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The Brussels Post, 1908-1-9, Page 3INC GRACEFULLY The Art• of Going Without Is Most Valuable to Man. I know how to be abased,-Philtle (plans iv, 13, SL Paul eve he has Warned the art .e.11 geing without, IL Is easy to lose, but it Is herd to lose innl keep one's sPires It j vaey to lose one's money. but It, Ls hard for macle-to.order fed to wale gracefully In bargain -counter .shoes. Old age mews without trying, • but after woreing NOY Yeare a men niust have teamed tww to give ye - to retire graclausly.• The enrol, learned by St. Pete had two ports, First, he looked on loss us intrinsically useful. The loser gives op, but be gots. Adversity has a video. ltotsloyes Peter, the richest man ip Russia., taken premier of war, learned for the first time hunger and fatigue. but lie learned more-lhe pleasure of eating relent hungry, of sleeping after hard work; lying on. the bare ground foe the Rest time, he saw the sue rise. •tent Look in the moaning of the mid - eight wile its myriad stars. Poverty brings the feeling of the pet - weary happincee; benerupWy is a great toucher of the higher values. When a man lies petulant with convalescence lei appreciates love's patience. When toiditional opinions buckle one discov- ers that the plain face of duty has the features of her father, God. One never forgoes . THE INEFABLE MOVENIF,N'r when feeling the hand he has alwav sitp away, he looked up, eve, through his tears saw the heavens opti •and lite assurance of personal Immo' tante descend upon him. Wealth, health, Idle end life haw Ltheir revelations like the sunshine, pie neetuna of mountain, river, flower are. bird. Rut poverty, doubt, sickness mei death, like the night, Id In the host of heaven and widen creation Ull it reach- es Ihe fiery margin of infinity. 'rhe first part of St. Paul's success et ping without is, uccept loss as a onidition vete a charactoo of its ewe. The second part of Ills seceet &hit earl a masterful purpose. "1 oar (le ell things In Him that strengthwicei nee he said. Ho was able to go with - out, because he lived for one thing, to male: men Christlike, lovers and doers of good. , An overbearing purpose reekes a man put up with anything. Last suITh mei, the family slept in (hut tette with nly blankets to cut the place into make-beiteve rooms, but every one sleet well, because the mountains were just ewer tho hill, When ono goes for mountains, what beets a bit of publi- city and coon husks instead of curled halo? That wealthy man Is known less liy his riches Man by his hobby for act- tlemente, ellen Ile who made dollars a minule works for dollars a month WfillOUT WHINING, because when work is over he goes down to the clubhouse his wealth built and by association with the ladsmakes thank love diameter .even more than they love the clubhouse. All the 110 - by is 1110 secret of retiring gracefully: 'Me man who hes to give up the Mil wive of thinking about truth saves himself from sleepticisin because be- fore the time of transtlion he devoted 1511155011 to doing geed as well as be- lieving good. And when ho Is cone polled to say farewell to his heves oompunien et, •the door which swings telly outward what will save leen item lerrevendering in his loneliness? ' Ly liviiig deeply, earnestly while Eis ferm1 fa with him for the things that fieda,--faltit, hope end love. A mutual tI•rett me eternals givee en" is goat ssn J ibe Inilnite companion. \sten the old companion goes assay. So on. 7:',us1 have an imperattve vr k, mule bo taken up with seme. thing that is svorth fitting inW Clod's scheme to stay, then when rnoney goes or health or friend a man has no chance lo brood over 111800011. It is wortll while knowing how to len gracefully. This is how-to accept foss as a positive experience with bit - or -sweet gains, to be commanded by en• interest, and this is the greatest (merest to got folks W be ChrLstian- Mks lovers and doers of the good. REV. T. CALVIN McCLELLAND, D.D. S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, Jt.N. 12. Lesson H. Jesus end John Ille Baptist, • Golden Text: John 1. 29. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Based on hli text 01 1110 'Revised Ver. 81. 11. The Feet Witnese.-Ilaving set level elehrly and concisely his own conclu- sions concerning the ebaracier.and work of heels in the form of a thesia which Ito purposes to elaborate end defend, John pie:code> to inteoduce testimony. The Mel. witness le the divinity ot lo 1801011 the epodes calls our attention is the testimony of the Messiah's appointed Wierunner, ken tbe Baptist. what has Wen said about John in verses 6-19 was ,parenthatical to the mom specific pur- • pose of the prologue, but it has, none lee leae served as ail inteaduction to what follows eonceming the same pereon in vereos 19-36. • John tiw 13aptist was a man sent from God, 11 chosen messenger of Jehovah whose life in this world had the veity speciel end definite purpose of preparing the way for One peaky than himself who wee le come alter him It is 10 his testimony of this Greater One, rather than to the person 0( 1110 Baptist, that our attention is dir,ected in thie les- son, The promineece given to the testi- mony of the Baptist in John's Gospel eteferred 10 etready in' the prologue yerses 1-18, and again at tee end of th•e tenth chapter) Is accounted tor 01 part by the peculiar missionand prominence of the Baptist himself, 1)01 10 part, doubt- less. also by the fact that through tt tho apostle Minster had been firs1 directed to eesits. It Is elie testimony of a former leacher, as well as tent of the great fore- eunner anti fearless preacher of right,- eousneas, which Joint lwre introduces. Vose 10. And this --That whet). fol- lows, Priests .end Levees -The religious kneels and tenottem of the people (coin- , pore Noll. 8. 7-9) from Jerusal•can, aed beim a representethe delegation from • the hierarchy, • 20. The Christ-- 011., "the • Anointed," ., and •equivaleet to the Hebrew "Mossioh," '21. Elijah -The fnmous prophet , of Tenet in the thee of Ahab. 'We recoil bis foretelling 'of the long period of dreught, les subsequent sloughtor 01 he peephole of few 1 on Cannel, his (light before Ahab find les experiences in the desert, rie Mount Heyde 111111 enmity , his being taken to heaven "In a whirlwind." These and other •evenle of his life •fire reunified he 1 Kings 17-2 Kings 2. In Melt. 17. 10 eve learn of 1110 expectation ourvent among the Jews that Elijah should some day return before 111000111 - lug of Me Messiele • Tim prophet -The well-known prophet ot Dont. 18,15, whom. Jeboveli WaS 1.0 raise up from among his people like tine) Moue. 22, An answer to them that edit ue- The 10810in ofileial position, hese eoube less referring to members of the San. timeliest, ea.One (trying le the wilderness - Nolo the ploy on the Word wildeenese; referring in its 'literal Meaning to a sparsely populttted thoegli bet necessar- ily desert region. Ilere, however, ft le used in a figurative sense and refere elso to the morally and spiritually mimed" vtited ate barren eon of the holes (if the liebresv melee. Make sheered u svey-erbe adeo Of pieta highways aMeng the itteients 'wee. not as well looked after as among etvi- Deed peoples of modern Limes, the roads through sparsely settled legions being rather simply winding paths or trails. When, therefore, an Oriental sovereign wished to travel any distance he was compelled to send heralds in advance of his approach to order tee inhahilanla of the country through which the was to pass to prepare a suitable highway for him. Isaiah tee prophet -The greate..st of Old Testament prophets, who lived and labored at leruselem about 700 13 C.. during the reigns of "Uzziah, Jotimm, Alla',,, and Ilezekiale kings of Judah" (lea. 1. 1.). 24. Pharisees -The Pharisees were a religious political party among the Jews \those 'strictly legal piety consisted in an anewate knowledge and seoupulous ob- servanee of both the law and traditions 11,1 these bar been amplified and inter- preted by lee great teachers of their own sect. As distinguished tem the Weide- etes, who were primarily a political party oonsiting of members of the old. and now aristocracy with whom religion WaS en altogether secondary coneern, Ulf Pharisees believed in the Immortel- ily of the soul, the resurrection of the body and future retribution, in ,angels and in spiriks, in the future Messianic kingdom as literally a reign of God end his saints 018 015111), and 1110 divine pro- vidence strangely mingled with fate, in controlling human events. They were thus elm orthodox religious piney among the Jews, though they held theniselves aloof Reim the common people, and in self-righteous pride believed themselves to be the special objects of Jehovah's favor. 26. In water -Or, with water. 28. Bethany beyond Jordan -A day's journey from Cana in Galilee. hinny an- eient authorities read Bethabarah, and :several, Botharabale "Bethany," the Melee reading, is to be identified with "Bosinue" the district on the east side of ono of the fords in Jordan, still known by the name of Abarah (hence Belem- basahe Tho Aramaic form of the He - Mew "Bastian" is Brennen., or Bethune.. 29. The Lamb of God -An allusion to Isa, 53, welch was readily understood by the Baplesee hearers. 11. Knew lens no•t-That is, not in his Mai character, greatness end mission. 32. As a clove -In tee visible form of a dove (compere Luke (0 22), though vise blot probably to ;Weirs and John only. at. I have seen, and have borne wit; ness-Both on previous ocenSiong, and ogain i0 -day, that this is the Son of God. COOL CUSTOMER. Scene A swell reStosirant. • 'eVoitorr presents hill to swell, who has been dining both "wisely and w.eitli Swell "Wafter, just tell the proprie- tor 1 S110111(1. like 11 word. with bine All, how do you do, Mr. Blank? Some twelve months ago I dined here, but, unfortu- nately, wee etnabW to Pey, You made a tesv meter powerful eemarla, end then story •properly kicked me elotenstairs," • ' Mr, Blank ; "Ali, I do remember the tnattee now you .merittort it.. Lint, never mind, els-never 0110d. Let bygenes be bygones.' SWell "Just, so, sir,. I have new to eaMpliment you upon Die (Manning din - nee 1 have just enjoyed -the Svine evae really excellent. 13ut, I am sonty to say -er-1,110.t is, I ilegret-or-seell, the fact fol' (lifting his coaettlile aceolemo(1cifing- Is) "I enlist trouble you again, Mr. Blank," "Did yOUr huSband over win anything at the rade?" "NO," answered youeg MM. Toilettes; "nettling except the es- teem of Lee booltiliblease and sympathy 01 hie Weeds." PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Interesting Gostrip About Some of ibe Wesel's Prominent People. A valuable autograph Is in the pee- seesion of a shopeeeper In florid Street, London, In the form of a cheque signed hy King Wear& 11. bappe,ned a week er two ago that leis Majesty enterecethe shop to make it' purchase, and, finding hiniaelf not provided with sufficient ready cash, pulled out, his elingerelmelt ond drew a draft upon Messrs, Coutts. 'rite incident Is probably without piece - dent, end it 10 certain that the cenque has not been preseilled at the bank for puyinent, the tradesman much prefer- ring to retain such a 'unique (loaned, as 11 18 said 11101 010 other cheque payable Le a tradesman and limiting the Kluges signature is in existence. As a matter of face Ills Majesty seldom knows the luxury of speeding money, for his real "privy purse" is invariably caroled by an equersy or gentleman in attendance, who pays all outgoings. In face the King often carries no money at all. The Crown Prince of Germany has he- mline a junior clerk in one of the de- paremenks of the Ministry of the Interior. Ile took his did one morning on a stool al, a sleek 111 011110 o'clock like otheo dories in the department, antb eemaireel ib svork with the regulation interviste until six etclock in the evening, For twelve months he will apply himself to a thor- ough study of tile work of this important Ministry, and will be subject to exactly leo same discipline as the civil servants who 81101.0 1110 1/11/0110. Thlit step has been taken at the Crown Prince's personal request. During lee year of his appren- ticeship he 111111 been absolved from all military duties. The IntrIcactes of Prus- sian Internal administration are the de- spais of German statesmen, but the Crown Prince has set himself the task of mastering them in all their details, and fur this purpose has started in the low- est rank. Ile will work his wily up through all the grades of the Civil Ser- vice. Miss Braddon chatted recently about her methode of story -writing. "It Is in those brooding hours described by Tyn- dall, 'when Thought, sits waiting and Fancy holds the door,' that the plots of my stories bullet themselves very readily," said hits 13raddon. "This, I surmise, is the case with all habitual scribblers, whose chief difficulty, I fancy, is of selection, rather than of invention. When my tale has been chosen 1 carry it about, in the shape of portable menial luggage, for a long Lime, adding to it, shaping it, rounding it off as opportunity occurs. Then comes the pen and paper stage -note -taking, and so on; and then It is time seriously to tackle the lase and write the book itself. I do not mind where I write or when, 101 11. Is my opin- tea that it, is in travel, strange sur- roundings, and the sense of pleasurable excitement that hangs over exploration, even of the most modest sort, the pen impetus comes 'post strongly." Judging by the incomes allowed them by the countries over whieh they reign, King Leopold of Belgium is one of the poorest of European monarchs. He re- oeives only $875,000 a year, but his busi- ness interests bring him in .five or six Limos that amount. King Alfonso can spend his allowance of $2;856,000 pretty made for other members of the Spanish Royal Family outside this sum. He is, in fact, bettor off than King Edward, W110, although he receives 82,350,000 a year, has W set aside nearly theee-quar- ters of hie income for household ex- penses, salaries, pensions, charities, and rewards. The German Emperor's ex- penses, too, are very great, and he ends it no easy matter at times to make both ends meet with his allowance of $650,- 000 as German Emperor and the salary ot $3,935,000 which he draws as Kling of Prussia. The Emperor of Austria, who of course, King of Hungary, also has two salaries, the 611100111 10 eaclecese be- ing nearly $2,810,000, tviille the King of Italy receives.$3,750,000 a year. Ste Thomas Lipton has committed many generotts acts eering his life about which he can never be induced to tale. Ho is fond, however, of telling of n incident which happened in Ills early days, concerning an astute mother who ferced him to raise her son's wages be- cause Sir Thomas had presented him with a brand-new suit of clothes. Sir Thomas started business with one assis- tant, a boy of fourteen, who was willing and honest, One day the lad was over- heard complaining that his clothes \Vera so shabby he was unable W go to cha- pel. Mr. Lipton, as he then was, was making every stherince 'et) enlarge his little shop, but he took a sovereign from his carefully -hoarded savings and bought the boy a suit of blue cloth. The next day the boy didn't come to wore, and Me. Lipton, meeting his moleor in the street, asked her the reason. 'Why, Mr. Union," she said, curtsying, "Jimmie looles so respectable, thanks lo you, sir, that I thought I would send hint round the town to -day to see if he couldn't get ft better job." Sir Thomas meeely took the hint end offered another two shil- lings per Week, which was accepted on behalf of Jimmie by hts mother. A fetv days ago the famous French tragedienne celebrated her sixty-second birthday, and the same evening anted at the Teoyalty Theatite, London, with 1110 same Vim, energy and skill which char- acterizect her acting twenty or thirty 5tears ago. What is the secret of her yotehlulness 7 ladies ask. Simply a few weeks of rest, quietness and reguler life tit Belle Isle, the wild, isolated fort Whioll Nene. Bernhardt eUrchased it few years ago. Every yen', after the theatrical seasons lo Paris and London are over, the famous actress retires to her fort 10 rea. Here is a speeilnen clay as de - trilled by Mine. Bernhardt bersolf, What- ever be the weather she is up early, be - tweets live and six, and Immediately' goes out shooting. At eight alto Totems, puts away her gun, and gbeS fishing, IStick tie eleven, she bathea, makes her toilet, and is ready for dejouner itt, 12.30. Atte': dejeunee, a nap. This, her fleet period of physical repose eine() getting up, Is rigIsily observed. She and her triendg take eaSy Cant chairs to eomfere able positions on tho fort terrace, and itio order Is "Siteride." Each one thinks or ends, Orsleeps'according to taste, Then work, Thie foe Mine. 13ernhard1 Mons reacting knantworipts, trying over er leerning !karts, or soulptente At five the party play Wines! thee they dine, twee inesio, go to bed, end sleep, end then ft begins again. Abd at the end of The helltlay Parte thide 11.6 fitstrite on tho Mpg, toolcing ne friecinating as elle eves 11111.yeckaea ego - 4444,6444611411111.1414d4,1 Th c Home ;',440144-eferelfetlxiielf414441141 kloist Light 13read.-B011 one-half oUp 00 rice in two quarto of water ell tele mighty oaolted, Strain through 0011101 - dos. Use (0 8(1011(10 bread overnight Steak tis pOlato Water, Cheese and Bacore-Cut bacon into tbln strips, put Into fryIng pan, and fry on ono side until brown, then Luta. Have ready strips of cream ohmee, 1111- (101' length and wide). Place tho cheese mork side that has been browned, 108e1'. arid 'allow it to fry slowly for about three minutes, or until cheese has melt- eati,esiesy,eeyo on a platter garnished well p Chicken Soup. -Boll a chleleen tender In enough water to have a part of stock Pick meat Item bones and with the giblets put all through chopper. Tuley one egg, 0110 alld anahalf pints of broad crumbs, iv:eddied with a mip of the stock, end a Jump of butter the size of an egg. Sae and pepper to taste, Make ie a loaf and bake in pan with stock that Is left, and baste often. Choeso Logs. -One cup of grated cheese; one-half cup butter; one cup ol lieu; one-half teaepoon salt; enough water to maee a stiff dough. Flour the Pastry board, tell wIth hands Into one tong roll About ono inch in diameter. Cut into sticks about four or five etches long, Piece on inverted broad pan white or light brown paper greased with butter. Place cheese logs on west about 0110 111011 apart, 1311le0 about lien min- utes or until quite brown. Pile on plate log cabin fashion or rail fence style. Deiced Squash. -Take a medium-sized squash, leaving handle on. Cut a round hole In squash ambled handle large enough to clean well. Then season with salt, pepper and- largo piece of butter. Put back plug and bake in pie tin fa a slow oven two •and one-half hours. Fif- teen minutes before serving remove fermi oven, Lake out plug', and with large spoon stir all up well and beat 1110 mash- ed potato. Replace plug, lay on pretty platter, garnished if desired, and place This is delicious besides op:ikettyteble. Lamb Stew. -Three pouncLs breast of iamb cut in small pieces. 13011 twenty infnuWs, take off and wash olefin to re- move any taste of seed. Place in a saucepan, cover with water and two bay leaves and a tablespoonful of salt. Let boil one hour, then add one can toma- toes, three finely chopped onions, one can of green peas, six potatoes cut. in dice shape, pinch of cayenne popper, and lot cook one-half hour slowly. Thicken just a little and serve o)1 hot plates. Dinner Soup. -Take one cup of chop-. ped chicken meat, 0110 pint of strong ehielcen beetle one pint of'Sweet cream, half a cup of cracker ceumhs, three riles of eggs, one teaspoonful of salt, orte-half leaepoonful of pepper. $oak the cracker cremes in a little of the cream. Break the three eggs, separate etie whites freer tho yollcs„ and carefully drop the yolks into hot water, boiling them until hard. Mix the soaked erackens with the meat. pleas the hard egg yolles through a Parse strainer and put them in, and also the stet, pelmet and broth. Then strain all through a celander, 'adding the cream, a little at a time, and press- imniau glttasandlsouglry aslelt_ele° meat. 13011 for five OYSTER DAINT:ES. Shirred Oysters. -Chop fine twenty- five large oysters, add the beaten yolks of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls creain, dry bread crumbs to thicken, and sell and popper to taste. Fill the clean shells with the mixture and bake until lightly browned. Panned Oysters. -Cover the bottem of a baking dish with oysters arid a little of their 08111 liquor, not enough to float them. Cover tightly and bake nye min- uWs in a quick oven. Serve on buttered toast end pour over teem the hot liquor from the pan. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. A cup of strong °ego will remove the smell of onions feom one's breath. . If a 008e8 is placed over eggs when frying • they will not stick or nood any turning. If all vegetables are lett in water it few =ides bef000 cooking they aro much better. To dem windows in cold weather, saturate a cloth with keresene oil and rob the window. Then ,polish with a dry cloth, Chop Kraut with a Spade. --Place your cabbage in a barrel cut in pieces till it I( full Line take a apado and chop 110111 the cabbage is fine. This is an eirey way to make kraut. 'Ito preserve the heels greenish color of cabbage put a little soda in the water in which It. is boiled, About a quarter of O teaspoonful for a inediutresised cab- bage. exteellent, winter coat for everyday wear may be made by teeing your olcl spring and fall coat and padding 1 with cotton and then lining it tvith satin or red flannel. You haVe then a warm winter coat. for ev.eryclay wear. Screen for Pantry Window. -To make an inexpensive screen for pantry window to use in wi»ter and keep food cold alld 110 dust. to penetrate, nail Nur strips of light wood together abott six inches high arid Lack on 01100%10th or tiny kind °Ificolo°d111. Fire Exile guisher.- Ordinary -baking soda, eitheres a powder or ells - solved in wator, will put' out a small ilre immediately. It terms a gas, carbon dinxide, sublet emothers tee fire. A small handful in a' cup of water or by itself is Usually sufficient, Retain Color of Isotatoes-When peel- ine sweet potatoes er parsnips, plow them in water in which it teaSpoonful of vhsegor 155 been mixed and they Will riot turn dark. Sprinkle a pinch ,01 salt Oster apples before putting into pie and it will be iniproved greatly. For saving Iaboe in washing men's trousers and woman's beertry tkirtS, pat In tub of Warrn suctS, lay troueere or skirt on Ws:Aboard, soap well, thee take a sorub Melt and rub briskly until you haVe gerie Vogt Ilia vhole thing. Rinse well and hang up. To clettn white 0110101,11 Mid htle be- dorne disooloeed Mb with a 010111 dipeste In Wood ashes. A pod wily te Mese rations Ls 10 lay a Seed of tissue paper on the dampened isurlaeo and iron. It heats througe(1110008 Ape presses snioother than welt a, eloth. leer Runievey Childrene-Tatte 11 iong rope. Tie one end ef 11 evuteld the elledei %valet, not We tight, On the 01.110r end fasten a large ring, Slip theclothesline littiough this ring and tie on the porch post so they will bo close to the house. The ohild will think It great ,spert run, Meg hack and forth on the Dee, 31155 the mother eau do up Jew morning'e work without worrying and wenderint. where the child is. Prat, roiNT AND PATHOS. ,When a man tens you he is de:11” soMething as a mutter el preeepi.e, 171 is generally something foolish, It Li generally the little bend 11101 wc love the most, that shatters our diarcst dretuns. No pan can over Ond out res niece aboat.11 bus4ness us his wife 111.1118 sle. knotve ebeut it. Hope to often only the light Mal. points thr way to the land of twolien hearLs. A cynic Ls the mon Mut comes around when you 1,1111114 yet( ara stieceesful und tells you Mut you um noi. Truth crushed to earth may rise agatn, but R. generally knoeked down very promptly. it is funny how mad people can gel when they start in to argue fared 14.1(1. 1011. Nothing hurts quite so much ae the blow that comes 110111 0110 you theugle was your friend. Failure le genertilly the result, of a 011111 staptIng in to try 10 1)011011 islb 1110 rela1.1%.03. SOW Merl 110850 1111,1 0111 teat they eye not a$ valuable as they think thal they are, We hear a lot about hard luck because it sounds so Inuch neer than "lazi- ness," IL doesn't do any •goed absorb knowledge like a sponge does water 11 you lack the power to squeeze it out again. It es strange how men persist in be- lieving that their dreams era going to come true, There are probably a lot of fathers svho are secretly glad their sons do not believo in heredity, THE MYSTIC SIGN. The shades of night were falling fast, svhen through the park a traveller passed, who read a sign upon the pelmet 11151 did his senses much oonfound-e "Keopoffthegrass," No grass was there to meet he eye, the snow was piled up mountains high; yes from the drill, the sign sleek out, on it, appeared with nary doubt-"Keepoff- hegrass ." - "Try not the theft," tbe park guard said; uplifted was his haughty head. "Iry not the drift, for sure as sin, if you do Mat run you in-Reepoffthe. grass." Across the path the drift was blown. "There's no way out yatt'll surely own, in which the risk will not bo feund, of treading on this sacred geound-Keep- offthegeass." "What's Agit to me?" the guard re- plied, as, swelling with a conseions pride-, lie swung his club with hideous grin ---"Step on the grass -I'll run you in -Keepoffthegress." The traveller knew the dangerous pass was lined on either side with grass, but bele were covered with tile snow; lie knew not then which way lc go-"Keep- ofithegt•ass." The air grew ley cold and chill; the stars came out and all WaS Slill ; the guard retied to his box, end combed icicles from his locks-"Keepoffthe- grass." Ansi when the morning light came round, the traveller in the drift was found; and o'er his snowy grave there stood that sign, mad eut of old box- wood--"Keepo ft thegrass." SENTENCE SERMONS. Patience is proof ef PUY. Right ahns character produce right creed. There 'Lo -no faith where there is no freedom of thought. Obey ttle best you tem:kw and the bet- ter will take caro of itself. That Ls a good prayer which forms 5•au to answer it yourself. Religion can only detend truth as it diecovere 1100/ truth. You cannot make th•e week divine by making Sunday dismal. Thoy who forgot 110 Menges do their forgetting an benefits. The mark you make depeads on the mark you set before you. Christianity is a oampaign for char- acter by the power of character. A little kindness svill lift thIs world more than the greatest creeds. Hatred always works greater havoc on its source than on (Is objects. The Bible as all ornament does eot make the life that adorns the truth. 11 is easy Lo mistake 11 regrel for the past for a resolution for the. future. There is not muc15 good in the num who thinks of himself as good enough. The wise mon never hires n brass band tvlien he bids farewell to a wrong way, many a man who makes up his mind W do better next year would do a great deal better if he would only bile off one day at a thee, • DIAMONDS IN THE DARK, — • • Gems Sliine by Own Light When Placed in Dark Room. It is said that settle diamonds Will shine by their etvn light when placed in a. dark roam Those' who nee fortu- nate enough to owe One might make tha 0;05re-edit by exposing it lo the sunlight for n minute or two and then taking it into Ito dark. Professor Ciegrees, of London, says that when diamonds ere placed in a 805511111 and exposed to a current of eleolotelly, they Woe With different dolored lights, 1 In has Seen them omit Might blue, pale blue, epriede Tedo eellowielegreen, ebre peed and (Wimp rays. • ant beteltiful green diamend irl les posees- slot, When pliosphoreselng th a good vadiere, gave elmost es Much light, es IMMENSITY OF LONDON INTERESTING FACTS AlIOUT 11116 LOUTISH NI 131110POLIS. .The Population is Now 7,e17,039 - (10unciPs Report for 190e-1906. Lendon's immeneity is well Illustra- ted by the County Council's report for 1003-006, issued u few flays ago. 1 he varied iuterests of the province of neuees-with pepululion far exceed - ug that of Australia -ear) dealt with In s einem of interesting eharacters, from which the following ligusee may Do ex-. reeled:- _Area of London, 14.01e., squum miles. Population of no udministrative court - : 3• (18111(14111 110511111' Couneil area), 5,- ffie,000, Population of Greater London., 7,- [17,6(09, led debt (after deducting assets), £15,234,197. Number of parke, gai•dens and open 590806. Area, of ditto, 4,050 seems, Lengle; of L. C. CI, lratewa513, 104 miles. Outstanding debt on ditto, 41,239,- 800 Deficiency on steareheate, X50.095. Strength of Ilre brigade, 1,277 offi- cers and 111811, with 316 horses. Number ei fires, 0,5111, Average daily attendance at L. C. re sell001.0, 495,991 children, Cost of eduedion, X3,026,205, equal 1,, is. (1(1. ill 1,11e 10011111, ' Number of paupei• lunatics In L. C. C. imylums, 10,040. Annual. cost. 01 maintenance, '6219;- 531. Number of police, 39,000. Theatres, 66. Mush; halls, 43. Passengers conveyed by local rail- ways, 314,077,405. Passengers conveyed by tramways, 478,864,877, Passengers conveyed by 1,1re princi- pal omnibus companies, 291-,563,04, Leiters delivered, 783.400,000, Persons receiving weekly relief 0511.1, 1$106, 148,620 (compared wIth 138,276 a year previously), TABLE OF GAMES. 'rho following table shows the num- ber of perces et W111011 various games may be played and- the. moniker of 'the pitches, courts or rinks provided. No. of No. of . Pitche.s, Ce'auris Games Places or Rinks. Bowls ..........14 68 Crielmt ...... 42 • 451 2 234 34 10 450 Croquet.... ...... 20 Feotball ....... .. 38 Hockey .. Lacrosse . 5 Lawn Tennis , ,. 115 Quoits 14 25 WHEN TIIEY hrAntty. An interesting section of the portly Yellesv-bank of 465 pope is that de- voted to the subject of the age at which Londoners marry. It would appear that the popular en age Is twty-11r15 During the year 1001-1901 12,058 mon entered the mat- rimonial slate, while they were close- ly run by 12,735 at the age of ttventy- one, At twenty-one them were 15,846 81111- 1401110brides. and at twenty-five there were 9,508, svhilo girls. of fifteen and Iwo of sixteen each married men of flity-five. One girl of (Men also married a bachelor of twenty-five, and another one of thirty. At the age of sixteen, thirteen gerls and teva boys entered into matrimony; at seventeen the figures were 122 and Six respectively. The unions of bachelors and widosve toealled 1,477, widowers and spinsters (1,099, widowers end tvidows 1,1514 making a grand 'total of 39,658 marre ages. PI.ANTS THAT POIRON ONE AN- OTHER. It is a matter of common observation thal grass does not (10081 50 well close to trees as in Mt open. The same is true of grains. Experiments in England have shown that the deleterious effects of the near neighborhood cf grass and trees tuirinutual. 'rhe trees suffer as well as the grass and grain_ This is especially true ef fruit trees. The 001100 aSerillefl 1.1 the exeretiou by the trees. 011 the one hand, of 511b511010011 poisonous to the grass, and by lee grass, on the other hand, of substane,es poisonous to the trees. It thus mimes that the relive of grass to grow well neat' trees should not be ascrilied to too n111011 shade, nor te the exhaustion by Ilse tree roots of 1110food supply needed by the grass. SHIPS AND Wi?,ATHEll SIGNALS. The British Aelmirally has Mstructed the conenanderr5 of all ehips of wee fur. eished with wirelee( telegraph 1111(15811- 1111 te telegraph to meleorelogical sto- llens wills whirls they new be in cone 11101)158110)) full delnils 00115111110(1 lee woalliee at 800, This new branch ,of' the English ineloorolegicol service has al. reedy preved,voluable, 511(1 11 Is believed led' its Importance svill eontinually In- crease. Weather inforniellon from the seri is Of special wine in the British. Isles, bemuse the gred storms generally eel/roach eeross the 035r111, 1111(11101, 58111 ..1.110 eastern half of North Ainet)ca, across n broad continont nellixl with telegraphs. • COSTLY LONDON FLATS, The costliest flats 111 London twee been 10111, en 1110,8110 of the late. Duke of Cain. bridge's 'house al the corner of Pare Leine and There are six nate in the building, fled 11 is said that tee rental of ench will be from ie2.000 42,e00. HeaVy olla ts, tvill yield little More than 'a etifficlent. interest on the 0111311))' (11(580, which has beett somewhat over 41,120,000. The nate aro 11111185111111' large, et:meeting of leer reception monis and a candle, The light Wee pale green, ten beeeersee. WITII LORD VIAY(11 er.etetter GOSSIP ABOUT 500. IIS GREAT IIANQUETS• the Olden Days There Was SWOP, thine Surprisinuly netwh end Ready In Me Hospitality. If WO are to believe tile "State Poems" there was Deartintss in bygone City, hospitality width is lacking in 1,1141»,0 010118 dignified and deceroue. days, says London Tit -Bits. Those were the daYe when, we read, each gued 'tucked his napkin under Ids chin,' after carefully, "picicing up he sleeves to the elbows, so that Uwe should net hang clown and be pleased m the sauce." And how they enjoyed themselves, these tong -gone elly feelers, enele tho wino was going in and the wit was go- ing out, with laughter that made the rafters ring and with many a mad prank 1 But the crown of the revelry, '°'faorrior,"wlieleazipe.d111,uelloAtrh(leaMaan3d'ora'slisntetor' anr enernious bowl of custard, deluging aro adjacent. guests in a yollow shower, These days have long f)ed, and gaests and fool with them; but even in Pepysis time there WW1 something surprisingly. rough Gee ready in City hospitality. The genial diarist WaS 11 glleSt at Lord Mayers Betemants banquet ON OCTOBER 29th, 1663. "I sat," he reeords, "at the merchant stranger's' table, where ten good dishes to a niesse, with plenty of wine of all Sorts, of which I drank naneg but. it was very unpleasing that we had no napkins nor changes of trenchers 4u -id drunk out ,:f earthen pitchers and wooden dishes." 11, is intercoling to note that PePYs looked in vain for a. pretty face among Use ladles present that day, "After I had dined," he saiys, "I and Creed arose and went up and down the house and up to the ladies' room, and there stayed gazing upon them. But though there were many and fine, both young and old, yel 1 could not discern one handsome face there, Which was very strange. I expected ,muee," he adds, "but there was acne; and, being wearied with look- ing at a company of iigty women, I went alvTaiii;e"s -have ebangeel since these days, and even the olet courtly custom under whitth Mayor and Mayoress acted as waiters at their 051/11 banquet has vanish- ed; though, even as late es Georg,e time we reap,' that "tiw aldermen on the zmrigmittee acted as wailers at the Royal table. The Lord Mayor stood behind the IN QUALITY OF CHIEF BUTLER, while the L,ady Mayoress waited on Her maiesty." The days, tee, are gone when our Sovereigns used le grace the Lord Mayor's luau:prat feast. Charles II. was a guest on no fewer than eight occa- sions ; while James 11., William and Mary, Anne, and the first three Georges, were all gueses at the Guildhall on one or another Lord Mayor's day. In 1761. Sir Samuel Fludyer had the rare hewer of entertataing, not ouly the King and Queen, but the rest of the Roy- al Family"; and the banquet was indeed worthy of the occasion. Excluding the dessert, teem were placed, oe the tribIo 414 dishee, hot and cold; while, as for the wino, "champagne, burgundy, and other valuable wines were to be had every- where, and nothing was so ecanee as. water." At the Royal table the first "ser- vice" consisted of 'venison, turtle soup, ' Osh of very sort, viz., dorys, mullets, turbots, tench, soles, nine dishes"; and all the other courses were on au equally. prodigal scale. A stili more sumpluees banquet was that to the AllWd Sovereigns in 1814, when the principai gueets were Ilw Czar of flessia, tlw King of Prussia, the Dotal= Louis XVIII., arid the Prince Regent. This historic dinner was served on plate milted at A200,000, and the en- tire entertainment COST NO LESS TIIAN £21,000. HOW' strengely the cost of these civia banquets variee is illustrated by the tact that while the West of which Pepys par - lade cost "seven or eight hundred Nunes at Most," one in 1727 te George II, and Is family cost X4,690; and the ono we have mentiesned, five times tete sum. Queen Victoria attended the Teord elayer's banquet; on the fleet 9111 of November after bee accession, and svas also a guest at the Guildhall in the Ex- eibition year, when a splendid enter- teinment VMS given. The crypt, was een- verted into an old baronial ball, with the historic CorporatiOn plate displayed on eis old oaken sideboard, rare lepestries covering the walls, and (quaineset of al)) City policemen., clad in trodeieval armor, brought from the Tower, grouped pie- ieresquely round the stone columns. Of foreign monarchs who have been the Lord iii.yor's guests tho name is al- most legion -five Kings and about, forty. Omens mid Royal princes end Princess- es Were preSelll al the famous jubilee banquet, But not one of thorn all was more interesting Ilion the late King of Portugal, of svhom 'hie amusing story is leld : At City banquet Landseee, the famous meted painter, then in the tweet!, or his tame, WaS introduced to Ills kialesly, who greeted him wtth erru- won. "Ale Mt'. Landseee I" he exclaim - et "I am en glad to make your acquain- WM:0, ammo fond of beasts 1" •t EXPLANATORY. Employer "Are yon addieted to the use at intextenting Num?" • Applicant t "No see. I (trine n glees 01 Leer oecasemally?" Employee "How oftee is occasion - oily St' Appliennt "Only when I am alone or with &Una ene, sore CHANGED 1 I le QPINION leva-e"110 used le say she was the most paceful girl in town. What Changed his opinWne Kathertne-"Why, he came upon her unexpectedly sebilo she svas Whig corn front the ear." vrai WTI • "Watch out for lie Men MI brushes hultglnery speaks WM yet °oat eollar 0111(1 10(15 y' how Well tee Wein'. Ile probable Wines to ?tome, tt donde"