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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-4-14, Page 22 ...**,.•••••••••••••••..-••••••••••••••*""•*••, A HUE TiO OICIM IL DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS OF A SCENE IN BASYLON. t lie Caromed In he nalnee—loatteers or ihe intoxicating cue- Destruction or the Vlotolo. WI 11 Ito Very settees's—the aegyptuinegeapeed in *hosted Bett—Tng Dr. etyee need Advice to Weettity Pea obt. • A despatch from Washington says: —Rev, Dr. Talmage tereacleed frinn the following text "th Gust night was Bei slower, the king of the Chaldeans slain."—Daniel v. 30, Bible pictures, like tOe Words of the old masters, improve by age. Like Raphael's Transfiguration, or De Vin - Ws Last Supper, th,ey are worth more now than ever before. Meel woe about to oome down up- on Babyloto The shadows of hette-0 hundred and fifty towers began to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled, on, touehed by the fiery splendors of the setting sun; and gates of brass, burn- ished.and glittering, opened and shut like doors of flame. The hanging gardens of Babylon, wet with the heavy dew, began to pour, from eta r - lit flowers and dripping leaf, e frag- rance for many miles eround. The streets and squares were lighted for datice, and frolic, and promenade. The theatres and galleries of art invited the wealth and pomp, and grandeur of the city- to rare entertainments. Scenes of riot and wassail were mingled in wary street; and godless mirth, and outrageous excess, and splendid wick - e nese came to the king s pulite% to do their mightiest deeds of darkness, A royal feast to -night at the king's palace1 R chariots, upholstered with preolous cloth from Dedan, and drawn by fire - eyed tomes from Togarmae, diet rear • and tteigh in the grasp of the chariot. - ears; while a thousand lords dismount, and women, dressed in all the splendor . of Syrian emeralds and the calm -blend- ing of agate, and the chasteness of coral, and the sombre glory ot Tyrian purple and prineely embroideries, brought from afar by camels amuse the desert, and by shins of Tarshish aoross the sea. Open wide the gates, and let the guests come in. The ceamberlains and cup -bearers are all ready. Hark to tee rustle of the silks, and to the carol of the music I See the blaze of jewels 1 Lift the banners. lilt the ouPs. Clap the cymbals. Blow the trumpets. Let the night go by with song, and dame, and ovation; and let that Babylonish Longue be palsied that will not say, "0 King, Belshazzar, lire for ever 1" Ah I my friends, it was not any com- mon banquet to which these great peen OM came. All Parts of the earth had sent their richest vituads to that table. Brackets and chandeliers 1151,1).. edtheir light upon tankards oi burn- ished gold. Fruies, ripe and itisolous;I THE BRUSSELS P OS T. ..tipitxx, 14, 1899 Itore banners, and loroken wreatles, and the dude of upeet tankerde, attil the blood of Murdered women, aucl the !disked and tumbled earease of a dead king, Few "le that right wits Bel shazzar, the king of the Choldeann, °If 4,;.: On 10 learn some lessons from all One, as on former occasions I learn- ed eertain leesone. Otero that when God vrites tueythitig on the wall a man had better read it as it M. Daniel did time nnsintermet or naoday the handwriting on the wall. le is ell eoolislinesa to expect a minister 01 the Gospel to mooch abettys Linage that the people like, or the people choose. Shell I tell you of the dignity of Itu- , man nature e ,S14a 11 1. tell you of Lhe wonders that. our /ewe has acooreptish. ; ed? "Oh, AO, • you say; "tell 1118 the mess age that dime 1:1•0111 liOd." 1 will, 11 , there is any eanawriting on the wall, it is this lesson: "Repent I Accept of 1st and be saved 1 might talk of O greal many otOer things; but that Is the message, Loul so decilitre it. Jesus never nattered these to -whom he preached, fle add to those nem ' did evrong, and who were tie- fensive itt ills* eight, "le generatieu co ewers eye wetted. sepulchres! bow C1111 ee mime the datnuation of hell!" Paul the apostle preached bolero a 111011 Wn..I was not ready to hear him preach, What subjeot Ite take Did ho say, '01)1 you ere a good 1118 11 a very fine man, a very noble man?" No; Ite preached of righteousness to a man who was unrighteous; of tern- potanee to a man who was the maim of bad appetites; of the judgment to owns to a man who was unnt for it. So we must always cleclere the ines- lege. 1 that happens. 10 001118 10 Os. 84 11 so Lt 1*, 111 Mier preaohed. before James I. of Eng- land, who was james VI. of Seething. Wino, eubjeet unt ne tone 1 1 he king was notect all over the world for being unsetlled and wavering in his ideas. \\ het. did the minister preach :hetet. to this man, wile was J ernes 1. of England, and &MOBS VI. of Scotland? .lie took for his text Jame e 0; "He that way- ereth is like a wave of Me 8011 drevea wall the wind, and tossed." Hugh Laeinier °Head& the king by e eve - mon he preached; and the king eakt, "Hugh Latimer, come and apologize." "I will," said Hugh Latimer. So Lhe day was appointed; and the king's chapel was bull of lord aud dukes, and tiee mighty men 81111 Women Or the country, for Hugh Latimer was to apoeogize. He begae bis sermon by saying, "Hugh Latimer, betbink thee! Thou art in the presence of thine earthly king, who min destroy thy body. But bethink thee, Hugh Lati- mer that thou itrt in the presenee of the King uf heaven and earth, who can destroy both body and soul in hell -fire." Then he prom:lied with ap- palling chreetneoe iit the king's crimes. Another lesson that dimes to us to- night; there is a great difference be- tweeo the opening of the banquet and of sin at its dose. Young man, if you had looked in upon the banquet in e first IOW bouts, you would have wished you had lonen invited there, and could sit at. tine/feast. " Ohl the grandeur of Bets azzur's feast I" You would have said; but you look: in at the close of the banquet, and your Inuod curdles with horror. The King tit Terrors has there a ghastlier ban- quet; human blood is the wine, and dying groans are the music. Sin has made itself a king in the earth. Ithas crowned itself. It has spread a ban- quet. It invites all the world to coma to it. It has hung in its boil - questing -hall the spoils of all king- dom.* and the le/toners of an nations., It hos gathered from, all music. It has strewn from les wealth, the tables, 1 he floors and arches. And yet how often is that' banquet broken ; and how terrible is its end! Ever and anon there is a handwriting on the wall. A king elen *ulpt'ii is fored'. e knees of wickednems knoak together. o God's judgineut, like an armee host, breaks in upon the banquet; and that night is Beiseazzor, the king of the Chaldeans, sleet. Hare le a young matt who says, "1 cannot see why they nattke such a fuss about the lute:denting cup. Why it is exhilarating! It makes me feel well. I eau talk better, think better, feel better, I cannot 1400 why people hove such a prejudice egoinst R." A few years peas on, and be wakes up tine finds himself in the clutches of an evil hole; which he tries to break; but rennet; and ke 01108 Out. "011 Lord' God! help mel" It seems. as though God would not hear his prayer; and in an agony of body nod soul he cries out, ''11 bade like a serpent end it tingetli like an adder." Hove bright tt was al the atort I Dow black it tees at the last I in baskets a silver, eniwined with leaves, plucked erom the royal tent- servatory. Vases, Inlaid with emer- ald, and ridged with exquisile lee, filled with nuts that. were thre,shed ed from eorests of clietent lands. Wine biteight tram the royal vats, foaming ; in the decanters and bubbliug in the , chalices. Tults of casein and erankin- cense wafting their eweetness from wail and table. Gorgeous banners un- I folding in the breeze that came through the opened wiedow, bewitch- . ed with the perfume of hanging gar- dens. Fountains rising up front inclosuree of ivory, in jets of crystal, to fall in dat tering 1.11.11 of diemonds and pearle. • Statues of mighty men looking down, from niches in 1118 wall, upon crowns, and shields brought from subdued em- • pires. Idols of wonderful work, stand-, ing oa pedestals of preeions stones • Embroideries stooping about. the win- dows, and wrepping pillars of cedar, and drifting on floor inleid with ivory and agate. Music, mingling the thrum of harps, and the clash of cym- bals, ansi the blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along the wall, and breathing among • the garlands, and pouring down the corridors, and thrilling the souls of a thousand banqueters. The signal is given and the lords and ladies, the mighty mett and women of the land, come around the table. Pour out the wine. Lee foam and bubble Meet the 'rim! Iloiet every one his oup, tind drink to the sentiment 1 "0 King Eel- .8118g2t1T, live for ever 1" Beste reed head -band aod oarcanet of royal dimity gleam to the uplifted cluilicee, as a Wan, and again, and again they are emptied. Away with care from the palace I Tear ' royal dignity to toted% I POUY out more wina 1 Give us more light, wilder music, sweeter perfume! Lord shouts to lord, captain ogeles to cap- tain. Goblets clash 1 cleonnters rat- tle. 'There cams in the obscene song, and the drunken hiccough, toed the alavering lip, and the guffaw, ot idio- tic laughter, bursting from the lips of princes, !Melted, reeling, bloodshot ; while mingling with it all I hear "Hue= 1 huzza I for great Delehae- ear 1" What is that C01 the plastering of the wall 1 Is it a spirit ? Is is a phautom ? Is it God? The musie dope. The goblets eall from tee • nerveless grasp, There is a thrill.; There is a dart. There is a tholis-; and -voiced shriek of homer. Let Daniel be brought in to read that! • writing. Ife comes in, Re reads it i • "Weighed 10, the balances, and art tound wanting," lettanwhile the eteseyrians, eveo for two' years had been laying a siege to! that ?Sty, took edve range of that ear- e ousel end tome in. e heat the feet of • Ibo conquerorit on the .palacee•stairs. Plasticize% reshee in with a thousand s glearaing knives. Booth burette up- ' 1 on the, scene; ane I shut the door of , t oat mnqueting-hall, for 1(1(1 nut WOOL , to look, There is nothing there but t mune thiem illustrated. Here M a yotiug men just ovule from eollege. He is kiwi. Ile ia loving. He Ia ntkusi tu01ie. He is eloquent, By one timing he may bound to heleets toward wnith neatly men have Open draggling fo, Y00,1%. A profession opens before him De is established in the law. Ills friends cheer him. Eminent Men encourage ben. sitter it while you may see him standing in the Senate or moving a popular assemblage by Inta eloquence, aa trees are moved in a whirlwied. Seine night he retiree early. A" fever is on Itim. Delirium liOe a recklese oharioteer, eetzes the reins tie his intellect. Father and mother demi by and see the tides of his life going out to the great ceseen The banquet is coining to int. encl. The lights cif thought and mirth, and do - queue° aro being extinguished. The garltiuds are snatched flora the brow The vision is gone. Death at the ban - 1101e 1 have else to learn from tee subject that the destruction of the vicious, and of those who despise God, will be s ery sudden. The wave of mirth had dash- edi to the highest point when that Assyrian army broke through. It was uuexpeoted. Suddeoly, *Llama al- ways, 0011108 the doom of those who despise; God, and defy the laws 01 0180. How was it at the Deluge? Do you suppese ie1 came thruugh a long north- east. storm, so that people for days be- fore was sure it were coming? No; I suppose the morning was bright; that eatnaness brooded ou the waters; that beauty sat enthroned on the hill's; when suddenly the heavens burst, and the amuntains sank like anchors into the sea that dashed elear over the Andes and the Himalayas. - The Red Sea was divided. The Egyptians tried to cross it. There , could be no danger. The Israelites hae just gone through; where thesy had gone, wet, tun the. Egyptians? Ohl • it was seal] a bettutiful walking place! A. pavement of tinged shells and. !pearls, and on either side two twat ;walls of watex'—sulid. There can he , no (Jaeger. Forward, great host of the !EgYelitins! Clop the cymbals, and blow the 'trumpets ot motors! After theng We wie catch them yet, and they 'seen be destroyed, But the walls begin to tremble. They rook! rhey 10111 !The ru;hing waters! The shriek of • drowning men! The swimming of the , war-horses in vain for the shorel The strewing of the great host on the bole tom of the sea, or elected by the :angry wave on the beach—a battered, bruised, and loathsome wreck! Sud- denly destruction came. One half- hour before they could not have rbe- lievedeme1 le Destroyed; and wit hout ay. I am just setting forth a fart, which you have noticed a$ well as I. Ananias comes to tbe apostle. The apostle says: "Did you sell the land for so much?" Ile says, "Yes." it was a lie. Deadi as quick as that! Sapphire, bis wiee, comes in. "Did yuu sell the land for so much?" "Yes." It wee a lie; and quick as that she was dead! God's judgments are upon those who despise him and defy him. They come sud- denly. The destroying angel went through Egypt. Do you suppose that may of 1 tee people knetv that he was 001111 Did they hear the flap of his great sving? No! Nol Suddenly, unexpect- i edslky,illaieed °Tieci.rtsraen do not like to shoot a bird setn.diug on a sprig near by. If they are skilled, they pride themselves on taking it on the wing; and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sportsman; and he loves to take 1118/1 flying under the very sun. He loves to take them on the wing. Are there any here to -night who are unprepared tor the eternal world? Are there any here who have been living without Cod, and without hope? Let nee say to you that you had bet- ter emcee1 of the Lord Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your last chancel)* gone. The lungs will cease to breathe; the heart will stop. The time will corm when you shell go no more to the attire, or do be dere, or to the shop. Nothing will be left but Death, and judgment, and Eternity. Oh1 flee to God this night! If there be one in this presence who has wandered far away from Christ, though he natty not have heard the cell of the Gospel for many a year, I invite hen now t0. come and be saved. Fleefrom thy slid Flee to the stronghold of the Gospel! Now is the accepted time; now is the day of Good -night, my young friends! /nay you have rose, sleep, guarded by Him who never slumbers! Ditty you awake in the morning strong end welll But dal art thou. a despiser oe Goci? Is this thy last night on earth 1 Shouldest thou be awakened. m Gee night by something, thou knowest not what, and here be; shadows floating in the 'roma, at& a handwriting on the wall, and you feel that your last hour has name, and there be a fainting at the heed:, and a tremor in the limb, aed o 011t0/3101; D1' the breath — then thy doom tvuuld be buL an echo of the words of the exit "In (hat night was Bel- shazzar, the king of the Chaldeaus, Hear the invitation of the Gospel! There may be some one in this house to whom T. Quill speak again, and there- fore let it be in tee words of the Gos- vel, and hot my own, with which Iciest:: every one that thirstothl roam ye to the waters. A.net let elm that beth no money come, buy Mae and millo withnut money, and without price." "Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." • Ohl thet my Lord Jesus would now make eiraselt so dine:live to your souls thee you rennet resist him; and that, if you have never. petiyed hefore, or have not preyed since those days svhen you knelL down at your 'mother's knee, then that to -night you might l".'n'LsistnYnIilgi' sW111101.11: one plea But 1 hot thy blood was died for me, And a he 1. thou bitlest Ine mune to Ill's, 0 Lomb of God, I comet" limif you can nol think of so long a prayer as that, 1 will give you te ehorter prayer thee you can say; "God he merciful to Inc a sinner!" Or, if you van viol think of so long a prayer ni that, I will give yeti 0 still ellorler Otte that you may otteo "'Lerd, :OM me, or I perish!" ........,,,,,,,,,,,o,••,,, „ : About tbe House. L. • r, •4••4O$ 0 OM.. *4 00.0 et ROLLS AND FANCY BREADS. Among the additions to tbe break- ' fest talete that at small cost add im- mensely to its attraotivertess, none terneakdshigher than hot Tolls and faney The gust on the list is Vienna bread. The thief difference betWeen tine and ' ordinary bread is that milk, or milk and water, is useel Instead of watee In mixing it. Sieve and warm 1 lb. at • flour, mixing it as you do so with about O dessertspoonful of salt; then work together 1 oz. of German, or any other good yeast, and one or two teaspoon- fuls of powdered sugar, till it all lique- fies or "creams;" now melt 1 oz, of butter in a clean pan, and as it dis- solves, pour to it half a pint of milk, and allow the latter to become just tepid, (a good baker once told me that the proper temperature for a baking liquid was obtained by adding two parts of cold liquid to one part boil- ing), next stir in this a whole egg, and pour this all to the yeast, with which It should be well beeten up. Heap the flour up on the pastry booed, and make a hollow in the °entre with your knuckles; pour the milk, yeast, dm, into this hollow, working down some of the flour from the sides till you have made a kind oft a little pond in the middle. Now let it rise in a warm place for tee minutes or so till tee surface is all oovered with bubbles, then mix M the rest of the flour, and knead it all vigorously to a soft paste, and again put i1 in a warm place to rise, covered with a thick cloth. until the surface is all creaked, which it will be in about two hours. Now take it out and roll it out about three-auarters of an Mot thick; it oan then lee made um in twists, or the horseshoe roll so often served Ill nairope with tbe morn- ing coffee. For the first, out the paste into three long strips, about six inches long, and roll these with your floured palm till you have three rolls of equal length, Now press the ends of three strips together, bringing them to a neat point, and proceed to braid them in three just as you svoutd a ribbon, or wool being oareful to shape them as you do so, that the end may be pointed like the beginning, maks as many of these as you need, bay them on a well - buttered baking sheet. brush them, over lightly with beaten yolk of egg, and bake in a moderate oven till they are a pale golden -brown. For the horseshoe rolls you out the Vienna dough after rolling it out, into squares, and ag•itin out these across diagonally, so that you. have now twize as 'many triangles as you had squaresBring the base of the triangle ((.e., the origin- al diagonal), in front of you, and with well -floured hands roll it over lightly till it is all twisted up, the point form- ing a little triangular flap on the outside; then bend the points lightly towards eace other to give the horse- shoe shape, again let them rise on a buttered tin for fifteen or twenty minutes, and bake. Brush the twists lightly with a little milk, or egg atohliceir oven. The great secret; about eid milk, to make them shiny and m st, as soon as they are taken from these rolls is to roll thetn as lightly as possible, so as not to destroy tee round appearance, and so make them heavy. Shape the remains of the dough into little oval rolls, the size and ehape of an egg, out them orosswise aoross the top, Let them also rise for twelve or fifteen minutes, then bake, brush over with rank and use, Another very nice form of this bread is to take the dough and divide it into three long rolls, shaping these with your well floured hands to a kind of torpedo shape, pointed at both ends, giving one out down the length, brush over with bectten egg, and bake in a pretty hot oven. These oan also be made into de- cidely nine rusks, if, when baked, they are quickly sliced and baked again to O delicate pale golden color; but in that ease the full amount of sugar should have been allowed at the be- ginning. They may be also flavored to taste with vanilla or lemon sugar, or in Germany powdered oinnamon is much used. . Spanish Bread, again, is a well- known Gorman monty, and is madet thus: lYlake a nice light dough with fine sifted flour, three or four eggs, a spoonful of brandy, and as much water as may be neeessary to make a firm, elastic dough. Now roll it out as evenly as possible into en oblong shape, and put all over it little pieties of. hut - ter (previously well freed from butter- milk, and kept on ice to harden it); now roll this paste up as for puff paste, let it real a little, then repeat the butiter and rolling three or four times; then make up the paste into long, oigar-shaped rolls, and bake. Salt -Raised Breed — Many people debit great superiority for this bread, as far as digestibilety is concerned, over ordinary bread stuffs. It is made thus: Sift hato a pint of scald- ing -hot water as much flour as will make a thick batter ; add to this half a teaspoonful Ot salt, and beat it vigor- ously together till quite araooth end full of air -bubbles, Cover this closely mid let it standin a warm place, the dish containing it being set in another full of WM: water and ler it- stansi all night. Next morning seald a pint of milk, and when this is Ittleewarra add to it a teaspoonful of salt and enough flour that will make a batter that will drop, but not run, from the spoon. Into title pour the mixture =Ade overnight, which should be very tight, and lieve a distinctly unplenesant smell; beat these two mixtures thoroughly together for thee° or four minutes, then cover the pan with a thiek cloth, and ageln stand le le a pnri Of 1001011 water, aeld Mave it for ID) houre in it warni plaoe, mem it should be very light indeed, Now ?tad enotmla flour to 1111110$ it n niee dough, krond it conscientiously till it is quite smooth and elaatie, when you divide it up into loaves; eltlee Milne in th.• bettered tins, cover with a (sloth, tent when they ietve again risen hake Been is a nein who begins to rend Freneh novels. "They are so charm- ing." hie says: " I will go out and see Lor xnyself whether these things are so." Ile opens the gate of a sinful life. He goes 10. A sinful ,sprite meets him with her wand. She WaS-08 bet. wend, and it is all enchantment. Why It 13(101118 as if the envie of God had poured out phiale of perfume in the atmosehere. .As he walks oft, he Grids the hills be- coming more radianl with foliage, and the ravines more remanent with the falling wider. Oh 1 what a charming landscape he sees! But that sinful sprit e, with her wadi, ineete agn in; but now sec reverses the wand, and all the enehantment is gone, The cup is fun of poieon. The fruit turns to Relies. .4.31 the letit•es of the bower are forked tongues of hissing ser- pents. The, flowing fountains fall back into a dead pnol, stenchful with oorruption. The luring songs be- aome oureee and tereame of demonine laughter. Lest spirits] gather about him and feel for his bone% and berecon lent on with "Hail, brother I Unit, bleated spirit, hail 1" He Hes to get. out. Die tries to get out. Ha 0011184 10 Ma front door Whet% he entered, and trim to push it back, but the door ; turns against him; and in the Jar of that shutting time he beam these words, "This eight is Seidl:tee:in the 11 king of the Chaldeane, stain. Sin May open bright as the mem- I ng. It ends clerk as the night I T teeth further trona this subjece that Dente sornetitnea beelike in upon benquet. Whet di1 he not go down to the prisoios in • Babyloh There were people temp that would likn to hose died. I Suppose throe were men nil women in torture It that oily yho would balm welcomed denies. But le omens to the palette; and jute at he time when the mirth is <lathing to he tiptop Davie Death levities hi at he banged. We haVe otten seen the A. weal I hy geellconln named Tour - vet woe dead fertility evening on the Bois de Beulegne, Peres, by a men who mistook his vieLim. for President Lou, et. for an hour in a Moderate oven. The Met pellet to remember about this bread is teat le must be kept numb warmer tium yeast bread. TABLE DECORATIONS. Flowers in season should always be upon tee dining -table, even if it be no mom than two 00 throe blossoms in a slender vese with sorne grassee and leaves. But the possibilities for beautiful ef f cots in table decoration by flowers are very great. The flowers welch are in season are most enjoy- able and desirable, addiag to beauty aohsatnhgear ey daihe oatouyeetaro.f novelty with the As far as possible, fruit in its sea- son should be served with ite own na- tural foliage, which will add greatly to the beauty of the Walt of fruit. Oranges are lovely among their own dark, glossy green leaves. Tbe same rule obtains In regard to other fruits. In the autumn a bunch of berries in a small bowl or yam in tee center of the table, WW1 a circle or oval form- ed about the centerpiece by placing benches of the berries side by side, is most charming and appropriate. The searlet-ash barrios or the dull purpte spheres of the Virginia oreeper will be pleasing used in tele way; the laf- ter present a' speolally fine appear- ance. In the period between winter and early spring, and during the midwin- ter months also,. a potted plant forma a lovely eenterpome for a table. Care must be given to =Wog even the flower -pot present an attractive ap- pearance. Enameled or poreelain pots into which the earteen jar can be slipped and concealed give a pretty effect. Perhaps nothing ever afforded better results than a little outer case of orape-paper w inriss-greea color pulled out to form a little frill around the top of the flower -pot. Thio, while ef- fectually oovering the thsightly jar, blends pleasingly in odor witb the foliage and stems above. Vines possess groat decorative pos- sibilities, and should be allowed to fall and turn as naturally as possible. Real artists produce charming results by eorabining flowers, fruit and vines for table decoration, AN HERB GARDEN. Most varieties of savory herbs can be bought powdered and ready for use, but the Geese and purest are grown in our own gardens, dried, sifted and bottled for use. All mints contain a strong, aromatic, e,ssential oil that is applied medizinal- ly in a greet variety of ailments. Pep- permint is adapted to stomach troubles and bergamot is used as a poultice, to Bev= the bath, or to perfume the lin- en. It is said that mese have a strong aversion to all mint. AU herbs should be collected for drying only when in flower. Parsley is the best known and most used of any of the seasoning herbs, always in a fresh and growing state, is very ornaraental for garnishing. es- peciallythe curled leaved variety. i Saga s one of the Most important, if not ruost used, of savory herbs. It is easily teropagated by slips or cuttings. In early timas sage was the one all- important seasoning for the Thanks- giving turkey of New England, lent later, milder flavors, thyme or summer savory, have been used. Sweet mar- joram is preferred by many for the mildness of its aroma. A powerful oil ia distilled from this, much used for medicinal purposes. Arragon could barely be called a sweet herb, but a bitter one; for it is a species of wormwood, of which there are Torty varieties found in the United States. It iraparts a fine aroma to vinegar end it is a powerful tonio as well. LITTLE THINGS WORTH KNOWING, Egg stains on silver may be removed by rubbing with a wet rag dipped in table salt. A (telling blitekened by smoke from a lamp or stove -pipe may be °leaned by wiping off with a flannel cloth dipped in strong borax water, Piano keys that have become yellow, or soiled, may be cleaned by sponging with alcohol. Coffeepots, teapots, aad the teaket- tle iney be purified and sweetened by boiling out every week with boraz watet. Fliee may be kept off woodwork and picture frames by washing with water in which onions are boiled. Brass utensils may be kept bright and clean by rubbing with salt and vinegar. 0 :Co revive a dying fire quickly throw over the coals a teaspoonful of sugar. Carpets may be cleaned and fresh-. ened by spriukling wile o naixture of salt anct powdered borax before weep- ing. . lthe table and floor oil cloth in kit- chen or dining -room may bo kette clean and bright by wiping off ones a we* With hot water, to which a little pow. dewed borax is added. INDIANS THE FIRS' SMOK,ERS. Unquestionably smoking had deadly been practised by the Indians for cen- thriell when Columbus first reached those shores, It ISMS with them to a re,reet extent a Perna of religious aerie- nitonial. Dr. Daniel CI, 13riot0n, the famous ethnologtst, thinks that it had its beginhing in tee blowing tube of Uta mediettl man. ignorant St1.10110113 are disposed Lo regard the. 1101011150 breath as poesessing magical propel. - ties, and it may he supposed that hero_ inge leaves weds introducesi into the tube for Ids purpose of milking the beeitthing visible. The Indite -es smoked ninny kiwis of plants small as sumac, red willow bark, and the laves of the kirinilcinnick or beer berry, and to- bacoo doubtless was a diseovery reault- nig from a selection of the fittest. AS IT ALWAYS SEEMS. Wife, at 4 nerionl can't get the baby to take this mediated et all, Weery leather—t suppose he's afraid it's something to Make him deep. MRS. OV'ERING'S VIEWS Interesting far Women. She wati not a persou who eft* gav words to her opinions, being, like Des deMona, "of a spirit. still and guide but somehow this tieternoon she had been arewn into the old argument; "Ilan there be love without jealoasy on tee part oe et mita—man with a big M, aa being Use 11/V111 round welch wo menet thoughts are tiontinually veer lag." .Mrs. Overing, the six-monlem' wife, was at home to her frieucts, and there tee discussion began, " Whe, Wintered 1, sled a beautiftt dark woman elose by, "you of all peo pet, whom wo all envy, adored an adoring what can you know of Gm grim monster, jealousy 1" , Winifred (leering gave her a long quiet look, and then tunnel het. eyes down and played with the suede gloves on her knee. " The questieu is,'' said the dark WQ^ " the vital question es, How ean we keep our busbands without making seenea Now I mitiotain that a man rather enjoys his wife making him a jealous scene. It einavinees him of her love, and it weenie elm not to go too far, Look at Oranboro--" "Don't let us be personal," said Winifred. 0, I don't meel," said Lady Oran - eon) boldly. '' There is Cranboro—he's my slave, and the more bully him the more he likes it. Now that is because I would have my oun way. Now you, Whole, if Gelnld Overing did. anything naughty, would just mope ithout and pine gamy ,and he would go frau' bad 10 650158." Mrs. Overing exidently resented the personalities which were being dragged into tee conversatioe, for she would not follow IL uo—m, that strain. " I think," she suid, playing with a thin diamond chitin round her neck, " you are all wrong. Time% van be love without jealousy—at any rate, that would be my sort of love founded on the rook of mutual self-respect, if that is not too high-flown a thing to say," "Love founded on u ruck 1" oried Net- riel Cranboro; " founders on a. good many rooks you mean; dear ;" and the laugh was against Mrs. ()sowing. • • • * * • 'Winifred was alone on the balcony, waiting Gerald Overing to come back Iron, his work, when the gleam of white struck her eyes. She bent forward and pinked up a note lying to her hand. "Fancy my leaving Gerald's Jotter ly- ing about like this!" she mused. '1 wonder bow dropped it." , She turned it about, and two words caught her eye. 'then she read it through. When Gerald Overiug came in she banded' it quietly book to him Ho took it. started, and stared at. her. " Good heavene ho said. " Yes. Muriel must have dropped it," replied his wife. "No one has seen it but. I---' There was a silence. Then he turn- ed on her. " Well, go on," he said, " abnee me. Of tonne, I know deserve it. Don't sit there like a martyr." " There's nothing to abuse you for that can see," said tee 'girl, compos- edly. "It's rather blow, of course, but. . . I suppose if it's dummied. it's happened. 1 01 1V11:1-8 thought I was too groat a fool to make you happy long. It might have Meted longer eer- tainty—but of course you k.now you are safe with Me." " Welt, of all the extraordinary Ivo - men I" said Gerald Overing, He cauget her by the shouldets. "Do you 'er don't you care?"' be asked. " I must go and dress for dinner," said his wife. She looked fair and young in tee twilight and rather pale, For a moment her husband stood look- ing into her eyes, and then he pushed her away ahnost roughly and left ; her. In his dressing -room the full mean- ing of it dawned upon him. "She is tvoman in ten thousand," he said, "If she only 'cared I would never look at another woman 0.110in," He 158.8 reedy, early mut went to Ler roone wince wait attross tee corridor. No can- dies were lit and no French maid was in attendance, but by the bed he sew her lying, as if she had fallen in 00088- ing the room. Lifting her, lee saw she had. fainted, so he laid her gently on Use bed. " And thought she did not ears:" he said to himself. When she came back to herself again he was bending over her, heaping her with every fond word he could think of. "11 was nothing, sweet. Only the be- ginning of a folly. Stall I confess it an, Winnie 1" " No 1 no t quite believe you, Ger- ald." "Still, I think you were jealous," he said tenderly. The conversation of the afternoon dished back to ha mind. " No, Not jealous," she seed, "only —on 17—" " Only what ?'" "Only ;I love yell." o The quaintecst wordage customs Pee. - mit mug; the people who live io bbs hills of Burineh end upon the bortiere of China Kamm, All 0011,1 - ships are condueled at funerals—be- trothele end obsequies are dealt with together,. Wheo a Karon dies he or - the is interred temporarily, or, oe - xugiunti.td,eetILL,04141,111,,h;i4irittifal toil:test% tlialarektwootonde into wheel the ashes are gathered la bus nett pro tem, length of the in- terim between a learen'e nest anti see, unit tniesetneem is determined, by the number oe marriageable girls and. mar- ' tiltiAnix;citiulflf tee 11'1)1 (haot vhilial4goaa 0tar. b L %then there ere eneugh ottodidatee of t both sexes for matrimeny—but noL bee fore—the greet Amoral -wedding day is appointed, There is tun aeon antoug • the communny uf Barone more than ume suoh uay in a year, (Atm thew, sumetimee live elapse between one such day and the next. Everyone at - Muds on the great day and extraoxe dealt, forms and ceremonies aro gone through, The wooing men sing their litnrult.empsittylsaitoi lr atebreptivaontioeeds 0010airdeejtoiestisoinusg. Proposals, acceptances or rejeetions are oue mad all sung to a thinnezied minor key and are attentively listened to and commented upon by the tinafteot- °illy interested spectators. Then eacet would-be bridegroom sings, in turn, a solo. LL may 1*3 original. or classic in, both words and music. ,Bub it must reiterate the names ot the special girl whonehe is wooing, and would win; it nius1 praise hee ausi regraise her, as only oriental poetry can melee at e.couples are marriWO. n the engaged. ed oninaen. After Um ceremoniee are over O A new dope -dere in wedding auetoms hie met been hieugurated in Baltimore. 'the oecasion was the marriage of Miss Adele Horwitz of that city to Francis 11, Sieveneorr., of Hoboken, NO. There wore neither melds nor bridesmaids to divide honors tvith the bride, who en- tered tee drawing-roont aocompanied by her pee fax terrier, jook, around whose otellar were entwined orange blossoms, from which flowed volumin- ous dreamers of svhitts ribbon. Dur- ing the ceremony Jock greeted the guests with ti steely stare from his vitniage puint at the bride's feet. 011 these same feet glenered diamond fast- enings, the gift of the bride's parents, the gown having been arranged in a mother to dieplay them. After the , wedding Mrs. Slovens' trieuds took up 1 e the Late of the astonishing ceremony and enlightened the townsfolk, and the bridel carriage ran its devious way te the station with long sireamers of white ribbon tied to every ooneeivable point. Placards large enough for ev- ery une who ran to read announced from sides and rear that the occupants were Will& and mom . It hes at lase been settled, after a peat, many years of contvoyersy, and discussion, where the ball given by the Duchess of Richmond was held on the night of the battle of Waterloo. This 5058 nrobably the most famous bait in histoiy. Thaokerey has desoribed hew Driesh officers danced. there all night, aLontithcl rcobeatsttireatitgelidt. thm trom e ball roo T Wel- lington believed tohhe Dukeavebf Ieeonttere hieneelf early in the evening, For many years it was supposed that this greet function was held in the house of the Duchess of Richmond at Brussels. tut it has now been settled that the ball as a mailer of fact took plaee in a coach house in the immediate neigh- borhood. The oisitor to Bruesels oho inquires about the scene ot the bull in- veriebly receives the reply "Cele teex- iste plus." True, the house of the Duke of Richmond WIld long ago de- molished, but, as already explained, the dance Look place in what is now a coach builder's depot. leyron's reference to "that high hall" Is nothing Inure or less than poetioal license. IL is not known when woeuen in Europe first began to ride, 1101' svhere the =stout originated, 1101. what wore the causes. But the heyday of wo- men's riding seems to have been about the latter half of the fourteenth cen- tury, when raounted 011 their chargers, they rode with the knights to hunts end tournaruents. This lasted but s' short time, for at the extreme end of the century evoancn's riding was :revel- uLionizect by the general aduption of . the side saddle. This saddle, tvhicie DAS iuvented for a lame mimeses un- able to ride in any other manner. MIMS 10 110V0 been a variatiun of those saddles formerly used with the addi- tion of a pommel on the right hanl side, and a second, shortest. stirrup for gcoater sadly, and saddle cloths, some feet in length, were evorn to protect the eider's clothes. The middle of the Lime of Louis XIV, had only one pom- mel.; later a snood wItS added. About the year 1880, by an accidental cir- cumstance, women's riding 1108 again revolutictnized. An Englithinan mad*&. u. wager to ride a steepleoham on a side saddle. A preliminary trial teem- ecl dm the rashness of the ettetupt, so to minimize the danger by enabling him to sit safely the third pommel was invented, It was immediately eclopteil, tent a 1 hreeepornmel side saddle einne into general use. To-iley, however, the best horsewomen ride with only two Is, and often 01117 one. Ptlelln'111371teellamiiereCrzaorf coeftts1,1110,8n8anonwaosno"oecatir-- sion, when he was visiting the King of Deanntek, ne alarmed everyone in the patties by ruehing out of the lir use tit a very duly bour, became: 1 min els windowa he bed seen n big Meek dog at ta teeing his invo rite black en 1%Ire Pius In., had a eat wheel' shaved his di1ine. t. for yen r s—a I NMI ye mein'0 in with the soup 0051 sitting greedy ore posite his holinees in it chair pieced t here for le '3112 pees usiet 15, feed bus PrOM Lis 0W11 Otte'end 11061, al the ('11,1('11,1th0 repast, wiiliced tail when the diehee were removed, \Viten he died his meteor remerked: "One pope dies tine :11101 110r takes his teem tee it is with entre" The AI arqu 1e of So iebury hos foe, warded a donation of ele110 to the Si. Albert it Daemon oor Benefuen ennd gee -- A DANGEROUS PRACT/CE, PERSONAL CRESTS ON PILLOWS, The fashion, Which gained such pop- ularity last year, ot embroidering col- lege mottoes and other insignia on sofa pillows, hots this year led to putting personal mouogeams or crests ou cush- ions intended for boudoir use. This cot•tainly is a very pretty fad, and is subjecb to mullets varintious Recording to Lee foney ot Lhe donor. A lovely ',Allow was givon'to a receut bride, made of white satin, with her Maiden monogram enahroidered in sin yd. A spray of orenge blossoms at one corner ccanpleted the bridal of. feet. A heavy while silk end aniseed the pillow end tassels ot white silk and diver were fastened one at each of the miners. Many of the delicate and, elaborate pillows 88011 in the shops have their beauty dot:Meted Zoom by the fact that it 18 almoin ineposaible to keep them unsoiled, Occasionally 008 81118r8 a drawing room where the pillows are so extremely costly Mid dainty that a sort of slip of sheer bolting 10 merle to put Over them. This detraetS at onto /rots their artistie effect, as a pillow should never be ahorei 1155 'age. Watitt—I wander lf dyeing the hair is really as dangerous DO 110' doetorg say. 14 Peek—You bet (11 10 An all uncle of mine tried 11 ones, and in less that three months he was mar- ried to 0 widew with four small ehil. drew