The Brussels Post, 1903-4-2, Page 6A
THE APPLAUSE OF EN.
Better That You Should Ultimately Receive the
Applause of Heaven.
!Watered according to Ace ot taae oar.
hesitant et canaua, in the year into
Thousand eJno litmarect thee Three.
by Wm, tamiy, et Toreito, at the
Department of agrieeiture, uctewa.,
A despatch feoin Chicago says:
Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preach-
ed from the following text: Mat-
thew 1, 4, "And Neassen. begat
Sahrton."
Vey did Thomas Carlyle entitle
one of his books -Heroes and Hero
Worship?" He knew that the vast
Majority of the human race loved to
study the lives of its great 111011 11.114
W0111011. Most people are Boswells,
bowing before some Johnsunian
shrine. We want to see the hero ae
a divinity, a prophet. a priest, a
man of letters or a king. What
Dante or Shakespeare or Luther or
Rousseau or Burns or Cromwell or
• Napoleon was in public and private
life has or most of us an absorbing
interest. We are not, as a rule,
over -wrought with excitement when
we come in touch with a seeming
"nobody," but we will travel far to
Cit at (lie feet of a great orator or
to clasp hands with 'a Goethe or a
Victor lingo or to see one whose
dietum may influence the destiny of
a no ion.
7,To do well to honor the transcen-
dent genius and to take an intense
interest in the characteristics of the
great man, but we ought not to
overlook the heroic elements in or-
dinary lives. There are man among
us, incouspictious and unknown, who
are living valiant lives, overeomin,
the evil within' them and around
them and exercising a benefisent in-
thICIVO on their own contracted cir-
cle. These aro men who, if a great
crisis ea1110 or a great opportunity
opened, would achieve ratne, but
without it will ilia unhonorod save
by the few who krow them well. It
stich nom I would -hold up for
your admiration to -day, and I
choose at random as an ihnstration
of the class an obseure mime from
a genealogical talilo,
THE CRADLE'S INFLISEISCE.
First, Naasson's cradle must have
been an important part of his like:
ministry, it is a very common cus-
tom for people to secor et. the help-
ful inallerICO of a cradle.. Many cri-
tics are apt to say that all a hairy
• is good for is to eat and sloop, to
cry and get Fiek and to keep the
house in uproar from t he time 1-0
gets into it until, as a young man,
he goes forth to start a 1 ole ef Id
own. For nearly two years at
least the mother is bound to that
crielle as firmly us if she weft, link-
ed to it with a chain of steel. For
four or ilve years the baby le utter-
ly helpless. If turned ou t I a the
cold, he would not Im4 Ode to in
as much care of hinteelf as a live -
months' -old puppy. 100 the first,
fifteen you's of a child's life his opin-
ion upon any se 1 sleet is p rae i:•t, 1 ly
Value1e5s. The first twent year s
are for the most vart preparetion
for life's work rather t ban t
achievement of any 1.1e,h purpose.
"'Therefore," some one says to we,
"I do not see how you can aillrin
that Naasson's craele could have
been a very important part of his
life's nil,tistry."
While admitting these facts, I still
contend that the first few years of a
child's bre home a momentous influ-
ence. They are inmortant not only
to the child, but to hie earents.
Who has not witnessed the lefluenee
of a cradle in a house? I appeal to
your own experience. It, mist he in
essential principles a parallel of
mine, My cradle and the cradles of
my brother and sist ers Sad a hal-
lowing influence in our home. They
vvei e an. inspiration 19 my father
and mother. My father preached
better sermons on Sunday because;
he knew that in his nursery the
children with whom be romped dur-
ing the week would look to bire as
an,example and a model. My mo-
ther wets all the more consecrated
and circumspect because her daugh-
ters were looking to her for guitl.
once and maternal training, And,
my brother, when any one says that ;
your. childhood annennted to noth-
ing, you deny, it. By the sainted!
graves of your dead father and mo-
ther yon declare that you know
they were better Christians and bet-
ter citizens because 'you, as a little
stranger, once crept into their
hearts. Your parente not only gave
you to the Lord Jesus Christ when
they stood with you at the baptis-
mal altar, but they also at the
same time, on your account, renew-
ed their consecration vows to the
Christ who loved their little child.
A CILILD IN CAMP.
Tho purifying', ennobling and
Christitimzing influence of a little
child was once illustrated by a bro-
ther minister in tho following story:
One day, in the tar west, a stalwart
miner was returning to his encamp-
ment when he found a lest child,
She was a beautiful little girl of
about five stammers, "Where is your
-father and mother, little °nee' ask-
ed the miner. "Don't know," said
the baby. "What are you going to
doe" "Well," she answered, eot the
least abashed, "I guess I will go
Mine with you and wait until mam-
ma tomes Mid gete me," The min -
Or, with a laugh, picked her up in
his 'strong arras and started up the
trionetain tido. The little girl in
his en -darted Was Mat a bit afraid.
She laughed and sang and ohe.ttered
all ,the, Way, When the Minor come
to tamp, he meted the Men what he
-Woilld do With her, and they said',
"Let ho Any here over night, and
thee eoree One will take bor 1101toeVet
In the moreing." After supper the
little girl audfdenly stepped her ehat-
'teeing aed said: "Now it is thno
for inc to go to bad. Who will One
'.dreeeMO?" That Waa 0 neve task
-fee tleted hoed ifeted Workmen. They
dld imt IMO* lehatefai .do, At last
the Inans. 10110 - had '%otlead her aid
"Little one, come here; I will un-
dress you." Ile got out a woolen
shirt and used it for her nightgown,
Then she looked up in her sweet, 1.11-
nosent way and eahl; Now I most
say my prayers. Who will I say
them to?" This was a harder pro-
position for the men to solve than
the other, At last one miner said,
"Come, my darling, and say your
prayers to me." When the little one
knelt, the tears came welling out of
the miner's eyes. lle pushed her off
as he said, "No, my little one; 1 um
not good enough for you to say your
prayers to me." Auuther miner
tried it. ir broke down. At last
the little - giri knelt by her bunk.
When -she oommencoa to pray the old
prayer—
Now 1 lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord nty soul to keep—
and ended up that prayer with the
• plea that Cod would bless the good
men who were looking after her,
there was not a dry eye in that cab-
in. Mauy of those rough, stalwart
men, through that child's example,
woo led to give their hearts to
God. As a result of that little
gill's mint these rongh miners built
O church, They brought to that
church a minister. Tho minister -de-
clared that in all Ills life, he never
preached to a, more impressioeable
'audience than thee,: rough men, who
been brought into touch with
that little child prayer.
You assert that that child's genie
pel influenee iu the eXception?
know it is Lot. I know that a man
sever on earth routes as near to '
heaven as when his littic baby boy
or girl kneels by his side and in
, trust and love says- a bab!'S even-
ing prayer. God pity the tan who
never knew, that joy! flu forgive
the father who has cloned ear so
as not to hear sach 0 mem ge, who
has blinded his eyes to thut out
smell to sight, which in ange.te form
can come to Min in bare feet, robed
in a little white 111ghigOWn, nrOtil••
.E'r, do not ten me that Nceeeson's
childhood was wasted years. Do
net for e moment suppeee that al-
tlotigh you may lm an ()raillery mayi
livieg an ordinary life in an ordin-
ary lo Le vour little ereolle liail no
goesel significance in the lives of
'yout• Christian parents.
, NAASSON LIKE MOST 0.1e US
Nanseon's matured manhood teach -
t hal, Cod provides for the hum -
(1st of his children as well as for
the greatest. Who was Naaeson ?
1-1 lald a father molted Aminadab
and a son, Sebum, That is all we
know of his direct connections, They
, ems, evidently es inimble as him-
: self. There NVE11( certainly nothing
; extraordinary eland this 111E001.
ilis-
0131 makes no mention et Naaveon
; leading a great army. Among all
' tIle leaders of the Bible there is no
rtoorded speech spoken by his lips,
Whether he 0(05 in physicote tall or
shert, whether 11 had light. hair or
(leek, blue eyes or Mimic, a broad
00 a narrow chest, must be all left
;to conjecture. But this fart is cm,-
' tein—whother he was the humblest
;
11010 1111 0(110 ever lived or no, Clod
; took care of him, Clod fed him, God
1 clothed him, Clod saw him grow up
to hill manhood. Then when his
; work, boa -ever smelt, Ives clone Clod
; took Min to himself. In other
1 words, Ottoman NVOS like most of
1 us, who ai•e without any particular
talent, Or pon-er of leadership. Yet
I God is caring and feeding and cloth-
! Mg and housing us, just as he feeds
'the birth! of the air and clothes the
j lily of the Belch
WHERE PLAIN LIVES LEAD,
But 0 find another very suggestive
, fact about Naaeson s genealogical
'history10 led to mightier ilatnee.
As Joseph Parker once graphically
aud tersely expressed it : "You
'should remember that is long, flat
road may be leediug 11/3 to a great
mountain. There me some very plain
and uninterestieg tulles out of
Gorevit, yet every ono of them brings
you 11(111.01' to Mont Blanc, So you I
do not know to what high hill your 1
life may be quietly leading up, NVell
If you yourself are nobody, your I
son may be a man of renown or his '
son may be a valiant and mighty
man. Methuselah was the father of
Laniech, and Letnech was the father
of Noah." Yes, yes that is the
thought to which I p010t, Naaseon
may only haye been a seeming no-
body. Ills son, Salmon, was a
seeming nobody. But Salmon was
the father of the mighty Boaz, who
was the husband of beautiful Ruth,
Who wee the grandmother of the
mighty David, who was the ancestor
of Jesus Christ, So, 0 humble Wo-
man, you may think your domestic
life does not amount to much. You
may say it consists mostly in sew-
ing dresses for the babies and rook -
Ing meals and petting the little ones
when they aro hurt and reading the
Bible to the children before they
go to bed, But I want to tall you
that in the light of tide history of
Naasson you have a mighty, o tree
mendoes work upon your hands.
You may be the motber Dr the
grandmother of a boy who will yet
proclaim the gospel of Jesus to tho
furtheamost parte of the world,
Again, Naasson's life impresses me
with the fact that Oho grestest of
ettiehly works are accomplished by
ordinary people. ITere and there in
the long list of genealogical names
Whielt are recorded in the first
chapter of Matthew there ie a pro-
minent Man but four -(liths of th.era
—aye, Mee -tenths of them—are namoS
as humble as that of Notasson's.
Thus Wo find that eveeywheve the
vast bulk of tho world's Work is
done by tho ordinaries and tet by
the extraorditaries, Why ? 13eettuee
there aro but few extraordiertrice anti
thousands Upon thousands and mil-
lions and Millions of Ordinaries. When
yOU Stand by the weave of Catriethe
pher Wren 1n St. Tattre 'cathedral of
London, you read his epitaph thus :
"If you wish to see my monument,
look about you." But when X look
About St, Paul's cathedral I see in
tho stones of every wall and the
dovetaillug of every crevice the work
of hundreds and thousands of hands
horny with toil as well as in the
complete building the white, soft
lingers of the great architect who
there lies buried, 1 seo the humble
laborers digging the foundations ; I
see the bumble mesons rearing the
walls; I see the Muuble carpenters
lifting thy scaffoldings; I sea the
crowd collect about the poor,
bruised, mangled body of tho woek-
Man whose foot misstopped and
whom° brains NVVre dilShea out upon
the ground beneath when he fell
from that high scaffolding. Aye, I
FOO NaLISSOnS, humble Naessons, ev-
erywhere in life 1 They have build -
ed the pyramids ; they have lifted
the dome of St. Petin"s and the Taj
a la , lute e 00 01100(1 ked. on the
farms and swept out 1110 stores and
died in the soldier's (Mich. It is
the aecumulatioe of the work or the
obscure individuals in this world
which has made this old earth what
10 is ; therefore, my brother, do not
say that some life's work is useless
bet:mine it is inconspicuous.
But coming near to the earthly end
of Nnasson's life I find by this
genealogical account that God WrIS
KOOPing just as mueh account of his
life an he did that of Abraham or
Jacob or Boaz or David. Nattsson
in his humble capacity and doing his
lifels work well teas just as dear to
his hlaster as if he had oc-
cupied a Solomon's throne or had
built a North's ark. Indeed, 0 some-
times think if God has anv favor-
ites they are to be found among tho
humble workers. Abraham Lincoln
thought so, Ile once said, "God
must love the common people better
than the aristocrats because he made
so many of them." And Christ's
actions when upon earth seemed to
prove this themes TIM end that he
aesociated for 'Cho most part with
tho poor . and the bumble. The
greatest earthly joy Jesus scented to
have bad in ft human sense after a
day's preaching in Jerusalem was to
be able to leave the capital and
climb up the hill upon which le
situated the HUM village of Beth-
any and there lodge vvith his few
friends in the home of Mary and
Martha, and Laeorns. Thus, my
brother, in yom• bunelde capacity, in
your obscure home, remember that
Christ is with you. Remember that
he is watching you. Also romember
that if you do your work with his
help to tho best of your ability he
eil s, oak to you the same words
which Sir Walter Scott chiseled up-
on the tombstone of a domestic who
had served him long and we's
buried in his family plot
done, good and faithful servant."
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IITTERNATIONAL LESSOR,
APRIL 5.
Text of the Lesson., Acts xx.,
2S-38. g -olden Text,
Acts xx., 35.
as. Feed the church of God, whieh
Tie 110111 purchased with His own
blood.
After tho uproar at Ephesus paul
went into Macetioaia and abode
three months in Geeece, after which
he started 161 Jeiusaletn, hoping to
be there by the day of Pentecost
(verse Hi). Haying come as far as
Miletus, he sent for the elders of
the church at Ephesus, that they
might come to Miletus to most him.
Our lesson Is part of his address to
them, the whole address beginning
at the eighteenth verso. He felt
that these wee° the lastowords ho
would ever speak to them (verse
25), and he reminded them that ie
his miuistry among them be had
taught them all things, not only
the essential and filndamental re-
pentance toward Cod and faith in
Jesus Christ, but also the whole
counsel of Clod (verses .21, 27).
20, SO, For X know this, that
after my departing shall grievous
wolves enter in among you, not
sparing the flock ; also of your own
selves shall men arise, speaking per-
verse things to draw away disciples
after them.
It was X-Mul's delight to mahatain
himself by his own labor, that he
might have to give to tho needy
things temporal, and spiritual; but
there were and always have been,
told there are and always will be
till the kingdom comes, those who,
Professing' to be, shepherds, no11 only
do not food the flock, but take good
care to live upon tho flock—wolves
in sheep's clothing (Joe.' xxiii,
; Matt. vii, 13; x, 16). No true
servant of Christ ever seeks to draw
people to himself ; hut, like John
the Baptist, crieti, "Behold the
Lamb of God." The Lord Jesus
never sougbt any glory for Himself,
but always glorified the Father,
and Love seeketh not her owe, is
DOW selfish, Both from Without
and front within the church the ad-
versary works, but, the Love .that
gave Himself for us shall finally
conquer.
31, 32, And now, brethren,
commend you to God and to the
word of iNS C11102.00, whilth 18 able
to hand you up told to give you ae
inheritance among all them which
are sanctified,
Our Lotere own command 00E18,
"Take ye hoed, watch and pray"
(Mark xiii, 83-371 xfv, 88), and be-
cause of our adversary, tho
who is Overt:ye sacking to (leveler, we
need tho whole armor of God (1
Pot v, 8, 9; Feb, v1, 1148), It is
by the grace of God, inado known
uo us in Um word tat' God, that NVO
are saved (nom iih, 241; Jas. 1, 1(3),
and the same woed causes 118 to
grow in grace (I Pot. (I, 5 ; 1./. Pot,
011 18), This verse speaks of thee°
who 11,0' Sanefinfqi, Soo else on
this 1 Cor, vi, 11; Tieb, x, 10, 14,
then note in John xell, 17, that we
ftre by the word of Clod senetified
it the 1151131 110. Any seeming dis-
Crepancy 01 the truths that We are
sanetiflod and perfected forayer, yet
being senctified and not yet perfect,
Is oesily understood 11 We distin-
guish between what wo aro in Christ
liefore God by 'elate) of Ms great
saerifice aed whet we are in, our
daily Otto before men (I John iii,
1, 2),
133-85. X Imve showed you in all
things how Out to laboriug ye
ought to support the weak and to
remember the words of the Lone
Jos; how Ile said, it is more blase -
ed to give then to receive.
By practice 115 ns by peecept
Paul had taught: them that he was
not sedking theirs, hat them; that
he wanted nothing from thein, but
that he had 8001101111115 to give them,
So when other teachers came eedk-
ing their goods and not their souls
they could say, '"Elat is not like
Paul, for he never sought anything
for himself, but over taught us of
the love of God fi Chriat, and by
the love of Christ he constaenned us
to give without asking us to" (01
(.ar. v, 14), Paid realized that he
taught, though seeming to have
nothing, he yet p081:1e:4001 all things,
and, though poor, he could make
many rich (ST. (ior. Vi, 10). Per-
haps lil 110 epistle do NVO Bala the
riches of the grace of God. ao fully
set forth as in tho epistle to the
lephesians, and if we only believed
God and that others might be Just
as rich simply for the taking we
could not hut sneak whet we have
seen and heard (Acts iv, 20).
36, And when ho had thus spok-
en he kneeled down and prayed with
them all.
In chapter xxl, 5, NVO find that an-
other placo they knoll down cm. the
:Moro and' prayed. Paid was cer-
tainly a man of prayer, and if WO
understood the privilege of access to
God that is inetuded in prayer We
could not but be people of prayer.
While kneeling is the position here
mentioned, WO find in I Kings yin,
22, that Solomon Mood with his
hands spread forth toward heaven,
and wo find in the agony in Geth-
semane that Jesus both knelt and
fell on his face. The position of the
body is S0001140.17, bat that the soul
takes hold of God, that is every-
thing (Ise. lxiv, 7; Ps. MS 2; 141,
5)•
87, 38, And they all wept sore
and fell on Paul's neck and kissed
him, sorrowing most of all for the
words etieh hoe 811.ake that they
should sce his face no more.
In this world of changes onri sep-
arations when the best of friends
and the dearest of oar toyed ones
are often called away from us there
is comfort in went words as "Thou,
0 Lotel, remainest forever" (Lam. v,
.9; II 1 1, 11 bath said "I
will never leave thee nor forsake
thee" (Pleb. xlil, 5; Deut. xxxi, S).
While Paul bad to leave them, the
Lord 'Teens would abide, and His
Holy Spirit 11)101 His NVOrd, and all
that they had received urns from
Him, by Ms Spirit through His
word. It is our privilege to walk
with Clod. but NVO Ore SO NVOnk that
000 are p00110 to walk by sight and
rejoice greatly in 50100 Menem help:.
er. 801110 strong arm of man to lean
on.
—4.
11111118 AND COMMERCE.
The fact that the government of
Oldie has just decided that no more
bird slcins and plumage shall be ex-
ported gives satisfaction to bird -
lovers everywhere. The reason given
foi• the government's decision is
that, owing to the wholesale de-
struction of bieds, destructive in-
sects 11000 it all their own way, and
crops it India have suffered alarm-
ingly from this cause, Tho feather
trade is an important part of the
conunerce of London, as any one
who has seen the London and India
Dooks warehouse during a feather
sale con realize. The supply from
India alone is enormous. Picture
veritable mountains of the feathers
of the green parrot, which is a
favorite with the plumassier on ac-
count of its adaptability. Groom
shimmering hills or millions of
feathers that not long •ago were
the proud possession of the gleaming
denizens of the Xndian woodlands,
and through the 'glorious green a
sbfmmer of scarlet, that beautiful
red which, for brilliance, is not our -
passed anywhere it nature. The
effect of stopping this trade moans
greater prosperity for the osteich
farmers in Smith Africa, arid pos-
sible legislative action as to the
destruction of birds in the south of
Europe.
NOTHING FIXED.
Recently, when a church steeple
NVELS in course of erection In a village
hi the West of Scotland, orie of the
leading heritors had a conversation
with the architect, and pointed out
the dance which ho clupposed might
arise from the action of the wind
upon the weathercock, the great
size of which surprised him when he
:taw it on the ground. He thought
it \email be apt to disturb tho
stones upon the pinnacle of the
steeple,
"Oh, there's no clangor " said the
architect. "You see, the weather-
cock turns round With tho wind and
nover presents any great eurface to
it. Thero is nothing axed but the
cardinal poiets."
"Aweel," said the heritor, "could
ye ao' mak' the Cardinal points turn
round, too?"
A LADY CIGAR TIIII1110.
Clara Snow, aged twenty-two, an
elnployeo of tho Cohort Cigar Face
tory, East street, NONV York, has
been errested for stealing cigars. In
curiouely Constructed pair of
bloomers which she wore, the police
found 2110 of the host cigars made
in the factory. Seventeen liteldred
more Wore (Ilse:hared stored alvay
0,0 her home.
Siberia is genernlly suptiotiod to
he o backward anti uncivilleed court -
try, yet there 1110 only three towns
with over 10,000 people that haeo
not got geed museums,
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!FOR T.14, 11TM
• Renipes for the Kitchen,
a
a Hygiene and Other Notes
for the Housekeeper.
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DOMESTIC RECIPES,
Corn PrIttere—Turn out a can of
corn and either run it through a
chopper or chop very fine. Measure
and' to each cup allow one well
beaten egg, two tablespoonfuls of
101110 and ono teaspoonful of Incited
butter', half to teaspoonful of salt,
O quarter of a teaspoonful of pep-
per Lind dour enough—usually about
three tablespoonfuls—to make a
thick drop batter. Beat bard, add
half a teaspoonful of baking powder
and drop by spoonfuls in a kettle
of hot fat such as you would fry
doughnuts in.
Cocoanut Custard Ple—Seidd ono
cup of milk, add a tablespoonful of
C0111 5100001 mixed with two table-
spoonfuls of sugar and sufficient
cold milk to make a smooth paste,
Stir tin it thickens, simmer five
mileutes and set asicle till partly
cold. Add three well beaten eggs,
two tablespoonfuls of sugar, otie
heaping eup of cocoa and a tea-
spoonful of vanilla. Bako with one
crust.
Crecuned Dried Beef—Cretuneci dried
beef is a very simple dish and easily
Prepared, but is not always seen
at its Sest, Tho meat should be
looked over, the rind, fat and
"strings" removea and the :slices
torn into small bits. Pet in tho
frying pan, cover with cold water,
let come to the scalding point, then
drain. Add a tablespoonful of flour
and stir till it is taken up. Tho»
add half a pita of mil11 and cook
till the sauce is smooth and thick.
Season with salt and pepper.
Rice Pudding—One cit sweet milk,
1 cup rice, 1, egg, sugar to taste,
salt, 1 pt fruit—quartered applee,
poaches, raisins or any favorite.
Balm and SerVO with whipped cream,
or mane spiced with nutmeg.
Minute Waffles—One pt flour, 1
teaspoon baking powder, 3 teaspoon
sett, 13 eggs, Ise cups millc, 1 table-
spoon melted butter. Mix in order
given and hake in waffle irons.
Cream Mullins—Two tablespoons
butter, 2 tableepoons sugar, cream
together. To 2 cups of flour add 9
teaspoons baking powder and
teaspoon salt, Pour flour mixture
over bolter mixture. Add to the
flour II well -beaten eggs and 1 elm
milk. Stir to a batter cold bake.
Seelloped Pork—This dinh is of
Oermen origin, and it is VOl'Y good.
Cover the bottom of a baking dish
with rim pork chops, season with
stilt mid popper, corer with rt layer
ef sliced raw onion, stetson, when a
layer of 'Mired raw potatoes, sea-
son and ropeat, having potato on
top. Pone in a little weter.
Quick Cranton Breetl--Two cups
sour milk, e cup 801501' 4 cup mo-
lasses, 1 Cup wheat flour, 1 egg, 2
level teaspoons soda sifted in the
now. Millen with graham flour.
This makes two loavee,
Simple Cocoanut et-Indy—Telco 1
Pt wager, 43 pt dessicated cocoanut
and e• pt, milk. Boil thoso ingre-
elionte in a granite saucepan roe five
minutes. Remove from the fire, set
in a pen of (-old water and stir
briskly until the mixture is creamy.
Pour on a lightly buttered dish and
make in eentares while warm.
Potato Solna—Boit potatoes thnt
ere firm and waxy -when cooked. (bit
them in slices, grate a medium-sieod
onion and mix it with these, add
pepper, stilt., vinegar end oil to
taste. The quantity of oil should
he about three times emount of
vinegar used. Eat with entire wheat
bread,
CO-OPERATIVE BRIGHTENING
Why 'can't housecleaning bo made
O jolly picnic affair where everybody
toils merrily to :titmice things happy
and comfortable ? It wouldn't hurt
the inen and boys to do more than
beat the carpets, and even the little
five-year-olct might help by carrying
small things to SWIM tOMPOraly
resting place.
Of course sort of a business man-
ager would bo needed to plan every-
thing and assign a task to eaoh.
Perhaps mother would be best for
that, because she knows so well all
that needs to bo done. But then it
should be against the rules for her
to do much cleaning—her work
would be with her head, and work
1817 °Wrio'idd bo a good plan to have
a supply of food so the meals could
bo picnic style too, That means
there wouldn't be a lot of dishwash-
ing and cooking,
To bo sure, seat 0 housecleaning
plan would be departing from old -
Unto custom., which clecreee that a,
few shall weary themselves brighteo-
ing ont the domicile for others. That
doesn't seem quite fair.
But the worst of it is, the
"brightening" is confined to the
house, and consequently' isn't a. bit
thorough, It 8001118 as though it
ought to extend to every member of
the home.
There are little places in each
heart that 11e00 te have a hit or joy
applied with a tender word, Anti
perhaps o, feW new thoughts might
clriVe aWay m Whole host of worrice
front the mind. An interesting
thoUght is like the perfume of a
flower ; it 118 the home with
fragrance, or perhaps tho zephyrs
bear it away on their wings to
gladden some Wayfarer.
PALATABLE POTATOES,
Biscuit --Two eupe mashed pota-
toes, 2 Cope flour, 2 oz butter, • 1
tette-nowt' salt, 2 teaspoons baking
powder, sitMeient milk 00 make
dough. Ruh tho butter into the
!lour'meld to it tho pota,t0es, salt
and baking powder; kniX With the
2111110 ibto a, doegh and tell otit
abotd, half an hien thick, Cut Into
biseUits ttnd halm for 15 minutes,
Pried Cakes—Ono coffee cup mesh-
ed spotatooe, 4 tableepoons melted
butter, 14 cups metals 1. teaspoon
801, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon
soda, dissolved in milk, 2 teaspoone
cream tartar sifted in 4 (lupe flour,
01 eggs beaten lightly. ltoll out, out
into rings, and fry in deep fat.
Croquettes—hlist 2 cups mashed
potatoes, I cup sweet cream, and 1
egg beaten lightly. Season with
salt, popper and grated celery or
onion as p referred. 1 Seat wilhi
fork until you have a light, creamy
mixture, Form into balls, l'OL1 in
belltOn egg, then in cracker crumbs
and fry in deep fat until a golden
brown,
TriNTs TO HOUSISIKEEPER0.
Every one who lives 01 furnace -
heated houses knows how impossible
it Is tcl keep fruits and vegetables
any leagth of time In the cellar oa
account of the heat given off by the
want tin pipes, lf, in building the
hoes°, or even after buildings the
furnace and pipes aro covered with
asbestos paper, this difficulty is
very largely remedied, The expense
need liot bo more than $6 or $7.
Every housekeeper has her own
way of cleaning windows. After the
surface dirt is washed off, a quick
and easy way is to rub on whiting
while it is still daznp, and let it
dry. Polish with a pieco of 0101111
cheese cloth and brush the dust out
of corners.
Nothing wit neutralize the noxious
odors and exhalations of a sick
room more effectually than the
burning of a spoonful of coffee on a
shovel.
CURIOUS SCEIqES IN GENOA.
Streets Where the Sky Is Ilidden
Ry Drying Ci.thes.
One of the most curious scenes in
all Italy is to bo found in the laun-
dresses' quarter in Cormot. This quar-
ter consiets of a short street which
is reached by deseendiug a few stops
branching off from the inairt thor-
oughfare. Headings of si:c stories
rise on each side of the street and
from every one of their windows is
stretched one or more clothesline
sagging with the weight of apparel
f every kind and condition. An
eternal shrolow cast by hundreds of
diming garments hangs poor this
quarter and makes it clines and
gloomy. The pedeethian who looks
upward toward the blue nley ran Eve
itothing but e. cloud of variegated
shape and color which effeetively ob-
settees the light of the sun.
In the center of the street below
there stands in a sort of a, sommer
house a 11 U1111101' of 100,110 1.071109.
Crowds of shrill -voiced 100111011 gath-
er day by day about this out -of -doer
lauatdry to exchange the gossip of
the quarter and wash out their piles
of soiled 1411011. From the appear-
ance of the lines which stretch and
intertwite 101. above the pavement
it is to be Judged that all the wash-
ing that is clone in Ca4noo, at all is
done on this particular street.
American travelers do not, how -
01e2', 118,1'0 to wander so for from
1101110 as Genoa to see a sight of
this kind. New York can show
something of the scone kind to thoe.e
NVilb Wiii look for it, In
where the apartment house is oinni-
Present, each flat has its little sup-
ply of .clotbesline. Poets aro like-
wise provided at 0 seltablo distal=
from ench window. Thus the occu-
pant of the department can haul out
his clothesline on pulleys, working
like halyards, and when the clothes
aro dry can, haul it in again.
RUSSIA'S STANDING ARMY.
The standing army of Russia in
time of peace numbers °VW' 1,000,-
000, rank and ille'or 4 per cent, of
the male population between the
ages of 21. and CIO years. It is di-
vided as follows: 627,000 infantry,
in 25 army coi•ps, 52 divisions, 200
regiments, and NG battalions; 117,-
000 cavalry, in 28 divisions and 684
squadrons; 188,000 artillery, with
412 batteries of field artillery and
41.6 of horse metillery; 34,000 engi-
neers, 84,000 conunisarlitt, trans-
portation, medical and other de-
partmental troops cowl 60,000 Cos-
sacks. Liability to military ser-
vice is general between the 290101 and
t4th birthdays, the only exemptions
being M favor of the Cossacks of
tho Caucasus, who have a special
organization; the settlers in Turkes-
tan and the territories of the Alatim
the non-Russian popelation of Astra-
khan, the Asiatic provinces, and
Archangel. A million men have,
ewes, October 1, attained the mili-
tary ago, but only 800,000 are re-
quired to bring the standing army
up to its peace establishment. Ev-
ery urbaij anti meal disteiet has Its
recruiting board, which is informed
°uinbor of recruitmu
s ft st
.0I.Etrittibs% nto oach arrn. Selection Is
made between October 115 and No-
vember 15, Usually about 48 per
cent. of the conscript candidates are
exempt or inellgible.
LEARNED BY SCIENCE,
Pont has about half the heating
power of coal and double that of
tvood.
All chemical affinity is traced to
aggregations of electrons, or atoms,
with odd or Unbalanced electrons,
either positive Or negative.
The botanical papers report that
De Vries, the great Dutch experi-
mental evolutionise, has by lotag con-
tinued selection produced a variety
of clover which has normally four
leaves.
Every atom 18 composed of posi-
tive and negative electrons, or vag-
rant electrie charges, i11 space. just
how Welt a alcove exists in Space
or what its mochattiSfll is does not
yot appear.
It is a familiar fad that a, lawn
which is once watered during' a dry
season. Will have to bo frequently
Watered or the grass will suffer of-
tentimes mere than if it had not
boon teetered at oil. The first Wa-
tereng intlamee eoperfloial root tie-
Volopment tvidelt 111051 be supplied
froMtently With Water,
LO'S DEER EtUNTINO.
Plow the Incliane of the North-
west Secure Venison,
A Neve Yorker toile of tho method
pursued by the Indians of 13'l (11211
Columbia in taking doer. They havo
evolved a system, this huntsman
says, that shove practical skill and
sympathy and kuuwledge of natural
conditions. 1.10 says gm
"i'he Indians, to begin with, do
not hunt deer for the pleaeure
hunting, They go for deer as a
housekeeper Alive to market for
beef. And, what's more, in Britieh
Golumbia, at any rate, they do 1100
go often. Salmon aro plentiful in
the rivers and easily caught., So
why chase animals when they can
secure fish 1 It is something as it
is in Newfoundland, where 1 wont
O couple of seasons ago. There tho
prevailing 11511, as you might say, is
cod. And, though there is no end
to the variety of edible fish that
can bo taken, 1,11e natives never
think of eating anything else, Cod
Is plentiful and they form the habit,
I suppose. This is so ine,rained that
they call codneh 'fish' simply. The
genus is divided into cotl and the
he British Columbia
,twe0111,11‘svilli,en
Indian makes up his mind for veni-
son, he goes at it systematically
and without sentiment. A group of
half a dozen or ten men split and
take either end of a valley. Then
they proceed along the mountain
slope from the Iwo ends to the
centre. These cheese the sheltered
sido of the valley, which the deer
seek to escape the wind. Eaoh party
covers the mountain side, some near
the foot and some at the top and
others between the line, keeping
abreast by an imitated owl hoot.
The deer on 'winding' pursuit have
O trick of leaping away from He
slope, unlike the goats, which go 1113
and thus, helm zen the two to -
pro eon ing par -Lica, they are swept
ttmether at the middle of the val-
ley. A. good-sized herd will thus be
killed off and the Indians supplffid
for many weeks by two or three
days' exertion."
LIZARDS IN SAMOA.
Snap Off Their Tails When They
Are Cornered.
A resident of Samoa writes in an
entertaining wily of the lizards—lit-
de fellows about two inches loeg,
prettify colored in a light and a
dark shade of brown, They can run
up a window -pane Mute ELS easily EIS
can the flies on whieh they feed,
When alarmed, the lizards are off
like a flash of light, and %vitt take
the most reckless leaps. I have seen
them land safe at Gm ond of ta,
twouty-foot jump. Yet MI< n cor-
nered they have no hesitation lit
snapping off the most of their tails.
That WaS a 111na01e11111g puzzle to
my small oat. The sight of a
mo'o anywhere was an immediate
elm/lenge to the kitten. Nhe would
inatedintely siert on the hunt, for
the most part a fruitless chase, for
the little lizard could skulk oiT fast-
er than two cats could pursue. Yet
when the kitten did suceeerl in land-
ing on the there followed to
scene of bewilderment. The 1110'0
lavariably snapped off its tatl,which
was left Wriggli og in one part of the
veremda, while the lizard ran MT it
short distance and awaited develop-
ments.
The kitten' never knew whether -to
catch the lizard or the tail. 30 the
rno'o moved, the kittea went, for it;
but she always stopped short to keep
an eye on the wrIggles of the tell.
As 80011 0.5 she turned back to take
care of the tall, the mo'o got in mo-
tion and had to bo looked after,
Hundreds of times X have watched
the dilemma, and the ending was
always the same—the lizard got
away and the kitten had to' bo con-
tent with the bony tail. But there
were lots of lizards about my house,
sprouting pow tails.
ANAESTHETICS ran ImowBus.
Ether and chloroform, so useful iht
sending mon to sloop, Immo the very
opposite effect on plants, which are
stimulated to the greatest possible
antivity by them dregs. In Den-
mark and Germany advantage has
boon taken of this fact to foece sow-
ers in rooms eaul glass houses, end
to snake them bloom out of season,
The results aro said to be marvel -
was,
A ROYAL CENSOR,
Tho Gorman !Empress has express-
ed the desire that for the ruble° call
pieces intended for representation at
the Court theatre shell be submitted
to her first, so that nothing may be
played of doubtful morality, or
likely to shock the audience. Her
Majesty reserves the right of vetoing
any play she mar ehooee.
LOVELY IIOUSEVLESH,
The Berlin Society for tho Pro-
tection of Animals addressed the
question, "How did you like 11. ?"
to the guests who participated in
the horseflesh banquet Which it gave
recently in Beelin, Ovor 800 replies
have ceMe ins and all make a strong
ehoehe of prase.
HOW TRAMPS KEEP WARM,
Walking into a police station at
Buffalo, Charles Welter asked to be
sent to jail. Efe was wearing five
vests, two overcoats, five pairs of
Seeks, and shoes, and goloshes. He
said he had slept 111 the open air
Several nights, Mit never felt cold.
ELECTRIC FIRE ENGINES.
The Pavia Fire Brigade half quite
recently come into possession of
tWo electric Ore engines, These en -
511105 are claimed to he the most
poWerfut ones in the wood. They
cost $8,0015 each, turd have a
maximum speed of elety• utiles per
hOttr4