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The Brussels Post, 1899-3-24, Page 3MAROn 24, 1399. THE BRUSSELS POST. "THEY Y SUNG A. NEW SONG," REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE ANTHhM OF HEAVEN. fee Cessation: In the Song for Many Ages -- "Mod M0 Ven In a Mysterious Way,".. 1'ral/e Med on S ,Inge' ltastraaaents and Mreana-Ileaven /Itis Just Begun lee New Sons -A (leaven Lorgn En. Universes, clash for Ten 'L'huusnu/! A. despatch from Washington says: s: —Rev. 1)r. Tannage preached from the following text:—" And lirsy sung a now song."—Rev, v. 0. Nearly all the cities of Europe and America have conservatories of mesio, and association0, whose object it le, by voice and instrument, to advance the art of sweet sounds. On Thursday nights, Exeter Hall, of London, used to resound tvil.h the ruusio of first-olase performers, who gave their services igraLuilously to thfe mimeos, who came in with free liekete, and huzzaed at the entertainment. At Berlin, at Ma- ven o'clook daily, the military banal, with sixty or one hundred instru- ments discourses at tbo royal opera - house for the people. On Gaster Sun- day, in Dresden, the boom of cannon and the ringing of bells, bring mul- titudes to the churches to listen Lo the organ peals and the exciting sounds of Lrumpot and drmn. When the great fair -day of Leipsic cornea, the bands of music from far and near, gather in the street, and bewilder the ear with incessant playing of Vale, and horn violin, and bassoon. At Dussel- dorf, once a year, the lovers of rasL0 assemble, and for three or four days wail upon the groat singing festivals, and shout at the close, of the choruses and greet the sueoesslul competitors as the prizes are distributed --cups and vases of silver and gold. Those who oan ring well or play skilfully upon instruments aro greeted with vocifer- ation, and garlanded by excited ad- mirers. There are many whose most ecstatic delight is to be found in melodies; and ell the splendour of celestial gates, and all the luseiousnees of twelve man- ner of fruits, and all the rush of floods from under the throne of God, would not make a heaven for them LL there were no great and transporting harmonies. Passing along our streets in the hour• of worship. you hear the veleta of sacred melody, although you do net enter the building. And pass- ing along the street of heaven, we hear, from the temple of God, and the Lamb, the breaking forth of the mag- nificent jubilate. Wo may not yet en- ter (it among the favored throng, but God will not deny us the pleasure of standing awhile on the outside to hear. John listened Le it, a great while ago, and " they sung a new song." lead;" and while Emily waa playing verse. God ;calci build a heaven largo the requiem, Mozart's soul wont up 1 O11aug11 nod only for Lha universe, but on the wave of hie owe 010810 1111.0 fur ten thousand universes, I do not glory. Emily looked around, and her know just May LL will be, but this I father was dead. know, that heaven le to be constantly • augmented; and that the song of This new song of heaven was not : glary is rising higher and higher, and eumposed because heaven had nothing the precession is being multiplied. if else to do, but Christ, in memory of llr•u . wing whoa Abel went un—Uro YVoun Folks. } von HIS SAKE. The day for the Menlo bad dawned °roes and crown, of manger and lhbrouo' first soul that over left earth for at last, The children were to 01001 of earlh and heaven, and W up, 1 shay --hew Inuit it 811110 now 11'11001:11 !110 °Nardil 111 half -past: ,,110th Will 101 by I.he raptures of the great *Iter- :mule go up In flocks from all Christen - Barstow hurried through his chores that morning, too much excited toeare for breakfast, '1 event of the year. 1 el This Monte was l ov Is cto Y n n g1ihvee1n vfeor art.0nsga, nujmubmepri n0g l, 1 reivtc s and Will was one of the obampions. By nine o'clock the conveyances were filled with happy children and their teacher's, the provisions having a wagon set spirt for their transportation, and the village brass band leading the van. Off they started, with noise of drum, cornet, 010401101, kettle -drum, elm, flags flying, and loud eheera from the altildroi, A drive of eight miles brought: them to the grove on the lake — popular resort, provided with long taller, swings; pavilion, etc. They entered the grounds with a grand flourish of trumpets or rather a rousing piece by the band. The children eeattared in every direc- tion, while their elders busied them - seine preparing the refreshments, When all was ready, the big drum summoned all hands to dinner. After singing, "Be present at Our Table, Lord,"they attacked the good things with a will, cake, sandwiches, lemonade, Dandy, fruit, disappearing as if by mag- na, before the hungry youngsters. It was delightful to dine in the open air, protected from the sun's rays by the spreading branches of Lho tall forest trees, and Hewn, to the merry chatter of the children, and watch the steam- ers and sailing vessels gliding by on the blue waters of the lake. When dinner was over, the business of Llie day began In earnest. First, there were races for the little ones, five years and under. This afforded a great deal of amusement. One little tot tod- dled along *bravely long after the rest girls' ranee, boys' races, jumping hmacl reached their goal. There wore atches, etc, 'Say, Will, there is a prize of two dollars offered for the one who wins the hundred yard race, twelve years and under; Jauk Martin is going in for it. He's awful anxious about it. Guess he wants the money pretty bad. The rest of the fellows don't count but Jack Ls 0 tip-top runner. You can beat him easy, though," So said Tom Satmders, Will's chum, He was a year older than Will. This talk put. Will on his mettle. He hated to bo beaten above all things; he eared more for that than the money. When they were preparing for the race, he noticed Jack's eager, excited Moe, and suddenly remembered some- thing he had hoard his mother say that very morning about how hard up the Martins were. Mr. Martin had been ill for some Lime, and Mrs. Martin herself was poorly. jack had done nobly for so young a boy. Ha earned what be could, they needed all they could get, and they were not the kind of people charity. to whom one would like to offer ch i Y There was a struggle e inWill's heart sharp but short. His better nature l ri- umphed. His Sunday wheal teacher had nity poured this :tum Ms heart, made dem, hour by bour, and moment by it for the armies of heaven to sltuut element In celebration of viulory,for worship- Our puppy gatherings on earth aro peat Cu °hnnt in their temple m1vuea, Wiled by the thought that solei we ' 104 0110 of i l and MuneMUM separate. o. 1 hnnJtB lv t n On? innumerablelen 1 B n g fol' lb( g heaven to sing in the house of many 1 Christmas days conte and the rall mansions, lr a new lune be started [ea" flying thtl$e1' 1.113 <lruwded, in church, there is only here and there reuniens take place. We have u Lime a person that can sing it. 91 le some ; of great enjoyment, 1101. soon it is Lime beforo the congregation learn a "good-bye in the hall" 'good-bye" at. :new tune, But 081 au with rho naw Lhit door, "good-bye" on the street, song of heaven. The childreu who eg„oil-hyo” at the rail train, "good - went, UP to -day from the waters of bye" at the steamboat wharf, Wo Cbe Ganges are now singing it, That meet to -night in church. 11 is good Christian man or woman, who, a few to be hero, iBut soon it will be nine minutes ago, departed from this verY o'clock. The doxology will he sung, street, has joined it. Ail know it—' the benediction pronounced, the lights those by the gates, those on the river will lower, and the audience will be bank, those in the temple. Not feel- gone, But there are no separations, ing their way through it, or halting, no good-bys in heaven, At the duos' oe going b(1ok, as if they never Were of the house of many mansione, no had sums it, but with a full round , "good-bye." The song will be more voice they throw their soul in10 this pleasant, because we are always toeing new song. 11: some Sabbath day a few it. Mightier sang as our other friends notes et that. anthem should travel come in. Mightier song as other gar- down the air, we could not sing Lt, lands are set on the brow of Jesus. No organ uould roll its thunder. No Mightier song as Christ's glories un - harp could paLoh its trill. No lip could fold. announ0e its aweetnese. Transfixed, If the first day we enter n0500n we lost, enchanted, dumb, we mould not sing wolf, the next day We sing better. hear it—the faintest note of the new Song anticipative of more light, of song. Yet, while I speak, heaven's more love, of more triumphs. Always cathedral quakes under it, and, seas something now to hear, something new of glory boar it from beach to beach, to sea, Many good people suppose that and leo thousand times Len thousand, and thousands of thousands, sing it— "Lhe new song." II. Further: It is a commemorative song. We are distinctly told that 11 makes reference to past deliverances. we eball see heaven the first day we get there. No 1 You can not see London in two weeks. You can not see Rome in six weeks. You can not 5011 Venice in a month. You can not see the great oity of the New Jerusalem 011, how 1101011 have they to sing in a day. No; it will take all eternity about, They sing of, the darkness to p see heaven, to count rho towers, to ex(lmine the trophies, to gaze upon tbo through which on earth they passed, and iL is a night song. That was a thrones; to see the hierarchies. Ages Christian sailor -boy that bad his back on ages roll, and yet heaven is new 1 broken of the strip's halyards, and The streets new 1 The temple new l With him it is a mailer's song. '.Chat The joy newt The song newt one burned at Smithfield, and with I stayed a week at Niagara Palle, bim it is a fire song. Ohl how they hoping thoroughly Lo understand and will ring of floods waded, oe fires en- appreciate it. But on the last day Mired, of perr;ecution suffered, of grace they seemed newer and more ineompre- exLendedl Song of hail: hung of swordl beneible than on the first day. Gazing song of hot leudt song of axel As, on the Infinite rush of celestial splen - when the organ -pipes peal out sumo dors, where the moans of delight meet, great harmony, there tomes occasion- and pour themselves into the great ally the sound of the trained/Leta, heart of God—how soon will we exhaust weeping through the cadences, add- the song? Never! Never I it,g exquisiteness to the performances, The old preachers, in describing the so amidst the stupendous a01101m of sorrows of the lost, used to lift up the heavenly worshippers shall come their hands and shout, "The wrath to tremulous remembrances of pasta en- come l" "The wrath to come l" To- duranae, adding at sweetness and glory day I lift up my hands, and looking to - to the triumphal strain. do the glori- wards the great future, cry, "The joy fied moiher will Fang of the oradle to come!" "The bliss to come 1" (heat death robbed; 11101 the enthroned. Oh, to wander on Lhe banks of the spirit from the alms -house will sing bright river, and yet to feel that a of a life -time of want. God may wipe little further down we shall find stilt away all tears, but not the memory brighter floods mitering into it I Oh, of the grief that steeled 1.110011 to stand a tbonsand years, listening to III, further, 11 lett ue an aocom-t the enchanting musk: of heaven, and judice against muaiaal instruments; to find. out 11101 the harpers are Only gr tuning their harps, and even among those who like then:, V. :Etna!! there is an idea that they are unauth- be a unanimous song. Thr remark, e a willat it , prized. I cannot share in such pre- g• justices, when I remember how God doubt, be some to laud, but all will be has honoured them. I love the aym- expected to join. It will be grand eon - bats, for Israel clapped there in gregational singing. All the sweet triumph at the Rad Sun. I love 111: voices of the redeemed 1 Grand music harp, for David Amok.Amok.it in prattling it will be, when that new song arises, the Lord. I lova the trurnp0I, for we Luther sings it. 'Charles Wesley sings are told that Lt, shall woke the dead. it. Lowell Mason sings it, Our I lava all stringed Ln810000:nta and voices now may be 111118]1 and cur cars red un ul i oats clan e L vete but ur thI a p we shell ' annus that; ins organs; for God Jw 6 at last• and our o mcities enlarged, o a meets 1 r ', trip •ed instru nt a him on e p 6 sac a len:' utter our voices as loudly as any of h r 111 Lel none aspire to that blessed place who have no love for this exercise, for although it i 1 the g s many ages since thrones were sot harps ware o we ,and the kit R sung, there has been no oessatiou In the song; exoepLiog anon for about thirty minutes; and judging, from the glorious things now transpiring in Gods world ane the over-acoumulal- ing triumphs of the Messiah, that wits the last half-hour, that heaven wall over be silent. I, Mark the feat that this was a new song. Sometimes I have in church been floated away upon some great choral, in which all our people seemed to min- gle their voices, and 1 have, in the glow of my emotions, said, Surely this is music) good enough for. heaven. In- deed I do . not believe that "Luther's EIymn," or "Coronation," or "Old Hun- dred,"' or "Mount 'Pisgah," would sound (11 if spoken by sainted lips, ,or thrummed from seruphie,hn.rps. There are m0ny of our fathers and molhera in glory who would 'be slow to shut heaven's gate against these old-time harmonies. But this, eve aro told, is a now song. Borne of our greatest anthems and chorale are compositions from other tunes—the sweetest parts of them gathered up into the har- mony ; and 1 have sometimes thought that this "new song" may he partly made up of sweet strains of earthly music. mingled in eternal choral. But it will, after all, be a OOW song, This I do know, that in sweetness and power it will be something that ear never honed. Ail the skill of the old- est harpers of hoa.ven will be flung into it, All the love of God's heart will ring from it. In nit oadenee the floods will clap their hands, and it Will. drop with the sunlight of fiver testing day, and breathe with odours from the blossoms of the tree of life. "A now song"—just made for hea- ven. Many earthly songs are written by composers just for the puepose of making a tune; and the land is flood- ed with /tote -books in which really valuable tunes are the exception. But once in a while a man is wrought up by Nome great spootaeis, or moved by some terrible 'nor t rr agony, 1 n trona orted. 8 Y>1 b some exquisite gladness, and he Y q B sits down to write vin r 1 a a Lune or a Monte y nu, in whish every note or every word is a spark dropped from the forge Of his own burning emotions. So Mendelssohn wrote, and so Beethoven, and, so Chaeles Wesley, Cowper, de- pressed with misfortunes until almost insane, eneolved on 00X1:10, and raked the oab-driver. to Lake hila to a 000 - lain plane where ho expeoled to do - troy his own life. The cab -driver lost his way, and Cowper began to think of: his sin, and went back to ills home, and soh down and wrote— "God 'moves in a mysterious way, I•Iis wonders to perform; Ile plants his footsteps in the era, And rides (Moe the storm. "Ve fearful saints, fresh courage lake, The elouds yen 80 much dread, ,Are big with 30er0y, and shall break. In blessings int yojjr head, MOsart composed his own regale 1, and said to his daughter tetany, "Play and organs. 1`110:0 is inl ala and you and 1 will not be ashamed to much to suggest: Lhe hag er wo s p, them. fur I rend ihnL lvhen he had Laken !tetrad her class to choose a motto for the year, and they had selected. Por His Sake." Here was an opportunity to do an unselfish aot "tort His sake," He knew he could easily distance Jack, but he did not want to drop out after en- tering the fiat. While he was think- ing about it the signal was given and they were off, The way was lined with °hearing, hallooing children, shouting encouragement to their (avert - tea. "Go it, Dickl Hurry up, old follow or you'll get lefL1" "Will's ahead! "No, he Isn't!" "Yes, he is' eto. "I tell you Sauk Martin's inI Hur- rah for Jack! Will Barstow's left this time, for sure!" It was a fact. Will kept ahead until the goal was nearly reached, then slack- ened almost imperceptibly, letting Jack go in just before, him. In spite of the condolences And disap- pointed ejaculations of his friends, Will felt happy. He had won after all, but the elotory was over self, the grandest of all victories. It sus genuine plea- sure to look at Tack's bright face, and know he would receive the much needed money. And then he bad a delight- ful secret, which only One beside him- self knew, It brought God near to feel that He knew all about it; and was pleased with him. "It. was the very best pinto we ever had," be declared to his mother when the book, the four -and -twenty elders Those nations that have ntways been fall down before the Lomb, having distinguished for their eapaoily in song every one of them "harps," and "I will lift up their voices in that melody. hoard the voice of the harpers harp- Those who have had much opportunity ing with their harps," and "1 saw to hear the Germans sing will know them that had gotten the victory from ,,'hat idea I mean to give, when I say the boast standing on the sea ot'glass, thet the great German nation will having the harps of God," Pour their deep, fall voices into the new song. Everybody knows the Yes, the song ie to be aceompetuteil natural gift of the African for sing - You say that all this is figurative. ing. No singing on this continent like Theu 1 say, prove it, C do not know that of Lite coloured churches in the how much of 11 is literal, and how 800111. Every body going to Rich - much of it is figurative. Who 010 mond or to Oha:rleston wants to say but that from some of the prat- hear the Agrieans sing. But when not ions woods of earth and heaven there only Ethiopia, but all that 0olitinent may not bo made Intstruments of 0e1e8- tdal mowed. In that worship David may takethe harp, and Hebakku the ehigiunoLh; and when the great mul- titudes shall, following their awn 10- elivationa, take up instruments sweet- er than Mozart ever fingered, or Schu- mann ever dreamed of, or Beethoven of darkness lifts up Its hands, and all Africa pours her great volume of voice into the new song—that will be. music for you. Added to Lids are all the sixteen thousand millions of child- ren that are estimated to have gone into glory, and the host of young and pad that hereafter shall people the ever wrote for, lel all heaven make mirth and inhabit the stars, ready for the burst of stupendous Oltl the nett song! Gather it all upl minstrelsy, and the roll of the eternal (Multiply it with every sweatnesal orchestral Pour into it every harmony' Crown IV, Further: it will be an anlioipa- it with every gladness! Belt it with tive song. Why, my friends, heaven every splendour! Fire it with every has hardly begun yet. If you had glory! Toes it to the greatest height taken the opening' p1000 of music this of Maj,1ggyty I Roll it to the grandest evening for the whole service, you oyele a-eternityl—and then you have would not ititve made so great a mis- take as to suppose that heaven is fully inaugurated. Festal °hareees on earth last only 0 short while. The famous musieet uonv00atiou all Dussel- dorf ended with the fourth day. Our sing it. Bu t If we do np4 sing aha matter with you, Billy." holidays last only eight or tea (lays; praise of Christ upon earth, Iva will �rill only smiled and said nothing, hal the faintest conception of what, John experienced when, amidst the he got home, magnificence of apocalyptic vision. he "1'. shouldn't think you would say heard it—the now song. ate" said his brother Frank. "when you God grunt that at last we nett). all got left so. 1 can't eec what was the era built a "shay " with :•hairs and the dining table and rode merrily there- on to the great emu/mmenl. of 1110 au• dience. The seeped syllable was play- ed aepurately, and was done by the plitee05 rustling up noon us, their un- euspoeting listeners, and carrying off sums of our numbers by sheer farce. Proper noune often make good ehar- adea. One of Cbe best, perhaps, is Ful- ton. 'liras may be noted in a very fun- ny un ny way by giving an exhibition of hu- min euriosll les, your eurioel lies erin- 4islins of fat people. It heightens the i+ u via w vmd l►vm+wanniflnifNANWRVINtill HOUSEHOLD. PAH!' ANIMPrMMAPPNAMI1"FJtllifi" YY SUGGESTIONS 7'0 HOUSEKEEPERS, You 080 melte the nicest piece of rallied beef that was ever " opened" long!). and Indigestible by cooking it fast in water made to boil hard, 1f you want It tender as ]L is possible TH13 Alt'1' Oh' BAl9SoNt( All dressmakers baste a great deal. Beginners are prune to do too little. Baste all the 80an15 of a skirt in one direction, preferably! from alae top down. In beating the fried gurus of lining and outside together, baste die eetly down the een1r0, taking but one etileie upon lbe needle al a ttmo. The edgee of the front gore are then basted from top to bottom, following absurdity to select the thinnest pito- a steaigbt line. In Meeting the back t or line of basting Piave v kand side e r amono gores, the g 'r *, P i•°ler penman. f your culr,sktl for t to be,len the, pleee 4 Cg r n o 1 S n its in 0mu- c rf Lhm' the duliusl6]Hs in n rowi the kettle >n ehoulJ f,llu u the rain 11 1 skim and sat h J w nut I a b g. scum and attar eight, attention Co rho back or the stove, where the eon- olot:h,hul extend in straight lines from l.heb remarkableo 15 weight., as r to prove yell: statemeate, seed fur' scales and tants wilt simmer gently but np❑^. app (D bottom jn*l. as fur aha( leant gore. The true direction of the basting line le determined by holding Ibegores to the figure and noting how the folds come—they will always be straight weigh earl/ one, You should give to Gael' some extremely extravagant weight, beginning at, say, four hun- dred, and fifteen p0unde end gradual- ly increasing your figures until the mint/Med weight of your curios tie8 resoh 2,240 pounde, n1' one tun. Titlee of books, societies, plays, etc., may be used Os charades. 1 have seen "Royu1 Areantun" played very sue- pessfully. The title suggests royal, are man cane ann. It was played thus: A throne wee prepared, and a king sat on it with a wand. 10111(,11 wav really a none, in his hand. Ile was surround- ed by uLtendent:s, and at a given sdg- utl, they all ehouted the syllable " are," when the monarch used his mane freely on their backs, and all ran howling away. In playing charades, it is well for all preteen* to divide into rival camps, Playing alternately. The following are good words for charades, and your own ingenuity will suggest ways of playing them:.Adher- ente add he rent, teetotaler, tea toe taller; uniformity, you're Ifirm a "t;" ingratiate, in gray she ate ; gruesome grew some ; metaphysician, mat u 011y- 8ician ;. miscontruo, miss eon strew; ad- hesive, add he serve; tenable, ten able; msnieure, man I cure; catamount, cat a mount ; innocent, inn no scent.; oham- paign, sham pain ; caution, caw shun, but heaven, although singing for so never sing it Ln heaven. Be sure 111111: many years, has only just begun "Hie your hearts are now• attuned for the new song." It the glorified inhabit- heavenly worship. On this Cheistmes ants recount past delivoreneas, they ovo, I formee the time when the whole will also enkindle at glories to come. atoll shall be brought; in accord with If, at six o'olook, when, this ohur•oh the Gospel --"Glory to God in the high - opened, you had taken the few pee- est; on earth, peace, good -will to men! plc that were scattered through 'it 58 There is it 051(odral in Europe with the maim audienue, you would not an organ at each end, Organ answers have matte so great a mistake a8 Lf organ, and the music waves backward you supposed that the present pope- and forward with Lndastrititable effect, repenting in his heart these words, "For His Sake." EVIONiNG AMU.SEMJON11B. One of the pleasantest ways of spend- ing an evening le in playing charades. A little keen wit:, and e. slight talent for noting, will make this one of the most agreeable of amuse:monts, writes lotion et heaven are to be its chief Well, my friends, the tone 10111 came Helen 1!. Clark. In salturting words to beplaY ed it must be borne In mind that the leashItnnts aro only n handful different parts of great at ll omd. It tiitivenship Although Len million whim earth sand heaven will be but first of all, a en, truecharade is i B Lta C a , p , al 9 li nt.ionti, will h joyHere and joy Lherel Ta t f :aro o rt. e1 . r c ill the urn (ant alai with [ A L . All China is yah to be saved. hare and Josue there! Trumpet to1het to to say, your ofd mustibe cap - IndiaIndia is yet to be saved. All Borneo trumpet! Organ to organ! Belle- able of. being divided into syllables, is yet to bo saved, 4,11 Switzerland, lajalt to hallelujah! upon which puns taley bo nlnde, or e, is yet to be saved, All Italy 18 yet 10 "Until. the day break and the sha- it be saved. All S Jaln Is yet to be eased. doles flee away, turn, my beloved, and must have that quo/lily as a whole, and All Rural s s i i• o , i s y to bit saved All be thou like a roe ora young hart it is the putt whleh mast be acted. a lake this clear, I will illustrate R. To m Frame is yet tie be saved. Ail England is upon the mountains of Detherl" , t11at -yoft wish to play the yet to be saved. All America is yet to Suppose bo saved, All the world is yet to he ^ " ' '* ' " word paradox, the pun is pear of doe's; and it would be played by presenting to your audience a oouple of physicians impersonator by your best actors, you may introduce any by-play between your doctors wish you wish. Sot your people to gu0851(1g try announcing that the word lea commop noun ea three syllables. If the word is a difficult one to guese, 11 is better to give its de- finition also, Irl, good word for a charade is the word oharado itself, 9 raoontly saw it played with groat snccoss. As played, it, was, of course, shay raid, ,The play. saved. After that there may be other worlds to conquer. 1 do not: ltnow but that every eine that glitters to -night is an inhabited world, and that from all thuso spheres a mighty host are to mirth into our heaven, 'there will. be no gate to keep them. out, We i not: wont to keep there out. We will not: want to ]teen (.heel out. ("rod will not Want.: 1..o keep them out,. 1 Sieve sometimes thought that ell the millions of. earth IMO. go into glory ere hut; a. very small (30lony compared with the influx tram the whole uni- DANGEIRS IN MERCURY. Meroury is a foe to life. 'Those who make mirrors, barometers or . ther- mometers, eta., scion feel the effect of the nitrate of mer0ury in tooth, gums and the tissues of the body. AN INTELLIGENCE BUREAU. When a men goes into polities ho gets useful knowledge of his follow - men. Yes; and they hear things about flim too, STOLE OVER $1,000,000. Mandy. The easiest and handiestbroemholder is the simp1081. Two wire nails driven into the will at the same height., with the beads slightly leaning toward each other, are alt That is required, You just slip Lhe brooweliek between them, and the slight curve of the handle at the top prevents it from failing through. Nearly every housekeeper knew8 now to keep ham through the summer months, by partially frying it and then Packing at in jars, filling thein up with melted hard. It enough ul the lard is melted every time meat. le taken out, and returned to the jars, to keep a layer of lard an (nctbi or so I.bick over the tap, aha ham will keep perfectly. Not every one, however, knows that dried beef may be kept by wiping with a damp cloth and then rubbing it freely with powdered borax, using plenty of it in the rraek8 and seam*, Then tie it in flour seeks, tightly. Re- peat the borax application once or twice during the summer. 'l'ho borax does nen injure flavor or quality in the slightest degree, SUGGESTIONS FOR SPRING. There is no part of the, spring house- 31an,alog Director or the Alawall works, L01114011, the Cleamplen Definitive ol•. This Iialerntlon, News of the greatest embezzlement story of this generation comes from London. Not until G. It Birl, chair- man and managing director of the Mllwall Dock Company, disappeared us silently and mysteriously as a cloud in a summer sky was it discovered and announced that his accounts were short $10 00,000, and that the alleged em- bezzlement had been going on for at least twenty years without suspicion or detection, The Milwall Dock Company is one of the richest corporations in Lho world. Nothing has been heard of Mr. Birt sauce his mysterious disappearanoe. His wife has advertised in the English papers for him, expressing faith in his integrity, and imploring him to return and set matters straight. When Mr. Birt went away from home, taking with him only A SMALL HANDBAG, it was understood by his family that he was going away only for the night. Not until he had been away from the office two or three days was inquiry made for him. Then an investigation was started in his amounts, and a shortage 0t. at least $1,200,000 OUO is al- leged l- to el to have been discovered. The officials of. the NILl.wall Dock Company are very reticent about it. Almost all that has been learned came from Mr. Bart's family, who express con- fidence that he is alive somewhere and that ho w•il1 rehire to explain matters to the entire satisfaction of everybody concerned. For about twenty years Mr. Birt has been a responsible man with the com- pany and gradually worked his way up to the managing, directorship. His employers and assoeiete dirootors ap- pear to have had implicit eottfidence in him. He is seventy years old, has thirteen children and until this charge was brought against him W115 10 all appeara.noes 11 most exemplary father and citizen. 'What: ho has clone with the money alleged to be missing nobody can surmise. He did not: live extravagant- ly, and no one hoe yet discovered that he speculated to any great extent. Yet in the twenty years that he has been in a position to handle the com- pany's money ho roust have taken $00,- 000 00,000 a year to get away with the total deficiency acor.editod to him. Per- haps when he turns up he will be able to explain it. RELIEVING THE HEART. In Order In 37o0at 3e Nitlals 1NerRaemssay to 1ave a The main use of the uoveringe at night is to give rho body the warmth that. is lost by reduoed circulation of the blood. When the body Lies clown it is the intention of nature that it should rest:, and that the heart 08p1 - wally should be relieved temporarily of its reguler work. So that organ makes ten strokes u minute less than when the body is in an upright ves- ture. This moans 900 strokes in sixty minutes. Therefore, in the eight hours that a man usually spends Ln taking Ids night's rest, the heart is saved near- ly 5,000 strokes. As it pumps six ounces of blood with ennh stroke, it lifts 80,000 ouuoes lass of blood in the night's session, than it would during Lhy,usually 6 da when 0 mann is in an 1 is rte- rod Now,the 1 iii n, upright po8 c 1 11e vigor warmth l foritswar B de- pendent Pe of 1110 circulation, and as the blood flows S: (11iac11 more slowly through the veins when one is lying down the warmth lost in the reduaod ei.rouletion must be supplied by extra coverings, VERY HUMAN. Admiring Johnny. 'You look nice enough to eat. She,, And so 9 do; three times a day, HORSES IN THE WORLD, The Ameriean Agrieulturlsl esti- tamales that there are 75,00111000 hor- t r s°s in rho rvorld. Of Mean e 00 ,000 ,000 Are in Europe, 17 000,000 in North AInovice and 0,000,000 in Asia. 'rhe mules end ae8es 111 the world are raid to uttelber 0,000,000, cleaning that is more important than the proper care of winter clothing and renovating the closets, and this is usually done before the rooms are dis- turbed. Many people are fortunate in having a small room that Is a general receptacle for various kinds of storage, and is supplied with doors and win- dows for light and ventilation. Choose a bright warm day for cleaning them, remove every thing from Lhe room, clean the shelves and mop the floor. The latter should be painted or cov- ered with oil cloth or matting, but never with a woolen carpet. Then af- ler drying, the store room will be ready to put things in. Heavy draperies should be thorough- ly dusted and hung on the line to air before putting them away. Choose a large box so they will not have to be folded often, and iay them in it care- fully. Fasten the lid securely to keep the dust out, and label the box so there will be no trouble in finding them when they are wanted again. Blankets should be thoroughly washed before they are put away, for to fail to do this would be to invite moths. Prepare a hot suds, put a little borax in it, and with the aid of a washing machine and wringer, the task is soon accomplished. The borax softens the water, hastens the cleansing process, and keeps the blankets soft and fleecy. Soap should never be rubbed directly upon the blanker but dissolved in the water. Blankets should vol be wrung by hand, but pressed between the rub- ber rollers of a wringer, then shaken out and pulled into shape before they are hung on the line. 1f u gentle breeze is blowing, it will help to re- move the wrinkles and dry them quick- ly. Every box, trunk or chest in which woolen goods are kept should be emptied, lined with clean paper and powdered borax dusted over the but - tom to keep the moths away. Do not neglect to air your olosets and store rooms frequently, for they need it as much as the rooms' do; per- haps more, for they are apt to have a close, musty smell when this is ne- glected. An hour at a time will be enough, and the clothing will not get very dusty in that length of time. Furs and heavy woolen cloaks should bo hung up in the large sacks that are sold for that purpose. These sacks are made of very heavy paper, wilb a flap at the top that folds over and buttons. They erre furnished with hooks inside, 80 the garment Jan be hung up without Wrinkling. ATTCC RUBBISH. A saving of attic rubbish year after year is an unwarranted economy. So many things are slowed away under the supposition that some day such articles may be wanted or may be utilized in some wary. Many an attic lot of put -away things would dress some child or family of. Utile folks in a. very respectable manner and would be se thankfully received, The bolter economy for the housewife would bre to place !hem where immediate good may be derived from thein, for in such places they prove an ec;:nonly in- (10t1d. I•+ it erumumy 1,0 Nave rugs for the down. The busting should follow the !met; fulds in which the skirt will fall when made up. One half inch front the edge of the lining d* a good idea when nutting to rule a perfectly straight seam with a peaoil un the edge or each gore, Later on baste 011 these lines in oven, true stitches for the settles. Basco length- wise, using a short and long stitch in basting. Baste up, and keep the basting in line with skirt seams. Where a bias and a selvedge edge come together baste and stitch on the selvedge edge. Be sure the top of the skirt is kept even, and be very care- ful in stitching not to stretch bias seams; always stitch one way—either from the top down, or from the bottom up. CABBAGE SALADS. Mrs. Corey's cabbage salad calls for a dressing made with one teaspoon sugar, one-half teaspoon mustard, dash cayenne pamper and salt, and eight tablespouns of vinegar, stirred with one tablespoon of butter, melt- ed over boiling water. Into this mix two eggs web beaten. Stir the mix- ture in a dish over boiling water all the time it is cooking, and 000k n5 thick as good cream. Set away to pool. Cut the cabbage into shreds and add the dressing just before serving, Auburn Cabbage Salad is made at follows: Over finely -chopped cabbage —and the purple cabbage can be used if desired—pour dressing made from one tablespoon mustard; one table• spoon butter; rub together thorough- ly and add one tablespoon salt, one to. blespoon sugar, three eggs well beate en, nue oup of milk. Let this mixturtl warm slightly, then add one cup ca vinegar, a little red pepper and le the mixture come to a boil. DOMESTIC RECIPES. Virginia Corncake.—One pint of yet. low corn -meal, one-half teaspoon Bala one-half pint rich, unskimmed, boiling milk, one fourth pint butter ; beat to- gether; add three well -beaten eggs, . stirring• until tb0 mixture cools; add two heaped teaspoonfuls of baking powder; turn into buttered tins; bake a golden brown, split and butter while hot. Jenny Lind Cake.—Two and one -halt cups sugar; one cup butler, creamed;. four eggs beaten separately; one oup milk ; two and one-balf oups flour, sifted with two heaped teaspoonfuls is baking Take one-third of the battepowder. e 7 one teaspoonful of oinna- mon and alovss and nutmeg, mixed; one tablespoonful molasses ; one -halt cup chopped raisins and citron, and two tablespoonfuls of flour. Bake the dark cake in one tin; divide the other batter in two tins, and when done put together with icing, the dark cake in the center. Cranberry Pudding. — Moisten one pint of stale bread crumbs with bet water and stir in two tablespoonfuls of butter ; add. two well beaten eggs, a pinch of salt and OUR pint of elewed cranberries. Bake and serve with n herd sauce. Rye Rolls.—Sift three teaspoons Fmk- ing powder, with e. quart of rye flout then with the bands rub in a rounder tablespoon tablespoon butter, add a beaten egg, and enough sweet skim milk to make a dough ; roll thin, cut in square 1051(3, wet the top, roll up and bake. Molasses Cookies. --One egg, one oup molasses, one oup sweet cream, hale cap butter or lard, half oup sugar, one teaspoon cinnamon, one bearing tea- spoon soda a pinch of salt, flour la make a good dough, and bake lightly in a quick oven, •l'ry them, they are delicious. Pull Pudding,—Add to ono oup of boiling milk one-half a oup of butler; sift on one-half cup of flour, stirring rapidly five minutes. When oral, add three well -beaten eggs and stir tau minutes, and after adding ono LOW. spooulul of baking powder, drop by spoonfuls into well -buttered gem tins. Bake in a quick oven. Serve hot with ,ren•n1 81:1105. rag Tuan) We think not, and long ago discontinued the practice. This 511010g of rags was handed clown from one generation of housewives to an- other, 1111 doubt. A reg bag is always an unsightly thing, and it is almost inveriably tent to Lhe garret nt storere :Dale upstairs. Steps 'lenu arable are a : oaken before the rag 'hags are filled, or before 0(1111d fol by the put'ehaser of rags and the vender of cheap tin ware and Miley (heap and undesirable gond. And there :.re better ways for making use of all the rags that no - (Annulate about the house, When a garment is out up, alter leaving 5000 - ed its days of usefulness as a garment, the scraps and pro:es are all put into e bag or into a deep jar (bol, is nal. otherwise needed, end they are kept to wipe out 'roast' dishes, and to „tom nit• a ..fie wt. 1 And to wive up spots on the floor and front off the stove, Ae 5(1011 ee they arta used they are burned. When to yea.r'8 •(, •, , •la - lion of ing-bn.g rags 11^ail only a ten -rent basin, We belie, •:,, I that thio let one of the old-time e(ona- ,nies, where the housewife is justified 1n " drawing the line," A TWO -MINUTE TRAGEDY. Oh, love, dear love, be fondly !tried, You Venus are, personified; You've Liebe, Helen—many more, Oh, fly I My bark is on the shore. There mono a bark—end then a roar. Alas, the lover WAS no more 1 The maiden feinted et the door, The fiendish father mopped the floor, While ' oWser from behind n tree, \1 Ito o C i lee! ' of ghoulish Sent l•alau It g ,.Het u g 8 A. UNIVERSAL ATMOSPHERE. Mr, Rydberg, a Swedish savant, sug- gests that the recent. discovery of 0.10 new element, metargon, in the air, strengthens the theory of fila (3x(;}1- 4.'7100 of a universut atmosphere exp fending between the plonets and rhrnuglloul: lite solar atvetom. 'Lill& gas, ile 0078, 3814 aial•eaay en&to to exist. tel the 5t u, in t.ue i0itpedinia mut- 00111111ili e of the sun, in all uonlote, and . . 8 in meteorites; from which foots he aur. t k 11] with, I t p ere that it onnetltttt.40 a emntm0d ,i1•. fere for other systems. ( •. A STRANGE '11.111 'l'i 09 all 111e (11ing5 pr0v0lcing, That raise a '3Vnrltr111 8 ire, The worst one is a man ' who won't Get., .up and "light' the fire.