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THE 'CALL TO SUCCESS
You Hug Sacrifice Superfluous Things to Attain
Things That Are Supreme',
Beier Se in at the strait gate; for
vide Is the pea and broad Is the way,
Butt leaden' to deelnielion, end many
there be which go 111 thereat.
Beentose elven is the gate, end narrow
Is Ills. \kW. whirti leaden). unM life, end
th
few ere be that tind 11.-Ma1t. vtl., 134
11,
11 yolt were learned in childhood in
the sect of the Pharisees a definite pie.
turo will e01110 10 mind as eooll as these
words aro read, the broad wny of plea
-
sere leading with its 100110 descent to
the plt; the narrow milli of petit Lind
privation loading by perilous Recants to
the any of gold.
How often bas lids invitation boot
urged M persuade no Ihnl 11 MIS W01'10
while lo he miserable and nuotenful for
the brief lime of lire In order to make
sm,u of buss unending " sow
110)0150 were they who chose the beciatl.
P0111 of pleasure, forgetting the p11 that
yawned at the end.
How dIffeeetit, Mom all this was the
thought of the gentle, happy mind thet
In these words called mon to their high -
and best. This is not an Invitation
In constrict the life until it may pass
through the narrow poteals of some
ceeed or to empty it of all things genie!
or great. 111 is a call to men to pety
THE PRICE Ole SUCCESS.
The gnte to the best always is narrow.
There is only one Roe to the north star,
while there are many away from it.
Over the gateway to the kingdom a
knowledge, of power, of success, is writ-
ten, "Strait is the gale; narrow, the way."
'This one thing 1 do,'is the plan cf
anything woetlilly done.
The dilettante plucks flowers from
many fields; genius outs a furrow
straight through one. In the broad way
the 1115113.' oleander; in the narrow 100y
P01 few siva souls march. What is
true In loosiness, in learning, Is bound
k, be true in the loudness of ehatiacter
building, in the laek of learning lo live.
Singleness of effort 18 the piece of sue-
coes hero; concentration alone commands
character.
You cannol attain to the things that
aro supremo until you are willing lo
sacrifice Me things that are Superfluous.
Righteousness Is found only by setting
11 first and making 11 the single aim,
elbe bread path is Ihe easy ono, the way
of least resieltineel the dwarfs are there.
The call of Christ is foe mon to live pur-
poseful lives, to cense drifting, to seek
the legit goal of cheracicr, to take the
pont of lull and pay the price of pee
feel lon,
OfIon are we 41111P18d 10 glee up tote
Melte, to let dOwn the restraint, to yield
10 ease end Indulgence; the Price 800005
too great, the goal MO distant. To truth,
it Is Orer M. hand, nol 111 some shining
city, but in the fellowship of overy kin-
dled Helen, and In the fruits of charac-
ter 11101 gam along
11111 WAY OP S1ef,F-1)ENIAL.
ts 1101 a question of this way leading
'lo paredise and that lo an, awful pit; It
ie a matter of that earnost, striving eller
things worthy, which of itself creates
worth, while the drifting In the way c
least resielanee cannot but result in
weakness and el the loos of Overy good
power. The piece of power is We e011-
0114111 exertion of tho power we hove;
the 'senility, of slothful indulgence is the
decay of all power.
!fere is the invitation of the narrow
wey, not to crowd the mind into some
creed, not Identification WW1 8010e par-
ticular sect, not, the rejection of things
genial, generous and human, hut the
delibeeate and steady setting of the Hie,
with faith aild Mai, in the polls lo high
end worthy ends, in the way where
men nave run with such tagernese that
the road still is like a nareow Irall In-
stead of a broad path where they wan-
der at ease.
Here walks one wee) lived for 1110 soul,
who had 110 other aim than to find life
and 1.0 impart tt, whose Molsteps,
though often they scan to wenclee to the
Nolo of every sorrowing, suffering one,
still lead straight to (ho shining end of
thei full ond fruitful life, who leads on
now calling to all the sons of men to
follow him. -
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 21.
Lesson III. Joseph Sold by Ilis Bee
them. Golden Tex( : James 3. 16.
'l'IIE LESSON \VOIID STUDIES.
1301)10 o) the text of the Revised Ver
sion..
Idolatry Among nut Hebrew Petri-
archs.--The early chapters of Genesis
met clearly intended to show that there
W1111 a primitive knowledge of (ho true
Cod handed down ihrosigh Noah to the
descendants of Shoos or (Ms special
knowledge Abrehtim, a little later, be-
cennes the chosen cuskolioni, and to his
posterity the religion of Jehovah Is given
as a rich herlinge. There nee, however,
scattered through the neenotives here
, and there Indications of the fact (hal the
religion of the palleavehs load a back-
ground of idolatry. The conmiend to
Abraham to leave his kindred and his
father's house end to (money into a far
country may hove been intended to im-
ply that the. envIronmen1 of Abraham's
001.13' 110118 111 Ur and hi lia11111 Wee 1101
faVei'llbill the knowledge and the wor-
ship of the ono end only true God. Thal
the near relatives of Abraham selm re-
mained in Reran were not entieelY
weaned frum Idolatry is made clear by
the Incident which Occurred In Gilead,
when lenban ovelitook Jacob and, among
other things, dementiaof him, "Whore
-
fere hast thou stolon my gods," referring
to the teraphim, or household idols, ono
0! which Rachel hal secretly brought
with her from her father's house. Leta'
still Jacob finds it necessary to distinctly
continued hIs household and ell that
were with him, "Put away the foreign
gods that are among you and 1 will
make an altar unto God who answeectl
me in the day sof ID),' clIsteess." Long
years itfterwatels, when under Joshua
Ihia children of Israel renewed their
covenant with Jehovah at Seechein,,
Joshua. addressed the people in these
words "Thus said Jehovah, the God of
'e Israel, youe fames dwelt of old time be-
yond the river, even Terak, the father of
Abraham, end the father of Nailer, and
they served other gods. Arid I took your
father Abraham from boyorul the river"
(Josh. 24. 2, 3). Thus 11 is distinctly
staled that Torah, the father of Alma -
hansoms an Idolater, and the Import of
Joshua's words in Ills charge to Israel
8001111 to be that God's special puepose
in culling Abraham out from among Ins
kindred and relittives was to place him
in a move favorable environment, for
the development of his religious life and
in a place wham the Muth communicated
by epecial divine revelation might pow
under favorable conditions. During 1110
period or the Rouges we meet with n
revival of Idolatry in Israel, end not into
lit after the elowurall of the kingdom,
and Oleo, Ilse tong exile with its billet
experiences end choslening influence,
was the miller) thoroughly purged of its
idolatrous tendencies.
Verse 5. 'Joiseph--\\1111 ebepler 37 we
begto the lest division of thy hook of
Genesis, which deals almost entirely with
the history 01, 'Joseph. Jecoll, notate Is
mentioned and 1 Pc events of lee Clueing
yeare 010 nerented al some length, lind
on the whole he occupies from the 111,01
of this section encl onward e subotethinte
place, the chlef interne( of the story eon
tering in the experiences of Insert], The
elory of Joseph is (1)')) 113(10 in Mem end
is told with such touching (*arm 11181 11
will doubtless 01005)5 rent: mining the
,-very iffiest narratives' in all titentthre
The theme of the story, as Professor
leaver -points out, "Is 001010011 alike in
folk -lore, in the drama, and In leistory-
the youngee member of a family kept
down by 111e envy of the elder members,
and at last triumphing over them.
Every lean in the narentive Is in acorn",
dance with nature; and the whole Moms
a vivid portraiture of the lrue develop
onent, of hutnan character."
Haled him yet the -more -The hatred
and envy of the brothers was first
aroused by the favorilisne welch the
father, Jaocrn, showed toward eciseph in
making for him "a coat of many pekoes."
7. We were binding sheaves -One of
many references to agricultural lifo in-
dicating that the pateinechs were not
altogether the wandering nomads and
shepherd folk they ere sometimes pic-
tured as being.
Made obeisance -fn acknowledgment
of superiority. The significance of the
dream did not. escape Joseph's brothers.
9. Deentned yot another dream -The
500011(1 Of 1110 1W0 $1110e5eiVe boyish
demons of future greatness. To the
Oviental, 815 indicated in several in-
stances In the Old Testament, Pc double
dream indicated the certainly of the ful-
fillment of the general import of the
vision.
10. Thy mother -From her being t•hus
mentioned here We 111051 1111e1' that Ra-
chel was 01 11115 thole still alive, though
reference to her death has already been
made earlier In the narra live (comp.
Gen. 35. 18).
11, Enviat 111n1-Apperently because of
a secret conviction and fear that the
dreams might possibly some day come
tette.
12. Ills beetheen went; from the vicin-
ity of Hebron in the distant south (ve)se
14) to feed thole fainee's flock in Shech-
em nate Luz and Bethel, some thirly
miles away. The mountain plain on the
east of Shoehorn supplies excellent pas -
'twinge.
14. Vale of Hebron -A broad valley
eminIng northwest to southeast 111 whic11
liebrom now the oldest WWII In Pales -
eine, and one .of the most ancient cites
011110 wortd, Hes. The present Male of
Hebron is el-K1nt111.
17. Dothan -The site of the ancient
City mentioned 150 in 2 Milo 6, 13-15,
Is identified with the modem Tell
Dothan, a large green mountl about fif-
teen 11111e8 north of Shoehorn on the edge
of a beond plain where the mm11'1,001
'trust. have been even finer then it was
nearer Shechein.
10, This dreumee-Ileb. "Aftietier of
deen1118,"
20, One of the pils-ePalestine abounde
in pits, oe cisterns, used for the storage
of smite To nemesia the too rapid eva-
poration of the water treneured up from
Ilio wintee rattle season, these cosicens
ane often shaped. lIIoo n 1101.11e, nateower
at the top and mouth then at the bot-
tom, This makes It easy let cover the
opening; and no person, however, im-
prisoned within Would be able to gee tout
NV1111001. assislence,
21, nouben-The olclest of Me twelve
sons of Jacob.
22, wilderneess.Tee woese
11 Nal" 111101 "(10$01.1" as used in the Ilible
1 not demote bitterns wiisles such us the
words susses! to the mind ef the render
in our time, but simply uneullivitled
tracts of hind, often rich in verdure and
furnishing Mound:int posliirep to flocks.
'Pious in the New To:Moment we alio Mkt
111111 it was In a "(1reed pinee" 111)11 308118
)51onliniondect the tontlIthule to be sealed
cei Ile, geese in (mementos ef flfliee and
one hundreds, 1110 evangelist being care.
fe: 10 10141 "for there 0008 1111811 genes in
the )(Ince." .
23, The corn of many colors -The 01151"
(1111111 reeding 111 111), Revised ViVA11/11 10e
11110 1011'118 ill 001100 3 othove 8 "to long
gomment with eleeves," the exec! (110811
111(1 cof the plorese loeing uncertain.
Minna commerce of 1110 an010111 world
wee carried' on by Ititalerit. Who CAVAN
their inereliandise 011 camels, rind (Or
purpoSes 01 Mittel pretecl1011 leuvolled
10 lerge ennetemies front ono piece told
from one land to another.
Spicery and balm and myreli--P1'O-
11111.38 or 100 door'. and 11151113' prezed in
Egypt weere limy were used ln part
medicinally, in part es Ineense, mid 1.11
part In the proeess of 'embalming,
27, 28. Ishmaelikes . .
Three solutions aro offered for the M111-
(111111 raised by the mention here of IsSii
diffeeent feeophs. Some lame thought
the different names wore intended to
euther 101050(3'. (1(1)115(1)110 the seine people,
Other eonimentators have euggesled that
ileeigthlY 11. wits 11 mixed nonentity of
leaden; lo whom Joseph was eold, there
being both 1.91111110111I1S 1111(1 Aticlinottes
preseul. To thls explo)tation' the Bible
nerrallve lends much plausibility, Mons
aucording in nod nunintive ae we now
have 11 In Genesis, Ishuniel und lolIlilan
were both sous of &within's Their des-
cemitintei would therefere be closely re-
lated and, In the notelet, generations al
Mese liave many Interests In ronotion.
The 1111111O 1/11/11001 norrative, hotvever,
realms Joseph a ceusin of the men to
whom he was sold. Still another ex-
planatkni and the one favored by a
tretjurity of Old Testament scholars to-
day Is that the °eminence of the two
:commute mimes 18 one or niefiS
lions pointing to the Interweaving of Iwo
difteront accounts 011110 Sem event from
\settee tee oeses:s nneeeso. drew leo In.
formation, one of (nose 110003)11s men-
tioning the islitionelites ns 1110'peopleto
81101114' seph. 00115 801(1, 1111(1 111)1 011101'
morn the A11(1111111 Ms.
TWOOtY lneePS Of 11111'011---1 TWO111Y
(isi11aell,(0e1S, two-thirds the pieta 01 101 adull
into Egelet--Whither they wero bound
leo dispose of thole products.
AN ALTERED VILLAGE.
I've wandered to the village, Torn, and
squatted 'nealls the tree
Where leve»ly years or more ago we
rotnped and played care -free,
But things down there have changed,
deer Tom; the town Ions had 0 1100111,
It's looking mighty citified and spread-
ing lo make room.
They don't sit. 'round on boxes down
at ,thelcson's grocery Mom,
Anti whittle slicks and hill stale jokes
alld stories any 1110131
And they have got a park, dear Tom,
which Boston can't surpass -
It's not Mee the olci villag,e green -
signs say
KEEP Ofele TI IL,' GRASS!
You recollect the schoolhouse, Tom,
that stood upn the hill,
Where in the winter you and I would
coast with brother 13I11?
It's used MOW 115 011. °Ince for a real es-
tate concern,
And there were no familiar spots there
which 1 could discern.
'rho 11111 is subdivided, Tom, broad
streets have right -of way
(Yee 51181110e lands when twenty years
ago we used to play;
And on the steepest point, just where
the land slopes toward. the ceeelc,
A big sign reads
OWN YOUR OWN HOME!
Small Payments Once n Week!
The churchyard, too, has changed, dear
Tom, wherein is laid 10111Y
The cold remains of many of our youth -
tut playmates gay. -
They've built a fence around it, Tom,
so persons can't climb o'er
And chip away the monuments and
headstones tony move.
Where once the weeds ran riot over
each tteglecled 1110111111,
Now only grassy carpelings of riches1
green abound;
And at the gateway entrance, Tom,
they oonslantly maintain
A sign Which reads
NO DOGS ALLOWED IN HERE
EXCEPT ON CHAIN!
The very stre.els have changed, deer
Tom; huge billboards mar their heads
On vacant. lots, which say, "Sleep Well
1)1 J1111$011'S Folding Beds."
01, "MnItie's Purple Pills Ate Be,et," or
else "Drink Smith's Boot Beer" -
1 telt you the old village, Tom, looks so
all -fired queer!
II is so different eveey way I 800rcely
knew the piece,
Nor could I keep the bltading tears from
furrowing my face.
It may be for the best, 'dear Totn-the
villagers thinIc so,
13tit geel differern than it was some
twenty years ,ago(
e -E A. Brinstool.
e_ss
IREIGIIT OF WAVES.
Frenchman Says Observation Ilas Cre
sled an Illusion.
3.1. B vett n, a Peen elim 1105 been
0101015 11011. observations of the size of
ocean billows, lie sees they are great-
ly twee -estimated when the tenn
"tnountainous" is applied to them.
The longest waves he measured were
2,590 feet Mons crest to °Vest, he says,
and thole average duration was 23 sec-
onds. The' were not very high, only
about 50 feet or one-flItitith of their
span.
Indeed, 110 is of the 01)1101011 that the
greatest. height ever reached by waves
in open water is. efty feel, end he ac-
counts for highee estimates by saying
that They have heretofore been observed
for the most part Seem the docks of
ships and the perspective effect result-
ing from looking up along tho slopes
has misled the eye and judgment.
When WHVOS become breelters, strik-
ing agninst eome obstacle, there is no
doubt 111311 greet masses of water are
hurled bo n height of 100 feel, end vol -
1111105 Of .speay are flung and blown still
higher,
itiery tew waves 2,500 feet long and
50 foal, high Me. Ewe" eneountered, Ile
raids. 111 average bad weather'the
ves run from 160 to 320 feet from
st fe crest arid Illeir height seldom
eed$ 33 feet. Thole duration is not
1, 0 to 8 seconds,
ePe
08e
018
se, A cereatio of Istionneldes-All the Woo
—44
1(1 wasn't for (Po poor man lito rich
old Mee 18 shino hie own Shoes.
SOME DAINTY DISHES.
Baked lianenne. 'fake quite ripe
bananas, week them in 0)')) ('(11 101`, 11111
Off the ends, and mining, than 011 11
$11011010 (HA. alai bake very slowly for
an hour, if belted too quickly the pace
will evaporate and leave the fruit taste -
10,44 mkt dry. Servo hol, with a little
cretin
Bakal Coffee Cornetts -Ahem lottif a
pest of very strong coffee, mix v1) 11 it
111111 a pint of boiled 1111110, beat two or
three eggs into it, sweeten. and pour
Into a groused ple-diele Belo" very slow;
ly lilt set, scatter &Mopped 1111»osids o'er,
and serve len or cohl,
Polak, pastry is both ormeomiral and
goal, if those quantiliea tire used : Take
Mtn, ounces of eold boiled potato linseed
teeenss sieve, 11118 11 with four minces
Of n011et 180 ounces and 0 half of drip-
ping 0 pinch of sun, end lettepoonful
of baking powder. Thi, when rolled out
thin, is very good fee Pon Imes, pies.
'Ka
Orange Flevoriog.-Talte the peel of
small Mandurin oranges, or the very
thin rind of any eweet orange. let it dry
thoroughly, then pound it to a powder
14 a mortar with loaf sugar, l'11S4 it
through a sieve and place in an air -Light
bottle 1111' 1111, Thls Is a delielous flavor -
Mg for creams, cakes, and puddings.
Creum of Onion Soup. -Chop 1 pint
white totons, cook in 2 lableepoone but-
ler and 1 eup each of water and tomato
juice until tenths,. Make I. pint nihllc
sauce by creaming 2 tablespoons each of
flour and butter, and cooking with 2
CUPS 01 Mills unto thickened. PITSS the
cooked onions through a siev0 and add
lo the milk sauce; season and simmer
foe 10 11111111iPS,
31.11/101e$0 11011.-- Make a rich baking
powder biscuit clougn and roll it out X
ineli in thieltness. Chop cold beef and
spread on the dough and put bits of
butler a»d salt, pepper an11 a sprinkling
of flour on the meat ; roll up and Mike
in a reeler quick oven.
Yorkshire Pudding. -Ilea( 3 eggs tin-
th very light and creamy, acid 1 teaspoon
salt and 1 pint, milk and beat Nairn
Put X cup of bread flour In a bowl and
stir the egg mistime slowly into It, beat-
ing all the time. Bake in ho1 buttered
gem pans 45 minutes. Baste with chip-
pings from roast, beef,
Royal Pudding -Over six ouneee of
breadcrupths pour one pint of boiling
milk, cover till cold, add four ounces of
easter slimy, two ounces of almond
meal, a lahlespoonful of brandy, a few
drops of ratafla essence, and four well -
beaten yolks of eggs. Rutter and mina -
men& a mould with candled peel, po
in the mixture and steam tar an hour
and a quarter. Turn out, and serve with
all 1; S11'ee1 pudding Sallee.
Savory Cabbage. -Wash to nice spring
enbbage, boil 11 111 water with aepinch of
salt ancl a little soda. When the vc,ge.
table yields to the pressure of the finger,
take.it out and squene dry, then put IL
into a clean saucepan with a little but-
ler, salt and nutmeg and a teaspoonful
of grated cheese. Pour over ell a Mlle
milk, and stow foe ten minutes. Serve
very hot with grated cheese.
Herring Pla-Cut off the heeds and
tails of three herrings, and $10.111k10 10
little salt, pepper, and ground mace over
them. torease a pie -dish, and lay the
fish in it. Cover the fish with chopped
apple and onion (using the apple and the
onion raw). Scotter a teaspoonful of
chopped parsley ovor all, and put little
pieces of butter on the Lop. Add. 11110
1111)104P0011fUlS Of fish liquor or water.
1Co10111v.
iea n
r with ice cruse and ....se one
Devonshire Sponges -411x together ti
teacupful 01 11110 11011e, ditto caster Auger,
adding a pinch of salt and a teiespoonful
of belting powder. Break three eggs into
the flour and sugar, and beat 1111 all is
thoroughly mixed. Pour into a grease(
tin speaul with oiled pepe.r, and bake in
a sharp oven for severi minutes. Then
sjsread half the culce with lemon curd
end half with apricot 111111 and roll.
Place in a sieve till cold. Cut this in
haINneh slices, scatter desiccated cocoa-
nut over, aod serve &thee Isol, or cold,
aS convenient.
HINTS le011 TIIE 1103.15. •
To elean sink pipes pour 1101021 a gal-
lon of batlike, soda water, which will
clear away all the grease.
Tho battings of beef end salt pork
make a very good pen and lentil soup, if
the salt, be neutratieed by the addition of
some brown sugav and careols.
Deied Ittertcol Beans. -For bolting do
1101 put in the salt till the .beans „are
nearly (melted, otaerwise they are apt, to
sPlit and crack.
Slowing Is the most economical mode
of cooking, as it needs. Mlle heat, and
the vegetables so necessary foe the flavor
Inerease the hnik 01 1110 stew.
Coiavy for Poulley•-leace the gibletes s
neck, heart, liver, etc., or 010 1111.0 in 0;
saucepan will) enough 3.5')) lot' to cover;
let .eimmer 1111111 the goodness is 0111, e
then 5100111, thicken with flour, and add t
a Much of salt.
\\then a savoiy stew is M11(10 0110
there ore bits of bread to dispose of, lel
the housewife lry the rich effects of sip -
pets in her stew. First she should take t
her bits of stale bread and cut them in
PleeeS, which nit feted 111 eletiffled drip- o
ping end slipped into the stew. These ri
mingle 0111111 the gravy, and are a great
improvement to it.
Try soaking hams to be broiled or
friecl in molasses and wince before cook- 0'
Mg. About .a leblespoonful of molasses lei(
to a cupful of water should be used, and
the meat well dried before being put
over the flee.
11
A good floor slain that goes right Into n
the evoocl, and is very durable, Is inane
Of linseed oil cowered with ground burnt,
umber. Rub thoroughly into the boards
with a flannel pad, and nese day polish
NIF'1111 beeelVaX and illepelllinte. (11
T0 remove lea -stains, apply .equal
peels of yolk of egg and glycerine le the 111
etain and allow to dry. Rinse well in
clean cold water. This will be.101111(l 08-
0011001, for an afternoon cloth, 50111011
must bo boiled on account of Its delicate
color10g.
Cloan Singeing -A Ifille alcohol pour-
ed into a Wide end lighted is a bettor, se
way of singeing a fowl or 11110110n than
the 0111-1051110ned way of holding11, over
1.110 1101110 01 a liglited paper. The Isnot'
111011101 stnOlsee the bird and bootee its
geed appeuranee.
Cleaning 'PaInt Bruslies.--S0 many
peeplo rimovale their own houses noiv,
end re -paint and touch up their garden
ruifinge, etc., that the follovelog hint iney'
!mot some oleo. When you have fthished
p011111115 put pour brushon e gull!.
pot ill which you have melted 001110 8oft
eioap and 018111 in a 111110 boiling wrner,
Whisk the bresties round and round in
thie ; chatigt, the wider, add noire snap
and :ante, 0011 110 011 1111111 1110 18114140S
ere clean ; 111140 1101111 in warm widen
und leave thou slatiding in cold water
until you wish to 110o, them again. 11
they hence Meanie rlry anti heed. rinse
them in turpentine looter,. weelling them.
11,„ served Ise, teose et. simple 11
meal may be, there ellould loo• tin half.
ay work fool Unit is 10 be 40111.8.1
1011, 111411, 1110 0010101 1t. ,0111-0C1
b.f./ 1101, owl roast meal shown :07.710. 111.1
Pc' lotife mato,, tho firet intertion.
111111g iti appetizing when lukewarm.
Among math, Moth suffers moet by 15'.
(1)1.1 earelessy served. 11 Is
eppileol unless served ernehling hot. If
the loloiwn range 1111.0 no terne-weemor.
pul n thick paper 011 11111 1111010 110•
range, or on the bottom of the oven, if
11111 IA not in use, an. set the dlolies
111141 (111 which will firittion
their toeing ornelted by the halt. l'egee-
(alibi 111411139 1111(1 111.1)10.0 can b
filled 101111 1101 Walla` w1010 1110 0051' 1)11)100
ire 1,,'j 1(1 prepared. Above till things
serve gravies us 119t as puss/Ado. 1111(1115
them fitan the Ilre flat very last doing.
COST OF BRITISH NAVY
JOHN BULL HAS sPeNr 3:A8,150,67D
ON IILS WARSHIPS.
Large minority of Men -of -Wer Compara-
tively Modern - Average Price
of Silips.
'rho total first: cost 0( 1114' ships which
compose the British navy OS it, elands
to -day 0111011111s to the etthstuidial fond
M. S:133.556,670.
Thls,fact comes to light in the annual
dockyard expeese accounts, published
eveently. A birdseye view of the navy
ie inciluded in. the aceounts, elle cost eli
each ebip and the thole of ils. completion
being given in, detail. A sunnuory el
the total may be set. out es follows: -
Combatant ships -
Armored ...„... ••..
Protected 19.2:15,788
Unpr.leoled 14,313,330
.Nearly obsolete --
Armored ..•. ..... 0,889,918
Prot...Ned 3.673,527
Unproloetod .... • • .. . 116,470
Non-eornbatent ships 6.148,997
Olesdete vessels and fee sale 1,609,927
'lir/lining and guardships 12,954.122
Of the total sum of just over 1119,-
000.000 which has I atial 8110111 011 those
ships included in the (1)1111111 111111 section,
wore than ee78.000,000 oleos berm spent
within the past len Yral's, end of this
amount over 154.000,000 lute been epent-
within lhe past five years, sa that it
beauties evident Ilmt ilie large Inejority
of our ships are coommentively modern
leueli year lins seen an acidifier), to
the power of the ships built and also
to their cost. Thle is illustrate(' in an
interesting 11 -ay by the figures given in
the return.
For many years the everage ewe
mice of en 1101110PM N1111041111) WIIS be-
tween ,1:700,000 and 4,2lx1,000, Now -o -
days is seldom that it ballleohip costs
less than a million. Take, for instance,
the twelve armored ves.scls completed in
the year 11105-5. 'rhe average price for
the twelve, was OVel' 11.200.000, on the
other hand, the seventeen armored ves-
sel, completed in 1903-1 cost 1111 111101`agll
oo only 1830,000 each. The three com-
pleted in 1899-1900 cost an avernge of
only 1780,000 each.
—
\\'031EN HAVE S3IALL
Doctor Examines 70,000 Cases and Ile
,veals an Economy 01 'Nature.
5110OfiblY 11 0 elle hes made as exhaus-
tive a study of the 00)11(100(1 Il' sizes of
men's and women's braine as Dr. 1.10eSe
of Berlin, \tem has taken the facia1 and
skull measurements of 70,000 poisons,
including 45,000 school boys and gide.
In his observations weer included Ger-
mans, Swedes, Danes, Dutch, Bohend-
anleIraiheclasS\t‘yilists10.
a report of Ms deduc-
lione foe a German popular health pub -
!teatime In which he gives the advent -
oar vitonwsuennolisntlhablomys.billgrgoemi:betrioeitio:1 epoapitai-t
rely then girls, lie soys, In a idigeee
vhich cennot be accounted Mr on the
gcnerel ground of better pliceleal de -
'Nommen!, • In fact, he, confinns eon -
noxious ruched by ollter students that
rom the ninth year to the close of
chore age girls on the average are 1181.
41' nourished' and deveinmal man boys,
rhe brnins of well grown. girls, how -
vele remain Inferior in size to those of
ohysleally beeltward boys, In the full
rown NV01111111 the skull and the brain
'entain on a childish plonk, of develop-
11ent.
The fact that schoolgirls often seem
0 reach better results num boys, that
heir actual 0000111511811111001s seem
realer, ho accounts for by the fact
sat they reach meholite Ilio degree. of
erfeelinn of which they Are capable,
ooner than boys. Mit, the girl stops
tore, while the boy pee on The years
eveloping and enquiring end only
stches his full power of efilizntion
ears later. When he does 80. however,
0 hes Mr surpassed Ille lovol 1V111011
IP girl attained. In other words, hie
lentel growth es empanel with 1110
omen's is not Ihe development
r h1 physionl strength,
Dr. Rose odds Roil, of enuese, de.
tenon0 npply only lo normel nr al.P11-
,g0 eeseos ito thinke the difference in
c sexes is duo lo the foci that Ific.
1in
011)1c,1110'111°1111)11n11111101(11111 eYll 1°1 ill 011411010f 11111111A 11(1110‘1‘1.1L10411105)001.;
which nee not essenol function.
010
Teachers "Tommy, hon. for do lee. An
egs flrnit1" Tommy '11'111 they melt." hi
BIT OF IRISH BOYCOTTING
IGItY 1111IIVSED TO CONVICT 'YOH
PHISONE111.1.
Gathering of Six Ihnuired i'Veytold
Beess-Oltler Illetred Auttins1
Fondly,
At the Lelleim Assizes, before Mr. Jus-
tice Kenny, toceoreing 10 a despatch Mom
1110 London Tinies, the following eight
cilwerlisic)u'lellesti":71011111.1;ilit 1.,f°04r''.111t.SZ10111'dtli!till111111.(011111
illegal assembly u4 Druinkoorin ion July
7, leen. The beet jury disagreed.
GAIllitileD Title 'SWINGS,
mon, biqb 1111111)1 1111-
0)1
by two policemen, started for Dromii-
!Mir, 1110111y 101100 way, to look for pro-
vieions. The fellow uf the liradye had
litiannoo unpopulee sith Ins neighbors,
mid so 01110115 101.14 the feeling agiiino1 the
family 111111, though there were twoshops
1t1 010 fi was nut 110,,sibia
them 141 get the 111'00442111PS Of Me 111011e.
Shinny after the meet was male fur
Dromultair ihe party met on the way,
Ryan, one of the tuemeni, end this 1111111
SP111, the steed rootlet lu the people to
orgentze aluicilliutsoiL;utuNb,lret.iy
Ltradys golo some Ihaw, mold, and
other things mid sI 1)1)34 for their icturn
journey, still under the charge of the
police. Proloably about the same time a
greet gathering of residents alsne Doses
collouled and 11111 0,11)01 to Drunolceoein
Ilia crowd gradually increased on the
way 111111 5111)11 11111/1111.0011111 5111.$ reacted
the numbest Were. 1110all OM, in this
crowd. was three or Slur mentilled men
who 001,(110,1 to aired Los avivernelipi 0
the party. 011 their arrival the ilvadye
were set upon by enowd. and despin
the energy of 481'011 policemen, all their
goods were 1usI1113e11, and it was with
melee difficulty that the beys \Vero kopt
from being seriously injured.
Merl IINt1 DONE.
The jury, toner tal absence of au hour
incl. a half, slated they could not agree.
NM. Justice leanly asked 1111111 to decide
whether the PP1401101"4 W01•0 nienthers or
1110 CPOR*41. 1110 jury. answered "Yes."
austiee Kenny asked whether they
0"0.111fle 111111Pere frl'I'1111(1131:.(10. 114:11170nsej uarly
salc( (1103'
could not agree, end they were dis-
chaepd, and the prisoners veere allowed
out the July aesizee.
TIIREE-171(711_45 AT LARGE,
An Officer's Ruse Got Them back in
Their Cage.
SOME FUNNY EXCHANGES
MOST ANYTHING CAN 11G
5011 MSC
Marmalade Recipe for le 310rnr-Car oss
Illummino 81111 1)01(1 Ono Roller
for a Babes
The man who owns an eneyelopeedia
Una wants 11 gun, 210 loupe has to 80
P 0 V011einee arid use the eash foe the
purchase 01 1111) weapon. He simply eet,
verlises exelsenge ealeired, anti has,
to, a rule, little difficulty 10. gelthsg
what Nulls 111m,
literally nothing which po5.
eessee the elighteet 1111r11.0.10 value whiell
cennot he traded for something else,
and the ogress made 111 advertieetneot
culuituis eontetionea afford very amus-
ing readinje.
A eutplatroiested condo() lo offered in
exchange for olgars; a good working
ferret is neater/ by a man who has a
reodieg temp foe dispo801; a third de-
sires to exebange a fancy waistcoat for
a rutted gold Whoa; and 11 fourth 1111,9
010 sporting ,prinis and a elishion-lyred
safely, which lie 1.5 willing to give foe
e km of colds,
sone, ale willing 10 give work In ex.
change kw benefits of ono Rind or an-
other. "Beet French conversation,"
suys one advertiser, "10 exchange foe
groteriee"; while another person, evt*
dently a clenttst, will exceange
DENTISTRY FOB 110USE-W011ie,
or, In other words, morsel Urn teeth of
11 char-nminan if she will in return keep
hie moots or office tidy.
'More something rather pathetic In
the following; "Wanted -piano lessons
11, exehange for laundry work" On
imagines a hard-working laundress with
LI a daughter whom silo is anxious to edue
loute well.
Tigers are not regarded as desirable
fellow passengers on 11 pleasure trip ;
but es they are always "personally con-
ducted," they are frequently teken on
passenger-boate from India to England,
Mr, J. Ie. Keane, the author of '"ehree
Yenrs of a Wanderer's Life." tolls how
he once crossed the todian Ocean in
compeny with three young tigers that
were larger than ,Newfoundland dogs,
and. with several hundred elecea pil-
grens.
The keeper mend lo drive the tigers
through a middle pitrlition of the cage
when he wanted to enter. One morning
he neglected to put up the bars on tho
side he had done with, event round the
cage, drove the tigers through the par-
tition and Meer oul of the open cap.
It might have been attended with serious
consequences, boll to me who saw the
thing too late, lo Interpose, it looked su-
plenary nissurol.
The tiprs, obtaining their liberty
for the first time in their lives, took dif-
ferent. direction, and crouching in the
neamot corned's, lay snarling and expos-
ing their teeth, silo -owl's; unmistakable
sigin8 of fear -a most dangerous fear,
The pilgrims behaved exceedingly
well. There was little confusion. That
side 0(1 11117 deal( WaS simply deserted, and
tha crowd gazed sin interest from all
points of vantuge at a respectful ells -
distance.
The thied °Meer, the keeper and 1
placed ourselves each before tiger, so
that none n1 them could leave Ilse cor-
net* which he 101t1 Laken up. The cap-
tain and chief came on tho scene, and a
short discussion followed.
The third officer inquired If the tisers
had been fed that day.
They had not; they were always fed
on. living fowls.
lie called for three) chickens from the
hen -coop. 'raking these, he, threw one
In the face of each tiger.
The chickens seemed simply motion-
less, glued to the spot, so tristantaneaus
00115 the fixing and OM'S. The
officer there Went deliberutely up to a
lipr, coolly look the loose skin. of the
buck. of 1110 neck with olle hand and the
tall with the other, and using all his
force, dragged the Items' brute along the
deck to the cage and forced it through
the open bars.
The chicken diveysion acted perfectly,
The tiger heti no other object but to re-
tail, Ise pease He growled fearfully, his
eyes blazed, his teeth crushed through
the chicken, his unsheathed claws clasp-
ed and pierced the quivering body. Red-
hot Mon would lewdly have 11111(10 him
loosen his grip on the bled.
Wiree' \\INTERS.
13111 Winters is ono 01 1110 herems who
use 111010 wit. lo save their stre»5111.
Dunng a camping lap hi the elalne
\Newels Bill wns enstly the la7.8.$1 1111111 111
the party. Finally, Ills exesperaled
comrades trold him 11101 if Ise did not PM
:something besides lime they would pack
him off home. Tho 11081 inorning 13111
borrowed n rifle end wont off up the
mountain, Two hours' 1111er the nitin hi
temp sew 13111 running down (Tido roe
fast ne he could 00111P, 1111(1 close be•
hind him tens a beer. The 11811 watched
111,, chase with loaded rifles (early. On
returning vein)) 11111 turned and eliot the
bens When the mai eould elms laugh-
ing, one of them seildes.
11111, whal on earth possessed yoli
rim thel clielnime, the bear sn
tse, when you 11115111. hens killed 111111
the 11111' end entice"( your breath?" •
0 ellhee physieel 01` 111011'111 proven> on
n111 smiled shrewdly. "Wilni's the
of kifllng n benr in the mountains
d lugging him lit when joit elm run
nl. In?" 110 asked.
In fact, limey of these exchange ade
verlisements tell 111011' 011111 little story.
The person who offers 1,0 do stenography
end typewriting in the evenings In este
change for a 1043's bicycle betrays her-
self aes a poorly -paid girl clerk, who
longs for the means 01 getting a run
1,1 the open air on Sattirday afternoons.
Soealtuig of cycle exchanges, en Del-
i vertisernent of this type appeared some
little tone ago in a London daily;
!which. had a very real romance attached
Ito it. 11 ran as follows; "Tandeni cycle;
lacty front; exellange steerage
passage ticket to Cape Town."
No sooner had this appeared Wan a
young ledy celled at the office of tho
paper in question, and shyly asked for
the address of the advertiser. As Ibis;
01 course, 5005 refused, she was driven
tb explain. The machine, she was smile
from its description, belonged to the
gentleman to whom she had been en-
gaged.
THE TWO HAD QUARRELLED,
and hence all the trouble. 11 was ex-
plained ti, her that the confidence re -
loosed in the paper by advertisers was
sacred, but sugeested that she should
enewer the edverlisentene and indicate
tha1 he had something bettor 'to offer
Ilma a steerage passage to the Cape.
This she at lust agreed to do.
certain of these exchange advertise -
monis 11 18 hardly possible to take seri-
ously, but whether the following was
insetted to' 11 Mutate or was merely
meant for a hoax, at any rate, it actu-
ally appeared in the London Morning
Post. in May, 1905; "Mokir-car wanted,
eapable of ping between Sohn o'
Croat's, House and Land's End in slx
hours without stopping, and abbe tie
hold a party of eight persons, In ex-
change for splendid recipe for manna-
lades--"
The Chicago Superior Court had an
odd rime before it in April last, the dt-,
rect result of a "swap."
Ten years previously a Mrs. Clirard,
nf New York. boing badly off and un-
able to keep her baby, had exchanged
It with a Mrs. Hummel, of Chicago, for
01 bummieg bird and one dollar, Her
circumstances having improved, she de-
sired to break her bargain, and reclaim
P00 child who was now ten years. of
age. Seeing lhal the other woman had
looked tater the girl for all these years,
it seems far from fah, that tbe Court
ordered the child te be
RESTORED TO HER PARENTS.
Near Sanford, in Florida, a man
nettled Mason is making a very good
thing out of a tarp tract of pine for-
est, whieli he works as a turpentine
farm. 'rite story Is that Mason's father'
nui a ferry on the Sl. John's Myer some
folly years ego, and one day tr beat
011111e dONV11 the elver al geed speed he.
fore the wind., .followed by a second,
which was losing fest, being half full
el water. Number tWO stopped and
hailed, the ferryman. "Lend me your
boat," lie said. "Mine's leaking, and
I've got lo catch that fellow," pointtng
to the vanishing boat.
Meson refused, The other offored him
live dollars, all the money he had, 13ut
'Meson said 111111 MIS no use. The other
then saki, "I've got, four sections of
land bnelt here. You shall have it all
fin your boat." Meson yielded, look a
signed egreement, lel his boat go, end
never eaki," it or the men ttgatn; Bee
his son still 000115 tile land, 011e1' 2,500
arros..-Pearson's Weeltly.
APPROACHING TI1E' CZAR,
supposing one of the Czar's Ministers
demoinds an extra Interview and It dew
inot plense Ills Majesty to grant it. Peter
Selloff, 'valet and trusted friend of three
successive 111Lesien Emperors, is eent to ,
annoutwe the fact thet "his Majesty is
lired." Ile 'rarely steeds lo ask '1110 3.111).
'181' what is his husines.s, for there are
few of lbo Emperor's loners and
51)31118 10 he dose not rend, If, too, ft does
not please the velet to enranince 10 vlsir
loo• or deliver5 meesnge, the Eniperoe
would be none the wisee. 'l'o. °Mein an
imelienee 001111 tbe (*sat' is next 10 an ins,
poesbillly, bet there 'tiro exceptions.
Ono gentlemen relates how he Went to
the palace 111 re:1)0mA .to an invitation
from the Emperor, Aflee he had been
venducted freoll rooal 10 ronm and cart.
futty senrelled, lie was allowed, to Ills
great surpriee, to speak te the Emperoe
011 1110 Lelephone.