other way (Rom. xv, 18; John xiv, 3, 27; xx, 2740), 2, 8, And all the children of Is- rael murmured against Moses and •agninst Aaron. Thov even wished they wore dead or ' t (110 ±12 I lid any of thm egot their wish, ' itnd mTheir thought was to get rid of their trou- ble. They .had no thought or de- sire that God might be glorified in thcie death. Contrast John xxi, 19; Phil. a 20, See records of oth- er murmurings hi Ex, xv, 24; XVI, 2; xvii, 81 NUM, XVI, 11, 41. They did not consider that their weeping was in the mins of the Lord mid 111011. 1110131111.11.111gs against Hint (Num xi, 18; 31143, 211, 27; Ex. xvi, 8), nor that when they complained it displeased the Lord (Num. xi, 1). 4. And they said ono to another, Let us make It captain and lot 05 retiree into Egypt. The Lord Himself WAS their cap - thin, as He also is ours (aosh. v, 14; (1 Chiron. xill, 2: Hob. ii, 10), but they wanted no more of Him. Stoplion says' that in their lasarta they torned back again ibto Egypt, mid Nehemieh says that, in their ree hellion they nprininted a eeptaiu return to their bondoge (Ade 11, 80; Nola ix, 17). Let us eonsider what is writtee Obois1 looking book in Gem, six, 26; Luke ix, 62; xvii, 32, ancl contrast lookiog forward mid epterced in Prov. iv, 25; ITeh. xii, iii, 20.