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Exeter Advocate, 1907-01-10, Page 6CURRENT TOPICS. Twentieth century legislation Is ex- pected to be done by electricity. The proposed apparatus eoaststs of Iwo er more upright disks, to be placed in full view near the speaker's chair, connected by a suitable electric device with the desk of each member. Without rising from bis seat, without .the waste of a needless minute of time of the house each member present could record his vote by a nitre touch of his finger on the button. On leaving his seat for nny cause he could lock up the button, so ae to Le sure that no enthusiastic friend should vote for him in ilk absence, as some of them might bo willing to do. The record thus made would he per- fect, permanent, and unassailable. The rapidly increasing volume of legislative busi:hess requiem some practical relief. Ilere is a means for adding 40 per cent. to the working hours of each session without Increasing lis numerical length. The Idea that there is no natural death is fasciaattng learned biologists. i11 the lowest organisms, Inose of 3 single cell, the individual is reproduced by splitting into two parts, each of which becomes a new living body, and the d'ainguished Elle Metchnikoff has ventured the view that this form of life Is immortal. Death comes only by ac- cident. Going further, Naegeli, a Ger- man botanist, dec•idas that there Is no natural death in the plant world, and that trees living thousands of years aro destroyed at last by catastrophe or some external Helton. Prof. Loeb sees no certain evidence of natural death, al- though the cessation of life In certain egge et Iho sea hedgehog a few hours after being discharged may be such. Metchnikoff rejects this possible excep- tion as accidental death. resulting from a kind of starvation, and agrees that the natural death Is unproven. The so-calle.l deaths from old age, gentle, and painless, prove to be violent, the ac- tion of disease microbes being revealed by lesions of the internal organs. Various attempts have been made to estimate the light of the stars. In the northern hemisphere Argelander has regis'ered 321,000 sines down to the 9y, magnitude, ani, with the aid of the best phutouelrio data. Agnes M. Clerk's new "System of the Stars" gives the Bain of the light of those northern stars as equivalent to 1.440 of full moonlight; and the total light of all stars similar- ly enumerated in both hemispheres, to the number of about 9.)0,000 is roughly p!acel at 1-180 of the lunar brightness. The scattered light of still fainter ce- lestial bodies is difficult to evaluate. By a photograehlc method Sir William Ab - in y in 1896 rated the total starlight t f befit hemispheres at 1-100 of hull moon- light, and Prof. Newcomb In 1901, from %L—ad observations of diffused sky radi- ance?, fixed the light power of all stars at just 728 tineas that of Capella, or 1-89 of the light of the full moon. It 1s not certain, however, that the sky would he totally dnrk if nil alars were blotted out, Certain processes make the upper at- mosphere strongly luminous at times, and we can never be sure that this light Ls absent. hiwining rods are being admitted into flu' circle of the crndite. An elee trical divirtng rod has been devised by one Adolph Schmid, a Swiss engineer. 11 consists essentlally of a glass covered 1 ex Inclosing a coil of Insulaled wire lie which n slightly magnetic needle is ire e to rohtle over a graduated dial. When the appnrnlus k pinned over sub- terranean water with the axis of the coil In the magnetic meridian the needle is •,erted to recilnte more or less rnpidly from 2 to 10 and even up to 30 degrees. The nnclent divining rod consisted of a forked twig of hazel, apple, or any fruit - bearing tree. It was held In the tinnds north the brnnehe• both lying normally In the same h .r r• n'nl plane with the erot••h iitiera the twvlgg itrenctt off to- gether from the ionto trunk pointed el- iher tower,' or away been the body of the operator. It was carried in this po- sition over Ilse growl(' and whenever the reeked twigs bent downward it !n• 'Heated the proxiully of water or min• ends. The simple..t of the scienliflc di- vining rods is Ihe miners' compiles, whish simply is n magnetic compass needy' arranged to swing free Illi ver- tical plane. Its prints being jeweled, awInga freely and points to any body rf iron nr magi.etic ore contained in the earth. It is opera!• d for a consideereec di•tnne' and les been used for y ears for Waling mines. But it Ls of no use 'u:ever fir (tier than magnetic nicht or ores. NO ('SE. "Son:e pec )le." rt'mnrkc.l the thought. tut thinker, "use religion as a cloak In this world, hitt—" "Itut stat?" queried the one-man au- detece as the speaker paused. "In the nest world," continued the T. T., "Ute pe )pie aforesaid will hate nu use for a cloak." S.e that your birds ere in Itie we y best condition when marketed. THE BIDDEN HAND Faith in God Helps a flan to Fight as Though Ile Were Alone He knoweth the way that i take; when he I:a' h tried Inc 1 shall come forth as gukl.—Joi. exiii„ 10. Job was t• o well learned in the school of pain to adopt the modern shallow philosophy of Providence which says the Almighty loves men so much that Ile will feed them alt through life with n spoon, and carry them in 1Iis arms !eel they stumble in its rough way. Ile did not even stop to consider the sibA ty of Got pulling the brakes in nature in order to avoid running over some one in the road. ile secs in the world an order so wish and beneficent it doe, not hate to lel ehongrd in order to secure the greatest gouel of any. The wisdom Ihat seis the Mars in Ihe:r courses planned all for the production of the lest in mon. Pro- vidence Ls net an inlertferenee with na- ture; it Is the plan of nature itself. Man Is not in this world fighting the order of things. If ho is w:ao he Ls learning their laws and filling into them. Providence is sten not in the excep- t, nal, but In the normal; not In a hand (lint intervene. but in the mighty love that ordered all things front the begin- ning, so that they are working, might- ily, mysteriously, together for goocl. Tire terms, lcssFs, great sorrows. incone- preheisible catactrnphies, all prove the wisdom and love that LIES BACK OF ALL. Nor Is this attitude a mere blind sub- ntLsslon to unreasoning t i—ce. The in- finite program for the perfi'ction of spirits was born of an infinite spirit. Over all is the life In which we alone find rest, the life to which our inner life answers so that we soy, Father. Not n God who can come from without into this world and interfere on our behalf, but he who knows the way we have to fake because it is pert of his being. In this a ratan can rest, living his life, seeking the best, learning his lesson, suffering the fire and the blast for the sake of the product at the end. Faith t: this confidence in the love that is over all ratter than some special effort to provoke the intervention of a love Ilea only is intermittent. Prayer is not peti- tion to a king; 11 is corning to a Father of whose life our lives are but purl. Such a Father often'hides his hand that Ihe tweet of his children may it strengthened by meeting adver'sitles and sorrows. Ills opportuihity does not ap- pear until our extremity is reached. It may be that he is bast indifferent when he mist inexcusably seems absent. 11 take; greater love and courage to leave the child to flght his own battles than it does to rush weakly to his aid. Faith in God helps u stun 11 Tight its !though he were alone; he neither wor- ries as to whether he will receive di- vine nil nor nilow•s his own arm to weaken in dependence on it. God helps t►:. rno't by not helping us at all. Ile sh•ewvs his heart of lovo by withholding the hand of help. The child grows by Ihe lessons in self-reliance. The hand always is NEAI1Efl THAN IIs: KNO\VS. The workman is greater than Ills loots, and of wire value than his wurk. \Ve weep because our tools are broken, or our products lost or shattered. Bet the Master \\'orknini is watching; re sees what we do not, the growing skill, the steadiness of nerve, the judgment, the likeness to himself growing in the worker; he knows that many tools must be outworn ere the master be developed, that the fruits of our crude efforts which we now esteem as masterpieces must t e shattered lest we remain content with Ineontpcteney. In the nature of the case it forever must remain impossible to demonstrate the guidance of a divine hand. it we were sure of that always all initiative would he destroyed. But one may have the confidence that he who sitteth in the heavens Is an ally and not an enemy, that a heart rules (hero as here, and between the Lord of all and the least of us all there may be growing conf- deuce and love, and all life may rejolee in the thought that love rules the uni- verse. HENRY F. COPE. ************ HOME. ***********is TESTED Ilea: 'ES. •Rice Griddle-Cakes—Take halt a ten - cupful of rice and boil- when cold mix with one quart OC Milk. the yolks cf four eggs. and two teacupfuls of (lour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, with a little salt; beat the whites 0' the eggs to a froth and add last. Bake on a gr diile. Vegetable Soup.—Two pounds of lean soup meat. Put over the fire with two quarts of cold water. Boll slowly; skim well. After bailing halt an hour add pepper and salt (till It tastes like good beef teal. Three tablespoonfuls of rice: two tablespoonfuls of mixed whole spice tied in a linen bag. kid more water If needed. Then put one small onion, ono shell slick of celery, one raw potato, one slice of turnip, and a snuill piece of cabbage into chapping bowl. and chop very fine. It may to jut Through the meat grinder. Ade these to soup; let it simmer slowly. strain one can of tomatoes, heal, and add a small piece of butter and a table• spoonful of sugar. When hot, add 'o soup. The soup should boll in all about two hours. Celery Sauce for Turkey—Boil a hind of celery until quite tender, then put it through a sieve; put the yolk of an egg in a basin and beat 11 well with the strained juice of a lemon: odd the celery and a couple of spoonfuls of liquor In which the turkey wvas boiled; salt and pepper In taste. Johnny Coke.—Nine tablespoonfuls 1 cornmeal, six tablespoonfuls of flour, cue Inl.ksptonful of sugar, one tea- spoonful of leaking powder, one great spoonful of melted butter or dripping, one cupful of milk, two eggs. Melt butter in bake pan before putting In the cake. Bice nail Catfish EsenhIop—For One cup of fish picked up fine anti freshened to taste allow one cup of belled rice, Iwo well-benten eggs. three tablespoon- fuls of butter, and n cup of milk. elix the eggs with the rice and make a lay- er In the bottom of the buttered case- roele. Sprinkle with sail and pepper ani add n layer of the codfish. Itepenl and ower the wwhole pour the milk itix'd with Ihe melted butler. Cover and bake, Easy Ices—lu very cold weather, w•h •n cream will freeze out of doors, a v.ty easy need delicious dessert Is male ..f one pent whipped cream with half a cup of sonar and half a cup of clear, strong coffer added, i'ut in a cowered dish and set (in'doors for three or four hours. \\'hen Ihe weather is warm this has to he put In a lightly covered mold or pall anti parked in ice end salt for two or three hours. One-half cup maple syrup or chocolate makes a geed change. Ilungar.nn Clhicken—Put one !teapot tablespeen butler or dripping in n light alewwp.•n. odd Iwo gond sized anions sliced thin. When slightly brown odd half -teaspoon ! tetrikn and ntiN w.'ll and let them hr•owvn. Then mid the cut-up chicken, salt and pepper. Brawn well. turning oltn. Then odd sleek or inter end Mew till to ntler. Take out meat lel a hot platter and add to gravy a half -:'up or more of it:i•'k sour mane Scn!d, but do not led it boil; pour over the chicken on I 'rrve at e.tee. Ilash--(:host coli bsef were line. Atte lint !navies] p )18;00s, 0110 bable's; onnful of onben juice, n tables:eoenfnl of eio. ter, one 'moll Cupful of het wel.•r, pep. per and Batt It taste. Melt huller in a ; ft eine pan; *II In the hash and bring siew•ly to boil. Add bol water if neer o ,• aary. Escalloped ilei—For escalloped fish almost any kind of a cold cooked while merited fish may be used. Remove all tato bones and shred finely. Make n white sauce, using two tablespoonfuls each of flour and butler, one cup of milk, salt and pepper. Butter the cas- serole, put in layers of flaked fish, breed crumbs, the sauce, and bits of butter, Repeat until She dish is full and bake about 20 minutes in a hot oven. This may be varied by scattering a little grated cheese or chopped parsley over ench layer of sauce or by using mashed potato in lieu of the bread crumbe, hav- ireg a layer of potato at the top. Cheese Custards—Six tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, two of butler, four eggs, one cup of milk with a teaspoonful :1 corn starch stirred into it, salt and pep- per to testi. Beat the eggs very light and pour upon them lite heated milk (with n pinch of soda), hawing thickened with the cornstarch. While warm odd butter, pepper, salt, and cheese. Beal well and pour into greased cestard- ce:ps. Bake in a quick oven about fif- teen minutes, or until high and brown. Serve at nnce, as a seperate course, with bread and butter, after soup or be- fore dessert. Broiled Potatoes—Sllee cold broiled po- tatoes rather thlek and lengthwise. Lay between the wires of it broiler and cook over n hot fire until light brown on each side. Sprinkle with pepper and salt and odd a lillle boiler. l'olatoes Ila::hrvl and Rrnwned—Pore and cut into gunner -inch squares. 1.eavo in cold enter for nn hour and boil tender (not until they break), in hot writer slightly salted. Devin, put into a greased pudding dish, pour over Them a cup of worm milk seasoned with pep- per and salt, led a spoonful of butler cut up in one of flour. Bake covered half on hour. then brown. Scalloped Potatoes—Buller a bright tin basin nr pudding -dish and put in a layer of cold potatoes sliced and sere coned with peppe'r• snit, and hits of butler. ire lg.' lightly with flour. Fill the dish with (hese triyer.s. covering the Imp with fine cracker-rrnenl>_s. i'our over it a cup (or a little mere) of milk or cream. and bake half nn hour. Ilmwned Potatoes—iioll large potnlocs In their skins. peel, and when your ron.vt 01 rn at Is nhno.t done. lay the polnloe:s in the dripping -pan about the meat. Dre Igo end l.nsle as you do Ihe Inept. If not quite done when your trent is ready, leave in lite pin iefore Ihlek- ening the navvy until brown. Drain end arrange around the meat on the peeler. Prettito Sotfile—Select for bnking, po- tntoe, ns nein tf n .iz' as possible; rut ofi enol end; when linked, scoop out the Ins'..•' tvah a apnnn, h• ingl careful nal to breva!: the skins. Adel to the potato, water. Fall, rind sufficient lint milk In in.k•' quite sett; bent till very light and R►ll1n!I1; 011 the skins with Mk and place on end in n i.utlered pan of the oven grate 1111 hrnww•ne•I ret lop. The pelalos will tuff up rnnehlernbly if sufficiently beaten. Nice for breakfast or tea. I-tSEFUI. t11YfS. K'ep n bottle of salad oil well ere ked in a Bold. dry place, and always in ter dark. 1f ice is npplied to n burning !lager unlit it slops sntnrling. the skin ails dry nntl leave no blister. Fill ue'd tins with coal water, but let them soak neny frrnn the slave, as heat innk,s them herder lo clean. A very sIront,• solution of alum mei hol water applied to furniture and Ivey- fee, n'vlee, In the walk viii dest•ny vermin of all kinds. Lin -Isnot ail! wear longer and lock teeter if i1 1: given n cent of varnish terve limes a year. When rtennint!. :eel a hint' kerosene to the water; 11 -'.ft.•ns tee dirt and herd.'ns the linole- um. For n.cndtng china and articles not frequently coin ng in contact with water, hard oil s tr.;ish is notch better Than tiny cenmit, paste or cluua-mcndtug material. \\'hen hal fat is spilled on the table or floor, pour cold water on the plate? Mune tinkly to harden the grease and prevent its soaking into the wood, then when attention can be given to it, wash out with very hot so.a-wwater. Dissolve a little ne white sugar in the last rinsing eater when washing fine lace, and de not use slax:h. To remove a rusty screw, first apply o very hot iron to the head for a short time; then immediately use the screw- driver. It is possible to successfully preserve eggs in dry salt, and they will remain tolerably fresh for a long time. In a box should le placed a layer of salt, up- on which the eggs rest, then a layer tf salt, ltd so on 1111 the box Is full. To Renovate Water Colors—If soiled generally rub over with stale bread crumbs. If spotted with grease apply benzoline locally, place between blot- ting sheets, and cover with a warm flatiron. !tercet if necessary. '1'o (lean Greasy Flour Boards—Apply a mixture of fuller's earth and pearlash, tine -quarter pound of each to a quart of hot water, and le )ve on for twenty-four hours. Then scour with silver sand and water. To Clean Raking Tins—Fill with fine coal ashes and warns water and well shake. Rinse in cold water. It greasy 01' with a strong solution of soap pow- der, leave for twenty-four hours, and then rinse well. To Clean Silver Jewelry—Wash '!n song and water and rinse in clan water. Then apply n paste of powdered car- bonate of ammonia moistened with spir- ILs of wine. \\'hen dry brush off, rinse to tepid water, and dry with a soft lea- ther. PALACE OF RIGH PEON THE 1101 se: OF I'I:IeRO ALV :tIt.1DO AT PARR 11., MEXICO. Gaudy Furnishings of I1is Big House— His Private Chapel and Drawing -Room. The name of Don Pedro Alvarado, the peon millionaire of Parra!, is one to conjure with, and many have already found In it basis for legend and ro- mance. Little is really known of anis interesting character, writes a corres- pordcnt of the Mexican Herald from Parral, except that, although a ratan of unbounded wealth, he is still a friend of the peons who were his friends In the old days. and they are now his devoted admirers. The house of Don Pedro stands just above the banks of the Parra! !liver, and far from being tete gaudy. overdone pa- lace which it is generally supposed to he, is, on the outside, a well-bnlnnced houce, of considerable proportions of course, but Carved richly and ortistically with little of t' -e "gingerbread" which one would expect from the reports of IL 11 is elegant to a considerable degree, and the carvings of the white notice stone, on which 500 of Don Pedro's friends worked for many months, are very handsome. It was while standing watching Iho house and the crowd (1 workmen and beggars waiting abcut it for their pay and aims that an old gentleman, dressed in store clothes rind walking with an im- posing cane, camp up to our lowly and invited them, with ail the cordiality pos- sible, tt COME ANI) SEE TIIE HOUSE.. Ile Cobbled along in front. garrulous- ly pointing out the bits of the exterior which were of interest, and ltd the way into the main patio cf the house. Here, Ihe said, was as far as he could lake us, but he stood for a quarter of an hour pointing out the beauties of the patio, the really handsomely curved pillars and Corinthian capitals. the figures on the keyetone of every fairy arch and iho paintings wvltie'h lined the walls. Tho patio corridors were Cell of material for the furnishing of the new hotel which Don Pedro is building on one of the plazas of the town, ss hieh, when it is finished, will be one of Iho handsomest In Ihe rcpublie, An onyx stairwny led to the upper floors -of the house, and the self-appoint- ed guide rippled on garrulously with his wonderful tales of lite beauties above. Then he suddenly turned, and in Itte midst of us stood a llltic smiling mon, n01 much over 5 Ira 5 Inches hill, little block eyes sparkling out of a white Inc.', on which grew a little !genet and inns. lactic. Ile greeted us with a certain gentle dignity, and invited is to come upstairs and sec the house. at Ihe solici- tation, hedi'ed, cf our guide. So up the onyx stairway ee climbed. past half a dozen peons who worked and scrubbed to make it shine as the tiny, and rose reepeclfuily as we passed. 'I he upper corridor was a repetition of Ihe lower. with the windows of the rooms opening on it finished in more of the beautifully curved stone, and very evi- dently planned by a ntnster haul. and executed by much labor, well paid. THE (:IIAI'll.. Next wo were led to the fnunnus cha- pel of the house, which rumor has it is hung in cloth of gold end where incense burns night and tiny. 11 was not at all ria it was advertised, but Ihe effort to make it superbly elegant wvas appirenl. It was not built in chapel form. ns might erne, beet expected, bol weans merely one , ( the rooms of Ihe house titled up for the purpose. Don Pedro is n devoid f:alholo', and ho hos lavished here all teat ti' could well do in crowding his chapel full of nil that could please him. The altar occupied Ihe middy of Ihe outside wall of the room, end n window Ort each elite gave it light. This alter was grimly mid womb -red in gold and silver and silks and velvets, and not un- like the eerie -dee altars to he fmmd In teemed shines of ttitII st ally of the churches of this ee,tmiry. in the centre of the ritonh was a t,rcat Newell of eine velvet aiwl ether. In memory of ion Pellets wife, dead now s.nes yr.ihyd, This wa.s hung with cloth tit sheer. whit ts dra?od els base on all sites, and • Ihe silver nrnantents are costly and numerous. In; Line side of the ►•oenh was a throne where tete bishop sits when he comes to say mass fur this devout son of the church, mid on the other walls were paintings of religious scenes and the tiny stations of the cross. In one corner was an automatic parlor organ, covered with a gaudy velvet curtain. THE t)II.\\VINE-ROOM. We passed lo 11,.e drawingrooin, which °tempest neatly the elites? of the front of the Louse un the second floor. Thus was a room that, but for its overfurnishing, might have belonged to a really beauti- ful house. But, along %vitlt the hero curtains of dark red velvet and the really handsome furniture, also from San Lets I'tdost, and beautifully carved and fin- ished in dull gray silver and gold, were many mirr:)rs, great silver vases of rich tworknt utsbip, but filled with artificial flowers. bronze clocks that were not running, and len thousand knickknacks of every sort, from ore from the mine to cigar holder's of copper and silver. The moot, like the rest, was crowded full of superb furnishings, and hung with heavy draperies until it was Oppressive. When we left this room, we were still not quite sure our host was Don I'edro himself, and asked our guide, Jesus Jose l'rimero, as to his exact identity. lie re- ferred us to our host, who, evidently made as happy as a child by our ad- miration of tie richness of his home, cried out that in very truth he was Don Pedro Alvarado, and embraced us each in turn on the spot. Then wo went out past some of the len thousand or moro birds which fill the house and lino all the corridors, with a word to the two deer and the turtle which occupy the back patio, and through a low opening into the bodega, half under the ground, with rafters touching our heads. Ilere Don Pedro turned on an electric light, culling our attention to il, and sat down comfort- ably on a box. here he was happy, and here, and not in rho dining -room or par- lors above, the serves us with the cus- tomary refresco. it was all right, that upstairs, to show off, but hero he was comfortable, and (hero we sat and talked, exchanged cords and asked questions. Pedro Alvarado may have a piano In every room—and that legend is very nearly true—and Ito may always bo staking bids for popularity, but he is withal a gentle, kindly man, a boy in thought and deed, and a rather charm- ing boy at that. Ile is in tete prime of his life, barely 30 years old, and is still as thoroughly youthful and happy as a man can bo under any circumstances. Don Pedro is a new character in the annals of the newly rich. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL h\TEi1NAT!O\11. LESSON, JAN. 13. Lesson 11. Man Made In the Image of God. Golden Text: Gen. 1. 27. TIIE LESSON \\'OIWD STUDIES. Rased on the text of the licvised Version. Tho Profounder Truth and Message.— \Vo have in the author's description of the ct-enlive process given in the list mid second chapters of Genesis the sub. lino masterpiece of an inspired poet, in which the great religitus truths ex- pressed are set in an artistic Lind poe•lio framework, lite deinils of w Rich aro ,so exquisitely wrought that they have not seldonh diverted the attention even of careful renders from the profounder truth and sublimer i eesago of lite story as a whole, securing to bo in the,seives the end and purpose of nli which they contain. The purpose of lite narrator is not to inform us about the precise length of Time it hook the Creator to finish each part of hurt infinite task, or the exact order in which the events occurreil. nor pet concerning the specific way in which the firmament divided the waters fermi the waters. His solar days. his solid firmament. his stars set in Ihnt arma- ment "to divide the light from the dark - nes,," ht, nameless sen -monsters, and other details are the framework, and the framework only of a marvellous reveln- t!on. \\'hal, then, is the profounder truth end mileage of flee Genesis narra- tive of crettitn t It is the message of Monotheism, the crystalization, in puri- fied form, of Israel's rich and wonderful I ,'i' 1 e;'.' of faith in the only true God hnndeei down ns Thht't•hd bt'en by wor.I of n,utlhis fretaiingo Ghlherato son and from generation to generation dur- ing more than n decade of centuries from the lisle of the earliest ancestors of the Ileht•es race, 11 rcvca's Gnd to us, ani it reveals him as Ihe infinite and nit,nlute Crealer of nil things, the, su- premo elaaer of life to w horn we also belong. It tette us that mean, the end and goal of creation on This earth Is made in the bitige of Cods spiritual nature. capable n( Lhll,ewing in a nieu• sure the workings of Boa's mind and of empl eyutg hLs forces. Ceut.ciou.c of his telation to God, and bound to Iden by lies of Ione, man strives to imitate God un his life. "In language of unequaled simplicity and sublimity" our Bible nar- rative eels forth every one tf these e. se111lal teethe. It place's (ital. Nature and num in 1 , hl relation to each other. Yet not until ease turn from lite Bible to the ere e i n myth: of other ancient peoples. even ut Ihe ua.,t cnii(thlcie,l- with their gels ltd goddess• s Many, hawing infirmities ::rid pa. -ion, like mem men. gals who are trim and win dee. who quarrel lid hale. v.:e .1' et, 1 wwho CO1111011 the n:u,l ,hour ',:' \ • and Comeau Ihe,o' steam • of the human mind. uncu.l !'• Lie •I I y the levet,. Spirit. wall Iho ctlu.. lift}, lite ethical He Ay. the dignity. 111' jus- Itce and the benefit -owe of our Cellt-,13 nahrnt1%P 0111 woe fully appreeiale Ilse 1.rof +under truth mid the sul.litle r r'vc• lotion In mankind wluiell that narrative cnnlitin., '1'. him, !emcees*. who has tang?.t the virion of IgM Lai i r froth reel nitsenge, the pen'lir and nrteille here, n which that truth is •;:e .1. wet wet al last in right berspe, es.•, tt,ud seem even ne+ro rwgnn ilely 1,1 aultful and appropriate hem ever lichee Verse' 26. The two preceding verges, el and 15, together with 46 31 Inchitrve, describe the weak of the sixth tbhy. In our image --- We nolo again Inc "plural ,.1 majesty" wltielt on the: so itun and important occnami, when u hetet; is to be created int God's own image., God himself employs. Tho only eller p essages uh wiirh the plural is used by God himself aro Gen. 3. q2, "Beheld fault is became like one of us"; 11.7, "Como let us go down. and there etnfound their lunguage'; and Ise. 6. 8, "Whom shall 1 send, and who will go fee us'?' Likeness --Tho likeness of himself in which God wallet mall tonus Hits ground or basis of nut's pre-eminence above the lower animals. Teat likeness is an immaterial resemblance, c,nt.,is- ting primarily ill lite pxos„ seen of self- conscious reason and u Intv will. Let there have dominion—vile; d titrat- ion which wan has over all the eaellh, he Inas by virtue of his superior mental and spiritual endowments. 28. God blessed thein—The Lilessing is siuhilar to the one pronounced inion the lower quintals, only fuller titi l of Loniten )•cope. The ilomtnion, however, wwluch man is to e'xcrciso over the earth he Is to Ilr.d achieve by subduing it. In an effete to enteiue the forces of nature and bung them under more perfect control nnut is still engaged. 30. To every beast of the earlt► . 1 have given every gns.n herb for food— An ideal, rather than a real audition of things, is here pictured by the writer. 31. Very good—The closing ventict on lie entire work of creation. .\t each stage of the pintoes Ihe purpose trod aim ole the Creator lea; been rea1ize•td, and now in tiro final cumbiiation of tho separate works in harmonious cu -opera - lion with each other, the larger purpose of the whole creation is reuliztd. 1. Finistitxl—Conipieied. In the sense of being subject to no further change in form and function ; of course, nothing in God's created world is ever finished. Tito low of orderly development is all- inclusive in ies sway. Ify the author of our story tho "finishing" is regarded as a separate act of formally bringing the work of creation to a close. (lost—Lit., on army or other organized and disciplined body. Bence all the component parts of the system of Iho now completed universe are referred to. 2. Rested—Ceased from active labor. The verb used is Ihe Hebrew shuball►, meaning to cense, desist, r1st. The allu- sion to tho Subbulh with which the writer Is clearly familiar (Hebrew 8114 - bath) is apparent. The language of the passage is anthropomorphic, that is, God is spoken of in terms of roan, and as possessing human trails and needs. 3.' Ilallowed--Set apart. separated for a special use and purpose. The close of the seventh day Ls not In- dicated as is the close of each of the preceding days. Still That day must bo thought of as of the sante duration as each of the oilier six days. 'rile idea o! the writer seems to have been Il.at God's Sabbath intervened between the close of his work of creation and the commencement of what, in modern phraseol..gy, is usually termed his sus- taining providence. The Sabbath by which ('K)d Is said to have closed his work of creation is thus a type of the weekly recurring Sabbath of Ihe Israel• Ices. The truth That God's sustaining providence is operative on the Sebbalh, not less that on the other days, is of Course, Incilly presuppn-ed by the writer, but he does not explicate refer to it." (Dover). STORIES OF scowl' moors. Indultlin0 In Levity %e hen Human Life Wee at Stake. Lord Snlvesen in an address nt Edin- burgh recalled the old dais when human life was held very cheap and judges fre- quently indulged in levity when life was at slake. On ono occasion Sir Francis iincon was "mightily importuned" by a male- factor to save his life. All appeals frilled and the culprit at length pleaded for mercy on amount of his kindred. "Your name," said he, "is Bacon and my name is flog, mid in all ages Hog and Macon nee so nearly leielrel Ilial they are not to be sepnraled." "stye, hut;' replied the judge, "you and 1 cannot be kindred except you be bunged, for Hog is not it te.n until it Is well hanged." • Sintilnr callousm:,s was evinced by Scottish judges even as tale as the eigh- teenth century. Loot Benefield seemed to have Iriken a positive pleasure in ob- taining convictions in eases, and it was he who told an unforin►iato culprit that he was a very clever feliew, but that ho w.vou111 ho "none the wwumr o' a hanging." On nettle r occasion. when this Outgo ntlir I n juryman who was a personnl friend entering Ihe court, he exclnirnecl; "Come neat u', mister, come own', and help Inc to hang a few o' they damned srtotulr .•l,." In Pet Lord Kninus presided at the Trial of n man named eintlhcw Ilriy, with wwhont Ile had been in the habil of phi) fug nt chess. Ile summit d up against the prisoner. and when he was conwictcre eeeleuitied, "That's checitntato to you, elallht'w." ----1 Dit %%I % rI(: CONFESSION. A dramatic confession of murder line been extorted bonen n school I, 'her named M;iellcr at Duernlerg, near Itay- reuth. Gerniniy, by the examining magistrate. Sete rat murder's committed in that neighl„tltood hod remained unex- pl.ened. The iiia %iclitn was n ww :tow, Ihe second n telephone girl, and the 1hnr1 an 11 -yen l• -old schoolgirl. trite widow wits murdered right years ago, the le:ep11one girl Ibrt'e years apt. and the scies.igirl a few w. eke ago. Mueller was arrested nn suspicion by Ihe authorities, who were, however, tln- :.L:c to collect min ienl evidence to w ct Lint. The examining mtigis!rnle, -elitig 1 German custom, Carlen. I, 11n tt+.le: a him to confess day after :e, hal all attempts fame'. Foully the magi.lrate had the grave of the Met victim dug up, and suddenly confronted \luclter with lie skull and Nines. saying: "''hese are Ute remains of the poor woman you murdered eight }ears ago.” \lue•ile r, who had hitherto withstood rill threats. triel,s one persuasions, foul. elctly c.inaie.ee, buret into tears and (infe's'eol that he kit!c.1 the '.'.I1 w•. The eeiunininl! niegtst,ne, Ind loin en 10 woolens ht mere to lite other hvo. crines, ;:ii) vee i' v • dei:alt wchu•h er:aL•l,ri the '•oboe t., sup,•.y ewideltci of Nis guJ1.