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THE GREATEST FAMILIES
Are Proud of Their Descent From Some
One Man Who Was a Nobody.
(altered ecenreteg to Act of the Par- enough to find that some one else is
element of Oilman in the year one
his master his nerve is forever
gone." "How true in Iffe is that! '
I said to niyeelr. Then 1 pictured
tliat noble dog of jack London's in
his "Call of the Wild," Ile was a
big, lovable, brave dog. but no
00011e1' W71S he sent north than be
was clubbed until his spirit was
broken. What then? ITe whined and
whimpered like a frightened papPY.
So salmi mem_ noble men, brave men
in their yootli, become failures as
middle aged men. Why? 'Because
they are battered and pounded by
struggle after struggle and defeat
after defeat. Tlwy are halted in their
progress through life by obstacles
Practically impossible to overcome
until at last their _courage and nerve
ant( fighting manhood practically
ooze away. 0 man, be not puffed
up in your OW17 conceit on account
of your seining triumphs in life!
You and 1 iu a sense have both suc-
ceeded not 'because we are smarter
tlian all mem but' because God has
given to us chances of euccess which
he has withheld from men who were
just as smart and just as diligent
and brave and as conscientious as
ever we have been.
Thomann Nina Hundred and lone,
by Wia. Moly, of Toronto, at the
Deentroucut of Agriculture, oteaera.)
A despatch from Los Angeles, Cal„
says: Rev. Frank De Witt Talinage
preached from the following text:—
Proverbs xetix., 23, "A matis pride
hall bring him low."
The word "pride" in this age may
sometimes be used in a good sonstt.
In Bible times it always bad a de-
based meaning. Searching through ft
concordance I cannot lind one place
where that word "pride" WitS not
Wed as the symbol of "0111" end con-
demned as the cause of sin. God
'denounces it all through the Old
Testament. God hurls at it his exe-
crations all through the New, Arro-
gance and pride compose the quick-
sands which have destroyed many an
immortal soul ha the past. They' are
,the insidious 113ea210 whereby Satan
ts tripping up and manacling his
helpless victims at the present time.
Therefore this sinful pride, whicli is
found nestling hi many hearts as a
fatal cancer, must be cut out or
some of us Will be forever lost.
PRIDE OF LINEAGE.
First, consider the silliest of all
kinds of pride, that of aristocratic
lineage. The spoiled infant in its
canopied bed, screaming for the at-
tention of its nurse, is not more of st:
nuisance than are these people who
strut through the world claiming the
' homage of their fellows because of
their having been born in an aristo-
, cratie home. It cries, "Bow low to
ine, not because I have brain or have
' accomplished anything, not because
I am of any earthly 1.1S0 to anybody,
but because my father or grandfather
or great-grandfather has accomplished
something to make his name famous
or because my great-grandmother had
in her veins the blood of the Euro-
pean aristocracy." Listen to the
babblings of one who would continu-
ally shake before our eyes a single
branch of his ancestral tree which
happened to bear a few fragrant
blossoms while on that sone genes -
logical tree are hundreds of other
branches which have borne nettling
but worm-eaten fruit, and which
branches have been gnarled and
twisted for generations and for cen-
turies.
Have you ever stopped to consider
how many 'different ancestors emu
have had? My parents were two in
number. 1 had one father and one
mother. But, stepping back another
generation, I find I had four grand-
parents ancl eight great-grandparents
and sixteen great -great- grandparents
and thirty-two great -great -great-
grandparents. .And so back and
back they go, doubling with each
generation. A. few hundred years
back I find my ancestors were not
counted by the tens. hut by the thou-
sands. Now, my friends, what right
has a, man with fatnily pride to fol-
low up one brancli of a genealogical
;tree that lands him in a king's
throne room or in an earl's palace
and ignore the hundreds of other
ancestral lines, any 0210 of which
'would land him in a peasant's hut
or perhaps even at the end of a
hangman's noose? For, though some
of us may not have hail ancestors
who were hanged, all of us have
had plenty of them who ought to
have been hanged if they had been
treated as they deserved. Thus,
when we estimate how anany differ-
ent ancestors We all liaye had, both
gSlati and bad, there is a groat deal
of broad cotrimon sense in the answer
which Theodore Roosevelt gave to
Orle of his boys who had boasted in
school about his family. The Prost -
bent said: "There are only two
>dosses of boys in this world, my
son. Big boys and small boys alike
are either good boys .or bad boys, It
does not make very much difference
from what family you spring, if you
aro a good boy the world will re-
spect yell and if a bad boy the world
will punish you and despise you."
CIRCUMSTANCES MAKE MEN.
Circumstances make men just the
same es men make circurastences.
Mellen I was lately thinking upon thie
theme my eye involuntarily wandered
down a country road to a big white
barn Where livery is kept and
horses are rented for tlie day. About
one of these horses a young mar.
was working. Who is he? TIe is a
young man who for years has wanted
to be a lawyer. But he is the oldest
son of a Mrge family of children.
His father was a farmer in the east.
There that father's 13ealtli broke
down, and 110 bad to come to Cali-
fornia climate or lie must die. En
bought some lancT there. After
awhile two years of drought came
on, and he was ruined, Then ;that
father Was confined three Years in an
invalid's bed. Then that oldest son
had to spring into the breach, Tre is
there yet. In the breach. The bread
of his mother, his father end the
children Was for yearn dependent up-
on flint oldest boy and his work. The
'horses of the farm were merely
changed during the drought int° the
horses of a public livery. 11 you and
I had been 111 that oldest boy'ei place
Would We not have done just the
name 22.8 lie 2)12)? WOUlti Inc be where
We are to -day?
Men make circumstances. Net al-
weyri. 'Some time ago when seated
in a rnilroad train I rend a news-
pnper article in refeeenec to one of
the notorious pligilists of the coun-
try. Title article Went something
thls: 'Sir. So-and-so will Myer
ronotint to anything rtgain in the
roped areen, I3eettuee he lute
been tteice Whipped. A man is like
dog; Whorl be has beet beaten
empty yourself of Self and 00 21 stu-
dent come and sit at Chriet's feet
you might learn so much from him
who ware nmele and lowly of heart
that you would have a less exalted
estimate of yourself and of your
own wisdom and piety. 1 personnlly
would never have any use for ft 121V-
51210.11 who thinks he knows so much
that in the Melt; of disease he would
not ask another physician to come
to the bedside of the siek for vonsul-
tation. Neither has Christ any use
for one of his disciples who knows
so much that he is not willing to
come 'to si1 at his feet and 1011111 of
him. Are you ready to -day to empty
yourself of self and be as an empty
vessel to be filled with the Holy
Spleit?
oh. 1111111, will you yield up your
pride for Christ'? Will you be as a
little child at his feet? Will you
say, "Mester, T am nothing, but thou
ar1 all in all?" May God grant
that the bane of sinful pride shall
here and now forever be east out of
every oily of our hearts. "A nutn's
pride shall bring him low, but honor
shall uphold the humble 111 spirit."
ALL WERE GENTLEMEN.
It is too often forgotten that ar-
rogance and pride are sins inthem
selves. The lofty spirit which boasts
that it is free from the guilt of others
and holds aloof from the repentant
sinner, whom it surveys with scorn,
Is not that pride a most heinous sin
in the sight a a just God? During
the darkest days of the French revo-
lution of 1880 a great mob 01112801' -
gents and rioters were blockading the
l'arielan streets. "It is useless to
appeal to their reason. They have no
reason," said (tonere' Lafayette, the
conimantler of the national guard,
which ultimately placed Louis Phil-
ippe upon the French throne. "Shoot
thent down like 'dogs." "Let me,
general, try to scatter them," said
a stall officer to his commander. The
young man took' off his hat and rode'
up to the threatening mob. Then be
cried, "All gentlemen will please to
retire, for I am ordered to shoot
down the rabble." At once the mob
scattered. "Not," wrote the his-
torian, "from fear, but because not
one of those fierce rioters wanted the
people of France to consider that he
belonged to the scum mettle off scour-
ings of the nation.'i Because arro-
gant pride considers herself different
from the repulsive hags of sin does
that make her different? 1 tell thee
nay. The vilest and the most de-
graded forms of sin are not more
condenmed In God's sight than the
sin of the Pharisee. Christ said it.
We must believe it.
Who is this Pharisee of old modern-
ized into the language of the church
life of to -day? Let nie describe him
as you have often seen him. Sunday
morning is here. The supercilious
creature crawls out of bed. Ile must
go to church. It is part of his reli-
gion to go to, church, Every one
says he is One of the pillars of the,
church. Fre dislikes the word "(311 -
lar" because for a. long time he has
thought he is the whole sanctuary, I
choir loft and pulpit thrown In as!
well as pew,
Ile has hard work to get up this
morning because all the week, like,
Shylock, he has been demanding hist
pound of flesh. Re gave a hundred
dollars to the church last week, but
he did not miss it much. He took
it off the wages of his employees.
During the week, by business tricks
and financial thumb-serewe, he got at
least, four different pieces of real es-
tate $5,000 less than they were
worth. Fre liee about the deal, but
of course he only lied according to
recognized business custom. Last
night he discharged a young girl be-
cause she was sick. He knew what
made her sick. Ile worked her over-
time and worked all the physical
life out cf her.
PHILLIPS BROORS' ADVICE.
How do you know that your own
church le the best church and the
only true church? Have ('OU ever
studied the ways and the means
other ministers are using in our sis-
ter churches? it would be n good
thing for you to warseip in some
other church for a little while before
yen are so quick to condemn their
ways of doing things. "Other sheep
have I which are not of this fold,"
said Christ. One of the best teethe
I ever rend from the pen of that
great, big hearted and nelde Chris-
tian, the most beloved New England -
el, of Ms day, Phillips Brooks, was
from a letter lie wrote to a nein is-
terial friend In America. The let. -
ter went something line this 1 "Dear
brother, you ought te come ()rot' to
Europe at least once e. year to lind
out how the big world is, how many
people there are in it trying to do
right and how small the Episcopalian
elturch seems looked at from this side
of the Atlantic." You can suemise
whet Phillips Brooks meant. ITe
meant instead or there being only
one church filled with gloriously good
peopie there were many different
Protestant churches filled with just
as good people as Phillipr Brooks
had in his own parish.
now do you know that your way
of bringing im your children is the
only right way? lInve you thacloped
your family 140 MOVV01011sly that
they aro brighter thee ell other
chi ldren, more intellectual, mom
erdeiteal? Perhaps instead or your
('111 1111'131 being 121111tted for doing
wrong you Ought to be blamed. Yoint
wny diseipline nuly be wrong.
Broaden your life. Study the weye;
of other Christian parents and you
may be able to IMProve your own
'Tow do you knoW that your Own
intorprotatten Of the Scripture te
pie) f,? Verhapri if you would only
'TINTS TO II ODSEWIYES.
To re1110V0 the odor of fish or on-
ions from a frying pan, put a little
vinegar into the Pan and heat it over
the fire.
Clean the sink with kevosene, ap-
plying the oil on a cloth, and you
will find that dirt and gretlf8.1 are re-
moved as if by magic.
Don't waste old 'velveteen. Wash
it and then use it for polialiing silVer
or glass. It is an excellent substi-
tute for wash leather as a plate
cleaner.
To clean japanned trays, rub u-ith
a Clot 11 on which a few drops 01 oil
have been sprinkled, and then polish
with a soft, clean Piece of flannel.
For cleaning enamel baths, take
one tablespoonful of dry salt mois-
tened with spirits of turpentine. Reb
this well in the bath, which must be
quite dry. Then rub over with a
clean cloth,
it is very difficult to dry the inside
of a mincing machine to prevent
rusting. The best way to clean it
after usieg is to grind some stale
pieces of bread through it. This will
be found to collect all grease, Mt
and skin from the small toffees. Then
wipe with a clean chh.
Many of the beet housekeepers have
forsworn the use or stove polish on
the kitchen range, excepting once or
twice in a season, and grease the
monarch of the kitchen instead. Once
a week the stove is washed off in
greasy water, and on the days be-
tween is merely wiped with a greasy
cloth
To whiten linen a little pipe -clay
dissolved in the water used in wash-
ing 1 111011 saves a great deal of labor
and soap, and cleanses the dirtiest
linen thoroughly. This method Is
specially useful in towns where out-
door bleaching is generally an im-
possibility.;
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SELECTED 1111CI1'ES.
Chestnut Croquettes.—Remove the
0110115 from any desired amount or
eintstnuts. Pear OWer them boiling
water to remove the husks, Cook
well by boiling in plain wale, drain,
inash like potatoes, and Neilson with
11)100a1 tt ig)eg0.li
11Petialet natnod r0egl 1 a rwseilzLe-
croquettes, putting four seedless rai-
Ina (that have been steeled in hon-
ing water to swell them) in the mid-
dle of each croquette. Roll in beat-
en egg and cracker crumbs, and fry
la deep fat, Seeve at once. This
is fine with quail or any bird,
To Prevent Cheese levoin Molding—
Make a strong brine of 0114 parteetea-
ter, half a cup er C011n11011 snit., and
teaspoonful of flour, Stir well, and
when dissolved, wring a soft cloth
out of this water, and put 01-01' 1110
cheese and it will not mold.
111(1214 Butter.—Black butler, brown
butter, or burnt butter—as it is var-
iously called—is made by putting
'butter in a pan and slowly heating
until it terns a deep brown color.
That process should be slow, and the
butter should not be allowed to cook
to such an extent that it is black,
or even nearly so, or it will be too
bitter to use. While cooking, it
should be shaken often or stirred fre-
quently, as the froth which covers
the surface may give rise to' the
thought that it Is still yellow. 9:10
convert it into a satice, cook the but, -
ter slowly until ol the requisite color
and throw in quickly an equal quan-
tity of vinegar, and boil lip once.
The sauce is then ready for use.
Stuffed Potatoes.—Ilemove six po-
tatoes froin OVen when perfectly bak-
ed. Cut off the tops and carefully,
remove the inside; mash with butter,
cream, salt, and pepper; replace in
the empty shells, piling high. Brush
over the tops with niched butter,
and brown in the oven.
Creamed flashed Potatoes.—Deli-
elous creamed hashed potatoes are
prepared as follows : Boil small po-
tatoes with theie skins on. Alter
boiling, let them get very cold, then
peel them, and chop Nen'y fine in a
chopping bowl. For a pint of chop-
ped potatoes melt a heaping table-
spoonful of butter in a saucepan,
then drop tho potatoes in; pour in
enough cream to cover the potatoes,
season with a little salt, and let
them simmer over a slow fire, mail
the cream is absorbed; then serve in
a hot dish.
Potatoes Au 0 ratin.—One table-
spoonfel butter, one-half cupful of
grated cheese, one tablespoonful of
salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of pep -
Per, one pint of cold boiled potatoes.
Make a white sauce with the butter, ed mires.
flour, milk, and seasoning. Dice the Almost without exception, as he
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HEALTHIEST TRADE.
The best and healthiest trade in
the world is that of dye -making from
coal tar. There is no manual work
that comes near it, for tar and the
smell of it is the best of all tonics
and tissue-build.ers. The average life
of a tar -worker collies out at eighty-
six yeare. tithe mortality is eighty
per cent, lower than in anY other fac-
tory trade, Malignant diseases aro
almost unknown in aniline dye fac-
tories, elect even in epidemics the
workers suffer very little. And there
is nothing like a tar -works for keep-
ing off intluenea. Yet the worlc of
actually making the tar, which falls
to the gas end coal works, is viru-
lently unhealthy, because of the sul-
phur fumes; but when the tar is "fin-
ished" it brims witb health and
strength, and the weakliestmn. e 1111"
pr041) While Working 11. Flighty -six
years is a marvellous average when
we remember Unit the average length
of life for the whole population is
only forty-nine.
NOT A FAVORITE BREE'D.
Lovers of good, plain clogs, which
have been allowed to grow naturally,
will epprecinte the story of the Eng-
lish pettier who went to a dealer in
dogs and thus described what he
wanted:
"Ili wants a kind of dog about so
-igh an' fro long, Hit's n kind of
gry'ouncl, an' yet it ain't a gry'-
ound, becuuse 'is tyle is eliorter 2101.
any o' thee° 'ere gry'ounds. an"is
nose is shorter, fot"o ain't so slim
round the body. But still 'tes a kind
odr,' gsgrer'oland. Do you 'keep such
"No," replied the dog man. "We
drowns tem."
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COLLECTIN(3 OLD DOORS,
Near Ponterfact, England, lives a
banker who lies a 11)115011)11 of old
doors. They are from old hoieles,
castles, or abbeys that have some his
torte interest. Quite lately he bid
.11,01.0 in Paris for a door through
width, during the French Revolution,
Marie Antoinette, Clinrlotte Corday,
Denton, and Robespierre passed to
the guillotine. One of kis doors is
said to have shut oil Charles IT. from
his lioundhend pursuers, and it bears
marke .or 0 eattering-ram, A collee-
Von of ancient weathercocks is also
one of this gentlemen's possessions,
A VAIMTLY DAY.
In the church at Sucsany, Austria,
Trete' and leree Mhos, senior, cele-
brnt ed their golden wedding; 1 hie r 14011
Mal 1111124 and his wire their silver NVed-
ag and he la t ter's cla ngh t er was
merried, all on the same day. An-
other gandehlid of the old people, flie
bride's brother, rend the service as
priest ror the first time.
Eminent Ilerrister (hoe areived
110100 ftenn 11111 criminal (4olirt.)--"My
dear, y011 had bettor 100c 111) every-
thing in the house, and put, the sil-
ver in the safe," WIre—"Why?" Ens.
Mont BarrIstee—"Well, the notorioue
burglar I got: oil to-tley may be coin-
ing round to then]: me fee my inlet
015610 epeeeli for his (laterite,"
ness. and this is especitillY true 01
milk. (1 lasswa re 31.11),1- be kept beau-
tifully clean by washing through a
warm pearline suds and then rineing
in clear 20111111 22,110ri and if an ex -
tea shine is deeired, dampen a soft
elolleewith the spirits of wine, rub
the Riess well with this and polish
with a clean dre' leather, Nothing
repays one so well for the time spent
upon it, as shining glees and there le
certainly, nothing that adds so much
to the appearance of the table and
gives it, 81101 an air or refinement 115
Sparkling glass and poll:Med (hellos,
and the glass‘vare can be kept clean,
no matter what the financial circum-
stances of the family may be.
—4.
MINERS' MEDICINE ORE
TrAs IVIANY OF' PROPERTIES
OF RADIUM.
Crowds Anxious to Work In
Mines Where It Is to .Be
Rediumite is the name which has
been given to a strange mineral po5.
semsing peculiar medicinal propertiere
which le being found 111 several of the
large nlines in the neighborhood of
Butte, 111-021 aria,
For years the diggers employed in
the mines there have been aware of
the presence of ratlitunite In the
u•orkings, and have become acquaint-
ed with one or two of its peculiari-
ties,
They called it "medicine ore'' and
"rheumatism rock," end have been
in the habit of carrying bits of it in
their pockets at all times. They be-
lieve it is a sure cure for "miners'
consumption." rheumatism, stomach
ailments, kidney disease, and various
nervous disorders.
The Butte medicine ore poseesses
the strange quality of emitting a
brilliant light under very slight fric-
tion by some metallic substance, or
even with a finger -nail. The light
is called a "cold fire" because there
is abeolutely 110 heat to it, mid its
displays are more brilliant under wa-
ter than out of it.
MIGHT CONTAIN RADIUM',
While the Paris scientists were
making their wonderful experiments
with radlium it occuered to a miner
that the little lumps of "medicine
ere" might contain the rare etement
discovered by the Curies, and in that
way aceemit for the cures and the
faith of the miners.
Finally specimens of the ore were
sent to Paris anti other great labora-
tories; but while reports were being
awaited from them a Dr. (1. 3). Bry-
ant, of Butte, became interested in
the story of the miner, and he con-
ducted a series of experiments along
an entirely different line, pronapted
only by eidiosity. Ile wondered if
there NVaS any- bases for the. belief of
the neiners that the "medicine ore"
could mu'e anything, and he began an
• • le Vol al 0 nember of report -
potatoes, In a baking dish put alter-
nate layers of potatoes, cheese, end
sauce, making the last Myer sauce.
Put one teaspoonful of butter in a
saucepan; when melted, add one-half
cup of bread crumbs and stir until
the butter is absorbed. Sprinkle
this over the potatoes and brown in
a quick oven,
Crowning Raw leolatoes,—Cut six
raw potatoes into dice. Boil ten
minutes in boiling salted water,
DraM otT the water. Add milk to
cover, and let simmer 'until potatoes
are tender. Then add teaspoonful of
butter, chopped parsley, and pepper.
Shake well and serve.
Potato Pyramid,—Choose small,
round potatoes of even size, pare
them delicately, drop in cold water
as pared, and let stand an hour.
Drain and dry, then drop into deep
fat, boiling hot, and fry to a rich
Sound, men and women who ennead
the mineral claimed to have dgriVOCI
benefits from it, and could not be
ridiculed out of the idea that it was
a curative as well as a preventive.
T3IIS'PS WITH PATIENTS,
Then Ile made tests on patients of
his 02017, with results that puzzled
and astonished liim, if they eild rot
convince him. He made (4 reeort of
his investigations and conclusions to
his fellow-physleians, and then the
story of radiumite created 11 sensa-
tion.
Since then doctors and scientists
from rill parts of the world have
taken en interest in it, al1C1 many
have visited Butte to investigate for
themselves.
The people of Butte are beginning
to take an extraordinary interest in
the search for the neW 111edICIne,
golden brown. Ski111 out, drain on miners "ye given up positions to
blotting paper laid over a, hot plate, I search for the ore, and superinten-
-: I dents of several mines where it has
then pile pyramid fashion on a nap-
kin laid over a hot dish. Stick sprigs been found are besieged with aPPli-
Sick and decrepit
cants for jobs.
111011 beg permission to work where
the medicine ore isdeposited.
of parsley, crisped in the hot fat and
well clrained, in the toP and arouncl
the Moto. Serve 05 het rig possible.
Baked Onions.—Peel large mild on-
ions—Spanish ones are best—tut a
v -shaped piece out of the hearth, and
set them in a pan. 10111 the cut out
places with butter, well >reasoned
with salt and poppere-mustard also
if the flavor is approved. »retlge well
with flour, then ndd water 01' weak
broth to half c,over the onions; set
them in n. Very hot °Veil, and bake
until tender. Baste once or twice
with liquor in the pan. After tak-
ing up eut each anion half After
taking up cut each onion through
downwatel and put 0 dab of egetter in
the cut, before sending to table.
CARE OF GLASSWARE.
There is nothing that conduces
more to a, dainty table than shining
glass, and the commonest kind of
glassware um be made to look beau-
tiful by careful handling' 1101 proper
washing, and where there are crevices
on the outside of the dish or any
article there will be more cnre need-
ed to Reep 1110111 bright wed shinning.
R'eshion not only, allows but favors
odd pieces and even the cheap ware
will compare fa.vornbly with the best
cut glass if the dishes are kept shia-
ingly clean, Carafes, cruets and
similar artielom may be cleaned with
potato peelings or crushed egg e010115)
Thsey are put in 1110 bottle with
plenty of hot suds and allowed to
remein over night, then the bottle
muse be given a vigoroue shaking
and thorough rinsing. In wasliMg
glassware, avoid lon sudden (hang
from cold to heat, Eta eXperienCe
n4'oVe8 111141 the Short life of many
attieler: of fine glessware is dee lb
the abrupt charges of the tempera -
tum of the waters in which they arc
washed mul rinced. Tf the glass
Stopper cannot, be removed' from n,
bottle, tie a 1251110 string onCe arollnd
Gut neck of the bottle and begin to
Elar/ backward and forward, .fn tt
few minutes the ginss will
get Very hot, and the 51011ne1'
may be easily removed, Before
washing glassware, rince out every
p12e1.1010 or milk, (reit 01' Et rm.-thing
thnt is colored, as hot Water w111
sometimem drive the coloring matter
into the glaSS and ruin its bright.
AND LOBELIA WENT.
She—",John, how often aro you
sliaVed?" .
He—"Four times a week on an DX*
erage."
"How long does it take?"
''About half an hour."
"Hair an hour four times a week!
That's two hours a week, four and
one-third days in rt. year, and nearly
a month mid a lialf in ten years:
Think of it, Biltiger, If you should
101 yotni beard grow you would save
time enough in ten years—"
"Look here, how often do you dress
your hate?"
'Every day, of course; but that's
ditIeeent.''
"That's different is it, eh? It takes
you half an 110111' every blessed day
of your life to look after your friz-
tees, if that's what you call them.
Think of it, Half en limn' a day,
three hours and a half a week, nearly
eiglit days in a year, and an entire
month in four yews, awhole year in
forty-eight years, and over two
years lo a century! Lobelia, you'd
better go end look after the baby,"
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
OCT, 30.
Text of the Lesson, 11, Kings vi.,
8.23. Golden Text,
Ps. xxxiv.,
A good till, fur a large part of the
Illble would be "'Pier Lord God, the
Clod of lernel, who only (Meth won -
d ro 11 F••• 121 11(18,'' and every devou t
heart should ery; "Messed be }Ds
gloe10118 11211111' forever, anti 101 the
whole earth 110 11181 with lits glory.
111). 11'0l1( beffinntne: to ""(1 Mlle. Sarloveze, 011 113431112)111 14, Yturbe, a South American monkey;
Amen and Amen!" (
Immo is wonderful, and Ile is ever e„d 5(1 012.
doing wondroes things in love and The race aroused the
grace foe nod ehrougth the sinful sons exciting even than Ives anticipated,
wildest enthusiasm, and proved more
of men, lelislia, the man of Cod, is The young lion, stimulated bya.
still before us as 1101111(10 of whet dainty Mick wielded_ by his fair rids -
111(111 might and ought to be, for tivss, forged ahead at the start, but
while there is hut one perfect pat- growle so (1(1110)211 e12 his rivals that
i0111, the man Christ Jesus, there are for a time they :teemed paralyzed—air
(1) 11 1W Who niev be followed as far as except the tortoise, who plodded
steadily on until, half -way, he fell
soundly asleep on the course. At this
stage the monkey took the lead; bee
findin(1 a bantam pressing hini hard,:
he pausecl to wring tile bird's neelt—
"and then there 2110r0 nine." The
turkey overtook the beetle and sig-
nalized the event by gobbling Wm
up; and the monkey, taking advane
loge of his opportunity, \vela ahead,
and 20011 the ram, with Mr. Turkey
a Poor second, and
THE LION A )IAD THUM. 1
When :King Edward was last in
Egypt lie found much amusement in
12 similm. race, Which included a peli-
can driven by Lord Dunmore, an ose
trial Steered by General Dormer, a
pig by Captain Maxwell, a monkey.
piloted by Captain Rekewich, and of
Cairo dog, a turkey, and a cat, re-
spectively under the control of Cape
min Lewis, Colonel Sandwith, and
Major Campbell. The pelican start -
81 a. hot favorite; bet alas! for 1111,-
1111111 anticipations, while holding a
good lead he caught sight of water
Elisha for the king of Israel, and 1((02'2) g!promptlysiiefocartith
st; c'haetunce
by
also Elislia's own deliverance from
jumping on its Mick, and the ostrich
the king of Syria, reminding us of won with ridiculous ease from the
Ps. it.. 1-4; xxxlli., 10, 11. The pig—a heti seconel—aad the dog—a
child of Clod may well take real cora- woree third,
fort from such words as these; "No A ladies' race recently witnessed
weapon tliat is formed against, thee at Miaow was both novel and start -
shall prosper." "They that war ling in its developments. The foie
competitors raced to a line of bas-
kets placed across the course, and on
a given signal each raised the basket
in front of her. Surprise! delight!)
consternation! From under three
sprang up tiny recruit -boys, who pre-
sented pretty prizes to the fortun-
ate winners. while from the other
baskets e1)1e14ed a regular menageriee
LUME LAUGHABLE 'RACES
FASHIONABLE SPORT OF PAR, -
IS Alf» BERLIN,
Xing Edward, When in Egypt,,
Pound Much Amusement in
An Eccentric Race,
it Is not long &nee ten of the lead -
ors of eoviety in Paris organized a.
wonderful rave to determine the re-
lative speede of their respeutive pets.
The Beroness de fiercidielm's repre-
sentative was a tortolete the ,1')'l (1-
('0614 de Lticinge entered 0 112111 CU
the Countess Beauregard, 21. pant -
clearly adipose goose; Mlle, de
they (011021- Clod, but the very blessed
way is to see 110 one but Jesus only,
to run with patience, looking unto
Jesup (Mark 124., 8; Heb. ii., 1, 2);
to cease from man, and behold the
Lord (Ise, 11,, 22; 111., 3),
The opening 1'er5e8 of our chapter
tell of the new house by Jordan
which the 8005 of the prophets start-
ed to build because the place where
they dwell. with Elisha was too
strait for them. Whether there is a
hint liere or not that Mishit's holy
life was too narrow a way for them
I cennof sny, but one cannot forget
the incident of the search for Elijah,
because they wore not in full fellow-
ship, There is many a holy life to-
day that, is too great fi, trial even for
other believers in the same household
and God does not compel holiness,
so Elisha let them go and even went
with them to help them, for love is
always Rind even to thoso who Can-
not see ris we do,
Our lesson proper concerns the de-
liverance wrought by God throligh
against thee shall boas nothing and
as a thing of naught" (Ian live 17;
2110., 12). The king of Syria thought
to entrap the king of Israel, but the
latter being warned by Elisha, the
man in fellowship with God, saved
himself 1110111 the hands of the king
of Syria more then once, so that the
king of Syria thought that there
must surely be a traitor in his camp I Hero doves soared up into the sky,
who in, some wa,y—Fommtulicated his 1 there a cat bolted as if pursued bye':
plans to the king of Israel. When 1 hundred (10g5, 2011110 partridges, gs
.that it was not so, but that
amixed him and hares scuttled
AWAY INTO THE CROWD.
one of his servants
there Was a prophet in Israel who In Many country district in Ger-
many theve is held an annual ox -race
which attracts thousands of specta-
tors. Each ono is ridden bareback
by its OArner, Witliollt whip, spur,
yoke, or harness; and as the rnce is
across a field a 111110 wide, and the
eiders have only their voices to
guide the vagrant animals, the re-
sults ole often highly diverting, es-
pecially as the spectators can add to
the fun by >1.houting and gesticulating
at the oxen end doing their best to
divert them from the direct path.
oitn tleorlifajoguniatwooNeageentleg-Stili:-ultorn11;
championship wns decided in the pro -
5011(0 of 5,000 spectators. The thee
tance was approximately 220 yds,,
end the winner was found in a Ide
Boutin, who proved the swiftest of
sixty-seven competitors, and covered
the journey in 30 seconds. Bordeaux
ends its chief ,excitement in stilt-
coeld tell the king of Israel his
most secret words, then he de-
termined to la,y hands on the prophet,
and henring that he was at Do -
111(1031. he sent thither a. great host of
horses end cheviots, which' (011110 by
night and compassed the city about,
that they might capture the man of
Clod, but how 1-0111 are the thonghts
and purposes of men who Itnow not
God, The humble man of 'God is
perfectly quiet and unmoved, for he
S0011 another host af horses and Char-
iots which ordinary eyes cannot see.
Eis heart could truly sin(1, "I will
1)01 fear though an host should en-.
camp against me" (Ps, xxvii, 3).
"13ehold, Cod is my salvation; I will
trust and not be afraid" (Isa. xii,
2).
Not so his servant who cried,
'Alas,. my master; how shall we
!to?" AN aellani had become et leper,
P10'1'0' yet even Clehazi might well ' 11) a recent conMetilion
it was probable- some one in hist rne'sg'
hove been afraid, for he, too, if youth, Mane Martin, covered 275
child of God, was also wet Of fellow.
811111', 12110110 did 7101, reason or
argue with his servant, but with
these words essured and comfortoe
him, "Tiber not, for they that be
with us are more than they that be
with them" (verse 16), and then he
asked the Lord to open his servant's
eyes that he might see, and lie, too,
sew the mountain fell of horses and
chariots of fire roundabout Elisha.
in Rcan. viii, 26, 31, 34, we see
Clod for 115, for 'us, the Spirit
for 118, and WO have the beautiful
nssuring words, "If God be for us
Who ean be against us?" Yet we
ere slow to believe that all things
are Just as God says, NVe do well to
pray that God would enlighten the
eye>, of our Un[lerStan'cling that WO
May know what is the hope of our
calling and the riches of the glory
of 11 25 111h01'.1111,11C0 ill 1131 that Hs
would open our understandings that
we might nederstand the Scriptures
(RIM. 1, (8; Luke xxiv, 45),
Gott can as easily blind as open
eyes,• so, nt Elisha'e request, Ile
Whirled these Syrinns, and Elisha
brought them. to Samarin, to the
king of Israel, whom they were 1001 13/
seeking, for they only wanted Elisha
because he kept them from the king
of Israel. Again at the request of
171 021111( the Lord opened their clyee
and they found themselves in the
hands and at tha mercy or the king
of 'Israel, who, instend of smiting
1110111, EIS 1118 01511 heart SliggeS1Cfl,
a1 the weed of Elisha, fed 1110111 and
sent the01 home, thus conquering them
so that, for a time at least, the bands
of S?eria, came no 11101e into the
land of Tsrnel,
They acted according to Itom. 2411,
20, "lf thine enemy Mengel., feed
him; if he thieet, give hint drink, for
in so doing thou shalt heap coalS ot
tiro on his head." The Lord's further
deliverances and Ills kindness through
Ensile, to the woman of Siumem aro
reCOrded in the next two chapters,
but, whether famine or deliverance,
it is God 2Y0)'14 111(1 In all anti through
alt Sor Iris peopl0 and against Ills
enemies,
Deets Make alcohol, The converse
of this pmposition 121 also true.
Money that talks does little elm
Money that whispers re-echoes where
NONIONITIBLE FLANNELETTE.
Flannelette Is *used V01,3/ much in
England, on nceount of Rs sortness
and wermtli, for children's garments
and for nightgowns, Supposed fire -
resisting ingredients are generally
used in the nineufaciiire of flannel-
ette, bat, washing destroys thole Ilre-
resisting iwoperties, and the fabric
then becomes so highly inflatnable
that shocking accidents, some fatal,
are of frequent occurrence. lir. W.
II, Perkin, of Owens College, Mali -
('11024402', has invented a treatment for
flannelette which allows it to be
washed agent 111111 again, till thread.
bare, without becoming readily in-
thunahle, Not only this but the
substance used 114 said to have an an-
tiseptic va I ull*-11. MGM, 1171 por twit
property, since flannelette is 11111Ver-
811113/ worn next the skin, 'Details
or the inveinkm are not yet made
miles, in a shade over T6i hours,
using stilts 6 feet long and weighing
over 16 lb.; while a short dine ago
the"mayor of a small French town
organized a race among the local
drunkards—and won it himself.
+__
A rnonnsiNG CUSTOMER.
The brisk, well-dressed stranger
stepped into the chemist's shop and,
passing by the boy who usually at-
tended to castle] customers, approach-
ed the proprietor, who, with his bacle
turned, was re -arranging some goods
on 11 showcase.
"Me. Sawyer, I presume?" lie said,
pleasantly, and the druggist turned
and bowed gravely,
"I have heard my friend Councillor
13rown speak or you, often," said the
brie': man. "He told 1120 if over 1
needed enything in this line to come
to you, Ere spoke of you as a man
on whom one could rely with per-
fect confidence, who stocked only the
best of everything, and With whom
it WAS alwaym a. pleasure to deal,"
"The Councillor is very kind," said
the druggist, beaining with gentifica-
tion, "Ile is one of my best custo-
mers, What can 1 do for you this
morning?"
"Well—or—this morning, as it bane
pens," said the stranger, with n.
shade less of briskness, "this morn-
ing T, shotdd like, if you will allow
1110,
to ocic(ohn„sul your direct° ry. '
"Certainly," snit! the druggist. "We
also ha. ove fine lino of postage
stamps if you ever need (*113/1121)1(1 of
thal
SMA 1,LI8ST WATCH.
There lives in Cineinuati the proud
(205808801' of what, is claimed to be
the slim llest witteh in the world. It
1110083)2e5 1008 01411 011C -(11101`10r of an
inch in diameter, ond the face is
about the size of the bead of a large
tack or natl. The et260 is made
throllghouti of gold. The length or
both hands, if pieced end 1(3 0111))
would not be mor0 then five 121-811(3/"
(0101116 of an inch, The eeconcl-hand
114 one-sixleenth of an inch in length,
The numerals are in .Arabic, and are
ongrnved in red, in be Melte easily
clisrernible. The works end imilds are
knelt expected. :Money that acts Merle or the finest tempered steel,
might save many a broken heart and the- worke eate set throughoet
from a Suicide's grave. in diamond eliipS,
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