The Brussels Post, 1902-10-16, Page 3ASE
PBME MONSTE
An Invincible and. Unconquered Foe
of the Human Race.
(S040kec nocioalcie t0 400 of two leellsoisetue!
Zliallqiiti9 ER,/ itighTsel MOO, ot
the neseituewit eerenewss, eases.)
A. deepatch Ohicago Says ;—
Roy. Frank De Witt Talmage preach-
ed from tho follewing tett --Pro-
verbs xxiii, 82, °At ow last it
uituth lilco a, eerne.at eetel stingeth
like en adder."
The evil of intoxication is e
versal curse. Its, long, slimy, twist-
ing coils ofivead .0 Vet' every land and
are visible in every wellc of life,
There is hardly a mais or woman
sitting before mo tvho has not had
at Meet ono near relative who has
been cursed by the fatal bite of this
crawling, insidious enemy. Perhaps
thee near relative was a father, o.
mother,
a
an unele, n aunt, a broth-
er,a et
ntor. le wife, a, husband or a
child. Mae, ma.ny of us can say we
have not only had one, but many of
our relatiees and friends who have
gone down into drunkards' gene es
after they have lived the hopeless
and humanly helpless; degraded
earthly existence of the drunkard.
Even sI am preparing this amnion
news is published that a man who
has nlied high places In the service
of his country, who bore a ea.me
honored in our history, has lost his
life in a brawl in which Ito would
nevm• have been intolveci if he had
not indulged in intoxicating driak.
Solouion compared the sin of in-
toeication to the writhings and
twistings of a serpent and to the
stinging of an adder because at that
time poisonous serpente were every-
where. Every thiceet was lilted with
a constellation of their gloaming
eyes. Every desert was the honw of
the puff adder, lying half buried in
the and. Every swamp was the re-
treat of the water viper. Every hill-
side hod for the traveller a. warning
hiss or rattle. Tiven unto this day
• many of the countries of the east
are overrun with poisonous reptiles,
In India alone over 50,000 inhabit -
tints annually die from
POISONOUS SNAKE BITES.
The serpents of intoxication have
Increased so rapidly that they aro
now innumerable. We hear their hiss
It almost every leo-sedative hall, We
see their eyes gleaming out of al-
most every palaco. We find them ly-
ing under the orange blossoms of
the marriage altaie as well as ia
the detentiom hoepitals for the oa-
tients who have their rooms filled
with the coiling serpents of delirium
tremens. We lind many ofour
statesmen peralyzed by the glance
of an adder's eyes, as a poor, little
(tightened spatrow might tremble and
crouch outlet she falls into the open
mouth of the lilacksnajce which has
tharnted her. We find that even a
tew of the ministers who fill tho pul-
pits of tim gospel of Jesus Christ
itre teerorited by the sight of the
serpent of intoxication, because the
rich brewer may he the president of
the beard of trustees or the wealthy
distiller's family 3:thy he the largest
contributors to the enandal sup-
port. of the church.. The curse of
inLoxicants is universal, there -
foe all Christian people—and that
Includes you and me—should band
themselves togothee for its extinc-
tion. We shall cleat with the ser-
pent of strong, drink in tho sante
way the thavellers coet• the western
prairies deal with the rattlesnakes.
There 11 is a, universally obeyed law
that. every Man sball kill every rat-
tlesnake he may see. It ought also
to be a universality obeyed Christian
law that every Christian should
strike at the hideous head ,of the
Satanic adder of intoxication when-
ever it reveals itself or lifts its fatal
Poisonous fangs to strike.
The evil results of a man s nniod
long wealconed, by intowieants are
very farreaohing. We read with
amazement how a boa constructor
can swallow down a calf or kid or
deer apparently live times wider.
than tito natural size of the ser-
pent's throat But every country
boy has seen the same phenomenon
upon a, emelt scale. A snake with it
throat hardly larger than your lit-
tle linger will give has to a largo,
fat toad. It will then gather to-
gether the two bind legs of the
toad and by suction slowly draw
the wholb body down its throat and
INTO ITS STOMACH.
Then, if the country boy will pick
up the snake by the tail and snap
hint as he would a whipcord, the
serpent's inouth will anon and the
toad will be ejected, alive and well,
as was Jonnh when thrown from the
mouth of the big fish after he had
been voyaging for three days in its
internal cavity. But, though the
student of sorpentology allay wonder
at the size of eobig toed which a
email snake is able to sweildiv, his
wonderment ought to 'be as nothing
compared to the utter astonishment
with which lut• Sees the hugo meal
whioh the serpent of intoxication
can swallow after the 'brain of its
victim has boon wrecked by strong
drink. Without any apparent effort
it enn mellow down the marcharit's
store, the minister's pulpit, the law-
yer's oflice, the surgeon's operating
table, the mechanic's bench, the en-
gineee's -engine, the sea captain's
ship.
A drinikerd's head, through the
touch of the adder of intoxication
not only becomes to poisoned heart,
bu1 the wordless heart of nn WM-
Man monster. In order to Orink a
drunkard is willing prnotically to go
to any °ethane. He ie ready to lot
wife and thildren Starve. 1have
know)o two drunkards who wore will-
ing to eel 1 their neon fleth and blood
in a fife of crime in order that they
might get liquor with which to ,sat-
iefy their diabolical thirst. Those
two drunkaede were not men of tho
lowee, social rant, They were men
Who wore born in cm good famillee aa
yours or mine. But why 00111in:tie ih
thin Wain Ili there any teed Gi
21* longer deeeribing how the son.,
pent of intoxiontion ean destroy a
men'a love for his wife end eis
children ? No. In the rags of the
factories we See it ;Itt the oeandels
of. the divorce courts we read 11;
le the horrors of the refermatory
sehoole we can prove it, Let us Paee
on in our indictment cof tido. coil-
ing
SERPENT OF THE WINE CUP
The Solonionte serpentine evil de
stroys a mane; soul. es well as the
teMporal usefulness of his brain and
tile loving power of hie heart. This
is not a pleasant subject to touch.
It is not pleasant beceuse many of
Us hAve had Mende, dear frlencle,
wIto hove nest or are to -day on the
way to meet a deunkarcl's doorm
my brother, we must be true to the
Jiving as well as to the dead. If
You had a loved one who was con-
templating the commission of to hein-
ous crime whet would you do? Why,
you would go eo that friend and say:
"Brother, if you do this you will
have to pass many years in jail. If
you allow your angry passions to
rish and commit murder, you will
have to sit in the electric chair or
eLand under the hanmean's noose.
That is the law whiclo has been car-
ded out hi many instances in the
past and will be carried out in
ninny instances in the future?"
Now, my friends, wbet is the di-
vine puniehment that will be met-
ed out th all who have been slide
by the sting of tho Solomonic ad-
der? .Let me read part of just one
verso front the divine criminal code.
Shalt the drunkard inherit heaven?
What says the epistle of First Cor -
"Be not deceived; neith-
er idolaters, adulterers nor thieves
nor drunkards shall inherit the
lcingdom of God." There 1)3 no need
of reading further, That simple
Pauline sentence covers the whole
ground. It seems to harmonize
with the Icelanclees idea of hell,
which is to be a great ico palace,
the walls of which aro covered with
a huge mass of swaying, swinging
serpents. Tbeir forked tongues and
hissing throats converge to a com-
mon center, where the condemned of
God crouch and tremble and weep.
Shall we not fight this serpent of in-
toxication, which racier aptly be com-
pared to the Icelander's Satanie ser-
pents in the palace of the Inferno?
Shall we not, one and all, fight -the
serpents of intoxication, which can
and do destroy happiness tho other
side of the grave as well as tbat of
the life which is on this side?
THE SURE ANTIDOTE
for the poison of the adder of in-
toxication mest be found for Christ-'
hors, first and last and all the time,
in the blood of Jesus Christ. It is
right to use the human agencies
for the cure of inebriety, but 1 be-
lieve human agencies will always
fail unless they are blessed by the
divine power—by the power of tho
Holy Ghost. As a pastor and
pt•eather and temperance worker I
have personally tried to all in the
rescue of many drunkards. 3 have
helped send some to the reformatory
histitutions. I have taken them in-
to my own home and bought them
medieines from the drug stores. f I
am line to confess that all these
hitumn agencies failed except when
those victims of strong drink have
thrown themselves into the arms of
God and clung to Jesus Christ as
their only Savior. Divine re -in -
forcemeat care save you if you will
live so close to Christ .that Christ
can and will live close to you. Di-
vine re-infoccemeel alone can save
tho drunkard who is heading to-
ward it drunkard's grey°.
This promise being true, that
Jesus Christ alone is the only sure
antidote for the suicidal thirst of
strong drink, the next step in our
temperance reformation should be
to open, all the churches in. our
Christian. land for great temperance
meetings. Every minister of the
gospel should preach and continue
to preach the gospel of teetotalism,
Every pelpit of every church should
be a broad, white desk before Which
the victims of strong &Mk couicl
bow • at the throne of grace for
mercy and then arise and with trem-
bling hand sign the temperance
Pledge and blot it then and there
with their falling tears of penitence.
The church of the Lord jesus
must and shall lead 111 this succeee-
fel temperance reform, The tem-
perance move:beet will fail, and
surely fail, if it is carried on purely
as 0 Secular movement. it will win,
and surely win, if it is carried ou Its
divine movement ,in which is enlist-
ed the strong arta of a church in. -
spired of the Holy Spirit. It is by
you that the call for a gospel charge
against 'the grog -shops must first be
soended,
Lastly, and most important of
all, with the help of the church of
God, we should try to kill the adder
of stroeg• drink by making our civil
I aWS so stringent that the young
Should find it almost impossible
to get at the wine cup
EVEN IF THEY WOULD.
It is miler to keep 100 young men
from accotiiring the evil habit, of
strops drink than it is to reform
one debauched drunknee. It is
easier to prevent than to reform,
sin, I suppose the chronic, drunk-
ards who have been drinking for
twenty or thirty years will end their
poisonous moment of the wiee cep
no matter whore they may be. But
it is possible by law to keep liquot
away front tho young men and the
Xt is possible to
young women ,
proteet the rising fronerittion so
that they may not be able to find
this adder's lair and to feel Me foul
breeth or his poisonous fangs.
And not only by stringent laws
should the cleatroying wino oup be
kopt from the young, bat the young
zhoulci .0.1eo be taught why, the doe
baeching influenee el atropine drInk is
kePt Ma of their mete The evil
eesults of indelgenth in the Wine OUP
81101114 be taught In the ;public
00110010, They theeld be tenght 011"
011 the publie platitorree as well AS
le the private bogie. The evils of
strong cleink ohould be presented so
clearly mid vehemently to the yoting
that the rising geueratIon thould
some day by the grime of God be
able to otand 1.11) in their might, and
declare that Aletericia must and
thell forever be free front the 00115
of strong drink. They shall be able
to declare it with our help at the
°Mirth Altar; they shell be able to
declare ie in the nominating planks
of our groat political partieS; theY
Omit be able to declare it at the
American ballet box; they shall be
able lo deelare it by telegraplile
communications before a -sin cursee,
alcohol poisoned world.
Christian 12101.1 and women, north,
eaSt, seutil and tvest, let VS one and
all rally to the temperance cause.
Lot the ministers conwerate the
pulpits -A to the work. Let tile loYe
men consecrate the pews. May we
one and all be ready to clie for the
tentperance eause, but never to sur-
render; novor to cease lighting tho
saloon end its intrenched power un-
til we aVO summoned before the
great whiee throne of heavea. Nev-
er, never, never let up in the strug-
gle against this hemispheric evil
until the home and the church and
the kingdom of Cod shall forever be
freo. May God give us one and all
supernaten•al strength for the strug-
gle which le before the temperance
cause of the church of America and
of the world.
ALL ABOUT W.A.TCTrg'S.
Pew Realize How Minute Parts of
Time -pieces Are.
"Much in little" can be said more
truly of a first-class watch than of
almost any other product Of human
ingenuity and industry. The watch
one carries in his pocket—unless 11.
is of the cheapest "pocket cloth"
varioty—has in its movement more
than 150 parts, and this number
doos not include the case which
holds the movement.
A glance at the movement is en-
ough to show that most of its parts
aro very small; but wee can scarce-
ly realize how minute sonno of them
are. Take, for example, the num-
erous screws which hold the parts
together. Some of them are so
tiny that It takes nearly 150,000 of
them to weigh a pound. One must
use a good microscope to see the
threads in these screws, and each of
the threads must be absolutely per-
fect and true, or the screw is use-
less.
There are scrovss in a small -sized
watch, such as women usually carry,
which have a thread of 260 to the
inch. The weight of one of these
screws is ono one hundred and thir-
ty -thousandth of a pound.
The diameter of the pivot of the
balance wheel in a watch is only
one two -hundredth of an inch, and
pivots are classified by Et gauge
which measures down to one ten -
thousandth of an inch. The jewel
hole into which the pivot fits is one
nve-thousandth of an inch larger
than the pivot, so that tho latter
may have sufficient play.
Jewels in a watch movement are
cut from slabs of garnet, ruby or
sapphire, one -fiftieth of an inch
thick. Then they are "surfaced,"
drilled through the center, and on
the convex side a depression is made
for an oil cup. A pellet jewel, fin-
ished and in use, weighs one one
hundred and fifty -thousandth of a
pound, while the weight ,of a 'roller
jewel is a fraction more than one
two hundred and flfty-six thous-
andth of a. pound.
The largest hairspring stud is
four one -hundredths of an inch in
diameter and nine one -hundredths of
an inch in length.
To make the complete movement
of a good watch more than 3,700
dieet.ent processes are employed. It
takes about five months to complete
a, single 'watch of the best grade,
but as all the processes are carried
on simultaneously the finished pro-
duct is turned out continuously by
the manufacturers.
The balance in a modern watch
must make 18,000 vibrations every
hour. A. change of only one 'beat
will cause the watch to gain or lose
fourand four-fifths seconds in twen-
ty-four hours. Think of the 'won-:
derfully delicate mechanism awl 'I
equally' delicate adjustment that
puts together more than 150 pieces a
of almost microscopic size and i
turns out a, watch that will not c
vary orte second In twenty-four s
hours. 1
•
AN IMPORTANT MATTER.
"Can I see your father for a few
minutes before I go, Miss Ilth-
drieks?" he asked, "I want to t
speak to him carnet a matter of o
some importfotee."
"Certainly, Mr. Sampson," replied p
the girl, with a blush. 0
e FORT.1140,04E
GA IOME
0
Recipes for the Kitelien,
0 hygiene and Other Notes
0 for the Housekeeper, 0
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MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES,
Donned Liver.—SkIn three peund
liver and chop Bee with It pound fa
ple.kled pork, Mix with it one tea-
cup bread erumbs, end season with
salt to taste, ono teaspoon each
ground Penner, Mace and doves, Put
it into 5 eovered pail, set in cold
weter, and 000le two hours after the
water boils. Remove. tho cover,
gaeh the top, and scatter over bits
of butter'place in the myth nod
brown, Suve in elices when eold
with sour jelly.
Sweet, Rusk.—Take one pint warm
m41k, * cup butter, ono cup sugar,
ono teaspoon salt, 2-3 calce com-
pressed. yeast. Make a sponge with
the milk, yeast and flour enough
for a thin batter. Let rise over
night In the morning adol the but-
ter, eggs and sugar, well beaten to-
gether, the salt ancl flour enough to
make a soft dough. Mold with tho
hands into lottils, and let riao Earti
very light, then bake.
Delicious Sweets are small raw
sweet potatoes fried whole in deep
fat. Fifteen minutes' frying does
them to a beautiful brown, outside,
Rad' tender meanness inside. French
fry is the name.
Baked Steered Tomatoes. --Select
six large firm tomatoes. Remove
ouly enough from the top to scoop
the meat and seeds out. Chop very
tine three slices of fried calf's liv-
er, the whole of one Isard-bolled egg,
one elm toaoted bread crumbs, 1, cup
melted butter, one red pepper pod,
salt to taste, and seaeoe highly
witli black pepper ir liked, Mix to-
gether with one raw eggs Place the
tomatoes close together in a bak-
ing dish, and cover the whole wit)
crumbs.. Dot the top with small
cubes of 'butter. Bake 20 minutes
and serve in baking diet). This mix -
a thick layer of the toasted broad
ture, omitting pepper, Is a delicious
stuffing for green peppers, but re
quire 30 minutes in hot oven.
In making Boiled Custard, after
scalding the milk, pour it over the
beaten eggs slowly, instead of put-
ting the eggs into the milk, as. it
will usually prevent the custard
Apple Custard Pie (with kter-
ingue,)—Stew and stain enougl
finely flavored tart apples to make a
large cup of sauce. Add * cup eug-
ar (more if desired) end one scant
teespoen grated nutmeg. Beat two
eggs light and pour upon them *
cop hot nulk, to which has been
Added a bit of oocla not larger than
a pea. Let sauce and custard get
cold, beat quickly together, fill a
dish. 11nsi with
lltes,' add the het super groolltallY
and Stir , Until all of it Is ellseelved,
Ai ter the eugar has bette ledded 11.0
not let the mixtino boil, leet if, af-
ter teet1ng, the mixture is 1101. thiCk
enough, put it on tbe back of the
stove where It will keep Waret but
net boll. When the mixture iolliee
in a saucer, pour it into glaesee and
cover while hot,
Grape Juice.—Prepare as for jeny
and, add ono oup sumo' to one or two
quants of juice. As meth sugar May
bo used uri wanted, one cup of it 1.0
$ two quarts of juice will make tho
t juke rather sweet, After bringing
the juice to 4 boil, bottle and mat
201)110 ,
Grope Marmalade.—After making
graPe juice Or Jolly, take the Pulp
and add sugar to the proportion of
* Pound, auger to one pint 0/ pulp.
Thoroughly boil the mixtuee once,
and then put it in jars and seal.
Crape Cetsum—After making grape
jolly or juice tone the remoining pulp
and &train through a, nee colander,
Then to one quart of pulp add one
d botile.
cciunpnamyinoei,an
glar,edneLettipaslousgpaoro,nose'imovoerse.
Boil up well anttle.
if deeired sweeter, one to,bleepoon
CULINARY CONortrs.
Never parboil a turkey before
roasting. Jt takes from the Paver
1 of elm meat.
When boiling a pudding in a cloth,
put a Mato beneath it to prevent
saanLelrephocunce of its sticking to the
oc
Clap hard boiled egg fine, mix
mityonnalsn and spread on bread.
tviat
iiallnoltitswant a daintier sand-.
wieh t
! make mock crab cut thin slices
i of cheese, inath with a fork to a.
'paste and add viewer, mustard and
:PelMer; spread on craekers or make
!sandwiches,
When coloring is requi red in
hashes, soups or stews let the onion
have its eldn left on, ancl neither
burned sugar nor any other coloring
matter will be required.
You may like fried cucumbers.
Pare and slice lengthwise two large
cucumbers, dust with salt and pep-
per, dip each piece In beaten egg•,
then in crumbs and fry in hot, , fat.
Servo hot, with tomato catsup.
For an egg fondu beat four eggs
until tight, add salt and pepper, two
tablespoonfuls Parmesan cheese and
same of milk; heat tablespoon of but-
ter, turn in the egg mixture, and
stir until thickened. Servo on
squares of butteredtoast.
VEGETARIAN BEEFSTEAK.
Withthe price of beef still advance
s ing many housekeeper$ are resorting
to various substiLutes and a good
vegetarian heefeteak am be made
from split peas. A Mut and 5,. half
Brush the latter with white of egg
before the fillitig goes in. 'Phis pre-
vents a. soggy crust. Bake without
an upper crust in a (Mick oven, Just
before drawing from the oven, cov-
er evenly with the meringue on the
whites of two eggs, beaten stiff, with
one tablespoonful powdered sugar.
Brown lightly. It is delicious, as
also are peach pies made 111. the same
way.
Potato PuiTe.—To two teacups cold
mashed potato add cup sweat
* teaspoon salt, oue table-
spoon butter, two tablespoons flour
and two eggs beaten to a, froth. Mix
the whole thoroughly until light,
put into a pudding dish, spread a
little butter over the top and bake
until a golden brown. Tbe qual-
ity depends upon thoroughly boat-
ing the eggs before adding therm so
the puff will remain light for bak-
ing.
Chiekeno in*Cream.—Cut chickens
In two lengthwise, place halves In a
driPPing pan and just cover with
sweet cream. • Season with a little
salt, pepper and butter. Set ia
oven, and by the tbne the main is
almost • cooked away the chicicons
will be done. lIove just cream en-
ough left to put over mashed mita-
to as gravy.
Cocoanut Bars.—Inace two pounds
white coffee sugar over tho fire with
one pint water, and boil until a lit-
tle dropped into cold water can bo
Otto a bele Then temove
from the fire and stir in two tea-
poons either vanilla or rose flavor -
ng. Now add one pound gritted
cocoanut and stir with a, woode11
poop until the mixture begine to
ook white, and then pouf, at once
nth o shallow square pan. As Noon
es it has cooled a little, mark off in -
o squat•ee. When oold, either break
O cut.
Corn Cake.—Ono cup Indian meal,
wo tablespoonfuls sugar,' one cup
our, 2-3 tablespoon molted butter,
ne Guy milk, 1* teaspooes baking
owder and one egg. First beat the
gg, then add the sugar, 'butter and
After Mr. Sampson had taken his
departure, tvith a happy matte upon
WS fate, :Miss Ilendrickb found her
way to her' father's shoulder, and,
stealing ono term about his neck,
161"11serhaeretridid he want, Palm?"
"Ile is an agent for a patent gas
burner," said the old num, "and
I've agreed to give it a trial."
-4-
' MADE A NAME.
"So you e.re Married?" mid a num
10 te friend.
"Oh, yes. Itiarrlod over a year
ago."
"Given up all your ideas about
milk. Lastly, odd the moat and
flour, into which has been sifted the
baking powder,
Bread Crumb Omelete—Let one cup
bread crumhe soak in one cup milk
a little while, thou beat the wake
of two or three eggs itsith it, adding
a dives of pepper. Put into n hot
buttered spider, then turn tho
whites., bootejt to a stiff froth, on
top of the yolk, cold put into the
oven to 000k. When done, fold At
over and servo loot,
GRAI'ES IN WINTER,
Crape jelly.—Inek the grapes from
he eterns• carefully, Waal), add a 111 -
lo water, rind then put on the etove
o boil, \\gum grapes ion softened,
our them into a bag made of thin
otton cloth and hang them sus-
pended one porcelain lined peel
Iltil the juice has teased to drip.
Before putting thc Mice on tho
51.5)0e, take one pint sugar to every
pint of juice you are Meng, and
1115.2:e the Motor in a dry, flat, jtan.
1,111 111 tho 00011 end tot it remain
thmoo to heat slowly mail it is thor-
oughly hot, nut be enrelul 001 to
AlloW the singer to Welt. When the
juke has 'boiled bard for 20 min -
fame and glory and all that sort of t
thing?"
"No, sir. I always scold 1 wotild e
Melo a nettle in the World."
"Wele•I've 'doom it,"
'Indeed'?"
"Yee. I etmerintended the ohrist-
ening of our baby last Week."
No WOMan has entered the Con -
201111 of St. Cathevieur, on Mount
Steel, foe 1,400 years,.
THE S. S. LESSON,
TN'TERNATIONAL LESSON,
COW. 19,
Text of the Leseon, Josh, el., 840
Golden. Text, Neb. zio 80.
The title of this lessoa is the fell
of Jet -belie, and the vereee ussigned
are as above or only versos 12 to
20, but I suggest nothing less than
the whole chapter, with a, ghinee at
the precedieg Whetter and its cen-
nection with the previous lesson, in
which we mow the hand of the Lord
dividing the Jordan for Israel to
cross over, that all people might
icnow and Seer Him for their good.
In cbaoter y we see the rite of Cir-
cumcision and the ordinance of the
remover, the ono suggestive of
death to the flesh, no good thing in
us, aml the other of redemption by
the blood of tho Lamb. Only thus
can the reproach of sin and of this
evil world be taken from us (v, 9).
In v, 12, we road that the inflame.
Ceased not until shey had eaten the
corn of the land, and the Lord
changes not, yet some connot trust
U5.121 for their daily bread. v
13-15, we see the real Captain tak-
Mg command and Joshua submissive-
ly taking hie right place instructed by
the unehod foot that thet whole af-
fair was the Lord's and not his.
Compare Disx, tie 5, and contrast
Josh, 1, 3. Now, in chapter vi 050
bavo the vicLory at Jericho by the
same mighty hand that divided the
Red sea and the Jordan, and it was
manifest to all that the Lord was
with Joshua (vi, 27).
1-5. And the Lord said unto Jos-
hua, See, I have given into thine
hand. Jericho.
Thus Ile assured him, and then in-
structed him just what to do and
told him what would happen, and,
however unlikely Or improbable it
seemed, faith accepted the assurance
and expected the remit.
0, 7. And Joshua, the son of
Nen. called the priests and said un-
to them, Take up the ark of the
covenant.
The Lord wants a willing and obe-
dient people on whose behalf and
through whore Be can show His
power (Isa. i, 19; U. Coe. xvi, 9), If
we were only willing to be counted
10011511 by the wisdom of this world,
Alien the wisdom and the power of
God would he seen in us.
8-1L So the ark of the Lord Com-
passed the city, going about it once,
add.they came into the camp and
lodged in the earap.
Both Joshua and all the priests
and the people perfectly obedient to
the Gi•eat. Captain of the Lord's
host!Implicit faith and unques-
of split peas should be sufficed over tion1ng obedience are what God de -
night in water, to which ro. little sires and delights in. No voice of
pinch of sod05 has been added. in the man was heard, but just the sound
inorang pour off the water au(1 put of tbe trumpets as they marched
the peas 11110) a double boiler with this first time around the city,
fresh water eaough to cover them. probably gazed upon in wonder by
A da 150 SeaSOIliag a sprig of thyme 'those in the city, who may have as -
and a. very little garlic, two cloves., semblecl on the walls to seo this
and a green pepper, first taking the strange sight. What was accom-
seeds out of the latter. Whon the Plished? Seemingly nothing. But
peas have been steamed until tender, they obeyed God, and that is every -
remove from the hoe dram and par-
tially mash them, heating in, while
hot, a tablespoonful of finely chop-
ped onion or two tablespoons of
celery, also minced very fine. The
mixture ie then made into balls liko
nsh cakes, vvhich are clipped in boat -
011 01)1) • id Indian meal or bread
cruinhs, awl fried. This may be
served with a tOnrato settee, and will
be found to be so hearty as to en-
tirely hike the place of moat.
eilSSIOS JACK -ET.
12 to 16 Years.
Loose jacket's, in box steyle, are
much in vogue foe young girls and
make ideal cool weather wraps, They
alip on arid oft with ease and being
loose, admit of an additioual under -
wrap when the weather demands.
The season's display shows there iu
tall covert and black cloth. in silk
interlined and in cheviot, The
modelsts aclapLed to all materials
but as ehown is of tan cloth stitch-
ed with certirolli selk,
The jacket limitless lace e fronts
lid half -fitted baeke, that aro join-
ed by meaus of curNed under -arm
gores, and closes at the left side 111
double breasted' style. The sleeves
are bell sheeted and Ilt smoothly
at the armaseyee. At the neck 14, FL
deep turn -over collate
The quantity of materiel required
for the medium eize is 1)1 yno ds 21,
inchee wide, 2 yards 44 inches wido,
or 1 Yerds 132 itoc4h_ez, wide.
CURIOUS' WIetet 1 NU CUSTOM..
Brides in Alineld, Lotver thingaty,
have been deprivod of their tvedcling
gifts by the Government ilettlth au-
thorities. Tt was a custom of the
place for brides to wash with soeP
01111 to condi the heads of all guests,
they in then throwing coins into the
basin. The result,. according to tho
doetors, .was the spreading of dis-
ease, and an epidemic of ophtbahnitt
led the Government to pat le midden
end to the custoln.
RECLAIMED FROM THE SEA.
It Is estimated that the hold of
Lineoltithire, England, reelainted
from tile gen, amounts to niore thee
680,000 acres, or more than 1.,000
square milest. ito the estuary of the
ITumher about 290 scjeare miles have
from thne 1.2.1 title bon gained frem
the 500.
tbill2W.
-14. And the second clay they
compassed the city once and return -
d51 into the camp. So they did six
days.
Seven priests with seven trumpets,
a perfect testimony to the power of
tho atonement which shall yet lead
to the complete overthrow of all
enemies, and every tongote shall con-
fess that jesus Cluist is Lord, to
the glory of God the leather (Rev.
xvii, 14 ; PIut, 11, 11). The ark
proclaims the righteousness which
Clod detnands and provides, and Isa,
xxxii. 1, 17, proclaims that a King
shall reign in righteousness end the
work of rightoeusness shall be
peace. It may seem to some that
as little is now being accomplished
as was accomplished by those six
days seeming*ly foolleh cold useless
proceseions, but wait.
15, 16. Joshua said unto the
people, Shout. for the Lord hath
given you the city
Six times more aroneil the city
with no sound but that of tho
trumpets ; twelve times in all, and
seemingly eothing Accomplished, but
God's time has 11020 come. It is the
thirteenth round when at Joshua's
command the more than 600,000
voices break forth with a. shout of
victory become° they believed God
aad obeyed His servant.
17-.1.9:' All the silver nate gold apd
voesels of brass and iron are holi-
ness unto the Lord (margin).
Therefore they were instructed not
to take any for themselves., but to
put all into the treasury of the
Lord, while they utterly destroyed
nll the inhabitants except ilahab
and her household.
20. The wall fell down nal, so
that tho people wont up into the
city, every man straight before him,
011E1 they took the city.
Just as the Lord /tact said so it
came to peek, and, it always will be
so, for 805 Isa. xis-, 24,; Po, xxxiii,
10, 11., and ite thoreforo becomes us
ever to say, "I believe God, that it
shall be even as it wile told me"
(Acts xxvli, 2e), and act according-
ly. The verses following' tell us that
shl tho living in the city, both man
and beast, were utterly destroyed
except Rehab end her household.
The Nov Testament record of the
overthrow of Jericho end the salva-
tion of Rehab is summed lip in the
few lines of Ileh. xi, 20, 31, a.nd
faith its God is tho heart of tt. The
evidence of hem faith and the assur-
came of her safety wore the amnia
tine in her window (chapter ii, 18,
21.1, 10211 11 is to me very interesting
and suggestive that the Hebrew
word trienelated "line" is the identi-
tett word which in Po. lxii, 5; lxxi,
5; Jor. xxix, 11, and elsewhere is
tennelated "expectation" end "hope"
Ifiev expectation or hope was Et
scarlet one, foul it Was a sure One,
and so the believer's expectation is
as tura as the blood of Christ can
Make it. As all in Rahab's house-
hold wore saved by her faith, let
your faith take hold ef God for ell
your househoicts
PH BRUNE UP LOMA
LIFE AND DEATN IN TN/4
Gar.4T aytzTaoRoLM.
se—
Marriages Aro More Ntinierene,
While Births Show a Des
00Tolleed tiennet7cFn:oainon!peasoZ1t7o0'in dootnalloo Joe-
ejuosubsielir. "411101)7 sithoc)ry14)onf(1°1.11110 8e10.01111v1thtY'
and preseet position ef the mental
there told le more strikieg thano
any notion, London hee ;needled a,
point when it luxe ceased to be a
city, but has become an undivided.
mass of cities, Greater London noW
contaies 0,5e1,372 People, , tlenelY,
twice as many as its nearest rival,
Greater New York. If Paris, Berlin,
and Chicago, the ' three cities that
Sonee next, Were gronped 'tOgether,
they' would not approaelt it, It has
as mealy Inhabitants as Bolsi= or
Morocco, and nearly half as many
more as the whole of Portugal, on
Ireland, or Scotland.
One.o the city of London comprised,
its boundaries, Now, for every forty
people in the city ieself there 'are
10,000 Londoners living outside.
The increase of Pop.ulation in ten
years amounted to 950,000, er
more than the total population 01
Dublin, Edinburgh, and Bristol com-
bined.,
BIRTH RATE IS FALLING.
The limit is not yet reached. The
figures on which the calculations itt
the return are prepared cover only
the administrative County of Lon-
don, with a population of 4,500,000., ,
The outer belt, containieg over 2,-
000,000, does not come within tho
county couricire survey. In itdmin-
istratim London an abnormal state
et affairs prevails. Marriage rate,
below rate, te,avaielidagdo.eath rate are all
lo
There has been a decided improve-
ment in recent years in the marriage
rate, for London. In 1894 it reach-
ed its lowest point, 17 per 1,000.
In 1899, the last ' year for which
figures are given, it was 18.4 per
1,000. The birth rate does not show
corresporolines increase. It is now
at tho -lowest point it has ever
touehed. Thirty years ago it was,
85.1 per 1,000; in 1899 it had
sunk to 29.3. In this matter the
otate of affairs in London corres-
ponds in a surprising degree to the
whole country, where the tall has
been on parallel lines.
roon CLASSES MOST priormac.,
The two poorest districts. St.
Luke's and Bethnal Green, are pro-
portionately the most prolific. St.
Martin's in the Fields, Kensington,
Ne.mpstedti, and Si.. George's Ro.n.-
over square are the least. There .
are over four tinaes as many births,
proportionately, in St. Lake's as in
St. George's.
The death rate is now 20.6 per
thousand, an increase over the three
previous years., London still ranks
among the most healthy of great
cities, although it cannot yet cepa
preach the Amsterdam average of
15.3. If the greater registration.
district of London is taken, the
crude death rate is only 19.3.
The figures give abundant proof
that under better sanitary conditions
the death rate in London would he
lower. The fewer in the housee the
fewer the deaths. Nearly two-thirds
as many more people of all ages die
in over -crowded tenement quarters
as in suburban districts. The death
rate from consumption is bighest 10
St. Luke's and its Southwark, and
lowest in Monstead.
PAUPERISM AND CRIME.
Pauperisizt shows a. tendency to
decrease and crime has dirainiohecit
with the exception of drunketness,
which is making rapid strides. One
of eery 100,000 people 587 were
aluwu
i.ans1 ibci.for drunkenness in 1890, 14
1899 tho proportion had rieen to
846. This eras Ito temporary 211011,
but part of a steady upward
g
The total of pelmets is appalling.
Tweaty-one per cent, of the entire
population over 65 yeers old are in
reeeipt of poor relief. On Jan. 1,
1901, 128,520 were being given pub-
lic charity either as indoor or out-
door paupers, vagrant% or lunatics,
The police give returns showing the
number of had characters at large
known to them., bat these are de-
cla.rod to be of doubtful value. The
police givo the number of thieves at
large as 815, the persons under po-
lice supervision, 1,155 and the
hoeses ot receivers of stolen goods,
101.
nIcamtfisn. OF INSANITY.
'rho total of lunatics for whoin the
county of Loudon has to died acs
commodation has increased over fit
per cent in twelvo years, In 1894,
it, was 10,101, in. 1901 it was 15.e
51.1. The total number of luna:ties
in, London in 1001 was. 21,848.
The returns of the flre brigade will
be reitd with painful interest. The
figures only cover 1900, although
those for 1001 have beets available
for many months. In that year sev-
enty-four persone lost their lives,
and of those deaths, to quote the
import, "a largo majority °emend
before the fire brigade was oinn
°ailed." Th 111 of deaths is mo-
notonously followed by such retueeke
as "Call not received till more than
three hours alter the occurrence of
the tire," No suggestion is roade
that the conditioh of things whittle
renders Ruch late calls poesibla 1 fav
froin satisfactory.
HOW 1)1101121 11) UTILIZED.
In Bressels, Mantles, and ,other
Belgian 'melte a novel method of
eel. 01117 getting rid of smoke, but
laming it to good aceourit, hos reL
wally been employed. The smoke
is driven, by a ventilating fan into a,
filter filled 'ivith norm's material,
over which a eontinuous stream of
petroleum, beresiee, McGhee or some
liquid Ityciroealbon (Iowa The resole
oti,opotaltrecti twitickneonitobkls
oe ilitoronytii or?i
dtes n, 8;14
of great heating- power, which can
he esed for domestic purpoees ahd
Ino' driving gess engines. The filter.
itig'ulaterial itself also becontee a
good combilstilsio diming the pro.
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