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ed Particular interest to Women Folks,
CAKE.
English. Cake.—Cream together
one-half pound of butter, six ounc-
t:a castor sugar, add gradually four
eggs; heatthe whole thoroughly for.
about ten minutes. Stir in one-half
pound of sifted flour, one-quarter
petted each of stoned chopped rid -
Sill, and currants,oneounce each
of finely sliced citron and lemon
peel, one ounce blanched ground
ewcet almonds. Put half the mix-
ture into a cake tin,iined with but-
tered paper, thlin a layer of almond
icing; fill up with the remainder of
the mixture. Bake in a moderate
ove ,for two hours; when cold cover
wit •;,Imond icing carefully smooth-
with a knife. The almond ic-
ing mixture; Mix together one-half
pc and caster sugar and one-half
pound ground almonds. Flavor
with essence of almonds, mix into
ii stiff paste with the well beaten
yolk of an egg: A little brandy or
sherry improves it.
Luncheon Oake.—Cream together
•ono cupful of brown sugar with
;ore -half cupful of butter,then add
'one cupful of sour milk, one cupful
of chopped dates or raisins, one
teaspoon of doves, two and one-
half cupfuls of flour, stirring with
the other ingredients, one teaspoon-
ful of soda dissolved in a little of
the milk. Bake slowly one hour.
This makes nine loaf cake,
Date Cake. -One pound dates,
'stoned and chopped; one-half
pound English walnuts, three eggs,
,one cupful of flour, one teaspoon-
ful of baking powder, one cupful
'-f sugar, one teaspoonful of vanil-
la. Beat eggs separately, then to-
gether vanilla, sugar, and flour, at
last dates and nuts. Bake forty
minutes in moderate oven.
Feather Cake.—One scant cupful
rot sugar, one heaping cupful of
flour, one-half cupful of milk, two
tablespoonfuls of butter, one egg,
and yolk of another, two teaspoon-
fuls of baking powder; flavor with
lemon. Bake in two layers and
make frosting, using one cupful of
sugar, three spoonfuls of water.
Boil till same hairs, and beat in
•the white of egg left from cake.
-Spread between layers.
Hickory Nut Cake.—Break two
eggs in a cup and fill with sour
Bream. One cupful of sugar, one
and one-half cupfuls of .flour, one
teaspoonful of soda. Filling—One
-cupful of chopped nut meats, one
cupful of sugar, ,one cupful of sour
cream. Boil until thick. Spread
between layers a,:d on top of cake.
FAVORITE RECIPES.
Chicken Wiggle.—One cupful of
•ehopped chicken, one-half cupful o
milk, thickened; one cupful o
peas; butter size of an egg; sal
.and pepper. Serve on dry toast.
Corn Pones.—Two cupfuls of
•cornmeal ; one tablespoonful of but-
ler, pinch of salt. Mix above in-
gredients thoroughly, add boiling
water till the meal can be rolled
in the hands, then form into little
pones of croquettes (this •will make
.about sixteen), and balls in moder-
-atc oven about an hour. You will
then have the genuine corn pone,
en much enjoyed by the southern
•epicure.
Blueberry Muffins.—Cream one
level tablespoonful of butter and
.one-third cupful of sugar. One
.egg, well beaten, scant one-half
cupful milk, one cupful and two
-tablespoonfuls of dour, pinch salt,
.and two level teaspoonfuls of flour,
pinch salt, and two level teaspoon-
fuls of baking powder. Mix well
:and add one cupful of blueberries.
One Hour Nut Bread.—Three-
fourths cupful of sugar, one egg,
two cupfuls of milk, four cupfuls of
silted flour, four teaspoonfuls of the
beat baking powder, one cupful of
nuts. Let raise thirty minutes.
Recipe must be followed as given.
Rhubarb Sauce.—To get wild
taste out of rhubarb, peel., out in
ore inch cubes, sttgar to taste; let
cool. Take one egg, beat it well,
then stir in rhubarb; beat con-
stantly for five minutes to prevent
eggs from curdling. All these re-
•ciles have been tried and all have
tanned out good.
Banana Dessert.—Nies ripe l a-
nanas sliced and served with mara-
•scliino cherries and whipped cream
stake a tempting dessert for break-
fast. •
FISH.
jt.ice, ono -fourth cupful of liot
water, one-fourth teaspoonful of
salt, Gook one-third of the but-
ter, the water, rhe lemon juice,
eggs, andsalt in a double boiler,
stirring' constantly, until it be-
comes a light, thick -cream; -.remove.
from fire, add the rest of the but-
ter, and stir well. Serve fish on
e Piatter; garnish with slices.o1 le
'mon and parsley; sauce to ketch'
person,
Baked Fish.--An-excellent way of
preparing fish and one which you
will use often after having once
tried is to bake the fish in salt. Take
any large fish, as shad, whitefish,
etc, After removing scales and
drawing, wipe thoroughly and lay
bank into shape. Line the bottom
of a dripping pan with coarse bar-
rel salt, which can be obtained
from your butcher if the grocer
does not have it, and lay the fish
in this without seasoning. Now
pour salt over the fish until it is
completely covered, patting it into
shape with the hands. Put into a
het oven and bake from forty to
fifty minutes, according to the size
of the fish. The salt will cake and
can readily be broken away, the
side of the fish coming off with it.
As aseasoning prepare a white
sauce by melting in a saucepan a
generous tablespoonful of butter,
rubbing into it a tablespoonful of
flour. and adding gradually a large
cupful of rich milk, stirring to keep
smooth. Salt and pepper.
Cleaning Fish,—When cleaning
list, use a pair of old scissors for
cutting' off fins, tail and slitting
Saves time and your nerves;
WORTH KNOWING,
An old sheet will cut up into sev-
eral slips for, use on the pillows
ever the ticking.
If kitchen floors are painted with
boiled linseed oil they are cleaned
very easily.
The simplest way to clean win -
dews is to rub with a pad of news-
paper sprinkled with ammonia.
In order to get a pudding to come
easily from the mould, plunge the
latter in cold water for a moment.
When you cook green vegetables
ane wish to have them green when
served, let them cook with the cov-
er off.
To remove paint from linens rub
is{ith turpentine, then lolean with
French chalk dampened with alco-
hol_
A pinch of borax stirred into
flesh ,nilk will keep it for some
tune, and also prevent the °rem
seinesour. -
Stains may be removed from tin -
f ware by scouring with common so -
f era, then washing thoroughly and
t drying.
Baked Fish with Lemon Sauce.—
Choose about a three pound "fish,
wash, bone, and fill with dressing
made of one-half cupful of bread
• crumbs, one-half cupful of •oracle-
of crurnbs, one-half cupful of hob
water, one teaspoonful of diced on -
len, one tablespoonful of butter,
mud one-fourth teaspoonful of salt.
Bub the fish with salt and bread
crumbs, bake thirty-five minutes,
basting three times with one table
spoonful of butterin one Cupful of
hot water. Lemon Sauce — Two-
thirds cupful of butter, yolks of two
eggs, ono -fourth cupful of lemon
A little ammonia in the water in
which silver is washed will keep it
bright for a long time without
cleaning.
To keep lemons have some nice,
dry, clean sawdust in a box and
bury them in it, and they will keep
for weeks.
When snaking puddings, always
beat the yolks and whites of eggs
separately, and use the whites as
the last ingredient.
Either cold or lukewarm water
should be used for cleaning bread
or pastry boards. Hot water sof-
tens the wood and causes grease to
spread.
When the tin moulds are used for
holing or steaming puddings, re-
member to grease the cover of the
mould as well as the mould itself
with butter.
To clean and brighten rugs, have
a• cfcan inop, wring out of clean
warm water in which is one-half
cup of ammonia. Mop the rug as
yon would a floor.
To revive a black straw hat, and
make it equal to now, rub ib all
well over with .a tiny piece of but-
ter on velvet, and then polish with
afresh piece of velvet.
All dried fruits should be soaked
in cold water for twenty-four hours
before cooking them. This brings
out the flavor and shortens the time
required to cook thein.
While ordering meat always bear
in maid that beef, when boiled, los-
es nearly 1 pound to every 4 pounds
and when roasted quite 18 ounces,
alit mutton will lose oven more
than this.
Mend broken china with plaster
of paris mixed with the white of
egg and it will stand washing. This
method is suitable for articles of ev-
eryday use, nob for valuable old
china.
To make rhubarb butter, chop the
rhubarb fine, and to each pound
add one pint of auger and just
enough water to keep from burning,
Simmer slowly and stir the rhubarb
frequently.
She.lves for delicate china may
have pads of bolt to prevent chip-
ping the dishes. When fragile
plates must be piled on one an-
other., a small plain d'oyley placed
between them will save breaking.
A largo single rug; reaching to
within a short distance of the walls
on every side makes to room appear
smaller, as one unconsciously disre-
gards the distance between the
walla and rug on either side,
Toclean a poreleein kettle, all
it Half full with hot water and put
in a tablespoonful of powdered bor-
ax; let it boil. If this does not re-
move all the stains, scour with a
cloth rubbed with- soap and borax.
,Sala and villager make an excel-
lent mixture for cleaning water
bottles,. Put dessertspoonful of
rough salt into a decanter, moisten
it with vinegar, and then shake this
bc,ttle till the stains are removed.
When .buying nutmegs choose
small ones in preference to large
ones, as they have a nicer flavor.
Ta test the quality, prick them with
a needle, If they are good the oil
will instantly spread round the
punetera.
A REMARKABLE PARISH.
St. Christopher -le -Stooks in 'Len-
don has but One Inhabitant. •
The heart of London, that region
about the Bank of England and the
Royal Exchange which has been
dubbed "the financial hub of the
world," stands in what is the
strangest parish in the city. There
is in this parish no church, no. mu
nicipal office, and, it is said, but
one inhabitant; yet its value in a
parochial and official sense is equal
to that of many another parish in
the British metropolis with its thou-
sands of taxpayers.
This is the parish of St. Christo-
pher -le -Stocks,' Some seven hun-
dred years ago it was founded, no
one knows exactly how or by whom,
and is still existent with all its
right. and dignities.
The church of this parish stood
in Threadneedle street, on the site
of the Bank of England of to -day, i
bur this church was demolished at
the time of the improvement of the -
bank in the year 1781. The church
was a stately edifice, altered and (
beautified by Sir Christopher Wren a
after the ravages of the great fire 1
of London, and embellished by gifts P
n..
to
ar
the
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THE S, S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL ,LESSON,
AVG, 7,
Lesson VI. Jesus on the Way to
Jerusalem, Matt, 1l), 1, I., 13-20,
Golden Text, 19. 14.
Verso 1. When Jesus hncl flriislled
—A common method, wjte Matthew,
of passing from one subject to an-
other (Matt. '7. 28; 11. 1; 1;i. 83;
'0 1),
He .departed from Gal Ice -13
did not go there again turd alt
rise xeattrrection,
Borders of Judaea beeond t
Jr rdan—A New Testament design'
tion for,Peraea, by th3 Jews reel
oiled as one of their provinces (th
other two being Judaea and Gal
lce). It consists mostly of an neo
rated plateau, about 85 mile
north and south and 25 milts wilt
notoriously cold and yielding littt
ti cultivation. The population we
largely Jewish, as a careful stet'
of this chapter indicates. It wa
ft, Pera,ea that Jesus was manifest
ed unto Israel, and thither the st •
orty were sent on their mission.
2. Great multitudes 'followed
Jesus had gone to this district n
doubt for retirement, and for
cuperation of his forces prepare
tory to the final ordeal which wa
bet a few weeks 'distant. But h
reek'not deny an outlet to his coin
passion for the people, and s
healed them and continued also t
teach (as Mark expressly states and
this. chapter and the next clearly
show).
13. Brought unto him—Better
'offered Tinto him," the word be
lig the same as that used of the
wise men bringing gifts, and of peo
le making an offering at the altar
Matt. 2. 11 ; 5. 23)., It was a solemn
ct of dedication. Some have eon-
ectured that the incident took
lace indoors (compare Mark 10.
7i, and that the little children
were those of the household, who
"were brought to him to say good
right and receive his blessing be-
fore sent to bed." But the discip-
were the best-known summary of
Go meaning of good charaeter, The
surprise of the ruler, shown by his
gweetiou, "Which?" (18), arose,
perhaps, from the multiplicity t f
commands other than those of Mos-
es. It may be expected some new
eommancbnent,
18, And Jesus said—Notice that
the commandments given are en-
tirely from the second table, of the
Decalogne, and deal with love for
one's neighbor, which may account
For Matthew's addition (verse 18)
which is peculiar to him (compare
Lev. 19. 18).
20. All these things have I ab-
served—No
d
doubt this could td
b d
Jionostly by the young man. It is
e at this point that Jesus is said to
ere have loved him. At any rate, +h
young ruler was evidently not sat -
ho idled. The scribes had as much to
t- say to him.
c- What lack T ;yet? -Was there no
stern duty he could perform to
prove himself worthy ? Had the
- Good Teacher nothing more to say
s to the restless :heart of this man
, than what he already knew, and
d what had failed to bring peace-
s 21. If thou wouldest be perfect—
Here. as everywhere, Jesus teach•
s es, that perfection consists, not in
conformity to. an external code, but
is purely a matter of heart and mo-
tive. Jesus does not deny the young
man has kept the law. But he
°, puts his finger on his one imperfec-
°1 tion—his love of wealth. In saying,
Go sell, and thou shalt have tree-
s sure in heaven, Jesus makes no
el
-)promise that eternal life can be
gained in this way. But, in this
°:particular case, there was no pros-
° sect of a heavenly life until the t
ARE ALWAYS THE SAKE.
Some of the Splendid Qualities Which
Distinguish the Irish,
"I like an Irishman because he never
ceases to be an Irishman," declares Job
Hedges. "I know some other people
who cease to en lots of things, sometimes
without any visible regret on the faces
Of their neighbors,'
"I have never known of an Irishman
Who objected to how muds somebody else
had, if he had enough. 1' have never
known of an Irishmanhowever much he
had, who would not divide with a human
being whom he loved and who had less
than he had.
"An Irishman never gives the power
Of attorney, An Irishman Is neverdiffi-
dent, because he is born with a degree
of confidence In himself and his extrac-
tion which is clear, comprehensive and
all embracing, I never knew an Irish-
man that would not help somebody in
distress.
"There is no climate or nouptry in the
world that can destroy the good spirits
of an Irishman. Irishman have said
more ina short sentences than most people
have narrated in books.
"There is no need of passing much
time in describing the Irish. They admit
it. There is no need of telling a man he
is great when that is his first instinct.
There is no need of telling a man what
he has done when he did it first and did
it intentionally..
"But the Irish race has stirred more
emotions in the human breast than any
other race that walks the earth. They
have gone through the gamut of human
experience, and they have never surren-
dered their personality.
"You can persuade an Irishman to do.
something, but you cannot make him.
The only subjects have ever heard them
agree on was Ireland and the Irish, and
on that they are a unit. They are not
always strong in aggression, but when
hey are on the defense you cannot tell
how many of them there are, because
hey only look like one."
from the city's wealthy alderme
The first authentic reference
this church is found in the ye
1392, but it is certain that
church, was in existence at least
hundred years prior to this dat
inasmuch as without the gate stoo
a pair of shooks for the punishme
of those whose offences had bee
committed within the ity limit
These were abolished in 1282, whe
Edward I. was King.
At the time Henry Walls w
Mayor of London the tolls derive
hem London Bridge were insuffic
eni: for its maintenance, so the
Mayor, with the royal permissio
established a fish and flesh marke
"near by the Church of St. Chri
topher le Stocks." The Stocks ma
ket was designed to aid the upkee
'les would hardly have remonstrat-:
d• i ed with them in such a case. They
nt rebuked the parents because the
Master's strength and time were'
a 'already taken up with healing the
sick, and it was intolerable that
n children in sound health should be
as brought to him.
That he should lay his hands on
them—He often laid his :rands upon
these he was to heal, and these par-
a ents thought it would be an inesti-
i enable benefit to their children to
s_ have him touch them.
r_ 14. Jesus said—According to
Marl. he was moved with suds na
P tion at the rebuke. If the kingdom
of London Bridge, the bridge keep
er having power to grant leases fo
market shops. The church was the
spiritual resort of all "godly sho
In 1624 a graveyard was attache
to the church and it was upon thi
,, oung man had surrendered his at-
techment to earthly gain. "The
Charge to make the sacrifice was
the medicine which the man's soul
requred. The hard, self-denyi
life of a follower of Jesus was t
bracing that was needed to ma
a really noble character. Com
fc.11ow me is not so much a co
mend as it is an invitation, Jes
yearns to have this man for a d
ciple, but he has named the on
conditions upon which this is po
sible.
22. He went away sorrowful
Jesus might have made the ter
The Art of t. -rating.
Writing began with the rude picture
writing on bone and rock - and passed
ng slowly by' a netural and inevitable transi-
tion from the literal representations of
Ice the objects to the symbolic suggestion of
e,idea, to a word alphabet and then to pure
sound signs. The whole process is mani-
m- fest from the very infancy of Egyptian
ua picture writing, as /prude es that with
15 -'which the savage petples still record their
ly deeds. From these crude signs the pro-
_ cess went on in its slow transformation
s to the phonetic writing typified in the
Icosetha stone to the Phoenician, Greek
and Roman modifications which brought
rn5 us to the arbitrary sound symbols which
- the voice .combines into articulate speech.
ve gained a to
lower. But what kind of a folio
er •( The man who, in a covet
syirit, clings to his possessions a
is ready to renounce Christ soon
than them, has cause for sorro
However estimable he may be
other respects, there is a fatal fla
in his character. We ,never get'an
happiness out of the thing we ohoo
instead of Jesus.
23. Hard for a rich matt to enter'
into the kingdom—It is hard for
anyone to enter, but especially hard
for those who are exposed to all
the fascinations and perils of great
riches.
24. Easier for a camel to g
w -
tis An Arctic Bill of Fare.
nd The Eskimos at home in their native
er frozen wilds do not believe in cooking.
w. Their meat, be it seal, fish, venison,
in trout, salmon, whale blubber- or codfish,
w they devour in its natural raw state and
with the same gusto with which the
Y average small boy tackles a watermelon, s
se A
Al ORD LITTLE STATIr,
A .Living flit of the Antique Work!"
on the Face of Modern .gferope.
Wedged ie like a debatable, land
between Preece and Spain ]lee s'
gimlet little state wbiob calls itself:
the Bepublio of the Valleys of Alie
dorsa, and dates eta foundation fro;lnt
the year 782, when Charlemagne gave+
Re people a charter of independence,
as a reward for the aid they halt
given him in his struggle to drive out
the Saracens from Barcelona end .Seo'
d'Urgel, This charter, one of their,
most precious possessions, ie still!.
Preserved in a curious iron armoryt
with six lochs, which stands in the.
House of Parliament at Andorra-ia-
Villa
i ,the metropolis of this miniature,
state, Bays the Wide World Magazine,
From time to time, during the
Changeful history of Europe, Cherie-,
mange's charter has been oonflrmedl
by various monarchs; even Napoleon,
ruthless destroyer though he was,
spared this miniature eepnblie as a
Public curiosity, which it certainly is.
patriarchal and primitive to an al,
most incredible degree—a wonderful••_,,
living, breathing bit of the antique.
world, lying intact on the face o>ti
modern Europe. Andorra has no.
written history, no written laws;
everything is done aocording to trade.
tions, handed down from generation
to generation, and the form of governs
ment and the manners and customs
of the people are essentially they
same to -day as they were 1,200 years
ago.
The fact of the republic's isolatecL
Position contributes as much as any-
thing to this curious state of affairs.
The Andorrans are almost as conserva-
tive as the Ohinese, They mistrust
foreigners and foreign inventions.
and have a rooted objection to sueid
things as photographic cameras, rail-
ways, telegraph wires, telephones and'.
other modernities. Nature has pro,
vided them with impregnable forti-
fications in the shape of Pyrenean
masses that shut them in securely on
every band, and they have no mind'
to allow their peaceful harmony to bo
disturbed. Let other nations quarrel
and fight with each other if they,
choose; Andorra has no ambitions.
The confines of the country at the
beginning of the 20th century are
lust exactly 'the same as they were
in the year 782, neither more or less.
She. is very tenacious of her indepen-
dence, and her antique traditions, of
her manners and customs, but' shis
content to remain what she has ever
been, a miniature state in the midst
of modern Europe; managing her own
little affairs as she chooses. To get
into or out of Andorra on any.side,
you must cross an elevated mountain
pass, and there is not a single high-
way leading into the country either
from France or Spain. The principal
entrance from the French side is the
Pass of Bolden nearly 9,000 feet above
the sea level. This is the only one
practicable for horses; the others are
mere mule -trucks of footpaths, and
all of them are blocked during : the.
nowy season.
✓ of heaven belonged rightfully to t
such as these, it was scandalous to
eforbid their coming into the pies-
onae of the King. This and similar
hrough the eye of a needle —
•roverbial saying familiar to th
taws, not necessarily to be take
iterally, but used to express a
'most insuperable difficulty.
25. The disciples ... were aston
ished—Because they clung to th
idea of a Messianic kingdom c
plendor and worldly power.
28. Jesus looking upon them—I
divas is penetrating look, such a
lllark says he gave to the young ru-
sr. Perhaps the latter was at that
torrent lingering near, and heard
the words, with God all things arss
possible. Was not this ma's
ti, able that he had tried to do him-
self what only God could do for
him?
SENTENCE SERMONS.
You do not manifest faith by de-
nying facts.
The measure of every gift is the
1 we have.
Maki• g earth brighter snakes
even surer.
Praying is a wasteful act when it
ops at wishing.
You cannot live for people with -
it living with them.
Trouble never weakens you save
hen you flee from it.
No man has a great mission who
ghts little ministries.
Some spend minutes in charity
ti months in advertising it.
Too many think that square liv-
g mud; means sour looking.
Many reformers get switched off
to reforming one another.
STARVED.'
Ascum—I saw your wife at the
nee last night. She certainly
d look magnificent. By the way,
' man, you're rather thin, aren't
u?
Manley—I guess I am. You see
went to housekeeping recently
d I arranged with my wife to
ve her a certain allowance each
ek to ,provide for the table and
a clothes for herself,
-
ODD.
'Eliza," yelled the poet, "why
nit you keep that kid quiet?
rat ails him, anyway?"
'I'm sure I don't know," replied
patient wife; "I'm singing one
your lullabies to the little der -
s for bread and vegetables, they have
none of them. They set their seal oil
lamps going, suspend a soapstone dish fill-
ed with snow over it, and with the water
thus obtained they mix an equal quan-
tity of molasses procured from the Hud-
son Bay Co. That they drink and are
happy. That is the sum total of an Arc-
tic cuisine.
0
A A Star That Winks.
e, There is in the constellation Pegasus a
n little variable star that may reasonably
n, be said to wink. Two or three times in
the course of a single night this curious
star can be seen to fade and then to
e 111; brighten like a signal light. For about
two and three-quarter hours k becomes
fainter and. fainter. Then comes a
change, and at the end of two and three-
quarter hours more it is as bright as at
s the beginning. Unfortunately it can be
seen only with a telescope. Yet it ranks
as a sun.
d tributes on our Lorda
's part to the 1
s sanctity of childhood constitute the
that the Bank of England encroach
oci, so that in 1781 the church wa
demolished. But no doubt to salv
_ best argument for infant baptism.
a (Fora wise discussion of this diifu-
e milt subject see Curtis, The Chris -
the consciences of the money mak-
ers the parochial rights and digni-
ties were still maintained. The
garden with the fountain within
the Bank of England marks the site
of the burial ground. The last in-
terment took place 100 years ago,
being that of one "Jenkins, a bank
clerk, 7 feet 6 inches high."
So the old Church of St. Chris-
topher le Stocks went its way, but
its parish remains, embracing the
open space in front of the bank and
the Mansion House. This parish
has one inhabitant and he enjoys
full rights of voting for Parliament
and all municipal councils.
HOOTS OF A WISE OWL.
One satisfying thing is that the
fool who rocks the airship will get
his good and plenty.
It is not the man behind the gun,
but, the man behind the bun who
is causing most of the excitement
is our large cities recently,
An Eastern scientist says love is
a disease. It is mighty catching,
but matrimony is often a cure.
. ---'X
IMPRACTICAL.
New Employer -"But why did
you leave your last mistress?"
New Maid—"Hivvens I Did yez
expect me t' bring her along wid
me?"
ONE-SIDED MAN.
"What part of a railway train
de you regard as the most danger-
ons?",..,ingnired the. nervous man,
"The" dining oar," answered the
dyspeptic.
ARE WILLING TO PAY.
Having allowed considerable time
to elapse, one le forced to the con -
elusion that everyone seems to
think alio high cost of living is
worth ib,
GONE.
Jack—'"I hear you had some mon-
ey left you." Tons—"Yes; it loft
me quite a while ago."
bee Faith, page 437, and note the s
statement: "It (infant baptism)
stands for the sacramental accept-
ance by the church of the consecra- 1
tion unto Christ of a babe by the
home.") The perfect sincerity of n
the evangelists in admitting such
incidents, which were to the discre-
dit of the apostles, is manifest.
15. Ho laid his hands on 'them—
Mark says (10. 16), '`He took them
in his arms, and blessed them, lay-
ieg his hands upon them."
16. One came to him—Commonly
known as the rich young ruler.
Luke alone says that he was a
"ruler," which may mean nothing at
more than that he occupied a high
place in the social order. Mat- he
thew is alone in saying he was
"young." The fine character of st
this man, which comes out in his
enthusiastic interest in Jesus,- his o
eagerness far the truth, and his
freedom from immortality, justifies w
cur Lord's love for him (Bark 10.
21). sli
What good thing shall I do 9—
Ntarlc and Luke, more naturally, ar
omit the "good." Could any act,
except e, good one, win eternal life? in
The divergencies here, between
Matthew on the ono hand, and on
Mark and Luke on the other, are
full of interest. What follows sug-
gests that "Good Teacher" is the
manner in which the ruler address-
ed Jesus, He went beyond the da
usual courtesy, which would do- dic
only "Teacher," and signified. cic
his lofty regard for Jesus by the ad- Y'
ditien of this unusual adjective.
17. Why askost thou me?—If this v1°
i• the exact form of the Master's re- al,
sponse, it must have been in the gl
nature of a challenge to look else- we
where than to some good act for bu
the secret of eternal life; such char -
tinter as is found in him who alone
is good can entitle mon,to that eu-
preme estate. If Jesus said, "Why
kallest thou me good? None is do
good save one" (Mark and Luke), Wl
it was not booause of any conscious- hihis
n ese of moral lack, no denial of
sinlessnoss, but a test of the ntan s lin
conception of goodness ; 1ie had giv-
en
ivru Jesus a title which belonged only
to God—wits ho ready to stand by 'J
it? Erie
Keep the eonlmandments_They use
° Her Troubles.
Single Man (to himself) -I am sure
that darling little angel loves me: She
takes me into her confidence and tells me
all her troubles.
Seale Alan (some years tater)—Con-
found it alll From morning till night
and night till morning when I'm at
home I hear nothing but tales about the
servants, the butcher, the butler, the
baker, the candlestick maker and all the
rest of 'em.
no many people look upon a
nd as a person they can stake
of
The Limit.
Mr. Cribbs—Mrs. C., I have borne
with resignation—nay, even cheerfulness
—antique chairs that wobbled, antique
clocks that were always thirteen hours
behind time, antique rigs that some pre.
historic Turks wove, antique china, an.
tique bowls, pans anti kettles. All this I
have smiled at, but when you give me
antique eggs for breakfast I draw the
line, madam; I draw the lint. i
Qualified.
"That boy of mine," said Nupopp
proudly, "is going to be a great baseball
enthusiast some day."
"1'd like to know how you can tell,"
rejoined his friend Bleocher. "ale's only
Mo weeks old."
s, sa upopp, ut he can yell
louder than any chap of his age and;
weight 1 ever saw."
A Severe Test of Affection.
He—ls there anything i can do to
prove my affection so that you will not
doubt it?
She --There is. Marry my sister. She
is older than I, and mmmnia is deter.
mined not to let Inc marry till my sister
is disposed of.
Fishy,
"I can't sec telly men like to get tip
early and go fishing," says Mrs, Mahe 1
prop. "Now, myhusband is a regular
anglonsanitc-1 mese, he's a debaucher .
to the cpiscatory Cr(, )fish? W\'hy, he',
an apostle of old Win:. Newton himself!"
Noble Lives.
Up In the Thousands.
A golf champion said one afternoon
on the finks;
'That chap ahead of us plays very±
poorly, doesn't he? Let us say noth-
ing to him about it, though, His poor
playing is often enough rubbed in on
him.
"His caddie, one day when he was•
in particularly bad form, lay down,
,neat the ball in a bunker and pre-
tended to Sleep.
`The man looked up from one of,
his many vain swats at the ball and
growled: ;
Say, you must be tired, boy, ly-,
ing down!'
I ain't tired of oarryin',' said the.
boy. ;but I certainly am tired of count,]
in. '
Mustard Plaster Cure.
"Mustard as a promoter of morals,
was a new role," said the woman.
"Yesterday I heard my Bohemian
neighbor say to her eleven -year-old'
daughter:
If you do that again 1'11 put a
mustard plaster on you.'
The child didn't do it again. When
I asked why the mother told me that
in her country disobedient children
are punished by applying a mustard
plaster. It is more ellcacious than
whipping, scolding or moral suasion.,
Tho plaster isn't left ou long enough,
to blister badly, but even without a
blister a mustard plaster is a correc-
tive measure that all little Bohemians
try to avoid, even at the expense of
good behavior."
Scriptural Misquotations.
"Iie who runs may read" sounds,
very Scriptural, but it is in reality a
mangled version of the verse in the
prophet Habakkuk, "Write the vision
Slid make it plain upon the table that
he may run that readeth it." Another
Biblical misquotation is "By the sweat
of thy brow shalt thou earn thy
bread," the real text in Genesis being
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread." And when we pour "oil
on the troubled waters" thousands
search tha Scriptures in vain for the
metaphor. --London Chronicle.
Natural Pottery.
ltlxccllent natural pottery is menu-
factured by nature in the ease of a
certain cactus. Woodpeckers are apt
to excavate nests in the trunk and
branches, and in order that it may
protect itself again these incursions
the plant exudes a sticky juice,
which hardens, forming a woody lin-
ing to the hole made by the birds.
Eventually the cactus dies and witi,,
ors, but the wooden bowl remains,
A Miraculous Escape.
A motor cnr with several passengers
went over a cutting in :4tanawatu
George, near 'Wellington, N.Z, and
mood down a steel) bank, carrying
trees and shrubs with it. Strange to.
say the car remained upright, and
stopped in the river bed 70 feet below.,
The oceepauts were unhurt.
Every noble life leaves the fiber of 0 An Old Balloon Project.
interwoven into the fabric of the world. As early as 1780 the French Govern.
--Ruskin. ment gran(eci a sum of money to es-
tablish a balloon service between
Paris and Mntseiliea with whet were
Farmers' Associations.
All over Europa farmers' assaciettote ltltowst as the Montgelfier air bal-
exist tor iht ltaitdfing of (arm product* 1000, though the project never L.,,,
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