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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-4-28, Page 3APRIL 28, 199b. TILM 13BUSSIIILS POST. WATER 1 WATER 1 WATER REV. DR. TALMAGE TALKS ABOill THE WATER OF LIFE. Wilier h eypicid et lee Gomel Pie IIle erection, noll Abundance -4W DEMEEE WM Became Exhausted ate Every none ',tie There fe term Some -The Itr. Preoelles a Practical err. 10011. • A despettah from Washington, Bays; Rev. Dr. Talmagee preached from the following text;—"Whosoever will, let him take the water ot life freely,"— liev. xxii. 17. Micl-desert, the water exhausted from the goat -skins, the caraven pant- ing under e blistering sun, the feet consumed by the desert, what: is it that the people most want 1 For what would they give tlp the naost valuable oargo on -the back of the caanels? Water I Water I An army ia on the murals. They are fainting from the long way. The can- teens are empty. The hour of battle is earning on. Forward yet for many a weary mile. No shelter from the burning eun; pushing un through suf- fooation and heal. What le it that the soldier most wants? For what would he give up everything that he has with him? What awful' want fills his mind, and fevers his tongue, and con- sumes his vitals? Ask him, as he stag- gers on under the weiget of knansitak and blanket, and if he have strength enough to answer he will say, "Water! Water I" I was told by a gentleman who walked over one of the battlefields on a hot summer night after a day of .carnage, that the cry of the wounded Was absolutely tuthearable, and that, after giving all supply that he could, he put. his fingers to his ears, for the cry all over the plain was frum most, a the dying, "Water 1 Water I For .God's sake give us water I" The Bible is all a -sparkle with feun- tatris and wells, and rivers and oceans. They toss up their brightness from al- most every chapter. Solomon, re- freshed with the story of heaven, ex- claims, "As cold water to a thirsty .soul, so is good news from a far coun- try." Isaiah, speaking of the blessed- ness of Christians, says, "They shall spring as willews by the water- courses." In the Canticles, the Church is often speken of as a "well of living water,'' and "streame from Lebanon." The prophet, glowing with the antici- pation of the ,millennium, says, "Streams shall break forth in the desert ;" while the tekt holds torth ten thousand chalices filled with living water for a thirsty world. I have, in the first plane, to remark that water is typical a the Gospel, because of its brightness. That which dashes from the city fountains has no lustre in it compared with that which springs up to -night from this Bible aqueduct. The unpretending foun- tain breaks forth fromt the side- of the hill, flashing with silver, and gold, und beryls and chrysolite; and as you see it, ran almost. clap your hands with gladness. But 1 nave to tell you that there is pro. brightness in it oom- pared with this living fountain of the Gospel; for in each falling drop I see the glory of heaven. "Good news! Good newr I" The angels chanted it. "Behead! I bring you glau tidings of great joy and salvation; which shall be to all people." Joy of pardoned sin I Joy of broken bondage 1 joy of a coming heaven 1 Ohl it Is a bright • Gospel! You remember the time when that fountain first: flashed upon your vision, and you cried, "Behold -I I have Lound in .Whom niy soul leveth 1" And there Was joy in heaven among the angels of God over your forgiven. spirit. Roll on, 0 ye waters of glade tame! Boll on, till every deaf ear shall hear the ripple of the wave, and every blind- • eye shall see the toss of the crystallite:1 brightness, and the glory shall cover the earth as the wit - ter the sea. I have further to remark, that the water typifies the Gospel by lis re- fresbanent. Itow different yort feel after you get a glass of cool water, or atter you have plunged into the bath 1 On a het summer day there is nothing that so soon brings you. back from0, bad temper ex a disturbed seirit, and pats you into s happy frame of mind and body, as cold water. 131essed Inc God for water I I love to hear it fall in the shower and dash in • the cascade, and to see it rush from the ice -pitcher into the dear glass. Rend around this meter of the hills, and drink, all of you, to the maim of Him who brewed it among the moun- tains. Thank God for water I Clear water I 'aright water 1 beautiful water 1 But I have to tell you there te a beta ter refreshment even than that. There was a tiarm, when you wet% hounded by coovichons. Sinai thundred, The wrath of God (tried, "Ely 1" justiee cried, "Fly I" Your own there cried! •"Fly l'' Mercy said "Come 1 Come I" and you plunged like a hart into the water -brooks, and out or that flood your soul come up cool, and clean and radient ; and you looked around, and said, "Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and 1 will Loll you what he 'lath doni for my soul.' There came a time or perplexity in. your heart. You lost your property. Death, 11)11 0 black hawk, swooped up- on the fenilly brood,.4111)1the' children were gone, You naensured your life from groan to groan, from loss to loss, trout tear to tear. Yott sailsafrom your distressed spirit, "Oh I 11-e7 had the wings of o <ion, for then would CY away and be at rest." Front Ike depths of your fevered soul you called out, "Has God forgotten to be gradotie? T.s hia many Merin gone forever ? Hath he in his anger shut up Ine -tender mercies against me ?" AS, When you have beat eventing in a thiek wood 011 ft hot suirneer day, -yott heard Ma dash of founteies end you' spirit ,vat cheered, ma while you were lea. ening for the anewer, the promise bf lod dropped cool and fresh and sparkl- ing from the throne; "There is a river, he siream, whereof shall make glad the oity of our God." Yoe rejoiced at he thought of the fountain. Your fevered Soul thrliled with the cool touch, and you cried, "Eureka I Eurekal l have fotuid it. Water 1 Cold water] Bright water 1 ;Everlasting water, burstIng from the throne I" I go further, and say that eater tyifies the Goepel lay eats freeness. On a hot Sabbath, -when the ibute break thruugh the alders of the mettdows to drink, how touch do they pay for that which they cleinic? The humming -bird drinks from the wine- glums of the boneysuekle. How mueb is it a glees There is a tax on the city water, but no lax upon the great rivere that roll in perpetual volume to the sea. How much will tbe world pay Inc nil the showers that this summer refremhed the corn-fielcle a Nothing. It is fres; and so is this glorious Gospel. It is free in its pardon, hope and sal- vation to all who will accept it. Etere it a man who emys, "I will pay tor it, or I will not have it, I am an i0 - dependent man ; and I will give so much to have my soul redeemed, I will endow a oollege; or I will estab- lish a school; or I will build %church, and by that purchase my salvation 1" Or be says, " I will do some. grand, good works; and God, I know, will accept them," God says, ' Away with your good woeks as a purchase for ral- vation 1 Take this Gospel for nothing, or never take it, IL is free." 1 have further to remark, that the water typifies the Gospel because of lis abundance. When we pour the wa- ter from the pitcher into the glees, we Lave to be careful, or the glass will overflow, ahd we slop when the wa- ter has oome to the rid. But when God, in summer, pours out his showers, he keepta pouring on and pouring on, un- til the grass blades cry, " Enough!. and the flowers, " Enough!" and the trees, "Enough I" but God keeps pouring on e:nct pouring on until the fields are soaked, and the on, over- flow, and the cisterns are all filled, and the great reservoirs are supplied, and there is water to turn the wheel, water to slake the thirst of the <ay, water to cleanse the air'water to wash Lhe hemisphere. Abundance! And so with Ilia- glorious Gospel. En- ough for ono; enough tor all. Tlioue marls have come to this fountain, and have drunk to the satisfaction of their aunts. Other thousands will come; and yrt the fountain will not be ex- hausted. But glory be to God I that in this Gospet fountain there is water enough for all the armies of the earth, and for all the armies of heaven. You can not drink it dry. Oh, ye tempted souls, come and drink of this blessed promise: " You shall not be tempted above that you are able, and that from every temptation God. will make a way of escape, that you may Inc able to bear it." Ob, ye bereaved souls, come and drink of this blessed prom - Me "All things work together for good to those who Love God." Your light afflictions are only for a mo- ment, and they work out a far more exceeding and an eternal weight of , glory." Abundance of supply I " Ye wretched, hungry, starving peor, 1 Behold the royal feast! Nt'heretirleercy spreads her bounteous • sto For every humble guest. See taresus elands with opened arms Ha calls ; Inc bids you come: Sin holds you back, and grief alarms, But still there yet is room" _ I stand, thie evening, offering this Gospel to. all who are here, with just as much confidence that there is enough for them as though there were only Iwo or three persona present. Hear it ye dying man and women—hear itl The Spirit and alba Bride say, Come. And let him that Is athirst aome; and whosoever will, lee him take the water of life freely," I have one more leading thought; The water typifies the Gospel in the feet that it is perennial. I know that in this hot summer weather some of the fountains have dried up; but stand you on the banks of the Amaxon, or of the Si;. Lawrence, or of the Mississ- ippi, or of the Ohio, and see if they run dry. No; they have been flowing on for thousands of years, and they will probably flow on for thousands of years mere. The trees of the forest hayeecast their leaves for nee into the bosom of Glees waters, and the lairds of heaven haVe dipped their wings in tha wave, And so it is with this Gospel. It is a perennial Gospel. On earth we only see a portion of that great River of Life; but after awhile the river will :rise, and it wilt join the tides of the celestial river that fLOWS hard by the throne of God. And the Lamb which Ls in the midst) of the theone shall lead them to living toun- tains of water." I AM my dear brothers and sisters, sense of you hays found this life a de- sert march, You hove hadalt your troubles, , 1$ there One in this midt- erm that has never been bereft—that has never been brokenhearted/ Not one, You °eine to 801118 onet W110 you SuppoSe is alwaye happy - whom you think has never had any misfortunes; but he will tell you he has hada thou- sand trials. A man of greet many troubles saw a shepherd in the field watching the sheep, d Inc said to I anIllmaelf, "Alit there is a man that nevee had anything to trouble hinn" and he wenh to the shepherd and ac- • ousted him, saying, "Everything is beautifut molted here. , You have no troubles; you Lire, to be congratulated. I have so many 4 -athlete" "Ahl said the shepherd to the man, "you do not understand my lite. There is a blaok ewe that every few days goes off, and ali the sheep of my flook follow her, and 1 hat black ewe is the, plague ot my life.' /1 was a parable, In emus, inan'a life there is at least one blaek ewe—one sorrow, ono perplexity, one disaster, ono bereavement, one agony. I sad, you have found this Life, some ot you, a deeert, mareb. The sun has srattlen yon by day. You have been consumed, almost et the desert, and you have staggered wearily im ix the long tranip, Your lips are parched; your tunitue is fevered; your heart is sick, What do you want'd Breed to feed your hunger; water to slake this all-eonainuing thirst, I am glad to know thai while earth- ly cities may sometimes eun Mort of a supply of water, the New joeusaltan will never leek plenty of water. Dovc you ever thought anintitely of that promise ef the Thide Dull there will be living • foun i tot 10 beaven? Not stich as We see 10 oar oily. parks, spriaaling only a faiat baptism on the Mr, but oommeueurate with the greet oily of heaven. On every street, be - fere every mansion, around the temple a God mid the Lamb, living fountains of weter, Flowing through that great eity, with trees a life in im- mortal tentage on either bank, there will be a river. London Las a river rutinlag aweigh la but that Is tbe Itt- 1113' Ithattree. Paris has a river running through it, but that la the anclean Seine, Yeniee has water running through it, but [bat is dieturbed by I Inc filthy gondoliers. fiebylonof old had a river running through it, yet that was the beellined Euphrates. But, blessed be God, no scum or filth shall pour into the river that flows through the Eternal City. God hath made every drop of that weter bright., and clear, and beautiful. The righteous, robed in white and garlanded, sit on its banks, and watch its tides, and hear the roll ot its waterfoe ever and for ever. No unhealthy mist hovers over that river; no tnalaria rises from its sUrfame no blaspheming orew put their oars into that water. They who "shine as the stars for ever" shall look down into the glassy wave, and have their feces reflected. The thrones and temples on either bank of that river will bridge it with their shadows. In it the, trees oflife will dip their -branches. Breezes froth off the hills of Amaranth will ripple the waves. I suppose you hem seen sheep and Lambs go down to the river to drink, Hark 1 1 hear the voice of the sheep and lambs of heaven now coming down Ikon t the hills, coming tbrough all the valleys, coming down to the river of heave', to drink, led on by one snow - while Lamb, at whose bleat all the flock.: follow, .Elear the bleating of that one white Lamb! le.nd as the angel of God, standing on ono of the Life, looks down, and sees that one banica of the river, under the Tree of white Lamb leading all the great flook of the redeemed, he takes his harp from the willows by the water -courses, and strikes this beautiful strain, soft- er than leaves' rustle or humming- bird'trill: 'Vile Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe all tears frotai their eyes." Blessed be God for the brightness, for the refreehment, for the freeness, Lor the abundance, for the continuity of this glorious Gospel! "Ho 1 every one that thirsteth, come ye to the Wa- ters." Come now. just off our coast there is a dan- gerous point for the sailors, and a light -house has been set up. There is a great lantern in that light -house. I sear it a few summers ago. There is machinery by winch this light is reflected over the sea peculiarly, and that machinery must, every half hour in the night, be wound up. If the man at that post should happen to sleep alas tor the sailors in the storaal alas for the ship I God has lifted a great lantern to aline over the sea of this world's sin, and darkness, and temptation and trouble, It needs no human agency to wind it up. It shines through ell the darkness of the world's suffering; and it pays to those who are tossing on the sea, "Keep off the rocks!" 'HOw shall we escape if we negleot so great a salva- tion te IL after this water of salva- tion has boon provided, without money end without price, we rejeot it, where shall we spend our eternity but among -those whom God bas cast off V" While the door of moray is open, come, 0, ye wanderers! While yet the fountain le flowing from tbe rock, come, 0 ye thirsty ones I "Who- soeVor will, let him take the water of life freely." LONG TIME ON THE WAY. Letters neurered Itecentty Millen Were Matted Twenty -MEM rears Ago. In France, a little while ago, letters for three hundred people were deliv- ered—to as many of the ''addresses" as were still living—whith had been mailed nearly twenty-eight years be- fore. They were delivered, moreover, at the earliest possible moment, al- though the distance between the send- er and the receiver was, in many cases only a fear miles. The story of this long trip is inter- esting. During the seige of Paris by the Germans in 1870, the post -officio administration hit upon the expedient, in addition to the balloons, of enclos- hag letters in small zinc globes, wat- er -tight and hermetically sealed,- and of dropping them into the Seine. There they floated—if they were not os,ptur- ed by the Gennans—down the river to the French lines where a net stretch- ed across the river gathered them in, and they were sent on their way in Paris. Tanfortunately for the Fronde the Germans discovered the ohmmeter of these zinc floats, and as they (mold not hope to see and fish out; by ordine wry mes,ns all the letters that went down thus, they stretched aoross the river, at Villeneuve -Saint -Georges, a net of their own, and effectually stop- ped this new systeen of postal com- munication. The zino balls and theuse ir were pretty n,early forgotten, when, a short time ago, a fisherman found in the Seine, near Vpleneuve, a queer -look- ing globe al nue. With a lump knife he opened tie to see what might be in it, and found three Irundted • letters, still legible, and all dated in Deoem- bar, 1870, They were delivered to the postal authorities, and after this long wait in the river, vvent their way; but their news of the state of things in the country was a little stale. MEAT COOKED BY COLD. Anyone who has ever picked up with a bare hand a pleoe of intensely oold iron knows that the touch burns al- most as badly RS if the metal were red hot. Indeed, the action of great heat and extreme told are ao similar that o tIungerien allergist has turned the latter to sec,ouut, to prepare meats for food.. He subjeets the meat to 60 de- grees of frost, and then seals it up in sir -tight tin mins. The result is that the meat, which is pritotietilly "rmoked by cold," will keep any time, and ettn be eaten with very lihtIa terther prm pa ration. Floriculture, A SONG 09' CLOVER. wonder what the (never tbinks1 Intimate triend of bob-o-linIce, Lover of delsies, slim and wbite, Waltzes with eutteroupe at night; Keeper of ban for travellug bees, Serving to them wine dreg'. and Mee, Left by the retro.' hurneuing-hirds, Who sip and pay with fine -spun words: Fellow with all the lowlient. Peer of the mem awl the best Comrade of wind, beloved of sun, Kissed by the dew -drops, one by (mei Prophet of Good Luck mystery By sign of four which few may see; Symbol of natureat magic zone, One out of three and three in one; Emblem pf comfort in the speech Which poor inen's babies early reach; Sweet by the roadsides, sweet by rills, Sweet in the meadow, sweet on hill% Sweet in its white, sweet in its red, 01.1, halt its sweet cannot be said; Sweet in its every living breath., Sweetest, perhaps, at last, in deatb Oh, who knows what the clover thinks? No one! unless the bob -o -links WHY FLOWERS HAVE COLOR. Adeline Knape0 in her pretty book ""Upland Pastures," oxplaint: 'What we oall a flower is not, usu- ally, the flower at all, but merely its petals. The real flower is the Muster, in the center of the calyx, of the ids - tile and their surroundings pollen -bear- ing stamens. Away back in the ages when man had not yet developed his esthetic sense, perhaps even before he had learned to make fire, the primi- tive flower lame only these pistils and stamens, with a little outer proteoting whorl of green petals. It was ferti- lized by` the pollen falling upon the stamens. "But this was not good for the plant. Those flowers that in seine way be- came fertilized by pollen from other plants of the same variety—by oross- fertilization, In faet—were healthier and stronger than those fertilized by their own pollen. In suph plants as wind-blown pollen reached, this 0085 - fertilization was an easy matter. The buttercup, for instance, is not one of these. It is forced to rely upon In- sects for fertilization. So the plant began to secrete El. drop of sweet liquid at the base of each green petal. Such insects as cuseovered this nectar and stopped to sip were dusted with the pollen of the plant and carried it to other flewera where it fertilized the pistils. This was very good as far as it went, but the flowers were pale and inconspicuous, and many of them, over- looked by the insects, were never vis- ited. Certain ones, however, owing to accidents of soil and moisture, had the calyx a little larger or brighter col- ored than their fellows, and these the inseots found. It happened, there- fore, if anything ever does merely hap - Man, that the Elowers with bright petals were fertilized and their descendants were even brighter-oolored. Thus in time the buttercup, by the prooess wince for lack of a better name we call natural reelection, came to have bright, yellow petals becauae these at- tract the insect best adapted to ferti- lize it. If man's aesthetic sense Is gra- tified by the flower's beauty, why man is so much the better off, but that man is pleased by the bright oolor is not half so important to the buttercup as is the pleasure of a (tertian little wing- ed beetle which sees the shining golden oup and knows it means honey. "In the same way the lupin, with its pretty blue and white blossoms, bas developed its blue petals because it is fertilized by the bees. They seek it as they do other blossoms not only for honey, but for the pollen itself, whioh stands them in place of bread. The very shape of the flower is due to the visits of countlees generations of this inseot. The bee is the Insect best adapted to fertilize the lupin, and when be alights upon the threshold of a flower his weight draws the lower petal down, and entering to suok the sweets he gets his head dusted with pollen. If a fly were to gain eutranoe he would carry emu no pollen. He is entailer than the bee and his head could not reach it. So boney-seeking flies alight in vain; their weight is not enough to press the calyx open, so they may -not enter and sup upon the motor. On the blossom of the mime- lus, the odd-lookiug monkey -flower, a honey bee has the same experience. The bumble bee is the only insect that is large enough to rearm the pollen in thie blossom and so its doors will open only to it. "Botanists tell us that all this great family to which the peas and their cousins belong, were once five -petaled plants, but natural selection has brought about their present, eluipe, whioh is -an admirable proteetina against the depredations of small in- sects, that could only .rob but could not fertilize tlae flowers. ".13Lue is the favorite color of the honey bee, and next to blue he pre- fers red. So bee blossoms aro blue or red, Flowers that open at night ars mostly white and are fertilized by moths, eto., that fty about in the' darkness. This aceounts for their color and their fragrance, both of which are to attract the 'newts that distribute their pollen," FLORICTJLTURE FOG CHILDREN. Since no one will question Beecher's assertion that flowers are the sweetest things God ever raade that ha did not endow with a soul, they seem divinely ordained as the best gift to child -life. This the child possibly realizes by a sort of intuitive knowledge ; oertain Ib it; thitt the infant heart thrills with joy in the presence of their eich colors arid delightful odors. Yet, while their puri- ty has from time immeniorial linked them symbolieally with childhood, they haveboon literally isolated from it—at least 10 tho majority of oases. True, the new education has introdueed them into the kindergaeten, retaining them Linton. or less close communion math the high sehOol is readied. But such plants art, as a rule, owned ancl oared for by the teiteher, while in the intr. eary, where they ehould higunate a part • t the dams owe treaeures, of lila life, ighting it with the "stars which on earth's firmament do shine," there i an oppremeive dearth end gluten. One a the earthen munifemlationn of a child's desire la that of imitation. wbat marmati does, that it etrivee -le with all the intensity of lei nalure. Lo thwart these afloat; Id to ignore the prirmiples 1 peyebology, to cruel, amiable arabition ; to eneouinge and guide them bi certain to increase for the child the bappinees the present —possibly infinitely more that of the lotus. Children love variety; even 11)0 0010' that noon becomes wearleoine unless possessed of 0 wardrobe so exteneive an to admit of frequeut elm:ages. Na - Luxe beuntleully beetowe diversity in the develapmen 1 from seed to seed. Patience; there natant be, certainty, In watching the varioue stages ef greLyth: yea, and thoughtful care; for a tingle negleot al a °tithed period might. fen- der previous labor vain, save in rieh memories. But these are cardinal vire tees, and wisely in It ordered that we cultivate Diem with the timers. Gen- erositY, too, is teetered in an extreme degree; fur though slime flowers and seeds are freely given, the mouroe of supply is as unfailing as the widow's cruse. The educational influence are mani- fold. The tiny tot learns as readily to diatingUith thered or yellow petals 111 the tulip and rose as in the worsted ball whioh constitutes ite first gift from the disoiple of Froebel. Later it takes infinite pleasure in counting the petals, aad it may be readily taught that this can be aectoropiished without dissecting the blossom. Thee comes the study of form, abundantly illus- trated in the multiplieity of leaf out- lines. These are but a few of the pre- paratory steps leading to the more complete mature study, now a- part of the curriculum of the progre,ssive grad- ed school. If florioulture- appeals to the lower olasaes as well as the higher in adult life, this is true to a still greater ()a- gree in the case of the child, who is more impressionable, less absorbed in the duties and reeponsibllities of life. The fragile wild flower planted in a rude box is as much an object cit ad- miration as the oboicest exotic grown in a costly vase; its life history is as wonderful, the lessons taught as worthy of contemplation. With florloulture physioat oulture is inseparably linked. No better morn- ing exercise has been devised than an hour's work in the garden, while in- stances have been reoorded of renewed life, when death seemed inevitable, by the vital breath found in direct con- taot with the soul. The aesthetic element has been al- ready alluded to. Important in itself, it has a deeper significance In that it leads irresistibly from an admiration for the wondrous works of nature to a reverence for their Creator. Plan, therefore' that your little ones may be providedduring the coming year with at least one plant of their very own. Ah, that /nippy realization of ownership! What a pleasure it yields I The stock may consist of but a single crocus, a hyacinth to be grown Lo water, that the root system may not be hidden, or simply a small seed. Carefully direct in its oulture, at the same time impressing on the obild bis responsibility in tile matter; and plan with him for increasing his stook as the ability to take charge of it is .ao- quired. COUNTRY NEIGEIBORS. The old-fashioned obarm of neigh- borliness is vanishing from town life, but it still abides in the country, where people yet: have leisure to know one another, to run In for a bit of friendly gossip now and than, and to help one another over the hard places of life. If illness 0010e8 In the countryside, it is not at °nee to the trained nurse that the Penally turn, for she very like- ly lives twenty or thirty miles away, and custom does not warrant sending for her at great expense, except in oases where life and death seem to hang in an even balance. Usually in the village there ia a kind middle-aged woman with faculty, who knows how to compound dishes for an invalid, to make the bed of a sufferer, to turn his pillows, and sit up with him at night. Suoh women may hayo homely features, and their use of English may sometimes not be altogether unim- peachable,. but they are like God's angels in times of trouble—se, for in - Mende, when the man of the house is ill with fever, or the whole nursery brood comes down with the measles at once, Country neighbors perform many obliging offices for one another, She who goes to town carries with her a long list of oommissions in the shops for those who stay at home. She who makes a visit to some centre at fash- ion 'eturns laden with patterns and suggestions for the neighbors, who speed her parting and WelOOM0 her coming back, In the country one goes tie the dour and summons a passer-by and asks that an errand may be done at the mill or the store or the post - orrice. People carry home paokages for ono another and stop for letters an route. Everybody feels an inter- est in the triumphs of the girl who goes to college from the little hamlet; everybody cares when she wins a prize for exceallerme in study or brings back her diploma, and whether or not ehe shall Tomtit at home or make further advent:nee in the great world is 0 theme for diseuesion at. more firesides than that of her father's house. Many little neighborly offices are andertaken—as, for instance, when a mother is ordered away' for her health, and her children are lovingly cared for In different Mime, whore., when com- pany conies unexpeotcsaly, the goodwife sends for a loaf ot cake or a pan of Ins - mit, sure that they evill be joyfully loaned her by her nearest neighbor, There is a sort of perfume and biome about life In the eountry, where neighboelixiess still exists, which, we fear, has gone forever front the thronged ways of the lawn, The Rave Charles L. bodgeon, /AWL, OaTr011, had over 08,003 letters pigeon holed end indexed. That names '2,001 letters a year tor toly.Oille yore. ; About the House. LAMPS, (4013LETS AEI) FERNS. liciaatty" Lemps.—II. is noticeable that tail lamps, even the banquet and .able lamps that are no)v seen to the eeeteeion of the high piano lights in .ortaer time are ou Imager tbe fashion. i be pew deeigus are all low, the bowls being wide mad shallow, The light effects in decoration, too, Hermes to have passed, a decided preference begin ehown for dark, rich mature, Ela- borate and Whined shadee have natter - ally retired with trma lefty lanies, which guide them nermesary and effec- tive. The plain empire or panelled eleade with temple oratimentation is the Matt Suitable acomnpanituent to these 'squatty" lamps. lie-entee Goolets.—Lealers in out glass ennounce a return to the high - slammed giblet style of water glass. It cannut be denied that goblets are more decorative ia efeeot on the table thee Ilia tumbler bhaptl, bat in careless hands the destruction ot the former is much more rapid. 'the bowl of the new goblet. is rather broader than formerly, while its stern is not as long as that seen un on the same glees - es whea they were al altuuet exclusive use for water service a few years ago. Pressed Ferns.—A pretty table, de- coration recently seen wae acoomplieb- ed with pressed ferns. The center- piece was of growing terns, and -strewn in careless but artistic profusion about the cloth were pressed specimens of the same green. 'Mae fresh ferns cannot be so well used for the purpose, as the leaves would turn and wrinkle. The pressed variety is obtainable al a flor- ist's and may be used more than once if properly put away ia flat boxes or between the leaves of a book. SUCCESSFUL BREAD. About 9 o'clock at night, writes B. C. H., I go to the kitchen and make my bread by this reolpe. One quart boiled milk, or lukewarm water, three- quarters terioup granulated sugar, 5 teaspoons salt, 1 tablespoon butter or cottolene, nearly a pinh of homemade bop yeast, or a cake of compressed yeast dissolved in 1 1-2 teacups warm water. I put all the materials into a large earthen orocit holding 6 quarts and mix thoroughly with a large iron spoon, adding flour enough to make a good dough. 1 never touch it with my hands until it is turned ouL on the board for kneading. I knead it, adding flour it it sucks to the board, until it Is of the consistency of india rubber and rises instantly if a dent Is made in it with tbe finger. X re- place the dough in the crook, butter the surtax°, weer it up closely and set it on my dining room table. In awn - mer it rises beautifully here without any artificial heat, and when the wea- ther is very warm I frequently make it into loaves at 6 in the morning. These aro light by the time the break - lash eris boeoakkettl,astrnd bake while I am eating For years 1 baked my bread in ordin- ary biscuit pans, putting four loaves in each pan. Summer before last a pro- fessional baker gavo me one of his sec- rete. In order to have perfect bread," he said. "Every loaf must be baked separate from all the rest." Not having the small, French roll pans, I use, as a makeshift, my layer cake tins. I put the loaves in these and cover with tin pans while rising. The dougb being stiff does not run and spread, but rises in a light firm mass, and when baked the cruet is a golden brown all over and there is not an un- der -done spot in the whole loaf. The flavor is exactly that of French rolls or the famous Vienna bread. I have learned from ten years' practice that the most frequent cense of bad bread is that the dough is not allowed to rise long enough the first time. When my dough comes up an inch above the top of the oracle, bearing on its surface; a tin waiter, that I always cover it with, and hangs in festoons around the side, I know it Is just right. There is lose danger of bread beingm , sour fro rising too long than there is of its be- ing heavy trom the opposite reason. I have mule at least 200 loaves of broad by this method since last March, and have never once had sour bread, BROILING IN PAPER. Chops, birds and dry fish are all most delicate when broiled in paper. Use heavy white note paper spread with olive oil or butter. When the article to be broiled is laid therein, salted and peppered, the edgesof the paper case should be turned over several thins like a , little hem, and pinched together Dime to the meat. The paper will ohm, r long time before igniting, and the contents will be basted in their own juices. The time required for broiling in paper is usually. eight minutea. \Vhen the paper 18 wall browned, the contents will be done to a turn—juicy, delicate and digestible foe even the stomaeh of an invalid. Serve in its envelope, which conserves the heat and juices to the moment of eating, Tlae large fillet of chicken broiled in this way is do- liolous and easy of assimilation. ENCOURAGING TO MOTHERS. Mothers of the small children pos- sessed to put ereerything in their mouths will be glad to know that matches at last are to be taken out of the category of things poisoneua. To °Vest death now, evil the Metch manufacturers, a person veotild have to eat the ends of some 6,000 matelms, This even an inthistrious child would hardly be ptil, to do. The substitution of a mixture of phosphorous sesqui, sulphide and chloride of potash for the poisoneus yellow phosphorus hoe been brought about through the efforts of the French Governineet, which ap- pointed a commission for the purpose of finding something that would ignite readily, but be less dangeroes to nitinefeettire. A swan') EBBE. Elm E. Rexford writee that: Leat mold from the woods Milts a sword feria best, but la this is riot at hand a good substitute is obtained by turning over old Ward and cutting away Data Portion full of grails COOts. Kix wit 1 this turfy matter s Mlle eharp Nan to Make it friable. Rrovide goo. drainage by putting an inch or two el broken croeicery or brick in the bot- tom of elm sot. Then fill with earth ' mail eet yeur plant in it. Water well and keep 11 10 partial sbade. SboWer the foliage ell over at leant twice s week. Thie keeps duet from ermumue lating on tee plant, and prevents the red spider frum gaining a foothold ola it. Small specimens of this fern are charming for use on the dinner teble. Also for use on brackets at the side of the window. It makes a fine plant Inc a banging basket if given 0010 - adorable root morel, but the full heauty of the plant is never developed until it gets a large pot in which it vigorous rote oan spread to Mit themselves. Grown in this way, A specimen fills a large window, its fronds often having a spread of five and six feet. Such a plant Is 50000 - thing to be proud of, and will afford its owner a great deal more pleasurs than a score of ordinary plants. Thee fern is of the very easiest culture and the amateur oan be reasonably surd of success, THE TRUE WIFE. A blessed thing to have is one human soul whom we can trust utterly, wbo knows the best and worst in us, and who loves us in spite of all our 'triune; who will speelc the honest truth to is while the world flatters us and laughs at us behind our backs; Whe will give us counsel and reproof in the days of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and en- courage us in the clay of difficulty and sorrow when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battles es we can. -- STOVE POLISH AND RUGS. I have a receipt for stove polish', which I would like to have you pub- lish, for it is far superior to anything I ever tried and it migbt be of benefit to some of the rest of your readers, writes Mrs. P. A. Bilisley. Cut off as much polish as you think will polish the stove—say about two teaspoonfuls—then three teaspoonfuls of molasses, and mix the Iwo ingred- lents with soapsuds. 11 should be thiok and will stick and last twice as long as if plalnli applied; polish as with any other receipt. IN THE FACE OF DEATH. Coal Miners Play Eames Willie Entombed In a Mine. When a fall of octal, a flood, or an explosion occurs in a coal -mine, wo- men are heard wailing at the moult' of the pit, but Lhe entombed miners thetmselves know better tban to give way to dismay. .The methods they sometimes employ to keep up one an- other's courage seem reokless and strange, when described after the event, but they answer tbeir and of preventing panic. Cassell's Saturday Journal tells of a catastrophe tbat oe- reuredEnnogtlasondv.ery long ago in a coal- pu in Fifteen men ware shut off from the o,age by tons and tons of ooal brought down by an explosion of fire -damp. The anxious orowd at the pit's mouth waited until the gas had cleared hunt the cutting, and then began the work of rescue, but -with very little hope of Slimes& Progress wee rapid, however, and after a time the relief party got in- to the narrow passage where their comrades were entombed. What they aaw and heard there almost made them gasp for breath. Fifteen colliers were on the floor, some Of them lying dead, others sitting up and singing comio songs. A little further on was a football improvised from the colliers' eldrts and caps. It bore unmistakable signa ot xecent rough aeage. "We thowt as long as we'd got to dee, we'd dee kickint" explained calm of the survivors; "rm we rigged up a football, ere punched it about in the dark. George there fell down dead as he war scoria' a goal, hut we went on playlet' to pass tune on, and then 1' gas cleared off a bit." Only few of these men, who were di:Le-mined not to turn °meads at the eight, ot death, came out of the Inez alive; but they bore witness MAL tue others had diedlwithout a sign of fear. It watt not the- bighest form a eel's - age, but it wad °enrage that met the tIntia crgrohY' In er (Saab, when the relief party got through the mese of fallen coal, four sturdy miners wets found dead. That they also had sought to render the time of waiting less ter- rible was evident:au by scores of lit- tle marbles, made et compreseed octal - dust, lying on the damp floor. • Two of the men were found lying at full Length, with their fiats screwed up re.adlla,troeti f vi all ip , Tfaces smiled, evee in death, and this proof of their unfail- ing hopetulness brought tears to the eyes of !how who entered the pit. In a.n accident that ended less tragi- cally the miners were surmised by the relief party while yet intuit' =Wet of gione dear to a collier's heart. "Hullo, lads, tve didn't expect to see ye," laughed One of the pale tind hag» gad meal, stooping to replete the bleep of boat whieb served at the "(Wok." "AM reckon yen mop alad- hev a game with us afore we go book." And the litilt-famithed men and boys Weeny instated on fieishing the gameselves to be taltee to the ellen, b0ora Illow theme LARGEST SHAFT. The largeet ateet theft In the world hes just bean Benched. It is e'? feet 10 Inches long, and its diameter In. tho =iamb ie 37 Whet%