The Brussels Post, 1899-6-9, Page 2TEE BRustF,,Elds
THE KILLING OF STEPJIE1
REY. DR. TALI'IAGE SPEARS OF THE
GREAT CRIME.
'Tire People Would Net Listen 10 Mint Rut,
lustesd, They Sinned ItInt to Deattt-
Stephen Pied Peeing rule neuron nod
WIba a. Prayer t'et� IIts Eerntdat-The ilr.
Shows Five eteturas or the Seote.
A deepaztoh from Washington says:
—Rev, Dr, Talmage I»'eached from the
following text :—" Behold I see the
heavens opened, and the Sou of Man
standing on the right band of God.
Then they cried out with a loud voloe
and stopped their ears, and ran up-
on him with one accord, and mat him
out of the city, and stoned him; and
the witueeses laid down their clothes
at a young man's feet, whose name
was Saul. And they stoned Stephen,
calling upon God and saying ; Lard
Jeans receive my spirit, And he
kneeled down, and cried with a loud
voloe, Lord, lay not this sin to their
charge. And when he bad said this,
he fell asleep."—Acts vii. 51-00.
Stephen had been preaching a roue. -
Rig sermon, and the people could not
stand it. They resolved to do as men
sometimes would like to do in this, if
they dared, with some plain preacher
of righteousness—kill him. The only
way to silence this man was to knock
the breath out of him, So they rushed
Stephen out of the gates of the city,
and with curse, and whoop, and bel-
low they brought him to the cliff, as
was the custom when they wanted to
take away life by stoning, Having
brought him to the edge of the cliff
they pushed him off, After he had
fallen they came and looked down, and
seeing that he ryas not yet dead, they
began to drop stones upon him, stone
after stone, stone after stone. Amid
this horrible rain of missiles Stephen
clambers up on his knees and folds his
hands, while the blood drips from his
temples to his cheeks, from his cheeks
to his garments, from his garments to
the ground; and then, looking up, he
makes two prayers,—one for himself
and one for his murderers. "Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit;" that was for him-
self. "Lord, lay not this sin to their
charge;" that was for his assailants.
Then, from pain and loss of blood, he
swooned away and fell asleep.
I want to show you, to -day five pic-
tures. Stephen gazing into heaven.
Stephen looking at Christ. Stephen
stoned. Stephen in his dying, prayer.
Stephen asleep.
First look at Stepben gazing into
heaven. Before you take a leap you
want to know where you are going to
land. Before you climb a ladder you
want to know to what point the ladder
reaches. And it was ,right that
Stephen, within a few moments of
heaven, should be gazing into it. We
woeld all do well to be found in the
same postare, There is enough in
heaven to keep us gazing. A man
of large wealth may have statuary in
the hall, and paintinga in the sitting -
room, and works of art in all parts of
the hoaae, but he has the ehiet picture
in the are gallery, and there, hour
after hoar, you walk with catalogue
and glass and ever increasing admira-
tion. Well, heaven is the gallery
where God has gathered the chief
' treasures oe His realm, The whole
universe is His palace, In this lower
room where we atop there are many
adornments; tessellated floor of ame-
thyst and cowslip, and on the winding
c)oud-stairs are stretched out canvas
of which commingle azure, and purple,
and saffron and gold. Bub heaven is
the gallery in which; the chief glories
are gathered. There are the bright-
est robes. There are the richest
crowns. There are the highest ex-
bilarations. John says of it: "The
kings of the earth shall bring their
honor and glory into it." And I see
the pi o,'easion forming, and in the line
come ail empires, and the stars spring
up into an arch for the hosts tomarch
under. They peep step to the sound
of earthquake and the pitch of aval-
anche Isom the mountains, and, the
flag they bear is the flame of aeun-
suming world, and all heaven turn
out with harps and trumpets and my-
riad -voiced acclamation of angelic dom-
inion to welcome them in, and so the
kings of the earth bring their honour
and their glory into it. Do you
wonder that good people often stand,
like Stephen, looking into heaven? We
have a great many friends there.
There is not a man in this house to-
day so isolated in life but there is
l.oat wee in heaven with whom he once
shook bands, Asa man gets older,
the number of his celestial taquaint-
anees very rapidly multiplies, We
have not had one glimpse of them since t
the night we kissed them good -by. and
they went away; but still we stand
gazing at heaven, Aa when some of
our friends go across the sea, weatand s
on the dock, or on the team -tug, and s
watch them, and after awhile the
hulk oe the vessels disappear, and then
there is only a patch of sail on the
sky, and soon ;bat is gone, and they
are all out of sight, and yet we stand 11
looking in the same direction; so when
our friends go away from us Into the h
future world we keep Iooking down t
'through the Narrows, and gazing and h
gazing as though we expected that
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they would come out and stand on IVI
some evening cloud, and give us one t
glimpse of their blissful and trans- s
figured fares. While you long to f
join their eemhanionship, and the
dens, You wonder if they look au
older; Lind sometimes, in the evening
tide, when the house is all quiet, you
w •f
cadet r you ahmild gall them by
their first name if they would not ins
wer; and perhaps sometimes you d.
mako the experiment, and when( n
one but God and yourself are that•
you distinctly ecU their names and
listen, and wait, and alt gazing into
heaven.
Pass of DOW, and see Stepben look-
ing upon Christ. My text says be
saw the Son of Man at the right hand
of God, Jnet how Christ looked i
this world, just how Be looks in bea-
von, we cannot say. A writer in the
time of (lariat says, describing the
Saviour's personal appearanee, that He
bad blue eyes and light complexion,
and a very graceful structure; but 1
suppose it was all guess -work, The
painters of the different ages have
tried to imagine the features of Christ,
and put them upon canvas; but we
Will have to wait until with our own
eye we see Rim and with our own
ears we can hear him. And yet there
is a way of seeing and hearing Hine
now. I have to tell you that unless
you see and hear Christ on earth, you
will never see and hear Him in
heaven. Look! There He is. Behold
the Lamb of God. Can you not see
Him ? Then pray to God to take the
scales off your eyes. Look that way—
try to look that way. His voice comes
down to you this clary --comes down to
the blindest, to the deafest. soul, say-
ing: "Look unto me, all ye ends of
the earth, and be ye saved, fur I am
God, and there is none else." Pro-
elamztion of universal emancipation
for all slaves. Proclamation of univer-
sal amnesty for all rebels, Ahazuer-
us gathered the Baby)onish nobles to
his table; George 1. entertained the
Lords of England at a banquet; Napo -
lean IIL welcomed the Czar of 14ue-
sic and the Sultan of Turkey to Inc
feast ; but tell me, ye who know most
of the world's history, what other king
ever asked the abandoned, and the for-
lorn, and the wretched, and the out-
cast, to come and sit down beside bim?
0, wonderful invitation I You can
take it out to -day, and stand at the
bead of the darkest alley in all this
city, and say: "Come I Clothes for
your rags, salve for your sores, a
throne for your eternal reigning." A
Christ that talks like that, and acts
like that, and pardons like that—do
you wonder that Stephen stood look-
ing at Him? I hope to spend eternity
doing the same thing. 1 must see
Hon. 1 must look upon tbat face once
clouded with my sin, but now radiant
with my pardon. I want to touch, that
hand that knocked off my shackles. I
want to hear that voice wbioh pro-
nounced my deliverance. Behold Him,
little children, for if you live to three
score years and ten, you will see none
so fair, Behold Him, ye aged ones, for
He only can shine through the dimness
of your failing eyesight. Behold Him,
earth. Behold Him, heaven. What
a moment when alt the nations of the
saved shall gather around Christi All
faces that way. All thrones that way,
gazing, gazing on Jesus.
"His worth, if all the nations knew,
Sure the whale earth would love him
too;
7, There la within you a soul. I see
+,irradiating your eountenenee. Som
ee, 0001 or a pair of oboes; but spread
Y- your death ooucb amid the loaves of
times I am abashed belt/7111W audien
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not because I come under your pb
he the forest, or make it out of the straw
m- of a pauper a hat, the wolf in the
le jungle howling close by, or Inexorable
a creditors jerking the pillow from
es under your dying bead—Christ will
no come in and darkness will go out,
e And though there may be no hand to
able to pillow your head under tb
sieel eyesight, but because I realise t
truth that I stand before so many i
o mortal spirits, The probability
e that your body will at last find
sepulture in some of the eemeteri
that surround brie city, There is
doubt but that your obsequies will b
be dose your ayes, and no breast on
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decent and respectful, and you will
maple, or the Norway spruce, or the
n cypress, or the blossoming fir; but
this spirit about which Stephen pray-
ed, what direction will that take?
What guide will escort it? What gate
will open to receive it? What (aloud
will be cleft for its pathway? After
it bee got beyond the light of our sun,
will there be torobea lighted for it. the
rest of the way? Will the soul have
to travel through long deserts before
it reaches the good land? If we should
lose our pathway, will these be a
castle at whose gate we may ask the
way to the city 1 0, this mysterious
spirit within us! It has two wings,
but it is to a cage now. It is locked
fast to keep it; but let the door of
this cage open the least, and that soul
is off. Eagle's wing could not catch
it. The lightnings are not swift
enough to take up wills it. When the
soul leaves the body It takes fifty
worlds at a bound, And have I no
anxiety about it 1 have you no
anxiety about it? I do not care what
you do with my body when my soul is
gone ,or whether you believe in creme -
gone, whether you believe in erema-
tion or inhumation. I shall sleep just
ae well in a wrapping of saokaloth
as in satin lined with eagle's down.
Dut my soul—before I leave this house
this morning I will find out where it is
going to land, Thank God for the
intimation of my text, that when we
die Jesus takes us. That answers all
questions for me. What though there
were massive bars between Isere and
the city of light, Jesus could remove
them. 'What though there were
great Saharas of darkness, Jesus could
illumine them. What though 1 get
weary on the way, Christ could lift me
on his omnipotent shoulder. What
though there were chasms to cross,
His hand could transport Inc. Then
let Stephen's prayer be my dying lit-
any: "Lord. Jesus, receive my spirit"
It may be in that hour we will be too
feeble to say a long prayer. It may
be in that hour we will not be able to
say the "Lord's Prayer," for it has
seven petitions. Perhaps we may be
too feeble even to say the infant
prayer our mothers taught us
which John Quincy Adams, seventy
years of age, said every night when
he put his head upon his pillow:—
"Now
illow:
"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep."
We anay be too feeble to employ
either of these familar forms; but
this prayer of Stephen is so short, is
so concise, is so earnest, is so com-
prehensive, we surely will be able to
say that: "Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit." 0, if that prayer is answer-
ed, bow sweet it will be to die. This
world is clever enough to us. Perhaps
it has treated us a great deal better
than we deserve to be treated; but if
on the dying pillow there shall break
the light of that better world, we shall
have no more regret about leaving
this life for the next than a mat re-
grets leaving a small, dark, damp
house for one large, beautiful, and
capacious. , That dying minister in
Philadelphia, some years ago, beauti-
fully depicted it when, in the last mo-
ment, he threw up his hands and Dried
out: "I move into the light."
I pass on now, and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always want-
ed. to get rid of good men. Their very
life is an assault upon wickedness.
Out with Stephan through the gates
of the city. Down with him over the
precipices. Let every ecru conte and
drop a stone upon his bead. Bat these
men did not 00 much Lill Stephen as
they killed themselves. Every stone
rebounded upon them. While these
murderers are transfixed by the scorn
of all good men, Stephen lives in the
admiration of all Christendom. Step-
hen stoned; but Stephen alive. So at)
good men must be pelted. All who
will live gudly in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution. It is not eulogy of
a man to say that everybody likes him.
Show me any one who is doing all his
duty to State or Church, and I will
show you scores of men who utterly
abhor hm. if all men speak well of
you, it is because you are eitbor a lag-
gard or a dolt. if a steamer' makes
rapid progress through the waves, the
water wilt boil and foam all around
it. Brave suldiere of Jesus Christ wi.1
bear the carbines °lick. When 1 see
a man with voice, and money, and in-
fluence, all on the right side, and
some caricature him, and some sneer
at him, and some denounce him, and
men who pretend to be actuated by
right motives conspire to cripple
him, to oast him out, to destroy bio,
I say: "Stephen stoned." When I
see a man in some great moral or re-
ligious reform battling against grog -
shops, exposing wickedness in high
places, by active means trying to puri y
the Church and better the woria's
estate, and .I find that the newspapers
anathematize him, and men, even good
Men, oppose hem, and denounce him,
because, though he does good, he does
not do it in their way, I say: "Stephen
stoned,' The world, with infinite
spite, took after John Frederick Ober-
lin, and Robert Moffatt, and Paul and
Stephen of the text, But you notice,
my friends, that while they assaulted
him they did not succeed really in kill-
ing him. You may assault a good
man, but you cannot kill him. On the
day of his death, Stephen spoke be-
fore a few people in the eanhedrim;
his Sabbath morning he addresses all
Christedom 1 Paul the Apostle stood on
Mars Hill addressing a handful of phi-
oaophers who knew not so much about
ciente as a school girl of Packer In-
titute or a school boy of the Poly-
tecbn)t. To -day bet talks to all the
millions of Christendom about the
wonders of juattfioation and the glories
of resurrection, John Wesley was
owled down by the mob to whom be
preached, and they threw bricks at
im,. and they denounced biro, and
hey jostled him, anti they spat upon
im, and yet to -day, in all lands, he
s admitted to be the great father of
ethodism, Booth's bullet vacated
l e Presidential chair; but from that
pot of coagulated blood on the
icor in the box of Ford's Theatre there
sprang up the new life of a nation I.;
years and the days go with such
tedium that they break your heart
and the viper of pain, and sorrow, and
bereavement keeps gnawing at your
vitals, you still stand, like Ste hon,
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Stephen stoned; but Stephen alive.
Pass on now and see Stephen in his
ging prayer. His first thought was
of how the stone hurt his head, nor
what would become of hie body. Hie
irst thought was about his spirit.
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. The
murderer standing on the trap-door,
ha black sap being drawn over his
sad before the execution, may grim-
es about the future; but you and 1
ave ne shams in confessing some
matey about where we are going to
me out. You nre not all body
d
n
raven, You won er .it I
they have changed 'since you saw them '
last. You wonder if they would re-
cognize your face now, so changed hes t
it been with trouble. You wonder if, h
amid the myriad delights they have, a
they care as much for you as they userd Is
to when they gave you a helping band a
and put thole ehoulder,under your bur• ee
Pass on now, and I will show yen
one more picture, and that is Stephen
asleep. With a pathos and simplicity
peculiar to the Scriptures, the text
says of Stephen: "He fell asleep."
"0," you say, "what a place that was
to elect)! A hard rock under him,
stones tailing down upon him, the blood
streaming, the mob bowling. What a
plata it was to sleep!" And yet my
text takes that symbol of slumber to
describe his departure, so sweet, was
it, so contented was it, so peaceful
was it. Stephen had lived a very
laborious life. IIis chief work had
been to care for the poor. How many
loaves of bread he distributed, bow
many bare feet he had sandaled, how
many cots oe sickness and distress he
blessed with ministries of kindness and
love, I do not know; but from the way
he lived and the way he preached, and
the away he diad, I know he was a la-
borious Christian. But that is all
over now. Ile has pressed the cup to
the feat fainting 1!p. He has taken
the last insult from his enemies, The
last stone to whose crushing weight
he is susceptible has been hurled.
Stephen is deadl The disciples come,
They ;aka him up. They wash away
the blood from the wounds, They
straighten out the bruised limbs.
They brush back the tangled hair
from the brow, and then they pass
around to look upon the oalm counten-
ance of him who had lived for the
poor and died for the truth. Stephen
asleep! I have seen the sea driven
with the hurricane until the tangled
foam caught in the rigging, awl wave
rising above wave seemed as if about
to storm the heavens, and then I
have seen the tempest drop, and the
waves crouch, and everything become
smooth and burnished as thougb a
Damping place for the glories of
heaven. So I have seen a man, whose
life has been tossed and driven, com-
ing clown at last to an infinite calm,
in which there was the hush of
heaven's lullaby. Stephen asleepl I
saw suclt an one. Ile fought aiI his
days against poverty and against
abuse, They traduced nis name.
They rattled at the door knob while
he was dying, with duns for debts he
could not. pay; yet the peace of God
brooded over his pillow, anal while the
world faded, heaven dawned, and the
deepening twilight of earth's night
was only the opening twilight of
heaven s morn. Not a sigh. Not a
struggle. flush! Stephen aleepai
I have not the faculty to telt the
weather, I could not bave told yester-
day that this would be a day of cloud
and de.rknees, I can never tell by
the setting sun whether there will be
a drought or not. I cannot tell by
the blowing of the wind whether it
will be fair weather or foul on the
morrow, But if can prophesy, and I
will prophesy, what weather it will be
when you, the Cltristain, come to die.
You may have it very rough now, It
may be this week one annoyance; the
noxi another annoyance. It may he
this year one bereavement, the next
other . berettwemeot, Before this
, an
which to rest your dying head, and no
candle to lift the night, the odors of
God's banging garden will regale your
soul, and at your bedside will halt the
ebariats of the king. No more rents to
Pay, no mere agony because flour has
gone up, no more struggle with " the
world, the flesh, nod the devil ;" but
peace. -.long deep, everlasting imaDD,
Stephen asleep1
"Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From whish none ever wnk° to weep,
A calm and undieturbad repose,
Uninjured by the last, of foes,
" Asleep in loans, Inc from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
Bus there is still a blessed sleep,
From wh!ah none ever wake to weep,"
'You have seen enough for one morn -
hag. No one can successfully examine
more than five pictures in a day.
Therefore we stci{,, having seen the
cluster of Divine Raphaels-St.aphen
gsziug into heaven; Stephen looking
at Christ; Stephen stoned; Stephen in
his dying prayer; Stephen asleep,
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TAI TSUNG'S MAGIC PAINTING.
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A Dresden eitemist's Imitation era Chtueee
Emperor's Wender.
The Chinese Emperor Tal Tsung pos-
sessed among other treasures a picture
known as a magic panting. It rep-
resented a pastoral scene with a cow
standing in a field and mountains be-
yond. When the picture was shown to
strangers or guests and they admir-
ed it the Emperor would say:
" Yes, this is a remarkable paint-
ing. The sow, as you see, is standing;
but if the room was darkened the cow
would think it night and lie down."
Then the Emperor would order the
room to be darkened, and the cow
would be seen to be lying down, ap-
parently asleep. The picture was a
water color, over which was painted
in colorless phosphorescent paint a
similar picture representing the cow
lying down. In the light the stand-
ing animal was seen, but at night or
in a darkened room only the phosphor-
escent picture was visible. So the
magic. picture was, after all, a very
simple trick. A Dresden chemist,
named Sehade, has discovered a method
of imitating it which can be accom-
plished as follows: First paint in or-
dinary colors the picture of the cow
standing. Then melt some Zanzibar
copal over a charcoal fire, and dissolve
fifteen parts of it in sixty parts of
French oil of turpentine. Filter this
and mix with twenty-five parts of pure
linseed oil which has bean previously
heated and cooled. Now take forty
Paris of the varnish so obtained and
mix with sir parts of prepared calcium
carbonate, twelve parte of prepared
white zinc sulphide and thirty-six
Parts of luminous calcium sulphide, all
of which can be
OBTAINED FROM ANY CHEMIST,
This emulsion should be ground very
fine in a color mill; the result will be
white luminous paint, which should be
used to paint the cow lying down,
Many seemingly wonderful tricks
can be performed with Inc use of a
few simple chemicals. One of them is
the ball of fire, Take for this barium
sulphate, CP, 1 part; magnestumcar-
bonate, CP, 1 part; gum tragacanth,
q. s. This should be mixed and rolled
into marbles and kept at a red hot heat
for about an hour, then, allowed to
cool slowly and placed in a glass -stop-
pered bottle. A few hours before us-
ing place id the sun, and the marbles
at once become luminous, At the en-
tertainment ordinary marbles are pass-
ed among the audience, ono or more of
the lumineus marbles being concealed
in the hand. The exhibitor then takes
a marble from some one in the audi-
ence, holds it between his thumb and
forefinger, blows upon it, and asks to
have the lights turned down, As this
is done he substitutes the luminous
marble, and the mysterious light is
seen. This is banded around, and
ohangea again as the light is turned
on, when the magician presents to the
audience several of the ordinary mar-
bles as souvenirs.
Another trick is very effeolive, Take
two similar bunches of artilbo!al flow-
ers; brush one over with glue or muci-
loge and powder it with the dust from
one of the marbles described ; then
place in the ann. When taken into a
diukencd room luminous flowers are
seen. The magician exhibits the flow-
ers that have not been prepared and
shows that there is nothing peculiar
about them; than, as the light is turn-
ed down, he subatitu(es the conceal-
ed bunch, blows upon the flowers, and
presto 1 tl!splays to the astonished ob-
servers a luminous bunch, eaah flow-
er of which stands out as 11 at white
beat.
Luminous letters con be written
and exhibited in the dark, to the wee-
der of the audience. Luminous ink is
made by placing a piece of phosphor.,
ous about abs size of a pea in a test
tube with a little olive oil. Place the
tubs in a water bath until the oil be-
oomes heated end tlse phosphorous li-
quid. Shake well and pour into a bole
the with a glass stopper, Admit air
just previous to using it, and the fluid
will baooma luminous tracery in the
dark,
Water, can be rendered luminous in
a very simple manner, Dleaolvc esmall
piece et phosphorous in either for sev-
eral days in a glees -stoppered bottle,
In this plate a lump of sugar, then
drop the agaar in wetter, which will
at once become luminous, Luminous
paints can be made any color—green,
yellow, violet or blue—and if applied
to various objects inako a wonderful
display at. night.
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KISS THEM TO -NIGHT.
God bless the loving little once,
The ones you call your own,
And give you deeper tendernoes
Than you before have known!
The years era bearing them away
With sure and rapid flight;
G, clasp the darlings to your' heart,
And kiss them all to -night!
Perhaps the days are sometimes bard;
Perhaps you sometimes scold,
With lips you may forget to guard,
'Mid trials manifold.
Is there a quivering lip, a roar?
Then haste to make it right,
Nor sleep without a fond caress
Aud loving kiss, to -night.
Let not Lbe growing girls and boys
Drift from your heart away,
But win and hold their confidence,
Leat they should go astray.
The heart that shows its love bath
power
To help the young aright;
For them let sympathy be strong,
And kiss them all, to -night.
BABY CLOTHES.
More or leas, according to the size
of the mother's pooketbook, I know
every intelligent up-to-date mother
wants her baby to be oomfortable,
healthy and happy, and I am going to
tell you how to make them not only
that, but also dainty and pretty, says
a nurse. Of course, they are always
sweet. In the first plane, shirts are
out of date, and a good riddance,
for they were an abomination. Ex-
pensive to begin with, they were eter-
nally elirinking and rolling up, making
baby unoomfortable. Second, bands
unneoessary and harmful after the cord
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is healed, and should only be tight
enough then to hold the dressing in
plane,
The dear Lord made their little bod-
ies perfect, and will hold us account-
able for squeezing and pressing the
tender organs out of plane and pre-
venting natural action and develop-
ment. Ohl it fills me with "right-
eous' indignation when T find a cry-
ing, delicate baby weighted down
with long skirts, squeezed with bands
innumerable, tortured with! safety -
pins, buttons and all such like imple-
ments of torture. A small safety pin
should be used to pin the diaper. The
diaper abould also be small. Their
little lege are soft, — the bones, I
mean—and big, bulky diapers' make
them bow-legged, pigeon-toed, etc.
Two very small safety -pine are
needed to pin the stockings to the
diaper. Bootees are pretty, but they
will not stay on unless they are tied
tight enough to stop oireulation. You
can get cashmere and silk stockings
for twenty-five and fifty Dente a pair
and you can put the money into them
instead of shirts.
Alt weight should be suspended
from 'the shoulders. Once seen, any
woman can cut them herself, they are
so simple. But any amount of love
and labor may be expended in the
making of teem, for hand -work is
the proper thing. Hem -stitching,
drawn -work, cat -stitching and her-
ring -boning with "nun's cotton,” etc.
Laos beading around the neck and
sleeves, and barn with babyribbon run
through it, Tiny groups of tucks in
the yoke, with Honiton ivaerton or
oat -stitches between, and it makes a
pretty finish to out the hems and put
Honiton between it and the dress.
Dimity, fine lawn or any fine, soft
material is used. Nevar use embroid-
ery in little infant things, Wait until
they get into short clothes for that.
Never use anything except white, un-
less it is the little outing flannel
nightgowns, and pink does not fade
as much as blue. Always take every
stitch, except the diaper, off at night
and rub gently with your hand the
little body before putting the afore-
said nightgown ou. Two of these
gowns are plenty, because they are
easily washed, and are all the more
fresh and sleep-produoing from being
washed every day, especially if they
are dried in the sun. In fact, baby's
bed and bedclothing should be in the
sun every day. Sunshine is the best
hypnotic in the world for babies and
otber people. Twenty-seven inches,
finished is the proper length for all
slip:, 'Ihree and one -ha If yards
of material makes two slips. A
elip of fine white flannel takes
the place of shirt and skirt, A while
sleeveless slip comes next, then the
dress, and the whole business can be
put on at ones. The baby don't got
cross, the mother don't get nervous,
and, best of all, there are no tight
bands and villainous safety -pins to
prevent development and expansion.
and hurt the tender little body.
Lastly—Instead of bundling baby
up in forty shawls, make a hue -
blanket of eider -down and line it with
silk.
Seven yards dimity will make four
dresses; three and one-half yards
lawn will make two dresses; three
and one-balf yards nainsook, or any
other fine. goods, will matte two more
dresses—eight dresses; three and one-
half yards of "long cloth" will make
two skirts, and some large pieces heft
"English long cloth" washes and
irons lovely; ,1sevan yards oe fine
white flannel will make four niee
slips, two for Sunday and two for
every day; three and one -ball yards
outing flannel will matte two night-
gowns; one yard of eider -down will a
make a hood -blanket; another yard w
will make a buggy robe; one-half t
ynrd of sills will line the hood and
fade the robe, Now, with a half-dozen m
or less of atookings, a box of powder,
and a nice jug of cold cream you are
fixed.
DRHSSING FOR ROAST FOWL,
There are different kinds of dress-
ing for roast fowl, but we believe the
following to be abe one most mor-
ally used, The best effect in color is
perh'ape obtained by browning slides of
bread in the oven very carefully, for
if burned' ever so slightly both color
Mid taste are spoiled, and it lea great
advantage to have the bread, sage, ole„
prepared the doy before using. If pre -
fared, the bread may be fried la but-
ter, •but In either ease pour boiling
water over it as aeon as prepared to
soften,
using just sL o
htocover rit
as the water must be used uthedress=
ing,
For one fowl use two slices of broad,
one-half oup, of finely minced onion
fried brown in butter, the same of cold
boiled potato minced and fried, also,
01)8 tablespoon of powdered and sift-
ed sage, one teaspoon of salt and a
pinch et pepper. The bread may be
softened in milk and a well beaten egg
added, but neither are necessary. Use
threes tablespoons of melted butter in
the dressing for ono fowl. Heat and
blend the ingredients together in the
spider, and if not sufficiently season-
ed add more. When prepared, it should
be of the aonsisteney of thick musb.
Fill the bowl with the dressing. Have
a Mall of melted butter and tie a
small piece of muslin to a fork or atiolt
and after dipping in the batter, rub
the fowl with it. Do this several times
while roasting, and keep a little war
ter in the ptia with the fowl to pre-
vent burning ; boil the wings, nook,
eto., and pour the water in which they
were boiled into the belting pan to
make gravy when the fowl is remov-
ed to the platter,
YEAST ROLLS.
At the last molding of bread
take enough for a small loaf, roll it
out and spread over a beaten egg,
2 tablespoonfuls granulated sugar, a
scant 1-2 teacup of lard, mix well, add -
a handful of flour, let rise, mold into
rolls, let rise 20 or 30 minutes and
bake,
Tea Rolls:—Scald a pint of milk,
add 1 tablespoon sugar, 1-2 teacup
yeast, 1-4 dry yeast cake, and flour to
make a moderately stiff batter, and
let it rise over night. In the morn-
ing add 1-2 teacup soft butter, 1 tea-
spoon salt, and the whites of 2 eggs
well beaten. Knead well, let rise,
knead again, roll about 3-4 inch thick,
cut with a cooky cutter, butter one-
half, fold over, let rise and bake.
:Breakfast Roils:—To 2 teacups warm
milk, add 1-2 teaoup melted butter, 1-2
teacup yeast, or 1-4 cake dry yeast dis-
solved in 1-2 teacup water, three
tablespoons white sugar, 1 teaspoon
salt, then add 8 teacups flour. Let
rise over night, set over a kettle of
warm water, shape with a littleflour
into long rolls, let rise an hour, or
until light and bake, 1
Dinner Bolls: Measure and mix to-
gether li 1-2 teacups warm milk, 1-2
teacup each butter and lard, 1 teacup
yeast, or part of a yeast cake dis-
solved in 1 teacup water~ add flour
to make a moderately stiff dough.
Let rise over night, then add a beaten
egg, 1-2 teacup sugar, knead and let
rise. Make into balls the size of a
hen's egg, with a round stick 3-4 inch
in diameter press eaoh ball in the
centre, place in a baking pan, not
touching each other, rub the spaces
made by the stick with melted bat-
ter, Jet rise light and bake.
EVERY COOK SHOULD KNOW.
All out roasts of meat should be laid
on the rack, skin -side downward, that
the lean part may be quickly seared
over to prevent the escape of its juices.
A pot roast of beef is more perfect-
ly browned before than after boiling.
Rub the damp roast with sifted bread
crumbs; fry to a rich brown on every
side in the kettle in whish it is to
boil; then cover with bdiling water and
simmer gently—closely covered—until
tender.
Oysters for frying should be washed in
colic water, drained on a soft cloth and
rolled in fine -seasoned bread .crumbs.
After laying ten minutes, dip in egg
that has been beaten only enough to
combine the white and yelk, roll again
)n orumbs, let lie fifteen minutes and
fry in a wire basket in deep, smoking
hot fat,
The rank flavor so generally Malik -
ed in mutton is decidedly less if the
caul and pink slain -like substance that
is about it is out away. Then moisten
the surface, rub thoroughly with flour
or fine bread . crumbs and roast.
The fat from broth or soup San be
easily removed without waiting for it
to become cold, by repeatedly drawing
butchers' paper acoss the top.
The flavor as well as the digestibility
of broiled or fried ham or bacon is im-
proved if it is laid on warm butchers'
paper and placed in the oven, to drain
the minute it is sufficiently cooked;
serve on a bot platter, with a few drops
'of lemon juice squeezed over the top,
A RARE INSTANC.'E,
Sufferer, angrily. You advertised to
pull teeth without pain,
Dentist. Wall, I do.
Sufferer, with increased vobemence,
IL's false!
Dentist, calmly surveying the ex-
tracted member. Ts it, really? Well,
well; it's the t'nly instance I ever
knew of a false tooth delaying,
WANTED HIM TO .1311 MISERABLE,
Wife, Don't you think you might
manage to keep house alone Inc a week
while I go off on a visit?
Husband, I guess so, Yes, of course.
But won't you be lonely and miser-
able?
Not a bill
!Hub! Then I won't go,
1 TJICI{EST BROUGHT.
Questionable Guest., 1Vniter, I am in
great hurry, and would like to know
but there is that you would require
ha least time to bring nse0
Waiter. Well, I chum, sir, unless it
fight be yo'r bill sir!
A SUBSTITUTE.
Young Housewife, to obliging friend,
Did you toll the butcher to Send me a
leg of mutton?
Obliging Friend. Yea, dear; but he
said he had no legs a mutton in to-
day, so I told him to sant you a leg
of beef instead,
A SURE SIGN.
Mistress, Do you think that young
policeman Keegan, who calls here so
niton, moans lewdness, Norahi
The Cook, biushiug. I think he do,
mum; hes begun to complain about
,my Woking already!
THE UGANDA RAILROAD.
it is NOV C.emphHed flea 3L1l0, Neerlyllnit.
the lYay 101'I4.1.orls Nyanza.
The. Br'ltisb Government hoe just
aampleted 1300 miles of the 'Uganda
railroad, The total ,length of the
route from Mombasa, on the Indian
haven, to the ttort'beast coast of Vie.
toria Nyanza is 050 fides. Nearly halt
of the entire road therefore, witioli is
to e0nneet the sea with 'Uganda, is
completed, lllgonda is one of the
most populous and promising parts of
Melee, stretabing far along ,the
northern and :northwestern aides of
the second largest fresh water lake l4
the world. .The a'ailroad has been.
pushed toward this inviting goal Inc
three years past with great assideity,
in spite. of serious obstacles, such as
the abnormal rainfall of 1807, which
retarded Lhe preparation oP the road-
bed, and the breaking out of the plague
in India, on account of widish the en-
listment of coolies for the railroad
works was for some time suspended
Furthermore, for the first 200 utiles,.
or two-thirds of the completed part
of the road, the condition for rail-
way :making were vary unfavorable,
Between eitombasa and Mtatc Andel
there are only four places on the route
where water may be obtained — at
blaji Chumvi, 38 miles from the coast;
the Voi River, 100 miles; Taavo, 131
miles, and Mtoto Andei, 102 miles.
Most of the country thus far is covered
with almost impenetrable thorn scrub
and is pat by many valleys. In
August last when the line was about
200 miles on its way, it had only just
emerged from the
DIFFICULT JUNGLE COUNTRY.
On March 31 of this year the line
reached the 270th mile, which brought
it close to Kikuyu, the /densely peopled
country south of Kenia, the great
equatorial snow -mountain. Not until
it reached the district was it to be
expected that the line would have an
'appreciable effect upon the ex-
port trade, So Great Britain is just
reaching with her railroad the regions
which she expects to benefit and
from which she hopes to derive a
profit. The Government steamer Juba.
is already making a round trip every,
three weeks between Zanzibar and the
coast towns of the British East Africa
protectorate, and it is -expected to pro-
vide regular and sufficient outlet and
ingress for all the trade the railroad
may help to create,
Since August 20 last, trains have run
regularly over most of Cher route com-
pleted at that time, or, in other words,
from. Mombasa to Mtoto Andel, 182
miles. The stations on the way num-
ber thirteen, of which Maji, Ohumvi
and Vol are the most important. Voi,
which is about 1,000 feat above sea
level, is the dividing point between
the seaward and the inland slopes of
the country. Two trains start every-
day, one from the coast and the other
from the inland. station. Leaving
Mombasa at 8.30 in the morning, after
forty-five minutes' halt at Maji
Chumvi, the first water place, the
train arrives at Vol at 5.15 p.m., where
it stops for the night, Nest morning
it leaves Vol at 7 o'clock and arrives
at 11.15 a.m,, at Mtot° Andel. If the
passenger wishes to set out on his
return to the coast on the same day,
he will take the train leaving at 1.30-
p.m., which arrives at Voi at 5.30 p.m„
spends the night there, leaves for the
coast at 8,30 o'clock nexe morning and
reaches Mombasa at 3,15 p.m. De-
ducting all the time spent at way
stations, the mott'tai travelling Lima
for the 102 miles Is ten and a quarter
hours for the inland and eleven and.
a half hours for the seaward journey.
Only mixed trains, carrying freight
as well aa passengers, are now run-
ning. Three classes of fares are
chargedd, the first class, for the 162
miles, being about 320; second class,
ea and third olasa, 31.70, which is not
much more expensive than a pass, and
is confined to the native and Indian
patronage,
The building of this railroad is the
direct outcome of the report made by
Sir Gerald Portal in 1804 at the con,
elusion of his mission to Uganda. He
spent over a year studying the
country between the sea and Victoria
Nyanza and the lands around that
take within the British sphere of in-
fluence, and he was sent -out to collect
data upon which the Government
might decide to take the country out
of the hands of the British East Africa
Company and make it a protectorate,
directly under the control of the
home authorities. Sir Gerald said that
nothing but a railroad would drain the
commerce of'Uganda, Usage., tinyoro
and the other oouutries lying around
the lake, and until the railroad was
built "any organization, system of ad-
ministration or plan for the improve-
ment of these countries which may be
devised will be of the nature'of a
makeshift.
Of the financial prospects of the
line it is not easy to speak with any
approach to preciseness, but unless
there has been some great' miscalcula-
tion- en adequate return may be ex-
piated in good time. There is of,
course no doubt (hat the Government
will reap hauch indirect profit from
the road. The Government has been
spending about 3200,000 a year merely
for the ,transport of the material
needed by its agents and stations in
the lake region. It is estimated that
the railroad will redone Ohs charge
to 330,000 a year. The transportation
of the steamboat whiah the Govern-
ment sent to Victoria Nyanza cost
3100,000, but it might have been tar-
ried by rail for a twentieth. of that
sum, But whether the railroad, whee
completed to the lake, pays dividends
for many years to come it may be re-
garded as the natural and necessary
result of the task of establishing
Government and commercial facili-
Lies in that region which England
undertook to carry out.
LIGHT ON THE PURR FOOD QUES-
TION.
Cook -What's the Metter 11
Waiter—Customer wants to know if
you've got any turpentine,
Cdok—What does he want of turpen-
tint 2
Waiter—He says+ he believes Haat if
you'll mix a little as it with this our-
rentpn yt,he 011,14 tis? Abe stuff Inc
float