Exeter Advocate, 1904-10-27, Page 2THE WICKEBESS OF PRIDE
Do Not Assume An Air of Superiority Over
Your Less Fortunate Fellows
Mixer/red accerenter to Ace or the Par-
ham:lent of cantles., in the year one
Thouseed Nine 1-eundied and Veer,
by Wm. Baily, of Toronto, at the
Teepartment of Agriculture, Ottawa.)
A elespatch erom Los Angeles, Cale
Says: Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage
preached from, the following text:—
Proverbs xxix., 23, "A. man's pride
shall bring him low."
The word "pride" in this- age may
Sometimes be used in a good sense.
In Bible times it always had a de-
based meaning. Searching through a
Concordance I cannot find one place
Where that word "pride" was not
u,sed as the syiaabol of "sin" and cone
denaned as the cause of sin. God
'denounces it all through the Old
Testament. God hurls at ie his exe-
crations all through the New. Arra-
gene° and pride compose the quick-
sands which have destroyed many an
immortal soul in the past. They are
the insidious means whereby Satan
is tripping up and manacling his
:helpless victims at the present time.
Therefore this sinful pride, which is
found nestling in many hearts as a,
fatal cancer, must be cut out or
some of us will be forever lost.
PRIDE Ole LINEAGE.
First, consider the silliest of all
kinds of pride, that of aristocratic
lineage. The spoiled infant in its
canopied bed, screaming for the at-
tention of its nurse, is not more of a
nuisance than are these people who
strut through the world claiming the
homage of their fellows because of
Miele having been born in an aristo-
cratic home. It cries, "Bow low to
rae, not because I have brain or have
accomplished anything, not because
T am of any earthly use to anybody,
but because my father or grandfather
or great-grandfatlier has accomplished
something to neake his name famous
or because nay great-grandmother had
in her veins the blood of the Euro-
pean aristocracy." Listen to the
ba.bblings of one who would continu-
ally shake before our eyes a single
branch of his ancestral tree which
happened to bear a few fragrant
blossoms while on that sarae genea-
logical tree are hundreds of other
branches -which have borne nothing
!but worm-eaten fruit, and which
branches have been gnarled and
• twisted for generations and for cen-
turies.
Have you ever stopped to consider
how many different ancestors you
have had? My parents were two in
number. I had one lather and one
mother. But, stepping back another
generation, I find I had four grand-
parents and eight great-grandparents
and sixteen great -great- grandparents
and thirty-two great -great -great-
grandparents. And so back and
back they go, doubling with each
generation. A few hundred years
back I find my ancestors were not
counted by the tens, but by the thou-
sands. Now, my friends, what right
has a man with family pride to fol-
low up one branch: of a genealogical
tree that lands him in a king's
throne room or in an earl's palace
and ignore the hundreds of other
ancestral lines, any one of which
would land hire in a peasant's hut
or perhaps even at the end of a
hangman's noose? For, though some
of us may not have had ancestors
who were hanged, all of us have
had plenty of them who ought to
have been hanged if they had been
treated as they deserved. Thus,
when we estimate how many differ-
ent ancestors we all have had, both
good and bad, there is a great deal
of broad common sense in the answer
which Theodore Roosevelt gave to
one of his boys who had boasted • in
school about Els family. The Presi-
dent said: "There are only two
classes of boys in this world, iny
son. Big boys and small boys alike
are either good boys or bad boys. It
'does not make very much difference
from what family you spring, if you
are a good boy the world will re-
spect y-oti and if a bad boy the world
will punish you and despise you."
Crle-CITMSTANCES MATeele MEN.
Circumstances make men just the
same as men make circumstances.
When I was lately thinking upon this
theme my eye involuntarily wandered
down a country road to a big white
barn where a livery is kept and
horses are rented for the day. About
one of these horses a young man.
Was working. Who is he? He is a
young man who for years has wanted
to be a lawyer. But lie is the oldest
son of a largo family of children.
His father was a farmer Is the east.
There that father's health broke
down, and lie bad to coine to Cali-
fornia climate or he must die. He
bought some land there. After
awhile two years of drought came
on, and he was ruined. Then ;that
father was confined three years in an
invalid's bed. Then that oldest son
had to spring into the breach He is
there 'yet in the breach. The bread
of his mother, his father and the
children was for years dependent up-
• on that oldest boy and his work. The
horses of the farm• were merely
changed during the drought lath the
horses of a public livery. you and
I had. been in that oldest boy's place
would we not have done jnst the
same as he did? Would we be where
we are to -day?
Men make circumstances, Not al-
ways. Some time age when seated
in a railroad train I read a news -
Paper article in reference to ono of
the notorious pugilists of the coun-
try. This article Went somethitig
like this', "Mr, So-and-so will never
amount to anything again in the
roped arena. • Why? Because he has
been twice whipped. A mat is like
h dog; Wliere he has beee beaten
triough, to find that seine one else IS
his master liis nerve is forever
gone." "How tree in life is that!"
I said to myself. Men I pictured
that n,oble dog of jack London's in
his "Call of the Wild." He was a
big, lovable, brave dog, but no
sooner was Lie sent north than he
was clubbed until his spirit was.
broken. What then? He whined and
Whimpered like a frightened puppy.
So some men, noble men, brave men
in their youth, become failures as
middle aged men, Why? Because
they are battered and pounded by
struggle after struggle and deeeat
after defeat. They are lialtpd in their
progress,. through life by obstacles
Practically impassible to overcome
until at last their courage and nerve
and figlitiug manhood practically
ooze away. 0 man, be not puffed
up in your own conceit on account
of your seenaing triumphs in life!
You and 1 in a sense have botli suc-
ceeded not because we aro sir ^Ater
than all men, but because God has
given to us chances of success which
he has withiaeld from men who were
just as smart and just' as diligent
and brave and as conscientious as
ever we have been.
ALL WERE GENTLENLEN,
It is too often forgotten that ar-
rogance and pride are sins in. there -
solves. The lofty spirit which boasts
that it is free- from the guilt oe othere
and holds aloof from. the repentant
sinner, whom it surveys with scorn,
is not that pride a most heinous sin
In the sight of a just God? During
the darkest days of the French revo-
lution of 1830 a great mob of insur-
gents and rioters were blockading the
Parisian streets. •, "It is ,useless to
appeal to their reason. They have no
reason," said General Lafa.yette, the
commander of the national guard,
which ultimately placed Louis Phil-
ippe upon the Feench throne. "Shoot
them down like dogs." "Let me,
general, try to scatter them," said
a stag officer to his cornmander, The
young man took -off his hat and rode
up to the threatening mob. Then he
cried, "All gentlemen will please to
retire, for I aro ordered to shoot
down the rabble." At once the naob
scattered. "Not," wrote the his-
torian, "from fear, but because not
one of those fierce rioter e wanted the
people of F111/100 to consider that he
belonged to the scum or the off scour-
ings of the nation." Because arro-
gant pride considers herself different
from the repulsive hags of sin. does
that make her different?" tell thee
nay. The vilest and the most de-
graded forms of sin. are not more
condemned in God's sight than. the
sin of the Pharisee. Christ said it.
We must believe it.
Who is this Pharisee of old modern-
ized into the language of the church:
life of to -day? Let me describe -him
as you have often seen him. Sunday
morning is here. The supercilious
creature crawls out of bed. He must
go to church. It is part of his reli-
gion to go to church. Every one
says he is one of the pillars of the
church. He dislikes the word "pil-
lar" because for a long time he has
thought he is the whole sanctuary,
choir loft and pulpit thrown in as
well as pew.
He has hard work to get' up this
morning because all the week, like
Shylock, he has been demanding his
pound of flesh. He gave a hundred
dollars to the church last week, but
he did not miss it much.. He took
it off the wages of his employees.
During tlae week, by, business tricks)
and financial thumb -screws, he got at
least four different pieces of real es-
tate $.5,000 less than. they were
Worth. He lied about the deal, but
of course he wily lied according to
recognized 'business custom. Last
night he discharged a young girl be-
cause she was sick. He knew what
made her sick. He .worked her over-
time and. worked all !Jae physical
life out of her.
PHILLIPS BROOKS' A.DVICE.
How do you know that your own
church is the best church and the -
only true church? Have you over
studied the ways and the- aneare
other ministers are using in our sis-
ter churches? It would le a good
thing for you to weesaip in, scene
other church for a little while before
you are so quick to condemn their
ways of doing things. "Other sheep
have which are not of this lold,"
said- Christ, One of the hest truths
I ever read from the pen of that
great, big hearted and noble Chris-
tian, the most beloved New England-
er of his day, Phillips Brooks. was
from a letter he wrote to a minis-
terial friend in Anaerica, The let-
ter went something like. t' : eneer
brother, yoU ought to col over to
Europe at least once n. year to fincl
out how the big world is, how many
people there are in it trying to do
right and how small. the Episcopalian
church seems looked at from this side,
of the Atlantic." You can surmise
What Phillips Brooks meant. Ile
meant instead of there being' only
one church filled with georlottsly good
people there were many clifferent
Protestant churches filled ' with just
as good peeple Thillips :Brooks
had in his own parish.
How do you know that your way
Of bringing up you children is the
only right way? Have you developed
your family so marvelou,sly thae
they are brighter than all other
children, More intellectual, more
spiritual? rerhapS instead of your
children being blamed foe doing
Wrong you might to be blamed. Your
way of discipline may be wrong.
Broaden your life. Sttidy. the ways
of other Christian parents and you
mwaayyo.he able to iniProVe yonr own
Irow do you know that your own
interpretation of the Scripture is
right? Perhaps if you would only
aaptly 4;ourSelf of self and as a Stue
dent coma and sit a Clirise'e feet
yea might learn so Much from lain
who write: meek and lowly of heart
that:you would have a less exalted
estimate Of yourself and oe your
own wisdom 'and piety. PereemellY
would never have any ilea fee a .phye-
sinian who thinks he knows se much
that in the crisis ef diSdase lle would.
not ask anotherephySielara to come
to the bedside of the 'sick for consal-
talon, Neither has' Christ any use
for one of his disciples who. knows
so much that he is not willing to
come to sit at his feet and learn 01
him Are you. ready to -day to empty
yourself of self and be as .tin empty
Vessel to be filled with the aoly.
Spirit?
Oh, ina,n., will you yield up your
pride for Christ? Will yeti be as a
little child at his feet? Will you
say, "-Keeler, I am nothing, but thou
art all in all?" May God grant
that the bane of sinful pride shall
'here and now eorever be Cast out of
every ono of our hearts. • "A man's
pride shall 'bring him low, but honor
shall uphold the humble in spirit."
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FIELD MICE IN FRANCE.
Seriouo Concern in the Agricul-
tural Districts.
According to the statement of a
Franca newspaper, in the experiments
made during the month of February
last in the Department of the Char-
ente, Chanaberland, of the Pas -
tear Institute, estimated that the
average numbee of field mice to be
found at that time -upon a hectare
(2.47 acres) was 1,350. They con-
sumed annually at least 13.k tons of
vegetable matter. In 1893, in the
region of Bar -sur -Seine, according to
another. expert, thiere wore more than
10,000 field mice to the hectare.
It will be seen, then; that the anxi-
ety among the farmers- is justified.
Such an increase in the number of
mice as would be naturally expected
would permit them to eat absolutely
every bit of living vegetation that
a field could produce during the sea -
SOIL
•To destroy these pests people form-
erly resorted to asphyxiation by fill-
ing the burrows with smoke or to
drowning by pouring water into them
or to sowing poison about the fields.'
The latter inethod, though the most
efficient, proved so 'dangerous to do-
mesticated animals that it was re-
sorted to only in exceptional cases.
At the present day another method
is used which is considered mueh
neore efficacious --infection by a mi-
crobe which is deadly to rats :and
mice only, domesticated .a,nirnals be-
ing hemline to its influence: In 1893
Doctor Danysz, of the Pasteur Insti-
tute, while studying the habits of
field mice in the :Department of Seine -
et -Marne, observed that large num-
bers of mice died apparently 'from
disease. Ite collected -virus from sick
animals, made cultures, and assured
himself that these -cultures absorbed
With the nourishment .produced the
disease in healthy rats and mice.
These experiments were made on a
large area, nearly' 200 acres, and -
seemed conclusive to the experts:
This method -of destruction his been
recently commenced and carried .out
systematically On surface of 2,800
acres, and has proved able to accom-
plish the destruction of the inice,
while the game, fowl, and other ani-
mals of the farm. were in. no instance
affected.
The seriousness of the situation is
emphasized by the fact that the
French Parliament appropriated
295,000 francs $56,935 to be used
for the •destraction of the mice. The
virus, which Is eurnislied free to de-
partments and townships, is supplied
from this fund and is sent directly to
the regions affected. The virus is
then distributed and /nixed with four
Aimee its volume, of slightly salted
water. In this liquid crushed oats
are soaked; the oats are then distri-
buted in suitable -places near the bur-
rows in such a way as to contamin-
ate as many families or groups as
possible at one thne. When this ,has
been done,: ten, �r twelve days. after-
ward . what is estimated at 96 .per
cent of. the. mice have. been found
d ad in tlie fields. •
One .woeld expect,.from ,these • re-
sults that the work would. heequicka
ly done, but the "campagnols" are
great travelers, and many disappear
from OAC locality to reappear sud-
denly la another, breeding witli greet
rapidity. The work has been going
on foe 'gime months, but there are re-
appearance in regions hitherto un-
affected, and it is probable that the
fight will continue for many more
weeks.
ABOUT WOMEN.
Tears are the strength of women.
A woman's thoughts run before her
a,ctions.
Woman's tongue is her sword,
which she never lots rest.
If women were humbler men would
be lionester.
Wife and children. are a kind of
discipline to humanity.
A woman never commands a man,
unless he be a fool, . but by her
obedience.
Partake of love as a temperate man
nartakes of Wine; do not become in-
oxicatect
Vice whisper of a beautiful woman
can he heard further then the loud-
est call of duty.
Women see through and through
each other; and often We most edpiire
her whom they Acorn.
No friendship is so, cordial or so
delicious as that of girl for girl; no
hatred so intense on immovable as
that of woman for woman,
Ari acre of good fighing-grounct will
yield more .fooci. in a week. than an
acre of the best land will in a year.
A eveigne tree on the island of Goa;
near leembay, is the "Sorrowful tree."
That name is given to it becaurie the
tree has a drooping, sad appearance
during the dayieten, bUt its aspect
chatigeS as the sun pea dewo. Then
its leaVes Open and no longer droop,
and fragrant blosSomS, .ceree JOG
blooni upon
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HINTS FOR HOM1D LIFE.
Damping the nostrils with fresh,
cool water enables a human being to
smell 50 per cent.. better than ordiri-
alNile3re'ter cover the Pan in which fish
is being cooked. To do so will make
the ash soft, and spoil the firm qual-
ity so desirable.
When it is necessary to pour boil-
ing water into a tutuabler or glass
cup put in a teaspoon first, and
there will be no danger of the glaze
cra eking.
If a finger has been pounded .or
crushed plunge it into water as hot
aeles:an be borne. This will relive the
pain more qtaclely, than anything
Leather chair feet may be brighten-
ed and revived by rubbing them with
the white of an egg. Leather book
bindings can also be improved by the
same treatment.
To remove grease stains irom your
white cloth dress, try motor spirit.
Use a perfectly clean piece of flannel,
and constantly change the surface as
the dirt moves.
The hands can be cleansed better
with warin water than with cold,
but they should always be rinsed af-
terwards with cold water, as this
keeps thern ia a better condition.
When a lock works stiffly fill the
barrel Of the key with oil and put
-it into the lock. The effect will gen-
erally, be excellent. .
A fish to be properly cooked
should not be plereged hit°, boiling
water. Put it 'rather into water
that is on the point of boiling, keep-
ing it at this temperature for a few
minutes, arid then allow it to fall
from the boiling point:
Flies may be effectually disposed af
without the use of poison. Take half
a teaspoonful of black pepper in
Powder, one teaspoonful of cream.
Mix them well together, and place
them in a eoom on a plate where
flies are troublesome, and they, will
soon disappear.
When baking a,pples, first core the
fruit and put on a flat baking tin
with a little cold water. Into the
middle of each apple put some brown
sugar and one clove. Bake in a
cool oven till soft. If you can spare
it, put a little butter on each apple
previous to cooking.
Picture glasses should be cleaned
with a soft clia,mois leather, wrung
out of cleat cold water, and left to
dry without any rubbing. Never
wash gilt frames—dust and brush
'them. If the gilt is chipped off in.
places brush it over with gold paint,
which can be had at any oil shop.
Cement for joining mackintosh is
made thus : Dissolve et...hue fine
shreds of pure'indiarubber in naphtha
or sulphide of carbon, to form a stiff
paste. Apply a, little of the cement
to each edge that is to be joined,
bring the edges together and place
weight over' them till they • are
bateides. tard toast is made as follows:—
Toant a slice of bread to a pale
brown; Ineil one pint of milk; well
whisk a fresh egg, and a little castor
sugar and grated nutmeg to it. Pour
the boiling milk over it, and pour all
over the toast. • A little jam may be
eaten with it.
For apple sauce you must pare,
core and cut into pieces six or seven
apples, and put thern intn cold wat-
er at onc,e, to keep them: white. Then
put them into a saucepan with just
enough water to- prevent them burn-
ing, Boil till tender, beat them up,
add sugar to taste, and a sm.all piece
of butter'. Serve in a tureen..
The juice of half a lemon squeezed
into a. glass of water, taken night
and morning without sugar, is one
of the simpleSt and best remedies for
torpid liver and billiousness. Daily
headache, which medicine has failed
to cure,- will disappear, and the ,ap-
petite wily'be considerably impro:ved.
•.CDowiNcir
e
To Pickle Onions.—Soak the onions
in salt and water Or a week, when
they should be drained, -and peel with
a bone or silver knife. Then put
the onions into more salt and water
for another. Week, after which wash
them clean and stand all nighta in
cold water. In the morning dry the
shallots on a cloth thoeoughly. Ar-
range in jars, and pour over enopgh
well-se/iced hot vinegar to cover
them.
Tomato Jam.—Take tomatoes that
are not too ripe, wipe with a cloth
and take oft the stems. Put into a
preserving kettle, allowing half a
pound of white, sugar for every pound
of fruit; add a little water for'syrup,
Slice one lemon for each two pounds
of fruit and add. Boil until thor-
• oughly done and the syrup is thick.
Do not put much water. at first, as
it can easily be added later, This is
an excellent preserve, and tasees a
little like age.
Vegetable Marrow Preeerve.—When
the fruit is perfectly ripe, cut it and
put it in a dry place for a few weeks
so that the sap will dry out of it.
Peel the marrow and take away the
seeds. TO every six poueds of pulp,
:cut int° squares one inch thick, al-
low six pounde of proserving stelae
and two lemolis sliced through: Let
these ingredietit3 stead for • twenty-
four hourse thea put into a preserv-
ing pan with two -ounces of bruised
ginger and one drachm of chi thee
tied in a. piece of muslita Take out
the ginger after ore hour's boiling.
Boil the rest till all is clear, sta.-
ring frequently. This jam shotild
not cook very last.
A Cabbage Dish,—An excellent cab-
bage dish consists of a small cab-
bage boiled the day before it is to be
Used, then chop it iato SIYM 11 pieces,
add salt and, pepper, and a table••
spoonftd of melted butter. When this
has •been stirred in put it over tba
fire. with half 'a Cupful of milk or
cream; when hot stir in two well
beaten eggs taid irimiediately turn
into cr hot buttered frying -pan. Stir
with a fork until brown,- and then
tttJ like ati einelet, and when, "the .c
a, hot dish with minced paasiey. 01100
under Surfece is well brown serve on TRE SUNDAY S
Iced Apple Souffle,—Put two ounee
of loaf or granulated sugar 8,nd th
thinly pared rinds pf two lemons in
to half a pint of cold water, an
let it boil, and then simmer for
quarter of an hour, Remove the pa
from the etove, and ,,add half a
ounce of sheet gelatine, • stirring i
until it has dissolved; when the 11
quid has cooled a little pour in th
juice of two lemons and strain ,
thrOugh muslin into a basin.
Rinse a stewpan with ()old water
and stew two pounds a apples in it
stirring them constantly until the
are soft; then sweeten them with si
ounces of sugar, or more if they ar
very sour, and lot them cook unti
they are reduced to a still: pulp an
are quite clear in. appearance. Pas
the pulp through a sieve and mix i
with the lemon jelly, which should b
cool, but liquid, three-quarters of
pint of whipped cream, slightly
sweetened, and, lastly, the whites co
two eggs which have been whiske
to a very stiff froth and mixed witl
an ounce of finely powdered sugar.
Tie a band of stiff white papei
round a silver souffle mould, so tha
it stands about two inches highe
than the meuld, then pour in th
mixture and place it in a freezin
box and freeze it for about three
aours. When it is frozen remove th
band of paper and scatter smile al
mends over the top which have bee
blanched, baked a golden brown, an
finely °homed, and serve the smile
at once with some dainty wafers.
Rolled Oats—Prices are unchange
at $2.30 to $2.32S per bag and a-
$4,.90 per barrel.
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ZNTERNA TIONAL LESS oa,
OCT,, 30.
a Text of the Lesson, II. Kings via
8-03. Golden 'Dente
Ps. xxxiv., 7.
t A good title for a large pare of the
Bible would be "The Lord Gracie the
, God of Israel, who only doeth won-
- clrous things Le and o ery devout
er heart shouid cry; "Blessed be 1 -lis
x glorious nanae forever, and let the
whole earth be filled with His glory.
d Amen and Amen!" (Ps: lxxii., 18,
s 19). From beginning, to end His
t name is wonderful, and He is ever
e doing wondrous things in love and
a grace for and through the sinful sons
of men. ' Elislia, the man of God, is
still before us as a sample of what
d man might and ought to be, for
1, while there is but one perfect pat-
tern, the man Christ Jesus, there are
many who may be followed as far as
t they follow Gad, but the very blessed
✓ way is to see no one hut Jesus only,
O to run with patience, looking unto
g Jesus (Mark ix., 8; Eleb. xii., 1, 2)4
to cease from man, and behold tli0
e Lord (Isa, ji,, 22; iii., 1).
The opening verses of our chapter
n tell of the new house by Jordan
a Which. the sons of the prophets start -
o ed to build because the place where
they dwelt with Elisha • was too
t strait for them. Whether there is a
hint here or not that Elisha's holy
life was too narrow tway for them
I -cannot say, but one cannot forget
the incident of the search for Elijah,
because they were not in f all fellow-
. ship. 'There is rnany a holy life to-
day that is too great a -trial even for
s other believers in the same household!
1 and God does not compel holiness,
so Elisha let them go aad even went
, with them to help thera, for love is
always kind even to those who can-
not see as we do.
Our lesson proper concerns the de -
e liverance wrought by God tliroughl
Elisha for the king of Israel, and
I also Elislia's own deliverance from,
the king of Syria, reminding us of
Ps. ii., 1-4; xxxiii., 10, 11. The
• child of God may well take real com-
fort from sucli words as these: "No
weapon that is formed against thee
shall prosper." "'They that war
against thee shall be as nothing. and
as a thing of naught" (Isa 17;
xli., 12). The king of Syria thought
to entrap the king of Israel, but the
latter being warned by Elislia, the
man in fellowship 'with God, saved
himself from the hands of the king
of Syria more than once, so that the
king of Syria thought that there
must surely be a traitor in Itis caeuP Ite
who in some way communicated las
plans to the king of Israel. When
one of his servants assured him
1 that it was not so, lent that
t there was a prophet in Israel who
coiled tell the king of Israel his
most secret words, then He de- '
termined to lay hands on the prophet,
and hearing that he was at Do- '
- thane lie sent thither a great host ort
horses and chariots, which came by II
- night and compassed the city about,
that they might capture the man of
God, but how vain aro the thoughts
and purposes of men who know not
God. The humble man of God is
perfectly quiet and unmoved, for hcr
• sees another host al horses and char-
iOts which ordinary eyes cannot see.
His heart could truly sing, "I will
not fear though an, host should en-
camp against me (Ps. xxvii, 3).
"Behold, God is may salvation.; I will
trust and not be afraid" (Isa.
2).
Not so his servant' who cried;
"Alas, iny, master; how shall wt
do?" As Gehazi had become a leper,
it was probably some one in his
place, yet oven Gehazi might well
have been afraid, for he, too, if a
child of God, was also out of fellow-.
ship. Ensile, did not reason or
argue with his servant, but witli
these words assured and conafortod
hien, "Fear not, for they that be
with us -are more than they that be
with them" (verse 16), and then lid (
asked the Lord, to open his servant's'
eyes that he might. see, and he, too,
saw the mountain full of horses and
chariots of fire roundabout Elisha.
In Rom. viii, 26, 31, 34, we see
God for us, Christ for us, the Spirit
for us, and we have the beautiful'
assuring words, "If God be for us
who can be against us?" Yet eve
are slow to believe that all things
are just as God says, we do well to
pray that God would enlighten: the
&yew of our understanding that ,we
may know what is the hope of our
collate; and the elates of the glory
of His inheritance in us; that He
would open our understandings that
we might understand the Scriptures
(Eph. 1, 18; Luke xxiv, 45).
God can as easily blind as open
eyes, so, at Elisha's request,
blinded these Syrians, and Elisha
brought them to Samaria, to the
king of Israel; whom they were really
P.00lcinc.;, for they only wanted Elisha
because he kept them from the king
of Israel. Again at the request of
Elishe, the Lord opened. their eyes
and they found ,themselvee in the
hands and 'at the mercy of the king
.of rerael, who, belled of smiting
0161T1 , as his own • heart suggested,
at the ,avord of Ensile, fed them and
Sent them home, thus conquering them
so that, for a time at least, the 'bande
of Syria came no more fete the
land of Israel.
They acted according to Rom, xii,
20, "IT thine enemy hunger, feee
him; if he thirst, give him driitle, for
in so doing thou slIalt heap coale of
fire on his head." The Lord's further
deliverances and His kinclaess through
Elisha to the woman of Shun= are
recorded in the next two chapterS,
but, whether famine o- deliverance,
it is el od working in all and through
all for His people and against niE,
elle/ties. ,
POTTING PLANTS.
good way to pot plants is to
take a quantity of broken pottery
sniall pieces of brick or pebbles and
place in the bottom of the pot. Thi
is for drainage and will keep, the soi
from getting soggy from over water
ing, which indeed is a bad practice
for the soil soon becomes sour an
the plants dwindle and die. Many
plant e are lost this way.
13e eareful when you water to giv.
just enough, and no more than wil1
saturate all V'e soil in the pot thor
°uglily. Do not water again unti
the surface of the soil begins to look'
dry. Watering flowers a little every
day is not a good plan; never watei
them until they really need it.
Plants kept in living rooms dry
out quickly. A good way to keep
them from doing this is to fill the
saucers about one-third full of white
sand. Set the pots into the sand
and keep it wet.
HOUSEHOLD EXERCISE.
Exercise is essential to the healel
of all. But when we suggest to the
busy mother that she take exercise,
she insists that she gets all she needs
about her work, and to think of ' a
course in physical culture is quite
absurd in her case. If she would
make a period. imher work severa
times ,a 'day long enough to coun
200, straighten up, bend backward
and surprise her shoulders with a few
new turns arid shakes, making a lit
tle effort to inhale all the fresh air
possible, the results would be sur
prising to herself. Even -the invalid
in bed should take plenty of breath
ing exercise several times a day.
TO KEEP MOTHS .OUT.
Benzine will drive away moths
from upholstered furniture. Sprinkle
with benzine; it will not spot or
stain the raost delicate silk, and the
unpleasant odor soon passes away
the air. Where it is known that
the moth miller has entered, burn
teaspoonful of gum camphor in clos-
ets where the clothes hang.
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GOAT'_S MILK.
Lacteal Fluid. Is Free From Tub-
ercular Germs.
While Dr. Koch and the Royal Com-
mission on Tuberculosis, with their
several adherents, are exchanging po-
lite scientific invective as to whether
tuberculosis is or is not transmissi-
ble fromcows and their milk' to hu-
man beinge, many have solved the
question in their own way -by leaving
cows' n2ille severely alone and deink-
ing nothing but the product of the
goat: This may .be regarded as a
very, safe move, for the average goat
has a most enviable constitution, be-
ing immune apparently to every dis-
ease that • attacks sheep, or cows,
while it may be kept with advantage
on the roughest of land. Certainly
no goat has ever shown signs of tu-
tubercular disease, and on this fact
alone the drinker of goats' milk re-
lies for hie safety. An analysis of
the nanny's milk shows a. still furth-
er advantage, for it contains, bulk
for bulk, almost twice the amount
of nourishment that cows' milk has
hence, tholigh it may be double the
price, half the quantity ought to suf-
fice, for it may be diluted with water
up to twice its original volume. As
a milk producer, • the goat is
of course triuch inferior to the cow;
nannies have been known to give a
gallon of milk a, day; but two quarts
is nearer the average yield; but on
the other hand, housing accommoda-
tion and area of run may be on the
most exiguous scale, a fact which
has earned the goat the title of poor
ozTin)1-,s • ocl(reloriTilteo that
it does not keep eo Nvell as a cow's,
twins to its exceptional rielmess;
and goats' butter has the same in-
herent defect. To tl.e animal itself,
however, salons objection can, be
taken unless kept rigidly to its own
domain, for it is inordinately fond
of young shoots of trees, and would
speedily ruin on young plantation
to which it had access. This pro-
clivity has been one of the chief
causes of the nakedness of the moun-
tains all round the Mediterranean
where goats abound, and a greater
demand for their milk would soon
Show similar results in our own,
tountry unless strict measures were
taken to prevent straying.
More than 8,500 persons in the
'United States are 100 years old, or
over. There were 200,584 persons
who could not tell their 'age,S to .tho
The 0.0,r receives the largest salary
in the $4,800,000 annual)y.
In addition he thaws revenue froth
more Mien ono,. hundred estate*" hie
etignO taltere.
iroperty.
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