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JiiLy 3, 1891
THE HOME.
Wife and Parenthood.
Let us heve a confidential talk this after-
noon.
You are asking what you shall toll your
ehildren coneerning nem and pareethood,
and how. If you are not on tot toe of loving,
subtleletinteey with your 80114 and daugh•
tors, this will indeed be a ditlitult task, and
one you rimy be obliged to dtdegete ta mime
euitable book.
Perham; you lost this Inagieel e key " to
their inner natures when emu r WielS 111030(1
the door of truth against their lit peering
qiiestious conneening the mysteries of life,
"mamma, where did the beliy come limn?"
Instead of wthely seizing this Ged•gi) en um-
ment to Mud their little heart; to yours
With this holy, this beautiful secret, you
gave them what, in very short, they learned
front their " wiser pIVOlateS WAS t " lie."
From the eatne uttleillowed source, when
the loving but careless mothee believed then)
too young and ianocent, to know aught of
the more altered thinge of life, they Moaned
them in such a low, debasing way, that a
lifetime of counter training of thought will
not suffice to restore the to their tendert-
tended purity and sacredness,
Many a mother who has thus lost the
" key," often does not find it again until her
daughter (she never does her eon; is herself
a mother—sometimes not then. This is in-
deed very, very stel, and thould make all
young mullion doubly watchful, but it
doesn't celieve this claes of their responsibil-
ity, because they can't " talk with their
children."
Fortunately, theee are many chaste and
beantifally-written books and pamphlets
that willpartially atone for the lack of your
'personal, loving instruction. And as many
an overburdened mother finds little time to
look into these tInngs, and does not know
what book to get or where to obtain It, I
will mention some that I consider most ex -
°silent.
" Tokology," by Mrs. Dr. Stockman ;
"True Maehood," and " For Girls," by
Shepard. Then there are two valuable leaf-
lets for boys and girls : "A Fathers' Advice
to Isis Son," and "Ai Old Womams' Letter
to Young Women."
Don't place these books in the hands of
your children until you have studiously read
them yourselves ; eon will doubtless find
much in them that ts aeev and that will bet-
ter fit yon for your duties 1 but if not new
or of special practical value, bear in mind
that intelligence is always clesirable. Then,
too, it may be that you can talk over the
book with your son or daughter.
To the nothers of the "wet ones 'feeling
the importance of these questions, bet .eread.
trig them, let me first of till be of you to
keep Close to your little ones hearts, be
sympathetic with them in all their trial e and
sorrows, invite their confidence by giving
yours. They feel " very important" when
in partnership with mamma in a "secret"
By wise means find out the trend of their
thought., what their little playtnates say to
them, and what is the nate re of their "plays"
when together. All these things will help
you to speak a word instant in season. To
etill better prepare you Inc this most delicate
and important task, read the tracts and leaf-
lets for "Mothers' Meetings," published by
the Woman's Trenperanee Publication As-
sociation, 181 La Salle St., Chicago.
I never found just the help that seems
needed, until I heard Mrs. 0. T. Cole, a W.
la T. U. lecturer, on social purity. In a
mother's meeting that she aonducted he
told us just what to say to ehe child's first
questionings concerniug his existence ; also
to his second, concerning the relations of
the sexes. Such chaste, ennobting answers
as she found in animal life and in the lovely
flowers, I shall never forget, thougla cannot
reproduce them. I have never read anything
, just like it, so if you ever have the opportun.
ity, don't fail to hear this woman,
I well recall the Sabbath I beard Inc one
'of Pouring rein and deep mud.' But Its it
Was only a few deys later that my little
daughter earns to me with these same deli-
cate moral life questions, I felt repaid a
hundred -fold for the effort.
I wish you might have seen the child as I
repeated this beautiful allegory, then so f resh
in my mind. Her face fairly glowed with a
holy light and her little sod was baptized
into a new life. I am sure that hour will be
among the most cherished of my life, and of
imperishable memory and good to my child,
Au ter CRAWL
Tomatoes.
'Following are a few tried receipts for
booking tomatoes which some of our readers
may be glad to get.
BAXED TOMATOES. --Take Smooth, sound,
ripe tomatoes of a uniform size. At the stem
end cut off a small slice and scoop out about
a teaspoonful of the meat ; fill this with salt,
pepper, and bread crutnbs. Plane in a bak•
Ing -pan or dish and bake three-quarters of
an hour. If there be room in the dish, the
part of the tomato which is removed to
make rooni for the bread, etc„ may be
placed in it together with the proper season-
ing. A little sugar added to tomatoes great-
ly improves them.
SlACYD TOMATOSIS.-ss Peel and shoe rile
tomatoes, add salt, pepper, and sugar if e•
sired, and cover with vinegar. Let them
set a few minutes and serve,
FRIED TOMATOES. —Slice green tomatoes;
dust with flour and fry brown in butter,
turning, that both sides may be brown.
STIMED TOMATOES.—Pare and slice ripe
tomatoes put in a stew -pan, not an iron one
as iron yells the flavor; add a very little
water and meek fifteen or twenty tninutes.
Then add salt, pepper, butter half the size
of an egg, nearly one•helf a cup cream, and
one pint of fine bread crumbs, or instead of
the bread °rumba stir one tablespoonful of
flour in the cream and put in while boiling,
To this can he added a few, say three or
four very thin slims of stele bread, After
the dreesitig is added cook three or four
ininittes, Canned tomatoes are to be cooked
in the same way ouly they will need to cook
' Ave or ben minutes before the dressing is
added.
--
Fruit Canning,
RASPBISRA/ES—RMYS ready apettof very oold
*eater, iee if possible. Look over theberries,
and tlirow ono quart at, a time into the
water. With a wire skimmer; dip them
Carefully into a granite iron kettle. For
every three quarts allow one largo cupful of
sugar, Let them stand till thero is enough
juice) 10 nook withont burniug fehnmer
slowly, being medal not to break the fruit.
When thoroughly heated, fill Cons, meow on
the top, shako down, open and fill again,
sealing geialtly, and stand in a dark, cool
plane. They may be pub up in the Beene
manner as pineapple, if preferred but we
think this lose trouble and know they Inc
nice- 13111°k -caps requiremme watoras they
„ are much dryer than the rod berries,
lisASIPREMY Jeer,—Weigh the fruit and
allow three•fourths pound of sugar to one
'pound of fruit, Wash, skim out and MI/All
with the sugar, Le I; I ts tend a few rsot' over
s night in the collar or ice•box, Drain off the
inlet; and whon boiling hot tvld the berriee,
Set backend simmer WWI RS thick as desired.
Peer into jelly tumblers or bowls, and when
cold covet. with buttered paper.
RASPISMiar JiteLY. We prefer to use rad
ourrauts with red raepherries for jelly, as it
will be firmer aud the atth or is very delicate.
Take equal parte of bsrries and currants.
After washing, mash and piece them in the
oven that is mat hot enough to extract the
Mice. Stir well and drain through a cob
ander ; then attain through e jelly -bag, Be
sure met to squeeze, RS it Will ruin your jelly
to get in any of the pulp. For 0000. pint
of atiee add one pound flf sugar and 111
t %runty minutes herd. Try, and if done dip
into tumblers, it the currants are very
ripe, it will need e few minutes longer cook -
Ing. Seal when cold, the same as jem,
Currant jelly is made In the same way.
Those who dislike currants on aecount of
the seeds will find that straining through a
fine colander and adding the fume to rasp-
berries, either red or black, is an improve.
meut to both.
An Easy Way be Wash,
Here ie e.eee easy way to to your wash.
ing. Take one mince of einteonet, one oturre
salts ot Meade ;did one box of concentrated
lye. Mix it in a jar, and pour over it one
gallon nf boiliug, water. eftand 9.9 far away
from the jar as you can while peering in the
water, and do not breathe, Put this Reid
away where the children can not reach it.
On wash (lay put half a eupful of it to the
water in which you bolt your clothes, with
half a bar of soy which has been dissolv•
ed in hot water, Put your dirty clothes
direotly iuto the boiler and let them boil
about twenty minutes ; then put them
through clear water, rubbing out the dirty
spots if any remain, after which they must
be rinsed and blued.
I have large washings but I usually do
them in about three hours, The ingredients
of the fluid coat twenty-five cents, but it
lasts six or seven months. If the washing
is very large and the water in the bollergets
low, replenish it from the sudsing water,
instead of using more fluid and °leer water,
Gambling in ,Englamtl.
The facts elizited in connection with the him. He has very lately been celebrating
notorious bacoarat scandal case, which line the fetiet of Purini, whieh occurs on the
just been reviewed in the London courts are fourteenth day of the Hebrew month Adar,
not oolnttlabed to gis'sit e or March --A ril. This is otherwise called
impassion of the manner in which members' the Feast of aman, and oommemorates the
A. ABBREW JfELL Il RUSSIA,
BY 1111XliN ILRY01./.
Ibis George Ellot who says that more
will -power hes been exerted for the purpose
of extinguishing the Jew I hail for tety °thee
me purpose since the world began ; but thut,
somehow, the Jen' will not be extinguished.
He is tough and enduring hermil all prece•
dent, admirably well fitted to eurvtvo, He
has survived the perseoutions, the ignominy
the intolerable homesiekness of twenty cen
turies ; he has come out into the light, he
has made ti home foe himself among the
foremost of eveey land where lifo 15 pozenblo;
the deadly duel between 400,000,000 Chris.
liens and the poor 7,000,000 JOWS, Whiell is
the history of the European Jew, has result •
ed nut to hie disedvanta 0, He has rem:heel
seers in that coulltet, or wrongs do no
pass ; by endowment and by possibility he
watt the most fortunate of all the nations,
but as it 0, he will never have, now, the
distinctive virtues of a dominant race, Yet
he is rich, virtueus, honored, gifted beyond
any other typo of raan vvith a keen, tee).
edged intelligenee, with the power to fee
for the sufferings of his owe people, and
with the skill to enjoy artisticelly the good
thiogs of this world.
Such is the Jew of Germany end Franco,
of Great Britaiu, of America ; the Jew
of whom Ronan writes so brilliantly
as the special product of tee last
half -century in the great commercia
centers of the world. But " there is a poor
blind Samson in this land ;" thorn is another
type of Jew— starved, oftentimes, end
hollow-eyed, numbering a good many inde-
finite millions, and dift'ering vastly frein the
sleek Jew of high commerce—who has begun
to throng the purlieus of our great cities,
and to make his strong voice of agony heard
from the dark forests of the Niemen. Him
It was to whom Dr. Schindler, the chosen
Rabbi of the prosperous Jews of Boston, iu
a recent leothre on charity, referred when
speaking of our duty to be patent with all
men, with the Arab, the Hottentot, "oven
the uncultivated Russien Jew."
I happen to have an effection for this same
uncultiveted Russian Jew, and would like
to be allowed to write a few words about
•
I silisolt-lk ubodt, whielt edli makes the ver-
nacular of the Ruassien dew, and itt
1/1Ry WILS oven performed in Leaden sot
nutny years ago, repreeenting the tribula-
tions of the orthodox .1ew, ti Ito is dry,ged
away from the study of his favorite Talmud -
Mal books to serve in the tienty, where, Front
his MUSS, be oan bope for no promotion.
Ono born among the Polish J ews has ubly
described the peaceful, pastorel state of
ttungs whiell existed for six ()eateries, until
the beginning of the reeent peeseetitions.
"lhey wgov
ereerned, "by deputies
and an elder elected by the houscholdere of
the kalial or commune, which wee ueverthe•
less aristootatie, or rather plutheratio. With
tee government of the country the kahal had
slight connection. hyoid itio annual tribute
to its overlord, whose chattel it was ; and
t further than that it had no responsibilities.
The government was in strict accord with
the legislation of the Old Testament end the
Talmud. All CASOS at law were brought liza,
fore the rabbi of the commune, whose funa•
tams were ,thuost wholly judioial, whether he
had to pronounoejudgment in a serious litige•
I lion or to decide as to purity and impurity
upon a pewter spoon. The individual jew
had few social aealings with the Gentile
world. He knew that he was not like
" them," that he was dwelling with his
brethren in captivity, awaiting with street
hope the trumpet -blast of the Messiah, For
that reason his relations with the children
1 of his people were of the olosest kind. He
tnet them three thnos each dey at tho qua.
gogue, etc.
" Odd as it may seem, these inteeeste and
hopes wore of the most ideal kind.
What witlt prayers, vigils, fasting, baptism,
and the Talmud, the Jews were kept busy
indeed. On what they lived—who knows 2
Although in each conuttunity there were
Jewish masons, carpenters, tailors, shoe-
makers, and smithe, no Jew could take up
a trade without losing caste, . . • Most
of them knew very few words of the tongues
of the Gentiles. Of Hebrew every Temente
lad some knowledge. To be unable to read
it at least was not to be a Jew, On the
smarmy, the study of Gentile tongues was
a in.
" Such a regime made the Jew what he
was in the first half of this century. Ile WEIS
a Jew, body and soul; in faith, in speech, in
habit, in his social relations. Outside of
Judaism he knew and he would know noth-
ing. Ito looked down upon the Gentile as
of the "upper" classes oocup.y their time downfall, or rather the elevation on the gal- en animal without an Immortal soul, au utt•
when fgey .f an social eniasuins, egi end, lows fifty =bits high, of Heinen, the fortunate creaeure, a crass barbarian whom
day which had been passed on the race course famous enemy of the Jews. We can God kept on earth. He alone knew why. .
by gathering arouttd the baccarat table in a real yet in the Bible of how " the . . As far as he knew, the world existed
mutual frienddrawing•rooni and speeding Jews of the villages that dwell in the unseal- for the children of Israel, and the day would
's
hours in playing Inc stakes, ,,, is thiee in led towns made the fourteeneh day of the soon come, it was hoped, when the Israelites
any ordinary auto, is not what tnight
month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, alone should ocioupy the earth."
c
have been eepected of persons so distingaisla and a good day, and of sending portions one Such was, until within a few years, the
ed as were sevetal of linnet who
to another." It is pleasant to watch theme- heamloss and interesting community which
:nada up
the party on the memorable night in s'is'al, through at least two-e.nd4wenty oen- has been doomed to extinction. The special
question. lienceferth quiet people, not turies,,of this old-world custom, and to note
abreast with the age, anti who have been that among the " _portions " are a form of
wont to itnagine that when eminent men turnover called "Iiiimmataschen," made of
and distinguished ladies meet in social inter- sweetened breadelough tilled inside with
course they are accustomed to speed the PaPPY 'Weds and honey, and shaped in im-
days in protitehle and ennobling employ- .itation of the cooked hat which Hamen is
merit and to devote the tong evenings, to re. supposed to have worn. The Russian Jews
fined amusements and to brilliant con- have learned, as a rule, to submit to evil for
versations wherein statesmen lay aside the which there te no remedy, and to lead hush -
burden of aloe and august personages ecl and humble lives in which renunciation
the still weightier burdens of rank, will to Plays a patheticoaly large part. But the
conjure up a different picture, the _picture Feast of Haman rouses all their spirit.
of a gaining table surrounded by 1s and They cannot but remember that millions of
their relatives in Poland are at this moment
gentlemen who worship the Go4 dam of
Chanee with an earnestness and devotion Pausing through it perseoution from which
which no professional ezmanbler not, surpass. no Mordecai shall release them, are walking
For that the gambling habit during the last in a furnace heated seven timith brit, but
fewyears has made enormous advenaesamong with no appeasing angel by their side.
the English "upper" classes is a facttoo pa.. IL is important to remember that "tho un -
tent to be denied. And not only has this un- cultivated Russian jaw" represents cart inly
one-half, and perhaps two-thirds, of all the
healthy habit been growing, but aocordingto
the London Standard, a journal of unques- Jews in the world. The towage respectable
tiona,ble repute, it is betng pursued with an estimate which I have seen pats the Russian
openness which is nothing short of shame• 1 Jews at 3 000 000, Mr. E. B. Lenin, who
" There is no concealment about it. lines with so much force, and wieh a heart -
has writteri mien this subject in the magaz-
less. Says the Standard :
The man who wants a game of baccarat; or dessnese which may be but the calculated
who desires te risk his money at rouge -et -nob, 'effect of ma, -speaks constantly of them as
numbering at least 5 000 000. We have thus
is under no neceseity to 'dive into some
furtive and hall illicit private ' hell,' He a nation of the size of modem Belgium, or
can gamble to his heart's content in the of twice the size of classical Greece. In fact,
drawingrooms of some of the stateliestwith a ieW ""imPrta"b exuaUbbnia hi the
country houses in England and some of the 'Danubian prinaipalitiee, Russia is the only
noblest town mansion; in London ; and the ' country where the Jews still form a distinct
community. Everywhere else they axe but a
number of them private casinos is increasing
rapidly. Gambling is becoming the favor- sect, or a social order ; here they form a
ite after-dinner amusement of certain MEM. 'nation, 'which for six centuries long, or for
ential sets, and if we eon believe the stories .five times the indepenience of the United
sumsS.3
that are told, vast are won and lost ,"°a, has been eattonomous. This brave
with a frequency and freedom that recallancl benighted nation, existing Mr so long
the old days of Crockford's. Then, too 'unknown in the midst of the vast Russian
av
we he adopted an innovation unknown ti,and Polish m
barbariss, havebeen irrevocably
our great grandfathers. In their time, ie•
doomed to extinction. It is not enough
men sat up. till daylight gaming and drink- 1 that the nation, as a self-governing
ing it was in the company of :nen. In our , factor in Russian affairs, must pass •,
modern gambling (Wens:: women are free of eaoh individual composing the nation must'
the guild-. The belies are nob expected to I be destroyed. Those velM underatand the
conditions best sey that the Renton Jews
have no cliance. Mr. Lanni has remarked
that never before was a keine/ uante, Inc
such limp stakes, played with such un-
daunted spirit as by these uecultivated
Jews.
Has the reader ever had the luck to
lieten to the narrative of some sailor, camp
ed across the ice, who can tell of how the
ioebergs of Alaska or of Greenland gather-
ed mound and orushed his doomed whaling
withdraw when them male friends call for a
pack of coeds and express a desire for cigars
and 'long driukse In the gatne which
ensues the oharinieg and graceful hostess
takee a hand ; she can put her money on the
red or the black with coolness and judg-
ment ; she is acquainted with the tatter
mysteries of poker, and ca,n 'bluff 'an oppon•
neat in that fascinating game with the skill
and pertinacity of a veteran player in a
exas bar -room.
This is not a delightful picture surely, iiee vessel? Or has he followed, step by step,
one to be contemplated with equanimity by the way in which the growing Christian
those English tneu who are solicitous for the powers Spain closed in around the
moral well-being of their fellow -country -dwindling Mhammedan principalities an.
men. It is to bo hoped that His Royal til, sealluatreted on some maps, the whele
Highness, whose experienoes in conneotion of the peninsula was pink, end the Moharn•
with the recent trial have been so humiliat• medans were represented only by a yellow
ing will henceforth consent to lend the weight spot about Granada ?
of his potverful influence in discountenancingYet the Mohammedans, while they stood
a practice ao universally condetnned by in Speen at all, maintained their tout% with
moralists as tending to subvert tho best in the delivering sett, For the Jews in Russia
terests of the people, there is no sea, no escape, no hope, This is
bhe day. of the growth of great powers, and
Russia, th as elenaly on the inoroase now as
was Christian Spain in the fifteenth century.
despolista 0114 hoar no exeeptions, and the
recene fate of Finland, indepeedene and con-
stitutional for nearly a century, where the
Czar was no Czar, but merely King, ehoeve
ehe tendency of things. The Russians
are not merely jealous of the political exist -
once of the Jews—they are in deadly twee
of their superior intelligence, industry, and
vietue,
Russia proper, Orme Russia, Holy Rues*
never had any Jews. At present there are
no Jews in all the body of the Empire with
the excepeion of a few merchants who are
allowed to reside front year to year in tete
great cities, by paying an enormous fine, on
the some prineiple that clogs pay teem in
America,. It would be easy anti amusing to
;mote some of tho edicts by which suocessive
Russian monarchs endeavored to keep the
" scurvy Jews" off their borders, The inost
liberal of thetas edicts allowed tho Jews, Inc
example, to enter the comthry for a limited
time in order to attend the annual fairs, but
forbade them to wary any money at all out
of the country, oven copper olumge.
The Sews came to Russia with Poland,
which was annexed in 1772 and in 1792.
They had boon living in Potent' for about
five eel:Aeries:, eince they bad limn first
brought into the actuary by Gedimir the
Tile worst all•aroand etrikor is the bor. Great, They came from the direction of
rower. Gernany, and lied tarried with them the
Don't be ter sevoreon the man who smokes ;tort of Gainful evhioll tees epoken in the
cigarettes 1 he may have promised a lying thieteenth =dory, Thi e lee/maga, horribly
mother tied he would never touch tobacco ,.,ispronounced, and willk the addition of
in are. fere:
Some Roses,
How many gleams of pink in the world)
The light of the dawn and the eve,
The lite of a fleeting oloud,
The happy cheek of a girl,
The glow imprisoned in pearl!
And oh, the sweetness and the gladness
Molting, pouring, through the pinkness
Roses' petals hold for love!
Leaf on leaf folding over,
Or breaking bonds and bursting OSVer,
Rolling backward, luecious, full;
Wrapping closest at the centre.
Curving thence in buoyant whirl;
Tilting lightly at the edges.
Where the Kohn= pales mow.
Burning sotnehow through the color,
Transfiguring and meking fuller,
Shade of pink and hidden yellow.
Lives and glows, a light, a spirit,
Essen:3e sttlitte, whence and whither ?
Mingling softly with Ole spirit,
Breathing out from form mei texture
Of the roses' every fold.
Wafted upward to the senses,
Come a fragrance and a rapture,
Seent of gareleeti, tease of heaven,
Sweet to wileineas, dear, ecstatic,
perseautious began with the accession of
Alexander III.—ten years ago—but for'
whom, it has been said, there need neVilYi
have arisen a Jewish question in Russia., I!
,zan do no more, in closing, than recall to my
readers minds a few of the countless new
edicts that are incessantly falling upon the
unhappy Jews.
Formerly a Jew was allowed to lend
money on landel security, although he con1c1
not positively own land. This peivilege has
been taken away, and the very foundations
f many a business have been dislocated,
Formerly, oppressive as were the laws of
military servitude, the only son of a widow,
or a son who was the seaport nf his mother's
family, was not included. Now all these
tender exceptions have been done away
with. The Jews have always had a fine
thirst for intelleetual things, and, in spite
of their excessive poverty, they have
thronged the universities. By a deoree of
1886 they were exclu leil altogether front
many schools and uolleges, and admitted
only in proportion of ten, of five, or
of three per cent. of the entire number of
students into °them. "1 shallnever forget,"
says Mr. Lenin, "the harrowing scones I
witnessed, the tomes, the entreaties, the
wailing and despair irtimediately after the
passingof that drastic law," Formerly, when
they had no need to do so, the Jews could
emigrate ; now they can no longer leave the
country except under false pretenses, and by
exposing themselves to fearful penalties if
unsuccessful, or if they ever venture back t
see their dear ones. The laws dissolving all
family and business relations by the huge
rewards offered for apostasy from Judaism
have been frightfully complicated of late. A
Jew cannot change his residence except
every two years ; he cannot weer a skull cap
without paying a yearly tax of five rubles;
he caneot employ his own butcher without
paying double or triple meat taxes, And sc
I might go on forever.
The most fearful thing of all is the recent
decision of a, Russian superior court that
where a law can be :male to harm or not to
harm a Jew, it must always be construed it
the restrictive sense. In other words, the
prisoner is no longer to have the benefit of
the doubt. As Mr. Lenin says, "The writ-
ten laws against the JONI'S, severe as they
undoubtedly are, can give no idea of the
actual amount and kind of suffering inflict-
ed on this unfortunate people by those who
administer them, and front whose interpre-
tation and conduet there lies no appeal.
Not only muse oue take into consideration
the kind of whip with which they are beaten,
but likewise the arm that wields it, and i
this case it Is the sinewy, bloody arm that
knouted so many Christians to death."
Perhaps the Russia Jews are unoultivated,
as Dr. Schindler says; but the way in which
they are enduring these persecutions has
been finely called the nearest approach bo
an imposing miracle that has been vouchsafed
to tide unbelieving generation.
A Close Season in Delving. Bea,
The action of the British parliament in
passing the bill to provide for a close season
10 13ehring sea must commend itself to every
thoughtful person as exceedingly judicious,
inasmuch as it will seeve to coneinee the
world that the existing difficulty beleveen
Britain and ehe Ceiba& States is not due to
any unreasonable demand on bite part of the
former eountry. The bill providee thot the
period during Whieh the prohibition shall
continue shall be determined by the order in
council ; that during this period no person
belonging to a, British 'ship ellen. kill, take or
hue, or attempt to kill take or hunt any
seal within Behring sea ; that no Brilish
ship or any equipment or arew thereof shell
bo employed in euth killing, taking or hunt-
ing, and that if there be any oontravention
of the Act any pereon committing, procuring,
aiding or abetting such contravention shell
be guilty of a misdemeanor and the ship
equipment, and everything on board shell be
forfeited to her Majesty. In moving that
the bill be road a seoond time Mr. W. 31,
Smith stated in parlittinette the other day
that "Greet Britain had endeavored to arrive
at a friendly conclusion with a kindred
power and had practically succeeded in do-
ing so," It is expected Mutt a joint oommia-
sion will now be appointed to investigate
the conditicie of the sealing Meier:try that
lime "Ate liwo nations maybe in a position to
dial more ietelligenliy with the question.
Meantime arrangements aro going forward
In have the queetion of jurisdiceion subntit-
Semitic and even of alexia words, is the ted to arbitration,
iihe had no pew ner maw
Nei. any brood nor kin,
ee theta Memento a hemmed
'Mier we all took her In.
A 1)001., peaked little critter,
Itethheadod. Palo, on' 11,1*,
Six boys lime wag o' we tine,
An, pap ho used to 'grim
That live of us s likely
As you would wish to see:
An' ono or UR in015 611010Y,
an' thet liter one wus 111,
An' Jinn), nsp,t to Wog to,
leer bele' leg an' leen,
All hands an' 805. 00 freokleg -
The thialiost ever seen.
Shojedeaul Twits only sunburn
Kept ate from lookbe 111'SOR.
PlrAl; olf d idn't mlini it,
Them funnin. WitySitt horn,
But when .hu toolc t o growin
Like a slim you ag forest fern,
An' did her hair up on top, why
Her jokes begun to burs.
I knowd 0 wasn't not Ida'
Sot otr g lost .1 oho and .11m,
An' 130d, well, ho Wits Sightly,
4,,' Tal, 1 looked at him
.An' sensed his mance with dimly
Wilt4 big an' mine IYUS kW.
SO0 llOW0d IR never inctittmi
Ifew much 1 keored Per her ;
Coo 1 ledge to pine in secret
IL passes easier
Then to Mile with folks it.k nowl n'
Just what yotere Olin' for.
I tried a retendly manner
An' talked with her right smart
About her bean:ti, an' reckoned
Sho hadn't any heart;
An' one day when 1 gald
Her eyes ilew wide apart
In asuddlot, fashion.
An' tho blue looked wet an' she
Wag pink as any POSO
An' 11 well, when 1 ROC
That blugh, well, the truth Is
She's gain' to marry me 1
SUMMER SMILES,
Nothing to speak of—a cipher.
The murderer's version of it—no noose is
good noose.
A spiritualistic seance is at best a medium
performance.
The girl who hasn't yet "00000 out "
fier bathing suit begins to trim,
And though she's young, without a doubt,
Sne'll soon be in the swim.
" My daughter, did John propose last
night ?" " No, mother. leut I thought I de-
tected an engaggment Hog in his voice as be
bade me good night."
Fair Customer—" You say you trained
that dog yourself. Clan he understand me
if I call bun in English ?" Dealet.—" Yale
feff you whistle to him."
Miss Lovering—" But if you did not love
htm, why, oh, why, dal you marry him ?
Lady Bankrupt—" Well my dealt, he was
ping at such a bargain I couldn't resist.'
Edith (soliloquizing)—" I'm so glad he
proposes by letter. No fuss—no helping
him on—and plenty of time to run down to
papa's office and look !um up in Brad.
street's before I give him an answer.
Miss De Pink—" Did you hear about
Miss Bullion's engagement to a foreign
nobleman ?" Mr. Gooefello—" Yes, every.
body is talking of it." " Isn't it remark-
able—they say she is really marrying him
for love."
Clarice—" Anti so your eugagetnent with
Maitland is really off ?" Isabel—" Yes, I
got tired of machine -made -love." Clarice—
" Machine -made love ? What do you menu?'
Isabel—" Ile wrote all Ms letters on a
typewriter,"
First Clerk—" I've had this office cout
four years." Second Clerk—. You don't
say so ? N't hy, it looks as good as new.
How do you account for it lasting so long ?"
First Clerk—" I don't know, unless it's
because I never wear it out."
Reporter—" How did your benquet gl
off, 13anklurk ?" Banklurk—" Not as war
as it might, you know. The toastmasteo
called on a gentleman who had lost an eye,
Sit ear, and a leg to answer to the toast,
Our Absent Members.'
"Did you see old Skinflint?" "Yes I
told him I had come to ask of him the great-
est blessing a man could seek—his (laughter's
hand." "Aad whet did he say?" 331
seemed very mush pleased. Said lie was
afraid at first I wanted to borrow five
dollars."
Cheycion—"1 think it must be admitted
wotnan exerts a refitting influence on num."
Mrs. fillaydoe—" Of course it is." Claydon
--" Now, there's jaysinith. His wife's
scolding has driven hint to drink and he's
beenfinedand refined for disorderly oondect.
The Rats Won,
The question is fregnently naked, writes a
correspondent of the Lewiston Attend,
whence; comes the name of Thomson Pond,
o sheet; of water in Western Maine, extend-
ing through four towns and lying partly in
three counties. Tradition says it was named
from the first settler, Joe Thomson, of whom
the following anecdote its related :
Mr. Thomson woe greatly disturbed by
rats, which assailed his premises in hordes,
and at last he took an original method of
getting rid of therm
Iie placed an empty hogshead in his log
hovel, leaving the bunghole open, through
wh Lott he dropped o small quantity of meat
scraps and bread crumbs. Then taking a
large letither bag he retired outside and
peeped through a orevioe to see what would
happen.
Presenely he espied an old gray veteran
approeshing the' banghole, The rodent
looked in, then sniffed; and imemed to take
an inventory of the room to ascertain what
dangers there were, and finally he ditimp•
peered inside the hogshead. Very soon he
emerged from the bunghole and seampared
off. In a halfminute the old rat appeared,
followed by a drove of a hundred or more
hungry rodents whidli went after him into
the hogshead
"Now is my fun 1" Joe chuckled, and ho
went quietly through the door and adjusted
the epee mouth of his leather bag over the
bunghole, at the nine time rapping the
hogshead with the toe of his boot, which
prodneed a ringing sound.
Withlond squeals ancl fierce struggles the
frightened rats began to scramble through
the bunghole, and soon they all landed in
the bottom of the bag.
Joe's first thought was to drown them by,
sinking the bag in the pond, but being in a
rather gamesome mood, he concluded to put
the bag in his boat, and, after rowing to a
good distanoo from the shore, release the
rate, with hie ox -goad have some fen knock.
ing them in the head,
Ho revved out from the shore so far that
ho WAS eeetain the rodents would be unable
to swim to land. Then he untied elm bag,
expecting to see the frightened creatures
lottp pollmoll iitto tho pond 1 hut he did nob
know the nature of his prisonora
Instead of fleeing into the water, or oven
retreating to ono auto of the boat, the rats
charged upon the man in a body, and with
WW1 Rod slaws so severely lamitated his
Mee, nook and beide as to oaten him to
leap from the bone and swim for the shore,
leaving the craft inpotthession of his ono -time
viothns.
LATE CABLE NEWS
,
Oost of Making an Arehbiellop
Prince of Wales—United Dinplre Trade
Leagne—The Triple Alliance,
There hai hem much talk recently ebout
the menzltdous met of melting an archbishop.
When Dr, Magee, who lute just died, was
made Ate:Meshy of York i1 was raid the
501)5050 1)1 truslation was .57,000 mul the
salary of the °Mee .O10,000, figures atilt
enough to account for an army of parasiti-
eat ollicials. '1 here wore loud calls foe
reform, and the Uhureh of England wail
poended on all shine. But it now seetns the
expenses of making the Aeohbistiop were
not 57,000, but I:100. The balance was for
furniture and such other =Mere as ordinary
people are expected to pay for. Besides,
Arehbishop Magee, in the sheet thee he was
arelibishop, drew eatery to the reapeotable
amount nt over 54,000. It is it relief to
know that nebody will refuse the arch-
bishopric ou zuzeount of the expense of trans-
lation.
The Prince of Wales has evidently resolv-
ed to limo the baccarat scaedai down. He
hae accepted several invitations to public;
ceremonies, and his engagements already'
inoluile the opening of ta convalescent hospi-
tal ansi several ecliools.The rumour that;
he has cemented to tteke the (Meer at the
annual meeting of the anti -gambling society
is unfounded and malicious. On leredneeday
evening, however, Ile did restune his role as
the model Theme and the patron of science.
The occasion was the centenary of Zwaday's
birthday, and a grea crowd of Englaildt
most ant -lent scientific men assembled ae do
honor to " the baccarat export" and to
Faraday. This order of proredence is
strictly correct, and it is confirmed by the
fact that all the newspapers report the
Prince's prosaic remarks verbatim, and
nearly all suumarize in a few lines the really
remarknble oration delivered by Prof. Lord
Rayleigh in honor of the great chemist,
electrician, and philosopher.
The members of the United Einpire Trade
League were received by Lord Salisbury
yesterday and were treated in that wily
diplomat's blandest manner. He more thau
hinted that he shared their views in regard
to fostering coloniel trade at the expense of
the foreigners, deplored the carelessness of
Lord Peemerston's Government in entering
into eegagemer ts which have ever eince
fettered lengland'e hands, and then told the
Leaguers that he could do nothing tor them
unta they had succeeded in the gigantic
and, as most people, including Salisbury,
think, impossIble task of converting the
country to the policy of protection.
There is reason to believe that Italy has
not yet formally rebound herself to the Tri-
ple Alliance, but it is beyond doubt that she
is about to do so. When that Inc been done
there will be a Ministerial crisis in Rome.
Themajority of the Cabinet favore the Triple
Alliance, but on Other matters the GpiniORS
of the Ministers are hopelessly divergent.
The Mister of Finance, in particular, has
caused more trouble than all the other mem-
ben of the Cabinet put together. He is still
feverishly seeking to establish a financial
anl has submitted during this
month alone no fewer than thirty distinct
proposals for raising money, of which his
colleagues have ap ;roved only two, The re-
jection of each proposal has been automatic-
ally followed by the tender of Signor Luz-
zatia resignation, this and has been invariab•
ly refused by King Humbert, who will not
,allow a Ministernel crisis to occur so long as
a new Triple Alliance shall remain uncome
pleted.
Destroying Spades.
When people set about .getting rid of
entire species of animals by a systematic
persecutiou, they usually find it a difficult
sob. Sot a, price on the head of the wolf or
the woodchuok and the creature seems to
realize the importance of its life. A bounty
on crows must be viewed as a pleasant joke
by those shrewd observers of men and
things. The ease of the wolf in Europe is
historioal one, A price has been aot on
the creature's head for centuries, awl yet
literals but a smell portion of the continent
frozn which the animal has been extermitat•
ed. The Netherlands is free of wolves from
the character of tho country. The whole
laud furnishes not a shade rookyden su
wit-
able for a wolf's lair i
; neither s there a
forest for the creaetwe's shelter.
It is true that the wolf has been exter-
minated from Great Britain and Ireland.
This result has been reached, however, by
indirect means rather then by a direct)
attack. The clearing off of the forest left
the wolf no place in . which to hide from
pursuit. The islands were too far from
the continent for their thinned ranks to be
recruited from the mainland.
In Spain and France the wolf has at no
time been unknown, although a price has
been set on its head Inc hundreds of, years.
The animal has developed cunning in pro-
portion as the pursuit) has bomme closer,
Like the crow, it has learned to take care
of itself.
On the other band, species receive very
little help toward their continuance aeon
the well -meant efforts of man to that end.
In proof of this We are told that there is an
ancient Act of Parliamentstall in foroo in
England and Weleseproliihiting this baking
of the eggs,: of certaut birds, of which sue
kinds ere expressly lamed. In spite of
this protecting law, four of bit six speetee
have ceased to breed in those countries.
The fedi/fed ways in whieh such results/
are brought) about are shown in the destruc-
tion of the quail in Now Zealand. The
birth; were once numerous ; no one wished
to destroy them, But the land was burned
over for other ptirposes at emulous when the
eggs and young of the quail were exposed
to destruction, and a few years brought
the species to an end.
Word mines from Hamburg that the
authorities there profess to be surprised
because a German immigrant) by thename of
Bader,who was known to be guilty of a
crimi
e n Germany, was nob pertnitted to
land iu New Yoult. They say time it is the
=atom in all the Getman stake, as well as
the other etatem of Enrope, to send their in.
oorrigible criminals to America as the beet
way of getting rid of them, and boob
attempt is made to conceal tho custom. Itt
Switzerland they have a, way of limning one
their convicts on their signing an agreement
never to rektrn to that oolnitry, and while
it is not speeified that they are to go to
Amore:the they generally do, and usually the
mirage is, paid by the Government. The awl.
mots aro mstruoted what story to tell abotte
themselves, end usually their fatherland
seas them no more. Thus these little states
save themselves heavy expense in tim way
or supporting penitentiaries, and the United
States is turned into a Botany Bay sol ett-
joys all sorts of stri hos. anarchist agitations,
malla, vendettas and other fetch filIVSOS 111
nuntorablo. —Now Orleans Picayune.