Exeter Advocate, 1905-10-26, Page 24.1••••••
THE DANGER OF RICHES
Mammon is a Good Servant, But a
Terrible Claster
"Lay not up for yourselves treas-
ur� opine the earth. where Huth and
rust consume, and where thieves
break through and steal; Let lay up
for yourselves treasures in heaten.'•
—At tt.
%1., 19, 20.
Thu great teacher is not denouncing
riches: he is discriminating between
two kinds. 'J'ho passion for riches is
a normal one; it is part of our divine
discontent. 1•aery right life ondeety-
ors to enrich itself. Satisfaction is
e,tagnation. Life compels growth.
I•:ach t,ew hour a stun either lives
more or he lives less; there is no
Mantling still. The strife of business
and tho toil of daily life aro moro
than efforts to keep at a certain
level; they nro the responses to our
tuward cumpellings for improvement,
Zriincrease of life.
A roan seeks money—greator pro-
fits, increased wages—because it will
give him larger opportunities, will
insure hire nror•e life. But in time he
easily learns to substitute the
means for the end, to think of the
money moro than tho life; he begins
to hoard yellow dirt and to store
up things and call thont treasures.
pile gauges itis lifo by his goods, and
when some disaster sweeps all these
array ho counts that life is lust.
The danger of riches is that the
tools shall become the treasures. 11.
makes all the difference whether your
lichen, be they small or great, hear
you. bless you with larger life, or be-
come a load wench, like a beast of
burden
YOU MUST CARRY.
It is not enough to make money; the
stoney roust bo made to make more
tnnanhu,d. ito is in a sure way to
lose his treasures who becouns no
more titan their bookkeeper. watch -
Dian. and drudge.
Hitt laying up treasure in heaven is
Moro than a storing up of sighs and
Sorrows. of crosses and complaints;
More than the investing of a doubt-
ful dinfo in the colleolion in the ex-
pectancy of a dividend of many
dollars in glory. It is not a matter
of insuring a co,npeteney there by
exhibiting inconlpetelecy here; there
is no promise that the people who
aro too shiftless to keep themselves
shod hero will own the swiftest autos
there.
Heavenly treasures are in the pre-
sent
ro-sent tense; faith is moro than dealing
in futures. If you do not tae them
up now tho chances aro you not'or
!will- They aro not castles in the
skies, far distant and impalpable.
Many a life has been spent in dream-
ing of mansions In the skies that
would have been more protltat,lo to
itself and more pleasing to its Maker
hail it boon applied to a more sub-
stantial if less pretentious oJince
here.
It is not she money itself; it is the
manner of its using that makes it
either heavenly and enduring ur
earthly and corrupting. A dollar
may bo either divine ur dollish. 1t
is treasu. ed ir. heaven if it is invest-
ed in that tchich makes for tho en-
during life; if it lifts any life toward
heaven it is itself lifted there. What-
ever, whether money, thought, love,
or toil, serves humanity, makes this
earth more heavenly, is so much
trensuro lard up where burglars and
bankrupts are unknown.
Love lays up treasures above; sel-
fishness buries theut below. Treas-
ures of alt kinds
SLIP FROM OUR FINGERS
and aro lost. to us if they are guard -
eel only by greed. But regarded as
seed to bo sown for the feeding of
many, as groans of multiplying our-
selves in service, as that %%lilt which
wo have been intrusted that, wo make
our Master's garden as fair and
fruitful as he would have it be, thou
have we that which by its use and
seeming loss is secured to us forever.
Your with in the heavenly ac-
counts does not depend of your bank
book hero; there tho use of manhood
counts for more than money. Char-
acter is above all the enduring treas-
ure. Your value to God depends on
what you aro and an how you give
yourself to the life about you. No
man is really enduringly poor who is
truly useful. The rich life is that
which best ottains life's end, the im-
provement of society by the perfoA
of self as its servant. You are suc-
cessful in the measure that you aro
a savior of society .
With this grand motive a man
ought to seek riches for the enlarg-
ing of his life, to seek knowlottge,
money, influence, all that he may be
a better servant; alt that he may
livo the life of tho largest usefulness;
all that he may learn tho lesson of
that great life of love, the life that
o now acknowledge to ho rich abovo
all others, the life that found these
enduring riches by losing itself in
loving service.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
OCT. 29.
Lesson V. Power Through God's
Spirit. Golden Text, Zech. 4.0.
LESSJN WOItD STCUII•:SS.
with oil frc.n a bowl or reservoir
Placed above them from which the
oil was conveyed into them by means
of seven pipes to each of tho tamps.
3. Two olive trees by it—That is,
by the bowl or reservoir. In verso,
11 and 12 wo are told that these
trees had each a fruit -bearing
"branch" which "emptied itself"
(that. is, delivered its cit) by moans
of a golden tube into the oil -bowl of
Note—Theso Word Studies are based the candlestick. The point of the
on the text of the Revised Version. vision is that the candlestick gave
The 'Times of Zechariah.—hardly forth its light, and was in turn aup-
hnd the work of rebuilding the teen- plied by a continual and inexhaustl-
ple at Jerusalem begun than aser-
Ili (low of oil without the assistance
sous check was encountered. The of any hum
, agency,
Sn►nnritnns, the northern neighbors 5. Knowest thou not The inter -
of the Hebrews in Judea, had re- preting angel expresses hie surprise
quested to be allowed to participate at the inability of the prophet to
In rho rebuilding of the temple on interpret the vision without assist -
the plat "wit seek your God, as yo ante.
do." But their roiliest was peremp-
torily refused Ir} the •fe•as. Here-
upon the Satnarltttna complained at
0. In this verse begins the inter-
pretation of the vision. which had
been granted unto %echariah the
tho Persian court and made repre- prophet as a message of encourago-
sentations throwing discredit anti nu'nt unto Yeruldutls•I, saying, Not
suspicion upon 'Lcrubbabel and hie by might. nor by power. but by any
colaborers at Jerusalem with a %iew'Spirit, saith Jehovah of hoots—that
to stop the work. Cyrus waw, no, is. the work undertaken ami superin-
)orr►;er on the throng, and his mime- tenths, by %'r•ubbatn•l was to be
diutu succ.'saors gave car to the re -,carried on and completed not in the
presentations of the Snu,nritese and ;strength of those engaged iu it, but
prohibited the continuation of theby Jehovah himself.
work. It wan not till Darius the son' 7. Who art thou, 0 great moun-
t),llystaspia ascouded the throne! tain before %wrubt,nbel?—A mountain
that the work was permitted to goof difficulty and hindrance, interfer-
on. The delay bail been one of ;ing with tho work in hand, it re -
about fifteen years. It was at thts.ferrecl to.
crith•al time that Zechariah, as also a 'Thou shalt hccorue a plait—Every
his cuntsntporary, Haggai, pro- impieliment and hindrance shall he
ph(wied. Zechariah in the name of 'entirely rento%rtl.
Jehovah summoners the people to I Tiring forth the top stung with
once more arise and continue the shoutinga-71nis top atone eeperaents
work, and /.t'rebbal.nl, the prince or !the finishing touch given to the com-
govereor, i,ho Joshua, the high priest !pigged wok. The work shall bofin.
gladly responded, leadiug the people, met! amid great rejoiclog.
who nt first showed a general apathy' Q Iry way of farther tnterpreta-
a and disinclination to uldertuko the tion of the vision of the message of
work again, in the endeavor. 11n•ther ithe vision is repeated in definite
obstacles were plated 11) the way ofworein by the angel. This ve cond
the workers by the Petrel) of Syria j
and other Persian officers. but under i message is con ersos. In yr( nee H and
the leadership of faithful prophets the following /termite
and others, and with Cie firm, sup- A. 'l'he hands of '/et'r°14)i be) . ,
port of Dories the king, 1) t work shall alien finish it—,lehovwh definite -
was centrnueet. and in four .ren+'' ly c•oettrins the pr01nisr to Zerub-
tinme. in the ,.ilit11 your of Dories+. the baleel that his work shall be succes-
templo was completed. fully complete'el, and this conple-
Verso 1. rhe prophecies of 7echar-'tion of the work shall in turn In. the
lab. one of which we are to study inproof that Jeho%vth of hosts hath
to -day's lesson, ere like (hare of sent me (the angel) unto you (the
I►ntiel and d'tekicl and Saint John prophet!.
in his apocalypse, given largely irhf lit The Its' inning of the work had
tho form of symbolical vieions, which been a day of small things, the re -
fact must he kept in 'mind in the in- sources of thoso encased in the
lerprctation of the prophecies. in work bring apparently inndetpiate to
chapter 4 is given the fifth of a eerie.; :the undertaking, and the positive
of visions, the explanation to the hindrnnees comparnti%ely greet. But
e'isio;t (welt being found in the con -;since these seven . . . the eyes of .1e-
teUet. The whole chapter should be•hovah, which run to and fro
rend. through the whole earth. perceive
The Anil that talked with rite— and behold all things, and ho else
The sates Person mentioned in Zech. the progress of their work, there -
2. 1, "And behold a elan with a fore. who will venture to dcapi*:e or
measuring line in his hand •' Note presume to hinder it?
rho similarity to the e inion of Ene,
kiel (Week. 40. 3).
Waked ale—Zechariah. '/,echattnh
wits the eon of ile•rtehlah, the son of
12. 4. %Ito tone ono of tho chief
Iddon a prophet mentioned in Nell.
pcieets that went up with Zerubba ('d a new way of boiling eggs. The
bel !O Jereeslesn, that is. returned egg wns vnspended from the beton of
with hint frown captivity. 7.tcharlah , a Tair of scales. anis dipped into a
)igcalf, ilk* his grandfather, was y ; saucepan of boiling water. The vend
pu'test a1 well as prophet. 1 iron nn hour -glass trickled into the
2. A cinllestirk nil of gold—Liter- state which hum; from the other end
filly, '•;nm(:atond." In design )ik.• of the beamuntil the egg was eco;:- t
the :,•teelle tlek originally placed in • ed. 'Then the weight of the sand list- 1
the teiewneele having seen lamps ed rho egg out of the satcepan and 1
tlier,on, 'Eno Inn;•s Were supplied !rang an electric bell.
4
$CIF.NCF. AND EGG 11011.iNO.
In n lecture nt the Itoynl institu-
tion, \ir, llenry ('tmninghmne show-
% % acrd them Homo than grown people
FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND ,****** =***** It >nay ba cagier, seemingly. for tl,
u,ther to set out cold loud, but
NTRRhST FF.O`I
.;‘,11
, she will pay for it in the end in the
BANKS A:'D BRAES. :i'' added cure of delit•at.. children curl
n s"�!C bills to pay tho doctor. Boys and
�+��i �/ pie girls must have nourishment enough
'llW7lr7et 1l. 4 '3, pit l to do their work and also to grow.
NOTES OF I
PIER BANI
. -'FOUGHT AT SEBASTOPOL
What Is Going on in the high-
lands and Lowlands of
Auld 4e rtia,
Glasgow's Medical Offerer of stealth
reports that six cases of enteric fe-
ver have occurred within a fort-
night. each the result of eating raw
mussels.
The 'Duke of Richmond and Conlon
is to receive visits at Gordon Castle
during tho next few weeks from rho
Prince of Wales and from Prince Ar-
thur of Connaught.
The "London Gazette" announces
that General Lord Kitchener has
been appointed to the honorary col-
onelcy of the 4th Volunteer Battel-
le!), the Royal Scots (Lothian Regi-
ment).
Tor. Henry, one of the best-known
nieilical gentlemen in the Kenney
district of Aberdeenshire, has been
presented with a cheque for £150
and n piece of silver -plate suitably
inscribed.
Mr. John D. Mcltelli, M.A., has
been appointed to a mastership In
Glasgow Academy. Mr. J. D. Mc -
Beth, who had a distinguished aca-
demical career, is a non of Mr. Mc -
Beth, school -master, 1.'arr, Inver-
ness.
While being towed from Dundee to
South Shields by the tug Renown
the tug Excelsior foundered off May
Island, going down in 33 fathoms of
water. Her crew had a narrow
escape from drowning.
The Fiebery Board for Scotland re-
port that from 1st .luno to 19111
August tete total of herring landed
was 985.092 crafts. as compared
with 1,006,880 craps fur the corre-
sponding period of last year.
Lord Ronald Sutherland (lower,
the 11))dle of rho Duke of Sutherland,
has just eeleltrated his sixtieth birth-
day. His Lordship is a marry -sided
man. an author, a sculptor. and a
keen judge of art and brie -a -brae.
The monument to be erected as a
tribute to the gallantry of Lord
Lovat and his corps of Scots during
a critical time in (ho nation's his-
tory is now in course of erection in
the centre of tho Square of Beauty.
The work of erecting the piers at
tho North Fsplanade. Lerwick, for
the new fish market 19 now being
pushed forward, so that it is expect-
ed by this time next year work
should be well towards completion.
Five now joint stock companies
were register•eel is Scotland last
week. with a total capital of $131,-
500, making 1217 companies with nn
aggregate capital of 1:6,735,827,
registered since the beginning of tho
year.
The post office are inviting tenders
for the conveyance of letters, news-
papers, parcels and all other postal
packets by motor van between Edin-
burgh and Glasgow via llathgate.
Airdrie, and Coatbridge; also for
services between Ilathgate and Ed-
inburgh and 13athgato and Glasgow,
both ways.
Whaling operations by the four
whaling companies engaged on the
west side of Sitetland continue to
meet with good success, During the
past week twenty whales were
brought ashore at dilTerent. stations.
Owing to a difference as to plans.
the gift of .C16.000 by Mr. J. K.
Caird for a physical laboratory at
University College, Dundee, will, it
is understood. be withdrawn unless
agreement is come to between tho
parties.
Stay hall, Inverness, (ho seat of
The Mackintosh, where the Prince of
Wales has been spending a week be-
fore going to Abergeldie, is of his-
toric interest as tho spot where
Prince Charles Stuart sought refuge
after his defeat at Culloden is
1740.
A brass hand competition open to
Scotland was held at Kirkcaldy re-
cently. 'There were nine entries, and
the Wire money totalled £102, there
being besides a cup for the best
band. The Pelton Hill combination
carried off the first prize for (he sec-
ond year la succession, Kirkcaldy
Trades band coining next, and Clyde-
bank third.
At the Aberdeen Town Council it
was agreed by a largo majority to
proceed with the sckerue of widening
Union bridge in Union street by the
addition of granite masonry, giving
an extra width of 20 feet to the
thoroughfare. The burgh surveyor
estimated the wont of widening the
bridge In granite at 917,000, anti
the cost of an alternative scheme of
iron girders ar £7,000.
11OW A PORCUPINE Fi(RTt.
A dog never nttneks a porcupine
but once. tf he survives. the lesson
is enough to make him wise in the
way of porcupines ever after. Ordin-
arily, and when at ease, tho quills
and hoary hair of the porcupine lio
flat upon his back, but when angered
he bristles up, and every part of him,
even to his t(.c+v and the tip of his
nose, is protected by the armament
of sharp quills. Ills plan of tighti.,i
is wholly on rho d0.'ensi%o, and so
destructive is his veritable hayvtt
line to the nttncking foe thnt ever.
the hear, the panther end the lynt
will not molest him. That is tthy
the porrepeine knows no fear, nod
vhy he ('onus abruptly into rtnhp
and calmly intosticates things Ile
has yet to ;cern (lint man and hie
unerring rine are far more diet fly
than even batted tm.l q 0.3.73 our
quills.
Sc►•ogga—"lienpec!( told me thnt
ho regarded the toothache ns one of
the, greatest of temporal ldeselege."
1'agga--"that an iucomprohensil•lo
idea'" Scr.,t;q;s—"lees; he said it made
hire forget l:ts other troubles."
:Wilton—"(Ilhson d,e sn't seem to bo
getting rich nt ponit y re slit
en—"No; but he soot his hens have
'ken to eating their own egg's, noel.
to line hopes that their'll become sclf-
upport ing."•
1n).11sTIC REC1i'1:S.
('ocoultat 1►ttint ies.—Use a half
pound of desiccated cocoanut, a hall
teacup of sugar, and the whites of
two eggs. Slis tho cocoanut and
sugar together in a basin. find acid
the whites of tho eggs. Stir until
a Iutsto is made, then mould into
py run>ids on greased paper. and
gently broth in tho oven.
I'ickleel Ripe Cucumbers—'Wako
solid ripe cucumbers; pard, quarter
and scrape out tho seeds. if you
prefer you can cut them into thick
slices or rings, removing the Largo
steeds.. Soak over night in a brine
wade of two gallons of soft water
and ono cup of salt. Next morning
drain thoroughly, and add to boil-
ing syrup 'nada with a quart of
vinegar, a pint of sugar, an ounce
stick cinnamon and quarter ounco
each whole clovee and 'race. Ito
not crowd them in tho syrup. Ko'p
below the boiling port until Wilder.
then skint out into jars. When all
aro cooked and cool the jars may bo
sealed or tied up with. paraffin paper
as they will keep for a very long
time. Melon rinds may be pickled
in saute manner, or, if you want a
dark, rich looking pickle. drain off
the syrup from the cooled fruit when
it is first cooked and cold and r.+ -
heat and pour over the melon for a
few days; then beat all together and
seal up.
Pumpkin Chips—Cut the pumpkin
into lengthwise strips two inches
wide; peel, then slice each strip into
chips about the thicknoes of a dollar.
Orate nine fine lemons, saving tho
gratings. Squeeze the juice and boil
the lemon rinds until quite tender.
Weigh six pounds of sugar for the
same weight of pumpkin; at night
sprinkle half the sugar over the chips
and over that pour the lemon juice.
Next morning put into the kettle.
with rest of the sugar and lemon
rinds .,Meets. Add about one cup
of water. Ifhe . hr,lf done put in
the gratings of tho lemons and boil
until clear.
Virginia Fried Chicken —It goes
without saying that for frying,
chickens must be young and tender.
This granted. there is no more de-
licious way of preparing there than
in the Virginia style and serving
with create gravy. A Northern cook
holds up her hands in horror at be-
ing told to "soak her chickens in
cold seater to extract the blood."
"It takes out the juice as well,"' sho
declares; but the old Barky cooks
know their subject well, and the end
justifies the ineans. Raving cut up
a pair of young chickens and soaked
then[ halt an hour or so, they wipo
then dry, season them well with
salt and pepper, dredge them with
flour, and fry in a deep iron skillet
in which is a liberal allowance of
butter, or butter and lard or pork
drippings mixed. 'llhis Hurst bo hot
when the chicken goes in. The skil-
let is then covered and pushed back
on the range, to allow the chicken
to cook slowly. When one side is a
rich brown, turn, and when both
sides aro done take out and put in a
pan whore they will keep hot until
all the pieces aro lrle4. When all
aro finished, and there is left a few
spoonfuls of grease in the pan, stir
in a tablespoonful of flour. 'Then
add a half cup of boiling w•nter, and
enough rich milk to make the con-
sistency required. Season with salt
and pepper, and let it boil for a
moment or two. Arrange the chick-
en on a hot platter. and garnieh
with a little parsley, pour the gravy
over it and serve with the chicken.
Baked potatoes and hot biscuit or
corn -poen or bread should accom-
pany it.
Baked Cheese—Two tablespoonfuls
of butter, four tablespoons of bread
crumbs, ono -halt pound of Kansas
cheese, one cup sweet milk, three
eggs. Cut butter end cheese in
email pieces, put in large bowl with
brew! crumbs; on these pour milk
heated to scalding. Mix well, put
on the hack of stove till all is melt-
ed, stirring occasionally. When well
mixed, take from fire, cool, then add
yolks of eggs with • Witch of Halt.
then acl,t whites, beaten to a stiff
froth. Put in buttered baking dish
and bake aheut twenty minutes.
Serve immediately.
S'T'ARVING 1'TIh: C1111,Dff :N.
All the parents who starve their
children are by no meeans in dire
poverty or inhuman, though this is
the general impresainn. There are
thin' hungry boys and girls in every
school In the land, and their moth-
ers would be indignant if anyone
ventured to tell thein the truth.
"Starved?" said an angry woman
not long ago. "Iook at that sup-
per table! 1f my children aro starv-
ed, what about the poor in cities?"
Ther supper tab!e held cold meat.
ten. bread and butler, sauce raid
cookies, with Jams, jellies and pick-
les. and she felt she had a right to
be angry with the friend who had
ventured to sugpet that the chil-
dren were improperly nourished.
'IYy it yourself 7401110 day and see
how it works. Eat an ordinary
hrenkfnst and tramp off somewhere
to work with a lunch in a pail, not
coming home till 4.30 in the even-
ing. Whet' you enter the dour, ray_
Ingo')'• hong:;v, get your husband or
f
someone to r, y t•harpty: "Ko,
you
don't need a piece. Supper will be
ready in n few minutes and you elm
wait ns well ce the rest." To fur-
ther iniJ•.ress the leeeon s,••• that !nip-
per Is late that night, and you will
speedily tefcrm your v.•nys. Even If
children are allowed the "piece" Is' -
fore supper time. it doesn't help
mat tern, for their atone! it es aro
spoiled for the late men!, and they
go to bat erose and unfit for work
or play next day.
Sihnol children Haul early, !hot
and substantial suppers, and they
The 5 o'clock supper should include
hot soups, baked or bullet moats,
good vegetables, eggs, rimpla pud-
dings, fruit. rice, custards and
linked apples. 1.lven if the family
has had a hearty dinner the chil-
dren !nave, had a cold luncli and you
owe it to then[ to provide tho nigh
sort of food.
Discard the hot biscuits, dough
nuts Hud cakes if necessary. but have
plenty of food to build up some
bodi.s and sound brains. Don't
think rho hungry boys and girls can
wait patiently till the chores ar
all done after a day spent in the
schoolroom without hot food, but
slake the evening meal a matter of
importance Ono of the first rights
of every child is sufficient well cook-
ed food, and it doesn't pay to cheat
your growing children out of it.
CRIMEAN VETERAN BURIED
BY CHARITY.
Ile Was a Flower and Bootlace
Seller in the streets for
Years.
"Not a drum wits l ver•1, not a
funeral Hutu liur'ed by charity.
unmounted by any relative e r close
friend, three curupura•t1vo strangers
standing Ly his hintedo graveside in
t Kcnsal Green cemetery, that was
tho other day the end of Richard
- Martin, aged seventy -live, nfo•otinlo
ee private in the Scotch Fusilier Guards
1 and elm of tho now rapidly dwindl-
ing little band of Crimonn wrote
says tho London Daily Mail.
,. Martin served his country well. Ile
passed through the horrors of the
trenches before Sebastopol during
rho winter of 1854-55. lie nibbloa
his two hard biscuits (icily nn•t
gnawed his meagre chunks of ruw,
salt beef --eaten re because there
was no lire to cook it.
Ito stood knee . deep in ley sludge
the day through, and ho slept in it
by night. Around him his conhradli
died woree deaths than from shot.
and shill; ihc)y died from the twin
visitanbl•, starvation and cholera.
And Ifar•tin, as a member of a
burying party, dug the graves of
:luny of his friends. That, perhaps.
is ono reason why only a solitary
survivor of the old Scotch Fusilier
Guards bent a saddened face utas•
Martin's last resting -place.
WHEN IBREAD GROWS STALE.
Dot;btless every housekeeperknows
the secret of having fresh hot rolls
out of stale ones by simply wetting
them and placing them in n hot oven
until thoroughly heated through,
writes Mrs. G. JI. Wheeler. ifave
they ever tried doing tho same thing
with a loaf of bread? This is well
to do in hot weather when there is
bread on hand that might otherwise
become moldy. It will wake a fresh
loaf of it.
Gingerbread I have often fresh3ned
in the same way. 1f the family is
fond of hot doughnuts you can have
then[. ('are ;must bo taken not to
leave them in the oven too long for
they will soon become hard. Warns
only tho number you expect to have
eaten becauso thoi o that aro left
over grow bard and dry before an-
other morning.
I have made dainty little cakes
from stale sponge cake. Cut in
rounds, square or diamond-shaped
pieces as fancy dictates. Cover the
top of each piece with s01110 of the
stiffly beaten white of an egg Into
which has been stirred two tabl.e-
spoons sugar. Just before serving
put in the oven long enough to
brown the egg.
CLEANING OSTItiWIt PLUMES.
Ostrich plumes that have become
soiled or faded may be eleantel and
made now for tr" " g this winder's
hat provided ono knows how. Make
a bowl of clean suds with soft water
and ivory soap and soak the feather
15 minutes. Then stip itbetween
the thumb and finger till clean.
Rinse and dry before a slow tiro or
in bright sunshine, and while drying
keep the feather continually moving
or shaking; that is what snakes it
curly and fluffy.
RELICS OF ANCIENT OPHIR
Rhodesian Ruins Not Site Where
Solomon Got Gold.
If tho conausions as to the origin
and history of the mysterious ruins
in Rhodesia put before the Itritish
association at ltuh►wayo by Randall
MacIver are correct, they nro not re-
lics of ancient Ophir, and we must
seek elsewhere for the region whence
Ring Solomon procured his stores of
gold anis precious stones.
Mr. Maciver went to Ithodeeia last
April, under the auspices of the as-
sociation and tho Rhoelm trustees,
and examined minutely the ruins of
Inyanga, Ntekcrk's farm (sixteen
11)114)54 north of hie tinge), Khami,
Dhlo Uhlo, I'nat.ali, I'sita and Zim-
babwe. After careful illvi stigation
he has derided that nolo of tho ruins
in Southern Rhodesia is older tha.r
the fifteenth or sixteenth centurs,
and that they are the hntidiwor'( of
African natives of tho me!1ro or no
geoid race ender the dynasty known
by tho collective name of Monomo-
tape. The [:ase of these conclusions
war+ formed on tho following clat.t•
The buildings are essentially of a
native kind or type common to -day;
nearly all retain soar. original %tied
en stakes embedded in tho wets;
there 19 nu trace of inscriptions on
any of the ruins; stone and iron Im-
plements were found together; neither
the buildings nor the articles found
show traces of early oriental or Eur-
opean influence; tinnily, the discovery
of pieces of blue and white Nankin
china and other arsines of medieval
manufacture of tbo lowest parts of
the fo'ndatlou proves that such
commodities were the object of bar-
ter before the buildings were erected.
Mr. MacIver malrrtains that tie
runts wore originally fortified places,
usually inclosing n kopjo built in the
form of n rough ellipse following
mainly the contour of the surronnd-
ing country. The so-called slave pits
described 58 pit dwelliugv, were ori-
ginally citadels of their strong places
round which concentric circles of
walls were built.
MOTOR CARS AS BOOTS,
Swiss Inventor Turns Out Fast
Footwear.
A clover ,toeing engineer has site -
cooled, says the Basler Nachrichten,
in manufacturing a pair of motor
boots.
The new invent ion, which has been
tried with the greatest succesv, con-
sists of a parr of stout boots, each
of which is nothing more or less than
a miniature motor -car mounted en
four wheels of abort n foot in dia-
meter. The two feet work quite in-
dependently of each other, and should
ono motor boot break down the other
will curry the traveller slung with-
out difficulty.
The motor boots are exceptionally
light. compact, and strong, working
by petrol on a new plan, width the
inventor keeps secret.
it k claimed that nn tsr.linnry
pedestrian can travel all (Itty over
average country rends at a puce of
twelve miles an hour witho,;t exper-
iencing the L n'ct fatigue. 'The nhntor 1
boots can he started or stop►, e:l in an
instant by n spring fittachcd to the
belt of thu traveller%
1119 J3ICII F1t1END.
This was Idenry Ilowes (4,469). 1st
company 1st Battalion Scotch Fusi-
lier (luards, now abbreviated to
Scots Guards. It was he who fur-
nished this brief biography of his
old comrade.
For twenty -ono years Martin hal
picked up "a sort of living" by sell-
ing flowers and bootlaces—"int fact,
bits of all kinds"—outsido the side
entrance of Mr. Leopold do Roths-
child's residence in Hamilton place,
Piccadilly,
Many Londoners will recollect the
brown tin box, his constant compan-
ion, bearing the somewhat cryptic
label, "Flowers inside."
"Great friends they were too,"
said Ilowes. "Always a cheery word
for poor old Richard, and often some-
thing else besides. It was Mr. Leo-
pold do Rothschild who paid for
Martin's funeral, as he did tot that
of Martin's wife, who ivied ...six
months ago. It is nice to think that
such n great man will miss my com-
rade of tho Crimea, for all that ho
lived lonely and was buried lonely.
No relation or intltnato friend visit-
ed his bedside, and none stood by his
grave."
Richard Martin, pettier nt boot-
laces, once lighter in the trenches of
Sebastopol, was a notable figure in
the West lrd. He invariable- wore
a whito apron. and under it a medal
with a bar which read, "Sebastopol...
But it was seldom that Martin could
bo induced to show passers-by tho
medal. Ile seemed to imagine that a
pedlar of "bits of all kinds" was un-
worthy "to wear tt.'
A WOMAN TOLSTOI.
Owns Magnificent Homo, But
Lives in a Cottage.
The tradespeople of Sleights. a
little village on the edge of the
moors near Whitby, England, aro
worried by the tremendous energy of
Mrs. Dixon, a wealthy lady, who
practises the teachings of 'Tolstoi,
and does everything for herself.
Though Mrs. Dixon owns Hutch
property in the ne:ghborhood, in-
cluding a magnificent hall command-
ing ono of the finest views of moor-
land and dale for miles around, she
prefers to dwell in a humble cot-
tage.
Hero she lives the ':intplest of lives
and works at any jobs which her es-
tate or her tenants may require.
"I do nut wonder," said ono of
Mrs. Dixon's tenants, "that the vil-
lage people are amazed at her en-
ergy. Tho other day 1 asked her to
send the joiner to woe to it door
which hod shrunk. To my surprise, •
she arrived in a workman's overall,
with it linen cap and carrying a bag
of tools.
"She is a strong women, heavily
built, with light, silvery hair. She
soon had the door oil ito hinges,
and nailed a strip of wood along tho
top. liter diligence was a lesson to
most workmen, for she only paused
in her task to alt on the grass and
eat a few sandwlchee."
When another of Mrs. Dixon's ten-
ants welted some glazing done on
bis greenhouse. she ratan with her
ladder auA tools and putty, and did
it with all the skill of net expert
glasle�.
it is not only the Joiner and glar-
ier of Sleights, however, who suffer
'Mm Mrs. Dixon's .•ornpetition.
At rinak one e':ening she 11.89 n.''n
in heavy boots and short skirted
print dross. paint put in hand, hard
at work with tho brush on a five-.
barred gate.
Mrs. Dixon Is as handy with new-
ar and bricks as he iv with t11)
'taint pot. One day r.'e: my she
was seen up a ladder repairing the
chimney stack on a cottage. She has
also been known to build n well en-
tirely with her own hands.
She is en expert in thatching, and
nt one cottage elle has oven relaid
the tire hie.
Airs. Dixon enjoys her day of rest
on Sunday, when she may be !icon
handsomely dressed in the latest.
fashion [raking her way to the vile
Page church.
WORK.
"Why don't you go to work?"
"Blister," raid i'lod4ing 1'M• , "Min
talked for five minutes tryin' t•., 1.•11
%ou a hard -luck story that would
tin a dime."
"Von lute • "
"An' of 1 hold yer Inhered. T•rn
fable to k • .• ens • i! Ir.', nn' den
maybe not e • e e "
"'Thai's 1 • t
"Well, mi'otei, to t ::;,t nor'.7't i