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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-5-19, Page 3i1044"e*****.weletetowwwwww, v we a • Laeete& &&& & && &&&.te&tettedvale *44 * About the House. MAy 19, 1999. THIg BliTISSELS POST. tllE THIli Et T11011 LACKEST. REV. DR, TALMAGE SPEAKS ON THE ELEMENT OF HAPPINESS, elttine eitoetintes 10 Mao in Providing Min With; PIM Mug and Shad and An Aged Aine's Testimony -1'1m Mahy 'Ways to Vidal Von May ito Paella. to Your Fellow Mon -St Is 11'01 I to Think orihe Mature...4%e Doctor Applies Min tinhject toMitilarent Claws tor People. deepatele 'from Washington, says: .e -Rey. Dr, Talmage preached from the following text. "One thing thou leekest."--St. Mark,' 10-41. (Mee young man Of the text was a .oPlendid nature. 'We fall in love with him sit the fleet glance. He was able, and frank, and earnest, and ed- uoated, and refined, and respeetable, and Moral, *and yet be was not a .Christain,' And Bo Christ addvesses him in the worth? that I have read to .you.: "Ono thing thou lackest." I sup - peso that that text was no more ap- propriate to the young, man DI whom I have spoken than it is appropriate to the great multitude ot people in this •audienoe to -night. There are many things in wbich you are not husking. For instance, you are not lacking in a good home. It is, perhaps, no more than an how: ago that you closed the .door, returning to see whether it was well fastened, of one of the best homes iu the city. The younger, children of the house already asleep, the older nnes, bearing your returning foot - .steps, will rush to tbe door to meet you. And when Lhe winter evenings come, end the children are at the and joy a Jesus Christ, I oan't think of my sufferings wean I thine of Chrldtt" WI1Y, ble face wee Illumined. never forget 11. There are young men In this house to -night: Nebo would give testimony to show that there is no happiness outside uf Christ, while there to great, joy in His service. There are young mon who have not been Christians ;Imre than six ineethe, who would Stand up to -night, if should ante them and say that in Lhose six men. hs they have bad more joy and satisfuotion thee In all lee years oe their frivolity and disoipation, Go to the door of that gin -shop to -night, and when the gang ne young men come out, ask them whether they are hop - Py. They laugh along 1110 streetoind they oheer, and they sbout; but no- body has any idea that they are tiep- in'', I meld eall upon the aged men In this house to give testimony. There are egad men here who tried tbe world, and they tried religion, and they are willing to testify an our side. It: was not long ago that an aged man arose in a praying circle, and said: " Brethren, I lost my son just as he graduated from college, and it broke my heart; but I tun glad now he is gone. He is at rest, escaped from all sorrow and from all trouble. And then in 1817, I lost' alt my property, and it is rather hard on ine ; bat Tam you see 1 am getting a little old and sure God will. not let me suffer. Ire or eyoman, standing in some of these alelee, should drop down, evhere would you go to? Width is your destiny 1">ultlesie a man is prepared for the future woad, wluit difterenee dem It make to him wbether gout to his home to -night or goes into glory! Only this differenee: if he dies he is better off. Where we had. one joy on earth., he will have a million in Ilea - von. When he has a email sphere here, he well have a grand sphere there. Perbaps It would cost you sixty, or one hundred, or one hundred and fifty dollars to leave your physical life insured, and yet free of charge, to- night, offer you ineuranee MI your immortal life, payable, not at your do- mino, but now, anti to -morrow, and every day, and always. My hope in Christ ie not se bright as many Chris - tines, 1 Iraow; but I would not give it up for the evieole universe, in me camh payment, if it wore offered. me, IL has been so niuth eomfort to me In time of trouble, it has been so much th strengto me when the world hes abused me, it has been so math met to me when I have boon perplexed, and it is around. my. heart such an en- casement of satisfaction and blessed- ness that I can stand here beflore God and any: Take away my health, take away my life, take everything rather than rob me of this hope, thie simple hope which I have in Jesus Christ, my Lord. I must: have thee robe when the last °hill strikes threugh MB. I must have this light when all line not taken care of me for sevenlY- other lights go out in thei blast that five years now to let me drop out of opines up from the cold Jordan. 'lie bends." I went into the room of have this sword with which to fight an aged relative not long age -leis eye- my way tbrough, all the foe:. on my sighl nearly gone, hi hearing nearly way heavenward. When I was in gone -and whet do you suppose he London 1 saw there the wonderful war talking about ? The goodness of armour of Henry VIII and Edward God and the joys ot religion. He said: LI. And yet I have to .tell you that " I would like to go over and join My there is nothing in chain mail or brass wife on the other sided the flood, and mate, or gauntlet, or halbred that T am letppy now. I' shall be liapOY makes a man so safe as the armour in am waiting until the Lord calls me which the Lord. God clothes His dear' there." What is it: that gives that aged children. 0, there is a safety in re - men so much satisfaction and mem? neon. You will ride down all your Physical exuberance I No; it has all foes. Look out for tbat man who bas stand with their lessons, the wife ts gone. Sunshine? Ile cannot see 11. the strength ot the Lord God with him. .plying the needle, and you are reading The voiees of friends? He cannot hear In olden times the horsemen used, to the book 00 the Meer, You feel that them. It is the grace of God, that is :ride Into battle with lifted lanoes, and train, will make the d.1800Mtit1.1 1.1) 53) MUOil InoVe impelling? ees the leart limade Orr the water brook, as the ree speeds down the hid -side, speed thou to Clued to-eigbt, "Escalet for thy life, look not behind tbee, neither stay thou in all the plain; eseape to the rnounteins lea thou be contitiM- od I" 1 roust melte iny applteation to an. other Mese ef people -the poor. When yeu Noma pay your rent when it is clue, have you imbed)' but tile landloid to talk to? When the flour has gone out of tee barrel, and you have nut ten cents with whith to go to the bakery, anti your ehildren are tugging a1 your deem for something to eat, have you nothing but, the world's charities to appeal to? When winter comes and there are no 003115, and the ash -barrels have no more cinders, who takes tiara of you? Have you nobody Int the overseer of the peer I But Preach to you to -night El poor man's Christ,. If you do not have in the winter blankets enough to euver you in the night, I want to tell yen ef him who had not where to lay His head. If you lay on the bare floor, I want to tell you of Him who had for a pillow a hard (woes, and whose foot -bath was Lhe streaming bleed of His own heart. 0 you poor mane 0 you poor woman 1 Jesuit understands your ease altegeth- er. Talk it right out to flim to -night. Get down on your floor and sew: Lord ,Tesus Christ, Thou wast poor and I am poor. Flelp 1120. Thou art rich now, and bring me up to Thy riches 1" 1)0 you think God would oast you off? Will Hall You might as well think that, a mother would take the ebild that feeds on her breast and. dash its life out, as to think that God would put mide roughly those who have fled to Him for pity and compassion. Aye, the prophet says: "A woman may for- get her melting child, that she ohould not have compassioa on the son of her womb, but I will not forget thee." you have a good home, Neither are you lacking, my friends, in (he refine- ments and courtesies of life. You understand the polite phraseology of invitation, regards, and. apology. I hope that you have OR your best ap- parel. I elude weer leo better dress at the wedding than when I come Lo the marriage oE the Hing h Son. If I nan well clothed on other, occasions, I will be in the house of God. However rook- ies?! I may be about my personal ap- pearance at: other times, when I come inLo a consecrated assemblage I shall have on tee best: dress I have. We all understand the proprieLies of every- day lila and the proprieties of Sabbath Me. Neither are you lacking in wordly success. You have not made as much money as you would like to make, but sent have an inoome. While others are false when they say they have no income or are maktng 110 money, you have never told that false- hood. You have had a livelihood or you have fallen Uponold resources, whioh is just the setae thing, for God is just as good to us when he takes Dare of us by a serrehis ot the past , as by present success. White, to- nighl, there Eire thousands of men with hunger tearing at the throat with the strength of a tiger's paw, not one of you. is tungry. Neither are you lacking in pleasant friendships. You Pave real good friends. 12 the mallet fever should come lomighteto your house, you kuow very well who would come in and sib up witb the siok one; or, if death should come, you know who would oome in and take your hand Light in theirs with that peculiar grip which means, -rn stand by you," and afLer the life has fled from the loved one, take you by the arm end lead you. in the next rooin., and while you am gone to the cemetery they would stay in the house and put aside the garments and the playthings that might bring to your mind 100 sevetely your great loss. Friends? You all have friends. Neither are you lacking in your admiration of the Christian re- ligion, There is nothing that make you, so mad as to have a mawmalign Christ. TOR get red in the faoe and you say: "Sir, I want yOU to under- stand that though ma'am myself a Christian, I don't like such things said as that in my store," and the man goes 'off, giving You a parting saluta- tion, but you hardly answer him. You are provoked beyond all bounds. Many of you have been supporters of relig- ion and have given' mere to the cause be Christ tban some who profess His faith. Where is nothing that would please you more than to see your son 'or daughters otanding at the altars et Christ, taking the vows of the Chris - lean. It might be a little heed on you, and might make you nervous and agitated for a tittle Nvhile; but you would be inan enough to say; 'My ohild, that is right. Go on, 1a01 glad you haven't been kept back by ray ex- ample. I hope some day to join you," YOU believe all the doctrines of re- ligion. A Man out yonder says: "I am a sinner." You. reopond:. 'So am I," Soma one says: "I believe that Christ osine to save the world," You say: "So do I." Looking at your aharantat, et your surroundings, I find a thousand things about which to congratelate you, mud yet I must Id! you in the love and deer of God, and with reference to my last ate count: "One thing thou Intimate" You need, my friend, in the first place, the element of happiness. Some day you feel wretched. You do not know what is the matter with you. Yon say 0 "111111 not sleep last eight. I tlein,k that inuet be the reasoe of my restlessness ;" .or, ''1 have oaten somethiag that did 1101 agree with me, and I think, that mita tile the 1e31- 0011." And yOu are Unhappy. 0 my friends, leappinese does net depend up - (111 PhYSiBtli 11,01111 11011, SORM of the hap- piest mole I hove over known have been these who have been Wrapped in mestimption, or paralyeed with neu- ralgia, . or burning with the slow fire of some fever. 1 never sbell forget one man in my first parish, who, in morn- Metion et body, cried eat " err, Tal- mage, 1 forget all eay pate 111 11133 10083) brigbter than sunshine and that is the enemy fled FM btaid. rhe Lord sweeter than musk. 12a harpist takes on the white horse of victory, and with O hirp and finds that alt the strings lifted lances of divine strength, rides are broken but one string, he dies not t into the battle, and d.ewn goes the try to play -upon it. Yet here I will :spiritual foe; while the victor shouts show you an aged man the strings et tete triumph through the Lord Jesus \these joy are all broken wive one, and ;Christ. As a matter of personal yet he thrums it with Buell satisfacLion, 'safety, my dear friends, you must have ouch melody, that the angels of God Ibis religion. slop the swift stroke of their wings I apply my subject to several Masses and hover about the place until Lhe of people before me. First, that great multiude of young people in this house to -night. Some itte these young men petite are peace." And if YOU have not are in boarding-houses. They have the satisfaation that is to be found in but few social advantages. They Jesus Christ, I must toll you, with all think that 110 one eaves for their souls, tee concentrated empbasis a my soul, " One thing thou laokest." Many of them, are on small; salaries, and they are cramped and bothered I remark again, that you mole the perpetually, and sometimes their heart fails them. Young man, to-nigbe at your bedroom door. on the third floor, you will hear a knocking. It will be the hand of Jesus Christ, the. young 101315 friend, saying: "0, young man, is a tear to be wiped away or agent let me ocoxie in; I will help thee, I will Le be saved. YOU may before coming comfort the, I will deliver thee." to Christ don. great many whip things. Take the Bible out et the trunk, 11 11 You take a loaf of bread to that hag been hidden away. If you have starving roan in the alley; but be not the courage to lay ik on the shelf went,' immortal bread. You talre a or table, take that Bible that, was pound ef candles to (he dark shanty. given to you by some loved one, take it They want the light that springs from out of the trunk and lay it down on the throne of God, and you cannot take the bottom of the chair, them kneel it because yo have it not in your own beside it, and read and pray, and pray heart. You know thee the flight of .and read until all your disturbance( is an arrow- depends eery much gone, and you feel that penal which on the strength of tbe bow, and I neither earth nue hell can rob, you of. heve to tell you that the best bow Thy father's God, thy noLber's God, that was ever made, was made out of waits for thee, 0, young man. "Each the Croes of Christ; end when religion for thy lire!" Escape now! "One takes a soul and puts it on that, and thing thou lath:esti" pulls it beck end lets 11 fly, every But I apply this subject to the aged time it brings down R. Saul or Goliath. -not many hare -not many in any as - There are people here to -night of high sembtage. People de not live le get social position and large means and old. That is the general rule. . Here eultured minds, who, if they would and there an aged man in the house, eome into the kingdorn ef God, would. I tell you the truth. You have, lived set tha city on fire with religious long enclugh in this' world to know awnkening. 0, hear you not the 1,- 500,000 voices of those who in this ctty are dying in their sins? They want light:. They want broad. They want Christ. They want heaven. 0, that the Lord would make you to -night a flaming evangel. As for myself, I have sworn before high heaven that I at the same iniae I speak with great will preach this Gospel as well as t plainness. 0 father of the weary step, oan, in all its fulness until every ft- 0 mother, bent down under .the all - music ceaSeS. 0 religion's "ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her elemeat of usefulness, Where is your business? You say it. is No. 42 suc,131 street, or Nu, 2610 such a street, or No. 300 such a street. My friend Immor- tal, your business is wherever there that it mania satisey an immortak na- ture. I must talk to you snore reveren- tially than I do to those other people of my own, age. We are told to rise up and do honor to the hoary head and to those who have seen. long years; and so I must speak with reverenoe, while bre of my body and every faculty of my mind, and every passion of my soul is •exhau.sted, I ask no higher honor than that et dying for Him wheedled. for me. But we all nave a Nvork to do. I cannot do your work, nor 011/1 YOU. do my work. God points us out the place where we are to serve, and yet are there not people in this house who are thirty, fOrty, 11117, natl. sixty years ell age, and yet lia.ve not began the great work for wbiab boy were created. With every worldly engin ment, "one thing thou latakeste A.gaire you lack the element of per- sonal safety. Where are those people who assoolated with you twenLy years ago? When aro those people that fifteen years ngto used to cross South' Ferry, or Fulton Ferry with you to New York'? Walk down the street where you were in business fifteen years ago, and see how an thEl signs have changed. Where are the people gone? How many of them are landed in eternity I cannot say, but many, Many. A few clays ago 1. weet le the village of my boyhood. The Ileums were all cluenged. I passed One house In which once resided a man who had livect an earnest, useful life, and his is in glory now. In the next house a miser lived, He devoured widows' houses, and spent his whole life in trying to make the world worse and worSe. And he is gone -the good man and the Miser both gone to the same place, Ah, did th.ay go th the same place.? No, infinite absurdity to sup- pose them both in. the same place. If the misee lied a harp, what tune did he play on it? 0 my friends, 1 Dom - mend to you this religion as the only perSonal safety. When you die, whore are you going to? When eve leeee all these seems, upon what scenes will we enter? When we wore On Ship- board, and We all felt thee We must go to the bottom, was I right in say- ing to ono next me ; "I wonder if we will reach Heaven it we go down to- night." Was 1 wise or unwise in ask, ing that question? I. tell you that men is a fool who never thinks of the great futerei If you pity money, you take a teceipt, If you buy land, you 'recorit the deed, Why ? &reuse, everything is ae uneertain, you went it down in Week and whim, you say. leer a hone and lot twenty-five feet front by rom hundred feet deep, all semeity ; but for a soul, vast es elm, n1t7, teething, nothing! If Mune 111310 meats of life, has thy God ever forsak- en thee? Through all. these years, who has been your best friend'? Seventy years of meecieel Seventy- years of food and clothing! 0, how mauy bright mornings' How many glorious evening hour you have seen! 0, fath- er, mother, God; has been very good Lo you, Do you feel it? Seine of you have children and grandchildren; the former cheered your young, life, the latter twine your gray loces 31 their tiny fingers. Etas all the goodness that God haat been making, pass before you since long before 1 was born -has all that godness produced no change in your feelings, and must it be said ot you, notwithstanding all this, "One thing thou Inkiest." 0, if you amid oaly reel the hand of Christ smoothing the cares out; of wrinkled fttoes. 0, if you meld only feel the arm, of Christ. steadying ,your troltering stens. I lift lay view loud enough to break through the defence of the ear white I cry out; "one thing thou lackeel." 11 wm an importunate avocet a young' Man IT30(18 a prayer - meeting when he rose up andi said: "I)o pre y foe any old father. He is seventy yeare of age and he don't love Christ." The father passed a few more steps on in life and then he weal down, lie never gave may in- timation that he had chosen ?Jesus, It is e very hard thing ear an old man to become a Christian. I know it is, His so hoed a thing that it cermet be done by any human work; but God Almighty 'wee 10 11 by His omnipotent gram; Ile can bring you 01 the eleventh hour, at helf-past elevee, at one minute of twelve, Ile min biting 7003 10 the peace ad the joys of the glorious (im- pel. must make application of this sue - Joel., Also, in those who are prospered. Have you, my friends, found that dol- lars end cents are no permanent eon - sedation to the soul? Have you in this work $10,000, 120,010, $80,00013 Have 7001 21(0 treasures in heaven? Is an em-. broiatered pillow all that you want to put your dying head on? You have bear?, people all last week talk about earthly valuate Hear it plain Man talk to -night about the heavenly. Do you not know it will be worse for you, 0 prospered man -if you rejeCt and reject Him finelly-that it will be worse for you thee three N1410 /Ma it hard in We world, beemise the eon- PUSSY WILLOW. In bar dress of ellver gray Corms the pusey willow gay - Like a Mlle Iteatime, Clad. in fur from tip to Loo, • Underneath bee in the river Flows the water with a shiver; Downward sweeping from the hill. North Wind whistles laud and sbrill. If you have ever been on the sea, you have been surprisedin the first voyage to eind there are so few sails in sight. Stanetimes you go along two, three, four, five, six and seven days, and do not see a single sail; but when O vessel does come in sight, the sea glassee ars lifted to the eye, the ves- sel is watched, and if it come very near, then the captain through the trumnat cries loudly across the water, "Whither bound?" So you and I meet on this sea of life. We come and we go. Some of us have never met before. Serae of us will never meet again. But I hall you across the sea, and. with reference to the last great day, and with reference to the two teel'iitlaveot!idiCLAY lte%4?inetrheb7igedil For ihe eternal heaven er for the eter- nal hell? Veill you live with Christ in glory, or be banished away from him? I know what service that craft was made for, but has thou thrown overboard the compass e Is there no helm to guide it e Is the ship at the mercy of the tempest? Is there no gun of distress booming through the Moline With priceless treasures, with treasures aboard worth more than all the Indies, will thou never come up out of the trough of that sea? 0 Lord God, lay hold that man 1 Son of God, if Thou wort ever needed anywhere, Thou art needed here. There axe so many eins to he pardoned. There are so 10007 wounds to be Ithaled. There aro so many souls to be saved or lost. Help Jesus 1 Help, Holy Ghost! Help, ministering angels from the throne! Help, all sweet =MO 11 BS of the past I Help, all prayers for our future deliv- erance! 0, that now, in this the ac- cepted time and the day of salvation, you would hear 11118 080100 of mercy and live. Taste and see that the Lord is gracious. In the elosing hour of the blessed Sabbath, when everything in the house is so favorable, when every- thing th so still, when God is so loving, and heaven is so near, drop your sins and take Jesus. Do not cheat your- self out of heaven, Do net do that. God forbid. that ttl; the. last, 11/1101.1 it is too late to terreot the mistake, a voice should rise from the pillow or drop from the thrum, uttering just few words -tour dismal, annihilating words: "One thing thou laeltest." I leirde are loth to wing their fligiat Tot a land in such 0..pligbt, Not another flower is found Peeping from the bark or ground, Only Mother Willow knows How In metre such suits as those How to faehion them with Skill, How to guard ageinst the chill. Did she live once, long ago, In a land of ice and snow Was It first by Polar 13BUR Tilat she made such nets as these? Who can ball? We only know Where our pussy willows grow, Fuzzy little friends that bring Promise of the mining spring, SOME HOMELY HELPS. hi Important; on this oomr your teed twice tie thick ea you %vent them to otand in aow to be ours cola full stand: cover mad abput twee lathes deep and firin aull. Do not bill up, as 11 18 bet- ter to have a slight depression so tie tO catce nueit of the water after ratns, Then plants to Iwo lathes anart be- fore they commence to vine. Hoe only eballow betweee pleats. For support. um poultry wire or brush. Item a long season of bloom, muleb and water in dry weather, and pluok uwere freely as they soon atop blooming if you lee weed form WOLVES IN CANADA - Alarm 13I1011148e*01e0S, tunibM's" and by Their luerease. An enormous increase in the num- ber o2 wolves ie reported from many parts of Canada. The moot oomraoet variety le the great gray wolf., and its reappearance in the lumber districts of the upper Ottawa has oreated a good deal of alarm among settlers and lum- bermen in sparsely inhabited distriots, A. number _of wolves have been des- troyed by poison and the skins and heads of several have been taken, to Quebec. The only oommon poison Flour should always, be kept in a found strong enough to kill them le cool, dry place. strychnine.. Aconite, atropine and Riee has a finer flavon if washed. in hot water inetead oL cold, before 000k - corrosive sublimate have all proved in- ing. effective. About, two grains of stry- The smaller a roast of meat, the hot (ninth th mixed with a little tallow, ter should be the oven at first, that forming a small ball, and covered with the least possible amount of its deli- „0,ting, of grease. This is left with Gate juice may escape. a portion of a deer's carcass or some - The small paper bags that fine gro- thin of tbat kind. ceries come in are a better protection g to the hand than the gloves made our- Various reasons are given for the posely for blackleg stoves. present increase in the number ot A neatly covered board, broader at wolves, One is undoubtedly the aboli- one end than the other can be easily Lion of the bounty on their heads, paid pul through the sleeves of wash shirt some time ago by the Government. In waists, is a decided help in ironing, the Yukon, where they are just now a Canned vegetables, like canned fruit, source ot greac annoyance 10 miners, are improved in flavor by standing the ferocious beasts bave been appar- open two or more hours, Lo restore ently driven to fellow the miners near - the oxygen that 30885 eliminated in er to their camps than heretofore, by cooking. the decrease in the number of moose A small, strong table, with castors, and caribou, which are being kilted off that can be run back and forth between 1)7 the newcomers, thus depriving the kitchen and pantry, saves innumerable wolves of their austomarfoody . So steps and any amount of time and dangerous have they become in the patience. liloneyke that the Government is DOW empLoying a part of ite NorLhwest The best granite ware or other metal Mounted Police force in poisoning coffee-pot will acquire a rank flavor if them. In other parts of the men - it is not occasionally purified with try it is said to bei the abundance of borax, ammonia m some other cleans - game thaL is answetaolfor threcent ing agent. swarms ot wolves in the neighborhood ,. e In making bread, rub a little sweet of civilization. Tild red deer, of which lard or °thee fat over the top as often tha wolves are partiettlarly fond, and as it is kneaded, and it will not only whieh fall an easy prey when over - rise more quickly, but have a soft de- taken by them, have multiplied exceed - ns ingly all over the province of Quebee Helemust when baked. wtah Bread crumbs for covering the tole manypartslastisOttYlieeBrrtw0, 0ha oo0unerytshetyhtin ave of scalloped and other baked dishes, become a positive injury to farmers by should be buttered evenly beforethey feeding upon their mops. This in - are spread, not put on plain, with bits crease in the nal ural food of the wolv- of butter scattered over. es has doubtless had much to do with DIGESTIBLE GOODIES. Children's class& need neve be rich or unwholeeome if but a little care as to its appearance is exercised in the making. Very few mothers nowadays noncom themselves Omit the little things for their tiny pleasures. Who makes gingerbread men and horses to - 'day; or seed 'cake dogs -or baskets with which little girls toy delicately, only consenting to eat them when the tender handleeat last breaks off. Bak- ery stuff is too easily procured, too cheap and too te.mpting. It will not aourish or satisfy but it distracts the appetite iehen injudiciously doled out bel.ween meals, and. is more easily dis- pensed than a piece of good bread and butter. Gingerbread, if well made, is no menace to a child's health, and will afford a great pleasure. Gingerbread horses and fat dough- nut men wee% dear to our mothers when they were little, and here is a reeipe for them that has stood the test of a century : Put a pint of mo- lasses and hall pound melted drippings or butter in a, bowl and stir until they are well blended. 2.411 half a pint of sour milk and stir in well. Then dissolve a level tablespoonful ot soda in half a gill of hot water and stir it through the mixture. Next add ginger to taste, a teble,spoonful ally a thaspooneul of eloVes, and the rind grated from one lemon. Stir in flour to make a stiff dough. Roll it out on the molding boded quite thtn. Out out the horses in freehand, with special attention paid to flowing mans and tail, and lay them earefully far apart in a well floured tin, Bake in O moderate oven. The doughnut 'gen- tleman can be out out of any metier or doughnut doagb. He may have ex- pressive eyes given him. 01 &tete eure rants, and a speaking moqth curved like Cupid's bow out of a bit of rod pepper, or in an eraergency a thread of red yarn, and then laid carefully in a kettle of boiling fat to expend and develop 10110 aldermanic preportions. Monson -My wifa'a mothee is a jeWe al. Brockley -Ale 1 but My Wifeet lo - titer is a jeweler! QUEER NEW SOCIETIES. .iistitolleits or eteoeue rermetten 'NW HAI ye Extraordinary Objects* Many ?Meiotic?' with tee moat Out- landisli objects have from time to time been founded. Ilere are a few easier of meant grewth in Louden; and elsewhere. A. lady of means living in a large provincial town quite recently found. ed a select soolety for providieg the working °tames "with enemy moral literature," That the speeineene of. work turned ouL by Lille smear ars moral there can be no queaLion; that they are cheap meat be conceded for Wei are given away; but that they are literature may be opera to greve doubt. The really extraordinary feature of this soeiely appears in the feet that not only is the literature given, away, MIL the arLieles of the soMety provide "that all profits morning from the sale of the sociely's pamphlets are to be devoted to the founding and main- tename of a emlety for tbe protec- tion of domestio servants." Tbus one thing leads to another, or would lead if the "moral lilerature" sold. As 11 is, iL Is merely distributed to small tradesmen, who wrap penile of tea and sugar" in, the pages far the moral elevation of their cus- tomers. Every week a fresh budget of the "lieeralure" from the pen of the tociety's founder is distributed free among the tradespeople round about. •me ANOTHER, SOCIBTY has been formed by three or four ladles for the purpose of providing boys ovex the age of thirteen with boxing gloves. The objecl sounds bellicose, but really it was most pacific, lbe society being impressed with the belief that if street boys were given. more facilities for fighting with their fists, the use of knives and granite stones would evea- tually be numbered among the dead ar Ls. Therefore to encourage fighting with fists, and ac the mine time to minimize the facial damage which re- sults from bare fieticults. the sweeter suggested the distribution. of the soft- est and most innocent of boxing gloves. Numerous meetings of the moiety were held, but it never got beyond sugges- Lions, and so grand boxing contests at street corners are still going on. The courage of some people is really stupendouel leeway a BWOB1 little society of eight mortal beings having for its object "compulsory arbita.- Salt is the best cleaner of silver and the augmentation of their own num- lion iu in; ernationel disputes." Yot bers. They follow the deer very fre- emit a soeiety was ac:ual:y founded, metal spoons, which have been badly quently right out into the clearings, and with no intention of being funny, stained with egg. Carpets aLrewn find unless they are destroyed will not either, The society had a fund, too, amounting to something like a hun- dred and fifty pounds. What this fund was for eannot be. deolded, but it was probably intend- ed for buying off claims madei by one nation against another. It was unfortunate that the smithy bawl= extinot before the outbreak of war between America and Spain. It would have been interesting to watch whether the society would have bought Cuba from Spain and have preseated it to America, thus PREVENTING THE WAR. If you take an morn and pass through it a thread by which it can be balanced in water, the aoorn will shoot in time, and a little oak , tree time. Well, a charitably inolined will grow out of the aoorn -in more widow of a clergyman, reoently set on foot a movement to supply medioine bottles and acorns to dwell- ers in the,slums of London, that they might have in their abodes the re- frehtne le and elevating influence of oak trees growing out of the necks of beetles. There were many favourable points abeut the scheme. The members of 11 meaty would be interested in (*libeling acorns and suitable bottles; the poor receivers of these miniature forests would be edified by the pro- gress of their enrolls, and, until the morns began to shoot, they would have long and excellent lesson in pa tience. A hundred bottled acorns were dis- tributed in the east end by the society's workers, but for leek of reasonable support and co-operation the scheme died down when, like one of its MYR aooras, it was just beginning to show some results. with coarse salt before sweeping give Jake long to deplete the country of out but a minimtem of dust. !game. It is a well-known fain that If rim is not disturbed during the much of the suffering and distress of process of boiling, the berries will be the Montagnais Indians in the inter - whole, dry and easily digested. A few icor of Labrador and of the eonsequent drops of lemon juice added to the 'deorease in their number has been due water will make it whiter and finer to the great havoc wrought by wolves flavored. among tha caribou upon which they Bread should never be covered, with feed. a cloth wile taken from the oven, but laid on the side and allowed to beaome perfectlet cold; then keele In a closely -covered tin box, without any wrappings, Where iron utensils are used in kit- chens but are not in daily requisition, they are apt to become rusty. To avoid this, mix together some pounded starch, bicarbonate of soda, and water, so as to produce a thickish paste. Spread this over the utensils, and, when wanted, rinse them with luke- warm water. To remove fly specks from gilt frames, etc., take a little alcohol in a saucier, and add to this a few drops of salammoniac, shake the mixture or stir it well, and apply 11 with a small camel's hair brush; ,aftm about five minutes rime with a larger brush dip- ped in soft water, and let the frames dry, wittirat wiping them, in an airy place or at a small distance from the fire; this will not stain the gilding. This is elm the best remedy for bronze statuettes, ohandeliers, andlamps, but in this case the application should be rinsed off with lukewarm water, and the bronze polished softly with a leath- er or an eld silk rage It is hardly necessary to add that plate -glass and mirrors may easily be cleaned by a mixture of whiting aild alcohol. To Mean old sponges, boil them for three or four hours in water enough to cover them, containing a °couple of tablespoonfuls of carbonate of soda, or in water mixed with a couple of hand- fuls of wood ashes, this to remove all the greasy matter the sponges may contain; then rinse ibein thoroughly, squeeziog them welt In several lots of clean, cold water. After this prelim - Mary operation soak the sponges in chlorldrio acid mixed with four times the quantity of water, suiting the whole amount to the size of the sponge, but: keeping the same proportions. Aft- er twenty-four hours let the tap run on to the sponge for some time, then rinse with the hands Until all smell of the acid has disappeared, Hang the sponges up to dry over a hot stove, and, when this has been satisfactorily ac- complished the sponge will be almost as good as new. SWEET PEAS. Sweet peas Will grow anywhere, but evill give best results on May soil. A good method is to select yout bed the previous fall, enrich with thoroughly rotten manure and spade deeply; this will leave ground in nice shape for early spring plentirge Ape spade groutul 10 apring, ite 1, gift firm Mil is best, Never use fresh manure. Early in spring, the earlier the better, SOw your seed in double rows about ten inches apart. Hollow out drills, so they will be about two or throe inchee deep iti 51111 May, or fear or five Welles deep in light, loose soil, firm soil in the trenth with the foot; this A MASCULINE EfABIT. "Some men, nay, many men, have a most reprehensible habit of showing the notes and letters written them by girls not only to other men, but, wbat is still worse, to women " says a bright girl. "Every woman knows that: this is true. Doubtless there is not one of us who has not had sub- mitted to her scrutinizing gaze an epistle written by some fair maid to a man whom she thoroughly trusted. "Only a day or two ago this breach of confidence on the part of ME1.8011-• linity-for it is nothing else -was brought vividly to ray notice by a man who handed Me three letters, written to him by feminine friends, to read. I know that .wheu he offered them to ms I should, by all the laws at honor, have put my hands sternly behind me and said in stilted fashion. 'Iwrfuem to take advantage of my s "But alas' I did nothing of the sort. Eve left me a. full heritage of curiestcy, and I was just wild to see what was in those notes, 1, was temp- ted, and I fell. I read them, I even criticised theme for, you me, I am interested i01 the man. I was alto- gether horrid and disbeeerable, but one thing the incident did for me. resolved instantly that never would that man get a ?match of a pen from me any more than an Innocent will be pleased to have you,' eta. He ‘von'L even get that if he can be renthed by telephone. I was very math &leap - Pointed in him for these were loverish letters, you understand. "Two other men evlican I know don't hesitate to say that they read each other's mail. Indeed, orte of them does most of the borrespondeme for the firm, and it his churn is busy makes a draft of an answer to the letter whicla it is necessary shonld be responded to immediately, the latter copying it doeilely at his leisure. For three weeks in this way the one WAX writ- ing to the other s fiance, evhile she, poor glee was peening out her heart to her betrothed, innocent thee the outpourings were read by this rank outsider, Who, haviag no syrapathy itt the matter,, must have had. no end of annumnent out oe it. "I toll you, it a a long-headed girl who never writes anything in a 'letter to a man thet she doom 1 mind a se- lect, °coterie of his felende seeing-fiatue OT nee fiallec. rThare is a genera) idea that only very young Meat 'tee addicted to thtel engem, but thee is a mietake, know men 01 83, which is certainly an age et discretion, who haVe 00 mere tionseeme about showing letters than a boy of 18, it s a shame, but it's true know beeauee they show thent to ma." MOST EXCLUSIVE CLUB IN WORLD Itt 15 Matied Me Dimwit(' and It Exists In London Ton n. The Diamond club of London is the most amnesty°, richest and, in some respects, the oldest club in the world. Its merabees are such of the great diamond dealers of London as can qualify. Bath candidate for admission is examined. by a moemittee, which in- quires minutely into his past. The club is primarily an eating plaza and opium for business. The membere meet daily at luntheon hour .in the dingy little cafe in Hatton Garden, oc- cupying a private room. Although tbese dealers in diamonds do not °are Lor dress, they do dare a great deal for geed. dinnees. Their 1 o'clock re- past is famous for its excellence It is said to be the finest in the world. The doom of the clubhouse are open., ed at 10 am., and the plate is deserted beeoro 7 pen., about the thins when the West End Clubmen are beginning their day. One et 1110 features of this curious club te the displaying all dininonde by its niconbara. Often bags fell 01, 11811 genie of exceeding size and e luster are eleaptied egto the dillilece- room tables for inspection, and netile bees of them ere passed. around the roorn anti haetiled by as Many men as Wish to look them over. The owner hag no fear, for he confides ireplicitly in any Man whose charaoter Is good enough to aeloet hen to begone) s Men:Mee, .