The Brussels Post, 1907-7-25, Page 6THE S GAL CONSCIENCE
tie Who Lives to Seli.Satisfaction
Is Dead Already,
"Ani the Lord said unto Cain, Where
is Abel thy brother?" -Gen, iv., 9,
eeleshness i$ the most 81 (10118
charge against the daunt of our day.
11 the ehaege be sustained IL simply
intik:ales Butt the church las become
eidelued to the retire and subservient
to the method of the world, for the grave
danger of this age is that it shall be
dominated by sold selfishness,
yet the correctness with which thts
eccusallon is made agairest the churell
for failure to enter upon her work of
regenerating and ret -instructing sect-
ely, the fierce inveetive freely poured
eli the individual or the corporation
welch for gain sells out elm lives t
nien and women and disregards ell lue
man rights; the popular indignation
against social wrong is lee most prom-
reing sign of the Una°.
Them is an awakening social consel-
•ence; as never before men are realizing
that the old question, "Am I my bro-
ther's keeper?" must be answerer] in a
'clear and active tellisnalive, There
reser was a tine when !here was more
serious 'search for the right way of eis-
chergine that responsibility which the
individual bas come to feel for humim-
ity as a whole.
11 would be a happy thing if we could
sit down al Our ease and any,
ALL'S WELL WITII THIS WORLD,
there is no good cause for popular des -
content; but it Is a horrible thing when
we thus sit at ease and speak smooth
words while things aro for from right,
when justice Is thwarted by greed and
the lives of children are devoured by
the moloch of mammon, when the pow -
Cr of wealth to do wrong is coupled
with the inability of poverty to do
right.
' 11, is a stunted intellect that says con-
eitions are no worse in our day than
leek. Ilie every age must 'have tow
standards. Mullaney 11MAI. C214 818111.1
stendeeds of jiving and ideals in
life continually visa niece heelers The
desire for betterment which yem justify
in yeurself ought to le reflected in dis-
content with anything .eleirt of con -
:dant improvement in the let tit others.
Every num 11118 0 duty 'to meter; ne
is debtor to all humanity; he is the in-
heritor of the high privilege of Teeing
the world better, fairer, happme. Most
tf all does tete duty agd indebtedness
rest upon them \elm profess to follow
ths mart or Nazareth, who came int0.
the world to redeem soeisty. The church
'ill be measured not by the prevalence
el her creeds but by the production et a
type of cheracter and the prevalence of
ideal conditions -for its peacetime
Is there any greater mockery today
than that of a body bearing the name
of elm who came to save the world
standing with hand outetreiched beg-
ging the World to
SAVE IT FROM POVEIITY,
to lift 11 1.0 luxury, and to enable it Lo
t njey ,soothing sennons and rich fur-
nishings? The eeadly heresy is this
living for ourselves, this eellishness
that puts to sleep the social conselellee.
Neither the thumb. 0101the Individual
can live in "a, Mlle garden walled
around." We steadily are templed le
ebield ourselves from the loathsome
sights of poverty and the heavy drafts
n our sympathies made by suffering.
Walled in by respectability we 'hope lo
escape responsibility. Yet al the last
we shall but hear the words, like I
withering whirlwind, 9110800(011 as )0
did it not to one af 1110 180.51 of these.'
Nor is that all; every time we refuse
to give ourselves, some e our thought
and energy, our sympathy and love -to
they used to be. TIIPSO things cannot others, we cut off that much of our own
be mensured by fanner conditions; they eves. The 1181T0W, dwarfed soul is Me
snot be measured by the present day one that ie ever turned in on itself and
censcienee. They are bettor than they never reaching 0111 to others. Ile who
were, but they are utterly wrong nnd lives to selesatisfeetton is dead already;
bad until they come to the stiandard
oley h ee who -.NAOS 40 serve humanity es
we know to be right. neve and lives more end more and for -
If you measure things by yeetertley ever.
you will be eatisfied with the backward HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
LNTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 28.
which Moses was lo bring from Jehovah
unto the waiting people at the foe of
the mountain. This detailed legislation
was mosl, necessary by way or commie
application of the precepts eet forth in
the Decalogue, the mranieg of which
precepts proved too profoundly spiritual
to be rightly understood by the people
at that time without this further de-
tailed legislation.
leloses delayed to come down from the
Lesson IV. The Golden -Calf. Golden
ItiounL.-During their leader's absence of
Text : John 5. 21. nearly Six WOCICS (comp. Deut. O. le 12
the people grew impatient and began to
THE LESSON W0111) S1 UDIES. fear the he would never relent. Hence
Based tm the text of the Revised Ver- iheir urgent. request to Aaron, lip, make
sion. it gods. The noun "gods" ugly deo bo
Bull Symbols in Hebrew Worship,- eendestel in the singular, and is to be
The word translated "eulr in our lesson understood In the sense of an doe that
passage is somewhat mislentling, 11 is is, a symbol of deity, 111 which sense the
used in Hebrew in a much wider sense 14,01'd is USW in many passages of the
end very frequently designates the full- Old Testament.
grown animal. Thus in Jur. 21. 18, end This ?doses, the num that brought, us
18 Judg. 11. 18, tho reference is to a up out, of the land of Egypt -After an
young bull and a young cow respective- absence of forty days and nights Moses
wee again a stranger whose appearance
on the scene uf otion In Egypt, inter-
vention on behalf of Israel, brief leader -
:ship thus far, and recent disappenennee
into the solitude of lite mild mountain
from which (kid had spoken, ell seemed
lite ;is a vision to the mid im-
patient peoele.
2. ' Aaron mild unto them, Beenk off
tlis golden rings-Atiron, Ilowhoro ap-
pears sis a strong or independent per-
son. Eloquent, 010 doubt, 81111 persua-
eiveen speech, he 8111.8 a viguable 118114S-
lant, to Moses, who was "slow of speech,
and of a slow longue"; but 'alone with
'the people he wits 0 111000 tool In their
'bands, either unable br unWIlling
couregously. to oppose their will.
Wives„ .. sons, daughters --The
explicit mention of both wives and
daughters, together with the omission of
elle husbands or 11101, seems to imply
that the men did not, eft this time wear
the articles of jewellery referred le,
though in an teeter day the members
of Hie household of Jacob, including the
men, seem to linve worn rings,
4. Fashioned it, well a greying tool -
This Manse In the Hebrew is difficult to
toulerstand, and lies been verlously in-
terpreted. The mune Hebrew verb Is
translated In 2 Kings 5. 23, "bound (that
the gold] In bags." This rendering
here would seem more fin harmony welt
the, following clause, and node it a
molten calf. 'the rendering "fashioned
It with a graving' 'pot," Is, however, in
harmony with es-mole:eons based on a,
easeful compruison of this veree with
verse 20 teook the colt whieli they had
merle nnd burnt it with fire"), aid of
Loth these verses with oilier passages hi
whieb the manufacture of similar
images is described (Deut. 7. 25; Isn,
30. 22; 40. 70 ; 44. 104, all of while
sten to point to a eenoden oore overlaid
with gold. In support of Mee view 11
may be added the the expeession in
1 insen's denunciation of the practice of
this very forni of idoletry (Hoe. 8. e)
trenslonied "pieces" ("Yea, Ma calf or
S810(10111 e1(e11 be Holten in peters") is
In the Talmud rendered "splinters OP
ehavinge of stood," seeming to indicate
that leo object broken was al least in
pert composed of wood.
Offered ',ern!, offerings, and teemed
peace offerings --We Mei! Ili this 810110-
1110111 very conclusive evidence ot the
Met the loth these forms of sacrifice
existed prior In the specific regulations
of the tabernacle ritual given hy Moses.
The People eel down in ere rind te
drink, end rose up, lo play-Feariling
feel merry -Inking were among the
more innocent .accomptin 11110)1 Is of
idolatrons worship. (then, however,
these degenerated 4010 the most. corrupt
, VerSO 1. Tho elrepterS Intervening he braeliaas, so ceillnlen among the neerest
Uveen the lest leeson end this nrie fire tieighbors or the Hebrew peaple.
In a large meestree &Voted M the sets 7. rhY Prelde, first 111011 hreughleet
_beg fort; Of the-, detailed' • legislation Up Outeof the land of Egypt -Aa ehoegh
1y. full-grown and ready to be broken to
the plow. Among the ngrieultural
people, such as were the the
most natural symbol of strength and
vital energy was the young bull. It was
natural, therefore, that this people- when
in quest of on appropriate symbol under
which to represent, the presence of Jeho-
vah, whom thus fur they had learned to
know almost solely as the God of power
and irresistible might, who brought
death -and destruction to his enemies,
and spoke even unto his own peerle in
tones of thunder from the cloud -covered
mountain height, should (10 08 $o melte
other peoples shuilerly situnted, and
ISOMO of them closely related to the Is -
melees re:tally, bed done, and clothe
their ideal of the Divine Presence in this
material form. The origin of bull .synt-
holism among the Hebrews may there-
fore be sought in the native religious
..tendencies of the people themselves -
tendencies which they shared with other
Semitic peoples about Wein. In the re-
ply te the contention tee the Israelites
simply Metaled the Egyptiens, with
whom they had so long been elneely
associated, it may be saki : I. The
Egyptians worshiped not golden, but
Jiving bulls, which mere regarded as the
incarnations of certain well-known
national deities; L 11. uould eeern in-
consistent, If 11o1 nbeurd, for Aaron to
speak es he did of the golden calf as
representing the god that. had delivered
• the lsreelites from the bend of the
Egyptiane, had the celf been 41 reflection
'of any ISgyptian deity ; 3. In the case of
O similar apostasy under Jeroboam at
the lime 01 1)10 division 01 1110 kingdom
(I Kings 12. 25), the attetnpl of the new
icing to coneoltdato different pees of
Ills, the liorthern, kingdom, demanded
' eat (he fonn of worship established be
genetriely national, and 110t, 0.0 importa-
tion hem a foreign keel. We are, there-
fore, not to thine In either ease of apes-
tesy of a delilmrate introduclien of crass
idolatry, but rather of a sincere, though -
Mistaken end wrong attempt to sem'
bonze both the presence and the (8000.
01(101 of Jehovah with his peeler. Thie,
:however, does not, of (mime, excuse the
tein of either Aaron or Jeroboam, both se
'whom acterl egaind, their better Mune-
ledge in thus lowering the strinderd 01
:Worship of tho one derive end (mem
God, The worship of khovallein this
5318(1101)010r111,m01'408'er, furthered
'greatly a greeted assimilatMn of the
religion of Jehovah to 11101, 1 Ilnel ; end
Itis the full 01ppr1'0iaiM0 o1 Iles danger
the prompted the later prophets
Home to deneunee so Vigorously this
term of eposlasyi
lee apostasy of the people Mel already
1)111)11 1i'ly end permanently eeperaled
tht»8 11010 congregation from Jehovah.
30. The intervening verses (1e211),
which, wide (1(41 p11111141 in our lesson
helps, nevertheliee imustilute part. of the
assigned lesson message, meted the in.
eseession ef Moses with Jehovah en
1M11(111 111 1110 people, and the sultsement
return tit Moses to the camp of _Israel,
1110 leveeing of the tutees of stone, the
destruelion. of the goliten bull eyttieol,
and the punishment of WO Chief offen-
ders, eeeepling Aaron.
Sinned it great 00-1 110>' had uot tidy
brolten a definite promise, but in so
doing 10111 teem guilty of mess inmate
tude toward Jehovah.
Peradventure 1 shell matte rilonement
191' 841111' 8ill-AppeL180 ill 801110 Wily Mt)
W111111 Alf Jelervitle
32. Forgive their sires--; and if not,
blot me, I pray thee, out of thy boeie--
ere ale to enmity in 1(0111)111 1118 ellipse'
iiatientist 1.y the dash. insertint some
such IV(1)ds110.1 "NA.'011 end good,' or, "I
am coulee," or, "I havo nu inure to
say."
34, 35. 1 will visit their sin upon them
-U. is not elear whether the threatened
visitation of inmiehment, is to lie thought
Of es femeefeg immediately, 00 es eseue
later time. From the expression, And
300vali smote the people, eoine have
infeered the former, 'while others think
that the punishment referred lo was the
0111111de perishing of the entire genera-
tion in the wilderness, specIfivally men-
tioned dn Num. 14. 35: "In Iles wilder-
ness they shall be consumed, end there
they shall die,"
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WHAT .MAKES YOU IUGHT-HANDED7
Mire you observed the intents who
crawl on all inure make much mom use,
of ebe right than the left band unless
they are left-handed? A iseientist no-
COntillt fur this, declaring that' right-
bandednees is caused by the location
of the (means of the body. Tile heart
being on the left side causes very much
greater weight than in ithe Dine
Mg active life the heart and arteries
willh blood melte the increased
weight, of that side ou item of SOnIO im-
portance.. The centre of gravity is,
therefore, thrown more to the lee side.
This being the case, the right arm is
much more fro than the let. There
nue. be also a provision of nature in
the use of the right band niore lean the
Ieft. Theiwieg it bale striking with
a hammer or other violent exercise,
might 11000 a depressing or injurious
tiled mion the 11001.1 if 1.10110 with the
lett 1100d.
DONet"rflUSe"re) YOUR EYE.
In spite of the growth of knowledge,
cad Illusions about wiel animals .81111
hold theft own. To begin with, tee be-
lie that the :human eyo on control a
wild centime is held by many people-
ene 'negligent people, too-notwitle
Mending the Tinley proofs in evidexice
agninst it. itis true that any inanegsks
his life every time 110 ttirila els beck
en wild animals; but not, on amount
of his eyes being turned away.- IL is
because the animal is Ire/schemes, and
knows by iodine, that anything with
ils leek turned leward it is defenceless.
.Snakes are 10018ed upon es evil 01 all
times; but in nearly every ease She at-
tack is made from sheer riervousness.
No, creature is more nervous thun a
snake.
BEAR THIS IN MIND.
Do you find llfe unpleased, and think
you Rider more 11300 We average 11018-
1,pr Of ills? If your liver is ell right,
the tremble may be you ham -never teed
melting life worth white for kiLhers. If
you are one of those unfortunates who
heagines he is a cynic, try this plan for
one day: Be helpful and kind to 80111e
rake beeldes yourself; you On do it
without. ineolivelience. 13e pleasant
801111 your associates, and your work
will bo easter. At home you win no-
tice the difference in the cheerfulness of
11' by following 1110 same system. But
the anaindifference will 'be with youie
self-y*01 sleep better!
se_
DEAD SIIOTs.
No man's respect Mr old ago extends
to eggs.
The way of the transgressor is hard
0,1 other people.
Some people can't even do their duly
welled striking an elitude.
A true artist is one who would love
Art for Axle sake, if heteould afford it.
A young man does riot think 5e01.0115-
ly about marriage until eller 11 happens.
Many a man gambles with hls tepee -
lien, lasing IL in an effort to gain a
bigger one,
A jury is a, body of twelve men select-
ed to deekle which of tee contestants
ihns the better lawyer.
'rho glutton is always thinking of what
lie is. going to eat, the dyspeptic cf
what he has just eaten.
MEMORY111AINING.
There ie no (1011131. 11(01 111e lying
a 1)1ece of siring round the finger is a
meetly good eld to a poor memory, but
411800 is 11 will euinenticaled case of a
men win tied a piece of cotton round
his finger in the morning to remind
111111 to get his heir cut. On tho way
thoina to dinner flint evening he notic-
ed the pece of eollon.
"Ah, yes, I remember," he ,said.
ismiling proudly, he entered the accus-
tomed &lop, and sat (emir before the
fle1lIS'0111P(1 1.011`1APV.
"Er -yes, els?" snid the barber, pus -
sled inquiry in de eines.
"ISrl Oh, yrs, cut my hair, Neese,"
rorrimmulerl the absenteeinded one
'C111\1\'
11.1y ' , e
. 0(1') 111013), Mr, if yon wish it,"
AvttS (Int "But. eett won'i mind
menieming the file 11101 I cut It
this morning, wilt you, sir?"
SHOW NIB THE liOADI
Show tee the rend le Lezyville-
It ean't he foe deny -
Where elindows Unger Cool 101(1 51.111
And idle etude -ems play,
Where rustling leaves are whispering
soft,
And reties aro mile and blue,
And placid clond-lanelts drift eleifti
With nothing else to de,
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L1:1111 fiOnl (2'
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Cunning Ponehes.-In (miming poaches
emelt the stonee end cell the kernels in
etemt of the juice, Yeu will lind them
eeeellent, (edition 141 fruil, mend.
Sponge Mends: Cut dirks en inch
thielt nom dale sponge cake, and tiy
setroping out a little et Bin crumb, make
1)0111 11150 $hallow tartlets • moisten well
a Mlle ON tenet, heap wItli berries, and
tell sugar unit whipped cream.
theluun Wafers. -Two cups sugar,
one eup buttermile or sour inilik, one eup
lard, one egg, one teaspoon soda, It little
nutmeg, olio cup wheat flour; 11138 ns
Inuit graham 11010: as you on, roll thin,
pick with fork thoroughly before cut-
ting; cut In squeres.
Cleve Shrule-Four cluarte grapes to
one quart of vinegar; let stand four
days, then strain. To each pint of juice
add ono pound of sugar; boil twenty
minutes, bottle and keep in a dry, cool
piece. Red raspberries or black aro also
niee,
Jain (lake, -Ono and oneemlf cups su-
gar, two-thirds of a cup butler, ono elm
jam, Uwe eggs, two and one-half cups
flour, seven tablespoons sour millt, one
teaspoon soda, one cinnamon, one me -
meg. Mix sugnr, butter, jam and spices
together; break the eggs ono .at it time
and whip in.
Baked Pike. -Carefully prepare and
fill with plain bread stuffing 11, three -
'pound pike. Score the upper side three
or four times diagonally end lay strips
ot. salt Mt pork in the incisions. Dredge
with flour, salt rand pepper. Place in a
balting-pan with a little hotesvaler, and
bake for thirty -eve minutes, Servo with
O brown tomato mice.
e.igg Puffs. -Five eggs, ono pint milk,
three tablespoons flour, one tablespoon
butter, add one tablespoon salt to but-
ler, T111X eggs, butter --and milk and stir
the mixture inM tho flour gratitude, ;
melt, a small piece of butter in a frying
pan and turn in the above mixture;
when set, turn and brown on tho other
side.
Inexpensive Mee Dish. - Put two
pounds of rough steals, small piece of
suet, small onion through the meat
chopper ; add two 811115 of bread the has
been soaked in water, three eggs, salt
and pepper, and shape like a. roll of but-
ter. Put In a slow oven about one hour.
.Seiwe hot or aold.
Rhubarh Charlotte.-Cte tho rhubarb
in 111411 pieces, and place in a dish with
twice as mud) sugar as rhubarb, one lea-
sPooneul of minced ginger root, end
lemon peel, and bake until tender. Dis-
mire two tablespoonfuls of gelatine in
a little 1101 1011100 for a quart of rhubarb,
odd the juice of a lemon, strain into the
rhubarb, and pour into a mould. When
chilled and firm turn out in a dish and
gerresh with whipped cream.
Potato Salad. -Boil until done A quar-
ter peek of good small potatoes; peel,
and while hot cut into slices of 1(110831 (111
eighth of an inch thick ; cover 00 as to
keep 01a1/8. Chop flne one small onion.
Be careful that there are no pieces left,
es only a delicate taste of onion is de -
tired. Cut one-quarter pound of bacon
into little cubes and fry, Put onions and
bacon into the potatoes and shake up
and down, as stirring breaks the slices
ot potatoes. Add salt, pepper and vine -
gel to tasle. New potatoes make more
'delicate salad.
Canning Asparagus. -Peel 1(01110 fine
fruit esparagus, cut, it in 00811 lengths,
end 11111 molly in wide-mouthed glass
jers. Mix four quarts cold water with
Iwo ounces salt; 1111 the jere to over-
flowing with this; close and boll them
in a bolter or cartner twenty minutes.
'Remove the jars; open each one a ele-
ment; close meekly ; return them lo
the balh and cook two and a half hours;
take out the jam, Set them upside down
on a dry cloth ; see thatthey are air-
tight, and when cold put them in a cool,
dry place. Green peas are preserved in
the snine way as asparagus, only boll
Them half an hour longer.
Marbled Vene-Ceolt gently until ten -
tier a pickled beef longue. When done
slice as thin as possible. Boil Wil11 the
tongue about four pounds of lean veal,
the leg is best. Chop this fine. Season,
the meat well tvith salt, pepper -and a
7111,1egreed nutmeg. Add to the veal
gradually white meting and pounding
it to a paste, half 0.4)64)1)41 of butter melt-
ed to a cream. Put a layer of the veal in
the bottom of a mould or cup, then a
slice of longue, then another layer of
veal, and so on until the cups are 1011,
having the veal on lop. Pack firmly In
the cups and pouf' some Melted butter
over the tops. Cover with parellin paper
and keep in a cool, dry place.
RHUBARB 11011 WINTER.
Preserved Rhubarb. -Peel the rhubarb
If at all tough and cut, into small pieces.
it, with a veerlittle Water untie per -
'Melly soft. Weigh and for each pound
of the rhubarb allow one pound of genie
sealed sugar, ono ounce of sweet
almonds (blanched and chopped fine),
tine half a Milton cut into tiny dee. Boil
elowly for an boar, stirrieg very fre-
quently, 110 11 will scorch easily, then
put the preserves Mtn Mrs.
Rhubarb Marmalatle.-To each quart
lot finely (hopped -rhubarb, add six
°lenges the have been peeled, the while
pith mid pips removed, and lito 1)001 1(1101
pulp diced 111111, ind one and oreehelf
pounds of granulated stigar. Boll elowly
until done.
Rhubarb and Fig Jnin.-Weigh the
Aniline) after 1.1. 18 reeled end out up for
enoleng niel le every six 1)011(1(18 Allow
one-fourth of a pound of ondied lemon
peel, 0111 )11 thin chips, and one pound Of
flgt that have been welt washed, dried
atid ein in balers. Pince the figs end
lemon peel over 1110 3geitemb, cover with
six pomele of good inoist sugee end let
stand unlit the next day. Then boll
elowly together, well frequent stirrings,
ter one hour. This is very nioe sealed in
tnarinarlade
litiubarb iam.-Ctit the rlittearb into
Meese/eel pieces, and to every quasi add
one pound of good moist, sugar. Put,
the Auger over the rhubarb anti Iel, it
stand over 8(1.1)111 10 extract the juice to-
gether (1110 sugar will 1101 be diseolveell
for' twenty nendee, then put In the rine
1111111 and boll twenty Intim 1.0o Mager.
ell'. as little as possible Ili order uot to
Moult the rhubarb.
110(18131101M IIINTS.
A 1)10011 of baking soda fettled to the
water 30 whisil Peter, beans And (111101'
vegetables are boiled will keep them
beautifully rind quite harmlessly green,
elubber rings that have become hard
fuel inenslie ern itsvome scsliceoblet)
once more if laid in Willer 111111 ammunia
--one plot 01 (1331(31011)0. 10 two Of Water.
W11(11,0111-0 oil is natal at the 111110 it
Should ho 1)01 1)1 dark -colored (1(111(1141
removed to a cool, 4.111114 Orme imme-
diately niter the meal. 14 is Leered by
being kept in the light. •
For labels on tin, onion juice makes an
excellent. mucilage; staneh paste, lo
which a bit. of glue has been added, fas-
tens labels firmly to eanS and ti1)8,..11
the spot which holds the label is first
washed, whit a baking,-sodit solution.
To avoid a remote Possibility of pre-
serves becoming mouldy, a bit of sell-
eylie nekl-el tiny knife-point full to two
puunds 01 fruit or truth juice -should be
edited to the fruit, when flest, placed over
the the; a sure and perfectly harmless
preven live. -
For pasting lebels on glass, mato a
mucilnge of whites of eggs beaten up
and allowed to run down again ; labels
moistened with 111I8 and pressed by
means of a. cloth firmly on jar or jelly
glass vill not come off from damp and
not until immersed fee a, long time in
water .
A sheet of clean white blotting paper
1081308 0101 ideal filter for all cold juices
and liquids, A whole sheet, of the paper
should be folded over to half and again
folded over to (peeler its size; then
"pinched" over and over again like a
fan into .stripe -like corrugatiens, Un-
folded and laid in colander or funnel
these little ridges keep buck everytimpue-
117. allowing only the clearest, cleanest
juice to triode slowly enough into the
sausepan underneath.
-- ,
INHERITANCE OF THE DOG.
Some Breeds are Born With Strong
Friendship for Man.
I3y the environment of his forbears
for generations back you may Maw
the dog. An Eseinso or sledge dog, or
a Chinese chow chow, could never ere -
Me the deep friendship the a deeehound
or an old English sheep doe or collie,
yr a bulldog, or a terrier Is capable of
inspiring.
'Years before any of us were thought
of the sledge dog 40118 IL beast et bur -
item tolerated because human lives de-
pended on his "motor" power, begrudg-
ed 1.118 neeessery wherewithal to keep
bis "machinery" in good order and
treated not as a companion, but as a
pariah and as a. brute without feeling,
without thought, without hope.
Hew expect a descendant, of these
half-starved, cuffed and buffeted ani-
mals not to shrink from the uplittell
hand and treat with suspietan all
friendly overtimes? All man liaS done
for him and his forbears has been to
play the brute and make Men weary
bonclege.
And in all parts of the globe where
the struggle for life is (post desperate,
and people, according to our estimate,
tiro brutes of semi or whole savage, so
are the dogs of that people.
Persian NVO1f110111118, ChOW
"dingoes" in the wilds of- Australia,
Tibet mastics, all more or less dread
111811, 80110 many years ago beat them
into subjection, 1101 affection.
With the 38500, $1,000 and 82,000 cham-
pions end thole brothers, sisters and
cousins who claim prizes at bench
slows, the story is different. Neither
they nor their nnoestore have -known
what il, was to turn cannibals te avert
Maryellen. Man cid bet beat them in-
to drudgery. Man \yenned to them and
they gave their all to man. And of the
1.000 dogs gathered together from Mare,
there and everywhere, at a show, there
were probably not a dozon. who would
churisley one at a stranger's greeting,
•
riAvED watt conmE.
-
Dangerous Toys of Northamptonshire
Children.
A number of children in the Noeth-
areplonshlre village 'of Brixworth, Eng-
land, hate been pineing with death for
a week, and two el them have been se-
verely injured.
About a week ago,some boys founcl 10
cpsentily of cordite blesting cartridges In
the bed of a small sheen, and shared
teem out among their playmates. The
boys have been carrying the cartridges
about, and early yesterday Horace Ly-
man, seven years old, 'laced one of
them in the kitchen five. It exploded,
Mewing the grate to pieces, and injur-
ing hen severely.
Another boy etruck one of the car-
tridges with a hammer and was also in-
jured.
'rho village schoolmaster made all the
boys turn out their 'pockets the -other
moreing, end he onescaled fifty cote
ledges which he found in the possession
01 041001)1 a dozen boys. IL is supposed
that they Welt elolen from an Ironstone
quarry In the neighborhood,
RELATIVE DIFFERENCE.
Druggist: "Did you soy pills, little
girl?" '-
Little 0h1: "Yes, sir, please."
Druggist : 7"
Little 01r1 : "No, sir, but uncle is."
les time le stand from under when
the man who, knows IL all (starts 19
tell you all ho k)1ows.'
In Norway wheal, can be growri et 7f1
legrees north, while on 1110 eastern
schores of America 50 degrees le the
northern limit of suceeseful wheat farm -
ng,
Sound Will 11 181)1 four times as rapid-
ly through weer n,s through air, and
seventeen limes more rapidly through
ton eitari through ale.
Ottomans/ hes n greater length 01 tele.
graph lines than any other nation, else
les neerly 113,000 miles, beating Russet
by about A thousand miles, Gerriteny
hes nearly 30,000 telegraph -Oleos, but,
MAMA Only 1400. •
MODEL HOME FOR GIRLS
LAINING WIVES OF THE FUTURE
• HOW TO SHOP.
ELItuallon CominIttee of the London
County Council Submit 0
ScheituN
A nevel scheme for the trebling of
girls to manage 11 home ims been sub-
initted to the Education Cenunitive 01
the London County (1013110)1 1'>' the
il 1(31-
401' of tho Stioralitch Technleal
lute,
'file aim is to make the girls pea -
dent, ie the domestic duties they would
have to perform its the wives of aril -
5605 earning from 28s. lo 4:1 a week.
The six weeks' course of training pro-
posed would include washing, cooldng,
and cleaning, general anantigement il
ihe Immo on a systematic lends, and
tow "to shop."
A certain sum would be set apart, et
1110 beginning of each week for rent,
rates, 'clothing, insurance, travelling
expenses, and for providing n fund for
"a rainy day." The remainder would
hs available for food and any little lux-
uries that might, be possible.
CARE, OF THE BABY.
In order that the training may be as
practical as possible, 11. is necessary
that the time occupied in intending to
a baby in Most, homes should not be
overlooked in 1110 programme of the ex-
perimental home. 11 is proposed each
week, therefore, to undertake the care
cf a child belonging to a working class
'family in the ineighborhood% and In
this waythegirls would gain -further
valuable experience.
The home would bo provided as
homes of the working class are, only
the furniture would be more tasteful,
and poobably more useful, at less cost
Ilan Is to be seen in the average arti-
san's house.
II, is proposed, of course, to spend
from 28s. to 43 a wee18 on the experi-
mental home. Apart from the teach-
ers' eateries, it can, be run for consid-
erably under a pound a week. The
initial expenditure is aStimatecl at 4150.
IL Is propesal to establish an experi-
mental home, either by building nn
annex to the Shoreditelt Institute or
renting or leasing houso in theyieln,
ity, and to teach girls who have gone
through the theoretical trebling nt the
institute in batches of six.
The scheme is to be carefully consid-
ered by the Education Committee.
THINGS YOU NEVER SUSPECTED.
Something About Your Body Which
You Should Know.
On an average mares body there aro
340,000 hairs. Plucking one every sea
011,1 11 would flake hint twelve eight-hour
working days to pull them all out.
-In his blood there are 25,000,000,000,-
000 red corpuscles. Laid 0111 side by
side they would cover a surface of 3,-
730 square yards.
The whole 01 1110 blood passes through
a man's heart nearly twice irt eVerY
rianuM. IL weIghs one -thirteenth of the
erlitre body weight. end 11 moves in
different parts of the body at speeds
varying hem ten feet, to 1,666 yards
(nearly 0110 111110) an hour.
The fat of )•011 0 body is fluid. IL be-
come01 solid only when the body cools
after death. 11, is One of your most Ilse -
fel consteuents, 'grilling a non -conduct-
ing sheath M prefect you from cold,
tieing as pads, to preserve from shock,
00 ithe Ups of the fingers, the toes, and
the heels, and lying always ready es a
reserve food supply when you can get
nothing to eat.
A little artery passes from your brain
through the sktill into the scalp, 1011(0)1
acts es si eesoie 'valve seem we brain
is congested with blood.
'rhe skin cannot grow again once -it
10 dosiroyed. Hence, the unsightly scars
tett by burns and severe wounds. Only
Um surface Myer can renew itself; when
the whole thickness is desti•oyed It 043el-
81' re-forms. Ilits is the MOM 8111'1011S,
IIS muscles, nerves, hlood-vessels,, and
bones, all le.ss liable'io Injury than the
skin, cnn grow again..
You ere really a water, ratherthan ft
land animal. Althougle as a whole,
you live on dry land, your body con -
sista of countless millions of separate
living particles, and these are al im-
mersed in the wetter winch constitute.s
four-filths of your sub,stanee.
Within the inner part of your ear,
deep in the bone, is a quentity 01 1)0(4
which acts as 14 eplelt Wel, and en-
ables you to keep,yoUr balance.
A LADYSMITH STORY.
Fleet W113 Very Setlre tn Ladysmith dur-
ing the siege but General Sir Ian Hamil-
ton, then colonel, Insisted that "horse Js
not half bad when properly cooked and
wlien one Isusedto .1e In fact,' he
said, concluding a disenssion, "I have a
joint cookecl to -night, which, I hope you
Will sill wimple. Of course, there's beef,
too, to-nighte" Everyone at the table
preferred the beef, .with (he exception of,
Colbnel Woods and Ian Hamilton, who
ostentatiously carved generous , slices
from the "horiellesh." The dinner was
nearly 0000 When one of the serv,ants
whispered ft communication to Wned.
Up Ire sprang. "Jen distressed., gentle-
men," bo announced to the startled 00(11 -
pony. "A silly mistake has been mode.
These joints were mixed up somehow,
end yott have been eating the horse!
I'm really annoyed. 13u1 1 hope you'll be
convinced now that the rod is splen-
did eating 1 I'm sure 3011511seemed to
enjey it 1" Glances were excherrged ;
nunisleehes were twirled, Nebody
seemed ready With response, Then it
voice from the bottom of the table piped
11111.0:1.g11
0111: 1(1111111alm
ress lyton rb
yourself,
rseelefi Wintatdrel,
111
So I just changed these dishes as they
elood on the sideboard, 11 1808 yet end
liamillon bud the horseflesh, all right I"
fluselan °Metal ; "Yolt orimml slay in
this country, tire' Treveller : 'Then, of
course, 1 will leave' IL" "Rave 3)011 11
rermll, 10 leaVe 9" "No, sir." "Then I
MUM, toll you 'that yon cannot go . 1
give you (wade -Mee Mom to melte 1134
your 1111041 es '10 What Ate will (1te"'
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
riEws Amu, Anagne 10 IIN BLAU
ANI) IIIS viantn,
Occurrenees In the Land 'That Relent
Supreme 11, d.
11)rollrilem
Coinorclat
There were still 104 811508 spottea
fever in (Ilesow 1111 the 711) inst.
During the last year 7,728 ruses were
treated In the Dental Hospital, 0 I esgow.
oe the 4111 rte. 830 Mind maple or
meow were given a trip to 1.0140.11.
Go the 4111 ult. a perthistorie 1)11180.
was discovered nette Bream Castle in a.
large mound.
AL North Betwick a blackbird has
bee its 310.101 131 one 01 1)10 chandelives in.
the Paeish Church hull.
Liverpool Education ComnitUee bas de-
cided to appolet a dentist, al 13150 a year
to take care of the scholars' teeth.
dT I 01 en Ilia
an b20111,11i11111 tiusbi7111.10lupboLlivenes, (110-
found a110u14>0'mi] therein.
AL Buelthavon the other day 111 flve,
prosecutions foe selling bad meat tho
magistrates exacted (1)1 10 in fines.
Edinburgh death rale, 14,2 per 1,000,.
last month, was the lowest of any of the
large lowns'in Great, Britain.
A woman Inspector of EnglIsh Inc-
st ot alerts ascaeys‘v, otirliactir 1101durrelyt eainrs Noel t gnegh urn.
The proposnl to erect a memorial 10,
Carlyle, which originated In 1895 and
was Ignmorartly dropped, has again,.
been revived.
The ancient rind neyal burgh of Lrinerle-
on the 6th ult, celebrated lts historic and.
quaint festival known_ as the. Letnimer
Day.
Mr. J. Wolff°, the amateur long -dig-,
lance swimmer, has arranged to mako,
another attempt to swim the Channel on
July 21 next.
The Peninsula 11n41 0010(1101 Steamship,
Company have placed an order with,
Cerd and C.o., C,reenocic, for a (nail and,
passenger steamer.
A monster petition to be sent, to the,
Eitglish Parliament. to protect dogs from
vivisection is already nine miles long,,
and weighs a quarter of a ton.
Lord Justice Channel' at Appleby,.
Westmoreland, was presented with a
pair of white glove.s by the sheriff, them -
being no eases for trial at the assizes.
Linlithgow hung banners round the
miler walls of its public well 01 tiler
Cross on the 4111 ult., in honor of the.
fountain's hundredth year of usefulness.
AL Stornaway the total herring catch,
up to the Isl. ult., was 20,300 (Tans, as
compared with 6,567 evens for the cor-
responding period of last. yeer.
Serer Shane Springbank Road, Pais-
ley is the heed to be presented with a
silver watch by the School Board for
seven years' perfect attentlenee.
ThO COUrt has awarded Muir & Sons,
423,730 against the Edinburgh and Leith
Gas C.oturnissioners in respect of the
pollution of the stable well at. Calton
brewery.
The following were the wnges offered
at Dodds Day .111 Kilmarnock -Single
men 4214 to 416, second men 410 to 412,
men who could milk 411 to 414, girls.
49 10s, to 411, kitchen girls 48 to 13)0.
In regard to removels in Glasgow
and suburbs the number was the largest
on record -probably not far short of
35,000. It is estimated that there are
about 15,000 unlet houses in the city and
district.
Mr. john 13181r, slatiommister at Guth.
rte, WhO has retired after 45 years' lee-
way service'was on 1110 6111, ult. Own-
ored by his friends and mete the recipi-
ents of a gold watch and a purse of
sovereigns.
The first 01 11)0 district public bowling
greens al Dunfermline fanned at the ex-
pense -of the Caenegie Trust, has been
opened. "rhe green end bowlhouse,
situated in the Baldridgeburg distiget,
have cost about 4600.
Tho Rev. Spurr, minister of the Nemo
Pond Congregational Church, Old lieet
Road, attended a funeral in a grey.
Menge suit as 11 greed against what he
described 115 tee Pagan custom of wears
6iniognsb.laek mournling Melee cat 500(1 0000.'
King of Denmark, who reined
Copenhagen, has, through the Denten
Legation in London, presented 430 10
the Dreadnought. Seamen's' Hospital, in
recognition of services to Danish sea,
61aCnheshireis salt exports for the past
month showed a. decrease of .23,000 tons,
as compared With the samo month of
1906, the loss being largely accounted for
by the falling off by 14,000 tons in tho
Asiatic demand.
Mr, Paul Tayler, in sentencing a wo-
man. at Marylebone to -six weeks' hard
labor for an assault on her husband, Said
ho could nol understand why a husband
could not obtain a separation for such
art assaUlt.
A lade leading three ley terriers, each
Wearing a sun -bonnet and goggles, was
it spectacle lately seen an Kensington
Gali,eulneln4s0,11L1 oonldnoinatans,
who recently. de;
dried to simply stump, Mess Mee to
the boys under their ease al the Nor-
wood Schools, decided to provide crickets
thirts as well.
All flesh is grass, and therefore flesh
food is ernes at second-eand, eale a
spotter v,1 the minuet ongress of the
Vegetarien Fedeval Untien in London,
M. Daniel Osiris, of Peels, '0110 11)11 left
13e8,581 gross in the United Kingdom, is
staled to have lei( prorerty 01 )110 told
value of 42,600,000. Of this about (((1111-
1-1011 ancl a quarter sterling is bequeathed
1('41n,i
11Teritins.
13 1110 hand lry a berse belong-
ing to a Hampstead greengrocer, and
further injured in tho colter bone, a
laborer, eamed Beltotewits etWertled
damages al the eilooirisbery County,
C4n1;1).
A013111e arrival tit:Dundee lately Was
the Dundee Thomson Liner Bellona,
which brought from faretway Modd
re
11 tergo of ember! It is not Olen that
Dundee nowadays luis the opperlimily
of eetsing 0. vemel corning from it port
181 1110 land of the inapt° leaf,
"What ie your' Ironic?" "Kele,
111118(5' "Well, yeti mny ferule
10 Ine next Seeekehold Tel give ,yon 11, "
fetal." "And smell ties Miteine • bad
toe. many 1,0418 111 Illy Mee place'