The Brussels Post, 1904-7-7, Page 7DItS
HE EAST
Take Possession of the Streets of
the Great Cities.
Metered eceoretne to Ant ot tha Vete
nement ot (Jae- in., In tho year On
Slimmed , fluttered nee Fogy;
by Wm, nar.e, of Toronto, at the
leoetstnient of agriculture, °stave
A despatch from Los Angeles rays;
Rev. Isms* De Vitt Talmage presets -
•ed front the following text: Revela-
tions xxii., 15, "Without Etre dogs."
"I never could sympathies: with the
slur which the Bible casts upon my
canine frieedli," once maid an old
* man to me. "fit. tiohn in that pas-
sage of Scripture, 'Without aro
dogs,' seems to despise tho dog an 1
despise the buzzard or the hyena. Ho
tesens to picture the infernal regions
as the only suitable place for their
kennels. IM insinuates their corn-
paaloeship for man to be a humilia-
tion and a degradation. Now, in
rantrast to that assertion, I have
Mr more respect for an honest dog
than 1 have for a dishonest, deceit-
ful man. 1 count Eunong 2ny dear-
est, fiecods some of tho representa-
tives of tho canine race. Indeed I
go so far in my respect for dogs
that if in that heavenly land
imind ono a the beautiful dogs I
havo owned on earth sleeping at my
feet la that abode of bliss or looking
up into my face with the expression
Of love and fidelity I have seen no
often X should not feel it any blight,
but rather an enhancement of my
:happiness,"
We lovo to look at the masterpieces
of Sit* Edwin Landseets the painter
of dogs. There seems to be some-
thing oven more tban• human in his
"Highland Shepherd's Chief Motirn-
.01'," something more than mere
brute ferocity in his "Stag at Bay,"
smoothing more than a sportsman's
halloo In the "Return from Deer -
stalking." But the flashing eyed,
Powerful chested, clean limbed, glos-
sy coated models of Lam:Moor are
.entirely different physical specimens
from tho outcast dogs of the cast.
Have you ever stopped and looked
with pity upon a poor mangy cur
crawling along the street? Have you
seen disease liko porcupine (mills
sticking out all over him? Have
you eeen the people shy off as ho
came along and hoard the paesersby
say: "Poor dog! Why do not tho
dog catchers collie along and put hint
out of his misery?" Have you ever
seen dogs with Clete ears torn off
end their tails amputated by 60010
rarriago wheel or Sopping upon
three legs because the fourth has
been cruelly broken by a stone? Well,
there are lots of such dogs in the
east. Them are hundreds and thou-
sands of those poor, miserable, phy-
sical mutilations that cower 10 the
dark corners of the Palestina cities
or sim themselves upon the hard
stones like the blind or tho crippled
beggars who theee Went to bo every-
where, And so when St. John de-
clares, "Without are dogs," I be-
lieve he means that in heaves we
shall have no blinded eyee, no dis-
oils& skins, no crimeed limbs, nd
dOilt ears and no physical disfigure-
ments, Ali the hideous physical
sights which ono sees in the wards
of the hospitals shall be forever done
away.
PHYSTCAL INFIRMITY.
How nitwit this transformation
means to many sufferers none but
they can realize. It is very hard
for the deformed and the cripples to
maintain spiritual and mutat sweet-
. nest; and serenity. It is easy for a
man with a fine constitution and it
perfect physical form to be cheerful
end balmy, but how diffieult for one
who has to suffer eoutinual pain and
is shut out by deformity from the
sports and exercises of companions
to 110 911100t tempered and genial to
all about him. "What is the mat-
ter with So-and-so?" I once asked
a dear friend of mine about a mutu-
al acquaintance. "He is so touchy
and sensitive that the /east wind
from tho east will twist him all out
of shape." "Yes," answered my
Mond, "that is true, but perhaps
you have forgotten that that inan
was born lame. If you over stop
to think, you will also find that
nearly all mon and women born with
phyeical infirmities ore cross and
crabbed mid touchy and sensitive."
. "I never thought of it, I answered.
believe—yes, X know you are
right." Physical infirmity is Ems
rampanied by and, in fact, involves
mental pain and anguish. All this
will bo done away with in the ce-
lestial city. There will be no de-
fects or deformities there to sadden
the soul and try the temper of tho
redeemed. Tho withered limb, the
distorted spine, will bo left behind
with the mental and spiritual do-
formitlee they have produced. The
cripple will rejoice that the gnatv-
ing egooy that made his life on
earth a period of humiliation and
suffering is gob° forever, "Without
nre dogs."
THE HOWL OF WARNING.
Roaming again theoegh the crowd-
ed streets of Palestine, X find that
the samo merciless tribal bitterness
and mortal onrnities which wove once
rife funong the North Aramaean JO-
-thane Etee prevalent among the di,gs
of the east. AS each acullen ttibe
owned its own territory and in time
of was it meant death far a member
of otto tribe to be found wandering
about in the "land of strangers,' *o
the clogs of the east, take peegssston
of the different streets of the great
cities. Each Canine tribe his its
801101016 stencling geard at the rad
of the streets. Then it one dog of
allot:hoe tribe entree: that street the
howl of weeping to giVen. AL oneo
011 the other dogs of that tribe leap
to their feet 0110, as a pack of
hungry wolves, make 6 mnd rus11 foe
that strartger 10 tear him limb treat
limb
We nmati etudy sly text in the enn
ine laiffite.go of tho east, Old hest.
ors tell us that no man has truly
lewd a lion roar unless he has hoard
of defiance in the dark jungles of the
Om king of the forest sound 11 10 call
African continent, Then the awe -
striking power of that voice seems
to come from ovate/where and yet
from nowhere. The hills are souna-
ing boards which toss the echoes as
the battledores throw the shuttle-
cocke backward and forward, Then
the fawns equat down with fright,
and the mother birds press lower up-
on their nests, and the very leaves
of the trees seem too terror-stricken
to move, Like the roaring lions in
the African forests, aro the howlings
of the dogs In the streets of llamas -
cue ancl .1e/quietens When ono can-
ine tribe plunges upon a dog of an-
other tribe which wanders into thole
street or territory it seems as
though all the dationiacal voices of
the infernal regions are let loose.
First there comes the sharp, angry
bark, as though the picket lino of a
great army had fired a gun to call
the host to arins, then muttered
growls, then the frightened bark of
the persued dog, then a very pande-
monium of barkings and growlings
and angry, snarling canine votees.
They awake the sleeping tourist so
suddenly that at first ho will start
up from his bed with fright. Then
follows the suggestive silence as the
battle evidently ends by the death of
the victim or by the escape of the
pursued.
NO SELFISHNESS IN HEAVEN,
What is the Johannian meaning ot:
thle mortal combat between the
tribal dogs of the east? Why, it
means that in heaven there aro to
be no fmnily meannesses, no contemp-
tible, merciless ways sueh as aro
often found at the earthly fireside.
It means that instead of one father
and one mother gathering their own
children about them in ono "Man-
sion of Light," and saying to 0110
of themselves: "Shut tho door and
keep every ono else out. We have
enough now. Let all others take
care of themselves as best they can,"
all men will be brothers, and all otto-
man sisters. There we shall all be
sons and daughters of 0110 God, who
15 tho rather, and have kinship to
one Christ, who M the Elder Broth-
er, It means that in heaven there
will be no envious plebeian blood,
asd no distinctive, sepereilious, aris-
tocratic blood, because there wo
shall all have been washed in the
°yet bloocl of Jesus. It moans
that in heaven no wealthy rann's
wife 39111 bo able to suek out the
life of a poor sewing girl merely be-
cause She is poor, and no employer
Will be ablo to grind his employees
clown until it means physical and
raentel and often spivitual death. It
means no vendetta or blood foed, it
also means no financial vendetta or
money feud.
Roaming again through the dark,
narrow, crowded streets of (=steels
Palestine, X surmise, from the words
of my text, that heaven 15 to be a
place of honored and jubilant occu-
pations. It is to bo a placo where
the words "menial" and "servile,"
"ecanvenger" end "scullion," "hire-
ling" and "dependent," "lackey"
and "underling' will be unknown.
All words •signifying a 'degraded
work will forever disappear when the
lexicons of earth shall be forever
consumed upon the funeral -pyre of a
burning world. It does not 111011,11
that heaven is to be a Place of in-
anition and stagnation and stupid-
ity. But it does moan that heaven
Is to be a placo where all workmen
shall be honored alike and where the
duties of ono immortal shell be re-
spected as much 135 010 the occupa-
tions of other Immortals.
130014 OF THE EAST,
Following lay fiest premise that
heaven is to he a busy place iny sec-
ond premise is likewise true, How
do I know thet tlio Isles, occupations
of heaven will 11011011 offer despised
Nvork for the recloomed inamertals
Tho words of my text prove that. t
The dogs of the east wore the scav-
engers. The eastern people had no
wonderful systems of sewerage as c
have ove. They had no mottns of
i
carrying away by subtoreattean Pipes t
the offal and refuse of their largo
towns. But all the refuse of the
kitchens and the homes ana the
barns were and are thrown into the
streets where the dogs &weer there.
In heaven, however, we shell have ,
none of tho repulsive and atilt:wrest
occupations with which earth has is
been cursed, Do you wonder that
when rode ieto Damascus and saw
lying in the streets the dead body ol a
a. horse, over tvhieh tho doo were t
fighting and gormandizing, X should g
catch. a glimpse of ot heavenly vision, t
whore there shall be no loathsome t
ocellpatione as is this ono of the
eardite scavengers of the east? Hotly-
ett is, however, to be a place of
glorious, happy, jubilant, honored
occupatione.
Roamingagain. through the nor- t
1-007, crolvded Areas of eastern Pal- t
ratios; I knote from the simile of my
text that the Cht•istlan's earthly
translation is 1100 to be a horror, 0 p
tragedy, a terrific, a. repulsive arid
a tomer inspiring (tenths% When the
Christian dice he does not Clic like t
flOff1100 he aeconds as did tho Sas,
iour. lIe does not growl mid tvhine s
with fear, but ho moenth from joy t
to Joy, from sublimity to sublimity,
from extlitet ion to exultation, Nom
gloty to glors,,
AS 'OTTE DOG DIES,
the dark continent dies a natural
death. No sooner does 1311) physical
Strength weaken than there aro wine
bestial or serpentine cannibals or
some enemy of hie species ready to
feed upon his dying body and still
111e feeble or the quick beatings ot
his heart." That means every deer
Or fawn that d 108, dieS a tragic
death, Every quick eyed and sharp
clewed lynx niust fall in time before
et Martel foe. Ilvery monster leader
of the elephantine nerd, oVery shaggy
maned Bengal king, must die a 310'
lent death. So ales the dog; but,
thank God, so does not die the
Christian.
Sometimes 'tis true that the bodY
of Man may Elle the death of a dog,
but the Cheistiiin has hope la his
death. Though hie body perish in
battle or in accident, though it may
be crushed or burned, so that it
Cannot be recognized, his flout Is
cede. He has the consciousness that
Christ is able to keep that which
hes been commit led to hint and
whatever may befall the body, the
soul tvill be preserved,
LEGEND OP KING SOLOMON.
Oh, ye mortals, destined to livo
forever either la bliss or in miserY,
does not the offer tbat Christ makes
you stir your desire for salvation ?
Accept his proffered gift, and then be
your end what it 111113', :1.0111' being
rooted up from this world, with its
bitter fruits of 00137037 and pain and
misery,will mean nothing more than
your being transplanted into that
supernal garden in which you will
grow and flourish and bear fruit to
the honor and glory cif God. There
is an old legend that when King Sol-
omon was EL boy one day 110 begged
his tortehoo to show 111311 a miracle.
Nathan thrust his finger into the
soil and dropped therein a little
seed, Immediately that seed began
to eproet. While the lad looke01 on
tho two HUM green leaves grew into
a 5'011/111 $1,0111. Then the stem swell-
ed out with the trunk or a laego
tree. Then tho tree, like "the seven
branches, became like the seven
candlesticks of tee altars," and the
birds of the air flew Into those
branches and buildell there nests and
reared their young. WItile he look-
ed blossoms grew upon that tree,
and then those blossoms were chang-
ed into the deep rich red fruit which
blushed like the glow of the setting
sun. That is merely a legend,but
there is a real miraclo which cctn be
wtirked in your lives infinitely great-
er than young Solomoa is supposed
to have seen.
The seed of eternal life planted by
the Holy Spirit in your heart can
change your whole nature. Instead
of those qualities whIch degrade you
to the level of the brutes, instead of
tho sinful propensities which distort
.anci deforni your being, there shall
grow from that divine seed a plant
of beauty, graceful and glorious with
heavenly loveliness and eternal i0
ever developing life. "Ye shall bo
like a tree planted by the rivers of
water, that biengeth forth its fruit
in its season; ancl 7,310) 5013001' ye
doetli shall prosper." What iv your
cliolee? Will you live a life of beau-
ty and usefolness, a life patterned
on that divine life whielt Christ lived
on earth, encling in a triumphant re-
Surrection, or will you choose the
wickedness, the vice, the corruption,
of the world, feeding like the east-
ern dog ou the carrion of lifo and
becoming in nature like him? Menem -
her, If ye live after the flesh yo shall
Ole, and from that abode of bliss,
where there are Joys forever inore,
you will be excluded with all whose
natures have grown fierce and cruel
and debased. "Without are Clogs.".
SIDE-SADDLE WILL GO.
Little Princess of Wales is Using
the Ride -Astride Blind.
The youthful Princess Victoria, of
Wales is being taught to 110e
"astride," says the Leader.
The fact is not astonishing, for,
although the ancient prejudice in fa-
vor of tho side-snddle for ladies has
been art uncommonly long while dy-
ing, the "ride -astride styles" has
made a bold Isicl for popularity in
nova years.
The Weenie of the English fashion
limners contain hundreds of advertise-
ments setting forth the advantages
of the noW "astride" skirt, and
many of the 'best knowit ladies' tail-
ors have found it necessary to make
special arrangements to cope with
the domancls which are being made
moo them in this direction.
'rho little Princess Victoria's cos-
tume Includes a kilted skirt 0.1111
1010)1e-1,reasted reefer. •Whon sho
on horse -back no ono woul(1 know
hat she was following the "new
style, but for ,tho Met that her skin
appears on both sides of the pony.
It lessons the danger ot neciffint
1111d it ensures greater comfort both
or the rider and tho horse, The lat-
er fact has long been recognized in
overal hunting centres, notably Ex -
111001', whore a largo proportion of
he ladies who follow tho hounds
tlopt the "latest" style. They find
hat it enables thorn to cover 1110011
seater distances With less fatigue
hatt was entailecl under tho old sys-
cm.
A YOUNG LOGICIAN.
Jennie's mother was expecting 00111--
-
01130, blit just before traie-time a
elegram arriVed which road, "Missed
rain, Will Start sarao time to -
Jennie rushed home from school ex.
ectieg to see the guest, but instead
vas shown the message, After read -
ng it labeeiously and easefully
hrough, she exclaimed;
"1V11.y, Mama, if she starts at the
ante time to -morrow, she will 111155
Ito train again!"
GAVE IT A. TRIAL.
"Volt have beea fighting again,
011111130 3''
"T. collhan't help it, mamma. That
tapleford bey SaSSCS ine,"
-That was no :mason for fighting,
011 should have rentenilmred that 'a
oft answer tunnel atvay wrath,"
nd given 111111 a soft. answer,"
"X did. 11,10 hint With 130113111113 of
The =doh clog's death is Lt
gloomy pitture. 1 -Te dies the death of S
ell wild bensie, nod that death is a
treody, Some years ago the author It
et a litetoey of the beasts of the s
African forests made this statement, a
1011 33i11 long live 111 lay memory :
'No beast or Hee' or reptile in all
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FOR T.I.T HOME
a
Recipes for the Kitchen.
0. Hygiene and Other Notee &
at. for the Housekeeper,
9000(9e4000€30(Peetet34606t1
000KINC1 RECIVES,
naked aggli—PliWO all ot1aCO of
butter 111 a small halthig tin or fire-
proof dlob, melt it, break the egg
into the tin. Place the dleh In. the
00011 1'01' three ealesave 1011011 the egg
will he cooked,
l'or plain white sance--Work
ounce of flour into a paste gradually
with a pint of milk, and add a tear
spoonful of sugar. Stir 00112' the
flre lilt. it bolls, and cook it for three
minutes, 91119111M 1111 1110 time. If a
richer 91.111011 15 desired, hulf 0111113,
of butter should be added.
ihaidelion beer—Boll in live gallons
of water two ounces of dandelion
leaves, five ounces of ginger, and
half an ounce of hops. Strain off
and boil again, adding three pountiS
of sugar and two 011111101 Of Spardsit
jOiee, Allow it to ferment for
twenty-four hours, aad then bottle
for use.
Cheese savoury—Trim off the crust
from two slices of a etale loaf, cut
each slice into lour squares, and
fry them a light brown in good beef
dripping. Strew these very thickly
with grated cheese, sprinkle with
salt and cayenne pepper. Place in a
hot eve11 till slightly brown. Scatter
chopped parsoly over and serve.
Lancashire pie—Out up into pieces
one pound and a half of mutton,
Boil somo potatoes, mash them with
a little dripping, pepper and salt to
taste, Line the bottom and sides
of a dish with potato, put In the
meet, seasoned with chopped onion,
PoPper and salt, and add a small
quantity of grary, CoVer the dish
with more potato, and balce for an
hour in a steady. oven. Servo hot.
For a plain baked pudding, to
eery° with jam sauce, take halfa
Pound of flour, half a pound. of
grounil rice, a, saltspoonful of bi-car-
bonnie of soda, and rub 113 three
ounces of mixed butter and tare. Mix
with haIf a pint of milk in which a
saltspoonful of tartaric acid le dis-
solved; bake in LI flat tin. If liked
a beaten egg can be added to the
above proportions, and the appear -
tune of the pudding will be improv-
e .
To make coffee quiokly—Put two
heaped tablespoonfuls of freshly -
ground coffee into a, pint of
perfectly boiling water. Stir all
together and stand onthe stove
With a cover to the Jug for the cof-
eo to settle. After a few minutes
add about a tablespoonful of cold
wester. Stand Et minute or two
more and pour oiT steadily into a
clean jug. The best coffee I ever
had was made by a foreigner in. this
manner.
French millc sonp.—Talce a quart of
milk, set it to boil with an onion,
a sprig of parsley, and a small
piece of mace, Thicken this slight-
ly with dour, and stir till it boils;
then strain., add a beaten egg, a
teaspoonful of parsley, pepper and
salt, and Serve.
Rhubarb and °sense marinnhule—
To every pomul of cu1 rlinbEtth al-
low three or four Seville oranges,
and one pound and a half of loaf
sugar; peel the oranges thinly, and
cut into thin strips as for inarma-
le,cle, Take oft the white pith,
which will not be needed. Remove
the pips from the fruit, and cut it in
slices, I lace orange, _rhubarb and
sugar in the Pveserving pan, and
boil gently till sullicientav cooked,
and the scum has ceased to deo.
Poor the peeserve 01 srooll pots, and
next day cover it down with gum-
med poxes.
0
'Mfg
ase in cleaning the teeth, eavertil
rearans. 31 18 11, 1115101911 ant, dis-
g1it1e0 the offenitive odor often diScer-
nible in the breath, lute a. tendency
to harden the gams, and is Fold to
be a remedy for eanicer. It may al-
so be iieed its It 1411//111' 111 11/1911 of
sure throat, IL hi an econotaleal
waY te buY this, end steel other ar-
tichei 104 are In constant Lute in the
hoUsehold, by the quentity, and the
trouble of l'OODWilltf 110 0111,11 is 8117-
0(1.
T1111 CARE OF CLOTHES.
1011
Aiel to 151E01)1111 rthir V1 /n
{4',5ear) 10
thewo
wishes to iake care of her clothes,
Properly brushed and kept in repair,
1 mai properly put isway in wanleobes
and closeth, one's dresses and wraps
lust 0,11d 10011 100/111 1111101 101114091' titan
Iher ars Carelessly thrown down
or bundled away without regard to
shape oe Mitres It ie butter to
keep dresses which are not io use,
uncl 0.1( 11311 0)0 of del i ea 1 e 1110 oria 1 ,
folded or laid away in h1113013 and
drawers, than to keep them hanging
on hooks, Lang boxes, over which
eprings and cushions ere lilted, serve
a, double purpose, its they form a bed
above, niul waidt•obe beneath, Nice
dresses require the same sart of cure
that a man gives to 1115 COOL Waists
and jacket 5 nlways be dis-
posed on lialigers which keep them
In shape. 'J'ho most expensive gar-
ments 10113' he reined by hoe/Mies dis-
position of them when they are mit
in use. It is better economy' te
1 v 13cloth
them out, thee to have too many
and keep them put away, willi the
chow° that the fashion will change,
Moth devour or dust Injure their
daintiness.
MARINO THE CARPET ('LEAN.
To clean a carpet on the floor :—
In six quarts 01 water (soft preferr-
ed) dissolve two cakes or best white
111O11(11'y 90011 Shaved fine, When
thoroughly dissolved, arid enough
wcaer to fill two ordinary sized
Pails. Let it got cold, end add four
ounces of ether and four ounces of
aqua ammonia. Stir well. Dip an
ordinary scrubbing brush into this
mixture and scrub the carpet, tak-
ing a small space at a time, then
scrape with a dat, stick nncl take up
moisture with a cloth, Rinse with 1
clean eloth wet in clean water. 'Phis
makes the carpet look like new.
Let the air cieculate freely through
1311e room and the carpet dry thor-
oughly before using.
4
RAILROAD TO HUDSON 13AY.
The project of building n railroad
from 'Winnipeg to Hudson Bay was
u rg,ecl at a recent convention of
grain -growers in Manitoba, litany
persons may be surprised at learn-
ing that such a road would traverse
one of the greatest grezing and
Wheat -growing tracts on the contin- '
lent. It is estimated that the many I
!lakes and rivers emptying into Had-!.
sos Bay along its west and south-;
(west shores drain more that, 900,-1
000,000 acres of productive, but as I
.yet undeveloped, land, Vast forests
of spruce, tamarack and poplar
stretch from Hudson Bay to Alaska.
What the mineral wealth of ihe rest- I
100 may be is still only a subject of
conjecture. Hudson Bay itself is
prolific '111 fish, and in whales,
poises and walruses, whose 011 is of I
great commercial value.
JA.PANESE CHRISTIANII Y.
Many of the prominent men of Ja-
pan ere Christians. Among the
number 1100 one member of the Im-
perial Cabinet, two judges of the
S upremo Courts, 1 wo Presidents of
the Lower House of Parliament, and!
three Vim -Ministers of State, not to
mouLion a host of officials of lower I
rank, ln tho prosout Parllement the
President and thirtoon members in a ;
total membership of 1100 am Christi-
ans, In the army thero Imo 155
Christian officers, or 3 per cent, of
all, and tho two hugest batlleShipa
are commanded by Christ ions,
PURCHASE. WIVES.
Wives are still obtained by pur-
chase in 00/110 parts cif Russia. In
the district of Kamyshin, on the Vol-
ga, for example, this is practically
the only way in which marringes are
brought about, The price of Et pret-
ty girl feoni a well-to-do family
ranges from 8100 to 8200, and in
special cases a nurell higher sum is .
obtained, itt the villages the lowest
price is about 595. It is customary
for the fathers of tho intending bride
and bridegroom to haggle foe a long
time oves the price to be paid for
the lady. A young fernier whose
father cannot afford to patc for e
tvifo for him atied not think of get-
ting 211Orriod.
'USEFUL HINTS.
Pickles and preserves should be
kopt tn the coolest part of the store
roma,
Frequently in washing hair brush-
es the bristles become too soft Li
such a case rinse them in a little
salt and water after washing in the
ordinary way.
Before wearing now boots or shoes
soak the soles with linsmtl oil; also
rub the uppers with same and let
them thoroughly dry. This will
soften them and they will wear twice
as long.
If a sheet of patter be laid at the
bottom. ot a grate so as to prevent.
air Mom coming up betweea the bars,
encl a Brobuilt on this, and lighted
front tho top, such a faro will be
metotleally smokeless.
Soup will bo as good the second
day if heated to boiling point. It
should never be left In a 91111COPEL11,
Nil 0110110d 11110 a dish and put aside
to cool. Do not cover the soup,
MO that may cause it to sour.
A. good preparation for the hands
is made as follows, and recommend-
ed' by one who has used it for years;
Pttt iato a bottle half an ounce of
glycerin*, and half an ottnce, of lav-
ender water, and shako well togeth-
er. Then add lialf an ounce of cam-
phor water, Situate thoroughly and
keep tightly corked for use,
As a general holisciliold remedy salt
has a high value. A bag oi hot salt
is soothing in neuralgia, toothache,
earache an11 shuiliar affections. For
a sprain few things give relief more
quickly than cold salt water, Swell-
ings may often bo reduced' Very quick-
ly by /rarptent bathing of the part
affeeted113 strolig brine,
To remove freckles—Take 1 ounce
of lemon juice, a (Matter of a
drachm 01 borax powdered, fleda
half a drachm. of 612301.13 Mix then.
Mighty, and lot it stand in a bottle
for three days; it will then Ito at for
use, clad should be rubbed 011 the
face told hands at night before going
to bed.
To eieee white mint eul: into
shreds 2 ez, of soap, poet' over it
half a gallon of boiling writer, add
pinch of borax and two tablespoon -
fete of peraffin, When cool take 0,
piece of flannel, Wet,the paint, tub
lightly, and dry with eloao cluster.
The -dirtiest paint Nell 1 theri, look like
noW, Colored paint should be
land with paraffin.
Tinetttre of Myrrh IS eXcallertt 00
THE S. S. LESSON',
INTERNATIONAL X.ESSON,
(711X,Y 10,
Text of the Lesson, X. Kings xii.
29-38, Golden Text, I.
Sohn. v., 21.
The Lord, the Clod of Israel, ha(
jest givon to Jeroboam the 0.
tribes to lie 11111 /i1110001, ‚(031, 11
a55'1011111') that 11' 110 would be 016011
telt end do right 111 the sight of the
I.ord lie would be with hist and
bend him a sure house fehapter xi.,
20-38, and especially verse 38), but
ut 3111 very beginning of bis reign,
as reendbel in to -day s lesson, 11
turned his back upon Clod, as 1
there wee no God and 1318 03711 111111f
hod got him all ON, llis tweed i
summed up in the words which tus
ropeahel mom than twelve thnes it
the two boolcs of KingS, "Jerebouni
lhou son or Nebel, who Made isroe
to sin." ,(f. .Kings xlv., 10; xv., 20
!3 1; see., lit, 26, ete.)
IBoth Shechorn end lesmel. mention
;Kt In the first 0E9941 Of our lesson as
having been built by Jeroboam, bad
, been laid In ruins in 111,, clays of the
'Judges (Judges Yin., 17; ix., 43,
A 0 1 At 1,11113he13the I ord first 01)-
- peered to Abrout in the land, and
there Abram built his first: altor 3101
00 the Lord (Cen. x11., 0, 7). There
lie the Menem of .101,:eph anstiling, the
resurrection of the just, and tilors
the Lord Jesus first announced Hint-
seIf I18 lho Messiah (Josh. sole., 32;
!John iv), At Pollee the Lord 'wrest -
;lea with Jamb and broke 11101 down
land blessEel hhn as ha clung to Him
in conscious wealcnese, and changed
Ids name to Israel (Gen. xxxii., 25,
30, 31).
1 Jerohoatn waited not for the emus-
,
,sel of (Lod, 210 condemned the coun-
sel of the Most Iligh (Ps. evi., 13;
, wan, 11.) Ho took counsel, but not
, of God, for he desired none of Ocul's
couusel (Tea. xxx., I; Provo I, BO).
'IM devised of 1115 own heart this
great sin (verse 33). He seemed
wholly unconscious of the fact that
Clod gave him the kingdom and fan-
cied that he must take care of this
own lifo and the kingdom, too; so
ho said, If they go to Jerusalem to
worship they will turn back to the
king of Judah and kill me' (versos
(1, 7). The thought of helping the
Lord to manage His affairs by some
help or advice of ours is very old.
Abram and Isaac and Rebekah and
J amb all tried it. Simon Peter
elso was not wanting in this line of
things, and there are many who still
thialc that without some of their
common sense and good judgment
the Lord will hardly be able to ac-
complish His purposes, WIII the
Lord's people never learn to obey
Prot', iii., 5, 0?
Jeroboam must have known the
story of tho golden calf in the wil-
derness Which .Aaron made and of
the thousands who fell because of
that sin, yet he disobediently, de-
liberately and presumptuously come
mits tho same sin and proclaims the
same lie (verse 23; Ex. xxxii„ 4, 3),
If any 0110 had reminded hlm of
God's Judgment upon Israel and had
suggested that his present conduct
woe both dangerous and openly wick-
ed he might have replied, if he had
the wisdom of some professed de-
fenders of tho faith to -day; "Oh,
'that was 500 years ego, and uot do
not know whether there was any
truth lit 311 00 110t. 'l'ht 38 011 old
story end perhaps only Et traditiou.
Look at those idol groves end high
plot% o» Olivet which the great
Solomon bent for his wives. Lind
where Ito worshippe1 also, anti yet
he prospered and died peaccs'ulty."
jeroboam bail the epirit. of C'ain,
who preferred •1118 own thoughts and
ways to those of Clod an11 feared not
to disobey. • When he said to the
pooplo. "IL 18 too much for yen to
go up to Jerusalem" (verso 231 he
talked like the devil In the garden of
Eden when he suggested to Eve that
God denioncled too much of 1100, 01'
1011011 110 suggested to Admit that it
Was too leech soli denial not to take
Idiot garment and gold. or when ho
suggested to the Lord al,sus through
Sinarn Pmer that it Was too much
for Iltm to think of suffering and dy-
ing at Jerusalem. 'The detll is ever
talking on the same lines. lie SOSO
10 19 too ninth for you to go 'twice
to church on Sabbath or to go SO
far to church at all; too much to
51011 yourself up on 81111dny 1011011
yen have been shut up in the store
Or °ince all 1110 week; too much to
ask you to give back to God am; of
your hard earned money when yott
seed it all, and more, for yourself
arid family.
Think of a golden Loth at 33e11,el,
whore the Lord hail revealed Him-
self to Jacob in the visioa of the
hulder, Contramt this work of sin-
ful hands with the God of Jacob and
UM ministry of holy- angels. What
a desecrater of holy pleees and
things this num was who had sold
himself to do evil in the sight of
tlio Lord! (II Kiegs xvii, 17.) .
EAlibIEST LIOEKSE LAWS
Fotra T3'3'01ISAND ynAns AGO,
zzr BABYLON,
Kow021 AneMnt King Leaked/
After the Wine
Sellers.
The London Da By Mtn gives
Irttusinlian of the laws: relating to
n liquor trade that were promule
Etal,s1 by tha greet, legislator Effitine
_ eittrobi, King (11 Ilab)ion, about the
. .
These laws sere engraved upon
0311 diorite volutun, Nthich wao plata-
tat to a P110011110111; 1/1,1191 ill ills toms
pie of 11.1 Merodnell at Bubylon. 333
371144 SO M/100.1 dist Hume who lied Es
11 legal rose inieio, embe tlierp Rad C011 -
Etat "Ilia standard lita'-book-401, the
1 words of the hisg ere : "The appress
S tied o ne 10110 11119 11 case at law, let
' 11101 meat. and teed Ley si els 1,11(1
1 ponder on iny pioelmis words, and.
. ray stele shall make hie teem. Meer Le
I him, his right. Ito shall 8111, sod MS
. heart sltall be widened." No form
of Babylonian Iifti was negleeted in
this est reately comprehmisive rude 131
Babylonian legislation.
FIXED CITA 111 fOS,
RUSSIAN E001) STORES.
Tho Ruesians have taken the most
remarlcable secrot precautions for the
proVisioning of their troops. At in-
tervals of about, a quarter of a mile
along the greater part of the entire
length of the Siberian railway stores
of concentrated food have been buri-
ed on each side or the line, each de-
posit being enough to Initintain 13
company—said te bo 290 men—for a
week. The position of these provisi-
ons is not known to tho sergeants or
captains, but only to the command-
ants, who have the information in
ciphee, Thoy Etre undo' 1.110 strict-
est orders to resort to these supplies
only when it is absolutely unavoid-
able,
FORTUNATE TOWN,
Baroa Heierich Liebig, head of the
Men of johnint Liebig and Co., who
died recently in Prankfort, has left
in WEE will 5200,000 to the peer
01 Reichenberg, his native town. In
addition, he has givra tho town
his rateable collection of Natives
(worth the ennui 11 311011111), his villa,
his Frankfort house, end some of
his landed property, The Reichert -
berg ithrerst end reading -room has
been also endowed, and Mt:eget/ler
the tetra has inheited 0 seto tit
It is not enough foo him to dee-
pise the only true God, the God of
israelaind the Holy City and 0110
telltale, the only appointed place of
sacrifice, bet he also despises God's
diosen priesthood and sels up one of
his own, There /11.0.7 be man nin(1(7
priests, so called, even sow, who
worship golden eagles and aro 10
God's sight of the lowest of the peo-
ple, Lot us rejoice that Clod takeS
the lowest Emil most 81111311 and by
the 'blood of the Lamb makes thou
true priests nnto Himself and givee
them the essurallee that they shall
yet reign With Christ on earth (Rev.
1, 9, (1; v, 0, 10).
Moses dtd not. ordain Nests or
priests or am•thing in (mi)Iim! ion
with the labereacle worship. God
did sal, But this num takes 1110
place of tied and 111(11,0(08 God, make
Ing es think of IL Mess. ii, 4. No-
tice in the last two veesos of our
leseon the repeated phrese "whim so.,
EMI made" nnd compare in Dem 311,
which the king had set up," and let
us beware of 211011 1/1111 "1110111/0
rJ0d,"
The fees of doctors, the wages 01
servants, the him of beasts of burs
den, implements, etc., are all Ivo-
Inted by royal statute, I3 is there -
'fore, not sinTelsing that tho trade
in intoxicating liquors should re -
cove attention, and the laws, of
which WO give here a fae-sinalle, are -
four in number, and fenn elauses
100-100 el the code. The transla-
tion of the four clauses is as fol-
lows
I. 11 a wine merchant (female) for,
the price of drink does not take corn,
but takes sliver by the great stone,
and the tariff of drink—makes small-
er than the price of corn; that wine
merchant shall be called to accounts
and they shalt throw her into the
water.
2. If a wine merchant permits riot-
ous persons to assemble in her house
and those riotous persons 'drag not
seize and take them to the palara
(guard room), that wine merchant •
shall be put to deatli.
3. If a devotee or the wife of a
god, who in the temple precincts
does not reside, opens a wine shop.
or even enters into a wine shop that
female shall be burned.
4. 11 a. wine merchant for sweet
drink (gives) sixty quarts for thirst .
at, harvest time 50 Ka of grant she
shall take.
SA1,IE OLD Tnoumrs.
Such were tho licensing laws,
Babylonian cities some four thou-
sand years ago, and it must be said
that many of the difficulties of the
trade were even then known and log -
Misted for. The clause relating to
the price of wheat was in order to
stop tlie custom of cheating the cus-
'touters who did not Icnow the rev -
Mr tariff of corn 'fixed by "the law
of the kingON As to, the law as to
riotous or noisy characters, it is
drastic in compelling the publican to
perform the duties of the pollee 'and
lock his unpleasant customers up.
The law as to the prohibition of .
women couneeted with the teraples
trading or entering wine shops was
due probably to the fact that they,
did not bear a very savoury name,
and so would be unfit places for
theee devoted females.
RUSSIA'S AWAKENING.
Startling Signs of a New Spirit
of )Freedom.
In Russia it is the government only
that sleeps, 'Pilo people are awake
and astir, says the author of "Great -
1 or Russia." They are milking new
demends and feeling a new freedom
which is apparent evory day is tht
absence of the former rigid represe
Mon, and in the frequent indulgence
in license that is miscalled liberty.
Ona will sometimes see on the pal-
ace quay ill St. Petersburg a lino of
people waiting for the steamer to
take them to the islands. Along
tomes some high official who, instead
of awaitin(1 his turn, drives to the
head of the Ulm and crowds in ahead
of the others. Formerly such an 00-'
131100011130 Wouid have been received in
.51101113o Lis a, wetter of course, but
now the poople hiss and denounce thit
official, and police do not interfere.
lf a street -car is delayed for a
connection ot 801110 transfer -station,
the passengers often become riotous
and demand their fare baelc, or be-
gin to pound on the floor and even
break windows until the pollee make
the driver go ahead without. waiting
for the other air; and he is not al-
lowed to stop again 110141 ho reach-
es his destinatioo,
31 an officer remonstrates with a
street -car conductor for lack of court-
esy to Et paisenger the crowd will
at once interfere, and even the of-
fended passenger tures on him. The
°facer is told to give his orders to
soldiers who have to obey, not to
free sten who do not, aud not to in-
terfere between men who aro as good... -
as he is,
These are trilling things in 011e101
8olves, says the traveller, but to -
one who has long known Russia
they are startling signs of a new
spirit of froeclont,
--*--_-
131.1JEBEARD A REAL HEIRS.
The oeiginal Bluebeard et nursery
loro Was Gilles, Martinis do Laval
and marshal of Frame, He Was n
fearless general, attd greatly diw,
tinguished Mines:It undor Cheeks VI,
end Charles VIT„ but, his bravery
Was completely cielipted by his cruel-
ty and Wickedness. Wherever ho
west.110. Wes folloWed by his band of
tteters, eorcerers, puke ot hounde,
and crowds of retainers. It wan said
that ha would gain the love 'of young
boys and girlii told then kill them in
order to obtain thell" blood for 01-
e1stitatione and charmS. Tho Mike
of Bentley, against whom, he had
committed crinio of state, con -
drained him to be burnt alive at
Nantes, but later he took pity on
hint and renlitted• Ole senienee se
that he Wats strangled before ho was
burned,.