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Home My WebLink AboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-07-28, Page 4x -meet-4w .-.7-ittiahrtiettesteiete_ - twee August forks of "the There g to t doz ogee men in, and eaat- tingina tre, Lied children ere is no man ata flight. when he he com- elled for d meant instances own ad- ck which ut how ? 1 decide. is speak - up the favor of Six. It's him up the left, ged gulch wart men im along. gons and flows on. s and re - no man advanced hey are in and they et more. f day has ion of the other than easts ha ve d slimy ner, who e, and the ound the r an anvil chisel and rock pro- nd of half e growl of and down disturbed eard down never be- e whisper and shoot en gather o answer. that he is it backs on back and lanking of head—no e into the take their in twenty sight. listening. ill return. with the him. The of a driver that pitch - Then all is ere blazing loud and r naw, and japer could some One , but who Iver to his There are ly coming ip ! of the helf above d of the s and cries damp. He s parched ne at the him pant ries it link ht and left, n ox. The realizes his treetops far ht sunshine, and nncon- hen there is ow and then alking and ess drip of that of the f that wild o investigate 'ntervals the first day of he darkness a1ha1ha! and to have going to dig h ! I'd have dn't lost my e of em. It's tde and the i -morrow and B driven him for several ore merciful id him may prospectors d cry out is ody snpport- n will utter it a burial. of "Skeleton sir camp fires eckness and harsamwommlh hree-- tten of the ,outthe num- fen end in as -he "sacred Trinity ; Ju- s ; the trident eras, Pluto's ;he Pythiaia re were three to sun is Sol, too, is Luria, eines prayed tions, in per- bow three wtsrewi hitt? .UOUSEHOLD. ATo Womanhood. s4own ei,zseene. Mothers and maidens, believe me, the whole eourre and character of your lovers' >ives is in your hands ; what you would have them be they, shall be, if you not only ut;*e to have them ego, but deserve to have them so}; for they are but mirrors, in which e will Hee yourtelves imaged. If you are jr ivolous, they will be so also ; if you have o understanding of the scope of their duty, they also will forget it; they will listen — ahey can listen—to no other interpretation of it than that uttered from your lips. Bid them be brave, they will be brave for you ; bid them be cowards, and how noble soever they be, they will quail for yon. Bid them bewismock e their' counsel, and they wilwill be lllise for be fools foou r you; touch and so absolute is your rule over them. You fancy, so often, that wife's rule should only old over her husband's house, not over his mind. Ah, no ! the true rule is just the reverse of that : a true wife in her husband's house is his servant ; it is in his heart that she is queen. Whatever of best he can conceive, it is her part to be ; whatever of highest he can hope, it is hers to promise ; all that is dark in him she must purge into purity; all that is failing in him she must strengthen into truth ; from her, through all the world's clamor, he twin i thro gb all the world's warfaren hemust find his peace. Proper Training for Girls. Staying at home as usual, and at work, while the girls are off on excursions, and boat rides, and botanizing expeditions, and showing at garden parties, and festivals of all sorts ! What folly, not only for yon, but for hem ! but must they have some recreation ? .,ertainly, and so must you. Now just stop ind consider that it is not a kindness to wring them up in this way. Life is a very earnest and practical affair, and trying to make it up out of picnics and estivals and jollities would be very much ,ike trying to make a meal out of whipped tream. It would be neither sensible nor iealthful. No girl should go out more than Bice or twice during a week, and not then if lit so doing she neglects the most important ranches of her education—a knowledge of ij--iusehold affairs and how to do in the most sractical and easy way the duties that she nust naturally expect will fall to her lot. It is almost a crime for yon to allow your Piris to waste their hours in such a fashion. erhaps they are has.ng a good tine, but some day they may say to themselves Oh, dear how I wish mother had taught ne something useful and sensible." And ;hen the botany and the music, the dresses ind the feasts and festivities will be re- nembered with regret, perhaps vexation ind fault-finding. Did you ever know a woman t,, regret ;hat she knew how to do exquisitely fine needlework or plain sewing, to bake light, wholesome bread, or make delicious pies ii cakes ? Did you ever know one who was ashamed of her skill in pickling and sreservieg, or who was unwilling to admit that she could arrange a table, order a :nurse dinner, and if need be, do the carv- ing herself ? No, indeed ; but many a woman has spent years in trying to acquire ;he knowledge of household affairs of which the should have been mistress before she was fairly in long dresses. The mother who fails to instruct her laughter in such branches defrauds her of woman's best right, the right to a knowl- edge of bow to make a home. Perhaps only a home for herself, but, oh, how pretty and pleasant it can be if the tact, the skill, the grace of the trained hand and eye and taste ere there to bring it into perfect symmetry. In this day and age women must learn more than household service, but that she should be taught as she learns her alphabet. She is never too young to learn, but really, is far as practical purposes are concerned, she is sometimes too old to learn. Habits of ' neatness, thrift, order and economy should be among the first lessons of life. Girls should never know that there is such a thing as habitual disorder. Comfortable system and well -considered prudence are among the gifts and graces that go to make ep the useful and beautiful women. A careless woman can never be wholly attrac- tive. The eye rests at once upon some evi- dence of untidiness and the charm is de- itroyed. Girls, and boys, too, for that matter, should have the importance of personal tidiness and neatness early im- pressed upon them. And not cniy is this imperative, but carder and system in business affairs is of the utmost importance. How long would a merchant do business, think you, if he put his accounts down on some loose scrap of paper or on the wall, or undertook to Barry them in his head ? The idea seems preposterous, but is no more so than many of the prevailing notions ten the subject of housekeeping. There is really no royal road either to do- mestic or business success. Only hard work and steady, plodding industry can make a perfect housekeeper or a capable business man. and. household affairs do not take long to learn, after all, if one only begins early and grows into it naturally. Such lessons shoeld be learned by all girls, whether rich or poor, and, with them, 'very practical lesson and accomplishment ;hat time, strength and circumstances will permit. Extravae'auce in Simplicty, " Eventhough sweet simplicity as repre- iented by muslins and organdies prevails," Jays a correspondent in , the Philadelphia Niles, "our extravagant girls are not de- earred from showing how much money can tee expended even on a gown of =this sort, Ind in consequerce they line a twenty -five - lent Swiss with a dollar -a -yard silk and tem it with real lace at any price they can °each. " Their parasols, though of the plainest lescription, will have handles that represent Snug little sums; being, as they are, made sf_eolored pear'set:with jewels, overlaced With genuine gold, or silver, and a very - konomical woman thinks a Dresden China not or handle not one whit too expensive. " On their hats they will wear real diamond buckles and stars, if they own them. If not, the very finest imitations, which in themselves are far from. being :heap, take the place of the genuine, --and aestle in among the lace and roses that are is dear as they are dainty. No more lisle - thread hosiery her- the summer girL 'Silk ernothing' seem to be her motto, and it fteans no small supply when she has at iLeast a dozen pair of allees and ties that re- ttire stockings to nate s1-. Her handker- hiefs must he bits of shwa. linen or lama sfne and about as useful as a aarrider's web:. ertidanity$.en$hoesnuthareal: go.v dherlovely._ hair young men of small means mast not be de- luded by the simplicity of the gown into believing its cost of the same character. " Never has there been a season when quality reigned with the omnipotent supremacy of to -day. Silks, satins and velvets cannot be compared in cost with the deceptive little muslin gowns worn by the summer girl." The Evil. in Feminine Dress. The evil in the feminine dress of to -day lies not with our rich women, but with our women of average means, writes Edward W. Bok in the July Ladies' Home Journal. The wealthy woman rarely overdresses ; the average woman far more ejten, and she stamps herself by that vef ' indiscretion. It is not the mistress who overdresses so mach as it is her servant who tries to imi- tate her. The nice and refined women, the women of taste, are not the purchasers of the showy dress patterns and misfit hats which we see in the show windows. Just in proportion as a woman is refined in het nature is she quiet in her dress.. A refined woman never dresses loudly. The present tendency in red is not followed by girls and women of refinement. It is affected by those who forget tbat red is the most try- ing color which a woman can wear becom- ingly, and there is no color of which one se soon tires. Only a few women can choose a perfect shade in red, and those are, as a rule, not the women who wear it. Home -Made Ice Crean!. Anybody make his own ice ream in five minutes, ned for an e p nd tore of two or three cents, says a correspondent. If the preparation desired to be frozen is plac- ed in a tin bucket or other receptacle it can be readily congealed by putting it in a pail g weak and water. a Into this throw throw a sulphuric. c handful of common Glauber salts, and the resulting cold is so great that a bottle of wine im- mersed in the mixture will be frozen solid. in a few minutes, and ice cream or ices may be quickly and easily prepared. The Couch in a Cosy Room. A room without a couch of some sort is only half furnished. Life is full of ups and downs, and all that saves the sanity of the mentally jaded and physically exhausted fortune -fighter is the periodical good cry and the momentary loss of consciousn=ess on the upstairs lounge, or the old sofa in the sitting.room. There are times when so many of the things that distract us could be straightened out, and the way made clear if one only had a long, comfortable couch on whose soft bosom he ceuld throw himself, boots and brains, stretch his weary frame, unmindful of tidies and tapestry, close bis tired eyes, relax the tension of his muscles, and give his harrassed mind a ch anee. Ten minutes of this soothing nar- cotic, when the head throbs, the soul yearns for endless, dreamless, eternal rest, would make the vision clear, the nerves steady, the heart light, and the star of hope shine again. _ There is not a doubt that the longing to die is mistaken for the need of a nap. In- stead of the immortality of the soul busi- ness men and working women want regular and systematic doses of dazing—and after a mossy bank in the shade of an old oak that succeeding seasons have converted into a tenement of song birds, there is' nothing that can approach a big sofa, or a low, long couch placed in the corner, where tired na- ture can turn her face to the wall and sleep and doze away the gloom. Unwholesome .Eggs. The character of a hen's egg is something that affects consumers of this kind of food very seriously. Few persons suspect danger existing in an egg. There is au old adage to the effect that an egg and a nut can be eaten without suspicion, but it is very far from being true. For a nut has almost al- ways a worm hiding in the kernel and an egg has been found to have the germs of various lothsome kinds of organisms exist- ing within its substance. This fact has � been heretofore mentioned as derived from personal experience of the writer, and now we have before us a report of investigations by Dr. Gayon, who has discovered in a es ENGLAND'S PREMIER. Incidents is the Career of the Iiarquis Salisbury. The most remarkable thing about Lor Salisbury is a personal one, though it h a certain sort of political interest.- -He the first Prime Minister of England sin his ancestor, Robert Cecil, Earl of Bu leigh, Lord keeper of the Great Seal un der Queen Elizabeth, whohas worn_a beard The fashion of wearing beards went out i England at the beginning of theseventeent century, and has never quite come in again among that - class of men from whom Prime Ministers are 'drawn. Even the mustache was almost unknown in England, except among the military, until after the Crimean war, when civilians took to wearing it, partly in imitation of the soldiers and partly from the influence of the French al- liance. But as for the beard, it is still re- garded as an eccentricity or as the mark of some outlandish bringing up. The official class as 'a rule wear only side whisker? Mr. GIadstone, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Russell, Lord Palmerston, Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Melbourne, and all the other prime ministers of the nine- teenth century wore only side whisk- ers, while before their time, for two centur- ies, the custom was to shave close. At the present day beards are more common in the House of Lords than in the House of Com- mons, because, a good :many elderly men wear them, and the Lords are nitwit older than the Commons. But in either house a beard makes a man decidedly noticeable. Lord Spencer, formerly Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, wears a big rough beard, and Lord Lathorn, the present Lord Chamberlain, wears adage red beard, coming almost down to his waist. But Lord Salisbury is the only Prime Minister who has worn a heard for just 300 years. And such a beard as it is 1 If it were not for his great, bulbous forehead and long, aggressive nose his beard would seem to cover, the whole face. of the man and constitute his whole in- dividuality. With its sturdy bushiness and total disregard of conventional ideas, it is, indeed, very characteristic of him. The Duke of Devonshire, who always wears a beard, is said to have attire -' you be damned- ness" about him than any other nobleman in England. But Lord Salisbury runs him close. He is the very type of the strong- minded, bull-headed, good tempered Eng- lish aristocrat ; and he shows it in his appearance as much as in his words and acts. The origin of Lord Salisbury's beard, however, is to be found in an incident of his career which is not generally known, or, rather, which is generally forgotten, but which has bad a good deal to do with the formation of his character. He was a younger son of the second Marquis of Salisbury, and though his father was the lord of many acres, and married to a great heiress, the present head of the house started in life with Iittle but a historic name and a splendid education. Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil was not the man to live on his father or to idle away the best of his years among dogs and horses. He determined to be independent and, hav- ing an Oxford fellowship to support hint, he set out for Australia and New Zealand with the serious intention of becoming a colonist and building up his own fortune by enterprise and hard work. That was when he grew his beard, for in those days a razor was almost an unknown article in the col- onies, and having got into the habit of it, he has worn it ever since. Lord Robert's plans of life were entirely changed by the death of his elder brother, Lord. Cranbourne, to whose courtesy, title, and magnificent prospects he succeeded. He had already made a great name for him- self in the House of Commons, and been a member of Lord Derby's Cabinet, when, five years later, the death of his father made him Marquis of Salisbury and one of the great landed magnates of England. He was then just thirty-eight and in the prime of his powers, and his accession to the House of Lords proved a most fortunate thing for the Conservative party. Lord Derby—the great Lord Derby, as he is commonly call- ed— was a tory of the old school and a most unfortunate politician in every way. He was a man of splendid presence and most bacteria, aspergilli, and other organisms chivalrous enaracter, and his princely mu - which are derived from the fowl itself and nificence and ardent love of sport made him are to p h n be found also in ovaries and oviduct personally popular. But he was never in and blood of diseased fowls. Inoculation. touch with the English people or in har- ny with the spirt of the age. He seemed encs of these organisms in the eggs, and the l to be a feudal nobleman of the middle ages fecundated eggs were found to be far more I dropped accidentally into the nineteenth century. Under his leadership the Con- servatives really had no prospects at all. They never got into power except through some temporary crisis, and they never held it for more than a few months. All idea of a -Conservative administration as a per- manent thing seemed to have passed away. Just a year after Lord' Salisbury's accessit.n to the family honors, Lord Derby died. Mr. Disraeli as he then was, succeeded to the leadership of the party, and Lord Salisbury took charge of their interests in the House of Lords. He was immediately elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in suc:ession to Lord Derby—a very high hon. or for so young a man—and was marked out for the future Prime Minister. Two more different men than Disraeli and Lord Salisbury could not well be im- agined. Disraeli was all his life an actor, a mystery, a dreamer, an adventurer. He possessed nothing and he did not want to possess anything. He never really owned an acre of land in his life, and if he had just enough money for current expenses he was thankful not to be troubled with more. He had.no children; and his wife was more like a friend than anything else. He was an -English in all his ideas as he was in appearance. Lord Salisbury is exactly the opposite. He is, perhaps, the most Eng- lish Englishman in England. He is a wealthy landowner, and the inheritor of titles and estates 300 years old ; essentially a family man, and the very pink of social grandeur and high style. Yet the two men got on excellently together, because they both had brains. Lord Salisbury was wise enough to discern that Disraeli, with all his flimsiness and all his . charlatanism, had really big ideas and a big enough heart to carry them out. He was bold enough, too, to trust Disraeli, and nobody who ever trusted him found him false. Disraeli had that strange e•-' t into men's characters which enable., in to find out sooner than anybody else, not excepting themselves, what they were best fit for. Lord Salisbury had devoted himself mainly to home affairs and especially to church questions; but Disraeli discerned in him a great foreign' minister. By way of testing his capacity in this respect, he sent hien to the conference of the powers at Con- stantinople, without any previous training, as minister plenipotentiary at an extremely critical_ period. He acquitted himself so well that he acquired at one stroke almost equal rank with Disraeli as a master of for- eign politics—a position which he his never forfeited since. from that time until Dis ' e erath iii 1$8l the two statesmen were anathan and when the -v was Laid to his rest under the pyramid of primroses at Hughenden, Lord Salisbury of was unanimously acclaimed his successor in the leadership of the Conservative party. How well he has succeeded in that -position d is attested by the fact that out of the eleven as years elapsed since Disraeli's death, :fie is Conservatives have been in office seven; sine they. have never been defeated on a govern- ?- ment question in the House of Commons, nor on any question in the House of Lords ; • and they have lost fewer seats than either n party ever lost before in an equal length of h time. The contrast between their condition to- day and their condition under Lord Derby is one of the most remarkable things in the modern h'story of English polities. Un- doubtedly, Disraeli had a great deal to do with that. It was he who galvanized the prestige of the Conservative party into a brilliant semblance of renewed vitality. Bedu it it with Lord b sh life,and ma nt ined it over a long period of eventful years in ever in- creasing vigor. A British be much more thaForeign merle dipiniter needs lomatist plomatist, The ablest and most prominent diplomatists in the Queen's service are, in fact, but in- struments in his hands. If only the Brit- ish Isle were to be considered, his post would be comparatively a sinecure. But what he has to understand and bear con- stantly in mind are the several and collec- tive interests of all the diverse and widely scattered parts of the empire. Often, when he is conducting some tedious negotiation with a continental power upon an appar- ently trivial question, the object which he really has in view is connected with the future safety or welfare of some distant de- pendency. Practically, he controls all the outside affairs of the empire, and the Minis- ter of War, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and even the First Lord of the Admiralty, are but coadjutors of his. That is why Lord Salisbury has always contend- ed that the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs ought to be held.by the head of the government. Before his time it was cus- tomary for the Premier to be First Lord of the Treasury, on the theory that he ought to hold the purse strings. But Lord Salis- bury has always taken the ground that the most important office in the Cabinet, in the modern position in the British Empire is that of Foreign Minister; and that he is quite as well able to control the purse strings through a trusted colleague as he would be if he himself administered the treasury.. History affords abundant evidence of the correctness of this view. (All the recent trouble between ;great Britain and France about the North American fisheries—and a very serious trouble it is—arose from gross ignorance of colonial affairs on the part of a Foreign Minister more than,100 years ago. In one of his best known essays, Macaulay makes great fun of the Dike of Newcastle, not knowing that Cape Breton was an island. But at a much later period Java, the gem of the Indian Ocean, was lost to Great Britain by a similar blunder on the pa rt of a Foreign Minister, who, in concluding s treaty of peace, said be supposed "one island was pretty much the same as another 1" We need not go so far back as that, in- deed, to see the results of the system of divided counsels in imperial affairs, against which Lord Salisbury has steadfastly set his face. All through Mr. Gladstone's long administration, the empire was involved in costly and disastrous little wars, and in angry altercations with the colonies, simply because the premier gave all his attention to the treasury, while the Foreign Minister, the First Lord of the Admiralty-, and the Secretary for the Colonies, each pulled his own way. There has been nothing of that kind during the last seven years, and it is safe to say there never will be as Iong as Lord Salisbury remains where he is. The rule of his foreign policy is, to use his own words, "to treat all other powers as a gentle- man would treat his neighbors, that is to say, like gentlemen," and in every case, if possible, to come to a friendly settlement, beneficial to all concerned ; and the under- lying principle of it all is to keep good faith, promising nothing which he does not fulfill, and threatening nothing which he does not mean to inflict. Bismarck, who is an unequaled judge of such matters, used to say it was impossible to cultivate the friendship of Great Britain under Gladstone, because it was impossible to depend on British policy from week to week ; whereas, under Lord Salisbury's re- gime, Germany has become warmly attach- ed to t; reatBritaiu without offending French susceptibilities. At home, while Lord Salisbury's great merits as a foreign minister are very gener- ally acknowleged he has never gained popu- larity in the ordinary sense. The aristo- cracy swear by him, and the great mass of of the working men have a genuine admira- tion of him. But the lower middle class, small tradesmen, and the mere mob do not like him at all.' As for him, he despises them too heartily to have any resentment aeaiust them, and he is far too proud to ny effort to conciliate them. He rinks from expressing his contempt and their viewsof public life, and any time ready to retire rather than ebted to them for a single vote. t at all an eloquent speaker, but he d and clear, and in dealing with his ts he has such a cutting wit that hes are always eagerly listened to . He is not uncommonly charged taste in his epigrams, as for in= hen he said, apropos of William nd Dillon's flight from bail and catastrophe : " It is a curious ut Irish national leaders that they s escaping. Sometimes they escape and sometimes by the lire escape." res nothing for such accusations. hatever be pleases and if his foes it so much the worse for them. to life Lord Salisbury is a prince - all respects, a magnificent host, ent landlord, and a firm and cor- d. He has entertained Queen t Hatfield. House, his splendid rtfordshire, as his ancestors en - Queen Elizabeth under the same last, year -he, entertained: the mperor there. - But to see him at is necessary to be at one of his arties when he surrounds himself neighbors and friends from all country, and comes out strong character of " a fine old English one of the olden time." He eating and drinking, puts away old port after dinner in defiance ditary gout, and is not at all a few generous old English vices. e oblige in his rule of life and he ts from it. For years past his compelled him no live in the nee in winter, and the Villa ming almost as well known in with his name as Hatfield. volumes for his bonhommie ext to the Prince of Wales, the Englishman in France. Eiewahn.WAKEFIELD the hens with barilla resulted in the pres- profusely supplied than the sterile ones. Consequentlyeven eggs are to he eaten with fear and trembling and the long -boiled hard egg will be far safer than the light -boiled soft ones, and the well -cooked omelette safer than either. The owners of fowls should therefore be especially careful of the health of their flock. The flesh of diseased animals is very properly objected to as food. But the egg of a diseased hen is as much diseased as the flesh. poultry cholera, roup and other 1 virulent diseases are more prevalent in fowls than any diseases in other animals. Almost every farm flock has its receptacle for departed. sick fowls back of the barn or in a fence corner, and in little graves in the garden under the currant .bushes or grape. vines. No notice is taken of the fact that the eggs of these hens have been gathered and sold or used for weeks preceding the final event, or a thought given that they were virulently unwholesome. Yet we have been told that bens had received the germs of diphtheria (which is roup in their ease) and of tuberculosis from human subjects. But who has seriously considered thedanger of infection by diphtheria or consumption, or of intestinal fever (which is the fowl cholera) from the eggs we eat ? .And yet there is imminent danger of it that has been heretofore unannounced, so far as we know, except fd!- some years past by the writer in these columns and by Dr. Gayon. Say Well and Do Well. A short time before Dean Stanley's death,_ he closed_ an eloquent sermon with a quaint verse, which greatly impressed his congre- gation. On being asked about it afterwards, he said it was doubtful Whether the' lines were written by one of the earliest deans of Westminster or by one of the early Scotch reformers.. The dean had corse upon it , by accident, and feeling; that it expressed with singular felicitythetrue Christian proportion be- tween doctrine and character,between good words and good works, he used it to follow and adorn his sermon. It is as follows ; Say well isgood, but do well is better, Do well seemssppirit, say well the letter; Say well is odlyand helpeth to please, But do welllies-godly, and gives the world ease; Say well to silence sometimes is. bound, do well is free on-everyund,. welt haafriends some he_ ,. some there,, rtes We i8weic @S her ._ 4, make a never sh for them he is at to be ind He is no is so bol opponen his speec and read with bad stance w O'Brien a Parnell's thing abo are alway by water But be ca 'He says w don't like In priva ly noble in and excel' dial frien Victoria a seat at He tertained roof .;• and German E his best it " home " p with `his parts of the in his true gentleman, loves good a bottle of of his here ashamed of But nobless neves depar health has south of Fra Cecil is beco connection It speaks that he is, n most popular There is al anal Ire makes ways ronin fora man of force, eroom for yCaugo+ . $I How " There is a Happy Land ten. A short time ago, in the course of my work as a reporter, I found myself in a low salnon waiting for the proprietor. I had noticed as I came in three men and a boy playing cards in a corner. Dirty and un- kempt, coarse and loud voiced, their hands came down on the table with a bang each time a card was played, while through the game a..running fire of profanity was kept up, punctuated by the sound of the tobacco juice as it spattered on the dirty floor. I turned my back on: them and was thinking of other things, when I was brought back to my surroundings by the strains_ of a hymn, the first I ever learned so long ago in such a different place. The boy was softly singing to himself e - There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where saints in glory stand!) Bright, bright as day. Oh, how they sweetly sing, Worthy is our Saviour King, Loud let His praises ring, Praise, praise for aye. heardmind these s a words sung bew back to the � little when of Jamaicans in the swamps of Aspinwall, and further back still to the time when in Edinburgh I heard them in their author's class -room. The music coming from the cradle of the race, the words telling of the far -away goal, this hymn seems peculiarly fitted for the world-wide fame it has won. Of the mil- lions who have sung it there are perhaps few wbo know how it came to be written. I have the story from the author, whose Bible class I attended. In 1538 or '43, the date I am not sure of, Andrew Young was a young man --a teach- er. in St. Andrews, Scotland—and much interested in Sunday school work. It hap- pened that, spending an evening with a family recently from India, he heard one of the ladies play something which struck him very much. "What is that?" he said. "Why," she answered. "That is a Hin- dustani air called 'The Happy land.' The water carriers sing it." He asked her to play it again, which she did, and again, five or six times. The idea had occurred to him that the air would be suitable for a Sunday school Hymn. The next day he wrote "The Happy Land." 1118 scholars took to it at once, visitors heard it, and it spread and was translated into many languages and sung in every clime, and thus out of the eater has come forth meat and out of the strong sweetness, and the water carrier's song has brought many to the ever -living 1 streams. —{Wm. C. Thack " Was Writ - well. A Man -Eating Leopard. The Calcutta Englishman contains a blood -curdling account of the doings of a man-eating leopard lately shot in the Raj- shahi District, in Bengal. The monster had destroyed 154 persons before be was cut down. His appetite for flesh, his ferocity, his cunning, and his audacity were unex- ampled in the leopard tribe, and they would have done credit to a tiger. He depopulat- ed whole villages, for the mere terror of his name sent the inhabitants flying as soon as he had seized a solitary victim in their midst. For miles around the people never ventur- ed to leave their houses after nightfall until they heard he was dead. But this w great hindrance to him. He would Fame, Wealth, Life, Death.. .What is famet 'Tis the sungleam On the mountains, - 'Tis the bubble g n there ounttai�n,. Rising lightly ere it dies ; Or, if here and there a hero BeYt o him the through iero the years, Death hath stilled his hopes and fears. Yet what -danger men will dare May be heardsome'eager name, eager mention of thea' Though they hear it not themsedves,'tis much the same. 'Tis a rainbow, still receding tis weatfffii! As the panting fool pursues. Or a toy, that, youth unheedi Seeks the readiest way to !los ; BNeittheriout of bre keeps nor Vie? He but holds in trust his treasure For the welfare of the race. Yet what crimes some men will dare In some profito t,,athnough with of name d health. 'Tis the earthly hour of trialat is life! For When t e prize of selft's but -denial May be Tithe hour hen 1ovelost rmay bourgeon Or who en n ne iustsrthen flower is s urge on To defy immortal power. Yet how lightly men ignore All the future holds in store, Spending brief but golden moments all lit strife ; Or in suicidal madness grasp the knife. Past its dark, mysterious What is death? portal Human eye may never roam: Yet the hope still springs immortal That it leads the wanderer home, blithat lies before us When e secret shall be known, And the vast angelic chorus Sounds the hymn before the throne? What is fame, or wealth, or life ? Past are praises, fortune, but love that les foevcas neath, When the good and faithful servant takes the wreath. —EW. W. Skeet. The Mother's .f%nr. In every real sense all hours are the mother's own, from the time of her child's babyhood to the twilight of his later life, No human tie is so close as the mystic band which unites a mother to her children. Their lives, once identical with he's in every heart-beat and every thought, are never altogether dissevered while life lasts, and the man is indeed au ingrate wile, under any provocation, speaks Slightingly of the mother who cradled him in heryoung arms, and who remains, through all chance and change, all loris and gain, nis Lieud, Lie champion, his defender. " This world never felt so cold before," said a map,: middle-aged, prosperous and self-reliant. " Mother died last week ; I realize that I must henceforth breast the storms alone." Yet there are hours and hours. The wise mother, appreciating her opportunity and the preciousness of the gift of God which enables her to take part in carrying for- ward the race, is chary of certain times and seasons, which are peculiarly hers for im- pression and for delight. One of these sea- sons comes toward the sunset, when it is time for the nursery supper, and the frolic before the children go to bed. Then, if she can, the mother secures a blessed half hour with herdariings, talking over the day and as no lit problems, petting, cuddling, receiving seize confidence, and sending the children to their nightly rest happy and tranquil. The mother is more than mistaken—she is .ruel —if at this time she witholds a carcass or speaks in reproofs or criticisms, except that which is most gentle and loving. No shadow should be suffered to fall on a lit- tle heart at bed time, however important the occasion may appear for discipline. Above all, if the mother prize her privileges aright she will herself hear her children say their nightly prayers and hymns. Too sa- cred a duty to be left even to the most trustworthy of nurses, at this rite the mother officiates, associating her own pres- ence and influence with the devotional habit, which, if formed at all, must be formed early in a child's life. And after the little ones have grown to girlhood and boyhood, to a certain independence of care and the development of their own individualities, who but the mother has still the freedom of their rooms, and who else, excusing herself for a little while from the drawing -room and the society of friends, can glide softly in for a few moment's chat and a good -night kiss upon the unfurrowed foreheads and the rounded cheeks so softly resting on the thornless pillows of youth and health ? rhe mother's hour is worth watebing for, lest it evade her in the ab- sorption of her intensely occupied day, or under the pressure of her social obliga- tions. them from the verandas when they were smoking the evening pipe, and sometimes he penetrated the very houses in the dead of the night and carried sway children— often without giving the slightest alarm to the other inmates. As a rule, he killed only one person at a time ; but sometimes he killed two, and, on one occasion, three in one day. Children and old women were his fay orate food. Among his victims there were six men. He was impelled by a sheer hankering for human flesh, for he never touched the cattle. The villagers began to think the scourge was a demon incarnate, and it was impos- sible to organize them for the pursuit. At length some twenty elephants were brought together for the expedition, and a flying column of British planters set forth in quest of the destroyer. They soarched for some time in vain, until an old man, whose wife had been eaten, came to report that their quarry had taken refuge in a tama- rind tree. It was as he had stated, only the man- eater had by this time hidden himself in the jungle at the foot of the tree, and for the moment could not be found. The place was surrounded, and the elephants advanc- ed in close order to trample the fugitive out of his hiding place. This maneuver suc- ceeded after frequent repetition; the beast was driven out of cover, and at once rid- dled with balls. He will become a legend in the district, and perhaps a deity. How to Use the Gooseberry. The gooseberry is not as highly esteeme in this country as it is in England. It difficult to get a variety which will grow i our dry climate and attain that perfectio which it obtains in the moist climate o England. Our common variety ofgooseberr is so susceptible to mould that it has prej udiced fruit -raisers against the entir Nevertheless a gooseberry puddin a very good dessert, and a sauce of gree gooseberries an excellent accompaniment broiled lamb or almost any June dinner The gooseberry is a fruit that is generally used just before it becomes ripe, and while it still possesses the acid of the immature berry. A ripe gooseberry is an insipid fruit, of no special value for cooking, except in the time-honored recipe for "gooseberry fool," which calls for ripe gooseberries stew- ed to a pulp and beaten with whipped cream. An English batter -pudding with green goose- berries is made as follows : Pour a pint of milk over a slice of bread, crumbed. Stir in ten even tablespoonfuls of flour. Add the yolks of four eggs, half a teaspoonful of salt, and finally, the whites of four eggs which have been beaten to. a stiff froth. Beat this bat- ter. carefully and stir into it a quart of green gooseberries. Put the pudding in a greased mould or tie it up in a thick cloth which has been thoroughly greased and floured. Let it boil two hours. Serve it with an English brandy -sauce or an old•fashion hard sauce. To make a gooseberry sauce, top and tail a sufficient number of green gooseberries. Add about half a pint of water to a quartof ber- ries and let them stew in an earthen pipkin till they are thoroughly tender. Add sugar enough to make them palatable, but still leave them a pleasant acid. Serve the sauce with meats as cranberry or apple sauce are served. Green gooseberries also make a very nice pie, either baked like a rhubarb pie in a crust, or first stewed, baked without an upper crust, and then covered with a meringue, like -a lemon or apple meringue` pie. The name of this fruit is a curious example of. the transmutation of language. It is not.the berry of the familiar fowl which saved Rome, as -the nate would Seem to indiicate,bu tit is literally the prick. Iy_ berry or ooaebe %' `:_..` ry, $ , : o �.11edui>a�iltis3 a � o d is n • n f y re ng n' o The Spirit of Unselfishness. One of the earliest lessons in training chi/. dren to be unselfish is to teach them to re. joke in the happiness of others. It is a natural impulse when some rare pleasure is offered to one child in the family for those who cannot share the enjoyment to be a trifle envious. If the sister is singled out to take a delightful journey- the brother grumbles because he is not included in the invitation. If a favorite uncle makes Jack a present of a bicycle, Mary pouts because no gift is bestowed upon her. All such causes offer an opportunity for parents to develop in the children that highest form of unselfishness which finds its joy in the hap piness of others. Few adults, however, possess this grace in its fulness. They are far readier to weep with those who weep than to rejoice with those who rejoice. But nothing wins friends more easily than the habit of entering heartily into the plans of others and expressing pleasure at their success or good fortune. "Your letter this morning," writes one who has always cultivated this gift of loving kindness,"' brought a. great happiness into my day because of the pleasure in store for you which it chronicled." Were this spirit more prevalent how much sunshine would be auded to our lives. Might Hurt. Little Dot—" My new doll has a dreffal dirty face." Little nick—" Why don't you wash it?6 Little Dot—" Mamma won't Jet me. 1 dess she's afraid I'll dei soap in her eyes.' Soapsuds are good for most garden plants. In France it has been demonstrated that vaccination is beneficial to horses suffering I rota glanders. - Among the wealthy classes of Japan it is considered undignified to ride a horse oing faster than a walk. The man who lives right and is right has niere_power in his silence than another has a by his. words. Character is like bei wljeh ' >� out sweet music, end—w}iiak, 'w, itRobed accidentally rat -teem with o -stet g to i re' eneei eit 2 j; ean 4