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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1900-05-10, Page 3A PROFITABLE SUGGESTION. Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of David's IIle Faults and Excellencies. v.* , God Is:a Being of Infinite Leisure --He Existed Before the World Was Made. -Beggars May Come Be- fore the King --The Dr. Tells How to Reach the Throne. A despatch from • Washington says —Rtev. Dr. Talmage preached from th fallowing text; "Because the king' business required haste, -4 Sam. xxi. 8 As the depths of the sea are said to correspond with the heights of the mountains, so the depths of David's faults seemed to be as great as the height a his excellencies. However, our business with David this morning is not to criticise him,. but .oatob from his lips a profitable suggestion. 'Be appears before ,Abimelech without sword, or 'food, or usual attendants, ,ane gives as his reason for this un- seemly appearance, that he was on urgent imperial business, and had 'no time to properly accoutre or equip himself, and he said, "The king's busi- ness required haste.". My friends, we are a with some Out of . the nese; and our great nee our speed accelerated. be a Being of infinite sometimes' takes .twenty- yeurs to do one thing. six days He put on the w touches that ,made it h man, geologists tell us— them—that uncounted between the laying of the of the earth and its final Good took this imagine ter, but tomes to the gate of eternity, e a pauper in Christian experience; and without one sheaf, though all his life he was walking in golden harvest- fields. You have postponed your higher lite until God tells Inc you will inot come to it, if you! postpone it any longer. The King's business requires haste, There la a great work of comfort to be done. If it, is not done speedily it will never be done. Yonder is a heart breaking; now is the time to say the healing word, Go next week with your balsam, and it will not touoh the •Daae. A man yonder came under your influence, and you might have oap- turgid hiul for God. You will never have another chance at him. To mor- row, another man will be under your influence. You will have but one op- portunity of saving him. It may be at ten o'clock, at twelve o'clock, : or at three o'clock; miss that, and • YOU MISTS IT FOR EVER. He will'be lost, when you might have saved him. Da not say, "Wait until the next time;" next time .will never come. Be prompt and immediate. The King's business requires haste. In the city of Basle, Switzerland, it was the custom; to have all the clocks of the city an hour ahead of time, for the following reason. Once an enemy was moving upon the city, and their stratagem was to take the city at twelve o'clook at noon ; but the cathe- dral clock by mistake struck one in- stead of twelve; and so the enemy thought that they were too late to carry out the stratagem, nad gave up the assault; and the city was saved; and it' was arranged for many years that the clock struck one when it was twelve, and twelve when it was eleven. 0 man and woman of God,, engage in Christian work -set your clocks on, if you want to save the city ! Beller get to your work too early than come too late. The King's,business requires ' haste. • We are exercising a fatal delibera- tion. We sit calmly is church, medi- tating about how to. save the world. Meanwhile, six million of people will die this year. You might start the Millenium next year;' but it would do them. no. good. What,- you do for :them you will have to do within a twelve- month. What: yeti do for some of them you will have to do this month— aye, this' week!—aye,: this day l: Have you never. heard that a neighbour was siok, and said tot yourself, "I must go and talk with hint. about his soul; for I know •be is 'not prepared to leave this world V' but."that day you were busy; and the next you were busy; and the third day you: went; to see him, You pulled his door -bell; a servant came: out, and you( said, "How is he to -day V' The answer was, "He is dead I" You say " It cannot be'pos- sible i .How long has he been dead?" She answers, "Five' minutes." ' God have have mercy upon that Christian man who comes to do his work five min- utes too late. The king's business re- quires haste 1 pray God that my text may be brought home:: with special;power to those in this audience who have never yet sought Christ. As many of the causes :that come ,up in court are ad- journed, sometimes because the wit- nesses are not ready, and sometimes because the plaintiff is not ready, and sometimes. because ,the defendant is not ready,, and sometimes because the ,judge, is not ready, until, the bill of cost 'is ruinous and hard to pay —so there are men and women who have adjourned the cause. of the soul's salvation front youth to middle life; and, adjourned it from health to sick- ness; and, adjourned it fromt PROSPERITY.1 TO ADVERSITY, until death' eternal will be the bill of costs to pay. 0' pre,•sraetinating, de- liberating, halting soul; let.me tell eou`'that the: King's business requires haste) Before your attend: to it your mental faculties ma. y fail. Your in- tellect works, admirably now. Some- thing in the climate urges men on to such extre,mey and, the pressure on i • 11 entrusted King's base, d is to have God seems to leisure. He five hundred Though in world the final habitable; . for and I believe aged passed corner -stone completion. bis reach of time for work that He could have done in three minutes. He has' plenty of time for tarrying out His vast designs, but we are limited, and hence, , what work we have to do must be done quickly. "The king's business re- quires haste." Christ is our Xing: King of glory, King of Zion, King of saints, King over all the earth, King over heaven: He is a King that shall• never die. Where is Louis XIV.? Dead 1 Where is Richard III.? Dead 1 . Where is Ferdinand ? Dead! Where is Peter the Great ? Dead! At the door of the grave lies a whole sheaf of seep ties. Death sits in the palace of the sepulchre, and the potentates of earth are his oupbearers; and as the old blind monarch staggers around his palace ever and anon, he trips,on some new fallen epronet: They sat up CUiarlemagne in his ;grave, and put a. crown on ,his pulseless temple, and a sceptre in his lifeless hand; yet that could not bring -back his. kingdom: But our Emperor lives. He existed before the world was ,made. He shall con- tinue after it is burned up. Xing im- mortal. The French Government. thought itself rich in having so many palaces—St. aloud, and the Tuilleries, and the Versailes, and the • Palace Royal, and the Luxembourg; but our *lag has the .whole' earth for .His palace—the mountains its picture gallery; THE OCEAN ITS FOUNTAIN ; the sun its chandelier; the midnight heavens its candelabra; illimitable crests its park; the glories of the. sunrise and sunset the tapestry about the windows; the , lightning -hoof- ed coursers dashing up • and down the heavens;all the glories of the land, and sea, and sky His wardrobe; all the flowers of the field• His con- servatory ; all the fish of the sea Hifi aquarium; all ithe birds of the spring morning His orchestra. But better than all these, thehearts of His people on earth, and of His saints in hea- ven, are the palaces in which he de- lights to reign. King universal! Like, other kings He has His army and navy. Fighting on His side are the hurricanes of the ,great deep, as in the breaking up of the Spanish Ar- mada ; the volcanoes of the earth, . as. in the burial cif infamous Herculan- eum; erculan-eum; the afire, as when Sodom was deluged with conflagration ;the rocks, as when they crashed their terrors about the crucifixion. The Psalmist counted the flaming artillery of heaven, as it came rushing down the sky, and cried, "Ilhe chariots of God are 125 thousand." Elijah's servants caught a glimpse :if them among the mountains—a oavaloade of flame; and tbe ,horses had necks of fire, and eyes of fire, and nostrils of fire, and feet of fire, and they were driven by reins of fire, •by horsemen of fire. The cherubim on His side; the seraphim on His side ; the archangel on His side. King Omnipotent I , Our King is wrs,Jped up in the wel- fare of His subjects. The Sultan of Turkey had a rule that when riding put on Horseback, any of his subjects might approach him, and state their wrongs and sufferings; and the peo- ple pressed so close up to the stirrups that it was sometimes impossible for the Sultan to proceed. But we have a more merciful King.. We do not have to wait for public ocoasions. Any hour of tbe day or night, without in- troduotion, we dress into His palace, tell our wants, and secure His help. Going before other kings, we must have a court dress, rightly out, and rightly adorned; but beggars may come before :this King in their rags— and the prodigal, filthy from the swine's herd, is immediately ushered in. A pardoning King A conde- scending King I A merciful King 1 0, Jesus live for evert It is on the business of such a King that we are all sent. It is the busi- ness of bringing the world to God. Compared with it, all other business is A 'HOLIDAY AND A SPORT. If a man go into some financial opera- tion by which he loses a hundred thousand dollars, and his 'louse and estate drop put of his possession, and his failure upset the next° man, and his the next, until the whole land nsignificant compared iwithstheer is ruin of that man who loses his own soul, and,by example, takes down another, and another and another until heaven, earth, and hell, feel the eternal de- falcation. William: the Conqueror pull- ed down forty-six of the churches of God, in order that he might enlarge his park for game. So • men sweep away spiritual things that they may advance their amusements and world- ly gains. Bun the great day of titer- nity will reveal the fact, that the most important of all busiaesaon earth and in heaven, is the King's business. • ;The King's business le not only im- pottant, but immediate. If we do not attend to it quickly, we 'shall never attend to it at all. Here is a Christian man expecting sumo day to be con- tecrated. After awhile hewill be- come diligent in searching the Scrip- 'ituree and In pprayer. Meanwhile, the day of grace is going. It will Boon be gone. Out with your Bible' and begin terread. Down on your knees and begin. to pray. For the business of the store, of the shop, and of the field, you are neglecting God's bueinees. Your last i halide. Ding P, man 1 The King's, business requires haste. In the day of the world's doom what will beeonle of that Man who had ii fhOtteand Sabbaths, and ten thou. mold ' •porti111ities for naefalnetwe, wind point of proarmetanatlon, have port ed. Look out that your turn does eome next. Beware! ;Beware 1 Have regard to the suggestion of text, because your life may unexpce edly terminate. We are trading o borrowed capital of Years that ma - in a moment be called in. There is n nus o e great e t f to t p a future Into w' � g hi we are travelling. No explorer 11 been ahead, and coons back, to tell how it is. Each one feels bis wa along the path, not knowing what m Meant a devouring lion may comefro the jungle. There are so many way at getting out of life; by fall, by sli by assassination, by malaria, by ova exertion, by insidious disease, by mi placed railroad switch, by rotte bridge, by fractious horse, by fallin wall, No man goes when he expec ed,nor as he expected. Suddenly th puses stop drumming the life mare Suddenly the curtain falls, and th lights are put out. We change world cluioke•r than I can drop this han kerchief from one hand into the oth tar. At one tick of the watch we ar in time ; the next we are in eternit What, if with all oar sins unforgi en, we rush tato the presence of th omnipotent God, before whom sin utterly loathsome! Can you imagin the chill of that moment, or the ho ror ad .that undoing d What. 1 twent thirty, forty years, to repent .in, an yet not have attended to it I Beyon 'the dead line there is no rectifioatio of blunders. In the grave there is NO PLACE TO PRAY. Those who founder here, founder fo ever. I do not want you to fear death I want you to bo prepared for ii. T Rider on the Pale Horse spurs on hi steed ; and in a moment he may b pounding at the gate for admittance What thy hand flndeth to do, do i with all thy might. Do It now. Th King's business requires butte! An artist wished a queen to let ltd take her picture in his gallery. Th time was appointed. The queen prompt to the minute was at th place. The artist did not come un til ten minutes after. The queen ha gone, ?t was the man's last chane for making his fortune, The Kin oomes out to meal:.thee, today; yo may n'dw have His image impresse upon your soul. 1t may be your las chance. Meet Him promptly with you heart's confidence and love ; or y may come too late, and when He ha gone. I stand here with the feeling the if some of you do not start for heave .this. morning, you will . not' start a all. 0 that God. would arouse you. Sin has benumbed your: soul. The in sensibility that you • feel is . like th drowsiness that comes over the Silvis traveller before to freezes to death Awake, }'efure.you dial There is a sea flower called' the ." Ophelet," which spreads 'abroad its petal. beautifully but it is. very poisonous; and the lit 'tie fislt.thut touched it struggles bu a. moment, and then: dies, and oche petals of the . same flower, floating in 'the water, wrap around the fish and pull it down into the deadly 'bosom of the flower, That is whet is the mutter with mine. of you. Sin is an attractive tearer, and it glows and waves beautifully before the soul; but no sooner. do, you touch it than you are poisoned, and must be swallowed up, unless '.we may...sweep you. -awae and sweep.:you, up in this. nett of the Gospel. ; • Don't you see that the tides of.worl liness. are setting. against you? Don't yont see that there are influences at work to. destroy you for, ever ? The ye to. Jesus, the only refuge. The neo moment may be...worth to thee an eternity. The King's business. requires haste t " i!. MISS 1ETITIA' S TROUSSEAU • Letitia Houghton was going to bo y married; consequently many of her o dear feminine friends said it was a oh sheLetitia to think me, a scandal, far as of such folly at her time of life. yThese same authorities declared she o- was. 55 years old, adding there was m no fool. like an old one. s Letitia was on the sunny side of p 45, but did pot look as if she were 40, s- being handsome, with a pretty home, • a tidy inoome, a kind heart and a g sound bead. e The benetioiariea of her bounty bad h, became accustomed to consider her a e spinster, too confirmed a devotee to ;, single blessedness to change her d- atate. What right had that old • thing to be taken in by an impeouni- y. ous adventurer when she had friends v- of her lifetime who naturally ex - is peoted—she had. no kinspeeple—to be o remembered in her will, not that they r- were mercenary, but that they had a Y. sort of claim upon her. • - Remarks of,this kind were freely in- • dulged in when the invitations were received. Twenty-five or thirty wo- men talking at once is rather confus- ✓ ing, and, as the speakers became ex - 1, cited, the comments became more per. e sonsl and assumed an ill-natured e turn. It was at a church sewing . circle ; and tongues were flying fast - t' er Phan needles. e An exceedingly pretty and richly In dressed woman, a guest . of the so - o ciety, now took up the oudgeia in de- , fense of the absent. e "Ladies, • ladies, is this a modern d school for scandal or a church society e bald in the basement of a sacred edi- g floe ? ' You all have cause to be u grateful to Letitia; why should you d' speak df User so bitterly now, because ✓ she exercises the right' we have all yo • claimed f' ' Mrs. Alyn Alden was a leader of so- ciety, wbose dictum made or unmade t a new.codner entering the oharmed • cirole;.. There was not u woman, pres- ent wiio was not anxious to retain her favor. u' "Why, what have we said.?" It is - eccentric In Miss Letitia to get mar- e rigid at her time of life, now isn't it; s Mrs. Jennie l" • ""1. do not know why it should be considered so; Letitia is a very .pret- ty woman." • • . , Mrs, Jennie, as` Mrs. Alden was gen- t orally called, was a'power, and with promptitude they proceeded to eat' r their wards with. marvelous celerity. Mrs. Jennie smiled' and bade them good morning. On the way to Miss Letitia's she ,made a 'gesture as if she had. touched: an. ill -smelling weed: "What a power of harm such women can do at times 1. I do not pose as a reformer, but •I really would like to recall the ducking stool for their benefit. Poor Letitia 1 I hope; she. has not .chosen unwisely." -. Her.. musings ceased as the coach-. man drew. rein before the pretty old= d- fashioned' garden of the. Houghtons: Mrs. Jennie was met in the .yard by the 'bride -elect, whose fresh and fair complexion had defied the ravages of t time: With her . bright hazel eyes and wavy light brown hair she might have passed for .35 at most. "Come into the house, Jennie; it's lovely out "here amongst. the flowers, but I have '• some things I wish to i ahaw you ; the dress has came; I am too old to• be married in white satin, so reelected a pink .brocade trimmed s with; lace. I have never" had' so man pretty clothes mnade at one time in" my life, for I never needed to. I don't. think I'm envious, but when I saw all my friends' • handsome outfits it occurred to me that it would be f an inducement to marry. : Do you not like it 4" o She fingered the • giiatening folds t lovingly, find Mrs. Alden looked and a admired, 'then said; : a "But where did you meet the man you expect to •marry, Letitia ? I. t would not give' my life into the keep- b ing of an utter stranger." "You needn't be uneasy about me; he is a very pleasant man.and I'm positive we will get on very well to- t gather; aa for love, we. are, not young people and have aaid'nothing about that; but we will do well enough as friends. Did you notice that black Mrs. Jennie ' e ie perceived that the bride- u to -be' preferred • to talk about her • PROFITABLE .MILLINERY.. • By a recent decision of the tribunal of the Seine a Paris milliner gbt judg- menti against one of her . customers for 74,000 francs. It .was' all for hats and: bonnets, and the bill had been•.ac- cumulating since.1894. In other words, the Parisian fine lady' inques- tion had spent for headgear alone in the course of 'five years. the tidy lit- me it- tie sum of something like $14,800. This was considered a pretty fair allow- ance even in Paris, and the milliner and her bill and her ' lavish customer were discussed far a few `deys..Inf.act, attention was only turned from them by still another milliner's lawsuit. And this last appeal to the courts had tbe- specially interesting feature that the defendant in the case to the wife of member of the Chamber of Deputies. the bill was only 10,000 francs -$2.000 —bed neither the purchaser nor her husband had enough money .to meet active• menl is sd great, that before t a t. So the milliner got judgment, and hen proceeded to garnishee the hus- and's salary as a -Deputy, the court awarding $10 every month until the care is wiped out. But in spite of bad debts and otb- r losses, the fortunes made by the aris milliners are in many cases daz- ling. There is one fashionable shop here whose proprietor is a Woman ad hor annual het profits are up - and off 400,000, francs -480,000. She began at the foot of the ladder and he recollection of her own early truggies makes her generous to those nder her. She has seventy employee, 11 of them girls and women. Among hese she divides half her profits. Some elf the women get .as much •as 3,000, $4,000 and $5,000 a year. Good este and original ideas In the crea- Ion elf styles of women's headwear re • the essentials to success In the Winery line. liar the girl who has hese gifts the doors to wealth are hrown wide open. The success of the oman, in ,question is an illustration od this. • Having been left • an orphan, and aving to earn her own living, she ntered a milliner's shop, and show- _ they are' aware of it, the brain soft b ens, or, more suddenly, the mind drops dead from, its throne. Pythagoras, s studying. philosophy, was so anxious to keep awake • and improve all his e time, with a string, he tied' the hair P of hie head to a beaus above,:so that z the very,mpmen t.be nodded, in sleep the pain would) wake himt So, there a are men notes, who have Buell morbid w and ,unhealthy, notions about,. how mato h' work it is necessary to do, that t they never take any rest. They can- a not stand the, stress. 'T,he most brit- u tient are en. the moss) peril. What if a the, mind that God has given you for .t high' and holy uses, should, perish be- fore you) have found Christi A heavy $ fall, an accidental stroke on the head, t a sudden affliction, for which you t are not: ready, kill your Intel- a Leet, and( so your last chances for m heaven. passolvey,though you should t live on for many a year. In the great. t populations that 'occupy then asylums W of the country, or carefully guarded in private' dwellings, are hundreds of men and, women who expected some h day to, be Christians. They had e abundance oft time, they thought,; but. e mental disorders ;dropped( upon them b before they had decided the mutter; and although pow: they are irrespon- sible, and( shall not be brought to S account for, anything they do under @ this mental eclipse, yet they shall at e'' last: be called, into ,judgement for the t vie was about to give a trashing re- tort, when, Mise Letitia reappeared. She was slightly orale, her demean- or a mixture of regret• and dignity,. While a blending of defiance watt de- pleted in her erect attitude, "I've had a telegram Prean Mr. Langworthyy; business of a family nature, w;hicli I shall not be et liber- ty to divulge Indiscriminately, com sent lo the int to start for m message off ;Econsequently urope as o there; will be no marriage to -night. That need not interfere with tux en- joyment of Me supo►er ; the presents will be returned to their donors to- morrow. Mr. Alden, will you see me to the tablet The ,minister will take you, Jennie," Her astounding revelation .called forth a chorus. of ohs and ahs, and a dozen excited women began to ply'her with questions, protesting against her returning the •presents, but she waved them aside. "The marriage is indefinitely post- poned through no fault of either bride or bridegroom, so you need not im- agine he's absconded or jilted me. Un- der tbe circumstances I will not need the presents. Who ever heard of bridal gifts when there is not much likelihood of the marriage being per- formed? I promise you," with a fine grim smile that somehow made cer- tain ladies feel • uncomfortable, "if the marriage doe; take plaee, that I will expect nothing from:vou. Now, come to supper; that will not be a' disappointment, df the wedding is." She gave her guests no time to discuss her affairs in groups, but marched them into the dining -room some wearing from the undiminiahe pangs of curiosity an expression as if - they were being .led to instant exeou- tion. Miss Letitia was the life of the party, and the, theory that she had been jilted did not gain ground ; her explanation was accepted as true—as far as it went. ' More. than one face became' blank when Miss Letitia said: "Jennie, be sure to come around to- morrow and help me pack those pres- ents; some are so—valuable I will not be satisfied until they are return- ed ; fortunately, all are labeled." " I will come with pleasure, Letitia," replied' Mrs. Alden, while Mrs. Ponson- by whispered dolefully, ""If she would ask me," Early next. morning Mrs. Jennie ac- cordingly put in bee appearance, find- ing . her friend in exceedingly good spirits. While tying up a gaudy plated cake stand, a gift from Mrs. Ponson- by, Mrs. Alden said; "Letitia, why return the presnets? Were you in earnest when you said there was not much likelihood of there being a marriage ?" Miss Letitia was bending over the bed, replacing a handsome silver ladle in its velvet box. The constrained position may have been the cause of her heightened col- or. Her face as she turned toward Mrs. Alden wore conflicting expres- sions ; triumph, shame, and over all a half -sad, half -defiant look. Her first words were apparently irrelevant. "I've learned much, Jennie," she said as she folded a dozen fine thread cam- bric . ' handkerchiefs and placed them with lingering regret. in the costly box they came in ; "how exquisite these are, and like the donor 1 Oh, yes, I. was saying bow much I had learned. since I had sent out those "tickets: I've .always had a too confiding. dis- position, and while I'm not now a cynic, I've had eye-openers, plenty of t hem. ."Going• . about to -different stores, riding windy days, veiled, on the cars, have given me an insight into people's characters that has been both pain- ful and profitable; I needn't : tell you vhom I mean, dor I see you know. I have no regret for.them ; I'm not . a sentimental 'fool ; the only regret, is elf -contempt that I've been taken in by them:. so long, but I've never out- grown a girlish pleasure in being liked: '"You had your husband and chil- dren, and God knows I never begrudg- ed wives and mothers their happiness, or my life had been a healthy, happy ne, and so completely am I a spinster hat I believe I was born one ; I've ever seen Atha man I have ever im- gined I could fancy, but there was ne thing I did want." Mrs. Alden had listened sympathe- ically; as Miss Letitia paused for reath she ventured to speak.• '"What was that, Letitia 1" "You may - laugh, Jennie, if you wish,: but that was no more nor less han a trousseau 1" "What 4 Do .you mean that----" ""I mean, and .1 know it will go no About tbC Hous, 10N1N4NH THE MOTHER. 1:�, A little ring of gold --a battered shoe -- A faded, .curling wisp of yellow hair— Some penciled pictures—playthings one or two— A corner and a cheat to hold them there. • Many a woman's fondest board is this, Among her dearest treasures none ea dear, Though bearded lips are often here to kiss That once made only prattle to her ear. The sturdy arm, the seasoned form, the brow That. arches over eyes of manly blue Mean all joy to her living memory n,ow, And yet—and yet—she bugs the other, too 1 110 With that rare love, mysterious and (deep, Dawn in e. mother -heart tbro' all the year, That placid age can never lull to sleep And is not grief, yet oft brings foolish tears.- ._ al She often goes those hoarded things to view And fingers the wee treasurea hid- den there— To touch the little ring and battered 'Moe And kiss the curling wisp of yel- low hair! CRULLERS AND TEA BISCUIT. The following is a recipe for ,aking French crullers. Four ounces of flour, two ounces of butter(. four eggs and ons -half pint of water. Cut the but- ter into small pieces, ,put it into the water, and "stand over a good fire to boil. As'soon as it boils, add the flour quickly, and atir over the fire until it sticks together and rolls around in the saucepan like a ball.' Then take it front the fire, beat thoroughly, and stand it in a warm: plaee, 72• F., for half an hour. Add one egg unbeaten, and beat' the mixtpre until smooth. Add another egg and beat again, and so continue until the four eggs have been added. Next beat the enfire mix- ture for five minutes until smooth; cover and stand aside for another half, hour. Put one pound of lard or - clarified dripping intoa deep frying - pun; stand it on.the fire le •beat grad- ually. Put one. cu&'ful of sugar on a dinner plate, add to it one teaspoasful . of ground. cinnamon, and mix. Now flour the' baking board; put on a table- spoonful .of the mixture, and roll very lightly; , The mixture will. be very. 'soft, but'a little praotice• will Make it possible to Handle it without adding much flour. After :rolling the mix- ture down tc aquarter ' of. an ,inch,. out with ra.round ' nutter, take out • a center with ,a small cutter,' lift care- fully into cake turner, and slide it into the hot fat. Fry brown on ne side, turn and brown on the other side. Take .out, drain,. then roll in the sugar and • cinnamon. These are very troublesome to make, nut when well. done are mast delict- ous. Points . to be remembered; I. After adding the last egg, let the beat- ing be rapid and continuous. 2: ' Have' the fat hot, but not smoking bot. 3. Use very little extra flour in rolling . out. Tea Biscuit. -Successful tea biscuit are made, by sifting half' a pint of flour with, aemail teaspoonful baking powder in .a bowl add quarter tea- spoonful salt and hall'teaspiitonful butter: rub the butter fine in the flour; add "half cupful milk and mix into asoft dough, turn' on ton flour- ed board and give a few tarns with a knife to smooth the dough; then roll it out; to one inch in thickness; cut . it out;, with a small biscuit cutter; set them, in n small, shallow tin -pan close together; brush. with milk and bake urther, that I.couldn't have a traus- and gold visiting silk J nn' ?" s w nderstand, Jennie l The marriage clothes instead of the man. she had c w eau without a marriage, -and that ay why I sent out cards. Don't you ould not take place—because there as no bridegroom at all; now it's - out,' For once Mrs. Alden was surprised eyond the power. of expression, but hen she did recover her merry laugh- er was delightful to hear and was oined by Letitia. "What a good• joke," gasped Mrs. ennie, "wouldn't it make the Rich- ond dames open their eyes ? It hall go no further, though I would Ile Alyn to know, if you have no ob- otion. What would Mrs. Ponsonby ay "Bulbellish it until we wouldn't now it but there's.one thing she on't enjoy any anon; expectations of haring my fortune. I shall leave my (ney _as a fund for old maids' trous- promised to marry and made no oth- er effort to drag him into eonversa-, tion. Miss Letitia brought every are tide for Mrs. Jennie's inspection and said as tbat lady rose to go: ""Do stay to lunch ; I've so much to tell you . yet, I want it understood that I meant what I said when I wrote on the carda I didn't want pres- ents ; please snake my friends under= stand that, will you ? I know they will want to give me -presents; you can't know 'bow glad I am that I am liked, Jennie," Mrs. Alden Would not .shake Miss Letitia's faith in the professions of friendship she believed sincere, but when their spiteful 0amments were recalled it angered her afresh with Mean. "I am always at home to give Alyn - his lunch; he does not enjoy it when I am absent, Letitia. I shall let it be knoiwri that you do not wish pres- ents." For that purpose Mrs. Jennie drove back by the church, where she found the, aooiety dispersing. She did not alight, but told thein .Of Miss Letitia's wish. She of the sharp tongue gave a shrill little cackle, and said; d each Ain that soon she was in usinesa for hereslf. She lived back of her shop, did her own cooking, her own washing and her own scrubbing, he dad this when she was resting rem her regular twelve or fourteen ours' labor at her business. Finally he customers began coming. Through long years of mental health; when a they neglected the Gospel. What will become1 of them I leave you 10 h judge. While your, reason acts put it to the grandest use—that of pe weighing time: against eternity, and t heaven against) hell. While your will acts, putt it !10 its highest use—in er success,. as through all her ad versify, she never once lost her head ✓ forgot that there were those about er struggling upward just as she hu- ll had had to struggle. The happy amily atmosphere of her great es- ablishment the tranquil lines of contentment and security that show n the faces of all here employees, one of the marked characteristics f the place. The place is thus des ribed by a visitor who was permitted o penetrate into its mysteries: " Around the long tables of the orkshop, where the bright rays of he electric Iight are concentrated on heir green oversheens, are seated bow to elbow, here the ' little hands' t $i0 a month, and with them the drat beginners, there the ordinary eeorators and the 'creators' at $100 month. Under the nimble fingers of hese 'last the shapeless things of tulle ✓ cardboard, which look like doth hags or pastry moulds or smashed bon - on boxes, gradually take on, with :met touch here, and a soft squeeze Here, the forms of bats. And while hese graceful objects come thus from heir hands the fresh young creatures coming to. God. While your imaging- is tion acts, .bring, before you the reale- ties of; another world: Look' out how c you carry, the magnificent touch) of t your intellect,► lest God, put it out in darkness for ever. 'The Kings buss- w nese requires haste! t 4 would have you regard the text, t because you may; have come near to et the end of God's patience. There can a be no doubt that some men in youth, fi or middle life„ or old age, so aggra- d vatingly re jeot the, Gospel, that God a lets them/ alone. They slam the door t of their soul In God's face and telt Him o to bel gone; then when they call after hint to come back, b 131 WILL NOT COME. a Eternal affront has been given; and in•that book whore no erasures are made, the man's name is pat • down 1, amen, then doomed. Cross the line that divides God's mercy from( His s wrath -•stop but one inch over, and you are ate badly oft as if you went se ten tbouaand furlongs. Before the t Iron fastens the door against' you( to your had better go in; Before the last d boast sail for heaven•! you, hark better cin into o the parda . of Goof The Xing's business requires haste! At Iteneeetw,• during the battle, those who• approached a certain tree were almost snure, to get shot. ;Light men had, fallen at that place. Al sign wale phut' up, "Beware!" ,Ai ratan, in a braggadocio spirit, said, '"1 am not afraid to stand there. There is noted" eon why a Man, should he shot; there any more than, anywhere else," He stepped tip) to the tree, and instantly' fell—fatally wounded, Suet the place you ocoupy to -day, 'Osinner, it in d fatal placid. J�apdrsds, at jwat your d their gay chattter makes what one must be very our and crabbed not to consider as very agreeable music. Their toil ems to be a mere amusement for hem. At all events, they appear to ve it; that is clear. And proud, in- eed', are they when they see one of their' hats pass in the street on a head that is worthy of it. PHEW, Nogga--My little girl is 2 years old and cannot talk yet. flogge—Don't be at all alarmed. My wife was 3 years old before she could say a word, and now 1.... This collapse of a temporary foot bridge at the, Parte Exposition on Suit - day caused the death of ex persona and seriously injured about 40 others, The structure had been pteelet sly► tan. dsmood as uns*14. That means we must give them without fail; she's afraid we won't give anything•, and takes that means to make sure." "Was that"the reason, you had 'no flowers' on the cards when your daughter graduated 1 Letitia's boo= guet was weighted with a jeweled butterfly. So glad you enlightened me; I have wondered why that clause was inserted, but bad no idea it meant exactly opposite what it said. Thanks to you, I understand. It is never too. late to learn—wisdom. Good morn- ing, I must go home." The extreme bonhommte of this speech made the clique stare at one another; they were never sure what Mra. Alden meant ; that her shaft bit the mark there was no doubt. Mra Ponsonby gazed after the• carriage, and said to her dear familiar friend: "Mrs. Alden does have the knaek of taking one by surprise; she confuses presents ? I thought you didn't neran —that is, I didn't intend to own--" "That you took that way of assur- ing Sopphy a number of bouqueta and. presents! I tbTught yon didn't mean to say that, dear, did your suggested the friend, sweetly. Mrtl, Ponsonby translated the re- mark as it was intended, and tress= ured it for future use. • r. * • M . • 1 Miss Letitia's wedding night had arrived. She was- looking extremely handsome, and accepted the effusive compliments. of her friends in appar- ent good faith; they declared she did not look a day over 40. As yet the groom had not made his appearance. Miss Letitia had ex- cuaed herself a moment or two, but as the minutes lengthened Into an hour without her returning, signifi- cant glanced wore exchanged and the buzz of many voices was heard. It is astonishing how much pleasure aoame penp1e derive from the distress or anorfifieation of their friends. bars. Ponsonby and her eorterle were in- sinuating that something was wrong; voicing pity which their eyes and countenances belied. Mrs. Alden was_ absence of Mies becoming worried Letitia from the room, and Melted she would return and Aimee the mallei4 ems toneutet. "She's prevailing en her main not to beceint feint -hearted," giggled Mra. Ponsonby. Thoroughly exasperated, Mrs. Jen. • 10. 11 ee A PERFECT DESCENT. Italy, recently fauna out how It feels to fly. Near her home, which nestles In a valley, is a high wooded moun- tain. To it it las been her austoan to go for fire -wood. To carry this wood from tbe precipi- tous mountain to her cottage was quite an arduotts task. Therefore she sent it dawn by means of a strong metal wire, stretched from the val- ley up to the mountain -top. . A few weeka ago she and her two little daughters ascended the nioun- Min, and after gathering three good- ly bundles of wood, prepared to send them down. Just as the mother bad fastened the first bundle to the wire, and had launched it .on its 'downward course, her wedding ring caught in the rope with which the bundle was tied, and in a flash she was carried off her feet. Half -paralyzed with fear, her little daughters watched ber as she sped from their sight, and then they ran down the mountain, fully expecting to find her lying dead at the end of the wire. And their fear was quite natural, since the mountain -top from whit% their mother had been torn is eight hundred yards above the val- But the children found their moth - sr entirely uninjured, Her fall had been broken as ahe was reaching the earth by sorae frleadly branches. The bundle oe wood, too, Was in fiefe,0 Mea- sure a bulwerk against the shook. THE PRINCESS' DEA.ENESS. The princess of Wales had for many years suffered, like her mother, the tate queen af Denmark, from a con- atitutiotial deafness, and it has long ; been resubject of suiprise that her royal' highness, he spite of thik af- fitetion, Able to enjoy social life so thoroughly. Strangers to court life who have- been entertained at Sand- ringbarti, have been astonished to find hoe easy it was to converse with the Przneetis. She has studied the aural system, mimosa ninth in vogue for the treatment of the deaf, and she hal beconae such; an expert lip-reader that the difficulties arising front her dea- nese are almost eurntounted, The ex- quisite ease and therm of manner of the mimeos further enable her to set strangers zit ease who are callea upon to converae with her. Miss Mabel MeXinley, ilieea of the president, is an acoomplished must. clan, and her singing is regarded as exceptionally good. 4 spoons grated cheese, 1 teaspoon SOME INDIAN MAIC. bait, sot in oven ve 10 minutes, serve bot, Noodles with Onions, -Atoll noodles same as for thecae, salt, slice Unloose fry in butter till, light brown, pour drained noodles over onions, stir, serve at once. Noodles and Bread.. -Pry one -bait mob to one inch cubes of bread in but- ter, till brown, pour boiled .noddies over them, season and serve "Did you know," eaid the old house- keeper, "that crushed egg shells are good for cleaning discolored or stain- ed bottles. I used to think must have a small amount of shot in the house for cleaning the inside of bot- tles. Of course, chopped pieces of potato are good, but egg ehells are first-rate, too.'' ENGLAND'S ROW WITH ASHANTI, The otieteen Stow murex to the Presc nt uprisen; of ahe Moravia. The British are now sending a few hundred troops Prone the coast to Cumarea, the old capital of Ashanti, to punish the natives there who have taken up arms againse their welts rulers, killed and wounded a nuniber of the British police and prevented the missionaries and other whites QUM FEATS THE FAKIRS PSRPOSM IN SHOAD DAYLIGHT. POIren A. Piro and Waiter Trick That le Pretteellard to Explain and an Ape parent laloplay of Strength That Paseei Understanding. The question of bow the fakirs Of India perform Wit. wonderful tricks is a, raatter that Wm for centuriee interest- ed ocientiste, and the beet explanation that has yet been offered of the matter Is that it is done by hypnotic power— that is, that the fakire simply hypno- tize the entire audieuce and make thene think that they saw trees grow out Of the ground in a second. Libraries have been written on the subject, In his book entitled "Quaint Corners of An. cleat Empires" Mr. ?Helmet Meyers Shoemaker deals in an interesting manner with the Indian fakirs. WritIng about the fakirs be says: "The statexuent has been made by such prestidigitators as Herrmann and Kel- lar that they had never :men any trick by these men ef India which they could not explain. Be that as It may, these common street magicians of In- dlit do SOM. very clever things. "Certainly the' performance before the Grand hotel, Colombo, this morn' ing, under the blazeng sunlight aud not three feet from the looker on evaa re - from leaving the town. An official re- port received t th the markable. As to the mango tree trick, there appeared a strong resemblance uprising ia due to the efforts et the British to obtain possession of the tbbeetwoteen a tree grown yesterday and produced this morning. But it golden stool of Ashanti. At the time was In the other performances that the King Prerapeh surrendered io the observers were most interested. British expedition which defeated him "In one instance the fakir took a wthiethK four years ago, 'it -was asserted that email jar of metal and handed his • teeth, be began to blow, and smoke other valuable property, hoping that seine time he might be able to regain :join issued from his mouth and nos- e. The jar,' which 'was held aloft these treasures and use them to his all the time, was found lined with wa- own advantage. • ter, which commenced to boll furiOusly. The golden stool was tbe Ashanti "Passing it aside, he opened his substitute for a throne, and it was mouth and ejected jets of living flame. reputed to be made far the most part Indeed the whole clarity of the throat of gold. It was a large article of fur- aignippetaedredantyothblengfilwieldth niture .and 'was perhips worth some In contact We all saw the empty jar, thousands of dollars. The British have the tilled jarethe boiling water and the been searching for this valuable relic flre, bnt the fire never approached the . and in fact have been digging holes eer far and wide around Cumassi in the ; mower trick consisted in causing hope of unearthing other treasuree. A great deal of gold was produced in Ashanti for many years and most of it found its way into the hands of the Xing and the nobles. The precious metal was worked up into rudely fash- ioned. jewelre oe adornments foe the attire and furniture of the wealthy c ase and a great many of these proe duets of the native goldsmiths were buried with every man et importance. Tne natives say their fathers have bee lieved for hundreds of years that the burial of geld in their payee assured thean ok great blessings in the next world; and white men who have vis- a dead and dried un cobra to come to life or so it appeared. The snake is . usu'ally kept In a small, round, flat basket with a closely fitting cover. Thia we save was empty, and into it the -fakir laid the flat, dried -skin of a dead serpent. ."PlacIng it not three feet from our • elide and in the brilliant light of the • southern sun, be coveted the basket with Its lld and then made the usual passes *with the inevitable cloth, about a -yard square, which he held by two corners to snow that It .contalned noth- "His costume consisted of one gar-.. aunt of the shirt order the sleeves of dee' the 00u.ntry say that gold to the which were tucked up at the shoulders,• value Olt $5,000 , or more, is hidden in affording, It would seem, scant oppor- many a grave. Perhaps these stories tunity to hide anything, yet when, after are exaggerated, but at . any rate, -a few waves of the cloth, he removed there has been in the past, three the Ild of the basket the dead snake years, a good deal of this sort•of gold milling near Cumassi. was gone and In Its place rose the wa- ft is possible that the 'whites in Jeetk head and peck of one of the lar - remembered that when the object of their search and this we see such work In England or Amer- eact may have incited netives who are tea . It is done at a distance and on the g a stage, with all the assistance of stage the foreigners. King Prempeh is now in exile in Sierra Leone, far from his i lights and shadows, bet in thls case we native land, and tbough he prondeed, were out in 'the plain air and near when he begged the British to make enough for the serpent to have istung peace• :with him, that he would we reveal the hiding places of his buried "The last trick consisted of a display treasuree, he did not keep his word. ef apparently .wonderrul strength. A He is still permitted to retain the rude but valuable jewelry which was in his possession when he ;surrender- ed, and he is quite a gorgeous object when he shows himself in state at Freetown wearing his yellow satin trousers and a weight of gold erne- the upper lid of each of his eyes, in - manta that makes him appear like a serted these cups thereunder, with the beast of burden. - hollow side next to the eyeball after boy of 10 years ot age was tied up Ina large; scarf, witb its -ends -attached to two ittrong cords. At the ends of these cords were hollow brass cups about the size of an acorn. The fakir, raising • s Which he pulled tbe eyelids well Clown. till done. This will make nine small SMALLEST SHEEP IN THE WORLD. "Then, with hands on nips and head well back, he arose to hie full height, It Lives' in Brittany HIM Is No nogg•r lifting the boy a foot or more off the WINDOW BOXES, • Than a.lato Dog. ground. and.swinging him from side to A charming arrangement was no- The very smallest of all the kinds side, the entire weight of course falling ticed last sunamer. The plants employ ad were nasturtiums only, and the entire coat could not have exceeded fifty cents. The box was of rough beards, evidently strongly joined, and est upon a pair of iron brackets. The box waa covered with floor oil- eloth, tacked on, and the design was such that it looked like tile work. The colors were cream and brown. A pine frame the width of the window, and six inches across, was nailed to the top of the window tor attaching the strings on which the vines were sup- ported. The nasturtiums were of both the dwarf and climbing sorts. A drapery of trailing nasturtiums fell over the edge of the box, and dwarf nasturtiums filled the center, and all were ot the deepest, richest calors known to this flower. The nas- turtituna that were trained up the supports wera of lighter tvolore, lem- on and orange and cream. The middle stnings had been loosened and the vines had been drawn baok from the center to each side by strongstrings; the whole appearance being a diamond shaped aperture surrounded by a drapery of living green. The effeot was equally charming from within and without. - of sheep is the tiny Breton sheep. It upon the brass cups, It seemed a mar- vel that the eyeballs were not•destroy- is too small to be. very profitable to raise . for, ol course. le cannot have e • "Perhepethose who undeistand these much wool, and, as for . eating, why • • matters can explain all that was done, but certainly no magiclane on our stage whole' one at a meal. It is so small when grown that. it can hide behind yheatvetbaescecemmepnlisahreed bsoitmellomar mfeoantes,traenedi , from the part of . performers." France where it is most raised. But, . if not a paafitable. sheep it is le dear lit- . e. tle creature for a pet, for it is very our Debt to tile Bern Fowl. gentle, ande'because it is so -small,- it It is quite possible, though of course is not such a nuisance about the house not .demoristrable,. that the humble as was the celebrated lamb whioh- bee . barn fowl has been a larger benefactor longed to a ,little girl named Mary. of our race than any mechanical ta. Any little' girt could find room in her lap for a Breton sheep. • ventlon In our pessession, for there 10 One of • this - little creature's peoell- no inhabited country on earth today WASHING TABLE LINEN. The work on mane of the embroider- ed doyleys and centrepieces. carving cloths, etc., in almost every home Is so handsome thet they might well be considered works of art and should receive the care necessary to preserve their beauty. The embroidery silk and will not fade if they are washed properly, yet the fact nimbi; that many a beautiful piece has been ruin- ed by the careless laundress. If the cloth bus been stained, the Stained portion should be placed over a basin, and boiling water poured through it. Or if a little salt, and a few drops of lemon juice are put on it, while still fresh, and the linen placed in the suntablne an hour or two, all tracen of the stain usually disappear, Of course the lemon juice should not be applied to the colored silk, pT it will fade the eiders. Table linens should not be used long enough to become badly soiled, ae the hard rubbing lamasery to get thetn clean is destructive to their beauty. Beat the water until it is hike warm, dissolve a little borax in it, end add enough soap to make a good suds. Waah each piece between the hands until clean, rinse through two watera with a little billing in the Seeetid. The borax softens the water making very little soap or rubbing nereesary. A little boiled stareh may be added to the seeend rinse water, and will give it the stiffness of new linen. Hang where the wind will not whip it out, and iron While it le quite damp. The embroidered parte should be ironed on the wrong side and make the pat - tarn show to the beet advent& 6. Lin- t et is treated in this way w H. look fresh and unfaded as long as it taste. 10.10.4414. nottsmAng looming. NOOdlea and Cheese. --To 1 qt boiling water add 1 cur. out noodles, boil 10 minutes, drain off the water, put noodles in, dish, add L *Poen htttter. the feelings of its human friends, of health. There are vast regions of when it hos been brought up a pet South America and Europe wbere it is In the house, and has learned to dis- the mainstay, and nowhere is there tingaish between happiness and un- known anything, that can take Ite . bapputess. place, whicb Is probably more than can If any person whom it likes is very be mild of anything In the world of shows it by laughing, the little sheep will frisk about with every sign of joy ; but, if, on the `contrary, the per- Limits to Dia Gratitude. sons sheds tears, the sympathetic ' "I feel that I ought to make some ate friend will evince its sorrow in itn knowiedgment the people who were equally unmistakable way. so kind to us during my late wife's last sickness," said Mr. Phroogie "and I veterate smoker, and as the rules of would like to have you Ihsert 'this card the Senate permit smoking, only due- owfeetbkit,snpkasplenat prominent place In this ing exeoutive session, he often takes refuge in an open doorway for an in- "We are obliged to make a charge for these notices," replied the edltor of dulgence in the weed. 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