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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1900-02-01, Page 7the' fortlialitees of the "THE GOSPEL BELL" church againet againstus u13; falae agaipbilosophieri nst us; all the crimes of the world tigainet us ; the hosts .of darknese, o with drawn words, and thundering 4 4 77 ammunition-wagona of hell, captained and generated by Apolyon the Kin, 04 Terrors, are all against us. But wait a lit tle. Joshua's men fell back, but only in (stratagem, before they took the city of AL So the falling back 'of the forces of (loci in the earth is only a Divine (stratagem by which (lod will matte our triumph the more conspleuous, and the overthrow of sin more terrifie and tremendous. The higher an eugle carries a tortoise the More complete its demolition when it dashes on the rock. teml is only lifting un sin higher and higher that Ile may more ruinously east it down. Tie. day of deliverance comes.' Tbe Moors demanded one hundred virgins every year from die nation of the Castilians.'L'ho king refused tk - tribute, one he went out in battle to in battle to put down the infamous he was defeated. • The night after the first defeat, he dream-, es -so die legend says -and in ads dream he tteard a voice frotti heaven saying "To -morrow you shall get the victory." So he rallied his troops; and, as. he went into the battle, he saw a milk -White palfrey, and it sup- ernatural. being riding upon it, wav, ing a white standard, His army triumphed ; and when the day was ended, sixty •thousand Moors lay dead upon the plain. leo, my friends we may soneetimes be driven back. 'Our enemies may say, "Alm 1 God bath forsaken thee. Persecute and take them for there is none to deliver," But, iti Aeocalyptic vision I see the white horse and his rider. His eyes are flame of firth On bis beud are wetly 'erowns. He goes forth from eonquest to conquest; and from sett. to sea, tInd from shox.e 1.0 shore, than yet ring ,00t. the bells of a uni- versal vielary. Aye I they are ring- ing now: "All flesh shall see the sal- vation of God I" "and He shall reign for ever and for ever 1" The Bishop of Malta in superstition, had all the bells'of the city rung, in the hope thet the storm • that .was raging in the city might . be quieted. That was superstition.; bet 1 think it is faith in God that leads. us to believe that the ringing of these Gospel bells will yet seer= all the storms of this world's gin and alt I he storms of this. world's trouble, : Oh, when Jesus, our Greet High Pelest, in full robes shall enter into his glory, the bells on the hern of His garments will ring with the music Of an eternal merriment. But, my dear brethren and sisters, we shall have no shaili in that joy unless:. now we .listen to the Gospel tidings. . There ia a bell on the other. side of the waters, weighing two hun- dred and eight thousand pounds; •and it takes twenty-four men to ring it. But to being outeali. the sweetness of this Goispel bell would take all. the eteneecrated 'spirits of earth-oseraphim and archangel. 'WO° in, this august iisseinbly will listen ?. Who will lis- ten now? -In-New Erigliind they have What they call o pesstrig, hall; that is; when some one dies in it village word is, sent Lb the sexton, and he sounds the .bell .just • as of tett.ee •the man liv- ed years; • and, when the sound is in -the tower, the people are solemn; and they say, "Ootne• one is deadt-who.is it ? . fleor • us the passing. bell will men Boom!, • Gone from the fainily. Gone froththe ohurch. Goue from the lest otwortunity of Wendell. The . dot, is for spent. Whet thy • hand fierleth to . do, do it. Hones, once dead, can never he re -- it. Hour's,- once dud, coil never be re- suscitated. Amotig all the drop of dew., thee fall on thy grave there evill not be one tear of repentance, Slipping off the embankment. of . the eternity, we cati never -clamber back. William' the Conqueror established the ringing of curfew bells. The erreerthiog of that curfew. bell, sounded at eventime, was that alt the fire should be put out or covered • with ashes, all thelights should be • extinguished, 'and the • peo- ple should go to bed. ,O,00n for .us the curfew will eininn- The fire* of our life will be bunked up in ashes, and we .shall go into the. sleep, the .•long sleep, the cool sleep, T hopethe bless- ed sleep.; But there is no .gloom in that if we are ready. The safest thing. that 'a Christian can deis to die. An Italian -made a. chimeof bells for his native village. ..SO sweet was the chime, that be took up his abode near it; After awhile war came.' Tho.Ital- Olin was taken jt exile. The belle were captured, and were also taken away: Years passed on. Ona • day the Itelian exile, in a row -boat is.being rowed up the river Shannon, :toward. the city of 'Limerick; Ireland, As he mime near the wharf the cathedral tower strikes the !chime; audio, it was the some old chime. of bells that had so, in other days, enchanted him. Ile recognized them in a mon:tent. His emotions were too great for human. endurance. • He folded his -arms and laid back in the boat.- The rowers put down their oars and tried to resupeitate him. His ince wastoward the tower. But he was gone. His soul had gone out in the raptures of that hour. Ilis life fell un- der the stroke of the eh -me of Limerick Cathedral. So may it be with newhen goingup from this earthly exile into the harbour of our God.' May we fold our arms in 'settee and listen; and, while, the rowers are taking Os to an- chorage, from -turret and dome, and polare-gate, an archof eternal victory Mae: there come rippling upon our soul the music .of the bells of heaven. The Whole World is to Be Won for God. .The Rev. Dr, Talmage Discourses on the Gospel. - The Great Consolation of the Sinner. , A despatch from Washingtonsays: tie kept on ringing until, bOisweitted -petite Rev. Dr. Talmage preached tom and exhausted, Me sat down. When he he following • text: -"And beneath Legan to ring there were none present. , When he concluded ringing, the made pon the hem oh it, thou shalt Moak were full of waggons, and the; chureh pomegranates of blue, and of purple, door was thronged with people wit° and of starlet, rouad. about tht» hens had come te worship God. And so we thereof, and bells of gold between Must keep on ringing this Gospel bell. Though, perhaps, tew ratty now ame, them. round about," -Exodus xeviii, 33. ' we will keep on ringing, until, cafter Where Mary, Queen of, Engtaxid„ as- awhile, men shall °eine clouds, and cended her throne, on the day at her, as "doves to their windows." Come coronation she wore a mown of jewels to Jesus, old ma,n 1. Come to Jesus, My NO heavy the could hardly hear up un- little •If enild I. Come to Josue) Ye wan- derer. the prodigal should this der it. Xerxes moved' around his • night start for hits father's house, the petai.e in, a robe embroidered with re- father would say, "Theto is no need of presentations cif hawks contending • fatting. that calf. any longer; kilt it ; with eath other. An official', in one or eoastit--bring forth tbe-smoking - the- cathedrals of Paris- pulls openmeat to my starving boy."..nd theret a would be joe 'in heaven over his return. drawer, and shoes y•ouot robe encrust- 1 When Henry II. had his son crowned, ed with diamonds, worn by Napoleon . the king took off his robes, and put an the day of, the chreeteningoof dee on e 8e:event's-apron,. and served at feast. 0, what condescension! His - Prince Imperial. All this impotent toria,ns record' it, But hear, 0 heaven, array may have been inore costly,; but and give our,. 0 earth, that die King it could not have. been more brilliant of the Universe comes to this banquet in the fame of a servant, answering your beck and mine. Glorious ban' (1001.1 Glorious provision! Come to it, Is -there any onei in this house to night who•is ao discouraged he cannot -start? Let me encourage him. A fireman Was going up a ladder 10 reset nue a child from a • burning building: The 'flames struck hiin, e,nged .scorched him -and he was about to drop; but a man in the crowd shout- ed, "Let's cheer that brave fellow in bis effort to save the, cshild.• Three cheers 1" The- shout went up, The • fireman was inspired. 'lie plunged in the• burning 'building; brought down the chilci, and placed it u-pon the ground in safety. • Are there not some . here toentght, who feel the fire. of -death kindling around about them, ;led who will give up the effort- to -rescue .1.11eir souls unless some • theee ing word ' be uttered . • to. night Therefore In the name of my God, '• .1 -utter this jubilant .cheer: oThough your sins be as. scarlet, tbey 81)01. be• 05 snow, Though they be rode' like. crimeon, they shall be as wooLo e I remade, farther; that the Gospel. bells, -like those on the 'high priest's robe,- are bells of warning, Yillien the Sews heard- the:clash and .ing of those bells,Itwas a -warning foe .thenh to Worship., -lest-Godeehould be offended, .Ort Bell Rock, in the German Ocean, there is a lighthouse, ond there are two b.ells, that evety half minute: -ting out t•litough the fog, through the darke ness, through the storm, apd over .the eee., Beware.t .bewtere I ' The helms- man on the sleiplearing the warning, Luras the wheel and steer e Off. It is a startling thing, et "midnight, to hear the heavy clang of a fire-bell,if .you live in the .third. w,ard„ and the tongue of the bell strike -one, two, tOreel If a Ohl is besieged, and theflash -of the musketry is seen on the hill -tops, and, the cavalry horses are dashing -up and doevn,. and the batterienere being .un, limbered, all the bells oe the•city. call to armsi to armsl So, my • friends,. this Gospel bell of einem. I account it as .iefinite .cowardice and hypocrisy_ fpr a men wile believes in the -Bible t0. bide from the. , People the:- faet. that there are appalling disasters coming to those •• who finally, reject God. -We can •plester the. matter over; We ,can philosophise about -it; -wecan explain it away, but the Bible states iti.reiter., than the robe of the High Priest in the ancient temple. .I. eee moving' around in the te:mplo with eube t of sharlet and purple, the shouldere a- dorned with chalcedony, •rihbour of deep blue, embroideriai of exquisite flowers, chains. of gold, a plate, hung over the heart, on which you( might retie a blood -red sardonyx, a topaz, a carbunele, an emerald, ,i pellucid eap- pbire, a diamond, a treneparent figure, an gate, a violedeel, .arnethyst, a beryl, an onyx, a striped jasper, within a space oi. ten inches • square„. mingling the blue of the sky, the green of the foliage, the sparkle of the. wa- ter, and the deep glow of. the' fire. I3ut mark the hem of that high pruht s garment-eu riouely woven w:i re- p reee nt a ions oe pomeg,Tanatee, 't he favourite fruit of that elirne; wiailebe- tween those pomegranates there weft). golden belts that clashed and chimed ae the high priest utuveu about. in the ceremonies. Was it mere silliness and enders play that hungathese belle to the hem in the high Fele:tee garment? Was it toeless display? Was ix mean- ingless adorninenut No. It was -pro. toundly glorious and significant.' The bells not only called people outside and 'abide tie temple, to worship,' but they rang out antic. they rang, in joy 01 the great. Gospel dispensation. I am glau that the first...use of bells was a religious use; and hereafter the Gospel tit Gosi to nie shall be a ehima. of, bells; and. wheeher hear tOeni en the garments) 01 the Iiigh. pewit, or in the a hedra I tower, they c 111-1 uggeet 10 me the gladnets, :the Warning, and the triumpn of oho Cieepel. Theee Gospel belts, like those that adorned the high priest's robe, are golden belts. Otheo bells are made of coareer materod-zinc, anti lead/ ana tOn and, copper; but.these GOspelt bells are bells of gold. There is one bell hi Europe that cast three.hundred thouise a•nd dollars. It was at vest. expense that metallic voices were givea.to the towers; ot York, and ,Vienoa, and .0e - 'lord. But all the wealth of heaven was thrown, ORO this Gospel bell. No :Lego tan went its value. leterniey Innate, demonstrate its cost. When the bell ot the Russian Kremlin was ates, makes it as plain as that two imieg fused, the lords came and 'threw - and two make fou,that there is utter discomfiture for the finally unregen- erate. Tbat Bible says, "God is angry with the wicked every day," and that He "will turn Wee° bell an- the na- tions that forget God.O And yet, with those passages before them, and .hun- deeds of others just as plain, Men will speak of an eternity of lavender and rose-water for every man, regardless of hischaracter and of his heart, You know that a white flag alongea • rail track means safety, and that. a red flag means danger, • Now, 'here is coming the Cincinnati express. Here is a bridge swept down by the freshet. A man goes out' with a •red flag/ to stop the approaching train. I go out with a , white fag, and ,wave it. The•engineer takee•my signal, and not: -thee of ,the other math- The engine rushes on. In another moment a -hundred and fifty souls are in eternity.' Who is respon- sible? A man standing by•ney side says, "You. are. What: did you wave ,that flag for? In the Great, Day .of eternity it will be found who ofl us," standing in the pulpits, were the kindest and Wisest flagmeh, He will be response. ble who lets mea get on down toward -death without giving the warning - waving ehe white flag of safetywhen he ought to have shakera the red flag of peril, I tried for Muer years to figure eternal punishment out of that Bible.. I bave, not succeeded. I ,shall never try it again. It is there. If ever you find me standing here philosophising about unimportant things, or befogging the people. with metaphysics, or giving Moral essays., when I ought tor be hounding dee in- vitationa and warnings of the- Gospel, achost me On the spot, and, tharge rne with bet retying my mission. . There is in Moscow a hell that has never been rung. It coota great deal, tt is• very large. heerhaps it iti OM largest bell in the world, They, never could get any numbinery large enough to. hoist xt People come and look at 11, admire its size, end -admire the cone - position. of the metal, but no one has ever heard the ringing of that bell, It Was never rung. 'We are getting into the Church of Goil metaphysical bells, and philosophical bells, and transcen- dental belle, and a great many bells that are very admirable to look at. They are immense; but I had rather be a smaller bell, and 01 poorer metal, if God will only let me ring out, warn- ing and invitation to the people. I had rather. be a door -bell, helping to call people into the opening gate of God's merey and forgiveness; or I had rather be a dinner-be.1, inviting them to a banmiet of a Saviour'smercy, crying, "Eat, 0 friends! drink, 0 be.. Eternal peril hits • come down upon thee, 0 unforgivete soul, The flames of the lost world have been kindled, and to -night I ring the. fire -bell of an eternal burning, crying, "Escape for thy lifel Tarry not in all the ,plainf Look not behind thee, lest thou be eonsumedl" I remark, fuyther, that the bells on the high 'priest's robe were bells of joy,. When the Jews heard the chiming of 'those bells on the priest's robe, it announced to them the possibility of pardon for their sins, and of deliver - ;trice .".liehold 1 1 bring you good ttdinge tof great joy, that Shall be to all people.' Bells have been rung on days of victory. The bells of Lon- don rung after Waterloo. The belle in many of our cities rang after the settlement of our national strife, The great bells ot York, and Oxford, and Vienna, at some tint, have sound. ed tho victory.' These Gospel bells, of whieh I epestk, are bells of triumph. Calvary wan the dreadful Bunker Rill of the ehurch, up and down whose sides the forcen of darkness and light rallied and fell back. t Now one force triumphed ; now the other, But the eonflict at last was deeitied. Satan detbroned 1 The white marble cantle their gold into the molten. mass; hut --when this Gospel jiplt WAN 10 Ate too- strucied, the tangs of heaven; the hr - 01 eternity, tOrew, .into it . their crowus and their sceptres. It . is a - golden bell. Du you believe it.? Hear it ring! "God so loved tint world that • He gave Hie only begotten Son, 'that whosoever believed) . in Him should not perish, but have 'everlasting life." "Hine bath. God exalted. to be a Prince. nail a Oaviour, iregive repentance unto. Israel, and • forgiveness- of sins." • Glorieue Croswell It .is the sweeteet sound that a homer ever- heard. It is the grandest consolation that moor-, ner ever felt. It is the mightiest hope that mourner ever experienced. • 1 tarried two or three day ; ee:tr the tower of Antwerp. Every , tifteen minutes the bells. of that tower ehime so sweetly . that it seeniti as .if dile angels of Uod, flying past, had alight- ed In the tower. But when the full hour comes, then the clock, with heavy tongue strike the hour, adding impes- sivenees and pylemnity to the -chime of bells. So this great Gospel tower chimes every fifteeni minute -nay,- everymo. nient. Tones of mercy. Tones, of love. Tones of compassion. Tones or, per - don. Anet occasionally, to . let you know that the weights are runining. .down, and that ' the time is going Oast, the beavy tongue of this bell comes down with an em- phasis, saying, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation 1' "Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation." Weary of sin, the world suid to nee you are not as bad es you might he. Poor - conifort 1 Standing with both feet in. the wet gravel of 1h'grave, human philosophy took my. art, and mumbled in my ear lie inanities., But. religion spoke to me, rind my sins perished like tow in the , flame; and the grave became only the ploughed ground for an eter- nal harvest. World without end let God be praised for sueh a Gospel!. . It is fit to live for; and if days of per- secution -should ever again come, than we not be willing to /lice for it 1. I do nnt think that Hawkes, the Mar- tyr, was foolish, when lulling saidh 0 his friends that he would give them some, signal in his last hour as to Whe- I her the fires of martyrdom were tol- erable, in the dying moment; with hie hands on fire, he lifted them, aboye hie head and clapped them once/ in great joy, clapped them twice, and clapped them three times -the( the world might know what a joeful thing it is to die for ;fesus. I remark, further, that these gospel bells, like those around the -high prietit's garment, are bells of invite - lion. When the jews heard the clash of those tellin the hem of the priest's robe they knew it was an invitation to worship. That is 'the meaning of every church tower from San Fran- cisco to New York, and from' London to St. Petersburgh, It. is, "Come- eome." Aye, that Is the most fami- liar word in (he rlible. rt seems to be, a favorite word. The word "Conte," neeUra six hundred and forty-two times in the hible. l'i, is, 'Tome to the sufteer ;" "Come to the. Waters O' "The Spirit and the Bride say, corno." Through all gorrows, through all trials, through all nights of derkeese, through all ,calamilies, throtigh all temptation% it Thies out, "Come !- tome l -Come. 1" I remember, when 1 wee a boy in the eountry, of being en- vious of the obit sexton who used to lay hold of the bell -rope, and start the boll that shook the meeting house, 'ailing the 'people; for miles around) to yer. The poorest Inert, trudging ng the turnpike road, knew that bell called him just an much as it (silted the rich farmer, riding behind hie prancing and tapering pair. And sothin Gosipel bell calls to mime% and of the Sepulchre captured! The 10 hots, to row and to rage; fleeing, whole world Is to be won for God. "Wholoever will, let hint come." When Ake all the belts of eternity at the the xton had struek ono ntroke, why victory through our Lord Jesus (Amt.. Now It sometimeerseems as if irhe poopia had alt hoard it nut t,,, .everything was ngainst us; heathen.. dicl he not wind me the rope ewe mope ;FROM TIIE TRANSVAAL, 4•11.1..P .STOIIIES TOLD BY GORRESEONe DENTS AT ElIONi. • !nee the teethe Tee:tat the 011-144)! 0: ore• mere -eriiiiiety micelle and thl` Mir crown st Sergl'allrY4 0101111h11 Of MO 0111erei rIg1111.1g tkaultitee itOw ibe Trateotaek hovernatent TIINVig the lie 111141114N The, biebop, of Pretoria, ler. 13eus- 11e4d, was summarily ordered from his home mid from the Tranevaat by Kru- ger. 11. was a fear trip for the aged prelate to make front Pretoria to Delagoa Bay in an open coal car. But he eve he had to get -away somehow. He continues: "No Intleader is per- ruitted to remain, in die Iransvaal without a permit. People fouud there without permits are condemned to 25 lashes and three months' imprison- , meat. As the Gitlanders leave their property is commandeered or etolen by the Beers. The savagery cif the Boer to -day is worse than it was 'be - fere the war broke out. It makes any Chri.stian .nutti's blood boil when he reelects that. these wretches first rob their .victirne end tben actually ap- ply the lash tti them because they are - British subject," WIlle BULLER'S PLAN WAS CHANGED, Gen. Buller went to Smith Africa with fixed intention -in which the Bri- tish Government, eoncurred-of aban- doning Ladysmith, leaving the British garrison there to the matey of the Boers, he -himself marching in foto di- rect upon Bleemfontein and Pretothe relieving Kimberley en route. Nohody then believed that Ladysmith could hold out beyond the end of the year, but Buller hid not been et the end of the Cape mane days before he cabled the British ministry announcing the ohmage of policy, largely, no doubt, because . of the bad effect upon the Cape Deitch and the natives of such Boer triumph as the .surrendee of Ladysmith would appear to be. Tbe ministry replied in effect: ".Sorry, but . de as you think best." ; It was this general concentration of Gen. Buller upon Natal, and not a mere iticident of the 'Tugela river reverse, that decided the cabinet to send out Lord Roberts and•Lord Kitchener to direet the campaign as a whole frone I Capetown. JAW NOT KNOW HER WITH WHIS- • K'ERS. • • • The Natal. Witness tells a story of how the captain- 10 11 regiment in Na- tal, when 'myelin his company the oth- er week, cbaneed .to give a man a Transvaal bale; crown, wliich, as one . would naturelly expect, bears theim- eye and superscription of President Kruger. -The m•b an rdught... the coin back to he. pay -table, and said it was a ball-crowto•The -officer took the eoin, and without looking at it rang :on the teble, and,then remerked: "It sounds all' .rigbt, Atkins; . what's wrong with it he "You look at it, sir," . was the reply. • Theo captain glanced : at the coin; suiting, " it's. all -right, man; it win Darwin the canteeneeThio : • • apparentlt eatisfied Atkins Who walk- ( ed Off, making. the remerk: "11 you say it's a' right, skeet's a' right.; but . it'sthe first (line I've seed the Queen wet whiskers On." THE HEROISM 01? A VIENNA PITY - • :"I doubt whether tOe entire history of the world affords a More •remark- able 'exanaPIJ-of personal heeasm than e•as exhibited by Dr.•Ifrani hluellea' of Vienna, WOo fell nvietienee the ilito ease When it was 'Bret. hindea. LacteriO. • k logical investigation in that- city,. in: St3e7; Dr. Mueiret• cooltraeted the, mat- . fitly from the baoilli-tn.hcuttore tubes artde when be become .certain' that. he . was infected •lite onmeniately: 'locked imst f in an isolatedloom and. Post- ed •a 'message. on, the, ''window perm,: eeading. thes:e . • • h et- am euffering froin plegtiee.Fleitee • do. not send - a doctor to - me, ,as, in any 'event, my end .will come in toter . or five days.' •. -.• .„. • "A number of .hie hesociates:were an ious to attend him; but he refueed to . admit them and died alone, within the dine .in) predicted. He Wrote .a fair) • Veen letter tie hie • parents, placed. It. against the windinte so- diet it •cottld. be cOpied from the:outside,- and. theft burrted , the original .• with bie • .Own. hen4a• fearful it might he preserv.ed • end Carry .out: the. mysterious germ. Mueller was -a. youtigi- Mita,. on. the thresheld Of a Sentient scientific oar• eer,.'and there was a,. chance • that he Might. have.been saved by ,treatmenh. but he refused to take. it, .i/ecauee it eritaile4 thceriak of spreeding the -One . tagion abroad.h, • • .C111NESE WAY ,OF DOING THINGO. Lord Charles 'Beresford 'narrated to the Institution Of Mechanical. :Engin- eers some amusing incidents of his ex- periences in the land of the mender - hes. In the . 'arsenal at Shanghai, where he noticed a Krupp ,gun elev. erly fitted with an Armstrong breech- hiecif, it was'explained to him that the operntions. had been rendered neces- sary by an accident, tbe blowing off, of the original breech -piece. by the Chinese gunners, Later on, visiting 'a fort in cbarge of a very clever man - dein, he discovere4 how. the accident had occurred. They were using a perfectly unsuitable powder for the 67 -tot, Run, and he remarked to the . mandarin that it would blow the breech -piece off: The mandarin node' ded, smiled and answered. "Yes, it does." The last time the gun was fired it kilted fourteen: men, so they - loaded and fired another, witieh kit 1- ed t weedy -four. These g.uns must have cost, in mounting and breeching at least 450,000." In anothet place, being .asked where the front: of a baettety of 00 -ton muz-' zle-loading guns *as, the mandarin pointed one direction and the guns in, another. When this was pointed - out to him,. he said, "Yes, I think there has been a mistake." The guns were arranged it echelon, so that the men working the, foremost gun must inevitably have been killed by the discharge of the one behind, and so on through the battery. Lord Charles' demonstration of this self.. evidett fact left the mandarin per - featly unconceroed, and be only re- plied, "Ties, some men. would no doubt be killed, but the shot: would reach the enemy," In yet another place he fount' that the gun was actually loaded in the magazine, end he pointed out in remonstrance that if there were any carelessness in sponging the geth after filing,' the magaelne would infallibly be blown u:'.The -man- darin in charge gave me a .eltip on the back and said, "You are one of the cleverest men !ever met. The year before lest We did fire these guns,and we blew up the magazine, just n:;you 114176 T will nhow you where it WaSt" The mandarin added that he multi not remember how: 1111(07'men Were killed, but he believed that it was fifty." • In a powder mill be Feinted out the de/two' of having the wirolowa open leet dust 511001(1get in - fn the grinding wheel, and so produce an explosion -the very thing, he was 1.01(1, .that had happened to the pre. vioue building which the preAdlit one replitted, A. BRITISH .SERGEANT OF THE BOERS. • 'Sergeanth ' htundereon, vvith Lord Methuen's force, w:18 in. the battles 'of Belmont and Graopan. Writing from Honey NM'<loot to his relatives in Hartlepool he says:- " People can say 'What they like about Boer's being good hghters, but ceneider them a lot of eowarda. As 80011 58 they are driven from the,hills on the plains, and eue man make a charge at tbern they won't .stand and fight but simplso show the flag of truce until. they..have gained another substantial positioh, and than they will coxnmence firing on you, as usual, shooting officers and men." HOW SIR REDVERSOBULtER WAS DECEIVED. A correspondent. ef th.e 1VIehichester Guardian, says that Sir Redvers Buller Was probitbiy induced to adopt the plan of a erontal attack by. the foot that the Boers had net answered our an tillery for two' days, and appeared ta tie few in numbers. The elaborate earthworks whicli they had construct- ed on the ridges preimbly did oot mark the real.position they ccoupied. The heaviest fire came from the bed of the river. Our bombardment of the tedges was terrific, but possibly it did not 'office a proportionate loss on the enemy. Tbe coolnese with which the enemy lay quiet under the tremend- ous fire was mooing. They Waited till exactly the right moment, and their defehee is one of the most notable of modern times,. for the skill, courage, and judgment displayed. Thera was an extraordinary contrdst between the Boers, who were almost invisible, and the Biltish troops tnarehing conspic- uously acmes. absolutely open couno try. HOW THE' IHTLANDERS WERE ' TAXED. The following etatistics show to what aa extent the tlitlander has Scotehmen, Ile is not even a baif caete. There were no horses or s WJill ITEMS OF INTEREST, 1 sonlea in Basutoland until 1810, when a but- cher in Grahamstown named Cawood imported from Scotland a number of Gleaned From Far and Near -Part- Shetland poniess. A lot of them were lea and d th I i ings Which Fead of the Romantic - "A Widow and Orphan," enolosing riug, which the sender stated was all she could, afford to contribute to the rinftuld. The intrinsic) value of the g was bat few shillings, but • nevertheloes it was sent to the Stoek The Boys in Actioa and on the land, where they multiplied exceed- Exclutnge, where, after some spirit- 'ed bidding, It was knocked down to a patriotic member for the sum; of 43 18s. This amount was accordingly added to the Fund. inns They are now the pride of Way, Basutoland and everybody rides one in Tobacco ie 9t1 aa ounce at De Aar that native :Oahe You cart buy one mew . • there for fifty or sevetity-five dollars. . They have the same little feet and II, M. ships Terrible, Fort, Philomel, long mane and tail as their Shetland rad Tartar are at Durban,and the ancestors, and even more of their euro- Magicienna Thetis, and Widgeon at footed. They carry their rider Delagoa Bay, down steep mountain sides, along sheep walka, by precipioe edges, and always hT ere le no lack of recruits in Natal, walk close to the brink. itis a rather the British refugees at Durban being 'nervous experience at first, but the ionlytooeagiety. l.1.0 serve at the front Basuto eony never fails. Mounted. on nany sspss these the defeated Boer rides off before "Your men are fighting for us in our trope and is lost among the hills, south Africa," says a wealthy Bur.. only, to turn up ho fight another day. mese gentleman in sending a mama'. COM PAUL'S BERLIN FORBEARS. According to it widely-oredited le- gend, President Kruger's family orig- inally came Lrom the town et Mebrin, in the province of Brendencurg. Some people have even proxessed to point out the house where his forefathers lived. As a metier of fact, the found. et. of the family was realty born in Berlin. According ta a work just ht, • sued in Berlin and entitled "Oaul Kru • ger, and the Origin of the South Afri- can Republite" he traces hi'; descent to James Kruger, son of Franz Kru- ger and Elizabeth Kruger, nee Hart - wigs, wile -was born in Berlin in 1080. This James Kruger entered tte ser• - vice of the Dutch East India Com- ParlY, and went out to Cape Town in 1713. Later on he. settled down at. Stellensboach. ' He married johanna Mollie and by her had children, of Mom the youngest, Hendrik Kruger, I was boro on April 8,; 1725. This Hen, cent donation to the Lord Mayor's Fund, The Argentine horses now being sent to the Cape from, Buenos Ayres are not suitable for cavalry chargers, but are to be used for transport. and am- bulance work. . The commandant at Stormberg is a renegade Scotehman called Robertson, who as laruldrost of Ihroonstad was the instigator of the outrages against the refugees. Lieut. -Cel. Hamilton, of the 141.13 Hussars, shares with Genera? Mac- donald, of Omdurmann fame, the dis- tiection of having risen from the ranks, General Gourko, whom Russia is sending to follow the war from the Boer side, is a son of the famous field.. marshal. A new pro -Boer otganization has come into existence called the South African Conciliation Society, Inc first drik had a son, tone: Is.rugert who, on object of winch ie 1,0 secure the 'tide - Nov. 12, 1708, married Susanna Lacija, pendence of the Orange Free State, Boys and resided at Graaf Reinet. How serious the coal famine is to Theta a son was born lb him, Steph• Natal .iadustrial concerns may be gath- anus Johannes Kruger, who was the grandfather of the President. Steple• .ered from the fact that 100 tons ()li- tmus Kruger married Sophia Mar-, tained from Durban cost a Maritz- garethe Steenkamie on Jan. 28, 1798. Of, burg firm Z0 per ton, And this was his six children, Casper 'Jan Hendrik ' a month ago. Kruger was born in 18T4, He married An ex -reservist suggests that an aIt- Elsie Francine Steyn of Bulhoek, near peal to old soldiihis posetion Colesberg, and eettled down at Bul- tiers n hook. Here a son was born on Oct. !would result inthousands of these 10, 1825, who was christened Stephanus trained men rejoicing either as volun- Johannes Paulus, ;India now the Pres. • teers or in -some -other capacity, • !dent of the Transvaal Republic. Everybody in the Free State hasi been commandeered, including Mr. Fraser, Chairman of the Volksraad. OYER.= HUNDRED DISEASES. (Major the Hen. Noith Dalrymple. . Hamilton is progressing satisfactorily mine 1,1•0 Me MO17111104 WW1 II 11111.11 HUH after tbe amputation of his forearm. 111 1)14 "Or; .41$1131 Is AMIeled. Second Lieut, W. GoNeilson, of the To face over 600 diseases to which, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the flesh of frail humanity is heir, / who was woueded at Modder River, *the unpleasant prospeet Which stares is the Scotch Rugby international. in the face the human :being who ia A French deserter having been axe, about to enter the twentieth century. rested at Southampton and sent back These, according to the testimony of le his regiment, the court-martial that tried him acceoted .sufficient a well known physician, include only his excuse that he wanted to help diseases as •such ; tied' no inhieies, the 'Boers. growths:and aceidents •which require Gaily attired Dutch women are to surgical attention, and yet may pro- be seen on the hills round Ladysmith, Lively be included• among the ills of watching the bonaleardinent. This is a elesh. weekly custom of theirs. It is supe posed they come by special trains from To go into the realm of surgery, with its growths, fractures,- dislocations, re oria. - a itwk ane WOUACIS, would more than dotable the T e banks Of The Spruit, nearFrere Camp liave been niimber of diseases. Indeed, the mul- tiplication wOuld be alniost. endless, as riled "Margate Sands." During the ast few dale they bieve been thronged teeth particular brook of a bone, each from morning to night with, crowds wriund of a bullet, or eaeh contusion of soldier bathers in high spirits. , of an'acqident would be counted a Sp- "Snatcher," a dog belonging to the .aeate cliseese. What with tropical dan- Glouceiters, was smuggled on board gees and war eisks of soldiers in dis- in a kit, bag at Calcutta. He was tont lands; the chance wouldseem to froignhteinu,PwihnertehethfeiriGnigouleienseterast be largely inereaseit in h iteinee form or 1 'b tlost so h e eavi y, ut came throughwi out a other. scratch, A. ray of hope is beta out however, . Of the Suffolk Regiment reservists, in the fact that there is escape from 512 out of 514 answered the call. Of many of these diseases for a large the remaining two, one who was in numberrof the country's inhabLtaote, prison for debt was released, and has. as is evidenced by the increasing popu- gone to tbe front., The other, who • lotion, in spite of the large array of was in Indio., has at leis own expense been taxed by the Transvaal Govern - went: Supposing Ids business was the im- portation into the Transvaal of any of the following articles, he would have to pay, first of all, a customs •tariff on beer of 73 cents per gallon; but -- ter, $2,21 for every hundred pounds; theme, the &tine; coffee, 50 cents pa bundred pomade; gunpowder, 73 cents per pound; dyhamite, $14.58 per case; guns $2.45 for every barrel, with $1.21' 1-2 per hundred for cartridges; - ironware, machinery, jeweidery, pre- irotiveare, ;machinery, jewelleee Pre - nerved meats, vegetables, and freeh fruite were, eharged an indiseriminate 7 1.2 per rent. ad'valbrent duty; come mon d015 1.12 1.2 per hundred pounds; toilet soap, $2.43 for a similar quan- tity; spirits, when from neisshboring states $1.46 per gallon, but when from eatable South Afriese $2.43, and, it over proof, $4.85 per gallon. TIM BOER rozons. The celebrated Boer ponies have the blood of the. &mute pony 10 them, and the Basuto pony is a pure bred joined his regiment. , . Outside of. the zy.motic diseases or °Lee at KimberleyLor( Methuen those caused by the reptoduetibn With- will have littletrouble in reaching in the body of home germs, intro_ Bloemfontein, a.s the field cornet of d ucedfrobe "thou t phyptcians y that town remarked. "There is nothing sa bigger than an ant -heap between this that, after all, the other diseases are and Kimberley to shelter our men and merely forms of ' inflammation. This horses 'teem your artillery." ' one form of milammation of •the An officer wounded at Nicholson's duce a simple sore throat while another Ntheek order o "t. don't know who gave est:cease Jae,' but it was fonin of inflamination of the same sues will cause a deadly case of diph- not Hurafehrey. 0. He was close xnueoas lining of the theater will pro- theria. Tbus too, an inflammation ofee, e e io • w en the Membranes lining the interior of the 'cease fire' was sounded. But the the lungs 'will be called pneumonia, firing on our side could not havegone while another form of inflammation on five minutes more for want of am - of the membrane covering the lung 1.8 musition." , various tissues and organs of the body, ealled pleurisy. So it goes through Lieut. H. Tristram, of the 121h Lan.. each having a 17"”tety of forme of in- cers, is well known to many civilians elm:lunation, parhoulatozed as diseases for hie feats of arrao the the Royei which are known by tins or that name. olootaoy Tournament at the Aicrieul. , leg siou Lieut. Tristram gained theorize 'lent in one month of the year than for being the best man of arms in the 'in another, although there is no hard commissioned ranks. He also carried a.nd fast rule to confine them to apar- off other prizes, i Ocular Beath!). Under the proper pro- ' Diseases. like faehions, change wall thral Hall. For two years in .succes- vocation a oarson mar have a cold in A romantic illustration of the separ- ation ot lovers caused by the war comes from a Hertfordshire village, A. reservist who was summoned tot re- join his regiment, received the order at the most interesting moment of his life, Ile was not only engaged to be married, but the bans had been "put up," and the parson had got; as far as the "socond time of asking." The "third time of asking" was due, in fact, On Sunday. The couple were de- termined to well. however, and so on Sunday,at the close of the service at which the banns had been proclaimed a third time, the marriage took place. The honeymoon was short enough, for on Tuesday morning tbe husband had to start for Bedford en route for the Cape. Writing to a friend in Edgehill, bluejacket on one of her Majesty's ships which is now on its way to South Africa, says :-"Let Kruger tremble, for if some of our ship's com- pany lay hands upon him il won't be healthy for him. The sight of them will be enough for the Bow's, for a greater set of burglars you never saw, as they have been growing whiekers -that is, those who possibly can -and the effect is startling.' This Omer. vent naval humorist must have breed of Kruger's exelamation at Woolwich a few years ago, When the •President of the Trarisvatil was looking at the guns in the arsenal there: "Excellent guns, but served by boys!" In a conversation he had with the Russian Ambassador, the Sultan is said to have asked anxiously whethsr there was any fear of European complica- tione. The Ambassador replied in the. negative. The drama glorifying the Boers the head in, midsummer, as well as in year to year than in fashions. . The taultiplication of remedies has more than kept pace with the growth in the number of diseases, All the coal tar products were unknown, but a feW years ago. Chemists and maufactur- ehs are now busy and allow scarcely a. week to go by without putting on the market anew remedy for which some special curative functions are Gleamed. The medical colleges, too, are turn- ing out hundreds of graduates every yearr who are taking up the fight against disease, adding their investi- gations and deductions to the work that has gone before. Hygiene and diet - aka are being given more attention in the field of preventive medicine, in order to build up the human system so that it will resist the single combin- ed assaults of :its disease enemies. So the fight goes on against the 600 odd diseases. ABOUT BEAUTY BUILDING Save money on toothsome trash and spend it on a reliable masseuse. Save money on clothes and Spend it on your complexion. An ugly skin and beautiful apparel fight it out together. There 4s the complexion brush. The fortnightly steam bath. The purest of olive oil soap. Complexion bags of bran. • Astringents, such as benzion. Bleachers, suet as hydrozone. Health bread, such as whole wheat, Cooling salads. Hot Wafer for internal treetrnent and hot water for external treat- ment. And cold water and teled water ati*d• vapor baths and sponge baths. Nine hours' steep. rive miles a day in short skirts. Hygienic underwear. which is now being played ate the Al - An afternoon nap. hatnbra theatre, Bruesels, will short - Health, perfect health, ly be withdrawn in consequence of re - The road is hard to climb that leads presentations from Sir Francis Plun- to beauty's castle. winter. There hi less 'change from --ket, the British Minister, and also of 'WOME'N TRANSVAAL, some Englishmen interested in the THE' theatre. Already modifications ha e The 'average Boer is big, brawny and been made in the Itritieh uniforms and ;strong, ruddy cheeked and wholesome, some of the characters, and several yet never handsome. The women, scenes have been tut out. as a rule, do not epproach the fresh Two deserters from the Sth Royal, and Ample beauty Keen in the north of Irish Lenten gave themselves upt be.. Europe, the TransvHeaal re and there throughota 'cause they wanted te go to the front. you will fitid a hande The magistrates in Basutoland have soma Dutch girl, but not often, Their dress, usually of some cheap print, and Mole more trouble In preventing the the hideous poke bonnet, et) universal women front troesing the border to do not add to their attrattions, reap the Free State erops than they ,inTghtleirirrfeloutcuituigoitirs atioratilate °sfutic."Asti mhaevece eureendhliegi.c Men who are much are often pale end pasty in appear- , Tic Lord Mayor of Loudon relater) anus it Is It eurieue thing to tee. hoW mediae n neer women will shade her an inoldent which has occurred in con - fete, and even keep her hatidd beneath nection with the eoritributions to the her apron, when in the sure of the Mansion Rouse Transvaal War Relief Yet, en tho whole, tho womont Transvaal are not unattitootIvo-whon Fund. Ile had, he said, received it you get titled to thorn letter from a lady, who signed herself NEW MINING INDUSTRY, •••••••••• CORUNDUM DEPOSITIS IN EASTERN ONTARIO. Demand for Mew 'Abr. Orem, ;tea specie, rier 1114 Development 11$ COM. 11114'reilll Product, a valuable accession to the list ef the mineral productions of Ontario Is likely to result from recent official eX- plorations of the extensive corundum deposits existing in the eastern section, of the Province. Tiough It has been known for some time that this metal was yielded by the rocks at different points in that distriet, its presence in Lanark County having been diseover- ed some fifty-one years ago by the late Dr. Henry Hunt, and subsequent finds having been made from time to time, the first thorough and systematic, ex- ploration, of the corundum district, with a view to practical results was that undertaken by Prof. W. G. Mil- ler of the Kingston School of Mines, who was engaged for the work by the Provincial. Governments during the seasons of' 1897 and 1898. Hiis special report appears in the second part of the Bureau of Mines report for 1899, together with, other papers treating of corundum and embodying some impor- tant facts as to the deposits of the me- tal in Ontario, tlie demand for it, abroad, and the prospects for its such cessful development as it coinmercial produet. . WHERE IT IS FOUND. • The 'principal corundumebearinghelt runs from northeast to south-west through the counties of Renfrew, Has- tings and .1ialiburton, and there are also extensive eons in Peterboro and Frontenao. The .total erea•of the.main band where the meehl 'is found is about 300 square .miles. The formation ea' much of the rook being kaolin as map- heline syenita, This also yields con- siderable quanhttes of aluminum,. a metal greatly in demand in the Unit- ed States. Whether the aluminum pre- sent in the .corundiniehearitig rock call bei -Profitably extracted depends entire- ly upon whether aurae further reduce don' to the costaf the propess cat be -- effected. • • ITS VA.LUE IN MANUFACTURING., Carinulurn is inainly efvalue as an abirastve in connection steet and iron manufactures -being especially well adapted for saw therIeeaing, roll grinding, spindle grinding, and surface work on' hardened steel. Large 'quan- tities. Of abrasives are used in the fac- tories of,. the 'United States, the prin- •elpal sources of the ebrundiern supply, outside, of the dernestio 'product being India and Russia. It is difficult to get accurate statistics as to the yield ot the American mines,asthe produce ere are averse to, giving Mich informa- tion. leitich of the American coruo- dum is produced in NorthCarolina, but the supply Is sniall, and though pros- peeting is being Octieely (tarried on in that State, there leas not been much ,success in the discovery of new ,depo its. English manufaoturers have some diffieulty in obtaining adequate sup: - plies of corundum of good quality. QUALITY OF ONTARIO CORUNDUM. The Ontario rook, from all the facts wield' are procurable, appears to be hilly equal in the pereentage of yield ony with whieh it will have.to cone - pate. The yield of the Indian rooks is very low, being but 3.5 per cent. At 'United States report gives 15 per cent, as the average from one .vein, and. the material of a larger deposit is vaguely said to average probably 10 to 15 per cent. of corundumeThe qual- ity of the Ontario article is said to be superior ,to that of the *Indian corun- dem, and a series of experimental tests between the Hastings County metal and American corundum and carborup- duant made by the Hoot Emery Wheel Oe. of Hamilton, fully sustabeed the high expectationseformed as to the Ontario product. Samples have been sent to dkfferent manufectutets, both in the S.Trnted States and Europe, and very satisfactory replies as to its suit- ablenese for industrial purposes re-' (hived.. A nuMber of wheels, 'together With bricks, rounds and triangles made ef Ontario corundum by different man- ufacturers have been sent to Paris, where they will be shown at the Ex- position of 1900. A BEGINNING TRADE. The corundum belt, which lies in the Free Grant District, has been with- drawn frora settlement and mining rights can only be Bemired on lease. The Canadian Corundum Co., who have agreed to lease considerable areas. are under contract to expend $100,000 in developing the mines before July 1, 1902, gild will naake a series of test ex- periments to diecovei whether mater- ials of commercial value, espeeially, al- uminum, can profitably be produced from corundufn-yielding rock. Should Hoch a process be discovered the indu- try will be established on an assured foundation and the remunerativeness of corundum mining greatly inereas- ed. SOME DEADLY PO'SONS. A Few of Those Which Are oreiehieeed ihe moo. thine The discoverer of prussic acid was instantly killed by inhaling one whiff o his own handiwork, . Pure prussic acid is never sold or handled. The smell of it is always fatal. It • kills riot in three minuted or half an hour, but the instant it 'enters the lungs as a gas. The mix- ture ordinarily, sold as prussie acid is 98 exerts water to 2 parts of the drug. Even in this form it is very' deadly. A 20 per cent. mixture of the aced would kill nearly as quickly as if pure. Atropine, though it has no harm- ful odor, is so deadly that as much of it as would. adhere to the end of a moistened forefinger would instantly (muse death, Cyanide of potassium has a pleasant sinell, which is not injurious, but a. small quantity swallowed kills at once. Pure Ammonia, it inhaled, Would eatise death almost its 0,uicklY as Prim- sie aold. When a carboy of nitrie aeid is broken some One bas to suffer. It will burn wood, eat through iron plates, and destroy whatever it touelseti. Stith an accident once happened in an acid 140017. Every Otiti ran away, leaving the acid to titITUSO itself by getting fire to things. Soon it WO seen that the building woild be destroyed end hundreds of people thrown out of work and four men volunteered to put out the fire in theaeld room, They succeed- ed and dame out feeling all riglit. rive hours later alt were dead. Greatheart, so1emnly-4f I give you this penny, what will you do with It Tattets, eare158ticallee-4'11 be honest with you, guv'tior: Pll pend it all in riotous living. t CONVULSIONS. The nervous system of infante is ruuth more irritable tha,n, that of older people; that is to say, it is excited to undue action by various stimulants which in the older child or the adult would IlaVe no similar effect. For example, many fevers begin in adults with it chill, but in infants with a othe vulsion. It is this fact thet atakea seesaw so comet:Loa, and; for the most part of comparatively so little signi- fianee, in babies. After the second or third year the nervous systemlacquires more equili- brium, and then a convulsion is a more serious matter, and indicates the pro - e teaasbleexihseoh tenciei* d.01 ein Medical writers usually diVide con- VillsiOne in young children into febrile, reelex and toxio' according as they are indicative ofthe beginning of a . fever, or are the result of some lirita- don of the skin or mucous mem- branesi-as In children. who are cut- ting teeth or who have worms, -or are °tweed by the action of some poison circutatinet in the blood. This poison may be introdueea•from with- out, either in the milk or in the air, or il may ba formed within the body as n result of indigestion, In the treatment ot a baby in con- vulsions the first thing, of course,- is to find the cause and to remove it, if possible. This is, however, usually the last thing done, for by the time the physician arrives almost all the domestia remedies have -usually been tried. It is moreover not always pos- sible to find the true cause, or to re- move it when found, and then the treatment must be directed to the oonvulsioh itself. At the beginning of the spasm the child's clothing should be examined to make sure that there are no pins scratching it, and no strings tiedtoo tightly, It should be taken into k large, airy room, or out-of-door if the weather is suitable. A warm, bath is often, efficacious. If the spasms have come on soon after eating, especially if the baby is bottle-fed, vomiting should be induced by tickling the throat, or by warm salt and water if the Child an swallow. ' If the convolsions are due to indi- gestion or to worms, as they often are or to teething, as they seldom are, the (lector's task will be an easy one; if • they are due ton beginning fever, they will subside as the fever develops; if they are due o actual disease of the nervous'system, Lhey will probably re - our tiurasta:mnteenrt,vals in spite of the best HOW TO RAISE PANSIES. here is probably not a and who does not love the pansy, and the ma- jority of grown people regard il with much favtir.' We see pansies grown in people's door yeadteetveh when no other flower is cultivated there. The one great reason for its popularity is the easel with which it may be grown, and the plenteous re- turns it gives for the care spent upon it. Pansy plants are raised by get- ting good seeds and sowing in shallow boxes in the house, or hot beds out of doors. In the house, seedshaay be started iitt February, Mareh or April. Fill the box with fine prepared dirt, bringing it nearly to the top. This soil need not be so very rich, good garden loam will answer very well. Make the top level and smooth and seatier the seed as evenly as poshete, When this is done, sift some soil over them until they are covered about a quarter of an inch in depth. Next give a light sprinkling and then wet a piece of spengy paper, or brown wrap- ping paper, and pue over the top of the box, set in a 'sunny window free from drafts, and in about eight days expect to see the first tiny shoots ap- pear. Do pot pour water over the soil, bat let all inoietuire be given throug11 the paper, which should be frequently moistened. I3y May the plants ougnt to be large enough to be set out, of doors. Have the ground where they are to be placed shaded deep and mellow, and 'plenty of well decayed manure worked in, as pansies deligiet in a rich soil. Select a Cloudy day for set- ting out • the plants, and put them about eight inches apart each way, firming them down well. By July they will be in blostiom and will con- tinue to flower till late in the fall. In the meanthne, work the soil every week, give the plants' all the water they can drink. Keep the bloAsoms well picked off, so that no seed pods- whicti take the strength from the plants -can form, arid give fertilizer if it should be needed. The best ferti- lizer is liquid manure, it Itis not too strong. To my mind a situation which receives the benefit of the sun till noon. and is shaded for the re- mainder of the day is an ideal place for a pansy bed. There is really no- thing complex about growing these winsome little flowers, and the slight effort, on the grower's part will be more than compensated. --- CELERY RECIPES. Cream of Celery Soup -Chop fine one root of celery, add 1 1-2 cups water and 14 cup rice. Simmer 25 minutes. Scald a cup of cream, and 1-2 cup milk in a double boiler. Squeeze celery and rice through a sieve. saving the water, drained, add this with the cel- ery and rice to the hot milk and cook 26 Minutes, season with pepper and salt. If the soup is too thick, add chicken stock. Celery au Gratin. -Prepare the cel- ery in the usual way, wash, scrape and cid into small pieties. Simmer until tender, Drain and proceed as in all similar dishes, scalloped oysterss, etc.; a layer of bread crumbs, one of celery,, seasoning -butter, salt and pepper; the last layer one of crumbs, Bake . a rich brown. Creamed Celery -Cut the celery in- to small piecee, simmer in boiling wa- ter 45 minutes. Drain the celery carefully, adding it seasoning of white pepper, salt, a pint of creams boil an instant. Omelet with Celery -First boil the necessary amount of eatery, season it with pepper, ealt and a little butter. Make an omelet of four well -beaten sggs, allowing a tablespoonful of eream 'to en egg, add salt and pep- per. Fry, arid just before doubling one side over the other, carefully add the celery. Serve very hot, with or' without jam, Boiled Celery -Bring it to the boil - Ing point and sinatner for 46 minutes, drain, add pepper, sett and butter. Celery Sauce -This is often served with ebb:Isere Wash the celery and out in short lengths, simmer for thirs ty minutes, allowing a teacup of eold water to each head of celery. Melt 1 tablespoon butter. stir into it rapidly an equel amount of flour, then add the celery and it teaeup of milk. Stir "without ceasing" until it reaches the boiling pount, then add a seasoning of nalt and pepper, Celery Salad -Wash the celery and place to eold salt water for otie or two bourse A few moments before the serving hour, el the celery into inch pieees and pour a rattyonnalee over it. In making this ealad, a dainty way is to shred finely the inch lengths. Chickete, Iamb, beef and eVen flh sine often minced and added to the tat - ad, tieing only Mee kind/ of the meat.