The Brussels Post, 1901-10-24, Page 2OT A -STUPID RELIGION
fiev, Dr. 1.21,1raage Says It Is The l'airest
Daughter of God.
aespatch teem Wesbington Merin
e -Rev, Dr. Toimage preached from
L1 e following text Job xxvill, 174
"The crystal CallnOt OCIU0.1 it.°
Many of the preolous atorea ot the
Bible have come to prompt recogni-
tion. But for the present X thke up
the less valuable crystel. Job, M
MY text, comparee saviog wiedolre
ifeith epecimen of topaz. An Mil -
del chemist or mineralogist would
pronounce the letter worth more
than. the former, but Job ezialcos ea
intelligent comparison. looks at re-
ligion, and then looks tet, the crys-
, tat and pronounces the tormer as of
far superior value to the letter, me -
112110 ia the words of my text,
"The cryetel cannot equal it."
Now, it is not pa et of my sermon-
ic,,design to de 0010t41 the crystol,
whether it be found in Oorniale mine
or Harz mountain or mammoth cave
or tinkling among the pend-
ants of the chandeliers of a
palace. The crystal is the star of
the mountain.; it is tho queen oi
cave; and it is the eardrop of the
bine ; it fines its heaven in the dia-
mond. Among all the pages of nat-
ural history there is no page more
interesting to me than the Page of
crystallographic. But I want to
show you that Job was right when,
taking religion in ono baud and the
crystal in the other, he declared
that the former ie of far more value
sullrisee Of ball a Ceneury. Ile has
been an °Orly riser. Re has been an
admirer et cameos and corale anci
all kinds of 'beautiful things. Ask,
hiin what he thinke of religion, And
he Will toll you ; " It is the most
beautiful, thine I ever saw. The
crystal cannot: equal it."
Beautiful in Ito symmetry. Whet
It presents God's cheracter, it does
not preeent him as having love like
a great protuberauce on one side of
His nature, but =alma that love in
harmony with His justice — 0 love
thee will• accept 031 those
Who Mile to Hiln, and a
justice that will by AO
Manna clear the guilty. Beautiful re-
ligion in the sentiment it implantsl
teectutiful religion in the hopo that
it kbadles! Beautiful religion itt the
fact that it proposes to garland and
enthrone and emparaclise an immor-
tal spirit. Solomon says ti is a. lily.
Paul says 11 is a. crown. The Aimee
alYPSe ea.ys 11 is a fountain kissed by
the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged
cedar. Christ says it is a bridegroom
eome to fetch home a bride. While
Job in the text takes up a whole
vase of precious stones—the topaz
and the sapphire and the chrysoprase
us—lie bolds out of this benutifte
vase just ono crystal and holds it
up until it gleams in the warm light
of the eastern sky„ and he .exclalens,
"The crystal cannot equal it."
and beauty than the latter, recon.- Again, religion is superior to the
mending it to all the people and to crystal in its transformations. The
all the ages, declaring "The crYsfal diamond is only a crystallization,
Cannot equal it." ()Elaborate of limo rises until it he
IN TEM FIRST PLACE, COMBS calcite or aragonite. Red Ox-
ide of copper crystallizes into cubee
t remark that religion is superior tee and octahedrons. Those crystals
1
the crystalThat which in exactness. adorn our persons and our
shapeless muss of crystal against homes and our museums have only
which you accidentally dashed your, been resurrected from forms that
foot is laid out with more exactness were
than any earthly city. There are
six styles of crystallization and all FAR FROM LUSTROUS.
of them divinely ordained. Every Scientists for ages have been ex -
crystal has mathematical precision.. &raining these wonderful transforma-
Gocl's geometry reaches through it,
and it is a square, or it is a rec-
tangle, or it is a rhoraboid, or in
some way it has a mathematical fig-
ure, Now, religion beats that in the
eimple fact that spiritual accuracy
is more beautiful than material ac-
curacy, God's attributes are exact,
God's management of the world ex-
act, Never counting wrong though
Be counts the grass blades and the
stars and the sands and the cycles.
Ills providences never dealing with
es perpendicularly when those pro,
vidences ought to be oblique, nor.
laterally when they ought to be ver-
tical. Everything in our life arrang-
ed without any possibility. of mis-
take. Each life a six -headed prism.
Born at the right tern° ; dying at
the right time. There are no "bap -
pea so's" in our theology. If I
thought this was ze slipshod universe
I would be in despair. God is not
an anarchist. Law, order, genuine -
try, precision, a perfect square, a
perfect rectangle, a perfect, theme
bold, a perfect circle. The edge of
(lod's robe of government never
frays out, there are no loose screws
in tho world's machinery. It did
not jut happen that Napoleon was
attacked with indigestion at Boro-
dino so that he became incompetent
for the day. It did uot just bappen
that John Thomas, the raissionary,
ea a heathen island, waiting for an
ontfit lend orders for another mis-
sionary tour, received that outat
and those orders in a box that float-
ed ashore, while the ship and the
mew that carried the box were nev-
er heard of. I believe in a partieular
providence. I believe
GOD'S GEOMETRY
may be seen ia all our life more
beautifully than in crystallography.
Job was right. " The crystal can-
not equal it."
Again I remark that religion is su-
perior to the crystal in transpar-
ency. We know not when or by
whom glass was first discovered.
Deeds of it have been found in the
tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases
of it are brought up from the ruins
ni Ilterculanetuan There were female
adornments made out of it 3,001
years ago — those adorements found
now attached to the mummies of
Egypt. A great' many corameata-
tors telieve that my text means
glass. What would we do without
the crystal.? The crystal in the
window to keep out the storm and
let in the day; the crystal over
the watch, defending its delicate
machinery., yet allowing us to see
tie hour ; the crystal of the
scope, by Which the astronomer
brings distant worlde so near he can
inseeet them. Oh, the triumph of
the crystals in the celebrated win-
dows of Rouen and Salisbury I But
there is nothing so transparent in
' a crystal as in our holy religion. It
is a transparent religion. You can
put i1 to your eye and you see the
man—his sin, his soul, his destiny.
Yon look at God and you see some-
thing of the grandeur of His char-
acter. It is a. transparent religion.
Infidels tell ue it is opaque. Do
you know why they tell us it is
eremite '7 It is beeause they are
"'rhe natural man receivoth
not the things of God because they
are spiritually discerned." There is
no trouble with .the crystal. The
trouble is With the oyes which try
to look through it.. We pray for
vision, Lord, that our eyes may be
opened I •When the eye settee cures
our blitidness, than. we find that re -
18 traeeparent. •
People talk too much about theft
erase and not enough about their
iwowtie. Do you know that the Bible
mentione 15 ernes but seventeen
times, while it mentions a crown
EIGHTY TIMES 7
Aele Utah old Man What he thinks
of religiart. Ire has becti a Close
elserver. He hes been cultivating
80 aesthete:, taste, He'llas Seen the
boat floated away with ite preeiolea
treasure, No One cell doubt that boat
heeded at tile Shore et ligovele, 810
events to pat yeu in 4 ilerY heat wad
Sheve yen; off in an eleposito @free,
time—off PQM peace, off front GOd,
off from heevezt overlestinely offe
and the port teemed which you
would. Sall would be a port of dark-
neeseeend the guns that woold greet
you • would tee the gone Of despair
nuel tho Slags that would weve at
yogi' arrival would be the bile* flags
of death. Oh, my brother, you meet
either kill sin or gia will kill you
It is no exaggeration when saY
that any mat or woman that events
to be saved may be Saved. Tromene
clous choicel 4 timmeand people are
choosing this moment betemen sa.lvae
tion anci destruction, between ilght
and darkness, between charred ruin
and glorious crystallization.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
OCTOBER 27.
1
Text of the Leeson, ,Get. xlvo
1-15. Golden Text, Rom.
21. '
1-3. "There stood no man with
him Oldie Joseph made himself
knowa unto eis brethren." The
story as told in the intervening
chapters between the last lesson and
this one is Most fascinating in its
detail: of Joseph's dealings with his
brethren, but especially in its fore-
shadowing of coming events in con-
nection with the return of Christ
aad His revelation t Ills brethren.
The first vieit of Joseph's ten breth-
ren to buy corn, Benjamin being
carefully kept at home lost evil
might befall hini, Joeeph's recogoi-
lion of his brethren, his trying them
by calling them spies and putting
tbem ire ward three days, their re-
membrance of their sin and conver-
sation concerning it in the presence
of Joseph, whom they supposed did
not undertstand their language, as
he had spOlien to them through an
interpreter ; his holding Simeon as
a hostage till they should bring
their younger brother, his sending
the others back with corn and each
man's money secretly put in his sack
times. But I tell you in the gospel and Jecob's pitiful cry when told
of the Son of God there is a more that the ruler of Egypt would not
wonderful transformation. Over see them again unless Benjamin was
souls by reason of sin black as coal with them—this is all told in chap -
and haed as iron God, by his corn- ter alit. Their second visit, taking
forting grace, stoops and says, Benjamin and double money (the
when I snake up my jewels."
"They shall be mine in the day
more corn) and a present for the
returned raoney and menu' 10 buy
"What!" say you. "Wilt GJosePh'od wear nage. s reception of there end
jewellery?" lf wanted 11 Pie could 'feast for them in his own house.
make the stars of the heeven His with his special interest itt and favor
belt and have the evening cloud for to .enentnienn, are told in chapter
the sandals of Ilis feet, but Re does
not want that 0 -dominion' He will
not have that jewellery. When God
wants jewellery, he conies cloven and
digs it out of the depths and dark-
ness of sin. These souls are all crys-
tallizations of mercy. Be puts them
On and Re wears them in the pres-
ence of the whole univeesa Re wears
thorn on the hand that was nailed,
over tho heart that was pierced, •on
the teraples that wore stung. "They
shall be mine," seith the Lord, "in
the day when I make up my jewels."
Wonderful transformation! Where
On abounded grace shall inuch more
abetted. The carbon becomes the sol-
itaire. "The crystal cannot equal it."
Now, I have no liking for those
people who are always enlarging in
Christian meetings about their early
dissipation. Do not go into the par-
ticulars, my brothers, Simply say
you were seek, but, make no display
of your ulcers. The chief stock 'In
trade of some ministers and Chris-
tian workers seems to be their early
CRIMES AND DISSIPATIONS.
The number of pockets you picked Joseph, whom they had envied and
and the number of chickens you bated and sold as a slave to the
stole make very poor prayer meeting Midianites as they said, "We shall
rhetoric. Besides that, it discour- see what will become of bis dreams.'
ages other Ohristian people who ne- 6, 7. "God sent me before you to
vor got drunk or stole anything. But preserve you a posterity iri the
it is pleasant to know that those earth and to save your lives by is
who were farthest down have been great deliverance." We can hardly
Joseph's plan seemingly, to
retaia Benjamin and the eannest and
eloquent plea of tiltdah. W-110 had be-
come surety for 13enjamin, rue the
topics of chapter echo'. Now follows
in our lesson Joseph's revelation of
hihmelf to them,
4, 5. "And Joseph said unto Ids
brethren, Cent° nearer to me I. pray
you," Nothing in his heart but lovo
and pity and forgivenes,s for them
aS he yearns over them. Ito would
take them to his heart and bless
theme bidding them not to be
grieved nor angry vrith themselves
because of their past miseonduct, as-
suring them that God lia.d overruled
it all for the good of many. His
words, while comforting, were truly
heart searching, for we cannot know
the cumfort of forgiveness in its
fullness till we have seen and felt
something of the enormity of our
sin. To his first words, "I am Jos-
eph,' now wide, "I am Joseph,
your brother, whom ye sold into
Egypt," There could be no mistak-
ing this. He was the very same
brought highest up. Out of infernal
serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of
darkness into light. From coal to
the solitaire. "Tile crystal cannot
eque.1 it."
"Oh," says some one, putting his
hand over his eyes. "can it be that
who have been in so much sin and
trouble will ever corm to those crys-
tals?" Yes, it may be—it will be.
Heaven we must have, whatever we
have or have not, and we come here
to get it. "How intiCh Must I pay
for it?" you say. You will pity for it
just as meth as the coal pays to be-
come the diamond. In other words,
nothing. The same Almighty power
that makes the crystal in the moun-
tain will change your beari which is
harder than sLonc, for the promise is,
"I will take away your stony heart,
and I will give you a heart of flesh."
"011," says some one, "it is just
the doctrine I want. God is to do
everything end I am to do nothing."
ary brothev, it is not Lite doctrine
;you want. The coal makes no resist-
ance. It hears the resurrection voice
in the mountain and it conies to
crystallization; but your heart re-
sists. The trouble with you, my
brother, is the coal Wants to stay
coal.
I do not lase you to throw open
the door and let Christ in. I only
`ask that you stop bolting and bar-
ring it. illy friends, we will have to
get rid of our sins. I will have to
suppose that the hand of God was
es plain to Joseph in all the events
of the past years, in his slavery and
imprisonment, as it was to him now
looking back upon it from the glory
to which ho bad been brought. We
cannot see how all things aro work-
ing together for our good as children
of God, cad we do not always con-
sider that they work together ac-
cording to His purpose to conform
us to tho image of His Son (Rom.
vlif, 28, 29), but as truly as Jos-
eph could look bock and see, not his
cruel brethren, but God working out
His purposes, so we sliaIl find that
no real evil has ever befallen us pad,
that, all enemies and all adverse cir-
cumstatmes have been really for us,
for our good, under the controlling
band or God
8. "So now it was not you that
sent me hither, but Gott, and 340
'bath made nie a father to Pharant.."
Nolo the threefold "God sent Me"
(versos 5, 7, 8). We think of our
Lord Jamie, who, when suffering so
much from His enennea, saw not
them ; but Nis Father, and said,
"The OUT) Whi011. My Father bath
given Ile, shall 1 not drink it 1"
(John ;evil', 11.) When Shimer
cursed David and threw stones at
lelm, Davin saw not Shimer, but
God, and just loft Min to God to
manage (It Sam, awl, 5-13). It is
blesser' indeed to we God and not
people or eiroum.stances and believe
that not a dog tan move its tongue
against us without God's permission
(Fee xi, 7). See also /sae ecli. 12,
18 ; liv, 17,
9-11. "Thus Saith thy son Jos-
eph, God hath Made me lord of all
Egypt. Corn° down unto ine ; tarry
not,
,' ,ThII; was the message to his
doe old father urging him to come
cmickly evith i1 hie children and
children's children and dodo and
'Leeds that josePli alight nourish and
care for them, See the verse folic:one
ing the portion assigned for our lee -
son and note the interest Pharaoh
took it bringing Jacob and all that
Iso had down to Egypt, sendirm wag-
gons for the wives arid little ones
tend urgieg tleolle to regard not their
Staff, because the good of all the
land of Egypt Was theite. Our Lord
then* Mid in His prayer te 'MR
Father, ehen speaking Of His Silo*
010473 "4110 gitny Whieh thou gareet
lie 1 haxe girth, theee" grit,
23), aziel lt is Written lo I OW. ill,
21-33, thet all things are oure, but
mane, aro so occupied with their
steff arid the cage of it that they
neither see nor °Woe' their riehee in
Chriet.
le, 13, "Tell my father of all MY
gter7 la EgYlet and of all that ye
have seem' They PrebnblY fennel lt
diffieult to believe- their eyes, for it
inust have seemed too gesod and too
wonderful to be tree, When they ar-
rived holm and told their father, he
believed there not until he saw tho
waggons which Joseph had seen
Then lsls spirit revived, and Ile said:
"It is enough, joseph, iner son, is
yet alive. I will go and see hien be-
fore I die"(verses 20,28). As be-
tievers bearing testimmy to Christ,
sufferings aud Hie glory And OUr
inheritance in Hine, many will not
believe unless they $eo some wag-
gons, something in our lives to
prove the teeth et our words; We
are tO loVe And prove our love not
bY Words only, but by the good
svorke which He w111 work in us.
14, 15. The weeping andkissing
and the communion afterwarcle make
us think of the welcomo which the
prodigal son received And the feast
that followed. This ia the fourth of
the seven weepings of Joseph, two
of which aro in our lesson (verSe 2
and here), two in chapter 1, and one
each in chapters xlii, alien xlvi.
They are worthy of particular study.
Note also the 'three weeplogs of .our
Lord, cut the grave of Lazarus, over
Jeeusalom and in Gethsemane, and
consider that by His great humilia-
tion and saerifice Pfe has made pro-
vision for the forgiveness and bring-
ing' near and everlasting care of ail
who thme to Rim.
QUEEN AND PEASANT.
Her Womanly Kindness To His
Two Children.
Tho Naples papers toll a . pretty
story cif Marghezeta, now the wid-
owed queen dowager of Italy. On
one occasion, as she was driving to
the royal wood of Licalo, the coach.
man mistook the road, and the par-
ty knew not which way to turn. Ono
of the gentlemen in atteadanco ask-
ed a countryman tho way. The man
looked at the fine carriages and
hot ses, the servants in livery ad
the gay company, and thought they
.wero simply making fun of him. Ile
therefore refused to take their ques-
tion seriously.
"As if you did not know," he said,
with a broad grin.
The queen laughed, and assured
him that they were lost. Not until
then didethe countryman , condescend
to point out, the way, ,after which
ho walked off, as if still afraid of
being laughed at,
"Give him twenty francs for his
trouble," said the queen to one of
her escort, wine at once rode after
the countryman.
"Hero, my man, is a little present -
from the •Queen of Italy, who thanks
you," said the messenger.
"The queen !" replied the country-
man, and immediately returned to
the carriage.
"Forgive me that I did not know
thee," he said. "Thou art as beau-
tiful as a IZa.y rose. God bless
thee 1 "
The carriage drove off, but the
countryman, having once spoken to
the queen, wanted to see her again.
The folLowing day he presented him-
self at the palace, a.nd asked to sec
her.
"I know her," -he said mysterious-
ly. I spoke to her yesterday, and I
Want to speak to ,her again.",
The porter weeksi have had this in-
trusive countryman arrested for a
madman had it not happened that
the gentleman who had given the
peasant the twenty francs appeared
at that moment and recognized him.
When tho queen heard of his arrival
sho sent for him.
"Yes, 'tis thou," he said, in a
tone of great satisfaction, when he
looked again upon her face. "1
thought I had seen a fairy. Thou
art just an angel. I did not tell
.thee yesterday that I have two lit-
tle ones without a mother; Wilt
thou be their mother? "
With womanly kindness the queen
accepted the trust.
"Then there's the twAnty francs
thou gayest me yesterdaY," said the
countrymen. "I thank thee, but
vrant no money," end he went away
crying'and smiling like a little child.
The queen adepted the little ones,
and they are in an institution under.
her speciel patronage.
HOW TO FATTEN CHICKENS
GET DID OP MY SINS,
and you will have to got
rid of your sins, 'What will we de
with our sins among the three crys-
tals? The erystal atniosphere would
display •our pollution. The creedal
river Would be befouled with our
touch. Transformation must take
place non, or no transformation at
all, Give sin full chance in, your
helmet and the transformatiott will be
downward instead of epwand. In-
stead of ceystal it Will bo a cinder.
In 'the days Of Carthage it Chris -
thin girl was condemned to die for
her faith, and a boat, woe bedaubed
with ter and pitch and filled with
combustibles and set oti site, and tho
Christian giri was pelted le the boat
otici the wine 808 offshore and the
CHILD'S DRESS,
=MITA= 131i,41,rcn O4 FOUL,.
411.Y EARNING. s
Britain Haa An inexhaustible 3:tee
mend 101 X'rirO9 GuAlity '
.Powle.
The lato semmor Rae fall Is the
time when the farmer dispoees of
bie fowl. To dispose of these to the
very beet edveatage SOMA) attention
ebould be given to the work of fat-
teiling and preparing them for
market, Toe many farmere negleet
thie, and at the ozone time cermet
Lo veep o, )argO proat out al thdir
poulery. It is now agreed that the
very best way of fatteneog poultry
is to ieclose A few fewls io. a smell
compartment and feed thorn all they
will eat of good fattening food,
Tee troupe time reqeired to PrePere
ly, fatten a fowt is about three
weeks. But good-sized, well-condi-
tioeed pullets ofton"malee-up" it a
fortnight, whereas very large -framed
cockerels will take four and some -
Minos as much 150 five Weeks, before
they are fully fatted, A fatter, hoW-
ever, does not cane much how long
a bird may take to fatten, provided
time,that11is tpiluatttiwn ghoorin lio ish 15tht.wohoonle_
ditiOn 10 leill he will bo worth a
good round sum at, the finish.
As a rule, fetters do. not give the
foocl otherwise than in a cold sten)
and we think that during the sum-
mer time this is to be preferrel.
oBrute wbey are finally convinced tient in
cweather old weaer greater benefit will ac-
uWARMING THE MILK
or-,weter used, and thereby making
the food not hot, but nicely warm
when taken by the birds. The best
Sony' to inl up tho food is, to place
What Intik or water is required into
O pail, then add ia tho ground oats
a little at a time, and stir well with
a wooden ladle. Continue to add
more meal until the whole is suffici-
ently thickened. Ninety gallon casks
sawn in half aro admirably adapted
for mixing the food, and also make
capital receptacles for storing milk.
A goodesIzed copper should be er-
ected out in the open, not too close
to the dwelling house, as -the prep-
aration of fat for the fowls is not a
pleasant operation to have perform-
ed just under an open window, espe-
cially if the wind happens to be
blowine,, id that direction. Ema,tyn
. i
one or two hundredweights of rough
fat (which can be bought from most
butchers at about 2o a pound) INC -
cording to the size of the copper,
and pour in sufficient water to cove
er the svholo several inches deep.
After an hour or two's boiling, the
fat will rise to the top, and should
then be skimmed, and pot into a
pail. Rave ready in some cool place
O few milk pans, and pour tho hot
fat from the pail into one of these,
then, when cooled a little, pour in
CUPFUL OF COLD WATER.
This latter will sink to the bottona,
and prevent the fat from sticking to
tho same. Oontinue in like manner
until all the fat has been boiled out
of rough pieces. The next day these
milk pans may be emptied by sliding
a knife around the edges of the pan,
when the whole mass will cozne
away in one solid block; these; can
be carefully stored until required.
When milk is given to the young-
sters to drink, it should never be
allowed to become sour, as in sucli
condition it often causes diarrhoea
to set up. But we consider that in
the co of fattening kW's it is
quite different. Not only is sour
milk not injurious to fattening fowls
but wo will go further and say that
sour milk is infinitely superior to
new rank for 1iS purposo.
Not one in a hundred Miters over
bother themselves about trying to
free their birds of insects, when they
ere brought home for fattenine.
Nevertheless nothing Interferes more
with the continual process of fatten-
ing than the fact that the fowls, v.ro
infested *with these troublesome crea-
tures. The insect powders sold for
this purpose are too expensive to be
used for fattening fowls, but great
benefit to the birds will be gained
by giving them a good dusting in
111 winter at hall -past. *even, then
again in tho afternoon abeet sivo
o'cloek in renMilier awe eeeur o'eloot
In whiter. There are, eevertbelese,
Remo exeeptlona tei thee rule, Young
$Pring ellielteree require an extra feed
At noon, azol end scone, lino birds
cluieli at "eniPtYing," may also with
tecivantage be fed three times it (ley,
But do not follow the plan reeom-
Mended by some, et feeding fatten-
ing fowls generally "little and of-
ten," They will sicken of their heed
very quietly, ane Una MI/WM a lot
ofensolese end unneeeesery labor,
The uetial mothocl adopted for
feeding the fowlduring the fleet,
-week of the prooess, is to give what
Most fattere torin "Watee gruel,"
Tide consists of nothing but
ground oats mixed up with water it,
te a, rather sloppy ooneistency. The
Wee, is, that during tho first week
the bird's eystem is not. trained to
ricb living, and manY fatter e prefer
to do what they term
"GO STEADY AT FIRST."
We are, howev'
er pers,uaded that if
Milk (We refer Of course to either
skim milk or sour pure milk) be
added id` proportion of one-half to
that of water the extra cost is am-
ply Nomad berths impetus thus green
to the fattening process.
Dureng the second week waencrease
the quality of milk regularly each
day, so ,that by the end of this week
we have discontintied the um of woe
eter antively, the solid portion of the
"food being slat the ground oats.
Twice during this and the following
weeks the trolighs should, be filled
at noon with some sharp flint grit,
itt oeder that the birds may reidell-
ish their stools of grinders, that are
often by tills time becoming rapidly
used up. Towards the end of this.
Week a little of the prepared fat
should be melted and mixed up in
the f o o d,-
Vuring tho third week, and for so
eong a time as it enay prove neCeS-
sary, fat ehould be added to the
ground oats and milk, in the pro-
portion of about a tablespoonful to
each bird.
Take a flat piece of Wood about
three inches :broad, and lee inches
thick, round off tho upper portion to
serve as a han.dle, and thin o5 the
lower end in the shape of ae
FLOUR 01' SULPHUR,
and the best and quitkest way we
know of is to have half of it small
tub Mied about one-third full with
the sulphur. Let ono man take the
bird's head in one heed, and the
feet in the other, and let someone
else rub the sulphur on, and place
the birds for tett minutes in some
unused ehed, or any. handy place
whore they can give themselves a
Shako and get rid of the pests.
The thickens should be put ixt
coop of Mall round bars. They
should be froin 1 to 14 inchee apart
and always put long wnys, so that
the birds Can stand and eat out of
the troughs. The bars in front of
tbe coop should be about two Mello.
apart. Ono coop three feet long
and about sixteen inches wide is
large enough for six birds. It
should be eighteen inthes high. The
fattening coops are best in a shed
or outhouse where it is quiet and a
little dark. After Muhl the birds
in the eoope they should be left with-
out limy food for at least twelve
hours. The exception being wine
they have been travelling many
hours before arrivingat their (lea-
tination, when it iS advisable to
feed them as aeon as conveident.
There aro many farmere who woold
never think of putting the birds in a
coop to fatten, but shutethem in a
pig -pen or out -building, and give
than a, lot of food in a trough, so
that they can run to it When they
like;
THIS IS WRONG.
6 Months to 4 Years,
Pointed yoltea, with bretellea
Ing over the shoulders, are exeeede
ingly becoming to tho little lolk, and
make a charming effect. Tins dainty
frock is made of sheer Popsicle lawn,
With 011-0Ver tucking and trimming
ot. Valenciennes lace, but the design
la suited to all fabries used for Wee
children, white tor occasions of dress
colors for tho times of play Arid
fr011e.
To cut We dress for a child of
two yeters of ago 24 yards of me,
terial 82 inches *wide Will be require
eel, with 4 yard of tucking and 84
yards of insertion to trite as illus.
tented.
BROAD FLAT BLADE.
This will serve the double purpose
of mixing up tho food and doling the
proper quantities out to the 'Weft,
leaving allowed the fowls to fast.
for a sufficient period, as previously
recommended, the fatter Should, with
his wooden ladle, put a little food
in the troughs, and as this becomes
cleaned up mare should be added. A
good fatter will never (anyhow with
"green birds") put in all the food
that he thinks necessary into tho
trough at once, but will keep on ree
plenishing with small quantities un -
till he notices the birds are showing
signs of having liced enough, when he
will et once discontinue, and having
left them for half an hour or so to
thoroughly clear up what remains
in the troughs, tome back and turn
the troughs upside down. This lat-
ter. he does for several reneons, one
being, that if the troughs aro left
in the ordinary way, the droppings
from the fowls are liable to get into
them, and this is most undesirable.
Them too, thebirds will often keep
pecking away at the troughs, which
in time become so worn that they
often swallow slivers of wood, which
are hijurious to thein, and again,
should it como on to rain the
troughs become full of water, mid
the fowls areliable to fill their crops
with it and thus not take nearly as
much of their fattening food when
placed before them on tbe next meal.
NILES OF BARREN LAND,
A TRIP THROUGH BART OF
DART -MST OANADA.
Interesting Facts ceoncerning Un-
explored PnttDan-inion, of the
There IS no need that adveoturous
eivtraevneslitilthehltiritililifoorrdAefii.ictao 11101
regimes yet uneeplored, if, as the di-
rector of the geOlogleal survey of
Canada a.sserts in hie last report,
prectieelly nothing is known of one-•
third of the Dominion ol 0anadaq
Pie ewe, as quotect in the Scieetifie
American Supplement, Unit there Aro
more thaa 1,520,000 equare mites of
unexplored lends in Canada out of a
total am, computed at 3,450,201
square miles. Even exclusive of the
imnihnoisop:h
tzetbleedetached Arctic pore
tions, 954,000 square iniies are ion
all practical purposes practically
unknown. Tho Writer goes on to
saY
"A oareful estireate is made of the
unexplored regions, Beginning at
the extreme nortbeweet Of the DO,
first of these areas is
between the eastern boundary of
Alaska, the Porcupine River and the
Arctic coast, about 9,500 square
miles in extent, or somewhat smeller
than Belgium, and lying entirely,
within the Arctic circle. The next is
west of the Lewes and Yulcon rivers
and extencle to the boundary et
Alaska. Until, last year 32,004i
square miles in this area was unex-
plored, but a, part has sinCe been
a sst ativiterslel000dnj. jai onAsdr_alteihetusi btaewtr wei caea eons, sf Le2 71 wa r, 0 0 00g 00,
Polly and Stikine rivers,
TWICE ENGLAND'S SX'ZE.
• SHILLING SODS.
"Do you see that Woman in black
sitting there. ?" said' it railway detec-
tive. "Well she possesses 'the rare gift
of being able to cry naturally and
at will. If she sees a, group of well-
dressed Men in a station waiting for
a train, she'll sit or stand very near
them and burst out crying. The
story is that she hes no motley to
trly a titetet to get to hdr dying
daughter in the next town.. Crying
at will is something I don't under-
stand1 have seen many women cry
'on the stage, but this woments dry
is much trearer the real thing. She
doeS not hold a handkerchief to her
eyes at all. She just keeps her face
well up and sobs freely, 1101' tears
rolling down hoe cheeks thee all May
see them, She can cry anywhere.
The idea of sending sobbing women
into 'audiences at theatres nos re-
cently boon. foand by Lennon man-
agers of small theatres to bo a pity-
ing speculation, and at the present
timo &mem of W0111011 earn at least
once shilling per evening by sobbing
at stilted inlervals in the play."
Whoa tonna aro stint .1.m in such
Plaees they ought to be fed careful-
ly,. so that they can cleat 419 evevy
particle of food. If proper tare ond
attention cannot be given to the
birds while in the Cottoning cocues,
we strongly advocate the principle
of allowing them theie liberty.
The proper times to feed are as
early in the Morning as coneenient,
say, in siimmer at six o'elock, and
"Between the Belly mid Mackenzie
rivers le another large tract of 100,-
000 square miles, or about double
the size of. England. it includes
nearly 600 miles of the main Rocky
Mountain rano. An unexplored
area of 50.000 square nziles is Pounce
between. Great Boar Lake and the
Arctic coast, being nearly alt to the
north of the Arctic circle. Nearly 40
large as Portugal is another trace
between Great Bear Lake, the Illao;•
konzie River, and the western
l
i
of Great, Slave Lake, in all 85,)00
square miles. Lying between Sti ' zee
and Laird rivers to the north end
the Skeane. and Poach rivers to tee
south is an area ot 81,000' square
miles, which, except for a recent
visit by a field party, is kuite un-
explored. Of the 35,000 square
miles south-east of. Athabaska Lake,
little Is known, except that it ,has
been CrOSSed by a -field party en
route to Port Churchill. East of the
Copper mine River, and west of
Bathurst Inlet, lies 7,500 miles of
unexplored land, which may be come
Pared to half the size of Switzefe
land, Eastward from this, lying
-between the Arctic coa.st and 131acle's
River, is another area of 81,000
square miles, or about equal to Ire-
land. Much larger tlilTentereat Brit-
ain and Ineland, and embracing
178,000 square miles, is the region
bounded by Black's River, Great
Slave Lake, Athabasca Lake, Hat-
chet and Reindeer lakes, Ohurchill
River, and the west coast of Hudson
33ely.
IfILES OF BARREN LtsaND.
.•''
"This country indtlflOS LOO barren
grounds of the continent. lir. J. B.
Tyrell recently struck through this
couretry.on his trip to Fort Church -
hill, on the •Cralrehill River, .but
eould 'only make a plilAjlininary ex-
ploration. On the ieduth coast at
Hudson Bay, between the Severn
Mid Attalvapiehleet rivers, is an area.
22,000 square miles in extent, or
larger than Nova Scotia, cad lying
between Trout Lek% Lac Seul and
the Albany leiver is another 15,000
square miles of unexplored.land.
"South and oast of James Bay
and nearer to large centres of popu-
lation than any other unexplored
region is it. tract of 35,000 square
miles, which may. be compared in
size to Portugal.
"The most casternly'area is the --
greatest of all. rt, comprikes almost
the entire interior of tholLiibratlor
iAninsula. or North-west Torritor?,
ile all 280,000 square miles, or More
than twice as much as Great Britain
and; Irelond. Two or three years
ago Mr. A. X'. Lowe made a line of
exploration and survey into tho in-
terior of this vast region, and the
salmi gentlemen also travelled inland
up the Hamilton River ; but with
these exceptioris the country may be
regarded as practically unexplored.
"The Arctic islands will add. OM
OrOLI, ot several hundred thousand
square miles of unexplored land."
—4.--
Tlan WATER WE DRINK.
'De we drink enough water? 7110
question is asked by the Sanitary
Engineer, who evidently thinks we
do not, Says our contemporony 1 —
'"We believe that much of the bene-
fit that comes from visiting the most
noted watering places fa tot so
laUCh because of any special medici-
nal property as because of tho free
nse of the water itself Independent
of any real or alleged mineral prop-
ertiet, combined with tho rest. Peo-
ple go to drink the water and bathe
in it, and they chink it morning,
000n and eight, rued 13CMCC11 UnIOS,
and during the night. Oes8 resnit
the stomach, bowels, kidneys, liver,
pores, and evert the blood vessels
themselves, get a nitteh-needed flush -
Mg. And the over-clogod machinery
of life gets a fresh stare, anti the
sepposed mineral in the water gete-
the pralee,
ONLY TRUST,
I often pause to
As through this life we go,
If NVO COUld Only tl'USt,
We needn't worry sol
Olt, Sir, plot's°, I have mellowed a
pled ceche:Mod 14 servant girl, run-
ning into bur employer's study, Nee
voe ntied, Mary, he replied, deep ib
study, berc's anothee,
AN EVASIVE ANSWER.
"Pat," said an Trish clergyman to
his factotum, "I shall bo Very busy
this aftethoon, and if o,nyono calls I
do not wish to be disturbed." .
"All right,. sore. Will I say you
are not in?"
"No, 'Pat, that would be a lie."
"Alt yhsvat'll 1 say, yer reverence?"
"Oh, just put them o5 with an
evasive answer,
At supper time Pat WaS nskoa if
anyone had called,
"Pax, there did," seed 11.0.
"Ansi what did you tell Mine".
"Sure, and. I gave him an evasive
onswer."
,"How was that?" queried his re-
verence.
"He axed ine Was yotir honor ife
and 1 soz to hitn, Sez 1, 'Watt yer ,
grandmother a hootowl?"'
AN AUTOMATIC LIGHTHOUSE
.A. tow Scottai lightship Will have
00 vow. Gas stored in a tie* will
Supply a maelbead lamp by a pipe
In the hollow mast, end a fog -bell
will be rung by the roiling of the
vessel in rough Weathere and, failing
that, by the current of gee.
onms•••••••
Jenior lati.iner—Oue lalteellee
ought to be discharged, 31e told
oho of Wit cUstomers that 1 was tut
ignorant: fool. S'eniot Partnee—X
shall veal: to hine awii Melee that
no IttOre office Secrets is divulged.,